Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 749 | Grammys Go Satanic

Episode Date: February 6, 2023

Today we're discussing Sam Smith and Kim Petras' Grammys performance, which featured blatant satanic imagery including Smith dressing up as the devil, Petras dancing in a cage, and dominatrices wearing satanic headgear. We take a look at what their inspiration was for the performance (hint: it's ridiculous) and why it's yet another example of Hollywood's obsession with satanic imagery. We talk about how, while this blatant satanic worship is worrying, it's not the biggest concern we should be focused on. False gospel teachers and those influencing our children are an even greater threat to our worldview. We also discuss the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. last week until it was shot down a few days ago. We look at some of the theories about the balloon and just how concerned we should be. --- Timecodes: (00:44) Intro (02:19) Sam Smith & Kim Petras' Grammys performance (20:10) When others call you "-phobe" (28:37) Grammys fashion (39:50) Chinese spy balloon --- Today's Sponsors: StartMail — keep your email private - every email can be encrypted! Go to StartMail.com/ALLIE for 50% off your first year! ExpressVPN — have more anonymity online. Go to ExpressVPN.com/ALLIE and get three extra months FREE. Carly Jean Los Angeles — use promo code 'ALLIEB' to save 20% off your first order at CarlyJeanLosAngeles.com! Bambee — You run your business. Let Bambee run your HR. Go to bambee.com and type in "RELATABLE" at checkout. --- Links: Variety: "Sam Smith, Kim Petras Bring Satan, Cages and Whips to Grammys in Fiery ‘Unholy’ Performance" https://variety.com/2023/music/news/sam-smith-kim-petras-unholy-grammys-1235510990/ NY Times: "Downing of Chinese Spy Balloon Ends Chapter in a Diplomatic Crisis" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/us/politics/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down.html Fox News: “Trump, top National Security officials refute claim that Chinese spy balloons transited US under his admin” https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-top-national-security-officials-refute-claim-chinese-spy-balloons-transited-us-under-last-admin --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 393 | Lil Nas X’s Satan Shoes & Why Christians Should Rejoice https://apple.co/3RAgnCO --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort.

We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Sam Smith leads a worship service for Satan at the Grammys. But I've got a maybe not so expected take on that. The U.S. military shot down a Chinese spy balloon or did it. And Ms. Rachel, a YouTube channel for kids introduces her.

little audience to they, them pronouns. We've got all of that and more today. This episode is brought to by our good friends at Good Ranchers. Go to Good Ranchers.com. Use promo code Alley at checkout. That's good ranchers.com. Promocode Allie. Hey guys, welcome to relatable. Happy Monday. We are back. It's been a few days last week. I was out sick. Those of you who follow me on Instagram know that I've been sick quite a few times over the past couple of months after having not been sick, it seems like, for like two years. But starting in the fall until now, I've just, my immune system is just kind of taken a hit. The flu. I think I had COVID at one point, but I'm not totally sure.

Cold, sinus infection, all that good stuff. But I'm hoping maybe as the weather warms that I'll start feeling better, but I'm feeling good today. So praise God. This is the day that the Lord has made. and we will rejoice and be glad in it. And a Monday reminder that I only give on some Mondays. Remember what Elizabeth Elliott always said that the only thing that you have to do today

is the will of God. Isn't that so freeing? It's so freeing. And maybe it can seem overwhelming to think, oh my gosh, well, the will of God. How in the world do I know that? That's this big mysterious thing. Except it is simply doing the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God, whether that's changing a diaper or whether that's sending a

email or whether that's having a conversation or whether that's washing dishes. It is simply doing the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. And that is always enough or whether it's going on a walk and listening to this podcast. We got a lot to talk about today, y'all. We got a lot to talk about. I wanted to start on that lighter note because we're about to delve deep into the darkness of the Grammys. Guys, the Grammys, you probably saw if you are following on social media at all. They were satanic. There was a lot of satanic imagery, as there often is in Hollywood. This isn't really a new thing. There have quite often been upside down crosses in different performances or on celebrities' clothing. They've kind of been sacrilegious towards Christians

for a very long time. It's been something that celebrities think is very edgy and very cool. but now it's becoming a lot more blatant. Like, you'll remember, and if we have pictures, we'll pull it up. Lil Nas X, remember him? A couple years ago, he put out a music video that was Satanic. He was basically giving the devil a lap dance. And there was a lot of satanic imagery there in his performance and in his, yeah, you see that. But there are other pictures, too, of like not just him dressed as a demon, but also like a Satan

sitting on his throne. And so there is a glorification of the demonic and the satanic that is a lot more blatant, a lot more outright in recent years, it seems like, than it was previously. And so Sam Smith, he is an artist who now goes by the pronouns they, them, but because we do not believe that biology is bigotry and because we cannot before God lie, I am not going to call him a plural pronoun. He is a man. and so I will be referring to him as he, him. And he performed his song last night called Unholy. And he says Unholy was made in Jamaica. And it was one of the most glorious creative moments I've ever had as an artist.

I'm guessing he's talking about, I don't know if he's talking about the song or if he's talking about the music video. I don't know if someone can in my ear tell me what he's. is talking about there. He says this song is about liberating oneself. Okay, he's talking about the song itself. I don't know, written, recorded, whatever. The song is about liberating oneself from the clutches of others' secrets. The song is about a guy, it sounds like, cheating on his wife. And I'm not really sure why they decided that the performance needed to be like out of the gates of hell. But they did. And so here, uh, here.

is just a little snippet of that from last night. Okay. Okay. So we played a little bit of that just so you can see what I'm talking about. You've probably heard the song before. Like, I don't really listen to this kind of music at all, but somehow I've heard it. I don't know if it's been on social media or like at the gym or something like that, but I've heard this song. And so obviously the satanic imagery here is strong.

And Kim Petrus, who is transgender. So this is a boy who acts like, looks like, and pretends to be a girl or a woman, says that he performed this song because he always felt excluded. So he's also performing on this song with Sam Smith as the female voice and says that he performed in this song, in this kind of satanic rendering of this song because he always felt excluded from religion. He felt excluded from Christianity. So I guess he just decided that he was going to go full on Satan worship. And so this is a theme, as I said, that we've been seen for a while. Sam Smith commented on this and he said, it's time for my villain era, I think, time to get sexy. So obviously

he's owning this and we'll pull up the picture of him and some of the performers. They're on the red carpet and they're wearing their red satanic, um, demonic garb looking very scary. And so they're being very obvious about kind of, uh, their theme, what they're trying to do. Understandably, there's backlash on social media from Christians, from conservatives saying, where is our culture gone? How are we glorifying the demonic and demonizing the glorifying? Uh, How are we so obviously and so shamelessly, so unabashedly elevating that which is wicked and evil and perverse and wrong and dark and depraved, even as we are ridiculing and belittling and condemning everything that builds strong individuals and strong communities, strong society, strong countries, which of course is faith in a transcendent power, namely God himself, who created us all in his image for his glory and for good purposes.

And this faith is the bedrock of strong families. It is the bedrock of cohesive communities. And without it, things start to crumble very quickly. You very quickly start to embrace all kinds of moral relativism and relativism in general. You start to not only lose touch with morality, what is the difference between right and wrong, light, and darkness? but you also start to lose touch with reality. You start exchanging the truth of God for a lie.

So you start to believe objectively untrue, absolutely absurd things like a man can become a woman. It all goes together. It all trickles down. And so now I think we see, I don't want to say that this is Hollywood's final form of its kind of demonic worship. But it is certainly a final. form. I mean, how much more overt can you get? Are they going to just start sacrificing children openly on the stage of the Grammys? Is that going to be the next step that it takes? But honestly, here's my hot take as a Christian conservative, who I know is expected to freak out about this.

Well, number one, I will say that Sam Smith's song is catchy. Okay, it's catchy. The tune is catchy. The lyrics are awful. It is about awful things. It is completely degenerate. not anything that should be glorified or listened to or anything like that. But the tune is catchy. As, I mean, as things often are that we shouldn't be listening to, they kind of get stuck in our head. But I will say that. And the second thing that I will say is that this bothers me less. This worries me less than the very insidious and pervasive anti-tileged.

God philosophies that are invading our culture and invading our churches. Like Christians can look at this. People who go to church professing Christians can look at this and say, yeah, that's demonic. Yeah, that's bad. Yeah, we know that's dark. I am much more concerned with the kinds of philosophies and the kinds of ideas that creep into people's theology and creep into people's churches that destroy their worldview, destroy their faith, destroy their churches, destroy their families.

Like, I'm much more concerned when Satan is disguising himself as an angel of light and he gets people who profess to be believers to buy into his lies than I am when he's just out front about it. it's all really under the same category though of self-worship like this is the end game of self-idulatory when you worship the god of self you're not really worshipping yourself you think you are you think you're doing everything that you want you think that you are pursuing your own happiness and what feels good to you you think that you're the one that's in charge but you're not you're not actually the God that you're worshipping, who you are worshiping is Satan. You can't really worship yourself.

Satan would like to delude you into thinking that you are the transcendent being in your life, that you are the center of your universe. But when you try to make anything other than God himself the center of your universe, the only other entity that you can be logically serving is Satan. I mean, Ephesians too makes this binary very clear that either. we are following Satan, the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work and the sons of disobedience among whom we all once walked in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and we're by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind. Either we are in that category or we are in the category of but God being rich and mercy because

of the great love with which he loved us, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved. So there really is no true self-idolatry or idolatry of money or idolatry of things or idolatry of power. Yes, of course we can idolize all of those things. But at the end of the day, that is all Satan worship. So what I am saying is that I am actually less concerned with this blatant Satan worship worship, where they're just out there saying, they're saying, I worship Satan, I glorified the demonic, I like the dark and depraved. This is what I am choosing. I am on the side of darkness. Then I am the people. Then I am about the people and the teachings who say, oh, no, you can be a Christian and still put yourself first. No, you can still be a Christian

and follow your feelings. You can still be a Christian and do what feels good to you. You can still be a Christian and compromise on all of these things. You can still be a Christian and look and talk exactly like the world. Like I'm actually much more concerned with people like Glennon Doyle. and gin hatmaker than I am Sam Smith, much more concerned. Like, I would rather Christians, if I had to choose, if I had to, like, put two things, choose to put one thing in front of a room of people, Sam Smith's demonic music video or Lil Nas X or the teachings of someone like Jen Hatmaker or Glennon Doyle, I would choose Sam Smith's demonic music video every day.

because like you know that's dark you can see it it's there it's right in your face but when these kinds of manipulative teachings that say you know to love god really means to love yourself above all else to love god means doing what feels good to you to love god means just making yourself happy and to cutting out everyone in your life who doesn't serve you and loving god means tolerating all kinds of sin in the name of empathy. Like that is much more, I think, much more of an effective demonic message than Sam Smith says. Not very many people are attracted to the blatantly demonic.

A lot of people are attracted to Satan when he is disguised as an angel of light, when he disguises himself as love, when he disguises himself as truth, when he disguises himself as empathy, when he disguises himself as tolerance, when he disguises himself as inclusion, when he disguises himself as self-love. That's much more destructive than anything that happened at the Emmys last night. So I don't think it's wrong for us to be concerned about where our culture is going, certainly. Again, when you glorify the demonic and demonize the glorifying, like you know that we've gone to a really bad place.

This is where godlessness leads us. and there is literally no limit to the perversion and the depravity and the death and destruction that we will see from blatant Satan worship. I mean, we've seen that throughout history. Paganism isn't new. Satan worship isn't new. It's existed almost since the beginning of time. And it has always led to child sacrifice, the sacrifice of the most vulnerable, exchanging the truth of God for a lie.

It has always led to widespread death and destruction and corruption and evil. And it will continue to. I mean, that's why we care about the culture wars. That's why we care about politics. That's why we as Christians infuse light into every sphere that we occupy. We don't just keep our faith to ourselves. One, because we want to share the gospel and we believe in the Great Commission, but also because we care about the country and the culture in which God has providentially placed us,

and we want it to be better because a culture that is run by Satan ends in the exploitation of the most vulnerable. And so, yeah, we care about the culture wars. we hear about the direction the culture is going, but I think that we need to make sure that we are focusing our energy on the much more hidden and the much more dangerous and the much more effective strategies of Satan

that we see in the different kinds of ideologies that slowly and steadily creep into our churches, creep into our friend groups, creep into our social media feeds that really is no better than what Sam Smith said because it all falls under the category of you do you. You worship yourself. You do what feels good, which as we already said at the end of the day is just worshiping Satan just as you cannot worship God in money. You can't worship God in sex. You can't worship God in yourself. You can't worship God in your feelings. those two things cannot coincide. God graciously is a very jealous God. And he wants our whole heart,

not part of us, not some of us, not certain compartments, but all of us. There is nothing in us if we are believers that God will not eventually claim as his own. And this is also just a reminder that the idea of cultural neutrality is a myth. Okay. And so I just hope is like the demonic, it's more and more blatant that Christians wake themselves up to that. that nothing is neutral. There is no neutral ground in all of the universe. Every square inch, C.S. Lewis said,

is either claimed by God or counterclaimed by Satan. Again, as Ephesians 2 says, the Prince of the Power of the Air, as Evision 6 talks about, we are in a spiritual battle as we speak. Our kids are in a spiritual battle as we speak. Our pastors, our ministers, everyone in our church.

We are in a spiritual battle. And so I hope that if there's one thing that we get from just the obviousness now of the demonic is the reminder that nothing is neutral. I think we used to think that things could be neutral. They're not. It's either Satan's or gods. That is the war that we are waging. And I'm not saying that comes down into a clean left-right battle or Republican-democrat

battle. I'm not saying that. There are plenty of unsaved Republicans out there. That's not what I'm arguing. But sometimes they do fall along generally those lines. If you're looking at which side believes in reality and which side does not and which side glorifies the demonic and which side does not. Again, that's not necessarily saying any side is perfectly saved and the other one is not.

But I'm saying if you engage in the spiritual battle, like you will eventually have to draw lines if we're talking about how we affect the culture and how we affect our world with not just how we act and how we speak, but also in how we vote. Okay, one more thing I want to say, then we're going to look at some Grammy's outfits because why not? Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort.

We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this Steve Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Okay, so just one thing that I want to say, because I posted about this on Twitter and Instagram, and on Instagram, it got like a little bit of a pushback, which is fine, but I adamantly disagree. I adamantly disagree with the pushback. And what I said was, when someone calls you a fob, or when someone calls you a bigot, because you believe in biblical

marriage, or because you believe a man is a man and a woman is a woman, or you believe that Jesus is the way the truth and the life and that no one comes to the father except through him. You will be called all kinds of things for that. Or if you question the narratives about social and racial justice that are promulgated by the left and you're called a racist or a white supremacist. Or you believe that Ron DeSantis saying, yeah, you're not going to show pornography in schools like people call you a Nazi or a fascist because of that or they call you that because you don't believe the babies inside the womb should be killed.

you get called all of those things which are just you are standing on the side of truth all of those issues like that's not those are not nuanced policy issues to where Christians can kind of see both sides of it like those are very blatantly explicitly biblical issues that we can see as Christians like which side we should be standing on and you will get called all kinds of names for that all kinds of names and the response should be not well no I'm not no no no I'm not I'm not a transphobia I'm not a homophobar I'm not a bigoter I'm not a Nazi I just I just don't believe babies should be killed inside the womb or I just don't believe that we should have open borders or I just believe that you know a man shouldn't go into girls restrooms your response should be I don't care it shouldn't be no I'm

not that it's I don't care and you know, I got a comment from someone saying, oh, no, you know, that's not loving. That's rude. No, we should say, I'm not that, but, you know, X, Y, Z. And then someone else said that, no, we should say, oh, how so? No, that is, by engaging in that way, you are accepting their premise, that their accusation actually matters, that it actually holds weight, that you actually care about being called those things. When really as a Christian, those accusations do not matter. They don't. You should not care. I actually believe that that is a very gentle and a very loving. And yes, I believe in my opinion a very godly response to ridiculous, absurd

accusations that you are a phob or an is or whatever it is when you know that's not true. So I think it is a waste of breath. I think is casting pearls before swine to try to prove your character to people who are going to call you those names until you completely comply and agree with them. That is not unloving. And I just, like, I'm concerned, actually. Again, this is my opinion, but I am concerned for Christians who waste their time and waste their breath and waste their energy and waste their care on trying to justify themselves

to non-believers, especially those who have exchanged. good for evil. I engage with those people. I've changed people's minds in conversation and think the Lord by his grace through this podcast. And I promise you that mind changing has not come from me apologizing or me acquiescing or me compromising at all. Like I think Christians underestimate how effective the plain truth can be. That does not mean that you have to be antagonistic. You don't name call. you don't call names, but please stop carrying when you are called a name. You do not have to justify yourself. You do not have to say, well, it's not transphobic or it's not against trans rights to believe

that a man shouldn't go, you know, compete against women in soccer or surfing or whatever. It's just stop even giving the caveat. Do not justify yourself to people who will not take your justification. They don't care. Isn't that freeing? Isn't that liberating? isn't that part of what comes with the gospel, that we know who we are in Christ, that we have become a new creation. It is no longer we who live, but him who lives in us. And so all of our

worth, all of our identity, our name actually comes from him. So it does not matter what the world calls you when you stand for that, which is good and right and true. Like, isn't that part of that freedom? And so when I see Christian say, oh, no, that's mean to say I don't care. Okay. you waste your energy on that. Like, okay, if that's how you want to spend your time, you want to continue wasting time answering fools according to their folly. You want to continue to give into the premises of, or the premise of their argument continually. Like, I sometimes wonder if those Christians have ever actually effectively engaged with someone

with whom they disagree. I'm just not sure. I mean, there are so many cases with a. in the church where Christians and professing Christians believe that they are going to be able to win over a non-believer by having the right tone or by saying just the right thing or compromising just a little bit and it doesn't work again we can be very kind and very gentle and very loving, but that does not mean that we have to caveat or nuance one bit what God's word says. Like when people do that, when people are like start to defend themselves against like all

this name calling, again, I think it is basically saying like you think that you are more loving than what God's word says, that you have to kind of soften the blow. You kind of have to like nuance it a little bit because Genesis 1 27 is like a little too harsh. Romans 1 is a little too harsh. Matthew 19, 4 through 5 is a little bit too harsh. Psalm 139 is a little bit too harsh. So you have to say, well, I'm not an XYZ. I just believe what the Bible says. No, just say, I just believe what the Bible says. Look, this is what I believe. I just believe in science. I just believe in, you know, whatever it is that your stance is. That should be very freeing to you. And Christian, like if you were someone who believes that that is rude,

come on i think that like our are our hyper sensitivity as christians to to like tone and perceived rudeness just because someone said something plainly i think that is part of why we are where we are like we have been deluded into thinking that it is nicer to not say that which is true unapologetically and plainly there are times when I read the Gospels and I read what Jesus says or I read what Paul says in any of the epistles. And I'm like, that was harsh. I'm like, couldn't he have like said that a little bit nicer? Like that was kind of sarcastic. That that tone seems rude to me. And then I have to check myself and say, who the heck am I? That I would be tone policing, the alpha and omega,

like the God of the universe, the God who, as 1st John 4-8 says, is. love. So if something seems too harsh to me and Jesus says it or God's word says it, then it is my fault. It is my feelings that are the problem. Like I think we as Christians today are far too concerned with, oh, maybe we shouldn't say things that are true or that person said something that's true. That person says they don't care about being called a transphode. That's mean. Okay, well, you just waste your time and your energy doing that. The rest of us are busy. doing other things that matter and hopefully by the grace of God are effective. Okay. Now, let's look at some of this Grammy's fashion.

Yeah, let's pull out this Grammy's fashion and then we'll talk about a couple other things in a second. Let's look at the first one, the first one that we got. And I'm going to get some commentary for my team too. So we got Cardi B, right? Is this Cardi B? Yep, it's Cardi B. Is this what she was wearing the whole night last night? No, I believe she had a couple different hours. outfits. Okay, I think I saw her other outfit. I didn't see this. I don't mind this. Like,

I think that she looks good. I mean, obviously, it's not like the most modest thing in the world. But I kind of like it. I think the royal blue is really pretty on her. What do you all think? I love it. You do? Yeah. I mean, like, you never wear this, like, out to dinner. But for an award show, I think it's really cool. Is it a hat or is it a veil? I think it's just part of the dress, kind of a veil. Okay. I gotcha. I think. I think. I think the Royal Blue is like stunning on her. I think she's giving like violet from Willy Wonka vibes to me. Okay, you don't like it.

Got it. I think the shape is really good on her. Does she have like a satchel over there? I can't ever see because of the lights. What's on like her head? I think that's the GM or the CBS logo. Oh, oh, on the other side. Like on her hip.

Oh. Yeah, I think it's just fabric. It's just fabric. Yeah. Okay. So I obviously wouldn't wear this, but I think that she, I think that she looks good. Way better than the other outfit that I saw that I thought was like leathery something. Okay. Next one. Okay. I only know who this is because it says it on my document. Otherwise, I wouldn't. This is Shania Twain. Right? Yeah. I didn't know who it was either until Victoria told me. Okay. What a waste of beauty. She is like one of the. I think one of the most beautiful people, and she looks like an advertisement for Chick-fil-A. Dylan said she looks like a Disney villain.

That's true, too, like some kind of modern Kerala DeVille. So for people who are not watching this, or yeah, who are just listening to this, she's got like a suit on with massive bell bottoms, which I like a bell bottom, but it's a white suit with like big black polka dots and a top pat. She also kind of looks like she could be a villain in like Alice in Wonderland. and then she's got bright red hair, which I'm guessing is a wig and bright red lipstick. It's just, it is nothing for her at all. What do you all think? I think it looks like she got the wig off of Party City.

Yeah. I'm just, I'm not here for, she's a 57-year-old woman, and it's just, the outfit is very confusing to me. Yeah. It's a whole lot. I agree. I agree. I think it's weird. I mean, she does.

She is kind of complimenting, like, the red carpet and the white and black back ground so I'll give her that I don't know maybe when you're that successful like shenaya twain you just don't just don't care anymore and maybe when you're 57 you just don't care maybe maybe um okay Taylor Swift let's look at her I already saw this okay I already know that y'all are probably going to love it yeah Victoria and Bree I mean she looks amazing obviously. Like she looks, she, like, this is a great shape for her. I don't, it's not my favorite. I also don't like the earrings at all. But I'm not like a big earring person. Um, I, I don't like the earrings. But I think, yeah, I think the dress is pretty. I think that she looks great. What do you all think?

I think, look, I mean, you know I'm a Swifty, but I rarely does she miss quite honest. True. I agree. And I feel like this is one of my favorites ever. Okay. I think it's like the right amount of like, it's like relatively modest compared to what people normally wear. Yeah, it's just a midrift. Yeah, just the midrift. I don't know, I love it.

I just think it's unique and I love the color. It's great. Color looks good on her. Victoria, what do you think? She looks like her album and I just think that is, I don't know, it's the coolest. I think she looks fabulous. Yeah.

No, I think that I think she does look good. And you're right, Bree. She doesn't really have like a lot of weird statement dresses. That's what I always think is weird. Like why would you want to miss an opportunity as a celebrity to just look beautiful? Like you have access to so much like all the makeup artists and the hair and like the tanning and the contouring and like beautiful dresses and jewelry. Why would you want to miss an opportunity to just look gorgeous? And I think that she. She takes the opportunity to actually look like as beautiful as possible and not look like a freak like some of these people. Yeah, that's a good point. Speaking of freaks, I saw this on Instagram. Let's show him. Harry Styles. Okay. So if you all can't see, Harry Styles is wearing what I guess could be considered a jumpsuit, a very low-cut jumpsuit with sequins.

and it's got a bunch of diamonds, not like, not like jewel diamonds, but diamond shapes on there. We've got a lot of vibes going. We've got little girl vibe, which freaks me out. We've got clown vibe. We've got gay disco vibe. We've got ill-fitting women's clothes vibe, like the episode of The Office when

when Michael doesn't realize that he's actually wearing a women's suit. It's kind of in the shoes, the white shoes. I think that Harry Styles is very handsome. I think he's very handsome. And I think he's actually like manly looking apart from what he wears. But I mean, I know this is his shtick now. He just like tries to be feminine. But I mean, yeah, it's fuddly.

Agreed. I think he was going for sexy gay clans. Cousy, gay clown. That's a little disturbing. And isn't it? It is. Yeah. I like how he has like his chest strategically covered up in certain spots. I don't know if that's purposeful. How do you think someone like Carrie Stiles picks this?

Do you think a designer comes in and it's like has five different options and it's like which one do you want? I don't, I don't know. Probably. I feel like someone like him though has more. like ideas already in his mind of what he wants to look like because it's very i mean i don't know he's manufactured though so who knows yeah i don't know if people pick things for him i feel like he has maybe he has a Pinterest board he has a mood board for every album and he sends it yeah what a strange strange person okay next person black china okay is this the person that has a child with rob

Kardashian. Yes, this is that person. Okay, well, this is obviously hideous. Um, I mean, she's what she looks like she is trying to be a like a some kind of animal. There's a lot of plumage, right? Like, are those feathers or is that a wig? It's feathers. I think she was just a bird, a crow. A crow. The worst kind of animal. Um, yeah, she's wearing all like feathers and it's all around her head. It's like a feathered Unitarred. And then she's got like black tyson. Again, I'm sure a very pretty person, but this is not doing it for anyone. It's so strange how there's like such a wide range of things. You know, like at the Met, I feel like everyone looks bizarre. But in places like this, it's like, okay, you've got glam like Taylor Swift. And then you've got just

the absurd. I don't get. okay let's see our girl our I think this is the last one yep last one oh okay this is not the picture that I saw this is a lot better um so this is Lizzo and she's got um an orange dress on the top is like a corset kind of thing um but not like two too revealing it's got straps and then the rest of it is just like plain orange the top has some like vertical stripes and then she's got like a big shawl over her. The picture that I saw, I think, I don't know if we have that, but she had like a big shawl. The thing was like all over her head, right? Yeah, she was like cocooned in it at first. And then this was the reveal. Okay. Well, I like this actually,

like especially compared to some things that I've seen her wear. I think she looks really pretty. I think her hair and makeup as far as I can see. I think she's like a very beautiful person. And I think orange looks good on her. Orange does not. good on very many people. So, like, I think that this looks fine. I could probably do without the shawl thing. What do y'all think? I love it. I think she looks great. I think it's flattering. Yeah. I mean, it's not like most of her looks where it's like super revealing. Yeah. It's classy. I like it. Yeah. And I love the color. It's great. Yeah. I like classy too. Okay. So I just wanted to briefly talk about this Chinese spy balloon. And I say briefly because I feel like

there's still information coming out about this, and I will be able to maybe better talk about this in a couple days. Now there's like a really big debate about what this spy balloon even was. So if you didn't hear about this at all, there was this balloon. There were a couple of balloons that we knew of that were above the United States floating around. And what we were hearing from the media is that they were Chinese spy balloons. They were balloons sit by the Chinese Communist Party to hover over our airspace and to basically check out what's going on. You can see the picture if you're watching on YouTube. I don't know, to look at our different, you know, like, I don't know, whatever it is, to look at our military bases, to gather information and

intelligence. I mean, it's all a little bit hard to believe that they wouldn't have, like, more sophisticated means to do this. Apparently, there was one hovering over South America, too. And everyone was like, what the heck? Why don't you shoot this thing down? Like, why are we allowing this to hover over our airspace. And we were hearing from the Biden administration, well, this thing is really big. We can't do that safely. Or we're just not going to shoot it down. Like Secretary Blinken didn't really say what he was going to do. He apparently canceled his trip to China to like speak with them diplomatically because he believed that they launched this to spy on Americans and to spy on whatever we're up to. But it was all like a very strange story.

And everyone was like, Biden, why don't you just shoot this thing down? surely because people are saying, oh, he had to wait until it was over the ocean. But people have also pointed out, which I think this is a good point. Well, surely we have the intelligence to take this out without it causing a lot of destruction for America and for the American people. Obviously, I would agree with that. Like, I don't think that we should shoot this thing down at the expense of the lives of innocent civilians. I'm not saying that. But I do have a hard time believing that with all of the technology and the innovation that we have in our military, that we would not be able to take this thing out or to somehow render this thing completely ineffective without hurting

Americans and do it in a very quick way. However, they did after several days of one of the balloons circulating in the United States, hung out over Missouri for a little bit, headed over to the East Coast. The U.S. military did shoot it down. I think it was outside Myrtle Beach. And So here's a video of cadets watching the military shoot it down and they're cheering. And it's kind of cool. That's awesome. I think that's funny. I think it's at the Citadel where they are cheering this on.

That's in Army College. And I think that they're watching this. And they were cheering on as it got shot down. And so obviously we wish it had happened earlier or, you know, maybe in a different way because I'm sure that the balloon gathered all of the intelligence that it needed if it really is a spy balloon. Like I'm not totally sure about this story that we're being sold by the U.S. media. But if it really is a, you know, Chinese spy balloon, then it got all of the intelligence that it needs. And so us shooting it down a few days later does it even really matter? I'm not sure.

but I thought that that video was kind of fun. Here's what the New York Times says, The balloon, which spent five days traveling in a diagonal southeast route from Idaho to the Carolinas, had moved off the coast by midday Saturday and was shot down within moments of its arrival over the Atlantic Ocean. I told them to shoot a down, President Biden, told reporters in Hagerstown, Maryland on his way to Camp David on Saturday afternoon. They said to me, let's wait until the safest place to do it. The Federal Aviation Administration had paused departures and arrivals at airports in Wilminton, North Carolina and Emerald Beach in Charleston in South Carolina, one of the two F-22 fighter jets

from Langley Air Force Base fired a sidewinder air-to-air missile downing the balloon, which was flying at an altitude of 60,000 to 65,000 feet. Now here's what the Chinese are saying. The Chinese foreign ministry declared its strong discontent and protest about the United States downing of the balloon. In a statement, the ministry said that China had told Washington repeatedly that the balloon was a civilian aircraft that had inadvertently flown over the United States and his presence was totally accidental. In these circumstances, for the United States to insist on using armed forces clearly an excessive reaction that seriously violates international convention.

China will resolutely defend the legitimate rights and interests of the enterprise involved and retains the right to respond further. Respond further. Well, what does that mean? I'm not sure we know what that means. I do think it was the right thing to shoot a time. down. As I said, I think hopefully we have the capability to do something about that more quickly. Like, if we don't, then I would say that that's a problem. I mean, the Chinese are the Chinese Communist

Party. They're very likely lying. That's what communists do. And we have no reason to believe a dictatorial regime and what they're saying that it's some civilian balloon. But even if it were, like, you think if an American was flying something over China, that China even suspected just a little bit, was gathering intelligence. You think that they wouldn't do anything about it? Of course they would. Of course they would. And so apparently there were some back and forth between the administration and the Pentagon about it, but they ultimately did shoot it down. So this is according to News Nation, the Chinese spy balloon hovered over these states that have different military bases in Montana, in Idaho, in Wyoming, in South Dakota, and North Dakota.

Nebraska and Missouri, all of these Air Force bases. So again, it's just hard to believe that this is an accident, that this is just a civilian weather balloon. So there's a lot of contention about this, a lot of argumentation about whether this is a new thing, whether this happened under Donald Trump. The Department of Defense is saying that this did happen under Donald Trump, that this also happened a few months ago that crash. outside of Hawaii and no one even knew about it.

And some people, the Department of Defense is saying that it happened several times under Trump and that he didn't shoot it down. Trump is denying that. John Bolton, who doesn't even like Trump, who worked in the Trump administration is denying that, said that that actually never happened. And so there is some he said she said or he said he said going on there about what really happened because Trump has been critical of Biden over the past few days saying that he should absolutely shoot it down that he should have shot it down earlier. And so,

and so there's a lot of back and forth about what really happened, what administration did what. And then there's also some questions about whether or not this is just a distraction. Is this a distraction from something bigger that the Biden administration is doing, especially if this is something that has happened in the past? Is it something that we really need to care about all that much? So there is this interesting thread that was kind of going viral that kind of questioned the whole narrative about the spy balloon and what's really going on. And I'll talk about that in just a second. Okay, so let me read you this thread.

And this thread is from someone named Arnod, Bertrand. He is an entrepreneur, owner of the website called Me and InQI.com, which explains Chinese medicine. So he says, I took a bit of time to dissect the spy balloon story, both how it is portrayed in the U.S. and China's response. As you'll see, the more you think about it, the more stunned you get at the sheer absurdity of the whole thing. First, the U.S. story that China sent a spy balloon over highly strategic U.S. sites. It chose to spy on these sites with a big visible balloon that anyone can see with the naked

eye from the ground to demonstrate it have the capability, despite having a plethora of more discreet ways to spy like satellites or stealth drones. Unclear that anyone doubted China had mastered the technology of hot air balloons and why therefore needed to demonstrate this capability, China chose to do so on the eve of the Secretary of State's Blinkin's visit to China where he was invited. And hours after signaling Blinken would also

be meeting with Xi Jinping during his visit. He says, the story therefore being that China chose to disrupt the meeting with its own president and to sabotage its own efforts in the U.S. China

conflict. The Pentagon said it had been tracking the balloon for quite some time and that it wasn't the first time such an incident occurred, but this time for unclear reasons, it chose to do a public announcement. As a result, Lincoln announced he was postponing his China trip. Now a story from the Chinese side. They said that this is a fluke accident. This is a civilian balloon with limited self-steering capability.

And then a piece in the Washington Post seems to confirm this, quoting experts in national security and aerospace, said the craft appears to share characteristics with high-altitude balloons used by developed countries around the world for weather forecasting. Okay, so that's different. Then that would be different than what I said. I said that China is telling a lie. Apparently, it could be possibly true, according to this person. The Pentagon itself said that the payload wouldn't offer much in the way of surveillance.

The China couldn't collect through spy satellites and that the balloon posed no serious physical or intelligence threat. The Pentagon themselves say it would make zero sense for China to use a balloon like this for intelligence purposes when it has satellites. Kind of begs of the question why they decided to make a big deal, it in the first place. I'll let you decide which story makes more sense. The sheer ridiculousness of this Red Scare episode is absolutely obvious to anyone with an iota of common sense, except sadly common sense to be critically in short supply. As often, the real story is probably

why this story became a story in the first place. And the important context here is, of course, Blinken's visit to China, which could have been a step towards some form of de-escalation in China-U.S. it was quite easily foreseeable that a story like this, like this one on the eve of the trip would have made it politically very difficult for Blinken to go. A plausible hypothesis is that this whole episode is an attempt by internal U.S. forces to prevent any U.S. China further conflict. And then he also says an alternative hypothesis is that it's internal Chinese forces trying to do the same thing by sending this big balloon. but he said that that's probably not likely. So he's basically saying he doesn't think that the story is true. He actually thinks that perhaps the Chinese could be telling the truth about this being a weather

balloon and that this is a distraction by the U.S. government for reasons that we don't really know. So I'm not really sure what the story is. I think that there is a big mystery here. Now, would it surprise me if this is some kind of spy balloon and the Biden administration just didn't do anything about it for a period of time. No, I made this, you know, satirical video about Biden, like, asking Xi Jinping for permission to please shoot down the spy balloon, which is, I think, probably how he handles a lot of his diplomacy. But we don't really know what went on. So I think we'll have more information as, as time comes on. Okay, we didn't get to so much of what I wanted to talk about

today. Actually, you know what? I think I have time for this, like, very small thing. And maybe I'll talk about it in more detail in the future. But just to, like, close this out. All right. I hate to disappoint all you moms out there who watch Miss Rachel or your kids watch Miss Rachel. She's got a ton of subscribers on YouTube. She does fun learning songs with kids, but she is especially geared towards kids who are learning to talk or who have special needs or who need some kind of speech therapy because she also teaches them how to do that. Super cute and like super sweet and seemingly innocent. I went on her website, however, and we have the pictures of this that we'll pull up. And I saw that when she lists herself and the bios of all of her team members, she puts the pronouns.

She puts the pronouns in all of them, which is obviously an affirmation of this idea that gender is something to be announced, that gender is something to be chosen, that gender is something to be identified as something that needs to be declared to people rather than something that is innate and observed. and that ideology is leading to the butchering of children, is leading to the erasure of women, is leading to the taking away of women's rights and privacy and safety. So it's no small thing to announce your pronouns. And she is doing that. Do I think she's thinking through all of that? Probably not. But she did make the choice to put the pronouns there.

And then there is someone who plays in her videos that goes by they, them. and they're not they meaning the team is not hiding this and this is actually something that was introduced by this person by using the stuffed animal in one of Miss Rachel's videos so here that is hey do you see who I have with me yeah it's my stuffy their name is patches we're going to be doing a song with our stuffies. So I thought about this and I was like, well, maybe we just call stuffed animals they because do they really have a gender? We don't know what gender they are.

But considering the context and considering the person that is delivering this message, I think it's obvious that she is trying to make the point that an individual can be called they, that you can identify in that way. And so they are trying to introduce this concept. to vulnerable and malleable children, which is really sad. And just to close this out and to make this full circle, I'm much more concerned about things like this than I am Sam Smith. Like this kind of stuff, you've got Christian parents who are showing their kid this video and just not even noticing and not really caring and thinking that it's not that big of a deal.

Now, I'm not saying that you can't watch any video by Ms. Rachel, that there are no videos that are helpful. I'm not because, look, I know it's difficult and maybe that's the only kind of like speech therapy that you can like give to your toddler at the time. So I don't want it to sound like I'm saying, oh, every time, you know, Miss Rachel sings and she's singing about like ice cream starts with eye, that that is demonic and you shouldn't watch that at all. But I just, I'm more concerned about this kind of message weaving its way into seemingly innocuous videos and content that we are showing our kids and the blatantly satanic stuff that we are seeing from people like. Sam Smith. It's a lot more effective when it is again packaged as light and goodness and innocence, right? All right. That's all we've got time for today. We will be back here tomorrow. See you guys in. Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues

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