Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 931 | Out: Trad Trend, In: Biblical Womanhood
Episode Date: January 10, 2024Today we're starting off with a theory that the "trad" movement is ending just like any other trend. We explain why this movement was never rooted in biblical womanhood, and while there is nothing inh...erently wrong with the way "trad wives" live, it's also possible to be a God-glorifying woman without the dresses and homemade sourdough bread. Then, rapper Lil Nas X has entered his "Christian era," which seems to involve blasphemous imagery of himself as Christ and a giant troll campaign. We look at his sordid history of satanic imagery and explain how, while Lil Nas X is dead in his sin, he is no more lost than any other lost person we should pray for. We also talk about the U.S. National Junior Hockey Team's heartwarming singing of the national anthem, the Fort Worth explosion, the ongoing migrant crisis, and a popular conspiracy theory that might make some of you question everything. --- Timecodes: (01:17) Trad trend (17:25) Lil Nas X (30:20) US hockey team sings National Anthem (32:27) Fort Worth explosion / migrants (36:28) Moon landing theories --- Today's Sponsors: Seven Weeks Coffee — Seven Weeks is a pro-life coffee company with a simple mission: DONATE 10% of every sale to pregnancy care centers across America. Get your organically farmed and pesticide-free coffee at sevenweekscoffee.com and let your coffee serve a greater purpose. Use the promo code 'ALLIE' to save 10% off your order. Naturally It's Clean — visit https://naturallyitsclean.com/allie and use promo code "ALLIE" to receive 15% off your order. If you are an Amazon shopper you can visit https://amzn.to/3IyjFUJ, but the promo code discount is only valid on their direct website at www.naturallyitsclean.com/Allie. Jase Medical — get up to a year’s worth of many of your prescription medications delivered in advance. Go to JaseMedical.com today and use promo code “ALLIE". --- Links: NBC News: “21 injured in explosion at downtown Fort Worth hotel” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/21-injured-in-explosion-at-downtown-fort-worth-hotel/ar-AA1mF73W Fox News: “New Lil Nas X song promo featuring imagery of rapper as Jesus dubbed 'demonic,' 'blasphemous’” https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-lil-nas-x-song-promo-featuring-imagery-rapper-jesus-dubbed-demonic-blasphemous The Conservateur: “Has the Trad Bubble Popped?” https://www.theconservateur.com/conservateur-club/has-the-trad-bubble-popped NewsNation: “US successfully launches first moon landing mission in decades” https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/us-moon-landing-mission-launch/ --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 809 | The 'Trad' Movement Isn’t Biblical https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-809-the-trad-movement-isnt-biblical/id1359249098?i=1000614038103 Ep 930 | Why 2014 Was America’s Last Good Year | Guest: Aaron Renn https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-930-why-2014-was-americas-last-good-year-guest-aaron-renn/id1359249098?i=1000641074642 --- 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
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Trad wife, trad life is the trad trend ending.
What is this and what does it mean for Christian women?
Thankfully, I've got some good news.
Also, Lil Nas X is causing a stir among Christians once again for blasphemous images used to promote his.
new album. And we've also got some good news, some good patriotic news. And then we've got some
questions. Breene and I have some questions about none other than the moon landing, all on this episode
of Relatable, which is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to Good Ranchers.com.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.
If you haven't listened to yesterday's episode with Aaron Rinn living in a post-Christian country,
what the heck happened in 2014 that caused us to spiral so quickly into the depravity that we're
seeing today.
Go listen to that fascinating conversation.
I learned a lot.
But today, per usual, we've got a lot to talk about, a wide range of things that we're
discussing today.
The first thing that I want to talk about is the potential end to the trad trend.
Now, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can go back and listen to a previous
episode that we talked about the kind of trad life, trad wife trend that is going on on social
media.
Now, let me clarify what I'm going to say.
I am, of course, not dogging on a traditional life, being a traditional wife, traditional
gender roles, living on a farm, raising chickens and cows and homeschooling and all of those
things.
I think that's wonderful.
But on portions of social media, particularly on TikTok, I don't reside on TikTok.
I see my TikToks later on Instagram, like a grown-up millennial.
But there has been a trend of kind of cosplay like a traditional family without necessarily
talking about biblical values.
And so trying to achieve this kind of 19th century aesthetic to show that you're really
going back to your roots.
And in so doing, setting these very unrealistic standards for what motherhood looks like.
And I've noticed among a lot of Christians, this kind of feeling of insecurity that if you are not raising your own chickens, if you are not wearing a, you know, prairie dress all day and farming and making your own cheese and making sourdough from scratch, that maybe you are not doing enough to be a Titus to woman.
But it seems like the trad trend, again, not talking about actual traditional values and traditional, uh,
families, but the trad trend on social media seems to be coming to an end. I have felt like this,
but then I saw this article by this outlet, it's a great outlet called The Conservateur. And I saw
it on Instagram and it links to their article, which I thought was really interesting. So the
Instagram post says this, if it's been a while since you've seen Little House on the Prairie
clad woman telling you to bake sourdough, you're not alone. The Tradwife trend has been in vogue for several
years now, but any trend that is an aesthetic before it is a values-based movement is doomed to be
short-lived and ripe for takeover. Oh, I think that's a very insightful sentence. And here's what
the article has to say. Has the Trad Bubble popped? This is by Alina Clough. The Trad wife trend
has been in vogue for several years. Okay, I just read that. Perhaps it emerged in the post-COVID return
of many women to the domestic sphere. In any case, the popularity of online trad influencers seems to be
fading almost as quickly as it began. As Carmel Richardson argues in the American conservative,
fun videos of cooking, cleaning, and child-wearing fills a void left by young women raised
primarily in daycare in government schools. Many of them didn't watch their mothers be
homemakers, but self-proclaimed trad wives are still influencers. While there's nothing wrong with
most of the things valued by the Trad movement, the trend unhealthfully takes conservative values,
such as family modesty and traditional gender roles and turns them into cosplay escapism.
I think that, again, is very insightful and we have argued the same thing on this podcast.
In many ways, conservative values are attaching themselves to an aesthetic,
not the other way around.
In any trend that is an aesthetic before it is a values-based movement is doomed to be short-lived
and ripe for takeover.
The bottom line, the trad movement isn't conservative necessarily, I would add,
because it sees nothing left to conserve.
It's empty and escapist.
This is an opinion, a perspective of what's going on.
However, any movement that hinges more on cottage core, Pinterest boards and owning a backyard
cow that on truth, goodness, and beauty isn't built to last.
And then we've also talked about before how being a traditional wife and being a traditional
mom, while these things can be wonderful, it's not necessarily synonymous with being a biblical
wife and mom. And if you don't know what I'm talking about by this like trad trend,
trad aesthetic that's not necessarily biblical, here are a few examples of that. Here's one.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Okay, so there's one. And here is another one. Okay, so again, I'm not indicting these people.
I'm not saying that this is bad. I am just giving you an again.
example of some of the things that are online that have to do with this kind of trad trend that
really attaches to a particular aesthetic. So here's my takeaway on all of this. And let me give you
some caveats because I know many of you out there. Maybe you're offended by that.
Like it is indicting you as someone who does raise chickens or you do live on farm and you do
cook from scratch. It might sound like someone is calling you.
someone who is obsessed with just anesthetic and being superficial and trying to attach to a trend.
And you're thinking, well, that's not who I am at all.
You cook from scratch because it's healthier.
You make sourdough because you love to make sourdough.
You wear dresses because it's more comfortable.
You raise chickens and you're living on a farm and you homeschool because all of these are aligned with your values and your goals as a family.
And I think that's awesome.
Like I actually love following people like you.
I also love learning from people like you.
I think it is so important to have people that lead different kinds of lives.
and obviously people who make our food, it's extremely important. So I am cheering you on and supporting you.
What I think is important in noticing that this has kind of become an aesthetic on social media is that it sets for some women an unrealistic standard of what it means to be a biblical woman.
There is nothing wrong with farm life in and of itself. There is nothing wrong with cottage core in and of itself. There's nothing wrong. There's nothing wrong.
even with a particular aesthetic that someone is putting online in and of itself.
But when some women look to that or compare themselves to that and they feel like,
wow, I can't really be a conservative.
I can't really be traditional.
I can't really be a Proverbs 31 woman and a Christian wife and mom unless I am doing those
things and look like that.
Then we fall into this trap of allowing social media to set the standards of motherhood
rather than God and His Word.
Because the truth is, while those things are wonderful, you do not have to do them.
You do not have to align with that aesthetic in order to be a godly mom.
In order to be, by the grace of God, throughout your life, a Proverbs 31 woman.
Look at me.
I am not someone who is probably going to make sourdough starter.
I'm probably not.
maybe at some point in my life in a different season, I will be feeding my five-year-old sourdough starter
and I will be making a loaf of bread every week. That's just not me right now. It's probably not
going to be me for a long time. You're not looking at a cottage core person. You're not looking at
someone who raises her own chickens. I don't even have a garden. Again, I think it's amazing if you do.
I'm not even growing my own herbs. That's just not the life that I lead. I actually really
love the suburbs. I love the city. And while I would love maybe one day to live on a plot of land
and to live off my land, that's just not who I am right now. That's not where God has called
our family. And I just want to encourage you that motherhood is not an aesthetic. And so when you
see this online, when you are following, for example, Ballerina Farms, again, it's incredible
what she's able to accomplish and do and she's beautiful and her family is great and all of that.
But I just want you to be careful not to compare yourself to that and to think that you are falling
short of the kind of mother that you need to be because your life doesn't look like that.
You do not have to live on a farm.
You don't have to make your own sourdough.
You don't have to do those things in order to be a godly woman in the 21st century.
If you can, if you want to, if that's a goal.
then I think that's amazing. But remember, motherhood is beyond an aesthetic. It is a calling that God
has placed on our lives. And it is going to look different in some ways than each of us,
for each of us. Now, of course, we all have a biblical standard and we can all read Titus too,
but you can keep an orderly home. You can love your children. You can raise them in the admonition
of the Lord. You can feed them healthy food. You can care about their nutrition and their well-being
and the how your home feels and looks and all of these things without cosplaying really as a so-called
trad wife, trad life that we see on social media and that should be very freeing.
Now I posted this on social media yesterday hoping to encourage women and thankfully it did.
The vast majority of comments and messages that I got were people saying yes, I feel seen.
This is great.
this is what I needed to hear that motherhood is much deeper and better and bigger than any
trend that we see on social media. But you would also think that I told people that making
your own sourdough is of Satan. Like you, you would think that I told people that if you do
live on a farm and you do kind of fall into this almost 19th century-esque life and you make
things from scratch that I am indicting you and condemning you as a person, that I think that you're
wrong or bad or ungodly or anything like that. No. Oh my gosh, that's not what I said. That's not even
close to what I implied. And that requires so much effort to read into something that was
absolutely not said that I am just begging you to save your finite energy and direct it
towards something more productive than being offended by something that is simply not offensive.
The fact is we all have different gifts. We all have different callings. We all have different strengths. And while we are all called to godly spirit-filled motherhood, it's not going to look the exact same. For me, I get very tired. I get very tired just by imagining making something from scratch. But for other people, it gives them energy and they're great at it or they feel like they have to because this is what their family needs to survive and thrive.
And I think that's amazing.
I just want to free you from arbitrary and superficial standards of what it might seem
that conservative traditional biblical motherhood must look like.
We have to look to God's word, not to any influencer, not to any trend, not to social media,
not to me, not to any other podcaster.
But thankfully, by God's grace, like there's a lot of freedom and flexibility within God's standards
for what biblical motherhood must look like.
Now, some people also took it as me saying that I think that homeschooling is bad or something, I mean, which is absolutely crazy.
If you've spent any time around here at all, you know, I'm a huge advocate for a homeschooling, but really, I am an advocate of Christian education.
And so that doesn't necessarily mean homeschooling. I think homeschooling is awesome.
But it's not always necessary to give your child a biblical education.
there is a lot in between homeschooling full time and sending your kids to a, you know,
a secular government school. There's a lot in between that. And so that's the point that I was trying
to make. Of course, I believe in Christian education and I've advocated for that many times.
And so this should be a liberating conversation. This should be an encouraging conversation.
If you are not going to make sourdough, that is great. Then people like you and I,
we can support other people who make sourdough because we buy our sourdough from a bakery.
And if it weren't for people like me, they wouldn't be selling sourdough.
If everyone were making their own sourdough, then no one would be making money off their sourdough.
So look, we are, we suburban moms who are not making our own sourdough starter,
we are booing the economy, if you will.
We are all playing our part in our communities and in the body of Christ.
So yay, that is good, good news.
You can be a traditional wife and mom, a biblical, much more importantly, wife and mom without fitting into any aesthetic.
So you can meet me somewhere between sourdough starter and girl boss.
That's where I reside.
All right.
Yesterday, you might remember that Bree gave a prediction.
She gave her prediction that Lil Nas X, famous for his music video where he was giving Satan a lap dance, is going to become a Christian this year, which I said is an amazing prediction.
I would absolutely love to see it.
And of course, he is going to sit on the white couch on the relatable set and tell us his testimony, hey, God can do it.
God can do it.
With God, all things are possible.
Um, so we saw this after she gave that prediction, though.
Uh, strange timing.
And this is the headline from Fox News.
Rapper Lil Nas X unveils cover art for his new single J. Christ.
Yikes.
Yikes.
On Monday, rapper Lilnaz X unveiled the cover art for his new single J. Christ, which
releases on Friday, January 12, the artwork features a picture of himself on the cross being lifted
into place by a group of people.
He also included a jiff of himself as Jesus on a golden cross that transforms into a kind of armor around him.
So here's what he tweeted.
And right now, like his name on Twitter is a cross.
A mighty single is dedicated to the man who had the greatest comeback of all time.
J. Christ.
January 12th, 2024, be there.
And so obviously this is extremely, extremely blasphemous.
You can see the picture that we will put up on YouTube of him on some kind of golden cross.
Yeah. So very, I think very, very, very disturbing. Okay, he also has posted an image of himself, I guess, is Jesus taking communion. Very strange. And you can see a picture of that. He also posted an altered image yesterday that seems to show that he was accepted to Liberty University studying biblical studies. He has been promoting what he's referred to as his quote unquote,
Christian era of music on social media.
I started with a video of him dancing to one of the songs with the caption,
y'all mind if I enter my Christian era in the video he's wearing a shirt that says,
if God doesn't exist, then who's laughing at us?
So obviously this is all just a PR push.
This is just making a mockery of God.
And understandably, people are offended by this.
Now, I think that he is probably doing this for very superficial reasons or he thinks
their superficial reasons. He probably doesn't give a whole lot of weight to the spiritual seriousness
of what he is doing. But I think he's probably doing it because it causes a stir. It causes people
like me to talk about it. So I guess I am playing along with this. I will say what I said when people
were freaking out about his shoes. Wasn't it, Bree, it was his shoes that came out a couple years ago
that had a Bible verse on it.
What was it?
Lil Nas X Bible verse shoes.
I think they had like a drop of blood in them, right?
Supposedly.
Oh yeah.
It was Luke 1018 and it was paying homage to Satan.
And so he's been on the Satan trend for a while.
And Luke 1018 says, and he said to them,
I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
And of course, a lot of people understandably freaked out about this because this is Satan
just right out in the open.
And you've got someone who is glorifying Satan.
As I said, he's got a music video where he has given Satan a lap dance.
So a very disturbed person.
But what I pointed out at the time, and this is what I will point out now, is that when you look at
someone trying to highlight a verse that he thinks glorifies Satan, God can still use that for good.
Even though Satan is meaning it for evil, even though Lil Nas X probably had bad motivations for it,
the word of God does not return void.
And if we look at that verse and context, we actually see the power of God.
The 72 returned with joy saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name.
and he said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of
the enemy and nothing shall hurt you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that
your names are written to heaven.
So this is after Jesus appointed 72, sent them on ahead of them two by two into every town
in place where he himself was about to go. This is where he says the harvest is plentiful,
but the laborers are few. So as they returned to Jesus, they said, oh my gosh, demons are even
subject to us because of you, because of your power. And Jesus said, yeah, I know. I watch Satan
fall from heaven. And I have given you the authority that I have to tread on serpents and scorpions
over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall hurt you. So isn't it interesting as Lil Nas X thought
that he was citing a verse that I don't know showed the splendor or the uniqueness of Satan.
In context, this passage is actually about how Christians have authority, have spiritual
authority that has been given to us by Christ through the power of the gospel and how Satan
is not going to win. He's not going to be victorious. So even as I look at something like this
album from Lil Ma's Acts, which is insanely blasphemous, it just hurts me. I mean, it hurts me not
because God needs my defense. He doesn't need me, obviously, to protect him. But it hurts me for
Lelma's ex. Like it hurts me for the callousness that I think this creates, not just in him and his
own heart, but also in the people who follow him. The normalizing of this kind of imagery. I mean,
this is self-idulatory taken to its extreme. And I just shudder for what it will be like to stand
before the judgment throne of God without the protection of the blood of Christ. And I do think the
images like this becoming so mainstream and no longer shocking us is a really bad indication of where
our heart is as a culture. I mean, it kind of proves what we talked about yesterday that really
truly we live in this post-truth, post-Christian world. Whereas an image like this 50 years ago would
have been forbidden. It would have caused a big stir. Yeah, I'm talking about it on my show now,
but for a lot of people, it's not even going to cause any waves because we're just used to this
kind of blasphemy. But I do believe that the worst blasphemers, the most depraved sexually
immoral people can be saved by the grace of God. Right now, Lil Nasax, just like every other
person without Christ, is dead in his sin. He's dead in. He's dead.
his sin apart from Christ. They're not different levels of dead. If you are dead, you are dead.
And the only way he can be made alive, and this is true for all of us, is by grace through faith in
Christ. He can make us alive with Christ and we can be reconciled to God who is our enemy
without Christ. Anyone can become a friend of God, no matter how far off they are through the blood
of Christ. And so I will pray that Bree's prediction comes true that Lil Nas X, who clearly is
inspired by Satan, I think, in a lot of ways and inspired by evil in a lot of ways, that he will
see the light because God can do that. God can do that. He said some questionable things in the past.
He said, y'all love saying we going to hell, but get upset when I actually go there,
L. M. A. Y'all saying a gay inward, twerking on a C.G.I. Satan's the end of times like slavery and the
Holocaust didn't happen. Okay. Yeah, that's strange comparison. I definitely don't think that a music
video is the indicator of the end of times. But I certainly do think that it is a sad indicator
of where we are as a culture. But he has a mind of mush and a heart of
stone, as we all do, apart from Christ. And I will pray that his heart changes. And just a reminder,
like, God is completely powerful. I think that we have the tendency to fixate on things that
celebrities say and fixate on satanic symbolism. And we forget that Satan is extremely crafty and
extremely deceitful and extremely insidious. And his best work is not really done. And he's
done. I don't think out in the open, but in hiding. And so I think that we would do better to focus on
the ways that Satan is working in our churches, in our own lives, and in our own relationships
and how he is trying to, as much as he can, inhibit the advancement of the gospel. I'm not saying
that we shouldn't also talk about these things.
Obviously, I'm talking about them.
But I don't want us to focus on the big out there forms of satanic imagery and forget how Satanian
more insidiously weaves himself into our everyday lives through temptation and all kinds
of distortions of what God calls good and right and true.
But I just want to remind you.
of Psalm 2. Why do the nations rage and the people's plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves
and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying let us burst their
bonds apart and cast away their cords from us. He who sits in the heavens laughs. The Lord holds them
in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath and terrify them in his fury saying,
as for me, I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill. God is completely in control. He who sits in the
heavens laughs, the Lord holds them in derision. And this is especially apt, considering that Davos is
happening next week. As they come together and they think, you know, they collude together about how
they're going to basically take the place of God. God sits in the heavens and laughs because he knows
that he is ultimately in control and he knows that victory is his.
So just a reminder of that when we see depravity, whether it's on a small or big scale,
that God is completely in control.
And even in our own lives, remember that he who started a good work in us will bring it to
completion because he is faithful even when we are faithless.
So we can trust.
We can trust in our own sanctification because of the Holy Spirit.
And we can also trust in God's victory ultimately in the world.
and the advancement ultimately of his kingdom because of God's sovereignty.
Okay, so I saw this video going around that I thought was just so sweet and heartwarming.
And this is the USA Junior hockey team.
They're being praised for belting out the national anthem after winning gold and saying,
we love our country.
Okay, here it is.
Hey, this is Steve Deast.
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've been.
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, that's so sweet.
It's even sweeter if you watch it rather than just listen to it because if you're listening to it,
you might just have heard a cacophony of voices there.
But it's really sweet.
They look so happy and so excited about their victory and so happy to sing the national anthem.
I cry when I sing the national anthem and these people seem really patriotic too.
Just to remember that these people exist.
Like, I don't know if I can say anymore that this is the majority.
to give people in America sadly, but there's such a large contingency of us that still love what
America was founded on, want to preserve those things, care about those things, are proud of those
things, are proud of so much of what America has accomplished, even if we're disappointed in a lot
of where America has gone. I just thought that was such a sweet, heartwarming moment, and I wanted to
share that with you all. Also, I wanted to, this is totally different subject now, now that we've kind of
gone past the stories that we really wanted to talk about. I wanted to touch on a couple
extra things that I think we need to be talking about more that I am concerned that people
are not discussing. So I wanted to give you a little lighthearted thing before we get into some
disturbing things. I don't know if you guys saw, but there was an explosion in Fort Worth this week.
On January 9th, 21 people were injured in an apparent explosion at a downtown hotel in Fort Worth, Texas,
on Monday afternoon, the Fort Worth Fire Department spokesperson said the explosion appears to have been caused by some type of gas leak, but that was not confirmed as of Tuesday evening. Don't you feel like we should be talking about this more? I mean, there are so many people who have been heard from this. So many people in critical condition in the hospital because of an explosion in Texas. Now, I hope, it's strange to say, but I hope it was from a gas leak, but we don't know that yet. It seems like this should be a bigger topic of.
conversation, especially as we're going into 2024 and there are so many unknown, so many fears that a lot of
people have, namely because of the situation that's going on at our border right now. I don't know if
you guys have been following this. The insane infiltration that we are experiencing right now at
the border, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people coming in and not just coming
in but being bused to different locations across the country.
And actually in New York right now, a high school is about to be used to house migrants.
And the students that attend that high school are going to have to go to virtual learning.
And so this seems like a very scary combination of things going on here, that we are in a very
vulnerable position.
And that stories where something just randomly happens.
like a random disaster as it is very clear that the people in charge of our country do not care
about its sovereignty, do not care about its borders, do not care about who is coming in from
where, what their motives are, what their background is. It's just a very precarious situation
that we are in. And it seems like we should be doing more to hold our leaders accountable when it
comes to this. Now, I'm not saying that those two things are connected in Texas. I'm not saying
that. I have no idea. I'm just saying that I think everyone is kind of on their toes on the
edge of their seat and not in a good way as every, every sector that we are looking at of society
seems extremely tenuous. And so it's just a little, it's just a little troubling. Okay, Bree,
We're kind of all over the place today just a little bit.
Just there's just a lot.
It's hard to decide sometimes what to talk about when we've been off for several weeks,
and there are so many different things that we want to cover.
But I guess today one of the things that we want to talk about is the moon landing,
because that's important.
That's important.
It's imminent.
And the reason I want to talk about it is because there was an article in News Nation saying
that the U.S. has successfully launched the first moon landing mission in more than 50 years.
Now, you've probably heard in, you know, maybe recently or maybe you've heard this for a long time, skepticism about whether or not America really ever went to the moon. This is not something that I have ever questioned in my life. But I do think that there are interesting points to raise. Was it just a PR push while we were in the space race to say America is number one? And how did the camera get out there? How did the camera get out there? How did the camera?
camera get out there as, you know, too. It's kind of like the ultimate influencer. You know,
those influencers who, influencers who like set up their camera and their ring light to show
a night in the life of newborn parents. I cannot imagine anything that I would want to do less
than that, then set up a camera and have people see. Oh my gosh. That's crazy. But this is kind of like
the ultimate of that happening, I guess, when they went to the moon.
more than 50 years ago, they put the camera out and they were like, okay, go back in, go back in.
And they went in and then they stepped on to the moon like they hadn't already been out there.
And then they put our American flag on there.
And for some reason, we have not been back in 50 years.
Why?
That's kind of the thing that gets me.
I mean, in the past year, I've become skeptical about a lot of things.
But I feel like this was one I remember like 10 years ago defending the moon landing to one of my friends.
And now I'm kind of like, okay, they say that they destroyed the technology that they had to go to the moon.
And we haven't been able to do it since.
I don't know.
Yeah.
I don't know.
You're saying we had that technology 50 years ago to go to the moon.
and like the 5G on my phone barely works.
Like if I go to the wrong like corner of the building,
I can no longer receive text messages in the year of our Lord 2024.
And you're telling me 50 years ago,
we went to the moon and we're able to set up a camera on the moon
and to get clear footage of us staking the American flag,
which some people have pointed out.
It looks like the wind is blowing it up on the moon, which I always thought this was so
kooky to even talk about.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, me too.
But my sister-in-law has raised some valid points to me, and I have started to think about
it.
Just question it.
Just question it.
And, you know, now I'm thinking how silly it is for anyone to think that questioning it is bad.
Right.
That questioning it is dangerous.
Oh, yes, we must accept all of the official answers and explanations from the government.
Is that your position that the government wouldn't lie to us?
No, the government would never lie to us.
They would never lie to us.
Maybe some of these things were saying, someone who's like really well-informed or a scientist or something is like, oh, there's an obvious answer to that.
And we don't know it or something.
Maybe.
But I just, some of the stuff, yeah, me too.
Some of this stuff just doesn't make sense to me, I guess.
also the tapes that were destroyed and then and then found again and restored and now they look better.
See, I don't even know about that until you said it. What are you talking about? Apparently the original recordings were erased and reused. Like they ran out of tape or something. And then they restored them. They like found them again and restored them and now they look better than they did before. Apparently. So I don't know what that's about, but seems a little convenient. I don't know.
Yeah, why would they keep up to lie now, though?
Why wouldn't they say, yeah, we did that?
Because then people wouldn't trust them, right?
Even more.
Yeah, why would anyone trust?
You can't admit to anything.
Can't admit to anything.
Or people are going to lose confidence.
Who's confidence in the, you know, it probably is COVID and everything over the past few years
that's gotten people to start questioning things.
So someone's going to take this segment, Bree.
You know someone's going to take this segment and clip it.
and talk about how dangerous it is to question it.
I mean, let's not talk about dinosaurs.
Oh, no.
People get so angry.
People get so angry when you say, oh, you know what?
We don't know what color scales pterodactyl's on.
Like, we probably don't.
I mean, there's been, I don't, how many dinosaurs have they found full fossils of?
It's very, very few.
It's very few.
I think they've only found if one.
I don't even know if they have a full T-Rex, like a full body of a T-Rex.
But as we have talked about several times, if you look at the skeletons of a hippo,
if you look at the skeletons of a chicken, if you look at the skeletons of an owl,
like you could draw on that and come up with something that looked like a dinosaur.
Because we don't know what the hair looked like if they're.
They had any. We don't know, we don't know color. We don't know sounds. I'm telling you,
some of this has been constructed by a bunch of nerds who were like, oh, Jurassic Park.
That would be so cool, man. And you think that it's all science-based because you've been
trained not to question anything. I'm just saying, I don't think that dinosaurs looked like
the depictions that we have of them today. There's no chance. There's no chance.
Okay, I've become a hardliner on this.
There's no chance.
No, there's no chance that we know the colors of the scales.
No, you're right.
There's those things we know.
I guess there's a chance maybe we guessed correctly.
Yeah.
But you're right.
There's no way to like know.
There's no way to know.
So I'm not even saying the dinosaurs didn't exist if you want to call them that.
But I'm just saying they.
probably looked more similar to animals we have today than what people want to believe.
And like people will hold on to din.
I got, I got like a five page type letter from someone sit to me about how just, this is just so
dangerous.
The dinosaur thing?
Yes, to question what dinosaurs look like.
I'm going to question it even harder now.
Yeah, that makes me more skeptical, honestly.
Why do you want me to believe it so badly?
Yeah, why does it matter to you? How does it affect you? Yeah. Oh, people are going to have a heyday with this segment of Bree. You know what? This is a good time to promote my merch. We have question everything. We have question everything. We have question everything. We have question everything. We have question everything. We can see it. If you cut to me. It's cute. Do you see? Let's go to Bree. We got a question everything. Little sticker right there. We also have a hat and a shirt with our question. And he's landing on the moon. I forgot about that. We've got a Terex landing on the moon. It says question everything.
Oh man, I should have worn that today.
And you can buy it at alleymerch.com.
All right.
What a random episode.
I hope that you guys enjoyed it.
And we will be back here tomorrow.
Ooh, I'm super, super excited for tomorrow's interview.
It's going to be really good.
We are talking to an investigative journalist who has uncovered all the shocking stuff about
Pornhub.
She's going to be here in studio.
And I'm super pumped for you to hear what she's uncovered.
It's actually shocking and so important for us to know.
All right.
Thanks so much for tuning in to Relatable.
We will be back here.
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