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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1134 | World Relief, USAID & the Nefarious Network of Humanitarian Aid
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Ali Stuckey
The Trump administration is reorganizing and dismantling the United States Agency of International Development and has also frozen the funds of an evangelical nonprofit organization called World Relief. This has a lot of people in a tizzy, but what are these entities really? Are they truly serving their mission? Are they advancing the interests of the American people and the taxpayers that are funding, funding them? We've got the answer to that. And we are also getting into some Grammys moments with producer Bri, who was actually there. Yes, this is a long episode, but it is a good and a thorough one. So without further ado, here's today's episode of Relatable. Hey guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. I hope everyone is staying healthy. It seems like everyone is getting sick and whatever bug is floating around has hit my family. Chief Relatabro and I are safe right now, but our kids were hit with it and it's, I'm sure a lot of you have experienced it. It's maybe the flu. It's also similar to Covid. I remember when we got Covid for the first time at the beginning of 2021. It's kind of like that in the thick of it. I will try to tell you from almost the other side that at least for us and the families, I know it was a good five day virus. Five days is a long time to have a virus. I'm thinking like 48 hours, maybe a little more than that. For your typical virus. This seems to last a while. I'm sure it depends on the person and all of that, but my kids very rarely get sick and this has dragged on longer than I anticipated. And for us, the symptoms so far have really just been fever, kind of achy, like a headache, but it may be a little bit of congestion but not a whole lot of respiratory symptoms. Not anything crazy, just like feeling really bad in that kind of just like feverish chills which is always really pitiful for kids and really just sad to watch. But I my recommendations are not anything novel but as much, you know, vitamin C, vitamin D as you can possibly get. The weather has actually been really good where we are and so trying to get, get outside as much as we possibly can while, you know, liquids and rest and all of that good stuff to try to rejuvenate them, restore their energy. For me, I have been taking this in addition to my we heart nutrition which I really do think just helps maintain my immune system year round. I've been also taking this sea moss Gel. Have you guys seen this? I saw it at the grocery store and I don't know, it looked interesting. It's supposed to be good for your immune system. I'll tell you right now, it doesn't taste good. Okay? And that's, I think how I know that it's working is that it tastes like kelp. And I guess that's kind of what it this. It's cmos and it's in like this gel form and you just scoop it up with the spoon and you eat it and it's supposed to be good for you. I've also been taking my daily dose of local elderberry, which I hope helps. It doesn't help also that we've got like some new allergens in the area and we've been spending more time outside since we're having like a fake spring right now. And that has also just exacerbated allergies. So there's just a lot going on. And also I've heard some of you out there say that you've been hit with the stomach bug, which is actually the worst, maybe one of the worst consequences of the fall of man is stomach bug. And so I am sorry for you. I am hoping that all the related gals and the related bros out there are staying as healthy as they possibly can because it is no joke, especially when you're sick and your kids are sick. And so we're almost out of the thick of winter though, so things should start getting better soon. Speaking of health, I want to give you an update before we get into the bulk of our episode on RFK junior It has now been announced that he will advance to the next step in his effort to become Trump's Health and Human services secretary. The 27 member panel of 14 Republicans and 13 Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee approved Kennedy's advancement by a party line vote of 414 to 13. That means all Republicans fell in line. The spotlight has been for the past few days on Senator Bill Cassidy, who issued a last minute endorsement indicating a party line vote for Kennedy. He has also said that he is now comfortable with supporting Tulsi Gabbard. He was a Republican that was really on the fence about both of these nominations. And there's been a whole lot of pressure, especially from the Maha movement, to get these Republicans to support Trump's nominees. I think the Republicans should support Trump's nominees, although I do think it is fair for some of these conservatives to have some questions about lifelong Democrats like Tulsi Gabbard and like RFK Jr. Now, I think both of them are going to do a good job. They're very rational and reasonable people. But I also think it is rational and reasonable for Republicans who are serving the interests of their own constituents and who are trying to stand on conservative principles to ask some questions about their history and about their past positions. But Senator Cassidy did vote for Kennedy and will support Tulsi Gabbard. So the nomination now moves to the full Senate for a vote. And then there, all 100 senators will have the opportunity to debate and then vote on whether to confirm RFK Jr. For the position. So we're going to have a lot of showmanship. You just know that all of these senators, especially the Democrats, are getting so excited about their monologues and about their clickbait viral videos that are going to go around and we get to laugh at them and respond to them soon. Kennedy can only afford to lose the support of three GOP senators. So if Democrats unite against his confirmation, which it is almost certain that they will on the floor of the chamber, he can only lose three GOP senators. There's going to be a lot of pressure and it is possible that he could lose the support of four GOP senators is not likely, I would say. I think it is very likely at this point that he is going to be confirmed. Nicole Shanahan, his previous running mate has, who is a billionaire, has said, yeah, I'm going to come after you if you do not support the nomination of RFK Jr. And while you might say, well, that's not fair, we don't want billionaires affecting our political process. That is the way that has been for a very long time. People with money have power, they have influence, and they do put their thumb on the scale of the process to get done what they want to get done. It seems like Democrats have a problem with that. Only now, only now Democrats are saying, whoa, this is an oligarchy. Elon Musk, Nicole Shanahan, all of these rich people trying to influence politics, they had no problem with that when it was and is George Soros or Jeff Bezos and Mackenzie Bezos and Zuckerberg and all of these people who for a very long time were not only funding the Democrat Party, but were also ensuring that non left wing ideas could not circulate with the same accessibility and rapidity as, as left wing ideas. And so they're okay with that kind of oligarchy. They're not okay when billionaires who are not on the left. I wouldn't even call Elon Musk or Nicole Shanahan on the right, but who are not on the left, try to use their own influence to get done what they would like to get done. But it also happens to be what a lot of Americans want to get done as well. So you can hate the, hate the game, but it's not really the fault of the players. This is just kind of the system that we've got set up right now. All right, speaking of money influencing our elections and speaking of Democrats getting money from places where they really shouldn't be getting money and then getting mad about it when people call that out. We got to talk about what's happening with U.S. aid or some people might us say USA ID or USAID. Lots of different ways to say it. This is the international aid department of the government that is now basically being dismantled under Donald Trump. And this is also affecting some Christian so called charities. And you've got a lot of mushy middle evangelicals and a lot of so called progressive Christians saying, oh, this is so bad, this is so terrible. How could any Christian support this? 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Get that box of coffee to your front door every month. You'll save 15 plus when you go to 7weeks.7weeks coffee.com code ally you save an extra 10%. That's 7weeks coffee.com code Ali. Okay, so what is you said what is us a I.D. well, let's back up a little bit. Let's first talk about why we're talking about it and then we'll get into what it really is and where Our taxpayer dollars that fund this entity are actually going. So on Monday, Elon Musk, who has been in charge of overhauling the federal government, mentioned in a Live X space that President Trump has agreed that the U.S. agency for International Development, that's USAID, needs to be shut down. USAID is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance in other countries. That might sound not only innocuous but very beneficial. Why would someone ever want to get in the way of that? So this announcement came after USAID funding was frozen by a Trump executive order last week and dozens of its employees were put on leave. That freeze also affected world relief. Maybe you're seeing some chatter about that among the Christians that you follow, which is an evangelical Christian humanitarian group, or that's what they call themselves, that receives a significant majority of its funding from usaid. So this Christian humanitarian group, which calls itself a non governmental association, an NGO or a nonprofit, calls itself a charity, is actually getting a huge portion of its funding from American taxpayers. Now it does seem like progressives would have a problem with that, right? But actually we're seeing people on the Democrat side, Christian and non Christian, say that this is just an absolute travesty and cruel. Shortly after Elon Musk's announcement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he is now the acting administrator of USAID because the agency has been, quote, completely unresponsive. Just as a note, you probably remember the name Samantha Power. She has been in the center of a lot of controversy over the last 10 plus years. She is the former UN ambassador under Obama. She was also the administrator of USAID before Marco Rubio was appointed as the acting administrator. So she, if you just research Samantha Power, we don't have that much time to get into her right now. She is extremely corrupt. So it's not surprising at all the direction that USAID has been going as we'll get into a sec in a second, in particular under her leadership. So Rubio said in a press conference in El Salvador yesterday that USAID is supposed to respond to the policy directive of the State Department, but it is refusing to do so. Here's set one.
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Marco Rubio
I said very clearly when we, when I, during my confirmation hearing that every dollar we spend in every program we fund that will be aligned with the national interest of the United States. And USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that they're someh a global charity separate from the national interest. These are taxpayer dollars. These are not donor dollars. These are taxpayer dollars. And we owe the American people the. Sure. The assurances that every dollar we are spending abroad is being spent on something that furthers our national interest.
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Ali Stuckey
Just to know I've been super impressed with Senator Rubio, or sorry, Secretary Rubio so far in his, in his position just championing the America first agenda completely unapologetically. And all of the appointees have done so thus far, which is just really exciting to see. He makes this point in another interview too where he says, look, this is USAID is not a charity. These are not people who are giving their money voluntarily to this organization to accomplish the mission that USAID is trying to accomplish throughout the world. Which again will detail in just a second. I mean, these taxpayers are forced to give their hard earned dollars to organization and that means that this organization has to be held accountable to the leadership that was voted for by the American people. They need to be accountable to us. But we've elected these representatives, President Trump that has been appointed Marco Rubio to make sure that our dollars and that our government is truly championing our interests both here and abroad. And they have been completely non compliant since Trump took office. And so basically they said, okay, well you're not going to exist anymore. And Elon Musk said in that X space, it became apparent that it's not an apple with a worm in it. Usaid, what we have is just a ball of worms. You've got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair. We're shutting it down. Musk's comments during the Xbases conversation came after two top security officials at USAID were put on administrative leave leave Saturday night for refusing members of the department Government of Efficiency. That's the, the DOGE entity that Elon Musk is a part of, which is responsible for cleaning out all of the mess of the federal bureaucracy. That is just bloat and incompetence. So they refused members of DOGE access to systems at the agency, even when DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement. Around 60 senior USAID staff were put on leave last week on accusations of attempt attempting to circumvent Trump's executive order to freeze foreign aid for 90 days. On Monday, USAID staffers were instructed to stay out of the agency's D.C. headquarters. And then on Monday afternoon. So yesterday, the Department of State posted an update on its X page saying this. The United States Agency for International Development has long strayed from its original mission of responsibly advancing American interests abroad. It is now abundantly clear that Significant portions of USAID funding are not aligned with the core national interests of the United States States. As an interim step toward gaining control and better understanding over the agency's activity, President Donald J. Trump appointed Secretary Marco Rubio as acting Administrator. Secretary Rubio has also now notified Congress that A review of USAID's foreign assistance activities is underway with an eye towards potential reorganization. As we evaluate USAID to ensure it is in alignment with an America first agenda and the efforts of the State Department, we will continue to protect the American people's interests and ensure their tax dollars are not wasted. I mean, thank the Lord. That is just responsible governance. And there's so much propaganda surrounding this. And it's really easy to just look at the name of the organization and say, well, they're probably doing good work. They're helping these poor countries develop and to be safe and to make sure that they are prosperous. And don't we want our tax dollars going toward that? But. But the truth is that who they say they are, which I'll describe, and what they actually do are extremely disparate. The USAID describes itself as leading in international development and disaster assistance programs. They say they're responsible for dispensing dollars for foreign aid. They are a funder of global humanitarian assistance. The aid agency dispersed over $70 billion in 2023, employees over 10,000 people. The countries that received the most funds From USAID in 2023 were Ukraine, $16 billion, Ethiopia, over a billion dollars, Jordan, over a billion dollars, Afghanistan, over a billion dollars, and Somalia, over a billion dollars. Congo, Syria, Nigeria, Yemen, South Sudan also received between $740 million and $936 million in aid. And if you're thinking, well, that's great, these are poor countries, they need our help, you should ask yourself, how long have we been sending millions and billions of dollars? And have these countries gotten better? Have the poorest and the weakest people in those countries actually benefited from our billions of dollars of taxpayers going over there? Or has the corrupt and the dangerous leadership of these countries just gotten richer and more equipped to oppress their own people? You would think that that would just be a common sense question that we should ask about our own money going into these countries. Because they're not just poor, they are also extremely violent and corrupt. When you look at their government, doesn't seem like we would want to be funding policy that is actually oppressing the poor people in those countries. Right. So we would just need to make sure that that's not what we're doing. A Little bit of background about usaid. When did it start? Why did it start? It started in 1961. President JFK signed the Foreign Assistance act into law, which restructured U.S. foreign aid policy and programs. He established the USAID by executive order to lead the government's global development and humanitarian efforts. It was also, in the height of the Cold War, used to diminish the threat of communism by helping countries prosper economically, socially and politically, or else that's what they said that they were trying to do. So USAID was created by executive order. However, it cannot be dissolved by executive order because it was established as its own independent agency by statute in Congress in 1998. And so if it is truly going to be dissolved, then that would have to go through Congress. But right now, Secretary Rubio is saying, no, we're just reorganizing it. We are taking it over and we are going to examine what they are actually doing. So what do they actually do? Even though they characterize themselves as trying to end poverty and promoting democracy and civil society around the world? When you look into the programs that are actually being funded around the world, what you see is that they are pushing transgenderism, they're pushing promiscuity, they are promoting abortion, they are promoting all forms of sexual degeneracy and confusion and death and progressive causes in these poor, helpless countries that depend upon the money of US taxpayers to survive. And so this is a form, we've said this many times, that progressives love imperialism and colonialism as long as it involves pushing things like gay sex and transgenderism. They say that they're anti colonialism. No, they love colonialism as long as they are forcing poor countries to conform to their ideas. They loved when the Biden administration threatened to take money away from Uganda when Uganda passed a law criminalizing homosexual behavior. And so don't believe them when they say, oh, colonialism has been so bad. That's just another euphemism for their hatred of white people, hatred of America, hatred of Western civilization. They don't hate colonialism. They love forcing their ideas upon institutions, upon people of different backgrounds and religions, of people of different countries. And USAID was basically the arm of left wing colonialism funded by taxpayer dollars. And that is exactly why it needs to be dismantled and remade into something that actually advances American interests. So we'll get into the specifics of that in just a second. Let me pause, tell you about our second sponsor for the day and that is Cozy Earth. I love Cozy Earth. We love our sheets from Cozy Earth. They are so breathable, so luxur is so soft. But I also love all of my pajamas and my loungewear from Cozy Earth. They're really high quality, really breathable. I don't own anything more comfortable than my stuff from Cozy Earth. Valentine's Day is coming up. Relata Bros and related gals. 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Only a thousand dollars. A quarter of percent of that went to Donald Trump. 97% went to Democrats. In general, only about $12,000 went to any Republicans. And so we see the political makeup, the bias of usaid, which is why their direction and their mission across the world makes a lot of sense. As sad as it is. Here is Caroline, leave it the press secretary, giving some examp where our tax dollars are going through usaid. Here's that too.
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Caroline
These are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on. $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces. 70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland. 47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. 32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap. And I know the American people don't either. And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do to get the fraud, waste and abuse out of our federal government.
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Ali Stuckey
Thank you guys. Okay, that's exactly what it is. It's crap. And we fact checked all of this just to make sure. Okay, is what she's reading. Is that actually true? And we were able to fact check all of that. Yes, it is actually true. For example, the advancement of DEI and a Serb Serbian workplace. This was a three year grant that was awarded in 2022, the Daily Mail reported. This funding was for a pro LGBTQ NGO who Serbia name translates to group come out. So this NGO received $1.5 million from Biden's administration through the USA ID to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and businesses communities by promoting economic empowerment of an opportunity of LGBTQ I + people in Serbia. So all of that that the press secretary just listed is true and we have more. It's not just LGBTQ causes, although we have even further examples of that. But it's also things like climate change. For example, a $1.5 million grant was given in 2024 for studies on climate change and gender equity in Pakistan. So American and Pakistani higher education institutions have the potential to be central actors in advancing Pakistan's climate resilience and gender equity, whatever that means. So over a million dollars of our taxes going towards that in Pakistan. Also in 2024, USAID launched a quote Health for Trans campaign to raise awareness of health care services for so called transgender women in Vietnam. This is what part of what their website says. Although Vietnam has made great progress over the past two decades, stemming HIV and aids, the epidemic persists among the most at risk populations, including men who have sex with men, transgender women, female sex workers and people who use injectable drugs. Like have we thought about just not doing any of those things? I don't know. Usaid, in collaboration with Vietnamese health clinics and social enterprises, recently launched the Health for Trans campaign targeted at Vietnam's transgender women community. Okay, so there are your tax dollars yet again. They also promoted LGBTQ intersex rights in Latin America and Caribbean countries. USA id. This is, according to Washington Blade, invested in programs that fight violence against LGBTQ and intersex people in Honduras and Guatemala. USAID Senior LGBTQ I/ Coordinator. That is a thing. Jay Gilliam announced that USAID would donate an additional $2 million for economic programs for transgender women. Now, if you are against that, that doesn't mean that you are for violence against these people. It just means that that is not in the interest of the United States to be going to Guatemala and giving of tax dollars to protect so called transgender community in South America. I mean, come on. In 2022. USAID was providing so called transgender services. And I say so called if you're new here, because there's no such thing as transgender. You can't, you can't transfer from one gender to the other. It's impossible. You might be able to declare that in your mind, but it's not a physical reality. So we say so called or quote unquote, services to the residents of an impoverished squatter camp outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Okay, I just got to repeat that because it reads like a mad lib. Okay. USAID was providing so called transgender services to the residents of an impoverished squatter camp outside Johannesburg, South Africa. What. What are transgender services? Brie, do we know what transgender services are? Come get your pronouns.
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Bri
Yeah, yeah, they're handing out pronouns. I couldn't tell you, actually. I don't know. I, I don' the specifics, that's.
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Ali Stuckey
This is according to the Christian Post. We don't need to know because it is over now. In 2013, as part of an AIDS prevention program in Kenya, USAID funded an ad which told women to use a condom when having an affair. Okay. The ad was pulled after public outcry including from the Anglican Church of Kenya. Sexual and so called reproductive health programs. Again, abortion funded by USAID and developing countries have often been criticized for sexualizing traditional cultures. It's just all so strange. Also strange. And remember, these are your tax dollars. This is your money that you are earning at your job. Also, they have had their hand and censorship in the United States and elsewhere. The USAID center on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance. That's like the Ministry of Truth in 1984 promoted an internal disinformation primer dated February 2021 that has been quietly pushing private sector technology companies, media organizations, education ministries, national governments and funding bodies to adopt adopt social media censorship practices. The USAID Censorship guidebook characterizes increased online competition and increasing distrust against traditional media as problematic. So it's bad that Jim Acosta no longer works at cnn. We need to be listening to CNN more. We need to be watching msa, NBC more. You don't need to be listening to and following these independent journalists. They say that this reduces traditional media's power to shape local and national dialogue. Well, yeah, that's kind of the whole point. That's kind of the whole point. That's why we like the democratization of information, like what's happening on X. Also, if you look at USAID's history with the dealing of COVID 19, the USAID and the National Institute of Allergy and infectious diseases. That was the agency that was was headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci. They gave $41 million from 2014 to 2019 in grants to researchers at the Wuhan Institute for Virology for risky gain of function research in 2019. Okay, like that is the entity that is being dismantled right now who helped fund the research at Wuhan lab that probably caused the COVID pandemic. One of the researchers who was awarded for the grants, Ben Hu, was also among the first patients believed to have contracted COVID 19, further supporting the theory that COVID 19 originated in a lab. No, no, no, no. It came from bat soup. I remember, I still remember a meme and at the time I was too scared to share it, but it was really funny. It was like a picture of a skeleton and they were dying and they were like leaving a fire star review for the bat soup so people don't think I'm racist. That was back when people thought that it originated from some kind of bat stew in China. But we know better, we know better than that now. It's also worth noting that the funding documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act FOIA by the White Coat Waste Project, a nonprofit that opposes taxpayer funded research on animals, showed that USAID provided the majority of that funding to that Wuhan lab. That's according to the Intercept in the wall. $38 million. You can see it right there if you're watching on YouTube. Gosh, there is just so, there's so much here. Also when we look at Afghanistan, you remember what happened in 2021, 2022 with Joe Biden and the disastrous just calamity that occurred when U. S. Troops pulled out of Afghanistan left, left all of our weaponry behind to be used by the Taliban. Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. It's just horrible, horrible, horrible. According to reports from the oversight group appointed by Congress to audit the $145 billion provided by the US for reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. After that debacle, the group concluded that at least $19 billion, okay, almost a third was lost to waste, fraud and abuse. So that's according to CNN and Pro publica. Pro publica is a very left wing organization and you already know that about cnn. So this is what they are reporting about the funding that went through USAID to Afghanistan after the Taliban took over. That almost a third of that funding was lost to waste, fraud and abuse. Again, that is your hard earned earned money. I guarantee you would have used that money more efficiently yourself. USAID spent $335 million on a diesel fueled power plant that cost an estimated $245 million for fuel. It is not being used because Afghans can't afford to import diesel. Good job. Good job, guys. USAID spent $249 million on a road system around Afghanistan, but only 15% of the road was ever completed. By 2017, even what had been built deteriorated. And then a 2015 report into USAID's funding of healthcare facilities in Afghanistan. So obviously. So some of this stuff that I'm talking about is before, before Biden, but also before the debacle that we just described when the US troops left Afghanistan. So a 2015 report into USAID is funding of healthcare facilities. Afghanistan said that over a third of the 510 projects did not exist, exist at their claimed location or anywhere close by, leading auditors to conclude that USAID was not providing oversight if they did not know where the facilities were. One healthcare site gave coordinates located in the Mediterranean Sea. Nearly half of the reported coordinates showed no physical structure within half a mile. USAID gave no comment about these things too. Cnn so that's hundreds of millions, hundreds of millions, billions of our tax dollars not only going to programs that are degenerate, that are evil, that are harmful on every level, but also wasted, completely gone nowhere. And they basically function like they are not accountable to the taxpayer or to the executive branch. And that's just not true. So it is not only understandable that Trump and Marco Rubio and Elon Musk are trying to take over and restructure and reorganize and reorient this entity. It is, again, righteous and good. Trump understands the mandate. He understands the mandate. I know a lot of you have questions about tariffs, specifically that part of what Trump is doing. Tomorrow we are going to talk about that. I will have my dad on and we will talk about tariffs and what it actually means and what the media is saying. And is it working? It seems to be working. I know a lot of people in your life are like, mad about what Trump is doing for a variety of reasons. I am happy about all of it. I, and I just want you to be unapologetic about that, like, you don't have to caveat it. I know a lot of your friends out there, they're telling you stories about, oh, cutting funding to USAID or cutting funding to world Relief or these deportations. I'm telling you so far it's all good. And I will tell you if I think that it's not, I, I, I promise you that now, that's just my perspective. Other people have different perspectives out there. But I'm telling you that everything that is being done right now is in the best interest of the United States States and is actually compassionate and wise and righteous and good. Because again, governments are responsible primarily, if not exclusively to their own people. That is true of every government everywhere. And again, if you want to understand the propaganda that is being pushed with immigration or usaid, you need to read Toxic Empathy. I see that Toxic Empathy has started a lot of some more conversations on social media right now and it is, you know, by people who are not acted in good faith. It's always going to be misrepresented as a book that is against all empathy or against all compassion. And if you've read it, you know that that is not the case at all. It is an extremely compassionate and even deep feeling book. But it tethers us and submits us to truth, most importantly Biblical truth, but also factual truth when it comes to abortion, when it comes to transgenderism, when it comes comes to the definition of marriage, and when it comes to immigration and social justice. If you have read the book, please leave me a five star review on Amazon. You'll notice that the negative reviews, the vast majority of them are not verified purchases. There are people out there that don't want you to read this book, that don't want Christians to read this book. I saw actually this woman that I know a lot of conservative evangelicals follow, she posted on Twitter that like Internet bullies are preaching about like toxic empathy. I mean these people can't even be bothered to read the book. If they did, they'd probably agree with a lot of it and learn something from it. But it's just easier to be triggered by something and dismiss it than have your assumptions to be challenged at all. So if you haven't read it, I encourage you to. You can listen on an audible. Also leave it a five star review. If you read it and you loved it on Amazon, that helps. That helps out a lot. I promise that it will add a lot of clarity and context for the conversations that are being had right now in especially in like Christian circles. Let me pause and tell you about our next sponsor before we get into a little bit about world Relief. And then we will talk about the Grammys with producer Bri who was actually there. Let me tell you about Good Ranchers. 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But anytime you have a non profit organization that starts to latch on to the government for power and funding, there's usually going to be some kind of compromise and perverse incentives there. They describe themselves this way though. World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with with the church. It started as as a way to serve war torn Europe in the immediate aftermath of World War II. And now they say that they are responding to humanitarian crises in the Middle east alongside local partners delivering emergency aid. The first crisis that the website lists is Israeli forces launching an extensive attack on Hezbollah military assets in Lebanon on September20. For not the October 7 attacks or the refugees from that they are noting harms to terrorist assets before they're talking about harms to Israelis. And maybe they have a good reason for that. I don't know. It seems like a purposeful window though, into their progressive leanings. World Relief also plays a significant role in refugee resettlement and immigration. They work in partnership with the U.S. department of of State. They also work with local churches. They help resettle thousands of refugees referred to the United by the United Nations Refugee Agency to the United States each year. Now that in itself helping legitimate refugees resettle and assimilate into the United States, making sure that they are taken care of, that they can get up on their feet and work jobs. That mission in itself, of course is not wrong and is something that Christians should be a part of. And the United States absolutely has a right, just like every country, to decide which refugees can come in, how many refugees can come in, and then once they're here, I do think that there is a Christian part to play and a Christian obligation to try to help the refugees around us get assimilated and to get to a place of stability with their families. And so if that was all they were doing, and they were as a charity, as a non government mental association or organization using their donor funds to simply resettle refugees and teach them the gospel, then I think that would be great. But that's not really all that's going on. So this is according to the Heritage foundation, who is, obviously they're a Christian organization, but they've done some digging into who World Relief Relief actually is. During the Biden administration, what started out as faith based organizations, and this is not just World Relief, but organizations like them supporting the State Department to resettle genuine refugees in the US After a legitimate application process has evolved into mass illegal immigration, created an immigration industrial complex worth billions of dollars. So this is kind of the background. Faith based organizations have been involved with the resettlement of refugees as far back as 1948. After the passage of the Refugee act of 1980 that was influenced by the crisis of the Vietnam War, faith based organizations really became integrated into U.S. refugee resettlement. The Biden administration encouraged and released millions of illegal aliens into the country. So not legitimate refugees, not people who have gone through the legal process of claiming asylum and applying for refugee status, but illegal aliens who may have claimed to be seeking asylum, we don't really know. And they use these same NGOs that were responsible for refugee resettlement to receive, process and transport these illegal aliens. The administration pays these NGOs millions of taxpayer dollars that come from the numerous federal departments and agencies, agencies including the hhs, including usaid. This includes Catholic Charities. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society received more than $40.9 million in grants from the departments of HHS Homeland Security, compared with only $46 million in contributions. So several different NGOs from different kinds of religious backgrounds receiving billions and billions of dollars from the federal government to resettle specifically illegal aliens. This funding has further incentivized this dangerous, dangerous travel of these illegal aliens and also has enabled trafficking and the human smuggling that happens so often at our border of these unaccompanied children. World Relief is one of these charities that is receiving so much money from the federal government and seems to be playing a part of this industrial complex which is enabling exacerbating illegal immigration. Most of World Relief's funding comes from government grants. In 2022, they received $126 million in government grants, compared to only $33.5 million from private donations. That's according to journalist Megan Basham and its 2021 financial statement. The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee received more than $93.1 million in U.S. grants compared to only about $20 million from private donors. Then the following year, the Department of Health and Human Services alone issued that Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service a whopping $182.6 million in grants for unaccompanied alien children and refugee services. So there is such a dark, dark underbelly of Christian in name only organizations funding and fueling some of the most deleterious progressive causes, including illegal mass migration. And I'm sure that World Relief has done some really good work. I'm sure that they have responded to crises around the world in a way that we would applaud. They should do that. But if they are at all enabling illegal immigration, then that is a huge problem. They shouldn't be called Christian. They certainly shouldn't be working in conjunction with the federal government to do that. But the fact alone that they are in cahoots with the government and still call themselves an ngo, that's a problem. And if you look at their website, like you can can see their ideology, you can see where they're coming from. So they have this top five immigration myths debunked article and we can't go through all of them, but I want to go through two of them. So one thing that they say is a myth is that refugees and other immigrants increase crime rates, they say, including undocumented. So again, undocumented. That reveals a lot of the their ideology. Instead of saying illegal, you say undocumented, which I find so offensive. And if you are A legal immigrant, you should find that so offensive. Your citizenship doesn't come down to documents. Your citizenship isn't just a piece of paper. Your citizenship is a right that you have. I mean it is a birthright for many of us. But if you went through the sacrifice of the legal, legal process, it is, it affords to you certain rights that are not and should not be afforded to non citizens. It's not just a document. I mean we even see that in Scripture when Paul appeals to his own Roman citizenship. Citizenship matters. It creates order in the world and it actually protects the most vulnerable by affording them rights that they have simply because they are a person and a citizen of that country. And to call someone documented or undocumented completes, completely negates the idea of citizenship altogether. That is a radical left wing phrase and position. And this so called evangelical organization apparently believes that. But if you look at the debunking of this, the debunking of the myth, that this is a myth. So they say that refugees and other immigrants increase, don't increase crime rates. They actually say, say that these undocumented people are less likely to make crimes than native born Americans. Before I even get into the stats, like let me just tell you the logic of that. If someone is undocumented, they by definition do not have documents, right? And so we don't know their identity. We are unable to track them. We do not know in many cases where they are really coming from, what their background is, what crimes they have committed. There is really no way for us to track their legal or criminal history in or outside of the United States. Now sometimes we get the intelligence to be able to do that, but it is very hard to do when someone doesn't have proper legal documents. And so we really do not have the reliable data to show if illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than native born people. But even if that were true, even if it were true that illegal aliens are less likely to commit crimes, that does not mean that we should accept them. That doesn't mean that we should have, that we shouldn't have borders. And just because we have natural born citizens who commit crimes doesn't mean that we should add more criminals from illegal aliens. Because every crime committed by an illegal alien, unlike the crimes committed by citizens, are totally preventable by just enforcing immigration law. And even if an illegal alien never ever committed a crime, we would still have a right to the sovereignty of our country and the protection of our borders. But the fact of the matter is, is that refugee communities throughout Europe do commit more crimes proportionally than the citizen population. For example, In Sweden from 2013 to 2017, immigrants were three times more likely to be registered as a Sussex suspect for assault, four times for robbery and five times for rape compared to the native population. In Denmark in 2020, crime was 51% higher among male immigrants and 149% higher among male offspring with a non Western background compared to the entire male population. In Germany, the German Federal Criminal Police Force has reported that in 2022, 31.9% of crime suspects were non German German, while this group constitutes about 16 of the population in the UK. July 20 this is just also just a story. There are statistics from these places. But to give you a look into what this really looks like, on July 29, 2024, a 17 year old son of asylum seekers from Rwanda stabbed three girls to death in Southport at a Taylor Swift themed dance party. There's also someone on trial right now in the UK refugee who went on a stabbing rampage and tried to kill as many children as possible and actually laughed about it when he was arrested. In France, June 8, 2023, a Syrian asylum seeker stabbed four children at a playground. That's according to the BBC. And those are just a couple of dozens and dozens and dozens of stories that you can find just by searching throughout Europe. And then they also say this is an immigration refugees and other immigrants are taking jobs away from American. They say, no, they're not taking jobs away from Americans. They're doing jobs that Americans don't want. Like picking our crops for $5. Hmm. I thought we had the 13th amendment. I don't know, maybe I'm confused about something, but Stephen Miller was actually just having a conversation with Jake Tapper about something similar to this, where Jake Tapper kind of raises this point as well. And here's what Stephen Miller had to say.
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Stephen Miller
Sought6 the Department of Agriculture says that between 2020 and 2022, 42% of crop workers were undocumented immigrants. And in many cases, as you know, these migrants do jobs many Americans do not want to do. So how do you. How does President Trump make sure that the effort to deport people who are not in this country legally doesn't end up hurting Americans who want safe borders. Absolutely. But also so don't want to see even more higher prices in groceries.
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Jake Tapper
Well, I mean, I'm sure it's not your position, Jake. You're just asking the question that we should supply America's food with exploitative, illegal alien labor. I obviously don't think that's what you're implying only 1% of alien workers in the entire country work in agriculture. The top destination for illegal aliens are large cities like New York, York like Los Angeles and small industrial towns of course, all across the heartland. As we've seen with the Biden floods, none of those illegal aliens are doing farm work. There's no universe in which this nation is going to allow the previous president to flood our nation with millions and millions of illegal aliens who just get to stay here. And we are especially not going to allow a subset of those illegal aliens to rape and murder our citizens. Citizens. So we are going to unapologetically enforce our immigration laws. And as I'm sure you will celebrate, we are going to unleash the power and might of the US Government to eradicate the presence of transnational threats on our soil.
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Ali Stuckey
I love Stephen Miller so much. I mean he never makes an apology for his immigration position and he is right on. So is Tom Homan. And I'm just so thankful because again, it is compassionate policy to prevent more Lake and Riley's and Molly Tibbets is and Kate Steinle's and Jocelyn Nungares. It is compassionate policy to make sure that it is as impossible as possible for an illegal alien to commit a preventable crime against an innocent citizen. And everyone should be on board with that. And no matter what your background is, if you are here illegally, you do not have a right to be here. It doesn't mean that you're not made in the image of God. God doesn't mean that you don't deserve compassion. It doesn't mean that you don't deserve help. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't try to come here legally. I think all of those things are true. And yet we have a government that has been tasked by God to reward good and to punish evil and to bear the sword and to protect our borders. And again, that's the right and the responsibility, the righteous right and responsibility of every government. Government. Every government should put its needs and its well being of its own people first. Absolutely. All right, we'll get into a little bit of the Grammys in just a second. Let me pause tell you about our last sponsor first. And that is we Heart Nutrition. I told you that we haven't been sick in a long time. I really haven't been sick in a long time. I'm hoping that I can hold out this week that I won't get sick. And if that's the case, I will will credit that in large part to my supplements from We Heart nutrition. I take their postnatal vitamin, I take their Omega 3s, their iron supplement, their magnesium. I love them all. They seem to work really well. I mean, honestly, for the past year since I have been taking WE Heart nutrition, I so rarely get sick. I even think my allergies are better than they used to be. 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I'm not even going to talk about it anymore. Josh. So Josh Howerton is pastor that we've had on before. So he made this comment on X, which I thought was really interesting. This is about USA id. He said, I do not think American Christians realize how perverse our international influence has become. The pastor of the largest church in Chile spoke at Lake Point. That's his church in Espanol. Last year. He so they have like a service that's just for Spanish speakers. They're in Texas, so a lot of Spanish speakers there. He explained that despite having a deeply traditional view of gender and family, they had begun aggressively teaching LGBT ideology in Chilean public schools to the horror of Chilean parents. Why? Because Chile feared losing US Aid if they didn't. I didn't understand what he meant until this week. This is according to the USAID website, that they have policy programs like LGBTQIA plus inclusive development policy that they literally take into these poor countries that are completely, culturally, morally, religiously opposed to this stuff and shove it down their throats and say, look, we're going to take away your food money if you don't if you don't go along with this, I mean, this is the same thing that the Biden administration did when they told public schools that take Title 9 funding. If you take Title 9 funding or no, it was snap lunches. If you take funding for food for poor kids, then you have to let boys into girls back bathrooms. That literally happened. So I don't want to hear from any mushy evangelicals or like any professing Christians who are talking about the so called injustices of the current Trump administration who had nothing to say about that, nothing to say about the horrors of abortion that were pushed under Biden, nothing to say about the gender transitions that were pushed by Biden on children. And now you're going to be sad because we're cleaning out the corruption in the federal government. Give me a break, please. All right. Other people who need to give me a break, I'm tasking them with giving me a break. And that is celebrities at the Grammys. Now, before we get into some of the cringiest moments at the Grammys, can you just tell me, like, what was the general feeling, first of all, how did you get there? Like, what were you doing there?
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Bri
I just have a friend who's a member and so he gets a member.
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Ali Stuckey
I don't even know what that means.
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Bri
Well, you can only go to the Grammys if you're like a member of the Academy.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay.
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Bri
And there are non voting members and voting members and he's just a non voting member. So you then you have the opportunity to buy tickets to go and he just had a ticket.
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Ali Stuckey
So I got to go and was fun.
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Bri
Yeah, it was really fun.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah.
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Bri
What did you make experience? I know. I realized I didn't even take any pictures while I was there, like of myself, but I just wore a dress.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah. And it was fun.
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Bri
Super special.
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Ali Stuckey
Like, was the food good or anything?
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Bri
There wasn't any. You go in there at 12:30 for the pre show and you can't leave until the end, which is no dirty. They don't give you anything. You can buy food in the, like the center that it's in, but the lines are so long that we didn't.
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Ali Stuckey
Oh, that sounds terrible.
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Bri
It was pretty rough.
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Ali Stuckey
What was your favorite performance?
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Bri
Oh, gosh. I actually, I thought so many of them were really good, which I don't normally think for the Grammys. I think thought like vocally they were all really good. I really loved Sabrina Carpenter. I think she just has really good stage presence.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay. I saw like the. I saw that on instagram the beginning of her performance, which was cute and funny. Is her voice good?
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Bri
Life. It was at the beginning, but I think she was just moving so much that it. It didn't sound as good toward the end. But I thought Chapel Ron sounded amazing. Her voice is incredible, and so I thought that performance was really good. There was one that I thought was awful. I thought Charlie XCX was terrible.
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Ali Stuckey
Oh, what did she. What did she sing? So Julia. That's all I know.
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Bri
I don't know any of her songs, but they all kind of sound the same to me. So she just kind of like hopped around and lipped sync to her songs.
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Ali Stuckey
Cool.
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay. What about. I have like a. I wouldn't even say it was. It's like a love hate relationship. I would say, like tolerate hate relationship with the song.
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Bri
Beautiful.
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Ali Stuckey
Thanks.
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Bri
Okay, me too.
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Ali Stuckey
And why was he wearing that romper?
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Bri
I don't know what the suit was about. He also adjusted it while he was on stage, which was gross.
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Ali Stuckey
Wait, like, it was too tight?
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Bri
Like he grabbed it. Yeah, he.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Rose, he's not gay, right?
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Bri
I don't think so.
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Ali Stuckey
That outfit was super gay.
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Bri
I don't know. He did back flips, which were cool.
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Ali Stuckey
I saw that. That was pretty cool in a onesie.
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Bri
Yes. And I actually. I feel the same as you because before he even sang, I turned to my friend and I said, I can't stand this song. And then he performed it and I was like, that was really good, actually.
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Ali Stuckey
See that?
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
I do think he has a great voice.
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Bri
Yeah. I would never listen to that song, though, like on, you know, Spotify.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay. I heard a version that was like, without the, like, build up. It was like an acoustic version and I. It bothered me. I was like, I just need it to, like, I needed to do.
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Bri
It was worse.
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Ali Stuckey
Build up. Yeah, I know. Okay, so all good performances I saw that you had posted did something. I don't even know who it was. Who was like, selfishness is the greatest form of selflessness or something.
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Bri
Yeah, yeah, that was money long. She won for like R B performance or something. It was at the pre show, so not a lot of people saw it. But yeah, she. She said selfishness is the highest form of. Of self respect.
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Ali Stuckey
That's what it was. Nice.
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
Nice.
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Bri
So totally.
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Ali Stuckey
I learned that definitely at the Grammys.
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Bri
Yep.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay. Then we had some speeches. Which one should we do first? Let's do Lady Gaga sought for.
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Bri
Trans people are not invisible. Trans people deserve love. The queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love. Thank you. You.
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Ali Stuckey
What does that mean? Trans people are not invisible. Oh, we see. We see them.
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Bri
I know. They're not invisible.
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Ali Stuckey
They're there.
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Bri
Also, the most vague. Like, all of these speeches are so vague.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah.
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Bri
Music is love. Music connects us. The whole theme of the night was, like, the LA fires and raising money for that.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah.
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Bri
And I'm just.
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Ali Stuckey
They're probably all donating to Act Black Blue, which just goes to Gavin's campaign.
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Bri
Yeah. No. Yeah. And they all voted for the policies, the environmental policies that made that so much worse than it needed to be. And. And so. And then they go up on stage and they're like, this is music is community, and it helps. And, you know, there's nothing specific.
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Ali Stuckey
And everyone there is like, yes, yes, yes.
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Bri
Music is love. And everyone's like, yes.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay, okay. Let's just play one of these. Let's play Alicia Keys. SOT5DEI is not a threat.
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Bri
It's a gift.
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Ali Stuckey
Yes. So true.
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Bri
Preach.
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Ali Stuckey
So true. You just know what she needed to say after that to emphasize it and make sure no one asks any clarifying questions. Full stop. Full stop. Period. The end. Enough said. All of those. That's what you just need to say at the end of it to make sure. Okay. What do you think about Cowboy Carter making what? Album of the year and country album of the year.
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Bri
Yeah. Best country album. I don't even listen to country music, and I was offended, but I know that a lot of people who do listen to country music were extra offended. Ended. Yeah. Not because people can't switch genres, but just because that's not her genre at all.
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Ali Stuckey
I don't know any of the other songs.
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
I only know one line of one song. Is, he takes this. I think everyone's loved my singing voice today, so I just want to give them that one more time. Ain't no. Hold them. I think that's all I know. So. So don't be a. A bad word. Take it to the dance floor. That's all I know.
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Bri
Beautiful.
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Ali Stuckey
I know. Thank you. I should win.
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Bri
Yeah, I know. At the rate we're going. Yeah, yeah. No, I. I thought it was not great.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay. I. I don't think we are allowed to go into this. I'll let Jason Whitlock talk about this, because I saw him tweet about it and I was like, I've been thinking that for years. Her appearance. That's all I'll say. Yes. Just compare it to her album covers and say 2006. Just compare it to pictures of. Say, I don't know, 2000. And what she looks like now.
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
And what she is trying to look like and what she is trying to do. I'm confused about that.
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Bri
Her hair color. That was new as of.
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Ali Stuckey
Yes, her hair color. Yep, that's what I was gonna say.
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
It's just a little confusing. It's just a. A little confusing. Especially. Especially based on her, like, past activism. I. I will say her surprise was cute. The.
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Bri
Like, I thought it's like a gif now.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah, yeah, I know. I thought it was cute when she was, like, surprised that she got country album of the year. If that's. If it's genuine. I thought it was kind of sweet. And then her daughter being like, mom. Like, if you watch her daughter's face during it, she's like, mom, get up.
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
And I was like, that's such, like, a cute moment. Like, Beyonce's daughter is like, mom, My mom. Beyonce is so embarrassing. Get up. I just thought that was, like, actually a cute moment. So anything else, like, any other, I guess, is. Okay, first, I. I'm sorry. There's so much to talk about, and I know that we're already way over. Obviously we're not going to show it, but, like, Kanye's wife.
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Bri
Oh, yeah, Yeah. I have some outfits here, too, if you want to look at them before we go. But yeah, Yeah, I didn't see her, thankfully, but she. Reports were saying she got kicked out. That's not true. So she was just there, and I don't know how that's legal, to be honest.
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Ali Stuckey
I thought they got kicked out.
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Bri
No, they didn't actually get kicked out.
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Ali Stuckey
Oh, they didn't?
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Bri
Yeah. No, but I think they did kind of sequester them somewhere.
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Ali Stuckey
Well, I saw a really sad picture. Like, some. Some people were laughing at it on X, but it was. Was like, this little boy, probably 8 years old, like, looking around a corner looking at her because she's totally buck naked and like, no, that's not funny. That's not okay. I don't know what's going on there. I said on X that we should be praying for him, but obviously I should have included her in that. Like, I feel like there's something really dark and really demonic going on there. The guy that gave us Jesus as Lord a few years ago, and I know a lot of people were skeptical about that, and I had my own questions, but that is a good album. Album, by the way, it's a really good album. Obviously, Satan has attacked him a lot in the past few years, and I think about Their poor kids, like Kim and Kanye's kids, like both sides of his family. So much exhibitionism and terrible, terrible examples in so many ways. Like, you can't have a healthy mentality about the body and sexuality when that's what you're looking at.
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Bri
Yeah, agreed.
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Ali Stuckey
I just found that really dark and sad.
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Bri
Really weird vibes. I mean, people kind of assumed this would happen eventually, so.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah, I don't know. Okay, let's see. I want to know what Julia Fox is wearing. Is it appropriate for our eyes? Full screen 17.
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Bri
It's kind of appropriate. We blurred it.
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Ali Stuckey
We blurred it. Okay. I knew she'd be wearing something. I just find her, like, very beautiful, but also the captain of Bizarro Land.
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Bri
She's wearing, like, rubber cleaning gloves.
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Ali Stuckey
Oh, I can't even see that. Okay. Yeah. And she, like, makes all of her own clothes. And this is who Charlie Xiax is talking about.
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
So Julia. Okay. Billie Eilish. I saw her wearing a backwards hat.
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Bri
She had changed into that after. This was her red carpet look.
- [72:46]
Ali Stuckey
Unfortunate. She looks like the mole from Thumbelina.
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Bri
No, that's way more specific than mine.
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Ali Stuckey
Do you all know what I'm talking about? We're on, like, a big Thumbelina kick right now at our house, so that's the first thing that came to mind. Okay. I thought Taylor Swift looked amazing.
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Bri
So good.
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Ali Stuckey
Don't you think?
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Bri
She looks so good.
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Ali Stuckey
Great color on her.
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Bri
She was posing like that all night.
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Ali Stuckey
Oh, yeah, yeah, she looks great.
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Bri
She's a pro.
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Ali Stuckey
Sabrina Carpenter, who I think is, like, one of the prettiest people. Okay. Interesting. I like it. It's very her.
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Bri
Yeah, she's very old Hollywood. That's her style. So. Yeah, it works for her.
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Ali Stuckey
I mean, low in the back, not modest, but the. The color is cute. Okay. Jaden Smith. My personal favorite outfit of the night. This is my favorite too, because obviously.
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
What is that? Is that a black castle?
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
Around his head.
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
Is it supposed to mean something or is it just to get talked about?
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Bri
I think it's just to get talked about. Well, he's kind of kooky. He probably has a reason for it. I don't know it, though.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay. Troye Sivan, who is this?
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Bri
He's a singer. I don't know that you can tell from this picture, but the fabric that he's wearing is like, that really cheap, like, polyester fabric. That's what it looks like. Oh, And I just thought this was really, really bad.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah. It just doesn't fit him. It doesn't fit his body.
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Bri
And I'm sure it costs more than, you know.
- [74:24]
Ali Stuckey
A lot.
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Bri
Yeah, sure. Costs a lot. But it looks like it doesn't.
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Ali Stuckey
Strange. And I'm also, like, confused about the tie situation through the jacket. Don't know. Don't know. Okay. Strange times at the Grammys. Those people just, like, really neat. Jesus. We all do. We all do. But especially Lady Gaga. Okay, that's all we got time for today. We will be back here tomorrow.