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Talking Politics With Kids · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mamas. Do you talk politics with your
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  kids? Are they interested or turned off with the topics? Well, let's
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  ask our American mama's Alma and joining us now our American mama's Terry Needeville and
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  Kimberly Burlison. I do talk politics sometimes with my kids. Julius seems a
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  little bit more interested in it. Let me train that. Julie seems a
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  little bit more interested in arguing with me about Bailey doesn't. What's interesting though,
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  is Bailey I actually had done a whole bunch of podcasts in America on
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  par and when Bailey was in high school, junior high. He actually listened
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  to every single one of them. I didn't know this, my mom actually
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  saw him doing it. But yeah, he listened to every single one of
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  them. So it's not like we've we really debated with Bailey or talk politics
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  with Bailey, but he's absorbed a lot of what we were talking about.
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  Yeah, what about y'all? That's so interesting? My kids hate it?
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  What about yours? Oh my gosh, they roll their eyes, they're like
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  over it, you know, because I want to bring it's interesting because I'm
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  still in Tristan and my son and daughter law came over last week and for
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  me, it just the subject just comes up, just something in the day
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  has happened, and I'll bring it up. And they're very interested, and
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  they were asking that at that time, all of the stuff with Hamas had
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  just started out, so they wanted to know the details about Israel, Hamas,
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  the Gaza Strip, Palestinians and all of that. So I was doing
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  my level best to help them understand what's actually going on. And then we
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  got onto other subjects and then Tristan said, she said, okay, I
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  can't. I can't talk any more politics right now. I'm starting to get
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  I'm starting feeling easy because it is an anxious time. So when you start
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  talking politics with people who don't follow it every day and you bombard them with
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  what's happening, and when sitting it's hard to take. And I get it.
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  And so, you know, summer, my daughter is so like if
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  I usually if I'm walking in the morning for my morning walk, she's headed
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  into work in Fort Worth, and so we'll talk and when I get on
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  politics, she'll go, okay, okay, okay, you know, let's
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  get back on the wedding stuff. She doesn't want to go there as much
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  because I think at the same time that Tristan felt this way. It's heavy,
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  it is, it is sunny. Sends me reels almost daily about somebody
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  talking too much politics because I find a way also to bring it into a
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  lot of conversations with him. But I think it's good. I asked her
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  today. She said, I don't want to hear an opinion unless it's an
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  educated opinion. And she said, but I don't believe in anything anymore.
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  I don't believe because everything's based on an agenda or an opinion. And she
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  said, and I'm sick of it. And I said, but that's good.
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  That's good, Yeah, that you want to hear all sides. And
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  that's the way. She has such a good point because I remember one of
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  our cousins who's a diehard liberal. She and I got into this, and
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  it wasn't argument because I'm not willing to do that because I truly believe everybody
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  has the right to feel the way that they want to feel. But don't
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  dismiss my thoughts and opinions because you feel like you're smarter or wiser. So
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  she would send me links, and I would say, I want to know
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  who wrote this link. I want to know their political affiliation because I can
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  if you want to get in a link off, we can get in a
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  link off because I've got experts on this side who are saying this. You
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  have experts, so we can do that. So I guess Sonny's point is
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  valid. She wants an educated person, somebody that truly knows what's going on
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  without an agenda, to tell me what's going on. And you've got like
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  the Alan Dershowitz and the Meghan Kellys. You know, even though she's middle
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  right, Alan's left, but he will bring that kind of equality to the
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  conversation. He focuses on constitutional law. He's very smart, he's very wise,
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  but he is left of center. He's a Democrat. Yes, it
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  has been his whole life exactly, but even he was a defender for Trump.
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  Right. So that's when I knew, Okay, well this is somebody
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  I listened to if he's willing to. And he got hounded, he got
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  the full throttle of well you cannot cancel Elan Derschwitz. Well they tried,
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  they try. Yeah, and even where he's from like that, even the
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  leaders wouldn't talk to him. I mean, your mother, Your mother is
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  somebody who can shoot it straight. Yeah, she's a straight shooter. You
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  could like it, you're not. This is the facts, this is where
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  I got it. Here's the author of it if you follow her page.
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  So if you want someone educated, someone that's willing to go take that deep
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  dive and find out that stuff, then you can rely on them. You
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  seek first to understand. Yeah, so that you can be understood, right,
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  we like that. Well, that's freakling covey, you know, so
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  that's like just a thing, and that's what a lot of people. We
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  don't hear a lot of people do that. We just hear opinions being fron
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  all over the place. But you know, that's that's actually really a core
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  tenant of this show. We spend a ton of time trying to make sure
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  we're digging into when when we talk about digging deep, we've already done that.
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  We've already gone digging to make sure that we're giving information that maybe you
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  haven't heard somewhere else, because we want to make first sure we understand,
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  Oh you're Steven Pedia. Anytime there's a question, even if it's my husband
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  who is a doctor. He will say, Okay, I have a question
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  for Steven and I'll send it. And we talked. We talked medicine.
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  Yeah, your husband and I actually ended up talking medicine. So I had
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  to go look some stuff up medicine and I was like sharing it with it.
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  He's a doctor, and he's like, oh, yeah, okay,
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  that's right. Yea yeah, And whether he loves to, we'll talk.
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  But I love that seek first to understand, and if your kids, if
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  your kids will seek to understand, that is the first step on the way
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  to conservatism. I'm convinced. If you like to ask our American Mama's a
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  question, go to our website American ground Radio dot com, slash Mama's and
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  click on to ask the Mama's button. Terry Adderville, Kimberly bur listen our
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  speak sisters. Thank you all so much. Thank you,