August 20, 2025 • 29 mins
Dr. Danny Huerta has back to school parenting tips, then Sen Tommy Tuberville-AL will support the DC take-over. Musician Taylor Hicks joins to talk about the importance of education.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Schools back in session for most of our state. This
is Viewpoint Alabama on the Alabama Radio Network. My name
is John Mount. And now that families are beginning to
adapt to the new normal, we're here to talk about
some of the things that parents are dealing with when
it comes to the emotional stability of their household and
dealing with their children. Joining me now from the focus
on the family is doctor Danny Huerta. He is here
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to talk about psychological flexibility. And that sounds like psychobabbel,
but we'll explain. Danny, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, I love that psycho babbel. It does sound like
a mouthful.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Psychological flexibility, It sounds a little intimidating, but really it's
about a parent being able to regulate their own emotions.
So that means with our kids, we'll have some negative thoughts,
some negative feelings. We'll be triggered by our kids with
certain things they're doing. We'll have some emotions, some impulses,
and it means that you're aware of those and you
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manage those, You're okay with having those, accept that, and
then you figure out what's the most effective response. What
do I need to do?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That is in my child's best interest?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
How do I How can I help my child through
this instead of just going through being triggered. So it
means that you're being flexible psychologically because your body, your
brain is saying, then you need to react to this.
Is that this isn't right, This wasn't your child wasn't
supposed to act this way, And it's the flexibility to know, oh,
my child did act this way. Now, what do I
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need to do to be helpful as a parent to
guide them and regulate myself enough so that it can
be present sensitive, validate my child what's happening inside of them,
understand it better, and then respond to that and guide
them well.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
One of the things that we used to see years
ago was when the teacher had a problem with the
behavior as student in the classroom, the parent almost always
sided with the teacher. And we've seen a change in
the last decade or two where now it's kind of
gone the other way.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
The parent.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
The kid will come home tell their mom and dad,
you know, teacher yelled at me because I did this, this,
and this, and the parents so we're not going to
stand for that, And they go to school and they
yell at the teacher. So there's a saying of you
have to trust your kids, but you also have to
kind of trust in the teacher's judgment when it comes
to a dispute as to what's really going on in
the classroom setting.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, you want to expect the best of the teachers
that they're there to guide your kids, are doing the
best they can with multiple students in there.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
They're trying to be helpful for your child.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
They care about your child, and you're there to help
your child manage themselves well in a variety of settings.
So if the teacher says, hey, your child's doing this, this,
and that your child's struggling with this, instead of going
to the defensive side because you want to defend your
child's emotions or what they're doing, first grow with curiosity
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and say, hey, tell me more, help you understand what
are you seeing. I'd love to support you as a
teacher and also help support my child and what they're
needing to learn, what skill they're missing there. And in
that way you do is you create a team approach
around your child. And if you know that the teacher
is maybe more authoritarian and it's rules all rules, and
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they're there their hammer and all students and they're they're
coming at your child.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Address that in a in a respectful way.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Come and say, hey, you know I've observed, right, I've
seen that this is happening.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Hey, tell me what's going on.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You seem stressed and and go with understanding and care
for the teacher and just say it's just it's not
working well with with with with my student. I would
imagine the other students just seems that that there there's
something going on and and I care about you as
a teacher, and just uh, whatever you're needing and support,
let me know. And if they're if there's there there's
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a conflict there between you and a teacher, uh, involve
the principle, get get a get.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
A meeting going to to talk through that.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And and it would it wouldn't be helpful for you
to talk negatively about the teacher and and and develop
disrespect from your your child to the teacher because of
things you're talking about at home. Let your let your
child debrief on some frustrations. And if it's continually going
and you have that conflict, you're not seeing a change, uh,
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and the teacher truly is out of control, then then
you you need to advocate for that without your student
being there. And all those three scenarios do happen where
there is some stress, the teachers open to it, there
is stress the teachers close to it, and sometimes it's
an oversensitivity from your child. And now you need to
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really team up with that parent or that that teacher
to help your your child be able to take constructive
criticism and direction. And now you're strengthening your child to
be able to be a solid student and not just
blame the teacher for mistakes or other things that are
happening or misbehavior that the child is having.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It does seem it's important that you're able to create
a unified front the teacher and the parent when addressing situations.
While you can have disagreements with the teachers, you do
that kind of behind the scenes, and you definitely don't
bring your child into the argument because now again we're
creating a it's our family against the teacher, and that's
going to not pay off well in the classroom setting,
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because like it or not, the teacher is in charge
for those especially if we're looking at like grade school,
those seven hours of the day, the kid actually spending
more time with that teacher than with you.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
A lot of times.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yes, and with your high schoolers, encourage them to talk
one on one with a teacher to approach it. Don't
just automatically step in and solve it for them. They
need to learn how to do that. That's going to
be a great skill for the workplace. If they are
having disagreement or conflict with the teacher, say hey, you know,
help me understand what's happening with you, And I encourage
you to go talk one on one with that teacher.
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And if that's not working, talk with the school counselor
your principle. And I really believe in you that you can.
You can talk this through with your teachers. Now, if
you have an elementary child, second, third, fourth, you're you're
teaching skills, you're listening in and you're you're you're stopping
that psychological flexibility saying okay, what what is being triggered
inside to me? And a lot of times I want
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to protect my child and what's being true? Is that
the most helpful thing here? Or do I need to
look at what skill set needs to happen here for
my child and how we can support the environment so
that it's the it's the healthiest and it may not
always be happy, but what's going to be the healthiest
And how can we have healthy conflict.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And model that for our child?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And that means sometimes saying, hey, you know what, the
teacher is probably right and and that's okay. That means
you need to work on some things. And we always
are working on things all the way till we die.
We're going to be growing and learning, and sometimes we
need to be aware of some behaviors that we're bringing
into the classroom that are just not appropriate.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And maybe that's what's happening here.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
So let's let's figure out a game plan for you
to do it well.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We've talked a lot about parents and teachers and how
that relationship works. What about the teacher. What are some
things that the teacher can do on their side to
help encourage a more healthy relationships psychologically between the teacher
and the students. From the teacher side, what can they do?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, they can.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
They can assume the best in the student as well,
that it's not personal when it's when the student's misbehaving,
and especially into those preteen, junior high and then early
high school years where there's a lack of maturity. There's
a there's a lot of insecurity coming in as as
a teacher, look behind the behavior, figure out what's the perception,
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what's the what's the actual need that the student has,
and maybe approach them and say, hey, what is it
that you need. I'm noticing these things, these behaviors, and
they tell me a story, and I want to I
want to understand it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Maybe come in with a theory. You feel pretty.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Insecure as you come into class and you're needing to
have attention and power in those things. Is that's something
that you're wrestling with and you need to come in
with wanting to understand more and also be consistent with
your boundaries.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I can't tell you how much.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I was a school social worker for several years in
the school district, and I noticed the inconsistency of boundaries
between teachers. Some teachers wanted to be the cool teacher.
Some teachers were hardline on all the rules, and that
that made it so confusing for the students. And so
what ended up happening is is there are certain teachers
that considered the cool ones, but it made it harder
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for the teachers that were trying to reinforce the boundaries
and teaching kids to respect boundaries and respect authority. It
made it hard for them to do that. They became
the the bad one. They had names that that they
gave those teachers. And so it's it's good as a
teacher to know, how can I be supportive of my
fellow colleagues, how can we work together to teach these kids?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Uh, not only that they that they matter.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
So with warmth and sensitivity, you're bringing that in and
also being very consistent and clear with what the boundaries are,
what the expectations are, and holding them to that and
expecting big things from kids rather than lowering the standards
for them.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
What's interesting, doctor Curetta, is I think back to when
I was in school. Like when I was in school,
the teachers that I thought were the cool teachers, the
fun teachers, the teachers that let us chew gum in class,
or let us talk, or let us just do whatever
we wanted to in class. At the time, they were
the cool, fun teachers we all love. But when I
look back now thirty years or more, you know, displaced
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from school, the teachers that I admire were not those
fun teachers. The teachers that I actually admire were the
tough teachers, the ones that I learned something from and
who actually enforced the discipline in the classroom. And I
guess that's the question. Do you want to be a
cool teacher now or remembered as the teacher that actually
meant the most in shape, truly shaped the lives of
the students in their lives down the road thirty forty
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fifty years later.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, And those the ones that are the cool teachers
either either they don't care or they there's a lot
of insecurity there and they're needing for their students to
be their friends. They've taken it to that experience. It's
not bad to relate well with your studentudents. There's a
balance between the two. That's what makes it so hard,
and that's what that psychological flexibility where you figure out
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what are my emotions? Am I trying to be cool?
Am I trying to win their love? Or do I
do I care enough about them that I can have
fun with them and also have high expectations, push them hard,
care about them, but also do the hard work of
allowing for them to be disappointed, angry, upset at me.
And I'm okay with that because I care about them
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and I can respond. I don't have to become reactive
with them.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm not threatened by that.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
What happens is I go, Okay, you know, I understand
that you ran up against a fence or a boundary
that you weren't expecting or you didn't want. And man,
this is even more important than some of the math
lessons I'll be giving or some of the history lessons.
This lesson of running up into one of those fences
and saying, yeah, I'm upset about it, and what am
I going to do.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I can't overpower that fence. I'm going to need to
respect it.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Now I have to adjust myself to that my own
emotions and catch up to the fact that that is
a true boundary or true.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Rule that has been put in place.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And uh, and now I need to I need to
figure out how I'm gonna handle that. So those are
fantastic lessons as teachers I want to encourage. I know,
gets tiring as you go, it gets overwhelming, you get
burned out.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
There's so much burnout in there.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Make sure you're finding time to refuel before you go
into the school.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You don't have to say yes to everything.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I also practice the word knows so that you model
to your students a balanced life, and parents do the same.
Make sure you're using the word no so you're balanced,
so you have enough margin to have that psychological flexibility
where you're able to manage your own triggers, your own emotions,
because those are for those are years to own. And
then from there you can guide these these uh this
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young these young people well and have a great experience
with them.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It's not always going to be perfect. Stress is going
to spill out. Uh. The more wins, the better.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And these are all things that people should keep in
mind as we send the kids back to school or
as you receive the kids as you're a teacher in
Cool Doctor Greta, thank you so much for joining us.
For more information on anything we talked about today. Focus
on the family's website is a great resource. Is there
somewhere specific they should look?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah, my kidsage dot com, my kidsad dot my kidsage
dot com is a great place. You'll get age and
stage specific resources sent to you and you can also
sort through those.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
It'll be a great resource for you.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Doctor Danny whoever to thank you so much for joining
us today. On Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You're listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a public affairs program from
the Alabama Radio Network.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
My name is John Mount, and I'm so excited about
our next guest. He's our favorite senator. Well, I shouldn't
say that. One of our two favorite senator's from the
great state of Alabama, Senator Tommy Tubberville.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Good morning. How are you.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I'm doing great, Senator Tuberville. So you are a resident
of the Washington, DC area right now, and you have
to deal with all of that crime, all that awful
stuff that goes on on the streets up there. I've
been there, I've seen it recently. It's not gotten any better,
and so that's the ree and why the president stepped in.
What do you think about his taking over the patrolling
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of the streets there?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Oh my goodness. I've been here five years now and
it has been a disaster ever since I've been here.
And they even got worse during the Biden administration because
they would just pull back on anything on the streets.
And I mean they don't even mow the grass up
here on the medians, and I mean, this should be
a pristine area up here. This is our United States Capital.
This is what people come to see, you know, millions
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of tourist yearly. And unfortunately it's a war zoned. You
can't walk down the streets without homeless, you know, drug
needles everywhere. We had an intern, twenty one year old
intern from Kansas that was shot in the head down
by the White House, oh, a couple of months ago.
I mean, it's just it's not safe. And President Trump
said enough's enough, and he took over from the mayor
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here who's not very adequate in doing a job, and
so he's running it now. And after regard I talked
to Serbil yesterday day and excited about them being here,
and even the Capitol Hill police and the city police
are excited about having helped because they've been overrun by crime.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Senator Turberville, do you think Alabama will be one of
the states. I know that some states have already said
they're contributing some people to come up there and help
from the from the National Guard, the state guards. Do
you think Alabama will be one of the states.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well, there's a lot of cities that are in the
same situation that we're in Chicago, and and you know,
obviously Los Angeles even some in the Southern States, they're
having a lot of problems. But I know that Governor
Ivy has sent troops to the border, which is well
much needed. Also, so if need be, I would imagine
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that Governor Ivy would help out President Trump. She's a
big supporter. And you know, again, it's we have our
problems in Birmingham and Montgomery and some of other cities
in our states. So I think we all just need
to get on board and say that's enough. We need
to get our Department of Justice going, put people in jail,
don't let them go in the front and door at
the back. Hold them accountable for the crimes that they commit,
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whether it's in uh, you know, Auburn, or whether it's
in uh, you know, Washington, d C. I think a
lot of that has to do with our Department of Justice.
But if you don't have your streets, save streets and neighborhoods,
I don't care what kind of job you have, or
education you have, or family have, the numb one thing
is safety in the streets so you can go out
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and enjoy this great country you live in.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Senator Turberville, you are so right on about that because
if you look at Donald Trump's background in the hospitality business,
you know, when you go to one of his hotels,
they're always immaculate, not just your room, but the lobby,
everything about the place is beautiful. And it makes sense
that when we bring dignitaries in, we bring in the
Zelenskis and people like that from other parts of the world,
like yesterday into Washington, d C. We want them to
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be greeted with a city that looks like, well, we
have our business in order, we have our affairs in order.
If we can't even keep the streets clean of America's capital,
how in the world could be we be expected to
run more important business.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You're exactly right, and it's all for what your first
thoughts about something that you see. If you if you
come in here as a tourist or as a president
from another country, and you see homeless and you see
grouffeti and you see trash, you see things going on
that you don't condone, then you know that what am
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I doing here? You know if I'm here, you know
number one is a tourist. Are you going to have
a good time? Or if you're a president from another country,
are you going to listen to the leader of that country.
And I think that's what that's President Trump's whole agendas,
making sure people understand, Hey, we live in the greatest
country on the face of the earth, and we're going
to take care of it. And the people that don't
want to do things right while they're here, whether you're
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on a visa or whether you're a citizen in this country,
but if you break the law, you're going to jail.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Senator Turberville, I wanted to pivot a little bit and
talk about something that happened this past week, the meeting
between our President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenski. What
do you think will come of the meetings? Because they
it looked like it went better for service. He was
better dressed, which already put things off on the right foot.
What do you think came out of those meetings.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Well, first of all, thank goodness for President Trump even
wanted to put these meetings together. Joe Biden and his
regime had no desire to stop this war because they
needed a diversion tactic to what was going on in
our country. Hey, there's a war going on, don't worry
about the border being open, and an economy going to
hell in a handbasket and no law in order. So
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President Trump, he's got his hands full. He's here trying
to get our economy back going and getting America back first,
and he's trying to figure out a way to get
this war put back together and over with in Europe.
And so the people who are really in charge figure
or should be in charge, or the European leaders that
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were there yesterday, and then he pulled that off and
got them all that. I was amazed that he was
able to get them all because they're for this war.
This war is another divergeon tactic for even the Europeans
because they have mass migration. I mean, they're being overrun
their countries and of course the economies are bad, and
so they pretty much need this war to kind of
fund it. Just remember this, We have spent over three
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hundred billion dollars on this war. The American taxpayers in Europe,
who's this is their war, has spent one hundred bion.
Now President Trump wants to get it old with the
American taxpayers don't deserve this. People are getting killed. He's
making progress. The Lensky has no power. He is an
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unelected president. Now because he cut off the elections. It's
all a socialist agenda they have in Ukraine. Unfortunately, it
was the United States of America that pretty much started
this war back in twenty fourteen when our Cia overthrew
the Ukrainian government and put into Lensky, and he was
kind of a puppet. And so hopefully President Trump can
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get some sense into these people that hey, this warn'ted
to deal with if you had notice, you're losing about
five and six thousand people a week dying on both sides.
So Putin's got all the cards right now, he's winning.
I've said that all along. There's no way you crank
can win this unless we go in there with our
troops and over my dead body, is that going to happen.
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We don't need another Vietnam, we don't need another Iraq
or Afghanistan. So President Trump's pulling all the all the
strings he can to get this thing done with these
European leaders that are absolutely lost their mind because they're socialists.
And so he's he's got a hard hand to hold.
But again it's not his job, it's the Europeans, and
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he's trying to get it through their thick skulls of Hey,
you need to get this over with or you're all
going to be broke because we're not going to keep
spending the money that we're spending from our American tax
payer sanator.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
You mentioned the CIA, but how much of the blame
do you put at the feet of the buy administration
for this situation to have bubbled up? Because there's a
lot of concern that Hunter was kind of had some
questionable dealings there in Ukraine. It's not a surprise that
he was on the board of Barrisma before all this happened.
So how much do we have to blame Biden and
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the Biden crime family for what's going on?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Oh you're getting ready to find out. Let me tell
you something. The next two years, if things follows they should,
you're going to see more crime, more indictments of people
from the former administration to Russiagate, the COVID, Fauci, all
these people, even the Bidens, because they, as you just said,
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Hunter Biden was involved in Barisma, that's a company in Ukraine.
He was taking millions of dollars and the American taxpayers
are sick of this. And President Trump was elected to
get this, to get some clarity on.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
This and put people in jail.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
So my friends up here, cash and I saw Pam
Bondi last night, Attorney General. People need to be indicted
and the people need to see justice done here. We're
going to lose our countries, we know it. So yes,
it is a crime shame what goes on up here. Again,
the legacy media, the NBC, ABC, CBS, they stand behind
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all the socialist, communist stuff here and all the criminals.
And I hope they go down too. I hope they
go all the way to the bottom of the well
because they are absolutely in on all this nonsense that
have very much taken billions and billions of dollars from
the American people.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Did you see yesterday where MSNBC is having a bit
of a divorce. They're going to have to change their name.
I think you weighed in on that, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah, let me tell you something. I'd rather watch Andy
Griffin or Bonanza than MSNBC. There is no truth to
anything that they say, and you know the people they
have on there that are absolutely that's criminal. When you
don't do any journalism, you just report things that fit
your narrative, and that's all the MSNBC has done since
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they've been in and I mean they've gone after me
for things and what are they talking about. I mean,
they just bring things up and they make things up
to drive them drive a narrative that Republicans and this
country America is bad because they hate this country the
way it is. So we're going to fight for the
United States of America. We're going to fight for the
American people, and hopefully we've got enough to get that done.
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Thank god, we've got a president like Donald Trump that
believes in the same thing, because Joe Biden his administration
were absolutely trying to bring asunder and they did a
tremendous amount of damage to the Constitution and everything that
goes along with the freedom this country and freedom of speech.
It's just thank god President Trump's in office.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Senator Turberville, we're glad that you are in office as well,
taking care of ours up there in Washington, DC. You
are a great coach at Auburn, you're a great senator,
and you're going to be a great governor. I can't
really say that officially, you're not officially the governor of Alabama. Yeah,
but you're already picking up some big endorsements. In fact
on the line right now, I have somebody who wants
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to endorse you momentarily. Thank you so much for giving
us some of your time this morning on Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Thank thank you to grabbing them and hold on. It's
gonna get buddy. President Trump is going out to fight
too all the evil in this country and take America
grat again. But he's working intre dated to this. So
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
God bless and God bless you, coach your Senator Tommy
Tuberville and maybe Governor Tommy Tubberville before too long. In fact,
joining us right now because he wants to make this
endorsement official is Alabama's own Taylor Hicks. Taylor, Welcome to
Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Hey, John, how are you.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I'm doing great? So I was really excited because we
just got done talking with Senator Tommy Tuberville, which was
I as an honor. I've never talked with him before
live on the air, and I've never talked with you
before live on the air, and you're joining us coincidentally
enough because of Senator Ti tw me tybal Well, I'll
let you take it from here.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Well, I'm just I believe Coach Tubleville, Senator Tubleville is
I think he's the best candidate for governor for Alabama,
and I'm putting my full endorsement behind him. I think,
you know, I've known Coach and I've known Senator Tubleville
for uh going on about ten or fifteen years, and
you know, first and foremost, let's not forget that he's
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an educator. You know, he was a coach, and he
was a coach at Auburn. He was an educator at Auburn,
and I think I think one of the one of
the things that I like about some of his you know,
ideas for the state is beefing up education. As I
tour around the country, you know, I see I go
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to schools and perform and I think that education and
it is something that that us Alabamians need to you know,
I think we really need to take a look at
and make sure that we take care of our kids,
and I think Coach will do that. I also think
that the Coach Tubberville, with his relationship with President Trump,
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will protect and and you know, grow our military assets
in Huntsville. And I think he's the best candidate for governor,
and not only that he's a good guy and he
likes to play golf, and he's he's pretty funny too.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Till you mentioned education, I'd like to talk about education
in particular fine arts education, music. I think it's so
important that that kids come out they're well rounded. Okay,
yes they know the quadratic equation, Yes they can find uh,
you know, Florida on a map, things like that. But
the importance of music education. What does When you were
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in school, I imagine you were probably also learning how
to play the guitar, harmonica, these kind of things, and
it helped develop your mind. How important you think education
is for young people.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Well, it's it's it is the most important thing that
we can do for our children and our children's future.
You know, liberal arts programs across the country have been
slashed dramatically over the years. It's it's tough to watch
because you have a lot of talented kids, and you
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have a lot of talented kids in the state of
Alabama that need you know, not only the math equation,
but also you know, they also need the outlet for creativity.
And I think that I think we do need to
take care of our liberal arts programs in the state
and not only that, but you know, our education in
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areas like the Wiregrass. I think it's important to take
care of all of our kids and make sure that
they have the best education that they possibly can have.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
And it sounds to me like Tommy Turberville is probably
the right guy for that. And you know, Alabama has
always been the butt of so many jokes because of education,
oh or number forty nine, Thank goodness for Mississippi and
all that business. But we're making a lot of strides,
things like the Focus Act. They're definitely we're looking at
trying to improve education in our state, bringing everyone forward,
because let's talk about you know, when you think about
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the brain drain, you know, a lot of times kids
they go to college and then they leave Alabama and
they go on to somewhere else. It would be great
if we kept people here. And one of the ways
to keep them here is if people know as they
grow a family, they raise a family, that they're going
to be able to put their kids in a school
that's going to educate them and contribute to them carrying
on their ability to make money into the next generation.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Absolutely, you know, having the option to go to go
to school and to go to the school that you
want to. I believe is important. Like I said, I've
traveled all across the country. I've seen different education systems
all over the country, and to be able to choose
is to me, I think is important. You know, let's
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not forget about our farmers. You know, I had a show,
a play that aired on the Inspiration Channel where we
not only you know, focus on food and putting a
play of food together. That was just iconic to that state.
But you know what staple is that actually was important
to that particular state. So I got to see and
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be with a lot of farmers throughout the throughout the
country and agricultural you know, importance is in Alabama is
also something that we need to take care of. We
need to take care of our farmers in Alabama. I
think that they're important just as much as our children are.
And I think Senator Troublville will be able to take
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care of that as well well.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Taylor, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you
for sharing your endorsement. I know it will go a
long way. There's a lot of people who are big,
fancy yours and will definitely be interested.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
You know, normally I got to say.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Normally, when a musician has a political thought on something,
you go there a musician what they know. But you know,
for some reason, I think I actually do trust what
you say because I think you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
I've done some homework, and you know, I've been I've
been around for a long time, and you know, this
is my first endorsement ever of a politician, and I
just I think Coach and I think Senator Tubleville will
do a great job and I'm looking forward to seeing
them hear in about forty five minutes at the Capitol.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh great, well, I will I will take the endorsement
of Taylor Hicks over Taylor Swift Eddie Day. Thank you
so much Taylor for joining us this morning. Say hi
again to the Senator for us, and keep on making
some un I will thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
You've been listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a public affairs program
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Schools back in session for most of our state. This
is Viewpoint Alabama on the Alabama Radio Network. My name
is John Mount. And now that families are beginning to
adapt to the new normal, we're here to talk about
some of the things that parents are dealing with when
it comes to the emotional stability of their household and
dealing with their children. Joining me now from the focus
on the family is doctor Danny Huerta. He is here
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to talk about psychological flexibility. And that sounds like psychobabbel,
but we'll explain. Danny, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, I love that psycho babbel. It does sound like
a mouthful.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Psychological flexibility, It sounds a little intimidating, but really it's
about a parent being able to regulate their own emotions.
So that means with our kids, we'll have some negative thoughts,
some negative feelings. We'll be triggered by our kids with
certain things they're doing. We'll have some emotions, some impulses,
and it means that you're aware of those and you
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manage those, You're okay with having those, accept that, and
then you figure out what's the most effective response. What
do I need to do?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That is in my child's best interest?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
How do I How can I help my child through
this instead of just going through being triggered. So it
means that you're being flexible psychologically because your body, your
brain is saying, then you need to react to this.
Is that this isn't right, This wasn't your child wasn't
supposed to act this way, And it's the flexibility to know, oh,
my child did act this way. Now, what do I
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need to do to be helpful as a parent to
guide them and regulate myself enough so that it can
be present sensitive, validate my child what's happening inside of them,
understand it better, and then respond to that and guide
them well.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
One of the things that we used to see years
ago was when the teacher had a problem with the
behavior as student in the classroom, the parent almost always
sided with the teacher. And we've seen a change in
the last decade or two where now it's kind of
gone the other way.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
The parent.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
The kid will come home tell their mom and dad,
you know, teacher yelled at me because I did this, this,
and this, and the parents so we're not going to
stand for that, And they go to school and they
yell at the teacher. So there's a saying of you
have to trust your kids, but you also have to
kind of trust in the teacher's judgment when it comes
to a dispute as to what's really going on in
the classroom setting.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, you want to expect the best of the teachers
that they're there to guide your kids, are doing the
best they can with multiple students in there.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
They're trying to be helpful for your child.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
They care about your child, and you're there to help
your child manage themselves well in a variety of settings.
So if the teacher says, hey, your child's doing this, this,
and that your child's struggling with this, instead of going
to the defensive side because you want to defend your
child's emotions or what they're doing, first grow with curiosity
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and say, hey, tell me more, help you understand what
are you seeing. I'd love to support you as a
teacher and also help support my child and what they're
needing to learn, what skill they're missing there. And in
that way you do is you create a team approach
around your child. And if you know that the teacher
is maybe more authoritarian and it's rules all rules, and
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they're there their hammer and all students and they're they're
coming at your child.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Address that in a in a respectful way.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Come and say, hey, you know I've observed, right, I've
seen that this is happening.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Hey, tell me what's going on.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You seem stressed and and go with understanding and care
for the teacher and just say it's just it's not
working well with with with with my student. I would
imagine the other students just seems that that there there's
something going on and and I care about you as
a teacher, and just uh, whatever you're needing and support,
let me know. And if they're if there's there there's
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a conflict there between you and a teacher, uh, involve
the principle, get get a get.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
A meeting going to to talk through that.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And and it would it wouldn't be helpful for you
to talk negatively about the teacher and and and develop
disrespect from your your child to the teacher because of
things you're talking about at home. Let your let your
child debrief on some frustrations. And if it's continually going
and you have that conflict, you're not seeing a change, uh,
(04:09):
and the teacher truly is out of control, then then
you you need to advocate for that without your student
being there. And all those three scenarios do happen where
there is some stress, the teachers open to it, there
is stress the teachers close to it, and sometimes it's
an oversensitivity from your child. And now you need to
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really team up with that parent or that that teacher
to help your your child be able to take constructive
criticism and direction. And now you're strengthening your child to
be able to be a solid student and not just
blame the teacher for mistakes or other things that are
happening or misbehavior that the child is having.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It does seem it's important that you're able to create
a unified front the teacher and the parent when addressing situations.
While you can have disagreements with the teachers, you do
that kind of behind the scenes, and you definitely don't
bring your child into the argument because now again we're
creating a it's our family against the teacher, and that's
going to not pay off well in the classroom setting,
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because like it or not, the teacher is in charge
for those especially if we're looking at like grade school,
those seven hours of the day, the kid actually spending
more time with that teacher than with you.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
A lot of times.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yes, and with your high schoolers, encourage them to talk
one on one with a teacher to approach it. Don't
just automatically step in and solve it for them. They
need to learn how to do that. That's going to
be a great skill for the workplace. If they are
having disagreement or conflict with the teacher, say hey, you know,
help me understand what's happening with you, And I encourage
you to go talk one on one with that teacher.
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And if that's not working, talk with the school counselor
your principle. And I really believe in you that you can.
You can talk this through with your teachers. Now, if
you have an elementary child, second, third, fourth, you're you're
teaching skills, you're listening in and you're you're you're stopping
that psychological flexibility saying okay, what what is being triggered
inside to me? And a lot of times I want
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to protect my child and what's being true? Is that
the most helpful thing here? Or do I need to
look at what skill set needs to happen here for
my child and how we can support the environment so
that it's the it's the healthiest and it may not
always be happy, but what's going to be the healthiest
And how can we have healthy conflict.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And model that for our child?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And that means sometimes saying, hey, you know what, the
teacher is probably right and and that's okay. That means
you need to work on some things. And we always
are working on things all the way till we die.
We're going to be growing and learning, and sometimes we
need to be aware of some behaviors that we're bringing
into the classroom that are just not appropriate.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And maybe that's what's happening here.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
So let's let's figure out a game plan for you
to do it well.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We've talked a lot about parents and teachers and how
that relationship works. What about the teacher. What are some
things that the teacher can do on their side to
help encourage a more healthy relationships psychologically between the teacher
and the students. From the teacher side, what can they do?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, they can.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
They can assume the best in the student as well,
that it's not personal when it's when the student's misbehaving,
and especially into those preteen, junior high and then early
high school years where there's a lack of maturity. There's
a there's a lot of insecurity coming in as as
a teacher, look behind the behavior, figure out what's the perception,
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what's the what's the actual need that the student has,
and maybe approach them and say, hey, what is it
that you need. I'm noticing these things, these behaviors, and
they tell me a story, and I want to I
want to understand it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Maybe come in with a theory. You feel pretty.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Insecure as you come into class and you're needing to
have attention and power in those things. Is that's something
that you're wrestling with and you need to come in
with wanting to understand more and also be consistent with
your boundaries.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I can't tell you how much.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I was a school social worker for several years in
the school district, and I noticed the inconsistency of boundaries
between teachers. Some teachers wanted to be the cool teacher.
Some teachers were hardline on all the rules, and that
that made it so confusing for the students. And so
what ended up happening is is there are certain teachers
that considered the cool ones, but it made it harder
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for the teachers that were trying to reinforce the boundaries
and teaching kids to respect boundaries and respect authority. It
made it hard for them to do that. They became
the the bad one. They had names that that they
gave those teachers. And so it's it's good as a
teacher to know, how can I be supportive of my
fellow colleagues, how can we work together to teach these kids?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Uh, not only that they that they matter.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
So with warmth and sensitivity, you're bringing that in and
also being very consistent and clear with what the boundaries are,
what the expectations are, and holding them to that and
expecting big things from kids rather than lowering the standards
for them.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
What's interesting, doctor Curetta, is I think back to when
I was in school. Like when I was in school,
the teachers that I thought were the cool teachers, the
fun teachers, the teachers that let us chew gum in class,
or let us talk, or let us just do whatever
we wanted to in class. At the time, they were
the cool, fun teachers we all love. But when I
look back now thirty years or more, you know, displaced
(09:21):
from school, the teachers that I admire were not those
fun teachers. The teachers that I actually admire were the
tough teachers, the ones that I learned something from and
who actually enforced the discipline in the classroom. And I
guess that's the question. Do you want to be a
cool teacher now or remembered as the teacher that actually
meant the most in shape, truly shaped the lives of
the students in their lives down the road thirty forty
(09:43):
fifty years later.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, And those the ones that are the cool teachers
either either they don't care or they there's a lot
of insecurity there and they're needing for their students to
be their friends. They've taken it to that experience. It's
not bad to relate well with your studentudents. There's a
balance between the two. That's what makes it so hard,
and that's what that psychological flexibility where you figure out
(10:06):
what are my emotions? Am I trying to be cool?
Am I trying to win their love? Or do I
do I care enough about them that I can have
fun with them and also have high expectations, push them hard,
care about them, but also do the hard work of
allowing for them to be disappointed, angry, upset at me.
And I'm okay with that because I care about them
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and I can respond. I don't have to become reactive
with them.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm not threatened by that.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
What happens is I go, Okay, you know, I understand
that you ran up against a fence or a boundary
that you weren't expecting or you didn't want. And man,
this is even more important than some of the math
lessons I'll be giving or some of the history lessons.
This lesson of running up into one of those fences
and saying, yeah, I'm upset about it, and what am
I going to do.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I can't overpower that fence. I'm going to need to
respect it.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Now I have to adjust myself to that my own
emotions and catch up to the fact that that is
a true boundary or true.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Rule that has been put in place.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And uh, and now I need to I need to
figure out how I'm gonna handle that. So those are
fantastic lessons as teachers I want to encourage. I know,
gets tiring as you go, it gets overwhelming, you get
burned out.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
There's so much burnout in there.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Make sure you're finding time to refuel before you go
into the school.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You don't have to say yes to everything.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I also practice the word knows so that you model
to your students a balanced life, and parents do the same.
Make sure you're using the word no so you're balanced,
so you have enough margin to have that psychological flexibility
where you're able to manage your own triggers, your own emotions,
because those are for those are years to own. And
then from there you can guide these these uh this
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young these young people well and have a great experience
with them.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It's not always going to be perfect. Stress is going
to spill out. Uh. The more wins, the better.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And these are all things that people should keep in
mind as we send the kids back to school or
as you receive the kids as you're a teacher in
Cool Doctor Greta, thank you so much for joining us.
For more information on anything we talked about today. Focus
on the family's website is a great resource. Is there
somewhere specific they should look?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah, my kidsage dot com, my kidsad dot my kidsage
dot com is a great place. You'll get age and
stage specific resources sent to you and you can also
sort through those.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
It'll be a great resource for you.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Doctor Danny whoever to thank you so much for joining
us today. On Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You're listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a public affairs program from
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Speaker 1 (12:31):
My name is John Mount, and I'm so excited about
our next guest. He's our favorite senator. Well, I shouldn't
say that. One of our two favorite senator's from the
great state of Alabama, Senator Tommy Tubberville.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Good morning. How are you.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I'm doing great, Senator Tuberville. So you are a resident
of the Washington, DC area right now, and you have
to deal with all of that crime, all that awful
stuff that goes on on the streets up there. I've
been there, I've seen it recently. It's not gotten any better,
and so that's the ree and why the president stepped in.
What do you think about his taking over the patrolling
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of the streets there?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Oh my goodness. I've been here five years now and
it has been a disaster ever since I've been here.
And they even got worse during the Biden administration because
they would just pull back on anything on the streets.
And I mean they don't even mow the grass up
here on the medians, and I mean, this should be
a pristine area up here. This is our United States Capital.
This is what people come to see, you know, millions
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of tourist yearly. And unfortunately it's a war zoned. You
can't walk down the streets without homeless, you know, drug
needles everywhere. We had an intern, twenty one year old
intern from Kansas that was shot in the head down
by the White House, oh, a couple of months ago.
I mean, it's just it's not safe. And President Trump
said enough's enough, and he took over from the mayor
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here who's not very adequate in doing a job, and
so he's running it now. And after regard I talked
to Serbil yesterday day and excited about them being here,
and even the Capitol Hill police and the city police
are excited about having helped because they've been overrun by crime.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Senator Turberville, do you think Alabama will be one of
the states. I know that some states have already said
they're contributing some people to come up there and help
from the from the National Guard, the state guards. Do
you think Alabama will be one of the states.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well, there's a lot of cities that are in the
same situation that we're in Chicago, and and you know,
obviously Los Angeles even some in the Southern States, they're
having a lot of problems. But I know that Governor
Ivy has sent troops to the border, which is well
much needed. Also, so if need be, I would imagine
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that Governor Ivy would help out President Trump. She's a
big supporter. And you know, again, it's we have our
problems in Birmingham and Montgomery and some of other cities
in our states. So I think we all just need
to get on board and say that's enough. We need
to get our Department of Justice going, put people in jail,
don't let them go in the front and door at
the back. Hold them accountable for the crimes that they commit,
(15:05):
whether it's in uh, you know, Auburn, or whether it's
in uh, you know, Washington, d C. I think a
lot of that has to do with our Department of Justice.
But if you don't have your streets, save streets and neighborhoods,
I don't care what kind of job you have, or
education you have, or family have, the numb one thing
is safety in the streets so you can go out
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and enjoy this great country you live in.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Senator Turberville, you are so right on about that because
if you look at Donald Trump's background in the hospitality business,
you know, when you go to one of his hotels,
they're always immaculate, not just your room, but the lobby,
everything about the place is beautiful. And it makes sense
that when we bring dignitaries in, we bring in the
Zelenskis and people like that from other parts of the world,
like yesterday into Washington, d C. We want them to
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be greeted with a city that looks like, well, we
have our business in order, we have our affairs in order.
If we can't even keep the streets clean of America's capital,
how in the world could be we be expected to
run more important business.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You're exactly right, and it's all for what your first
thoughts about something that you see. If you if you
come in here as a tourist or as a president
from another country, and you see homeless and you see
grouffeti and you see trash, you see things going on
that you don't condone, then you know that what am
(16:25):
I doing here? You know if I'm here, you know
number one is a tourist. Are you going to have
a good time? Or if you're a president from another country,
are you going to listen to the leader of that country.
And I think that's what that's President Trump's whole agendas,
making sure people understand, Hey, we live in the greatest
country on the face of the earth, and we're going
to take care of it. And the people that don't
want to do things right while they're here, whether you're
(16:47):
on a visa or whether you're a citizen in this country,
but if you break the law, you're going to jail.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Senator Turberville, I wanted to pivot a little bit and
talk about something that happened this past week, the meeting
between our President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenski. What
do you think will come of the meetings? Because they
it looked like it went better for service. He was
better dressed, which already put things off on the right foot.
What do you think came out of those meetings.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Well, first of all, thank goodness for President Trump even
wanted to put these meetings together. Joe Biden and his
regime had no desire to stop this war because they
needed a diversion tactic to what was going on in
our country. Hey, there's a war going on, don't worry
about the border being open, and an economy going to
hell in a handbasket and no law in order. So
(17:34):
President Trump, he's got his hands full. He's here trying
to get our economy back going and getting America back first,
and he's trying to figure out a way to get
this war put back together and over with in Europe.
And so the people who are really in charge figure
or should be in charge, or the European leaders that
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were there yesterday, and then he pulled that off and
got them all that. I was amazed that he was
able to get them all because they're for this war.
This war is another divergeon tactic for even the Europeans
because they have mass migration. I mean, they're being overrun
their countries and of course the economies are bad, and
so they pretty much need this war to kind of
fund it. Just remember this, We have spent over three
(18:19):
hundred billion dollars on this war. The American taxpayers in Europe,
who's this is their war, has spent one hundred bion.
Now President Trump wants to get it old with the
American taxpayers don't deserve this. People are getting killed. He's
making progress. The Lensky has no power. He is an
(18:39):
unelected president. Now because he cut off the elections. It's
all a socialist agenda they have in Ukraine. Unfortunately, it
was the United States of America that pretty much started
this war back in twenty fourteen when our Cia overthrew
the Ukrainian government and put into Lensky, and he was
kind of a puppet. And so hopefully President Trump can
(19:02):
get some sense into these people that hey, this warn'ted
to deal with if you had notice, you're losing about
five and six thousand people a week dying on both sides.
So Putin's got all the cards right now, he's winning.
I've said that all along. There's no way you crank
can win this unless we go in there with our
troops and over my dead body, is that going to happen.
(19:24):
We don't need another Vietnam, we don't need another Iraq
or Afghanistan. So President Trump's pulling all the all the
strings he can to get this thing done with these
European leaders that are absolutely lost their mind because they're socialists.
And so he's he's got a hard hand to hold.
But again it's not his job, it's the Europeans, and
(19:45):
he's trying to get it through their thick skulls of Hey,
you need to get this over with or you're all
going to be broke because we're not going to keep
spending the money that we're spending from our American tax
payer sanator.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
You mentioned the CIA, but how much of the blame
do you put at the feet of the buy administration
for this situation to have bubbled up? Because there's a
lot of concern that Hunter was kind of had some
questionable dealings there in Ukraine. It's not a surprise that
he was on the board of Barrisma before all this happened.
So how much do we have to blame Biden and
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the Biden crime family for what's going on?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Oh you're getting ready to find out. Let me tell
you something. The next two years, if things follows they should,
you're going to see more crime, more indictments of people
from the former administration to Russiagate, the COVID, Fauci, all
these people, even the Bidens, because they, as you just said,
(20:42):
Hunter Biden was involved in Barisma, that's a company in Ukraine.
He was taking millions of dollars and the American taxpayers
are sick of this. And President Trump was elected to
get this, to get some clarity on.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
This and put people in jail.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
So my friends up here, cash and I saw Pam
Bondi last night, Attorney General. People need to be indicted
and the people need to see justice done here. We're
going to lose our countries, we know it. So yes,
it is a crime shame what goes on up here. Again,
the legacy media, the NBC, ABC, CBS, they stand behind
(21:18):
all the socialist, communist stuff here and all the criminals.
And I hope they go down too. I hope they
go all the way to the bottom of the well
because they are absolutely in on all this nonsense that
have very much taken billions and billions of dollars from
the American people.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Did you see yesterday where MSNBC is having a bit
of a divorce. They're going to have to change their name.
I think you weighed in on that, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah, let me tell you something. I'd rather watch Andy
Griffin or Bonanza than MSNBC. There is no truth to
anything that they say, and you know the people they
have on there that are absolutely that's criminal. When you
don't do any journalism, you just report things that fit
your narrative, and that's all the MSNBC has done since
(22:05):
they've been in and I mean they've gone after me
for things and what are they talking about. I mean,
they just bring things up and they make things up
to drive them drive a narrative that Republicans and this
country America is bad because they hate this country the
way it is. So we're going to fight for the
United States of America. We're going to fight for the
American people, and hopefully we've got enough to get that done.
(22:29):
Thank god, we've got a president like Donald Trump that
believes in the same thing, because Joe Biden his administration
were absolutely trying to bring asunder and they did a
tremendous amount of damage to the Constitution and everything that
goes along with the freedom this country and freedom of speech.
It's just thank god President Trump's in office.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Senator Turberville, we're glad that you are in office as well,
taking care of ours up there in Washington, DC. You
are a great coach at Auburn, you're a great senator,
and you're going to be a great governor. I can't
really say that officially, you're not officially the governor of Alabama. Yeah,
but you're already picking up some big endorsements. In fact
on the line right now, I have somebody who wants
(23:10):
to endorse you momentarily. Thank you so much for giving
us some of your time this morning on Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Thank thank you to grabbing them and hold on. It's
gonna get buddy. President Trump is going out to fight
too all the evil in this country and take America
grat again. But he's working intre dated to this. So
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
God bless and God bless you, coach your Senator Tommy
Tuberville and maybe Governor Tommy Tubberville before too long. In fact,
joining us right now because he wants to make this
endorsement official is Alabama's own Taylor Hicks. Taylor, Welcome to
Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Hey, John, how are you.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I'm doing great? So I was really excited because we
just got done talking with Senator Tommy Tuberville, which was
I as an honor. I've never talked with him before
live on the air, and I've never talked with you
before live on the air, and you're joining us coincidentally
enough because of Senator Ti tw me tybal Well, I'll
let you take it from here.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Well, I'm just I believe Coach Tubleville, Senator Tubleville is
I think he's the best candidate for governor for Alabama,
and I'm putting my full endorsement behind him. I think,
you know, I've known Coach and I've known Senator Tubleville
for uh going on about ten or fifteen years, and
you know, first and foremost, let's not forget that he's
(24:22):
an educator. You know, he was a coach, and he
was a coach at Auburn. He was an educator at Auburn,
and I think I think one of the one of
the things that I like about some of his you know,
ideas for the state is beefing up education. As I
tour around the country, you know, I see I go
(24:42):
to schools and perform and I think that education and
it is something that that us Alabamians need to you know,
I think we really need to take a look at
and make sure that we take care of our kids,
and I think Coach will do that. I also think
that the Coach Tubberville, with his relationship with President Trump,
(25:05):
will protect and and you know, grow our military assets
in Huntsville. And I think he's the best candidate for governor,
and not only that he's a good guy and he
likes to play golf, and he's he's pretty funny too.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Till you mentioned education, I'd like to talk about education
in particular fine arts education, music. I think it's so
important that that kids come out they're well rounded. Okay,
yes they know the quadratic equation, Yes they can find uh,
you know, Florida on a map, things like that. But
the importance of music education. What does When you were
(25:46):
in school, I imagine you were probably also learning how
to play the guitar, harmonica, these kind of things, and
it helped develop your mind. How important you think education
is for young people.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Well, it's it's it is the most important thing that
we can do for our children and our children's future.
You know, liberal arts programs across the country have been
slashed dramatically over the years. It's it's tough to watch
because you have a lot of talented kids, and you
(26:19):
have a lot of talented kids in the state of
Alabama that need you know, not only the math equation,
but also you know, they also need the outlet for creativity.
And I think that I think we do need to
take care of our liberal arts programs in the state
and not only that, but you know, our education in
(26:39):
areas like the Wiregrass. I think it's important to take
care of all of our kids and make sure that
they have the best education that they possibly can have.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
And it sounds to me like Tommy Turberville is probably
the right guy for that. And you know, Alabama has
always been the butt of so many jokes because of education,
oh or number forty nine, Thank goodness for Mississippi and
all that business. But we're making a lot of strides,
things like the Focus Act. They're definitely we're looking at
trying to improve education in our state, bringing everyone forward,
because let's talk about you know, when you think about
(27:11):
the brain drain, you know, a lot of times kids
they go to college and then they leave Alabama and
they go on to somewhere else. It would be great
if we kept people here. And one of the ways
to keep them here is if people know as they
grow a family, they raise a family, that they're going
to be able to put their kids in a school
that's going to educate them and contribute to them carrying
on their ability to make money into the next generation.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Absolutely, you know, having the option to go to go
to school and to go to the school that you
want to. I believe is important. Like I said, I've
traveled all across the country. I've seen different education systems
all over the country, and to be able to choose
is to me, I think is important. You know, let's
(27:56):
not forget about our farmers. You know, I had a show,
a play that aired on the Inspiration Channel where we
not only you know, focus on food and putting a
play of food together. That was just iconic to that state.
But you know what staple is that actually was important
to that particular state. So I got to see and
(28:17):
be with a lot of farmers throughout the throughout the
country and agricultural you know, importance is in Alabama is
also something that we need to take care of. We
need to take care of our farmers in Alabama. I
think that they're important just as much as our children are.
And I think Senator Troublville will be able to take
(28:40):
care of that as well well.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Taylor, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you
for sharing your endorsement. I know it will go a
long way. There's a lot of people who are big,
fancy yours and will definitely be interested.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
You know, normally I got to say.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Normally, when a musician has a political thought on something,
you go there a musician what they know. But you know,
for some reason, I think I actually do trust what
you say because I think you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
I've done some homework, and you know, I've been I've
been around for a long time, and you know, this
is my first endorsement ever of a politician, and I
just I think Coach and I think Senator Tubleville will
do a great job and I'm looking forward to seeing
them hear in about forty five minutes at the Capitol.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh great, well, I will I will take the endorsement
of Taylor Hicks over Taylor Swift Eddie Day. Thank you
so much Taylor for joining us this morning. Say hi
again to the Senator for us, and keep on making
some un I will thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
You've been listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a public affairs program
from the Alabama Radio Network. The opinions expressed on Viewpoint
Alabama are not necessarily those of the staff, management, or
advertisers of this station.
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