Nat Biazzi and Catherine Krasnowski join me to talk about their new show, Misunderstood, and why a conservative parent like me might consider a subscription to Rebel News Plus for the youngster in their life.
00:10:59.120So I think that's definitely a big thing that we're facing.
00:11:01.940I think also social media has really, really had a detrimental impact on women, especially young women.
00:11:08.920You know, kids are getting cell phones so much younger nowadays.
00:11:11.400And when you're scrolling through Instagram and you're seeing these Hollywood women who are claiming to be makeup free and natural, I think those sort of lies that are being spewed at us all day long, I think they're really impacting our confidence and our ability to really own who we are and speak out about things we want to speak out about.
00:11:29.680Yeah, so I definitely think the media, social media, those things, I think they're really stunting our growth in society in a way.
00:14:15.080But at the same time, you're sort of half assing everything because you're trying to do everything.
00:14:21.620You're trying to raise kids and go to work and look a certain way and you fall down on the job on all of it.
00:14:27.800And I think that's why there's so many unhappy women like the wine mom culture, the rise of wine mom culture is literally women drowning their feelings of inadequacy because they've been told you can definitely do it all.
00:14:43.360But in the meantime, she's farming out her house and her kids to somebody else so that she can maintain this idea of what it means to be a modern woman.
00:15:05.900Because you pitched the show to me and I thought, well, that's actually a really great idea, because I think the other side of the world needs to know that there are normal young people out there.
00:15:16.420Um, I think that we want to we talked about this in our episode that we filmed last night, but we want to bring conservative conservatism and culture together and we want to make it cool to be, you know, open to God and family and conservative values.
00:15:37.240And that is not cool in the eyes of pop culture right now.
00:15:40.920So we're trying to say on top of bringing God and family together, like we also we still care about fashion.
00:16:21.760You can be cool and you can be conservative.
00:16:23.360And I think that's what we wanted to do with the show.
00:16:25.720So, yeah, and just to add to that, if I if I may, I think like when you first become conservative, especially in Canada, this is such a secular and progressive nation.
00:16:34.800You're kind of in the closet a bit, I find, especially in Toronto.
00:16:38.120Toronto is just a hellhole of progressivism.
00:16:41.760So I think just to be able to be a safe space for women to be able to come out of the closet and say, hey, there are like minded women who are speaking out about this because, I mean, Canada has you, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:16:52.560But there aren't many women speaking out about these things, speaking, talking about conservatism and family values and Christianity.
00:16:58.680And I think we need more young voices as well.
00:17:30.320You're seeing it all the time with the Democrats where you have reasonable Democrats like Joe Manchin siding with the Republicans because they don't like things are going crazy over there and they don't want to be a part of it.
00:17:41.920And I think young people, a lot of young people are experiencing that, too.
00:17:45.960So we want to welcome those people who are saying, hmm, like liberal values have gone a little bit too far left for us.
00:17:51.780Like we are, you know, without a home.
00:17:54.000And it's like, no, you can come to us.
00:17:55.520We're always going to welcome anyone who's you don't have to be hardcore conservative.
00:17:58.760But if you're like, I want to see a little bit more positivity and actual feminism, like I never in the past have considered myself a feminist until now, because I'm like women need a safe space to actually be women.
00:18:11.700And we talk a lot about this in the show, too, like prisons that are sending intact males who have sexual deviant pasts into women's prisons where they are assaulting women.
00:18:23.240And it's like, do I have to say that this is wrong?
00:18:27.040Like no one can see that this is wrong.
00:18:46.180And this is something that's going to creep up in on us.
00:18:49.200And it could she could be robbed of a position on the national team.
00:18:54.040Her career could be ended because of an injury, because what used to be, as you say, a modern leftist feminist idea of women's only spaces.
00:19:26.760I think especially because in the last few years, like Tumblr feminism kind of has exploded.
00:19:31.400You know, there's all these like movements for women.
00:19:33.720And I think now that people are trying like now that this narrative is being exposed about how men are coming in and encroaching on women's spaces.
00:19:41.440I think I think that really is a breaking point because we're kind of being erased, if you think about it.
00:19:46.740I mean, you mentioned your daughter is an athlete.
00:19:48.740If a man comes in and identifies as a woman, he's going to steal maybe a scholarship away from her or something.
00:19:55.880Like, I cannot even believe that this is like something we have to even debate about with people, because it's very clear that there's some men are taking advantage of of this gender ideology, you know?
00:20:08.400You mentioned Tumblr and I wandered into Tumblr one time just to have a poke around.
00:20:13.340And I'm like, there's a lot of witches and stuff in there and furries and things that I would like never come across in my normal life.
00:20:20.480Because you're in Toronto and I'm in Alberta and I'm in rural Alberta, so I have a different experience.
00:20:26.120I'm the normal like the liberals are in the closet out here, not the other way around.
00:20:33.360But, you know, you both talk about how you want to marry God in the culture.
00:20:39.740So I guess my question is, and either one of you can answer, how do you address those criticisms from the modern leftist feminist who say,
00:20:49.440well, you guys are Christian and you're conservative, that's not exactly lady friendly.
00:20:55.240That's not a space for women where you're held up as equals.
00:22:07.300I just it doesn't goes against my personality.
00:22:08.840Like, what do you think that I think a lot of the people who criticize biblical values and those kinds of things have never actually read the Bible and don't actually even know what they're talking about.
00:22:18.620They're just repeating what they hear in the media.
00:22:21.360So I think I think definitely one thing that is the key to kind of maybe getting those people to understand where you're coming from is to ask them those questions and have them explain themselves.
00:22:32.560And maybe that'll maybe that'll get them thinking, you know, maybe stir up some some thoughts and be like, hey, maybe I am a little off here.
00:22:39.280I definitely think that's that's one way to approach it.
00:22:42.680And I also think just from reading the Bible, there are a lot of really strong and empowered women in the Bible.
00:22:51.180So I think, like like I said, there's just this lack of understanding and just being able to explain that to people will hopefully kind of shift them over.
00:26:01.180Especially because, too, just to add to that, celebrities have kind of begun to really engage in politics.
00:26:06.480Like, you see Taylor Swift telling you who to vote for.
00:26:09.000Beyonce is wearing a Beto O'Rourke hat.
00:26:11.580You know, and kids are looking up to these people.
00:26:14.720So to be able to step in and say, hey, these ideas may not actually be the best.
00:26:19.940I think it's a fruitful way to kind of, yeah, get that conversation going and maybe try to steer your kids in a more productive direction.
00:26:28.520Yeah, I think it's difficult as conservatives to engage in the culture wars if you don't know what the battles are and if you aren't even on the battlefield.
00:26:38.640So you don't even know where the battles are being fought and won.
00:26:42.280And you're like, why is the culture changing?
00:26:44.020And it's like, well, that culture war that you're mad about now, that was fought and lost by our side five years ago because you didn't show up.
00:26:52.780One last thing before I let you go to your other jobs at the company.
00:27:06.600Take it away, Nat. You're the master at this.
00:27:08.660Oh, OK. So you can watch us every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Eastern Time.
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00:28:39.040All these things, they're not mutually exclusive of each other.
00:28:42.520And as conservatives, we shouldn't let the left tell us how our young people are going to be and what they should believe and how they should interact and engage in the world.
00:28:53.100Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.