With as much information available to us this day and age, it s hard to decipher which information to consume and which we should be listening to in the first place. Today, I m joined by TV and radio host and political commentator on Fox News, Brian Kilmeade. We cover a wide range of topics, including the shifting of the overton window in media, the course correction America needs, how to determine which information is worth pursuing, what role the American citizen plays in all of this, and the overdose of information we re all dealing with.
00:00:00.000With as much information available to us this day and age, it's hard to decipher which information to consume and which we should be listening to in the first place.
00:00:09.560Everywhere we turn, we're inundated with sensational headlines designed to capture our eyeballs and our earbuds, but not necessarily keep us informed.
00:00:18.120Today, I'm joined by TV and radio host and political commentator on Fox News, Brian Kilmeade.
00:00:23.160We cover a wide range of topics, including the shifting of the Overton window in media, the course correction America needs, how to determine which information is worth pursuing, what role the American citizen plays in all of this, and the overdose of information we're all dealing with.
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00:01:03.940Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler.
00:01:06.440I'm the host and the founder of the Order of Man podcast and movement.
00:08:54.940And after a while you say, well, they all contradict each other or are they getting different angles of the story or are they left out the story?
00:09:01.460And it kind of confuses people and makes you either throw up your hands or dive right in.
00:09:05.140So what do you see your role as then as part of this?
00:09:11.700You're giving people information and sharing what you think is pertinent.
00:09:14.560So what do you see your role and how maybe does it differ than somebody else or another station?
00:09:20.420Yeah, I don't worry about what other people do.
00:09:24.240You know, I've been here long enough where, you know, the thing of this I think is great about our channel is that Tucker has a totally different view, let's say, on Ukraine than I do.
00:09:34.020He doesn't check with Hannity, nor does Laura check with Tucker.
00:09:37.880And now Trace Gallagher takes over the 11 will be a new story.
00:09:43.400My goal is to read as much as I can, talk to smart people like you as often as possible, work the contacts when it's possible, utilize the brain room, which is a living, breathing encyclopedia that we have here and contacts in order to give context to stories that we have going on.
00:10:01.840You know, and there's a lot of things that we had.
00:10:04.320I had Martha McCallum and Bill Hemmer on the radio today.
00:10:07.880And I said, you know, a lot of these issues used to be tough.
00:11:09.280I'd enjoy here what you have to say on it.
00:11:11.120Doesn't mean you're a lunatic if you disagree or a genius if you do.
00:11:14.540But when it comes to immigration, when it comes to green energy, when it comes to oil and gas, when it comes to these spending bills, I mean, there's right and wrong in my view.
00:11:58.000Overton window just continues to get shifted.
00:12:00.300And all of a sudden we're not talking about real biological issues.
00:12:04.260We're talking about some weird, frankly, just some weird perverted stuff that just wouldn't have flown five years ago, 10 years ago.
00:12:12.220It started really the governor of North Carolina came out and said we should have a men's and women's room when asked.
00:12:18.520And they basically ousted him and destroyed his political career, became a talk show host.
00:12:22.980And now we're saying today the debate was I was on with some Olympic swimmer and Senator Rand Paul on TV just going to reaffirm that women should not be competing against men that claim to be women like Leah Thomas.
00:12:38.440And we're debating on should women compete against only women in women's sports?
00:14:01.740Of course, because they know that nobody's going to go in there and research.
00:14:06.240Nobody's really going to think about it.
00:14:07.540They're going to take that snippet, that headline that we've all been trained and conditioned to look at and say, well, that must be what it is.
00:14:12.740So these people are intolerant of gay people.
00:14:40.660If you got seven thousand put aside for you to go to one semester of grammar school or fifth grade, I'd like that seven thousand two hundred dollars to follow me to the Catholic school down the block for the charter school two miles away.
00:14:55.780So then I'm paying the private school with money that's been allocated through tax dollars, let alone a scholarship I might earn.
00:15:03.560And that would force these public schools to stop with the agenda driven curriculum.
00:15:08.260Yeah, I mean, you get that you get things like tenure, you know, for for for school teachers and things like that, which is an issue as well.
00:15:14.800My wife and I were actually talking about this at our son's football game yesterday.
00:15:20.080You're saying seven thousand two hundred roughly.
00:15:22.220She saw a statistic that it was up to fifteen thousand dollars per child per year.
00:15:29.240And I'm thinking to myself with our four children, you know, that we homeschool like, great, give me that fifteen thousand dollars and let us per child.
00:15:37.760So that's sixty grand and let us decide what we're going to do with that money.
00:15:43.080We could do it with, what, ten percent of that because the average homeschooler, she was saying, cost, I believe what she said with curriculum and everything else, the average cost for homeschool was less than a thousand dollars a year versus fifteen thousand per year.
00:16:23.400You know, and there's sacrifices that need to be made to make it happen.
00:16:26.000But, you know, I think at this point and anymore, if you really care about your kids, this is the direction that we're just going to have to go.
00:16:31.700We're going to have to take this under our own, which is where it should be on our own shoulders anyways.
00:16:36.660I get frustrated in that we collectively tend to pawn off these responsibilities to the government, other entities and agencies that we think have our best interest at heart.
00:17:05.600But see, that type of stuff that when you have people like Bill Maher sounding off and saying that's ridiculous, who's as liberal as it comes.
00:17:14.300I hope I hope there's a degree of sanity.
00:17:16.880And the only thing that'll write, I think the only thing that we'll try to drill home is.
00:17:21.320If it turns out, the Democrats pay a huge price in the midterms, just on pure political survival, they'll be forced to shelve some of this stuff.
00:17:30.020For example, you know, if I told you two and a half years ago that any politician who wants a future would not be saying defund the police, you'd go, oh, Brian, now that horse is out of the barn.
00:17:40.300But now I got all these Democrats pretending as if we weren't paying attention, saying, yeah, I'm for cracking down.
00:17:59.780That's, I think, how the founders wanted it to be, that we would correct as we would go along and that the elections would be a big part of that.
00:18:09.300It seems to me anymore that so many people are just voting straight line or, you know, whoever they hear from the most.
00:18:16.740And that's part of the problem is the funding.
00:18:18.420It's like these politicians, whoever gets the most funding is going to be the one who wins.
00:19:29.860Well, and I think that's also a rise of different types of media outlets, even like this one and podcasting and radio that you're heavily involved in,
00:19:38.060where it's more accessible, I think, than it's ever been, which in some ways gives everybody a platform.
00:19:45.500And as long as people that maybe shouldn't have a platform, as long as people don't get burned out on it,
00:19:50.900I think it actually begins to expose ideas that are horrible, horrible ideas, but also brings light to those that are good ideas.
00:19:57.240Right. And look at the popularity of Joe Rogan. Please tell me what network hired him. None.
00:20:02.600He was one of the first, along with Adam Carolla, to do this.
00:20:06.220No, everyone told him it wouldn't work. It's going to go on too long.
00:20:08.860There's no direction. There's no sponsors.
00:20:11.160Well, the sponsors came. The direction worked itself out.
00:20:14.200And now they tried to destroy him and they couldn't.
00:20:18.920All right, man. Let me just hit the pause button very quickly on the conversation with Brian.
00:20:23.600We're into the fourth quarter of the year already.
00:20:25.840And many of you are going to start thinking about what 2023 is going to hold for you.
00:22:00.080And I said Lincoln is the most written about.
00:22:01.860Frederick Douglass, David Blight just wrote Book of the Year.
00:22:04.540I think it was in 19 or whatever it was, 2005 was Book of the Year.
00:22:08.500I thought, how do I write about both these guys and talk about race in America in an intelligent way, using history as my guide as opposed to emotion and pretending as if I understood like half the people that are ripping down these statues have no idea what they're doing, have no idea the context in which they were put up.
00:22:26.900So I thought in the beginning, I thought, wouldn't it be good to go about history?
00:22:32.580I think if I wanted a book tour, people would buy it.
00:22:35.080And I certainly love talking about it.
00:22:37.280And then next thing you know, there's a war on history.
00:22:39.320So now I really dug in double and triple and I made sure I knew my facts and was ready to back it up with more facts and quotes because there's a counter narrative out there and it's anti-American.
00:22:50.080So with George Washington's Secret Six, it's something I just was passionate about, looked at for 20 years when that was when, well, they kept asking me to do other books and I've just kind of moved through time.
00:23:01.460And that's what and now I'm talking a lot about race and where we're at.
00:23:06.180Next one I'm working on is Booker T and Teddy Roosevelt.
00:23:08.920And these two guys, so they came together at the exact right time to move America in a positive direction, which means we're not perfect, but we're trying to be.
00:23:19.960And here are the people that deserve a lot of credit for making us a more perfect union.
00:23:24.380So that's how I decided in a positive way.
00:23:29.420And on a daily basis, I try to think of things that matter most, not really into the culture thing.
00:23:35.440If you have a flag in a condo complex, all right, you know, work it out.
00:23:41.220But in terms of the anti-Americanism, the immigration situation, in terms of what's going on with our economy, the green energy as opposed to the fossil fuels, things that affect people on a daily basis.
00:23:55.280And of course, the whole international relations, foreign issues from China to Russia to what's happening in the Middle East.
00:24:29.100China, people are a little burnt out on China.
00:24:31.400But when China becomes, you know, as they stop doing with their zero COVID policy and start becoming a menace big time again, I'm ready to go.
00:24:40.720But I don't necessarily think that's on the forefront of everyone's mind.
00:24:44.160I think that's a good consideration because on one hand, somebody might hear that and think, oh, well, you know, you're just trying to get clicks.
00:24:50.640But on the other hand, if people aren't interested in it, nobody's going to be informed about it.
00:24:57.220And if you can't deliver it in a powerful way, that's another thing most people don't consider.
00:25:00.900It's got to be somewhat entertaining, especially when you're competing with TikTok and Snapchat and Instagram and all these other platforms.
00:25:08.220I mean, I'm sure you run into the same thing.
00:25:10.200You know, there's stuff that you're really passionate about.
00:25:11.700You think to yourself, every time I bring it up, most of my friends roll their eyes or lose attention or interrupt me with the question or ask for directions.
00:25:18.360I think, OK, I'm pretty much to keep these ideas to myself.
00:25:25.300I mean, every day they put together packets of information and with the best articles.
00:25:30.860So when I get up at 2.30 and I'm on the way to work at 3 and they send a car so I can get work done on the way home, I'm on the train and I'm looking at stuff.
00:25:41.360I'm already I've already got all this stuff consolidated, let alone stuff I watched last night, let alone books them in the middle of.
00:25:48.180So that's how I hit the ground running on a daily basis.
00:25:51.720So so you're you're on you hit the road at 3 a.m.