00:05:33.300this evil perpetrator decided to take their lives, I guess, in the name of defending Iran,
00:05:39.200defending the Islamic Republic, defending his version of God. And then in New York City last
00:05:44.900week, two men attempted to use homemade explosive devices inspired by ISIS during a protest outside
00:05:52.080Mayor Mamdani's residence. Now, they were not protesting Mayor Mamdani, who is a Muslim and
00:05:57.600I believe a terrorist sympathizer himself, they were protesting, counter protesting, I guess,
00:06:04.900or opposing a protest that was happening in New York City that was organized by those who are
00:06:12.780anti-Islam. And critics would call it a white nationalist rally. And they would say, no,
00:06:18.700they are just opposing the Islamic takeover of their city. And so these two young men,
00:06:25.680They came from their nice, cushy suburb.
00:06:29.060They came over to New York City and they tried to detonate a bomb.
00:06:33.100And NYPD, I mean, filled with heroes that day, saving the lives of people, ensuring that those guys were arrested and that people remained safe and that that bomb did not kill people.
00:06:47.020And then later that same week, Islamists carried out attacks on Old Dominion University in Virginia and the Temple Israel Synagogue in Michigan.
00:06:57.600Now, the interesting thing, the disturbing thing here is that all of these attackers were in the United States legally.
00:07:06.480OK, so these were not people who traveled in from Afghanistan and Afghani national that came here to the United States to carry out these attacks.
00:07:14.780Of course, that would be devastating and disturbing.
00:07:17.020They're also not illegal immigrants who came in through Biden's open border policies.
00:07:21.900These are people who are naturalized citizens or the two guys in New York City.
00:07:26.640I think they are the sons of immigrants.
00:07:29.880So these are all legal citizens in the United States, which actually highlights a bigger and more troubling problem in the rise of Islam, that it goes beyond illegal immigration.
00:08:24.640He was actually let out of prison under the Biden administration in December of 2024.
00:08:30.860why was he let out of prison after he attempted to assist ISIS? It is completely unclear. So that
00:08:39.780is actually a problem of our justice system. So we've got justice system problems, and we've got
00:08:45.340legal immigration problems in the United States. And that legal immigration problem has resulted
00:08:51.660in a huge rise in the Muslim population over the past several years. Specifically,
00:08:57.460if we look at Pew Research from 2007 to 2017, the Muslim population in America rose from 2.35
00:09:04.840million to 3.45 million. That is a 50% increase in just 10 years. Of course, 2017 was nine years
00:09:14.060ago. And so it's increased a lot more since then. It's projected to reach 8.1 million by 2050. A lot
00:09:21.100of this goes all the way back to a 1965 law called the heart seller act which got rid of the
00:09:28.620mechanisms that we had in place to prioritize european migration and created a quota system
00:09:34.440that has resulted in allowing lots of people with terrible ideologies from third world countries
00:09:41.500to immigrate uh to the united states at higher rates than people from other countries who share
00:09:48.100our same civilizational and moral values. Some of it is that. Some of it is the fact that I think
00:09:57.560to combat this fear of Islamophobia after 9-11, America has felt the need to apologize or to
00:10:05.120prove themselves by saying, no, we're not scared of Muslims. Just because Al-Qaeda killed over
00:10:11.3802,000 people in the United States, let's welcome as many in as possible to prove that we're not
00:10:16.940bigoted. Of course, that's civilizational suicide. That is the most deadly form of toxic empathy,
00:10:23.200and we are guilty of it. And when I say we, I don't mean you and I, because we're probably not,
00:10:28.980but our legislators certainly are, and they've sold us out. And now those chickens are coming
00:10:34.480home to roost. The chickens of toxic empathy will always come home to roost, and they will always
00:10:40.100hurt and harm the most vulnerable first. So we've got more on this because some Republicans are
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00:12:12.200some republicans have tried to take action to combat the rise of islam in america
00:12:18.940back in november of 2025 senator ted budd he's from north carolina uh he led colleagues in
00:12:25.560introducing legislation to ban terrorist sympathizers from entering the u.s it's sad
00:12:30.720that that takes any level of gumption or courage he stated that freedom of speech does not protect
00:12:35.980calls to terrorism. Duh. In December 2025, U.S. Representatives Keith Self, he's from Texas,
00:12:43.580and Chip Roy, who is now running for attorney general, officially launched attorney general
00:12:48.980in the state of Texas, officially launched the Sharia Free America Caucus in the House of
00:12:54.260Representatives in an effort to counter the rise of Sharia in the United States. After last week's
00:13:00.600attacks, you had Congressman Riley Moore. He's from West Virginia. He said he will introduce a
00:13:05.080bill to, quote, denaturalize and deport any naturalized citizen who commits or plots to
00:13:10.960commit an act of terrorism, joins a terrorist organization, or otherwise aids and abets
00:13:16.100terrorism against the American people. Again, the fact that that would be controversial
00:13:20.240for anyone is insane. Republicans took to X to call out these Islamic terror attacks.
00:13:27.800And I know a lot of people are like, oh, we don't want these congressmen just to say
00:13:31.260something. They need to do something. Well, I will say some of these congressmen are trying to do
00:13:35.680something. They're trying to put legislation forward. But also, what our leaders say really
00:13:41.240does matter because it can shape culture and it does something called moving the Overton window
00:13:46.800toward what is more acceptable. And the fact that we have congresspeople who are now willing to say
00:13:54.540something like what Chip Roy said, Muslim immigrant violence naturalized or not is preventable,
00:14:00.920until Democrats and Republicans find the courage to say no to the mass migration of Islamists,
00:14:07.220our country will be plagued with more tragedies. It's stunning. It shouldn't be. It shouldn't
00:14:12.860require courage. It shouldn't only be a handful of Republican Congress people who are willing to
00:14:18.260say this. But it does. It does. It does take courage. It does take someone standing up and
00:14:24.360saying, you know what, I'm going to represent the concerns of my constituents, which these
00:14:29.420Republicans are and say that we not only have an illegal immigration problem, but we have a legal
00:14:36.380migration problem. OK, we got to do something about it. Andy Ogles, he is from the state of
00:14:42.900Tennessee, a congressman. He wrote this is I mean, this is very pointed. He said Muslims don't belong
00:14:50.140in American society. Pluralism is a lie. Now, you might agree with that or you might disagree with
00:14:57.440that. You might think that is too harsh, but the fact that we have a sitting congressman who is
00:15:03.000willing to say, look, what Charlie Kirk did, that Islam and Western civilization, they don't go
00:15:10.600together, they don't coincide, and someone who has been taught death to Christians, death to Jews,
00:15:17.120death to America, which I'm not saying every individual Muslim has, but cultures certainly
00:15:21.920in the Middle East do teach that pervasively, that it's going to be really hard to mesh that in
00:15:30.500with American culture. That is a legitimate sentiment. Again, whether you agree with his
00:15:37.380wording or not. Andy Ogles is leading a new bill that would shift the American immigration system
00:15:43.180from a family-based focus, largely ending chain migration and prioritizing immigrants who serve
00:15:49.020the national interest of the U.S., that goes back to that Hart Seller Act that I told you about in
00:15:53.3801965 that created that chain migration, that if you have one family member over in the United
00:15:59.700States, no matter where you're from, no matter what you could add to American society, no matter
00:16:05.220how much productivity you offer, you can come to the United States over and above someone who may
00:16:12.520not have any family members here, but who would be a wonderful, contributing, patriotic member of
00:16:18.740society. And so it just prioritized all the wrong kinds of immigration. And that's why we have the
00:16:24.180problems that we do. His legislation would also eliminate the diversity visa lottery. Again,
00:16:29.820going back to that Hart Seller Act in 1965, that's that annual quota allowing for 55,000
00:16:35.760immigrant visas for people from countries with otherwise low migration rates to the U.S. So if
00:16:41.800Ogles' bill passes, which let's just be honest, it's going to be very, very difficult for it to
00:16:47.340pass, but it would require new immigrants to pass a good character requirement, disbarring anyone
00:16:53.540who has a gang affiliation, prior arrest records for domestic violence, or driving under the
00:17:00.420influence even without convictions, confirmed misuse of public benefits. And the bill would
00:17:05.940also require applicants to undergo enhanced background checks, including social media
00:17:11.040review and in-person interviews. To me, that sounds like common sense. I don't see how anyone
00:17:19.140can say, no, we don't want more scrutiny when it comes to who we allow in our country. I would need
00:17:25.880to hear the moral and logical justification for opposing something like that. Then you've got
00:17:30.780Tommy Tuberville. He's a congressman from Alabama. He posted a picture of 9-11 and Zoran Mamdani
00:17:37.600side by side with the caption, the enemy is within the gates. And he is getting called out
00:17:44.280for this, but it actually is very stunning that how many years are we? We're almost 25 years.
00:17:51.420Can't believe it's been 25 years this year in September that we will have endured the deadliest
00:17:58.500attack on U.S. soil by radical Muslims, by Al-Qaeda. And now we not only have a Muslim mayor,
00:18:05.180but one who I believe has sympathized with Muslim terrorists, at least Muslim terrorist
00:18:12.540sympathizers, and is really an apologist for Islamism, and of course has a public-facing
00:18:19.820wife who has liked posts that are glorifying what happened on October 7th in Israel when
00:18:27.060men, women, and children were raped and tortured and kidnapped and held hostage and murdered
00:18:31.860en masse. And so that's who we have in the mayoral office in New York City just 25 years after we
00:18:39.000suffered that attack under Al-Qaeda. Am I saying we should judge every single Muslim by what
00:18:45.160happened on 9-11? No, I don't believe that. I don't believe in collective burden of guilt of
00:18:53.140every single person that looks the same, that thinks the same, whatever, or that has the same
00:18:57.780name or background. But I do believe that we can look at the ideology of Islam and what it has
00:19:05.240produced around the world and ask ourselves, is this an advancement of the principles of Western
00:19:12.320civilization, of the foundation of what America is, or is it an impediment? In general, are they
00:19:20.180an impediment to peace or do they precipitate peace? And I think the answer to that is very
00:19:25.400clear, considering that around 65,000 terrorist attacks of the last several years have come from
00:19:32.320Muslims, and about 50 have come from people or groups that claim to be Christian. It might even
00:19:38.680be 25, and I believe it's around 50 to 100 from individuals and groups that claim to be Jewish.
00:19:45.480That's all around the world for several years, 65,000 from those who profess to be Muslims.
00:19:52.300Now, Speaker Mike Johnson has a response to congressman's comments on Islam.
00:19:57.840I've spoken to those members and all members, as I always do, about our tone and our message and what we say.
00:20:05.100There's a lot of energy in the country and a lot of popular sentiment that the demand to impose Sharia law in America is a serious problem.
00:20:50.640okay i actually like that response uh by mike johnson i wasn't sure how i was going to feel
00:20:57.480about it because a lot of times you get republicans in these positions and they start finger wagging
00:21:01.580other republicans and say oh we shouldn't say that we love you know we want everyone of every
00:21:06.800single background to come here and start talking about how awesome immigration is and how we're a
00:21:12.000melting pot mosaic whatever and he didn't do that he actually was defending his people he was
00:21:17.500defending Republicans. I don't think he gets the problem exactly right there because it's not
00:21:22.560really about Sharia only. I don't even know if it's about Sharia primarily. It's about what the
00:21:28.720ideology teaches as far as conquest and violence and the treatment of women and children and all
00:21:33.720of those things and how incongruent that is with the American way of life and with the Declaration
00:21:40.900of Independence, with what the founders believed and what we should still believe.
00:21:45.380Just to put a fine point on this, according to the Global Terrorism Index, Islamist groups consistently account for the largest share of religiously motivated terrorism.
00:21:58.580Over 95% of tracked religious incidents globally are Islamist.
00:22:03.180Over 95% deaths are disproportionately higher.
00:22:06.320Islamist groups caused over 80% of attributed terrorist deaths in 2024 per GTI analysis.
00:22:15.380Islamist terrorism, unfortunately, is on the rise worldwide.
00:22:20.100There were only 6,817 deaths from Islamic terrorism from 1979 to 2000.
00:22:26.720That number rose to almost 40,000 from 2001 to 2012, then to 204, almost 205,000 from 2013 to 2024.
00:22:39.060And so, unfortunately, this is an increasing trend.
00:22:41.920This is something that is not only continuing to happen, but is getting worse and worse.
00:22:48.020And for people to say, I've saw, you know, I've seen a lot of people commenting on this.
00:22:52.300Oh, it's because of what we did in Iran.
00:22:54.060It's because America and how they're treating these Muslim-majority countries.
00:23:01.560Far before America even existed, these kinds of conflicts were happening.
00:23:07.200And so to say that it's because of recent American foreign policy is, again, just to misunderstand the Quran, is to misunderstand the ideology and the history of Islam since its inception.
00:23:21.180I've got more to say about this in just a second.
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00:34:46.960And what I do is I read, review, and recommend books that align with more conservative and Christian values for middle grade and teens.
00:34:58.740And I help parents navigate their local libraries.
00:35:01.680Yeah. And it's not only explicitly Christian books that you're recommending, but you're going through these books and making sure there aren't any simple, subversive themes glorifying things that are wicked and evil. So if someone's following you, it's not only that you're going to be recommending C.S. Lewis. You're just going to make sure that what kids are reading aren't anti-biblical.
00:35:25.020Yeah, I love that. And you were really shocked that Good Morning America recommended this book
00:35:30.560by an author named Melissa De La Cruz. She's a number one New York Times bestselling author.
00:35:36.540So that goes to show her young adult fiction is very popular. She wrote a book called Sibylline,
00:35:43.660Risk It All for Magic, Ruin It All for Love. And it was recommended by Good Morning America. Here's
00:35:50.480sought six. Now with number one New York Times bestselling author, Melissa de la Cruz, who's
00:35:55.420got her readers spellbound thanks to her latest novel and our GMA Young Adult book club pick for
00:36:00.520February, Sibylline. Okay, tell me about Sibylline. Why is this troubling?
00:36:07.820Well, on a lot of fronts, it's described as a dark academia, which is a very popular kind of
00:36:15.220genre right now it's marketed to initially it was marketed to 12 to 17 year olds and it's very
00:36:23.260problematic because not only does it have magic that dives into the occult like there's um seances
00:36:32.360there's like a possession of people necromancy like the stuff deuteronomy 18 warns against
00:36:39.960Yeah. Which is in and of itself not great, especially for that age group. But also on page 284, there is a very graphic scene of a threesome. And it's done on the friend who they think is dead.
00:37:01.020so not only a threesome but necrophilia like yeah I just and I did I read it for you so you don't
00:37:12.560have to it is horrendous it's it's very very troubling yeah so this is a character in the
00:37:21.300book named Atticus and they believe he's dead you can see that on page 281 it says he's not
00:37:26.700breathing he's not moving he's dead Atticus is dead and I'm just warning the people who are
00:37:32.120listening to this and watching this like if you've got kids in the car and you don't want them to
00:37:36.380hear depictions of this but I just want to be clear about what is actually being depicted it's
00:37:40.740not some closed door thing that's happening not that that would be okay but this author depicts
00:37:46.500this dead person as being anally raped, orally raped. And there's also like vaginal sex. I don't
00:37:56.960even know whether to call it sex or rape and ejaculation. Okay. So that is the kind of
00:38:01.480necrophilia, sexual assault that is being depicted, not only depicted, but glorified
00:38:08.320to 11 to 17 year olds that is the kind of age age bracket that this book is targeting right
00:38:16.820yes uh what a lot of people don't understand about young adult is that over half of the people
00:38:26.300reading young adult are actual adults we're talking 18 and on mainly i think the the major
00:38:35.840age range that that reads a young adult is like 28 and over so publishers know this right there is
00:38:44.440um a study done in 2024 by harper collins in the uk 74 percent of young adult is being consumed by
00:38:54.400actual adults and not young adults right not the the teen um audience right that the protagonists
00:39:03.420are usually the age of right and so to them it's kind of like it's it's a progression that makes
00:39:11.020sense right um the issue is of course that melissa de la cruz is known for her middle grade novels as
00:39:19.540well so my fear is that parents who are not aware um and who have said well we've we've read her
00:39:27.720descendants series or you know her alex and eliza series which is about alexander hamilton and his
00:39:34.880wife you know we're we're just gonna it's it's okay to read this book and it's not it's just not
00:39:40.900yeah um and i and i really warn i warn parents against young adults um it's why i read so much
00:39:49.740um and and make lists for teens because i want them to i want parents to be able to give
00:39:56.640to their kids books that are fun to read and appropriate right you know there's this whole
00:40:03.680other trend that we could talk about not another trend the trend that you're talking about but it
00:40:08.200extends to other areas too of adultifying um content that is supposed to be for children but
00:40:17.880also kind of like infantilizing adults i think about the phenomenon of the disney adult and how
00:40:24.020Disney parks have started to cater to the adults without children that are not just,
00:40:31.160oh, I'm just going to go because I'm in Orlando, but are really obsessive with Disney,
00:40:35.480that Disney in a lot of ways has become more mature. You see this, we talk about from time
00:40:40.380to time, the like adult doll community that has these conferences with dolls. And so it's this
00:40:46.920weird thing going on where industries that are supposed to be for children are catering to
00:40:51.760adults. And so kids have access to more mature and sometimes sexually explicit content or items
00:40:59.200or whatever it is. But at the same time, adults are becoming more like children and the interest
00:41:08.140that they have in the activities and the books that they engage in. There's a very disturbing
00:41:13.020convergence there because the idea of an adult reading a book about teenagers, I assume this is
00:41:20.740probably about teenagers engaging in rape I mean you just you have to be a very disturbed and I
00:41:28.940think dangerous person to find that interesting and the fact that the book industry the publishing
00:41:36.720industry is just catering to that is very troubling to me yeah yeah it is it is and
00:41:43.280it's not anything new I I mean I've been reading YA like YA is considered a genre in and of its
00:41:50.680And so I've been reading YA really since like 2013 when I started in libraries and I've seen this progression. So, and honestly, like I wasn't surprised when I heard about this story, I was just like, well, yeah, of course they're going to do that.
00:42:08.020Everyone should be outraged, and everyone should be disturbed. But it's the natural progression that's been going on since, I mean, honestly, since 2010. So 2010 is really when this kind of crossover happened.
00:42:26.100Like, I'm sure you probably can guess like the Hunger Games, the Twilight series, all of that was YA.
00:42:34.880And although it's not like great, it's still pretty appropriate for the core audience, like 13 to 17.
00:42:43.040Although I don't recommend it for 13 year olds.
00:42:45.700Don't don't. That's not what I'm saying.
00:42:47.140But the point is adults found that really appealing.
00:42:50.880and so in the 2010s is when it really really started to explode as a genre and then that
00:42:58.620progression has just gradually gotten worse do you think twilight had something to do with that
00:43:05.080oh yeah for sure for sure because it was written for teens but adults loved it they thought it was
00:43:13.420great like it had its own fan club right its own fan fiction all it just exploded yeah so twilight
00:43:20.760And Hunger Games is where it really started to – publishers were like, there's something here, right?
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00:44:59.400have been talking about it, but I've seen this talked about in other circles as well. Other
00:45:04.080outlets have covered this. It's just that people are aghast not only that this exists, but also
00:45:10.100that Good Morning America put their stamp of approval on it. That is one of the most shocking
00:45:16.520parts of this story so what has been the reaction to that yeah it's it's not been good there are
00:45:22.880publishers always send out arcs so advanced reader copies to people who have um who are
00:45:29.200influencers on instagram who have a large following on goodreads and there there was a ton of blowback
00:45:37.100before this was even published people who read the arcs said contacted the publishers and said
00:45:43.860this is not gonna fly this is gonna have huge backlash you need to do something at least
00:45:48.360at the very least of the age right like 17 or older right um and the publishers just didn't
00:45:56.940listen and you didn't see it in that clip but one of the hosts said i have a 13 year old and i can't
00:46:03.780wait for her to read this i don't know if she has read it herself but the comments were scathing
00:46:09.520they're like don't give this to your 13 year old of course i mean people who people who are not even
00:46:14.920believers that i read i read a ton of reviews on goodreads which it's tanking on goodreads good
00:46:21.440which is i'm sorry goodreads is like the amazon database so you can keep track of what you read
00:46:27.240and people go in and read reviews on goodreads you know keep track of things um kind of like a
00:46:33.880database and the average five like is five stars the average review star review is one or a two
00:46:42.300yeah and so and and this and when i checked i didn't check it right before i came on but i
00:46:48.680checked it the other day you can write a review on goodreads for a while you couldn't it was it
00:46:54.940there was so much blowback and so many people wanted to write a review that they like kind of
00:47:00.100shut it down um and also melissa de la cruz has made her instagram private wow um the publishers
00:47:09.180have now um on their on their age range they said 17 and up but that was the that was after it was
00:47:18.960published that was after all these libraries have their copy with the stamp of approval from
00:47:24.420good good morning america um so the the the pushback has been extensive it's been very
00:47:32.980extensive you know these accidents when it comes to the mainstream media in a variety of ways but
00:47:39.840certainly when it comes to the endorsement of particular books and content for children
00:47:44.060only seems to ever skew one direction like i i've never seen a controversy where it's like
00:47:50.360whoops good morning america accidentally endorsed this book that shares the gospel in it like oh
00:47:56.680they didn't know that it had biblical themes it's always like oh my gosh we endorse this book that
00:48:02.620has necrophilia in it the rape of a dead teenager whoops it's just it's like it reminds me of that
00:48:10.860balenciaga scandal that i talked about a few years ago where it was really weird they had these bears
00:48:18.260this is the convergence that we were just talking about. Like it had these toys, but that were
00:48:22.380dressed up in sexual BDSM gear. And the papers that were askew on the desk happened to be
00:48:29.280the Supreme Court case text of a case about sexual abuse of children material. Okay. And so they were
00:48:40.540like, oh, whoops, we didn't even see. I'm like, oh, that's so weird that it just happened to be
00:48:45.220that and it wasn't accidentally the pages of a bible it just seems like the mistakes always go
00:48:53.020one direction which just feels like less of a mistake and more deliberate but i am encouraged
00:48:59.940that there's been so much blowback i am too it's and it's not just uh christians it's not just
00:49:07.940conservatives it's it's really but if you go and you read some of the reviews on goodreads
00:49:13.580you know, there's this mom who says, I'm not a prude. I'm not a prude. My 14 year old and I talk
00:49:20.380about sex all the time. I don't mind this, that, whatever it's like, but this does not belong in
00:49:25.720young adult literature and review and review after review of, of people who are just like, I, you
00:49:33.000know, I don't have a problem if this was in an adult book, but this is not for young adults.
00:49:38.440this is not for teens. So I was encouraged by that as well. Okay, two questions for you. Parents
00:49:45.220are like, okay, what do I do? Number one, if they found a book like this in their local library
00:49:50.020that's in the teen section, or is being targeted, particularly towards kids, is there anything
00:49:55.620that you can do as a member of a library? Yes, yes, yes, yes. But let me first say,
00:50:02.860don't hide that book. I know it's really tempting to hide that book, but it actually works
00:50:08.180against you when you do that in a, in a library, if you want to do it in a bookstore or in a general
00:50:13.060store, fine, go ahead. That's, that's not, um, libraries work differently. So what you do is you
00:50:20.540find out how your library reviews the source, like their collection. Um, I haven't been able
00:50:28.480to do this yet with this book. Um, the one that I have is from my local library. Um, but what you
00:50:34.200do is you go in and you show them the title and you say I would like this to be put under review
00:50:38.820what's what's the process usually it's paperwork you can you know some some libraries they have
00:50:45.280it online some they have it on a piece of paper that you fill out and you hand back to the librarian
00:50:52.020do it like graciously you know how you always say raise a respectful ruckus like respectful
00:50:59.400is really key here because most of the people who work in libraries are liberal and they have a view
00:51:08.080of people with conservative values that they are they're fighters that they're just going to come
00:51:13.560in and disrupt there are people who don't even use the library and they just want to they just
00:51:18.980want to mess everything up so when you go in and you respectfully say listen I read this book on
00:51:27.360page 284, there is a graphic depiction of necrophilia, of rape, and a threesome. And I
00:51:37.480ask that it be removed from the teen section and put in the adult section, if it can't be removed
00:51:43.880from the library at all. Most of the time, items are not removed from the library, unless they are
00:51:50.880not checked out for, you know, like a year. And so I would encourage anyone who sees this book
00:51:58.300at their library to go through that process, because that will gain the respect of the
00:52:05.360librarians are like, Oh, wow, they, you know, they, they had a problem with this book, and they
00:52:09.560didn't come in with pitchforks. They were very kind and respectful, and went through the process
00:52:16.900that the library has in place for moments like this.
00:54:04.760We have a new documentary, a documentary miniseries on dinosaurs, which I think is so funny to call it a documentary as if we are documenting the dinosaurs that lived so many millennia ago.
00:54:20.620Now, the reason I'm talking about this, if you're new here, and I realize in my new setup, we don't have our dino mascots, but maybe you've noticed that I've got little dinosaur ceramic little guys around my set.
00:54:33.680The reason for that is because many moons ago, Brie and I did an episode about conspiracy theories that we find interesting or parts of the conspiracy theories that we find compelling.
00:54:45.660And mine was that I don't know about dinosaurs.
00:54:48.720Y'all, I have literally gotten handwritten letters from people across the country shipped to me somehow or someone who knows me to tell me how disgusting and dangerous and wrong it is that I would dare question paleontology.
00:55:06.580I wouldn't be surprised if it was Ross from Friends who sent me this letter.