The Ben Shapiro Show - April 01, 2026


SCANDAL: Kristi Noem’s Husband Caught In Cross-Dressing Fetish


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A man who has a fetish in which he wears fake breasts in order to communicate with online models. We'll talk about it and more on today's episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. (Ben Shapiro's Take)

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00:00:00.000 Folks, what do you call a man who has a fetish in which he wears fake breasts in order to communicate with online models? 0.84
00:00:07.000 If you guessed the husband of the former Secretary of Homeland Security, well, ding, ding, ding.
00:00:13.000 We'll get into the peculiar, bizarre, embarrassing story of Christy Nome's husband.
00:00:18.000 It's really kind of terrible.
00:00:19.000 And we'll ask a question.
00:00:20.000 If this dude were a Democrat instead of a Republican, wouldn't they be elevating him as a magical example of diversity and inclusion?
00:00:27.000 Plus, some actual news from the Supreme Court and the Middle East in just one moment.
00:00:31.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:31.000 Welcome back.
00:00:38.000 All righty, so there's a Supreme Court ruling that came down yesterday called Childs versus Salazar.
00:00:47.000 And the basic concept of the Supreme Court ruling is that the state of Colorado had put forward a law that banned what they called conversion therapy.
00:00:56.000 Now, when you think of conversion therapy, what you are thinking of is some psychologist in a room somewhere who is zapping a gay kid.
00:01:05.000 With electricity, like hooking electrodes to him and then zapping him until he is no longer attracted to members of the same sex. 0.85
00:01:12.000 That's what you're thinking of when you think of conversion therapy. 0.66
00:01:14.000 That is not what the state of Colorado is thinking of.
00:01:16.000 What they are thinking of when they describe conversion therapy is something different.
00:01:21.000 According to the Colorado law, 2019, that law prohibited licensed counselors from engaging in conversion therapy with minors, defining the term to include any practice or treatment that attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity.
00:01:37.000 As well as any effort to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions toward individuals of the same sex.
00:01:46.000 That same law allows counselors to provide, quote, acceptance, support, and understanding for identity exploration and development and to assist persons, quote, undergoing gender transition.
00:01:55.000 So, in other words, the Colorado law said that if a kid comes to you with gender confusion, you are not allowed to say, boys are boys and girls are girls.
00:02:02.000 Let's help you be more comfortable in your body.
00:02:04.000 If a kid comes, a boy, and he says, I'm a girl, you have to affirm him.
00:02:08.000 And if you don't affirm him, You're engaged in conversion therapy and you can be prosecuted under the law in the state of Colorado.
00:02:15.000 If a kid comes to you and says, Listen, I'm confused about my feelings of sexual attraction, you're not allowed to talk that through and say, Well, you know what?
00:02:22.000 You're 14 years old.
00:02:24.000 A lot of people are confused about sexual attraction at 14 years old.
00:02:27.000 You're being hit by hormones that you've never experienced before.
00:02:30.000 And you really don't have any sort of clear line as to how to live your life.
00:02:34.000 So let's talk this thing through.
00:02:35.000 That might be conversion therapy because that could be construed as an attempt to change behavior or eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attraction.
00:02:44.000 Toward individuals of the same sex.
00:02:46.000 Instead, you're supposed to just give that kid a pride flag and tell them to get out there and march.
00:02:50.000 That is what the Colorado law essentially said.
00:02:52.000 Well, the plaintiff in this case is a person named Kaylee Childs, who holds a master's degree in clinical mental health and a state counseling license in Colorado.
00:03:00.000 And Childs doesn't start counseling with any predetermined goals, according to the Supreme Court.
00:03:05.000 Instead, she sits down with clients, discusses their goals, and then formulates methods of counseling that will most benefit them, seeking throughout to respect her client's fundamental right of self determination.
00:03:16.000 On some matters of sexuality and gender, the clients sometimes have different agendas, according to the Supreme Court.
00:03:22.000 Some are perfectly happy being gay or lesbian or trans gender identifying, and others want to reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions or change sexual behaviors or grow in the experience of harmony with their bodies.
00:03:36.000 And under Colorado law, those last people are just plumb out of luck.
00:03:40.000 There's nothing they can do because if you, for example, are a person who has a fetish, presumably, And you don't want to have that fetish anymore.
00:03:48.000 According to Colorado law, you are not allowed as a therapist, as a talk therapist, to try to change an individual's behaviors regarding sexual or romantic attractions.
00:03:59.000 Well, Justice Gorsuch, who again, Justice Gorsuch is not a strict textualist when it comes to these matters, is a typical rule.
00:04:07.000 His opinion in Bostock, which was a case surrounding transgenderism as a facet of the Civil Rights Act, you'll remember this case was kind of crazy.
00:04:16.000 That was a case in which Justice Gorsuch suggested that it was discrimination under the Civil Rights Act to say that men are men and women are women in some circumstances.
00:04:25.000 So he is not a wild conservative on these matters.
00:04:28.000 He wrote the opinion, and his basic opinion is pretty simple.
00:04:32.000 The First Amendment allows therapists to say what they want to say during therapy.
00:04:36.000 That is the basic opinion. 0.95
00:04:38.000 According to the Supreme Court, and there's an 8 1 ruling, the only person who voted in dissent is, of course, Wade Fritz Katanji Brown Jackson, the dumbest person on the Supreme Court. 0.75
00:04:46.000 That's saying a lot because Sonia Sotomayor is also on the Supreme Court.
00:04:49.000 But here's what Justice Gorsuch wrote consistent with the First Amendment's jealous protections for the individual's right to think and speak freely, this court has long held that laws regulating speech based on subject matter or communicative content are presumptively unconstitutional.
00:05:05.000 We have recognized, says the Supreme Court, the even greater dangers associated with regulations that discriminate based on the speaker's point of view.
00:05:12.000 So, in other words, the big problem here is that it's not just that they are putting regulations on speech.
00:05:18.000 Those regulations on speech are content dependent.
00:05:21.000 They're saying you can say these things that we agree with, but you cannot say these things with which we disagree.
00:05:27.000 As a talk therapist, says the Supreme Court, all Ms. Childs does is speak with clients.
00:05:31.000 She does not prescribe medication, use medical devices, or employ any physical methods.
00:05:36.000 And they point out consider where the state and dissent logic leads.
00:05:40.000 Not long ago, many medical experts and organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, considered homosexuality a mental disorder.
00:05:47.000 On the view of Colorado and the dissent, a law adopted during that era prohibiting counselors from engaging in the substandard care of affirming their clients' homosexuality would have been subject to only rational basis or intermediate scrutiny review and likely upheld.
00:06:01.000 So, in other words, they're saying if you are suggesting that a state can determine what is the best course of care with regard to opinions on open matters, Of gender and sexuality, and then mandate that sort of stuff on subject matter basis.
00:06:19.000 That is a violation of free speech.
00:06:22.000 And then the court goes out of its way to really slap Katanji Brown Jackson. 0.99
00:06:27.000 They say today, tomorrow, and forever, any professional speech that deviates from current beliefs about the safety and efficacy of various medical treatments could be silenced with relative ease.
00:06:37.000 It is a consequence Colorado freely acknowledges and one that dissent embraces.
00:06:41.000 So what if that kind of reflexive deference to currently prevailing professional views may not always end well?
00:06:46.000 And then they cite Buck versus Bell.
00:06:48.000 Okay, the reason that that is a really scathing rebuttal to Jackson is because Buck versus Bell is the case that suggested that you actually had the ability under law to sexually sterilize inmates of institutions because that was the prevailing science of the time.
00:07:09.000 Okay, well, Katanji Brown Jackson then responded, and her basic opinion is I like this law.
00:07:14.000 That is her opinion.
00:07:15.000 Now, again, she is in the minority, eight to one. 0.95
00:07:18.000 Even Kagan and Sotomayor ruled against her in this particular case.
00:07:23.000 She says that Colorado was simply, quote, restricting a dangerous therapy modality.
00:07:30.000 She says that the court's opinion is unprincipled and unworkable.
00:07:36.000 And of course, then she has a long statement about how wonderful gender orientation of left wing philosophy is.
00:07:44.000 Quote, ultimately, scientific evidence supports the conclusion that anticipated harms from conversion therapy are twofold.
00:07:51.000 First, conversion therapy stigmatizes the patient, telling them that their gender identity or sexual orientation is something to be fixed rather than accepted.
00:07:58.000 This rejection can lead to shame and guilt.
00:08:00.000 Which in turn can cause long term emotional distress.
00:08:03.000 Why is this important?
00:08:04.000 The reason that this is important is because, number one, it is the court's recognition that the science is open on this, which it clearly is.
00:08:13.000 That is the most important thing here. 0.96
00:08:15.000 But Katanji Brown Jackson's dissent is a reminder that if the left had complete control over the mechanisms of government, they would simply regulate into law all of their most specious and idiotic views about science. 0.95
00:08:29.000 Jackson's opinion is basically the science says. 0.96
00:08:31.000 I'm right.
00:08:32.000 She's basically saying that Colorado has the right to regulate therapist treatment because mitochlorians might make you trans or something. 0.87
00:08:38.000 And that's the science.
00:08:39.000 And if Tyan says that, then we have to just go along with the science.
00:08:43.000 And the state is allowed to regulate you and prevent you from telling a kid who's experiencing gender confusion that there's a way through this that doesn't involve you taking on the aspects of the other sex physically and emotionally.
00:08:58.000 And we are this close to that world, by the way.
00:09:00.000 Without President Trump as president, we were this close to that world.
00:09:03.000 I really mean that because President Trump is responsible for several selections on the Supreme Court.
00:09:08.000 And right now, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor are ruling with the majority.
00:09:12.000 But if there were a bunch of Democrat appointees on the court, is that the way this would have gone?
00:09:16.000 I am not so sure.
00:09:18.000 Okay, in just a second, we are going to get to more of the Supreme Court's news.
00:09:24.000 But there is a big settlement, another judicial settlement that we need to talk about.
00:09:27.000 And this one involves us here at the Daily Wire.
00:09:30.000 So today, major announcement the State Department actually settled a lawsuit that we brought.
00:09:36.000 As well as others did in 2023.
00:09:38.000 That lawsuit was basically over a State Department under Joe Biden methodology.
00:09:45.000 They were using a federally funded thing called the Global Engagement Center to fund and promote companies that worked to bankrupt conservative news companies like ours.
00:09:55.000 So basically, they would funnel money to the Global Engagement Center, which would then funnel money to organizations like NewsGuard.
00:10:01.000 And those NewsGuard like companies would then essentially tell advertisers that they should never advertise with groups like the Daily Wire because we were somehow.
00:10:11.000 Not compliant with their news standards.
00:10:12.000 We were disinformation.
00:10:14.000 So we sued them because the State Department should not have the ability to shut down speech it doesn't like simply by rooting money to outside outlets.
00:10:23.000 And a judge agreed.
00:10:25.000 So a federal judge today entered a consent decree that put the Daily Wire and the Federalist, one of our co plaintiffs, in charge of ensuring that future State Departments do not fund efforts to deem news outlets disinformation.
00:10:38.000 This is huge because, again, in the absence of this, anytime a Democrat assumes office, that Democrat could simply take the money.
00:10:44.000 From the State Department and create outside groups, outside pressure groups determined to treat conservative news as disinformation.
00:10:54.000 It is a major free speech win for Americans.
00:10:56.000 It's a major free speech win for the media.
00:11:00.000 Because of the Daily Wire's lawsuit, it is this simple State departments cannot fund efforts to deem news outlets disinformation, which is huge because this is the thing we fight.
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00:13:02.000 Well, in response to the Supreme Court ruling, Obviously, Democrats were very upset.
00:13:08.000 Governor Whitmer over in Michigan, it was Trans Day of Visibility.
00:13:14.000 Yeah, I know.
00:13:15.000 We'll get to the Chrissy Numb husband story in a second.
00:13:18.000 In any case, Governor Whitmer vowed to make sure that people can live openly and authentically.
00:13:18.000 It's slightly related.
00:13:23.000 And by openly and authentically, we mean can pretend to be members of the opposite sex.
00:13:29.000 Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, when we celebrate the strength, resilience, and contributions of our transgender family.
00:13:37.000 Friends and neighbors.
00:13:38.000 In Michigan, everyone deserves to be seen, respected, and valued.
00:13:43.000 But for too many trans people, we still see discrimination and policies that threaten their safety and dignity.
00:13:49.000 You know, when I was elected in 2018, I made a promise to fight for all Michiganders, no matter who they are or who they love.
00:13:55.000 And since then, we have put in the work to build a state where everyone can live openly and authentically.
00:14:01.000 I'll keep fighting like hell to make sure every Michigander feels safe, secure, and supported.
00:14:06.000 Today and every day, we stand with our trans neighbors because trans rights.
00:14:11.000 Are human rights.
00:14:14.000 Well, actually, it is not a human right that everyone should treat you as a member of the opposite sex when you are not. 0.99
00:14:20.000 That is not actually a right.
00:14:22.000 That is not a right.
00:14:24.000 It's a free country.
00:14:25.000 You can dress how you want.
00:14:26.000 You can basically do what you want, but you cannot demand that everybody act out of accordance with reality.
00:14:32.000 Meanwhile, Mera Zaran Mamdani, again, the very weird red green alliance, meaning the alliance between radical Islam and radical leftism, it's a very strange thing.
00:14:42.000 It's a very strange thing.
00:14:43.000 All the people who he was having.
00:14:46.000 Dinner with at the mayoral mansion to close out Ramadan.
00:14:53.000 I doubt many of them are in favor of Trans Day of Visibility, except insofar as they are fans of anything that sort of tears away at the stanchions of Western civilization.
00:15:02.000 Mamdani put out a statement Today is Trans Day of Visibility.
00:15:06.000 Trans non binary and gender non conforming people have always been here.
00:15:10.000 From the Hijra of India to the Dini Nadlihi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign movement here in New York, your existence is not up for debate. 0.64
00:15:19.000 Your lives are not a political issue.
00:15:21.000 We're fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.
00:15:26.000 I mean, I'm sorry.
00:15:28.000 First of all, the entire lie that trans people in the United States are at danger of extermination is, in fact, a lie.
00:15:34.000 City Journal has a great piece today going through the actual statistics with regard to an epidemic, a supposed epidemic of transgender murders.
00:15:44.000 According to City Journal, a project of the excellent Manhattan Institute, for more than a decade, the human rights campaign has pushed the narrative.
00:15:51.000 That trans people are facing an epidemic of deadly violence, publishing annual epidemic of violence reports documenting transgender homicide victims in the United States.
00:16:00.000 Well, the reality is that trans people are less likely to be murdered than the rest of the population.
00:16:06.000 Most transgender people are murdered by members of their own race, and intimate partner violence, not hate, is the leading identified motive for such murders.
00:16:14.000 In fact, here are some facts.
00:16:16.000 The general population murder rate is 25.8 per 100,000, this is between 2010 and 2014.
00:16:23.000 The transgender rate, meaning the murder rate against transgender people, is 3.66 per 100,000, that is one seventh of the general population rate.
00:16:33.000 According to Manhattan Institute, homicide risk is concentrated in one group, one group only young black men who identify as women.
00:16:40.000 These male victims are usually compared with black non transgender women, females, which makes their homicide rate look unusually high for women.
00:16:46.000 Well, yes, because they are in fact men, and men tend to murder other men at rates that far exceed the murder by women. 0.92
00:16:56.000 HRC's own data debunks the claim that white supremacy is the cause of any violence.
00:17:00.000 Among identified suspects, black suspects account for 65.1% of perpetrators.
00:17:05.000 White suspects account for 18%. 0.88
00:17:06.000 So, again, don't bite into the propaganda.
00:17:08.000 Okay.
00:17:08.000 Well, one more judicial decision, and then we'll get to the spiciest and most bizarre news of the day.
00:17:15.000 The Supreme Court went Trump's direction on conversion therapy, or at least went the direction of conservatives.
00:17:21.000 Another decision went the other way yesterday.
00:17:22.000 There's a federal decision that temporarily halted the construction of President Trump's new East Wing ballroom.
00:17:27.000 So, the judge, Judge Leon, who was appointed by George W. Bush, the court basically found that the president, Does not have the unilateral ability to simply build buildings at the White House, that he can make small changes, but he can't just tear things down and then rebuild them.
00:17:42.000 The judge says the President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of first families.
00:17:47.000 He is not, however, the owner.
00:17:51.000 The President Trump claims that Congress gave him the authority in existing statutes to construct his East Wing Ballroom project and to do it with private funds.
00:17:58.000 I have concluded the National Trust, which is the plaintiff against President Trump, is likely to succeed on the merits.
00:18:03.000 And he says, listen, Congress can simply authorize the continued construction of the ballroom project.
00:18:08.000 The president can go to Congress to obtain express authority to construct a ballroom.
00:18:13.000 And actually, it's a little bit different than prior remits.
00:18:17.000 Congress actually was involved in the funding of prior buildings on the White House grounds or on national parks.
00:18:25.000 President Trump is upset about all of this.
00:18:29.000 So, President Trump put out a statement on Truth Social.
00:18:33.000 Well, the National Trust for Historic Preservation sues me for a ballroom that is under budget.
00:18:38.000 Ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to the taxpayer, and will be the finest building of its kind anywhere in the world.
00:18:43.000 I then get sued by them over the renovation of the dilapidated and structurally unsound former Kennedy Center, now the Trump Kennedy Center, where all I am doing is fixing, cleaning, running, and sprucing up a terribly maintained, for many years, building, but a building of potentially great importance.
00:18:57.000 Yet the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a radical left group of lunatics whose funding was stopped by Congress in 2005, is not suing the Federal Reserve for a building which has been decimated and destroyed inside and out by an incompetent and possibly corrupt Fed chairman.
00:19:10.000 That once magnificent building is billions over budget, may never be completed, and may never open.
00:19:15.000 All of the beautiful walls inside have been ripped down, never to be built again, but the National Trust for Historic Preservation never did anything about it.
00:19:23.000 And he basically says, Why is it that you're picking on me?
00:19:26.000 Now, there are mock ups of the new East Wing Ballroom.
00:19:29.000 It is very, very large.
00:19:31.000 It is very large, obviously.
00:19:33.000 And honestly, it looks great.
00:19:34.000 I mean, I understand there are people who are upset with it.
00:19:36.000 It just looks like an extension of the White House.
00:19:38.000 I mean, it's in the same classical style, it's got the same porticos, it's got the same general.
00:19:44.000 Outline.
00:19:45.000 Now, some people are upset because they say it dwarfs the White House because the White House is not very big.
00:19:50.000 And I suppose that's true, but it is also true that the White House is pretty small.
00:19:54.000 I mean, if you've ever been there, it's extremely small, even just as a visitor.
00:19:58.000 All the rooms are small.
00:19:59.000 The West Wing, which is where most of the action happens, is extremely small.
00:20:03.000 And of course, you have the executive building, the Eisenhower building, right outside, which is gigantic.
00:20:07.000 So, Congress should move to simply authorize it.
00:20:11.000 That would solve the problem.
00:20:12.000 That would solve the problem.
00:20:14.000 Okay, quick correction, by the way, with regard to the NewsGuard story.
00:20:18.000 So, the fund that was created by the State Department, they didn't directly fund NewsGuard, they contracted with NewsGuard, who worked with the GEC.
00:20:27.000 Okay, now to the spicy story of the day.
00:20:31.000 So, according to the New York Post, quoting a report from the UK Daily Mail, Christy Gnome's husband has some issues.
00:20:37.000 Two really large, inflated issues, to be precise.
00:20:42.000 So, according to the New York Post, Brian Gnome chatted up women from the so called bimbofication fetish scene, in which adult performers augment their breasts with massive amounts of saline to achieve a Barbie doll like appearance.
00:20:56.000 Citing hundreds of messages purportedly sent by three women from the scene, Gnome's husband enthusiastically praised their heavily augmented appearances and proclaimed he coveted. 0.98
00:21:04.000 Huge, huge, ridiculous boobs, according to the mail. 0.98
00:21:08.000 One photo from the mail shows Brian Gnome, apparently. 0.99
00:21:13.000 He shared it with these women, and it featured him wearing pink hot pants and a flesh colored skin tight suit.
00:21:19.000 And apparently, he inflated some actual balloons and then stuffed them in his shirt to mimic comically oversized lopsided breasts and directed the area of the balloon that you tie toward the front to kind of create fake, misaligned nipples.
00:21:34.000 Apparently, He sent these women some $25,000 via Cash App and PayPal.
00:21:40.000 And he traded selfies with one woman.
00:21:42.000 He pledged to worship like a goddess, telling her, You turn me into a girl, before asking if he should put on leggings.
00:21:48.000 And yeah, not great, Bob.
00:21:53.000 So there is Brian Nome looking very seriously into the camera as though he is, you know, about to take an insurance exam, but also wearing a flesh colored shirt with gigantic balloons beneath it and also pink hot pants.
00:22:05.000 Yeah, this is not.
00:22:09.000 It's not great.
00:22:10.000 It's pretty not good.
00:22:12.000 Just gonna, yeah.
00:22:15.000 Well, obviously, Christy Gnome is not super happy about this.
00:22:20.000 According to the New York Post, Ms. Gnome is devastated.
00:22:23.000 The family was blindsided by this.
00:22:24.000 They asked for privacy and prayers at this time.
00:22:26.000 So let's talk for a second about what is actually happening here.
00:22:32.000 So, first of all, people have all sorts of strange kinks and fetishes. 1.00
00:22:37.000 The weirdness of human life is that.
00:22:39.000 People are drawn toward the taboo, apparently, even taboo as strange as all of this.
00:22:44.000 Obviously, there is some sort of strange link to autogynephilia of being turned on by the idea that he was himself playing a girl and all that.
00:22:52.000 I mean, basically, we're now doing clips from White Lotus here.
00:22:55.000 But with that said, I do have one question, and this is a question for members of the media who are on the left.
00:23:02.000 If he just came out as trans, or if he just said, This is my fetish, I love my fetish, my fetish is me.
00:23:09.000 It is a core part of my identity.
00:23:12.000 I am a person who, like, my identity is wrapped up in wearing giant balloons on my chest, right?
00:23:20.000 If, in fact, he had done that, wouldn't they make him the assistant secretary of health and human services?
00:23:25.000 See, here's the thing.
00:23:26.000 Now, first of all, I honestly, the guy has some sort of pathology, and you got to feel bad for him.
00:23:32.000 And also, he has a screwed up personal life because Christy Nome, it is widely known in Washington, D.C., has a thing going with Corey Lewandowski.
00:23:39.000 For a long time.
00:23:40.000 It is why there was a very awkward moment when Christy Noam was called before Congress and Christy Noam was literally questioned about all of this.
00:23:48.000 It was literally questioned about all of this.
00:23:51.000 Christy Noam was asked about.
00:23:54.000 Corey Lewandowski and cheating with Corey Lewandowski and all this.
00:23:57.000 And she acted with umbrage, but she didn't actually deny the charge.
00:24:00.000 And her husband was sitting behind her during the same hearing.
00:24:03.000 It was really, really awkward.
00:24:04.000 So there's some strange stuff going on in their personal and family life, for sure, for sure.
00:24:10.000 But here's my question again for people on the left who are very excited about this story, like bizarrely excited about this story, like excited in some of the same ways that Brian Noam appears to have been excited by fetish models about this story.
00:24:24.000 If you're on the left, What language do you have to condemn all of this? 0.97
00:24:27.000 I understand that you're claiming that he's a hypocrite and that right wingers are hypocrites. 0.95
00:24:32.000 Well, I mean, I don't feel like conservatives are hypocrites since conservatives don't like this and they say that it is bad. 0.86
00:24:38.000 And also, hypocrisy is, as my friend Andrew Clavin likes to say, the tribute that vice pays to virtue, meaning that yes, we all have moral standards and we don't always uphold all of those moral standards, but it doesn't mean the moral standard is wrong.
00:24:54.000 Hypocrisy is generally a charge.
00:24:56.000 That is directed at the virtue itself, not at the person violating the virtue.
00:25:00.000 In other words, the reason the left loves stories like this is because they believe there actually is nothing wrong with what Brian Gnome did here.
00:25:08.000 They believe there's nothing wrong with that.
00:25:09.000 They're actually angry at the people who say there is something wrong with what Brian Gnome did here.
00:25:14.000 That is the point that I'm making about Rachel Levine, the former Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.
00:25:19.000 If Brian Gnome came out today and said, listen, this is my core identity a man who loves gigantic boobs and wears fake balloons in my shirt.
00:25:29.000 The left would be like, they would elevate him in American public life for violating the virtue, for violating the standard.
00:25:38.000 It's that he has the gall, and members of his family have the gall, to say that traditional virtue is good, even if they violate it, that the left is really, really on top of this story.
00:25:49.000 See, the right has language to condemn behavior like this.
00:25:52.000 We do.
00:25:53.000 The left doesn't have any language to condemn behavior, just the social left.
00:25:56.000 The social left believes that the core element When it comes to sexual behavior and fetishes and all the rest of it, it is just consent.
00:26:04.000 That's the only thing that matters.
00:26:05.000 As long as these are consensual adults, everything is fine.
00:26:08.000 The right believes that lots of people consent to lots of things that are terrible for them.
00:26:13.000 And that actually you can do things that are sinful.
00:26:15.000 Like the language of sin exists on the right, the language of taboo continues to exist on the right, the language of unnaturalness continues to exist on the right.
00:26:24.000 And so we can all look at that and go, yeah, that's unnatural, and that's sinful what he's doing there, and it's bad, and it's wrong, and it's strange.
00:26:30.000 We can use that language.
00:26:31.000 If you're on the left, by what stretch of the imagination can you even condemn what he's doing?
00:26:36.000 And the answer is you can't condemn what he's doing.
00:26:38.000 All you can do is condemn the people who condemn what he's doing for real.
00:26:42.000 Make no mistake, people on the left are not upset about Brian Gnome doing this.
00:26:46.000 They're happy that Christy Gnome is humiliated by it.
00:26:48.000 That is the real answer here.
00:26:50.000 They are very happy that Brian Gnome is humiliated by this because he's a Republican.
00:26:55.000 There's a good piece in the New York Times actually asking members of his local community about this.
00:27:00.000 And honestly, I think that the members of the local community have it right.
00:27:04.000 They basically said it's sad.
00:27:06.000 We feel bad for him.
00:27:08.000 We hope that he gets past this sort of stuff.
00:27:10.000 We feel bad for the family and for Christy Noam.
00:27:13.000 And honestly, I think that that is the proper approach to things like this.
00:27:18.000 I think that sympathy for people who sin, not in their sin, but as human beings, because everybody sins, is the proper response to all of this.
00:27:25.000 And also recognizing that the standard of sin still ought to apply, that the standard of bad behavior still ought to apply.
00:27:32.000 Now, that is the proper response to all of this.
00:27:36.000 And so, again, is it inherently kind of funny?
00:27:39.000 It's inherently kind of funny a little, just because when people do weird things, it's funny in the same way that Bugs Bunny dressing up in a dress is funny.
00:27:46.000 And there's no way to look at those pictures and not kind of laugh at it.
00:27:49.000 But by the same token, comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin.
00:27:55.000 Tragedy in the criticism of Walter Cruz, a theater critic from the 1950s and 60s, he said that tragedy is the notion that human beings have aspirations to understand the cosmos and shoot toward the stars, and then also we die, right?
00:28:11.000 That's tragedy.
00:28:12.000 And comedy is the fact that we have aspirations to understand the cosmos and shoot for the stars, and also we fart.
00:28:18.000 And so they're basically two sides of the same coin.
00:28:21.000 And so you look at this and you say, yeah, I mean, it's comic, obviously, but it's also kind of tragic because human nature is to violate taboo, to sin.
00:28:29.000 And again, my bigger call here would be for people not to.
00:28:32.000 It doesn't matter to me very much about your personal feelings of sympathy for the person who engages in bad behavior.
00:28:37.000 But don't fall for the trap of believing that virtue itself, that virtuous standards themselves are wrong because people are hypocritical. 0.97
00:28:46.000 Yes, people are hypocritical.
00:28:47.000 And yes, values continue to exist. 0.81
00:28:50.000 And better that the values continue to exist and be upheld as the standard and people fall short than that we do what the left has done and totally destroy all values and standards utterly.
00:29:00.000 In order to avoid charges of hypocrisy.
00:29:03.000 Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to Iran and the latest there and gas prices.
00:29:08.000 The president is supposed to make a big speech tonight to the nation.
00:29:12.000 We'll get to what he's going to say first.
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00:30:32.000 Okay, so.
00:30:34.000 Yesterday, the markets jumped on the possibility of an early end to the Iran war.
00:30:39.000 The Dow Jones Industrial Average actually jumped 1,000 points at close.
00:30:43.000 And that demonstrates a couple of things.
00:30:44.000 One, the markets like stability, they do not like instability.
00:30:49.000 And also, when this is over, even when there's a perception it's going to end, the markets are going to jump.
00:30:54.000 So the question isn't really whether the markets will recover because they will.
00:30:57.000 Once the conflict in Iran ends, the markets will jump.
00:31:01.000 The real question is do we win?
00:31:02.000 Is there a long term win there?
00:31:05.000 And the circumstances of victory are going to determine how robust the recovery is.
00:31:10.000 If people in the markets figure that the Straits of Hormuz can be shut anytime by the Iranians, well, that's going to get priced into the market as well. 1.00
00:31:17.000 Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan gets it right.
00:31:19.000 He says, listen, the markets are down, they're having some problems, but the outcome of the war is significantly more important than how the market performs today or tomorrow.
00:31:29.000 I mean, I hear some people say, you know, they weren't an imminent threat.
00:31:32.000 You know, a threat means I'm threatening you, I might do something bad.
00:31:35.000 These people have been doing something bad for 47 years.
00:31:38.000 They've been killing people. 0.95
00:31:39.000 They've been killing Americans. 0.98
00:31:40.000 They funded that terrible Hamas thing. 1.00
00:31:42.000 Several Americans were killed on October 7th.
00:31:46.000 And so they've had proxy wars.
00:31:47.000 They've been threatening people.
00:31:49.000 I think people were surprised to find out that a ballistic missile can go 3,000 miles.
00:31:53.000 These are bad people, and they needed to be stopped.
00:31:57.000 And of course, that is right.
00:31:59.000 It turns out that actually, if you want long term economic growth, having fewer enemies on planet Earth, we're capable of shutting down major waterways.
00:32:05.000 That is a good thing.
00:32:06.000 Well, President Trump's team announced late last night that the president will be giving a primetime address to the nation tonight.
00:32:12.000 It's unclear what exactly the president will say.
00:32:15.000 Brent Crude already dropped on the announcement.
00:32:17.000 So the markets believe that President Trump is moving closer to the end of the war, which of course is likely true. 1.00
00:32:23.000 Now, some good news is that our Gulf allies would like the fight continued until Iran is no longer a threat. 0.99
00:32:28.000 And finally, it looks like they're willing to put their money.
00:32:31.000 Where their mouth is, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning, quote, the United Arab Emirates is preparing to help the U.S. and other allies open the Strait of Hormuz by force, according to Arab officials, a move that would make it the first Persian Gulf country to become a combatant after being hit by Iranian attacks.
00:32:46.000 The UAE has been lobbying the United Nations Security Council for a resolution that would authorize such action.
00:32:51.000 Now, of course, they're not going to get it.
00:32:52.000 They're not going to get it.
00:32:53.000 I mean, the Russians and Chinese will block it. 1.00
00:32:55.000 Emirati diplomats have urged the U.S. and military powers in Europe and Asia to form a coalition to open the Strait by force.
00:33:02.000 A UAE official said the Iranian regime thinks it's fighting for its existence and is willing to bring the global economy down with it in a chokehold on the strait.
00:33:10.000 And the Gulf state also said the U.S. should occupy islands in the strategic waterway, including Abu Musa, which has been held by Iran for a half century, and UAE claims it.
00:33:19.000 The basic idea here would be you know what would be better for global commerce is if a friendly country controlled the islands that overwatch the strait.
00:33:28.000 And that, of course, is right.
00:33:29.000 The Saudis, too, by the way, are very into the idea that Iran's regime needs to be brought low.
00:33:35.000 One Trump advisor, no doubt part of the isolationist splinter faction within the administration, it is very loud and it is very leaky, told Axios, The Saudis sound like Mark Levin. 0.73
00:33:45.000 Again, you can always tell who's talking by who is saying what.
00:33:48.000 They want the U.S. to finish the job by wiping Iran off the globe. 1.00
00:33:51.000 Now, we don't want to.
00:33:52.000 Well, I'm sure the person who is leaking does not want to.
00:33:54.000 We'll soon find out where the president stands.
00:33:56.000 Now, again, the Strait of Hormuz remains the kind of largest outstanding issue.
00:34:01.000 Iran has now been activating its friends, China and Pakistan, to try to bribe the United States into stopping the war. 0.69
00:34:06.000 So, Amit Segal over at Channel 12 in Israel is reporting.
00:34:09.000 That the Pakistanis and the Chinese are asking for five conditions. 0.99
00:34:12.000 One, immediate ceasefire, like before any sort of concessions.
00:34:16.000 Two, a start of negotiation talks.
00:34:19.000 Three, cessation of attacks on non military targets.
00:34:22.000 Now, I mean, presumably, non military targets they believe would include things like steel factories, which are the inputs for their economy, or oil facilities.
00:34:32.000 Four, reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
00:34:34.000 And five, establishment of a peace agreement based on the principles of the UN Charter.
00:34:38.000 Okay, well, let's be real. 0.86
00:34:39.000 The principles of the UN Charter, as interpreted by China, And Pakistan and Iran, they don't mean crap.
00:34:45.000 The list is totally reverse of what actually should happen.
00:34:48.000 Iran could open the Strait of Hormuz today.
00:34:51.000 Iran could concede its nuclear program today.
00:34:53.000 If Iran did those things, they would be part of the world economy again. 1.00
00:34:57.000 This is the thing that's amazing.
00:34:58.000 Everyone is ignoring.
00:34:59.000 There are preconditions available to actually allow Iran to rejoin the world economy. 0.99
00:35:04.000 It is not that difficult.
00:35:06.000 Truly, all Iran would have to do is not support global terrorism, not build ballistic missiles directed at its neighbors and at Neighbors beyond in Europe and Africa and all the rest, and our base in Diego Garcia, all they would have to do is stop policing the Strait of Hormuz and trying to toll the Strait of Hormuz. 0.73
00:35:24.000 If they just stopped doing that, you know, it's funny.
00:35:26.000 There are legitimately almost 200 countries on planet Earth, and the vast majority of them are not treated like Iran.
00:35:32.000 I wonder why.
00:35:33.000 Maybe it's because Iran is acting crazy, and they've been acting crazy for almost 50 years. 1.00
00:35:38.000 Well, here was Marco Rubio talking about the nuclear threat of Iran.
00:35:44.000 So it is clear that they've been offered every opportunity to have a nuclear program that allows them to have energy, not weapons, and every single time they have turned it down.
00:35:53.000 But why the attack now?
00:35:55.000 Well, what was Iran trying to do?
00:35:57.000 Iran was trying to build a conventional shield, in essence, have so many missiles, have so many drones, that no one could attack them, and they were well on their way. 0.97
00:36:06.000 We were on the verge of an Iran that had so many missiles and so many drones, that no one could do anything about their nuclear weapons program in the future. 0.97
00:36:14.000 That was an intolerable risk.
00:36:16.000 Under no circumstances can a country run by radical Shia clerics with an apocalyptic vision of the future ever possess nuclear weapons. 0.97
00:36:23.000 And under no circumstances can they be allowed to hide and protect that program, And their ambitions behind a shield of missiles and drones that no one can do anything about.
00:36:34.000 This was our last best chance to eliminate that conventional threat, that conventional shield that they were trying to build.
00:36:40.000 And the president made the right decision to wipe it out now.
00:36:44.000 That is the goal of this operation to destroy their conventional missiles and their drone program so they can't hide behind it and finally have to deal with the world seriously about never ever having nuclear weapons. 0.84
00:36:57.000 Again, those are the goals.
00:36:58.000 Now, as for the Strait of Hormuz, we'll get to that in just a minute.
00:37:02.000 Well, the Iranian leadership has been appearing publicly at this point.
00:37:05.000 Like they're walking around.
00:37:07.000 Seems like kind of a bad idea, given the last time they did this, it totally blew up in their face.
00:37:11.000 Like literally blew up in their face.
00:37:13.000 So just a couple of weeks ago, the Iranian security chief Ali Larajani was appearing publicly, and then he exploded.
00:37:19.000 So now you have Abbas Arahi, who is the foreign minister, appearing on the streets of Tehran.
00:37:25.000 You also had Mohammed Pajeshkin, who is the president, appearing on the streets of Tehran.
00:37:32.000 They're trying to demonstrate confidence, but the reality is that the Iranian regime is in serious, serious trouble.
00:37:38.000 Their economy is non existent.
00:37:39.000 Their military has been absolutely wrecked.
00:37:42.000 So they have been essentially relegated to firing desultory missiles at America's allies in the region and at American bases and a few drones and harassing shipping.
00:37:53.000 That's what they are right now.
00:37:56.000 That is what is happening.
00:37:57.000 Iranian forces, also, again, these are desperation plays by Iran, truly desperation plays. 0.84
00:38:02.000 They're now activating terrorist groups to kidnap Americans.
00:38:05.000 So an Iranian linked Terrorist group in Iraq kidnapped an American journalist in Baghdad yesterday, according to the Associated Press.
00:38:12.000 An American journalist was kidnapped on Tuesday in Baghdad, and Iraqi security forces are pursuing her captors, according to Iraqi officials.
00:38:18.000 The journalist was identified as a freelancer named Shelly Kittleson by one of the outlets she worked for.
00:38:23.000 And again, it was an Iran backed Iraqi militia named Qatayib Hezbollah, which again, Hezbollah is an Iranian backed terror group that spans the region.
00:38:33.000 Here is some CCTV footage of Shelly Kittleson being kidnapped.
00:38:40.000 So you can see there she is, you know, all the way down the street near the cars, and she's essentially grabbed and then forced into a vehicle.
00:38:48.000 Presumably, the idea here would be to pressure President Trump, obviously.
00:38:52.000 Well, Dylan Johnson, the Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs, then put out a statement The U.S. State Department is aware of the reported kidnapping of an American journalist in Baghdad.
00:39:03.000 The State Department previously fulfilled our duty to warn this individual of threats against them.
00:39:07.000 We'll continue to coordinate with the FBI to ensure their release as quickly as possible.
00:39:12.000 And the State Department strongly advises all Americans, including members of the press, to adhere to all travel advisories.
00:39:17.000 Okay, so back to the Strait of Hormuz for a second.
00:39:20.000 Pete Hegseth points out yesterday, the Secretary of War, that this is an international waterway.
00:39:25.000 This is not an Iranian pond.
00:39:29.000 The President was clear this morning in his truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well.
00:39:40.000 It's not just the United States Navy.
00:39:42.000 Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well.
00:39:47.000 So he's pointing out this is an international waterway that we use less than most.
00:39:51.000 In fact, dramatically less than most.
00:39:53.000 So the world ought to pay attention and be prepared to stand up.
00:39:56.000 President Trump's been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world.
00:39:59.000 To address this threat of Iran, it's not just our problem set going forward. 0.98
00:40:05.000 And of course, he is right about that.
00:40:07.000 Now, the problem, of course, is that the Europeans are complete pansies on all of this. 1.00
00:40:11.000 And so, relying on them to reopen the waterway is sort of like relying on the Europeans to stop Russia from invading Ukraine.
00:40:17.000 It doesn't work all that well.
00:40:18.000 It turns out that America remains the big, bad, 800 pound gorilla in the room.
00:40:24.000 Hegzeth says that we are not foreclosing any option.
00:40:26.000 Again, maybe boots on the ground in certain special operations.
00:40:29.000 Again, no one is talking.
00:40:30.000 Don't fall for the op.
00:40:32.000 No one is talking about 100,000 American boots on the ground like Iraq.
00:40:35.000 No one is talking about that.
00:40:36.000 Trump's not talking about it.
00:40:37.000 Hegseth's not talking about it.
00:40:38.000 Rubio's not talking about it.
00:40:40.000 But keeping options on the table is a smart thing to do in a conflict.
00:40:40.000 That is not real.
00:40:44.000 Here's the Secretary of War.
00:40:47.000 And what he's simply saying, and it's exactly true, and I've said from this podium too, we're not going to foreclose any option.
00:40:53.000 You can't fight and win a war if you tell your adversary what you are willing to do or what you are not willing to do, to include boots on the ground.
00:41:02.000 Our adversary right now.
00:41:03.000 Thinks there are 15 different ways we could come at them with boots on the ground.
00:41:07.000 And guess what?
00:41:08.000 There are.
00:41:09.000 So if we needed to, we could execute those options on behalf of the President of the United States and this department.
00:41:15.000 Or maybe we don't have to use them at all.
00:41:17.000 Maybe negotiations work, or maybe there's a different approach.
00:41:20.000 The point is to be unpredictable in that.
00:41:22.000 Certainly not let anybody know what you're willing to do or not do.
00:41:27.000 The President put out a statement earlier this morning saying, quote, Iran's new regime president, much less radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a ceasefire.
00:41:37.000 We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free and clear.
00:41:40.000 Until then, we are blasting around into oblivion, or as they say, back to the Stone Ages, President Trump.
00:41:45.000 Again, fair enough.
00:41:46.000 And we'll see what the president has to say tonight.
00:41:49.000 We will be covering that live tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern.
00:41:53.000 Meanwhile, it is worth noting once again that there is a difference between people who are asking legitimate questions, which we should always ask about any foreign intervention or any military conflict, and the people who openly root for America's enemies.
00:42:04.000 You know, people who are saying we ought to cede global power to China, Russia, and Iran.
00:42:09.000 The people who pretend to be America first.
00:42:11.000 And the way they mean America first is what if we are just fans of the mullahs?
00:42:15.000 Well, here's Nick Fuentes doing that routine, literally saying that he is praying for the mullahs yesterday.
00:42:21.000 Pray for Iran. 1.00
00:42:22.000 Pray for the designs of the Jews to fail. 1.00
00:42:26.000 That's all we could do.
00:42:28.000 Iran is fighting for the whole world right now. 0.99
00:42:32.000 And don't get me wrong, I'm not praying for more casualties.
00:42:36.000 I want that to stop.
00:42:38.000 I want the United States to be finished.
00:42:41.000 But Iran right now is fighting for all of humanity.
00:42:44.000 They really are.
00:42:46.000 In a way, they're fighting for us.
00:42:48.000 Because if Iran falls, it means Israel controls the entire Middle East. 0.98
00:42:55.000 Well, again, if you are so brain poisoned, if you are so brain poisoned that you are now in the position of arguing in favor of the Iranian regime, which is responsible for the death of hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans, the spread of terror all over the globe, threatening Europe with ballistic missiles, and development of nuclear weapons because you hate Jews that much. 0.96
00:43:15.000 Let me just suggest that your problem isn't really the Jews. 0.93
00:43:18.000 Your problem is something well beyond that, which is hatred of the civilization that grants you your rights.
00:43:22.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of the glories of Western civilization, NASA is launching its Artemis II mission today.
00:43:29.000 It's very, very cool stuff.
00:43:32.000 Joining me on the line to discuss is Jared Isaacman.
00:43:34.000 He's the 15th administrator of NASA and, of course, a billionaire, entrepreneur, accomplished pilot, and commercial astronaut.
00:43:41.000 Jared, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:43:43.000 Really appreciate it.
00:43:44.000 Of course.
00:43:45.000 Great to talk to you today.
00:43:47.000 So, this is inspiring stuff.
00:43:48.000 You know, there's a lot that brings you down in the news constantly.
00:43:51.000 We cover it, but this is a very, very cool thing.
00:43:53.000 So, for those who have not been following what NASA is doing with Artemis 2, why don't you explain the mission and what we're about to see?
00:44:00.000 So Artemis 2 is out at the pad right now.
00:44:00.000 Sure.
00:44:02.000 We're already beginning to load propellant on it.
00:44:05.000 And this mission is the opening chapter in America's return to the moon.
00:44:09.000 So these four astronauts, in a matter of hours, are going to get accelerated to nearly 25,000 miles per hour under 8.8 million pounds of thrust.
00:44:20.000 We are going to send them out past the moon, about 250,000 miles away from Earth.
00:44:25.000 These astronauts will travel farther from Earth than any humans have ever gone before.
00:44:29.000 Traveling faster than any humans have ever gone before.
00:44:33.000 They're going to check out the spacecraft, put it through its paces.
00:44:36.000 They'll do some manual piloting of it.
00:44:38.000 And then 10 days later, they will splash down off the west coast of the United States.
00:44:42.000 This is Artemis 2.
00:44:43.000 Artemis 3 will launch next year.
00:44:46.000 That's where we're going to take the spacecraft and dock it with the lunar landers in Earth orbit.
00:44:50.000 This is very Apollo 9 esque.
00:44:52.000 Make sure the integrated operations of the lander and the spacecraft work really well.
00:44:56.000 And then in 2028, before the end of President Trump's term, Artemis IV will land on the moon.
00:45:02.000 And this time, we're not going for the flags and footprints.
00:45:05.000 We are going to stay.
00:45:06.000 We are actually building a moon base.
00:45:10.000 I mean, this is incredibly cool stuff.
00:45:12.000 Why don't you explain to Americans why exactly it would be important to progress toward a moon base?
00:45:16.000 Because I think people hear moon base and they immediately start thinking sci fi movies.
00:45:20.000 What is the goal of a moon base?
00:45:21.000 How would that help America?
00:45:23.000 Okay, well, here's an interesting tidbit that probably most people don't realize.
00:45:27.000 But if you are 25 years old or younger, there isn't a time you have lived on this earth where we have not had American astronauts.
00:45:55.000 So where is the next evolution of that?
00:45:57.000 The next evolution of it is to put the astronauts on the surface of the moon.
00:46:00.000 Why?
00:46:01.000 That's where they're going to be able to interact with the lunar regolith.
00:46:04.000 They're going to be able to test out mobility, power, navigation.
00:46:08.000 And most importantly, in situ resource manufacturing, working with the water ice that's on the south pole of the moon to make propellant.
00:46:15.000 And it's going to essentially become the proving ground for future missions to Mars.
00:46:20.000 Because in the not too distant future, we are going to have the capability to send astronauts to Mars.
00:46:25.000 The hard part is how do you bring them back home safely to tell us about it?
00:46:29.000 They're going to actually have to be able to make their propellant on the surface of Mars.
00:46:32.000 Better to test that three days away on the moon than it is nine months away on Mars.
00:46:38.000 So, you know, one of the questions I think people have about the space program is why has it taken us so long to do this?
00:46:43.000 It's been a long time, obviously, since we've put anyone, as you say, even close to the moon.
00:46:48.000 And sort of until Elon Musk sort of revivified the dream for Americans, it was basically the dream had essentially died.
00:46:54.000 It was a cool thing that we did a long time ago.
00:46:55.000 And then a lot of people started positing conspiracy theories that we'd never done it, which of course is total trash.
00:47:00.000 But why did it take so long for anybody to make this sort of ambitious move again?
00:47:04.000 Yeah, so we can certainly talk about this all day.
00:47:08.000 I personally believe the number one point is a lack of competition.
00:47:12.000 Look, it worked really well for us in the 1960s, right?
00:47:16.000 I mean, we were able to mobilize the resources of the nation, the best and brightest from across the country, and concentrating on achieving something that many people thought was impossible and sending astronauts July 20th, 1969, to the surface of the moon and bringing them back.
00:47:31.000 But after that, in hindsight, it turns out we had all the schedule margin in the world.
00:47:35.000 No humans have set foot on the moon since 1972, and it was only America.
00:47:39.000 So what did we do?
00:47:40.000 We started to spread out very thin.
00:47:42.000 We partnered with everybody, we brought goodwill around the world.
00:47:46.000 We, we, uh, we indulged every stakeholder that, uh, imposed their projects on us.
00:47:51.000 We did a number of self-inflicted projects, I'll tell you as well.
00:47:54.000 Some of them cool, but we kind of lost that extreme focus on the mission we've been entrusted to do by the taxpayers.
00:48:00.000 Well, I'll tell you what.
00:48:01.000 There is a new space race again.
00:48:03.000 The Chinese space program is very impressive.
00:48:08.000 They have stated publicly that they will land their technonauts on the moon before 2030.
00:48:12.000 We've said before the end of President Trump's term that means success or failure is measured in months, not years.
00:48:18.000 Now we have to get back extreme focus on the actual mission itself.
00:48:23.000 And that's what we're doing.
00:48:24.000 That's why we're getting back into the business of launching these kind of rockets on a yearly cadence.
00:48:28.000 It used to be every three years.
00:48:29.000 We're pulling in production right now.
00:48:31.000 We're kind of rallying all of our resources around us to start moving with urgency once again.
00:48:37.000 But I think competition is a big part of it.
00:48:39.000 It's a great motivator.
00:48:40.000 You just don't want to lose.
00:48:43.000 We're speaking to Jared Isaacman.
00:48:44.000 He is the 15th administrator of NASA.
00:48:47.000 So, Jared, I think one thing that people should know is how much work and how much detail has to go into a mission like this.
00:48:54.000 Everybody sort of has watched the movies about the Apollo space program, and everyone of a certain age remembers the Challenger disaster.
00:49:03.000 But how risky is the program?
00:49:05.000 How do we ensure that everybody is safe?
00:49:07.000 How much work goes into all of this?
00:49:09.000 Well, there's no doubt there is a big difference between the missions that send astronauts to the International Space Station.
00:49:15.000 That's again 1.8 million pounds of thrust, about 17,500 miles an hour in orbital velocity, to going to 8.8 million pounds of thrust on a vehicle as complicated as SLS that has never, Artemis II crew are the first crew to ever fly this spacecraft before.
00:49:32.000 So this is very much a test mission, and we are going to put so much energy in this vehicle. that it can go nearly to Earth escape velocity, 25,000 miles an hour out and around the moon in an incredibly harsh environment, right?
00:49:45.000 I mean, there is micrometeorite orbital debris out there.
00:49:47.000 There's radiation as you go through the Van Allen belt.
00:49:50.000 Um, you know, but the, I, I think the trick here is to understand the risk, right?
00:49:56.000 This is, this is why we do testing at every level, the subcomponent level, the component level, integrated level.
00:50:02.000 We do pre-flight readiness reviews, flight readiness reviews, because we want to make sure We understand the risk and that we have done everything we can to bring it down close to zero.
00:50:11.000 But at some point, you accept the risk because you are not going to be able to explore the worlds beyond ours without taking some risk in the process.
00:50:20.000 Well, it's an amazing thing, and we will all get to watch it happen.
00:50:23.000 That's Jared Isaacman, the 15th administrator of NASA.
00:50:25.000 Jared, thanks so much for the time, and it's really inspirational stuff.
00:50:28.000 Very cool.
00:50:29.000 Thanks for covering it.
00:50:31.000 Well, Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire is there in person.
00:50:35.000 Unfortunately, he will not be aboard a rocket being fired into the sun, but he is there to cover everything that is going on again.
00:50:41.000 Very cool stuff because America is a cool place.
00:50:43.000 Okay, back to the Middle East and the economy.
00:50:45.000 So, the only way that the Iranians are capable of preserving themselves at this point is basically they're trying to scare the Americans into pressuring Trump to save them. 0.92
00:50:55.000 This is why Mohammed Khalibov, who is the parliament speaker, is basically Jim Cramer now.
00:51:00.000 He's putting out tweets talking about how your 401k is going down because of the Israelis.
00:51:08.000 Quote, I just read about Sarah and others in the U.S. skipping meals because gas prices keep climbing.
00:51:12.000 Sad, but this is what happens when your leaders put others ahead of hardworking and ordinary Americans.
00:51:16.000 It's not America first anymore, it's Israel first. 0.97
00:51:18.000 Again, you can tell who they're using as their tools, and you can tell who exactly is repeating their propaganda.
00:51:23.000 Guys, gas prices are bad right now, right?
00:51:26.000 They're not great.
00:51:27.000 It is also worth noting they are not historically terrible.
00:51:29.000 Again, this is not a lack of sympathy for people who are paying more at the pump.
00:51:33.000 We're all paying more at the pump.
00:51:35.000 We're all paying more at the pump, and that's bad.
00:51:37.000 But the whole point is that gas prices are going to dive after this war is over because you're not going to have to worry about the Iranians being in charge of the Strait of Hormuz. 1.00
00:51:48.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, in some respects, $4 a gallon gasoline should not put much of a dent in the consumer spending in the economy.
00:51:55.000 When adjusting for inflation, consumers are paying less for gasoline now than they were in the past.
00:52:00.000 Energy Department data show regular gasoline touched $5 in June 2022.
00:52:04.000 Adjusted for inflation in today's dollars, that would be $5.56.
00:52:07.000 Even that is low in comparison with the inflation adjusted $6.17 hit in June 2008.
00:52:13.000 Also, our vehicles are generally more efficient, and we spend less of our income as a percentage on gasoline than we did in the past.
00:52:21.000 The Europeans are still freaking out because that's what they do, because they don't have any production of their own. 0.99
00:52:27.000 And of course, Americans ought to be concerned about gas prices.
00:52:31.000 Going forward, but that's the whole point.
00:52:33.000 This is not going to be a long war.
00:52:34.000 How many times can President Trump say it?
00:52:36.000 Everyone keeps saying forever war.
00:52:38.000 Again, I'm just going to point out that everyone who is now saying forever war, we are now in a couple of days, we are on day 32, day 32 of this war, day 32.
00:52:52.000 Okay, we're not talking about a six month war or a year war or a 10 year war or a 20 year war like Afghanistan.
00:52:57.000 Day 32.
00:52:59.000 Day 32.
00:53:01.000 So give President Trump some room to actually win.
00:53:05.000 Since the United States military is in fact wrecking one of our chief enemies.
00:53:09.000 Well, in other news, the UK is now scrapping its policing of so called hate incidents.
00:53:14.000 This is actually a good thing.
00:53:15.000 I know, a rare piece of good news from the UK.
00:53:18.000 The UK government has announced that police will be told to stop recording everyday rows and online spats as non crime hate incidents are set to be scrapped by the government.
00:53:27.000 Over recent years, unclear guidance has led to officers being called out to people's homes over insults and routine arguments.
00:53:32.000 They are stopping that.
00:53:33.000 The UK Home Office says that police will no longer investigate social media posts.
00:53:38.000 Which is a step in the right direction, obviously.
00:53:40.000 And I think that happened largely because of pressure from Elon Musk and from the Americans.
00:53:44.000 It certainly didn't happen because of internal pressures inside the UK.
00:53:48.000 And then the UK Home Office actually did something magical yesterday.
00:53:52.000 They announced that the grooming gang scandal is, in fact, real.
00:53:55.000 So they kept pretending that it was really not a thing.
00:53:57.000 The grooming gang scandal is, of course, Muslim gangs, largely of taxi drivers in Britain, who were essentially preying on young white girls. 0.97
00:54:08.000 And this was covered up by the police because the police thought that it would generate outsized Islamophobia.
00:54:14.000 This was legitimately what happened.
00:54:16.000 Well, now the UK Home Office has put out a statement The grooming gang scandal is one of the darkest moments in our country's history, where the most vulnerable were abused and exploited by evil child rapists.
00:54:25.000 The independent national inquiry will now begin its work to uncover how these crimes were allowed to happen and root out failure wherever it occurred.
00:54:32.000 This was a massive pedophilia controversy.
00:54:34.000 It was ignored and covered up by the police because, again, they did not want to give credence to the quote unquote anti immigrant groups inside the UK.
00:54:44.000 Well, better late than never.
00:54:46.000 But again, a reminder that when you let political correctness dictate how you do policy, this is what you end up with actual human suffering.
00:54:54.000 All righty.
00:54:54.000 Well, joining me on the line now is the host of a brand new show over at Daily Wire Plus Be a Man with Me.
00:55:03.000 You may know Pavel Widowski from being referred to constantly on the show because Pavel, of course, is one of the more amusing people here at Daily Wire.
00:55:10.000 But his brand new series is about joining the real men of America, like cops and firefighters and farmers and MMA fighters.
00:55:17.000 In order to learn what it means to be a man, what toughness really looks like, and also how many ice packs it takes to survive it.
00:55:24.000 Have you actually seen the trailer?
00:55:25.000 I mean, Pavel is just getting destroyed in the trailer, like full scale destroyed.
00:55:30.000 I mean, here's the trailer.
00:55:33.000 Did I mention I hate heights?
00:55:36.000 Oh, holy.
00:55:39.000 My name is Pavel.
00:55:40.000 When I was growing up, I wanted to be a real man.
00:55:45.000 So I'm going to hit the road, meet the men that are manly, courageous, and strong.
00:55:51.000 The men that I wanted to be like when I was a kid.
00:55:54.000 Daddy's coming with some food.
00:55:55.000 I don't know if there's a more noble cause or better people to work with.
00:56:00.000 I'm going to see if I can be just like them.
00:56:03.000 We don't see ourselves as heroes.
00:56:06.000 We honestly just think it's doing our job.
00:56:09.000 If you want to be a hero, if you want to be a badass, be a man like these guys.
00:56:13.000 Woo! 0.99
00:56:14.000 Eight episodes.
00:56:16.000 I am so deep.
00:56:17.000 Eight life lessons.
00:56:20.000 My name is Pablo.
00:56:22.000 Be a man with me.
00:56:24.000 Deep breath in.
00:56:26.000 All right, well, Pablo joins us on the line momentarily.
00:56:28.000 Oh, man.
00:56:29.000 Yeah.
00:56:29.000 I mean, getting zapped for the Daily Wire.
00:56:32.000 Again, if I could have volunteered Michael Moles for this job, I certainly would have done so.
00:56:36.000 Well, Pavel Whiteowski joins us on the line right now.
00:56:39.000 So, Pavel, what's going on, dude?
00:56:42.000 Hi, Ben.
00:56:42.000 How's everything going?
00:56:43.000 It's definitely weird to be on that side of the camera.
00:56:47.000 Every time I watch this trailer, I get more cringy and more cringy.
00:56:50.000 So, yeah.
00:56:52.000 How are you doing?
00:56:53.000 Okay, so let's talk about what this show is about.
00:56:57.000 Why should people watch it?
00:56:59.000 Well, I guess, you know, we're trying to highlight the silent heroes, essentially, right?
00:57:04.000 The guys that are not really.
00:57:08.000 Highlighted in that world, right?
00:57:10.000 So, firefighters, police officers, farmers, you know, those are people who are just doing a job every day.
00:57:16.000 Okay.
00:57:17.000 Every day, no matter what.
00:57:19.000 Like with police officers, you know, they are being told that, you know, they are not needed.
00:57:24.000 And the reality is, we really need them.
00:57:27.000 So, you know, I went on a journey to spend a day with them.
00:57:30.000 Yeah.
00:57:31.000 Training, maybe a taser.
00:57:33.000 Okay.
00:57:33.000 That's enough.
00:57:33.000 Oh my God.
00:57:34.000 I did hundreds of those already.
00:57:37.000 They are making me do things, Ben.
00:57:39.000 I can't even tell you.
00:57:40.000 So, yeah, so spend a day with police officers, spend a day with farmers, spend a day with electrical linemen, spend a day with helicopter rescue, which is essentially air ambulance.
00:57:53.000 You know, those are the guys that see the worst of the worst of the worst.
00:57:58.000 There's a few more that we're doing that I don't want to reveal just yet.
00:58:02.000 But it's an adventure and it's a lot of pain.
00:58:05.000 Even this thing on my forehead, we shot an episode yesterday.
00:58:08.000 If you want to know what happened, just watch the episode.
00:58:10.000 It's going to come out in a few weeks.
00:58:13.000 It was fun.
00:58:14.000 It was painful.
00:58:15.000 Yeah.
00:58:17.000 Well, we do have a farmer sneak peek, like a clip, a sneak peek of Powell's episode with going farming, which again might be my worst nightmare.
00:58:27.000 Here's a sneak peek here.
00:58:30.000 Can you hear anything?
00:58:31.000 No.
00:58:32.000 Do I like it?
00:58:33.000 Yes.
00:58:34.000 It's awesome.
00:58:45.000 Oh, Lord.
00:58:47.000 Does he have his shirt off, or is that?
00:58:48.000 I think so.
00:58:51.000 Erica!
00:58:52.000 Oh, it's gonna be awkward now.
00:58:52.000 Sheesh.
00:58:54.000 You ate coming to my house for dinner. 0.95
00:58:56.000 Friggin'. 0.88
00:58:59.000 Oh my gosh.
00:59:01.000 Surprised he wasn't standing on the top of the combine with a motorcycle.
00:59:05.000 The happiest man in the world, right here.
00:59:11.000 Yup.
00:59:12.000 Pavel, you've had some experiences, Madude, making this show.
00:59:14.000 So, what have you learned so far?
00:59:16.000 Well, you know what?
00:59:17.000 I actually learned, you know, I always consider myself not a person who can.
00:59:21.000 Be walked all over.
00:59:22.000 I thought, you know, I'm a dude, I can do things.
00:59:25.000 I definitely got humbled in a lot of ways.
00:59:28.000 And, you know, I realized that I'm not really that strong, that capable.
00:59:32.000 And it's a lesson for me, you know, I'm putting out there my.
00:59:36.000 My complexes, the things that I'm not proud of, my weaknesses to people.
00:59:40.000 And I'm just trying to feel what they feel on a daily basis, do what they do on a daily basis, just for a sneak peek of it.
00:59:50.000 And hopefully, this can inspire younger generations to take an action with their life and do something meaningful.
00:59:58.000 I think nowadays, masculinity is not necessarily driving Bugatti and having nine yachts and 20 girlfriends.
01:00:04.000 I don't think that's it.
01:00:05.000 I think masculinity is.
01:00:08.000 Caring, protecting, providing, doing what's right, even when it's not rewarded.
01:00:14.000 Being a silent hero, like those heroes are, even farmers.
01:00:17.000 Farmers, man, they're feeding the entire country.
01:00:21.000 And nobody's talking about how difficult their job is, and their land is being taken away, and there's weather challenges, and on and on.
01:00:28.000 And they're just doing what's right.
01:00:30.000 They're doing it every day.
01:00:32.000 It's phenomenal.
01:00:33.000 It's really inspiring in a lot of ways.
01:00:36.000 Well, the show is Be a Man with Me.
01:00:38.000 It's available only at DailyWire.com.
01:00:40.000 Plus, and you can hang out with Pavel Widowski and watch him torture himself and be tortured by others, as well as learning what it's like to be a man in various walks of life.
01:00:47.000 Pavel, congratulations on the show.
01:00:50.000 Thank you, Mr. Ben.
01:00:51.000 Pleasure.
01:00:53.000 All righty, folks.
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01:01:06.000 The world is a very important part of the world.
01:01:08.000 And The only thing that I can do is to take a look at the people who
01:01:54.000 are not in the same place, and I think that's a great question.