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00:02:20.000We knew it was happening yesterday because I saw it trending on social media, but I really could care less until you see some of the costumes, which are just too, too good not to comment on.
00:02:31.000But let's just basically first premise this, Blake, with talking about the elitist hypocrisy of the Met Gala, where tickets cost around $100,000 per person.
00:02:44.000This whole event functions as a massive tax write off for millionaires and billionaires, by the way, because they can just write it off as a business expense.
00:02:52.000And they do these ostentatious displays of inequality and they rage against the machine and the man and capitalism and Donald Trump, all while wearing massively expensive outfits, all while being extraordinarily rich and elitist and exclusionary in their own rights.
00:04:01.000She kind of looked like if you ever saw the 80s movie Akira, where this guy is a psychic and his body starts blowing up into a giant monster that destroys Tokyo.
00:07:43.000Like you can imagine South Park running with that 15 years ago.
00:07:47.000Obviously, we won't knock on her for the disability, of course.
00:07:50.000The stacking thing of disabled and black and trans, and you know, the first, and it's a very performative thing.
00:07:59.000And then, how many boxes on the, you know, oppression Olympics can you check, sort of thing?
00:08:06.000And it just gets at the signal status signaling aspect of all of this.
00:08:11.000Because we'll be frank, we all knock on earth for the disability, but would it make sense to sign a person with quadriplegic cerebral palsy to be a model?
00:08:19.000No, I can't imagine the market for that clothing is terribly large.
00:10:20.000So, it is May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, which means it is the 10th anniversary of the tweet heard around the world, the Taco Bull tweet from President Trump.
00:10:30.000It's important that you guys see this.
00:10:32.000May 5th, 2016, candidate Donald Trump, out of the blue, jumping from the top rope, posts, Happy hashtag, they still use those more in those days.
00:12:03.000There are two states in particular, Nevada and New Mexico, that showed massive shifts.
00:12:08.000So, New Mexico, and this is based on 2024 numbers, so we don't know what they would be today, because obviously the electorate has shifted back in the Democrats' favor a little bit, which tends to happen when you're in power.
00:12:18.000But it would go from a negative four Trump state, so Trump lost by four points, to a Trump 3.3% state.
00:12:27.000And we should explain what's going on here.
00:12:28.000The justification for this is among its many provisions, the Save America Act raises the requirement nationwide for voter ID essentially to you must possess a proof of citizenship.
00:12:41.000You have hold qualifying citizenship documents.
00:12:44.000So that could be a passport, it could be your birth certificate.
00:12:48.000And the argument from critics, the argument from the Washington Post is.
00:12:51.000Not all Americans have easy access to those documents.
00:12:54.000And so you could imagine those people are maybe going to miss this cycle because they don't have them or they don't care enough to go and get them.
00:13:01.000And their argument is that nationwide, it's about even between Republicans and Democrats who is easy access to those.
00:13:08.000They say about 90% basically of both groups.
00:13:13.000But they say overall, their argument is in individual states, there is a partisan split.
00:13:19.000And their claim is in these swing states of Nevada and New Mexico, that.
00:13:23.000Democrat voters in those states are significantly more likely to not have easy access to proof of citizenship, which I know Andrew and I are raising an eyebrow here.
00:13:33.000Oh, they don't have easy proof of citizenship.
00:14:36.000So there's a lot of people that probably shouldn't be voting in a lot of states, point being.
00:14:41.000There was one state that stood out as maybe going a little bit left, and that was North Carolina, which to me, North Carolina is going to be the new Virginia.
00:15:03.000So, if you can pick up a New Mexico, if you can pick up a New Hampshire, if you can pick up and hold comfortably Nevada, if you hold comfortably Arizona, these become our red wall, and that's significant.
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00:16:31.000Yeah, it's a joy for us too with guys like you that came on with Charlie and then you come on with us, and we're honored to have you and lots to get to.
00:16:41.000I, uh, hey, Andrew, if I can, you know, just as I was preparing and thinking about the show today, I went back somehow and looked through my old direct messages on Twitter and I found so many from Charlie to me.
00:16:55.000I didn't even remember they were on there.
00:16:57.000It was the sweetest feeling just to reread those messages.
00:17:05.000He was always, uh, you know, if I may be so bold as to say, I mean, Charlie was a guy.
00:17:10.000I remember when we had you on the first time, and, you know, I don't know what the, Current context was of it, but we were going hard in the paint against something that was probably a little uncomfortable for, you know, guys of the Bush era and things like that.
00:17:24.000And no, no, no, I'm not necessarily saying you or anything, but I remember bringing that up with Charlie, going like, you know, we should have Ari on to kind of talk about this.
00:17:36.000We're going to bring everybody together and get everybody kind of, you know, and anyways, I just, he saw in you somebody that could kind of bridge different parts.
00:17:45.000Of the party and a good ally in that stuff.
00:18:10.000I like John a lot, but he has a couple of Republicans that are foolish people.
00:18:16.000A couple of them I like, a couple of them I can't stand, actually, if you want to know the truth.
00:18:21.000Yeah, well, so this comes off the heels, by the way, of seeing this Washington Post report.
00:18:26.000I don't know if you saw it, Ari, but it showed that based on the context of certain states, based on the way certain voters have certain documentation in certain states, I'll let you read into why they don't have certain documentation in some states.
00:18:39.000But a state like Nevada would go R1 to like R6 point something, New Mexico would go D4 to R plus 3.3.
00:18:48.000If you pass the Save America Act, you could actually be putting additional states in the Republican column.
00:19:16.000He's looked at it, he's looked in his caucus, and he's asked, Who would vote for it, and he knows where the defections are right now.
00:19:23.000It was kind of the same problem the Democrats had when they had West Virginia senator and Arizona senator in the Democrat Party saying they would refuse to eliminate the filibuster.
00:19:32.000Republicans have a small group of Republicans who won't eliminate the filibuster.
00:19:37.000That's the only reason I can think of.
00:19:38.000There's no other reason not to pass the Save Act.
00:20:29.000He's very content to let this die on the vine and then, you know, basically face the parliamentarian reconciliation to see if he could do it in, you know, moving forward then, which remains unclear.
00:20:41.000So if you're consulting the communications of leader Thune, Ari, what do you tell him?
00:20:48.000Because right now it just looks like he's complicit.
00:20:50.000Well, you know, what he could do is try it.
00:20:52.000He could try to put it through and let the vote fail and then prove to everybody I tried.
00:20:57.000But I think, Andrew, you've got it right.
00:20:59.000I don't think John's heart is in eliminating the filibuster.
00:21:01.000because he's kind of of the traditionalist mode in the Senate.
00:21:04.000And I've had conversations with senators who want to eliminate the filibuster about this.
00:21:10.000And the counter, of course, is if we do this, the Democrats are going to do it too.
00:21:16.000And the Democrats are going to do it for different reasons.
00:21:18.000Republicans want to do it to pass policies.
00:21:21.000Democrats want to do it to maintain or get power.
00:21:26.000Democrats want to eliminate the filibuster to create new states because they need new seats in the Senate because they can't win on their current.
00:21:35.000makeup of the country, they can't win enough Senate seats.
00:21:38.000They want to change the way we have Supreme Court justices.
00:21:42.000To them, it's structural changes to get power, possibly including the elimination of or changes with the electoral college so the popular vote wins.
00:21:50.000These are the things that Democrats want to get rid of the filibuster for.
00:21:54.000Republicans want to do things to pass policies.
00:21:57.000And that's a huge difference between why the two parties want to eliminate.
00:22:02.000So I've always been for eliminating the filibuster, by the way.
00:22:05.000My standard has been eliminate it, but you eliminate it in a way that it does not go into effect until the next Congress begins.
00:22:14.000Because I'm for fairness, and I don't like either party changing the rules in the middle of the game to grab power.
00:22:22.000If you can only need a majority to pass things, which is what I think it should be, put it so it goes into effect when nobody knows who's going to control the Senate.
00:22:31.000Nobody knows who's going to control it starting in January of 2027, just 11 months from now.
00:22:37.00010 nine months from now, so do it that way, and it's fair to everybody.
00:22:43.000And then whoever has power can pass things with 50 percent.
00:22:48.000I just don't like rigging the game in the middle.
00:22:50.000Given where we are right now, if I were a senator and this came before me, I would vote to eliminate the filibuster today, though.
00:22:57.000You know, all right, the biggest struggle I think with eliminating it now is, as you say, we are not that far from an election, and I feel other than potentially the Save Act, we don't necessarily have.
00:23:10.000A lot of legislation that we'd like that's ready to go.
00:23:13.000And the chief accomplishment of getting rid of the filibuster might just be it does finally do something which we need, which is to expose which Republicans are lying to you about what they really want to do.
00:23:26.000Because, as we've said on this show many times, the chief use of the filibuster is not to protect the minority nearly as much as it is to protect the majority from votes they don't want to actually take.
00:23:38.000So we have Republicans in the Senate right now who say, I'm tough on the border, I'm really a hawk on immigration, but.
00:23:45.000They would not vote to actually restrict legal immigration.
00:23:49.000They would not vote to enable mass deportations if that vote really was going to change national policy.
00:23:55.000And you can repeat that for issue after issue pro life issues, LGBT stuff, one issue after another.
00:24:02.000And once you get rid of the filibuster, the Senate is real again.
00:24:06.000The Senate is actually capable of passing bills that aren't just omnibus monstrosities.
00:24:42.000They want to enact a whole swath of things whose intent is they don't need to worry about the Republicans having a filibuster free Senate because their intent is no Republican will ever.
00:24:54.000I think you're really onto something big right there.
00:24:57.000To me, one of the greatest dangers in our country right now is inaction.
00:25:02.000If you want to have an angry populace, if you want to have a group of people who just give up on government, who say this American experiment just doesn't work anymore, this great tradition we have of sending people to Washington so they do what is in the nation's interest, but nobody can do anything because of the filibuster.
00:25:19.000So inaction is the rule of the day, inaction is the law of the land.
00:26:13.000I think a lot of this cynicism and the nihilism that's set in, where you get these, you know, the accelerationists that, you know, that used to be sort of right coded influencers or whatever that are now saying, hey, just vote Democrat and burn it all down and we'll remake.
00:26:27.000I mean, all of that stuff is coming out of a sense of inaction.
00:26:31.000And a lot of this critique against President Trump, where they're saying it feels just the same as it did before, it's just a different party in charge, that's coming from the Senate.
00:27:48.000What I hope here, and I think this is what President Trump is doing, is Operation Enduring Fury has now turned into Operation Boa Constrictor.
00:28:00.000Instead of fighting with bombs and forces we were doing before, what we're now trying to do is just squeeze their economy through the naval blockade and hope that leads to change inside of Iran.
00:28:11.000I'm not sure that this is ultimately going to work because it leaves the same people in charge of Iran.
00:28:16.000And I think the only solution, the right solution, is you can't leave Iran stronger.
00:28:22.000You can't let them prevail in any way in this current combat we're in.
00:28:30.000Trump's got to make sure that the Iran that comes next is a peaceful Iran, an Iran that changes the face of the Middle East, an Iran that we, for 47 years, have accepted as just the terrorist on the block that changes the Middle East, makes it the most dangerous region in the world.
00:28:45.000Why does it have to be the most dangerous region in the world?
00:29:24.000But we can create the environment where it comes from within.
00:29:26.000And then the Middle East can be the peaceful region with a wholly new alignment of Gulf states, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Western Europe is going to fall behind.
00:29:39.000Eastern Europe and these nations are going to be where peace and capitalism and prosperity come from in a changed world.
00:29:52.000But when you talk to You know, voters, especially young people, right?
00:29:58.000So we saw this historic surge to the right of young people, thanks in large part to the work of Turning Point and Charlie.
00:30:05.000But I'm telling you, as soon as the Epstein stuff happened, where President Trump kind of pushed it off and didn't want to deal with it at first, we saw a huge shift, first thing.
00:30:15.000Then Operation Midnight Hammer, we saw a huge shift.
00:30:18.000Nothing we could message on was going to change that.
00:30:20.000They didn't want war, they wanted Epstein transparency.
00:30:27.000So I'm kind of just trying to be a realist here.
00:30:32.000Like the messaging we do with our student, our turning point students, are telling me that they don't know how to defend what President Trump has done in Iran when they're tabling on campus.
00:30:41.000So we have to sort of bake into the pie here that young people are going to go the other way here in this election.
00:31:10.000When you look at the numbers, when you look at historical trends, when you look at what happens in the sixth year of a two-term presidency, it's hard to escape this historical pattern.
00:31:19.000And particularly with a president whose job approval is what it is.
00:31:23.000The president's job approval is right around 40%.
00:31:30.000And this is going to be indications of a midterm that's going to be very hard for Republicans to keep the House.
00:31:37.000So I think we're going to be in an era of divided government.
00:31:39.000In the next cycle, and it's going to set up a Wallapalooza of a 2028 presidential.
00:31:45.000And the other interesting thing about history is Republicans used to be the party that did well in the midterms because we were the party mostly of college educated voters who turn out every two years to vote.
00:31:55.000Democrats were the party of a lot more blue collar working class people who came out every four years to vote.
00:32:02.000Republicans are now much more the party of working class people, and the Democrats are now the party of people with postgraduate degrees and college degrees.
00:32:32.000But I will tell you, interestingly enough, one of these X factors, there's a lot of reporting going on that John Fetterman might go independent and caucus Republican.
00:33:19.000It's just that he's reasonable on Israel.
00:33:22.000He's reasonable on how you treat people.
00:33:24.000He's reasonable on saying you don't shut the government down.
00:33:27.000He's what a handful of Democrats used to be 10, 15, 20 years ago before they got drummed out of the party by the progressive movement inside the Democrat Party.
00:33:36.000There used to be about a dozen Democrats who would do and say things like him, vote the way he does on Israel and not shutting down the government.
00:34:04.000I am hearing conflicting reports, so we're going to keep watching that.
00:34:07.000It'd just be interesting if we end up, you know, losing the Senate 49 51 and then Fetterman switches over to independent and caucuses Republican.
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00:37:38.000We're not because we're honest citizens, but there's a whole lot of people that aren't honest citizens that probably aren't even citizens in many respects.
00:37:46.000I don't even know what the rules are here, but we're going to find out.
00:37:49.000Luke Rosiak is an investigative journalist and reporter for the Daily Wire, and he has a new story out that he's been working on for a couple months titled Medicaid Millionaires How the Feds Pay Immigrants Billions to Hang Out with Their Families.
00:38:50.000You know, one of the criticisms people had of, Doge, especially on the left, is why are you guys even bothering?
00:38:55.000There's not that much spare change you can rustle up in the couch of the federal budget because most of it is locked away in defense or non discretionary funding.
00:39:03.000And if you look at that pie chart, a big chunk of what we spend is Medicaid.
00:39:07.000So there's like, they're telling us there's no waste there.
00:39:10.000I mean, you've got to eliminate programs or things.
00:39:12.000Medicaid is just paying people to go to the doctor.
00:39:14.000Well, that's because we never got to see what Medicaid was.
00:39:18.000And so Doge released data that shows who's getting paid by Medicaid, which I think is a huge deal for transparency.
00:39:24.000It's the kind of thing Barack Obama should have done when he was always going on and on about being transparent.
00:40:12.000It just means it's Medicaid, but it has nothing to do with the intended purpose of the program.
00:40:16.000You can just cook and clean and even provide, as you said, companionship and conversation for somebody that's like 65 years old or whatever.
00:40:25.000So that's why I call it Butlers for Somalis, because it's just like somebody to literally just do your chores for you.
00:40:31.000I mean, wouldn't it be nice if we could all have that?
00:40:34.000And so the real wrinkle is a lot of these Somalis started getting paid by the government to be personal servants to their own relatives.
00:40:42.000In other words, just to hang out with their family the way that everybody has done throughout all of millennia.
00:40:47.000Maybe if your parents are getting up there and they're 65 and they could use somebody to vacuum the carpet, you do that because your parents raised you and it's a human decency thing to do to return the favor.
00:40:58.000But the Somalis found a way to actually get paid by the government for just doing normal stuff and hanging out with your family.
00:41:03.000So you say found, but In your investigation, I know with a lot of really bad government programs, there's notoriously social workers, nonprofits who basically explain to people how to do this.
00:41:18.000Like, are there, we'll just say it, Democrat operatives, either in literal form or spiritual form, do they go around and explain to these people?
00:41:26.000Or is this an organic development where the community has figured out, oh, there's money to be had and no one's going to stop us?
00:41:32.000And if they do catch it, all they might do is slap you on the wrist and you can go back to Somalia for a bit.
00:41:38.000Well, in part two of my series, which I think went up, you have a Democrat politician who actually founded a home healthcare company that got $11 million.
00:41:49.000And then he sold it and ran for office with the Democrat endorsement for state Senate.
00:41:55.000He was also involved in one of these NGOs, as you mentioned, that got like $7 million from the federal government.
00:42:02.000And so there are NGOs kind of pushing people to do these things.
00:42:06.000I talked to one guy who was getting paid by the government.
00:42:10.000To help refugees sign up for other government programs.
00:42:14.000So it's not enough to give the Somalis free disability and free food.
00:42:19.000You also have to pay a different Somali to encourage the first Somali to fill out that form to get the free money.
00:42:26.000And so there's definitely a sense you go through these buildings, and in part two that you'll see on the Daily Wire, I go to these, there's this one landlord in New Jersey, and it's based in New Jersey, and they own seven buildings in Columbus.
00:43:38.000And so, has Governor DeWine commented on this waiver that you're talking about that Minnesota also has?
00:43:45.000I mean, this is a Republican run state.
00:43:47.000You would think that they would plug these holes and these gaps in oversight and enforcement.
00:43:53.000Yeah, he actually raised the amount that these people were getting paid recently, and he made some positive.
00:43:59.000Comments, you know, talking about how important it is to give everybody what they need or whatever.
00:44:05.000So, you know, the attorney general of the state testified recently about how crazy the rules are.
00:44:10.000Basically, there's a law that makes it less severe to steal from Medicaid than to steal from anybody else.
00:44:17.000The attorney general can't do any investigative subpoenas to gather information to prove fraud.
00:44:23.000And they used to have a rule that you're supposed to have a GPS on your car if you're one of those people who isn't hanging out with your own family members, but you're one of those.
00:44:31.000People that have a roster of clients that you go and visit, you should have a GPS to make sure you're really visiting them.
00:44:38.000You're not just putting down the names of your friends and getting a kickback.
00:44:41.000Well, apparently they got rid of the GPS rule, which I don't know why you would do that because a GPS costs like 50 bucks and you could save like $10 million.
00:44:50.000So it's also just pretty difficult to prove in a court of law that you didn't go to your cousin Abed's house some Tuesday a year ago, you know, unless you have like footage on everybody's house.
00:45:01.000So, You know, it's pretty difficult to track these people.
00:45:05.000I found some crazy stories by putting a lot of investigative resources into it, but I'm skeptical that the government is really able to monitor these people at all.
00:45:13.000And certainly from what you see on the ground, there's not a lot of oversight going on.
00:45:18.000Yeah, I mean, this is all really depressing.
00:45:21.000And I saw that JD Vance quote tweeted your report.
00:45:26.000That's promising, as obviously he's chairing the anti fraud task force.
00:45:31.000So hopefully they're going to take it very seriously.
00:45:32.000But it's just despicable that this is happening in a conservative and a Republican run state where they're making it.
00:46:06.000And if people go to Daily Wire later, Today, they will see a bunch of different images like that, along with the lists of all the people that are tenants inside.
00:46:16.000And they all have Muslim names, probably 99%.
00:46:19.000And when you go in the buildings, they're also probably 90 to 99% vacant.
00:46:25.000They have these little offices that say something home healthcare, something else home healthcare LLC, all these little names.
00:46:32.000But the papers are the logos and the signs are just like printed out off of somebody.
00:46:36.000A lot of them are just the same thing.
00:46:38.000Some of the doors, like one of the doors, didn't even have a doorknob.
00:46:42.000So it's like obvious that nobody's going into it.
00:46:44.000You could see mail that had post was postmarked like months prior.
00:46:48.000Like nobody's going to these buildings.
00:46:50.000There's smoke alarms chirping for batteries.
00:46:52.000There's stray cats in the parking lot.
00:46:58.000I mean, the hallways are very, there was like a whole street full of buildings like the one on your screen.
00:47:03.000And you walk down the hallway and down the hallway and down the hallway.
00:47:06.000And it's just LLC after LLC after LLC, nobody in any of them.
00:47:13.000And it was only until recently that you could now look up in federal records and be like, now we know why that little office exists because nobody's doing any work in there, but it's billing $5 million from the government.
00:47:24.000This one got $32 million from the government.
00:47:27.000This one got $9 million from the government.
00:47:29.000And you can peer in the window and there's not even like a desk or a computer in the office.
00:47:34.000So it was just a really creepy and I think black pilling experience, honestly.
00:47:39.000Is anybody doing any like oversight in the state of Ohio on this?
00:47:44.000Are there people that go out and check the LLCs to see what they're doing?
00:47:48.000What's the enforcement mechanism here?
00:47:50.000I think they basically take their word for it.
00:47:52.000You submit an invoice that said you went to such and such person's house and you.
00:47:57.000You performed services like housekeeping or conversation for so many hours, and the government pays.
00:48:03.000I mean, there's really no way you can check.
00:48:06.000Occasionally, they'll do these audits that find that the companies claim to have visited people at home when they were actually in the hospital.
00:48:14.000And Medicaid knows that because the hospitals were charging Medicaid for their inpatient care.
00:48:18.000And that's really the only way they get caught is when two different entities at once try to bill Medicaid for the same person.
00:48:27.000Is they make the home healthcare companies just refund the money for that specific day when they got caught lying.
00:48:32.000But they just keep taking their word for it that all the other thousands of times that they say they went to somebody's house, that was definitely only the one time they lied is when they were in the hospital.
00:50:06.000We're going to have to look at rather than doing fraud enforcement, which turns into whack a mole.
00:50:12.000You know, you bust Abdukar Muhammad, and then pretty soon his brother, you know, Abdir Muhammad, pops up with a bunch of assets and a new company name.
00:50:26.000It's just so easy for these people just to start new LLCs anytime they need and to put, to move assets around in between their family members.
00:50:54.000And I think if you could take a field trip of liberals to these places, they would be very radicalized.
00:50:59.000Because anybody who doesn't see the pattern here, the connection between immigration and then the exploitation at scale of these generous safety net programs that hadn't really been abused in previous years is completely blind.
00:51:13.000It's important to make that connection because it couldn't be more blatant.
00:52:01.000So all the libs are all over the place talking about abolish ICE, abolish ICE.
00:52:05.000Meanwhile, we've got billions of dollars just flying out the window, going to God knows where, probably back to Somalia to fund Al Shabaab or whatever.
00:52:15.000This is a massive, massive domestic problem.
00:52:25.000What could a state, in your opinion, pretty easily do to reduce the impact of this, even if we can't eliminate it without deporting 20 million people?
00:52:34.000I think that the Trump administration needs to rescind Medicaid waivers and restore Medicaid to what it was intended to be, like basic doctor service.
00:52:42.000It's not really fair to have certain states be able to provide more services than others because the feds are paying for it 70%.
00:52:49.000And I think that's part of why the states don't care that much if it's wasted, it's 70% other people's money.
00:52:57.000JD Vance is going to have this task force take a look.
00:52:59.000I've got a lot of really sketchy red flags for them coming out in the Daily Wire this week.
00:53:04.000But the shortest path to keeping our country from insolvency is to just stop allowing people to charge the government for hanging out with your own family.
00:53:16.000And if you do have a mom who's getting old and could use some help once a week, do it on your own because it's the right thing to do.
00:53:22.000And that's what I think differentiates Somalis here they don't want to do normal family tasks unless they get paid.
00:53:37.000I wasn't expecting this, but Death of Recess genuinely stopped me in my tracks.
00:53:42.000This isn't about dodgeballs and jungle gyms, it's about control.
00:53:45.000The modern American classroom didn't just happen, it was intentionally designed, standardized, and centralized.
00:53:52.000And once you see who built it and who protects it, everything will click for you, too.
00:53:57.000Billions of dollars flow through education bureaucracies.
00:54:00.000Every year, test scores collapse, and somehow the answer is always more money and less parental authority.
00:54:06.000The documentary breaks down how organizations like the NEA amassed enormous influence, how radical gender ideology entered classrooms, and why something as basic as recess, movement, freedom, childhood, all the good things, how they had to go.
00:56:32.000We wanted even the youngest reader to be able to look at that and know, okay, this is a story where somebody is going to defy the odds and do something that seems impossible.
00:56:43.000And so that's really our heart is to inspire the next generation to see that you do have a hero inside you.
00:56:49.000And sometimes it might take something really scary, a dragon, to draw it out.
00:57:14.000It's like, so it's set in West Virginia, and you know that coal mines are strictly forbidden to go in, but 12 year old George Goodwin knows something more.
00:57:23.000Deep underground lies a treasure that could save his town and clear his father's name.
00:57:28.000And so then he's with the scouting troop.
00:57:29.000So explain the tie in with the scouting troop.
00:59:30.000And I suppose I appreciate you guys for evoking the classic image of a scout.
00:59:36.000I don't know if you describe any specific scouting group they're in, but that really is a set of values that was hugely useful in America, hugely positive for boys.
00:59:46.000And I. approve of evoking that even if we know that today the left went after it precisely because it was such a good thing.
00:59:54.000I mean, they partnered with Secretary of War Hegseth and they're making headway.
00:59:59.000I don't know if you have insights into that, if that's part of what's going on in the background here or not, but I agree with Blake that the values of scouting are so critically important to the next generation.
01:00:09.000That's why the left went after it, if we're being honest.
01:00:13.000Yeah, there's something about the, there's not very many opportunities for young people to kind of Put on a specific identity that carries the values of scouting.
01:00:24.000And, you know, my son just became a scout.
01:00:28.000And he went on his first camp out as a lion cub.
01:00:32.000And it was interesting when he saw a picture of himself, you know, I'm doing mom milestone.
01:00:38.000He saw a picture of himself in a uniform.
01:00:40.000And he looked at himself and he goes, Oh my goodness, mom, I look fearless.
01:00:45.000And then he came home from his first camp out and I said, Hey, I'm a little cold.
01:00:49.000He brought me the blanket and said, I'm courteous, mom, because I'm a scout.
01:00:54.000And there is something about stepping into an identity that carries virtue, that carries these responsibilities with them, that that's something that we did want to kind of evoke with this story that there's a young man who's not only, you know, he's a scout, but he's stepping into this identity as a dragon slayer.
01:01:11.000And that's really broader than any one organization.
01:01:14.000That's something that all of us can aspire to.
01:01:16.000You know, when you look at the scout, sorry.
01:01:19.000Well, someone on our staff was asking, you know, George Dragon Slayer, is there, Symbolic meaning to the name.
01:01:24.000Obviously, there's St. George as the great dragon.
01:01:51.000And you know, the cool thing is, like, The legend of St. George, it's a story that exists in lots of different cultures, but over time it's kind of been lost.
01:02:00.000And I think that speaks to how there are so many great stories, the kind of stories that move and inspire us that have kind of gotten lost to this generation.
01:02:10.000And so we love the idea of being able to reimagine that because we just believe that the stories kind of work in this space of imagination that's ultimately the bridge between the heart and the mind.
01:02:24.000And we want to take ideas that are out there and kind of help ground them in stories so that they can move from just being ideas to becoming beliefs and convictions.
01:02:35.000And so that's just one of the things we love about storytelling.
01:02:40.000So, you would say that this book is probably best geared for what ages?
01:03:24.000But really, even the moms are awesome in the book.
01:03:26.000We kind of wanted to make it something that if a family sits around and reads it aloud, there is something that everybody can, you know, everyone can enjoy and also everyone can kind of aspire to in some ways.
01:03:56.000You know, this started with a vision that we want to inspire young men and women to be prepared mentally, physically, spiritually to slay life's dragons.
01:04:04.000You know, we know the world is full of dragons right now, and our heart is that this story will inspire young people to discover their God given identity.
01:04:14.000To be a David versus a Goliath or a dragon slayer to take on whatever dragons there are in their lives.
01:04:20.000Yeah, there's a line from one of the characters, and she says, You know, there's breath in my lungs.
01:05:31.000I think there's a book, and it's two psychologists.
01:05:34.000This is not from a faith perspective, this is just clinical psychologists.
01:05:39.000And they were talking about the incredible, uh, incredibly rough trajectory of young boys becoming men and how immersive worlds of video gaming and online pornography and social media.
01:05:53.000How it's just wrecking havoc on a generation.
01:05:58.000And one of the big questions to ask is, you know, it touches on is the universal question that every young man, really all of us ask, is do I have what it takes?
01:06:09.000And when we read this like just utterly sobering statistic, we were like, this is why we have to tell this story.
01:08:10.000And those are the lessons that we need to be getting through.
01:08:13.000Not that you're a victim, not that there's nothing you can do about anything, not that, you know, ultimately your fate is sealed and all is awful.
01:08:21.000That's not the American spirit either.
01:08:23.000And I think that's, again, go back to Scouts.
01:08:25.000Scouts was about giving you agency and power over your dominion.
01:08:29.000And yeah, I think bad things happen, but ultimately we want young people to be the type of people that can overcome the obstacles that are thrown in their life.
01:08:36.000All right, Blake, final question to you.