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00:01:43You know, Blake, you and I were talking last night and this morning about what the lead should be today.
00:01:49And there were many options, including, you know, how Ben Shapiro got into Harvard, talking about catering carts and whether foreign governments were involved.
00:02:34Now, we can get into what we think about surgacies in a moment here, but she was a surrogate mom who refused to abort the baby despite the wishes of the boy's biological parents.0.98
00:02:46Now, she gave birth early Wednesday among a bitter legal battle.
00:02:56At the fetus's 20 week scan, doctors discovered it had a hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
00:03:05It's a rare birth defect where the left side of the heart doesn't grow correctly and it requires about three surgeries to correct it once the child is born.
00:03:16Blake, and this is where you're not a lawyer, but you play one on TV from time to time.
00:03:20It had an agreement that allowed the couple to choose to terminate the pregnancy if there was an anomaly found.1.00
00:03:27So, but here's what happened McKenna refused to do this.1.00
00:03:31She flees to Texas, and where she would be seen as the birth mother, according to the Dallas Morning News.1.00
00:03:39So she delivered baby Gabriel, who she got to name.
00:03:43And now the attorney for the intended parents has told the Dallas Morning News, our clients.
00:03:50Only focus at this time is ensuring that their baby receives the medical care vitally needed and that, as his parents, are able to spend every precious moment they can with him.
00:04:03So the intended parents are suing McKenna, and they had a court date later this month, but it's unclear how this multi state battle will play out.
00:04:12Here's my simple logic, Blake, and you can tell me why I'm being far too simplistic in this world full of lawyers and weirdness and surrogacy.
00:04:21You do not get the right to claim it as your baby when you wanted that baby dead.
00:04:28And because I think surrogacy is weird in general, and we want to know your thoughts, so please email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:04:34The logic is simple your womb, your baby, just as God intended.
00:04:39So if you're going to play with fire like this and rent out another woman's womb, then you've got to deal with the consequences that there could be consequences.
00:05:28That's where she can get treatment for the baby.0.97
00:05:30But supposedly, the parents' backup plan here was they were going to say, once the baby's born, it's our baby, we want to immediately have it in California.
00:05:39They're alleging that their plan was to just provide palliative care there.
00:05:42Basically, don't operate on the baby, allow it to die.
00:05:47That's why Ken Paxton's office intervened and said, we're going to legally order that life saving care be provided.
00:05:56I don't know where it's going to go from here because, as you say, it feels intuitive to us that once parents decide, please kill our baby, there should be some forfeiture of parental rights there.
00:06:09But I don't know if the law is going to shake out that way.
00:06:12Usually, it is the case that a surrogate cannot decide to keep the baby, it does go to the parents.
00:06:18Now, happily, in most cases, the parents do want that baby.
00:06:22But this just shows how the whole situation is very fraught.
00:06:26It gets back to those discussions we would have with Charlie.
00:06:32And this is the sort of thing that it's why it leaves a bad feeling in my stomach in many cases because you can see how this human being, this child, has become a commodity to certain people, how it's become something that you can design.
00:06:47You can say, oh, if it didn't come out exactly how I want, throw it out.
00:07:10Maybe you in the emails can change my mind.
00:07:13I'm not advocating to make it illegal necessarily, although I'm very tempted to go that far.
00:07:19But I do believe that there are probably instances where a well intentioned family literally cannot get pregnant for whatever reason.
00:07:29I haven't studied it enough, but my instincts tell me this.
00:07:32It's weird, it feels unnatural, and you're playing with fire.
00:07:36Now, I want to give a special shout out to CBS because apparently they were the only network to cover this, I think, dramatic bombshell story that exposes so many different threads and themes.
00:07:53Meanwhile, the Texas now in a battle over the future of a baby born with a serious heart condition.
00:07:57The California parent of the child wanted to end the pregnancy months ago when they learned of the condition, but their surrogate refused and then went to Texas, where the state has now stepped.
00:08:07Wes spoke about the unusual surrogacy situation with Live Action, an anti abortion rights organization.
00:08:14Her pregnancy was on track for 20 weeks until doctors diagnosed a rare and severe heart defect in the baby.
00:08:20After learning of the defect, Wes says the parents, Nasheen Gilcar and Omar Ahmed, asked her to schedule an abortion.
00:08:27Parents with medical prerogative is something experts say is a common clause in surrogacy contracts.
00:08:32Instead, Wes decided to find treatment in Dallas for the child after birth.
00:08:56It's not one of those cases where abortion advocates will say, Well, you need the right to abort because some babies have a terminal disability that will cause them to die in their first minutes of life.
00:10:15And my thought, my prediction is I think we're going to see people become more pro abortion from that, even though all those excuses people made up about bodily autonomy, my body, my choice, that's the explanations people gave for why abortion was justifiable.
00:10:32That'll all go away, but people will still say, I want to customize my baby.
00:10:36If it's wrong, I want to be able to pull the plug.
00:12:21Governor Maura Healy, who's a self proclaimed Christian, governor of Massachusetts, has just signed a bill to make sure that women can kill unborn babies up to 40 weeks, 40 plus weeks, actually.0.51
00:12:42I promise that no matter what Donald Trump or Republicans in Congress or the Supreme Court does, we're going to continue to make sure that women and families have access to the health care that they need right here in Massachusetts.
00:12:58We're going to make sure that women in particular are able to make their own health care decisions, not the government.
00:13:05And if you see the wide shot, Blake, you see all these young white women gathered around clapping like seals.0.58
00:13:11It strikes me, and this will be my comment, and then I'll throw it to you.0.70
00:14:06If we believe that God exercises any moral hand over history, I think you'd have to believe that that many people, that many innocent human beings snuffed out, and that we prefer to ignore it.
00:14:33We have, we murdered our country's future.0.71
00:14:35And they'll talk about, We have a problem with falling fertility rates.0.96
00:14:38We have a problem that we don't have workers to fill jobs.
00:14:41The reason we don't have those is because we made it legal and encouraged people and provided government money and provided, in some cases, religious sanction for people to murder their own children.
00:15:08I think there's a photo of her with the previous Pope, and that fills me with disgust because what she is doing there is as evil as any warlord committing a wartime atrocity.
00:15:22And as you say, they're all sitting there clapping like seals.
00:15:25Just, well, this is a girl named Kate Deneen.
00:15:30She's the president and CEO of a better city in Massachusetts.
00:15:33She gave her aborted baby the middle name Lee to honor the doctor who killed him that performed the abortion.
00:15:40She helped push the late term abortion bill in Massachusetts at 33 weeks.
00:15:45She and her husband drove to Maryland so a late term abortionist, Leroy Lee Carhartt, could inject potassium chloride straight into their son's heart and make it stop.0.98
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00:17:09Without further ado, we have a great guest in store for you who's been on an incredible journey, both personally, professionally, athletically, and emotionally.
00:17:20And that is, of course, Royce White, who has declared herself ready for the WNBA draft or for eligibility.
00:18:03But especially your black transgender lesbians like myself, we especially have a right to exist.
00:18:08And, you know, CNN, just this morning, CNN says, oh, well, these two former players, NBA players, are co opting all of the sweat equity from the WNBA.0.95
00:18:20And who are they to tell us what a real woman is?0.99
00:18:36All we can do is we need to line up and we need to listen.1.00
00:18:40Yeah, when a black woman talks, people should sit and learn and try and learn what it is that they can't possibly even start to empathize with.1.00
00:18:50I mean, I think there's such a gap between the lived experience of black trans lesbians and what other people could empathize with.1.00
00:19:04Inject our own opinions or maybe even judgments.
00:19:08Royce, you know, I want to give you a chance to reply back though to the WNBA.
00:19:15There was a meeting yesterday, and I think some of your decisions, your actions in the recent weeks have helped spark this.
00:19:25Obviously, Sophie Cunningham plays for the Indiana Fever.
00:19:28She said that she wouldn't be supportive of your coming into the WNBA as a trans player, but then a number of players said that they would welcome you in.
00:19:40And so that obviously helped inspire your journey and your courage here.
00:19:44But a statement from a WNBA spokesman yesterday.
00:19:47Says today's meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitriol directed at players online.
00:19:57We will continue to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months.
00:20:01We will approach these important conversations thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league.
00:20:06There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others.
00:21:21Look, I always talked about, you know, these.0.67
00:21:25This cultural wedge issue, as like, you know, gender proceeds from biology.0.65
00:21:30We have to have a shared reality when it comes to men and women.0.67
00:21:33If we don't, it's pretty much pulled out the Jenga piece and baseline for us to have any meaningful conversations about the human condition or human existence.
00:22:31Mine has to take place in front of the public, so it's gonna have a lot of scrutiny and people gonna have their opinions, right?
00:22:36I'm getting a lot of death threats, people telling me to commit suicide, but I'm not gonna let anybody disturb my peace and my energy and me becoming the beautiful black queen that I'm becoming right before America's eyes.
00:24:03I think that Sophie has a right to her opinion, she has a right to her free speech.
00:24:09We obviously disagree, which is why I'm pursuing the 2027 draft.
00:24:14And I'd love to get a chance to play with Sophie, actually.
00:24:16In fact, If there was one team other than the Minnesota Lynx, you know, I'm a hometown guy here in Minnesota, Belly the Beast, cultural epicenter of American politics.
00:24:25If there was one other team I'd love to play for, it'd be the Indiana Fever and the great Sophie Cunningham.
00:24:31And by the way, they could use somebody, you know, of your size and athleticism to maybe defend Kaitlyn Clark, which has been another ongoing controversy in the WNBA.0.99
00:24:43I mean, this Kaitlyn gets fouled more than anybody, and they're just egregious.0.99
00:24:47Now, Sophie's getting slapped in the face with flagrant technical fouls here, and obviously not going for the ball.1.00
00:25:09You know, when I was in college and all through my career, one of the things that has always been said or complimented about my game is that I'm versatile.
00:25:56In your new feminine identity, are you comfortable with going maximally hard, doing some aggressive, violent fouls on your fellow women in the WNBA?
00:26:05Well, of course, as the first, sometimes identifying as a black trans woman, I don't want to be targeted.
00:26:14I don't think that would be right for me to be targeted.
00:26:17That'd be transphobic if they intentionally targeted me and tried to hurt me or foul me because of my trans identity.
00:26:26But it's a contact sport, and people have to be willing to go in there.
00:26:32Well, I mean, would you, on that same question line, would you be, if you do play for the Indiana Fever, I mean, is that a kind of coach you want to play for?
00:26:42Somebody that's encouraging other teams to foul their players, her players?
00:26:48I think that she should have defended her players.
00:26:50You always want to defend your players, especially your star players.
00:26:53And whether or not Sophie Cunningham's a premier scorer in the league, certainly she's become one of the faces of the league, and for good reason.
00:27:03And, you know, Caitlin Clark is obviously next world and has elevated the entire WNBA.
00:27:08And right now, I think their WNBA community, soon to be our WNBA community, is going to have to come to grips with the fact that Caitlin Clark has really elevated the game.
00:27:19And a rising tide raises all boats, right?
00:27:22I mean, I don't understand why even myself joining the league, as long as we get more eyeballs, as long as we get more attention, as long as the ticket prices and the TV audience continue to increase, what's the problem?
00:27:34Well, I don't see a problem with it at all, Royce.
00:27:36And I just want to say that on behalf of the Charlie Kirk Show, we got your back, queen, and we think you're beautiful just the way you are.
00:31:01You know, I'm just profoundly grateful for her courage and her pioneering spirit and her willingness to really put herself out there in this vulnerable way.
00:32:51Well, first of all, I think it's definitely proof that this is a women's basketball league, that they were able to announce a big meeting and have all of their leaders come together and hear everyone's point of view and affirm everyone's feelings and make sure everyone was heard and then not reach any actual decision.
00:33:06They'll have to have another meeting about it.
00:33:08Definitely sounds like a lot of other.0.99
00:33:13Women centered entities that I've been adjacent to in my life.
00:33:16I have to say, that's completely, it's like the Longhouse made manifest here.
00:33:22I have to say, Roy Shah White is much more of a woman than many of the so called trans women that I have seen on the news being supported by outlets like CNN and MS Now, being championed by the New York Times and ABC, NBC, CBS.
00:33:37Roy Shah is as much of a woman and deserves their respect and the proper gendering.
00:35:17The other is my baby sister, going into her last year of college as a Division I athlete.
00:35:21I helped raise her, and she has put a lot of time into the game of basketball, a crazy career, state titles, lost to COVID shutdowns, back surgery, grueling workouts with me.
00:36:34And obviously, that and Muslim cultural centers in our governments and late term abortions.0.89
00:36:41I think what we're seeing in hour one, Blake, is a manifestation of the founder's vision for America.
00:36:47And it's embodied by brave trans black lesbians like Royce White and his baby sister, who apparently seems to be cis, but we don't want to judge.
00:37:12I want to be better for the next generation.
00:37:13So give us your emails, your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:17Let us know what you think of Roy Show White's journey and whether or not the WNBA should be more open and inclusive to her journey as a trans, lesbian, black queen.
00:37:32I had the honor of a lifetime to call Charlie a friend.
00:37:37And what I remember most wasn't just what people saw on stage, it was What was behind the scenes?
00:37:43That was an unwavering commitment to his faith, his love for his family, and his genuine desire to encourage others to live with courage and conviction.
00:37:52Charlie believed that following Christ wasn't something you compartmentalize.
00:37:56He didn't put it in a box, he lived it out loud.
00:37:59It shaped how he lived, how he served, how he treated people every single day.
00:38:03Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, captures that heart.
00:38:06This documentary isn't just simply about remembering Charlie, it's an invitation for each of us to ask what kind of legacy we're building.
00:38:14And whether we're willing to stand firm in our own faith when it's tested.
00:38:18I hope that you'll watch it with your family and have those conversations together.
00:38:54To set us up in our next guest, let's go ahead and play SOT 21.
00:38:58Today, HHS released Wolves in White Coats, a report examining pediatric gender medicine and insurance building across America.
00:39:07The findings raise serious questions about what families were told, what insurers were told, and how these procedures were built.
00:39:15Today, Secretary Kennedy and I referred hospitals and clinics identified by this review to the Department of Justice and the HHS Inspector General for possible violations of federal law.
00:39:28These allegations are crazy and they demand investigation.
00:39:32When children may have been harmed and families misled, it's on those of us in power to find the truth and to seek justice for kids who are harmed by these doctors.
00:39:43Together, we're going to protect our children and importantly, we're going to restore trust in public health.
00:39:49And we will hold accountable anyone who would betray that trust.
00:39:53Joining us now is Admiral Brian Christine, Assistant Secretary for Health from the Department of HHS, joining us now to tell us the details.
00:40:21It's certainly a privilege to serve President Trump and the American people as the Assistant Secretary for Health and to work with Secretary Kennedy and, of course, working with Vice President Vance on this particular project.
00:40:33But, you know, in the last 10 or 15 years, what we've seen is really an explosion.1.00
00:40:38And the number of individuals who identify as transgender and who seek sex rejecting procedures, castrating chemicals, and mutilating surgeries.0.99
00:40:49And we realize too that we're seeing explosion in the numbers, but also a disproportionately high number of minors who are identifying as transgender and seeking these sex rejecting procedures, particularly young girls.
00:41:02The report looks at this and the report says, okay, what's going on here?
00:41:09One of the sections looks at the Potential financial gain that gender affirming, so called gender affirming clinics can have in terms of getting these kids on these sex rejecting procedures and chemicals, keeping them as patients for a long period of time.
00:41:28You know, if you get a child on cross sex hormones, in other words, testosterone for little girls or estrogens for little boys, that's really $500 to $700 per year per person in terms of cost and the billing for this.
00:41:44If you do sex rejecting mutilating surgeries, that goes up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:41:50So, there really is a financial aspect to this.
00:41:52There's also a potential fraud encoding aspect.
00:41:56In other words, these gender affirming clinics, these clinics that offer these sex rejecting procedures, they would use medical codes that potentially are fraudulent to get reimbursement for these procedures.
00:42:12Part of the report looks at the Biden administration, what they did.
00:42:16To use the heavy hand of government to advance this horrible gender ideology to push kids towards sex rejecting procedures.0.83
00:42:25Again, castrating chemicals and mutilating surgeries.0.61
00:42:28The report also looks at some of the medical societies that have been pushing this the Endocrine Society, something called the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the American Psychological Association, all of these individuals, staffed with ideologues.
00:42:47That didn't want to take care of these kids with mental health care and counseling, which is what they need, but instead pushing them towards sex rejecting procedures.
00:42:57And the last part of the report looks at eight young individuals, eight minors, and their families who went through these horrible sex rejecting procedures and then said, you know what?
00:45:25Where it was just shoved out there that it's a pause button for people who are uncertain and you can resume it at any time when the reality is puberty is a specific time in your life.
00:45:37And if you block it, you just skip past it, you are basically going to render yourself a child for the rest of your life in a lot of ways.
00:45:48Throw up that chart I sent you guys that you mentioned how they were using fraudulent codes.
00:45:53So this chart is yearly reimbursement for.
00:45:56Puberty blockers in Pennsylvania, and it was when they said it was for precocious puberty because the valid reason to block these is because some people hit puberty when they're four or five.
00:46:05They shouldn't be there yet, so you block it.
00:46:07And they're flagging here that in Pennsylvania, hundreds of kids were being given precocious puberty treatments when they were 14 years or older.
00:46:16That's when you're supposed to hit puberty.
00:46:18And millions of dollars are spent on this.
00:46:28No, and you point out something so important with that graph.
00:46:31Again, using these puberty blockers in an age group that by definition is not precocious puberty.
00:46:39And like you said, precocious puberty is the early onset of puberty.
00:46:43Generally, it's under the age of eight for girls, under the age of nine for boys.
00:46:47And here you are, these teenage kids who are getting puberty blockers for, quote, precocious puberty.
00:46:53Again, potentially fraudulent billing to try to get reimbursement.
00:46:58Just looking at the individuals, the reimbursement and the billing for a segment of individuals in that 13 to 17 age group who were coded for precocious puberty, which makes no sense.
00:47:11From the years 2015 to 2025, over $11 million in potentially fraudulent billing.
00:49:12I liked Buddy, who said of Raisha, the only thing better would be if you had exited the comfort of your bigoted chairs and done that story from one knee.
00:51:18We say people who are unable to, but let's be blunt.
00:51:21There are people who use surrogates because they just don't want to go through with pregnancy, the mom thinks it'll be draining, it'll make her less attractive.
00:51:30Those are reasons people do that sort of thing.
00:51:33And we see the ultimate outcome of those things, which is the discarding of.
00:57:02And I think it's because Churchill embodied a spirit that Charlie loved.
00:57:07You think of, we've been discussing this week, is America able to.
00:57:11Make sacrifices in order to achieve a better country in the future.
00:57:16Like, for example, are we able to do deportations if it means a burrito will be slightly more expensive due to labor costs?0.60
00:57:22And I look at some of Churchill's speeches, not even the one we're marking on here, but he goes to the House of Commons and says, I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.0.88
00:57:33And he's saying, We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the hills and trees and in the landing grounds, we shall never surrender.
00:57:45But we're talking about the few speech, which is another thing that Charlie could always respect the idea that it could be a handful of people who are holding the line between civilization and its destruction.
00:58:05The gratitude of every home in our island, in our empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty.
00:58:14Goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion.
00:58:29Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
00:58:38It's a great quote, and he came up actually.
00:58:43A lot of people aren't aware it came out of him four days earlier.
00:58:46He was just watching what was happening with the war, and it just that quote came out, and then he realized, I need to use this in his speech.
00:58:55And really, you know, for people who don't know, that the pilots.
00:59:00During the war for Great Britain, I mean, they really saved them.
00:59:03If the pilots weren't so sophisticated and so good at their job, the war could have turned because they really, the pilots are the ones that kept the Nazis out.
01:00:06And still be able to move past it and have this open dialogue.
01:00:09And so that quote really sits with me this idea of Charlie and why, like Churchill, and really, Churchill kept Great Britain, they kept the war going a lot of it through his will, a lot of it through his words, a lot of it through his belief, which is sort of what you were alluding to, Blake.
01:00:27People don't realize that he was trying to keep this, he knew that we had to stay, he had to keep fighting.
01:00:34People in Great Britain, they wanted to.0.64
01:00:36A lot of the people in parliament wanted to do a peace agreement with Hitler.
01:00:43I think that's worth providing the historical context there.
01:00:46If you haven't seen the movie Darkest Hour, it's imperfect history, but it gets the general vibe, which is Churchill, for example, wasn't even the first pick as prime minister.
01:00:54There was another guy, Lord Halifax, who was another contender, and he favored, or at least he was much more open to negotiating with Hitler.
01:01:02This is the situation Germany has conquered Poland, they've conquered the Netherlands, they've conquered Belgium.0.64
01:01:08Norway, Denmark, they are steamrolling France.0.72
01:02:13And what he was doing, he was praising the Royal Air Force fighter pilots who fought the German, you're going to have to help me with the Luftwaffe, day and night.
01:03:46And they had a belief in something good and they knew they needed to continue to fight.
01:03:51And Churchill, you know, this idea of the few, he was the few, right?
01:03:54I mean, the U.S. was still not engaged in this war.
01:03:59He was, you know, doing everything he can to get the United States engaged in this war because he knew that it was the right thing.
01:04:06And he knew he needed the United States, he needed our manpower, he needed us to get involved.
01:04:11And obviously, we were unfortunately, we did get involved, or fortunately, depending on what side you're on, but we did get involved after Pearl Harbor.
01:04:19So, I think that it's this idea of continuing this belief.
01:04:25And I will say, I do think it's a lot of what you guys are doing on your show you're continuing this belief when there's a lot of things happening around you that make it difficult.
01:04:36And you guys take a lot of heat, but yet you're continuing this mission of Charlie.
01:04:43And that was really why I wanted to talk about this today, I just think it's sometimes really hard with everything happening out there, everything that's going on.
01:04:53In your guys' world, to continue to kind of push forward and do the right thing and say the right things and be above the fray, right?
01:05:07And that's why I wanted to talk about Churchill because he had this drive.
01:05:12And that's what I miss about Charlie, frankly, is I miss that drive, just our conversations, that energy that he could just continue to push down no matter what was happening around him.
01:05:36Churchill took to radio and said, We will never surrender.
01:05:39We'll fight on the beaches, we'll fight on the landing grounds.
01:05:43What was Churchill really articulating there?
01:05:46Churchill was articulating a doctrine and a commitment of the will.
01:05:53What Churchill was articulating is that you might outnumber us, you might have better technology.
01:05:59But the resolve of the British people will not be broken.
01:06:04Without Churchill, I believe the United Kingdom would have sued for peace.
01:06:08Took someone like Churchill, a remarkably wise and charismatic person who was exiled at an early age, but was brought back when people needed him.
01:06:20That's obviously Charlie talking about the Never Surrender speech, which is another famous Churchill speech.
01:06:25So after this dogfight, Hitler and the Nazis were so frustrated by the British that they ended up engaging in the Blitz, right?
01:06:34And that's what Churchill's responding to there.
01:06:38They said, We'll never surrender, even though every night everybody has to rush down into the bomb shelters and Run for cover in the tube and the subways of London.
01:06:46It was a truly remarkable display of fortitude and courage.
01:06:50And Blake, I can't help but think about this roofing comment.
01:06:55It's going viral right now on the internet.
01:06:57One of Charlie's last speeches to a roofers' convention.
01:07:00And he's asking them, Are you willing to sacrifice a little bit for our sovereignty to restore the rule of law?
01:07:06And these roofers are like, We won't have enough people to put roofs on houses.
01:07:11And it just strikes me of the World War II spirit.
01:07:27And Charlie would often say, we don't fight because we know we're going to win.
01:07:29We fight because it's the right thing to do.
01:07:32And I hope we still have that spirit, that fighting spirit that Churchill had, that Charlie had, in enough of us, in the hearts of enough Americans that we'll fight and sacrifice for this country.
01:07:45Yeah, yeah, no, I think the interesting thing too, if you look at some of the great, you know, if you took it after World War II and, you know, and all those years running up, probably I would say until the mid 1970s, it was, you know, obviously they call them the greatest generation.
01:08:02It was also some of the greatest wealth for individuals that we've ever seen.
01:08:09And it's interesting, I think, like after we won, obviously there was devastation and there was, you know, countries that took, it took many years.
01:08:17And actually, You know, Great Britain was in a really terrible place and they were the world's reserve currency.
01:08:23And then in 1944, there was Bretton Woods Exchange and we became the world's reserve currency and we pegged gold at $35 an ounce to the dollar.
01:08:35And what I mean by wealth is that that was the time when one income, you know, have both parents at home, people could afford a house, you know, the gold and the dollar were tied together.
01:08:47There was, after we did this, after that we took this and everyone did this unbelievable sacrifice that everyone that fought in this war.
01:08:54We saw some of the greatest personal wealth for the middle class that I think arguably we've ever seen.
01:09:02And that was, you know, only because we won.
01:09:05If we went in a different way and we lost that war, we would have fallen under a dictatorship.
01:09:11And, you know, it would have been, you know, a really terrible situation.
01:09:15And obviously now we're talking socialism and all these things that people are talking about today.
01:09:19But there was tremendous wealth that was built after this.
01:09:23Well, you know, and it's actually a really important conversation.
01:09:27And Blake, I'd love your take on this, but there is a difference between material wealth and social fabric, right?
01:09:32And sometimes these two things get conflated together.
01:09:35Social fabric would be like, hey, you share the values and the language of the people in your neighborhood.
01:09:40You don't have to pay extra to send them to a better school.
01:09:42You know that other people are going to church, celebrating Christmas, Easter, whatever.
01:09:47And you do have these two family homes, and the mom can stay home, and you could send your kids to public school because they haven't gone crazy.
01:09:54These are the things that social fabric is based on.
01:10:01He wrote 1984, Homage to Catalonia, but he also wrote a very short book shortly after World War II that was called The English People.
01:10:08And it's him describing, he actually was commissioned to do it by the government, describing the English national character.
01:10:13And one of the things he brags about in this book is he talks about the Blitz.
01:10:18And he said one of the remarkable things about the Blitz was you could have a man on a street corner who's selling newspapers, and he wouldn't have to worry about just leaving his papers and his money out to go somewhere else to go into a shop.
01:10:32Somewhere for a moment, he could come back, he would know it would all still be there.
01:10:37He talked about how people who were running into the tube tunnels, the subway tunnels during the Blitz bombing raids, the norm was they would still buy their ticket to get into the tube area as they would do that.
01:10:51And you think of them doing that while under siege, while being bombed, and you compare it, of course, to the Britain of today, which we worry so much about.
01:10:58And it's because it's still a very rich country, it's got access to More goods, more wealth than it probably did at the height of World War II.1.00
01:11:07But the fabric has been messed up because they've embraced mass immigration.
01:11:10They've embraced a sort of resentful crabs in a bucket socialism as well.
01:11:15And now, like, a guy couldn't leave his money line out.
01:11:18You can't even pull your phone out safely in London.
01:11:32And in this country, I don't know if you guys have seen this stat about there's 1,200 new millionaires every day here.
01:11:38But yet, they also say that people feel less rich than they've ever felt.
01:11:42And I think it's not just monetarily, I think it's this idea of the safety and what's happening in their community.
01:11:50I also think they're less rich because the dollar is worth so much less.
01:11:53But I do think part of it is just that social fabric that you guys are talking about is that they don't feel connected to their community the way that they used to.
01:12:03A lot of it is we've gone away from having both parents' home and the household and religion.
01:12:09I think a lot of this gave people structure.
01:12:55We have people there, the good Americans, people that believe in sound money principles, people that believe that we should get back to that situation.
01:13:09So I think it's a good time for people to get in.
01:13:11But yeah, if they want to learn, give us a call and love to help you and get some real money when, you know, Gold is real money and get some real money in your hands.