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00:01:48.000We're hoping to have Tyler on as much as possible in the next few months as we gird up for all these critical midterm battles that we want to win to secure the victory that we won in 2024, extend it, salvage America more.
00:02:04.000And that is what we're also going to mark today.
00:02:07.000Because some of you out there, if you're public sector employees or work at some Rather woke companies, you're maybe listening to the show at home right now instead of in your car or at work.
00:02:20.000And the reason you're doing that is, of course, that today, today itself is Juneteenth, June 19th.
00:02:27.000That, of course, is the brand new federal holiday that we got in 2020 at the peak of woke.
00:02:36.000That in 2020, they decided we needed a new National Independence Day.
00:02:43.000It was originally a regional holiday in Texas.
00:02:46.000It celebrated the time that slaves learned that they had been emancipated due to the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War.
00:02:58.000But that's not why we have this holiday.
00:03:00.000We have this holiday because the left in 2020 thought they had a chance to restart the history of America.
00:03:10.000They thought we can overthrow the Fourth of July and create a new holiday whose premise is that America is.
00:03:17.000Is fundamentally wicked, that its founders were fundamentally bad, and the only value America has is to the extent that we annihilate those old traditions, annihilate that old history, and create a brave new world.
00:03:30.000And Charlie himself was very much aware of that, and he loved to talk about it on this show.
00:03:37.000In fact, he had a great take on it just this last year.
00:04:12.000Number three is does it really warrant a federal holiday?
00:04:14.000Number four is again, if you want to celebrate emancipation, do it the day that emancipation was actually signed, which was in September.
00:04:22.000No, but they want a summertime competitor.
00:04:26.000They want to have two, they want you to have to choose.
00:04:28.000Do you want the 1776 way, which those evil right wing MAGA people celebrate?
00:04:32.000Or the 1619 Way, which we celebrate now federally on June 19th.
00:04:37.000And Charlie had another excellent clip in that vein.
00:04:40.000I'm not sure if it's from the same show or not, but really laying this out that the left wanted to create a specific holiday not to unite Americans, not to enhance our national pride, but in fact to tear it down and to sort of assert its domination over the half of America that the left had declared war on.
00:06:10.000We showed a little bit of it yesterday, but it continued after yesterday's show.
00:06:13.000The Obama Presidential Library, the Obama Presidential Sandcaller, the Obama Presidential alien horror show spaceship that landed in Chicago to gaze upon us with its all seeing eye.
00:06:28.000That was opened yesterday, had its grand opening in Chicago.
00:06:55.000Christina Aguilera gave a rendition of What a Wonderful World.
00:06:58.000Bruce Springsteen sang Land of Hope and Dreams.
00:07:02.000This is a revisit to the America we were building towards throughout the Obama years.
00:07:09.000It's the one they thought they were going to have forever.
00:07:12.000When they pulled off their maneuver in 2020, they thought they were going to refound America where it would be permanent shame on America's historic founders, its historic people.
00:07:24.000Year zero, start a new country where people like Barack Obama, people like Bruce Springsteen lecture you from the top of a stage.
00:07:33.000They lecture you with things like, you know what, we're going to play this again.
00:07:36.000We got a land acknowledgement yesterday.
00:08:17.000The founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who own property.
00:09:23.000And on this Juneteenth, we remember the bullet that our country avoided, the tragedy that we avoided by thanks to 2024 and thanks to the decision that our country made.
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00:11:48.000First, I actually have to issue a correction.
00:11:54.000Aunt Say sent in, he pointed out, I said Juneteenth became a holiday in 2020.
00:12:00.000That was a big mistake on my part because, of course, if it had become a holiday in 2020, that means President Trump would have been the one who signed it.
00:12:27.000So, let's get more from this Obama presidential dedication.
00:12:32.000We didn't just have Barack speak, we also had Michelle speak.
00:12:36.000Michelle came up and she delivered an address about how really the realest Americans, the best Americans, are the ones who are foreigners, who actually aren't legally supposed to be here.
00:13:22.000The cult that ruled America, this suicidal idea that actually the most American people are the ones who are brought in here illegally, that what we need is amnesty for them, that we should be dispossessed of our own country, that our country belongs to the entire world.
00:13:40.000That was the rhetoric that they were pushing.
00:13:42.000And frankly, there's an alternate reality where Michelle Obama is a little more ambitious, a little more likable, a little more hardworking.
00:13:51.000I don't think she really enjoys working that much.
00:13:55.000Run her for president, and we might have had a President Michelle Obama delivering that lecture, and then every single media outlet would be gushing about it as one of the best speeches ever as we burn down and destroy America, as we destroy everything that made this country great.
00:14:30.000And instead of Barack Obama talking about how our founders were terrible, talking about how our old American heroes were terrible, we have President Trump explaining that America's great.
00:14:40.000As we approach the 250th anniversary of our founding, we remember that we owe everything to heroes like those we celebrate today men who went willingly to the darkest and most dangerous corners on earth to defeat evil so we could live free.
00:15:00.000So, of course, that honors our veterans who fought and died in World War II and other conflicts.
00:15:05.000But we should remember 250 years ago, the darkest and most dangerous corner of Earth was right here in America.
00:15:13.000This was a country that was under siege by a foreign power that was trying to strip away the colonists' rights.
00:15:20.000And the men of our founding were the heroes.
00:15:23.000They were the heroes who stepped up, who created the Declaration of Independence, who created our Constitution, who defeated.
00:15:30.000The most powerful empire in the entire world.
00:15:33.000We had Patrick O'Donnell on a month ago for Memorial Day, and he laid it all out for us all those things that they did, the trials that they went through with no prospect of success, but they did it anyway, and they won freedom.
00:15:46.000And we have a president who's ready to honor that and celebrate that.
00:15:49.000That we're going to be having our 250th anniversary of this country in just a couple weeks now.
00:15:55.000And it's going to be, President Trump has announced it's going to have the biggest fireworks show in the history of Washington, D.C., I believe.
00:16:05.000He's announced that we're going to have one of the biggest public rallies in our nation's history.
00:16:10.000And we've already seen, of course, the show he was ready to put on with the Freedom 250 UFC event and so on.
00:16:18.000We are getting a proper celebration of our country for the 250th anniversary instead of lectures from Michelle Obama about dreamers, instead of lectures from Barack about how our founders were bad, instead of cackling from President Kamala Harris about Lord knows what she would be saying by this point.
00:16:37.000Instead, we get to properly celebrate our country, and I think that is a reason for celebrating on this day.
00:16:44.000So, if you're at home, if you're at home right now, uh, you know, I can't say pour out a toast to America, pour out a soda toast.
00:16:51.000In honor of Charlie, he wouldn't want you drinking alcohol.
00:16:53.000But raise a glass to America because we have so much to be happy and proud of as we on this Juneteenth because we're not celebrating the National Independence Day that they tried to impose on us.
00:17:09.000Also, at Obama's event, we had some other funny clips that they threw out.
00:17:13.000We had Gavin Newsom kind of making his unofficial bid to remind everyone that he's also running for president.
00:18:15.000We march in resilience of those policies and that sense that everyone is not welcome in this great country.
00:18:22.000That's what we're getting from the left.
00:18:24.000They're going to be running for president and they're going to be running on.
00:18:27.000America needs hope, and the only way we can have hope is to tear down this country rather than celebrate it.
00:18:33.000But we don't need to make that choice.
00:18:37.000Alliance Defending Freedom knows that freedom belongs to those who fight for it.
00:18:41.000Americans have carried that legacy for 250 years, and now we must do so again.
00:18:46.000Censorship is rising, threatening your free speech in every sphere from classrooms to counselors' offices and even online.
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00:21:06.000Mama Bear is in charge and runs things and runs them competently.
00:21:10.000And that is a cultural trope that is so deep in our society right now that I think we barely even think about it.
00:21:17.000And it's part of this sort of larger attack on traditional masculinity, on stoicism on, you know, on traditional manhood, and I think it's had terrible consequences for fathers, it's had bad consequences for mothers, it's had bad consequences for families.
00:21:32.000And then you know the same people who, who say this, you know who run down men and who, and who you know, pretend that fathers don't contribute enough to their families, to raising kids.
00:21:42.000Uh, then turn around and say well, you know all these, all these, you know teenage boys, or you know 20 something young men.
00:21:48.000They love Andrew Tate and they, they love these sort of like hyper masculine influencers online.
00:21:54.000Well, when you, when you, when you undercut traditional, decent masculinity, obviously there's going to be a backlash to that and I think that's what we've seen culture is.
00:22:03.000So that's why I decided to write this.
00:22:05.000And then, you know, and then, because I have, you know, I have a, I have a close relationship with my kids.
00:22:10.000I would say I have a very close relationship with them.
00:22:13.000I said here, you know, i'm not just going to write a screed about why I think we need to talk more about, you know, masculinity and stoicism.
00:22:20.000I'm going to throw out some tips and frankly, a lot of the tips are pretty obvious, I think.
00:22:25.000If you're a pretty decent parent, you'll you'll know them.
00:22:28.000If you're a decent dad, you'll know them.
00:22:29.000But the but but, the fact that I had to write this to me is what's revolutionary, and I will say the one.
00:22:34.000This is the one er tip, the one uber tip in there is, stand up to gentle parenting.
00:22:40.000Okay, and you know, for people who may not know what gentle parenting is, if you go into, you know, a Barnes AND Noble, a bookstore, you go on Amazon, you'll see all these books about gentle parenting about uh, you know, progressive parenting about, about not being an authoritative parent, not telling your kids that you're in charge, negotiating with them, not punishing them, not ever dominating them or establishing your authority over them.
00:23:09.000And I think that's a huge mistake in our culture.
00:23:11.000I think, listen, obviously, you need to be close to your kids.
00:23:17.000But your kids need to know, particularly if you're the dad, that there are going to be times when they just have to listen, that there's not going to be a negotiation here, that there's not going to be a long discussion of alternatives.
00:23:28.000That sometimes you're just going to say, go clean your room.
00:23:50.000So I searched gentle parenting once you mentioned it.
00:23:52.000And the very first result I got was a thread on a website that says, Gentle parenting turned my child into a naughty, an a hole, as they say.
00:24:02.000And so that seems like a good endorsement of what you're saying.
00:24:05.000I think it's so remarkable what you said that you saw TV shows and it's always safe.
00:24:10.000Kind of the default comedic figure in so many books, in TV shows, and movies is the hapless dad.
00:24:16.000Advertisements, of course, are like this.
00:24:18.000I remember watching with my family, we would watch Nick at Night growing up, and we would watch the Brady Bunch.
00:24:23.000And that actually must be so jarring to watch because I remember now that the dad, the dad Brady, I can't remember his proper name, but he was not the figure of humor.
00:24:32.000The kids would screw up, and he would come in and give them valuable life advice.
00:24:37.000And it was still a funny show, it was still an enjoyable show.
00:24:44.000Gidget, when Sally Field was a child star, that one also, she would do comedy, but yeah, the dad could be this leadership figure.
00:24:51.000And then I remember the stuff that was on the air in my actual childhood, the stuff like everybody loves Raymond, he's now the butt of every joke.
00:25:01.000And I think there's something to that.
00:25:05.000I think it might have been that it's a little unsafe to go after almost any other group, except for, as we'd say, like default straight white guys.
00:25:14.000And a dad is certainly a straight white guy in many cases.
00:25:18.000And we just made it the norm to tear them down without heedless of the consequences.
00:25:58.000There's going to be cultural reactions to stuff.
00:26:01.000But this has been going on now for 40 years.
00:26:05.000And it really, I think, has had cultural consequences.
00:26:10.000And then they're sort of the same women, the same sort of woke women, the women in New York or in Los Angeles.
00:26:18.000And they complain, well, they can't find a guy they like.
00:26:20.000Well, you know, You've been spending your entire youth wearing the futurist female t shirts, and you wonder why it is that masculinity, traditional masculinity, when you go looking for it, you can't find it.
00:26:35.000It's the sense that things are out of balance, that a child doesn't need two moms.
00:26:56.000So, okay, you know, here, this is sort of, I don't know if I'd call this a surprise or not, but I think driving, I drive a ton with my children, okay?
00:27:06.000And, you know, I live in the Hudson Valley of New York State.
00:27:26.000But also when you see other people doing these things, it's a good opportunity to say like, this is not, this is not communitarian behavior.
00:27:39.000And, you know, normally when you're in public, you don't want to call other people out for being jerks because, you know, you don't know who has a gun.
00:28:59.000They got a backpack stolen from them because they are a little bit of country mice and they didn't take it seriously enough, but they didn't get hurt.
00:29:08.000And I think that that's a really good life lesson for them.
00:29:11.000I think that you have to let your kids.
00:29:13.000You know, grow and make mistakes and be on their own and trust that nothing terrible is going to happen to them.
00:29:21.000And that does not mean that, like, the world is a difficult place.
00:29:45.000And I just think, you know, The over parenting, again, the feminization, the gentle parenting takes something so important from these kids.
00:29:55.000Alex, you and I both seem to agree that there's a general crisis of proper fatherhood compared to how it seemed to be in the past, but not everyone seems to agree.
00:30:05.000I was looking around to see what the discourse is.
00:30:07.000Literally today, we have an article in the New Yorker which argues, Are dads getting better?
00:30:13.000And they say basically that they go with one of the things we've seen, which is that men are spending, they say dads are spending more time.
00:31:11.000Even if the culture is telling you you're dumb and you don't know what you're doing and, you know, just let mom, you know, she's going to be in charge and you're just kind of a second, secondary parent.
00:31:21.000Like the parents, the fathers that I know, that's not how they are.
00:31:26.000Okay, they want to be involved, they are involved, they're emotionally involved.
00:31:29.000What I'm saying is like you, you, you have the right as a father to be, to be somewhat authoritarian to your children.
00:31:38.000So this is another tip in the book that you, you have the right sometimes to be angry with your children and your children should know when you're angry with them.
00:32:37.000So, if you're irritable with your children, and this is something that's going on and on and on, what you need to say to yourself is look, I need to either accept whatever behavior is irritating me and stop being irritable about it, or I need to change it.
00:32:53.000I'm thinking about that because when you're irritable, when you're letting something get under your skin, you're showing you're not in command and you're not an authority figure anymore.
00:33:01.000You're a person dealing with this nagging problem.
00:33:06.000That's so antithetical to that vision of fatherhood you were laying out in our first segment.
00:33:11.000So, I do think that there are a lot of dads out there who are involved, who want to be involved, and who just, you know, again, have been a little bit emasculated.
00:33:20.000The culture has taken from them their natural voice.
00:33:25.000This is not saying, hey, there, you know, there's so many dads are not involved and you need to be.
00:33:30.000Obviously, that's its own problem and a separate problem.
00:33:34.000But if you're constantly telling somebody, hey, You're not very good at this.
00:33:38.000You know, you should just let mom lead the way.
00:33:40.000There are going to be dads who step back, even if they don't really want to.
00:33:45.000I think what we're seeing actually is how involved many fathers want to be, that they stand in despite being told that they're idiots, despite, you know, the endless ads where they're goofy.
00:33:56.000I think they know better and they know they're important.
00:33:59.000And this book, you know, this book is for them too.
00:34:02.000So, Alex, so I apologize that this is a curveball because I'm just looking through this New York article since it came out today and they point out.
00:34:08.000I think this intersects with a lot of your reporting on your Substack, which I should shout out, Unreported Truth Substack.
00:34:14.000You're still writing a lot about health, mRNA shots, all of that stuff.
00:34:18.000And you've written a lot about marijuana, too.
00:34:20.000So I thought I'd bring up another topic they mention here, which is the fall in male testosterone that's been happening over time.
00:34:28.000And they highlight in this article that we have evidence that the more time dads spend around their kids, it lowers your testosterone.
00:34:35.000It makes you more of a dad and less of a hunter, gatherer, warrior, killer type guy.
00:35:24.000I will say, like, I understand this idea that, you know, this biological idea that once you've had a couple of kids, you're more concerned about protecting those kids than going out and, you know, finding a woman to have more kids with.
00:35:39.000It seems to sort of make a certain amount of biological sense.
00:35:41.000But to me, like, there's nothing more masculine than, you know, than standing up for your kids and standing up for your wife and standing up for your family than building a household.
00:35:53.000And it's funny, there was a New Yorker, since we're talking about the New Yorker, there was a New Yorker article about Andrew Tate recently in the last week or two, where he brags about how he's fathered 12 kids or however many it is.
00:36:07.000I don't even know if he knows exactly.
00:36:18.000What makes you a dad is not passing your genetic material into the world.
00:36:22.000It's fathering children, it's parenting children, it's being there for them.
00:36:27.000And and you know, I'm sorry for him that he doesn't know that, but so you know, I don't know if you measured my testosterone, what it would be right now.
00:36:35.000I know that I'm a parent to my children, and that is incredibly fulfilling to me.
00:36:40.000And it's and it's the number one job in my life, it truly is.
00:36:48.000It's like you've got to be, you know, we need not just that, we need fathers, and fathers are not just you build a family, and then on top of that, you build civilization, you preserve civilization, you build.
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00:40:28.000It's more of a framework for about two months worth of negotiations.
00:40:33.000It basically says Iran should open the strait, that we'll have a ceasefire, that the U.S. will agree that if Iran makes serious material progress towards not having, not seeking a nuclear weapon, improving it, like if we're able to remove the nuclear dust, if we're able to make progress on that, then we will remove sanctions on Iran, we will organize.
00:40:56.000Potential investment into Iran to rebuild their country because they've taken a lot of damage and so on.
00:41:03.000It's an attempt to create a permanent arrangement with Iran so that we can live in an accommodation with them.
00:42:09.000And he might go back to that to try to achieve a long term peace deal.
00:42:12.000But President Trump, he has the ability to credibly threaten force against Iran.
00:42:18.000And we're hopeful that the fact that they know President Trump will do that means that this new leadership group they have in Iran, because the old one has been taken out, that they're willing to play ball to.
00:42:31.000That's sort of the thing here we have the hope that the Iranian leaders will actually want their country to thrive, that they will want their country to improve and get better.
00:43:07.000A lot of people do feel that way, and I can understand that.
00:43:10.000But in the end, President Trump, he is not the president of Iran, he is the president of the United States.
00:43:17.000And we have to look out for the good of America.
00:43:20.000And I think he's done a lot on behalf of the Iranian people.
00:43:23.000He's done major strikes against their regime.
00:43:26.000But we have to remember that there do seem to be a lot of Iranians who do support this regime.
00:43:31.000So if we're going to go in, it's not that we've heard this line that we'll be welcomed as liberators and everyone will be happy.
00:43:38.000And the truth is often a lot more sordid and violent than that.
00:43:41.000When we went into Iraq, there were initial celebrations, and then the country descended into a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
00:44:59.000Okay, so I've been following the drama with Justin Heap, the County Board of Supervisors, First Amendment legal, and apparently when Stephen Richter was voted out, praise God, and Justin Heap was voted in, the County Board of Supervisors did something with his office where they basically took his entire job and gave it to them so they could still be corrupt.
00:45:21.000There's been a lot of things with lawsuits back and forth and a lot of victories, but if you guys could go over that detail, I'd be very grateful.
00:45:28.000Yeah, let me give you the kind of the quick rundown.
00:45:31.000So, after the last election, the last primary election, Stephen Richard, who was the county recorder for Maricopa County, who had done a horribly, I mean, just terrible, terrible job.
00:45:45.000So bad that the county board of supervisors actually had many, many conflicts with the recorder.
00:45:52.000You'll remember that they had the long lines that happened, half the polling places shut down in 2022 on the Cary Lake election.
00:46:00.000What essentially happened was he got voted out, and the County Board of Supervisors voted to essentially take away all the IT staff, the vast majority of the responsibilities, constitutional responsibilities of the recorder, and just hand them over to the bureaucrats in the County Board of Elections, the County Elections Department, which is directly overseen by the County Supervisors.
00:46:46.000I want to make sure everyone understands this is important for the entire country because what's happening in Maricopa County is the tip of the spear for everywhere else.
00:46:53.000Whatever's happening in Maricopa County, you can bet will come to the next big counties that will try to take over your state, even if you're in a deep red state.
00:47:03.000So, anyways, as I was saying, basically what happened was.
00:47:06.000They tried to take all the powers away from Justin Heap.
00:47:10.000Justin Heap came in, and thank goodness he had America First Legal that was coming in to help him, and they helped dramatically fight them in court.
00:47:22.000The courts said that the county supervisors were acting childishly.
00:47:28.000They went to that extent, said that they were acting childishly and that they needed to return back the powers.
00:47:35.000They have dug their heels in to try to stop it.
00:47:39.000Every time that you get some kind of ruling in courts, Basically, there's an appeals process.
00:47:45.000So you can appeal the entire thing and drag it out.
00:47:49.000And this has been really what's devastating for elections because anytime that anything is fought in the courts about elections, the adversaries try to drag it out.
00:48:02.000And then what happens is something that's called the Purcell Rule, which actually came out of Maricopa County, but it's applied across the country, which says that if election procedures or rules are going to change too close to an election, then we just won't change them at all.
00:48:18.000And this is terrible precedent because what the left has done is they got really good at changing election rules and then getting the Purcell rule applied in the courts so that nothing changes, even when you're right.
00:48:31.000So, what's happened actually just even just recently is the courts actually came out and said that the county board of supervisors is acting childishly, but oh, we have an election that's coming up in a few weeks, so we actually can't fix it because of the Purcell rule.
00:48:47.000This is why I love when we get questions about Arizona politics, you can really see Tyler just get to.
00:48:53.000Unload and you remember, you see why he runs our political operation because that is a lot of detail to do, no off the cuff about an office in Maricopa County.
00:49:08.000Well, Blake, and I was just going to say this this is really important moving forward because what happens in Maricopa County and how this ruling will come down and how things will get corrected.
00:49:18.000And this is where the Save America Act comes in because Arizona already has laws in place to check people's citizenship.
00:49:27.000And everything else, but if no one actually applies that, no one actually does the job, no one actually cleans the voter rolls, and good people don't get into office and actually manage the office the right way, then the bad guys take over.
00:49:39.000And so, this is really the crux of the battle that's happening in Maricopa County right now you have a good guy that's in there that's fighting the good fight basically single handedly and winning in the courts.
00:49:51.000But this is the fight that will be at the doorstep of absolutely every single county within America.
00:49:56.000And if Maricopa County doesn't go the correct way, Meaning, you know, supporting the rule of law, then we're going to have real problems across America.
00:51:23.000And quite frankly, I feel like it's destroying our district.
00:51:27.000And so, my first question is why and how is this happening within our own reserved Christian values?
00:51:34.000And then the second question is, If I do get into this, how do I prevent this from continuing to happen and just get our focus back on the students?
00:51:49.000What do we do when it sounds like her district, yeah, it's already conservative, but it's just fratricidal infighting anyway, causing division?
00:51:58.000So, this is the biggest problem that we have within the conservative movement this yearning for independence that exists, even with individuals who get involved.
00:52:07.000And you can see the hotheadedness that happens.
00:52:10.000Very quickly, with people who get into office because they believe their way is the right way and that's the only way, and then the fracturing that happens because of lack of team player mentality within the conservative movement tends to fracture the conservatives.
00:53:05.000And oftentimes, what happens in these situations is you don't have captains.
00:53:09.000You have, you know, again, really hot headed, really.
00:53:14.000You know, strong headed individuals who it's my way or the highway, and they're not able to even sit down in a room together and having discussions.
00:53:23.000Some laws prevent sitting down in a room together and even having discussions because of the laws that are in place by your state.
00:53:32.000But, you know, you have to go in knowing if you're going to get involved, you're going to do it for the right reasons and you're going to be able to bring people together.
00:53:39.000And that's hard to do with conservatives sometimes because of the independence.
00:54:22.000People would ask Charlie, what is Strong Cell exactly?
00:54:25.000Strong Cell is a nutritional supplement that leverages a remarkable enzyme called NADH.
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00:54:40.000Unfortunately, as we age, our body's NADH levels naturally decline, leading to various ailments and health issues linked to poor cellular health.
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00:56:16.000I just wanted to add a big picture thing, which is she says, Why is this happening even among Christians and conservatives?
00:56:24.000And we should remind ourselves that just because you carry the label of Christian, just because you're a conservative, just because you sincerely do believe those things, that doesn't guarantee that you're going to be.
00:56:36.000A virtuous person or do the right thing.
00:58:28.000It was back from 2023 where I was doing some sort of silly video with Charlie, and someone had asked him what his favorite type of music to listen to was.
00:59:35.000You know, you're singing about not romance, you're singing like trashy, basically like the culture of sex and hookups, or it's about, you know, these guys being emo and whining and stuff.
00:59:46.000And Charlie said, I think he basically said, music you listen to should raise your soul to God.
01:00:35.000But I asked Michael too because Michael does all of the music for.
01:00:39.000The show, and he was saying that Charlie would always comment, like what Blake said, when it was something from a sports game, from something, a theme that he was when he was growing up, something that brought back nostalgia, he would always mention that he liked that kind of stuff, like classic rock or anything classical in general.
01:00:59.000And by the way, about it being a silly question, we love silly questions.
01:01:02.000Silly questions are some of the most fun to answer because it's like we were just talking about the infighting and the conservative movement.
01:01:07.000It's so nice to have like lighthearted, we have so many.
01:01:11.000Day to day wonderful memories with Charlie.
01:01:14.000We want to pull back the curtain on that and show people the kind of guy he was.
01:01:19.000So we love to send us as many silly questions as you guys like.
01:01:22.000Kyrie, we have you as our next question.
01:02:47.000I've, Have friends who have read it and they have liked it.
01:02:49.000I've always stood away because Mary Beard, she is one of those public intellectuals who she likes to comment as, oh, I'm an expert on Rome.
01:03:58.000Anyway, so they've discovered they were painted.
01:04:01.000And there's been this whole trend of like, let's.
01:04:03.000Paint people to show how they really look, and they do it wrong because we have evidence from like Pompeii murals that we know that they painted them to look good, they actually would have looked good to us.
01:04:13.000And they'll say, No, we're going to paint them to be really garish, they're going to be maximally ugly.
01:04:19.000Mary Beard gave an interview where she basically said, I support us doing that because right wingers believe they like classical sculptures and they like them being bare and unpainted because then they're white, and that's driven.
01:04:35.000And so it's like good that we've undercut this by painting them.
01:04:39.000And when I saw her give that interview answer, I'm just, I'll be frank, I just don't feel compelled to read a book by a person who offers a take like that.
01:05:25.000It's about the last hundred years of the Roman Republic.
01:05:28.000So, how it went from the Republic to, you know, through Cato and Caesar and Pompey and it fell and it became the empire, but it still endured after that and achieved a great many things.
01:05:39.000So, I think that's a good place to start.
01:05:41.000I don't have a good one that's All of Roman history, but if you find specific topics in different periods, good books, you build up your understanding of it over time.
01:05:50.000So I'll throw out that recommendation for Rubicon.
01:05:53.000Or if you're not going to read one of the books, you can also either take the Hillsdale online course or you can re watch Charlie and Blake taking the Hillsdale online courses.
01:07:39.000I realized this week oh my gosh, this is not a one and done book.
01:07:43.000This is a book that I'm just going to keep on my nightstand and pull it out and just read it again and again because there's so much in it and I can get so much out of it.
01:07:57.000What I'm realizing though is it's really hard to do a full Sabbath day.
01:09:11.000And it was such a struggle to sleep in those first couple weeks afterwards, and like so much to figure out, so much work, just really, really heavy.
01:09:17.000And I remember reading that and being like, I have permission to just go to sleep and rest right now.
01:09:40.000Like everything goes by so quickly, you're so busy when you have a baby, but it also is one of the only things that actually forces you to stop everything you've been doing and just recalibrate your entire life.
01:09:52.000And I, well, not to get too deep, but there was a lot of change that took place in a lot of our lives after Charlie passed.
01:10:03.000A lot of like day to day, my work life was very different pretty, pretty immediately.
01:10:08.000And I struggled a lot with like, This was what my purpose was.
01:10:18.000And when I had, sorry, Joni, I did not expect to get emotional.
01:10:24.000But when I had my daughter, it was like, okay, so much of this was taken away from me.
01:10:30.000So much of what I thought I was going to be doing forever was taken away from me.
01:10:35.000And now I have this beautiful gift from God that gave me like my purpose.
01:10:41.000Back, like it gave me something to focus on every day that you can't fail at.
01:10:48.000Like, you have to do everything you can to protect and support and care for your baby.
01:10:55.000And it was like everything shifted within an instant on September 10th.
01:11:00.000And so much of that just hole in my heart and in my brain, I feel like was filled the second I had her because it's like, this is what I have to focus on.
01:11:11.000No matter what else has happened, no matter how sad I am, no matter how different things look, I have this baby that God has entrusted.
01:11:31.000All right, we're going to read it real quick.
01:11:33.000Mary asks How would you approach opposition at work?
01:11:35.000I work as a pediatric hospice, I believe, CNA on a very liberal and left wing care team.
01:11:41.000I try my best to be respectful and loving to avoid potential violent outbursts, but I also refuse to attend pride events or support individuals who always claim to be victims.
01:12:02.000I, we, sorry, I got a little, little sidetracked with my last tangent, but I just wanted to encourage you, Mary, if you are, I know you couldn't unmute yourself, but if you are listening, like it will always be worth it to stand up for your beliefs, but there also is a respectful way.
01:12:22.000To do that, especially when you're at work with people every day.
01:12:24.000We talked about this with a caller last week at her small office job.
01:12:30.000I think a lot of it is like asking questions, putting their brains to work, asking them to critically think about things, not just coming in hot and heavy, you must do this, you need to think this, I can't believe you don't think this, because no one's going to react well to that.
01:13:04.000It's probably the most single beautiful sermon that Christ ever gave when he says, Blessed are you when they hate you and persecute you for my sake.
01:13:19.000You should take solace in the words of Christ on that front.
01:13:22.000Well, and I think it's Colossians 3 Work unto the Lord, not unto man.
01:13:29.000Which can be really hard when you don't see the fruits of that every single day, but it is your duty to show up and work hard at what God is giving you.
01:13:37.000And to be happy, because we should always be joyful.