The Charlie Kirk Show - August 10, 2026


Working Class Red Alert + AOC's Egg Freeze


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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
00:00:05.000 I run the largest pro American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.
00:00:11.000 My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.
00:00:14.000 If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.
00:00:19.000 But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful.
00:00:24.000 College is a scam, everybody.
00:00:26.000 You got to stop sending your kids to college.
00:00:27.000 You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible.
00:00:31.000 Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter.
00:00:33.000 Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter.
00:00:35.000 Go find out how your church can get involved.
00:00:37.000 Sign up and become an activist.
00:00:39.000 I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.
00:00:41.000 Most important decision I ever made in my life.
00:00:43.000 And I encourage you to do the same.
00:00:45.000 Here I am.
00:00:46.000 Lord, use me.
00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:49.000 Here we go.
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00:01:17.000 All right.
00:01:18.000 Welcome, everybody.
00:01:19.000 It is Monday, August 10th, 2026.
00:01:23.000 Blake's holding it down in the Y Refi Studios.
00:01:25.000 How are we doing, Blake?
00:01:26.000 I'm doing great.
00:01:27.000 I think we're coming to the cosmic realization, Andrew, that it is my Mike flag now.
00:01:32.000 I think I have possessed this flag more days in the last month than you have.
00:01:36.000 And I don't think that's going to be changing this week.
00:01:38.000 So.
00:01:39.000 I'm the captain now.
00:01:41.000 That's what Blake says.
00:01:42.000 Well, listen, Blake, I entirely disagree.
00:01:45.000 It is my Mike flag.
00:01:46.000 I'll be there to reclaim it in due time.
00:01:49.000 Nevertheless, we have a show to do about much of the news that has been happening.
00:01:54.000 And I would be remiss if we did not be honest with this audience about what we are facing in this current moment.
00:02:04.000 Now, if you asked me, is it okay to vote Democrat?
00:02:09.000 I would tell you very, very clearly, absolutely not.
00:02:13.000 I don't know what's gotten into people across the podcast sphere, the internet sphere.
00:02:20.000 There is a lot of people that will look you straight in the face that you have known to be conservatives for many years that will tell you, actually, we need to vote Democrat.
00:02:29.000 We need to burn this down and we need to usher in an era of post left and right politics.
00:02:34.000 That's an old paradigm, bro.
00:02:37.000 Well, that's not true.
00:02:39.000 If you vote Democrat, they will let in three to five million third worlders a year illegally.
00:02:45.000 And they will do it happily.
00:02:46.000 They will smile to your face.
00:02:47.000 They will lie to you about why they are doing it, that it's even happening at all.
00:02:52.000 They will tell you the border is secure, and they will overrun this country.
00:02:56.000 For that issue alone, you should never vote Democrat again.
00:02:59.000 There are myriad issues of which you could put in that category.
00:03:03.000 But for that issue alone, you do not want America to be invaded again by third worlders.
00:03:07.000 If you have kids, grandkids, you do not want to vote Democrat.
00:03:11.000 But if our pitch is only going to be.
00:03:16.000 That voting Democrat is the least worst choice, or that is the most worst choice, and that voting Republican is the least worst choice, then that is not an inspiring message to about 50% of the country.
00:03:29.000 Because you got 25% hardened on this side, 25% hardened on that side, and then you got about the mushy middle, the normies, as we sometimes call them.
00:03:37.000 And that's not a pejorative, by the way.
00:03:39.000 People should not be so fixated on politics.
00:03:42.000 The politics of this country should run itself.
00:03:45.000 It should be something you could sort of put in the background and depend upon.
00:03:50.000 That it will be handled professionally in an adult manner with common sense.
00:03:54.000 What's in the best interest of the country?
00:03:56.000 We are not in that era.
00:03:58.000 And so, there are a lot of people fixated on politics and they're just getting bad vibes.
00:04:04.000 And I will repeat myself till I'm blue in the face that I think it goes back to the way Epstein was handled for a lot of people.
00:04:11.000 That felt like a psychic break, a betrayal of trust, of transparency.
00:04:19.000 Whether or not the admin knew that, I don't think they understood that.
00:04:23.000 But it was a break, okay?
00:04:25.000 And you could get mad at me in the emails if you want that we're playing into the hoax.
00:04:29.000 I'm just telling you the politics of it, folks.
00:04:32.000 Now, do I think Trump did anything wrong?
00:04:33.000 No, of course.
00:04:34.000 But I think that it could have been handled better.
00:04:37.000 Then you get into Iran.
00:04:38.000 A lot of people believe that President Trump said no new wars.
00:04:41.000 It's not exactly what he said.
00:04:43.000 He was very consistent on Iran.
00:04:44.000 Nevertheless, the Iran conflict, you go back to Midnight Hammer, but then you get into the spring and the ongoing conflicts with Iran.
00:04:52.000 It's been a drag.
00:04:53.000 Okay?
00:04:54.000 It's been a drag.
00:04:55.000 And unfortunately, this has resulted in some very negative polling.
00:04:58.000 And we have to be honest about it.
00:05:01.000 We have to offer something better than we're just not as bad as the other guys.
00:05:05.000 And I think Blake would agree.
00:05:06.000 Blake, I'm going to play this clip and then I'm going to have your reaction on the other side and you can sort of analyze how we got here.
00:05:14.000 Stop 15.
00:05:15.000 What is going on, Mr. Berman?
00:05:17.000 What's going on is simple the MAGA movement was built among the working class, non college Americans.
00:05:23.000 And take a look at this trend line that we're looking at in the data.
00:05:26.000 Here we go.
00:05:26.000 Okay, net favorability rating, the MAGA movement, non college adults.
00:05:30.000 Back in October of 2024, look at that.
00:05:32.000 On the plus side of the ledger, positive, plus six points.
00:05:36.000 Down we go into the Atlantic Ocean now.
00:05:38.000 Look at this movement.
00:05:39.000 Now, minus 22 points.
00:05:42.000 That is a shift, Johnny B., of 28 points away from the MAGA movement, away with non college Americans.
00:05:51.000 So the bottom line is the group at which the Trump movement was built upon, they are shifting away and saying, we don't like MAGA anymore.
00:06:00.000 Well, it's as he says non college Americans, you have to think about what that represents.
00:06:06.000 That represents.
00:06:08.000 Blue collar working class people like the union voters who swung towards Trump.
00:06:12.000 It represents a lot of rural voters.
00:06:15.000 I think a lot about, if you've ever heard of it, it's called the Driftless Area.
00:06:19.000 It's kind of the border area, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Western Illinois, kind of all the northern Mississippi River area.
00:06:29.000 And those are counties that are rural, lightly populated, but historically voted pretty blue.
00:06:33.000 They voted for Obama, for example.
00:06:35.000 They helped make Iowa a blue state under Obama.
00:06:37.000 And they swung.
00:06:39.000 Really dramatically, aggressively towards Donald Trump.
00:06:42.000 That is what we do.
00:06:43.000 When we talk about Donald Trump remaking American politics, it's not just about issues, it's about coalitions.
00:06:48.000 That Donald Trump massively boosted the GOP with lower education voters, with lower income voters, while at the same time, he was shedding some of the higher educated, higher income voters who had more globalist points of view, who didn't care for his style of politics.
00:07:05.000 That was the Trump realignment, Andrew.
00:07:08.000 And that's what enabled him to.
00:07:10.000 Win states no Republican had won in decades.
00:07:12.000 That is how he is able to win Wisconsin, win Michigan, win Pennsylvania, win back Nevada after it had gone blue for several elections.
00:07:22.000 And as you say, we need to be paying attention if the polls say that that is swinging the other way.
00:07:31.000 They are true swing voters.
00:07:33.000 They're the kind of people you can win back, but we should not ignore this fact.
00:07:37.000 I think there's a lot of people who will prefer to look at any poll that is bad.
00:07:41.000 And say that the poll is fake, to say that the poll has a bad sample or whatever.
00:07:47.000 And I think you and I know, and Charlie would know, you have to pay attention to these sorts of things.
00:07:53.000 Even if the poll is exaggerated, it's getting at something real.
00:07:57.000 And I think what we've seen play out is a lot of people probably were innately a little bit wary of going for Donald Trump and going for the Republicans again in 2024.
00:08:08.000 But Charlie and others made a good pitch on affordability, on the border, on Biden being a complete disaster, on no wars, and in some cases on Epstein.
00:08:18.000 And they feel like they got burned on at least some of those issues.
00:08:23.000 And it's going to be.
00:08:25.000 A lift to get them to trust us again.
00:08:27.000 And it's not something that you can just win over with rhetoric.
00:08:29.000 It's something where you need to have real wins to offer them.
00:08:33.000 We can't just give them a lecture.
00:08:35.000 Well, and I do believe that we have real wins.
00:08:38.000 So I do believe that part of it is messaging, right?
00:08:41.000 And this goes back to the issue of the burrito, the infamous burrito now.
00:08:46.000 My whole point was not that this is that a $20 burrito is even the norm.
00:08:50.000 I'm not even saying that.
00:08:51.000 I'm saying in the minds of voters, they think it costs $20.
00:08:54.000 All right.
00:08:55.000 They think the average, if a college kid is paying $17 for a burrito with, you know, He basically is thinking that's a $20 burrito, right?
00:09:02.000 And to ignore the feelings and the anxieties of your voters, I think, is political malfeasance.
00:09:09.000 But the point is that we have to be offering a positive vision.
00:09:13.000 And I think we've got away from that.
00:09:14.000 And we need to be messaging on that.
00:09:17.000 And we need to declare our wins loudly and proudly.
00:09:19.000 The chief among them, obviously, is the border.
00:09:22.000 But there are myriad other wins.
00:09:24.000 There are multiple other areas of the country and of the economy that we could genuinely point to as being hugely successful.
00:09:32.000 And we need to do that.
00:09:33.000 All right, so Blake, it's not just about the approval of working class voters when it comes to MAGA.
00:09:39.000 This is hitting Trump himself now.
00:09:42.000 SOT 16.
00:09:43.000 So, how about what the same group is saying about Donald Trump specifically?
00:09:47.000 Yeah, okay.
00:09:48.000 So, you know what?
00:09:48.000 The idea being, okay, maybe they've soured on MAGA, but they haven't saved, soured on MAGA, but maybe they haven't soured on me, Donald Trump might be saying.
00:09:57.000 Ain't the truth.
00:09:58.000 Take a look here.
00:09:58.000 Okay, non college voters on Trump.
00:10:00.000 Hello.
00:10:01.000 Okay, in the 2024 election, he won them by 13 points, right?
00:10:05.000 That was the reason he won.
00:10:06.000 He won among non college voters.
00:10:08.000 A very strong performance amongst them.
00:10:10.000 And that, of course, was the reason he was able to win because college voters were against him.
00:10:14.000 But look at this now minus 19 points, minus 19 points.
00:10:17.000 We're talking about an even bigger shift here.
00:10:19.000 We're talking about what is this?
00:10:20.000 This is a 32 point shift away from the president of the United States when it comes to his key core political group.
00:10:29.000 I am not blackpilling.
00:10:30.000 There is never a blackpill.
00:10:31.000 Never allowed.
00:10:32.000 Okay?
00:10:34.000 Never allowed.
00:10:35.000 But if you don't look at that and you don't say to yourself, Five alarm fire, then you're crazy.
00:10:42.000 Okay.
00:10:42.000 You've got your head stuck in the sand.
00:10:45.000 We have to look at that and say the very group of people that we came to rely on that it was like, I mean, those people were going to walk on broken glass and hot coals to go vote for Donald Trump.
00:10:59.000 When you see a divergence like that, something incredibly wrong has happened, something incredibly bad has happened.
00:11:09.000 Okay.
00:11:10.000 And why it gets worse, and we have to be honest about this because it's August 10th.
00:11:15.000 We got November coming up in just months now, is that it's going to impact congressional candidates.
00:11:21.000 So we're going to have two of them on in the next segment because it's that important.
00:11:25.000 We got to get behind these people.
00:11:28.000 And before I play this clip, let me just say all of America and the West, Western civilization hinges on the fact that conservatives stay in power.
00:11:38.000 I hate to say it to you that much.
00:11:40.000 There's no pressure here, folks.
00:11:42.000 But this is how bad it is.
00:11:44.000 And we've got to change something.
00:11:46.000 We've got to change our messaging.
00:11:48.000 Sot 17.
00:11:49.000 Choice for the House non college voters.
00:11:51.000 2024 election.
00:11:52.000 Look at this.
00:11:53.000 Republicans plus 13 points.
00:11:55.000 Now, Democrats actually lead among non college voters in an average at polls.
00:12:00.000 It's just a point.
00:12:01.000 But you know what?
00:12:02.000 When it comes to a point, and given how well the Democrats are doing among college voters, these are the types of numbers in which blue waves are built.
00:12:10.000 That's not all the vote, by the way.
00:12:12.000 This is, again, just working class voters.
00:12:16.000 Trump's bedrock constituency, the most foundational element of that constituency.
00:12:22.000 I mean, if you have a college degree, you're like so far blue, it's beyond crazy.
00:12:28.000 That's why college is a scam.
00:12:29.000 Yet another reason a lot of people educated beyond their intelligence.
00:12:33.000 This is non college educated working class voters here, Blake.
00:12:37.000 So the question is what do we do about it?
00:12:40.000 Now, I'll throw it to you, Blake.
00:12:43.000 What would you like to see from a messaging standpoint and from a policy standpoint in the next couple of months that can turn hopefully some of this around?
00:12:52.000 Well, I think we've discussed this a lot.
00:12:54.000 I think it's pretty likely the thing at this point, the biggest thing he could do to turn around the tide.
00:13:01.000 Is probably he has to find a way to credibly end the conflict in Iran.
00:13:07.000 I think you and I both saw that was a big point where things started to go south with a lot of people.
00:13:14.000 And it's not so much whether the war is going well or not.
00:13:17.000 And it's not even whether Donald Trump himself campaigned on no new wars.
00:13:21.000 I know a lot of people who touted President Trump said that, but Trump himself was more measured in what he said.
00:13:27.000 Nevertheless, I think it's very clear a lot of people had the perception that was a reason to vote for Trump, that he had the credibility of being the guy who didn't want.
00:13:36.000 More new wars.
00:13:37.000 And when the Iran war broke out, a lot of people felt super burned about that.
00:13:43.000 And we're only a few months out from the election at this point.
00:13:49.000 We can maybe talk about economic messaging in a better way, but that stuff is sticky.
00:13:53.000 It moves slowly.
00:13:55.000 And I think the only thing where you can get a big flash headline that would be positive in winning these people over is getting the Iran war credibly towards a permanent resolution and saying, I took care of this.
00:14:09.000 It's not a thing you're going to have to worry about for the next two years.
00:14:13.000 Beyond that messaging, I think we've talked.
00:14:16.000 If Congress could come out and say, hey, we just passed a bill to block more stock trading and insider dealing by members of Congress, we just passed some sort of anti corruption measure, stuff like that.
00:14:29.000 That could be a good headline.
00:14:31.000 And the Save Act.
00:14:32.000 Save Act is not necessarily going to be every swing voter, but the people who are disapproving because they're base voters who feel let down, they would be won over by that.
00:14:40.000 Yeah, you've got to address base concerns because we have a base fatigue issue, right?
00:14:45.000 The base enthusiasm issue.
00:14:47.000 We've got to give them a reason to be enthusiastic again.
00:14:49.000 By the way, breaking news this morning, which I think is totally red meat, and people laugh at the expression red meat.
00:14:56.000 I love red meat.
00:14:57.000 Give us more.
00:14:58.000 We need to feast on red meat right now.
00:15:00.000 Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration has revoked 175,000 visas since President Trump took office, including visas held by foreign nationals.
00:15:11.000 Accused of crimes such as fraud and sexual abuse, as well as people who celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk.
00:15:16.000 So we have foreigners coming in here celebrating Charlie's assassination.
00:15:21.000 Rubio emphasized that a visa is permission to enter the United States, not a constitutional right, nor a right to stay here.
00:15:28.000 Boom, get them the heck out.
00:15:29.000 By the way, H 1Bs are all but gone.
00:15:32.000 Just so you're aware, the Trump administration has basically ended H 1Bs.
00:15:36.000 Now, if you let a Democrat back in office, guess what's going to happen to those H 1Bs?
00:15:40.000 They're going to shoot right back up again.
00:15:42.000 Yeah.
00:15:42.000 Andrew, I can't believe it.
00:15:43.000 So the winds are there.
00:15:45.000 Go ahead.
00:15:45.000 I just think it's so worth emphasizing that people will say, Oh, I'm going to go for a Democrat because they're better on affordability or whatever.
00:15:52.000 And the number one thing you have to emphasize is it doesn't really matter what Democrats are for domestically because they are still all in on abolishing the West, commit national suicide.
00:16:03.000 They're worse on that than ever.
00:16:05.000 They're worse on that in every country.
00:16:07.000 They're not moderating one inch.
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00:18:11.000 Now joining us is John Strand.
00:18:13.000 This is a wide open race down there in Florida's 19th.
00:18:16.000 This is the seat that Byron Donalds left to run for governor.
00:18:21.000 And now John Strand is up there.
00:18:23.000 He's the Turning Point Action endorsed candidate in Florida's 19th, the southwest corner of the state, really important territory.
00:18:29.000 John, welcome back to the show.
00:18:31.000 Tell us, how's the race going and what is the timing?
00:18:34.000 When is the primary happening?
00:18:36.000 Andrew, it's always amazing to be with you.
00:18:37.000 Thank you, Blake.
00:18:38.000 You guys are rocking it.
00:18:39.000 And yeah, voting starts yesterday, or actually Saturday.
00:18:42.000 Early voting is happening as we speak.
00:18:45.000 So you guys can make a real difference in this race simply by talking about it, telling your friends, get out the vote.
00:18:51.000 That applies to every primary, but in Florida, it's hot and heavy right now.
00:18:54.000 It is a wide open race with 10 Republicans all vying for Byron Donald's seat.
00:18:59.000 Only one of them qualified with voter signatures, and that is the turning point endorsed candidate, myself, John Strand.
00:19:05.000 We're very honored by that support from patriots all across Florida and the nation, and really excited to be the outsider, independent, America First patriot candidate that's really fighting for what really matters.
00:19:18.000 You know, not political rhetoric or talking points, but really restore, encourage common sense and Judeo-Christian values back into government so that we can finally end the fraud, waste, and abuse that is bankrupting the nation.
00:19:30.000 Both morally and financially, and then try to actually resurrect a government that would deliver what Americans demand, which is security, affordability, and accountability.
00:19:40.000 So it's very straightforward, common sense.
00:19:42.000 It is a wild race in Florida, but you can make a difference at johnstrand.com.
00:19:47.000 Go there and sign up to support us and share the word that we got to vote for change, vote for courage, vote John Strand, patriot for Congress.
00:19:55.000 Yeah.
00:19:55.000 And I mean, John, I just, you're one of those guys that if you win this primary, I have zero doubt that you're going to do the right thing when you get to D.C.
00:20:04.000 So if you are somebody out there that is, yeah, that's worried that when you send these guys off to D.C., they just turn their back on you.
00:20:12.000 No, John is going to be a guy that's going to, you know, Blake mentioned, Stop these insider trading deals and ban stocks trading, insider trading for Congress.
00:20:25.000 Okay, John's a guy that'll do that because he's not driven by money.
00:20:28.000 John's a guy that's going to work to any common sense base initiative, pass the Save America Act, all this stuff.
00:20:35.000 He's not going to be trying to import more foreigners into this country.
00:20:38.000 So if you're nervous about sending people to DC that betray you, you do not have to be worried about that with John.
00:20:44.000 John, I will tell you, your story is amazing.
00:20:47.000 So why don't you just give the.
00:20:49.000 The biography one more time for people who are still getting to know you.
00:20:53.000 Absolutely.
00:20:53.000 So, my dad served in the U.S. Navy.
00:20:55.000 He was actually stationed in Florida, where my brother was born, in Pennsylvania, where my sister was born, in California, where I was born.
00:21:01.000 I was living and working as an actor and a writer when COVID came crashing down around all of us.
00:21:05.000 I led a freedom rally that President Trump tweeted because we were bringing tens of thousands to Los Angeles, of all places, to push back against lockdowns and support the MAGA movement.
00:21:13.000 I became the creative director for America's Frontline Doctors to travel the nation, including speaking in D.C. on January 6th when I was then caught up in the Fed's erection.
00:21:22.000 Arrested, charged with a 20 year felony, even though I did nothing wrong, and given a golden parachute plea deal of a single misdemeanor to make it all go away.
00:21:29.000 But that was a false confession and a weapon against President Trump and his supporters, and I refused to portray my fellow Americans.
00:21:35.000 I took a 20 year felony on the chin, Andrew, as you know, praying for God to bring about a just result, and I won at the Supreme Court and then had all five charges vacated with prejudice.
00:21:47.000 So legally exonerated within the legal system, fighting on the ground ever since to support President Trump and the restoration of America.
00:21:54.000 I did write a book in a prison cell about this extraordinary story.
00:21:57.000 It's on the screen behind me called Patriot Plea.
00:21:59.000 It's not just my story, though.
00:22:01.000 This book will change your life, I promise, if you read it.
00:22:04.000 And it is a manifesto to the nation to remind us what is America?
00:22:10.000 Who are we as Americans?
00:22:12.000 And are we going to make the choice that is in front of us?
00:22:15.000 We are at a crossroads in this nation.
00:22:17.000 2026 is not the midterms, it's the final countdown to decide if we're going to engage in our government and realize that 2026 is our generation's 1776.
00:22:27.000 This is not hyperbole or rhetoric.
00:22:29.000 We are in a revolutionary moment.
00:22:31.000 Charlie knew this well, and he has given us such an incredible example.
00:22:35.000 But really, it comes down to the choice that each and every one of us can and must make.
00:22:39.000 What am I going to do today with the situation that God has put me in and with the promise that God has given me?
00:22:45.000 If we turn to the Lord, if we seek and pray his face, pray towards his face and seek his name, he will hear from heaven and heal our land.
00:22:55.000 That is the promise that we're working and praying towards.
00:22:57.000 You can help us at johnstrand.com this week as early voting is happening now.
00:23:02.000 But no matter where you live and what you do, give it to the Lord.
00:23:06.000 Be serious about it and sober minded.
00:23:08.000 And God can work miracles through your life.
00:23:10.000 He certainly has through mine.
00:23:12.000 Amen, John.
00:23:13.000 I want to get just your vibe on the ground.
00:23:15.000 You're talking to voters constantly.
00:23:18.000 We are in a different political moment than we were in 2024, obviously.
00:23:23.000 You know, there is some headwinds, right?
00:23:26.000 And there is some enthusiasm issue with the base.
00:23:29.000 What are you seeing?
00:23:30.000 And when you talk to voters, what are they begging for more?
00:23:34.000 Give us that insight on the ground.
00:23:36.000 I would say they're begging for the things you would expect them to be calling and demanding common sense, driving out the corruption.
00:23:43.000 They want to have an affordable opportunity to actually buy a home, invest in the American dream, the things that are always an issue.
00:23:51.000 But above and beyond that, I think they're really sick and tired of the propaganda and the grift and just the sense, like you mentioned, that we send these people to Washington and they just continually betray us or fade into the background.
00:24:06.000 But nothing.
00:24:07.000 Nothing significant ever actually changes.
00:24:10.000 So I think they really do want change and courage.
00:24:13.000 They want integrity.
00:24:15.000 Gen Z and the younger generation that I am living in, we are dying for honesty and authenticity.
00:24:22.000 That's what they're demanding on the ground here in Southwest Florida.
00:24:25.000 Like, say what you mean and mean what you say.
00:24:28.000 It's not exactly complicated, right?
00:24:30.000 But it's just so rare to actually have people who believe in something, certainly that believe in something good and sensible, and that will actually walk the walk.
00:24:38.000 and fight for it, especially if it costs them personally.
00:24:42.000 That's the heart and the theme of Patriot Plea, the story that I normally wrote in a prison cell, but lived in my life for years, and that I'm bringing to this campaign.
00:24:50.000 But it's much more than just me or a campaign.
00:24:53.000 Like I said, it's a crossroads moment in America.
00:24:55.000 The voters on the ground can feel and sense that, and they want sincerity, authenticity, and I think they want bravery.
00:25:02.000 They want it in themselves, and they want to see it reflected in their leadership.
00:25:05.000 And I think that's what Charlie really inspired all of us to do and to believe.
00:25:09.000 That all of us are capable of being brave, of being bold, of understanding what's true and then fighting for it.
00:25:17.000 Also, of course, Charlie told us the most amazing thing that he ever said, that he wanted to be remembered for courage, for his faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the truth of the Bible as our foundation.
00:25:28.000 And I read through the founding fathers carefully as I wrote this book.
00:25:32.000 You'll find a lot of that material.
00:25:34.000 But they were so clear-eyed about the objective reality of truth, that it comes from God.
00:25:39.000 Our rights come from God and not the government.
00:25:41.000 That's why they're unalienable.
00:25:43.000 And the proper role of government is very limited to fit within the Constitution and to protect our rights from infringement, not to help us.
00:25:50.000 You know, a great actor and then statesman from California, Ronald Reagan, reminded us the most terrifying words in the English language.
00:25:56.000 Nine most terrifying words are I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
00:26:00.000 So we need to remember what America is really about, what the Constitution is for.
00:26:04.000 And we need to fight to restore those foundations.
00:26:07.000 And I think that foundational courage and truth is what people are looking for.
00:26:12.000 You're right.
00:26:13.000 This is Christendom.
00:26:14.000 We're fighting for Christendom on some level.
00:26:16.000 Yeah, go ahead, Blake.
00:26:17.000 We are.
00:26:17.000 So, John, you're correct.
00:26:18.000 I think voters want authenticity, they want bravery.
00:26:21.000 Before you came on, we were discussing what Republicans who have the House right now could be doing to win people's trust.
00:26:30.000 And we are the ones in power right now.
00:26:32.000 If there is a lot of frustration, that is somewhat on our faction.
00:26:36.000 Let's say you were in the House right now.
00:26:38.000 What do you think you might be fighting for, trying to help ram through to restore that trust?
00:26:45.000 From voters to make them feel like Washington has changed in a positive direction?
00:26:49.000 Excellent question, Blake.
00:26:50.000 Number one, without a doubt, is the Save America Act.
00:26:53.000 And I think the fact that it's bottled up in the Senate, they're claiming they need 60 votes, which is a lie.
00:26:59.000 That's just ridiculous.
00:27:00.000 We know they can pass it with 50 votes and the vice president if they simply do their job.
00:27:05.000 But they're not doing their job because they just can't be bothered.
00:27:08.000 And that alone tells everyone this system is rigged, it's a farce.
00:27:13.000 They don't give a rat's tail end about us as people and as Americans.
00:27:17.000 How can anyone buy into this?
00:27:19.000 So, in Congress, I would be absolutely lambasting them and demanding no more excuses, get it done now, because the whole thing's a sham if we don't have legitimate elections.
00:27:31.000 And the second thing I would do, Blake, is I would be proposing, as I am, the 2020 Sovereignty Act.
00:27:35.000 20 years of zero immigration.
00:27:38.000 Read my lips, no immigration.
00:27:40.000 Lock down the borders.
00:27:41.000 And 20 million deportations accelerated over five years or four years.
00:27:45.000 I want to see 5 million per year because we have to protect our people and build up the middle class.
00:27:51.000 People don't realize, Blake, that from 1924 to 64, we had an immigration moratorium and middle class exploded.
00:27:59.000 So we can return to that principle of protecting our people.
00:28:03.000 And actually lock down the country as far as our sovereignty.
00:28:05.000 And I think that's what people want to see.
00:28:07.000 John Strand, you had me at hello with that 20 years of sovereignty.
00:28:11.000 Amen.
00:28:12.000 I was clapping.
00:28:12.000 I hope you heard it.
00:28:13.000 Get this man into Congress, people.
00:28:15.000 Please support him.
00:28:17.000 Go to johnstrand.com, right?
00:28:19.000 Do I get the URL?
00:28:20.000 It was just Johnstrand.com.
00:28:21.000 You got it.
00:28:21.000 Johnstrand.com.
00:28:22.000 All right.
00:28:22.000 All right.
00:28:24.000 Get this guy into Washington.
00:28:25.000 John, God bless you, my friend.
00:28:28.000 And Godspeed next Tuesday.
00:28:29.000 And early voting's already started.
00:28:31.000 So get behind this man.
00:28:32.000 God bless you.
00:28:33.000 We'll talk to you soon on when you win this thing.
00:28:35.000 Talk to you soon.
00:28:36.000 God bless.
00:28:39.000 We have Michael Alfonso on now.
00:28:42.000 So we had him last week.
00:28:43.000 His primary, I believe, is tomorrow.
00:28:46.000 He is like exactly what he's straight out of central casting.
00:28:51.000 Gen Z fighter, enthusiastic.
00:28:54.000 The answer to so much of what we are facing right now is a new generation of leaders that are willing to be bold and courageous.
00:29:02.000 Michael, welcome back to the show, my friend.
00:29:04.000 Blake's got a really good question for you, but just first.
00:29:07.000 Give us the landscape and the timing and what you're up against.
00:29:10.000 How's it looking?
00:29:11.000 All the stuff with your race.
00:29:12.000 You know, it's really exciting.
00:29:14.000 The election is tomorrow.
00:29:15.000 You know, it's a low turnout primary.
00:29:17.000 So, really, anything can happen.
00:29:19.000 So, it depends on whose people show up to vote.
00:29:22.000 So, I'm really excited.
00:29:23.000 I think our people are really energized and they're excited to have someone who's actually going to support the president's agenda, not just in an election year, but all the time and actually fight for the American people.
00:29:34.000 And that's what I'm going to do.
00:29:36.000 All right.
00:29:36.000 Well, we're very glad to have you back.
00:29:39.000 We were discussing at the top of the show, we were talking about.
00:29:42.000 Headwinds that we're facing, that there are polls that show Gen Z is a lot more frustrated with the president than they were in 2024.
00:29:50.000 Non college voters are a lot more frustrated about the MAGA movement, as they call it.
00:29:56.000 And we were discussing what we can do to turn this around in the next few months.
00:30:00.000 And we asked this of our last guest as well.
00:30:01.000 So you're running to be in the House.
00:30:03.000 Let's say you were in the House right now.
00:30:05.000 If people are frustrated, we control the government, we have to own that to some extent.
00:30:09.000 What should Congress be doing right now, you think?
00:30:13.000 That would be showing that the Republican Party, the conservative movement, the MAGA movement are fighting for them, are delivering on their promises, and that they should get another term running the country.
00:30:26.000 Yeah, Republicans have always had a messaging problem.
00:30:30.000 They don't talk about the things that matter to voters.
00:30:33.000 If they want to win young people, it's actually the same as winning the working class, the middle class.
00:30:38.000 Talk about the working families' tax cuts.
00:30:41.000 Americans, Wisconsinites, right here in my state, Are seeing $10,000 a year more on their take home pay.
00:30:48.000 They're getting $3,000 a year more back on their taxes.
00:30:52.000 President Trump is the only person out there who's actually fighting for the working class.
00:30:57.000 And I'll tell you what, it's not these silver spoon socialists who are running in Wisconsin again, telling you, oh, we'll just give you free stuff.
00:31:05.000 Again, the only thing that the free stuff lie does is make everyone equitable in their levels of suffering.
00:31:12.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:31:13.000 Nothing's free either, by the way.
00:31:15.000 You know, El Sayed was just on the record saying, Yeah, guess what?
00:31:18.000 If you want this free health care for everybody, it's not going to be free at all.
00:31:22.000 Your taxes are going up for middle class people.
00:31:25.000 So it's, you know, there is nothing free.
00:31:28.000 As Margaret Thatcher said, you eventually run out of other people's money.
00:31:32.000 That is the case here.
00:31:33.000 And by the way, it causes stagnation, economic malaise, shortages.
00:31:38.000 You usually have a drop off, by the way, when you talk about health care and just the quality of health care.
00:31:43.000 Let's talk about Gen Z, though, specifically, right?
00:31:46.000 Gen Z specifically, when you're out there, Michael Alfonso, and you're talking to young voters, you're talking to working class voters, what are they begging for you?
00:31:54.000 I asked the same question to the last guest who's running for Congress as well.
00:31:58.000 What are you hearing from voters?
00:32:00.000 You know, honestly, they just want to see an elected official who will actually have to live with the consequences of their decisions.
00:32:07.000 I mean, we got Mitch McConnell in office who probably is already dead making decisions.
00:32:13.000 It's ridiculous.
00:32:14.000 The idea that we're going to have people running this country who don't deal with the consequences.
00:32:19.000 The thing about being 26, whatever I decide, however I vote, I'm going to have to deal with it.
00:32:25.000 And my daughter is also going to have to deal with it.
00:32:27.000 And I care about the working class.
00:32:30.000 Of America, I don't care about the upper crust.
00:32:34.000 I don't want to make sure that middle America is not being hollowed out and mortgaged off to these coastal elites anymore.
00:32:42.000 I think that's great.
00:32:42.000 I mean, listen, when you have kids, you have skin in the game like never before, okay?
00:32:47.000 You know, we talk about AOCs freezing her eggs, like, and she's Miss Working Class family representative.
00:32:53.000 No, you just simply do not understand in the same way you will when you have kids, okay?
00:32:59.000 And I mean, when we talk to young people, they, you know, everybody.
00:33:02.000 Made a big deal about this $20 burrito debate last week.
00:33:06.000 It was like all over the place.
00:33:07.000 But the point is, we have to acknowledge the fact that things do feel hard right now for a lot of people.
00:33:12.000 And you had this K shaped economy thanks to COVID and unlimited money printing.
00:33:17.000 But things are getting better.
00:33:18.000 We are seeing movement in the right direction.
00:33:21.000 We had Scott Besson on last week.
00:33:23.000 Do you know that wages are rising faster than inflation for the lowest 25 percentile, right?
00:33:28.000 In the economy, the wage earners, the salary workers, they're rising faster than inflation for the middle class earners, right?
00:33:35.000 So a little bit higher up.
00:33:36.000 That's good movement.
00:33:38.000 If you tack those on quarter after quarter, quarter after quarter, you will start having the fruits of these economic policies.
00:33:45.000 Economic nationalism will actually take effect and people will start feeling it.
00:33:49.000 We've got to stay the course.
00:33:51.000 Right now, DSA is promising a bunch of free stuff.
00:33:54.000 It's not going to work.
00:33:55.000 Free stuff doesn't work.
00:33:56.000 You run out of it.
00:33:58.000 Finally, your message to those people that are being lured to DSA you have Cuban descent, that's part of your story.
00:34:06.000 What would your warning be to them?
00:34:08.000 My warning would be the exact same one that my grandfather told me.
00:34:13.000 I had a country to run to.
00:34:14.000 You don't.
00:34:15.000 This is the last bastion of freedom.
00:34:18.000 Where are we going to go?
00:34:19.000 Canada, it's even worse.
00:34:20.000 Mexico, it's even worse.
00:34:22.000 America is the last chance for Christian freedom.
00:34:26.000 And we need to protect it down to the absolute last person.
00:34:31.000 I totally agree.
00:34:32.000 We have this clip from JD Vance I want to pull if we have it.
00:34:36.000 But it's talking about economic nationalism.
00:34:39.000 And I don't see it on the.
00:34:40.000 But the point is, if we stay the course here, Michael, this is the route out of this.
00:34:47.000 Charlie used to say we have MAGA or we have Mamdani.
00:34:52.000 The country is faced with a fork in the road right now, and you have these revolutionary passions rising up, and we have to.
00:34:58.000 Okay, so is it.
00:34:59.000 Yeah, clip eight.
00:35:01.000 I think JD Vance does a great job explaining it.
00:35:03.000 I'll let him do it.
00:35:04.000 Clip eight.
00:35:04.000 A lot of Americans look at this rising tide of socialism and say, How did we get here?
00:35:09.000 We got here by 40 years of bipartisan leaders.
00:35:13.000 Selling our industrial base to foreign countries, allowing low wage immigrants to come in and compete with Americans for jobs, by destroying the foundation of the middle class, that's how you got socialism.
00:35:24.000 How you fix that problem is by doubling down on Donald Trump's economic nationalism, not going back to the way we've done things for the past 40 years.
00:35:32.000 It's failed everywhere it's tried.
00:35:33.000 It's failed everywhere it's tried, and it always leads to socialism.
00:35:36.000 It always leads exactly where we are.
00:35:39.000 The only way to get out of it is to double down on the economics of the past 18 months.
00:35:43.000 Amen.
00:35:44.000 All right, Michael, last 30 seconds to you.
00:35:48.000 Give us the timing of the race, and what do people do to get involved?
00:35:51.000 Yeah, the race is tomorrow, so polls are open until 8 p.m. Central Time.
00:35:56.000 We need every single person to get out and vote.
00:35:58.000 I know young people can feel like their vote doesn't matter, but if you don't go out and vote, you have nothing to complain about.
00:36:04.000 You have a chance to make a difference right now.
00:36:07.000 So go to alfonsoforwisconsin.com.
00:36:10.000 You can sign up for any informational letters, but we need your vote tomorrow.
00:36:14.000 Amen.
00:36:15.000 We need Gen Z energy in there.
00:36:17.000 And by the way, you can black pill all you want, but there's people working and building.
00:36:21.000 Those are the people you can trust.
00:36:22.000 They're fighting for the future.
00:36:23.000 That's Michael Alfonso in Wisconsin.
00:36:26.000 God bless you, brother.
00:36:27.000 We got your back, and we look forward to.
00:36:29.000 Seeing you victorious tomorrow.
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00:37:32.000 We have a great guest in store for you, and that is, of course, Christopher Ruffo.
00:37:37.000 We tried to do this last week, but I believe we're in good shape today.
00:37:42.000 Chris does so much stuff, including work with the City Journal and Manhattan Institute, Hillsdale College.
00:37:48.000 He's got Ruffo and Lomez, which is a great show you guys should be checking out.
00:37:52.000 We love both those guys, and I think they're really important right now, especially in this era.
00:37:57.000 So, without further ado, Chris, welcome back.
00:37:59.000 Christopher Ruffo, the man, the myth, the legend.
00:38:02.000 He is there.
00:38:02.000 All right, Chris.
00:38:04.000 So, The original inspiration for having you on was you had this great, just very common sense reaction to Burrito Gate, which was, I just felt it was very, how do I say,
00:38:18.000 refreshing because you said this 151 you said, crazy to see free market conservatives tell anxious young people to shut up and accept double digit inflation instead of taking the opportunity to explain that inflation is a direct result of bad government policy.
00:38:35.000 It's perfectly fine to notice that burritos.
00:38:37.000 Shouldn't be $20.
00:38:38.000 Instead, Chris, we got this whole debate of like, oh, they're not $20 actually, and oh, you should be cooking from home, and bologna and craft singles, and all kinds of stuff happened, which I just felt like got it so confused.
00:38:52.000 Please, please, please ground us again in what good policy should be and where does inflation actually come from, and why that's so important for the next generation to understand.
00:39:04.000 Yeah, no, great question.
00:39:05.000 It's good to be with you.
00:39:06.000 And sorry for last week.
00:39:07.000 I had Three kids with vomiting, and then I caught it, and I was in no shape on Friday.
00:39:13.000 But we're back in action today.
00:39:14.000 So I've been there.
00:39:16.000 Here's the burrito thing.
00:39:17.000 All right.
00:39:18.000 The burrito debate was not actually about burritos.
00:39:21.000 The burritos became a symbol or a signifier, and then everybody took their whatever their pet ideological issues and tried to jam it into this huge debate burrito.
00:39:31.000 And it got so weird that people were like, no, even if the burritos are $20, we have to keep bombing Iran.
00:39:39.000 Like, what are we doing?
00:39:41.000 So, yeah, the basic thing is look, neoconservatives who are.
00:39:48.000 If the interventionist on foreign policy and free market in economics, I half agree with them.
00:39:53.000 I'm also free market on economics.
00:39:55.000 I think supply side economics works.
00:39:56.000 I think monetary critiques of inflation are largely accurate.
00:40:02.000 The price of goods went up a lot during COVID because the Trump administration and then the Biden administration flooded the United States with dollars, just as the amount of goods was contracting, right?
00:40:13.000 So supply chains are tightening, the amount of goods in circulation is contracting slightly.
00:40:18.000 The flood of dollars goes out.
00:40:20.000 This is like economics 101 in high school.
00:40:23.000 That's going to lead to inflation.
00:40:25.000 And then the reason the inflation happened mostly in the Biden administration, it slowed down during Trump.
00:40:31.000 But people are starting to feel the inflation in two ways.
00:40:34.000 One, in their big picture family budgets.
00:40:38.000 Housing is very expensive.
00:40:40.000 College education is very expensive.
00:40:41.000 Health insurance is very expensive.
00:40:43.000 Car insurance is very expensive.
00:40:45.000 It squeezes your budget so that when you go to a Chipotle or a kind of upscale, fast casual burrito place, And your burrito is $20, that feels more significant.
00:40:57.000 And look, it is more significant.
00:40:59.000 And Republicans who are just going to say, shut up, accept that these kind of small luxuries, right?
00:41:08.000 Small indulgences, yeah, they're up 50% in five years, but just shut up because your grandpa ate rat meat during the Great Depression.
00:41:18.000 Like, okay, from a large point of view, yeah, you should learn from your ancestors who went through hard times.
00:41:23.000 You should use it as inspiration.
00:41:25.000 But as a political matter, like, what are we doing?
00:41:27.000 That's just political suicide to tell people to accept 50% inflation on small indulgences.
00:41:33.000 And I just don't take it very seriously from people who claim to be free market, fiscal conservatives, monetary conservatives to just justify inflation because they fear that the critique is really about the war.
00:41:46.000 And that's what was happening.
00:41:47.000 And I think people should just accept, should not fall for the facial debate, but should actually go for why are people seemingly arguing something that they actually don't support in principle.
00:42:00.000 Yeah, Chris.
00:42:01.000 I thought about whatever you make of what causes inflation.
00:42:04.000 It felt like weird territory to be fighting on because, as you mentioned, the biggest drivers of why life feels unaffordable, as you mentioned, housing, healthcare, education, as you know, those are things that are very expensive in large part because they are where the government is most involved.
00:42:20.000 They meddle the most.
00:42:21.000 These are all heavily socialized.
00:42:22.000 Even the $20 burrito, I think when we dived into it, the context was often this is what my college's meal program charges me for.
00:42:31.000 And that's often a cartel where you're forced to sign up.
00:42:35.000 All of this is enabled with endless government student loans.
00:42:38.000 And so, what do you think rhetorically is the best approach to it?
00:42:41.000 Because it struck me that the best pivot off of this should be we need to go after the real drivers of why your life is unaffordable, which is inextricably bound up with stuff that the left wants to just pump more free money into to keep the price rising.
00:42:56.000 Yeah, that's exactly right.
00:42:57.000 And so, you need to take the opportunity, just say, break it down.
00:43:01.000 Why is a burrito $20?
00:43:03.000 Burrito's $20 because of bad monetary policy, because of You could even talk about higher wages.
00:43:12.000 You could talk about immigration.
00:43:14.000 There's immigration for housing prices.
00:43:16.000 I mean, there's a lot of ways to explain why the cost of goods has risen.
00:43:21.000 There's a couple key things monetary policy, the government takeover of sectors of the economy, and mass immigration driving up the prices of things like entry-level housing, let's say.
00:43:33.000 So just make that argument.
00:43:37.000 And it's not about Trump.
00:43:39.000 It's not about the war.
00:43:40.000 Make the actual substantive economic argument because the other point that I was trying to make is right now people are feeling, and you could.
00:43:48.000 You could show them a million charts to try to explain to them why they shouldn't feel this way.
00:43:53.000 But the reality is that people are feeling pinched economically.
00:43:56.000 Even people who are a professional class income, let's say six-figure income, have one or two kids living in a city or a close-ring suburb, they're feeling pinched.
00:44:08.000 And if they're hearing from one side, we're going to give you free health care, free child care, free college education for your kids, and the other side is shut up and eat the rat meat.
00:44:20.000 You're going to get your clock cleaned every time.
00:44:23.000 And so let's not be stupid.
00:44:25.000 Let's not pander.
00:44:26.000 Let's not offer our own version of free stuff.
00:44:30.000 But actually, let's make a good argument that will solve people's problem that takes seriously their emotions.
00:44:37.000 And again, conservatives need to ditch this 2016 ridiculous idea that facts don't care about your feelings.
00:44:45.000 The opposite is almost certainly more true in politics.
00:44:49.000 Your feelings, if you have them, Are impervious to the facts, to charts, to logic.
00:44:55.000 And so actually meet people where they are.
00:44:58.000 Say, you know what?
00:44:58.000 You're feeling pinched about inflation.
00:45:01.000 You're going to hear this argument that you're going to get everything for free from the DSA.
00:45:05.000 But actually, the DSA is the reason why those things are expensive in the first place.
00:45:09.000 Come over here.
00:45:10.000 Let me explain to you why.
00:45:11.000 That these people are making it more expensive.
00:45:14.000 They're taking away what you could have.
00:45:16.000 They're flooding the country with dollar bills and mass migration and exploding costs.
00:45:22.000 We have a smarter way that's actually going to solve your problem.
00:45:25.000 Just like make that argument, and I think it could be more successful.
00:45:28.000 Well, I agree.
00:45:30.000 And that was the only reason.
00:45:31.000 I think people were shocked that I would come in and admit that things are more expensive and that we have an affordability crisis.
00:45:39.000 But I even pointed to the fact that this was because this is a hangover from Biden year inflation and COVID.
00:45:44.000 Like, let's be honest about those.
00:45:46.000 The Titanic cannot turn on a dime, it's going to take a while for policies to take effect and affordability issues to ease.
00:45:54.000 And I think everybody just freaking out about that and making a proxy about Iran or something was just predictable, but like all the nuance was lost.
00:46:05.000 In the modern era, the important next step is to recognize that today governments control the quantity of money, so that as a result, inflation in the United States is made in Washington and nowhere else.
00:46:24.000 If you listen to people in Washington talk, They will tell you that inflation is produced by greedy businessmen.
00:46:30.000 But none of them produce inflation for the very simple reason that neither the businessman nor the trade union nor the housewife has a printing press in their basement on which they can turn out those green pieces of paper we call money.
00:46:48.000 Only Washington has that printing press, and therefore only Washington can produce inflation.
00:46:54.000 Hmm.
00:46:56.000 A wise man.
00:46:56.000 We're back.
00:46:58.000 Yeah.
00:46:59.000 Chris, I.
00:47:00.000 I posted that on my ex account, but I just think it's so comforting to hear the wise way, like grounding this whole debate in something just fundamental.
00:47:09.000 That if you are mad about inflation, if you're mad about the cost of goods, that is a direct result of bad policy.
00:47:16.000 And when you talk about DSA, when you talk about this rise of free stuff populism, they believe in something called modern monetary theory, which is basically an engine for unlimited inflation.
00:47:29.000 So the floor is yours.
00:47:30.000 How important is it to get just our facts right?
00:47:33.000 Basic economic literacy.
00:47:34.000 Yeah.
00:47:35.000 I mean, look, we tried modern monetary theory during COVID, and actually it worked.
00:47:40.000 out not like how the DSA's economists thought it would work out, but it worked out precisely how Milton Friedman would have predicted it would work out.
00:47:48.000 So yeah, you flood the country with dollars, you print endless amounts of money, it causes inflation.
00:47:55.000 And so I think, look, economists will say actually it's a little more complicated than monetary policy only.
00:47:59.000 There's a couple different routes to get inflation, but we know for a fact that inflation is a core driver.
00:48:04.000 And you could see this all over the world in all different types of history.
00:48:09.000 And so I think another person who really understands this is our Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant.
00:48:14.000 And so what I would like to see from Secretary Besant, who's really one of the best cabinet members in the Trump administration, is maybe to take on not the burrito debate that's probably a little below the pay grade for the Treasury Secretary, but to start making the case for what the Trump administration has done right.
00:48:33.000 They've reduced inflation significantly.
00:48:36.000 You see a little uptick since the Iran war because of increased fuel prices, but it's actually now within that kind of Target zone that is probably some would say that the right zone, 2% ish, a little tick higher.
00:48:49.000 But I think also the administration needs to make a better case moving forward how they're going to actually tackle these issues.
00:48:56.000 And I think, you know, they had the announcement about preventing BlackRock or Blackstone or Black whatever from buying the houses.
00:49:04.000 I think that's probably more symbolic than substantive.
00:49:07.000 But they really need to be talking about immigration, you know, that demand side inflation.
00:49:12.000 They need to be talking about good monetary policy.
00:49:15.000 They need to be talking about how they're going to break up some of those sectors of the economy that are government backed cartels.
00:49:22.000 And so we need to make a better debate.
00:49:25.000 And I think what's happening is that the left is just sucking up all the oxygen on these issues.
00:49:30.000 With Momdani, with El Sayed, with all these other DSA candidates, they are right now, I know conservatives don't want to hear this, but it's true, they're dominating the debate on affordability.
00:49:42.000 And because these are all very top.
00:49:44.000 Ticket issues for voters.
00:49:45.000 They're going to win a lot of these campaigns in the midterms unless we see new arguments, new policies, new messaging from the right.
00:49:56.000 Well, and listen, a lot of these bad ideas get started on campus.
00:50:00.000 They don't stay on campus, they go out into the government and corporate boardrooms and all that stuff.
00:50:06.000 That's what Charlie used to say.
00:50:07.000 And we have this great story out of the UK.
00:50:10.000 Absolutely.
00:50:12.000 It's been bubbling up for two weeks at this point, and we just have not gotten to it.
00:50:16.000 I'm very sad.
00:50:16.000 You know who I'm talking about, of course, Chris.
00:50:18.000 This is Jason Arday, a professor at the University of Cambridge, one of the oldest universities, one of the most distinguished in the world.
00:50:25.000 And if you haven't followed this, you guys should all Google this immediately because it's so funny.
00:50:29.000 He was the youngest black professor in the history of the University of Cambridge.
00:50:35.000 And he supposedly had this long list of accomplishments, very bizarre ones.
00:50:38.000 He was saying he once ran 600 miles in six days.
00:50:42.000 He was claiming that racists were sending him pig's heads.
00:50:46.000 Whole long list of comical claims.
00:50:48.000 He claimed he was a pool shark who made thousands of dollars.
00:50:52.000 And then a former academic, Nathan Kaufness, analyzed his work and said, This guy is a plagiarist.
00:50:58.000 All of his work is a sham.
00:51:00.000 100% got him dead to rights as a serial fraudster.
00:51:04.000 Should have been fired immediately.
00:51:05.000 And instead, tons of left wing academics came out, publicly signed a letter defending him, saying these are racist attacks on him.
00:51:13.000 And it just turns out that was a bad guy to defend.
00:51:16.000 So I wanted to ask you about this, Chris, because you're the guy who put CRT, critical race theory, into the mainstream.
00:51:23.000 You've been one of the top voices in really making it okay for us to stand against DEI.
00:51:28.000 So the floor is yours for a few minutes.
00:51:30.000 Talk to us about what this guy's career represents and how, frankly, he's not really a character.
00:51:37.000 He represents what we've Allowed our institutions to do because we've done this for so many years.
00:51:42.000 Yeah, I mean, look, he's like a rich symbol, and what he illustrates all these different right wing arguments and then the deficiencies of all the left wing arguments.
00:51:53.000 He's like an allegory for these political concepts.
00:51:56.000 And so the other thing he said is that he didn't learn how to read and write until after he graduated high school, until he was 18 years old.
00:52:04.000 That might be, you know, theoretically possible, but I think it's also very unlikely to be true.
00:52:11.000 He didn't talk until he was, you know, preteen or something.
00:52:15.000 But look, what liberals want more than anything is to have a living symbol of a poor, oppressed, African-American overcoming hardship.
00:52:26.000 And so what Jason Arde gave liberal administrators of these institutions was a kind of Hallmark movie, Hallmark Channel movie of a magical overcoming of oppression.
00:52:40.000 He adopted all of the buzzwords that they wanted to hear.
00:52:44.000 And then he was just quickly and quite easily picked up and elevated through these institutions.
00:52:52.000 The college degree, graduate degree, professorship at Cambridge, visiting professorships everywhere, $1.4 million book deal to tell his life story.
00:53:02.000 And this is like a fairy tale version that anyone that had basic scrutiny or anyone that had looked at his actual academic work could have easily seen with any amount of skepticism whatsoever.
00:53:15.000 None of this checks out.
00:53:17.000 Actually, none of this makes sense.
00:53:19.000 This is all impossible.
00:53:21.000 But the institutions are so dedicated to suppressing that reality in the interest of these racial fairy tales that they just kept him on this almost unlimited rise to power.
00:53:31.000 And the ending of the story, and I'm glad you held it so I could deliver it, is that actually Cambridge itself also defended him against these accusations of plagiarism, which were completely true, saying, no, no, we looked at it, it's just racism.
00:53:50.000 It's all fine.
00:53:52.000 And so the university itself, when faced with overwhelming evidence of the fraudulent life story, the fraudulent academic work, the fraudulent human being that they had elevated as their star professor, chose to defend the fraud because they're so committed to these racial fairy tales.
00:54:12.000 And ultimately, he resigned, so the story ends with some justice.
00:54:16.000 But the real crime was not committed by Arde, he was just a man playing the game.
00:54:22.000 The crime was committed by our institutions.
00:54:24.000 Amen.
00:54:25.000 Well said.
00:54:26.000 Well said, Christopher Rufo.
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00:55:42.000 Without further ado, Peachy Keenan, one of our favorites, she is one of the most famous American trad wives.
00:55:49.000 Peachy, welcome back to the show.
00:55:50.000 It's good to see you.
00:55:51.000 Hey, guys.
00:55:52.000 Great to see you.
00:55:53.000 Yeah.
00:55:53.000 I couldn't, I was looking at your Twitter, your ex profile, and I was like, I was like, that's really cool.
00:55:57.000 The economist called you that.
00:55:59.000 It's not, I didn't make this up.
00:56:00.000 The economist did.
00:56:01.000 So we've got so much to get into.
00:56:03.000 But first and foremost, it is really, I mean, over the weekend, it was like, All I saw on my feed was AOC freezing her eggs.
00:56:09.000 So we got to start there, okay?
00:56:11.000 It's kind of a longer clip.
00:56:12.000 Well, it's not that long.
00:56:13.000 Here we go.
00:56:14.000 SOT 11.
00:56:16.000 Don't be weird about this, even though I know all of you will be.
00:56:21.000 Okay.
00:56:38.000 That wasn't so bad.
00:56:39.000 So that's her injecting herself, I guess, with hormones to then harvest her eggs.
00:56:44.000 I think it's worth starting there, actually, Peachy.
00:56:48.000 The process for harvesting your eggs and freezing your eggs is extraordinarily invasive and hard and hormonal.
00:56:57.000 Maybe just start there and then we'll get into why this is such a bad idea to be messaging to the culture.
00:57:02.000 Yeah, it's a big commitment.
00:57:04.000 You inject yourself repeatedly with these hormones and then you have to go kind of under the.
00:57:08.000 Under the knife, sort of under some general anesthetic or local, and they harvest them.
00:57:14.000 And they usually need to do the older you are, they need to, the more times you have to do it.
00:57:18.000 You know, if you're 30 and freezing, you can get away with maybe freezing 10 or 15 eggs.
00:57:22.000 But if you're older, egg quality does go down.
00:57:27.000 And when you defrost the eggs, there's fewer viable ones.
00:57:29.000 You have to do, you know, 25, 30.
00:57:32.000 So there's multiple, there's a whole road, there's a whole journey, you know, that you go on.
00:57:35.000 And what I tweeted that freezing your eggs in your late.
00:57:39.000 30s is the equivalent of opening a 401k when you're 64 years old.
00:57:43.000 I mean, you just don't have a lot of runway.
00:57:46.000 And so to me, this just reads as completely a political stunt, a way for her to kind of negate the fact that she doesn't have a family to point to running for president, where the other, you know, let's say JD Vance, he does.
00:57:59.000 He has four beautiful children and a wife.
00:58:01.000 And so this is sort of her, instead of having a family and a husband and kids, she just has her fertility journey to run on.
00:58:07.000 Well, what stood out to me, Peachy, is The values question, like it'd be one thing, I guess, if she at least was known to be single, time is running out.
00:58:17.000 She's like, I still want to have kids and this is my only option.
00:58:20.000 But I think what really made people raise their eyebrows is, as far as I know, she's been engaged to her boyfriend for four years at this point.
00:58:29.000 She's been with him, as far as I know, about as long as she's been in politics, if not longer.
00:58:33.000 I think she knew him in college.
00:58:34.000 So, what is this expressing here?
00:58:36.000 That apparently it's never the right time to actually settle down and.
00:58:40.000 Have kids with the guy she's been with for over a decade.
00:58:43.000 Right.
00:58:44.000 Women who do this typically are single.
00:58:46.000 They don't have a boyfriend or a husband.
00:58:48.000 They're worried that they may not find someone and they don't want to age out of the process.
00:58:52.000 I mean, I understand that.
00:58:53.000 And there's also women who do it for medical reasons.
00:58:55.000 They have cancer, totally understandable.
00:58:57.000 But, or like major fertility issues.
00:59:00.000 They cannot conceive naturally or whatever.
00:59:03.000 So, but she, as far as I know, doesn't have any fertility issues.
00:59:05.000 She definitely would have let us know if she did.
00:59:08.000 And she's been with Riley for many years.
00:59:11.000 Her sort of weird, like nebulous boyfriend fiance or whatever he is.
00:59:16.000 And so I don't really think that this is something like motherhood is on the table for her.
00:59:21.000 I think she's extremely ambitious.
00:59:23.000 We know exactly what she's planning to do starting next year.
00:59:26.000 And so motherhood is like, if she really wanted to be a mom, age 36, almost 37, she has a fiance.
00:59:34.000 You know, there's an easier way to have your baby, unless you want to wait until you're, she's already had two terms, like then you're 50.
00:59:42.000 This is just clearly, like I said, I mean, this just is, you know, she wants to run on relating to women who are scared to be pregnant in Trump's America.
00:59:51.000 And she actually has used that phrase, how dangerous it is for women in Trump's America.
00:59:56.000 We have no, women have no rights, no reproductive freedoms.
00:59:59.000 Trump's coming to like, what's he trying to do?
01:00:01.000 Like, seize your uterus?
01:00:02.000 Like, it's totally, it's totally made up.
01:00:04.000 But this is the fear tactic that she's going to run on.
01:00:07.000 That's such a good point.
01:00:09.000 I mean, and what always gets lost in this conversation, in my opinion, is that.
01:00:13.000 You know, you made the point.
01:00:14.000 If she runs for president, we all know that that's kind of she's putting her career first, like, you know, that what she's encouraging so many progressive women to do.
01:00:22.000 And she would be, in theory, 50 by the time she's done with this journey that she's on.
01:00:27.000 How is that putting the kids first?
01:00:29.000 Do you really want a 50 year old mom with like a fresh baby, like coming home from the hospital?
01:00:35.000 No, you don't.
01:00:36.000 You want young moms, it's a virtue.
01:00:38.000 It's a blessing to have that kind of energy.
01:00:40.000 And you constantly are not putting the needs, wants, and concerns of your child first.
01:00:44.000 And that's my larger, bigger problem.
01:00:46.000 I think Charlie hit the nail on the head.
01:00:50.000 This was from September 8th, 2025, PG.
01:00:53.000 So it breaks my heart to see this.
01:00:55.000 But he spoke directly to this issue on Fox News.
01:00:59.000 Sot 13.
01:00:59.000 Having children is more important than having a good career.
01:01:02.000 I have two kids.
01:01:02.000 I also have an amazingly blessed career.
01:01:04.000 Our podcast is doing great, but.
01:01:06.000 My kids matter way more than how many social media followers that I have.
01:01:09.000 And I would also tell young ladies, you can always go back to your career later, that there is a window where you primarily should pursue marriage and having children.
01:01:17.000 And that is a beautiful thing.
01:01:18.000 This is not about shaming.
01:01:20.000 It's not about ridiculing.
01:01:21.000 It's not about moralizing.
01:01:22.000 It's about lifting up what is beautiful.
01:01:24.000 And by the way, when you look at the mental health data, young women are not okay.
01:01:28.000 Half, that is right, half of liberal white women say that they have some form of mental health issue that has been diagnosed by a doctor.
01:01:36.000 What is the number one thing?
01:01:37.000 That mental health professionals will tell you when it comes to mental health issues, loneliness does not help.
01:01:42.000 So maybe we should solve the loneliness epidemic by encouraging young ladies to get married and have children.
01:01:46.000 It's good for them, it's good for America, and it's good for our future.
01:01:50.000 You know, it felt like he's literally speaking directly to her.
01:01:53.000 Here's the data here, Peachy 136.
01:01:57.000 Young women are the most democratic group in the country.
01:02:01.000 136.
01:02:01.000 Throw this up.
01:02:02.000 You see that big blue node over on the right?
01:02:06.000 This is 18 to 29 year old women.
01:02:10.000 That 66% of them identify as progressive.
01:02:15.000 And it's an uphill climb.
01:02:17.000 Yeah, I mean, I think that is clearly why she's doing this.
01:02:20.000 I think she can't campaign on, I don't want kids.
01:02:23.000 We're not quite there yet.
01:02:25.000 But she can, this is sort of her way of like delaying that conversation, saying, no, I do, but I can't because I have ambitions.
01:02:32.000 And in Trump's America, in right wing America, women are not allowed to have it all.
01:02:36.000 But I was told, the feminists have told me for decades that women can have it all and that women.
01:02:43.000 Who are mothers and have children can have careers.
01:02:47.000 And I mean, here I am.
01:02:49.000 And many women in the Trump White House today have careers and babies.
01:02:54.000 And it can be done.
01:02:55.000 And the message was you can do that.
01:02:57.000 You can have it all.
01:02:57.000 You don't have to choose one or the other.
01:02:59.000 But here's AOC saying, actually, no.
01:03:02.000 I mean, she's actually being quite traditionalist about this and saying, no, I have a career.
01:03:06.000 Therefore, I can't be a mother.
01:03:09.000 I can't combine those two jobs.
01:03:11.000 It can't be done.
01:03:13.000 And so, in a way, it's like, well, there's like horseshoe theory.
01:03:15.000 We kind of like the trads and AOC.
01:03:17.000 Are we meeting here?
01:03:18.000 Like, do we agree on something?
01:03:19.000 Because, yeah, I don't think you really could be.
01:03:22.000 There are certain careers, let me just put it this way, that really it is difficult to be a mother and have kids.
01:03:27.000 If you're, I don't know, an astronaut or a brain surgeon, or there are certain, we all know, like, there's trade offs, right?
01:03:33.000 But here she is saying that there's no way I can do my job with a child.
01:03:36.000 Well, what is her job?
01:03:37.000 I mean, she goes to DC and votes three times a year.
01:03:40.000 She has the easiest job in the world.
01:03:41.000 She could have 10 kids and it wouldn't even interfere.
01:03:43.000 She wouldn't even have to ever take a day off.
01:03:46.000 What's your message to Gen Z women right now?
01:03:49.000 Why should you be conservative?
01:03:50.000 Why are progressives leading them astray?
01:03:52.000 I really think it's important to hear from other women on this stuff.
01:03:55.000 Yeah, I mean, there are some women who are saying, like, we shouldn't be kind of like talking about her in a negative way because this conversation will turn women off.
01:04:03.000 It will make them stressed out or whatever.
01:04:05.000 And so, okay, yeah, if you're 40 or 38 or whatever and you have delayed, you have frozen your eggs, it is going to make you nervous hearing and seeing suddenly all these statistics and all these things of like, whoa, you're kind of on the long road here.
01:04:17.000 You're taking a big risk.
01:04:18.000 It's really important, though, to talk to Generation Alpha women, women who are not yet even there, teenage girls, women in college, who, you know, they're not maybe sure that they want.
01:04:29.000 Saw how many liberals there are, how feminism has worked so well to kind of turn women away from marriage and children.
01:04:34.000 But if you do think you want a child one day, please, please remember that there is science and there is data that we have for decades on what your fertility rate is at certain ages.
01:04:49.000 It changes and what egg freezing really is.
01:04:52.000 Egg freezing is largely a scam and it's largely used by certain big corporations as like an enticement to HR, will use it to get you hired.
01:05:02.000 Free egg freezing.
01:05:03.000 And all that is, is your boss doesn't want you to take maternity leave.
01:05:07.000 So it's really, there's no benefit to the woman at all from this.
01:05:10.000 Yeah.
01:05:11.000 I think that's such an important point because you could freeze your eggs and you still can't get pregnant with them later.
01:05:17.000 Maybe you get a surrogate.
01:05:18.000 I don't know what their plan is, but it's, it's, you can't freeze your uterus, you can't freeze your cervix.
01:05:22.000 Yeah.
01:05:23.000 Yeah.
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01:06:29.000 I never thought that I was a woman.
01:06:32.000 You know, I've always trusted the science.
01:06:34.000 I thought I was a man my entire life.
01:06:36.000 But, you know, after further review, I, you know, look, strong look at my personal preferences.
01:06:42.000 It would appear that I am indeed sometimes identifying as a transgender woman.
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01:06:55.000 Some of my queens.
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01:06:59.000 All right.
01:07:00.000 So let's just back this up so we all have all the facts.
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01:07:14.000 And then you got all these WNBA players saying, Actually, you know, I would totally be okay with playing against a man on the court.
01:07:22.000 And so, lo and behold, we've got Ennis Cantor Freedom, who's declared for the draft.
01:07:28.000 She's doing a great job.
01:07:29.000 She's a, you know, I think, what's Ennis's height here?
01:07:33.000 I think Ennis, hold on, we had it written down here somewhere.
01:07:36.000 It's just too good.
01:07:38.000 I think Ennis is, let's see here, 6'10, 250 pounds.
01:07:43.000 She's a big girl.
01:07:44.000 And Royce White is 6'8, 260 pounds.
01:07:48.000 A transgender woman, Royce White.
01:07:49.000 It's very exciting stuff.
01:07:52.000 This is too juicy for us not to talk about.
01:07:55.000 Blake makes fun of me because every week it feels like we're talking about the WNBA now.
01:07:59.000 It feels like we are every week.
01:08:00.000 I think we're on four or five weeks straight.
01:08:02.000 This is honestly, I will say, this is a lot more interesting than the normal NBA for me at this point.
01:08:08.000 Like the social drama, the Lord of the Flies, the coaches attacking their own players because they care more about politics.
01:08:15.000 Yes.
01:08:16.000 It's like WWE.
01:08:17.000 You're here for the soap opera.
01:08:19.000 Exactly.
01:08:19.000 What do we make of this, Peachy?
01:08:21.000 Yeah.
01:08:21.000 I mean, I think.
01:08:22.000 It's so funny.
01:08:23.000 It's so inevitable.
01:08:23.000 I wrote a comedy sketch a few years ago making fun of this that all these guys show up for the tryouts at the college and they all on the women's team and they all get on because it's so common.
01:08:32.000 They're transgender women, Peachy.
01:08:34.000 They're women now.
01:08:35.000 And I'm going to call Ennis by her pronouns from now on, okay?
01:08:39.000 I'm going to, you know, God bless her.
01:08:41.000 I was just thinking there must be some genius in the WNBA, in their accounting department, their marketing team, who finally sees a way to get people on the right to care about WNBA.
01:08:55.000 And, like, I would go to these games if these guys got on the team.
01:08:59.000 That would be the most hilarious, greatest, like, game I would ever see.
01:09:05.000 I mean, right?
01:09:06.000 Wouldn't they be selling out stadiums all over the country if this is what they did?
01:09:10.000 And what are the rules?
01:09:11.000 I mean, according to the WNBA's own rules, right?
01:09:14.000 Aren't these guys completely eligible?
01:09:17.000 So I think it's just hilarious what they're doing.
01:09:20.000 I hope one of them gets on.
01:09:22.000 I'm rooting for her.
01:09:23.000 Yeah.
01:09:24.000 Well, the WNBA is going to continue talks about transgender athletes this week.
01:09:30.000 So, the WNBA commissioner Kathy Engelbert sent a memo to teams that addresses ongoing discussions around transgender athletes in women's basketball.
01:09:38.000 The memo said the topic will be discussed further by a task force of team presidents and general managers at a previously scheduled meeting this week.
01:09:46.000 So, hopefully, we're going to be able to talk about WNBA continuing here, Blake, because we know it's your favorite topic.
01:09:53.000 I think it's brilliant.
01:09:55.000 Now, there's this other line that's happening.
01:10:00.000 We're still seeing this anti Sophie, anti Caitlin Clark.
01:10:05.000 Sentiment bubbling up amongst the players.
01:10:07.000 And over the weekend, somebody who sounds like mustard, I don't know how to say it, Dejeuner Carrington, slammed Sophie.
01:10:15.000 This is the image of white privilege right here.
01:10:18.000 That's what they really mean when they say white privilege.
01:10:21.000 Can we just be honest about it?
01:10:22.000 Here is the play in question.
01:10:24.000 You'll see just how, I think, egregious this foul was.
01:10:28.000 And it was completely intentional, not going for the ball at all.
01:10:31.000 Yep.
01:10:32.000 Okay, here we go.
01:10:33.000 Right here, look at this.
01:10:34.000 Slow motion, smack.
01:10:37.000 Then she goes right, Dejeuner goes straight on social media and says, white privilege.
01:10:43.000 Now, Sophie has made a name for herself in many ways, but she's also been Caitlyn Clark's defender as she's been getting absolutely fouled up and down the court, and the refs refuse to enforce it.
01:10:56.000 So you have anti white sentiment raging in the WNBA, and then you have this whole trans debacle.
01:11:03.000 I mean, is the WNBA the most patently insane professional sports league in the country now?
01:11:10.000 I think the answer has to be yes.
01:11:12.000 But what do you make of this?
01:11:14.000 That it seems like Sophie is being targeted because she's a white woman now.
01:11:18.000 I mean, am I missing something?
01:11:20.000 No, that's obviously what's going on.
01:11:22.000 She's white.
01:11:23.000 She's pretty.
01:11:24.000 She has long blonde hair.
01:11:26.000 And she's getting all this media attention.
01:11:28.000 And she's getting probably more sponsorship deals or speaking engagements or whatever it is.
01:11:33.000 So there's like a lot of, I'm sure, professional jealousy.
01:11:36.000 And I mean, I'm just going to say the obvious that this Dijonet has a wig on that's like mimicking Sophie's hair.
01:11:44.000 Which obviously isn't her own hairstyle.
01:11:46.000 And is Sophie allowed to come to work with long braids or whatever?
01:11:53.000 No, that's not allowed.
01:11:55.000 And so it's just to say white privilege here, the privilege of getting clotheslined while you're about to score, about to dunk.
01:12:03.000 This is what we're seeing.
01:12:05.000 But we're seeing crimes like this, like this sort of beatings and attacks.
01:12:08.000 I mean, we've seen this in extreme examples of arena on the subway.
01:12:13.000 We see these sort of hate attacks, black on white, beatings for no reason.
01:12:18.000 That guy who was just walking around the street punching out white women on camera a few days ago, that crazy guy.
01:12:25.000 This is just sort of a kind of okay now.
01:12:27.000 This is sort of normalized.
01:12:29.000 It's okay to be angry at your perceived villain, your enemy, because of the color of their skin.
01:12:36.000 And this is what BLM has basically wrought after six years of this madness, where now it's okay.
01:12:43.000 You don't get in any trouble for doing this.
01:12:45.000 You're not like, you don't lose your career.
01:12:47.000 You probably gain more clout.
01:12:49.000 By doing this, by showing like your credibility or whatever.
01:12:52.000 Well, that's a great point.
01:12:54.000 That's a great point.
01:12:54.000 I actually posted immediately.
01:12:56.000 I was like, actually, this isn't white privilege at all.
01:12:58.000 This is black privilege.
01:13:00.000 She has black privilege.
01:13:01.000 She knows she can do this.
01:13:02.000 She's not going to be kicked out of the league or something.
01:13:05.000 And she has black privilege to the point she can go rush to social media and instantly play the victim.
01:13:10.000 That's what it is.
01:13:12.000 Peachy, I want to make sure I get a second for your book here, Super Villains.
01:13:16.000 Blake loves your.
01:13:17.000 Great cover.
01:13:18.000 I love the look on the cover.
01:13:19.000 Yeah, this is a.
01:13:20.000 Beautiful cover.
01:13:22.000 It comes out in like a week.
01:13:23.000 So I wanted to make sure you get a chance to plug it.
01:13:25.000 Please tell us about it.
01:13:25.000 Thank you.
01:13:26.000 Yeah.
01:13:26.000 Supervillains, Architects of America's Decline.
01:13:29.000 This sort of was born out of the last few years of like the woke era, all of these crazy, all the craziness going on.
01:13:35.000 And we were like thinking, who are these people?
01:13:36.000 And maybe we should name some of their names.
01:13:39.000 So we did a ton of research into who's responsible for like the immigration disaster, for like a lot of the biohacking around, you know, fertility, foreign policy, you know, everyone from Daniel Penny's.
01:13:52.000 Persecutors in the New York subway case.
01:13:56.000 The doctors, Dr. Fauci makes an appearance here.
01:13:58.000 And lots of people are named in this book who you've never heard of.
01:14:01.000 They're kind of like the guy behind the guy.
01:14:03.000 And so we really uncovered some amazing tidbits.
01:14:06.000 There's names that you will know, obviously, but a lot of great stuff in here.
01:14:09.000 There's the feminists, I call them the female liberation theologists, these feminists who are causing Gen Z to go so far left.
01:14:17.000 And I did dedicate this book to Charlie, of course.
01:14:21.000 Comes out September 1st.
01:14:22.000 You can pre order it now.
01:14:22.000 God bless you.
01:14:23.000 Bless you.
01:14:24.000 Yeah, congratulations on that.
01:14:26.000 Peachy Keenan.
01:14:27.000 Yeah, I'm really excited.
01:14:27.000 One of America's most famous trad wives, based resident female.
01:14:31.000 Thank you, Peachy.
01:14:32.000 Thank you.
01:14:33.000 Thank you, guys.
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