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00:01:26.140Pleased to have a very rare appearance on this program, Congressman Dan Crenshaw. Dan, how are you, sir?
00:01:33.100Good, how are you doing? Well, thanks for having me on. It doesn't have to be rare.
00:01:35.860You know, we can we can do it more often. I just think it's hard to get the schedule right.
00:01:40.400Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm not. I'm not implying anything. I'm just grateful that you're you're on.
00:01:45.500It is rare to have you on. And I really appreciate it because I want to talk to you almost every day because you're one of the guys who I think really gets it.
00:01:53.680And and and is standing for the things that we need to stand for.
00:01:58.700And there are very few people left that I think people on the right trust.
00:02:04.220And you're one of them. So, Dan, let me ask you a couple of questions.
00:02:08.500I want to get into Texas here in a second.
00:02:10.900But there's two stories that boggle my mind that I think you're uniquely qualified to talk about.
00:02:17.180One is this story from military dot com today.
00:02:21.480The Navy is making all sailors reaffirm the oath to the Constitution in the extremism stand down.
00:03:08.700I think the premise of this is that, well, we had a lot of veterans on January 6th at the Capitol.
00:03:14.920Right. That's the premise of all this nonsense.
00:03:17.500But that just mathematically, that's that's not a good indication of where active duty military standard or where correct and more broadly.
00:03:25.900Right. Just because there's a lot of people here does not mean that a large proportion of those people are indeed extremists or bad people.
00:04:04.580One other question, because I don't understand this.
00:04:10.240Democrats have asked Biden to surrender the keys on the nuclear launches.
00:04:13.860What they're doing is they're trying to take away the president's sole authority to launch nuclear weapons because they say it could just happen too fast.
00:04:22.560And they want him to be forced into some sort of a committee before anything is launched.
00:04:31.020So he wouldn't have the the nuclear football keys.
00:04:41.840Look, I mean, and it's from my point of view, your point of view, I'm sure it's hard.
00:04:46.200It is hard to actually assess what you trust less.
00:04:48.680A Biden who can't finish sentences very well or a crazy Democrat Party.
00:04:54.460But but in the end, you don't it's pretty obvious what they're doing.
00:04:57.080And Nancy Pelosi laid the groundwork for this even before Biden took office, talking about invoking the 25th Amendment.
00:05:03.720It was pretty obvious she wasn't even talking about Trump.
00:05:05.980So, look, I think they obviously know that he has cognitive issues.
00:05:10.460But the good news for America is that Biden's demeanor and general disposition is not to go just go launch nuclear bombs.
00:05:20.000No, you know, I'll say a lot of things about the guy, but I don't think that's what his plan is.
00:05:24.860And so this this feels a little bit disingenuous.
00:05:27.520And I also feel like I mean, if he woke up one day and he was, you know, suddenly temporarily insane and he said, let's launch the missiles.
00:05:38.640There's there are people and systems in place to stop that madness.
00:05:57.940Let's talk a little bit about what happened in Texas, because it is it's insane on what's being said about the Texas grid and the Texas not being green, et cetera, et cetera.
00:06:11.620Part of the problem is, is that we are green.
00:06:15.140We lead the country in wind power now.
00:09:19.260And over time, because we haven't invested in fossil fuels because, you know, green energy and such.
00:09:24.080Again, I'm not against solar and wind.
00:09:26.880But when you but it is pretty obvious from a policy perspective that if you listen too much to the Democrats and take too many notes from them and take too many notes from California and you overinvest in these things and you federally subsidize it.
00:09:38.520And the other thing that people don't know about Texas, we do prioritize electrons coming from wind.
00:09:43.920So wind always gets to make a profit, but gas doesn't.
00:10:04.520It keeps our prices lower, but it also might discourage investment from these baseload capacity power plants, which, again, the left loves, but it's not good policy.
00:10:15.880So take me here, because I think the problem is exactly the problem we went through in 2008 with the banks.
00:10:27.920So the feds made it easy for loans to be had that shouldn't have been taken out, and they were pushing a policy.
00:10:38.500And so everybody indulged, and then it broke.
00:10:41.080This is the same thing that's happening in Texas.
00:10:43.700The federal subsidies for wind power make it much more economical to build those.
00:10:52.780And so the people who are, you know, building and in this industry, they're like, I could get all this free money from the government for doing this.
00:11:09.660You know, one response Republicans have is say, okay, how about at least we make the subsidies technology neutral so that they can at least go to nuclear?
00:11:38.240It makes me question their intent and their motivations, because it makes me think it's really not about the carbon reductions.
00:11:42.920Because if you really care about carbon reductions, your number one goal would be to export as much clean natural gas as possible to dirty coal-burning countries like China and India, and you'd be investing in nuclear.
00:11:54.340We wouldn't have to put a $90 trillion price tag on it, because we would be able to build at scale.
00:12:00.340We would be able to invest in American nuclear.
00:12:02.320We could build nuclear around the world.
00:12:03.880That could be instead of China and Russia doing it.
00:12:06.160And by the way, that means they also gain a foothold into nuclear capabilities in developing countries, which is really not a good thing.
00:12:11.740So there's a national security aspect of this in the sense that America wants to be controlling the nuclear energy around the world.
00:12:19.800There's a clean energy aspect to this.
00:13:23.980And I don't mean that in the electricity sort of way.
00:13:28.060And it's terrifying when you look into the way that corporations are now starting to incorporate what are called ESGs, environmental, social justice, and governmental standards, which are a little terrifying when you understand the scope of what that means to the average person.
00:14:10.400We believe we can use the forces of government and the forces of institutions to fundamentally change you.
00:14:17.420And we'll keep fighting for that revolution no matter what.
00:14:20.620We're not really sure where that revolution goes.
00:14:22.180This is where it all falls apart because utopianism is, well, it's nowhere.
00:14:26.200I mean, it literally means nowhere in Greek because it can't exist.
00:14:29.820And you'll kill yourself trying to get there.
00:14:32.380The right has a different disposition, a far more humble disposition that, look, there's about the best we can do with governance.
00:14:38.680You cannot change the nature of man, but you can provide a good system and structural incentives and disincentives to get the best outcomes.
00:14:46.620So that's a fundamental difference that does not change.
00:14:50.640It's almost like people are born that way.
00:14:52.940This is where all of this nonsense comes from.
00:14:55.440They're always looking for ways to thwart it.
00:14:59.080We're always trying to point out to people, look, I know this feels good.
00:15:02.120I know this feels like they're promising utopia, but we promise you that the path to hell is paved with good intentions.
00:15:10.620And this turns out to be true every single time.
00:15:12.740And last week is another indication of that.
00:15:16.860Dan, I want you to know I'm going to be making a call today, and you're probably going to hate that I say this,
00:15:24.240but I'm going to be making a call today after the program.
00:15:26.860For the very first time since last week, a name has come to me that I need to pass on to Premier Radio Networks on a replacement for Rush Limbaugh.
00:15:36.680I think you could replace Rush Limbaugh.
00:15:39.580That answer was so clear and explaining a very complex thing.
00:15:46.580This is why we would like you to be on the show.
00:19:29.240It's the only thing a doctor has ever said to me.
00:19:30.920This is really going to set your whole body on fire, and you will do everything to make this stop, and you won't be able to control it.
00:19:42.460I'm just telling you, we're going to hold you down, and you just focus on this person's eyes and listen to what they're saying.
00:19:51.780It was the longest 30 seconds of my life because some foreign object is in your lungs, and your body says, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and you fight against it.
00:21:46.580If you've ever been to a local school board or you've ever been to a city council meeting or a zoning board and you disagree with them, how do they treat you?
00:28:25.760There's no difference between that and somebody who has sold their soul for money or fame and will do anything to get that movie role or do anything to keep their job in media.
00:28:39.600Everybody's selling their soul for likes and retweets.
00:32:50.340So what are you going to do about that?
00:32:51.860So right now we're, we're trying to raise as much publicity about this as possible to get people aware, having people contact Amazon out of the goodness of their heart.
00:33:06.940Yesterday, four senators, Senator Rubio, Lee, Hawley, and Braun sent a letter to Jeff Bezos asking for an explanation.
00:33:17.400But beyond that, this is, you know, a downside of an entirely unregulated big tech industry where, you know, Amazon put out of business a lot of small and independent booksellers.
00:33:31.520They gained this giant market prominence.
00:33:35.280And now they can use their market power in ways that are destructive to, you know, readers, authors, publishers.
00:33:42.180So, Ryan, did they, if you bought the book on Kindle, did they pull it from your library?
00:33:57.060So if you already, if you've already purchased the book, you know, they're not going to take it back from you, whether it was a physical copy or an electric company.
00:34:52.100Because we've talked to an attorney who said the biggest lawsuit, class action lawsuit should be against these, you know, Apple and Kindle who you're buying these titles from.
00:35:29.780I think they can get away with it, Ryan, because they don't actually have to stand in the parking lot and make an example of your book and burn it.
00:35:37.740There's no, there's no visuals of anybody just hitting delete.
00:36:01.640Uh, that's true to a certain extent, but it's not always true, right?
00:36:06.860And if it was like one brick and mortar store that wouldn't sell a book, fine, there are other brick and mortar stores.
00:36:12.520But if all the brick and mortar stores got together and said, we're not going to sell a book, right?
00:36:17.000That looks more like a monopoly, right?
00:36:19.380And if one individual seller that has, someone told me, and I need to check to see if the stat is accurate, but, uh, someone had tweeted out 83% of all U S book sales are through Amazon.
00:36:30.660I believe that if that's the case, when they drop a title, um, the impact of that, and it's a chilling effect, right?
00:36:38.180Cause someone like me, I am prominent enough within the conservative world that, you know, you can book me as a guest.
00:36:51.520And then for a publisher, how many publishers are going to say, ah, we just shouldn't even publish on that topic out of fear that Amazon will then drop the title.
00:36:59.740So this has a chilling effect on the entire industry.
00:37:03.360So tell me about the book and why it is so controversial.
00:37:09.260Well, I think it's controversial precisely because it's not a bomb throwing book.
00:37:13.940It's a, you know, kind of like mild mannered, calm philosophy, science, medicine book, exposing all of the lies that are being told about gender dysphoria.
00:37:25.860So I, I, I, I haven't read your book, but I talked to somebody who did and they said, it's actually a really loving book.
00:37:31.600It, it, it approaches it, uh, in a way where it's like, these, these people are bad.
00:37:59.300They didn't choose to experience this and they're not faking it, but they are being disserved by the medical professional community that has bought into a woke ideology.
00:38:09.440That's telling them that, you know, your path to happiness is puberty, blocking drugs, cross sex hormones, and a double mastectomy.
00:38:17.360And aren't the stats, don't the stats show that, um, after that's done a very high percentage of people with dysphoria go fall right back into depression and, and have problems because it, it didn't, it didn't cure what they thought it was going to cure.
00:38:38.020And, and the book it's chapter and verse, you know, footnote after footnote after footnote of all of the studies that show that.
00:38:44.760And since, I mean, the, and the book came out three years ago, since the book came out, there have only been more and more studies, uh, revealing this.
00:38:51.580And I think that's precisely why it's so threatening, um, to the left, right?
00:38:56.600They can't win on the merit, so they have to shut down the conversation.
00:39:00.760So what, this is even more frightening than just book burning because this isn't, you know, they're pulling from the libraries now to kill a mockingbird.
00:39:12.960Um, but this book is also about medicine.
00:39:19.020This is about clinical studies about mental health and what you put into your body for physical health and mental health.
00:39:30.540We cannot come to a place to where we can't disagree on something like medicine.
00:39:37.940Remember medicine, not too many years ago was drilling holes in people's heads to relieve the spirits in their head because they had a headache.
00:39:55.660Yeah, so, I mean, it's, there's several chapters about the medicine of this.
00:40:00.360There's several chapters about the science.
00:40:02.000There's several chapters about the philosophy and the law.
00:40:04.380And what I would add to what you just said is that the saddest conversations I have had have been with parents who placed their children on cross-sex hormones, allowed their children to have surgery because the doctors told them that that's what was in the best interest of their child.
00:40:23.740And then only a couple years later did they realize the mistake.
00:40:27.900By limiting the sale of a book like this, we're limiting the ability of parents to inform themselves about what's actually in the best interest of their child.
00:40:36.420And it means how many more children are going to go through these misguided procedures because they couldn't get all of the facts, right?
00:40:46.860When you shut down a conversation like this, you do a digital book burning, there are going to be real life consequences.
00:40:52.820Ryan, I hate to ask you this, but I have to because I haven't read your book.
00:40:56.480Is there anything in it like, you know, pray the gay away?
00:41:01.640Is there is there any is there anything like that in this book that would cause offense to, you know, people that people like me could go, oh, geez, why would you put that in there?
00:41:18.200And just so I mean, so our listeners know, the book was endorsed by the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, from a professor of psychology at NYU, from a professor of neuroscience at Boston University, professor of law at Harvard Law School, professor of philosophy at Princeton University.
00:41:51.020I will tell you that when I heard about this Monday, I immediately thought, how am I ever going to publish another book?
00:41:59.240Because, you know, if I'm if I'm quoting stats and I'm quoting these things in my book and Amazon decides they don't agree with that and they think that's dangerous for whatever reason and they don't have to explain themselves.
00:42:13.780What chance do I have of of putting books on Amazon?
00:42:22.940And that is what every book author and book publisher is now asking themselves.
00:42:29.920And so you can see the chilling effect.
00:42:31.840Again, if it was just like one local bookstore, you have some like left wing progressive bookstore that won't sell your book or my book.
00:42:38.680No one would care because we can have a market.
00:42:40.940But when the entity that controls the market starts censoring books, it will impact the entire book publishing, writing and reading process.
00:42:53.760Ryan, how much of a factor is it that if you're going to write another book on a similar topic, there would be an incentive and a temptation to self edit before you released it?
00:43:05.720Now, I think you probably at the end of the day, you're going to say what you want to say and, you know, Dan, the consequences.
00:43:10.820But there's a chilling effect for people before these books even get out there.
00:43:15.640I mean, it's editing our speech before the speech happens.
00:43:37.660And this is also this has been happening on university campuses for a while.
00:43:40.960The reason that I'm at a think tank and not at a university is the think tank provides me with the freedom to tell the truth on these issues in the way that I can't tell you the number of tenured professors who have privately, confidentially reached out to me to say, thank you for what you're saying.