What is a candidate supposed to say in a situation where the populace is angry about the president's policies?

Well, I think they should be also angry at the policies that have been implemented over the last several decades that have shelved our jobs overseas.

Look, there's gonna be some hiccups here.

There's gonna be some, uh, some upsets here, uh, with the economy, but we've got to look long-term.

We've gotta rebuild our manufacturing base as a simple matter of not just our economy even, but as national security.

Uh, so you've gotta make the long-term play.

President Trump campaigned on these tariffs.

Do you think she's gonna run?

But that's not federal regulation.

It was about to be, but here's what happened.

The movie industry was producing smut, and Congress was pissed.

They were going to start regulating the film industry.

So Hollywood got together and they said, "All right.

To satisfy everyone, we're gonna work with members of Congress to come up with the obscenity statutes," and we have obscenity statutes on the books for the FCC.

So, like, you don't see curse words or, or bad images when you're watching ABC or NBC.

A million.

I'm sure this was a victory you were excited about as well.

Oh, Jonathan, this is what we've been dreaming of, right? We've had nothing but enormous victories at the federal level.

Electing President Trump, you're exactly right, was the most important thing that we could have done as a movement.

And you guys are absolutely part of that.

You know, Texas was one of the first states in the country to become what APP calls one of our trifecta states.

You guys protected kids online from pornography, you protected girls' sports, and you protected kids from these gender procedures.

So you guys are on a good track when it comes to protecting the family, and that's largely due to your leadership, Jonathan.

What was the word out there with your friends in D.C. and up to the federal level? I imagine it was a lot of smiles and celebrating as well.

What is it?

So I, I went back and I looked at my grandfather's salary.

He made around $5,900 a year in 1970, and at that time, gold was $35 an ounce, so that's like a 170 ounces of gold.

That would be $680,000 today.

And you look at the salaries today, we're making 10 times that much in dollars, but you're only getting 15 ounces of gold for $60,000.

It is absolutely insane.

That's why my grandfather could afford a home and a-

Yeah

Why this spot? What are you specifically talking about, and, and what's the issue with young men?

So we wanted to do this.

This, we've...

We're following the same model that we followed on trans, uh, to fight back against that.

You hear DEI, you hear diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Those are really bad terms to use in campaign adver- advertisements to attack.

Those are literally focus group words that are popular with Americans.

That's because of economics, are you saying? Not, not other cultural reasons?

Why this spot? What are you specifically talking about, and what's the issue with young men?

So we wanted to do this.

We're following the same model that we followed on trans to fight back against that.

You hear DEI.

You hear diversity, equity, inclusion.

Those are really bad terms to use in campaign advertisements to attack.

Those are literally focus group words that are popular with Americans.

That's because of economics, are you saying, not other cultural reasons? It's both.

I'll pay you

more.

So look, I think that in 1971, Nixon closed the gold window, right? And I, you know, whatever.

The value of our paychecks has dramatically decreased, right? The average salary back then was around $6,000 a year.

In 1970s dollars, that would be 170 ounces of gold.

Gold price is over $4,000.

That's $680,000 that the average Joe was making.

I've always had a big one.

Do you agree with that? Do you think it's gonna be important this time around for these midterms?

Absolutely, Amanda.

And on top of that, on top of parental rights and parents being able to direct the education and healthcare decisions for their children, even more important to voters right now that we're seeing in our polling and our message testing is protecting the innocence of children.

We did a short experiment in the Corpus Christi market here in, in Texas, and we found that, uh, attacking James Talarico on giving sex change procedures to minors and pay foring it, paying for it with the taxpayer dollars g- uh, has a 5.7 shift among lean Democrat voters.

So we have to ramp up these attacks.

Americans know what's at stake, and they know how important it is to protect the innocence of kids.

Kids, kids are, are innocent.

This is an incredible incentive, and it reverses a lot of destruction by LBJ.

So as, uh, we talk about 2028, as someone who, uh, supports Vice President Vance in that endeavor, what's something that you think folks get wrong about him, whether it's in the media or the, the base itself?

I, I, I think the biggest thing that people get wrong about him is that he really truly is a father first, a father and a husband first.

He does prioritize those two things, and he's really giving up a lot by serving as our vice president.

Uh, you know, obviously he cares so much about fatherhood and family that they're having a child while he's vice president.

I don't know the last time, if ever, that's ever happened.

Uh, but he, he's incredibly, uh, lovable.

He is incredibly smart.

Mm.

This is an incredible incentive, and it reverses a lot of destruction by LBJ.

No, that's exactly right, Amanda.

And here's what I love about this plan.

Childcare subsidies are nothing but corporate welfare.

It is not economic relief for working moms.

It is because the employers in this country are not paying these moms enough money so that they can afford it.

So what does the government do? It's been coming in and bailing out these corporations who need these moms to come and work for them.

Before we do, when people go in that booth and they pull that lever or they fill out that ballot card in November, what's the question you want them to be asking themselves before they make that big decision?

What is your perspective as a father watching this trial and watching these conversations about postpartum motherhood, but then also the mudslinging that has happened in the direction of Patrick Clancy?

Well, yeah, and thanks so much, Bethany.

I think this story and this angle needs a lot more attention.

You know, as you know, we're both in the big family club.

My wife and I have eight children.

We've been through this stuff, and I'm very aware of the pain and the suffering that goes along with every childbirth and every bit of postpartum depression.

But this struck me.

But this has been a really disturbing twist in sort of the victimhood mantra that we've seen from the left, that now even a stone cold killer, you know, is somehow viewed as a victim.

Do they go far enough?

Well, good morning, everyone, and thanks for having me.

Before I get into what I think about these changes that Meta has made, I just got to say, this all happened because of the millions of parents that have stepped into the arena, that have been voting for their families, that have been showing up at school board meetings, that have been making these concerns very vocal.

What's happening here is Meta is seeing this wave of parents, this army of parents that's coming in and they're demanding serious changes to protect their children.

So we wouldn't be here without groups like American Principles Project with all the work you guys do at Rav to make sure that people know how bad these algorithms and these social media sites are for our kids.

These changes that Meta has made are fantastic.

It's not just monitoring and making sure that our children are protected from bad content.

Where do you fall, Terry?

But it seems to me that the battleground for cultural warfare, this is one of the best spots for fighting back against the left when it comes to cultural warfare.

No, Carl, that's exactly right.

And that's what we found just six, seven years ago is we found that the women's sports issue.

So here's the reality.

Democrats want to put gender identity in the civil rights law.

It would be a disaster.

It would put boys and girls sports, boys and girls showers, taxpayer funded sex change procedures, not just for kids, but for felons.

So now they don't even want to invite people like you and I and Terry.

But it seems to me that the battleground for cultural warfare, this is one of the best spots for fighting back against the left when it comes to cultural warfare.

No, Carl, that's exactly right.

And that's what we found just six, seven years ago is we found that the women's sports issue.

So here's the reality.

Democrats want to put gender identity in the civil rights law.

It would be a disaster.

It would put boys and girls sports, boys and girls showers, taxpayer funded sex change procedures, not just for kids, but for felons.

So now they don't even want to invite people like you and I and Terry.

What does that tell parents about who is driving the Democrats right now?

Well, it tells a lot and it's telling them that it's not someone that believes that parents should be actually directing the health care and the education decisions of their children.

But at a more fundamental level, let's look at other nations that have so-called Medicare for all Canada.

Canada has Medicare for all.

They have socialized medicine.

It's a single payer system.

And yes, Canada will pay for men, grown men to get breast implants.

But how much of that agenda do you think the average Democrat voter even knows about their party activists, which are chasing this far left craziness in our country?

That's how you have societal collapse, sir.

Uh, that's exactly right, Steve, and, y- you know, we, we can go back to previous, uh, societies and civilizations.

The, the, the, the Romans became too prosperous.

They stopped having children.

They had to import slave labor to do all their crops and to, to plow their fields, and guess what happened? They died out.

They g- were erased.

What's it gonna be like when we make robots to replace us, when we make robots to do all of our jobs, when we take away purpose and meaning from people? And Steve, you know, if you look at the DEI po- everyone focuses on DEI as, you know, a, a cultural phenomenon.

Um, where do people go to get all this information? Where do they start getting smart about the family as the core building block, the American family as the core building block, to the country itself, and particularly the economy, sir?

So if that as a kind of framing, at least the way in my own simple Mick mind I look at it, walk me through what happened this week and why you've been trying, why we've been trying to get you on, sir.

Well, uh, thanks so much, Steve.

Uh, so there was an article written by a dear friend, longtime friend, uh, I first met him when I first came to this town, John Tamney, and he was basically calling, uh, anyone concerned with the collapse in family formation and birth rates bed-wetters.

Uh, that's not his term.

[laughs] That's, that's what I'm using for it, but, uh, he basically says that we're freaking out about nothing, that all of this stuff is going to solve itself, itself, uh, which is just frankly preposterous.

Um, he talks about how technology and artificial intelligence and how expanded supply chains will address all of the problems that we are gonna suffer from having fewer and fewer people here.

Um, it's just not true, Steve.

And I would tell you this, I think it's actually a bigger mindset within conservative economic thinking than populist nationalism and/or far more than the pro-family as a, as a, uh, as an economic unit, Terry Schilling

Walk me through what happened this week and why you've been trying to why we've been trying to get you on, sir.

Well, thanks so much, Steve.

So there was an article written by a dear friend, longtime friend.

I first met him when I first came to this town, John Tamney.

And he was basically calling anyone concerned with the collapse in family formation and birth rates bedwetters.

That's not his story.

That's what I'm using for it.

Terry Schilling.

That's how you have societal collapse, sir.

That's exactly right, Steve.

And we can go back to previous societies and civilizations.

The Romans became too prosperous.

They stopped having children.

They had to import slave labor to do all their crops and to plow their fields.

And guess what happened? They died out.

Where do people go to get all this information? Where do they start getting smart about the family as the core building block, the American family as the core building block, to the country itself, and particularly the economy, sir?

What are you, what are you, what are you comp- what are you complaining about? It's 9-0.

No, no, I don't know.

I don't think it's 9-0.

I think it's 6-3.

Uh, you know, uh, obviously, uh, it's a victory.

We'll, we're gonna take it and run with it, Steve.

Uh, but it, it is a victory.

D- is there anything in this, uh, decision that jumps out at you we should be concerned about?

What do you complain about? It's 9-0.

No, no, I don't think it's 9-0.

I think it's 6-3.

Obviously, it's a victory.

We're going to take it and run with it, Steve.

But it's a victory.

And if you look just 10 years ago, the types of decisions we were getting at the Supreme Court, this is actually shocking to see this turn around this quickly.

IS THERE ANYTHING IN THIS DECISION THAT JUMPS OUT AT YOU WE SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT?

And I don't think they still got to the heart of the radical nature of the ideology.

No, no, no.

Okay, so right now, the Supreme Court decision yesterday was a victory.

But it was a meaningful but not that great of a victory.

They say the states won.

may constitutionally restrict sports and private spaces on the basis of biological sex but what it didn't do is it didn't strike down any of the blue state laws that are allowing boys to compete in girls sports and so it's still we have a long way to go and next the next case steve so we withheld uh our defense is good we our laws are going to withstand constitutional muster great But what about President Trump's executive order banning men from girls' sports and restricting Title IX funding? What about President Trump's executive orders protecting children and restricting Medicaid funding from hospitals and clinics that provide these services? That's a death knell from the gender cult and their industry.

If that doesn't pass muster with the Supreme Court, now we're in a whole other world.

you can tell you wish you're on

But they didn't outlaw it in the States, they didn't outlaw it really overall, and they re- I don't think they still got to the heart of the radical nature of the ideology.

No, no, no.

Okay, so right now the Supreme Court, uh, decision yesterday was a victory, but it was a, a, a, a meaningful but not that great of a victory.

They, they say the states may constitutionally restrict sports in private spaces on the basis of biological sex.

But what it didn't do is it didn't strike down any of the blue state laws that are allowing boys to compete in girls' sports.

And so it's still, we have a long way to go.

And next, the next case, Steve, so we withheld, uh...

That's their whole point.

And I don't think they still got to the heart of the radical nature of the ideology.

No, no, no.

Okay, so right now, the Supreme Court decision yesterday was a victory.

But it was a meaningful but not that great of a victory.

They say the states won.

may constitutionally restrict sports and private spaces on the basis of biological sex but what it didn't do is it didn't strike down any of the blue state laws that are allowing boys to compete in girls sports and so it's still we have a long way to go and next the next case steve so we withheld uh our defense is good we our laws are going to withstand constitutional muster great But what about President Trump's executive order banning men from girls' sports and restricting Title IX funding? What about President Trump's executive orders protecting children and restricting Medicaid funding from hospitals and clinics that provide these services? That's a death knell from the gender cult and their industry.

If that doesn't pass muster with the Supreme Court, now we're in a whole other world.

You can tell the way she runs.

... bro, what are you, what are you, what are you comp- what are you complaining about? It's nine-oh.

No, no, I don't, I, I don't think it's nine-oh.

I think it's six-three.

Uh, you know, uh, obviously, uh, it's a victory.

We'll, we're gonna take it and run with it, Steve.

Uh, but it, it is a victory.

Uh, and, and if you look just 10 years ago, the types of decisions we were getting at the Supreme Court, uh, this is actually shocking to see this turnaround this quickly, and that's all largely due to President Trump, the Supreme Court justices he put, he has put on, but also the political fights that he has made this.

Did, is there anything in this, uh, decision that jumps out at you we should be concerned about?