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Charlie Kirk Today | Alex Berenson: June 22, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | June 22, 2026
- The obama presidential library,
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- The obama presidential sand
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- Crawler, the obama presidential, alien
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- Horror show spaceship that landed in chicago
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- To, gaze upon us with its all seeing eye.
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- That was opened yesterday, had its grand opening in chicago.
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- For living presidents were there.
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- President trump was not there.
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- He was, in fact, not invited.
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- And we got speeches from barack.
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- We got speeches from michelle.
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- We got speeches from a lot of people.
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- In fact, this is the way the new york times writes it
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- Up. the opening itself was a star studded party.
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- George w bush, bill
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- Clinton, joseph biden, the roots kicked off the event.
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- Christina aguilera
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- Gave a rendition of what a wonderful world.
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- Bruce springsteen sang land of hope and dreams.
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- This is
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- It's a revisit to the america
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- We were building towards throughout the obama years.
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- It's the one they thought they were going to have forever
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- When they pulled off their maneuver in 2020.
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- They thought
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- They were going to refound america
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- Where it would be permanent.
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- Shame on america's historic founders, its historic people.
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- Year zero start a new country where people like barack obama,
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- People like bruce
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- Springsteen lecture you from the top of the stage.
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- They lecture you with things like,
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- You know what, we're going to play this again.
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- We got a land acknowledgment yesterday.
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- Let's see, what number was that one.
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- This is valerie jarrett.
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- And she opened the ceremony yesterday.
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- We played this yesterday.
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- I'm just going to play it again. clip 31.
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- We'd also like to take a moment to recognize the original
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- Inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered today.
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- We honor the anishinaabe of the council of three fires,
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- The ojibway, the odawa, and the potawatomi nations.
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- Occupied chicago bears territory.
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- That's that's what it's on.
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- But we had more. barack obama himself spoke.
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- And of course,
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- He threw in a little bit about how our founders
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- Actually were not these great people.
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- 25 union.
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- The founders
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- Fell terribly short of the declaration's promise,
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- Leaving slavery intact and
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- Allowing states to restrict the franchise
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- To white men who owned property.
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- So that's what we had.
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- We had these lectures from obama and everyone else.
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- This feeling of shame over our country.
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- And that would have been
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- What we'd be getting from the white house
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- If kamala harris were president right now.
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- That's what we would be hearing every day.
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- They thought this would be their big chance.
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- They thought they would use the 250th anniversary
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- Of this country to dump on this country.
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- The they would say the first 250 years of this,
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- Mostly a mistake.
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- It was only good to the extent
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- That we were building towards the leftism of the present.
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- Everything only builds towards
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- Affirmative action
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- Tearing down statues, dei,
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- Lgbt, transgender propaganda.
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- That's the only thing
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- That gives america value is when it's doing those things.
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- The founders, the constitution, the bill of rights
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- That was all flawed, that was all bad.
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- Tear it down.
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- And on this juneteenth, we remember the bullet
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- That our country avoided, the tragedy that we avoided by
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- Thanks to 2024 and thanks to the decision
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- That our country made two years ago.
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- We should remember 250 years ago,
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- The darkest and most dangerous corner of earth.
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- And it was right here in america.
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- This was a country that was under siege by a foreign power,
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- That was trying to strip away the colonists rights
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- And the men of our founding.
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- They were the heroes.
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- They were the heroes who stepped up,
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- Who created the declaration of independence,
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- Who created our constitution, who defeated
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- The most powerful empire in the entire world.
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- We had patrick o'donnell on a month ago for memorial day.
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- And and he laid it all out for us,
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- All those things that they did,
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- The trials that they went through
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- With no prospect of success.
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- But they did it anyway.
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- And they won freedom.
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- And we have a president who's ready to honor that
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- And celebrate that,
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- That we're going to be
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- Having our 250th anniversary of this country
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- In just a couple of weeks now, and it's going to be,
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- President trump has announced it's going to have the biggest
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- Fireworks show in the history of washington, d.c..
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- I believe he's announced that we're going to,
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- Have one of the biggest
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- Public rallies in our nation's history.
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- And we've already seen,
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- Of course, the show he was ready to put on with the
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- The freedom 250 ufc event and so on.
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- We have we are getting a proper
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- Celebration of our country for the 250th anniversary.
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- Instead of lectures from michelle obama
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- About dreamers, instead of lectures from barack
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- About how our founders were bad,
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- Instead of cackling from president kamala harris
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- About lord knows what she would be saying by this point.
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- Instead, we get to properly celebrate our country,
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- And i think that is a reason for celebrating on this day.
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- So if you're at home, if you're
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- If you're at home right now, you know,
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- Well, i can't,
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- I can't say pour out a toast to america,
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- Pour out its soda toast in honor of charlie.
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- He wouldn't want you drinking alcohol,
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- But you raise a glass to america
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- Because we have so much to be happy
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- And proud of as we, on this juneteenth.
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- Because we're not we're not celebrating
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- The national independence day
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- That they tried to impose on us.
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- Also at obama's event, we had some,
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- Other funny clips that they threw out.
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- We had, we had gavin newsom kind of making his,
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- Unofficial bid to remind everyone
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- That he's also running for president.
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- Let's play clip 22.
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- Got up there, literally started tearing up.
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- And i think everybody feels that spirit in that pride
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- That we've been missing.
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- And we need to realize how much we've been missing it,
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- And we've been missing it because of the divisiveness.
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- We've been missing it because,
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- We have people that,
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- Frankly, are unworthy of their positions.
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- And they're we saw on stage people that are worthy,
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- Of what our founding fathers lived and died for.
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- That's what we're getting from the left.
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- They're going to be running for president
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- And they're going to be running on.
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- America needs hope.
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- And the only way we can have hope is to
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- Tear down this country rather than celebrate it.
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- But we don't need to make that choice.
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- We'll be right back with alex berenson
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- To talk about father's day.
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- To talk about father's day.
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- We're joined now by alex berenson.
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- We were talking about juneteenth
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- In the first half hour.
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- But we have another holiday
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- That is worth marking, which is father's day.
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- That is this sunday.
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- And alex, you have a new book out
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- That people can go and buy right now.
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- The father hood manifesto, a defense of fatherhood
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- And 50 practical tips to be a better, more involved dad.
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- Alex, why do you why does fatherhood need defending?
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- That's a you know, that's a great question.
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- And that's sort of at the core of this.
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- You know, the book, it's not very long.
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- I'm talking about 50 pages long.
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- It's, you know,
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- I it's it's a quick read, but i, i have three kids.
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- You know, they're,
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- They're seven, ten and 13 now, and, and frankly,
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- I got tired of reading, you know, books to them and,
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- You know, watching, you know, television shows with them
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- Where the father was always the fool.
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- Right?
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- And, you know,
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- I say in the, in the manifesto, i say, well,
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- The berenstain bears is a classic example of this, right?
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- You think that would be completely apolitical?
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- It's about cartoon bears.
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- But really, every book has the same message.
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- Papa bear is a fool,
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- Mama bear is in charge
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- And runs things and runs them competently.
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- And that is a
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- That is a cultural trope
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- That is so deep in our society right now that, you know,
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- I think we barely even think about it.
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- And it's part of the
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- Sort of larger attack on traditional masculinity,
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- On stoicism, on, you know, on traditional manhood.
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- And i think it's had terrible consequences for fathers.
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- It's had bad consequences for mothers,
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- It's had bad consequences for families.
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- And then,
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- You know, the same people who who say
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- This, you know, who run down men and who and who,
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- You know, pretend that fathers don't contribute
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- Enough to their families to raising kids,
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- Then turn around and say, well, you know,
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- All these all these, you know, teenage boys or, you know, 20
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- Something young men,
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- They love andrew tate and they, they love these sort of like,
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- Hyper masculine influencers online.
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- Well, when you, when you, when you undercut
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- Traditional decent masculinity, obviously there's
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- Going to be a backlash to that.
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- And i think that's what we've seen culturally.
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- So that's why i decided to write this.
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- And then, you know, and then because i have a very
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- Close relationship with them.
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- I said here,
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- You know, i'm
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- Not just going to write a
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- Screed about why i think we need to talk more about,
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- You know, masculinity and stoicism.
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- I'm going to throw out some tips.
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- And frankly, a lot of the tips are pretty obvious.
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- I think if you're a pretty decent parent,
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- You'll you'll know them.
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- If you're a decent dad, you'll know them.
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- But but but the fact that i had to write this to me
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- Is what's revolutionary.
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- And i will say the one is sort of the one tip.
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- The one uber tip in there is
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- Stand up to gentle parenting, okay?
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- And, you know,
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- For people who may not know what gentle parenting is,
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- If you go into, you know, a barnes and noble bookstore,
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- You go on amazon,
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- You'll see all these books about gentle parenting, about,
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- You know, progressive parenting, about about not,
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- You know, not being an authoritative parent, not,
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- You know, not telling your kids that you're in charge,
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- Negotiating with them, not punishing them,
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- Not, you know, not sort of ever
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- Dominating them or establishing your authority over them.
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- And i think that's a huge mistake in our culture.
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- I think, listen,
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- I obviously you need to be close to your kids.
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- You need to love your kids, you need to hug your kids,
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- But your kids need to know,
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- Particularly if you're the dad, that
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- There are going to be times when they just have to listen,
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- That there's not going to be a negotiation here,
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- That there's not going to be a long discussion
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- Of alternatives, that sometimes you're
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- Just going to say, go clean your room.
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- I don't have to tell you why.
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- I, you know, i,
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- I pay the bills in this house,
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- But i don't even have to tell you
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- That you're just going to listen to me.
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- And i think
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- That that has been forgotten and lost and undercut.
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- And it is a separate issue, but it is certainly part
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- Of this bigger undercutting of masculinity.
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- I remember watching with my family and we what
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- We would watch nick at night growing up,
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- And we would watch the brady bunch,
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- And that actually must be so jarring to watch,
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- Because i remember now that the dad
- 00:10:26.683 --> 00:10:29.086
- Or the dad, brady,
- 00:10:29.086 --> 00:10:29.953
- I can't remember his proper name, but
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- He was not the figure of humor.
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- The kids would screw up and he would come in
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- And he would give them valuable life advice.
- 00:10:35.992 --> 00:10:38.261
- And it was still a funny show.
- 00:10:38.261 --> 00:10:39.529
- It was still an enjoyable show.
- 00:10:39.529 --> 00:10:40.697
- You didn't need to beat up on. dad.
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- I remember another classic one.
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- Gidget when when sally field was a child star.
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- That one also,
- 00:10:47.871 --> 00:10:48.972
- She would do comedy, but yeah, the dad could be this
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- Leadership figure.
- 00:10:51.942 --> 00:10:53.043
- And then i remember the stuff that was on the air
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- In my actual childhood stuff.
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- Like, everybody loves raymond.
- 00:10:57.214 --> 00:10:59.449
- He's now the the butt of every joke.
- 00:10:59.449 --> 00:11:02.385
- And i think there's something to that.
- 00:11:02.385 --> 00:11:04.354
- We had a a cultural norm.
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- I think it might have been that it's a little unsafe to go
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- After almost any other group except for, as we'd say, like
- 00:11:10.660 --> 00:11:13.797
- Default white, straight, white guys.
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- And a dad is certainly a straight
- 00:11:15.599 --> 00:11:17.300
- White guy in many cases.
- 00:11:17.300 --> 00:11:18.969
- And we just made it the norm to to tear them down without
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- Heedless of the consequences.
- 00:11:22.439 --> 00:11:24.474
- Yeah, i that's absolutely true.
- 00:11:24.474 --> 00:11:25.909
- I mean, i'm a little bit older than you.
- 00:11:25.909 --> 00:11:28.011
- So so the shows that i remember,
- 00:11:28.011 --> 00:11:30.781
- You know, in my, in my early youth are things
- 00:11:30.781 --> 00:11:33.350
- Like family ties with the cosby show, though
- 00:11:33.350 --> 00:11:35.352
- That was the end of that, right?
- 00:11:35.352 --> 00:11:36.753
- In the 80s, where, you know, the dad was you know,
- 00:11:36.753 --> 00:11:40.423
- It's ironic in school. cosby. right.
- 00:11:40.423 --> 00:11:41.958
- But he was still in charge ultimately.
- 00:11:41.958 --> 00:11:45.762
- And, you know, family ties, that same thing.
- 00:11:45.762 --> 00:11:48.031
- And really, in the late 80s, the simpsons came along
- 00:11:48.031 --> 00:11:51.902
- And was a, you know, a massive cultural hit,
- 00:11:51.902 --> 00:11:54.171
- Married with children.
- 00:11:54.171 --> 00:11:55.405
- These are almost parodies of that.
- 00:11:55.405 --> 00:11:57.240
- And i and i get it like, you know, there
- 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:00.243
- There's going to be cultural reactions to this stuff,
- 00:12:00.243 --> 00:12:02.979
- But this has been going on now for 40 years.
- 00:12:02.979 --> 00:12:06.183
- And, and it really, i think has had cultural consequences.
- 00:12:06.183 --> 00:12:10.954
- And then, you know, then then,
- 00:12:10.954 --> 00:12:12.222
- You know, sort of the same women,
- 00:12:12.222 --> 00:12:13.757
- The same are woke women, the women and in,
- 00:12:13.757 --> 00:12:16.593
- You know, in new york or in los angeles.
- 00:12:16.593 --> 00:12:19.496
- And they complain, well, they can't find a guy
- 00:12:19.496 --> 00:12:21.298
- They like.
- 00:12:21.298 --> 00:12:22.132
- Well, you know, you've been spending
- 00:12:22.132 --> 00:12:23.667
- You've been spending your entire youth
- 00:12:23.667 --> 00:12:25.468
- Wearing the futures female t shirts and you wonder
- 00:12:25.468 --> 00:12:29.172
- Why it is that masculinity, traditional masculinity, when
- 00:12:29.172 --> 00:12:33.510
- You when you go looking for it, you can't find it.
- 00:12:33.510 --> 00:12:35.946
- What are what are some other tips
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- That you have in your book?
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- You have 50 of them. so what are your
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- Favorites?
- 00:12:40.350 --> 00:12:41.518
- So, okay, you know, here,
- 00:12:41.518 --> 00:12:44.221
- This is sort of i don't know if i'd
- 00:12:44.988 --> 00:12:46.590
- Call this surprise or not,
- 00:12:46.590 --> 00:12:47.691
- But i think driving, i drive a ton with my children.
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- Okay?
- 00:12:50.594 --> 00:12:51.494
- I, you know, and, you know, i live in
- 00:12:51.494 --> 00:12:53.163
- I live in the hudson valley of new york state.
- 00:12:53.163 --> 00:12:55.732
- It's everything is a bit of a distance.
- 00:12:55.732 --> 00:12:57.934
- So i drive a lot.
- 00:12:57.934 --> 00:12:59.069
- And i think driving is a time when you really should.
- 00:12:59.069 --> 00:13:01.938
- It's a good chance to both teach your children
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- Like how to behave with other people.
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- In other words, don't
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- Don't tailgate, don't speed drive reasonably.
- 00:13:08.144 --> 00:13:11.915
- But also when you see other people doing these things, it's
- 00:13:11.915 --> 00:13:15.619
- A good opportunity to say like, this is not
- 00:13:15.619 --> 00:13:19.322
- This is not communitarian behavior.
- 00:13:19.322 --> 00:13:20.957
- This is not good behavior.
- 00:13:20.957 --> 00:13:22.192
- This person is just being a jerk, okay?
- 00:13:22.192 --> 00:13:24.628
- And, you know, normally when you're in public,
- 00:13:24.628 --> 00:13:26.463
- You don't want to call other people out
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- For being jerks
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- Because you know, you don't know who has a gun.
- 00:13:29.266 --> 00:13:31.902
- But but in this case, and you don't want to start
- 00:13:31.902 --> 00:13:34.671
- Fights in this case, it's a safe space to discuss other
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- People's public behavior in a way that doesn't hurt them.
- 00:13:38.341 --> 00:13:43.079
- And, and i think can be a good lesson for your kids.
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- I, i, the last lesson, number
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- 50 is teach your kids to, like, be able to be on their own.
- 00:13:51.388 --> 00:13:56.760
- In other words, i love my kid.
- 00:13:56.760 --> 00:13:58.528
- When i was growing up,
- 00:13:58.528 --> 00:13:59.763
- I walked home from school as an elementary school student.
- 00:13:59.763 --> 00:14:02.132
- I didn't think anything of it.
- 00:14:02.132 --> 00:14:03.867
- And,
- 00:14:03.867 --> 00:14:05.068
- And and my kids, you know, they get dropped off on the bus
- 00:14:05.068 --> 00:14:07.737
- And they walk up the hill to our house.
- 00:14:07.737 --> 00:14:11.007
- It's, you know, it's close to a mile.
- 00:14:11.007 --> 00:14:12.409
- I mean, they don't do it every day if
- 00:14:12.409 --> 00:14:13.510
- The weather's bad or whatever, but but, but, you know,
- 00:14:13.510 --> 00:14:16.980
- I encourage them to do this, and i, my daughter,
- 00:14:16.980 --> 00:14:19.716
- Who is, my older daughter, who's 13,
- 00:14:19.716 --> 00:14:22.052
- She actually
- 00:14:22.052 --> 00:14:23.119
- Went to coney island with her, a good friend of hers.
- 00:14:23.119 --> 00:14:26.323
- And they're my, my, my nephew, her cousin, who's 15.
- 00:14:26.323 --> 00:14:31.127
- So 213 year olds and a 15 year old taking the subway
- 00:14:31.127 --> 00:14:33.964
- In new york city together during the day.
- 00:14:33.964 --> 00:14:36.700
- You know, this was not at night.
- 00:14:36.700 --> 00:14:38.168
- And, and, and i was out there.
- 00:14:38.168 --> 00:14:40.737
- Okay.
- 00:14:40.737 --> 00:14:41.671
- And and actually, they lost a backpack.
- 00:14:41.671 --> 00:14:44.975
- They got a backpack stolen from them
- 00:14:44.975 --> 00:14:46.609
- Because, they are a little bit of country mice.
- 00:14:46.609 --> 00:14:49.012
- And they didn't take,
- 00:14:49.012 --> 00:14:50.347
- You know, they
- 00:14:50.347 --> 00:14:51.247
- They didn't take it seriously enough,
- 00:14:51.247 --> 00:14:52.315
- But they didn't get hurt.
- 00:14:52.315 --> 00:14:53.616
- And i think that that's a really good life lesson
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- For them.
- 00:14:56.086 --> 00:14:57.153
- I think that you have to let your kids, you know,
- 00:14:57.153 --> 00:14:59.456
- Grow and make mistakes and be on their own
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- And trust that nothing terrible is going to happen to them.
- 00:15:02.459 --> 00:15:05.729
- And, and and that does not mean that like, like the world,
- 00:15:05.729 --> 00:15:08.798
- The world is a difficult place, okay?
- 00:15:08.798 --> 00:15:10.200
- The world is a difficult place emotionally.
- 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:12.168
- The world can grind you down, but you have to build up
- 00:15:12.168 --> 00:15:15.138
- Your own resilience.
- 00:15:15.138 --> 00:15:16.473
- And and as children, that's something you have to do.
- 00:15:16.473 --> 00:15:18.708
- You have to learn to listen to people and learn that
- 00:15:18.708 --> 00:15:20.577
- Sometimes you have to do stuff you don't like.
- 00:15:20.577 --> 00:15:22.512
- But it's also good for you to know that you can do stuff
- 00:15:22.512 --> 00:15:25.015
- On your own.
- 00:15:25.015 --> 00:15:25.849
- And sometimes things may go wrong,
- 00:15:25.849 --> 00:15:27.384
- But you're going to recover, you're going to overcome that.
- 00:15:27.384 --> 00:15:29.919
- And and i, i, i just think, you know,
- 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:33.390
- The over parenting, the again, the feminization, the gentle
- 00:15:33.390 --> 00:15:36.559
- Parenting takes something so important from these kids.
- 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:40.497
- Amen.
- 00:15:40.730 --> 00:15:41.731
- Alex. and we'll we'll be right back with you.
- 00:15:41.731 --> 00:15:42.832
- I think if you can stay with us for another segment,
- 00:15:42.832 --> 00:15:44.534
- We'd love to keep you around and, talk more about it,
- 00:15:44.534 --> 00:15:46.770
- Because charlie cared so much about reviving
- 00:15:46.770 --> 00:15:50.340
- The american family.
- 00:15:50.340 --> 00:15:51.374
- And at the heart of that is american fathers.
- 00:15:51.374 --> 00:15:56.003
- And at the heart of that is american fathers.
- 00:15:56.003 --> 00:16:01.652
- We're here with alex berenson.
- 00:16:02.253 --> 00:16:03.788
- We're talking about his new short book
- 00:16:03.788 --> 00:16:05.589
- For father's day,
- 00:16:05.589 --> 00:16:06.624
- The fatherhood manifesto a defense of fatherhood
- 00:16:06.624 --> 00:16:09.260
- And 50 practical tips to be a better, more involved dad.
- 00:16:09.260 --> 00:16:13.164
- Alex, you and i both seem to agree
- 00:16:13.164 --> 00:16:15.399
- That there's a general crisis of proper fatherhood
- 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.869
- Compared to how it seemed to be in the past,
- 00:16:18.869 --> 00:16:20.871
- But not everyone seems to agree.
- 00:16:20.871 --> 00:16:22.573
- I was looking around to see what the discourse literally.
- 00:16:22.573 --> 00:16:25.476
- Today we have an article in the new yorker
- 00:16:25.476 --> 00:16:28.245
- Which argues are dads getting better?
- 00:16:28.245 --> 00:16:31.115
- And they say basically that
- 00:16:31.115 --> 00:16:34.185
- They go with one of the things we've seen,
- 00:16:35.086 --> 00:16:36.454
- Which is that men are spending.
- 00:16:36.454 --> 00:16:37.521
- They say dads are spending more time in the house.
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- They're doing more,
- 00:16:41.092 --> 00:16:41.959
- They're doing more household chores.
- 00:16:41.959 --> 00:16:43.327
- They're more emotional available.
- 00:16:43.327 --> 00:16:46.130
- And at the same time, they do point out
- 00:16:46.130 --> 00:16:48.265
- That 1 in 4 children doesn't live with their father.
- 00:16:48.265 --> 00:16:51.168
- Six years after a separation, almost a third of fathers
- 00:16:51.168 --> 00:16:54.572
- No longer see their children.
- 00:16:54.572 --> 00:16:56.173
- So if you're a parent, split a third of them.
- 00:16:56.173 --> 00:16:58.442
- Just stop seeing their kids.
- 00:16:58.442 --> 00:16:59.844
- But they'll say the ones who are still there,
- 00:16:59.844 --> 00:17:02.046
- They're more available. they're more involved.
- 00:17:02.046 --> 00:17:04.115
- Actually, things are improving.
- 00:17:04.115 --> 00:17:05.816
- What do you say to that, alex?
- 00:17:05.816 --> 00:17:07.885
- Well, i mean, i think that that's true, actually,
- 00:17:07.885 --> 00:17:10.020
- I think the irony here
- 00:17:10.020 --> 00:17:11.255
- Is that people, again, my age and younger are better dads.
- 00:17:11.255 --> 00:17:15.726
- They're more involved.
- 00:17:15.726 --> 00:17:16.694
- They're doing more
- 00:17:16.694 --> 00:17:17.761
- And getting less credit for it than they ever have.
- 00:17:17.761 --> 00:17:20.764
- And that's why this is, you know,
- 00:17:20.764 --> 00:17:22.867
- It's almost like, why don't you become a father, right?
- 00:17:22.867 --> 00:17:26.237
- You you tend to step up, right?
- 00:17:26.237 --> 00:17:28.606
- Even even if the culture is telling you you're dumb
- 00:17:28.606 --> 00:17:31.942
- And you don't know what you're doing and,
- 00:17:31.942 --> 00:17:33.511
- You know, just let mom, you know,
- 00:17:33.511 --> 00:17:35.579
- She's going to be in charge and you're
- 00:17:35.579 --> 00:17:36.947
- Just kind of a second secondary parent.
- 00:17:36.947 --> 00:17:39.950
- Like the parent that the father said,
- 00:17:39.950 --> 00:17:42.553
- I know that's not how they are, okay?
- 00:17:42.553 --> 00:17:44.655
- They want to be involved. they are involved.
- 00:17:44.655 --> 00:17:46.423
- They're emotionally involved.
- 00:17:46.423 --> 00:17:47.625
- What i'm saying is, like, you, you you have the right
- 00:17:47.625 --> 00:17:52.329
- As a father to be, to be somewhat authoritarian
- 00:17:52.329 --> 00:17:56.133
- To your children.
- 00:17:56.133 --> 00:17:57.201
- Okay, so this is another tip in the book that you
- 00:17:57.201 --> 00:18:00.004
- You have the right sometimes to be angry with your children,
- 00:18:00.004 --> 00:18:03.040
- And your children should know when you're angry with them.
- 00:18:03.040 --> 00:18:05.409
- And you know, that could be because
- 00:18:05.409 --> 00:18:06.777
- They're bullying another child.
- 00:18:06.777 --> 00:18:08.012
- It could be
- 00:18:08.012 --> 00:18:09.246
- Because they took a stupid risk that could have hurt them or
- 00:18:09.246 --> 00:18:11.148
- Hurt somebody else.
- 00:18:11.148 --> 00:18:12.216
- It could be that they, you know,
- 00:18:12.216 --> 00:18:13.384
- That you've been asking them
- 00:18:13.384 --> 00:18:14.518
- To do something repeatedly and they have not done it.
- 00:18:14.518 --> 00:18:17.555
- And and it's just time for that to end.
- 00:18:17.555 --> 00:18:19.723
- Okay.
- 00:18:19.723 --> 00:18:20.524
- It could be any of those reasons.
- 00:18:20.524 --> 00:18:22.026
- You have the right to be angry, and your children should know
- 00:18:22.026 --> 00:18:24.995
- That you're angry and
- 00:18:24.995 --> 00:18:26.363
- And they should actually
- 00:18:26.363 --> 00:18:27.198
- Be afraid of your anger, not of you,
- 00:18:27.198 --> 00:18:29.433
- But they should be afraid of your anger.
- 00:18:29.433 --> 00:18:31.202
- But then when your anger is gone, it's gone.
- 00:18:31.202 --> 00:18:33.671
- Okay, so what's not good as a dad
- 00:18:33.671 --> 00:18:37.208
- Is to be irritable with your children,
- 00:18:37.208 --> 00:18:39.009
- Because irritability is sort of a prolonged condition.
- 00:18:39.009 --> 00:18:41.645
- Right.
- 00:18:41.645 --> 00:18:42.479
- And so this is sometimes what i see
- 00:18:42.479 --> 00:18:43.714
- In parents and fathers in particular.
- 00:18:43.714 --> 00:18:45.416
- I know who are very involved.
- 00:18:45.416 --> 00:18:47.084
- They're very involved.
- 00:18:47.084 --> 00:18:47.851
- They want to be good parents,
- 00:18:47.851 --> 00:18:49.320
- Yet they
- 00:18:49.320 --> 00:18:50.521
- They can't really establish authority over their children.
- 00:18:50.521 --> 00:18:52.990
- And so it frustrates them over time.
- 00:18:52.990 --> 00:18:55.759
- So, so if you're irritable with your children
- 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:58.028
- And this is something that's going on and on and on,
- 00:18:58.028 --> 00:19:00.264
- What you need to say to yourself
- 00:19:00.264 --> 00:19:01.532
- Is, look, i need to either accept whatever behavior
- 00:19:01.532 --> 00:19:04.235
- Is is irritating me and stop being irritable about it,
- 00:19:04.235 --> 00:19:07.871
- Or i need to change it.
- 00:19:07.871 --> 00:19:09.006
- I need to know that
- 00:19:09.006 --> 00:19:09.974
- That's such a good, such a brilliant point.
- 00:19:09.974 --> 00:19:11.542
- I'm thinking about that because when you're
- 00:19:11.542 --> 00:19:13.344
- When you're irritable,
- 00:19:13.344 --> 00:19:14.445
- When you're letting something get under your skin,
- 00:19:14.445 --> 00:19:16.313
- You're showing you're not in command
- 00:19:16.313 --> 00:19:18.082
- And you're not an authority figure anymore.
- 00:19:18.082 --> 00:19:20.217
- You're a person dealing with this nagging problem.
- 00:19:20.217 --> 00:19:23.420
- And that is
- 00:19:23.420 --> 00:19:24.622
- That's so antithetical to that vision of fatherhood
- 00:19:24.622 --> 00:19:26.690
- You were laying out in our first segment.
- 00:19:26.690 --> 00:19:29.059
- That's exactly that's exactly right.
- 00:19:29.059 --> 00:19:30.594
- So i do think that there are a lot of dads
- 00:19:30.594 --> 00:19:33.364
- Out there who are involved, who want to be involved
- 00:19:33.364 --> 00:19:35.833
- And who just, you know,
- 00:19:35.833 --> 00:19:37.434
- Again, have been a little bit emasculated.
- 00:19:37.434 --> 00:19:39.637
- The culture is taken from them, their natural voice.
- 00:19:39.637 --> 00:19:42.873
- And so that's what this is saying.
- 00:19:42.873 --> 00:19:44.408
- This is not saying, hey,
- 00:19:44.408 --> 00:19:45.976
- You know, there's so many dads are not involved
- 00:19:45.976 --> 00:19:49.079
- And you need to be obviously that's a
- 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:50.481
- That's its own problem and a separate problem.
- 00:19:50.481 --> 00:19:52.983
- But if you're constantly telling somebody,
- 00:19:52.983 --> 00:19:55.185
- Hey, you're not very good at this,
- 00:19:55.185 --> 00:19:57.121
- You know, you should just let mom lead the way.
- 00:19:57.121 --> 00:19:59.390
- There are going to be dads who step back,
- 00:19:59.390 --> 00:20:01.625
- Even if they even if they don't really want to.
- 00:20:01.625 --> 00:20:04.261
- I think what we're seeing
- 00:20:04.261 --> 00:20:05.329
- So is how how involved many fathers want to be
- 00:20:05.329 --> 00:20:08.232
- That they stand in despite
- 00:20:08.232 --> 00:20:10.134
- Being told that they're idiots, despite,
- 00:20:10.134 --> 00:20:12.403
- You know, the endless ads where they're goofy,
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- I think i think they know better
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- And they know they're important.
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- And this book, you know, this book is for them to,
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- So, alex,
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- Sorry, i apologize if this is a curveball
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- Because i'm just looking through this new york article
- 00:20:24.481 --> 00:20:26.383
- Since it came out today and they point out,
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- I think this intersects with a lot of your reporting
- 00:20:28.185 --> 00:20:30.788
- On your substack, which i should shout out
- 00:20:30.788 --> 00:20:32.256
- On, on unreported truth substack.
- 00:20:32.256 --> 00:20:34.425
- You're still writing a lot about health mrna shots,
- 00:20:34.425 --> 00:20:37.528
- All of that stuff.
- 00:20:37.528 --> 00:20:38.562
- And you've written a lot about marijuana, too.
- 00:20:38.562 --> 00:20:40.731
- So i thought i'd bring up another topic
- 00:20:40.731 --> 00:20:42.800
- They mentioned here,
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- Which is the fall in male testosterone
- 00:20:43.701 --> 00:20:46.537
- That's been happening over time.
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- And they highlight in this article that
- 00:20:47.871 --> 00:20:50.407
- We have evidence that the more time you dads
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- Spend around their kids, it lowers your testosterone.
- 00:20:52.743 --> 00:20:55.012
- It makes you more of a dad
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- And less of a hunter gatherer, warrior killer type guy.
- 00:20:56.146 --> 00:20:59.817
- And so, you know, a lot of people fret, oh, we're,
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- You know, losing testosterone.
- 00:21:03.187 --> 00:21:04.355
- Men are becoming more beta, more weak.
- 00:21:04.355 --> 00:21:05.856
- And they say, maybe this is just
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- That we're having better dads who are more involved,
- 00:21:07.591 --> 00:21:10.094
- And that's what we're seeing play out.
- 00:21:10.094 --> 00:21:12.229
- What do you do? you have any thoughts on this?
- 00:21:12.229 --> 00:21:13.564
- Have you ever read, study that question
- 00:21:13.564 --> 00:21:15.332
- I think this is a real problem.
- 00:21:15.332 --> 00:21:16.500
- You know, sometimes i think sort of medical crises,
- 00:21:16.500 --> 00:21:19.403
- Are overhyped.
- 00:21:19.403 --> 00:21:20.537
- I think there's evidence that this is really happening.
- 00:21:20.537 --> 00:21:22.806
- We don't know why it's happening.
- 00:21:22.806 --> 00:21:24.308
- We don't know if it's some sort of environmental factors.
- 00:21:24.308 --> 00:21:26.677
- You know, there are people who say it's just men.
- 00:21:26.677 --> 00:21:28.679
- You know, are watching too much pornography and, and,
- 00:21:28.679 --> 00:21:33.050
- You know, sating their sexual needs without going out and,
- 00:21:33.050 --> 00:21:36.320
- You know, finding a real woman.
- 00:21:36.320 --> 00:21:37.855
- There's lots of hypotheses here.
- 00:21:37.855 --> 00:21:39.823
- I will say, like, i understand this idea that
- 00:21:39.823 --> 00:21:43.761
- That, you know, this biological idea
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- That once you've had a couple of kids,
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- You're more concerned
- 00:21:47.831 --> 00:21:48.799
- About protecting those kids than going out.
- 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:50.734
- And, you know, finding a woman to have more kids with.
- 00:21:50.734 --> 00:21:54.271
- I don't know if that's actually true.
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- It seems to sort of make
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- A certain amount of biological sense,
- 00:21:57.207 --> 00:21:58.642
- But to me, like there is nothing more masculine
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- Then, you know, than standing up for your kids,
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- Standing up for your wife, and standing up for your family.
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- That building a household.
- 00:22:07.751 --> 00:22:09.887
- And you know, it's funny, there is a new yorker.
- 00:22:09.887 --> 00:22:12.689
- Since we're talking about the new yorker,
- 00:22:12.689 --> 00:22:13.657
- There was an article about
- 00:22:13.657 --> 00:22:15.025
- Andrew tate, the, recently in the last week or two
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- Where he brags about how, you know,
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- He's he's fathered 12 kids or however many ideas.
- 00:22:20.998 --> 00:22:24.034
- I don't even know if he knows. exactly.
- 00:22:24.034 --> 00:22:25.869
- That's a you're not a father, okay?
- 00:22:25.869 --> 00:22:27.471
- You're you're basically, you know, a stallion.
- 00:22:27.471 --> 00:22:30.040
- Okay?
- 00:22:30.040 --> 00:22:31.108
- You're basically an animal running at that point
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- That does not make you a dad or makes you a dad.
- 00:22:32.976 --> 00:22:36.213
- He's not passing your genetic material into the world.
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- It's fathering children.
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- It's parenting children.
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- It's being there for them.
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- And and, you know, i'm
- 00:22:43.954 --> 00:22:45.289
- I'm sorry for him that he doesn't know that. but.
- 00:22:45.289 --> 00:22:47.991
- So, you know, i don't know if you measured my testosterone
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- What it would be right now,
- 00:22:51.094 --> 00:22:52.696
- I know that i'm a parent to my children,
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- And that is incredibly fulfilling to me.
- 00:22:54.932 --> 00:22:57.134
- And it's and it's the number one job in my life.
- 00:22:57.134 --> 00:22:59.536
- It really is.
- 00:22:59.536 --> 00:23:00.871
- It's so true.
- 00:23:01.238 --> 00:23:02.706
- So true.
- 00:23:02.706 --> 00:23:03.440
- And i love that distinction.
- 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:05.476
- It's like, you've got to be,
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- You know, we need not just that.
- 00:23:06.743 --> 00:23:08.145
- We need fathers and fathers are not just you build a family.
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- And then on top of that, you build civilization.
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- You preserve civilization.
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- You build everything that makes
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- Our lives have structure and safety and meaning.
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- And we have to have that.
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