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Terry, thanks for doing us. What do you know about fatherhood?
“>> Well, my wife and I just had number eight, right?”
So, I, look, I will tell you this. >> When you say just, well, we might go, but I mean, when did you have number eight? >> Last week, and you know, she, I was, I just want to convey the evidence of it.
>> To be fair to me, I'm my good husband and father. I did ask her if she wanted us to reschedul this, and she's such a huge fan of your show and everything you do. She was like, no, you have to do it. Don't miss out on this.
>> Well, that's, that's amazing.
So, was the father of eight? >> Yes. >> Why are you the father of eight? >> Well, I would say that, you know, on the else of 10 kids, I grew up working with my dad and our piece of shop.
I had an amazing relationship with him, and I got to see what being a father is firsthand. And I had amazing grandparents and amazing great grandparents. But even more so, I just, I love my wife. >> Yes.
>> I met her when I was 20 years old. We started dating. That's where we were on a presidential campaign out in Iowa. And I fell madly in love with her, and it hasn't stopped. And so, you know, I love being a dad,
because these kids are all unique and different. They make the world more beautiful, they're funny, they're bad. It strengthens me as a person. But I just, I love my wife, I love my kids. I love finding out who they are, right?
Because when you're raising them, you learn who your children are, and who they're going to become, and each one of them is so different. >> It's funny, you, you said, in that district, I grew up with everything that you said, but the one thing you said twice was I love my wife.
So, it sounds like your marriage is at the center of your, of your thinking of yourself as a father. >> Yeah, and I look back at, you know, because marriage is ups and downs, right? And you fight, and you have disagreements, and you move forward.
But, any time, the only regrets that I'm going to have on my deathbed is when I wasn't as charitable to my wife, or I wasn't as kind, and caring to her. >> Yeah, our patient, or dismissive, right? >> Those are the embarrassing moments of my life.
“And the only thing I'm going to regret is not spending more time with her,”
not getting to know her better. But I can fix that, I think, go in the next 40 years.
>> So I have a million questions for you just based on this two-minute exchange.
But can we just go back to the beginning, if you do mind, just summarizing, you know, like you said, I'm one of 10, I work with my dad at our pizza shop. >> Yeah. >> So, already I know you had an unusual childhood. >> Can you just explain it?
>> Well, I grew up in the Quad Cities. It's a Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa. It's on the Mississippi River, hometown of John to your tractors. We have our own pizza styles called Quad Cities Style Pizza, and how much?
>> How much? >> It's a barley malt crust, which is the number one most different thing about it. And it gives it a more caramelization. So it's a little bit, I don't know, it's a complex flavor. But that's -- >> It's crisper, and it's a medium crust.
So the inside is kind of thinner, and on the outside, the crust is thicker, it's cut into strips. So if you like crust, you get the corner pieces. If you don't like crust, you get the middle pieces because there's thinner. But the sauce is more robust.
You know, I like all different types of pieces. I don't like sweet pizza sauce for some reason. >> Right. >> It's got red pepper and it says a little bit spicy.
“The sausage is actually the most important thing that we have.”
The thing that makes it most unique, it's a fennel sausage. It's spicier, so if you don't like spicy food, you wouldn't like it. The toppings are underneath the cheese. So it gives it a steamed effect instead of a fried effect. It's the best thing ever.
I miss it every day. >> I'm making me hungry.
>> It's like I've never heard pizza describe so precisely or lovingly.
>> Yeah, well, it's a passionate mind. And I am not a believer in there being just one pizza place. Or one pizza that is better than everything else. If there are all these different types of pizza flavors, there's new havens style, there's New York style, there's St. Louis, Chicago.
There's two types of Chicago, the style pizza. There's a tavern style. That's also cutting the strips, but it's a thinner crust. And then there's obviously the Lumaunati types, which is my favorite Chicago style pizza.
But there's a, there's a poll in pizza. I know a lot about pizza, it's one of my passions. >> Interesting, I've eaten a lot of pizza more than my share, but I don't know as much I need to bone up. But your family owned a pizza place.
>> Yeah, and that was where all of us kids started working. We started working, I started working at 10, 1996, is when we opened, I was the head dish washer. >> What was it called? >> St. just set these heavenly pizza.
And there's an interesting story about my dad in this.
That it's called St.
Just set these Joseph in Italian. And St. Joseph is the patron saint of our family. He's the, he's the foster father of Jesus, right? So he's the patron saint of fathers. He's the patron saint of workers.
He's an amazing, he's the greatest non-defined figure
that ever existed, I would say, besides Virgin Mary, obviously. But my dad started this pizza place to make more money
“to provide for the family, I think they had just had number five”
at the time, which, you know, when you become a father, you really feel the economic pressures and the stress. But before he opened the pizza restaurant, he was an insurance salesman. And he worked a potential insurance.
And in the '80s, his parents got divorced. He was a senior in high school, and he became a party guy. His dad was a bartender, his mom also worked at bars. They got divorced. And it really adversity, in fact, is an experience terrible thing.
So I don't want to get into that stuff because it's just, it's actually kind of painful. >> But he got way off track. >> He got way off track. And this is during the '80s at the height of the crack epidemic.
And, you know, they didn't nearly have to sell crack that much.
They basically just said, you know, he smoked pot, right?
And so he was leaving a liquor store. This is one of you could buy alcohol, 18. But he's leaving liquor store in the crack dealer said, "Hey, you guys smoke weed." And they're like, yeah, thinking he's going to sell weed.
He goes, "You want something better?" And he gave him crack. And crack is obviously one of the worst substances. You can get addicted to people ruin their lives over it. Only 5% of people that get addicted to crack
end up ever getting clean. So my dad developed a crack addiction at the height of the crack epidemic. And he was able to keep it at bay, or at least keep it under control.
But as part of the filming of this, I sat down with my mom to talk about the her experience as the wife of a guy with a crack addict and a crack addict. And one thing that blew me away that I didn't remember from my childhood, really.
I knew he had a drug addiction when I was a kid, and I knew what was a problem, I knew he got clean. But she told me that there were days where he would go three days without ever coming home. He would go to work, they'd go out drinking afterwards,
and then they'd go smoke crack and do drugs, and they'd stay out all night. And then he knew he was in trouble, so he wouldn't go home and he'd go right into work. And he'd work.
And by the way, he was very successful at selling insurance.
“He, I think he was ranked 225 out of 5,000”
potential agents nationwide. So he's very effective, very productive, but he'd keep going on drinking.
He wouldn't come home until the third night.
It really made me think about how these corporations in America, my mom noticed when he was in home for three nights, but potential insurance didn't care, why would they care? They don't, because he's selling, he's selling their product, he's producing value for them.
And they probably were okay with him smoking crack, 'cause it probably made him more effective and efficient. He could get back on the job. And so I've had this revelation over the last few years that the government's bad, now it's corrupted,
but also the industries are bad. The industries will show you up and spit you out. And the irony is that there's this false notion of a work life balance. It's total garbage, it's a total lie.
And it's meant the entire framing of the work life balance is meant to go to war with life. It is a false dichotomy set up by industries and corporations
“so that you have to make a choice between your work”
and your private life. We'll let you take more vacation time. We'll let you have some paternity leave, but you gotta come back to work and produce value for the company, otherwise you have no value to us.
And it is a way that they have monopolized our actual lives. And in my opinion, basically experienced with my dad, his life turned around when he integrated his work and his life. When the pizza shop came around,
he was working with his sons, he was working with his wife. That was the center of our life was the pizza shop. And my dad absolutely got clean. I want to be very clear about that. He, so the breaking point was when my mom was pregnant
with number four, right? And Joseph is his name. He's the one that runs the pizza restaurants now, but she filed for a divorce when she was pregnant with number four after another three-day bender. And there was something really beautiful
on all this that happened, which is, if you go back, I mean, I quit drinking during my wife's fourth pregnancy. Oh, that is weeks before the end. That's when God's like, all right, now.
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Especially for the fourth time. That's-- They're like, "I really got a girl." Among us, take a few kids to figure it out, but yeah, that's-- That's amazing.
She filed for divorce. He didn't know where to go. So he went to his mom's house. His mom had divorced his dad.
“So we thought, you know, that's where you should go and get”
advice. She found my grandmother finds out that my mom's divorcing him. She calls my mom and confronts her, which is interesting, right? Because this is a woman who absolutely
participated in the no fault divorce culture. Yes. But she said, "Why are you divorcing my son?" And my mom said her name was Pat. And she said, "Pat, she's not getting clean."
She doesn't want to be married to me. He doesn't want to family. And grandma Pat hung up the phone. She said, "I'll handle this." And she sat down with my dad and said,
"I just want you to know, I'll always love you.
I'll always support you." But I never would have divorced her father, if he asked me not to. And that was the moment where my dad called my mom and said, "I don't want to get divorced. I want to get clean."
And I think at a deep level, he knew that his problems weren't just because he was a wild and crazy guy. He was filling a major hole in his heart from his parents' divorce. And so I'm actually grateful that he developed that
crack addiction because it made him a better person. I totally agree with that. And he chose us, right? He chose us over the crack addiction. He chose to break the cycle and the dysfunction.
And the chaos that result from breaking up families. He didn't want that trust to manage how to face that about himself. Yes, he does. He does. He does.
It's so humiliating. It's humbling.
“You have to admit, when you go through these narcotics and”
anonymous programs or any anonymous programs, you have to say, I'm helpless against this. I rely on a power greater than myself. You have to accuse yourself. You have to go and apologize to everyone that you caused damage to.
It's such a beautiful program. And the people that really take it seriously and go through it end up absolutely transforming their lives. That's like the humiliating man can break him or make him. I mean, Jesus humiliates Peter right at the end.
So I'm clever. Leave you. Yeah. You're going to deny me three times. humiliates.
Yes. And then builds the church on him because he's been humiliated. Yeah. I mean, I feel like that's those are the people I trust. Don't you?
People who face that? The people that are reflect, they reflect on their own behavior. Yes. Yeah. Everybody.
Those are the best people in the world. Totally agree. Rather than the people that blame everyone else for their problems,
“like I think a major problem in our world is that there's obviously narcissism”
and people obsessed with themselves with narcissism.
But they blame everyone else for their problems and the reality is you have no control.
Oh, this is an interesting, you have no control over at what other people do. So a lot of people don't know this unless you've been in these anonymous programs. But my dad was in our college anonymous. My mom. So there's a whole support system for the families of these people.
It's called Alanon. Of course. And my mom told this story about how her first meeting, she comes in and there's all these experienced women that have been dealing with alcoholic husbands or drug addict. It comes in, they go around the room, it's just like an anonymous meeting.
And she's like, I just want to get my husband clean. I'm willing to do whatever I have to do to get him clean. And they kind of like padded her on the head. Oh, that's very cute that you think you can change your husband. You can't.
He's not going to get clean unless he wants to get clean. And that was when I learned that from my mom, it was a major life lesson that you're
Better off doing self-reflection about where you come short.
And if you really want to change things and make the world a better place, you have to start
with yourself. I think it's all you can do. You know, take the plank out of your own eye. I totally agree with what's interesting, though, is that for a man with four kids to admit that he's addicted to crack, I do think for most men that kind of breaks them at that
point. It's too much. They can't sort of pick up the mantle of father head of household again. Your dad goes on to be successful and have six more kids. Six more kids answer retirement Congress, but it's like a believable.
Well, and there was something really beautiful about my dad's life.
“First of all, he got cancer in 2020 and at what age?”
He was 57. No, 56 when he was diagnosed, he passed away the next year when he was 57. And it was an advanced stage of intestinal cancer and they wouldn't have been able to pick it up even if they did colonoscopies or endoscopies or anything like that because it was on the outside of his intestines.
But the thing that was beautiful about it was I went out. I have a great organization, great chairman and a great president at the time and they let me go take care of him in the last month and a half. So I'm out there and I'm with all my siblings and you know, you just want to get out of the house and clean your head, you know, from everything that's going on.
So I took them all a target and we're just getting snacks and stuff and I tell them, like, you know, you guys should just be really grateful that he, she's even alive now because he was, he had a real bad drug addiction. And my younger siblings and these are numbers five, six, seven and eight. And they're like, what are you talking about?
Like, that was addiction crack. He had no clue because he had transformed his life so much and the thing is he was a public figure, right? So he's a member of Congress. I started speaking about his crack addiction as a way to bring people over.
He gave me permission on his deathbed to talk about it at the funeral and the political reporters from back home were astounded and there's actually a really interesting article where they're trying to call BS on me saying that he had a crack addiction because they had
never heard of anything like this about him.
“But that's how much fatherhood and faith transformed his life was.”
My siblings didn't even know about it. I mean, I knew there would be times. I have very vague memories of my mom when I'm three putting me in the back of the car and going and driving to the different bars in our area to try and find him. But it's very vague.
My siblings have no record. Where are you in birth order? I'm the oldest. My youngest sibling is just turned 16. Wow.
My mom was pregnant as she walked down the aisle with me and I have my wife and I said, that's actually, yes, yeah, it's very cute. I love it. I absolutely love it. I actually, two of my oldest daughter, Grace, who just got engaged is wonderful.
She is older than the youngest brother of mine, youngest two siblings of mine. That's amazing.
“So the nightmare, I think, for any child and maybe especially the oldest son is his father's”
death.
And man, I think it's something the back of your head, you know, you always worry about it.
Or I always did. How did it? How do you view it now? Your father's death. It's always going to be painful.
But there was this moment, like when he's literally taking his last breath and, you know, before let me go back, actually, earlier in the day, you could tell there was a, when someone's about to die that day, there's always like a big shift in them. They actually kind of get anxious. They want to get up and move around.
I don't know what it is, but he started doing that. And we got him back into bed. He was in a lot of pain and my mom asked him, oh, gosh, what can we do? What can we do to help? And he said, I just want my family and I want Jesus.
And that was his call to us to say, I want last rights and he wanted to receive communion. And so we got that and we got the whole family in there. And, you know, Tucker, I look back on that day and he died with all 10 of us at his side. That's incredible.
Praying for him, thanking, thank you, God for Bobby. You know, and like, that is a beautiful life and it wouldn't have happened if he hadn't gotten clean. If he had stayed a crack addict and allowed the divorce to go on, what a max out of four kids.
You know, maybe he got, you know, had some other woman on the side or whatever. But he died with all 10 of us grateful to God for his existence and for what he did in
Our life.
And it was a beautiful death, right? And I mentioned earlier that St. Joseph is the patron saint of fathers and workers. He's also the patron saint of a happy death.
And the story is that he's the first guy to have a happy death because he died in the
arms of Jesus and Mary. And I can't help but get that image out of my heart. I don't think the concept of happy death even exists in the west at this point. Hopefully we'll bring it back. But I, I feel like what you're describing so unfortunately is not even comprehensible to a
lot of people that even know what that means. They're very fearful of death and it's because we've lost faith.
“I think in our society, I think that we rely on ourselves a lot.”
I think a lot of those were so capable. Yeah. That's the irony. So capable. Human beings are so flawed, right?
And you've got, you've basically got a really corrupt system in America, which is on the left, you have people that just want to want anarchy. They want to give kids sex changes, they want the government to pay for it. They want to put you in prison for having the wrong political beliefs. They want you canceled.
But then on the right, you have some of that stuff, actually. But even worse, they're slaves to corporate America. They're slaves to the industries and the institutions. And it needs to change. One thing I wanted to share with you, I was a 21 Lincoln fellow at Claremont with Charlie
Kirk. And I got to know him a little bit. You know, there was it's like 12 people, total. It's 10 days. We're in Las Vegas, Charlie didn't gamble or drink.
And I lost all my money on the first day, so I got to talk to him quite a bit.
But it was, there was a fascinating discussion where he was debating with another girl, a woman named Robbie Smith, who's one of the best people I've ever met. They were arguing about the lack of marriage and family formation of America. Who was the blame? Men are women.
And Robbie was saying it's, it's obviously the men, they're smoke and pot. They're watching porn. They're all distracted. They don't want to get married. And I've got all these good girlfriends that want to get married.
They can't find a guy Charlie said, no, no, no, it's the girl bosses. It's the women wanting to get college degrees and putting off getting married. They don't want to get married. And Charlie turns to me and he says, Terry, you're the guy that works on family policy. What do you think?
And I have a bad answer. And I hate the answer I gave him.
“But I said, you know, I think it's the men because, you know, biblically, men of the”
head of the household, so it's our job to win women over and to form our households. The reality Tucker is that who's the blame in our society is our elites. Of course. It's all of them. I mean, it's the elites in corporate America that set the HR policies that, you know,
after Dobbs pass or after Dobbs, the decision came down. Corporate America was tripping over itself for abortion tourism. We'll pay for you. You're in flight to go and your accommodations to go to California and secure abortion. The freezer eggs, what is that?
Well, I'll tell you what it is. It is corporate America saying, if these women have babies, they'll leave the workforce. And they'll be fewer people. We'll have to pay people more money because there are fewer workers in the workforce because if these women have babies, they'll become moms.
And then they'll maybe have another one. They'll have less time to be efficient and effective. And it's so depressing, it's so sad. What I do feel like capitalism, I was promised. Exactly.
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than they do. Sorry. That's not an attack on women.
“That's what women sell for a port in survey after survey after survey.”
So when women make more than men, the marriage rate collapses. So that's what happened in black America. Now it's happened in rural white America, but it's the same thing. Well, there's this interesting thing where you look at communist China, right? In the 1950s, they instituted the one-child policy in a bunch of different programs that
Incentivize sterilization.
Their birth rate in 1960, I think, was 4.45 per woman.
By 1997, they got it down to 1.53 after coercive and harsh tyrannical policies that really hurt and kill a lot of people. When the brits gave up control of Hong Kong in 1997, the same year, their fertility rate under the loving, gazing eyes of the Western world, Hong Kong's birth rate was at 1.13. Well, the prosperity, even in the lower, and over that time, we have increased efficiency
by 90% across the industries. We're almost double as effective and efficient as we are, as we were back in 1960. But more of our money goes towards the existential zone. It was 50% of your income in the 1960s, went to your mortgage, your car, your insurance, all the things you need to live.
Today it's 80%. So, we're more efficient, we're producing way more goods than we've ever produced ever, but we're making less money. We need two incomes to make it in America today, and people are buying homes with two incomes. So when you lose your job, you go in a foreclosure.
“This is all industry driven, why do we allow people to buy homes with two incomes?”
Why are you going to get a mortgage with two incomes? I don't. Well, that's done, is it's jacked up the price of housing in the good school district. Because there's only a few good school districts in the country, and if the incomes are doubled, you're in a bidding war now, and we have sacrificed our lives for business,
for industry, for efficiency, and we're more miserable than ever, but they love us back, don't you think? You know, we were talking about this in the car. How committed is Apple to you and your family? Oh, they hate you.
First of all, oh my gosh.
The iPhone should be free. The iPhone should be free. Of course. They need the iPhone to deliver all of their ads and their propaganda to you and to subvert everything you believe in.
Why do we have to pay $2,000 for an iPhone? That doesn't make any sense to me. Two humillians, maybe? I'm just guessing. Yes.
Yes. Is that what it costs? That's $1,500, $1,600. For an iPhone. For the most, the highest level one.
Yeah, I think so. I don't know. I don't buy them. I don't either. I think they sent them to me.
I didn't know that. My office, I didn't. Is that really what they cost? Yeah. So out of it.
Gosh. I wish I didn't have one. So you're one of 10. You now are the father of eight.
“So I think you're in a pretty good spot to describe what makes a good father.”
I think if you boil what becoming a father is and what it means, it's self-sacrifice, which is love. Yeah. Right. Victor Hugo, author of Limis.
He said that you can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. Right. And I think the ultimate example of what a man is is Christ on the cross. Right. Like, here's a guy that is literally giving up everything.
And if you actually read the passion, he's fighting all the way up until the final moment. Right. These people are kicking him. He's falling. He's been beaten in scores.
He's bleeding profusely. They ripped out. I mean, I saw the episode where you were talking about that. And it had. It was way more impactful than the passion.
Tell you that. But you look at the passion of Christ. He was fighting and struggling to get to Calvary. The whole time. It was not a submission to God's will.
But he had to work for it. He had to push himself to get up every time. That is what we're called to be as fathers. Self-sacrificial. You never.
I also think that fathers are merciful. But they're just, right? So they're there. Eek. Someone described this to me.
Pat Fagan. Amazing guy who does a lot of profanely policy. But he told me the difference between the devil and Jesus, which is amazing.
He said, you know, the devil always deviates from the law.
But he shows no mercy when you break the law. Christ never deviates from the law. But shows infinite mercy when you apologize. And I think that's the rule of a father. It's to not stray from the law, not stray from the rules.
Puppy merciful to your children, right? I think that there, you hear horror stories about how some fathers behave. But I think if you're really doing it right, you're spending a lot of one on one time with each of you. I believe we're not even though I make kids.
I make time for each one of them individually. And it doesn't have to be hours at a time. You can do a five, ten minute trip to 7/11. Get some snacks. Your kids will open up to you.
“You have to have that one on one time with your kids.”
But I would say that if you were to boil all down, it's sacrificing yourself for your children and your wife. It is being merciful and it's also making sure your kids know the rules.
Don't make these mistakes discipline, right?
These are these are the things that are the most important thing when it comes to being a father.
Well, you often hear people compare the West, America, Europe, to Rome. Clearly Western civilizations in decline. And at the same time, you hear another set of people tell you that masculinity is the problem. Toxic masculinity. And young people hear both of these things and a lot of them become consumed by despair.
Men are not irredeemable. Men can be stronger. But you got to fix one thing before that happens and that's fatherhood. No society without fathers can continue.
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How do you keep fathers from not breaking? I've seen it many, many times where a father loses his job. He feels like a loser. And then he starts behaving like a loser. And then his wife and children are unimpressed.
And so he becomes even less impressive and just like cycles that a life. Either literally or just falls apart with booze or... Other assorted self-destructive activities. Well, I think we're seeing more and more of that today. Yeah.
And embarrassing level actually. But the point of a system is what it produces, not what it says it produces. And our system today is attacking men. You know, I worked all the time in DC.
“We all, all we do is pass laws and get people elected to help protect the family.”
That's what we do. And you talk to people on Capitol Hill. You can't bring up all the attacks on young boys in schools. You can't bring up the attacks on young men and how difficult it is because women have it worse. Still they say that?
They all, well, it's starting to change. No, it's absolutely starting to change. But you're not, you really can't. There's no, the irony is that there's a huge constituency with the American people on this. But when you go to Washington DC, the politicians don't want to hear about it.
They definitely don't want to talk about it. That's true. Even now, name, name, name five politicians. Well, they clearly say that. Women were just sure made.
Girls were screaming against the schools. Well, of course, women dominate schools completely from top to bottom. They graduated a far higher rate at every level than boys do. They used to say, well, women are paid a percentage of the male wage. Well, women make more than men now.
Nationally adjusted as you know. And like, so the data are in. Like, this is not an argument we have to have. Boys are falling behind not girls. And I've just to amazed that people in DC won't admit that.
It's, it's one of the last acceptable bigotries is against men. And it's because the news, politicians, everywhere in our culture, the movies. We just, Paul or like, just died, right? I was actually in the delivery room.
There was a lot of fun. I was in the delivery room with the eighth child when I figured out. Or like when he passed. Yeah. And you explained you.
Paul or like was for those who don't know. It's a Paul or like wrote this book in 1968 called the population pump.
And he basically said that the whole world was going to collapse.
If we didn't stop people from having kids. He was incredibly evil. China's one child policies. He didn't go over an advise them. But they read his books.
They use his course. He wanted to sterilize people, forcibly. He wanted to have paid tax incentives for people that did sterilize themselves. He wanted to have limits on how many kids. He supported forcing people to get licenses before they can have children.
Right. These are crazy ideas that I don't know why they took off. But the irony about Paul or like is that he made all these predictions about devastation and chaos in the world. If we didn't address the population. Bob, none of them came true literally none of his ideas came true.
The only one that got close to coming true actually was he predicted that in 2000, the year 2000 that the UK would fall. That's like the closest he's gotten. The UK is falling by the way. But not because Britain's are having too many kids. No, it's you know, it's the opposite.
It's the opposite right of course. But Paul or like was an atrocious man. But one of the things that he was very passionate about was his guidance for television and movies. If you depict a family, they should be small. No big families and movies.
“How did Paul or like have the right to advise filmmakers and TV producers on what their art should be?”
Everyone ever was scared of death.
They really they bought it hook line of sinker and it's not new Tucker.
It's also old.
“The idea that people are pollution is so old.”
It's like kind of boring if you look throughout history.
Sacrifice your children to the gods in order to become happy and prosperous. That's a pretty old concept. Well, there's one group. I actually I have a joke for you. I'll try it out anyway.
It is two priests walking to a bar. One's a Jesuit. The other's a Dominican. The jettler debating about who the best order is in terms of Catholic priests. And the Jesuits says, well, we were founded by St. Ignatius of Leola.
And we were the most academic, we're the smartest. And we were founded to combat the Protestants. And, sorry, the Dominican priest says, well, I think we have you beat. And we were founded by St. Dominic who founded us to destroy the Albedgencians. Who are the Albedgencians?
You know, one's last time you heard of an Albedgencian. And they're like the Houthis.
They've never personally threatened me.
Well, you would think so because you haven't heard of them. But their ideas are everywhere. The Albedgencians were a 12th century heretical cult of Christianity. They basically believe that the soul was perfect. Impure.
But that the body and the physical world were corrupted. And so they started punishing people for getting married. They started encouraging people not to have children.
“Like the worst thing, anything pleasurable.”
If you've enjoyed good food, that was a sin for the Albedgencians. If you had sex with your wife, that having a baby was like the biggest sin you could commit for the Albedgencians. But they were against marbles in SUVs too. I'm disgusted with these people. They're worried about climate.
Yes. Yes. But they thought the worst thing you could do is trap a pure soul into a corrupted body. Like you're actually doing this. And those ideas are still here.
I see Albedgencians everywhere in our society. Their ideas have not tied out. They've just taken different shapes. It's why these corporations are promoting abortion and egg freezing. It's why states like California will take children from their parents.
If the parents sort of firm their gender identity. The family precedes the state. The family is the original community. It's the original society. There is no right to take children away from from their parents unless there's actual serious abuse.
But we see these ideas everywhere. And they've taken home. And they've got obviously Thomas Malthus who who believe the people were population. Paul Ehrlich, these guys, their policies have been very, have been failures. They've caused misery and chaos and suffering.
But they've taken hold all of our elite institutions. All of our elite institutions have been pushing these policies on us. So these ideas shaped shift. This is my read. All these anti-human anti-god ideas like manifest is some slightly different ideology depending on the period.
Whether it's the Alepagensians or the Marxists or the Green Party. All of those look in kind of now, especially even the climate people sort of gave up on that. In exchange for building data centers. So data centers are incompatible with Green politics because there's such a massive energy draw. So you need all forms of like electrical generation or to power these data centers.
But what's the point of the data centers? It's to create something called artificial intelligence, which I'm beginning to wonder. I'm not against all AI, I guess. But I'm beginning to wonder if the agenda there is very, is very different. I mean, it does seem like replacing thinking with the judgment of a machine.
How is that different from what you're describing? I think it's very similar. It is at the heart of the entire AI industry is the belief that human beings need AI. That they need some type of overlord above the way smarter. That can process data.
“Tucker, that is, that's the worst thing.”
So Francis Bacon was another guy that we've discovered.
And he basically believed he was the art of modern science or father on modern science.
But he basically believed that human beings could solve anything. That nature was actually meant for us to completely alter and mess with. I think you're with me. I think nature exists. I think it should be respected.
There are rules. You shouldn't have sex outside of marriage. You should be open to life. You shouldn't steal. You shouldn't cheat.
You shouldn't lie. But these guys want to kill innocent. You can't kill innocent. You can't sterilize innocent, right? They believe that they are their own gods.
I had a Dominican priest. I had to go back to the Dominicans. When the whole sex changes for kids thing took off, I went to a very dark place.
I just couldn't believe that it was happening.
And I kept seeing these pictures. And these stories are all horrific. So I call my friend Tim from Francis University's a Dominican priest now. And I'm lamenting all this to I can't believe they're sterilizing kids. But immediately in their bodies, and he broke it down.
He said, what we're dealing with right now with this issue is two things. One, it's very, very old. And two, it's very, very new. The old is the garden of Eden. It is us trying to become our own gods and shape all of everything about us.
Even reject the biological sex that got assigned to you. That guy gave you. But he said that the new is the technology. The previous societies did not even understand hormone levels. So we have these new technologies.
And that is the Francis Bacon effect. Is the new technologies and conquering nature. And reshaping it to something darker. Something that they can control and manipulate. I don't think you can beat nature, can you?
Oh, nature always wins. That's because God is real. Like there was a designer for our universe and for our world and for humanity. And he made these rules. And if you reject them, you're going to bad time.
Yeah.
“That's why I like bad weather because it reminds you of that.”
Really? Yes. I mean, it doesn't matter what your ideology is. If you go out naked in a snowstorm, you're going to die. Because nature is more powerful than you.
Yes. That's just a fact. And you can change your sex, I guess. But you can't change the need to be at 98.6 at all times. Yeah.
It's such a great reminder. I wonder though. As it relates to fatherhood. Like the description of a good father because fatherhood is part of nature. Can't be that different from era to era.
No matter what we in the moment we're living in describe as a good father. There is a kind of absolute standard for good fatherhood. There has to be because there is in the natural world. Yeah. And it hasn't changed.
I mean, there are eternal truths.
A good father has always provided for his family.
He's always protected them. And he's procreated. That's like a, you had to procreat it. Provide become a father. Protect procreat.
And procreat. And discipline and teach rules, be merciful. Teach your kids. You know, there's, there's a lot of new studies that have been coming out over the last ten years. About fatherhood and how it impacts and shapes the individual and how it impacts and shapes the kids.
“One thing that was very interesting to me was it was I think it was in reason magazine of all places.”
They, they wrote about how fathers are actually the ones that instill empathy in their children. And how they explained it was that fathers and men are naturally concerned about themselves. Like we're kind of in our own heads. And we're always thinking about what we need to do for our lives. And so like when your kid breaks your $400 drill, you're going down and lecturing them and saying,
You own hard ahead of work for that $400 drill. I can't believe you use it without buying permission. You know you're not supposed to do this. We get kids to think about other people.
Whereas like the moms are always going to be like,
"Oh, don't worry about it. You're not mad or just get another one. Don't feel that bad." So moms, now moms build self esteem. Mom's still play a pill to roll.
There's a, there's a use to teaching your kids not to be suicidal or breaking a drill, right? But dads are the ones instill it. So obvious women are more empathetic, of course. We think of them that way, but societies in which they're very few fathers, matriarchal societies are far less empathetic, far less empathetic than patriarchal societies.
And you know that because they're like massively high crime rates in all societies run by women. And those are way less empathetic societies. Like that's the proof. Yes.
“And, you know, I think largely I have a friend that we lament women because they're hard”
to understand, they're complicated. And he tells us funny joke. He said, you know what the difference between complex and complicated is. And complex, a jet engine is complex. There's all these intricate parks that all logically make sense and then work together.
But it's complex. So Roob Goldberg machine is complex. Yes, yes. Women are complicated. Yes, that's right.
They're hard to understand, especially if you're a guy. But there's a whole nature that. And I think that one of the ways that our elites have really screwed us over is convincing women that having a career, having a good job is the basis of a good life and not becoming a mother.
Do women believe that, do you think? Yes, and actually just we know people who believe that. I, uh, yes. Oh, I mean, ask any woman who actually believe that though that that
think that a career is is is the most important thing for a good life.
Yes, a hundred percent.
They don't. Young people. Women who believes that who believes a career working at the bank. We'll do the AI startup. They'll, they'll at least say this actually.
It's actually preferable to having a husband who loves you. Takes care of you and provides you children. I don't think there's a woman alive who actually believes that. Well, a lot of people that there's a lot of lies in our society. Yeah.
And people that like to tell ourselves are the most powerful thing.
Right.
“And women today, I think they all know deep down.”
They really would do better with a husband. They really would be happier with a kid. Right. I think you know biologically. Uh, with a husband that could provide.
Why do you want to go help Jeff Bezos make more money? Why do you want to go help Bill Gates make more money? Why do you want to help all these super wealthy white billionaires make more money? So you can be, quote, independent as you become totally dependent on a company that has no regard for you at all as a person. Yes.
Exactly. I'm so independent. I work at JP Morgan. I'm so independent. Yes.
But the talker, the things is hilarious. So sad because these women are missing out. No, I don't know. I'm laughing.
I'm laughing at the irony because everything is irony.
But yeah, no, it's the tragedy of America, really. And you know, the egg freezing and the abortion tourism. It's so evil because these women. My dad died with 10 of us surrounding him. That's beautiful.
Right. That's, you're going to have a lonely death.
“And how things are going to tell you that are your orientation and investment banking, though, do they?”
No. I don't think there's any encouragement to think through to the end. How does this end exactly? Exactly. Yeah.
No. In an assisted living community where there's some foreign born nurse who doesn't know my name, that's the end. That is the end, actually, for a lot of people. And we should tell them that at the start. Like, how do you want this to end?
That's a totally fair question whether you're talking about war or your own life. Like, what does this look like in the final stage? Well, I think if you go back to the AI situation. A lot of speculation that AI is going to eliminate every single job and will all be prospered. They're telling us, we won't need to make money.
We won't need to work. Everyone machines will run our lives. Okay. Fine. Whatever.
But we won't need to work. Oh, that sounds fun. But let's imagine that scenario, though, where you don't have to work. Where you, you are living in heaven. You're going to have a family.
You're going to have children. That is the ideal. If you don't have all this noise around you. Why don't I have to imagine how it works because I grew up in a trust fund world. So I know exactly how it works.
And it works where, you know, you become an alcoholic, sleep with the repair. You're reviled by your children. And then you shoot yourself.
“That's what a life of no working looks like.”
And then on the bottom end, the welfare world, which is the mirror image of the trust fund world, it's the same. It's true despair because a man needs work for meaning in his life. He protects and provides. That's where his sense of himself comes.
That's his duty. And if he doesn't achieve it, he hates himself. So like a world without work is hell. It's not advisable. I've seen it.
But the people that put their careers first and that, you know, are going along with this lie. Because like, look, they might not believe it, but they're doing it. Right. And they're living it. And what they're missing out on, the work is the what.
Right. It's what you do. The family is the why. You get a job and you work hard at it so that you can provide for your family. That the idea that you have a job so that you can build a legacy for yourself is not right.
Not correct. It's not going to happen. No one will remember you, especially the company you work for. The company that you work for.
If you're a woman that's is playing to never get married.
That company is the day you die, the day you leave the company. They're going to immediately start preparing to replace you. Your children can't do that. Your children won't do that unless you're a bad. Or bad dad, no, but right, but you're missing out on the eternal.
You're missing out on the why. When you say, I need to get a college degree and advance college degree or I need to get a job. I need to put everything in my life ahead of my family family's. I'm an advisable. It's a disaster.
It's an absolute disaster. Yeah. I mean, first of all, you work so your way. It will be proud of you. Just kidding.
You know, your father works so hard. That's right. That's why I say grace at the table. Because I work, no, I mean, that's like this is actually nature. And I just feel like the program that we have sold.
To young people on our country is so unnatural and like bizarre. And would make no sense to any so-called backward country. They'd look at this and be like, what? And I spent a lot of time in backward countries. And they do look at it like, what?
Did it can't persist? Like you can't. I mean, we're fighting gravity here, kind of. Like this is not the natural order at all. Well, so it's doomed.
Well, I don't think it's doomed. I don't think anything's ever doomed. No, but I mean, the lies that we're telling ourselves.
Currently men and women are exactly the same.
They occupy no unique role in the universe.
They just can sort of choose it.
“Working for, you know, Microsoft is more meaningful than having five children.”
Like these are such obvious lies that don't. Don't they have to just crumble at some point? And I do think they're going to be crumbling here soon. You can't go on and much like you're now. Even that you're saying this out loud.
If you send this 10 years ago. Right? Yeah. Well, you weren't really. I don't think the crisis was as big of a deal.
Or it wasn't as apparent at how urgent the family information crisis was. Or that we were prioritizing, putting women in the workforce over family. I mean, I went to high, I was in high school from 2001 to 2005. And family was a center of everyone's life. And maybe it was the part of the country I grew up in.
Maybe the Quad Cities is just better than all these major cities or East Coast or West Coast stuff. But family was very much the center of everyone's life. Like you, and you learn that from talking to people at the pizza shop. But one thing, one big change that I've noticed in our society is public parks. Public parks are interesting because they're in major cities and space is finite.
So when you decide to put an area up as a public park,
you're basically telling people what your top priorities are.
Fifty, sixty's all that when we had the massive expansion of parks with our country over last century. Up until recently, there were all kids parks. So when you say, I'm going to go to the park. You immediately envision playgrounds and swings and and merry-go-rounds all of that. But today, if you go to the inner cities, dog parks are outranking kid parks.
The kid parks are empty. I went to a dog park and I talked to some of the people there. And one girl, I asked her, you know, how many dogs she has. She had two, but she's a dog walker. I love dogs, but the way I don't want to attack dogs.
But the, I talked to another guy. He said, I asked him if he was a replant of getting married and having kids. He said, well, I've got all these international weddings I have to go to. That's not the main point. We're directing all of these resources to dog runs and dog parks and not kid parks.
In Hong Kong, it's actually a bit worse. In a way, the parks are actually for senior citizens. They're, they're low impact exercise machines like hip twisters and all that. And it's, they don't have children.
“Their birth rate is like under, I think it's under one, it's like 1.09 or something.”
It's devastating. But these people either direct the money and the, the resources towards dogs or the elderly. If you look at federal spending on welfare and entitlements, it's five to one welfare benefits going to people 65 and up. We need to start reversing that back to young people and families to get them a more stable life.
We're setting, we're telling the world and our citizens, what our priorities are every time we build a dog park. And I got to think, so that you're breakdown of federal spending. I do think it's an indictment of a specific generation. I'm not going to name them boobers, but I think that generation and the last year,
it was 1964, the year after the cutting assassination. You know, they're on their way out. They're 60, youngest or 62, you know, the oldest or 80. So once that generation, which is completely destroyed America, not all of them, but most. Do you think there will be change?
I think there will be a lot of change. Yeah, these boomers have really screwed up our country and they really hurt young people. They, the boomers are the most selfish generation ever. Four or more two is such a massive success. How did it give rise to that generation? They came back from the war and had those people. So like, I'm not again, you know, I'm totally very entynazi, want to be clear.
But like, if that's the founding myth of our country that winning that war was such a win, then how did they produce the baby boomers? Well, there's probably a lot of reasons. There's a lot of reasons, but there's something really heavy going on there. Like, how could you wreck it all with one generation? I think that the greatest generation, the World War II of it generation, they went through the depression.
They went through a world war, some of them went through two world wars. I think they were ready for prosperity, right? And I think that they kind of spoiled their children. I sat down with Bishop Robert Barron. Yeah. And he told the story of King David and one of his sons.
Absalon. Who caused his brother? He kills brother. He tried to overthrow King David. Yeah.
“As the king, he raised rose up and that's what we're seeing.”
And then he got killed.
He got killed by God, basically.
This is what we're experiencing with the boomers.
Is they are Absalom.
They weren't disciplined. They didn't have to go without.
You know, my great grandmother helps being for a big family because the eldest, I got to know my great grandma. When I was born, she lived another 31 years.
“And the stories I would hear from her, I was always grateful, right?”
I think that creation of generation, at least for me, instilled gratitude. And I don't know why it didn't translate to their children because their children are only entitled. And there's -- and you said it earlier, there's a lot of good ones out there. But the majority, I think, are very self-centered. They -- they were the generation that gave us all of this nonsense.
Oh, I know. I'm very aware of it. And they're sitting on all the wealth. They're sitting on multiple homes. And here, let's go back to this. There are so many -- we give so much more resources. You know, in the big, beautiful bill.
I liked most of it. They give $6,000 checks to senior citizens.
They don't need money. They have all the money. They have all the homes. They're not selling them. It costs $750,000 in, like, to get a pound home in DC. Families can't afford. Town homes are for families. They're for new families, actually. And they're supposed to be affordable. But now they're $750,000 because
the boomers aren't selling their multiple homes. You know, in California, there's this interesting dynamic where there was a lawsuit that was challenging, whether or not you could do property tax freezes for senior citizens. They were arguing that the people are challenging. We're saying this is age discrimination. You can't allow them give them a different set of rules in the rest of us.
And the courts obviously ruled in favor of the boomers because the judges are all boomers. But it's insane that we are freezing property taxes for these boomers who got their homes for eight raspberries and a blueberry in a horse. They've had so much appreciation in the value of their properties. It's skyrocketed. Why do they get tax relief when working faint?
The burden and the tax burden and the onus is all on young families. And we need to start reversing this. If we don't start reversing this, young people are not going to get married. Well, they're also going to get really, really dark politics. And I interviewed Nick Fuentes, who I disagree with a lot earlier this year and was attacked for whatever.
But one of the reasons I wanted to talk to him was like, this guy's super popular. Like, what is he saying? What is this? This is a totally different kind of politics. Completely different kind of politics. You know, anything I've covered at 56, like I'm just interested. And one of the things I've learned from the experience was younger people have totally different politics
and by my standards as a middle-aged person. They're pretty radical. Yes. And how did that happen? Well, it happened by taking away all their opportunity and then ignoring them when they complained about it. So of course they ever. And by the way, my senses at Nick Fuentes will be considered pretty moderate.
Very soon.
“So like, if you want a stable moderate country, you have to take care of people and give them opportunity.”
Like, they're massive consequences for behaving this way, I think. You want more fathers. You want more families. If you want a moderate in politics, you want more that are serious about solutions to problems that actually are willing to address problems. Yes. You want more fathers. You want more mothers. You want more children in families.
Because when you become a father, when you come in husband, you're thinking long-term. So you're no longer thinking about today. The ballast in a ship. Yes. It keeps it steady.
Yes. Like, I'm a dad. I've got kids. Can't get too crazy because I've got children. I mean, that's just like a baseline impulse, don't you think, and fathers? Yes. You, these kids are being radicalized because they don't.
Most of them are products of the divorce generation. So you have like compounding dysfunction there. Yeah. They're not only did their parents divorce, but their parents parents divorce. And so, you know, I went into my marriage under the belief that this is the most sacred of all the agreements I'm ever going to sign in my life.
Right? I can sign contracts with corporations. I can sign business deals.
But this is the one I can never break. It has to come before everything else.
But this whole no fault divorce situation basically said, no, your marriage is actually the least important of all the agreements. But the only thing that the only agreement you can break in modern America is paying your credit card interest. And I suggest, because I'm totally for not paying your credit card interest.
“I think you should stiff-city bank. That's my personal view.”
And I've suggested that before to conservatives. And they're like, that's cro-what? And I'm like, no, these people are evil. Just like, I don't put the bank in a business. Just how about don't pay? And they looked at me like I was a freak, which, and that may be freakier. I'm not actually in real life suggesting that though. I kind of am.
But like the same people are like, yeah, what didn't work. I think I divorced. So that just tells you where the priorities are.
It's immoral to stiff a bank, but it's okay to stiff your wife.
Like, how does that work? What are those values? Well, it's obviously predatory. It's obviously not treating the human person as a child of God, right? They're treating us like dogs in a machine.
“Yeah. That's what the elites and all the industries view us as is pieces to play on the field”
that can make our products and do our services. They don't look at you as a dad. They don't look at you as a husband. They want you back in the workforce for maximum efficiency. And by the way, you're reading all about these artificial wounds and egg freezing and IVF and all of that stuff.
I don't judge or attack anyone that's gone through IVF. Except, you know, if you buy a baby as like a gay couple or something, I think that's really messed up. But I think that makes you a conservative leader if you do that. You get a podcast. You get to yell at other people.
Talk about conservatism, the Trump coalition. Yeah. But no, those are no, I know. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. But it's, it's the commodification of the human persons. And that is ultimately, you know, you, I love your actual, I kind of love it.
I'm not endorsing it specifically. I need a new one, research into it. But not pay your credit cards. Sounds like a great way to get these, you know, credit card companies to stop praying on. Well, how about my idea was like, let's have a hey, let's not pay our credit card party. Where that's the only, like bullet point on the agenda is we all agree on that's pay our credit.
And just to negotiate terms, like his Trump is always bragging about how well,
you know, if you take a big enough loan from a bank, they have to negotiate with you. Like you're in charge because they're exposed because it's just too much money. Which I get I'm not criticizing it. But like why not create a union to do the same for the entire public. Like stop sending credit card solicitations to kids.
Stop charging 20% interest. Like that should be illegal. That's for, that's, that's, that's, the mafia used to go to jail under Rico for that. But it's okay for city bank. That's all I said. And it was like, what? What? Oh, I was like, oh, I found the tender spot.
Well, this is what really annoys me about Republicans. And, you know, they're so corporate center. They're so like free market center. When Trump mandated that credit card companies couldn't go over 10%. All of these libertarian right wing think things sort of criticizing him as an enemy.
If that's an enemy of the free market, then consider me right. Right. Because they're, they're taking advantage of poor people. Rich people don't really use credit cards. They pay them off every month. Poor. But the poor people are the ones that pay the interest.
“And that's why we still have paid a loans, dude.”
I mean, and that, the only kind of capitalism they seem to really endorse is like sending tax dollars to weapons companies. And I'm like, I'm a Worcester something. If I'm not for the ad or a piece in which I'm not, obviously. I'm like, yeah. Anyway, yeah. Don't even get me going, Derek. Okay, so let me just let me end on this because I am more positive note.
And it's about your dad and because you clearly consider him a great father. And you become a father of eight, which is just amazing. God bless you. Thank you. What did you try question, but I think you probably have a answer. What did you learn from him? Like as you go about the business of raising eight children.
What do you, when do you think about your dad? Oh, that's a great question. I think about him a lot. I think about him every time I hold a new baby. You know, my dad, this is actually advice for anyone that becomes a father or is going to have another kid.
If you're the dad, you got to be in the delivery room and you got to look. Right, one, would you got to watch that kid come out? And I know wild experience.
Oh, it is incredible. It is so euphoric, but you're the first guy that gets to see that kid's face.
And you know, your wife's going through all this hell, like pushing this kid out or getting your stomach ripped open.
“The least you can do to participate is to see your child come out, right?”
Yeah, but that he, he advised me on the first one. And I haven't ever looked away since. And it's such a special experience. I think working hard, my goodness, sacrificing yourself, accusing yourself. You know, my dad and accusing your kids.
I think it's okay to accuse your kids. And my dad, because of his addiction, he always was paranoid that one of us kids was a drug addict. And it's going to be paranoid. He one time, you know, we were going to piece restaurant. You get tips at when you clean off the tables and all that.
Well, my brother is just weird and he keeps his dollar bills rolled up. And on the other hand, my dad was like, you're topping it down and see if there's any coke in it. And it's like, dad, I'm not doing coke, but that was actually him loving us. Because he was thinking, well, I did crack. So it's not impossible.
I found a rolled up bill in one of my kids' pockets.
That would be the first thing I would think.
Yeah, yeah, obviously. And he was at the time you're offended. Like, how could you ever possibly leave out of your coke, kids are so offended? But he was a crack addict. I think one of the benefits of having a crack addict as a father.
Like, people hear that, they're like, oh, my gosh, I must have been so terrible.
I'm grateful for it.
And it prepared me for the world we live in today, which is like,
Genzeers are all being raised by these women on infetemines and SSRIs and Xanix and all of that. So it helps me relate to them and actually connect with them to know what they're going through. And it helps me speak to them.
“Do you think they have a sense that their parents are on drugs?”
Yeah. I don't think the parents hide. I mean, it's hard to hide. But these women, it's like a whole thing. They compete.
They brag about the drugs that are on the pharmaceuticals. And, you know, Tucker, I just want to say that the industries have monopolized our time so much and taken over our lives that these poor women and men, at this point, have to take Adderall to have the energy to do their job every day.
But then they have to take the anti anxiety medication to combat that. And then they're taking all these other pills. You take a pill.
Then you have to take pills.
Does it combat the side effects of it all? That is what these industries have done through this fake concept known as the work life balance is they have monopolized our lives and taken over where we need pharmaceutical drugs just to exist and be happy. Do you feel like change is coming?
Some type of change. I don't know if it's going to be good. But it seems pretty dark. It seems very dark right now. You know, 40% of Gen Zers say they don't want to get married.
43% say they don't want to have kids. That's insane. That is not a sign for hope.
“Now, I do think they have those other charts where I think there is some hope”
which show that liberals and progressives and these types. They're not having kids but the Christians are. I think that's a very good sign for our country. I just don't know if it's in time. I hope it is.
I think it. If times are going to get bad though, you want to have kids. I think I think one thing that we've really got here on team and team. That's it. That's what matters.
Christianity is what we're here for. If God actually exists, then he's the full story. If you actually believe in God, you can't not believe that he's the main character. He is the main character and we live by his rules. But if times are going to get bad, you want to have kids.
The Bible is very clear. Children are a blessing from the Lord. Blessed is a man whose quiver is full. He will not be left in shame as his enemies as the gates. We need more kids.
I mean, we're going to keep going. We're open to whatever God sends us. Because I don't think I have a right to tell God no. If my wife gets pregnant, I think there was a divine hand in that. And he's saying we need, you know, there's an old proverb.
I forget who said it. But it's every new baby born is a sign from God that he wants the world to continue. He's sending us helpers. He's sending us people that have different skill sets. Difficult dispositions.
And so we're going to keep taking on who wouldn't want that. Who wouldn't want to like sit at the head of a big table and be the patriarch? I don't understand that. That seems like the most basic desire of the male heart. I thought that's what men did want.
Well, I've always wanted that my whole life.
I think dogs running around little conversations going on at the end of the beautiful. It's the best dude. It's the, I mean, like, what else is there? Yes. No matter room service or carnival cruises or weekends in St. Barts could approach
the deep joy and satisfaction of sitting at the head of a table. If you jerk descendants, it's like the greatest thing that's ever been. Doesn't, I thought everybody thought that. What? I think that the, the issue is the single life.
The unmarried life, the childless life. It's very comfortable. It is fun. It is. You can do whatever you want.
It's innocuous. It's like we, right? We'd seems to be like it's not a threat. Like it's not a big deal. But people will go 40, 50 years smoking pot every day.
And then by the time that time is over, they look back at their life. They can't remember anything. They don't know what happened in their life. I've spent a lot of weed in my life.
I hate drugs, but I have done it a lot. And talk about aiming low. Yes.
“That's what you want to not remember or something.”
Like, why wouldn't you want to sit at a table with your descendants? I mean, that's just like, Well, the single life is just as innocuous or innocuous. It is, it doesn't seem threatening. And actually seeing, you're told by every corner of our society,
by the elites that are being single and child free is actually prosperity, is actually human flourishing. So these poor people have been lied to. They've been manipulated into
serving the state and their corporate masters. Man, that's the lamest thing to ever want. It is ever. It is. Terrestrial.
Thank you for this. Congratulations on child number eight. It's incredible. I know that when people, I'm sure that, like, they say caddy things to you and you got in airplanes,
but deep down their infuse.
Thank you, doctor.
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