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E111: How Gen Z Gives Us Hope w/ Isabel Brown · The Lila Rose Show

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I just kept hearing over the last five years or so this
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constant droning on from people older than myself that Gen.
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Z is destroying America. They call us lazy, entitled,
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uneducated, apathetic. As millennials were charting
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away from traditional values, Gen.
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Z is running back towards them, sprinting as fast as we can.
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We've already proven ourselves to be the most conservative
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generation that America has seen since World War 293% of Gen.
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Z, for example, still wants to get married in a time that we
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have the lowest marriage rate in American history.
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What I'm seeing more than anything else is a revival for
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belief in something bigger than the emptiness of this world.
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Hello guys, welcome back to the Lila Rose Podcast.
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Today we're going to be talking about some of the upsetting and
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also encouraging trends happening among younger
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generations. There is a lot of research out
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there that indicates that Gen. Z, that younger millennials are
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actually more atheistic or that they're more identifying as
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LGBT, that they're getting married less.
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A lot of troubling social data that you might have heard about
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on the news, quite frankly. The reality is, when you deep
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dive some of these studies and you actually look into some of
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the data, there's some really encouraging trends, truly a
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backlash that is happening among younger generations against the
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prevailing narratives of postmodernism and the sexual
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revolution. We're going to have on a special
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guest, Isabel Brown, who's a rising content creator.
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And I'll just a lovely person all around who has a book out
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where she deep dives this research and provides her very
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hopeful but realistic take on where Gen.
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Z really is today. So you're going to love this
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Isabel Brown. Welcome to the podcast.
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Thank you so much for having me, Lila.
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I'm so excited to be here. I'm always excited when your
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content pops up in my feed because it's always encouraging,
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interesting, it's always entertaining and you're just
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crushing it with all of your content.
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So congratulations and congratulations on your new
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book. Thank you so much.
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It's definitely been a whirlwind year.
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I have absolutely no idea how we've been able to reach so many
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people this year. But truly all blessings from God
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and I see such a huge movement within our generation for
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goodness and truth right now. I love that.
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That's awesome. So first of all, give me a
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little bit about your background, how you got into
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content creation and why you're so, I mean your values.
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Conservative, of course, is a term we use a lot, politically
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speaking, but your values are very true.
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I mean, they're goodness, truth, beauty.
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It's you're you're Catholic, You're passionate about your
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faith. How did that all develop for
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you? Well, truthfully, if you had
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asked me a few years ago if I'd be sitting here having this
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conversation, I would have thought you were crazy.
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I never had any anticipation of working in media or content
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creation, certainly in the volatile world of politics.
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But really, I've always just been obsessed with the pursuit
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of truth, and that's what led me to pursue my degree in
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biomedical sciences. I wanted to continue pursuing
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truth while helping other people and ideally pursue a career as a
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surgeon. So a surgeon.
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That was the dream. So attending my home states,
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University of Colorado State, I found myself in classes like
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anatomy and Physiology and organic chemistry.
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And instead of pursuing objective truth, which is really
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what science, especially in academia, is supposed to be all
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about, we were arguing with our professors about their political
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opinions or listening to why some evil orange white
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supremacist guy had just gotten elected to the presidency of the
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United States. I'll never forget in eukaryotic
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cellular biology about the least controversial class you could
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possibly imagine on a multiple choice exam.
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The wrong answer choice for the origins of the universe was that
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God created the universe. Instead, you had to say that
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it's spontaneously erupted from a single cell billions of years
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ago. In Physiology, we spent six
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months learning about every tiny beautiful miracle that has to
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happen with fetal development for a child to make it to full
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term in their pregnancy. And then we're told after the
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exam conveniently, that abortion is not the ending of a
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genetically unique human life and that it's a life saving
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medical procedure we all would likely be forced to participate
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in as healthcare providers. So we might as well get used to
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it now. And I just was floored to be
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honest with you, because I went to a pretty conservative
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agriculturally based school in Fort Collins, Co, Colorado State
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University. Not exactly CU Boulder or UC
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Berkeley or UCLA. And yet we found ourselves in
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the midst of this insane culture war, right at the time of the
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rise of Antifa and all of the insane left wing activism from
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2016, 2017 hitting the scene. And I was frustrated because I'm
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looking around at this sea of three 300 plus students and
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realizing that nobody was brave enough to raise their hand in
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class to host a speaker on campus to present a different
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value or different opinion at a large federally funded public
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university. And if no one else was going to
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do that, it was probably going to have to be me.
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Long story short, and I wrote my first book about this.
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Actually, with my college experience, I decided to do
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something about it. I ran for student government.
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I started a few different organizations on campus to
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promote political diversity and just different ideological
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conversations. Yeah, that favorite buzzword
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that they really don't value on college campuses and found
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myself really hated because of it got tons and tons of death
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threats and people threatening to rape me.
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My address was doxed online because I was encouraging the
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pursuit of objective truth and freedom of expression at a
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public university. But even in the midst of all of
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that darkness, I just totally fell in love with activism,
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whether it was setting up a rickety folding table in the
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middle of my college campus or bringing a speaker like Dennis
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Prager or Candace Owens to come speak.
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As a student at the time, that was incredible to see.
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The thousands of people that would come out to those events
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just so hungry for dialogue and a difference of opinion and an
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opportunity to challenge their perspectives, that I knew I
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wanted to do that after I graduated and spend some time
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where we all spend most of our time as Gen.
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Ziers in the digital space doing exactly the same thing.
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So I started my content Creator journey in 2019 after graduation
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and throughout Graduate School and now a few years post grad
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have just been so, so blessed to have incredible opportunities
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beyond anything of my wildest imagination to reach literally
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10s of millions of people all over the world with that same
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pursuit of objective truth every single day.
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That is awesome. And you're you're putting in the
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work. I mean, I think your consistency
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and then the excellence of your content, you can you put in the
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research you're really studying. Thank you.
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You can see that you're studying what's happening in the world
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reporting on it. It's great.
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So but you're at this college and you had the courage to go
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and start alternative groups that are pushing against the the
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prevailing narratives. What was, what was it that
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formed though your world view? How did you become?
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We talked about the word conservative, but how did you
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become someone who sees that life begins at fertilization and
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is precious and deserves protection and it's, you know,
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stands up for marriage and that believes in the values that you
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have. Where did that come from?
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You know, I often get asked if I had some sort of radical
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conversion of my values. I think we look at this kind of
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like apologetics in determining your faith.
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Like everybody has a really cool testimony.
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If you were this radical atheist and therefore you had to have
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this crazy conversion that nobody ever saw coming, that's
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really not my story. And I think that's not the story
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for most people. Most people who are in this
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world that we live in were raised with these values, and I
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think we brushed that off as disappointing or not a very cool
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story, not clickbait or viral enough.
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It's beautiful, it's amazing. So I was very fortunate to be
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raised with my head screwed on straight with two parents who
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are Catholic lawyers. So we spent a lot of time
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talking about politics and religion around the family
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dinner table. But really early on I love
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telling the story. My parents kind of made a rule
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in our in our family house growing up that there was no
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such thing as a kids table. We were expected at every family
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dinner at every holiday, if we went out to dinner with family
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friends to engage in the same conversation that the adults
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were having to know what was going on in the world by the
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time we got to high school, that looked like forcing us to join
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the high school competitive speech and debate team, which,
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let me tell you, was social suicide.
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Lila, I already had very little friends in high school.
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You. Should have just been
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homeschooled. Literally.
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At the time completed them for we.
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Laugh about that now. At the time, my dad said, you
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know, they really were able to convince parents of our
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generation that we were too stupid to educate our kids, so
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that wasn't even a a viable option.
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So they love seeing homeschooling on the rise now,
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but high school speech and debate was such a catalyst for
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me in forming my own values. Because even though it was nerdy
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and weird and you wear a suit in the high school cafeteria for 14
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hours every Saturday, instead of hanging out with your friends,
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you're forced to look at the world and the biggest problems
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going on in the world from a 360° perspective.
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Because you don't know until you go in the room which side you're
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going to have to defend with research and evidence and
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sources to back it up. So it really forces an
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examination of your own conscience.
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What do I think about XYZ? What what am I really holding to
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be my personal values on freedom of expression or controversial
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political issues like abortion or freedom of religion or any of
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these things that we spend so much time hearing about on the
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news? But I think our generation has
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been strategically taught not to think about from a personal
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perspective because it is so divisive and controversial and
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we don't really know how to articulate our values.
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So I love that my parents encouraged that force, but we we
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laugh about it now because it's been so great, because they
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always told us, like, you don't have to have the exact same
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values that we do as your mom and dad.
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But you do need to do the research yourself and figure out
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exactly what the truth is and how you can learn how to defend
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that in our world. Good for them.
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What's great people? What great parents?
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And I'm a huge fan of speech and debate.
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We did that growing up and oh. It's great.
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I love it. That's my biggest recommendation
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for everyone. Yeah.
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And if you want to, if you want to do content creation or
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speaking or media or anything like that, public policy, it's
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such a great way to prep in high school or, oh, absolutely,
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college, whatever it is. OK, so you just wrote this book
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on Gen. Z ERS and it's the end of the
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alphabet. You have it right here.
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And I want to unpack Gen. Z because there's all kinds of
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troubling some, some encouraging stuff, but a lot of troubling
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stuff to trends that are on the rise.
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I'm in all kinds of these meetings with, like, NGO
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nonprofit leaders talking about the state of America.
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And, you know, typically speaking over the years, I've
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heard people say America is on the decline.
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You know, civilizations rise and fall.
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We're on the fall part. It's going to hell in a
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handbasket. And woe is us.
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But fight the good fight anyway. And I I don't like, I know that
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you share this. That's not what I believe for
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this country. I think that there's a beautiful
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future better than our past for this country.
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I know you believe that too. So let's start with let's start
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with just the layout of Gen. Z.
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What does Gen. Z?
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What are the ages of Gen. Z?
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First of all, Because I know it can kind of shift.
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How do you see it? And then what are the current
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kind of political beliefs broken down?
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Let's start by sex. By gender.
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Of Jazee Love this and 1st. I just want to say the reason I
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wrote this book was stemming from that same frustration that
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you had, because I've been a bit of a token voice for my
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generation in the media and politics.
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I've worked on several campaigns in the last several years,
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worked at the White House and the US Senate, and every time I
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showed up for a hit with Fox News or Newsmax or did a print
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or radio interview, I just kept hearing over the last five years
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or so, this constant droning on from people older than myself,
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that Gen. Z is destroying America, that
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our generation is no. Millennials, there is a lot of
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destruction with us. Millennials, So I'm glad you're
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self aware. I take responsibility fully.
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Good Most millennials don't want to.
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But they they attribute a lot of those same attributes of
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Millennials to Gen. Z, even though we're
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dramatically different generations.
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They call us lazy, entitled, uneducated, apathetic, stupid.
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Called us that too though is I think that's like a thing by the
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way. Of course, where the older
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generation just like dishes it and then they usually are the
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ones that served it though. Correct.
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Yeah, we write about that quite, quite a length in the book, but
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that just wasn't what I was seeing.
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It certainly wasn't what I saw on my own college campus and the
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activism I did there. It's not what I'm saying with
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the 10s of millions of Gen. Zers I'm interacting with online
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or on campus with high school and college students every day.
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And so I knew that wasn't reality, but nobody was really
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telling the truth about our generation and how dramatically
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different we are from the perception, largely from the
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political right, about our generation being promoted in the
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media and in politics. So when we're talking about
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Generation Z, what we're talking about is a group of people
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that's about 70 million people across the country, most experts
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agree, born in 1997, the year I was born, all the way down
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through 2012. So we're talking about 12 to 13
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year olds all the way up from high school to college to 27
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years old, which which is what I'm turning next month.
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So. You are the wisest of them.
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All I am what they call the geriatric Gen.
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Zers, those born in the 1900s. We can almost claim you, Isabel,
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as a millennial. It's a better direction.
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To go I mean. But you're looking at this group
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of people that certainly isn't a monolith and mostly are still
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teenagers. They haven't yet voted.
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They're still determining their own values.
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They're growing up in this really confusing time.
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They're not overwhelmingly socialist leftists the way most
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people are trying to get you to believe that they are.
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I really separate this analysis based on both cultural values
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and politics in the book, because it was the late, great
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Andrew Breitbart that's famous for saying politics is
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downstream from culture, that if you want to change what's
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happening in the Oval Office, in the halls of Congress, you have
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to first start by changing how people live their day-to-day
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lives. And I think that is really what
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we're seeing more than anything else with Gen.
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Z right now. It's this tsunami of a cultural
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backlash, somewhat of a metaphorical middle finger to
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this silver platter that the authoritarian left is presenting
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to us as the most wonderful utopian, authoritarian society
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the world has ever seen. And they act like that's really
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good for us. But we're looking around and
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we're realizing that we're miserable and we're struggling
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economically. We're struggling in our personal
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lives. We don't really have intimate
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relationships anymore to the same degree that we even just
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had 20-30 years ago in America. We're not eating real food.
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We've been encouraged to abandon faith in something bigger than
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ourselves, and I really invoke imagery from Stranger Things and
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how I normally talk about this, But we've realized we're living
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in the Upside Down. It looks really familiar to an
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America that we binge watch when we watch Friends for the
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zillionth time from the 1990s and early 2000s.
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It looks kind of similar to the world our parents tell us
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stories about from their teenage years or their college years or
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early 20s. But but there's something
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fundamentally inverted and wrong about that.
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Up is down. There is no distinguish
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distinguishable difference between good and evil.
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Men are women and women are men. And we've lived in this so topsy
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turvy, confusing, upside down society for so long that the
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most radically countercultural thing, rebellious thing one can
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do, which is exactly what every young generation wants to do, is
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rebel against those who came before them, is to right the
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ship, to seek something bigger than ourselves, to believe in
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objective truth and reality again, to confront our gender
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ideology problems in society and say, you know, men and women are
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different, to eat real food, to believe in God, to get married.
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And so on that cultural front, that is exactly what we're
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doing. And we've already proven
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ourselves to be the most conservative generation with
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lifestyle and cultural issues that America has seen since
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World War 2. Tell me more about that.
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What's the percentages there? I could talk about this for like
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literally 12 hours, so I'll try to gloss a little bit like
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overcome, but. Like if you compare Gen.
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Z at the age Gen. Z is now to millennials at the
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age they would have been when they were Gen.
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Z's age. What's the difference in
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political breakdown? Yeah, So let's, let's talk about
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each of those subjects that I just casually mentioned from a
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cultural perspective, and then we'll jump into politics. 93% of
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Gen. Z, for example, still wants to
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get married in a time that we have The lowest marriage rate in
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American history since we began recording that in 1867.
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Is that? Different though than what Gen.
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Z wanted when they were the same.
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Yeah, it is. It's dramatically different.
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In fact, it's kind of the inverse of all of that.
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As millennials were charting away from traditional values,
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Gen. Z is running back towards them,
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sprinting as fast as we can. We're realizing, unlike
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millennials who largely pursued liberal arts degrees, that we
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don't need to pursue a leftist arts degree, as I would call it
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appropriately today in something like underwater African LGBTQ
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plus basket weaving to get a job after we graduate.
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Instead, 62% of us have already started our own businesses to
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become CEO on day one of our careers.
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Women across the political spectrum are throwing away our
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hormonal birth control, which was incredibly normal to be
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prescribed to millennials as an entire generation, but
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especially to us as teenagers, because we're realizing that we
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don't want to keep taking slow release poison that's putting
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our physical health at risk and destroying our mental health,
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largely contributing to the suicide epidemic you're seeing
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with teenage girls today. So much so by the way, that, as
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I'm sure you know, the Washington Post had an absolute
19:29
freak out aneurysm just a few days ago, blaming this exodus
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from the birth control industry on right wing influencer
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propaganda on the Internet instead of just the actual side
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effects on the box. So.
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So if we did, like, let's do there's.
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I know there's so many different aspects to this, but I'm
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curious, let's maybe do the politics and religion pieces
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kind of. Those are very tied to bigger
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picture worldview stuff. So for politics, I've seen
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research that shows that Gen. Z is leaning left, especially
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Gen. Z Women are leaning left.
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There's a little uptick in Gen. Z men who are going right, but
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it's not like, very significant. How do you see that?
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Politically, we have no reason to have anything but hope for
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Gen. Z.
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And I think a lot of that stems from what we were just talking
20:11
about, those cultural decisions that are very conservative, even
20:15
though we wouldn't necessarily label them as such.
20:17
But maybe even more importantly, because of our shift in
20:19
religious attitudes and values that drives more political
20:22
engagement than anything we've ever seen in American history,
20:25
we have easily arrived at the most godless, atheistic time in
20:29
American history. I think that's a no brainer and
20:31
everybody can. See, but do you think that like
20:33
research that I'm referring to and I could, I mean we could try
20:35
to pull up like an actual study on it, but do you think they're
20:38
missing the, they're missing the that's the true story of what's
20:41
happening that. Somewhat well.
20:42
The Gen. Z ers may be reporting that
20:44
they're, you know, far left on, let's say L GB.
20:47
TI mean there's like 1/3 of I think Gen.
20:49
Z women who identify as SPY as an example, right?
20:53
They're saying that, but you're saying maybe the trends, if
20:56
you'd look deeper into the research shows that they're
20:58
actually practicing more conservative, traditional
21:01
things, even though they're labeling themselves a different
21:04
way. Would you say that's kind of the
21:05
breakdown and? And I think those studies are
21:07
are somewhat skewed. So what do I mean by that?
21:09
Let's just look at religion. By the end of 2021, our
21:12
generation said that we overwhelmingly did not believe
21:15
in God. There was less than 25% of us
21:17
that did Gen. Z, Gen.
21:18
Z, we were trending in a more atheistic direction.
21:21
But by the end of 2023, just two years later, over a third of our
21:24
generation now says we believe in God, we're regularly
21:27
attending religious services. If you look at denominational
21:30
breakdown in the Catholic Church, Gen.
21:32
Z is the most likely demographic to prefer and seek out the
21:35
traditional Latin Mass. So talk about the biggest
21:38
cultural backlash You. Possibly.
21:40
Could That's crazy. So you're saying in a span of
21:41
two years it went from 1/4 who said that they were atheist?
21:45
1/4 Who said they believed in anything bigger than ourselves?
21:48
We. Did we only only 1/4 believed in
21:50
something bigger? So that's three quarters are?
21:54
Atheist. Yeah, that's.
21:55
That's crazy. That's intense, 'cause you look
21:57
back decades and you're talking like 10% of the population
21:59
maybe, Yeah, at large. If I I mean, it's in that zone,
22:03
in that area. And now you're saying it's a
22:04
third. So that number has gone up.
22:06
What is that? Let's do our you.
22:08
You're here. This here the this hard.
22:10
Times background. Not my favorite thing in the
22:12
world, but. You know, 7-8 percent have gone
22:14
up, has gone up seven, 8% in just two years.
22:16
Which is millions of people, if you really, I mean, that's crazy
22:19
just to think about. And so that's also manifesting
22:21
politically. What do I mean by that?
22:23
If you look at 17 year old boys today, seniors in high school, a
22:27
recent study just came out that found they are the most
22:29
politically conservative with a capital C than they have been in
22:33
50 years. Well over 70% of 17 year old
22:36
boys in America today are politically very right wing,
22:40
which is insane. No one saw that coming in any
22:43
way, shape or form, especially as we've attacked masculinity in
22:46
society for so long. But it's necessitated this
22:48
renaissance of strong men in society.
22:51
It's that diagram we always talk about, right?
22:53
Weak times create strong men. And then the cycle just
22:55
continues to repeat. Women, you're right, do tend to
22:59
be trending more to the left right now in most of the polling
23:02
that we're seeing. But I wonder how much of that is
23:05
actually representative of our entire generation.
23:08
Or if they're just capturing current voters rather than the
23:12
entire spectrum of Gen. Z, most of whom are still
23:14
teenagers and have yet to vote. That cultural pendulum shift for
23:18
young women towards marriage, towards neglecting Big Pharma
23:21
and saying we don't want anything to do with you anymore,
23:23
towards eating real food, towards religion.
23:25
These are radically conservative lifestyle choices.
23:29
That of course, as we know because politics is downstream
23:32
from culture, is going to impact our political views as well.
23:35
I think it's just taking a little bit longer to catch up
23:37
for young women than it is for young men, because that assault
23:40
on masculinity started so much earlier than today's all out
23:43
affront on womanhood. I mean, you can't even call
23:45
yourself a woman today. You're a birthing person, or a
23:48
person who menstruates, or a chest feeder, which is.
23:51
Ridiculous like the what you're describing about these high
23:54
school boys which is incredible that's you're saying 70% of them
23:57
are actually identifying as conservative or or do they say
24:01
they're conservative or. They self identify themselves as
24:03
politically conservative, very conservative.
24:06
Incredible. And so that is maybe the
24:08
backlash to the rejection that's been going on for decades now of
24:12
masculinity. And so there were the new
24:13
rebellion as well. I want to be who's a good
24:15
strongman as opposed to I want to be, you know, blue haired.
24:19
I'm not to say you can't have, you can't ever dye your hair or
24:21
blue, but I want to be just kind of beta, as they say, beta male
24:24
or whatever. But for women, you're saying it
24:27
sounds like your theory, which I like it.
24:29
It's saying that women, yes, they seem to be far left here.
24:32
Increasingly, even the trend is not good, even among Gen.
24:35
Z women. But these things, yo-yo, there's
24:39
going to be a backlash to that because you go too far one
24:42
extreme, and all of a sudden people want to reject that,
24:45
rebel against the extreme that they've been handed.
24:47
Truly, that's. So you think that's.
24:48
Going to be the trend in the next few years?
24:50
Absolutely. And it tracks with all of human
24:52
history, right? Every group of young people
24:54
wants to rebel against who came before them, and you can only
24:57
push so far before people eventually just snap and break.
25:01
The attack that we're seeing on young women today is unlike
25:04
anything the world has ever seen.
25:05
It's certainly more extreme than just calling everything
25:07
masculine, toxic, and all men are evil.
25:09
Rah rah, rah go feminism. It's so systemic against young
25:14
women today that we're literally just erasing womanhood
25:17
altogether. Our solution to teenage
25:19
girlhood, for example, is, well, here, take this injection in
25:22
your arm and we'll schedule you for a surgery.
25:24
And you just don't even have to be a girl anymore, actually.
25:27
And who doesn't hate being a teenage girl?
25:28
Every single one of us hated being a teenage girl.
25:31
It's terrible. So they're praying on this
25:33
vulnerable opportunity in young woman's lives to take everything
25:36
away from you, which obviously impacts your fertility.
25:38
It impacts your personal and intimate relationships later on
25:41
in life, your ability to get married and have a family.
25:44
They're doing everything they can to reach women younger and
25:46
younger and younger, to just take all of that away from us.
25:49
And I think what you're seeing with this deleting of our dating
25:52
apps and Moss as a generation, which we are doing, especially
25:55
young women with us throwing hormonal birth control in the
25:58
trash and now saying, you know, I'm really not comfortable with
26:01
Dylan Mulvaney singing a song about what it's like to be a
26:04
girl because he doesn't understand that I do, even
26:07
though I might have said I was supportive of that 5 minutes
26:09
ago. Something is rubbing me the
26:11
wrong way about this. You're watching that pendulum
26:13
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among boys, girls. The Collapse of Parenting was
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one of his more recent books. Fascinating stuff.
28:55
But he was saying about teen girls when with this number that
28:57
30% of them and and young very young girls want to be by they
29:02
don't want to be straight. They want to be queer,
29:04
questioning lesbian, trans, you know anything basically but
29:09
heteronormative girl. And he was, he was his theory on
29:12
that was that the pornification of girls in in general?
29:17
I mean, you look at the rise of social media and the Internet
29:20
has been a big driver of that. And so you're going through,
29:22
like you said, this awkward phase of, for many girls,
29:25
puberty and just struggling with body image and your body's
29:28
changing so much. And then you have these hyper
29:29
sexual messages coming from culture and from boys,
29:33
unfortunately, who are already addicted to porn because the
29:35
exposure rate for boys with porn is as young as eight years old
29:38
on average and there's high addiction rates and you're like,
29:41
I don't want to do this anymore. Why?
29:42
Why would I want to be a a girl here?
29:45
And then you have the rise of this LGBT phenomenon.
29:49
How how do you see that resolving itself?
29:52
Because we're in the middle of the bad stuff.
29:54
You know, it's crazy right now as you know and I know you, you
29:57
know, interview people who have gone the route of transgender
30:01
sex, sex change girls and then they regret it later on.
30:04
So we've seen all of the the change starting to emerge, but
30:08
the numbers are still looking rough.
30:10
Yeah, really rough. I think it's so important to
30:12
say, do we have hope for the future?
30:14
Yes, and that's what my whole book is about.
30:16
Of course we should have optimism for the future of our
30:18
country, but that's not to neglect the work that we have to
30:21
put in today to keep fighting against evil.
30:23
Because you're right, We are right in the thick of it.
30:25
In most of the media interviews that I've done about my book,
30:28
especially on TV and radio, with older hosts, the number one
30:31
backlash that I get as well. How can your generation be so
30:33
overwhelmingly conservative if 30% of them say that they're
30:37
LGBTQ plus, like if your whole generation is trans, that's
30:40
pretty leftist, don't you think? What?
30:42
What's really causing all of that?
30:44
Those studies in particular are so manipulative because they're
30:48
leading you to believe that one third of all teenage girls out
30:51
there are chopping their breasts off or taking testosterone
30:53
supplements. That's really not indicative of
30:55
reality. You just mentioned that the the
30:57
big bulk of the young women self identifying in this community
31:00
are calling themselves bisexual. Which is interesting because on
31:03
the trans side of things, most young women are calling
31:05
themselves non binary. They're not really trying to let
31:08
go of what their identity is. They're still attracted to the
31:11
opposite sex. They still have somewhat of an
31:13
affinity to their biology and to their their biological sex and
31:16
gender. But the trendy, important way to
31:19
fit in in society and culture right now is to be a part of the
31:22
LGBTQ plus community. Every day there is a new
31:26
identity that gets invented like every 5 minutes to be part of
31:29
the plus sign at the end of that Q, Plus things like demisexual.
31:34
I don't know if you've ever heard of demisexual Lila, but to
31:37
be demisexual means I'm sexually attracted to some people, but
31:41
not all people, but especially people I have a romantic
31:44
connection with. So, like, all of us, like every
31:47
human being, could logically identify as demisexual.
31:50
And I think Abigail Schreyer really has been such a leading
31:53
thought voice on this, knowing that this is really a social
31:55
contagion. It's the new fad for teenage
31:57
girls to participate in, which is why you're seeing it as this
32:00
half in, half out thing. Like, I don't really want to be
32:02
a boy, but I don't really want to be a girl.
32:04
I don't really want to be lesbian, but I don't really also
32:06
want to be heterosexual. Like, I just need to fit in, in
32:08
some capacity, even if that doesn't involve a lifestyle
32:10
change. And amazingly, psychologically,
32:13
it's tracking with other social contagions from previous
32:15
generations what we saw with eating disorders, with older
32:19
millennials in high school in the late 1990s and early 2000s,
32:22
what we've seen with suicide clusters in the early 2000.
32:25
I've heard that the eating because I was looking at this
32:27
and talking about I think with Doctor Sachs and we've had,
32:29
we've talked about this on the podcast a lot with eating
32:31
disorders and with depression, anxiety, suicidality that
32:36
actually hasn't gone down. This is the part that's so crazy
32:40
because like you're saying millennials, they had this
32:42
stuff. I mean it when I was a teenager,
32:43
we were all, we all had eating disorders.
32:45
It was it was rough. I mean that.
32:46
And it was the beginning of like Zynga, Myspace.
32:49
So there's a social contagion thing was starting to happen
32:51
with social media then. But today, my understanding is
32:54
we still have the eating disorders, we still have the
32:56
anxiety and depression. In fact, the suicidality, as I
32:59
know you've reported on, has gone up amongst girls, Gen.
33:02
Z girls, teen girls. And then in addition, you have
33:05
the trans LBGBTQ plus I, you know, IA, the whole gender
33:10
identity, sexual identity stuff, and it's just all there.
33:13
It's just all there. Nothing has sort of gotten
33:15
better in that mix. It's just all it's all a mess.
33:18
It's an attack from all all fronts, truly.
33:20
And that's a really scary reality, especially for older
33:22
people who think, Oh my gosh, I didn't get involved for so long.
33:26
I said that would be crazy. Nobody would ever do that.
33:28
And it did happen. And now I've sat on my hands for
33:30
too long. What do I do?
33:32
How do I fight against this? Is there anything tangible that
33:34
I can protect my kids from? I think our generation is
33:36
thinking, wow, this sucks. But like, this is the way that
33:39
it's been for so long. How do we even envision a future
33:42
that's different from this? And that's why I'm so, so
33:45
encouraged by the same thing that we've seen with young men,
33:48
this attack on masculinity necessitating the rise of voices
33:51
to inspire manhood, like Jordan Peterson.
33:54
I mean, look how much he's resonating with teenage boys.
33:56
You're watching that same emergence of soft yet strong
33:59
female voices encouraging this next generation of young women.
34:02
I certainly would count you as one of those people, but even
34:05
from unlikely places. Chloe Cole I just had on my live
34:08
stream a few days ago, perhaps the most courageous woman of our
34:11
generation sharing her authentic story of D transitioning.
34:15
I just had a beautiful young woman named Nala on my live
34:18
stream last week who everybody is speaking about on the
34:21
Internet right now because as a top 0.01% only fans creator a
34:26
few months ago went very viral on the Whatever podcast talking
34:29
about promiscuity and cheating and how that's really joyful to
34:32
her life. She was baptized just a few
34:34
months ago and as of literally a week ago deleted her entire only
34:37
fans platform making millions of dollars a month, deleted
34:41
thousands of illicit photos of herself off the Internet, and is
34:44
leaving all of it behind to chase something bigger than our
34:47
life. The transformation stories that
34:49
are happening right now are real and they're so attractive to
34:53
people, which is why I think they're going viral all over the
34:56
Internet. Because it's this voice of
34:58
truth, this voice of goodness and beauty in our really messed
35:01
up attack on all fronts society, especially for young women, that
35:05
I have no reason to not believe there will be more of those in
35:08
the next few years. I mean George Danko was kind of
35:10
like this rowdy red Pillish you know UFI mean he was into he was
35:16
not like your Christian stand up no no persona and now he's going
35:20
around talking about faith and baptism and he's.
35:23
Already changed his entire platform to literally 10s of
35:26
millions of people every day just talking about the beauty of
35:29
his faith. And so it's crazy.
35:30
Anything else. That's what I'm really
35:32
encouraged and inspired by. I I wrote my book largely on the
35:35
political front, but what I'm seeing more than anything else
35:38
in America right now is a revival for belief in something
35:41
bigger than the emptiness of this world.
35:43
We have completely subjective morality.
35:46
We have all these competing interests going on in the world
35:49
right now. With my truth being different
35:50
from your truth, we literally can't distinguish between good
35:53
and evil anymore. I mean, look how much the
35:54
abortion industry has thrived not just by covert innuendos and
35:58
saying, well, it's termination or it's a clump of cells, or
36:01
it's women's rights. We're doing shout your abortion
36:04
campaigns. And people on TikTok are holding
36:06
abortion showers to celebrate the fact that they ended their
36:09
child's life. They're they're very open and
36:11
honest about this because evil has been allowed to thrive.
36:14
But in the midst of all of that, there's been this resurgence of
36:18
a seeking for God unlike anything anybody could have
36:21
predicted within our generation with amazing people like Nala or
36:25
George Danko, who you just mentioned, that are the least
36:28
likely of places to lead this sort of revolution.
36:30
But God is absolutely at work within Gen.
36:32
ZI. I love that and and within
36:35
millennials too, there are some. And within, I mean like Jordan
36:38
Peterson's wife just came into the Catholic Church.
36:40
So you're. Seeing this.
36:41
Incredible. You're seeing this across
36:42
generations. I think it's especially powerful
36:44
when you see it in Gen. Z because you guys are in this
36:47
incredible muck and mire that is just the exhaust fumes of all of
36:51
the cultural mistakes post sexual revolution,
36:54
postmodernism, like all of the stuff that's just like it's just
36:57
trash. And then you have suicidality
36:58
rates are at this all time high. What is the what is the result?
37:01
What is the impact of a whole generation considering not a
37:04
whole but it's like 1/3 of teenage girls?
37:06
I think during COVID considering suicide, you're you're desperate
37:10
for something more, something better.
37:12
It's not working. Whatever you have and that's the
37:15
beautiful opportunity that we have.
37:16
I do want to talk about social media for a minute because
37:19
social media has been in many ways a negative for Gen.
37:24
Z, for millennials, for everybody because it's can be so
37:27
addictive. The comparison thing, they
37:29
connect it to mental health disorders, all of this stuff.
37:34
But it also the rise of independent media has made an
37:37
opportunity for people to find alternate sources of information
37:41
and truth like never before. What you're doing meets reaching
37:43
millions of people. People are actually hearing
37:45
these messages that maybe they would have never heard in their
37:48
family of origin or in their schools.
37:50
How do you see the net effect of social media on society and
37:54
what's the responsible use of it?
37:55
What do you think is the best use of it for people that want
37:58
to spread the goodness, truth, beauty message?
38:01
You know, there's a lot of doom and gloom about social media in
38:04
the pro-life space, in the politically conservative space.
38:07
There's kind of this understanding that it's a net
38:10
negative all the time. We shouldn't use it.
38:12
We should just abandoned these platforms.
38:13
We should ban them. There's no opportunity for us to
38:16
make a tangible difference. And what I hear more than
38:18
anything is the cards are stacked against us.
38:20
There's no way for somebody telling the truth to build a
38:22
following or to make an impact or change somebody's mind,
38:25
because I'll just immediately. Get banned.
38:26
I'll make better content. Make better content and be more
38:29
creative in what you're trying to say.
38:30
You can to say the exact same thing in a slightly different
38:33
way, talking around an issue and not have your videos taken down
38:36
versus a lot of these people that I think frankly are looking
38:39
to get banned because it's an opportunity to say that the
38:42
cards are stacked against us and raise money for different.
38:44
Organizations. It is funny how on the right
38:46
there is for all the rejection of victim mentality and they
38:49
blame the left for it. It's like you fired me, you
38:52
censored me, you did this to me. There is a victim mentality that
38:55
I think we have on the right sometimes when we are in the
38:57
most freest position 0. Absolutely.
39:00
Society then, that we have been, I mean, in almost any time in
39:03
human history. And the opportunities that we
39:04
have to share our our message is more than any any opportunity
39:10
that a previous generation could have possibly have dreamed of.
39:12
Which isn't to say that censorship doesn't happen.
39:14
Of course it does. But like this magic device that
39:16
we all hold around in our pocket every single day for the first
39:19
time in human history, you as one person without a huge
39:23
position of political influence, without being born in a nobility
39:26
family, without having riches and access to everything in the
39:29
world, you can be more powerful than the president of the United
39:32
States or entire governments or entire countries or your
39:35
religious leaders in your community.
39:37
I mean, look what's happened with somebody like Mr. Beast,
39:39
right? Arguably the most impactful
39:41
person on the face of the planet because of YouTube, which is
39:44
crazy to think about. And I see that.
39:47
I see the result of digital activism every day, certainly in
39:50
the work that I'm doing. But look at what you folks have
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been able to accomplish with live action, Not just in the
39:55
digital space, but when you show what you've been posting to
39:58
people with Man on the Street interviews and you change their
40:00
mind in real time when we get videos like Baby Olivia.
40:03
Into school curriculum and are able to dramatically transform
40:06
the education for the next group of people.
40:08
Jen Alpha, who comes after us social media is nothing if not a
40:12
tool and it can be used for very, very nefarious bad
40:16
purposes. We see that highlighted all the
40:19
time in the clips that are cherry picked for Fox News and
40:22
just how evil TikTok has become with all the degenerate content
40:25
that you hear about from your favorite politician.
40:27
But more than that, I see this being used as a tool for
40:30
goodness. A tool to escape the matrix of
40:34
mainstream journalism that's been bought out and paid for by
40:37
people trying to sell you propaganda, a tool to educate
40:40
yourself in a time where our education institutions are not
40:43
about academia, they're about propaganda as well.
40:46
We still have this opportunity right now at our fingertips to
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use this for good. With all of the history and the
40:53
all the information in the history of the universe at our
40:55
fingertips. If we keep griping and moaning
40:58
and complaining about it, we'll lose that opportunity very
41:00
quickly, especially with a lot of these censorship bills and
41:03
online safety bills in in Western countries like Canada
41:06
and the UK and even here in the United States with banning
41:08
certain platforms. But I I think people tend to
41:12
focus on the negative there because it's flashy.
41:15
It drives ratings for the mainstream media.
41:17
Nobody really wants to report on everything's fine or something
41:21
really good is happening. The truth is, the Internet is
41:23
still doing incredible things to change people's minds, and I
41:26
think is directly responsible for this cultural renaissance
41:29
you're seeing within our generation.
41:30
And I think it's convenient for people to sort of write it off
41:33
as not that effective in the end or too hard to do because then
41:37
you don't have to figure it out and put in the work.
41:39
And especially if you're not growing up as a native with
41:41
social media, it can kind of just be like, it's a pain in the
41:44
butt. I don't want to deal with it.
41:45
And I know a lot of older millennials and Gen.
41:47
Xers who are just like TikTok, you know, like, I don't want to
41:50
deal with it. And it's like, well, if you
41:52
don't want to deal with it, you know, it's like the man in the
41:54
arena, you know, the Theodore Roosevelt man in the arena.
41:57
Are you going to get in and maybe make mistakes, mess up,
42:00
you know, maybe get called a fool, have to, you know, get
42:03
pushed down, have to stand up again, It's not easy and it can
42:07
be very unpleasant sometimes, but it can have this incredible
42:10
impact. Those boys you mentioned, the
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teenage boys, are trending significantly conservative.
42:16
I guarantee you that social media, not their classroom and
42:20
not their parents, unfortunately is one of the biggest drivers of
42:24
why they're doing, why they're trending that way.
42:26
And the pro-life movement too. I think people to neglect the
42:30
opportunity that social media has to offer in any activism
42:33
space because it's largely been dominated by people older than
42:36
us who aren't very familiar with social media, as you just
42:38
mentioned. But what I'm seeing with
42:40
pro-life content on the Internet, look at every other
42:43
cultural institution in America. It is overwhelmingly a pro
42:47
abortion narrative. Planned Parenthood writes most
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of the sex Ed curriculum in our classroom.
42:52
They're hiring the most expensive influencers on the
42:54
Internet to push a pro abortion perspective.
42:57
They're working with mega celebrities.
42:59
They're paying for most politicians campaigns.
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They're one of the most powerful lobbies in the United States of
43:04
America. They're infiltrating the church
43:06
trying to make you believe that scripture supports abortion
43:09
somehow. And I see clips about that all
43:11
the time. But if it wasn't for the
43:13
Internet, there would be no opportunity to have a pro-life
43:16
message with this next generation.
43:18
And it's so effective, in fact, that for voters under 45, nine
43:22
in ten of them support some restrictions on abortion in
43:26
America, which is a dramatic, dramatic transformation compared
43:30
to what the Democrat Party is offering you today, saying, you
43:33
know, we should just do everything through all nine
43:34
months of pregnancy, you should be able to abort for whatever
43:36
reason. There's even a Gray area for
43:38
infanticide here in California or in Colorado, where I grew up.
43:42
The Anything Goes message from them that would be thriving if
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we didn't have the pro-life movement on the Internet is
43:48
being rejected right now by voters under 35, by millennials
43:51
and Gen. Z alike, because we have access
43:53
to the truth only on social media.
43:56
It's so encouraging and it's true.
43:58
It's that that despite all of those forces that are standing
44:02
up against the pro-life message and the pro-life movement, it's
44:05
amazing how many people still identify as pro-life, still want
44:08
abortion restrictions, still reject that prevailing
44:11
narrative, and are wanting to increasingly are many of them
44:13
becoming more pro-life? It's very, very encouraging.
44:16
OK, before we close that, I want to hear your approach to content
44:19
creation, because I've been watching you from afar.
44:22
I see you just crushing it out there, and I think it's a good
44:25
instruction for anyone listening who's interested in getting in
44:28
the fray and being like I'm on a joint.
44:30
I want to join the content creation fight.
44:32
I know a lot of people are maybe overwhelmed by it and they feel
44:35
intimidated by it. So what is your approach to
44:37
content creation, and what have you found to be the most
44:40
effective things and then the least effective things?
44:42
I can totally relate to the what on earth am I doing?
44:46
I have no idea how to film a video or edit something or even
44:49
hit post, because that was totally me just a few years ago
44:52
in 2019, and I discovered pretty quickly that there's somewhat of
44:56
this gatekeeping thing going on in activism on social media.
45:00
And I don't know why, but a lot of creators feel threatened if
45:03
there's this whole new group of people that might be taking away
45:06
from their opportunities. I see it as the exact opposite.
45:09
Nothing would make me happier than if every single person
45:12
became a content creator in some capacity, because we need more
45:15
people speaking the truth on the Internet.
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Period. Full stop.
45:17
This is a culture war and we don't say that lightly.
45:20
And you win with strength in numbers.
45:22
And I think just seeing the contagious just courage that's
45:24
been spreading with more college students, with more recent
45:27
graduates, even high schoolers who are just taking it upon
45:30
themselves to film a 15 second video talking about what's going
45:33
on at their school or in their community to say that they're
45:35
courageously pro-life or they want to get married.
45:37
These are things that are making a tangible impact on our
45:40
generation at the large cultural scale.
45:43
So the truth is, there is no secret sauce.
45:46
There is no real secret as to how you grow on social.
45:49
Media, would you say? That there is.
45:51
I feel like that is, it's like not a sexy secret.
45:54
It's like be consistent, keep doing it.
45:56
Try keep trying everyday. Tricks of the trade that I think
45:59
are are definitely important to know, but they're not rocket
46:01
science. So first and foremost,
46:03
consistency. You got to keep showing up even
46:05
when you're not getting a lot of engagement, even if you've grown
46:08
100 followers in six months. But eventually continuing to
46:11
show up really does make a difference.
46:13
My mom used to say showing up is half the battle, right?
46:15
You just have to be there and be willing to put yourself out
46:17
there. But most importantly, I think
46:19
the best advice I can give to somebody looking to start their
46:22
content creation career is that you can't be somebody else.
46:25
You can't be Lila Rose Two point O or Isabel Brown 2 Point O or
46:28
Kristen Hawkins Two Point O. There already are people who are
46:30
doing that and they have their own audience and it works for
46:33
them for a reason because it's authentically themselves.
46:36
I see a lot of people try to embrace this, like repost
46:38
account strategy or literally copying somebody's video that
46:42
they just posted 20 minutes ago and it's not going to do very
46:45
well because it's already been out there.
46:46
So you don't know what's really going to work for you
46:48
necessarily. For some people that might be
46:51
little swipe through infographics.
46:52
For other people, it might be a funny reaction to something
46:55
crazy viral on the Internet might be instructional.
46:57
For you, it might be more religious or political or
47:00
pro-life. You have to be willing to
47:01
experiment with all of those things and see what your
47:03
audience is looking for. But always seek to be
47:06
authentically you, to be as what you see is what you get on the
47:09
Internet as possible. Because what people are really,
47:12
desperately attracted to, and I just wrote about this at length
47:14
in my book, is authenticity in our Internet digital age, where
47:18
everything is hyper edited and carefully constructed and the
47:21
narrative is very, very carefully woven for you as a
47:24
propaganda piece. To have somebody putting their
47:27
makeup on in the bathroom, get ready with me while I talk about
47:30
XYZ or driving around in their car or sitting in their
47:32
sweatpants in their dorm room, that's a really attractive thing
47:35
right now, and it makes it feel like you're just hanging out
47:37
with a friend. So I guarantee there's someone
47:39
listening, especially someone maybe a Gen.
47:42
Z or who's like how do I be authentic on social media?
47:45
It's so fake. Any final words of advice for
47:47
that? How to How to show up and be
47:49
authentically yourself and share your values on social media.
47:52
You don't need a multi zillion dollar your podcast studio or TV
47:56
studio. You don't need to wear a full
47:57
face of makeup or have your hair perfectly.
47:59
You can sit there literally in your pajamas and just act like
48:02
you're talking to a friend, but a friend in truth and speaking
48:05
the truth in love, that's so powerful and so effective.
48:09
I have no doubt that every member of our generation who's
48:12
willing to answer that call to action to be in the arena can
48:14
make unbelievable strides, not just in growing a following, but
48:18
more importantly making an impact.
48:20
And really what we're trying to do in the pro-life movement,
48:23
what we do politically, what Catholics are trying to do right
48:26
now on the Internet is very simple.
48:27
It all just boils down to telling people the truth.
48:29
It doesn't have to be viral on the Libs clickbait content in
48:33
order to be effective. Just that soft nature of
48:36
standing for your values unapologetically in love with a
48:39
smile on your face is so, so attractive and I know will make
48:42
a difference. Awesome, thanks.
48:44
And Isabel, where can people find your book?
48:46
You can buy The End of the Alphabet, How Gen.
48:48
Z Can Save America Wherever Books are sold, and tune into
48:51
all of our content at the Isabel Brown.
48:53
Thanks for all you're doing, Isabel.
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Keep it up. You're awesome.
48:55
Thank you. Thanks so much for listening to
48:57
this episode of Delilah Rose podcast.
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I hope you're encouraged. I'm encouraged.
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The reality is the truth is always stronger than the lie and
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that life is stronger than death.
49:06
God will be in. Christ is victorious.
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And you and I can be a part of the plan, the unfolding plan to
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restore this country and make this world more good, more true,
49:15
more beautiful. So let's get in the arena.
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Thank you, Isabel, for being in the arena.
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