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Doug talks to Robert Cahaly, one of the few accurate pollsters. (Machine Generated) Doug Truax: Welcome to the First Right podcast. Your weekly conservative news show brought to you by Restoration PAC. I'm Doug Truax, president and founder of Restoration PAC. So today we're delighted to have our favorite pollster on Robert Cahaly We've had him on the show before, because he's right lot when most of the pollsters are wrong a lot. So Robert, welcome to show! Robert Cahaly: Not only is it good to be on the show. Doug Truax: Good, good. So thanks for coming well. So, you know, we continue to watch the president flail around and it's, it's difficult for us patriotic Americans to watch. And you know, here we are eight months out from a midterm. So what's the current state of play politically in the country from your perspective. Robert Cahaly: Yeah, there's a general lack of confidence in the Democrat brand. I mean, the the brand is really suffered. What's happened with Afghanistan, kind of started it where it just all kind of collapsed together. And people started to realize that everything they're doing is the opposite of what they want. I mean, that's, that's what we keep getting is that there's this, the government is in the middle of everything that we don't care about pushing, you know, using the right pronouns, a agreed agenda that raised their gas prices and people not to work. And the government isn't taking care of the things they ought to be taken care of. If you can, America strong, internationally people feeling safe in their homes, from crime, having their rights respected and being empowered to grow their families and their businesses. It's just the complete, the Democrats have all that hung on them. And that's why you see what you see now. Doug Truax: Yeah. And so my take on it, and I'd like to get your take. So when you watch a political party kind of imploding in that way, and it's so obvious to, you know, most everybody that God they're doing the exact wrong thing, like you said, is that just the echo chamber inside there with their base. And they're just kind of wrapped up in it and the donors and just the small group of people are just keep driving it that direction. Robert Cahaly: Yeah. I think that has a lot to do with it. There's a, there's a great deal of money that is used to on these campaigns and thunder party. And so, you know, most Democrats that are in like a swing district are faced with a choice. I can alienate my voters or I can alienate my funders. And it's an it very difficult choice then, you know, the Republicans are to blame when they don't make the Democrats face that joy. And we've seen that in too many elections in 2020, where they had that choice and they weren't faced it, but know that the Democrat party has an element, that fundamental element of it that is no longer the least bit in line with American mainstream. I mean, if anything, Pelosi and Schumer are trying to hold back a tab that is so much worse than they are. Doug Truax: Yeah. Which is terror, that's terrifying, you know, it's that bad. Yeah. So we're watching at restoration pack. We're always watching inflation and crime and this, you know, demonization based on your skin color and stuff like that. There's all these other issues. Obviously COVID-19, you know, foreign policy failures, you know, what are the issues that you're really watching most when you're going after you're polling nowadays? Robert Cahaly: Well, we see a lot when people look at the inflation, especially, and inflation, I guess in gas prices are tied up and they don't, they're not always traditionally that if they are right now, people just, what they're, what they're telling us is why is the government doing nothing to make this better? And when they put two and two together and they realized that some of the climate stuff is so far to the freedom that America not only whittled away, their advantage, you know, the American advantage in the domestic oil and gas production is being dissipated because we're not taking advantage of it, handing the stuff off the countries in the middle east, Russia, and it is causing them great harm. And they don't really understand it. Like this is an agenda that basically only America, maybe Western Europe seems to care about and China and Russia don't. So how does that fix the globe and about why is that making my life more difficult? That's what I keep getting him. America's, want clean air, clean water, and, you know, they don't want toxic waste, but they're not going to pay nine bucks a gallon to get it. Doug Truax: Yeah. Right. And that seems to be, to listen to the Democrats now, this whole concept of, well, you know, there's sacrifices to be made. So just sit down and shut up and make them, and we'll let you know when this, when you're, when you're done with your, with your sacrificing and yeah. That's just not going to fly. So, so is there any advice that you would give at this point to Republicans? You know, I I'm encouraged by what I see, but I've also just like the rest of us, you know, we've seen situations where it's like, wow, we have this opportunity and we blew it in some way. So, so what would you say to Republicans now that you know, are getting kinda like, I don't know, lack of a better term kind of giddy about the whole thing? Robert Cahaly: Well, recognize that you have a chance to actually win the majority's and there's two ways you win a majority and a close election, you run a bunch of candidates that are toward the middle, so you can win a few of those swing seats because the country's kind of at a middle place. And then there's the way you win a majority when you don't have to do that. And the first thing that Republicans need to recognize is this is not a year that you need to run a bunch of soft, moderate, Republican to win. This is a year that you're more conservative, Republican and win. And so don't squander this opportunity with image with the majority that's tied barely to people that you can't count on. It it'd be much better to have a majority of 25-30 Republicans that you can count on and 40 that you got to wonder about 20 of them. Yeah. Doug Truax: Right. That's a great point. So, conversely, is there anything that you would tell the Democrats at this point, is there any, is there any way to save this for them other than basically I guess just the, you know, coming out and being like, Hey, you know, while we, we had it wrong, we're going to focus on inflation and we're going to figure out gas prices and stuff like that. I mean, is there any path for them at this point to salvage this a little bit before the midterms? Robert Cahaly: Yeah. I mean, a lot of it's up to Biden, but if, you know, if I was telling Bob and I say, Hey, you need to talk about the fact that while, while we won't, we want to, we want to protect the planet. We want to deal with climate change. The fact is until we get the whole world on board, it doesn't matter. And, and we're not going to have America suffer just so the rest of, to the rest of the world can keep on polluting. And that people in Europe have given up so much control of their energy. And what's happening in Ukraine is the cost. This is the cost of the green agenda. And, and what, what he could talk about is how we have good people who want democracy like America don't produce energy, that we will fail you without strings, and you're not going to have democracy. And then you're really not going to have people being able to choose what type of government they have. Therefore you're never going to get the green agenda that you want in the long run. So address that and also take a strong stand against China. You'd be surprised how fast the American public would rally and baseball and completely focused and fixated on restoring our economy as it relates to production of energy and dealing with China, with it, with an iron fist. I think you'd be shocked at how quickly the pulse would change for. Doug Truax: Yeah. We've had that conversation before about China is that I wanted to ask you, is there like one issue out there that, that you see a lot that people just aren't talking about enough? And if it is it, would it be China or is it something else? Robert Cahaly: China is one of the few places that you have Republican and Democrats almost always on the same page. Nobody is for China. Everybody realizes the growing threat they represent. I mean, it is literally a few corporate masters and no one else. I mean, if you're not a professional athlete, if you're not, you know, who's making money off countries that take advantage of people and, and, and engage in slavery. If you're not a, that focused on a Chinese market, then you're not about China. I hear it every day, Americans restaurant, they can't buy what they want. They're spending more and more time looking for products that are made in America when they go online and they really don't want to empower China anymore. They want the supply chain back. They want the medical supply chain back. They want anything related to defending the country back. So a focus on doing something about China is something that is, I think that if the Republicans would own that issue would be very uniting. I mean, look at the Olympics. It wasn't just Republicans not watching the Olympics because the ratings to be so bad, that was a lot of people. Doug Truax: That's right. That's right. And I think this whole concept around the COVID-19 and where it started, I it's just been so strange to watch it over the years now. It was just like, you couldn't really talk about the fact that China, you know, created this thing and let it go. And now we're getting to the other side, finally, the pandemic and, and that's, I think a lot of Americans are out there going, oh, wait a minute. These guys, what did they steal from us? You know, in terms of our, just our, our wellbeing over the last couple of years and just, you know, the people that you've known that died from COVID obviously, and even if you haven't just what we've been through, and then, yeah, you're right. Oh, the Olympics are still going on and they got Uyghur and concentration camps, and we're just like, acting like everything's fine. And I think that a lot of people are super frustrated with that. So we'll see how it plays out. If it's going to be an election issue coming up, certainly in the 24, would you say, Robert Cahaly: I think it's gonna be an election issue both times, because I think China's gonna make probably some moves. In probably on Taiwan. And I'll tell you what I tell anybody else. If you see China go after Taiwan, you better go out and buy a new car and a new computer that day. Cause it's going to be awhile before any computer chip. Doug Truax: Yeah. How about it? And then back to what you said about made in America, you know, and this is just that, that obsession with globalism, you know, and I I've said before, I think there's a lot of CEOs out there, these big companies that their grandparents who were part of the greatest generation, if they could see what they have done to this country, they'd slap them across the face. I mean, it's just terrible. What has happened over the decades of the farming out of everything that we've done in this country. That was so great in the, in the, in the name of just making another buck. And I think people are seeing that now, and it's really frustrating and we just let these guys do whatever they want. They get the Olympics and everything else. And, and, and that super aggressive, that hyper aggressive foreign policy, they had even leading up to here where their ambassadors were out. Just beating everybody over the head. It's like, they're trying to call us all down and you know, Biden's going along with it. And the Democrats are too. So I, I couldn't agree more. It's going to be a big deal coming up and as well as should be. And so last question then, you know, did the Democrats, do they have any bench left as far as leadership goes? I mean, are we just, you know, we're just left with, you know, Pelosi, Biden, Harris. I mean, what do you see out there for them? I feel really strongly great about where we're going as a party, but what do you see on the Democrats? Did they have anything out there besides Stacey Abrams potentially? Robert Cahaly: Oh, I don't know this Stacey Abrams of, is there a, is there best player? I think Stacy, everyone has been very defined more and more is coming out in Georgia. People are beginning to see a lot of what went down. I think the Lester is wearing off of Stacey. Didn't know him wrong. Stacey Abrams is a political, she isn't political operative, extraordinary. She is one of the smartest political operators I've seen in the Democrat party. She knows how to motivate people. She knows how to organize, but I think that this new face, a new direction has kind of worn off. And the last four years and people have kind of realized what else she might stand for things that weren't issues four years ago. You know, I would look toward the Democrats that some of the lesser known players that, that ha that aren't getting a lot of attention right now. I still think that Klobuchar is probably one of their stronger leaders out there who has not been completely destroyed in the media. And they have a few, but not very many. And, and, you know, even she has a lock wall, their problem is they haven't developed a bench. They haven't worried about legislative races. They haven't worried about winning so many things in the, and there people in Congress are just tired. I mean, it's freezing. So ever leaving. I mean, they w the Democrat party is making the same mistake that the major league baseball is beginning to make. If you start squandering your, your minor leagues, you're going to end up having a negative effect on your major league. Doug Truax: Yeah, absolutely. That's a great analogy. And I think that, that if you start canceling your minor league players too, you know, I think that's the great thing about what's happened. That's Republicans have finally stood up and said, you know, we don't care about the media. You try to cancel me. I don't care. It's one of the great things about Trump. You know, he led the way on that. He's like, he just, he just ran right through it, but the left there's still cancel each other all the time. You know? So you don't get sideways with the squad over there. You know, they may enjoy your career, but, you know, let them have it, let them have it. I it's, it's, it's in some way, it's fun to watch so well, Hey, Robert really appreciate all the work you've done over the years and how accurate you are, and looking forward to this next season that we're headed into. And I hope you're, you're dead on again. Robert Cahaly: We're looking forward to it, Virginia and New Jersey this year were a nice preview of what's going to happen. And we, we, we're proud to lead the in both, both of those states in the poll. Doug Truax: Well, amen to that good stuff. All right. Well, thanks for coming on. Robert Cahaly: Thank you. Doug Truax: All right. That's our show for today. Thank you so much for tuning in and for supporting conservative media. Don't forget that by working together and staying diligent, we conservatives can bring our country back to true greatness until next week. Let's all keep praying that God will continue to bless America. 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Doug talks to Christopher Arps, President of Americans for Citizens Voting and communication professional and strategist. (Machine Generated) Doug Truax: Welcome to the First Right podcast, a weekly conservative news show brought to you by Restoration PAC. I'm Doug Truax, founder, and president of Restoration PAC. Today. We're blessed to have a first-time guest and partner. We are glad to work alongside Christopher Arps. He's well-known as afternoon drive host of St. Louis news talk 1 0 1 0.9 and heads up a group trying to make sure only legal citizens vote in America. And those are just a few of us ventures. Well, Hey Chris, thanks so much for coming on the show today, Christopher Arps: Doug, Thank you for having me. This is a real honor. Doug Truax: Awesome. So give our viewers, you know, in a nutshell of how you got to where you are, you're a really busy guy, you got a lot going on. It's always interesting to hear how things started to kind of build up to where you are today. You know? Christopher Arps: I started like a lot of us did in politics at the grassroots level, I volunteered on a good friend state rep campaign and he ended up winning that he had ties to one of our senators who was running for election. At that time, I got a chance to work for United States Senator, later a presidential campaign, some local races. And after that, you know, I started my own consulting practice and somehow it ended up with me having a radio show. I knew Stan in St. Louis on Newstalk STL one-on-one 94 1, which I co-host from three thiry to six with the former Missouri speaker of the house, Tim Jones. Doug Truax: Yeah, so let's go right to that. So a great show and you know, you're right there in middle America and there's like a lot of things going on right now. We've got immigration. We got COVID, we got inflation, we've got critical race theory, take your pick. So I would just be interested, you know, what do you, what do you think your listeners are most fixated on these days? Christopher Arps: Well, I'll tell you one thing. That's a real hot issue in Missouri and really all across the country is the redistricting concerning congressional maps. Right now, Missouri has a six to a Republican majority in Congress, but there is a push among the conservative caucus in the state Senate to carve out a seven - one map, which would eliminate the democratic seat in Kansas city, Emanuel Cleaver. So there's a big kind of, in-house fighting among Republicans to get that map together. And so that's one thing our listeners are talking about, another thing which is happening in major cities all across the country is crime. St. Louis unfortunately is always number one or number two, when it comes to crime and murder statistics, we have a George Soros funded prosecutor, Kim Gardner, who thinks that our job is not to put criminals in jail, but to instead be a social worker. And I think the third thing is people are worried about the direction of their country and the president, Joe Biden. They're worried about his mental health, his physical health. And is he up to the job of leading the nation? Doug Truax: Yeah, lots of be worried about there. And that's one of those things. I just, you know, every time I see him give a speech or, and you know, the media is not covering it. So you've got to go different places where, you know, we know where to go and, and watch the real clips of it. And I think too, from our standpoint is, you know, we need to, we need to project strength as a country. And I know it's good for our national security, good for our economy, all these things. And I just get most upset because what's happening now is that the rest of the world is looking at us and seeing a lot of weakness there. And I think it bleeds over into everything. Christopher Arps: I think president Putin's actions and Ukraine and having military exercises and Belarus is a direct result of our hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan and leaving citizens and people that helped us over there. I think that has emboldened Putin. I think it is in Bolden, the north Korean leader, he's shooting missiles now into, towards Japan again. And I think also it's emboldings our enemies in the middle east, like Iran who are the major state sponsors of terrorism in the world. So we need leadership and I'm hoping that 2022 will be the beginning of that when we see a Republican takeover of Congress Doug Truax: And, you know, the Afghanistan thing, I think for me of the whole year, that was the most troubling to watch. And just being a former army guy, myself and knowing people that served over there, I didn't, I haven't been in for awhile, but you know, they served over there and all the sacrifice and then to just end it that way. I mean, Biden's just got a, an incredibly horrible track record of just terrible decisions. He's just a bad decision maker and a bad leader. And now he's got mad at, you know, health issues. It's just terrible. And a side note too. I saw last night, my, my classmate from west point, Chris Donnie, who's a, he's the, he's the division commander over at 82nd airborne. He was the last guy to get on the plane out of Afghanistan, which, you know, which, you know, for me personally kind of salvaged it a little bit like, well, that's, that's good. You know, Chris is leading the way, but gosh, what a terrible, terrible situation. So anyways, I, yeah, I'm with you, I'm just looking for a better day. And I think it's on the way, you know, everything's always changing, well, Christopher Arps: It's almost like a parlor game now to watch the polls, just to see just how low can Joe Biden go. Right. You know, I heard this morning on our network radio news that the real clear politics composite poll has him at like 39%. So when five, five or six polls have you that low and especially, you know, right. Entering the second year of your presidency, that's pretty bad. Doug Truax: Absolutely. And how many loyal Democrats are out there thinking they're going to vote for somebody else? And they won't tell a pollster that, so I don't know. It's just, yeah, it's crazy time. So, so you're a, you're a prominent African-American public figure. You know, we've got this moment where Trump was kind of like making a lot of headway in that community. And so, you know, what do you think has happened in there? Is there a, is there a break going on from your perspective of, of what you've seen over the years? I certainly hope there is, but I want to definitely, you know, get your take on it. Christopher Arps: I think Donald Trump was a big part of the break that we're seeing from African-Americans is the democratic party. President Trump got 20% of the African male African-American male vote, which is incredible. He doubled his percentage of the African-American female vote, I think from a three to 6%, 7%, something like that. I think where you really see a lot of gains and I would love to see my African-American brothers and sisters catch up with these gains are in this Hispanic community. We see polls recently showing that more Hispanics associate themselves as the Republican party than they do the democratic party right now. And we saw during this 2020 election where a lot of Hispanics in the counties that border Mexico voted a good influence when it comes to African-Americans and other minorities taking a different look at the Republican party. I think when he said during the campaign, what the hell have you got to lose? I think a lot of African-Americans said, yeah, whatever we got to lose. Doug Truax: That's right. Yeah. That's a, that's a good message. Cause they got to make a different choice at some point, and I've got 20 years now living in a Chicago suburbs. So, you know, you see all kinds of stuff when it comes to elections, when you live outside of Chicago and what goes on in the city and I give Christopher Arps: You actually seen a dead person vote Doug Truax: They're out there. Every, every election they're out there and I Christopher Arps: I guess zombies. Doug Truax: Yeah. Right. Exactly. I get most disappointed too, just, you know, from, you know, from a Christian standpoint to there's there's not all, but there's a lot of pastors in the African-American community in the city, they will basically, you know, take favors in or however they're going to do that from the Democrat party and then endorse them, even though they know in their mind and their heart, it's not the right thing to do. There's better choices. I mean, the schools are a mess, the crime, everything else, but it's kind of this, just this machine that keeps moving. And I just, I do get a little disappointed with, like I said, obviously not all by any stretch, but there's a number of, of African-American pastors in, in Chicago that are kind of like a little bit, in my opinion, on the tape. Christopher Arps: Yeah. Unfortunately in the African-American church has become an auxiliary of the democratic party. We really see that highlighted a, you know, a month or so before the elections, when the democratic politicians are in the churches at the pulpits, basically giving campaign speeches right from the pulpit. And we don't ever see any action from the IRS to take away any designations or anything like that. So I think a lot of people know that and I think that there are new breed of African-American pastors that are more traditional and adhere to conservative values. I think you're going to be hearing more of them in the coming months and years. Doug Truax: Yeah. I certainly hope so. And I agree with that and I, that's a, that's a great sign and, and we need to get there. So, all right. So let's move on to this organization. You're president of Americans for Citizen Voting. So I think a lot of our viewers may or may not be surprised that a non non citizens vote. So why don't you talk about that organization and what's you're up to there Christopher Arps: Well, I tell you, we started this organization in 2018, a friend of mine, good friend of mine, Paul Jacob said, Hey, did you know that there are, non-citizens voting in our country? And like 98% of Americans, 98% of Americans, I was like, you're crazy. You know, there's a, there's a constitution. There's no way that a non citizens are voting in our elections. And he showed me some examples of it. And from California to Maine and New Hampshire, where some of these municipalities were allowing noncitizens with green cards, they're here legally, but they are not citizens of our country yet. They're allowing them to vote in school board and municipal elections and me like many Americans out there think that it's wrong. We've done polling on this issue. And it's across the board, Republican Democrat, moderate, conservative, black, Hispanic, whatever it's overwhelmingly against non-citizens voting in elections. And so we are a grassroots advocacy organization. We work in a number of states currently trying to work with state legislator and grassroots activists to amend their state constitution from saying not that only the only United States citizens can vote instead of every citizen can vote. And what's happening is a lot of the people that want this to happen are using that every citizen can vote as a loophole because it's not telling you who can't vote. So we would like to help amend of lot of all our state constitutions, really to say only the United States citizens can vote in our elections, Doug Truax: Wait, so youre telling me the Democrats are using a loophole to gain an advantage in an election. I'm shocked. So yeah, it's so difficult. Yeah. When I first heard this Christopher Arps: And I hate to interrupt you, but I mean, it's not really a loophole. I mean, you know, you can, when it says every citizen can vote, most people with the IQ of a room temperature and with a little bit of common sense, knows that that probably pertains to American citizens and no one else. And the fact that we have to amend the constitution to say says that says a lot about the Democrats and how they really don't respect Americans common sense and their constitutional right to have only Americans voting in their election. Doug Truax: Yeah, absolutely. It's that spirit of the law. I mean, everybody knows what that meant, but yeah, you're right. They just use it to their advantage. So, so, you know, we see more and more of that and you know, you and I are involved a lot of election integrity stuff and people were upset and still that's still going on. And so, and they've got all these issues now, and I don't want to get ahead of ourselves because we certainly know is as conservatives as Republicans, we can, we can definitely, you know, squander a victory on the way, but let's just, you know, say that in 23, we got the house and the Senate again, you know, what do you, what do you, what are you thinking? What do you, what are you looking for most from, from a majority like that? I mean, we're not going to the presidency obviously, but what, what are we going to, what do you want to see done at that point? Christopher Arps: Why the first thing that I would like to see on day one is the shoveling of the January six committees and all their related committees, put them in the closet where they need to be. And let's get along with conducting the businesses of America. Second, I'd like to see our nation become a exporter of energy. Again, like we were under Donald Trump instead of going to OPEC cup in hand, asking them to please pump out more oil so we can have lower gas prices. And I just would like to see, because we don't have much leadership in the presidency right now. And if we were able to take over the Senate and the house, that's two out of the three branches of government, maybe we can get some things done. You know, the president still has to sign that legislation. But if that legislation is popular with the American people, and this is a, and we're pushing this, then that may put pressure on them to sign legislation that you may not done with his having his own majority. Doug Truax: Yeah, that's right. And so it's a, it's a, it's a great thought to be able to get there, but you know, how, how it always is Chris. I mean, these guys will get there and they'll talk a good game. And one thing, what I always say around here too, is like, so if we have a candidate now who's been a politician. And they're saying all these things that they're going to do, you know, what have they done previously? It lead you to believe that they're actually going to execute on that thing when they get in. So, you know, with that being said, and we all know this happens, what do you see going forward? We take over, you know, how do we hold feet to the fire as conservatives, grassroots? What do we need to do right away to make sure they do everything they said they're going to do? Christopher Arps: Well. I think one, once whoever is elected, we, we tell them we're going to hold you to your promises. We're going to hold your feet to the fire. And if you don't come through or we don't see you making significant strides and efforts to pass what the passing agenda that we support, then you're going to be booted out. I mean, we've seen that in a sense here, these last few election cycles that have been kind of middle of the road that have switched between Democrat and Republican and that are up for grabs currently. I think you're going to see that spread more around the country, that if you're not doing what we want, we're, we're going to vote you out. And I hope, I hope that's what happens. Doug Truax: Yeah. We're all seeing, starting to see replays now, versions of, you know, January, 2017 where we're like, all right, we got everything. Let's make this happen. It's like, well, maybe Trump's a Russian spy. You know, everybody started getting weak-kneed and everything. I'm like, oh my God, let's do it. You know? So we'll see, we'll see what happens. So, but yeah, we'll, we'll definitely have you back on and we'll talk about how things are going and what you're doing and, and we'll, we'll all collectively hold their feet to the fire. Sound good. It sounds Christopher Arps: Excellent. And can't wait to have you on our show real soon. Doug Truax: Yeah. Very good. Thanks for coming on, Chris. Thank you. All right. That's our show for today. Thank you so much for tuning in and for supporting conservative media. Don't forget that by working together and staying diligent, we conservatives can bring our country back to true greatness. And so next week let's all keep praying that God will continue to bless America First Right, A new kind of new summary without the liberal slant every morning in your inbox, always free subscribed by texting First Right. 3 to 0 1 6 1 that's FIRSTRIGHT All caps. One word to 3 0 1 6 1.

In this episode of the First Right Podcast, Dr. Peter McCullough, a highly credentialed medical doctor, explains that 95% of deaths from COVID were preventable.

Doug talks to Dr. Peter McCullough, cardiologist and internist (Machine Generated) Doug Truax: Welcome to the First Right podcast, a weekly conservative news show brought to you by Restoration PAC. I'm Doug Truax, founder, and president of Restoration PAC. Today we are blessed to have one of the most important voices in America when it comes to COVID-19. He is Dr. Peter McCullough, a deeply credentialed doctor who is telling Americans that0 most of what they are hearing in the mainstream media about COVID is wrong. He is telling a troubling tale about collusion between the medical establishment, corporate media and big tech to prevent you from hearing the truth. All right, Dr. McCollough, thanks so much for coming on the show. Dr. Peter McCullough: Well, thanks for having me. Doug Truax: All right. So we'll get to the Rogan stuff in a second, but I definitely want to hear about your journey from the beginning with COVID, how you jumped in right away. You were one of the first guys, first guys in doing a lot of things, and then kind of how it progressed, up to where we are today. Dr. Peter McCullough: Yeah, I was in March of 2020. I was in a medical practice in cardiology practice, academic medical center in Dallas, Texas still am today at the same medical center. I had previously focused on heart and kidney disease as my major research focus. And when this hit myself and my division chief, we, we felt strongly motivated that we should do something to help out from our part. We weren't infectious disease experts, but we were good medical doctors and we could apply our scholarship. And so I applied for and won that one of the first FDA new drug applications to use hydroxychloroquine in large-scale and healthcare workers. And we demonstrated that that was beneficial. And then I moved on to work with the Italians to devise treatment protocols, to treat patients in order to avoid hospitalization and death and had the two seminal publications in 2020 demonstrating what the approach would be with using combined drugs, drugs to reduce viral replication, treat inflammation, and then treat blood clotting. And those papers became the most downloaded and cited papers for all of COVID-19. As an outpatient, there's now a protocols copyrighted called the McCullough protocol. It was copyrighted by Ben marble on my behalf for myfreedoctor.com, which used it. Ben just testified in the us Senate, as I did on January 24th, he's treated with his group over 150,000 Americans, high risk for COVID-19 he's only lost four patients. So it's extraordinary how effective early treatment can be. Absolutely. Doug Truax: And you have been on, on such the front edge of this, and we all really appreciate it. I think, as we've all kind of gotten to know you over this period of time, I think there's a lot of appreciation for your courage and obviously for your intellect. And so let's go back to December here, you get on the Rogan show and millions and millions of people hear all of this. I mean, you'd been doing other shows previously, but that's the viral side of this and it, and it took off. So just tell us how have changed for you since then, Dr. Peter McCullough: You know, through the course of the pandemic, I have now had two rounds of US Senate testimony, multiple state Senate testimonies that has been a frequent contributor in the hill in the first year, second year, frequent contributor actually have my own show in America Out Loud Talk radio, frequent contributor on Fox news, OEN, Newsmax, but the Rogan interview was something completely different. And when Rogan reached out to me, it took about a month to schedule. I was busy and I had prepared. So I had a base set of scientific slides that was already continuing medical education approved for, by a major scientific meeting in October. And I added to it with the peer reviewed literature, both in the preprint server system and in the national library of medicine. And when I went to the Rogan studio, I gave the slide set to his producers ahead of time, select figures. I opened up my computer. I found Joe Rogan to be very respectful. He asked good questions. He was intelligent perceptive the entire three hour interview. There were no opinions. There was no hyperbole. It was basically a presentation of the scientific data. And now the transcript has come out on the Rogan interview and the most frequently discussed topic was monoclonal antibodies, which are fully emergency use authorized. And I use a monoclonal antibodies practice every day. Joe Rogan had received them, his friend, Aaron Rogers, a quarterback for the Green Bay Packers had received them. So we had a lot of discussion on monoclonal antibodies. We also discussed other treatments used in the Macola protocol. So I mean the transcript indicates it was a very scientific discussion. I think what people were shocked with was the fallout from this fallout originally from, from Spotify and then other celebrities through Spotify, it escalated to the White House and the press secretary. And it's interesting because Spotify is a common carrier. You know, they carry the podcast for Robert F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and the Children's Health Defense is sharply critical of vaccines. And they haven't said a word about Robert F. Kennedy yet Rogan became a target in a sense. And it's been expanded now to things far beyond Rogan's interview with myself or Pierre Cory or Bret Weinstein or Robert Malone. Doug Truax: And so why do you think as you look back on it and to your point, it's very scientific, no hyperbole. Why do you think it was went viral Like it did Dr. Peter McCullough: Well it went viral, I think because Rogan's audience, you know, Rogan's audience with my interview, with the downloads, the reverbs, it was translated into multiple languages. It was three hours long previously. I think my longest was, was Tucker Carlson. I did the long program with Tucker Carlson today in his studio, but you know, three hours is a long time to fully vet a topic. And how careful Rogan is, is a journalist and his audience. His audience, the average age, I think is 24. These are, these are young people. They don't subscribe to cable TV anymore. They don't even know what Fox news is. So reached a whole new group of people and boy did it reverberate around the world. Doug Truax: Yeah. And I think it goes to, and I'd like to get your thought on this, about the truth of the matter. And that cohort that you're talking about, that generation is very perceptive of hypocrisy. And so when they feel it might be out there and people are being hypocritical, some of these things that they're hearing in the news constantly is like, this may not be real. And so when they watch your podcast, watch you talk and do what you do. They're thinking, okay, here's the truth. And then they start eating it up and it starts going around. I mean, that, that's how I feel that that's, that's kind of the state of play. I feel like we're in right now. Dr. Peter McCullough: I think you're right. I think on December 8th they heard the truth. It was one piece of feedback I received from a lot of people. So Dr. McCullough, you said you can't get COVID a second time. Well, as December 10th, we got the communication from the CDC and it became obvious. You could get Omicron once you've already had a prior variant. And fortunately I was on Fox news with Laura Ingraham and I said, listen, you know, here's an update. Omicron broke through a natural immunity, expect it. You can get a second case now it's very mild, very transitory. So like any good doctor and scientists with humility, you know, I quickly adapted to the data. I haven't stuck with a single quote narrative. That's been pointed out to be wrong because I've been careful to cite the science and other people in my circles have as well. What, what Americans are now starting to understand is our public health officials, as well as many media doctors have not. And they realize that the truth is starting to come through. Rogan was the big breakthrough. And my Lord, the January 24th, US Senate testimony that was five hours chaired by Senator Ron Johnson, I co moderated the committee. It was called COVID-19 a second opinion. We had dozens of practicing expert doctors who know how to treat COVID-19 inpatient and outpatient. We had PhD scientists, nurses, patients, attorneys. It was five hours of truth bombs. And I can tell you that was live-streamed that five hours has been condensed to a 38 minute highlight reel that's up on YouTube. And that is basically now combined with the Joe Rogan sets of interviews. I think really starting to break through to Americans, getting now a much more clear understanding of the truth regarding COVID-19. Doug Truax: And I think you touched on it a second ago, too, with the lack of humility. And I think most Americans will look at you and the people that you associate with and say very smart, very courageous, but humble, willing to say, oh, things have changed. I didn't realize that. And I think my opinion on this, as, you know, coming into a pandemic, I've always felt like, well, we're the United States of America. We have this cool thing called the center for disease control. And there's a lot of really smart people in there. And they're gonna figure it out if we, if the pandemic hits us and they're gonna work with everybody and doctors, and that's all just completely blown up now, because there's this lack of humility. There's a lack of, Hey, we had we had that wrong. We gotta adjust. We now hydroxychloroquine. Okay. We're going to revisit that. I mean, there was just a lack of humility coming through this. And I think, you know, a lot of times it got politicized obviously, but, but speak to that side of it a little bit, if you would, in terms of the, you know, people's kind of trusting in the health establishment, even meaning the federal government has this hierarchy, obviously that you know, is here to protect the people. And it just has been falling apart for years now. Dr. Peter McCullough: It's true. It got so bad that we actually heard from our national allergy immunology, branch director, a, you know, a division head at the NIH. It's not a terribly high position. You know, that person claimed to represent science, the entire field of science. And you know, all of us use the scientific method. We're humble in our presentation, we work in groups. What Americas saw was basically I think hubris and demagoguery and what they really needed to see was doctors working in teams. We should have always had teams of doctors and there should have been contemporary review. We should have been reviewing contagion control. That's one pillar early treatment, the second pillar hospital treatment, the third pillar, and then the fourth pillar being vaccination. We should have always had a monthly review on how all four aspects of the pandemic are going. And, and there are no stakes in the ground. You know, the, the stake in the ground that the FDA put out saying don't use hydroxychloroquine well, there was hundreds of studies that came out afterwards, demonstrating hydroxychloroquine did have a modest benefit. It was clearly safe. The stake in the ground that the NIH had, where the NIH said, ivermectin is only a horse dewormer, and there is no scientific evidence. Well, you know, there's now 70 supportive studies for ivermectin. Inpatient, outpatient has a bigger, favorable impact on hydroxychloroquine. So all these stakes in the ground is if the conclusion is known and there's no further discussion, every single time, these have been a mistake. Another one has been masking. You know, initially the idea of all masks are going to stop the transmission. Well, when we realized in the study suggests that mascular ineffective, there never was a second review where we said, you know what? We tried it, it didn't work. You know, let's, you know, for general public masking, let's go ahead and drop that idea, but never was any humility to understand when something worked or didn't work and then actually change course. Doug Truax: Yeah. Yeah. Big government came in. I feel like I'm a conservative. And we, we talk this way around here in terms of the government coming in and saying, be obedient, you know, put the mask on. And, and when the question is, will it, does this doesn't seem to work? Why are we still doing it? It's like, well, we tell, cause we told you to, and you know, this masking idea and this whole not changing course, especially with the kids, you know, and this was the ongoing place where we all are still, we have all these states now that, you know, finally I'm in Illinois and they lighten the load on the mask, but not in schools and all this stuff. And so what, talk to a little bit in terms of how early on did you see that? Okay. You know, you saw what happened in Italy, you knew who was going to be most susceptible to this. And then as a society, almost, we kind of said, you know what, we're just going to apply the same standard to everybody, no matter your age, no matter your situation. And you know, what at what point I kind of remember when I, this was dawning on me, like in the late spring of 2020, I'm like, why are we applying this to everybody when we need to really near it, narrow it down? What, what was your take on that? And how do you feel about where we are with the kids and the masking and all that craziness? Dr. Peter McCullough: In the spring of 2020, I was working with leaders from UCLA, Emory, Dallas, all around the country and the cortical network in Italy. And by June, when we submitted our paper, we already had risk stratification as part of the program for COVID 19, that everybody needed treatment, that it looked like it was going to be the high risk seniors. Those with multiple medical problems, young people had essentially a negligible risk. And so we knew that very early on, and I wanna say by summer or fall of 2020, the great Barrington declaration was proposed by leaders from Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford, and the great Barrington declaration of which many, many scientists signed on to said, listen, let's just protect the elderly. That's where it's at everybody else. Let's, you know, have them be unencumbered with mandates and restrictions. And we'll protect our seniors to this day, 40% of the deaths, American deaths that happened. COVID-19 had been nursing home residents. The average age is 83. You know, the, the hyper-focus on children is way off base COVID-19 if it still has any risk to us in this society, it's our seniors, not our children. Doug Truax: Right? Absolutely. So the question I have for you then, so if, if tomorrow I get a positive COVID-19 test. What are you telling me to take? And where do I get the medications that you say to take? Dr. Peter McCullough: Right, Well, you can go to the truth for health foundation, truthforhealth.org, download the home treatment protocol, the McCullough protocol, and you can start to follow the steps. I encourage you to do it sooner than later. One of the first steps is to start nasal washes and we use dilute povidone iodine or dilute hydrogen peroxide over the sink, squared it up with the nose, sniff it back, and then spit it out. Do that twice in each side and gargle you do that up to every four hours at home, because we know that the Omicron virus, it largely stays in the nasal cavity. So it's very amenable because of its high replication rates to actually just killing the virus of the nasal cavity. So remarkably effective, everybody should have either povidone iodine, which is called betadyne about a $5 item online or hydrogen peroxide out of $5 item as well in the house, and be ready to go with the oral nasal washes. Beyond that, we have monoclonal antibodies for high risk patients. You don't look like you're going to be one of them, but we use sotrovimab the GlaxoSmithKline product. I just got called by a young, a mother of a young woman who has systemic lupus. And she's on a lot of medicines. I think she should get one of these antibodies and mother's scrambling right now, but we, you know, everybody should be calling around, finding out who's got them. You should push your representatives to make sure they're transparent on the supply chain for monoclonal antibodies. Then beyond that, we have oral antivirals. Hydroxychloroquine ivermectin. Now we have Paxil VOI by Pfizer, Mona peer veer by Merck. We use doxycycline azithromycin. In addition, we use in healthy snide throughout oral culture, seen throughout oral aspirin and then anticoagulants a higher risk patients. We go ahead and put them on prednisone as well. So all these drugs are freely available, should be prescribed by your primary care doctor. I think every patient ought to call their primary care doctor and say, listen, are you ready to prescribe the drugs for me? Are you ready to go on this? If you're not, who can you refer me to too many patients who have scrambled because the primary care doctors have just really been flat-footed I'm responding to COVID. Yeah. Doug Truax: That's great advice. So get, get prepared ahead of time. Cause you never know where your doctor's gonna land. Now it's a really strange time. And most people haven't been used to that their entire lives. They just assume that the best thing is going to be done and we're living in an age where it's not. And so last question for you then. So we'll see what happens more and more is coming out. The it just feels like a lot of bad decisions were made. It's hard to say how many people died that didn't need to die. Do you feel like at some point there's going to be accountability built into this for the people that have just basically, you know, showing the hubris and just weren't looking out for people like they were supposed to, are they going to be held accountable one day? Dr. Peter McCullough: They will. And I think justice will be served that the record now is so incredibly clear. Senator Ron Johnson's done a wonderful job in memorializing testimony into the Senate record. My current estimates are 95% of all the deaths could have been avoided with early appropriate treatment. And we could have avoided tens of millions of hospitalizations. And I think there will be a justice and people will be held accountable for that unnecessary loss of life and they inconvenience and the misery, and really the anxiety of being hospitalized unnecessarily. Doug Truax: Wow! Wow. That's really that's. I thought, I thought you were going to say something like that, but that's just, it's heartbreaking to think about it. And I am so thankful that it's been read into to the record and I like a lot of Americans are very thankful for you for your courage, for your intellect and how you've been sharing all this, and even what you shared today and really appreciate everything you've done and really thank you for coming on today. Dr. Peter McCullough: Okay. Thanks for having me. Doug Truax: All right. That's our show for today. Thank you so much for tuning in and for supporting conservative media. Don't forget that by working together and staying diligent, we conservatives can bring our country back to true greatness. And so next week let's all keep praying that God will continue to bless America First Right, A new kind of new summary without the liberal slant. Every morning in your inbox, always free subscribe by texting f FIRSTRIGHT to 3 0 1 6 1 that's FIRSTRIGTH All caps. 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Doug talks to Rachel Bovard, senior tech columnist with The Federalist (Machine Transcribed) Doug Truax: Welcome to the First Right podcast, a weekly conservative new show brought to you by Restoration PAC. I'm Doug Truax, founder, and president of Restoration PAC. Today, we were blessed to have first-time guests and one of the most important young conservative voices in Washington, Rachel Bovard, Rachel is so influential that the fake conservative columnist from the New York times, David Brooks labeled her and other young conservatives as terrifying in a recent column. All right, Rachel, thanks so much for coming on. Rachel Bovard: My pleasure. Thanks for having me. Doug Truax: All right. So, so the David Brooks thing, even though he did say, I think he said you were charming and funny and things like that, he labeled you as terrifying. And so what's been the, what was your reaction to that? And what's kinda been the reaction around DC in, in your circles with that, regarding that, that article he wrote. Rachel Bovard: Well, I didn't see it for a while. I'm not a regular reader of the Atlantic, so I'm, I missed it when it came out. I got a few texts about it. I think Brooks made the sort of mortal sin of a hit piece, which is giving the subject, you're trying to mock too much airtime because it, I think it didn't make me sound that scary, to be honest. And most of the people I talked to were like, no, you, you know, I think he was trying to paint me as some sort of terror in a skirt and it didn't quite, I think it, I think it backfired slightly. Doug Truax: Right? Absolutely. Well, that's it? Yeah. It's always good to just kind of ridicule them back a little bit. Like, like what you're doing there. I think that's, that's wonderful. So, well, Hey, so you've got, I love, I love your posts. You're where you're at with the culture and, and the, and the party and everything. I think you're dead on in so many ways. We've been talking about cultural issues a lot around here lately. So what do you think conservatives are kind of doing right right now and what are we doing wrong when it comes to the culture? Rachel Bovard: Well, you know, I think a lot of conservatives are doing the right thing in pointing out that the culture matters because I think for a long time, the sort of emphasis of DCS, right leaning institutions anyway, were sort of to lean out of the culture. The culture is too divisive. You know, we need to focus on economics. If, you know, we just allow the mediating institutions to work. Everything will be fine. And maybe that was true at one time, but you know, the sort of institutions that we've always relied upon in civil society are completely captured by ideologies that we don't agree with. And I think if Trump's presidency showed us anything, it was that leaning into the culture war and standing up for the right of, you know, conservatives to speak, to have their own beliefs, to practice their faith that actually expanded the base.We have more voters in the Republican party because Trump emphasized those issues. He was probably a surprising vehicle for that for a lot of people, but, you know, he did that. He was fearless about it. And so I think keeping that momentum is going to be very important because generally speaking, when Republicans are in the majority, social conservatives are sort of like, nobody wants to talk to them, right? They are useful on the campaign trail. But when we actually get to Washington, nobody actually wants to listen to them or do what they have to say besides like the one pro-life vote a year. So I do think that we have to take conservative social concerns much more seriously. And, and the culture war generally, that is the word that matters. That's the war that's in front of us. And so we have to fight it on all fronts. Doug Truax: We were heavily involved in the Virginia race too. And you saw it there with Youngkin and that whole crowd, it's just like what you're talking about. People are super concerned about these things that nobody wants to talk about because they get beat down by the left. And then there's a great example of just politically it's in your favor because if a lot of people are concerned about it, you should be talking about it, Rachel Bovard: Right! No, and this is the thing like the, all the polls show this. And, you know, even, I think Gallup recently had a poll showing that the Republican party has the highest amount of identification in like decades. And it is because the left has gone so insane on the culture that it is actually driving people to the Republican party. And I think the mistake would be however, for the Republicans to think that it's because, you know, they've earned this support. No, they haven't. The left has just made it so unpalatable to be a leftist that they're coming to us for solutions. So if we don't provide them anything in the way of solutions, in the way of fearlessness, in the way of actually addressing the concerns that are affecting people day to day, this is not some like far off threat. This is at your child's school. This is at your church. You know, this is in your community. If people aren't the Republicans aren't willing to engage in those fights the way Glen Youngkin really leaned into it in Virginia, then we are going to lose all those voters that the leftist just sent to us. Doug Truax: Yeah, absolutely. And I think they're going to continue sending them to us. I think it was a Victor Davis Hanson, I think, was talking about this one time. The fatal flaw with the left is that they have no limit. They'll keep going and going. That's the interesting thing about the spectrum of things on the right. We have, well, there's a place in here where even, you know, culture warriors, they'll be like, no, let's not go that far on this certain thing, but the left, they just go off into space, you know? And it's, it's an opportunity for us to point it out and to get some people back, but you're right. If we don't step up and say, yeah, we'll actually fight for this. Or if we just use it as a, as a political opportunity, I mean, you see that so often, you know, especially in DC and around conservative politics, like, well, let's just use it to get through the election. You know, that that's not fair. You're just, you're being disingenuous. Then if you just use it to get through the election, and I know you've kind of been calling out Republican establishment too about, Hey guys, let's step this up and talk about some real things that we're going to actually, you know, do after we get elected, not just the same old thing we've been saying for decades in the Republican party. Rachel Bovard: Right. Yeah. I think you're absolutely right in the sense that, you know, DCS, Republican, institutional elite, they love to use the social conservatives or the cultural war on the campaign trail, but they have no intent of actually addressing it. You kind of saw this with Kevin McCarthy's proposed agenda for house Republican majority in 2022. He's like the closest he got to the culture war was talking about a parent's bill of rights. Well, what does that even mean? And is it actually enforceable? Are you talking about putting something into law? Cause okay. Then I'm at the table, right? You've caught my interest, but if you're talking about like a resolution non-binding on anyone simply saying that parents matter, you got to do more than that. Right now. You gotta, you gotta give us better in this moment. Doug Truax: That's right. That's right. I always think, is it, is this just marketing to raise money and get some votes? Or is this something you really believe in and you're going to do so. Yeah. Well, so you, you write a lot about tech issues too. And so, you know, big tech and censoring conservatives. So, so in your opinion, having watched all this and to where we are at this point, what do you think is the best thing we could be doing next as conservatives to fight back? Rachel Bovard: So we have, I think at this point we have to legislate this, you know, a lot of us don't, didn't start at that point in the beginning of this debate, because we've always relied on these sorts of things that the conservative movement has always relied upon. Like if we build our own platform, you know, if we build alternatives, if we try to boycott these platforms, they'll get the message and they'll reform. But what I don't think we accounted for was just how ubiquitous these platforms are in controlling our daily lives. Like there is no way to get off Google if you live in the modern world, every app on your smartphone runs on Google. You know, Google is, you know, tracking you across the web. Even if you're not using Google search, we didn't account for these things. And in many ways that's sort of the classic story of innovation and America in many ways is that, you know, we have a lot of innovation. That's what we built our economy to account for it. We love it. But at some point when that innovation reaches a tipping point, when it starts to actually change the nature of our social discourse, to put parameters around what we can and cannot say, to change how we interact with each other, how we vote, how we search for information, then that's the time where we usually take that innovation and we incorporate it into our values and traditions into our legal framework instead of simply allowing it to shape us. And I think we are, that is where we are in this debate. I think what happened to Parler was so instructive on how, you know, our alternatives will not be allowed to succeed because the point isn't to have alternatives, the left wants to control everything that we do wherever we're speaking. Doug Truax: Yeah, totally agree. Big tech is way too big. And it's like you said, it's a big ubiq- ubiquitous it's, everywhere. And we gotta make sure we fight back as much as we can. But so I have one, I had Emily Jashinsky on the show. We had the same topic about it is kind of like, well, it's so big, where do you go to get news now? There's, you know, you have the mainstream media is just, you know the normal news organizations are just crumbling as an institution. It's just horrible. So what, what do you see out there, where are you going to get your news? What, when your peers are asking you, you know, what do you do and where should I be going to, to figure out what's really going on? What do you tell them? Rachel Bovard: Well, Emily and I both write for the Federalist, which I think is a great, is a Doug Truax: Great, Rachel Bovard: Yeah, not the Federalist, but, you know, I think a lot of my peers anyway, which I think is very encouraging are turning off cable news, and they're starting to go to, again, sort of that those niche outlets, the Federalist, the blue, you know, blaze media, daily caller, but also beginning to follow, you know, individual reporters that they trust on platforms like substack, you know, going to YouTube channels if they're not, you know, banned and Rumble, if they are, you know, I think people are beginning to seek out trust that they've lost in the normal outlets. You know, because I think COVID has, I think unmasked sort of the establishment journalism for being in many cases, just an arm of, of the managerial elite. It's a propaganda machine on so many fronts, and it's not actually providing that sort of critical inquiry and feedback that that's what we expect from reporters. And we expect from news, but there are individuals who are doing it that I think my peers learned to trust. They trust their reporting. They think they're honest. And so they're following those people wherever they go. You know, this is sort of the Joe Rogan effect in many ways. You know, why people listen to Joe Rogan because they think he's an honest broker. And so I think that trust that used to be in institutions is now actually transferring to individuals. And so that's a really interesting dynamic, I think, in the media landscape, Doug Truax: It's like, who can you trust? And I think like what you're saying, if you trust the channel, then you never know what they're going to put on there. And it is, it does go back to, they're trying to make, you know, make money through the advertising and get, just get you to stay and push and fear and come back. We'll give you some more fear and you'll, you know, you'll, you'll keep paying us, watching the advertising. And so on that, you know, you mentioned the COVID thing and, you know, we're, I feel like what's happened here just like in the last couple of days is we've kind of got to that point now. It's like, all right, let's start re-evaluating what happened over the last couple of years. And the Johns Hopkins stuff is out now. And, and, you know, I have my opinions about how things have happened, especially for the younger generation. I was surprised too, at how compliant the lot of them got right out of the gate. And so maybe we could start there with the COVID piece, which were you surprised in, in your generation, how, you know, it used to be, Hey rebellion is good, but now it's like, oh, tell us what to do and we'll go and do it. It was, I was just surprised by the whole thing. Rachel Bovard: Yeah. I was surprised as well. Although, you know, it's an interesting generational question because I'm on the elder side of the millennials, they call us the geriatric millennials and we came of age, right. With 9/11. So I was a senior in high school in 9/ 1, and that sort of shaped our generation into a very, you know, sort of patriotic country first in many ways, I wouldn't say that that has carried over to like the younger millennials or the gen Zs, but for my generation, that's how it was. And so we weren't necessarily predisposed, I think, to be like our government's definitely lying to us here, even though, you know, you had the specter of the Iraq war, which I think galvanized many of us, you know, with a public health crisis, your first instinct is to be like, well, you know, let me, let me take this seriously for a little bit, at least. But then I think it became abundantly clear, you know, for many of us anyway, like what was actually happening, which is that we completely lost our minds. That coherent risk analysis was just not possible for these people anymore. Right. But you know, on the flip side of it, I think you do see some younger people that, you know, this sort of panic porn or, or this like living in fear and inflicting that fear on others, that's been their whole lives. That explains the sort of fragility, you know, ethos that you see in a lot of universities, in many cases, the elite institutions groomed. I think that generation to be the COVID tyrants, that they are to be enforcing their feelings and their, you know, opinions informed or not on everyone else and calling it violence when people don't agree. And that is a very dangerous way to live in society, right? When you have a ruling class that has that attitude. And unfortunately, I think that's where we are and who you're even seeing oddly enough, like the old hippies join in. You've seen it from like Neil young and, you know, Howard Stern of all people, you know, they, kind of grew up to become the man and that is distressing Doug Truax: And it's that attitude about, well, the government says it, we're all going to be in this together and we're all going to do it. And if we just do the together thing, we'll all get by it. And you know, if you're not participating, you're going down then. And I just, I've been shocked about the whole thing. It's just been really, it's really been sad to watch. I, I feel like we've just had this generational piece now where, you know, if you're just going to, if you're just going to go any, anything against the orthodoxy, then you know, we're going to, we're going to beat you down. And I just, it's, it's a, it's a bad place to be. And so... Rachel Bovard: I think, because it's not even, we're going to beat you down, we're going to expel you from polite society. It's not even like weird, you know, odd. It's like, you can't live with us. It's, it's very, discriminatory Doug Truax: And you talk about how people grew up and with government and things. I, had the thought for a long time that, well, we have this cool thing called the center for disease control. It's like a whole federal agency, and they're really smart in there and they're going to figure it out. And you know, when we got into this pandemic, I'm like, well, let's, the CDC is going to come out with something. It'll be, you know, this is exactly what the data's telling us. This is what you should do. But man, it's just turned into a disaster and like thousands and thousands of people working over there, what are they doing? You know, it's like what happened in this, in this scenario? Rachel Bovard: Yeah. The, one of the most stunning revelations from the pandemic has been the incompetence of our public health infrastructure. And I think the they've leaned into that and competence, which, which I think has bred such distrust of public health officials that I think that's going to linger for at least a generation, maybe more. And I, and I have, I think somewhat dire consequences for public health in America, because they've just been so incompetent and never admitted fault or humility or, you know, anything in that situation because that's how you restore trust, right? You say, oh, we got it wrong. You know, now, you know, we don't crack down on speech. We disagree with, we try to answer it. Those kinds of things. We haven't seen any of that behavior from our institutions. And that, like I said, that's going to be one of the lingering effects of COVID is, is the distrust of those institutions. Doug Truax: Yeah. They were incompetent coming into it. And nobody really quite knew how bad that was. And then it got on full display. And then like you said, they wouldn't humble themselves at all and say, well, maybe we got this wrong. We need to go this direction. It's just the continual doubling down. And now we've got the situation with the inflation is rampant because the dumping of the money. And I mean, we just like, it's going to keep, that's another show. We'll talk about the economy and some other show, but, but Hey, I just appreciate all that you do with your you're very courageous in your writing and saying the things that need to be said and really grateful that you came on the show and I'd love to have you back sometime. Rachel Bovard: Thanks so much for having me. I'd love to come back. 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Doug talks to Nicole Solas, a mom fighting against CRT. Doug Truax: Welcome to the First Right podcast. The weekly conservative news show brought to you by Restoration PAC. I'm Doug Truax, Founder, and President of Restoration PAC. Today we are blessed to have one of the most courageous parents. We know Nicole Solas of Rhode Island. All she wanted was information about our kindergarteners curriculum. The school hit her with a $74,000 bill and the largest teachers union in America sued her but she's not backing down. She symbolizes moms and dads all over the United States who are rooting out harmful leftist ideology being fed to our kids. Well, hi, Nicole. Thanks so much for coming on today. Nicole Solas: I thanks for having me. Doug Truax: All right. So very interesting story. I know our viewers are going to want to hear more and more about this, but first, just tell our audience a little bit more about yourself and you know, what you were doing before all this happened and, and, , and what you're doing here lately. Nicole Solas: Well, I'm a stay at home mom from Rhode Island, and I asked my school if they were teaching critical race theory and gender theory. When I enrolled my daughter in kindergarten, just a stay at home, mom, I stayed home to take care of my kids. And, I've never been involved in politics before. I'm not some political operative, I'm just a mom. And when I asked my school this question, they told me that they don't call children, boys and girls. They refrain from using gender terminology in the classroom, and they embed the values of gender identity into the classroom in every grade at an age appropriate level, um, which was kind of shocking to me. And then for history lessons, they ask kindergartners what could have been done differently on the first Thanksgiving? Um, it's a ridiculous question. It's confusing - adults can't answer it. It's obviously meant to shame them for their American heritage. So when I learned this, my school then told me to submit public records requests for all of my other questions that I had about critical race theory and gender theory being taught in my school district. When I did my school district turned around, threatened to sue me in a public school committee meeting. And then after they decided not to sue me after harassing me for five hours in a school board meeting, the teacher's union, the largest teacher's union in America then did sue me for submitting these public records requests. So here I am, you know, I just wanted to know what was being taught and my public school districts attacked me and then the teacher's union attacked me and I'm here because I'm fighting back and I don't think parents should be bullied by their government or a special interest groups just because they want to know what their kids are learning in school. Doug Truax: Yeah, absolutely. It seems like a no-brainer, but here you are. And again I, as I mentioned in the intro, you're one of the most courageous parents that I've ever heard of. So kudos to you for that. It's really wonderful. So if you go back to the very beginning and you, and you think about when you did request that, did you have any, , mean, what kind of led to it? Was there any inkling that you had as far as like, okay, I've heard some rumors about what they're doing and then you, you looked online or was there anything before that moment or, or is this, you said I'm going to figure out what's going on here? Nicole Solas: Well, my first red flag was when George Floyd died, my school district sent out a message of solidarity to the community. That's what they called it. It was an email or a posting on their website where they pledged allegiance to black lives matter. They declared that the school was systemically racist, that they stood with Breonna Taylor and George Floyd that they use like very highly politicized, radical language. Like we must have radical empathy. We must take action now so that happened before I enrolled my daughter in school, she was a little too young and, it wasn't until I enrolled her that I said, I wanted to see if they followed through on all of these promises to be this politicized, radical school district and sure enough, they did. And they're attacking me for wanting to learn more about it. Doug Truax: Wow, so you stood up and so the, the side of this I'm always interested in too. So what's it been like amongst, you know, the other moms in the neighborhood and your social circle and all that stuff. What's been the reaction, especially after you've got this moment where you're like, you said, five hours in front of the school board and all that stuff, when it really gets out there, what, what's it been like? Nicole Solas: I have had an outpouring of support. I'd only lived in my town for about five years. I didn't really know anybody in town. And now I know everyone who is on my side in my town. You know, they say that when you're retaliated against for, you know, adding up to your government that, you know, you'll be, ostracized will be opposite happened for me. I have more friends and allies than I've ever had in my life. And this is just not in my town. This is across my state and across the country. So I really encourage parents to ask questions and stand up to their school boards that they think that they're indoctrinating their children with racialized propaganda, because people are going to find you and they're going to want to work with you. And just don't be scared if you're retaliated against, because that's the beginning that isn't the end. Doug Truax: That's right. It comes a little bit with the territory, but I would make a quick commentary on something you said there that, that you kinda, I'm sure it was a moment where you're like, well, I'm a little nervous about this, but I'm going to do it anyway. And so you have the courage to do it. And then on the other side of it, you find out that there's all these people that were thinking like you're thinking, and they basically are saying, well, I really appreciate you doing this. And that's been universally my experience from going from I'm an entrepreneur business world, some corporate America stuff. And then you kind of like, okay, well I feel this way. I have to say something about it makes me a little nervous to begin with, but on the other side of it, same deal. Everybody says, oh, I'm so glad you said something about that. Been driving me crazy. Somebody somebody's got to do something! Right. And so that's what they all start to call us around. So, and I've, I've heard that repeatedly from people that, you know, basically it's conservatives now, because the lefties are trying to beat us down all the time, but it's the same thing with you. You jump in and suddenly there's a lot of folks, just even in your, I'm sure in the very beginning, right around you, right. That were just like, oh, I'm glad somebody is finally saying something. Nicole Solas: Yes. Um, and you know, I was lucky because, you know, I didn't plan on getting sued. I didn't land on my school district attacking me. I was just trying to do my due diligence. So what I did and I recommend that other parents do this is I started a private Facebook group where I was posting evidence about what I was finding in my school district. And then I let people in, if I believe that they were there in good faith, you certainly don't want to let in any saboteurs who were going to try to, you know, destroy your Facebook group. But I was lucky in that I had already had a support group rallied around me before I was attacked. So when it came time to go to that, you know, show trial, school, board meeting, I already had people who, who knew what this was really about. And, that was just sheer luck that that happened. Doug Truax: Yeah, that's great. And, and you know, what it always is too. I found in, in this time we're living in is when you start to get into some transparency and you start to take some things that like, Hey, you know what, let's share this with everybody. And somebody says, whoa, don't do that. That's always problem number one. Or you know, evidence, piece number one, that there's a problem here. So let's just get this out, , more and more. And that's what this has been, right. It's just like, they didn't want anybody calling them out on what they were doing. And they just live in their little bubble of like, you know, we're going, gonna do next. We're going to do this pledge and we're gonna do this and then push this stuff at the kids. And they think they get it in their minds that, oh, everybody wants this. And everybody loves this. And no, they don't. It just takes somebody to say, let's be transparent about this. Right? Nicole Solas: Right. And you know, I, I think they knew that everybody didn't want it. And I think that that's why they are not being transparent about it when people are acting like they have something to hide, they usually do have something to hide. And the push for transparency, I think, has really highlighted that there really is something to hide if they don't want to be transparent about what our kids are learning in school. Let's remember that what our kids are learning in school, this is not CIA classified information. It shouldn't be a government secret. So there's no reason why the government should want to keep it a secret. Doug Truax: That's right. Well, we live in a highly politicized time and a lot of people in the education system, don't think it's education, it's indoctrination, and they're trying to get your kid over to where they are. And boy, we see a lot of terrible stories nowadays, and it's gotta be more and more people like you standing up against it. And so, total frivolous lawsuit, all this stuff. So what's the, what's the current state of play with the school board, elections. I mean, especially relative to, you know, all this, all these, kind of followers you have now, and supporters is there now, you know, it's like, Hey, well, here's what we gotta do. We have to find the elected officials and get the bad ones out and get the good ones in, who can then, you know, start making the changes. Top-down that need to happen inside the actual organization. Where's all that. Nicole Solas: Well, we certainly need people to run for school board. We need conservatives or just really just level-headed people to run for school board. But the key to a successful campaign is raising money. And the reason why leftists have infiltrated our local elections is because they have special interest groups like the teacher's union, giving them money for their campaigns. You need all that money to get the message out about you. And you know, what you believe in and who you are. And if all that money is being funneled to people that are supported by the teacher's union, that then sort of have these unspoken promises that they're just going to do the bidding of the teacher's union. When they get into office, then that's, that's a really, you know, big hurdle to overcome, but you can overcome it if you start campaigning now and you start planning now. So you know, we need to get over the fear of running and we need to know that our local school district is, is really where the power is at because they're holding our kids hostage and we need to take our kids back. Doug Truax: Well that's right. And then somebody steps out just like what we're talking about before has the courage to do it. And then it's you, your friends, or maybe it is you, but so are your friends or whatever else say I'm with you. And then you say, Hey, spread the word and give me some money. And you know, that, that point you brought up about the teachers' unions so we have a real problem in our country. I don't have any problem with unions in the private sector, commercial unions, you know, they have an adversarial relationship with management. They want certain things, management wants another, they have to fight it out. Maybe they get them. Maybe they don't, maybe the company goes out of business. You know, there's all these it's, the incentives are there for them to work it out, but you have government employees. And now we're talking about teacher unions, but, and that's the most pervasive side of this, but it does across, it happens universally now about around government employees, where they basically have said, well, let's just recycle some union dues that are basically taxpayer dollars, go to give them their comp. They take a portion of that. Like you just said, they elect the people. They want who to are largely Democrats, and then they just do what they want. And so now we're in a place where that beast is eating us, just like what you just said. And we have got to put a stop to that. We have got to start saying government employee unions are a really bad idea. Nicole Solas: Yes you know, the teachers union, especially that they're really just a pac. They use, dues so they can further political agendas and lobby their political agendas and then campaign for, candidates that are going to further their political agendas. Now unions, they, they have a right to bargain for fair or fair pay. You know, that's originally why unions, came to be. But now we have teachers unions that are creating curriculum for schools that is far out of the scope of what a union is meant for when it comes to public school employees. And that's something that we really have to start looking at either legally or politically by saying, we don't want teacher unions in our school. Um, in my town, it was particularly corrupt because we had a teacher union organizer on our school board. And then in other parts of Rhode Island, the teacher's union has infiltrated all parts of government they're in our municipalities. They have, teacher union organizers in the Rhode Island department of education. So it's literally like they've planted their spies in all levels of our society. And they continue to push their agenda, at all costs. Really? Doug Truax: Yeah! Yeah, that's right. But they, they didn't, they didn't think through one thing. And that is this, you start messing with the kids, you're going to have to deal with the parents and that's, what's happening now, the parents, this is the time of the parents. Right. And, you know, so be it let them suffer. They need to, because what they've been doing to the kids and now to you suing you and all this stuff, I mean, it's just crazy. It's just crazy. So back to the curriculum piece. So what's your estimation right now on how widespread this is across the country. Nicole Solas: Um, I mean, I know it's widespread. I don't know one state that, that isn't dealing with curriculum problems in their school. I'm, I'm talking to parents all over the country on social media. I've made really good friends with, with other parents that are fighting this and we're sharing our ideas on how to fight this. So, you know, this is not limited to your local school board, you don't feel alone if you think this radical school board of yours is trying to isolate you. That's just their tactic to make sure that you don't gain political power yourself to fight them. But you know, this really does all come down to the teacher's union because they're the ones that are pushing out this critical race theory curriculum. We saw all summer that first, they were saying they weren't teaching critical race theory. And then they were teaching it. They actually have black lives matter curriculum on their website. Um, they have money set aside to silence their debaters about critical race theory. So this is a full sledged political machine that is fighting little parents like me. You know, I don't have institutional power, but this teacher's union that has, you know, over $300 million. And that's just one teacher's union, the NEA, they're trying to say that just me, a mom at home is some sort of aggressor or someone who, who actually has the means to, to fight them. And you know, it's really a shame that so many people have fallen for that trick. So... Doug Truax: So that's right. How dare you, how dare you stand up to them is what this is coming down to. It's like we were in charge, get outta here. That's how, that's their approach to this? Well, on that front of far as the school board elections and stuff, I definitely keep us posted. We're pretty sizeable political organization. Now we do, you know, bigger races and states and things like that. We are, we talked around here a lot about school board, especially after Loudon County in Virginia. I mean, this is like, it's the time now where we've got to really start saying, who's, who's going to be running these school boards and we need to do what you just said to who's on there. Now have all these school board people, has anybody ever voted for a Republican ever, you know, and then, then it's like, well, what do they do for a living? And, you know, I think we just have been, you know, I know my kids are grown now, but even at the time going through, I was kind of like, well, school boards, you know, but it's a total, total different deal now. And we have, we have to be all over it. So keep us posted on that. But so the last question I had for you is, so what's your advice then now that you've gone through all of this and advice to other parents who are out there thinking, oh, I gotta, I gotta figure out what's going on. What were, what, what should they do? And, now that you've learned some lessons, how would you do it differently? That kind of thing? Nicole Solas: Well, now that we know that they don't like getting public records requests, you should definitely submit public records request. This is the, this is the only way that you're going to know what is going on in school of public records requests, is it public records law are in many states, most of them. And it's a way for you to legally compel your school, to answer your questions in Rhode Island. They have 10 days to get back to me with an estimate for information, or they can just give me the information for free if they have any integrity and professionalism, but usually they'll charge you. But this is a way that you can peek into what they're doing until we have what we really want, which is academic transparency. Academic transparency legislation is something that all parents should be pushing for. There comes a point where you have to stop fighting with your school district and you have to then go to your legislature and say, look, the public records, law doesn't work. Parents. Aren't getting their information. School is wasting money, giving us estimates that we can't afford, and we need sunshine on what's happening in school. Now this would require schools to post all of their curriculum, materials and activities online. So that way parents don't have to submit these public records requests. You can just go on the computer and see what your school is doing. I'm actually testifying in Arizona on February 1st to tell the legislators my story of what happened when I simply asked questions, then how the public records request process was a barrier to me and not a window. And I'm hoping that that will get the ball rolling in many other states to push for academic transparency. So that way parents can finally know what their kids are teaching and then make an informed decision on whether they want to enroll them in that school district or some other educational option, whether it be homeschooling charter school or private school. Doug Truax: Yeah for sure. And that transparency, you know, sunlight's the best disinfectant. You got to get it out there and see what's going on. We're doing a lot of work with the voter rolls around the country, and it's not easy, that's public information, but they don't want to give it up and they're going to charge you. But to your point, that's exactly right. They know once they get the idea that these people are never going to go away, they'll just put it up because they're not going to want to mess with it anymore, but we gotta, we gotta cross that line and it takes people like you. And we're going to this out to our audience obviously, and encourage our, our folks to go out and do exactly what you've been doing. But Hey, really great stuff. I really appreciate your courage, Nicole, and good luck out there in Arizona. And we're going to, you know, seek to have you back on and give us updates about how it's going. Okay, Nicole Solas: Great. Thank you so much. Doug Truax: All right. That's our show for today. Thank you so much for tuning in and for supporting conservative media. Don't forget by working together and staying diligent, we conservatives can bring our country back to true greatness until next week. 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Doug talks to Andrew Klavan, prolific conservative screenwriter and author Doug Truax: Welcome to the First Right podcast. A weekly conservative news show brought to you by Restoration PAC. I'm Doug Truax, founder, and president of Restoration PAC. Today is our great blessing to have one of the most talented conservatives we've ever had on the podcast, Andrew Klavan. Andrew's a prolific best-selling author of fiction and non-fiction books. He's also a screenwriter, an essayist, and a podcaster on the popular The Daily Wire platform. All right, Andrew, welcome to the show. Thanks for coming on. Andrew Klavan: That's great to be here. Thanks. DT: So I would consider you the classic high functioning human. You have to book after book it's, you've got full-time jobs, SAS, podcaster, you know what, tell us about how you, how you managed all this. Where do you find the time to do all of these things? AK: You know, when I was a kid, I was a big fan of Raymond Chandler. He had a big effect on my life and on my work. And one of the things that Raymond Chandler great, great American mystery writer, obviously, and one of the things he wrote about, he said that you should, a writers should give four hours a day when he does nothing but write. And he said, you don't have to write, but you can't do anything else. Uh, and I took that advice very seriously when I was 14 years old. And I started doing that, uh, every day, whether I was in school or not, or whatever else I was doing. Uh, and it, it actually gave me a lot of discipline. And so I maintain that throughout my entire life. I wake up very early in the morning and I don't sleep much. And, uh, and I get to work and for four hours, at least I don't do anything but write. And, uh, that has worked out very well for me. DT: Wow. Well that explains it then. But you would have to like what you just said though, you don't get a lot of sleep too, so you gotta be, you gotta be prepared for that side of it too, but that's the old, uh, the Malcolm Gladwell, right? 10,000 hours, you do four hours a day. You're going to get to 10,000 pretty quick. And so you're, you're good at what you do obviously, and that's, that's a huge contributing factor. That's amazing. That's amazing. Yeah, AK: No, it really has worked out well. DT: Yeah. Yeah, for sure. So, um, so culture, so you do a lot of commentary on the culture. It's, it's, uh, it's one of my favorite topics because I think it's the, I think it's the most important thing that's happening now and this, and this age that we're in. I think I know for, for my generation, I think we kind of took a lot of it for granted growing up, especially politically and just how things were kind of steady for decades. And now it's, it's all up in the air. And so talk, talk to you, what's your take on the culture now and, and how do you, uh, give advice to conservatives on how to, how to deal with the situation we're in and what's the best thing they can be doing at this point? AK: Well, the culture is really in a low point. And when I say that I'm talking about the arts, but also I think the general culture, which is the way we live and the things we think, and those things are related. Uh, the, the woke revolution has destroyed the movies, publishing, music. Uh, I think that right, it's very hard to find anything that's worthwhile, especially if it's made by young people. Uh, they now have staffing rules in Hollywood where you have to have 40 to 50% minorities in the room. Uh, no everybody is afraid to speak their minds to say what they really think. You know, you can just be canceled like that. And so what you're getting is this very stale, imitation culture. It's not really the arts at all. And the grand days we had for awhile, uh, the golden age of TV that we had when we have the Sopranos and the Shield and The Wire, and one great show after another, uh, those days are gone and they're not going to come back until, uh, we on the right start to contribute to the culture and start to compete. We're not going to change their minds. We're not going to change their business. We've got to start building our own businesses and compete. And the problem that conservatives have with the culture with the arts a lot of times is they don't understand the conservative art doesn't look like conservative life. I live a conservative life by my happily, married, devoted husband, devoted family guy, hard worker, as you said, all those things, but nobody wants to read about that. That's not what makes a story. A story is Macbeth. The story is murder. A story is adultery. A story is, is the things that we do that expose the human heart and those make for exciting stories. And also for, uh, stories of depth. If every story is going to be a sort of Christian candy land, uh, where everything works out well, because we have faith. And even if you die, you go straight to heaven is great. We're not going to be able to make good art. We're not going to be able to make art. That looks like life. The founders of this country, we're not watching Doris Day movies. They were reading Medea, they were reading Shakespeare. They were reading Sophocles. And that's how they had that deep, deep knowledge of the human heart that helped them to build a system in which our sins could actually work in our favor because we had all these power structures fighting with one another. So conservatives have got to loosen up. They've got to understand that the arts are not a place of certainty. They're a place of experimentation of culture criticism, uh, of all the things that the arts have always done, because if we don't contribute to the arts, and if we don't show people the reality of who people are, this continual drum beat, uh, that we can change our, our, uh, sex that we might just by thinking, uh, that we, that there is no moral order, uh, that there's no moral life, that there's no penalty for crossing the moral boundaries. All those things at the left have been selling for 50 or 60 years are going to become what people think is true and it's going to be ruinous. DT: Oh, and that's a great point. You made about this concept of, if we're going to get involved in this, there's, there's certain battles we're not going to win. Like in terms of people, we're not going to convince, you said that it's like, you have to recognize that we just have to get into it. And it's not the end. All of like one day, everybody's going to say, oh, you guys were right. And we're all going to change. You have to participate. Right. And, and, and that point that you made this a really great point about the founders recognize, obviously we live in a fallen world. And so you have to take that into account. You can, it's all going to be, you know, rainbows, butterflies all the time, no matter what you do. And so you have to be prepared for that and live in it. AK: Conservatives, know this when they're watching old stuff, because conservatives by nature, like old stuff. So if they're watching King Lear and the guy's eyes are put out on stage, they don't even blink. But if they're watching the Sopranos and they say, why all the bad language and violence well, because it's dealing with mobsters and that's the way they are. And that's going to tell us more about the human heart than a Doris Day movie. DT: You're making me feel a lot better. Yeah, absolutely. You're making, yeah. Right, right. You're making me feel a lot better about watching Breaking Bad twice, you know? Well, I'm from New Mexico. So I kinda, I relate to the whole thing too. So, so, uh, you're, you're this prolific writer, uh, lots of fiction. And non-fiction, so just talk us through in your four hours a day or more, how does that work flow? Uh, what does it look like when you're doing fiction versus nonfiction? What speak to that difference there? AK: Well, usually what I try to do is I try to do different parts of a project at a time. So if I'm writing a one thing, I might research something else because it's just too much to write through through an eight hour day. Uh, and, and, you know, I love writing fiction let last year, I guess it was because of the lockdown. All my speeches and appointments were canceled. And I actually wrote two short books, but two books nonetheless, and one was non-fiction and one was fiction and the nonfiction was just completely immersive. Uh, it was a very, very powerful, spiritual experience. It was a book about, uh, you know, reading poetry and the gospels, and that's going to come out in April, it's called The Truth and Beauty, and that's going to come out. And then the other book was just so much fun. I love writing fiction. I love telling stories. I love writing the crime novels that I write. And so there is a kind of different energy to it. Um, I have to usually do some very, very big rewrites on my non-fiction. I have a tendency to throw every idea on the table. Uh, my wife comes in, rolls her eyes and just cuts out half the book most of the time. Uh, whereas with fiction, I've gotten a little bit more expert over the years. I've done a lot of it. Uh, and I can usually get nail it pretty quickly. Uh, and, or at least know that I've gone off the rails. So it is very different. It's very different. I love them both, but it's, it's, it's slower to do nonfiction because of all the research involved DT: Well, and you got the, you got the wife factor. You gotta go that comes in and says, no, we're not. Don't do that. AK: I have the best writers wife youre supposed to have . They have to be without her, without her. I would be living in a dumpster. DT: Yeah. Maybe next podcast we'll have her on instead of you. We're good. We'll get it. We'll bring, We'll bring her in for sure. So, all right. Um, so, uh, this book, I haven't, I, I must confess I haven't read it, but it's, uh, so I'm a follower of Jesus. So you're the blessed of the most blessed of all people in my mind, a messianic Jew. So you've got this book, uh, The Great Good Thing: A secular Jew comes to Faith in Christ. So love to hear about that, how it was received, the story there. AK: Oh, it's been, it's been a wonderful, wonderful experience. It came out, I don't know, six or seven years ago, and it's still selling quite well. I'm still getting, um, a lot of people who call me and say, write me and say that it has moved them to seek for God in a new way. And I think one of the things that's so appealing to people about it is it's a 35 year journey. I was 49 when I came to Christ. And so I, I went down every possible false road. You can go down at sometime, you know, finding God made me so happy and finding Christ, made me so joyful. I sometimes turn to God kind of accusingly and said, why did you let me take so long? I know I'm a Jew, but why did I have to wander 40 years in the wilderness before you brought me into the promised land? And I think the reason that he wanted to do that, he wanted me to explore every wrong philosophy. And I think that it has been very moving to people because they see themselves. And it's so funny because I get letters all the time from people who say, you know, our lives are exactly the same, you know, I'm from Minnesota and I grew up a Presbyterian and you're from the east coast and you grew up a Jew, but our lives were exactly the same. And I think that that's the effect of, of having done so much wrong, uh, that anybody can recognize, uh, my path and their path. And, and it's been really gratifying to have that happen. DT: Yeah. That's wonderful. And that comment you made about why did it take so long that prayer? I was, I was 31 when I came to Christ and I've kind of same thing. Uh, but I also know, you know, you read how God dealt with the Jews and, you know, and Deuteronomy that, Hey, you wandered for 40 years, but you didn't, you didn't, uh, your feet, didn't swell. You, your sandals didn't wear out. You didn't go hungry. So isn't it the same kind of thing that you look back and you think God made all these mistakes, but God was still taking care of you along the way. AK: You know, one of the strangest things that happened when I finished my memoir The Great Good Thing was I looked at it and I thought, oh, like, God was so obviously they're almost present. I mean, there were tons, there were people whose names were Christian who moved in here and just all, all throughout, there was all this kind of a messaging going on. I didn't see it all until the book. And I thought like, oh, what an idiot? You know, he's, you know, he's kind of slapping me around. Well, what is that? I don't know. But it's, it's a lot more obvious in retrospect. DT: That's great. That's great. That's good to hear. Well, uh, it sounds like a great book. I'm definitely gonna take a run at it. Um, okay. So, uh, COVID and the handling of this crazy pandemic it's been, you know, you were talking a minute ago about how so much got canceled in your life last year. And, uh, you know, hopefully we're getting to a place where we're moving on, but, uh, you know, speak to your overall impressions of the pandemic. And then, uh, especially the angle of, do you think we were too compliant in general as we went through this? AK: Yes. I mean, you know, I think it took us by surprise in the sense that when it started, we didn't know anything, you know, and when you don't know anything, that's very frightening. We know there can be a terrible, a plague and people can die and especially vulnerable people can die. So at first, when they said they were talking about 15 days, uh, to make sure that the hospitals don't over get overwhelmed and that all made sense to me, I was not worried about that. Friends of mine said to me, you know, once you give the government that kind of power, then never give it back. They were right. I was wrong. We should have worried right away, the constant, constant drum beat of fear, uh, that, especially from the news media, which has just been absolutely shameful. And one of the most moments with the news media to my mind was when Trump, uh, got sick and he came out and he said, look, don't be afraid. Don't let it dominate your life. All the news people were like, that's a horrible thing to say, of course you should be afraid. Of course you should let it dominate your life. Well, no, no, this is not it. You know, like there are, you know, death is there for us all. We're all gonna die. Nobody wants to die. Nobody wants to die now, but you have to live. You have to live. I just stopped after a while I retired from the pandemic. Uh, I got my vaccine vaccines. I believe in the vaccines. I don't believe in mandates, but I do believe that the vaccines were a good thing. And then I thought I'm done. I'm just done. And in that time I saw my grandson take his first steps. I saw, uh, you know, my, I went to my son's engagement party. I saw all these things that were life to me. And to tell me I should've missed those because I might get sick is to tell me that there's nothing more to life than being alive and that's insane. And so what I'm really disappointed in two things, I'm disappointed in the number of Americans who are not just hiding behind their masks and indoors, but are insisting that everybody else hide too, insisting that somehow it's selfish to live your life. I'm really disappointed in them. And I am super disappointed. I got to tell you. I'm super disappointed in the church. And when I say that, I mean the mystical church, I'm, I'm disappointed in the churches that shut down that said the government had the right to tell them not to worship, um, disappointed, especially for Catholics, by the way, who depend on getting the body and blood of Jesus Christ from their priest. Uh, you know, they just went home. They just went home and it was as if they, they themselves did not believe in the things that they were preaching. And I was really disappointed in that. And I think that it has revealed a lot of weakness, a lot of fear, a lot of materialistic assumptions that if we die everything's over and therefore life, you know, is the only thing there is. Um, it's been, it's been, uh, a sad incident. And the one thing that has saved us in this country is federalism. Uh, the fact that Ron DeSantis can run a country, run a state, uh, with common sense while New York goes down the drain. And that is just a good, that's the experiment, the laboratory of freedom, where we can see what works and what doesn't. DT: And that's why we're not Australia. Thankfully you've watched because I mean, that's what happens. It's like a state and they got complete control. Um, I couldn't agree more too, on that comment you were making about the, about the church. And I, one of the things I talked to friends about, and also pastors, as well as letting the government encroach way too much on the church, just in general, you know, you get the, you know, everybody's afraid for their 5 0 1 C3 status. Now, uh, Christian schools, we had some of this going on right here, where we are outside of Chicago, where it's like, well, the Christian schools, they didn't, they didn't play along exactly with mask mandates and everything else. And so immediately the state is like, well, we're going to pull your accreditation and all this stuff. So we have this extreme mixing now in different ways of the church and the government. And I think it was on full display when the government says everybody, including the churches, you got to do this. And they just went along with it. It was, I agree with you. It's very disappointing. AK: It really was. And it made you feel, I mean, what we believe in is supernatural in the sense that there's nature. And then there's something above nature where the moral universe is taking place. And it was as if they just ceased to believe in that. And it ceased to see themselves as outside the world, as something, as an alternative to the world. And I think that that's the effect of power. I think that the church in this country had power for so long that they got used to it. Uh, they want to be relevant. I go by churches that have black lives matter signs and gay pride signs up there. And my feeling about that is, Hey, believe whatever you want to believe, but do not tell me that the latest political movement is what the gospels are all about. Uh, you know, just, you can believe you can have any politics you want, but do not tell me that the gospels, uh, are endorsing that political stance, because that is not offering an alternative to the world. That's becoming the world. And I fear very much that many, many, many American churches have done that. DT: Yeah. It's the becomes the crossover into that relevancy. Like what you're talking about, which is oftentimes code for a, we got to grow the church and we've got to get more money in here. And, you know, uh, I just say, you know, do what God wants you to do. He'll grow it. If, if he wants it to grow, AK: That's bingo. DT: Stick to the plan, stick to the plan. So, um, so you got your Friday podcast on Daily Wire. The Andrew Klavan show. So you, I would say you're not the garden variety conservative with talking points, you know, you've got your own style and everything. So just talk us through how you would describe your podcast and, and you know, the format and how you, how you get your enjoyment out of doing it the way you do it. AK: Yeah, no, I love doing it especially now. And now it's once a week, it's, it's been much more, uh, I think it's a really rich show. I, you know, I'm really pleased with, with what I'm doing. What I try to do is I try to take a look at the, the gray areas and the big, the big picture I I'm not into. Uh, you know, I make fun of the left all the time, and now they've gotten so crazy. They're easy to make fun of, but I'm not making fun of the people who vote for Democrats. I understand that they have their choices and they have their points of view. And it's only serves the powerful for us to hate one, another black and white men and women, gays and straight. It only serves the powerful, if we're at each other's throats and Americans are so much more tolerant and so much more open-minded than our news media, our academies and our politicians. So what I try to do is just put everything in a real life context. Uh, yeah. Uh, is there a right and wrong? Yes, but is everything black and white? Uh, are we always on the right side? Is everything we think, right? No. And do we need to be angry all the time? No, we don't. So I try to look at things. Uh, first of all, I try to point out the things are kind of hilarious. I mean, you know, the corruption is, is funny in a way, because, uh, the human, we were made to be like the angels, but we're such clowns that it's kind of like, you know, watching history is like watching a guy in a tuxedo fall into a mud bottle. It's just funny, you know? And so I try and keep that, that, uh, very much in the forefront. I always say we're laughing our way through the fall of the Republic, but I also try to remind people that it's not enough to point out that the other guy is a jerk. You have to be saying something, you have to be offering a vision of life. It doesn't have to be a plan. It doesn't have to be a bill. Doesn't have to be a law. It has to be a vision of how it, what it means to live and what it means to live in love and what it means to live in joy. Because if, if politics is going to make you angry all the time, if it's just going to make you sour, uh, if, if it's just going to turn you into a, uh, kind of Twitter raving, you know, uh, lunatic don't do it, don't do it. Do something else. Think of something else, because you should be, this is it. This is our life. You know, there's a life to come, but this is the life here. You want to be a joyful. And when I say joyful, I don't mean happy. Uh, because sometimes sad things happen. What I mean is invested in life and believing in life. Uh, and so that's, that's kind of the thing I'm trying to get across. I talk about the culture. I talk about the arts. I talk about, uh, politics too, but all of it in the context of what your life is supposed to be like, uh, so that sort of the people are just not waking up every day and thinking, you know, I know, I know, you know how conservatives talk conservatives are always saying, it's over, it's done. Forget it. We're done. We're toast. It's finished. And I'm like, yeah. You know, we've been saying that for like almost 300 years now. Maybe not, maybe not. Maybe there's another, another day. Yeah. DT: Maybe we'll be okay. That's a great point. And I think that you're just calling people back to a place where we used to get to easier. I think that this time we live in with the, with the technological boom, and I always say, we've got to put our phones down and turn the TV off, go back to church, you know, turn back to God. You'll get back to what the reality. And I think that's what you're drawing people to. It's like, Hey, you know, life is not supposed to be this rage machine that you feel all the time. It's just, it's supposed to be some good, lots of good, you know, some, some good, funny moments. And, and, and they're out there. And I, and I like what you're saying too. And, and this is something I've always said about the political side at least, is that when they crossed that Rubicon and they just get ridiculous, it's time to ridicule the policies and, you know, that's what, you're good at that. Right. And that's why like the death of comedy and all that's going on right now, I'm like, oh, no, we can't do that because we have to have this space in here where it's just so great. Once they get to this place, you don't even really have to like, make a policy argument anymore. I mean, it's good to have a good alternative policy, but you can just be like, look at this thing. Let's all ridicule it together and laugh at it together. AK: And it is, it is really funny. I mean, sometimes I, you know, I, I'm a, I'm a writer, not a performer. So sometimes even when I read my own material on the air, I crack myself up because, because there's so nuts. I mean, there's, so this stuff that they believe, the stuff they're trying to teach our kids, it's so nuts. And I think all of that stuff falls apart in the long run. You just want to fall, it to fall apart sooner rather than later. But yeah, listen, you know, the thing that, the thing about life is sometimes it is tragic sometimes it's great, but it's, it's always beautiful. And I think that you can forget that very easily when you're screaming at the guy across the aisle. DT: Yeah, that's right. Gift from God. If you're going to live the way he wants you to live, you've got to think about it the right way and live it out daily. Well, Hey, I really admire all your work and it's a lot of work. So like I said, I that's, that's, it's amazing. It's, it's really good at what you do and, and really appreciate you coming on today. We'll keep track of everything that you're doing. Look forward to the next, what was the name of the next book you've got coming out? You said AK: It's called, it's called The Truth and Beauty. It's out in April. And you can pre-order it now, which is very helpful. If you feel like it's really DT: We'll do that. We do that. We got, we got podcasts books floating around here a lot, send them out to our friends too. So. All right. Good. Well, thanks so much for coming on Andrew. Really appreciate it. AK: It's a pleasure. Thanks a lot. DT: All right. That's our show for today. Thank you so much for tuning in and for supporting conservative media. Don't ever forget that by working together and staying diligent, we conservatives can bring our country back to true greatness until next week. 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Doug talks to Tony Heller, "climate change" debunker and scientist Doug Truax: Welcome to the First Right Podcast a weekly conservative new show brought to you by Restoration PAC. I'm Doug Truax, Founder, and President of Restoration PAC. Today we are blessed to have a guest that we've wanted to talk to for some time. Tony Heller is perhaps the nation's most influential climate change to bunker. Tony is an incredibly accomplished guy who does all this without any corporate or big money support. Well, Hi Tony. Thanks so much for coming on. Tony Heller: Yeah. Hi, it's great to be here. DT: It's great to have you here. So you've got this really interesting background, a geologist electrical engineer, master debugger, originally a, climate, global warming believer until you dug into everything. So it's really helpful. Just, just give our viewers a quick summary of your background and kind of how you got to where you are today. TH: Yeah, I started out as a geologist, um, out of college. Got my degree in geology. Um, did quite a few interesting projects at Los Alamos labs on volcano research. Um, I did nuclear waste disposal, geothermal energy, quite, quite a few different things, but I realized after a few years when the price of oil crashed in the early 1980s, that geology was kind of a hopeless profession. So went off and did other things. I worked as a wilderness ranger for the forest service taught school, and public and private schools for a number of years. TH: Then I went back to college, got, studied computer science in Northern Arizona university. Then I went to Rice University, got a master's in electrical engineering. And I worked on microprocessor design for many years and then branched out into graphics, um, got into software eventually, but my passion has always been science. So on the side I was, I was always interested in global warming. I was introduced to it by my boss at Los Alamos around 1980, and I was a true believer in it. And in 2001, they were, I was living in Colorado and we were having a terrible drought and I was coaching soccer in the city of Longmont, shut down the soccer fields. So I went to a city council meeting and told them, look with this global warming thing going on. This drought's just going to get worse. So you might as well just accept the fact that the fields are going to be in bad shape from now on let the kids play, you know, kids in Brazil plan and, you know, asphalt or dirt, and they've got great players. So they listened, they believed me and they opened up several soccer fields. So we were able to have her soccer matches, um, that year.And then of course the drought ended and, and over the next few years I started realizing that the trends were not going the direction they were supposed to Colorado was getting much wetter, um, and greener and getting a lot more snow. So I started looking into it and I, and I was horrified at what I saw about how the data was being handled by government agencies like NASA and NOAA. They were, they were abusing the data very badly. So I looked into it more and more. I just came to realize quickly that the total global warming thing was a huge propaganda campaign. And I became interested. Why? So it's been my passion. I had been working most of the time since then, but, I was probably been putting in, you know, average of six to 12 hours a day on this for the past 14 years and uncovered all kinds of astounding stuff. Now I realize the things, just a giant scam. You know, the things you hear now about global warming don't have anything to do with the reality. I got to know some very famous scientists like, Dr. Bill gray at Colorado State University, who is the leading, tropical meteorologist in the world. And also the guy who invented modern hurricane forecasting. And the horror stories, He told me about how he was mistreated by Al Gore. In 1993, when Al Gore became Vice President and he invited Dr. Gray to a global warming conference in DC and Dr. Gray responded, he'd be happy to come to the conference, but he does not believe her in Gore's theories. And he got his funding cut off. He'd gotten money from NOAA every, every year, since the 1960s. And then he got his funding cut off, never got another penny out of the government, and this is how they control the academic community. Everyone in the academic community knows that if you want to get government grants, you have to go along. And tow the line in, and there's only a few people who are bold or honest enough, or brave enough and have the ability financially to do it. Unfortunately, Dr. Gray was one of those. So he wasn't in, he was an incredible influence on me right up until his death five years ago. And, um, he's sorely missed. He was, he was in a giant of a man in every way. He was originally wanted to be a baseball player for the Washington baseball team, but he suffered a knee injury in high school and then ended up having to be a meteorologist and stuff well much to our benefit and much to yours. DT: And you have, uh, you have picked up where he left off in many ways, I suppose. And I got to tell you, I just I mentioned this to you before we started, how much I love the videos and, and any time I'm with somebody and we get into this climate piece, I always begin with, "so there's this guy, Tony Heller. And he has these great charts and these great videos." And let me explain some of it to you. And so I don't, you know, I paraphrase and do my best, but here we have you. So, so having said all that, we're going to let you in eight different charts. I got some slides we'll be running through, right, right. Quick here. And, uh, we'll, we'll keep going through them. As we discuss this, we're going to have you describe in eight charts, how this whole climate change thing is a fraud. So let's begin, this first one, uh, kick us off Tony. TH: Yeah, this one's my favorite. Um, this is a graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels measured at the Mauna LOA observatory in Hawaii, which is a very good location. It's at high altitude. It's, it's in the middle of the ocean. It's far away from any cities. So it's fairly accurate record of carbon dioxide levels. It goes back to 1960 and you can see how, um, the levels have been increasing over the past 60 years. Um, and, and increasing an upwards. It's an exponential curve upwards. And I've annotated on the graph. The red, the red annotations are mine. Um, all of the different climate agreements, going back to the Rio agreement 30 years ago, it's every year governments get together and they have these big climate meetings and they may call these big promises to cut back on CO2, but they've done nothing. They've accomplished nothing. They, the atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have continued to increase at an accelerating pace. And even the lockdown last year had no impact on the growth of CO2. So all these meetings they're having and they get together and they, they talk about saving the planet. It's, it's garbage, they're not doing anything. And they're just having boondoggles and nice places. It gives them good publicity. Gives them political cover. They say, they're solving this climate crisis, but they're accomplishing absolutely nothing. DT: It goes back to what you said a little bit ago about the funding. TH:Yeah. DT: And towing the line. And you know, we, around here, we call it big green and it's a massive thing now. And you got to, if you're going to participate and get your dollars, you know, you gotta, you gotta bend the knee, you know? And so that's what some of this is too. So, all right, let's go to the next slide. TH: Yeah. This graph shows, energy the proportion of energy being used by the world by different types. And you can see that coal oil and natural gas have increased tremendously and race in years. You know, we hear all this propaganda that fossil fuels are being replaced, but the exact opposite is happening. But if you look at the very top, there's a very narrow slice for renewables, which have hardly made any progress at all in recent years, you know, maybe add from 1% up to 3%. So 97% of the world's energy supply is not coming from renewables. It's coming from other sources, yet we constantly hear. This propaganda, that renewables are going to power the world. You know, we're going to be able to power the world with wind and solar, and it's complete nonsense. It's only producing 3%. If they're successful in shutting down fossil fuels like Joe Biden says would be a huge catastrophe. Literally billions of people would be dead in a matter of a few months because we depend on other energy sources to survive. You know, and we saw that in Texas, in February, their wind turbines froze up. They hadn't maintained their fossil fuel infrastructure properly. Huge amounts of people were without, without power. They didn't have electricity. The gas lines froze up and they've been building all of these lots of all electric houses recently. And in many places they're mandating that all electric.So when the power grid goes down, people are going to freeze and the, their government policies are leading us towards disaster. And it's based on a completely false belief that, that renewables are making a lot of progress and that they can successfully power the country and power the earth. And they can't, they're not reliable, you know, when it gets really cold or when it gets really hot, renewables tend to fail right at the worst possible times and Texas proved that in a very dramatic and deadly fashion, now last February. DT: Right! TH: You need the fossil fuels for reliability. DT: Right! It's just become like a big marketing ploy, almost in the subsidies and everything, again, back to the funding and the money and all that stuff. And then all the talk about what we're going to help the world. Well, you're not going to help, you know, India and some of these other countries that were, Hey, go to solar panels. It's not going to happen. They, they gotta, they gotta develop, like we developed and we gotta be smart about it, but this is, you know, it's fantasy land to talk that way. So I totally get it. All right, let's go to the next slide then. TH: So yeah, so this is shows on the left is Arctic Sea ICE. This one, these, these maps are the national snow and ice data center in Boulder chose Arctic Sea Ice on January 4th, 1991. And the, and the one on the right shows January 4th, this year, you can see there's essentially no difference. We have the same extent of Arctic ice. We had 30 years ago. So we ever every day in the news, if you, if you do a Google search for Arctic ice melt and you see the Arctic ice has disappeared, the polar bears are drowning, but it's not true. DT: Right! TH: There's, there's been no trend in Arctic sea ice over the last 15 years there wasn't there wasn't, there was a downward trend for awhile, but right now today, Arctic sea ice extent is the highest it's been for 18 years for this state. DT: Right. Again, the mass marketing and people just believing it. Uh, and, uh, here's the truth. Okay. So this is great. Next slide. TH: Okay. Yeah. So this is CO2 emissions, relative the relative change in CO2 emissions by China and the United States. And you can see the United States has been flat. It's actually down. It's been going down for the last 20 years, but China's emissions are skyrocketing. So we always hear, you know, we hear these claims from Democrats that we can control the climate. You know, if we cut back our CO2 emissions, um, you know, we can save the us has nothing to do with it. We're we're we only produce about 15% of CO2 emissions. China has got is their usages. Their production is greatly increasing. They're massively increasing their, their usage of coal. They're building hundreds of new coal-fired power plants. So the United States could disappear off the face of the earth, and it would have no impact on either CO2 emissions, indefinitely, no impact on climate. And John Kerry admitted this. He said that the U.S. doesn't control it. And without having China and Asia on board, the United States can't accomplish anything. DT: So once again, it's just a scam and we see so many of these leftists, they know this is true, but they're so afraid of the Chinese. And then they won't even admit that we're doing a great job of it. Uh, it's just, yeah, it's so frustrating to watch this happen. And, uh, you know, we're living through it right now with COVID don't wanna upset the Chinese. So, you know, it's like, okay, that's crazy. All right. Uh, moving on here to the next. Now we're going to really start getting into how this is kind of how the, the mechanics of this, how they're perpetuating this fraud. TH: Yeah. So there's, this graph shows United after this graph shows daily and average daily maximum temperatures for the United States going back a hundred years. And you can see there's been a downwards trend. The hottest years in the United States were during the 1930s, by far during the dust bowl, it was so hot and dry in the Great Plains and millions of people fled the great Plains and moved to California, which John Steinbeck wrote about in the Grapes of wrath. Unfortunately, high school kids don't read that anymore. So they don't know that part of history, the United States was much hotter 90 years ago. And temperatures have been trending downwards as a chosen the graph since then. DT: Yeah, absolutely. That's the reality of it right there. And then we're going to get into, so this is also the, um, that was the day to day data, which is the most accurate that you've said before. It's like, you have to look at what happens on a day-to-day basis as opposed to this, you know, when they start extrapolating into the months and the years and things like that. TH: Right. Well, yeah. Could you go back to the other graph for, for just, okay, so this is the actual measure, temperature data, right? This is all, this is all from NOAA. This is publicly available data, and it's, they've got about a little more, almost 1300 stations, um, in the United States. And this is their actual measure data, but the next slide is the data they relate to the public. What they do is they alter it before they release it to the public. So what they do is they tamper with the data and they turn that cooling trend into a longterm warming trend and it's fake. So this is what the public sees. They see this, oh, wow, we're heating up really fast in this hockey stick. But the data is fake. The actual data shows that we're cooling and they don't tell people about it. They don't tell people they're manipulating it. So people look at their graphs and they say, wow, this is the government. This is what the thermometer show, but it's not what the thermometers show. The thermometer show that the United States has been cooling in the United. And the reason the United States data is extremely important because we have, by far the best long-term temperature data in the world, um, we've had a very stable society, at least until recently, for, for the know, for the past 125 years, there weren't any wars fought in the United States. So there was great disruptions in other countries due to wars, but the United States, we got this wonderful day-to-day temperature record, which just doesn't exist in very many other places. You know, there's a few other countries that have very good records like Germany, Japan, and parts of Australia. But for the most part, there's a huge void over most of the planet. So the United States temperature record is critical. It shows cooling and they manipulate it to show warming, which is the story which the government agencies want to present. DT: Yeah. And I think that's the really interesting point that you made is that, that daily graph that's NOAA, that's that, you know, it's not you making this up. This is from the government readings of the stations. And I remember watching a video of yours too, where you kind of got into this, you know, the manipulation relative to, there's been a decrease in stations. And so they take what would have been as a station previously. It's not there anymore, but they insert their modeling onto that one that doesn't exist. And that's how they're starting to get it to go up. TH: Right. DT: Am I remembering that correctly? TH: Yeah, that's correct. So what they, they've lost about one third of their data since the late 1980s. I don't understand why, but stations are disappearing and some slight of stations don't report every month. And so what I've seen is that the, all of the warming they're creating in the over the last 40 years has been de to just making up fake data for those missing stations. They report data for every months wehether for all 1,281 stations, whether there was any actual data or not. And this data is, and for the stations that didn't report it's fake. And actually in recent years, it's almost half of the data is fake at this point. Yeah. DT: Yeah. That's right. So they're taking data that doesn't exist because they're not getting it in from certain stations and there, and being like, well, you know what, if we did get it in based on what we believe, this is what we think the temperature would be. And then there you go. And then they show that graph to everybody. So it's like, they're building the lie into the data. That's, they're extrapolating their lie into the larger data set. When the, when the smallest one, the most accurate one is relatively flat. TH: Yeah. Well, it's downwards actually right down with the idea of the actual data's down. Whereas, but they, they make, they, they assume that everything's warming half of the data is fake. So they just create this fake warming trend, which does not exist the whole thing's a total fraud. DT: Yeah. Well, again, thank you for doing this. So, I'm really, I was really, I knew this was a fraud and then I came across your stuff and I'm like, Hey, there it is good. So, all right, next slide. All right. Uh, so this is, uh, well, you can get into this. This is, this is the stations as well. Yeah. TH: So this, this graph shows the difference between the actual measured data between the raw data they report and the actual measured data. So you can see the temperatures in the past, like going back to 1920, they've called them about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit. And last year they warmed at about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit. So they've created three degrees of warming by tampering with the data. This is the data tampering you're seeing right here. So there's a completely fake three degree warming trend they've made over the past century, which doesn't exist. DT: Yeah. And you've even got some and even got some Republican and conservative say, well, you know, I think there's some, there's some warming going on. I don't, you know, is it, is it us or is it, is it just the globe or whatever, but even that you have to take a step back and be like, no, what is the real data say? And like what you just said a minute ago, it's going down reality. Yeah. TH: Yeah. It's the situation is atrocious and they can get away with it because they've got complete control over the press. DT: Right. TH: Um, you know, everyone in the press knows about me. The New York Times knows about me. They've written hit pieces about me. I testified at the, testified at the Washington State Senate. Um, in 2007 for 45 minutes, gave a very detailed testimony. All of the Seattle press was there. They didn't report on a single thing. They said all that they reported after that was climate denier speaks for 45 minutes in Olympia. I talked to a number of the reporters that I explained everything that was going on and they refused to publish anything. I said, and after that, the New York Times said he did a hit piece on me. And I kept trying to contact them that to correct all the things that they'd said wrong. And they were, they didn't, they won't talk to me again, hit pieces, you know, written on me all the time from CNN, lean a lot, lots of lies, all kinds of other things. They never talked to me. They want to talk to me because they know that I'll destroy their story. So they, they just it's. And, but the fact that they have complete control over the press means they know they can get away with anything they want and they just, and the climate stories are getting more and more ridiculous every single day. DT: Right. Right. So I just can't believe this Tony, they would come in with a preconceived notion. And if you don't fall in line with it, you're a denier. So that's, that's the way this works now. And I know it's a terrible time and we have a lot of guests on and talk about the state of the media and what the heck is going on here. And it's still just the lack of truth. And, uh, you know, we just got to keep hanging in there and, the truth prevails. And somewhere in there, people go, wait a minute, what's going on? And it's like, what you just said, they have to go further and further and get more ridiculous to propagate the lie. And so we've just got to keep working on the truth. So yeah, it's it's yeah. TH: And it's also social media, right. Um, Twitter know I was on Twitter for 12 years. They have been trying to get rid of me for years. They finally banned me about a month ago, without an, you know, they didn't provide any explanation. They didn't tell me what it was, but I know they've been trying to get rid of me for years, YouTube, regularly, censors my staff and locks me out for a week. Um, so, you know, they're just pushing people up other platforms which do support free speech. They're, you know, they're, they're destroying their own business by doing this. And it's an insane suicidal business model they're engaged in. DT: Yeah, absolutely. Well, this is really great. I appreciate you doing all this. Is there anything else we didn't go over that you, that you want to coat? Wait, we got one more slide. I thought we were done. So let's uh, let's just, yeah. Okay. So this goes, okay, we'll go ahead. And this is the, uh, the downward trend here. TH: So yeah, so there's been all these news reports recently that, that, um, last year was the fifth hottest year on record in the United States. And it's complete nonsense. Uh, th this graph shows the percent of stations in, from NOAA in the United States, which reach 95 degrees Fahrenheit sometime during the year. And they peaked in 1931. And last year was actually among the lowest on record. So less and less of the United States has been getting very hot every summer. Um, and last year was among the lowest on record, but at the same time, the process claiming that last year we had record heat waves in the United States. And I made a video last night showing out totally fraudulent, that all thing was and went over in great detail about how much hotter the United States was in the past. DT: Yeah. And it's just, uh, the overall perspective on the whole thing is just lost. And I think that this goes to this idea now, especially, you know, you brought it up with the education with the younger generation. Sometimes it's difficult. It's like, no, nothing's more important than right now. Everything that's happening bad is to solve right now. It's like, no, no, no. Let's look at the history of things. Things go up and down and, you know, there's this other thing called weather that changes. And I'm always saying, you know, our weather person here in Chicago, they do their best, but often they're wrong about like tomorrow. So it's like, okay, we're going to predict that a hundred years. Exactly. What's going to happen. No, you're not. So, uh, I just, I just love what you do with the charts and the graphs. So, so that was our last slide that we have here. But anything else that you wanted to cover that we didn't, we didn't hit as part of the charts. TH: Yeah. I just wanted to throw in. So there's this problem, this belief that we're suffering the worst, most extreme weather is something which has plagued humanity for as long as there's people have been communicating. Um, I posted an article from 1947, yesterday about this belief that the world was warming up and it was from the U S whether we were explaining that it wasn't true. It just based on people's faulty memories, I've got another similar article from 1939. My favorite favorite ones from 1871 from the British press was imaginary changes of climate. And it goes into how every, according to people keeping records every month is the hottest driest, windiest, wetest worst ever known. And, and it's just based on miss people, exaggerate things. And if you go back to like the Salem Witch trials were probably largely based on the fact that there was a lot of bad while there during the little ice age. And it was blamed on witches was in, in Europe, they burned tens of thousands of witches at the stake in the 16th century for cooking the weather.The belief was that the bad weather of the little ice age was due to Pete, that climate change that was being caused by humans, which is exactly the same story we have. Now, it's the superstition that humans are causing climate change. DT: Yeah, that's right. And I just, uh, I covered this, uh, I think I had Eric Metaxas sign talking about his atheism dad, his new book, and it's a little bit of this, you know, the climate worship and mother nature and worship the earth and everything so well, you know, God made everything and he's in control. So we'll just have to see what happens. And we don't know exactly. And this is, it's great that you bring that up. I mean, that's what we all got to start saying more and more as, Hey, this has happened previously and we don't want to be associated with, you know, the same kinds of people that were, you know, Salem witch trials, right. And this is the same thing, you know, you're talking about, you know, what's going on with you and, and online and getting banned and stuff. And so, you know, it's not as bad, but the trend is not great with these people just pushing this lie over and over. So I appreciate your courage and, well, I appreciate you standing up and I'm just going to, we're going to do our best around here, Tony, to make sure all our viewers understand, you know, your deal and what you're about and make sure you get the stuff out. Cause the work you do is fantastic. And like I said, you know, you're not getting any corporate money for this or anything. You're just doing the, doing the right thing. So I really, really appreciate it. Great. Well, thank you. Well, I'd love to have you back on and uh, we'll keep everybody, we push out your stuff all the time and we'll, we'll direct everybody to your, to your website and all the great work you do. And, and just appreciate you coming on day. Have a good one. TH: Okay, fantastic. Thank you. DT: All right. That's our show for today. Thank you so much for tuning in and for supporting conservative media. 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