Podcast
Dad Saves America
Proud papa, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and arm-chair philosopher John Papola explores the biggest issues facing our country through the lens of fatherhood, releasing exclusive interviews and deep dives every week. We need to make sure the next generation of Americans is raised to thrive in a free society and be champions of civilization. Dad Saves America has hosted all sorts of experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew, Michael Shellenberger, Bret Weinstein, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Adam Carolla.
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- #160
- Episodes
- 248
- Releases
- Daily
- Typical length
- 1 hr 38 min
- On air since
- 2022
- Latest episode
- 4 days ago
Episodes
248 episodes, newest first
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1 hr 3 min
Zombie Politicians, Boomer Vampires, and the AI Skeleton Key
Show notes
From mailers pushing trans kids to leave their families to an AI discovery that could break the internet, this Halloween is shaping up to be a scary one. And that’s before I start thinking about the midterms on Tuesday.
Who's steering us through the chaos? A geriatric political class that can barely follow any of it, and a retiree generation that, per a new Cato poll, overwhelmingly backs higher taxes on young workers to protect its own Social Security checks. Meanwhile, the young left's preferred model is France, which is on fire.
Caught between zombies, vampires, and Jacobins, which scares you most?
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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/zombie-politicians-boomer-vampires?r=24ayxm&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FDrjzyDokWI
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1 hr 50 min
Ryan Long on Why AI Isn’t Funny, the Manosphere Is Over, and Rap Is Dead
Show notes
I sat down with comedian Ryan Long, who is featured in our new comedy pilot, “The Experts,” to talk about how media and culture are changing in 2026.
Watch “The Experts” pilot episode: https://youtu.be/dc1B5aKNmKw
We get into:
* Moving from Toronto to NYC right before COVID
* The personality differences between Americans and Canadians
* Why culture is more interesting than politics
* How wokeness ended up making comedy better
* Why male-female dynamics matters more than anything else
* How to make the most of creativity
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Ryan Long at the Bitcoin Conference: https://youtu.be/9Na1wYcED8U?is=TWYLRyQpJjtZBYje
Watch “The Boyscast” on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/theboyscast
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Outline:
[0:00] The absurdity of marketing
[3:14] Cultural satire, economics, Bitcoin
[12:44] Why are so many great comedians Canadian?
[25:12] How to navigate the culture war
[29:23] Creativity is a balance of work and play
[35:41] Making “The Experts” with Kurt Metzger
[39:27] The philosophy of video editing
[43:51] Stand-up warps your personality
[47:41] Why AI can’t write comedy
[58:15] Is the manosphere over?
[1:06:02] Pop culture has decentralized
[1:10:04] The dating market is out of wack
[1:13:08] Can a libertarian society preserve social norms?
[1:20:25] Wokeness didn’t ruin comedy
[1:28:52] Can you stay friends across politics?
[1:39:34] New York is hard unless you’re young or rich
[1:46:25] America keeps expanding what’s possible
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Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store: https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cmZnrf74b-E
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1 hr 14 min
French Riots and Campus Degeneracy: Is the West Too Far Gone?
Show notes
France is still on fire. A town hall nearly 200 years old has burned to the ground, and police are now drawing the line at the Louvre. Back home, the Cornell 7 case has become a Rorschach test for what’s left of feminism. This week, I’m responding to your comments on both.
From Paris to Cornell, the West has the same disease: a culture too permissive to judge anything, institutions no one can trust, and a generation raised without shame.
Does the West still have the backbone to say “No” to our spiritual decline?
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Protect your privacy on the network level with Cape at https://cape.co/dadsavesamerica. Use code DADSAVESAMERICA33 at checkout for 33% off your first 6 months.
For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership
*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact http://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store: https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yUybK9_qACQ
Make a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?
Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/
Get full access to Dad Saves America at https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/subscribe
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1 hr 51 min
Bryan Callen: "The Experts" Are Paid to Manufacture Truth
Show notes
I sat down with comedian Bryan Callen, who directed and stars in our new comedy pilot, “The Experts,” to discuss why outrage pays better than nuance, how he found his way to God, and why boys need resistance to grow into men.
Watch “The Experts” pilot episode: https://youtu.be/dc1B5aKNmKw
We get into:
* What it was like directing for the first time
* The ruthless capitalism of Hollywood
* What happens to masculinity when drones replace warriors
* Why having all the facts on our phones doesn’t help us find the truth
* The criticism of Joe Rogan over the 2024 election
* Making sense of the world in 2026
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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership
Take control of your water quality today. Head to https://covepure.com/DAD and you’ll get $250 off your CovePure water filtration system for a limited time.
*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact http://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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Follow Bryan Callen on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/bryancallen
Watch Bryan on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BryanCallenComedy
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Outline:
[0:00] “The Experts” pilot
[2:03] Religion should mean sacrifice
[5:59] Why do some societies work and others don’t?
[11:20] Why every conspiracy theory blames the Jews
[16:30] Why is a generation going all in on communism?
[23:44] Hollywood is as capitalist as it gets
[28:37] The world went crazy
[31:57] Masculinity became a liability
[39:51] Facts are not the same thing as truth
[47:21] What losing everything taught him about faith
[58:26] Human beings need resistance
[1:09:27] Can AI write comedy?
[1:12:17] The creative valley of darkness
[1:16:48] Does suffering have meaning?
[1:20:46] You can’t outrun aging
[1:24:53] Joe Rogan’s role in Trump’s reelection
[1:32:32] Will the world ever “go back to normal’?
[1:41:20] Directing a TV show for the first time
[1:44:47] How to educate yourself outside of school
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Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store: https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/V5QOzLVqkXQ
Make a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?
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1 hr 13 min
The Cornell 7 Scandal Exposed the Biggest Lie of Feminism
Show notes
The Cornell 7 case has reignited the campus sexual assault panic of the mid-2010s. Jane Doe's own written statements described the events as consensual, but her story later transformed into a serious criminal allegation.
Unlike the Duke lacrosse hoax, which turned out to be an outright fabrication, this case is more ambiguous in both the accusations made and the culture they emerged from. Even so, the public outcry pulls on the same debunked statistics about campus sexual assault that turned colleges into Title IX kangaroo courts in the first place.
Rather than a salacious true crime saga, the real story here is what the sexual revolution has done to our kids. The pill made sex cheap, hookup culture replaced courtship, and birthrates collapsed. Who's going to teach our kids a better way if we don't?
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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership
*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact http://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/the-cornell-7-scandal-exposed-the?r=24ayxm&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store: https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UNy_M7dYXEw
Make a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?
Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/
Get full access to Dad Saves America at https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/subscribe
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1 hr 51 min
Victor Davis Hanson: The Left REALLY Hates the Middle Class
Show notes
I sat down with Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of the “The Counterrevolution”. Victor is a Stanford PhD who still lives on his family’s Central Valley farm that five generations of Hansons have called home, giving him a rare view of both the academic elite and the working Americans they look down on.
We get into:
* Trump’s counterrevolution against 50 years of progressive rule
* Why America still dominates the world economy
* The 2016 dinner where Peter Thiel predicted Trump’s win
* Why the fall of Iran’s regime could be another Berlin Wall moment
* How the DSA took over the Democratic Party
* The battle between the credentialed class and middle America
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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership
*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact http://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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Follow Victor Davis Hanson on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/VDHanson?s=20
Watch Victor’s show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273
Purchase a copy of “The Counterrevolution”: https://a.co/d/0aP3kpUP
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Outline:
[0:00] What is Trump’s counterrevolution?
[9:18] Obama created a new Marxist racial binary
[15:44] Trump is a nationalist, not an ideologue
[24:12] The tragedy of Canada
[30:04] Mexican-Americans pay the price for illegal immigration
[36:51] Is AI the new Manhattan Project?
[43:07] Silicon Valley thought we were all yokels
[52:12] Middle class solidarity vs racial politics
[55:57] Why did Trump go to war with Iran?
[1:05:15] The Middle East is being remade
[1:12:15] Mossadegh, the Shah, and the Iranian Revolution
[1:20:08] The Democratic Party’s Jacobin takeover
[1:32:08] Has college failed the rising generation?
[1:43:32] Never be intimidated by credentials
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Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store: https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/p-DKvccyAEw
Make a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?
Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/
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1 hr 19 min
France’s "Mostly Peaceful Jihad” Threatens the Whole Christian West
Show notes
For the past three weeks, riots have spread across France. The corporate press is calling them mostly peaceful protests over school funding. Meanwhile, student rioters are singing jihadi rap.
Second and third generation Muslim immigrants are radicalizing against the very country that raised them. At the same time, 800,000 French Catholics gathered in Paris for Pope Leo’s recent visit. Two Frances are fighting over the same country.
A West that has forgotten its Christian roots no longer knows how to love its neighbor without surrendering to him. If Christians won't defend the civilization their faith built, who will?
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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444. to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership
*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact http://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/frances-mostly-peaceful-jihad-threatens?r=24ayxm&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store: https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dqHEOR6MnJ8
Make a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?
Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/
Get full access to Dad Saves America at https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/subscribe
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2 hr 4 min
How White Guilt Became the Most Powerful Weapon in Politics - Eli & Shelby Steele
Show notes
I sat down with Shelby Steele, an author and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and his son Eli Steele, the filmmaker behind “What Killed Michael Brown?” Together, they’ve produced a new documentary, “White Guilt,” that brings Shelby’s 2006 book into the present political climate. Shelby has lived the whole story, from segregation to Black Power militancy to now decades as a fearless dissenter on race.
We get into:
* What white guilt really is, and why it became a source of black power
* How the left used collective guilt to claim moral innocence
* Shelby’s journey from black radicalism to conservatism
* How American racial politics were grafted onto the Israel-Palestine conflict
* Eldridge Cleaver’s transformation from Black Panther to Reagan voter
* Why BLM denies the racial progress of the past 60 years
* Why courage is the only way past racial identity politics
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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership
Take control of your water quality today. Head to https://covepure.com/DAD and you’ll get $250 off your CovePure water filtration system for a limited time.
*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact http://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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Follow Eli Steele on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/Hebro_Steele?s=20
Watch the trailer for “White Guilt”: https://youtu.be/5Pg_bJJMsAU?si=IEGFrMQgE-eZsKPv
Check out Shelby Steele’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B000APMQK2?ingress=0&visitId=79e14454-f6e3-4082-8099-6ced90b8df71&ref_=aufs_ap_ahdr_dsk_ab&ccs_id=6508d6f9-e2e2-438f-a4d0-2a7a00b62cde
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Outline:
[0:00] What is white guilt?
[12:59] The symbiosis of black power and white guilt
[16:53] How the third world coopted black activism
[25:59] Race isn’t a black-and-white issue
[33:25] Black radicalism and the breakdown of the family
[48:30] Western man vs anti-Western man
[55:26] Why are black Americans so politically unified?
[1:03:46] BLM pretends there’s been no progress since 1965
[1:11:04] Eldridge Cleaver’s path from Black Panther to conservative
[1;27:13] How YouTube is spreading black conservatism
[1:33:58] Black America vs African perspectives on race
[1:40:06] How do we move past white guilt?
[1:49:18] We need to learn to laugh things off
[1:55:38] Children need a father to wrestle with
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Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store:
https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8rGYha-Dce4
Make a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?
Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/
Get full access to Dad Saves America at https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/subscribe
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1 hr 21 min
Trump's Going All-In on AI. Will His Midterm Gamble Pay Off?
Show notes
On Tuesday, the CEOs of Nvidia, Google, Meta, xAI, Anthropic, and more joined President Trump to discuss the development of AI, or, as the President has rebranded it, Super Intelligence. While they’ve signed a voluntary pledge to police AI safety, Democrats want Washington to step in instead, as if government standards do anything other than destroy innovation.
Americans invented this technology, but we're among the most pessimistic people on Earth about it. Only 36% of Americans expect AI to mostly help the country, compared to 93% in China. Trump is backing data centers anyway, just weeks before the midterms.
The same day, the administration launched http://America.gov, an AI-powered front page for federal government services. Big government gave us the http://HealthCare.gov disaster. AI might finally give us a government that works, and a bureaucracy whose days are numbered.
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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444. to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership
*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact http://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/trumps-going-all-in-on-ai-will-his?r=24ayxm&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store: https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z2lLnxLPdDI
Make a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?
Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/
Get full access to Dad Saves America at https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/subscribe
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2 hr 50 min
Bad Therapy, Gender, and Lindsay Clancy Psychosis - Andrew Hartz, Ph.D.
Show notes
I sat down with Andrew Hartz, a practicing clinical psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute. His organization is working to filter out the political bias that has become endemic in mental health care and connect patients with therapists they can trust.
We get into:
* The woke insanity inside the American Psychological Association
* How to find a therapist who will actually help you
* Why disability benefits prove the role of agency in mental health
* What the Lindsay Clancy case revealed about the legal system
* Mass formation psychosis and social media addiction
* Why our culture overlooks male strengths, and what that’s doing to boys
* The rush to affirm gender dysphoria without evidence
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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership
*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact http://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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Follow Andrew Hartz on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/Hartz_PhD?s=20
Learn more about the Open Therapy Institute:
https://www.opentherapyinstitute.org/
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Outline:
[0:00] Therapy went insanely woke
[14:14] Psychology vs psychiatry vs therapy
[15:48] How to get the most out of therapy
[25:45] Can we trust the data behind therapy?
[34:14] What does trauma really mean?
[40:31] Mortality and existential anxiety
[45:24] Agency is central to mental health
[57:56] We’re accommodating bad behavior
[59:44] Unconscious bias and microaggressions
[1:03:06] Did women ruin psychology?
[1:08:58] Lindsay Clancy’s insanity defense
[1:19:32] Has psychosis become a legal loophole?
[1:31:38] Is neuroscience useful for psychology?
[1:33:12] Mass formation psychosis and social media
[1:44:15] Should women worry about postpartum psychosis?
[1:46:03] We’ve lost the ability to talk about men positively
[1:58:23] Why young men turn to Andrew Tate
[2:08:53] The rise in narcissism throughout our culture
[2:11:43] What does it mean to be “mentally healthy”?
[2:15:29] The psychology of homosexuality and gender dysphoria
[2:33:17] Conservatives can’t give up on institutions
[2:47:04] America needs the best of psychology right now
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Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store:
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Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TEphiy46LSM
Make a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?
Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/
Get full access to Dad Saves America at https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/subscribe
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1 hr 38 min
Big-Government Progressivism Is a Su*cide Pact
Show notes
1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a dysfunctional public school as a political statement, and is now paying the price. For years, socialists like Hasan Piker have flirted with banning private schools altogether under the theory that enrolling rich kids in failing schools can magically fix them. Universal public schooling, once a safety net for those who couldn’t afford a private school, has transformed into educational prison.
None of this is unique to education. In Canada, “universal” healthcare has become a death-panel hellscape, with sick patients being offered assisted suicide as if it were a legitimate medical treatment. The same people who want to control what your child is taught in school want to decide when you’re “too sick” to deserve care.
While disturbing, none of this should come as a surprise. In a free market, competition expands supply and brings costs down. In a government monopoly, competition is outlawed. Once they lock in their monopoly, you have no other choice.
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2 hr 30 min
Ben Slivka Predicted the Internet Era. He Doesn't Buy the Hype About AI.
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I sat down with Ben Slivka, an early Microsoft executive who led the team that built Internet Explorer, served 20 years on Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees, and has spent decades since as an angel investor across biotech, space, and software startups.
We get into:
* How cowardice became the norm in university leadership
* Why the public school model fails so many students
* His 1995 Microsoft memo that correctly predicted the internet revolution
* The truth about the Microsoft antitrust case and why “monopoly” is a misleading term
* Why he believes that we’re in a massive AI bubble
* His investment in Stoke Space, SpaceX’s real competitor for reusable rockets
* What he calls the “four horsemen of the woke apocalypse”
* America’s historically unprecedented capacity for innovation
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Outline:
[0:00] What’s going on with universities?
[15:40] Cowards are running the show
[29:27] Flexible vs. rigid approaches to schooling
[39:15] Teachers’ unions want to destroy good schools
[42:52] The “expert class” is anti-human and anti-reality
[58:05] Building Internet Explorer
[1:06:49] The reality of anti-trust law and “monopolies”
[1:13:21] Is AI a miracle, a bubble, or a real threat?
[1:31:18] Space travel is about to get a lot cheaper
[1:39:42] We’ve lost historical perspective in our lives
[1:55:30] Can we afford to have sympathy for the other side?
[2:04:49] Universities have abandoned their purpose
[2:11:47] We know less about biology than we think
[2:14:03] Can Western civilization work without religion?
[2:20:45] Expose your kids to the real world
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1 hr 28 min
The Anthropic Whistleblower Is Not Who You Think He Is
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AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic last week and became a whistleblower, warning that the race toward superintelligent AI is "gambling with our lives." Another Anthropic employee, Evan Hubinger, backed him up, putting the odds of AI apocalypse within a decade at over 10%. Then, Anthropic published a 154-page AI safety report on all sorts of alarming ways the technology is evolving.
Anthropic was founded as an AI-safety-conscious competitor to OpenAI. It’s company culture is heavily influenced by effective altruism, a utilitarian philosophy that attempts to optimize the wellbeing of the entire planet and every future person yet to be born.
So, should these dark predictions be taken seriously, or are they the ravings of paranoid ideologues? And our the panicked response, will we end up running head-first into a government regulation disaster?
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*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact http://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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3 hr 16 min
Catholic Historian: Here’s Why We Know That the Bible Is True
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I sat down with historian of early Christianity Matthew Larsen, Ph.D., fresh off his shoot in the Middle East tracing the life of Paul the Apostle, to dig into the evidence for Jesus, the biblical canon, and the Catholic Church.
We get into:
* How historians actually know what’s true about the ancient past
* Why the “Jesus never existed” theory keeps resurfacing online
* Where Wes Huff’s viral apologetics differ from real historical scholarship
* Why the idea that “Paul invented Christianity” is a 19th century German myth
* How the Apostolic Fathers reveal a strikingly Catholic early church
* What actually happened at the Council of Nicaea
* Matt’s personal journey from evangelicalism to the Catholic Church
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*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact http://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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Outline:
[0:00] How do historians know what’s real?
[12:40] Debunking the “Jesus myth” argument
[20:45] Wes Huff is an apologist, not a historian
[26:50] Who wrote the Gospels?
[32:52] The strongest argument against Christianity
[36:22] Who was the Apostle Paul?
[54:35] What we know about early Christian martyrs
[1:00:27] Scripture and tradition in the early church
[1:08:20] Going from evangelical to Catholic
[1:20:41] Where did Catholic church structure come from?
[1:30:20] Calvinist predestination doesn’t make sense
[1:32:29] Who were the Apostolic Fathers?
[1:38:12] Sacraments and the Jewish Temple system
[1:50:10] The power of physical rituals
[1:53:51] Roman persecution of Christians
[2:03:03] Why did God send Jesus at that moment?
[2:06:52] Modern comfort is a trap
[2:13:35] The Council of Nicaea
[2:30:55] Grappling with Mary and the Book of Revelation
[2:46:15] The development of Catholic doctrine over time
[2:54:14] The history of Marian apparitions
[3:01:04] Why should you consider Catholicism?
[3:09:43] American ideals are worth fighting for
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1 hr 35 min
25 Years After 9/11: How “Never Forget” Became “We Deserved It”
Show notes
Zohran Mamdani just appointed Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who once represented an Al Qaeda member, as New York City's chief legal counsel. This sparked outrage from 9/11 families and a petition demanding that he not attend this year’s 9/11 memorial collected more than 100,000 signatures.
A hundred million Americans have been born since 9/11, and campus interviews reveal that many were never taught who attacked us or why. Osama Bin Laden's “Letter to America” went viral on TikTok a couple years ago as if it were a revelation rather than propaganda.
Twenty five years after 9/11, some have forgotten the first major crisis of the century, and others have rewritten the story.
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*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact http://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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3 hr 17 min
I Interviewed the 9/11 Mastermind’s Family. Here’s What I Discovered. - Richard Miniter
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I sat down with investigative journalist and author Richard Miniter to reflect on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Richard has spent decades reporting national security and foreign policy issues and has interviewed Islamist radicals, intelligence officials, and others across the globe.
We get into:
* Why political radicalism and terrorism attract elites
* How Western life radicalized Mohamed Atta and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
* Osama Bin Laden’s trajectory from construction tycoon heir to jihadist
* How terror cells use hazing intermarriage to lock in commitment
* The problem with Ron Paul’s “blowback” theory of Islamic terrorism
* How bureaucratic turf wars left America vulnerable on 9/11
* The PATRIOT Act and the limits of 4th Amendment rights
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Outline:
[0:00] Why do people become terrorists?
[7:56] Who was Mohamed Atta?
[17:48] Who was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
[26:58] Ramzi Yousef and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
[32:27] 9/11 wasn’t as ideological as we think
[36:00] Who was Osama Bin Laden?
[42:53] Work, terrorism, and a sense of purpose
[47:44] What really motivated Bin Laden?
[49:43] The psychology of terrorism
[1:03:29] The rise of the Red-Green Alliance
[1:11:47] Theology is the center of every civilization
[1:22:14] Terrorism is a political technology
[1:25:40] Living through 9/11 and turning to Ron Paul
[1:34:32] Did our government allow 9/11 to happen?
[1:48:29] The American and Soviet fight over Afghanistan
[1:52:33] America’s longterm conflict with Iran
[2:02:13] Bureaucratic tenure makes bad policy
[2:07:56] Is the PATRIOT Act unconstitutional?
[2:22:01] COVID permanently changed our society
[2:26:52] What did 9/11 mean for American society?
[2:33:03] Do young people really hate the country?
[2:39:39] Pragmatism, ideology, and incentives
[2:46:19] Can we avoid religious war?
[2:50:30] Utilitarianism contradicts human nature
[2:56:19] Can Islam be compatible with America?
[3:07:30] Immigration and assimilation in 2026
[3:12:31] Dad’s job is to tell kids the truth
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1 hr 25 min
Bond Market Breakdown: Are We Headed for Another Fall Financial Crisis?
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The bond market wobbled this week, and Secretary Bessent is now buying back government debt just to keep long-term interest rates from climbing further. Bond market volatility in the early fall has a bad history of signaling worse to come, from 1929 to 1987 to 2008.
The national debt sets a new all time high every day, recently crossing the $40 trillion mark. The U.S. dollar's status as the world's reserve currency has allowed us to kick the can down the road for decades, but interest payments on the national debt are reaching unsustainable levels and now the bond market is starting to push back.
Are we at the point of no return or can we still grow our way out of this mess?
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2 hr 8 min
The Sexual Revolution “Liberated” Adults. But What About the Kids? - Katy Faust
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I sat down with Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us and author of “Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City,” to talk about what adults are and aren’t willing to sacrifice for the wellbeing of children. Katy has spent her career defending children’s rights to their own mother and father, touching on adoption, gay marriage, surrogacy, and IVF. We also get into how she raised kids who think for themselves even while attending Seattle public schools and her personal experience with the adoption system.
We get into:
* Why children are safer with their own married mother and father
* What the data actually says about stepparents and abuse
* How the sexual revolution reshaped our whole society
* Why legalizing gay marriage meant eliminating “mother” and “father” from the law
* The truth about IVF and the fertility industry
* Why adults’ desires are now put before children’s needs
* What Christianity requires of us when defending kids
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Outline:
[0:00] Raising conservative kids in a woke city
[12:06] The needs of children should come first
[16:23] Why stepparents are more abusive
[27:49] The misplaced empathy for Lindsay Clancy
[33:36] The sexual revolution deranged our culture
[46:56] Traditional values can work for everyone
[51:59] Is gay adoption better than nothing?
[1:04:12] Are people born gay?
[1:14:01] Legalizing gay marriage had crazy side effects
[1:29:07] Does IVF or surrogacy violate the rights of children?
[1:44:00] AOC’s egg-freezing stunt and the denial of tradeoffs
[1:52:19] Should we just ban it all?
[2:04:53] Parenting for future generations
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1 hr 8 min
The Lindsay Clancy Trial Has Exposed a Moral Psychosis in America
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The Lindsay Clancy trial has exploded into the latest social media gender war over postpartum mental health, the role of mothers in society, and the nature of moral responsibility. The defense says postpartum psychosis is to blame and that she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible in the deaths of her three children. Now the jury is deciding whether they buy her story.
Videos of women excusing Clancy’s actions or promoting conspiracy theories implicating her ex-husband have spread like wildfire on TikTok. Hundreds of women showed up to her trial wearing pink in solidarity and her family has now raised over $1,000,000 on GoFundMe. Meanwhile, Massachusetts lawmakers just legalized abortion up until the moment of birth to great fanfare.
Both reflect the same moral drift: a culture that has grown increasingly comfortable letting mothers decide when they are, and aren’t, responsible for the lives of their children.
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1 hr 56 min
How Elite Consensus Botched COVID, Climate, and the Economy - Dr. Steven Koonin
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I sat down with theoretical physicist Dr. Steven Koonin, author of “Unsettled” and former Under Secretary of Energy for Science under President Obama, to discuss what he calls the “consensus trap.” He argues that the 2008 financial crisis, COVID policies, and climate alarmism all followed the same template, and the people who got it wrong faced no accountability while the costs fell on the poor. Institutions built policy on flawed models, manufactured an elite consensus, and punished the scientists who dissented.
We get into:
* Why Fauci saying “I represent science” was a betrayal of science
* How the RCP 8.5 climate scenario was used for propaganda
* Working as BP’s chief scientist and inside the Department of Energy
* Why the global energy transition hasn’t moved the needle on fossil fuel use
* Why wind and solar can’t be the backbone of the electric grid
* The real risks of EMP attacks and solar storms
* The state of nuclear power and small modular reactors
* How AI is reshaping energy reliability, affordability, and emissions
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Outline:
[0:00] Can science be “settled”?
[12:39] What is a scientific model?
[20:25] Human behavior is hard to predict
[25:36] Cause and effect in complex systems
[28:33] Why are scientists swayed by “consensus”?
[33:47] Working in the Obama administration
[42:59] Insane climate models were treated as sane
[53:41] Fossil fuels and power grids are life-saving
[1:03:38] The risk of an EMP attack
[1:12:38] AI data centers and energy reliability
[1:18:05] “But we need climate action!”
[1:26:53] The incentives inside scientific institutions
[1:31:56] How the military drives scientific research
[1:39:25] Should we worry about the Skynet timeline?
[1:51:27] Always check your opinions against real data
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