WEBVTT - The Karol Markowicz Show: The War on Truth with Bianca De La Garza 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:09.879 Hi, and welcome back to Carol Marco's show on iHeartRadio. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.880 I've been seeing a lot more posts on my South 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:19.000 Florida Facebook boards of people looking to make friends. They 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.680 often post a short summary about themselves, sometimes a picture. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:28.360 A lot of the times it's couples. They describe their interests. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.480 They say, I like pick a ball, I like camping, 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.000 we surf that kind of thing. Like I mentioned last episode, 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.680 a lot of people have moved states in the last 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.159 few years. Florida has obviously been a hub for that, 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.640 and making friends in adulthood is hard. One of the 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:51.000 things I think about is that we're overthinking this friend 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.200 making and that's why in the last episode I focus 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.600 on the fact that it's not so much that I 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.320 want to make friends, which I do, but I want 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.560 to make more acquaintances. I want to be able to 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.360 recognize more people in my neighborhood and just know their names, 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.080 and that's been a bit of a challenge. So I 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.720 get that people are having trouble with the next step, 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.200 which is, you know, actually making friends that you hang 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:19.839 out with more. When you're little, they're outside and you're 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.720 outside and now you're friends. Or maybe they sit next 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.800 to you in class, or maybe they share your dorm room, 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.559 or maybe you have the same first job, and on 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.760 and on. But it's situational, right, You're in the same 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:38.080 proximity to each other, and that's how you become friends. 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:43.319 But in adulthood, we want a lot of similar match points. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.640 The people on the Facebook groups, they're not posting I 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.440 live here, if you live here, let's be friends. They're 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.840 posting I'm into this? Are you into this? Can we 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.360 be friends? We want to have a lot more things 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.920 in common. And I'm guilty of it too. When we 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:04.000 moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn, I was much more likely 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.320 to become friends with someone if they had more than 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.720 one kid the same age as my kids. So the 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.120 people that we hung out with the most had two 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.040 or sometimes even three kids that matched up in age 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:23.280 with our kids. It was just easier. It's similar to dating. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.000 You get set in your ways and it becomes harder 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.520 to connect with people as you get older. You want 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.799 them to match you in multiple ways. You want them 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.200 to share all of your interests. But that's not how 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.720 friendship really works, and not how it develops. I like 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.440 to focus on sense of humor, for example, but of course, 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:48.080 even that is subjective. Finding the same thing funny and 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:52.160 the ability to have humorous conversations is important to me 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.679 in friendship. There's no real way to advertise for that, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.440 like you might for someone who plays pickleball. You can 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.360 ask people what they find funny or if they're able 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.919 to tell funny stories, but that's harder to really explain 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.320 or achieve. A couple that were best friends with my 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.640 husband went to college with the husband, you know, would 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.320 we be friends today? It's hard to say. They don't 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.200 have kids, they ride motorcycles, they like all the wrong 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.960 sports teams, but we really love them and have the 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.160 best time when we're together. How do you put that 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.880 in a Facebook group request? Right, It's it's tough. Other 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.200 things I look for in friends is I like to 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.400 go out to dinner, But everyone would say they love food. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.400 Some people like holes in the wall, tat goos and 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:47.360 gas stations, others like fancy prefixed meals, and I like both. Really, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.280 I like all of it all food. So it's tough 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.160 and it's not obvious. A lot of people had good 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.120 advice about dating. I'd love to hear what people say 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:01.040 about making friends in adulthood. This comes up so often 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.119 in my real life conversations, and I'd love to hear 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.280 what my smart listeners have to say about it. If 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.520 you've got thoughts, drop me an email. Carol Marcowitch Show 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.840 at gmail dot com. It's k A R O L 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.320 M A R K O W I c Z s 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.760 h ow at gmail dot com. Coming up next, and 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.040 interview with Bianca Dela Garza. Join us after the break. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.640 Welcome back to the Carol Marcowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.120 guest today is Bianca Dela Garza. Bianca is a ten 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.960 time Emmy nominated award winning journalist and the host of 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.960 Newsline and Newswire on Newsmax. And she's the author of 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.279 a great new book incoming on the front lines of 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.160 the Left's War on Truth, sold wherever books are sold. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.919 Hi, Bianca, so nice to have you on, Carol. So 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.160 great to be with you. I'm such a fan of 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.719 your podcast, so honored to be here with you. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:04:59.640 Very very mutual. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.520 I love coming on your show. So what is the 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:07.120 war on truth? It's probably the most volatile period of 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.160 American history and politics that has played out before our 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.960 eyes in the past several months. And I believe the 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:18.000 war on truth was really exposed after we saw the 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.920 debate with Joe Biden, and I've had a front seat 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.440 to sort of the unraveling of the media and the 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:30.440 legacy media's big lie, and it exposed the potential of 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.120 how far we could have gone as a nation. And 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:37.000 you know how dangerous the game of deception is. And 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.279 I as a journalist, I mean, my job and my 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:44.200 only job is to bring truth and transparency to the 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.800 people who are watching and listening. And I'm at the 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:53.120 point now where we describe an incoming how this war is, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:54.919 whether our nation rises or falls. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:01.440 Do you think that they put Biden out on purpose 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.159 and had him exposed as being not quite with it 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.479 in order to get Kamala in or were they trying 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.200 to cover it as long as possible. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.760 Here's the thing, I don't think we'll ever really know 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.640 the machinations of if there was this duplicity of that, 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.240 and if it was that thought out and that deep. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.599 I think there's a possibility of that, but ultimately I 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:29.080 don't even know if it matters, right because now we 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.159 know the machine and it's not necessarily about having a leader, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.240 It's about having control and power so it's quite possible 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.760 they did that, but they also caused all this chaos, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.839 all night uncertainty, and the end is for the greater 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:49.000 good of people learning and waking up. I'm okay with that, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.920 but I'm not okay with people who sit in roles 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:56.239 like I sit in every single day and actually deceive 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.400 people for a living. And that's why I felt called 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.560 to write this book because I've had a front row 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.799 seat to all of it and the historic moments we've seen, Carol, 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.760 I don't think it's like something out of a movie. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.280 You couldn't script what we just saw the past few 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:09.120 months unfold. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.679 Yeah, I think we are going to find out what happened. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.120 I think that if Kamala Harris loses the selection, we're 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.760 going to have a deluge of books about what went 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.000 down there. And I mean, whether or not it will 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.480 be true is a separate story. I think lots of 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.080 people will be taking credit for the things that went 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.480 right and shifting the blame for things that went wrong. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.040 But I ultimately do think we're going to hear some 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.120 stories about how it all went down. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.000 And we may and then you also have to question 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.400 the source, right, like what is their reason are they 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.440 getting in advance on a book tal to test We 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.520 saw people go forward, you know, to testify in front 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:51.000 of Congress and not be so truthful. So the motivations 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.400 of people when they see sort of their fifteen minutes 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.680 emerging in that window, it's really quite frightening. And I think, 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.560 you know, where we have come though, is going to 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.240 be you know, a revelation that you know, talking with 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:08.680 you know podcasters, you know independent media, you know networks 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.760 like Newsmax, which I'm really proud to be at that 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.640 there there are real truth tellers out there, and we 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.360 just have to continue to fight. And there's so many issues, 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.080 you know, that have brought us to the brink of 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.080 you know, real collapse here in America. It's gone so 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.760 serious with the invasion at our southern border, with our 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.000 economic policies, and I think that now is the time 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.760 where people know we can't kind of just you know, 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.839 drink the kool aid or listen to the elites and 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.839 their ivory tower who are telling us who we need 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:39.600 to vote for. So what would you. 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.040 Say to people who just feel like the lies are 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.720 everywhere and it's too much and they kind of tune 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:46.439 everything out. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.120 Yeah, I'm so glad you asked that question. Yeah, I 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.080 guess part of it. Why I wanted to write this 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.200 book is to make it accessible, to make it not 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.920 so overwhelming. I'm a mom. I have an eighteen year 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.679 old daughter. So after living through the twenty twenty you know, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.400 election and COVID and understanding how the world can be 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.400 a very frightening and chaotic place, especially through the minds 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.000 of younger people. And I do worry about the next 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.040 generation because sort of for us, you know, we can 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.080 grasp things, but some of the realities of what we 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.960 may see come to pass, depending on how this election goes, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:18.959 could be one way or the other. For the youth, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.079 I think that, you know, there are people who are 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.440 like I don't want to listen because I don't want 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.000 to have to be so stressed about things. But then 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.200 I think it comes down to the grassroots. When you're 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.680 a parent and you're sitting in a school board meeting, 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.400 or you hear what your child's being taught at school 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.679 and the books they're reading, then you are called to action. 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.880 I can't tell when someone's reaction will be that moment 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.560 where it all kind of switches, but I do hope 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.640 and through the book where we talk about you know, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:54.480 the indoctrination, we talk about how woke is everywhere, and 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:59.640 just sort of this movement that has become so radical 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.800 and so fast that I think people are starting to 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:07.360 grasp that even though it is overwhelming to think about it, 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.880 it's now become you know, critical mass where they have 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:10.719 to right. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:15.120 I think you're right. Even people who don't like politics, 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.360 don't like hearing from politicians, don't like following the news. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.040 I think the last few years have really woken them 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.040 up and they see that it all goes on whether 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.000 or not they're paying attention. The great point about indoctrination. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:32.760 Obviously that's a topic that I'm very interested in, but 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.040 the way that parents saw what their kids were learning 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.800 in school, they realized they can't just sit it out anymore. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.080 They have to be involved. And I'm hoping you see 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.920 that kind of shift happening in American society, Like do 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.160 you think that more eyes have been open? 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.200 And I think it's a return to just wanting normalcy. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:55.800 This administration has pushed, especially with gender mutilation, which they 0:10:55.880 --> 0:11:00.880 love to call gender affirming, so far. You know, in 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.160 my book, I talk about you know how we have, 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.679 you know, puberty blockers that caused green swelling in young girls. 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.720 I'm a mother of a young girl. I you know, 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.040 think at that point we start going, oh my gosh, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:17.520 these are drastic, radical things that not just alter our child, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.800 but you know the regrets people have of not being 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.800 able to ever have children, Like what are we doing 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.520 to society and the fabric of our moral compass? And 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.319 it's come down I think to some you know, spiritual awakening. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.920 I really hope and pray that all the time that 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.120 people are seeing that this is not so much about 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.319 left or right. It's about our values as humans and 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.160 whom we can be if we really do unify and 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.560 come together. And I think some of the rhetoric coming 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.560 out of the media on top of their lies and 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.160 trying to sell this as something of you know, you're 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.920 not accepting trans people, you're transphobic. When you cut through it, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:01.360 you sort of see this demonic evil, uh sinister, look 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.280 at all that, And that I think is what people 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.079 will finally push back on because it just doesn't feel good, Carol. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.960 It just feels wrong when you think about innocent young kids. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.559 Something about that triggers I think, you know, something innate 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.480 in all of us that no, you don't go after 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:19.240 innocent people, and you know, that's where I think there 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.600 comes a point of no return. And we've also seen 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:23.200 that at our border as well with some of the 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.840 child trafficking that gets zero coverage. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.400 Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. I think you know, 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.679 there were always people who identified as trans in society 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.960 and nobody cared until they came for the kids. And 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.600 it was that shift of like, now we're going to 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:43.120 be focusing on children, and we saw such a spike 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:47.360 and kids identifying as the opposite gender that we saw 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.000 that something really serious was going on. And I think 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.480 that you're right that it's the kids. They came after, 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.959 these innocent kids, and that's what shifted the conversation on it. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.440 I'm surprised you have an eighteen year old. You look 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.760 super young, So what advice you are to be kind 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:03.960 of you? 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:05.720 I know, I'm surprised to you. I don't know how 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.640 fast time goes, but how does happen? 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.000 Right, We'll have more coming up with Bianca de la Garza, 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:15.160 But first, every twenty six seconds, violent crime takes place 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:19.480 in the United States, and rising crime threatens families. That's 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.280 why Saber Pepper projectile launchers should be your first choice. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.439 It's the only six to eight caliber launcher with seven 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.440 projectile capacity, offering up to forty percent more shots than 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:35.360 other brands for superior home defense. For nearly fifty years, 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.640 Saber has been dedicated to making the world safer. 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A lot of things 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.040 they you know, cancelations still happen. They could not go 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:31.680 to college. I mean, my kids and I have a 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.360 running joke of like, don't say this outside the house 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.000 or you'll never go to college. And you know, so 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.080 how do you do it with your daughter? 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.120 Yeah, it's it's a It's a great topic too, because 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.800 I think we all wrestle with it and you want 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:50.120 to impart great software but also straddle the line where 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.120 you want them to have critical thinking and you want 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.560 them to come to something and have some deductive reasoning 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.680 and make their own decisions because you won't always be there, 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.160 you know, next, and you want them to actually be 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.880 able to have this wherewithal to navigate in the world 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:06.880 and make really smart decisions. And one of the chapters 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.040 I talk about the woe agenda. It's everywhere, and I 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.000 actually open on my daughter's graduation day. We were sitting 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.280 in Boston in the back Bay and I was celebrating 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.480 her graduation from high school this spring, and the kids 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.440 were talking about how we put it on the calendar. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.360 And one of the girls was telling one of my 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.480 best friends, because her daughters were there, the girls of 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.800 nine others since fourth grade, Oh, did you know that 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.360 the calendar you put like she they so you're saying 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.840 you're fluid because the Apple Eye calendar has that. So 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.760 it was just sort of bizarre because we know that 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.680 they have to be in situations they're going to be 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.600 in school and they're going to be like, what gender 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.080 are you? And some people will identify as this so 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.720 that they really, like you said, for fear of them 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:52.000 getting canceled. There's this pressure, yeah, a lot of pressure, 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.200 and I don't I don't think there's an easy answer 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:59.520 to this. So you can tell your kid speak your truth, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.160 always speak your truth, and that sort of will give you, 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.200 you know, your conscience will be clear. But I also 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.600 think there's something about having to understand diplomacy if you will, 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.240 and you don't want your kids to be ostracized. So 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.000 I think maybe playing it in a way where you 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.960 don't have to ever compromise your morals. That's what I 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.960 would instruct my daughter. You don't have to buy into it, 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.720 but you also don't have to play and engage in 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.920 the game. You know, you can sit back and you 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:31.920 know you don't have to have an argument with everyone 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.520 over this, you know. I think that's like part of 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.480 being smart is knowing when to just say, you know, 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.120 agree to disagree, or pass. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.720 You know. I hear that the kids all do land 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.680 acknowledgments now in colleges. I feel like you just pass, 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:47.960 not interested in doing that you know, you do whatever 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:49.000 you want, and. 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.200 Then it's high smuggle too, because then you're kind of 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.560 above it all and you're not getting into it because 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.320 I think so much of the left and the war 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.360 is they want to drag you into this. They wanted 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.280 to tige you into this race baiting, they want to 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.400 drag you into these identity politics, right. And you know, 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:03.840 at the end of the day, what I see from 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.680 young people is there's this true caring in heart, and 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.000 you know, they worry a lot about things that frankly, 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.240 they need to worry about because this nation is in 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.200 a very precarious place. As you know as well, Carol, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.560 what do you worry about nuclear proliferation? 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.199 Okay, that's a big one. 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.080 You know, it's you know, worry is something you know obviously, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.480 I'm a very spiritual person, so I do know that, 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:31.639 you know, worry and fear is not something that you know, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.880 the Bible or scripture tells us that, you know, God 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.800 does not want us to worry or fear. Of course, 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.359 I worry about my daughter's safety. She's living in New York. Now. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.919 I try to, you know, obviously check in with her 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.480 quite a bit. I think that's just natural mother things. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.320 But personally, I don't really worry about so much of 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.959 what will happen next. I don't worry about, you know, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.760 the politics or this nation. I have like this innate 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:59.600 sort of sense of people are grasping where we are, 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.080 and I feel like worrying is such a wasted emotion. Yeah, 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.879 I really, I really want my time on this earth 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.280 and this short life that we have to be giving, 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.240 giving it all. Sort of why I entered journalism almost 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.160 thirty years ago is to be the voice for the voiceless. 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.200 So I guess if I were to worry about anything, 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.880 and I wouldn't say it's a worry. I'm concerned that 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.040 people are not getting the right information. I'm also concerned 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.640 that people's voices who need to be heard are being 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.600 silenced and censored. So if I can work any small 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.080 part of what platform I've been given to do, that 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.600 I'm doing my job. But I'm also, I think, doing 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.400 what I've been called to do, and that's really that's 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.479 really impactful for me as just a person. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.679 Yeah, it's so important. I mean, and you ease your 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.840 own worry about, you know, the voice is not being 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.560 heard by giving them space to be heard. I think 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:57.040 it's great. What advice would you give your sixteen year old. 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:58.200 Self, Listen to your mom? 0:18:58.920 --> 0:18:59.480 Has you good on. 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.520 I mean, that's so hard, right when you're sixteen and 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.359 you think you know it all. I was an only child. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.719 I grew up with a very strong mother who raised 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.439 me and you know, it was all about education and 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.920 working hard. She had a great work ethic, so I 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:17.639 learned a lot from her. But she was also this 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.960 glamorous flight attendant who is so worldly. And I write 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.399 about her in the book and she's passed away sadly 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:25.399 and I miss her so much, but her influence on 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.560 me and she I grew up in a Catholic, you know, 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.920 very Catholic household. She wanted to be a nun at 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.000 one point, but my grandmother was like, no, you're not 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.520 going to be a nun. Fortunately for me, she wasn't 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.119 because I wouldn't be here count right, right, But she 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.360 was so right about things, and you know, the wisdom 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.320 that our mothers have. I think i'd tell my sixteen 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.000 year old self, like, listen to your mom. She has 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.040 good advice for you. She wants what's best for you. 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.200 But we all have to, you know, chart our own 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.280 course and be a little rebellious, and I, you know, 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.240 I kind of see that a little with my daughter now, 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.159 and she would have to race with that. But I 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.359 wish I took her up on some of her really 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.040 great offers because she used to meet really cool people 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.199 on flights and she'd be like, why don't you go 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.680 to New York and intern a ABC Sports this summer? 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:10.480 And I was like, no, Mom, I'm too busy, Like 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:12.439 what what was I thinking? 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:12.959 Right? 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.240 So she was always meeting really cool people on the 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.240 planes and in the sky. And I write about my 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:20.480 book interesting note too. 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:20.960 Did she. 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.200 You know? She just had this sort of giving nature, right, 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.880 and she would be somewhere, would be out and she'd 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.800 see somebody who was in uniform, and when we'd get 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:32.880 the check, she'd say, please buy their check. 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:33.520 I love that. 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.239 Yeah, she was like an angel in my life, and 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:38.440 you know, she still is with me. So I think 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:40.880 my sixteen year old didn't know how great she had 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.920 that counsel. But hopefully you know everything she taught me 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:46.160 about being a great mom, now I'm trying to put 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:47.560 it into action every day. 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:52.080 Well, you picked up your mom's glamour, for sure, It's 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:53.400 all about lighting and lipstick. 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:55.439 It really is a little to make it, you know. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:01.080 That's that's really, that's really all that matters. I've loved 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:06.040 this conversation and here with your best tip for my 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:08.400 listeners on how they can improve their lives. 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.320 Oh, I love this and I really do. I love 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.159 your podcast. I love your conversations because it is always 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.560