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  • Dad Saves America

    Bond Market Breakdown: Are We Headed for Another Fall Financial Crisis?

    09/05/2026 | 1h 25 mins.
    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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    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 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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    The Sexual Revolution “Liberated” Adults. But What About the Kids? - Katy Faust

    09/03/2026 | 2h 7 mins.
    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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    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 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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    Read Katy’s work on Substack: https://katyfaustofficial.substack.com/
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    Learn more about Them Before Us: https://thembeforeus.com/
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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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    The Lindsay Clancy Trial Has Exposed a Moral Psychosis in America

    08/28/2026 | 1h 7 mins.
    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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  • Dad Saves America

    How Elite Consensus Botched COVID, Climate, and the Economy - Dr. Steven Koonin

    08/27/2026 | 1h 55 mins.
    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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  • Dad Saves America

    The Jason Arday Scandal Is White Guilt on Steroids

    08/22/2026 | 1h 27 mins.
    Last week, Cambridge’s youngest ever black full professor was found dead, days after resigning under investigation for plagiarism and his fabricated life story. Jason Arday claimed to have run 600 miles in six days, couldn't speak until age 11, and still earned a PhD by 30. When the scrutiny finally caught up with him, Amnesty International's response was to call for censorship.
    Meanwhile, MIT's black enrollment dropped from 13% to just 5% after the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against affirmative action. Racial preferences in admissions have not achieved the supposed goal of closing educational disparities between black and white Americans, but instead have just papered over them.
    The West has spent decades manufacturing token success stories to manage its own white guilt. Can we finally admit that meritocracy was the right answer all along?
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    Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/the-jason-arday-scandal-is-white?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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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. www.dadsavesamerica.com
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