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The Internet is rabidly attacking a young woman who swore she never wanted to have kids and then holds a baby for the very first time and immediately breaks down in tears, completely in love with this beautiful baby. I think it's the result of decades of problematic indoctrination from the loudest voices telling women they are less than if they want to be a mom. What we can do about it and my live reaction to the super bowl commercials that broke the Internet, considering I didn't watch the game yesterday, today on the Isabelle Brown Show. Happy Monday. Happy Valentine's Week. I'm so excited. And our last week before Lent, it feels like a very exciting weekend coming up. We love to see it, don't we Libby? Yes, we do. Last weekend was the super bowl as most of you probably watched. I did not watch the super bowl last night for a myriad of reasons which we'll talk about in the latter half of the show. Instead, I spent some time with my girlfriends and scrolled through social media last night instead where I came across this video that's going super viral right now of a young woman, I think she's Australian based on their accents, who swore that she would never ever, ever want to have kids. And based on this video, which now has almost 10 million views on TikTok and over 1.2 million likes, she has her mind changed in real time. Meeting her friend's brand new baby girl when they go out for brunch as a group of friends and she immediately starts breaking down in tears over how magical the experience experience is. Watch this. Panic attack. I can't even wipe my eyes. I'm going to get my tears on the baby. You look beautiful. I can't look down. Look at her. Watch her neck. She's so cute. Why are you so open? I need to have a kid. I need to have a. Oh my God. I want to take my top off and have skin to skin contact. I want to take my top off and have skin to skin contact as she's crying and all of the tears are falling on this baby. This video is getting some really mixed reviews though, which is fascinating to me because this is a good thing. This is an amazing thing. This isn't a bad thing. And yet people have found a way to be upset about all of this. On this note, by the way, I am on a mission. This is my tangent to in 2026, bring back baby fever to society. Because I have a hypothesis that the reason young women everywhere are gaslighting themselves into thinking I don't want to have kids and they're listening to the loudest voices in society and is because no one sees babies out and about in society. This bothers me a lot here in Washington D.C. i bring my baby pretty much everywhere. Every time we have a news hit, every time I have a meeting, every time I have something going on at the White House, I try to bring my baby. And nine times out of 10 I think I do succeed in being able to bring her. And everywhere we go, police officers, hostesses at restaurants, everyone stops and looks at my baby in her stroller and says, oh my gosh, what a beautiful baby. And I genuinely believe it's because no one sees babies on airplanes, in restaurants, in office buildings, on public transportation. We have convinced people babies are not crucial to the cornerstone of society. So that allows us to convince ourselves. Yeah, I don't really want one of those things. That seems like a lot of work. That seems like something I don't really want to have to deal with or put up with. And then we meet brand new babies and we have a chance to hold them. And immediately every fiber of our being is like, I'm taking my shirt off and I want to do skin to skin contact with this baby right now. Baby fever took over this young woman in the most beautiful way possible. And honestly, it is indicative of our biology because that is something that we should strive for. Of course there will always be people who do not have the privilege of having children and I think that's okay to acknowledge, but we shouldn't be normalizing that the baseline foundation for society are lonely childless adults. The norm for society should be yearning for and actually engaging in the process of bringing new life into the world. But not everyone agrees with me. And a lot of people saw this video as a massive walking red flag instead of a heartwarming, beautiful exchange between a young woman and. And a beautiful baby girl. Whoa. So commented. And this like has almost. Or this comment has almost 150,000 likes on TikTok. Just another example of our bodies betraying our good common sense. Laugh, cry, emoji. Almost as if your body instinctually knows exactly what it wants when you are a woman in your 20s. Like that. Maybe how we were designed to function. Stevie Black heart emoji with a lovely little profile picture there says, this is why I'm getting spayed. Ew. Since when did we start calling it that as human beings? First of all, I spayed my dog. But why do we ever call sterilization of ourselves and voluntary castration? Which is what they're talking about getting spayed. That gave me the ick so bad. But this is how people are thinking. So many young women in our generation actually believe that the most empowering thing they could do for themselves is to not let their body betray them, but instead to voluntarily end your capacity for fertility entirely by checking yourself into the hospital for a hysterectomy procedure. I saw a lot of these comments right around the time President Trump took the oath of office at the inauguration last year, there was a huge trend on social media of women checking themselves in for voluntary hysterectomy procedures or getting your tubes tied because they couldn't possibly bear the thought, the idea, the burden of bringing a baby into a Trump America. You guys may recall some of those videos having gone viral last year right around this time. And a lot of this narrative I have discovered stems from a the lack of babies in society. So we just don't know that that is something that we want to begin with. But b coordinated messaging that we are seeing on social media and in the mainstream media alike, specifically geared towards young women, that you are less than you are not empowered, you are not creating a meaningful contribution to society. And if you even want kids in the first place, let alone if you're psycho enough to actually have them, One of the biggest accounts and loudest accounts on this issue on social media is a girl who goes by the handle Zoomie, presumably because she's a zoomer Gen Z, and she's more colloquially known as the girl with the List. And she regularly post videos saying super effective cures for Baby fever, telling you all of the horrible things that come along with pregnancy or childbirth or raising a young child that you never want to deal with as a happy, empowered, uplifting woman, why would you ever want to put yourself through that? In reality, what she's doing is just straight up lying to you about the experience of having a baby, pregnancy, childbirth, and the whole rest of the enchilada. She posted this just a few months ago. Three more so Super Effective Baby Fever cures. She seems like such a delightful person. Check this out.
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A wise woman once said, if you have baby fever, take a nap. If you enjoyed that nap, your baby fever has been cured. Have you ever heard of the funnel massage? Now that was a doll.
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But that could be you.
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According to some people on this app who have experience with these kinds of things, that was more painful than the actual act of giving birth. That's enough for me. I don't know about you guys, but if I was suddenly spending an extra 10 to $20,000 a year. That would be very significant for me. That's the average cost of childcare in America. If you have a baby, Suddenly you have two choices. You can either get a job and spend 10 to $20,000 of whatever you're making at that job, or on child care costs so that somebody can watch your kid while you're working, or you can be a stay at home mom and not have to pay for childcare. But also then you don't have a job. And although we seem to agree that childcare is worth about 10 to 20 grand a year, moms are certainly not making that. Nobody is paying you 10 to 20 grand if you're a mom just doing all of that childcare for free. That's not adding up for me. The math is not mathing. And just for good measure, let's talk again about sleeping. I want you to ask any parent in your life when the last time they had a good night's sleep sleep was. I want you to ask them how much they would pay for an uninterrupted nap. There's really nothing in this world that compares to a good long nap.
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Napping. Napping is the primary reason you should never want to have a child. Clearly this woman is childless. Because I have a lot to respond to this as the mom of a child who doesn't sleep, and so I don't sleep either. First and foremost, a nap will never be on the same equivalency of importance in my life than my child will. And any parent, including those of us who are chronically sleep deprived, would tell you exactly the same thing to quickly respond to her other claims as well. The funnel massage. Everybody freaks out on social media about this, and I don't want to discount the fact that for some people it can be painful. I did not feel anyone even touching my stomach. Did not even feel the sensation of another person's hand on my abdomen. Right after I gave birth to my daughter. She was on my chest. I was happily in the newborn bubble, completely in love with my daughter. And they're like, okay, we're dying, your placenta's out. Didn't feel a single thing. So stop letting people fear monger to you on the Internet about how scary and painful birth is. Did not even notice. Would not have even remotely paid attention if someone hadn't said anything to me about that. And what was the other thing? Parents in the middle of the night. There was a third claim in there. Whatever it is, complete propaganda from this gal, but she's unbelievably successful in reaching Generation Z. She has a million and a half followers on TikTok alone, branding herself as the girl with the list and also presumably selling intimacy toys in her bio. Toys this way fingers down emojis to a link where you can go purchase things from her because because what better way to empower women than to capitalize off of instead of encouraging them to actually have a meaningful intimacy experience. I don't know. Just a thought. And yet if you read the comments of the hundreds of thousands of people watching videos just like this one, it is shocking how effective she is in reaching young women with outright propaganda and lies. Someone posts a picture of a button I heart contributing to the declining birth rate. Ew. I'm getting my tubes tied is a little meme of a knight A female night floating through space in front of a rainbow. Mercy says Getting a full hysterectomy next summer. I'm so stoked. Tigs333 Yep, I'm getting my tubes removed on the 23rd. Literally. Can't wait. Wait. So grateful to have been secure in my choice to be child free since middle school says Mouse and bear, age has only solidified my choice. What up dudes? Says I had my tubes removed for way less than birthing a child. Michelle I'm so early, but good because I get to tell you that I finally got approved to get my tubes removed. Surgery is in a couple of months, so surgery. So, so excited. There are hundreds of comments on this video in particular saying I can't wait for a hysterectomy. I can't wait to get my tubes tied. I can't wait to just take everything out so that I never have to worry about the pain, the unbelievable inconvenience and the destruction of my life that pregnancy and childbirth is sure to bring in to the picture. It's pathetic. A because none of what they're talking about is actually true or it is intentionally misrepresented to sound true, when in reality it's not. It's not at all. Including the sleep deprivation side of things. I will be the first person to be completely transparent with all of you out there thinking about having kids and tell you I have not had a full night of sleep in over a year of my life. My daughter will be 10 months old and at the end of the month she has not slept through the night ever the entire time since we brought her home. And you really don't sleep towards the end of your pregnancy either because you have to get up to pee like 12 times in the middle of the night and you have heartburn and your leg starts cramping and all of it. I have not slept in over a year of my life and I'm exhausted, I'm tired. Don't get me wrong, I would love to have a full eight hours of sleep, but I think that is important, something that we need to be prioritizing. But to act like you are somehow destroying your life is so inaccurate. And also, I think this framing is so pathetic in how we talk to women, because you are capable of so much more than these influencers who do not have children and who are literally capitalizing off of the propaganda that they are shoving in your face are telling you. And what the mainstream media is telling you, you are capable of of a lot more than you give yourself credit for. I have not slept a full night of sleep in over a year of my life. And I am thriving in my career, I am thriving in my relationship with my husband, I am thriving in my friendships right now, and I certainly am thriving in my relationship with my daughter. So they try to get you up front by telling you all of these lies, but even when they fail from stopping you from wanting to have a baby in the first place, by attacking you with when you post cute videos like that, one of the girl who said she never wanted to have a baby and then is holding her friend's baby and immediately starts breaking down in tears, they know they can't get you then. So then they want through the media and through social media alike, to distort the image of the family and what you're capable of as a woman once you have kids. I don't find it coincidental that the same time that video is going viral of the Australian gal holding the baby, the New York Times put out two really bizarre pieces. One is an op ed, one is not published in their newspaper about parenting, and both are spectacularly terrible takes. If you ask me not to ruffle a whole lot of feathers on this first one that I am referencing, but this lady screams, I just want to be miserable. And everything that's my problem is automatically society's problem as well. Listen to this headline published February 1, the secret to marriage equality is formula. As in milk formula, baby formula. I saw this headline the other day and I saved it away for a rainy day having not read the piece until this morning. And by the time I made it through this entire thing this morning, I was genuinely just jaw agape, flabbergasted at the audacity of Some of these people to to call themselves feminists and claim that they are fighting for equality when in reality they're just miserable. They're miserable and they want everyone else to come down to their level of misery, to sink to their level in order to empower all of the rest of the women in the world. She writes in this op ed piece about the back and forth frustrations of breastfeeding her first child and how she felt like she and her husband had a lopsided dynamic, as she says, actually an infuriatingly lopsided lopsided dynamic with their first baby because she decided to breastfeed her baby. Interesting. She says this about the whole experience, also attacking the press conference that we spoke at the other day with Secretary Kennedy and Secretary Duffy. I am not quoted in this piece, heartbreakingly, but she does quote Secretary Kennedy as like truly evil for saying this. Called breast milk the infant formula that God made. She continues this piece at the very end by comparing formula and breastfeeding to talk about equal parenting and equalizing the contributions that mom and dad make to the baby raising experience. Years before I became a mother, she writes, dom, her husband and I agreed that of course he would be just as involved in parenting as I would. But then we had Dory, her daughter. Presumably, I breastfed for eight months, not because I particularly enjoyed it, but because it seemed to be the default. I did all the bedtimes, all the night feeds. The bottle we did use mostly contained breast milk, the result of many hours of being sucked by a breast pump. The bonding effect with Dory was real, but it also meant my ability to understand the contours of her needs deepened as Dom became more and more sidelined. The resulting resentment nearly broke us up as a couple. The unfair burden and slightly sleep deprivation nearly broke me. When Pearl, their next baby, came along, we vowed to do things differently. We've become much more liberal with our use of formula, and the result has been the parenting dynamic I have always dreamed of. It's not only taken the pressure off of me, but also given Dom the ability to bond with and learn his baby right away. He did overnight feeds that provided me with long stretches of sleep. We traded tips on soothing methods. Formula gave Dom autonomy to feed as he saw fit, to experiment and fail and try again without worrying about wasting liquid gold of breast milk. Many parents discover the equalizing magic of formula or combo feeding on their own. They experiment with only using formula at night, or perhaps see how one formula bottle a day can provide much needed relief to a nursing mother. But parents are left to conduct this trial and error alone without much counsel or transparency. I go down a couple paragraphs here, and then she ends the piece with this Lots of parenting decisions involve trade offs and it is time to explicitly tell parents to be before they are in the trenches that the two worthwhile enterprises of exclusive breastfeeding and equal parenting are a zero sum game and that it can be utterly life changing to choose the latter. In other words, it is impossible to have equal rights in your marriage, to have equal exhaustion in your marriage, to have equal contributions in your marriage as each respective parent if you are breastfeeding your baby. Before I get completely off into my tangent about this, I will say this. You are not a bad parent per se if you are formula feeding your baby I've been incredibly fortunate that I have been able to still breastfeed my daughter all the way through almost 10 months now of this journey and it's been beautiful and challenging and and incredibly rewarding in so many different ways. But I realize that's not the experience that everyone has. That said, I will never be the first person to tell you that you are a bad person. You are less than as a woman. You are unequal to your husband if you formula feed your baby while I breastfeed my baby. However, this author is telling you that she is saying that you are basically reinforcing the patriarchy in if you choose to breastfeed your baby, which is bat crazy if you ask me. That genuinely stems from such a deep place of personal insecurity and wanting to drag everyone into your choices that you are making. All while these people probably ironically call themselves pro choice but different conversation for a different time. It reeks of elitism in the worst possible way. The two enterprises of exclusive breastfeeding and and equal parenting are a zero sum game. It is impossible to be equal to your husband if you have to put your baby to sleep every night and you wake up with them in the middle of the night to feed them from your body, which is an incredibly worthwhile and beautiful bonding experience with your baby. A lot to respond to there. My husband got up with me every single time I fed the baby for the first three, four months of her life. So we both were a little sleep deprived, but we had a great system worked out where I would feed my daughter Isla and then I would immediately hand her to my husband. He would burp her, change her, get her back to sleep so I could immediately go back to sleep. And that worked really, really well for us. You can obviously Pump milk to have the husband take an overnight shift with a bottle if you want to not be using formula and continue feeding your baby breast milk. And there are undeniable health advantages to giving your baby breast milk for as long as humanly possible. Formula cannot replicate the antibodies, the nutrients, all of the things that you are delivering from your breast milk to your baby every single day. It is completely irreparable in the lactation world to substitute that with formula. That's just scientific truth. But honestly, even if that weren't true, I'm just sick and tired of these angry, miserable, liberal women insisting that you are less than your man for whatever reason under the sun because you want to breastfeed your baby, or because you're maybe getting a slightly less rigorous sleep schedule than your husband is, or because you had to birth your baby and your husband didn't have to experience that, or yada yada, yada, yada, yada. It's gross, right? And it is so undercutting what, what women are actually capable of. It's not being the village. When we say it takes a village to raise a child, it's destroying the even necessity for a village because you are destroying a woman's desire to have a baby. And any empowerment that comes through that process right out of the gate, you're going to hate the experience because it will automatically make you less than your husband. I got news for you. Whoever's discerning marriage or just now recently married before you have kids, or those of you who have kids already, kids are not the only thing that creates imbalances when it comes to contributions in a marriage. A marriage takes a whole lot of work, and that is precisely what makes it beautiful. I saw a video about that the other day and I actually sent it to my husband because it really rung true for me. It was so, so powerful. And this girl posted a video about her and her husband's relationship with battery levels pertaining to their, like, tank being full or empty that particular day. And she says, sometimes it's like this, other times it's like this. But that's how we carry each other through and become better every single day. I want you guys to see this because it's absolutely beautiful. Some days I carry you, some days you carry me. But we are always on the same team. Sometimes we're both at 100%, sometimes we're both at 10%. Sometimes one of us is at 100 and one of us is at 10. But marriage is not meant to be a 5050 equalized game. The way that this author in the New York Times is trying to tell you for equity parenting or equality parenting or equal parenting, whatever she wants to call it. Marriage and parenting is never intended to be 50 50. And newsflash, it never ever, ever will be. It always has to be 100, 100 or it just won't work. And sometimes your 100% looks like 10% and the other's 100% looks like 1000%. But that's how you grow in in humility, in service, in maturity, in powerful ways that no other relationship will ever give you the opportunity to I actually think that's precisely why it's so important that children are raised in a home where parents are deeply in love with and committed to one another. And why we're seeing so many issues of extreme clinical narcissism, loneliness, depression, anxiety, and so much more in our generation. But because we're largely being raised by divorced households and people in single parent households where you don't see that continued laying down of self every single day for the benefit of someone else, where one parent is choosing the needs of the other parent, their spouse, because they love them over their own every single day, day in and day out. So the media will try to stop you from wanting to have a baby. Then once you wanna have a baby, they'll try to stop you from wanting to have a joyful experience and having a baby. And when that's not working and you are having a joyful experience and you do see a revival of the family, which is exactly what we're starting to witness in our society today, then they'll just attack the institution of the family outright entirely. Also published in the New York Times this last week. Is this piece not opinion by the way, just out there as news in search of a platonic co parent Platforms that match partners in procreation are experiencing a post pandemic uptick. They write in this piece that there are mass groups of people in our country seeking a co parent someone to have a baby with and children with that doesn't need to be their romantic partner. Interest in platonic co parenting is growing, they write in this piece, with specialty apps experiencing substantial growth over the last few years. Modamily the app someone that they interview is using connects people to look to start a family through dating, sperm donation or platonic co parenting. In 2020 the app reported having 30,000 users registered to the platform. By 2025 that number was 100,000. By the end of 2023, the year let's be Parents a different app debuted and it reported having 1200 active monthly users. Now it has 10,000 monthly active users. Co Parents A different app reported having 150,000 registered users, up from 85,000 in 2020. One person that they interviewed said this. What she learned about co parenting from people in her circle made the idea resonate with her. I really feel like it let me separate two huge decisions. Who do I want to date and who do I want to parent with? She has only just begun the search for a co parent and she is still having thoughtful, values based conversations with the man that she met in November. But she has been surprised by the support that she has received. Parenthood is complex and some platforms encourage their users to seek out mental health providers to help them understand the reasonings for pursuing this approach and to navigate the complex relationships involved. Some advise seeking legal counsel as well for help drawing up a memorandum A Contract for the Arrangement so we're reinventing parenting so intensely now. Because newsflash, all of the propagandized efforts to make you hate the idea and never want to pursue it in the first place just aren't working. So now we have to reinvent the family to the tune of you needing to consult with lawyers and a mental health professional or well before you ever want to bring a child into the world. Because the person you're going to co parent with is not the love of your life. It's a business arrangement, it's a contract. It's someone who looks really good on paper but you're not remotely invested in emotionally whatsoever. I read this to my husband the other day and he sat there, jaw agape, just completely stunned, listening to this story that the New York Times published just a few days ago. Because I can't tell you how many times we have had experiences in the last 10 months with our daughter that you are so overstimulated. The baby is screaming, the dog is barking, the dishes have piled up in the sink, everything is insane in your house all at once. The TV's too loud from what the other person is watching and you're just like ah. But then we looked at each other and we've looked at each other completely in love, and we just immediately start laughing. Because this is exactly what together in love, we have prayed for over and over and over again for the last five years since we started dating in 2021. This is the answered prayer to everything we've ever wanted out of our life. And whether it's our dog or our baby or our beautiful home or our careers, everything we have accomplished together in the last few years is a growth out of the love that we have for each other that is rooted in the love that we have for God. I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in a family dynamic where mom and dad aren't remotely romantically connected to one another. And yet you are continuing to raise children in some sort of weird arrangement, presumably while both of you are also pursuing romantic interests on the side and getting married to people. The legal implications, the emotional implications, the child rearing implications of all of this. It is a disaster waiting to happen. But this is how much those with the loudest voices in our society hate the family and how little they think of your capacity as a woman to be empowered inside the nucleus of the family as God designed. The only way to have true equality in society is to throw the baby out with the bathwater and eliminate the concept of the family entirely. And the writing has been on the wall for this for a very long time. Obviously we've known that there are authors out there like Sophie Lewis, who published a book a few years ago saying we should abolish the nuclear family. There are tech startup companies saying that we don't even really need people to grow babies anymore, we'll just create embryos through stem cells and then put them in birthing pods. What could possibly go wrong? There are countless movies that have warned about all of these things, but ultimately all of this is rooted in the same hatred that you saw in some of those comments on the very heartwarming, beautiful video of that girl holding a baby for the very first time in her life. Women are useless as mothers. Women are less than men inside of the family unit, and the only way out of this is extreme clinical narcissism. Never dying to self, never self sacrifice, never putting the needs of someone else above yourself, but making yourself the God of your life so that everything else can be sacrificed instead. Eventually this gets so bad, by the way, that we get new definitions of women dropped every five minutes. I find it so interesting that the same people who are screaming at you about women's equality are are also the same people who boil down womanhood to the most disgusting level possible. As in people who menstruate or birthing people, or just a womb, a womb to be rented for someone else to have a baby. I don't know if you guys saw this on my Instagram last week, but a new definition of woman dropped last week from women. By the way, reproductive endocrinologists who wrote this entire procedure about when you should go See a fertility specialist and you can't conceive a baby. They wrote this in a post that is now going viral as two female doctors. When should you see a reproductive endocrinologist? When you've been trying to conceive for 12 months with regular unprotected intercourse and the partner with eggs is less than 35 years old. Partner with eggs from the crowd so obsessed with women's empowerment. Between that and a video I saw from a New Hampshire legislator the other day holding her baby, telling you how you should be empowered as a woman. I think we just kind of need to start over on the entire women's equality conversation. I don't know if you guys saw this, but a New Hampshire Democrat was promoting legislation to promote abortion in the state of New Hampshire as she is rocking her newborn baby girl in her arms, talking about how she had to kill her first baby to further her career to make herself a great mom so that she could then advocate for other people to kill their babies. Listen to this. When I was a teenager, I accessed abortion care that has allowed me to go to college, college, to graduate school, to receive an M.E. d, to teach and to be a state representative. And it allowed me to have my children when I was ready, both physically and emotionally, including the baby girl I gave birth to just last week. Nothing like using your newborn baby as a prop to promote killing other babies and preventing them from being born again. Way to undersell women. Way to say it's impossible for you to get an education. It's impossible for you to have a career, it's impossible for you to have a thriving family life, it's impossible for you to run for office if you don't kill your children first. That's where we're at in the equality conversation. To the point that we then go attack women on TikTok for crying the first time they ever hold a baby and talking about how beautiful the experience is after insisting they never wanted kids to begin with. Is that really the best we can do? I don't think so. I hope not. And I hope that we can all continue to band together to present a much different image of. Of the family moving forward. Whatever we can do to let people know that this experience isn't demeaning. It's exhausting and it's hard, but it doesn't hold you back. It actually allows you to grow in ways that were never accessible to you before. You've brought this beautiful, perfect, innocent life into the world. I am 100 times the person today than I ever was 10 months ago, even while I was pregnant. I'm a hundred times the person I am today with the challenges and the love and the emotional depth that I have never had access to in my entire life before I held my baby girl in my arms. And I want that for everyone out there. Why wouldn't we want that for everyone? The media and the girl with the list. And these state legislators would tell you that I am the extremist as a pronatalist propagandizing you into wanting to have kids. But they refuse to acknowledge the propaganda that they are participating in and or have fallen victim to that has gaslit entire generations of women into denying our very biology of baby fever. They'll make fun of you for that. They'll ridicule you for that. I think we deserve a whole lot better as young women. And there's actually two examples that I want to share with you before we switch gears to a different topic of how I think we should be talking about family and kids in 2026, whether it's looking for this from our elected officials and our leadership from the media or from ourselves. And I would task every single one of you watching this to participate in the solution and not the continued ridicule of the family moving forward. Megyn Kelly put together a really fascinating side by side listening to how Michelle Obama spoke about raising a young family in the White house and how J.D. vance speaks about raising a young family in and around the White House. And these could not be more different worldviews or perspectives. Tell me, which one is a country you want to live in and you want to raise your. Your family in?
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There are certainly sacrifices that come along with this life.
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Our kids are little. We're gonna have to move.
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There are also a lot of good things.
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It's expensive to live in the White House.
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What a blessing it is to be here.
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There were moments when I didn't feel like I got enough attention.
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We live in this beautiful, very protected mansion that the American people have gifted us.
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Many people don't know. I mean, much is not covered.
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Most of our meals are prepared for us, so we don't have to worry as much about cooking.
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You're paying for every food, every bit of food that you eat.
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There are a lot of things that in some ways make having a baby easier.
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How do you raise kids in the White House? It's dangerous.
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You don't have to worry about TSA lines when you're the vice president. Air Force Two makes transportation pretty easy.
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We had to pay for their travel to be on the plane.
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My attitude towards kids?
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They're a hassle.
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What the hell? The hell have we gotten ourselves into? No more kids.
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They mess you up.
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Then we had a second, then we had a third. Now both of us are just like, what's one more?
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Whatever. Michelle Obama Raising kids is a hassle and they mess you up. Versus J.D. vance. What's one more baby? We love this. Let's have another one. And another one. And another one. And I'm so grateful that they are raised in this beautiful protective space. I'm so grateful they get to travel with us without the hassle of tsa. I'm so grateful we have a team to help prepare our meals. We have so many people. This is so much easier than when we were raising babies before all of this. Thank you to the American people for making this possible versus the doom and gloom and complaining misery of Michelle Obama. And maybe that's the real secret, honestly, is it's gratitude versus misery. I posted something to that extent on my Instagram I last week that resonated with a lot of people. And I honestly just posted it because I needed the reminder myself, which more often than not is what I use my own Instagram for. I posted this little swipe through and I said, someday I won't be so exhausted. Someday I'll wake up rested after eight hours of sleep. Someday the house won't be such a mess. Someday I won't share my body with somebody else 24, 7. Someday I won't get overstimulated when the dog barks. It's hard to imagine she's a barker right now and she's just sleeping on my lap. This dog barks like you've never heard before. Someday I will finish my coffee without reheating it five times. But someday I won't feel her tiny hands reaching to make sure I'm still there at 3am I won't feel her head on my shoulder as she drifts to sleep. I won't make silly faces across the dinner table anymore. I won't start and end every day with her smile. I won't hear the sound of her laugh bouncing off the walls. My hands may be full, but thank you God that they are not empty. Being your mom is the best thing I'll ever do. Sweet baby girl. Gratitude is everything. And I think when we can learn to embrace the challenges that are set before us in whatever we pursue in life, whether that's parenting or our careers or our marriage relationships, that's when we're going to find the secret sauce happiness that everyone seems to be missing in our society. In our society that's struggling with unprecedented levels of anxiety, of depression, depression of suicidation, of substance abuse, of misery because we've normalized and allowed the loudest voices in our society, from the mainstream media to the first lady of the United States, to TikTok stars and everyone in between, to drag us down with them instead of walking with us through the challenging times to get on the other side. And when we can find joy in that gratitude. And that reshapes our entire mentality about the family and challenging experiences entirely. There's an Italian speed skater who just won gold at the Olympics this week who did a press conference that's going pretty viral, holding her son, sharing in a post race interview that she won gold on her 35th birthday and she wanted to talk about that. But really what she actually wanted to talk about was that she didn't have to choose, choose between being a family and being an Olympic gold medalist. These things are not mutually exclusive and she needs more young women to hear the truth about this. Listen to this. Absolutely amazing. I love that she said. The message I want to show is that I didn't choose between being a family, being a mom, and being a speed spirit skater. I stopped competing right after my medals, a silver and a bronze in Beijing. I was really on top of the world. I'm. I was brave. And so I'm feeling really proud of myself for coming back. Wow. Gratitude is everything. And I am so, so grateful. There are voices like hers like J.D. vance, like Riley Gaines and Brett Cooper and Ali Beth Ducky and so many others and Charlie Kirk who have brought the beauty of, of the family back to our culture again. Now we have a lot of work to do in 2026 because as is obvious, we are operating against a media and government machine that has been wildly effective in erasing the family from our culture altogether for the last several generations. How can we be a part of the solution? We can get a whole lot louder. So if you are watching this today and you have a family, you want a family, you are pregnant and you're awaiting the birth of your beautiful baby. Post about it, post something about it and how much your family has meant to you because you will be shocked the impact and the ripple effect that that can have on your community at large. Back to it in just a second. But first, if you're anything like me, you try to live by your values every single day. 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You guys can go to trustandwill.com Isabel to get 20% off. That is trustandwill.com Isabelle to get 20% off. Switching gears a little bit. And speaking of Charlie Kirk, I did not watch the super bowl yesterday. I normally watch the super bowl every single year, even if I don't really have a vested interest in the game. But I don't know, maybe it was like overstimulated mom fatigue of just having to watch things lately that I'm like, eh, whatever. I watch a whole lot of stuff lately. My screen time is way, way, way, way, way too high as I'm researching like vaccine protocols and I'm watching how to sleep train your baby videos and all of these things which I would take welcome advice on by the way. You Might have seen on my Instagram story. I was asking about floor beds over the weekend because all of my friends insist babies who refuse to sleep in their cribs love a floor bed. So we'll keep you posted on that front. That said, I was like, do I really want to sit through and watch a few hours of screen time of something that I really don't care about? Nah, not really. I'm going to go do something a little bit more fun. But I did have the time to go back and watch the Turning Point USA All American halftime show. And it was, like, really, really good, you guys. I mean, obviously I'm going to like it more than the average person because I worked for TP USA for many, many years. I've met a couple of these artists. I'm all in on all things country music and Americana. But the production value of what they put together for the TPA halftime show was far beyond my wildest expectations. I would love a fact check from our producer team. Actually where the views are at right now. As of this morning, I think they said they had garnered over 25 million views. My producer Dean is saying over 35 million views on this TPUSA halftime show, which is insane. My husband was watching live. I was not. But he said on their YouTube channel last night they had over 5 million live viewers right when the halftime show started, which is crazy. Like, that alone is so far beyond anything I ever could have expected. I went back and I rewatched it last night after I came back from hanging out with some of my girlfriends. And I'll admit I cried at the very end when they did the Charlie tribute with his voiceover and the beautiful video. I'm gonna cry right now of him and his family. If you guys haven't had a chance to listen to this, check this out.
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I want to honor God in all that I do. I want to be a great husband, a great father. I want to serve this country. I want to try to continue to lead this movement and to speak truth and to never lie, to stop thinking about yourself all the time and said, think about what you should do to help other people and to defend this country above yourself. I'm so inspired. This army of freedom fighters, we're going to be around for the next hundred, two hundred years because we know in the end, our ideas will win. God should be the most important thing in your life. But then beyond that, it's getting married, having children, building families. My kids are my most important thing in my life with my wife and my kids. In our relationship with God, Top three things. And the more often that you choose the deep, the difficult, but the right path over the easy path is one that will reward you, your family, and this beautiful nation.
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I also cried when Kid Rock was out here covering an amazing Cody Johnson song. I've loved this song for many years, and it's not a new song, it's an old one. But I just thought it was so timely for the event. It was so beautifully said. He said he felt like he had work to do. I saw him give an interview about this, that he had work to do leading up to the super bowl halftime show, and he didn't know what that meant, but he felt this huge sense of conviction about the whole thing. And so he went to the studio and the Holy Spirit just, like, immediately spoke to him and he said he felt the need to bring people to Christ by adding a new verse of this. This song. He talks about in the performance itself, how there is a book somewhere in your house that is dusty and it needs dusting off and you need to go pick it up and use it more. And that Jesus Christ is the savior of the universe, that you can choose him right now, right here today, in the middle of the super bowl halftime show. It was so good. If you didn't get a chance to listen. Here you go. There's a book that's sitting in your.
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House somewhere that could use some dusting off.
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There's a man who died for all our sins hanging from the cross. You can give your life to Jesus and give you a second chance till you can. So good. Like beyond wildest expectations. Congratulations to tpusa on an amazing halftime show. Maybe a little bit of a hot take. I didn't watch the entire Bad Bunny halftime show, but. But I will say it was better than I expected. And maybe it's because I was expecting it to be so bad, like, beyond crap on America the entire time. It wasn't great, don't get me wrong, but it could have been a lot worse. And apparently someone got married at the actual super bowl halftime show, which is an odd thing to do, I suppose, but, hey, I will always promote a beautiful marriage between a beautiful man and a beautiful woman in front of America right now. And we need a whole lot more. So strong marriages. I'll take it. There was even, I hear a God bless America thrown in there, which is wildly unexpected based on the lead up hype. So maybe we're doing okay. Maybe the culture war is in a really, really good place. As I mentioned, I Didn't watch the game last night. I honestly stopped caring about the Super Bowl a few weeks ago when my Denver Broncos. Who are the Broncos this year? Not the donkeys because we are shockingly good. Out of nowhere. Thank you, Bo Nicks. They got beat a few weeks ago. So honestly, I just haven't really cared. I had zero vested interest in the halftime show or the game. I didn't watch the game at all this year. I left my husband at home with the baby and I went down the street to my beautiful friend Callie's house for a sit down Galentine's day dinner last night instead. So I also haven't seen any of the commercials for the super bowl yet. And my team decided to pull a few that they thought I might find interesting. For better or for worse that we can blind react to and watch together. To end the show today. First things first. There was an ICE commercial at the super bowl, apparently. Let's check it out.
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Their friends and neighbors, sons, fathers, their little league coaches and veterans, they're people who love this country. These are Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. They are removed removing violent criminals from our streets and neighborhoods. It's dangerous and difficult work. But ICE has one mission. To make America a safer place to live. And that's what they're doing. This is law enforcement. This is ice.
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That was so good, you guys. Who did? Who made this? The American sovereign something. American sovereignty. It's hidden behind our time stamp. Oh, guys, that was really good. Why am I tearing up at that? Wow. We needed a little bit more of that as everyone has been vilifying law enforcement all over our country. Well done. 12 out of 10, no notes. Great commercial about ice. And there also was apparently a Trump accounts commercial which we love. You guys may remember I was there for the launch of Trump accounts Just a few days ago. MAGA voice tweeted Breaking President Trump's Trump account ad for the super bowl is so freaking powerful. A must watch. Absolute chills. Are you ready, Libby? Are you going to watch too? Dear America, if I start investing when I'm 16, 9, 7. It could change my future. All our future. I want to be a nurse, go to college, be a businesswoman. I can save for a house with a trampoline. Two trip tramboyant. This year every American child gets an investment account and millions will be pre funded. That's free money. We can all expand. American dream. Sign me up. That was so cute. It's not really free money. We did pay for it once upon a time in our hefty Tax bills, which I would love to not have to pay. Just putting that out there. Irs, if you're listening to this, just. If we. If we could just have the political win of even introducing the idea of abolishing the federal income tax, I would die happy. All right. That's all I'm saying. That is a really cute commercial. I love that. I can't imagine being against this. There haven't been a lot of media personalities against the Trump accounts. They're more just angry that he introduced it more than the average person. I think it's great. All right, next up, we've got a sticky note super bowl commercial. Is this like for post its or something else? Sticky notes. I have to be surprised. All right, here goes nothing, bro. Look at him. Did you see that? Should we tell him? So bad. Oh, my gosh. That's not funny. Stop. Do not listen to that. Thank you, man. I know how it feels, Okay? I have a lot of questions, like, a lot of questions. This is from a group. I'm rewinding this. Called the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate. Is this supposed to be the new black square? My producers are nodding. Don't love that. Don't love that. It is a heartwarming commercial. And having been a victim of bullying. I don't even like to use the word victim. Having been brutally bullied in high school, I can tell you that experience was terrible. But also, everyone that I know who was brutally bullied in high school, myself included, had a lot of character coming out of high school and had the ability to have extreme resilience against people saying really horrible things about you. It's probably how I can have this crazy career right now, because you guys should read my comments and my dms, especially about my family, which is disgusting and gross. We know the ultimate way that that manifests. We saw that with Charlie last September. So on face value, it's a heartwarming commercial about wanting to have people feel accepted and loved. I get that. But I don't love the idea that now we're just introducing new squares every five minutes to usually promote an actual communistic agenda, a Marxist agenda. Do we not remember the fact that Black Lives Matter on their official website once upon a time had an entire section of their website dedicated to abolishing the nuclear family because that was the only way to not be racist against black people, which was so racist in and of itself to say, by the way, like, that's insane, that that was actually a tenet of blm. So. So there's usually a Whole lot more behind the square than meets the eye. I'm very cautious about this stand up to hate. Also, that was like, gross pandering to put the black kid next to the Jewish kid and be like, I know how that feels because I'm black and everyone hates me. Good Lord. Paid for by the owner of the Patriots. Nice. Well, they lost, so sucks for them, I suppose. Couldn't have happened to a nicer team. Deflate gate anyone? But I digress. All right, we've got Budweiser apparently trying to make a comeback after the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light scandal. I will say, as a Coloradan and beer is very big to Colorado culture. The Budweiser commercials are always among my favorite. For the super bowl, there's usually adorable puppies. The Budweiser Clydesdales are so iconic, just so good. So I am curious if they're going back in the direction of classic Americana, Clydesdale, Budweiser, golden retriever, puppy vision. Or they're leaning further into the Dylan Mulvaney side of the world. Here we go. Wow, that's a dramatic tone shift. Made for America. Made of America. What did they say? Made of America for 150 years. Interesting. I said this to my producer Jess the other day, and frankly, we should do something more regularly where you guys can hear my producers, because I think that would be really fun. I want you to get to know them because they're great people. But I said this to my producer Jess the other day. I was scrolling through madewell's website, just getting an idea for an outfit for an event that we were putting together. And I remarked that without it being overtly flag motif, everything on madewell's website right now is Americana is red, white and blue. Every single shirt is red, white and blue striped. Everything is the colors of the flag. Everything feels heritage, vintage, Western Americana. So then I looked at like three other clothing websites. J. Crew was one of them. I looked at several. Everything is Americana. And this was unrelated to the Olympics. This was weeks before the Olympics. I started noticing this. I'm not surprised that Budweiser feels the need to go back into full like red blooded American, screeching bald eagle, horse galloping through the rancher's field thing. Because that's just where our culture and our country is at right now. They thought they were tapping into culture when the loudest voices were celebrating people like Dylan Mulvaney. And then they realized, oops, actually, those voices were not the majority. They might have just been the loudest. We made a huge mistake. And now they're trying to capture where the country is really at right now. I don't think people will forget about Bud Lightgate and the commercial. And I think they're still gonna be in really hot water and for a long, long, long time be trying to reform their image. People don't forget about stuff like that very easily. And. And personally, especially Bud Light just tastes like pee water to me. No interest in drinking that when there are far better beers out there. Coors Banquet being among the best. Just general canned options you can buy at the store. But it is promising to me. It tells me that we are winning the culture war when the tone shift is that dramatic, that quickly. All right, we got one more. And I've seen a couple people posting about their concerns related to this commercial. I have not yet watched it. And it is for the Ring Doorbell and a new AI feature that they have running for Ring Doorbell. Here we go.
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This is Milo. Pets are family, but every year, 10 million go missing. And the way we look for them hasn't changed in years. Until now. One post of a dog's photo in the Ring app starts. Outdoor cameras looking for a match. Search party from Ring uses AI to help families find lost dogs. Since launch, more than a dog a day has been reunited with their family. Be A, your neighborhood with search party available to everyone for free right now. Join the neighborhood@ring.com.
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This might be controversial. I don't like it. I don't like it. It's cute. I'm a big dog lover. I would be devastated if my dog was missing. But this seems to me to be like a sweet, cute puppy, fluffy Trojan horse for mass surveillance. I am not. No, immediately, no. This is Big Brother. Invite the Communist party into your house as soon as humanly possible under the guise of a public safety and B, oh, look how cute your dog is. Also, let's just do some math. They said 10 million dogs go missing a year. That doesn't surprise me. That's really sad. And that they've helped over one dog per day to be found. So let me just do basic math for a second. One dog per day. Even if let's average a little bit more. One and a half dogs per day. That's 550 dogs a year out of 10 million dogs that go missing a year. That's like literally the smallest possible fraction of a singular percentage point success rate humanly possible. So is this really about dogs? I don't know. I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it. Libby. I don't Think it's about dogs. Seems to me to be a Trojan horse for mass surveillance. I don't know. I don't know. Search party. How long until they start selling this data to the government? The next time we have a Covid style lockdown and they're like we saw six people come over to your house today. Right to the Gulag you go. We saw people wearing cross necklaces come to your house today in a country where Christianity is no longer legal, carrying bibles. Right to the gulag you go. We heard you on your front porch, rocking chair, having a conversation, criticizing the government on the phone with your husband. Right to the gulag you go. Don't like that. Don't like that one bit. I do like puppy commercials, but we're not about mass surveillance around here. Let me know what your guys favorite and least favorite super bowl commercials were yesterday because I do love the commercials at the Super Bowl. Call it the red blooded conservative American in me Go Capitalism. It really pops off every single year at the Super Bowl. Send me your favorites so I have a chance to watch those. And we will be back tomorrow with more of the Isabelle Brown Show. See you guys then. New Year, new me. Cute. But how about New Year new money? With Experian you can actually take control of your finances. Check your FICO score, find ways to save and get matched with credit card offers giving you time to power through those New Year's goals. You know you're going to crush. Start the year off right. Download the Experian App based on FICO Score 8 model offers an approval not guaranteed. Eligibility requirements and terms apply subject to credit check which may impact your credit scores. Offers not available in all states. See experian.com for details. Experian LifeLock how can I help? The IRS said I filed my return, but I haven't.
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