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Kelsea Ballerini's Heartbreaking New Song Shows She Wants Kids -- The Economist Would Tell Her That's "Racist"
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Kelsey Ballerini has put out the most hauntingly tragic song about feeling like you missed the mark on wanting to have children because you were listening to the most horrifying feminist voices tell you that was a problem for later you I think it speaks volumes into how lost our society actually is, telling women that that we shouldn't want the most basic instinctual desires of our heart. Oh, and by the way, the Economist and other media publications are telling you that if you are a white person tapping into that instinctual desire to want to have babies, you're a Nazi eugenicist apparently. How on God's green earth can we turn around the fertility crisis in America? And what do women need to do to tell boys that won't commit to kick it to the curb or we're breaking it all down today on the Isabelle Brown show over the weekend, I'm sitting on my couch as I do especially when my daughter is not feeling very well. It's my baby's first time being kind of sick. She's got a cold and was really struggling through the whole weekend was super lethargic. So we had a very lazy weekend on the couch as a family, scrolling through, watching stuff on tv, getting ready for stranger things to come back, finally feel like it's been 8 million years. But here we are. And as I'm sitting there scrolling through thinking about what should we do the show on Monday about, I see the craziest tweet I may have ever seen. And I know I say that every week on the show with whatever we end up talking about, but apparently the media is just deciding to get worse and worse and worse and crazier with every passing day. You guys know I am incredibly passionate about the assault on the family, particularly as it has been packaged to young women constantly being shoved down our throats, that children are going to ruin your entire existence, that you'll never have a job, you'll never have a fun dating life again, you'll never have friends again, you'll never do anything interesting ever again. But as it's progressed, this narrative of never want kids, never want Kids Never Want Kids has escalated to the point that it's just getting insane. Okay. The Economist has decided to cover a conference that ran a couple of weeks ago called Natal Con. I did not know Natal Con was going on. I probably would have loved to attend. Actually, several of my friends spoke at it, including referenced in this article Jack Posobic, who was just on the show the other day. And apparently at this conference, the Economist says tech Bros and religious conservatives have come together to to promote having more babies in the United States of America. The Economist and the rest of the mainstream media apparatus apparently is really bothered by this. In fact, they're so uncomfortable by the idea of telling people to have children that that is akin to being a Nazi. Now, apparently to share this article covering the conference, they tweeted this over the weekend and just bear with me as I read these words with you together because it's genuinely ins. With Trump and Vance in power, many pronatalists, people who want you to have babies believe this is the moment to jumpstart baby making. But some critics see pro natalism as part of an insidious project to create a whiter America. I'm sorry, I. What. What are we doing? So telling you that you should want families and being concerned about the disastrously low birth rate in our country. Our country, which by the way, is wildly ethnically diverse. Let's just maybe remind ourselves of that for a second. Being concerned about that and the mass importation of immigration and migration to make up for it now makes you a eugenicist, I guess, even though the actual eugenicists in society, those actually trying to create a whiter America. Whatever we want to talk about with all of that are really the people in the abortion industry systematically killing children of color before they are ever even born. But nobody ever wants to talk about that. This article is insane. And I'm gonna pull it up for you because that's just the lead in. Frankly, we could spend four hours reading every single word out of this thing. But I want to pick out a couple of key moments for you. First and foremost, the COVID art of this being the stork carrying your baby to you wearing MAGA hats. So I guess they're admitting out loud the only people having children are indeed conservatives in this country, which is fascinating. Speaks volumes about the two Americas and the two realities that we are really living through right now. Make America procreate again, says the economists among the MAGA fertility fanatics. They single out specifically JD Vance kind of at the top of this piece, which I find really interesting. He, in many ways, I think, is representing a bigger threat to the media apparatus and to the political establishment than even Donald Trump is. That's why the they are regularly attacking JD Vance as hyper masculine, as Catholic, as really vocally in support of the family, as just not right for a presidential figure in the United States of America, tells me that he very clearly will be our next president. But here's what the Economist had to say. The vice president, J.D. vance, is at the nexus of the Trad Tech alliance as a vocal up. What did I say? They attack him all the time for this. As a vocal convert to Roman Catholicism whose political career was supercharged by Peter Thiel, his former boss, JD Vance has been thrilled to make pronatalism an explicitly MAGA issue. I don't really know that he's done that, to be honest, but let's pretend that he has. Okay, sure, he has criticized prominent Democrats who don't have biological children for being childless cat ladies. I don't know that that has much to do with politics so much as it has to do with miserable, angry millennial feminists trying to drag us all down into the pit of their despair. They say Taylor Swift then pointedly used that phrase in her endorsement of Kamala Harris last year. I guess they're not keeping up with the fact that Taylor Swift's own fan base is pissed at her in the last few weeks for making songs about, oh, wanting to have children. Let's not forget a few seconds ago, a few seconds ago, the entire Internet was ablaze with hatred for Taylor Swift making a song, saying she wanted the whole block to look like Travis Kelce. And people were saying that was advocating for white supremacist babies. H. Interesting. I guess the economists aren't Swifties, so they don't listen to this stuff. Regardless, JD Vance, they say, has made a point of saying in his first address as first public address as vice president that he wants more babies in the United States of America. I was there in the crowd that was at the March for Life. It was amazing. Trump, in turn, has declared himself the fertilization president and recently unveiled a plan to offer a discounted fertility drug opportunity through Trump rx, which is the administration's direct to consumer website for pharmaceuticals due to launch next year, which we haven't covered that on the show yet. I do plan to cover it very, very soon, so stay tuned on all of that. But they also failed to admit here that that was made kind of ingest the whole, oh, maybe I'll be known as the fertilization president was an offhanded joke made once by President Trump, but actually quite a legacy. I would be happy with that being President Trump's legacy. They say this There was a sense among many at Natal Con that with Trump advance in power, the moment to jumpstart American baby making had come at last. But those gathered outside the museum on the opening night of the conference had a different impression that Pro Natalism was part of a broader and more insidious project to create a whiter America. A group of protesters, their faces mostly covered, shocking color me shocked, gathered in the museum's courtyard. Nazis off our campus. They screamed through a megaphone and as conference attendees streamed in, one sign read eugenicists with the word Natalists crossed through. Hmm. Back to the show in just a second. 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The people calling you a eugenicist because you are a white person wanting to have a baby are the same people that celebrate champion, take to the streets to try to defend the literal eugenics of the abortion industry and groups like Planned Parenthood that were started in tandem with the American Eugenics Society to try to weed out the less desirable populations from our society. The irony of calling a white person a eugenicist for wanting to have children while you, regardless of your skin color, post all over your social media and take to the streets and claim that you are the one championing human rights by saying it's more compassionate for, I don't know, a baby with a disability to be killed instead of being born because you don't want them to suffer. It's more compassionate for black children in New York City, in, particularly in low income areas, to be aborted rather than be born into a life of potential poverty, which happens all the time, by the way. If you are a black baby in the womb in New York City today, you are less likely to be born than you are to be aborted. That's eugenics. Just in case we need the refresher. But instead they're calling you a eugenicist for wanting more children to have happy, beautiful, thriving families if your skin color happens to be white. I mean, this is a, this is a direct translation of what this article means. And you saw this in the tweet, obviously, but you also saw it here in the article. They don't want anyone to procreate. Let's be honest. That's why they believe so strongly in the abortion industry. But they especially don't want white people in America to have babies. Could you imagine for just half a millisecond putting this tweet out about literally any other demographic group, group, Any other demographic group. Could you imagine calling black people eugenicists for wanting to have black babies? No. Yeah, me neither. Because we have normalized and completely accepted anti white racism in this country because we have convinced ourselves and gaslit ourselves into believing that it's impossible to be racist against white people. But that's exactly what this article is. It is. It is racist against white people and it's disgusting and it has no place in an actually enlightened or progressive society. But hey, as long as it's about white people, who the heck cares? This article goes on to admit that we actually do have a problem with birth rates in America. They say globally birth rates are falling Recent analysis conducted by this publication suggests that if current trends continue, the world population is likely to peak in 2065 at 9.6 billion people, and then tumble. It is even possible that it might stop growing in the 2000 and 50s and never exceed 9 billion. America currently has a total fertility rate of 1.6 children per women, and that's falling, by the way. This also is not necessarily the generally widely accepted number here. There's a lot of different studies that would tell you it's even lower. But let's pretend it is 1.6, meaning that it is well below the general replacement rate for a society of 2.1. That's the standard estimate of what's required to keep a population stable. But it is more fecund than Europe or East Asia, parts of which are still reckoning with the total fertility rate of 1 or less. I mean, this is truly a crisis. Then they admit, yeah, it's kind of bad. But actually, we're going to tell you that it's good because we're the media. And why would we ever tell you the truth? We have to tell tell you what we're told by our corporate overlords controlled by the World Economic Forum. More often than not to tell you. In many ways, they say falling birth rates are a symptom of something positive. That more pregnancies are planned and more women. Here we go. This is always what it boils down to for these people. More women are exercising agency over their lives. No, they're actually just believing the cultural lies that they need to kill their children and in order to be happy. But they have to admit, even though they're trying to convince you this is such a good thing, the consequences of population decline are, at the very best, uncertain. If each generation is smaller than the previous one, there could be fewer workers to shoulder the burden of caring for the elderly or servicing public debt. AI might compensate for the fall in the number of humans, but it's impossible to say how much. They're even going on to talk about needing to bribe women to have babies because the crisis has gotten that bad. D D d d D D and this goes on for like a PhD level dissertation. This is one of their long reads that they have at the Economist. But the whole thing really boils down to the fact that we're not having children. You shouldn't want to have children, especially if you are white, because that's racist. That's actually Nazi behavior. You're a eugenicist. If you even want to have children in the first place, but it's actually good. It's a great thing we're not having kids because it just means more women are exercising agency over their own lives. The whole thing to me screams wildly tone deaf when women everywhere in our culture today are starting to wake up and realize that we have been strategically lied to by, by the powers that be, to run away, to sprint as fast as we can in the other direction from our basic biology and our instinctual desire to want to have children. There is a reason when we are growing up as little girls and we play house, that we pretend to be moms. There is a reason we love playing with baby dolls. There's a reason that our heart aches when we see such a beautiful baby walking around in the streets or going to work in the morning. It's because we are naturally wired to want that for ourselves. And I'm sick and tired of our society pretending like that's wrong, like that's regressive, like that's anti woman. And the heartbreaking part about all of this is that it's really starting to manifest in powerful ways across our culture that we've watched an entire generation of women, those who came just before us in the millennial era, realize this too late. And they're realizing that their childbearing years or the opportunity that they would have had to have a family is slipping away very rapidly or already has gone out the window because they bought into this cultural lie for most of their 20s and 30s, only to wake up on the other end and be heartbroken, single and alone because they believed their job, their career, their personal identity was, was going to be so much more important to them than building something bigger than themselves. Ironically, also over the weekend, as this piece from the Economist dropped, Kelsey Ballerini came out with a new song. I actually really love Kelsey Ballerini's music. I've been listening to her for a very long time. We don't agree on a whole lot politically, but that's okay. I do love her music. Kelsey Ballerini's new song that's part of, I believe, a six song EP that's supposed to drop in the next few days. But the single already came out is called I Sit in Parks and generally speaking is about feeling like you are running out of time to have children, feeling like you should have maybe prioritized that earlier in your life and buying into all of these cultural lies that we talk about all the time here on the show and in my content, if you've been following along on my instagram you'll know I am in the holiday season earlier and earlier. Last year and this year especially. Maybe it's the first time mom thing, I don't know. But. 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It breaks my heart because I see just how far I am from the things that I want. And it's a family. She wants a family. Dad brought the picnic. Mom brought the sunscreen. Two kids are laughing and crying on red swings. Oh God. Maybe it's because I am a mom and I'm just really. I don't know, maybe I'm just emotional and hormonal about everything. Right now. But that. That hits. We look about the same age but we don't have the same Saturdays oh, that's just. That's powerful, honestly. Oh, here we go. Here's the chorus. Did I miss it by now? Is it a lucid dream? Is it my fault for change Chasing things that a body clock doesn't wait for? My career doesn't care My career doesn't care Oof. I did the damn tour. It's what I wanted, what I got I spun around oh, I It's what I wanted and what I got I spun around and then I stopped and wonder if I missed the marks oh God, this second verse hits so much harder than even the first one. So I sit in parks sunglasses dark and I hit the vape. How many young women do I see doing this all the time? Actually hallucinate a nursery with Noah's ark Then I lay on a blanket and he's. She's watching this family. God damn it. He loves her. I wonder if she wants my freedom like I want to be a mother. My heart is like actually broken for this woman. But she says Rolling Stone says I'm on the right road. So I refill my Alexa pro, keep taking pharmaceutical drugs to cope with the fact that I'm alone and miserable. And I'm just reflecting on the fact that I should not have listened to the best advice that every single person in my life gave me, that all of the industry experts gave me, that all of the pro woman feminists gave me. She sings the chorus one more time. I sit in parks checking benchmarks. Taryn, I'm wondering if that's maybe A Friend's Baby is due in June, but my album is due in March. The response to this song is really interesting to me because you would think that she Kelsey ballerini at what, 32, almost 33 years old, represents the the vast majority of early 30 year old women that she did what you're exactly you're supposed to do that she chased the career, she did all the right things. She's young and beautiful and dating supermodel type boyfriends in Chase Stokes. Da da da da da. But the comments on this speak to the fact that this song deeply, deeply resonated with people with other young women who feel like they were fed the exact same same lie shoved down their throats and now are waking up on the other side of this to realize that they are heartbroken and miserable. YouTube's actual account said crying over this song, screaming about the album, feeling all the feels. Tony says What a vulnerable song. I've never had this experience. Baby Fever is a foreign concept to me. I wonder why, but I could feel it for you just listening to this. This is so poignant. Samantha says, as a single girl in her 30s, I have never related to a song more. Sarah, this song absolutely wrecked me in the best way possible. Ashley. Kelsey, this made me cry. I know this feeling all too well. Thank you for putting this into words and sharing it with the world. April. I'm 33 and dearly hoping to be married and be a mom someday. I'm seeking to trust God's timing and praying for discernment on how to continue to put myself out there. If I knew what to do differently in dating, I would be doing it. I don't even know what to do. I'm doing everything that everybody is telling me to do, and I'm still alone and miserable and. And lonely. I'm. I'm wanting a bigger purpose in my life. Oh, Booth says, sister, if only you knew how much your journey is relatable to my own. Wow, Marlene, what a beautiful song. Thank you, Kelsey, for being so vulnerable in your music. You are not alone, babe. I'm 34, and you captured how I am feeling perfectly. Emily. No words. Way to make a girl feel things that she didn't even know she could feel. Megan. As I'm trying for my first baby, this resonates so hard watching my friends be mothers. Oh, my gosh. This is so. Oh, this is powerful. Absolutely unreal. Kelsey will always have a talent of writing just how we are all feeling. Wow. Interestingly, part of the response to Kelsey's song here is also acknowledging the fact that she got divorced when she was 29 years old. Kelsey was married in her early to mid 20s and ended up getting divorced from her then husband, Morgan Evans when she was 29 a few years ago. I believe this happened in 2022. And right after her divorce, she appeared on the infamous Call Her Daddy podcast with Alex Cooper. And there's a specific snippet of this podcast that people are referencing in the fact that she has now, three years later, written this song. Feeling like I missed the boat on having children. That I think is important for us to zoom in on here for a second. She said, the moment I think it. It being the operative term for her marriage to Morgan Evans was over. I was realizing I wasn't ready for kids, and that is a fundamental difference. I don't know if I want kids at all or not, but that was something that we had talked about. Early on in our marriage, and that was something that I was changing on. So not even relatively that long ago. Just three years ago, at 29, when you feel like you have all the time in the world, Kelsey Ballerini was asking herself, do I even want kids? I'm certainly not ready for them right now. Enjoy your twenties. Do the young and wild and crazy thing. I don't even really want to be married anymore. I'm just going to go be me, be free, be liberated, be what we call an empowered woman in society today. And in just three years, from 2022 to 2025, from age 29 to 32, you saw such a substantial difference in this beautiful young woman going from I don't even think I ever want kids, to now writing a poignantly hauntingly beautiful song about feeling like you missed the mark because you listened to what the Rolling Stones of the world were telling you, that everything's going great, that you're on top of the world, that there's nothing that could make you happier. But when you see families out in public, you have a gut punch saying, I want that for myself. Why didn't I pursue that when I had an easier opportunity to? I don't think Kelsey has missed the boat by any means. She's only 32 years old. But she is a perfect case study of what's happening to millennial women and what is sure to happen to the women of Generation Z if we are not woefully serious about turning things around and dramatically changing the cultural narrative around children like yesterday. 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What the hell just happened for the last several years? So I think it begs the question, how do we fix it? How do we stop listening to the economists of the world telling us that it is evil to want to have children because you are a Nazi eugenicist, apparently, if you think people should be wanting to have babies. And how do we start listening to the desperate plea of do not do what I did from a Kelsey Ballerini in this hauntingly beautiful new song, I Sit In Parks. It starts with personal responsibility 100% and realizing that you don't have the luxury of just being loose and wild and crazy and free throughout your 20s. Your 20s are not meant to be wasted. Your 20s are meant to be lived. But it starts first and foremost through that personal responsibility, with choosing the right person to spend your life with. I think a big component of all of this, as highlighted in a recent letter to the editor published in the Telegraph, is that so many women ignore that gut feeling that they have day in and day out when they're with the wrong person and they push it down and they say, it doesn't matter yet. It doesn't matter yet. It doesn't matter yet. So we end up half in, half out, committed and kind of casually dating men for years and years and years and years on end all throughout our childbearing years. And then when they still don't want to commit to us, then we feel robbed of that experience. Experience because we didn't leave and go chase something else. The Telegraph late last month posted a letter to the editor called My ex stole my childbearing years. Does he owe me anything? And this young woman wrote into the Telegraph saying that she had been in a relationship with a guy for 10 years. Ten years, throughout her late 20s, all the way through her 30s. And they bought a house together, she calls it a flat in the uk. They were paying a mortgage together. And then by the time that this guy was 38 years old, he looked at her and said, yeah, I still feel like I have another good decade left in me to keep living my life and doing my thing before I even want to think about kids. But I know that that's different for women, so I'm going to break up with you now. And this woman, at 34 years old, was then left confused, childless, single, alone and with nowhere to go, incredibly confused about the fact that she had just invested 10 years of her life and a mortgage into a relationship with someone who wasn't really interested in committing to her long term. And it just broke my heart thinking about how many of us have made that same mistake over the years. Because we keep listening to this little voice in society telling us, worry about it, don't worry about it, don't worry about it, don't worry about it. Your 20s are for fun. Your 20s are to be wild and crazy. Your 20s are meant to be all single, no consequences, just do your thing. And then we wake up in our early 30s or our mid-30s and we start saying something is fundamentally wrong with this picture. This is not how relationships are supposed to go. And maybe we need more radical societal level solutions to shut up. That little voice constantly telling an entire generation of women that you should want all of the wrong things and to Ignore that instinctual pole towards marriage and children, because that is a beautiful component of the human experience and something that you should be yearning for. So this has now started an Internet wide debate and in our last few minutes of the show today, I'm dying to get all of your guys's thoughts on this. So please, please, please take advantage of the comment section wherever you are watching the episode today, because we are dying to know what you guys think people have now out of this larger conversation around the stealing of your childbearing years or the waking up in your mid-30s and realizing you made all the wrong choices, coming up with some radical societal changes that they are proposing. I'm not endorsing any of these things. I'm just putting things out there and seeing what you guys think about what's being discussed on the Internet. Jessica Pin tweeted that she is proposing a bachelor tax on society. She says men should have to pay extra taxes for being single after age 30. Those taxes can go towards financial incentives for married couples to have children. That solves birth rates. Boom. You're welcome. The reason that men specifically need to be taxed extra, especially above a certain taxpayer bracket, is to eliminate the more money, more incentive for success. Ideally, a man's incentive for success should come from providing for his family. Charlie believed that through and through. He talked about that all the time. That when you have a baby, ultimately all of a sudden you have this like, instinctual need to provide and you work harder than you ever have in your entire life. She says it is best if men settle down to avoid men wasting women's reproductive years. Alternatively, maybe you can get out of a single tax if you are in a new registered relationship for less than two years, but then you have to get married that gets all of their relationships registered so that people cannot cheat without the side pieces knowing. All right, that sounds like a whole lot of big government to me. But it is interesting to think about the financial incentives that our society is providing to, to keep people single. That certainly has been the case of the welfare state and that certainly has been a problem with the tax code. Something J.D. vance has pushed to maybe amend is creating a larger child tax credit, which I think is interesting. Uh, a man is pushing back on that in her comment section on Twitter and basically saying the opposite. He is recommending that young women be taxed. He says that's an incredibly dumb idea. But if the idea is to encourage marriage, and it would make a whole lot more sense to tax unmarried women over 30, it's an interesting Idea. The Economist, in that God awful long piece on the fact that you are a Nazi if you are a white person wanting to have a baby, talks about this. They call it bribing people to have more babies. Many governments, they say, have tried to bribe people to have more babies. South Korea, which has the lowest total fertility rate on earth, 0.72. They are literally collapsing as a society has spent over $270 billion over the past 20 years on pronatalist policies. They subsidize taxis for pregnant women. They provide free IVF nationwide and in some towns they give new mothers free housing. This year it began granting couples a cash payment of close to $20,000 over eight years for each child they have. They also reference Viktor Orban's government in Hungary. They spend 6% of their GDP annually on pronatalist policies, including something that I vow to crusade for in the United States of America. Mark my words, this will be legislation before the Trump administration is gone. If I die on no other hill, I will die on this hill. They have a lifelong exemption from income tax for mothers of two children or more. So whether it's taxing single women over age 30, taxing 30 plus year old bachelors who are making a whole lot of money, maybe eliminating income tax for women who have two or more kids, free housing. What do we need to do? I'm dying to know what you think are appropriate societal level responses to changing what we're seeing as a collapsing birth rate in our society because it is disastrously bad. I mean, we are in a, in a position of true economic decline, true population decline, resource issues. This is going to be a problem we leave to our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren, not to mention just culturally, a problem that we create entire generations of broken hearts over if we can't dramatically turn things around very, very quickly. So what is your proposed solution to fix the family crisis, or lack thereof, family crisis in America today? And the last thing I'll leave you with is this. I, like most young women before I met my husband, did the thing I did, the thing that we all do. And I don't think we always like to admit it because it's uncomfortable and nobody likes to talk about it. And it's such a sad. And you don't want to be the sad girl who's dealing with all these feelings in her gut and in her heart. But I dated somebody for years and years and years and years, all throughout college and most of my early 20s, convinced I was going to marry that person. Lo and Behold, they did not share the same level of investment in the relationship that I did. And I kind of knew all along that that was something that was gnawing at me and eating at my heart. And it took probably three years, at least a solid full one calendar year of literal misery, but three years probably in total for me to be able to look in the mirror and say, I have got to move on. Because every single day I spend in this relationship is a day that I am not meeting my husband. And I really struggled through that period of my life. I think most young women in our society do today, but we don't know how to confront that because every single voice in society around us is screaming at the top of its lungs and eh, don't worry about it. That's a problem for your future life. I, by the grace of God, truly that is the only explanation. Met my husband about four months after I ended that relationship and I knew immediately that he was going to be my husband. He told me the very first day he met me he was not interested in dating anyone unless it was in the pursuit of marriage. And right away in our relationship, we knew that that's where that relationship was headed. We were incredibly honest with each other up front. Front. So big sister, because I am a big sister of three girls in in our family, I'm the oldest of three. Friend to friend, sister to sister, advice person to whoever needs to hear this. If you are in a relationship that is going nowhere and it has been several years, take this as permission to take the personal responsibility to say I want more for my life than the emptiness of constantly wondering if someone wants to prioritize me, wants to commit to me and wants to put me first. Because I think the tragic reality as we saw in this song from Kelsey Ballerini, when we ignore that little voice, is we wake up in our mid-30s feeling like we're running out of time and that we missed the mark because our Saturdays, our weekends, look different from what the beautiful families we see out in society are experiencing. You should not have to to reference these lyrics one more time. Hit the vape to hallucinate a nursery with a Noah's ark laying on a blanket saying damn it, this guy loves this girl so much. Why can't I have that in my own life? Listening to all of the feminist voices in society say, you're on the right road, keep taking your depression meds because that's the only thing that's going to keep you going. Life is so much bigger. Be courageous, be bold as a young woman, be willing to actually give your whole heart away to someone else who's going to cherish it, who's going to shepherd it, who's going to lead it and invest back into it, not leave you wondering if you're good enough or this person really cares about you enough, or you're ever going to experience what you really, truly, deeply want at the foundation of your life, which is a white wedding dress at an altar and meeting your baby girl in the hospital with this man. If that is not in the cards for you, have the courage to say it's time to move on. Because there are literally thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon thousands of men, probably millions of them in our country, who do want those things. It is the number one political priority among Generation Z men to get married and have children, by the way. Just putting that out there. So the odds are pretty good. The odds are pretty good out there. Just be willing to embrace more than what our empty culture has to tell you. All right off my soapbox, I promise. But we love you guys so much. We are back tomorrow for the Isabel Brown show and as always, I know it's a really weird news cycle time with the government shutdown and so much weird stuff going on, but if there are topics like this one, tons of you guys asked that we react to this song over the weekend on the show, so we listened. If there are topics that you guys are wanting to see us cover or guests you are wanting to see us interview, please drop us all of those suggestions in the comments of the episode today. And and don't forget to subscribe wherever you are watching or listening to catch the next episode of the show. See you tomorrow.