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Spring break isn't what it used to be. It's better this spring. Stay three nights and get a $50 Best Western gift card. Life's a trip. Make the most of it at best Western. Visit bestwestern.com for complete terms and conditions. So it turns out your life is a lie and Olivia Dean is actually a secret agent infiltrating our society with trad wife propaganda, trying to create a heteronormative society after we dropped that. So in 2015, people are angry that one of the hottest artists in the music industry won the Grammy Award for best new artist because she's just too classy. And classy equals evil, apparently. Plus, Don Lemon says that he was so intimidated being arrested by federal agents, even though intimidation is what I thought protesting was all about. Jelly Roll gave a shout out to Jesus last weekend. And so much more today on the Isabelle Brown Show. You guys probably have learned this about me up to this point in time. I am not a reality TV celebrity gossip award show type girl. I don't think I've watched the Oscars since maybe like fourth grade. I don't think I've ever watched the Grammys, although I did watch all the clips of Ricky Gervais hosting the Grammys a few years ago, which was iconic. So unbelievably good. So I'm not usually one to pay attention to who has the best album of the year. Wasn't it Bad Bunny? Preemptively. That's not the most shocking thing I've ever heard in my life. Of course they're gonna give Bad Bunny album of the year right before he performs in a dress. The Super Bowl. I digress. I certainly don't know who all the nominees for best supporting actress are coming up at the Oscars, yada yada yada. But I did hear something from the Grammys last weekend that made me really, really excited. Even if the Internet is not sharing my excitement. Ms. Olivia Dean, one of my favorite musicians right now, won the Grammy Award for best new artist this year last weekend in Hollywood. And first, let me just say I love Olivia Dean. Do I expect Olivia Dean as one of my favorite musicians? I would say right now she's probably my second most listened to musician. Do I expect her to have the same political beliefs that I do? No, I don't expect any human being on the planet to have the same political beliefs that I do. But some people do seem to be asking that of her. That said, her music makes me feel like I have been instantly transported to an early 2000s romantic comedy. It makes me feel like I am living inside of a Nancy Myers movie set. I, every time I hear Olivia Dean sing, want to crawl inside the sound of her voice and snuggle up there forever. It is impossible not to dance and smile listening to Olivia Deen's Man, I need. Okay, I'm done. We don't have to keep going. But not everyone seems to feel this way. And certainly not everyone is so happy that Ms. Olivia Deen won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. In fact, a whole lot of people, especially the Internet trolls, are angry that Olivia Deen has been named by the Grammys as the best new artist this year because she's not quite leftist progressive enough to be taken seriously in Hollywood. To the contrary, actually, many people are accusing her of pushing trad wife propaganda because of her vintage aesthetic, her classy fashion, her clean lyrics, and the nostalgia in her music that actually feels like you were transported back in time to the late 1990s or the early 2000s. Are you leaving us, Libby? No, you just want to sit right there? Okay. People are tweeting that Ms. Olivia Dean did not make her music videos for sales or to appease the Billboard charts. In fact, she made her music videos to, and I quote from Fendiana on X perpetuate the ideals of trad wives to modern day youth trying to restore our population to a once heteronormative way of living. Whew, that's a mouthful. There's a lot to unpack there. So basically in 2026, we've arrived in. In a post heterosexual society, or at least post heteronormative society. I actually think that might be kind of accurate. And that certainly was an ideal pushed for by the Communist Party for the last 60 plus years. If you know, you know, if you don't know, go back and watch the very first episode of our show that we put out six months ago in September. But because Olivia Deen is a feminine woman singing about wanting a certain type of man, probably a masculine man, and in her music, and she's wearing a generally conservative dress and is incredibly classy, that makes her propagandizing trad wife material to modern day youth so that we can restore America to a heteronormative way of living gag. But that tweet has, and I'm not joking, 2 million views. It seems people are really resonating with, with this idea that Olivia Deen is secretly propagandizing the next generation because she's not really quite leftists enough. Other people are Quote, tweeting this exact same music video and saying, she didn't make this for Billboard. She made this for TJ Maxx and Single Mom. Get ready with Me tiktoks. All right. Other people saying Olivia Deen, really? For best new artists. It's literally boring trad wife granny music. Didn't realize that feeling like you're living inside of the plot of the parent Trap. By the way, the most vibey film. I'm Talking about the 1990s one with Lindsay Lohan. The original one's good too. But the Nancy Myers parent Trap movie. Most vibey film ever made. I modeled the vibes of my wedding after this film. Not even a joke. If you feel like you're living inside of that movie, you are a boring trad wife granny. I will gladly accept those labels if it means living inside of the vibiest feeling in the entire world. And it's not just because she's a woman singing about a man instead of singing about, I don't know, perpetual sex with eight people at the same time because she's restoring these heteronormative ideals. That's not the only reason that they're calling her a trad wife. I Other tiktokers are angry at Olivia Dean because they say she's just too classy for their liking. You literally cannot make this up. Listen to this.
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I'm so tired from the Grammys. I just took a nap and woke up. But I just saw a video of somebody saying that they're happy that a classy woman won best new artist, and it's kind of pissing me off. I love Olivia Dean. She's incredible. Such an amazing performer and musician. Her vocals are incredible. But the idea of, like, a classy woman winning the Grammy and that being something to celebrate is very interesting because it feels like it's a response to, like, Chapel Roan, who is very open about her sexuality, and Sabrina Carpenter, who has really talked about sexuality and sex. Now a classy woman has won, so we should celebrate that. I don't know. It just. It just pissed me off a little bit because it's interesting that Olivia Dean provides this, like, breath of fresh air to the music industry. I don't like that the conversation around her win comes at the expense of other women. Like, can we just compliment her? Can we just say she's iconic and her music is incredible and leave it at that? Chapel Ron's music is iconic. Victoria Monet's music is amazing. Olivia Rodrigo slays it up every time. Can you just say you like her. Like, can we leave it at that?
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So apparently if you call a woman classy now in 2026, that means that you are calling every other woman not classy. And therefore the win of someone like classy Olivia Dean comes at the expense of people like Chapel Roan and Sabrina Carpenter. Interesting that you brought those names up because we'll circle back to that in a second. But genuinely, why do they say this about Olivia Deen? It's certainly not because of her acceptance speaker speech and the politics that she talked about on stage, which wasn't like overtly quite as political as the clip I saw of Billie Eilish saying that she feels so guilty for living on stolen land. Okay, give back your gazillion dollar mansion then. Like, I just have a hard time believing the validity of your statement, but actually Olivia Dean sounded quite progressive to me on stage. So the trad wife propaganda, too classy conservative thing, I don't think is coming from this part of her acceptance speech. Yes, I want to say I'm up here as a granddaughter of an immigrant. I wouldn't be here. Yeah, I'm a product of bravery and I think those people deserve to be celebrated. So, yeah, we're nothing without each other. Thank you so much. I love being you. Thank you so much. Which, by the way, isn't like a wildly progressive or conservative statement, I think. Like, sure, it was brave of your grandmother to legally immigrate somewhere and now you have a better life because of all of that. That's pretty much what we're all fighting for right now. So, yeah, same page. And maybe they're calling her a trad wife not because of this acceptance speech not being progressive enough, but because of her beautiful, beautiful ball gown, her red carpet outfit that is so unbelievably iconic. The black and white thing, the massive ballroom skirt, the deep cut in the back. I mean, she's so elegant, so for lack of a better word, classy. So stunning. The word that really comes to mind looking at her is timeless. I think when I saw this outfit going viral all over social media, I just immediately was taken aback and transported back to a time of like vintage Chanel, Oscar de la Renta style silhouettes, like genuine feminine beauty. And this, sadly, even though this is not really like a conservative dress by any means, it accentuates a lot of her body in a really beautiful way compared to the other women that the one TikTok guy was ranting about a few minutes ago, maybe does appear now in 2026 to be wildly Trad wife. When you look at the other empowering female artists out there in Hollywood at this moment in time, I saw it. So you don't have to feast your eyes. Actually, we're gonna make you see it because I can't live with this by myself. I saw it so that you do have to feast your eyes on Chapel Roan's red carpet outfit this year. It seems we are hooking our dresses to our nipple piercings. Now we'll blur this out to make sure it's safe for you guys to see. Look it up on your own time if you want the very, very explicit version. But yeah, you kind of get the picture. And showing off all of our back tattoos. I mean, even just put the comparison between the back of Chapelroan's dress and how deep and disgusting it is and the same like low cut silhouette to an appropriate level on the back of Olivia Deen's outfit. One is classy, one is trashy. There's nothing anti woman or mean to Chapel Roan about this. I think it's maybe mean to her stylist who deserves to be fired for this situation. But I would so much rather point my daughters towards a beautiful woman wearing Olivia Deen's outfit than Chapelroane's. When you compare Olivia Deen's supposedly trad wife aesthetic with what we saw Addison Rae wear on the red carpet, this girl genuinely thought she was giving Marilyn Monroe at the Grammys this year. Instead, she's giving half crumpled up tissue stuck up your butt crack. You walked out of the bathroom with toilet paper still stuck in your butt crack. She thought this was like really going to give. No, you did not eat, honey. It's not the situation. And maybe they call Olivia Dean a trad wife because when she performs, she gives Norah Jones not so Sabrina Carpenter. That's exactly who she reminds me of. Nora Jones. That hit me this morning, actually. She's like a bouncier, happier, youthful Nora Jones transported. For this generation, it's perfect. But when Olivia Dean gets on stage, she's singing about falling in love and timeless values rather than what we've seen people drag their children to. You would be astonished how many little girls have been brought by their moms to the Sabrina Carpenter World Tour, where every single night she dances around on stage simulating sex acts, wearing lingerie, asking little girls if they have ever tried different sex positions. Have you ever tried this one? Whatever the reason, it's becoming really, really, really obvious to me that unless you get on stage in Hollywood and you say verbatim that we are living on stolen land. You chant f ice over and over again. Or you become a little bit more edgy and call for the actual beheading of Donald Trump, Kathy Griffin style. Or say you're gonna blow up a la Madonna the last few years, by the way, for which they have never been prosecuted or taken seriously by any of these threats. You will never be enough to satisfy the mob of Hollywood. Age comes at you fast and it dawned on me this year that it has been seven years since I started posting on social media full time and honestly, that just continues to blow my mind. I will never forget springtime seven years ago, sitting my parents down on the couch in our living room saying, you know, I don't think I want to go to medical school, I think I want to post videos on the Internet for a living and the look on my mom's face is something that will be burned into it for the rest of eternity. But truly, my parents have been so supportive of this journey, but I didn't know what I didn't know and it can be so overwhelming, especially in the world of content creation. Getting in and starting your own business from the ground up. There's tons of forms to fill out and there's no playbook for how you eventually make it to a successful point and when you can quit your day job and end up doing this as your full time career. 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Because regular people in society are nostalgically longing for a return to the vibes of our childhood, we are manifesting that in rom com. Bouncy, happy, feminine music like that of Olivia Dean. We love classic, timeless fashion and you're seeing that. Come back. If you went and saw the Melania movie last weekend, you'll love all of the fashion design that goes into that. That feels so Oscar de la Renta Vintage Chanel. Classic, feminine, timeless, clean, sleek. We love classic movie feelings. And you're watching the return of the rom com these last several years and we're seeing a new return of a rom com coming in May, which we'll talk about at the end of the show. But that's happening because our culture is embracing cultural conservatism. Again. That doesn't necessarily mean that you rampantly support Donald Trump or you're bought into MAGA politics or even you even consider yourself to be a trad wife. But look at who the media and these raging leftists on social media are labeling as a trad wife over the past couple of years. J.K. rowling is like this extreme evil trad wife regressive woman, a terf that's trying to take down all women everywhere. Ironically, when she's standing up for actual women, Ballerina Farm is considered an extreme trad wife trying to raise regress womanhood back to a time where everyone was barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen all while she's managing as the CEO her own multimillion dollar business that has completely exploded all over the world. She's winning beauty pageants just days after giving birth to her babies and has become a symbol of female entrepreneurship for an entire generation in a new kind of homesteading way. And now Olivia Dean, who is not exactly new to the music industry, her vibe is incredibly iconic because it is nostalgic and because it is classy that is worthy of cancellation on you as a trad wife, because you're just not quite sexualized enough. And that's the only way to empower young women. Extreme leftists are so deeply traumatized by a time when women could just be women that they insist singing Man I Need is pretty propaganda or like right wing programming. And meanwhile, these people themselves are the victims of decades of left wing programming convincing them that anything remotely feminine or girly is oppressive. Anything classy comes at the expense of the success of women who are not considered so classy a la chapel roan on the red carpet, or Sabrina Carpenter singing about different sex acts in the most explicit way possible in front of children on stage in her world tour, one thing is incredibly clear and oh my gosh, I'm about to throw my husband under the bus here. My husband loves a good bop, okay? He loves pop music. He himself will sing along to a Sabrina Carpenter song every once in a while. But I have found myself over the past few weeks saying turn that off in front of our daughter. We will be playing some Olivia Dean and if that makes me an evil repressive trad wife, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, so be it. Because honestly, I would so much rather fight for a society where I can play music in front of my kid and not constantly have to be worrying about Sabrina Carpenter singing oh My F I'm so H O r N Y which actually was said in the song played in front of our daughter the other day. And I said turn that off, turn that crap off and be bouncing around to the feelings of the Parent Trap, the feelings of a Nancy Myers film, the feelings of an early 2000s Rom com Allah Olivia Dean style any day of the week. And you should too. Speaking of the Grammys, some really interesting things happened on stage. As we know, Billie Eilish gave her whole rant about no one is illegal on stolen land, but how is it possible for anyone to be legal or illegal if the land is in fact stolen? Aren't we all illegal if in fact I It's. There's a lot. There's a lot going on there. But in all the midst of the craziness and the horrible woke speeches and the f ice crap that you saw everywhere and the buttons celebrities were wearing. Again, I didn't watch the Grammys. These were all just things that I saw on X. So there may have been even more egregious examples. I just don't really want to dedicate my time to watching this crap. I Did see a clip that I watched 40 or 50 times over and over and over again, which came from Jelly Roll. I will say I'm not immediately like Jelly Roll's number one biggest fan. I'm just not that familiar with his music. But I am a die hard country music girl. I like a couple of his songs. I just haven't done like the deep dive into his entire discography yet. But he got on stage and wanted to say one thing in particular to the elitists of Hollywood, saying, I know they're going to try to kick me off the stage. So let me just try to get this out. I want to lead people to Jesus. Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by a political party. Jesus is not owned by a music label. Anyone can have a relationship with him. Listen to this.
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I know they're going to try to kick me off here, so just let me try to get this out. First of all, Jesus, I hear you and I'm listening, Lord. I am listening, Lord. Second of all, I want to thank my beautiful wife. I would have never changed my life without you. I'd ended up dead or in jail. I'd have killed myself if it wasn't for you. I. If Jesus, I thank you for that. I thank you for my label. Broken Bow Country Radio, baby. What's up, dog? Oh, Republic, John, Manila, we did it, baby. There was a time in my life, y', all, that I was. I was broken. That's why I wrote this album. I didn't think I had a chance, y'. All. There was days that I thought the darkest things. I was a horrible human. There was a moment in my life that all I had was a bible this big and a radio the same size and a 6 by 8 foot cell. And I believe that those two things could change my life. I believe that music had the power to change my life and God had the power to change my life. And I want to tell y' all right now, Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is not owned by no music label. Jesus is Jesus. And anybody can have a relationship with him. I love you, Lord.
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I love how they cut to Reba McIntyre several times in the audience. Probably one of the only genuine Christians in attendance at the Grammys. Jesus is not owned by anyone. He is available to everyone. And then you saw that, followed up with a tweet from Nicki Minaj, actually, which I thought was really interesting and powerful. Nicki Minaj, who has been snubbed by the entire music industry, said this as they were leading up to the Grammys on Sunday night. As they do their ritual tonight, God Almighty will reveal himself to them. Their ritual will backfire on them. God will not be mocked. Blessed is the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Every tongue that rises up against me in judgment shall be condemned and put to shame. Watch.
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Ooh.
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Ooh. Guys, something weird is happening in Hollywood. I gotta be honest. It's this growing dichotomy and tension and between what is good and true and beautiful, which is encompassing of so much more than just overt Christianity, although is rooted in it, right? The idea of timeless values of classy, beautiful fashion, of true femininity and real masculinity, of submission to God instead of fame and fortune. And that's being contrasted with this really ugly, vile, leftist political thing that we're seeing get louder and louder and louder throughout our lifetime. Certainly has become the loudest ever in the last five to 10 years or so. But even five years ago, none of that tension would have ever existed. Do you remember how horribly Ricky Gervais was treated when he hosted the Grammys a couple of years ago? Do you remember how immediately he was canceled from all of Hollywood and taken every opportunity away from him because he had the courage to reveal some of this darkness that was bubbling beneath the surface? And if I recall correctly, that was back in 2016. It's been a decade since that happened. And now we're watching in the decade following this incredible act of bravery and courage, the tension getting more obvious. Light is coming to the darkness and dragging darkness out with it. And I'm just incredibly grateful that there are voices out there like Nicki Minaj, like Jelly Roll and so many others that have the courage to stand, stand before everything that the world has to offer. Fame, glory, awards, riches, everything you could ever ask for on this side of heaven. Look at what everyone is trying to do to bring our society to the darkness and say, not for me. And it doesn't have to be for you either. Jesus Christ offers a different perspective. Back to it in just a second. But first, you guys know, I hope you know that it is already February, which means Lent is in, like five minutes. I blinked. Christmas was over. Now we're going to start getting ready for Easter, which is crazy. And a quick pause for you. If you're thinking about how you want to approach Lent this year, this is for you. Starting on Ash Wednesday in just a couple weeks, you can join Jonathan Roumie, Mark Wahlberg, Father Mike Schmitz, the Goat, Chris Pratt, and so many others. For daily prayer leading up to Easter on the Hallow app. Lent is meant to stretch us. It's a season when we can really ask, who is God calling me to be? That means deeper prayer, fasting, and generosity so that our hearts can can be actually filled with the abundant love of God. That is why Hallow's annual lent challenge called Pray 40 this year, called the Return, is so powerful. It's a 40 day journey to slow down, reflect, and come home to what matters the most. 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And doing that, we discover God's grace meets us exactly where we are and gives us the strength to keep going. The challenge Begins Ash Wednesday, February 18, and continues through Easter. If you are ready to lay down the heavy burdens in your life and to start coming home to God, our loving, forgiving Father. Hallow's Lent challenge. Pray 40 the Return is for you. Head to hallow.comisabel to sign up today. More jelly roll, less of everybody else is all I gotta say. I'm gonna go listen to Jelly Roll for the rest of the day today. But I'll tell you who I don't want to be listening to. And this brings me to the other aspect of the Grammys that sadly, because it happened, we must discuss the infamous, greatest journalist of all time, hero of the First Amendment to the Constitution, crusader for free speech by taking away the free speech and free assembly of others. Don Lemon, somebody used to call it. I don't even remember who did this. Might have been Dave Rubin. Somebody used to call him Don Lemon when he was being really fancy. And I love this Don Lemon in all of his fanciness on the red carpet at the Grammys. Was able to attend the Grammys this last weekend because he was let out of prison with like zero conditions. He could go to the Grammys. He didn't have to pay a single cent in bail. He was arrested, thank goodness, for violating the Face act and another aspect of federal code. Under federal law, he broke the law and is probably going to be held accountable for that in some pretty exciting new ways. But he's got some friends on the inside with some of these activist justices and judges that we've been seeing in the judicial system over the past few years that are letting him out scot free. He took it upon himself to attend the Grammys with his white husband. And I thought that Don Lemon once said once upon a time that the single greatest terrorist threat to America was in fact white men. Fact check me on that. But interesting that we're posing next to one on the red carpet in all of our exciting targeting and second class status here, being so targeted by the evil fascist government that now you're walking the red carpet of the Grammys. Interesting. As he walked into the Grammys, Hollywood decided to give him a standing ovation to celebrate the fact that that he recently stormed city's church in Minneapolis and scared children, petrified children to tears for interrupting their church service on a Sunday morning. This was gross. Thank you, thank you. He says, I would like to thank the Academy. I would like to thank my mother, my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. It's like he's winning an Oscar for something genuinely. And then, as if that wasn't enough, he then decides while he's in California to go on Jimmy Kimmel, who inexplicably, explicably still has a TV show. I guess I don't quite understand how that's all happening or who the heck is watching this thing. But the clips at least are performing pretty well this week. After Don Lemon joined Jimmy Kimmel. You could not pay me all the money in the world to be sitting in that room listening to that conversation. Talk about insufferable. Complained about being arrested by the feds because he broke the law and said it was just too much for him when these federal agents stormed his house because they wanted to embarrass him and to instill fear in him. And that should be a wake up call for just how totalitarian our society is getting. Don't take my word for it. Listen to his explanation of what happened.
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Walking up to the room and I pressed the elevator button and these and all of a Sudden I feel myself being jostled and people trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs. And I said, what are you doing here? And they said, we came to arrest you. And I said, who are you? And then finally they like identified themselves. And I said, if you are who you are, then where's the warrant? And they didn't have a warrant, so they had to wait for someone from outside, an FBI guy to come in to show me a warrant on a cell phone. And by that time I was like trying to, you know, figure out what was going on and get my bearings and drop. They dropped all my stuff. My glasses had fallen on the floor. I'm like, I can't read that. So they had to pick my glasses up and I read it and still, what does that mean? You know, so. And then they. It was a bunch of guys and they took me outside. FBI guys were out there. I mean, it was a host. It had to be maybe a dozen people, which is a waste, Jimmy, of resources because I had told them weeks before, maybe once or twice that we would, you know, I think my attorney tried to contact them once, maybe twice, that I could just go in and it would have to be the folks who were just working there that day and they wouldn't have to have all these people following me around.
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It's more than just a waste of resources.
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So they grab you and they take you where? Well, you're right about more than just a waste of resources. They want that. They want to embarrass you, they want to intimidate you. They want to instill fear.
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And so that's why they want to embarrass you. They want to intimidate you. They want to instill fear. Which is why I had my attorney reach out and say, we don't need all these people. I'll just be arrested by one or two people. He didn't want the spectacle of it, of course. And that was much more important to maintaining his image than actually accountability for his actions and admitting that he violated the law. His non apology video that we talked about last week didn't even admit that he did anything wrong. He called himself a crusader for the First Amendment, didn't think that he did a single thing wrong actually, and was protected by the US Constitution. Ironic though, isn't it, Don, that you say so point blank, this is really about intimidating you and instilling fear in you. And that's so inappropriate in our society today. When you literally said on camera while cosplaying as Nick Shirley in Minneapolis And I quote, this is what protesting is all about. It's to make people uncomfortable. Do we remember this?
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You heard what some of the folks said in there. You know, that this is. They shouldn't be there and, you know, they shouldn't be uncomfortable. And this is our house. And whatever that's what protesting is about is to make people uncomfortable. You may not like it, but I mean, if they went into a church.
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You know, any church, this is our house. And you don't have a welcome opportunity to be in our house. But that's what protesting is all about, people. It's to go into other people's houses and make them uncomfortable. He literally looked at crying children, kids bawling their eyes out for not being able to safely attend church with their parents on Sunday morning. Sees these crying children fleeing a church and saying, protesting is just so traumatic for people. But this is what protesting is all about.
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This guy here, look, hugging his kid. And, you know, I imagine it's uncomfortable and traumatic for the people here, but again, careful. It's very slippery right here. Yeah, it's uncomfortable and traumatic for the people here, but that's what. Really careful, please. Really slippery. Not kidding. That's what protesting is about.
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And so that's what protesting is all about. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy getting arrested for violating the FACE Act. I will be really interested to see how this ends up going in court, if it even gets that far. I don't know that I have a lot of faith in this escalating to that point, at least very quickly. But the FACE act, as you guys may remember, we talked about this last week, was created by Congress to try to go after pro lifers that pray outside of abortion clinics and offer resources to women to let them know that there are alternatives to abortion, that there's an abortion pill reversal hotline that you can call and they can try to save your baby's life even after you've taken the abortion pill. People who pray the rosary outside of abortion clinics. The FACE act was introduced with the intention of prosecuting those people. And the only way they were actually able to get it through and turn it into a law was to also say, you can't go interrupt church services in America. So that's how the sausage is made here in Washington. Your side gets some, our side gets some, and everybody's happy at the end of the day. I don't know that there have been many examples. There certainly hasn't been this high profile of an example nationally of prosecuting somebody for violating the FACE act for interrupting a church service. I see it all the time happening with pro lifers. And in fact, we've talked with many of the people who spent actual time in federal prison under the Biden administration being prosecuted for violating the FACE act, including Lauren Handy, who works with a group called Progressive Abortion Activist Uprising. I think I'm saying that correctly. It's paa, you pow, which is a left wing pro life organization that believes that this is a huge human rights injustice, what we're seeing with the abortion industry. And they uncovered something here in Washington D.C. during the Biden administration, finding the this is a little graphic heads up. Mangled and very horribly maimed bodies of several young children, five babies that were discarded in a dumpster behind an abortion clinic here in D.C. from one of the most notorious abortionists in the country. Justice for the Five is a campaign you might have heard of of the last several years. Lauren ended up spending time in prison after all of this happened because the Biden admin really wanted to make an example out of her and other activists within their organization and say that you cannot under any circumstances, really even be outside of an abortion facility in a Biden America. So I will be curious if the FACE act is appropriately applied here. On the flip side of the coin, if Don Lemon is indeed going to spend some time in prison over this, it's hard to tell. They have to prosecute him in Minneapolis, which is not a very friendly environment to protecting these types of civil liberties right now. But you never know. So we'll continue following that story closely in the meantime. Looks like he's living it up at the frigging Grammys with his white husband. So. Must be nice to be Don Lemon, is all I gotta say. What a crazy time that we live in. Go listen to some Olivia Dean today. Trust me, your inner 2000s Rom com lover will thank me later. I was listening in the kitchen all morning this morning. Making my coffee, making my breakfast. I was dancing with my daughter. And this is indeed my sixth cup of coffee already today because my daughter woke up every 30 minutes last night. We love teething with the molars. So a little bit shorter of an episode today, but to leave you with something exciting. Speaking of early 2000s rom coms, this morning we had the official trailer drop of the Devil Wears Prada to two. I watched it three times. There's a lot of Easter eggs. Am I nervous that they're going to destroy one of the only movies that hits every single time, no matter the circumstance? Yes, but it's also highly possible that the sequel hits just as hard. The movie's coming out on May 1st. The question is, will you be going to see Florals for spring? Groundbreaking. We'll see you guys tomorrow.