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Isabelle Brown
Foreign. I have attempted to resurrect myself from the dead, which is genuinely what this illness feels like. Solidarity to all of you who have had whatever the heck this thing is for the last few weeks, because it is awful. So if I'm dying, just know we're all dying together as we get through this episode. But I had to come back to the show today, even when we've not been feeling our best, because it's a really big news day for young parents and for the Maha world in particular. In the last 24 hours, the Trump administration announced yesterday a seismic overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule of recommendations for kids. This is a really, really big deal and something that we've kind of had an inkling was going to happen for the last several months, but has finally happened and people are freaking out about it. I mean, we're talking big mad about it. So we're breaking it all down today on the show. This was all announced yesterday afternoon initially by Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, who tweeted out a screenshot of a truth social post from President Donald Trump. We have that post for you today, he wrote yesterday. Today, the Trump administration is proud to announce the United States of America's updated childhood vaccination schedule. This schedule is rooted in the golden standard of science and widely agreed upon by scientists and experts all over the world. Effective today. That was yesterday. America will no longer require 72 different jobs for our beautiful, healthy children. We are moving toward a far more reasonable schedule where all children will only be recommended to receive vaccinations for 11 of the most serious and dangerous diseases. Parents can still choose. This is important that he notes this, and we're going to come back to that. Parents can still choose to give their children all of the vaccinations if they wish, and they will still be covered by insurance. That's huge. Again, we'll come back to that. However, this updated schedule finally aligns the United States with other developed nations around the world. Congratulations to HHS Secretary Bobby Kennedy, CDC Acting Director Jim O', Neill, FDA Commissioner Marty McCary, CMS Administrator Dr. Oz, NIH Director, our friend Dr. J, and all of the medical experts and professionals who worked very hard to make this happen. Many Americans, especially the MAHA moms, whoop whoop. Have been praying for these common sense reforms for many, many years. Thank you for your attention to this matter. His new signature sign off. It never gets old, hearing him say that or seeing him tweet that out. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States and he puts this really interesting graphic under this Truth Social post that announced this seismic overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule. It's an image of a baby on the left from a European country and on the right from the United States and the European country, Unidentified European country, but presumably someplace like Denmark, has 11 syringes surrounding them symbolizing 11 injections. And in the United States, there's a baby completely surrounded. It almost looks like a cell wall surrounding a cell, if you remember what your biology textbooks looks like when we were little, with 72 different syringes, 72 injections. And you might be thinking to yourself, okay, hang on a second, 72. There's literally no way in hell that a child is actually receiving 72 vaccines. And that, interestingly enough, has kind of been the response that people from Europe have been giving to America in the wake of this announcement from President Trump. This one was one of my favorite tweets I saw from an English account on X. Yesterday, Landor, Cambridge graduate, veteran patriot at Landor on X, said, wait, Americans were getting 72 vaccines as kids? WTF? WTF? Indeed. Honestly, I don't think people have realized, particularly the people who are freaking out about this announcement more than anybody else have realized, just how many vaccines have been recommended for babies born in the 2000s and beyond. And what's interesting is we call these vaccine recommendations, but in most places around the country, including where I live in Northern Virginia right now, if you don't follow the recommended guidelines for vaccinations for your newborn baby and in their first few years of life, you will be kicked out, you will be excommunicated, you will be removed from the premises, from almost any pediatrician's office in the state. So if you don't follow these things, even though they're not mandatory, even though they are mandatory to go to school, but let's say that you're not going to school, you're homeschooling, you have some sort of exemption, even though they're just a recommendation, they're not mandatory, they actually are mandatory because without them, your child literally does not have access to a doctor in most of the major urban and suburban areas around the country. That alone is insane. And this escalation that happened really, really quickly, honestly, by the time I graduated from high school, I was going into college all the way through. Now, in the last 10 years to when I am having a baby of my own and I'm having to navigate this as a first time parent, hasn't been explained very well to the general public. This idea that we used to have the same amount of recommended vaccines as every other developed country on the planet. And now your baby is basically a test tube vial full of every injection known to man. And so I'm really, really grateful that the deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is also the acting director of the cdc, Jim o', Neill, has taken the time in the last couple of days to sit down and explain this to people. And yesterday he appeared alongside our friend Scott Jennings, the goat who usually we see roasting people over at cnn. But he sat down on Scott's radio program as Salem News Channel and had this to say explaining the change.
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Jim O'Neill
You know, many people have noticed that the United States has recommended more and more vaccines for children every year. They've gone from 23 doses for seven diseases in 1980 to more than 80 doses for 18 diseases now. That's a huge number of vaccines. Many parents are concerned that they're injecting their young, innocent children with a lot of medicines. They're not sure about the risks and benefits of all these. And many people have been asking questions. We've been looking at this all year. We've had the advisory Committee for immunization practices do deep considerations of the safety record for certain vaccines. And the president last month asked me to consider what other countries are doing. He noticed that some other very developed countries recommend fewer vaccines for a lot of their children. And it seemed worth talking to them and seeing what their logic was. So I had the pleasure of having good conversations with health ministries. My counterparts in Germany and Denmark and Japan also talked with our career vaccine scientists at FDA and cdc. And a lot of our scientists wrote a long formal assessment recommending that we converge United States recommendations on the consensus recommendation vaccines of other countries. And I just signed a decision memo today doing that.
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Isabelle Brown
I don't understand why everybody's so angry about this. He's like, yeah, we used to give kids a really reasonable number of vaccines. Now we give kids an obscene number of vaccines to the point that the entire international scientific community is like, what the f is going on over in the United States of America? So we asked. We asked the rest of the international scientific community. We asked longstanding career vaccine specialists, people who invented certain types of vaccines, people who have been studying these things for their entire career. And we said, okay, does this still make sense? Is this creating more benefit than it is creating harm for kids? And if it's not, maybe we shouldn't recommend it anymore. That seems wildly reasonable to me anyway. And yet people are still losing their minds. I want to come back to the losing their minds. Because they're going to tell you just about everything they possibly can to make you think that this is the end. This is Apocalypse Now. This is Doomsday. This is. This is DEFCON 1. All of your kids are going to literally die. Which is easy, easy fear mongering when we are all feeling like we're literally dying, struggling with stuff like influenza during cold and flu season and when we all feel really, really crummy and miserable all the time. But I think it's important that we just spend a couple of minutes and actually ask ourselves what has changed? Because the media is going to make you believe everything has changed. Your kids are being strung out on the limb to die. They're being offered as tributes to the gods of the Pand by the US government. This radical insane right wing anti vaxxer RFK and his band of goons over at HHS and every other subsidiary in the public health community are trying to kill your kids. That's basically the narrative that the media and left wing politicians are trying to shove down your throat. But let's just ask ourselves really quick, what has actually changed? The New York Times put together an interesting little graphic here that I'll pull up for you in their article covering this yesterday. And I think they meant it to look a lot scarier than it actually does. But I look at this and I'm like, yes, seems reasonable.
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Jim O'Neill
Cool.
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Isabelle Brown
Yeah. And just as a reminder, as we're getting into some of this, nowhere does it say you cannot give your kids these vaccines. To the contrary, actually it has been reaffirmed over and over and over again that not only can you continue giving your children these vaccines and insurance is still going to cover it, it won't even cost you anything. We're just changing the number of recommendations for what is appropriate to be giving the vast majority of kids who are not in certain high risk groups for these particular diseases. So here is what is no longer recommended for all children going through the infant vaccine schedule from birth all the way through 16 years of age at birth. They no longer recommend that an infant baby within the first few hours of being born receive a dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine series, which is a multi series vaccine. There's three different injections in the Hepatitis B series which most people who've kind of started to pay attention to this over the last few years, myself included, weren't giving our newborn babies anyway. Shocker, spoiler alert. I know. Shocking. Isabel Brown did not give her newborn baby two hours old A vaccine for an STD come at me, I guess. But that's just where we're at right now. I tested negative for hepatitis B in my first OB GYN appointment at the very beginning of my pregnancy. I am in a married, monogamous relationship that is loyal to one another. Shocking, I know. People don't even think that that is remotely possible in 2025. Now 26, but 25, when we had our daughter. And I still was negative for hepatitis B throughout my entire pregnancy. So the excuse that doctors usually give parents in situations like this as to why your baby needs this vaccine or they will literally die, even if you don't have hepatitis in your family, is, well, what if you got in a car accident on the way home from the hospital and your baby gets a cut and is bleeding and the random person who happens to find you on the side of the road has hepatitis and they get cut and their cut touches your baby's cut? I mean, it's the most improbable, insane situation you could possibly imagine. We did not give our babies the hepatitis B vaccine right when she was born. We probably won't for the other babies that we have in the future. Now it's not recommended for newborn babies in the future as well. And Isla is the healthiest kid I've ever seen in my life. This is. This is the very first time she's ever even gotten a cold. So just interesting to posit all of that at birth. They also no longer recommend the RSV vaccine, which I thought was interesting. RSV was originally offered to me in my pregnancy so that I could pass the immunity on to my daughter while I was pregnant with her. I declined that vaccine. I was struggling with a bunch of autoimmune stuff over the last couple of years, and so just didn't really feel comfortable getting a vaccine when I wasn't sure how my immune system was going to react, let alone that I was responsible for a whole other immune system that I was growing in my body. I do know moms often do get the RSV vaccine still throughout pregnancy, and it's fine, and they get it when their baby's born, and they're fine. They give it to their babies right when they're born. That's typically more common when babies are born in the fall and winter during cold and flu season, versus when they were born at, like, end of April, beginning of May, in the spring when ILO was born. But that is no longer an official recommendation for your newborn baby. But again, if you feel strongly about that, you can still give it to your baby. It's no big deal. At one month, they no longer recommend the second dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine. At two months, they no longer recommend only one, only one vaccine. Rotavirus. At four months, they no longer recommend the 2nd dose of rotavirus. At six months, they no longer recommend the third dose of Hep B. At 12 months, they no longer recommend hepatitis A. And then we skip all the way ahead to 11 years of age. 11 years old. So we're talking about one three dose vaccine with hepatitis B, one two dose vaccine with hepatitis A, RSV and rotavirus. That's it. We're changing four recommendations. What is still in here in the first year of your child's life, you may ask. Tetanus, the DTaP vaccine that everybody's so upset about. Influenza type B or Hib, polio, pneumococcal, mmr, chickenpox. All of those things are still in your child's first year. Recommended vaccines. So everybody's screaming about how the worst viruses ever known to man are going to somehow resurrect because we've lost herd immunity and your kid is gonna breathe in all these toxic fumes. Actually, what's really happening here is that the vaccine experts are saying, I don't know, that your infant child within a few hours or months of being born has a significant severe risk of contracting and sexually transmitted disease. So probably the potential risks of a vaccine outweigh the potential benefits that that vaccine is going to give your kid. Just like chances are there's nothing unreasonable about that whatsoever. Whatsoever. Just for the record, really quick, before we move on to people being unreasonable about it, at 11 years old, they are no longer recommending one of the meningitis vaccines, the meningococcal coxal vaccine, which is given at 11 and 16. I recall maybe at one point that I had to receive that to go move into my college dorm. We're asking producer Jess if she maybe remembers that you had to get. No, I had to get a meningitis vaccine, I'm pretty sure to move into my, my college dorm because I had. We all had MMR from when we were kids, but I do recall, I think, not having had a dose of one of my meningitis vaccines and I had to have it to live in the dorm on college campuses. Whatever. That's no longer an official recommendation for 16 year olds. And at 11 years old, they are also removing the recommendation for HPV. This is a really controversial one. If you, if you or someone you Loved has been injured by the HPV vaccine. I was not, but so many women in my generation were because we were receiving it right when it first came out. I was one of the very first years to receive the HPV vaccine. It was incredibly experimental. Again, an STD that they basically say is a cancer preventative drug because it will prevent cervical cancer by preventing this virus that causes cervical cancer in reality. Why does your 11 year old need a vaccine against sex? Maybe because you need to be more involved as a parent. I don't know. Just my thought, we'll get into that another time. So very reasonable changes to the childhood vaccine schedule here. And of course, the big one everyone's freaking out about no longer officially recommending the flu vaccine or COVID 19. COVID 19 has now officially been confirmed to have caused infinite problems in kids, not the least of which are severe heart problems causing things like, I don't know, death and severe disruptions to your reproductive system and so so much more for young women in particular. So, yeah, pretty darn reasonable. And yet everyone is freaking out, particularly your favorite left wing politicians, all of the people in Congress, everyone from the Senate to the House side, all of the people who are the entrenched bureaucrats in some of these public health institutions, all of the doctors with paid for by the Soros foundation podcasts, all of it are trying to suggest now that basically everyone's kid is going to die because of these incredibly reasonable changes in recommendations to your child's vaccination status. Elizabeth Warren tweeted this out yesterday in the middle of the deadliest flu season in years. I can't. I can't. RFK Jr. Is putting the health of every kid in the United States in danger. How? Liz, care to shed some light on the subject as someone very, very sick? The last couple of days, I think a lot of us have been in the midst of the deadliest flu season in years. Has no one else just spent endless time scrolling through their phone to read every single study saying this year's flu vaccine was completely, completely ineffective in preventing this particular flu strain that everybody has been struggling with? Just me. Just me. I think we've all read that over the last couple of days. So no. And it's not just Elizabeth Warren. Chelsea Clinton, the hallmark vaccine expert of our time, said, with zero new evidence and ignoring decades of evidence, the Trump administration has changed the recommended childhood immunization schedule. It's infuriating and it's dangerous for our country, especially our kids. You know, every time I see these people go out on a limb. A, to just blame everything on Trump, which is ridiculous, to act like not a single vaccine expert was participating in this conversation at all in the last few years is insane. Like that is beyond the pale to me. The top vaccine experts from around the world have been asked to weigh in on this for a very long time and we are now more in line with what most countries in the world are recommending rather than over pharmaceuticalizing all of our children. That's insane. But B, to suggest that this is a one sided conversation of danger versus safety with vaccines is so intellectually disingenuous and honestly, really infuriating. I mean, in another life, if you guys recall, I was a scientist. I have two degrees in biomedical sciences. I went to Georgetown here in D.C. for Science Policy. My program was in biomedical sciences policy and advocacy. And we talked about a lot of these things like childhood vaccine schedules and different recommendations and how we handle public health issues and pandemic response and all of these things. To suggest that this is a one sided, cut and dry, black and white vaccines good, everything else bad is the most uneducated, unscientific perspective you could possibly take on the conversation. Look, you might not be happy with what they have suggested. I'm really happy. I think the average young family is really, really happy that parents have a lot more jurisdiction over this and can more easily safeguard their children against unnecessary medical intervention here. But at the very least, you have to at least be able to recognize that first, far more educated people than you, people who have made vaccines their entire career, have at least participated in this conversation and may know a thing or two about vaccines and how to keep kids safe and herd immunity and what's appropriate of a medical intervention or not, then Chelsea Clinton or Elizabeth Warren. So I am so welcoming this change. I'm really, really excited about it. And I think the question that people are still asking, that we're really excited to see how this unfolds in the next few months, was perfectly articulated by a woman named Bethany Mandel on social media. Here on X, she tweeted, here's the thing I'm not hearing anyone talk about with the changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, does this mean that a pediatrician's office can't slash won't kick you out if you decline hep B or hep A? Now, if you decline to give your newborn baby a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease for which they have virtually zero exposure risk, does that mean finally that kids all over the country still have a right to a beautiful relationship with a great doctor. God I hope so because it is currently this weird minefield to navigate of shame and of embarrassment of feeling like you're doing something wrong. You're constantly being neglected by all of these healthcare practitioners who insist they want to help your kids be healthy but they won't even let you ask questions questions about it as new parents today without making you feel like a horrible mom or worse, even like calling CPS on you if you don't want to give your two hour old infant a vaccine for an std. Bethany, I could not have answered or asked that better myself and I sure as heck hope that you are answering this correctly that a pediatrician's office cannot and will not kick you out if you decline Hepatitis B or Hepatitis A for your baby. God we love to see it. It is a new year in 2026 and we have all new goals, resolutions, all kinds of stuff that we are working on here in our family household. One of which is making sure that every single night we have a beautiful healthy meal on the family dinner table for myself, my husband and our daughter. And that is exactly where our friends at CookUnity come into the picture. 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I have missed you guys over the past couple of weeks and we haven't been able to cover some of the biggest stories on the Internet because I went on a vacation with my family that ended up me just being in bed dying of 102 degree fever for a few days in a row, which was so depressing. But we're recovering, we're getting there. It's fine. One of the biggest stories that has happened in a very long time in the world of independent and new media happened just a couple of days ago with the amazing Nick Shirley taking it upon himself to go door to door to door at all of these daycare facilities in Minneapolis and expose hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer fraud going to fraudulent daycare organizations that just don't exist or are intentionally misleading and defrauding the public about the fact that they are actually operating as daycares. His original video that's about 45 minutes long. If you guys somehow, by miraculous act of God, have not yet watched this, that's your homework for tonight. Watch all 42 minutes of this video because it will literally blow your mind. This video is up to almost 150 million views on X. It is one of the most viewed posts on the platform's entire history and it has changed the very fabric of investigative journalism I think in the 2000s and beyond. He had posted this on December 26th. Here is the full 42 minute video of my crew and I exposing the Minnesota fraud. We all work way too hard and pay way too much in taxes for this to be happening. The fraud must be stopped. God we love Nick Shirley. I did note that Riley Gaines, in the relaunch of her new podcast this week, is going to be interviewing Nick during her episode that launches tomorrow. So I'm really excited to watch that and just hear a little bit more about his process of investigative journalism and where he's finding all of this information and these stories. The fact that one kid in a hoodie somehow did the job that not one, not one major media organization, journalism organization, newspaper, tv, radio station, none of them were able to accomplish, but one kid in a hoodie with a an iPhone camera was able to accomplish this. I cannot wait to watch that interview. This video, obviously, as you guys know, has completely broken the Internet over the past couple of days. Of course, immediately afterwards, there was still no conversation happening with any media news journalism organization ever about the fraud itself. Instead, they all just tried to make sure everyone hated Nick Shirley. Just after all this came out on December 31, NPR's response to the buzz happening on the Internet about the Minnesota fraud was this. Shirley is a 23 year old self described independent YouTube journalist saying that, like it's a bad thing, who made prank videos in high school before pivoting to politics. He participated in a White House roundtable in October. Here was their headline. What to know about nick Shirley, the YouTuber alleging daycare fraud in Minnesota. People tweeted out, so NPR's investigation is not on the fraud itself, it's on Nick Shirley. That's, that's the story, I guess. And this got so big so quickly and has impacted so many people's viewpoint on the state of Minnesota, on left wing politics, on just how bad fraud has become in our country, that Tim Waltz himself started going out of his way to attack Nick Shirley as a radically dangerous person for society. He tweeted this out two days ago. My opponents have been celebrating this far right youtuber as a groundbreaking journalist. Here he reveals who he really is, a delusional conspiracy theorist. He then said in a speech yesterday that Nick Shirley and other citizen journalists have broken in to Somali daycares. He said, we've got conspiracy theorists, right wing YouTubers breaking into our daycares, demanding access. Listen to him say this. This is bonkers, insane. We've got conspiracy theorist right wing youtubers.
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Jim O'Neill
Breaking into our daycares demanding access to our children. We've got the President of the United States demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on.
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Isabelle Brown
It's disgusting and it's dangerous. No, what's disgusting and dangerous, Tim Waltz, is that the funds actual Minnesotans are relying on are lining the pockets of people who are so obviously defrauding the entire world and they're not even really trying to hide it. Nobody's breaking into these daycare centers again. If by some absolute miracle you guys haven't seen this 42 minute video yet, please go watch it this afternoon. It is mind blowing. Like truly one of the craziest things I've ever seen. And if you've watched it, you know nobody's breaking in. This is a kid, a 20 year old kid in A hoodie walking door to door to all of these daycares of which all of the information is publicly available. You can go look all of this up, knocking on the door and saying, hey, my son, little Joey needs a daycare. Can I enroll him here? Totally reasonable question to ask any daycare and you guys know the answer to that. No. There's nobody there. They don't speak English. There are no children here. Your kid is not welcome here. All of the excuses under the sun that we've now seen go viral to the tune of almost 150 million views on just that original video, let alone the billions of views on all of the clips across platforms. This got so bad that Tim Waltz has actually decided not to run for reelection as the governor of Minnesota because this is how badly he's been exposed. And just a really quick question for you, Tim, while we're on the subject. If there's no fraud, why would you not be running again if you have nothing to hide, if everything's kosher, if everything's above board, sorry, halal, if everything's halal, if everything's above board, why would you not be running for the governor position again in Minnesota? I don't know. Just a thought. Congrats, Nick Shirley, on ending Tim Waltz's career. Somebody had to do it. And I'm sorry, tampon Tim, for your sad, sad escalation into retirement. But there's a crazy new twist that you guys might not have heard of because it's not getting quite as much attention in the last couple of days on social media. There is now a major escalation of all of this to the tune of additional evidence of fraud. Someone has uncovered Craigslist postings. Remember Craigslist? Like way before the days of Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist postings have been posted in Minneapolis to show you that they are actually paying kids parents to bring their kids to defraud the public even further and act like these are operating daycare centers. I'm literally not even making this up. They just need warm bodies of children. That's it. Warm bodies of children. This is a post on Minneapolis Craigslist. Here you go. Daycare. Hiring child actors for a three day contract. Oh my gosh, this is amazing. Help us. Daycare. That's the name. That's the name of the, the company here. Hi all my family runs a daycare here in the city and have for over five years until Monday when our funding was cruelly ripped away without cause due to this insane poor decision. Clear in white supremacy. Of course we had to close our doors immediately. We must prove that we are a functioning daycare to get the funding back. The issue is the entire client base has already found new daycare services. So we need to find new client bases quickly. To help us hurry the state vetting process. We are looking to hire 20 child actors for three days while the state is present on the site. We will pay up to 1500 dollars per actor per day. Who is getting this kind of money? I thought you were a failing business. No, I don't know if you are interest. Nice. It's giving leering center. If you are interest, please send your child's age and a note of what makes your child a special actor. Submit a phone number as well as we will be doing quick phone interviews as a part or sorry, as part of higher process. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to read this ad. Compensation $1500 per day for up to three days. So up to $4500 total on a contract basis of employment, no experience required for your exceptional child actors to come sit in our daycare to justify the fact that we still look like a daycare to the outside world who is trying to cruelly strip away our funding because of. I can't make this up. White supremacy. Do they just genuinely think we're this stupid? Honestly. Honestly. What? What are we doing? I can't wait to see more of these ads continue to get uncovered. And it's not just Minnesota. People are now taking a page out of Nick Shirley's playbook and doing all of this investigative work in their own backyard. And that's what I'm so excited to see. With the resurgence and the renaissance of true independent media and genuine investigative journalism. Again, what Nick Shirley did is not extraordinary. And Nick would be the first person to tell you that he's literally just a kid with an iPhone camera who was noticing something going on. So he went and knocked on the door and he asked. It's not complicated and anyone has the capacity to do this. That's why they're so angry about this. By the way, why the mainstream media? Why these left wing politicians? Why everyone who's supposed to be the accredited experts in journalism of our time? They're so angry that this is reaching people so effectively because they refused to do it. Because it's exposing not only just how deep the rot actually is, but how pathetic it is that our organizations of trusted expert journalism are not actually asking any important questions in our culture in time, but instead are just regurgitating the exact Same pre prescribed talking points as every other talking head on television, fed to them by the World Economic Forum. Billionaires of the world. It is so easy to do this that you can and should do this in your own backyard. And it doesn't have to be Somali daycare fraud. It can be anything. I mean, who remembers just before election day last November when I picked up the phone and I called in three or four very pro abortion states, real abortion clinics, and I said, hey, they didn't know I was actually pregnant on the phone, but I said, I'm pregnant. I'm about 30 weeks pregnant. I made up a whole sob story about how my just found out that my baby wasn't diagnosed early with down syndrome. Now she is diagnosed with down syndrome. And I don't want to have a baby with down syndrome. Can I come in and get an abortion? I'm 30 weeks pregnant or 35 weeks pregnant or whatever. I made this video literally just recording myself calling these abortion facilities around the country. It took me about 20 minutes to call three or four of them in different states. And it was wildly impactful. All it took was just asking. Just ask. Talk to your school board, talk to your local elected officials, talk to your daycare, talk to your kids, playgroup, their summer camp, the abortion facility down the street. Whatever you can do to make up the seismic chasm between actual investigative journalism and what is happening in the mainstream media? That is how we change culture all the way up to making sitting governors decide they're not going to run for reelection in the future, changing the face of the fabric of politics in our country. That all happened because one brave person had the courage to just knock on the door and ask. So get out there before I go and cough into my elbow for the next four to six hours, which sounds just riveting and so exciting. Luckily, I've got my tea. We're on the mend, we're doing our best, and hopefully we'll have a great lineup of shows for you guys later this week as well. I have a bone to pick with people real quick and I just want to get this off my chest, okay? Because this usually is only really talked about thanks to the courage and bravery of one extraordinary woman, and that is our friend Ali Beth Stuckey. But we need a massive overhaul of all of the unspoken travel rules, polite society, okay? I travel a lot more than the average person, so I get it. I probably see a lot more insanity than the average person. But everybody wants to be angry at moms. Everybody wants to look at the young Family and roll their eyes and be angry at moms for bringing our babies onto flights because that's not what we do in polite society. But honestly, this is my bone. In the last few weeks, the behavior I have seen from grown adults, grown ass people on planes, is insane. So let's have a little come to Jesus moment for the beginning of 2026 and just agree that we need a hard reset. We need some new rules for traveling, some new rules for just basic human behavior. And I have decided to lay them out for you today. So Isabelle Brown's official stamped unspoken rules of plane travel for 2026. You subscribe to this or you go right to jail right away. Okay, number one, if it is not your rose turn to get off the plane, sit down. Sit your butt back in the seat. You do not need to clog up the middle row. If you are in row 36. I'm sorry, you're not going to be the first people to get off the plane. If you're in a middle seat, you are not going to be the first people to get off the plane. Everyone just calm down. If we exit the plane in an orderly fashion, we will all get exactly where we're going. The number of times I've been on a plane the last few weeks and seen people, like, leap out of their seat in row 48 and run to the front and they only make it, like three rows ahead of themselves. But this happens throughout the whole plane. And then all of a sudden, we're all on there for another 30 minutes. Just calm down. It's good we're all going to the same place. On that note, while we're calming down a little bit, I know we want to chill. I know we want to kick back our feet. I know everybody wants to get comfortable. Keep your damn shoes or at least your socks on on the plane, okay? I saw five, not one, not two, five people on planes in the last few weeks barefoot, walking to the bathroom on an airplane. Do you know what happens in airplane bathrooms? Guys, you want more for yourself than this? Okay? Please keep the dogs in the kennel. We don't want to hear them bark. Put them away and put other things away, too. My next rule is don't wear basically a bikini to the airport ladies. You know what I'm saying? The booty shorts, the crop tops, the bras that your boobs are falling out the sides. Nobody wants to see that at the airport. Just keep that all to yourself. And it's not comfortable either. I don't know who would want to sit on a plane like that, but just wear something comfortable that's not showing us everything you got. This is not a strip show. This is not a burlesque club. This is not a gentleman's evening. This is an airplane for families. Three times on a plane. Moving on. In the next couple or last couple of weeks, I have had to flush the airplane toilet from people who came before me in the airplane bathroom. Don't know why. All of a sudden, once we get 30,000ft in the air, we have lost the ability to flush the toilet on the plane. It works exactly the same way. In fact, there's usually a massive sign on the back wall with a huge word that says flush and an arrow. Just push the button. Push the button. Flush the toilet, please. And my last one for you, this one's a big one because I. This is what. This is where this all got started for me. I was flying back from the UK this last weekend, desperately trying to get home because I'm not feeling great, my daughter's not feeling great. We're all just trying to be comfortable on our own couch. We had canceled our couple days of filming that we were supposed to be doing in London this week, which I'm so bummed about. But we will come back to you, uk, I promise, in the next couple of months to make up for that. If you are sick on an airplane, if you don't feel well, if you're hawking up along, if you're coughing, whether you're on an airplane or not, I think we just need to revisit. Where do you, as a civilized person, cough, period? Especially boomers who may not have been taught this in your health class, or maybe you've just forgotten it because it's been a long time. You do not just spew into the air. You certainly do not hock up your phlegm into your hands, you cough into your elbow, and you turn away from the people who are sitting nearest you. I say this because myself and my beautiful infant daughter, who was starting to get sick on our way home, were seated next to an older couple on our flight home from the UK this weekend who both were coughing unbelievably bad. Like, way worse than myself or my daughter. Had our tickle in our throat. We were coughing a lot, but we were coughing into our elbows and we were hiding our faces and doing all of that. No, no, no. This couple, like, I actually thought, someone needs to get them a CPAP machine. There's something really wrong we might need, like, an emergency landing of this plane level cough. And I kid you not, both the husband and the wife took their hands, coughed up mountains, heaving phlegm into their hands, bare hands, and then said, oh, this is so gross. Don't know what to do with this. Wiped it all over their pants, all over the seats, all over everything, and then just, like, looked at each other and laughed about it. And on three separate occasions, three occasions, this wife, sitting in the middle seat, then turns to look at my infant daughter, my baby, and get this close to her face, 3, 4 inches to smile and breathe directly into Isla's mouth to say, what a beautiful baby you have. You're being such a good baby. You're such a well behaved baby on a plane. Let me say this once. This is gonna be our last unspoken rule for travel for the foreseeable future. And just normal human behavior, on or off an airplane, you are not entitled to breathe directly into someone else's baby's mouth. Okay, I can't even believe that needs to be said, but y' all freaked out at Sean Duffy when he suggested maybe we should just dress a little nicer and treat each other a little nicer at the airport. But then you breathe and cough directly into my child's mouth. I can't. I can't. Let's leave it behind in 2025, please. Okay, the good news is we are on the mend. I'm already feeling so much better today than I was yesterday, and Isla's doing pretty good. Well, please continue to keep us in your prayers as we recover from this insane cold and flu season. It has just knocked everybody I know on their butts, and I hate that we had kind of an unceremonious kickoff into the year. We didn't get to do the whole big plans for 2026 episode together. We didn't get to talk about how excited we are yet for our 250th anniversary and a 250 happening throughout the year. But we are getting better and we are so excited to be back with you for the show, hopefully every other day this week. We are so ready for an amazing year together with all of you guys, despite our sad, sick beginning to 2026. And we cannot wait to celebrate all of the blessings to come this year with all of you guys. See you tomorrow.