California was once the golden promise of the American dream. And now it's a cautionary tale.

My guest today is Chris Moritz, and he's here with his blistering new book that pulls back the

curtain on what he calls a failed state, run by bureaucratic decay, ideological capture, and

corporate exploitation that masquerades

its progress, from exploding crime rates to collapsing infrastructure from housing chaos,

to medical overreach, Moritz lays out how California became ground zero for a culture war with real casualties.

And then, we take a deep dive

into the growing industry behind

transgender care for kids

and how profit, politics, and identity

have collided in ways

few of us are willing to discuss out loud,

but everyone needs to know.

Let's jump in.

Keeping it real with Jillian Michaels.

Chris Mitz, welcome. How are you?

I'm wonderful, delighted to be here, so thrilled to meet you finally, and just amazed by your studio.

Oh, you're very kind. For people who are just discovering you or discovering how I discovered you, I happened

upon your arguably first episode with Tucker where you were talking about transgender ink.

And I want to get to all of that, But essentially the fact that it is big business,

gender affirming care. And I looked at that solely from a health perspective at the time and just

thought, okay, you know, these are do-gooders that don't really understand health and can't

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