Well, hey, everybody. How are you guys doing? I hope that you have been enjoying this week at the off the bench podcast.

Today, I'm going to take a little bit of time and cover the headlines on if you guys are watching what's happening in Italy,

but it's pretty fascinating. And I'm going to take a little bit of extra time, day and answer some listener questions.

Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

All right. Well, before I get started today, I want to say thank you to those of you who are watching this podcast via YouTube.

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I don't know if you guys are watching. So that's the thing stuff, right?

That's going on in the news. I took a little bit of a hiatus from it because after my run for Congress, frankly,

I was just exhausted and took a little bit of a break. But I've been watching lately as something really, really interesting is coming out of Italy.

Now, I don't know if you guys are noticing, but it looks like they're poised to elect Georgia Maloney. And she is a, she's a, well, in our country, you'd call her Republican.

I don't think that she's a traditional conservative. I would call her conservative. But apparently, according to many of the major news outlets, you're a fascist.

If you believe in God and family and country. So this is Italy's new prime minister. This is her, her platform. I watched her give a beautiful and brilliant speech to the day talking about why she thinks it's so important that we are able to step up and address the attack against the family.

And that's why I had Sean Morris on my show yesterday just talking about the attack on the family. It's been there forever. American leftist want you to know that this woman is a fascist because her political rival, the former Italian prime minister says that she is a fascist.

And so folks on networks like CNN have been worrying that Italy's new prime minister is ushering in an era of Mussolini style politics. You guys, you have to look up Mussolini.

Right. So anytime the, the left and the left is evil. Right. We should just call it what it is liberalism bears no resemblance to the modern left. Right. So the left is evil as my friend Dennis Prager would say liberals are just cowards. Right.

So the liberals understand what's going on, but they won't speak out about it. You know, I have a friend of mine was just tell me the other day that he's trying to go and get a gym membership at his local gym.

The same things happening to 24 hour fitness has happened to the YMCA. Basically, whatever gender you identify with, if you, you know, if you're a woman, but you want to be a man, they're just going to let you write into the men's locker room. If you're a man, but you say that you're a woman, they're going to be like, here you go. Here's the women's locker room for you.

This is a very dangerous time in human history because we have put to the side common sense. And so facts don't care about your feelings. And that's exactly what is happening in Italy. The Italians are saying we're done. Like we're done with you stealing our national identity.

We're done with you saying if we love our country, we're somehow nationalist and we need to be feared. If we believe in the traditional family, somehow that makes us bigots and fascists. And this woman, this, this leader is saying that she agrees with them.

The majority of the Italian people who are saying, listen, there's something to be said for tradition. There's something to be said for male and female. And I think it's completely exciting to watch.

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