Welcome, folks. It's a Sunday here on the Ben Shapiro Show, and we are doing something that we do pretty much every Sunday. We are going through the mailbag now. To have your question answered in the Ben Shapiro Show mailbag, you actually have to be a subscriber at DailyWare Plus. I had on over to dailywareplus.com, and it could be you having your question answered by me. And my God, wouldn't that be an honor for you? Chris says, Hey, Ben, love the show. When Nikki Haley talked about giving mandatory mental health screenings for presidential nominees over 75, I initially thought it was a great idea. The more I thought about it, the more I was scared by it, the more I wonder if Nikki Haley has the capability to be president. Maybe I'm being too strict in my thinking, but this seems like it could be very easily twisted against all common sense and decency. This seems like could be easily changed to include something like accepting gender affirming care as a box to check in order to be declared competent. My questions are, could this mandate be used in the way I just explained? And if so, does this reflect someone whose intentions may be good, but who doesn't have the foresight to see what could happen? Well, I mean, I think that the idea here of being given a mandatory mental health screening, presumably everyone have to agree as to what that looks like. Otherwise,

no, Well, I mean, I think that the idea here of being given a mandatory mental health screening,

presumably everyone has to agree as to what that looks like.

Otherwise, nobody's going to care about the results.

If you show the public that one of the questions is, do you accept that men are women?

People are going to be like, no, that's not a mental health screening.

That's a left-wing screening.

If the idea is, can you repeat these seven words in order? Fox, purple, blue, green,

grass, car, chicken. And a person's like, come down. There's awkward. Well, that might be a good

indicator. They're not up to the task. Rob says, Dear men, I'm writing to you because I had a dream on

Sunday night in which I asked you

what it would take to create my own podcast. And you responded that I should, quote, increase my reading speed and read a lot, presumably about whatever my show could cover. I'm wondering, what would the real, Ben, say? Well, I've never said people need to increase their reading speed. People just want to do it. As far as read a lot, yes, I agree. Also, you really have to over-prepare for a podcast. So people think that the magic of this show just sort of happens off the top of my head.

That is very not true. There's a lot of prep that goes into the show. Every word that I say is a word that I have thought or written. I'm not reading anybody else's thoughts. No one else designs my show. I design where the clips go. I design where everything else happens in the show. If there's a monologue that's pre-written, which is extremely rare on the show,

most of the monologues are out of the... designs my show. I design where the clips go. I design where everything else happens in the show.

If there's a monologue that's pre-written, which is extremely rare on the show, most of the monologues are out of my head. I write that stuff. That means that you really have to over-prepure for shows. What people don't really think about when they do a show is what happens when you run out of things to talk about. What is your go-to? So for me, my go-to

has never been emotion. There are other hosts where their go-to is anger or their go-to is humor. My go-to tends to be things that I know about. Right. And so I read a lot. And that means that my go-to is information. I always am drawing new sources of information and trying to bring it to bear. So if I am, you know, stalling for time

or something, I'll just start quoting philosophy or I will start talking about an abstruse geo-economic topic. And that sort of stuff. Again, that's my go-to. It doesn't have to be your go-to. A lot of these other go-toes work too. Jared says, hey, Ben, I'm a Christian man who's in a new relationship with the godly woman,

or dating with an intent on marriage,

we've been sharing our faith

and discussing our values on family,

children, politics, Ben, I'm a Christian man who is in a new relationship with a godly woman, or dating with an intent on marriage. We've been sharing our faith and discussing our values on

family, children, politics, etc. The other day, we were discussing kids and the topic of circumcision came up. She's opposed to the practice and is convinced that circumcision is essentially male genital mutilation and cited a couple verses in the New Testament to back that. I've never really thought about it seriously, considering my religious upbringing. And the Bible says it's

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