Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered. We are changing it up today.

Vic has been given the day off because it's Girl Power Time. I am here with, you know what, I'm not even going to list all their affiliations because they write for everyone.

What I'm going to say is that they are consistently in the top three of women I would like to start a compound with,

which the feds would eventually raid due to our wrong think.

That is who I'm with today.

It's Bethany Mandel and Carol Markowitz, who have written the book Stolen Youth,

How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indctrinating a Generation, which is like flying up the charts.

Congratulations, ladies.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Well, good to be on with you, girl bosses.

So let's get started on this book, which I've sort of been witness to the birth of.

Speaking of our compound, by the way, we've had 13 children between us and the 10 years-ish since we've met.

I'm slacking now.

Now the M.K has a fourth. It's like, what am I even doing here?

I know. You've got to, it's, it's, you know, keeping up with Bethany is the really hard one. So our, our compound would be impressive is what I'm saying. But on the subject of children, you know, we talk all the time just on our back channels and our texts about how best to raise our kids in the culture that

we find ourselves in. And that's what this book is about. Tell me, we'll start with Carol,

about how the idea came about and why you felt compelled to write a book. Because, as I know,

it's a real pain in the ass, right? And when you're raising kids, it's a lot to ask of yourself. So why?

I've been saying that this is my first and last book. It was a lot. It was a lot of experience here.

You know, I love the finished product so much. I loved working with Bethany. I felt like this was a super important thing to write about. And I know it's funny is that, like, I would say pre-pandemic, like, kids were not my topic.

It just, I don't know.

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