Well, ladies and gentlemen, today is Tina's and my 27th wedding anniversary.

And so I thought it would be appropriate to do a quick little update on the status of marriage in America, specifically a very interesting report that was talked about by Brad Wilcox, who wrote the book, Get Married.

But he was also talking about a recent discussion that took place

between Henry Sisson and our friend Isabel Brown at the University of Virginia. Now, in this

discussion, Isabel Brown was talking about how a lot of left-wing institutions have denigrated

the idea of the traditional family, the various roles and responsibilities traditionally

associated with men and women, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers within the nuclear family, the various roles and responsibilities traditionally associated with men and

women, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers within the nuclear family. And Henry Sisson kind of

pushed back on this, right, from the left. And he essentially said that, you know, she was kind of

making a straw man argument, that she was suggesting that because, you know, radical left-wing

voices on the view or when media had bad things to say

about marriage, that that somehow impacted the left in general. And he went so far as to make

kind of a broader appeal. And what I want to do first is I want to give you Henry in his own words.

So we're going to go ahead and take a look at what Henry says and said, again, kind of in response to Isabel Brown, with this idea that the left kind of denigrates marriage. And so here it is on Brad Wilcox's Twitter page. And he's got this clip from the free press. Let's go ahead and listen to it. I don't think anybody in here who's like a Democrat, you know, maybe more aligned with me is like, oh, no, no, no, I hate kids. I don't want to have kids. I don't want to be a wife. I want to be a

husband one day. I'm a Democrat. I want to be a husband. I want to be a father one day. I have no problem but like, you know, broadly this is, you're making it. It is a problem. I would love if I could just finished because he's fought for like five minutes.

So this is not broadly a problem where people across the aisle or generally are like,

no, we hate kids.

You're talking about a fertility issue. talk for like five minutes. So this is not broadly a problem where people across the aisle

or generally are like, no, we hate kids. You're talking about a fertility issue. The reason people aren't having kids is because they can't afford it. They can't buy homes. They're pushing off their marriages because it's so expensive. It's not because people don't want to have kids. I'm sure most people in here probably want to have kids one day. I sure hope so and that is changing a whole lot.

Can I actually just ask, like most people in here maybe hands up, like you want to have kids,

you want to be kids one day. I sure hope so, and that is changing a whole lot. Can I actually just ask, like, most people in here, maybe hands up, like, you want to have kids? You want to be husband-wife? Amen. We love that. Nature is healing. This is a perfect example of how, Isabel, respectfully, you are distorting this conversation. Most people who are bipartisan want family. Of course. Okay. So this is Henry.

What Henry does here is he just asked the crowd, like how many people want to have, want to have kids, want to have a family. And everyone kind of raises their hands. He's like, oh, see, see, I'm right. Look, look, everybody here in this room. Well, first of all, I don't know the breakdown of the ideological differences of the people in the room. I also know how

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