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These are all people that are under attack

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And one of the most important things is the right to your children.

Well, there's a guy who has been fighting his ex-wife now over his son that she claims is a daughter.

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We cover it and then we have the experts talk to you about what do you do if you're in this situation.

This is the story from Jeff Younger about he and his two sons.

That moment the doctor places your newborn into your arms.

Your entire world changes.

I'll do everything in my power to keep you safe.

I'll fight for you every single day.

For Jeff, Jeff, that moment arrived times two

when his twin boys, James and Jude, were born.

And from the start, Jeff loved being a dad.

I was the stay-at-home parent for them.

I've raised them since they were the youngest children.

And we were very close and had a super tight bond right up until the courts took them away from me.

Everything changed when the boys were two years old.

Jeff's then-wife began telling James that timeouts were only for little boys.

And that, the monsters only eat boys, you better not be a boy.

Scaring him in these little timeouts.

And when I put my foot down and stopped that, she filed for a divorce almost immediately.

She's a pediatrician.

And using her connections with licensed care providers, she was able to get psychologists to basically force me out of my house.

And that's when the situation escalated again.

Jeff, who then still had 50-50 custody, took this video of James when he was only three years old.

You're a boy, right?

No.

I'm a girl.

Who told you you're a girl?

Mommy.

She puts dresses on you?

Oh, wow.

And what else does she do?

She buys my hairs.

Uh-huh.

And she get me hair clips.

Oh, hair clips?

Okay.

She enrolled him in school as a girl under a fake girl's name.

She started to claim that I couldn't cut my son's hair and that I couldn't use male pronouns and she went to court to try to force me to use male pronouns at home to stop presenting him to the world as a boy.

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The custody battles continued, but Jeff's ex-wife used her connections with psychologists to force her hand.

His 50-50 custody soon became every other weekend only.

This hurt the relationship between me and my sons tremendously.

And my sons were very sad about it and cried about it all the time.

So James, now 10, has lived his short life in a whirlwind of confusion.

So there was a time

when

every authority figure in my son's life except me was telling him he was a girl.

His teacher at school, the principal, the police officer at school, the librarian was telling him he was a girl.

The lunch lady was telling him he was a girl.

His brother, although he didn't want to, was forced to use his girl's name.

But there's one part of James's story that makes it even more tragic.

And here's the important thing to know about my case: my son has never presented as a girl to me, he only presents as a girl when he's with his mother.

So, my approach was just very simple: to show my son how great it is to be a man.

So, we just did all the things that I did as a boy.

We hunted rabbits, we tracked animals, we did hikes,

we didn't need to worry about it.

We were able to tough everything out.

And my son flourished under these conditions.

On the weekends, Jeff shared with his sons his love for boxing.

You know, he didn't think he could make it through those first workouts, you know, and he saw that we could tough it out together.

We would get down there and do our one hour of floor work, working on our abs, working on our core, and we could do all that together.

In a boxing gym, everybody that does the work gets respect.

And they enjoyed that.

They were treated like young men.

Their time together shaped James immensely.

They came to understand themselves as in command of their world, able to make changes in their world.

And this eventually culminated in my son refusing to wear a dress at his mother's home

because he likes being a man.

He told the court-appointed counselor that he wanted to be a boy and wanted to go to school as a boy.

The ordered counselor, she said, well, this child is saying he wants to be a boy.

That must be because the father's making him say that.

And on that basis, she recommended that the court take the children away from me because my son has to be a boy.

The boy's mother moved them to California, and Jeff says she's already beginning a full transformation for James.

He last saw them over a year ago.

But Jeff's battle is far from over.

In fact, quite the opposite is true.

But I assure you, I will not stop fighting for my son under any conditions.

We say, Save James, save thousands of children, so we don't forget those other children.

He's fighting for more than just his son.

He's fighting for James, but also for all the other kids whose parents just won't speak up.

And in my daily prayers, I always remember the other children and their parents who either can't or won't fight for them.

Save James.

Save thousands.

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He works three jobs to be able to afford the lawsuits.

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Andy Biggs was first elected to serve the people of Arizona's fifth district in 2016.

He currently serves on the House Oversight and Reform Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, where he is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

He also served as the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.

He is current co-chair of Border Security Caucus, Vice Chair of the Congressional Western Caucus, and co-founder of the Bipartisan War Powers Caucus.

We have a lot to talk about with Andy Biggs, who is

running for House leadership.

Andy, welcome to the program.

Glenn, good to be with you.

Thanks for having me.

It is great to have you.

Where do we even start?

What is your path or anybody's path to the Speaker of the House when you have to get 218 votes?

Well, you know, in a thin majority like we're going to have, it may be as big as five seats, might be as few as three.

It's a tough path for anybody.

I think Kevin's kind of polarizing.

I don't know that most of my colleagues would think that, but 36 people voted against him yesterday,

which means he's got a lot of meat on the bone, right?

And then

I'm apparently polarizing as well.

But the point was

somebody had to stand up and say, look, no more.

change the status quo.

So what's going to happen is there's going to be a lot of

internal family discussion, if I can put it that way, between now and January 3rd.

And I suspect if it's not me and it's not Kevin, you'll get basically a consensus candidate that will come out where people will say better this guy or this lady than Biggs or McCarthy.

So is this how is this going to help us shape the party into a more vigorous

do-something party, be for something party?

Well, that is my goal.

And that's one of my reasons that I felt I had to stand up against Kevin because

I think

this internal discussion will help invigorate whoever's coming in to understand you're going to have to fight.

You're going to have to use all the tools, all the leverage points to stop Biden and also keep the promises we made to the American people.

And so I reached out and talked to some of my more liberal Republican friends, and they want to come to the table too.

And we will find things that, believe it or not, that we agree on.

Believe it or not,

virtually every member of this conference, except for some squishy middle people,

on both ends, we want a border wall.

On both ends, we want to fix Title IX so you can go after the men in locker room thing.

On both ends, we want to fix this place so we can at least offer an appropriations process to start bringing down spending to get our budget in balance.

You know, you have some right in the squishy middle that just want to not really do anything.

And I think we're going to invigorate them that way, Gilly.

Well, I will tell you, doing nothing was Mitch McConnell's.

Well, actually, he did more than nothing.

He actually

ran campaign ads and spent money against Republicans.

But,

you know, doing nothing and we just can't be the Democrats.

That doesn't work.

That doesn't work.

We need a fresh vision for America.

Yeah, I agree.

And you know, Glenn, I'm a big believer that when the other side views you as political enemies, which they do, and then we have to treat them.

and use the same tools they've used against us.

Why in the world would Kevin back down from impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, who in my mind has committed multiple high crimes and misdemeanors and has made this country a far less safe country than it should be and is attacking our very sovereignty.

And he did.

He backed off of that.

Well, as soon as he did that, I said, well, I've got to step in.

Somebody's got to step in because we cannot go any longer down that path.

And right now, Glenn, I'll tell you, I know that there's probably around 10, 15 people who've indicated they will never support Mr.

McCarthy.

And that means that we have to find somebody else who will fight the fight.

Okay, so what should the Republican agenda be in Congress?

What are some of the ideas that you and your friends are kicking around that you're like,

this is the top 10.

Got to do this.

Yeah,

you have to fix the appropriations process to slow the inflation

fueling government that we have.

Hang on just a sec.

Let me explain that to the best of my ability.

We have to have a budget, budget, and then it goes to appropriations, and they say, you get this amount, this department gets this amount, et cetera, et cetera.

Right now, with a continuing resolution, we don't get any of that.

We haven't since 2008.

What makes you think you can get it to appropriations to be able to start carving this money out?

You just, you have to enforce it.

You have to lead and say, we expect you to get this done.

And there are ways to do it.

Like, you could, if you really wanted wanted to streamline it, you would say every authorizing committee, in other words, every committee.

So, if you're on judiciary, you'd say, you're going to have the appropriations

line items within a subcommittee on that committee working with the appropriations committee, and you're going to get this thing done by March, March 31st.

And then we go through and we negotiate that out, and you start working on a line-by-line budget, a line-item budget, true line-item budget, a zero-based budget.

And that's you can do that.

But as long as we basically

mess around and not do that, I think Kate Granger, who is the appropriations chair, I think she's frustrated beyond belief.

I think the budget committee guys are frustrated.

You can get this done with great leadership.

How do you get it through the Senate?

Once it gets through the Senate,

who knows?

Because you've got the Democrats going to be in control of the Senate again, and they're going to blow everything up.

That's just...

Right.

Well, it's important to at least try.

Okay, so appropriations, next.

Next.

Border fence and border security.

You can get all of those types of things through here.

And part of it is you do it through the appropriations process, by the way.

But you build a border fence.

It's a standalone build.

Don't put it in this...

big conglomeration of immigration crap that that some people like this part some do it straight up transparency so that's another aspect that we would do to change the way we operate.

And we do a lot more standalone

single-item bills.

That's the way it should be.

Yeah, that's the way it should be.

So everybody can see what's in there.

You do the Title IX thing.

You do

bring back the Keystone Pipeline.

You do that as leverage with a must-pass bill.

You do, in the NDAA bill, you leverage that bill to get rid of vax mandates and bring back these men and women who we spent millions of dollars training and

they love this country, they're loyal to this country, you bring them back.

You can do all of those things

with our normal process

if you've got the leadership.

You streamline through your budgetary process, again, things like permitting exploration, development, extraction of American oil and gas.

How about water?

For the last two years, there's been no hearing, maybe the last four years, no hearings on water, which is in a west, in the western United States is in a crisis level.

So you bring that back.

I mean, these are things we can do

when you unite,

I don't know, the Tuesday group, problem solvers together with the Freedom Caucus.

And that is what leadership would look like.

So tell me at the same time, because what I,

you know, if I had a voice and I was king of the Congress, I would say you pass everything as fast as you possibly can.

You go in there with an agenda, you have everything all done, you work on it starting now late at night, you introduce it, you pass it, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Come what may.

If it doesn't go past the Senate, fine, but at least we've done our job.

And then

investigate and

finish this with Hunter Biden, finish this with

COVID.

We don't even know where it came from.

That's bull crap.

Yeah.

Are we going to investigate these people?

I'm told we are.

I'm on the two committees that do the investigations.

We've already had, we've been actually meeting for a month and a half or two talking about

preservation letters.

We've sent out preservation letters.

We've done all the preliminary work to be ready to go.

Judiciary did a thousand-page

report on the politicization of the FBI and DOJ.

Thank you.

All of those have to be done.

But

if we think we're going to just take off between now and then, which we're going to

because

that's the way Congress works,

That's a problem.

We should be doing everything I'm talking about when you're talking about now.

Right now.

Right now.

Right now.

You know, look,

Orson Welles is a hero of mine.

He's taught me a lot of things from his life to do and not to do.

One of the best stories of Orson Welles is he had a contract with RKO, and it was this enormous contract.

He was bluffing.

He had no idea what movie he was going to make.

And he goes in, and RKO has no access to him, his actors, the script, nothing.

And once they've signed it, RKO wants to get onto that set and they want control of the movie, whatever movie he's making, which turns out to be Citizen Kane.

He knew that if he failed, and this is the way you should look at the American people, he knew if he ran behind schedule for one minute, RKO would come in and supervise everything.

So he took his people, like right now, he took his people for a week or two weeks prior to them ever getting on the set.

Cameramen, everybody.

And he invited them to his house and said, let's mock film these scenes.

So the first day, RKO was there and they were waiting for him to fail and get behind because he's never made a movie before.

They had somebody standing at the door.

So when the bell rang at the end of the day, they could get a sheet and see how far they were.

When the guy came back to Selznick and said, and Selznick looked at him and said,

Am I on the set yet?

Have you gotten me on the set?

How far behind are they?

He said, I'm sorry, sir, but he's five days ahead.

That's what you guys need to do.

You need to work right now.

Right now.

We may not have another Christmas or Thanksgiving a couple of years from now if you guys won't work through Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I agree with you 100%.

Look, I would just tell you,

this is important for everybody to understand.

Congress will only work for eight to ten months in this next year.

And I say that, and it's one of the hugest, biggest flaws of Congress, because you're moving into a presidential election, a presidential cycle.

And the House of Representatives is on a two-year election cycle.

Whatever we don't get done in August or September of next year, there will be hardly anything that happens the following year because the

guys better.

I'm telling you, Andy, this is it.

The American people are done with you guys.

They're done with Republicans.

They're absolutely.

Done.

Well, and they have every right to be.

And if we don't get something meaningful done and move the ball forward,

let's say

because we're dealing with Democratic majorities in the Senate and the presidency, let's say we can't get all of

our stuff done.

We should at least get our bills done.

Not performance art.

Glenn, it just cannot be performance.

It has to be substantive.

Correct.

And we have got to move the ball forward, or otherwise we will fail to

lay down the foundation for 2024.

And if we fail to lay the foundation down, we will lose 2024, which means we will lose this country irrevocably.

Andy, I appreciate it.

God bless.

I'd love to have you back on again, and

I thank you for the trouble that you are probably in with all of the, you know,

I'm in a bit of a hot soup there, Glenn.

Yeah, and I'm glad that you are.

Thank you so much, Andy, for doing the hard work.

Thank you.

God bless.

Thanks, Glenn.

Congressman from Arizona, Andy Biggs, he is talking to us about

who's going to be the next Speaker of the House.

And hopefully it will not be Kevin McCarthy.

And they're voting right now, I believe, maybe at 9.30 or 10.30 Eastern time.

They are voting

for Mitch McConnell.

Are they going to delay the vote or have the vote today?

If they have the vote today, most likely Mitch McConnell will win.

If they delay it, they'll have time to get people riled up.

I hear it was quite the mess in the Senate yesterday.

And Rick Scott said he was going to run, right?

He is.

I mean, that's funny because, you know, we were talking about that a few weeks ago and I hadn't heard it anywhere.

And now it looks like he's actually going to do it.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Okay, so Sam Bankman Freed.

He was the digital guru who pledged to spend as much as a billion dollars in support of Democratic candidates.

Now he's under a federal investigation.

Oh, I bet he is.

So what did he do?

And

who are his friends?

Well, Bankman Freed, SBF is what they call him, SBF,

the next Warren Buffett is what they also called him, donated to President Joe Biden's campaign and other Democratically aligned entities in 2020 $5.7 million.

$40 million is the amount he donated to political candidates and committees during the 22 election cycle.

Vast majority or Democrats.

$40 million.

His net worth as of

Election Day was $16,600,000,000.

His estimated net worth today,

zero.

Now,

I just want to see if you find

any kind of connection here.

Free Beacon did a great story on this.

So

you have SBF.

Then you also have Harvey Weinstein.

He donated almost $600,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2000.

He had fundraisers for Hillary, for Barack Obama.

Yeah, he's now in jail and on trial for even more rapes.

He'll be in jail to the day he dies.

Then you have Jeffrey Epstein,

who donated more than $150,000 to Democratic candidates and committees,

including a $10,000 contribution as recently as 2018.

Hmm.

Okay.

So he was with liberal billionaires.

He wrote checks to Ivy League universities.

Bill Clinton was one of his good friends.

And then he hung himself, in air quotes, in his jail cell in 2019.

Okay.

Then you have Ed Buck, longtime liberal activist, donated more than half a billion dollars to Democratic candidates and committee.

He was sentenced in April to 30 years in prison for luring young men to his home, sexually assaulting them, and at least two cases, injecting them with a fatal dose of methavamphetamine.

Oh.

He was described as a violent, dangerous sexual predator who exploited vulnerable victims, men who were drug-dependent and often without homes, to feed an obsession that led to death and misery.

That's Ed Buck.

He's another one of the big campaign donors.

Bernie Madoff.

Oh, he was the best.

$200,000 to the Democratic Party,

including Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton.

He

defrauded people of $65 billion, the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

He died.

He had a 150-year prison sentence.

He died in 2021.

He went to jail in 2009.

So Sam Bankman-Freed is not the first.

So what is it about these guys that attract them to the Democrats?

Well, one, if you are in with the Democrats, generally speaking, you can hide out there forever.

They launder your reputation.

But there's something else.

It's called effective altruism.

FTX, this scandal may rip the mask off the left and something that most people don't know.

What we see is apathy and lust, piles of dark money, and the bizarre habits of atheist leftists.

The billionaire and CEO, the so-called philanthropist, Sam Bankman-Fried, is vaguely creepy.

His girlfriend is even more so.

He's the perfect hero for the left, mushy, lacking all masculinity, boring, hedonistic, and obsessed with doing good, even if it means committing crimes that result in enormous pain for many people.

Now, most of us cannot imagine how people just commit evil so nonchalantly.

You know, just like, eh, whatever.

Let alone with the smugness of someone who thinks they're morally superior.

So it makes sense that this arrogance is based on the ideas of leftist intellectuals.

A trendy movement

that you probably haven't heard of.

effective altruism, which claims to be a new kind of philanthropy.

The World Economic Forum has used many of its ideas.

What a surprise.

One of the creators of effective altruism is a philosopher.

His name is William McCaskill.

He's friends with Sam Bankman-Fried.

They've known each other

for at least a year.

McCaskill actually worked for Sam Bankman-Fried.

According to the New York Times, he was one of the five people from the charitable vehicle known as the FTX Future Fund who jointly announced their resignation on Thursday.

So what is this theory?

Well, you've seen it

in play a lot.

In

his book, Doing Good Better, McCaskill lists the steps to effective altruism.

In a weird twist, the book mentions

a study about the crowds at tea party rallies and how the weather affected the crowd side.

Does a larger audience make a significant political difference in the effects of the events?

The study concluded, yes, each person makes a difference, which I think I agree with, but that's about as far as I'll go with this movement.

Like the World Economic Forum, effective altruism is obsessed with climate change.

They're obsessed with fair trade and green living, but that's not enough to stop climate change.

They want us to eat less meat, thus we eat bugs.

Like Klaus Schwab, McCaskill thinks that we need radical change to common sense.

He believes people should earn to give, make as much money as possible, and then give it away to people who would need it.

He argues that it's pointless to boycott sweatshops because

What, the workers then are going to make more money and they only end up doing worse someplace else.

Instead, he says wealthy Americans should donate a chunk of their salary to people who know better and they can help the world.

This is a religion of activism.

McCaskill writes, Advocacy also has the potentially high payoff as one could influence the behavior of many thousands of people and help influence debates around particular policies.

Though this is particularly difficult to quantify, one could become an effective advocate through journalism or by pursuing an early career in academia and then moving on to become a public intellectual.

We see this.

That is what journalism now is.

He co-founded the effective altruism movement with, oh, one of my favorites, Peter Singer.

If you know anything about Peter Singer, you're running for the hills.

Singer is a bioethicist.

He's at Stamford, I think.

He's known for his work in animal liberation.

He sees animal farming and medical testing as a form of racism.

His stance on abortion is pretty much murder.

He believes newborns aren't people, newborns, not fetuses, newborns.

He said that killing a newborn baby up to the age of two is never equivalent to killing a person.

That is, a being who wants to go on living.

Babies just don't know.

So it's okay to kill babies.

He advocates for most forms of euthanasia as long as the person consents.

Disability rights activists usually protest his events because he believes that disability is a valid excuse for euthanasia.

Oddly,

oddly, a guy who is pretty much, you know, doing the same thing they did in Germany,

he opposes the death penalty and he's an atheist.

Yet he also blames God for evil.

He's Jewish, with three of his grandparents dying in the Holocaust, yet he's pro-Palestinian.

This guy's a piece of work.

It should be no surprise that Singer is an agenda contributor to the World Economic Forum.

Klaus Schwab mentions him several times in his book, The Great Narrative.

So the Great Reset is a perfect example of doing good better,

because the foundation of all these ideas is

utilitarianism

it is together we make one great host one great word at least

a philosophy that most sane people have rejected is just a thought experiment it's a form of radicalism it's an attempt to satisfy human needs without the obstacle of God-given rights think of that that's the goal to satisfy human needs without the obstacle of God-given rights.

This is the trolley, the trolley problem.

You ever heard of the trolley problem?

A trolley is coming down and it approaches a fork in one direction.

A single person is tied to the track.

The other direction, a dozen people are tied to the track.

You have to choose which direction to turn the train.

And in utilitarianism, you sacrifice the single person, right?

Okay.

And when I say sacrifice, I mean sacrifice.

Murder, stealing, assault, violence of any kind can be justified by

utilitarianism as long as its outcome is mostly favorable,

mostly peaceful.

Utilitarianism is a secular alternative to Christianity, and it goes hand in hand with hedonism.

What did I just say about Sam?

He was a hedonist.

It's pragmatic instead of moral.

Its focus is collectivism and the greatest happiness principle, the greatest happiness for the largest number of people.

It considers happiness and pain, more happiness, less pain.

Its rule is by elites who know better than you do.

And you're just really incompetent.

You're sheep.

You can see this leftist idea of

equity

of outcome,

affirmative action, inclusion at all cost, even exclusion.

You can see what is happening.

It is this poison.

It is the gospel of a world turned upside down and inside out.

It is a ministry of pudgy billionaires devoted to annihilation.

That's what was truly behind

FTX.

I mean, it's a pretty negative take on effective altruism.

And I would agree that there are problems with it,

and not a lot, not everything is to like.

A lot of the people who practice it are nuts, and that's part of the problem.

But, like, you know, some of the points you mentioned,

one of the philosophies is instead of dedicating your life to, you know,

I don't know,

some charity,

you use capitalism and you earn money and then you choose who to give it to.

That's absolutely.

And I think that's what I do.

Right.

Yeah.

I mean,

I don't think it's

like, I think the way that the left uses effective altruism is bad in most cases.

And a lot of it's because, well, first of all, Sam Bankman-Fried was just seemingly fraud, you know, defrauding people to get this money to give away.

Yes.

So that's obviously a problem.

Peter Singer is also a problem.

Peter Singer is a massive problem.

Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum.

But again, like, you know,

using capitalism to do good is something that you have been doing for long before they called it effective altruism.

The difference is that that is not effective altruism.

That's part of it.

That's part of it.

This is the ends justify the means.

It can be.

And that's, I think, the problem with some people who practice it.

But I mean, part of it explains why it explains why they don't really have a problem with him and the Democratic Party.

They didn't have a problem.

They knew about Harvey Weinstein.

They knew.

They knew.

It wasn't hard to

ends justify the means.

You can be in bed with anyone as long as they are furthering your goals.

There is a utilitarian bent that is sometimes disturbing, but we also could use at times more utilitarianism when you're talking about taking...

your money and giving it to things that not just feel good or give you the warmest feeling inside, but that actually do the most good.

I mean, there's a version of this where you can,

and I think you largely agree with a good version of this because I've seen you in action.

You give away a lot of your money to causes that you believe in.

And you don't do it just based on like, okay, here's a splashy thing.

Let's get a bunch of famous people together.

You're doing it in a way that you hope does the most possible good with those resources.

And I think that's an admirable thing to do with your charitable dollars.

I think it kind of goes back to that old,

you know, that old conversation about you passed a homeless person in the streets who's drinking alcohol and

begging you for money.

Do you give the money to them or do you give the money to the homeless shelter where they should be going?

There is arguments on both sides.

And we've talked about it before.

At some point, if you feel led to do it, to give it to directly to that person, maybe that is the right thing to do.

But also,

if everyone gives it to the homeless people on the street drinking alcohol and none to the homeless shelter, the problem never gets solved.

And I don't know that the problem ever gets solved with homeless shelters either.

That's a whole other story.

But the point is, you know,

being responsible with your money when you give it away to charity is really important.

Looking at how the charities spend their money, really important.

You know, so I think...

There is a level there of trying to do the most good with your resources that is, I think, a positive aspect of effective altruism that is embedded in there.

And I think an increased focus on that by people would probably be positive.

That being said,

eating bugs is not what I'm talking about.

Yeah, I know.

And the problem here is, too, is

if you are

in effective altruism

the way he saw it, you create things to make money.

to pull off and, quote, do good.

Right.

And that's when

it starts to go awry.

You'll cut corners any way you have to.

You, you, I think, do what you love.

Money is a side benefit.

Okay.

It's a side product.

And you get that money.

Great.

Then take that and invest in things.

But do first what you love and what, and what you are doing to make money, not tying it directly to the charity.

That has to come after, or you lose sight.

No, no, no, no.