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Dad Saves America
Author: John Papola
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Proud papa, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and arm-chair philosopher John Papola explores the biggest issues facing our country through the lens of fatherhood, releasing exclusive interviews and deep dives every week. We need to make sure the next generation of Americans is raised to thrive in a free society and be champions of civilization.
Dad Saves America has hosted all sorts of experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew, Michael Shellenberger, Bret Weinstein, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Adam Carolla.
www.dadsavesamerica.com
Dad Saves America has hosted all sorts of experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew, Michael Shellenberger, Bret Weinstein, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Adam Carolla.
www.dadsavesamerica.com
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On Tuesday, the CEOs of Nvidia, Google, Meta, xAI, Anthropic, and more joined President Trump to discuss the development of AI, or, as the President has rebranded it, Super Intelligence. While they’ve signed a voluntary pledge to police AI safety, Democrats want Washington to step in instead, as if government standards do anything other than destroy innovation.Americans invented this technology, but we're among the most pessimistic people on Earth about it. Only 36% of Americans expect AI to mostly help the country, compared to 93% in China. Trump is backing data centers anyway, just weeks before the midterms.The same day, the administration launched America.gov, an AI-powered front page for federal government services. Big government gave us the HealthCare.gov disaster. AI might finally give us a government that works, and a bureaucracy whose days are numbered._____________________________________For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444. to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options._____________________________________Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/trumps-going-all-in-on-ai-will-his?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true_____________________________________Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store: https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z2lLnxLPdDIMake a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/ Get full access to Dad Saves America at www.dadsavesamerica.com/subscribe
I sat down with Andrew Hartz, a practicing clinical psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute. His organization is working to filter out the political bias that has become endemic in mental health care and connect patients with therapists they can trust.We get into:* The woke insanity inside the American Psychological Association* How to find a therapist who will actually help you* Why disability benefits prove the role of agency in mental health* What the Lindsay Clancy case revealed about the legal system* Mass formation psychosis and social media addiction* Why our culture overlooks male strengths, and what that’s doing to boys* The rush to affirm gender dysphoria without evidence_____________________________________For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options._____________________________________Follow Andrew Hartz on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/Hartz_PhD?s=20Learn more about the Open Therapy Institute:https://www.opentherapyinstitute.org/_____________________________________Outline:[0:00] Therapy went insanely woke[14:14] Psychology vs psychiatry vs therapy[15:48] How to get the most out of therapy[25:45] Can we trust the data behind therapy?[34:14] What does trauma really mean?[40:31] Mortality and existential anxiety[45:24] Agency is central to mental health[57:56] We’re accommodating bad behavior[59:44] Unconscious bias and microaggressions[1:03:06] Did women ruin psychology?[1:08:58] Lindsay Clancy’s insanity defense[1:19:32] Has psychosis become a legal loophole?[1:31:38] Is neuroscience useful for psychology?[1:33:12] Mass formation psychosis and social media[1:44:15] Should women worry about postpartum psychosis?[1:46:03] We’ve lost the ability to talk about men positively[1:58:23] Why young men turn to Andrew Tate[2:08:53] The rise in narcissism throughout our culture[2:11:43] What does it mean to be “mentally healthy”?[2:15:29] The psychology of homosexuality and gender dysphoria[2:33:17] Conservatives can’t give up on institutions[2:47:04] America needs the best of psychology right now_____________________________________Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store:https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TEphiy46LSMMake a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/ Get full access to Dad Saves America at www.dadsavesamerica.com/subscribe
1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a dysfunctional public school as a political statement, and is now paying the price. For years, socialists like Hasan Piker have flirted with banning private schools altogether under the theory that enrolling rich kids in failing schools can magically fix them. Universal public schooling, once a safety net for those who couldn’t afford a private school, has transformed into educational prison.None of this is unique to education. In Canada, “universal” healthcare has become a death-panel hellscape, with sick patients being offered assisted suicide as if it were a legitimate medical treatment. The same people who want to control what your child is taught in school want to decide when you’re “too sick” to deserve care.While disturbing, none of this should come as a surprise. In a free market, competition expands supply and brings costs down. In a government monopoly, competition is outlawed. Once they lock in their monopoly, you have no other choice._____________________________________Take control of your water quality today. Head to https://covepure.com/DAD and you’ll get $250 off your CovePure water filtration system for a limited time.For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444. to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options._____________________________________Check my sources over on Substack: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/p/big-government-progressivism-is-a?r=24ayxm_____________________________________Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store: https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PgE0j10tHW4Make a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/ Get full access to Dad Saves America at www.dadsavesamerica.com/subscribe
I sat down with Ben Slivka, an early Microsoft executive who led the team that built Internet Explorer, served 20 years on Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees, and has spent decades since as an angel investor across biotech, space, and software startups.We get into:* How cowardice became the norm in university leadership* Why the public school model fails so many students* His 1995 Microsoft memo that correctly predicted the internet revolution* The truth about the Microsoft antitrust case and why “monopoly” is a misleading term* Why he believes that we’re in a massive AI bubble* His investment in Stoke Space, SpaceX’s real competitor for reusable rockets* What he calls the “four horsemen of the woke apocalypse”* America’s historically unprecedented capacity for innovation_____________________________________For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options._____________________________________Follow Ben Slivka on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/Katy_Faust?s=20Learn more about Ben’s work: https://benslivka.com/_____________________________________Outline:[0:00] What’s going on with universities?[15:40] Cowards are running the show[29:27] Flexible vs. rigid approaches to schooling[39:15] Teachers’ unions want to destroy good schools[42:52] The “expert class” is anti-human and anti-reality[58:05] Building Internet Explorer[1:06:49] The reality of anti-trust law and “monopolies”[1:13:21] Is AI a miracle, a bubble, or a real threat?[1:31:18] Space travel is about to get a lot cheaper[1:39:42] We’ve lost historical perspective in our lives[1:55:30] Can we afford to have sympathy for the other side?[2:04:49] Universities have abandoned their purpose[2:11:47] We know less about biology than we think[2:14:03] Can Western civilization work without religion?[2:20:45] Expose your kids to the real world_____________________________________Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store: https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xghaeBHamYsMake a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/ Get full access to Dad Saves America at www.dadsavesamerica.com/subscribe
AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic last week and became a whistleblower, warning that the race toward superintelligent AI is "gambling with our lives." Another Anthropic employee, Evan Hubinger, backed him up, putting the odds of AI apocalypse within a decade at over 10%. Then, Anthropic published a 154-page AI safety report on all sorts of alarming ways the technology is evolving.Anthropic was founded as an AI-safety-conscious competitor to OpenAI. It’s company culture is heavily influenced by effective altruism, a utilitarian philosophy that attempts to optimize the wellbeing of the entire planet and every future person yet to be born.So, should these dark predictions be taken seriously, or are they the ravings of paranoid ideologues? And our the panicked response, will we end up running head-first into a government regulation disaster?_____________________________________For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444. to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options._____________________________________Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/the-anthropic-whistleblower-is-not?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true_____________________________________Purchase a T-shirt, hoodie, and more over on our merch store: https://shop.dadsavesamerica.com/Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/opR9-jh-s-kMake a tax-deductible donation to Dad Saves America: https://secure.anedot.com/emergent-order-foundation/dad-website?Visit our website: https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/ Get full access to Dad Saves America at www.dadsavesamerica.com/subscribe








