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COVID STARTED THE SEARCH — WHAT SHE FOUND COULD CHANGE HOW YOU VIEW ILLNESS

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Why are infertility, hormone problems, and chronic disease rising in every generation?

Dr Daniel Pompa sits down with Alex Clark, host of Culture Apothecary and a leading voice in the MAHA movement, to explore how ultra processed foods, birth control, plastics, pesticides, and everyday chemical exposures may be reshaping modern health. Together, they challenge the idea that genetics alone are driving today's health crisis.

The conversation covers fertility, PCOS, endometriosis, hormone disruption, glyphosate, endocrine disruptors, and the growing concerns around food, pharmaceuticals, and public health policy.

You will also learn practical ways to reduce toxic exposure and support long term health through cleaner food, better water, improved sleep, and simple lifestyle changes.

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Infertility Rise And Church Health

Dr Pompa

Infertility is rising 4% a year.

SPEAKER_03

The church, physically and spiritually, is supposed to be a beacon of health. And we are doing great on one end and we are totally dropping the ball on another.

Dr Pompa

Christians are just as unhealthy, if not more unhealthy, than other religious groups, which is actually true. So therefore, praying over your food is probably the right thing to do to give God thanks. However, it's not protecting you from the food.

SPEAKER_03

We're all put on birth control. And we wonder why we are feeling so crappy as adults, and we're trying to raise our own kids if we can even get pregnant, by the way.

Dr Pompa

It's like glyphosate is there.

SPEAKER_03

The left really were the founding fathers on all things raw milk, anti-vax. This was never conservative.

Dr Pompa

Atrazine, it's a chemical that has the potential to make male frogs female. And that is still being allowed on our food. Maybe, just maybe, it's a little controversial because we go political, we talk about Jesus, we talk about the Maha movement, what we like, what we don't like.

Alex Clark’s Pandemic Wake-Up

Okay, in this episode, I interview the Maha Queen herself, and she is a dynamo. You're gonna fall in love with her, though, Alex Clark.

SPEAKER_03

Thank you. What an intro.

Dr Pompa

This interview, we're gonna blow you away on this because we're not afraid to go anywhere. We're gonna go everywhere that matters right now for the health of this country, for humanity, and all that matters, and even our belief in Jesus, right? We'll go there too. I love it all.

SPEAKER_03

This is spicy.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, absolutely. We're going right after it. Uh, but I have to ask the question pain to purpose, right? I I just, you know, explained you everything I teach today came out of my pain to purpose. I sit here because of my pain, my story. I want to know your story. Someone your age, you know, into the health movement, into the political movement, you know, there had to be a story. I know you had Hashimoto's, but I I need to hear it. I gotta start here. You know, who made Alex Clark, Alex Clark?

SPEAKER_03

Ooh, that's a really good question. You know, I think that I have always been a very curious child, and I always like to know how things work, why they work the way they do. When the pandemic happened, it really rattled me. And I think this is a lot of people's story for who care about health now. Um, pre-pandemic, I grew up in a family that, you know, loved ultra-processed food. I would say most of my meals came from DoorDash or fast food drive-throughs. I didn't know how to cook.

I don't even know that I knew how to boil water. Uh, so I was completely clueless. I had been on birth control for 10 years. Uh, I was put on that as a teenager for no real reason. And so I'm in my mid-20s, the pandemic happens. And just as a conservative, I automatically have my guard up about the government telling me you have to put something in your body. I didn't like that. That didn't sit well with me. And so I had never questioned pharma before.

I had never questioned uh our food system before. I didn't even know what big pharma was or big food was. Never heard any of that in my life. As a conservative, you know, we grew up trusting basically every single institution. Um, or let me say this again. As a conservative, we didn't trust any institutions except except food and pharma. We never questioned them in our house. Interesting. And in fact, they did such a good job back in the day lobbying on these issues.

So what would happen was, you know, American Beverage Association, for example, would be going to Capitol Hill and lobbying and telling people it's an anti-freedom issue if you're a conservative to tell people how much soda they shouldn't drink, should or shouldn't drink. Uh and so that was really what was sold to us.

Dr Pompa

It's anti-freedom to tell people how didn't you feel like the left had it better when it came to food and those things back then?

SPEAKER_03

Yes. What's funny about this entire thing is that the left really were the founding fathers on all things raw milk, anti-vax. This was never conservatives. So, you know, anti-birth control, this was all the left. In fact, Ricky Lake made an incredible documentary on birth control called The Business of Birth Control. She is a staunch liberal feminist, and she made this entire documentary talking about how birth control is poison and preys on women.

Now, when I started saying that, uh, which I'll get to, that's when the mainstream media all said that I was an extremist and a Christian nationalist and all kinds of stuff. And I'm like, I'm literally saying the exact same talking points that liberal feminists on the left have been saying for decades, literal decades, since the 70s, drawing attention to the fact that hormonal birth control is making us so sick, mentally ill. Why is nobody doing anything?

You know, in the 70s, there were no warning packets with the pill. So why don't we have a list of the side effects? It's because of liberal feminists that we actually got that packet in the birth control pill, but I digress.

Dr Pompa

So during the pandemic, that that's not a left or a right thing. Well, exactly. A bad thing.

SPEAKER_03

It's just common sense. I mean, that's true women's health, right? So the left and the right, they always argue about what is and isn't women's health. I would say giving women informed consent about hormonal birth control or any other medical product that we're putting in our bodies, that is common sense and we deserve informed consent. And yeah, exactly. That's not political.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, it seems like both sides would agree with that to me, but no.

SPEAKER_03

Well, so I was upset about being mandated to take the vaccine. I wanted to know if the FDA had ever been wrong about anything before. Like, have we ever had a glaring mistake, you know, when it came to pharmaceutical advice or direction? And I stumbled across, of course, the Purdue Pharma Oxycotton story. Now, I didn't really know about that story. And at the exact moment that I'm looking this up, there's this amazing Hulu docuseries. Well, it's it's actually not a docuseries.

There's this amazing Hulu series uh that was depicting the entire Oxycotton Purdue Pharma story. And it won tons of Emmy Awards. It was incredible if you haven't seen it. And so I'm watching this show and I'm like, this is the greatest American true crime story I've ever seen. I was just on the edge of my seat, couldn't stop watching, couldn't stop Googling uh how did the FDA get this so wrong?

How is there this revolving door of people working for Purdue Pharma, then working for FDA and vice versa? Like, this is so corrupt, I can't even believe this is allowed. You know, how is this going on? And then come to find out that this has been happening for so long with all kinds of pharmaceutical products. And naturally, when you kind of go down the big pharma hole, lead you to the big food hole.

And I'm reading Vonnie Hari's book, uh Feeding You Lies, and I'm I'm learning about all this populace.

Dr Pompa

How old were you at this time?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, during the pandemic, I mean, what? That was five years ago. So what? I'm in my late 20s. Okay. Because I'm 33 now.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, I mean, it's extraordinary though that you actually took time to dig that deep.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my gosh, it's not that deep. I mean, Santo? Yeah, my life. It's it's like, okay, this is how I feel like um, you know, and I didn't, I don't have, we were talking about this, I don't have as a Christian a crazy conversion story. I always like get upset when people ask me, like, how did you get saved? And I'm like, I wish I was like addicted to black dark heroine, and then you know, like somebody found me like out of a gutter. Like, I wish I had some crazy conversations.

Dr Pompa

I'll tell you my story when I got in an argument with my friend. I was like raised Catholic, became agnostic, got in an argument and led me to Christ. I mean, like, exactly.

SPEAKER_03

Like, so cool.

Dr Pompa

So I'm like, wish I had that.

SPEAKER_03

My conversion story is boring. I just I grew up in a Christian home and I I just think over time, um, you know, I had other strong believers in my life that that really helped in that sanctification process. And I'm still, I mean, all of us, you know, are it's the sanctification process is ongoing, right? But um I would say I really started getting serious about my faith in the last five years. So also the pandemic. Um, but I'm going through all of this, I'm reading all these books.

And so I felt like I was having a true wild conversion story where I just could not get enough of this information. You know, how is this stuff allowed in our government? How are we, how are we putting patents on seeds and farmers are are restricted on what they can farm? I mean, the whole thing, like people, you know, basically the mafia will come knock on a farmer's door and tell them what they can and can't do. This is, I was like, this is America. This sounds like a third world country.

Yeah. Um, so I just had to tell everybody what I was learning. And and what I also learned during that time was about the side effects and risks that I was never told about hormonal birth control after being on it for a decade.

Birth Control Risks And Informed Consent

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And I had gotten off on my own a couple years prior just because I didn't know anything about this, but I just thought, you know, it's weird that I'm taking this. I don't know why I'm taking it. I've been on it for so long, and what's the point? I'm never on time with it. I routinely forget to take it. Like, I'm just gonna stop cold turkey. So I did.

Um, thank God. Yeah. But I was looking up things about hormonal birth control, and that's when I found out, you know, it changes the type of man that you're attracted to.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

It uh it can increase your risks of developing a uh uh it can increase your risks of developing an autoimmune disease 230 something percent. Um, which by the way, I have Hashimoto, so I'm like, there's gotta be a correlation there. Um, you know, just all of the different side effects, how it increases your your rates of anxiety and depression. How many of my friends have been on the birth control pill? They're experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression, and then they're put on Lexapro.

It's this never-ending thing.

Dr Pompa

And by the way, there was high levels of mercury and a form of thimerosol in it, which I I I don't even know why it was there, but you know, I I think they eventually changed that, but for many years they were getting mercury poisoned as well, as if it wasn't bad enough.

SPEAKER_03

That's incredible. I had no idea about that. So yeah, I'm like, I'm reading all of this and um, you know, finding out that it's really a band-aid because I I have so many friends that are like, well, I have to take it because I have PCOS. I have to take birth control for endometriosis. And so I just thought that must be true. Um, and you know, come to find out it's really suppressing symptoms, it's not actually fixing the issue.

And so what I started talking about with my audience at the time was birth control is leading to infertility. And what I have to the caveat there is it's indirectly leading to infertility. So it's not a direct cause, but indirectly because it is suppressing the symptoms, the warning signs your own body is giving you saying something isn't right. We need to get this fixed. And then you have that time to get it fixed so that by the time you want to have a family, you can.

Dr Pompa

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

You know, these women are on the pill, they're suppressing their endometriosis uh symptoms.

Dr Pompa

And by the way, infertility is rising 4% a year.

SPEAKER_03

Really? Last I heard it was 1%.

Dr Pompa

So that means it's increased that it's going up and up and up and up and up. So bad.

SPEAKER_03

Unreal. I mean, this is a crisis. This tells you it's something environmental, it's not genetic or anything like that. That there's something in our environment, in our lifestyle, the way we're living our lives as Americans that is leading to such increased rates of infertility.

But I uh was concerned about how, you know, all these women that are wanting to have a family get off the pill, and then they realize they're gonna have to take a significant amount of time, go through severe surgery or whatever to clean up endometriosis, and then may they may or may not be able to get pregnant after that. Um, and I just felt like what a disservice to women. And again, that's not women's health. These are the women's health causes that our politicians should be talking about.

I want to hear about why we have uh increasing rates of PCOS. I want to hear what we're doing to get to the bottom of endometriosis, infertility, uh, breast cancer. You know, what what what are the best, safest ways to test for breast cancer? Is it a mammogram? Right, you know, come to find out, no. So these are all the things that um it was like everything that I had known in my entire life overnight, poof, it's gone. Like it's evaporated.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, trusting in the FDA, like you said, trusting in Big Pharma. You were raised that way. I think most of our parents trusted the doctor, Big Pharma, right? I mean, that was that generation, and I think your generation is breaking out of that in a big way.

SPEAKER_03

I think so. And I, and you know why? I think it's because millennials are so freaking sick.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

We are so sick.

SPEAKER_02

That's right.

SPEAKER_03

And it's because of how we were raised. My generation had a fake food pyramid, my generation had GMOs introduced to the food system, vaccine schedule explodes with my generation. We're all put on birth control, and we wonder why we are feeling so crappy as adults, and we're trying to raise our own kids if we can even get pregnant, by the way. We're trying to raise our own kids healthier and we are having the hardest time doing that. All of the science is fake.

We don't know what's up and what's down. There's studies out there saying lucky charms are healthier than ground beef. How are we supposed to know how to feed a kid?

Dr Pompa

You know, part of the curse of generation is social media, but it's also social media that I think has made your generation not trust anything or anybody because they know anything can be fake, right? It's like, you know, that you that your generation absolutely looks at things. Like I'll send things to my my kids and they'll be, oh, that's AI. You know, they laugh at me. Oh, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Well, I I'll tell you, here's the cask, here's the cascade of events here that that has, I think, absolutely catapulted this crazy distrust. Everything is a conspiracy. And by the way, I certainly I think for the majority of the time, a lot of conspiracy theories, you know, give it time, they come true, right?

But what what you're talking about is this crazy, I mean, even beyond a health, there's a healthy level of skepticism we should have about the government and things we're told and the official narratives on things. Everyone should have that. You should always have that. But what we're seeing on social media now is is is goes so far and beyond that. Obviously, I work at Turning Point USA.

So, you know, I have a firsthand seat to the crazy conspiracies and stuff about the people that I love and work with.

Dr Pompa

And so I want to talk about that.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So what you know, what I blame is one, the pandemic, how that was handled, um, the total botched science that we were fed, uh, mandating a vaccine, all of that. That was the first thing that really shook up people. Then you have uh the complete butchering of the Epstein files drop over the summer of 2025. That was a massive blunder. I I will just say that also rattled a lot of people's trust.

So that by the time Charlie Kirk is murdered, it's you have a lot of people that are like, that's it. I don't believe anything. You know, we have we have oodles and oodles of evidence against this guy, but nope, that's not it. We're gonna go and we're gonna make up these crazy stories that are just that are honestly laughable, almost all of them.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, laughable. I I think they're blaming her now. Yes, um, Erica Kirk for this and being involved. I mean, you know, what possibly more could they say? I mean ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03

Well, every day it's it's something else, um, which is just it's uh really unreal. I'm just like, man, this is um these people have really great imaginations. They should be working on storyboards for cartoons.

Dr Pompa

You know, I I always just it's the battle's spiritual, and I want to get there because I I do believe that Charlie died for a very, very important reason, and you know, God allows all things, and I want to have that conversation because I think it's really important. You know, I I this generation, my kids' generation is the first generation to not outlive their parents. And that was your original point, is the reason you got into it, the generations getting into it because they have to.

You know, they have chronic disease. You know, there was nobody in my class that you know had the conditions that are going on. There was no food allergies. And again, I'm 60 years old, right? But so a very different time growing up than you. But there no one had food allergies. There was no gluten intolerance. What changed? You know, I mean, honestly, like what looking at that, what I just said, what changed? Why is your generation, the generation after you, is even worse? What happened?

Chronic

Plastics, Pesticides, And Chronic Disease

disease went through the roof.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, I think it's all the things I just mentioned. I also think it's the increased amount of plastics, it's fragrance and everything is contributing to making us sick. Uh, the amount of food that we are getting to go take out drive-throughs that is hot food in plastic, leaching that into our food. You know, we're using Teflon nonstick cookware, plastic utensils, scraping our food on those on the pans. Uh we're literally just eating.

Dr Pompa

All these are hormone disruptors, by the way.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. All these are hormone disruptors. And then, you know, of course, all the pesticides that we're using in our environment. Um and so that's been a problem, by the way. It's not only the Trump administration, because a lot of people are talking about that in the news right now. It's been a problem with every single presidential administration since we started using all of this crap. I mean, I guess, which would have been right after the Vietnam War.

Dr Pompa

No, no, because they they're paying the bills. Yeah. These companies is the point. So that means that every, you know, the whole thing is wrong on every side. And to your point, every president has uh added to some of this unknowing. I'm I'm not even saying, you know, many of it is much of it is unknowing.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And I think that there are a lot of people that are giving the president unfortunately bad information around him when it comes to pesticides. I think that there are still several people.

Dr Pompa

You talk about the glyphosate thing?

Glyphosate Power And Farming Tradeoffs

Yeah. Okay. Which I hate glyphosate.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And so I think that there's a lot of people in the admin that have lobbyist ties that are, that are working in the agencies that are proving chemicals, like the EPA. Um, we know that. Uh Nancy Beck, Kyle Kunkler. So that that's a huge problem. Um, you know, those were the types of things that we were weeding out in the in the NIH and the FDA.

Dr Pompa

Just so people understand the context of what we're talking about, glyphosate, the chemical that I believe is causing all these food allergy problems, causing gluten problems, opening up the blood-brain barrier, the gut barrier leading to autoimmune, obviously, lawsuits for cancer, and yet it's still on the market. Okay, and there was just a recent um bill that they're pushing through protecting it under national security.

SPEAKER_03

Correct. Yeah, there was an executive order. Um, you know, Bayer donated, I believe, a million dollars to do it.

Dr Pompa

And Bayer's the owner now of glyphosate, correct. The company Monsanto.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, manufacturing it, Roundup. They donated, I believe, one million dollars to Trump's inaugural fund. They also have a bunch of people that used to work uh for Bayer, their law firm, et cetera, that are working in the administration. So the fingerprints are all over. But again, it's not unique to this admin, I want to stress. It's just this has been a problem forever.

And so what I think we have is a really cool opportunity for for this uh presidential administration to say, okay, we want to do something different. Um and I think that that's really going to come from because again, I think the president is being given bad information on this topic. I think it's going to come from the Maha Moms, it's gonna come from the activists. We're hosting a massive rally on the Supreme Court steps April 27th at 9 a.m.

Uh, because there is a Bayer Monsanto Supreme Court case being heard on that day. And so we're gonna rally and it the rally is called People versus Poison. So you can actually sign up RCP so we have a good headcount of how many people are gonna be there. I don't know if you remember this, but we hosted a huge uh protest at Kellogg's in the fall of 2021.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So we did that, and so we're anticipating this rally to be even bigger and really just make a huge national statement that the people are not for all of this poison, that we really want to see change on this.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, this is a really important thing for why what I said, right? I I do believe glyphosate is the problem. I mean, why people are reacting to phytates, lectins, all the plant toxins, every, you know, everything that's happening back, it's like glyphosate is there. So what there is there's some truth to this? That glyphosate is so ubiqueous in our environment. Corn, 98% of corn will not grow without it. I think 97% of soy won't grow without it. So many plants won't grow without it.

Meaning, it's like putting a child on antibiotic after antibiotic. Literally, they won't survive without the next antibiotic if they get something as simple as a strep throat. So, I mean, our plants have become dependent on this. If we just pulled it away, because that's what I'm asked. If it's so bad, if millions of dollars have been awarded to cancer, non-hotum's lymphoma, why not just put billions at this point? Why not just pull it away?

SPEAKER_03

You're right. And and so that's what the administration is saying is that it's a national security issue. We need to protect glyphosate because if we take it away, then you know starvation.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_03

So it is a process. It's you can't do it overnight. But you know, what needs to be done is which the admin is saying that they're discussing how they can do this. So that's good. I've heard that there are talks. Bobby mentioned, Bobby Kennedy mentioned that there were talks going on between him and President Trump on the Joe Rogan show about this. But there needs to be a significant amount of amount of money put into helping farmers get off.

By the way, there are other things now that technology has invented that allow farmers to kill weeds without glyphosate and pesticides, like uh there are these huge um industrial farming tools or whatever that you ride through your crops and they zap with AI the weeds. The lasers. Yeah. And so there's a lot of farmers that are, you know, wanting to go in together because they're very expensive and rent one of these to share between farms. So there are new inventions coming.

We don't have to be reliant on glyphostate and payer crap.

Dr Pompa

We now create a new problem, though. We created a soil that is just deplete of anything. So therefore, now we need I'm putting quotes around it, the chemical, because the soil, you know, again, what brings a plant defense is a good soil that makes a healthy plant, just like a child, just like a human, right? And when you don't have the soil, you have an unhealthy plant, we have to spray everything away. So how do we deal with that?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, this is a huge problem that I don't think a lot of people realize. I mean, an organic tomato today is less nutrient dense than an organic tomato from the 1950s. Because of our soil. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you didn't have to do that before because our food, first of all, it was local. You know, you had the you had a milkman. That would be amazing. We should bring back milkmans. Yes.

Dr Pompa

Um delivering raw milk.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. When we industrialized the food system and we took out this aspect of getting things local, this is why everything had to be sprayed and made shelf stable with all of these chemicals. Food, we were not supposed to eat this way. We weren't supposed to eat um out of season. We were supposed to be be eating seasonally, right? Like you weren't supposed to be eating pineapple in January.

Dr Pompa

I'm sorry, but that's just not there's problems with that, actually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So it's it's way better for you to, for your body to eat regionally, locally, um, and seasonally. You know, and you can look that up. Okay, it's it's you know, at the time that we're filming this, it's March. So what vegetables and produce are in fruit are in season in March. And then you shop according to that. And here's what also is cool is when you're eating seasonally and you're changing up your diet according to what's in season every month, you're creating a diverse microbiome.

I preach this, right? You know this better than me. You're probably listening to me, like, oh my gosh. You know, I explain it like a third grade level. It's it's I'm explaining it on a third grade level. You are so invited to that.

Dr Pompa

It's the best way.

SPEAKER_03

But you're creating a diverse microbiome. And so guess what? You're not gonna get as sick as frequently. Um, you're you're just you're gonna feel better. Your cells are gonna be uh uh, you know, I don't know what's the word.

Dr Pompa

Functioning, able to detox.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, exactly. And so I I think, you know, we eat as Americans, I feel like we eat like four beige foods every single day, and then we're sitting in artificial light all day long, and we're we're getting six hours of sleep or less, and we think that that's okay because we can function. Um, and it's not, it's it's super dangerous to exist on six hours of sleep. I just interviewed Barbara O'Neill, uh famous herbalist author speaker on this, and she was talking about the six hours of sleep problem.

And so all of this combined, I mean, this is why we are so sick. We are, you know, on seven, eight, nine different medications in our 50s. You know, retirement years weren't supposed to be lived on, you know, multiple different medications, sitting in front of a screen, you know, in your home, just wasting away. That was really supposed to be like life is beginning. Like I get to hang on with my grandkids, I get to travel, I get to do all these fun things.

Like the way that we live our retirement years in America is so depressing. We're living longer, but we're actually just dying longer, is really what's going on.

Dr Pompa

My father said, you know, I was always trying to get him to, you know, do better. And um he smoked for 50 years, ended up with lung cancer. But his saying, he his saying in the beginning when I would try to get him to make changes would be, I'm gonna die of something anyway, so I'm just gonna enjoy myself. That was his little saying, right? Well, it changed. It changed because he suffered for the last 15 years of his life, maybe longer.

And he said, Son of a bitch, if I'd known I was gonna live so damn long, I'd have uh I'd have taken better care of myself. It's like, yeah, you know, because he didn't realize that he was riddled with all these problems, right?

SPEAKER_03

I mean, of course, God knows exactly how many days that we have. Uh he is sovereign. And that doesn't mean though, that we are supposed to just trash this temporary gift that we were given by him. Because if we are too sick and mentally ill and struggling and can't get out of bed, how are we getting out and and and doing his mission? Yeah, right. How are we getting out and discipling people, evangelizing people, um, you know, using our God-given gifts and talents to bring glory to him?

How are we doing that if we're just sick in bed watching TV all day? Yeah. So, so for the Christian, especially, who says it doesn't matter, we're all going to die anyway. I know where I'm going, that's great. But don't you think, and that's true, you could be 400 pounds morbidly obese and never leave your home and still be saved and go to heaven. That's what's incredible about the gospel. However, don't you think God has a better plan for you?

I don't think that God wanted you to spend your your years on this earth just like, you know, wasting away in bed watching TLC reruns. I I don't, I don't believe that that's what he would want. And I also think that, you know, when we if we were to look at our bodies, which are temporary, right, until we get to heaven as a rented car, for example. How do you treat a rental car versus the car you own? We treat our bodies like we own them and we don't.

They belong to God. When you get a rental car, what are you doing? You're like meticulously looking for any crumbs you left behind. Is there a receipt on the floor? God forbid, gotta get that out of there. I'm taking it through the car wash, I'm giving it a full tank of gas before I drop it off. The way we treat a rental car is so much better. Then the car we own. There's, you know, happy meals under the seat, there's slime on the walls, stickers your kids put on there.

It hasn't been cleaned in months, just thick with grime and nastiness. The speakers are all blown out. Um, you know, that is how we treat what we own. And we're kind of treating our bodies like that. And we don't own these bodies. So if you just think about that, I mean, that says a lot. Like, or if your friend gives you something to borrow, like a shirt, your girlfriend is giving you a top to borrow. It's like how you take care of that versus the clothing that we own, right?

And so I think that there needs to be a mindset shift with Christians.

Food Addiction And Church Accountability

I also think in the church, we are excusing so much sin when it comes to the health issue. And really what it boils down to is if you've got an obese, overweight pastor, for example, he's struggling with self-discipline.

Dr Pompa

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03

That's a red flag as a congregation. You're also if you can't take care of yourself, I'm sorry. But when you are trying to share your Christian witness with something with somebody, I think that matters. How does this person, you know, obviously how do they conduct themselves, but how do they look? Do they look put together? Do they look like a slog?

Dr Pompa

Yeah, I preach. I I got you there. And you know, and I've heard Christians say, Well, I pray over my food. I'm like, do you think that if that were the case, because many Christians pray over their food, the health statistics would arguably then, if your philosophy is correct, be better than other religious groups. Fact is, it's not. Okay, Christians are just as unhealthy, if not more unhealthy than other religious groups, which is actually true.

So therefore, praying over your food is probably the right thing to do to give God thanks. However, it's not protecting you from the food. You better make better choices, though. Yeah, exactly. I'm not sure I buy into that philosophy.

SPEAKER_03

Well, you know, these are real addictions. You know this, you know this as a doctor better than me, but the people have real addictions to sugar and ultra-processed food. My dad died of an addiction to ultra-processed food. So when I see churches hosting, you know, potlucks or whatever, and everything is red 40 and fried chicken, you know, fried in canola oil and all of this. You see, you're you're fueling sickness in the church.

The church, physically and spiritually, is supposed to be a beacon of health.

Dr Pompa

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And we are we are doing great on one end and we are totally dropping the ball on another. Yeah. Um, and so, you know, we should be holding each other accountable in our spiritual walks as well as our physical health walks, um, I think with the church.

Dr Pompa

I couldn't agree more. I told you it was gonna be controversial. So yeah, even for our Christians that uh we love and adore, oh my gosh, you gotta eat better. I'm telling you, it's real though. The Christians are like one of the sicker uh religious groups.

SPEAKER_03

It's be it's because of how we eat at all of our gatherings. Yeah. You know, and so what I like to do is volunteer as that person, you know, for Sunday school, for children's Sunday school that you're you're chaperoning, or for your small group that you go to every week, volunteer to be the snack person. And and so you know that you're providing something that's nourishing, that's gonna fuel everybody, that's gonna help everyone focus for the important things that you're trying to learn.

Uh so, you know, we see this in schools. Why in the world do we not see what happens to kids in schools when they're fed crap food, they can't pay attention, then the teacher tries to say they should be on ADHD meds, right? We see this happening with kids, and then we don't want to fuel our church congregation with better stuff so they can sit and listen and absorb the teaching.

Dr Pompa

Yeah. It's the same. Yeah, absolutely. You know, the battle's always spiritual. This is always what I say. When you don't understand things, the battle's always spiritual, meaning this world is Satan's world. God gave it to him for a time. And of course, God's people will be deceived. And absolutely, you know, the enemy wants us to be downtrodden, if you will, not the light of the world. He wants it exact opposite. So I I hope people heard what you just said.

MAHA Wins And What Comes Next

How is Maha doing? You asked me the question, right? How's Maha doing? Right? You're, you know, I don't know. Some people say you're the Maha girl. What's uh what do they call you? The uh the Maha I don't know what they call it. What do they call her? I'm asking her queen. The Maha Queen. Thank you. See, she wouldn't say it. She wouldn't say I'd ask her assistant over there. The Maha Queen. Okay, Maha Queen, how's Maha doing?

SPEAKER_03

You know, we have accomplished so many things in this first year, right? Incredible things that no other presidential administration has been able to do. And we got it done in one year. We have updated the dietary food guidelines. This is huge. This this uh impacts, you know, the types of food that is recommended.

Uh this impacts the type of food that is recommended in the pediatrician's office to what is going to be served at schools and our school lunches, which by the way, for a lot of kids in America, that's the only food they get all day.

SPEAKER_04

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03

So this is critical that we were able to accomplish this. So kudos to Bobby for that.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, but but Bobby doesn't know. He was not the first to flip the pyramid. You know that. It was South Park 11. And it was South Park 11 years ago. You have to watch the piece. I actually did a little social media thing. They were like, you know, we got to flip the pyramid, sir. We have to flip the pyramid. We'll bring health back to America. And he's like, but if we flip the pyramid, duh. He's like, flip it. Okay, like we got a match. And you know, it was hilarious. You have to see it.

Yeah. So I I did a little little piece on it. But wait, I love that. But you're you're right. It was flipped. It was a fake pyramid. It was bought and sold and you know, from you know, big uh industry. Big industry.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So you know, we accomplished the dietary guidelines update. Uh we have, you know, started requiring food diets to not be allowed in our in our food supply chain, which is huge. Uh, there is a massive effort going on to look into what's allowed in baby formula right now called Operation Stork Speed. I love that name. We have uh started putting a lot of money into regenerative farming. So when we talked about you know fixing and improving our soil, uh, you know, electrical.

Dr Pompa

Which is part of that, the real we never close that loop. That's the answer to the glyphosate issue. For sure. The Trump administration has to understand. I get that it's a national security issue, that we can't just pull it because our soils deplete. It would cause food problems. It would, it would cause shortages. But that said, we have to put billions of dollars into regenerating our soil. That will change the health of America. That will get away from the chemical.

Um, but there's gonna be great resistance there. But anyways, I'm uh you know, sorry, because that's a really important topic, and we didn't close that list.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, you know, that's good. Um uh uh what else have we done? Oh my gosh, so many things. What am I forgetting?

Dr Pompa

Um the Well, the vaccine schedule. Oh, that's right. My gosh, that's huge. Uh we didn't even go there yet.

SPEAKER_03

Change the childhood vaccine schedule uh to to mimic more European countries that you know have a really dialed in schedule and then you know, just more importantly, telling parents you know your child best. And it's really up to you, you know, what vaccines your child gets. It's not up to the doctor, it's up to you. Yeah, and and just giving that power back to parents, I think that's been an incredible message that this administration has uh propagated, which needed to be done.

Whether it comes to, you know, the way you educate your kids, uh, you know, the religion that is instilled in your children, the worldview instilled in your children. Parents know best. It should be up to the parents. It shouldn't be up to teachers, doctors, educators, the news, the government. It's up to the parent. And so I think that's one of the most impactful messages that we've gotten that is a true Maha message from this presidential administration.

Um, so yeah, there's there's so many things that we've done. And then we also, a lot of people don't know this. I know there were a lot of people that wanted us to take pharma ads completely off of TV. I don't know if they're planning on still doing that or if it's in the works or if it's not in the works. I haven't heard an update, but what did happen very under the radar a couple months ago was we started requiring pharmaceutical companies to list all of the side effects on the commercials.

Dr Pompa

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So it's kind of funny.

Dr Pompa

It's almost humorous.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, because you've got this like golden retriever frolicking through a field with butterflies, and then they're like, literally, I'm not kidding. The commercial will say the side effects of this medication may include bleeding from your eyeballs, ears, and toes, massive diarrhea. You might wake up in the middle of the night and just explode, throwing up uncontrollably, cancer. Your head might fall off.

Dr Pompa

Like, no, it's absurd, right?

SPEAKER_03

Crazy side effects. Crazy. Um, you might go blind. I mean, I'm listening to this like, wow, because it's true, there's no pharmaceutical product on the market, vaccine, pill, or otherwise, that is side effect free. There's not one. Everything has a side effect. There's always a risk. You need to know what those are. So at least, you know, that goes into the category of giving Americans more informed consent, which I really like.

Um, and you know, we have a lot this year that we're really focused on now. So, you know, myself, uh Vonnie Hari, the food babe, uh, Kelly Ryerson, the glyphosate girl, Courtney Swan, uh from Real Foodology, amazing podcast, and all of them are my friends. We're all working really hard on the chemicals.

Dr Pompa

They're all powerful women, right? It's like because I've always said the answer to this is not that you're a mom, but the answer to this is moms who are just pissed off. Oh, it is.

SPEAKER_03

And see, and I'm just a vessel. So it's like I represent my audience, which I'm not a mom yet, God willing, I will be one day, but I represent my audience who are young moms. And so I hear what, you know, they message me every day, tell me what's up, what's down, what are we happy about, what are we mad about. And so I'm kind of their mouthpiece with all of this. And so I share it. Um, I share what their thoughts and

PFAS, Liability Shields, And The Courts

concerns are. And so, yeah, we are working really hard to draw attention to the pesticides. There have been multiple bills that have come up in uh several states now across the country where they're trying to make it so you cannot sue a chemical company if you get sick from 57,000 different chemicals. So let me explain this. Remember what we did in the vaccine with vaccines in the 80s?

Dr Pompa

Yep, same thing.

SPEAKER_03

Can't sue vaccine manufacturers. You just uh interviewed Dr. Aaron Seary, right?

Dr Pompa

Yes, yep.

SPEAKER_03

And you talked about this.

Dr Pompa

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

So we're trying now, the chemical companies are trying to do what we did with vaccines to their products because people are getting so sick. And like I said, they have spent billions of dollars settling lawsuits for Hodgkin's lymphoma and all kinds of other cancers and illnesses and infertility and thyroid issues. So they're like, hey, you know what would be great? Instead of us continuing to pay out all these lawsuits and settlements, why don't we just go ahead and make it so they can't sue us?

And so they've been trying to push that individually with certain states. We've been knocking them down. We're going and we're speaking and at hearings and we're getting our audiences to call their senators and their and their congressmen. And it has been crazy. Bayer hates us. I am, I am enemy number one of Bayer, okay?

So they are so angry because what we're doing is we're educating these moms and these states, saying, Okay, do you understand not just glyphosate, which obviously this counts in their roundup or whatever, but it's what you're treating your sidewalk weeds with, your yard that your kids are playing in, the chemicals in the cleaning products under your sink, different Clorox products, chemicals in clothing that you're buying for your family, clothing, uh, chemicals in bedding that you're buying for

your family, ant traps, uh, bug spray killers, things like that. So many household products, over 57,000. If you get cancer or sick, God forbid, from any of those things, you would not have any legal recourse. Now, we're seeing this in real time right now in Northwest Georgia. There is a town, and uh they have one of the biggest carpet manufacturers in the world. It's like the carpet capital of the world.

They're making all this carpet, and the carpet manufacturer dumped a few years ago forever chemicals, PFAWs, into the environment there. So now, a couple years later, you've got babies all being born with the same deformities, thyroid issues that are that are unbelievable. Where is this? North Northwest Georgia.

Dr Pompa

Northwest Georgia.

SPEAKER_03

And it's also creeping into the border there of Alabama. And uh cancer, they have this is a teeny tiny town, teeny tiny town, not uh people with not a lot of money. They've had to open a second cancer clinic, I believe, because so many people are being diagnosed with cancer, pediatric cancer on the rise in this area. Uh, there's a couple who has a 22,000 acre farm. All of their farm animals are dying, and their family members are dying.

Dr Pompa

They're bearing This is like the movie Dark Waters.

SPEAKER_03

It's exactly. So it's if you've ever seen Dark Waters with Ann Hathaway and Mark Ruffalo, it's one of the greatest movies of all time.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And it's I love that movie. I've seen it so many times. And so it's the exact same thing that happened there in West Virginia, in Georgia. But what's crazy is so this family is burying their farm animals and their family members on their property. They are saying that their farmland is completely unsellable because it's riddled with forever chemicals, which you know, never leave forever. And so it's useless and they can't make a living and they want to sue. But guess what?

Over the summer, I believe, in the last six months or so, Georgia passed a pesticide chemical liability shield. Oh my gosh. And so these poor people probably have no legal recourse, they have nothing they can do, and they're all getting sick. I mean, the people are testing the blood of the residents that live there for you know the levels of the forever chemicals in their blood. It is so astronomical. I don't even know how some of these people are alive.

Uh, they have done a PBS documentary, a little mini documentary on this issue. You should watch it. If you type in like Georgia Carpet PBS, it'll come up. Um, it'll come up. It's a really good documentary. Um, and so everyone should watch it because what is happening in Georgia could happen to your state. They're trying to pass this in Kentucky, Kansas. We killed it in Tennessee.

They're there, we think they're gonna bring it back in Tennessee, so you're all gonna have to call your senators again. Uh, we killed it in Florida, so it's just popping up all these places.

Dr Pompa

So, I mean, this is state by state. This can't be a federal thing where they you cannot use, you know, these liability protections.

SPEAKER_03

Here's the thing. So the executive order that President Trump signed, this is all kind of laying the it's it's setting the stage for we kind of stand with Bayer over people. We're standing with corporations and chemicals over citizens. Because Bayer Monsanto, you know, they changed their name, but same thing. Monsanto has a Supreme Court case, like I said, coming up.

And what the Supreme Court case is going to decide is if the federal government should be allowed to say that a chemical product like Roundup, for example, is safe. And and you don't have to have a warning on those products that say it causes cancer.

Dr Pompa

So wait a minute. So there if this goes through there the government will or will not have the ability to say it's safe or not safe.

SPEAKER_03

So Monsanto wants the Supreme Court to rule that the EPA has final say on saying if their product is safe. Here's the problem.

Dr Pompa

Right. Because if they do, they're bought, and then they say it's safe and you can't sue. Saying that it isn't safe.

SPEAKER_03

Or you can't it'll just be more difficult. I don't know that it'll be a blanket immunity federally. I could be wrong on this. I'm not, I'm not like super well versed on the legalese of it. Um, moms Across America is an amazing organization with Zen Honeycut that has all of this broken down, all the nitty-gritty for it. But what will happen is they want the EPA to be able to say if their product is safe or not and if they have, and say if they have to put a warning label on the product.

Okay. Okay, here's a few problems with this. One, Bayer is trying to say, well, the EPA says our product is safe, so we don't need to say that it causes cancer on the product. They don't want to put a warning on there because if there's a warning sticker, consumers are not gonna want to pick it up at Costco or well, Costco banned selling roundup. Consumers aren't gonna want to pick it up at the grocery store.

Dr Pompa

It's right in the front. Yeah, it is round up.

SPEAKER_03

So they don't want that sticker, obviously, because it impacts sales. But the other problem is they're trying to say the EPA should be able to have the final say, but the EPA has been using faulty, fraudulent science given to them by Bayer, which was retracted in November. So in November, New York Times did a huge piece on this.

All of the science, by the way, that we have been using, uh that you know, that we've been told glyphosate, there's no, there's no um proof that glyphosate causes cancer, that it's not harmful to humans. All of the science was bought by Bayer and they had to. Admit that in November and they had to you know relinquish it and say it was all fraudulent. So the Supreme Court could potentially be hearing a case based on fraudulent science.

The EPA could be telling us that a chemical product is safe based on fraudulent science. And again, the EPA has several people working there that have ties to bear. So who, like, how who do you think they're gonna want to protect?

Dr Pompa

Exactly. Same thing happened in vaccines. I mean, honestly, it's uh it's just absolute corruption at its deepest core. And and this ultimately is going to squish the real science down in a way, which, by the way, billions of dollars have been awarded. Why has billions of dollars been awarded? Because the science shows that it does cause cancer. Um, and if this, if they take all of these protections away, more and more lawsuits are gonna come out.

And that's you know, this is life and death for this company.

SPEAKER_03

So I really believe, and I was talking to somebody really high up in the admin about this over the summer. And I was like, okay, so what do you think when it comes to Maha? Because we're talking about, you know, how Maha is doing. What do you think when it comes to Maha is going to be the most difficult hurdle? And without hesitation, he said, big ag and big chemical.

Because how the left Democrats are very beholden to pharma, like all of all of those politicians are are very controlled by pharma. They're donating the most money, etc. The people who are donating the most money to Republicans in office are chemical agricultural companies.

Dr Pompa

Yeah. Do you see that? It's like the it's like it's everyone's captured.

SPEAKER_03

Everyone's everyone's got a sugar daddy somewhere. And so what you see is a lot of Republicans that are scared to say anything, uh, because the chemical companies fund fund them. And um so I think that this issue in particular, when it comes to chemicals, pesticides in our environment, this is going to be the biggest and most important fight of Maha. Um, and we're really bringing that to the forefront this year for 2026.

Um, I think it's gonna be the most difficult one and and the most consequential if if we can make really good impact.

Dr Pompa

What do you think the chances are? I mean, you know, Bobby has great Trump respects him greatly, you know, but uh, you know, uh there's a lot of money at stake here. You know, so how what do you think the outcome is gonna be?

SPEAKER_03

Well, you know, Bobby went on Joe Rogan, and once this executive order came out, kind of protecting glyphosate, Bobby said, you know, I was not happy to put it mildly. Yeah. And that was like his nice way of of saying he totally disagreed, but you know, President Trump is his boss, so he can only say so much. And I get that. Um, it's tough. President Trump is in a tough position, Bobby's in a super tough position.

I think it really is gonna come down to what we say and how much noise we can make on social media. I think that just knowing the president, he really does care about what his voters are thinking and if they're happy or if they feel betrayed, especially with midterms coming up. If we want to make noise on this issue and get somebody to change their mind, it's now when you have midterms coming up. And that's the issue that I'm seeing when you're asking me how is Maha doing. Maha is doing great.

99% of the time, we are crushing it. I love this coalition. I think that Maha is the most powerful political coalition of of all time.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

However, what I'm hearing from my audience, which are, you know, young mothers 25 to 35 years old, they are concerned and not even sure if they want to vote in midterms because they are so angry about what they assume is pesticide protection from this admin. So, what I've been trying to do is raise alarms on this and saying, we got to get ahead of this.

We've got to show that we are not standing with chemical companies, that we are standing with American citizens and children, children over chemicals. Okay. If we don't do that, I am worried about the midterms. I am.

Dr Pompa

That was a great, that was a very good, honest statement because I resonate with that because I understand the power of these moms and their influence. See, because the women, they talk amongst themselves, right? Every mom has their group of moms. And if that's the chatter on the street, which you're telling me that it is, then I am concerned as well because they have the power to say, we're not coming out, we're not voting, because we, you know, we need this to change.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I'd love to see. I think it would be really cool if President Trump and Bobby hosted a live Maha Moms Town Hall on the news before midterms. And they invited moms from across the country that love Maha and voted for him in 2024 based on Maha and allow them to ask questions, share their concerns, and get their take on it and how they're going to be handling these issues after midterms. I think that would be super impactful. And I think that that would be a great move.

Dr Pompa

So we need to tell Tony, we have to all these Maha people, right? I mean, I'm I'm there too.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, let's do a Maha Mom's Town Hall live QA with the president and Bobby. I'm telling you, this would resonate with these women.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It has to happen. It has to. We're going to make sure that happens. I kind of have responsibility here too. So we're going to make that happen. I want to, I want to go back. This conversation is so important that it's almost, you know, landing it is very difficult for me because I am so much passion around the fact that uh chemicals are the reason why I asked that earlier, that we have the explosion of chronic disease.

And um, in big pharma's uh big pharma's profiting, that's another thing, big ags profiting. You know, these people are causing this at the sake of our children. And people just don't know. They don't understand that the difference of my generation and this generation is the amount of chemicals. Atrazine, it's a chemical that is literally making, you know, has the potential to make female frogs or male frogs female. And that is still being allowed on our food.

SPEAKER_03

Speaking of atrazine, want to hear something juicy? So there's this show on right now that's all about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bissett. Uh, it's it's called Love Story, and it's super popular in Hulu. Okay, it's like the number one show on TV right now in streaming. And what's it called? Love Story. Love story. And it's it's a fix, it's a you know.

Dr Pompa

What's it streaming on? What platform? Hulu. Hulu.

SPEAKER_03

And it's showing, you know, the love story between JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bassett, you know, who died in the plane crash. And so what's interesting about this is they had such a hard time finding a man actor who looked similar to JFK Jr., you know, very masculine, strong jawline, thick hair, uh, built, could not find anybody. They ended up picking a guy, like basically off the street who looked like him, who's has no acting experience. That's who is playing JFK Jr. He's never acted before.

Uh, and they said, because they he they said, quote, they don't make men like this anymore. So that tells you right there, I'm blaming the atrazine in the water. Yeah, exactly. Because it's feminizing everybody. And what's also scary about atrazine is it's causing baby boys to be born with uh micro penises, deformed genitals. It's affecting genitalia, it's affecting uh uh baby girls in the womb, their fertility in the future if if your parent is drinking, you know, tap water with atrazine in it.

And we allow this in our tap water.

Dr Pompa

That's the point. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

At least you live in Utah, at least in Utah you guys have banned fluoride.

Dr Pompa

Yeah. Yeah, we have. But you know, that's why one of the things I always say is listen, you have to have an RO unit, a reverse osmo, a reverse osmosis water filtration unit, because otherwise you are subjecting you and your family to a lot of these chemicals unknowingly. Chemicals that arguably make your males female. We wonder why the generation is confused. Could this be one of the confusers? Could this be that it is creating confusion in the generation?

SPEAKER_03

I believe it 100% is. Contributing to gender dysphoria and all of this? Yes.

Dr Pompa

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yes. I believe I do. And, you know, talking about just the Maha coalition and these voters, these people who voted based on Maha, a large majority of them are not Republicans. They've never even voted red in their life. They are independents or true blue Democrats that care about the health issue a lot. Because, like we talked about, it used to be the left that really cared about those topics. They care about the health issue.

They love Bobby Kennedy and they held their nose and they voted for Donald Trump for the first time ever because of this. So these voters, when we're looking at midterms, these voters are a gift. They're not a guarantee. Right. We got them in 2024. We want to keep them in 2026. And of course, we want them for 2028. As you and I are conservatives, we want them for JD Vance, hopefully, who will be our nominee. So that is a huge problem.

Like we literally have millions of women that we could just take with us. And wow, millions of votes that we could use. That would sure be helpful. And if we, if we make them feel like promises were not kept, if they feel lied to, if they feel unheard, they will leave, they will bounce. And it's not necessarily that they'll vote for Democrats because Democrats aren't offering anything. And Callie does a good job talking about this. Callie means he's talked about this.

You know, when it comes to this issue, well, what if these women all go vote Democrat? Him and I both agree. They're not voting Democrat because the Democrats have nothing to offer. At least we're offering some Maha stuff. They don't offer anything. But when it comes to the chemicals, these people could become so so um unenthused about the party that they just decide to not vote, period. Yeah. And that's what I'm seeing from my audience is that they don't even know if they'll vote at all.

Excuse me. They don't know if they'll vote at all.

Dr Pompa

Right. Yeah, which is tragic because we need their, we need their vote. And um, but they're going to have to feel that we have their kids over the dollars. You know, and and right now, maybe they don't feel that way. So I agree with you. That that has to change. That has to change. That's a big deal. Okay,

Charlie Kirk Conspiracies And Reality

on this topic, uh, I do want to go back to Charlie because I said I have to talk about that. Um I I I want to give you an opportunity because you are on the inside. I want to give you an opportunity to, you know, end some of this chatter, um, some of the conspiracies, because I don't think it's fair to Erica. I don't think it's fair to him. I don't think it's fair to the movement. I don't think it's fair, period. But a lot of people who really care are coming to me believing a lot of this stuff.

Yeah, it's so that concerns me because from a logical level, I see the battle spiritual. But, you know, what tell me on the inside, what's going on there?

SPEAKER_03

Man, um we are doing the best we can to continue to carry the torch. Um, you know, we have more kids than ever, despite what you see online. We have record amounts of high school and college students that are wanting to create a turning point USA chapter. So that's not impacting them. It's not having an effect on that.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um it obviously impacts morale to a certain extent that we are human and you know it hurts. It it hurts to see such disgusting lies told about people that you see coming into the office with, you know, lucky if they've brushed their hair, lucky if they've changed their clothes, doing the best that they can. You know what I mean? It's like we're running an organization and we're keeping this going because we know that's what Charlie would want.

I mean, even at the end of uh America Fest every year, which is our biggest conference that we put on a few days before Christmas, everybody is so exhausted. We cannot wait for a Christmas break, like to have some time off because we've just been working, working, working, grinding like crazy for this multi-day event. And by the time it's over, Charlie's always like, all right, great job.

You know, we're going over the all the data points and and the the wins and how much bigger AM Fest was this year compared to last year. And we had this many semi-semit trucks compared to this many last year, this many lights and pyrotechnics compared to this many last year. Um, you know, great job, whatever. This many attendees. And then he always ends with like, okay, you got a couple days, enjoy Christmas, but then it's back to work. As soon as you can get back to work, we're back to work.

I mean, the grind never stops. And I really do believe that that is because Charlie spiritually, subconsciously, somehow, I think he just knew that he didn't have that much time. So he never wasted any time. There was like you never saw him just scrolling away, doing nothing on TikTok. You never saw Charlie, you know, he was never talking about the shows that he was binging over the weekend, nothing. Every single moment was intentional.

If it wasn't about building Turning Point USA, it was about spending quality time with his family, with his wife and kids. We loved more than anything. Um, and so I think that's super hard. Some of the stuff is just so dumb. Um, you know, somebody talking about like there, some employee for uh an activeware store shared a picture, which has to be illegal, I would think.

This employee shared personal information of Erica saying that like the day after Charlie's murder, there was a huge purchase made at the store and was like, why is she going on shopping spree the day after husband's murder? Okay, well, this moron doesn't realize that she and and you know, her team jump on a plane to go deal with the situation in Utah. They don't have time to pack bags. There's nothing she sent an assistant, like, I need you to go get clothes for everybody on the team.

Yeah. So we have something to wear, you know, because they were there for a few days. So it's like stuff like that that people tag as nefarious. It was the worst time in their life, and they're doing the best that they can, you know, or saying, like, she worked at this modeling agency and and somebody in the building had a tie to Jeffrey Epstein. So that means there's there's ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, I heard this. Yeah, this is so absurd.

SPEAKER_03

First of all, Erica isn't even tall enough to work for this agency. She's never worked for that agency. So these are just blatant lies. But as far as like other like little things about the day and the sequence of events and what's normal for our organization, what isn't. I mean, the the members of the Charlie Kirk show have already debunked so much of that and talked about it in on their show in extensive interviews, you know, went through and explained things, have tweeted things.

So it's like people want to hear what they want to hear. Um, you know, this is a soap opera. Uh, it's it's basically a pornography addiction at this point with women, especially. It's it's stay-at-home wine moms who are not paying attention to their kids and and their their wifely duties, and they are they are rotting away on YouTube and they're just they're just inundated with this crap. And it's it's poison.

It's poison and and it's addicting, and they can't stop watching it while it's destroying people's lives, you know, um, implicating Erica's mother and things and stuff. It's just sick. It's just in and her mother is dying. Um, it's the whole thing is uh it's beyond the pale, really.

Dr Pompa

It's evil, all of it. I mean, in my mind, there was never a doubt that this guy shot, you know, shot him, right? And then in the beginning, the attention, I knew I predicted it. I said to my wife, watch, and they're gonna make it something that's not. And sure enough, short order, they started making it about this and not this and this guy, and it was apparently it was the Israel and this. I mean, all of it. I heard all of it.

SPEAKER_03

But you know what's so this is what's interesting to me about the case. One, this is why Erica wanted to make sure that there were cameras going in that trial. It is going to be imperative for people to see all of the evidence that she has seen that it is it is so airtight on this guy. Um, so when the public sees that, you know, this should all be over.

Dr Pompa

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But what I think is so compelling, I'm like, why does nobody talk about this? So you've got, I don't know, 30% of the internet, you know, believes that Turning Point USA is implicated in this murder or uh that Tyler Robinson is innocent and that he didn't do it, right? Is it 30% of the things?

Dr Pompa

I'm just I'm guessing. Okay, yeah, whatever it is, but even 10% grosses me out.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, I think I think it's I would that's what I would guess. I would say 30%. Wow. So if that is true, right? His own parents are who turned him in, and a family friend, a male family friend, uh, after he himself confessed to them that he shot Charlie.

And the parents are seeing you're sitting, you're telling me that his loved ones are seeing like all of this attention on the internet saying that their son is innocent, and they're not gonna jump on that bandwagon or his legal team jump on the bandwagon and say, hey, wow, we have so much support. Like, look, look at this. Like, we should explore other alternatives. Like his own freaking, his own defense is not even, you know, biting this because they know he's guilty.

So the question isn't, did he do it, did he not do it? He did it. The question is, is he getting the death penalty or not? So come on. I'm not even, as a parent, I can't even imagine anything harder than giving up your own child knowing that the death penalty was on the line, no matter who you are.

SPEAKER_04

Right.

SPEAKER_03

That is, it's it's unbelievable that his parents were willing to do that. Yeah. And they haven't gone back and said, we made a mistake. I think that there's some holes in the story, we should look into some of these conspiracies. They're not saying that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And this would be the ample time to kind of prop up some of those theories, right? So if you're them and wanting to save your child. So I just think all of that says so much. And again, for your own parents to turn you in, you know, um, is fingerprints all over the firearm, um, his family members' fingerprints all over the firearm because it was a family, family gun. There, there's just there's so much there.

Um, and so I think that, you know, we'll wait for this trial and then I hope we're getting a lot of apologies. That's what I hope happens.

Dr Pompa

I hope so too. What Candace Owens, uh, you know, she's really taken, I think, a bizarre stance in all this. What what is your take on her stance uh, you know, with the whole thing? It's just been odd to me.

SPEAKER_03

I think uh Candace is gonna do whatever she thinks her audience wants, whatever's making her the most money, whatever's getting her the most attention, because Candace wants to be famous first and foremost, above anything else. That is that's always been the goal. Um, you know, she's actively telling people don't even vote. Uh she's like totally removing herself from politics unless it has to do with anti-Israel things. Then she wants to talk politics. Then she's interested.

Dr Pompa

How did she end up anti-Israel? I mean, where did this happen? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

You'd have to ask her the whole transformation. I don't know how how those those things happen with people. But uh yeah, I think I think it's she is addicted to the attention and the and the fame from that. And so, you know, if that's your driving factor, not morality, then there is no stopping point. You're just gonna take it all the way to the end. Also, you know, she's had a lot of she's she's been fired a lot from multiple organizations and companies.

Uh, they have a lot of litigation going on in her family, a lot of lawsuits. This is a really easy, quick way to earn a lot of money right before you might have a massive lawsuit that you tried to get dismissed, that they're not wanting to dismiss.

Dr Pompa

Yeah. Wow. Yeah, way more than even I would have thought, right? And I would have never have uh guessed that that was her goal, you know. And I don't know her, right? So I I'm not judging one way or the other, but that's shocking and sad, actually. But you could see that there was a shift.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, the truth of the matter is is that, you know, very, a very long time ago, probably when I first got hired at Turning Point, her and Charlie were, you know, they had been really close when it was just them. Charlie starts dating Erica. They're not that close anymore.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Um, because, you know, this is normal. It's not normal for a man to have a female best friend when you're you're, you know, you're with the person you're gonna marry and then who you're married to when you have a wife. Um, and so uh they started drifting apart. I think Charlie was very loyal to people. He would never bash anybody publicly.

That's why if he disagreed with the president and he was having private conversations, he would go to the White House, he would talk on the phone, he would have that in conversation in person. He wasn't having that conversation uh on Twitter, you know, blasting the president for something. Charlie was very strategic about that stuff. So when he's asked about Candace in those last, you know, the last year or so, last few months, it's like, you know, you know, Candace is a friend.

I disagree with her on a lot of things, but like, you know, we're friends, you know, we're friendly or whatever. Um, you know, he was very diplomatic about it and kind because that's who Charlie was. But behind the scenes, he had major anxiety anytime she would call, text. He was passing his phone to other people on his staff, like, I can't deal with this. Can you please answer it? Yeah. You know, so he was he was so over it. He was over her antics. It drove him nuts.

It was it was tough for him and really wanted to kind of pass the baton of dealing with her to somebody else so he didn't have to. I mean, that says a lot. Yeah.

Dr Pompa

That says a lot. Yeah, and you were on the inside, you know, you you knew that to be true.

SPEAKER_03

And I think, you know, I think that there's screenshots and things that people may have that, you know, show him discussing how he kind of felt about her in recent years. But I, you know, that's not for me to share. If somebody wants to share it, then they can. But that's, you know, that was very personal.

And I think uh a lot of people close to him, they're just sick of his private messages and things being being leaked around, and so I don't know that people really want to participate that anymore.

Faith, Suffering, And Stewarding Health

Dr Pompa

Yeah, good. You know, you may disagree with this, but I I believe Charlie was meant to live the 31 exact years that he did for such a time as this. I have spoken to so many young people who weren't believers, and because of Charlie's death, are now, or in at least even saying, I I sat across recently a girl having uh lunch, my wife and I and her mom, and she had all these questions about Jesus, and she was Jewish. And she said at one point, you know more about my religion than I do.

But we walked away from the conversation. Number one, she said, the only reason I have these questions, I've been watching stuff, Charlie Kirk. I'm like just addicted to watching his stuff. So now I have all these questions. And she went away saying, Okay, I'm gonna read the Bible, because that was my thing. I read it and it changed my heart. But I know that you know, his death. Is m already, I believe, meant more.

You know, I don't want to compare him to Christ because that that who can compare anyone to Christ, but he's a martyr. That he was absolutely called for what he did. Yeah. And even that death.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

Dr Pompa

My wife's hus my wife's husband, that'd be me. Uh my wife's father, I remember it was probably two days later, and he said, Marilee, if God loved him, how would he let this happen? And he's a not a non-believer. And I wanted to, I wanted to take the phone because I I and I was like shouting over saying he allowed it to happen because he he was that blessed. Watch what's gonna happen.

Watch the people that are gonna be saved, watch the revival that is gonna be ushered in because of Charlie's death, Rod. Listen, and I was all passionate about we'll see. And then so all the numbers of all the time. Revival sales going to be like what I take pictures and send it to your dad, send it to your dad, and you know, but anyways, I I really believe that. I do.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it's um man, it's so tough because it's heartbreaking. We miss him so much. Um, but absolutely, you know, his life meant so much, and even in death has impacted so many people for the good of the gospel. And it's really cool the amount of people that have said, I'm back to church, I got saved, uh, you know, I'm reading the Bible for the first time, I bought a Bible for the first time. It has not gotten old on us at turning point at all since all that happened. We still love hearing it.

Dr Pompa

I believe God had a plan and it was executed. And, you know, like you you said something, and I got goosebumps when you said it. You know, he's just he worked as if he knew the day. He worked tirelessly, knowing that man, I've got to this time. You know, obviously he didn't know the day.

But you know, I I think I don't know if this is true, but I I think some people that knew him very personally, he said that he w did speak things like, you know, he had a limited amount of time, you know, and maybe, you know, intuitively somehow God showed him that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

Dr Pompa

Yeah. Amazing. Polit

Realignment Politics And MAHA Mom Power

politically, what happened? Meaning we had made the comment earlier, maybe I did, that like, wow, some of these topics that are near and dear to our heart, you know, the health of humanity, the health of children, all the Democrats owned these things. You know, what's happened? I mean, it's it seems like I I always find myself saying, you know, to people who are Democrats, you know, like you know, my father was, it's not the same party.

You know, if Bruce Springsteen realized that it's not the same party, Bruce, you know, it's like, wake up, you know, what happened? It's changed, it's different. It's not the way it was in the old days, you know, our parents would vote for the better man that maybe you know had the views and they said, that guy's an honest guy, let's vote for that guy. What happened?

SPEAKER_03

I think, you know, the Democrats have just gone back on a lot of their principles and and and you can look statistically, there's been a lot of research on on different social issues, right? And you see Republicans, conservatives, they basically stays in the same spot. Like we don't go more extreme to the right. Like we've stayed the same. But as years go on, the left, you see them going further, further, further left on all social issues.

So we end up looking pretty moderate in comparison because they are going, you know, around the extreme. Um, I think, you know, it's crazy to me. Like I was talking about how they used to be the side that cared the most about health.

Dr Pompa

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And, you know, a whole food shopper back in the day would have been a Democrat, I think almost certainly. Now it's a total mixed bag. It's a total mixed bag, or even maybe even leans conservative. Uh, it seems to be we're the ones that care. You know, you've got the left is is they're overweight, they're mentally ill, dyeing their hair blue. I mean it. It does, they don't even look like the picture of health. No. You know, they're not at all in any way, shape, or form.

So um, you know, we in the pan during the pandemic, the conservatives came to the table and said, wow, we had our tail between our legs and said, we were wrong. The left was right on this one issue. And we were like, we're willing to sit at the table with you if you'll take us. And they said, nope, we'd rather abandon all of our principles that we've been fighting for for decades. We don't want anything to do with you. We don't want to give you guys any wins.

Uh so then they ditched us and it just became our cause, which is so stupid because again, like I said, I think Maha is the most powerful political coalition. The fact that they just gave it up like that, they're not very bright.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. It it really is astounding to me because when you don't have your health, politics doesn't matter. I mean, nothing matters when you lose your health. I mean, it is the foundation of everything, right? It's like it's the ultimate freedom issue. We could debate over um uh we could debate over a a lot of topics that are hot, right? Um abortion. Does abortion matter when you lose your health and you can't have a child? Does abortion matter?

I mean, you know, it's like, you know, they lost something big, man. But you know, they've gone way over the side. I mean, it's I yeah, I like the whole thing, men, you know, uh men and women's sports. I mean, I think they went too woke too far. I think that they do a good job of keeping people knowing what the base actually really is backing right now. I think the the whole uh you know, the whole Democratic Party is massively split. Um, I don't know. What's your prediction for the whole party?

SPEAKER_03

Well, they're in an identity crisis, but we're in an identity crisis as well. So when it comes to the Israel issue, our party is totally split. Yeah. They're totally split on these really weird fringe social ideas. Uh and so I I would like to see us get it together so that we can kind of we can stay together as they fall apart. But you know, if both parties completely fall apart, you know, we could be looking at a completely new political landscape in the next four years.

Dr Pompa

Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, um, which who knows what's going to happen after Trump, right? I mean, like you said, advance, uh, Rubio. We have some really good people that are there, but you know maybe we'll see a Vance Rubio take it.

SPEAKER_03

I think that'd be fun.

Dr Pompa

Yeah. They're both really good guys, I think. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I like them a lot. Yeah. And then hopefully Bobby can stay on at HHS. I'd like to see that.

Dr Pompa

What's your where do you think Maha, you know, really, really needs to put its energy right now? Glyphosate. Yeah, me too. I have that.

SPEAKER_03

Sorry, but as as as you guys saw how impactful, you know, food dyes was, how people were really obsessed with that. That was such a it was a good move. Everybody still, whether you're on the Democrat side or the right, say that was a great thing that we did. I think curbing the pesticide issue is going to be another win.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And again, it's not about screwing over our farmers, it's about giving our farmers the infrastructure to get off of it.

Dr Pompa

Absolutely. And if we can do that, there's they're they have a big problem. I mean, they don't want to, they hate it, they're getting sick, right? It's like, and yet they're trapped. And that's sad. Yeah. Yeah, that's sad. I want people to understand why we both feel this is such a big issue for the health of America. There was a study in 2012, uh, Stephanie Senef was part of that study.

And it showed that glyphosate allows other toxins, heavy metals like mercury and aluminum, to cross deeper into the brain. And she believes is why we are seeing the explosion of autism as part of it. Explosion of other neurodegenerative diseases and even diabetes, etc., depression, all these different conditions that have gone like this. If some if you Google Nancy Swanson, she has these statistics that correlate glyphosate's increase with almost every chronic disease.

And not even, we can make the argument how toxic glyphosate is in itself, but it opens up the protective barriers, the gut, the blood-brain barrier. And that 2012 study showed that it is allowing these toxins to cross even deeper.

So I really believe that if we can get away from this chemical, as other countries have done, folks, you have to understand the reason people feel better when they go to Italy and eat the pasta, the grains, et cetera, it has something to do with, okay, it's a little bit more of an ancient wheat, but it has more to do with no glyphosate. The moment that chemical touches your gut, it affects an enzyme called zonulin and it opens up your gut. And that allows undigested proteins to cross over.

You start making antibodies to it, driving the food allergies, driving the gluten problems. It's not a gluten problem, it's a dang chemical problem, glyphosate at the root of it. All these people that are allergic to nightshades and lectins and plant toxins, I'm telling you, this chemical is at the root of it all.

SPEAKER_03

And you can't wash it off.

Dr Pompa

You can't wash it off. It's in the plant itself. So the the passion that we have of we have to solve this problem is, and and you're right, midterms is an opportunity. You know, the Trump administration needs to hear how devastating it is.

SPEAKER_03

And um I hope we pull through.

Dr Pompa

Me too.

SPEAKER_03

I hope people listen to us. I hope people listen to us.

Dr Pompa

Yep, absolutely. Okay,

Hashimoto’s Habits And Cellular Detox

so Hashimoto's. Just as a last, you know, point, you know, pain to purpose point. So many people have Hashimoto's, right? You obviously birth control absolutely is one of the causative factor for autoimmune. Um, but these chemicals you believe also played a major impact on your Hashimoto's. What have you done that's helped your Hashimoto's? And well, let me just ask that. What have you done that's helped it the most?

SPEAKER_03

Well, first of all, I'm not on any thyroid medication. Um, I haven't had to do that. I would say I I'm I'm keeping it at a decent level. Um, it's not like I'm significant, it's not significantly going away, but it's also I haven't, it's not been getting worse for me. So one, I'm not on any thyroid meds. I have a few different supplements that a team has given me that are key for, you know, whatever my blood work is showing.

Um, one of the biggest things that helps me feel a lot better is red light therapy. I would say that's like the number one. I notice a massive difference when I'm doing red light therapy versus when I'm not. Um, getting sunlight in the morning, getting sunrise uh or sunset light at night, that really helps. Going to bed earlier rather than later, getting more sleep. Um, you know, really sweet spot is between 9 and 10 p.m. for bed for me. I really need to be in bed by that time.

Later, any later than like 10:30, it's really hurting for me. So that's been crucial is getting my bedtime dialed in. Um I should ideally be avoiding gluten. And unfortunately, I think most people with Hashimoto's, would you say, need to be avoiding gluten?

Dr Pompa

100%. I I say this I'm not perfect on that. No, it's hard because you travel like I travel.

SPEAKER_03

Well, but it's not even the traveling. I love sourdough bread.

Dr Pompa

So yeah, but again, just you know, get the organic sourdough bread, right? If we can get people to avoid glyphosate, the can and other chemicals like atracine and get rid of the rancid oils like seed oils, those two things, the chemical and the glyphosate, I'm telling you, we will change the health of America in a fast way. But I'm gonna get you in my program because these chemicals that we're talking about, they accumulate at the cellular level.

SPEAKER_03

And you help people detox, right?

Dr Pompa

That's what I do. It's what I've been teaching 20 years.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so what do you how do people detox besides sweating, peeing, pooping?

Dr Pompa

Ah, that's a great question. So that is downstream detox. Real detox actually starts in the cell. Uh, your your cell's ability to get rid of toxins really determines how healthy one person is versus the next person. So when that slows down those God-given detox pathways at the cellular level, that's when we start accumulating the toxins in the cell. That's when bad genes start getting triggered. Hashimoto's autoimmune, et cetera.

Toxins start building up in and around the membranes, even in the cell. And we have to get those moving out if we're going to get people well. So my saying for years is we have to fix the cell to get well.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. How do you do that? How do you get it out?

Dr Pompa

That's what I've been teaching. Yeah. So yeah, you upregulate, you get those pathways working again. Okay. And that's a lot of what I teach. I teach whole classes on fixing the cell membrane, which allows the good things in, the bad things out. The membranes in the cell determine a lot of detox. Wow. So we have to um really regenerate those membranes. So I've developed a lot of protocols around that, a lot of products around that. But that said, you still have to avoid the bad stuff.

Those chemicals that we're talking about, they go right in and around the membrane. The reason why is the membranes are fatty membranes. They're made of fat, called lipid bilayer, and toxins go right there and they drive cellular inflammation. Now the problem is you can't get the good nutrition in, even when you change your diet or take good supplements, and it blunts your hormone receptors that are all on. The only way your hormones work, hormones don't work in your blood.

They work by connecting to it, just like your cell phone has to connect to a tower, and then you get the message through. A hormone has to connect to the same tower on a cell. It's called a receptor. And then it gets in or its message in the cell, and then everything works. And you have plenty of energy. Your mitochondria makes energy. The reason why red light's working for you is because you're bypassing an inflamed, irritated, toxic cell, really, and it's going right into the mitochondria.

And light helps you make ATP and that helps you.

SPEAKER_03

That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. So I would say that's been huge. You know, I definitely have the dirtiest cells known to man, I think. I let me tell you something. Anybody that comments on my show and they're like, she is such a big wellness podcast. She thinks she's so much better than us. And like, listen, listen, Judy. Uh I was a C-section baby. I was fully vaxxed. I got a flu shot every single year till I was in my mid-20s.

Dr Pompa

You believe the FDA and Pharma had your best interest.

SPEAKER_03

I believe FDA and Pharma had my best interest. I was eating ultra-processed food for high school lunch. All I had was like six rice crispy treats and a red 40 fruit.

Dr Pompa

So I didn't grow up on any of that.

SPEAKER_03

I ate all of that. And also was on birth control for a decade. So please, also, I was getting, I've did Botox for many years, but haven't done in a long time. I was doing all of that kind of stuff. So I am the nastiest, most vile anti-wellness person ever who made a total and complete recovery. God saved me.

Dr Pompa

Yes, he did. Look at you now. I'll tell you what, though, that makes your message more.

SPEAKER_03

What's crazy is that I'm 33. I if you look back, even just in the last like five to 10 years, I look younger now at 33 than I did in my early to mid-20s because I was so inflamed. I was so sick. Just everything about me looked so old. I mean, because of what I was eating and what I was putting in and on my body. So it's it's crazy.

Dr Pompa

So look, you've done well at, well, you said not perfect, but well at what control. Imagine there's a bucket above us, or how about that? How about a bathtub upstairs, right? And something starts clogging the drain, and we're filling the bathtub, unknowing it's going, going, going, going. At one point, it's going to overflow. And now all the water comes down, damages this, damages the carpet, the ceiling, everything, right?

So that's what happens when someone's bucket overflows and they get sick and all the symptoms start, and they're they're trying to clean it up. But at one point they have to slow down what's coming in before they even get the drain open. Yeah. Right. But we have to open the drain and slow down what's coming in, right? So you've done a good job of slowing down what's coming in. You maybe you could do better. But the problem is that you have a lot of cellular damage you have to fix.

And you have to get rid of, you have to open your drains up, your cellular drains and the other drains. But the the point is, is that all these chemicals we're talking about, they accumulate in your cells. And they, they, forever chemicals, they're forever in the environment. They're forever in you unless we do something about it. Heavy metals that most likely in your birth control, you got exposed to mercury. Guess what? It crosses the blood-brain barrier.

Thimerosol goes right across the brain. And guess what? It is there. It turns to inorganic mercury and it is there for your whole life. That's how long it's there, unless you do something specific about it. And if you don't, my phone's going off. Look, that's my son calling me. And you know, that's my CEO's son.

Anyways, the bottom line is that if you don't get that stuff out, it stays there, disrupting your hormones, disrupting your cells, and it's there, but you have to consciously do something about it. That's what I'm fix me up. All right, we're gonna hook you up with uh our POMPA program.

SPEAKER_03

POMPA police are coming to arrest me.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, exactly. Well, we we need you healthy. This girl is you see now, right? Okay, you see, she is absolutely, you know, for such a time as this, you were called. Thank you. Yeah, God put that, stirred that fire in you. He did. Thank you. He stirred the fire in you. You know, when you described how you got in, that was God stirring your fire, you know, and because you have a voice and you have passion and purpose behind it. So amen. Yeah. Thank you for being here.

And they're gonna be, you have to share the show. People need to hear.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so I'm not an expert. He's an expert. I'm not. I am a messenger and I ask questions of experts like him. So um, I'm planning on interviewing him on my show so you can go check it out. Culture Apothecary. You can get it anywhere that you listen to podcasts. The reason the name is Culture Apothecary, which people are like, I was gonna ask that. What is that? Culture Apothecary. So at Turning Point, we're always talking about how we want to win the culture war.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And I knew that I wanted to rebrand my show to focus on health and wellness. And I thought, okay, well, how am I contributing to the to the culture war? You know, what does health have to do with the culture war? And I thought, well, our culture is very sick. We're sick physically, we're sick emotionally, relationally, and spiritually. So where would you go originally in your community to find natural remedies of healing?

Well, before we had pharmacies, which were all corrupt by pharma, you had an apothecary, which were natural herbal remedies typically, right? And so I just thought that's what we need. We need an apothecary for this sick culture. And then my guests who are coming on, they're bringing their own remedy to heal a sick culture. So that's how we got the name Culture Apothecary. I came up with that on a Friday night in February of 2024.

And I sent it to my boss and I said, This is it, this is the show name. It all came to me like crazy. She's like, What is happening right now? It's like nine o'clock at night on a Friday. Why weren't you out? I was like, I'm building.

Dr Pompa

Yeah, exactly. And look what you built. Yeah. She has one of the number one shows. I mean, if you want more of this, more of this, go and watch that podcast.

SPEAKER_03

I I get to interview amazing, incredible experts just like him, and um, you know, that are that are giving really helpful tips for how to improve not only what you eat and your diet and your physical health, but you know, we have amazing pastors and theologians on because again, we talk about spiritual health. I have episodes on parenting and disciplining your children and all kinds of in controversy episodes.

Dr Pompa

You got slammed. I remember um, see, we just can't stop. This is so good. You um it was a show that you did on, you know, well, you what was her name? Erica Erica? Was it Erica Komazar? Yes, yeah, and and it was basically like, you know, moms, and you know, they were like, you know, because they drop their kids off, they're not part of the city. Yeah, want to know something funny. And you spoke truth.

SPEAKER_03

So I spoke the truth, and I was told what what he's talking about is I interviewed Dr. Erica Komazar, who is an expert on childhood attachment, and and she has written a whole book called Being There, and it's about how impactful the first three years of a child's life is, yeah. Um, with you know, how you're pouring into it and how you show up and all those sorts of things. And and she talks about the dangers of daycare that a lot of parents are not told.

You know, my generation kind of grew up thinking, oh, it's just either or are you gonna stay home with your kids or you're gonna put them in daycare? Daycare should be a last resort for like the widows or the single parents. It's it's it's the who absolutely has no one in their community to help with their children. It would be better to have ideally another family member if you can't have that. It'd be ideal to have an in-home nanny if you can't have an in-home nanny.

Can you share a nanny with someone else in your neighborhood if you can't have that? You know, then you're going to daycare at the very last. And so I do this whole episode. It goes so crazy viral.

Dr Pompa

Because the point is, though, her point was the first three years, a baby needs her mom more than a father, more than anything. That attachment is like, it affects them for life. Isn't that her point? Exactly.

SPEAKER_03

And so she she talks about all of that. And so I did an episode on this. Now, I'm not the first person in the conservative movement to ever bring up the daycare issue. I think the first person to really bring it up uh substantially was this woman named Suzanne Venker, who I really love. And she's an amazing author and speaker as well. She's Phyllis Shaffley's niece, um, if you know who that is.

So she has talked about this, but for my generation, for millennials, nobody had talked about it, or for Gen Z. And so I'm bringing this up, and it was so much backlash, not only from my audience at first, but from other people in the movement, including Candace Owens. If you go back on her show, in I don't know when that was, was it June of 2022, June 2023?

I did an entire speech at uh our women's conference that Turning Point puts on in Texas every year, and I had talked extensively about the daycare issue, and Candace talked about it on her show, and she said, I don't know what the point is, why Alex Clark is doing this. This hurts the conservative movement. Um, so I have always been very principled and I don't care if I don't get invited to things. I don't care if somebody doesn't like me for saying it. If it is the truth, I'm going to say it.

I have integrity with my audience. If I don't tell the truth about something, I'm not going to be able to sleep at night. And and how will they ever trust me again? When the truth comes out, whether it's on glyphosate and pesticides being used, or if it's on daycare or or uh big fertility industry preying on women, whatever it is, no matter how unpopular it is, if it is truthful, I'm gonna say it. And so people either absolutely loathe me for that reason or they really like me.

And um, that's fine. I didn't get into the conservative movement to be liked. I got into the conservative movement to bring change and to uh figure out where we needed improvement and help us improve it. So that's what I came here to do. And then, God willing, I'm gonna be a wife and a mom. And then, you know, I'm gonna be focusing on that.

Dr Pompa

You will. You want more of that? Yep. The culture apothecary and follow her on Instagram and all your social platforms because you are a dynamo changing the world. Thank you for being here.

SPEAKER_03

Thank you for having me.

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