Dad Saves America Emergent Order Foundation

Alan Graham has been on the frontlines tackling homelessness for 25 years. As the CEO and founder of Mobile Loaves & Fishes, a social outreach ministry, Alan has been instrumental in developing innovative solutions, building genuine relationships with the homeless community, and providing sustainable, permanent support for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness.

Alan’s journey began in 1998 when he, along with four friends, started delivering meals to homeless men and women from the back of a green minivan. This initial effort has since expanded significantly, with 20 trucks operating in multiple cities and over 6 million meals served so far. In recent years, Alan has taken his ministry to the next level with the Community First Village in Austin, Texas. Rather than the traditional shelter model, this project is an enclave of tiny homes and RVs, designed to create a real community for its residents, or as Alan likes to say, his neighbors. Alan and his wife Tricia have since moved into the community themselves, alongside over 350 formerly homeless neighbors.

This interview contains adult themes and may not be suitable for younger listeners.

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Mobile Loves & Fishes: https://mlf.org
Community First Village: https://mlf.org/community-first/

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Outline:
[0:00] What is Community First?
[11:55] Alan’s chaotic childhood
[24:37] Helping intellectually disabled people changed his life
[30:00] Surviving booms and busts in business
[39:12] How Alan came back to faith and the Church
[49:00] Founding Mobile Loaves & Fishes
[59:55] Build relationships with the people you serve
[1:07:54] Our culture breaks families in different ways
[1:21:01] Community First builds homes, not houses
[1:28:13] Navigating the civil liberties of homeless people
[1:34:56] How does Community First work?
[1:42:59] Who lives at Community First?
[1:47:51] Changing the public perception of homeless people
[1:53:26] Lightning round Q&A

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Dad Saves America is a channel dedicated to celebrating heroic fatherhood while teaching the next generation of fathers strategies they can utilize in parenting their children. We believe strong children come from a strong family. We’ve had many experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Troy Kotsur, John Mackey, Ben Askren, and Adam Carolla.

Our culture is suffering from a potentially fatal allergy. Identity politics has become a kind of autoimmune disease that threatens to kill the host. We've become hypersensitive to our superficial identities just as our kids have become hypersensitive to most of the components of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

We're going to need more than an emergency epipen if we want to stop this disease and get back on track to stability and health as a society. And no, we can't just “get along” in some utopian, post-identity abstract metaverse. Our challenge is much more complicated, and more human than that. If we don’t recognize and effectively treat what’s making us, and especially our kids, so dangerously hypersensitive about our own identities and downright allergic to every difference, our society might not recover from our next tribal anaphylactic shock.

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Gordon Wood on Dad Saves America: https://youtu.be/1P7yMTNv31c?si=U2Q8kMIA0WmLYe_0

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Outline:

[0:00] Identity politics is an autoimmune disease

[1:41] Rise of peanut allergies

[3:29] Importance of identity

[7:01] Identity gone wrong

[9:54] Think big and small

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Dad Saves America is a channel dedicated to celebrating heroic fatherhood while teaching the next generation of fathers strategies they can utilize in parenting their children. We believe strong children come from a strong family. We’ve had many experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Troy Kotsur, John Mackey, Ben Askren, and Adam Carolla.

The barbarians are at the gates, and we created them. The kids who’ve terrorized speakers on college campuses and HR departments in Fortune 100 companies. The kids who scream and cry and throw temper tantrums on TikTok over trivial encounters with ideas they dislike. The kids who believe speech is violence AND silence is violence. The kids who took to the streets and burned our cities after the death of one man, yet now come out in explicit support of the barbaric murder of more than 1400 innocent civilians in Israel.

Why call them “kids”? Because they are OUR kids. And it’s OUR fault.

We’ve coddled and encouraged a generation of barbarians through both intentional activism, confusion, and neglect. We’ve allowed our education institutions from K-through-PhD to be captured by the enemies of civilization itself and transformed into barbarian incubators. Our media and politics have not only cheered this on, but profiteered from it at every turn.

And now, they are the barbarians inside our gates. And if we don’t do something about this right now, they will tear civilization itself to the ground. As a father of a high school senior, our family is looking at all of this in shock and horror. The stakes for my son’s future are high. And the stakes for our civilization are even higher.

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Harvard Students Zero-Day Response to the Hamas attack: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/20...

Harvard Administrators’ Cold-Blooded Academic Murder of Roland Fryer: https://youtu.be/m8xWOlk3WIw?si=t00hs0ryfPOrotzT

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Outline:

[0:00] The Barbarians Inside Our Gates
[2:34] Barbarism, Civilization, and Tribalism
[5:22] Welcome to Harvard, Young Barbarians!
[12:58] Claudine Gay, Cancel Culture Warrior
[14:19] The Canceling of the American Mind
[15:42] The Barbaric Hijacking of High School Debate
[19:06] Seduced into Utopia, disappointed into Nihilism
[20:24] Religion and Reality Under Pressure
[24:11] Practical advice for raising a healthy, civilized adult

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Dad Saves America is a channel dedicated to celebrating heroic fatherhood while teaching the next generation of fathers strategies they can utilize in parenting their children. We believe strong children come from a strong family. We’ve had many experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Troy Kotsur, John Mackey, Ben Askren, and Adam Carolla.

Connor Boyack, best known as the creator of the "Tuttle Twins" books and streaming series, has mastered the art of blending libertarian principles with engaging storytelling to reach children effectively, while also teaching their parents a lesson or two. His most recent addition to the series, "The Tuttle Twins Guide To True Conspiracies," delves into 20 historical events initially considered to be unhinged conspiracy theories but later proven factual.

Connor is also the President of the Libertas Institute, where he actively pursues real-world policy reform across party lines to promote limited government and individual rights. His multifaceted approach demonstrates a deep-seated belief in the transformative power of accessible education and purposeful action in shaping a freer, more informed society.

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Learn more about Tuttle Twins: https://tuttletwins.com/?al_pg_id=9f1b2fb8-2dec-4f4d-b513-ce76b6d911a5

Follow Connor on X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/cboyack?lang=en

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Outline:

[0:00] Intro
[1:18] Change the world one life at a time

[6:15] Defending the civil rights of Mormon families

[15:50] How the Tuttle Twins got started

[27:44] Who should brainwash your kids?

[34:21] Lay a foundation for your child’s moral agency

[40:37] Loving education vs authoritarian schools

[49:40] Arm your kids for intellectual battle

[56:38] Humanize your enemies to make them allies

[1:08:21] Utopian idealists are always hypocrites

[1:15:49] Appeals to authority, healthy skepticism, and critical thinking

[1:29:08] Some conspiracy theories are true

[1:31:13] Gulf of Tonkin

[1:34:06] Gulf War, Russia-Ukraine, and Israel-Hamas

[1:38:23] Operation Northwoods and the Bay of Pigs invasion

[1:44:16] Manufactured consent and the power of propaganda

[1:46:52] Bank runs, populism, and the Federal Reserve

[1:57:58] Operation Ajax and the Iran hostage crisis

[2:06:09] Why teach kids about true conspiracies?

[2:15:31] Kicked out of school for loving American history

[2:22:16] How to speak to kids effectively

[2:28:47] We can’t save America if we only play defense

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Dad Saves America is a channel dedicated to celebrating heroic fatherhood while teaching the next generation of fathers strategies they can utilize in parenting their children. We believe strong children come from a strong family. We’ve had many experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Troy Kotsur, John Mackey, Ben Askren, and Adam Carolla.

Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment lawyer and President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), dives headfirst into the pressing issues of free speech and the impact of cancel culture in academia. Lukianoff discusses the troubling trends at prestigious universities, where ideological bias butts up against claims of political neutrality, especially highlighted during recent intense protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict. He presents a compelling, data-backed narrative from his latest book, The Canceling of the American Mind, co-authored with Rikki Schlott, revealing how a culture of censorship is stifling discourse and academic freedom.

Lukianoff is also known for co-authoring The Coddling of the American Mind with Jonathan Haidt.

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The Canceling of the American Mind: https://www.amazon.com/Canceling-American-Mind-Undermines-Threatens-ebook/dp/B0BTZT9PLM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1698786491&sr=1-1

The Coddling of the American Mind: https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224919/ref=pd_bxgy_img_sccl_1/134-7612673-5833036?pd_rd_w=2A4Gz&content-id=amzn1.sym.43d28dfc-aa4f-4ef6-b591-5ab7095e137f&pf_rd_p=43d28dfc-aa4f-4ef6-b591-5ab7095e137f&pf_rd_r=GCFQ4WXBKZPS65KY4CC9&pd_rd_wg=VQ3Bc&pd_rd_r=90ac8972-5648-4037-8a32-6679de23cbba&pd_rd_i=0735224919&psc=1
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: https://www.thefire.org/

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Outline:

[0:00] Intro

[1:11] Coddling of the American Mind

[8:48] The history of ‘cancel culture’

[16:56] What started happening in 2014?

[27:28] The polarization spiral

[33:13] Herbert Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance”

[45:43] Free speech and Hamas apologetics at Harvard

[57:29] Cancellation by the numbers

[1:09:59] Different threats from the left and the right

[1:20:07] Protecting free speech with law and culture

[1:28:15] What about Title IX and federal funding?

[1:35:42] Did Weimar Germany need more censorship?

[1:41:26] How to prepare your kids for modern culture

[1:50:26] The role of fatherlessness and secularism

[1:55:19] Don’t be scared of having kids

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Dad Saves America is a channel dedicated to celebrating heroic fatherhood while teaching the next generation of fathers strategies they can utilize in parenting their children. We believe strong children come from a strong family. We’ve had many experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Troy Kotsur, John Mackey, Ben Askren, and Adam Carolla.

Liberal arts education once cultivated well-rounded, critically thinking individuals who would become our future innovators and leaders. However, in recent years, intellectual diversity, curiosity, and discourse have departed the halls of our most elite universities. Pano Kanelos, the founding president of UATX, believes that ideological capture and the overall homogenization of higher education are to blame.

UATX, the University of Austin, has emerged as a reason for hope amidst negative trends at mainstream universities. This radical new experiment in higher education is putting quintessential liberal values at the center of the conversation. A graduate of UATX won’t just be an adept thinker, but an engaged, innovative citizen.

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UATX announcement letter: https://www.thefp.com/p/we-cant-wait-for-universities-to
Learn more about UATX: https://www.uaustin.org/
UATX on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDjuyYcHYC37Yb7HZBMqd7g
UATX on X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/uaustinorg?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

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Outline:
[0:00] Intro
[1:17] What is UATX?
[5:17] Liberal arts vs. liberal education
[11:28] Plato’s cave, heresy, and truth
[17:53] What’s wrong with legacy universities?
[25:37] Self-censorship destroys open inquiry
[29:34] “My truth” is illiberal narcissism
[34:51] Is UATX a right-wing grift?
[40:28] How the university cartel protects its turf
[46:41] Elite schools don’t create independent adults
[51:43] Kids can see that the game is rigged
[54:47] UATX is seeking out mavericks, not sheep
[1:04:24] Grace, grit, and gratitude
[1:07:46] How will UATX prepare young people for careers?
[1:17:05] How to build an intellectual foundation
[1:26:00] The age of the college major is over
[1:33:25] Is a DIY, at-home education good enough?
[1:41:42] Why is ‘free speech’ now seen as right-wing?
[1:45:50] Most universities misunderstand truth
[1:49:35] Is UATX a real university?
[1:57:35] Challenge norms and reignite innovation

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Dad Saves America is a channel dedicated to celebrating heroic fatherhood while teaching the next generation of fathers strategies they can utilize in parenting their children. We believe strong children come from a strong family. We’ve had many experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Troy Kotsur, John Mackey, Ben Askren, and Adam Carolla.