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Teresa Mull's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the American Conservative.

She's in Biser to the Heartland Institute and an editor at Spectator World.

Her new book is, Wokeproof Your Life.

That's our topic today.

And I think we all need to listen. Anyway, welcome Ms. Moll.

Thank you for having me. Generally, is this a practical guidebook? Is that the point?

Absolutely. I wanted this book to be for people from both sides of the political aisle. Personally, I'm

pretty much as conservative as you can

get. I'm also Catholic, but I wrote it. I try to write it from a perspective of just your average

American. You know, it seems like so many of us are strung out, we're burnt out, we are frustrated

with this modern world. Our anxiety rates,

depression, addiction, obesity, all of those awful things are just skyrocketing. And it seems to me

that it's just a less pleasant world and a less happy, friendly, neighborly society that we live in.

Certainly from when I was a kid and definitely even from, say, three years ago before the

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