We all inherit a legacy from the men who came before us. Some of that legacy is good — sacrifice, protection, provision. Some of it is painful — absence, misunderstanding, or failure. As sons, it’s easy to focus on what our fathers didn’t give us. But if we stay there, we risk carrying that pain into the next generation. There’s a better option than blame or bitterness: forgiveness. We must let go of old wounds and decide what kind of fathers — and men — we want to become. Generational growth starts with generational grace.
It is easy to look back and critique what we think our father should have done differently without considering how he was raised, the relational dynamics between his parents, and the communication, leadership, or relationship skills he did or didn’t develop.
My dad and I struggled to connect on a deeper level for most of my life, but we found common ground in motorcycles. That became our language — our way of understanding each other when words fell short. Just before he passed, we told each other, “I love you.” And I believe with all my heart that if he had known how to do better by me, he would have — because he loved me.
Yet, like many men, he wrestled with the memory of the 35-year-old version of himself — the man he wished he had been. But there’s no victory in battling a version of ourselves that no longer exists. Forgiving others is hard; forgiving ourselves is often harder. That’s where grace steps in.
I know men who are currently battling their 35-year-old fathers. The problem is, their father is now in his 70s. Our fathers have had to grapple with their inadequacies and failures, just as we have had to find our path to overcome the effects of those shortcomings. But we must go further and forgive our fathers for the unintentional missteps in raising us.
Raising and providing for my own family has helped me see my father in a different light. As kids, we don’t realize what it takes to raise children or appreciate the degree of sacrifice it requires.
During a conversation with men in my small group, one of the guys said, “Being married is hard. Raising kids is hard.” There was a pause, and I asked, “Would you want it to be easy?” Every man said no, because there is no value without effort. There’s no value in easy. We put in the work because our families are worth it. That means accepting our shortcomings and learning from them.
As a 35-year-old father, I made mistakes. Looking back now, I see that those mistakes were the fuel that helped me grow. I didn’t like the man I saw in the mirror, so I decided that he had to change.
Your life is being recorded. Whether we recognize it or not, we are teaching our boys what it means to be good sons, brothers, husbands and fathers with every word we speak and action we do or don’t take. They internalize how a marriage should function, how a man should talk and act. They are learning how to take care of others and what a God-centered family looks like. They are inclined to mimic us, and one day, they’ll play that footage back.
Realizing this is humbling and compels this exhortation to forgive our fathers. We can’t let the mistakes they made rob us from enjoying what they did correctly. That’s a lesson I hope my son has learned.
I’ve chosen not to judge my father by the missteps of his younger self. When he died, he wasn’t 35 — he was in his sixties, and by then, he was a good man. A man who had grown, who had tried, and who had loved the best way he knew how.
Carrying around unforgiveness is like me carrying around a hundred-pound backpack. I can’t play with my kids or show up for my family in the ways they need me when I’m lugging around the baggage of my past. They would be getting less the father they deserve and a more restricted, and exhausted shell of myself. To be all that I was created by God to be and to live with intention and purpose in the design of fatherhood, I must shed the unnecessary weight of unforgiveness.
Forgiveness doesn’t come naturally. It requires grace — a strength beyond ourselves. It calls us to let go of past pain and offenses, not once, but daily. It&#8217;s a continual act of surrender that frees us to move forward.
You are not the 35-year-old version of your father. You’re a new man — shaped by his story, refined by grace and guided by a higher calling. Forgive your father. Honor his journey, but don’t repeat his missteps. It’s time to lead with faith, wisdom, and redemption.
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This article is adapted from “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Return-Man-Americas-Only-Original/dp/B0DPBWLQJB">The Return of Man: America’s Only Hope is in our Original Hope</a>.”
Jimmy Graham, CEO of <a href="https://ableshepherd.com/">Able Shepherd</a>, is a veteran Navy SEAL and former CIA Global Response Staff Protective Officer with over two decades of experience in high-risk environments worldwide. He is author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Return-Man-Americas-Only-Original/dp/B0DPBWLQJB">The Return of Man</a>.”
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Left’s successful rebranding of masculinity as “toxic” didn’t just rewrite a dictionary entry — it rewired the cultural DNA that once produced great men.
In 2018, the American Psychological Association updated its Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men, effectively declaring stoicism, risk-taking, and competitiveness — the building blocks of masculine virtue — “<a href="https://www.apa.org/about/policy/boys-men-practice-guidelines.pdf">psychologically harmful</a>.”  
Within months, Gillette aired its infamous &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYaY2Kb_PKI">We Believe</a>&#8220; commercial, scolding ordinary dads at backyard barbecues while implying every son harbored a bully within. Seemingly overnight, &#8220;toxic&#8221; became the default adjective attached to manhood.
But this cultural ambush was decades in the making. It has its roots in second-wave feminism, which in the 1960s began reframing male strength as patriarchal oppression. By the ’80s and ’90s, freshly-minted gender studies departments were churning out theses that branded healthy male assertiveness “hegemonic.”
On television, the upstanding patriarch of “Father Knows Best” gave way to the beer-bellied, weak-willed Al Bundy. When clickbait culture arrived in the 2000s, every societal ill — from climate change to mass shootings — found a convenient culprit in “<a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/17/gun-violence-masculinity-216321/">traditional masculinity</a>.”
C.S. Lewis foresaw the danger. “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise,” he warned in The Abolition of Man — adding the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/113211-we-make-men-without-chests-and-expect-from-them-virtue?utm_source=chatgpt.com">punchline</a> our era can’t escape: “We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
The cultural costs are no laughing matter. Today, 17.6 million American children — nearly one in four — <a href="https://www.fatherhood.org/father-absence-statistic">grow up without a father in the home</a>. Their odds of suffering are grim: Barack Obama, citing Census data in 2008, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2008/06/text-of-obamas-fatherhood-speech-011094?">noted</a> that such children are “five times more likely to live in poverty… nine times more likely to drop out of school, and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.”
If only he did something about it. 
Almost 60 years earlier, Daniel Patrick Moynihan <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Moynihan%27s%20The%20Negro%20Family.pdf">sounded the same alarm</a>, saying, “the deterioration of the fabric of &#8230; society is the deterioration of the &#8230; family.” At the time, he was dismissed as an alarmist. The empty chairs around dinner tables prove him prophetic.
Classrooms reveal the next domino. The same ideology that pathologized masculine energy has left boys academically stranded. On the <a href="https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/reading/2022">2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress</a>, 8th-grade girls outread boys by nine scale points, continuing an unbroken gender gap that dates to 1992. Overall scores for both sexes hit the lowest level on record. 
College quads tell the same tale. Men have fallen to just <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/12/18/fewer-young-men-are-in-college-especially-at-4-year-schools/">44% of American undergraduates</a>, a gap that’s widened every year since 2011. UNESCO, surveying 140 countries, now calls boys’ lagging literacy a “<a href="https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/leave-no-child-behind-global-report-boys-disengagement-education">growing global crisis</a>.” Christina Hoff Sommers <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9334744-boys-today-bear-the-burden-of-several-powerful-cultural-trends">captures the cultural headwind:</a> a school climate that “valorizes feelings and denigrates competition and risk…views masculinity as predatory. Natural male exuberance is no longer tolerated.” 
Why did “toxic masculinity” stick? Because it performed a linguistic jujitsu: attach a moral defect to the identity you want to erase, then offer “liberation” through re-education. Courage degenerates into “aggression,” leadership into “oppression,” fatherhood into “patriarchal privilege.” The outcome is predictable: abolish the virtues that civilize male strength, then lament the violence or apathy that follows.
Yet the data refuse to cooperate with the narrative. Children with involved fathers are <a href="https://www.lakeconews.com/news/community/commentary/56433-delcol-happy-father-s-day">40% less likely to repeat a grade</a>, more likely to earn As, and far less prone to behavioral problems. Even the <a href="https://www.apa.org/about/policy/boys-men-practice-guidelines.pdf">APA guidelines</a> — often cited as proof of masculinity’s hazards — concede that male risk-taking can be “harnessed for good” when directed toward service and innovation.
Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child <a href="https://developingchild.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/The-Science-of-Resilience2.pdf">summarizes</a> decades of research showing that self-regulation and disciplined resilience — traits once labeled stoic — buffer children from stress and reduce lifetime mental-health risk. In other words, the same virtues our culture now brands “toxic” are the ones empirical science says we need.
Trust the science.
Conservatives bear some blame for this inversion. While we tallied marginal-tax victories, Hollywood and higher ed rewrote the story of manhood. Institutions we once guided — churches, Scouts, civic clubs — sat vacant as HR departments filled the void. The cockpit was empty. The Left merely climbed in and took control.
We didn’t arrive here by accident. The cultural collapse around masculinity wasn’t inevitable — it was permitted. While conservatives focused on policy wins and economic metrics, the Left waged a full-spectrum cultural campaign that redefined manhood itself. They infiltrated the classroom, the newsroom, and the writers&#8217; room. They turned moral virtue into pathology and repackaged fatherhood as oppression. And we let them. Not out of malice, but out of misplaced trust — that truth would prevail unaided, that tradition could defend itself, that boys would become men by default.
Now, we stand in the wreckage of that assumption. A generation of boys has been raised to doubt their instincts, to apologize for their strength, and to see their fathers as liabilities rather than legacies. This is not just a political failure — it’s a civilizational one. But it also means the stakes are finally clear. If the conservative movement wants to conserve anything worth passing down, it must begin with this: the restoration of masculine virtue. Not nostalgia. Not anger. But clarity. The recognition that the war on manhood is really a war on order, on protection, on the nuclear family.
We’re not at the end of this story — we’re at the hinge. The institutions may be hollow, the narratives poisoned, but the hunger for truth remains. And in that hunger lies our moment. Not to manage decline, but to name it. Not to tinker around the edges, but to tell the truth loudly enough that our sons can hear it. Before we rebuild, we must remember who we are — and what we allowed to be stolen in the dark.
Masculinity is not toxic — it’s virtuous. When we reclaim that distinction, we invite our sons to stand tall instead of apologizing for existing — and we give civilization the allies it deserves.
Gates Garcia is the host of the YouTube show and podcast &#8220;We The People.&#8221; Follow him on Instagram and X @GatesGarciaFL.
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Ben Affleck gave a hilarious response to the viral video of his 13-year-old son Samuel, who wanted a pair of Dior Air Jordan 1 sneakers with a sticker price of $6,000.
In the original video — that quickly went viral — the 52-year-old actor was walking through the Got Sole sneaker convention in Los Angeles when his son saw the shoes and made it clear he had to have them.
Affleck told his son, &#8220;That&#8217;s a lot of lawns you gotta mow there. You just like those because they’re expensive.”
Samuel tried to sell his dad on the idea, claiming the price tag was justified, but the “Gone Girl” star was definitely not having it.
“&#8217;No, they&#8217;re tough!” Samuel told his dad. “I always said they look good.”
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Later on the red carpet at a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw-_hiS8e8c">SXSW event</a> for his upcoming movie, Affleck was asked about the clip and told the interviewer the very relatable comment he told his son later.
“That’s what happens when you tell a motherf***ker they have to mow a lawn,” “The Accountant” star said. “All of the sudden they don’t want those shoes.”
“There&#8217;s always some grift, why I need to be buying &#8230; I&#8217;m like, man, you do not need thousand dollar shoes,’” he added.
“He’s like ‘We have the money.’ I’m like ‘I have the money, you’re broke!’” Affleck continued.
Affleck shares three children with ex-wife actress Jennifer Garner, son Samuel and two older teen daughters, Violet and Seraphina. Garner and the actor tied the knot in 2005 and announced they were separating in 2015. Their divorce became official in 2018.
The 52-year-old actress previously opened up about the challenges of raising kids in the spotlight with Affleck.
Speaking on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htY8-FE71Qs">Variety</a> “Actors on Actors” interview with actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, Garner and Ralph discussed experiences they had in common which included being part of Hollywood while trying to raise kids and also co-parenting with their respective husbands after divorcing them.
“With all the celebrity and all of that, I feel like I have a very normal life, and I think you have that similar sort of vibe. And we love our kids,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jennifer-garner-reflects-mess-parenting-ex-husband-ben-affleck-gift?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-foxnews&amp;utm_content=later-35766668&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkin.bio">Ralph</a> said.
“Yeah, of course, and all the stuff that comes with it,” Garner replied. The “Alias” star added, “all the mess of parenting, it’s a gift.”
“Both of us having gone through divorce,” Ralph said. “You did something that I did as well, and that was maintain as healthy a relationship with my ex for the health and well-being of my children. And with the spotlight on us all the time, sometimes that can be difficult.”
“But when I look at my kids, when I see you and your kids, I was like, ‘Girl, we did that,&#8217;” she added.
Garner replied, “We’re doing it!”
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Actor Kieran Culkin is not a conservative by any stretch. Like most of Hollywood, he’s got unapologetically liberal views and has been vocal about his disdain for President Trump. But despite holding these beliefs, he’s also made headlines recently for expressing some refreshing takes on fatherhood which deserve to be celebrated.
In an industry rife with celebrities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thank-god-we-dont-have-children-seth-rogen-brags-about-decision-to-stay-kid-free">bragging about being child-free</a> and actresses <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-former-americas-next-top-model-contestant-rebukes-michelle-williams-babies-do-not-keep-us-from-our-dreams">crediting abortion</a> for their successful careers, Culkin is an anomaly. The 42-year-old star began his career as a child actor with roles in major productions such as “Home Alone” and “Father of the Bride.” After a brief hiatus and some theater appearances, he hit his stride as an adult actor and won an Emmy for his role as the snarky bad boy Roman Roy in “Succession.” 
Now Culkin can add Oscar to his list of awards, and that’s the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kieran-culkin-uses-oscars-speech-to-ask-wife-for-fourth-child">speech</a> that has everyone buzzing. The actor, who won Best Supporting Actor for “A Real Pain” at the 97th Academy Awards, used his time at the podium to sweetly petition his wife, Jazz, to have a fourth child. Culkin may be a liberal, but all the conservatives were left swooning.
“This is — please don’t play the music because I want to tell a really quick story about Jazz,” the actor said at the end of his speech, before going on to reference how after winning an Emmy, he had mentioned wanting to have a third baby.
“About a year ago, I was on a stage like this and I very stupidly, publicly said that I want a third kid from her because she said if I won the award, I would, she would give me the kid. It turns out she said that because she didn’t think I was gonna win, but then people came up to her and were like, you know, really annoying her … I think it got to her, but anyway.”
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“After the show, we’re walking through a parking lot, she’s holding the Emmy, we’re trying to find a car. Emily, you were there, so you’re a witness, and she goes, ‘Oh God, I did say that. I guess I owe you a third kid,’ and I turned to her and I said, ‘Really, I want four.’ And she turned to me, I swear to God this happened, it was just over a year ago, she said, ‘I will give you four when you win an Oscar.’ I held my hand out, she shook it, and I have not brought it up once until just now,” Culkin continued as the audience laughed.
“You remember that, honey? You do? Then, I just have this to say to you, Jazz, love of my life, ye of little faith. No pressure. I love you. I’m really sorry I did this again. And let’s get crackin’ on those kids. What do you say? I love you!” he concluded.
As mentioned, this wasn’t the only time Culkin had requested a baby after winning a major award. He did the same thing after winning an Emmy in 2024. And it’s also not the first time he’s gushed about fatherhood.
The actor <a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a43399530/kieran-culkin-succession-interview-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Esquire in 2023 that after his run in “Succession” ended, he didn’t have anything else lined up, and said he did it intentionally. 
“I would like there to be nothing for a little while..,” Culkin said at the time. “I feel like what I’m supposed to do is be a stay-at-home dad. That’s where I feel like I’m the most me. And anything that takes me away from that is wrong.”
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The actor even said he almost quit “A Real Pain” when the scheduling dates were such that he’d be away from his family, including Jazz and their two young children, for a whole month. 
“I was like, ‘I can’t be away from the family for that long,’ and I had a flip-out,” he told The New York Times in December. “I was in Warsaw and I asked for one less day of press so I could go home for a day. I was home for 32 hours — and I was sick the whole time, so the trip was pointless — but I just needed to be home and see the kids. The work is so I can be home, not so I can be at work,” he added.
During the same interview, the actor said becoming a father changed everything for him.
“That’s why with this movie, I was like, ‘Why did I say yes to this? There’s no money here, I don’t see how this is going to benefit me or my family in any way.’ I don’t have the same mentality of when I was 26 and single, being like, ‘I’m going to Shreveport to do a movie for a few weeks, who cares?’ Now I have to go, ‘Where does it shoot and for how long? Can I bring the family? When, because are my kids going to be in school?’ All those things matter before I even start the conversation of will I do it or not.”
He added, “[T]he real stuff is me being home with my kids, when I’m reading them books and singing them songs until they go to sleep. That’s the whole point of life. The rest of it I’m doing so I can get back to that.”
Culkin, whose brother is well-known “Home Alone” star Macauley Culkin, is one of six kids, so big families are nothing new to him. But the actor didn’t get along with his father. Christopher Cornelius &#8220;Kit&#8221; Culkin and Patricia Brentrup never formally married but stayed together from 1974 until they broke up in 1995. Culkin and his dad are currently estranged.
The “Succession” star said his dad was abusive during childhood, per <a href="https://people.com/all-about-macaulay-culkin-parents-8408576">People</a>. Culkin also said his father, an aspiring actor himself, was jealous of his success.
&#8220;[He said] &#8216;Do good or I&#8217;ll hit you.&#8217; He was a bad man. He was abusive, physically and mentally — I can show you all my scars if I wanted to,&#8221; Culkin said during an appearance on the podcast WTF With Marc Maron in 2018.
The family didn’t have a lot of money. They shared a railroad style apartment in Manhattan&#8217;s Upper East Side as his father worked as a cab driver and at a Catholic Church and his mom earned money as a phone operator. The outlet noted that five kids shared two bunk beds in one room until Macauley started earning bigger paychecks with his successful film career.
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&#8220;It was just a hallway, and there were no separating doors, except for the bathroom, which didn&#8217;t have a lock,&#8221; the actor told Vanity Fair. &#8220;They raised seven kids in that apartment — for years! They just kept bringing babies home to this little space.&#8221;
Culkin has a better relationship with his mom, who he thanked during his 2024 Emmys acceptance speech. &#8220;My wonderful mom,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Thank you so much for doing everything you did for us. You&#8217;re an amazing woman.&#8221;
A rocky childhood hasn’t deterred the star from trying to create a stable family for himself. He and Jazz eloped in 2013, then welcomed daughter Kinsey Sioux in 2019, and son Wilder Wolf in 2021.
In December, he <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/kieran-culkin-colman-domingo-method-acting-sing-sing-1236241031/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Variety that besides being a father, “nothing else matters.”
“When I look at my life before I had kids, I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, this was some guy who like, had hobbies and liked things. This isn’t a real person,&#8217;” he said. “… I’m a dad now, and that’s my only actual role in life is that, that’s real life, and all this is lovely, but I’m just trying to get home.”

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British actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-holland">Tom Holland</a> told Men’s Health that his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Hollywood</a> career will be over after he has kids.
The 28-year-old star of “Spiderman: No Way Home” made the remarks during an <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a63115634/tom-holland-interview-bero/">interview</a> published Thursday in Men&#8217;s Health.
“When I have kids, you will not see me in movies anymore,” Holland said of his plans. “Golf and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fatherhood">dad</a>. And I will just disappear off the face of the earth.”
It’s not the first time the actor has mentioned wanting to settle down and have kids away from the spotlight. &#8220;I&#8217;ve spent the last six years being so focused on my career,&#8221; Holland told <a href="https://people.com/movies/tom-holland-talks-plans-after-spider-man-family/">People</a> in a 2021 interview. I want to take a break and focus on starting a family and figuring out what I want to do outside of this world.&#8221;
&#8220;I love kids. I can&#8217;t wait to be a dad — I can wait and I will, but I can&#8217;t wait!&#8221; he added. &#8220;If I&#8217;m at a wedding or a party, I&#8217;m always at the kids&#8217; table hanging out. My dad&#8217;s been such a great role model for me. I think I&#8217;ve got that from him.&#8221; Holland said that, for his next career move, he&#8217;d like to be &#8220;a primary school teacher or something like that.&#8221;
The A-lister has been in a public relationship with his “Spiderman” co-star Zendaya since 2021 following years of dating rumors. The couple met on set in 2016. During the Men&#8217;s Health interview, Holland talked about why he and Zendaya don’t walk the red carpet together if they’re not both in the same project.
“Because it’s not my moment, it’s her moment, and if we go together, it’s about us,” he explained.
During the course of the interview with Men&#8217;s Health, Holland also talked about his decision to quit drinking. “I’m quite strong-willed. When I decide to do something, I’m really gonna do it,” he said. “I leaned on close ones a lot: family, friends, old colleagues, new colleagues, people that reached out that I didn’t know who also were sober.” 
“[My lawyer] gave me a really poignant piece of advice that helped me get through everything, which was: You’ll never wake up the morning after a night out and wish you had a drink. That piece of advice really rang true to me, because my problem was that I would have one drink and be fine, and then I would just go too far,” Holland added.
Holland and Zendaya will star in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” alongside Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, and other Hollywood celebs. The film is set to premiere in theaters on July 17, 2026, from Universal Pictures. “Spider-Man 4” from Sony and Marvel is slated to release on July 24, 2026.

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A new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/apple">Apple</a> ad for its AirPods Pro 2&#8217;s hearing aid feature is getting a lot of attention online as viewers say it’s the perfect antidote to woke advertising which has become far too commonplace.
The pro-family ad, called “Heartstrings,” is making many viewers emotional. Instead of portraying the family patriarch as a bumbling fool, this ad puts a father with hearing loss at the center of a message that depicts a loving family in addition to promoting a product.
The two-minute commercial opens with a family unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fatherhood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">father</a>, who sits on the couch while the family opens presents around him, is presented as having some level of hearing loss. The muffled sounds of wrapping paper and people talking around him help the viewer understand his disability.
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Next, he flashes back through memories of his daughter growing up, with these small moments also heard through a muted lens. Then, the father puts in the AirPods and turns up the hearing aid feature, making the sound clear. He can hear his daughter singing and playing “Our House” by Crosby, Stills, Nash &amp; Young on her new guitar as he experiences the same memories from her youth again, but this time hearing them clearly. The commercial ends as the father looks at his daughter with tears in his eyes.
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The ad has close to 8 million views on YouTube as of Monday morning.
After posting the clip on X, Apple CEO Tim Cook <a href="https://x.com/tim_cook/status/1862229896296374762">said:</a> &#8220;I&#8217;m so proud of the many teams across Apple developing powerful technologies that are improving people&#8217;s lives. The Hearing Aid feature on AirPods Pro 2 uses your personalized sound profile so you can hear the moments that matter.&#8221;
“This is cool,” X owner Elon Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1862332184645779458">replied</a>.
Plenty of other social media users pointed out how this ad signified a return to wholesome, effective advertising, which is a stark contrast to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-is-dead-jaguar-gets-mocked-for-colorful-car-free-brand-re-launch">woke Jaguar ad</a> that generated a lot of negative attention last month.
“Is Apple finally back to being non woke!?” another reply <a href="https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1862366324455882814">said</a>.
“Great commercial. Touching. Family oriented. Not woke!” another <a href="https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1862332837937979761">agreed</a>.
“I’m stunned. Apple just released the single greatest pro-parenting ad in the history of American advertising. The pro-family cultural revolution is here. Watch. Try not to cry…” podcaster Benny Johnson <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1862145986077839450?s=43&amp;t=BDz6oekueqrSVJ50bM62xw">wrote</a>.
“I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s better. The commercial, or the fact that we pushed the culture back to sanity where woke companies are realizing their ideologies were rejected by the American people,” another agreed.

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Country star Brantley Gilbert paused his show over the weekend to help his wife Amber deliver their baby on his tour bus.
While on stage performing on Friday in Tupelo, Mississippi, at his Off The Rails Tour, the 39-year-old country singer was called off stage and told there was an “emergency backstage.&#8221; The emergency turned out to be his wife, who was about to give birth to their third child, <a href="https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2024/10/12/brantley-gilbert-pauses-show-in-mississippi-returns-after-helping-his-wife-deliver-their-baby-in-his-tour-bus/">Whiskey Riff</a> reported.
The crowd had no idea what happened or why he had rushed off the stage, but when he got back he filled them in, explaining to the audience that he&#8217;d gotten back to the bus just in time.
“We got a baby,” the <a href="https://x.com/unlimited_ls/status/1845520494134444499">country singer</a> told the crowd, who cheered and celebrated the happy news about the arrival of his baby boy.
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Shout out to <a href="https://twitter.com/brantleygilbert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@brantleygilbert</a>&#8216;s wife Amber who did an on-camera interview days after giving birth! <a href="https://t.co/kJ2tDyoQwO">https://t.co/kJ2tDyoQwO</a>
— Taste of Country (@TasteOfCountry) <a href="https://twitter.com/TasteOfCountry/status/1845874710715961679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
“Later, Gilbert shared in an emotional video on his Instagram Story about what it was like when his third child arrived. He captioned it, “We’ve got a new addition to the Gilbert Family… God is good,” <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/10/12/parents/country-star-brantley-gilbert-pauses-concert-as-wife-gives-birth-on-tour-bus/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=pagesix">Page Six</a> noted.
“So, last night might have been the craziest night of my life. Watching such an amazing woman do such an amazing thing is something I’ll never forget,” Gilbert wrote.
“Thank you to our road family for rallying around us, Brittany Thornton for helping us bring this little dude into the world, Tupelo, Mississippi, for showing us mad love and support,” he added.
“And most of all … Amber Gilbert, for letting me love you and showing me EXACTLY how incredibly strong a woman can be. I love you,” Gilbert continued, labeling Amber “a freaking savage.”
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On Monday, the couple spoke to <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1845883062728396843" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> about their crazy night, with Brantley joking “I can&#8217;t say this was on my bingo card. It was kind of crazy.&#8221;
The Gilberts said that they had a midwife with them and were prepared if something were to happen, but Amber said that it had still happened fast because they thought she was still a week away from delivering. 
“I went from reading a book in the bed to calling the midwife in a matter of minutes,” the singer’s wife told Fox News. “So, I was just ready to get my show … on the road.” 
The two have been married since 2015 and also share another son and daughter, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/10/12/parents/country-star-brantley-gilbert-pauses-concert-as-wife-gives-birth-on-tour-bus/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=pagesix">Page Six</a> noted.

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.D. Vance</a> (R-OH) revealed the hilarious “Boss Man” game his kids have been playing since he became former President Donald Trump’s running mate.
On Thursday, Vance sat down with the guys on “The Ruthless” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi3Z6tqVrNw">podcast</a> for his first post-<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-vp-debate-moderators-blasted-for-fact-checking-vance-and-cutting-his-mic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vice presidential debate</a> interview to talk about how this election compares to when he ran and won his Senate seat in 2022 and how much his life has changed since Trump put him on the ticket. Vance said he’s gotten calls from friends asking how he’s doing, noting all the traveling he and Trump have been doing to reach voters before the election.
“You know, I&#8217;m honestly having a great time and the fact that I get to bring my kids with me on some of this stuff is very cool,” Vance said. “But honestly, when I ran for Senate [in the] state of Ohio … I&#8217;d ride around in Patrick&#8217;s used Subaru, driving five hours to Youngstown and then back to Cincinnati.”
“Now I fly in a 737 with my kids, like, it&#8217;s a much easier life to run for vice president actually than it is to run for the Senate,” he added. “So, you&#8217;re never going to hear me complain about it.&#8221;
The podcast hosts asked Vance’s if his three kids (ages 7, 4, and 2) understand what’s happening, and he joked they have no idea, pointing to a game his kids have started playing at school, which they call “Boss Man.”
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“The best part is, you know, the kids have a secret service detail now,” Vance said. “We learned from one of my son’s friends, his parents were like, ‘Do you know the kids play this game in school called ‘boss man?’ And I was like, ‘No, what is boss man?’”
“He&#8217;s like, &#8216;Well, it&#8217;s where one kid walks down the hallway flanked by four other kids on each side,’” he added. “So, they kind of get, like, that part of it &#8212; at least my seven-year-old does.”
At one point, Vance also addressed his viral “Jim from The Office” moment from the VP debate.
“The one thing I didn&#8217;t realize, this thing that&#8217;s gone super viral of me kind of doing the ‘Jim from The Office’ thing looking into the camera,” Vance said. “I wish I could take credit for it, but it&#8217;s because the, I guess the timer is right by the camera, so I was just, you know, I was trying to, like, pay attention to what he&#8217;s saying.”
“But then you have to be ready for when his time&#8217;s up because then it&#8217;s your turn to speak,” he added. “And so I was looking at the timer figuring … it spawned a million viral memes. So I&#8217;m glad they did it like that.”
You can catch Vance’s “Ruthless” appearance in its entirety here:
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— Ruthless Podcast (@RuthlessPodcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/RuthlessPodcast/status/1841945000852037858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-dont-have-to-tell-anybody-vance-trolls-walz-in-podcast-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘You Don’t Have To Tell Anybody’: Vance Trolls Walz In Podcast Interview</a>

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Rapper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-saved-my-fing-life-post-malone-opens-up-about-battle-with-alcohol-and-praises-fiancee-for-getting-him-out-of-dark-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Post Malone</a> credited his young daughter and fiancée with saving his life when he was going through a “rough path” and said being a father has been “amazing.”
During an interview on <a href="https://x.com/HonestlyGifted/status/1823778140524564635">CBS Sunday Mornings</a>, Malone opened up a bit about how different his life has been since he and his longtime partner welcomed a daughter into the world in 2022.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll never forget her. If you heard her cry, you&#8217;ll never forget her, either,&#8221; said the 29-year-old Malone, who was born with the name Austin Post. &#8220;It changes you in the best way ever. And the most beautiful thing is she has a beautiful mom.&#8221;
When asked if his daughter saved his life, Malone said, &#8220;That&#8217;s true.&#8221; He added, &#8220;Her and her mom.&#8221;
&#8220;Four years ago,&#8221; Malone said, &#8220;I was on a rough path.&#8221; The rapper said he was dealing with loneliness. He was also struggling with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-saved-my-fing-life-post-malone-opens-up-about-battle-with-alcohol-and-praises-fiancee-for-getting-him-out-of-dark-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alcohol addiction</a>. 
&#8220;Everything. It was terrible. Gettin&#8217; up, havin&#8217; a good cry, drinkin,&#8217; and then goin&#8217; living your life. And then whenever you go lay down, drinkin&#8217; some more and having a good cry.”
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— Brandon J. Lane (@HonestlyGifted) <a href="https://twitter.com/HonestlyGifted/status/1823778140524564635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
“Just like, &#8216;I gotta wake up tomorrow and do this again.&#8217; And I don&#8217;t feel like that anymore,” the rapper <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rapper-turned-country-artist-post-malone-credits-daughter-saving-his-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued</a>. “And it&#8217;s the most amazing thing. I needed to for myself, to figure who I am. I don&#8217;t want people to feel how I&#8217;ve felt. And I know they do and I&#8217;m here, and I&#8217;m on stage. I just want everyone to feel welcome and to feel loved. And that&#8217;s the most important thing for me.&#8221;
In 2022, Malone appeared on Sirius XM&#8217;s “<a href="https://www.siriusxm.com/blog/post-malone-baby-girl">The Howard Stern Show</a>” and let it slip that he had become a father and with his longtime girlfriend.
“That’s been on the QT [quiet] though?” Stern asked after the rapper talked about how he had “kissed” his “baby girl” before recently heading to the recording studio.
“We didn’t know you had a daughter, right?” the host repeated, and got confirmation about the child’s birth from the rapper himself.
During an interview in 2023 with CR Fashion Book, Malone made it clear he doesn’t want his young daughter or fiancée anywhere near the spotlight, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/post-malone-explains-why-he-keeps-young-daughter-away-from-cameras-people-feel-entitled">reported</a>.
“I feel like a lot of people feel entitled to know every single detail of everyone’s life and it’s why I don’t want to post any pictures of my baby, because I want her to be able to make that decision whenever she wants to and is ready,” Malone said.
“We live in such an interestingly semi-connected world where everybody is a phone call away, but you lose a lot of the intricacies and nuance of being with the person and seeing what’s actually happening,&#8221; he added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/post-malone-explains-why-he-keeps-young-daughter-away-from-cameras-people-feel-entitled" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Post Malone Explains Why He Keeps Young Daughter Away From Cameras: ‘People Feel Entitled’</a>

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Team USA Swimmer Ryan Murphy won a bronze at the 2024 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/paris-olympics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paris Summer Olympics</a> &#8212; and his wife made the moment even more memorable, sharing that they were expecting a little girl.
After the U.S. swimmer took home his third Olympic medal in the men’s 100 meter backstroke, his wife Bridget Konttinen &#8212; who is expecting the couple’s first child &#8212; stood up in the audience and <a href="https://x.com/RowdyGaines/status/1818014976054837432">held up a giant sign</a> that read, “It’s a girl!” <a href="http://olympics.com">Olympics.com</a> reported.
“I was walking back around and Bridget was holding up a sign and it said — ‘Ryan, it’s a girl,’” <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/07/29/sports/swimmer-ryan-murphys-olympic-medal-comes-with-gender-reveal/">Murphy said</a>. “That was the first time I heard the gender.”
“I think that just kind of like lit me up.” he added. “And really brought this night to a whole other level.”
“Up to this point, swimming has really been the most important thing in my life,” Murphy continued. “Pretty much every major decision I make is with swimming in mind, and that’s going to change coming up. I’m really looking forward to what’s coming.”
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Speaking to reporters later, Murphy revealed that the two are expecting a daughter in January, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/07/29/sports/swimmer-ryan-murphys-olympic-medal-comes-with-gender-reveal/">New York Post</a> noted.
“We both — we honestly both thought it was going to be a boy,” the swimmer said. “And everyone — like everyone — we were talking to, they thought it was going to be a boy.”
Murphy and his wife tied the knot in 2023 and the Olympian credited his wife with helping him stay balanced ahead of the games.
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“When you have to analyze swimming things at such a granular level and really be a perfectionist, it’s easy to turn that perfectionism in on yourself and start analyzing your own personality characteristics and stuff like that,” Murphy said.
“Having her gives me a lot of great balance in my life,” he added. “She’s someone who could say, ‘Hey, Ryan, you’re going a little bit too hard at this, you can be a little bit softer on yourself today.’ She’s great for me and helps me keep a level head on things.&#8221;
Murphy will return to the pool on Wednesday where he will compete in the 200-meter backstroke, the Post noted. During his Olympic career, he’s taken home a total of seven medals.

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Celebrities are no strangers to wanting to have a family and kids, but just like the rest of us, the path to having children can look different for everyone. 
As we look forward to the July 4th weekend release of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dailywire-strikes-deal-with-angel-studios-for-sound-of-hope-get-showtimes-now">Sound of Hope</a>,” we want to celebrate adoption — from the perspectives of those who were adopted and those who chose to adopt. 
“Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot” tells the true story of how 77 children found homes after being adopted out of the foster care system in East Texas by 22 families. DailyWire+ and Angel Studios announced earlier this month that they have entered into a partnership to release the Peacetree Productions’ film. 
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For these five celebrities, their families became a reality thanks to adoption and each one has said that it was the best thing they ever did.
Sheryl Crow
Superstar singer Sheryl Crow found her way to motherhood after deciding to adopt not one but two sons, one in 2007 and another in 2010.
Speaking on the “<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sheryl-crow-getting-to-the-other-side/id1585499926?i=1000539607246">Making Space with Hoda Kotb</a>” podcast in 2021, the 62-year-old singer said she &#8220;just never didn&#8217;t think I would have kids.” She admitted her dream of being a mom didn’t include adoption until her mom threw her a &#8220;life raft&#8221; and told her she could be one even if she wasn’t married.
&#8220;You have a family around you who will stand at the altar with you at baptism and say, &#8216;We are his community, or her community,’” Crow said of the conversation she had with her mom.
&#8220;The story I was telling myself limited what I thought I could have, until somebody stepped in and said, &#8216;Wait a minute, your story doesn&#8217;t have to look like your mom and dad&#8217;s story,'&#8221; she added. &#8220;Families look like all different things.&#8221;
Kirk Cameron
“Growing Pains” and “Lifemark” star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kirk-cameron">Kirk Cameron</a> is one of the most vocal stars about the power of adoption. The 53-year-old actor and his wife Chelsea Noble not only adopted the first four of their six kids, but also credits adoption with bringing him his wife, who was also adopted by her parents.
During an interview in 2022 with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kirk-cameron-talks-lifemark-movie-that-proves-why-life-should-be-defended-at-all-costs">The Daily Wire</a>, Cameron told us he and his wife wanted to have kids and thought it was a “beautiful way to have a family.”
Cameron told The Daily Wire that his wife and four children “were one doctor appointment away from not being here.” 
“The adoption option, I think, is such a loving, beautiful place, and I&#8217;ve experienced the result of that choice myself,” the actor told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/kirk-cameron-shares-message-faith-film-about-beauty-of-adoption-talks-growing-pains-reboot">Fox News</a> previously. “Like I said, with our four kids, my wife is adopted, and if my wife had not been adopted, we likely would not have our two natural-born children either.&#8221; 
“I think it&#8217;s incredible that God brings families together in all kinds of ways,” he added. “And I&#8217;m just so thankful for those ladies out there who make the loving choice of adoption.&#8221;
Steven Curtis Chapman
Christian superstar Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth discovered adoption as a way to grow their family after Mary Beth and their daughter Emily traveled to Haiti and met a young girl age 11, according to the website of their <a href="https://showhope.org/about-us/founders-story/">non-profit</a> Show Hope.
Learning about the orphaned girl’s needs and after praying for guidance, the Chapmans knew that adoption was what they needed to do.
So, the couple set out not once but three times to adopt kids who could use a loving home and over the next few years grew their family after adopting Shaohannah Hope, Stevey Joy, and Maria.
It was this experience that inspired them to create Show Hope, a non-profit organization in Tennessee in 2003 for those families who had the heart but not the means to adopt a child.
“Show Hope exists to care for orphans by engaging the Church and reducing barriers to adoption,” a message on their organization&#8217;s website read. Through the group’s Adoption Aid, “Show Hope has impacted more than 8,600 children from more than 60 countries, including the U.S., by awarding financial grants to families who are on the adoption journey.”
Michelle Pfeiffer
Actress Michelle Pfeiffer was still searching for the love of her life when she decided to adopt her newborn daughter. Later that year, she met the man who would become her husband, TV producer David Kelley. Less than a year later, the couple welcomed a son.
Speaking to <a href="https://people.com/all-about-michelle-pfeiffer-kids-7569445#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20adoption%20process%20was%20already,people%20don't%20have%20that.">Good Housekeeping in 2007</a>, Pfeiffer said the “adoption process was already in motion when he and I met.”
“So when she came, he and I had only been together for about two months. So we had this child with us right away, and most people don&#8217;t have that. But I really got to see him in a situation that certainly would separate the boys from the men,” the actress said. “Obviously, he really rose to the occasion.”
In an interview for the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/celebrities-adopted-kids-2018-3#nia-vardalos-and-her-then-husband-adopted-their-daughter-after-fertility-issues-22">Independent in 2007</a>,  the “Scarface” star said, &#8220;As mother of both an adopted child and my own birth-child, there is absolutely no difference in the huge amount of love I feel for both my children. I always knew I wanted to adopt a child and also have one of my own. There is no difference at all.”
Sandra Bullock
Superstar actress Sandra Bullock found her family through adoption amid her divorce from husband Jesse James after five years of marriage.
The 59-year-old actress adopted her son when he was just a newborn and five years later adopted her daughter who was three and had been run through the foster care system, “Today” <a href="https://www.today.com/parents/moms/sandra-bullock-people-consider-adoption-rcna8046" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
During an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvbps0QY6UI&amp;t=8s">interview</a> in 2021, Bullock was talking about her movie “The Unforgivable” and reflected on how adoption changed her life.
“If it wasn’t for adoption and foster care, I wouldn’t have my family, so this film really struck a chord in that there are millions upon millions of babies and children on this planet that have no one to love,” Bullock explained at the time.
&#8220;They have no one to let them know they are the most amazing thing when they walk in a room,&#8221; she added.“There are millions upon millions of adults that wish they could be a parent.”
“Love is love,” Bullock continued. “And if we stop defining that narrative, it’s just one avenue, the amazing impact would be love and families. And health and mental health and beyond.”

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