Mike Austin: Masculinity isn’t Toxic, it’s Necessary

Mike Austin: Masculinity isn't Toxic, it's Necessary

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In this captivating episode of Raven’s Radar, radio personality and advocate for fathers, Mike Austin, joins host Raven Harrison for a thought-provoking interview that delves into the importance of strong fathers, the attack on masculinity, and the vital role of the nuclear family in society. With his years of experience in the radio industry and as a devoted father himself, Mike Austin brings a unique perspective to the conversation, shedding light on the significance of fathers in shaping the lives of their children and the future of our nation. Tune in and be inspired by this powerful discussion on Radio Dad, toxic masculinity, and the fight to protect and strengthen our families.

Episode 41 Summary with Mike Austin

In this episode of Raven’s Radar, host Raven Harrison engages in a dynamic interview with radio personality and advocate for fathers, Mike Austin. The discussion centers around the critical role of strong fathers in society, the attack on masculinity, and the importance of preserving the nuclear family. Mike Austin, with his years of experience in the radio industry and as a devoted father, provides valuable insights and thought-provoking ideas on the topic of fatherhood.

As the conversation unfolds, Raven and Mike delve into the damaging effects of toxic masculinity and how society has often portrayed fathers in a negative light. They passionately argue for the necessity of strong, loving, and involved fathers, emphasizing that fathers are not just providers but also irreplaceable role models for their children. Through their engaging dialogue, listeners are encouraged to challenge societal stereotypes and support the crucial role of fathers in shaping the lives of their families and communities.

Transcript

Raven Harrison: Welcome, patriots, to this episode of RavensRadar. We’re going to keep it fiery today. We’re going to be bringing in a little bit of that toxic masculinity we’ve heard so much about. What is she talking about? It’s coming. If it’s in your sights, it’s on my radar. We’ll be airborne shortly.
[Intro Video]
Welcome Patriots to this episode of Raven’s Radar. I have a fabulous guest on tap you may not have seen him but you have definitely heard this guy. he has been a popular voiceover actor he’s an advocate for dads he’s an amazing amazing patriot. The one and only Mike Austin is going to be joining us later. But as we often do, as we always do, we get to the front lines on what’s happening in our country right now, how ridiculous Biden has made it, and what we’re going to do about it. So, what is happening in the world?
Well, at the time of this taping, Trump was indicted again. So here we go, Patriots. Here goes the encore of political theater. So if you guys are watching the timeline, remember, I gave this before. On March 17th, they admitted that Hunter Biden’s laptop is real. On March 18th, Trump was indicted. On June 8th, they got confirmation at the Oversight Committee that Joe Biden had been taking bribes. And on June 9th, Trump was indicted. Okay, on the 26th of July, the sweetheart deal that Hunter Biden got, which is basically, uh, and don’t leave your blow in the White House anymore, fell apart.
And on the 27th, you got it, Trump was indicted. So now, here we go. What was actually different this time, Patriots, is that we had a weekend in there. So we got three days before the last indictment. So now, what they’re talking about is more election conspiracy to spread disinformation. Translation: I’m going to hit my by knees button. Translation: I’m guilty of everything squirrel. That’s what we’re talking about again.
Here’s how ridiculous it is, Patriots. That they actually have a process for having an indictment and convening a grand jury, and it involves interviewing the people, it involves a vote, it involves a process before you actually formally hand out the indictment. And they were so eager to indict Trump on a parking ticket that they actually didn’t even wait for that to be finalized before they sent out the indictment. This is our Mickey Mouse two-tier justice system. And I know what you guys are thinking, I’m sick of it too.
It is absolutely ridiculous. The moral of the story, Patriots, is this is what happens when we don’t engage with what our government is doing. This is the government our founding fathers warned us about. This is exactly it, except for by that time, we would have already had tea in the harbor, okay? Now it’s full of ice cream and Depends. We’ve got to get to this line. This guy is ridiculous. He’s destroying our country and we’re all kind of waiting for this justice system to police itself. Who polices the police, you know? That’s really like, you know, the speeders pulling over and going officer, I checked to see if I was speeding, and I wasn’t. It’s good, right? It’s ridiculous.
So while we’ve got that going, because every time Joe Biden does something, every time another Biden scandal erupts, Trump gets indicted. So what did he do this time, Patriots? What do we want to know? What did he do this time? What didn’t he do? Okay, so let’s, you know what, before I get into breaking this down, let’s have a word from our destroying America sponsor.
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Raven: And there it is, okay. Uh, we’d like to thank our resident turnip for that incoherent message, but Patriots, this is what it is, okay? This is absolutely dangerous, it’s ridiculous. So while we are pretending there’s nothing wrong with the resident turnip, this is what’s going on. Now, they’ve appointed a special counsel, um, to investigate Hunter Biden. Okay, you’re gonna love this. It’s actually David Weiss, the architect of that sweetheart deal to have him avoid any kind of jail time, is now the special counselor. He asked for it, said, “Please appoint me, pick me, I’m gonna be really impartial,” and now he’s the investigator. So if you’re thinking what I’m thinking, Patriot, wouldn’t it just be easier for Hunter Biden to investigate himself? Wouldn’t that make a lot more sense, and it’d be cheaper too?
Okay, I’d rather spring for the price of Parmesan than this dumpster fire at American taxpayer expense. So, this is what we’ve got going on, Patriots. So, on this field, we’ve got, you know, Joe Biden’s weaponized government going after President Trump again, letting his son off scot-free because he’s the best guy he knows. And we have the American taxpayers going, “Is anybody going to do some real business in this government? Do we have real problems going on in this country, like inflation, a wide-open border, and rampant Fentanyl and supply chain issues, and expensive gas?
We don’t have anything else that needs to be done besides this absolute ridiculous weaponization of our government.” And just if you’re keeping track, Patriots, the last ones to go after their political opponents were Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler. That’s what we’re talking about. Doesn’t matter whether you like Trump or you don’t like Trump. This is what communists do. They silence the opposition, they remove their political opponents, they remove the choice, they remove the illusion that you actually have a right to decide who you are being governed by. And I’m sorry to break it to you, but the Vodka Queen, the poster child for useless people, and Resident Else Sniffy, don’t get to decide who runs for president and who we elect.
Okay, these are really dangerous times. It doesn’t matter who you voted for. These are our constitutional rights, and if the government can come after him and he has these kind of resources, you and I don’t stand a chance. And that’s where we have to be wary, Patriots. Also, in that vein, um, Joe Biden got up and asked Congress for another $24 billion.
That’s billion with a B, so $24 billion in foreign aid, okay, which is synonymous with money laundering. Okay, so $24 billion dollars to Ukraine to help them in the war, and he asked for $4 billion dollars for the Border, not to secure it but to keep processing his new voters. That’s what he is doing. So once again, he’s not taking my suggestions that we should rename the southern border Ukraine. Okay, so this idiot will secure it and do his constitutional job. Nope, he’s letting him roll right on in. And for all the CNN viewers who are on me, uh, he says the border is closed. I live here, it’s not closed. It’s wide open, okay?
We’ve got a welcome mat for drugs like you wouldn’t believe, and sex traffickers and crime people just being let in, okay? And what do we have on the flip side of that, patriots? We have the governor of Massachusetts saying, “Problem, you know, I’m calling on all my constituents to take in these people.” You heard this. Okay, I seem to be able to remember there was a law against aiding and abetting people who had broken our laws, giving aid and comfort to criminals, and the governor of Massachusetts is telling people to take these people.
You don’t know where they’re from, you don’t know if they have any communicable diseases, okay? No way to support themselves, and you’re asking Americans to not only fund the Democrats rolling the welcome mat but take them into your home, put them around your family when they’re unchecked, unvetted, unscreened. Who does this? But on the flip side, we’ve got Mayor Adams of New York City, Mr. Sanctuary City himself. Okay? Who in 2020 said, “We want them.” Okay? Bring them in, bring us your tired, your poor, your freeloaders, your unknown, begging to break in, okay? And now he’s saying, “Well, it’s costing a lot of money. We can’t handle this.”
We got 50,000, we’re done, people. Sorry about the 7 million you got in Texas, but this is a really big problem. Okay, we filled up Rikers Island. We’ve taken everything, and now somebody must pay, and it should be you. And P.S., don’t forget to vote for me for reelection. Okay, that’s it, Patriots. So if you’re paying attention, there’s the rap sheet. Okay, Biden’s ridiculous more money to Ukraine when Americans are suffering? Okay, billions, and that’s on top of the 42 billion we’ve already sent there. So another 24 billion, just keep printing the money, and let’s let Hunter investigate himself. Okay, but maybe the good news is if Hunter investigates himself, maybe we’ll actually find out whose cocaine that was in the White House.
You with me, Patriots? We can do this. So here, we’re gonna do at the end of this, we’re going to get into an element of the front line that we haven’t really been talking about, and that is the role of fathers, the family, and dads. What the left has now labeled toxic masculinity, whatever the heck that’s supposed to be. But we’re going to talk to radio personality and host of an incredible show, Fox News contributor, the one and only Mike Austin, right after this.
[Raven PAC Spot] Welcome back, Patriots. It’s that time, my favorite time of the show, when we get to the front line. And we’ve got our fabulous guest today. And you know, I gotta do a little bit of a teaser this time. So before I’m going to show you this incredible Patriot, I’m going to let you hear him first.
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Mike Austin (voiceover): Eyes on the floor, eyes on the ceiling, anywhere but head reeling, spine stealing every scared, happy, fluttering feeling, courage, son. There’s a heart to be won, closer now, closer wow. These are the best parts of living. Surround them with strong, lifelong care. Aspirus.
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Raven: There it is, Patriots. You may not know him by face yet, but you’ve heard this voice before. Incredible, accomplished, he is a radio personality across multiple states and stations. He is a voice-over actor. He is a dad. He is the host of the podcast “Radio Dad,” sticking up for the rights of fathers and men. Incredible, Patriots, who I’m honored to have with me today, the one and only Mike Austin.
Mike Austin: Hey, Raven. How are you?
Raven: I’m doing great. Great to have you on the show. It’s great to see you. We normally communicate across the airwaves, don’t we?
Mike Austin: That’s right. You have on the telephone, and it’s an honor to be a part of your podcast.
Raven: It is great to have you. So tell our Patriots a little bit about you. You are now on a morning show up there in Michigan. Tell our Patriots a little bit about your background. What brought you into radio?
Mike Austin: Boy, oh boy. I started when I was in high school. I was looking for a summer job and the local radio station. I was like the class clown and very outgoing. It was a small town in Illinois, and I was a sophomore, I think, not a freshman in high school. I thought I’d be a janitor, and they called that afternoon after I applied just up and down Main Street, and they said, “You want to be on the air?” I didn’t even know what that meant, and I went in, and the first thing they gave me was a sports report, and I had to say a lot of foreign names on tennis and about tennis. It was in August, and I had no idea. I’m sure I massacred it, but I started working on weekends, overnights, and nights, and I was so young, my dad had to give me a ride to the radio station every time I was on the air. But it came time to graduate and go to college, and I loved it. I thought, “I’ll do this,” and that’s what I’ve done for 40, 43, 44 years now.
Raven: It’s an impressive resume. I mean, I’m of a certain age, so I’ll celebrate that, but you’ve done—I mean, Walmart, you’ve done Stanley Steemer, you’ve done a host of other ones. What are the other ones that people can recognize that voice?
Mike Austin: Oh boy, uh, a lot of corporate video. I do a lot of corporate narration for Harley-Davidson, um, Goodyear Tires. I’ve done some audiobooks. Um, I do some voices. I’m, uh, if you ever play a thing, a video game called Clash of Clans, I’m the voice of the Barbarian King on there, but, um, I- here’s what’s funny, I don’t play video games, and when I got that gig, I had to look it up and see what it is. It’s a lot of grunts and groans, but it’s fun, you know?
Raven: This officially makes you the coolest person ever. I can’t wait till my kids see this.
Mike Austin: It was one of my favorite ones. I was, uh, I was the voice of a dinosaur race announcer for a Flintstones slot machine video slot machine. So, uh, there’s that.
Raven: I can’t even. So, people think I have an interesting story, that’s it. And when you’re not being Captain Awesome in the dinosaur ages, you also have, um, you have a family. You’re married, you have kids, lots of them, and a podcast, correct?
Mike Austin: Yes, uh, I’m very happy and honored, uh, to host Radio Dad. This was a thing that came up for me, uh, full disclosure, I am a divorced dad, and my first marriage, when that ended, I will admit it was totally my fault, Rayven. I was married to my career. I had already been in radio at that time, uh, let’s see, 15 years or more, and I lived to be on the air. Unfortunately, that meant my young wife was neglected, and we had two children, uh, a boy and a girl. My son is named, my first son is named after my father, who I revere, that is long gone. And so when that happened, long story short, I know it can be very winded, so forgiving, but, um, when that happened, I was trying to figure out how do I be a dad to these two kids while I am not there all the time, and without getting too into details on the court system, it’s very stacked against dads.
Um, and I, I don’t want to get too deep into that, but I, um, I fought to get, uh, every other weekend, and I got summertime and that, and so I was trying to figure out how do I do this. Every guy that I talked to that had been divorced or that was going through something, they were all really torqued off, and they had no good information for me on how do I do this from a distance. So I, um, one day I thought, what do I have that I can do to get these guys on board? We have to be dads, right? It’s an important thing. And so I thought the only skill I have is to be on the radio.
So thus started Radio Dad, and that was the mid-90s, um, but I had no idea how to do it. The internet was like, if it’s baby stages, um, so I bought time on a local radio station on a Saturday afternoon and hosted it as a talk show. Um, and so slowly it grew into what it is now, which is a daily fatherhood minute, and we’re getting ready to be on 300-plus radio stations with that, and we have the podcast, and we’re getting ready to launch a weekend. Uh, we don’t know if it’s gonna be one or a two-hour talk show, um, so yeah, so that’s, that’s the story.
Raven: Well, that’s, you know what we like to see is verbs in the sentence. If did you hear that Patriots, where we, you know, we have a problem that needs to be addressed, and we don’t just shake our fists the television, we don’t just groan about how unfair it is, we get to the front line and do something. I want to delve a little bit more into the context of Radio Dad right after this.
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Raven: Welcome back, Patriots! We are here on Raven’s Radar with the one and only Radio Dad. You know, the radio personality, the one and only Mike Austin. That you would hear from such voice-over talent for Walmart, Harley-Davidson, Stanley Steemer. This guy is a jack of all trades, master of all. But it’s an important thing that I want to talk about. So, Mike, we have a lot of news right now about women. We’ve got men in women’s sports, we’ve got an attack on masculinity. They call it toxic masculinity, and we have basically the destruction of our nuclear family. How did that play into you creating Radio Dad?
Mike Austin: Well, as I mentioned before, Radio Dad started just purely on selfish motives. I wanted to learn and know how to be the best dad I could be. And I figured, while I figured it out and learned, these guys that I have been talking to and trying to get information from, they had no information. I could help, right? So, we’d all kind of be in this together, a brotherhood. And you know, it’s funny, Raven, when I first started doing Radio Dad in the mid-90s, there was no toxic masculinity. Mainly, fatherhood was portrayed as the Homer Simpsons, the beer-drinking, football-watching guy who was sort of disconnected and an idiot, yeah, and not the true leader of the family that he is meant to be. Yes, and so slowly we would sort of get into that.
And I just flat out, without apologizing, would say, “Guys, step up. This is who you’re meant to be. This is why you’re created. Lead that family.” We do a whole segment on your home as your fortress rule it, um, the I, we have a saying in our house, “I am the head of the family. Flat out, I’m the head of the family. My wife is the heart of the family.” And I mentioned, I’m divorced. I am married the second time. I’m married to a wonderful lady named Lisa. We call her the Big Hair, and she is my queen, and I am the king of this house. And that doesn’t mean that you rule with an iron fist. That means you roll with kindness, love, generosity. Yet, my word, what I say goes. Now, I’m not… That doesn’t mean I’m not open to suggestions, and I’m not open to direction, but we’re not running a democracy here.
Raven: Correct. I say that all the time in our house. This is not a democracy. You don’t get a vote, right?
Mike Austin: But unfortunately, society has now… I think that society wanted so badly for women to have strength, right? I just said this the other day. If you see a woman’s Expo, it’s always about empowerment. It’s always about strong women, but if you see a men’s Expo, it’s all about boys and their toys. We had to change that. Yeah, we’ve got to get people to understand that a good, strong man and a leader doesn’t mean to be an ogre, but it means you have something to bring to the table and you have a direction to take the family.
Raven: And that’s important, Mike, because that’s what you’re seeing – The destruction of our family starts. They can’t have our kids unless they destroy our family. If they destroy our men, and that’s, you know, nobody has a vested interest in that more than China. Of seeing, you know, our men running around saying, “I can get periods” and all this kind of other stuff. If it’s ridiculous, and you don’t protect your woman because she’s weak, you protect her because she’s important. And that’s, but we need our men. We need our fathers. It used to be, it’s your biblical mandate, isn’t it, to lead this family and to head that family. When did that become a bad thing that my husband is the head of our household? And I’m telling you, if you’ve ever been to IKEA on the weekend, I’m really glad that I don’t have that responsibility. But I love the fact of what fathers bring, and nobody appreciates fathers, good fathers better than good mothers. Come on, Mike.
Mike Austin: That is true. We do a whole segment on women want good, strong men. They may not realize it or they may not say it because society will squelch that. But a good, strong father is a good thing. Can I give you some statistics real quick.
Raven: Please. We like facts, don’t we, Patriots? Come on with it, Mike.
Mike Austin: 23.9 million children right now approximately live in a home without a dad. Um, single moms, and that’s not to say a single mom can’t raise a good, I mean, we see NFL guys all the time. Right, his who’s a strong guy? However, you cannot deny that a man and a woman raising a family, the family is a society in and of itself. You take all these little societies, you glue them together, and you’ve got a strong country. You’ve got a strong society. And if you, if you look objectively at society now, the way the family has broken down and the way we’ve not how well demoralized diminish the role of dads.
Raven: We have demonized fathers. They have completely demonized dads.
Mike Austin: And we’re reaping the consequences of that. So, 63 percent of teen suicides come from homes without a dad. Um, 70 of juveniles in state institutions homes without a dad. My son is a, um, my oldest son, 33 years old, is a federal corrections officer. I asked him one time, how many guys in there do you think come from fatherless homes? He said almost 100 percent. Those are just a few of the statistics, and numbers don’t lie. But if you look around, even you, you find effeminated men. You find, um, social media, of any kind of media will portray men in sort of a, a back seat and in a feminine way, man buns, and the whole mess. And it just is sickening because we’re ruining, or have ruined, society. We have to find ways to step up.
Raven: Correct. And I, I like to say that because what people don’t realize, the essence of domination and taking over, starts with being able to mold the next generation. And the way you do that is you destroy the nuclear family. Our families have been under attack for decades. And it started out very subtly, and now it’s to the point where we are just now claiming anything that is masculine is toxic. And that is the narrative. And we’re telling people that, you know, but we need a strong, a strong family and strong men because weak men create hard times.
And as far as me being a woman, why would it be to say that my husband is strong and head of the house? Why is that an insult, Mike? And to see there of going, you being a father, my favorite is when they did, anybody ever ask you this, Mike? Do they ever ask you, you know, you’re bathing, can you watch the kids, can you babysit your kids? And I’m like, we need to babysit my kids. They’re my kids, right?
Mike Austin: Right. And I’ll tell you what else, it’s funny. Um, when my kids were young, we have six. I have two from my first marriage. We have four, the whole story there, they’re adopted, and we can get into that another time.
Raven: You’ve got a whole team and a sub.
Mike Austin: Well, when they were young, um, and my wife needed to go to the store, I’m not a good grocery shopper. Right. Um, yeah, I’m no problem watching the kids. She understood though, I’m not gonna watch them the same way she is.
That’s not to say they’re in danger, but she would come home, we’d be throwing the Frisbee or the ball or we’d be having a, uh, you know, water gun fights. Oh, we have stories about the water gun fights, it’s great. I’m the garden hose dad, you know, sneak up and I hide around the corner and they come around, you go bang, and you blast them with the water. They talk about that. My kids are all those four are in their 20s now. They talk about that to this day.
Raven: Um, and so does she. I’ll bet she’s going, I have seven kids at home and no, I’m just kidding.
Mike Austin: She uh.
Raven: But that’s a really important point, Mike, is that you’re not gonna do it. I had to actually learn that, you know, for me, of just going realizing that, you know, uh, that dads do it a different way, and that’s okay, and moms, we have to relax a little bit and understand that, you know, you’re going to come home after surgery one time and your daughter’s gonna hand you a s’more the size of your hand and say that Daddy gave them dinner. That’s free advice. Yes, that happened.
Mike Austin: Here’s another thing too, though. Um, not just the dads are the goofy fun guys, but dads are good storytellers. What I mean by that is we just, we’re better at it. I don’t know where it comes from, um, but here’s a prime example. I used to get the kids end of the night, time for bed, they’d have their jammies on. I sit in my big chair. Yes, I have the recline of the big chair, and I don’t use it a lot, but when I sit there, that’s kind of like the throne.
They would sit in a little semi-circle on the floor in front of me, and I would make up a story. This was probably two, three nights a week. And the way we did it is we’d go from one to the other. Okay, you give me the name of a town, okay? You give me a verb, you give me… And they would learn right from that, you give me this, that, and now we would make up a story about 15 minutes long. As you can tell, I can talk. Um, but as I went through it, I would put their little item into that story, and by the end, they were enamored. And so, I think every guy has this in them.
You just have, it’s been varied over the years. You’ve got to tap into that, and I think guys, men, dads do that better than moms. I’m sorry, they just do. There may be some good mom storytellers. I know you’ve written books and stuff, but we can do that, and we make it big and bold and romantic. And one of my favorite things, I still tell her, my daughter Cherise, who is now 22 years old, when she was a little girl, she had to be about six, we did that one night and you could tell the others were ready for bed.
Therese was just looking at me like, and I… And I looked at her, I said, “You ready for bed, sweetie?” She goes, “Daddy, I’m gonna choke up saying this. Come on, she’ll come in.” She says, “Daddy, you tell the best stories.”
Raven: There it is.
Mike Austin: And those are those moments, guys, that you grab. You are also the advice giver, and they live by your example. Your kids watch you, gentlemen. Your kids watch you, how you react, how you interact with their mother. They want you to love their mother. They watch how you run things, and they’re going to mimic that. Your daughters, you’re the first man they know.
Raven: There it is.
Mike Austin: What kind of example are you given? That’s what we have to do.
Raven: Oh, Mike, that is the nuke. There it is. I always have one in the show, don’t I? Patriots. That’s it. That’s the role. We’re done apologizing, you know, for men. We need our men, and that is everything. I’m telling you, we’re going to be back in just a minute to wrap up with the one and only Radio Dad right after this.
[Patriot Mobile Spot]
Raven: Welcome back, Patriots. Uh, Patriots, I hope this has charged you as much as it charges me because this is a topic I really wanted to cover. You hear a lot about men and women’s sports. You’re hearing a lot about women power, women can do anything. And I, for one, am just really not happy to stand by and watch the destruction of our men. Our men being torn down, their role, their biblical roles in our family, and what they add. Um, you know, it’s good to have both.
You know, I hear a lot of women saying, “I don’t need a man.” Okay, well what about your kids? Okay, congratulations. You know, I don’t, you know, I’m glad to have my husband. I am honored to have a partner. He’s the head of our household. I love it that way. And we’re here with the one and only Mike Austin. Mike, I get a chance to talk to you on the radio. You’re a radio personality. You have Radio Dad. Where can Patriots find you? Where can they reach out and connect with you?
Mike Austin: Well, I appreciate it, and thank you for the opportunity, Raven. Uh, radiodad.com is the website. You can go there and hear our podcasts. Um, you can, I don’t have a video podcast yet, but we’re going to work on it. Um, you can hear the podcast, you can, uh, read some articles, some blogs. I’m looking forward to Raven doing a guest blog. And, um, yeah, there’s some good information there, and our story is on there as well. So, radiodad.com. And if you want to see the voiceover business, that’s mikeaustincreative.com.
Raven: That is awesome. And Patriots, I’m going to encourage everyone, dads, if you’re out there, the system isn’t going to be kind to you. If you’re going through that, if you are just needing to know what resources are out there, we got Patriots like Mike who are willing to step up. So, we will have information on our website, ravenharrison.com, uh, and information and links to getting to Mike’s website. Reach out, men. It’s time to make a triumphant comeback because we need you. We need you now. Our children need you now. America needs you now.
Thank you so much for being with us today.
Mike Austin: Thank you so much for having me, Raven.
Raven: Just absolutely fangirling here, love my strong dads. Thank you, Mike Austin. And we’ll be back right after this. [Raven PAC Spot]
Raven: Thank you, Patriots, for being here on this episode of Raven’s Radar. I really get charged about some of these things that we don’t hear about in the media that need to be discussed. We need to talk about the role of our fathers. We need to talk about our families. That’s how we fix this, Patriots. We can’t fix what we don’t acknowledge. So, if we don’t acknowledge that our families, our men, our structure are under attack, our beliefs, our values, our core is under attack, then how do we fix it?
So, please, uh, Patriots, I am encouraging you to go out, support Patriots like Mike Austin. You can find information about his show, Radio Dad, and what he’s doing to help fathers and empower families at ravenharrison.com. You can also find me on social media at Raven_TXWarrior. Got a lot of fakes out there. You gotta get to the real Raven. And we will be giving information about Mike, what we’re doing on the front line to help families. In that vein, Patriots, please go to ravenharrison.com, spend some time there, look at what we’re doing, go to Raven pac. That is a PAC that we formed to help fighters like Mike, like true conservatives on the front line.
You know, wars are expensive, but I always say, if you can’t be on the front line, support those of us who are. Also, pick up a copy of my book. It’s available on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and in select bookstores. It is Raven’s Mantle: Fighting the Betrayal of America. That is what we’re doing right now. I’m not going to give you a fluff piece, Patriots. This is going to be verbs in the sentence. How do we get here? I was a child of the Cold War. We’re back in another one. We are fighters. So, I’m not going to tell you what’s wrong. I’m going to tell you what happened, what created the conservative warrior, and what we’re going to do about it. And it’s going to be a great read, a barn burner, I guarantee. And until then, keep fighting.
Raven Harrison: Welcome, patriots, to this episode of RavensRadar. We’re going to keep it fiery today. We’re going to be bringing in a little bit of that toxic masculinity we’ve heard so much about. What is she talking about? It’s coming. If it’s in your sights, it’s on my radar. We’ll be airborne shortly.
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Welcome Patriots to this episode of Raven’s Radar. I have a fabulous guest on tap you may not have seen him but you have definitely heard this guy. he has been a popular voiceover actor he’s an advocate for dads he’s an amazing amazing patriot. The one and only Mike Austin is going to be joining us later. But as we often do, as we always do, we get to the front lines on what’s happening in our country right now, how ridiculous Biden has made it, and what we’re going to do about it. So, what is happening in the world?
Well, at the time of this taping, Trump was indicted again. So here we go, Patriots. Here goes the encore of political theater. So if you guys are watching the timeline, remember, I gave this before. On March 17th, they admitted that Hunter Biden’s laptop is real. On March 18th, Trump was indicted. On June 8th, they got confirmation at the Oversight Committee that Joe Biden had been taking bribes. And on June 9th, Trump was indicted. Okay, on the 26th of July, the sweetheart deal that Hunter Biden got, which is basically, uh, and don’t leave your blow in the White House anymore, fell apart.
And on the 27th, you got it, Trump was indicted. So now, here we go. What was actually different this time, Patriots, is that we had a weekend in there. So we got three days before the last indictment. So now, what they’re talking about is more election conspiracy to spread disinformation. Translation: I’m going to hit my by knees button. Translation: I’m guilty of everything squirrel. That’s what we’re talking about again.
Here’s how ridiculous it is, Patriots. That they actually have a process for having an indictment and convening a grand jury, and it involves interviewing the people, it involves a vote, it involves a process before you actually formally hand out the indictment. And they were so eager to indict Trump on a parking ticket that they actually didn’t even wait for that to be finalized before they sent out the indictment. This is our Mickey Mouse two-tier justice system. And I know what you guys are thinking, I’m sick of it too.
It is absolutely ridiculous. The moral of the story, Patriots, is this is what happens when we don’t engage with what our government is doing. This is the government our founding fathers warned us about. This is exactly it, except for by that time, we would have already had tea in the harbor, okay? Now it’s full of ice cream and Depends. We’ve got to get to this line. This guy is ridiculous. He’s destroying our country and we’re all kind of waiting for this justice system to police itself. Who polices the police, you know? That’s really like, you know, the speeders pulling over and going officer, I checked to see if I was speeding, and I wasn’t. It’s good, right? It’s ridiculous.
So while we’ve got that going, because every time Joe Biden does something, every time another Biden scandal erupts, Trump gets indicted. So what did he do this time, Patriots? What do we want to know? What did he do this time? What didn’t he do? Okay, so let’s, you know what, before I get into breaking this down, let’s have a word from our destroying America sponsor.
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Raven: And there it is, okay. Uh, we’d like to thank our resident turnip for that incoherent message, but Patriots, this is what it is, okay? This is absolutely dangerous, it’s ridiculous. So while we are pretending there’s nothing wrong with the resident turnip, this is what’s going on. Now, they’ve appointed a special counsel, um, to investigate Hunter Biden. Okay, you’re gonna love this. It’s actually David Weiss, the architect of that sweetheart deal to have him avoid any kind of jail time, is now the special counselor. He asked for it, said, “Please appoint me, pick me, I’m gonna be really impartial,” and now he’s the investigator. So if you’re thinking what I’m thinking, Patriot, wouldn’t it just be easier for Hunter Biden to investigate himself? Wouldn’t that make a lot more sense, and it’d be cheaper too?
Okay, I’d rather spring for the price of Parmesan than this dumpster fire at American taxpayer expense. So, this is what we’ve got going on, Patriots. So, on this field, we’ve got, you know, Joe Biden’s weaponized government going after President Trump again, letting his son off scot-free because he’s the best guy he knows. And we have the American taxpayers going, “Is anybody going to do some real business in this government? Do we have real problems going on in this country, like inflation, a wide-open border, and rampant Fentanyl and supply chain issues, and expensive gas?
We don’t have anything else that needs to be done besides this absolute ridiculous weaponization of our government.” And just if you’re keeping track, Patriots, the last ones to go after their political opponents were Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler. That’s what we’re talking about. Doesn’t matter whether you like Trump or you don’t like Trump. This is what communists do. They silence the opposition, they remove their political opponents, they remove the choice, they remove the illusion that you actually have a right to decide who you are being governed by. And I’m sorry to break it to you, but the Vodka Queen, the poster child for useless people, and Resident Else Sniffy, don’t get to decide who runs for president and who we elect.
Okay, these are really dangerous times. It doesn’t matter who you voted for. These are our constitutional rights, and if the government can come after him and he has these kind of resources, you and I don’t stand a chance. And that’s where we have to be wary, Patriots. Also, in that vein, um, Joe Biden got up and asked Congress for another $24 billion.
That’s billion with a B, so $24 billion in foreign aid, okay, which is synonymous with money laundering. Okay, so $24 billion dollars to Ukraine to help them in the war, and he asked for $4 billion dollars for the Border, not to secure it but to keep processing his new voters. That’s what he is doing. So once again, he’s not taking my suggestions that we should rename the southern border Ukraine. Okay, so this idiot will secure it and do his constitutional job. Nope, he’s letting him roll right on in. And for all the CNN viewers who are on me, uh, he says the border is closed. I live here, it’s not closed. It’s wide open, okay?
We’ve got a welcome mat for drugs like you wouldn’t believe, and sex traffickers and crime people just being let in, okay? And what do we have on the flip side of that, patriots? We have the governor of Massachusetts saying, “Problem, you know, I’m calling on all my constituents to take in these people.” You heard this. Okay, I seem to be able to remember there was a law against aiding and abetting people who had broken our laws, giving aid and comfort to criminals, and the governor of Massachusetts is telling people to take these people.
You don’t know where they’re from, you don’t know if they have any communicable diseases, okay? No way to support themselves, and you’re asking Americans to not only fund the Democrats rolling the welcome mat but take them into your home, put them around your family when they’re unchecked, unvetted, unscreened. Who does this? But on the flip side, we’ve got Mayor Adams of New York City, Mr. Sanctuary City himself. Okay? Who in 2020 said, “We want them.” Okay? Bring them in, bring us your tired, your poor, your freeloaders, your unknown, begging to break in, okay? And now he’s saying, “Well, it’s costing a lot of money. We can’t handle this.”
We got 50,000, we’re done, people. Sorry about the 7 million you got in Texas, but this is a really big problem. Okay, we filled up Rikers Island. We’ve taken everything, and now somebody must pay, and it should be you. And P.S., don’t forget to vote for me for reelection. Okay, that’s it, Patriots. So if you’re paying attention, there’s the rap sheet. Okay, Biden’s ridiculous more money to Ukraine when Americans are suffering? Okay, billions, and that’s on top of the 42 billion we’ve already sent there. So another 24 billion, just keep printing the money, and let’s let Hunter investigate himself. Okay, but maybe the good news is if Hunter investigates himself, maybe we’ll actually find out whose cocaine that was in the White House.
You with me, Patriots? We can do this. So here, we’re gonna do at the end of this, we’re going to get into an element of the front line that we haven’t really been talking about, and that is the role of fathers, the family, and dads. What the left has now labeled toxic masculinity, whatever the heck that’s supposed to be. But we’re going to talk to radio personality and host of an incredible show, Fox News contributor, the one and only Mike Austin, right after this.
[Raven PAC Spot] Welcome back, Patriots. It’s that time, my favorite time of the show, when we get to the front line. And we’ve got our fabulous guest today. And you know, I gotta do a little bit of a teaser this time. So before I’m going to show you this incredible Patriot, I’m going to let you hear him first.
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Mike Austin (voiceover): Eyes on the floor, eyes on the ceiling, anywhere but head reeling, spine stealing every scared, happy, fluttering feeling, courage, son. There’s a heart to be won, closer now, closer wow. These are the best parts of living. Surround them with strong, lifelong care. Aspirus.
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Raven: There it is, Patriots. You may not know him by face yet, but you’ve heard this voice before. Incredible, accomplished, he is a radio personality across multiple states and stations. He is a voice-over actor. He is a dad. He is the host of the podcast “Radio Dad,” sticking up for the rights of fathers and men. Incredible, Patriots, who I’m honored to have with me today, the one and only Mike Austin.
Mike Austin: Hey, Raven. How are you?
Raven: I’m doing great. Great to have you on the show. It’s great to see you. We normally communicate across the airwaves, don’t we?
Mike Austin: That’s right. You have on the telephone, and it’s an honor to be a part of your podcast.
Raven: It is great to have you. So tell our Patriots a little bit about you. You are now on a morning show up there in Michigan. Tell our Patriots a little bit about your background. What brought you into radio?
Mike Austin: Boy, oh boy. I started when I was in high school. I was looking for a summer job and the local radio station. I was like the class clown and very outgoing. It was a small town in Illinois, and I was a sophomore, I think, not a freshman in high school. I thought I’d be a janitor, and they called that afternoon after I applied just up and down Main Street, and they said, “You want to be on the air?” I didn’t even know what that meant, and I went in, and the first thing they gave me was a sports report, and I had to say a lot of foreign names on tennis and about tennis. It was in August, and I had no idea. I’m sure I massacred it, but I started working on weekends, overnights, and nights, and I was so young, my dad had to give me a ride to the radio station every time I was on the air. But it came time to graduate and go to college, and I loved it. I thought, “I’ll do this,” and that’s what I’ve done for 40, 43, 44 years now.
Raven: It’s an impressive resume. I mean, I’m of a certain age, so I’ll celebrate that, but you’ve done—I mean, Walmart, you’ve done Stanley Steemer, you’ve done a host of other ones. What are the other ones that people can recognize that voice?
Mike Austin: Oh boy, uh, a lot of corporate video. I do a lot of corporate narration for Harley-Davidson, um, Goodyear Tires. I’ve done some audiobooks. Um, I do some voices. I’m, uh, if you ever play a thing, a video game called Clash of Clans, I’m the voice of the Barbarian King on there, but, um, I- here’s what’s funny, I don’t play video games, and when I got that gig, I had to look it up and see what it is. It’s a lot of grunts and groans, but it’s fun, you know?
Raven: This officially makes you the coolest person ever. I can’t wait till my kids see this.
Mike Austin: It was one of my favorite ones. I was, uh, I was the voice of a dinosaur race announcer for a Flintstones slot machine video slot machine. So, uh, there’s that.
Raven: I can’t even. So, people think I have an interesting story, that’s it. And when you’re not being Captain Awesome in the dinosaur ages, you also have, um, you have a family. You’re married, you have kids, lots of them, and a podcast, correct?
Mike Austin: Yes, uh, I’m very happy and honored, uh, to host Radio Dad. This was a thing that came up for me, uh, full disclosure, I am a divorced dad, and my first marriage, when that ended, I will admit it was totally my fault, Rayven. I was married to my career. I had already been in radio at that time, uh, let’s see, 15 years or more, and I lived to be on the air. Unfortunately, that meant my young wife was neglected, and we had two children, uh, a boy and a girl. My son is named, my first son is named after my father, who I revere, that is long gone. And so when that happened, long story short, I know it can be very winded, so forgiving, but, um, when that happened, I was trying to figure out how do I be a dad to these two kids while I am not there all the time, and without getting too into details on the court system, it’s very stacked against dads.
Um, and I, I don’t want to get too deep into that, but I, um, I fought to get, uh, every other weekend, and I got summertime and that, and so I was trying to figure out how do I do this. Every guy that I talked to that had been divorced or that was going through something, they were all really torqued off, and they had no good information for me on how do I do this from a distance. So I, um, one day I thought, what do I have that I can do to get these guys on board? We have to be dads, right? It’s an important thing. And so I thought the only skill I have is to be on the radio.
So thus started Radio Dad, and that was the mid-90s, um, but I had no idea how to do it. The internet was like, if it’s baby stages, um, so I bought time on a local radio station on a Saturday afternoon and hosted it as a talk show. Um, and so slowly it grew into what it is now, which is a daily fatherhood minute, and we’re getting ready to be on 300-plus radio stations with that, and we have the podcast, and we’re getting ready to launch a weekend. Uh, we don’t know if it’s gonna be one or a two-hour talk show, um, so yeah, so that’s, that’s the story.
Raven: Well, that’s, you know what we like to see is verbs in the sentence. If did you hear that Patriots, where we, you know, we have a problem that needs to be addressed, and we don’t just shake our fists the television, we don’t just groan about how unfair it is, we get to the front line and do something. I want to delve a little bit more into the context of Radio Dad right after this.
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Raven: Welcome back, Patriots! We are here on Raven’s Radar with the one and only Radio Dad. You know, the radio personality, the one and only Mike Austin. That you would hear from such voice-over talent for Walmart, Harley-Davidson, Stanley Steemer. This guy is a jack of all trades, master of all. But it’s an important thing that I want to talk about. So, Mike, we have a lot of news right now about women. We’ve got men in women’s sports, we’ve got an attack on masculinity. They call it toxic masculinity, and we have basically the destruction of our nuclear family. How did that play into you creating Radio Dad?
Mike Austin: Well, as I mentioned before, Radio Dad started just purely on selfish motives. I wanted to learn and know how to be the best dad I could be. And I figured, while I figured it out and learned, these guys that I have been talking to and trying to get information from, they had no information. I could help, right? So, we’d all kind of be in this together, a brotherhood. And you know, it’s funny, Raven, when I first started doing Radio Dad in the mid-90s, there was no toxic masculinity. Mainly, fatherhood was portrayed as the Homer Simpsons, the beer-drinking, football-watching guy who was sort of disconnected and an idiot, yeah, and not the true leader of the family that he is meant to be. Yes, and so slowly we would sort of get into that.
And I just flat out, without apologizing, would say, “Guys, step up. This is who you’re meant to be. This is why you’re created. Lead that family.” We do a whole segment on your home as your fortress rule it, um, the I, we have a saying in our house, “I am the head of the family. Flat out, I’m the head of the family. My wife is the heart of the family.” And I mentioned, I’m divorced. I am married the second time. I’m married to a wonderful lady named Lisa. We call her the Big Hair, and she is my queen, and I am the king of this house. And that doesn’t mean that you rule with an iron fist. That means you roll with kindness, love, generosity. Yet, my word, what I say goes. Now, I’m not… That doesn’t mean I’m not open to suggestions, and I’m not open to direction, but we’re not running a democracy here.
Raven: Correct. I say that all the time in our house. This is not a democracy. You don’t get a vote, right?
Mike Austin: But unfortunately, society has now… I think that society wanted so badly for women to have strength, right? I just said this the other day. If you see a woman’s Expo, it’s always about empowerment. It’s always about strong women, but if you see a men’s Expo, it’s all about boys and their toys. We had to change that. Yeah, we’ve got to get people to understand that a good, strong man and a leader doesn’t mean to be an ogre, but it means you have something to bring to the table and you have a direction to take the family.
Raven: And that’s important, Mike, because that’s what you’re seeing – The destruction of our family starts. They can’t have our kids unless they destroy our family. If they destroy our men, and that’s, you know, nobody has a vested interest in that more than China. Of seeing, you know, our men running around saying, “I can get periods” and all this kind of other stuff. If it’s ridiculous, and you don’t protect your woman because she’s weak, you protect her because she’s important. And that’s, but we need our men. We need our fathers. It used to be, it’s your biblical mandate, isn’t it, to lead this family and to head that family. When did that become a bad thing that my husband is the head of our household? And I’m telling you, if you’ve ever been to IKEA on the weekend, I’m really glad that I don’t have that responsibility. But I love the fact of what fathers bring, and nobody appreciates fathers, good fathers better than good mothers. Come on, Mike.
Mike Austin: That is true. We do a whole segment on women want good, strong men. They may not realize it or they may not say it because society will squelch that. But a good, strong father is a good thing. Can I give you some statistics real quick.
Raven: Please. We like facts, don’t we, Patriots? Come on with it, Mike.
Mike Austin: 23.9 million children right now approximately live in a home without a dad. Um, single moms, and that’s not to say a single mom can’t raise a good, I mean, we see NFL guys all the time. Right, his who’s a strong guy? However, you cannot deny that a man and a woman raising a family, the family is a society in and of itself. You take all these little societies, you glue them together, and you’ve got a strong country. You’ve got a strong society. And if you, if you look objectively at society now, the way the family has broken down and the way we’ve not how well demoralized diminish the role of dads.
Raven: We have demonized fathers. They have completely demonized dads.
Mike Austin: And we’re reaping the consequences of that. So, 63 percent of teen suicides come from homes without a dad. Um, 70 of juveniles in state institutions homes without a dad. My son is a, um, my oldest son, 33 years old, is a federal corrections officer. I asked him one time, how many guys in there do you think come from fatherless homes? He said almost 100 percent. Those are just a few of the statistics, and numbers don’t lie. But if you look around, even you, you find effeminated men. You find, um, social media, of any kind of media will portray men in sort of a, a back seat and in a feminine way, man buns, and the whole mess. And it just is sickening because we’re ruining, or have ruined, society. We have to find ways to step up.
Raven: Correct. And I, I like to say that because what people don’t realize, the essence of domination and taking over, starts with being able to mold the next generation. And the way you do that is you destroy the nuclear family. Our families have been under attack for decades. And it started out very subtly, and now it’s to the point where we are just now claiming anything that is masculine is toxic. And that is the narrative. And we’re telling people that, you know, but we need a strong, a strong family and strong men because weak men create hard times.
And as far as me being a woman, why would it be to say that my husband is strong and head of the house? Why is that an insult, Mike? And to see there of going, you being a father, my favorite is when they did, anybody ever ask you this, Mike? Do they ever ask you, you know, you’re bathing, can you watch the kids, can you babysit your kids? And I’m like, we need to babysit my kids. They’re my kids, right?
Mike Austin: Right. And I’ll tell you what else, it’s funny. Um, when my kids were young, we have six. I have two from my first marriage. We have four, the whole story there, they’re adopted, and we can get into that another time.
Raven: You’ve got a whole team and a sub.
Mike Austin: Well, when they were young, um, and my wife needed to go to the store, I’m not a good grocery shopper. Right. Um, yeah, I’m no problem watching the kids. She understood though, I’m not gonna watch them the same way she is.
That’s not to say they’re in danger, but she would come home, we’d be throwing the Frisbee or the ball or we’d be having a, uh, you know, water gun fights. Oh, we have stories about the water gun fights, it’s great. I’m the garden hose dad, you know, sneak up and I hide around the corner and they come around, you go bang, and you blast them with the water. They talk about that. My kids are all those four are in their 20s now. They talk about that to this day.
Raven: Um, and so does she. I’ll bet she’s going, I have seven kids at home and no, I’m just kidding.
Mike Austin: She uh.
Raven: But that’s a really important point, Mike, is that you’re not gonna do it. I had to actually learn that, you know, for me, of just going realizing that, you know, uh, that dads do it a different way, and that’s okay, and moms, we have to relax a little bit and understand that, you know, you’re going to come home after surgery one time and your daughter’s gonna hand you a s’more the size of your hand and say that Daddy gave them dinner. That’s free advice. Yes, that happened.
Mike Austin: Here’s another thing too, though. Um, not just the dads are the goofy fun guys, but dads are good storytellers. What I mean by that is we just, we’re better at it. I don’t know where it comes from, um, but here’s a prime example. I used to get the kids end of the night, time for bed, they’d have their jammies on. I sit in my big chair. Yes, I have the recline of the big chair, and I don’t use it a lot, but when I sit there, that’s kind of like the throne.
They would sit in a little semi-circle on the floor in front of me, and I would make up a story. This was probably two, three nights a week. And the way we did it is we’d go from one to the other. Okay, you give me the name of a town, okay? You give me a verb, you give me… And they would learn right from that, you give me this, that, and now we would make up a story about 15 minutes long. As you can tell, I can talk. Um, but as I went through it, I would put their little item into that story, and by the end, they were enamored. And so, I think every guy has this in them.
You just have, it’s been varied over the years. You’ve got to tap into that, and I think guys, men, dads do that better than moms. I’m sorry, they just do. There may be some good mom storytellers. I know you’ve written books and stuff, but we can do that, and we make it big and bold and romantic. And one of my favorite things, I still tell her, my daughter Cherise, who is now 22 years old, when she was a little girl, she had to be about six, we did that one night and you could tell the others were ready for bed.
Therese was just looking at me like, and I… And I looked at her, I said, “You ready for bed, sweetie?” She goes, “Daddy, I’m gonna choke up saying this. Come on, she’ll come in.” She says, “Daddy, you tell the best stories.”
Raven: There it is.
Mike Austin: And those are those moments, guys, that you grab. You are also the advice giver, and they live by your example. Your kids watch you, gentlemen. Your kids watch you, how you react, how you interact with their mother. They want you to love their mother. They watch how you run things, and they’re going to mimic that. Your daughters, you’re the first man they know.
Raven: There it is.
Mike Austin: What kind of example are you given? That’s what we have to do.
Raven: Oh, Mike, that is the nuke. There it is. I always have one in the show, don’t I? Patriots. That’s it. That’s the role. We’re done apologizing, you know, for men. We need our men, and that is everything. I’m telling you, we’re going to be back in just a minute to wrap up with the one and only Radio Dad right after this.
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Raven: Welcome back, Patriots. Uh, Patriots, I hope this has charged you as much as it charges me because this is a topic I really wanted to cover. You hear a lot about men and women’s sports. You’re hearing a lot about women power, women can do anything. And I, for one, am just really not happy to stand by and watch the destruction of our men. Our men being torn down, their role, their biblical roles in our family, and what they add. Um, you know, it’s good to have both.
You know, I hear a lot of women saying, “I don’t need a man.” Okay, well what about your kids? Okay, congratulations. You know, I don’t, you know, I’m glad to have my husband. I am honored to have a partner. He’s the head of our household. I love it that way. And we’re here with the one and only Mike Austin. Mike, I get a chance to talk to you on the radio. You’re a radio personality. You have Radio Dad. Where can Patriots find you? Where can they reach out and connect with you?
Mike Austin: Well, I appreciate it, and thank you for the opportunity, Raven. Uh, radiodad.com is the website. You can go there and hear our podcasts. Um, you can, I don’t have a video podcast yet, but we’re going to work on it. Um, you can hear the podcast, you can, uh, read some articles, some blogs. I’m looking forward to Raven doing a guest blog. And, um, yeah, there’s some good information there, and our story is on there as well. So, radiodad.com. And if you want to see the voiceover business, that’s mikeaustincreative.com.
Raven: That is awesome. And Patriots, I’m going to encourage everyone, dads, if you’re out there, the system isn’t going to be kind to you. If you’re going through that, if you are just needing to know what resources are out there, we got Patriots like Mike who are willing to step up. So, we will have information on our website, ravenharrison.com, uh, and information and links to getting to Mike’s website. Reach out, men. It’s time to make a triumphant comeback because we need you. We need you now. Our children need you now. America needs you now.
Thank you so much for being with us today.
Mike Austin: Thank you so much for having me, Raven.
Raven: Just absolutely fangirling here, love my strong dads. Thank you, Mike Austin. And we’ll be back right after this. [Raven PAC Spot]
Raven: Thank you, Patriots, for being here on this episode of Raven’s Radar. I really get charged about some of these things that we don’t hear about in the media that need to be discussed. We need to talk about the role of our fathers. We need to talk about our families. That’s how we fix this, Patriots. We can’t fix what we don’t acknowledge. So, if we don’t acknowledge that our families, our men, our structure are under attack, our beliefs, our values, our core is under attack, then how do we fix it?
So, please, uh, Patriots, I am encouraging you to go out, support Patriots like Mike Austin. You can find information about his show, Radio Dad, and what he’s doing to help fathers and empower families at ravenharrison.com. You can also find me on social media at Raven_TXWarrior. Got a lot of fakes out there. You gotta get to the real Raven. And we will be giving information about Mike, what we’re doing on the front line to help families. In that vein, Patriots, please go to ravenharrison.com, spend some time there, look at what we’re doing, go to Raven pac. That is a PAC that we formed to help fighters like Mike, like true conservatives on the front line.
You know, wars are expensive, but I always say, if you can’t be on the front line, support those of us who are. Also, pick up a copy of my book. It’s available on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and in select bookstores. It is Raven’s Mantle: Fighting the Betrayal of America. That is what we’re doing right now. I’m not going to give you a fluff piece, Patriots. This is going to be verbs in the sentence. How do we get here? I was a child of the Cold War. We’re back in another one. We are fighters. So, I’m not going to tell you what’s wrong. I’m going to tell you what happened, what created the conservative warrior, and what we’re going to do about it. And it’s going to be a great read, a barn burner, I guarantee. And until then, keep fighting.
Raven Harrison: Welcome, patriots, to this episode of RavensRadar. We’re going to keep it fiery today. We’re going to be bringing in a little bit of that toxic masculinity we’ve heard so much about. What is she talking about? It’s coming. If it’s in your sights, it’s on my radar. We’ll be airborne shortly.
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Welcome Patriots to this episode of Raven’s Radar. I have a fabulous guest on tap you may not have seen him but you have definitely heard this guy. he has been a popular voiceover actor he’s an advocate for dads he’s an amazing amazing patriot. The one and only Mike Austin is going to be joining us later. But as we often do, as we always do, we get to the front lines on what’s happening in our country right now, how ridiculous Biden has made it, and what we’re going to do about it. So, what is happening in the world?
Well, at the time of this taping, Trump was indicted again. So here we go, Patriots. Here goes the encore of political theater. So if you guys are watching the timeline, remember, I gave this before. On March 17th, they admitted that Hunter Biden’s laptop is real. On March 18th, Trump was indicted. On June 8th, they got confirmation at the Oversight Committee that Joe Biden had been taking bribes. And on June 9th, Trump was indicted. Okay, on the 26th of July, the sweetheart deal that Hunter Biden got, which is basically, uh, and don’t leave your blow in the White House anymore, fell apart.
And on the 27th, you got it, Trump was indicted. So now, here we go. What was actually different this time, Patriots, is that we had a weekend in there. So we got three days before the last indictment. So now, what they’re talking about is more election conspiracy to spread disinformation. Translation: I’m going to hit my by knees button. Translation: I’m guilty of everything squirrel. That’s what we’re talking about again.
Here’s how ridiculous it is, Patriots. That they actually have a process for having an indictment and convening a grand jury, and it involves interviewing the people, it involves a vote, it involves a process before you actually formally hand out the indictment. And they were so eager to indict Trump on a parking ticket that they actually didn’t even wait for that to be finalized before they sent out the indictment. This is our Mickey Mouse two-tier justice system. And I know what you guys are thinking, I’m sick of it too.
It is absolutely ridiculous. The moral of the story, Patriots, is this is what happens when we don’t engage with what our government is doing. This is the government our founding fathers warned us about. This is exactly it, except for by that time, we would have already had tea in the harbor, okay? Now it’s full of ice cream and Depends. We’ve got to get to this line. This guy is ridiculous. He’s destroying our country and we’re all kind of waiting for this justice system to police itself. Who polices the police, you know? That’s really like, you know, the speeders pulling over and going officer, I checked to see if I was speeding, and I wasn’t. It’s good, right? It’s ridiculous.
So while we’ve got that going, because every time Joe Biden does something, every time another Biden scandal erupts, Trump gets indicted. So what did he do this time, Patriots? What do we want to know? What did he do this time? What didn’t he do? Okay, so let’s, you know what, before I get into breaking this down, let’s have a word from our destroying America sponsor.
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Raven: And there it is, okay. Uh, we’d like to thank our resident turnip for that incoherent message, but Patriots, this is what it is, okay? This is absolutely dangerous, it’s ridiculous. So while we are pretending there’s nothing wrong with the resident turnip, this is what’s going on. Now, they’ve appointed a special counsel, um, to investigate Hunter Biden. Okay, you’re gonna love this. It’s actually David Weiss, the architect of that sweetheart deal to have him avoid any kind of jail time, is now the special counselor. He asked for it, said, “Please appoint me, pick me, I’m gonna be really impartial,” and now he’s the investigator. So if you’re thinking what I’m thinking, Patriot, wouldn’t it just be easier for Hunter Biden to investigate himself? Wouldn’t that make a lot more sense, and it’d be cheaper too?
Okay, I’d rather spring for the price of Parmesan than this dumpster fire at American taxpayer expense. So, this is what we’ve got going on, Patriots. So, on this field, we’ve got, you know, Joe Biden’s weaponized government going after President Trump again, letting his son off scot-free because he’s the best guy he knows. And we have the American taxpayers going, “Is anybody going to do some real business in this government? Do we have real problems going on in this country, like inflation, a wide-open border, and rampant Fentanyl and supply chain issues, and expensive gas?
We don’t have anything else that needs to be done besides this absolute ridiculous weaponization of our government.” And just if you’re keeping track, Patriots, the last ones to go after their political opponents were Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler. That’s what we’re talking about. Doesn’t matter whether you like Trump or you don’t like Trump. This is what communists do. They silence the opposition, they remove their political opponents, they remove the choice, they remove the illusion that you actually have a right to decide who you are being governed by. And I’m sorry to break it to you, but the Vodka Queen, the poster child for useless people, and Resident Else Sniffy, don’t get to decide who runs for president and who we elect.
Okay, these are really dangerous times. It doesn’t matter who you voted for. These are our constitutional rights, and if the government can come after him and he has these kind of resources, you and I don’t stand a chance. And that’s where we have to be wary, Patriots. Also, in that vein, um, Joe Biden got up and asked Congress for another $24 billion.
That’s billion with a B, so $24 billion in foreign aid, okay, which is synonymous with money laundering. Okay, so $24 billion dollars to Ukraine to help them in the war, and he asked for $4 billion dollars for the Border, not to secure it but to keep processing his new voters. That’s what he is doing. So once again, he’s not taking my suggestions that we should rename the southern border Ukraine. Okay, so this idiot will secure it and do his constitutional job. Nope, he’s letting him roll right on in. And for all the CNN viewers who are on me, uh, he says the border is closed. I live here, it’s not closed. It’s wide open, okay?
We’ve got a welcome mat for drugs like you wouldn’t believe, and sex traffickers and crime people just being let in, okay? And what do we have on the flip side of that, patriots? We have the governor of Massachusetts saying, “Problem, you know, I’m calling on all my constituents to take in these people.” You heard this. Okay, I seem to be able to remember there was a law against aiding and abetting people who had broken our laws, giving aid and comfort to criminals, and the governor of Massachusetts is telling people to take these people.
You don’t know where they’re from, you don’t know if they have any communicable diseases, okay? No way to support themselves, and you’re asking Americans to not only fund the Democrats rolling the welcome mat but take them into your home, put them around your family when they’re unchecked, unvetted, unscreened. Who does this? But on the flip side, we’ve got Mayor Adams of New York City, Mr. Sanctuary City himself. Okay? Who in 2020 said, “We want them.” Okay? Bring them in, bring us your tired, your poor, your freeloaders, your unknown, begging to break in, okay? And now he’s saying, “Well, it’s costing a lot of money. We can’t handle this.”
We got 50,000, we’re done, people. Sorry about the 7 million you got in Texas, but this is a really big problem. Okay, we filled up Rikers Island. We’ve taken everything, and now somebody must pay, and it should be you. And P.S., don’t forget to vote for me for reelection. Okay, that’s it, Patriots. So if you’re paying attention, there’s the rap sheet. Okay, Biden’s ridiculous more money to Ukraine when Americans are suffering? Okay, billions, and that’s on top of the 42 billion we’ve already sent there. So another 24 billion, just keep printing the money, and let’s let Hunter investigate himself. Okay, but maybe the good news is if Hunter investigates himself, maybe we’ll actually find out whose cocaine that was in the White House.
You with me, Patriots? We can do this. So here, we’re gonna do at the end of this, we’re going to get into an element of the front line that we haven’t really been talking about, and that is the role of fathers, the family, and dads. What the left has now labeled toxic masculinity, whatever the heck that’s supposed to be. But we’re going to talk to radio personality and host of an incredible show, Fox News contributor, the one and only Mike Austin, right after this.
[Raven PAC Spot] Welcome back, Patriots. It’s that time, my favorite time of the show, when we get to the front line. And we’ve got our fabulous guest today. And you know, I gotta do a little bit of a teaser this time. So before I’m going to show you this incredible Patriot, I’m going to let you hear him first.
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Raven: There it is, Patriots. You may not know him by face yet, but you’ve heard this voice before. Incredible, accomplished, he is a radio personality across multiple states and stations. He is a voice-over actor. He is a dad. He is the host of the podcast “Radio Dad,” sticking up for the rights of fathers and men. Incredible, Patriots, who I’m honored to have with me today, the one and only Mike Austin.
Mike Austin: Hey, Raven. How are you?
Raven: I’m doing great. Great to have you on the show. It’s great to see you. We normally communicate across the airwaves, don’t we?
Mike Austin: That’s right. You have on the telephone, and it’s an honor to be a part of your podcast.
Raven: It is great to have you. So tell our Patriots a little bit about you. You are now on a morning show up there in Michigan. Tell our Patriots a little bit about your background. What brought you into radio?
Mike Austin: Boy, oh boy. I started when I was in high school. I was looking for a summer job and the local radio station. I was like the class clown and very outgoing. It was a small town in Illinois, and I was a sophomore, I think, not a freshman in high school. I thought I’d be a janitor, and they called that afternoon after I applied just up and down Main Street, and they said, “You want to be on the air?” I didn’t even know what that meant, and I went in, and the first thing they gave me was a sports report, and I had to say a lot of foreign names on tennis and about tennis. It was in August, and I had no idea. I’m sure I massacred it, but I started working on weekends, overnights, and nights, and I was so young, my dad had to give me a ride to the radio station every time I was on the air. But it came time to graduate and go to college, and I loved it. I thought, “I’ll do this,” and that’s what I’ve done for 40, 43, 44 years now.
Raven: It’s an impressive resume. I mean, I’m of a certain age, so I’ll celebrate that, but you’ve done—I mean, Walmart, you’ve done Stanley Steemer, you’ve done a host of other ones. What are the other ones that people can recognize that voice?
Mike Austin: Oh boy, uh, a lot of corporate video. I do a lot of corporate narration for Harley-Davidson, um, Goodyear Tires. I’ve done some audiobooks. Um, I do some voices. I’m, uh, if you ever play a thing, a video game called Clash of Clans, I’m the voice of the Barbarian King on there, but, um, I- here’s what’s funny, I don’t play video games, and when I got that gig, I had to look it up and see what it is. It’s a lot of grunts and groans, but it’s fun, you know?
Raven: This officially makes you the coolest person ever. I can’t wait till my kids see this.
Mike Austin: It was one of my favorite ones. I was, uh, I was the voice of a dinosaur race announcer for a Flintstones slot machine video slot machine. So, uh, there’s that.
Raven: I can’t even. So, people think I have an interesting story, that’s it. And when you’re not being Captain Awesome in the dinosaur ages, you also have, um, you have a family. You’re married, you have kids, lots of them, and a podcast, correct?
Mike Austin: Yes, uh, I’m very happy and honored, uh, to host Radio Dad. This was a thing that came up for me, uh, full disclosure, I am a divorced dad, and my first marriage, when that ended, I will admit it was totally my fault, Rayven. I was married to my career. I had already been in radio at that time, uh, let’s see, 15 years or more, and I lived to be on the air. Unfortunately, that meant my young wife was neglected, and we had two children, uh, a boy and a girl. My son is named, my first son is named after my father, who I revere, that is long gone. And so when that happened, long story short, I know it can be very winded, so forgiving, but, um, when that happened, I was trying to figure out how do I be a dad to these two kids while I am not there all the time, and without getting too into details on the court system, it’s very stacked against dads.
Um, and I, I don’t want to get too deep into that, but I, um, I fought to get, uh, every other weekend, and I got summertime and that, and so I was trying to figure out how do I do this. Every guy that I talked to that had been divorced or that was going through something, they were all really torqued off, and they had no good information for me on how do I do this from a distance. So I, um, one day I thought, what do I have that I can do to get these guys on board? We have to be dads, right? It’s an important thing. And so I thought the only skill I have is to be on the radio.
So thus started Radio Dad, and that was the mid-90s, um, but I had no idea how to do it. The internet was like, if it’s baby stages, um, so I bought time on a local radio station on a Saturday afternoon and hosted it as a talk show. Um, and so slowly it grew into what it is now, which is a daily fatherhood minute, and we’re getting ready to be on 300-plus radio stations with that, and we have the podcast, and we’re getting ready to launch a weekend. Uh, we don’t know if it’s gonna be one or a two-hour talk show, um, so yeah, so that’s, that’s the story.
Raven: Well, that’s, you know what we like to see is verbs in the sentence. If did you hear that Patriots, where we, you know, we have a problem that needs to be addressed, and we don’t just shake our fists the television, we don’t just groan about how unfair it is, we get to the front line and do something. I want to delve a little bit more into the context of Radio Dad right after this.
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Raven: Welcome back, Patriots! We are here on Raven’s Radar with the one and only Radio Dad. You know, the radio personality, the one and only Mike Austin. That you would hear from such voice-over talent for Walmart, Harley-Davidson, Stanley Steemer. This guy is a jack of all trades, master of all. But it’s an important thing that I want to talk about. So, Mike, we have a lot of news right now about women. We’ve got men in women’s sports, we’ve got an attack on masculinity. They call it toxic masculinity, and we have basically the destruction of our nuclear family. How did that play into you creating Radio Dad?
Mike Austin: Well, as I mentioned before, Radio Dad started just purely on selfish motives. I wanted to learn and know how to be the best dad I could be. And I figured, while I figured it out and learned, these guys that I have been talking to and trying to get information from, they had no information. I could help, right? So, we’d all kind of be in this together, a brotherhood. And you know, it’s funny, Raven, when I first started doing Radio Dad in the mid-90s, there was no toxic masculinity. Mainly, fatherhood was portrayed as the Homer Simpsons, the beer-drinking, football-watching guy who was sort of disconnected and an idiot, yeah, and not the true leader of the family that he is meant to be. Yes, and so slowly we would sort of get into that.
And I just flat out, without apologizing, would say, “Guys, step up. This is who you’re meant to be. This is why you’re created. Lead that family.” We do a whole segment on your home as your fortress rule it, um, the I, we have a saying in our house, “I am the head of the family. Flat out, I’m the head of the family. My wife is the heart of the family.” And I mentioned, I’m divorced. I am married the second time. I’m married to a wonderful lady named Lisa. We call her the Big Hair, and she is my queen, and I am the king of this house. And that doesn’t mean that you rule with an iron fist. That means you roll with kindness, love, generosity. Yet, my word, what I say goes. Now, I’m not… That doesn’t mean I’m not open to suggestions, and I’m not open to direction, but we’re not running a democracy here.
Raven: Correct. I say that all the time in our house. This is not a democracy. You don’t get a vote, right?
Mike Austin: But unfortunately, society has now… I think that society wanted so badly for women to have strength, right? I just said this the other day. If you see a woman’s Expo, it’s always about empowerment. It’s always about strong women, but if you see a men’s Expo, it’s all about boys and their toys. We had to change that. Yeah, we’ve got to get people to understand that a good, strong man and a leader doesn’t mean to be an ogre, but it means you have something to bring to the table and you have a direction to take the family.
Raven: And that’s important, Mike, because that’s what you’re seeing – The destruction of our family starts. They can’t have our kids unless they destroy our family. If they destroy our men, and that’s, you know, nobody has a vested interest in that more than China. Of seeing, you know, our men running around saying, “I can get periods” and all this kind of other stuff. If it’s ridiculous, and you don’t protect your woman because she’s weak, you protect her because she’s important. And that’s, but we need our men. We need our fathers. It used to be, it’s your biblical mandate, isn’t it, to lead this family and to head that family. When did that become a bad thing that my husband is the head of our household? And I’m telling you, if you’ve ever been to IKEA on the weekend, I’m really glad that I don’t have that responsibility. But I love the fact of what fathers bring, and nobody appreciates fathers, good fathers better than good mothers. Come on, Mike.
Mike Austin: That is true. We do a whole segment on women want good, strong men. They may not realize it or they may not say it because society will squelch that. But a good, strong father is a good thing. Can I give you some statistics real quick.
Raven: Please. We like facts, don’t we, Patriots? Come on with it, Mike.
Mike Austin: 23.9 million children right now approximately live in a home without a dad. Um, single moms, and that’s not to say a single mom can’t raise a good, I mean, we see NFL guys all the time. Right, his who’s a strong guy? However, you cannot deny that a man and a woman raising a family, the family is a society in and of itself. You take all these little societies, you glue them together, and you’ve got a strong country. You’ve got a strong society. And if you, if you look objectively at society now, the way the family has broken down and the way we’ve not how well demoralized diminish the role of dads.
Raven: We have demonized fathers. They have completely demonized dads.
Mike Austin: And we’re reaping the consequences of that. So, 63 percent of teen suicides come from homes without a dad. Um, 70 of juveniles in state institutions homes without a dad. My son is a, um, my oldest son, 33 years old, is a federal corrections officer. I asked him one time, how many guys in there do you think come from fatherless homes? He said almost 100 percent. Those are just a few of the statistics, and numbers don’t lie. But if you look around, even you, you find effeminated men. You find, um, social media, of any kind of media will portray men in sort of a, a back seat and in a feminine way, man buns, and the whole mess. And it just is sickening because we’re ruining, or have ruined, society. We have to find ways to step up.
Raven: Correct. And I, I like to say that because what people don’t realize, the essence of domination and taking over, starts with being able to mold the next generation. And the way you do that is you destroy the nuclear family. Our families have been under attack for decades. And it started out very subtly, and now it’s to the point where we are just now claiming anything that is masculine is toxic. And that is the narrative. And we’re telling people that, you know, but we need a strong, a strong family and strong men because weak men create hard times.
And as far as me being a woman, why would it be to say that my husband is strong and head of the house? Why is that an insult, Mike? And to see there of going, you being a father, my favorite is when they did, anybody ever ask you this, Mike? Do they ever ask you, you know, you’re bathing, can you watch the kids, can you babysit your kids? And I’m like, we need to babysit my kids. They’re my kids, right?
Mike Austin: Right. And I’ll tell you what else, it’s funny. Um, when my kids were young, we have six. I have two from my first marriage. We have four, the whole story there, they’re adopted, and we can get into that another time.
Raven: You’ve got a whole team and a sub.
Mike Austin: Well, when they were young, um, and my wife needed to go to the store, I’m not a good grocery shopper. Right. Um, yeah, I’m no problem watching the kids. She understood though, I’m not gonna watch them the same way she is.
That’s not to say they’re in danger, but she would come home, we’d be throwing the Frisbee or the ball or we’d be having a, uh, you know, water gun fights. Oh, we have stories about the water gun fights, it’s great. I’m the garden hose dad, you know, sneak up and I hide around the corner and they come around, you go bang, and you blast them with the water. They talk about that. My kids are all those four are in their 20s now. They talk about that to this day.
Raven: Um, and so does she. I’ll bet she’s going, I have seven kids at home and no, I’m just kidding.
Mike Austin: She uh.
Raven: But that’s a really important point, Mike, is that you’re not gonna do it. I had to actually learn that, you know, for me, of just going realizing that, you know, uh, that dads do it a different way, and that’s okay, and moms, we have to relax a little bit and understand that, you know, you’re going to come home after surgery one time and your daughter’s gonna hand you a s’more the size of your hand and say that Daddy gave them dinner. That’s free advice. Yes, that happened.
Mike Austin: Here’s another thing too, though. Um, not just the dads are the goofy fun guys, but dads are good storytellers. What I mean by that is we just, we’re better at it. I don’t know where it comes from, um, but here’s a prime example. I used to get the kids end of the night, time for bed, they’d have their jammies on. I sit in my big chair. Yes, I have the recline of the big chair, and I don’t use it a lot, but when I sit there, that’s kind of like the throne.
They would sit in a little semi-circle on the floor in front of me, and I would make up a story. This was probably two, three nights a week. And the way we did it is we’d go from one to the other. Okay, you give me the name of a town, okay? You give me a verb, you give me… And they would learn right from that, you give me this, that, and now we would make up a story about 15 minutes long. As you can tell, I can talk. Um, but as I went through it, I would put their little item into that story, and by the end, they were enamored. And so, I think every guy has this in them.
You just have, it’s been varied over the years. You’ve got to tap into that, and I think guys, men, dads do that better than moms. I’m sorry, they just do. There may be some good mom storytellers. I know you’ve written books and stuff, but we can do that, and we make it big and bold and romantic. And one of my favorite things, I still tell her, my daughter Cherise, who is now 22 years old, when she was a little girl, she had to be about six, we did that one night and you could tell the others were ready for bed.
Therese was just looking at me like, and I… And I looked at her, I said, “You ready for bed, sweetie?” She goes, “Daddy, I’m gonna choke up saying this. Come on, she’ll come in.” She says, “Daddy, you tell the best stories.”
Raven: There it is.
Mike Austin: And those are those moments, guys, that you grab. You are also the advice giver, and they live by your example. Your kids watch you, gentlemen. Your kids watch you, how you react, how you interact with their mother. They want you to love their mother. They watch how you run things, and they’re going to mimic that. Your daughters, you’re the first man they know.
Raven: There it is.
Mike Austin: What kind of example are you given? That’s what we have to do.
Raven: Oh, Mike, that is the nuke. There it is. I always have one in the show, don’t I? Patriots. That’s it. That’s the role. We’re done apologizing, you know, for men. We need our men, and that is everything. I’m telling you, we’re going to be back in just a minute to wrap up with the one and only Radio Dad right after this.
[Patriot Mobile Spot]
Raven: Welcome back, Patriots. Uh, Patriots, I hope this has charged you as much as it charges me because this is a topic I really wanted to cover. You hear a lot about men and women’s sports. You’re hearing a lot about women power, women can do anything. And I, for one, am just really not happy to stand by and watch the destruction of our men. Our men being torn down, their role, their biblical roles in our family, and what they add. Um, you know, it’s good to have both.
You know, I hear a lot of women saying, “I don’t need a man.” Okay, well what about your kids? Okay, congratulations. You know, I don’t, you know, I’m glad to have my husband. I am honored to have a partner. He’s the head of our household. I love it that way. And we’re here with the one and only Mike Austin. Mike, I get a chance to talk to you on the radio. You’re a radio personality. You have Radio Dad. Where can Patriots find you? Where can they reach out and connect with you?
Mike Austin: Well, I appreciate it, and thank you for the opportunity, Raven. Uh, radiodad.com is the website. You can go there and hear our podcasts. Um, you can, I don’t have a video podcast yet, but we’re going to work on it. Um, you can hear the podcast, you can, uh, read some articles, some blogs. I’m looking forward to Raven doing a guest blog. And, um, yeah, there’s some good information there, and our story is on there as well. So, radiodad.com. And if you want to see the voiceover business, that’s mikeaustincreative.com.
Raven: That is awesome. And Patriots, I’m going to encourage everyone, dads, if you’re out there, the system isn’t going to be kind to you. If you’re going through that, if you are just needing to know what resources are out there, we got Patriots like Mike who are willing to step up. So, we will have information on our website, ravenharrison.com, uh, and information and links to getting to Mike’s website. Reach out, men. It’s time to make a triumphant comeback because we need you. We need you now. Our children need you now. America needs you now.
Thank you so much for being with us today.
Mike Austin: Thank you so much for having me, Raven.
Raven: Just absolutely fangirling here, love my strong dads. Thank you, Mike Austin. And we’ll be back right after this. [Raven PAC Spot]
Raven: Thank you, Patriots, for being here on this episode of Raven’s Radar. I really get charged about some of these things that we don’t hear about in the media that need to be discussed. We need to talk about the role of our fathers. We need to talk about our families. That’s how we fix this, Patriots. We can’t fix what we don’t acknowledge. So, if we don’t acknowledge that our families, our men, our structure are under attack, our beliefs, our values, our core is under attack, then how do we fix it?
So, please, uh, Patriots, I am encouraging you to go out, support Patriots like Mike Austin. You can find information about his show, Radio Dad, and what he’s doing to help fathers and empower families at ravenharrison.com. You can also find me on social media at Raven_TXWarrior. Got a lot of fakes out there. You gotta get to the real Raven. And we will be giving information about Mike, what we’re doing on the front line to help families. In that vein, Patriots, please go to ravenharrison.com, spend some time there, look at what we’re doing, go to Raven pac. That is a PAC that we formed to help fighters like Mike, like true conservatives on the front line.
You know, wars are expensive, but I always say, if you can’t be on the front line, support those of us who are. Also, pick up a copy of my book. It’s available on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and in select bookstores. It is Raven’s Mantle: Fighting the Betrayal of America. That is what we’re doing right now. I’m not going to give you a fluff piece, Patriots. This is going to be verbs in the sentence. How do we get here? I was a child of the Cold War. We’re back in another one. We are fighters. So, I’m not going to tell you what’s wrong. I’m going to tell you what happened, what created the conservative warrior, and what we’re going to do about it. And it’s going to be a great read, a barn burner, I guarantee. And until then, keep fighting.

Wrap-up

As this invigorating episode of Raven’s Radar comes to a close, it is evident that the importance of strong fathers cannot be overstated. Mike Austin’s powerful insights and personal experiences shed light on the significance of fathers in building resilient families and a thriving society. To further explore the key topics discussed, we encourage our readers to visit Mike Austin’s website, where they can discover more about his impactful work in advocating for fatherhood and find valuable resources that can empower fathers to be positive influences in their children’s lives. Let us all take action in supporting and strengthening the pivotal role of fathers in our communities.

AVEN HARRISON

Conservative Warrior