The Charlie Kirk Show - April 25, 2022


Ask Charlie Anything 102: Obama The Philosopher King? Heard About Johnny Depp? What’s Up With Hegel? And MORE


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What is a philosopher king? Is Obama in charge? And where does Charlie get all her energy from? Well, I answered that at the end of the episode, and I hope it could be helpful to some people.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Happy Monday.
00:00:01.000 It's an Ask Me Anything episode.
00:00:02.000 I take your questions.
00:00:03.000 You've emailed me freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:00:06.000 What is a Philosopher King?
00:00:08.000 Is Obama in charge?
00:00:10.000 And also, I get a question of Charlie, where do you get all your energy from?
00:00:12.000 Well, I answered that at the end of the episode.
00:00:14.000 I hope it could be helpful to some people.
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00:00:53.000 Here we go.
00:00:54.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:56.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:58.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:01:02.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:01:05.000 I want to thank Charlie.
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00:01:07.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
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00:01:36.000 Charlie, I think it's all very silly, but Fox News was going crazy with Johnny Depp and the Amanda Heard trial.
00:01:41.000 Who do you think is to blame?
00:01:42.000 I think Johnny Depp obviously seems like a Hollywood type, but it's a lesson for men in this to avoid black widow traps like Harry and Megan, etc.
00:01:50.000 These women just chew up and spit out these powerful men. 1.00
00:01:53.000 I have no idea who Amanda Heard is.
00:01:55.000 Allegedly, people think she's a celebrity or something. 1.00
00:01:58.000 I don't know.
00:01:59.000 And every time I see Johnny Depp, I think he's Captain Jack Sparrow.
00:02:03.000 So that's all I have to say about that.
00:02:06.000 Okay, next question here.
00:02:08.000 So this one is about mask mandates and what is going on in Los Angeles.
00:02:13.000 This one is from Quinn in Iowa.
00:02:16.000 Charlie, what is going on with the mask mandates in LA?
00:02:20.000 I'm traveling there in a couple weeks, and I'm very worried that I'm going to have to wear a mask.
00:02:25.000 Thanks so much.
00:02:26.000 So yes, Los Angeles is now reinstituting mask mandates because the science can change so quickly.
00:02:33.000 Let's play Cut 105, new transportation mask mandate back into effect.
00:02:38.000 Play Cut 105.
00:02:39.000 Well, Pat, basically, if you plan on traveling by plane, train, or automobile, at least in a public setting, well, you're going to need one of these again because starting at midnight, the mask mandate will go back into effect for those public transportation settings.
00:02:54.000 The mask mandate is back.
00:02:56.000 What is the purpose of the mask mandate?
00:02:58.000 And especially, what is the purpose of the mask mandate for children?
00:03:02.000 Candace Owens made a very profound point at our campus tour together where she said, Look, when we look at China, we ask the question, why won't they rise up?
00:03:13.000 Why won't they push back against the tyranny?
00:03:17.000 One of the reasons is that the children of China, or even the adults now, have no memory of freedom. 0.88
00:03:24.000 They have nothing to fight back for.
00:03:26.000 When you don't have a memory of something, then there really isn't a reference point.
00:03:30.000 They want an entire generation to be raised without any form of a memory of freedom.
00:03:35.000 This is exactly why they're putting masks on children.
00:03:38.000 There is zero epidemiological reason to have a child wear a mask.
00:03:42.000 Zero, period.
00:03:44.000 However, the reason they are trying to have children wear masks is they don't want them to know what it's like to not wear a mask.
00:03:50.000 They want them to be more likely to listen to orders and not question authority.
00:03:55.000 They want them to be less likely to be free and easier to control.
00:04:00.000 And I'm sorry, that's a very cynical reading of it, but it's true.
00:04:03.000 There is no other explanation as to why there would be this insistence to try to mask children.
00:04:12.000 And it's amazing because the parents themselves don't actually want to wear a mask, but they're okay with children wearing masks.
00:04:19.000 And so, unfortunately, yes, in California, the mask mandates are back.
00:04:25.000 Now, Justin Trudeau, of course, who's the representative of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Program, who is basically the archetype of the beta male technocratic dictator.
00:04:37.000 Justin Trudeau is a Pete Buttigieg type, if you will.
00:04:41.000 Very low testosterone, not very smart, but will do everything he is told to do in a robotic, unquestionable fashion.
00:04:50.000 Program me for tyranny, and I will do it, is what Pete Buttigieg and Justin Trudeau say.
00:04:57.000 Well, Justin Trudeau, we can learn a lot from Justin Trudeau because they're going to try to bring the Trudeau model to America, has said, quote, every time you wear a mask, every time you stay safe at home, you are making things better for all.
00:05:08.000 You are sacrificing for the good of all.
00:05:11.000 You want to know why collectivism is something that I almost immediately want to reject?
00:05:17.000 This is why.
00:05:18.000 Because while I do believe in the spirit of trying to do what is good for your fellow countrymen, if you want to see what actually brings out my inner libertarian, which has ever been kind of extinguished in recent years because of just some of the insanity rooted in some libertarian ideology, but if you want to know me at my most libertarian, it's when I start to hear from tyrants about the collective good.
00:05:41.000 I'm like, get me my don't tread on me flag because that guy shouldn't be saying that.
00:05:46.000 It is the abuse of the frame of the framing of what is good for all, play cut 76.
00:05:52.000 And for the rest of your lives, you will remember this time of pandemic as a time where, yes, we gathered with families, but also where you learned that what you do as an individual matters to the entire community, the entire world.
00:06:15.000 Every time you washed your hands, every time you wore a mask, every time you stayed safe and stayed home, you were making things better for your neighbors.
00:06:28.000 You were sacrificing for the good of all.
00:06:31.000 Now, you have to understand the moral framing that he's trying to put there.
00:06:34.000 You see, the heroic thing is to stay home.
00:06:36.000 The heroic thing is not to be courageous.
00:06:38.000 I'm sorry, what?
00:06:40.000 The courageous thing is to not be courageous.
00:06:42.000 Really?
00:06:42.000 That's interesting.
00:06:43.000 That's so incredibly Orwellian.
00:06:46.000 In order to be courageous, you must be fearful.
00:06:49.000 Oh, so the courageous thing is to actually be afraid.
00:06:52.000 That makes a lot of sense.
00:06:55.000 Next question here: hey, Charlie, I can't keep on watching Joe Biden.
00:06:58.000 It just nauseates me.
00:07:00.000 What was his opinion?
00:07:01.000 What is his opinion on Title 42?
00:07:04.000 And what do you think he will do?
00:07:05.000 Thanks so much.
00:07:06.000 Eric from Cordelaine, Idaho.
00:07:09.000 Love Cordeline, Idaho.
00:07:10.000 The wonderful pastor Paul Van Noy is from Cordeline, Idaho, Candlelight Christian Fellowship.
00:07:15.000 So there's a lot of Democrat pushback on Title 42.
00:07:19.000 Joe Biden was asked about Title 42, so then he just started talking about mask mandates, play cut 67.
00:07:26.000 I'm Title 42, sir.
00:07:28.000 Are you considering delaying lifting Title 42?
00:07:31.000 No, what I'm considering is continuing to hear from my first of all, there's going to be an appeal by the Justice Department because as a matter of principle, we want to be able to be in a position where if in fact it is strongly concluded by the scientists that we need Title 42, that we'd be able to do that.
00:07:54.000 But there has been no decision on extending Title 42.
00:07:59.000 To kind of piggyback on what Joe Biden just said, first of all, Joe Biden didn't answer the question.
00:08:02.000 He just all of a sudden started talking about a Department of Justice appeal on airplane mask mandates.
00:08:07.000 This is going to be a difficult one for the regime.
00:08:11.000 The regime is going to struggle as to what to do when it comes to these Title 42.
00:08:17.000 So Title 42 is obviously a loophole, and we need to institute it.
00:08:20.000 We should use unapologetically used COVID-type policies that have been instituted to protect our country from foreign invasion. 0.89
00:08:30.000 Don't overcomplicate it.
00:08:31.000 We're being invaded.
00:08:33.000 D-Day was 158,000 people.
00:08:35.000 We have well over 200,000 people invading our country every single month. 0.69
00:08:39.000 Foreigners that are lawbreakers, rule breakers, and criminals. 1.00
00:08:43.000 You know, someone asked me the other day, they said, Charlie, where is your compassion for the illegal? 0.99
00:08:48.000 I said, I lose my compassion once you're a criminal.
00:08:51.000 Like, go back to your country, and then I can have compassion for you. 0.97
00:08:54.000 Like, don't break into my home and ask me to serve you a meal.
00:08:58.000 Breaking into a country is a crime.
00:09:02.000 I wish the best for you in your home country of Nicaragua.
00:09:07.000 It is fake compassion.
00:09:09.000 It is false compassion to act as if everyone has a moral right to be able to go to whatever country they want whenever they want.
00:09:18.000 In fact, it is breaking and entering.
00:09:20.000 It's trespassing.
00:09:22.000 It is border jumping.
00:09:23.000 Instead, the proper response is to act justly, which would be deportation.
00:09:30.000 It would be happy to pay a nonstop ticket back to Honduras.
00:09:36.000 But I'm not going to deteriorate the rule of law and dilute what it means to be an American just because you think you have a right to be here.
00:09:45.000 And you don't.
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00:11:44.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.
00:11:47.000 Hello, Charlie.
00:11:48.000 I read in Hegel's Philosophy of the Mind that he advocated for monarchy.
00:11:52.000 I get that Hegel's dialectic is the operating system of the new left, according to James Lindsay.
00:11:57.000 That is correct.
00:11:59.000 They like that, like conflict, revolution, negative thinking.
00:12:01.000 Maybe this explains the direction the revolution goes towards, a big government or monarchy.
00:12:07.000 It's a very insightful question.
00:12:09.000 That's Louis S. from Brooklyn.
00:12:10.000 Let me tell you why that's such an insightful question.
00:12:12.000 Well, first, we must talk about George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
00:12:16.000 George WFH would be the acronym.
00:12:19.000 Hegel is the backbone of the American left. 0.83
00:12:22.000 He's a historicist.
00:12:24.000 You believe in the unfolding of history through a combination of events towards an eventual utopia.
00:12:29.000 It's taken Christian eschatological thinking and applying it to materialistic progressive political philosophy.
00:12:36.000 And George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the German historicist, heavily influenced Karl Marx and also Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as Heidegger and more.
00:12:47.000 Now, the importance of Hegelian thinking is widespread.
00:12:52.000 We don't have to spend too much time on that.
00:12:54.000 But Hegel did argue for an eventual monarchy, but he's not alone.
00:12:58.000 If you go all the way back 2,500 years prior, Plato argued for a separate type of monarchy.
00:13:04.000 In fact, he argued for a type of ruler.
00:13:06.000 The ideal ruler that Plato said would be a philosopher king, someone who is wise and steeped in the classic, but have all power, that the people in charge should be the ones that know best for us.
00:13:18.000 Now, this was an ideal that Plato put forward, and I am not going to criticize Plato, although I do disagree with some of the stuff that he would say, because Plato basically invented philosophy as we know it.
00:13:30.000 Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, Aristotle taught Alexander the Great, and with it the canon of the Western philosophical tradition in some ways was given a start.
00:13:41.000 I would say the Bible is the foundation, and the Greek classics is a good addition to that.
00:13:46.000 Plato talked about many different things, talked about love, talked about romance, talked about justice a lot.
00:13:51.000 But Plato, in particular, would talk about government in particular, Plato's Republic.
00:13:57.000 And so there has been this repetitive theme, whether it be Hegel or Plato, of a small group of people that have absolute power, that are able to do what they want when they want to do it.
00:14:09.000 Now, Plato, you have to understand, was only doing this because he thought democracy was unsustainable.
00:14:15.000 Plato was actually a critic of democracy, the demos, the many, the rule of the many.
00:14:19.000 He saw it go wrong many times in Athens, and he said, eventually people are just going to vote themselves stuff.
00:14:24.000 And so he kind of played through, and it would be illogical, you know, unless you know better, which is if you have a bunch of smart people and they're really wise, why wouldn't we give them all power?
00:14:34.000 Because they would actually make the best decisions because they know what is good, beautiful, and true.
00:14:40.000 But of course, that runs contradictory to someone who came much later, Sir Lord Acton, who has a one-liner that all of you know.
00:14:47.000 You just might not know it came from Lord Acton, that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
00:14:51.000 We know that.
00:14:52.000 And so this idea of a philosopher-king or a monarchy is actually the direction that they want to bring us to right now.
00:14:58.000 Now, a monarchy is a good filler term.
00:15:01.000 I prefer oligarchy. 0.74
00:15:03.000 An oligarchy is much more kind of, I think, a much more accurate description of where we are headed and actually where we are in our country, where we are ruled by an incestuous, unelected corporate and political elite that want to be able to call balls and strikes against everything that we do.
00:15:23.000 And one of those people, kind of the oligarch-in-chief, because we could use commander-in-chief, but I prefer oligarch-in-chief, is Barack Hussein Obama.
00:15:32.000 It's Barack Obama himself, play cut 91.
00:15:36.000 The way I'm going to evaluate any proposal touching on social media and the internet is whether it strengthens or weakens the prospects for a healthy, inclusive democracy.
00:15:51.000 Whether it encourages robust debate and respect for our differences.
00:15:56.000 I am going to evaluate any proposal.
00:15:59.000 Barack Obama is the perfect example of what the left wants to create, a Philosopher King.
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00:16:56.000 Obama was speaking at the Obama Foundation.
00:16:58.000 I think he was speaking at Stanford, if I'm not mistaken, or somewhere in Silicon Valley.
00:17:02.000 Again, kind of the masters of the universe, Philosopher King.
00:17:05.000 But it definitely is in that kind of mold of the monarchy, the oligarchy, the person on Trump, the person in the clouds that can tell you what to do.
00:17:12.000 And of course, that is idealistically fine.
00:17:16.000 However, we all know now, obviously, if you have the power consolidated to one person, then inherently you're not going to have the check in the balance, and that power will be abused.
00:17:25.000 It will be corrupt.
00:17:26.000 And so the more transparent, more decentralized that you're able to have a government, the better.
00:17:31.000 However, of course, we're not the first ones to kind of struggle with this idea of how centralized should it be.
00:17:36.000 Of course, the founders struggled with that, right?
00:17:38.000 Jefferson was for a heavily decentralized government.
00:17:42.000 This whole fight of the national bank was one of the first big fights for the American founders.
00:17:46.000 And if you're just going to have a bunch of states, that's a confederacy. 0.95
00:17:49.000 That's not as much of a union.
00:17:52.000 And we had the Articles of Confederation, and we couldn't have a unified currency.
00:17:55.000 We weren't able to put down rebellions.
00:17:57.000 So there was this idea that a national identity needed to be formed.
00:18:00.000 It needed to be cemented.
00:18:02.000 And so Obama wants to be and thinks he is kind of the guy that gets to approve.
00:18:07.000 I just want to reread the quote we played previously.
00:18:10.000 I'm going to evaluate any proposal.
00:18:12.000 Like, what are you?
00:18:13.000 Like the school principal of the entire country?
00:18:18.000 I'm going to evaluate any proposal like that we need the thumbs up from Barack Obama.
00:18:25.000 Well, maybe we do.
00:18:28.000 Maybe Obama is kind of the final sign-off for tech companies.
00:18:33.000 Maybe Obama does have a lot more power than we realize.
00:18:37.000 Cut 92: Obama says that Putin and Steve Bannon, so he compares those two together.
00:18:45.000 Necessary, in order for people not to believe in democracy, you need disinformation.
00:18:49.000 You could hear it for yourself.
00:18:50.000 Play Cut 92.
00:18:51.000 People like Putin.
00:18:54.000 And Steve Bannon, for that matter.
00:18:58.000 Understand, it's not necessary for people to believe this information in order to weaken democratic institutions.
00:19:08.000 You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage.
00:19:14.000 You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt.
00:19:18.000 So Obama is now trying to compare Bannon to Putin.
00:19:24.000 I'm not surprised by him trying to do that. 0.84
00:19:27.000 How dishonest and deceitful and fallacious that is.
00:19:32.000 Cut 93, Barack Obama continues by saying, Despite the fact that we now have essentially clinically tested vaccine on billions of people, around one in five Americans are still going to put themselves at risk rather than getting vaccinated.
00:19:44.000 Let me ask you, Barack Hussein Obama: did the vaccine prevent you from getting COVID?
00:19:49.000 Because if my memory serves me correctly, you've recently got COVID.
00:19:53.000 So what about the vaccine prevented you from getting infected?
00:19:56.000 Or is it a treatment?
00:19:59.000 And if it's a treatment, then can we compare that treatment with other treatments?
00:20:04.000 Play cut 93.
00:20:05.000 And yet, despite the fact that we've now essentially clinically tested the vaccine on billions of people worldwide, around one in five Americans is still willing to put themselves at risk and put their families at risk rather than get vaccinated.
00:20:23.000 People are dying because of misinformation.
00:20:26.000 People are dying because of misinformation.
00:20:28.000 Well, I agree.
00:20:29.000 People are dying from the misinformation of CNN and others.
00:20:33.000 It's so funny when I'm listening to his tape.
00:20:35.000 His pauses are so incredibly long.
00:20:37.000 I can't tell when he's done.
00:20:39.000 Three to four second pauses.
00:20:41.000 I do not miss him being president.
00:20:44.000 He's just as bad as Biden.
00:20:47.000 They both have been bad in their own unique way.
00:20:51.000 But Obama's kind of giving this speech, former president, like he's in charge.
00:20:56.000 And in some ways, he thinks he is, because that is the idea of the philosopher king.
00:21:04.000 I went to Harvard.
00:21:06.000 I was a president.
00:21:07.000 I'm now in the clouds looking down upon you.
00:21:10.000 I don't approve that on social media.
00:21:12.000 I don't approve that.
00:21:14.000 I don't approve that.
00:21:15.000 You don't like that.
00:21:16.000 That's disinformation.
00:21:18.000 Rather than trusting people to be able to have informed discourse and dialogue and make decisions that are best for them.
00:21:25.000 Okay, let's get to some more questions here.
00:21:28.000 Let's get to this one.
00:21:29.000 Mr. Kirk, everyone says that liberals are allowing an open and porous border.
00:21:34.000 Everyone believes it's for the votes coming over.
00:21:35.000 Shallow thinking.
00:21:37.000 It's for the votes of all the children that are going to come on U.S. soil, making them automatic citizens.
00:21:43.000 That's the goal.
00:21:44.000 Repeal or revise the 14th Amendment is written.
00:21:46.000 It has served its purpose.
00:21:48.000 Well, that's not totally right because the kids won't become automatic citizens, but they might have children.
00:21:54.000 If they have children, they become automatic citizens because of birthright citizenship.
00:21:58.000 Birthright citizenship is a ridiculous measure. 0.91
00:22:01.000 It shouldn't exist. 0.96
00:22:02.000 It encourages more people to come into the country illegally. 0.97
00:22:07.000 France did away with birthright citizenship in 1993.
00:22:11.000 The law limited citizenship to those born to a French parent.
00:22:14.000 Other countries, including New Zealand and Australia, have abolished birthright citizenship.
00:22:20.000 Ireland was the last of the European countries to abolish birthright citizenship in 2005.
00:22:26.000 But I've said this before.
00:22:27.000 It's not just about the people themselves and what they'll do.
00:22:31.000 It's counting them in the census.
00:22:33.000 Increasing illegals in a census, because since we count foreigners in our census, will increase the population tabulation that heavily benefits the Democrat Party. 0.53
00:22:45.000 So it's not just the votes themselves or the voters themselves or the potential voters, but it's also the census that gets done every 10 years that will tabulate the population in the favor of heavily run Democrat states in areas like New York and California.
00:23:03.000 Now, what's happening on the southern border is an invasion.
00:23:06.000 Meanwhile, our government is too focused sending money on Ukraine to Ukraine.
00:23:12.000 Quote, Biden says the United States will send $1.3 billion in additional military and economic support to Ukraine.
00:23:18.000 Meanwhile, Biden asked Congress for 9,000 fewer immigration detention beds.
00:23:24.000 So we spend $1.3 billion to Ukraine, that is Thursday, and the administration plans to seek funding for 25,000 beds down from 34,000 beds that are currently funded.
00:23:34.000 It has also severed a contract with the detention facility in Alabama.
00:23:38.000 Now, why wouldn't they want beds? 0.78
00:23:40.000 Now, mind you, I'm not a big fan of the detention thing.
00:23:42.000 I think we should just deport people immediately because they don't want to detain them, which is in some ways a holding pattern for potential deportation.
00:23:50.000 Biden wants to cut the amount of beds coming across the southern border because he just wants to release them into the interior of the United States.
00:23:58.000 If they are in a quote-unquote bed, which is a filler term, but it literally is a bed, but means that they're not in the interior yet.
00:24:04.000 They're in kind of a holding cell, then there's a chance they might be deported.
00:24:10.000 Biden wants them released into the interior of the United States so they become reliable Democrat voters, shaking in fear that they'll be deported one day.
00:24:17.000 They're criminals.
00:24:18.000 They shouldn't be here in the first place. 1.00
00:24:19.000 They should have been deported.
00:24:20.000 However, because of our overindulgence in the tyranny of tolerance, we believe that criminals should somehow be given a priority.
00:24:29.000 Let's get to some sound about the border here.
00:24:32.000 We have right here.
00:24:35.000 Cut 17, Bill Melusian reporting on how 23 terrorists are caught at the southern border.
00:24:39.000 Play Cut 17.
00:24:40.000 According to a CBP record I obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, there were at least 23 known or suspected terrorists caught here at our southern border in 2021.
00:24:52.000 So again, this is the FBI's terrorist screening center who puts together this database.
00:24:56.000 And keep in mind, these are only the ones they know about, only the ones they caught.
00:25:01.000 Terrorists coming across the southern border and no one stopping them.
00:25:08.000 Okay, let's get to the next question here.
00:25:11.000 Let's go to this one.
00:25:14.000 Charlie, when are citizens going to realize that the government is not working for them?
00:25:18.000 So at the border, what should we as citizens do when the federal government is failing the system?
00:25:22.000 Carol.
00:25:23.000 Well, I've called for quite some time that the states need to organize a citizen force and to use police officers, use National Guard, use Texas Rangers or Arizona Rangers and start their own border patrol.
00:25:35.000 We could do this if we wanted to.
00:25:37.000 We can police borders.
00:25:38.000 We police borders all the time.
00:25:40.000 We've made a decision that our border is not worthy of policing.
00:25:44.000 We've made a decision that the potential benefits from open borders is better than the negatives.
00:25:50.000 The benefits, I guess, are cheap labor, which is insane.
00:25:54.000 I don't think there's any benefits, let me be perfectly honest, with unlimited legal and illegal immigration.
00:26:00.000 But that's basically the consensus of the kind of cartel ruling class.
00:26:04.000 And so we could do it.
00:26:05.000 It's just a matter of the will.
00:26:07.000 We don't want to do it.
00:26:08.000 I always laugh when people say, well, Charlie, the southern border is very, very difficult to secure.
00:26:13.000 Now, the only argument that I'm sympathetic to is the Native American reservations, which I just think we should just tell them, tough luck, we're going through it. 1.00
00:26:19.000 What are you going to do about it?
00:26:21.000 Or the private property, which, again, eminent domain, we could figure it out.
00:26:25.000 I get those arguments.
00:26:26.000 I think that's workable.
00:26:27.000 But when they say, well, Charlie, there's lots of rivers and it's difficult terrain.
00:26:31.000 I said, what do you think this is?
00:26:33.000 Like 1,300?
00:26:34.000 We have drone reconnaissance, AI technology.
00:26:37.000 I'm able to track mules when they illegally drop off ballots at ballot boxes.
00:26:41.000 You're trying to tell me that we can't have a militarized border like Israel has? 0.98
00:26:46.000 Israel's able to control their border and we can't. 0.99
00:26:50.000 There's the Washington Examiner has come out with a story.
00:26:53.000 Republican governors form 26 state border task force amid worsening crisis.
00:26:59.000 Right, that's what we need.
00:27:00.000 We need another task force.
00:27:01.000 We need another committee.
00:27:02.000 Let's just have a bunch of people sit around and do nothing.
00:27:05.000 Asa Hutchinson is part of this task force.
00:27:08.000 There's some good governors part of it, obviously.
00:27:11.000 The states are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas.
00:27:14.000 DeSantis is part of it, but it's a committee, so you probably won't be able to get much done.
00:27:19.000 Ohio, DeWine, who's just been terrible.
00:27:22.000 Virginia, good for Yunkin. 1.00
00:27:23.000 I think he's been okay.
00:27:25.000 The jury's still out on some of the stuff he's doing.
00:27:27.000 Georgia, Brian Kemp.
00:27:29.000 They said, look, we're going to work as a force multiplier in the fight against criminal activity directly tied to the border.
00:27:34.000 That just sounds like typical corporate nonsense.
00:27:39.000 Here's a good rule for life, okay?
00:27:41.000 When you see a committee formed, don't expect anything profound to come out of it.
00:27:46.000 It's just a generally good rule for life.
00:27:48.000 If you just see a group of people sitting around, it's generally not going to produce something quick or meaningful or impactful.
00:27:58.000 Instead, you can know this from a business, a small tactile group of people, such as a governor or a mayor or just two or three people alongside of it that are empowered to make decisions unilaterally, that tends to be rather effective.
00:28:13.000 But this idea that a 26-border committee is somehow going to be some sort of defining thing, not buying it.
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00:29:42.000 Okay, let's get to some questions here as we close out the very eventful week that we've had.
00:29:49.000 Charlie, how and where do you get all this energy to travel all over the place and do these events at the same time be married and tend to your marriage and have time to do Hillsdale courses?
00:29:56.000 I'm just ashamed of myself and my time management.
00:29:59.000 Thanks so much, Shaibu.
00:30:01.000 So, look, we do a lot.
00:30:03.000 We don't rest a lot.
00:30:06.000 But, yeah, we do three hours of radio a day, which translates to three podcasts a day.
00:30:10.000 We do one on Saturday, one on Sunday.
00:30:12.000 Just this week, I had an event every single night except Monday, crisscrossing the country, not to mention the work we do at Turning Point USA in running that and managing that.
00:30:22.000 We have a great operational team, thankfully, that we've been able to put there, but also raising the money for Turning Point and our 250-plus full-time employees.
00:30:31.000 So, look, I don't sit still well.
00:30:34.000 There's work to do.
00:30:35.000 I mean, you've got to make a decision in your life.
00:30:36.000 Are you just going to kind of sit around and hope things get better?
00:30:40.000 Are you going to start to do things?
00:30:41.000 And you will live a much more meaningful life if you act.
00:30:47.000 You'll live a much more meaningful life if you figure out the teleological reason for existence, which is just a really fancy, unnecessarily academic way of saying the purpose.
00:30:57.000 What is your purpose?
00:30:58.000 And so, we've definitely found ours.
00:31:00.000 And it's a grind sometimes.
00:31:02.000 Travel the country, you're in new places every single day.
00:31:06.000 We're doing one event tonight, and then we got the two tomorrow.
00:31:09.000 And next week, we'll be in Fresno.
00:31:11.000 And we have not, we only missed, and it was mainly because of a tech hiccup, one hour of radio this week.
00:31:17.000 So, we were on the entire week.
00:31:19.000 We also did the event with the great Candace Owens, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
00:31:24.000 And that's coming off of last week where we did Berkeley, Boulder, and Fullerton in a 72-hour window and only missed one day of radio last week.
00:31:33.000 So, you guys help make all that possible when you get behind our program and you help Turning Point USA, and you help us.
00:31:39.000 You subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
00:31:41.000 Look, we're a podcast of action.
00:31:43.000 And there's very, and we're a radio program of action.
00:31:45.000 There's very few that are like that, where there's plenty of people that talk and they do their thing.
00:31:50.000 We do that.
00:31:51.000 But as soon as this show ends every single day, and you guys hear our commentary and you hear our insight and you hear our predictions and you hear our feedback, then we actually go to work to fix the things that we talk about here on this program.
00:32:03.000 And that's what makes us different.
00:32:04.000 So where do I find the energy?
00:32:06.000 I don't drink alcohol, which actually I really recommend.
00:32:10.000 You'll be a happier person and it actually allows you just to get more done.
00:32:15.000 I'm very careful what I eat, work out, and also just when you have purpose, energy just kind of comes to you.
00:32:21.000 But I get tired like other people.
00:32:22.000 I'll be taking a couple of days off in a couple of weeks.
00:32:24.000 And so the great producer Andrew will tell you all about Relief Factor and we'll be hosting for an entire week.
00:32:30.000 So I do need a couple days here and there just to kind of recalibrate.
00:32:34.000 But we push ourselves.
00:32:36.000 The human species is capable of a lot more than I think we give credit for.
00:32:41.000 I think you're a lot tougher than you think.
00:32:44.000 And, you know, you see these people that do these superhuman, super marathons.
00:32:48.000 You know, you can really dig deep.
00:32:50.000 The human body is adaptable.
00:32:52.000 It's one of the great things that God gave us in his design is our ability to adapt to our circumstances, to our environment, to adapt to pressures, to adapt to adversity, to adapt to difficulty.
00:33:07.000 And we see that in just a common sense view of look at people that work out.
00:33:12.000 And by definition, your body will adapt to be able to lift more weights.
00:33:16.000 And if you're sitting around all the time, your body will adapt to just being used to sitting around.
00:33:21.000 So your body becomes what you do.
00:33:24.000 And what you do is correlated with who you are and what you believe and what is your will.
00:33:32.000 And we say a lot that you dream, believe, work, achieve, or conceive, believe, work, achieve.
00:33:36.000 We believe very firmly in that here on this program and at Turning Point USA.
00:33:39.000 And I do Hillsdale courses.
00:33:42.000 I'm going to finish my 15th.
00:33:43.000 I'm taking the class.
00:33:47.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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