Ask Charlie Anything 107 with Special Guest Kyle Rittenhouse: Kyle Breaks Some BIG News? Guns at 21-Years-Old? What Happened to Paul Ryan? Should Christians Watch Ozark?
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00:02:15.000So you sent out a tweet the other day that I thought was really important, which is, you know, without the Second Amendment, I wouldn't be alive.
00:02:53.000So are you able to talk a little bit about the lawsuit stuff?
00:02:57.000Well, what I will say is that we hired Todd McMurtry, Nick Sandman's attorney, to help with these lawsuits and that we're going to be taking on some cases really soon.
00:03:10.000You know, I'm just saying, but new report out, Kyle.
00:06:56.000And they have, as I mentioned, they have the Corps Cadets there.
00:06:58.000So yeah, I just, I think it's really important that we kind of remember how intense the trial was and kind of how all that was and what you've been through.
00:07:06.000And kind of as we're debating guns and all of that, it's without your ability to defend yourself, you know, you wouldn't be going to Texas AM.
00:07:14.000You'd be going somewhere else, unfortunately.
00:07:17.000And so, yeah, I just think it's really important that we remember that and we ponder that.
00:07:22.000And, you know, we look at this kind of whole nationwide debate right now around firearms and around guns.
00:07:29.000I just think we have to remember that, you know, there's evil in this world.
00:08:45.000What's the thing that you've learned that, like the thing that just stands out that you learned just about navigation, aviation?
00:08:52.000The thing I've learned about aviation actually is not to panic if you do something wrong, to always fly the aircraft.
00:09:00.000Just fly the plane and do that first before you do the next thing and just take a deep breath and something goes wrong.
00:09:08.000So we were doing a stall training and I pulled the yoke up way too back and I didn't have the ball centered and we started to go into a spin and that was a little scary, but thankfully you had an instructor to kind of yeah.
00:09:21.000And I learned you use rudder, like opposite of the spin and then throttle and how that stall and spin.
00:10:02.000It's just the best thing in the entire planet.
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00:13:48.000But no, Kyle, I think that I speak for a lot of our audience that, you know, people really feel like they got to know you throughout the last year.
00:13:56.000And people kind of saw in you a lot of their kids, their grandkids, and themselves of just kind of the falsely accused and an unbelievably aggressive prosecution, right?
00:14:08.000Like where the government has incredible power.
00:14:11.000And your case was kind of a guilty until proven innocent case.
00:14:16.000You almost had to prove your innocence.
00:14:48.000They're both just absolutely terrible.
00:14:50.000And so this is interesting because we're kind of living through this moment where we're not really appreciating kind of the presumption of innocence and due process and kind of the ability to be able to defend oneself.
00:15:04.000And you were able to kind of push back against a hyper-aggressive government that wanted you in prison badly to try to score cheap political points regardless of the consequences.
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00:17:36.000You mentioned liking the Netflix series Ozark several podcasts ago, and if I'm not mistaken, it was just a side-on to all that would happen in Netflix diminishing ratings as of late.
00:17:44.000I decided to check it out, and I enjoy new dramas and thrills to an extent.
00:17:49.000I am only a few episodes into season one, and while I actually enjoy the storyline and plot, it does seem to contain, hold on one second, contain all the modern-day adult content, language, sex, nudity, violence, et cetera, that most drama series do.
00:18:02.000After mulling it over, I want to ask your opinion on Christians watching such content.
00:18:06.000This is really not about Ozark specifically, but Ozark did ignite a spark of all movies and shows that provide such content.
00:18:12.000Please do not misunderstand my question as stemming from judgment from a place of genuine sincerity.
00:18:46.000So I'll take kind of the Ozark question in particular.
00:18:50.000And look, this is a struggle that I have, and I think a lot of other people have, which is kind of where do you draw the line between the content that you consume when it might be filled with all this other bad language and potentially sexually explicit scenes and also trying to find some form of entertainment or appreciation of art.
00:19:12.000And it's a kind of a constant struggle.
00:19:13.000So I've developed a couple rules for myself, which is I don't watch it alone.
00:19:34.000But the first and second and third season of Ozark, I think, is some of the best written television that I have seen outside of the smuttiness and the gross, awful nature of some of the content.
00:19:44.000But the actual storyline of what will you do with your family?
00:19:48.000How far can you descend into darkness?
00:19:50.000You stop yourself on the moral continuum is legitimately very, very well-written art and very real moral situations that I think people find themselves in on a daily basis.
00:20:00.000And so, the question is: kind of where do you strike that balance?
00:20:02.000You have to pray for wisdom and prudence.
00:20:04.000And so, when I watch Ozark, I'm not like super excited that they're swearing every other word.
00:20:08.000I mean, Ruth Langmore in the series, you literally can't see a scene where she's not saying, AF this and F that.
00:20:14.000Like, she just gets to be almost overkill.
00:20:16.000In fact, it got to this, got to the point that actually in the last season, I said, Did she say anything else besides a swear word to just open up every single sentence?
00:20:23.000It just kind of became this running joke and almost became unenjoyable to watch.
00:20:28.000But I think, I suppose, a better kind of example of kind of where do you draw the line is kind of like a series such as Breaking Bad.
00:20:35.000I think Breaking Bad has some very strong kind of some very strong arguments that could be made within the series that question kind of how does one breaking bad and Ozark are similar in the sense.
00:20:48.000How does one control, if at all, the descent into darkness?
00:21:08.000And the question is, does the art potentially justify enduring the smut?
00:21:13.000That's the question you have to ask, which is, does the, and what is art, right?
00:21:17.000The art is the portrayal of what is good, true, or beautiful in a way that can communicate it and hopefully develop your soul and create a better person.
00:21:25.000And so, in the case of either Breaking Bad or Ozark or House of Cards, where they have these kind of violent scenes and the stuff that could be rather unenjoyable, I'm not saying that you should support it, but there can be an argument, at least in my personal life, where I don't support it.
00:21:39.000I might fast-forward through certain scenes of it, I might skip ahead, but there is some beautiful, I think, writing happening that can portray a broader kind of moral paradigm, right?
00:21:53.000And here's the problem: most Christian films and most Christian content that is Christian explicit, their writing is awful and their production value is terrible.
00:22:03.000Now, the chosen, I actually think, is an exception to that.
00:22:06.000But I even get hate mail when I plug the chosen because people say, Charlie, it's extra biblical and it's inferring things that Jesus said.
00:22:13.000Again, I have kind of a mixed opinion.
00:22:17.000But I think for parents out there, you're probably going through the very same struggle that I go through because I try to police what I consume.
00:22:22.000I think you become what you consume from music to the things you look at to the television shows.
00:22:30.000Breaking Bad to House of Cards to Ozark, which are three shows that I'm very familiar with and that I think have some, let's just say, some lessons that could be learned from a house of cards to a lesser extent.
00:22:44.000That's kind of just drivel post-season one.
00:22:46.000You have to look at it first and from an adult context and you ask yourself, what is the goal?
00:22:51.000Being entertained is part of the goal.
00:22:52.000But if you feel as if it pushes yourself to boundaries where you ask yourself the question, what would I do in a situation like this?
00:22:59.000I mean, look, part of the attraction of the writing in the film, in the movie, the TV series Ozark, until it kind of went off the reservation when it went kind of in just this incredibly morally confusing bend towards the end, the worst ending of a television show I've ever seen, period, made Game of Thrones ending look good, which is this question of you could see an aspirational kind of suburban money manager like Marty Bird making this kind of sequence of choices.
00:23:26.000Oh, yeah, I just want to make a little money.
00:23:28.000The next thing you know, you're laundering money for the Mexican drug cartel.
00:23:32.000And all of a sudden, it's kind of the small sins become the big sins.
00:23:35.000Now, for some of you, say, Charlie, I don't need to listen to a bunch of people swearing or look at scenes of Strippers to get that lesson.
00:23:43.000However, All of that aside, and you kind of all of that put kind of in its own category on its own shelving.
00:23:52.000I think it's one of the most compelling pieces of drama and art that really challenge the viewer to be like, Hey, you better be very careful because you all of a sudden might be end up in a place that you might not recognize or realize.
00:24:04.000So, anyway, all that aside, I think you have to, um, I think you have to have your own standards, you have to understand what is the intent of consuming that art.
00:24:16.000I'm not going to defend the content, I'll say, but I will kind of challenge you to say that finding things that are telling stories that might improve your own character or challenge you or written creatively, I think is something that, done in the proper context, can be helpful.
00:24:32.000And look, you're fooling yourself if you are saying you could totally shield yourself from every swear word or every piece of nonsense in the world.
00:24:40.000With that being said, you shouldn't have the intent, the heart to try to overexpose yourself in those things, find enjoyment in them instead, see if there's a bigger picture you could take away from there.
00:25:18.000I think we should impeach Merrick Garland and impeach that guy that runs the Department of Education for a breach of duty and pushing back against basically what they were sworn to protect and preserve.
00:25:29.000I think that's a much better use of time.
00:25:32.000And thank you, Hannah, for your question.
00:26:02.000I actually think 18-year-olds should be able to vote because I think these all look, and so this is a very interesting argument.
00:26:07.000And I don't quite know how I feel about it, but to be philosophically consistent, it's difficult, which I do think that it's interesting, which is the drinking age, right?
00:26:18.000So, you can serve in the military, you could buy a firearm, you could vote.
00:26:22.000So, basically, and also the other reason around 18, just so we're very clear, and some people say it's arbitrary, but you have to pick a date, you have to pick a time.
00:26:32.000When you are 18, you can no longer be charged as a minor.
00:26:35.000Juvenile courts end you become an adult.
00:26:39.000From my very basic understanding of the law, when you're 18, you can emancipate yourself from your parents.
00:26:45.000You are no longer under guardianship or parental control when you become 18.
00:26:53.000And so, with all that being said, if we want to now define what an adult is and go to 21, then you have to also change voting alongside of it, which they're not going to do.
00:27:02.000You have to change firearm around, and then you also have to change military service.
00:27:08.000And that's not going to happen because the steady flow of recruitment into the United States military are largely 18-year-olds predominantly that want to kind of break out of their family or their community and want to do something right in their 18.
00:27:20.000Like they're 18, they feel like they want to get their life back on track in the military, and they want to serve their country.
00:27:25.000Obviously, it's not negative in any way, but that I think would heavily impact military recruitment if all of a sudden you said you're 20, you're not, you can only serve when you're 21.
00:27:35.000So the question is, if you think you're, if you are willing to send somebody to Ukraine or Iraq or Afghanistan to defend your freedoms, shouldn't they also be able to own a gun here domestically and to vote?
00:27:45.000The question is, when does someone become an adult?
00:27:47.000If we want to broaden that and we say, hey, if someone does not become an adult till they're 25, then you must fix all the other correlated issues alongside of it.
00:27:54.000You cannot have those kind of inherent contradictions.
00:28:02.000Did you know that federally funded TSA has a gun safety carry-on, gun safety carry-on plane program that major airline pilots can sign up for and then conceal carry onto their flights?
00:28:12.000Any pilot, preferably former military, they must prefer former military, can sign up and get training necessary to carry and thus further protected their passengers.
00:28:21.000Interesting that teachers aren't offered the same opportunity by the same governments.
00:28:46.000It's such a beautiful point, which is all of these left-wing teachers that we bash on this program, the kind of trans people, like, I don't know if you should have a firearm in your class.
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00:31:43.000Rob from Huntsville, what is the most compelling argument for having Trump be the 2024 Republican candidate?
00:31:48.000I hear so many people talking about DeSantis, but I still think Trump is who I trust to lead conservatives.
00:31:52.000We took the poll, Trump versus DeSantis, here, and Trump did win.
00:31:55.000I would say he won probably 60% of the vote.
00:31:57.000We tapped, we did a, I mean, it was thousands and thousands and thousands, so we did a little bit of a spot test, and it was uh, it was Trump, 60%.
00:32:05.000And so, what is one of the arguments that I think we have to talk about, though, is you know, Paul Ryan is out here admonishing people.
00:33:18.000He's a person who is in a very good spot to make a big difference for South Carolinians.
00:33:22.000He's a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee.
00:33:24.000He's going to have a huge impact when we get the majority.
00:33:27.000So I just encourage everybody to support a hardworking, principled conservative, Tom Rice, the man that I know in Congress who thinks every day, what can I do to solve my constituents' problems?
00:33:56.000And I still, I hear his voice, and I actually can feel almost the kind of neuroplasticity in my brain because I was programmed to like him so much.
00:34:06.000Like, yes, we're going to outwonk the left.
00:35:35.000I love Bill O'Reilly, but it's a separate philosophical approach to politics where Tucker Carlson is now the spokesperson and the leader on it.
00:35:42.000So, what exists now is real infrastructure, a real way to hold people accountable.
00:35:47.000And there is no constituency for Paul Ryan.
00:35:50.000There is not a constituency for Mitt Romney, who, of course, they ran together.
00:35:57.000I was so naive to believe we could take back America through major policy debates on the equilibrium of trade policy and Medicare and Social Security.