The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 117: Are Kids Not Bored Enough? RNC Sabotaging America First Candidates? NYC Closes 9-11 Memorial?

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00:00:45.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:27.000 I just want to start by thanking all of you.

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00:02:18.000 Okay, I want to get to some questions here.

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00:02:21.000 Charlie, we know that historically, all representative societies and governments have eventually fallen.

00:02:27.000 Do you know of any historical examples of societies moving back towards freedom after taking a slide towards totalitarianism like our country has without a major revolution or conflict?

00:02:40.000 I agree with the plans you lay forward on taking back our country. 0.75

00:02:44.000 But in doing so, are we in uncharted territory historically?

00:02:49.000 I think we all want to see our society move back towards freedom without it falling apart completely.

00:02:53.000 Thank you for all you do.

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00:02:55.000 I'm a subscriber, Gene from Tennessee.

00:02:59.000 So this is a great question.

00:03:00.000 I actually address this question at great length in my book, The MAGA Doctrine.

00:03:05.000 One of the things that I talk about in the MAGA doctrine is that there is the cycle of civilizations where, of course, there's a kind of a time where you are trying to form your identity.

00:03:17.000 You're in the wild.

00:03:18.000 Then you start to collect combined power.

00:03:22.000 You start to choose what kind of government you want.

00:03:24.000 If it's representative, it usually slips into a democracy.

00:03:27.000 And democracy is largely unsustainable without a check in a balance or a Republican small R republic as a basis of it. 0.92

00:03:36.000 And it drives the media nuts when you say democracy is unsustainable, but it is because you're just going to have people continually vote themselves stuff and vote other people's rights away.

00:03:45.000 Remember, tyrants always use fear and free stuff as the two ways to try to manipulate a population.

00:03:52.000 And so, but there are examples, though, of resurgence.

00:03:55.000 Talked about this in the book, The MAGA Doctrine, because I admit in the MAGA Doctrine, we are currently on a civilizational decline.

00:04:02.000 And I ask the question: Has there ever been a time where someone resurged a dying civilization?

00:04:08.000 Justinian is a great example of one leader who did this.

00:04:12.000 So did Queen Elizabeth, amongst many others.

00:04:15.000 As far as somebody who, and those are the two best examples I could think of the top of my head, it's been a while since I was kind of getting in the weeds of writing the book.

00:04:21.000 But this idea of civilizational resurgence is not a new topic, but it's very hard.

00:04:28.000 It's very hard to turn away, turn around a civilization that is participating in monetary, cultural, and spiritual decline, especially one where it's being done to yourself.

00:04:40.000 I would argue historically, and I'm a student of history, I'm constantly learning.

00:04:44.000 I learned under Bill Federer, I learned under many other people.

00:04:46.000 I spend a couple hours a day studying history and diving deep into it.

00:04:49.000 That a civilization is much more likely to fall from internal combustion than foreign invasion.

00:04:58.000 As Churchill beautifully said, he said, a nation that goes down fighting will rise again, but a nation that surrenders will never see glory ever again.

00:05:08.000 So even if you are invaded by a foreign power, that's actually not the worst thing that can happen to your country. 0.71

00:05:14.000 It's bad, it's terrible.

00:05:15.000 You can live under despotic, authoritarian, and tyrannical rule.

00:05:19.000 But if you really want your civilization to go into the dustbin of history, as many of the great civilizations have, have it happen internally.

00:05:28.000 And if you look at the fall of the Roman Empire, it is almost identical what has happened with the fall of the Roman Empire and what's happening in America: an inflated currency, moral decline, the perversion of children, the blurring of gender norms, free stuff, widespread corruption in the capital.

00:05:45.000 Now, it's very interesting, though, because Rome did not all fall at once, which is kind of goes to this idea of a national divorce, of what is the path forward.

00:05:56.000 Remember, Rome did not all fall.

00:05:58.000 Rome broke into the Eastern Roman Empire, which then became Byzantium and flourished for hundreds of years post-the fall of the traditional Roman Empire.

00:06:08.000 We then had Constantine and many others that actually helped proliferate Christianity and protect core Christian ideas that some would argue built the basis for modern-day Western civilization.

00:06:23.000 So the question is a very good one: which is, has civilizational resurgence ever happened again?

00:06:29.000 Yes, but it's very short-lived.

00:06:31.000 But I think we have something that many other civilizations do not have.

00:06:35.000 We have access to information, the ability to communicate better than any other civilization in the past.

00:06:42.000 So what does that mean?

00:06:43.000 So, for example, when the Roman Empire was falling and Justinian was trying to get to power, it was very hard to get the word out.

00:06:49.000 It was hard to communicate to people.

00:06:51.000 Now that we have technology and we have Rumble, we have podcasting, I can tell you, or Steve Bannon can tell you, or Tucker Carlson can tell you, what is the game plan?

00:07:02.000 What is the roadmap?

00:07:03.000 What is necessary to move forward?

00:07:07.000 So I think that's a great thing.

00:07:08.000 Also, we do have the great added benefit of multi-thousand years of history.

00:07:13.000 Now, if history is any guide, we'll just ignore the history, but we have it.

00:07:17.000 We know how this works.

00:07:18.000 Now, why is it where people say, well, history does not repeat itself, it rhymes.

00:07:22.000 Okay, well, it repeats and it rhymes.

00:07:23.000 Why is that?

00:07:24.000 Because we're dealing with the same type of thing.

00:07:27.000 We're dealing with human beings that act in predictable ways.

00:07:31.000 This is where the left completely disagrees with us.

00:07:34.000 The left believes that human beings are malleable based on the type of civilization, the structure all around them, and that anything you see wrong is because of capitalism, private property rights, racism, misogyny, homophobia.

00:07:46.000 We have to remove those things and human beings can perfect themselves and get closer towards what they would consider to be the Übermensch, as Friedrich Nietzsche would put it.

00:07:53.000 We disagree with that.

00:07:54.000 We think human beings are all pretty screwed up, that our general internal operating system is flawed.

00:08:00.000 This is a biblical concept, but it doesn't have to be exclusively those that believe in the Judeo-Christian canon of believing that essentially man is flawed from the beginning.

00:08:12.000 We call this the original sin or the fall, and that anything that we do to try to glorify God or serve our neighbors is to try to improve our conditions and improve our life, but we're never going to perfect man itself.

00:08:26.000 That's where Christianity is such an unbelievably different religious promise than any other religion that's ever happened because God actually became man. 0.88

00:08:37.000 God became the broken thing.

00:08:40.000 I mean, again, to truly understand that, to understand that you have a ubiquitous, perfect God who then transforms, that actually becomes that of which is broken to save us from ourselves, that is a concept that is very difficult for human reason at times to wrap our hands around.

00:09:02.000 So, has it ever happened before?

00:09:03.000 Yes, but it's short-lived.

00:09:05.000 This is why we have to be very clear about the long-term nature of the fight.

00:09:10.000 This is why some people are calling for a new founding.

00:09:13.000 Now, the idea of a new founding is that what's happened before is wonderful, but we have to now reassert our principles and say, now this is day zero or this is day one.

00:09:22.000 There's actually something rather refreshing to it.

00:09:24.000 You can almost discard the mistakes of generations past and chart a vision forward.

00:09:29.000 As it says in the Bible, without a vision, the people perish.

00:09:33.000 But it's very difficult.

00:09:34.000 It's much more likely, if you want to talk about historically and be fair about it, it's more likely we mess this whole thing up.

00:09:42.000 That we have internal disputes, divisions, our currency falls apart, we have lying politicians, we have open borders.

00:09:49.000 Huge part of the fall of Rome was open borders, the decline of citizenship, the rise of subjugation or of subjects.

00:09:55.000 Again, that's something that is very important to understand the tension between citizenship and subjects.

00:10:01.000 It's nothing new.

00:10:02.000 What we're experiencing is we're dealing with the same type of thing.

00:10:05.000 When the founding fathers said, all men are created equal, what they meant is that all men are the same sort of thing, human beings, the speaking beings.

00:10:14.000 By the way, anyone that tells you the founding fathers did not believe in God, why did they say that all men are created equal?

00:10:19.000 Why didn't they say all men are equal?

00:10:22.000 That word created has a lot of weight.

00:10:24.000 That means that there is intent and design behind the human species.

00:10:28.000 It was not a roll of dice.

00:10:30.000 It was not an accident.

00:10:32.000 The founding fathers believe that you're here for a purpose.

00:10:36.000 Then they go on to say the laws of nature and nature is God.

00:10:38.000 God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.

00:10:43.000 Are you like every one of us that thinks our country has gone nuts, whether it's Russia Gate, market crashes, or selling oil to China, or this insane inflation?

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00:11:44.000 Charlie, love how you focus on establishment Republicans.

00:11:48.000 We need more of that.

00:11:48.000 Why do Republicans seem to be afraid to run on a platform of law and order?

00:11:52.000 Do they not want to be called racist?

00:11:54.000 This seems like a winning message.

00:11:55.000 No, Nate from Pittsburgh.

00:11:57.000 This is one of my most frustrating topics.

00:11:59.000 I have to be honest.

00:12:01.000 It is the trillion-dollar bill laying on the sidewalk right now.

00:12:06.000 Is any Republican that messages the essence of what is happening in the country when it comes to crime?

00:12:13.000 It's a trillion-dollar bill.

00:12:15.000 You could turn your entire election around if you become someone that is unapologetic about stopping crime.

00:12:23.000 And you got to be forceful about it.

00:12:25.000 You got to talk about harsh sentences.

00:12:27.000 You got to talk about getting rid of bail reform.

00:12:29.000 You got to talk about increasing police.

00:12:31.000 You have to talk about patrolling streets.

00:12:34.000 You have to talk about busting down doors of gangbangers.

00:12:37.000 And what a great opportunity it would have been post-Mar-a-Lago raid for the Senate Republicans to come out and say, go do the cartels next.

00:12:47.000 Go into the gangs in the inner city of Philadelphia.

00:12:50.000 Now, right now, there is a Senate race happening in Pennsylvania.

00:12:55.000 Polls show Dr. Oz down 18 points with Fetterman up massively.

00:13:01.000 Now, I wish Fetterman a quick and speedy recovery.

00:13:04.000 I don't make light of people's health issues, but Fetterman is a legitimately awful candidate right now.

00:13:09.000 He could barely talk in coherent sentences.

00:13:12.000 And I'm not trying to make fun of it.

00:13:13.000 It's a fact, okay?

00:13:14.000 And I wish him a recovery.

00:13:16.000 Cut 108, John Fetterman.

00:13:18.000 This is who's up by nearly 18 points in the Pennsylvania primary.

00:13:24.000 Why?

00:13:24.000 Well, it's because the most obvious issue is not being campaigned on in Pennsylvania, which is we're going to find every criminal, lock them up, and be unapologetic about it.

00:13:34.000 We're going to find you in the night.

00:13:36.000 We're going to raid your home.

00:13:38.000 This is John Fetterman, who's very awful on crime.

00:13:41.000 He's the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania.

00:13:42.000 Play Cut 108.

00:13:44.000 And you can count on us to eliminate the filibuster.

00:13:52.000 If you come out and step with us, we will be able to stand with you in D.C.

00:14:02.000 I gave away the lieutenant governor governor in Pennsylvania, the only lieutenant governor in the history to do that.

00:14:08.000 And let's get some stuff done for America.

00:14:13.000 Who would ever think that I would be the normal, the normal one in the race area?

00:14:21.000 Okay, I'm not trying to make fun of people's health.

00:14:23.000 That's not what we do here on this program.

00:14:25.000 That's mean and cruel.

00:14:25.000 That's what the left does.

00:14:26.000 That man is not well, and he should not be up 18 points against anybody, period.

00:14:30.000 I didn't understand a word he was saying.

00:14:32.000 Is he not lieutenant governor anymore?

00:14:33.000 Is that what he's saying?

00:14:34.000 That he gave up the lieutenant governorship?

00:14:36.000 Again, it's babbling incoherency.

00:14:38.000 Why is he up so much?

00:14:40.000 Again, you might say, Charlie, I don't trust the polls.

00:14:41.000 Okay, I don't trust the polls.

00:14:43.000 Let's pretend they're off by 15 points.

00:14:46.000 Let's pretend the polls are off by 15 points.

00:14:48.000 He's still up.

00:14:50.000 And I could tell you right now, people in Pennsylvania say the polls are right.

00:14:53.000 Fetterman is pulling away with it.

00:14:55.000 You know what I think the candidates in Pennsylvania should be talking about?

00:15:00.000 They should be talking about this story.

00:15:03.000 What cut is this one?

00:15:04.000 The mass graves.

00:15:04.000 What cut is that?

00:15:05.000 Where in Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, they cannot dig graves fast enough.

00:15:10.000 You want to talk about a powerful visual?

00:15:12.000 Workers say that 90% of new graves at this Upper Darby burial ground are from gun violence.

00:15:18.000 Many victims in their teens and 20s.

00:15:22.000 They literally cannot build graves quick enough.

00:15:24.000 The visuals are incredible.

00:15:26.000 Where they have these mass graves that have now been created and they cannot build them.

00:15:32.000 Yes.

00:15:32.000 Do we have the video component of it?

00:15:35.000 Can we tell me when we could play it?

00:15:38.000 Oh, it's playing?

00:15:39.000 Okay.

00:15:39.000 I'll just narrate over it.

00:15:41.000 So for those of you on radio, it looks like Arlington Cemetery.

00:15:44.000 I mean, I don't say that lightly.

00:15:46.000 That's just from gun violence.

00:15:48.000 Now, I don't even like the term gun violence.

00:15:51.000 I don't think anyone should use it.

00:15:52.000 You know what gun violence is?

00:15:53.000 Gang violence.

00:15:54.000 Okay?

00:15:55.000 It's gang violence.

00:15:57.000 Now, Mastriano, I think, will be able to properly message on this and talk about the increase of crime and do something about it.

00:16:06.000 But man, we're going to lose these Senate races if all we're talking about is their way of setting the terms of engagement on abortion.

00:16:13.000 We should be unapologetically pro-life, but we also must be honest that a lot of voters are not as pro-life as we are.

00:16:19.000 So you have to be smart because I want to win.

00:16:21.000 Number two, if we're going to talk about the issues they want to talk about, like Donald Trump and January 6th.

00:16:27.000 And number three, if it just becomes a personality contest, they're going to win the Hollywood contest.

00:16:33.000 But if we talk about crime, talk about immigration, you talk about the chemical castration of children, and we call ourselves the Parents Party.

00:16:40.000 Now we're talking.

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00:17:44.000 Just to show how people want you to talk about drugs and crime, this is how Donald Trump talks about it, cut 119.

00:17:52.000 Don't have any problem.

00:17:54.000 It doesn't take 15 years in court.

00:17:56.000 It goes quickly.

00:17:58.000 And you absolutely, you execute a drug dealer and you'll save 500 lives because they kill on average 500 people.

00:18:10.000 It's terrible to say, but you take a look at every country in this world that doesn't have a problem with.

00:18:17.000 You know, there's a reason why that man has a following.

00:18:19.000 Maybe Republicans could learn something from it.

00:18:22.000 Plain spoken truth.

00:18:23.000 I've said it once.

00:18:24.000 I'll say it again.

00:18:25.000 2016 Trump is the best.

00:18:28.000 When everyone thought he was going to lose after the Billy Bush tapes and he just went nuts.

00:18:33.000 He went full nationalist.

00:18:35.000 He went full populist.

00:18:37.000 And that was from a couple weeks ago, obviously.

00:18:40.000 But that kind of energy was 16 energy, though.

00:18:44.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.

00:18:46.000 This question is one that I've been wanting to address, and it's going to take a little time.

00:18:50.000 That's why I waited for the middle part of the hour.

00:18:51.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:18:52.000 I've listened to your podcast for about a year now.

00:18:54.000 Thank you.

00:18:55.000 We appreciate that very much.

00:18:57.000 I'm a mom of four with three grown boys and a 15-year-old girl.

00:19:02.000 I'm in my 20th year of homeschooling, and we've been struggling with our youngest child.

00:19:08.000 What we've been struggling with is summed up in your episode from today on digital hermits.

00:19:13.000 Highly recommend, by the way, very important episode.

00:19:16.000 I felt like we've done a good job with our kids, raising them in church and homeschooling, giving them a biblical worldview.

00:19:21.000 But all that changed with COVID.

00:19:24.000 Even as homeschoolers, our world was turned upside down.

00:19:26.000 Our church closed, even though it is back open.

00:19:28.000 We haven't really gone back and gotten engaged.

00:19:31.000 Very understandable.

00:19:32.000 We go sporadically.

00:19:33.000 Happens to a lot of people.

00:19:35.000 But I'm afraid the damage is already done.

00:19:37.000 My daughter is as you described on your episode.

00:19:41.000 She has her phone constantly.

00:19:43.000 When I take it from her, she becomes someone I don't know.

00:19:47.000 It is literally an addiction.

00:19:49.000 When you take it from her, she has literal withdrawal symptoms.

00:19:53.000 Only they are shaking and vomiting.

00:19:56.000 Shaking and vomiting if you do not have your smartphone.

00:20:00.000 She then starts spewing hatred like I've never seen before. 0.99

00:20:05.000 I know it's not too late.

00:20:07.000 You're right.

00:20:07.000 It is not too late.

00:20:09.000 I'm going to buy that book from today's episode and read it.

00:20:12.000 And your suggestion to take away the phone is in the works, but I'm feeling like such a failure right now.

00:20:15.000 First of all, you're not a failure.

00:20:17.000 Let me just kind of encourage you and all the parents out there.

00:20:20.000 You are not a failure.

00:20:20.000 You're dealing with a drug that your experts, your leaders, never told you honestly with what it was.

00:20:28.000 You are not a failure.

00:20:29.000 It's not too late to turn around.

00:20:30.000 I'm going to tell you my recommendation in a minute.

00:20:32.000 How do I get her plugged back in? 1.00

00:20:35.000 I was just wondering, how do you do that in a world like we have today?

00:20:37.000 She'll be driving soon.

00:20:39.000 I will want her to have a phone in case of an emergency.

00:20:42.000 Also, computers are a necessity for school.

00:20:44.000 I'm just wondering if you have any more suggestions on this matter.

00:20:48.000 I really find your information useful.

00:20:49.000 Thank you for your patriotism and your passion for what you do.

00:20:52.000 Any advice would be appreciated.

00:20:54.000 Sincerely, a heartbroken mom, Alice.

00:20:55.000 Well, first of all, don't be heartbroken yet.

00:20:57.000 You have a lot of time left to fix this.

00:20:59.000 So a book that I found to be incredibly helpful with this is a book called Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter.

00:21:05.000 It's a terrific book.

00:21:06.000 I actually recommended all of our directors at Turning Point USA read it.

00:21:10.000 So I just want to tell you one thing again.

00:21:12.000 You are not a failure as a parent.

00:21:13.000 You are dealing with something so incredibly complex, something that I believe is the new heroin.

00:21:19.000 And so you describe, quote, when you take the phone away, she has withdrawal symptoms that are shaking and vomiting.

00:21:25.000 So let me first not answer your question directly.

00:21:27.000 Let me talk to all the other parents that are listening to this.

00:21:30.000 This is a mom self-described that says she's heartbroken that gave her daughter a phone far too young.

00:21:36.000 Parents out there, do not give your children phones, period.

00:21:40.000 It is not necessary.

00:21:42.000 You might say, well, Charlie, I have to connect or communicate with them.

00:21:46.000 Go buy a jitterbug.

00:21:48.000 They can call and that's it.

00:21:51.000 They do not need a smartphone.

00:21:53.000 What she is describing, vomiting and shaking, if not having her phone, is no different than heroin or cocaine addicts, where the brain literally goes into a withdrawal mode.

00:22:06.000 It is so deplete of dopaminergic function that it can only survive with the continuation and the consumption of the drug.

00:22:16.000 So what does one do?

00:22:18.000 So here's what my recommendation would be.

00:22:20.000 I would recommend planning a family trip, depending on where you live, to somewhere wild.

00:22:27.000 Boundary Waters is a great place.

00:22:29.000 The Rocky Mountains, no phones, but it has to be for three to four days.

00:22:34.000 I know that's a long period of time.

00:22:36.000 No one can check their phones in three to four days.

00:22:39.000 The clinical data shows it takes three to four days to begin the process of detoxification.

00:22:45.000 Believe it or not, in three to four days, you can make an enormous amount of brain reset, especially if you're in nature, if you're away from the phone, you're away from otherwise stimulating objects.

00:22:56.000 So I say this, you know, kids come up to me sometimes and say, Charlie, I'm so depressed.

00:23:00.000 I'd say, maybe you are, but you're probably burned out.

00:23:05.000 They say, what do you mean?

00:23:06.000 This device, without you realizing it, is destroying your body's ability to decipher reality from fiction and stimulant from normal.

00:23:19.000 Remember, dopamine is a reward molecule in your brain.

00:23:22.000 Dopamine, I believe God gave us dopamine to keep us going, to keep us going to the next thing.

00:23:29.000 The problem, though, is, and these Silicon Valley serpents, these Silicon Valley masters of the universe knew exactly what they were doing.

00:23:37.000 They manipulated neuroscience, especially in developing brains, to have you to continue to scroll unnecessarily.

00:23:44.000 That literally overheats your entire operating system.

00:23:49.000 It would be the equivalent of running a car going 130 miles an hour for five days straight.

00:23:57.000 The engine is going to overheat.

00:23:59.000 It is not sustainable.

00:24:01.000 And so my first piece of advice, Alice, is going to be a little contrarian.

00:24:05.000 It's going to be something that you might not expect me to say, which is your daughter isn't bored enough.

00:24:12.000 If you ask any child that was raised before the advent of smartphones the following question, how often were you bored growing up?

00:24:20.000 The answer would be quite often.

00:24:22.000 I was bored all the time.

00:24:24.000 In fact, my parents and my community made boredom just part of growing up.

00:24:29.000 Figure it out.

00:24:30.000 Go outside.

00:24:32.000 Start playing.

00:24:33.000 Use your imagination.

00:24:35.000 Depression and anxiety in a lot of different cases.

00:24:38.000 Now, I'm not discounting that there's legitimate genetic and hereditary potential predisposition to this, but I believe a vast majority of this is imagination gone wrong.

00:24:50.000 You're not bored enough.

00:24:51.000 So your brain needs a chance to retreat, reset, and mind wander.

00:24:58.000 Children go from device to device to screen to screen.

00:25:02.000 The brain cannot handle it.

00:25:05.000 You are dealing with a primitive brain designed by God to survive in the wild, of which a stimulation might be a human conversation, a campfire, or a hunt.

00:25:17.000 And that's about it.

00:25:18.000 That's what we were designed to be able to intake.

00:25:21.000 God designed us to survive in the wild.

00:25:24.000 But now we throw our kids and we have these screens of which not only are they hyper-stimulating, there's someone on the back end of the screen that is intentionally prodding and provoking your dopaminergic response where you feel as if you need more of that drug and they're manipulating all the way through.

00:25:45.000 Now, a lot of parents don't quite understand this.

00:25:47.000 And I get it.

00:25:48.000 That's okay.

00:25:50.000 Now, data shows this, that you will see more attractive women or attractive men swiping on Instagram or single sites in 10 minutes versus 10 lifetimes 100 years ago.

00:26:02.000 For young men, especially, that makes them feel rather depressed.

00:26:06.000 What's the point of living?

00:26:08.000 Their brain gets, it melts their ability to process meaning and purpose.

00:26:15.000 And I'll say this.

00:26:16.000 Therapists don't understand this.

00:26:18.000 Psychiatrists largely don't understand this.

00:26:20.000 And doctors don't understand this. 0.53

00:26:22.000 Now, I could say this, by the way, as soon as I started limiting screen time and I started to spend more time in nature, my happiness increased dramatically.

00:26:31.000 I can't imagine, though, how frustrating it must be.

00:26:34.000 For parents, and they have 15 to 6 years old, why are you depressed all the time?

00:26:37.000 Why are you anxious all the time?

00:26:39.000 The phones are one easy answer.

00:26:40.000 Here's a couple other things that you could do, which is after maybe that three to four day trip to Boundary Waters or to go somewhere with no phone, that's when a new regime needs to be set in.

00:26:52.000 That's your opportunity.

00:26:52.000 That's your window.

00:26:53.000 So the three to four days the brain has reset, all of a sudden you're going to start to see more regular serotonin and dopamine type levels resurge.

00:27:05.000 And then at that point, a new regime needs to be put forward where you need to have, you need to convince your daughter.

00:27:10.000 Well, you don't have to convince her because you're the parent, but you could just say very clearly that this device is making you depressed and unhappy and not yourself.

00:27:18.000 And we are going to do everything we can to create distance from that.

00:27:24.000 That also includes, by the way, making sure young people are getting a steady and healthy dose of art, music, and literature that glorifies an objective standard.

00:27:40.000 Subjectivist art creates depression.

00:27:44.000 You need to be consuming information, books, and literature that glorifies something that is objectively true.

00:27:53.000 Now, there's also exercise and all these other things.

00:27:56.000 Now, I have a whole protocol that if people are really interested in my recommendations for people that are struggling with this, including doing something very, very hard every day, going through 25 active denials a day.

00:28:08.000 What is an active denial?

00:28:10.000 I want a cup of water.

00:28:11.000 I'm going to wait 20 minutes.

00:28:13.000 I need to use a restroom.

00:28:14.000 Wait another 10 minutes.

00:28:15.000 It is actively denying what your brain wants.

00:28:18.000 It is vetoing the impulse to have what you want when you want it.

00:28:22.000 I'm going to call somebody.

00:28:22.000 I'm going to wait five minutes.

00:28:23.000 I want to watch that show.

00:28:24.000 Maybe 10 minutes more.

00:28:26.000 Or maybe not at all.

00:28:27.000 You could do it by skipping a meal, by not indulging in something that feels good.

00:28:32.000 This is the practice of active denial that all of a sudden puts your brain how it is in the wild.

00:28:38.000 All of a sudden, you're now back into a different framework.

00:28:41.000 It's not as if you are always being fed what you want and constantly being subsidized.

00:28:44.000 Now you got to kind of work for it.

00:28:47.000 Now you have to kind of stay on your toes.

00:28:49.000 Active denial is very important.

00:28:51.000 Then doing something in motion.

00:28:53.000 Remember, motion equals emotion.

00:28:56.000 Get kids off the couch.

00:28:58.000 Exercise.

00:28:59.000 Do something of forward moving.

00:29:01.000 How your day matters so much.

00:29:02.000 We are way too comfortable as a society.

00:29:05.000 Comfort will literally kill you.

00:29:08.000 And so to this mother that emailed me, I just want to implore you, read Comfort Crisis, listen to our program.

00:29:15.000 There's a lot of different protocols that you can implement.

00:29:17.000 But understand, resetting the brain, this is where you're going to have a difficult time.

00:29:21.000 If you take that phone away and you do that trip to nature and you're already describing that, taking the phone away, she starts having vomiting and withdrawal.

00:29:27.000 She's going to have drug addiction-like withdrawal symptoms.

00:29:31.000 It is worth it.

00:29:32.000 It will take 60 to 90 days to try to totally reset the brain, but she will be a happier, more joyful person.

00:29:38.000 And for parents out there, I hope you listen to this segment carefully.

00:29:42.000 We get so many emails from parents saying, Charlie, my kid is addicted to the screen.

00:29:47.000 What do I do?

00:29:47.000 So for future parents, don't give the screen.

00:29:50.000 They don't need phones.

00:29:51.000 I grew up without one.

00:29:52.000 It's fine.

00:29:53.000 They'll figure it out.

00:29:54.000 If they need a flip phone, give them a flip phone for emergencies.

00:29:57.000 They don't need TikTok.

00:29:58.000 They don't need social media.

00:29:59.000 I know all their friends have them.

00:30:01.000 Just draw the line.

00:30:01.000 There's a beautiful life out there.

00:30:02.000 They'll be happier because of it.

00:30:05.000 So there's so much more I can contribute to this, but I hope that's somewhat helpful.

00:30:09.000 But I would retreat, put the phone away, create a new regime, try to reset the brain, find art, beauty, and literature that really glorifies something objective.

00:30:19.000 Get away from all that nihilistic garbage.

00:30:21.000 Those are just a couple points that I hope will help. 0.93

00:30:24.000 Hey, Charlie, have you heard about the 9-11 museum closing?

00:30:27.000 Interesting, the New York City government chooses to house illegal immigrants, but not fund a museum that honors the death of thousands of Americans.

00:30:33.000 It's a very, very misleading story.

00:30:36.000 So there are two 9-11 museum memorials.

00:30:38.000 There's two of them.

00:30:39.000 There's one at the actual place where 9-11 happened.

00:30:42.000 And there's another one a couple blocks away that's called the 9-11 Tribute Museum.

00:30:46.000 The 9-11 Tribute Museum is kind of a knockoff, and I don't mean that disparagingly.

00:30:51.000 It's just kind of a replica.

00:30:52.000 I'm sure it's really great and people learn a lot there.

00:30:55.000 But it's not the one that many of you have visited, the actual 9-11 memorial.

00:30:58.000 So I actually fell for the outrage immediately.

00:31:01.000 I was at dinner.

00:31:02.000 I was like, oh my goodness, there's no way they're closing it.

00:31:04.000 And I said, and I thought to myself, no way.

00:31:06.000 I read the article and all the way at the bottom of the CNN article that I was reading was, oh, by the way, this is different than the official 9-11 Memorial Museum.

00:31:15.000 So just want to make sure that's clear for everybody.

00:31:17.000 The media did such a disservice because people say they're closing where it actually, no, they're not.

00:31:22.000 They're closing a tribute museum that, yes, does have artifacts.

00:31:25.000 It does have legit stuff, but it's not the official one, the one that many of you have probably visited, which I think is one of the most moving, spectacular, would you agree, Connor, spectacular museums and tributes on the planet.

00:31:38.000 They did an incredible job.

00:31:40.000 So when I heard it, I got fired up about that.

00:31:42.000 Okay.

00:31:43.000 So, I want to get to this question here.

00:31:44.000 It's a little bit long, but I'm going to zip through it.

00:31:46.000 I'm going to kind of bounce around it.

00:31:48.000 Okay, hey, Charlie, long time listener, thought I never thought I'd email you.

00:31:50.000 Been hearing you talk about RNC leaving MAGA candidates, and you're right. 0.58

00:31:53.000 This is a conversation that just happened.

00:31:55.000 First, they called me asking for money, reading a script about why they're calling and they need support.

00:31:59.000 So, I asked them how you're going to spend my money.

00:32:01.000 They reply with another long script, but end with to help get rhinos out of office. 1.00

00:32:04.000 Sounds not right.

00:32:05.000 Nice, right?

00:32:07.000 Sounds good, right?

00:32:09.000 So, I asked candidates what they'll send my money to.

00:32:11.000 Here's where it got interesting.

00:32:12.000 The representative on the phone gave me a couple names who I agree with, but some who are questionable.

00:32:16.000 So, then I ask about what America first candidates they'll support, crickets. 0.53

00:32:20.000 This is when it got discouraging and confirms your suspicion.

00:32:23.000 I asked about Arizona and Ohio.

00:32:25.000 The representative was excited to say he was from Arizona, and he said their organization is supporting Mark Bernovich.

00:32:32.000 Yes, that's right, the guy who came third in the primary a week ago.

00:32:37.000 This is the guy asking for money for, I don't know if it's the RNC.

00:32:41.000 He claims it's the RNC, but I find this-I mean, geez.

00:32:46.000 At this point, I didn't tell him I knew the primary is over, so I asked about Blake Masters.

00:32:51.000 And the representative said, Oh, we don't like Blake Masters.

00:32:54.000 Have you seen his position on abortion?

00:32:56.000 And his ads are terrible.

00:32:58.000 I then started laughing and went on to explain that Blake Masters actually won the primary and is the Republican nominee to face Democrat Mark Kelly in the general.

00:33:06.000 He put me on mute.

00:33:07.000 I thought he hung up for a second because all the background noise went silent.

00:33:10.000 Then he took me off mute and said he spoke to his manager who said that Blake Masters didn't win and that it was Bernovich.

00:33:15.000 I told him to Google it and he was wrong, and the poor guy was horrified.

00:33:19.000 I then asked about JD Vance in Ohio, and he said he didn't know anything about him, and he didn't know the primary was decided either.

00:33:25.000 Sad, isn't it?

00:33:26.000 I'm trying to be optimistic and think it was just an uninformed kid fresh out of college.

00:33:29.000 But again, even if you're fresh out of college, that's not an excuse.

00:33:33.000 Yeah, we're supporting the guy that got third in the primary.

00:33:37.000 I obviously told them I'll not be committing any money to them and that I'll have to fund the candidates directly.

00:33:41.000 Good call.

00:33:42.000 This is sad and frightening.

00:33:43.000 Keep doing what you're doing.

00:33:45.000 Properly inform people because the RNC does not have the conservatives' best interest right now.

00:33:48.000 Now, I don't know if that's the RNC or an organization that kind of pretended they have the RNC, but this email from Kevin seems pretty firm that it is from the RNC.

00:33:56.000 So, look, a lot of people are talking about in great numbers.

00:34:02.000 They're emailing us freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:04.000 Is it really true that this fundraising gap is immense?

00:34:07.000 Yes, play cut 114.

00:34:09.000 Look at the gap between Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock.

00:34:11.000 Cut 114.

00:34:13.000 So far, Raphael Warnock has raised an astounding amount of money.

00:34:16.000 He's hauled in more dollars online than seven Republican senatorial candidates combined.

00:34:22.000 Candidates in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, and Georgia combined.

00:34:28.000 Herschel Walker is now trailing Raphael Warnock by 10 points.

00:34:32.000 And this is happening in a state they tell us went for Joe Biden by a margin of about one-third of a percentage point.

00:34:39.000 That is bizarre.

00:34:41.000 What is going on here?

00:34:43.000 What is going on here?

00:34:44.000 Democrats are heavily funding their candidates.

00:34:47.000 They know that a red wave is looming and they're trying to mitigate it.

00:34:49.000 And I believe the Republican establishment is far too willing to help them do it.

00:34:59.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:00.000 Email me your thoughts as always.

00:35:01.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:35:02.000 Thanks so much.

00:35:03.000 Talk to you soon.

00:35:07.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 22, 2022

Ask Charlie Anything 117: Are Kids Not Bored Enough? RNC Sabotaging America First Candidates? NYC Closes 9-11 Memorial?

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