The Charlie Kirk Show - October 10, 2022


Ask Charlie Anything 123: Herschel and Christian Walker? OPEC+ Long Game? Ban Sasse Retires?


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Former Georgia Governor and presidential hopeful Herschel Walker has been accused of paying for an abortion for a woman who claimed he paid for her to have an abortion. The Daily Beast reports that the woman claims that Walker paid for the abortion, but he vehemently denies it.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Monday.
00:00:01.000 Should you honor your parents?
00:00:02.000 What does it mean to honor one's parents?
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00:01:11.000 Nathan from Georgia says, Charlie, I love the show.
00:01:14.000 I look to you for clarity, moral clarity, especially on political issues.
00:01:18.000 I'm a little torn.
00:01:19.000 It seems like the Herschel Walker campaign against him is working.
00:01:23.000 As a Christian, I don't know how I feel about all of it.
00:01:26.000 I'll probably end up voting for Herschel Walker.
00:01:28.000 Can you help me understand?
00:01:29.000 Yes.
00:01:30.000 Okay.
00:01:30.000 So, first of all, we had Newt Gingrich on the program about this topic.
00:01:33.000 There's a couple dimensions of this story that I want to unpack.
00:01:36.000 The first of which is let's kind of go to what we know.
00:01:38.000 There was an allegation this week of which the evidence is very shaky that says that Herschel Walker paid for an abortion for an individual I think about a decade ago.
00:01:47.000 The evidence they have allegedly is the woman has receipts that she did actually get an abortion.
00:01:53.000 And then afterwards, Herschel Walker sent a get-well card allegedly with cash in the get-well card.
00:02:00.000 If I'm clumsy on the facts, please correct me.
00:02:02.000 That's the best that I understand that.
00:02:04.000 And so that's very weak evidence, by the way.
00:02:06.000 And Herschel Walker vehemently denies it.
00:02:09.000 It's a serious allegation.
00:02:11.000 I'm not going to say it's not serious.
00:02:13.000 We're pro-life.
00:02:13.000 I don't think that if someone pays for an abortion, it should be taken lightly in any way whatsoever.
00:02:18.000 But he denies the allegation.
00:02:19.000 And they need a lot more credibility than that.
00:02:22.000 And okay, it's a dailybeast.com.
00:02:24.000 Herschel Walker paid for girlfriend's abortion, Georgia Senate.
00:02:27.000 The Daily Beast broke the story.
00:02:28.000 It's a serious allegation, but he completely denies it.
00:02:28.000 Okay.
00:02:31.000 Okay.
00:02:32.000 And so as if we learned nothing from Russia Gate and Brett Kavanaugh and all these different sorts of things that we shouldn't first look at the facts and the circumstances and also the all-out smear campaign.
00:02:42.000 And if Herschel Walker did this very serious thing, if he did, is there any room for redemption or forgiveness or for clarifying?
00:02:48.000 No, of course not.
00:02:49.000 So that's one part of the story.
00:02:51.000 And the story would have basically evaporated or disappeared from that kind of serious allegation almost overnight and leave it to the Democrats to go and find this woman who asked not to be identified out of privacy concerns and that she and Walker conceived a child while they were dating in 2009.
00:03:06.000 He urged her to get an abortion. 0.97
00:03:08.000 The woman said she had the abortion and that she was reimbursed for it via Herschel Walker.
00:03:13.000 She supported these claims of the $575 receipt and a get-well card from Walker and a bank deposit receipt that included an image of a signed $700 personal check from Walker.
00:03:26.000 Doesn't prove anything, but this woman who decides not to be disclosed could be connecting two unrelated dots for a very specific reason and purpose.
00:03:36.000 Okay.
00:03:37.000 But this kind of got a lot bigger than it needed to in some ways of an allegation.
00:03:41.000 I don't want to say needed to because it's a serious allegation and Herschel denies it.
00:03:44.000 And that's, it should just end at that, if that's the evidence you have in the midst of a campaign.
00:03:49.000 You also must put into context what does Herschel Walker plan to do when he goes to the Senate?
00:03:54.000 What is his position on abortion?
00:03:56.000 What would he actually do from a policy perspective of the judges he would appoint and the issues he would actually advocate on?
00:04:03.000 And he's terrific on all of them.
00:04:04.000 Okay.
00:04:04.000 But this issue became huge and massive when his son, Christian Walker, who I've met, and he was always a very pleasant person to me, and he's friends with a lot of people at Turning Point USA, decided to speak out against his father.
00:04:16.000 And basically, I don't want to paraphrase.
00:04:19.000 Can we get the exact quote?
00:04:20.000 Because we have the clip here.
00:04:21.000 Okay.
00:04:21.000 So Herschel Walker's son comes out and starts attacking his father.
00:04:27.000 And this I have a very big problem with.
00:04:29.000 I do. 1.00
00:04:31.000 Again, Christian was always a very pleasant person when I met him, but I have to say, I have a very, very big problem with young people attacking their parents. 1.00
00:04:38.000 I have a biblical problem with it. 0.99
00:04:40.000 I have a moral problem with it. 0.97
00:04:42.000 I have a civilizational problem with it.
00:04:45.000 And I'm going to walk through exactly what does it mean to honor one's parents?
00:04:48.000 What is the significance of that?
00:04:50.000 So, first, let me just read what Christian Walker tweeted.
00:04:54.000 He said, every member of the Herschel Walker family asked him not to run for office because we all knew some of his past, every single one.
00:05:00.000 He decided to give us the middle finger and out and air all this dirty laundry in public while simultaneously lying about it.
00:05:06.000 I'm done.
00:05:07.000 Now, that's not exactly right.
00:05:09.000 I mean, Christian Walker has previous tweets and social media posts where he was applauding and supporting his father's candidacy for office.
00:05:17.000 So this is a U-turn, where then Christian Walker says, I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father, Herschel Walker, stopped lying and making a mockery of us.
00:05:26.000 You're not a family man when you left us to, excuse the language, bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over six times in six months, running from your violence.
00:05:36.000 I don't care about someone who has a bad past and takes accountability, but how dare you lie and act as though you're some sort of moral Christian, upright man. 0.94
00:05:43.000 You live the life of destroying other people's lives. 1.00
00:05:45.000 How dare you?
00:05:45.000 So, look, Christian is in, he's in a lot of pain when he's tweeting this.
00:05:50.000 He's hurt, he feels hurt by his father.
00:05:52.000 Those are understandable feelings.
00:05:54.000 I'm not saying that I know something Christian doesn't know.
00:05:57.000 That's not the point.
00:05:59.000 No, the point that I'm going to make is I have a very, very big problem with rushing to social media and immediately attacking your parents.
00:06:07.000 Now, as far as the threatening to kill us, there is other video to show that Herschel Walker actually reconciled with his wife under one of those disputes and she forgave him.
00:06:20.000 And even it led her to the Lord and towards Christian reconciliation.
00:06:25.000 Christian Walker back in June of 2021, so he did a 180 reversal.
00:06:29.000 Thank you for all you do for your great country.
00:06:30.000 Can't wait to see all that you do.
00:06:32.000 Supporting that he's running for office, supporting his advocacy back in June of 2021.
00:06:37.000 But let's take a step back.
00:06:40.000 Why honor one's parents?
00:06:43.000 Where does this idea come from?
00:06:45.000 Well, obviously, it's one of the Ten Commandments.
00:06:48.000 Now, it being the fifth commandment, you could view it as a commandment simply for how you should act.
00:06:55.000 But I believe very clearly that if you're not able to honor your parents, you're not able to honor God.
00:07:02.000 If you're not able to honor your earthly father, you will not be able to honor your heavenly father.
00:07:06.000 But what does it mean to honor?
00:07:07.000 This is where it gets interesting.
00:07:09.000 There's biblical commandments in the Old Testament to love your neighbor and to love the stranger.
00:07:16.000 But there is no commandment that tells you you must love your parents.
00:07:21.000 That commandment does not exist.
00:07:24.000 How you behave towards your parents is actually a lot more important than how you feel towards your parents.
00:07:31.000 And so I texted Christian privately saying something of these words, and I could have been probably more articulate in the way I did this.
00:07:39.000 I'm not saying his feelings are not correct.
00:07:43.000 I'm talking about how you behave towards one's parents.
00:07:45.000 That's very important.
00:07:46.000 By the way, Dennis Prager has been an amazing mentor of mine on this topic, some of the great moral clarity on this.
00:07:52.000 So you actually go to the original Hebrew.
00:07:55.000 The word to honor is the same root because all Hebrew words have a root of which there's other words that are kind of synonyms because there's no vowels in Hebrew of the same word, the same three letters of heavy.
00:08:12.000 That's interesting.
00:08:13.000 It's the same word as heavy.
00:08:16.000 It is the word kabach in Hebrew, which is honor and heavy. 0.98
00:08:22.000 So Hebrews don't have vowels. 0.95
00:08:23.000 They have dots for pronunciation.
00:08:25.000 And I don't speak Hebrew.
00:08:27.000 Just piggybacking off the great work of Prager and many others.
00:08:30.000 But basically what it is being said is that you must treat your parents heavily, not lightly.
00:08:38.000 Now, the inverse of that, it's very interesting.
00:08:40.000 If you look at the Hebraic root of the word curse, to curse, it is the same root of the word lightly.
00:08:52.000 So if you were to curse your parents, you treat them lightly.
00:08:55.000 If you honor your parents, you treat them heavily.
00:09:00.000 Right now, we are living through a total breakdown of this commandment.
00:09:05.000 Honor your mother and father, so they may live long in the land of which you are in.
00:09:08.000 It's the only one of the Ten Commandments that comes with a promise.
00:09:12.000 And it is only one of the Ten Commandments that involves your nation.
00:09:19.000 It's incredibly critical to establish hierarchy in your life.
00:09:23.000 Again, honoring parents is a conduit to honoring God.
00:09:28.000 The vehicle to God is honoring first year earthly parents.
00:09:32.000 And again, you don't have to love them, but you must treat them very heavily.
00:09:36.000 You must treat it very seriously is another English synonym to say this.
00:09:41.000 I have a very big problem with a theme I'm starting to see.
00:09:44.000 I see it on TikTok a lot.
00:09:45.000 I see it with this instance.
00:09:46.000 I saw it with Kellyanne Conway and her daughter.
00:09:49.000 And I'm not saying the kids do not have legitimate complaints.
00:09:53.000 I'm not saying that.
00:09:54.000 But is this treating your parents heavily?
00:09:56.000 Is this honoring them?
00:09:57.000 I'm not saying you have to feel a certain way.
00:09:59.000 I'm not saying you must force yourself to love them, force yourself to say that they're doing the best thing possible.
00:10:05.000 What I'm saying is you must honor the hierarchy.
00:10:08.000 Because if you don't, well, we know what happens.
00:10:13.000 Every totalitarian regime undermines parental authority, every single one.
00:10:20.000 And I have great concern when children are able to just open up a smartphone and go and attack their parents.
00:10:29.000 Undermine them.
00:10:30.000 Delegitimize them.
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00:11:37.000 So out of all the things that God could put in the Ten Commandments, why would he put honor your mother and father?
00:11:45.000 You know, you go through the book of Proverbs, there's an infinite amount of wisdom that God has shared through his word.
00:11:52.000 But in the Ten Commandments, the Decalogue, why honor your mother and father?
00:11:59.000 Probably because there wasn't a lot of honoring going on before the Ten Commandments.
00:12:04.000 It was likely a very big problem.
00:12:08.000 A good rule for life that I'm learning, and I've been taught by Prager and so many other kinds of moral thinkers.
00:12:16.000 You wouldn't need a commandment if it was easy.
00:12:19.000 You would not need the commandment if it came naturally.
00:12:23.000 You'll have no other gods before me.
00:12:25.000 You shall not make false idols.
00:12:27.000 You shall not take the Lord's name in vain.
00:12:29.000 By the way, that does not mean you shouldn't say, Oh, my, and I actually don't say it for a different reason.
00:12:35.000 It means you shall not carry the name of the Lord in vain, which means you shall not do evil in the name of the Lord.
00:12:41.000 It's a separate thing than not saying, Oh, my, even though I don't like saying that, that's a separate podcast for a different time.
00:12:47.000 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:12:49.000 Do my best with that.
00:12:51.000 Then honor your mother and father.
00:12:53.000 It really makes you think: why would God put that in there?
00:12:56.000 Well, He tells you why for a nation.
00:12:58.000 Your nation will not survive if you don't honor your parents.
00:13:01.000 Your nation will not flourish if you do not honor your parents.
00:13:04.000 And again, honoring is different than loving, it's completely different.
00:13:10.000 You shall not murder.
00:13:11.000 You shall not commit adultery.
00:13:12.000 And by the way, that does not mean you shall not kill. 0.88
00:13:15.000 That gets conflated with killing.
00:13:17.000 For example, killing in self-defense or killing in the theater of war.
00:13:21.000 You shall not murder.
00:13:22.000 You shall not take innocent life.
00:13:24.000 You shall not commit adultery.
00:13:25.000 You shall not steal.
00:13:27.000 Which, again, is a very interesting one.
00:13:29.000 We could do a whole podcast on why would God include not stealing?
00:13:32.000 Because God respected private property rights.
00:13:35.000 Something that is not honored in the West right now.
00:13:38.000 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
00:13:41.000 Shall not lie, essentially.
00:13:42.000 You shall not covet, which I find to be a very interesting final one.
00:13:46.000 Because the shall not covet is the only one that really is internal.
00:13:52.000 Meaning it's about your thoughts, it's your feelings, it's your attitude.
00:13:56.000 Anyway, there was probably a lot of not, there was a lack of honoring going on when Moses got the Ten Commandments from the Lord.
00:14:04.000 Okay, so let's play some of this tape here, and I'll let you guys be the judge.
00:14:08.000 Okay, let's go to cut 156 of Christian Walker speaking out against his father.
00:14:13.000 Play cut 156.
00:14:15.000 You don't know my family life.
00:14:17.000 So for me to tell you I'm not getting involved, and then you also be flooding my DMs and calling me saying, I didn't know all this about your dad.
00:14:25.000 We're going to lose the center of the.
00:14:26.000 And then when I simply say, I'm done with the lies, you go, well, Christian looks suspicious.
00:14:31.000 Excuse me?
00:14:32.000 I haven't told one story about what I experienced with him.
00:14:35.000 I'm just simply saying, don't lie.
00:14:38.000 Don't chime in.
00:14:39.000 Don't test my authenticity.
00:14:42.000 Okay, look, he could be totally telling the truth.
00:14:43.000 And he's obviously in a lot of pain.
00:14:45.000 And I'm not here to attack him.
00:14:46.000 I'm making an argument about how this is not right, what he's doing.
00:14:49.000 It's not.
00:14:52.000 You do not go on TikTok and dishonor your parents like that.
00:14:56.000 You don't.
00:14:57.000 Let's say it's all true.
00:15:00.000 Let's say that Herschel Walker went and had multiple affairs and paid for an abortion, of which is not morally right.
00:15:10.000 You don't handle it on TikTok.
00:15:12.000 That must be held privately.
00:15:14.000 Straight to your father.
00:15:16.000 You talk to him.
00:15:17.000 I'm not saying the feelings are wrong.
00:15:19.000 That is not the point.
00:15:20.000 But this does not honor it.
00:15:22.000 It does not treat your father heavily as the Bible tells us to.
00:15:24.000 Okay, let's go to the next one here: 157.
00:15:27.000 And you know, my favorite issue to talk about is father absent.
00:15:30.000 Surprise, because it affected me.
00:15:32.000 That's why I talk about it all the time, because it affected me.
00:15:35.000 We were told at the beginning of this, he was going to get ahead of his past, hold himself accountable, all of these different things, and that would have been fine.
00:15:42.000 Go ahead.
00:15:42.000 He didn't do any of that.
00:15:44.000 Everything's been a lie.
00:15:45.000 Everything's been downplayed.
00:15:46.000 Everything's been cutting corners.
00:15:47.000 The whole thing.
00:15:48.000 And who, who is whose expense is that at?
00:15:52.000 Me, my mom, as we're chased down by the media, we're terrorized, all these different things.
00:15:58.000 People are questioning my authenticity.
00:16:00.000 I'm done.
00:16:01.000 Okay, he's in pain.
00:16:02.000 You can see that.
00:16:03.000 And pain's a legitimate feeling.
00:16:05.000 But God made the commandment for a reason.
00:16:07.000 You know, someone asked the other day, they said, Charlie, why should I honor my mother and father?
00:16:10.000 And I felt like saying, because God told you, which is true, which is my answer for it.
00:16:13.000 Sometimes it's helpful to know that God told you to do something.
00:16:15.000 But if that's not persuasive for you, how about this?
00:16:18.000 One day you would want to be honored too.
00:16:20.000 Maybe there's more to the story.
00:16:23.000 And that the parent that raised you is worthy of that honoring.
00:16:28.000 To go on social media and attack them.
00:16:31.000 And maybe every one of those facts is right.
00:16:32.000 Every one of those feelings is legitimate.
00:16:34.000 Could very well be.
00:16:36.000 Not my business.
00:16:37.000 I don't know.
00:16:39.000 But as soon as you dishonor parents publicly, you have a very we have a lot of history to show what happens.
00:16:49.000 Marxist etalitarians love it when children dishonor their parents.
00:16:53.000 You don't have to love them.
00:16:54.000 You don't have to like them.
00:16:56.000 You have to treat them with honor.
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00:18:01.000 Paul from South Carolina, Charlie, I'm confused about what OPEC is doing.
00:18:05.000 How should I view this?
00:18:07.000 Is this going to increase gas prices?
00:18:09.000 Okay, let's play a piece of tape here from NBC's Brian Sullivan.
00:18:12.000 It's CUT 108.
00:18:14.000 I think the media is missing what's really going on here, which is pure, unadulterated foreign involvement in our elections, and it is against Joe Biden.
00:18:21.000 I don't support this, but it's just what it is.
00:18:24.000 There's many different dynamics happening right now.
00:18:26.000 There's some things bubbling up in Iran that the Central Intelligence Agency very well might be involved in.
00:18:34.000 There's also the final stages of the certification of a new Iran deal, which would pave the way for Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
00:18:45.000 There is one country that basically is the anchor country in OPEC that very much does not want to see that happen.
00:18:53.000 Another major member of OPEC really doesn't like the fact that there is no opposition to flow of arms and money flowing to Ukraine, of which I actually happen to support that we don't send any money to Ukraine.
00:19:07.000 But just talking very strategically, Russia and Saudi Arabia right now, for a third reason, too, which is they don't want to see all fossil fuels destroyed, which ironically, they would actually benefit if America never exported oil, natural gas again.
00:19:21.000 But they have two much more immediate geopolitical needs.
00:19:23.000 Russia wants to see some interruption of arms and armaments, I should say, and resources going to Ukraine.
00:19:30.000 And Saudi Arabia desperately wants to see a slowdown of the United States brokering an Iran deal with, obviously, the United States and Iran.
00:19:38.000 Play Cut 108.
00:19:40.000 News, OPEC cuts by 2 million barrels a day.
00:19:42.000 You back out the fact that some countries aren't meeting their quotas.
00:19:45.000 The real math that we got to is that we are actually cutting about 900,000 physical barrels per day, which, by the way, while they're not directly tied, the strategic petroleum release is about 900,000 barrels per day.
00:19:59.000 So it's kind of hard not to look at this decision and say there's got to be some political element to it.
00:20:04.000 Wall Street Journal late last night with an exclusive saying that the U.S. is looking to ease sanctions on Venezuela so that Chevron not so that, but in part, Chevron will then be able to keep drilling and producing oil in Venezuela.
00:20:18.000 Yeah, so look, there's several dynamics to this.
00:20:20.000 First of all, Joe Biden refuses to open up our incredible energy resources here. 0.96
00:20:26.000 He doesn't want to set that precedent because that would actually make America very strong and it would thwart this green energy pagan revolution that is being led by Buda Jej and all these imbeciles in our government. 0.97
00:20:37.000 So he can't do that. 0.96
00:20:38.000 So instead, Joe Biden, remember, traveled to Saudi Arabia to basically go beg for oil.
00:20:43.000 And Mohammed bin Salman and the Saudis, of which you should not be fans of Saudis, by the way, their involvement in 9-11 is very suspicious.
00:20:50.000 Their track record on human rights is awful. 0.74
00:20:52.000 But the point being is, at times, you have to make deals in the best interest of your country.
00:20:57.000 Donald Trump understood this very well.
00:20:59.000 Okay, but Joe Biden does the exact opposite.
00:21:01.000 He goes to Saudi Arabia and basically begs for more oil, begs for more, basically a bailout.
00:21:10.000 And Saudi Arabia says, wait a second.
00:21:12.000 So you're about to certify a deal with our great enemy.
00:21:14.000 So just some background.
00:21:15.000 Saudi Arabia and Iran hate each other.
00:21:18.000 It's an old religious divide of Shia Muslims versus Sunni Muslims.
00:21:22.000 Vast majority of Muslims on the planet are Sunni, and about 15% are Shia.
00:21:28.000 And if you're in Iran, you're a Shia Muslim.
00:21:30.000 It's kind of the center of Shia Islam. 0.97
00:21:34.000 They hate each other and they've been at war with each other for quite a while. 0.99
00:21:37.000 And it hasn't been a hot war, but it's been a proxy war in more ways than one.
00:21:41.000 And the West has really always sided with Saudi Arabia and has kind of turned a cold shoulder to Iran after our own central intelligence agency alongside the British executed. 0.92
00:21:51.000 Well, that's actually true. 0.97
00:21:52.000 We did execute the re-implementation of the Shah against the democratically elected Masaghday. 0.97
00:21:58.000 And after that, when the Shah was re-implemented, he was sick and Meek wasn't able to run the country. 0.87
00:22:04.000 And then the Iranian revolution took foot and took hold. 0.91
00:22:07.000 And from that point forward, Iran has kind of been dominated by theocratic Islamic fascists. 0.88
00:22:14.000 And that's not an exaggeration.
00:22:15.000 So Saudi Arabia now is cutting oil, saying, hey, voters in America seem to not like high gas prices.
00:22:22.000 This is my conjecture. 0.83
00:22:23.000 And we're going to intervene basically because a Red Congress would be more likely to cancel the Iran deal, more likely to hold it up, and more likely than to also, on Russia's side, at least delay or ask questions about the armaments coming into Ukraine. 0.83
00:22:40.000 Saudi oil minister says directly this is caused by us trying to cap the price of Russian oil. 0.65
00:22:46.000 So they're blaming it on us trying to cap the price of Russian oil, but I think there's something much deeper here.
00:22:51.000 If you really, a little bit of a read on kind of Saudi geopolitics, they're very, very worried about an unchecked Biden regime with a Democrat Congress that might give Iran what they want.
00:23:03.000 Now, what's the takeaway here?
00:23:04.000 Well, the takeaway is just the truth.
00:23:05.000 You could have whatever takeaway you want.
00:23:07.000 That foreign countries are always going to try to involve themselves in our politics. 1.00
00:23:10.000 You're going to see gas prices rise. 0.99
00:23:12.000 And when our elected officials go, they should not do the bidding of Saudi Arabia or Russia.
00:23:15.000 They should do the bidding of America and allow whatever decisions kind of come from there.
00:23:19.000 So there's a lot of different dynamics here.
00:23:21.000 You are going to see gas prices increase.
00:23:23.000 Unfortunately, we will see kind of what ends up happening there and how that ends up playing out.
00:23:29.000 Okay.
00:23:30.000 Actually, let's go to this one.
00:23:30.000 Yeah, Cut 109.
00:23:31.000 Saudi Arabian Energy Minister.
00:23:32.000 Of course, central bankers want the best for both worlds.
00:23:35.000 Play Cut 109.
00:23:36.000 Of course, any central banker in Pantheon would like to have the best of the two world.
00:23:41.000 Attending to inflation and continue growth.
00:23:46.000 But with this severity that you see, you run a big risk that you lose growth.
00:23:52.000 What is happening now is coming, and we see, we showed it in this trajectory and this things that we presented, that growth is coming down, and there is a potential with more aggressive rate hikes that this growth will come even lower.
00:24:15.000 I know that's hard to understand.
00:24:16.000 His English is probably not as crisp as he would like it to be.
00:24:19.000 But with this, he says, but with the severity, you will see a run, a big risk, you lose growth.
00:24:23.000 Growth is coming down. 0.73
00:24:24.000 And the Saudis are actually in a pretty good spot.
00:24:26.000 The Saudis are basically printing money, as are the Russians, as long as oil stays above $85 a barrel, $80 a barrel, especially with the efficiencies they were able to implement with the kind of COVID crash and the resurgence.
00:24:37.000 What is oil at today?
00:24:38.000 Price of oil today?
00:24:39.000 I bet it's like 88.
00:24:41.000 That's my guess.
00:24:42.000 You can go to oilprice.com.
00:24:43.000 They track it pretty well.
00:24:45.000 Let me see what it's at.
00:24:46.000 Oh, $92 today for West Texas crude and then Brent $97.
00:24:52.000 Wow.
00:24:52.000 Okay.
00:24:52.000 WTI crude.
00:24:53.000 That's pretty amazing.
00:24:54.000 So, yeah, they're printing money of this at this point.
00:24:57.000 Okay, let's go to, yeah, that's actually a good segue.
00:25:01.000 Tyler from Nebraska asks, Charlie, what is the CIA doing?
00:25:05.000 I loved your episode about Julian Assange.
00:25:07.000 I'm really concerned or worried the CIA is involved in other places we don't know.
00:25:11.000 Look, I am confident that the Central Intelligence Agency is involved in one way, shape, or form with what's happening in Iran.
00:25:18.000 We don't really know what's totally happening in Iran, by the way, because it seems their media is heavily regulated.
00:25:24.000 The internet is very much, let's just say, controlled.
00:25:28.000 Now, I will say this, though.
00:25:30.000 The American media that is loving the fact that Iranian women are taking off their hijabs, which by the way, I fully support, they didn't feel that way when people were throwing off their masks. 1.00
00:25:44.000 You know, I love when the American media says, you know, the hijab is so dehumanizing and it's so awful to women. 1.00
00:25:50.000 Like, really, then why is it you put masks on four-year-olds and wanted to dehumanize them for the last year and a half, last two years?
00:26:00.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.
00:26:01.000 Let's try to shift gears here.
00:26:03.000 There's a lot of questions about, okay, let's get to this one.
00:26:07.000 This is this one.
00:26:07.000 So, yeah, so news shows, this is another question.
00:26:11.000 We just answered a question, someone from Nebraska.
00:26:13.000 This is one from Kansas.
00:26:14.000 Charlie, did you see that Ben Sasse is retiring from Congress?
00:26:18.000 What are your thoughts?
00:26:19.000 You know, I used to like Ben Sasse, and what are your thoughts?
00:26:23.000 Basically, it's a long email.
00:26:24.000 It's Michael from Kansas.
00:26:26.000 Okay, so basically, Ben Sasse, I used to know, I know Ben Sasse.
00:26:30.000 I haven't talked to him in a very long time.
00:26:33.000 And I have to say, Ben Sasse wins the award of the most disappointing U.S. Senator over the last half decade.
00:26:40.000 And you know what disappoints me the most about Ben Sasse?
00:26:42.000 And I would say it to his face, I'd say it to him on this program: Ben Sasse is probably one of the smartest people elected to the U.S. Senate in the last 20 years.
00:26:49.000 He's very smart.
00:26:51.000 He understands the Constitution.
00:26:53.000 He understands separation of powers.
00:26:55.000 He understands consent to the governed.
00:26:56.000 The problem with Ben Sasse, and he's welcome on this program at any time, and he's a smart guy.
00:27:01.000 He can navigate a conversation in an interview.
00:27:03.000 He's not dumb.
00:27:03.000 He ran a university before.
00:27:05.000 The problem with Ben Sasse is he just was hypnotized by the lies of neoliberalism.
00:27:14.000 Ben Sasse got so enamored with Washington, D.C. think tank talk around international trade and a Democrat, a globalist society and the destruction of the American middle class and the deterioration of the American manufacturing base.
00:27:30.000 He really started to believe this.
00:27:32.000 And the great lie that Ben Sasse started to peddle Was that the American project can be successfully exported, copy and pasted, if you will.
00:27:45.000 We can copy-paste the American project to any other country at any time at will and on demand.
00:27:53.000 It's no different than just kind of bringing the roadshow.
00:27:56.000 We got to bring the American roadshow to Kyiv and they're going to love it.
00:28:02.000 Actually, I don't think so.
00:28:03.000 I think that they need about 100 years of a reformation like America did.
00:28:08.000 So, this is Cut 138.
00:28:10.000 This is Ben Sasse, who's retiring, it looks like, from the Senate to become the University of Florida's college president, which actually, honestly, would be an upgrade from whatever Marxists they currently have.
00:28:20.000 Ben Sasse is not a Marxist.
00:28:21.000 That's what's really frustrating.
00:28:22.000 He's not a Marxist.
00:28:24.000 He is a, he's become a snobbish conservative intellectual type.
00:28:30.000 I mean, if Ben Sasse and I talked, and I didn't know who I was talking to, and we were just kind of going back and forth, and we were both kind of on the other side of, you know, a curtain, if you will, and we didn't, our voice was encrypted, and he would talk about the American founding, I would agree with almost everything he would be saying.
00:28:43.000 I think you'd probably get some stuff wrong on kind of the neoliberal elements of that.
00:28:47.000 Let's play cut 138.
00:28:49.000 Zelensky needs to win.
00:28:51.000 The Ukrainian freedom fighters need to win.
00:28:54.000 We don't need them just to lose more slowly.
00:28:56.000 We need them to win. 1.00
00:28:57.000 And to win, they need to kill Russians. 1.00
00:28:59.000 And to kill Russians, they need more weapons. 1.00
00:29:02.000 Yeah, so that's Ben Sasse talking about Zelensky. 0.97
00:29:04.000 That sort of reckless, warmongering, saber-rattling talk is not going to be missed.
00:29:09.000 And so for all of our patriots in Nebraska, turning point action and turning point pack, we got our eyes on that Senate race, whatever it's going to be.
00:29:18.000 It looks like if Ben Sasse resigns, Governor Ricketts, who's a great man, will have the opportunity to fill that replacement with an appointee and then a special election.
00:29:26.000 Let's get a grassroots conservative in there. 0.99
00:29:28.000 Let's get someone really strong, MAGA base, America first.
00:29:31.000 Nebraska's a super conservative state.
00:29:33.000 This is a great opportunity for that.
00:29:34.000 Again, I'm not going to spend time here, you know, smearing Ben Sasse's character or anything like that.
00:29:38.000 I'm going to say he was a huge disappointment, though.
00:29:41.000 I'll give you one piece of evidence to show that.
00:29:44.000 Ben Sasse voted to convict Donald Trump in the impeachment hearing.
00:29:50.000 How does someone who's a constitutional conservative go so far, slip so far to vote to convict Donald Trump on that awful, unconstitutional, immoral, drive-by shooting that was called the impeachment?
00:30:06.000 So Ben Sasse, wish you the best of luck, University of Florida.
00:30:08.000 You actually probably will be an upgrade there, hilariously. 0.99
00:30:11.000 That place is infested with a bunch of Marxist cockroaches. 0.98
00:30:14.000 But for the neoliberal regime, it is a loss. 0.94
00:30:19.000 Let's fill it with a strong populist nationalist in the great state of Nebraska.
00:30:22.000 I love Nebraska.
00:30:24.000 So let's draft a candidate.
00:30:26.000 Recommendations are welcome.
00:30:27.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:30:31.000 I got an email from one of our listeners here is about our upcoming tour stop at University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
00:30:37.000 I have to read this.
00:30:38.000 Charlie Kirk, the leader of conservative group Turning Point USA, will be visiting UNC Charlotte on October 25th.
00:30:43.000 This is sent by the official employee of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Office at UNC Charlotte.
00:30:50.000 Some graduate students of color and LGBTQ graduate students in ethics and applied philosophy.
00:30:56.000 Can you believe people pay for this? 1.00
00:30:58.000 No, they go into debt for it.
00:30:59.000 Have drafted a collective letter to condemn his campus event and have asked the administration to seriously consider the impact that his rhetoric will have on our most vulnerable colleagues and students.
00:31:12.000 The AAUP membership also discussed a strategy to prevent his message from being heard by reserving tickets to the event.
00:31:20.000 Again, this is called ghost ticketing.
00:31:21.000 It's where these very weak, deceitful, dishonest activists are trained by professors to fraudulently fill out tickets for our event and then not show up.
00:31:32.000 If you would like to make sure you receive emails from the UNCC's AAUP chapter, you can go here and then it shows all the different woke, different workshops they're doing.
00:31:41.000 Here's my promise to you. 0.88
00:31:42.000 All of the Alphabet Mafia folks and all of the diversity gang at UNC Charlotte, if you show up to my event, you'll be allowed to ask a question uninterrupted. 1.00
00:31:52.000 We'll have a dialogue and we'll have some fun. 1.00
00:31:54.000 That is my promise.
00:31:54.000 We do that at every single event.
00:31:57.000 In fact, I will put you in the front of the line to be able to ask a question. 0.66
00:32:04.000 So again, I know dialogue is not a value of the postmodernist racial arsonists and the alphabet folks. 0.71
00:32:12.000 But if you at all want to have a conversation, you're allowed to come out or you can try to cancel me and you will be unsuccessful. 0.51
00:32:17.000 Okay, I promised a very good American I was going to get to this, and it is Nick from Tennessee asking about Fauci.
00:32:24.000 Long question about Fauci.
00:32:25.000 Did you see Fauci?
00:32:26.000 Blah, blah, blah.
00:32:26.000 Yes, Fauci went on the Today Show.
00:32:29.000 Now, remember, Anthony Fauci is the high priest of secular progressivism.
00:32:33.000 He is the best embodiment we have of an unchecked, unknown, unaccountable fourth branch of government.
00:32:39.000 Anthony Fauci is someone who should be in prison, but it goes to show what happens when we create extra constitutional structures, when we do not allow the Constitution to operate as it was originally designed by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay.
00:32:54.000 Okay, let's play cut 120 of Anthony Fauci on the tonight show.
00:32:57.000 Play cut 120.
00:32:59.000 Is the science in on whether the vaccine is safe?
00:33:01.000 Oh, without a doubt, it's been given to billions of people and billions of doses.
00:33:05.000 So there's no doubt safety is off the table.
00:33:07.000 There is no doubt it's safe.
00:33:09.000 Well, then debate one person about it.
00:33:11.000 How about Steve Kirsch, Dr. Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough?
00:33:13.000 If it's so safe, have a dialogue about it.
00:33:15.000 Or are you going to act Anthony Fauci like the same people at UNC Charlotte?
00:33:19.000 Cancel those you don't like, smear them.
00:33:22.000 Anthony Fauci has just given another $3 million to Peter Dasick and Eco Health Alliance, specifically to research bat viruses in the wild.
00:33:33.000 $3 million.
00:33:34.000 I think Alex Berenson had one of the darkest, most accurate takes on this.
00:33:40.000 He believes that this is not about funding research.
00:33:42.000 This is funding a cover-up.
00:33:45.000 Alex Berenson, he said this on Tucker, and Tucker was blown away by it.
00:33:48.000 And I totally agree.
00:33:49.000 Where Alex Berenson said, no, I think that this is them going to try to cover up their tracks to then be able to fraudulently prove that this actually came from the wild and not from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, of which we know it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:34:04.000 Let's go to cut 104, Anthony Fauci smearing ivermectin.
00:34:09.000 Cut 104.
00:34:10.000 Did ivermectin do anything?
00:34:12.000 No.
00:34:13.000 Okay.
00:34:13.000 Humans do take it, but not for this purpose.
00:34:16.000 Right.
00:34:16.000 It does not help with COVID and it could be dangerous.
00:34:19.000 Okay.
00:34:20.000 Hydroxychloroquine, did it do anything?
00:34:22.000 No.
00:34:22.000 No.
00:34:23.000 So people who have hoarded that?
00:34:24.000 No.
00:34:25.000 No, no reason to have done that.
00:34:26.000 Okay.
00:34:27.000 Just checking.
00:34:29.000 This is sick.
00:34:31.000 It's really amazing.
00:34:32.000 It also goes to show, though, they're worried about something.
00:34:35.000 Why now?
00:34:36.000 Why are they doing this?
00:34:38.000 Are they trying to set the record straight, trying to put a middle finger out the door?
00:34:42.000 We're about to take over Congress and we've pledged mass investigations into him.
00:34:46.000 Why go on to Colbert and get those questions that are obviously rehearsed?
00:34:52.000 Cut 40, Alex Berenson's theory.
00:34:54.000 I think it's brilliant.
00:34:55.000 It is quite possible that in a year, Peter Dasak's people are going to come out of those caves with what they claim is the precursor virus.
00:35:01.000 And even if none of us believe them, it will just throw more smoke up and make it harder to prove that the lab leak is what really happened.
00:35:08.000 I think that's exactly right.
00:35:10.000 It's dark, it's cynical, and it describes the fourth branch of government perfectly.
00:35:17.000 Why is Fauci back on a PR tour now?
00:35:20.000 It's interesting.
00:35:21.000 Pride?
00:35:23.000 Book sales?
00:35:24.000 I don't know.
00:35:25.000 There's something else going on here.
00:35:26.000 I'd love your thoughts.
00:35:27.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:35:29.000 It might just be right in front of us.
00:35:30.000 It might be something obvious.
00:35:31.000 Might be something not so obvious, but to relitigate the entire ivermectin hydroxychloroquine conversation, there's something else going on here.
00:35:40.000 Stay vigilant.
00:35:43.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:44.000 Email me your thoughts.
00:35:45.000 It's always freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:47.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:35:49.000 God bless.
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