The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 137: Should Kids Have Phones? Biological Men vs. Biological Women? This Liberal May Not be the Worst?

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00:01:19.000 Hello, everybody.

00:01:20.000 We are taking your questions.

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00:01:32.000 Let's start with this one.

00:01:33.000 Charlie, did you see Phil Washington?

00:01:36.000 Oh, boy, this is a great topic.

00:01:37.000 Biden's pick to lead the FAA completely fail under scrutiny of Senator Ted Budd from North Carolina.

00:01:45.000 Why on earth does Biden insist on unqualified nominees?

00:01:51.000 And Diane from Oxnard, California, by the way, Oxnard, right next to, not next to, but right near Santa Barbara.

00:01:56.000 And so thank you for the question.

00:01:58.000 She said, didn't we just have a breakdown of air travel over the holidays?

00:02:01.000 You know, it's interesting.

00:02:03.000 Tucker Carlson deserves a lot of credit for this.

00:02:06.000 Tucker years ago, would do monologue after monologue trying to warn people that woke is one of the first things.

00:02:14.000 Wokeism will infect and it will harm your day-to-day life is infrastructure, the ability to get from one place to another place, to get goods from one place to another place.

00:02:25.000 This is one of the most painful clips I think you'll ever see, and one of the reasons this keeps on happening is because the Biden regime does not believe competency is the top priority or the reason to be in a leadership position in government.

00:02:46.000 Here's Phil Washington, the nominee to run the FAA.

00:02:50.000 He goes 0 for 7.

00:02:52.000 It's an extraordinary clip.

00:02:54.000 Play cut 113.

00:02:55.000 So, Mr. Washington, can you quickly tell me what airspace requires?

00:03:00.000 An ADS-B transponder?

00:03:02.000 Not sure I can answer that question right now.

00:03:04.000 So what are the six types of special use airspace?

00:03:07.000 Sorry senator, I cannot answer that question.

00:03:09.000 Okay, so what are the operational limitations of a pilot flying under basic med?

00:03:13.000 Senator, I'm not a pilot.

00:03:15.000 So so can you tell me what causes an aircraft to spin or to stall?

00:03:18.000 Again senator, I'm not a pilot.

00:03:21.000 Okay, let's keep going.

00:03:23.000 What are the three aircraft certifications the FAA requires as part of the manufacturing process?

00:03:28.000 The three types?

00:03:29.000 Okay, let's just keep going, see if we can get lucky here.

00:03:34.000 So can you tell me what the minimum separation distance is for landing and departing airliners during the daytime?

00:03:40.000 I don't want to guess on that.

00:03:41.000 Senator, are you familiar with the difference between part 107 and part 44809 when it comes to unmanned aerial?

00:03:47.000 No, I cannot.

00:03:48.000 Uh, it's okay, Senator Ted Budd, I got to give him credit.

00:03:54.000 He did a fabulous job.

00:03:55.000 He's totally wrong on Ukraine.

00:03:56.000 That's not even what the topic is here.

00:03:57.000 So I've been a little bit, you know, hard on him recently, but that is a masterclass in how to just run a Senate hearing.

00:04:05.000 So Phil Washington, if you don't know on podcasting or radio, this should be an irrelevant comment I'm about to make.

00:04:13.000 The comment I'm about to make should not factor in.

00:04:16.000 Unfortunately, though, you can't help but wonder that now this is a relevant comment, is that Phil Washington is a black man. 0.75

00:04:25.000 That shouldn't matter.

00:04:27.000 Race does not matter to me, but it does matter to the Biden regime.

00:04:31.000 And you can't help but wonder that was Phil Washington selected to try to check an affirmative action box.

00:04:42.000 He doesn't know the basics of air travel.

00:04:44.000 Not a pilot.

00:04:44.000 That's fine.

00:04:45.000 Do you know anything about aviation?

00:04:47.000 And it's not as if he's just going to run the Department of Transportation like Budajech.

00:04:53.000 This is the FAA.

00:04:53.000 No, no, no.

00:04:55.000 This is specifically about air travel.

00:04:59.000 Washington, who is the current CEO of the Denver International Airport, who, look, let me just say this as nicely as I can.

00:05:07.000 Whoever has run the Denver airport should never be in charge of anything important ever.

00:05:12.000 That is one of the worst-run airports.

00:05:14.000 First of all, why they decided to build it in rural Nebraska, that's half a joke.

00:05:18.000 It is in the middle of nowhere.

00:05:19.000 It's like you go to downtown Denver, you got to go 40 to 50 miles to even get close to getting to the airport.

00:05:26.000 Not to mention, it is way too big and always delayed.

00:05:33.000 I've spent way too much time in the Denver airport, and whoever's in charge of that, I wouldn't put them in charge of anything.

00:05:39.000 And there are some pretty, and this is a total side note, and I'm just kind of spitballing here, but there are some very, very strange conspiracy theories about the Denver airport that aren't, by the way, that unfounded.

00:05:52.000 And if you want to get into like even weirder elements, when you drive into the Denver airport, there's this massive, massive, looks like one of the four horses of the Armageddon statue.

00:06:04.000 And the guy who made the statue was killed by that statue when he put it up.

00:06:10.000 Just a kind of a fun, not fun, actually, it's awful and cruel, tragic side note.

00:06:13.000 Anyway, the Denver airport, no good.

00:06:16.000 And if you are in our audience and you're like, I think the Denver airport is great, yeah, you're wrong.

00:06:22.000 So he held leadership roles at the municipal transit organizations, including Denver and Los Angeles, focused on bus and rail lines.

00:06:29.000 He was also the Biden-Harris transition team head for the Department of Transportation.

00:06:35.000 Prior to his work in transportation, Washington served in the military for 24 years.

00:06:39.000 He should not run the FAA.

00:06:41.000 Right now, air travel is declining in quality.

00:06:46.000 I will argue that in the last 10 years, it has never been worse as far as delays, as far as trying to pack as many people into a single flight as possible.

00:06:55.000 I fly a lot, and it is just declining.

00:07:01.000 It's an interesting topic that we'd have to explore at a different time, which is airlines are an exception to a puritanical free market principle that deregulation always will lead to something better.

00:07:16.000 Now, it's interesting because Ted Kennedy in the 70s or 80s was actually one of the big advocates for airline deregulation, and we were told that that would actually lower costs and improve the quality of flying.

00:07:31.000 And that's not true.

00:07:34.000 It didn't actually end up happening.

00:07:35.000 You ask anybody over the age of 50 in America, anybody over the age of 50 in America, ask them, was flying better in the 1980s or is it better today?

00:07:44.000 And they will all say, oh, it was way better in the 1980s, way better.

00:07:48.000 Pan Am, they give you full meals.

00:07:50.000 Everybody dressed wonderfully.

00:07:52.000 Everybody respected it, you know, respected flying.

00:07:56.000 Now, airline regulation deregulation did make things way cheaper, but is that really still technically true?

00:08:02.000 Have you seen what a round-trip ticket from Los Angeles to Chicago is?

00:08:08.000 It's $1,000 minimum on certain weekends.

00:08:11.000 It's extraordinary.

00:08:12.000 Anyway, so yes, it did make airline flying cheaper, but the quality has gone down.

00:08:16.000 But is it really as cheap as it used to be?

00:08:19.000 There's a lot of side notes there.

00:08:22.000 But let's focus on why this person has been up for nomination.

00:08:30.000 It's just another example of things that do not matter being prioritized over things that do matter.

00:08:39.000 Race over merit.

00:08:41.000 We believe that merit should matter more than race because race should not matter at all.

00:08:48.000 Has this person done good work?

00:08:50.000 Obviously not.

00:08:51.000 And thankfully, we still have some semblance of a Senate confirmation process where you can ask very basic questions like, hey, why does an aircraft stall?

00:09:01.000 I don't know the answer to that.

00:09:03.000 What are the different specific parts?

00:09:05.000 Now, mind you, I don't know the answers to all those either, actually, any of them, really.

00:09:09.000 I shouldn't run the FAA, obviously.

00:09:13.000 Ted Cruz said this: quote, the nominee before us, Phil Washington, had a long and honorable career in the military, but he does not have any experience in aviation safety.

00:09:22.000 This, quite simply, is a position he is not qualified for.

00:09:25.000 And this is really important because right now there is a push by airlines, United Airlines, and American Airlines, to Phil Washington their own pilot corps.

00:09:41.000 There is a push to put race-based hiring for pilots.

00:09:48.000 And to just give you an idea of how widespread that delusion is, I actually brought that up to some of the kids at University of California, Santa Barbara, and they said, Oh, there's no way that pilots are actually being selected based on race.

00:10:00.000 I said, Oh, yes, they are.

00:10:02.000 And even one of the students said, Yeah, that goes too far.

00:10:04.000 I mean, even the most radical campus activists have to admit, yeah, I probably don't want to fly on a plane with somebody selected solely based on the melanin content in their skin.

00:10:15.000 That probably goes too far.

00:10:17.000 Okay, here's a question: Charlie, how do I deal with my daughter's social media use?

00:10:21.000 She's on it 12 hours a day. 0.79

00:10:23.000 I need advice.

00:10:24.000 Richard from Indianapolis.

00:10:27.000 Okay, well, let's read this news story first.

00:10:29.000 The postmillennial did a good job.

00:10:30.000 By the way, you guys should all go to the post-millennial every day.

00:10:33.000 They do a terrific job covering the news that matters.

00:10:36.000 Teens' body image improves after just one month of slashing social media use.

00:10:43.000 Quote, adolescence is a vulnerable period for the development of body image issues, eating disorders, and mental illness, said leading author Dr. Gary Goldfield of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute.

00:10:56.000 What if I told you that there is more than one drug cartel controlling America?

00:11:04.000 Not only do we have the drug cartel of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson, and Johnson, Monsanto, and this poisonous, some of the poisonous food that we're feeding our children.

00:11:14.000 Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

00:11:16.000 The food that we are feeding our kids is nowhere near as full of nutrition and good for kids as it was 20 or 30 years ago. 0.98

00:11:26.000 Yeah, sure, it's cheaper, but it's full of a bunch of garbage. 0.81

00:11:29.000 The same principle, though, applies to the social media drug cartel. 0.95

00:11:35.000 Parents, I'm telling you right now, I know it's not easy.

00:11:38.000 I understand this is going to be a challenging thing to hear.

00:11:42.000 One of the most important things you can do is to limit your kids' screen time.

00:11:48.000 I don't think a kid should get a smartphone till they're 18.

00:11:51.000 I know that's not easy.

00:11:53.000 I did it because smartphones weren't a thing until I was really 19 years old.

00:11:57.000 They were invented when I was 17, 16, or 17 years old, way too expensive at the time.

00:12:02.000 The first iPhone was way too expensive.

00:12:03.000 It wasn't even that good.

00:12:04.000 It was kind of clunky.

00:12:05.000 I had a Blackberry.

00:12:06.000 That was the extent of my quote-unquote smartphone.

00:12:09.000 But the original BlackBerry would be laughed and scoffed at by young kids right now.

00:12:16.000 I actually missed my Blackberry.

00:12:17.000 I missed the little typing.

00:12:18.000 Anyone who knows what I'm talking about, I loved it.

00:12:21.000 It was great.

00:12:23.000 And I didn't have internet.

00:12:24.000 I had texting and I had email, and I thought I was the king of the world.

00:12:27.000 I loved it.

00:12:28.000 And I had the ability to call.

00:12:29.000 Now, parents all the time say, well, you know, my kid needs to be able to communicate with me.

00:12:33.000 Well, then get them the jitter bug or whatever.

00:12:35.000 Get them a flip phone.

00:12:36.000 And you don't always need to communicate with your kids, by the way.

00:12:39.000 And that's kind of a new modern, you know, paranoid paranoia.

00:12:44.000 Like, I must be able to talk to my kids all the time.

00:12:47.000 But if you do have that, then go buy them a flip phone.

00:12:51.000 Having spent time with young people and have having been someone who was once using social media eight to 10 hours a day, and thankfully, I'm completely detoxed.

00:13:01.000 I don't have any of these apps on my phone.

00:13:02.000 I can tell you it does unbelievable damage to your brain, to your ability to process information, to basic neuroscience.

00:13:11.000 Throughout the four-week experiment, half of the study group were instructed to reduce their social media by 50%, while the other half were allowed unrestricted access.

00:13:19.000 At both the beginning and the end of the experiment, participants completed a survey containing a series of statements about their overall appearance, rating statements such as, quote, I'm satisfied with my weight on a five-point scale.

00:13:30.000 Participants who reduced their social media use had a significant improvement in how they regarded both their overall appearance and body weight after three weeks of reduced social media use, compared with the control group who saw no significant change.

00:13:44.000 The sex of the participant did not appear to make any difference in the effects.

00:13:48.000 76% of the participants were female, 23% were male, and 1% said other.

00:13:52.000 Okay, that's not the most important part of it. 0.88

00:13:54.000 The most important part of the study, though, is that if you want to actually improve young people's opinion of themselves, which tends to be, according to popular opinion, one of the main reasons why people go to suicide and drugs and they're depressed and they're anxious, or why they go into this transgender idea pathogen. 0.92

00:14:14.000 I'm a young girl. 0.88

00:14:15.000 I feel uncomfortable.

00:14:16.000 I'm going through puberty.

00:14:18.000 I'm not really happy with myself.

00:14:19.000 My parents aren't present. 0.88

00:14:20.000 But hey, here's all these TikTok channels about how the real secret out there is that if you're 13 years old, go start taking Lupron, get your breasts cut off, and go through quote-unquote gender-affirming care, which is really gender-slaughtering care.

00:14:34.000 It's brutal.

00:14:35.000 It's awful.

00:14:37.000 I miss the days, and this is why not all progress is good.

00:14:41.000 We've said this for a while, and the left loses their mind when you say this.

00:14:46.000 That sometimes, if you engage and indulge in the accelerated fruits of modernity without those pesky shackles and antiquity, you're going to be miserable and you're going to be controlled by the technology, not controlling the technology.

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00:18:45.000 So, I'm currently taking a class with the wonderful Claremont Institute.

00:18:49.000 I think the world of them.

00:18:51.000 It's called Telos: Learning about Good Life and Good Government.

00:18:55.000 It's amazing, and we have to read a lot.

00:18:57.000 And we have these weekly, very intense Zoom calls for 90 minutes where we go back and forth to people that are far more credentialed than I am-PhDs, lawyers, people, all that.

00:19:09.000 And, you know, they, I was the, they made an excuse for me to come in, just like, all right, yeah, the guy with no college degree who happens to host a show, sure, they can come in.

00:19:18.000 I, I'm, I'm thrilled and blessed and honored to be part of it.

00:19:21.000 And each week, there is an author or there is a thinker that we focus on.

00:19:27.000 And last week was Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

00:19:33.000 And some of you actually emailed us: well, Charlie is at Henry David Thoreau or Emerson.

00:19:37.000 Far off, actually, because some of what Rousseau talked about later in his life actually impacted Thoreau and Emerson in the transcendental movement.

00:19:47.000 But let me kind of remind you about Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

00:19:50.000 90% in my, oh, that's just an arbitrary number. 0.94

00:19:53.000 Overwhelming majority of what Rousseau talked about, I believe is complete and total rubbish. 0.66

00:19:59.000 Rousseau is one of three social contract theorists.

00:20:04.000 As we talk about frequently on this program, if there's just a couple things to remember about philosophy, it's to know about the three social contract theories.

00:20:14.000 There is one by Rousseau, one by Locke, and one by Hobbes.

00:20:18.000 The one by Hobbes could be best summarized, that man is nasty, brutish, and short to one another.

00:20:24.000 He wrote a book called The Leviathan, and he said, since man is so broken and so terrible to one another, we need a big government, we need a king, we need a despot to control them.

00:20:33.000 I don't agree with the second part.

00:20:35.000 I tend to be more Hobbesian, actually, in how I think human beings are.

00:20:39.000 I think human beings are nasty and ghoulish to one another.

00:20:42.000 And that is consistent with my biblical beliefs.

00:20:46.000 Then there is the Lockean view of social contract theory or the Lockean view of nature, where he had a tabula rasa.

00:20:53.000 I think that's right.

00:20:54.000 I always get it messed up.

00:20:55.000 Blank slate, right? 1.00

00:20:55.000 I get the Latin. 1.00

00:20:56.000 That human beings are neither good nor bad when they're born.

00:20:59.000 They're a blank slate, and you need to mold them to be one or the other, and the environment matters.

00:21:04.000 But it was a heavy emphasis on natural rights, that government is made by people.

00:21:09.000 Government does not give you rights, that you have a right to life, a right to speech.

00:21:13.000 Locke was very instrumental in forming the thinking of Thomas Jefferson, forming the thinking of the American founding.

00:21:22.000 Thomas Locke was definitely one, not Thomas Locke, John Locke, not Thomas Locke.

00:21:26.000 John Locke was one of the most important thinkers that influenced the philosophical revolution of the American Revolution.

00:21:32.000 And finally, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

00:21:35.000 Now, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he lived from 1712 to 1778.

00:21:39.000 We've mentioned him frequently on this program.

00:21:42.000 And his idea of social contract theory was the exact polar opposite of Thomas Hobbes.

00:21:49.000 He believed that man was good in the state of nature.

00:21:53.000 He believed that if you live in the state of nature, that you are actually what he called a noble savage.

00:22:00.000 He believed that man is born perfect and pure and is corrupted by the isms of society around him or her.

00:22:10.000 For example, capitalism or racism or misogyny or a patriarchal colonialist system.

00:22:16.000 Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed he would romanticize, literally, he was the beginning of the romantic movement, romanticism.

00:22:26.000 He would romanticize the primitive over the civilized, the infant over the adult, the adulterous lover over the loyal spouse.

00:22:38.000 Rousseau believed that these rules that we give human beings are arbitrary and can be tyrannical.

00:22:46.000 Sounds very similar to the American left, doesn't it?

00:22:48.000 And when you read Rousseau, you can understand why the American left has such a soft spot, and I'm being very kind for quote-unquote indigenous people or people that are in the third world, as we would call it.

00:23:03.000 Okay. 1.00

00:23:04.000 Now, I could go on and I could talk about all the negatives Rousseau, but there is one thing that Rousseau, I think he was so right on.

00:23:14.000 And Rousseau influenced Marx on this.

00:23:16.000 And it was actually a really beautiful moment at the Turning Point USA event where I had a point of agreement with this Marxist, because if a Marxist truly understands the literature, they're wrong about so much.

00:23:28.000 But there is something that the Marxists and the Rousseauians get right, which is this, which is modernity and the fruits or the outcomes of the Industrial Revolution can be incredibly alienating and soul-crushing to the human soul and spirit.

00:23:54.000 That is completely true.

00:23:57.000 And conservatives do not do a good enough job of talking about this.

00:24:01.000 Instead, we seem to be just cheerleaders for market policies and corporate tax cuts.

00:24:07.000 I am in support of those things, obviously. 0.64

00:24:09.000 But we must also be honest that girls staring at their smartphones for 12 hours a day is bad for their soul. 1.00

00:24:19.000 So what did Rousseau do?

00:24:20.000 Rousseau actually did what Thoreau and Emerson later did.

00:24:24.000 He just went up to an island and stripped himself of all connection to the world.

00:24:29.000 He lived in solitude.

00:24:30.000 He wrote this book.

00:24:31.000 It was an unfinished book, Reveries of the Solitary Walker. 0.98

00:24:34.000 He's such an egotistical maniac narcissist.

00:24:36.000 He compares himself to God and that he's never done anything wrong or anything evil. 0.97

00:24:38.000 But he does get into some elements where it's like, hey, be careful.

00:24:42.000 Industrial life can be very alienating.

00:24:46.000 And I think we as conservatives must admit and acknowledge that.

00:24:50.000 That yes, it's a beautiful thing that we're able to order medication on demand, find the closest hospital, be able to get information about what your child might be sick with, be able to get telehealth doctors.

00:25:02.000 That's amazing stuff, isn't it?

00:25:04.000 Be able to order Uber Eats, be able to sell products quicker online.

00:25:08.000 Of course, there's so many, there's infinite amount of positives thanks to technology and all that.

00:25:13.000 But the negatives, they're serious too.

00:25:18.000 I'm not saying they outweigh them.

00:25:19.000 I'm not saying that they are equal.

00:25:21.000 I don't know where they are, but they must be enumerated and they must be acknowledged.

00:25:27.000 Rousseau also said, and this is where Rousseau was so, he said, man was born free, born free and spends the rest of his life in chains.

00:25:34.000 It's just a lot, Galati got wrong, but I do want to acknowledge what he got right.

00:25:39.000 Okay, here's a good question.

00:25:40.000 Charlie, honest question.

00:25:42.000 Are you more likely to be honored and spotlighted as a trans woman?

00:25:46.000 Okay, let's stop.

00:25:48.000 What is a trans woman? 0.97

00:25:49.000 And this was a great thing that somebody told me once.

00:25:52.000 Do you ever get confused about trans and this and that?

00:25:55.000 Just replace the word trans with imaginary and you got everything you need. 0.72

00:25:59.000 So spotlighted as an imaginary woman than an actual woman now. 0.60

00:26:03.000 First, Rachel Levine won the U.S. Today Woman of the Year.

00:26:08.000 Now Hershey Chocolate honors a trans person for Woman History Month. 0.86

00:26:13.000 How are more women not upset and not going to take this? 1.00

00:26:16.000 Laura from Marietta, Georgia. 0.90

00:26:18.000 Well, here's what you're talking about.

00:26:20.000 So I don't know when Woman's History Month is.

00:26:23.000 Is it now? 1.00

00:26:24.000 I can't keep track of all these different.

00:26:27.000 Oh, it's it.

00:26:28.000 You're right.

00:26:28.000 We're in March.

00:26:29.000 Oh my goodness.

00:26:30.000 So this is in March.

00:26:30.000 Yeah.

00:26:32.000 And because I feel like we're still in February.

00:26:34.000 Anyways, it's been a long, long, it's been a very interesting and challenging start to the new year, but I'll be it fulfilling in many ways.

00:26:44.000 Cut 111 is Hershey Chocolate.

00:26:48.000 I have a whole thing.

00:26:49.000 I have a really interesting theory on this, which is similar to the NFL and BlackRock.

00:26:56.000 And get it, Hershey.

00:26:59.000 Wokeism offers an unprecedented veneer for companies that do a lot of damage to your health to never have to talk about it.

00:27:10.000 Play cut 111.

00:27:12.000 My name is Paige Onstones.

00:27:13.000 I'm the executive director of Wisdom to Action.

00:27:16.000 We can create a world where everyone is able to live in public space as their honest and authentic selves.

00:27:22.000 See the woman changing how we see the future at Hershey's Canada.

00:27:27.000 Okay, so does that say Hershey's Canada? 0.94

00:27:29.000 Is that what was said?

00:27:30.000 I couldn't quite hear the end of it.

00:27:32.000 Yeah. 0.58

00:27:32.000 Okay, so that is a man who has appropriated womanhood, literally wearing the equivalent of female blackface, trying to pretend to be something that he's not. 0.58

00:27:42.000 And Hershey's chocolate is celebrating it. 0.57

00:27:45.000 Hershey's is excited to do this, though.

00:27:48.000 This is why McDonald's, this is why the pharmaceutical companies, this is why BlackRock, this is why the NFL, they are okay engaging in this woke stuff because it is playing offense.

00:27:59.000 It makes them look good to the social justice warriors.

00:28:02.000 But what is the attack vector that we should be going after Hershey with?

00:28:07.000 How about this?

00:28:09.000 Your products actually make people really fat and are generally not good for us.

00:28:15.000 So instead, Hershey wants to be looked at positively by the activist class, by like, oh, yeah, we have a man who's a woman for the woman's month thing.

00:28:24.000 No, instead, they do not ever want to have to experience legitimate cross-examination question of, hey, Hershey, how many people do you think right now have serious heart disease or kids have childhood obesity because of your products?

00:28:41.000 What's a ballpark guess?

00:28:43.000 Now, obviously, I love chocolate.

00:28:47.000 Chocolate's great.

00:28:48.000 But no one can say with a straight face that Hershey's chocolate over the last 20 years has been instrumental in making a better life for children's health.

00:28:59.000 Yeah, maybe for short-term dopamine rushes or certain indulgences here or there.

00:29:06.000 Certainly has increased cavities.

00:29:08.000 Dentists love Hershey.

00:29:10.000 They should be shareholders in Hershey's chocolate.

00:29:13.000 Look, there's a place for all sorts of indulgences and pleasures and vices, obviously, for chocolate.

00:29:20.000 You shouldn't ban it or get rid of it. 0.93

00:29:21.000 But the point is this: Hershey, MMs, McDonald's, these major companies that are pushing this crap on kids, especially, how do they prevent legitimate criticism against them? 0.94

00:29:35.000 They just play offense with wokeism and they act as if we're never going to be attacked. 0.96

00:29:40.000 And the NFL does this on the concussion issue.

00:29:44.000 The NFL thinks that they can be immune to criticism by paying a tithe to the woke cult to never actually have to answer legitimate questions on the concussion issue, which I do believe in some sense can be overblown.

00:29:59.000 In some sense, it's actually not being addressed seriously enough.

00:30:02.000 But the NFL knows that it's a legitimate criticism of the sport.

00:30:06.000 So what do they do?

00:30:06.000 They have to engage in the woke stuff.

00:30:09.000 So they pay a tie to the woke cult and they say, don't come after me.

00:30:12.000 Don't eat me.

00:30:13.000 And right now it's working.

00:30:16.000 The activist class, and this is an analogy I've used many times, and it drives the left nuts, mostly because it's true and it involves a biblical analogy.

00:30:24.000 The left goes around the same way the final night before, it's called Passover, and they look at what doors have the blood red marking and they say, ah, they're woke.

00:30:38.000 We won't go in there.

00:30:39.000 They're woke.

00:30:40.000 They won't go in there.

00:30:41.000 And they pass over.

00:30:43.000 But when they see someone who's not, they capitalize.

00:30:49.000 Are you guys getting enough sleep?

00:30:50.000 Probably not.

00:30:51.000 Sleep is one of the most powerful factors to upgrading your health.

00:30:54.000 The problem with sleep is many of you probably say, I want to go to bed at 9, but I don't fall asleep till 11.30.

00:31:01.000 What if I told you that if you wanted to go to bed at 9, you could be asleep by 9.05?

00:31:04.000 Daisy, who works on our team, I said, look, you got a big problem.

00:31:08.000 You're not having enough magnesium, right?

00:31:10.000 True story.

00:31:11.000 And she tried it, and she came back to work the next day and she said, Charlie, I don't even remember going to sleep.

00:31:17.000 Boom, you fall asleep.

00:31:18.000 Now, look, many of you guys probably say, but Charlie, I take melatonin.

00:31:22.000 Well, there's an issue with melatonin.

00:31:24.000 It's not altogether bad.

00:31:25.000 Huberman believes it actually could increase symptoms of depression, but the problem with melatonin is that the body adapts and you need to take more and more of it and it becomes less effective.

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00:33:00.000 So I have concluded my study of Genesis for now, and now I'm moving on to Exodus.

00:33:05.000 And so there is one verse that popped out to me, and I'm not obviously the first person to mention this, but it was, you know, really powerful, which is Exodus 1.8.

00:33:14.000 And now there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph.

00:33:19.000 Oh, that's one of the most powerful phrases in the Bible, or verses in the Bible.

00:33:23.000 Why?

00:33:24.000 Well, Joseph did so much for the people of Egypt, saved them from a famine, was of good favor of Pharaoh.

00:33:30.000 The previous Pharaoh was actually a pretty good guy, actually.

00:33:34.000 But a new king rose, and he did not know Joseph.

00:33:39.000 And that just pops and it just sizzles with ingratitude, doesn't it?

00:33:44.000 Of a person who comes who forgets the contributions of the people before them.

00:33:50.000 So I had that, obviously.

00:33:51.000 I did some study on that.

00:33:53.000 And so I visited the college campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.

00:33:57.000 And these kids did not know anything about George Washington, James Madison, John Jay.

00:34:03.000 They did not know anything about John Adams or John Quincy Adams, anything about Gubernam Norris, George Whitfield, Jonathan Mayhew, or Jonathan Edwards.

00:34:12.000 And I thought to myself, ah, and then rose a generation in America who did not know the American founders.

00:34:20.000 And obviously what comes afterwards in the book of Exodus, because that really is the turning point verse, get it?

00:34:27.000 The turning point verse.

00:34:28.000 Because then it says, that is why the Pharaoh did all these cruel and awful things.

00:34:33.000 He didn't know.

00:34:34.000 He didn't care. 0.99

00:34:35.000 Who are these people of Israel?

00:34:37.000 Who are these Hebrews? 1.00

00:34:40.000 We don't like them. 1.00

00:34:42.000 And he said to his people, behold, the people of Israel, there are too many and too mighty for us. 1.00

00:34:46.000 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply. 1.00

00:34:49.000 And if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from our land. 0.96

00:34:53.000 The only reason Egypt survived the famine was thanks to Joseph.

00:34:58.000 But alas, a king or a pharaoh rose to power who did not know Joseph or the contributions of generations past.

00:35:06.000 And that right there is so powerful in the fight for education, isn't it?

00:35:12.000 We have to make sure every generation does not forget.

00:35:16.000 I've said before that we are suffering from a national Alzheimer's issue.

00:35:24.000 Could be better said than that.

00:35:25.000 But basically, we have national Alzheimer's.

00:35:27.000 We're forgetting where we came from.

00:35:29.000 We're forgetting the contributions before us.

00:35:32.000 And if you then forget and you're filled with ingratitude and/or a lack of understanding of the sacrifices that happened prior, you are then willing, able, and you probably will do some pretty awful things to the people that actually built the civilization that you're able to enjoy.

00:35:51.000 That's just a little sidebar on a single verse.

00:35:54.000 I'm not the first person to have that take.

00:35:57.000 Prager has said very similar things, but it just popped when I was on campus there.

00:36:02.000 They had no understanding, no appreciation of any brilliant sacrifice, wisdom of a group of people that came before them.

00:36:13.000 Study old ancient texts.

00:36:15.000 It's why I love Hillsdale.

00:36:17.000 It's why I recommend the sources I do to you.

00:36:20.000 Dive into them, and all of a sudden, you'll see how they connect directly to what we're living through today, societally, individually, in your family, socioeconomically.

00:36:31.000 I think it will bless your life significantly.

00:36:34.000 Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:36:36.000 I want to encourage all of you to come to our upcoming campus stops.

00:36:39.000 We are going to University of Kentucky, Lexington.

00:36:43.000 Then we are going to University of Illinois, Chicago.

00:36:45.000 I'm also going to Ohio State University.

00:36:48.000 I am going to then, where am I going?

00:36:52.000 UC Davis and then TCU, tpusa.com.

00:36:56.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:58.000 Email me directly, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:37:00.000 Thank you so much for listening and God bless.

00:37:04.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

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