The Charlie Kirk Show - October 16, 2023


Ask Charlie Anything 164: Reflections at Thirty? Why Jews Succeed? Vivek vs Hannity?


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In this episode, we talk about why Jews are more successful than the average secular family, and why Jewish families are more like the average Jewish family in America than a secular family. We also talk about the role of the Shabbat and why Jews have a competitive edge over secular families.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Ask Me Anything episode.
00:00:03.000 Reflections on my 20s.
00:00:05.000 We talk about why are Jews so successful and more.
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00:00:38.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:01:20.000 So email is freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:01:23.000 That is freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:01:25.000 So somebody asked us, and it was kind of an anti-Semitic email in some ways, and I don't say that lightly.
00:01:29.000 I hate when people use the term anti-Semite Nazi.
00:01:32.000 That's a very, very high line for me.
00:01:34.000 I got to be honest.
00:01:35.000 Like, people throw that around like a frisbee and it drives me crazy.
00:01:38.000 But someone says, you know, there's one email, Charlie Jews run the world, blah, blah, blah, blah, that whole thing.
00:01:42.000 But hold on, time out.
00:01:42.000 Okay.
00:01:43.000 And they have this whole like Jewish conspiracy thing. 0.75
00:01:46.000 Time up.
00:01:47.000 Let's just talk about values.
00:01:49.000 What do Jewish families do better than some other, like just say secular, like your average secular American family?
00:01:55.000 Is there anything that can be acknowledged?
00:01:58.000 Well, number one, they take learning very seriously.
00:02:00.000 I talked about how at a family dinner table, you have to defend your position, which creates a sense of not just argumentation, but a yearning to reason for a five, six, seven, eight-year-old.
00:02:10.000 Understand that, hey, if you want to get a word in edge-wise with your aunt and your uncle.
00:02:14.000 Number three, and this is what's very important: that as a Christian, and there's a lot of verses to support this, that if you follow God's law, specifically the Ten Commandments, you'll be blessed.
00:02:25.000 That's not to say that every Jewish person on the planet follows the Ten Commandments, but generally they've created cultural and religious patterns that are parallel and inconsistent, not inconsistent, and are consistent with the Ten Commandments.
00:02:41.000 I think you're more likely to succeed if you prioritize your family.
00:02:43.000 You take a day of rest.
00:02:45.000 My career exploded as I started to take Friday off to Sunday morning.
00:02:48.000 It's the opposite, you'd think, right?
00:02:50.000 What, you don't work for a day and your career gets better?
00:02:53.000 Yeah.
00:02:54.000 I think honoring the Shabbat is a way that you could actually have a competitive edge. 0.93
00:02:59.000 Not lying, not stealing, not murdering.
00:03:01.000 Again, it's not to say that every Jew on the planet follows those things.
00:03:06.000 But there are, again, in most Jewish family circles, there is a consistent ethical monotheism that I think makes you far more likely to succeed in life.
00:03:18.000 If you take an average secular family in America that believes there's no God and men can give birth and they work all seven days and they don't prioritize family, and then you take an average Jewish family that puts a lot of pressure on doing well in school. 0.82
00:03:33.000 Family is very important.
00:03:36.000 They have a strong ethnic and religious tie.
00:03:39.000 Who's going to be more likely to succeed?
00:03:41.000 I mean, the family that obviously believes in God's law, obviously.
00:03:47.000 What's hilarious is the average secular family I'm describing is quickly becoming the average Jewish family in America.
00:03:54.000 That's the irony, is that the average Jewish family in America is actually becoming more like the average secular family in America, which is too bad.
00:04:02.000 As Jews become more secular, they become more liberal.
00:04:05.000 They become less happy.
00:04:08.000 But I want to just zero in on this because some people, they say, Charlie, you know, there's a lot of envy and resentment.
00:04:13.000 I just, I don't like it, to be honest.
00:04:15.000 And instead, you should say, what do Jews do that differentiates them? 0.94
00:04:22.000 What is in their culture that gives them a leg up?
00:04:27.000 And they take care of their own.
00:04:30.000 Oh, yeah.
00:04:31.000 Jews donate more money than Christians do. 0.92
00:04:33.000 We've talked about that.
00:04:35.000 Jewish hospitals, Jewish schools, Jewish charities.
00:04:39.000 I mean, the amount of emails that I am receiving of donors that I've known throughout the years, some still give, some don't give, that are giving like 10 million, 25 million, 30 million, like in the last three days to Israel, to IDF for flashlights and bulletproof vests.
00:04:53.000 And it's unbelievable.
00:04:56.000 There is a story of a Jewish man who showed up at JFK airport.
00:05:02.000 It's an incredible story.
00:05:04.000 And he announces in Hebrew: if you're flying to Israel, I'll pay for your flight. 0.67
00:05:08.000 If you could show me your reservist orders, I'll pay for your flight.
00:05:13.000 He put $500,000 on his Black American Express credit card in LL flights.
00:05:20.000 Now, why the Israeli government is not paying for that is a separate issue.
00:05:24.000 Come on.
00:05:24.000 I mean, you're calling these guys back, but that's whatever.
00:05:27.000 But this guy steps up.
00:05:28.000 He says, I'm going to underwrite every flight back to Israel.
00:05:31.000 They stand up for their own.
00:05:33.000 I think that's really, really admirable.
00:05:36.000 I do.
00:05:37.000 And when you prioritize education, when you prioritize family, you're going to do better than people that do not.
00:05:45.000 Not to mention, embedded in just the practical elements of Jewish culture is literacy.
00:05:54.000 We take this for granted.
00:05:55.000 Reading and studying is not just allowed, everyone allows it, not just done, it is prioritized as a moral good to teach a three, four, or five-year-old to read the Torah.
00:06:11.000 So, of course, they're going to be more likely to consume other information.
00:06:15.000 They're going to be serious learners.
00:06:17.000 If you're a serious learner, you're going to do better in life versus someone who's a serious TV watcher.
00:06:22.000 In order to go through your Ba' or Bar Mitzvah, you have to study the Torah in the original Hebrew.
00:06:28.000 That works your intellectual muscles.
00:06:32.000 That makes you more likely to be able to succeed in a very difficult intellectual world.
00:06:37.000 So, those are just some of many, many examples.
00:06:39.000 And I'm introducing those examples and those factors because what I don't like is people act as if, well, you know, Jews are only successful because of some sort of like, I don't know, conspiracy.
00:06:52.000 I don't even want to get into that. 0.99
00:06:53.000 It's a bunch of trash. 0.99
00:06:54.000 I don't like it. 0.99
00:06:55.000 And so that's my answer to that question.
00:06:58.000 I don't want to spend too much time on that.
00:07:00.000 And not to mention hard work, being very industrious as well.
00:07:04.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.
00:07:06.000 Email this freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:07:12.000 So I went on Patrick Beth David's podcast, and, you know, we asked the question: was the Israeli government aware and potentially was there a stand down order given while these barbarians were in the gates, literally? 0.99
00:07:29.000 Now, that's a provocative question that would require that there are double agents within the Israeli government.
00:07:35.000 But it turns out that our speculation is not completely unfounded.
00:07:39.000 We're asking tough questions.
00:07:41.000 You have to ask the tough questions regardless of where they lead you.
00:07:46.000 And according to Axios, axios.com, the Israeli government heard that something was happening on the border, and they did not go into high alert.
00:07:59.000 I'm actually searching for the story right now in real time.
00:08:03.000 That the Israeli government received chatter.
00:08:07.000 In fact, the night before, and this is, I got to be very honest, this is very suspicious to me.
00:08:13.000 Not suspicious that somebody wanted it to happen, but this smells like gold of my ear in 1973.
00:08:21.000 And I'll tell you what that is.
00:08:22.000 I'll remind you what that is.
00:08:24.000 That the Israeli government knew that there was going to be some form of a border incursion.
00:08:31.000 Did they know how bad it was going to be?
00:08:34.000 Did they know to what extent?
00:08:37.000 Axios.com reports, if I can find this article here, that the Israeli government had a briefing and was given serious information in real time and the night before.
00:08:52.000 It's very strange, honestly.
00:08:56.000 Here it is.
00:08:57.000 Thank you.
00:08:59.000 Israel had intel on Hamas activity, but didn't put Gaza border on high alert.
00:09:04.000 Israeli intelligence the night before.
00:09:08.000 I don't like this.
00:09:09.000 I don't like this.
00:09:10.000 My spidey senses are going off.
00:09:11.000 My vaccine safe and effective senses, the COVID came from a Wuhan, a bat in the mountains. 1.00
00:09:22.000 There's nothing to see at Jeffrey Epstein pattern recognition is starting to be, hold on, time out, time out.
00:09:28.000 This is not good.
00:09:31.000 By the way, we were one of the first shows to say this, and people said, oh, you're a conspiracy theorist.
00:09:35.000 I said, I'm just asking questions, okay?
00:09:36.000 Turns out that there might be a little bit something to our gut here.
00:09:41.000 Israeli leaders received signs of irregular activity among Hamas operatives in Gaza, but top IDF leaders decided not to put military forces on the border of the enclave on high alert.
00:09:59.000 Three Israeli officials told Axios.
00:10:03.000 There are rumors that Egypt sent a warning.
00:10:07.000 And Netanyahu denies the Egyptian report, but three Israeli officials are saying that they saw, they probably saw people the night before starting to get, I don't know, gas up their motorcycles and running around like savages getting ready for an invasion.
00:10:26.000 And on the 50-year anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, they don't mobilize the military.
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00:13:37.000 So, look, we have to be clear with you guys.
00:13:40.000 You know, on this show, our team, we made the correct calls on the vaccine, ivermectin, vitamin D, Ukraine, Hunter Biden laptop.
00:13:49.000 We told DeSantis to drop out many, many months ago, ballot chasing, early voting, voter integrity, January 6th.
00:13:55.000 I mean, we have a good pattern here.
00:13:58.000 And Axios is backing up the questions we're asking.
00:14:02.000 Again, I don't know the answer, but we're getting closer and closer.
00:14:05.000 We're getting closer to an approximation of the truth here.
00:14:10.000 And I want to just reiterate this.
00:14:13.000 According to Axios, Barack Ravid, who is probably like an Israeli correspondent for Axios, I'm guessing.
00:14:21.000 Israel had intel.
00:14:23.000 Yeah, he is, he writes for Walla News and Israel political reporter for Axios.
00:14:28.000 Thank you.
00:14:28.000 Got it.
00:14:28.000 Okay.
00:14:29.000 Israeli intelligence the night before picked up signs of irregular activity among Hamas operatives in Gaza, but the IDF decided not to put military on the border or the enclave on high alert.
00:14:42.000 I find this to be so unacceptable.
00:14:44.000 The whole country is always on high alert.
00:14:47.000 What would have the argument have been not to do that?
00:14:50.000 Because it was Shabbat, High Holy Day. 0.87
00:14:53.000 You guys live in a war zone.
00:14:55.000 That's a bad excuse, guys.
00:14:56.000 I'm sorry.
00:14:58.000 There are rabbinical exceptions.
00:15:00.000 Again, I know Judaism not very well, but well enough.
00:15:03.000 You can break the Shabbat if it's a time of war or crisis.
00:15:07.000 50 years ago, they invaded you on the Yom Kippur War. 0.83
00:15:09.000 To the day, if life is at stake, they could have said, guys, I know that, you know, it's Shemat Torah.
00:15:15.000 We just read the entire Torah.
00:15:17.000 Hate to break the holy day, but there's some really weird stuff happened on the other side of the border.
00:15:22.000 This was not a surprise.
00:15:26.000 That's what Axios is reporting.
00:15:28.000 If what is Axios is reporting is true, this was not a surprise attack.
00:15:32.000 It was not.
00:15:33.000 It means they had Intel the night before, and they made a conscious decision not to do anything.
00:15:42.000 So let's go through all the possible explanations.
00:15:44.000 Explanation number one, the IDF did not want to have to deal with all the complaining of Orthodox Jews on kibbutz. 1.00
00:15:52.000 That's probably the excuse they're going to give.
00:15:55.000 That if they would have put that region on high alert, that they would have had a bunch of rabbis, again, what are you doing? 0.88
00:16:02.000 Give us one day.
00:16:04.000 Because it is a high holy day.
00:16:06.000 It's very important.
00:16:07.000 It's not the holiest day, but it's, you know, important.
00:16:12.000 So maybe that's they didn't want to have basically 20 kibbutzes saying, why are you doing this? 1.00
00:16:17.000 You guys are always overreacting.
00:16:20.000 Or that they just had the pride syndrome.
00:16:24.000 Okay, we hear reports of stuff all the time.
00:16:26.000 Come on.
00:16:26.000 What are they going to do?
00:16:27.000 Break in?
00:16:28.000 We got the tunnels.
00:16:29.000 We got the iron dome.
00:16:30.000 Let our people have a holy day.
00:16:32.000 It could have been fatigue.
00:16:34.000 It could have been the IDF just saying, like, you have to understand, the holy days are so dead in Israel.
00:16:39.000 It's similar to as if, like, on Christmas, it's like the American example, like on Christmas Eve, you tell like suburban neighborhoods to like arm up and like look for the enemy.
00:16:53.000 You're like, I can't get, like, we can't have one day.
00:16:56.000 Not to say that Christmas is overly holy, but there is kind of this idea of traditions and you have sort of a plan in your head of what you want to do on Christmas Day.
00:17:05.000 Could have been fatigue.
00:17:06.000 Could have been wishful thinking.
00:17:07.000 Or it could have been something more sinister.
00:17:10.000 It could have been one person, group of people, Assad, double-crossing the Israeli government.
00:17:14.000 There could have been decision makers that are compromised by radical Islamists.
00:17:20.000 That's a very hard thing. 0.99
00:17:21.000 That is sick.
00:17:22.000 If that's spies, essentially. 0.88
00:17:24.000 Double agents.
00:17:26.000 Or the worst of all the explanations, and let me be very clear before I say this, there's no evidence to support this except this Axios article, and it is pure raw speculation.
00:17:36.000 It could have been the Goldermair situation.
00:17:39.000 The Golden Mair situation 50 years ago, she was the prime minister of Israel.
00:17:43.000 Her team comes to her right before the Yom Kippur War, and they say, Egypt and Syria are about to invade.
00:17:49.000 Do you want to preemptively strike?
00:17:52.000 And she says, no.
00:17:54.000 Let them hit first, because if we hit first, we would lose American and international support.
00:18:00.000 Henry Kissinger then came out and said they would not have even received a bullet if Israel would have striked first.
00:18:07.000 That's a very dark explanation, if true.
00:18:10.000 But it has historical precedent.
00:18:13.000 50 years ago, Golden Mair was presented with similar intelligence.
00:18:17.000 And her rationale, by the way, she had to, she had to resign because of this.
00:18:22.000 And again, we're speculating, but we're speculating with historical evidence.
00:18:27.000 She said, I want the world to be on our side, so let the Arabs hit first. 1.00
00:18:31.000 The Israelis went nuts when they found out. 0.89
00:18:33.000 They drove her out of office.
00:18:35.000 Did the Netanyahu government, did the Lik Vood government, I'm mispronouncing it, government, make a conscious decision to allow Hamas into their country because they wanted the world to get behind them because the country was so divided.
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00:20:53.000 We're getting a lot of emails here about the Sean Hannity, who I've known Sean for years, and I have a lot of respect for Sean.
00:21:00.000 We don't see eye to eye on every issue, but Sean is a legend.
00:21:03.000 And Vivek Ramaswamy, who I really like, and I consider Vivek a friend.
00:21:06.000 And this is very heated.
00:21:07.000 They basically started shouting at one another.
00:21:09.000 It got unnecessarily heated, honestly.
00:21:11.000 And I'm going to kind of just take, I'm going to get, I'm going to be pretty down the middle here and kind of show you from both sides.
00:21:18.000 Sean Hannity views Vivek Ramaswamy as being insensitive towards the cruelties of Israel and not stepping up for Israel in a time for need.
00:21:29.000 Vivek Ramaswamy is pro-Israel and he has been very clear about that.
00:21:34.000 To accuse him of that is not true.
00:21:36.000 However, it's not always what you say in politics.
00:21:40.000 It's what people hear in politics.
00:21:43.000 And what people are hearing at times from Vivek Ramaswamy at now is a lack of, not sympathy, but not reading the room.
00:21:51.000 There's a certain heaviness that has set in where people are very worried and focused on Israeli security and the Jewish people.
00:21:58.000 It's not an atrocity like anything we've seen.
00:22:01.000 And you have to know that in politics.
00:22:03.000 It's not always what you say.
00:22:05.000 It's what people hear.
00:22:07.000 Now, Donald Trump, the laws of politics don't apply to Donald Trump.
00:22:10.000 That's the other thing that people have to know.
00:22:12.000 Even though if Donald Trump can get away with saying things that are off the wall and unique and unprecedented, unusual, does not mean you can as well.
00:22:20.000 This conversation got unnecessarily heated, by the way, between Sean and Vivek.
00:22:25.000 I'm going to play this, but let's go through this.
00:22:27.000 Where's the tape here?
00:22:28.000 I think we had it all lined up.
00:22:30.000 I don't know what happened to it.
00:22:31.000 Yeah, let's play this.
00:22:32.000 This is Cut 168.
00:22:34.000 Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:22:36.000 And let me be very clear.
00:22:36.000 I'm enthusiastically behind Vivek running for the presidency, him introducing new ideas.
00:22:41.000 He's smart.
00:22:41.000 He's exciting.
00:22:42.000 And honestly, the kind of anti-neoliberal, anti-neoconservative line of thinking that he is introducing to the conservative movement is healthy.
00:22:51.000 It is popular.
00:22:52.000 And it is necessary.
00:22:53.000 Please play Cut 168.
00:22:55.000 People say that.
00:22:56.000 You watch on these shows.
00:22:57.000 People quote your exact words and you deny your own words.
00:23:00.000 And I'm saying if you're going to be a presidential candidate, I'm going to give you your exact words in your own.
00:23:07.000 Sean, you have been sitting here for years talking about the fake news media.
00:23:10.000 You played this whole time.
00:23:12.000 I'm enjoying this.
00:23:13.000 You have been laughing about the fake news media how many times for the last several years and now you're buying the mainstream media narrative when you know how correct it is.
00:23:21.000 I think people that never held public office like you maybe should they're not qualified to be president.
00:23:26.000 Okay.
00:23:26.000 Anyway.
00:23:28.000 Not the best comeback.
00:23:29.000 Trump didn't hold public office and that's why we liked him.
00:23:32.000 So let's not use that argument.
00:23:33.000 But they're arguing all about this in Cut 171.
00:23:33.000 Okay.
00:23:37.000 Vivek and Tucker Carlson going back and forth about Armenia and Azerbaijan.
00:23:42.000 If we could get the other part of the Sean Vivek thing, and I'll be honest, I see it slightly from Sean's perspective.
00:23:47.000 I see it largely from Vivek's perspective.
00:23:49.000 And basically, the energy that Sean is putting forward is like, hey, man, like, can you take a week just to kind of let the atrocity of the Jewish people set in? 0.99
00:24:00.000 That's kind of what Sean's saying there.
00:24:02.000 I see, we live in a 24-hour news cycle. 0.98
00:24:04.000 There is real concerns about a regional war breaking out, but this is Vivek with the great Tucker Carlson, of whom I'm in harmony with when it comes to pushing against going into these stupid wars like one against Iran, play cut 171. 0.98
00:24:19.000 Look at what's happening with Azerbaijan and Armenia. 0.98
00:24:22.000 And what's happening is an atrocity.
00:24:24.000 I mean, you have a people who are Armenians, largely Christians, six-figure numbers, 100, 120,000 being driven back to their country from a region that has long been a place they have called home.
00:24:34.000 A lot of atrocities that aren't even yet come into light in Western media.
00:24:38.000 But Azerbaijan has a lobby, a powerful lobby in Washington, D.C.
00:24:43.000 But you'll hear endlessly about Russia's incursion on Ukraine and having to stand on the right side.
00:24:49.000 That's a separate point where I reject that Ukraine is inherently good anyway. 1.00
00:24:54.000 So we're going to get more of this tape here.
00:24:56.000 So Vivek is talking about how the Azerbaijan, by the way, credit to Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:25:00.000 I don't think a person running for the American presidency in the history of the nation has made a central point of Azerbaijan.
00:25:07.000 So that's pretty impressive, to be honest.
00:25:12.000 That is definitely new to introduce Azerbaijan into the American political discourse.
00:25:18.000 I am really good at geography.
00:25:20.000 Very good, not as good as Blake.
00:25:22.000 I don't think I could pick Azerbaijan off on a map.
00:25:25.000 I think it's east of Armenia and borders Iran, but that's just off the top of my head.
00:25:29.000 I think.
00:25:30.000 I think.
00:25:31.000 Am I right, Blake?
00:25:32.000 Oh, cool.
00:25:34.000 I was guessing.
00:25:35.000 Can I spell it?
00:25:36.000 Not a chance.
00:25:37.000 I am a legendarily bad speller.
00:25:41.000 Everyone knows that in the chat.
00:25:43.000 If you work with me, if I spell anything correctly, it is the exception, not the rule.
00:25:48.000 I'm an awful, like, I just, I type so fast, I just allow the typos to kind of just flow.
00:25:53.000 My favorite message from Andrew is: what?
00:25:58.000 It's just some approximation at get this clip.
00:26:02.000 It's like very, you know, all over the place.
00:26:04.000 It's fine.
00:26:05.000 Anyway, so Vivek, to his credit, is introducing this, and he's right.
00:26:09.000 By the way, I stand 100% with Armenia.
00:26:11.000 We should be talking about Armenia.
00:26:12.000 Armenia is the nation.
00:26:14.000 So this is as Armenia is the closest thing to Israel that Christians have. 0.90
00:26:21.000 It is the oldest Christian country.
00:26:24.000 Hey, we said it at the same time, Blake.
00:26:26.000 It is a Christian country in the middle, an explicitly Christian country in the Middle East.
00:26:31.000 Some of the smartest, most amazing people in America are Armenians.
00:26:36.000 And they are being basically displaced by Azerbaijanis.
00:26:41.000 Now, I'll be honest, I don't really know how big the Azerbaijani lobby in Washington, D.C. is.
00:26:47.000 I'll have to get back to you on that.
00:26:48.000 That's the first I've heard that.
00:26:50.000 But Armenia used to be four times as big, and it keeps on getting smaller and smaller and smaller. 1.00
00:26:54.000 And it's being ethnically cleansed. 0.89
00:26:56.000 And the Turks, by the way, did a legitimate genocide against them that is completely denied.
00:27:02.000 The Turks, not my favorite people. 1.00
00:27:03.000 Why Turkey's in NATO is so silly to me. 0.97
00:27:05.000 It makes no sense. 0.98
00:27:07.000 Not smart.
00:27:09.000 Why bring this up?
00:27:10.000 I think it actually is important.
00:27:10.000 Okay.
00:27:12.000 What's happening in Armenia is a really important thing.
00:27:17.000 It's very important.
00:27:19.000 Is it as horrific and as bad as what's happening right now in Israel?
00:27:25.000 No, that's not the argument we're making.
00:27:27.000 But it is a current displacement of about 100,000 people out of Armenia that Azerbaijan is doing.
00:27:35.000 By the way, it is a country, by the way, that borders Iran.
00:27:40.000 So, Vivek and Hannity are going back and forth.
00:27:43.000 And one thing I'll disagree with Hannity on is: Hannity says to Vivek, like, hey, man, no one is calling for a regional war.
00:27:50.000 That's not true.
00:27:51.000 Okay, technically, Sean is right.
00:27:54.000 Okay, no one is going on television saying, I want a regional war.
00:27:58.000 But the essence of what Lindsey Graham is saying would spark a regional war.
00:28:02.000 Okay, so that's not a fair attack vector against Vivek.
00:28:06.000 We have Lindsey Graham here. 0.92
00:28:06.000 We have like 900,000 clips here. 0.92
00:28:10.000 Okay, thank you.
00:28:10.000 Lindsey Graham.
00:28:11.000 Yeah, 92.
00:28:12.000 So it actually is true that some people are banging the drums that would result in a regional war.
00:28:17.000 So that's not a fair attack against Vivek.
00:28:20.000 Play Cut 92.
00:28:21.000 Well, for every Israeli or American hostage executed by Hamas, we should take down an Iranian oil refinery. 1.00
00:28:31.000 The only way you're going to keep this war from escalating is to hold Iran accountable. 0.97
00:28:35.000 I am confident this was planned and funded by the Iranians. 1.00
00:28:39.000 Hamas is a bunch of animals who deserve to be treated like animals. 1.00
00:28:44.000 So if I was Israel, I would go in on the ground. 0.99
00:28:47.000 There is no truce to be had here.
00:28:49.000 I would dismantle Hamas. 0.73
00:28:51.000 This is the best opportunity Israel has to destroy Hamas. 0.96
00:28:55.000 Take it to the Iranians. 1.00
00:28:57.000 It is now time to take the war to the Ayatollah's backyard. 0.99
00:29:01.000 Now to take the war to the Ayatollah's backyard, that would be a regional war. 0.79
00:29:01.000 Okay. 0.79
00:29:07.000 Okay?
00:29:08.000 You would have Sunni, Shia, and guess what?
00:29:10.000 Israeli planes, if you sent 10 Israeli fighter jets to Iran, it's a suicide mission.
00:29:16.000 First of all, it's about a 130 to 1400 mile flight.
00:29:19.000 You would lose at least seven out of 10 of them because of the Soviet-era defense systems.
00:29:24.000 And the Israeli jets literally do not have refueling capabilities because they have to fly over Jordan and Iraq to get back to Israel.
00:29:30.000 So they need an American aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.
00:29:34.000 So this idea that Israel can just single-handedly go send jets, yeah, if they're, and they might, they might find 10 patriotic Israeli Defense Force, Air Force members, I don't know what they call it, IDF Air Force, I don't know, to go and bomb Iranian oil fields. 0.55
00:29:49.000 But basically, they'll call America and say, can we use your aircraft carrier?
00:29:53.000 Which would be an active measure of war against Iran.
00:29:56.000 If we allowed Israel to use our aircraft carrier, even if it was Israeli planes, that 100% is an act of war, and that would be a mistake. 0.76
00:30:04.000 And understand that I think that 60%, can you fact check me?
00:30:08.000 I think 60, 65% of the Iranian population is under the age of 30.
00:30:12.000 Iran is a mess. 1.00
00:30:13.000 It's a dysfunctional country. 1.00
00:30:15.000 It's a very young country.
00:30:17.000 The Ayatollah is increasingly unpopular.
00:30:19.000 It's going to come to a simmering point at some point.
00:30:23.000 In bombing Iran, like, what do you, John McCain? 0.63
00:30:25.000 Isn't there like a video of him like bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran? 0.98
00:30:27.000 Or was that an SNL skit?
00:30:29.000 It's like you might as well have said it.
00:30:31.000 Yeah, 68%.
00:30:34.000 Wow, that's amazing.
00:30:35.000 It's a very, very young country.
00:30:37.000 Incredibly young country in Iran.
00:30:39.000 The Persian people are industrious people.
00:30:43.000 They're smart people.
00:30:44.000 It would be a big mistake to do that.
00:30:46.000 It would.
00:30:47.000 Stay focused.
00:30:48.000 Stay precise.
00:30:50.000 Israel is handling this correctly right now, honestly. 0.98
00:30:53.000 Giving people aforementioned notice, talking about humanitarian corridors, offering medical support, doing leaflets.
00:31:00.000 That is a good way forward.
00:31:04.000 Be the moral and the humane actors.
00:31:06.000 Being measured.
00:31:08.000 Israel knows they have a superior military.
00:31:11.000 Israel has bombed parts of northern Gaza.
00:31:15.000 They're going in right now.
00:31:17.000 Needs to be clear not to turn this into a broader Middle Eastern war.
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00:32:36.000 So I guess reflections on ending my 20s.
00:32:40.000 That's quite something.
00:32:43.000 So I roughly tallied it up.
00:32:45.000 I traveled well over 3,100 days in my 20s.
00:32:50.000 So I saw a lot of the world.
00:32:52.000 Saw a lot of America.
00:32:54.000 We have a great country.
00:32:56.000 Learned a lot.
00:32:57.000 Boy, how many speeches do you think I gave in the last 20s?
00:33:01.000 If I was on the road for 3,100 days, I gave about a speech a day, sometimes two or three.
00:33:07.000 Yeah, probably 3,000 speeches.
00:33:10.000 That's amazing.
00:33:12.000 Been doing radio for, is it three years now?
00:33:16.000 Yeah, we missed our three-year anniversary of radio.
00:33:19.000 Just kind of glossed over it.
00:33:20.000 So that's three shows a day.
00:33:24.000 And then we do podcasts on Saturday, Sundays.
00:33:26.000 That's almost like a thousand podcasts, easily, right?
00:33:28.000 Easily 1,200, 1,300, 1,400 podcasts.
00:33:31.000 No, Turning Point USA has exploded in the last days.
00:33:33.000 I didn't start it in my 20s, but it was small when I turned 20, and it is not small any longer.
00:33:41.000 Wrote a couple books.
00:33:43.000 One of them, a New York Times bestseller, should have been number one, but the whole system is rigged.
00:33:48.000 I think we were number two or three.
00:33:49.000 MAGA Doctrine.
00:33:51.000 Oh, yeah.
00:33:52.000 Started this whole podcast, and I guess you could call it, is it a media company now?
00:33:56.000 I guess you could call it that.
00:33:57.000 Andrew says, yes, it's a media company.
00:33:59.000 Okay, cool.
00:34:00.000 So we have that whole thing.
00:34:01.000 We do have lots of employees.
00:34:03.000 That is true.
00:34:03.000 I have Turning Point Action that we really Turning Point Action now has like 75 staff.
00:34:07.000 I turn over Iraq and they're hiring like another 30 people.
00:34:10.000 It's pretty cool.
00:34:11.000 We have 300,000 donors now at Turning Point USA.
00:34:14.000 So that's pretty cool.
00:34:16.000 300,000 people.
00:34:17.000 That's as many troops are on the Israeli border of Gaza.
00:34:22.000 Chapters are just unbelievable.
00:34:23.000 Launched TPUSA Faith, which is very.
00:34:26.000 If you told me a decade ago we'd have TPSA Faith, I'd say, why would we do that?
00:34:30.000 All the churches are strong and they love liberty.
00:34:32.000 No, they don't.
00:34:33.000 Largest pastor summits in the country.
00:34:35.000 Launched Turning Point Academy.
00:34:37.000 Let's see what else we did.
00:34:39.000 Oh, yeah.
00:34:40.000 I mean, our social media powerhouse Frontlines is up and going.
00:34:44.000 Ana Paulina Luna, Candace Owens, Brandon Tatum, Will Witt, Isabel Brown all came through our ranks.
00:34:50.000 Some are still with us.
00:34:53.000 Yeah, we raised a fair amount of money.
00:34:54.000 I think, according to the press, I guess we raised $250 million in the last four or five years.
00:34:59.000 So that's kind of cool.
00:35:02.000 It's inflation.
00:35:03.000 You can't take that seriously.
00:35:05.000 It's very blessed.
00:35:06.000 We're very blessed, but it's not as impressive as it sounds.
00:35:10.000 So yeah, it's been a good decade.
00:35:11.000 What did I learn?
00:35:13.000 I got married and had a kid, so that's the most important thing.
00:35:15.000 You should do that.
00:35:18.000 Somebody emailed us.
00:35:19.000 How many death threats?
00:35:20.000 A lot.
00:35:20.000 Tens of thousands.
00:35:22.000 Yeah, how many liberals did I debate in the last decade?
00:35:24.000 That's fun to think about, isn't it?
00:35:26.000 How many left-wingers?
00:35:28.000 A lot.
00:35:29.000 Ryan, you have like all those videos, right?
00:35:31.000 How many hours of video do you think I did in my 20s?
00:35:35.000 I mean, it's got to be over 15 to 20,000 hours of video, right?
00:35:38.000 Is that fair to say?
00:35:39.000 15 to 20,000 hours of video.
00:35:41.000 Oh, that's right.
00:35:42.000 Okay, yeah.
00:35:43.000 We have billions of views of our content.
00:35:45.000 That's true.
00:35:45.000 Billions of views.
00:35:47.000 Our content has been viewed billions of times.
00:35:49.000 That's pretty cool.
00:35:50.000 Started honoring the Sabbath, which was a game changer. 1.00
00:35:54.000 And yeah, just honestly, you know, in your mid-20s, when you start to do this for a while, you have to make a decision whether or not you want to double down or whether you want to just kind of give up.
00:36:07.000 And praise God, I have a great team around me.
00:36:10.000 And it's not about me.
00:36:11.000 It's obviously I'm turning 30, which is its own thing.
00:36:13.000 But the team has just supported us so beautifully and so amazingly.
00:36:16.000 We have the best team in all of media and all of politics.
00:36:19.000 I really believe that.
00:36:20.000 Definitely take my faith more seriously than I did when I was 20.
00:36:23.000 Learn who my real friends are.
00:36:25.000 That is totally true.
00:36:27.000 I do not have many friends, but the friends I have are important.
00:36:31.000 Yeah, I really don't talk to many people back from my hometown.
00:36:34.000 People that I thought were friends, discarded.
00:36:37.000 Definitely less libertarian than I was 10 years ago.
00:36:40.000 That's for sure.
00:36:42.000 And those are all very good things.
00:36:44.000 And let's see what the 30s have in store.
00:36:48.000 But I got to be honest, the 20s were unbelievably blessed.
00:36:51.000 I don't really have many regrets.
00:36:54.000 You know, it's funny, when you travel 3,100 days and you really don't take any days off, I can say this for those of you in your early 20s.
00:37:00.000 You don't wish you would have taken more time off.
00:37:04.000 I mean, you don't like, boy, I wish I would have sat around more.
00:37:08.000 If any regrets, it's like I probably could have pushed myself even harder.
00:37:13.000 Maybe.
00:37:15.000 I nearly break myself sometimes.
00:37:18.000 Yeah, I've been to all 50 states, you know, 20 countries, seen some pretty cool stuff.
00:37:23.000 And we have some big goals in our 30s.
00:37:25.000 For all of you rascals out there that thought you guys could get us to give up on our 20s, you were wrong.
00:37:31.000 We had a great decade, and we have another one coming up.
00:37:33.000 So God bless you guys.
00:37:34.000 Thank you for all of your support.
00:37:36.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:37.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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