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00:04:31.000And if you search like Trump anti-Semitic speech, you just get Biden's speech because Google only shows you recent news stories.
00:04:37.000So I am still looking for this, but I don't feel like I've heard Trump say that, but I must say it's in like the zone of potential things that I could imagine Trump saying.
00:04:47.000He just said like, these anti-Semites, they're bad people.
00:05:27.000Like, we've taken a pretty consistent line, and I think a lot of the Trump supporting right has taken a consistent line of you can protest, you can say what you want on campus.
00:05:38.000You know, if the rules let you, you can even set up an encampment.
00:05:41.000But once that you're breaking the rules or trespassing or attacking people or intimidating, you know, doing real violence, yeah, you're breaking the law, and we're going to shut it down.
00:05:51.000And we should be in favor of maximum speech and minimal crime.
00:05:56.000And the left is always, they're the ones who invert this.
00:05:58.000They're the ones who say that when we riot, it's speech, but when you speech, it's violence, and you're not allowed to do that because it intimidated people.
00:06:06.000And the way to stand against that is to actually be very robust.
00:06:29.000I had this weird dream last night that you and Erica came over to our house for supper, and it was weird because Erica didn't say anything, and about every six to 12 minutes, you got up and left the room.
00:08:31.000Scouting America now, because they don't, they let girls in now.
00:08:36.000I'm not sure the full scope of it, but I think at this point, girls can basically do everything in scouts and become Eagle Scouts and everything like that.
00:08:43.000This is so the Boy Scouts of America is still running SEO ads, and it still has Boy Scouts of America on their website.
00:08:50.000They formally changed their name, I think, March next year.
00:08:52.000They've like pre-announced it, basically.
00:08:54.000And I got to be very honest with you, this is a tragedy, a huge one.
00:08:59.000I kind of stopped following this closely after like 2017 or 2018 is when they first started letting girls in.
00:09:07.000And I had a friend of mine who has been involved in scouting quite heavily.
00:09:11.000He was saying, he was defending it, saying this is why they need to do it.
00:09:15.000And I was saying, I can just tell the direction this is headed.
00:10:36.000Whereas if it's just 15 boys, they're still competing, but it's a different dynamic.
00:10:40.000They're actually more like encouraging of one another.
00:10:42.000It's more like building up the least of these.
00:10:45.000Yeah, and it's like, you know, even in debates, for example, it's like if you introduce someone who gets like, you know, women are a little more easily offended by things.
00:10:53.000And then like you change the rules to be more civil.
00:10:55.000And like male debate spaces are like really aggro.
00:11:10.000So I want to keep going into this next segment because we're both Eagle Scouts and like Boy Scout Camp was amazing and all the merit badge process.
00:11:17.000Like the actual way it used to be, it's a great American thing.
00:13:51.000It wasn't like an arm of any church or anything.
00:13:55.000But it was an organization that appealed to those people.
00:13:59.000And we have many cases, and this is a really bad one, of an organization like that sort of treating its natural supporters like crap to try to win the approval or support of people who innately dislike them and are not on their side.
00:14:14.000So they're told by all these people, yeah, you guys have to become really pro-gay and pro-BLM and pro-all of these things.
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00:17:29.000Okay, I want to get to our next question here, but just those that are not in Scouting know that there is a huge emphasis in scouting on acting ethically.
00:17:37.000If I were to say the biggest thing, it was that you must be a good person before everything else.
00:19:01.000But it's not what's great about Boy Scouts is like everything fit together.
00:19:05.000It was skills and it was like a positive male space and it promoted kind of traditional values without having to be like sectarian, so to speak.
00:19:16.000It was just everything about it was good.
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00:19:42.000Okay, Lisi, thank you for being a member.
00:19:47.000My question is, what are your thoughts on the recent confirmation and announcement of the Department of Labor salary threshold increases and the FTC ban on non-compete agreements?
00:20:00.000I'm going to hand this off to Mr. Blake because you actually flagged this.
00:20:04.000I asked the question, and you can, is this even legal?
00:20:06.000Can the federal government ban contractual agreements between employers and employees?
00:20:12.000I've definitely sensed that it seems like an overreach for the FTC to come out and say, like, oh, we've decided this is illegal now.
00:20:20.000It is a huge reach to just say, oh, like Congress created this and we just realized this interpreting the law or this is within the scope of what the FTC does.
00:20:30.000I did ask a pretty prominent leader in like the tech space what the impact of this would be.
00:20:38.000And what I will say is he didn't seem to think it would be that bad.
00:20:43.000He pointed out that non-competes like in tech, for example, are very much a way of entrenching the big competitor, like the big established players because they say like, oh, you can't leave and start your own company ever.
00:20:56.000It varies from place to place how legitimate that would be.
00:21:01.000But by its very nature, non-competes favor entrenched actors.
00:21:04.000They're already banned in some states.
00:21:07.000But how would they even get the idea that they can get between private contract law?
00:21:13.000Well, I mean, we have the Commerce Clause, which is the most elastic clause in the U.S. Constitution.
00:21:18.000So if you have any company that does any business between more than one state, the government can basically do whatever they want.
00:21:25.000Like all of the civil rights acts are justified by the Commerce Clause.
00:21:29.000You know, they can do things like ban you from raising chickens, like growing wheat on your own farm to feed your own chickens because in some tangential way, that would involve interstate commerce.
00:21:40.000So if you think of it that way, they can probably ban non-compete contracts for a large company.
00:21:50.000I think a lot of people are freaking out about this.
00:21:53.000I suspect it could easily get tossed out.
00:21:57.000I don't know if it would necessarily be a bad thing if it became law or like the worst thing in the world if it became law.
00:22:37.000Well, no, you would probably quit, right?
00:22:39.000Well, but what if you need to work this job or you'll be homeless or it's paired with a non-compete so you can't work in the same industry?
00:23:20.000Whereas a non-compete is essentially saying you, it's a coercive impact on your ability to work somewhere else, to leave and do work with another company.
00:23:30.000Right, but they signed it voluntarily.
00:24:30.000Yet the impact of it is to give enormous power to what are already the entrenched established actors.
00:24:36.000Like, there are a ton of contracts that we don't allow.
00:24:40.000And then to say, like, oh, this thing is protected by like the sanctity of contract.
00:24:44.000And it's the one that says, oh, if you work for this company, you can never leave and still work in the same field.
00:24:50.000Like the amount of power that gives to someone.
00:24:52.000And like, yeah, they agree to it, but they're the entrenched actor.
00:24:56.000And so you get a cyclical thing where like, oh, you can only work at this one monopolistic company if you're in this field.
00:25:02.000And the reason that they're the ones who are the monopoly in this field is because they force everyone who works for them to sign a contract that they can never form a competitor.
00:25:10.000Yeah, Google or like, okay, if I work at Salesforce.
00:25:15.000Oh, yeah, or any company or like, let's say an AI company.
00:25:18.000And you're like, I work at this AI company and I sign a contract that I can never leave and work at a different AI company or start my own AI company.
00:25:26.000And to say like you can't sign, like to say that you can sign a contract that restricts your future freedom of action that sharp of a hole.
00:25:58.000All right, well, then it's not as like making a non-compete as part of like a purchase agreement or something large like that, as opposed to a condition of employment is that you just can't leave.
00:26:10.000It feels very dark to me to say that that level.
00:26:13.000Ryan says C-levels were not part of this.
00:26:31.000And they paid him like hundreds of millions of dollars for his restaurants.
00:26:34.000And so you could see where that tension is.
00:26:37.000Yeah, I feel like at the least, like getting rid of non-competes doesn't kill businesses.
00:26:43.000And they still have a lot of startups in California without them, despite California being a horrible state in a million other ways for business.
00:26:50.000So probably not the end of the world to get rid of them.
00:26:53.000I understand why people would oppose them.
00:26:55.000I also understand or would oppose the ban.
00:26:58.000But I don't think it necessarily should be a knee-jerk thing.
00:27:00.000I think you can make a pro-capitalism, pro-free market argument for restricting them.
00:27:05.000That said, I do think Congress should pass a law rather than Lena Khan coming out and just saying, I'm going to blow this up.
00:27:12.000I mean, I just don't trust the administrative state because they're going to go after NDAs.
00:27:23.000Well, it's all silly now where we get this song and dance where you'll have an NDA and then someone will come out and say, like, I want to say something, but I can't because of the NDA.
00:27:32.000And they do that stupid PR assault to force them to waive the NDA.
00:27:36.000And it's like, well, why do the NDAs exist then?
00:27:40.000Yeah, I guess, but they're still not breaking it.
00:28:19.000So I had a question regarding your stance on the conflict in Jammu and Kashmir.
00:28:26.000Obviously, this is an issue that's been debated.
00:28:29.000And obviously, this has been an issue that has been brought up by many senators and congressmen and congresswomen in America.
00:28:36.000Obviously, with me, this is a very important issue to me because my ancestors were actually driven out of their homes in Jammu and Kashmir and they were victims of Islamist settler colonization.
00:28:48.000And when I see politicians like Elon Omer and many other U.S. politicians saying that India is illegally occupying the land and saying that the U.S. should encourage for the, you know, the encouragement of the freedom of demonstration and the free will for Kashmiris, it really hits a nerve with me.
00:29:08.000So I wanted to know what is the conservative talking point on this conflict and what should what stand should the U.S. take?
00:29:16.000And you personally, I know you don't know too much about this conflict, but I want to know what your take on this conflict is and obviously who you think the land rightfully belongs to.
00:29:27.000Thank you for your support and for that question.
00:29:30.000So I first, I'm going to let Blake just take some time and walk through exactly what we're talking about here.
00:29:35.000It is not a everyday American topic, but it's a very important one geopolitically.
00:29:40.000So Blake, educate the audience on that.
00:29:42.000Okay, so he's talking about, and feel free to correct me if he's still here if I screw anything up, because I'm certainly not an expert on it.
00:29:49.000So Jammu and Kashmir, they're a region in the northern Indian subcontinent.
00:29:54.000It's a disputed region between India and Pakistan.
00:29:59.000So it's kind of, it's, like I said, far north, kind of near the Himalayas.
00:30:04.000So about half that territory is currently administered by Pakistan and about half is administered by India.
00:30:13.000It fits into the wider conflict because there are people in Kashmir who want to be independent.
00:30:17.000There are people who would like to be part of Pakistan, people who would like to be part of India.
00:30:21.000It's become a little more fraught recently because I think it had a special legal status in India where other Hindu Indians in the rest of the country couldn't buy land there, I believe.
00:30:33.000And they've recently revised that so that they're able to move there and it's a more normal part of India.
00:31:19.000That said, on the specifics of the Kashmir question, I think this is a classic case of a question the U.S. should not be getting too involved in because it is literally on the other side of the planet.
00:31:33.000And there are people who care a lot more about it than we ever will.
00:31:38.000And it's just, it's not crucial to U.S. security.
00:31:41.000And I think the last 40 years of U.S. history have shown us the perils of repeatedly getting invested in territorial disputes on the far side of the planet.
00:31:50.000Like even, you know, like with Russia-Ukraine.
00:31:52.000We've never said there is not a right or wrong side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
00:31:56.000I think we're sympathetic towards Ukrainians, that they're being invaded.
00:32:36.000We should continue to cultivate our friendly status with them because I do agree they're more sympathetic than Pakistan.
00:32:44.000But I don't think that America should be investing its diplomatic weight in one side of a question that is probably relatively intractable.
00:33:01.000Another important component is Pakistan allegedly was supposed to help us with a war in terror, but then they were safe harboring Osama bin Laden.
00:33:08.000Like that's one of the conspiracies is they, that, you know, all of the story of how we found him is fake and Pakistan just said, yeah, there he is.
00:34:28.000I would talk about their need to speak about what's happening in the country and why they should be biblical in their approach and be unafraid of being called political.
00:34:46.000So you have a conference in mind, Daniel?
00:34:50.000For the first time in a long time, I'm going to the Willow Creek one as an attendee, not as a speaker, but I would curious on what, if you were a speaker there, what would you be speaking on?
00:35:06.000Interestingly, I'm so glad you mentioned that.
00:35:09.000I would passively attend Willow Creek Community Church.
00:35:12.000And when Bill Heibels was still there, they have their global leadership conference or their summit, which I think is what you're talking about.
00:35:19.000They have gone very woke, Daniel, as I'm sure you know.
00:35:21.000And I'm glad you're going, by the way.
00:35:22.000You should go there and be salt and light and be influenced, meet as many people as you can.
00:35:26.000But they have gone very, very woke, and they did for quite some time.
00:35:30.000And that's honestly one of the reasons why I think that church fell apart.
00:35:33.000And Willow Creek is largely responsible for the corporatization of the modern American church.
00:35:39.000They were through their global leadership summit, they kind of presented this model: like, hey, go borrow a bunch of money, get huge buildings, try to get as many people as possible, you know, dilute the gospel message.
00:36:12.000Huge conversation happening right now about celebrities going to the Met Gala and showing off their wealth while everyday Americans can't pay for their groceries.
00:36:19.000While a conservative, I can see the issue of, quote, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.
00:36:27.000Well, so look, I don't think as a conservative, it should be a contradiction.
00:36:30.000You have to just be very clear, first and foremost, that that is the perfect image of the modern left and the super rich oligarchs and the government-dependent poor.
00:36:38.000That is their coalition: super-rich oligarchs and the government-dependent poor.
00:36:42.000Tickets were $75,000 a piece, is what I'm told to the Met Gala, $75,000 apiece.
00:36:48.000Now, not everyone had to pay, but some were invited, and some people did indeed pay.
00:36:52.000But this is important: the American middle class is being destroyed.
00:36:55.000According to Zillow.com, it required to buy a home about $75,000 a year when Donald Trump ended his presidency.
00:37:12.000I think it's immoral for rich people to be rich and to do things, but I would say Tucker has talked about this too.
00:37:21.000It's sort of from a prudential point of view, which is if you're going to live it up, you should be aware of what the state of your country is and how it will appear to people.
00:37:31.000And if you have extreme, lavish, over-the-top displays, opulence, displays of wealth in a country that has a sense of being in decay, that will, the public is going to take a jaundiced eye towards that.
00:37:50.000Like in a more healthy society, people are kind of like, they enjoy the lives of like the rich and famous and they, you know, they'll be okay with it.
00:37:57.000But if their sense is like, these people are living great and laughing at us.
00:38:02.000And yeah, and they're just getting really rich at my expense, they're going, that's how you get this like pre-revolutionary ferment where people want to burn it all down.
00:38:10.000And we don't want to burn it all down.
00:38:25.000It's sort of, that's why Teddy Roosevelt was a great president.
00:38:28.000It was that he could look at an America that was fabulously wealthy and getting wealthier, but say, if we don't curb excesses, there will be like a revolution in America.
00:38:38.000And we don't want that because America is a great country.
00:38:41.000And I think you want to have that attitude with your wealthy people, that they should think we can live well, but we have some obligations towards the country.
00:38:50.000And some of that can be as simple as at least some of the wealth should be very publicly directed.
00:38:55.000And I think one thing that stinks with our rich people is like their charitable endeavors are often kind of uninspiring.
00:39:01.000Like, you know, you just feed $500 million into this left-wing activist group that then erects encampments in your cities.
00:39:08.000Andrew Carnegie spent a billion dollars building libraries, and they're all so beautiful that, you know, 80% of them are still standing today.
00:39:16.000My city hall in Sioux Falls when I was growing up was a Carnegie library that they converted.
00:39:21.000And I think you'd want wealthy people to put a lot of cash into beautifying things that the public can appreciate.
00:39:30.000And I think America feels really great when we're able to see that, when you have the most beautiful things in your society are open to the public, accessible to the public.
00:39:39.000Yeah, and in addition to that, that's why I have so much respect for Elon Musk, is that Elon Musk has deployed a huge portion of his net worth for something that is not just Met Gala, you know, opulence, right?
00:39:50.000Again, I have no problem with if you earned your money, spend it how you want, but be very careful about the message it sends to people if they're struggling and then they're in pain when you are doing nothing to save them.
00:39:58.000And Elon Musk buying Twitter and liberating it has been one of the great charitable moral goods.
00:41:14.000It's that they're getting more openly conservative.
00:41:17.000Like when you were doing your table at Washington, we had quite a group of guys who were just like directly standing against the anti-FIFA goons.
00:41:27.000And like, you know, they'll, for lack of a better term, dialogue with them as opposed to, they won't just stand in their way or scream at them.
00:41:33.000They'll kind of like ridicule them or make ideological points.
00:41:37.000And you just, I don't feel think people were brave enough to do that in 2019, 2020.
00:41:43.000There was more of a fever over the country that made that feel dangerous.
00:41:46.000And it still is somewhat dangerous, but people are standing up for themselves a lot more.
00:41:59.000I've debated, you know, professors and politicians.
00:42:03.000But your average college kid sometimes actually is more into it than an adult.
00:42:07.000They have more time and they have more energy at times.
00:42:09.000Okay, let's go to the next question here.
00:42:11.000Let's go to Charlie Newmember here since 25 years, a legal alien with a fairly big business in Great America.
00:42:17.000I live and breathe it every day, really worried about America.
00:42:19.000Would be a lot cheaper and closer for me for my family to move to Russia, but I picked up to America for all the reasons you're fighting for every day.
00:42:24.000Question, with all the polling data and predictions for the electoral votes with the Nebraska issue, will it get changed?
00:42:30.000I've said before we feel very good about Nebraska.
00:44:00.000And a concern I have, very often, I think conservatives have learned to be combative towards polls.
00:44:07.000And the attitude you'll see is they'll believe the polls are like a form of propaganda.
00:44:13.000Like they're structured to like, oh, they want to send the message.
00:44:16.000Like, for example, they'll rig the poll so it looks like Biden's way up to demoralize us.
00:44:21.000And then now maybe they're swinging our way because they want us overconfident.
00:44:25.000There's a lot of different polling outfits.
00:44:28.000My belief is most pollsters who are not like affiliated with a campaign, because there are polls like that, but most normal polls that you're going to see reported in the news, they are trying to get it right.
00:44:41.000They want to be accurate because that is what their professional reputation is staked on.
00:44:45.000There are fake polls at times, though.
00:44:47.000There are fake polls, and polling error is real.
00:44:50.000But I do believe that they consider it embarrassing that they whiffed so bad in 2020 in many states.