The Charlie Kirk Show - December 09, 2024


Ask Charlie Anything 206: The Country of Georgia? Celebrating Jewish Festivals? Is Crypto Christian?


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In this episode, we take a question from the country of Georgia about the situation in Syria and South Korea. We also have a special guest call in from South Korea, who has a very interesting perspective on the situation.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 We take questions from you in Ask Me Anything episode.
00:00:03.000 We take questions from the country of Georgia.
00:00:05.000 We talk Syria and South Korea.
00:00:06.000 It's an international episode.
00:00:07.000 Mr. Blake helps me through it.
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00:00:22.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:23.000 Here we go.
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00:01:28.000 To ask us questions directly, we also have Blake.
00:01:30.000 Blake, say hello.
00:01:32.000 Charlie, good to be here.
00:01:33.000 Blake, it's been a while since I've seen you, so we'll see when I return.
00:01:37.000 You're far away.
00:01:38.000 We have a third hour in our show, apparently.
00:01:41.000 I know.
00:01:42.000 Things are changing.
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00:01:47.000 The members are the best.
00:01:48.000 Okay, let's get to Lucas.
00:01:49.000 Lucas, thank you for being a member.
00:01:51.000 What is on your mind?
00:01:52.000 Hi.
00:01:53.000 So, yeah, just to introduce myself, I live in Georgia, the country, and pretty much the situation here isn't great at the moment.
00:02:06.000 So pretty much what the government did was they said that they would delay EU accession talks until 2028. And the European Union is also pushing back against the government's decision against that,
00:02:23.000 and also because the government passed a few controversial laws in the past year, such as the law on family values, which pretty much tries to get rid of LGBT propaganda in schools, and then another law, which is...
00:02:40.000 A law on foreign transparency, which is to address foreign funding.
00:02:44.000 It's kind of similar to FARA, the US law.
00:02:48.000 So I'm just wondering.
00:02:49.000 And yeah, pretty much what happened was the current US embassy completely stopped any relations with Georgia.
00:02:57.000 And the EU is threatening Georgia.
00:02:59.000 So at the moment, Georgia and citizens can go to the EU visa-free, and they're threatening to end that too.
00:03:05.000 So I'm just wondering what the current, the new Trump administration can do to help the situation out, and yeah, what the future could look like.
00:03:15.000 Well, I can't speak to what the Trump administration will do, but let me understand this.
00:03:19.000 First of all, it's amazing that you're calling in from the country of Georgia.
00:03:22.000 One of our team members didn't know that Georgia was a country, and so she will be re-educated.
00:03:28.000 But of course, it's just amazing.
00:03:30.000 So for people I don't know, yes, Georgia is very much a country, and it borders Armenia and Turkey.
00:03:37.000 It's in that neck of the woods.
00:03:39.000 And so let me ask you, Lucas, Just to clarify, so you're saying that basically a lot of U.S. diplomacy is being cut off because you guys passed a law to prevent LGBT propaganda.
00:03:53.000 Is that right, amongst other things?
00:03:55.000 Educate us.
00:03:55.000 I'm fascinated to learn about other countries.
00:03:57.000 So the two laws that were passed, the first one is one that concerns family value.
00:04:03.000 So it bans LGBT propaganda in schools and other public sectors.
00:04:09.000 And then the second law is the law on foreign transparency, which essentially addresses foreign funding to NGOs.
00:04:17.000 So any NGO here that receives over 20% of their funds from foreign countries must register as an agent and disclose their funds to the government.
00:04:30.000 So those are the two laws in question and the EU wants us to deal with those laws.
00:04:35.000 Yeah.
00:04:36.000 Well, first of all, you speak phenomenal English.
00:04:39.000 Were you raised in Georgia?
00:04:42.000 Yeah, I was raised in Georgia, but I went to a British school here.
00:04:46.000 You speak great English.
00:04:48.000 Blake, do you have a thought on all this?
00:04:49.000 This, Blake, is our expert Georgian here.
00:04:53.000 Yeah, so I guess I don't have – I'm not an expert on what's specifically going on in Georgia.
00:05:00.000 But what I will say is you can look at the headlines and you can see outlines very similar to attacks we've seen on the government of Hungary.
00:05:10.000 It's very similar to the articles they were writing when Ukraine had the original color revolution.
00:05:17.000 Back in 2014, where they'll say the government is attacking democracy, and then you dig into the details and it's stuff like, well, the government is promoting traditional families and opposing LGBT stuff.
00:05:31.000 Okay, that's not democracy, that's just left-wing political stuff.
00:05:35.000 And so I think...
00:05:38.000 What you'd see here if you dig into it is they're basically just saying if the government isn't as fanatically anti-Russia as we are, then they're not a democracy.
00:05:47.000 If the government doesn't promote socially liberal stuff that we want, they're not a democracy.
00:05:52.000 If they don't join the European Union and allow all of our big NGOs to do whatever they want, that's anti-democracy.
00:06:01.000 And so I would certainly raise an eyebrow at all of that.
00:06:05.000 And what I think is, as Charlie says, we don't know exactly what the Trump administration will do, but I do think Trump's general anti-intervention impulses would mean he will hopefully have a State Department that's less likely to try and tip the scales over what a country should be doing about its family policy and the like.
00:06:24.000 And so I think we'll have a much better State Department under Trump than we've had under Biden or as we had under Obama back in the day.
00:06:33.000 Very good.
00:06:34.000 All right, thank you.
00:06:35.000 Appreciate it, Lucas.
00:06:36.000 God bless you.
00:06:37.000 Thank you.
00:06:37.000 Thanks.
00:06:38.000 Okay, who do we have next?
00:06:40.000 Daisy, let's see.
00:06:42.000 Andrea.
00:06:42.000 Andrea, what is on your mind?
00:06:44.000 Andrea, thank you for being a member.
00:06:45.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:06:46.000 First, you are so inspiring.
00:06:48.000 I've been following you for years and I'm just blown away.
00:06:51.000 Thank you.
00:06:52.000 Yeah, with the holidays, my question is on religion.
00:06:56.000 I was curious about how and when you began celebrating Shabbat as my husband and I have been too.
00:07:02.000 Are you also following the festivals?
00:07:04.000 And I think you mentioned your book might be on this topic.
00:07:07.000 That is right.
00:07:09.000 So, when did I start doing it?
00:07:10.000 So, yes, my next book, unless there's something else that comes across, is going to be Stop in the Name of God.
00:07:17.000 It is all about the Shabbat, and I believe that we are called to honor and be anchored to the Sabbath.
00:07:27.000 Are you Jewish, or are you Christian, or are you Seventh-day Adventist?
00:07:30.000 Actually, so I grew up Jewish, and then my husband was Catholic, and we just recently learned, we've been watching The Chosen, and we've been on this journey, and I think that there's an actual awakening going on, because we've actually realized and learned that there is actually a history where the apostles originally,
00:07:55.000 you know, these two religions were joined, and, you know, just the whole history We have been reading on and so we have gone back to celebrating Shabbat as well as the Hebrew festivals, Hanukkah is coming up and are no longer celebrating Christmas, but we've just been doing a lot of reading and the Hebrew roots topic has been very interesting to us and inspiring.
00:08:26.000 So, yeah, I'm just fascinated by this.
00:08:29.000 Again, I'm a big fan of the Shabbat.
00:08:30.000 Less about the biblical rigidity of it.
00:08:33.000 I'm going to get into that in the book.
00:08:34.000 But more about what it can mean for a country and a civilization that is drowning in modernity to disconnect and literally cease all work and all activity.
00:08:45.000 Your specific question is, do I follow other Jewish festivals such as Sukkot or Shavuot or Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah?
00:08:55.000 I think I'm missing a couple there, but those are the main ones.
00:08:58.000 No, and the main reason being is obviously as a Christian, we do not feel bound to the specific Jewish festivals.
00:09:06.000 However, the Shabbat is very different.
00:09:08.000 It is in the Ten Commandments.
00:09:11.000 And the Shabbat is by far the most repeated law in the Torah, repeated of remember the Sabbath, remember the Sabbath, punishment by death, by the way, if you desecrated the Sabbath publicly.
00:09:22.000 And the Shabbat, unlike Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Shavuot, or Sukkot, Shabbat is a celebration of Genesis 1-1.
00:09:31.000 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, or otherwise known as Perashit.
00:09:35.000 And the Shabbat fundamentally is not just about the atonement for sins.
00:09:42.000 It can be about that.
00:09:44.000 It is a habit, and it is about rest.
00:09:46.000 And it is the longest standing cathedral in time.
00:09:51.000 And it is building the practice that we're going to give time to God, not just give money and resources to the Lord.
00:10:03.000 So a lot more to speak out about the Shabbat.
00:10:05.000 Again, that book is going to be coming out Hopefully in the summer and fall.
00:10:09.000 I don't know how the book is going to do, but people seem very, very interested in it.
00:10:13.000 So it is going to be called Stop in the Name of God.
00:10:16.000 Blake is going to be helping me with a lot of the research and compiling it.
00:10:20.000 Super excited about it.
00:10:21.000 It will be different than right-wing revolution and the college scam, that is for sure.
00:10:26.000 Thank you, Andrea.
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00:11:17.000 Anthony, thank you for being a member.
00:11:19.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:11:20.000 What's up?
00:11:21.000 So I got a question for you.
00:11:23.000 I've seen Riley Gaines' lawsuit to the NCAA. Where do you stand or where does this fight actually stand?
00:11:29.000 Because in New York, they passed a bill that allows boys and women's sports.
00:11:34.000 Is this my man Anthony M? Is that who I'm talking to?
00:11:38.000 Yes, it is.
00:11:39.000 This guy's great.
00:11:40.000 He has been one of our first members.
00:11:42.000 It's been a while since we've chatted, Anthony.
00:11:45.000 I know.
00:11:46.000 Been missing you.
00:11:48.000 Blake, what is the status of the legislation right now and the lawsuits when it comes...
00:11:53.000 There's so much action going on in the trans issue.
00:11:56.000 Blake, what's the latest here?
00:11:57.000 I mean, there's a lot going on.
00:11:59.000 The Supreme Court case is obviously what's getting a lot of the attention because you have...
00:12:04.000 There's like 25 states that have passed laws.
00:12:07.000 Only some of those have come into effect.
00:12:09.000 A lot of them are currently being held back by the courts.
00:12:14.000 They paused them pending the Supreme Court case.
00:12:17.000 Yesterday, everyone's trying to read the tea leaves about what the Supreme Court thought on that specific bill, which is...
00:12:25.000 You know, they're getting into very funny things like John Roberts called the Transgender Council from the ACLU, Mr. Does that mean he's leaning against us because he used their preferred pronouns?
00:12:37.000 The people I've been talking to seem pretty confident we will win this case, hopefully six to three on the normal conservative-liberal split.
00:12:47.000 If we get that, it'll actually matter a lot how they rule on it.
00:12:54.000 We discussed this yesterday where they were arguing that, oh, it's sex-based discrimination to say that you can't mutilate kids because, oh, this girl can take estrogen, but this boy can't.
00:13:05.000 That's sex discrimination.
00:13:06.000 It would be interesting how the court rules because they could say this is just not sex discrimination or they could say it is sex discrimination, but it's okay.
00:13:15.000 It passes a threshold of scrutiny to allow that.
00:13:18.000 and what my friends pointed out is it might be better if we got that second ruling because that would pave the way to have more court rulings and more laws that acknowledge men and women are different and the law can affect them in different ways it's okay to say the military is presumptively for men the draft is presumptively for men you're allowed to do that and so it would be it'll depend a lot how the court structures that and that will shape Everything else that happens in
00:13:48.000 terms of sports, in terms of protecting kids, in terms of child custody.
00:13:53.000 So we're all kind of waiting and holding our breath on how they'll frame that.
00:13:57.000 Okay, so let me piggyback off.
00:13:58.000 Thank you, Anthony.
00:14:00.000 Yeah, really quick.
00:14:00.000 Really quick, Anthony.
00:14:01.000 Would that affect the New York law that got passed on November 5th?
00:14:06.000 My guess is no.
00:14:08.000 I don't think we're likely to get a Supreme Court ruling that would go all the way and say it's not allowed to do this stuff.
00:14:16.000 I don't think that's on the table right now.
00:14:19.000 So blue states will probably be able to do their thing for the foreseeable future.
00:14:22.000 Go figure.
00:14:23.000 Go figure.
00:14:24.000 Appreciate it, guys.
00:14:25.000 Thank you, Anthony.
00:14:26.000 Hey, Blake, we have a question here.
00:14:27.000 This is from Darren, who's a member.
00:14:29.000 What is going on in Syria is the question.
00:14:32.000 By the way, we have weird stuff happening in Syria, in South Korea.
00:14:37.000 It's like there's a lot of these kind of pocket coups, resistance.
00:14:40.000 We'll get to South Korea another time.
00:14:42.000 Syria, what is going on here, Blake?
00:14:44.000 That's a wild one because much like the Gaza conflict last year, it was something that no one was quite watching for.
00:14:54.000 That war has been basically in stasis since ISIS was defeated under Trump.
00:14:59.000 That's about six years ago now.
00:15:02.000 And so you have these different rebel groups, but no one was making a lot of aggressive action.
00:15:08.000 There's a rebel group.
00:15:09.000 I'm drawing a blank on their name, but they're kind of a successor rebel group to some other organizations.
00:15:15.000 And it just seems like they waited.
00:15:17.000 Iran has been distracted and weakened by this war, by this conflict with Israel.
00:15:23.000 Hezbollah was allied with the Assad government in Syria.
00:15:26.000 They just got wrecked very badly by Israel. 0.58
00:15:29.000 Russia is very distracted by their war in Ukraine.
00:15:33.000 So all the different forces that were basically supporting the Assad government in Syria have been weakened and they've pulled back.
00:15:41.000 And it just seems like some rebel group saw this and said, OK, let's go for it.
00:15:45.000 And so they launched a big offensive.
00:15:47.000 There's a large city in northern Syria named Aleppo.
00:15:50.000 Famously, Gary Johnson didn't know what it was.
00:15:52.000 They seem to what is Aleppo?
00:15:54.000 What is Aleppo?
00:15:55.000 They seem to have captured quite a bit of Aleppo.
00:15:58.000 There was initially some signs the government might collapse basically immediately.
00:16:03.000 That doesn't quite seem to have happened, but suddenly the war is going on in earnest again.
00:16:08.000 And what's really interesting is you can see a divide.
00:16:10.000 There are some people who clearly are pro these specific rebel groups, and there are some that dislike them.
00:16:17.000 It's a big fractious for war, and I think it's worth taking a step back and saying...
00:16:22.000 Well, here's what I will say, though.
00:16:24.000 We're out of time, is that the rebels are not good people.
00:16:27.000 They're not.
00:16:27.000 Assad's not a good person.
00:16:28.000 The rebels, they're not virtuous.
00:16:30.000 Do not cheer for the rebels.
00:16:32.000 That's the takeaway.
00:16:32.000 George, thank you for being a member.
00:16:34.000 What's on your mind?
00:16:35.000 Hello.
00:16:36.000 First of all, I just want to say thank you for everything you've done.
00:16:40.000 Me and my parents have often talked about everything that you do, watch your videos.
00:16:44.000 So first of all, I just want to say thank you.
00:16:46.000 I've been thinking about starting a chapter in my school where I go to a university in Connecticut.
00:16:52.000 And, you know, think about that.
00:16:54.000 My question for you is...
00:16:56.000 What sort of precedent does the Hunter Biden pardon set for America, especially after what we've seen with the weaponization of the Department of Justice against Trump, and especially the weaponization in South Korea when the president called for martial law?
00:17:13.000 What sort of, like, what mark does this leave, you know, this weaponization of our political systems?
00:17:19.000 What mark does it leave for America and for the world?
00:17:21.000 It's a great question.
00:17:22.000 Blake, actually it's a good opportunity.
00:17:25.000 Blake, educate us on South Korea and then let's answer the question.
00:17:27.000 So we're getting the whole world.
00:17:29.000 We're getting Georgia, we're getting Syria, we're getting South Korea. 0.67
00:17:33.000 South Korea is definitely an example of where America could go if things get worse.
00:17:38.000 South Korea is a democracy, but it's a very fraught democracy.
00:17:41.000 The other night I was looking at their list of presidents that they've had, and it's like overthrown, overthrown, assassinated, military coup, imprisoned for 22 years, investigated for corruption and committed suicide.
00:17:55.000 It's wild how all of their presidents – Why is that though?
00:17:58.000 Why?
00:17:58.000 I mean their – Korean society is very intense.
00:18:02.000 Their political divisions are very sharp.
00:18:05.000 One thing that's crazy, if you check some Korean elections, our most extreme states will be 70% Republican, 70% Democrat.
00:18:12.000 You'll have elections in Korea where one place will be voting 95% for one party and another will vote 95% for the other.
00:18:20.000 And it's not ethnically based.
00:18:22.000 They're all Korean. 0.99
00:18:22.000 It's very peculiar. 0.99
00:18:25.000 But it's a country that has a lot of aggressive lawfare.
00:18:29.000 Most of their presidents end up getting prosecuted after they're in office.
00:18:34.000 And what I think we're seeing here is we're seeing...
00:18:40.000 We're seeing the Democrats embrace both halves of that, which is they did unprecedented lawfare against Trump.
00:18:45.000 They tried to knock him off the ballot.
00:18:47.000 They tried to throw him in prison before this election.
00:18:50.000 And now what they're also doing is they're saying, we can use the pardon power to just totally get all of our crimes off the hook.
00:18:57.000 So he...
00:18:58.000 This pardon on Hunter Biden, you really can – it's hard to overstate how nuts it is because he didn't just say – he says in his statement, I think this specific prosecution went too far and wouldn't have happened if he wasn't the son of a president, which, you know, setting things aside, if you're doing crimes as the son of the president, it does seem a little bit worse than it would be otherwise.
00:19:19.000 But anyway, he doesn't just pardon him for those.
00:19:22.000 He just says, blanket pardon any criminal activity ever committed in an entire 10-year period from 2014 to now, which means it covers all the Ukraine stuff.
00:19:31.000 It covers all manner of reckless and potentially corrupt behavior.
00:19:37.000 And they're also talking about they might pardon other people in the Biden administration to forestall any investigation of them by Trump.
00:19:46.000 There's been reporting on this, that they might give one to Adam Schiff, to other people, Anthony Fauci.
00:19:53.000 And so, again, you're seeing that everything the Democrats claim will be a bad thing Trump will do, they do themselves.
00:20:00.000 So they massively weaponized the Justice Department, and then they also used the pardon power to just blanketly get people off for a huge array of crimes.
00:20:10.000 And there really is no precedent for this.
00:20:13.000 People will say Trump pardoned Jared Kushner's father, but Jared Kushner's father had served his sentence.
00:20:19.000 And so this was just, you know, it was honoring him.
00:20:22.000 It was giving him a prize for not reoffending, for reintegrating into society.
00:20:26.000 But he had been convicted.
00:20:28.000 He served his time, and Trump only pardoned him for that offense.
00:20:32.000 This is much further, and it is definitely...
00:20:35.000 An ugly precedent if we see this become the norm of just every side has to pardon all of its people every time to keep them from getting prosecuted by the people who come after them.
00:20:47.000 And a bunch of pardons might be better than everyone getting prosecuted all of the time.
00:20:53.000 But it's definitely a decline in the American Republic from what we had before, because ultimately what a, you know, Democratic Republican system of government operates on is you use elections to solve your disputes.
00:21:08.000 You let the people decide what policies will be.
00:21:10.000 You don't just you know, you don't just endlessly try to destroy each other through every means necessary because that's the path to civil war and worse.
00:21:20.000 I would agree that the precedent it does set, though, is that it gives Donald Trump an uninterrupted, a clear shot to do January 6 pardons.
00:21:29.000 Like, no one can complain.
00:21:30.000 What it does is that there will be no legitimate media cycle hit and with it momentum hit for any pardons that Trump does out of the gate.
00:21:40.000 Great question.
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00:22:38.000 Okay, Lizzie, thank you for being a member.
00:22:40.000 What's up?
00:22:40.000 What's on your mind?
00:22:42.000 Hey, so my question is around crypto.
00:22:44.000 I've always had an overwhelming, unexplainable resistance towards it.
00:22:49.000 The more I read the Bible and strengthen my relationship with God, the more I feel it's actually a responsible resistance.
00:22:56.000 As fellow Christians, what's your view of crypto?
00:23:00.000 Blake, you first.
00:23:00.000 I'm very pro-crypto.
00:23:02.000 I don't really have a logical view on it.
00:23:04.000 What I would say about crypto is I have personally invested in crypto.
00:23:09.000 I have followed crypto.
00:23:11.000 What I will say is observing it, I don't feel like most of the claims made about it as a technology have made a ton of sense to me.
00:23:23.000 It does essentially seem to be...
00:23:25.000 What do you mean by that, Blake?
00:23:26.000 What do you mean by that?
00:23:26.000 Well, so it starts off where they'll say, oh, it'll be this alternative currency to the U.S. dollar, or it'll be a store of value.
00:23:34.000 Well, it's not a super great store of value because it fluctuates so dramatically.
00:23:39.000 A huge amount of crypto stuff, you know, basically ends up, a lot of them end up being pump and dump scams.
00:23:46.000 You have the whole NFT thing where it's, oh, you own the digital rights to this image, except anyone can just copy it.
00:23:53.000 And you don't, it doesn't necessarily mean anything.
00:23:57.000 What I feel crypto embodies is it captures the widespread desire of people to endlessly speculate on things and frankly gamble on things.
00:24:07.000 I think the vast majority of crypto investing is fundamentally a form of gambling.
00:24:13.000 If you think that's immoral, maybe you would want to stay away from it.
00:24:20.000 I think if you fully understand what it is, it's not necessarily a bad thing.
00:24:25.000 Because you have to recognize it's very risky.
00:24:27.000 There's all these people pushing pump and dump scams.
00:24:30.000 There's a million coins.
00:24:31.000 Just today, that Hawk Tua woman, someone is claiming that she lost her life savings investing in her silly coin.
00:24:39.000 Like, that's bad.
00:24:41.000 You should not scam people.
00:24:42.000 And you should be aware a lot of these things are scams.
00:24:45.000 That said, I don't want to ever say someone should categorically stay away from it because there are people who've made enormous amounts of money off of it.
00:24:57.000 It has definitely carved out a niche as it is a way for people to have some autonomy and independence from overreaching governments, overreaching regimes.
00:25:11.000 So I don't want to say it's anti-Christian.
00:25:14.000 I've seen some people claim Bitcoin might be something from biblical revelation.
00:25:20.000 I think I once saw people claim it was the mark of the beast.
00:25:23.000 I don't think it's any of those things.
00:25:24.000 I think it is a risky asset.
00:25:27.000 You can speculate on it the way you might speculate on the Russian ruble or the British pound.
00:25:34.000 But you should know what you're getting into.
00:25:36.000 And you should be aware a lot of it is a scam.
00:25:39.000 But...
00:25:40.000 Some of it does well.
00:25:41.000 Some of it goes up.
00:25:42.000 That's all.
00:25:43.000 I think the technology is really interesting.
00:25:45.000 I think blockchain could be used, you know, applicably in other ways.
00:25:49.000 But that's another topic for another time.
00:25:52.000 Lizzie, thank you so much.
00:25:53.000 Really appreciate it.
00:25:53.000 Thank you.
00:25:54.000 Thanks, guys.
00:25:55.000 Teresa, thank you for being a member.
00:25:57.000 What is on your mind?
00:25:59.000 Wow, thank you so very much.
00:26:01.000 What an honor to speak to you.
00:26:02.000 Thank you for saving the country for my children and for my grandson.
00:26:09.000 I live in South Carolina.
00:26:11.000 That's very nice.
00:26:11.000 I wish I could take credit for that.
00:26:12.000 Please keep going.
00:26:13.000 Thank you.
00:26:14.000 Yes, I live in South Carolina and I've been traveling up at least once or twice a week to volunteer in North Carolina.
00:26:22.000 And to try to talk about it just simply brings tears to your eyes as it is devastating up there.
00:26:30.000 If you'd like to send Blake down, we'd love to have him and we'll take him up there to Silverado's.
00:26:37.000 And he can come and volunteer and he can head off with some of the people who go out and help people muck out their homes and just see everything out there.
00:26:48.000 Perfect role for Blake.
00:26:51.000 So you can really see what's going on and bring truth.
00:26:54.000 I mean, that's one thing I hope President Trump does on day one.
00:26:59.000 I hope they make it through it.
00:27:01.000 It's been really cold.
00:27:03.000 That sounds like something.
00:27:06.000 Do you have a question?
00:27:08.000 So the question is, can you do something on your show to, again, put the spotlight on how things are going up there?
00:27:17.000 You know, maybe do a segment on it just so people can see.
00:27:21.000 Because again, to keep asking for donations, people think everything's going fine, but it is far from fine up there.
00:27:30.000 That's a great idea.
00:27:31.000 The answer is yes, and we should.
00:27:34.000 Absolutely.
00:27:35.000 You're right.
00:27:36.000 The appearance is that it's a settled issue.
00:27:38.000 And based on what many others have told us, it is not at all.
00:27:42.000 So the answer is yes.
00:27:44.000 And thank you for being a member.
00:27:45.000 And thank you for the kind words.
00:27:47.000 Great.
00:27:47.000 We'll wait to hear when Blake is going to show up.
00:27:51.000 Thank you.
00:27:52.000 Caleb and Michelle, how are we doing, guys?
00:27:54.000 Thanks for being a member.
00:27:55.000 What is up?
00:27:57.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:27:57.000 Great to see you.
00:27:58.000 Hey, Are you going to be able to make it?
00:28:01.000 Are you planning to make it to the Ducks game in Indianapolis for the championship?
00:28:04.000 And then second question is...
00:28:06.000 No, I will not be.
00:28:08.000 Oh, bummer.
00:28:09.000 Keep going.
00:28:09.000 We aren't either.
00:28:11.000 So for AmericaFest, we're super excited this year.
00:28:14.000 I think it's going to be fantastic.
00:28:16.000 We're wondering, is there something new going on this year that you're super excited about?
00:28:21.000 What are you super excited about, most excited about for AmericaFest this year?
00:28:24.000 Well, I'm excited about some speakers that are not yet announced that might be there for the first time ever.
00:28:29.000 So that's all I'm going to say about that.
00:28:31.000 I just, I'm excited.
00:28:32.000 It's going to be an incredible turnout.
00:28:35.000 We have our members lounge.
00:28:37.000 So if you're a member, we have a whole lounge for you guys, which is awesome.
00:28:40.000 And a lot more live interviews.
00:28:43.000 And it's our first ever Big AmFest.
00:28:46.000 And with it, the first ever major turning point event.
00:28:50.000 That's right.
00:28:51.000 We did not do major turning point events to celebrate a presidential win.
00:28:55.000 How cool is that?
00:28:56.000 So major turning point events started in 2018. That was like the beginning.
00:29:00.000 2017, 2018, but really 2018 is when major turning point events started six years ago.
00:29:05.000 We have not yet been able to celebrate a major win since turning point events existed.
00:29:12.000 So interviews that only members can sit in.
00:29:14.000 So if you guys become a member, members.charliekirk.com.
00:29:17.000 You guys get to sit in exclusively and see me interview Steve Bannon.
00:29:20.000 See me interview everybody.
00:29:22.000 I mean, the entire roster we're interviewing privately.
00:29:24.000 And you guys can check it out.
00:29:26.000 Members.charliekirk.com to do that.
00:29:29.000 All right.
00:29:29.000 Thanks, guys.
00:29:29.000 Appreciate it.
00:29:30.000 See you there.
00:29:30.000 And no, I'm not going to the Dex game.
00:29:32.000 We have our end of year big fundraiser, our gala this weekend at Mar-a-Lago.
00:29:38.000 A thousand of our top donors will be there.
00:29:41.000 So I am focused on that.
00:29:43.000 And I will be wrapping that up.
00:29:46.000 And Mikey and Braden know their marching orders.
00:29:48.000 They have an iPad with the Ducks game on at all times.
00:29:53.000 They know their orders.
00:29:55.000 So if I turn to them, they show me the screen.
00:29:57.000 I just want to get a little glance of the Ducks-Penn State game.
00:30:03.000 Thrilled beyond measure that the Ducks finished 12-0 in their first year in the Big Ten.
00:30:08.000 If they win the Big Ten and go 13-0, that is remarkable.
00:30:12.000 Also yesterday, the Oregon Ducks finished number one in 2020 recruiting the best recruiting class in Oregon Ducks history.
00:30:19.000 All right.
00:30:19.000 Thanks, guys.
00:30:20.000 Beatrice, what's up?
00:30:21.000 What's on your mind?
00:30:23.000 Okay, hi.
00:30:24.000 Charlie, you're great.
00:30:26.000 You honestly turned me to vote for Trump.
00:30:29.000 I turned my husband, my sister, and my mom.
00:30:32.000 Awesome.
00:30:32.000 That's amazing.
00:30:33.000 Yeah, so anyways, I have an almost 11-week-old.
00:30:38.000 I'm looking at it right now.
00:30:42.000 It's just, I really want to, and I'm from California, I really want to like be a stay-at-home mom.
00:30:47.000 My husband is very supportive of that, but obviously we're in California.
00:30:49.000 It's very, very hard.
00:30:50.000 And I'm super worried about having to go back to work.
00:30:53.000 So I just wanted to, if you have any words of encouragement or advice or anything like that.
00:30:58.000 Yeah, so you're...
00:30:59.000 First of all, it's amazing.
00:31:00.000 So you want to be a stay-at-home mom, but living in California, it's financially hard.
00:31:04.000 Is that right?
00:31:06.000 Correct.
00:31:06.000 To make that happen.
00:31:07.000 Is that right?
00:31:08.000 Yeah.
00:31:09.000 Yes.
00:31:09.000 Look, this is a huge issue.
00:31:11.000 And if you have to stay in California, I understand.
00:31:14.000 But finding a lower-cost state where you could be a stay-at-home mom might be the best decision for your family.
00:31:19.000 This is a huge issue.
00:31:20.000 We don't have time to dive into it.
00:31:22.000 But, Blake, remind me to do an issue in a future episode.
00:31:25.000 The amount of women that want to stay at home and they financially have to go into the workforce, I think is a tragedy. 1.00
00:31:33.000 I think it's a tragedy that things have become so expensive, the cost of living has gone so much, up that moms can't be with their kids to raise them because they have to go work in a job that their heart's not in it.
00:31:45.000 So, look, the pressure, to be honest with you, is on your husband to be able to find a job productive enough for him to be able to produce for you.
00:31:55.000 So that's honestly, it's on him.
00:32:00.000 And the men need to feel that pressure.
00:32:02.000 Men need to be able to find a job and find a career productive enough, work hard enough that your wife does not have to go into the workforce. 0.94
00:32:12.000 So thank you for being a member.
00:32:13.000 Really appreciate it.
00:32:14.000 Thank you.
00:32:15.000 Okay, email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:18.000 Thank you for being a member at members.charliekirk.com.
00:32:20.000 Blake, thank you as always.
00:32:21.000 You follow Blake on none of his social media.
00:32:23.000 You can follow me on mine.
00:32:25.000 Talk to you guys soon.
00:32:26.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:27.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:30.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.