The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 214: Picking Campus Visits? Vegas Shooting Truth? 2025's Most Crucial Election?

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00:01:20.000 I have Mr. Blake with me.

00:01:21.000 To co-pilot if necessary.

00:01:23.000 It has been a long week, but a good week.

00:01:25.000 A very exciting week.

00:01:27.000 This was a blast.

00:01:27.000 Andrew and Blake both deserve great credit for prepping me for the Gavin Newsom discussion.

00:01:32.000 Not an easy challenge.

00:01:33.000 For many reasons.

00:01:34.000 Yeah, you know, it was very fun.

00:01:36.000 It was different.

00:01:37.000 You know, okay, we're going against a major left-wing politician and he's going in with his own agenda.

00:01:42.000 You know, he's not doing this on a lark.

00:01:44.000 But also in a very friendly...

00:01:46.000 But it was friendly, yeah.

00:01:47.000 We were thinking, we can't just go in and say like, Gavin... 0.99

00:01:51.000 You're terrible, you're evil, and like, blow it up, because... 0.99

00:01:54.000 He invited us on. 1.00

00:01:55.000 That's impolite.

00:01:56.000 That's not chivalrous.

00:01:58.000 That's bad.

00:01:59.000 But at the same time, we do know he has his own agenda with this.

00:02:01.000 He very likely wants to run for president.

00:02:03.000 He very likely realizes he needs to pivot towards the center.

00:02:07.000 So even though we want to push our views, we don't want to just be laundering like, oh, Gavin, you're a great moderate now.

00:02:13.000 And I think we navigated that very well.

00:02:16.000 Yes, and made a lot of headlines.

00:02:17.000 Made a lot of news.

00:02:17.000 So thank you for the prep.

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00:02:39.000 So let's get to the first one here.

00:02:41.000 Anthony.

00:02:42.000 Anthony, thank you for being a member.

00:02:43.000 What is on your mind?

00:02:45.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:02:45.000 I got a question.

00:02:46.000 So I get this asked a lot.

00:02:48.000 How do you guys select your campus tours?

00:02:50.000 Because from what I can tell, it's mostly the South, West Coast, and a little bit in the North.

00:02:57.000 You know, so great question.

00:02:59.000 It's not nearly as dynamic as you might think of an answer.

00:03:03.000 First and foremost, it's, is it close to Arizona?

00:03:06.000 So, because I like to be around my family.

00:03:09.000 Number two, the criteria, going to private schools is like impossible.

00:03:14.000 We just did a certain private school.

00:03:16.000 I'm not even allowed to say the name of the private school on air because they made us sign some agreement.

00:03:20.000 But you can guess what private school I was at.

00:03:22.000 Literally, there's like defamation clauses.

00:03:24.000 It's just insane.

00:03:26.000 There's a lot of loops.

00:03:27.000 Oh, it's so terrible, right?

00:03:29.000 This is why these schools need to be totally defunded.

00:03:31.000 But public schools are...

00:03:33.000 Yeah, it was not UCLA. So I'll let you guess which one it was.

00:03:36.000 It wasn't UCLA. Guess which other one it was.

00:03:39.000 Anyway, don't even say it on air, Blake, because it's like...

00:03:41.000 We can neither confirm nor deny.

00:03:43.000 Yeah, but I think literally I had to take down tweets and stuff.

00:03:46.000 There may be videos of it, but those could be deep fakes.

00:03:49.000 Yes, exactly.

00:03:50.000 But the essence is this, though.

00:03:53.000 Public schools, you're allowed to film.

00:03:55.000 You're allowed to talk to students.

00:03:56.000 Private schools, there's no filming allowed.

00:03:59.000 Tons of restrictions because we have to protect our brand.

00:04:04.000 It's outrageous.

00:04:06.000 But secondly...

00:04:07.000 Yeah, look, the Northeast is not always friendly to us, but sometimes there's a less sexy answer, Anthony.

00:04:12.000 In the winter, I'm not going to go to Boston until the weather gets better because I can't do an outdoor event in Boston right now.

00:04:17.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:04:18.000 It's fun.

00:04:19.000 It's nice this time of year.

00:04:20.000 Yeah, four degrees, five degrees, right?

00:04:25.000 But the other part of this, though, that's important is we try to hit, at least in the election, we were hitting states that had some sort of involvement in the election.

00:04:34.000 So all the schools in Nevada, all the schools in Arizona.

00:04:37.000 All the schools in Georgia.

00:04:39.000 And we're trying to pepper around.

00:04:40.000 So as the weather gets better, I'm doing Midwest schools.

00:04:42.000 We haven't announced all of our tour stops.

00:04:44.000 And I do have a special stop coming in the Northeast soon.

00:04:47.000 A very, very good one in the Northeast.

00:04:49.000 So thank you, Anthony, for being a member.

00:04:51.000 Deeply appreciate it.

00:04:52.000 Good to hear your voice.

00:04:53.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:04:55.000 Scott is next.

00:04:56.000 Scott, thank you for being a member.

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00:04:59.000 Scott, what's on your mind?

00:05:00.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:05:02.000 How are you?

00:05:03.000 I want to talk about the fact.

00:05:04.000 Yeah, I mean, this is a real personal issue for me.

00:05:07.000 It affects our children.

00:05:08.000 But the federal bureaucracy here in Boise, the Social Security office, we call them and they don't even answer the phone.

00:05:14.000 And then we can try to go there in person.

00:05:17.000 They say, hey, you got to make an appointment by phone.

00:05:20.000 So to me, it's clear President Trump and people don't talk about this enough.

00:05:24.000 He is a revolutionary president, not incrementalist, but revolutionary.

00:05:28.000 He wants to make these big cuts in government.

00:05:30.000 I'm really concerned that establishment D.C. is going to slow down and kill his efforts.

00:05:34.000 So what percentage of the federal workforce do you think Trump, Doge, and the cabinet will be able to cut in the next 12 months?

00:05:41.000 So I don't know.

00:05:42.000 I want to make sure I manage and taper your expectations because removing federal workers is very hard.

00:05:47.000 But what they should be able to cut, based on the government running, 60 to 70 percent.

00:05:53.000 Now, as Blake astutely points out, If we want to really go after the deficit, though, eventually you have to go after entitlements.

00:06:00.000 Is that right?

00:06:00.000 Or you have to go after spending at least.

00:06:03.000 Not just headcount.

00:06:05.000 The thing about headcount is the federal government's budget is like $7 trillion at this point or something.

00:06:11.000 And the actual amount spent on just payroll for federal employees is, I think, maybe $250, $300 billion, if that.

00:06:20.000 And there is a pension component, too.

00:06:22.000 Exactly, exactly.

00:06:22.000 But most of the federal government's spending is...

00:06:25.000 Take in money, or print money, and then route it to something.

00:06:29.000 Now, contracts are also a big part of the budget.

00:06:32.000 Contractors are a big part.

00:06:33.000 That's big.

00:06:34.000 A lot of spending on contracts, but it's also spending on military equipment.

00:06:38.000 That is money that's going to make it.

00:06:41.000 And then, of course...

00:06:42.000 You know, grants.

00:06:44.000 So Department of Education, for example.

00:06:46.000 Department of Education doesn't have many employees, but it has a pretty big budget because it administers the student loan program, which is money going to people who are borrowing.

00:06:53.000 It's really money going to colleges.

00:06:54.000 They handle Title I grants.

00:06:57.000 So that's just tax money goes to a public school.

00:07:00.000 And that is where most spending is.

00:07:04.000 And that's really where a lot of savings could be, even just if you're looking for fraud, for waste.

00:07:08.000 You can find that out there.

00:07:11.000 I think one of the greatest things Doge could do would be use Grok to find, for example, obviously those PPP loans that happened during COVID. That's huge amounts.

00:07:26.000 Huge amounts of fraud.

00:07:27.000 And you can almost make an example out of it.

00:07:29.000 Find 10 really glaring examples.

00:07:32.000 And, you know, perp walk them.

00:07:34.000 That would be good moral support for the American people.

00:07:37.000 Well, and I just let's dive more into this.

00:07:39.000 It's a great question, by the way.

00:07:40.000 And I'm sorry about your experience in Boise with the Social Security Administration.

00:07:43.000 Hopefully that gets cleaned up.

00:07:45.000 And by the way, modernizing government is just something that needs to happen.

00:07:47.000 It's so antiquated.

00:07:49.000 It's so slow.

00:07:49.000 It's so non-responsive.

00:07:51.000 But Blake, let's dive into this more.

00:07:53.000 Post-COVID, a new baseline has basically been set in where there's this expectation of the size, scope.

00:07:59.000 And power the government that did not exist pre-COVID. It's almost doubled in size in five years.

00:08:04.000 Especially size.

00:08:05.000 This came up, we were talking about the other day, where they're trying to make a scandal out of the VA's budget.

00:08:10.000 And there's talk, okay, Trump might make cuts to the VA. Well, it would be cuts to the number of people who worked at the VA in 2019. Which was when Trump was president.

00:08:21.000 Trump was president, and he'd also already done big improvements to the VA at that time.

00:08:25.000 Like, it was working pretty well.

00:08:26.000 And since then, we have a lower number of veterans.

00:08:28.000 The number of veterans is declining.

00:08:30.000 So what we're trying to get back to 2019 baseline creates massive uproar.

00:08:35.000 So baseline budgeting is one of the original sins of Washington, D.C., which every year you have to go back to the prior year baseline.

00:08:42.000 You can't actually start at what's called zero-based budgeting and say, okay, every year, what do we need and why do we need it?

00:08:48.000 We talk about the previous Baseline.

00:08:51.000 My fear, though, is that the Senate and the House are not going to cut nearly as much as they should.

00:08:55.000 I mean, it's painful to cut.

00:08:57.000 The thing about cuts is someone has to be a loser when you reduce spending.

00:09:01.000 And so Washington, it fears any sort of pain.

00:09:06.000 Because power is their life force.

00:09:07.000 Power is their life force.

00:09:09.000 And it's just, you know, you're always the bad guy if you're the one who has to come in and say, you know, the endless money train is going away.

00:09:18.000 And, you know, I don't blame them for being wary to the extent that, you know, they want to get re-elected.

00:09:24.000 But at the same time, a huge amount of public trust has been put, has been invested in them.

00:09:30.000 But it's also the well-being of the nation.

00:09:31.000 The well-being of the nation.

00:09:32.000 And it's offensive that you have to worry, like, wonder, are they just going to keep spending until finally the hot potato explodes?

00:09:39.000 And then that person takes all the blame.

00:09:41.000 And it seems a lot of Washington has made that calculation.

00:09:44.000 You could say that we are on the verge of a fiscal collapse.

00:09:47.000 All I will say is I have never heard of a country that just borrowed forever and got away with it.

00:09:53.000 Eventually, a debt comes due.

00:09:55.000 And you know your history pretty well.

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00:11:01.000 Okay, your second question.

00:11:04.000 Charlie, so really it's a question that affects everybody here, but I want you to understand where it comes from.

00:11:09.000 You know, these Wuhan virus lockdowns had a lifelong negative impact on the life of our son.

00:11:14.000 That's why we're reaching out to Social Security for Disability.

00:11:17.000 And I want to do my part to expose these government lies.

00:11:21.000 Like, you know, Meghan McCain says, I want revenge.

00:11:23.000 And one of the biggest lies in the government's claim about us is they can control U.S. airspace and protect us from drones, like at Autzen Stadium.

00:11:31.000 And I can say for a fact...

00:11:33.000 The counter-drone systems can't protect Americans at stadiums, airports, and downtown areas, like the U.S. Capitol and the White House. 0.97

00:11:40.000 Now, this is the point, and this is really foolish, but you're a father, too.

00:11:46.000 So I'm willing to bet my life savings, okay, to get attention to this, $100,000. 0.71

00:11:51.000 By the way, I have all the respect in the world for Marc Andreessen, but he invested in the best counter-drone company called Andrel.

00:11:58.000 And I'm willing to bet that he can't stop me and my friends from crashing a drone in the stands at Autzen Stadium during a test when the stadium is empty, right?

00:12:07.000 And don't you want to know if you and your family and friends are protected at Autzen?

00:12:11.000 I mean, they can't protect the White House.

00:12:13.000 They can't protect, you know, DCA. I mean, this is something that people need to know about.

00:12:19.000 I'm serious.

00:12:20.000 I got it.

00:12:21.000 I agree.

00:12:23.000 Blake, they don't know about that.

00:12:24.000 We had a drone encounter in our family recently.

00:12:26.000 We're not talking about that yet.

00:12:27.000 Drones are a serious problem. 1.00

00:12:29.000 We had a very near miss of a drone with our family this week in a really serious way.

00:12:36.000 I don't want to get too much into detail there.

00:12:37.000 But anyway, the development and the proliferation of drones is very scary.

00:12:44.000 I don't think the U.S. government is nearly adequately prepared.

00:12:48.000 And I would imagine your...

00:12:51.000 Your contention is correct.

00:12:53.000 Blake, what are your thoughts on...

00:12:54.000 It's really scary because when you think, for example, the Ukraine war, a big reason actually that Ukraine hasn't collapsed actually is they could just get insanely cheap drones on each end and it makes it so hard to advance because you can just fly a suicide drone bomb into something.

00:13:11.000 And you kind of wonder.

00:13:12.000 We spend a trillion dollars on our military.

00:13:14.000 We have a ton of tanks, a ton of ships, a ton of planes, and it could be...

00:13:19.000 That the future of warfare is, oh, you can make, you know, a drone about yay big for a thousand bucks and it can carry a bomb wherever you want and just explode.

00:13:29.000 And...

00:13:30.000 It is changing warfare as we know.

00:13:32.000 Changing warfare changes security because, you know, imagine like the Secret Service and now instead of having to look for a sniper, any robot could just, you know, put a rifle on it and it can fly anywhere.

00:13:44.000 It's insane.

00:13:44.000 It's a great point and also that I don't want a fear monger, but...

00:13:48.000 What is preventing a couple terrorists equipping drones going to open air sports stadiums?

00:13:54.000 I don't think law enforcement is ready for that.

00:13:56.000 The biggest limiter on terrorism of all sorts has always just been not that many people want to do it.

00:14:03.000 But especially if you can do it with machines, it becomes easy.

00:14:07.000 At least in the past, doing something really bad was kind of a suicide thing.

00:14:11.000 But now it doesn't even have to be that.

00:14:12.000 You can build a machine that does it.

00:14:14.000 Okay, Shane.

00:14:16.000 Shane is here.

00:14:17.000 Thank you for being a member.

00:14:19.000 What is on your mind?

00:14:20.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:14:21.000 Real quick, I saw the poster behind you regarding Wisconsin, and since I live in Wisconsin, I wanted to know what that meant, the travel to Wisconsin and chase 100 ballots.

00:14:31.000 Yes.

00:14:31.000 Are you familiar with the upcoming Supreme Court race?

00:14:35.000 I am not, actually.

00:14:36.000 Okay, not your fault, but that is really illuminating.

00:14:41.000 Again, you're busy, a lot of stuff going on.

00:14:43.000 But this is why it's so important, why we're doing what we're doing.

00:14:47.000 This is the most important election of 2025. In fact, I think there's a Wall Street Journal op-ed that says that today.

00:14:54.000 And by the way, God bless you.

00:14:56.000 What's your name again?

00:14:57.000 Shane.

00:14:57.000 Shane, this is why I'm coming to Wisconsin.

00:15:00.000 A week from Monday.

00:15:01.000 This is the most important election happening in the country.

00:15:04.000 This year, it is for a Supreme Court seat that will determine the future of the entire Wisconsin Supreme Court.

00:15:11.000 You say, oh, so what?

00:15:12.000 That involves your congressional maps, your voter integrity measures, everything associated alongside of it.

00:15:18.000 So what we are doing is we're helping chase ballots, similar to what we kind of did back in November, to try and raise and drive awareness about this off-election, low-turnout election.

00:15:30.000 Blake, while I try to find this op-ed, can you talk about how it is a strictly turnout election?

00:15:34.000 This is not a persuasion election.

00:15:36.000 Exactly, exactly.

00:15:37.000 So when you look at any election, there's a certain amount of people who turn out for it.

00:15:41.000 And so I bet we can even look up here where it's like Wisconsin in the 2024 presidential race is going to be, let's see how many people voted in.

00:15:50.000 There's about 3 million.

00:15:50.000 Yeah, so about 3 million people.

00:15:52.000 Am I right?

00:15:52.000 Yeah, almost 3.3 million it looks like.

00:15:55.000 About the top of my head.

00:15:56.000 So 3.3 million people voted in 2024. Now let's check.

00:15:59.000 We had a 2023 Supreme Court race in Wisconsin.

00:16:02.000 I bet.

00:16:03.000 Let me just guess.

00:16:04.000 I bet a million people vote in it.

00:16:06.000 Let's go check.

00:16:07.000 I think it's a bit higher than that, but we'll check here.

00:16:11.000 About 1.8 million.

00:16:12.000 So literally about barely half as, maybe like 60% as many votes as in the presidential race.

00:16:19.000 And we lost that one, I believe.

00:16:21.000 Yeah, we got crushed.

00:16:22.000 Yeah, we lost by 10 points.

00:16:24.000 But if you had the number of people who voted in the 2024 presidential election come and turn out in that race, or even the number of people who voted in 2020 when we finished in second, ultimately.

00:16:36.000 If you had that many people turn out, you would win by a mile.

00:16:40.000 It's not even, oh, you would eke out a win.

00:16:42.000 You would crush them.

00:16:43.000 It is entirely a matter of turnout.

00:16:46.000 It is who gets their people to Care about this race that is not in a normal election cycle.

00:16:53.000 And so if you want to get involved, Shane, it's tpaction.com slash 100, part of our Commit 100 program.

00:17:00.000 We don't feel as if there's enough national attention right now on this Wisconsin Supreme Court seat.

00:17:05.000 That's why I'm going there next Monday.

00:17:07.000 We're bringing Donald Trump Jr. alongside.

00:17:09.000 We're doing the whole program.

00:17:11.000 This could swing the House of Representatives, and Wisconsin is critical.

00:17:15.000 It is necessary for the future of our country to keep Wisconsin in contention if we lose.

00:17:21.000 So, Shane, yes.

00:17:23.000 I just want to drive home how much turnout matters.

00:17:25.000 If you had John McCain lost Wisconsin by 14 points in 2008, and if you had his number of votes in that Supreme Court race, you would win by like 20 points.

00:17:36.000 That's how much turnout matters.

00:17:39.000 Smaller population, way smaller turnout.

00:17:41.000 It is entirely a turnout race.

00:17:44.000 Thank you, Shane.

00:17:45.000 Appreciate it.

00:17:46.000 Next member.

00:17:47.000 Actually, yeah, Shane, go ahead.

00:17:48.000 I didn't even get to the actual question.

00:17:50.000 I didn't know you were going to go off on such a tangent on this.

00:17:53.000 I'm sorry.

00:17:53.000 I apologize for it being so important.

00:17:55.000 My actual question was regarding the prison systems and spending.

00:18:00.000 Like, prisoners, they get treated like hotel guests.

00:18:04.000 I mean, they get all of these freedoms, they get privileges, they get PlayStations, they get TVs, they get, you know, snacks and stuff.

00:18:11.000 And, you know, meanwhile, the taxpayers are paying for all of this, or the families of the inmates are paying for all of this.

00:18:19.000 I mean, like, I did a little bit of research, and, like, there's an organization called Prison Policy Initiative.

00:18:26.000 They estimate that in 2023, there was 182...

00:18:33.000 I just wondered if this is something you think Doge would be a good target for.

00:18:39.000 Blake, really quick.

00:18:40.000 Most prisons are state-funded, like the vast majority of prisoners.

00:18:43.000 There is a federal bureau.

00:18:44.000 There's federal stuff, but it's mostly state.

00:18:46.000 You'd want to look at what your state does.

00:18:48.000 I don't know the biggest drivers of cost increase.

00:18:51.000 It's just everything costs more money than it used to.

00:18:54.000 I do think you make an astute point, we'll talk about after the break, where Sam Bakeman-Fried, who's a total fraud and a terrible person, joined the great Tucker Carlson's podcast.

00:19:02.000 He was talking about all the amenities he was getting.

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00:20:18.000 Maggie, thank you for being a member of What's On Your Mind.

00:20:21.000 How are you?

00:20:21.000 Thanks for supporting us.

00:20:23.000 Good.

00:20:23.000 I actually was just going to watch today, but your breaking news at the end of hour one immediately brought a question to mind.

00:20:30.000 Do you think the recent activity at ActBlue is related to USAID funding being cut off to many entities?

00:20:39.000 I know you are a big fan of Breaking Bad, so am I. And I always thought Democrats' big numbers in fundraising was suspicious, because there's a party of entitlements, and other than their big, big money donors, I couldn't see them getting that many people to make small donations.

00:20:57.000 Well, you remember what they did in Breaking Bad, the money laundering, to make it look like random donations were sent in to pay for Walter White's cancer treatment?

00:21:07.000 As soon as you said that story, I thought, oh my gosh, that could possibly be Act Blue knows what's coming because their funding's been cut off.

00:21:18.000 It very well could be.

00:21:19.000 I think you are bringing up a very good point.

00:21:21.000 The answer is we don't know.

00:21:22.000 You could be right.

00:21:23.000 That as USAID funding has been put in suspension, there has been a suspicious amount of closures and non-profits that are second-guessing.

00:21:31.000 The money is coming from somewhere.

00:21:33.000 The more sinister...

00:21:37.000 Accusation against ActBlue is that it's Chinese or Iranian-originated.

00:21:40.000 We don't have great evidence of that.

00:21:42.000 There are some on the Hill that say that they've seen intelligence that might suggest that.

00:21:46.000 But there also could be just good old-fashioned criminal activity.

00:21:49.000 It could be as old-fashioned as just they route so much money through it.

00:21:54.000 Who's to say someone didn't go, okay, I'm going to make it so 0.1%.

00:22:01.000 It could also be we suspect this is criminal activity and we deliberately keep our system feeble and not able to detect it because then we have plausible deniability.

00:22:19.000 Like, look the other way.

00:22:21.000 Don't think too hard about it.

00:22:22.000 There's so many different levels to it.

00:22:25.000 I do want to push back a little that, frankly, If you've been around liberals enough, I actually talked to a friend of mine at The Daily Caller where they investigated one of those people who had tons and tons of donations in their name.

00:22:38.000 And they reached him and were like, do you really donate that many times?

00:22:42.000 And the person said, yep, yep, I do.

00:22:43.000 I watch the news all day.

00:22:45.000 I get so worked up and I send him another $20.

00:22:48.000 Of course some of it is legitimate.

00:22:51.000 I don't want to say, oh, it's all fraud.

00:22:54.000 There's a lot of passionate Democrats out there.

00:22:56.000 They care a lot about politics.

00:22:58.000 So much of what you've done is we need to train conservatives to care as much as the enemy does.

00:23:04.000 And I will say that lots of room for fraud.

00:23:06.000 The tech of ActBlue is very, very good.

00:23:09.000 Meaning it's like Amazon.com for giving money.

00:23:13.000 It saves all your payment information.

00:23:15.000 It feels like it's really the user interface is very friendly.

00:23:20.000 It's not just like this old loading thing.

00:23:24.000 It's hard to describe.

00:23:24.000 If you actually go through the pages of ActBlue, it's very well constructed.

00:23:29.000 It is one-stop shopping.

00:23:31.000 It really reflects how, in the Obama era, 2008, they had just a total lockdown on Silicon Valley.

00:23:38.000 And they got all the smart 28-year-old tech guys come in.

00:23:42.000 Let's make them the slickest website, the slickest app.

00:23:45.000 And we're finally starting to catch up in that world.

00:23:48.000 It was so profound that...

00:23:51.000 Basically, every Democrat donor has their payment information saved.

00:23:55.000 So anytime a guy goes on MSNBC, these Democrat donors are able to say, okay, I want to go give $10 to Beto O'Rourke or whatever.

00:24:06.000 Easy.

00:24:06.000 Done.

00:24:06.000 Elizabeth Warren.

00:24:07.000 It's all saved.

00:24:08.000 It's easy to use.

00:24:09.000 They make it seamless.

00:24:10.000 But I definitely think that there's a lot of suspicion there.

00:24:14.000 Thank you so much.

00:24:15.000 Really appreciate it.

00:24:16.000 Thank you.

00:24:17.000 Curtis, what is on your mind?

00:24:19.000 Thanks for being a member.

00:24:20.000 Well, yes.

00:24:20.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:24:21.000 It's really a great honor to be able to speak with you.

00:24:24.000 And I wanted to briefly say I really appreciated your previous interview with Secretary of Ag, Burke Rawlings.

00:24:32.000 I'm a lifelong Eastern Oregon rancher, beef producer, family operation.

00:24:37.000 And it's so great to have this new administration coming in and wanting to hear from the grassroots producers.

00:24:44.000 And that's what I wanted to emphasize.

00:24:46.000 And let you and whomever else may be able to get our group.

00:24:53.000 We have a group out here that is in the high desert that oftentimes gets ignored, but there's very many natural resource issues that we want to, that we need to get through to the administration, both in the Interior Department and with the Secretary of Ag.

00:25:09.000 And one of the biggest problems that we have as beef producers is the meatpacking cartel that Rules the protein production, not only in the nation, but worldwide.

00:25:21.000 So my question is, we want to combine with the Make America Healthy Again and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s in HHS. We can combine and we just...

00:25:34.000 But the main thing, I guess, Mr. Kirk, that I want to get through is that...

00:25:39.000 The administration and the undersecretaries must get down here to the grassroots producers.

00:25:44.000 They cannot listen to the national organizations that are supposedly representing agricultural interests because they are all...

00:25:50.000 They are all corporately influenced.

00:25:53.000 And so my question to you is how best can we as grassroots producers, possibly through your platform, your connections, we would love to make that connection and have field hearings out here.

00:26:03.000 But more importantly, to get to the administration, Secretary Brooke Rollins, to hear the true family operations, farming operations of what would most benefit our rural communities and food security for America.

00:26:17.000 Thank you very much.

00:26:18.000 Where are you located?

00:26:19.000 I'm in Eastern Oregon.

00:26:23.000 Don't count Eastern Oregon as the socialist side of Oregon, please.

00:26:27.000 You guys should join Idaho.

00:26:29.000 That's a longer-term project.

00:26:30.000 That's what we call a Project 2029 item.

00:26:33.000 Project 2100, maybe.

00:26:35.000 We are very envious of Idaho.

00:26:39.000 I think we should create a state of Jefferson, actually, with eastern Washington and eastern Oregon.

00:26:44.000 But anyway, go ahead.

00:26:45.000 I love the state of Jefferson.

00:26:47.000 I love that.

00:26:48.000 And self-determination and self-government.

00:26:50.000 I would be willing to lend a voice to that one day.

00:26:53.000 Just please, don't put Pullman there.

00:26:57.000 The college campus, you can carve it out.

00:27:00.000 By the way, producer Andrew is from a cattle rancher family in northern Nevada, and he says you're 100% right.

00:27:06.000 Happy to send this clip to Brooke directly, which is what I will do, which is one of the benefits of being a member.

00:27:13.000 And I do want to compliment you.

00:27:15.000 We use the term grassroots a lot.

00:27:16.000 You actually are grassroots in what you are doing.

00:27:20.000 Not just metaphorical.

00:27:22.000 You're actually the grassroots.

00:27:24.000 Right.

00:27:24.000 We truly are a family operation.

00:27:26.000 And my biggest passion, Charlie, is God has blessed me to be a lifelong...

00:27:31.000 Rancher and beef producer.

00:27:33.000 But if things don't change, my grandchildren will have no opportunity to provide beef and protein to the country.

00:27:39.000 So that's my passion that drives me.

00:27:41.000 So thank you very much.

00:27:42.000 Well, that is an admirable passion.

00:27:45.000 I also have someone in the Department of Agriculture that I know that is not Brooke Rollins, that is from Idaho.

00:27:51.000 His name is Todd.

00:27:52.000 He's a rock star that I would be comfortable connecting you with.

00:27:56.000 He's terrific.

00:27:57.000 Oh, please do.

00:27:58.000 We're looking for any connection that we can get our truthful message to, so I so appreciate that.

00:28:02.000 No, this guy's Todd.

00:28:03.000 He's a rock star, and he actually owns something.

00:28:07.000 I don't know.

00:28:09.000 We'll connect you.

00:28:09.000 Thanks.

00:28:10.000 I really appreciate it.

00:28:10.000 Thanks so much.

00:28:11.000 Thank you.

00:28:12.000 Okay, Daisy, let's make sure we follow up on that and we get him connected.

00:28:16.000 See the government that works for the people.

00:28:18.000 All right, who's next?

00:28:19.000 What do we got here?

00:28:19.000 Stan.

00:28:20.000 Stan, thank you for being a member.

00:28:21.000 What's on your mind?

00:28:22.000 Charlie, nice to talk to you.

00:28:24.000 How are you?

00:28:24.000 Good.

00:28:24.000 How are you?

00:28:25.000 I'm fine.

00:28:26.000 I was living in Dallas, Texas.

00:28:28.000 I was looking for one of your chapters online a few months ago and couldn't find one in Dallas.

00:28:36.000 And I saw there was one in Rockwall with a small amount of, looks like to me, some young kids.

00:28:44.000 And I can help be the voice of reason if I have the opportunity.

00:28:51.000 To find some chapter that they would benefit from my experience and knowledge.

00:28:59.000 Well, thank you, sir.

00:29:00.000 I actually will be in Dallas tomorrow.

00:29:03.000 So you should come by the event, actually.

00:29:05.000 I would love to see you as a member.

00:29:07.000 We can get you all accommodated.

00:29:09.000 Speaking at a...

00:29:10.000 Let me see.

00:29:11.000 Where am I at here tomorrow?

00:29:12.000 Mikey! 0.65

00:29:13.000 Let me see here.

00:29:14.000 I want to make sure I get these details right.

00:29:16.000 Hold on one second.

00:29:17.000 You said, obviously, Dallas, Texas.

00:29:18.000 So let me see what I got here.

00:29:20.000 Yes.

00:29:21.000 Okay, I will be in Plano at the Renaissance Dallas at the Plano Legacy West Hotel speaking at a pro-life event tomorrow evening.

00:29:34.000 So if that is your deal, we'd love to have you come by and we can get you a ticket.

00:29:38.000 I'll be there.

00:29:39.000 Great.

00:29:39.000 Okay.

00:29:39.000 Daisy, get them connected.

00:29:41.000 You see, that's the benefit of being a member.

00:29:43.000 We always look out for our members.

00:29:45.000 Daisy will reach out. 0.96

00:29:46.000 And Daisy, that is her hometown.

00:29:48.000 So thank you, sir.

00:29:49.000 We'd love to have you.

00:29:50.000 And also, we can connect you with some local Young Patriots.

00:29:54.000 And yes, it's a Nick Vujicic, Kevin Freeman, and also a Lieutenant General Mike Flynn event.

00:30:02.000 Great.

00:30:02.000 It's a pro-life fintech event from Dallas, Texas.

00:30:06.000 Don't worry.

00:30:06.000 I'm speaking once the sun sets down, once Shabbat ends.

00:30:10.000 I know all of you keeping score.

00:30:11.000 Okay, what do we have here?

00:30:12.000 Thank you so much.

00:30:13.000 Thank you.

00:30:14.000 And we have a ton of chapters in Dallas.

00:30:16.000 We have a ton.

00:30:16.000 Okay.

00:30:17.000 Ted, Ted, thanks for being a member.

00:30:19.000 What's on your mind?

00:30:20.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:30:21.000 Calling from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and I have a question for you on, obviously, the border situation and the tariffs.

00:30:29.000 Do you think that Trump would be open to ending the tariffs if we in Canada had an actual leader willing to talk seriously about the border issues?

00:30:38.000 Or is this now more about him?

00:30:41.000 Seeking to weaken our economy, bring us along as the 51st state.

00:30:45.000 Where do you stand on mitigating this?

00:30:48.000 First of all, I do not want you guys as the 51st state.

00:30:50.000 Way too many libs.

00:30:51.000 But you seem great.

00:30:53.000 But as far as his strategy, I can't read his mind, and I've never heard him say this in private or public, but I actually think he would be happy with the same treatment of a free trade agreement with some of our allies.

00:31:06.000 I actually think what bothers him the most is that we get tariffed and we do not have reciprocal tariffs against us.

00:31:12.000 And I think that should be the goal, especially with Canada or Mexico.

00:31:17.000 Now, when it comes to our adversaries like China, I think we should tariff across the board. 0.99

00:31:21.000 But yes, tariffs can have a cost to them.

00:31:24.000 However, certain tariffs for certain industries, we might have to joust a little bit with the Canadians when it comes to certain, like 95% of our fertilizer comes from Canada.

00:31:34.000 Probably not smart to tariff that.

00:31:36.000 Blake, where do you stand on this?

00:31:38.000 Yeah, I don't know entirely what his agenda is, and I think it would be helpful if he was more public with it, but I think it's not really Trump's way to just overtly tip exactly what he's going for.

00:31:49.000 There's always some...

00:31:50.000 The weave sort of applies to his diplomacy, too.

00:31:54.000 What was he going for with North Korea?

00:31:56.000 What's he going for with Russia?

00:31:57.000 It's always a little bit beneath the surface.

00:32:00.000 I think...

00:32:01.000 I think he'd probably play ball more if there was a better government than Justin Trudeau, but I've also entertained the possibility he may like Justin Trudeau as a foe that he can spar with, and he'll maybe miss him once he's gone.

00:32:16.000 I guess I don't want to jump to conclusions about what his intent is, because I'm not entirely sure, so I don't want to speak for him.

00:32:23.000 I will say the only part of Canada that will willingly accept is Alberta.

00:32:28.000 You gotta be careful with that.

00:32:30.000 Remember, they have first passed the post, so I don't...

00:32:32.000 What do you mean?

00:32:33.000 So, when they hold an election, there's like four major parties in Canada, I guess like kind of three at the national level, and it's just whoever gets the most votes gets the seat in their parliament.

00:32:44.000 So what I'm saying is, I'm not sure if we suddenly shifted them to just Republicans and Democrats.

00:32:48.000 I kind of think Alberta would still be a blue state.

00:32:50.000 You do?

00:32:51.000 Yeah.

00:32:52.000 Really?

00:32:53.000 My gut feeling.

00:32:54.000 I've changed my opinion.

00:32:56.000 They can keep it.

00:32:57.000 They can keep it.

00:32:59.000 All right.

00:33:00.000 Will, thanks for being a member.

00:33:01.000 What's on your mind?

00:33:02.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.

00:33:04.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:33:05.000 So I know with confirmations coming to kind of wrapping up, the next thing is going to be moving legislation.

00:33:12.000 Of course, that's going to bring up whether we should nuke the filibuster.

00:33:15.000 It seems like both parties.

00:33:19.000 I'm not to the point yet, but I do think that there might be some things that they could change in the Senate rules to hopefully get legislation passed.

00:33:28.000 I believe now you've got to have three-fifths of members for cloture if they were to make it three-fifths of members present so everybody would actually have to stay on the floor, stay in town, couldn't go out to eat with lobbyists.

00:33:39.000 Is anything like that being discussed that you're aware of?

00:33:43.000 Yes.

00:33:44.000 I will.

00:33:46.000 I will say I actually am in favor of keeping the filibuster for major spending bills that are non-reconciliation.

00:33:53.000 I know that some people are going to disagree with that, but I think the filibuster prevented some of the most sinister stuff of Joe Biden from being passed in Biden's term.

00:34:05.000 So I just want to make sure I actually am a pro-filibuster guy in that sense.

00:34:10.000 That being said, of course we will be out of power.

00:34:15.000 Again, sometime in the future, hopefully a long way off, and the filibuster is a guarantor to slow down the process and to make sure that crazy ideas like adding D.C. and Puerto Rico in states can't just happen with a 50-person vote.

00:34:29.000 Imagine, if we got rid of the filibuster and we lost in the future, which is totally conceivable, because I know everyone says, oh, you know, we're never going to be beat.

00:34:37.000 No, no, no, hold on.

00:34:37.000 Things go in cycles.

00:34:39.000 They go back and forth.

00:34:40.000 Imagine the Democrats with a Democrat president.

00:34:43.000 Could be like, okay, D.C. is a state.

00:34:45.000 Puerto Rico is a state.

00:34:46.000 And we're going to be looking back like, well, we got rid of the filibuster for what exactly?

00:34:50.000 But getting rid of the filibuster for a reconciliation bill?

00:34:53.000 Fine.

00:34:54.000 That's a very specific thing.

00:34:56.000 The Democrats start that precedent.

00:34:57.000 We cannot predict how radical the Democrats are going to be when that time comes, not if.

00:35:03.000 There will be a moment in our lifetime where we no longer control the U.S. Senate.

00:35:07.000 We literally just got back control.

00:35:08.000 I hope that never happens.

00:35:10.000 You have to plan for that.

00:35:11.000 Blake, what is your thoughts?

00:35:12.000 Yeah, so what's funny with the filibuster is, as I've mentioned to you before, the filibuster is fake.

00:35:18.000 Like, the filibuster could be eliminated at any time, and it's maintained because both parties in the Senate have an interest in just not voting on things that they nominally support.

00:35:29.000 So, you know, with Mitch McConnell, it was, oh, we can use the filibuster as an excuse to not do border stuff.

00:35:35.000 With Democrats, it's, you know, Joe Biden doesn't necessarily want to pack the Supreme Court because he thinks they'll get blown up.

00:35:41.000 It's a thing that protects the majority party from votes it does not want to take.

00:35:46.000 But it is still true, as you say, that if you get rid of it, it is the Pandora's box.

00:35:57.000 Takes the first move on abolishing the filibuster.

00:35:59.000 Won't get as much out of it as the second party to take office after it's gone.

00:36:04.000 I also just want to say that there has been a decade-long erosion of the filibuster.

00:36:08.000 It actually started with Harry Reid, if you might remember.

00:36:11.000 Harry Reid, of all people, started the erosion of the filibuster for circuit and district court judges.

00:36:17.000 And then it marched forward when we used the abolition of the filibuster to put Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court back in 2017, then also with Brett Kavanaugh, then also with Amy Coney Barrett.

00:36:29.000 And so we've seen the slow erosion of the filibuster.

00:36:32.000 I think we've eroded it enough.

00:36:34.000 Look, it would be very tempting right now because we control the House and the Senate.

00:36:37.000 Get rid of the filibuster.

00:36:38.000 Simple up or down vote.

00:36:40.000 I think that would be a mistake.

00:36:42.000 I think it would be a tragedy.

00:36:43.000 If you were going to do it, I would say you should do it immediately after an election to get the most out of it.

00:36:49.000 Yeah, but then the Democrats will do it to us. 0.99

00:36:50.000 They will, but if you were going to do it, you'd want to get the most out of it.

00:36:53.000 You don't want to do it right before an election and then you lose power and they get the full.

00:36:57.000 And by the way, it's not just a matter of doing it.

00:36:58.000 I don't think the Senate would put up with it.

00:37:00.000 So it's not even a realistic thing right now.

00:37:04.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:38:06.000 Okay, members.charliekirk.com.

00:38:08.000 We have to go fast.

00:38:09.000 Carol, what's on your mind?

00:38:11.000 Thanks for being a member.

00:38:12.000 Charlie, I saw, you know, the bits and pieces with Governor Newsom.

00:38:16.000 It was brilliant.

00:38:17.000 Thank you.

00:38:17.000 But I was just so intrigued by your statement about, what don't you think?

00:38:22.000 First of all, you gave a definition for politics that I don't think a lot of people really understand that, unfortunately.

00:38:29.000 So that was really cool.

00:38:32.000 And then you were just talking about Trump and blending with media.

00:38:36.000 They can't catch up.

00:38:39.000 So I just wanted you to...

00:38:41.000 Talk about that more.

00:38:42.000 Well, thank you.

00:38:43.000 That's great feedback.

00:38:44.000 Yeah, I mean, I had to educate Governor Newsom on what politics was.

00:38:48.000 Politics is the highest form of community because it blends morality and sociability.

00:38:52.000 That's not a Charlie Kirk quote.

00:38:53.000 That is an Aristotle quote from the politics because he was like, well, who's going to make these decisions?

00:38:59.000 And I said, well, that's what politics is.

00:39:01.000 It is the decision of community, morality, and sociability.

00:39:05.000 And I thought I actually did quite well on the book banning segment.

00:39:09.000 Because that's supposed to be his strongest little talking point.

00:39:12.000 And I think it came apart.

00:39:14.000 Thank you, Carol, for mentioning that.

00:39:15.000 I encourage everyone to check out my conversation with Gavin Newsom.

00:39:18.000 Carol, overall, did you think it was a good idea very quickly for me to speak with Governor Newsom?

00:39:24.000 Yes, I sure did.

00:39:29.000 He's trying to figure out how this has all happened.

00:39:33.000 They're lost.

00:39:34.000 He's trying to figure it out.

00:39:36.000 And so you're...

00:39:37.000 You're kind of exposing where they're at and the whole thing.

00:39:41.000 And you were just so honest.

00:39:43.000 I mean, you were telling him.

00:39:45.000 And so he had to answer.

00:39:48.000 And look what happened.

00:39:50.000 So you're actually, by doing that interview, you started some conflict within the Democrats.

00:39:57.000 Big time.

00:39:57.000 You're smart, Carol.

00:39:58.000 And it's a conversation that they need to have.

00:40:01.000 I'm sorry.

00:40:02.000 We had to cut off, Carol.

00:40:03.000 Carol, if you're listening, I apologize.

00:40:05.000 Carol, you're a very sweet person.

00:40:07.000 Signed hat as an apology.

00:40:09.000 So sorry about that.

00:40:10.000 Okay, let's get to the next question here.

00:40:11.000 Elizabeth, thanks for being a member.

00:40:12.000 What's on your mind?

00:40:14.000 Yes.

00:40:14.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:40:14.000 How are you today?

00:40:15.000 How are you?

00:40:16.000 I'm all right.

00:40:17.000 Actually, I'm very upset because, long story short, my father died in a nursing home during COVID in April of 2020. And when it first happened, we assumed that, like everyone else, oh, a nurse had gotten COVID and it spread throughout.

00:40:33.000 We didn't find out until months later that...

00:40:36.000 Andrew Cuomo literally and deliberately put COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.

00:40:41.000 And I want people to understand, every single person with a family member in a nursing home got a phone call on March 9th saying we are shutting down the nursing homes for their safety and you cannot come see your family.

00:40:53.000 So they locked me out because I may or may not have COVID. And then...

00:41:00.000 15 days later, they deliberately put COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.

00:41:05.000 He was told, if you do this, thousands of people will die.

00:41:09.000 How is this man still politically viable and running for the mayor of New York City?

00:41:15.000 Well, largely because the Democrats are almost nobody else.

00:41:19.000 And the Democrat Party is not a party, it is a machine.

00:41:22.000 And you plug in place pieces, and they've looked at their roster and they're like...

00:41:26.000 Well, why'd we get rid of this Cuomo guy again?

00:41:28.000 Cuomo is a lot like Gavin, actually, in that he's a canny political operator.

00:41:34.000 He got pushed.

00:41:35.000 They got him out on Me Too, right?

00:41:38.000 Yeah.

00:41:39.000 They got him out on Me Too instead of the mass murder because Murphy, Governor Murphy, and Governor Wolf in Pennsylvania both did the exact same thing he did.

00:41:49.000 But if they got Cuomo out on it, they would have had to take out the other governors on this.

00:41:54.000 So did Whitmer up in Michigan.

00:41:57.000 So like four governors did this.

00:41:59.000 No one's being held accountable.

00:42:01.000 There was an investigation by the Department of Justice under the Trump administration when Biden came back, came in, unfortunately.

00:42:08.000 The first thing they did was they squashed that investigation.

00:42:11.000 And I don't know if, are they going to start that up again?

00:42:14.000 That's a good question.

00:42:15.000 I don't know.

00:42:16.000 New York State was 15,300 people.

00:42:18.000 It was like 9,000 people in New Jersey and 8,000 people in Pennsylvania.

00:42:25.000 Rachel Levine, whatever her first real name is, she also did the same order in Pennsylvania for Governor Wolf. 0.90

00:42:35.000 She pulled her mother out of the nursing home the day before that order was going to take place.

00:42:43.000 And we don't have a ton of time.

00:42:45.000 I want to say you're not alone, and you know who else is like a dog with a bone on this?

00:42:49.000 Janice Dean.

00:42:51.000 Janice Dean is the Fox News weatherwoman, and both of her parents died because of Cuomo's mismanagement of the nursing homes.

00:42:58.000 I would love to see that criminal investigation relaunched.

00:43:01.000 I'm very sorry for your loss.

00:43:02.000 God bless you.

00:43:03.000 We've got to move to the next question.

00:43:04.000 Thank you, though.

00:43:04.000 Thank you.

00:43:05.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:43:07.000 Okay, I want to read this last one.

00:43:09.000 Okay.

00:43:09.000 Hey, Charlie, I can't unmute for some reason.

00:43:11.000 With the transparency of this administration, where are the JFK and MLK Jr. files?

00:43:16.000 And will we hear anything about the 2017 Vegas shooting?

00:43:19.000 I never asked you, what is your thought on the Vegas shooting?

00:43:21.000 I am mostly not on board with the Vegas theory.

00:43:25.000 Just the questions?

00:43:26.000 I just, I think people have a bias to demand, like, big causes for things.

00:43:31.000 And so...

00:43:33.000 I remember...

00:43:34.000 It is bizarre.

00:43:34.000 When I was with Tucker...

00:43:36.000 I know, that's why I'm asking if you were...

00:43:37.000 When I was with Tucker, we had a guy who...

00:43:39.000 He was saying...

00:43:39.000 I think he was on the National Security Council.

00:43:42.000 And he was trying to say, like, we have evidence that it was a joint ISIS-Antifa operation. 0.90

00:43:46.000 And to be honest, when I heard that, I'm like, oh, this person is crazy.

00:43:51.000 And I think the boring answer is, like, people...

00:43:55.000 Some guy had, like, ennui because he's this, like, fading...

00:43:59.000 Boomer who was like a professional gambler.

00:44:02.000 And he decided to go out in this spectacular way.

00:44:05.000 And people...

00:44:05.000 It had to be more than that.

00:44:07.000 They had to find a better motive than this guy. 1.00

00:44:09.000 It was just like a horrible psycho who decided to kill a ton of people.

00:44:12.000 And it does go against our usual things. 0.96

00:44:14.000 It was an older guy than most shooters.

00:44:16.000 Usually they're young.

00:44:17.000 But I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that just a lunatic would decide to gun down a lot of people.

00:44:23.000 And I think what stands out is if someone else did it, it's just...

00:44:27.000 Why?

00:44:29.000 No, I'm not even...

00:44:30.000 I'm not shocked at your opinion.

00:44:33.000 And it's persuasive.

00:44:34.000 There is a lot of witness, testament, expert, official narrative.

00:44:37.000 Thank you for all you do.

00:44:38.000 I think, though, at least we can agree.

00:44:39.000 Release all the files.

00:44:40.000 Yeah, release every file we have, of course.

00:44:43.000 Privately and publicly, my advice to the administration is I'm very consistent, guys.

00:44:46.000 You guys got to start putting these files out.

00:44:48.000 We need Epstein.

00:44:49.000 We need JFK. We need MLK. We need Malcolm X. Vegas shooting.

00:44:53.000 Just do a website.

00:44:54.000 Put them all up.

00:44:54.000 No redaction.

00:44:55.000 Any document from a year that starts...

00:44:57.000 Just put them up.

00:44:57.000 Go.

00:44:58.000 Any document from a year that starts with 1-9 should just be published.

00:45:01.000 All of it.

00:45:01.000 Just like, no more hiding.

00:45:02.000 Like, let's just get them up.

00:45:03.000 That's my own personal opinion.

00:45:04.000 I know they're working on that, but I think the American people voted for it, and that's what they deserve.

00:45:09.000 And that's also what the president has demanded, by the way.

00:45:11.000 Blake, thank you.

00:45:12.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:45:14.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:45:16.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 10, 2025

Ask Charlie Anything 214: Picking Campus Visits? Vegas Shooting Truth? 2025's Most Crucial Election?

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