The Charlie Kirk Show - November 30, 2020


Ask Charlie Anything 42: Time to Disobey? MLK and COVID? To Live 100 Years in the Future or the Past?


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In this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie answers a question from a listener about civil disobedience. Who says, "How we should practice civil disobedience differently than what the left is constantly engaged in?" What is civil disobedience and why should we practice it?

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00:00:23.000 We talk about all sorts of things, such as is it time to disobey?
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00:02:40.000 Hey, everybody, welcome to this Ask Me Anything episode here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:44.000 It's been a couple weeks since we have done one of these, mostly because we have been on top of the election coverage, the exposing of fraud, and all the questions that are around what exactly happened on election night and the days that have followed.
00:02:59.000 We have been on top of that story more so than almost any other podcast, program, activist, relentlessly searching for the truth and covering all of the discrepancies and the irregularities.
00:03:14.000 But I want to get back into answering questions from you guys because that's the most fun.
00:03:18.000 And that's where I really feel like we have a connection.
00:03:20.000 And so this is an Ask Me Anything episode for all of you that have just started listening to us and have not really listened to one of these before.
00:03:29.000 If I select your question, then you get a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:03:34.000 These questions are all selected by those of you that have emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:03:41.000 Let's get Gene's question, who says, can you explain what you mean by civil disobedience?
00:03:46.000 How we should practice that?
00:03:47.000 And how is it different than what the left is constantly engaged in?
00:03:51.000 It's a phenomenal question.
00:03:52.000 So, civil disobedience is the act of defiance intentionally against government orders to prove a bigger point around injustice.
00:04:06.000 This was first theorized and put into writing in America by a man by the name of Henry David Thoreau.
00:04:14.000 He was a transcendentalist.
00:04:17.000 For those of you that are in literature class in college, many of you are not even learning about Henry David Thoreau because he was actually, in a lot of different ways, a pro-liberty, pro-individual author and writer.
00:04:33.000 It was a series of essays under a header, Resistance to Civil Government, Civil Disobedience.
00:04:42.000 It was published in 1849.
00:04:45.000 And Thoreau basically was arguing that governments should not be able to tyrannically rule the citizenry.
00:04:55.000 Now, in Greece, citizen meant co-ruler, meaning that we have just as much say in the process and in the implementation of how government works as a politician or as an autocrat does.
00:05:09.000 And so Henry David Thoreau argued that people have a duty to civilly disobey their government when their natural rights are violated.
00:05:21.000 Now, I encourage all of you to check out this essay, Civil Disobedience.
00:05:25.000 It's one of the most influential pieces of writing in American history.
00:05:29.000 Henry David Thoreau also wrote Walden.
00:05:32.000 He wrote Hearts of Freedom and many other amazing pieces of literature that highly influenced the transcendentalist movement in this country.
00:05:39.000 Now, his influences were, of course, mostly Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
00:05:43.000 Those are the two most famous people that employed the writings and the philosophy of Henry David Thoreau.
00:05:51.000 Of course, Gandhi in India, he was very impressed by Thoreau's arguments.
00:05:56.000 And he in India implemented massive pieces of resistance.
00:06:03.000 And part of civil disobedience is being willing to accept the punishment for the crime, not fleeing, not trying to be physically or violently in retaliation against tyranny, but instead accepting punishment.
00:06:23.000 Martin Luther King was also very influenced by Henry David Thoreau.
00:06:28.000 He wrote this in his autobiography.
00:06:30.000 During my student days, I read Henry David Thoreau's essay on civil disobedience for the first term.
00:06:36.000 Here, in this courageous New Englander's refusal to pay his taxes and his choice of jail rather than support a war that would spread slavery throughout Mexico, I made my first contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance.
00:06:49.000 Fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system, I was so deeply moved that I reread the work several times.
00:06:57.000 Martin Luther King Jr. continued by saying, I became convinced that non-cooperation with evil is as such a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
00:07:06.000 No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau.
00:07:12.000 As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are heirs of a legacy of creative protest.
00:07:18.000 The teachings of Thoreau came alive in our civil rights movement.
00:07:21.000 Indeed, they are more alive than ever before, whether expressed in a sit-in lunch counters, a freedom ride into Mississippi, a peaceful protest than Albany, Georgia, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
00:07:32.000 These are outgrowths of Thoreau's insistence that evil must be resisted and that no moral man can patiently adjust to injustice.
00:07:39.000 The autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.
00:07:42.000 Now, here's where the left does not employ the tactics of Henry David Thoreau.
00:07:50.000 Never did Henry David Thoreau argue for violent riots or physical destruction of the world around us.
00:07:59.000 Never did Henry David Thoreau support massed vigilantes, criminals, and thugs burning down downtown Portland, Minneapolis, or urban metropolises.
00:08:10.000 Instead, Henry David Thoreau would say, you're mad about racial injustice.
00:08:15.000 Okay.
00:08:17.000 Then you should peacefully disobey and be willing to accept the consequence of it, not protest it, not claim that you're innocent like many of the people on the left do, but instead be willing to pay a criminal price.
00:08:35.000 Now, so I am calling for the largest act of civil disobedience against our government since the civil rights era in defiance to these draconian anti-science lockdowns.
00:08:46.000 And incredibly, these conversations around the Chinese coronavirus happen in waves.
00:08:52.000 I thought that we were done with this back in June, then it came back in July.
00:08:56.000 I thought we were done with this again, and now we are here again, where I have to remind people that the left does not follow the science.
00:09:02.000 They follow the scientists that they like.
00:09:05.000 That Democrats are using the lockdown as a gateway drug to the great reset.
00:09:11.000 That Democrats are using lockdowns as a draconian, one-size-fits-all measure to punish small businesses, to evaporate the muscular class, usher in mandatory vaccinations, open borders, China appeasement, gun confiscation, and the shredding of the United States Constitution.
00:09:28.000 The only thing that will prevent the left, the central planners, and the statists from implementing this radical reset is civil disobedience and reopening our country immediately.
00:09:44.000 If we reopen our country, reopen our schools, reopen our businesses, capital flows will intensify, money velocity will increase, and a return to normal will happen quicker than the central planners would be comfortable with, and all of a sudden their plans would be thwarted.
00:10:00.000 And let me be very clear.
00:10:01.000 It is not the role of government, especially when we know how this virus acts epidemiologically, to start coming in and saying, I know what is best for your life and for what you are doing when it comes to the spread of a virus.
00:10:15.000 That is not the role of government. 0.97
00:10:17.000 Instead, government should be coming in and educating the population based on all available data, providing testing where necessary if people so choose, and say, I trust your right to make stupid decisions or make good decisions. 0.98
00:10:30.000 Go forth and try your best. 0.71
00:10:34.000 And if people decide to still do mass gatherings, if people decide to still congregate, then that's on them.
00:10:41.000 And yet, even with that, judges are saying that strip clubs and casinos are more essential than churches.
00:10:48.000 Because strip clubs and casinos pander to the base of the Democrat Party.
00:10:48.000 Why?
00:10:53.000 If church can go virtual, why can't strip clubs go virtual?
00:10:57.000 Cannabis dispensaries and abortion factories have remained open, yet churches shuttered and closed.
00:11:04.000 We put infected and sick patients in nursing home wards, but we decided to close our schools.
00:11:12.000 More young people died of suicide than of the Chinese coronavirus in the state of California.
00:11:16.000 The human cost of lockdowns is absolutely unacceptable.
00:11:21.000 And yet, we conveniently ignore that the WHO on October 13th issued a warning about lockdowns, where they said lockdowns have a very serious human cost.
00:11:35.000 They came out against lockdowns.
00:11:39.000 They warned against lockdowns due to extreme economic costs and damage. 0.77
00:11:45.000 Lockdowns are the dumbest draconian epidemiological idea in the history of Western civilization. 0.88
00:11:52.000 It is surrendering to the virus. 0.99
00:11:54.000 Instead of being brave and being wise, it's being cowardly and being sloppy.
00:11:59.000 We know the human cost of lockdowns.
00:12:02.000 We know the suicides, the mental health, the domestic abuse, the spousal abuse, the sexual abuse.
00:12:10.000 And so that is why I am calling for every single human being that is listening to this to start breaking the rules.
00:12:18.000 Now, when I say that, I don't say that lightly.
00:12:21.000 All acts of civil disobedience must be done prayerfully, carefully, rarely, intentionally, and publicly.
00:12:30.000 If you are going to break the rules, you must be willing to take the punishment.
00:12:34.000 So that is why I have said everywhere that I go and speak: come arrest me.
00:12:39.000 I am willing to go serve the jail time for this moral good.
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00:12:52.000 Arrest us.
00:12:54.000 That's how serious this is.
00:12:57.000 And we are willing to pay the price.
00:12:59.000 Pastor Rob McCoy, who has kept his church open since May, he has said, arrest me.
00:13:03.000 And he really means it.
00:13:05.000 Pastor Greg Farrington from Destiny Church in Rockland, California, on Pentecost, he said, arrest me.
00:13:10.000 They didn't, but he meant it.
00:13:12.000 A core aspect of civil disobedience is showing the tyrants and the autocrats that you are willing to go all the way because they can't arrest all of us.
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00:14:31.000 So if you're listening to this and you say, what does it mean for me?
00:14:33.000 If you own a small business, open it no matter where you are.
00:14:37.000 If you go to a church that is not open, ask the pastor why.
00:14:40.000 If they tell you a half-baked political answer, find a new church.
00:14:46.000 Find a church that is open and reward the good guys.
00:14:49.000 It is now time that we defiantly push back against this moral injustice that has plagued this country.
00:14:59.000 That is lockdowns.
00:15:02.000 If we don't, then the great reset that has been talked about in the World Economic Forum of mandatory vaccinations, of open borders, the destruction of America, the erosion of any sort of sovereignty will happen quicker than you can imagine.
00:15:16.000 The lockdowns, as Justin Trudeau said, is the greatest opportunity to bring in a new world order.
00:15:25.000 Let's play tape of Justin Trudeau saying exactly that.
00:15:28.000 Play tape.
00:15:29.000 Building back better means giving support to the most vulnerable while maintaining our momentum on reaching the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs.
00:15:40.000 Canada is here to listen and to help.
00:15:43.000 This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset.
00:15:46.000 This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change.
00:15:59.000 Don't believe me on the New World Order part?
00:16:01.000 Play tape of Lori Lightfoot literally saying new world order.
00:16:05.000 Play tape. 0.99
00:16:06.000 With the executive branch, because otherwise it doesn't work.
00:16:10.000 So you got to eliminate that compliance and you make it a mandate.
00:16:14.000 And then you do training, particularly in the city, I'll call them licensing departments, whether it's zoning, buildings, housing will be impacted by it, planning, certainly.
00:16:27.000 And you pick the people that run those agencies and the deputies that are pledging allegiance to the new world order and good governance.
00:16:36.000 And then I think you have the inspector general do some spylines to make sure that these politicians are half-baked philosophers that got lost in some form of a social justice warrior training camp in college and never left.
00:16:53.000 They have never worked with their hands.
00:16:56.000 They have never started the business.
00:16:57.000 They've never had to make payroll.
00:16:59.000 They never had to fire anyone.
00:17:01.000 These people are bureaucrat civil servants that now are playing games with real people's lives.
00:17:07.000 Everyone disobey them now.
00:17:11.000 It's that simple.
00:17:13.000 And be willing to go to jail.
00:17:15.000 And if you say, I don't know, jail is too much for me, then you're not willing to pay the price of freedom.
00:17:20.000 It's that simple.
00:17:21.000 And this is a small price to pay versus the 3,500 American troops that died at the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes in Belgium when evil decided to have one last gasp against the Allied forces in December of 1944. 0.97
00:17:41.000 When 3,500 Americans in the Ardennes thought they were going to have a nice, quiet Christmas, because no way would the Germans be so stupid and foolish to advance the 6th Division of Panzer tanks in Northwest Germany to Belgium. 0.87
00:17:57.000 No way would they do that because they were getting pressure from both the East and the West. 0.86
00:18:03.000 And tens of thousands of American troops, as the calendar started to get towards early January, early December, and then December 10th rolled around.
00:18:17.000 They thought that they were going to kind of get lucky. 0.74
00:18:22.000 And then Hitler, who was a drug addict, decided to deploy his panzer division in the middle of winter. 0.89
00:18:32.000 In a surprise and stunning move of events, aided by air cover, he was actually immediately very successful. 0.76
00:18:39.000 His strategy was to try to go and reclaim Antwerp, which was a critical port for the Allied forces.
00:18:48.000 At the Battle of the Bulge, the 101st American Division of the U.S. Army held the line.
00:18:55.000 400 incredible heroes held the line against pure evil.
00:19:01.000 I'm not asking you to do that.
00:19:03.000 When 3,000 plus Americans died or suffered unspeakable injuries, not asking you to do that.
00:19:11.000 And it wasn't until General George Patton came in with 200,000 Allied reinforcements.
00:19:19.000 The air cover started to fade.
00:19:22.000 The clouds went away.
00:19:24.000 And the sixth division of the Panzer Tank Division of the Vuhamacht met their ultimate demise and were slaughtered by Allied forces.
00:19:35.000 That's a tough December, okay?
00:19:38.000 I'm not asking you to do that.
00:19:39.000 I'm not asking you to go to the Ardennes and to hold down a city against the most sophisticated, mechanically advanced army that's pathologically driven.
00:19:50.000 Not asking you to do that.
00:19:51.000 And I use that graphic example for a reason.
00:19:54.000 Because sacrifices were made then so that all of a sudden you can have the freedom and luxury to have Thanksgiving.
00:19:58.000 Oh, wait, you can't have Thanksgiving anymore.
00:20:01.000 Why?
00:20:02.000 Because we were protected and given a gift by a generation that stormed the beaches of Normandy that did bombing raids all across continental Europe, where 60% of British expeditionary force bombers never saw a return.
00:20:17.000 60%.
00:20:18.000 We were handed a gift by the greatest generation that understood what it meant to sacrifice.
00:20:23.000 And yes, it's cliche.
00:20:24.000 And yes, people talk about it a lot.
00:20:26.000 And if you don't understand the significance of it, then spend your Christmas and spend your Thanksgiving sitting down instead of watching the latest comedy that has no value whatsoever, go through Hulu or Netflix or whatever your provider is on YouTube or whatever, and go watch a couple hours of the actual footage of what the heroes of World War II did to face absolute evil and win.
00:20:48.000 So we were given a gift by all of them.
00:20:49.000 And that gift was civil society, that natural rights would be protected, that we wouldn't be lied to by a political class.
00:20:56.000 And over the last couple decades, we got very lazy and sloppy.
00:21:01.000 The left didn't.
00:21:02.000 The left enacted the long march through the institutions.
00:21:05.000 Churches started being corrupted.
00:21:07.000 Academia fell from grace.
00:21:09.000 And now we are living in America that, quite honestly, we deserve.
00:21:13.000 So now's our opportunity.
00:21:15.000 I'm not asking you to storm the beaches of Normandy, nor am I making a moral equivalency to it, nor am I making a moral equivalency to the type of heroism that that would be.
00:21:25.000 I'm simply asking you: if you're a small business owner, open your small business.
00:21:29.000 If you're a pastor, open your church.
00:21:31.000 If you're a parishioner, demand your church opens or find a new church.
00:21:36.000 They can't arrest all of us.
00:21:38.000 They can't.
00:21:39.000 They can't force us into submission.
00:21:41.000 They can't suffocate our freedom.
00:21:44.000 And if they do, then we'll be the last generation ever to call ourselves Americans.
00:21:50.000 I'm not willing to do that.
00:21:53.000 And so that's what I mean by civil disobedience.
00:21:56.000 Problems that are not confronted multiply.
00:21:58.000 That which is good, which is not defended, shatters.
00:22:02.000 Disobey.
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00:23:33.000 Hey, Charlie, Christmas is coming up, and I'm going to help some of my more left-leaning family members become more enlightened on conservative values and why they're right for America.
00:23:41.000 What are five books you would recommend?
00:23:43.000 I could give them for Christmas to help them see the light.
00:23:45.000 Claire in Ames, Iowa.
00:23:47.000 Well, look, I would dive deeper into philosophy.
00:23:49.000 It depends how willing they are to actually read and dive into these ideas.
00:23:56.000 I would recommend a couple books.
00:23:58.000 I would recommend The Coddling of the American Mind is a phenomenal book.
00:24:02.000 I would recommend Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Soule.
00:24:06.000 I would recommend Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman.
00:24:09.000 And then a more heady one that, quite honestly, is one that can kind of show you what happens if we don't confront evil is The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Soshonitsyn.
00:24:19.000 That's a tougher read.
00:24:20.000 It's headier.
00:24:20.000 It's more philosophical, but it's critically important.
00:24:25.000 Saw other books as well that I would recommend, kind of more in the modern era.
00:24:30.000 I love the book That Built Your World by Vishal Mengal Waldi.
00:24:34.000 It's a phenomenal book that I highly, highly recommend. 0.99
00:24:37.000 I always mention this book, and no, he does not pay me royalties because he's an absolute jerk to me. 0.94
00:24:43.000 But despite him actually being a jerk, despite him being a very nasty person, I'm going to keep on plugging his book because it's actually a really good piece of literature. 0.96
00:24:52.000 Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg is one of the best pieces of literature in the modern era. 0.98
00:24:57.000 There's also some other good ones.
00:24:58.000 I have to say, Ben Shapiro's Right Side of History is just a well-crafted piece of literature for those of you that might be in the middle.
00:25:05.000 But that segues to a bigger point.
00:25:08.000 Don't be afraid to learn.
00:25:09.000 Dive deep into the ideas.
00:25:11.000 Know who Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu is.
00:25:14.000 Know who Voltaire is.
00:25:16.000 Know who Kant is.
00:25:17.000 Know who Adam Smith is.
00:25:19.000 And if you don't, that's okay.
00:25:20.000 Just dive deeper into the literature that built Western civilization that is trying to destroy Western civilization.
00:25:26.000 Because this struggle goes all the way back to Plato versus Aristotle.
00:25:29.000 It goes back to should human beings have private property or not?
00:25:33.000 Are human beings flawed by nature or not?
00:25:36.000 These questions have always been presented to philosophers and to thinkers and to writers.
00:25:42.000 We are not the first generation to encounter this sequence of questioning.
00:25:47.000 But how we reason, how we come across these ideas is so critically important.
00:25:51.000 And people say, what do I do?
00:25:53.000 What do I do?
00:25:54.000 The more you learn, the deeper that you dive into literature and into lectures, the more clarity you will be presented with in a sea of confusion.
00:26:05.000 So I hope that helps, Claire.
00:26:06.000 Thanks for listening.
00:26:07.000 This question is from Marcus Isaacson.
00:26:10.000 Hey, my name is Mike Marcus and I live in Sweden.
00:26:13.000 I really hope Trump wins this, me too.
00:26:15.000 Our socialist media in Sweden does nothing but mock and write bad things about Trump.
00:26:20.000 Some of us know better, though.
00:26:21.000 We as Swedes are totally brainwashed by the media, but slowly are waking up, thank God.
00:26:25.000 My question is, if Trump loses, can he run for a second term later in life?
00:26:30.000 In four years, perhaps?
00:26:31.000 Best regards.
00:26:32.000 Yes, Marcus, he can.
00:26:33.000 But Marcus, I want to compliment your socialist country.
00:26:36.000 You guys understand individual liberty a lot better than we do here.
00:26:40.000 Now, I have read articles that Sweden might be locking down again.
00:26:43.000 However, at the recording of this podcast, you guys have still handled the Chinese coronavirus far better than we have in our country.
00:26:51.000 I have a lot of respect for Swedes.
00:26:53.000 I do.
00:26:53.000 In Sweden, they have absolute and total school choice.
00:26:56.000 They have less business regulation than we do in our country.
00:26:58.000 I don't like the way you guys do healthcare at all whatsoever.
00:27:01.000 I don't like the way you don't respect individual rights and freedom.
00:27:04.000 And I certainly don't like the lack of free speech in your country.
00:27:07.000 However, I am a big fan of the Swedish work ethic and the belief in community.
00:27:14.000 Not a big believer in some of the lack of religiosity that has seeped into Sweden or some of your relaxed immigration policies.
00:27:22.000 But I hope to visit Sweden.
00:27:23.000 I really do.
00:27:24.000 I want to visit all of the Baltic states.
00:27:25.000 For those of you that don't know what the Baltic states are, it's Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, which are the four Baltic states.
00:27:33.000 And it's right, of course, near the Baltic Sea.
00:27:35.000 And there's a lot of people in our country that come from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, mostly Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
00:27:42.000 They mostly actually came through North Dakota, Minnesota, through Chicago, and immigrated north from there.
00:27:48.000 And that's why, actually, they are called the Minnesota Vikings.
00:27:51.000 It's a fun fact for today.
00:27:52.000 There's actually, I could give a whole podcast on how sports teams got their names.
00:27:56.000 Sports teams are rarely ever named by mistake.
00:28:00.000 You guys probably know this one: San Francisco 49ers, the 49 Gold Rush.
00:28:04.000 The Los Angeles Lakers, why on earth would we call the Los Angeles Lakers?
00:28:08.000 Ah, because they used to be in, that's right, Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes, the Chicago Bulls, and the Chicago Bears.
00:28:16.000 Of course, it's a Chicago Stock Exchange, Mercantile Exchange, Bulls, and Bears Markets.
00:28:20.000 What on earth is the New York Mets Metropolitans, the Metropolitan Life? 0.64
00:28:25.000 What is a Yankee?
00:28:26.000 Well, we all know what a Yankee is.
00:28:27.000 If you study the Civil War, critically important to the history of what a Yankee is in our country, I could go chapter and verse through exactly how teams got their names.
00:28:39.000 I think it's super interesting.
00:28:40.000 Miami Dolphins, I think that one is pretty patently obvious.
00:28:43.000 Houston Texans, not a lot of explanation.
00:28:45.000 I have to go there.
00:28:46.000 Dallas Cowboys, also very easy.
00:28:48.000 How about the Seattle Supersonics when they used to exist?
00:28:51.000 Well, Boeing is headquartered in Seattle, so that makes a lot of sense.
00:28:56.000 St. Louis Cardinals, I actually don't know that one.
00:28:59.000 I have no idea why.
00:29:01.000 How about the Portland Trailblazers?
00:29:03.000 By the way, I'm doing this all on the cuff.
00:29:04.000 For those of you that might think I'm reading some sort of screen, I'm literally looking at my Apple maps and just going through kind of, I'm just super interested in sports names and how they came about.
00:29:12.000 Portland Trailblazers, of course, Lewis and Clark and Trailblazers that went west on the Oregon Trail.
00:29:17.000 That's how they got their names.
00:29:18.000 Colorado Rockies, not a lot of explanation, I think, that's needed for that one.
00:29:23.000 Denver Nuggets, you say, what on earth is that?
00:29:25.000 Nuggets of gold that were actually named after the gold rush that happened throughout the Colorado Rockies.
00:29:31.000 The production team said about the Cleveland Browns.
00:29:34.000 If my memory serves me correctly, that was the name of the owner of the team back when they were first charted.
00:29:40.000 Am I right?
00:29:41.000 I'm right.
00:29:42.000 Very good.
00:29:44.000 And so I have no idea how we started talking about different sports names, but that's the beauty of an Ask Me Anything episode.
00:29:50.000 Oh, yeah, it's because of the Swedes, Vikings, Swedish.
00:29:55.000 And that's how we got the Trailblazers.
00:29:57.000 And that's why we love your questions.
00:29:59.000 And freedom at CharlieKirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:30:04.000 Hey, Charlie, would you rather travel 100 years in the past or 100 years into the future?
00:30:09.000 What would you do once you got there, Michaela?
00:30:11.000 Super interesting question.
00:30:13.000 It depends if I could come back because I would actually rather live in the present.
00:30:17.000 Probably if I could come back, I would be either fascinated or horrified to see the future, to be honest with you, to see what America and what the world looks like in the next hundred years.
00:30:29.000 I'm actually thinking about for my next book, I'm wrestling around.
00:30:32.000 It's either going to be a book indicting college, Don't Go, The Case Against Going to College, which is a book that needs to be written.
00:30:38.000 But very similar to the treatise of, or the book, The Last of the Mohicans, I was thinking of writing The Last Americans.
00:30:46.000 Now, it's super provocative, obviously, to see Media Matters scrambling on their Thanksgiving Day weekend, writing about how I dare compare Native American slaughter to The Last of the Americans, which I actually think works.
00:30:58.000 The reason that I think it's interesting is: will the American experiment continue?
00:31:04.000 And for those of you that are 13, 14, 15, 16, listening to this podcast right now, and our generation that are millennials and Gen Z, it is entirely possible that we might be the last generation that calls ourselves Americans.
00:31:16.000 It is.
00:31:17.000 We are closer to the brink than ever before.
00:31:20.000 And the question is: how do we reverse it?
00:31:22.000 We build up new institutions.
00:31:24.000 We support the good guys and defend them against attacks.
00:31:27.000 That's how.
00:31:28.000 The question of would I rather go in the future or the past, the past, I think, would be kind of meaningless, quite honestly, unless I could impact it, unless it was some form of a Terminator scene where I could go back and prevent John Connor from being murdered.
00:31:42.000 By the way, I saw the most recent Terminator movie and not a fan.
00:31:48.000 That's all I have to say.
00:31:50.000 Love Terminator 1 and I love Terminator 2 because I think Terminator 2 is actually where we're headed.
00:31:56.000 And so going in the past, going in the future, I'd like to see what's coming next, but it would actually kind of horrify me.
00:32:03.000 I would much rather go hundreds and hundreds of years in the past before that.
00:32:07.000 If I could just be a witness to one period of time, it's when Julius Caesar transitioned the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire, had a relationship with Cleopatra, won the Roman Civil War, unified the Roman Empire, and really laid the groundwork for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, from coming here on earth.
00:32:28.000 I think that would be a fascinating time to actually see.
00:32:31.000 I love Roman history.
00:32:32.000 We could do a whole podcast on that at some point.
00:32:35.000 Thank you guys for emailing us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:32:46.000 I've gotten some accusations about that, of people being upset that I don't respond.
00:32:50.000 Okay, it's very hard to respond to hundreds of thousands of emails, but I do my best.
00:32:53.000 I do read them all, though.
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