The Charlie Kirk Show - December 14, 2020


Ask Charlie Anything 44: Texas SCOTUS Case Post Mortem, the Biblical Roots of America, and Charlie Binges 'The Last Kingdom'


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In this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk takes your questions and answers them. Today's question asks, "Has Christianity helped shape American education? Or was it founded on secular influences?" To which the answer might surprise you...

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00:02:51.000 Hey, everybody.
00:02:52.000 Happy Monday.
00:02:53.000 Thank you for listening and emailing us your questions in at freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:03:14.000 You guys, when you email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, I read all the emails, and there's some really good ones.
00:03:19.000 So let's dive right into it.
00:03:20.000 Charlie, you say often that Christianity helped form the basis of America.
00:03:26.000 My teachers say this is incorrect.
00:03:28.000 Can you help lead me to some history and resources that help build this out?
00:03:32.000 Thanks so much, Hank from Rhode Island.
00:03:34.000 Hank from Rhode Island, you bet.
00:03:36.000 Well, thank you for the great question.
00:03:37.000 This is a falsehood that has penetrated much of secular and even Christian education, that somehow the country was founded only on secular enlightenment influences.
00:03:54.000 There's one person I think that everyone should be very familiar with.
00:03:59.000 And some way to frame him is the father of America.
00:04:04.000 He's a founding father before America was even formed.
00:04:08.000 He did live through that period of time that is widely misrepresented by the New York Times and by left-wing academics right near 1619 and 1620.
00:04:18.000 The man's name was Thomas Hooker.
00:04:21.000 He was a prominent Puritan colonial leader.
00:04:24.000 He was also a pastor and an outstanding speaker.
00:04:29.000 He is known as the father of America.
00:04:31.000 He helped found what is now known as Connecticut.
00:04:35.000 The founder of Connecticut, and Connecticut, of course, is the Constitution state.
00:04:40.000 But Thomas Hooker is someone that really helped establish the first words written that was a democratic constitution establishing a representative government, essentially establishing a fundamental order of Connecticut.
00:04:58.000 Thomas Hooker was a lecturer and a preacher all throughout America.
00:05:03.000 And this was America before America.
00:05:05.000 He helped lead the Connecticut colony.
00:05:09.000 Now, mind you, Thomas Hooker was inspired by the Code of Patrick, also derived from Alfred the Great, even Magna Carta, and of course the Mayflower Compact.
00:05:20.000 All these documents and these beginning rumbles of what would eventually create Western civilization eventually found itself upon the shores of North America.
00:05:31.000 Thomas Hooker was part of the pilgrims.
00:05:32.000 Why would we call pilgrims pilgrims if they're going to a barren land America and not Israel?
00:05:38.000 It's because they found themselves going to try to create the new Israel.
00:05:43.000 If you really want to dive deep into why America is an exceptional country, go back into the sermons of the early colonial clergy. 0.86
00:05:51.000 You will find sermons and pastors wrestling with the ideas of representative government.
00:05:56.000 Who's in charge?
00:05:57.000 The divine right of kings.
00:05:59.000 Where do rights come from?
00:06:00.000 And so much more.
00:06:02.000 The basis of our country is one that, of course, was derived from England, the Magna Carta, from ancient Rome, where they had 600 senators, even from Athens, where that's where we get the word politics from.
00:06:17.000 Politics meaning literally the business of the city. 0.56
00:06:21.000 But also, we get our way of government from Israel. 0.52
00:06:26.000 That particular period of time where there are 400 years of self-governance.
00:06:32.000 Now, remember, back in the times of Israel, and this is why, for those of us that study the Bible, understand the Bible, we can see how it applies so much to the American system of governance.
00:06:44.000 And anyone who denies this fact is trying to impart their own agenda to try to blur the lines and to try to put forward their own false narrative.
00:06:57.000 Now, remember, the Republic of Israel stood for 400 years.
00:07:02.000 It was 400 years of self-governance.
00:07:04.000 It was really built on a couple major ideas, equality, tolerance, and of course, private land ownership.
00:07:11.000 Israel was totally decentralized.
00:07:13.000 No king, no ruler, no chieftain, no czar, no pharaoh, no dictator.
00:07:19.000 Everyone knew the law, everyone followed the law, and everyone became their own form of law enforcement.
00:07:25.000 No standing army, no police, yet they were able to flourish for a long period of time.
00:07:30.000 You see, when you have a virtuous people, you don't need any form of government.
00:07:35.000 Since everyone knew the law and it was passed down from one generation to the other, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not murder, thou shall honor thy mother and father, thou shalt not covet.
00:07:45.000 They understood the uploaded moral app that was given to them from Moses.
00:07:51.000 There was really no need to have government forces.
00:07:54.000 Now, this was far from a utopia.
00:07:56.000 Still stole and they still cheated, they still sinned, they still rebelled from God.
00:08:03.000 But the overwhelming majority of the country was studying what it meant to be virtuous, was trying to figure out what God's wish was for them on this planet.
00:08:13.000 And because of this, there was really no need for a strong, centralized power.
00:08:20.000 So, mind you, when you have no government, the only way civilization can succeed is if everyone is virtuous.
00:08:28.000 But as people start to become less virtuous and they get away from this idea of God being accountable for their actions, the fear of God that God might judge you if you step out of line, if you steal something, if you lie, if you steal and you cheat, as people get away from that and start to sin or rebel from God, especially when it comes to civil and civic government, then government needs to get bigger.
00:08:58.000 So, the bigger the government, the smaller the individual.
00:09:02.000 But also, the more virtuous the people, the smaller government is able to be.
00:09:08.000 And we see that a lot today in the lockdown.
00:09:11.000 As people are fearful that they are not going to be able to make smart decisions themselves, they want government to go through and lock down businesses for them.
00:09:21.000 They want government to go through and be the jury, judge, and pseudo, and metaphorical executioner.
00:09:28.000 They want government to go through and enforce mask requirements.
00:09:32.000 Instead of trusting a population to be informed, reason-based, logical, looking into every single issue independently and analytically, empirically and rationally, instead, we have a country that resorts to try and have government be the source of virtue.
00:09:52.000 Plato used to say that we need to teach children, quote, noble lies.
00:09:57.000 What did he mean by that?
00:09:59.000 Plato used to say that we need to teach children things that might not be true, but if everyone believes them, then you're able to have a civil society and a functioning, quote-unquote, republic.
00:10:15.000 Now, Plato is very difficult to unpack in just one podcast.
00:10:19.000 Plato, of course, learned from Socrates.
00:10:21.000 Plato taught Aristotle.
00:10:22.000 Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.
00:10:24.000 Plato was an idealist.
00:10:26.000 Aristotle was an empiricist.
00:10:28.000 He was a scientist.
00:10:29.000 Plato had the academy.
00:10:31.000 Aristotle had the Lyceum.
00:10:33.000 They agreed on some things, but they disagreed on a lot.
00:10:36.000 But Plato believed in this idea of the philosopher king.
00:10:40.000 He lived in the clouds.
00:10:41.000 He was an idea guy, not a practical guy.
00:10:43.000 He would not be someone that we would call a pragmatist in today's time.
00:10:50.000 He is someone that would be spending his time debating with professors over who could best redistribute goods, services, wealth.
00:11:01.000 Plato would argue that we need a small group of governing elites.
00:11:06.000 Plato had a very specific idea of what he thought success was.
00:11:10.000 Plato thought that everything was an idea, and without ideas, there is nothing.
00:11:15.000 And there is some truth to Plato's idea here.
00:11:19.000 Get it?
00:11:21.000 However, I believe that without Aristotelian logic and the idea of being empirical and actually reasoned-based and testing your premise, something that René Descartes helped pioneer, who really started the Enlightenment, without that type of analysis, then we're nothing more than a bunch of professors tossing around theories that will have no applicability to modern life.
00:11:45.000 And so to answer your question, or to get back to your question, I should say, is America really a Christian nation?
00:11:53.000 Out of all the people that signed the Declaration of Independence, almost all of them could be identified as being outspoken Christians.
00:11:59.000 There were 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence.
00:12:03.000 But what's so incredible is that if you actually read the Declaration, it reads almost like a religious and theological document that the laws of nature and nature's God.
00:12:12.000 Who says something like that?
00:12:14.000 That when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them.
00:12:27.000 A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.
00:12:34.000 We hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:12:35.000 This idea of self-evidentiary truths is a Christian and specifically Protestant Christian idea that all men are created equal, a biblical idea that we're all equal in the eyes of Christ.
00:12:48.000 This is something that Paul talked about in Philippians, that they are endowed by their Creator, made in the image of God, imago day, something that's talked about in Jeremiah, I knew you before you're in the womb, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:13:03.000 Life, God breathed you into existence.
00:13:05.000 Liberty, the capacity to go pursue what is right and what is good, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:13:09.000 It was previously private property.
00:13:11.000 I wish they would have kept it as private property.
00:13:13.000 It would have been more clear about the actual economic system that they would have argued for.
00:13:17.000 However, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
00:13:25.000 Well, where do we get this idea of the consent of the governed?
00:13:27.000 Remember, 400 years of self-governance in Israel.
00:13:31.000 The longest-lasting best example of true, bottom-up, republican form of government, not Republican Party, but a Republican form of government.
00:13:41.000 Then it says, prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
00:13:48.000 And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
00:13:59.000 But when a long train of abuses and usurptations, pursuing invariable the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.
00:14:16.000 Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains to them their former systems of government, the history of the present.
00:14:27.000 King of Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.
00:14:37.000 To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world that goes through all the facts.
00:14:41.000 He has refused.
00:14:42.000 He has quartered soldiers.
00:14:43.000 Now, what drove the founding fathers to speak in such incendiary terms?
00:14:49.000 It's because they started to realize that rights came from God, not from King George.
00:14:54.000 And this is articulated in the Constitution of the United States, going back to Thomas Hooker, who is really one of the fathers of America or the father of the United States Constitution, who started this idea of articulating self-governance.
00:15:07.000 But it's as people started to dive deeper into the first great awakening.
00:15:11.000 Jonathan Edwards, Whitfield, sinners in the hands of an angry God.
00:15:15.000 Where do we get these rights from?
00:15:18.000 We get these rights from God, not from King George.
00:15:22.000 And in the United States Constitution, it says that titles of nobility mean nothing.
00:15:30.000 That if you're a king, it does not give you anything.
00:15:33.000 It's also known as the emoluments clause of the United States Constitution, the titles of nobility.
00:15:40.000 And it says clearly in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8: no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding any other office or profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept any present, a monument, office, or title, or any kind whatsoever from any king, prince, or foreign state.
00:16:00.000 So, what's the significance of that?
00:16:02.000 The significance is that blood means nothing.
00:16:07.000 Who your father was, who your grandfather was, I was the Earl of Winchester means nothing.
00:16:14.000 I am the king of this land means nothing.
00:16:18.000 We're in charge.
00:16:19.000 We the people, not we, the King George, not we, the people of the ruling class.
00:16:25.000 I think it's really important to remind ourselves of that.
00:16:27.000 But where do we get that idea from?
00:16:29.000 We get that idea from the Bible.
00:16:32.000 Now, some of you might say, well, Charlie, England was Christian.
00:16:35.000 Where did they go wrong? 0.98
00:16:36.000 Well, England gave us quite a lot.
00:16:38.000 Common law that we instituted seamlessly into the West.
00:16:41.000 England deserves great credit for that.
00:16:44.000 Thanks to the system of government that they implemented, inspired by the Bible.
00:16:49.000 Due process, cross-examination of witnesses, the idea of a barrister, which is a lawyer.
00:16:55.000 That all comes from biblical principles that built Western civilization as we know it.
00:17:01.000 However, it wasn't enough.
00:17:04.000 The idea of a bottom-up government, it was tried in Rome, it was tried in Athens, it was tried a little bit in the Mayflower Compact, but it was really mixing the best of the Enlightenment with the best of the Bible.
00:17:18.000 That's what America was.
00:17:20.000 Fusing together the discoveries of Newtonian physics, of Sir Francis Bacon, of Immanuel Kant, of John Locke, of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, even though they disagreed on quite a lot.
00:17:38.000 Fusing all of those together, almost in a best hits buffet of thinkers, philosophers, ideas, and systems of government.
00:17:48.000 But the thing that made America different and has made America different than any other country that has been founded since.
00:17:55.000 The reason why we are the wealthiest, most generous, benevolent, fair, equitable, open-minded country ever to exist in the history of the world is that preamble to the United States Constitution is derived straight from Christian biblical principles. 0.86
00:18:15.000 That's what makes our country different.
00:18:17.000 And so, to your question, Hank from Rhode Island, I hope that gives you a little bit of ammunition.
00:18:22.000 There's some other great resources I'd be happy to provide you with.
00:18:25.000 If anyone's interested, you guys can email us about that freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:19:45.000 Hey, Charlie, I'm really worried about this Texas Supreme Court lawsuit.
00:19:49.000 Why was it tossed out?
00:19:51.000 And what are the next steps?
00:19:53.000 Thanks so much, Clark from Wisconsin.
00:19:55.000 Well, Clark, you win a signed copy of the New York Times bestseller, The MAGA Doctrine.
00:20:00.000 Thank you for your question.
00:20:01.000 It means a lot.
00:20:02.000 Look, I was disappointed, but not overly surprised.
00:20:05.000 And here's why.
00:20:06.000 Judges are human beings.
00:20:07.000 They are.
00:20:08.000 They don't want to interfere in an election.
00:20:10.000 And I do want to give Texas and Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, credit for launching a best effort in more ways than one to try and at least give voice to the fraud that happened in this election.
00:20:27.000 But if you dive deeper into actually what the lawsuit said and the complaint going to the U.S. Supreme Court, it wasn't even about election fraud.
00:20:36.000 It was just the fact that this election was a fraud.
00:20:39.000 Remember, conspiracy is not a theory.
00:20:41.000 Conspiracy is a crime.
00:20:43.000 This was a multi-level conspiracy against the American people through voter registration, ballot fraud, ballot laundering, signature verification, Center for Technology and Civic Life,
00:20:59.000 media blackouts, Hunter Biden investigations that go unreported, all of it together, combined, created the greatest scam and scandal of an election that we have seen probably in American history, at least since 1876, definitely more so than in 2000.
00:21:20.000 But the lawsuit wasn't about ballots or signatures.
00:21:25.000 It was about how Raffensperger, the alleged Republican Secretary of State of Georgia, changed election law in a lawsuit settling civilly with Stacey Abrams, who came marching in with $40 million into Georgia, thanks to Hollywood elites and weak Republicans that didn't fight their entrance into Georgia.
00:21:51.000 They came marching in together and Raffensperger changed the laws, the rules, and the regulations around voting without the consent of the state legislature.
00:22:05.000 That is unconstitutional.
00:22:07.000 That is illegal.
00:22:08.000 Now, you might ask, or you might have the question is, well, if it's unconstitutional and it's illegal, why wasn't it stopped?
00:22:16.000 The best answer I have for that is the judges, they did not want to get involved.
00:22:20.000 They did not see that as the role of the U.S. Supreme Court, and they did not find as much validity to the complaint.
00:22:26.000 Basically, they kicked it back down to the states.
00:22:29.000 Now, that disappointed me, and it should disappoint you.
00:22:31.000 But these judges are human beings.
00:22:33.000 They do not want their legacy.
00:22:35.000 They do not want their entire judicial portfolio to be marred by a highly contentious election.
00:22:45.000 Judges like to think of themselves above politics.
00:22:49.000 However, if it was a Democrat-controlled Supreme Court, they would have heard this case in a heartbeat.
00:22:56.000 If this was a Democrat-controlled Supreme Court, if it was a Warren Court or a burger court, and it was Massachusetts or Oregon that was suing another state because of being disenfranchised because Democrats lost an election and Republicans changed a law that benefited Republicans, then the Supreme Court would have heard it.
00:23:18.000 It's just that Republicans and conservatives, we do not fight as hard as Democrats do.
00:23:24.000 We don't.
00:23:25.000 We are more decent.
00:23:26.000 We're more patient.
00:23:27.000 We work through the process.
00:23:28.000 Instead, we are much more likely to wait our turn.
00:23:33.000 We are much more likely to let things play out.
00:23:36.000 We are peace-seeking people.
00:23:38.000 Democrats are not peace-seeking people.
00:23:40.000 They are power-seeking people.
00:23:43.000 Democrats want nothing to do with reconciliation, with trying to find common ground.
00:23:49.000 Instead, Democrats will do whatever they possibly can at their disposal to assume the most amount of earthly power possible as quickly as possible.
00:23:58.000 For them, the way they judge success is how much power can I get at one period of time for myself and for my political movement.
00:24:08.000 They view everything in postmodern power struggle terms, oppressor and oppressed.
00:24:13.000 The only currency that matters to the left is not persuasion.
00:24:17.000 It's not argumentation.
00:24:19.000 It's not dialogue.
00:24:20.000 It's not debate.
00:24:21.000 It's not who can win over the course of conversation better.
00:24:26.000 It's not the pursuit of truth.
00:24:27.000 It's not the appreciation of beauty.
00:24:30.000 Instead, it's a blood sport.
00:24:32.000 It is a long, drawn-out power struggle.
00:24:36.000 It is a wrestling match for who controls the civilization.
00:24:39.000 And the problem with this, the issue that all of us that understand what the country stands for and how you can lose a civilization so quickly, the reason that we are very worried about this is that if you only care about power, then you immediately descend into a Machiavellian paradigm, which is then the ends justify the means.
00:25:01.000 And you are willing to do whatever it takes then to assume total and complete political power.
00:25:07.000 And the danger in that.
00:25:09.000 If you're willing to do whatever it takes to assume total and complete political power, then all of a sudden any sort of moral guardrails that you might have disappear and evaporate.
00:25:20.000 Think about what the Democrats were willing to do to Donald Trump.
00:25:24.000 Spy on him, launch a coup, plant evidence, lie about it, launch an entire congressional deluge crusade against President Trump all around this idea of Russian interference. 0.97
00:25:39.000 Look, I think Vladimir Putin is a thug. 0.64
00:25:41.000 I think Russia is a soft enemy of the United States. 0.95
00:25:45.000 I say soft enemy because they're not a clear and present danger to the United States.
00:25:50.000 They have a declining population.
00:25:52.000 They get all of their wealth from the petrodollar. 0.99
00:25:55.000 The real threat to our country is China. 0.91
00:25:58.000 The real threat to our country is the Chinese Communist Party. 0.95
00:26:01.000 It actually would have done us some good, just as we did in World War II, to have a soft alliance with Russia like we did with the Soviet Union to crush China. 0.87
00:26:10.000 Instead, the fearmongers that were compromised by Fang Fang, by secret drivers in the Bay Area, or Chinese Communist Party spies like Suawell, Harris, Pelosi, and Feinstein, all from the Bay Area of our country, compromised by the highest levels of the CCP.
00:26:30.000 They wanted a Russian conflict. 0.88
00:26:33.000 You see, the Chinese would love nothing more than for America to be solely focused and obsessed with Kremlin influence in our country. 0.92
00:26:43.000 Every second we spend looking at Russia, China builds their global empire. 0.93
00:26:48.000 China has one million Muslims in concentration camps right now in China. 0.87
00:26:53.000 We say often, never again will we allow another concentration camp style genocide or Holocaust occur.
00:27:00.000 That is a lie.
00:27:02.000 Almost none of the groups that call Donald Trump the worst things you can call them, 1930s warmonger, 1930s style Benito Mussolini, none of them comment on the fact that China has one million Muslims in concentration camps.
00:27:20.000 Meanwhile, the Chinese embassy puts on Twitter, quote, in Xinjiang, all citizens enjoy the same rights.
00:27:26.000 It is completely independent choice of each citizen to believe in or not believe in any religion.
00:27:31.000 That's from the Chinese embassy in the United States.
00:27:33.000 That's such a pathological lie that should get them kicked off of social media. 0.90
00:27:37.000 But again, the Chinese Communist Party has purchased our social media tech companies and data companies.
00:27:43.000 How did this happen?
00:27:44.000 This happened large in part because Republicans in particular did a dirty deal with the devil.
00:27:52.000 They opened up the market of China to an extent that deindustrialized our economy, our labor force, where we worked with our hands.
00:28:00.000 It got re-domiciled to Wuhan, to Shanghai, to Zhejiang, to Chongqing, to Kuming, to Taiwan, to Daatong, to Chongchun, to Harbin, to Shengyong, just to name some of the cities, to Fuzhou, all across China.
00:28:21.000 Because our CEOs, who didn't have really any sort of patriotic loyalty to our country, they wanted to save 10 or 15 bucks on a t-shirt, and they went to China.
00:28:33.000 Now, mind you, they could have gone to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, or Panama.
00:28:38.000 If they really needed cheap labor, the reason they went to China is that, yes, it was cheaper, but the Chinese Communist Party treated these CEOs very, very well. 0.77
00:28:47.000 They went into forced technology partnerships, and the only competitive advantage that China has is people. 0.83
00:28:53.000 They don't invent anything. 0.95
00:28:55.000 They steal everything. 0.99
00:28:57.000 The Chinese Communist Party is an institutional group of gangsters and robber barons. 0.99
00:29:02.000 They're not entrepreneurs. 0.98
00:29:04.000 They're not artists.
00:29:05.000 They're not creators. 0.99
00:29:06.000 They're communist thugs. 0.87
00:29:08.000 Everything that they consider to be valuable, they've stolen from somebody else. 0.98
00:29:13.000 They don't build anything new. 0.89
00:29:14.000 Anything that they have built has been engineered in the West and then retrofitted by someone in America or Europe or in Central or South America to satisfy the needs, wants, and interests of the Chinese Communist Party. 0.80
00:29:31.000 And yet still to this day, we continue to trade with China. 0.94
00:29:34.000 The longer that we trade with China unrestricted and they dump products into our country, the longer we tolerate this, the quicker and sooner China will take over the entire world and will break the back of America. 0.95
00:29:51.000 China attacked us with an epidemiological Pearl Harbor from Wuhan. 0.97
00:29:55.000 What has our response been? 0.90
00:29:56.000 Trying to over-police and over-censor our speech because people are getting offended that you call it the China virus, which it is.
00:30:04.000 It started in China. 0.76
00:30:05.000 It was covered up by China. 0.59
00:30:07.000 It was developed in China. 0.98
00:30:09.000 They lied about it and they spread it around the world in typical Chinese Communist Party fashion with no moral compass whatsoever. 0.99
00:30:17.000 They had no regard for the world, for the life of the rest of the world. 0.98
00:30:21.000 Now, we should make China pay. 0.99
00:30:24.000 We should make them pay multi-trillions of dollars for what they've done with the Chinese coronavirus. 0.93
00:30:28.000 Instead, if Joe Biden becomes president, China will have unrestricted access to the highest levels of our government. 0.84
00:30:36.000 And yet we're supposed to believe that 80 million people voted for a Chinese agent to become president of the United States.
00:30:43.000 Very hard to believe.
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00:32:41.000 Last question: Daryl from North Carolina asks: Hey, what show are you currently watching?
00:32:45.000 Thanks so much.
00:32:45.000 I'm actually watching a show, not on my Netflix account, I refuse to have a Netflix account, but on my fiancé's Netflix account.
00:32:53.000 We have been watching The Last Kingdom, which is a really interesting show that takes place many hundreds of years ago in England.
00:33:01.000 It's true, and it's also acted very, very well about the Anglo-Saxon influence in Europe and in England in particular, and the Danish invasions.
00:33:11.000 I highly recommend it.
00:33:12.000 It's very interesting.
00:33:13.000 I like it because it's very historical.
00:33:15.000 It's not just kind of meaningless television watching.
00:33:20.000 I'm actually learning a lot about different areas, how they developed, different parts of England that used to be called different things, and how over the years they've really and how things have changed and not changed, quite honestly.
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