The Charlie Kirk Show - March 29, 2021


Ask Charlie Anything 56: What is a Filibuster? Was Ronald Reagan a Bad Guy? Krispy Kreme—No Way? And MORE!


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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, "Should we get rid of the filibuster?" and why? In this episode, Charlie answers both of these questions and more.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Monday.
00:00:01.000 I take your questions that you've emailed me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:05.000 We go over the filibuster rather extensively and comprehensively.
00:00:09.000 We talk about the legacy of Ronald Reagan, ancient Greek, and so much more.
00:00:14.000 It's a pretty interesting and fun episode.
00:00:16.000 But the first part of this episode on the filibuster is super important to send to all of your friends that might say, we must get rid of the filibuster.
00:00:22.000 We go through a very detailed, evidence-based argument of why we must keep the filibuster in place.
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00:01:53.000 So a question we keep on getting, and this is from Faith.
00:01:56.000 It's very similar to this question: is, hey, Charlie, if Democrats tried to end the Senate filibuster, couldn't Republicans filibuster against ending the filibuster?
00:02:05.000 Or is that not possible since it's more of a Senate rule than legislation?
00:02:08.000 Could you talk about how the filibuster works exactly?
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00:02:15.000 Yes, that's right.
00:02:16.000 So it starts with: if 50 Democrats can agree for a Senate rule change, you cannot filibuster a rule change.
00:02:24.000 And so if they all of a sudden agree that, you know what, 50 votes is adequate enough to change the way that we do business in the United States Senate, then that could change the filibuster altogether.
00:02:33.000 Now, what's the significance, again, of the filibuster?
00:02:37.000 The filibuster, as it stands right now, is all that is preventing Democrats from passing HR1, HR5, and all of this very harmful legislation to our country.
00:02:52.000 The filibuster requires 60 votes to end debate.
00:02:57.000 The filibuster has been around in one way or the other since 1807.
00:03:04.000 The filibuster is nothing new, and the Democrats are trying to go out of their way to call it a Jim Crow relic.
00:03:13.000 However, if you look at the history of the filibuster and you look at what Democrats have said about the filibuster, it's actually contrary to that.
00:03:22.000 In fact, we have some tape right here of when Joe Biden was defending the filibuster back when he was in the Senate.
00:03:31.000 This was from 2005.
00:03:33.000 Let's play Joe Biden and Barack Obama and Schumer.
00:03:37.000 It's cut 74.
00:03:39.000 Play tape.
00:03:40.000 What they don't expect is for one party, be it Republican or Democrat, to change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet.
00:03:55.000 The checks and balances which have been at the core of this republic are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option.
00:04:06.000 And they will change the rules, break the rules, misread the Constitution so that they will get their way.
00:04:14.000 At its core, the filibusters are not about stopping a nominee or a bill.
00:04:19.000 It's about compromise and moderation.
00:04:21.000 That's why the founders put unlimited debate in.
00:04:24.000 And that is Joe Biden saying that's why the founders put unlimited debate in.
00:04:31.000 Joe Biden went out of his way to attack the filibuster when previously he was just defending the filibuster, as we just said.
00:04:38.000 Let's play Cut 65 of Joe Biden going after the filibuster, Cut 65.
00:04:44.000 So it's being abused in a gigantic way.
00:04:48.000 We're going to get a lot done.
00:04:50.000 And if we have to, if there's complete lockdown and chaos as a consequence of the filibuster, then we'll have to go beyond what I'm talking about.
00:04:59.000 And then, but Joe Biden then accidentally highlighted the fact that Democrats used the filibuster last year after saying it was abused in the past, Cut 66.
00:05:09.000 You know, with regard to the filibuster, I believe we should go back to a position of the filibuster that existed just when I came to the United States Senate 120 years ago.
00:05:20.000 That it used to be that from between 1917 and 1971, the filibuster existed.
00:05:29.000 There were a total of 58 motions to break a filibuster that whole time.
00:05:36.000 Last year alone, there were five times that many.
00:05:42.000 So it's being abused in a gigantic way.
00:05:46.000 Wait, Democrats weren't in control of the Senate last year.
00:05:49.000 So Democrats were abusing the filibuster?
00:05:51.000 Is that what Joe Biden's trying to say?
00:05:53.000 The Democrats were using the filibuster too much?
00:05:57.000 You see, the Democrats have grown impatient.
00:06:00.000 For many of these Democrats, they're septogenarians.
00:06:05.000 That means they're in their 70s.
00:06:06.000 They've been around Washington, D.C. for quite some time, and they are thinking to themselves, what's my legacy going to be?
00:06:14.000 What good have I done for America?
00:06:16.000 And many of these Democrats are now being presented with the energetic radical base of the Democrat Party who's constantly in their ear and they say, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, you can be a revolutionary like the rest of us.
00:06:31.000 You can be remembered for being on the side of the proletariat.
00:06:39.000 Together we can pass H.R. 1. 0.68
00:06:41.000 Together we can stand up against systemic racism.
00:06:44.000 And for some of these feeble-minded, weak politicians, they are now being convinced by a group of people that do not share our values to change every single rule and tradition that came before them just so that they can hold on to power forever.
00:07:06.000 Let's go to Cut 77.
00:07:07.000 Remember when Barack Obama called the filibuster a Jim Crow relic?
00:07:12.000 Cut 77.
00:07:13.000 And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that's what we should do. 0.73
00:07:26.000 Now, the significance of the filibuster, this is actually going to be the most important, wonky, weedsy, nuanced detail that will determine the future of our republic.
00:07:40.000 I know that some of this stuff does not interest a lot of people.
00:07:42.000 I know that it could be very detailed.
00:07:44.000 But basically, the fate of our country largely rests on whether or not the filibuster will stay in place.
00:07:52.000 You're starting to see every single Democrat leader start to agree on their impatience.
00:08:00.000 Let's listen to Julian Castro, Cut 81, who says the reason we can't take away guns is because the filibuster, CUT 81.
00:08:09.000 In Washington, they actually were, or do we need to get rid of that filibuster?
00:08:14.000 I actually think this is going to be another indictment of the filibuster.
00:08:18.000 How do you not call something strongly bipartisan in this country when almost 90% of Americans support it, and yet mainly one political party stands completely against it?
00:08:31.000 It doesn't make any sense.
00:08:33.000 And this is one more example of why, in the least, we need significant filibuster reform that makes it possible for effective, meaningful legislation like this to actually get enacted.
00:08:48.000 So their argument is that, look, a couple of Republicans voted with us in the House.
00:08:53.000 If the Senate is going to remain united against us, then we need filibuster reform to be able to pass HR1 gun confiscation, D.C., Puerto Rico estates, be able to abolish the Electoral College.
00:09:02.000 That one's very unlikely.
00:09:04.000 And then also be able to expand our capacity to win elections.
00:09:11.000 Democrats know that under normal circumstances, they are not going to be in power after 2022.
00:09:18.000 So then they ask themselves the question: why must we live under normal circumstances?
00:09:23.000 Why can't we live under circumstances like they do in California or New York, where only Democrats win?
00:09:30.000 So Democrats are saying, hey, instead of trying to do this bipartisan compromise, instead of trying to understand that we might not be in power forever, they say, why won't we be in power forever?
00:09:42.000 Let's create a set of circumstances where we never lose power, where we never have to actually run for reelection again, where we decide who will be in charge based on primaries and not based on general elections.
00:09:56.000 That's basically how it works in California.
00:09:58.000 With some rare exceptions, California has not had a statewide elected official as a Republican in quite some time.
00:10:05.000 Last time there was a Republican, I think, was Arnold Schwarzenegger.
00:10:09.000 And so the Democrats, they never actually want to give up their newly found power.
00:10:13.000 And they realize that universal mail-in voting, they know that these public policy measures are helpful in staying in power indefinitely.
00:10:23.000 That's all that this is about.
00:10:24.000 I hate to be that cynical, but that's their objective.
00:10:28.000 That is their end in sight.
00:10:30.000 That is their purpose.
00:10:32.000 Trevor Noah, who I guess is the new philosopher of the Democrat Party, saying that the filibuster is racist.
00:10:40.000 Cut 79.
00:10:42.000 It wasn't until the late 1950s that the filibuster started to become more common.
00:10:47.000 And what cause was so inspiring to senators at that time that they just had to stand up and speak for hours?
00:10:54.000 Being racist.
00:10:56.000 For a few decades, the filibuster is used, but pretty sparingly.
00:10:59.000 Then the Senate starts to consider civil rights legislation.
00:11:02.000 And Southern senators really hate this.
00:11:05.000 But they don't have the votes to actually defeat the bills.
00:11:07.000 So they start using the filibuster.
00:11:09.000 It became a tool that Southern senators used to prevent the federal government from intervening in racial segregation.
00:11:16.000 Perhaps the most famous one was when South Carolina Strom Thurmond took the floor against the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
00:11:23.000 Thurmond notoriously read the phone book, clocking it at more than 24 hours to try to block a 1957 civil rights bill.
00:11:30.000 How did you last 24 hours?
00:11:33.000 You never left the Senate floor.
00:11:35.000 I go now to the Senate bath for three or four days beforehand and dried out my body.
00:11:40.000 In the sauna.
00:11:42.000 Yeah, so I wouldn't be tempted to go to the bathroom.
00:11:46.000 And so I was able to do that.
00:11:50.000 Well, first of all, Strom Thurmond was a Democrat, and he was the only one that switched parties, and the other 20 people who filibustered for 75 days straight, they were all Democrats.
00:11:59.000 But those details aside, Mitch McConnell had a great response to this lie from Trevor Noah and Elizabeth Warren that somehow the filibuster is based in racism, Cut 80.
00:12:11.000 Elizabeth Warren has said that the filibuster is based on racism.
00:12:15.000 Is it?
00:12:17.000 No, the filibuster predates the debates over civil rights.
00:12:21.000 It goes back to the beginning of the country.
00:12:23.000 The filibuster started well before we got into the civil rights debates that have occurred off and on over the history of the country.
00:12:32.000 So the derivation of the filibuster was not related to race or civil rights.
00:12:39.000 And Senator Ben Sasse, who could be very good on some issues and then very annoying on other issues, he came out and he made a very good point and he said the filibuster is only racist to Democrats when they want it to be.
00:12:54.000 Where were all the Democrats calling the filibuster racist when they tried to stop Tim Scott's police reform bill, Cut 82?
00:13:02.000 Goals, and therefore it needs to be tossed out.
00:13:05.000 But when you were using the filibuster to halt Senator Scott's police reform bill, the filibuster was an essential American institution that forced compromise.
00:13:16.000 But now that it can be occasionally used to resist a 51-50 straight majoritarian exercise of power, it's supposedly exclusively a relic of slavery and a tool of Jim Crow.
00:13:28.000 It's nonsense, and the people saying it know that it's nonsense.
00:13:32.000 And Cut 83, Senator Ben Sasse continues by saying, why did you use the filibuster then to block a black man's police reform bill?
00:13:41.000 Republican Senator Tim Scott, Cut 83.
00:13:43.000 They used the same rule last year, and you weren't racist when you used it last year.
00:13:48.000 This is BS that's been focus grouped, and particular bills are being used as the excuse to grab power that won't just be for this bill.
00:13:58.000 It'll be forever.
00:14:00.000 It'll be the end of the Senate.
00:14:03.000 Was the filibuster really a tool of Jim Crow when it was used against Tim Scott last year?
00:14:09.000 I don't think so.
00:14:10.000 And I don't think any of you think so.
00:14:12.000 If somebody wants to come to the floor and repent of their racism for having used the filibuster last year, please do.
00:14:19.000 But it isn't what was happening.
00:14:21.000 So stop with the nonsense rhetoric that's just for an MSNBC soundbite tonight.
00:14:27.000 Very well said.
00:14:28.000 Senator Ben Sasse basically says, okay, Democrats, you used the filibuster last year to stop police reform, the very same thing that you said that you need more power to try to get done.
00:14:37.000 And Senator Tim Scott, a black man who's a Republican from South Carolina, you blocked his bill.
00:14:44.000 And Senator Chuck Schumer was asked, why was it okay for him to filibuster?
00:14:47.000 Because they're not willing to negotiate and McConnell isn't.
00:14:50.000 Cut 84.
00:14:51.000 Senator, when you were in the minority, you joined plenty of efforts to filibuster legislation.
00:14:56.000 So why was it okay for you to join those efforts?
00:14:59.000 The big difference is that we were always willing to negotiate in a bipartisan way.
00:15:05.000 Mitch McConnell isn't.
00:15:07.000 There's a big difference in how we're conducting things and the way they're conducting things.
00:15:12.000 We need big, bold action, and we will figure out the best way to go.
00:15:15.000 Everything's on the table.
00:15:16.000 That's all I'm going to say to you.
00:15:18.000 So to summarize all of that, the filibuster is not racist.
00:15:21.000 It predated any sort of usage by Democrats to block civil rights legislation.
00:15:26.000 The filibuster is supposed to slow down the process.
00:15:28.000 The Senate is a deliberative body, and the Democrats want to get rid of it because they're growing impatient because they know they will not be in charge forever.
00:15:36.000 But they want to be in charge forever, which is why they want H.R.1 and all these structural changes to our country.
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00:16:48.000 We have a really good question here.
00:16:50.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:16:51.000 My name is Landon, and I am from Boston Lake, New York.
00:16:54.000 I'm a daily listener and a subscriber of your podcast, and I appreciate the great work you do.
00:17:00.000 My question is in regards to the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
00:17:04.000 Growing up in a conservative household, I have long heard that Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the modern era.
00:17:10.000 What made his presidency so strong, and what exactly is his legacy?
00:17:13.000 Well, congratulations, Landon.
00:17:15.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:17:18.000 Ronald Reagan is one of the greatest presidents in American history.
00:17:22.000 Ronald Reagan brought America from a dark place under the presidency of Jimmy Carter, a one-term presidency from 1976 to 1980, to a place of optimism, hope, and American renewal.
00:17:37.000 Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, spent a lot of time in Eureka, Illinois, was a Democrat.
00:17:45.000 He was an actor.
00:17:46.000 He actually was an actor in a very famous film called Bedtime for Bonzo.
00:17:51.000 He was hired to go speak in a tour-like fashion by General Electric.
00:18:00.000 He talked in manufacturing plants and tours across the country.
00:18:04.000 When he started to do that, he started to get a great love of America, and he was asked to talk about America's founding and free market principles.
00:18:15.000 So he would go on a whistle-stop tour, a train tour from one area to the rest, and start to read these books and start to really grow in reverence for America and our history.
00:18:26.000 Ronald Reagan then became governor of California, and he was always a movement conservative.
00:18:32.000 He was more in the Goldwater tradition and less in the Rockefeller or Romney tradition, not Mitt Romney, George Romney, his father, and they're very similar ideologically.
00:18:43.000 Ronald Reagan tried to win the presidency by primarying Gerald Ford in 1976, I want to say.
00:18:54.000 And he lost Gerald Ford, who was the incumbent president, who took over from the resigning Richard Nixon, made Rockefeller his vice president, I believe, and then lost in a reelection bid to Jimmy Carter, Southern Democrat.
00:19:11.000 And then Ronald Reagan righted that wrong after awful economic conditions.
00:19:16.000 You think interest rates are troublesome now?
00:19:19.000 When Ronald Reagan was running for the presidency, we had 18% interest rates.
00:19:24.000 18%.
00:19:26.000 He defeated Jimmy Carter.
00:19:27.000 Interest rates went down.
00:19:28.000 The economy was reborn.
00:19:30.000 But more than anything else, Ronald Reagan should be known for not just restoring the American spirit, not just expanding the Republican Party to be a working person's party, Reagan Democrats.
00:19:42.000 But he defeated Soviet communism without ever firing a shot.
00:19:48.000 He defeated Soviet communism because he framed it as a theological debate.
00:19:53.000 He said, we in our country believe our rights come from God.
00:19:57.000 The Russians and the Soviet Union does not.
00:20:00.000 We are going to win.
00:20:02.000 We are going to win this battle of ideas because we believe in freedom and the Soviets do not.
00:20:08.000 Ronald Reagan famously had the Reykjavik summit in 1987 in Iceland, where he met with Mikhail Gorbachev about denuclearization.
00:20:20.000 And you started to see little promising signs that Ronald Reagan and his doctrine of peace through strength, a robust rebuilding of the American middle class and the defense aspect of our country, was actually working.
00:20:34.000 He never actually saw it happen while he was president, but George H.W. Bush did see the fall of the Berlin Wall and the crumbling of the Soviet empire.
00:20:42.000 Ronald Reagan and his legacy and why you should be unafraid and unapologetic to defend him was about American greatness.
00:20:51.000 He was articulate.
00:20:52.000 He was charismatic.
00:20:54.000 He was magnanimous.
00:20:55.000 He was gregarious.
00:20:56.000 He was forward-thinking.
00:20:58.000 He was optimistic.
00:20:59.000 And even when he was shot, he had the charming smile and the wit to keep America united and focused on what really matters.
00:21:09.000 Ronald Reagan gave our country another 20, 30 years of shelf life when under Jimmy Carter it felt like managed decline.
00:21:16.000 Donald Trump was very similar in that regard.
00:21:19.000 Ronald Reagan cut taxes.
00:21:21.000 Ronald Reagan broke the back of the air traffic controlling union.
00:21:26.000 Ronald Reagan actually put tariffs on semiconductors coming into America, which preserved the semiconductor industry, which basically created Silicon Valley.
00:21:34.000 You could decide whether or not that's a good thing. 0.98
00:21:37.000 Ronald Reagan was unafraid to stand up to the Japanese threat where they were deindustrializing our country and never got credit for that. 0.99
00:21:44.000 That was in 1986 or 87. 0.98
00:21:46.000 Ronald Reagan was also well known for saying that we must take an 80% victory rather than a 100% loss, that if someone is with you 80%, consider them an ally, not an enemy and an adversary.
00:22:01.000 He united the Republican Party more than any other candidate up until Donald Trump.
00:22:06.000 He believed in our country, and yes, he even ran on a doctrine that was called make America great again.
00:22:15.000 I encourage all of you in your free time to go back and listen to Ronald Reagan's speeches.
00:22:18.000 Listen to the best of Ronald Reagan.
00:22:20.000 He had a way that he was optimistic and forward-thinking, and he believed America's best days were ahead.
00:22:27.000 He was not an apologist for America.
00:22:29.000 He was not a globalist.
00:22:31.000 He was a proud American patriot.
00:22:33.000 So I encourage everyone to not just study the history of Ronald Reagan, but be unafraid to defend his legacy.
00:22:41.000 So Landon, I hope that's somewhat helpful.
00:22:43.000 That's just an off-the-cuff, off the top of my head, summary of one of America's greatest presidents, Ronald Reagan.
00:22:49.000 If I can name the greatest presidents, Lincoln, Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, which is a different type of president than the others, and I think he gets misrepresented, but I think Teddy Roosevelt's a great president for a different reason.
00:23:04.000 I've done podcasts on that before, and you guys have to check that out.
00:23:07.000 I also believe that Dwight D. Eisenhower was a phenomenal president in addition to that.
00:23:13.000 So thank you so much for your question.
00:23:14.000 Congratulations.
00:23:14.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.
00:23:18.000 Gene from Utah, Charlie, what are your thoughts on Krispy Kreme giving free donuts for the foreseeable future on people who've proved they've received both vaccination shots?
00:23:25.000 Isn't this one step forward, one step backwards, thinking, seeing as though obesity is a leading corbidity related to the Chinese coronavirus?
00:23:32.000 You're right, Gene.
00:23:33.000 And people ask me all the time, Charlie, are you getting the vaccine?
00:23:36.000 I am not getting the vaccine.
00:23:38.000 I'm not going to tell you whether the vaccine is good or bad.
00:23:40.000 I'm not in a position to make that argument.
00:23:43.000 It's a very complex scientific issue that people far smarter than I am in the scientific community are weighing in on.
00:23:50.000 I make my decision based on my own research and people that I trust.
00:23:53.000 And also, I'm 27 years old and I have pretty robust cardiovascular capacity and abilities.
00:23:59.000 I eat well.
00:24:00.000 I exercise.
00:24:01.000 I take zinc and vitamin C.
00:24:02.000 I love spending time outside.
00:24:04.000 If I get the virus, I'm going to, I believe I'll be just fine.
00:24:07.000 I'm willing to take that risk.
00:24:08.000 I am not getting the Chinese coronavirus vaccination.
00:24:11.000 And before Media Matters loses their mind, I'm not telling people not to get it.
00:24:15.000 If you believe that's the right thing, use your liberty, use your agency to get it.
00:24:19.000 That's what's so great about liberty.
00:24:21.000 Make a decision in the best capacity that you see fit.
00:24:26.000 Okay, let's get to the next question here.
00:24:27.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:24:29.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:24:30.000 Huge fan over here.
00:24:31.000 I had a conversation with my aunt about some concerns I had regarding America and where it's headed.
00:24:35.000 She kept brushing it off because she said, quote, I just need to do more research, which is exactly what I'm doing and why I have good reason to question the direction of our country.
00:24:42.000 Well, good.
00:24:43.000 At 19, how do I get people to take my knowledge and convictions more seriously?
00:24:47.000 Thank you.
00:24:47.000 Again, I love the show and everything you guys stand for.
00:24:49.000 Lauren, well, first of all, Lauren, I dealt with this and I still deal with this when people try to use the argument from authority.
00:24:57.000 It's a fallacy to say that I know more than you because I'm older than you.
00:25:00.000 Now, sometimes that is true, but it's also an argument from authority.
00:25:03.000 So, Lauren, I'll give you some immediate advice.
00:25:06.000 First of all, make sure you have a tonal, T-O-N-A-L approach that you're not trying to lecture someone who's older than you are.
00:25:14.000 Why is this important? 0.93
00:25:15.000 Well, because your aunt doesn't want to be felt dumb by a young person. 0.95
00:25:21.000 Instead, ask informed questions. 0.98
00:25:23.000 Have respect.
00:25:25.000 Don't be disrespectful, but say, hey, is it a good thing that America is spending all this money we don't have?
00:25:31.000 And the other thing, Lauren, is as you get older, this will get easier.
00:25:35.000 Use the Socratic method.
00:25:37.000 Socratic method, of course, comes from Socrates.
00:25:40.000 The Greeks were the best and the greatest of the ancients.
00:25:44.000 Socrates was, of course, killed for asking questions.
00:25:48.000 Socrates was, of course, killed for pursuing truth.
00:25:52.000 So I'm sure it's actually going to end up probably better for you than Socrates.
00:25:56.000 But Socrates, of course, taught Plato.
00:25:58.000 Plato taught Aristotle, the, of course, teacher-student relationship.
00:26:04.000 Socrates was killed by the democracy or the demos or the many by a popular vote.
00:26:11.000 But the Socratic method goes like this.
00:26:13.000 I'm going to ask questions specifically focused on the question why, and that question why will be like a shovel and we'll get closer to the truth, hopefully.
00:26:22.000 So, Lauren, I hope that helps you.
00:26:23.000 But also, keep on listening to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast on Spotify or on Apple podcasts.
00:26:28.000 Send in your questions.
00:26:29.000 Dive deeper into the reason of why you believe what you believe and know your stuff.
00:26:35.000 There is no replacement for knowing your material.
00:26:39.000 There's no substitute for knowing your material is probably a better way to say that.
00:26:43.000 So I encourage you that the deeper you dive, the richer you will have a belief of your worldview and the more people will respect you.
00:26:52.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.
00:26:54.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com from Clifton.
00:26:57.000 Charlie, can you talk about why gas prices are rising in a segment on your podcast, please?
00:27:01.000 Not hearing or reading many conservative networks talking about thank you.
00:27:04.000 Well, it's basic supply and demand, and we've done many podcasts and many podcasts on economics and supply and demand.
00:27:12.000 When you have a greater supply of something and a constant demand or even a little bit of an increased demand as long as supply is outpacing demand, then prices will go down.
00:27:21.000 But when you have increased demand and less supply prices will go up, which is exactly what's happening here.
00:27:26.000 So Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:27:29.000 He's making it harder to transport oil.
00:27:30.000 But most importantly, the reason why gas prices are going up is because last year, when new leases were basically expiring, the price of oil was so unbelievably low.
00:27:42.000 It was $15, $16, $17 a barrel.
00:27:45.000 You could almost get a case of water for the same price that you could get a barrel of oil.
00:27:50.000 Why was that?
00:27:50.000 Well, no one was driving and no one was flying last year because of the Chinese coronavirus lockdowns.
00:27:56.000 And so because of that, a lot of these leases expired.
00:27:59.000 Usually, a lot of the people that go do exploratory drilling, they do so on leverage.
00:28:04.000 Leverage, of course, meaning that you are levering yourself up or you're borrowing capital.
00:28:09.000 Those, you can't service the debt if you're not pumping oil at at least $30 or $35 a barrel.
00:28:14.000 You're not even able to break even.
00:28:15.000 So a lot of those leases expired.
00:28:17.000 Therefore, there's less supply.
00:28:18.000 Therefore, the price is higher.
00:28:20.000 Long story short, Joe Biden is largely responsible for a lot of this.
00:28:24.000 He should be approving new leases and new drilling all across the country.
00:28:28.000 He should be trying to get into the national stockpile and reserve to bring down the price of oil.
00:28:33.000 I know a lot of my friends in Oil Country and Oklahoma and Texas disagree with me because they like the price of oil where it is right now.
00:28:38.000 I think that's probably a fair argument if we're able to find some equilibrium where it's affordable for the American worker and someone who transports themselves, but also it's able to have a robust energy sector in our country so we are not dependent on foreign adversaries for our oil.
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00:30:11.000 Let's go to cut 92.
00:30:13.000 I just love a good Reagan joke. 0.97
00:30:15.000 Two Soviets walking down the street, Cut 92. 0.84
00:30:17.000 One of the heads of state that I met with on this visit told me the story about the two fellows in the Soviet Union that were walking down the street, and one of them says, Have we really achieved full communism?
00:30:28.000 Is this it?
00:30:29.000 Is this now full communism?
00:30:31.000 The other one said, Oh, hell no.
00:30:33.000 Things are going to get a lot worse.
00:30:35.000 I love that, man.
00:30:36.000 All right, gun control, cut 93. 0.68
00:30:38.000 You pointed out that police would be so busy arresting handgun owners that they would be unable to protect the people against criminals. 0.51
00:30:46.000 It's a nasty truth, but those who seek to inflict harm are not phased by gun control laws.
00:30:53.000 I happen to know this from personal experience.
00:31:01.000 He said personal experience, of course, because he was shot.
00:31:04.000 And finally, Cut 94, a little self-deprecating humor, Cut 94.
00:31:08.000 Speaker, Mr. President, distinguished members of the Congress, honored guests, and fellow citizens.
00:31:16.000 Today marks my first State of the Union address to you, a constitutional duty as old as our republic itself.
00:31:25.000 President Washington began this tradition in 1790 after reminding the nation that the destiny of self-government and the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty is finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
00:31:44.000 For our friends in the press who place a high premium on accuracy, let me say I did not actually hear George Washington say that.
00:31:54.000 Such a contrast between how Joe Biden handles his age and Ronald Reagan handled his.
00:32:02.000 Question here from Savannah.
00:32:03.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:32:03.000 I really want to study biblical Greek for my personal study, and I was wondering what resources you use.
00:32:08.000 I really appreciate you taking the time out of your day to read my email.
00:32:10.000 Hope you have time to reply.
00:32:12.000 Savannah Burke, Romans 15, 13.
00:32:15.000 And if I remember correctly, Romans 15, 13 is made the God of hope fill with all joy and peace if you trust in him, if I remember correctly, something of that sort.
00:32:26.000 So I do not know Greek.
00:32:29.000 I'm fascinated by our Greek roots in our language.
00:32:34.000 And the more that I study Aristotle and Plato, the more I'm fascinated with how much of a Greek influence is actually we have here on the West.
00:32:44.000 So Dr. Larry Arne from Hillsdale College, he walks people through some just very basic Greek terms.
00:32:50.000 For example, philosophy comes from two words, philos and sophos, love of wisdom, right?
00:32:56.000 Philo, love, that's where we get the word philanthropy from, city of brotherly love.
00:33:01.000 The Greeks had many different words for love, agape, storge, phileo.
00:33:07.000 Agape, storge, phileo.
00:33:09.000 There's one more.
00:33:10.000 I'll think of it.
00:33:11.000 And actually, there's like five or six of them.
00:33:13.000 And then theology, of course, means to the study related to God.
00:33:16.000 I am by no means an ancient Greek expert, but there's some great resources.
00:33:20.000 Actually, the University of Texas Austin has a phenomenal linguistics research center if people are interested in that.
00:33:26.000 And I highly encourage anyone that just wants to explore truth.
00:33:30.000 The deeper you dive into ancient Greek and Latin, the more you'll actually realize that the words we use so often have really meaningful roots.
00:33:37.000 The Greeks had two words for time, for example, chronos and kairos.
00:33:40.000 Kronos, what you look at on your wrist, and kairos is basically a time, a time of moment, an action moment, if you will.
00:33:49.000 So I appreciate that question.
00:33:50.000 I am diving deeper into it.
00:33:52.000 There's Eros, Phileo, Ludos, Agape, Pragma, and there's actually one more in addition to storge.
00:33:59.000 That's right, which is the love of a child, a parent of a love of a child.
00:34:04.000 So there's different types of love.
00:34:06.000 Anyway, the point is that knowing Greek is really important, especially if you're going to study biblical texts, because the New Testament was almost written, I think it was all written in Greek, even though Jesus spoke Aramaic, likely spoke Aramaic.
00:34:20.000 Greek was the written word because of the Hellenistic influence, largely because of Alexander the Great, who himself was a student of Aristotle.
00:34:29.000 Greek language and tradition took over the entire Middle East.
00:34:34.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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