The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 57: MLB, COKE, DELTA, Voter I.D., and How to Deal With Depression

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, on this special episode of Ask Me Anything, I take your questions about Georgia, Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, vaccine passports, identification.

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00:02:25.000 Hey, everybody, happy Monday.

00:02:27.000 It's an Ask Me Anything Monday where you guys send in your questions.

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00:02:35.000 Hope you had a wonderful Easter.

00:02:36.000 He is risen indeed.

00:02:38.000 I encourage all of you to check out the podcast we did yesterday on Easter about apologetics, making the case for the resurrection.

00:02:51.000 You see, without the resurrection, there is no case for Christianity.

00:02:56.000 It's that simple.

00:02:58.000 The most important question that human beings have to answer is, who is Jesus Christ?

00:03:04.000 And that is the question that I tried my best to answer in the podcast yesterday.

00:03:10.000 So if you are interested at all in coming in contact with your creator and finding life eternal, I encourage you to listen to that podcast.

00:03:18.000 And I know we have different people of different religious backgrounds that listen to this podcast.

00:03:24.000 We get some emails every so often from some people that say, Charlie, you're so smart.

00:03:30.000 How could you possibly believe in the mythology of Christianity?

00:03:38.000 And I answer in a variety of different ways that I do not have enough faith to be an atheist.

00:03:43.000 The natural world, the more I learn about it, the laws of nature, I believe there must be a nature's God, as it says in the Declaration.

00:03:51.000 From Euclidean geometry to the laws of physics to the laws that tie our entire world together, I believe that there must be a creator behind creation that has such harmony and rhythm of which we live in.

00:04:07.000 I believe that beauty and love are not simply power struggles, they are real things.

00:04:13.000 That truth matters and the truth will set you free.

00:04:17.000 And so, as we are coming out of the Easter season, it's important that we do not lose focus on why we celebrate Easter at all in the first place.

00:04:25.000 That we are made in God's image.

00:04:26.000 We rebelled against God.

00:04:28.000 We need Jesus to make us new.

00:04:31.000 Jesus was a real person, one part of the Godhead.

00:04:36.000 And I could do a whole podcast on the Trinity, of which I'm not adequately prepared to articulate off the cuff here on this podcast.

00:04:42.000 I could do my best, but that is for theologians far more qualified than yours truly.

00:04:50.000 Jesus came and lived a perfect life and died for your sins so you might have an entrance to life eternal.

00:04:58.000 Christ is there for all people at any moment.

00:05:03.000 So I encourage you to listen to that podcast.

00:05:05.000 We did get one sort of snarky response from Joe.

00:05:09.000 And just by the way, for those of you that might be listening to this for the first time, if I answer your question or I address your question, you guys get a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.

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00:05:26.000 This is one from Joe, or might be Joel.

00:05:29.000 It's from an Instagram comment that I just wanted to make sure I addressed.

00:05:34.000 Jesus never claimed to be God.

00:05:36.000 A handful of places that people think he's implying that he's God are based on nuances and translations that often either disappear in the original language or would, quote, prove that other biblical characters are God as well.

00:05:47.000 If the same, quote, logic applied to others consistently, same goes for Old Testament prophecies that people think prove he's God as man.

00:05:54.000 This is not true.

00:05:55.000 Jesus quite frequently said, I am, which is him saying, Yahweh, he is Jehovah, Adonai, God.

00:06:06.000 So Joe or Joel, who is saying this, commenting on Instagram, is not correct.

00:06:11.000 Jesus multiple times claimed his divinity.

00:06:15.000 When he went up to Caesarea Philippi, he said, Who do you say that I am?

00:06:20.000 And one of his disciples said, Some say you're Elijah, some say you're John the Baptist.

00:06:25.000 And Jesus said, But who do you say I am, Peter?

00:06:30.000 And he said, Son of the living God, bingo.

00:06:35.000 The son of man, which is a reference from the scripture of Daniel, means Messiah, chosen one.

00:06:42.000 It's not getting too deep into the theology here.

00:06:45.000 Just wanted to respond to that one piece of feedback that we received over the weekend on this Easter weekend.

00:06:49.000 Jesus did claim to be God.

00:06:50.000 He rose from the dead.

00:06:52.000 It was a real event proven by history, cross-examination, scripture, and yes, logic and reason.

00:07:01.000 So I want to thank those wonderful emails we got the last 24 hours.

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00:07:07.000 For those of you that enjoyed our last podcast here on Easter Sunday, we deeply appreciate it.

00:07:16.000 Okay, let's get to some current events here and what's happening in the country.

00:07:19.000 I want to get to the Major League Baseball Coca-Cola issue.

00:07:25.000 We foreshadowed this last week, and in fact, we have been on the leading edge, the tip of the spear, one might say, talking about how corporations are not your friend.

00:07:36.000 How major corporations have basically become massive college campuses with shareholders and board members.

00:07:45.000 That corporations do not represent your values.

00:07:49.000 Corporations have been taken over by HR departments from people from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and some of the major institutions in our country, that the left has taken over corporations and now they are using them to effectuate massive social change.

00:08:06.000 So Georgia passed a rather vanilla voter integrity law.

00:08:12.000 Georgia passed a bill that reduced the Senate primary from nine weeks to five weeks for runoffs if someone does not reach a runoff threshold.

00:08:24.000 Georgia passed a bill requiring you to prove who you actually are when you send in a mail-in ballot, some form of identification for when that happens.

00:08:35.000 Georgia passed a bill signed by Governor Brian Kemp saying you could still hand out water when you're going to go vote.

00:08:44.000 I never knew that voting was so dehydrating.

00:08:47.000 Just the only thing you can't do is that if you're a political organization, you can't give things of value to people while they're waiting in line.

00:08:55.000 Pretty normal point of law.

00:09:04.000 The federal government has a law very similar to that, that you cannot come in and start giving out ATM cash cards like the Nevada Native Project did on behalf of Joe Biden in Nevada, and we have proof of that.

00:09:15.000 No indictments have happened or investigations that we even know of since that occurred.

00:09:21.000 So what happened in Georgia was Georgia passed this law.

00:09:24.000 Delta Airlines, which by the way, is an airline.

00:09:27.000 This is not Delta Super PAC or Delta Political Consulting or Delta MSNBC.

00:09:33.000 This is an airline, an airline that their mission statement is bringing people safely from point A to point B. That's what they do.

00:09:42.000 Their mission statement is safe transportation across massive distances for hopefully an affordable amount.

00:09:50.000 Now, Delta is a pretty respectable airline.

00:09:52.000 It's actually one of my favorite of my least favorite airlines because I don't have a favorite airline because none of them are my favorite because they all screwed up something for me in the thousands and thousands of trips I've taken in the last couple of years.

00:10:05.000 No exaggeration.

00:10:06.000 So Delta comes out, and while this bill was being deliberated, they complimented the bill.

00:10:12.000 They said during the process in the Senate, this bill had massive improvements.

00:10:17.000 We have really no problems with this bill.

00:10:18.000 Now, the only reason this is happening is because Delta is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

00:10:23.000 And if you that have ever flown through Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, you know that it is basically a massive Delta hub.

00:10:31.000 It is the biggest airport besides Chicago, Hare International Airport.

00:10:36.000 I'm not sure which one is bigger.

00:10:37.000 I'm sure they go back and forth with which one's actually bigger.

00:10:40.000 But the Delta presence in Atlanta is ubiquitous.

00:10:51.000 So this law passes, which again was kind of like a five out of 10 bill.

00:10:56.000 And Delta felt the need immediately afterwards to come out and say this does not reflect our values, which is so puzzling because they said the exact opposite when this was actually being deliberated in the Georgia legislature.

00:11:10.000 They said, oh, yeah, this bill seems fine.

00:11:12.000 It got some markups.

00:11:13.000 We have no real problems with this.

00:11:15.000 We're not going to really fight it.

00:11:16.000 Then the Delta CEO comes out and says that this bill is a massive mistake.

00:11:26.000 Coca-Cola followed suit from a foreign boring CEO that says that this does not share our values.

00:11:33.000 Play tape. 1.00

00:11:34.000 Yeah, no, I completely, I completely agree.

00:11:37.000 I mean, let me be crystal clear and unequivocal.

00:11:40.000 This legislation is unacceptable.

00:11:43.000 It is a step backwards and it does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia. 1.00

00:11:50.000 Now, how the Coca-Cola CEO would actually know what Georgia values are, being foreign-born, is beyond me. 1.00

00:11:55.000 This is James Quincy. 0.84

00:11:57.000 And let me be clear: James Quincy and the CEO of Delta, they were just reading off a teleprompter.

00:12:03.000 They were just doing what the HR department wanted them to do.

00:12:06.000 And the head of Delta is Ed Bastian.

00:12:09.000 So these guys earn massive salaries.

00:12:12.000 They have really amazing lifestyles.

00:12:19.000 And Georgia wants to listen to their voters and make sure that elections can be conducted fairly.

00:12:25.000 But Delta and Coca-Cola, who have been taken over by the woke industrial complex, they are now acting as the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party.

00:12:35.000 That's right.

00:12:36.000 You have private corporations that are now coming out in Georgia and they are doing the work of Antifa.

00:12:44.000 You see, traditionally, Democrats would just go send out Antifa into the streets and intimidate people because Antifa was previously the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party.

00:12:55.000 I called Antifa a Democrat mercenary group.

00:12:59.000 Antifa burned our country down to the ground, but Democrats realized that that really wasn't getting them their desired outcome.

00:13:06.000 Now, I cannot reinforce how important this point I'm about to make is.

00:13:12.000 And we got a ton of questions here.

00:13:13.000 Stuart from Georgia asked us about this.

00:13:16.000 Douglas from North Carolina asked us about this.

00:13:18.000 Pamela from Ohio asked us about this.

00:13:20.000 All of you guys get signed copies of the MAGA Doctrine.

00:13:22.000 Thank you for your questions.

00:13:26.000 If you want to know who's in charge of a country or who's in charge of a system of power, you should ask yourself a very important question: who's in control of the punishment?

00:13:41.000 That's a really important question.

00:13:44.000 Whoever's in charge of the punishment or who gets to put forward some form of discipline, that's where the power actually is.

00:13:59.000 So because we have a constitution, Democrats are confined by what they can actually do through government.

00:14:08.000 The federal government can't come in and say, oh, Georgia's law is unconstitutional or Georgia's law is wrong.

00:14:14.000 They don't have that power.

00:14:16.000 Thank goodness.

00:14:17.000 The Founding Fathers anticipated that.

00:14:19.000 Well, the Founding Fathers didn't quite anticipate, and it's not an indictment or an accusation against the Founding Fathers.

00:14:25.000 Instead, it's a very interesting point, and it's something that we must take great concern and notice of: the power is no longer solely within the government.

00:14:38.000 The power is in all of these external, once and previous voluntary, private enterprises like Coca-Cola, like Google, and like Delta Airlines.

00:14:54.000 Delta Airlines is issuing statements as if they're the Democrat Party, not the Delta Airlines, we're going to fly you safely from Hartsfield Jackson Airport to JFK Airport.

00:15:05.000 That's what they do.

00:15:06.000 They do not comment on political matters.

00:15:10.000 But Delta has been taken over by agenda-driven radicals and activists who find their sense of purpose, which comes from a Greek word telos, where we get the word telescope from, which means out in the distance, something we can see, like a North Star, our place of orientation that we aim for.

00:15:31.000 They get their purpose by taking over functioning institutions and trying to change what is pro-American to that which is either anti-American or postmodern because they actually believe they're on the right side of history.

00:15:48.000 This is a form of corporate thuggery.

00:15:51.000 It came to a point of almost disbelief for me when Major League Baseball, formerly America's pastime, officially announced that they were going to withdraw the All-Star game from Atlanta because of the new Georgia voting law.

00:16:12.000 Joe Biden said this is Jim Crow on steroids, play tape.

00:16:16.000 What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is.

00:16:22.000 It's sick. 0.97

00:16:23.000 It's sick.

00:16:25.000 And so I'm convinced that we'll be able to stop this because it is the most pernicious thing.

00:16:32.000 This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.

00:16:35.000 I mean, this is gigantic what they're trying to do.

00:16:39.000 And it cannot be sustained.

00:16:41.000 I'm going to do everything in my power, along with my friends in the House and the Senate, to keep that from becoming the law.

00:16:49.000 So why is Major League Baseball doing this?

00:16:51.000 Because they don't want to be on the wrong side of Joe Biden and the woosters that are running their company.

00:16:59.000 So Major League Baseball, which is supposed to be an apolitical, non-political pastime, they decided to pander to something that is not rooted in facts, logic, evidence, or truth.

00:17:15.000 But it goes to this point of who's in control of the punishment.

00:17:19.000 Right now, the corporations are mainly in control of the punishment.

00:17:22.000 If you spoke out in Delta right now and you're a flight attendant or a pilot and you did a selfie Instagram video where you said, I don't like what Delta is doing.

00:17:31.000 They don't share my values or the values of Georgia because I want safe and secure elections, you would lose your job.

00:17:37.000 Punishment.

00:17:38.000 If all of a sudden you were a Coca-Cola graphic designer and you made a video that said, I don't like the way that Coca-Cola is handling this voter integrity law, you would lose your job.

00:17:50.000 Punishment.

00:17:52.000 If you were a Major League Baseball player, like Aaron Judge, and you did a selfie video that said, I want the L-Star game to be in Georgia because I want safe and secure elections, Major League Baseball would go after that player.

00:18:12.000 Now, if enough of them had courage and actually stood up for something, they wouldn't be able to cancel them all.

00:18:17.000 We call this cancel culture, but it's actually corporate thuggery.

00:18:22.000 You see, the Democrats in Georgia, they know that they do not control the apparatus of government currently.

00:18:29.000 But despite not controlling the apparatus of government currently, they go to other means, which is they go to these very weak CEOs like James Quincy and Ed Bastion.

00:18:41.000 They take over the HR departments and they force them through almost corporate suffocation, putting a straitjacket on them and say, if you do not issue public statements, if you do not take bold and dramatic action, then you're going to lose your job.

00:19:00.000 You're not going to be able to buy your third yacht in the Bahamas.

00:19:05.000 And then Major League Baseball puts forward the real punishment.

00:19:08.000 You know, over $100 million of economic revenue and growth in black counties will be lost because of Major League Baseball pulling out of this.

00:19:20.000 Now, we're getting emails from a lot of people.

00:19:22.000 Charlie, is it time to boycott?

00:19:23.000 It's been time to boycott for quite some time.

00:19:26.000 You should always purchase in alignment with your values.

00:19:30.000 You should never go and buy products that are actively trying to undermine your worldview, your spiritual beliefs, or your patriotic beliefs, ever.

00:19:44.000 This is a very troubling development.

00:19:47.000 Where it's not just Google anymore.

00:19:49.000 It's not just Twitter.

00:19:50.000 It's not just Facebook.

00:19:52.000 It's not just Golden Sachs.

00:19:53.000 Coca-Cola and baseball to timeless American institutions.

00:20:01.000 And yes, they're going to probably go after whoever makes apple pies next.

00:20:06.000 They are now the ones that are doing the punishing of the Democrat Party.

00:20:14.000 And for what?

00:20:16.000 Does this warrant this response?

00:20:18.000 No.

00:20:19.000 This Georgia voting law is boring.

00:20:22.000 It's kind of normal.

00:20:23.000 This would have been no problem 10 years ago.

00:20:26.000 It would have passed.

00:20:27.000 A couple Democrat activist groups would have issued press releases and you'd move on.

00:20:30.000 So why are these corporations so unbelievably weak?

00:20:34.000 Number one, we do not have adequate courage in our country.

00:20:39.000 This guy, James Quincy, is everything wrong with America.

00:20:42.000 This guy, Ed Bastian, is everything wrong with America.

00:20:45.000 Guys earning $17, $18, $19 million a year who are afraid of being called the R-word by some 28-year-old social justice warrior activist from Harvard because they want their third boat in the Bahamas.

00:20:58.000 That's part of the problem.

00:21:00.000 Taking a stand for nothing that is true and that is good in the world.

00:21:05.000 Zero patriotic bone in their body.

00:21:07.000 That's number one.

00:21:08.000 Number two, everyone is afraid of picking the factual and tough fight.

00:21:15.000 And this is not even a factual or tough one at all.

00:21:19.000 The facts are on our side.

00:21:20.000 Democrats are not just overreacting.

00:21:22.000 They are gaslighting.

00:21:25.000 They're intentionally trying to misrepresent the other side because they're worried if Georgia has safe and secure elections and every vote gets accounted as is, Raphael Warnock's going to lose.

00:21:36.000 That's what they're afraid of.

00:21:40.000 Who's in control of the punishment? 0.69

00:21:41.000 The C-suite of the corporate class is in control of the punishment. 0.92

00:21:45.000 Coca-Cola should be worried about making sugary soft drinks that, by the way, give a lot of people diabetes.

00:21:52.000 People say, should we boycott Coca-Cola?

00:21:54.000 I fired them a long time ago.

00:21:56.000 I don't drink any soft drinks.

00:21:58.000 I drink water.

00:21:59.000 I drink a ton of coffee.

00:22:00.000 I drink tea.

00:22:02.000 The only thing of Coca-Cola that I did drink was Topa Chica, which is sparkling Mexican mineral water.

00:22:09.000 But I'm done with them on that too, unfortunately, because I really like Topa Chico.

00:22:13.000 But the baseline point is this, is that the conservative movement long feared the IRS coming after you.

00:22:22.000 You still should fear that.

00:22:24.000 But now we have to have another threat, which is Delta Airlines, Major League Baseball, and Coca-Cola coming after you.

00:22:30.000 So the only thing that we have left is to make the punishers, Coca-Cola, Ed Bastion, and James Quincy, feel our response to them.

00:22:40.000 We're not going to buy your products.

00:22:43.000 You're going to hear from us.

00:22:44.000 We're going to make noise.

00:22:46.000 And for Major League Baseball, I like baseball.

00:22:49.000 I grew up watching it.

00:22:50.000 I'm a huge Cubs fan.

00:22:51.000 I'm done.

00:22:52.000 I might watch a game here or there.

00:22:54.000 If there's a team I'm passionate about in the playoffs, I will not go to one of your games.

00:22:58.000 I will not buy your products.

00:23:01.000 It's no longer America's pastime for me.

00:23:03.000 Now, the sport might be, but the institution is not.

00:23:06.000 Where are the players speaking out?

00:23:08.000 They're not.

00:23:11.000 The players are focused on their career, and they should be.

00:23:14.000 And I know some Major League Baseball players.

00:23:18.000 But they're sitting idly by while our country is being taken over from within.

00:23:22.000 And that's fine. 0.58

00:23:23.000 They want their money.

00:23:24.000 For them, money is more important, and their career is more important than the country or for what is right. 1.00

00:23:29.000 And that is exactly how the Chinese are manipulating us. 1.00

00:23:34.000 And that's exactly how the left is manipulating us. 0.95

00:23:37.000 They know that the dollar profit, our bank account, is how you keep successful people quiet.

00:23:49.000 The moral conscience of our nation is currently muzzled because people are afraid of what their friends might say.

00:24:02.000 The moral conscience of our nation is currently silent because they might not get their third boat in the Bahamas.

00:24:13.000 Ed Bastion, the head of Delta, knows what he said in that ridiculous statement was not true.

00:24:21.000 Let's play tape of that. 0.59

00:24:22.000 Listen, this is beyond anything I've heard.

00:24:25.000 It felt like a hostage video, play tape.

00:24:27.000 So you're clear now, James, but there are questions as to why you were not this clear after the law passed, before the law passed.

00:24:35.000 I know you said you were disappointed, but why didn't you just come out publicly and oppose it before?

00:24:42.000 We have always opposed this legislation.

00:24:44.000 We have a long track record of working in Georgia with alliances on our own account, with legislators, with stakeholders to improve legislation.

00:24:54.000 And we were doing so again this time.

00:24:57.000 But the result of this legislation in an area that's particularly sensitive and important for Georgia has not resulted in something that is acceptable, we believe, for the citizens of Georgia.

00:25:08.000 So we're coming out even more clearly saying that this is wrong and it needs to change.

00:25:14.000 Ed Bastion was forced to say that by some HR intern.

00:25:19.000 But Ed Bastion is afraid of not getting his $18 million a year.

00:25:28.000 If America falls, it'll be because we put that extra home, the extra million dollars above the nation. 0.97

00:25:40.000 And the left and the Chinese are both using that against us. 0.74

00:25:44.000 They say, oh, you like capitalism?

00:25:46.000 Okay, we're going to work within your own system.

00:25:49.000 You like free markets?

00:25:51.000 All right.

00:25:53.000 You've been telling us that.

00:25:54.000 We're no longer going to tell you that you're wrong.

00:25:56.000 We're instead going to come into your institutions, infiltrate them, call you bad names if you don't do what we tell you to do, the R word, use the same sort of tactics that we use to take over university president offices against Ed Bastian and James Quincy of Delta and Koch.

00:26:13.000 And if you don't do what we like, then we're really going to destroy your career.

00:26:19.000 And for James Quincy, the head of Coca-Cola, making an extra $30 million for him is more important than fair and free elections or a country.

00:26:33.000 So now who's in control of the punishment? 0.92

00:26:35.000 The cultural guillotine is now being run by our massive corporations.

00:26:41.000 They want to make it sting.

00:26:43.000 They want to make it hurt.

00:26:45.000 They want to jab you a little bit. 1.00

00:26:51.000 That's what the corporate class controls.

00:26:56.000 And this is not the first place that the left goes to.

00:27:01.000 They vastly prefer going through the college campuses, the activists, the media, and other channels of communication.

00:27:15.000 You see, the Democrats would first prefer to use government to silence dissent.

00:27:20.000 Then they'll use the media to silence dissent.

00:27:23.000 Then they'll use colleges.

00:27:25.000 And then they'll try to use the activists.

00:27:27.000 And if absolutely necessary, they'll use the corporations.

00:27:30.000 So in Georgia, they couldn't use the government.

00:27:32.000 They couldn't use the media.

00:27:34.000 They tried.

00:27:34.000 They couldn't use colleges.

00:27:36.000 They tried.

00:27:36.000 They couldn't use activists.

00:27:37.000 So in then, they'll use the corporations.

00:27:42.000 I'm going to be giving a speech in Vegas on Monday evening, April 5th.

00:27:47.000 If you're listening to this, it's at Lone Mountain Calvary Chapel.

00:27:50.000 And I'm going to be addressing what we can do about this.

00:27:52.000 And we'll air the speech right afterwards.

00:27:55.000 It came to me, and it's so clear to me how we respond to this.

00:28:02.000 So that will be a nice little foreshadow.

00:28:04.000 So I wanted to get to that.

00:28:06.000 It's going to be a recurring theme throughout the week, but I appreciate all of your questions on that.

00:28:14.000 Do you know how much you need to save to have a comfortable retirement?

00:28:18.000 The average retirement savings for families across the country is $255,000.

00:28:23.000 If you are using these averages as a goal for your retirement, let me be blunt.

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00:28:28.000 Even $1 million will not be enough by the time you retire because of inflation.

00:28:32.000 Retirement is not one size-fits all.

00:28:35.000 How much should you save depends on what kind of lifestyle you want to pursue after retirement.

00:28:39.000 But remember that inflation should be factored in.

00:28:41.000 The $1 million you saved 40 years ago is worth less than half now.

00:28:45.000 So invest in assets that store the value of your investment.

00:28:48.000 That's the key to diversifying your portfolio.

00:28:51.000 And there's nothing better than gold.

00:28:52.000 I'm a big believer in this.

00:28:54.000 Do you know that if you invested $1 million in gold 40 years ago, you'd be sitting on $50 million today?

00:28:59.000 That could afford any lifestyle you want right now.

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00:29:18.000 Here's a question following up.

00:29:20.000 Megan asks, as a Georgia resident and a lifelong Braves fan, the news of Major League Baseball relocating the Ulster game is very upsetting.

00:29:26.000 I can't understand why asking for an ID is racist.

00:29:29.000 This whole idea reminded me of a time my husband and I came in contact with someone without an ID.

00:29:33.000 They were homeless, starving, essentially only had clothes on their back, all because they didn't have an ID.

00:29:37.000 Instead of encouraging them to stay in this lifestyle creating by not having an ID, my husband did the research and drove this couple around, helping them get the necessary paper to get an ID.

00:29:45.000 Once they got their IDs, their lives literally turned around.

00:29:47.000 They found a place to live.

00:29:49.000 They could get a job.

00:29:51.000 They had food and clothing, all because someone took the time out of their day to help them break the cycle and get an ID.

00:29:56.000 If all people need is knowledge to get the paperwork to get out of the cycle, why aren't we helping them?

00:30:00.000 Why aren't we perpetuating people living in poverty while there's a simple solution to the ID issue?

00:30:04.000 Megan from Georgia.

00:30:05.000 Again, we're getting so many emails there.

00:30:07.000 Thank you, Megan.

00:30:08.000 I agree.

00:30:08.000 That should be a ministry opportunity for every church.

00:30:10.000 And if you want to spend something of the $2 trillion, have everyone get an ID.

00:30:16.000 Everyone.

00:30:18.000 But the Democrats don't want that because they know that as soon as there's nationwide ID and as soon as there is an effort to get everyone properly identified, well, then there actually might be safe and secure elections of which I hate to be this cynical, they do not want.

00:30:32.000 Every single measure to secure our elections, the Democrats and the left push back against.

00:30:39.000 They do not want safe and secure elections.

00:30:42.000 Safe and secure elections are an existential threat to being in power forever.

00:30:47.000 That's why they want what's happening in California, which is a one-party state.

00:30:55.000 Here's another question.

00:30:56.000 Hello, Charlie.

00:30:56.000 Thanks for everything you do.

00:30:57.000 You're an amazing influence.

00:30:59.000 She writes about that.

00:31:00.000 Thank you.

00:31:01.000 I'd love to read all the compliments on air, but I don't want to take too much time on that.

00:31:04.000 This past year turned a lot of things around.

00:31:07.000 I started listening to you about a year ago.

00:31:08.000 Thank you.

00:31:08.000 And I never had more clarity in my life.

00:31:10.000 That's so touching.

00:31:12.000 Thank you.

00:31:12.000 I turned myself fully to God.

00:31:14.000 I could not have been happier to be brought back to the light.

00:31:17.000 Everything I do is based in Christ.

00:31:18.000 I know that is the best way to live.

00:31:20.000 I constantly feel the need to go and do the most joyful thing to do, especially with everything going on in our country.

00:31:25.000 My faith in God is the only thing that keeps me positive and sane.

00:31:28.000 Amen.

00:31:28.000 I'm currently dating someone who's a conservative but does not believe in God.

00:31:31.000 I feel the need to change that, but I also know that you cannot change people.

00:31:36.000 What would be your suggestions on helping convince him on the importance of believing in God?

00:31:40.000 I hope you and your family have a blessed Easter.

00:31:42.000 Kind wishes, Carissa.

00:31:42.000 Well, thank you, Carissa.

00:31:43.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.

00:31:46.000 Let me get to some more, a broader piece of advice here, which is just some dating and some marriage advice.

00:31:51.000 Dating is fine if you're young and you're dating somebody of a different belief.

00:31:56.000 Do not marry somebody who does not share your religious or political views.

00:32:00.000 Do not do it.

00:32:01.000 It will not work out.

00:32:04.000 That's not what pop culture will tell you.

00:32:07.000 You must marry someone that shares your values for a variety of reasons.

00:32:12.000 You will end up arguing in times of stress about important things if you do not have the same sort of analytical framework or philosophical or moral framework to approach big issues.

00:32:21.000 That's number one.

00:32:22.000 Number two, how will you raise the children? 0.90

00:32:25.000 If you're an atheist and your husband's a Catholic, good luck figuring that out. 0.77

00:32:30.000 When things get tough, one person goes to pray and the other person doesn't, that will create more tension.

00:32:37.000 So I'm not saying break up with them, Carissa.

00:32:39.000 I'll get to your specific thing in a minute.

00:32:42.000 I'm just trying to say for people out there, do not take this lightly.

00:32:48.000 Do not take marrying someone of a different political viewpoint lightly.

00:32:54.000 You should take this very, very seriously.

00:32:55.000 They must share your values.

00:32:58.000 Okay, so what do you do, Carissa?

00:33:00.000 Try to take them to church, pray for the Holy Spirit to fill that person's life, ask questions, and live out the spirit of the gospel.

00:33:09.000 The best way to bring people to Jesus is to live it out yourself.

00:33:14.000 Just try to be kind, compassionate, full of grace, mercy, forgiveness.

00:33:22.000 That's my piece of advice to you.

00:33:24.000 It's going to get frustrating.

00:33:25.000 It's going to get hard.

00:33:26.000 And I will say this, Carissa: do not enter into a covenant with this person unless you share the same beliefs religiously or politically.

00:33:37.000 And I'm not one to give out advice unless I truly mean it and I've seen it.

00:33:42.000 You must share values with the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with.

00:33:48.000 Or else, you're either going to be trying to change them and you really should be trying to grow closer to them.

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00:34:50.000 Here's a here's one right here.

00:34:52.000 Hey, Charlie, love your show.

00:34:53.000 Keep up the great work.

00:34:54.000 And yes, I remember listening to the episode Open America Now on the day it was released.

00:34:59.000 Every word was as true it was now.

00:35:00.000 Thank you.

00:35:01.000 I just want to say, Jeff, we're trying to get this best of page up on our website.

00:35:05.000 It's taken a little bit longer just for some technical issues.

00:35:08.000 We're going to try to get it up.

00:35:09.000 But we're going to have this episode where I said early, Open America Now back in April of last year, and it's just as applicable then as it is now.

00:35:17.000 So thank you.

00:35:18.000 Okay, here it is.

00:35:19.000 Here's some food for thought.

00:35:20.000 We're discussing some vaccine passports.

00:35:22.000 Yet in California, Democrats allow children to enroll in public school, even if they do not have the required vaccines.

00:35:28.000 No child has ever been denied enrollment.

00:35:30.000 Love you, brother, Jeff and Huntson to beat you.

00:35:32.000 God bless you, Jeff.

00:35:33.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.

00:35:35.000 It's a very good point.

00:35:36.000 And by the way, I learned so much from my listeners.

00:35:38.000 I have to say, there's so much wisdom out there, which is so they allow someone to enroll into school without ID, but in order to get ID, you need a vaccine passport.

00:35:48.000 This vaccine passport thing is going to break the irony of every single person that has advocated against voter ID.

00:35:57.000 Every single person.

00:35:58.000 So in New York City, they say, oh, everyone needs a vaccine passport.

00:36:01.000 I thought identification is racist.

00:36:04.000 I thought asking people to prove who they are is a form of bigotry.

00:36:10.000 Not exactly an easy way for them to reason that one.

00:36:18.000 Next question here.

00:36:19.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:36:20.000 I'm in South Carolina.

00:36:21.000 You're the best.

00:36:22.000 Just want to encourage you to keep going, keep getting others involved, and keep teaching our college students.

00:36:26.000 They are so misinformed by no fault of their own.

00:36:28.000 Thank you.

00:36:29.000 Quick question: What do you think of states seceding? 0.94

00:36:32.000 I just keep dreaming of two countries: 75% in one country, 25% who want all this crap in the other, who can rot away in their own country. 0.65

00:36:39.000 Why aren't states talking about this? 0.89

00:36:41.000 Wouldn't it solve everything?

00:36:42.000 What is your opinion?

00:36:42.000 Thanks, and God bless it.

00:36:43.000 Not that easy.

00:36:45.000 And anyone who's dealt with divorce knows that divorce is not easy.

00:36:48.000 A divorce is messy.

00:36:50.000 It takes time.

00:36:51.000 There's division.

00:36:52.000 Who's going to control the military?

00:36:54.000 Who will control the assets?

00:36:56.000 Not something we should take lightly. 0.94

00:36:58.000 A national divorce is something that we have floated on this program.

00:37:02.000 And the more I've thought about it, the more I realize that that is not a solution I come at lightly.

00:37:07.000 It is not.

00:37:08.000 It is something that would only be a last-grasp measure if and when it seems as if violent conflict is inevitable.

00:37:24.000 So I'm not a fan of secession.

00:37:26.000 I am not someone who's trying to support one part of the country separating from the other.

00:37:31.000 That is not something that we should take lightly in any form whatsoever.

00:37:36.000 Secession movements in America have never ended well.

00:37:40.000 That is not something I think that we should entertain in the current moment.

00:37:44.000 Instead, we should try to bring people together and try and defeat the left and prove them wrong at every single turn.

00:37:53.000 Build our own stuff, take terrain, be the happy warriors and eternally optimistic.

00:38:00.000 Try to keep this together.

00:38:01.000 And if we were to separate, that would be a gift to China and it would not end well. 0.78

00:38:05.000 I'm telling you right now, that is not something that could just be executed over the dinner table. 0.92

00:38:09.000 That is something that would be so unbelievably messy.

00:38:12.000 It might come to it.

00:38:13.000 I hope not.

00:38:15.000 Because it seems as if we're living in different Americas right now where people interpret things so completely differently.

00:38:20.000 But I'm going to do everything I possibly can to try to prevent it and try to keep the United States of America united, not fractured, not divided, and not splintered.

00:38:32.000 Again, I'm taking all your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:38:36.000 I do want to get to a point that Anthony mentioned in one of our supporter calls.

00:38:39.000 So if you guys support us at charliekirk.com/slash support, chip in anything you can.

00:38:44.000 First of all, it helps us reach millions of young people across the country.

00:38:48.000 So please consider doing that at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:38:53.000 Anthony, who's one of our supporters, said, Hey, Charlie, I couldn't go to a Braves game and get will call tickets, which is tickets waiting for you, without showing a form of identification.

00:39:03.000 And I said, that is such a wise point.

00:39:06.000 So either these institutions like Delta and like Major League Baseball or even Coca-Cola, I guarantee you, you cannot walk into Coca-Cola's headquarters without showing ID.

00:39:18.000 Guarantee it.

00:39:20.000 Proving who you are and some form of identification.

00:39:23.000 I guarantee you can't do that.

00:39:25.000 However, they're calling everyone who does not believe this a terrible person.

00:39:33.000 And so Anthony, who supports us again at charliekirk.com/slash support, made the point that these companies don't even live out the values of which they believe that they're the ones saying that identification is racist, yet in every single form and fashion of their actual company, they enforce the thing that they say is actually racist.

00:39:57.000 Let's get to some questions, more questions here.

00:40:00.000 It's a really good question here from Eric from Georgia.

00:40:02.000 A lot of Georgia listeners.

00:40:03.000 Good morning, Charlie.

00:40:04.000 I love the podcast.

00:40:05.000 I just finished listening to your episode on the Georgia election reform bill.

00:40:08.000 I think that conservatives should defang the systemic racism argument by pointing out that the mere fact that the left labels everything racist and proves that America is not a racist country.

00:40:16.000 By calling something racist, they're appealing to the moral conscience of a nation as a whole.

00:40:20.000 One could ask the following question: quote, if America was racist, would you care if you label something as racist?

00:40:26.000 The question that would obviously be no, therefore a waste of effort to try an effective change in that manner.

00:40:31.000 I do have a question regarding your view on tax policies.

00:40:34.000 What tax structure do you support, so on and so forth?

00:40:36.000 I want to get to the first part.

00:40:37.000 Not exactly interested in the tax question.

00:40:39.000 Sorry, Eric, it's a great question.

00:40:41.000 But the tax question is: I prefer a 10% tax across the board, never going to happen.

00:40:46.000 Lower the taxes, the better.

00:40:47.000 But not my number one issue right now.

00:40:49.000 I think we have cultural moral decay over a fiscal issue, even though I think they're tied together.

00:40:54.000 Not my focus right now, Eric, but I do appreciate it.

00:40:56.000 I want to get to your really good point that's earlier in your email, which is about systemic racism.

00:41:04.000 We're not systemically racist.

00:41:06.000 Therefore, I don't want to even blame the left for it.

00:41:08.000 But I think, Eric, you bring up a great point that any form of institutional racism, such as our welfare programs, that have hurt the black community, are all because of the Democrat Party.

00:41:20.000 And I encourage all of you to go back and listen to my speech at University of Kentucky from last week, Five Lies Your Child Was Taught About America, or Five Lies You're Taught About America.

00:41:30.000 It's very thorough.

00:41:31.000 We go in great detail about how the parties never switched and how America is not systemically racist.

00:41:37.000 I really encourage you.

00:41:38.000 The problem with that, Eric, that argument from Georgia, and congratulations, you win a signed copy of the book, The MAGA Doctrine, is that you're immediately accepting the premise.

00:41:49.000 We are the least racist country in the history of the world.

00:41:53.000 There is no one of any skin color in this country that cannot succeed if you do not apply yourself and make the correct course of action.

00:42:02.000 Not every country in the world can brag that. 0.97

00:42:04.000 Few can, and few can do it with so many different types of people from all across the planet speaking different languages with different beliefs.

00:42:12.000 That is an awesome country.

00:42:14.000 As soon as you play into the systemic racism argument, you're all of a sudden focusing on the barriers, not on the potential breakthroughs that a human being can have.

00:42:24.000 Every human being in this country has breakthroughs ahead of them if they apply themselves correctly and you make good choices.

00:42:31.000 And the best way we can do that is rebuilding the nuclear family in our country. 0.96

00:42:37.000 Ending single motherhood as we know it. 0.92

00:42:39.000 Instead, we're doing the opposite. 0.86

00:42:41.000 We're subsidizing single motherhood.

00:42:43.000 And we have Cardi B doing performances at the Grammys, basically showing and telling the rest of the world, you can do whatever you want whenever you want to do it.

00:42:53.000 And that will bring you some form of happiness.

00:42:55.000 It will actually make you a slave to that sin, to that behavior.

00:42:59.000 Instead, true joy, true happiness will be found in the greater things.

00:43:06.000 Truth, beauty, wonder, children, family, God, spirit, not pleasure.

00:43:13.000 Just the pursuit of pleasure will be nothing more than you being fatted cattle.

00:43:21.000 So Aristotle says in the ethics, which is, I think, one of the greatest books ever written.

00:43:28.000 His book on ethics, his book on politics, so great, written different than Plato's books, where Aristotle says, you go see the fatted cattle.

00:43:35.000 I'm sure all of you have driven by big farms where cattle or cows are just eating all day long.

00:43:41.000 That's the life of someone who just pursues pleasure.

00:43:45.000 No depth.

00:43:47.000 No beauty.

00:43:48.000 Just eating grass all day long.

00:43:50.000 If that's what you want for your life, then go do that.

00:43:53.000 You will not find fulfillment there. 0.99

00:43:55.000 You will be a miserable person. 0.97

00:43:57.000 And I do want to end on this note. 0.98

00:43:59.000 Terrell, who helps us out here, does a great job.

00:44:03.000 I want to thank Terrell and his whole team.

00:44:04.000 Brian stays up late and does a great job for us editing our podcast.

00:44:08.000 So when you guys support us at charliekirk.com slash support, you support our podcast editing team that stays up very, very late to help us all do all this.

00:44:17.000 And I talk about this every couple months.

00:44:18.000 But Tarrell came into here.

00:44:19.000 He said, Charlie, I want you to talk about today.

00:44:22.000 And Terrell is not one to tell me what to talk about, so it must be important.

00:44:25.000 I really trust him.

00:44:26.000 He's very wise.

00:44:27.000 And he said, Charlie, I want you to talk about people that are taking their own life.

00:44:31.000 And I said, Terrell, I've been thinking a lot about that too.

00:44:34.000 And it's something that's growing in our country, especially amongst men.

00:44:39.000 And the law of averages mean that there's one human being listening to this right now that has seriously contemplated this in the last couple weeks or last couple days.

00:44:49.000 And you just happen to stumble upon this podcast and you might be giving up hope.

00:44:53.000 You might have an emptiness.

00:44:55.000 You might have a weight or a heaviness upon you.

00:44:59.000 I can't say I get that because I haven't actually ever had that.

00:45:03.000 Praise God.

00:45:05.000 But I can say that I've had weight and heaviness.

00:45:08.000 I've had confusion.

00:45:10.000 So let me just tell you a couple truths.

00:45:12.000 Number one, you're a lot tougher than you might think.

00:45:17.000 Number two, people need you more than you might think.

00:45:22.000 I'm not going to do this self-esteem BS and tell you the most perfect person in the world.

00:45:26.000 I am going to say you're tougher than you might think.

00:45:30.000 And you have agency.

00:45:31.000 You have free will.

00:45:34.000 Not getting into the theology of it, but I am a big believer in free will.

00:45:37.000 It's a fundamental belief that I have.

00:45:40.000 You have the choice to do the good or to do the easy.

00:45:44.000 The good is not easy.

00:45:45.000 What is the good?

00:45:46.000 Who are you?

00:45:47.000 Why are you here?

00:45:49.000 Why do you just want to pull the cord and exit the world?

00:45:52.000 Why do so many people want to do that?

00:45:55.000 Mainly because they either don't have purpose, they're not coming in contact with meaning, they've been convinced that their actions don't matter, or they're in a lot of pain.

00:46:10.000 So if you're in a lot of pain, let me tell you that there's ways to break through of that pain.

00:46:15.000 Number one, there might be something you're doing that you should stop doing.

00:46:18.000 Drugs, alcohol, something you're addictive to.

00:46:21.000 Maybe you have to stop doing something to start living.

00:46:25.000 Maybe instead of adding more stuff into your life, you have to stop doing something in your life.

00:46:32.000 Maybe you have not come in contact with something beautiful.

00:46:35.000 And no, I don't mean just a beautiful girl or a beautiful man.

00:46:39.000 I'm talking beauty, and the way we define beauty is that which is perfected in being.

00:46:44.000 Go listen to an hour and a half piece of classical music.

00:46:48.000 No phone.

00:46:50.000 Close your eyes.

00:46:52.000 Meditate on it.

00:46:53.000 Go read a beautiful piece of scripture like Matthew 5.

00:46:58.000 Go have a meaningful conversation.

00:47:02.000 And then take out a piece of paper and do the self-authoring exercise.

00:47:07.000 Jordan Peterson popularized it.

00:47:09.000 And get in great detail who you want to be and how you want to act.

00:47:16.000 For young men, one of the main reasons why they are pulling the cord, if you will, metaphorically, and Terrell said he knows he has lost more friends to suicide than to the Chinese coronavirus.

00:47:32.000 You know why?

00:47:33.000 Because men are not being challenged anymore.

00:47:38.000 That's why.

00:47:41.000 Terrell told me that all the men have the same characteristics, not married, alcohol problems, white, 30 to 40 years old. 0.99

00:47:49.000 So it makes perfect sense. 0.87

00:47:51.000 There's nothing that's pushing them to be a better version of themselves.

00:47:56.000 And if that's you listening to this right now, that's okay.

00:47:59.000 So you got to take a pause.

00:48:00.000 Maybe you're going for a walk and maybe you say, whoa, this is hitting super personal.

00:48:04.000 And I'm telling you right now that you're a lot tougher than you might think.

00:48:08.000 And people need you more than you might think.

00:48:10.000 And you have to push yourself more if you're a man.

00:48:14.000 For women, my advice is different. 1.00

00:48:15.000 It's more based in self-image. 0.96

00:48:17.000 And quite honestly, I'm not one to give advice there because I'm not as much versed in that.

00:48:21.000 But maybe you're a young woman and you know a man that's dealing with this and you got to send him this podcast and you say, fast forward to the end to this part.

00:48:30.000 I just felt so moved by the Holy Spirit to share all this with you because it just keeps on recurring and people are mentioning it and people are saying it and people are struggling with it.

00:48:40.000 And they're saying, is this all there is?

00:48:45.000 And I have the exact opposite response.

00:48:46.000 I say, we're so lucky to see all of which that's in this world, the wonder, the beauty, the harmony.

00:48:56.000 If you're depressed, here's what I can guarantee you.

00:48:59.000 Number one, you're not learning enough.

00:49:01.000 You're not reading enough.

00:49:02.000 You're not challenging your premise enough.

00:49:03.000 You're not diving deep enough.

00:49:06.000 Number two, if you're depressed and you're considering these things, you're not being challenged enough.

00:49:10.000 We talked about that.

00:49:11.000 Number three, you're not moving enough.

00:49:14.000 Movement is life.

00:49:15.000 Get the blood flowing physically.

00:49:17.000 Talk more.

00:49:18.000 Do more things.

00:49:19.000 Push yourself.

00:49:20.000 Number four, you're not failing enough.

00:49:23.000 That's right.

00:49:25.000 You are not failing enough.

00:49:27.000 You're too comfortable.

00:49:29.000 You're where it is.

00:49:29.000 You're in a routine.

00:49:31.000 You're in the cycle.

00:49:32.000 Number five.

00:49:35.000 You're not questioning yourself enough.

00:49:38.000 You're not asking enough questions about the world.

00:49:40.000 Who am I?

00:49:41.000 Why am I here?

00:49:43.000 And you might be doing that and you might not find answers.

00:49:46.000 You're not looking in the right place.

00:49:47.000 The word of God is a great place to start.

00:49:49.000 Proverbs and John.

00:49:50.000 Go read Aristotle's book on ethics.

00:49:55.000 Go take the Hillsdale online courses.

00:49:57.000 The point is that there are resources for you and you're not the only person ever to wrestle with this.

00:50:03.000 But I could tell you that if you ever find something better than Jesus Christ, please email me freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:50:08.000 I'd love to hear it.

00:50:10.000 Because the amazing thing about Jesus is all of those things are so great and so important we talk about them.

00:50:15.000 It will all point you to Christ because you'll realize that God wants you to come in contact with him through an intermediary, his son.

00:50:26.000 He will remake you.

00:50:27.000 You will be renewed with new life, a new passion, new spirit.

00:50:36.000 So maybe that's you.

00:50:37.000 Maybe you know somebody.

00:50:37.000 Maybe you already passed that chapter.

00:50:39.000 Praise God.

00:50:39.000 But it is plaguing our country right now and the lockdowns are to blame and our addiction to social media is to blame and the dopamine highways we've created through all the different channels in our country are to blame.

00:50:52.000 Those are the five things I have to say about that.

00:50:54.000 And if you're going through that, email me freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:50:56.000 I'd love to help you, pray for you, direct you in the right place.

00:50:59.000 I've lost friends to suicide.

00:51:02.000 It's an awful thing.

00:51:04.000 But if you all of a sudden think that you're going to be able to stop living in pain, you're, first of all, wrong and you will inflict an exponent on whatever you're feeling right now on the one person you care about the most.

00:51:18.000 Do you want to see other people suffer?

00:51:20.000 Probably not.

00:51:20.000 Then cut that out.

00:51:22.000 Get yourself moving.

00:51:24.000 Challenge your premise.

00:51:25.000 Learn.

00:51:26.000 Read.

00:51:27.000 Think.

00:51:28.000 Speak.

00:51:29.000 We are the speaking beings.

00:51:30.000 We are not fatted cattle out in the cattle out in the farm, out to pasture.

00:51:38.000 Live life at its fullest.

00:51:41.000 And if you're not drawn to Christ based on what I'd say, that's okay.

00:51:45.000 Maybe one day you will be.

00:51:46.000 But maybe you're ready to make that decision.

00:51:48.000 I encourage you to listen to people that are far more qualified than I am in the evangelist world.

00:51:52.000 All I can say is that there's nothing sweeter, nothing better than that.

00:51:56.000 Knowing that I will be able to live forever, see my loved ones again, that there is mercy, justice, forgiveness, love, and that I can bring other people into that.

00:52:07.000 It's pretty awesome.

00:52:09.000 Final thing I'll say is this: if you're going through that self-doubt, self-harm, depression, there's no stigma behind that.

00:52:19.000 It's happening at such a great rate in our country.

00:52:21.000 People are afraid to talk about it.

00:52:23.000 Stop being afraid to talk about it.

00:52:27.000 You're not weak.

00:52:29.000 You're simply under attack from the enemy.

00:52:33.000 It's a big difference.

00:52:36.000 And there's victory in truth.

00:52:39.000 There's victory in your action and your agency and your acceptance of Christ, the Holy Spirit, or even at the minimal amount, if you're listening to this, acceptance in living a good life.

00:52:54.000 And that's a life worth living.

00:52:56.000 Okay, email us your questions, everybody.

00:52:57.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:52:59.000 I hope that helps some of you.

00:53:00.000 I'd love to hear your feedback on that.

00:53:01.000 If you want to support us, go to charliekirk.com/slash support and get involved with Turning PointUSA.

00:53:06.000 Go to tpusa.com.

00:53:07.000 God bless you guys.

00:53:08.000 Big week in store.

00:53:09.000 I'm in Vegas.

00:53:10.000 On Tuesday night, UNLV, Turning Point USA, Gen Free Tour, tpusa.com/slash genfree.

00:53:16.000 Then I'm in San Jose.

00:53:18.000 Two nights later on Thursday evening, tpusa.com slash genfree.

00:53:22.000 Make sure you check it out.

00:53:22.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:53:27.000 God bless you guys.

00:53:28.000 Thanks so much.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 05, 2021

Ask Charlie Anything 57: MLB, COKE, DELTA, Voter I.D., and How to Deal With Depression

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