00:00:00.000Hey 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.
00:00:10.000At the end of this episode, we get very personal.
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00:02:58.000The most important question that human beings have to answer is, who is Jesus Christ?
00:03:04.000And that is the question that I tried my best to answer in the podcast yesterday.
00:03:10.000So 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.
00:03:18.000And I know we have different people of different religious backgrounds that listen to this podcast.
00:03:24.000We get some emails every so often from some people that say, Charlie, you're so smart.
00:03:30.000How could you possibly believe in the mythology of Christianity?
00:03:38.000And I answer in a variety of different ways that I do not have enough faith to be an atheist.
00:03:43.000The 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.
00:03:51.000From 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.
00:04:07.000I believe that beauty and love are not simply power struggles, they are real things.
00:04:13.000That truth matters and the truth will set you free.
00:04:17.000And 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.
00:04:31.000Jesus was a real person, one part of the Godhead.
00:04:36.000And 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.
00:04:42.000I could do my best, but that is for theologians far more qualified than yours truly.
00:04:50.000Jesus came and lived a perfect life and died for your sins so you might have an entrance to life eternal.
00:04:58.000Christ is there for all people at any moment.
00:05:03.000So I encourage you to listen to that podcast.
00:05:05.000We did get one sort of snarky response from Joe.
00:05:09.000And 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.
00:05:20.000Only if you show you're subscribed to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, then make sure you are subscribed to our podcast.
00:05:36.000A 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.
00:05:47.000If the same, quote, logic applied to others consistently, same goes for Old Testament prophecies that people think prove he's God as man.
00:07:07.000For those of you that enjoyed our last podcast here on Easter Sunday, we deeply appreciate it.
00:07:16.000Okay, let's get to some current events here and what's happening in the country.
00:07:19.000I want to get to the Major League Baseball Coca-Cola issue.
00:07:25.000We 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.
00:07:36.000How major corporations have basically become massive college campuses with shareholders and board members.
00:07:45.000That corporations do not represent your values.
00:07:49.000Corporations 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.
00:08:06.000So Georgia passed a rather vanilla voter integrity law.
00:08:12.000Georgia passed a bill that reduced the Senate primary from nine weeks to five weeks for runoffs if someone does not reach a runoff threshold.
00:08:24.000Georgia 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.
00:08:35.000Georgia passed a bill signed by Governor Brian Kemp saying you could still hand out water when you're going to go vote.
00:08:44.000I never knew that voting was so dehydrating.
00:08:47.000Just 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.
00:09:04.000The 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.
00:09:15.000No indictments have happened or investigations that we even know of since that occurred.
00:09:21.000So what happened in Georgia was Georgia passed this law.
00:09:24.000Delta Airlines, which by the way, is an airline.
00:09:27.000This is not Delta Super PAC or Delta Political Consulting or Delta MSNBC.
00:09:33.000This is an airline, an airline that their mission statement is bringing people safely from point A to point B. That's what they do.
00:09:42.000Their mission statement is safe transportation across massive distances for hopefully an affordable amount.
00:09:50.000Now, Delta is a pretty respectable airline.
00:09:52.000It'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.
00:10:37.000I'm sure they go back and forth with which one's actually bigger.
00:10:40.000But the Delta presence in Atlanta is ubiquitous.
00:10:51.000So this law passes, which again was kind of like a five out of 10 bill.
00:10:56.000And 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.
00:11:10.000They said, oh, yeah, this bill seems fine.
00:12:19.000And Georgia wants to listen to their voters and make sure that elections can be conducted fairly.
00:12:25.000But 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.
00:12:36.000You have private corporations that are now coming out in Georgia and they are doing the work of Antifa.
00:12:44.000You 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.
00:12:55.000I called Antifa a Democrat mercenary group.
00:12:59.000Antifa burned our country down to the ground, but Democrats realized that that really wasn't getting them their desired outcome.
00:13:06.000Now, I cannot reinforce how important this point I'm about to make is.
00:13:26.000If 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?
00:14:19.000Well, the Founding Fathers didn't quite anticipate, and it's not an indictment or an accusation against the Founding Fathers.
00:14:25.000Instead, 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.
00:14:38.000The power is in all of these external, once and previous voluntary, private enterprises like Coca-Cola, like Google, and like Delta Airlines.
00:14:54.000Delta 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.
00:15:06.000They do not comment on political matters.
00:15:10.000But 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.
00:15:31.000They 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.
00:15:51.000It 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.
00:16:12.000Joe Biden said this is Jim Crow on steroids, play tape.
00:16:16.000What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is.
00:16:41.000I'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.
00:16:49.000So why is Major League Baseball doing this?
00:16:51.000Because they don't want to be on the wrong side of Joe Biden and the woosters that are running their company.
00:16:59.000So 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.
00:17:15.000But it goes to this point of who's in control of the punishment.
00:17:19.000Right now, the corporations are mainly in control of the punishment.
00:17:22.000If 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.
00:17:31.000They don't share my values or the values of Georgia because I want safe and secure elections, you would lose your job.
00:17:38.000If 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.
00:17:52.000If 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.
00:18:12.000Now, if enough of them had courage and actually stood up for something, they wouldn't be able to cancel them all.
00:18:17.000We call this cancel culture, but it's actually corporate thuggery.
00:18:22.000You see, the Democrats in Georgia, they know that they do not control the apparatus of government currently.
00:18:29.000But 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.
00:18:41.000They 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.
00:19:00.000You're not going to be able to buy your third yacht in the Bahamas.
00:19:05.000And then Major League Baseball puts forward the real punishment.
00:19:08.000You know, over $100 million of economic revenue and growth in black counties will be lost because of Major League Baseball pulling out of this.
00:19:20.000Now, we're getting emails from a lot of people.
00:19:23.000It's been time to boycott for quite some time.
00:19:26.000You should always purchase in alignment with your values.
00:19:30.000You should never go and buy products that are actively trying to undermine your worldview, your spiritual beliefs, or your patriotic beliefs, ever.
00:20:27.000A couple Democrat activist groups would have issued press releases and you'd move on.
00:20:30.000So why are these corporations so unbelievably weak?
00:20:34.000Number one, we do not have adequate courage in our country.
00:20:39.000This guy, James Quincy, is everything wrong with America.
00:20:42.000This guy, Ed Bastian, is everything wrong with America.
00:20:45.000Guys 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.
00:21:25.000They'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.
00:24:22.000Listen, this is beyond anything I've heard.
00:24:25.000It felt like a hostage video, play tape.
00:24:27.000So 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.
00:24:35.000I know you said you were disappointed, but why didn't you just come out publicly and oppose it before?
00:24:42.000We have always opposed this legislation.
00:24:44.000We have a long track record of working in Georgia with alliances on our own account, with legislators, with stakeholders to improve legislation.
00:24:57.000But 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.
00:25:08.000So we're coming out even more clearly saying that this is wrong and it needs to change.
00:25:14.000Ed Bastion was forced to say that by some HR intern.
00:25:19.000But Ed Bastion is afraid of not getting his $18 million a year.
00:25:28.000If America falls, it'll be because we put that extra home, the extra million dollars above the nation.
00:25:40.000And the left and the Chinese are both using that against us.
00:25:54.000We're no longer going to tell you that you're wrong.
00:25:56.000We'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.
00:26:13.000And if you don't do what we like, then we're really going to destroy your career.
00:26:19.000And 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.
00:26:33.000So now who's in control of the punishment?
00:26:35.000The cultural guillotine is now being run by our massive corporations.
00:29:20.000Megan asks, as a Georgia resident and a lifelong Braves fan, the news of Major League Baseball relocating the Ulster game is very upsetting.
00:29:26.000I can't understand why asking for an ID is racist.
00:29:29.000This whole idea reminded me of a time my husband and I came in contact with someone without an ID.
00:29:33.000They were homeless, starving, essentially only had clothes on their back, all because they didn't have an ID.
00:29:37.000Instead 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.
00:29:45.000Once they got their IDs, their lives literally turned around.
00:30:18.000But 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.
00:30:32.000Every single measure to secure our elections, the Democrats and the left push back against.
00:30:39.000They do not want safe and secure elections.
00:30:42.000Safe and secure elections are an existential threat to being in power forever.
00:30:47.000That's why they want what's happening in California, which is a one-party state.
00:32:04.000That's not what pop culture will tell you.
00:32:07.000You must marry someone that shares your values for a variety of reasons.
00:32:12.000You 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.
00:35:09.000But 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.
00:35:36.000And by the way, I learned so much from my listeners.
00:35:38.000I 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.
00:35:48.000This vaccine passport thing is going to break the irony of every single person that has advocated against voter ID.
00:38:15.000Because it seems as if we're living in different Americas right now where people interpret things so completely differently.
00:38:20.000But 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.
00:38:32.000Again, I'm taking all your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:38:36.000I do want to get to a point that Anthony mentioned in one of our supporter calls.
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00:38:53.000Anthony, 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.
00:39:03.000And I said, that is such a wise point.
00:39:06.000So 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.
00:39:25.000However, they're calling everyone who does not believe this a terrible person.
00:39:33.000And 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.
00:39:57.000Let's get to some questions, more questions here.
00:40:00.000It's a really good question here from Eric from Georgia.
00:40:05.000I just finished listening to your episode on the Georgia election reform bill.
00:40:08.000I 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.
00:40:16.000By calling something racist, they're appealing to the moral conscience of a nation as a whole.
00:40:20.000One could ask the following question: quote, if America was racist, would you care if you label something as racist?
00:40:26.000The question that would obviously be no, therefore a waste of effort to try an effective change in that manner.
00:40:31.000I do have a question regarding your view on tax policies.
00:40:34.000What tax structure do you support, so on and so forth?
00:41:06.000Therefore, I don't want to even blame the left for it.
00:41:08.000But 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.
00:41:20.000And 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.
00:41:38.000The 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.
00:41:49.000We are the least racist country in the history of the world.
00:41:53.000There 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.
00:42:02.000Not every country in the world can brag that.
00:42:04.000Few can, and few can do it with so many different types of people from all across the planet speaking different languages with different beliefs.
00:42:14.000As 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.
00:42:24.000Every human being in this country has breakthroughs ahead of them if they apply themselves correctly and you make good choices.
00:42:31.000And the best way we can do that is rebuilding the nuclear family in our country.
00:42:37.000Ending single motherhood as we know it.
00:42:43.000And 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.
00:42:53.000And that will bring you some form of happiness.
00:42:55.000It will actually make you a slave to that sin, to that behavior.
00:42:59.000Instead, true joy, true happiness will be found in the greater things.
00:43:06.000Truth, beauty, wonder, children, family, God, spirit, not pleasure.
00:43:13.000Just the pursuit of pleasure will be nothing more than you being fatted cattle.
00:43:21.000So Aristotle says in the ethics, which is, I think, one of the greatest books ever written.
00:43:28.000His book on ethics, his book on politics, so great, written different than Plato's books, where Aristotle says, you go see the fatted cattle.
00:43:35.000I'm sure all of you have driven by big farms where cattle or cows are just eating all day long.
00:43:41.000That's the life of someone who just pursues pleasure.
00:43:59.000Terrell, who helps us out here, does a great job.
00:44:03.000I want to thank Terrell and his whole team.
00:44:04.000Brian stays up late and does a great job for us editing our podcast.
00:44:08.000So 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.
00:44:17.000And I talk about this every couple months.
00:44:27.000And he said, Charlie, I want you to talk about people that are taking their own life.
00:44:31.000And I said, Terrell, I've been thinking a lot about that too.
00:44:34.000And it's something that's growing in our country, especially amongst men.
00:44:39.000And 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.
00:44:49.000And you just happen to stumble upon this podcast and you might be giving up hope.
00:45:49.000Why do you just want to pull the cord and exit the world?
00:45:52.000Why do so many people want to do that?
00:45:55.000Mainly 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.
00:46:10.000So if you're in a lot of pain, let me tell you that there's ways to break through of that pain.
00:46:15.000Number one, there might be something you're doing that you should stop doing.
00:46:18.000Drugs, alcohol, something you're addictive to.
00:46:21.000Maybe you have to stop doing something to start living.
00:46:25.000Maybe instead of adding more stuff into your life, you have to stop doing something in your life.
00:46:32.000Maybe you have not come in contact with something beautiful.
00:46:35.000And no, I don't mean just a beautiful girl or a beautiful man.
00:46:39.000I'm talking beauty, and the way we define beauty is that which is perfected in being.
00:46:44.000Go listen to an hour and a half piece of classical music.
00:47:09.000And get in great detail who you want to be and how you want to act.
00:47:16.000For 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.
00:48:17.000And quite honestly, I'm not one to give advice there because I'm not as much versed in that.
00:48:21.000But 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.
00:48:30.000I 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.
00:48:40.000And they're saying, is this all there is?
00:48:45.000And I have the exact opposite response.
00:48:46.000I say, we're so lucky to see all of which that's in this world, the wonder, the beauty, the harmony.
00:48:56.000If you're depressed, here's what I can guarantee you.
00:48:59.000Number one, you're not learning enough.
00:50:39.000But 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.
00:50:52.000Those are the five things I have to say about that.
00:50:54.000And if you're going through that, email me freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:50:56.000I'd love to help you, pray for you, direct you in the right place.
00:51:04.000But 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.
00:51:18.000Do you want to see other people suffer?
00:51:46.000But maybe you're ready to make that decision.
00:51:48.000I encourage you to listen to people that are far more qualified than I am in the evangelist world.
00:51:52.000All I can say is that there's nothing sweeter, nothing better than that.
00:51:56.000Knowing 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.
00:52:39.000There'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.