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00:02:24.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:02:25.000 My question's about big corporations.

00:02:26.000 Similar to our government, should we have some sort of check and balance for big corporations to keep them from becoming tyrannical?

00:02:33.000 As well as what would those checks and balances be while still maintaining a free market capitalistic economy?

00:02:38.000 Thanks for your insight, Amanda.

00:02:40.000 Well, what we're dealing with right now in our country is rather unprecedented because the vast majority of the pressure that we are seeing from these companies are technology-based.

00:02:54.000 And their model is not about building railroads.

00:02:57.000 It's not about producing anything you could touch.

00:03:00.000 Instead, it's about figuring out better ways to sell you.

00:03:05.000 You see, the technology companies in our country, it's a completely different profit model than almost anything we've ever seen.

00:03:13.000 And I was actually really surprised.

00:03:15.000 We had Senator Mike Lee in the office yesterday, and I encourage all of you to subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast to hear the conversation.

00:03:21.000 And Senator Lee is definitely more on the libertarian side of economics.

00:03:24.000 By the way, he's a good friend and a great American.

00:03:27.000 I was surprised because I asked him a question, not really sure where he was going to go with it, but anticipating that Senator Lee was going to say, hey, we got to let the market work itself out when it comes to these companies.

00:03:37.000 And Senator Lee even said that it's time for government to intervene with the tech companies.

00:03:42.000 I mean, you could have just tapped me over.

00:03:42.000 I was stunned.

00:03:46.000 It's a big deal that even the most committed free market defenders in the Republican Party, in the Senate, are now saying that we need government intervention.

00:03:58.000 And here's part of the reason why, is that looking at how things are, not how we wish them to be, and looking at things empirically, not just on a chalkboard or a whiteboard, when companies are involved with artificial intelligence and the massive surveillance of citizens, and that's their business model, it warrants a different type of approach.

00:04:19.000 Now, the goal should always be, obviously, what is good for human beings?

00:04:22.000 What is good for the flourishing of our lives and our families, of our nation and our home.

00:04:29.000 And markets generally do a really good job of that.

00:04:32.000 They do.

00:04:33.000 Markets are a good job of being able to empower people to take risks and to invest in themselves and improve their standard of living and the standard of living of people around them.

00:04:42.000 But these tech companies are not operating in a market.

00:04:45.000 They're basically governments.

00:04:48.000 These tech companies, Facebook and Google and Amazon in particular, they have a perverse incentive structure.

00:04:54.000 In fact, their incentive structure is opposite of that of a local small business.

00:04:58.000 Their incentive structure is trying to steamroll and pummel you.

00:05:03.000 So when I was in Bismarck, North Dakota, talking to Scott Hennan, and we started looking at small businesses throughout the city, I said it's Amazon's goal to destroy those small businesses.

00:05:13.000 That's not a healthy incentive structure.

00:05:15.000 Now, a pure libertarian free market person would say, no, that's a good thing because it's competitive advantage and it is spontaneous order.

00:05:24.000 I don't agree with that.

00:05:25.000 I don't.

00:05:26.000 I think markets are systems that we set up.

00:05:29.000 People can operate naturally in markets, obviously, before they're set up by the government.

00:05:34.000 But when you involve this very, quite honestly, unknown form of technology, artificial intelligence, where whomever has the most server space and whomever can allocate the most amount of capital the quickest, you're talking about a form of an economy that I don't think we really understand what we're dealing with.

00:05:58.000 And so should we have a check and balance against these corporations?

00:06:02.000 It's just about time we start using it.

00:06:02.000 We do.

00:06:04.000 And again, the goal should not be about collectivization of property.

00:06:08.000 The goal should not be about the confiscation of wealth.

00:06:11.000 That is not an end goal for us.

00:06:12.000 Of course not.

00:06:15.000 However, anytime I bring up some of these topics, the way it used to go is that some people on the right would say, you're a socialist. 0.97

00:06:20.000 I mean, that's a ridiculous accusation.

00:06:24.000 Instead, think a little bit more creatively.

00:06:26.000 And how about you think for the first time in 30 years? 0.72

00:06:29.000 What if I told you that Google is the Soviet Union?

00:06:34.000 How did you view the Soviet Union back in the 1980s?

00:06:37.000 You viewed it as we have to do whatever it takes to challenge their power and push back against the sort of totalitarian impulses in the Soviet Union.

00:06:51.000 And so this is a problem that has popped up in a variety of different ways.

00:06:56.000 And the amount of power that is now vested in these companies is no different than if a government had that form of power.

00:07:08.000 And so what is the proper check and balance?

00:07:12.000 We like competition.

00:07:13.000 We should try to allow competition.

00:07:17.000 We like new companies being started.

00:07:20.000 But even more than that, and Peter Thiel had a wonderful article that he wrote.

00:07:24.000 I encourage all of you to check it out that said, competition is for losers.

00:07:27.000 It's probably one of the most thought-provoking pieces I've read in the last two months.

00:07:31.000 I encourage you to check it out.

00:07:33.000 I think he gave it for a great organization, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, ISI.

00:07:38.000 It's a phenomenal speech.

00:07:39.000 I encourage you to check it out.

00:07:40.000 In fact, we can get some clips to it later in the hour.

00:07:43.000 And basically, he said that competition is what prevents true innovation.

00:07:51.000 You might say, what are you talking about?

00:07:53.000 Charlie, what are you, a Bolshevik?

00:07:54.000 No, no, no, no.

00:07:56.000 The argument Peter Thiel was making, if you don't know who Peter Thiel is, co-founder of PayPal, very successful guy.

00:08:02.000 He's saying, if you're always looking to your right and to your left and trying to out-compete another, and instead not being independent in your own thinking, then you're simply trying to just create a mousetrap better than the person next to you instead of creating a whole new product that has not been dreamt of before.

00:08:26.000 So, this is a question to ask yourself: What do you know to be true?

00:08:30.000 This is what Peter would say.

00:08:32.000 What do you know to be true that other people think you're totally wrong about?

00:08:38.000 What do you know to be true?

00:08:39.000 And by the way, it doesn't have to be some off-the-wall thing.

00:08:40.000 This is part of his speech, by the way. 0.95

00:08:42.000 Competition is for losers.

00:08:45.000 Is that everyone has one thing that you know to be true that other people think you're wrong about?

00:08:51.000 And so, what Peter talked about is that when he left the New York City law firm and he said, I'm done, I'm not going to be here anymore.

00:09:00.000 He was rejecting competition.

00:09:02.000 That was an anti-competitive move.

00:09:05.000 He was saying, I no longer care about beating you guys.

00:09:07.000 I'm going to go do my own thing.

00:09:10.000 And I'm afraid that we have become so in love with this idea of kind of horse jockeying.

00:09:17.000 I kind of prefer that phrase, quite honestly, better than competition.

00:09:21.000 So, I think that there's some, again, we're getting into semantics here.

00:09:24.000 But I guess what I'm trying to say is: if your whole life is just trying to outdo another person, that's actually not what's good for society. 0.82

00:09:32.000 Ayn Rand had a wonderful quote about this, and I get beat up all the time by Christians for quoting Ayn Rand.

00:09:38.000 I just don't think you understand Ayn Rand.

00:09:40.000 Ayn Rand was an outspoken atheist, but by the end of her life, there's a great piece written by Steve Mariotti who claims that Ayn Rand accepted that there was a God.

00:09:50.000 In fact, can you find that piece?

00:09:51.000 Steve Mariotti, Ayn Rand's Hidden Religion.

00:09:53.000 It's very good.

00:09:54.000 It's totally debated by Ayn Rand atheists.

00:09:56.000 But Ayn Rand had a phenomenal quote that says, I will not make you live for another person.

00:10:02.000 Do not make me live for you.

00:10:05.000 And Ayn Rand had a very provocative statement in her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, which I think is a terrific book.

00:10:12.000 And again, I don't look for her for religious purpose.

00:10:15.000 I'm a Bible-believing evangelical Christian.

00:10:18.000 But I think that she had a phenomenal way of capturing the threat of totalitarianism and the need for individuals to stand with courage.

00:10:27.000 The preference on reason and logic, not as the only human value, in my worldview.

00:10:33.000 And it's a very, it's a very significant piece of literature, and I encourage everyone to check it out.

00:10:38.000 It's in a lot of different ways.

00:10:39.000 We need more John Galts and Hank Reardons.

00:10:43.000 And that little snapshot of Atlas Shrugged does a phenomenal job of that.

00:10:47.000 But Ayn Rand had another quote, and I'm going to find it in a second, where Ayn argued that the most immoral thing you can do is to say that you're living just to beat others.

00:11:02.000 So instead, what if I told you that instead of worrying about getting the promotion over somebody else, you should retreat and think, pray, and reflect and say, what is it that I know is right?

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00:12:46.000 Let's get to this question here.

00:12:47.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:12:48.000 My name is Thomas.

00:12:49.000 I'm currently a freshman in my finals week at Ryder University.

00:12:52.000 I'm part of a Turning Point USA club at the university.

00:12:55.000 I do have a question.

00:12:55.000 My university is forcing us and making it mandatory to get the COVID-19 vaccine, or else I will not be able to return to campus.

00:13:01.000 I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.

00:13:02.000 Thank you.

00:13:02.000 So let me just say this, Thomas.

00:13:03.000 I've decided not to get the vaccine.

00:13:06.000 And maybe you decide to get the vaccine, and maybe that's the right decision.

00:13:10.000 If you don't want to get the vaccine and you go to college, for me, that would be a defining point.

00:13:18.000 That would be a breaker for me.

00:13:21.000 And so that would be a deal breaker.

00:13:24.000 That's the phrase I'm looking for.

00:13:25.000 Geez, deal breaker.

00:13:28.000 And we just did an entire hour on the vaccine.

00:13:32.000 And if you're interested in learning more about that, check out the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:13:37.000 It was very factual and very in-depth.

00:13:40.000 And we'll leave it at that, Thomas.

00:13:42.000 And so I, for me, I would not be forced to take one.

00:13:49.000 And it's my personal choice not to take the vaccine.

00:13:55.000 Okay, next question.

00:13:57.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:13:58.000 My name is Jacob, and I am subscribed.

00:14:00.000 My question is: are we as Republicans radical in our ideals?

00:14:03.000 Or rather, does the left see us as radicals?

00:14:05.000 If they do, what can we do to convince leftists that what we want is best for legal Americans, in most cases, including them?

00:14:11.000 Well, radical actually means to the root, to the original.

00:14:16.000 If you actually go back to the original phrase of what radical means.

00:14:19.000 But what are you really saying is radical?

00:14:20.000 Are we out of the mainstream?

00:14:22.000 No, they are.

00:14:23.000 What we are talking about is very acceptable public policy.

00:14:29.000 How about this?

00:14:30.000 You put your citizens first.

00:14:32.000 Families are important. 1.00

00:14:35.000 You put the citizen over the foreigner.

00:14:39.000 Your trade deals should preserve and protect hardware development and middle-class work. 0.64

00:14:45.000 Free markets are a great guide to be able to produce wealth and preserve what we have considered to be a rather enjoyable lifestyle.

00:15:01.000 Private property is important.

00:15:03.000 At the same time, we're not going to bow down and accept a corporate oligarchy.

00:15:08.000 These are very moderate ideas.

00:15:13.000 If you want radical, I'll go show you some radical ideas.

00:15:16.000 Those are not radical ideas.

00:15:18.000 Our ideas built Western civilization.

00:15:21.000 Of course, they're not outside of the mainstream.

00:15:24.000 And what they're doing, again, we have used this phrase so many times, and it's important because it just seems to be about 15 things that we talk about here on this program that is just kind of buckets.

00:15:35.000 So I just have to kind of sometimes draw from this bucket and draw from that bucket.

00:15:39.000 This is the gaslighting bucket.

00:15:41.000 We talk about that a lot on this program.

00:15:43.000 If you don't know what gaslighting is, it's a psychological manipulation tactic that is used.

00:15:50.000 Let's just say you were trying to manipulate or abuse your spouse.

00:15:55.000 So, what you would do is every time she would walk in, you would turn down the light a little bit and she'd say, Is it getting darker here?

00:16:01.000 Say, no, you're losing your mind.

00:16:03.000 Or to use it in an Orwellian sense, let's say that someone just ate a bunch of cookies.

00:16:12.000 And you asked them, How many cookies did you eat?

00:16:15.000 If they were lying, they would say, I ate six cookies when in reality they ate 15 cookies.

00:16:23.000 Instead, you go up to them when they ate all these cookies, you say, Hey, how many cookies did you eat?

00:16:29.000 And instead, they've had crumbs all over their face.

00:16:32.000 They'd say, Oh, no, no, no.

00:16:33.000 I didn't eat any cookies.

00:16:35.000 You ate the cookies.

00:16:36.000 Say, no, I didn't eat the cookies.

00:16:38.000 I promise.

00:16:38.000 You're the one eating the cookies.

00:16:40.000 No, no, no. 1.00

00:16:40.000 You ate the cookies and you're a racist. 1.00

00:16:42.000 That's Orwellian. 0.98

00:16:43.000 It's not just a lie.

00:16:44.000 It's the opposite of the truth.

00:16:46.000 And that is what we are dealing with.

00:16:49.000 There's nothing that you should apologize for.

00:16:51.000 There's nothing radical about wanting to preserve the American family, protect freedom of speech, your rights to own a firearm, the ability to own private property, not be bossed around by a corporation or by your government.

00:17:07.000 Both of those are conservative values.

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00:19:05.000 We get this question every so often and I just chuckle because it shouldn't have to be hard.

00:19:11.000 You know that you're living in the age of insanity, for lack of a better term, when the simple becomes complex and they try to make the complex simple.

00:19:21.000 Let me say that again.

00:19:22.000 You know you're living in a state of chaos when the simple gets made complex and they try to make the complex simple. 0.90

00:19:29.000 For example, they try to make the idea that blacks are on average less wealthy than whites as a simple idea.

00:19:39.000 That's a very complicated idea with thousands of inputs and prerequisites that can't be blamed just on discrimination.

00:19:49.000 Thomas Sowell wrote beautifully about this from in Discrimination and Disparities, one of his last works he's worked on recently, 2019, I think it was published.

00:20:00.000 But then they try to make the simple overly complex.

00:20:07.000 And here's the question.

00:20:09.000 This is not a hard question.

00:20:12.000 Hey, Charlie, I love the show and listen every day.

00:20:14.000 Thank you.

00:20:15.000 I had a question for you.

00:20:16.000 So I'm 18.

00:20:16.000 I attend a local community college.

00:20:18.000 My classmates, my professor, think that there should be no gender segregation in sports.

00:20:25.000 My teacher asked why it is a justifiable to segregate sports by gender.

00:20:30.000 How would you answer this?

00:20:32.000 I've stated my stance on this topic, and I believe sports must be segregated to make it fair for women. 0.51

00:20:38.000 Men and women are biologically totally different.

00:20:41.000 But my class doesn't seem to realize this. 0.98

00:20:45.000 How should I respond to them?

00:20:46.000 Thanks so much.

00:20:47.000 First of all, thank you for your question.

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00:20:54.000 So I played a lot of high school basketball.

00:20:58.000 And a very good coach of mine, Don Rowley, awesome guy.

00:21:02.000 He was an award-winning coach at Hersey High School, and he came over to be an assistant coach and a mentor of mine.

00:21:08.000 He actually was my freshman basketball coach.

00:21:10.000 It was such an honor to have him as a basketball coach.

00:21:12.000 He was awesome.

00:21:14.000 If anyone's listening that knows him, send him this episode.

00:21:18.000 He always used to have this belief, and we tested it, that the girls' varsity team, if they were any good, they would be able to beat the boys' freshman team.

00:21:37.000 And if they couldn't, they're really, they're not going to be good.

00:21:39.000 So it was a test.

00:21:40.000 So if the boys' freshman team could beat the girls' varsity team, the boys' freshman team is pretty good.

00:21:45.000 If not, the girls' varsity team, vice versa.

00:21:48.000 And that's about the level that they were at.

00:21:51.000 So 14-year-old boys would be able to compete with 18-year-old girls with basketball.

00:21:56.000 That's about where the level was, four years removed.

00:22:00.000 Now, this is something that we call rather self-evident.

00:22:06.000 I have a mountain of pieces of paper that go to show that men have more muscle mass, they're faster, they have higher levels of testosterone.

00:22:16.000 And so the fact that your local community college professor and class don't see that is quite remarkable.

00:22:23.000 Women's sports were created because women are women and men are men.

00:22:28.000 I'd love to see just you really, you really think that, do you think, and here's just a very simple question.

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00:22:39.000 Do you think there's one woman on the planet that could compete fairly in the National Basketball Association? 1.00

00:22:47.000 The answer is, of course not, not even close. 1.00

00:22:49.000 Let's even get further.

00:22:51.000 Let's get really provocative. 1.00

00:22:52.000 Do you think there's one woman that could compete fairly without any sort of handicap, affirmative action type stuff in NCAA basketball? 0.99

00:23:02.000 Any woman in the WNBA that could compete on any of the teams in March Madness? 0.99

00:23:07.000 One. 1.00

00:23:09.000 Anyone? 1.00

00:23:12.000 They have every so often this kind of ceremonial, like, oh, there's a female kicker that we bring on. 1.00

00:23:17.000 They're usually not that good. 0.99

00:23:20.000 And it's usually done as some sort of equity thing.

00:23:24.000 It's true.

00:23:26.000 Not a big fan of that.

00:23:29.000 Now, do you think that there is any NBA player or any player in NCAA basketball that wouldn't dominate in women's basketball?

00:23:41.000 Now, if what I'm saying sounds so ridiculously logical and obvious, of course, but we're living in the land of the insane where I have to say things that are logical and obvious.

00:23:50.000 Here's another question: Is there a woman in America that could play a quarter of NFL football without being hospitalized?

00:24:00.000 Is there?

00:24:01.000 Find me that woman, a quarter of NFL football without being hospitalized. 0.55

00:24:05.000 Is there a woman in America that could play outside of the kicker?

00:24:05.000 How about this?

00:24:09.000 Okay, that's a non-contact position, okay?

00:24:14.000 I know Media Matters is just waiting for that. 1.00

00:24:16.000 Is there a woman in America that could play SEC football, college football, without having life-altering injuries? 0.99

00:24:28.000 Is there a woman in America anywhere that could compete as the fastest Olympic woman athlete? 1.00

00:24:38.000 Okay, let's just take the fastest woman Olympic athlete in America that can compete with the 20th fastest man in college. 1.00

00:24:48.000 Anyone?

00:24:49.000 Now it just comes down, this whole conversation is just such a simple conversation, which is what is a man and what is a woman? 0.56

00:25:07.000 Well, a man has XY chromosomes and a woman has XX chromosomes. 0.54

00:25:13.000 Not hard. 1.00

00:25:14.000 So why even have women's sports? 1.00

00:25:16.000 Why not get rid of it? 1.00

00:25:17.000 Why not put them all together? 1.00

00:25:18.000 Then women won't compete in anything. 1.00

00:25:19.000 There will be no women competition. 1.00

00:25:22.000 Honestly, any woman that wants to compete will get severely injured. 1.00

00:25:26.000 It's an idea of bone density, muscle mass, testosterone levels, and cardiovascular ability as well, by the way.

00:25:34.000 Men happen to be built by God's design to be able to hunt, protect, be more likely to succeed in physical competition.

00:25:46.000 This is what your children are learning in school.

00:25:49.000 This is a legitimate question that we got from a listener.

00:25:52.000 I'm going to read this question again.

00:25:53.000 Where's this questioner from?

00:25:57.000 Probably California.

00:25:58.000 I'm going to say this again.

00:25:59.000 Charlie, listen to your show every day.

00:26:00.000 I have a question for you.

00:26:01.000 I'm 18 and I attend a local community college.

00:26:03.000 My classmates and my professor think that there should be no gender segregation in sports.

00:26:08.000 That's where we're headed.

00:26:10.000 My teacher asked me why it is justifiable to segregate sports by gender.

00:26:13.000 How would you answer this?

00:26:14.000 I've stated my stance on this topic.

00:26:16.000 I believe that sports must be segregated to make it fair for women.

00:26:19.000 Men and women aren't biologically totally different, but my class doesn't seem to realize this.

00:26:23.000 Now, I'm going to say something super provocative when it comes to basketball. 1.00

00:26:25.000 Women are chuckers, okay? 1.00

00:26:28.000 They don't shoot correctly. 1.00

00:26:30.000 No, they don't.

00:26:31.000 Because they don't have the muscle mass to be able to do it.

00:26:34.000 They shoot from the waist.

00:26:36.000 It's just a very simple difference.

00:26:39.000 She's from California, of course. 0.58

00:26:40.000 Show me one picture ever of a woman shooting a pure and total jump shot the way that Ray Allen or Scotty Pippen or Michael Jordan or LeBron James did. 0.68

00:26:50.000 And that's fine. 0.89

00:26:51.000 So if they can't even shoot a jump shot, which is, again, by the way, that's okay.

00:26:56.000 Why would you not give them their own sports competition?

00:26:59.000 It's not hard.

00:27:01.000 And Jenner agrees.

00:27:03.000 Play tape. 0.95

00:27:04.000 Lynn, so there's legislation in various states to ban biological boys who are trans from playing girls sports in school.

00:27:10.000 What's your opinion on that?

00:27:13.000 This is a question of fairness. 1.00

00:27:18.000 That's why I oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls sports in school. 1.00

00:27:25.000 It just isn't fair. 1.00

00:27:29.000 And we have to protect girl sports in our schools. 0.60

00:27:32.000 But if someone transitions and now identifies as a girl, isn't it delegit?

00:27:35.000 So that is Jenner, who is Was once a gold medalist. 1.00

00:27:41.000 And here's another question: Why do women have smaller basketballs? 1.00

00:27:44.000 Why is the women basketball 28.5? 1.00

00:27:47.000 It's true. 0.99

00:27:48.000 Women's basketball is a smaller basketball. 0.98

00:27:51.000 If there's no difference, if it's all the same, why is it that the women's three-point line is closer than the NCAA college three-point line? 0.96

00:27:59.000 These are legitimate questions. 0.99

00:28:03.000 Why is it that it's like an act of the eclipse every time a woman dunks? 0.98

00:28:09.000 It's like we act as if it's a firework display when it's a daily thing that happens in most high school AAU basketball tournaments. 0.99

00:28:17.000 These are very legitimate questions.

00:28:19.000 In golf, they have an entirely different T-box.

00:28:21.000 And by the way, they should have these things.

00:28:23.000 I'm actually in support of them. 0.94

00:28:24.000 I want to protect women's sports. 0.67

00:28:28.000 Sometimes it's even 100 yards closer.

00:28:32.000 And so, dare I get logical on you.

00:28:36.000 These things exist for a reason. 0.97

00:28:38.000 They didn't exist for sexism. 1.00

00:28:39.000 They didn't.

00:28:40.000 Actually, it's the opposite of sexism.

00:28:42.000 It's, hey, God made you a certain way.

00:28:46.000 You don't have as much muscle mass.

00:28:48.000 You don't have as much bone density.

00:28:49.000 You don't have the same cardiovascular capacity on average, obviously.

00:28:53.000 So we are going to make it the rule the same we would for nine-year-olds.

00:28:59.000 We are going to make the rules more accommodating for you. 1.00

00:29:03.000 And by the way, there's some phenomenal female athletes. 1.00

00:29:06.000 Of course, there are. 1.00

00:29:07.000 And they always use this ridiculous example of 1973 highly publicized Battle of the Sexes tennis match, but tops win player Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs, who is 55.

00:29:17.000 By the way, it was a 29-year-old against a 55-year-old, okay?

00:29:20.000 Former number one ranked player.

00:29:23.000 I would love to see, I would pay money to see Venus and Serena Williams together try to beat Novak Djojkovic.

00:29:29.000 Good luck.

00:29:32.000 Together, both of them.

00:29:33.000 They could go two-on-one.

00:29:35.000 My money's on Novak Djojkovich blindfolded to win.

00:29:39.000 Nah, half-blindfolded.

00:29:41.000 Eye patch.

00:29:43.000 Some people, they say they might be able to.

00:29:44.000 No, my money's on Novak Djoikovic.

00:29:47.000 Serbian, the gluten-free Serbian, he is, he's something.

00:29:53.000 Someone says, I'd vote for the sisters. 1.00

00:29:55.000 Okay. 0.97

00:29:55.000 How about just Venus? 0.97

00:29:58.000 Actually, Serena's better, right? 1.00

00:29:59.000 By the way, Venus and Serena are phenomenal athletes when they're not screaming at linesmen and doing the BLM thing. 0.99

00:30:06.000 They're phenomenal athletes.

00:30:08.000 I actually have a lot of respect for them.

00:30:12.000 Now, what I'm saying here is obviously a thought crime.

00:30:15.000 You're not allowed to say all this.

00:30:16.000 No, I actually want women to be able to compete.

00:30:21.000 I want women to be able to have a place where they can pursue excellence in a fair environment.

00:30:32.000 So the question is: should we just get rid of gender segregation in sports? 0.99

00:30:37.000 That would be the most anti-woman thing you could possibly do. 1.00

00:30:42.000 It would be the thing that would just create one form of sports. 1.00

00:30:48.000 And if your position is that women should not be able to compete in sports, then that's your position.

00:30:54.000 And that's a really dumb position because a lot of women across the country have found fulfillment, joy, happiness, self-confidence, and courage in their ability to have a participation in an athletic competition. 0.88

00:31:10.000 All right, let's get to this question here. 0.96

00:31:12.000 Let's see what other, what is the most provocative thing we could possibly choose in the last five minutes here?

00:31:18.000 The Jenner thing.

00:31:19.000 Yeah, so look, I saw Caitlin Jenner, Jenner, let's just put it that way, on Fox News last night.

00:31:26.000 People are asking me my thoughts.

00:31:27.000 I've already made my thoughts very clear.

00:31:29.000 Not a fan, especially as a role model in the Republican Party.

00:31:32.000 Nice enough person.

00:31:34.000 Met Jenner before.

00:31:35.000 Not going to have my support.

00:31:37.000 Let's go to the next question here.

00:31:39.000 However, Jenner is right on sports.

00:31:40.000 Okay, Charlie, there's great pressure coming from the left and right right now, encouraging Stephen Breyer to retire while Democrats retain full control of the federal government.

00:31:47.000 What are your thoughts on that?

00:31:48.000 Would you encourage a conservative stalwart like Clarence Thomas to resign if the roles were reversed?

00:31:52.000 Some people were encouraging Clarence Thomas to resign.

00:31:56.000 I would want John Roberts to resign.

00:31:58.000 That would be nice.

00:31:58.000 We could replace him, the Liberal Justice John Roberts, who's appointed by George W. Bush.

00:32:04.000 I think that what we're experiencing now is the Democrats want to change the way that we see the Supreme Court.

00:32:14.000 That they want the Supreme Court to be a mere political arm.

00:32:18.000 That they want the Supreme Court to be an extension of the Democrat Party.

00:32:24.000 And we've seen that.

00:32:25.000 They want to expand the court.

00:32:26.000 They want to add D.C. as a state.

00:32:28.000 Everything for them is getting more and more power.

00:32:34.000 Next question here.

00:32:36.000 Not really a question here, but just a general sentiment, which is, Charlie, what do we do right now?

00:32:43.000 We get this question all the time.

00:32:45.000 And we have been encouraging people to show up for school board meetings and run for school board.

00:32:49.000 And we talked about the positives of what happened in South Lake, Texas, where parents rose up in record numbers and took back their school board against the people that were teaching critical race theory and putting forward these awful, horrendous, and insidious ideas.

00:33:05.000 But even beyond that, we need every single one of you to be spreading these podcasts, to be spreading these radio shows, to be speaking out to your friends and your family members.

00:33:13.000 That is what we do every single day at Turning Point USA.

00:33:17.000 What we do is we try to inspire and instill courage into the next generation.

00:33:25.000 And that's really what is missing right now: people that have the courage to speak out.

00:33:31.000 For example, every Republican should do what Ron DeSantis has been doing.

00:33:36.000 Let's play a cut here of Ron DeSantis.

00:33:38.000 I think he banned vaccine passports.

00:33:41.000 Which one is that? 1.00

00:33:41.000 We have that one here. 1.00

00:33:42.000 Yes.

00:33:43.000 Okay, cut 36.

00:33:44.000 Ron DeSantis saying that he will end all COVID restrictions in Florida.

00:33:47.000 Cut 36.

00:33:48.000 Well, what I'm going to do, I'm going to sign the bill.

00:33:50.000 It's effective July 1st.

00:33:52.000 I will also sign an executive order pursuant to that bill invalidating all remaining local emergency COVID orders effective on July 1st.

00:34:03.000 But then to bridge the gap between then and now, I'm going to suspend under my executive power the local emergency orders as it relates to COVID.

00:34:15.000 I think that's the evidence-based thing to do.

00:34:18.000 I think the fact that's a politician and a leader who's giving up power for the betterment of their citizens.

00:34:25.000 Every Republican governor should be following that.

00:34:28.000 Saying no more emergency powers.

00:34:30.000 We are opening up our country completely.

00:34:34.000 And I hope you find inspiration from Ron DeSantis because Ron DeSantis, a year ago today, was under fire as he was reopening the Florida economy. 0.75

00:34:40.000 And now he is leading the charge as he banned vaccine passports.

00:34:44.000 He just gave a raise to all first responders and police officers.

00:34:48.000 He signed an anti-riot bill.

00:34:50.000 He's gone after the tech companies, best school choice policies in the country.

00:34:53.000 And constitutional carry Republicans, it's time to play offense.

00:34:56.000 And conservatives, it's time to play offense.

00:34:59.000 So people say, what do we do?

00:35:01.000 It's time to be in the arena and in the game and all that we do.

00:35:09.000 And if we do that, we are going to win.

00:35:12.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:13.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - May 10, 2021

Ask Charlie Anything 62: The Greatest Takedown of the Trans Invasion into Girls Sports

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