The Charlie Kirk Show - June 07, 2021


Ask Charlie Anything 65: Big Tech Gets Put On Notice, How to Debate a Leftist, and MORE!


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Tech companies are on defense. What are we supposed to do when we are not able to have any sort of shared value system with the people we talk to? We take questions from people in college and we also talk about American history and more.

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00:00:27.000 As always, we are able to answer your questions here on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:00:32.000 Rumble is resurgent.
00:00:33.000 The tech companies are on defense.
00:00:35.000 What are we supposed to do when we are not able to have any sort of shared value system with the people we talk to?
00:00:42.000 We take questions from people in college and we also talk about American history and more.
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00:03:29.000 Okay, Kyle has a question.
00:03:31.000 Charlie, do you think the top 100 corporations know that the public is going to turn on them?
00:03:37.000 And why are they accelerating the transition towards fascism, government, and corporations becoming one?
00:03:43.000 So this is a really important question.
00:03:44.000 Thank you for that question.
00:03:46.000 Is that what really is the motive driving these mega corporations acting like Democrat super PACs?
00:03:53.000 Why are they doing this?
00:03:54.000 Well, it's in their immediate and easy interest.
00:03:58.000 Let me say that again, immediate and easy interest to run for the Hills and to satisfy and placate the arsonists and the activists.
00:04:08.000 It's in their immediate and easy interest to turn their back on conservatives because they know conservatives are decent and that conservatives are not going to act all at once in uniform fashion.
00:04:20.000 We don't do boycotts very well.
00:04:23.000 So these corporations, they're taking you for granted.
00:04:27.000 Now, there's not a lot of choices when it comes to airlines yet.
00:04:31.000 There's not a lot of choices when it comes to social media companies yet.
00:04:34.000 But for example, yesterday, I am proud to announce for anyone that can hear me saying this, that we had more live stream viewers on Rumble than YouTube for the first time ever.
00:04:46.000 That's a big deal.
00:04:48.000 So if YouTube is going to continue to declare war on conservatives and declare war on the Charlie Kirk show, we're going to find alternatives.
00:05:00.000 Rumble, R-U-M-B-L-E.com. 0.78
00:05:02.000 By the way, every time I mention Rumble, YouTube just suppresses everything because the pajama boy people that are sitting around with far too much power, never having to leave their home with some log into the back end of YouTube, they get very upset when a competitor might emerge. 0.95
00:05:16.000 But I've actually become an optimist, and here's why. 0.94
00:05:18.000 I get pitched on awful ideas on how to disrupt the tech space every single day.
00:05:24.000 And that actually gives me hope.
00:05:26.000 Why would you say, Charlie, what is that?
00:05:28.000 Because one of them is actually going to work.
00:05:30.000 That's why.
00:05:31.000 When a lot of energy and a lot of people try to do something, the American spirit of problem solving and entrepreneurship shows me that something good is going to happen.
00:05:47.000 And the same can be said.
00:05:49.000 I mean, I'm getting pitched on all sorts of different things.
00:05:51.000 People are saying, Charlie, I want to start an airline.
00:05:53.000 You know what?
00:05:54.000 I say, I love the idea.
00:05:56.000 They said, yeah, you know, I only need $2.5 billion in bridge capital.
00:05:59.000 I said, oh, really?
00:06:00.000 What are you going to also build a highway?
00:06:03.000 Why don't you just purchase Hungary while you're at it with $2.5 billion?
00:06:07.000 I actually don't think Hungary is for sale.
00:06:09.000 You could probably go buy Corsica or some island off of Greece with $2.5 billion.
00:06:15.000 But the point is that I'm seeing entrepreneurs start to pop up.
00:06:18.000 And look, our leaders have forsaken us and we've gone through this.
00:06:22.000 Our leaders, and I have a hot, cold relationship with Mitch McConnell.
00:06:28.000 It's very well known.
00:06:29.000 I praise Mitch McConnell effusively when he deserves it.
00:06:34.000 Like Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh.
00:06:37.000 Good job, Mitch McConnell, blocking the January 6th Commission.
00:06:41.000 I also have a cold relationship when Senator McConnell decides to be a spokesperson for corporate America.
00:06:48.000 He's cooling on that a little bit, though.
00:06:49.000 I got to give him credit.
00:06:51.000 I think Senator McConnell, in some ways, is a phenomenal tactician.
00:06:56.000 In other ways, does not understand politics.
00:06:59.000 I think he likes process more than politics.
00:07:01.000 I think he's the best process guy we've ever seen in the Senate.
00:07:05.000 But as far as pandering to open borders and the green card issue and the trade issue, it really drives me nuts.
00:07:13.000 With that being said, our leaders have turned their back on us.
00:07:17.000 But these corporations, they don't think there ever will be sizable challenges to their incumbency.
00:07:26.000 They don't think that people are going to actually rise up and push back against them.
00:07:31.000 Now, why?
00:07:32.000 Well, that is pride and hubris, of course, that anyone that runs a corporation thinks they're largely untouchable.
00:07:41.000 But you look at some companies that have come onto the landscape in just the last couple of years.
00:07:46.000 Unfortunately, many of them have gone woke.
00:07:50.000 There is still space for that type of disruption.
00:07:52.000 It's not going to be easy, but it's also going to take you.
00:07:56.000 So what do these corporations want?
00:07:58.000 Well, they're led by risk-averse board of directors and CEOs that quite honestly look at America as a colony, not as a country.
00:08:08.000 Let's make as much money as we possibly can as quickly as we can.
00:08:12.000 And if we need to go move to Wuhan, if we need to go move to New Delhi, if we need to go move to Indonesia, if we need to go move to Madagascar, then we're going to go do that.
00:08:23.000 It's not as if they're trying to preserve or build something.
00:08:26.000 And the best company that I think describes this is General Electric.
00:08:32.000 General Electric used to be the ultimate American company.
00:08:35.000 General Electric used to be the place that anyone that studied engineering in America, they thought that General Electric would be the top of their career.
00:08:43.000 Now, I know a lot of people that still work for General Electric.
00:08:45.000 I guarantee you someone watching this or listening to this works for General Electric.
00:08:48.000 I'm not insulting you, but General Electric is not what it used to be.
00:08:51.000 So it's actually a really interesting case study of the colonization of America.
00:08:56.000 So General Electric used to be the blue chip stock.
00:08:59.000 It used to be the stock that, you know, year after year, General Electric is going to deliver results.
00:09:05.000 It was read by what has been, it used to be led by a man that I think passed away actually, that was called the greatest CEO ever, Jack Welch.
00:09:15.000 Jack Welch was a manager.
00:09:16.000 He was a people's person.
00:09:18.000 I think Jack Welch started as an entry-level employee and worked his way all the way up the corporate ladder.
00:09:22.000 General Electric used to build massive, exciting, ambitious, American-made products.
00:09:30.000 But then they got a different CEO.
00:09:32.000 They got a CEO by the name of Jeffrey Immelt.
00:09:35.000 Jeffrey Immelt is your, if you just want to have a contrast of what has happened to corporate America and you want to explain it to your families and your friends or you just want to make sense, just look at the life, the language, the quotations, and the dedication of Jack Welch versus Jeffrey Immelt.
00:09:53.000 Jeffrey Immelt, if I am not mistaken, and Connor can fact check this, Jeffrey Immelt either led or is heavily involved in the American Recovery Stimulus Package passed by Barack Obama back in 2008 and 2009.
00:10:08.000 General Electric did not think of how they could ambitiously create new products when we went into a recession about 11 years ago.
00:10:15.000 Instead, they said, how can I go to Washington, D.C. and get money?
00:10:18.000 So General Electric is a great example of how corporate America has fallen from grace.
00:10:22.000 But quite honestly, General Electric is not as valuable a company as it used to be.
00:10:27.000 So what's the point?
00:10:28.000 I actually think that there's going to be a price to pay.
00:10:30.000 I think that these companies that act this way are going to get steamrolled eventually if we don't lose our country altogether.
00:10:37.000 And I think there's act, again, I could be just foolishly optimistic here.
00:10:44.000 I think that there's going to be a new generation of entrepreneurs that aren't going to put up with this.
00:10:50.000 General Electric's market cap is $122 billion.
00:10:54.000 They still not have recovered their high, which was five years ago.
00:11:00.000 So they're trading about $13 a share right now.
00:11:03.000 In 2016, they were trading at $32 a share.
00:11:07.000 And General Electric is, of course, headquartered in Boston.
00:11:10.000 They have a huge operation in Ohio, and they're trying all sorts of other different things, but they are nowhere near the company that they used to be.
00:11:21.000 And that's because they have decided to think of themselves as a temporary placeholder for profit maximization, not building sustainable, ambitious, and real products.
00:11:33.000 So to answer your question, Kyle, what are these companies thinking?
00:11:36.000 These CEOs are largely interested only in momentary pleasure and what makes them feel good, how to get a third yacht off the coast of Turks and Caicos, instead of saying, you know what, I want my company to have a duty to our employees and to the citizens, our shareholders, and to the general welfare of the nation.
00:11:57.000 And actually, I think that works against the self-interest of the CEOs long term because they will always be known as making dirty and sloppy money, not making something or a company that actually looks after the best interests of our home, but instead going after making up as much money as you can and getting the way out.
00:12:17.000 Who cares if there's nothing to pass down to the next generation?
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00:13:16.000 This is a question that I get quite a lot.
00:13:20.000 I don't know if we have time to dive into it properly, but we're going to try our best.
00:13:24.000 Mackenzie, she says, my question is this.
00:13:26.000 I have debates with people on the left all the time, and there are two things that stand out to me.
00:13:30.000 One, they have no moral standards.
00:13:32.000 Or secondly, if they do, they are adaptable and changing according to their own truth. 0.70
00:13:38.000 So my question is, how do you debate somebody on an issue who is not a Christian? 0.90
00:13:42.000 If you have no moral standard and you're living only solely, quote, for your own well-being, then it's almost impossible to change their mind on anything. 0.54
00:13:50.000 McKenzie.
00:13:51.000 Mackenzie, you are very wise.
00:13:54.000 And I hope to meet you one day.
00:13:55.000 Maybe I have.
00:13:58.000 This is a quick, very, very quick side note.
00:14:00.000 I meet about 10,000 people a year, and I can't remember all of you, but I try my best.
00:14:05.000 So maybe I've met you, McKenzie.
00:14:07.000 So this is a very interesting question, which is, how do I talk to somebody about what is true politically if I can't even have a conversation what is true metaphysically?
00:14:20.000 And that really is a question that we need to dive deeper in because I have submitted for a while that we are in the midst of a theological debate in this country.
00:14:28.000 And I don't mean theological debate of how you interpret the scriptures.
00:14:34.000 I sort of mean that.
00:14:35.000 I mean this.
00:14:35.000 It's very simple.
00:14:37.000 Do you believe that you do you believe that there is a God and you are not him?
00:14:43.000 It's very simple.
00:14:44.000 Do you believe those two things?
00:14:46.000 And so this idea of absolute truth always gets me chuckling.
00:14:51.000 Then I have an opportunity to speak to a materialist or a secularist.
00:14:54.000 They say, well, I don't believe in absolute truth.
00:14:56.000 And I say, well, do you believe that absolutely?
00:14:59.000 How could you possibly make such an absolute truth about there being no such absolute truth?
00:15:03.000 How do you know that a line is crooked if you don't have a straight line to compare it to?
00:15:08.000 You see, at some point, there is a fundamental agreement on something universal.
00:15:13.000 And sometimes you have to get down to something that might surprise them.
00:15:18.000 So I like to use beauty as a way to try and disarm the secularist or the non-objectivist to agree that there are some things that are better than others.
00:15:30.000 We know this to be true.
00:15:31.000 Anyone at its most basic view knows that there is a hierarchy of the good, a hierarchy of beauty.
00:15:37.000 Then why wouldn't there be hierarchy of morals and truth?
00:15:40.000 So for example, I use this example quite often.
00:15:44.000 When you go to Yosemite National Park this summer, there will be a long line going into Yosemite.
00:15:50.000 But there will not be a long line going into the middle of desert, the desert right outside of Phoenix, Arizona.
00:15:57.000 Why?
00:15:58.000 Where it's just all kind of barren and just kind of looks like kitty litter and it's 110 degrees.
00:16:04.000 Why is it that people naturally want to go to Yosemite, but they don't want to just go into the middle of the desert?
00:16:10.000 Well, the answer is beauty.
00:16:12.000 Yosemite National Park might be the greatest example of just being struck by God's beauty.
00:16:18.000 When you drive in there, you see El Capitan with its nearly, I think it's 1,900 feet of granite straight up.
00:16:26.000 But no matter your religious belief or your spiritual belief, when you drive into Yosemite National Park, it just pops.
00:16:32.000 Now, is that just the opinion of everyone driving into Yosemite?
00:16:36.000 Or is there something that speaks to the soul, the spirit, and the objective truth that there's something special there?
00:16:42.000 The same could be said for the Grand Canyon or a sunset on Santa Monica Pier.
00:16:46.000 Or the same could be said for a child or a puppy.
00:16:49.000 Why do people love puppies and babies?
00:16:52.000 They can't quite explain it.
00:16:53.000 They can't put into words.
00:16:54.000 What I'm getting at here is that at the very fundamental point, everyone can agree on certain truths. 0.50
00:17:00.000 They can agree unless they are completely demented, of which there are plenty of people that are demented running our country.
00:17:06.000 But a general, normal person can agree in certain truths.
00:17:10.000 That human life is worthy and necessary of protection.
00:17:13.000 That human beings should be given the capacity to flourish.
00:17:15.000 And then you should get down to the most basic and fundamental and elemental.
00:17:19.000 Where do you get that opinion from?
00:17:21.000 Where do you get that belief from?
00:17:23.000 And if you do not believe in God, right and wrong is merely an opinion.
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00:17:33.000 The sad thing is most of us have very little choice because ISPs operate like monopolies in the regions they serve.
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00:19:00.000 Okay, let's go right now to another question we have here.
00:19:06.000 Let's see here.
00:19:07.000 Don't have one. 0.98
00:19:08.000 Ah, from Lake Villa, Illinois.
00:19:08.000 Okay, here's one.
00:19:10.000 I love Lake Villa, Illinois.
00:19:11.000 Hey, Charlie, my name is Christian and I'm from Lake Villa, Illinois.
00:19:14.000 Love your show.
00:19:15.000 Not sure if you got into this question, but I want your thoughts on it.
00:19:17.000 What are your thoughts about the American Families Plan and who is it really helping?
00:19:22.000 Okay, so look, the stimulus program was one of the greatest schemes ever put on the American people.
00:19:27.000 Look, what's really happening here is a massive inflation scheme.
00:19:33.000 Inflation is here.
00:19:34.000 It's not a question of whether or not it's coming or not.
00:19:36.000 We already see it reflected in the price of lumber.
00:19:39.000 We see it reflected in the price of sapphires, which is, I know not something you guys might care about, but usually that's actually a really good indicator when precious metals go up.
00:19:47.000 Gold is up, silver is up, Bitcoin is created recently.
00:19:50.000 It's an indictment of the dollar.
00:19:52.000 And so this was a, it was a, what was it, about a $1.8 trillion stimulus plan?
00:19:58.000 That's about right.
00:20:00.000 So I'm against massive federal stimulus.
00:20:03.000 I am.
00:20:04.000 I think the best stimulus would have been reopening the American economy and allowing entrepreneurs to create.
00:20:10.000 Who did the stimulus actually benefit?
00:20:13.000 Did it benefit the small business owner?
00:20:15.000 It might have allowed them to survive, but who is thriving right now?
00:20:19.000 The stimulus was a massive income repatriation scheme of working class people to the wealthiest people in our country.
00:20:32.000 It was effectively a handout to Amazon, Walmart, and the biggest countries.
00:20:37.000 Where do you think people spent their stimulus checks?
00:20:39.000 With the biggest corporations.
00:20:41.000 Now, what they should have done if Congress actually cared about Main Street America, you know what they should have done?
00:20:47.000 They just said, here's your stimulus check that you can only use at a business that employs 200 employees or less.
00:20:54.000 Now that would have been a stimulus.
00:20:58.000 Saying that you can only use it for those that have 200 employees or less.
00:21:02.000 Instead, this was a massive handout to the people that quite honestly hate our country.
00:21:07.000 Whether it be Amazon, Google, and these massive corporations, Walmart included.
00:21:14.000 Go look at the price of beef right now.
00:21:16.000 Just go look at the cost of soybeans.
00:21:18.000 Go look at all the agricultural indexes.
00:21:21.000 They're all up.
00:21:22.000 Things you can touch are more expensive than ever.
00:21:25.000 And that's when you know inflation is coming.
00:21:27.000 Now, why would the Democrats force the hand of inflation?
00:21:31.000 Inflation is a tactic. 0.78
00:21:33.000 Inflation is a strategy.
00:21:35.000 You might say, well, what strategy for what?
00:21:38.000 Two things. 1.00
00:21:39.000 Inflation allows you to have an excuse to bring in more immigrants to America. 1.00
00:21:45.000 You see, when things start to cost a lot more and prices go up, you need some sort of remedy for that. 0.99
00:21:51.000 Of course, you forced the issue.
00:21:52.000 We have crisis manufacturers in our country.
00:21:55.000 And the remedy that they are going to propose is saying, you know what?
00:21:59.000 The solution is let's have more people trading dollar bills.
00:22:02.000 So we need to bring 5 million new people into our country. 1.00
00:22:04.000 Who cares if they don't speak our language, they don't share our culture.
00:22:08.000 We just need more people trading dollar bills, which will then diffuse the purchasing power of the entire economy. 0.54
00:22:15.000 And therefore, it'll be a hedge against inflation. 0.94
00:22:17.000 So they're trying to force the conditions to massively expand immigration.
00:22:21.000 Why?
00:22:22.000 Because of the political benefit for Democrats. 0.98
00:22:23.000 That's why.
00:22:25.000 Secondly, the stimulus package, and this might be the thing that's impacting more small businesses across the country and mid-level businesses, paid people not to work.
00:22:35.000 And this was a disaster.
00:22:36.000 This never should have happened.
00:22:38.000 This is why you're seeing help-wanted signs all across the country.
00:22:41.000 I was just recently in the Villages, Florida.
00:22:43.000 I went into McAllister's Deli, which some of you guys might be familiar with.
00:22:47.000 Actually, no, it might have been Two Days.
00:22:49.000 It was Two Days Deli.
00:22:50.000 And they had this big sign.
00:22:52.000 Many of our employees are not showing up for work.
00:22:55.000 They're being paid not to work.
00:22:56.000 Please be patient with those that did show up.
00:22:59.000 And the line was out the door.
00:23:01.000 And we were not willing to wait 45 minutes just to go get a salad and a sandwich.
00:23:06.000 And so when you incentivize inactivity, you're going to get more inactivity.
00:23:10.000 Well, here's a question.
00:23:12.000 Why would the leaders want inactivity?
00:23:15.000 Well, the answer is that when people are not in the workforce, they're not finding the fulfillment or the satisfaction of earning a wage.
00:23:23.000 They end up being largely unhappy and disconnected from the fruits of one's labor.
00:23:29.000 Makes them perfect Democrat voters.
00:23:31.000 But additionally, it also forces the hand of the technological lobby and the mechanization of our economy.
00:23:43.000 So, if all of a sudden you can't get workers to show up, well, then why don't you just have some form of a self-checkout line at a grocery store?
00:23:51.000 You don't need people working at McDonald's anymore. 0.92
00:23:53.000 You can just have one of those ridiculous palm pilots you can order from. 0.94
00:23:56.000 The Democrats are trying to force the hand that Silicon Valley has been trying to implement for quite some time to have a laborless workforce.
00:24:05.000 Now, there are some advantages to this, but the disadvantages, in my opinion, far outweigh the advantages.
00:24:11.000 If you're going to have that, let it happen somewhat naturally, but you cannot all of a sudden say we're going to displace 15 million workers from the workforce just for cheaper goods.
00:24:21.000 It's not good for the well-being of families, it's not good for the confidence of the muscular class in our country.
00:24:28.000 It quickly disrupts and breaks the back of the American economy.
00:24:32.000 And so, inflation is coming.
00:24:34.000 It's coming for a reason. 1.00
00:24:37.000 The reason is that they want more people into our country.
00:24:41.000 They want to pander to the technological lobby.
00:24:43.000 And also, finally, this: people say, Well, Charlie, how are we going to pay down the national debt?
00:24:48.000 We're not.
00:24:49.000 There's only a couple ways that you can handle a debt or a deficit that we have, which is $33 trillion.
00:24:55.000 You can raise taxes, they're going to do that a little bit, but not a lot.
00:24:58.000 You can raise interest rates, they have no interest in doing that, or you can inflate your way out of debt.
00:25:04.000 $33 trillion is not that much money if you add another $100 trillion to the money supply.
00:25:09.000 You see this reflected in real estate values, in beef prices, in gold and silver.
00:25:13.000 And we were warning very early on this program and on this podcast that inflation was coming.
00:25:18.000 The laws of economics do not disappear just because you have a bunch of people running your country that think we're in the postmodern era.
00:25:26.000 I am a critic of modern monetary theory.
00:25:28.000 If you know what that is, we'll do a podcast on that sometime soon.
00:25:31.000 Let's do this one right here.
00:25:31.000 It's actually a really good question.
00:25:32.000 Love your show, Charlie, from Coral Springs, Florida.
00:25:35.000 I love that.
00:25:36.000 Do you think masks were used to assist Antifa and BLM to riot without impunity?
00:25:42.000 No face, no face, no arrest.
00:25:44.000 And if everyone is wearing a mask, just saying.
00:25:47.000 Well, I don't know about that in particular, but I think you bring up a deeper point that there was an agenda behind the mask masking of our country.
00:25:57.000 They wanted to dehumanize interpersonal relationships.
00:26:00.000 You see, when you are not able to communicate with your fellow neighbor or your fellow citizen, you're much more likely to then submit to the Leviathan, an autocrat, or the state.
00:26:12.000 You see, Aristotle wrote about this at length.
00:26:14.000 We have that quote somewhere, Connor, and we keep pulling it up.
00:26:16.000 It's one of the greatest quotes. 0.95
00:26:18.000 And he said that tyrants have a pattern of valuing the foreigner over the citizen. 0.99
00:26:22.000 Sound familiar.
00:26:24.000 And wanting people to be unfamiliar with one another because it is through the face that we are able to communicate.
00:26:31.000 Now, I think we all agree that Americans in this last year of this lockdown, we've gotten a little nastier to each other, got a little harsher.
00:26:40.000 Well, maybe that's because we can't see people.
00:26:42.000 When you just see the eyes, it's no different than being in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 0.99
00:26:47.000 You know, I've been a big critic against the hijab and the forced wearing of that for women in the Middle East. 0.98
00:26:53.000 And yet we turn around and then we force mask our children when they are not at any sort of significant risk of getting or dying from the Chinese coronavirus. 0.66
00:27:02.000 Aristotle said, quote, it is also the habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at the table.
00:27:09.000 Citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.
00:27:13.000 Also, send the one of the masks and school closures.
00:27:16.000 So, but the masks in particular, we know they had no epidemiological utility, according to Dr. Fauci, is that it is the pattern of the tyrant to want you not to recognize your neighbor.
00:27:30.000 Think about it: when you don't trust the person next to you, when you don't trust your neighbor, when you don't trust your mayor, when you don't trust the person on TV, then you are much more likely to submit and easier to be controlled.
00:27:43.000 Great question from Rumble.
00:27:44.000 Thank you guys so much.
00:27:45.000 It's Politics, Book 5, Chapter 11, Aristotle's Politics.
00:27:48.000 They preserve themselves, tyrants do, by not letting there be any schools or other collegial gatherings for leisured pursuits.
00:27:56.000 Tyrants do everything possible that will keep all people as unknown to one another as possible, since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:28:05.000 That was written 3,000 years ago.
00:28:09.000 That's about 2,500 years ago, actually.
00:28:11.000 It's like 300 BC.
00:28:12.000 So let's just say 2,300 years ago. 0.99
00:28:14.000 And it's just as true now as it was then.
00:28:16.000 Why?
00:28:17.000 Because it takes wisdom, which is the knowledge of things that never change.
00:28:21.000 Hello, Charlie.
00:28:22.000 We live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
00:28:23.000 My daughter attends Calvin University and G.R. Baptist.
00:28:27.000 The same daughter is from the Hubei province in China.
00:28:29.000 We traveled there in 2004 to adopt her from Wuhan.
00:28:33.000 Yes, it is right, not Wuhan.
00:28:36.000 And we will listen to you, especially since the loss of Rush Limbaugh.
00:28:40.000 Keep going.
00:28:41.000 The country needs you.
00:28:41.000 Thank you.
00:28:42.000 It's not really a question, but God bless you.
00:28:44.000 I'll send you a book.
00:28:45.000 And thank you for that.
00:28:46.000 In closing, everybody, we need to fight back.
00:28:49.000 And we need to be optimistic and know that we can win.
00:28:53.000 From the cultural blitzkrieg that we have been experiencing, we are now starting to see you start to make movements and act in a way that is decisive, that is public, and that is, quite honestly, giving hope to a lot of different people.
00:29:06.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:29:13.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:29:15.000 God bless.