Join us as we discuss the idea of a Charlie Kirk-hosted Super Bowl halftime show featuring current NFL players, former NFL players and former NFL coaches. We also hear from some of the fans who want to see Jason Whitlock as the Super Bowl's halftime show host.
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00:01:09.000All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:01:16.000You can participate in this hour and ask us questions live on this show.
00:01:21.000And we've also got tons of emails, a ton of emails about halftime.
00:01:25.000Like, this is like the number one email topic that we get.
00:01:50.000With the turning point team and Jason Whitlock, you guys could do your own full game coverage and halftime show without ever breaking to the national networks.
00:02:05.000They just call it Charlie's halftime show.
00:02:07.000In fact, I don't even want to watch the Super Bowl, which I've always enjoyed watching until the past few years when they made it political.
00:02:14.000Maybe you can do something before and after the halftime show as well, just brainstorming, but I would rather watch a dog competition or maybe get together some of the top high school football players and they play a game.
00:03:36.000NFL players, maybe baseball, basketball, an all-sports event on the true good and strong and what real patriotism and masculinity looks like.
00:03:46.000Steve says everyone will be united in changing the flicking channel on Butt Bunny Saturday.
00:07:02.000And so, but there is a thing of certain older generations where they feel sort of like I'm not being respectful to my elders or that Charlie wasn't being respectful to the other to his elders.
00:07:14.000I don't know what it is because, you know, I'm a millennial.
00:08:47.000Yeah, you get and you get this even on the GOP where you're asking for volunteers.
00:08:50.000This is what makes turning point turning point action so exceptional is because we'll do these volunteer drives for valid chasing and things like that and we'll get a lot of young people.
00:08:58.000So it's visually just a lot of the reporters like, wow, this is a bunch of young people.
00:09:01.000But traditionally, you get a lot of older people because they're retired.
00:09:06.000They understand life in a bigger way and they understand the stakes that are at play.
00:09:11.000But also, you know, I think there is a thing, and you mentioned they've got the cost of living, the stock adjustment on their social security.
00:09:32.000I think that boomers, left-wing hippie boomers, not the ones in this audience, we love you guys, but the hippie boomers, they want to relive the glory days of the 1960s and the civil rights era and the protesting, the marching in the streets, and the burning the bras and the, you know, all the things.
00:09:47.000And they believe that the younger generation has lacked that sort of gumption, that inspiration, and they're just excited to get back out there and march against somebody they've been told is evil.
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00:12:04.000It's just really disappointing for how much they've been blessed all their lives.
00:12:08.000And instead of trying to give back and volunteer, which you talked about, and they do, but to be protesting and calling at the No Kings rally was just really disappointing.
00:13:27.000And I will give you 10x the examples back in your face.
00:13:32.000I'll explain why you're wrong, first of all, and I'll give you 10x examples back at you of how Joe Biden and the Democrats literally became an authoritarian fascist regime against conservatives.
00:13:42.000And it kind of goes back to this example that we have with Letitia James, where she is claiming victim status because she's being prosecuted for mortgage fraud and bank fraud.
00:13:53.000And she is the poster child of weaponizing the justice system against her political rivals, namely President Trump.
00:14:01.000She is the exact wrong person to be giving this message.
00:14:04.000And yet, we saw in those clips, she's got people out in the streets cheering her on, saying, you go, girl, go, Letitia.
00:14:11.000And so it's a bit of cognitive dissonance, and it's a bit of reliving the glory days.
00:14:14.000They are stuck in a Facebook algorithm where all their buddies are just feeding them slop and AI slop.
00:14:21.000And they just want to go back to the bra-burning days when they were the righteous youth and they can still feel it and gives them something to live for.
00:14:28.000And that'll be the last point I make: is that they are not probably going to church.
00:14:52.000I think you hit it right, which is just like we've seen this, you know, this revival of 60s-style baby boomers who are now bored and agitated, the left-wing and the right-wing baby boomers.
00:15:10.000Now, this is their chance to step up and counter that.
00:15:56.000They never were actively politically and active politically.
00:16:00.000And now they're learning that for the first time.
00:16:02.000And so this is the opportunity for those Gen Xers to combat and learn.
00:16:08.000And in addition to the baby boomers who are now retired, if you've never done any political activism, you can learn that here with us at Turning Point Action at Turning Point.
00:16:28.000And we get a lot of these emails, like, especially in the wake of Charlie's assassination, like we want to start chapters of Turning Point, but we're not students.
00:17:47.000So this is what happens when tyrannical governments get their way and they say, you're not allowed to meet anymore because we have a pandemic and you're going to spread the pandemic in your church gatherings.
00:17:58.000If you do not become political in your theology, politics will become theological.
00:18:18.000Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.
00:18:21.000So Barry Goldwater was famous for saying this.
00:18:24.000And what the background meaning of this, and I'll change in defense of liberty, but let's change it to in the defense of moral liberty and in defense of God and righteousness.
00:18:39.000Extremism is the villainization of the defense of all that is good by the left.
00:18:47.000So this happens quite frequently in society where they will actually villainize all Christians, right?
00:18:54.000We hear this term Christian nationalism now.
00:18:57.000They will almost always call you an extremist anytime that you stand up for God, anytime that you stand up for Jesus, anytime that you vocalize your religious beliefs.
00:19:09.000That's why we always talk about politics being downstream from culture and your culture is your religious beliefs.
00:19:17.000You cannot live in a society where you say, I'm not going to be left or right.
00:19:24.000I'm going to just be focused on my faith because, again, your politics come from whatever your faith is.
00:19:33.000And your defense of those beliefs is going to always be called extremism.
00:19:39.000That's why the embracing, again, this Barry will go water quote: extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, is that we have to stand for what's right, no matter what.
00:19:49.000There is no fit setting, and you're always going to be called, you're always going to be called left or right by the opposition, depending upon where you're.
00:19:59.000And for us, we're always going to be called super right-wing, super extremist for holding those biblicals.
00:20:35.000And then all of a sudden, the Academy comes in and says, Well, no, we've defined a few other categories of people.
00:20:41.000And by the way, you don't get to choose anymore.
00:20:44.000We're going to force this and coerce this upon you and your kids.
00:20:48.000And you don't even just have to accept it as a subcategory.
00:20:51.000We're going to force your participation in it because we're going to send boys into the girls' locker room and we're going to send boys onto the sports field.
00:20:58.000That is a theological argument they are making from a secular position that is invading a moral position and it's invading our politics.
00:21:46.000It's justifying all kinds of societal ills that ultimately peel apart the foundations of our culture and the goodness and the truth and the beauty of our culture one by one by one.
00:21:57.000And so if you're not going to pick a side on that, I would just challenge you and say, look at the life that Charlie Kirk lived.
00:22:03.000He lived boldly, he confronted evil and he proclaimed the truth and he was killed for it.
00:22:07.000And he sparked a revival because he lived fearlessly and boldly.
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00:25:08.000And I think the first time I met Charlie was when he traveled through Los Angeles because I was actually working in LA at the time.
00:25:14.000And I think we met at this hotel, like at a restaurant, I think.
00:25:19.000But anyways, one of the guys I was working with met him at an event in Florida.
00:25:24.000And I was working at an agency, a communication shop.
00:25:29.000And I ended up, I don't know what it was, actually.
00:25:33.000It does stand out for this reason because the guy I was working with said, hey, you should pursue him to become, you know, to make Turning Point a client because I was part of an agency at the time.
00:25:42.000And I just kind of doggedly kept emailing him being like, hey, hey.
00:25:48.000And then eventually he's like, hey, I'm going to be in LA, I think is what I thought about this because Tyler and I actually talked about this last night.
00:29:10.000And people are just trying to figure out how are you going to keep this communist from becoming the mayor of one of the most important cities in the world in the financial capital of the West, really, along with London.
00:29:22.000And so I get why people are confused on this because they look at Sliwa.
00:31:19.000If we somehow manage to pull a city rally win in New Jersey, hopefully that momentum can go into next year and we can get a Republican governor.
00:31:27.000A Republican governor can remove the New York City mayor.
00:31:30.000It takes some wiggle-waggling and some legal, but it can be done.
00:31:34.000I mean, good luck in a state that's controlled.
00:31:37.000I mean, yeah, you might have the governor's mansion, but you're not necessarily going to have anything else besides that.
00:31:42.000And so it's always going to be tricky.
00:31:44.000I mean, if you don't have the legislature and you don't have the judges, and I mean, you don't have the city council.
00:32:13.000They did the same exact thing in Pennsylvania.
00:32:15.000Remember that Rachel Levine, Admiral Health official in the federal city.
00:32:22.000You know, they did the same thing in Pennsylvania.
00:32:24.000Yeah, Dick Levine took his mother out of the nursing home and put her in a hotel the day before they put positive, COVID-positive patients in nursing homes there.
00:32:33.000And their death toll was something like 9,000.
00:32:35.000This went across four states of mass murder.
00:32:37.000The DOJ really need to do something about this.
00:32:41.000I love that you're getting into this and you're reminding us of it, Elizabeth, because there are so many things that happened during COVID that are wrong morally on so many levels, and they probably are wrong legally.
00:32:54.000And so listen, I would love for Sleewa to win.
00:32:56.000I don't think he's necessarily a very compelling candidate when it comes to speaking and just galvanizing people.
00:34:16.000But yeah, that's their justification that they're doing it because we're tyrants and we're trying to redistrict midstream in between census.
00:34:40.000I want to make this super, super clear for everyone.
00:34:42.000I was just reviewing the numbers this morning.
00:34:44.000The latest projections are that the Democrats are going to probably lose upwards of 15, 16 seats in Congress if they redid the census in the next census.
00:34:57.000So redoing the census earlier means that they're going to lose at least almost a majority of those.
00:35:03.000So, because what Andrew just said is exactly right.
00:35:07.000The census in 2020 was so manipulated, so botched, so intentionally drug.
00:36:43.000But by the way, when you're talking about just authorship of bills, they do have to include an author on the bill still, even at the state level.
00:36:49.000So I know that because we were tracking down some of that with the recent bill that was making its way through the California Assembly, and that was the bill where they basically you could assign somebody to come pick up your kid if your parents got detained by ICE.
00:37:05.000But it essentially left the door open for people to get there, have their kids kidnapped.
00:37:09.000I mean, it was basically unenforceable the way it was.
00:37:21.000But just in terms of responsiveness, I mean, it is a tough road of hope for you guys in California because you are, this is just, it's a self-selecting process in a lot of ways.
00:37:31.000So, you know, what happens is, and you see this in different professions like teaching, you see it in journalism, you see it in politics, especially left-wing, far-left radical politics, where they self-select themselves into these activist professions.
00:37:47.000Whereas conservatives tend to build their business, build their family, build their church, build their community.
00:37:52.000Radical leftists like to get into the teaching profession.
00:37:56.000They like to get into the journalist profession.
00:38:00.000They like to get into the political profession because that is their God.
00:38:08.000And so you have, especially in places like the Bay Area, these are radical, radical activists that get into politics by getting in at the lowest levels.
00:38:16.000They rise through the ranks, and the most radical ones win.
00:38:19.000And then they put a sheen of legitimacy on them and moderation before they announce.
00:38:24.000They scrub their socials and then they come out and you're like, oh, well, this person is really buttoned up and it's good.
00:38:30.000They do not care what a conservative in Southern California thinks about them if they are a radical leftist from the Bay Area.
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00:40:04.000The U.S. naturalization oath, which prospective citizens are legally required to swear by, also requires an applicant, among other points, to agree.
00:40:14.000I hereby declare on oath that I absolutely entirely renounce all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, all of which have heretofore been subject to.
00:40:38.000And the follow-up, does this renunciation of fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty apply to Catholic allegiance to the Pope or the Catholic Church?
00:40:48.000No, I would say, let me answer your second one first.
00:41:03.000So we have earthly powers that are set up that God has established the rulers of this world.
00:41:10.000And so there is not a moral issue or a conflict with honoring your national sovereign as well as your heavenly sovereign, which is Jesus and God the Father.
00:41:24.000That being said, we have examples in the New Testament, especially the book of Acts, where the apostles are asked to do things that are contrary to their faith, and those can cause conflicts.
00:41:33.000That's why it's important for Christians to be involved in the public spaces and in your government, your local school boards, all those things, because if good, godly men and women are leading your culture and your society and your government, then you are going to avoid those conflicts.
00:41:49.000You're going to avoid issues like religious freedom conflicts that come up and that end up getting litigated in the courts when bad decisions are made by bad leaders.
00:41:58.000And so, no, if Christians, we should flood the public square.
00:42:02.000We should get in positions of power and influence so that those conflicts do not arise.
00:42:08.000And there are instances in the New Testament, like I said in the book of Acts, that mean we have to then defy the authorities.
00:42:17.000And sometimes you will be thrown in prison.
00:42:18.000This is why the scripture said, visit your brothers who are in prison, right?
00:42:22.000So, yeah, there is no issue on number two.
00:42:24.000Now, if you're asking about an honest Muslim, I would say, yeah, guess what?
00:42:28.000You know what's an interesting thing is the Muslims have to pray five times a day to the east, to Mecca.
00:42:34.000And they are basically saying that their allegiance is to Mecca, and they are a conquering force.
00:42:45.000And so I would say an honest Muslim is going to have a very difficult time claiming allegiance to a country that is not predominantly Muslim, which is why I always say there are 50 Muslim majority plus, there's more than 50, Muslim-majority countries in the world.
00:42:59.000If you want to move and you're a Muslim, you want to immigrate somewhere, don't do it to the West because you are basically picking a fight with the West every time you do that.
00:43:08.000Now, I can understand if there's a small minority that are doing it for some sort of job or whatever.
00:43:14.000But this mass invasion into the West, you get this Dearborns, these epic cities, you get to see London.
00:44:51.000Natalie, I mean, it's a great question.
00:44:52.000There's a couple of things that you can do right away.
00:44:54.000Number one is have an eye focused on how you want to contribute yourself personally to civic engagement.
00:45:03.000Meaning, are you willing to run for office?
00:45:06.000Are you willing to get involved with the local party?
00:45:09.000The Republican Party in most places is in desperate need of normal, sane people who work really hard and care about their kids.
00:45:18.000And so, getting involved there, becoming a precinct leader, a precinct captain, if you're not already, we always encourage that.
00:45:25.000It's a little bit of a catch-22 situation because we want people to get involved, but we also don't want people to get overly absorbed and kind of upset because the party can sometimes be a disaster where you're at.
00:45:43.000That's why I say run for potentially run for office.
00:45:45.000But at turning point action, we will get you involved with our coalitions.
00:45:55.000Here in Arizona at coalitions.com, if you sign up, you can be part of our mom's coalition and help organize.
00:46:03.000And that's a really nice thing because it's flexibility.
00:46:05.000You don't have to dedicate dozens of hours every month to be part of that.
00:46:11.000You can dedicate a few hours here and there to be involved locally.
00:46:16.000But that across the state will help kind of develop that network that helps you organize ahead of the next election.
00:46:23.000Yeah, you know, what's crazy too is, Natalie, that when I have done like local GOP stuff, you will be shocked at just how dysfunctional a lot of it is.
00:46:33.000And I remember calling Tyler after a certain meeting, I was like, Whoa, this happened, this happened, they were all fighting.
00:46:38.000And he was like, Oh, yeah, that's every single one.
00:46:41.000So, normal, sane people, if you're going to step in on a local GOP level, it's so important.
00:46:47.000What I just said is not an excuse not to do it.
00:46:56.000And especially if you're listening to shows like this and you're listening to guys like Tyler about turning point action, how to connect those local GOP levels to a larger network to get people all swimming in the same direction.
00:47:21.000Your kids will look at you as the example and they will see the life that you're living and the example you're leading and showing them, and they will follow.
00:47:30.000Faith and political activism is caught, not taught.
00:47:34.000So, let me say that again: faith in Jesus, faith in your God, the way you love your husband, whatever it is, or your political activism is caught, not taught.
00:47:44.000So, you could tell them to do all the right things, and they'll just, it'll go in one ear and out the other.
00:47:48.000But if you show them and you model that for them, then your sons will emulate your behavior.
00:47:54.000They will emulate the model that you present for them.
00:47:57.000So, I would just encourage you to just do it.
00:47:59.000Don't let perfect be the reason you don't start with the good, right?
00:48:04.000Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
00:48:06.000So, so just start, start somewhere, just get going now.
00:48:09.000Well, and I have a question for you, Natalie.
00:48:11.000What interests you the most in politics?
00:48:15.000I'm probably one of the least political people you'll meet.
00:48:20.000So, I am like a baby when it comes to politics, which I think is kind of like on the flip side, a beautiful thing, right?
00:48:27.000Because I don't know the ins and outs, and I just am a good human, a Christian woman.
00:48:33.000So, yeah, I don't know how really to answer that question.
00:48:36.000Yeah, I mean, a lot of people feel that way, right?
00:48:38.000And that's actually most of the people that we engage are people who don't feel like they're overly political, but listen and they follow and they love and care about their kids, and they love and care about their community and seeing the things that happen around them, particularly at school and in schools.
00:48:55.000Because, again, I don't know where you're, if you mentioned this, where your kids are in school right now.
00:49:03.000Yeah, they're public, which we actually love because we, you know, there's arguments to all of it, but we feel that we have such a strong home that we can take that out into the public schools and be good examples.
00:49:14.000Well, if God's calling you that, God bless you.
00:49:16.000Well, and again, it's different for everybody.
00:49:18.000So there's sometimes there's not options, and sometimes there's you're going to have a great public school experience because the community, and this goes back to what you were saying, which is that the party, your community is whoever shows up.
00:49:35.000Sometimes you can have a weird, funky party with bad music and bad food because good people show up with great music and great food.
00:49:44.000And so, you know, that's the same with your community aspects.
00:49:48.000So, whether it's public school or charter schools, because they're, you know, pseudo-public in Arizona, and then with the actual party, so the Republican Party, being involved and showing up is so important.
00:49:59.000So, I really, I'm my oldest in public school.
00:50:03.000And, you know, we've been horrified, even at a fairly conservative public school, some of the things that have happened at that public school, including hanging pride flags in classrooms and, you know, some of the things that teachers have said or telling kids to flip their freedom shirts inside out or whatever it might be.
00:50:22.000So, being involved at that level is really a way to start being really super political.
00:50:28.000I can tell you this: we need better school board members at every public school board.
00:50:33.000And so, getting involved and spending just a few hours every month attending their meetings and giving some support to the conservative members on that school board and then considering running at some point may be a calling for you.
00:50:48.000And that's for everyone across the country: is that we need better parents stepping up to run for school board.
00:50:54.000Well, and by the way, you have a 13-year-old, so we're not in middle schools yet, but your 13-year-old is probably going to be in high school next year.