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00:01:10.000Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:11.000Let me take your questions on an Ask Us Anything, otherwise known as an AMA, but now it's us.
00:01:18.000And we do that in Charlie's honor because that's what he did.
00:01:21.000So first up, we have, and by the way, if you want to become a part of this, you'll see that URL under there, members.charliekirk.com, become a member.
00:01:29.000You get to take part in our AMAs and get to be part of the live show and the podcast.
00:01:34.000And you also get a lot of other benefits.
00:01:36.000And we have Amfest coming up and we're going to be doing members' lounges where you get to, if you're coming to Amfest, where you get to see private interviews with, you know, just the people in that room before they go live with some of the biggest names and influencers and history makers, newsmakers in the country.
00:02:21.000So my question is about the AMAs actually.
00:02:25.000So I was just wondering like the history of them, you know, when, why, how did they start?
00:02:30.000Because to my knowledge, like you guys are the only show that does it and definitely the only show that does it this way live.
00:02:38.000Yeah, I could give a little brief history lesson on that.
00:02:42.000So it goes back to when we started on radio, national radio show.
00:02:48.000There was basically, you know, I think a pressure or push the way that they used to do radio.
00:02:53.000I think some people still do, where they would roll collars.
00:02:56.000And Charlie just had so much to say all the time that he wanted to do a show.
00:03:01.000He wanted to actually, he had things he wanted to say and get accomplished.
00:03:05.000And so he just, he, but he realized, he's like, you know what I'm going to do?
00:03:08.000I'm going to put it into one hour where, and it's, we'll just make it a standing invitation where we're going to have people send us their questions.
00:03:19.000And so we, that's kind of how it happened.
00:03:22.000It was, it was an impulse that Charlie had to do it because instead of doing callers intermittently throughout the week or whatever, he wanted to just condense it and to put it in one section so that he could focus more closely on it.
00:03:34.000And then he could use the rest of the show to kind of get accomplished everything else that he wanted to get accomplished.
00:03:39.000So, but the other thing I would say to this is Charlie loved doing AMAs because of the feedback loop with the audience.
00:03:46.000So it gave him an opportunity to hear directly from you guys.
00:03:52.000So freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:03:55.000To keep pumping that forever because it is the firewall to truth and freedom.
00:04:01.000And I said this at the memorial, actually.
00:04:03.000I don't know if Blake remembers this, but it was kind of this idea that he would go meet with all these fancy people and the elites, if you will, and the donor class, because that's part of the job running a big C3 and a big C4.
00:04:17.000And they would tell him, oh, this, that, and the other.
00:06:27.000And then over time, we kind of threw in new twists and we brought in the members, dot charliekirk.com for people to join the members portal as well.
00:08:26.000Candidly, the event would probably be twice as big if we didn't turn ticketing off.
00:08:30.000But what also happened was a lot of speakers, a lot of big name, you know, movement leaders and politicians reached out and wanted to be a part of the event.
00:08:44.000We already had some booked before September 10th.
00:08:47.000But then after what happened, it just took on a life of its own.
00:08:53.000And so this is sure to be the largest and most crowded speaker list that we have ever had at Amfest or probably any other event.
00:09:04.000Since he asked about Dennis, I just want to flag, because I think it's a very moving tribute that this book, Stop in the Name of God, all about the Sabbath, the dedication.
00:09:14.000This book is dedicated to Dennis Prager.
00:09:18.000Your life's work brought me to honoring the Sabbath.
00:10:02.000The depth of wisdom in that book is truly, I think, Charlie's best in many ways.
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00:11:34.000Blake, we just talked about Amfest, and unfortunately, this year is sold out, but you can already pre-buy tickets for next year, which is a huge thing.
00:11:42.000And you get a discounted price if you do that now.
00:11:46.000But I don't think we've made enough of this on this show.
00:11:49.000And we had a big speaker announcement this week, and that is JD Vance will be joining us at Amfest.
00:11:56.000If you want to throw up image eight, JD Vance is a confirmed speaker, featured speaker at Amfest 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona, December 18th through the 21st.
00:12:08.000But if you are not able to join, say you waited, you didn't get your tickets, the whole thing will be streaming live on rumble.com, rumble.com.
00:12:50.000Under the Biden administration, the average American family lost over $3,000 of household income.
00:12:56.000And under the first 10 months of this Trump administration, they have gained over $1,000 of household income.
00:13:02.000What that says very clearly is that we are fixing the problem that Joe Biden and the Democrats created in the last administration.
00:13:12.000And I think JD really in, I would just say, JD over the past year, especially, he has really grown into this role that Charlie envisioned for him.
00:13:20.000This is why Charlie was such a JD fan.
00:13:24.000We've told the very funny story of how we endorsed him for Senate immediately.
00:13:28.000And it was actually, we jumped the gun a bit and before Charlie could contact donors and explain why we were doing this.
00:13:35.000And it's a very funny story, but he always was a big believer in JD from basically the moment he entered politics.
00:13:43.000He always thought he had a huge amount of potential.
00:13:46.000People would say, Charlie, do you plan to enter politics?
00:13:48.000And one of the things, one of the answers he would say was always, I don't need to because I know the things I care about are squared away with JD as such a rising star.
00:13:57.000And he was so happy with how he's performed as vice president, becoming this spokesperson for the administration for its vision, this person who can perpetuate what makes MAGA MAGA for years on end.
00:14:11.000And so we're super excited to have him at America Fest.
00:14:14.000We've seen over and over how much how much JD loved Charlie, how he was a friend to Charlie.
00:14:20.000And we want to maintain that friendship as much as possible going forward.
00:14:26.000And we encourage everyone, if you're not able to attend AmFest, you can watch all the speeches online and get yourself fired up and come next year, especially if you are on the waiting list this time.
00:15:19.000I know that you guys, of course, were dear friends with him and colleagues, but I will say that I miss him every day.
00:15:27.000I can't tell you what a bright light this young man was and at what a young age he was able to accomplish what he did.
00:15:36.000And I really believe that that was because that was a God-given thing that he was put here at this time to make these kinds of changes and to bring this visibility out.
00:15:50.000And the other thing is, is that I founded five companies.
00:15:53.000I took a couple public, made a lot of money.
00:17:05.000I think my suspicion is it's probably very likely we'll get one eventually because Charlie is just such an icon to so many people.
00:17:14.000And his life, it truly has a cinematic quality to it.
00:17:19.000He built something so immense and so successful from such a young age, from nothing, really came from no strong political background, no establishment background.
00:17:32.000It was just his pure energy, his force of will.
00:18:32.000I think Daily Caller just released one that they did.
00:18:37.000The folks behind the Art of the Surge are doing one because they traveled with Charlie to Greenland and they had a bunch of footage from behind the scenes.
00:18:43.000So on the doc side, we're going to have that.
00:18:46.000And then, of course, turning point, USA, the team has more footage than anybody.
00:18:50.000I mean, the team followed Charlie around for years.
00:18:56.000And, you know, I was always sort of wondering, why is this camera going when I never see this footage?
00:19:01.000Well, now we have this amazing, amazing storehouse of just never before seen footage of Charlie.
00:19:07.000So that is something the team is working on as well on the turning point side.
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00:20:35.000So the second half of Robert's question, because we also want to hit that, is he asked about H-1Bs.
00:20:39.000He, I believe, I don't know if we still have them, but I think he said it took him five years to get a job in a tech-related field.
00:20:46.000And that's a field where we're told we have a huge talent shortage.
00:20:49.000And so that's why we need so many H-1Bs.
00:20:51.000Hundreds of thousands of people have come to America as H-1Bs.
00:20:55.000For those who have forgotten to remind you, the H-1B visa is a skilled worker visa.
00:21:01.000It is for companies that say they have a position that cannot be filled by an American worker, so they need to bring in someone from abroad.
00:21:10.000It's become extremely popular in Silicon Valley, and it's certainly become very controversial.
00:21:16.000A lot of people have called for ending it outright or radically curtailing it.
00:21:21.000President Trump himself has defended it.
00:21:23.000He defended it in the case of, for example, we've been building these chip plants in the United States.
00:21:28.000And he said, well, you're going to need these foreign chip experts to get these plants up and running.
00:21:34.000Otherwise, it's just not going to happen.
00:21:36.000And there's something to be said for that.
00:21:42.000And that addiction, like any other addiction in your own personal life, it makes us weaker over time and it makes it hard to break.
00:21:50.000We have damaged America's ability to be skilled in highly technical fields because of H-1Bs.
00:21:56.000It's lowered the amount of, it's lowered the salaries in a lot of those fields, so they're less appealing than going into something like law or medicine where there's more of a barrier to foreign competition.
00:22:08.000And it's made it so there's companies that have just gotten used to, oh, rather than having to train up American workers who are fresh out of college, we can take these people who have three years of experience from abroad and we don't have to do any training, saves us money and makes it all easier for us.
00:22:25.000And it's a complicated thing that we're going to need.
00:22:32.000I definitely think we should dial back H-1Bs, maybe even have the goal of ending it entirely.
00:22:36.000But we do need to have a plan for how we're going to, for example, incentivize companies and say, we will encourage you to train employees fresh out of college or even fresh out of high school so that you have an incentive to teach Americans to do this job rather than just rely on foreigners to do it.
00:22:54.000Another thing I'd point out is it's not just H-1Bs.
00:22:57.000It's become the symbol of this problem, but there's a lot of other visas out there.
00:23:06.000It's called Optional Practical Training.
00:23:08.000And it's a program that's available for foreign students where they can stay in America longer working in a job related to their field of study.
00:23:17.000And there's been whole cases where companies like Microsoft have used this as a shadow H-1B program to get more foreign workers without getting H-1Bs.
00:23:25.000So it's definitely a massive issue for America.
00:23:32.000I was saying, this is bubbling up badly.
00:23:35.000People have become really aware that their job opportunities are getting hobbled because we continue to bring in a lot of foreign workers.
00:23:42.000And especially now that the border has been secured, people are looking at the other sources of immigration-related problems in American life.
00:24:02.000One, that, you know, Robert was having trouble getting interviews, even, but it took him years to get hired.
00:24:07.000And one thing I would just say is a problem that has been reported widely when it comes to H-1Bs is that you have once you some of these cultures that you bring in, now remember, I'll just stating the facts: 70% of H-1Bs go to Indians, another 10% to 15% go to the Chinese, and 80% of H-1B visas go to for entry-level jobs.
00:24:29.000So these are, this is a direct problem assault on the youngest Americans that are getting it, just getting into the workforce.
00:25:28.000My heart's broken with the things that are going on with Candace.
00:25:32.000And I'm trying to make it all come together.
00:25:37.000I'm sure I'm not your only fan that is trying to do that because of the relationship that she had with Charlie.
00:25:45.000And one thing that I'm just trying to make come together in my head is why the invitation was extended to Candace, but not to Candace directly.
00:25:56.000Blake, I think you tweeted something out.
00:25:58.000And I don't know if, you know, I don't know what's truth and what's not, but I do know that she said she didn't even see the invitation.
00:26:07.000And it was issued, Blake, I think at 12 on a tweet that you had, but or at midnight, 12, not noon, midnight.
00:26:14.000And so it was like nine hours later before she even knew that you said anything about her attending the show.
00:26:20.000And then she's saying she can't attend in person.
00:26:22.000Can she attend on a live stream or, you know, and you guys do live streams all the time.
00:26:40.000All of this has been at the direction and approval of Erica because she heads this.
00:26:47.000And so what we were announcing there is we said she has said things that are not true.
00:26:54.000And we did not address them for a long time.
00:26:57.000We stated the reasons why that we thought a lot of them were just not.
00:27:04.000We initially just thought no one would believe a lot of what was being said.
00:27:07.000And we also just, we, we remembered the same friendship that Charlie had and we just hoped that this would go away without requiring any sort of direct statement or confrontation from us.
00:27:18.000So what was approved is we announced we are going to respond to this.
00:27:22.000And what I said was we are going to announce a date soon.
00:27:26.000We actually hadn't agreed on it at the time I read the statement.
00:27:28.000We're going to announce a date where we're going to respond to this.
00:27:32.000And once we announce it, Candace is free to attend in person.
00:27:48.000As for why it was put out at that time, I would just say I don't think she had any difficulty in finding out what our scheduled time was.
00:27:57.000It seems everyone found it out quite quickly.
00:28:00.000And lastly, on the point of why it's in person, I think it's pretty intuitive that given what is being said, what the way this has worked is that it's critical to be in person if you want to be authentic and to be detailed.
00:28:18.000And that is what we think is a fair request to make if she's going to participate.
00:28:23.000But regardless, it is going to go forward because we have agreed that some response needs to be made.
00:28:30.000And so that's going to happen when we announced it on December 15th.
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00:30:43.000You know, I really appreciate your heart genuinely.
00:30:46.000And I hear, you know, the sincere request for things that you think don't make sense.
00:30:51.000I will say a couple of things just before we have to go back to radio here.
00:30:55.000One is that that's why we're doing this stream on the 15th.
00:31:01.000We want to address any of this stuff and just let everybody know the truth because much of it is very simple, very simple to rebut and to explain.
00:31:10.000And I would also say that, you know, we want to be cognizant all the time and we're aware of this.
00:31:19.000We're in a different situation because there is an ongoing investigation.
00:32:10.000And we have a whole story on it, by the way, at TurningPointUSA, tposa.com.
00:32:15.000You could literally just, you know, look up Cal Lutheran, TPUSA, and the article will pop right back up.
00:32:22.000But yeah, it was a, you know, we had a chapter there, a pre-existing one, and it was disapproved in a 211-1 secret ballot by the school student senate.
00:32:32.000And that was according to the ECHO, which reported on the matter.
00:33:19.000They had their first chapter meeting yesterday and over 50 students showed up.
00:33:22.000So one of the things that we've noticed, especially when you have this pushback, is that there's just this huge demand, there's pent-up demand within the student body.
00:33:32.000And you get these huge turnouts, like 50-plus students at a first meeting.
00:33:36.000And it's a testament to Charlie and how he's still inspiring so many young people.
00:33:41.000But there are appeal processes in place for this type of thing.
00:33:45.000There's a way to, if you have to bring in legal, there's a way there because this is obviously if you're showing bias against conservative groups or if you're not pursuing freedom of speech the way you should.
00:33:57.000So I always say when it's a student senate issue that is responsible for voting, there are other avenues that you can pursue with the administration, with legal if you have to, and you can apply pressure in those ways.
00:34:10.000And we've had a really successful track record of that.
00:34:12.000Now, there is a troubling issue when it comes to, I would say, Christian schools, historically Christian schools that have probably lost their way.
00:34:22.000Charlie would rail against Christian schools.
00:34:25.000They tend to be the worst for some reason, the most cowardly, the most feckless, especially about living boldly in their faith and Christian and conservative.
00:34:31.000Megan Basham from the Daily Wire has covered this a lot, and she's a friend of the show.
00:34:37.000And so I know she's working on a whole piece on this.
00:34:43.000And it's just a reminder that these Christian institutions, formerly great Christian institutions, so many of them have lost their way and they need to find their backbone and their spine again.
00:34:53.000And the way they do that is get behind our conservative students.
00:35:01.000And we're working, just so you know, we have a field team and field staff all across the country that work directly with these student groups to help them overcome just these sorts of challenges.