The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Us Anything 246: The Origin of AMAs? A Charlie Biopic? The Limits of Speech?

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00:01:10.000 Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:01:11.000 Let me take your questions on an Ask Us Anything, otherwise known as an AMA, but now it's us.

00:01:18.000 And we do that in Charlie's honor because that's what he did.

00:01:21.000 So 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.

00:01:29.000 You get to take part in our AMAs and get to be part of the live show and the podcast.

00:01:34.000 And you also get a lot of other benefits.

00:01:36.000 And 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.

00:01:55.000 And yes, there it is.

00:01:56.000 America Fest, Amfest 2025 coming up in just a few weeks in Phoenix, Arizona at the convention center.

00:02:03.000 And this will be the biggest one ever.

00:02:06.000 All in Charlie's honor, all remembering Charlie and of course taking action, action, action, because that's what it's about.

00:02:12.000 First up for our AMA, Blake, we have Brandon.

00:02:16.000 Brandon, unmute yourself and welcome to the show.

00:02:18.000 Hey guys, can you hear me?

00:02:20.000 Yes, we can.

00:02:21.000 Yes.

00:02:21.000 So my question is about the AMAs actually.

00:02:25.000 So I was just wondering like the history of them, you know, when, why, how did they start?

00:02:30.000 Because to my knowledge, like you guys are the only show that does it and definitely the only show that does it this way live.

00:02:38.000 Yeah, I could give a little brief history lesson on that.

00:02:42.000 So it goes back to when we started on radio, national radio show.

00:02:48.000 There was basically, you know, I think a pressure or push the way that they used to do radio.

00:02:53.000 I think some people still do, where they would roll collars.

00:02:56.000 And Charlie just had so much to say all the time that he wanted to do a show.

00:03:01.000 He wanted to actually, he had things he wanted to say and get accomplished.

00:03:05.000 And so he just, he, but he realized, he's like, you know what I'm going to do?

00:03:08.000 I'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.

00:03:19.000 And so we, that's kind of how it happened.

00:03:22.000 It 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.

00:03:34.000 And then he could use the rest of the show to kind of get accomplished everything else that he wanted to get accomplished.

00:03:39.000 So, but the other thing I would say to this is Charlie loved doing AMAs because of the feedback loop with the audience.

00:03:46.000 So it gave him an opportunity to hear directly from you guys.

00:03:50.000 And he was a voracious email reader.

00:03:52.000 So freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:03:55.000 To keep pumping that forever because it is the firewall to truth and freedom.

00:04:01.000 And I said this at the memorial, actually.

00:04:03.000 I 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.

00:04:17.000 And they would tell him, oh, this, that, and the other.

00:04:20.000 The country needs this.

00:04:21.000 And, oh, the base doesn't know what they want.

00:04:23.000 And he would have a direct firewall to those types of conversations because he was so in touch with the audience.

00:04:29.000 He was so in touch with the people that listened to the show and the bass and the grassroots.

00:04:33.000 And so, you know, for all of those reasons and more, we will keep doing that in Charlie's honor.

00:04:40.000 I don't know, Blake, if you had anything you wanted to add to that or.

00:04:42.000 Only that when I got here, I think we were already on AMA, probably about 100.

00:04:47.000 So it must have been going about two years at that point.

00:04:50.000 So now we're at, I just checked, we're at, this is AMA number 246, though.

00:04:56.000 I'm in title, I'm in charge of titling a lot of these episodes, and I've probably double-counted a number somewhere in there.

00:05:02.000 Or we had a special one that didn't get a number.

00:05:05.000 Lots of that.

00:05:06.000 But yeah, we've had five years of these.

00:05:09.000 Charlie loved them.

00:05:11.000 And as you said, Andrew, he loved both just how varied it was.

00:05:15.000 He got to talk about scripture.

00:05:16.000 He got to talk about history.

00:05:18.000 He got to talk about politics.

00:05:19.000 He got to talk about stuff behind the scenes.

00:05:21.000 He got to talk about his family.

00:05:23.000 Talk about the Sabbath, like what his new upcoming book is.

00:05:28.000 He loved the variety.

00:05:29.000 He loved that human contact.

00:05:32.000 It was something that gave him a lot of joy.

00:05:34.000 And I love to quote from the poem If, if you can converse with kings nor lose the common touch.

00:05:41.000 And Charlie could take a phone call from the president one minute and then take a phone call from one of you the next minute.

00:05:48.000 And he would take both very seriously.

00:05:50.000 And it was one of his greatest assets, one of his greatest traits.

00:05:55.000 And we're honored to continue it.

00:05:57.000 Yeah, I want to read from Daisy because this is pretty funny.

00:05:59.000 This is actually probably how it actually went down.

00:06:02.000 From what I remember, Charlie said to me, I want live callers tomorrow.

00:06:05.000 And then he said, okay, do this every single week, LOL.

00:06:09.000 That's from Daisy.

00:06:10.000 And that is actually very emblematic of a lot of things at Turning Point and at the show where we would kind of just try something.

00:06:16.000 And if it worked, if he liked it, he would keep it.

00:06:19.000 And, you know, building the plane as it's taking off, if you will.

00:06:23.000 So there was a pretty like organic piece of that.

00:06:25.000 And that does feel right to me.

00:06:27.000 And 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.

00:06:35.000 So it just kind of kept evolving.

00:06:37.000 I remember the AMA, it used to be mostly emails, correct?

00:06:42.000 And then we made it the, did we make it the member call because we were launching members?

00:06:47.000 Yeah.

00:06:47.000 And we were always trying, he always wanted to have callers.

00:06:49.000 I think a lot of it, yeah, because he loved Rush and Rush took callers.

00:06:52.000 He loved continuing that legacy.

00:06:55.000 And I remember we kept trying to just take callers in the middle of normal segments.

00:07:00.000 That was going on a lot when I first started.

00:07:03.000 And people might remember, a little awkward.

00:07:05.000 We'd try it.

00:07:06.000 And there were always technical issues.

00:07:07.000 It was so funny.

00:07:08.000 So I'm very glad we got it nailed down with these AMAs because we've had a lot of very memorable calls the past two years.

00:07:14.000 We've been doing it this way.

00:07:15.000 Yeah.

00:07:16.000 Next up, Jonathan.

00:07:17.000 Welcome to the show, Jonathan.

00:07:19.000 Good to be here.

00:07:21.000 So have you guys invited Dennis Prager and Larry Elder?

00:07:25.000 So in years past, we have had both of those gentlemen.

00:07:28.000 Obviously, Larry or Dennis Prager is still recovering from his injuries.

00:07:34.000 And I don't know.

00:07:36.000 I haven't checked in recently.

00:07:39.000 I know Erica has, but I think Dennis is still sort of bedbound.

00:07:45.000 I don't know that he's expected to get his mobility back.

00:07:48.000 I'm not sure.

00:07:49.000 But we remain close with Dennis.

00:07:50.000 And like I said, Erica has spoken with him recently.

00:07:54.000 And he's a great mentor of Charlie's and has been to so many turning point events.

00:07:59.000 And then Larry, Larry's been to a bunch of turning point events.

00:08:02.000 He's done his radio show from turning point events.

00:08:05.000 We love Larry, have a long, long friendship and relationship with him.

00:08:08.000 He's not going to be at this year simply because probably we, you know, after Charlie was assassinated, a couple things happened.

00:08:18.000 We got flooded.

00:08:19.000 Everybody bought tickets to Amfest.

00:08:20.000 We had to turn the ticketing off.

00:08:21.000 And again, we're very sorry that we had to do that.

00:08:24.000 We would love to take everybody.

00:08:26.000 Candidly, the event would probably be twice as big if we didn't turn ticketing off.

00:08:30.000 But 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.

00:08:41.000 And it filled up almost instantly.

00:08:44.000 We already had some booked before September 10th.

00:08:47.000 But then after what happened, it just took on a life of its own.

00:08:53.000 And 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.

00:09:04.000 Since 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.

00:09:14.000 This book is dedicated to Dennis Prager.

00:09:18.000 Your life's work brought me to honoring the Sabbath.

00:09:22.000 As a result, I wrote this book.

00:09:23.000 Thank you, Dennis, for all you have done for humanity.

00:09:27.000 God bless you.

00:09:29.000 I can't imagine Charlie ever thought Dennis would outlive him, but that's the way it came to pass.

00:09:36.000 But he did.

00:09:37.000 I remember that.

00:09:38.000 He told me he wanted to write this book.

00:09:40.000 Dennis inspired him so much to do it.

00:09:42.000 I think he worked with him on the actual process of writing the book as well.

00:09:46.000 And he left it as a great tribute to his friend.

00:09:50.000 And this book is a tribute to Charlie as well now.

00:09:52.000 Stop in the Name of God.

00:09:54.000 You can get it at 45books.com if you want it, 45books.com.

00:09:58.000 And it's a beautiful book, by the way.

00:10:00.000 Absolutely amazing.

00:10:02.000 The depth of wisdom in that book is truly, I think, Charlie's best in many ways.

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00:11:34.000 Blake, 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.

00:11:42.000 And you get a discounted price if you do that now.

00:11:45.000 So that's one thing.

00:11:46.000 But I don't think we've made enough of this on this show.

00:11:49.000 And we had a big speaker announcement this week, and that is JD Vance will be joining us at Amfest.

00:11:56.000 If 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.

00:12:06.000 And that is a big deal.

00:12:08.000 But 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.

00:12:18.000 You can show image seven.

00:12:21.000 So we have a deal with Rumble where they will be streaming the entire thing.

00:12:25.000 So you can always be a part of the action.

00:12:27.000 I know the War Room posse, Bannon's going to be there, many, many other media outlets.

00:12:32.000 It's going to be, this thing's going to be bonkers, folks.

00:12:35.000 Blake?

00:12:36.000 Yeah, no, it's great.

00:12:37.000 We have some clips from JD.

00:12:39.000 I thought you were going to jump in there.

00:12:40.000 Oh, sorry about that.

00:12:41.000 No, we have, let's see, which is the best one that we have here.

00:12:46.000 We're very excited to have JD.

00:12:48.000 Yeah, let's play 271.

00:12:50.000 Under the Biden administration, the average American family lost over $3,000 of household income.

00:12:56.000 And under the first 10 months of this Trump administration, they have gained over $1,000 of household income.

00:13:02.000 What that says very clearly is that we are fixing the problem that Joe Biden and the Democrats created in the last administration.

00:13:12.000 And 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.

00:13:20.000 This is why Charlie was such a JD fan.

00:13:24.000 We've told the very funny story of how we endorsed him for Senate immediately.

00:13:28.000 And it was actually, we jumped the gun a bit and before Charlie could contact donors and explain why we were doing this.

00:13:35.000 And it's a very funny story, but he always was a big believer in JD from basically the moment he entered politics.

00:13:43.000 He always thought he had a huge amount of potential.

00:13:46.000 People would say, Charlie, do you plan to enter politics?

00:13:48.000 And 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.

00:13:57.000 And 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.

00:14:11.000 And so we're super excited to have him at America Fest.

00:14:14.000 We've seen over and over how much how much JD loved Charlie, how he was a friend to Charlie.

00:14:20.000 And we want to maintain that friendship as much as possible going forward.

00:14:26.000 And 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.

00:14:37.000 You get a discount for next year's.

00:14:38.000 And that's right.

00:14:40.000 Be there.

00:14:40.000 Be there next year.

00:14:41.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:14:42.000 Be there.

00:14:42.000 We have another question from Robert.

00:14:44.000 Robert, welcome to the show.

00:14:47.000 Hey, can you guys hear me?

00:14:48.000 Yes, we can.

00:14:49.000 Yes.

00:14:49.000 Oh, great.

00:14:50.000 Yeah, my question, I've got a couple of things.

00:14:52.000 My question is, is why don't you partner up with Angel Films and do a biopic with about Charlie's life?

00:14:59.000 I mean, really get some aid listers.

00:15:01.000 I know Chris Pratt is a Christian.

00:15:03.000 I don't think he would be the right person.

00:15:04.000 Play Charlie, of course.

00:15:06.000 That's not my domain.

00:15:07.000 But I think that that would be something that would really be groundbreaking.

00:15:11.000 It would renew everybody's down in the dumps feeling.

00:15:18.000 I never met Charlie.

00:15:19.000 I know that you guys, of course, were dear friends with him and colleagues, but I will say that I miss him every day.

00:15:27.000 I 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.

00:15:36.000 And 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.

00:15:50.000 And the other thing is, is that I founded five companies.

00:15:53.000 I took a couple public, made a lot of money.

00:15:56.000 I've lost a lot of money.

00:15:58.000 And during the Biden years, it took, I kind of retired out of tech when Trump got in.

00:16:03.000 And then it took me five years to get a job in tech.

00:16:08.000 And mainly because of the H1 visas.

00:16:11.000 I really believe that you guys have got to get hardcore about this visa thing.

00:16:19.000 It is, I can't tell you how many people who have the experience I have who can't even get a resume looked at.

00:16:25.000 I mean, I sent out hundreds, thousands of job applications and finally got hired about nine months.

00:16:32.000 Well, I got hired two weeks after Trump got in.

00:16:35.000 Blake, you want to take a stab at Robert's question about that?

00:16:38.000 Yeah, so Robert had two questions.

00:16:41.000 We'll hit the more fun one first.

00:16:42.000 He asked about whether, you know, if we would work with Angel Studios on a Charlie biopic.

00:16:50.000 It's way above my pay grade on that question.

00:16:52.000 Obviously, whether any film was made about Charlie is a question for Erica to decide.

00:16:57.000 And I have no idea what offers she's received in that way, what her own thinking on this is.

00:17:03.000 I genuinely just don't know.

00:17:05.000 I 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.

00:17:14.000 And his life, it truly has a cinematic quality to it.

00:17:19.000 He built something so immense and so successful from such a young age, from nothing, really came from no strong political background, no establishment background.

00:17:32.000 It was just his pure energy, his force of will.

00:17:34.000 He drew people to himself.

00:17:36.000 He made people believe in his mission and just the faith angle as well.

00:17:40.000 His faith grew throughout his life and he truly died a martyr.

00:17:45.000 I have to imagine I very much understand why so many people think a film of it would be good.

00:17:52.000 It is very funny.

00:17:53.000 I just do have to say I did chuckle at the suggestion of Chris Pratt because I checked and Chris Pratt is 46 years old.

00:17:59.000 It would be very, there would be something interesting about him playing a person who was 15 years younger than him when he passed.

00:18:10.000 But I don't know.

00:18:11.000 How do you feel about it, Andrew?

00:18:13.000 On the other hand, would it be too real?

00:18:15.000 Would there be something fake about seeing someone else play a man that both of us?

00:18:19.000 I mean, listen, here's what I'll tell you is that it's probably going to happen.

00:18:24.000 The question is how?

00:18:25.000 And I think there might be multiple because I can already tell you on the documentary side, there's going to be multiple.

00:18:31.000 There already are a few.

00:18:32.000 I think Daily Caller just released one that they did.

00:18:37.000 The 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.

00:18:43.000 So on the doc side, we're going to have that.

00:18:46.000 And then, of course, turning point, USA, the team has more footage than anybody.

00:18:50.000 I mean, the team followed Charlie around for years.

00:18:56.000 And, you know, I was always sort of wondering, why is this camera going when I never see this footage?

00:19:01.000 Well, now we have this amazing, amazing storehouse of just never before seen footage of Charlie.

00:19:07.000 So that is something the team is working on as well on the turning point side.

00:19:12.000 And so that's going to happen.

00:19:14.000 And I know that there are people that have already contacted me and us about making films.

00:19:18.000 And to Blake's point, it's kind of all in Erica's, that's a decision for her to make.

00:19:24.000 And, you know, we sort of entrust that with her.

00:19:26.000 And I know she's talking with really great people.

00:19:29.000 And so we'll see what happens with that.

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00:20:35.000 So the second half of Robert's question, because we also want to hit that, is he asked about H-1Bs.

00:20:39.000 He, 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.

00:20:46.000 And that's a field where we're told we have a huge talent shortage.

00:20:49.000 And so that's why we need so many H-1Bs. 1.00

00:20:51.000 Hundreds of thousands of people have come to America as H-1Bs. 1.00

00:20:55.000 For those who have forgotten to remind you, the H-1B visa is a skilled worker visa.

00:21:01.000 It 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.

00:21:10.000 It's become extremely popular in Silicon Valley, and it's certainly become very controversial.

00:21:16.000 A lot of people have called for ending it outright or radically curtailing it.

00:21:21.000 President Trump himself has defended it.

00:21:23.000 He defended it in the case of, for example, we've been building these chip plants in the United States.

00:21:28.000 And he said, well, you're going to need these foreign chip experts to get these plants up and running.

00:21:34.000 Otherwise, it's just not going to happen.

00:21:36.000 And there's something to be said for that.

00:21:38.000 But there is also a very real fact.

00:21:40.000 We have gotten addicted to this.

00:21:42.000 And that addiction, like any other addiction in your own personal life, it makes us weaker over time and it makes it hard to break.

00:21:50.000 We have damaged America's ability to be skilled in highly technical fields because of H-1Bs. 1.00

00:21:56.000 It'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.

00:22:08.000 And 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.

00:22:25.000 And it's a complicated thing that we're going to need.

00:22:29.000 I think we should dial back H1B.

00:22:32.000 I definitely think we should dial back H-1Bs, maybe even have the goal of ending it entirely. 1.00

00:22:36.000 But 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.

00:22:54.000 Another thing I'd point out is it's not just H-1Bs.

00:22:57.000 It's become the symbol of this problem, but there's a lot of other visas out there.

00:23:01.000 So we need a total spectrum look.

00:23:03.000 One that's known as the OPT.

00:23:05.000 It's not quite a visa.

00:23:06.000 It's called Optional Practical Training.

00:23:08.000 And 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.

00:23:17.000 And 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.

00:23:25.000 So it's definitely a massive issue for America.

00:23:29.000 It's one Charlie was very aware of.

00:23:31.000 It's one I told him a lot about.

00:23:32.000 I was saying, this is bubbling up badly.

00:23:35.000 People have become really aware that their job opportunities are getting hobbled because we continue to bring in a lot of foreign workers. 1.00

00:23:42.000 And especially now that the border has been secured, people are looking at the other sources of immigration-related problems in American life.

00:23:50.000 So you're absolutely correct.

00:23:51.000 It's a thing we need to talk about.

00:23:52.000 It's a thing Vice President Advance has talked a lot about.

00:23:55.000 He might even talk about it at AmericaFest.

00:23:57.000 So definitely tune into that.

00:23:58.000 Do you have anything to say on that, Andrew?

00:24:00.000 Yeah, I want to add two things.

00:24:02.000 One, that, you know, Robert was having trouble getting interviews, even, but it took him years to get hired.

00:24:07.000 And 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.

00:24:29.000 So these are, this is a direct problem assault on the youngest Americans that are getting it, just getting into the workforce.

00:24:38.000 So it's a huge, huge issue.

00:24:39.000 But one of the things you notice is that, and I've heard this just repeatedly, Robert.

00:24:44.000 I don't know if you have an anecdote that would underscore this, but they tend to hire other people from their culture.

00:24:50.000 So if you hire, if one of these H-1Bs rises through the ranks, they become a hiring manager. 1.00

00:24:55.000 They tend to hire other people that are closer in cultural affinities or affiliations to themselves.

00:25:02.000 And so that's not necessarily a good thing for Native born Americans either.

00:25:06.000 So that there's multiple problems.

00:25:08.000 Some are cultural, some are structural that are injected into the system when you are addicted to foreign labor. 0.97

00:25:15.000 It's just the facts.

00:25:16.000 Should we take the next one?

00:25:17.000 Let's take Gina's question. 0.97

00:25:18.000 Gina, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:25:21.000 What's your question?

00:25:22.000 Hey, thanks, guys.

00:25:24.000 Can you hear me okay?

00:25:25.000 Yes, we can.

00:25:25.000 Yes, ma'am.

00:25:26.000 Okay.

00:25:28.000 My heart's broken with the things that are going on with Candace.

00:25:32.000 And I'm trying to make it all come together.

00:25:37.000 I'm sure I'm not your only fan that is trying to do that because of the relationship that she had with Charlie.

00:25:45.000 And 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.

00:25:56.000 Blake, I think you tweeted something out.

00:25:58.000 And 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.

00:26:07.000 And it was issued, Blake, I think at 12 on a tweet that you had, but or at midnight, 12, not noon, midnight.

00:26:14.000 And so it was like nine hours later before she even knew that you said anything about her attending the show.

00:26:20.000 And then she's saying she can't attend in person.

00:26:22.000 Can she attend on a live stream or, you know, and you guys do live streams all the time.

00:26:28.000 And is that going to be enough?

00:26:30.000 Of course, Gina.

00:26:30.000 I'm just trying to make this come together.

00:26:32.000 Of course, Gina.

00:26:33.000 So first of all, our initial statement, it was on the show on Wednesday.

00:26:38.000 I made it at the request of Erica.

00:26:40.000 All of this has been at the direction and approval of Erica because she heads this.

00:26:47.000 And so what we were announcing there is we said she has said things that are not true.

00:26:54.000 And we did not address them for a long time.

00:26:57.000 We stated the reasons why that we thought a lot of them were just not.

00:27:04.000 We initially just thought no one would believe a lot of what was being said.

00:27:07.000 And 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.

00:27:18.000 So what was approved is we announced we are going to respond to this.

00:27:22.000 And what I said was we are going to announce a date soon.

00:27:26.000 We actually hadn't agreed on it at the time I read the statement.

00:27:28.000 We're going to announce a date where we're going to respond to this.

00:27:32.000 And once we announce it, Candace is free to attend in person.

00:27:36.000 That is what we announced.

00:27:37.000 And so once we agreed on a time, I announced what the time was going to be.

00:27:41.000 Candace, for her part, had said, you name the time, you name the place.

00:27:46.000 That is what we did.

00:27:48.000 As 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.

00:27:57.000 It seems everyone found it out quite quickly.

00:28:00.000 And 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.

00:28:18.000 And that is what we think is a fair request to make if she's going to participate.

00:28:23.000 But regardless, it is going to go forward because we have agreed that some response needs to be made.

00:28:30.000 And so that's going to happen when we announced it on December 15th.

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00:28:52.000 Maria still lives in her childhood home.

00:28:54.000 There's no indoor plumbing, no heat, and it's bitterly cold.

00:28:58.000 Today, like yesterday, Maria barely has enough food to survive.

00:29:01.000 Her hunger is unbearable.

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00:29:06.000 This winter, as the snow falls and the nights grow longer, her hope fades with each passing day.

00:29:11.000 She feels forgotten and needs our help.

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00:29:38.000 Go ahead and ask your follow-up.

00:29:40.000 Well, you know, I just don't think I'm the only person who has heard some things that truly do not make sense.

00:29:49.000 And I know that Candace is asking a lot of questions and she's way out there.

00:29:55.000 But I also know that there are lots of us who are just everyday, normal average Americans who are fans of yours.

00:30:03.000 We're fans of Charlie's.

00:30:05.000 We're fans of Candace's and they were friends.

00:30:08.000 And the things that don't make sense, I think so many of us are really just wanting for there to be some kind of logic to the whole thing.

00:30:17.000 And I have asked Candace myself.

00:30:19.000 I mean, I'm one person in all of America and maybe the world for that matter, who has asked her to please, you know, go ahead and go.

00:30:28.000 Come to your place, whatever you need.

00:30:30.000 So that those of us who by complete happenstance have turned out to be people who listen to both of your podcasts.

00:30:41.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:30:43.000 You know, I really appreciate your heart genuinely.

00:30:46.000 And I hear, you know, the sincere request for things that you think don't make sense.

00:30:51.000 I will say a couple of things just before we have to go back to radio here.

00:30:55.000 One is that that's why we're doing this stream on the 15th.

00:31:01.000 We 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.

00:31:10.000 And I would also say that, you know, we want to be cognizant all the time and we're aware of this.

00:31:19.000 We're in a different situation because there is an ongoing investigation.

00:31:22.000 There's a trial.

00:31:23.000 We have to be more careful than other voices out there what we say.

00:31:27.000 And there's always the issue of tainting a potential jury pool that we're always very sensitive of.

00:31:31.000 So, Gina, thank you for your question.

00:31:33.000 David, David, welcome to the show.

00:31:35.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:31:37.000 Hey, how are we doing today?

00:31:38.000 Doing well.

00:31:39.000 Thank you, sir.

00:31:40.000 Just want to make a couple of one comment, and then there's one question.

00:31:44.000 We're in Southern California.

00:31:46.000 We are trying to get voter ID on the ballot.

00:31:51.000 We're at 750,000.

00:31:52.000 We need 300,000.

00:31:53.000 My second comment is, what do you think of Cal Lutheran turning down making for a turning point chapter, Cal Lutheran University?

00:32:04.000 Yeah.

00:32:05.000 Well, listen, the six, yeah, signature drive.

00:32:09.000 Yeah, no, absolutely.

00:32:10.000 And we have a whole story on it, by the way, at TurningPointUSA, tposa.com.

00:32:15.000 You could literally just, you know, look up Cal Lutheran, TPUSA, and the article will pop right back up.

00:32:22.000 But 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.

00:32:32.000 And that was according to the ECHO, which reported on the matter.

00:32:36.000 They had an argument back and forth.

00:32:39.000 Students presented various arguments.

00:32:41.000 And then, you know, somebody said, I wasn't personally surprised by the outcome.

00:32:45.000 At the end of the day, we do try to be fair, impartial, and we want to see all the clubs succeed.

00:32:49.000 But we will notice when a club is trying to push a certain rhetoric.

00:32:53.000 And the last thing we need is controversy here on campus.

00:32:57.000 Another person said they felt concerned with her safety with a TPSA chapter on campus as a black student.

00:33:04.000 So listen, this is something that we have seen, which is, you know, we've seen it again and again again.

00:33:10.000 We actually just had a high school chapter that had been accused of racism or something like that, that they persisted.

00:33:17.000 They ended up getting approval.

00:33:19.000 They had their first chapter meeting yesterday and over 50 students showed up.

00:33:22.000 So 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.

00:33:32.000 And you get these huge turnouts, like 50-plus students at a first meeting.

00:33:35.000 That's incredible.

00:33:36.000 And it's a testament to Charlie and how he's still inspiring so many young people.

00:33:41.000 But there are appeal processes in place for this type of thing.

00:33:45.000 There'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.

00:33:57.000 So 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.

00:34:10.000 And we've had a really successful track record of that.

00:34:12.000 Now, there is a troubling issue when it comes to, I would say, Christian schools, historically Christian schools that have probably lost their way.

00:34:22.000 Charlie would rail against Christian schools. 0.83

00:34:25.000 They 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. 0.99

00:34:31.000 Megan Basham from the Daily Wire has covered this a lot, and she's a friend of the show.

00:34:37.000 And so I know she's working on a whole piece on this.

00:34:40.000 So it's a troubling trend.

00:34:43.000 And 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.

00:34:53.000 And the way they do that is get behind our conservative students.

00:34:56.000 Back them.

00:34:57.000 Back their play.

00:34:58.000 And so we are going to keep pursuing this.

00:35:00.000 This is not the only case of this.

00:35:01.000 And 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.

00:35:10.000 All right.

00:35:11.000 We have one minute 45 left.

00:35:13.000 So unfortunately, Sarah, I'm going to read your question so we can get it ASAP because you say your question is free speech.

00:35:19.000 Is there a line for free speech?

00:35:21.000 Like when actually calling violence is wrong or is calling for violence wrong?

00:35:26.000 Or you have a no swearing policy.

00:35:28.000 How do you reconcile that with free speech?

00:35:31.000 Well, first of all, we have an absolute First Amendment legal right to freedom of speech.

00:35:37.000 And what doesn't get covered by that is, yeah, it doesn't calling to actually commit violence.

00:35:42.000 America has a great standard on this.

00:35:44.000 It's basically, if you're going to be calling for violence, it has to be a specific target, a specific person, in a specific manner.

00:35:52.000 And if you don't have at least two of those three things, in America, a court will generally say doesn't count.

00:35:59.000 You can say, yeah, I don't like the Constitution and we should get rid of it.

00:36:02.000 Or, yeah, I kind of think we should overthrow the government.

00:36:05.000 If you're being vague, you can do that in America.

00:36:08.000 And I think that's actually a good standard.

00:36:09.000 It's a standard very few other countries have, but it's why in America we have such a robust free speech tradition.

00:36:17.000 Now, you can still have a personal policy about what you should or should not say.

00:36:22.000 So we shouldn't swear.

00:36:24.000 We shouldn't take the Lord's name in vain.

00:36:25.000 That is a moral principle that we follow.

00:36:28.000 You shouldn't do it.

00:36:29.000 That doesn't necessarily apply for the entirety of the country.

00:36:33.000 America is a country with freedom of religion.

00:36:35.000 It doesn't have blasphemy laws.

00:36:37.000 We oppose blasphemy laws in other countries.

00:36:39.000 You don't want them to ban blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad or something.

00:36:43.000 But if you're a devout Muslim, you of course shouldn't do that. 1.00

00:36:46.000 And so it's a mixture of what our laws should be and what our moral principles should be.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - December 09, 2025

Ask Us Anything 246: The Origin of AMAs? A Charlie Biopic? The Limits of Speech?

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