On this episode of the Ask Us Anything Hour, host Charlie Kirk is joined by his good friend Anthony Anthony to discuss the ICE agent shooting in Minneapolis, the "anti-ICE" protests in New York City, and the Democratic response to the situation.
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00:02:07.000So we see all these ICE raids and, you know, going on in Minneapolis, New York, all across the country, and we see all the protesters.
00:02:14.000And we see how local and state and even federal Democrat politicians are talking.
00:02:19.000Like we hear the mayor and the governor of Minnesota and Minneapolis say you must protest whatever and cause problems.
00:02:27.000Is there any Democrat at federal, state, or local levels that may say, hey, we need to start coming to our senses and we might have to rethink this whole protesting and this because it's now it's starting to get out of hand.
00:02:43.000Is there any Democrat politician willing to do that or are they all just scared, spineless communists?
00:03:38.000And I don't think he's gone further on that one either.
00:03:42.000But certainly on this anti-ice radicalism, I really only see a one-way ratchet about this, at least from lawmakers.
00:03:50.000And I don't know how much of that is deliberate recklessness or deliberate extremism and how much of that is they're just afraid of getting lit up themselves or they don't even fully realize what they're doing.
00:04:01.000Like Tim Walz, as an example, Tim Walz is just stupid.
00:04:06.000And so when Walls says we're at war with the federal government, I saw that getting shared yesterday.
00:04:11.000I don't think he was literally doing a whole secessionist, I'm going to go with the war of federal government.
00:04:16.000I think he was just using dumb words because he doesn't recognize the sort of situation he's in.
00:04:22.000Yeah, and the implication of saying something like, we're at war.
00:04:25.000I kind of interpreted that clip the same way.
00:04:28.000I will say, you know, to Blake's point, there was this debate of which way the Democrat Party was going to turn.
00:04:33.000Were they going to be moderating their positions or were they going to be radicalizing their positions?
00:04:37.000And it's very clear a year into the President Trump's second term that they are radicalizing their positions at every turn and that the far left flank of the Democrat Party controls that party.
00:05:05.000And if you step out of line, you're going to take a lot of guff.
00:05:08.000And I will say, you know, when John Fetterman started speaking sense, which was one of the largest ironies of recent years.
00:05:16.000It made me a little uncomfortable because you don't want that sense like, oh, did he, did like the brain damage from his stroke actually become more conservative?
00:05:32.000But the point is, John Fetterman, a bunch of his staff left.
00:05:36.000I mean, he took a lot of internal pushback that you don't hear a lot about, but he kind of just took it on the chin and kept going forward.
00:05:46.000And he's the last sort of prominent, sensible Democrat out there that is socially, I would say probably, you know, left, I think economically left, but he's still a patriot.
00:05:59.000And we've said it on the show before that you're either a movement that loves the country, loves what it was founded on, loves our heritage, loves our culture, and has pride in it, or you are somebody that ultimately thinks America is somewhat illegitimate or all the way illegitimate or it's all the way systemically racist and bigoted and oppressive.
00:06:36.000It's a thing that is, frankly, it's made it tough to always articulate a conservative agenda on things because it often is just defined by people who don't like the left, at least in America.
00:06:48.000And also, I'll be frank, I would talk to Charlie about this.
00:06:51.000Sometimes the issue the right has is they're sort of low self-esteem, if that makes sense.
00:06:57.000I don't know what the right term for it would be, but they are very eager to welcome people into their coalition, like if a celebrity shouts us out, that sort of thing.
00:07:05.000And that can actually, it can make it a little too easy for you to get taken over by newcomers, more or less.
00:07:10.000Yeah, I mean, listen, I think it's great to welcome newcomers, but you shouldn't have them, you know, teach in the class, right?
00:07:17.000They should be amongst the pupils in the desks, not at the front of the classroom.
00:07:24.000You just have to make sure that the people that are leading your movement have actually been tried, tested, and found true, real believers, right?
00:07:31.000So Anthony, I don't know if that answers your question, but it does appear to be, you know, the fact that we can't think of anybody, probably not a good sign.
00:07:42.000And I couldn't think of anybody in it, just because I'll be honest, there was a protest at the Border Patrol in a town or two over from me and last night.
00:08:41.000But my question is: how do we address the difference of perspective on this Minnesota woman being shot?
00:08:48.000I just feel like both sides are seeing kind of what they want to see to an extent.
00:08:53.000I think there is an objective truth on what happened, but it's causing so much division.
00:08:57.000How can we as a country come together and move forward?
00:08:59.000Because I don't want this to become another George Floyd incident.
00:09:04.000And if we could also touch on the difference of reactions from Charlie Kirk's assassination recently to this Minnesota woman, you know, they're not holding a prayer vigil and, you know, coming together.
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00:11:33.000All right, Ian, we're continuing with you.
00:11:36.000We played that image that were that alternate angle.
00:11:40.000If you guys want to roll that as B-roll while we're talking about this, here's my hope, Ian.
00:11:46.000I think politically the left is captured by the activist base.
00:11:50.000I don't think there's any getting around that, right?
00:11:52.000So, politically, they all have to, you know, toe the party line and say this is the Gestapo, this is the Nazis, and these are mass vigilante thugs, and they're illegitimate police, and they're not real.
00:12:02.000They're fake police, like the Philly sheriff said.
00:12:05.000But I do believe that mass deportations are popular.
00:12:09.000I believe that enforcing immigration laws are popular.
00:12:13.000And I think that ultimately, you just have to press through the activist class.
00:12:36.000And ultimately, you're going to have to, you, you defeat them by winning.
00:12:40.000And I just think that it's gotten so hardened into our silos with the activist base of the left that that's just the only way through.
00:12:47.000I like to believe that there is still a normal middle of this country that's more busy worried about the football game and about their golf outings on Saturday.
00:12:57.000And they kind of, they're kind of checked out of the normal back and forth.
00:13:00.000And they just know that, hey, we have laws.
00:13:04.000That's my hope is that we do have sort of still a rational center of the country.
00:13:09.000Last hour we had Ken Calvert from California.
00:13:12.000You know, even in California, voter ID law, despite all the back and forth and the vitriol and the hyperbole from the left about it being racist or bigoted or whatever, is still 68 to 71% popular in the state of California.
00:13:25.000I don't know, Blake, if you have anything you want to add.
00:13:27.000Well, so yeah, the question was: what can we do to bring the country together?
00:13:30.000And the truth is, there's not an easy answer to that because the idea of a strong united core in America has been greatly diluted by a lot of changes in America, by demographic change.
00:13:44.000So there's not nearly the same sense of America as a shared country going back a great distance.
00:13:50.000A lot of people, if half the country doesn't even trace its heritage back to World War II, we could be at that point sooner rather than later.
00:13:59.000There's not that same sense of a shared society.
00:14:02.000And especially when there's been a long-term political project to delegitimize the country itself, and by extension, its people.
00:14:09.000So it's very common to just basically take an attitude of total hate and delegitimization to Americans who are in Middle America, who are in the South, all of that.
00:14:20.000And it just, it's very hard to have something come together.
00:14:24.000And, you know, a lot of people have asked us to respond to that Jasmine Crockett tape where she was saying, oh, how did we react after Charlie's shooting?
00:14:44.000And I think at some point you have to say, we have to make sure we stand for something.
00:14:50.000It has to be an appealing moral message to people.
00:14:53.000And you have to hope that you can win people over to that and that can become a national core that people can unite around.
00:15:00.000I think that is what Charlie was fighting for.
00:15:02.000What Charlie was doing, he was planting the seeds for a future possibly decades hence, the seeds of patriotism, the seeds of Christian faith, something that could appeal to a large number of people, including young people.
00:15:16.000And you hope the strength of that moral message is something that will win the day.
00:15:23.000But very truthfully, I don't see an easy way to get unity with people who are saying kill ICE officers.
00:15:31.000I don't see how you can easily have unity with people who celebrate the murder of Charlie.
00:15:37.000I don't see how you can easily have unity of people who say the United States is fundamentally an illegitimate country in society.
00:15:42.000And I know that's a tough answer to give, but it's what I'm feeling.
00:15:50.000I think that was really well said, Blake.
00:15:51.000And I, you know, I've reflected a lot on what Charlie was actually doing a lot.
00:15:56.000And what he, you're, I think, a thousand percent right, that he was actually selling an image of America and a vision of America that was palatable to the broad core, to that 75% in the middle right, probably middle right.
00:16:11.000But there was a, there was a, a huge audience for this.
00:16:15.000And we saw it with the billions and billions of views.
00:16:17.000He was reclaiming, it was like, so if you sort of think of what America is, it's an unbroken chain of generations that passes on the American dream, the belief in the experiment of America, the American Republic from generation to generation.
00:16:31.000And Charlie noticed that the chain was getting broken with Gen Z, millennials and Gen Z.
00:16:37.000And he went out there and he put those chain links back together.
00:16:42.000Before we move on, I think we should actually, to get at the difficulty here, we should, a lot of people, this is going ultra viral.
00:16:48.000This clip, no, this clip of the woman who went to the Renee Good Memorial, but thought it was immoral.
00:17:09.000Like, I mean, part of it is being like a white woman that I'm privileged and I have a lot of privilege.
00:17:17.000So I feel like white tears are not always something that's helpful or necessary when black and brown people have been experiencing this for a long time.
00:18:32.000You know, it's like, and I'm like, the cause and the movement doesn't stop with Charlie being gone.
00:18:39.000In fact, it's more people coming together, you know?
00:18:41.000I have a lot of, I have a lot of opinions here, Ian, actually.
00:18:44.000So a lot of these people that you, okay, so listen, Charlie deserved to be lifted up and praised and remembered in such a remarkable fashion because he was so remarkable.
00:19:01.000But they're also whitewashing a lot of the road to get there.
00:19:05.000Charlie came under incredible scrutiny, incredible criticism.
00:19:09.000From the time I worked with Charlie, there was not a day that went by where he was not being attacked by somebody on the right, by somebody that was part of this larger coalition that wasn't chipping at his heels, wasn't - I mean, I'm telling you, that was just the norm.
00:19:27.000It was completely a situation where, you know, we have more, I have more memories of people on the right attacking Charlie than I do people on the right praising him in his life.
00:19:36.000And then obviously, when somebody is martyred the way Charlie was, a lot of those people kind of put that aside.
00:19:42.000They said nice things, which is great.
00:19:46.000But these are the same actors that were bubbling up before.
00:19:50.000So, you know, I think there's just kind of a bit of a misremembering of the past.
00:19:56.000To the extent that Turning Point is sowing division, like I completely disagree with that.
00:20:01.000These are, again, these are the same people that see an opening.
00:20:04.000We had Walter Kern on, and he's, you know, he was talking about the vacuum and how some of these, I think, negative actors kind of rush into the space.
00:20:11.000Like, Turning Point has not done anything different than we did when Charlie was alive.
00:20:15.000We brought people together that disagree on different topics.
00:20:20.000They let the world know that they had disagreements, but that wasn't something that we did.
00:20:24.000We didn't tell them to, you know, have a fight in public.
00:20:28.000That was a choice that they made from the stage at Amfest to do that.
00:20:32.000Now, any other division, it's not like we're out there, you know, throwing ideological bombs on, you know, inside the movement here or there.
00:20:41.000It's literally, this is a bunch of people that are rushing into a vacuum.
00:20:46.000There is a little, there are issues that are fracturing the base, mostly foreign policy issues, mostly issues about Israel or whatever.
00:20:53.000And so we're not actually the ones responsible for the division.
00:20:57.000This is just inherent in a coalition this big and this broad and this this rowdy.
00:21:02.000We have a rowdy group of people that make up the right of center.
00:21:05.000And our job is to just be a convening force and to allow the best and the smartest and the brightest to come together and have those conversations or, you know, in an election year, hopefully they get more focused and they attack the left.
00:21:18.000But, you know, we're not the ones really doing that.
00:21:21.000So I would disagree with that in general.
00:21:23.000And then the last thing I would say, Charlie became really good at this.
00:21:26.000He would just bowl through the objections.
00:21:28.000He would just put his head down, put his shoulder to the plow, and do good work.
00:21:40.000And ultimately, there's very few people in the conservative movement or any movement for that matter that do real work, that actually get the job done.
00:21:50.000And so a lot of people are going to have opinions.
00:21:53.000At the end of the day, there's only going to be a few left standing that are doing real work.
00:21:56.000We're going to be one of those organizations.
00:21:58.000And that has a uniting effect when the chips are down.
00:22:38.000And I'd say that was a very strong talent of Charlie and something that developed over time.
00:22:42.000Charlie was constantly improving as we've talked about him improving in his faith as a family member, but he was also improving as a politician as he aged.
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00:24:56.000My question is: first of all, I want to thank you for having Congressman Calvert for coming on talking about voter ID.
00:25:04.000My second statement would be: how do we get the rest of our candidates front and center so we know right now who to vote for for the primaries?
00:25:52.000So, yeah, I mean, listen, I will say that, you know, Congressman Calvert, he's probably going to be the congressman at, you know, in the 41st district, the new 41st district.
00:26:03.000And he's a guy that, you know, just has a great grassroots army behind him.
00:26:08.000He's been doing this since 1993 in the state of California.
00:26:11.000So he's probably going to win that race.
00:26:13.000He's going to be one of the few Republicans on a nationwide basis out of California that remain after Prop 50.
00:26:21.000So as far as, you know, by the way, people don't realize how expensive a petition drive of that magnitude is.
00:26:30.000It's probably going to cost them close to about nine when they're all said and done just to get that very popular measure on the ballot in November 2026.
00:26:39.000And hopefully that does pass and they are able to withstand the negativity that's about to come their way when it is.
00:26:44.000Now, regarding the midterm candidates, one, you're just going to see a lot of them here because we obviously give, we had Andy Biggs on as an example just the other day, but you'll see on Monday.
00:26:55.000Gradually, we're just going to gradually escalate how many of these people are shipping.
00:26:58.000Wait, Jay Feely, is he the quarterback?
00:27:29.000We'll probably end up talking to some, we'll probably end up talking to some of these Indiana Republicans.
00:27:33.000We're going to have to have unseating state lawmakers there.
00:27:36.000You'll primarily see the races we're most involved in, but obviously we care about the races all over the country and we will be doing what we can to raise awareness for them.
00:27:46.000Currently, we haven't had primaries in most of the places.
00:27:49.000I was going to say, that's when you're going to see a lot of them.
00:29:33.000How can I stay and contribute to this amazing country, not get sent back to communism, basically?
00:29:39.000So my question is, what do you guys think about H-1B visas?
00:29:43.000I had a company offer me one, and I know that your show has talked about it a little bit.
00:29:47.000So what are your guys' thoughts on that?
00:29:49.000Well, so what we make of on H-1Bs as a national policy, we've been critical of it because it's very clear in our opinion that H-1Bs have been used.
00:30:17.000We would love to have people like you.
00:30:19.000And we would much rather have an H-1B job go to you than to someone who will be a parasite, who will be a future daycare welfare entrepreneur or something from the Learing Center.
00:30:29.000And so if you have that opportunity, we would 100% encourage you to take it because we have to always be reasonable with that.
00:30:37.000And, you know, an individual good immigrant doesn't mean, oh, we should have open borders.
00:30:42.000And a person who you could make a good use of an H-1B doesn't mean we should have H-1Bs as widely used as they are now or in the same way.
00:30:51.000But 100%, if you have a job that would require H-1Bs, just because we are critical of that program doesn't mean you shouldn't take it.
00:31:26.000And by the way, I also agree with you.
00:31:28.000So I've been kind of like figuring out what I need to do next.
00:31:31.000But my next question is, I do want to get married, but and I've met a lot of people in Canada and in the U.S.
00:31:38.000I don't feel like I've missed my boat by any means.
00:31:41.000I'm very much with my family and the Lord with this.
00:31:44.000So I'm not afraid of anything like that.
00:31:46.000But a lot of the guys that I'm meeting at church down here, there's lots of guys, but they're very young and immature and they are not financially ready to have families and this kind of stuff.
00:31:58.000So I feel like as the days go by more and more, I'm looking for someone older who's already financially stable, who I guess is just more mature than me and I can look up to them, that kind of thing.
00:32:25.000I just, I've met a lot of people and I'm sure some people are like, what are you doing?
00:32:29.000But anyways, so yeah, I've met a lot of people and they're just, they're really young and I just want to meet someone who I respect, who's older than me, who I can look up to and I trust that they can take care of a family.
00:32:40.000So do you guys think that women these days just have too high of a standard and like we're part of the problem?
00:32:47.000Am I, I'm being part of the problem by having too high of a standard?
00:32:50.000Or is my concerns right, if that makes sense?
00:32:55.000I don't want to talk too at length about this because I am not married, but I would say, especially at your age, remember that marriage is not, you're not getting married to a finished product.
00:33:06.000You yourself are not a finished product.
00:33:08.000An ideal marriage, you are growing together and you're spending your life together.
00:33:13.000So if there are men who are not financially ready yet, you should be able to use your mind and use a reasonable dating process to think, is this a person who will mature, who will grow into someone who can support a family?
00:33:36.000So a guy who's getting a job in the energy sector and he's getting a degree in petroleum engineering or in finance, that's very different from maybe a guy who's 24 and he just, he doesn't have a strong sense on what he wants out of life.
00:33:51.000And you can tell he's not making long-term plans.
00:33:54.000So I think you can look for those with younger men and then you can still have reasonable confidence, especially if you are a good partner who is supportive, that they will grow into a stronger person.
00:34:07.000I just throw that out there to say don't be automatically dismissive of guys who are your own age just because they aren't worth $2 million and they don't own a house yet.
00:34:16.000And I've seen that, I guess, like I said, I'm not married, but I've seen this in my own family.
00:34:22.000My sister got married while still in college.
00:34:24.000Obviously, her husband was not wealthy yet.
00:34:28.000He's not wealthy now, but he was a serious person.
00:34:31.000He has a good job now, and I'm confident they will be successful in the long term.
00:34:35.000He didn't need to already be super financially independent yet.
00:34:45.000No, I actually don't have a lot to add.
00:34:47.000I thought that was a lot of wisdom there.
00:34:48.000Like, my wife and I got married when I didn't have two nickels to rub together.
00:34:54.000And it was the best decision I ever made.
00:34:56.000And I would also just say, you know, maybe it's tripe, but, you know, you should find somebody that you're attracted to and that you love and that you share values with.
00:35:04.000You know, my wife and I, from a faith perspective, shared our values.
00:35:08.000And, you know, we prayed together and we went to church together and there wasn't, there was zero conflict on that.
00:35:12.000And the other thing is we just like to do the same things a lot of the time.
00:35:15.000And, you know, these are basic things that sometimes we can overthink.
00:35:19.000You know, do you like doing the same things?
00:37:39.000So I'm wondering, what are just like the worst, probably top three, probably just specific problems within the entertainment culture today?
00:37:49.000And for context, I mean, Charlie really inspired me in my time in Turning Point to, I'm 19, starting a nonprofit myself right now.
00:37:58.000And it's literally called Create with Purpose because I just want kids and students to just like fight the incoherence in worldviews and try to get back to putting and instilling this godly worldview and the values that are missing from all our stories and stuff.
00:38:13.000So yeah, I'm really wondering just what are the top three maybe things to really think about in getting students to change, I guess, in this culture.
00:38:24.000What are the worst, most poisonous influences in entertainment culture today?
00:38:28.000I think it's, you know, you kind of touched on it, Gigi, but it's this moral cloudiness, the incoherence in the moral viewpoint of the secular left.
00:38:42.000I mean, there really is no up or down, right or left.
00:38:48.000So when we talk about this in education as well, you know, the root word means to lead forth.
00:38:53.000So you have to, in order to lead forth, you have to know where you're going and it has to be rooted in something transcendent, eternal, good, true.
00:39:01.000But if you don't know what the truth is, then you're just leading, it's the blind leading the blind.
00:39:05.000And ultimately, that is modern art, you know, in so many ways.
00:39:09.000Now, the flip side of that is that the conservative right or the religious right tends to be pretty bad at art because they also close themselves off to a lot of exploration and creativity.
00:39:21.000And I really do believe, Gigi, that there is something about you have to know the truth in order to lead people to the truth.
00:39:27.000You have to be able to articulate with moral clarity.
00:39:30.000And this is one of the things that Charlie did so well.
00:39:33.000Things were not complicated for Charlie most of the time.
00:39:36.000And, you know, I would just say that, you know, you kind of have to marry a willingness to explore the frontiers of different ideas and be edgy while also knowing where you're leading people.
00:39:49.000And that's why conservatives sometimes struggle with bad art.
00:39:52.000And that's why liberals and progressives tend to make destructive art.
00:39:56.000And so the best forms and versions of that are with people with a moral clarity and a place where they're leading people to go.
00:40:03.000And, you know, I would say, look at the Bible.
00:40:05.000The best narratives in the history of the world have all come out of the Bible.
00:40:09.000The archetypes are biblical archetypes because they speak to something, you know, truly fundamental about the human experience.
00:40:16.000And so a lot of the best films and TV shows are essentially tracking on a character arc or a plot arc what biblical narratives have done, right?
00:40:29.000The hero's journey is another one of those.
00:40:31.000And so these are the stories that animate the human soul.
00:40:35.000And I think you can use those as a foundation to then build other narratives off of.
00:40:41.000And I think most of the successful Oscar winners throughout the years, at least classically and traditionally, have been essentially just a biblical narrative that has been adapted to some other context.
00:41:09.000And we just applied to two Christian Bible teaching schools for my oldest.
00:41:14.000And one of the things I remember Charlie talking about the most is how the greatest gift you can give a child is a Christian education from a Bible teaching school.
00:41:23.000And I think he went on to say, and to also know that there is a God and they are not it.
00:41:28.000And I think about that all the time when I'm raising my kids.
00:41:32.000But my question is, the wait list for these schools just outnumbers the amount of spots that they have.
00:41:39.000And so what can we do just as individuals or as a greater movement to ensure that every child, every parent who wants a Christian education for their child has the opportunity?
00:41:53.000Well, the merciful thing we have is we do live in a relatively free country.
00:41:58.000So especially in your state, I have to imagine it's easier than in most if you wanted to start a new one.
00:42:04.000I'm not putting it on you to say you should start a school, but ideally new schools do open to meet that demand because people do want these Bible, these Christian academies.
00:42:14.000The other alternative, of course, is there is homeschooling and such.
00:42:19.000I know that is also a lot to ask of somebody, but that has gotten easier than ever, I will say.
00:42:25.000Homeschooling 30 years ago was really challenging.
00:42:28.000You had to do it yourself in a lot of ways, and it was associated with weirder people, not saying they are, but that was the association.
00:43:12.000You know, do a little old school politic and internally.
00:43:16.000Get in touch with them directly, face-to-face conversations, explain why you would be a value add to that community because schools want good people.
00:43:26.000And so, if they see in you the kind of people that they want populating their community and their student body, they're going to try and make space for you.
00:43:34.000And then, on that note, it's already funny because there's been two offshoots from the school that we're now a part of, to Blake's point, that are starting their own.
00:43:41.000One wants to go more of a classical education direction.
00:43:44.000One wants to go a little bit more smaller school class sizes.
00:43:47.000So, there's all these offshoots from the ones the schools.
00:43:52.000We're blessed on the education front that public schools have gotten bad, but the actual options that are available to parents are better than ever.
00:43:58.000And in a lot of red states, you can now often get-I don't know if OK.
00:44:01.000Well, no, I'm looking at it right now.
00:44:03.000Homeschool families qualify for a thousand bucks.
00:44:05.000You get credit amounts of $5,000 to $7,500 per eligible student based on tuition fees.
00:44:10.000But also, vouchers for private schools as well.
00:45:21.000Apparently, he said the founders wanted the filibuster to exist.
00:45:25.000No, well, these are rules that exist that basically date back to I think the 1912 or something.
00:45:33.000Not even that, I think, really, modern filibuster as we know it is basically 40 years old.
00:45:38.000Yeah, but the concept of the filibuster evolved starting with a rule change in like the 1912.
00:45:44.000I looked it up the other day, anyways.
00:45:47.000You know, and we've we've actually been pushing Senator Lee's idea where you actually make them be on the floor, but apparently, even then, they could that the way that that rule is, is I talked to some other senators, is that it's just on a single issue of a bill.
00:46:07.000Basically, it wouldn't fix the problem because you get through with one issue, they give up, and then they go into the next issue, and they do the whole process all over again.
00:46:18.000So, you've got to sort of say the option that they're now looking at is maybe a limited nuking of the filibuster, but it's partial, and it would only apply to funding bills.