The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Us Anything 250: Pentagon Fraud? Saving Minnesota? Marriage? Halftime Show?

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00:02:01.000 It's James.

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00:02:06.000 Hey, James.

00:02:08.000 Yes.

00:02:09.000 Thanks for taking my question.

00:02:10.000 Tyler, I met you with Barbie Ingrell when I was in Arizona.

00:02:13.000 I don't know if you remember me, but yeah, so the Pentagon keeps feeling that audits and equipment goes missing.

00:02:22.000 As you know from the GEO audits, it's in the trillions of dollars of missing assets.

00:02:26.000 We can't pass a budget.

00:02:28.000 And in my documented case, reporting it, me and other whistleblowers, led to retaliation and what looks like a compromise DODIG process.

00:02:40.000 What's the best way to get verified whistleblower evidence in front of the right oversight, House Oversight, Armed Forces Service Committee?

00:02:49.000 And would TPUSA be willing to help route and spite cases that involve military waste, fraud, and abuse and IG failures?

00:02:59.000 Yeah, thanks for the question, James.

00:03:01.000 So I've actually talked to a number of the DOW guys.

00:03:05.000 Pete's a friend personally.

00:03:07.000 I haven't talked to him about this, but I just, I can tell you, on its face, the guys, especially the political appointees that are now in charge of the Department of War, are absolutely devoted to rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse, all of this stuff.

00:03:21.000 And there is a huge, and it sounds like you're very well aware of this, a huge behemoth of a procurement process that was in place and it's been in place for years and years and years that favors the incumbents, that favors the bloated companies, that favors the old school companies.

00:03:36.000 What they're trying to do is they're trying to revamp a lot of this.

00:03:39.000 You know, you hear about Palmer Lucky with Andorill and kind of what they're doing, this new age of defense contractors that are lighter, more nimble.

00:03:48.000 They're more advanced.

00:03:49.000 They're using better technology.

00:03:50.000 They're thinking about war in new and creative ways.

00:03:54.000 There's a bunch of companies like that, actually, startups all across the country, huge entrepreneurial neural class.

00:04:02.000 Maybe they were fighting wars 10 years ago, and now they're trying to build the machines and the technologies that will help us win wars in the future.

00:04:10.000 There's a huge group of these guys all over the country.

00:04:13.000 And so they're trying to break into this procurement process because they know exactly what you said.

00:04:17.000 But the old dogs, they're full of bloat.

00:04:19.000 There's full of backpadding.

00:04:21.000 There's full of workarounds, and they're all taking money on the side.

00:04:25.000 It's a huge, huge problem.

00:04:26.000 I can tell you, Secretary Hegseth is aware that this is happening.

00:04:30.000 There's a whole team that's dedicated to doing just what you're doing.

00:04:34.000 So, yes, if you guys get us stuff that you want us to pass along, obviously, this is you know, Department of War is not our specialty, but we know a lot of those guys, and we'd be happy to pass it on.

00:04:45.000 And I believe they've also got whistleblower protections at the federal level within the Department of War.

00:04:50.000 There should be already routes that you can take.

00:04:53.000 There's an armed services committee, and you got to look up and down that list and see who the good guys are because a lot of those guys are, it's kind of like the Intel committee.

00:05:01.000 You know, you don't really want to go directly to some of those guys.

00:05:05.000 So, I hate to be that blunt, but you got to find the right voices there.

00:05:09.000 Also, by the way, we just had Eli Crane.

00:05:12.000 This is a former special services guy.

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00:05:25.000 I was just going to say the same thing.

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00:05:29.000 This guy is really on.

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00:05:52.000 Yeah, and email us freedom at charliekirk.com if you have any documents you want to send us.

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00:06:04.000 Does that answer your question?

00:06:05.000 Do you have any follow-up there, James?

00:06:08.000 Yes, sir, and I appreciate your time.

00:06:11.000 So the problem as I see it is the Department of Defense IG is actively part of the problem.

00:06:17.000 So when I did report it multiple times and other people report it multiple times, they just seem to proceed to help cover up or whitewash the report.

00:06:26.000 And what happened in this case, they apparently lost a lot of equipment.

00:06:31.000 They broke into dozens of U.S. contractors' bedrooms in foreign soil.

00:06:35.000 And so that shows just how the state of our inventory, which obviously means how many times has this happened?

00:06:44.000 How many, you know, is that equipment compromised?

00:06:46.000 Were people trying to, you know, you only take SIP or computers for, you know, there's not very many reasons you would do something like that.

00:06:54.000 And then they just downgraded it.

00:06:56.000 I don't want to get, you know, because it's a long story.

00:06:59.000 Yeah, the route then is to go around the IG.

00:07:02.000 I mean, I can't vouch for what you're saying, but I don't know the IG at the Department of War, but then go through an Eli Crane, go through a congressional committee or get stuff directly to Pete Hegseth's office.

00:07:14.000 That's what I would say.

00:07:15.000 Yes, sir.

00:07:15.000 And I appreciate your help.

00:07:17.000 And if you don't mind, just I'll try to email that all the information I have.

00:07:23.000 It's a lot of documents.

00:07:24.000 It's probably like at least 40 documents.

00:07:27.000 And what's your background?

00:07:28.000 If you can tell us, kind of, are you former military?

00:07:31.000 Yes, I'm a former, I'm a former military officer, and I've been working as a defense contractor for about 12 years after I completed my service.

00:07:42.000 Well, thank you for your service.

00:07:43.000 Yeah, God bless you.

00:07:45.000 Thank you for keeping an eye on the ball here with us.

00:07:48.000 This stuff requires vigilance.

00:07:50.000 It does.

00:07:51.000 Because this stuff happens, you know, every year, new contracts get doled out, new go-betweens are getting established.

00:07:58.000 A lot of them come out of the military.

00:08:00.000 You know, this world very well.

00:08:02.000 It's big.

00:08:02.000 There's a lot of money sloshing around.

00:08:04.000 It's like that and HHS are the two, the two agencies where so much of this goes on, where it's this revolving door of you're appointed, you're in the admin, and then you go out into the private sector.

00:08:16.000 You spend a lot of money, and then we're like, well, we must have the strongest military in the world because we spend the most money, right?

00:08:21.000 Right.

00:08:23.000 And we can't buy it.

00:08:24.000 But how much is wasted?

00:08:25.000 Oh, yeah.

00:08:25.000 No, I can't build ships.

00:08:28.000 I think you could get nearly the same outcome out of our military with half that military budget.

00:08:32.000 I really believe it's that extreme.

00:08:34.000 Maybe it's maybe 60, 40, 70, 30, but it could be 50.

00:08:37.000 We're also, this is not really direct military spending, but we're actually on a trajectory where our VA spending might exceed military spending eventually, which is remarkable because the number of veterans is going down.

00:08:47.000 We don't have the World War II generations. 0.92

00:08:49.000 Yeah, it's interesting.

00:08:50.000 I know a guy who worked on the VA bill during Trump 1.0.

00:08:53.000 Lots of stories there.

00:08:55.000 Next up is Josh.

00:08:57.000 Josh, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

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00:09:00.000 Hey, can you guys hear me?

00:09:01.000 Yes, we can.

00:09:02.000 Hey, Josh.

00:09:04.000 Hey, I went to Amfest, and that was great.

00:09:06.000 I want to thank you guys for putting that on.

00:09:08.000 That was really fun.

00:09:09.000 I went to all those members' podcasts.

00:09:11.000 I met Blake, got a picture, so that was great.

00:09:13.000 Nice.

00:09:15.000 Those are great, right?

00:09:17.000 We only have a minute here, but like tell the audience what that's like because it's one thing for me to say.

00:09:22.000 It's another thing for you.

00:09:24.000 Well, Amfest was great.

00:09:25.000 You know, you always hear on like X, everything is so divided, but it really wasn't that bad.

00:09:29.000 Like, I would talk to some of my friends that I met that were all around my age of 18, and they were just like, you know, I disagree with you, but that's a good point.

00:09:36.000 And we weren't like, you know, mad at each other.

00:09:38.000 It was just really friendly.

00:09:40.000 Yeah.

00:09:40.000 And the members, you went to the members' podcast.

00:09:43.000 Tell us about that.

00:09:44.000 Who did you see us speak with there?

00:09:46.000 I think I went to every single one except the Korean brothers and Don Jr. because I was you missed out at the Korean brothers one. 0.96

00:09:53.000 Yeah, well, Don Jr. I got the back half of it where they were like messing up their English, which was pretty funny and wholesome.

00:09:59.000 I thought that was pretty funny.

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00:11:34.000 Josh was telling us about all the fun he had at Amfest in the members podcast room, which is, I think, one of the best things that we do, actually.

00:11:47.000 And I love doing it.

00:11:48.000 And I'm sorry that we couldn't get more people in for the Don Jr. Interview, but again, complicated business with the Secret Service.

00:11:54.000 But yeah, we had Megan Kelly, we had Ali Beth Stuckey, we had Tom Homan, we had the Korean, the Korean guys that forget the sons, the sons of Sun, Pastor Sun's sons. 0.96

00:12:07.000 We had so many, we had a lot of great conversations, and we'll keep those going for sure.

00:12:12.000 Josh, welcome back to the show.

00:12:14.000 What's your question?

00:12:15.000 So I'm from Minnesota, and I was wondering with all the stuff going on, getting all the people out of here and deported and all that stuff.

00:12:21.000 Is there any hope for our races getting rid of Waltz and then Ilhan Omar, especially?

00:12:27.000 Yeah, so Waltz is out, right?

00:12:29.000 Waltz is with, he's no longer running for re-election.

00:12:32.000 He's not running for re-election.

00:12:33.000 There's been some speculation that he might actually dip out of being governor before the end of his term, but we'll see.

00:12:39.000 I don't know if that's true or not.

00:12:40.000 There's some speculation around that based off of some of the interesting findings that are being, you know, the threads that are being pulled.

00:12:47.000 And this goes to show, again, when good things start happening, there can be a domino effect that causes a lot of chaos for the Dems.

00:12:54.000 And so that's a great, that's a great story.

00:12:57.000 You have a governor's race right now, as you know, that has a ton of candidates that are running it.

00:13:02.000 Our friend Mike Lindell is running in it.

00:13:05.000 Right now, he's not polling at the top.

00:13:08.000 There were two people who kind of duked it out in 2022 last time.

00:13:13.000 Jensen, who is who was the nominee last time, Scott Jensen, who's a decent guy, pretty strong.

00:13:22.000 He had a decent showing, but lost last time to Waltz.

00:13:27.000 And then another guy named Kendall Qualls, who is a healthcare technology executive.

00:13:32.000 It's also running that has been polling towards the top.

00:13:37.000 Yeah, I mean, I'll be honest with you.

00:13:39.000 The Minnesota Republican situation is a little bit of a disaster because it's not well funded.

00:13:44.000 Like most Republicans.

00:13:46.000 It's always been one of the most dysfunctional Republican parties.

00:13:49.000 It's pretty dysfunctional just in general.

00:13:52.000 And I'm not saying that as pointed at any particular person, but you have a strong amount of good conservatives in the state of Minnesota.

00:14:02.000 And then you have a really weak establishment that tries to control everything.

00:14:07.000 And then they end up just buckling and bending the knee of the Democrats, which has led to a fairly deep blue state that is probably winnable, but at this point.

00:14:16.000 So I'll just simplify this and say this is that if you don't consolidate around one candidate and push forward, it's really hard because you can't attract the people to drive the votes, like the body.

00:14:27.000 So you need a turning point action style chase the vote operation in order to win Minnesota.

00:14:32.000 It's a must.

00:14:33.000 You have to chase votes to win.

00:14:35.000 Have you done data on that?

00:14:36.000 On how many people, low prop voters there are.

00:14:38.000 We pulled all the data.

00:14:39.000 And in Minnesota, the numbers aren't good, just straight off the top.

00:14:42.000 The numbers are not great for Republicans.

00:14:45.000 What's not great about them?

00:14:46.000 There's just not enough votes to topple the amount of votes that the Democrats can chase. 0.86

00:14:51.000 So basically what this comes down to is when you look at the map, if the Democrats have far more low propensity votes to chase than we do, if they fund the systems to chase those votes, then you're going to lose.

00:15:02.000 The second piece, though, is that if you don't consolidate around, and I'll hand it off to you here, Blake, if you don't consolidate around one candidate, then the establishment doesn't do their job in buying the TV, the ads to increase the name ID so that, again, more people who are just your mid to high propensity voters will vote for that guy.

00:15:21.000 Yeah, no, he also asked about Ilhan Omar.

00:15:23.000 I'll be frank, we're not getting rid of Ilhan Omar unless we deport her, basically.

00:15:28.000 Her district is cartoonishly safe.

00:15:31.000 I think they once had an attempted challenge against her.

00:15:34.000 They did from another Somali. 0.92

00:15:35.000 Yeah, and she got blown up.

00:15:37.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:15:38.000 And so Ilhan Omar is one of those safest, safe, get seats unless we did natural. 0.98

00:15:44.000 Basically, unless she's indicted or deported or denaturalized.

00:15:48.000 Interestingly enough, this week, Michelle Tafoya, a longtime reporter, got into the Senate race. 0.98

00:15:52.000 We have a couple of other friends who are in the center race as well.

00:15:56.000 That could be.

00:15:57.000 Michelle is a name.

00:15:58.000 Is a name.

00:15:58.000 She's.

00:15:59.000 She's like a normie conservative. 1.00

00:16:00.000 I think we get attached sometimes, I think, to these.

00:16:04.000 I wouldn't assume she's going to win.

00:16:05.000 I mean, we ran Herschel Walker in Georgia.

00:16:07.000 Anybody's going to win.

00:16:08.000 No one's a Sona.

00:16:09.000 Yeah, nobody's assuming.

00:16:10.000 I'm just saying she might be a candidate people could rally behind because she's normie. 0.99

00:16:14.000 People know her from her sideline reporting.

00:16:17.000 She's been in the public space even after she left doing her NFL commentary.

00:16:22.000 And she's been, she's just normal.

00:16:24.000 She's just kind of a reasonable, normal person is the electable in Minnesota.

00:16:28.000 She might be able to attract the number, the amount of money that's needed to stave a serious Senate challenge that could increase the voter turnout for that day. 1.00

00:16:42.000 And again, you have a lot of voters in a state like Minnesota who potentially might split, right?

00:16:47.000 So that could vote up.

00:16:50.000 They could vote for a new governor candidate.

00:16:53.000 I'm saying like a center-left person that's not happy with the way that the state's been run and the Waltz stuff and the findings, where they could vote all Democrats, but then vote for a Republican governor, for example.

00:17:04.000 We see that happen in a lot of places.

00:17:07.000 And we see that conversely happen in a lot of places for us.

00:17:10.000 Like, again, like your Kentucky's, your Kansases, other places.

00:17:13.000 I mean, I think if we're going to win Minnesota, we just actually have to maximize the fact that Minnesota is horribly messed up.

00:17:19.000 Waltz dropped out because the Somali fraud scandal, other fraud scandals have actually bubbled up to the point of being something they can't ignore.

00:17:28.000 Even the New York Times had to come in and admit that it's really real.

00:17:31.000 So it really is, you could say, a generational opportunity of how badly the state is run while not being so blue that it's effectively unwinnable the way California is.

00:17:42.000 And so I definitely don't think it's really a shame that we don't have a better Republican Party there because this should be an eminently winnable race.

00:17:52.000 Every other state near, you know, in that kind of chain of states that resemble Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, all of those states generally moved right in the presidential level.

00:18:04.000 They were pretty winnable at the state level.

00:18:06.000 And Minnesota's just been bluer than them.

00:18:09.000 And it really shouldn't be insofar as there's a lot of really messed up things that their state Democrat Party has done that a lot of people really don't like.

00:18:19.000 Yet it's been a challenge over and over.

00:18:22.000 Well, and I would just say you said it, the generational opportunity.

00:18:25.000 I think that's right.

00:18:27.000 There was a big story.

00:18:28.000 I want to make sure we play it.

00:18:29.000 We have enough time before the break.

00:18:31.000 A whistleblower out of Minnesota is throwing allegations at Keith Ellison and Tim Waltz, 451.

00:18:36.000 Whistleblowers told a congressional committee, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison there ignored warnings for years as millions of dollars and millions were stolen on their watch.

00:18:48.000 Congress is investigating a long list of massive fraud schemes in the state.

00:18:51.000 It's hard to keep up.

00:18:52.000 Prosecutors say it's led to at least $9 billion in fraud dana and counting.

00:18:57.000 Congress also asking why the attorney general there would meet with a group of Somali fraudsters, which were under FBI investigation in 2021.

00:19:06.000 The group can be heard in an audio clip given to us by Bach's lawyer offering to donate to his campaign if he can help them get their funding flowing again.

00:19:15.000 Ellison denies any wrongdoing here.

00:19:17.000 He slammed Bach in a statement to Fox, calling her a liar and manipulator, adding, now she's on a media tour to deflect her guild onto others instead of finally taking responsibility for this fraud scheme that she ran. 1.00

00:19:29.000 Yeah, so she, that was the Feed Our Futures fraud scheme. 0.89

00:19:32.000 She's in prison, and she's basically saying there's no way they couldn't have known while Keith Ellison was meeting with people that were under FBI investigation at the time.

00:19:42.000 So we've gone through the Minnesota question.

00:19:45.000 I believe it's a generational opportunity.

00:19:48.000 Not sure if we're going to catch fire and catch momentum there or not, but they're under FBI investigation.

00:19:53.000 I forgot.

00:19:54.000 They are under FBI investigation.

00:19:55.000 Both Jacob Fry and Tim Waltz are under investigation.

00:19:59.000 I mean, listen, these are bad optics.

00:20:01.000 However, it's just a ⁇ I think the whole thing is a PR game.

00:20:05.000 It really is.

00:20:06.000 So we have another question here.

00:20:07.000 It's actually from Ian, who is unable to call in, apparently.

00:20:12.000 He says, I'll read it because you guys will have to answer it.

00:20:15.000 So this is from Ian.

00:20:17.000 What are signs that you met someone worth marrying?

00:20:20.000 Is finding someone that shares conservative and Christian values so rare these days that we should overvalue that with the level of oversaturation, of promiscuity, and perversion that has tarred the dating pool? 0.95

00:20:32.000 How did you know your spouse was right for you?

00:20:35.000 I know marriage wasn't made to make you happy, but to make us holy.

00:20:38.000 Also, how have we not found Blake a wife yet?

00:20:41.000 Thinking face, just kidding.

00:20:43.000 Love you all.

00:20:44.000 That's from Ian.

00:20:45.000 Well, I can't answer that question.

00:20:46.000 It's not for lack of effort.

00:20:48.000 I mean, Charlie tried really hard, too.

00:20:50.000 So, you know, Blake, what is the answer there?

00:20:55.000 He doesn't want to answer it.

00:20:56.000 It's fine.

00:20:57.000 I am a private man.

00:20:58.000 He's a private man, and he's, you know, listen, he's got standards.

00:21:01.000 He's got standards.

00:21:03.000 I would say, you know, all you can do is talk from your personal experience.

00:21:08.000 And when I met my wife, I will tell you that it was like everything that had been hard in every other relationship was easy all of a sudden.

00:21:16.000 We wanted to do the same things at the same time.

00:21:19.000 We shared the same values.

00:21:20.000 We had the same outlook on what we wanted for our future.

00:21:23.000 We were able to pray together.

00:21:25.000 We were able to go to church together.

00:21:28.000 And here's the other thing.

00:21:29.000 There was no fighting.

00:21:30.000 We didn't fight.

00:21:31.000 Some people will tell you you have to fight and you have to go through these.

00:21:33.000 It's not like we didn't have disagreements, but we didn't fight.

00:21:36.000 We weren't at each other's throats all the time.

00:21:39.000 It was just easy and it was fun.

00:21:42.000 And I think, you know, there is a sanctification portion of being married.

00:21:47.000 That's absolutely true.

00:21:49.000 But for us, it was just all of the things that you kind of assumed were going to be the case with dating and relationships, it just wasn't the case anymore.

00:21:59.000 We just knew that we fit together.

00:22:01.000 And when you share values, I mean, here's one thing that I completely agree with with Charlie.

00:22:07.000 Charlie would say, don't date a Democrat or a progressive if you're a conservative.

00:22:11.000 You're inviting a ton of conflict into your life, into your relationship that you don't need to have there.

00:22:17.000 And if you're a Christian, a serious Christian, you should be dating a serious Christian and you should be dating intentionally to get married. 0.69

00:22:23.000 It doesn't mean it can't be fun and exciting and all those good things.

00:22:27.000 And by the way, it doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions to that rule.

00:22:30.000 But as a general rule of thumb, date Christians if you're a Christian.

00:22:33.000 Date a conservative if you're a conservative, especially the way the culture's gone and everything's so much more political these days.

00:22:39.000 Everything gets brought up in a relationship.

00:22:41.000 It's going to determine which school you send your kids to, what religion you raise them under.

00:22:46.000 It's going to determine what kind of shows you watch, what kind of movies you go to as a family.

00:22:50.000 All of those little mundane things become controversial.

00:22:54.000 They become rife with conflict if you do not marry people that are on the same page as you.

00:22:58.000 So when you know, you kind of know, honestly.

00:23:01.000 And, you know, there's a pastor friend of mine.

00:23:03.000 It was, it was basically like, find a woman you're attracted to and it'll put up with you.

00:23:06.000 That was his direction.

00:23:09.000 I think it's a little bit more complicated than that, but there's a truth in what he was saying.

00:23:13.000 That, listen, your job as a man, get a job, provide for your family, provide and protect your future children.

00:23:19.000 Be all of those things.

00:23:20.000 Be intentional about the way you spend your time.

00:23:22.000 Be intentional about the way that you pursue your career and try and be a man that's worthy of a great wife.

00:23:28.000 And hopefully you find a wife that is trying to do the same thing on her end of the equation. 1.00

00:23:34.000 What about you, Tyler?

00:23:35.000 What about you?

00:23:37.000 What about me?

00:23:38.000 What's your advice for somebody?

00:23:40.000 How do you think you've got the right wife? 1.00

00:23:41.000 I think you have.

00:23:45.000 I think you, it's, it's, it's one of those things where you have to put yourself in the batter's box and you have to take swings and the right thing happens.

00:23:53.000 Not all the time, but, you know, some of the time it happens and then it just kind of works its way out.

00:24:00.000 Like you just got to dating, I think, is just like anything that we deal with on the social scale with political is like when you show up, things start happening.

00:24:12.000 And I think that's just what life's all about is all those things.

00:24:15.000 I think most people, and this has no commentary on you, because I don't know your personal dating life, but others of my friends that sometimes they feel like, oh, I'm not finding the right person or whatever.

00:24:27.000 It's like, well, are you investing enough of the time to be around the people that you want to be around and that you want to try to be around?

00:24:34.000 And the good news is with Turning Point, there's a lot of those people who show up around our stuff.

00:24:39.000 And so this is a great place where people meet each other.

00:24:42.000 We have a lot of turning point babies and a lot of turning point weddings.

00:24:45.000 And in fact, going to mini this year, I have like a wedding like every other week for the next like three months.

00:24:51.000 You've kind of aged out of the time where you're supposed to be going to a wedding every month, but at turning point, it's like at turning point, you never get out of it.

00:24:58.000 Yeah, you never get out of it because everyone's like in their 20s and 30s.

00:25:01.000 I would say this too.

00:25:02.000 There's a great expression.

00:25:04.000 You cannot turn a parked car.

00:25:06.000 So if you desire to be married and have kids, you got to move forward because then you can sort of, to Tyler's point, you can put yourself in the batter's box.

00:25:14.000 You can try more things.

00:25:15.000 You can date more people. 0.99

00:25:16.000 That whole kiss dating goodbye thing that was like a 90s phenomenon, that's garbage. 0.99

00:25:21.000 I think you should date. 0.96

00:25:22.000 The guy who wrote that became is like now non-religious.

00:25:24.000 Yeah, he's like, he divorced his wife, I believe.

00:25:26.000 He divorced his wife.

00:25:28.000 I think so.

00:25:29.000 I might be mistaken on it.

00:25:30.000 He definitely is not too Christian anymore.

00:25:33.000 Yeah, he apologized for writing that.

00:25:34.000 And I know he's like an atheist now.

00:25:35.000 But anyways, it took fire and it was like all these people that weren't dating because they wanted to remain pure.

00:25:40.000 Definitely remain pure.

00:25:41.000 You are not supposed to be having sex before you're married.

00:25:43.000 That's an absolute certainty.

00:25:46.000 There's no budging on that.

00:25:47.000 We don't budge on that.

00:25:49.000 But you got to be able to experience somebody and get to know them and understand them.

00:25:55.000 And, you know, another piece of advice that I think is really good is you date for all seasons.

00:25:59.000 So, meaning if you're going to get married to somebody, there's no time limit.

00:26:02.000 There's no rules.

00:26:02.000 You do you.

00:26:03.000 But I do think it's important you four seasons.

00:26:07.000 So you can look at it as spring, winter, summer, fall, or you can look at it as good times and bad.

00:26:13.000 See them at their worst.

00:26:14.000 See them at their best.

00:26:14.000 See them when they're having fun.

00:26:15.000 See them when they're working hard.

00:26:16.000 You want to know somebody has character to match.

00:26:19.000 And here, here's one last thing.

00:26:20.000 And I say this to the guys out there.

00:26:22.000 My wife is an amazing mother to our kids. 0.98

00:26:24.000 Amazing.

00:26:25.000 That was not something I was thinking about as intentionally as I probably should have.

00:26:30.000 And I got lucky, candidly.

00:26:31.000 I mean, I knew she had great character.

00:26:33.000 I knew she was fun. 0.98

00:26:35.000 She had a great disposition, great personality, all of this.

00:26:38.000 I didn't realize how important that would be when you actually are in the mundane life of just running a household day in, day out, and making sure your kids get to school, making sure they have their lunch boxes full, making sure that they get to their lessons.

00:26:53.000 Having a wife that you would trust to raise your children, it's a huge, a huge, huge issue. 1.00

00:27:00.000 And I suppose that goes both ways.

00:27:02.000 I'm thinking about it from a male perspective.

00:27:04.000 But women, marry a man that you want your children to be like. 1.00

00:27:08.000 I think that's a huge, huge deal.

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00:28:10.000 Next question.

00:28:12.000 We have this one from Joe.

00:28:13.000 Who is performing at the turning point halftime show?

00:28:16.000 And who do you guys think will be in win the Super Bowl?

00:28:20.000 Well, the Packers.

00:28:21.000 They definitely can't be in.

00:28:23.000 No, they won't be there for a while.

00:28:25.000 They're clearly.

00:28:25.000 Oh, don't be such a doomer.

00:28:27.000 No, I mean, we should just set this up by saying, man, it's getting bleak. 0.86

00:28:31.000 I think apparently the bunny who is bad is going to wear a dress and he's going to dedicate the show to queer icons. 0.98

00:28:38.000 I think we have some graphics on this.

00:28:39.000 What's great about that?

00:28:40.000 I'll be frank.

00:28:41.000 I have to chastise conservatives a bit because I'll still, I will run into conservatives to this day who will, one, they'll gloat that the NFL's ratings are in the toilet due to boycotts while admitting they themselves still watch the NFL and all its games.

00:28:55.000 Are they in the toilet?

00:28:56.000 No, no, the NFL's ratings are better than ever.

00:28:58.000 The Wrights attempt to boycott the NFL was a big failure.

00:29:02.000 The NFL is invincible and unstoppable.

00:29:04.000 I mean, it's not like Bud Light where we can just literally choose from 48 million other options.

00:29:09.000 Bud Light was a very special case.

00:29:11.000 And I'm glad it worked.

00:29:12.000 But Bud Light was special because it's something that's super fungible.

00:29:16.000 It's something you mostly, no one's super passionate about Bud Light.

00:29:20.000 It's like a very passive, you know, you mildly like good.

00:29:23.000 It's easily replaced by other things.

00:29:25.000 You mostly consume it socially, so it was really easy to bully people and make fun of them for having the gay beer and all of that.

00:29:32.000 It's not like that with the NFL.

00:29:34.000 People are fanatical about it.

00:29:36.000 It's omnipresent.

00:29:36.000 There's no alternative football league that's of any noteworthiness.

00:29:40.000 Or you can go be a soccer fan.

00:29:42.000 The Canadian Football League with the CFL.

00:29:45.000 Nobody's watching that.

00:29:45.000 Three downs.

00:29:46.000 Unless you're Canadian, nobody's watching that. 1.00

00:29:48.000 Exactly.

00:29:49.000 No one's even watching it in Canada.

00:29:50.000 They're kind of in dicey financial statements.

00:29:52.000 Yeah, it's all of that.

00:29:53.000 So it's tough.

00:29:53.000 But it does mean it's, and the NFL is very good at marketing to everyone.

00:29:58.000 During Floyd de Palooza, they gave Jay-Z total control of the halftime show.

00:30:02.000 That's how we got here.

00:30:03.000 That's how we got here.

00:30:04.000 They just said, Jay-Z, your company, I think Rock Nation is the name of it, you get control of the Super Bowl halftime show.

00:30:10.000 And he just kind of picks whoever he wants.

00:30:11.000 And so he's picked these insane anti-American acts.

00:30:16.000 Yeah, the thing, I mean, Bad Bunny, listen, this is not an anti-Hispanic American thing.

00:30:22.000 But when Bad Bunny comes out and says, you have four months to learn Spanish, and he's not going to do any of his songs in English.

00:30:29.000 And now, to add insult to injury, he's going to pay homage to queer icons.

00:30:36.000 His whole outfits, queer icons. 0.97

00:30:38.000 Bad Bunny plans to use Super Bowl halftime show to honor queer icons. 0.96

00:30:42.000 Plans to wear a dress.

00:30:44.000 So this is him thumbing his nose at all of you in this audience.

00:30:49.000 This is not a good guy.

00:30:50.000 So yes, we are moving forward with the halftime show.

00:30:53.000 Well, shoot.

00:30:54.000 With the, yeah, we can say halftime.

00:30:56.000 We can show that.

00:30:58.000 I forget the, I forget there's a legalese.

00:31:00.000 There, all-American halftime show.

00:31:02.000 So that's, we are moving forward with that on 2-8, 2026.

00:31:07.000 Tune in on all our socials, all our streamers.

00:31:09.000 Real America's Voice is going to be taking it.

00:31:12.000 I think a couple other outlets are going to be taking it.

00:31:14.000 People reached out.

00:31:17.000 So you can watch it.

00:31:18.000 We're going to have it from, it's going to be a number of acts.

00:31:22.000 We haven't announced them yet.

00:31:24.000 We're still making final tweaks on it, actually.

00:31:26.000 We added a huge name just this week on it.

00:31:30.000 So we are moving forward.

00:31:31.000 It's going to be great.

00:31:32.000 It's going to be All-Americana. 0.89

00:31:34.000 It's going to be Faith, Family, and Freedom.

00:31:37.000 It's going to be exactly the perfect answer to what's going on with Bad Bunny.

00:31:43.000 And I wish we didn't have to do it, but we're going to do it.

00:31:46.000 We have a question from Mick, I believe.

00:31:49.000 Mick about March for Life.

00:31:51.000 How are you?

00:31:52.000 Hey, Mick.

00:31:52.000 Welcome to the show.

00:31:53.000 How are you doing?

00:31:54.000 I'm doing great.

00:31:55.000 Quick little homage to Charlie.

00:31:57.000 He was a big part of helping form the views I have today.

00:32:00.000 You know, going back to middle school.

00:32:02.000 Met my Aunt L. Coleman in Montana.

00:32:04.000 Great, great guy.

00:32:04.000 That's awesome.

00:32:05.000 God bless you.

00:32:08.000 My question for you guys: obviously, today is the March for Life.

00:32:12.000 We heard from Vice President Vance earlier today.

00:32:15.000 And specifically for you, Tyler, have we had any updates on legislation in some of the red states you guys have been working in on pro-life issues?

00:32:24.000 Yeah, so this has actually been one, I think, one of the biggest victories in the Trump era is that the pro-life movement has become stronger.

00:32:35.000 We're in a stronger position because of the president.

00:32:37.000 There's pressure that people don't see that's actually happening from the Trump administration with executive orders because remember, a lot of governors and a lot of presidents operate on pro-life issues based off executive orders.

00:32:52.000 So they can ignore laws that have been passed in some cases.

00:32:57.000 We've seen that with governors and AGs who have done that.

00:33:00.000 And then we've seen enacting specific executive orders that actually really trounce on some of the pro-life increases that have happened in some of these states.

00:33:13.000 It's without question, every poll that we've seen has shown that young people are more pro-life than even the millennial generation.

00:33:21.000 Yeah, Gen Z is definitely more pro-life.

00:33:22.000 And millennials more than Gen X.

00:33:25.000 So the question that you have, which is how do we pass more laws?

00:33:29.000 Well, unfortunately, there's a couple of different things that are happening.

00:33:32.000 The left is trying to pass constitution changing laws in a lot of places to, you know, after the Roe v. Wade overturn.

00:33:43.000 Not to get too deeply into this because we only have a few minutes here, but they're trying to pass laws that write into the Constitution of the states to basically put back into place Roe v. Wade.

00:33:56.000 Those have passed in some states that you would consider maybe lean right overwhelmingly.

00:34:05.000 Yeah, it was a huge setback.

00:34:07.000 So the question now at this point is: are there different types of pieces of legislation that can limit the amount of abortion that is completed within your state?

00:34:21.000 There are.

00:34:22.000 While giving access up until whatever the constitutional number of weeks that gets passed into those states, I would just say this is that there's been laws that have been passed, like in Florida, and I've been pushed by Texas, Governor DeSantis, Texas, the heartbeat bills that are, I think, the most common sense, best way forward that shift the conversation to the right, where most anyone that you poll talks about when the heartbeat is detectable,

00:34:50.000 that's when you got to, you have to say there's absolutely no more.

00:34:54.000 That is far better than a 20-week or six weeks.

00:34:58.000 It's usually right in the ballpark of four to six weeks.

00:35:01.000 And so, again, without getting to, because no matter what I say, it will be attacked or it'll go back to spawn.

00:35:10.000 But I think a great step in the right direction is our heartbeat bills.

00:35:14.000 We are seeing those get passed in many states, and those have to be in the states that a heartbeat bill has not yet been passed.

00:35:21.000 I would love to see that.

00:35:22.000 Now, the argument that most people say and they vote against the heartbeat bills is that's not good enough.

00:35:26.000 It should be zero abortion. 1.00

00:35:28.000 Again, Charlie would agree with this.

00:35:30.000 I totally agree with that.

00:35:31.000 I would love to live in a state that has zero abortion. 1.00

00:35:34.000 However, the problem that happens, like Arizona is a good example of this.

00:35:38.000 We could have put on the ballot a Harpy bill. 1.00

00:35:41.000 And the Republican legislature decided not to do that because they were afraid that it would not be popular enough or whatever.

00:35:47.000 Again, like Florida had put on, Texas had done.

00:35:50.000 And instead, what happened was another constitutional amendment got passed that basically put into place Roe v. Wade style membership.

00:35:59.000 It's tough.

00:36:00.000 And one thing we have to confront that Charlie was frank about is conservative abortion views are, they're usually not a majority opinion.

00:36:08.000 Generally, when we've had an up or down vote on abortion restrictions, it doesn't go great.

00:36:13.000 We've had some better ones.

00:36:15.000 In Florida, it went well because they needed 60%.

00:36:18.000 In South Dakota, I think, is the only one where it's just an up or down, needed 50% vote to repeal a strict abortion law failed.

00:36:25.000 So that was great.

00:36:26.000 I was very happy about that.

00:36:27.000 But it is tough.

00:36:28.000 We have to, we won in the Supreme Court, and the thing about it is that did not end the battle.

00:36:33.000 In a sense, it began the battle.

00:36:35.000 The left had just said, oh, it's actually unconstitutional to really debate abortion seriously.

00:36:40.000 And once you overturned that, it wasn't abortion suddenly illegal.

00:36:43.000 It was we're allowed to make the case.

00:36:46.000 And what we've seen, frankly, is it's sad to say, there's a lot of young women who might go to church and they might say that they said they were pro-life when it wasn't, the stakes were not there.

00:36:56.000 But once it really was an up or down vote on that right, they turned the other way.

00:37:01.000 And we've seen that in the polls, that young women have become sharply more pro-abortion in the last three years.

00:37:07.000 Yeah, and I would say, you know, this question is putting me back, Mick, into that 2024 headspace when, if you'll remember, we were all arguing about whether or not there was this hidden woman vote and Trump was going to get, you know, crushed because of the abortion issue.

00:37:21.000 The Democrats were trying to make it a huge issue. 0.80

00:37:22.000 They were trying to sneak that like they did in Arizona onto the ballot because they thought, well, if people are going to come out to the polls to vote in favor of abortion, that Trump's going to lose.

00:37:32.000 The good news is that obviously Trump won.

00:37:35.000 The abortion topic did not end up sinking his candidacy, and we have Trump 47 now.

00:37:40.000 So I would say the news is good and bad.

00:37:43.000 The news is that you can overcome this politically and conservatives need to get a backbone.

00:37:47.000 I am 100% pro-life in every single conceivable possible way.

00:37:51.000 So, and it sounds like I join you with that.

00:37:54.000 And there have been restrictions, whether it's South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri.

00:38:02.000 Utah's even appropriated money to their pro-life Utah.

00:38:05.000 So there's broader efforts that are happening.

00:38:07.000 But to Blake's point, in Kansas, you saw a rejection.

00:38:11.000 Kansas, you saw a rejection of a pro-life measure.

00:38:14.000 Kentucky, you saw the, it was 59-41 it lost.

00:38:19.000 Ohio, 57-43.

00:38:22.000 These are reliably red states that are declining to pass pro-life ballot measures.

00:38:28.000 So when you have that kind of dynamic, I think it scared off a lot of conservatives and it's conservative legislature.

00:38:32.000 If you want to make a gain at this point, one of the most important things you could do is the states that should be going our way and they didn't because they have bad courts.

00:38:40.000 So we had Wyoming, I think one week ago, Wyoming, their Supreme Court went and said, actually, you have a right to abortion because of this Obamacare law that we passed.

00:38:52.000 It's healthcare.

00:38:52.000 Utah also, I believe their Supreme Court is what upheld more liberal abortion regimes.

00:38:57.000 So if you want, our two best states to pick up are those two by making their state courts actually aligned with what conservative voters believe.

00:39:05.000 And I think that's our best chance to make some gains.

00:39:08.000 I'm looking at the map here.

00:39:09.000 We could probably make improvements in Nebraska.

00:39:12.000 Oh, another, Nebraska has a law that we need to change to make more conservative.

00:39:16.000 What a shock.

00:39:18.000 Missouri, potentially.

00:39:19.000 That's where we have our best options.

00:39:20.000 And we hate to give you the incremental answer, Mick, but like to Tyler's earlier point, things like heartbeat laws actually have a good PR spin.

00:39:29.000 It kind of feels better.

00:39:31.000 Normie voters who aren't tuned into this stuff all the way, maybe it's easier to vote for that stuff.

00:39:35.000 Most importantly, it's a step in the right direction.

00:39:37.000 It's like if you have nothing now, get something on the board and then go more conservative after that.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 26, 2026

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