00:00:43.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:50.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:07.000In fact, some people say over 100 million people are struggling with some kind of pain, maybe from exercise or just getting older.
00:01:13.000Now, Pete and Seth Talbot, they are on a mission.
00:01:15.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
00:01:17.000They recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their total number of happy customers in the next year.
00:01:36.000So maybe you want to be able to do cartwheels or be able to do backflips like producer Andrew.
00:01:41.000Maybe you want to be able to run a marathon, swim under seas, swim underwater, go scuba diving, jump out of an airplane, but maybe it's your knee pain, back pain, joint pain, whatever pain it might be.
00:02:01.000Front page of the New York Times: CDC again calls for indoor masks as a variant erupts.
00:02:10.000Revising its guidance for the vaccinated who live in new COVID hotspots.
00:02:17.000Revising a decision made just two months ago.
00:02:19.000The CDC said on Tuesday that vaccinated people against the coronavirus should resume wearing masks in public indoor spaces in parts of the country where the virus is surging.
00:02:32.000CDC officials also called for universal masking for teachers, staff, students, visitors in schools, regardless of vaccination status.
00:02:45.000I'm going to go back to something that we have mentioned many times here on this program, which is a teaching of Aristotle.
00:02:57.000Now, not many terrestrial radio show hosts dare mention Aristotle on air, not because they don't know it, it's just they're afraid that people are going to fall asleep and it will cause head-on collisions and traffic accidents.
00:03:47.000And doing everything that will keep all the people as unknown to one another as possible, since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:04:01.000Tyrants do everything they can to keep people unknown to one another as possible, since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:09:00.000Now that we have a Delta variant, that has changed the entire landscape.
00:09:06.000Because when you look at the level of virus in the nasopharynx of a vaccinated person who gets a breakthrough infection with Delta, it is exactly the same as the level of virus in an unvaccinated person who's infected.
00:10:01.000The people that say, my body, my choice, you can be publicly nude, put heroin in your arm.
00:10:07.000We need to subsidize looting and rioting.
00:10:10.000All of a sudden, it seems as if, isn't it interesting how these things always have a bend towards authoritarianism?
00:10:17.000But this demonstrates a broader point, everybody.
00:10:20.000Warren Wilhelm, Dasmea of New York City, when they come knock on the door for you, that the lie of liberalism is that hiding behind the free thinking LSD using flower-wearing liberal is a shock trooper waiting to storm down your door.
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00:11:38.000If the Chinese hack our cyber grid, everybody, and all of a sudden there's no electric power, are you able to feed your family for more than a day, two days?
00:11:46.000Do you know that they say after five days, there'll be total chaos and bedlam in the streets?
00:13:32.000Well, the case fatality rate of delta continues to lessen to 0.2% compared to 1.9% with alpha, which could be obviously due to younger people being infected.
00:13:43.000But there hasn't been any data to suggest that Delta is deadlier than any of the previous strains.
00:13:49.000In fact, there's evidence to show that it's less deadly than previous strains.
00:13:55.000Right now, we are on a seven-day rolling average of deaths from the Chinese coronavirus is now about 324.
00:14:07.000Ben Shapiro tweeted out: 1,800 people die every single day of heart disease, 1,640 of cancer, 470 by accident, 430 of chronic lower respiratory disease, 410 of stroke, 330 of Alzheimer's.
00:14:24.000Now, Ben is kind of making the argument I've been making since April of last year.
00:16:39.000And it's like hot enough to kind of be able to, when you first start, and you got to kind of turn it down to wash your hair.
00:16:43.000It's like you're constantly adjusting, I think, is the best way I could put it.
00:16:47.000Constantly monitoring, being very alert, being very aware.
00:16:51.000But I think the good intentions, which by the way, good intentions do not always translate into good public policy or good intention, a good result, is the good intentions of parents that care has turned into this fear that you're going to lose your children and you are going to be blamed.
00:17:09.000And there's kind of this fear of guilt more than the fear of losing your child.
00:17:58.000But the balance, I think, is out of whack, especially in suburban America, where parents are really restricting child's development.
00:18:11.000But it's in a kind of bizarre way, though.
00:18:12.000It's like parents turn a blind eye to the stuff they really should care about.
00:18:18.000And I won't even get into that right now, but they seem very, they are overly intense, in my opinion, about the Chinese coronavirus, the threat it poses against your children, and the destruction it's having to the American way of life.
00:18:32.000How do we strike the balance between watching out for our children and not coddling them?
00:18:41.000Well, a great book from our partner, thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org, thinker.org/slash Charlie, T-H-I-N-K-R dot org slash Charlie is a great place to start.
00:18:55.000One book that I want to profile: so thinker.org is a place where you guys can get big ideas synthesized in short periods of time.
00:19:03.000So a great book by Jonathan Heidt and Greg Lukianov, which is a phenomenal book, which is called The Coddling of the American Mind.
00:19:13.000I recommend this for everyone listening.
00:19:15.000It's called How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation of Failure.
00:19:25.000You guys can literally get these ideas in 12 minutes or less.
00:19:32.000There are three great untruths that have begun to coalesce into a cult of safetyism in the United States, as we've been talking about.
00:19:40.000These untruths fly in the face of ancient wisdom and modern research and have proven to be very harmful to the individuals and groups that have imbibed them.
00:19:51.000Lukianov and Height team up to illuminate these untruths and their effects, as well as to suggest some remedies.
00:20:05.000More than just resilient, children are anti-fragile.
00:20:09.000The belief that what doesn't kill us makes us weaker has fostered the rise in paranoid safetyism.
00:20:18.000Warnings about unreliable emotions are as old as humanity itself.
00:20:24.000So perhaps it's not as good an idea to make them the basis for dialogue in universities.
00:20:30.000The untruth that the world is comprised of good and evil people is a natural but polarized tendency.
00:20:37.000The great untruths of fragility, emotional reasoning, and us versus them have flourished in the soil of helicopter parenting, as we mentioned before, social media, and the decline of child's play.
00:21:15.000Raising kids with wisdom means responsibly encouraging independence in action and in thought.
00:21:24.000Universities can encourage wisdom by putting the pursuit of truth before social justices and upholding free speech and inquiry as quintessential to the life of the university.
00:21:35.000The coddling of the American mind, thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R-K-R.org.
00:21:40.000So no E, it's thinkerwithout an E.org/slash Charlie.
00:21:44.000You guys can get these big ideas consumed quickly right there.
00:21:51.000They're wonderful partners of our show.
00:21:55.000Rochelle Walensky says that European-style health passes for admission to nightclubs and other venues, well, quote, may well be a path forward.
00:22:07.000I went on Tucker Carlson's program and I said that we are entering a South African-style medical apartheid and people lost their minds.
00:22:25.000So before we listen to Rochelle Walensky, very dangerous person, I want to ask you this question.
00:22:34.000How is it not apartheid saying that Charlie Kirk, who will remain unvaccinated with the Chinese coronavirus vaccine, can't go to some nightclub?
00:22:43.000By the way, I don't go to nightclubs, so whoop-de-doo, whatever.
00:22:46.000He can't go to some library, whatever.
00:23:14.000Remember, it's a pattern of the tyrants and the despots to divide people based on race, gender, income level, to sow greater levels of discord.
00:23:31.000And just last question, because I know they're doing it in Europe, but you're not CDC director of Europe, which I'm sure you're plenty happy about.
00:23:36.000But they're issuing health passes there, right?
00:23:39.000Where, you know, you can go to a disco or a disco tech, as they like to call it there, if you have a health pass.
00:23:44.000Is that something that the CDC would ever lean into or perhaps advise here?
00:23:51.000You know, I think some communities are doing that, and that may very well be a path forward.
00:24:07.000I was getting in this robust discussion the other day with a pastor friend of mine when we were talking about the proper role of government.
00:24:15.000If you want to talk about Article 1, Section 8, the CDC or the FDA is not within the proper form of government, the role of government.
00:24:23.000We've long passed that, thanks to Woodrow Wilson and the German historicist lie and believing in this kind of cult of big government, the era of big government.
00:24:33.000I will say, though, that it's tempting to want to have public health officials, isn't it?
00:24:40.000I can understand playing into that urge.
00:24:42.000You're not a bad person if you want the FDA.
00:24:46.000For example, the general welfare, right?
00:24:49.000Now, it's really interesting around this phrase general welfare.
00:24:52.000Let me just kind of riff on this for a second.
00:24:54.000James Madison and Alexander Hamilton disagreed on this phrase, the general welfare.
00:25:04.000James Madison wanted to remove the phrase general welfare because he said, hold on a second.
00:25:08.000If it means everything you want it to mean, then why are we listing specifically what the government can do later on?
00:25:17.000If it's an open-ended check for the government to be able to fill in whatever they want, why are we listing and enumerating the powers of government?
00:26:23.000And I thought to myself, and this is the conversation I had with my pastor.
00:26:31.000Big government didn't save us from this pandemic.
00:26:35.000You could argue big government caused this pandemic.
00:26:39.000They funded the research at the Wuhan Institute, lied about it, were involved in gain of function research.
00:26:49.000If we didn't have the CDC or the FDA, here's just a very interesting question.
00:26:55.000Would the Chinese coronavirus ever have been created in the first place?
00:26:59.000Has the CDC done anything meaningful since the start of this pandemic to actually stop the spread except lie and propagandize us?
00:27:10.000I'm not arguing the CDC should be abolished.
00:27:13.000There are some strict libertarians and some conservatives that are saying that.
00:27:17.000I think I need to learn more about it.
00:27:20.000Generally, I'm in the position of getting rid of it, generally, but I'm not quite there because I could see that there's some research and some testing that needs to get done, I guess.
00:27:30.000I say this as a small government conservative.
00:27:33.000But Cut 59, Fauci says the CDC hasn't changed.
00:28:05.000Something has changed, and what has changed is the virus.
00:28:09.000The CDC hasn't changed, and the CDC hasn't really flip-flopped at all.
00:28:13.000What's happened is that when that earlier recommendation was made, we were dealing predominantly with the alpha variant.
00:28:22.000You see, a characteristic of the big government types, a characteristic of the central planners, is that they're involved in the creation of a problem, and then they justify more power and more social control for themselves over you to try to solve that problem,
00:28:48.000which then creates more problems so that they need more control.
00:28:52.000Let me give you a great example of this.
00:28:54.000The government was heavily involved in setting artificially low interest rates, in establishing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and subsidizing bad behavior of the banks leading into the 2008 financial housing crisis.
00:29:09.000Since after that, they needed more power, though, to solve the problem that their own power created.
00:29:16.000So go give us power for TARP, targeted asset relief program.
00:29:21.000Give us power for Dodd-Frank because we need to go solve the problem because the power we had in the first caused the problem.
00:29:28.000And in reality, never actually solves the problem.
00:29:30.000It creates a multitude of thousands of more problems that only exist because the first problem originated because we gave them too much power in the first place.
00:29:38.000Never let a crisis go to waste, as Ram Emanuel would say.
00:29:45.000You see, Vice President Harris, she said that vaccinated people should wear masks in indoor settings while she looks like some sort of super creepy, like futuristic automaton dictator, like, whoa.
00:31:13.000When you go take out a loan with Chase, when you go take out a loan with Wells Fargo, you might as well go give the money to Joe Biden.
00:31:21.000So when you go to DC next and you go travel, maybe with your family, why don't you just get a cashier's check and drop it off at the White House entrance?
00:31:29.000That's what you're doing when you bank with these woke losers at Wells Fargo.
00:31:35.000So take out a loan with the good guys.
00:32:28.000I love hearing from you guys, and I don't expect you to agree with everything that we say.
00:32:32.000In fact, I've been responding to the emails almost all day, freedom at charliekirk.com, people saying it's horrific, tragic, terrible what you've been saying about Simone Biles.
00:32:42.000I've responded to all of them, and some people respond back.
00:32:44.000Some people, what's dialogue is all about.
00:32:47.000But here's just one thing I just pray for you and for me, that we should have clarity over agreement.
00:32:55.000The one thing about our show, and I get that from Dennis Prager, by the way, my colleague on the Salem Radio Network, is that you might not agree with everything I say, but I will walk you through why we believe what we believe, the place of origination for those ideas, and how rational and reasonable people can come to different conclusions.
00:33:14.000So you can always email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:41.000And everyone treats you so terribly, so disrespectfully.
00:34:45.000And the fact you had to wear these safety blankets on your face, and they do so so wonderfully because the flight attendants, you know what?
00:34:53.000They know that if they don't wear it, then one of the passengers is going to give them a tough time.
00:34:56.000A lot of the flight attendants I've talked to, they're really fed up with this stuff.
00:35:00.000And you know what upsets me is that the FAA mandate continues.
00:35:07.000And the people in the, actually, I think they just reinstituted the mask mandate back in the White House.
00:35:12.000So the Washington Post and all these other apparatchiks, they write these stories.
00:35:18.000Charlie Kirk and the right-wingers are trying to sow discord and the efficacy of the vaccine, which of course is not true.
00:36:46.000It does nothing but helps assuage the guilt and play into the control of the power grabbers that run the administration and our teacher unions.