The Charlie Kirk Show - Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Bukele visits the White House.

00:00:03.000 We unpack his visit.

00:00:05.000 We talk about the movie King of Kings, and where is all of the money that the Federal Reserve is saying that they borrowed to the Treasury?

00:00:13.000 Very complex but important topic of how the government lies to you financially.

00:00:18.000 And if we audited the Fed, gotta wonder what would happen.

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00:00:38.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:35.000 Let's recap some of the meaning.

00:01:37.000 So one of the test cases of how we know that if you are crime ridden, gang infested and of the third world, it's a choice. 1.00

00:01:45.000 In the modern era with artificial intelligence, with cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin technology, access to the Internet, if your country is still living in the third world, it is by choice. 0.92

00:01:55.000 Now, to get to the first world, you need some advantages.

00:01:57.000 But living in the third world is a choice.

00:01:59.000 You can enter the second world by simply making good choices.

00:02:02.000 So much of life is choices.

00:02:05.000 So much of life is decisions.

00:02:07.000 The left wants you to believe that you are captive based on something that you inherit.

00:02:12.000 You're captive based on your circumstances.

00:02:13.000 We believe in free will, in agency.

00:02:16.000 And the turnaround and the story of El Salvador and Bukele is a phenomenal story.

00:02:23.000 El Salvador was the most dangerous place on the planet. 0.96

00:02:26.000 MS-13 ran rampant.

00:02:29.000 They held the entire country hostage.

00:02:32.000 Bukele wins, declares a national emergency, has locked up.

00:02:36.000 Tens of thousands of narco drug criminals in MS-13, and El Salvador is now safer than the United States of America.

00:02:43.000 A lot of money is flowing into El Salvador.

00:02:45.000 Now, I don't want to make it seem as if it's something that it isn't.

00:02:48.000 El Salvador is not like Ohio.

00:02:51.000 El Salvador is not Georgia.

00:02:53.000 But for decades, El Salvador was treated as unfixable.

00:02:56.000 It's just the problem.

00:02:57.000 Get used to it. 1.00

00:02:58.000 They're a bunch of murderers. 0.98

00:03:00.000 There's nothing we could do about it. 1.00

00:03:02.000 They're poor, and they're going to kill each other.

00:03:05.000 Because what had to be done was outside of what Washington and D.C. could tolerate. 0.98

00:03:10.000 Round up thousands of people and put them in jail.

00:03:12.000 Not hard.

00:03:14.000 But D.C., they can't possibly tolerate that.

00:03:17.000 Well, what about the feelings of the terrorists?

00:03:19.000 What about the feelings and the emotions of the people that are cutting off babies' heads, of which MS-13 would do in El Salvador?

00:03:27.000 El Salvador led a populist revolution by Bukele, nationalized the police force.

00:03:32.000 And lock them up in these maximum security prisons. 0.56

00:03:35.000 So Bukele visited President Trump today in the White House.

00:03:39.000 In fact, the meeting is largely ongoing.

00:03:41.000 As the meeting is ongoing, they're talking about deportations and partnering.

00:03:45.000 And you have to wonder, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, why are you guys not as safe as El Salvador?

00:03:54.000 Because they're choosing criminals over their citizens.

00:03:58.000 It's very simple.

00:03:59.000 If the West is to fall, it's because we choose to fall.

00:04:03.000 If the West is to collapse, it's because collapse is a series of self-inflicted choices.

00:04:10.000 It is a byproduct of a genic activity.

00:04:14.000 We use the agency to fall, or we use the agency to rise.

00:04:19.000 And what is it that makes us fall?

00:04:21.000 It's because we are captive to ideology.

00:04:25.000 The ideology of the MS-13's feelings matters more than the well-being of the kid that's trying to walk to school.

00:04:30.000 Here's a little bit of a taste of Bukele's visit.

00:04:33.000 J.D. Vance is speaking in this tape.

00:04:35.000 Playcut 142.

00:04:36.000 For 40 years, we have lost manufacturing capacity.

00:04:39.000 Workers have seen their wages stagnate.

00:04:41.000 And some of the most critical things that we need from the pharmaceuticals, the drugs that we give to our children, the antibiotics that we give to our kids, to the weapons that we actually need to fight a war, if, God forbid, we had to fight a war, we don't make enough of that stuff.

00:04:55.000 And so President Trump ran explicitly on changing that.

00:04:59.000 Yes, as the president mentioned, caused a little bit of disruption in the market.

00:05:02.000 But I actually think over the long term, workers are going to benefit, stocks are going to go up, American businesses are going to benefit as we reinvest and reindustrialize our country.

00:05:10.000 But according to Janet Yellen, that's not possible.

00:05:14.000 They brought out the little elf, the

00:05:16.000 gremlin, to go tell you that it's not possible.

00:05:20.000 Remember she told you that abortion was a national security and economic concern?

00:05:24.000 Listen to The Hobbit, Playcut 120.

00:05:26.000 Perhaps it's to bring back American manufacturing, but I really think that's a pipe dream and not something that is likely to be accomplished.

00:05:39.000 And we could even raise questions about whether or not, in a broad-based way, that's a desirable goal.

00:05:47.000 Why do we listen?

00:05:48.000 What has she ever accomplished in her life except being a technocrat for the Wall Street banks and the lords of easy money?

00:05:55.000 It's a pipe dream.

00:05:56.000 You know what?

00:05:56.000 We like defying pipe dreams wrong.

00:05:59.000 And to tie it all together, they said making El Salvador a safe country was a pipe dream.

00:06:05.000 And now it is a fact.

00:06:06.000 It is safer to walk the streets of El Salvador.

00:06:10.000 It is safer to walk the streets of San Salvador.

00:06:14.000 Than it is the streets of Chicago.

00:06:16.000 It is a material fact to say that it is safer to bring your kids on the streets of San Salvador than Washington, D.C. or New York.

00:06:24.000 So we look forward to proving you wrong.

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00:07:30.000 Do you know that we are financing private banks?

00:07:33.000 How much money are we actually giving to private banks?

00:07:37.000 Well, Brian Westbury is the chief economist of First Trust LP, former chief economist of the Joint Economic Committee for U.S. Congress, and current member board of the Trustees for Hillsdale College.

00:07:46.000 Brian, welcome to the program.

00:07:48.000 Great to see you.

00:07:49.000 Brian, why don't you educate our audience on how the Fed is

00:07:55.000 hundreds of billions of dollars?

00:07:58.000 I'm not even quite sure how this all works.

00:08:00.000 All I understand is that the U.S. taxpayer is funding private banks.

00:08:03.000 Yeah, Charlie, it's great to be with you.

00:08:08.000 This all started really back in 2008 when Ben Bernanke walked into...

00:08:16.000 W's office and said, hey, if you don't let me print $4 trillion and flood the financial system with that money, the whole global world order is going to collapse.

00:08:30.000 And so that was when it began.

00:08:33.000 We did it again.

00:08:35.000 During COVID.

00:08:36.000 And so what this means is that we have increased the money supply in the United States.

00:08:42.000 It was $7 trillion in 2007.

00:08:47.000 It is now $21 trillion.

00:08:51.000 So let me put that in perspective.

00:08:53.000 If you have a $100 bill in your wallet, 67 of those dollars were created in just the last 18 years.

00:09:02.000 Like, that's how much money we printed.

00:09:04.000 Now, when all of that money goes into the banking system, it turns into inflation.

00:09:11.000 And the way the Fed stopped it from turning into inflation is first, they raised a ton of regulations on banks.

00:09:20.000 And second, they paid banks to hold that money.

00:09:25.000 So we are now paying banks about $200 billion a year to not lend that money out.

00:09:31.000 That means we're paying private banks.

00:09:34.000 Now, the interesting thing is the Fed bought bonds with that money, and so they earn interest from those bonds, but they're paying banks more than they're earning.

00:09:47.000 In other words, the Fed is losing.

00:09:50.000 Last year, they lost about $80 billion, and the taxpayers funded that, and we used that money to pay banks.

00:09:59.000 If we stop this, Think how much we could lower the deficit.

00:10:04.000 Over a 10-year period, it would be $2 trillion.

00:10:07.000 So is Congress then financing this loss?

00:10:10.000 And if so, where in the budget is this money?

00:10:15.000 Yeah, they play sleight of hand with this, Charlie.

00:10:19.000 It's crazy.

00:10:20.000 The Federal Reserve has an account that they call a deferred asset.

00:10:28.000 So normally, before all of this change, the Fed owned bonds, but they didn't pay banks, and they made money every year.

00:10:38.000 And so then they would give that money to the Treasury at the end of the year.

00:10:42.000 Now, with them losing money, they have what's called a deferred asset, which is...

00:10:49.000 The craziest term I've ever heard.

00:10:51.000 It's a negative account.

00:10:52.000 I don't know how they're paying their employees.

00:10:55.000 I don't know how they're keeping their lights on.

00:10:57.000 Because if you run a private business in a deficit, you either have to raise more equity or debt or something in order to pay to keep the lights on.

00:11:08.000 And so my belief, and the Fed won't really tell you this, is that they're borrowing money from the Treasury in order to keep the lights on.

00:11:16.000 In Britain, The UK, they did the same thing.

00:11:20.000 And now they're kind of caught because it's raising their deficit, but at least they're accounting for it the right way.

00:11:28.000 We don't.

00:11:29.000 We hide it.

00:11:30.000 And so I can only imagine that Elizabeth Warren doesn't understand that we're paying private banks $200 billion a year because I think she'd have a cow if she knew that. 1.00

00:11:40.000 She hates banks.

00:11:41.000 And so this is the most amazing, insane...

00:11:47.000 Right. But if it's the Fed paying the banks $200 billion a year, there is not necessarily a through line from the Treasury to the Fed.

00:12:00.000 Can't the Fed just create the money by lowering interest rates? 0.95

00:12:03.000 I guess the question is, the money has to be appropriated at some point of origination.

00:12:08.000 So walk us back.

00:12:09.000 So the Fed is paying the private banks.

00:12:12.000 Who is giving the money to the Fed?

00:12:13.000 The Treasury Department?

00:12:15.000 Well, okay.

00:12:16.000 So there's two things going on here that are separate.

00:12:19.000 One, in order to do quantitative easing.

00:12:23.000 So Ben Bernanke, when he was fighting the financial panic of 2008, created like $4 trillion new dollars.

00:12:30.000 Jerome Powell, literally created out of thin air.

00:12:34.000 Jerome Powell did the same thing during COVID.

00:12:38.000 So we have created $8 trillion more of Fed balance sheet that turned into $14 trillion more of M2, which is all our checking account.

00:12:50.000 So the Fed literally creates this money.

00:12:54.000 But then once they've created it, now you have interest earned and interest expense, and the Fed is losing money based on that.

00:13:03.000 Here's another way to think of this.

00:13:04.000 When they created $4 trillion under Bernanke and then another $4 trillion under Powell, they bought bonds to put on the Fed's balance sheet.

00:13:15.000 And interest rates were super low when they did this.

00:13:19.000 So when interest rates went up, They actually lost money on their portfolio.

00:13:24.000 Right now the Federal Reserve has a trillion.

00:13:27.000 Dollars of losses on its bond portfolio.

00:13:31.000 And it's all because they bought bonds when interest rates were low, and now interest rates have gone back up.

00:13:38.000 So the Fed is caught.

00:13:39.000 They have losses on their books.

00:13:42.000 They can't sell those bonds off without taking those losses.

00:13:45.000 At the same time, they don't want the banks to lend out the money, so they're paying them that they created out of thin air.

00:13:52.000 And so they're paying the banks to hold on to that cash so that it doesn't...

00:14:01.000 All I was saying is their bond portfolio is not earning as much as they're paying.

00:14:07.000 So that's where they make a loss.

00:14:09.000 And then the question is, how do they pay to keep the lights on?

00:14:13.000 Do they print the money?

00:14:14.000 Well, it doesn't look like they're doing that.

00:14:17.000 Are they taking it from the interest that they're earning from those bonds and somehow moving it into another account?

00:14:25.000 Or are they just borrowing straight from the Treasury?

00:14:29.000 And my belief is they're borrowing straight from the Treasury, even though they won't tell us that that's exactly what they're doing.

00:14:36.000 But if they're borrowing it straight from the Treasury, the Treasury must have the money in the first place.

00:14:41.000 So is Congress appropriating $150 billion for this purpose?

00:14:45.000 No. But then where is the money coming from?

00:14:49.000 Yeah. The Federal Reserve creates a deferred asset.

00:14:56.000 Like, that's the weirdest.

00:14:57.000 Phrase I've ever heard.

00:14:59.000 It's a negative number, and they promise that they're going to pay the Treasury that money back when they start making a profit again in the future.

00:15:09.000 So in return for that promise, the Treasury is now funding the Fed.

00:15:15.000 All right.

00:15:16.000 And and what's interesting about this is Congress did not agree to this.

00:15:21.000 Congress did agree to let the Fed pay interest to banks, but they did not agree that the Fed, the Treasury could lend the Fed this money.

00:15:31.000 And so I actually think there's a lawsuit here.

00:15:34.000 I mean, how is this any different than Enron?

00:15:37.000 I mean, this is a massive accounting scandal, isn't it?

00:15:41.000 Well, to me it is, and nobody focuses on it.

00:15:44.000 And, you know, what's fascinating is you go in every month or every, well, every time the Fed meets, it's like eight times a year.

00:15:51.000 They have a press conference, and there's 30 reporters that are handpicked by the Fed to come in, and no one will ask them how they're paying to keep the lights on.

00:16:03.000 They just won't ask them.

00:16:04.000 Because if they do ask, they'll not be ever invited back again.

00:16:08.000 And I've begged them to let me in and ask those questions.

00:16:13.000 I've begged reporters to ask those questions.

00:16:16.000 But so far, they haven't been asked and they haven't been answered.

00:16:20.000 And the Fed, this...

00:16:22.000 I give a talk and I call it the Fed.

00:16:25.000 Federal Reserve has gone insane.

00:16:28.000 I mean, I'm going to go back to what I said.

00:16:30.000 If you have a $100 bill in your wallet, 67 of those dollars were printed in the last 18 years.

00:16:38.000 The other 33 in the previous 220 years or 30 years.

00:16:43.000 And so what I'm getting to here is that...

00:16:47.000 The Fed has completely changed the way we manage monetary policy and hardly anybody complains about it.

00:16:54.000 It's why we had inflation.

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00:18:00.000 Brian Westbury continues with us.

00:18:02.000 He's a deep thinker about this.

00:18:04.000 He's the chief economist at First Trust LP, former chief economist of...

00:18:10.000 U.S. Congress, the Joint Economic Committee for U.S. Congress, and also his fund has over $250 billion assets under management.

00:18:19.000 So, Brian, help me understand.

00:18:21.000 If it's the Fed doing this sort of gamesmanship, Congress has very limited oversight because the Fed is a private-public partnership.

00:18:30.000 How can Congress or the executive branch then intervene on this reckless behavior?

00:18:37.000 Yeah, well, first of all, they do have oversight.

00:18:39.000 They can bring the Fed chairman in, ask him questions, embarrass them.

00:18:44.000 But they also write the laws.

00:18:46.000 The Congress started the Fed in 1913, changed the law again in 1973, and then we changed it again about...

00:18:57.000 10 years ago, and then Congress also gave the Fed this ability to pay banks' interest on reserves.

00:19:05.000 So Congress has a big role in this, and the problem is that most Congress people, ever since Paul's father left, don't really understand monetary policy, and therefore they get...

00:19:21.000 flummoxed in these hearings and they don't know enough about it to ask the right questions or to do the right

00:19:29.000 So therefore, if Congress is not even willing to engage, I suppose we're going to keep on participating in this funny math.

00:19:39.000 And is there anything preventing the Federal Reserve from another capital influx of created trillions of dollars?

00:19:48.000 And how much money...

00:19:50.000 Do we actually get an audited look at the Federal Reserve ever?

00:19:54.000 No, we haven't.

00:19:56.000 And, you know, and here's the thing.

00:19:57.000 The only thing that keeps the Fed in check really is, I mean, Congress has oversight, but it's really the public.

00:20:04.000 And inflation, when it came, it was all because of this policy.

00:20:09.000 And yet, like, so many people have ignored that.

00:20:14.000 When you explode the money supply, like they did during COVID especially, that's where inflation comes from.

00:20:22.000 You print so many dollars that the value of the dollar goes down.

00:20:27.000 You know, people say pizza costs more, and I'm a geeky economist, and I say to them, your pizza doesn't cost any more, your dollar buys less, because we printed too many of them.

00:20:39.000 And now what's happening is the Powell, every member of the Fed, especially the chairman, they're politicians.

00:20:50.000 And now he's blaming Trump.

00:20:53.000 On tariffs and inflation, and he's trying to get away from the fact that he is the one that caused it in the first place.

00:21:00.000 And the public doesn't know enough about this to really be able to make a decision about who's really at fault.

00:21:09.000 It's intentionally confusing.

00:21:10.000 It's now Main Street's turn.

00:21:13.000 Let's play cut 139.

00:21:15.000 For the last four decades, basically since I began my career in Wall Street...

00:21:21.000 Wall Street has grown wealthier than ever before, and it can continue to grow and do well.

00:21:26.000 But for the next four years, the Trump agenda is focused on Main Street.

00:21:32.000 It's Main Street's turn.

00:21:33.000 It's Main Street's turn to hire workers.

00:21:36.000 It's Main Street's turn to drive investment.

00:21:39.000 And it's Main Street's turn to restore the American dream.

00:21:43.000 Brian, final thoughts.

00:21:45.000 Yeah, so...

00:21:46.000 I mean, if you just look back at COVID, you know, supposedly, gosh, all the arguments were COVID hits the lower class more than the upper class and certain groups of people more than others.

00:21:58.000 And so we have to fix this and make things more equal.

00:22:01.000 So we ended up running these massive budget deficits.

00:22:05.000 We ended up printing all of this money.

00:22:07.000 And what happened was the exact...

00:22:10.000 Opposite of what they said was going to happen.

00:22:12.000 If you had assets, if you own equities, if you own a house and inflation comes along and they print all this money, you win.

00:22:20.000 If you don't have assets, you get crushed.

00:22:25.000 And so I hope that Scott, in that quote, and the Trump administration really does find a way to keep the Fed from ever doing this again.

00:22:36.000 And in fact, I think they ought to shrink the Fed quite a bit and take away the power.

00:22:42.000 We didn't even talk about the fact that the Fed somehow is able to fund climate change research, that the Chicago Fed is doing work on lead water pipes.

00:22:53.000 And they have a community.

00:22:56.000 I mean, they're out of control.

00:23:00.000 And all these regional banks are spending money they don't have to do things that they shouldn't be doing.

00:23:07.000 They have nothing to do with climate change.

00:23:10.000 We have the EPA for lead water pipes.

00:23:13.000 Why is the Fed involved in lead water pipes?

00:23:15.000 They need to answer all those questions.

00:23:19.000 All right, thanks.

00:23:20.000 Great to be with you, Charlie.

00:23:21.000 Brian, excellent work.

00:23:21.000 Thank you so much.

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00:24:40.000 Everyone should check it out.

00:24:41.000 You guys can do that at angel.com slash Kirk.

00:24:44.000 Joining us now is Jeffrey Harmon, co-founder and CCO of Angel Studios.

00:24:49.000 Jeffrey, congratulations on this new amazing film.

00:24:52.000 We have the trailer, but first I want you to introduce it.

00:24:55.000 Give us a little bit of the wind-up.

00:24:56.000 The movie's based on Charles Dickens' book.

00:24:59.000 That he wrote for his kids, and it wasn't published until 65 years after Charles Dickens had passed away.

00:25:06.000 And what it is, is it's a look at Jesus' life from the perspective of a young child, where Charles Dickens is explaining to his child the story of Jesus Christ.

00:25:18.000 This movie has blown up in the box office.

00:25:21.000 It was number two this last weekend, did $19.3 million over the weekend, which is just...

00:25:26.000 $400,000 less than Sound of Freedom did in the first three days.

00:25:33.000 Forbes just posted that it lands one of the best audience scores in history.

00:25:40.000 97% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, about 64% with critics.

00:25:45.000 And it has a...

00:25:47.000 A-plus cinema score with audiences, which is a cinema score of A-plus has only been done 128 times in movie history and only five times for animated films outside of Disney and Pixar.

00:25:58.000 Well, congratulations for that.

00:26:00.000 Let's watch the trailer and to get into it, let's play Cut 116.

00:26:04.000 Going to tell him a great story about forgiveness.

00:26:09.000 Our story begins 2,000 years ago when baby Jesus came into the world.

00:26:16.000 Wait, wait, stop.

00:26:17.000 If it's not about a king, then I'm not interested.

00:26:20.000 This story is about the king of kings.

00:26:23.000 If you're with me, then I know that I...

00:26:26.000 I'm a man!

00:26:31.000 It has angels and wicked kings and miracles.

00:26:35.000 Look at all the fish!

00:26:38.000 Why don't we help Jesus along the way?

00:26:40.000 you you you

00:26:44.000 That is captivating.

00:26:46.000 So tell us more.

00:26:47.000 It's done in not quite animation, but one step above animation.

00:26:52.000 What is that process called, and why did you guys decide to do it in that form?

00:26:56.000 Well, the filmmakers, they're from South Korea.

00:26:58.000 And they're this Christian group from South Korea that has done a whole bunch of work for all the big studios over the years.

00:27:04.000 They're called MoFak Studios.

00:27:06.000 And these South Koreans, the director doesn't even speak English. 1.00

00:27:09.000 He made this movie as a passion project, recruited all these amazing talent, and they did a motion capture process where you actually capture real people walking and things.

00:27:21.000 So they decided to do that to bring down the cost and makes it feel more real.

00:27:28.000 What they've done here, if you see the walking on water scene from this movie, there's just so many scenes in here that are gorgeous.

00:27:38.000 The cinematography is beautiful.

00:27:40.000 The voice actors, it has one of the top cast.

00:27:45.000 You've got Pierce Brosnan in it.

00:27:49.000 You've got Ben Kingsley.

00:27:50.000 You've got...

00:27:52.000 Uma Thurman.

00:27:54.000 There's this huge list of actors inside this movie that they've pulled in.

00:27:59.000 And what they have built, audiences are raving about.

00:28:03.000 I went on Saturday to the movie with my kids.

00:28:07.000 And up in the front of the theater during the credits, the entire movie was full of kids.

00:28:14.000 And all these kids go running down during the credits.

00:28:18.000 And while the credits are playing, they're all dancing around these 6-year-olds to 12-year-olds just dancing spontaneously.

00:28:25.000 It was pretty amazing.

00:28:27.000 It's a great experience.

00:28:29.000 So putting forward a faith-based film during Holy Week, is the success you're enjoying right now exceeding expectations?

00:28:38.000 And educate our audience even deeper on what Angel is and what you guys seek to do with the Angel Guild.

00:28:45.000 So every single movie on Angel Studios is approved by what we call the Angel Guild, which is a group of over a million people who greenlight every film on Angel Studios.

00:28:57.000 So they gave King of Kings one of the highest scores we've seen, which is a 95. And so if you're part of the Angel Guild, you get a vote on every movie that comes in at Angel Studios.

00:29:06.000 Then you get two movie tickets to be able to go see every movie in theaters.

00:29:11.000 And so we have this group of over a million people.

00:29:15.000 As a Guild member, you get to approve.

00:29:17.000 I can't, as a co-founder of Angel, I can't even take a movie into Angel Studios unless it first passes the Angel Guild.

00:29:23.000 And so today, if you go sign up for the Angel Guild and you get to vote on future movies, you get two movie tickets to King of Kings today at angel.com slash...

00:29:33.000 What's your URL?

00:29:35.000 Charlie? Kirk.

00:29:36.000 Yeah, angel.com slash Kirk.

00:29:38.000 We chose the shorter, easier to spell one.

00:29:40.000 Yeah, so if you go to angel.com slash Kirk and you join the Angel Guild right now, you get two free movie tickets to King of Kings this week for Holy Week.

00:29:49.000 And then you get a vote on all future movies that come into Angel Studios.

00:29:53.000 We believe that there's this brokenness in Hollywood that's coming from not the filmmakers, not the craftsmen, not the actors, but it's primarily coming from the gatekeepers, which is a group of like a couple dozen people that are making all of the decisions of all the movies that go into Hollywood.

00:30:10.000 And we're replacing that with this guild.

00:30:12.000 Yeah, and just so everyone understands that if you join the guild today, Angel.com slash Kirk, as a premium member, you get two free tickets to King of Kings and every other Angel studio film.

00:30:23.000 But also, you guys have so much more that you guys have developed for families with Angel.com.

00:30:30.000 Talk about Tuttle Twins. 0.99

00:30:31.000 Talk about the entire library and depth that you guys have at Angel.

00:30:36.000 The movies you're going to see at Angel.com.

00:30:38.000 So we have the Total Twins series, which is a series about these two twins with their grandma Gabby, who has a time-traveling interdimensional wheelchair.

00:30:46.000 It's a comedy animated film.

00:30:49.000 And they get to go meet characters like Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.

00:30:53.000 And they even go meet Karl Marx and learn about Marxism.

00:30:56.000 And it shows Karl Marx as kind of this goofy guy.

00:31:00.000 But the...

00:31:02.000 These twins are learning and your kids get to learn with those kids.

00:31:06.000 Then there's other films like The Sound of Freedom from a couple years ago to the Homestead series that just came out, which launched at Christmastime, Homestead with Neil McDonough.

00:31:21.000 There's The Winged Feather Saga, which is a fantasy series based on the best-selling book, The Winged Feather Saga by Andrew Peterson.

00:31:27.000 And these movies and series...

00:31:30.000 There's a couple movies every single week being released.

00:31:33.000 And so you have just a huge amount of excellent films.

00:31:39.000 It's a growing library.

00:31:42.000 Films and TV series that represent our values as families and Middle America's values because it's voted on by the Angel Guild.

00:31:51.000 And so you see this level of quality that's coming in.

00:31:55.000 And as you watch Angel movies, you're going to realize that They're just hit after hit of satisfying, satisfying movies because they have to pass this threshold that's very difficult to pass getting voted on by the Angel Guild.

00:32:11.000 And congratulations, I just want to say on behalf of the entire audience, for bringing the gospel message to a mainstream audience during Holy Week.

00:32:19.000 Was there any resistance here?

00:32:22.000 Do you feel a little bit of a cultural shift?

00:32:24.000 Because typically, this kind of a lift would be met with protests and with walk-offs.

00:32:29.000 But was this one a little bit, dare I say, easier?

00:32:31.000 And if so, what does that tell us about the state of the American culture?

00:32:35.000 I would say there is definitely a cultural shift.

00:32:39.000 Because a couple years ago, we released a movie called His Only Son, which is watchable in the Angel Guild right now.

00:32:45.000 But His Only Son is the story of Abraham.

00:32:47.000 We released it at an Easter time.

00:32:50.000 Years ago when we started, Angel Studios released the first three seasons of The Chosen.

00:32:55.000 And I remember before anybody had really seen it, I would invite people over to my house and ask them if they could watch the show.

00:33:03.000 And I'd give out the movie, the series, The Chosen.

00:33:06.000 This is season one, episodes one through four.

00:33:08.000 And nobody wanted to watch it.

00:33:10.000 And I'd give links to them and they wouldn't watch it.

00:33:12.000 Nobody would watch it.

00:33:13.000 And then I finally just said, you know what?

00:33:15.000 I'm going to invite people over to Sunday dinner.

00:33:18.000 And then I'm going to...

00:33:19.000 Get up after Sunday dinner and say, now we're going to go watch the series that I've been working on with Dallas.

00:33:25.000 And I'd sit people down and say, you have to watch this series.

00:33:28.000 And they would resist and say, no, I've spent the last two years of my life working on this.

00:33:32.000 Sit down and watch The Chosen.

00:33:35.000 And every time, without fail, they would love the show.

00:33:38.000 But it was like pulling teeth to get people to watch it.

00:33:40.000 Now that's a very big hit.

00:33:42.000 This is very different.

00:33:44.000 The King of Kings is getting watched en masse.

00:33:48.000 It just beat Prince of Egypt's record for the biggest biblical animated box office opening of all time.

00:33:56.000 And so that was over two decades ago.

00:34:02.000 And that's how long it's been since we've had a serious animated biblical film.

00:34:07.000 So the culture's definitely changing, and there's a huge shift.

00:34:10.000 Final call to action.

00:34:11.000 Remind people, Jeffrey, it's angel.com slash Kirk.

00:34:13.000 What do they get?

00:34:14.000 The importance and the cultural powerhouse that it is.

00:34:16.000 Please, one minute.

00:34:18.000 Riff on it.

00:34:18.000 Come join the Angel Guild at angel.com slash Kirk.

00:34:21.000 And when you join it, you get to pick all the movies.

00:34:24.000 You get two free movie tickets to King of Kings.

00:34:27.000 And you get to pick all the movies that come into this community.

00:34:30.000 There's over a million people.

00:34:31.000 You get to vote on the films.

00:34:33.000 You get to give feedback to the directors.

00:34:34.000 They read your feedback.

00:34:35.000 They give comments to it.

00:34:36.000 You get to watch movies.

00:34:37.000 Like, if you're in the Angel Guild, you potentially got to see King of Kings months ago.

00:34:42.000 And you got to vote on it and decide if it came to Angel Studios.

00:34:45.000 And you get to see the next one and the next.

00:34:47.000 You get to be a part of that process of creating the culture that we want for our children.

00:34:53.000 Caleb, one of our dear friends that watches the program regularly just emailed us.

00:34:58.000 We joined the Angel Guild.

00:35:00.000 Amazing books and shows.

00:35:01.000 No regrets.

00:35:02.000 We love having a say.

00:35:03.000 Everyone should as well.

00:35:04.000 So there you go.

00:35:05.000 Straight from the Charlie Kirk audience.

00:35:06.000 So thank you, my friend.

00:35:08.000 Angel.com slash Kirk.

00:35:09.000 Congratulations and have a blessed Holy Week.

00:35:11.000 You too.

00:35:12.000 Okay, you guys.

00:35:13.000 When you guys subscribe to The Charlie Kirk Show, we deeply appreciate it.

00:35:16.000 There's a new study out from Axios that shows the power of our podcast, and we want to share that with you.

00:35:22.000 Young Americans' favorite podcasts reveal a stark partisan split.

00:35:26.000 The most listened-to podcast for people that listen to President Trump was Joe Rogan.

00:35:30.000 I mean, who voted for Donald Trump was Joe Rogan.

00:35:32.000 No surprise.

00:35:34.000 Joe Rogan is the GOAT.

00:35:35.000 He is the Michael Jordan.

00:35:37.000 He is the Rush Limbaugh of podcasting.

00:35:40.000 No one comes close.

00:35:40.000 I find Joe Rogan so listenable and enjoyable.

00:35:43.000 He's phenomenal.

00:35:45.000 And his courage to come out to support President Trump was admirable.

00:35:48.000 However, it says here, 27% of people who voted for President Trump say they listened to the Joe Rogan experience, while 19% of Trump voters say they listened to the Charlie Kirk show.

00:35:58.000 18% listened to the Ben Shapiro show.

00:36:02.000 Pretty great.

00:36:03.000 So 19% of Trump voters listened to our program.

00:36:08.000 So that is number two.

00:36:09.000 9% of Harris voters listened to Call Her Daddy.

00:36:13.000 Of course.

00:36:15.000 I was going to make a really bad joke, but we won, so I'll be wholesome.

00:36:20.000 Of course they listened to Call Her Daddy.

00:36:22.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:24.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 15, 2025

Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?

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