00:00:54.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:00.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:33.000So Deion comes in, and it's pretty legendary what he did, is he said, basically, I am not going, he did this in a very creative way because you can't revoke a scholarship.
00:03:44.000But I think you get 86 scholarships in FBS college, Division I football.
00:03:48.000He comes in and he says basically to 83 out of 86, I'm not going to play you.
00:03:53.000I'll honor your scholarship, but you're not on the team.
00:03:56.000Basically, he kicked off 80, effectively, kicked 83 people off the team and kept like three linemen, like purging the entire team.
00:04:05.000So then he became the transfer portal landing pet, including his very talented two sons, Shadur and Shiloh Sanders.
00:04:13.000So he brings in all new people, and we're like, oh, what are we going to make of this, right?
00:04:19.000And I have a lot of negative things to say about Deion that I think I don't like about him, but I also, there's some things I really like about him.
00:04:25.000His faith, his love of Jesus, his unapologetic Christian evangelism.
00:04:31.000He wears a JC on the side of his shirt, which is Jesus Christ.
00:04:38.000And it drives the liberals at Boulder crazy.
00:04:43.000I was just talking to a regent this last weekend.
00:04:45.000There's like an inner revolt at CU Boulder to try to get Deion Sanders to not have JC, Jesus Christ, on his shirt that he wears during the game.
00:04:54.000But it's prime time, everybody, so they have nothing to say.
00:04:56.000So I mean, I read the college football blogs, and honestly, I follow him on social media.
00:05:22.000The more he talks about the faith, I think that's a good thing for the country.
00:05:26.000Okay, so I was following the college football blogs over the summer, and we didn't know what to make of it.
00:05:30.000And then I was on vacation, obviously watching college football, and it was Colorado versus TCU.
00:05:36.000Now, remember, TCU was in the national title game last year against Georgia.
00:05:39.000They beat Michigan in the College Football playoff.
00:05:41.000They were a great team, and they were bringing back a lot of players from last year's incredible run all the way to the College Football playoff where they got blown up by Georgia.
00:05:51.000They go 1-11 last year versus TCU, who went 11-1, or like 12-1.
00:05:56.000And I think their only two losses was basically, I think they lost in the Big 12 championship game to Kansas State, and then they lost to Georgia in the national title game.
00:06:18.000There's this also like cheat man's competitor on called Big Noon Sunday with like all the washed up guys, Matt Leinert, Reggie Bush, and Urban Meyer, which I think is hilarious because Matt Leinert and Reggie Bush both played together.
00:06:29.000And Brady Quinn, who was also the quarterback at Notre Dame at the time, and they all kind of host this.
00:06:35.000It's a little bit of like a Cheat Man's College game day.
00:06:37.000They are now going back to Colorado for the third time to do their live college game day show, the third time.
00:07:39.000And I wish the world thought like that.
00:07:41.000Youngsters, if you're out there right now, do not give a darn what opinions people have of you, as long as that opinion is not consistent with that of yourself.
00:09:21.000Now, here's what drives me nuts, and we're going to segue this into the next segment.
00:09:25.000Instead of talking about Deion's faith, how he empowers his kids, how he empowers his student athletes, about how he pushes them, the media, of course, of course, makes this about race.
00:10:07.000He's wearing Jesus Christ on his shirt.
00:10:11.000So I give him a lot of grace, I'll be honest.
00:10:14.000He should teach his kids a lesson, though, because they were run in their mouth this weekend, last weekend, and they got taught a lesson.
00:10:23.000And then I'm going to show you a clip of where the media is now accusing the head coach of Oregon football, Dan Lanning, who's amazing, of being a racist because he dared to out Deion Deion Sanders.
00:13:23.000And even Tom Brady kind of warned Shadur Sanders, like, hey, spend more time watching tape than buying Rolls-Royces because now with the NIL, these kids are just getting flush with cash.
00:13:35.000That's a bad part of college football.
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00:17:58.000Joining us now is Liz Wheeler, author of the important book, Hide Your Children, Exposing the Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids.
00:18:12.000Listen, this book is an intense topic because it covers a topic that parents have a visceral reaction to.
00:18:19.000I mean, we've all been so shocked over the last couple of years to see our children inundated with critical race theory and the trans ideology and the 1619 project and moral relativism.
00:18:30.000So I sought out to find why is this happening now?
00:18:36.000And what I realized in the course of my research for this book is it's not particularly new that the left is coming after our children.
00:18:42.000It's been an ongoing effort for decades and decades, which, by the way, the Republican Party has not fought against effectively.
00:18:50.000But what I found is the people who are behind these attacks, and I name their names and their organizations in the book, they're Marxists.
00:18:58.000They're Marxists who actively want to radically alienate children from their parents, ultimately to overthrow our country.
00:19:05.000So in the first half of the book, I name the names of the people behind these attacks.
00:19:09.000And in the second half of the book, I offer a solution that, Charlie, I will tell you, is different than the solution the Republican Party offers for how we can start winning for once, how we can reclaim these institutions and protect our kids.
00:19:22.000So this is important for people to realize, true or false, Liz, there is a concerted, well-funded agenda to groom and sexualize and take children away from parents.
00:19:43.000And I have never read anything so disturbing.
00:19:45.000I had to put the document down on the desk, walk away, catch my breath, because in this document, it lays out the transgender ideology.
00:19:53.000Because the transgender ideology is just the principles of critical race theory.
00:19:57.000The transgender ideology seeks to sexualize children.
00:20:01.000Queer theory teaches that children should be sexually active, not just as teenagers or something that you and I might object to morally on the basis of our Christian beliefs.
00:20:16.000She outright defends pedophiles by saying that our society will regret imprisoning these men who, quote, love underage youth 20 years down the line.
00:20:26.000It's horrifying to see what's coming next.
00:20:29.000And so explain that a little bit more because most parents don't believe.
00:20:32.000They might say, oh, there might be some radical ideas, but they want the children culturally kidnapped away from traditional Western parental values.
00:20:44.000And let me explain exactly how it works.
00:20:46.000So it was no coincidence that critical race theory and the transgender ideology showed up one after the other in our public school system.
00:20:53.000First, critical race theory came in and told white children: if you're white, you're inherently bad and racist just by nature of having white skin, not based on your character.
00:21:02.000If you're black, you are oppressed and there's nothing you can do to redeem yourself.
00:21:05.000And Charlie, what happens to children when they're told that they're bad and there's nothing they can do about it is it creates this identity crisis.
00:21:12.000They start feeling this self-loathing, this animosity towards their parents who made them this way, this bad way.
00:21:19.000And as this identity crisis begins to fester in SWOOPS, queer theory and the transgender ideology telling children, well, there actually is an antidote to the fact that you're bad.
00:21:30.000You can throw off this identity as an oppressor if you put on a marginalized identity, perhaps as a transgender person or non-binary or LGBTQIA.
00:21:42.000I describe it in my book as a one-two punch because what happens is children are radically alienated from their parents in the process.
00:21:50.000The nuclear family is damaged almost beyond repair.
00:21:54.000And these children are not only mentally and physically and spiritually harmed, but they are secured as leftist activists, if not outright revolutionaries for a Marxist cause in the process.
00:22:06.000And you say we must hide your children.
00:22:12.000Kelly Dodson was asleep with her little girl inside their apartment on Webster Drive when I was attacked by some idiot from out here in the projects.
00:22:21.000Dodson says her attacker used a garbage can to climb onto the unit's ledge, open the upstairs window, and then he got in bed with her.
00:22:53.000I named my book inspired by Antoine Dodson's video.
00:22:56.000I figured the least I could do was add a bit of levity to an otherwise very intense topic.
00:23:01.000But yes, Antoine Dodson did inspire the name of his book.
00:23:04.000Yes, for people that don't know, that's a clip that before there was, you know, Twitter and all that, it just kind of went viral in its own way.
00:23:11.000And so then what is your recommendation, Liz?
00:23:14.000What is the battle plan to fight against the cultural kidnapping and subversion of our children?
00:23:20.000And by the way, this makes us such millennials that we were, that this video is so prominent in our mind.
00:23:25.000Gen Z probably doesn't even get it, but you should watch that clip.
00:23:32.000So my solution that, and this is where I differ a little bit from the Republican Party, because as I was researching the public school system and its origin, the public school system wasn't mandatory.
00:23:41.000It wasn't compulsory in our country until 1852, which is not that long ago.
00:23:46.000And the reason that it became compulsory was because there was an influx of immigrants to our nation at the time, particularly Catholic immigrants.
00:23:55.000And the Protestant politicians in charge wanted these immigrant children indoctrinated in American values so that they would be loyal to America first versus the country of their birth.
00:24:04.000And they wanted these children indoctrinated in Protestant values because of the age-old battle between Protestants and Catholics.
00:24:11.000And I realized as I was reading this, our education system actually is supposed to serve as an indoctrination center.
00:24:18.000We think of indoctrination in a derogatory way because of what the left is indoctrinating our children with.
00:24:24.000But indoctrination itself is kind of a nebulous, morally neutral concept.
00:24:28.000It is what is being indoctrinated that determines whether it's good or bad.
00:24:32.000So I challenge conservatives to rethink how we view these institutions and take them back.
00:24:38.000Because Charlie, I don't believe in neutrality.
00:24:40.000I don't believe that schools are just going to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic.
00:24:43.000There's always going to be some values that are imparted.
00:24:47.000It's either going to be the left's ideologies or it's going to be the rights, values, and principles, which are American values and Judeo-Christian principles.
00:24:56.000We have to be able to view our battle, this cultural war against the left in those terms, or we're just going to continue to lose the way that we have been that has resulted in this cultural madness.
00:25:07.000Yeah, so expand on that because I don't want to gloss over it.
00:25:23.000So it's either going to be your values or it's going to be the lesbian and the gay and the homosexual and the transgender and the open border values.
00:25:35.000It's something that the Republican Party, and I differ between the Republican Party and the conservative movement, because the Republican Party is this political apparatus that's supposed to serve as a bulwark against these attacks on our institutions or our children.
00:25:47.000But this is an idea that the Republican Party fell prey to about 50 or 60 years ago.
00:25:52.000And it's actually rooted in a deeper philosophical misunderstanding of the role of government in our society.
00:25:58.000And what I mean when I say that is, Charlie, you and I think of the United States as a free country, maybe under threat, but we think of it as a free country.
00:26:10.000And the Republican Party has defined liberty for the past half century as being an end to itself.
00:26:16.000Whereas I challenge conservatives to rethink the definition of liberty as the means to something greater, because if liberty, if the Republican Party is correct and liberty is an end to itself, then what David French once said when he said drag queen story hour is a blessing of liberty would have to be true because those grown men had the freedom to gyrate in front of children.
00:26:54.000And how do we use the just authority of government to help achieve that?
00:26:59.000Yeah, and I mean, David French, who famously came out and said that, you know, free speech is allowing, you know, dudes and thongs to sexually dance in front of children, like that's the blessing of liberty.
00:27:11.000And Liz, I don't know how successful we will be with this, but so many people on the right are afraid to say that you're always going to be computing, communicating some value system.
00:27:22.000The myth of neutrality is that which plagues our land.
00:27:24.000How do we get people convinced of this?
00:27:26.000Because normies, normies like to say that you could have middle ground, but you're always going to have some form of value system, one minute remaining.
00:28:02.000Because it's physically dangerous for them?
00:28:04.000No, because we all acknowledge that that's a moral hazard for our children.
00:28:07.000This idea that I'm proposing is not new.
00:28:10.000This is actually our constitutional heritage.
00:28:12.000The framers of our Constitution understood that liberty is not the license to do whatever you want.
00:28:16.000Liberty is the opportunity to live a virtuous life.
00:28:19.000And sometimes that requires conservatives to embrace the idea that government can and should be used to order society along some moral truths.
00:28:28.000Liz Wheeler, the book is Hide Your Children.
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00:29:45.000So Liz, let's go through policy legislation.
00:29:48.000And are you prepared to say we should not send kids to government schools?
00:29:52.000Liz and Charlie, I'm pretty based on the topic of public schools.
00:29:56.000I think we're probably this close in our country to needing to abolish the entire public school system.
00:30:01.000And I know that this is an edgy thing to say, even among Republicans, even among conservatives.
00:30:18.000They are going to be inundated with critical race theory, trans ideology.
00:30:21.000They're going to have Planned Parenthood as their sex educator.
00:30:24.000Why would you send your child to this public school?
00:30:27.000In my book, one of the things I do is advocate for parents, if you possibly can, to homeschool your children.
00:30:33.000And I know I'm incredibly biased on this because I was homeschooled from K to 12, but there's so many more homeschoolers now than there even were when I was homeschooled.
00:30:43.000It's not something you don't have to be a college professor or even a high school teacher to be able to administer the curriculum to your children.
00:30:50.000And it's a matter of the same concept we were talking about before.
00:30:52.000It's not really, you can't really educate your children neutrally.
00:30:56.000It's either going to be your values as a parent or it's going to be everything that I just described in the public school classroom.
00:31:23.000And what legislatively would you recommend?
00:31:26.000The best way to respond to the Democrats' accusation that we want to ban books is to show the content of these books that we don't want to be in the classroom in the hands of our first graders, second graders, and third graders.
00:31:36.000Take the book Genderqueer, for example.
00:31:39.000It's a graphic novel and it depicts perverse sex acts.
00:31:42.000Do you want your six-year-old reading this?
00:31:44.000Do you want your seven-year-old reading this?
00:31:46.000But the left has chosen this phrase book ban because it has a negative connotation, but no one's banning this book from being sold.
00:31:51.000No one's banning this book from being owned.
00:31:53.000What we're saying is that we don't want our children to be exposed to this sexually graphic material when they're in elementary school, when they don't even have their front teeth.
00:32:00.000This is a normal, rational position that the vast majority of parents take in this country.
00:32:05.000And all we have to do is describe what the left wants to put into the minds of our children.
00:32:10.000And you'll get parents on both sides of the aisle.
00:32:12.000It doesn't have to be conservative or Republican.
00:32:14.000Don't even have to be a Christian parent to realize that that's evil.
00:32:19.000Are there parts of the book, Liz, you want to touch on or make sure our audience is aware of before our time ends?
00:32:24.000Yeah, in chapter 12 of my book, I write a 12-step plan for how we can take back these institutions because I don't want to just depress people by this catalog of all the Marxists coming after your kids that I detail in the first half.
00:32:37.000It is important to know who's coming after our kids and what they're motivated by, because if we don't understand or acknowledge the reality of this political enemy, we won't fight well against them.
00:32:49.000I want to win, and I think most conservatives do too.
00:32:52.000But one of the things conservatives have misunderstood before is what limited government means.
00:32:57.000We've assumed that limited government means as small of a government as possible.
00:33:01.000And there's even been this tinge of immorality associated with using government to help order society.
00:33:07.000But that's not actually what limited government means.
00:33:10.000Limited government means constrained by enumerated powers or constrained by accountability to the people.
00:33:15.000So I challenge conservatives to use the just authority of government to help properly order society.
00:33:21.000Whether this means legislatively banning critical race theory from schools, banning queer theory from schools, prohibiting even public universities or private universities that accept federally subsidized student loans, ban them from teaching any of this nonsense.
00:33:36.000Private organizations that have so much as a DEI officer should not be allowed to do contracts with the government.
00:33:43.000States should ban ESG on the grounds that it's not only a communist social credit score system that keeps corporations woke, but it's also financially negligent towards the shareholders and of these companies.
00:33:58.000There are so many legislative things that we can do to fight back.
00:34:02.000It's not just a matter of ordering our lives, our personal lives, and thinking that there will be a downstream cultural effect from that.
00:34:08.000We have to use the playing field that the left is using, which is putting these things in our institutions, being in charge of the institutions, and then using law to prevent evil from attacking our kids.
00:34:19.000Liz Wheeler, the name of the book is Hide Your Children.