The Charlie Kirk Show - Mike Rowe Tells The Rest of the Story

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00:01:41.000 Joining us now is the legendary Mike Rowe.

00:01:45.000 Mike has a very important announcement to share with us.

00:01:47.000 Mike, welcome back to the program.

00:01:49.000 Charlie, thanks for having me back.

00:01:50.000 And once again, I will try to live up to the legendary status.

00:01:54.000 It gets harder with every passing day.

00:01:57.000 I'm putting the pressure on you to do that.

00:02:00.000 So Mike, tell us about your new project here.

00:02:03.000 Something to stand for.

00:02:04.000 Tell us about it.

00:02:05.000 It's a movie.

00:02:08.000 It's about two hours long.

00:02:10.000 It consists of nine short stories that I've written over the years in the style of the late, great Paul Harvey, who, as you know, had a great radio program in the 70s and 80s called The Rest of the Story.

00:02:24.000 They were They were mysteries and history combined.

00:02:28.000 So you'd learn something you didn't know about somebody you do and try and figure out who Paul was talking about over the course of the tale.

00:02:37.000 So I've written a few hundred of those stories from my podcast.

00:02:40.000 And for Independence Day, we cherry picked nine of the most aggressively, unapologetically, and shamelessly patriotic tales we could find.

00:02:51.000 And we stitched them together with a trip to D.C.

00:02:54.000 where I visit some of the statues and memorials and monuments that have been built to honor the people that we feature in the movie.

00:03:03.000 So it's not a documentary and it's not quite Saving Private Ryan.

00:03:09.000 It's something in between.

00:03:12.000 And we're super proud of it and think it's just what the country needs to see during these extraordinary times.

00:03:21.000 I love it, and it's beautifully shot.

00:03:23.000 The cinematography is awesome.

00:03:25.000 Let's play the trailer.

00:03:26.000 It's about a minute long.

00:03:28.000 It is SomethingToStandFor.movie.

00:03:30.000 Let's play cut 19, please.

00:03:34.000 My name's Mike Rowe, and this is SomethingToStandFor.

00:03:42.000 A film that celebrates a few extraordinary Americans who risked everything To build the nation we call home.

00:03:50.000 Americans who gave us something to fight for.

00:03:53.000 Something to be grateful for.

00:03:55.000 And today, all these years later, something to stand for.

00:04:00.000 I thought I'd take a trip to our nation's capital, not too far from where I grew up, to reacquaint myself with the memorials and monuments built to honor the people in this film.

00:04:13.000 In other words, it's a field trip.

00:04:16.000 And I'm glad you're along for the ride.

00:04:18.000 Assuming the old truck makes it.

00:04:20.000 It's gonna be fine.

00:04:30.000 I guess It looks terrific.

00:04:34.000 So Mike, tell us more about the project and give us a little teaser of some of the stories you highlight here.

00:04:39.000 So, the project happened, honestly, because the headlines a few years ago seemed to indicate that our country was struggling, or at least confused, about when to stand, and when to kneel, and what to feel good about, and what to feel grateful for, and what to feel guilty about, etc., etc.

00:05:01.000 And one of the stories in the film is called Something to Stand For.

00:05:06.000 In fact, it's the last story.

00:05:08.000 But all of them really redound to a rumination on gratitude.

00:05:14.000 Because honestly, Charlie, you know, I think part of what... I didn't write this for liberals or conservatives or Democrats or Republicans.

00:05:25.000 I wrote it mostly for people who see themselves as Americans, first and foremost.

00:05:29.000 And the challenge was, Well, what can all Americans agree is still within our grasp.

00:05:37.000 What can we do that is still inherently apolitical?

00:05:42.000 And my feeling is gratitude.

00:05:46.000 Gratitude, like work ethic, is a conscious choice.

00:05:51.000 You're not born with it.

00:05:53.000 It's got nothing to do with the color of your hair, or your skin, or your eyes, or your star sign, or your blood type, or any of that other stuff.

00:06:01.000 It's a thing we can all choose to be.

00:06:04.000 And I think that we have a much easier time as a species when we're fundamentally grateful.

00:06:12.000 It's not always easy, but it's always in our best interests to try and come together through some shared commonality.

00:06:20.000 And being Independence Day, I thought that that was the thing that I wanted to lean into.

00:06:27.000 As far as teasing the stories, it's tricky, Charlie, because they're all mysteries.

00:06:31.000 They all have a surprise at the end.

00:06:33.000 But by way of example, I'll tell you, I write about a guy who you know, pretty famous guy, who was challenged to a duel one morning.

00:06:44.000 Pistols at dawn over a question of honor.

00:06:48.000 And what this guy did was he understood that if you're challenged to a duel, it's up to you to accept or not.

00:06:55.000 He had to accept, but it's also up to you to choose the terms.

00:07:01.000 So he said, okay, if we're going to do this, let's do it, but not pistols at dawn.

00:07:06.000 Let's do it like men. 0.72

00:07:07.000 Let's do it with broadswords in a pit. 1.00

00:07:11.000 And so a pit was dug and hundreds of people showed up to watch these two men enter this pit and hack each other to bits with broadswords.

00:07:22.000 But what happened instead is one of the most extraordinary moments in our history that very few people talk about that ultimately saved the union.

00:07:32.000 So that's one example of telling a story in an inside-out way that'll hopefully keep people entertained and at the same time make you want to know more about the subject at hand and hopefully instill a measure of gratitude that wasn't there before the movie started.

00:07:51.000 When you do projects like this, I'm sure you're constantly learning and absorbing.

00:07:55.000 What did you learn about the country or history that you didn't know before you embarked on this project?

00:08:01.000 That's a great question.

00:08:03.000 I would first say that one of the great virtues that I know you've experienced firsthand going to colleges as you do and doing what you do is a sense of curiosity.

00:08:16.000 You either have it or you don't.

00:08:18.000 And you can develop it, for sure.

00:08:21.000 Like, gratitude is also a choice.

00:08:23.000 But it's so lacking today, Charlie.

00:08:26.000 And we're so long on certainty, short on humility, and short on curiosity, too.

00:08:34.000 My point is, it's a lot easier to be humble if you're fundamentally curious.

00:08:40.000 Because to be curious is to say, I don't know.

00:08:42.000 Let's go find out.

00:08:45.000 And what I found out in shooting this movie was actually very personal.

00:08:49.000 It's not that I learned a bunch of things I didn't know about the people in it or about our country.

00:08:56.000 I learned some things about myself.

00:08:59.000 I learned that going back to D.C.

00:09:02.000 and spending some time on the National Mall and talking with park rangers who wake up every day to clean the graffiti and the filth off of our statuary, that's powerful.

00:09:15.000 That's a kind of public service that you don't see much in the press.

00:09:19.000 I also learned that You know, it's funny.

00:09:22.000 Most of my career in TV was all about unscripted moments.

00:09:26.000 We didn't have a script on Dirty Jobs.

00:09:28.000 We never did a second take.

00:09:30.000 Movies are different.

00:09:31.000 They're very, very intentional and they're super deliberate.

00:09:35.000 And I was filming a scene.

00:09:37.000 At the World War II Memorial, about halfway through this process, and it was a very specific moment, I had to hit a very specific X on the ground and look into the lens and say a very specific thing.

00:09:47.000 And as we were preparing for that very intentional act, out of the corner of my eye, I saw an old man in a wheelchair being wheeled in with a few other old men in wheelchairs.

00:10:00.000 His family was there and volunteers.

00:10:02.000 It was an honor flight.

00:10:04.000 And they were all parked in front of that wall of stars and they were crying, sitting there, you know, and I said to the director, hey, man, let's let's go over here for a minute.

00:10:13.000 Bring the camera, which is crazy.

00:10:15.000 If you're making a movie, you don't have any time to waste.

00:10:17.000 And that's not how you make a movie.

00:10:19.000 But we went over and the cameras followed me and I met a guy named Andy Michael who told me a story about his service in the Korean War.

00:10:27.000 And as he sat there contemplating all the sacrifice that had been paid on his behalf, tears streaming down his 91-year-old face, I learned that he and my dad had fought at the same time in the same battle.

00:10:40.000 Now that, that's just weird, Charlie, and that is utterly unscriptable.

00:10:45.000 And when it happens, When it happens, you have to decide, you know, are you going to put that in your movie or not?

00:10:52.000 Are you going to let something random replace something you wanted to do on purpose?

00:10:57.000 For me, the answer is you better believe it.

00:10:59.000 So an old man named Michael pops up in this movie.

00:11:02.000 We have that picture, actually.

00:11:03.000 We could throw that picture up on screen.

00:11:06.000 It's amazing.

00:11:08.000 And we actually see you kneeling down.

00:11:09.000 I think that's the dialogue you're mentioning.

00:11:12.000 That's exactly it.

00:11:13.000 Yeah.

00:11:14.000 Yeah.

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00:12:28.000 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:12:30.000 Mike, we'll show this image on screen if you wanna just complete that story

00:12:35.000 of the spontaneous moment.

00:12:36.000 There it is up on screen.

00:12:38.000 Please continue, Mike Rowe.

00:12:40.000 So that's the World War II Memorial, and I was there shooting a stand-up for a movie called Something to Stand For, which is going to be out next week.

00:12:48.000 And I had a plan, and then I saw that guy, 91 years old, Korean War veteran, sitting there looking at the wall of stars in the memorial and contemplating the price that had been paid for his freedom.

00:13:03.000 And yeah, the whole movie just goes off the rails.

00:13:05.000 I go over and start talking to him.

00:13:07.000 The film crew follows me.

00:13:08.000 20 minutes later, we're still talking.

00:13:11.000 And I learned that that old guy fought with my dad.

00:13:15.000 In Korea.

00:13:16.000 Same time.

00:13:17.000 And here he was, for the first time in his life, with his family, at the World War II Memorial, searching, I think, for the same thing, Charlie, that we're all searching for on some level.

00:13:29.000 You know, a more meaningful connection with our past, a better understanding of our present, and just an opportunity to be truly grateful and reflective.

00:13:41.000 And that's the goal of this whole movie.

00:13:45.000 And the fact that we were able to find it in a totally unscripted moment with that guy just goes to show that sometimes the biggest enemy of a good plan is a perfect plan.

00:13:58.000 Best to play the cards you get.

00:14:00.000 I love it.

00:14:00.000 It is something to stand for dot movie.

00:14:02.000 Mike, I want to just get a quick thought here.

00:14:05.000 As you know, I visit colleges and I get asked a lot about my stances on colleges.

00:14:08.000 And I still, the number one question I receive from parents of high schoolers is, but Charlie, my child will not be able to find any good job or a paying job and employers will not hire them if they do not go to college.

00:14:20.000 I know you've addressed this so many times.

00:14:22.000 I think it's important to, you know, really Stay on this.

00:14:26.000 What is your best answer to that objection, Mike Rowe?

00:14:28.000 Those parents are scared, and they're scared for good reason.

00:14:31.000 Nobody wants to screw up their kids.

00:14:33.000 And unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all playbook for how to raise your kid and which direction to encourage him or her to explore.

00:14:44.000 The biggest enemy that we face, in my opinion, regarding our educational system is the one-size-fits-all policy.

00:14:52.000 And for 40 years, we've been told that the best path for the most people is the path of a four-year degree.

00:14:59.000 Unfortunately, it's not only untrue, it's the most expensive path.

00:15:04.000 And the reason we've got 1.7 trillion in debt on the books right now is because we have promoted that path at the expense of all the others.

00:15:14.000 And now we're forgiving billions of dollars in student debt, which will do absolutely nothing to incentivize the universities to lower their obscene tuition.

00:15:25.000 And so we're living in a time when we don't know what to stand for vis-a-vis education.

00:15:31.000 And why would we?

00:15:32.000 Because in 1955, a degree from Harvard, the average GPA was 2.5.

00:15:37.000 And yet...

00:15:37.000 Today it's 3.9.

00:15:43.000 There they sit on top of a $52 billion endowment watching, watching as plumbers and steam fitters and pipe fitters and electricians pay off the debt of their graduates.

00:15:57.000 It's an affront to common sense and Americans are seeing it.

00:16:02.000 So to answer your question, my advice is don't give cookie cutter advice.

00:16:08.000 Make sure your kid looks at all the options.

00:16:09.000 Make sure they understand the consequences of crushing student debt.

00:16:13.000 Well, and far too often parents will say, yeah, you know, no, no two kids are the same, but every one of my kids must go to college.

00:16:20.000 It's a, it's a walking contradiction.

00:16:23.000 Something to stand for.movie.

00:16:24.000 Mike Rowe, excellent work.

00:16:25.000 Thank you so much.

00:16:26.000 It's only in for a week.

00:16:28.000 Starts on the 27th through the 4th of July.

00:16:30.000 Appreciate it, Charlie.

00:16:32.000 Thank you.

00:16:32.000 Terrific.

00:16:33.000 This is really important.

00:16:34.000 I can go through this later in the hour.

00:16:35.000 The need to run up the score in the rules.

00:16:39.000 I spent a couple hours, not on Shabbat, yesterday.

00:16:42.000 I had some time traveling back and forth from the whatever podcast.

00:16:48.000 You would be amazed when you hear that Donald Trump could do even better in the rural parts of the country.

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00:17:04.000 70%?

00:17:04.000 60%?

00:17:05.000 Yeah, it's like 60%.

00:17:07.000 Do you know that the Democrat areas far overperform a percentage basis than our rural areas?

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00:18:22.000 Joining us now is Colby Jenkins.

00:18:24.000 He is a congressional candidate in the second district in Utah.

00:18:28.000 You can check out his website at colbyforyutah.com.

00:18:30.000 Colby, welcome to the program.

00:18:32.000 Tell us about yourself and your race.

00:18:34.000 Hey, thank you so much, Charlie.

00:18:35.000 What a privilege and honor to be here with you.

00:18:37.000 I really appreciate it.

00:18:38.000 Yeah, so we are Utah's second congressional district.

00:18:41.000 Our primary is actually tomorrow and voters in Utah have their mail-in ballots in hand right now.

00:18:46.000 They've had them for just over two weeks.

00:18:49.000 And so anyone within the sound of my voice who has a family member living in Utah, specifically the second congressional district, please call, please text them and encourage them, one, to vote.

00:19:00.000 And two to vote for me, for us, Colby Jenkins for Utah.com.

00:19:04.000 So tell us about your race.

00:19:06.000 What are you standing for?

00:19:06.000 What type of leader will you be in D.C.?

00:19:09.000 And what do you think is the main problem?

00:19:11.000 Are you going to be more in the kind of transactional Republican wing of the Republican Party or more Liberty focused about curtailing the size and scope of the federal government?

00:19:21.000 Yeah, more of the latter, Charlie.

00:19:22.000 What you're going to get and what my voters will get from me is what they've gotten for 31 years already.

00:19:27.000 And that's service to this nation.

00:19:29.000 I am a combat veteran, Green Beret.

00:19:32.000 I swore an oath to support and defend our constitution more than three decades ago, and no one has relieved me of that oath.

00:19:39.000 And I look forward to now continuing that service to defending our constitution, not compromising on it, but actually standing up and defending it like Senators Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Thomas Massey, Chip Roy, and others are doing in Congress.

00:19:54.000 I'm looking forward to reinforcing their efforts.

00:19:57.000 And not being a Republican.

00:19:58.000 Who steps away from the Republican Party, like my opponent Celeste Malloy has done time and time again, and join the Democrats in voting to pass omnibus out of control spending bills that do nothing more than support the Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer policy agenda.

00:20:15.000 That's not what my constituents are hiring me to do.

00:20:18.000 They are hiring me to control spending, not to fund everything that the government comes asking for.

00:20:24.000 And so that's what I'm looking forward to doing.

00:20:26.000 Standing up, defending the constitution.

00:20:29.000 Controlling spending and actually voting like a Republican should.

00:20:33.000 That's what we're looking forward to doing.

00:20:35.000 So, Colby, let's take the vote for money for Ukraine.

00:20:39.000 Would you be in favor of more money for the Ukrainian war effort or slowing down the amount of money we spend to Ukraine?

00:20:46.000 Zero.

00:20:47.000 That's an easy answer.

00:20:48.000 Zero.

00:20:49.000 I would vote for America first. 0.75

00:20:51.000 Before we have any supplemental spending bills on the floor, I would look to America first.

00:20:56.000 What are we doing to close our border?

00:20:59.000 What funding are we sending to close our border?

00:21:02.000 Not funding more processing facilities, which is what this last omnibus bill did, and my opponents supported.

00:21:08.000 I'm going to actually fund to close the wall, to close the border, build the wall, turn off those incentives that are attracting such mass illegal immigration to our country.

00:21:19.000 We need to put America first, not just in word, but actually in deed.

00:21:23.000 And that's where you'll find me, falling on the side of America first before sending another dollar To the black hole, the money laundering that's happening in Ukraine. 0.72

00:21:32.000 Well, I love that.

00:21:33.000 Why do you think that Republicans are so cautious at slowing down the funding of foreign wars and foreign conflicts?

00:21:41.000 And thank you for your clear stance on that, but why do you think that is?

00:21:44.000 It's business as usual.

00:21:45.000 You know, the establishment wants to protect that business as usual, and we are seeing it just in my race.

00:21:51.000 We've seen the Speaker of the House.

00:21:53.000 We've seen the other three members of Congress, not Senator Bee.

00:21:57.000 But the other three House members circle the wagons around my opponent because she's a pliable vote. 1.00

00:22:03.000 She's gotten in line and voted as the speakers demanded that she votes every time. 0.99

00:22:08.000 We want to spend more money for everyone else?

00:22:10.000 Get in line and I'll vote.

00:22:11.000 That's what my opponent's been doing.

00:22:13.000 And that's what too many Republicans have been doing.

00:22:15.000 And we wonder why we find ourselves marching towards $35, $36 trillion in debt.

00:22:19.000 It's very interesting that the The Biden administration could not wait to get out of Afghanistan.

00:22:28.000 And before the dust has even settled, we're already running to a new conflict.

00:22:32.000 We're already spending hundreds of billions of dollars into a black hole that is the Ukraine. 0.97

00:22:38.000 And don't even pause to understand what did we just come from in Afghanistan and what fraud, waste and loss of human life happened there. 1.00

00:22:47.000 Now we're already running to get ourselves in another mess.

00:22:50.000 That's not where you're going to find me.

00:22:52.000 You're going to find me there asking questions.

00:22:54.000 And asking why.

00:22:55.000 And talk about your military service.

00:22:58.000 I mean, you love the country and you've served it.

00:23:01.000 A lot of veterans, when they go to D.C., they have a different approach than what you have.

00:23:05.000 They actually want to fund the next war.

00:23:07.000 They want to get us into another conflict.

00:23:09.000 You've been endorsed by Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Vivek Ramaswamy, Senator Tuberville, the House Freedom Fund.

00:23:15.000 And I think having a veteran's voice to slow down this foreign adventurism is critical right now. 0.97

00:23:21.000 Yeah, you bet.

00:23:22.000 Who better than to sit in the chair on the other side of the dais, looking down at those in uniform or those in suit and tie and asking why?

00:23:32.000 Why are we marching to the sound of guns again?

00:23:34.000 I've actually, so I'm a combat veteran Green Beret.

00:23:38.000 I've served in combat.

00:23:40.000 I've led a team of Green Berets in Afghanistan and in South America doing counter drug and hostage rescue operations.

00:23:47.000 I actually worked in Washington, D.C.

00:23:49.000 as a Green Beret liaison to Congress.

00:23:51.000 I worked in the Senate for a while and then the House before being a senior advisor in the Pentagon for more than four years.

00:23:58.000 So this will not be my first rodeo.

00:24:00.000 I've seen how the sausage gets made in the Pentagon bureaucracy.

00:24:04.000 So I'm excited to have the opportunity on behalf of my constituents to ask the questions, why?

00:24:11.000 And to say, I don't think so.

00:24:13.000 Or even better to say, that sounds great.

00:24:15.000 That's solid policy that aligns with what we as conservative Republicans should support.

00:24:21.000 Or to say, no, that's not okay.

00:24:23.000 And so for me, you're not going to get the rubber stamp vote that you're seeing from the establishment, from the Uniparty.

00:24:30.000 And that's why Senator Lee, Senator Rand Paul, and others like them who've stood in the trenches defending our constitution, who've stood and are already asking these questions, why are we doing this as a nation?

00:24:44.000 They're with me.

00:24:45.000 They're looking for someone else to reinforce them, to not just send the same old Republicans that will fall to the establishment like my opponent has and be a rubber stamp and just send it on down the line, business as usual.

00:24:58.000 That's not what you're going to get from me.

00:25:00.000 I think that's terrific.

00:25:01.000 Another crisis looming right now is the southern border.

00:25:04.000 Talk about your focus on what's happening with the illegal immigration in this country and what you would fight for in D.C.

00:25:11.000 to help slow down the invasion.

00:25:13.000 Well, we all agree that we need legal immigration. 0.95

00:25:17.000 At the end of the day, we're all immigrants in some way, shape, and form, so we need legal immigration.

00:25:22.000 But what we don't need is what we've had for the last three years.

00:25:26.000 And the solution for the border begins with reelecting President Trump.

00:25:30.000 Leadership matters.

00:25:31.000 And then having legislators who can stand shoulder to shoulder with the new Trump administration and remove those legislative obstacles that are impairing us from turning back on Remain in Mexico, ending the catch and release program, stop funding new processing facilities.

00:25:48.000 That's what the last omnibus bill funded.

00:25:50.000 It didn't fund closing the wall.

00:25:52.000 Chip Roy even called that out saying this bill does nothing to secure our wall or our border.

00:25:58.000 In fact, there was actually a $500 million earmark that supported the government of Jordan and their border and their national security.

00:26:07.000 Imagine what we could have done with $500 million going to our border.

00:26:12.000 Those would be the kind of questions that I would be asking and actions that I would be pursuing.

00:26:16.000 Not being a rubber stamp like my opponent was.

00:26:19.000 And now she joined every Democrat passing that $1.2 trillion omnibus bill.

00:26:24.000 That's not where you're going to find me.

00:26:26.000 So I'm going to be funding our resources to close and build our wall, actually, and then support President Trump in the executive action that he will put back in place that we've already seen be successful earlier.

00:26:39.000 Colby, how can people support you and your website here and the call to action?

00:26:43.000 Do I hear this right that Utah has universal mail-in voting?

00:26:45.000 You guys no longer have polling places.

00:26:47.000 Is that right?

00:26:48.000 We do have polling places.

00:26:50.000 You can actually go and vote in person tomorrow.

00:26:53.000 But yeah, we have mail-in ballots and they've been out for almost three weeks now.

00:26:57.000 It's definitely a system that needs revisiting to have ballots sitting out germinating.

00:27:03.000 In the general populace for more than two weeks is just asking for fraud, waste and abuse.

00:27:08.000 But so we're, we're asking for anyone within the sound of my voice who has friends or family, or who may already be in the second congressional district of Utah, our district, please vote for us.

00:27:20.000 The ballots are out now.

00:27:21.000 They can vote in person tomorrow.

00:27:23.000 They can go to their county website and find where those, those locations are, but please vote now.

00:27:28.000 And our website is Colby.

00:27:30.000 ForUtah.com, ColbyFORUtah.com.

00:27:35.000 Let us not be fooled.

00:27:37.000 I am running against the establishment.

00:27:39.000 Speaker Mike Johnson had a fundraiser for my opponent not too long ago in Washington, D.C., rolled out all the usual suspects, circled the gravy train, circled those wagons, but we are still fighting.

00:27:51.000 And let us not forget, I've actually beaten my opponent twice, head to head.

00:27:57.000 Here in Southern Utah, I beat her by 12%.

00:28:00.000 At our state convention, I beat her by 14%.

00:28:04.000 So the voice in my district has spoken and is continuing to roll.

00:28:08.000 Now we just need that final push to get us across the finish line tomorrow.

00:28:12.000 And we welcome everyone's support.

00:28:13.000 We are, the grassroots are mobilized.

00:28:16.000 Phone calls are being made.

00:28:17.000 It's just been exciting.

00:28:18.000 And just, I've been in combat before with real teams, but boy, the teammates and the teams that I've seen now on my campaign side are comparable.

00:28:28.000 Tomorrow is the election in Utah.

00:28:28.000 I love it.

00:28:29.000 Everyone choose wisely.

00:28:31.000 Colby, thanks so much.

00:28:31.000 to having others join our A team as we go to the congressional battle field.

00:28:35.000 Tomorrow is the election in Utah. Everyone choose wisely.

00:28:38.000 Colby, thanks so much.

00:28:39.000 Thank you, Charlie.

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00:29:34.000 So tonight we have an amazing event with Matt Gaetz, Eli Crane, which is, it's his event, Paul Gosar, and Andy Biggs.

00:29:50.000 It's an all-star lineup.

00:29:51.000 Let's put, let's put 24 up on screen.

00:29:53.000 Eli Crane for Congress Rally in Prescott, Arizona.

00:29:56.000 Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, and Eli Crane, and I don't know if I'm allowed to share the address because of all the haters.

00:30:04.000 That's right, there are some liberals up there, but if you guys want, you can follow the QR code there.

00:30:10.000 I think we're still taking tickets.

00:30:11.000 Eli's running the logistics on this.

00:30:14.000 So let me just reiterate the point.

00:30:16.000 Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania voted 81% for Joe Biden.

00:30:23.000 Do you know that there is not a single county in Pennsylvania or Arizona That voted 81.4% for Trump, not a single county.

00:30:34.000 And the major issue is that Joe Biden receives major margins out of these areas.

00:30:43.000 So it's not just that he wins 81% of the vote, it's that there is 600,000 ballots he gets out of that.

00:30:50.000 So it's not just the margin, it is the delta that we have to overcome.

00:30:55.000 So we start looking at the state of Arizona.

00:30:58.000 The reddest county in the state of Arizona is Mojave County.

00:31:03.000 That includes Lake Havasu, amongst many other wonderful parts of the beautiful terrain of Arizona, Bullhead City, Kingman, Fort Mojave, and many others.

00:31:16.000 That is the reddest county in Arizona.

00:31:18.000 75% votes for Donald Trump.

00:31:20.000 Let's play cut 27 up there.

00:31:23.000 That is the reddest county in Arizona.

00:31:25.000 Now tonight we'll be doing our event in Yavapai County, which is reliably conservative.

00:31:31.000 It voted 63.9% for Donald Trump and 64% for Carrie Lake, almost identical, by the way.

00:31:39.000 But Yavapai County is very red.

00:31:42.000 It is bright red.

00:31:43.000 There is no reason why Yavapai County should not be 67, 68% in Trump's favor.

00:31:50.000 We are so focused at times on swing voters, in swing districts, in suburban areas, that we forget that we can actually go to the lower prop areas in the bright red portions of America and run up the score.

00:32:07.000 In fact, that is the forgotten area.

00:32:10.000 And if you look at the voter registration numbers in Arizona, the places that are getting redder the quickest are the rural counties.

00:32:19.000 Now, thankfully, rural voters actually show up in very high numbers. 0.64

00:32:23.000 It's a very responsible culture.

00:32:25.000 People that own property, they take care of their kids, they vote in high numbers.

00:32:30.000 However, not high enough.

00:32:32.000 If we want to cancel out the urban superpower that they have built in downtown Phoenix or in downtown Pima, We need to do events like we're doing in Yavapai County and run up the score.

00:32:45.000 So let's put up another cut.

00:32:47.000 Cut 28.

00:32:48.000 This is Gila County, the home of beautiful Payson, Arizona, one of my favorite parts of Arizona, and Pine, Arizona, and Strawberry, Arizona.

00:32:55.000 Really amazing folks up there.

00:32:56.000 It's super gorgeous.

00:32:58.000 So Donald Trump wins 66% of the vote.

00:33:00.000 You see, this doesn't get a lot of examination because we just consider it to be normal.

00:33:04.000 Trump wins 63.

00:33:05.000 Trump wins 64.

00:33:06.000 What difference?

00:33:06.000 It makes a huge difference.

00:33:08.000 If we were to pour money and resources, which we are doing at Turning Point Action, say, why can't we get to 70%?

00:33:15.000 Why can't we get a single county in Arizona or Pennsylvania that is as red as Philadelphia is blue?

00:33:22.000 That should be the goal.

00:33:23.000 And that is 81.4%.

00:33:25.000 Philadelphia voted for Biden at 81.4%.

00:33:28.000 Now, mind you, there's a lot of fraud, a lot of nonsense, a lot of ballot chasing, a lot of stuff that happens there.

00:33:34.000 But why can't we have Gila County, Get up to 70%.

00:33:40.000 Mojave County is close to form, to be perfectly honest.

00:33:42.000 Put 27% up.

00:33:43.000 The fact that Mojave County goes up to 75%, it's good.

00:33:48.000 Now, if you're looking for a task or a purpose, maybe you should drive up to Pine, Arizona, go into a diner, put on a MAGA hat, a lot of hunters there in the fall, and go register low-prop voters.

00:34:01.000 You want to talk about fish in the barrel?

00:34:03.000 Go into Payson, Arizona.

00:34:07.000 Go to Prescott, Arizona.

00:34:08.000 Go to Lake Havasu with a MAGA hat, and that will be a lot better territory, easier harvest, if you will, than Scottsdale or Glendale, which are all very important.

00:34:20.000 What I'm getting at is we have been propagandized to believe that swing voters are the only thing that matters in these elections.

00:34:27.000 And I'm here to tell you that they matter, but not nearly as much As it actually does in the final election results.

00:34:35.000 So tonight we have this great event with Eli Crane in Yavapai County, where we need to win by more in the bright red areas.

00:34:41.000 We need to run up the score.

00:34:43.000 We should pursue a dual approach.

00:34:45.000 Not forget the swing voters, but also the rurals need to roar.

00:34:52.000 Run up the score in the rurals.

00:34:58.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:59.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:02.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

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