Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Mike Rowe joins the program about a really important new film he has coming out, and Colby Jenkins, who is running for Congress in Utah, joins us. Finally, what if I told you that we do not have a single county in Pennsylvania or Arizona that votes as Republican as downtown Philadelphia does? That s a problem. We need to run up the score in our safest, reddest areas and make it bright red. Thanks to our sponsor, Noble Gold Investments, the official Gold Sponsor of the show, a company that specializes in gold and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investing, where I buy all of my gold. Go to NobleGoldInvestments.com/TheCharlieKirkShow and become a member today. That is, today, members of The CharlieKirk Show! Buckle up, everybody. Here we go! Here s what you need to do: 1. Get involved with Turning Point USA atTPusa.org/TTPusa 2. Support the program by becoming a Member today. 3. Watch the trailer for Something to Stand For. 4. Learn more about the new movie, Something To Stand For? 5. Take a trip to our nation s capital, not too far from where I grew up in Washington, D.C. And I m glad you re here! 6. What to stand for? 7. What do you have to be grateful for. 8. How to feel good about it? 9. I ve got a story to be thankful for that? And what to be a good day? And I d like to be it s gonna be fine, right here? etc., etc. & so on and so on & so forth, etc. etc. And so on. And so much more! And finally, let me hear from you, Thank you, Charlie Kirk I hope you all of the rest of the good night. - Cheers, Cheers Cheers! - Mike Rocha - The Reverend ? & Cheers - The Reverend Mike Rowe "The Reverend Mike Rook AND THE ENCOUNTER AND THE CHEERIE KELLY KURTER AND THE PODCAST AND THE OTHER THING THAT VOTING FOR THAT'S A THING?
00:00:00.000Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Mike Rowe joins the program about a really important new film he has coming out.
00:00:06.000And Colby Jenkins, who's running for Congress in Utah, joins us.
00:00:09.000Finally, what if I told you that we do not have a single county in Pennsylvania or Arizona that votes as Republican as downtown Philadelphia does?
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00:02:10.000It 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.
00:02:24.000They were They were mysteries and history combined.
00:02:28.000So 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.
00:02:37.000So I've written a few hundred of those stories from my podcast.
00:02:40.000And for Independence Day, we cherry picked nine of the most aggressively, unapologetically, and shamelessly patriotic tales we could find.
00:02:51.000And we stitched them together with a trip to D.C.
00:02:54.000where I visit some of the statues and memorials and monuments that have been built to honor the people that we feature in the movie.
00:03:03.000So it's not a documentary and it's not quite Saving Private Ryan.
00:03:55.000And today, all these years later, something to stand for.
00:04:00.000I 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.
00:04:34.000So Mike, tell us more about the project and give us a little teaser of some of the stories you highlight here.
00:04:39.000So, 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.
00:05:01.000And one of the stories in the film is called Something to Stand For.
00:05:08.000But all of them really redound to a rumination on gratitude.
00:05:14.000Because honestly, Charlie, you know, I think part of what... I didn't write this for liberals or conservatives or Democrats or Republicans.
00:05:25.000I wrote it mostly for people who see themselves as Americans, first and foremost.
00:05:29.000And the challenge was, Well, what can all Americans agree is still within our grasp.
00:05:37.000What can we do that is still inherently apolitical?
00:05:53.000It'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.
00:07:07.000Let's do it with broadswords in a pit.
00:07:11.000And 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.
00:07:22.000But what happened instead is one of the most extraordinary moments in our history that very few people talk about that ultimately saved the union.
00:07:32.000So 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.
00:07:51.000When you do projects like this, I'm sure you're constantly learning and absorbing.
00:07:55.000What did you learn about the country or history that you didn't know before you embarked on this project?
00:08:03.000I 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.
00:09:02.000and 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.
00:09:15.000That's a kind of public service that you don't see much in the press.
00:09:19.000I also learned that You know, it's funny.
00:09:22.000Most of my career in TV was all about unscripted moments.
00:09:26.000We didn't have a script on Dirty Jobs.
00:09:37.000At 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.
00:09:47.000And 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.
00:10:04.000And 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.
00:10:19.000But 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.
00:10:27.000And 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.
00:10:40.000Now that, that's just weird, Charlie, and that is utterly unscriptable.
00:10:45.000And when it happens, When it happens, you have to decide, you know, are you going to put that in your movie or not?
00:10:52.000Are you going to let something random replace something you wanted to do on purpose?
00:10:57.000For me, the answer is you better believe it.
00:10:59.000So an old man named Michael pops up in this movie.
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00:12:40.000So 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.
00:12:48.000And 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.
00:13:03.000And yeah, the whole movie just goes off the rails.
00:13:17.000And 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.
00:13:29.000You know, a more meaningful connection with our past, a better understanding of our present, and just an opportunity to be truly grateful and reflective.
00:13:41.000And that's the goal of this whole movie.
00:13:45.000And 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.
00:14:00.000It is something to stand for dot movie.
00:14:02.000Mike, I want to just get a quick thought here.
00:14:05.000As you know, I visit colleges and I get asked a lot about my stances on colleges.
00:14:08.000And 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.
00:14:20.000I know you've addressed this so many times.
00:14:22.000I think it's important to, you know, really Stay on this.
00:14:26.000What is your best answer to that objection, Mike Rowe?
00:14:28.000Those parents are scared, and they're scared for good reason.
00:14:33.000And 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.
00:14:44.000The biggest enemy that we face, in my opinion, regarding our educational system is the one-size-fits-all policy.
00:14:52.000And for 40 years, we've been told that the best path for the most people is the path of a four-year degree.
00:14:59.000Unfortunately, it's not only untrue, it's the most expensive path.
00:15:04.000And 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.
00:15:14.000And now we're forgiving billions of dollars in student debt, which will do absolutely nothing to incentivize the universities to lower their obscene tuition.
00:15:25.000And so we're living in a time when we don't know what to stand for vis-a-vis education.
00:15:43.000There 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.
00:15:57.000It's an affront to common sense and Americans are seeing it.
00:16:02.000So to answer your question, my advice is don't give cookie cutter advice.
00:16:08.000Make sure your kid looks at all the options.
00:16:09.000Make sure they understand the consequences of crushing student debt.
00:16:13.000Well, 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.
00:18:38.000Yeah, so we are Utah's second congressional district.
00:18:41.000Our primary is actually tomorrow and voters in Utah have their mail-in ballots in hand right now.
00:18:46.000They've had them for just over two weeks.
00:18:49.000And 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.
00:19:00.000And two to vote for me, for us, Colby Jenkins for Utah.com.
00:19:06.000What type of leader will you be in D.C.?
00:19:09.000And what do you think is the main problem?
00:19:11.000Are 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?
00:19:32.000I swore an oath to support and defend our constitution more than three decades ago, and no one has relieved me of that oath.
00:19:39.000And 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.
00:19:54.000I'm looking forward to reinforcing their efforts.
00:19:58.000Who 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.
00:20:15.000That's not what my constituents are hiring me to do.
00:20:18.000They are hiring me to control spending, not to fund everything that the government comes asking for.
00:20:24.000And so that's what I'm looking forward to doing.
00:20:26.000Standing up, defending the constitution.
00:20:29.000Controlling spending and actually voting like a Republican should.
00:20:33.000That's what we're looking forward to doing.
00:20:35.000So, Colby, let's take the vote for money for Ukraine.
00:20:39.000Would you be in favor of more money for the Ukrainian war effort or slowing down the amount of money we spend to Ukraine?
00:20:51.000Before we have any supplemental spending bills on the floor, I would look to America first.
00:20:56.000What are we doing to close our border?
00:20:59.000What funding are we sending to close our border?
00:21:02.000Not funding more processing facilities, which is what this last omnibus bill did, and my opponents supported.
00:21:08.000I'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.
00:21:19.000We need to put America first, not just in word, but actually in deed.
00:21:23.000And 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.
00:23:22.000Who 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?
00:23:32.000Why are we marching to the sound of guns again?
00:23:34.000I've actually, so I'm a combat veteran Green Beret.
00:24:23.000And so for me, you're not going to get the rubber stamp vote that you're seeing from the establishment, from the Uniparty.
00:24:30.000And 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?
00:24:45.000They'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.
00:24:58.000That's not what you're going to get from me.
00:25:31.000And 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.
00:25:48.000That's what the last omnibus bill funded.
00:25:52.000Chip Roy even called that out saying this bill does nothing to secure our wall or our border.
00:25:58.000In fact, there was actually a $500 million earmark that supported the government of Jordan and their border and their national security.
00:26:07.000Imagine what we could have done with $500 million going to our border.
00:26:12.000Those would be the kind of questions that I would be asking and actions that I would be pursuing.
00:26:16.000Not being a rubber stamp like my opponent was.
00:26:19.000And now she joined every Democrat passing that $1.2 trillion omnibus bill.
00:26:24.000That's not where you're going to find me.
00:26:26.000So 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.
00:26:39.000Colby, how can people support you and your website here and the call to action?
00:26:43.000Do I hear this right that Utah has universal mail-in voting?
00:26:45.000You guys no longer have polling places.
00:26:50.000You can actually go and vote in person tomorrow.
00:26:53.000But yeah, we have mail-in ballots and they've been out for almost three weeks now.
00:26:57.000It's definitely a system that needs revisiting to have ballots sitting out germinating.
00:27:03.000In the general populace for more than two weeks is just asking for fraud, waste and abuse.
00:27:08.000But 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.
00:27:37.000I am running against the establishment.
00:27:39.000Speaker 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.
00:27:51.000And let us not forget, I've actually beaten my opponent twice, head to head.
00:27:57.000Here in Southern Utah, I beat her by 12%.
00:28:00.000At our state convention, I beat her by 14%.
00:28:04.000So the voice in my district has spoken and is continuing to roll.
00:28:08.000Now we just need that final push to get us across the finish line tomorrow.
00:28:18.000And 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.
00:30:16.000Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania voted 81% for Joe Biden.
00:30:23.000Do you know that there is not a single county in Pennsylvania or Arizona That voted 81.4% for Trump, not a single county.
00:30:34.000And the major issue is that Joe Biden receives major margins out of these areas.
00:30:43.000So it's not just that he wins 81% of the vote, it's that there is 600,000 ballots he gets out of that.
00:30:50.000So it's not just the margin, it is the delta that we have to overcome.
00:30:55.000So we start looking at the state of Arizona.
00:30:58.000The reddest county in the state of Arizona is Mojave County.
00:31:03.000That includes Lake Havasu, amongst many other wonderful parts of the beautiful terrain of Arizona, Bullhead City, Kingman, Fort Mojave, and many others.
00:31:16.000That is the reddest county in Arizona.
00:31:43.000There is no reason why Yavapai County should not be 67, 68% in Trump's favor.
00:31:50.000We 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.
00:32:32.000If 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.
00:32:48.000This is Gila County, the home of beautiful Payson, Arizona, one of my favorite parts of Arizona, and Pine, Arizona, and Strawberry, Arizona.
00:33:43.000The fact that Mojave County goes up to 75%, it's good.
00:33:48.000Now, 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.
00:34:01.000You want to talk about fish in the barrel?
00:34:08.000Go 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.
00:34:20.000What I'm getting at is we have been propagandized to believe that swing voters are the only thing that matters in these elections.
00:34:27.000And I'm here to tell you that they matter, but not nearly as much As it actually does in the final election results.
00:34:35.000So tonight we have this great event with Eli Crane in Yavapai County, where we need to win by more in the bright red areas.