Kid Rock joins the Charlie Kirk Show to talk about the upcoming All-American Halftime show at the Grammys and why it s the perfect alternative to the NFL's Super Bowl LIV halftime show. He also talks about why the idea for the halftime show came to fruition and what it means for the future of Turning Point USA.
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00:01:09.000We have a major announcement to make and a special guest as well.
00:01:14.000And here to help us make that announcement about the All-American Halftime Show is none other than Kid Rock himself.
00:02:25.000You know, it's just like, it's like I said, it's like, you know, you're competing with this, you know, just powerhouse machine called the NFL, you know, in a certain way, you're competing with it.
00:02:34.000And in a certain way, you're not either.
00:02:36.000I think it's kind of a, I'm actually drafting an op-ed right now that I think I might release on Wednesday.
00:02:44.000Why did Turning Point have to have an alternative halftime to the NFL?
00:02:48.000And I think it's, you know, to sum it up quickly, it kind of goes back to what Taylor Sheridan figured out, you know, years back that, you know, half this country is just underserved entertainment-wise and was just really, so many of us got tired of just, you know, having Hollywood tell us how things are going to be and hearing all their political this and that and trying to, you know, shove their agendas and the trans thing and everything down our throats.
00:03:11.000And it's like, you know, I guess we're just going to have to have our own stuff for right now.
00:03:16.000And you're going to be joined by Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, Gabby Barrett, and you are going to be the headline here, Kid Rock performing at the All-American Halftime Show.
00:03:28.000So for those, you know what was great about this, by the way?
00:03:31.000So I've been kind of seeing some of the behind the scenes here.
00:03:34.000And originally we listed all the artists in the press release.
00:03:37.000And, you know, this, this would be Grammy.
00:03:39.000We just hit the Grammys in hour one, which is ironic.
00:03:42.000But the, you know, because they're all anti-ice or whatever.
00:03:44.000But so we send this over to your team and we get this note back.
00:03:48.000It's like, you know, Bob does not want to be associated.
00:03:51.000He, you know, here's what you could say.
00:03:53.000And it was like, okay, you know, so we said global superstar and Waffle House Legend Award winner.
00:06:20.000And you could feel this, like, this virtue signaling just constantly with them.
00:06:25.000They think that they really are doing something good.
00:06:27.000And really what they're doing is they're destroying so much of what makes this country safe and good, the institutions that keep us safe.
00:06:34.000And then meanwhile, it literally feels like, and I read this book and it was this doctor, and she was kind of explaining the generation and like going through mental illness and stuff.
00:06:44.000It's like, it's literally come to be like if you don't have some sort of a mental illness or claim to have one at some level or something's wrong, woe is me, everything's bad.
00:06:53.000You kind of feel left out of this elite, you know, Hollywood elite group.
00:06:56.000It's just, it's just sad to see some of these people.
00:07:00.000I mean, I look at that poor Billie Eilish girl.
00:07:56.000But if you're watching the big game and you don't want to be fed a bunch of woke garbage or worry that the guy's going to come out in a dress or celebrate like the queer agenda, you just want something that the family can enjoy, but it's going to be excellent and like high-octane entertainment.
00:08:26.000I'm excited today, too, because people would always ask me.
00:08:28.000And I kind of actually didn't know what was going on.
00:08:30.000They were very tight-lipped about the organization of this, I will say.
00:08:34.000But we wanted just to get people hyped up.
00:08:36.000So one of the guests we have performing, Lee Bryce, he did a tribute to Charlie a few months ago.
00:08:41.000And just kind of give people, if they're not familiar with the artists, an impression of what they're about to hear, let's play 300.
00:08:47.000And usually we do a couple of other songs, but tonight I would like to play a song.
00:08:59.000dedicated to charlie kirk and what he uh what he so adamantly stood for you know and i don't want to see a picture of this country without god in it you know and uh and it seems like every day it's trying harder and harder to do that and i But I got faith that ain't going to go that way.
00:09:25.000And the song you ended up playing was Kingdom Con Kingdom Comes.
00:09:30.000And could you speak to kind of the faith element of this too?
00:09:34.000It's not going to be like necessarily a worship set or anything, but I just, I know that's important to you as well.
00:09:40.000And are you planning on integrating any of that into your set?
00:09:43.000Man, I would love to tell people what I'm doing, but I think the element of surprise is really what's going to make it special because no one's going to be expecting this 180 that I'm going to do.
00:09:54.000I'm trying to make it as unselfish as possible, but at the same time, just play something great.
00:10:00.000I'm like, there's nothing that we can do that I can do.
00:10:03.000And trust me, I'm going to come out and hit him with the kid rock.
00:10:06.000Like, boom, bang, the whole, but that's going to stop very quickly.
00:10:09.000And I'm going to take it back to music.
00:10:11.000Because one thing I know for sure, no matter what Bad Bunny does, what the NFL is doing, nothing, nothing is more powerful than a good song.
00:10:42.000I don't know what else you can say here, but I know that you've got a lot going on right now.
00:10:47.000You've got different announcements you can make.
00:10:49.000Is there anything else you can tell us about your plans for the next couple of weeks, months?
00:10:54.000Any other releases that you want our audience to know about?
00:10:57.000Well, you know, funny enough, we're going to release the song that I'm going to perform for the turning point, you know, All-American halftime.
00:11:05.000So we're going to release it at midnight that night after the Super Bowl.
00:11:08.000And then we're going to go out and do, I think we're making an announcement this Friday.
00:11:12.000We're going to do some shows this year.
00:11:18.000So we're going to, I think it's called the Freedom 250 Tour.
00:11:21.000And it's kind of, we're going to announce that on Friday.
00:11:24.000And that's going to kind of lead to this huge thing that we're going to do in July 3rd in a stadium, which is going to be, I'm looking at like, I know everyone's going to celebrate America's 250th birthday, July 4th.
00:11:37.000I want to put together the biggest party for America on the eve of July 3rd, kind of like New Year's Eve, you know, ring a Liberty bell and shoot cannons and fireworks off and play some music for folks.
00:11:47.000So Ton of new music on the way with some very, very cool special guests.
00:11:53.000I think people are going to be widely, wildly happy and surprised at the same time.
00:12:26.000And then your second mission, after you tune in, is to take Kid Rock's new song and make it number one across all the charts at midnight after the Super Bowl.
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00:14:41.000Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, Gabby Barrett.
00:14:44.000I want to tell you again, you know, Kid Rock, he's famous for being a Waffle House legend award winner, and he's known for all summer long, which is a great song.
00:14:53.000And we've got Academy of Country Music Award winner Brantley Gilbert, known for bottoms up and country must be countrywide.
00:15:00.000Grammy nominated and country music association award winning Lee Bryce.
00:15:06.000Known for I Drive Your Truck and Rumor.
00:15:08.000ACM, new female artist of the year winner Gabby Barrett, whose breakout song I Hope, which, by the way, I know the song, but I looked across all of all the platforms and it's just millions and millions and hundreds of millions of views on I Hope.
00:15:49.000Daily Wire Plus, TBN, NTD, OAN, it is going to be syndicated on Sinclair, but right here at Real America's Voice, they're going to be carrying it right here.
00:15:59.000So if you're watching this show right now, just tune into Real America's Voice.
00:16:03.000They're going to have the direct feed.
00:16:41.000Roger, one of our enduring friends of the show, emails us all the time, sent us a blushing smile emoji, prayer emoji, thumbs up emoji, heart emoji.
00:18:45.000So on the same day that we cover on this show, anti-ice walkouts in Tucson, in LA, Portland, Chicago, New York City, there is a movement that is happening across the country sparked by Charlie Kirk and helped facilitate by amazing people on the team like Nick, where we are getting whole states to back the Club America movement.
00:19:11.000It is a movement now, and we're closing on like 4,000 high school chapters.
00:19:17.000I mean, we're still sorting through this deluge of inquiries that came in after Charlie's assassination.
00:19:26.000Yeah, so we have over 3,200 Club America chapters nationwide.
00:19:31.000And really, what these states are doing is essentially standing behind our students and their right to assemble, their right to fight to support patriotism and support their country.
00:19:45.000You have students that are bullied and intimidating for starting Club America chapters, schools that try to deny their chapters, try to delay the approval of their chapters to be able to operate as any other school club, like a chess club or whatever it is.
00:20:03.000And so these state leaders are saying that's not okay.
00:20:06.000These students support patriotism, they support the Constitution, and they should have the right to do that just as any other student who wants to start an extracurricular club at their high school.
00:20:16.000Yeah, well, and we have, we have literally, there's all these clubs get together and they go, let's walk out of school on Friday and protest ICE.
00:20:26.000This is why it's important to have a Club America chapter on campus that says, no, we're not going to do that, actually.
00:20:54.000It's the go-to place if you want to be a future patriotic leader.
00:20:58.000If you love your country, if you believed in what Charlie believed in, if you want to stand out and make a difference, if you want to learn how to have respectful debate and dialogue, if you want to work with community leaders and civic leaders, Club America is the place to be.
00:21:14.000If you want to be the next Charlie, if you want to be the next president of the United States, and you're a young person in high school wondering, how do I make a difference at this age?
00:21:40.000And so it's just, you're also, by the way, which should not be understated here, you're connected to a larger movement, which is Turning Point USA.
00:21:50.000So the students get invited to the national events.
00:21:53.000You get potential grants to host speakers in your local community, maybe on campus or off campus, right?
00:22:46.000We have a massive, massive powerhouse of a lineup.
00:22:50.000You can check out more at AmericanHalftimeshow.com, AmericanHalftimeshow.com.
00:22:56.000But of course, the big announcement is that we've got Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, and Gabby Barrett, all with huge number one songs.
00:23:05.000You're going to recognize all of them.
00:23:32.000Yeah, we've got a friend of mine I used to know way back when I was at the Daily Caller, which was a decade ago at this point, but Luke Roziak, and he's now a reporter, an investigative reporter at the Daily Wire.
00:24:05.000A series you did more than a decade ago on the DC subway system is one of my favorites for how DEI blows everything up and how it really works.
00:24:13.000But we've recently on this show, Luke, we've been talking a lot about the 8A program, a lot of the ways the government does extremely inefficient or wasteful or discriminatory contracting, wastes a ton of your money, gives a ton of your money to scammers.
00:24:28.000And I saw this story you did at the end of last week, and it made me laugh really hard.
00:24:32.000And I just thought we should have Luke on to explain this because it's so illustrative of how things really work.
00:24:37.000The headline for everyone is: How the military gave a homeless lesbians minority contracting firm $19 million.
00:24:46.000Luke, how about you tell this story for our audience?
00:25:31.000You know, you could be a descendant of Christopher Columbus and you'd be a Hispanic victim under the ADA program and our government would give you preferences.
00:25:39.000So she had one grandparent from Spain.
00:25:42.000And so they said, you are a disadvantaged Hispanic who should get legal preferences from the government.
00:25:48.000Did her sexuality come into play here as well?
00:26:04.000So, first of all, the contract was for new balance clothes.
00:26:07.000So there's really only one place you can buy them is new balance.
00:26:11.000But because the government wants to get the small business set asides and the minority set asides, they'll oftentimes do these contracts where the government is basically.
00:26:19.000And this is what I testified to the Senate about A last month.
00:26:23.000It's not all about individuals scamming the government.
00:26:26.000The government kind of knows that some of this stuff is going on.
00:26:29.000So they knew that somebody was just going to, you know, pass it through to New Balance or pay new balance for a license and then wind up sewing it themselves and creating some weird new balance knockoffs.
00:26:39.000But anyway, this woman didn't have the ability to stitch anything herself.
00:26:43.000So I talked to a guy, a white male who actually was in the garment industry.
00:26:49.000And he said that she, you know, was living in her car and said, look, I got this contract.
00:26:53.000Could you know like how I could actually do the contract?
00:26:57.000And he said, well, I, you know, I can do it for you.
00:27:20.000And like all kinds of crazy stuff started going down.
00:27:24.000And she wound up suing, you know, one of the people doing all the work for her because she felt like they were kind of, she actually had a contract that laid the whole pass-through scheme out in black and white, which usually people are smart enough not to do.
00:27:37.000And it's like, I am going to broker you this contract.
00:27:45.000So, anyway, in the course of the lawsuit, it really backfired and she wound up going out of business because she had to pay the attorney's fees for her pawns, her tokens.
00:28:10.000I mean, it was only her own incompetence that caused it to collapse.
00:28:12.000The contract actually had a ceiling of $72 million.
00:28:15.000And so by the time she kind of screwed it up, it was $19 million had been paid out.
00:28:20.000But yeah, you know, I asked her for comment and she sent me 10 emails calling me an evil Jew and talking about evil war profiteers and saying that I had demonic male energy and that males are too warlike.
00:28:33.000And it's like, well, lady, you're the one who got $19 million from the Department of War.
00:28:38.000And I think they kind of want warlike energy there.
00:28:40.000And certainly she's profited more off the military industrial complex than I have.
00:29:06.000I want to get this quote because it's in the article that she told you she is quote, starting a coalition for women to run the planet.
00:29:13.000Peace and light and love, like the orca whales, raise the frequency of the planet.
00:29:20.000Male energy is heavy and warlike and long overdue for a reduction.
00:29:25.000And yeah, it's, we have these programs.
00:29:26.000It's such, it just is such a, I love this story because it's such a perfect illustration of the travesty that, oh, we want to give a leg up to these minority, these disadvantaged firms.
00:29:37.000And yet it's the exact, it's really just you're paying this like feudal due to somebody.
00:29:45.000It's entirely just this payoff so that other people can do the work, but they get paid less than they would otherwise.
00:29:52.000And well, and it's, you think about, we, we started translating how much money is getting wasted in terms of how many lifetimes of average Americans taxes, you know, that were being just wasted on complete garbage like this.
00:30:08.000So it's just, you imagine how many Americans had to pay taxes last year whenever this contract went out that just went to some, you know, washed up, you know, female band member in a van that is blaming the Jews for global slavery slavery or something.
00:30:26.000Like you think what let's just say that that was that was 100 tax year receipts for Americans.
00:30:33.000So 100 people paid their taxes last year so that this burnout in a van who used to be in a band could could do a pass-through expense to New Balance.
00:30:41.000Like it's just absolutely insane when you get to that point and you think about Nick Shirley would do the same things.
00:30:46.000He would say, I just, you think about all the people that are getting defrauded.
00:32:05.000So I did a really long series and sort of magazine style story back in May about this agency that's sort of like the little brother of USAID.
00:32:13.000And it's supposed to give money to Africa, but I proved that they were doing exactly what people kind of speculated that USAID might be doing, which is they were giving grants to Africa, but then they had secret deals with the Africans that the money would come back to America, some of it in straight up bribes, but also just like kind of paying bureaucrats in DC to do their work.
00:32:33.000So they were essentially hiding it from Congress and making it look like it was actually donations to poor people.
00:32:39.000So the African Development Foundation, even one of the board members, he was the head of the, you know, Herbal Life that it's like a pyramid scheme that pushes like nutrition supplements.
00:32:50.000They were, he was the head, he was on the board of this government agency.
00:32:53.000And so they tried to push this for-profit pyramid scheme on African peasants so that his company could make more money.
00:33:01.000You know, there were allegations of all kinds of racial stuff where the general counsel that Harris actually, they accidentally hired a white guy to be their top lawyer.
00:33:10.000And he was like, well, you guys are just violating the law.
00:33:12.000Like, here's all these laws you're breaking.
00:33:14.000You're just like hiding all this money.
00:33:16.000Like the stuff you're doing is insane.
00:33:18.000And so they wound up pushing him out and like calling the police on him, just really corrupt stuff that gave the sense that like they were all in on hiding some really bad things.
00:33:30.000And so this week, the CFO actually pleaded guilty to something that I had said in my story, which is he was taking bribes from this particular company, which was in Africa, but it was created by an African-American, I guess you could say.
00:33:44.000He was a former federal employee who moved over to Africa and he was still friends with the guy at this agency.
00:33:49.000So he gave him a contract and some of it went back to him.
00:33:52.000And then the rest was used just kind of to keep to enrich his friend and then also to pay bills, including bureaucrats who were living in DC would get this random like wire of money coming from Africa.
00:34:03.000So the foreign aid was just sort of this pass-throughs.
00:34:48.000Just can you give a general perspective?
00:34:50.000How, what's the scale of how this is going on and how should Americans think about this?
00:34:55.000Just, I know, obviously, we've had this push on government efficiency.
00:35:00.000We found a little bit of it, but the sense I get is just there's this absolute feeding frenzy.
00:35:05.000And if you're not in one of these preferred groups, you're just kind of left out and treated as a sucker.
00:35:10.000Yeah, I mean, certainly we were told when Doge was making inroads that the Doge was pointless because so much of the spending is in mandatory, non-discretionary spending, like Medicaid and defense.
00:35:22.000But it turns out that Medicaid and defense are super fraud ridden.
00:35:27.000And I think that a lot of it hides behind privacy.
00:35:30.000But once you actually see it with your eyes, it's like this is just blatantly scamming.
00:35:35.000And the government is just paying out in a way that a charity would never do that because it's just clear that it's not even, it's not even helping anybody.
00:35:43.000But if we can't even get rid of an agency whose CFO admitted that he was corrupt and they blocked Doge from coming in, and it wasn't because they had this moral high ground, it was because they're hiding their crime.
00:35:55.000If we can't even get rid of 8A, which the Alaskan Republican senators are against that because the Eskimos are in on the grift or the people that pretend to be Eskimos, I don't know what we're doing here.
00:36:21.000And I have to say that having Kid Rock on the show was like checking a box off my, you know, we actually had tried with Charlie a while back and it just didn't work out for whatever reason.
00:36:33.000He was at our inauguration, you know, inaugural Eve ball or whatever.
00:36:37.000So I got to got to meet Bob there, Bob Ritchie, Detroit hip-hop scene.
00:37:23.000And so, you know, when you get depressed about all those student walkouts and the brainwashing that's happening, just remember there is a whole counter movement going on, and Turning Point's playing a huge role in that.
00:37:33.000And so we're just grateful for the partnerships.
00:37:35.000And we have more news being made that'll happen this afternoon.
00:38:56.000George W. Bush's administration did not end well.
00:38:59.000He had record low approval ratings by the time he was leaving, other than like Nixon during Watergate.
00:39:04.000He got us into multiple quagmire wars, and yet they were going to trot out this guy to run.
00:39:11.000And they'd say, oh, that's going to be our nominee in 2016.
00:39:14.000And what happened over and over again is he just, he was not adroit enough to handle President Trump.
00:39:23.000And today, 10 years ago, I think was the day where I and many other people realized like Donald Trump is going to win the nomination and he might win the presidency after that.
00:39:55.000The GOP had been dominated by warmongers, the invade the world, invite the world crowd.
00:40:02.000And who is more, I guess, symbolically important in that than the Bush dynasty, right?
00:40:09.000You've got two invasions of Iraq, an invasion of Afghanistan, you know, two wars that lasted on and on and on, cost trillions of dollars, countless American lives, countless Iraqi lives and Afghani lives.
00:40:21.000I mean, this is a really important moment in history.
00:40:59.000I won't be a divider in chief or an agitator in chief.
00:41:02.000I won't be out there blowharden, talking a big, big game without backing it up.
00:41:07.000I think the next president needs to be a lot quieter, but send a signal that we're prepared to act in the national security interests of this country to get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world.
00:42:00.000They've basically, the majority of their life has been dominated by President Trump.
00:42:04.000Even when Joe Biden was president, it was still dominated by President Trump.
00:42:07.000Their whole political conscious lives have been dominated by.
00:42:12.000We have staffers on this show who are young enough that they only faintly remember Barack Obama getting elected, which is really uncomfortable for me because I voted in that election.
00:42:36.000It was going viral because he's a white guy.
00:42:37.000And it goes, and the SNL guy, who's black, goes, this is a really bad start to Black History Month because you have this like 19-year-old white guy scoring 49 points in the NBA.
00:42:46.000Anyways, I was looking at his birthday and it was like, yeah, he was like 2006.