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00:01:43.000You know, Blake, you and I were talking last night and this morning about what the lead should be today.
00:01:49.000And there were many options, including, you know, how Ben Shapiro got into Harvard, talking about catering carts and whether foreign governments were involved.
00:02:34.000Now, we can get into what we think about surgacies in a moment here, but she was a surrogate mom who refused to abort the baby despite the wishes of the boy's biological parents.
00:02:46.000Now, she gave birth early Wednesday among a bitter legal battle.
00:02:54.000She was carrying a baby for the couple.
00:02:56.000At the fetus's 20 week scan, doctors discovered it had a hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
00:03:05.000It's a rare birth defect where the left side of the heart doesn't grow correctly and it requires about three surgeries to correct it once the child is born.
00:03:16.000Blake, and this is where you're not a lawyer, but you play one on TV from time to time.
00:03:20.000It had an agreement that allowed the couple to choose to terminate the pregnancy if there was an anomaly found.
00:03:27.000So, but here's what happened McKenna refused to do this.
00:03:31.000She flees to Texas, and where she would be seen as the birth mother, according to the Dallas Morning News.
00:03:39.000So she delivered baby Gabriel, who she got to name.
00:03:43.000And now the attorney for the intended parents has told the Dallas Morning News, our clients.
00:03:50.000Only focus at this time is ensuring that their baby receives the medical care vitally needed and that, as his parents, are able to spend every precious moment they can with him.
00:04:03.000So the intended parents are suing McKenna, and they had a court date later this month, but it's unclear how this multi state battle will play out.
00:04:12.000Here's my simple logic, Blake, and you can tell me why I'm being far too simplistic in this world full of lawyers and weirdness and surrogacy.
00:04:21.000You do not get the right to claim it as your baby when you wanted that baby dead.
00:04:28.000And because I think surrogacy is weird in general, and we want to know your thoughts, so please email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:04:34.000The logic is simple your womb, your baby, just as God intended.
00:04:39.000So if you're going to play with fire like this and rent out another woman's womb, then you've got to deal with the consequences that there could be consequences.
00:05:28.000That's where she can get treatment for the baby.
00:05:30.000But supposedly, the parents' backup plan here was they were going to say, once the baby's born, it's our baby, we want to immediately have it in California.
00:05:39.000They're alleging that their plan was to just provide palliative care there.
00:05:42.000Basically, don't operate on the baby, allow it to die.
00:05:47.000That's why Ken Paxton's office intervened and said, we're going to legally order that life saving care be provided.
00:05:56.000I don't know where it's going to go from here because, as you say, it feels intuitive to us that once parents decide, please kill our baby, there should be some forfeiture of parental rights there.
00:06:09.000But I don't know if the law is going to shake out that way.
00:06:12.000Usually, it is the case that a surrogate cannot decide to keep the baby, it does go to the parents.
00:06:18.000Now, happily, in most cases, the parents do want that baby.
00:06:22.000But this just shows how the whole situation is very fraught.
00:06:26.000It gets back to those discussions we would have with Charlie.
00:06:32.000And this is the sort of thing that it's why it leaves a bad feeling in my stomach in many cases because you can see how this human being, this child, has become a commodity to certain people, how it's become something that you can design.
00:06:47.000You can say, oh, if it didn't come out exactly how I want, throw it out.
00:07:10.000Maybe you in the emails can change my mind.
00:07:13.000I'm not advocating to make it illegal necessarily, although I'm very tempted to go that far.
00:07:19.000But I do believe that there are probably instances where a well intentioned family literally cannot get pregnant for whatever reason.
00:07:29.000I haven't studied it enough, but my instincts tell me this.
00:07:32.000It's weird, it feels unnatural, and you're playing with fire.
00:07:36.000Now, I want to give a special shout out to CBS because apparently they were the only network to cover this, I think, dramatic bombshell story that exposes so many different threads and themes.
00:07:49.000So I'm going to give them credit here.
00:07:53.000Meanwhile, the Texas now in a battle over the future of a baby born with a serious heart condition.
00:07:57.000The California parent of the child wanted to end the pregnancy months ago when they learned of the condition, but their surrogate refused and then went to Texas, where the state has now stepped.
00:08:07.000Wes spoke about the unusual surrogacy situation with Live Action, an anti abortion rights organization.
00:08:14.000Her pregnancy was on track for 20 weeks until doctors diagnosed a rare and severe heart defect in the baby.
00:08:20.000After learning of the defect, Wes says the parents, Nasheen Gilcar and Omar Ahmed, asked her to schedule an abortion.
00:08:27.000Parents with medical prerogative is something experts say is a common clause in surrogacy contracts.
00:08:32.000Instead, Wes decided to find treatment in Dallas for the child after birth.
00:08:37.000Everything about this, it's so upsetting.
00:08:40.000Like you mentioned there, it was on track until 20 weeks.
00:08:56.000It's not one of those cases where abortion advocates will say, Well, you need the right to abort because some babies have a terminal disability that will cause them to die in their first minutes of life.
00:10:15.000And my thought, my prediction is I think we're going to see people become more pro abortion from that, even though all those excuses people made up about bodily autonomy, my body, my choice, that's the explanations people gave for why abortion was justifiable.
00:10:32.000That'll all go away, but people will still say, I want to customize my baby.
00:10:36.000If it's wrong, I want to be able to pull the plug.
00:11:18.000You're in a legal battle fighting for your son's life.
00:11:21.000I could be facing over $200,000 in damages and financial consequences.
00:11:28.000They get to make all of these decisions that are going to affect me for the rest of my life, trying to force an abortion.
00:11:36.000And that's something that I would have had to live with.
00:11:38.000And I didn't think that I could live with myself.
00:11:40.000Nothing was scarier than questioning my own soul and knowing what would happen to this baby boy if I. His life doesn't have a price tag on it.
00:11:53.000There's nothing that they could try to come after me for that would be worth his life.
00:12:21.000Governor Maura Healy, who's a self proclaimed Christian, governor of Massachusetts, has just signed a bill to make sure that women can kill unborn babies up to 40 weeks, 40 plus weeks, actually.
00:12:42.000I promise that no matter what Donald Trump or Republicans in Congress or the Supreme Court does, we're going to continue to make sure that women and families have access to the health care that they need right here in Massachusetts.
00:12:58.000We're going to make sure that women in particular are able to make their own health care decisions, not the government.
00:13:05.000And if you see the wide shot, Blake, you see all these young white women gathered around clapping like seals.
00:13:11.000It strikes me, and this will be my comment, and then I'll throw it to you.
00:14:06.000If we believe that God exercises any moral hand over history, I think you'd have to believe that that many people, that many innocent human beings snuffed out, and that we prefer to ignore it.
00:14:23.000We prefer to not think about it too hard.
00:14:26.000You could see, you'll just see headlines where they'll talk about, oh, you know, missing generation.
00:14:33.000We have, we murdered our country's future.
00:14:35.000And they'll talk about, We have a problem with falling fertility rates.
00:14:38.000We have a problem that we don't have workers to fill jobs.
00:14:41.000The reason we don't have those is because we made it legal and encouraged people and provided government money and provided, in some cases, religious sanction for people to murder their own children.
00:15:08.000I think there's a photo of her with the previous Pope, and that fills me with disgust because what she is doing there is as evil as any warlord committing a wartime atrocity.
00:15:22.000And as you say, they're all sitting there clapping like seals.
00:15:25.000Just, well, this is a girl named Kate Deneen.
00:15:30.000She's the president and CEO of a better city in Massachusetts.
00:15:33.000She gave her aborted baby the middle name Lee to honor the doctor who killed him that performed the abortion.
00:15:40.000She helped push the late term abortion bill in Massachusetts at 33 weeks.
00:15:45.000She and her husband drove to Maryland so a late term abortionist, Leroy Lee Carhartt, could inject potassium chloride straight into their son's heart and make it stop.
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00:17:09.000Without further ado, we have a great guest in store for you who's been on an incredible journey, both personally, professionally, athletically, and emotionally.
00:17:20.000And that is, of course, Royce White, who has declared herself ready for the WNBA draft or for eligibility.
00:18:00.000All trans people have a right to exist.
00:18:03.000But especially your black transgender lesbians like myself, we especially have a right to exist.
00:18:08.000And, you know, CNN, just this morning, CNN says, oh, well, these two former players, NBA players, are co opting all of the sweat equity from the WNBA.
00:18:20.000And who are they to tell us what a real woman is?
00:18:36.000All we can do is we need to line up and we need to listen.
00:18:40.000Yeah, when a black woman talks, people should sit and learn and try and learn what it is that they can't possibly even start to empathize with.
00:18:50.000I mean, I think there's such a gap between the lived experience of black trans lesbians and what other people could empathize with.
00:19:04.000Inject our own opinions or maybe even judgments.
00:19:08.000Royce, you know, I want to give you a chance to reply back though to the WNBA.
00:19:15.000There was a meeting yesterday, and I think some of your decisions, your actions in the recent weeks have helped spark this.
00:19:25.000Obviously, Sophie Cunningham plays for the Indiana Fever.
00:19:28.000She said that she wouldn't be supportive of your coming into the WNBA as a trans player, but then a number of players said that they would welcome you in.
00:19:40.000And so that obviously helped inspire your journey and your courage here.
00:19:44.000But a statement from a WNBA spokesman yesterday.
00:19:47.000Says today's meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitriol directed at players online.
00:19:57.000We will continue to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months.
00:20:01.000We will approach these important conversations thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league.
00:20:06.000There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others.
00:21:21.000Look, I always talked about, you know, these.
00:21:25.000This cultural wedge issue, as like, you know, gender proceeds from biology.
00:21:30.000We have to have a shared reality when it comes to men and women.
00:21:33.000If we don't, it's pretty much pulled out the Jenga piece and baseline for us to have any meaningful conversations about the human condition or human existence.
00:22:29.000Is, you know, transition is a journey.
00:22:31.000Mine has to take place in front of the public, so it's gonna have a lot of scrutiny and people gonna have their opinions, right?
00:22:36.000I'm getting a lot of death threats, people telling me to commit suicide, but I'm not gonna let anybody disturb my peace and my energy and me becoming the beautiful black queen that I'm becoming right before America's eyes.
00:24:03.000I think that Sophie has a right to her opinion, she has a right to her free speech.
00:24:09.000We obviously disagree, which is why I'm pursuing the 2027 draft.
00:24:14.000And I'd love to get a chance to play with Sophie, actually.
00:24:16.000In fact, If there was one team other than the Minnesota Lynx, you know, I'm a hometown guy here in Minnesota, Belly the Beast, cultural epicenter of American politics.
00:24:25.000If there was one other team I'd love to play for, it'd be the Indiana Fever and the great Sophie Cunningham.
00:24:31.000And by the way, they could use somebody, you know, of your size and athleticism to maybe defend Kaitlyn Clark, which has been another ongoing controversy in the WNBA.
00:24:43.000I mean, this Kaitlyn gets fouled more than anybody, and they're just egregious.
00:24:47.000Now, Sophie's getting slapped in the face with flagrant technical fouls here, and obviously not going for the ball.
00:25:09.000You know, when I was in college and all through my career, one of the things that has always been said or complimented about my game is that I'm versatile.
00:25:56.000In your new feminine identity, are you comfortable with going maximally hard, doing some aggressive, violent fouls on your fellow women in the WNBA?
00:26:05.000Well, of course, as the first, sometimes identifying as a black trans woman, I don't want to be targeted.
00:26:14.000I don't think that would be right for me to be targeted.
00:26:17.000That'd be transphobic if they intentionally targeted me and tried to hurt me or foul me because of my trans identity.
00:26:26.000But it's a contact sport, and people have to be willing to go in there.
00:26:32.000Well, I mean, would you, on that same question line, would you be, if you do play for the Indiana Fever, I mean, is that a kind of coach you want to play for?
00:26:42.000Somebody that's encouraging other teams to foul their players, her players?
00:26:48.000I think that she should have defended her players.
00:26:50.000You always want to defend your players, especially your star players.
00:26:53.000And whether or not Sophie Cunningham's a premier scorer in the league, certainly she's become one of the faces of the league, and for good reason.
00:27:03.000And, you know, Caitlin Clark is obviously next world and has elevated the entire WNBA.
00:27:08.000And right now, I think their WNBA community, soon to be our WNBA community, is going to have to come to grips with the fact that Caitlin Clark has really elevated the game.
00:27:19.000And a rising tide raises all boats, right?
00:27:22.000I mean, I don't understand why even myself joining the league, as long as we get more eyeballs, as long as we get more attention, as long as the ticket prices and the TV audience continue to increase, what's the problem?
00:27:34.000Well, I don't see a problem with it at all, Royce.
00:27:36.000And I just want to say that on behalf of the Charlie Kirk Show, we got your back, queen, and we think you're beautiful just the way you are.
00:27:48.000And we know that you are going to take the WNBA to heights it hasn't seen.
00:27:53.000And we're just really excited for this next stage of your journey.
00:27:58.000But before we go, I just want to make sure that I pay homage to the people who came before me, the people whose shoulders I stand on, right?
00:31:01.000You know, I'm just profoundly grateful for her courage and her pioneering spirit and her willingness to really put herself out there in this vulnerable way.
00:32:05.000And we should disagree with everything.
00:32:08.000The world has lived under the white cis hetero patriarchy for long enough, Andrew.
00:32:12.000I completely, man, if that doesn't sum it up, I don't know what will.
00:32:17.000I just think it's shocking, Blake, that the WNBA had a big meeting yesterday and was unable to come up with a conclusion of what is a woman.
00:32:28.000And in that lack of decisiveness, then I totally believe that Ennis Cantor Freedom and Royce White.
00:32:38.000Should 100% be eligible for the 2027 draft.
00:32:42.000And if they are not, then there is not justice.
00:32:45.000This is the most un American story I've ever heard if the WNBA comes out against them.
00:32:51.000Well, first of all, I think it's definitely proof that this is a women's basketball league, that they were able to announce a big meeting and have all of their leaders come together and hear everyone's point of view and affirm everyone's feelings and make sure everyone was heard and then not reach any actual decision.
00:33:06.000They'll have to have another meeting about it.
00:33:08.000Definitely sounds like a lot of other.
00:33:13.000Women centered entities that I've been adjacent to in my life.
00:33:16.000I have to say, that's completely, it's like the Longhouse made manifest here.
00:33:22.000I have to say, Roy Shah White is much more of a woman than many of the so called trans women that I have seen on the news being supported by outlets like CNN and MS Now, being championed by the New York Times and ABC, NBC, CBS.
00:33:37.000Roy Shah is as much of a woman and deserves their respect and the proper gendering.
00:35:17.000The other is my baby sister, going into her last year of college as a Division I athlete.
00:35:21.000I helped raise her, and she has put a lot of time into the game of basketball, a crazy career, state titles, lost to COVID shutdowns, back surgery, grueling workouts with me.
00:35:39.000Royce White and his baby sister getting drafted together in the WNBA.
00:35:44.000I mean, you know, there's a lot of hate out there, there's a lot of negativity.
00:35:49.000But then you got people like Royce White who are pioneering a new way and showing this is still the land of opportunity.
00:35:54.000America is still the greatest country in the history of the world because guess what?
00:35:59.000Trans, black, lesbians like Royce White can still make it in America and his baby sister.
00:36:07.000And that's the opportunity the WNBA has afforded us.
00:36:10.000That is what George Washington crossed the Delaware for.
00:36:14.000It's what Abraham Lincoln guided us through the Civil War for.
00:36:17.000It's what Teddy Roosevelt launched a square deal for.
00:36:20.000It's what Patton fought at the Battle of the Bulge for.
00:36:24.000I wish we had an American flag that could start waving behind me because this is probably the most American thing I've ever seen in my life.
00:36:34.000And obviously, that and Muslim cultural centers in our governments and late term abortions.
00:36:41.000I think what we're seeing in hour one, Blake, is a manifestation of the founder's vision for America.
00:36:47.000And it's embodied by brave trans black lesbians like Royce White and his baby sister, who apparently seems to be cis, but we don't want to judge.
00:37:12.000I want to be better for the next generation.
00:37:13.000So give us your emails, your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:17.000Let us know what you think of Roy Show White's journey and whether or not the WNBA should be more open and inclusive to her journey as a trans, lesbian, black queen.
00:37:32.000I had the honor of a lifetime to call Charlie a friend.
00:37:37.000And what I remember most wasn't just what people saw on stage, it was What was behind the scenes?
00:37:43.000That was an unwavering commitment to his faith, his love for his family, and his genuine desire to encourage others to live with courage and conviction.
00:37:52.000Charlie believed that following Christ wasn't something you compartmentalize.
00:37:56.000He didn't put it in a box, he lived it out loud.
00:37:59.000It shaped how he lived, how he served, how he treated people every single day.
00:38:03.000Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, captures that heart.
00:38:06.000This documentary isn't just simply about remembering Charlie, it's an invitation for each of us to ask what kind of legacy we're building.
00:38:14.000And whether we're willing to stand firm in our own faith when it's tested.
00:38:18.000I hope that you'll watch it with your family and have those conversations together.
00:38:54.000To set us up in our next guest, let's go ahead and play SOT 21.
00:38:58.000Today, HHS released Wolves in White Coats, a report examining pediatric gender medicine and insurance building across America.
00:39:07.000The findings raise serious questions about what families were told, what insurers were told, and how these procedures were built.
00:39:15.000Today, Secretary Kennedy and I referred hospitals and clinics identified by this review to the Department of Justice and the HHS Inspector General for possible violations of federal law.
00:39:28.000These allegations are crazy and they demand investigation.
00:39:32.000When children may have been harmed and families misled, it's on those of us in power to find the truth and to seek justice for kids who are harmed by these doctors.
00:39:43.000Together, we're going to protect our children and importantly, we're going to restore trust in public health.
00:39:49.000And we will hold accountable anyone who would betray that trust.
00:39:53.000Joining us now is Admiral Brian Christine, Assistant Secretary for Health from the Department of HHS, joining us now to tell us the details.
00:40:21.000It's certainly a privilege to serve President Trump and the American people as the Assistant Secretary for Health and to work with Secretary Kennedy and, of course, working with Vice President Vance on this particular project.
00:40:33.000But, you know, in the last 10 or 15 years, what we've seen is really an explosion.
00:40:38.000And the number of individuals who identify as transgender and who seek sex rejecting procedures, castrating chemicals, and mutilating surgeries.
00:40:49.000And we realize too that we're seeing explosion in the numbers, but also a disproportionately high number of minors who are identifying as transgender and seeking these sex rejecting procedures, particularly young girls.
00:41:02.000The report looks at this and the report says, okay, what's going on here?
00:41:07.000And the report has different sections.
00:41:09.000One of the sections looks at the Potential financial gain that gender affirming, so called gender affirming clinics can have in terms of getting these kids on these sex rejecting procedures and chemicals, keeping them as patients for a long period of time.
00:41:28.000You know, if you get a child on cross sex hormones, in other words, testosterone for little girls or estrogens for little boys, that's really $500 to $700 per year per person in terms of cost and the billing for this.
00:41:44.000If you do sex rejecting mutilating surgeries, that goes up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:41:50.000So, there really is a financial aspect to this.
00:41:52.000There's also a potential fraud encoding aspect.
00:41:56.000In other words, these gender affirming clinics, these clinics that offer these sex rejecting procedures, they would use medical codes that potentially are fraudulent to get reimbursement for these procedures.
00:42:12.000Part of the report looks at the Biden administration, what they did.
00:42:16.000To use the heavy hand of government to advance this horrible gender ideology to push kids towards sex rejecting procedures.
00:42:25.000Again, castrating chemicals and mutilating surgeries.
00:42:28.000The report also looks at some of the medical societies that have been pushing this the Endocrine Society, something called the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the American Psychological Association, all of these individuals, staffed with ideologues.
00:42:47.000That didn't want to take care of these kids with mental health care and counseling, which is what they need, but instead pushing them towards sex rejecting procedures.
00:42:57.000And the last part of the report looks at eight young individuals, eight minors, and their families who went through these horrible sex rejecting procedures and then said, you know what?
00:45:25.000Where it was just shoved out there that it's a pause button for people who are uncertain and you can resume it at any time when the reality is puberty is a specific time in your life.
00:45:37.000And if you block it, you just skip past it, you are basically going to render yourself a child for the rest of your life in a lot of ways.
00:45:48.000Throw up that chart I sent you guys that you mentioned how they were using fraudulent codes.
00:45:53.000So this chart is yearly reimbursement for.
00:45:56.000Puberty blockers in Pennsylvania, and it was when they said it was for precocious puberty because the valid reason to block these is because some people hit puberty when they're four or five.
00:46:05.000They shouldn't be there yet, so you block it.
00:46:07.000And they're flagging here that in Pennsylvania, hundreds of kids were being given precocious puberty treatments when they were 14 years or older.
00:46:16.000That's when you're supposed to hit puberty.
00:46:18.000And millions of dollars are spent on this.
00:46:28.000No, and you point out something so important with that graph.
00:46:31.000Again, using these puberty blockers in an age group that by definition is not precocious puberty.
00:46:39.000And like you said, precocious puberty is the early onset of puberty.
00:46:43.000Generally, it's under the age of eight for girls, under the age of nine for boys.
00:46:47.000And here you are, these teenage kids who are getting puberty blockers for, quote, precocious puberty.
00:46:53.000Again, potentially fraudulent billing to try to get reimbursement.
00:46:58.000Just looking at the individuals, the reimbursement and the billing for a segment of individuals in that 13 to 17 age group who were coded for precocious puberty, which makes no sense.
00:47:11.000From the years 2015 to 2025, over $11 million in potentially fraudulent billing.
00:49:12.000I liked Buddy, who said of Raisha, the only thing better would be if you had exited the comfort of your bigoted chairs and done that story from one knee.
00:51:18.000We say people who are unable to, but let's be blunt.
00:51:21.000There are people who use surrogates because they just don't want to go through with pregnancy, the mom thinks it'll be draining, it'll make her less attractive.
00:51:30.000Those are reasons people do that sort of thing.
00:51:33.000And we see the ultimate outcome of those things, which is the discarding of.
00:57:02.000And I think it's because Churchill embodied a spirit that Charlie loved.
00:57:07.000You think of, we've been discussing this week, is America able to.
00:57:11.000Make sacrifices in order to achieve a better country in the future.
00:57:16.000Like, for example, are we able to do deportations if it means a burrito will be slightly more expensive due to labor costs?
00:57:22.000And I look at some of Churchill's speeches, not even the one we're marking on here, but he goes to the House of Commons and says, I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
00:57:33.000And he's saying, We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the hills and trees and in the landing grounds, we shall never surrender.
00:57:45.000But we're talking about the few speech, which is another thing that Charlie could always respect the idea that it could be a handful of people who are holding the line between civilization and its destruction.
00:58:05.000The gratitude of every home in our island, in our empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty.
00:58:14.000Goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion.
00:58:29.000Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
00:58:38.000It's a great quote, and he came up actually.
00:58:43.000A lot of people aren't aware it came out of him four days earlier.
00:58:46.000He was just watching what was happening with the war, and it just that quote came out, and then he realized, I need to use this in his speech.
00:58:55.000And really, you know, for people who don't know, that the pilots.
00:59:00.000During the war for Great Britain, I mean, they really saved them.
00:59:03.000If the pilots weren't so sophisticated and so good at their job, the war could have turned because they really, the pilots are the ones that kept the Nazis out.
01:00:06.000And still be able to move past it and have this open dialogue.
01:00:09.000And so that quote really sits with me this idea of Charlie and why, like Churchill, and really, Churchill kept Great Britain, they kept the war going a lot of it through his will, a lot of it through his words, a lot of it through his belief, which is sort of what you were alluding to, Blake.
01:00:27.000People don't realize that he was trying to keep this, he knew that we had to stay, he had to keep fighting.
01:00:34.000People in Great Britain, they wanted to.
01:00:36.000A lot of the people in parliament wanted to do a peace agreement with Hitler.
01:00:43.000I think that's worth providing the historical context there.
01:00:46.000If you haven't seen the movie Darkest Hour, it's imperfect history, but it gets the general vibe, which is Churchill, for example, wasn't even the first pick as prime minister.
01:00:54.000There was another guy, Lord Halifax, who was another contender, and he favored, or at least he was much more open to negotiating with Hitler.
01:01:02.000This is the situation Germany has conquered Poland, they've conquered the Netherlands, they've conquered Belgium.
01:01:08.000Norway, Denmark, they are steamrolling France.
01:02:13.000And what he was doing, he was praising the Royal Air Force fighter pilots who fought the German, you're going to have to help me with the Luftwaffe, day and night.
01:03:46.000And they had a belief in something good and they knew they needed to continue to fight.
01:03:51.000And Churchill, you know, this idea of the few, he was the few, right?
01:03:54.000I mean, the U.S. was still not engaged in this war.
01:03:59.000He was, you know, doing everything he can to get the United States engaged in this war because he knew that it was the right thing.
01:04:06.000And he knew he needed the United States, he needed our manpower, he needed us to get involved.
01:04:11.000And obviously, we were unfortunately, we did get involved, or fortunately, depending on what side you're on, but we did get involved after Pearl Harbor.
01:04:19.000So, I think that it's this idea of continuing this belief.
01:04:25.000And I will say, I do think it's a lot of what you guys are doing on your show you're continuing this belief when there's a lot of things happening around you that make it difficult.
01:04:36.000And you guys take a lot of heat, but yet you're continuing this mission of Charlie.
01:04:43.000And that was really why I wanted to talk about this today, I just think it's sometimes really hard with everything happening out there, everything that's going on.
01:04:53.000In your guys' world, to continue to kind of push forward and do the right thing and say the right things and be above the fray, right?
01:05:00.000Like, I think that's the hardest thing.
01:05:02.000You know, Andrew, you and I have talked about this.
01:05:03.000Like, how do you stay rise above all this?
01:05:07.000And that's why I wanted to talk about Churchill because he had this drive.
01:05:12.000And that's what I miss about Charlie, frankly, is I miss that drive, just our conversations, that energy that he could just continue to push down no matter what was happening around him.
01:05:36.000Churchill took to radio and said, We will never surrender.
01:05:39.000We'll fight on the beaches, we'll fight on the landing grounds.
01:05:43.000What was Churchill really articulating there?
01:05:46.000Churchill was articulating a doctrine and a commitment of the will.
01:05:53.000What Churchill was articulating is that you might outnumber us, you might have better technology.
01:05:59.000But the resolve of the British people will not be broken.
01:06:04.000Without Churchill, I believe the United Kingdom would have sued for peace.
01:06:08.000Took someone like Churchill, a remarkably wise and charismatic person who was exiled at an early age, but was brought back when people needed him.
01:06:20.000That's obviously Charlie talking about the Never Surrender speech, which is another famous Churchill speech.
01:06:25.000So after this dogfight, Hitler and the Nazis were so frustrated by the British that they ended up engaging in the Blitz, right?
01:06:34.000And that's what Churchill's responding to there.
01:06:38.000They said, We'll never surrender, even though every night everybody has to rush down into the bomb shelters and Run for cover in the tube and the subways of London.
01:06:46.000It was a truly remarkable display of fortitude and courage.
01:06:50.000And Blake, I can't help but think about this roofing comment.
01:06:55.000It's going viral right now on the internet.
01:06:57.000One of Charlie's last speeches to a roofers' convention.
01:07:00.000And he's asking them, Are you willing to sacrifice a little bit for our sovereignty to restore the rule of law?
01:07:06.000And these roofers are like, We won't have enough people to put roofs on houses.
01:07:11.000And it just strikes me of the World War II spirit.
01:07:27.000And Charlie would often say, we don't fight because we know we're going to win.
01:07:29.000We fight because it's the right thing to do.
01:07:32.000And I hope we still have that spirit, that fighting spirit that Churchill had, that Charlie had, in enough of us, in the hearts of enough Americans that we'll fight and sacrifice for this country.
01:07:45.000Yeah, yeah, no, I think the interesting thing too, if you look at some of the great, you know, if you took it after World War II and, you know, and all those years running up, probably I would say until the mid 1970s, it was, you know, obviously they call them the greatest generation.
01:08:02.000It was also some of the greatest wealth for individuals that we've ever seen.
01:08:09.000And it's interesting, I think, like after we won, obviously there was devastation and there was, you know, countries that took, it took many years.
01:08:17.000And actually, You know, Great Britain was in a really terrible place and they were the world's reserve currency.
01:08:23.000And then in 1944, there was Bretton Woods Exchange and we became the world's reserve currency and we pegged gold at $35 an ounce to the dollar.
01:08:35.000And what I mean by wealth is that that was the time when one income, you know, have both parents at home, people could afford a house, you know, the gold and the dollar were tied together.
01:08:47.000There was, after we did this, after that we took this and everyone did this unbelievable sacrifice that everyone that fought in this war.
01:08:54.000We saw some of the greatest personal wealth for the middle class that I think arguably we've ever seen.
01:09:02.000And that was, you know, only because we won.
01:09:05.000If we went in a different way and we lost that war, we would have fallen under a dictatorship.
01:09:11.000And, you know, it would have been, you know, a really terrible situation.
01:09:15.000And obviously now we're talking socialism and all these things that people are talking about today.
01:09:19.000But there was tremendous wealth that was built after this.
01:09:23.000Well, you know, and it's actually a really important conversation.
01:09:27.000And Blake, I'd love your take on this, but there is a difference between material wealth and social fabric, right?
01:09:32.000And sometimes these two things get conflated together.
01:09:35.000Social fabric would be like, hey, you share the values and the language of the people in your neighborhood.
01:09:40.000You don't have to pay extra to send them to a better school.
01:09:42.000You know that other people are going to church, celebrating Christmas, Easter, whatever.
01:09:47.000And you do have these two family homes, and the mom can stay home, and you could send your kids to public school because they haven't gone crazy.
01:09:54.000These are the things that social fabric is based on.
01:09:57.000A perfect example there's a book I read.
01:09:59.000It's a less famous one by George Orwell.
01:10:01.000He wrote 1984, Homage to Catalonia, but he also wrote a very short book shortly after World War II that was called The English People.
01:10:08.000And it's him describing, he actually was commissioned to do it by the government, describing the English national character.
01:10:13.000And one of the things he brags about in this book is he talks about the Blitz.
01:10:18.000And he said one of the remarkable things about the Blitz was you could have a man on a street corner who's selling newspapers, and he wouldn't have to worry about just leaving his papers and his money out to go somewhere else to go into a shop.
01:10:32.000Somewhere for a moment, he could come back, he would know it would all still be there.
01:10:35.000No one would ever think of robbing him.
01:10:37.000He talked about how people who were running into the tube tunnels, the subway tunnels during the Blitz bombing raids, the norm was they would still buy their ticket to get into the tube area as they would do that.
01:10:51.000And you think of them doing that while under siege, while being bombed, and you compare it, of course, to the Britain of today, which we worry so much about.
01:10:58.000And it's because it's still a very rich country, it's got access to More goods, more wealth than it probably did at the height of World War II.
01:11:07.000But the fabric has been messed up because they've embraced mass immigration.
01:11:10.000They've embraced a sort of resentful crabs in a bucket socialism as well.
01:11:15.000And now, like, a guy couldn't leave his money line out.
01:11:18.000You can't even pull your phone out safely in London.
01:11:32.000And in this country, I don't know if you guys have seen this stat about there's 1,200 new millionaires every day here.
01:11:38.000But yet, they also say that people feel less rich than they've ever felt.
01:11:42.000And I think it's not just monetarily, I think it's this idea of the safety and what's happening in their community.
01:11:50.000I also think they're less rich because the dollar is worth so much less.
01:11:53.000But I do think part of it is just that social fabric that you guys are talking about is that they don't feel connected to their community the way that they used to.
01:12:03.000A lot of it is we've gone away from having both parents' home and the household and religion.
01:12:09.000I think a lot of this gave people structure.
01:12:55.000We have people there, the good Americans, people that believe in sound money principles, people that believe that we should get back to that situation.
01:13:09.000So I think it's a good time for people to get in.
01:13:11.000But yeah, if they want to learn, give us a call and love to help you and get some real money when, you know, Gold is real money and get some real money in your hands.