The Charlie Kirk Show - The Juneteenth Miracle + The Fatherhood Manifesto + AMA 271

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00:01:17.000 Happy Friday.

00:01:18.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:01:21.000 I'm Blake.

00:01:21.000 I'm flying solo today, at least for the first hour.

00:01:25.000 We've got a lot of fun things to talk about.

00:01:28.000 We're going to be having Alex Berenson on later this hour.

00:01:30.000 He has a new book that's very relevant for Father's Day.

00:01:33.000 He has advice for fathers and a manifesto on behalf of fatherhood, something that.

00:01:39.000 We need a lot of in America.

00:01:40.000 And then in the second hour, we're going to be having an Ask Us Anything hour.

00:01:43.000 We're going to have Daisy joining again.

00:01:45.000 We know you guys love to give her some questions.

00:01:47.000 And we should have Tyler as well.

00:01:48.000 We're hoping to have Tyler on as much as possible in the next few months as we gird up for all these critical midterm battles that we want to win to secure the victory that we won in 2024, extend it, salvage America more.

00:02:04.000 And that is what we're also going to mark today.

00:02:07.000 Because some of you out there, if you're public sector employees or work at some Rather woke companies, you're maybe listening to the show at home right now instead of in your car or at work.

00:02:20.000 And the reason you're doing that is, of course, that today, today itself is Juneteenth, June 19th.

00:02:27.000 That, of course, is the brand new federal holiday that we got in 2020 at the peak of woke.

00:02:36.000 That in 2020, they decided we needed a new National Independence Day.

00:02:41.000 Juneteenth, of course.

00:02:43.000 It was originally a regional holiday in Texas.

00:02:46.000 It celebrated the time that slaves learned that they had been emancipated due to the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War. 0.98

00:02:55.000 And that's a good thing.

00:02:56.000 That's worthy of celebration.

00:02:58.000 But that's not why we have this holiday.

00:03:00.000 We have this holiday because the left in 2020 thought they had a chance to restart the history of America.

00:03:10.000 They thought we can overthrow the Fourth of July and create a new holiday whose premise is that America is.

00:03:17.000 Is fundamentally wicked, that its founders were fundamentally bad, and the only value America has is to the extent that we annihilate those old traditions, annihilate that old history, and create a brave new world.

00:03:30.000 And Charlie himself was very much aware of that, and he loved to talk about it on this show.

00:03:37.000 In fact, he had a great take on it just this last year.

00:03:39.000 Let's replay it.

00:03:41.000 Clip 29.

00:03:42.000 Do you know the actual name of the bill that became legislation into law?

00:03:48.000 Juneteenth National Independence Day.

00:03:53.000 So, by law, we now have two Independence Days.

00:03:57.000 We should have one Independence Day.

00:03:59.000 The issue with this is obvious.

00:04:00.000 Number one, this is so significant in the timing.

00:04:05.000 It's obviously a summertime competitor to July 4th or actual Independence Day.

00:04:08.000 Number two is the wording.

00:04:10.000 It's not Juneteenth Celebration Day.

00:04:12.000 Number three is does it really warrant a federal holiday?

00:04:14.000 Number four is again, if you want to celebrate emancipation, do it the day that emancipation was actually signed, which was in September.

00:04:22.000 No, but they want a summertime competitor.

00:04:26.000 They want to have two, they want you to have to choose.

00:04:28.000 Do you want the 1776 way, which those evil right wing MAGA people celebrate?

00:04:32.000 Or the 1619 Way, which we celebrate now federally on June 19th.

00:04:37.000 And Charlie had another excellent clip in that vein.

00:04:40.000 I'm not sure if it's from the same show or not, but really laying this out that the left wanted to create a specific holiday not to unite Americans, not to enhance our national pride, but in fact to tear it down and to sort of assert its domination over the half of America that the left had declared war on.

00:05:01.000 Clip 30.

00:05:02.000 It's Juneteenth.

00:05:03.000 What exactly is going on here?

00:05:07.000 Now, of course, the day itself is, of course, inarguably amazing.

00:05:12.000 The emancipation of slaves.

00:05:14.000 No one has a problem with that.

00:05:15.000 I don't have a problem with that.

00:05:16.000 You don't have a problem with that.

00:05:17.000 It's a beautiful thing.

00:05:18.000 So, why don't we have Emancipation Day, though?

00:05:21.000 It's very important to remember that all of this is intended to dilute pride in our country and patriotism.

00:05:27.000 Juneteenth was made as a federal holiday as an expression of dominance and political power.

00:05:33.000 Activists rammed it through in the aftermath of George Floyd's death.

00:05:37.000 Using the worst wave of national rioting in half a century to demand their way on top of a mountain of ashes and spill blood.

00:05:44.000 We burned down the country.

00:05:46.000 Now we demand a day off.

00:05:47.000 The purpose of this holiday is not to unite Americans.

00:05:52.000 The purpose is actually to divide us.

00:05:55.000 It's typical, traditional Marxist tactics.

00:06:00.000 He really had a talent for laying it out.

00:06:02.000 And we should be especially grateful today because yesterday, in alignment with this.

00:06:08.000 Holiday.

00:06:09.000 We had a big event.

00:06:10.000 We showed a little bit of it yesterday, but it continued after yesterday's show.

00:06:13.000 The Obama Presidential Library, the Obama Presidential Sandcaller, the Obama Presidential alien horror show spaceship that landed in Chicago to gaze upon us with its all seeing eye.

00:06:28.000 That was opened yesterday, had its grand opening in Chicago.

00:06:33.000 Four living presidents were there.

00:06:34.000 President Trump was not there.

00:06:36.000 He was, in fact, not invited.

00:06:38.000 And We got speeches from Barack.

00:06:40.000 We got speeches from Michelle.

00:06:42.000 We got speeches from a lot of people.

00:06:44.000 In fact, this is the way the New York Times writes it up.

00:06:48.000 The opening itself was a star studded party.

00:06:50.000 George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Joseph Biden.

00:06:53.000 The roots kicked off the event.

00:06:55.000 Christina Aguilera gave a rendition of What a Wonderful World.

00:06:58.000 Bruce Springsteen sang Land of Hope and Dreams.

00:07:02.000 This is a revisit to the America we were building towards throughout the Obama years.

00:07:09.000 It's the one they thought they were going to have forever.

00:07:12.000 When they pulled off their maneuver in 2020, they thought they were going to refound America where it would be permanent shame on America's historic founders, its historic people.

00:07:24.000 Year zero, start a new country where people like Barack Obama, people like Bruce Springsteen lecture you from the top of a stage.

00:07:33.000 They lecture you with things like, you know what, we're going to play this again.

00:07:36.000 We got a land acknowledgement yesterday.

00:07:38.000 Let's see, what number was that one?

00:07:41.000 This is Valerie Jarrett.

00:07:43.000 And she opened the ceremony yesterday.

00:07:45.000 We played this yesterday.

00:07:46.000 I'm just going to play it again.

00:07:47.000 Clip 31.

00:07:50.000 We'd also like to take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered today.

00:07:57.000 We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi nations.

00:08:06.000 Occupied Chicago Bears territory. 0.97

00:08:08.000 That's what it's on.

00:08:09.000 But we had more.

00:08:10.000 Barack Obama himself spoke, and of course, he threw in a little bit about how our founders actually were not these great people.

00:08:16.000 25.

00:08:17.000 Union.

00:08:17.000 The founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who own property.

00:08:30.000 So that's what we had.

00:08:32.000 We had these lectures from Obama and everyone else, this feeling of shame over our country.

00:08:38.000 And that would have been what we'd be getting from the White House if Kamala Harris were president right now.

00:08:43.000 That's what we would be hearing every day.

00:08:44.000 They thought this would be their big chance.

00:08:46.000 They thought they would use the 250th anniversary of this country to dump on this country.

00:08:55.000 They would say the first 250 years of this, mostly a mistake.

00:08:58.000 It was only good to the extent that we were building towards.

00:09:02.000 The leftism of the present. 0.56

00:09:03.000 Everything only builds towards affirmative action, tearing down statues, DEI, LGBT, transgender propaganda. 0.72

00:09:13.000 That's the only thing that gives America value is when it's doing those things. 0.81

00:09:17.000 The founders, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, that was all flawed, that was all bad.

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00:11:48.000 First, I actually have to issue a correction.

00:11:50.000 We had a great email from a viewer.

00:11:54.000 Aunt Say sent in, he pointed out, I said Juneteenth became a holiday in 2020.

00:12:00.000 That was a big mistake on my part because, of course, if it had become a holiday in 2020, that means President Trump would have been the one who signed it.

00:12:06.000 Of course, that did not happen.

00:12:08.000 President Biden signed a bill to make it a holiday in 2021, giving us this National Independence Day, as they call it.

00:12:17.000 But it was, of course, driven by the events of 2020.

00:12:21.000 National burn it all down psychosis.

00:12:22.000 So, thank you very much for that email.

00:12:26.000 And let's get back into it.

00:12:27.000 So, let's get more from this Obama presidential dedication.

00:12:32.000 We didn't just have Barack speak, we also had Michelle speak. 0.85

00:12:36.000 Michelle came up and she delivered an address about how really the realest Americans, the best Americans, are the ones who are foreigners, who actually aren't legally supposed to be here. 0.78

00:12:46.000 Clip 23. 0.97

00:12:47.000 Immigrants proving what it truly means to be a dreamer. 1.00

00:12:52.000 These folks, these folks aren't Americans too. 0.82

00:12:59.000 They are America.

00:13:01.000 They are the beating heart of this country.

00:13:05.000 They are us and we are them.

00:13:09.000 It's a very clever rhetorical play.

00:13:12.000 This has a huge effect on people.

00:13:13.000 If you were more tuned out from politics during the Obama years, it's worth remembering.

00:13:19.000 There was a period where this was.

00:13:22.000 The cult that ruled America, this suicidal idea that actually the most American people are the ones who are brought in here illegally, that what we need is amnesty for them, that we should be dispossessed of our own country, that our country belongs to the entire world.

00:13:40.000 That was the rhetoric that they were pushing.

00:13:42.000 And frankly, there's an alternate reality where Michelle Obama is a little more ambitious, a little more likable, a little more hardworking.

00:13:51.000 I don't think she really enjoys working that much.

00:13:53.000 And they could have. 1.00

00:13:55.000 Run her for president, and we might have had a President Michelle Obama delivering that lecture, and then every single media outlet would be gushing about it as one of the best speeches ever as we burn down and destroy America, as we destroy everything that made this country great.

00:14:09.000 But we avoided it.

00:14:11.000 We avoided it, as I was saying there, and we got something very different.

00:14:15.000 I'm so glad about that.

00:14:16.000 And so let's look at what we have instead.

00:14:19.000 We have President Trump yesterday where he was presenting a Medal of Honor.

00:14:25.000 What number is that one?

00:14:27.000 Got a bunch in here.

00:14:29.000 He was presenting the Medal of Honor.

00:14:30.000 And instead of Barack Obama talking about how our founders were terrible, talking about how our old American heroes were terrible, we have President Trump explaining that America's great.

00:14:39.000 Let's do clip 34.

00:14:40.000 As we approach the 250th anniversary of our founding, we remember that we owe everything to heroes like those we celebrate today men who went willingly to the darkest and most dangerous corners on earth to defeat evil so we could live free.

00:15:00.000 So, of course, that honors our veterans who fought and died in World War II and other conflicts.

00:15:05.000 But we should remember 250 years ago, the darkest and most dangerous corner of Earth was right here in America. 0.68

00:15:13.000 This was a country that was under siege by a foreign power that was trying to strip away the colonists' rights.

00:15:20.000 And the men of our founding were the heroes. 0.83

00:15:23.000 They were the heroes who stepped up, who created the Declaration of Independence, who created our Constitution, who defeated.

00:15:30.000 The most powerful empire in the entire world.

00:15:33.000 We had Patrick O'Donnell on a month ago for Memorial Day, and he laid it all out for us all those things that they did, the trials that they went through with no prospect of success, but they did it anyway, and they won freedom.

00:15:46.000 And we have a president who's ready to honor that and celebrate that.

00:15:49.000 That we're going to be having our 250th anniversary of this country in just a couple weeks now.

00:15:55.000 And it's going to be, President Trump has announced it's going to have the biggest fireworks show in the history of Washington, D.C., I believe.

00:16:05.000 He's announced that we're going to have one of the biggest public rallies in our nation's history.

00:16:10.000 And we've already seen, of course, the show he was ready to put on with the Freedom 250 UFC event and so on.

00:16:17.000 We have.

00:16:18.000 We are getting a proper celebration of our country for the 250th anniversary instead of lectures from Michelle Obama about dreamers, instead of lectures from Barack about how our founders were bad, instead of cackling from President Kamala Harris about Lord knows what she would be saying by this point.

00:16:37.000 Instead, we get to properly celebrate our country, and I think that is a reason for celebrating on this day.

00:16:44.000 So, if you're at home, if you're at home right now, uh, you know, I can't say pour out a toast to America, pour out a soda toast.

00:16:51.000 In honor of Charlie, he wouldn't want you drinking alcohol.

00:16:53.000 But raise a glass to America because we have so much to be happy and proud of as we on this Juneteenth because we're not celebrating the National Independence Day that they tried to impose on us.

00:17:09.000 Also, at Obama's event, we had some other funny clips that they threw out.

00:17:13.000 We had Gavin Newsom kind of making his unofficial bid to remind everyone that he's also running for president.

00:17:20.000 Let's play clip 22.

00:17:21.000 Got up there, literally started tearing up.

00:17:23.000 And I think everybody feels that spirit and that pride.

00:17:26.000 That we've been missing, and we didn't realize how much we've been missing it.

00:17:29.000 And we've been missing it because of the divisiveness.

00:17:31.000 We've been missing it because we have people that, frankly, are unworthy of their positions.

00:17:37.000 And there we saw on stage people that were worthy of what our founding fathers lived and died for.

00:17:43.000 And we've had other statements from around the country like this.

00:17:45.000 Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, here's what she had to say, clip 28.

00:17:49.000 Here's why we're here today to ask are we really still free?

00:17:54.000 Are people still free to live where they want to live?

00:17:57.000 Still free to work where they want to work, still free to get the education they want for their children.

00:18:02.000 Are they able to have all the opportunities that they've always wanted and fought for?

00:18:06.000 And I'll tell you right now, the progress we've made is now going backwards because of Washington, D.C.

00:18:13.000 So that's why we march.

00:18:15.000 We march in resilience of those policies and that sense that everyone is not welcome in this great country.

00:18:22.000 That's what we're getting from the left.

00:18:24.000 They're going to be running for president and they're going to be running on.

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00:19:58.000 We're joined now by Alex Berenson.

00:20:01.000 We're talking about Juneteenth in the first half hour, but we have another holiday that is worth marking, which is Father's Day.

00:20:08.000 That is this Sunday.

00:20:09.000 And Alex, you have a new book out that people can go and buy right now.

00:20:13.000 The Fatherhood Manifesto, a defense of fatherhood and 50 practical tips to be a better, more involved dad.

00:20:21.000 Alex, why does fatherhood need defending?

00:20:25.000 That's a great question.

00:20:26.000 And that's sort of at the core of this.

00:20:30.000 The book, it's not very long.

00:20:31.000 It's only about 50 pages long.

00:20:34.000 It's a quick read, but I have three kids.

00:20:39.000 They're 7, 10, and 13 now.

00:20:42.000 And frankly, I got tired of reading books to them. 0.98

00:20:47.000 and watching television shows with them where the father was always the fool. 0.97

00:20:52.000 And I say in the manifesto, I say, well, the Berenstain Bears is a classic example of this. 0.96

00:20:57.000 You'd think that would be completely apolitical.

00:20:59.000 It's about cartoon bears.

00:21:01.000 But really, every book has the same message. 1.00

00:21:04.000 Papa Bear is a fool. 0.99

00:21:06.000 Mama Bear is in charge and runs things and runs them competently. 1.00

00:21:10.000 And that is a cultural trope that is so deep in our society right now that I think we barely even think about it.

00:21:17.000 And it's part of this sort of larger attack on traditional masculinity, on stoicism on, you know, on traditional manhood, and I think it's had terrible consequences for fathers, it's had bad consequences for mothers, it's had bad consequences for families.

00:21:32.000 And then you know the same people who, who say this, you know who run down men and who, and who you know, pretend that fathers don't contribute enough to their families, to raising kids.

00:21:42.000 Uh, then turn around and say well, you know all these, all these, you know teenage boys, or you know 20 something young men.

00:21:48.000 They love Andrew Tate and they, they love these sort of like hyper masculine influencers online.

00:21:54.000 Well, when you, when you, when you undercut traditional, decent masculinity, obviously there's going to be a backlash to that and I think that's what we've seen culture is.

00:22:03.000 So that's why I decided to write this.

00:22:05.000 And then, you know, and then, because I have, you know, I have a, I have a close relationship with my kids.

00:22:10.000 I would say I have a very close relationship with them.

00:22:13.000 I said here, you know, i'm not just going to write a screed about why I think we need to talk more about, you know, masculinity and stoicism.

00:22:20.000 I'm going to throw out some tips and frankly, a lot of the tips are pretty obvious, I think.

00:22:25.000 If you're a pretty decent parent, you'll you'll know them.

00:22:28.000 If you're a decent dad, you'll know them.

00:22:29.000 But the but but, the fact that I had to write this to me is what's revolutionary, and I will say the one.

00:22:34.000 This is the one er tip, the one uber tip in there is, stand up to gentle parenting.

00:22:40.000 Okay, and you know, for people who may not know what gentle parenting is, if you go into, you know, a Barnes AND Noble, a bookstore, you go on Amazon, you'll see all these books about gentle parenting about uh, you know, progressive parenting about, about not being an authoritative parent, not telling your kids that you're in charge, negotiating with them, not punishing them, not ever dominating them or establishing your authority over them.

00:23:09.000 And I think that's a huge mistake in our culture.

00:23:11.000 I think, listen, obviously, you need to be close to your kids.

00:23:15.000 You need to love your kids.

00:23:16.000 You need to hug your kids.

00:23:17.000 But your kids need to know, particularly if you're the dad, that there are going to be times when they just have to listen, that there's not going to be a negotiation here, that there's not going to be a long discussion of alternatives.

00:23:28.000 That sometimes you're just going to say, go clean your room.

00:23:31.000 I don't have to tell you why.

00:23:34.000 I pay the bills in this house, but I don't even have to tell you that.

00:23:37.000 You're just going to listen to me.

00:23:38.000 And I think that that has been forgotten and lost and undercut.

00:23:42.000 And it is a separate issue, but it is certainly part of this bigger undercutting of masculinity.

00:23:48.000 Yeah, it's.

00:23:50.000 So I searched gentle parenting once you mentioned it.

00:23:52.000 And the very first result I got was a thread on a website that says, Gentle parenting turned my child into a naughty, an a hole, as they say.

00:24:02.000 And so that seems like a good endorsement of what you're saying.

00:24:05.000 I think it's so remarkable what you said that you saw TV shows and it's always safe.

00:24:10.000 Kind of the default comedic figure in so many books, in TV shows, and movies is the hapless dad.

00:24:16.000 Advertisements, of course, are like this.

00:24:18.000 I remember watching with my family, we would watch Nick at Night growing up, and we would watch the Brady Bunch.

00:24:23.000 And that actually must be so jarring to watch because I remember now that the dad, the dad Brady, I can't remember his proper name, but he was not the figure of humor.

00:24:32.000 The kids would screw up, and he would come in and give them valuable life advice.

00:24:37.000 And it was still a funny show, it was still an enjoyable show.

00:24:39.000 You didn't need to beat up on dad.

00:24:41.000 I remember another classic one.

00:24:44.000 Gidget, when Sally Field was a child star, that one also, she would do comedy, but yeah, the dad could be this leadership figure.

00:24:51.000 And then I remember the stuff that was on the air in my actual childhood, the stuff like everybody loves Raymond, he's now the butt of every joke.

00:25:01.000 And I think there's something to that.

00:25:03.000 We had a cultural norm. 0.58

00:25:05.000 I think it might have been that it's a little unsafe to go after almost any other group, except for, as we'd say, like default straight white guys.

00:25:14.000 And a dad is certainly a straight white guy in many cases.

00:25:18.000 And we just made it the norm to tear them down without heedless of the consequences. 0.66

00:25:23.000 Yeah, that's absolutely true.

00:25:24.000 I mean, I'm a little bit older than you.

00:25:26.000 So the shows that I remember in my sort of youth are things like Family Ties or The Cosby Show.

00:25:33.000 That was the end of that, right, in the 80s, where the dad was, it's ironic it's Bill Cosby, right?

00:25:40.000 But he was still in charge, ultimately.

00:25:45.000 And Family Ties is the same thing.

00:25:46.000 And really, in the late 80s, The Simpsons came along.

00:25:50.000 and was a massive cultural hit, married with children.

00:25:53.000 These are almost parodies of that.

00:25:56.000 And I get it.

00:25:58.000 There's going to be cultural reactions to stuff.

00:26:01.000 But this has been going on now for 40 years.

00:26:05.000 And it really, I think, has had cultural consequences.

00:26:10.000 And then they're sort of the same women, the same sort of woke women, the women in New York or in Los Angeles.

00:26:18.000 And they complain, well, they can't find a guy they like.

00:26:20.000 Well, you know, You've been spending your entire youth wearing the futurist female t shirts, and you wonder why it is that masculinity, traditional masculinity, when you go looking for it, you can't find it. 0.97

00:26:35.000 It's the sense that things are out of balance, that a child doesn't need two moms. 0.88

00:26:35.000 Exactly. 0.88

00:26:41.000 They don't need a full mom and half a mom.

00:26:43.000 They need a mother and they need a father, and those fill different roles, as you say.

00:26:49.000 So you mentioned your advice, but what are some other tips that you have in your book?

00:26:52.000 You have 50 of them.

00:26:53.000 So what are your tips?

00:26:54.000 Four or five favorites.

00:26:56.000 So, okay, you know, here, this is sort of, I don't know if I'd call this a surprise or not, but I think driving, I drive a ton with my children, okay?

00:27:06.000 And, you know, I live in the Hudson Valley of New York State.

00:27:10.000 Everything is a bit of a distance.

00:27:12.000 So I drive a lot.

00:27:13.000 And I think driving is a time when you really should, it's a good chance to both teach your children how to behave with other people.

00:27:22.000 In other words, don't tailgate, don't speed.

00:27:25.000 drive reasonably.

00:27:26.000 But also when you see other people doing these things, it's a good opportunity to say like, this is not, this is not communitarian behavior.

00:27:35.000 This is not good behavior. 1.00

00:27:37.000 This person is just being a jerk. 1.00

00:27:39.000 And, you know, normally when you're in public, you don't want to call other people out for being jerks because, you know, you don't know who has a gun. 1.00

00:27:39.000 Okay. 1.00

00:27:47.000 But in this case, and you don't want to start fights.

00:27:49.000 In this case, it's a safe space to discuss other people's public behavior in a way that doesn't hurt them.

00:27:58.000 And I think can be a good lesson for your kids.

00:28:02.000 I, the last lesson, number 50, is, Teach your kids to be able to be on their own.

00:28:11.000 In other words, I let my kid, when I was growing up, I walked home from school as an elementary school student.

00:28:17.000 I didn't think anything of it.

00:28:20.000 And my kids, you know, they get dropped off on the bus and they walk up the hill to our house.

00:28:25.000 It's, you know, it's close to a mile.

00:28:27.000 I mean, they don't do it every day if the weather's bad or whatever, but, but, but, you know, I encourage them to do this.

00:28:33.000 And my daughter, who is my older daughter, who's 13, she actually went to Coney Island.

00:28:39.000 With her, a good friend of hers, and their nephew, her cousin, who's 15.

00:28:46.000 So, two 13 year olds and a 15 year old taking the subway in New York City together during the day.

00:28:51.000 You know, this was not at night.

00:28:54.000 And I was not there.

00:28:55.000 Okay.

00:28:56.000 And actually, they lost a backpack. 1.00

00:28:59.000 They got a backpack stolen from them because they are a little bit of country mice and they didn't take it seriously enough, but they didn't get hurt. 0.99

00:29:08.000 And I think that that's a really good life lesson for them.

00:29:11.000 I think that you have to let your kids.

00:29:13.000 You know, grow and make mistakes and be on their own and trust that nothing terrible is going to happen to them.

00:29:21.000 And that does not mean that, like, the world is a difficult place.

00:29:24.000 Okay.

00:29:25.000 The world is a difficult place emotionally.

00:29:27.000 The world can grind you down, but you have to build up your own resilience.

00:29:31.000 And as children, that's something you have to do.

00:29:33.000 You have to learn to listen to people and learn that sometimes you're going to have to do stuff you don't like.

00:29:37.000 But it's also good for you to know that you can do stuff on your own.

00:29:40.000 And sometimes things may go wrong, but you're going to recover.

00:29:43.000 You're going to overcome that.

00:29:45.000 And I just think, you know, The over parenting, again, the feminization, the gentle parenting takes something so important from these kids.

00:29:55.000 Alex, you and I both seem to agree that there's a general crisis of proper fatherhood compared to how it seemed to be in the past, but not everyone seems to agree.

00:30:05.000 I was looking around to see what the discourse is.

00:30:07.000 Literally today, we have an article in the New Yorker which argues, Are dads getting better?

00:30:13.000 And they say basically that they go with one of the things we've seen, which is that men are spending, they say dads are spending more time.

00:30:22.000 In the house.

00:30:24.000 They're doing more household chores.

00:30:25.000 They're more emotionally available.

00:30:28.000 And at the same time, they do point out that one in four children doesn't live with their father.

00:30:33.000 Six years after a separation, almost a third of fathers no longer see their children.

00:30:38.000 So if your parents split, a third of them just stop seeing their kids.

00:30:42.000 But they'll say the ones who are still there, they're more available, they're more involved.

00:30:46.000 Actually, things are improving.

00:30:48.000 What do you say to that, Alex?

00:30:49.000 Well, I mean, I think that that's true, actually.

00:30:51.000 I think the irony here is that.

00:30:53.000 People again, my age and younger are better dads.

00:30:57.000 They're more involved.

00:30:58.000 They're doing more and getting less credit for it than they ever have.

00:31:02.000 And that's why this is, you know, it's almost like once you become a father, right?

00:31:08.000 You tend to step up, right? 0.78

00:31:11.000 Even if the culture is telling you you're dumb and you don't know what you're doing and, you know, just let mom, you know, she's going to be in charge and you're just kind of a second, secondary parent. 0.59

00:31:21.000 Like the parents, the fathers that I know, that's not how they are. 0.96

00:31:26.000 Okay, they want to be involved, they are involved, they're emotionally involved.

00:31:29.000 What I'm saying is like you, you, you have the right as a father to be, to be somewhat authoritarian to your children.

00:31:38.000 So this is another tip in the book that you, you have the right sometimes to be angry with your children and your children should know when you're angry with them.

00:31:38.000 Okay.

00:31:47.000 And, you know, that could be because they're bullying another child. 1.00

00:31:49.000 It could be because they took a stupid risk that could have hurt them or hurt somebody else. 0.99

00:31:53.000 It could be that they, you know, that you've been asking them to do something repeatedly and they have not done it. 0.99

00:31:59.000 And, and it's just time for that to end.

00:32:01.000 Okay.

00:32:02.000 It could be any of those reasons.

00:32:03.000 You have the right to be angry and your children should know that you're angry and they should actually be afraid of your anger.

00:32:10.000 Not of you, but they should be afraid of your anger.

00:32:12.000 But then when your anger is gone, it's gone.

00:32:16.000 So what's not good as a dad is to be irritable with your children because irritability is sort of a prolonged condition.

00:32:23.000 And so this is sometimes what I see in parents, in fathers in particular, I know who are very involved.

00:32:28.000 They're very involved.

00:32:29.000 They want to be good parents, yet they can't really establish authority over their children.

00:32:34.000 And so it frustrates them over time.

00:32:37.000 So, if you're irritable with your children, and this is something that's going on and on and on, what you need to say to yourself is look, I need to either accept whatever behavior is irritating me and stop being irritable about it, or I need to change it.

00:32:50.000 I need to mold it.

00:32:52.000 That's such a brilliant point, Alex.

00:32:53.000 I'm thinking about that because when you're irritable, when you're letting something get under your skin, you're showing you're not in command and you're not an authority figure anymore.

00:33:01.000 You're a person dealing with this nagging problem.

00:33:06.000 That's so antithetical to that vision of fatherhood you were laying out in our first segment.

00:33:10.000 That's exactly right.

00:33:11.000 So, I do think that there are a lot of dads out there who are involved, who want to be involved, and who just, you know, again, have been a little bit emasculated.

00:33:20.000 The culture has taken from them their natural voice.

00:33:24.000 And so, that's what this is saying.

00:33:25.000 This is not saying, hey, there, you know, there's so many dads are not involved and you need to be.

00:33:30.000 Obviously, that's its own problem and a separate problem.

00:33:34.000 But if you're constantly telling somebody, hey, You're not very good at this.

00:33:38.000 You know, you should just let mom lead the way.

00:33:40.000 There are going to be dads who step back, even if they don't really want to. 0.99

00:33:45.000 I think what we're seeing actually is how involved many fathers want to be, that they stand in despite being told that they're idiots, despite, you know, the endless ads where they're goofy. 0.98

00:33:56.000 I think they know better and they know they're important. 0.97

00:33:59.000 And this book, you know, this book is for them too.

00:34:02.000 So, Alex, so I apologize that this is a curveball because I'm just looking through this New York article since it came out today and they point out.

00:34:08.000 I think this intersects with a lot of your reporting on your Substack, which I should shout out, Unreported Truth Substack.

00:34:14.000 You're still writing a lot about health, mRNA shots, all of that stuff.

00:34:18.000 And you've written a lot about marijuana, too.

00:34:20.000 So I thought I'd bring up another topic they mention here, which is the fall in male testosterone that's been happening over time.

00:34:28.000 And they highlight in this article that we have evidence that the more time dads spend around their kids, it lowers your testosterone.

00:34:35.000 It makes you more of a dad and less of a hunter, gatherer, warrior, killer type guy.

00:34:40.000 And.

00:34:41.000 So, you know, a lot of people fret.

00:34:42.000 Oh, we're, you know, losing testosterone.

00:34:44.000 Men are becoming more beta, more weak.

00:34:46.000 And they say maybe this is just that we're having better dads who are more involved.

00:34:50.000 And that's what we're seeing play out.

00:34:52.000 What do you have?

00:34:52.000 Do you have any thoughts on this?

00:34:53.000 Have you ever studied that question?

00:34:55.000 I think there's a lot of questions about this.

00:34:58.000 I think this is a real problem.

00:34:59.000 You know, sometimes I think sort of medical crises are overhyped.

00:35:03.000 I think there's evidence that this is really happening.

00:35:06.000 We don't know why it's happening.

00:35:07.000 We don't know if it's some sort of environmental factors.

00:35:09.000 You know, there are people who say it's just men, you know, are watching.

00:35:13.000 Too much pornography and, and uh, you know, sating their sexual needs without going out and you know, finding a real woman.

00:35:20.000 There's lots of hypotheses here.

00:35:24.000 I will say, like, I understand this idea that, you know, this biological idea that once you've had a couple of kids, you're more concerned about protecting those kids than going out and, you know, finding a woman to have more kids with.

00:35:37.000 I don't know if that's actually true.

00:35:39.000 It seems to sort of make a certain amount of biological sense.

00:35:41.000 But to me, like, there's nothing more masculine than, you know, than standing up for your kids and standing up for your wife and standing up for your family than building a household.

00:35:53.000 And it's funny, there was a New Yorker, since we're talking about the New Yorker, there was a New Yorker article about Andrew Tate recently in the last week or two, where he brags about how he's fathered 12 kids or however many it is.

00:36:07.000 I don't even know if he knows exactly.

00:36:09.000 You're not a father.

00:36:10.000 You're basically a stallion.

00:36:13.000 You're basically an animal running at that point.

00:36:16.000 That does not make you a dad.

00:36:18.000 What makes you a dad is not passing your genetic material into the world.

00:36:22.000 It's fathering children, it's parenting children, it's being there for them.

00:36:27.000 And and you know, I'm sorry for him that he doesn't know that, but so you know, I don't know if you measured my testosterone, what it would be right now.

00:36:35.000 I know that I'm a parent to my children, and that is incredibly fulfilling to me.

00:36:40.000 And it's and it's the number one job in my life, it truly is.

00:36:44.000 It's so true, so true.

00:36:46.000 And I love that distinction.

00:36:48.000 It's like you've got to be, you know, we need not just that, we need fathers, and fathers are not just you build a family, and then on top of that, you build civilization, you preserve civilization, you build.

00:37:01.000 Everything that makes our lives have structure and safety and meaning.

00:37:05.000 And we have to have that.

00:37:07.000 I want to shout out again your podcast, or not podcast, Unreported Truth Substack, your Substack.

00:37:13.000 Also, check out the Fatherhood Manifesto.

00:37:15.000 Check out Tell Your Children.

00:37:16.000 Check out all of his books.

00:37:17.000 You even have some novels, Alex.

00:37:20.000 People should check those out.

00:37:21.000 You do great work.

00:37:23.000 Thank you, Blake, so much.

00:37:24.000 And I will say, if you get to Amazon now, you can still get the Fatherhood Manifesto in time for Father's Day.

00:37:30.000 Go check it out.

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00:38:33.000 I'm joined here with producer Daisy.

00:38:35.000 She's back.

00:38:36.000 Daisy, we were just talking about Father's Day with Alex Berenson.

00:38:40.000 This is Luke's first Father's Day.

00:38:42.000 Do you have anything special planned?

00:38:44.000 I am making a dessert, got him a little book for him to read to Jane because he likes to read to her at night.

00:38:50.000 And then that's kind of it.

00:38:51.000 Luke is not super big on the corporate holidays.

00:38:55.000 Like, he'll get me the flowers, do the card, and everything.

00:38:57.000 But if it was up to him, he'd be like, this is all just a waste of money.

00:39:01.000 Yeah, it's pretty fun.

00:39:02.000 My family's also very chill about some of those holidays.

00:39:05.000 I'll be like, Dad, what gift do you want?

00:39:06.000 He's like, Blake, I have more money than you.

00:39:07.000 I can buy whatever I want.

00:39:08.000 That's exactly like when buying gifts for the grandparents, it's like, I don't know what they could want.

00:39:14.000 So it's been nice having a baby.

00:39:15.000 Now I'm able to give them gifts from the baby.

00:39:17.000 And that's like not something that they would get on their own.

00:39:17.000 Yeah.

00:39:20.000 But it's also, I mean, we're very lucky.

00:39:22.000 All of our families live within 20 minutes of each other.

00:39:25.000 So we do big group Mother's Day, Father's Day with the grandparents and the uncles and aunts and everyone.

00:39:30.000 So it'll be fun.

00:39:32.000 What'd you get your dad?

00:39:32.000 That's awesome.

00:39:35.000 He doesn't want us to do it.

00:39:35.000 So he's just like, just give us a call.

00:39:37.000 We usually do stuff.

00:39:38.000 I have my siblings in South Dakota.

00:39:40.000 They'll make sure they do like a kind of like lunch or dinner type thing with him.

00:39:43.000 But no, it's great.

00:39:46.000 And so let's dive into it.

00:39:49.000 I think we're waiting on Tyler to join.

00:39:50.000 But until then, So far, I think we have.

00:39:54.000 Let's go to Brenda.

00:39:55.000 Brenda, what's your question?

00:39:58.000 What are your thoughts on the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran?

00:40:02.000 All right, that's a good and true.

00:40:04.000 Oh, yeah, let me tell you.

00:40:06.000 No, no, no.

00:40:07.000 I will tell you when I read your question and you said MOU, I admittedly was like, what does MOU stand for?

00:40:15.000 All right.

00:40:16.000 So we've talked about this.

00:40:17.000 Andrew and I have talked about this a little bit.

00:40:20.000 That's the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.

00:40:22.000 This is the framework.

00:40:25.000 Of a potential peace deal.

00:40:26.000 So it's not a final peace deal.

00:40:28.000 It's more of a framework for about two months worth of negotiations.

00:40:33.000 It basically says Iran should open the strait, that we'll have a ceasefire, that the U.S. will agree that if Iran makes serious material progress towards not having, not seeking a nuclear weapon, improving it, like if we're able to remove the nuclear dust, if we're able to make progress on that, then we will remove sanctions on Iran, we will organize.

00:40:56.000 Potential investment into Iran to rebuild their country because they've taken a lot of damage and so on. 0.82

00:41:03.000 It's an attempt to create a permanent arrangement with Iran so that we can live in an accommodation with them. 0.99

00:41:09.000 What do we think of it? 0.97

00:41:10.000 Well, personally, I think we're going to need some sort of peace deal with Iran.

00:41:16.000 I don't think it would be wise for our country to pursue a full regime change.

00:41:20.000 I don't think it would be a mistake for our country to send troops into Iran.

00:41:26.000 To overthrow the government, to occupy it.

00:41:28.000 I think we've seen with Afghanistan, with Iraq, we've seen that that was a mistake.

00:41:33.000 We've seen that when you overthrow a country's government, like we did in Libya, this can create a huge number of unintended consequences. 0.90

00:41:40.000 I think if we saw this happen, we might see millions more migrants flood into Europe, possibly come into America. 0.97

00:41:47.000 I think a lot of people would die. 0.98

00:41:48.000 I think that's regrettable.

00:41:50.000 And so we have an obligation to do what we can to seek peace.

00:41:55.000 And I think.

00:41:57.000 We haven't committed to something that we can't take back.

00:41:59.000 We're pursuing it.

00:42:01.000 And if it fails, which it's possible that it will, we know that President Trump is ready to use force.

00:42:07.000 He's ready to bomb them again.

00:42:09.000 And he might go back to that to try to achieve a long term peace deal.

00:42:12.000 But President Trump, he has the ability to credibly threaten force against Iran.

00:42:18.000 And we're hopeful that the fact that they know President Trump will do that means that this new leadership group they have in Iran, because the old one has been taken out, that they're willing to play ball to.

00:42:29.000 Try to make their country better.

00:42:31.000 That's sort of the thing here we have the hope that the Iranian leaders will actually want their country to thrive, that they will want their country to improve and get better.

00:42:43.000 So I hope that helps, Brenda.

00:42:46.000 Do you have any more on that, Brenda?

00:42:47.000 I just feel like the Iranian people feel completely betrayed that the promises that were explicitly made to them have completely been. 1.00

00:43:01.000 They haven't come to pass. 1.00

00:43:02.000 This feels, I'm so disappointed.

00:43:05.000 I don't even have words.

00:43:07.000 A lot of people do feel that way, and I can understand that.

00:43:10.000 But in the end, President Trump, he is not the president of Iran, he is the president of the United States.

00:43:17.000 And we have to look out for the good of America.

00:43:20.000 And I think he's done a lot on behalf of the Iranian people.

00:43:23.000 He's done major strikes against their regime.

00:43:26.000 But we have to remember that there do seem to be a lot of Iranians who do support this regime. 0.50

00:43:31.000 So if we're going to go in, it's not that we've heard this line that we'll be welcomed as liberators and everyone will be happy. 0.97

00:43:38.000 And the truth is often a lot more sordid and violent than that.

00:43:41.000 When we went into Iraq, there were initial celebrations, and then the country descended into a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

00:43:49.000 And it's not.

00:43:50.000 Really clear that anyone was the winner in all of that. 0.93

00:43:54.000 And a similar thing here with Iran, that I think there's a lot of people who will say, if we overthrow this, it'll be super easy.

00:44:00.000 And I think what we've learned over the past few months is that this regime is robust and it has a lot of supporters.

00:44:06.000 And if you're going to take them out, it would be a heavy lift.

00:44:09.000 And I don't think that the American public is enthusiastic about that.

00:44:14.000 And President Trump ran on we need to strengthen America, rebuild America, revive America.

00:44:22.000 I don't think that's pursued with regime change.

00:44:23.000 But I understand a lot of people have very strong feelings on that.

00:44:27.000 But we, I hope that this memorandum of understanding is able to lead to peace.

00:44:33.000 And I think we should make a serious effort towards it.

00:44:35.000 And that's how I feel about it.

00:44:38.000 I think we have Tyler now.

00:44:39.000 Tyler, what's up, guys?

00:44:39.000 Yes, we have Tyler.

00:44:41.000 How are we doing?

00:44:42.000 Oh, thanks for joining us, Tyler.

00:44:43.000 We're so glad you could be here because we actually have a question that I think is very much up your alley.

00:44:48.000 It's Elizabeth.

00:44:49.000 We have Elizabeth.

00:44:50.000 So, Elizabeth, unmute yourself and ask your question for Tyler.

00:44:54.000 Okay, hi guys, thanks for taking my question.

00:44:56.000 Can you hear me?

00:44:57.000 Yes, we can.

00:44:59.000 Okay, so I've been following the drama with Justin Heap, the County Board of Supervisors, First Amendment legal, and apparently when Stephen Richter was voted out, praise God, and Justin Heap was voted in, the County Board of Supervisors did something with his office where they basically took his entire job and gave it to them so they could still be corrupt.

00:45:21.000 There's been a lot of things with lawsuits back and forth and a lot of victories, but if you guys could go over that detail, I'd be very grateful.

00:45:28.000 Yeah, let me give you the kind of the quick rundown.

00:45:31.000 So, after the last election, the last primary election, Stephen Richard, who was the county recorder for Maricopa County, who had done a horribly, I mean, just terrible, terrible job.

00:45:45.000 So bad that the county board of supervisors actually had many, many conflicts with the recorder.

00:45:52.000 You'll remember that they had the long lines that happened, half the polling places shut down in 2022 on the Cary Lake election.

00:45:59.000 Anyways.

00:46:00.000 What essentially happened was he got voted out, and the County Board of Supervisors voted to essentially take away all the IT staff, the vast majority of the responsibilities, constitutional responsibilities of the recorder, and just hand them over to the bureaucrats in the County Board of Elections, the County Elections Department, which is directly overseen by the County Supervisors.

00:46:26.000 Huge constitutional issues with this.

00:46:28.000 They did this in kind of the dark of the night when no one was paying attention after Stephen was.

00:46:34.000 Voted out, and they weren't sure who was going to become the next recorder.

00:46:38.000 It was either going to be a super conservative and Justin Heap or a Democrat.

00:46:43.000 And so they did this.

00:46:45.000 And this is important.

00:46:46.000 I want to make sure everyone understands this is important for the entire country because what's happening in Maricopa County is the tip of the spear for everywhere else.

00:46:53.000 Whatever's happening in Maricopa County, you can bet will come to the next big counties that will try to take over your state, even if you're in a deep red state.

00:47:03.000 So, anyways, as I was saying, basically what happened was.

00:47:06.000 They tried to take all the powers away from Justin Heap.

00:47:10.000 Justin Heap came in, and thank goodness he had America First Legal that was coming in to help him, and they helped dramatically fight them in court.

00:47:22.000 The courts said that the county supervisors were acting childishly.

00:47:28.000 They went to that extent, said that they were acting childishly and that they needed to return back the powers.

00:47:35.000 They have dug their heels in to try to stop it.

00:47:39.000 Every time that you get some kind of ruling in courts, Basically, there's an appeals process.

00:47:45.000 So you can appeal the entire thing and drag it out.

00:47:49.000 And this has been really what's devastating for elections because anytime that anything is fought in the courts about elections, the adversaries try to drag it out.

00:48:02.000 And then what happens is something that's called the Purcell Rule, which actually came out of Maricopa County, but it's applied across the country, which says that if election procedures or rules are going to change too close to an election, then we just won't change them at all.

00:48:18.000 And this is terrible precedent because what the left has done is they got really good at changing election rules and then getting the Purcell rule applied in the courts so that nothing changes, even when you're right.

00:48:31.000 So, what's happened actually just even just recently is the courts actually came out and said that the county board of supervisors is acting childishly, but oh, we have an election that's coming up in a few weeks, so we actually can't fix it because of the Purcell rule.

00:48:46.000 All right.

00:48:47.000 This is why I love when we get questions about Arizona politics, you can really see Tyler just get to.

00:48:53.000 Unload and you remember, you see why he runs our political operation because that is a lot of detail to do, no off the cuff about an office in Maricopa County.

00:49:03.000 So that's tremendous.

00:49:05.000 We got a question.

00:49:06.000 This one, what's up?

00:49:08.000 Well, Blake, and I was just going to say this this is really important moving forward because what happens in Maricopa County and how this ruling will come down and how things will get corrected.

00:49:18.000 And this is where the Save America Act comes in because Arizona already has laws in place to check people's citizenship.

00:49:27.000 And everything else, but if no one actually applies that, no one actually does the job, no one actually cleans the voter rolls, and good people don't get into office and actually manage the office the right way, then the bad guys take over.

00:49:39.000 And so, this is really the crux of the battle that's happening in Maricopa County right now you have a good guy that's in there that's fighting the good fight basically single handedly and winning in the courts.

00:49:51.000 But this is the fight that will be at the doorstep of absolutely every single county within America.

00:49:56.000 And if Maricopa County doesn't go the correct way, Meaning, you know, supporting the rule of law, then we're going to have real problems across America.

00:50:05.000 Exactly, exactly.

00:50:07.000 Our next question this is a very funny one we got.

00:50:09.000 This is a text question, but someone really wanted to know what flavor is Daisy's Starbucks?

00:50:15.000 They ask us anything.

00:50:16.000 Yes, it is a grande non dairy vanilla sweet cream cold brew, half sweet.

00:50:22.000 And I did not drink coffee at all until I had a baby.

00:50:26.000 Really?

00:50:26.000 Oh, yeah, you'd always get those refreshers.

00:50:28.000 Yes, now every day it's like the thing that I look forward to.

00:50:33.000 But yeah, that's my Starbucks order.

00:50:35.000 Thanks for asking.

00:50:36.000 Do you experiment or was that like the first one you tried and you liked it?

00:50:39.000 I'm a routine person.

00:50:40.000 Same thing every single day.

00:50:42.000 You get one every day?

00:50:42.000 Same thing.

00:50:44.000 No, but when I get one, I either make the same thing every day or if I go to Starbucks, I only get the same thing.

00:50:48.000 All righty.

00:50:49.000 And then next we have Natalie. 1.00

00:50:51.000 Natalie, unmute yourself.

00:50:51.000 Natalie.

00:50:53.000 Happy Friday.

00:50:53.000 Hi, guys.

00:50:54.000 Happy Friday.

00:50:56.000 So I am running for my local school board.

00:50:59.000 And the more involved I get, the more aware I am of like the craziness.

00:51:03.000 And honestly, it's not even.

00:51:04.000 What's happening in public schools?

00:51:06.000 We actually have a lot of really great things happening, but it's because of what's happening just within the school board members.

00:51:13.000 So, for example, four out of the five are on the more conservative end, but they are really dividing our district.

00:51:20.000 They're at each other's throats.

00:51:23.000 And quite frankly, I feel like it's destroying our district.

00:51:27.000 And so, my first question is why and how is this happening within our own reserved Christian values?

00:51:34.000 And then the second question is, If I do get into this, how do I prevent this from continuing to happen and just get our focus back on the students?

00:51:45.000 Oh, man.

00:51:45.000 Tyler, do you want to take a first crack at that one?

00:51:48.000 This sounds in your wheelhouse. 1.00

00:51:49.000 What do we do when it sounds like her district, yeah, it's already conservative, but it's just fratricidal infighting anyway, causing division?

00:51:58.000 So, this is the biggest problem that we have within the conservative movement this yearning for independence that exists, even with individuals who get involved.

00:51:58.000 Yeah.

00:52:07.000 And you can see the hotheadedness that happens.

00:52:10.000 Very quickly, with people who get into office because they believe their way is the right way and that's the only way, and then the fracturing that happens because of lack of team player mentality within the conservative movement tends to fracture the conservatives.

00:52:27.000 And then, guess what happens?

00:52:28.000 The left is super unified and comes in and they obliterate, especially with unified teachers' unions and things like that.

00:52:37.000 They fracture.

00:52:38.000 So, my best advice to anyone is.

00:52:43.000 Number one, you have to start by getting involved for the right reasons.

00:52:46.000 You know, you're not going to win every battle at the board level, whether it's the school board level or the city council level.

00:52:54.000 You're not going to win every battle.

00:52:57.000 You have to go with a team player mentality, and team players' mentality requires leadership.

00:53:03.000 You have to have a team captain.

00:53:05.000 And oftentimes, what happens in these situations is you don't have captains.

00:53:09.000 You have, you know, again, really hot headed, really.

00:53:14.000 You know, strong headed individuals who it's my way or the highway, and they're not able to even sit down in a room together and having discussions.

00:53:23.000 Some laws prevent sitting down in a room together and even having discussions because of the laws that are in place by your state.

00:53:32.000 But, you know, you have to go in knowing if you're going to get involved, you're going to do it for the right reasons and you're going to be able to bring people together.

00:53:39.000 And that's hard to do with conservatives sometimes because of the independence.

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00:56:03.000 Tyler had to step out.

00:56:04.000 He's a busy man.

00:56:05.000 But we were talking about Natalie's question where she's on the school board.

00:56:10.000 It's a conservative board. 0.86

00:56:11.000 It has conservatives on it, but it's being torn apart by infighting.

00:56:15.000 Tyler gave great answers.

00:56:16.000 I just wanted to add a big picture thing, which is she says, Why is this happening even among Christians and conservatives?

00:56:24.000 And we should remind ourselves that just because you carry the label of Christian, just because you're a conservative, just because you sincerely do believe those things, that doesn't guarantee that you're going to be.

00:56:36.000 A virtuous person or do the right thing.

00:56:38.000 It takes relentless cultivation.

00:56:41.000 That's one of the best lessons that Charlie would give.

00:56:43.000 That's why he's a Christian, but he's reading the Bible all the time.

00:56:46.000 He's studying endlessly.

00:56:48.000 He's studying great works of philosophy.

00:56:50.000 He's always trying to strengthen his moral center because it's almost like lifting weights.

00:56:57.000 You can say, I am a person who exercises, but if you aren't doing the exercises, you will not grow stronger.

00:57:03.000 And similarly, if you're not cultivating your moral center and making sure that you live out those values, you can go awry.

00:57:10.000 And this is a good reminder of that.

00:57:13.000 It's are you Christian first, then conservative, or are you conservative first, then Christian?

00:57:17.000 That can lead to a lot of discrepancies in terms of.

00:57:20.000 Are you Christian as a label, or are you Christian as a pervading way of life?

00:57:25.000 Yeah, like Republican in name only, but.

00:57:27.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:57:28.000 Christian in name only, all of those things.

00:57:30.000 We are no strangers to info.

00:57:32.000 Exactly.

00:57:32.000 And I mean, Charlie dealt with that all the time, far more off screen than on screen.

00:57:38.000 He was so good at managing it.

00:57:40.000 And.

00:57:41.000 I think he's a good model to look towards for navigating a lot of strife.

00:57:45.000 And especially, Natalie, like in your own local school board, it is worth saving.

00:57:50.000 It's worth not blackpilling.

00:57:51.000 It's worth standing up for what's right.

00:57:53.000 And so you say, what could you do?

00:57:53.000 Yeah.

00:57:54.000 The first thing is to make sure you yourself just, I am not going to sow discord.

00:57:59.000 I will not feud.

00:58:00.000 I will coalition build.

00:58:01.000 I will do my best to work with people.

00:58:04.000 And you can set a model that others will live by.

00:58:08.000 All right.

00:58:08.000 We have Gracie.

00:58:09.000 Gracie, what's your question?

00:58:13.000 This might be a little bit of a silly question, but I was curious what kind of music did Charlie listen to?

00:58:19.000 Okay, so let me say, when I saw your question come in, it really brought back such a fond memory for me.

00:58:26.000 I had Noah pull the clip.

00:58:28.000 It was back from 2023 where I was doing some sort of silly video with Charlie, and someone had asked him what his favorite type of music to listen to was.

00:58:41.000 It's 38, we can play it.

00:58:43.000 Favorite singer, band?

00:58:46.000 Favorite band?

00:58:47.000 I don't listen to bands.

00:58:49.000 Any artist that you listen to?

00:58:53.000 Beethoven.

00:58:54.000 I don't listen to bands.

00:58:55.000 Gracie, that brought back just the sweetest memory.

00:58:58.000 He's just.

00:58:59.000 Bands?

00:59:00.000 I don't listen to it.

00:59:01.000 So, what I will say.

00:59:01.000 I don't listen to it.

00:59:02.000 If you said Beethoven, I mean, that is accurate.

00:59:04.000 Like, you could hear it.

00:59:06.000 It would either be classical music or worship music coming out of his office.

00:59:09.000 Charlie, I think he didn't hate all band music.

00:59:12.000 He liked stuff that reminded him of growing up in Chicago.

00:59:14.000 So, for example, that's why we would play that serious song, you know, that song that we play at the start of Hour 2.

00:59:21.000 That was Chicago Bulls music when they were, when like Michael Jordan was coming out.

00:59:25.000 So, he loved that song.

00:59:27.000 But in general, I think Charlie's attitude was a lot of modern secular music, band music, as you'd call it.

00:59:33.000 It's often on unedifying topics.

00:59:35.000 You know, you're singing about not romance, you're singing like trashy, basically like the culture of sex and hookups, or it's about, you know, these guys being emo and whining and stuff.

00:59:46.000 And Charlie said, I think he basically said, music you listen to should raise your soul to God. 0.86

00:59:51.000 It should be edifying.

00:59:52.000 And so you have Beethoven, abstract music, much of it vary.

00:59:56.000 I mean, they actually use Beethoven in Catholic services, at least very often.

01:00:00.000 And then also just overtly worship music, music that praises God.

01:00:04.000 And so that was.

01:00:05.000 That's what the music Charlie liked the most, but it is true.

01:00:07.000 He's not a listen to bands kind of guy.

01:00:09.000 Charlie was obsessed with not wasting time.

01:00:12.000 So it's like even the music he was listening to is still going to be growing his mind, edifying to his soul.

01:00:21.000 He wasn't just listening to whatever was popular right now.

01:00:24.000 And I was, gosh, I was 22 when him and I had that conversation.

01:00:29.000 And I was like, oh, okay.

01:00:30.000 Charlie doesn't listen to music like that.

01:00:32.000 I do, but we're different in that way.

01:00:34.000 Yes, we are.

01:00:35.000 But I asked Michael too because Michael does all of the music for.

01:00:39.000 The show, and he was saying that Charlie would always comment, like what Blake said, when it was something from a sports game, from something, a theme that he was when he was growing up, something that brought back nostalgia, he would always mention that he liked that kind of stuff, like classic rock or anything classical in general.

01:00:59.000 Awesome, awesome.

01:00:59.000 And by the way, about it being a silly question, we love silly questions.

01:01:02.000 Silly questions are some of the most fun to answer because it's like we were just talking about the infighting and the conservative movement.

01:01:07.000 It's so nice to have like lighthearted, we have so many.

01:01:11.000 Day to day wonderful memories with Charlie.

01:01:14.000 We want to pull back the curtain on that and show people the kind of guy he was.

01:01:19.000 So we love to send us as many silly questions as you guys like.

01:01:22.000 Kyrie, we have you as our next question. 0.98

01:01:25.000 Unmute yourself.

01:01:26.000 Hey guys.

01:01:29.000 Sorry, Kyrie, I think we're breaking up.

01:01:31.000 Luckily, we do have your typed question here.

01:01:34.000 So I'm going to go ahead and read this.

01:01:35.000 It came in two parts.

01:01:37.000 First, part one What was the event that Charlie was speaking at during the breaks on Tuesday?

01:01:42.000 Where he talked about the benefits of reading an actual Bible instead of one on your phone.

01:01:46.000 And has that whole speech ever been uploaded as a podcast episode?

01:01:49.000 Daisy, you were looking into this?

01:01:50.000 So, yes.

01:01:52.000 It was Winning the Invisible War at Awakened Church, July 14th, 2021.

01:01:57.000 And you asked the right person this question because I actually choose.

01:02:01.000 I choose what speeches we put out every week, what bonus episodes we put out every week.

01:02:01.000 She picks the episodes.

01:02:06.000 And so, this was a great one to be reminded of.

01:02:08.000 I'm always pulling back from old church speeches, old CLS, SAS, all those things.

01:02:14.000 So, I am actually going to review this one.

01:02:16.000 For next week.

01:02:17.000 So I will, it has been posted before, but I will, I'll look into it to repost it next week.

01:02:22.000 This is why, this is why all of you, I know a lot of you are sometimes wondered, should I ask questions?

01:02:27.000 One, you should, because we love silly questions.

01:02:28.000 And two, you might literally get a whole episode of the show published because of your question.

01:02:34.000 Kyrie, you had a second part of your question.

01:02:36.000 You say, Blake, have you read SPQR by Mary Beard?

01:02:40.000 And if so, would you recommend it as a good history of Rome?

01:02:43.000 Yes, I'm getting questions about Rome.

01:02:45.000 So I have not read that book.

01:02:47.000 I've, Have friends who have read it and they have liked it.

01:02:49.000 I've always stood away because Mary Beard, she is one of those public intellectuals who she likes to comment as, oh, I'm an expert on Rome.

01:02:59.000 What can Rome tell us about today? 0.99

01:03:01.000 And unfortunately, she's basically an annoying lib. 1.00

01:03:05.000 And you can be an annoying lib and still be a good scholar.

01:03:07.000 In fact, you know, there's a good line from the historian Robert Conquest that everyone is conservative about what he or she knows best.

01:03:15.000 And so a lot of liberal scholars will basically be pretty good in their home field and then they go totally nuts elsewhere.

01:03:22.000 So that might be the case with Mary Beard, but it just graded on me.

01:03:26.000 This is going to be a specific example.

01:03:28.000 So you've all seen ancient Greek statues, you know, marble statues.

01:03:32.000 And they're usually shown as unpainted.

01:03:35.000 And we basically know that most statues in ancient times were painted to some degree, you know, to make them more lifelike.

01:03:44.000 And we just don't see that today because time has passed and it's all come off.

01:03:47.000 And so we got this idea that they were bare and unpainted.

01:03:50.000 And so that's why Michelangelo's David, for example, is unpainted because he was aspiring to imitate this classic.

01:03:56.000 It's an amazing statue.

01:03:58.000 Anyway, so they've discovered they were painted.

01:04:01.000 And there's been this whole trend of like, let's.

01:04:03.000 Paint people to show how they really look, and they do it wrong because we have evidence from like Pompeii murals that we know that they painted them to look good, they actually would have looked good to us.

01:04:13.000 And they'll say, No, we're going to paint them to be really garish, they're going to be maximally ugly.

01:04:19.000 Mary Beard gave an interview where she basically said, I support us doing that because right wingers believe they like classical sculptures and they like them being bare and unpainted because then they're white, and that's driven. 0.78

01:04:33.000 White supremacy.

01:04:35.000 And so it's like good that we've undercut this by painting them.

01:04:39.000 And when I saw her give that interview answer, I'm just, I'll be frank, I just don't feel compelled to read a book by a person who offers a take like that.

01:04:48.000 It annoys me too much.

01:04:49.000 Luckily, you do say, you're asking, there's a lot of other good Roman histories.

01:04:54.000 There's a lot of classic ones.

01:04:56.000 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon is, I mean, it's an all time classic of history.

01:05:02.000 I just read one called The Beginnings of Rome by TJ Cornell.

01:05:05.000 That's a little less introductory.

01:05:06.000 So I don't know if I want to say.

01:05:08.000 Go there for learning.

01:05:09.000 If you want a good introductory one, actually, a guy Charlie liked a lot.

01:05:12.000 His name is Tom Holland.

01:05:13.000 He's the guy who actually hosts The Rest is History, a very popular history podcast.

01:05:17.000 He wrote a book called Dominion about how Christianity basically remade our entire moral universe.

01:05:23.000 But he also has one about Rome. 0.51

01:05:24.000 It's called Rubicon.

01:05:25.000 It's about the last hundred years of the Roman Republic.

01:05:28.000 So, how it went from the Republic to, you know, through Cato and Caesar and Pompey and it fell and it became the empire, but it still endured after that and achieved a great many things.

01:05:39.000 So, I think that's a good place to start.

01:05:41.000 I don't have a good one that's All of Roman history, but if you find specific topics in different periods, good books, you build up your understanding of it over time.

01:05:50.000 So I'll throw out that recommendation for Rubicon.

01:05:52.000 Tom Holland's a good guy.

01:05:53.000 Or if you're not going to read one of the books, you can also either take the Hillsdale online course or you can re watch Charlie and Blake taking the Hillsdale online courses.

01:06:02.000 That you can.

01:06:03.000 So check out the Hillsdale course on the Roman Republic.

01:06:07.000 That's a good way to learn as well.

01:06:09.000 Thank you for bringing that up, Daisy.

01:06:10.000 So we have a couple more questions we want to get to for sure here.

01:06:13.000 So let's go to Joni.

01:06:16.000 Joni, are you there?

01:06:17.000 Unmute yourself.

01:06:18.000 Hello, Blake.

01:06:19.000 Hello, Daisy.

01:06:20.000 Hi.

01:06:21.000 Can you hear me?

01:06:22.000 Yes, we can.

01:06:22.000 What's your question?

01:06:24.000 Hey, I, well, first of all, it's so nice to see both of you stepping up, stepping in under such horrific circumstances.

01:06:35.000 I spent 30 years behind the camera, and I totally prefer to be there than what you're doing.

01:06:43.000 But I applaud you both.

01:06:45.000 And, You're doing a great job.

01:06:47.000 So thank you.

01:06:48.000 Thank you for doing, filling in some really difficult shoes.

01:06:53.000 And Daisy, I started drinking coffee when I had my babies, too.

01:06:57.000 I think it's just a universal experience.

01:06:59.000 It's like the first couple of weeks having a newborn, you're like, how do I function at all?

01:07:05.000 Exactly.

01:07:06.000 I had two infants at one point.

01:07:09.000 So, yeah.

01:07:10.000 All right.

01:07:13.000 Round the clock.

01:07:14.000 Yeah.

01:07:14.000 So, you have a question?

01:07:16.000 Yeah.

01:07:17.000 My question is I'm reading Charlie's book, you know, Stop in the Name of God.

01:07:23.000 And I'm about halfway through.

01:07:27.000 I kind of savor it, I like to soak in it.

01:07:30.000 I, I read a few pages at night to kind of wind down and rest and just take it in.

01:07:37.000 And there's so much in it.

01:07:39.000 I realized this week oh my gosh, this is not a one and done book.

01:07:43.000 This is a book that I'm just going to keep on my nightstand and pull it out and just read it again and again because there's so much in it and I can get so much out of it.

01:07:57.000 What I'm realizing though is it's really hard to do a full Sabbath day.

01:08:04.000 I haven't gotten there yet.

01:08:05.000 So, I just want to know what you and you two are in such a different phase of life, especially Daisy is a new mom.

01:08:13.000 And how do you, what are your views on it?

01:08:16.000 How do you handle the Sabbath?

01:08:19.000 I will say, and I need to say this to myself too, because I am also not the best at taking a full Sabbath day.

01:08:25.000 And it would call me out every time Charlie would give a speech on it.

01:08:29.000 And he would say, respectfully, I am busier than all of you.

01:08:33.000 If I can do this for one day, You can too.

01:08:37.000 And I need to hear that all the time.

01:08:38.000 And I agree with what you're saying about just keeping the book on your nightstand because there is so much wisdom in it.

01:08:45.000 Like you could pick it up and flip to any page and it would speak to your soul in some way.

01:08:49.000 Like I remember there was so much heaviness, like really in the immediate aftermath after Charlie passed.

01:08:58.000 And I remember when I just went to pick it up and it was a chapter on sleep.

01:09:03.000 And he was like, You can respond to any of this.

01:09:07.000 You can rest.

01:09:08.000 Like, just put it down.

01:09:09.000 You can rest.

01:09:11.000 And it was such a struggle to sleep in those first couple weeks afterwards, and like so much to figure out, so much work, just really, really heavy.

01:09:17.000 And I remember reading that and being like, I have permission to just go to sleep and rest right now.

01:09:24.000 Not even just permission.

01:09:25.000 It's like God is asking.

01:09:27.000 I have to stop in the name of God, literally.

01:09:30.000 So I totally agree with you.

01:09:31.000 It is such, such a wonderful book.

01:09:33.000 And I think that having my daughter has made it.

01:09:38.000 Easier to stop.

01:09:40.000 Like everything goes by so quickly, you're so busy when you have a baby, but it also is one of the only things that actually forces you to stop everything you've been doing and just recalibrate your entire life.

01:09:52.000 And I, well, not to get too deep, but there was a lot of change that took place in a lot of our lives after Charlie passed.

01:10:03.000 A lot of like day to day, my work life was very different pretty, pretty immediately.

01:10:08.000 And I struggled a lot with like, This was what my purpose was.

01:10:12.000 This is what I was doing.

01:10:13.000 And now it's all different within one second.

01:10:17.000 And I have no control over that.

01:10:18.000 And when I had, sorry, Joni, I did not expect to get emotional.

01:10:24.000 But when I had my daughter, it was like, okay, so much of this was taken away from me.

01:10:30.000 So much of what I thought I was going to be doing forever was taken away from me.

01:10:35.000 And now I have this beautiful gift from God that gave me like my purpose.

01:10:41.000 Back, like it gave me something to focus on every day that you can't fail at.

01:10:48.000 Like, you have to do everything you can to protect and support and care for your baby.

01:10:55.000 And it was like everything shifted within an instant on September 10th.

01:11:00.000 And so much of that just hole in my heart and in my brain, I feel like was filled the second I had her because it's like, this is what I have to focus on.

01:11:11.000 No matter what else has happened, no matter how sad I am, no matter how different things look, I have this baby that God has entrusted.

01:11:19.000 To me to care for.

01:11:20.000 And it, I mean, it saved my life.

01:11:22.000 Like, it's the best thing that's ever happened to me.

01:11:26.000 So I want so many more.

01:11:27.000 That's so tremendous.

01:11:29.000 That's amazing to hear.

01:11:30.000 She's about to turn six months old.

01:11:31.000 All right, we're going to read it real quick.

01:11:33.000 Mary asks How would you approach opposition at work?

01:11:35.000 I work as a pediatric hospice, I believe, CNA on a very liberal and left wing care team.

01:11:41.000 I try my best to be respectful and loving to avoid potential violent outbursts, but I also refuse to attend pride events or support individuals who always claim to be victims.

01:11:52.000 Of their own actions.

01:11:53.000 I'm one of three conservative Christian women out of up to 20 on the team.

01:11:58.000 Daisy, you said you had some thoughts on that one?

01:12:01.000 Yes.

01:12:02.000 I, we, sorry, I got a little, little sidetracked with my last tangent, but I just wanted to encourage you, Mary, if you are, I know you couldn't unmute yourself, but if you are listening, like it will always be worth it to stand up for your beliefs, but there also is a respectful way.

01:12:22.000 To do that, especially when you're at work with people every day.

01:12:24.000 We talked about this with a caller last week at her small office job.

01:12:30.000 I think a lot of it is like asking questions, putting their brains to work, asking them to critically think about things, not just coming in hot and heavy, you must do this, you need to think this, I can't believe you don't think this, because no one's going to react well to that.

01:12:45.000 What do you think?

01:12:46.000 Yeah, it's, I mean, first of all, I mean, God bless you for standing firm because as Christians, we have a duty to.

01:12:55.000 Publicly defend our beliefs to stand firm even in the face of ridicule, in the face of persecution.

01:13:02.000 Think of the Beatitudes.

01:13:04.000 It's probably the most single beautiful sermon that Christ ever gave when he says, Blessed are you when they hate you and persecute you for my sake.

01:13:14.000 And we do have that duty.

01:13:16.000 And you should take solace in that.

01:13:19.000 You should take solace in the words of Christ on that front.

01:13:22.000 Well, and I think it's Colossians 3 Work unto the Lord, not unto man.

01:13:29.000 Which can be really hard when you don't see the fruits of that every single day, but it is your duty to show up and work hard at what God is giving you.

01:13:37.000 And to be happy, because we should always be joyful.

01:13:39.000 Be happy, warriors.

01:13:41.000 Be happy, warriors.

01:13:42.000 We must be loving even in the face of hate.

01:13:44.000 Happy Father's Day.

01:13:46.000 Happy Juneteenth.

01:13:51.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 19, 2026

The Juneteenth Miracle + The Fatherhood Manifesto + AMA 271

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