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00:01:38.000Real holidays as well, like Juneteenth or yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:01:41.000You know, the ones we really celebrate, I think Memorial Day is the most probably meaningful one, even more than Fourth of July, which is I mean, besides Christmas or Easter.
00:02:48.000I've been watching that campaign very closely, and he's got a really, really fascinating and I think compelling plan to combat homelessness, which is, I think, one of the more intractable problems that many big cities face, and it's their own choice, certainly.
00:03:03.000Here to help us unpack that right at the jump is Jason Rance.
00:03:07.000He's hosted the Jason Rance Show on Seattle Red 770 up in Seattle.
00:03:11.000He's a West Coaster through and through and is just a glutton for punishment.
00:03:16.000He's also the author of the book, What's Killing America.
00:03:20.000Jason, welcome back to the show, my friend.
00:03:26.000I said, you got to watch this video, Spencer Pratt, because, yes, Spencer Pratt is running a really remarkable campaign in many ways.
00:03:34.000And I'd love to just get your initial reaction to that.
00:03:37.000But he's using media in ways that nobody's done before.
00:03:40.000AI, organic creators in LA, in the movie space, are making their own Spencer Pratt campaign ads.
00:03:49.000So, we'll get into the homeless piece, but just on the top of it, As a West Coast urban American, what's it like to see somebody like Spencer Pratt emerge on the scene and actually apparently have a legitimate chance?
00:04:01.000Maybe he's not favored yet, but he could become mayor of LA.
00:04:05.000Look, he's gaining momentum and he's doing it in a way that I think really reaches folks who don't normally pay attention to politics.
00:04:14.000There are a lot of folks, and this is really the issue with Donald Trump, and even to another extent, like Zoran Momdani, where they were able to speak to people and energize people who maybe don't normally vote.
00:04:23.000Now, in one case, didn't like that they were able to do that, but for President Trump, we're obviously a fan of him getting those folks to vote.
00:04:30.000And I think Spencer Pratt is really connecting with people who, Look at a lot of these issues and say they're not inherently political.
00:04:37.000When we're talking about public safety and homelessness, drug use on our streets, the average person, no matter how it is they vote, they don't look at this and say, well, that's a Democratic issue or that's a Republican issue.
00:05:15.000Actually, as a matter of fact, as much as I love the president, the worst thing that could have happened to Spencer Pratt was President Trump going, I heard he's MAGA.
00:05:23.000It's like, just leave him alone, let him cook, right?
00:05:27.000And so I would just say, what you said, I think is really, really important because so many of our American cities, you see this up close in Seattle, have gotten away from the bread and butter of just making the trains run on time.
00:05:39.000Like cleaning up the filth, making sure people can walk the streets safely.
00:05:44.000It's gotten so ideological that they've lost sight of just basic common sense stuff.
00:05:49.000And I feel like that's the magic to the Spencer Pratt campaign.
00:05:55.000Yes, he's like a social media campaign, but it's getting back to the bread and butter stuff where common sense Americans are going, like, yeah, that makes sense.
00:06:02.000You can put out a lot of really well produced videos, AI or otherwise, but if they're not talking about the issues the way that people see them, it doesn't really matter.
00:06:10.000And that's what, like, Makes the most sense to explain why he's taking off the way that he has.
00:06:16.000It's because he's talking about issues that people see and experience every single day.
00:06:20.000He can get to the emotional arguments by simply saying to a parent, Do you want to feel the way you do when you're walking in a park with your kid and you're seeing someone smoking fentanyl or using a playground as a toilet?
00:06:35.000And you don't have to lean into the emotion beyond just telling people what it is they're currently experiencing.
00:06:40.000And it allows them to get emotional on their own.
00:06:45.000He is very charismatic in these pitches, but he's just talking about things the way the average person sees them.
00:06:52.000And there's not a single person, again, regardless of how they vote, who says to themselves, Yeah, I like the idea of going to a park that's been completely taken over by the homeless.
00:07:01.000No one holds those positions except, I guess, radicals on the left.
00:07:08.000So much of our modern political discourse between left and right just feels like, Are you for the third world or are you for the first world?
00:07:15.000Do you want America to look like a first world country or a third world country?
00:07:18.000I mean, and you've got in your city, you've got a socialist mayor that just basically called on everybody to boycott Starbucks.
00:07:27.000Like one of the established corporate entities, the heartbeat of the city.
00:07:32.000You drive past downtown, south of downtown, you see that HQ right there with the logo on it.
00:07:40.000She's calling to boycott Starbucks.0.92
00:08:18.000The problem is, Narcan only lasts for a day or two and it doesn't break the addiction cycle.
00:08:23.000There is a longer lasting anti narcotic drug called Vivitrol that does what Narcan does, but it lasts for 30 days, giving a much better chance of breaking the addiction.
00:08:33.000The problem is, The addict must be sober for 7 to 14 days before it can be administered.
00:08:38.000So we have this donut hole between the 48 hours of protection with the Narcan and the two weeks of sobriety needed to administer the Vibitrol.
00:09:06.000Many of the addicts you see around your neighborhood are bussed in from other states in order for local NGOs to profit off their addiction.
00:09:15.000We have international cartels operating in the open on our streets.
00:09:20.000Step five, a modern treatment facility.
00:09:23.000I've already made plans with several high-profile developers who want to donate resources to build a large, modern, and safe campus where we can administer rehab outside of our residential neighborhoods.
00:10:05.000That's targeting international drug cartels in the streets and then building modern treatment facilities outside of residential communities so they don't bear the brunt of having a bunch of like homeless crackheads wander around the schools and the parks.
00:10:47.000Last year, I went to the King County, Seattle public health office, and I went in and I got a whole bunch of drug materials, drug paraphernalia.
00:11:25.000And I would rather have someone harmed, quote unquote, because they had their feelings hurt that we called them out for being a drug user than have them die on our streets.
00:11:33.000And so everything that he is proposing there is going to be seen as controversial to the folks who make a whole lot of money when you've got drug addicts.
00:11:42.000On our streets, there's this homeless industrial complex that is real, that exists, and they're the ones who are pushing the harm reduction model.
00:11:51.000And for those of you who don't know, harm reduction is essentially a strategy, they say, to reduce the harm of illicit substance abuse so that you can get someone into treatment.
00:12:01.000The problem, of course, on paper, that sounds great.
00:12:04.000In reality, they never get anyone into treatment.
00:13:00.000Billions, certainly billions if you include what the hospitals have to pay for it, what a lot of institutions end up shelling out, but just the government there.
00:13:08.000And that money's obviously not going to the homeless individuals.
00:13:11.000It's going to these NGOs that are fighting homelessness.
00:13:16.000I'd be tempted to add a sixth point to this, which he probably won't, but a sixth point for ending homelessness might as well be cut anti homelessness spending to zero.
00:13:25.000You can have law enforcement budget, you can have drug enforcement budget, you can have treatment centers for people who are addicted, but.
00:13:32.000Anything that's going to be branded as fighting homelessness, I would posit that there is a direct relationship.
00:13:38.000The more you spend on fighting homelessness, the more homeless people you have.
00:13:41.000You are funding an apparatus of parasitic individuals who don't want to end homelessness, who want to enable all of those suicidal behaviors.
00:13:51.000LA has spent, over the past decades, billions of dollars fighting homelessness.
00:14:19.000We're going to use the laws on the books to mandate these arrests.
00:14:25.000Basically, he's saying that the laws already exist where we can take these people off the streets, force them to get clean, use these better drugs to force that they don't relapse.
00:14:52.000Arguably, the only thing you would need to do is maybe put some more resources into detox facilities because, unfortunately, they have chosen not to do that up until this point.
00:15:00.000But you've got all the laws on the books that you need.
00:15:03.000You just need enforcement, you need actual enforcement.
00:15:05.000And oftentimes, every once in a while, there'll be a sweep of some homeless encampment, whether it's LA or Seattle or anywhere else.
00:15:11.000But you're not pushing them into treatment.
00:15:13.000You're just pushing them literally in some cases across the street for them to reset a new camp.
00:15:18.000And then you say, oh, look, we've made our contact, we've offered them resources, but they're not going to take you up on your resources if you make it so easy to continue to be a homeless drug addict.
00:15:28.000You actually have to have a carrot and stick approach in every single jurisdiction that has done that.
00:15:34.000And that includes San Diego, in some cases, Austin, Marysville, Washington.
00:15:39.000They actually take a harder line approach to this and they see actual data.
00:15:43.000Orange County is another great example.
00:15:45.000If you are right now in this nonprofit space and you're working with the homeless and you're getting these big contracts, I'm okay with nonprofits getting the contracts.
00:15:54.000You actually have to show that you have results.
00:15:56.000And so if you've been in charge this entire time and homelessness has gotten worse, you do not get to continue cashing those checks.
00:16:03.000I want these groups to understand they need to put themselves out of business.
00:16:08.000But you've got a lot of groups that continue to get a whole lot of money because they know that homelessness doesn't have to get better under their watch.
00:16:15.000I want to take away that job security.
00:16:17.000And the most dedicated people are the ones who know that they're going to try to put themselves out of work when they approach homelessness with the actual end goal of ending it.
00:16:26.000Well, listen, I think Spencer Pratt's running a great campaign, Jason.
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00:18:07.000Okay, so I wanted to have you on the show because there's been so much made of this Massey fight, and you've been kind of waving the banner out there saying.
00:18:19.000Increasingly, there is this disconnect between America First and MAGA, those who identify as America First versus MAGA.
00:18:28.000Now, I have a perspective on this and what's really happening, but I want to pick your brain.
00:18:32.000What do you think is driving more and more people identifying as America First as opposed to MAGA?
00:18:38.000Well, Andrew, and as always, thanks for having me on.
00:18:41.000I think the Massey defeat settled a lot of this for me and what's going on.
00:18:52.000And who identifies as MAGA has changed.
00:18:56.000In the case of Thomas Massey, that was a problem for him because they changed into older white voters who tend to vote at higher rates in primaries.
00:19:07.000And if you are still wanting, if you're not a traditional Republican and you lean to the right, you may be mad and upset about some things that have been going on.
00:19:17.000So when you get the chance, you'll identify as America first instead.
00:21:26.000You're saying what happened was you were including in your poll predictions that the younger voters were going to turn out in something similar to what we saw in the midterm because Massey had great appeal with young people.
00:21:40.000You figured that Massey would be enough to overcome the nihilism, but he wasn't.
00:21:45.000They still didn't turn up and turn out for this primary.
00:21:49.000And why do you think they didn't show up?
00:22:26.000So they nailed it and they did incredible.
00:22:28.000So even getting that side of Gen X out, see, you can even see this there.
00:22:32.000Even Gen X supported Massey slightly.0.66
00:22:35.000But what I think we're going to learn that they probably slightly supported Gall rim because the Trump campaign did such a good job getting out just their Gen Xers.0.56
00:22:44.000And this is the risk I took, brother.0.65
00:22:46.000This was the risk I took $35 million almost, like let's call it $32, spent in a primary, which is ungodly.
00:22:53.000Sometimes when you're doing that, it can backfire and you target those ads to the old Fox Boomer cons.
00:23:00.000But because the race gets so much national attention, it ends up backfiring and you wind up driving higher turnout up anyway.
00:23:07.000The 18 to 29s, we all have 4 or 5% of the vote.
00:23:11.000They're going to fall to like two, Andrew.
00:26:00.000I mean, it gave you this stat before because race matters too, because the younger, and you guys know this, older America is whiter, younger America is less white.0.83
00:26:10.000So when you see in 24, 42% of Hispanics in Georgia pull Democratic ballots, now compared to last Tuesday, 75% of Hispanics.
00:26:21.000Coupled on top of New Jersey, which we saw this too, coupled on top of Texas, which we got blown out in Trump's Hispanic Southern Texas counties.
00:26:41.000And it's funny because we did this huge study on immigration and dealing with ICE even long before it became news headlines.
00:26:49.000And they weren't happy and they wanted some things changed, but immediately the Conventional wisdom so well, it's because of how we were deporting people, and it's not.
00:26:59.000If we changed a few things on how deportations were being handled, they would have been perfectly fine with it.0.99
00:27:04.000They still majority support deep mass deportations, Hispanic Americans, guys.1.00
00:28:52.000This is because what are you angry about?
00:28:56.000Joe Biden didn't run on putting America first and putting affordability first and fixing the economy, going back to the pre COVID economy, which is an unfair expectation of Donald Trump to just come in.
00:29:09.000And wave like this magic wand and put it back to a pre COVID economy.
00:29:15.000So I feel like that was an unfair expectation.
00:29:18.000But as the job of a campaign and then as a White House's job, from a messaging point of view, that's your job to frame that correctly so people understand that and don't hold too high of expectations of you.
00:29:32.000But this is just because they, listen, guys, I said this the other night and I think it stuck and I hope it did.
00:29:41.000We need to start to appreciate the level of despair and desperation almost that a lot of these younger voters had and took with them to go vote for Donald Trump and JD Vance.
00:29:55.000A lot of these voters, especially under 45, felt like these guys, this ticket, was their last chance at riding the ship, renewing American prosperity, and getting their American dream back.
00:30:06.000They feel like their inheritance has been squandered by a selfish older generation and a ruling class who does it at their expense.
00:30:53.000For those who have followed me for a long time, it is my great white whale.
00:30:57.000I have forever thought that Donald Trump was like the perfect candidate on the Republican side to win the state of Minnesota.
00:31:05.000And I actually think that there are some potential bright spots in Minnesota in the midterms, where Republicans are looking around the map wondering where can we make gains.
00:31:14.000Well, you have a perfect narrative brewing.
00:32:40.000Lisa leads in, and that's interesting you say that because I do know somebody else who pulled it too and also had Lindell up by a little bit more than us, but we're two points.
00:32:52.000So what happens in a state like Minnesota?
00:33:26.000And let me just, with the endorsement, this race is over.
00:33:30.000I mean, Lindell takes like a 20 point lead.
00:33:33.000It's interesting you just brought up the Twin Cities.
00:33:35.000You know, Lisa leads in the Twin Cities and Mike leads everywhere else.
00:33:39.000It's not like super, super, you know, blowout territory.
00:33:42.000There's a lot of votes, even on the Republican primary.
00:33:44.000There's a lot of votes in the Twin Cities and Twin City burbs.
00:33:47.000But that goes to show you, you know, I mean, it's typical establishment support for an establishment candidate in and around the Twin City area.
00:33:55.000And then everywhere else, East Central, the South, the North, Lindell leads.
00:34:00.000With Trump's endorsement, yeah, I did give the, I mean, I don't know if you guys got it, but with Trump's endorsement, what I noticed is that it's not just that some other candidates lose support, it's that the undecideds really do.
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00:40:37.000I want to know what you guys are planning for Memorial Day.
00:40:40.000So if you don't watch our Thought Crime show on Thursday, we did it last night.
00:40:44.000We put it on the podcast on Saturdays.
00:40:46.000We had a whole conversation about America 250 and how there is a perception that maybe the response, the celebration is more muted than the bicentennial in 1976, where it seemed to take over the whole country.
00:41:45.000I've been accused, I think the organization's been accused, Erica's been accused of betraying Charlie by not coming out and endorsing one way or the other and not being more involved in that race.
00:41:56.000I will tell you, and I haven't said this publicly, but the, and I know this isn't necessarily a question, but it's an opportunity to address it.
00:42:04.000But, you know, after the one big beautiful bill vote, You know, and I want to respect Charlie's privacy as well.
00:42:10.000It's always the tension in all of this.
00:42:14.000Charlie was a fan of Thomas Massey, especially historically, liked him on war, liked him on being a budget hawk and spending.
00:42:22.000But he was pretty frustrated that Massey didn't vote in the affirmative on the big, beautiful bill because it was essentially the totality of President Trump's first year agenda wrapped into one bill.
00:42:34.000And I will just say privately, Charlie was really, really frustrated.
00:42:38.000Yeah, I think that's the right way to put it.
00:42:40.000And I think he would have become more frustrated over.
00:42:43.000The events of the past nine months, which is we liked what Massey said.
00:42:52.000And there's so many things to like about him, but he has, especially over the past few months, he's become the number one, let's put it, Republican gadfly, Republican who gets in Trump's way, criticizes Trump, and not just on debt or the war, but also on Epstein saying that there's this pedophile class that Trump is.
00:43:13.000Allied to essentially, and I think Charlie would have been, as you said, very frustrated.
00:43:20.000He would have, and Charlie was not a guy who would feud publicly.
00:43:23.000He would have certainly been messaging Massey about that and being like, what's going on here?
00:43:27.000And he would have been very concerned with it.
00:43:33.000Yeah, but I will tell you that I had some very candid conversations after the big, beautiful bill where he voiced his frustration to me privately.
00:43:42.000I think, you know, the big concern with the Massey vote is the breakdown in generations.
00:43:50.000We just had Rich Barris on and we were talking about it.
00:43:52.000We, What you saw was anybody under 65 supported Thomas Massey, but they didn't show up.
00:44:30.000Okay, that's where we get to be the voice of Gen Z and sort of try and make their voice louder, make people in power understand and listen and acknowledge it.
00:44:40.000When it comes to Epstein, and I'm open, listen, I've been a little bit more in the.
00:44:46.000Me and Blake kind of have a different team.
00:44:49.000Blake is very much like there's no there, there, and it's, you know, at least not the blackmail ring of pedophiles for the billionaire class.
00:44:57.000And I've been more open to, like, okay, did he work with the CIA?
00:45:32.000If there's criminal stuff there, I want it addressed, absolutely.
00:45:37.000But in terms of this larger conspiracy where it's like 5D chess and you've got Masonic temples and cults and the Knights Templar and Israel all boiling, it's just like it's not what the data points to yet or ever, maybe.
00:45:53.000And maybe there's a part where we're just not going to know.
00:45:56.000And it's not an issue worth blackpilling about.
00:46:18.000Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
00:46:20.000Do not give up on America because you're upset about Epstein.
00:46:23.000And I think there's a real thing to be said for a defeatist mindset in the country that people.
00:46:31.000We talk about victimhood culture and that manifests personally, but it manifests politically as well to say, ooh, President Trump betrayed us on everything.
00:46:40.000President Trump has delivered on the border in a big way.
00:46:42.000He delivered on no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security.
00:46:45.000He's delivered on DEI, weaponization of government.
00:46:50.000He's done a ton of things that he promised to do.
00:46:54.000And I should add, frankly, he actually didn't really campaign on the Epstein that a lot of his supporters did.
00:46:59.000He was asked about it once in an interview and he said, I'd be inclined to make it public.
00:47:04.000And then, when he felt like the jig was up and it was being used as a political hot potato against him, he started getting more animated against it.
00:47:14.000Just really quick, breaking news Tulsi Gabbard has resigned from her role as director of national intelligence.
00:47:23.000Her husband, Abraham, has been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.
00:47:28.000And so this appears to be why she's leaving.
00:47:32.000Now, there's been a lot of speculation about whether she was going to make it through the midterms.
00:49:56.000I just, I was sharing in the break about how Bill Montgomery, one of Charlie's, Mentors.
00:50:02.000There's this story Charlie would always tell about how Bill walked into his office one day and he was talking about like mutinies and employees and people in politics.
00:50:11.000And he goes, Charlie, very important lesson.
00:50:14.000Insubordination must never be tolerated.
00:50:17.000And then Charlie goes, then he says, now let's drink Starbucks.
00:50:21.000But when you have 200 and it used to be 18, it's 217 now, members of Congress, Republicans, and there's one president that leads the party, we can't afford to have even one of those 217 have their own agenda.
00:50:34.000And so, even though I agree on like 95% of the politics that Thomas Massey has, get in line.
00:51:06.000Well, and to circle back on, to finish Andrew's point of the not black pilling, while we were sitting here, I looked up black pill in our chat.
00:51:51.000Oh, I was just gonna say, I didn't, I'm not a big NASCAR watcher, but even I knew who Kyle Bush was.
00:51:56.000And what I loved about him, because I knew this fact, was he was a NASCAR driver, he could win the national championship, but he raced in the two lower levels, even the truck racing, which is like level three, because he just loved racing so much.
00:52:06.000The guy wanted to go race, win as many as he could.
00:52:10.000A lot of people have noticed his last race win, he's talking and almost in tears, like, you never know when your last one will be.
00:52:16.000Let's play this, and I really admire that.
00:52:35.000And it looks like, from what reports have suggested, he was suffering potentially from a form of pneumonia and he just kind of battled through it and he didn't go into the hospital soon enough.
00:53:03.000I mean, you know, with Kyle Bush, he was just a cultural icon to many Americans.
00:53:08.000And with the culture, I think conservatives until very, very recently struggled to get into that main national spotlight.
00:53:16.000And I think the first bit we saw that happening was with Matt Walsh's documentaries back in 2022 and 23.
00:53:24.000And so I just asked, like, why do you think?
00:53:27.000For that period of time, and even still, a lot of conservatives today, why do you think we struggle with that getting into that main spotlight when it's not necessarily being political?
00:53:39.000I mean, I think to be honest, we all know a big player in that was Charlie, like making conservatism cool again.
00:53:46.000I remember we would always joke with him.
00:53:48.000The kids started to tell him he had Riz and he didn't know what that meant, and they all thought he was with his cough drops that it was like nicotine pouches, and they all thought he was.
00:54:00.000Cool because he was so close to them and could speak their language.
00:54:05.000As an advocate of truth, you know that women shouldn't have to share locker rooms with men.
00:54:11.000Women shouldn't have to compete against male athletes and they shouldn't be punished for speaking the truth.
00:54:16.000But across America, that's exactly what's happening.
00:54:18.000Men are being allowed to compete in women's sports, robbing girls of scholarships, medals, titles, and safety.
00:54:24.000Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has heard two cases West Virginia v. BPJ and Little v. Hecox.
00:54:32.000That could decide the future of women's sports nationwide.
00:54:35.000This could be a watershed moment in the fight to protect biological reality and fairness.
00:54:41.000Alliance Defending Freedom needs your voice today.
00:55:22.000Mick, I mean, Mick, because he's wondering, yeah.
00:55:25.000Yeah, Mick, to let you know, we were talking about it in the break, and we were discussing how I think you're right conservatives used to struggle to be in the realm of pop culture.
00:55:35.000And I think also a lot of it was just like coming from an era of like looking down on it's all bad, it's all because it was very dark for a long time, and there were a lot of things to point out that are wrong.
00:55:46.000But I think one, when good things happen in pop culture, we all need to take a look and like praise those things and say, hey, this is a great thing.
00:56:39.000I don't know how much more invested we can get in pop culture because podcasters are the majority.
00:56:44.000But that's only one subset because I think a big part of pop culture, a lot of it, we're talking about movies, we're talking about television.
00:56:51.000We're talking about books, music, that music that a lot of that is, let's be frank, it still very much comes off as a left wing monoculture.
00:57:01.000And that includes stuff that, let's be frank, objectively is pretty good.
00:57:05.000Like, when if you look at the absolute best movies of the year that even conservatives like to watch, often they're by pretty liberal individuals.
00:57:14.000And conservatives have wanted to break into that many times.
00:58:44.000I mean, but you just make good content, tell good stories.
00:58:48.000If you are a conservative or a traditional American or you're Christian, your stuff is going to weave in to the way they talk, the way they make decisions, the way your character arcs play out.
00:58:59.000So, I just say stop putting the pressure on you to make overtly conservative stuff.
00:59:05.000And really, at the end of the day, like our culture is going to reflect the values of its people.
00:59:10.000So, we need to be doing a better job evangelizing people, pushing revival, telling people to repent for the kingdom of God is near, going to church, having a family, raising good kids.
00:59:21.000Those things, the more we do that as a culture, through the podcasting realm, through the pulpit, through news, through whatever platform we have, I think culture is going to get healthier.
00:59:31.000Therefore, our art will also start reflecting a healthier culture.
00:59:34.000Wait, I think to round out your question, the answer why we struggle is because I think conservatives have stayed the same for a long time and the values of culture have gone the opposite way.
00:59:43.000We should put some blame on liberals too, which is I think there's a lot of avenues to get in at the entry level of a lot of cultural output, and the left took over those, made them very.
01:00:17.000But then, a question I think a lot of people have is okay, do we just, if liberals have taken over, do we back away and make our own stuff or do we still try and.
01:00:27.000In general, I'm a infiltrate the institutions guy.
01:00:31.000And I think there are conservatives completely on both sides of that argument, which is good because we do need people that are making wholesome alternative content, alternative products for when there are things like the target boycotts.
01:01:16.000Hey, I was, I've been, I had the opportunity later this year to go to Africa to preach, and I was, you know, I don't have no fear and doubt, but my faith in God is greater than that.
01:01:29.000So I was curious about times in your life that God's called you to do something and how did you show courage?
01:01:35.000And also, anecdotally, I'm sure you guys have stories about Charlie many times with that.
01:02:20.000Yeah, I think for me, is if the Lord is genuinely calling you to something and you take that leap, Like, there is no looking back.
01:02:29.000Like, once you make the decision, you're all in.
01:02:31.000And you kind of have to constantly read your Bible, continue to pray, rely on the Lord, because the moment you stop doing that is the moment you start to detach yourself from your faith.
01:02:45.000And the moment you detach yourself from faith, you stop having faith in the mission that God put you on.
01:03:45.000Well, I was thinking he asked about Charlie, and I'd say what stood out with me about Charlie is certainly by the time I met him, which was late 2022, I feel, at least as I saw it, he was actually at this perfect state of almost maybe elevated serenity.
01:04:01.000I think Charlie was very good about, even in difficult times, he was a big believer.
01:04:08.000You create your own mental state and it's all on God.
01:04:11.000You didn't see him as much where he's like, Oh, I'm struggling, and you know, let's do a prayer to have God, you know, to remember what's centering us.
01:04:20.000It was more like Charlie, it's like it shone from him, it glowed all of the time.
01:04:25.000The faith I definitely saw him struggle at times.
01:04:30.000To Mikey's point, though, like Charlie did have that constant connection with God, like constantly reflecting back on his disciplines, on his scriptures, on his word to know that, like, no matter what was happening in his life, he did have that constant stream of.
01:04:45.000Of connection to the Lord, and that's what grounded him.
01:04:46.000And I also, you asked about courage too.
01:04:48.000I think back all the time to Charlie's podcast on the Ice Coffee Hour when they didn't ask him, when they asked him what he wanted to be known for, he didn't just say his faith.
01:04:59.000Like the willingness to tell other people about it and put it all on the line and say, this is the thing that I will bet my entire life on.
01:05:06.000And it's more than just, oh, I want to be known for having a strong faith.
01:05:09.000It's for being willing to do anything for that faith.
01:05:12.000And I would, he could pervade it, everything he did.
01:05:14.000I would just say, like Mikey, I remember a lot of instances where Charlie.
01:05:19.000Was struggling or was afraid, even especially in the early years.
01:05:25.000And he kept overcoming them and fighting through.
01:05:28.000And each time he would fight through a challenge, backs against the wall, all of a sudden it was like he got stronger.
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01:06:45.000All right, I just want to say one final thing about the final question.
01:06:51.000We have a few more we got to get to before the hour is up.
01:06:55.000You asked what our moments were, and really, like, I think we would all look around the room if.
01:06:59.000If I pose this question to them, but like when Charlie was killed, that was a moment where we all had to have courage and dig deep because it was awful and we didn't know what was going to come next.
01:07:11.000And I've told this story, I think I told it on Alex Clark's podcast, but like I literally had to like fall on the floor and repent because I just drafted behind Charlie.
01:07:21.000Charlie took all the slings and arrows, he did all the hard work, and we got to kind of like draft behind him and didn't have to host a show every day, didn't have to speak to students, didn't have to go speak at events.
01:07:32.000And that's, you know, and so I had to sort of repent and say, God, you know, whatever you have for me in this season, I guess I just have to say yes.
01:07:42.000And I love the way Mikey said it that you just have to kind of decide to go all in and just say yes.
01:07:46.000And so that was, you know, ultimately we watched Charlie go through that time and time again.
01:07:51.000And he got, like I said, he got stronger as he did it.
01:08:04.000So, first thing is, Danny said Andrew would have to wear a hat or a certain shirt today from a bet made one to two weeks ago.
01:08:12.000And Danny's supposed to be wearing the same thing, too, because something from a bet he made with me the following week after, Andrew lost.
01:08:54.000You guys have a winning percentage of 686.
01:08:57.000But hey, the Dodgers are 31 and 19, the 620 winning percentage, and we just took two out of three against the Padres, who are Shohei can't hit anymore, though.
01:09:22.000So, we're seeing a lot of talk online regarding ticks, just a higher increase in the United States, actually in North America.
01:09:31.000And we're hearing about the Lone Star Red tick, the Deer ticks.
01:09:37.000And how, like, 450,000 Americans have gotten bitten by Lonesar red ticks, which were genetically engineered from what people are saying by a former computer guy from Microsoft, and that they will infect you where you can't eat red meat and possibly dairy for the rest of your life.
01:09:55.000So the question is, why is nobody talking about this or looking into this?
01:10:11.000A paper that was published by two guys at Western Michigan University's School of Medicine, two guys, Parker Crutchfield and Blake Harrith.
01:10:22.000It was published in October of last year.
01:10:24.000And it was titled Beneficial Blood Sucking.
01:10:27.000And it was some medical ethics paper that basically said, suggested the idea that intentionally spreading that disease is called alpha gal syndrome.
01:10:36.000And it is an allergy you can acquire from a bite of that Lone Star tick, where it basically gives you an allergic reaction to red meat.
01:10:47.000Basically, it's a lot of animal products you suddenly have an allergy to.
01:10:51.000And they suggest, well, if animal suffering is bad, then, and we can reduce animal suffering by making everyone allergic to eating animals.
01:11:00.000We have the exact line was if this practice can be applied to ticks carrying AGS, promoting the proliferation of tick borne Alpha Gao syndrome is morally obligatory.
01:11:10.000Now, this does not prove anyone is intentionally spreading it, but if there are lib college professors writing papers about how it is morally obligatory to spread meat allergies, then what are you going to get out there?
01:12:22.000Real quick, I appreciate you letting me on.
01:12:23.000So, I think Spencer Pratt's a really great example of kind of how.
01:12:27.000Pop culture and politics are really starting to blur the lines.
01:12:29.000I know, like, President Trump did things.
01:12:31.000Heck, even my senator, Rick Scott, is putting out AI videos right now, which is kind of crazy.
01:12:36.000But, anyways, my question is so, like, where's that balance between needing to stick out with, like, this type of political messaging, which is obviously breaking through, versus, like, actually talking about legitimate issues and policy change?
01:12:50.000Like, I couldn't tell you what Spencer Pratt's background is outside.
01:13:49.000Instead of speaking like a career politician, he's speaking as an American who sees and deeply understands how fragile the simple things in life are when leadership fails.
01:13:58.000This is what this country is all about citizens willing to step into the political arena unafraid and challenging a failing system.
01:14:05.000Much like one that has destroyed Los Angeles.
01:14:08.000I hope moments like this inspire more Americans to throw their names into the mix, run for office, get involved, and stand up for what makes this country exceptional.
01:14:17.000What is a Chud and how is Spencer Pratt a Chud?0.99
01:14:19.000Oh, well, a Chud is basically a person the left doesn't like because they are too cool and they are not with it on all of their issues.1.00