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00:01:23.000Blake is still on assignment, so we're holding it down here in Phoenix, Arizona, and there is much to discuss namely, do we have a peace deal or not?
00:01:33.000So, a lot has been going back and forth in the news media.
00:01:37.000Overseas, a lot of leaks coming out of the Middle East.
00:02:19.000But then the second big get is the Strait of Hormuz.
00:02:22.000So, again, this deal has been going on and being negotiated for weeks now.
00:02:28.000I was able to participate in sort of a high level call with some members of the press a few weeks ago.
00:02:34.000I'm told there was another one this morning.
00:02:36.000I was not on it, but I'm getting updates as we go, calling my sources.
00:02:40.000And they said it was going to take weeks at that point.
00:02:42.000They basically said, You know, it's carrier pigeons that you got to get into this supreme leader because they got them hidden in a bunker somewhere.
00:03:42.000Then over the middle of the night, there were leaks coming out of the Middle East.
00:03:46.000Talking about maybe cash being involved, talking about an immediate release of sanctions, easing of sanctions.
00:03:55.000Now, the White House, President Trump, JD Vance, out in full force, pushing back against that.
00:04:01.000President Trump calling these people and these leakers dishonorable, some of the negotiators dishonorable, throw up this Truth Social that just came out.
00:04:09.000He said the terms that Iran leaked out to the fake news have nothing to do with the terms that were agreed to in writing.0.89
00:04:15.000What they said, including their weak and pathetic statement on having a deal, bears no relation to the truth.0.96
00:04:21.000Very dishonorable people to deal with.0.98
00:04:23.000With them, there is no such thing as dealing in good faith.
00:04:38.000He said, I'm seeing a lot of fake information about a potential deal to reopen the Strait and end Iran's nuclear program.
00:04:46.000First, the Iranians are not receiving any cash.
00:04:50.000And that was clear a couple weeks ago.
00:04:51.000That was never going to be on the table.
00:04:52.000And no funds are being released for simply signing a deal or attending a meeting.
00:04:57.000The deal is structured to ensure that the U.S. and its allies' concerns are prioritized, and that if the Islamic Republic of Iran meets its obligations, Then economic benefits will flow to them and to the entire region.
00:05:11.000This deal has the potential to remake the region and lead to lasting peace.
00:05:14.000I've noticed a couple of bizarre things in the reporting over the last few hours.
00:05:18.000First, people who rightly said Donald Trump was a historic president a month ago are now criticizing a deal based on unconfirmed media reports.
00:05:26.000Second, people who say you can't trust a word said by the IRGC who apparently believe anonymously sourced social media posts.
00:05:38.000So I was trying to get a readout of this.
00:05:42.000Call this morning, kind of giving an update from a very high place source within the admin.
00:05:49.000There were a few that were apparently accurate.
00:05:52.000So, this is a tweet from Fox News, who apparently somebody from Fox was on this call, this briefing call this morning.
00:05:57.000It says a White House official says Iran has agreed to a performance based deal that would require major concessions before receiving any sanctions relief.
00:06:06.000According to the official, Iran's nuclear material would be destroyed and removed, its nuclear program dismantled.
00:06:13.000And none of its money released until it fulfills its commitments.
00:06:16.000And that is a repeat beat, I can tell you that when I've called in, asked for details, updates on how this is progressing, that seems to be a repeat beat.
00:06:25.000That they will not release any of the money, meaning the sanctions, easing of the sanctions.
00:06:32.000They're not going to get oil shipments out and money in until they fulfill its commitments.
00:06:38.000The official also said the Strait of Hormuz would remain open and Iran would agree to stop funding terrorist groups.
00:06:43.000So you got nuclear, the Strait of Hormuz.
00:08:49.000And by the way, you can always put sanctions back on.
00:08:52.000If they renege on any of these points, main point is, though, you get that nuclear, you get an inspection regime that's actually got a backbone and actually has the threat of force behind it.
00:09:05.000You got to understand, and we say it again and again and again, maybe you guys are annoyed at hearing it at this point, but you can always choose when to start a war, but you can't choose when to end it.
00:09:14.000So sometimes you're making lemonade out of lemons here.
00:09:17.000I'm not saying that's what's happening.
00:09:18.000I'm just saying, yeah, you want regime change.
00:09:21.000You want a regime that's actually acting in good faith.
00:09:24.000That was never going to happen as long as the IRGC and the Ayatollah and all these people remain in place.
00:09:30.000But that doesn't have to be our job to get rid of them, okay?0.53
00:09:33.000What we want is an end to nuclear and we want stability in the region.
00:09:36.000This is a step by step process that nothing's getting released immediately.
00:09:40.000They got to make good, they got to show good faith, steps in the right direction.
00:09:44.000It's a home run if they can get it, okay?
00:10:43.000I'm releasing new evidence of longstanding U.S. government funding of more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries.
00:10:51.000Now, these biolabs include labs in places like Ukraine, which could be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia Ukraine war.
00:10:59.000In fact, the intelligence community had previously warned that a U.S. funded biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to longstanding threats of Russian attack, seizure, or damage.
00:11:13.000Now, until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from you, the American people.
00:11:22.000Many of these U.S. government funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens.
00:11:32.000And in some cases, it included dangerous gain of function research with very little visibility or oversight.
00:11:45.000So we were told that this never happened.
00:11:47.000We were told it didn't happen in Wuhan.
00:11:49.000We were told these bio labs were a bunch of big conspiracy theories.
00:11:52.000I remember covering this with Charlie when this story first broke in 2022 and watching the social media posts and the clips get taken down because they were disinformation.
00:12:05.000Tulsi says it's all true and that some of these labs funded by the U.S. taxpayer internationally were doing gain of function.
00:12:41.000Now, President Trump clearly understands the serious threat dangerous gain of function research poses to the American people.
00:12:49.000And this is why he took decisive action over a year ago.
00:12:52.000On May 25th, 2025, he signed an executive order.
00:12:56.000To end federal funding of gain of function research around the world.
00:13:00.000Here at ODI, I issued new guidance to the intelligence community directing increased collection on these laboratories and facilities overseas.
00:13:10.000And we're already seeing the results of this increased collection.
00:13:14.000We're learning new details, for example, on clinical trials that are underway at these facilities and that are raising significant ethical, financial, and security concerns regarding the supposed public health initiatives and U.S. national security.
00:14:06.000Now, despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact that research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians and so called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, as well as entities within the Biden administration's national security team, lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of U.S. funded and supported biolabs.
00:14:32.000Not only did they lie, They threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.
00:14:38.000So, this release today breaks new ground as the information surrounding the existence, history, locations, and funding of these US funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by very powerful people.
00:14:50.000Odie and I will continue working closely with partners across the US government to identify exactly where these labs are and what pathogens they contain.
00:15:01.000She mentions Dr. Fauci, US funding, it's been obscured from the American public.
00:15:08.000And this is interesting because show this New York Times clip from the headline from that era.
00:15:15.000Theory about U.S. funded bioweapons labs in Ukraine is unfounded, says the New York Times.
00:15:39.000Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?
00:15:44.000Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of.
00:16:00.000So we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.
00:16:13.000Biden pardons Fauci, Millie, in the January 6th panel.
00:16:19.000A full and unconditional pardon for Dr. Fauci.
00:16:27.000Charlie used to talk a lot about Angel Studios and what they were building.
00:16:30.000And as you know, I've been a longtime fan of it for the same reason.
00:16:34.000So I wanted to share some of my favorite films and shows on Angel, and I put them all into one easy to use watch list.
00:16:40.000This is content that's actually worth your time, not just noise or recycled talking points, but stories.
00:16:45.000That go a level deeper and ask better questions.
00:16:48.000That's what stands out about Angel to me.
00:16:50.000They're willing to put out films and documentaries that don't just follow the usual script, especially when it comes to politics, culture, and the bigger conversations you and I should be having.
00:16:59.000So, on my watch list, you'll find picks that lean into those topics, but there are also solid options for family or just something meaningful to watch at the end of a stressful day.
00:17:08.000If you want to check it out, go to angel.comslash Charlie and take a look at the watch list I put together.
00:17:16.000You know, real quick here, we're going to bring in Dr. Paul Moreno in just a second.
00:17:20.000We're going to be talking about history, Carmelo Anthony, all that crazy stuff.
00:18:06.000Without further ado, I want to bring in our next guest, and that is Dr. Paul Moreno from Hillsdale College, William and Bernice Grukok, Chair in Constitutional History and Professor of History.
00:18:29.000So, we have been having this ongoing conversation about this fallout from the Austin Metcalf, Carmelo Anthony trial, which is a total tragedy.
00:18:41.000A young man lost his life who shouldn't have lost his life.
00:18:44.000But I want you to hear some of the reactions from some of the folks around the country saying that this is some big injustice.
00:18:55.000And it strikes at the very heart of our judicial system whether or not we can have a jury of our peers to find somebody's guilt or innocence.
00:19:41.000It was actually a pretty diverse jury.
00:19:42.000There were three African Americans who made it to, I guess, some sort of final stage, but they all said that they would struggle to convict a young black man.
00:19:53.000And now there's tons of video clips going around the internet, Dr. Moreno, that say, you know, don't do that in the future.
00:19:59.000If you're black, just tell them you can be fair.
00:20:02.000And it strikes it a very deep question Can we continue doing this?
00:20:11.000Well, the jury is an essential institution.
00:20:14.000It's one of the most important ones in the Constitution, although people don't usually look at it as a constitutional institution.
00:20:20.000But it really is, in some ways, the most democratic institution in the Constitution.
00:20:26.000It was sort of considered as like the lower house of the judicial branch, where the judges were sort of an elite aristocratic part of the judicial system.
00:20:36.000But the jury was a place where ordinary citizens in person could help administer the justice system.
00:20:43.000And there's a long history of that in the West, going back to ancient Greece and Rome and the.
00:20:48.000The English jury system goes back probably to the 13th century.
00:20:52.000During the ratification debate over the Constitution, when it came to Article III, the judicial branch, there was really more controversy about the jury and the way that the original Article III provided for juries.
00:21:05.000And that's the reason why the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments of the Constitution really are all about the jury as an institution.
00:21:11.000So the decline of the jury in American history has really been astounding.
00:21:18.000I think something like 2% of criminal trials ever reach a jury today, and like less than 1% of civil trials.
00:21:25.000So it really is almost a defunct institution in America.
00:21:35.000Is it just because so many cases get plea deals and they find settlements outside of the actual trial?
00:21:42.000Yeah, the changes in the criminal justice system have led to just routine plea bargaining.
00:21:48.000And also changes in the civil justice system, which have given lawyers a lot more opportunity to reach a settlement before you actually go to a jury.
00:21:58.000It's interesting that there's a guarantee to a jury trial in criminal cases, in federal criminal cases, in the original Constitution.
00:22:07.000And every state still has a criminal jury system, although they hardly ever use them anymore.
00:22:13.000But civil trials, you're not entitled to a jury trial.
00:22:17.000The Seventh Amendment, which says that in all cases where more than $20 is at stake, You're entitled to a jury has never been enforced.
00:22:24.000The states can waive that if they want to.
00:22:27.000Yeah, I mean, so I guess, like, my question is is that a bad thing that more cases are getting plea deals and settlements are reached before reaching the trial phase?
00:22:38.000Yeah, most people in the criminal defense part of the justice system think that it is, that more people are being punished for things that they didn't do at all, that especially if you can't afford a good lawyer, you're going to be taken advantage of by the system where you have just sort of very quick and summary.
00:22:56.000Justice because there's just so many cases.
00:22:58.000Yeah, you know, I look at this case, Dr. Moreno, and I think they should have pled out.
00:23:04.000The facts were such, they were so stacked against this kid.
00:23:08.000I mean, he shouldn't have been carrying the knife in the first place.
00:23:12.000He shouldn't have been sitting under the tent.
00:23:13.000He was asked 15 times by some eyewitness accounts to leave.
00:23:17.000He wasn't ganged up on, he wasn't assaulted.
00:23:21.000He was ultimately, I think, a little shove is what I heard.
00:23:31.000This jury, though, was made up of apparently it had an Asian, Hispanic, Indian, or Middle Eastern individuals, three racial minorities among the 12, more and with more diversity, including alternates.
00:23:47.000Like I said, there was no black jurors on the panel.
00:23:51.000Prosecutors struck all qualified black prospective jurors, citing reasons like them being educators or other non racial factors.
00:23:58.000I can't, i.e., I can't put somebody that's black in jail would feel bad about that.
00:24:03.000And the question I think, or the heart of the question, Is what are the underlying elements necessary to have a jury system that will actually be fair, that will apply the law and not tribalism?
00:24:19.000And that is the question I think a lot of us are asking in our current demographic makeup, with all the racial strife, the racial animus, with all the immigration that we've had over the last 40, 50 years, are we still able to do this in an impartial way?
00:24:37.000Well, that's one of the things a jury was meant to do is to be a way of enforcing sort of the norms and the values of the local community.
00:24:44.000And when you have communities that are so divided as Americans are today along racial and other lines, as you say, it becomes a lot more difficult to do that.
00:24:51.000Then jury trials become a way of people reaching results based upon those racial or other sort of status factors.
00:25:00.000People are going to think now, I mean, the last high profile case like this, people would think of the O.J. Simpson trial, the Rodney King trial.
00:25:08.000If you go back to the 1950s, The shoe was on the other foot.
00:25:11.000It was the Emmett Till trial, where an all white jury very quickly acquitted some whites who, obviously, I think, after the fact they confessed, had lynched this young black man.
00:25:23.000And so this has been going on for a long time in American history.
00:25:27.000During the Reconstruction period, the unwillingness of blacks to serve as jurors, because it wasn't regarded as a right, a civil right, to serve on a jury was considered a political right, like voting or holding office, because Serving on a jury is really holding an office.
00:25:45.000So it wasn't until the 15th Amendment that that came about that Congress struggled with ways to make sure that blacks could be able to get justice from all white juries in the southern states.
00:25:56.000And a lot of northern states, which didn't allow blacks the right to vote or serve on juries until the 15th Amendment.
00:26:32.000In the 1980s, I think the Supreme Court said you can't use race as the reason for striking a juror.
00:26:38.000And that's why in the selection in this case, they're saying, well, it wasn't for race, it was for other reasons.
00:26:44.000Some of which were, I mean, if these jurors whose potential jurors said that I can't be unbiased about this, I got to give them credit for their honesty.
00:26:53.000And for, you know, if people really can't believe that a jury of a particular race can do justice when the defendant is of another race, I don't know how wide that sentiment extends and how often high profile cases like this would come up.
00:27:10.000But as I said before, it's not the first time in even recent history that we've had a high profile racialized.
00:27:19.000Well, I certainly hope that this does not become a massive trend because, you know, I hope this tension dies down.
00:27:27.000To me, this was egregious in many ways.
00:27:31.000The facts were completely stacked against him.
00:27:36.000And I think the jury made the right decision.
00:27:38.000And I don't actually understand the controversy, other than there's a lot of bad actors that are working in bad faith out there that want to sow discord, that want to just malign the system.
00:27:50.000In this instance, the system did what it was supposed to do.
00:28:07.000The other factor is this is Texas, and if Texas is a death penalty state, and if the charge here is murder, then there are a lot of people who have compunctions about convicting people for murder.
00:28:18.000Whereas, and this is kind of a plea bargaining thing, if you reduce the charge to manslaughter with a prison term, more people might be comfortable with that.
00:28:26.000English juries, until England changes criminal laws in the 19th century, every felony was punishable by death.
00:28:33.000And so you had a lot of juries that said, we're not going to convict just because we don't think you deserve the death penalty for picking someone's pocket.
00:28:39.000I'm going to play a clip from Pete Boot Edge Edge and get your reaction to it on the other side.
00:29:14.000So now you see what's happening here.0.79
00:29:16.000It's not just delegitimizing the juries, it's not just delegitimizing a verdict in a very clear case involving Carmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf.
00:29:28.000Now we got to talk about the Supreme Court.
00:29:40.000Well, I just read today that the Trump administration is really taking on the disparate impact standard of discrimination.
00:29:49.000That's really what all this voting rights controversy is about.
00:29:52.000The idea that enforcing the 14th and the 15th Amendment is about racial proportionalism, that we assume there's discrimination unless blacks or whoever are represented in proportion to their percentage of the population in every field of human life.0.54
00:30:08.000And the Reconstruction Amendments were never meant to do that.0.61
00:30:11.000Congress Overstepped its bounds, I think, in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and in the Voting Rights Act.
00:30:18.000And the court went along with that in the 1960s and 70s.
00:30:22.000And now the Roberts Court is beginning to, I think, contain some of these excessive interpretations of the Reconstruction Amendments.
00:30:30.000So the court is, I think, right now trying to undo some of the bad decisions that it made in the past.
00:30:38.000And I think it's completely right for them to do that.
00:30:42.000I love what you just said, Dr. Moreno.
00:30:44.000For a number of reasons, namely, Charlie felt the same way.
00:30:47.000I mean, Charlie was very, Charlie said it very bluntly that he thought that some of the Civil Rights Act was a mistake and he took a bunch of incoming for it.
00:30:55.000It's not that he didn't, you know, support the intent, but what he was talking about was this excessive maybe language within the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act that they're correcting now.
00:31:08.000But talk about a little bit more detail because I really want the audience to absorb this disparate impact.
00:31:15.000What is it and why has it been misinterpreted?
00:31:19.000And then you said Section 7 of the Civil Rights Act.
00:31:54.000Exactly, and that was the most controversial part of the Civil Rights Act, and that's what most people thought the Civil Rights Movement was all about.
00:32:00.000Title VII is about employment and private discrimination.
00:32:03.000It wasn't part of President Kennedy's original proposal for the Civil Rights Bill, it was put in by congressional liberals.
00:32:10.000And there you can make a constitutional argument that that really goes beyond Congress's power to regulate commerce among the states.
00:32:18.000But even if you accept that justification for Title VII, the idea that discrimination is proved on the basis of statistical disparity, this is the disparate impact standard.
00:32:27.000That is just, I think, a bridge too far.
00:32:31.000Because when the Civil Rights Act was being debated, almost everybody said discrimination is defined here as it was always understood an intentional act treating somebody differently on the basis of their race.
00:32:43.000And now it has become not about individuals, not about treatment, it's become about equal group outcomes.
00:32:50.000Justice Scalia referred to the interpretation of the Voting Rights Act as a racial entitlement to a certain proportion of elected officials.
00:33:33.000About seven months later, it signed into law.
00:33:35.000And Lyndon B. Johnson, I mean, this was a huge initial effort for him to win black support, to sort of, you know, and they pitched to the country a mourning country, a devastated country, as a way to sort of fulfill JFK's memory and legacy.
00:33:52.000And you made that point that it was liberals within the Congress, the progressives in the Congress, that packed it full of all these other things that weren't originally part of his vision, namely Section 7.
00:34:03.000With this proportionate representation, proportional entitlement.
00:34:07.000These are these little history nuggets that get lost, but they're extra constitutional.
00:34:13.000They're very against what the foundations of American society are.
00:34:19.000So it's good that the Roberts Court is actually addressing these things, but obviously progressives are losing their minds about it.
00:34:25.000But it's so important that our audience understands the history of how we got here and what it's going to take to correct a historic wrong.
00:34:33.000Yes, in fact, that goes back to because John F. Kennedy was very reluctant about taking on the civil rights issue because Southerners, Southern segregationists were sort of at the core of the Democratic Party.
00:34:43.000They chaired all the important committees in Congress.
00:35:05.000So you're right, the assassination of John F. Kennedy really was the turning point, but that event had to be told in a certain way to sell the connection.
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00:37:12.000And by the way, most of the time we do these, one of the clips ends up going viral for good or bad reasons, but that's kind of part of the fun.
00:38:23.000So it's got very limited ability to impact Trump's ability to prosecute the war or not.
00:38:30.000It's mostly viewed as a symbolic gesture, a symbolic rebuke.
00:38:34.000It passed, I'm looking here, 215 to 208.
00:38:37.000Four Republicans, Thomas Massey, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Barrett, and Warren Davidson, joined the Democrats.
00:38:43.000And in its language, it sort of says, hey, you got to withdraw your American troops, U.S. troops, from hostilities with Iran unless we declare a war.
00:38:55.000A lot of people think it's unconstitutional.
00:38:57.000The Senate has advanced a similar measure, really, really narrow margins.
00:39:04.000It doesn't have the weight of law behind it.
00:39:05.000Essentially, it doesn't go to the president's desk to sign or to veto.
00:39:10.000So it's limited real effect on Trump's powers.
00:39:13.000But I would also add another point is that the individual most, it seems, consumed, obsessed with getting peace and finding a resolution to the conflicts is the president himself.
00:39:24.000So I'm not sure what they were trying to sort of communicate here.
00:39:28.000I mean, the president has spent the last two days trying to get the peace deal with a very difficult negotiation over the finish line so that we can open the strait, we can remove the blockade, that we can get the nuclear dust, that we can ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon again.
00:39:44.000And again, I was not in favor of going in.0.78
00:40:11.000JD Vance is very behind him and is working tirelessly to get it done.
00:40:15.000So, I don't know what the House and the Senate were trying to get accomplished here other than trying to hamstring the president in the middle of a high stakes negotiation.
00:40:23.000Yeah, it seemed like a dumb thing to do to me as well.
00:43:04.000And we want the Save America app passed.
00:43:06.000So, you have to prove your citizenship, you have to prove your identity, you have to show an ID.
00:43:11.000All of those things are very important.
00:43:12.000Until we get there, especially in places like California, especially for mayoral races and gubernatorial races, which they could still mandate whatever rules they want because that's the dividing of the powers here in the United States.
00:43:24.000What the Save America Act will affect federal elections, right?
00:43:27.000So when you're voting for president and Congress and all this stuff.
00:43:31.000So there's going to still be problems at the state level, regardless of what we do.
00:43:35.000California does have a signature verification or a voter ID resolution that's going to be on the ballot in November that does seem to be popular with.
00:43:44.000So, we're going to work to help get that passed.
00:43:47.000And I think that's going to add some wind in the sails.
00:43:49.000But Charlie used to say this all the time, and Danny and Daisy will remember this that the movement is too big to fit into one day.
00:43:54.000So, when we tell you vote early, what we're saying is don't get on election day and realize you're sick or get a flat tire or something, some emergency comes up and you don't get a chance to vote.
00:44:59.000So I'm always worried about it, so I always vote in person.
00:45:01.000Listen, and you're not wrong for being suspicious.
00:45:04.000I mean, we had Bill Asale on the show, you know, the first assistant U.S. attorney to Central District of California, and he said that the fraud is just baked in.
00:45:13.000The fraud, it's structural fraud, and it needs to be dealt with.
00:45:16.000It needs to be litigated, it needs to be prosecuted.
00:45:18.000There's only so much he can do when the system is so.
00:45:21.000Screwed up when you have mass mail in voting and lax ID or no ID, that's all they need.
00:45:42.000Uh, we've just been busy in North Carolina.
00:45:46.000Uh, you know, it's having come from Minnesota, it is just a little bit surreal that we have a sports team here that's actually in the finals.
00:45:55.000So, um You know, that's been consuming a lot of our time.
00:46:02.000My question is Amy Klobuchar is announced that she's running for governor of Minnesota, and she's announced her running mate as the former mayor of our hometown, Fergus Falls, Ben Shire.
00:46:15.000And I don't know if you guys have been paying attention.
00:46:17.000Maybe Blake is, but he's not here today.
00:46:20.000But we're wondering if you think that they picked Ben Shire because either he's buddy buddy with Tim Walz or because Fergus Falls just Made it on the map because they're the home of the American Idol runner up, Chris Tung Seth.
00:46:39.000I don't know about this specific story, but I would be more inclined to lean towards option one because I think that American Idol is heavily on the decline.
00:46:50.000I don't know if you saw there was a winner from a couple years ago that was the winner, not even the runner up, and went back to busking in the subway in New York City to pay rent.
00:49:03.000They own and operate two small businesses in downtown Fergus Falls Union Pizza and Brewing Company and Toast, which I think is another sort of restaurant.
00:49:55.000North Carolina is a funny red state in the sense that it has a lot of, you know, I think it's like a Democrat governor, Democrat attorney general.
00:50:07.000Trump won it all three times, but it's just a funny state.
00:50:12.000New Hampshire's kind of like that, where you get.
00:50:36.000My question would be What would you say to someone who really wants to travel to Amfest this year but has never been to a turning point event before?
00:51:28.000It's a great event for all ages, but I would say the young people that show up and support make friendships that last forever.
00:51:36.000There are so many cool experiences, booths you can visit, and You know, we do podcasts there, and yeah, I think you would have a really great time.
00:52:33.000And TikTok has always strived to build the kind of place that thrives on respectful connection, where curiosity fuels connection and we can share what's on our minds and learn from each other.
00:52:43.000When ideas meet respect, good things happen.
00:52:45.000On TikTok, you can find a mechanic explaining the why behind a problem most of us wouldn't even know how to name, or a father sharing a lifetime of knowledge with his viewers.
00:52:54.000Viewers who listen, discuss, and then they respond.
00:52:56.000TikTok turns connection into community through small acts of understanding.
00:53:00.000You can feel it in the comments, in the thank you from a stranger halfway across the world.
00:53:05.000TikTok is a place where respect opens the door for discussion, and discussion helps us build something real.
00:54:17.000She had not even heard about this story.
00:54:20.000Until Wednesday, one of my other co workers was talking about it, and she was like, Oh my, what's this?
00:54:25.000And oh, well, this one boy stabbed this other boy, and oh, that's horrible.
00:54:30.000Well, then when she found out that one of the boys was black, she immediately took his side, began making excuses for probably why he did it.
00:54:38.000The other boy was probably saying something racist to him.
00:54:41.000Some people don't even know they're racist, it's just the way they're raised.
00:57:29.000I don't know why he was so intent on being under there.
00:57:32.000But then it was a slight shove, instantly killed him.0.71
00:57:35.000Instantly stabbed him right through the heart.
00:57:37.000Well, and you can also ask your friend just a simple question why do you think it was right that Carmel Anthony was carrying this knife around at this track meet and so easily willing to just pull it out and stab somebody right away?
00:57:50.000By the way, if he was just trying to get free from this really aggressive group, which doesn't sound like it was aggressive at all, why wouldn't he just pull it out and say, don't mess with me?
00:58:01.000No, he pulled it out and he kept saying, you touch me and find out.
00:58:07.000You know, shivved him right in the heart.
00:58:09.000It cut him so deep that it cut through the bone and cut his heart.
00:58:13.000He bled to death instantly in his brother's arms.
00:58:17.000Like, this should have, I mean, at the very worst, this should have been a little like fist fight at a high school fist fight, which happens.
00:58:25.000But you don't pull out a knife instantly and, you know, murder somebody.0.77
00:58:30.000And there's a broader problem here the fact that, like, the media and the Democrats are brainwashing black people in this country so badly to think that when.
00:58:39.000A murder happens, you don't know the details, you side with obviously common sense.
00:58:43.000The person that murdered somebody's obviously in the wrong.0.92
00:58:46.000But then you find out they're black, and because you're brainwashed so badly, you then think the black person has to be the victim, even though they literally were the murderer and killed the victim.0.98
00:58:57.000And so there's a broader problem here, and we see this with the BLM, but it's still, even though BLM is calmed down, we still see this among black people.0.98
00:59:04.000The damage really is already done, and it's already baked in the cake.0.99
00:59:09.000That they really, the victim mentality is a real problem right now.
00:59:12.000Yes, you will be miserable if you are constantly a victim.
00:59:15.000And like you said, it's so obvious to read this story and hear about it and know what happened.
00:59:20.000But like you said, you do want to keep your friend.
00:59:22.000Like you believe this person is well intentioned.
00:59:25.000And it can be kind of abrasive to go back to someone and be like, well, actually, here's what happened.
01:00:12.000But apparently there were like three qualified that made it through all the other steps.
01:00:17.000And they were rejected for reasons like they were educators, and that is apparently fair to do.0.91
01:00:24.000And there were other black folks that were trying to get on the jury that said, I don't think I can condemn a young black man, I don't think I can find him guilty.1.00
01:00:34.000And they were rightly dismissed because you can't have a jury if they're just going to vote along tribal lines.0.54
01:00:49.000And if you're not able to do that, then that's a problem.
01:00:52.000And there's just so much misinformation, by the way, going on around social media about he was self defense, that Austin Metcalf basically impaled himself when he came out.
01:01:22.000By the way, there's a lot of black people on social media that are saying really good things, actually, and most of them tend to be Christians, and they're pushing back against this narrative.
01:01:34.000So maybe find some of those clips and share them with your friend if it feels appropriate.
01:01:37.000But you are living proof that her victim mentality or this instant instinct to assume guilt or wrongdoing on behalf of the jurors or the prosecution or the judge.
01:02:12.000You guys are the living embodiment that this racial strife and animosity doesn't exist, that she doesn't need to feel instantly victimized.
01:02:42.000I mean, it reaffirmed some of what I was already thinking.
01:02:46.000I don't know that it's going to be really easy to get her in a place where the others aren't around because I don't want her to feel like she's being ganged up on.
01:02:54.000The others of us feel the same way, but she doesn't.
01:02:58.000Yeah, but maybe you don't need to do the conversation like tomorrow.
01:03:01.000Maybe it's a month from now, you know, when the tensions are less.
01:03:06.000I think just ask good questions, and your role as a friend is just to help her think through these things critically.
01:03:12.000And just let her know that you're her friend.
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01:05:19.000These are actual SpaceX employees, like cafeteria, cooks, janitors, all this stuff.
01:05:23.000And in exchange for taking a little bit less, they get stock options.
01:05:27.000They get this really kind of broad equity sharing model within SpaceX.
01:05:33.000And so all the cafeteria workers are basically anybody that took advantage of those stock options, which I'm sure is going to be the vast majority of them because it was an obvious call.
01:05:43.000They're all millionaires now, which is amazing.
01:05:47.000So, I mean, a lot of them probably were able to exercise these options probably around like 20 to 30 bucks.
01:05:53.000And now the stock is trading at what, like right now, it's like 170.
01:05:57.000170 175 or so, even if they had a pretty small amount of stock, uh, they just made a lot of money.
01:06:03.000And yeah, estimates have it at about 4,400 current and former SpaceX employees will become millionaires from the IPO.
01:06:12.000And this group explicitly includes cafeteria workers and other hourly and support staff.
01:06:21.000In the space, normally these people don't get stock options, you give stock options to like you know your managers, your you know your contracts.
01:06:29.000When you do a contract with an actual Salaried employee, you get stock options as part of that package.
01:06:37.000So, I just think it's great because, you know, everybody goes, you know, AOC, tax the rich, you know, too many billionaires, Elon's evil, all this stuff.
01:07:33.000My question is how can I talk with friends who are very, very, Politically disengaged, even though they're super conservative.
01:07:44.000I've grown up and been very blessed to be surrounded by a very close knit Christian community.
01:07:52.000We've all been at the same church since we were babies, worked at the same companies, everything.0.66
01:07:58.000But I think, kind of in part because of that, we are so insulated from everything that goes on outside that if I That, like, no, none of my friends would even know that transgender maybe even is a thing, except for we see these weird, like, blue haired, funny looking people in Olympia, Washington.0.65
01:08:21.000My, none of my friends would ever consider anything like an abortion.
01:08:27.000But then over the last year, like, ever since President Trump launched his 2024 campaign, I don't even really remember why, but I started really getting into it.
01:08:37.000And then watching Charlie's videos, I was like, whoa, this is really important.
01:08:45.000But when I talk with my friends about it, they're like, yeah, I don't really care about that at all.
01:08:52.000And so I just want to, I'm like, hmm, how do I talk with them without just coming across like, oh, this is Kathy Rose's spiel and actually really genuinely catch their attention?
01:09:06.000Well, you are basically, it sounds like you're dealing with a low propensity voter problem, which is what we do over at Turning Point Action, right?
01:09:15.000So, our whole program is designed to get you and your friends out to vote because we know that you're ideologically aligned, that you believe all the same stuff, but for some reason you are disengaged.
01:09:26.000And by the way, I think about 25% of evangelical voters in the country don't even vote.
01:09:32.000So, it sounds like this is your friend group, which is not good because, you know, especially, you know, they used to say this all the time in the pulpits like, don't politicize my Christianity.
01:09:43.000Well, don't politicize my religious experience.
01:10:16.000And then we bring cookies and we do, you know, Barbecues in the park, and you build up something called social guilt.
01:10:24.000It's actually a thing that they've studied where, when it comes time to vote, they feel kind of obligated because you've been so devoted to getting them nicely, nicely again.
01:10:33.000You want to be like kind of the mayor of when it comes to this?
01:10:37.000You've been nicely encouraging them, nicely reminding them, nicely telling them about how important it is to get engaged in your civic process.
01:10:45.000And so when it comes time to vote, they feel an obligation to sort of make you happy and kind of make good on their end of the deal.
01:10:54.000We really have to get to the next question, but I did just want to say that goes back to the conversation we were having with Kyrie about so much of being a good friend is asking them questions and forcing them to think about these things.
01:11:03.000Because when we all have common sense and think of right versus wrong, it's easy to think, oh, this is obviously right.
01:11:43.000But another thing is just look at this morning with Tulsi Gabbard, the wins and stuff that would have never happened under a liberal administration.
01:11:51.000And just you have to show them that stuff's actually getting done.