00:02:08.000I want to thank Stephen for supporting us from Cincinnati.
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00:02:54.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:03:03.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:04:45.000At the end of the hour, I gave a very, I think, vanilla take, very kind of middle of the road, not very controversial take about how quitting when it's hard is something that is not an American value.
00:05:02.000And of course, I recognize and realize that people can have mental health challenges and problems in their own life, obviously.
00:05:11.000When you are in a gold medal match and you are considered to be the greatest gymnast of all time, which is probably true based on prior Olympic accomplishments, and you have been put front and center as the focal point of American Olympics, not just gymnastics, then I think competing when it matters most is something that is a no-brainer.
00:05:38.000So yesterday, I just made a couple comments about Simone Biles, and I think that the reaction to that, which I've been told has been quite a lot.
00:05:49.000I don't have social media on my phones.
00:05:51.000People came up to me last night at an event I was doing, Charlie, you're trending on Twitter.
00:06:20.000How dare you say that people shouldn't quit?
00:06:23.000So I think it actually warrants a deeper and thoughtful explanation and actually shows that Simone Biles and this entire situation is a microcosm of a macro trend that has set into our country, a political and philosophical trend, and one that is worthy of explaining.
00:06:46.000So first, let's just start with the Olympics.
00:06:48.000This is not just an athletic competition.
00:06:53.000This is a representation to the rest of the world of your values and your nation's values.
00:07:03.000Many of us grew up hearing the stories of Jesse Owens famously winning the Olympics in the 1930s and the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany refusing to associate with him.
00:07:43.000You see, the Olympics is not just about who runs the fastest and who could do the best gymnastics routine, of which I fully acknowledge is physically not just difficult.
00:07:59.000It's impressive what they're able to do.
00:08:03.000It's about what happens when it gets tough.
00:08:07.000You see, this current generation, the Simone Biles generation, she's only a couple years younger than I am.
00:08:14.000They have very little understanding, very little appreciation for how important the Olympics are.
00:08:45.000Are they going to be able to stand up if we have to go to war against that nation?
00:08:51.000You see, throughout Olympic history, we have stories of heroes like Carrie Strugg, who was also in gymnastics, and she won the very last run of competition with two torn ligaments.
00:09:11.000Now, before we get to that, let's just frame what happened with Simone Biles.
00:09:57.000You see, for the current generation that has been taught that America is trash, to believe that America is just garbage, then yeah, when she's wearing that team USA jacket, she doesn't, like, yeah, whatever.
00:10:28.000So it's okay sometimes to even sit out the big competitions to focus on yourself because it shows how strong of a competitor and person that you really are rather than just battle through it.
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00:16:25.000But I am saying, though, the BLM narrative that is anti-American at its core, that is critical of America at its core, why should she revere the Team USA jacket as she puts it on?
00:16:38.000If America's trash, then yeah, it's just all about having fun.
00:16:41.000But if you believe America's a gift from the Lord, like I do, that it's so special and beautiful in this republic is something that is exceptional and rare, that if I put on that team USA jacket, I would have to have a broken arm not to compete and whatever that would be.
00:16:58.000And I'm not the only one that feels that way.
00:17:00.000Someone who was also a gymnast, Carrie Strugg, she, I believe, she had two torn ligaments, and she still competed in one of the most amazing moments in gymnastics history.
00:17:14.000Now, some of the naysayers say, Charlie, that's just physical pain.
00:19:24.000Instead, she literally uses the word fun as if this is Saturday night out with the friends at a club in Beverly Hills.
00:19:33.000The Olympics is a short period in time when we see what nations are ready for tough stuff and what nations are on fragile footing.
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00:20:52.000She represents a nation of over 340 million people.
00:20:58.000The selfie generation, which is her generation, is narcissistic, all about one's own self.
00:21:06.000I would argue, and there are legitimate mental health issues, for sure.
00:21:11.000I would argue that one of the reasons we're seeing an increase in mental health issues, though, is the overemphasis on self-esteem and self-love.
00:21:19.000One of the reasons why generations prior did not have as many mental health issues, and there were plenty, but not as much as now, is that there was more of a commitment to duty and responsibility and a purpose bigger than yourself.
00:22:34.000Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda thought he'd be without NL MVP Kurt Gibson for game one of the 1988 World Series due to injuries to both legs.
00:22:44.000But Gibson told Lasorda he might have one good swing left as a pitch hitter.
00:22:50.000In the bottom of the ninth, down by one, with two outs and a man on, he limped to the plate looking to make a difference.
00:22:57.000Against all-star relief ace Dennis Eckersley, Gibson connected.
00:24:21.000The greatest basketball athlete of all time, who, by the way, also lost his father in this decade, might have been served a pizza intentionally full of poison.
00:24:34.000In fact, the way that Michael Jordan tells this story is that I think he was in Utah when this was being, when this happened, if I'm not mistaken, this was in the Utah, right?
00:24:46.000In the last dance, where he was hungry, and the pizza delivery people come up, and there's like five people that delivered this pizza.
00:24:56.000Michael Jordan eats the pizza, no one else did, and he gets sick.
00:25:00.000Michael Jordan, despite having body aches and throwing up worse than you could possibly imagine, reached a whole new level of sports excellence known as the flu game.
00:29:21.000NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre was very close to his father, Irvin, who coached and mentored the three-time MVP when he was a kid.
00:29:28.000Sadly, Irvin passed away unexpectedly on December 21st, 2003.
00:29:32.000Rather than sit out the following day's game against the Oakland Raiders, Brett Favre opted to play for his father on national television.
00:29:39.000How Brett Favre is going to be able to handle this, I have no idea.
00:29:46.000So under tremendous emotional duress, Brett Farrell goes for it.
00:29:52.000399 yards and four touchdowns for Favre in that one.
00:29:55.000America was behind him the whole way, and he performed in a way that would have made his late father so proud.
00:30:01.000Sports and athletes are obviously not the most important thing in society.
00:30:07.000But it is a temperature test of where your culture's at.
00:30:12.000Do you think the Chinese Communist Party is snickering and laughing at us right now?
00:30:18.000If we have to go to war with China, do you think that we would win?
00:30:26.000Do you think our nation is tough enough to stand up against the difficulty it would take to win an all-out conflict against the Chinese Communist Party?
00:30:36.000You see, Simone, talented athlete, but she imperfectly embodies what BLM and CRT teach.
00:31:16.000In the midst of quitting, it seems that someone has done the opposite, pulled off a huge upset in the Olympics.
00:31:23.000I just want to say we're getting a lot of interesting feedback.
00:31:25.000People are saying things that I didn't say.
00:31:27.000First of all, if you have any issue with what I'm saying about Simone Biles, actually go back and listen to what Simone Biles actually said.
00:31:35.000People are saying, oh, she was suicidal.
00:31:59.000I don't care about my portrayal of America to the rest of the world.
00:32:06.000For all of you listening, I encourage you to actually hold people accountable what they say, not what you think other people are saying about it.
00:32:13.000Listen again to what Simone Biles said about giving up and turning her back on America.
00:32:18.000So it's okay sometimes to even sit out the big competitions to focus on yourself because it shows how strong of a competitor and person that you really are rather than just battle through it.
00:34:14.000The rapid ascent of 18-year-old American Anastasia Zelotic continues all the way to the top of the podium in Tokyo, and she becomes the first American woman to win Olympic gold in taekwondo.
00:35:06.000We're supposed to go out there and have fun.
00:35:08.000That's not what the Olympics is about.
00:35:10.000Okay, Simone, that's what Saturday Night Live is about.
00:35:13.000When you go host Saturday Night Live, that's what that's about.
00:35:16.000When you go on the cover of Vogue magazine, that's what that's about.
00:35:21.000The Olympics is peaceful geopolitical combat.
00:35:27.000If it was just about having fun or competing, you'd just be wearing a team jersey on your back, or it'd say Team Simone.
00:35:34.000Instead, it says Team USA with the very same colors and flag that was raised over Iwo Jima, that liberated Berlin, that liberated South Korea, the very same history that won the American Civil War and was raised again on 9-11.