Ask Us Anything 248: Marriage Standards? Extreme Democrat Rhetoric? National Unity?

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1:02and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers. All right. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. It is to ask us anything hour. If you want to participate in this hour of the show, go to members dot Charlie Kirk dot com members dot Charlie Kirk dot com become a subscribing member of the show. You guys are the lifeblood of the Charlie Kirk show always have been always will be. We want to hear from you and get your questions. This is the hour to do it. By the way, right before we get into questions, there is a new angle of the shooting in Minneapolis alpha news. We had Liz calling on the show on Monday. So alpha news. They got a new a new angle of that. We're going to pull that up. And just second team is working on it. It's very clear in this angle. Apparently that he was the ice agent was hit by the Honda pilot. So that is a new development. We'll get that in just a second. We're going to start this hour again. Members dot Charlie Kirk dot com with Anthony. Anthony, please unmute yourself. What's your question?

2:02Hey guys. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. So my question is this. So we see all these ice raids and, you know, going on Minneapolis, New York all across the country. And we see all the protesters. And we see how local and state and even federal Democrat politicians are talking like we hear the mayor and the governor of Minnesota. Many Apple say you must protest whatever and cause problems. Is there any Democrat at federal state or local levels that may say, we need to start coming to our senses and we might have to rethink this whole protesting in this because it's now it's starting to get out of hand. Is there any Democrat politician willing to do that or are they all just scared spineless communists? Federman, I guess. Yeah. That was good. That was my mind went to Federman. I feel like he's the only one that really is. He's the only one that says it. But I'm I don't want to say just anybody else.

3:04What's interesting one. Maybe there's a reason why what stood out to me was right. You always have these dynamics after an election. They lost bad last year. You had this almost abortive move toward skies. We may have let this get out of control. We need to go another direction. I think was it Seth molten who had that. Yeah, where he was trying to get them to back off on the trans issue. And they just they just lit him up about it. And I think you saw Gavin Newsom was starting to take gestures in that direction in his interview with Charlie. And they blew up at him really badly. And I don't think he's gone further on that on that one either. But certainly on this anti ice radicalism. I I really only see a one way ratchet about this. At least from lawmakers. And I don't know how much of that is deliberate recklessness or deliberate extremism. And how much of that is they're just afraid of getting lit up themselves. Or they don't even fully realize what they're doing. Like Tim Walsh as an example. Tim Walsh is just stupid. Tim Walsh is dumb. And so when Walsh says we're at war with the federal government.

4:10I saw that getting shared yesterday. I don't think he was literally doing a whole successionist. I'm going to go with the war of federal government. I think he was just using dumb words because he doesn't recognize the sort of situation he's in. Yeah. And the implication of saying something like we're at war. I kind of interpreted that clip the same way. I will say, you know, to Blake's point, there was this debate of which way the Democrat party was going to turn where they're going to be moderating their positions or where they're going to be radicalizing their positions. And it's very clear a year into the president president Trump's second term that they are radicalizing their positions at every turn and that the far left flank of the Democrat party controls that party. That's why mom Donnie is ascendant. That's why you see Democrat socialist mayors in Seattle, Chicago, New York. So for all intents and purposes, Jacob Frey is also one of these people in Minneapolis. Right. And they are controlling the party. And if you step out of line, you're going to take a lot of guff. And I will say, you know, when John Federman started speaking sense, which was one of the largest ironies of recent.

5:15It may be a little uncomfortable, but you don't want that sense. Like, ah, did he did like the brain damage from his stroke? Actually more conservative. Right. You want brain damage to make you dumb or not smarter. But in his case, I like to think of it as he was healing. He became more sensible. So, but the point is John Federman, a bunch of his staff left a bunch of, I mean, he took a lot of internal pushback that you don't hear a lot about, but he kind of took it on the chain and kept going forward. So kudos to him. And he's the last sort of prominent sensible Democrat out there that is socially, I would say probably, you know, left, I think economically left, but he's still a patriot. And I think that's the dividing line. And we've said it on the show before that you're either a movement that loves the country, loves what it was founded on, loves our heritage, loves our culture and has pride in it. Or you are somebody that ultimately thinks America is somewhat illegitimate or all the way illegitimate or it's all the way systemically erased racist and bigoted and oppressive.

6:16But, you know, that is the dividing line. It's really some of the, some of the people that you would consider conservative now aren't really even conservative. They are sort of just, you know, not woke, I guess, their team sanity, they believe in civilization still, they believe in law and order. And that's about the dividing line. It's a thing that is, frankly, it's made it tough to always articulate a conservative agenda on things because it often is just defined by people who don't like the left, at least in America. And also, I'll be frank, I would talk to Charlie about this. Sometimes the issue, the right has is, there's sort of low self esteem, if that makes sense. I don't know what the right term for it would be, but they are very eager to welcome people into their coalition, like if a celebrity shouts us out that sort of thing. And that can actually, it can make it a little too easy for you to get taken over by newcomers more or less. Yeah, I mean, listen, I think it's great to welcome newcomers, but you shouldn't have them, you know, teaching the class, right? They should be amongst the pupils in the, in the, in the desks, not at the front of the classroom.

7:24That's the dividing line. You just have to make sure that the people that are leading your movement have actually been tried tested and found true real believers, right? So Anthony, I don't know if that answers your question, but it does, it does appear to be, you know, the fact that we can't think of anybody, probably not a good sign. No, I agree. And I couldn't think of anybody in it just because I'll be honest, there was a protest at the border patrol in two, a town or two over from me and last night. So yeah, where are you based? Rochester, New York is the location. Yeah, all right. Yeah, it's, it's interesting because, you know, the far left of the Democrat party is definitely in control. And I don't really see right, you know, I, it's funny. I got into a little bit of a Twitter debate with somebody that was like, you have far left and Democrats are two different things. And it's like, okay, I guess, but, you know, who's really wielding the power? I'm not sure how true that is anymore. But anyways, we thank you is always Anthony great to hear from you.

8:25We've got Ian, Ian, unmute yourself. You are up next on the Charlie Kirk show. What's your question? Hi guys, how you doing? Doing well. Thank you. How are you? I'm doing well. Thank you for asking. I was down, I was down in Amphus. So it was great seeing you guys again. Awesome break. Yeah, my, my question is, how do we address the difference of perspective on this Minnesota woman being shot? It's, I just feel like both sides are seeing kind of what they want to see to an extent. I think there is an objective truth on what happened, but it's causing so much division. How, how can we as a country come together and move forward because I don't want this to become another George Floyd incident. And if we could also touch on the difference of reactions from Charlie Kirk's assassination recently to this Minnesota woman, you know, they're not holding a prayer vigil and, you know, coming together. So that's just my two cents on it. Well, and Anthony, I love the question. And because you're giving me the opportunity, I want to play this new angle. I have not seen it yet. This is 386 a new angle. I believe it's the police body cam that are the

9:31cell phone footage on alpha news, but it does, it looks like it could be body cam footage. It's a 45 second clip 386. We don't change our plates every morning. Just so you know, they'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later. That's fine. You have citizens. You want to come at us? You want to come at us? I think we'll get yourself some lunch, big boy. Out of the car. Get out of the car. Get out of the car. And that happened quick. President Trump walked into a catch 22 when taking office. Do nothing in America would be staring at a ticking debt bomb.

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11:43I, here's my hope, Ian, I think politically the left is captured by the activist base. I don't think there's any getting around that, right? So politically, they all have to, you know, tow the party line and say this is the casapo. This is the Nazis and these are mass vigilante thugs and their illegitimate police and they're not real. They're fake police like the Philly Sheriff said. But I do believe that mass deportations are popular. I believe that enforcing immigration laws are popular. And I think that ultimately you just have to press through the activist class. You just have to bowl through this. You have to keep going because this is a popular political movement. And yeah, there's going to be protesters going to be uprisings. I don't think you can find political common cause of these people. You just have to tell them the way it's going to be civilization will win, law and order will win. And ultimately you're going to have to you defeat them by winning. And I just think that it's gotten so hardened into our silos with the with the activist base, the left that that's just the only way through. I like to believe that the there is still a normal middle of this country that's more busy worried about the football game and about their golf outings on Saturday.

12:57And they kind of they're kind of checked out of the normal back and forth. And they just know that, hey, we have laws. You got to follow them. So that's my take on it. That's my hope is that we do have sort of still a rational center of the country. We last hour. We had Ken Calvert from California. You know, even in California voter ID lot, despite all the back and forth and the vitriol and the hyperbole from the left about it being racist or bigoted or whatever is still 68 to 71% popular in the state of California. So go figure. I don't know if you have anything you want to add to that. So the question was what can we do to bring the country together and the truth is there's not an easy answer to that because the idea of a strong united core in America has been greatly diluted by a lot of changes in America by demographic change. So there's not nearly the same sense of America as a shared country going back a great distance. A lot of people. If half the country doesn't even trace its heritage back to World War II, we could be at that point sooner rather than later.

13:59There's not that same sense of a shared society. And especially when there's been a long term political project to delegitimize the country itself and by extension, it's people. So it's very common to just basically take an attitude of total hate and delegitimization to Americans who are in middle America, who are in the South, all of that. And it just, it's very hard to have something come together. And you know, a lot of people have asked us to respond to that Jasmine Crockett tape where she was saying, oh, how do we react after Charlie shooting? I know how they reacted. A guy on his balcony across the street from us played another one bites the dust while people were trying to pray. I don't know how you unite the country with people like that guy works for the ACLU. And I think at some point you have to say we have to make sure we stand for something. It has to be an appealing moral message to people. And you have to hope that you can win people over to that. And that can become a national core that people can unite around. I think that is what Charlie was fighting for what Charlie was doing.

15:03He was planting the seeds for a future possibly decades hence the seeds of patriotism, the seeds of Christian faith, something that could appeal to a large number of people, including young people, and you hope the strength of that moral message is something that will win the day. But very truthfully, I don't see an easy way to get unity with people who are saying kill ice officers. I don't see how you can easily have unity with people who celebrate the murder of Charlie. I don't see how you can easily have unity of people who say the United States is fundamentally an illegitimate country and society. And I know that's a tough answer to give. But that's what I'm feeling. Yeah, no, I think you're right. I think I was really well said, Blake. And I, you know, I've reflected a lot on what Charlie was actually doing a lot. And what do you, you're, I think a thousand percent right that he was actually selling an image of America and a vision of America that was palatable to the, to the broad core to that 75% in the middle right probably middle right.

16:11But there was a, there was a huge audience for this. And we saw it with a billions and billions of views. He was reclaiming. It was like, so if you sort of think of what America is, it's an unbroken chain of generations that passes on the American dream, the belief in the experiment of America, the American Republic from generation to generation. And Charlie noticed that the chain was getting broken with Gen Z, millennials in Gen Z. And he went out there. And he, he put those chain links back together. Yeah, before we move on, I think we should actually to get at the difficulty here. We should a lot of people. This is going ultra viral. This clip. No, this clip of the woman who went to the Renée. It thought it was immoral. Let's play 382. So I mean, I'm just walking around kind of just a day side because I, I gotta, I was like, I don't know if it's the right thing to do. It feels kind of wrong being here in some way. I don't know why. I don't know. I don't know. Like, I mean, part of it is being like a white woman that I'm privileged and I have a lot of privilege.

17:17So I feel like white tears are not always something that's helpful or necessary when black and brown people have been experiencing this for a long time. This isn't new for them. And so I don't know if that makes sense. It's very difficult to unite to achieve unity with a person whose thought process is that cooked. And I feel bad for her because she's been taught to hate herself. She badly hates herself. She needs help. She needs love, frankly, but it is very difficult. It's the same thing where they say men can't have an opinion about abortion or whatever. It's like she feels like her opinion is illegitimate. I mean, it's a bad opinion, but you know, it's. Her opinion is illegitimate, but she'll still go on television to get interviewed about it. I mean, to that extent is truly, truly baffling. All right. Ian, did you have a follow up question? What I want to know is what made Charlie just such a good coalition builder from what you guys saw because I've been trying to talk to people just for TPSA faith side.

18:18And man, there's just a lot of roadblocks that come up. And I just it's like it almost gets discouraging. So what kind of roadblocks are you? If they're like always is TPSA still going to be the same without Charlie. They're like, oh, they're turning points causing division. You know, it's like, and I'm like the cause and the movement doesn't stop with with Charlie being gone. In fact, it's more people coming together, you know. I have a lot of I have a lot of opinions here. Ian actually. So a lot of these people that. Okay. So listen, Charlie deserved to be lifted up and praised and remembered in such a remarkable fashion because he was so remarkable. There's no doubt. But they're also whitewashing a lot of the road to get there. Charlie came under incredible scrutiny, incredible criticism. From the time I worked with Charlie, there was not a day that went by where where he was not being attacked by somebody on the right. By somebody that was, you know, part of this larger coalition that wasn't chipping at his heels wasn't I mean, I'm telling you that was just the norm.

19:27It was completely a situation where, you know, we have more I have more memories of people on the right attacking Charlie than I do people on the right praising him in his life. And then obviously when somebody is martyred the way Charlie was a lot of those people kind of put that aside. They said nice things, which is great. They should Charlie deserve that. But these are the same actors that were we're we're bubbling up before. So I, you know, I think there's just kind of a bit of a misremembering of of of the past. To the extent that turning point is so in division, like I completely disagree with that. These are again, these are the same people that see an opening we had Walter Kern on and he's, you know, he was talking about the vacuum and how some of these. I think negative actors kind of rush into the space like turning point has not done anything different than we did when Charlie was alive. We brought people together that disagree on different topics. Those people went on stage at Amfest. They let the world know that they had disagreements. But that wasn't something that we did. We didn't tell them to, you know, have a fight in public.

20:28That was the choice that they made from the stage at Amfest to do that. Now any other division, it's not like we're out there, you know, throwing ideological bombs on, you know, inside the movement here or there. It's literally, this is a bunch of people that are rushing into a vacuum. There is a little, there are issues that are fracturing the base, mostly foreign policy issues, mostly issues about Israel or whatever. And so we're not actually the ones responsible for the division. This is just inherent in a coalition, this big and this broad, and this, this rowdy. We have a rowdy group of people that make up the, the right of center. And our job is to just be a convening force and to allow the best and the smartest and the brightest to come together and have those conversations or, you know, in an election year, hopefully they get more focused and they attack the left. But, you know, we're not the ones really doing that. So I would disagree with that in general. And then the last thing I would say, Charlie became really good at this. He would just bowl through the objections.

21:28He would just put his head down, put a shoulder to the plow and do good work. And that's what we intend to do. And that's what we're going to keep doing. So I appreciate your backup on that. Just, just push through the objections. Just do good work. And ultimately, there's very few people in the conservative movement or any movement for that matter that do real work, that actually get the job done. And so a lot of people are going to have opinions. At the end of the day, there's only going to be a few left standing that are doing real work. We're going to be one of those organizations. And though that has a uniting effect when the, when the chips are down. So thank you for that opportunity. I don't know if you want to add anything. I kind of monologue their Blake, but Charlie was a humble person. I think that helped. That's a big reason he could build coalitions is he didn't take past arguments terribly seriously. And that's just very important because politics is constantly shifting coalitions. And there's, if you want to have a gripe with someone, there are endless reasons to do it. And you have to overcome that if you're going to be a coalition builder in politics, you have to be have, you have to have thick skin.

22:33And you have to have slick skin, things that just go off you. Yeah, well said. And I'd say that was a very strong talent of Charlie and something that developed over time. Yeah. Charlie was constantly improving as we talked about him improving in his faith as a family member. He was also improving as a politician as he aged. He was maturing. Think about it. Every single dollar you spend is either supporting your values or working against them in today's economy where you spend your money. It really matters. And that's how we take back our country. Patriot mobile is leading the way as America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. And you can switch today with out sacrificing quality or service, you'll get exceptional nationwide coverage because unlike most budget wireless providers, Patriot mobile has access to all three major networks. Or you can do what I do and you can add two numbers on two different networks on one phone, something the big guys can't even do. So stay connected with flexible unlimited data plans to fit your lifestyle and get high speed data, mobile hotspots, international roaming, device production, and even internet backup.

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24:46And then you get to be a part of this show. So please check it out. David, you are next. Hey, how are we doing today? Doing great. Doing great. Thanks. What's the question? My question is first of all, I want to thank you for having a Congressman Calvert for coming on talking about voter ID. My second statement would be, how do we get the rest of our. Our candidates, Brutten Center. So we know right now who to vote for for for the primaries because it seems like we're lacking. Are you in California, David? I'm in communist California. Okay. So you specifically asking how you can get your candidates front and center in California. Or yeah, probably in California, yeah. Because you talked about, I heard you talked about. That, you know, how do we unite the people?

25:47Some of these people we can't unite because they're not our clients. Sure, sure, sure, sure. So yeah, I mean, listen, I will say that. Congressman Calvert, he's probably going to be the Congressman in the 41st district, the new 41st district. And he's a guy that just has a great grassroots army behind him. He's been doing this since 1993 in the state of California. So he's probably going to win that race. He's going to be one of the few Republicans on a nationwide basis out of California that remain after Prop 50. So as far as, you know, by the way, that people don't realize how expensive a petition drive of that magnitude is. It's about seven million bucks so far. It's probably going to cost them close to about nine when they're all said and done just to get that very popular measure on the ballot in November 2026. And hopefully that does pass and they are able to withstand the negativity that's about to come their way when it is. Now regarding the midterm candidates, one, you're just going to see a lot of them here because we obviously give.

26:50We had Andy Bigs on as an example, just the other day, but you'll see more. They'll just Monday gradually. We're just going to gradually escalate how many of these people are shit. Wait, Jayfully, you see the. Is he quarterback? Yeah, he was or a kicker or something. Yes, some sort of sports. And if I go out, we're going to ask him. Man, I'm going to I'm going to have the doors back to Arizona. Yeah, another one. No, that's awesome. But and but you'll see more of them. You're going to primarily see them, of course, in the races we're most focused on Arizona because they're local. We can have them in and it's the state we care most about swing states generally. The swing races. We're going to be very fixated on those. But we reach further afield. We'll probably end up talking to some of the end of talking to some of these Indian Indian Republicans. We're going to have to have unseeding state lawmakers there. It's you'll primarily see the races were most involved in. But obviously we care about the races all over the country. And we'll be doing what we can to raise awareness for them. But you know, currently we haven't had primaries in most of the places. Yeah, I was going to say that's when you're going to you're going to see a lot of them.

27:52You stole my answer. The primary process 10. I mean, it's done best. It's supposed to be a sifting process, right? But but what ends up happening in a general sense is they spend more money. There's a lot more media spend. They raise money. You're going to hear about them more. They're going to be doing more media. So I mean, the geo local GOP state GOP in California is a pretty divided bunch. There's kind of the more moderate wing versus the more mega wing. And it's it's it's a mess. I'm not going to lie. Especially in California, it's a bit of a mess. So you got to do your best and be a consumer of the information and be deliberate. And then send us emails. Freedom at Charlie Kirk.com. We'll do our best to also listen to you. Especially if you remember where we we see your emails come through all the time. Trust me. So hopefully it was helpful. But you know, the strength of the candidate has to shine through. They have to shine through. They have to cut through the noise. That is the challenge of a candidate, especially in this media landscape. Julia, you're next here on the Charlie Kirk show. Please unmute yourself.

28:52What is your question? Hi. Can you guys hear me? Yes, we can. Yay. I'm so excited to be talking to you guys. Thank you so much. Welcome. Welcome. Thanks, Julia. So I wanted to ask you guys a question or two if there's extra time. But my first question is my family and I are from Canada. I'm from Canada. I'm from Canada and we ran from Canada in 2022. We were persecuted and we lost everything. Job schooling we didn't comply. So we were the outcast of society and ran legally. We came to the US. And I went to school for music and I graduated, I finished. And now it's now now, what, how can I stay and contribute to this amazing country? Not get sent back to communism basically. Basically, so my question is, what do you guys think about H1B visas? I had a company offer me one and I know that your show has talked about it a little bit. So what are your guys thoughts on that? So what we make of on H1Bs as a national policy, we've been critical of it because it's

29:54very clear in our opinion that H1Bs have been used. They've helped de-skill America. We've gotten companies addicted to an alternative way of getting workers so they don't need to train Americans as much. They can pay workers less. But obviously, that's us talking on a national level, on an individual level. We can tell you are a great addition like more people. We would love to have people like you and we would much rather have an H1B job go to you than to someone who will be a parasite, who will be a future daycare welfare entrepreneur or something. From the leering center. And so, if you have that opportunity, we will 100% encourage you to take it because that's, we have to always be reasonable of that. And you know, an individual good immigrant doesn't mean, oh, we should have open borders and a person who you could make a good use of an H1B doesn't mean we should have H1Bs as widely used as they are now or in the same way. But 100%, if you have a job that would require H1Bs, just because we are critical of that

30:55program doesn't mean you shouldn't take it. Yeah. And take advantage of your legal opportunity to use an H1B. And yeah, obviously, there's a difference between the macro and the micro. You're going to hear as criticize H1Bs from a macro, but as a micro, you know, individual level by all means pursue that, go with God. But yeah, I do hope the H1B program gets abolished entirely. I think it's been on the whole a very destructive policy for our country. What was your other question? For sure. Thank you guys. And by the way, I also agree with you, so I've been kind of like figuring out what I need to do next. My next question is, I do want to get married, and I've met a lot of people in Canada and in the US. I don't feel like I've missed my boat by any means. I'm very much with my family and the Lord with this, so I'm not afraid of anything like that. But a lot of the guys that I'm meeting at church down here, there's lots of guys, but they're very young and immature and they are not financially ready to have families

31:57and this kind of stuff. So I feel like as the days go by more and more, I'm looking for someone older who's already financially stable, who I guess is just more mature than me, and I can look up to them that kind of thing. So I know the way how well do you and where do you live? I'm 24 and I'm in Houston, Texas right now. Okay, continue. Okay. 24. You love it. And this is the boat. You're 24. But she said she didn't think she'd miss it. Yeah. Yeah. I've met a lot of people and I'm sure some people are like, what are you doing? But anyways, so yeah, I've met a lot of people and they're just, they're really young and I just want to meet someone who I respect, who's older than me, who I can look up to and I trust that they can take care of a family. So do you guys think that women these days just have to have a standard and like, we're part of the problem? Am I, I'm being part of the problem by having to have a standard or is my concerns right? If that makes sense. I don't want to talk too at length about this because I am not married.

32:58But I would say, especially at your age, remember that marriage is not, you're not getting married to a finished product. You yourself are not a finished product. An ideal marriage, you are growing together and you're spending your life together. So if there are men who are not financially ready yet, you should be able to use your mind and use a reasonable dating process to think, is this a person who will mature, who will grow into someone who can support a family and you can make that decision like if they're in school, are they studying a serious subject? Are they getting a job that has long term potential? You're in Houston. So a guy who's getting a job in the energy sector and he's getting a degree in petroleum engineering or in finance, that's very different from maybe a guy who's 24 and he just, he doesn't have a strong sense on what he wants out of life and you can tell he's not making long-term plans. So I think you can look for those with younger men and then you can still have reasonable

34:00confidence, especially if you are a good partner who is supportive that they will grow into a stronger person. I just throw that out there to say, don't be automatically dismissive of guys who are your own age just because they aren't worth $2 million and they don't own a house yet. And I've seen that, I guess, like I said, I'm not married but I've seen this in my own family. My sister got married while still in college. Obviously her husband was not wealthy yet or he's gone with you now but he was a serious person. He has a good job now and I'm confident they will be successful in the long term. He didn't need to already be super financially independent yet. That's what I would say but I should let Andrew talk about this because he's married. As the married guy on this, no, I actually don't have a lot to add. I thought that was a lot of wisdom there but like I, my wife and I got married when I didn't have two nickels to rub together and it was the best decision I ever made and I would also just say maybe it's tripe but you should find somebody that you're attracted

35:02to and that you love and that you share values with. My wife and I from a faith perspective shared our values and we prayed together and we went to church together and there wasn't, there was zero conflict on that and the other thing is we just like to do the same things a lot of the time. These are basic things that sometimes we can over think, do you like doing the same things? Do you like hanging out together and I think you marry that with, you know, pun intended with everything Blake said that are they a serious person? Do they have long term goals? Are they talented? Are they capable? Are they competent? You know, those people are going to are going to ultimately succeed. Some things going to break their way and opportunity is going to come up. So you know, you got to bet on somebody sometimes and, you know, young love can be a really beautiful thing especially when you have faith in common and values in common. So Godspeed, I'm sure it's going to work out for you seem like a lovely lady and somebody is going to be very, very lucky to snatch you up. So awesome. Thank you. This is Lane Schoenberger, Chief Investment Officer and Founding Partner of YRIFI.

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37:06Who's next? Who do we got here next? GG? GG. Please unmute yourself. What's your question, GG? Hey, so I really heard a lot from Charlie about his stress of just classic literature and lots of good things for just consuming. And I think he really cared a lot about today the problems that are just within storytelling, I guess, and just all entertainment culture. And people are just always consuming poison and thinking it's just brownies and stuff like that. So I'm wondering, what are just like the worst probably top three, probably just specific problems within the entertainment culture today? And for context, I mean, Charlie really inspired me in my time in turning point to I'm 19 starting a nonprofit myself right now. And it's literally called Create with Purpose because I just want kids and students to just like fight the incoherence in world use and try to get back to putting an

38:07instilling this godly world view and the values that are missing from all our stories and stuff. So yeah, I'm really wondering, just what are the top three, maybe things to really think about in getting students to change, I guess, in this culture? What are the worst most poisonous influences in entertainment culture today? I think it's, you know, you kind of touched on it, GG, but it's this moral cloudiness, the incoherence in the moral viewpoint of the secular left. I mean, there really is no up or down right or left. It's all sort of what do you feel? What do you make of it? So when you talk about this in education as well, you know, the root word means to lead forth. So you have to, in order to lead forth, you have to know where you're going and it has to be rooted in something transcendent, eternal, good, true. But if you don't know what the truth is, then you're just leading, it's the blind leading the blind. And ultimately, that is modern art, you know, in so many ways.

39:10Now the flip side of that is that the conservative right or the religious right tends to be pretty bad at art because they also close themselves off to a lot of exploration and creativity. And I really do believe, GG, that there is something about you have to know the truth in order to lead people to the truth. You have to be able to articulate with moral clarity, and this is one of the things that Charlie did so well. He had such moral clarity. It was the things that were not complicated for Charlie most of the time. And, you know, I would just say that, you know, you kind of have to marry a willingness to explore the frontiers of different ideas and be edgy while also knowing where you're leading people. And that's why conservatives sometimes struggle with bad art. And that's why liberals and progressives tend to make destructive art. And so the best forms and versions of that are with people with a moral clarity and a place where they're leading people to go. And I, you know, I would say look at the Bible, the best narratives in the history of the world that all come out of the Bible, the archetypes are biblical archetypes because

40:11they speak to something, you know, truly fundamental about the human experience. And so a lot of the best films and TV shows are essentially tracking on a character arc or a plot arc, what biblical narratives have done, right? The Exodus story is one of those, the hero's journey is another one of those. And so, so these are, these are the stories that animate the human soul. And I think we, you can use those as a foundation to then build other narratives off of. And I think most of the, most of the successful Oscar winners throughout the years, at least classically and traditionally have been essentially just a biblical narrative that has been adapted to some other context. Well done. I think we have two questions. Yeah. Still in queue. Let's get them through. Let's have Christine. Can you hear us? Unmute yourself. Well, thanks for having me on and thanks for all the amazing work you guys are doing. Thank you. My question is, I live in Oklahoma City. I'm a mom of three young kids and we just applied to two Christian Bible teaching schools

41:13for my oldest. And one of the things I remember Charlie talking about the most is how the greatest gift you can give a child is a Christian education from a Bible teaching school. And I think he went on to say, and to also know that there is a God and they are not it. And I think about that all the time when I'm raising, raising my kids. But my question is that the wait list for these schools just outnumber the amount of spots that they have. And so what can we do just as individuals or as a greater movement to ensure that every child, every parent who wants a Christian education for their child has the opportunity? Well, the merciful thing we have is we do live in a relatively free country. So especially in your state, I have to imagine it's easier than in most if you wanted to start a new one. I'm not putting it on you to say you should start a school, but ideally new schools do open to meet that demand because people do want these Bible, these Christian academies.

42:14The other alternative, of course, is there is homeschooling and such. I know that is also a lot to ask of somebody. But that has gotten easier than ever, I will say. This schooling 30 years ago was really challenging. You had to do it yourself in a lot of ways and it was associated with weirder people, not saying they are, but that was the association. Now way more people do it. There's endless resources online for every subject, so you don't need to be an expert on everything. There's Christian resources that you can use for every subject. You can have a Christian math textbook, a friend of mine used one for his kids. Well, can I just, of course, we're in a time. So I recently had to go through something similar because I had to move my family to Arizona. There was a wait list for the Christian school that we wanted to send our kids to. We toured like five or six of them and, you know, we just went and met with the leadership of the school and met with some of the teachers and they actually made space for us. And so there's always that option, you know, do a little old school politic and internally

43:15get, get, get in touch with them directly, face-to-face conversations, explain why you would be a value add to that community because schools want good people. They want good families, they want good parents. And so if they see in you the kind of people that they want, populating their community and their student body, they're going to try and make space for you. They really will. And then on that note, it's already funny because there's been two offshoots from the school that we're now a part of to Blake's point that are starting their own. One wants to go more of a classical education direction. One wants to go a little bit more smaller school class sizes. There's all these offshoots from the one to the school where we really are. We're blessed on the education front that public schools have gotten bad, but the actual options that are available to parents are better than ever. And in a lot of red states, you can now often, I don't know if Oklahoma's left it right now. Home-school families qualify for a thousand bucks. You get credit amounts of 5,000 to 7,500 per eligible student based on tuition fees. But also vouchers for private schools as well. That's what it is. Exactly. So our options are getting better and better. And so we wish you the best of luck with that.

44:19One last one here. One last question here. Yep. And we got Greg. Greg, please unmute yourself. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. What's your question? We got. Okay. First, you had a show that talked about a bill passed in 65 about limiting positions. I think Carmio was the- Great move. Carmio. Oh, yeah. The data guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think, did you bring that up to the Trump administration to see if they could change that anyway? Yes. Actually, I actually connected him with some people that are working on healthcare stuff. Okay. And I just saw how the windows into the admin. So which is great. That's good. Also, you talked about the 60 vote filibuster recently also. And I just saw Pete Ricketts from Nebraska, a Republican who said that that was part of the way the founders set it up to be. And I was like, really, these guys need an education. You guys need to get up there and get them right, man.

45:19Ricketts. What did he say? I missed the point. Apparently he said the founders wanted the filibuster to exist. Now he said- Well, these are rules that exist that basically go- but day back to, I think, the 19-12 or something- Not even that. I think really modern filibuster, as we know, is basically 40 years old. Yeah. And the concept of the filibuster evolved starting with a rule change in like the 19-12. I looked it up the other day. Anyways. You know, and we've actually been pushing Senator Lee's idea where you actually make them be on the floor. But apparently, even then, they could- the way that that rule is, I talked to some other senators, is that it's just on a single issue of a bill so you could invent infinity issues. Basically, it wouldn't fix the problem because you get through with one issue, they give up, and then they go into the next issue, and they do the whole process all over again. So it wouldn't fix the process. So you've got to sort of say the option that they're now looking at is maybe a limited

46:24nuking of the filibuster, but it's partial, and it would only apply to funding bills. This is their new idea- That's how it's really been, is so you used to have- you could filibuster Supreme Court nominees, they got rid of that. You could filibuster lower judicial nominees, they got rid of that. Now they'd be getting it. They're clearly chipping away. I suspect eventually the filibuster is going to die, and the matter is just who's going to do it, and are they going to be able to get value out of doing it? And that's why we've always talked about that. Don't nuked the filibuster unless you will get something useful out of it. Immigration, voter ID, those types of things. Thank you guys. That wasn't asking me anything. That's a good one. Lots of good questions.