The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 102: Obama The Philosopher King? Heard About Johnny Depp? What’s Up With Hegel? And MORE
Aired: 2022-04-25
Duration: 34:03


=== Ask Me Anything Questions (01:58) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody.
[00:00:00]  Happy Monday.
[00:00:01]  It's an Ask Me Anything episode.
[00:00:02]  I take your questions.
[00:00:03]  You've emailed me freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
[00:00:06]  What is a Philosopher King?
[00:00:08]  Is Obama in charge?
[00:00:10]  And also, I get a question of Charlie, where do you get all your energy from?
[00:00:12]  Well, I answered that at the end of the episode.
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[00:01:36]  Charlie, I think it's all very silly, but Fox News was going crazy with Johnny Depp and the Amanda Heard trial.
[00:01:41]  Who do you think is to blame?
[00:01:42]  I think Johnny Depp obviously seems like a Hollywood type, but it's a lesson for men in this to avoid black widow traps like Harry and Megan, etc.
[00:01:50]  These women just chew up and spit out these powerful men.
[00:01:53]  I have no idea who Amanda Heard is.
[00:01:55]  Allegedly, people think she's a celebrity or something.

=== Mask Mandates in LA (09:02) ===

[00:01:58]  I don't know.
[00:01:59]  And every time I see Johnny Depp, I think he's Captain Jack Sparrow.
[00:02:03]  So that's all I have to say about that.
[00:02:06]  Okay, next question here.
[00:02:08]  So this one is about mask mandates and what is going on in Los Angeles.
[00:02:13]  This one is from Quinn in Iowa.
[00:02:16]  Charlie, what is going on with the mask mandates in LA?
[00:02:20]  I'm traveling there in a couple weeks, and I'm very worried that I'm going to have to wear a mask.
[00:02:25]  Thanks so much.
[00:02:26]  So yes, Los Angeles is now reinstituting mask mandates because the science can change so quickly.
[00:02:33]  Let's play Cut 105, new transportation mask mandate back into effect.
[00:02:38]  Play Cut 105.
[00:02:39]  Well, Pat, basically, if you plan on traveling by plane, train, or automobile, at least in a public setting, well, you're going to need one of these again because starting at midnight, the mask mandate will go back into effect for those public transportation settings.
[00:02:54]  The mask mandate is back.
[00:02:56]  What is the purpose of the mask mandate?
[00:02:58]  And especially, what is the purpose of the mask mandate for children?
[00:03:02]  Candace Owens made a very profound point at our campus tour together where she said, Look, when we look at China, we ask the question, why won't they rise up?
[00:03:13]  Why won't they push back against the tyranny?
[00:03:17]  One of the reasons is that the children of China, or even the adults now, have no memory of freedom.
[00:03:24]  They have nothing to fight back for.
[00:03:26]  When you don't have a memory of something, then there really isn't a reference point.
[00:03:30]  They want an entire generation to be raised without any form of a memory of freedom.
[00:03:35]  This is exactly why they're putting masks on children.
[00:03:38]  There is zero epidemiological reason to have a child wear a mask.
[00:03:42]  Zero, period.
[00:03:44]  However, the reason they are trying to have children wear masks is they don't want them to know what it's like to not wear a mask.
[00:03:50]  They want them to be more likely to listen to orders and not question authority.
[00:03:55]  They want them to be less likely to be free and easier to control.
[00:04:00]  And I'm sorry, that's a very cynical reading of it, but it's true.
[00:04:03]  There is no other explanation as to why there would be this insistence to try to mask children.
[00:04:12]  And it's amazing because the parents themselves don't actually want to wear a mask, but they're okay with children wearing masks.
[00:04:19]  And so, unfortunately, yes, in California, the mask mandates are back.
[00:04:25]  Now, Justin Trudeau, of course, who's the representative of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Program, who is basically the archetype of the beta male technocratic dictator.
[00:04:37]  Justin Trudeau is a Pete Buttigieg type, if you will.
[00:04:41]  Very low testosterone, not very smart, but will do everything he is told to do in a robotic, unquestionable fashion.
[00:04:50]  Program me for tyranny, and I will do it, is what Pete Buttigieg and Justin Trudeau say.
[00:04:57]  Well, Justin Trudeau, we can learn a lot from Justin Trudeau because they're going to try to bring the Trudeau model to America, has said, quote, every time you wear a mask, every time you stay safe at home, you are making things better for all.
[00:05:08]  You are sacrificing for the good of all.
[00:05:11]  You want to know why collectivism is something that I almost immediately want to reject?
[00:05:17]  This is why.
[00:05:18]  Because while I do believe in the spirit of trying to do what is good for your fellow countrymen, if you want to see what actually brings out my inner libertarian, which has ever been kind of extinguished in recent years because of just some of the insanity rooted in some libertarian ideology, but if you want to know me at my most libertarian, it's when I start to hear from tyrants about the collective good.
[00:05:41]  I'm like, get me my don't tread on me flag because that guy shouldn't be saying that.
[00:05:46]  It is the abuse of the frame of the framing of what is good for all, play cut 76.
[00:05:52]  And for the rest of your lives, you will remember this time of pandemic as a time where, yes, we gathered with families, but also where you learned that what you do as an individual matters to the entire community, the entire world.
[00:06:15]  Every time you washed your hands, every time you wore a mask, every time you stayed safe and stayed home, you were making things better for your neighbors.
[00:06:28]  You were sacrificing for the good of all.
[00:06:31]  Now, you have to understand the moral framing that he's trying to put there.
[00:06:34]  You see, the heroic thing is to stay home.
[00:06:36]  The heroic thing is not to be courageous.
[00:06:38]  I'm sorry, what?
[00:06:40]  The courageous thing is to not be courageous.
[00:06:42]  Really?
[00:06:42]  That's interesting.
[00:06:43]  That's so incredibly Orwellian.
[00:06:46]  In order to be courageous, you must be fearful.
[00:06:49]  Oh, so the courageous thing is to actually be afraid.
[00:06:52]  That makes a lot of sense.
[00:06:55]  Next question here: hey, Charlie, I can't keep on watching Joe Biden.
[00:06:58]  It just nauseates me.
[00:07:00]  What was his opinion?
[00:07:01]  What is his opinion on Title 42?
[00:07:04]  And what do you think he will do?
[00:07:05]  Thanks so much.
[00:07:06]  Eric from Cordelaine, Idaho.
[00:07:09]  Love Cordeline, Idaho.
[00:07:10]  The wonderful pastor Paul Van Noy is from Cordeline, Idaho, Candlelight Christian Fellowship.
[00:07:15]  So there's a lot of Democrat pushback on Title 42.
[00:07:19]  Joe Biden was asked about Title 42, so then he just started talking about mask mandates, play cut 67.
[00:07:26]  I'm Title 42, sir.
[00:07:28]  Are you considering delaying lifting Title 42?
[00:07:31]  No, what I'm considering is continuing to hear from my first of all, there's going to be an appeal by the Justice Department because as a matter of principle, we want to be able to be in a position where if in fact it is strongly concluded by the scientists that we need Title 42, that we'd be able to do that.
[00:07:54]  But there has been no decision on extending Title 42.
[00:07:59]  To kind of piggyback on what Joe Biden just said, first of all, Joe Biden didn't answer the question.
[00:08:02]  He just all of a sudden started talking about a Department of Justice appeal on airplane mask mandates.
[00:08:07]  This is going to be a difficult one for the regime.
[00:08:11]  The regime is going to struggle as to what to do when it comes to these Title 42.
[00:08:17]  So Title 42 is obviously a loophole, and we need to institute it.
[00:08:20]  We should use unapologetically used COVID-type policies that have been instituted to protect our country from foreign invasion.
[00:08:30]  Don't overcomplicate it.
[00:08:31]  We're being invaded.
[00:08:33]  D-Day was 158,000 people.
[00:08:35]  We have well over 200,000 people invading our country every single month.
[00:08:39]  Foreigners that are lawbreakers, rule breakers, and criminals.
[00:08:43]  You know, someone asked me the other day, they said, Charlie, where is your compassion for the illegal?
[00:08:48]  I said, I lose my compassion once you're a criminal.
[00:08:51]  Like, go back to your country, and then I can have compassion for you.
[00:08:54]  Like, don't break into my home and ask me to serve you a meal.
[00:08:58]  Breaking into a country is a crime.
[00:09:02]  I wish the best for you in your home country of Nicaragua.
[00:09:07]  It is fake compassion.
[00:09:09]  It is false compassion to act as if everyone has a moral right to be able to go to whatever country they want whenever they want.
[00:09:18]  In fact, it is breaking and entering.
[00:09:20]  It's trespassing.
[00:09:22]  It is border jumping.
[00:09:23]  Instead, the proper response is to act justly, which would be deportation.
[00:09:30]  It would be happy to pay a nonstop ticket back to Honduras.
[00:09:36]  But I'm not going to deteriorate the rule of law and dilute what it means to be an American just because you think you have a right to be here.
[00:09:45]  And you don't.
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=== Plato and Monarchy Power (10:37) ===

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[00:11:44]  Okay, let's get to another question here.
[00:11:47]  Hello, Charlie.
[00:11:48]  I read in Hegel's Philosophy of the Mind that he advocated for monarchy.
[00:11:52]  I get that Hegel's dialectic is the operating system of the new left, according to James Lindsay.
[00:11:57]  That is correct.
[00:11:59]  They like that, like conflict, revolution, negative thinking.
[00:12:01]  Maybe this explains the direction the revolution goes towards, a big government or monarchy.
[00:12:07]  It's a very insightful question.
[00:12:09]  That's Louis S. from Brooklyn.
[00:12:10]  Let me tell you why that's such an insightful question.
[00:12:12]  Well, first, we must talk about George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
[00:12:16]  George WFH would be the acronym.
[00:12:19]  Hegel is the backbone of the American left.
[00:12:22]  He's a historicist.
[00:12:24]  You believe in the unfolding of history through a combination of events towards an eventual utopia.
[00:12:29]  It's taken Christian eschatological thinking and applying it to materialistic progressive political philosophy.
[00:12:36]  And George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the German historicist, heavily influenced Karl Marx and also Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as Heidegger and more.
[00:12:47]  Now, the importance of Hegelian thinking is widespread.
[00:12:52]  We don't have to spend too much time on that.
[00:12:54]  But Hegel did argue for an eventual monarchy, but he's not alone.
[00:12:58]  If you go all the way back 2,500 years prior, Plato argued for a separate type of monarchy.
[00:13:04]  In fact, he argued for a type of ruler.
[00:13:06]  The ideal ruler that Plato said would be a philosopher king, someone who is wise and steeped in the classic, but have all power, that the people in charge should be the ones that know best for us.
[00:13:18]  Now, this was an ideal that Plato put forward, and I am not going to criticize Plato, although I do disagree with some of the stuff that he would say, because Plato basically invented philosophy as we know it.
[00:13:30]  Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, Aristotle taught Alexander the Great, and with it the canon of the Western philosophical tradition in some ways was given a start.
[00:13:41]  I would say the Bible is the foundation, and the Greek classics is a good addition to that.
[00:13:46]  Plato talked about many different things, talked about love, talked about romance, talked about justice a lot.
[00:13:51]  But Plato, in particular, would talk about government in particular, Plato's Republic.
[00:13:57]  And so there has been this repetitive theme, whether it be Hegel or Plato, of a small group of people that have absolute power, that are able to do what they want when they want to do it.
[00:14:09]  Now, Plato, you have to understand, was only doing this because he thought democracy was unsustainable.
[00:14:15]  Plato was actually a critic of democracy, the demos, the many, the rule of the many.
[00:14:19]  He saw it go wrong many times in Athens, and he said, eventually people are just going to vote themselves stuff.
[00:14:24]  And so he kind of played through, and it would be illogical, you know, unless you know better, which is if you have a bunch of smart people and they're really wise, why wouldn't we give them all power?
[00:14:34]  Because they would actually make the best decisions because they know what is good, beautiful, and true.
[00:14:40]  But of course, that runs contradictory to someone who came much later, Sir Lord Acton, who has a one-liner that all of you know.
[00:14:47]  You just might not know it came from Lord Acton, that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
[00:14:51]  We know that.
[00:14:52]  And so this idea of a philosopher-king or a monarchy is actually the direction that they want to bring us to right now.
[00:14:58]  Now, a monarchy is a good filler term.
[00:15:01]  I prefer oligarchy.
[00:15:03]  An oligarchy is much more kind of, I think, a much more accurate description of where we are headed and actually where we are in our country, where we are ruled by an incestuous, unelected corporate and political elite that want to be able to call balls and strikes against everything that we do.
[00:15:23]  And one of those people, kind of the oligarch-in-chief, because we could use commander-in-chief, but I prefer oligarch-in-chief, is Barack Hussein Obama.
[00:15:32]  It's Barack Obama himself, play cut 91.
[00:15:36]  The way I'm going to evaluate any proposal touching on social media and the internet is whether it strengthens or weakens the prospects for a healthy, inclusive democracy.
[00:15:51]  Whether it encourages robust debate and respect for our differences.
[00:15:56]  I am going to evaluate any proposal.
[00:15:59]  Barack Obama is the perfect example of what the left wants to create, a Philosopher King.
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[00:16:56]  Obama was speaking at the Obama Foundation.
[00:16:58]  I think he was speaking at Stanford, if I'm not mistaken, or somewhere in Silicon Valley.
[00:17:02]  Again, kind of the masters of the universe, Philosopher King.
[00:17:05]  But it definitely is in that kind of mold of the monarchy, the oligarchy, the person on Trump, the person in the clouds that can tell you what to do.
[00:17:12]  And of course, that is idealistically fine.
[00:17:16]  However, we all know now, obviously, if you have the power consolidated to one person, then inherently you're not going to have the check in the balance, and that power will be abused.
[00:17:25]  It will be corrupt.
[00:17:26]  And so the more transparent, more decentralized that you're able to have a government, the better.
[00:17:31]  However, of course, we're not the first ones to kind of struggle with this idea of how centralized should it be.
[00:17:36]  Of course, the founders struggled with that, right?
[00:17:38]  Jefferson was for a heavily decentralized government.
[00:17:42]  This whole fight of the national bank was one of the first big fights for the American founders.
[00:17:46]  And if you're just going to have a bunch of states, that's a confederacy.
[00:17:49]  That's not as much of a union.
[00:17:52]  And we had the Articles of Confederation, and we couldn't have a unified currency.
[00:17:55]  We weren't able to put down rebellions.
[00:17:57]  So there was this idea that a national identity needed to be formed.
[00:18:00]  It needed to be cemented.
[00:18:02]  And so Obama wants to be and thinks he is kind of the guy that gets to approve.
[00:18:07]  I just want to reread the quote we played previously.
[00:18:10]  I'm going to evaluate any proposal.
[00:18:12]  Like, what are you?
[00:18:13]  Like the school principal of the entire country?
[00:18:18]  I'm going to evaluate any proposal like that we need the thumbs up from Barack Obama.
[00:18:25]  Well, maybe we do.
[00:18:28]  Maybe Obama is kind of the final sign-off for tech companies.
[00:18:33]  Maybe Obama does have a lot more power than we realize.
[00:18:37]  Cut 92: Obama says that Putin and Steve Bannon, so he compares those two together.
[00:18:45]  Necessary, in order for people not to believe in democracy, you need disinformation.
[00:18:49]  You could hear it for yourself.
[00:18:50]  Play Cut 92.
[00:18:51]  People like Putin.
[00:18:54]  And Steve Bannon, for that matter.
[00:18:58]  Understand, it's not necessary for people to believe this information in order to weaken democratic institutions.
[00:19:08]  You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage.
[00:19:14]  You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt.
[00:19:18]  So Obama is now trying to compare Bannon to Putin.
[00:19:24]  I'm not surprised by him trying to do that.
[00:19:27]  How dishonest and deceitful and fallacious that is.
[00:19:32]  Cut 93, Barack Obama continues by saying, Despite the fact that we now have essentially clinically tested vaccine on billions of people, around one in five Americans are still going to put themselves at risk rather than getting vaccinated.
[00:19:44]  Let me ask you, Barack Hussein Obama: did the vaccine prevent you from getting COVID?
[00:19:49]  Because if my memory serves me correctly, you've recently got COVID.
[00:19:53]  So what about the vaccine prevented you from getting infected?
[00:19:56]  Or is it a treatment?
[00:19:59]  And if it's a treatment, then can we compare that treatment with other treatments?
[00:20:04]  Play cut 93.
[00:20:05]  And yet, despite the fact that we've now essentially clinically tested the vaccine on billions of people worldwide, around one in five Americans is still willing to put themselves at risk and put their families at risk rather than get vaccinated.
[00:20:23]  People are dying because of misinformation.
[00:20:26]  People are dying because of misinformation.
[00:20:28]  Well, I agree.
[00:20:29]  People are dying from the misinformation of CNN and others.
[00:20:33]  It's so funny when I'm listening to his tape.
[00:20:35]  His pauses are so incredibly long.
[00:20:37]  I can't tell when he's done.
[00:20:39]  Three to four second pauses.
[00:20:41]  I do not miss him being president.
[00:20:44]  He's just as bad as Biden.
[00:20:47]  They both have been bad in their own unique way.
[00:20:51]  But Obama's kind of giving this speech, former president, like he's in charge.
[00:20:56]  And in some ways, he thinks he is, because that is the idea of the philosopher king.
[00:21:04]  I went to Harvard.
[00:21:06]  I was a president.
[00:21:07]  I'm now in the clouds looking down upon you.
[00:21:10]  I don't approve that on social media.
[00:21:12]  I don't approve that.
[00:21:14]  I don't approve that.
[00:21:15]  You don't like that.
[00:21:16]  That's disinformation.
[00:21:18]  Rather than trusting people to be able to have informed discourse and dialogue and make decisions that are best for them.
[00:21:25]  Okay, let's get to some more questions here.
[00:21:28]  Let's get to this one.
[00:21:29]  Mr. Kirk, everyone says that liberals are allowing an open and porous border.
[00:21:34]  Everyone believes it's for the votes coming over.
[00:21:35]  Shallow thinking.

=== Southern Border Holding Cells (12:26) ===

[00:21:37]  It's for the votes of all the children that are going to come on U.S. soil, making them automatic citizens.
[00:21:43]  That's the goal.
[00:21:44]  Repeal or revise the 14th Amendment is written.
[00:21:46]  It has served its purpose.
[00:21:48]  Well, that's not totally right because the kids won't become automatic citizens, but they might have children.
[00:21:54]  If they have children, they become automatic citizens because of birthright citizenship.
[00:21:58]  Birthright citizenship is a ridiculous measure.
[00:22:01]  It shouldn't exist.
[00:22:02]  It encourages more people to come into the country illegally.
[00:22:07]  France did away with birthright citizenship in 1993.
[00:22:11]  The law limited citizenship to those born to a French parent.
[00:22:14]  Other countries, including New Zealand and Australia, have abolished birthright citizenship.
[00:22:20]  Ireland was the last of the European countries to abolish birthright citizenship in 2005.
[00:22:26]  But I've said this before.
[00:22:27]  It's not just about the people themselves and what they'll do.
[00:22:31]  It's counting them in the census.
[00:22:33]  Increasing illegals in a census, because since we count foreigners in our census, will increase the population tabulation that heavily benefits the Democrat Party.
[00:22:45]  So it's not just the votes themselves or the voters themselves or the potential voters, but it's also the census that gets done every 10 years that will tabulate the population in the favor of heavily run Democrat states in areas like New York and California.
[00:23:03]  Now, what's happening on the southern border is an invasion.
[00:23:06]  Meanwhile, our government is too focused sending money on Ukraine to Ukraine.
[00:23:12]  Quote, Biden says the United States will send $1.3 billion in additional military and economic support to Ukraine.
[00:23:18]  Meanwhile, Biden asked Congress for 9,000 fewer immigration detention beds.
[00:23:24]  So we spend $1.3 billion to Ukraine, that is Thursday, and the administration plans to seek funding for 25,000 beds down from 34,000 beds that are currently funded.
[00:23:34]  It has also severed a contract with the detention facility in Alabama.
[00:23:38]  Now, why wouldn't they want beds?
[00:23:40]  Now, mind you, I'm not a big fan of the detention thing.
[00:23:42]  I think we should just deport people immediately because they don't want to detain them, which is in some ways a holding pattern for potential deportation.
[00:23:50]  Biden wants to cut the amount of beds coming across the southern border because he just wants to release them into the interior of the United States.
[00:23:58]  If they are in a quote-unquote bed, which is a filler term, but it literally is a bed, but means that they're not in the interior yet.
[00:24:04]  They're in kind of a holding cell, then there's a chance they might be deported.
[00:24:10]  Biden wants them released into the interior of the United States so they become reliable Democrat voters, shaking in fear that they'll be deported one day.
[00:24:17]  They're criminals.
[00:24:18]  They shouldn't be here in the first place.
[00:24:19]  They should have been deported.
[00:24:20]  However, because of our overindulgence in the tyranny of tolerance, we believe that criminals should somehow be given a priority.
[00:24:29]  Let's get to some sound about the border here.
[00:24:32]  We have right here.
[00:24:35]  Cut 17, Bill Melusian reporting on how 23 terrorists are caught at the southern border.
[00:24:39]  Play Cut 17.
[00:24:40]  According to a CBP record I obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, there were at least 23 known or suspected terrorists caught here at our southern border in 2021.
[00:24:52]  So again, this is the FBI's terrorist screening center who puts together this database.
[00:24:56]  And keep in mind, these are only the ones they know about, only the ones they caught.
[00:25:01]  Terrorists coming across the southern border and no one stopping them.
[00:25:08]  Okay, let's get to the next question here.
[00:25:11]  Let's go to this one.
[00:25:14]  Charlie, when are citizens going to realize that the government is not working for them?
[00:25:18]  So at the border, what should we as citizens do when the federal government is failing the system?
[00:25:22]  Carol.
[00:25:23]  Well, I've called for quite some time that the states need to organize a citizen force and to use police officers, use National Guard, use Texas Rangers or Arizona Rangers and start their own border patrol.
[00:25:35]  We could do this if we wanted to.
[00:25:37]  We can police borders.
[00:25:38]  We police borders all the time.
[00:25:40]  We've made a decision that our border is not worthy of policing.
[00:25:44]  We've made a decision that the potential benefits from open borders is better than the negatives.
[00:25:50]  The benefits, I guess, are cheap labor, which is insane.
[00:25:54]  I don't think there's any benefits, let me be perfectly honest, with unlimited legal and illegal immigration.
[00:26:00]  But that's basically the consensus of the kind of cartel ruling class.
[00:26:04]  And so we could do it.
[00:26:05]  It's just a matter of the will.
[00:26:07]  We don't want to do it.
[00:26:08]  I always laugh when people say, well, Charlie, the southern border is very, very difficult to secure.
[00:26:13]  Now, the only argument that I'm sympathetic to is the Native American reservations, which I just think we should just tell them, tough luck, we're going through it.
[00:26:19]  What are you going to do about it?
[00:26:21]  Or the private property, which, again, eminent domain, we could figure it out.
[00:26:25]  I get those arguments.
[00:26:26]  I think that's workable.
[00:26:27]  But when they say, well, Charlie, there's lots of rivers and it's difficult terrain.
[00:26:31]  I said, what do you think this is?
[00:26:33]  Like 1,300?
[00:26:34]  We have drone reconnaissance, AI technology.
[00:26:37]  I'm able to track mules when they illegally drop off ballots at ballot boxes.
[00:26:41]  You're trying to tell me that we can't have a militarized border like Israel has?
[00:26:46]  Israel's able to control their border and we can't.
[00:26:50]  There's the Washington Examiner has come out with a story.
[00:26:53]  Republican governors form 26 state border task force amid worsening crisis.
[00:26:59]  Right, that's what we need.
[00:27:00]  We need another task force.
[00:27:01]  We need another committee.
[00:27:02]  Let's just have a bunch of people sit around and do nothing.
[00:27:05]  Asa Hutchinson is part of this task force.
[00:27:08]  There's some good governors part of it, obviously.
[00:27:11]  The states are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas.
[00:27:14]  DeSantis is part of it, but it's a committee, so you probably won't be able to get much done.
[00:27:19]  Ohio, DeWine, who's just been terrible.
[00:27:22]  Virginia, good for Yunkin.
[00:27:23]  I think he's been okay.
[00:27:25]  The jury's still out on some of the stuff he's doing.
[00:27:27]  Georgia, Brian Kemp.
[00:27:29]  They said, look, we're going to work as a force multiplier in the fight against criminal activity directly tied to the border.
[00:27:34]  That just sounds like typical corporate nonsense.
[00:27:39]  Here's a good rule for life, okay?
[00:27:41]  When you see a committee formed, don't expect anything profound to come out of it.
[00:27:46]  It's just a generally good rule for life.
[00:27:48]  If you just see a group of people sitting around, it's generally not going to produce something quick or meaningful or impactful.
[00:27:58]  Instead, you can know this from a business, a small tactile group of people, such as a governor or a mayor or just two or three people alongside of it that are empowered to make decisions unilaterally, that tends to be rather effective.
[00:28:13]  But this idea that a 26-border committee is somehow going to be some sort of defining thing, not buying it.
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[00:29:39]  That will allow me to vote on the tender offer deal.
[00:29:42]  Okay, let's get to some questions here as we close out the very eventful week that we've had.
[00:29:49]  Charlie, how and where do you get all this energy to travel all over the place and do these events at the same time be married and tend to your marriage and have time to do Hillsdale courses?
[00:29:56]  I'm just ashamed of myself and my time management.
[00:29:59]  Thanks so much, Shaibu.
[00:30:01]  So, look, we do a lot.
[00:30:03]  We don't rest a lot.
[00:30:06]  But, yeah, we do three hours of radio a day, which translates to three podcasts a day.
[00:30:10]  We do one on Saturday, one on Sunday.
[00:30:12]  Just this week, I had an event every single night except Monday, crisscrossing the country, not to mention the work we do at Turning Point USA in running that and managing that.
[00:30:22]  We have a great operational team, thankfully, that we've been able to put there, but also raising the money for Turning Point and our 250-plus full-time employees.
[00:30:31]  So, look, I don't sit still well.
[00:30:34]  There's work to do.
[00:30:35]  I mean, you've got to make a decision in your life.
[00:30:36]  Are you just going to kind of sit around and hope things get better?
[00:30:40]  Are you going to start to do things?
[00:30:41]  And you will live a much more meaningful life if you act.
[00:30:47]  You'll live a much more meaningful life if you figure out the teleological reason for existence, which is just a really fancy, unnecessarily academic way of saying the purpose.
[00:30:57]  What is your purpose?
[00:30:58]  And so, we've definitely found ours.
[00:31:00]  And it's a grind sometimes.
[00:31:02]  Travel the country, you're in new places every single day.
[00:31:06]  We're doing one event tonight, and then we got the two tomorrow.
[00:31:09]  And next week, we'll be in Fresno.
[00:31:11]  And we have not, we only missed, and it was mainly because of a tech hiccup, one hour of radio this week.
[00:31:17]  So, we were on the entire week.
[00:31:19]  We also did the event with the great Candace Owens, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
[00:31:24]  And that's coming off of last week where we did Berkeley, Boulder, and Fullerton in a 72-hour window and only missed one day of radio last week.
[00:31:33]  So, you guys help make all that possible when you get behind our program and you help Turning Point USA, and you help us.
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[00:31:41]  Look, we're a podcast of action.
[00:31:43]  And there's very, and we're a radio program of action.
[00:31:45]  There's very few that are like that, where there's plenty of people that talk and they do their thing.
[00:31:50]  We do that.
[00:31:51]  But as soon as this show ends every single day, and you guys hear our commentary and you hear our insight and you hear our predictions and you hear our feedback, then we actually go to work to fix the things that we talk about here on this program.
[00:32:03]  And that's what makes us different.
[00:32:04]  So where do I find the energy?
[00:32:06]  I don't drink alcohol, which actually I really recommend.
[00:32:10]  You'll be a happier person and it actually allows you just to get more done.
[00:32:15]  I'm very careful what I eat, work out, and also just when you have purpose, energy just kind of comes to you.
[00:32:21]  But I get tired like other people.
[00:32:22]  I'll be taking a couple of days off in a couple of weeks.
[00:32:24]  And so the great producer Andrew will tell you all about Relief Factor and we'll be hosting for an entire week.
[00:32:30]  So I do need a couple days here and there just to kind of recalibrate.
[00:32:34]  But we push ourselves.
[00:32:36]  The human species is capable of a lot more than I think we give credit for.
[00:32:41]  I think you're a lot tougher than you think.
[00:32:44]  And, you know, you see these people that do these superhuman, super marathons.
[00:32:48]  You know, you can really dig deep.
[00:32:50]  The human body is adaptable.
[00:32:52]  It's one of the great things that God gave us in his design is our ability to adapt to our circumstances, to our environment, to adapt to pressures, to adapt to adversity, to adapt to difficulty.
[00:33:07]  And we see that in just a common sense view of look at people that work out.
[00:33:12]  And by definition, your body will adapt to be able to lift more weights.
[00:33:16]  And if you're sitting around all the time, your body will adapt to just being used to sitting around.
[00:33:21]  So your body becomes what you do.
[00:33:24]  And what you do is correlated with who you are and what you believe and what is your will.
[00:33:32]  And we say a lot that you dream, believe, work, achieve, or conceive, believe, work, achieve.
[00:33:36]  We believe very firmly in that here on this program and at Turning Point USA.
[00:33:39]  And I do Hillsdale courses.
[00:33:42]  I'm going to finish my 15th.
[00:33:43]  I'm taking the class.
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