The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 123: Herschel and Christian Walker? OPEC+ Long Game? Ban Sasse Retires?
Aired: 2022-10-10
Duration: 35:57


=== Honoring Parents in the West (14:17) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, happy Monday.
[00:00:01]  Should you honor your parents?
[00:00:02]  What does it mean to honor one's parents?
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[00:01:18]  I'm a little torn.
[00:01:19]  It seems like the Herschel Walker campaign against him is working.
[00:01:23]  As a Christian, I don't know how I feel about all of it.
[00:01:26]  I'll probably end up voting for Herschel Walker.
[00:01:28]  Can you help me understand?
[00:01:29]  Yes.
[00:01:30]  Okay.
[00:01:30]  So, first of all, we had Newt Gingrich on the program about this topic.
[00:01:33]  There's a couple dimensions of this story that I want to unpack.
[00:01:36]  The first of which is let's kind of go to what we know.
[00:01:38]  There was an allegation this week of which the evidence is very shaky that says that Herschel Walker paid for an abortion for an individual I think about a decade ago.
[00:01:47]  The evidence they have allegedly is the woman has receipts that she did actually get an abortion.
[00:01:53]  And then afterwards, Herschel Walker sent a get-well card allegedly with cash in the get-well card.
[00:02:00]  If I'm clumsy on the facts, please correct me.
[00:02:02]  That's the best that I understand that.
[00:02:04]  And so that's very weak evidence, by the way.
[00:02:06]  And Herschel Walker vehemently denies it.
[00:02:09]  It's a serious allegation.
[00:02:11]  I'm not going to say it's not serious.
[00:02:13]  We're pro-life.
[00:02:13]  I don't think that if someone pays for an abortion, it should be taken lightly in any way whatsoever.
[00:02:18]  But he denies the allegation.
[00:02:19]  And they need a lot more credibility than that.
[00:02:22]  And okay, it's a dailybeast.com.
[00:02:24]  Herschel Walker paid for girlfriend's abortion, Georgia Senate.
[00:02:27]  The Daily Beast broke the story.
[00:02:28]  Okay.
[00:02:28]  It's a serious allegation, but he completely denies it.
[00:02:31]  Okay.
[00:02:32]  And so as if we learned nothing from Russia Gate and Brett Kavanaugh and all these different sorts of things that we shouldn't first look at the facts and the circumstances and also the all-out smear campaign.
[00:02:42]  And if Herschel Walker did this very serious thing, if he did, is there any room for redemption or forgiveness or for clarifying?
[00:02:48]  No, of course not.
[00:02:49]  So that's one part of the story.
[00:02:51]  And the story would have basically evaporated or disappeared from that kind of serious allegation almost overnight and leave it to the Democrats to go and find this woman who asked not to be identified out of privacy concerns and that she and Walker conceived a child while they were dating in 2009.
[00:03:06]  He urged her to get an abortion.
[00:03:08]  The woman said she had the abortion and that she was reimbursed for it via Herschel Walker.
[00:03:13]  She supported these claims of the $575 receipt and a get-well card from Walker and a bank deposit receipt that included an image of a signed $700 personal check from Walker.
[00:03:26]  Doesn't prove anything, but this woman who decides not to be disclosed could be connecting two unrelated dots for a very specific reason and purpose.
[00:03:36]  Okay.
[00:03:37]  But this kind of got a lot bigger than it needed to in some ways of an allegation.
[00:03:41]  I don't want to say needed to because it's a serious allegation and Herschel denies it.
[00:03:44]  And that's, it should just end at that, if that's the evidence you have in the midst of a campaign.
[00:03:49]  You also must put into context what does Herschel Walker plan to do when he goes to the Senate?
[00:03:54]  What is his position on abortion?
[00:03:56]  What would he actually do from a policy perspective of the judges he would appoint and the issues he would actually advocate on?
[00:04:03]  And he's terrific on all of them.
[00:04:04]  Okay.
[00:04:04]  But this issue became huge and massive when his son, Christian Walker, who I've met, and he was always a very pleasant person to me, and he's friends with a lot of people at Turning Point USA, decided to speak out against his father.
[00:04:16]  And basically, I don't want to paraphrase.
[00:04:19]  Can we get the exact quote?
[00:04:20]  Because we have the clip here.
[00:04:21]  Okay.
[00:04:21]  So Herschel Walker's son comes out and starts attacking his father.
[00:04:27]  And this I have a very big problem with.
[00:04:29]  I do.
[00:04:31]  Again, Christian was always a very pleasant person when I met him, but I have to say, I have a very, very big problem with young people attacking their parents.
[00:04:38]  I have a biblical problem with it.
[00:04:40]  I have a moral problem with it.
[00:04:42]  I have a civilizational problem with it.
[00:04:45]  And I'm going to walk through exactly what does it mean to honor one's parents?
[00:04:48]  What is the significance of that?
[00:04:50]  So, first, let me just read what Christian Walker tweeted.
[00:04:54]  He said, every member of the Herschel Walker family asked him not to run for office because we all knew some of his past, every single one.
[00:05:00]  He decided to give us the middle finger and out and air all this dirty laundry in public while simultaneously lying about it.
[00:05:06]  I'm done.
[00:05:07]  Now, that's not exactly right.
[00:05:09]  I mean, Christian Walker has previous tweets and social media posts where he was applauding and supporting his father's candidacy for office.
[00:05:17]  So this is a U-turn, where then Christian Walker says, I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father, Herschel Walker, stopped lying and making a mockery of us.
[00:05:26]  You're not a family man when you left us to, excuse the language, bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over six times in six months, running from your violence.
[00:05:36]  I don't care about someone who has a bad past and takes accountability, but how dare you lie and act as though you're some sort of moral Christian, upright man.
[00:05:43]  You live the life of destroying other people's lives.
[00:05:45]  How dare you?
[00:05:45]  So, look, Christian is in, he's in a lot of pain when he's tweeting this.
[00:05:50]  He's hurt, he feels hurt by his father.
[00:05:52]  Those are understandable feelings.
[00:05:54]  I'm not saying that I know something Christian doesn't know.
[00:05:57]  That's not the point.
[00:05:59]  No, the point that I'm going to make is I have a very, very big problem with rushing to social media and immediately attacking your parents.
[00:06:07]  Now, as far as the threatening to kill us, there is other video to show that Herschel Walker actually reconciled with his wife under one of those disputes and she forgave him.
[00:06:20]  And even it led her to the Lord and towards Christian reconciliation.
[00:06:25]  Christian Walker back in June of 2021, so he did a 180 reversal.
[00:06:29]  Thank you for all you do for your great country.
[00:06:30]  Can't wait to see all that you do.
[00:06:32]  Supporting that he's running for office, supporting his advocacy back in June of 2021.
[00:06:37]  But let's take a step back.
[00:06:40]  Why honor one's parents?
[00:06:43]  Where does this idea come from?
[00:06:45]  Well, obviously, it's one of the Ten Commandments.
[00:06:48]  Now, it being the fifth commandment, you could view it as a commandment simply for how you should act.
[00:06:55]  But I believe very clearly that if you're not able to honor your parents, you're not able to honor God.
[00:07:02]  If you're not able to honor your earthly father, you will not be able to honor your heavenly father.
[00:07:06]  But what does it mean to honor?
[00:07:07]  This is where it gets interesting.
[00:07:09]  There's biblical commandments in the Old Testament to love your neighbor and to love the stranger.
[00:07:16]  But there is no commandment that tells you you must love your parents.
[00:07:21]  That commandment does not exist.
[00:07:24]  How you behave towards your parents is actually a lot more important than how you feel towards your parents.
[00:07:31]  And so I texted Christian privately saying something of these words, and I could have been probably more articulate in the way I did this.
[00:07:39]  I'm not saying his feelings are not correct.
[00:07:43]  I'm talking about how you behave towards one's parents.
[00:07:45]  That's very important.
[00:07:46]  By the way, Dennis Prager has been an amazing mentor of mine on this topic, some of the great moral clarity on this.
[00:07:52]  So you actually go to the original Hebrew.
[00:07:55]  The word to honor is the same root because all Hebrew words have a root of which there's other words that are kind of synonyms because there's no vowels in Hebrew of the same word, the same three letters of heavy.
[00:08:12]  That's interesting.
[00:08:13]  It's the same word as heavy.
[00:08:16]  It is the word kabach in Hebrew, which is honor and heavy.
[00:08:22]  So Hebrews don't have vowels.
[00:08:23]  They have dots for pronunciation.
[00:08:25]  And I don't speak Hebrew.
[00:08:27]  Just piggybacking off the great work of Prager and many others.
[00:08:30]  But basically what it is being said is that you must treat your parents heavily, not lightly.
[00:08:38]  Now, the inverse of that, it's very interesting.
[00:08:40]  If you look at the Hebraic root of the word curse, to curse, it is the same root of the word lightly.
[00:08:52]  So if you were to curse your parents, you treat them lightly.
[00:08:55]  If you honor your parents, you treat them heavily.
[00:09:00]  Right now, we are living through a total breakdown of this commandment.
[00:09:05]  Honor your mother and father, so they may live long in the land of which you are in.
[00:09:08]  It's the only one of the Ten Commandments that comes with a promise.
[00:09:12]  And it is only one of the Ten Commandments that involves your nation.
[00:09:19]  It's incredibly critical to establish hierarchy in your life.
[00:09:23]  Again, honoring parents is a conduit to honoring God.
[00:09:28]  The vehicle to God is honoring first year earthly parents.
[00:09:32]  And again, you don't have to love them, but you must treat them very heavily.
[00:09:36]  You must treat it very seriously is another English synonym to say this.
[00:09:41]  I have a very big problem with a theme I'm starting to see.
[00:09:44]  I see it on TikTok a lot.
[00:09:45]  I see it with this instance.
[00:09:46]  I saw it with Kellyanne Conway and her daughter.
[00:09:49]  And I'm not saying the kids do not have legitimate complaints.
[00:09:53]  I'm not saying that.
[00:09:54]  But is this treating your parents heavily?
[00:09:56]  Is this honoring them?
[00:09:57]  I'm not saying you have to feel a certain way.
[00:09:59]  I'm not saying you must force yourself to love them, force yourself to say that they're doing the best thing possible.
[00:10:05]  What I'm saying is you must honor the hierarchy.
[00:10:08]  Because if you don't, well, we know what happens.
[00:10:13]  Every totalitarian regime undermines parental authority, every single one.
[00:10:20]  And I have great concern when children are able to just open up a smartphone and go and attack their parents.
[00:10:29]  Undermine them.
[00:10:30]  Delegitimize them.
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[00:11:37]  So out of all the things that God could put in the Ten Commandments, why would he put honor your mother and father?
[00:11:45]  You know, you go through the book of Proverbs, there's an infinite amount of wisdom that God has shared through his word.
[00:11:52]  But in the Ten Commandments, the Decalogue, why honor your mother and father?
[00:11:59]  Probably because there wasn't a lot of honoring going on before the Ten Commandments.
[00:12:04]  It was likely a very big problem.
[00:12:08]  A good rule for life that I'm learning, and I've been taught by Prager and so many other kinds of moral thinkers.
[00:12:16]  You wouldn't need a commandment if it was easy.
[00:12:19]  You would not need the commandment if it came naturally.
[00:12:23]  You'll have no other gods before me.
[00:12:25]  You shall not make false idols.
[00:12:27]  You shall not take the Lord's name in vain.
[00:12:29]  By the way, that does not mean you shouldn't say, Oh, my, and I actually don't say it for a different reason.
[00:12:35]  It means you shall not carry the name of the Lord in vain, which means you shall not do evil in the name of the Lord.
[00:12:41]  It's a separate thing than not saying, Oh, my, even though I don't like saying that, that's a separate podcast for a different time.
[00:12:47]  Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
[00:12:49]  Do my best with that.
[00:12:51]  Then honor your mother and father.
[00:12:53]  It really makes you think: why would God put that in there?
[00:12:56]  Well, He tells you why for a nation.
[00:12:58]  Your nation will not survive if you don't honor your parents.
[00:13:01]  Your nation will not flourish if you do not honor your parents.
[00:13:04]  And again, honoring is different than loving, it's completely different.
[00:13:10]  You shall not murder.
[00:13:11]  You shall not commit adultery.
[00:13:12]  And by the way, that does not mean you shall not kill.
[00:13:15]  That gets conflated with killing.
[00:13:17]  For example, killing in self-defense or killing in the theater of war.
[00:13:21]  You shall not murder.
[00:13:22]  You shall not take innocent life.
[00:13:24]  You shall not commit adultery.
[00:13:25]  You shall not steal.
[00:13:27]  Which, again, is a very interesting one.
[00:13:29]  We could do a whole podcast on why would God include not stealing?
[00:13:32]  Because God respected private property rights.
[00:13:35]  Something that is not honored in the West right now.
[00:13:38]  You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
[00:13:41]  Shall not lie, essentially.
[00:13:42]  You shall not covet, which I find to be a very interesting final one.
[00:13:46]  Because the shall not covet is the only one that really is internal.
[00:13:52]  Meaning it's about your thoughts, it's your feelings, it's your attitude.
[00:13:56]  Anyway, there was probably a lot of not, there was a lack of honoring going on when Moses got the Ten Commandments from the Lord.
[00:14:04]  Okay, so let's play some of this tape here, and I'll let you guys be the judge.
[00:14:08]  Okay, let's go to cut 156 of Christian Walker speaking out against his father.
[00:14:13]  Play cut 156.
[00:14:15]  You don't know my family life.

=== The Danger of Public Dishonor (02:43) ===

[00:14:17]  So for me to tell you I'm not getting involved, and then you also be flooding my DMs and calling me saying, I didn't know all this about your dad.
[00:14:25]  We're going to lose the center of the.
[00:14:26]  And then when I simply say, I'm done with the lies, you go, well, Christian looks suspicious.
[00:14:31]  Excuse me?
[00:14:32]  I haven't told one story about what I experienced with him.
[00:14:35]  I'm just simply saying, don't lie.
[00:14:38]  Don't chime in.
[00:14:39]  Don't test my authenticity.
[00:14:42]  Okay, look, he could be totally telling the truth.
[00:14:43]  And he's obviously in a lot of pain.
[00:14:45]  And I'm not here to attack him.
[00:14:46]  I'm making an argument about how this is not right, what he's doing.
[00:14:49]  It's not.
[00:14:52]  You do not go on TikTok and dishonor your parents like that.
[00:14:56]  You don't.
[00:14:57]  Let's say it's all true.
[00:15:00]  Let's say that Herschel Walker went and had multiple affairs and paid for an abortion, of which is not morally right.
[00:15:10]  You don't handle it on TikTok.
[00:15:12]  That must be held privately.
[00:15:14]  Straight to your father.
[00:15:16]  You talk to him.
[00:15:17]  I'm not saying the feelings are wrong.
[00:15:19]  That is not the point.
[00:15:20]  But this does not honor it.
[00:15:22]  It does not treat your father heavily as the Bible tells us to.
[00:15:24]  Okay, let's go to the next one here: 157.
[00:15:27]  And you know, my favorite issue to talk about is father absent.
[00:15:30]  Surprise, because it affected me.
[00:15:32]  That's why I talk about it all the time, because it affected me.
[00:15:35]  We were told at the beginning of this, he was going to get ahead of his past, hold himself accountable, all of these different things, and that would have been fine.
[00:15:42]  Go ahead.
[00:15:42]  He didn't do any of that.
[00:15:44]  Everything's been a lie.
[00:15:45]  Everything's been downplayed.
[00:15:46]  Everything's been cutting corners.
[00:15:47]  The whole thing.
[00:15:48]  And who, who is whose expense is that at?
[00:15:52]  Me, my mom, as we're chased down by the media, we're terrorized, all these different things.
[00:15:58]  People are questioning my authenticity.
[00:16:00]  I'm done.
[00:16:01]  Okay, he's in pain.
[00:16:02]  You can see that.
[00:16:03]  And pain's a legitimate feeling.
[00:16:05]  But God made the commandment for a reason.
[00:16:07]  You know, someone asked the other day, they said, Charlie, why should I honor my mother and father?
[00:16:10]  And I felt like saying, because God told you, which is true, which is my answer for it.
[00:16:13]  Sometimes it's helpful to know that God told you to do something.
[00:16:15]  But if that's not persuasive for you, how about this?
[00:16:18]  One day you would want to be honored too.
[00:16:20]  Maybe there's more to the story.
[00:16:23]  And that the parent that raised you is worthy of that honoring.
[00:16:28]  To go on social media and attack them.
[00:16:31]  And maybe every one of those facts is right.
[00:16:32]  Every one of those feelings is legitimate.
[00:16:34]  Could very well be.
[00:16:36]  Not my business.
[00:16:37]  I don't know.
[00:16:39]  But as soon as you dishonor parents publicly, you have a very we have a lot of history to show what happens.
[00:16:49]  Marxist etalitarians love it when children dishonor their parents.
[00:16:53]  You don't have to love them.
[00:16:54]  You don't have to like them.
[00:16:56]  You have to treat them with honor.

=== Saudi Geopolitics and Iran Deals (08:50) ===

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[00:18:01]  Paul from South Carolina, Charlie, I'm confused about what OPEC is doing.
[00:18:05]  How should I view this?
[00:18:07]  Is this going to increase gas prices?
[00:18:09]  Okay, let's play a piece of tape here from NBC's Brian Sullivan.
[00:18:12]  It's CUT 108.
[00:18:14]  I think the media is missing what's really going on here, which is pure, unadulterated foreign involvement in our elections, and it is against Joe Biden.
[00:18:21]  I don't support this, but it's just what it is.
[00:18:24]  There's many different dynamics happening right now.
[00:18:26]  There's some things bubbling up in Iran that the Central Intelligence Agency very well might be involved in.
[00:18:34]  There's also the final stages of the certification of a new Iran deal, which would pave the way for Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
[00:18:45]  There is one country that basically is the anchor country in OPEC that very much does not want to see that happen.
[00:18:53]  Another major member of OPEC really doesn't like the fact that there is no opposition to flow of arms and money flowing to Ukraine, of which I actually happen to support that we don't send any money to Ukraine.
[00:19:07]  But just talking very strategically, Russia and Saudi Arabia right now, for a third reason, too, which is they don't want to see all fossil fuels destroyed, which ironically, they would actually benefit if America never exported oil, natural gas again.
[00:19:21]  But they have two much more immediate geopolitical needs.
[00:19:23]  Russia wants to see some interruption of arms and armaments, I should say, and resources going to Ukraine.
[00:19:30]  And Saudi Arabia desperately wants to see a slowdown of the United States brokering an Iran deal with, obviously, the United States and Iran.
[00:19:38]  Play Cut 108.
[00:19:40]  News, OPEC cuts by 2 million barrels a day.
[00:19:42]  You back out the fact that some countries aren't meeting their quotas.
[00:19:45]  The real math that we got to is that we are actually cutting about 900,000 physical barrels per day, which, by the way, while they're not directly tied, the strategic petroleum release is about 900,000 barrels per day.
[00:19:59]  So it's kind of hard not to look at this decision and say there's got to be some political element to it.
[00:20:04]  Wall Street Journal late last night with an exclusive saying that the U.S. is looking to ease sanctions on Venezuela so that Chevron not so that, but in part, Chevron will then be able to keep drilling and producing oil in Venezuela.
[00:20:18]  Yeah, so look, there's several dynamics to this.
[00:20:20]  First of all, Joe Biden refuses to open up our incredible energy resources here.
[00:20:26]  He doesn't want to set that precedent because that would actually make America very strong and it would thwart this green energy pagan revolution that is being led by Buda Jej and all these imbeciles in our government.
[00:20:37]  So he can't do that.
[00:20:38]  So instead, Joe Biden, remember, traveled to Saudi Arabia to basically go beg for oil.
[00:20:43]  And Mohammed bin Salman and the Saudis, of which you should not be fans of Saudis, by the way, their involvement in 9-11 is very suspicious.
[00:20:50]  Their track record on human rights is awful.
[00:20:52]  But the point being is, at times, you have to make deals in the best interest of your country.
[00:20:57]  Donald Trump understood this very well.
[00:20:59]  Okay, but Joe Biden does the exact opposite.
[00:21:01]  He goes to Saudi Arabia and basically begs for more oil, begs for more, basically a bailout.
[00:21:10]  And Saudi Arabia says, wait a second.
[00:21:12]  So you're about to certify a deal with our great enemy.
[00:21:14]  So just some background.
[00:21:15]  Saudi Arabia and Iran hate each other.
[00:21:18]  It's an old religious divide of Shia Muslims versus Sunni Muslims.
[00:21:22]  Vast majority of Muslims on the planet are Sunni, and about 15% are Shia.
[00:21:28]  And if you're in Iran, you're a Shia Muslim.
[00:21:30]  It's kind of the center of Shia Islam.
[00:21:34]  They hate each other and they've been at war with each other for quite a while.
[00:21:37]  And it hasn't been a hot war, but it's been a proxy war in more ways than one.
[00:21:41]  And the West has really always sided with Saudi Arabia and has kind of turned a cold shoulder to Iran after our own central intelligence agency alongside the British executed.
[00:21:51]  Well, that's actually true.
[00:21:52]  We did execute the re-implementation of the Shah against the democratically elected Masaghday.
[00:21:58]  And after that, when the Shah was re-implemented, he was sick and Meek wasn't able to run the country.
[00:22:04]  And then the Iranian revolution took foot and took hold.
[00:22:07]  And from that point forward, Iran has kind of been dominated by theocratic Islamic fascists.
[00:22:14]  And that's not an exaggeration.
[00:22:15]  So Saudi Arabia now is cutting oil, saying, hey, voters in America seem to not like high gas prices.
[00:22:22]  This is my conjecture.
[00:22:23]  And we're going to intervene basically because a Red Congress would be more likely to cancel the Iran deal, more likely to hold it up, and more likely than to also, on Russia's side, at least delay or ask questions about the armaments coming into Ukraine.
[00:22:40]  Saudi oil minister says directly this is caused by us trying to cap the price of Russian oil.
[00:22:46]  So they're blaming it on us trying to cap the price of Russian oil, but I think there's something much deeper here.
[00:22:51]  If you really, a little bit of a read on kind of Saudi geopolitics, they're very, very worried about an unchecked Biden regime with a Democrat Congress that might give Iran what they want.
[00:23:03]  Now, what's the takeaway here?
[00:23:04]  Well, the takeaway is just the truth.
[00:23:05]  You could have whatever takeaway you want.
[00:23:07]  That foreign countries are always going to try to involve themselves in our politics.
[00:23:10]  You're going to see gas prices rise.
[00:23:12]  And when our elected officials go, they should not do the bidding of Saudi Arabia or Russia.
[00:23:15]  They should do the bidding of America and allow whatever decisions kind of come from there.
[00:23:19]  So there's a lot of different dynamics here.
[00:23:21]  You are going to see gas prices increase.
[00:23:23]  Unfortunately, we will see kind of what ends up happening there and how that ends up playing out.
[00:23:29]  Okay.
[00:23:30]  Actually, let's go to this one.
[00:23:30]  Yeah, Cut 109.
[00:23:31]  Saudi Arabian Energy Minister.
[00:23:32]  Of course, central bankers want the best for both worlds.
[00:23:35]  Play Cut 109.
[00:23:36]  Of course, any central banker in Pantheon would like to have the best of the two world.
[00:23:41]  Attending to inflation and continue growth.
[00:23:46]  But with this severity that you see, you run a big risk that you lose growth.
[00:23:52]  What is happening now is coming, and we see, we showed it in this trajectory and this things that we presented, that growth is coming down, and there is a potential with more aggressive rate hikes that this growth will come even lower.
[00:24:15]  I know that's hard to understand.
[00:24:16]  His English is probably not as crisp as he would like it to be.
[00:24:19]  But with this, he says, but with the severity, you will see a run, a big risk, you lose growth.
[00:24:23]  Growth is coming down.
[00:24:24]  And the Saudis are actually in a pretty good spot.
[00:24:26]  The Saudis are basically printing money, as are the Russians, as long as oil stays above $85 a barrel, $80 a barrel, especially with the efficiencies they were able to implement with the kind of COVID crash and the resurgence.
[00:24:37]  What is oil at today?
[00:24:38]  Price of oil today?
[00:24:39]  I bet it's like 88.
[00:24:41]  That's my guess.
[00:24:42]  You can go to oilprice.com.
[00:24:43]  They track it pretty well.
[00:24:45]  Let me see what it's at.
[00:24:46]  Oh, $92 today for West Texas crude and then Brent $97.
[00:24:52]  Wow.
[00:24:52]  Okay.
[00:24:52]  WTI crude.
[00:24:53]  That's pretty amazing.
[00:24:54]  So, yeah, they're printing money of this at this point.
[00:24:57]  Okay, let's go to, yeah, that's actually a good segue.
[00:25:01]  Tyler from Nebraska asks, Charlie, what is the CIA doing?
[00:25:05]  I loved your episode about Julian Assange.
[00:25:07]  I'm really concerned or worried the CIA is involved in other places we don't know.
[00:25:11]  Look, I am confident that the Central Intelligence Agency is involved in one way, shape, or form with what's happening in Iran.
[00:25:18]  We don't really know what's totally happening in Iran, by the way, because it seems their media is heavily regulated.
[00:25:24]  The internet is very much, let's just say, controlled.
[00:25:28]  Now, I will say this, though.
[00:25:30]  The American media that is loving the fact that Iranian women are taking off their hijabs, which by the way, I fully support, they didn't feel that way when people were throwing off their masks.
[00:25:44]  You know, I love when the American media says, you know, the hijab is so dehumanizing and it's so awful to women.

=== Ben Sasse on Separation of Powers (04:40) ===

[00:25:50]  Like, really, then why is it you put masks on four-year-olds and wanted to dehumanize them for the last year and a half, last two years?
[00:26:00]  Okay, let's get to another question here.
[00:26:01]  Let's try to shift gears here.
[00:26:03]  There's a lot of questions about, okay, let's get to this one.
[00:26:07]  This is this one.
[00:26:07]  So, yeah, so news shows, this is another question.
[00:26:11]  We just answered a question, someone from Nebraska.
[00:26:13]  This is one from Kansas.
[00:26:14]  Charlie, did you see that Ben Sasse is retiring from Congress?
[00:26:18]  What are your thoughts?
[00:26:19]  You know, I used to like Ben Sasse, and what are your thoughts?
[00:26:23]  Basically, it's a long email.
[00:26:24]  It's Michael from Kansas.
[00:26:26]  Okay, so basically, Ben Sasse, I used to know, I know Ben Sasse.
[00:26:30]  I haven't talked to him in a very long time.
[00:26:33]  And I have to say, Ben Sasse wins the award of the most disappointing U.S. Senator over the last half decade.
[00:26:40]  And you know what disappoints me the most about Ben Sasse?
[00:26:42]  And I would say it to his face, I'd say it to him on this program: Ben Sasse is probably one of the smartest people elected to the U.S. Senate in the last 20 years.
[00:26:49]  He's very smart.
[00:26:51]  He understands the Constitution.
[00:26:53]  He understands separation of powers.
[00:26:55]  He understands consent to the governed.
[00:26:56]  The problem with Ben Sasse, and he's welcome on this program at any time, and he's a smart guy.
[00:27:01]  He can navigate a conversation in an interview.
[00:27:03]  He's not dumb.
[00:27:03]  He ran a university before.
[00:27:05]  The problem with Ben Sasse is he just was hypnotized by the lies of neoliberalism.
[00:27:14]  Ben Sasse got so enamored with Washington, D.C. think tank talk around international trade and a Democrat, a globalist society and the destruction of the American middle class and the deterioration of the American manufacturing base.
[00:27:30]  He really started to believe this.
[00:27:32]  And the great lie that Ben Sasse started to peddle Was that the American project can be successfully exported, copy and pasted, if you will.
[00:27:45]  We can copy-paste the American project to any other country at any time at will and on demand.
[00:27:53]  It's no different than just kind of bringing the roadshow.
[00:27:56]  We got to bring the American roadshow to Kyiv and they're going to love it.
[00:28:02]  Actually, I don't think so.
[00:28:03]  I think that they need about 100 years of a reformation like America did.
[00:28:08]  So, this is Cut 138.
[00:28:10]  This is Ben Sasse, who's retiring, it looks like, from the Senate to become the University of Florida's college president, which actually, honestly, would be an upgrade from whatever Marxists they currently have.
[00:28:20]  Ben Sasse is not a Marxist.
[00:28:21]  That's what's really frustrating.
[00:28:22]  He's not a Marxist.
[00:28:24]  He is a, he's become a snobbish conservative intellectual type.
[00:28:30]  I mean, if Ben Sasse and I talked, and I didn't know who I was talking to, and we were just kind of going back and forth, and we were both kind of on the other side of, you know, a curtain, if you will, and we didn't, our voice was encrypted, and he would talk about the American founding, I would agree with almost everything he would be saying.
[00:28:43]  I think you'd probably get some stuff wrong on kind of the neoliberal elements of that.
[00:28:47]  Let's play cut 138.
[00:28:49]  Zelensky needs to win.
[00:28:51]  The Ukrainian freedom fighters need to win.
[00:28:54]  We don't need them just to lose more slowly.
[00:28:56]  We need them to win.
[00:28:57]  And to win, they need to kill Russians.
[00:28:59]  And to kill Russians, they need more weapons.
[00:29:02]  Yeah, so that's Ben Sasse talking about Zelensky.
[00:29:04]  That sort of reckless, warmongering, saber-rattling talk is not going to be missed.
[00:29:09]  And so for all of our patriots in Nebraska, turning point action and turning point pack, we got our eyes on that Senate race, whatever it's going to be.
[00:29:18]  It looks like if Ben Sasse resigns, Governor Ricketts, who's a great man, will have the opportunity to fill that replacement with an appointee and then a special election.
[00:29:26]  Let's get a grassroots conservative in there.
[00:29:28]  Let's get someone really strong, MAGA base, America first.
[00:29:31]  Nebraska's a super conservative state.
[00:29:33]  This is a great opportunity for that.
[00:29:34]  Again, I'm not going to spend time here, you know, smearing Ben Sasse's character or anything like that.
[00:29:38]  I'm going to say he was a huge disappointment, though.
[00:29:41]  I'll give you one piece of evidence to show that.
[00:29:44]  Ben Sasse voted to convict Donald Trump in the impeachment hearing.
[00:29:50]  How does someone who's a constitutional conservative go so far, slip so far to vote to convict Donald Trump on that awful, unconstitutional, immoral, drive-by shooting that was called the impeachment?
[00:30:06]  So Ben Sasse, wish you the best of luck, University of Florida.
[00:30:08]  You actually probably will be an upgrade there, hilariously.
[00:30:11]  That place is infested with a bunch of Marxist cockroaches.
[00:30:14]  But for the neoliberal regime, it is a loss.
[00:30:19]  Let's fill it with a strong populist nationalist in the great state of Nebraska.
[00:30:22]  I love Nebraska.
[00:30:24]  So let's draft a candidate.
[00:30:26]  Recommendations are welcome.
[00:30:27]  Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

=== UNC Charlotte Tour Stop Announcement (05:26) ===

[00:30:31]  I got an email from one of our listeners here is about our upcoming tour stop at University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
[00:30:37]  I have to read this.
[00:30:38]  Charlie Kirk, the leader of conservative group Turning Point USA, will be visiting UNC Charlotte on October 25th.
[00:30:43]  This is sent by the official employee of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Office at UNC Charlotte.
[00:30:50]  Some graduate students of color and LGBTQ graduate students in ethics and applied philosophy.
[00:30:56]  Can you believe people pay for this?
[00:30:58]  No, they go into debt for it.
[00:30:59]  Have drafted a collective letter to condemn his campus event and have asked the administration to seriously consider the impact that his rhetoric will have on our most vulnerable colleagues and students.
[00:31:12]  The AAUP membership also discussed a strategy to prevent his message from being heard by reserving tickets to the event.
[00:31:20]  Again, this is called ghost ticketing.
[00:31:21]  It's where these very weak, deceitful, dishonest activists are trained by professors to fraudulently fill out tickets for our event and then not show up.
[00:31:32]  If you would like to make sure you receive emails from the UNCC's AAUP chapter, you can go here and then it shows all the different woke, different workshops they're doing.
[00:31:41]  Here's my promise to you.
[00:31:42]  All of the Alphabet Mafia folks and all of the diversity gang at UNC Charlotte, if you show up to my event, you'll be allowed to ask a question uninterrupted.
[00:31:52]  We'll have a dialogue and we'll have some fun.
[00:31:54]  That is my promise.
[00:31:54]  We do that at every single event.
[00:31:57]  In fact, I will put you in the front of the line to be able to ask a question.
[00:32:04]  So again, I know dialogue is not a value of the postmodernist racial arsonists and the alphabet folks.
[00:32:12]  But if you at all want to have a conversation, you're allowed to come out or you can try to cancel me and you will be unsuccessful.
[00:32:17]  Okay, I promised a very good American I was going to get to this, and it is Nick from Tennessee asking about Fauci.
[00:32:24]  Long question about Fauci.
[00:32:25]  Did you see Fauci?
[00:32:26]  Blah, blah, blah.
[00:32:26]  Yes, Fauci went on the Today Show.
[00:32:29]  Now, remember, Anthony Fauci is the high priest of secular progressivism.
[00:32:33]  He is the best embodiment we have of an unchecked, unknown, unaccountable fourth branch of government.
[00:32:39]  Anthony Fauci is someone who should be in prison, but it goes to show what happens when we create extra constitutional structures, when we do not allow the Constitution to operate as it was originally designed by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay.
[00:32:54]  Okay, let's play cut 120 of Anthony Fauci on the tonight show.
[00:32:57]  Play cut 120.
[00:32:59]  Is the science in on whether the vaccine is safe?
[00:33:01]  Oh, without a doubt, it's been given to billions of people and billions of doses.
[00:33:05]  So there's no doubt safety is off the table.
[00:33:07]  There is no doubt it's safe.
[00:33:09]  Well, then debate one person about it.
[00:33:11]  How about Steve Kirsch, Dr. Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough?
[00:33:13]  If it's so safe, have a dialogue about it.
[00:33:15]  Or are you going to act Anthony Fauci like the same people at UNC Charlotte?
[00:33:19]  Cancel those you don't like, smear them.
[00:33:22]  Anthony Fauci has just given another $3 million to Peter Dasick and Eco Health Alliance, specifically to research bat viruses in the wild.
[00:33:33]  $3 million.
[00:33:34]  I think Alex Berenson had one of the darkest, most accurate takes on this.
[00:33:40]  He believes that this is not about funding research.
[00:33:42]  This is funding a cover-up.
[00:33:45]  Alex Berenson, he said this on Tucker, and Tucker was blown away by it.
[00:33:48]  And I totally agree.
[00:33:49]  Where Alex Berenson said, no, I think that this is them going to try to cover up their tracks to then be able to fraudulently prove that this actually came from the wild and not from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, of which we know it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
[00:34:04]  Let's go to cut 104, Anthony Fauci smearing ivermectin.
[00:34:09]  Cut 104.
[00:34:10]  Did ivermectin do anything?
[00:34:12]  No.
[00:34:13]  Okay.
[00:34:13]  Humans do take it, but not for this purpose.
[00:34:16]  Right.
[00:34:16]  It does not help with COVID and it could be dangerous.
[00:34:19]  Okay.
[00:34:20]  Hydroxychloroquine, did it do anything?
[00:34:22]  No.
[00:34:22]  No.
[00:34:23]  So people who have hoarded that?
[00:34:24]  No.
[00:34:25]  No, no reason to have done that.
[00:34:26]  Okay.
[00:34:27]  Just checking.
[00:34:29]  This is sick.
[00:34:31]  It's really amazing.
[00:34:32]  It also goes to show, though, they're worried about something.
[00:34:35]  Why now?
[00:34:36]  Why are they doing this?
[00:34:38]  Are they trying to set the record straight, trying to put a middle finger out the door?
[00:34:42]  We're about to take over Congress and we've pledged mass investigations into him.
[00:34:46]  Why go on to Colbert and get those questions that are obviously rehearsed?
[00:34:52]  Cut 40, Alex Berenson's theory.
[00:34:54]  I think it's brilliant.
[00:34:55]  It is quite possible that in a year, Peter Dasak's people are going to come out of those caves with what they claim is the precursor virus.
[00:35:01]  And even if none of us believe them, it will just throw more smoke up and make it harder to prove that the lab leak is what really happened.
[00:35:08]  I think that's exactly right.
[00:35:10]  It's dark, it's cynical, and it describes the fourth branch of government perfectly.
[00:35:17]  Why is Fauci back on a PR tour now?
[00:35:20]  It's interesting.
[00:35:21]  Pride?
[00:35:23]  Book sales?
[00:35:24]  I don't know.
[00:35:25]  There's something else going on here.
[00:35:26]  I'd love your thoughts.
[00:35:27]  Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
[00:35:29]  It might just be right in front of us.
[00:35:30]  It might be something obvious.
[00:35:31]  Might be something not so obvious, but to relitigate the entire ivermectin hydroxychloroquine conversation, there's something else going on here.
[00:35:40]  Stay vigilant.
[00:35:43]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:35:44]  Email me your thoughts.
[00:35:45]  It's always freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:35:47]  Thanks so much for listening.
[00:35:49]  God bless.
[00:35:53]  For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.