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Oct. 20, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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The NHL So White + Against the Great Reset with Michael Walsh
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The Hypocrisy of White Sports 00:14:23
Hello, everybody.
Today in the Charlie Kirk Show, really exciting hour with Michael Walsh.
He joins us for half the episode, and we talk about the great reset.
Super smart guy.
Spent time with him, I think it was before COVID.
I can't remember the last time I met him.
Really smart, awesome guy.
And he did a great job explaining the great reset and has an all-star team of writers.
And he put together this book against the great reset.
I encourage you guys to check it out.
And then I go after the NHL.
Very important to talk about what the NHL is doing.
Sinister, they're destroying hockey.
I used to be a big hockey fan.
I didn't stop being a hockey fan because of this, but it's really disappointing.
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I grew up a hockey fan.
I did.
Blackhawks were awesome growing up.
Jonathan Taves, Patrick Kane.
They were really good.
I think three Stanley Cups.
In fact, check me on that.
I know it was at least two.
One of the most amazing Stanley Cup victories ever.
Chicago quickly became a hockey town.
And it was a lot of fun.
The whole city came together for it.
Everyone would wear Blackhawks jerseys to school.
And it was just awesome.
It really was.
And it was cool because it was a sport that, quite honestly, I didn't understand very well.
And it was, you know, a little atypical.
And yeah, okay, yeah, three, three Stanley Cups in the early 2000s.
But the Hawks were awesome, and it was so much fun.
And they took over hockey.
I remember when they first drafted or traded for Patrick Kane and Jonathan Taves, it was like one of the coolest things ever.
And we had all this hope.
And it actually ended up becoming a big thing.
And the Hawks have won five total Stanley Cups.
Okay, so I really don't follow hockey that closely after the Blackhawks won in 2015.
I remember where I was when they won in 2015.
We were at our Young Women's Leadership Summit, our Turning Point USA Young Women's Leadership Summit, our first ever.
I was watching it at Pheasant Run Hotel in the suburbs of Chicago.
Oh, it was six, actually, total Stanley Cups.
But anyway, three in my lifetime that I saw.
All of them were unique.
All of them were special.
All of them had different teams.
They all played super hard.
Okay, but I always thought of the NHL as a kind of really gritty league, kind of anti-woke in a sense, and like the recent phenomena.
And it's a really, it's a tough sport.
I got to say, I have a lot of respect for hockey players.
The amount of work they put in, it is physically exhausting.
I think they have the shortest offseason, and they are also the least paid per game per hour as far if you count baseball, basketball, football, hockey as kind of the major four.
But you got to have a lot of respect for hockey players.
And so with all that being said, the woke mind virus knows no bounds.
The woke pathogen has no borders, no barriers.
And yes, it's infected the National Basketball Association.
It's infected the National Football League.
It has infected Major League Baseball.
But I think MLB has done a pretty good job of immunizing itself from it.
And now it has completely and totally infected the National Hockey League.
So I fully admit, I really haven't watched much of a hockey game in seven years.
It is a wildly entertaining sport.
But now the National Hockey League is going out of their way to pander to woke ideology, diversity, equity, inclusion, affirmative action guidelines, hockey of all sports.
Play cut 56.
I think the one area that we are feeling positive about is that 38% of our workforce are women.
Having said that, we know we have work to do with women of color and you're leaning into that.
I think the thing that you should take away from the workforce study is that it is a progressive outlook on how you begin to manage your talent.
All right, I'm really getting upset about this.
So they want to diversify the National Hockey League.
Why don't they want to diversify the National Basketball Association?
No one ever talks about that.
It's not a very diverse league.
What percentage, what is the racial composition makeup of the National Basketball Association?
84% black.
That's not very diverse.
In fact, that's very homogenous.
What's the racial composition of the National Football League?
My guess would probably be 58% black, 62% black.
Is that right?
You could check it.
Why is it now that, why can basketball be 84% black or 73% black in 2021?
It changes by your...
Let's just go by your 70%.
Let's just use the use 73.
Let's just say 73 is the number.
73% black.
The NFL is 71% non-white.
That's not very diverse.
But now they say, well, we need more diverse NFL coaches.
Why?
Why don't you want good coaches?
You want some diversity hire?
All the coaches are white.
So what?
What does that have to do with anything?
Oh, blacks only want to play for blacks?
Oh, because they're so racist.
How about that Tampa Bay coach?
He says, all you guys want to talk about is race all the time.
And now the National Hockey League wants to bring in this diversity nonsense.
Look, here's a fact of life.
Hockey is not that popular in the black community.
It's not.
Therefore, a lot of black kids aren't playing hockey.
Also, it's a very expensive sport.
You could try to fix that.
You could try to have hockey rinks and all that.
It just, there is not a lot of compelling interest in black culture and black America to go play hockey.
And by the way, there's a lot in Canada.
There's a lot in Minnesota.
There's a lot in the Dakotas.
Basketball is a cheap sport to play.
And on average, in inner-city America, black families have less income, less money, all that nonsense we always hear because black fathers don't stick around.
And so basketball is a lot more popular.
Let me ask a question.
Do you think Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan is more revered in an average black family?
Not even close.
Do you think an average black kid in Harlem dreams about becoming LeBron James or becoming Alexander Oveshkin, or however you say his last name?
I don't even know that's his first name, Alexander.
I know like three hockey players right now.
What do you think that they dream to become like?
So instead of looking at the National Hockey League as being not that interesting for black America, no, they want to now put in new diversity, equity, inclusion guidelines to try to force a recomposition of which, as if race means something, I think race means nothing.
Trying to redesign an entire league.
Where is ice hockey most popular?
Canada, U.S., Czech Republic, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, England.
Now, if I were to just venture a guess, I would imagine the National Hockey League probably per capita has more foreign players than basketball and football.
That's probably a guess, a good guess.
And they come from predominantly white countries.
And so now the NHL has this new diversity, equity, inclusion czar, this woman, Kim Davis.
And look, this is going to sound cruel, and I don't care.
If you've never played the sport, I don't want to hear from you.
I'm sorry, at any level.
Has Kim Davis played hockey?
Maybe she has.
Maybe I'm wrong here.
Has she played men's hockey?
I doubt it.
Okay.
This is the way to respond to this.
This is Todd Bowles, the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Play Cut 75.
You, you and Mike Tomlin are two of the few blackhead coaches in the league.
I wonder what your relationship is like with them and your thoughts on Steve Wilkes joining that vote.
I have a very good relationship with Tomlin.
We don't look at what color we are when we coach against each other.
We just know each other.
I have a lot of very good white friends that coach in this league as well.
And I don't think it's a big deal as far as us being coaching against each other.
I think it's normal.
Wilkes got an opportunity to do a good job.
Hopefully, he does it.
And we coach ball.
We don't look at color.
But you also understand that representation matters too, right?
And that when you have aspiring coaches, so even football players, they see you guys.
You know, they see someone that looks like them, thinks he grew up like them.
That has to be something.
Well, when you say you see you guys and look like them and grow up like them, mean that we're oddballs to begin with.
And I think the minute you guys start making a big deal about it, everybody else will as well.
It's the perfect answer to that bigot racist.
And I do stand corrected.
Kim Davis was a female hockey player, but she hasn't played men's hockey.
I don't want to hear about it if you haven't played in the sport you're supposed to talk about.
This is so interesting.
You read this 24-page report, accelerating diversity inclusion in hockey.
The NHL is not racist, it's a sport white people play more and like more than black people.
There's nothing wrong with that.
There's more blacks in the NBA than whites.
I have no problem with that.
But our evil media and our evil elites think that white equals evil, so they want it destroyed.
And the weak leaders of the NHL sit by while this Kim Davis activist tries to destroy hockey.
You know, one of our listeners said, what about golf?
Yeah, they're next.
Boy, I can't wait for the wokeys to go after golf.
Woohoo!
That'll be so great for all those Yaley woke activists that are talking about their donations to BLM on the golf course.
Oh, you're not equitable enough.
You can only golf once a week.
You can only golf once a year.
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You know, if you ask most people that are white in America, they have this white guilt complex.
I think that there's been so much damage done to America with white guilt.
It's very powerful.
Shelby Steele, I think, is the most articulate person on the danger and the damage of white guilt.
So you look at the NHL.
What percentage of the NHL is white players?
85%, 90%.
So what's wrong with that?
You have an automatic proclivity to say, oh, there was something wrong with that.
We must change it.
We must change it.
Why?
Why is that a bad thing?
Why is that something you all of a sudden must act as if it needs mass redistribution?
And that lunatic racist that asked the question to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach says, representation matters.
No, it doesn't.
Why does any of this matter?
Why does the skin color matter?
You're focusing on something completely and totally immaterial.
But they want you to fall for the trap that white person means evil.
That white equals bad, white equals wrong.
And look, for years, the Republican Party attacked this race stuff similarly to kind of how I started with this.
And it's not bad.
It's not wrong.
I just don't think it's as effective as it could be.
Where the Republican Party made the point for decades: like, oh, look at the NBA, look at this.
Okay, that's that's a fair point.
It's true.
But you go even deeper.
You got to attack it at its core.
You got to trust.
You got to hit it right at its pass.
You got to kind of get it right at the pass, which is this is anti-white.
That's what it all is.
You read this 24-page report from the NHL, Accelerating Diversity and Inclusion, embedded in the entire thing.
Is there something wrong with white people?
It says here: hockey, in many respects, is a universal language.
And they have a gay flag here.
This commissioner, Gary Bettman, very weak person, goes to the whole thing.
We need to diversify the youth hockey ecosystem.
Diversity Reports for Everyone 00:02:39
Why?
What's the goal here?
Why do you need to do that?
Combating racism and discrimination through education and accountability.
Oh, they have an NHL hotline to all the leagues and players to report instances of unethical conduct.
Dimension one, leadership.
Dimension two, education.
Dimension three, employment.
Improve recruiting and hiring and development practices throughout hockey to increase BIPOC, which is, I think, people of color.
I don't know what the bi stands for.
Is that bisexual, indigenous people of color?
Oh, black, okay, sorry.
Black, indigenous, and people of color.
It's hard to keep up with the intersectionality.
Black, indigenous people of color, not bisexual, indigenous people of color.
I'm sure that would be fine too with them.
I'm sure if the person was bisexual, they would get promoted.
Marketing.
Further develop content and communication strategies to increase and expand the appeal of hockey to young and diverse audiences.
I do have to say what the NBA thing is: do you think the NBA has a report to try to recruit more white people to the league?
Yeah, we need to have a diversity report to go get more white folks to go play basketball.
Not exactly a concern for them.
Then they have partnerships in their 24-page report.
Then participation and community engagement.
Build community affairs, engagement, and affairs that improve the lives of BIPOC and historically marginalized groups.
Historically marginalized groups.
Workforce demographic study.
Of course, they got all the gay stuff here.
Our workforce demographic study is in the most progressive demographic survey.
Just curious, the average hockey fan that goes to a Calgary Flames game or a Chicago Blackhawks or the Avalanche or the San Jose Sharks, an average hockey fan, do you think they're marching in gay pride parades?
What percentage of hockey fans do you think are actively involved in like gay activism?
And they're doing this to NASCAR too.
So then they have this report of their racial demographics as if it's some sort of problem.
83% white of the NHL and its clubs and employees.
Ooh, that's bad.
We must change that.
Oh, then they have one on sexual orientation.
Workforce demographic survey results.
That 93% of the people in the NHL are straight or heterosexual.
1% are bisexual and 1% are gay.
But only here, the little side note: 1% of their employees are veterans or active members.
Yeah, maybe you should expand that before you talk about some sort of diversity report.
Steep Your Generation in Freedom 00:09:55
Incredible.
And then looking ahead, how can we change it?
We've got to change our fan code of conduct.
They have a new relaunch that hockey is for everyone.
It's actually not for everyone.
Hockey wasn't for me.
I could barely skate.
It's not true.
Hockey's not for everyone.
I'm an awful ice skater.
Just don't lie.
It's not for everyone.
It's for people that want to work really hard and develop a very specific skill and beat their body up.
God bless them.
It's not for everyone, actually.
We shouldn't lie to people.
And it goes through team after team after team of what they're doing.
It's sick.
The left destroys everything it touches, and it's well on its way of destroying hockey as we know it.
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Joining us now is Michael Walsh, author of Against the Great Reset: 18 Theses Contra the New World Order, with contributions from Victor Davis Hansen, Douglas Murray, Roger Kimball, Angelo Cotavia, may he rest in peace, James Poulos, Conrad Black, Michael Anton, David Goldman, Janice Fimengio, John Tierney, Harry Stein, and more.
And edited by Matt Walsh.
That's a really great list.
My goodness.
Michael Walsh, welcome to the program.
Hey, thanks, Charlie.
It's good to see you again.
Yeah, you too.
Tell us about your book.
Well, it's not edited by Matt Walsh.
It's edited by Michael Walsh.
I have a problem being confused.
Sorry if I say it so often, so I apologize.
I know you do, my younger colleague.
The idea behind the book is it's a direct attack on the great reset.
And I know, Charlie, you've talked about it a lot, and many of our colleagues in the conservative movement have talked about it.
But very briefly, it's an idea that arose at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
It's been kicking around for some years now.
And generally on the left, it's been dismissed by our ideological opponents as a conspiracy theory.
And yet the World Economic Forum, under the direction of Klaus Schwab, is quite open about their ambition for the world, which is, to put it in a nutshell, you will own nothing and be happy.
So as we said, as I say in the introduction to this book, this is our salvo, opening salvo, against Davos, against the Great Reset, against Schwab, against their plutocrats who would keep all of us basically confined to high-rise buildings, driving electric cars when and if they allow you to have them, and of course, eating bugs instead of beef, because after all, cows are killing the planet.
So that's the background.
It's Against the Great Reset, edited by Michael Walsh, just so we're clear.
That's a spirit.
Yeah.
And so, Michael, let me ask you: what do you think?
What's your theory of why they want this?
It's debated.
Intentions are hard to pinpoint, but I think it's very important.
Why do they want digital ID and digital banking?
What does success look like for them?
Well, I think it's just a matter of control, Charlie.
My last book was a bestseller called Last Stands, which was a military history book of why men fight when all is lost.
And why they fight is because they're standing for something.
And mostly they're trying to protect what they have, their families, their possessions, their country, their honor, their duty.
None of this stuff means anything to these oligarchs who, remember, they have more money than ever was in Crassus' wildest dreams at the beginning of the first triumph with Caesar and Pompey.
They are so rich and they're so used to having people do exactly what they tell them to do that they've decided to impose this on us by a combination of guilt-tripping over this imaginary threat of climate change and sheer force.
So these are very rich people.
Schwab is just the bond villain sort of front man.
But King Charles of England is one of them.
They bring in businessmen from all over the world, including the technocrats and the Silicon Valley people.
And they've realized that what COVID was, and this is the main point, COVID was the warm-up act for what the Great Reset wants to do.
So they were astounded, as they've said themselves in public and in print.
They were astounded that everyone went so meekly under house arrest for two years over absolutely nothing.
Nothing.
But now they know the First Amendment means absolutely zero.
You have no right to free speech.
You certainly have no right to free assembly.
You have no right to practice your religion.
They outlawed that.
The churches, of course, rolled right over, the synagogues too.
So we all showed them we were, as the verse goes from Handel's Messiah, we like sheep have gone astray.
No, we went right into the pen that they had prepared for us.
And now what are we going to do about it?
So against the Great Reset, I brought together some of the best writers and thinkers in the conservative movement, all very established people, to analyze this thing in each aspect of it.
So, the economic, the social, the artistic, the world political, the nation from the view of the nation state, as Roger Kimball did for us.
So, we wanted to just dissect these people.
And now, Charlie, it's up to you and your guys, much younger people.
I'm going to be 73 years old on Sunday.
I can't believe it, from boy wonder to broken down old man in the blink of an eye, but it'll happen to you too.
So, that's right.
No doubt.
But I need people, and we need people your age, and you're doing a great job already, but to get in the game.
And Steve Bannon has been very helpful, of course, pushing this book on the war room and letting people know about it.
But the way I look at it is this: what you do, and what other people, your generation, are doing is mobilizing the youth and getting a ground game going, which we're all kind of too old and set in our ways now to do that.
But there has to be an intellectual component to this movement.
Remember, Bolshevism was an intellectual movement that opportunistically took over a revolution that had already happened, which was the first revolution against the Tsar.
So, Lenin and his crew were ready, willing, and able, tan, rested, and ready, but you don't get tammed in Russia.
But, you know, in St. Petersburg.
No, except maybe in the middle of the night, June 26th.
Yeah, for four days.
But they were ready for it.
They were ready for it.
And so they moved in and they had a whole cadre of people who had been steeped in the intellectual theory of Marxism.
And that's the crucial thing.
We are now trying to steep your generation in the intellectual theory of freedom and capitalism.
And I went to college between 1967 and 71.
So that was the belly of the Beast.
There was Herbert Marcuse, it was in every classroom.
The Vietnam War was going on.
There were protests.
There were riots, 1968, worst year in American history, up until probably recently, where you had the Chicago riots at the convention, the Democratic Convention.
You had race riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
You had other disturbances around the time of Bobby Kennedy's assassination.
And, you know, those were just the first 10 months of the year.
So it was a momentous time.
And a lot of the guys and girls in my generation were educated under that regime.
We have to break that.
So all we can do now, and I'm saying this to you and to all of your younger listeners, because everybody's younger than me now, is learn the principles before you go into battle.
My book, Last Stands, was a military history book.
The book I'm writing right now, which is a sequel to it, is actually about pivotal, epical battles that changed history overnight.
And there were many of them.
One of them, of course, is Alexander the Great against Darius at Galgamella.
The second one was Caesar at Alesia, where he defeated Vercingetorix and the Gauls and therefore turned France basically into a colony of the Roman Empire.
One of the crucial ones I'm writing about right now is the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, which no one's ever heard of, but it absolutely changed world history.
Writing Against the Great Reset 00:09:30
Because when I tell you what it was, you'll know it immediately.
It was the fight between Constantine the Great, Bladder the Great, and his co-emperor in the Western Roman Empire, Maxencius, for supremacy.
And once Constantine won that fight, he then later converted to Christianity and made Christianity legal throughout the empire.
Later on, it became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
But without that battle at the Milvian Bridge in the early fourth century, the world would have a completely different look and feel and be a different place.
So we can do that.
The little things, the little details are what counts.
And if you have, I have one more quick anecdote, which is simple.
As you know, I was one of the first editors at Breitbart.
Andrew and I started, Andrew started the big sites and he asked me to be big journalism editor.
So it was just a few of us at that time.
And cut to 2017.
And President Trump is in the Oval Office, and I'm in the executive office building talking with Mike Anton, who's a contributor to this book, and Sebastian Gorca.
And I was saying, as we looked out at the West Wing, I said, you know, guys, seven years ago, it was five guys with laptops who decided to take on the media and take on the narrative.
And we had a charismatic leader, Andrew Breitbart.
And seven years later, Donald Trump's in the Whiteness.
That's how fast it can happen if you understand the principles you're fighting for.
That's right.
And you're creative and you're energetic.
And that is so powerful.
What is Angelo Cotavilla's contribution to this?
Because may he rest in peace, one of the smartest thinkers the last couple decades.
I'm just curious, kind of what's his, just generally without giving away the details, his contribution.
Yeah, he's talking about the educational system.
So Angelo, who was such a dear man and dear friend to all of us, talks about resetting the educational reset.
Angelo was, as a teacher, was very focused on what the education system has done to the younger generation of Americans over the course of, say, at least two generations now.
And so he outlines the problem beautifully, as he always did, and then gives you some specifics on how to fight back.
And that's the key.
You know, we booked the book opened huge on Amazon two days ago.
And so I'm getting a lot of email from people.
And they're saying, well, we just don't need somebody to tell us what is wrong.
We know something's wrong.
What are we supposed to do about it?
That's not our job, Charlie.
It's not our job to go into the streets with a political program.
It's our job to give your generation the tools to do that.
So here's the spear.
We're too old to carry the swords into battle.
You guys have to do it.
Here's how you do it.
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I just asked my team to go buy a couple of copies of this Against the Great Reset, edited by Michael Walsh.
I mean, it is a team of all-stars.
Michael, just getting these people together and consolidating them, congratulations.
I mean, I know some of the characters involved here to get them to agree to do anything that is not their own.
I mean, you got Conrad Black and VDH and Douglas Murray.
How'd you pull that off?
Well, it helps to have a good roll decks, which I've developed over the years.
You know, as you know, Charlie, I spent 25 years in mainstream journalism, the last 16 of them at Time Act.
And in that capacity, I was the classical music critic of time, but I was also a foreign correspondent, which meant that I was in Berlin when the wall came down in 1989.
I was in Russia when Chernobyl blew up in 1986.
I had quite a front row seat for the fall of communism.
And I gradually moved into political commentary after I stopped writing about music and became both a novelist and a nonfiction writer.
And most of the people in this book are personal friends of mine.
Some I had never met, such as Conrad, but I think we have a very cordial relationship.
It's not easy putting together the 1927 Yankees of consumer.
No, seriously, that's what you've done here.
It's Mickey Mantle, and it's, I think Mickey Mantle's at later.
That was Beyond 27.
But this is Babe Ruther.
Yeah, I was going to say that my Yankee history is way off.
Lou Gehrig.
Lou Garrigan.
Lou Garrick.
Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, and all that.
Now we're back into the strike zone.
So, yeah, I mean, I could get broad or particular here.
Either way you want to kind of go against.
But, you know, when you have this kind of talent and you kind of get them together, I guess you chose the Great Reset because I think you probably believe it's an issue that transcends others, right?
It's geopolitical.
Political, it's philosophical.
Talk about that.
Yeah, well, we have a website called the-pipeline.org, thepipeline.org.
And it's devoted to energy issues originally, but it has grown to encompass climate change and the COVID lockdowns, the loss of freedom.
It's become a freedom site, which I encourage people to log into.
It's free.
And once a day, we put up a major piece by somebody like with the caliber of all these guys.
Anyway, the point was that we decided we wanted to do some books based on our website that would grow out of our website.
So this is the first one.
It's called Against the Great Reset.
There'll be more Against Your Name Here.
You know, when we pick you, we'll go get you.
But the key of this book was in putting the team together, I asked them to do one thing.
Do not write as if you're being published tomorrow, because we all live in the web 24-7.
I said, you're writing for a book that's going to come out a year and a half from now.
That's smart.
I'm going to edit it very rigorously.
And I did, believe me, because I spent 16 years of time and I know what rigorous editing is.
That must have been fun editing all these guys.
Geez.
I mean, they're all best-selling authors.
So that must have been fun.
And you know what?
They were absolutely sweethearts.
Nobody gave me any trouble.
That's amazing.
That just shows you.
That means you're a good editor.
No, no, that means you're a good editor.
That means they respect you.
You don't edit Douglas Murray unless he respects you, but continue playing.
Yes.
Anyway, we put the team together and they did a great job and we got the book out on time.
But I want to just show the cover, if I may discover there, maybe you could.
Yeah, it's yellow, if I'm not mistaken, right?
Yeah, here it is.
So it's got the European sign for stop, right?
So that's the correct sign from the upper left to lower right.
We did this because, first of all, we wanted stop.
Second of all, we are part of an intellectual tradition of against books.
And I mentioned some of them in the introduction, going all the way back to Cicero's Philippics against Mark Anthony, Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche, the great philosopher, against Richard Wagner.
So we wanted to be in that tradition.
But I also want to appeal again to your generation, to what you did with Turning Point, with the young people that you've got involved.
In the 60s, at the risk of sounding really like an old guy now, everybody took to the streets.
We fought.
We fought among each other.
The great battle that you're witnessing right now in the United States and elsewhere is the final battle among the baby girls.
We were the largest generation.
We would show up at kindergarten and there were 50 other kids in class.
We've had to compete like rats in a maze for everything we've got.
And we hate the other guy.
A lot of us have died off, but not enough.
So, you're still witnessing this battle.
And I want young people to get that 60 spirit.
You know, that was the time of the Beatles and the Stones and Led Zeppelin and the Who, and the music was great, and the political ferment was great.
And I see too many young people, you're much closer to them than I am, obviously, but are apathetic.
They don't care.
What's the point?
My vote doesn't count.
I don't want to get involved.
What if they do something to me?
Blah, blah, blah.
Enough already.
Just enough already.
Get a mid and get the game.
You too can join the 2017 Games.
I highly encourage this book.
It's a team of all stars.
It's rigorously edited.
Have you back?
Got to have you back on, Michael.
Great to see you again.
Thank you for the great work.
Against the great reset.
Everyone, pick up a copy.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thank you so much for listening.
God bless.
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