The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Us Anything 246: The Origin of AMAs? A Charlie Biopic? The Limits of Speech?
Aired: 2025-12-09
Duration: 37:00


=== Fighting Evil and Proclaiming Truth (11:30) ===

[00:00:03]  My name is Charlie Kirk.
[00:00:05]  I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.
[00:00:11]  My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.
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[00:01:09]  All right.
[00:01:10]  Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:01:11]  Let me take your questions on an Ask Us Anything, otherwise known as an AMA, but now it's us.
[00:01:18]  And we do that in Charlie's honor because that's what he did.
[00:01:21]  So first up, we have, and by the way, if you want to become a part of this, you'll see that URL under there, members.charliekirk.com, become a member.
[00:01:29]  You get to take part in our AMAs and get to be part of the live show and the podcast.
[00:01:34]  And you also get a lot of other benefits.
[00:01:36]  And we have Amfest coming up and we're going to be doing members' lounges where you get to, if you're coming to Amfest, where you get to see private interviews with, you know, just the people in that room before they go live with some of the biggest names and influencers and history makers, newsmakers in the country.
[00:01:55]  And yes, there it is.
[00:01:56]  America Fest, Amfest 2025 coming up in just a few weeks in Phoenix, Arizona at the convention center.
[00:02:03]  And this will be the biggest one ever.
[00:02:06]  All in Charlie's honor, all remembering Charlie and of course taking action, action, action, because that's what it's about.
[00:02:12]  First up for our AMA, Blake, we have Brandon.
[00:02:16]  Brandon, unmute yourself and welcome to the show.
[00:02:18]  Hey guys, can you hear me?
[00:02:20]  Yes, we can.
[00:02:21]  Yes.
[00:02:21]  So my question is about the AMAs actually.
[00:02:25]  So I was just wondering like the history of them, you know, when, why, how did they start?
[00:02:30]  Because to my knowledge, like you guys are the only show that does it and definitely the only show that does it this way live.
[00:02:38]  Yeah, I could give a little brief history lesson on that.
[00:02:42]  So it goes back to when we started on radio, national radio show.
[00:02:48]  There was basically, you know, I think a pressure or push the way that they used to do radio.
[00:02:53]  I think some people still do, where they would roll collars.
[00:02:56]  And Charlie just had so much to say all the time that he wanted to do a show.
[00:03:01]  He wanted to actually, he had things he wanted to say and get accomplished.
[00:03:05]  And so he just, he, but he realized, he's like, you know what I'm going to do?
[00:03:08]  I'm going to put it into one hour where, and it's, we'll just make it a standing invitation where we're going to have people send us their questions.
[00:03:19]  And so we, that's kind of how it happened.
[00:03:22]  It was, it was an impulse that Charlie had to do it because instead of doing callers intermittently throughout the week or whatever, he wanted to just condense it and to put it in one section so that he could focus more closely on it.
[00:03:34]  And then he could use the rest of the show to kind of get accomplished everything else that he wanted to get accomplished.
[00:03:39]  So, but the other thing I would say to this is Charlie loved doing AMAs because of the feedback loop with the audience.
[00:03:46]  So it gave him an opportunity to hear directly from you guys.
[00:03:50]  And he was a voracious email reader.
[00:03:52]  So freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:03:55]  To keep pumping that forever because it is the firewall to truth and freedom.
[00:04:01]  And I said this at the memorial, actually.
[00:04:03]  I don't know if Blake remembers this, but it was kind of this idea that he would go meet with all these fancy people and the elites, if you will, and the donor class, because that's part of the job running a big C3 and a big C4.
[00:04:17]  And they would tell him, oh, this, that, and the other.
[00:04:20]  The country needs this.
[00:04:21]  And, oh, the base doesn't know what they want.
[00:04:23]  And he would have a direct firewall to those types of conversations because he was so in touch with the audience.
[00:04:29]  He was so in touch with the people that listened to the show and the bass and the grassroots.
[00:04:33]  And so, you know, for all of those reasons and more, we will keep doing that in Charlie's honor.
[00:04:40]  I don't know, Blake, if you had anything you wanted to add to that or.
[00:04:42]  Only that when I got here, I think we were already on AMA, probably about 100.
[00:04:47]  So it must have been going about two years at that point.
[00:04:50]  So now we're at, I just checked, we're at, this is AMA number 246, though.
[00:04:56]  I'm in title, I'm in charge of titling a lot of these episodes, and I've probably double-counted a number somewhere in there.
[00:05:02]  Or we had a special one that didn't get a number.
[00:05:05]  Lots of that.
[00:05:06]  But yeah, we've had five years of these.
[00:05:09]  Charlie loved them.
[00:05:11]  And as you said, Andrew, he loved both just how varied it was.
[00:05:15]  He got to talk about scripture.
[00:05:16]  He got to talk about history.
[00:05:18]  He got to talk about politics.
[00:05:19]  He got to talk about stuff behind the scenes.
[00:05:21]  He got to talk about his family.
[00:05:23]  Talk about the Sabbath, like what his new upcoming book is.
[00:05:28]  He loved the variety.
[00:05:29]  He loved that human contact.
[00:05:32]  It was something that gave him a lot of joy.
[00:05:34]  And I love to quote from the poem If, if you can converse with kings nor lose the common touch.
[00:05:41]  And Charlie could take a phone call from the president one minute and then take a phone call from one of you the next minute.
[00:05:48]  And he would take both very seriously.
[00:05:50]  And it was one of his greatest assets, one of his greatest traits.
[00:05:55]  And we're honored to continue it.
[00:05:57]  Yeah, I want to read from Daisy because this is pretty funny.
[00:05:59]  This is actually probably how it actually went down.
[00:06:02]  From what I remember, Charlie said to me, I want live callers tomorrow.
[00:06:05]  And then he said, okay, do this every single week, LOL.
[00:06:09]  That's from Daisy.
[00:06:10]  And that is actually very emblematic of a lot of things at Turning Point and at the show where we would kind of just try something.
[00:06:16]  And if it worked, if he liked it, he would keep it.
[00:06:19]  And, you know, building the plane as it's taking off, if you will.
[00:06:23]  So there was a pretty like organic piece of that.
[00:06:25]  And that does feel right to me.
[00:06:27]  And then over time, we kind of threw in new twists and we brought in the members, dot charliekirk.com for people to join the members portal as well.
[00:06:35]  So it just kind of kept evolving.
[00:06:37]  I remember the AMA, it used to be mostly emails, correct?
[00:06:42]  And then we made it the, did we make it the member call because we were launching members?
[00:06:47]  Yeah.
[00:06:47]  And we were always trying, he always wanted to have callers.
[00:06:49]  I think a lot of it, yeah, because he loved Rush and Rush took callers.
[00:06:52]  He loved continuing that legacy.
[00:06:55]  And I remember we kept trying to just take callers in the middle of normal segments.
[00:07:00]  That was going on a lot when I first started.
[00:07:03]  And people might remember, a little awkward.
[00:07:05]  We'd try it.
[00:07:06]  And there were always technical issues.
[00:07:07]  It was so funny.
[00:07:08]  So I'm very glad we got it nailed down with these AMAs because we've had a lot of very memorable calls the past two years.
[00:07:14]  We've been doing it this way.
[00:07:15]  Yeah.
[00:07:16]  Next up, Jonathan.
[00:07:17]  Welcome to the show, Jonathan.
[00:07:19]  Good to be here.
[00:07:21]  So have you guys invited Dennis Prager and Larry Elder?
[00:07:25]  So in years past, we have had both of those gentlemen.
[00:07:28]  Obviously, Larry or Dennis Prager is still recovering from his injuries.
[00:07:34]  And I don't know.
[00:07:36]  I haven't checked in recently.
[00:07:39]  I know Erica has, but I think Dennis is still sort of bedbound.
[00:07:45]  I don't know that he's expected to get his mobility back.
[00:07:48]  I'm not sure.
[00:07:49]  But we remain close with Dennis.
[00:07:50]  And like I said, Erica has spoken with him recently.
[00:07:54]  And he's a great mentor of Charlie's and has been to so many turning point events.
[00:07:59]  And then Larry, Larry's been to a bunch of turning point events.
[00:08:02]  He's done his radio show from turning point events.
[00:08:05]  We love Larry, have a long, long friendship and relationship with him.
[00:08:08]  He's not going to be at this year simply because probably we, you know, after Charlie was assassinated, a couple things happened.
[00:08:18]  We got flooded.
[00:08:19]  Everybody bought tickets to Amfest.
[00:08:20]  We had to turn the ticketing off.
[00:08:21]  And again, we're very sorry that we had to do that.
[00:08:24]  We would love to take everybody.
[00:08:26]  Candidly, the event would probably be twice as big if we didn't turn ticketing off.
[00:08:30]  But what also happened was a lot of speakers, a lot of big name, you know, movement leaders and politicians reached out and wanted to be a part of the event.
[00:08:41]  And it filled up almost instantly.
[00:08:44]  We already had some booked before September 10th.
[00:08:47]  But then after what happened, it just took on a life of its own.
[00:08:53]  And so this is sure to be the largest and most crowded speaker list that we have ever had at Amfest or probably any other event.
[00:09:04]  Since he asked about Dennis, I just want to flag, because I think it's a very moving tribute that this book, Stop in the Name of God, all about the Sabbath, the dedication.
[00:09:14]  This book is dedicated to Dennis Prager.
[00:09:18]  Your life's work brought me to honoring the Sabbath.
[00:09:22]  As a result, I wrote this book.
[00:09:23]  Thank you, Dennis, for all you have done for humanity.
[00:09:27]  God bless you.
[00:09:29]  I can't imagine Charlie ever thought Dennis would outlive him, but that's the way it came to pass.
[00:09:36]  But he did.
[00:09:37]  I remember that.
[00:09:38]  He told me he wanted to write this book.
[00:09:40]  Dennis inspired him so much to do it.
[00:09:42]  I think he worked with him on the actual process of writing the book as well.
[00:09:46]  And he left it as a great tribute to his friend.
[00:09:50]  And this book is a tribute to Charlie as well now.
[00:09:52]  Stop in the Name of God.
[00:09:54]  You can get it at 45books.com if you want it, 45books.com.
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=== Pre-Buy Tickets for Next Year (09:01) ===

[00:11:34]  Blake, we just talked about Amfest, and unfortunately, this year is sold out, but you can already pre-buy tickets for next year, which is a huge thing.
[00:11:42]  And you get a discounted price if you do that now.
[00:11:45]  So that's one thing.
[00:11:46]  But I don't think we've made enough of this on this show.
[00:11:49]  And we had a big speaker announcement this week, and that is JD Vance will be joining us at Amfest.
[00:11:56]  If you want to throw up image eight, JD Vance is a confirmed speaker, featured speaker at Amfest 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona, December 18th through the 21st.
[00:12:06]  And that is a big deal.
[00:12:08]  But if you are not able to join, say you waited, you didn't get your tickets, the whole thing will be streaming live on rumble.com, rumble.com.
[00:12:18]  You can show image seven.
[00:12:21]  So we have a deal with Rumble where they will be streaming the entire thing.
[00:12:25]  So you can always be a part of the action.
[00:12:27]  I know the War Room posse, Bannon's going to be there, many, many other media outlets.
[00:12:32]  It's going to be, this thing's going to be bonkers, folks.
[00:12:35]  Blake?
[00:12:36]  Yeah, no, it's great.
[00:12:37]  We have some clips from JD.
[00:12:39]  I thought you were going to jump in there.
[00:12:40]  Oh, sorry about that.
[00:12:41]  No, we have, let's see, which is the best one that we have here.
[00:12:46]  We're very excited to have JD.
[00:12:48]  Yeah, let's play 271.
[00:12:50]  Under the Biden administration, the average American family lost over $3,000 of household income.
[00:12:56]  And under the first 10 months of this Trump administration, they have gained over $1,000 of household income.
[00:13:02]  What that says very clearly is that we are fixing the problem that Joe Biden and the Democrats created in the last administration.
[00:13:12]  And I think JD really in, I would just say, JD over the past year, especially, he has really grown into this role that Charlie envisioned for him.
[00:13:20]  This is why Charlie was such a JD fan.
[00:13:24]  We've told the very funny story of how we endorsed him for Senate immediately.
[00:13:28]  And it was actually, we jumped the gun a bit and before Charlie could contact donors and explain why we were doing this.
[00:13:35]  And it's a very funny story, but he always was a big believer in JD from basically the moment he entered politics.
[00:13:43]  He always thought he had a huge amount of potential.
[00:13:46]  People would say, Charlie, do you plan to enter politics?
[00:13:48]  And one of the things, one of the answers he would say was always, I don't need to because I know the things I care about are squared away with JD as such a rising star.
[00:13:57]  And he was so happy with how he's performed as vice president, becoming this spokesperson for the administration for its vision, this person who can perpetuate what makes MAGA MAGA for years on end.
[00:14:11]  And so we're super excited to have him at America Fest.
[00:14:14]  We've seen over and over how much how much JD loved Charlie, how he was a friend to Charlie.
[00:14:20]  And we want to maintain that friendship as much as possible going forward.
[00:14:26]  And we encourage everyone, if you're not able to attend AmFest, you can watch all the speeches online and get yourself fired up and come next year, especially if you are on the waiting list this time.
[00:14:37]  You get a discount for next year's.
[00:14:38]  And that's right.
[00:14:40]  Be there.
[00:14:40]  Be there next year.
[00:14:41]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:14:42]  Be there.
[00:14:42]  We have another question from Robert.
[00:14:44]  Robert, welcome to the show.
[00:14:47]  Hey, can you guys hear me?
[00:14:48]  Yes, we can.
[00:14:49]  Yes.
[00:14:49]  Oh, great.
[00:14:50]  Yeah, my question, I've got a couple of things.
[00:14:52]  My question is, is why don't you partner up with Angel Films and do a biopic with about Charlie's life?
[00:14:59]  I mean, really get some aid listers.
[00:15:01]  I know Chris Pratt is a Christian.
[00:15:03]  I don't think he would be the right person.
[00:15:04]  Play Charlie, of course.
[00:15:06]  That's not my domain.
[00:15:07]  But I think that that would be something that would really be groundbreaking.
[00:15:11]  It would renew everybody's down in the dumps feeling.
[00:15:18]  I never met Charlie.
[00:15:19]  I know that you guys, of course, were dear friends with him and colleagues, but I will say that I miss him every day.
[00:15:27]  I can't tell you what a bright light this young man was and at what a young age he was able to accomplish what he did.
[00:15:36]  And I really believe that that was because that was a God-given thing that he was put here at this time to make these kinds of changes and to bring this visibility out.
[00:15:50]  And the other thing is, is that I founded five companies.
[00:15:53]  I took a couple public, made a lot of money.
[00:15:56]  I've lost a lot of money.
[00:15:58]  And during the Biden years, it took, I kind of retired out of tech when Trump got in.
[00:16:03]  And then it took me five years to get a job in tech.
[00:16:08]  And mainly because of the H1 visas.
[00:16:11]  I really believe that you guys have got to get hardcore about this visa thing.
[00:16:19]  It is, I can't tell you how many people who have the experience I have who can't even get a resume looked at.
[00:16:25]  I mean, I sent out hundreds, thousands of job applications and finally got hired about nine months.
[00:16:32]  Well, I got hired two weeks after Trump got in.
[00:16:35]  Blake, you want to take a stab at Robert's question about that?
[00:16:38]  Yeah, so Robert had two questions.
[00:16:41]  We'll hit the more fun one first.
[00:16:42]  He asked about whether, you know, if we would work with Angel Studios on a Charlie biopic.
[00:16:50]  It's way above my pay grade on that question.
[00:16:52]  Obviously, whether any film was made about Charlie is a question for Erica to decide.
[00:16:57]  And I have no idea what offers she's received in that way, what her own thinking on this is.
[00:17:03]  I genuinely just don't know.
[00:17:05]  I think my suspicion is it's probably very likely we'll get one eventually because Charlie is just such an icon to so many people.
[00:17:14]  And his life, it truly has a cinematic quality to it.
[00:17:19]  He built something so immense and so successful from such a young age, from nothing, really came from no strong political background, no establishment background.
[00:17:32]  It was just his pure energy, his force of will.
[00:17:34]  He drew people to himself.
[00:17:36]  He made people believe in his mission and just the faith angle as well.
[00:17:40]  His faith grew throughout his life and he truly died a martyr.
[00:17:45]  I have to imagine I very much understand why so many people think a film of it would be good.
[00:17:52]  It is very funny.
[00:17:53]  I just do have to say I did chuckle at the suggestion of Chris Pratt because I checked and Chris Pratt is 46 years old.
[00:17:59]  It would be very, there would be something interesting about him playing a person who was 15 years younger than him when he passed.
[00:18:10]  But I don't know.
[00:18:11]  How do you feel about it, Andrew?
[00:18:13]  On the other hand, would it be too real?
[00:18:15]  Would there be something fake about seeing someone else play a man that both of us?
[00:18:19]  I mean, listen, here's what I'll tell you is that it's probably going to happen.
[00:18:24]  The question is how?
[00:18:25]  And I think there might be multiple because I can already tell you on the documentary side, there's going to be multiple.
[00:18:31]  There already are a few.
[00:18:32]  I think Daily Caller just released one that they did.
[00:18:37]  The folks behind the Art of the Surge are doing one because they traveled with Charlie to Greenland and they had a bunch of footage from behind the scenes.
[00:18:43]  So on the doc side, we're going to have that.
[00:18:46]  And then, of course, turning point, USA, the team has more footage than anybody.
[00:18:50]  I mean, the team followed Charlie around for years.
[00:18:56]  And, you know, I was always sort of wondering, why is this camera going when I never see this footage?
[00:19:01]  Well, now we have this amazing, amazing storehouse of just never before seen footage of Charlie.
[00:19:07]  So that is something the team is working on as well on the turning point side.
[00:19:12]  And so that's going to happen.
[00:19:14]  And I know that there are people that have already contacted me and us about making films.
[00:19:18]  And to Blake's point, it's kind of all in Erica's, that's a decision for her to make.
[00:19:24]  And, you know, we sort of entrust that with her.
[00:19:26]  And I know she's talking with really great people.
[00:19:29]  And so we'll see what happens with that.
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=== Defending H-1B Student Rights (14:45) ===

[00:20:35]  So the second half of Robert's question, because we also want to hit that, is he asked about H-1Bs.
[00:20:39]  He, I believe, I don't know if we still have them, but I think he said it took him five years to get a job in a tech-related field.
[00:20:46]  And that's a field where we're told we have a huge talent shortage.
[00:20:49]  And so that's why we need so many H-1Bs.
[00:20:51]  Hundreds of thousands of people have come to America as H-1Bs.
[00:20:55]  For those who have forgotten to remind you, the H-1B visa is a skilled worker visa.
[00:21:01]  It is for companies that say they have a position that cannot be filled by an American worker, so they need to bring in someone from abroad.
[00:21:10]  It's become extremely popular in Silicon Valley, and it's certainly become very controversial.
[00:21:16]  A lot of people have called for ending it outright or radically curtailing it.
[00:21:21]  President Trump himself has defended it.
[00:21:23]  He defended it in the case of, for example, we've been building these chip plants in the United States.
[00:21:28]  And he said, well, you're going to need these foreign chip experts to get these plants up and running.
[00:21:34]  Otherwise, it's just not going to happen.
[00:21:36]  And there's something to be said for that.
[00:21:38]  But there is also a very real fact.
[00:21:40]  We have gotten addicted to this.
[00:21:42]  And that addiction, like any other addiction in your own personal life, it makes us weaker over time and it makes it hard to break.
[00:21:50]  We have damaged America's ability to be skilled in highly technical fields because of H-1Bs.
[00:21:56]  It's lowered the amount of, it's lowered the salaries in a lot of those fields, so they're less appealing than going into something like law or medicine where there's more of a barrier to foreign competition.
[00:22:08]  And it's made it so there's companies that have just gotten used to, oh, rather than having to train up American workers who are fresh out of college, we can take these people who have three years of experience from abroad and we don't have to do any training, saves us money and makes it all easier for us.
[00:22:25]  And it's a complicated thing that we're going to need.
[00:22:29]  I think we should dial back H1B.
[00:22:32]  I definitely think we should dial back H-1Bs, maybe even have the goal of ending it entirely.
[00:22:36]  But we do need to have a plan for how we're going to, for example, incentivize companies and say, we will encourage you to train employees fresh out of college or even fresh out of high school so that you have an incentive to teach Americans to do this job rather than just rely on foreigners to do it.
[00:22:54]  Another thing I'd point out is it's not just H-1Bs.
[00:22:57]  It's become the symbol of this problem, but there's a lot of other visas out there.
[00:23:01]  So we need a total spectrum look.
[00:23:03]  One that's known as the OPT.
[00:23:05]  It's not quite a visa.
[00:23:06]  It's called Optional Practical Training.
[00:23:08]  And it's a program that's available for foreign students where they can stay in America longer working in a job related to their field of study.
[00:23:17]  And there's been whole cases where companies like Microsoft have used this as a shadow H-1B program to get more foreign workers without getting H-1Bs.
[00:23:25]  So it's definitely a massive issue for America.
[00:23:29]  It's one Charlie was very aware of.
[00:23:31]  It's one I told him a lot about.
[00:23:32]  I was saying, this is bubbling up badly.
[00:23:35]  People have become really aware that their job opportunities are getting hobbled because we continue to bring in a lot of foreign workers.
[00:23:42]  And especially now that the border has been secured, people are looking at the other sources of immigration-related problems in American life.
[00:23:50]  So you're absolutely correct.
[00:23:51]  It's a thing we need to talk about.
[00:23:52]  It's a thing Vice President Advance has talked a lot about.
[00:23:55]  He might even talk about it at AmericaFest.
[00:23:57]  So definitely tune into that.
[00:23:58]  Do you have anything to say on that, Andrew?
[00:24:00]  Yeah, I want to add two things.
[00:24:02]  One, that, you know, Robert was having trouble getting interviews, even, but it took him years to get hired.
[00:24:07]  And one thing I would just say is a problem that has been reported widely when it comes to H-1Bs is that you have once you some of these cultures that you bring in, now remember, I'll just stating the facts: 70% of H-1Bs go to Indians, another 10% to 15% go to the Chinese, and 80% of H-1B visas go to for entry-level jobs.
[00:24:29]  So these are, this is a direct problem assault on the youngest Americans that are getting it, just getting into the workforce.
[00:24:38]  So it's a huge, huge issue.
[00:24:39]  But one of the things you notice is that, and I've heard this just repeatedly, Robert.
[00:24:44]  I don't know if you have an anecdote that would underscore this, but they tend to hire other people from their culture.
[00:24:50]  So if you hire, if one of these H-1Bs rises through the ranks, they become a hiring manager.
[00:24:55]  They tend to hire other people that are closer in cultural affinities or affiliations to themselves.
[00:25:02]  And so that's not necessarily a good thing for Native born Americans either.
[00:25:06]  So that there's multiple problems.
[00:25:08]  Some are cultural, some are structural that are injected into the system when you are addicted to foreign labor.
[00:25:15]  It's just the facts.
[00:25:16]  Should we take the next one?
[00:25:17]  Let's take Gina's question.
[00:25:18]  Gina, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:25:21]  What's your question?
[00:25:22]  Hey, thanks, guys.
[00:25:24]  Can you hear me okay?
[00:25:25]  Yes, we can.
[00:25:25]  Yes, ma'am.
[00:25:26]  Okay.
[00:25:28]  My heart's broken with the things that are going on with Candace.
[00:25:32]  And I'm trying to make it all come together.
[00:25:37]  I'm sure I'm not your only fan that is trying to do that because of the relationship that she had with Charlie.
[00:25:45]  And one thing that I'm just trying to make come together in my head is why the invitation was extended to Candace, but not to Candace directly.
[00:25:56]  Blake, I think you tweeted something out.
[00:25:58]  And I don't know if, you know, I don't know what's truth and what's not, but I do know that she said she didn't even see the invitation.
[00:26:07]  And it was issued, Blake, I think at 12 on a tweet that you had, but or at midnight, 12, not noon, midnight.
[00:26:14]  And so it was like nine hours later before she even knew that you said anything about her attending the show.
[00:26:20]  And then she's saying she can't attend in person.
[00:26:22]  Can she attend on a live stream or, you know, and you guys do live streams all the time.
[00:26:28]  And is that going to be enough?
[00:26:30]  Of course, Gina.
[00:26:30]  I'm just trying to make this come together.
[00:26:32]  Of course, Gina.
[00:26:33]  So first of all, our initial statement, it was on the show on Wednesday.
[00:26:38]  I made it at the request of Erica.
[00:26:40]  All of this has been at the direction and approval of Erica because she heads this.
[00:26:47]  And so what we were announcing there is we said she has said things that are not true.
[00:26:54]  And we did not address them for a long time.
[00:26:57]  We stated the reasons why that we thought a lot of them were just not.
[00:27:04]  We initially just thought no one would believe a lot of what was being said.
[00:27:07]  And we also just, we, we remembered the same friendship that Charlie had and we just hoped that this would go away without requiring any sort of direct statement or confrontation from us.
[00:27:18]  So what was approved is we announced we are going to respond to this.
[00:27:22]  And what I said was we are going to announce a date soon.
[00:27:26]  We actually hadn't agreed on it at the time I read the statement.
[00:27:28]  We're going to announce a date where we're going to respond to this.
[00:27:32]  And once we announce it, Candace is free to attend in person.
[00:27:36]  That is what we announced.
[00:27:37]  And so once we agreed on a time, I announced what the time was going to be.
[00:27:41]  Candace, for her part, had said, you name the time, you name the place.
[00:27:46]  That is what we did.
[00:27:48]  As for why it was put out at that time, I would just say I don't think she had any difficulty in finding out what our scheduled time was.
[00:27:57]  It seems everyone found it out quite quickly.
[00:28:00]  And lastly, on the point of why it's in person, I think it's pretty intuitive that given what is being said, what the way this has worked is that it's critical to be in person if you want to be authentic and to be detailed.
[00:28:18]  And that is what we think is a fair request to make if she's going to participate.
[00:28:23]  But regardless, it is going to go forward because we have agreed that some response needs to be made.
[00:28:30]  And so that's going to happen when we announced it on December 15th.
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[00:29:38]  Go ahead and ask your follow-up.
[00:29:40]  Well, you know, I just don't think I'm the only person who has heard some things that truly do not make sense.
[00:29:49]  And I know that Candace is asking a lot of questions and she's way out there.
[00:29:55]  But I also know that there are lots of us who are just everyday, normal average Americans who are fans of yours.
[00:30:03]  We're fans of Charlie's.
[00:30:05]  We're fans of Candace's and they were friends.
[00:30:08]  And the things that don't make sense, I think so many of us are really just wanting for there to be some kind of logic to the whole thing.
[00:30:17]  And I have asked Candace myself.
[00:30:19]  I mean, I'm one person in all of America and maybe the world for that matter, who has asked her to please, you know, go ahead and go.
[00:30:28]  Come to your place, whatever you need.
[00:30:30]  So that those of us who by complete happenstance have turned out to be people who listen to both of your podcasts.
[00:30:41]  It doesn't make any sense.
[00:30:43]  You know, I really appreciate your heart genuinely.
[00:30:46]  And I hear, you know, the sincere request for things that you think don't make sense.
[00:30:51]  I will say a couple of things just before we have to go back to radio here.
[00:30:55]  One is that that's why we're doing this stream on the 15th.
[00:31:01]  We want to address any of this stuff and just let everybody know the truth because much of it is very simple, very simple to rebut and to explain.
[00:31:10]  And I would also say that, you know, we want to be cognizant all the time and we're aware of this.
[00:31:19]  We're in a different situation because there is an ongoing investigation.
[00:31:22]  There's a trial.
[00:31:23]  We have to be more careful than other voices out there what we say.
[00:31:27]  And there's always the issue of tainting a potential jury pool that we're always very sensitive of.
[00:31:31]  So, Gina, thank you for your question.
[00:31:33]  David, David, welcome to the show.
[00:31:35]  Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:31:37]  Hey, how are we doing today?
[00:31:38]  Doing well.
[00:31:39]  Thank you, sir.
[00:31:40]  Just want to make a couple of one comment, and then there's one question.
[00:31:44]  We're in Southern California.
[00:31:46]  We are trying to get voter ID on the ballot.
[00:31:51]  We're at 750,000.
[00:31:52]  We need 300,000.
[00:31:53]  My second comment is, what do you think of Cal Lutheran turning down making for a turning point chapter, Cal Lutheran University?
[00:32:04]  Yeah.
[00:32:05]  Well, listen, the six, yeah, signature drive.
[00:32:09]  Yeah, no, absolutely.
[00:32:10]  And we have a whole story on it, by the way, at TurningPointUSA, tposa.com.
[00:32:15]  You could literally just, you know, look up Cal Lutheran, TPUSA, and the article will pop right back up.
[00:32:22]  But yeah, it was a, you know, we had a chapter there, a pre-existing one, and it was disapproved in a 211-1 secret ballot by the school student senate.
[00:32:32]  And that was according to the ECHO, which reported on the matter.
[00:32:36]  They had an argument back and forth.
[00:32:39]  Students presented various arguments.
[00:32:41]  And then, you know, somebody said, I wasn't personally surprised by the outcome.
[00:32:45]  At the end of the day, we do try to be fair, impartial, and we want to see all the clubs succeed.
[00:32:49]  But we will notice when a club is trying to push a certain rhetoric.
[00:32:53]  And the last thing we need is controversy here on campus.
[00:32:57]  Another person said they felt concerned with her safety with a TPSA chapter on campus as a black student.
[00:33:04]  So listen, this is something that we have seen, which is, you know, we've seen it again and again again.
[00:33:10]  We actually just had a high school chapter that had been accused of racism or something like that, that they persisted.
[00:33:17]  They ended up getting approval.
[00:33:19]  They had their first chapter meeting yesterday and over 50 students showed up.
[00:33:22]  So one of the things that we've noticed, especially when you have this pushback, is that there's just this huge demand, there's pent-up demand within the student body.
[00:33:32]  And you get these huge turnouts, like 50-plus students at a first meeting.
[00:33:35]  That's incredible.
[00:33:36]  And it's a testament to Charlie and how he's still inspiring so many young people.
[00:33:41]  But there are appeal processes in place for this type of thing.
[00:33:45]  There's a way to, if you have to bring in legal, there's a way there because this is obviously if you're showing bias against conservative groups or if you're not pursuing freedom of speech the way you should.
[00:33:57]  So I always say when it's a student senate issue that is responsible for voting, there are other avenues that you can pursue with the administration, with legal if you have to, and you can apply pressure in those ways.
[00:34:10]  And we've had a really successful track record of that.
[00:34:12]  Now, there is a troubling issue when it comes to, I would say, Christian schools, historically Christian schools that have probably lost their way.
[00:34:22]  Charlie would rail against Christian schools.
[00:34:25]  They tend to be the worst for some reason, the most cowardly, the most feckless, especially about living boldly in their faith and Christian and conservative.
[00:34:31]  Megan Basham from the Daily Wire has covered this a lot, and she's a friend of the show.
[00:34:37]  And so I know she's working on a whole piece on this.
[00:34:40]  So it's a troubling trend.
[00:34:43]  And it's just a reminder that these Christian institutions, formerly great Christian institutions, so many of them have lost their way and they need to find their backbone and their spine again.
[00:34:53]  And the way they do that is get behind our conservative students.
[00:34:56]  Back them.
[00:34:57]  Back their play.
[00:34:58]  And so we are going to keep pursuing this.
[00:35:00]  This is not the only case of this.
[00:35:01]  And we're working, just so you know, we have a field team and field staff all across the country that work directly with these student groups to help them overcome just these sorts of challenges.
[00:35:10]  All right.
[00:35:11]  We have one minute 45 left.
[00:35:13]  So unfortunately, Sarah, I'm going to read your question so we can get it ASAP because you say your question is free speech.
[00:35:19]  Is there a line for free speech?

=== Reconciling Free Speech with Morality (01:39) ===

[00:35:21]  Like when actually calling violence is wrong or is calling for violence wrong?
[00:35:26]  Or you have a no swearing policy.
[00:35:28]  How do you reconcile that with free speech?
[00:35:31]  Well, first of all, we have an absolute First Amendment legal right to freedom of speech.
[00:35:37]  And what doesn't get covered by that is, yeah, it doesn't calling to actually commit violence.
[00:35:42]  America has a great standard on this.
[00:35:44]  It's basically, if you're going to be calling for violence, it has to be a specific target, a specific person, in a specific manner.
[00:35:52]  And if you don't have at least two of those three things, in America, a court will generally say doesn't count.
[00:35:59]  You can say, yeah, I don't like the Constitution and we should get rid of it.
[00:36:02]  Or, yeah, I kind of think we should overthrow the government.
[00:36:05]  If you're being vague, you can do that in America.
[00:36:08]  And I think that's actually a good standard.
[00:36:09]  It's a standard very few other countries have, but it's why in America we have such a robust free speech tradition.
[00:36:17]  Now, you can still have a personal policy about what you should or should not say.
[00:36:22]  So we shouldn't swear.
[00:36:24]  We shouldn't take the Lord's name in vain.
[00:36:25]  That is a moral principle that we follow.
[00:36:28]  You shouldn't do it.
[00:36:29]  That doesn't necessarily apply for the entirety of the country.
[00:36:33]  America is a country with freedom of religion.
[00:36:35]  It doesn't have blasphemy laws.
[00:36:37]  We oppose blasphemy laws in other countries.
[00:36:39]  You don't want them to ban blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad or something.
[00:36:43]  But if you're a devout Muslim, you of course shouldn't do that.
[00:36:46]  And so it's a mixture of what our laws should be and what our moral principles should be.
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