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Episode: Ask Charlie Anything 206: The Country of Georgia? Celebrating Jewish Festivals? Is Crypto Christian?

Author: Charlie Kirk
Duration: 00:32:38

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Charlie takes questions from Charlie Kirk Exclusive subscribers, including:   -How can Trump improve relations with Georgia? (Yes, it's a country) -Why does he follow Shabbat, but not other Jewish festivals? -What the heck is going on in Syria?Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Summary

In this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Charlie Kirk addresses a range of topics sourced from his subscribers, including the political landscape in Georgia, marked by stalled EU accession talks and contentious domestic legislation affecting LGBT rights. The dialogue extends to the importance of practicing Shabbat as a significant religious observance, contrasting it with discussions on Hunter Biden's blanket pardon, which raises questions about the justice system's integrity. Additionally, conversation topics include the financial challenges faced by mothers desiring to be stay-at-home parents, particularly in high-cost states like California.

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00:00:00 Speaker_05
Hey, everybody. We take questions from you in Ask Me Anything episode. We take questions from the country of Georgia. We talk Syria and South Korea. It's an international episode. Mr. Blake helps me through it.

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You guys can become a member today, members.charliekirk.com. That is members.charliekirk.com. To ask us questions directly, we also have Blake. Blake, say hello. Charlie, good to be here.

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Blake, it's been a while since I've seen you, so we'll see when I return.

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You're far away. We have a third hour in our show, apparently. I know. Things are changing.

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But we do it for our members and our members only. The members are the best. Okay, let's get to Lucas. Lucas, thank you for being a member. What is on your mind?

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Uh, hi. Um, so yeah, just to introduce myself, I live in Georgia, the country. Uh, and pretty much the situation here isn't great at the moment.

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Um, so pretty much what the government did was, uh, they said that they would delay you accession talks until 2028.

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and the European Union is also pushing back against the government's decision against that and also because the government passed a few controversial laws in the past year such as the law on family values which pretty much tries to get rid of LGBT propaganda in schools and then another law which is

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a law on foreign transparency, which is to address foreign funding. It's kind of similar to FARA, the U.S. law. So I'm just wondering. And yeah, pretty much what happened was the current U.S. embassy completely stopped any relations with Georgia.

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and the EU is threatening Georgia. So at the moment, Georgia and citizens can go to the EU visa free and they're threatening to end that too.

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So I'm just wondering what the current, the new Trump administration can do to help the situation out and yeah, what the future could look like.

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Well, I can't speak to what the Trump administration will do, but let me understand this. First of all, it's amazing that you're calling in from the country of Georgia.

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One of our team members didn't know that Georgia was a country, and so she will be reeducated. But of course, it's just amazing. So for people that don't know, yes, Georgia is very much a country, and it borders Armenia and Turkey.

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It's in that neck of the woods. And so let me ask you, Lucas, Just to clarify, so you're saying that basically all, a lot of US diplomacy is being cut off because you guys passed a law to prevent LGBT propaganda. Is that right?

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Amongst other things, educate us. I'm fascinated to learn about other countries.

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Yeah, so the two laws that were passed, the first one is one that concerns family values. So it bans LGBT propaganda in schools and other public sectors.

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And then the second law is the Law on Foreign Transparency, which essentially addresses foreign funding to NGOs.

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So any NGO here that receives over 20% of their funds from foreign countries must register as an agent and disclose their funds to the government. So those are the two laws in question and the EU wants us to deal with those laws.

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Yeah. Well, first of all, you speak phenomenal English. Were you raised in Georgia? I was raised in Georgia, but I went to British school here. I mean, you speak great English. Blake, do you have a thought on all this? Blake is our expert. Georgian here.

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Yeah, so I guess I don't have I'm not an expert on what's specifically going on in Georgia But what I will say is you can look at the headlines and you can see outlines Very similar to attacks. We've seen on the government of Hungary.

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It's very similar to the articles they were writing when Ukraine had the original color revolution and

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back in 2014, where they'll say the government is attacking democracy, and then you dig into the details and it's stuff like, well, the government is promoting traditional families and opposing LGBT stuff. Okay, that's not democracy.

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That's just left-wing political stuff. And so I think What you'd see here, if you dig into it, is they're basically just saying, if the government isn't as fanatically anti-Russia as we are, then they're not a democracy.

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If the government doesn't promote socially liberal stuff that we want, they're not a democracy. If they don't join the European Union and allow all of our big NGOs to do whatever they want, that's anti-democracy.

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And so I would certainly raise an eyebrow at all of that.

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And what I think is, as Charlie says, we don't know exactly what the Trump administration will do, but I do think Trump's general anti-intervention impulses would mean he will hopefully have a State Department that's less likely to try and tip the scales over what a country should be doing about its family policy and the like.

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And so I think we'll have a much better State Department under Trump than we've had under Biden or as we had under Obama back in the day.

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Very good, all right, thank you. Appreciate it, Lucas. God bless you, thank you. Thanks. Okay, who do we have next? Daisy, let's see. Andrea, Andrea, what is on your mind? Andrea, thank you for being a member.

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Hi, Charlie. First, you are so inspiring. I've been following you for years and I'm just blown away. Thank you. Yeah, with the holidays approaching, my question is on religion.

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I was curious about how and when you began celebrating Shabbat, as my husband and I have been too. Are you also following the festivals? And I think you mentioned your book might be on this topic.

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That is right. So when did I start doing it? So yes, my next book, unless there's something else that comes across, is gonna be Stop in the Name of God. It is all about the Shabbat.

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And I believe that we are called to honor and be anchored to the Sabbath. Are you Jewish or are you Christian? Or are you Seventh-day Adventist?

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Actually, so I, grew up Jewish, and then my husband was Catholic.

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And we've just recently learned, we've been watching The Chosen, and we've been on this journey, and I think that there's some actual awakening going on, because we've actually realized and learned that there is actually a history where the apostles originally, you know, these two religions were joined, and, you know, just the whole history

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we have been reading on.

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And so we have gone back to celebrating Shabbat as well as the Hebrew festivals, Hanukkah is coming up and are no longer celebrating Christmas, but we've just been doing a lot of reading and the Hebrew roots topic has been very interesting to us and inspiring.

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So yeah, I'm just fascinated by this.

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Again, I'm a big fan of the Shabbat, less about the biblical rigidity of it, I'm gonna get into that in the book, but more about what it can mean for a country and a civilization that is drowning in modernity to disconnect and literally cease all work and all activity.

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Your specific question is, do I follow other Jewish festivals such as Sukkot or Shavuot or Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah? I think I'm missing a couple there, but those are the main ones.

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No, and the main reason being is obviously as a Christian, we do not feel bound to the specific Jewish festivals. However, the Shabbat is very different. It is in the Ten Commandments.

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And the Shabbat is by far the most repeated law in the Torah, repeated of remember the Sabbath, remember the Sabbath, punished by death, by the way, if you desecrated the Sabbath publicly.

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And the Shabbat, unlike Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Shavuot or Sukkot, is a celebration of Genesis 1.1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, or otherwise known as Bereshit.

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And the Shabbat is fundamentally, is not just about the atonement for sins. It can be about that. It is a habit and it is about rest. And it is the longest standing cathedral in time.

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And it is building the practice that we're going to give time to God, not just give money and resources to the Lord. So a lot more to speak out about the Shabbat. Again, that book is going to be coming out Hopefully in the summer and fall.

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I don't know how the book is going to do, but people seem very, very interested in it. So it is going to be called Stop in the Name of God. Blake is going to be helping me with a lot of the research and compiling it. Super excited about it.

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00:11:21 Speaker_04
So I got a question for you. I've seen Riley Gaines's lawsuit to the NSA. Where do you stand or where does this fight actually stand? Because in New York, they passed a bill that allows boys and women's sports.

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Is this my man, Anthony M? Is that who I'm talking to? Yes, it is. This guy's great. He has been one of our first members. It's been a while since we've chatted, Anthony. I know. Been missing you.

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Blake, what is the status of the legislation right now and the lawsuits when it comes? There's so much action going on on the trans issue. Blake, what's the latest here?

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I mean, there's a lot going on. The Supreme Court case is obviously what's getting a lot of the attention because you have

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about there's like twenty five states that have passed laws only some of those have come into effect a lot of them are currently uh... you know they're being held back by the courts they pause them pending the supreme court case uh... yesterday everyone's trying to read the tea leaves about what the supreme court thought on that specific bill which is

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They're getting into very funny things like John Roberts called the transgender counsel from the ACLU mister. Does that mean he's leaning against us because he used their preferred pronouns?

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The people I've been talking to seem pretty confident we will win this case, hopefully six to three on the normal conservative-liberal split. If we get that, it'll actually matter a lot how they rule on it.

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because they could say, we discussed this yesterday, where they were arguing that, oh, it's sex-based discrimination to say that you can't mutilate kids, because, oh, this girl can take estrogen, but this boy can't. That's sex discrimination.

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It would be interesting how the court rules, because they could say, this is just not sex discrimination, or they could say, it is sex discrimination, but it's OK. It passes a threshold of scrutiny to allow that.

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And what my friends pointed out is it might be better if we got that second ruling because that would pave the way to have more court rulings and more laws that acknowledge men and women are different and the law can affect them in different ways.

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It's okay to say the military is presumptively for men. The draft is presumptively for men. You're allowed to do that. And so it'll depend a lot how the court structures that and that will shape

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everything else that happens in terms of sports, in terms of protecting kids, in terms of child custody. So we're all kind of waiting and holding our breath on how they'll frame that.

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OK, so let me just piggyback off. Thank you, Anthony. Yeah, really quick. Really quick, Anthony. Would that affect the New York law that got passed on November 5th?

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My guess is no. I don't think we're in. I don't think we're likely to get a Supreme Court ruling that would go all the way and say it's not allowed to do this stuff. I don't think that's on the table right now.

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So blue states will probably be able to do their thing for the foreseeable future. Go figure.

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Go figure. Appreciate it guys. Thank you Anthony. Hey Blake we have a question here. This is from Darren who's a member. What is going on in Syria is the question.

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uh... by the way we have weird stuff happening in syria in south korea it's like there's a lot of these kind of pocket coups resistance we'll get to south korea another time with syria what is going on here blake yet that's that's a wild one because much like uh... some other cut you know actually much like that the gaza conflict last year it was something that no one was quite want to know where that war has been more basically in stasis since isis was defeated under trump that's about six years ago now

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And so you have these different rebel groups, but no one was making a lot of aggressive action. There's a rebel group, I'm drawing a blank on their name, but they're kind of a successor rebel group to some other organizations.

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And it just seems like they waited. Iran has been distracted and weakened by this war, by this conflict with Israel. Hezbollah was allied with the Assad government in Syria. They just got wrecked very badly by Israel. Russia is very distracted.

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by their war in Ukraine. So all the different forces that were basically supporting the Assad government in Syria have been weakened and they've pulled back. And it just seems like some rebel group saw this and said, OK, let's go for it.

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And so they launched a big offensive. There's a large city in northern Syria named Aleppo. Famously, Gary Johnson didn't know what it was. They seem to have captured quite a bit of Aleppo.

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There was initially some signs the government might collapse basically immediately. That doesn't quite seem to have happened, but suddenly the war is going on in earnest again. And what's really interesting is you can see a divide.

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Some people who clearly are pro these specific rebel groups, and there are some that dislike them. It's a big fractious for a war, and I think it's worth taking a step back and saying... Well, here's what I will say, though.

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We're out of time. Is that the rebels are not good people. Assad's not a good person.

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The rebels, they're not virtuous.

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Do not cheer for the rebels. That's the takeaway. George, thank you for being a member. What's on your mind?

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Hello. First of all, I just want to say thank you for everything you've done. You know, me and my parents have often talked about everything that you do, watch your videos. So first of all, I just want to say thank you.

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I've been thinking about starting a chapter in my school where I go to university in Connecticut and, you know, thinking about that. My question for you is... You should.

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What sort of precedent does the Hunter Biden pardon set for America, especially after what we've seen with the weaponization of the Department of Justice against Trump, and especially the weaponization in South Korea when the president

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called for martial law. What mark does this leave, this weaponization of our political systems? What mark does it leave for America and for the world? It's a great question.

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Blake, actually, it's a good opportunity. Blake, educate us on South Korea, and then let's answer the question. We're getting the whole world. We're getting Georgia.

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We're getting Syria.

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We're getting South Korea.

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South Korea is definitely an example of where America could go if things get worse. South Korea is a democracy, but it's a very fraught democracy.

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The other night I was looking at their list of presidents that they've had, and it's like overthrown, overthrown, assassinated, military coup, imprisoned for 22 years. of a

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You'll have elections in Korea where one place will be voting 95% for one party and another will vote 95% for the other. And it's not ethnically based. They're all Korean. It's very peculiar. But it's a country that has a lot of aggressive lawfare.

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Most of their presidents end up getting prosecuted after they're in office. And what I think we're seeing here is we're seeing the This pardon on Hunter Biden, it's hard to overstate how nuts it is.

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He says in his statement, I think this specific prosecution went too far and wouldn't have happened if he wasn't the son of a president, which, setting things aside, if you're doing crimes as the son of the president, it does seem a little bit worse than it would be otherwise.

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But anyway, he doesn't just pardon him for those, he just says, blanket pardon any criminal activity ever committed in an entire 10 year period from 2014 to now.

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Which means it covers all the Ukraine stuff, it covers all manner of reckless and potentially corrupt behavior. of a Anthony Fauci. And so, again, you're seeing that everything the Democrats claim will be a bad thing Trump will do, they do themselves.

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So they massively weaponize the Justice Department, and then they also use the pardon power to just blanketly get people off for a huge array of crimes. And there really is no precedent for this.

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People will say Trump pardoned Jared Kushner's father, but Jared Kushner's father had served his sentence. And so this was just, you know, it was honoring, it was giving him a prize for not re-offending, for reintegrating into society.

00:20:27 Speaker_01
But he had been convicted, he served his time, and Trump only pardoned him for that offense. This is much further, and it is definitely

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An ugly precedent if we see this become the norm of just every side has to pardon all of its people every time to keep them from getting prosecuted by the people who come after them.

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And you know, a bunch of pardons might be better than everyone getting prosecuted all of the time.

00:20:53 Speaker_01
But it's definitely a decline in the American Republic from what we had before, because ultimately what a Democratic-Republican system of government operates on is you use elections to solve your disputes.

00:21:08 Speaker_01
You let the people decide what policies will be. You don't just endlessly try to destroy each other through every means necessary, because that's the path to civil war and worse.

00:21:20 Speaker_05
Very good. I would agree that the precedent it does set though is that it gives Donald Trump an uninterrupted, a clear shot to do January 6th pardons. Like no one can complain.

00:21:30 Speaker_05
What it does is that there will be no legitimate media cycle hit and with it momentum hit for any pardons that Trump does out of the gate. Great question. Thank you for being a member. Look, I'm going to be realistic about my diet in December.

00:21:46 Speaker_05
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00:22:38 Speaker_05
Okay, Lizzie, thank you for being a member. What's up? What's on your mind?

00:22:41 Speaker_02
Hey, so my question is around crypto. I've always had an overwhelming, unexplainable resistance towards it. The more I read the Bible and strengthen my relationship with God, the more I feel it's actually a responsible resistance.

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As fellow Christians, what's your view of crypto?

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Blake, you first. I'm very pro-crypto. I don't really have a logical view on it.

00:23:04 Speaker_01
What I would say about crypto is I have personally invested in crypto. I have followed crypto. What I will say is observing it, I don't feel like most of the claims made about it as a technology have made a ton of sense to me.

00:23:23 Speaker_01
It does essentially seem to be... What do you mean by that, Blake? Well, so it starts off where they'll say, oh, it'll be this alternative currency to the US dollar, or it'll be a store of value.

00:23:34 Speaker_01
Well, it's not a super great store of value because it fluctuates so dramatically. A huge amount of crypto stuff, you know, basically ends up, a lot of them end up being pump and dump scams.

00:23:46 Speaker_01
You have the whole NFT thing where it's, oh, you own the digital rights to this image, except anyone can just copy it and you don't, it doesn't necessarily mean anything.

00:23:58 Speaker_01
What I feel crypto embodies is it captures the widespread desire of people to endlessly speculate on things and, frankly, gamble on things. I think the vast majority of crypto investing is fundamentally a form of gambling.

00:24:14 Speaker_01
If you think that's immoral, maybe you would want to stay away from it. I think if you fully understand what it is, it's not necessarily a bad thing, because you have to recognize it's very risky. There's all these people pushing pump-and-dump scams.

00:24:30 Speaker_01
There's a million coins. Just today, that Hawktua woman, someone is claiming that she lost her life savings investing in her silly coin. That's bad. You should not scam people, and you should be aware a lot of these things are scams.

00:24:46 Speaker_01
That said, I don't want to ever say someone should categorically stay away from it because there are people who've made enormous amounts of money off of it.

00:24:57 Speaker_01
It has definitely carved out a niche as it is a way for people to have some autonomy and independence from overreaching governments, overreaching regimes. So I don't want to say it's anti-Christian.

00:25:14 Speaker_01
I've seen some people claim Bitcoin might be something from biblical revelation. I think I once saw people claim it was the mark of the beast. I don't think it's any of those things. I think it is a risky asset.

00:25:28 Speaker_01
You can speculate on it the way you might speculate on the Russian ruble or the British pound. But you should know what you're getting into, and you should be aware a lot of it is a scam. Some of it does well, some of it goes up. That's all.

00:25:43 Speaker_01
I don't want to say more than that.

00:25:44 Speaker_05
I think the technology is really interesting. I think blockchain could be used, you know, applicably in other ways, but that's another topic for another time. Lizzie, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Thank you.

00:25:54 Speaker_02
Thanks, guys.

00:25:55 Speaker_05
Teresa, thank you for being a member. What is on your mind?

00:25:59 Speaker_09
Wow. Thank you so very much. What an honor to speak to you. Thank you for saving the country for my children and for my grandson. Um, I live in South Carolina.

00:26:10 Speaker_05
Very nice. I wish I could take credit for that. Please keep going. Thank you.

00:26:14 Speaker_09
Yes. I live in South Carolina and I've been traveling up at least once or twice a week to volunteer in North Carolina and, um, to try to talk about it. So simply brings tears to your eyes as it is devastating up there.

00:26:30 Speaker_09
Um, if you'd like to send Blake down, we'd love to have him and we'll take them up there to Silverado's.

00:26:37 Speaker_09
And he can come and volunteer and he can head off with some of the people who go out and help people muck out their homes and just see everything out there, just so you guys really- Perfect role for Blake.

00:26:52 Speaker_09
So you can really see what's going on and bring truth. I mean, that's one thing I hope President Trump does on day one. is save these people. I hope they make it through it. It's been really cold.

00:27:04 Speaker_05
That sounds like something. Do you have a question?

00:27:08 Speaker_09
So the question is, can you do something on your show to again, put the spotlight on how things are going up there?

00:27:18 Speaker_09
You know, maybe do a segment on it just so people can see, because again, to keep asking for donations, people think everything's going fine, but it is far from fine up there.

00:27:30 Speaker_05
It's a great idea. The answer is yes, and we should. Absolutely. You're right. The appearance is that it's a settled issue, and based on what many others have told us, it is not at all.

00:27:42 Speaker_05
So the answer is yes, and thank you for being a member, and thank you for the kind words.

00:27:47 Speaker_09
Great. We'll wait to hear when Blake is going to show up.

00:27:51 Speaker_05
Thank you. Caleb and Michelle, how are we doing, guys? Thanks for being a member. What is up?

00:27:56 Speaker_03
Hey, Charlie. Great to see you. Hey, Are you gonna be able to make it, are you planning to make it to the Ducks game in Indianapolis for the championship? And then second question is- No, I will not be. Oh, bummer. Keep going.

00:28:11 Speaker_03
So for AmericaFest, like we're super excited this year. I think it's gonna be fantastic. We're wondering, is there something new going on this year that you're super excited about?

00:28:21 Speaker_03
What are you super excited about, most excited about for AmericaFest this year?

00:28:24 Speaker_05
Well, I'm excited about some speakers that are not yet announced that might be there for the first time ever. So that's all I'm going to say about that. I just I'm excited. It's going to be an incredible turnout. We have our members lounge.

00:28:37 Speaker_05
So if you're a member, we have a whole lounge for you guys, which is awesome. And a lot more live interviews. And it's our first ever big AmFest. And with it, the first ever major turning point event. That's right.

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We did not do major turning point events to celebrate a potential win. How cool is that? So major turning point events started in 2018. That was like the beginning of 2017, 2018, but really 2018 is when major turning point events started six years ago.

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We have not yet been able to celebrate a major win since turning point events existed. So interviews that only members can sit in.

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So if you guys become a member, members.charliekirk.com, you guys get to sit in exclusively and see me interview Steve Bannon, see me interview everybody.

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I mean, the entire roster we're interviewing privately, and you guys can check it out, members.charliekirk.com to do that. All right, thanks, guys. Appreciate it. See you there. And no, I'm not going to the next game.

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We have our end of year big fundraiser, our gala this weekend at Mar-a-Lago. A thousand of our top donors will be there. So I am focused on that, and I will be wrapping that up. And Mikey and Brayden know their marching orders.

00:29:48 Speaker_05
They have an iPad with the Ducks game on at all times. They know their orders. So if I turn to them, they show me the screen. I just want to get a little glance of the Ducks-Penn State game.

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Thrilled beyond measure that the Ducks finished 12-0 in their first year in the Big Ten. If they win the Big Ten and go 13-0, that is remarkable.

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Also yesterday, the Oregon Ducks finished number one in 2025 recruiting, the best recruiting class in Oregon Ducks history. All right. Thanks, guys. Beatrice, what's up? What's on your mind?

00:30:23 Speaker_08
Okay. Hi, um charlie, you're you're great. You Honestly turned me to vote for trump. I turned my husband my sister and my mom awesome It's amazing. Yeah, so anyways, um, so I just um, I have a almost 11 week week old i'm looking at her right now and um

00:30:42 Speaker_08
It's just I really want to and I'm from California. I really want to like be a stay-at-home mom. My husband is very supportive of that but obviously we're in California. It's very very hard and I'm super worried about having to go back to work.

00:30:53 Speaker_08
So I just wanted to if you have any words of encouragement or advice or anything like that.

00:30:58 Speaker_05
Yeah, so you're, first of all, it's amazing. So you wanna be a stay-at-home mom, but living in California, it's financially hard, is that right? Correct. To make that happen, is that right? Yeah. Yes, yes. Look, this is a huge issue.

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And if you have to stay in California, I understand, but finding a lower-cost state where you could be a stay-at-home mom might be the best decision for your family. This is a huge issue. We don't have time to dive into it.

00:31:22 Speaker_05
But Blake, remind me to do an issue in a future episode. The amount of women that want to stay at home and they financially have to go into the workforce, I think it's a tragedy. I think it's a tragedy that things have become so expensive.

00:31:36 Speaker_05
The cost of living has gone so much up that moms can't be with their kids to raise them because they have to go work in a job that their heart's not in it.

00:31:45 Speaker_05
So look, the pressure, to be honest with you, is on your husband to be able to find a job productive enough for him to be able to produce for you. So that's honestly, it's on him. And the men need to feel that pressure.

00:32:02 Speaker_05
Men need to be able to find a job and find a career productive enough, work hard enough that your wife does not have to go into the workforce. So thank you for being a member. Really appreciate it. Thank you.

00:32:15 Speaker_05
Okay, email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com. Thank you for being member members dot charliekirk.com. Blake, thank you as always. You follow Blake on none of his social media. You can follow me on mine. Talk to you guys soon.

00:32:26 Speaker_05
Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

00:32:34 Speaker_01
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