The Charlie Kirk Show, February 2, 2026

Summary

Podcast Summary: Real America’s Voice – The Charlie Kirk Show – February 2, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show on Real America’s Voice, the hosts dive into the contentious national debates over immigration enforcement, recent anti-ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) protests, the influence of political activism on youth and public education, and the mainstream cultural shift captured in the 2026 Grammys. The show also features a major announcement: the launch of the “All-American Halftime Show” led by Kid Rock, a response to what the hosts view as “woke” entertainment culture. A range of guests contribute, including Kid Rock himself, pollster Rich Barris, and investigative reporter Luke Rosiak. Key topics include the battle over DHS/ICE policy, viral protest moments, counter-movements in schools, and major shifts in American political and media landscapes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Calls for Reform and ICE Controversy (00:25–05:03)

• Discussion of proposals to reform DHS/ICE: After recent deaths in Minneapolis, proposed changes include ending ICE “roving patrols,” mask bans, body camera mandates, and requiring judicial warrants.
  • Mike Johnson’s Perspective: Criticizes local officials in Minneapolis for “inciting violence.” Defends ICE agents’ use of face masks to protect against doxxing and threats to their families.
  • Andrew adds: “Don’t ever, ever dox people and target their families, too.” (01:37)
• Partisan positioning: Johnson touts the SAVE (Save America) Act, focused on citizenship and voter ID, and frames Democrat opposition as allowing “non-citizens to vote.”
• Child welfare and border security: Benny Ray Harmony and others cite statistics of “145,000 unaccompanied migrant children” and blame Biden-era policies for chaos and child trafficking at the border.

2. Youth & Protest: The Communist Playbook? (07:58–21:22)

• National anti-ICE protests: The weekend saw a nationwide surge in anti-ICE demonstrations across major cities—Minneapolis, Portland, Los Angeles, NYC, and more.
• Student Walkouts: Criticism of high school and elementary students participating, with claims that “the libs involve your children. They're propagandizing your children...to get them to hate the country [and] law enforcement.” (08:07)
• Indoctrination Allegations: Blake references Jesuit education maxims (“give me the child till seven, and I will give you the man”) to argue the left seeks to “recruit your child for political causes.”
• Historical Parallels: Blake compares this to the Pavlik Morozov legend (Soviet-era story of a boy denouncing his father), warning of a similar “political cult” around youth activism.
• Social Media Virality: Clips and stories circulate of elementary/middle schoolers engaging in anti-ICE activism, often celebrated by teachers and parents.

Notable Quotes:

• Andrew (on anti-ICE protests and youth):
  • “This is the communist playbook. They try and get in the middle of a parental relationship with their kids, indoctrinate them.” (09:06)
• Blake: “If you’re a parent who supports ICE… there are teachers…who are basically telling your kids every day that your parents are bad, your parents are evil.” (10:18)

3. Media Coverage and Manipulation Tactics (14:39–20:09)

• Allegations of Political Staging: Coverage of a viral photo of a seven-year-old girl pepper sprayed at Portland protests. Hosts argue parents bring children to volatile protests intentionally to create sympathetic imagery.
  • Andrew: “Don’t bring your kids to a potential riot scene. That’s child abuse.” (18:38)
  • Blake: “They are using children as human shields.” (18:36)
• Weaponization of Narrative: Discussion on how both activists and media use optics (e.g., children being hurt) to swing public opinion and fuel policy changes.
• Historical Context: Citing Rosa Parks as a “trained activist” whose narrative was engineered—used as a parallel to protest optics today.

4. Policy, Law, and Sovereignty Debates (21:22–41:42)

• Family Separation & Immigration Law: Story of ICE agents in Minneapolis detaining a father who abandoned his 5-year-old, highlighting conflicting narratives around legality.
• Federal Judiciary & Social Media: Criticism of a federal judge for “liking protest posts” online while making immigration rulings.
• Border Policy Under Biden and Trump: Sharp contrast is drawn between administrations, with hosts crediting Trump for cutting “child trafficking economy.”
• Shift in Political Rhetoric: Discussion how Democrats move from “defund” to “dismantle” ICE/CBP/DHS, as per Rep. Pramila Jayapal:
  • “We can actually hold people accountable…we do not need a military force enforcing immigration law…completely dismantle ICE and CBP and DHS. I’m not sure DHS really needs to exist.” (41:07–41:42)
• Polling Analysis: Rich Barris notes Americans “still support deportations,” and views the push for abolishing ICE as an “overstep.”

5. “All-American Halftime Show” Announcement (52:30–65:07)

Major Guest: Kid Rock

• Alternative Entertainment: Kid Rock headlines a new “All-American Halftime Show” as a patriotic alternative to mainstream (NFL) events with Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett.
• Kid Rock’s Rationale:
  • “Half this country is just underserved entertainment-wise. And we just really got so tired of Hollywood telling us how things are gonna be and trying to shove their agendas and the trans thing…down our throats.” (54:05)
• Contrast with “Woke” Culture: Hosts and Kid Rock mock the Grammys as “a gathering for people with the woke mind virus”—accusing celebrity participants of anti-ICE virtue signaling and expressing “anti-American” sentiments.
• Faith & Patriotism: Segment emphasizes the presence of faith and pro-American themes in the halftime show.

Notable Quotes:

• Kid Rock: “Nothing is more powerful than a good song…there’s an aspect of faith, a very aspect of faith in this song that I’m going to do.” (61:01–62:14)
• Andrew: “Your second mission after you tune in is to take Kid Rock’s new song and make it number one across all the charts.” (63:45)

6. Counter-Movement: Club America Chapters (65:07–73:21)

• Statewide Student Organization: Announcement of a partnership in Montana to launch a Club America chapter in every high school—a pushback against anti-patriotic narratives and activism in education.
  • Nick Koca: “If you want to be the next Charlie, if you want to be the next President…join Club America. It’s the starting point for your journey to become that active model citizen.” (71:40)
• Growth: Over 3,200 Club America chapters nationwide; more states, including Indiana (and possibly others), are joining the initiative.

7. Government Corruption, Waste, and DEI Contracting – Guest: Luke Rosiak (77:15–88:58)

• Dysfunction in Federal Grants: Explosive reporting on government 8A programs awarding multi-million dollar contracts to unqualified “minority” and “women-owned” shell companies that then pass work through to non-preferred vendors.
  • Example: The military gave a $19M contract for uniforms to a “homeless lesbian band member” based on her “disadvantaged” status, who had no factory and subcontracted the work.
  • Luke Rosiak: “You could be a descendant of Christopher Columbus and you’d be a Hispanic victim under the 8A program, and our government would give you preference.” (79:23)
• Agency Corruption: An agency meant to help African development was exposed funneling aid money back to DC bureaucrats and political cronies; even after a guilty plea, attempts to abolish it in the Senate failed.
• Structural Critique: Rosiak argues the entire contracting system fosters fraud and waste on a massive scale, enabled by partisan resistance and bureaucratic inertia.

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Memorable Moments & Quotes with Timestamps

• “Give me the child till seven, and I will give you the man…if you can get a child to believe ICE is evil in second grade, it’s going to be very hard to ever pull that moral assumption out.” – Blake (09:15–09:40)
• “Don’t bring your kids to a potential riot scene. That’s child abuse…You should have that child probably taken from you, parents. Seriously, it’s absolutely disgusting parenting.” – Andrew (18:38)
• “This is a nation founded by settlers. This is not a nation of immigrants, okay? Illegals, border jumpers are not immigrants. Repeat with me…Illegals are not immigrants.” – Andrew (32:42–32:56)
• “Every person, every human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter.” – Benny Ray Harmony (playing Boston Mayor Wu clip, summarizing what hosts call Dem platform) (36:17)
• “I think you would have saw some of the older part of the coalition maybe not like [decisive action], but…the young part…want decisive action. They don’t care if [Trump] goes full Franco, Andrew.” – Rich Barris (44:23–45:25)
• “We just really…got tired of Hollywood telling us how things are gonna be and trying to…shove their agendas and the trans thing and everything down our throats. And it’s like, I guess we’re just going to have to have our own stuff.” – Kid Rock (54:05)
• “If you want to be the next Charlie… join Club America. It’s the starting point for your journey to become that active model citizen.” – Nick Koca (71:40)
• "You could be a descendant of Christopher Columbus and you'd be a Hispanic victim under the 8A program..." – Luke Rosiak (79:23)
• “Please clap.” – Jeb Bush (historic clip, discussed by hosts as marking Trump’s rise and death of neocon GOP old guard) (94:21)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:25–02:58: DHS/ICE reforms, activist demands, and legislative responses
• 07:58–13:51: National anti-ICE protests and youth indoctrination debate
• 14:39–21:22: Media optics, protest “staging,” and historical parallels
• 41:42: Rep. Jayapal and the call to “dismantle” ICE/DHS
• 52:30–65:07: Kid Rock interview and All American Halftime Show
• 65:07–73:21: Club America student movement growth
• 77:15–88:58: Government waste and DEI contracting scandals
• 94:21: “Please Clap” – historical political moment reflection

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Tone & Style

The conversation is passionate, polemical, and deeply critical of progressive narratives, the mainstream media, and government bureaucracies. The hosts embrace an “unfiltered,” often combative style, blending cultural and political commentary with humor and nostalgia.

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In Summary

This episode is a sweeping blend of political analysis, media and protest criticism, cultural lamentation, and movement-building updates. It presents a worldview sharply skeptical of progressive institutions and activism—arguing instead for a patriotic, faith-affirming, "America first" restoration in culture and government. Noteworthy is the strong focus on the role of youth in political movements, government dysfunction, the power of media narratives, and alternative avenues for cultural expression.

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Transcript

[Andrew]

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. The Charlie Kirk show starts now.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

They want to see changes to dhs, to ICE in the wake of the deaths of those two Americans in Minneapolis. The changes they're asking for include an end to roving patrols, no more face masks, mandatory body cameras, and judicial warrant requirements. Given what has been happening on the ground in Minneapolis, Mr. Speaker, do you support any or all of those changes?

[Mike Johnson]

Listen, there's been tragedies in Minnesota and in Minneapolis in particular, brought about in large measure by the, the circumstances on the ground. You have the governor and local officials there in some cases inciting violence. They're encouraging citizens to disrupt the operations of law enforcement and it sets up a dangerous situation.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

But they're calling for peaceful protests.

[Mike Johnson]

Well, they are, but they're also saying to resist. They're also saying to, you know, they're doxing the agents of ice, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And so when you're talking about masking, the reason that ICE agents wear masks is to protect their own identities and protect their own families and in some circumstances that they've had a price put on their heads effectively by local officials. And that's what's created the dangerous conditions.

[Andrew]

Like focus on the secure border, deport all the criminals. And that we can figure out now. And I also say now some of those, the agents wearing masks, I think primarily that's driven by people are going to dox those people. That's, that's, that's a serious concern, too. Absolutely. They could target their families and they are organizing these people to put their names out there. So don't ever, ever dox people and target their families, too.

[Mike Johnson]

Well, we're working with the White House and the speaker on the best processes. But look, the SAVE act is a great bill. And you just noted Mike and I updated our SAVE act, which focuses on citizenship. We added the voter ID to your point. That's now the Save America act, and it's a great bill. And we want to move that bill over to the Senate and then force the Senate to act. I want Democrats to have to explain why they want non citizens to vote in our elections and they don't want common sense voter ID in federal elections. So we'll see if that becomes a part of the appropriations fight. We certainly believe it ought to move forward and we certainly believe we ought to stand with ice. So we're trying to be responsible, do our job and follow the bipartisan agreements. By the way, Tom Homan is doing a great job on the ground restoring some, you know, Cooling things and calming things down. But we're not backing away. The president's not backing away. We have a job to do. We need to do it the right way. And we're not going to let these radical antifa Marxists undermine security and safety for Americans. We're going to stand up for the American people that sent us here to change things.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

Tom Holman revealing. 145,000 unaccompanied migrant children have been rescued from Biden era neglect. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the Biden administration lost more than 450,000 children because of its open border policies. And now DHS says it will not stop until every last child is found. Yes, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, he first secured the border, which absolutely cut down on the flow and in the child trafficking economy. And so that was the first critical move. And their next critical step was to put new leadership at the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of hhs, which is where the children were being trafficked from.

[Andrew]

This Justice Department, the FBI, dhs. We have gone after more sex traffickers, more child pornographers, more men who have.

[Blake]

Done harm to children and young women than any have been administration in history.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

They all come in, they were caravanning there, cars bumper to bumper. All of them, the nine we indicted, all caravanning together. They storm in that church from all directions, start screaming, chants in unison, horrible chants. One man screams, this ain't the house of God. This is the house of the devil. A little girl later recounted that she thought her mom and dad were going to be killed. Parents were blocked from getting upstairs to get their children out of Sunday school. Some of the lucky women ran out the side door, falling on the ice, legs up in the air. One woman hurt her arm so badly she had to go to the hospital. Parishioners were blocked from exiting the church. Don Lemon on video blocked. One of them screaming, yelling at the pastor. That's illegal in this country. When we say God bless America, we mean it. We're going to protect America. And if you do that in any house of worship in this country, we're going to find you, we're going to indict you, and I'm going to prosecute you.

[Andrew]

Charlie. Every day there's a battle for your mind. Raging information coming from every angle with the will to deceive. Fear not, you found the place for truth. The voice of a generation that still has the will to believe in the greatest country in the history of the world. This is the Charlie Kirk Show.

[Blake]

A lot.

[Andrew]

Here we go. All right. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk show, February 2, 2026, here at the Bitcoin.com studios in Phoenix, Arizona. Blake, how you doing?

[Nick Koca]

Doing great.

[Andrew]

Happy, happy Monday. Is that a thing? Do we say happy Monday? People don't.

[Blake]

I don't know.

[Andrew]

I mean, I'm happy to be here. I really am. I had a great weekend, but I'm ready.

[Blake]

It's an acceptable Monday.

[Andrew]

It's an acceptable Monday. We have a huge announcement. I know many of you have been waiting to hear about three months. What's that? Waiting about three months to hear about the All American halftime show. We have a major announcement coming at the top of the second hour. So 1pm Eastern. There it is, the All American halftime show. We've got. We've got major news to make. Major news. Today is the day all details are going to be unveiled. It's going to be exciting. So we haven't told you who our special guest is, but we have a special guest at the top of our two. Do not miss that. It's going to be great. Dan Bongino's back. He is. I saw his show this morning. I was trying to tune in while we're doing show prep, just see if he was going to be throwing some. Some jabs and some elbows. I thought it was fairly contained. He was going over his first year or his only year at the FBI. I thought it was good. Check it out. Our friend Dan. Dan's been a good friend for a long time. Good friend with Charlie, actually, you know, he gave a shout out to Charlie. I don't usually do this, but I appreciated it and I was. I actually saw this part and it meant a lot to 81. I can't do this show today without a couple of remembrances as well of folks we lost, obviously, Charlie being first. Charlie was a great friend of mine. We used to discuss everything, you know, the movement, the audience shows. You see this picture of me and him and Charlie. I miss him like you all did. That was my guy there. And he's a good man. I miss that hair. We love you, Charlie. Charlie was the bridge man. He was. Charlie knew everybody and Charlie made everybody feel like a friend. Sorry. Thanks, brother. That was. That was a kind moment. A lot of people sent me that clip this morning, so. Knew a lot of you were watching it. So good. Good for Dan. Glad to have him back. It's great to have another sane voice out there in the media ecosystem. Check it out. Two hours before this show. But anyway, this weekend was a huge, huge anti ice demonstration. Weekend, I feel like that's every weekend. That's.

[Kid Rock]

Wow.

[Andrew]

But they did it all over the country, and there was a bunch we got to go over because the propaganda is ratcheted up to 10 out of 10. Minneapolis, Portland, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco. We're about to have the super bowl in San Francisco. Austin, Texas. Boston, Massachusetts. Chicago, Illinois. Washington, D.C. tucson, Arizona. Good old Tucson. Had to get into the mix. There was some. I think there was a march in old town Scottsdale as well. It was small, but, you know, there was people there. And it's. It's just. I mean, we've got student walkouts on Friday, all these high schools, middle schools. This is when, you know it's getting really disgusting, is when the libs involve your children. They're propaganda propagandizing your children to get them to hate the country. Hate law enforcement, call them Nazis, Gestapo, but that's what they do. And Blake, I know you've been doing research on this because. And it just has to be said that they want. This is the communist playbook. They try and get in the middle of a parental relationship with their kids, indoctrinate them. And especially in this country, when you got all these LGBTQ whatevers going around, they don't procreate. So they're gonna groom your children to do their dirty work.

[Blake]

So there's the Catholic religious order, the Jesuits, who used to be great. They're very not great now. We don't need to get into all of that. But they used to run a lot of schools. And there was a saying, they would say, like, give me the child to the age of seven, and I will give you the man. And the idea was the education you get when you're at your youngest shapes how you are for the rest of your life. Those are the assumptions you carry with you, the moral beliefs that are the hardest to pull out, basically.

[Andrew]

And this, by the way, this has been proven sociologically 100%. A child's personality is essentially formed at age.

[Blake]

And think how kind of messed up it is that this is not a thing that historically ever happened before, that once your child is about five years old. These days, we keep moving kindergarten earlier and earlier. You're five or six years old, they're in school. They're probably around these teachers longer than they're with you every single day, and then they're with their peers most of the rest of the time. And a lot of these people are devout, sincere, insane, left wing true believers, and they'll want to recruit your child for political causes. And they'll have some excuse for why that's okay to do in a public school. And they're very aware that if you can get a child to believe, oh, like, ICE is evil when they're in second grade, it's going to be very hard to ever pull that moral assumption out. And, yeah, it's a classic communist playbook. There was a child, Pavlik Morozov, and he was a. He was a boy who was murdered by his dad. And what the Soviet authorities said is he'd been killed because he denounced his father to the Soviet authorities, or I believe he denounced his father and then family members killed him. Or what the story was. It was not the full story, but basically the Soviets made a kind of political cult around the idea of children denouncing their parents for having the wrong beliefs. And we're gonna get the same thing here. If you're a parent who supports ice, who supports having a border, who supports deportations and your child's in public schools, you have to be aware that there are teachers in these schools, counselors in these schools, officials in these schools, who are basically telling your kids every day that your parents are bad, your parents are evil.

[Andrew]

Well, it makes me think of. And by the way, you're seeing a graphic there, that video. If you want to put that back up, that is a. A montage or sort of like a compilation of elementary school students doing anti ICE walkouts. Elementary students. So we're talking between the ages of 5 and 11 or 12, because that's where sixth grade cut off. This is truly disgusting stuff that they're involving your kids in their propaganda and their lies. And you got to think what they did with the trans stuff, right? Where they create these sanctuary cities, these sanctuary states for trans. They can rip your children away from you if you do not support their gender identity. Are we at the precipice of getting the same type of policies in blue jurisdictions where they can take your kids away? If you support ice, you gotta ask the question you got. But let's just. Let's just go through some of these clips here. 246. These are high school students doing a walkout. They're saying, you know, we're Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks. We're for the Mexicans. Go ahead. 246.

[Terrence Bates]

King and Rosa Parks.

[Andrew]

Free my corn.

[Blake]

Corn man. I can't go down the path of the corn God.

[Andrew]

And this is a Seattle middle school teacher. She starts crying when she thinks, oh, these young kids, they get it. 232, they just left.

[Blake]

But.

[Andrew]

I don't know why it's making me so emotional. Yeah.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

Middle school kids, Middle school kids, they know that. That everything that's going on in this administration is.

[Andrew]

It's not okay. We'll never understand why anyone thinks that.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

That it's okay.

[Blake]

No, I guess, I don't know off the top. I don't know just off that if that's a public school or not. But it strikes me as inappropriate for a teacher to make political videos in a public school at their workplace.

[Andrew]

Social media is rotted.

[Blake]

Yeah. They'll never be held accountable in a city like Seattle. But I feel. I mean, I grew up in a Catholic school, so even an ideological one, and generally, I think I would have raised a lot of eyebrows if teachers were super political on any point. I think I knew one of my teachers was a Democrat and that's about all she said about that issue.

[Andrew]

And yeah, I mean, outrageous. Many of these. It's a big liberal lady cries performative tears of Joy. Go ahead. 234.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

There's.

[Andrew]

There's so many kids protesting right here by the gas station. I'm so proud of them.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

They're all chanting and the police are there and they're so, like, they're all holding their signs. They're so brave.

[Andrew]

I rolled out my window and honked. Oh, my God.

[Terrence Bates]

Come here. No hate. No hate.

[Blake]

They're so brave. Nothing says bravery like doing what every single adult in your area is doing and what the government, what your local government authorities are cheering you on as.

[Andrew]

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[Blake]

Which is, it's so evil what they're doing. It's super calculated because they know what they're doing. They know that, okay, we go to this, we bring children, we get rowdy, thus compelling law enforcement to do crowd control stuff. And then they can go and say look at these police attacking children. And it's 100% a calculated playbook to undermine law enforcement, to undermine the law itself. And the same way, you know, we made that. I love to make that comparison to frankly the way Hamas operates because they do that too. They encourage children to go out and do things that they know will put them in harm's way because they know it will be politically useful if one of them gets killed by something.

[Andrew]

Bingo. This is this, these are terrorist tactics. So when we call this like low level seditious, that's what it is. This is an organized movement that loves casualties. So they engineer situations that will create casualties, that will create images that are evoke emotions, that evoke sympathy, and then they weaponize those to degrade and destroy.

[Blake]

They are using children as human shields.

[Andrew]

They are using children as human shields. But I have so many thoughts. It's like, first of all, don't bring your kids to a potential riot scene. That's child abuse. You should have that child probably taken away from you parents. Seriously, it's absolutely disgusting parenting. And to Blake's point, they want these images. They want to weaponize reckless parents that are stupid enough to do this. Kamikaze Karen, moms taking their kids there, thinking that they're going to show them the civil rights movement. They get to be Rosa Parks and mlk. No, you are a disgusting, shameful person. Do not bring your kid to a potential riot scene. Like in Portland of all places. Have you not seen the videos of antifa in Portland? There are not moderate, safe kind of, you know, protests.

[Blake]

We know from their arrest records. Like what? Like 35% of these people apparently have a prior sex conviction of some kind.

[Andrew]

They're all creeps. They're all like sexual deviants. They are all radical, communist, godless people that don't care if your child gets hurt. What they want is they want your child to get hurt so they can use that image on social media, on blue sky, on discord. And they want to sow discord. That's the whole point.

[Blake]

The most important thing is to just recognize that this is an operation, an op being run on you, to recognize it and not fall for it. And there's actually a great historical example because we're in Black History Month, so people have been on X and stuff. They've been talking about Rosa Parks. And you know the story with Rosa Parks, right?

[Andrew]

Yep. So I do. I know the real story.

[Blake]

Yeah, exactly.

[Nick Koca]

The real story.

[Blake]

And so the interesting thing, everyone in school and such got the story where, you know, she was just tired, she was on the bus and she just said no, wouldn't get off the bus. And that's not really what it was. She was actually a trained activist and the situation was engineered to create a sympathetic story to bring down segregation. Now, in the case of that, segregation was evil. It entirely made sense for them to do that. But the point is they were aware of the power of images, the power of stories. And that can be used for good or it can be used for ill. So an example of good is that's why we want to talk about Those innocent people who are killed by illegal immigrants. Those stories need to be shared because that is how you further the cause of deporting illegal immigrants who don't belong in this country. There is a. In politics, narratives matter and images matter. And you have to be aware of both the image you create when you do something and you need to be aware of the images the enemy is trying to create, especially if they're trying to do something monumentally evil, which they are. Here they're using children as human shields to let us remind everyone, engineer, the abolition of America, because if we don't have a border, we don't have a country.

[Andrew]

There's another story involving a child. And we saw this image out of Minneapolis where the ICE agents came up and Liam Kanejo, a five year old, was basically the ICE came up on his father. His father abandoned the child, just fled, left the five year old. So of course the ICE agent stood by the child to make sure the child was okay. We should have an image of this five year old. So then what happened? The Texas federal judge Fred Beary, a Clinton appointee, ordered the release of the five year old Liam Canejo and his father from ICE detention in Texas. So then this whole back and forth, so you can see the court ruling there, Judge Barry Beary's LinkedIn page shows him liking a post about the protests of President Trump's policies. So this judge is actively on social media liking protest posts while releasing this father that abandoned this five year old kid, this poor five year old kid, he's, he's innocent, he's done nothing wrong, he's just a kid, but his dad abandoned him. And so that goes back and forth. It creates this whole social media back and forth of, you know, well, sorry to say, this kid's already been released. And this judge is right and you know, many of these. So the left thinks that this guy was legal, that he came in legally. And J.D. vance just did a massive fact check on this because basically what happened during the Biden Harris administration is they created the CBP1 app. And what this meant is that you could ignore all of our laws, sign up on the CBP1 app and get straight into the country. It didn't matter. Joe Biden just ignored immigration laws. So now these people are claiming that this guy, this father, is here legally. Well, he's not. And the Trump administration is setting it right. More kids getting caught up in the chaos created by Democrats. We'll be right back with Rich Bears.

[Pete Hegseth]

We're interrupting your regularly scheduled programming to take you to Cape Canaveral, Florida, where Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is speaking right now at the Blue Origin rocket factory.

[Andrew]

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[Rich Barris]

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[Andrew]

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[Pete Hegseth]

That was Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaking in Cape Canaveral. Excuse me. All of this is part of the Arsenal of Freedom tour. He's there in Cape Canaveral at the Blue Origin rocket factory. And you just heard him encourage the staff there at that factory to keep pushing, to keep moving forward at a swift pace as he emphasized the importance of the space race that the United States is currently engaged in. International disputes, inflation, rising national debt, digital currency. There's a never ending list of reasons why gold has risen over 700% in the last 20 years. A never ending list of reasons that smart Americans diversify a portion of their savings into precious metals with the Birch Gold Group. More than any other commodity on earth, gold thrives during times of uncertainty, which is why it's a crucial part of a balanced strategy. It gives you peace of mind, given all the events that could impact the US Economy. See if holding gold in a tax sheltered retirement account is right for you as well. The Birch Gold Group can help you convert an existing IRA or 401k into an IRA in gold. All you have to do is text the word America to the number 989898 to receive your free information kit on gold. There's no obligation here, just useful information with an A rating with the Better Business Bureau and tens of thousands of satisfied customers. Allow the Birch Gold Group to help you diversify with gold so that you too can have peace of mind, regardless of the uncertainty that's in the world around you. Text the word America to the number 9898. 98. Again, that's America. Text that number to the number or text that word. Excuse me. To the number 9898. 98.

[Andrew]

Next great awakening is here. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. All right, welcome back. We got to talk Grammys and we're going to do that in just a second. Not because they're important, but because they, they present a. An important opportunity to reflect on the liberal mind, which is very important. The more you understand you can't unsee this once you see it. So it's important. It's a good test case. And we're gonna, we're gonna unlock that and break that down for you in just a second. First, I wanna tell you about Strong Cell. Love these guys. And apparently you guys are buying them up like hotcakes. They said that the reaction from the audience has just been tremendous. So good for you guys. If you've been a listener to this show for any amount of time, you know that Charlie always talked about it. And why. Because Strong Cell has a proprietary delivery of an amazing enzyme called nadh that is literally the power source for every cell in your body. So your, your cells need nadh. They've figured out a way to put it in an ingestible bottle form. It goes straight, straight into your cells, empowers your cells. So if you are experiencing fatigue, brain fog, if you have chronic illness and you're not even sure what's causing it, and you've been doing everything you can to fix it and you can't, you owe it to yourself to give this product a try. Because it's probably going to work for you. And even if it doesn't address the thing that you think it's going to, you're probably going to feel a lot better. That has been the case for me. It's the, was the case for Charlie. Trust me. So. And what's great is you now can get it in a free 90 day trial. Completely risk free 90 day trial. So if you don't like it, get your money back. I think you're gonna like it. Use promo code Charlie, go to strongcell.com promo code Charlie at checkout to save 20%. So you get to save 20% with the promo code. And it's a risk free 90 day trial. So again, strong sell C-E-L-L L.com strongcell.com use promo code Charlie at checkout to save twenty. It was so funny with this product, everybody always. Charlie, does it really work? Does it really work? It does work. We're going to talk about the Grammys here really quick while we get. While we wait for Rich to join us. Rich Barris. The Grammys were this week. You probably didn't hear about them.

[Blake]

I'm so old that not only do I not care about the Grammys, but I mostly haven't heard of the AX being awarded at the Grammys.

[Andrew]

I am. Seriously. Yeah, I have.

[Blake]

All the bands I like are now 75 year old fogies.

[Andrew]

So here's the deal though. The Grammys used to be a Pretty important cultural moment. They used to be. Oh, come on, Blake. They did. Blake always wants to donate.

[Blake]

If you say so.

[Andrew]

Anyway, they did. It was like, listen, we used to have culture that everybody participated in.

[Blake]

The people who worked in the music industry.

[Andrew]

What's that?

[Blake]

Are you sure that's not just because you worked in the music industry?

[Andrew]

I didn't really work in the music industry. No, I didn't. But. No, I just remember it as a kid. You know, it was like a. It was a appointment viewing and it wasn't really appointment view. But the Grammys just basically became unwatchable. They fell off a cliff. The most trashy people on the planet basically get together in Los Angeles and celebrate themselves and Back Pat and all this stuff. But there was so many moments that came out. It's like, if you think the Oscars are terrible, try watching the Grammys. I dare you. You will probably throw up in your own mouth. Now I'm going to give you a smattering of some of the clips that have, you know, become viral moments. Bon Iver. Bon Iver, as a lot of people like to call him. Bon Iver says he is wearing a whistle at the Grammys to honor the observers, the legal observers that are actually illegal, that are obstructing ICE agents in Minneapolis. 237. I want to ask about the whistle. Obviously, it's very prominent. What does it stand for?

[Kid Rock]

It's to honor the observers in Minneapolis.

[Andrew]

No, they blow the whistles when they.

[Kid Rock]

See ice come in. And they're there to protect their community. And they've been doing it for weeks and 30 below.

[Andrew]

I think the real work is in the streets of Minneapolis right now.

[Kid Rock]

And I'm here to honor them as well.

[Blake]

That fakery. Oh, what does that whistle represent? You know what the whistle represents?

[Andrew]

Their communities. Who are they protecting their communities from, by the way? Oh, that's right. Child predators and child sex traffickers. Child rapists.

[Blake]

But it's.

[Andrew]

It's murderers, drug traffickers. I'm so sick of this crap. Like, I just can't get over the amount of lies them.

[Blake]

But them supporting like, oh, anti ice stuff that's almost predictable. But there's like a darker subcurrent to this. And I think this clip actually gets at the best of it. This is Billie Eilish when she was accepted. I don't know if I even said that. Right.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Blake]

When she's accepting her award. 292.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

No one is illegal on stolen land.

[Andrew]

It sounds like, you know, the producers were like, find a white Woman in the crowd just nodding along like, that's.

[Blake]

Not just, oh, I don't like ice. That is straight up. America is an illegitimate country. Stolen land.

[Andrew]

This is why only do this.

[Blake]

They only do this with basically the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel. It's like the four major Anglo countries in Israel where they just say, stolen land. Your country is illegitimate. The end result of this is not. I have to be nice at the Grammys. The end result of this is you will be dispossessed of your country because the line is, you don't have the right for your country to exist.

[Andrew]

And this is why every single communist front group always has the anti colonialist language in it. Every single one. They all parrot the same garbage. The same absolute garbage. And. And this is another. This. Another one. Shaboozy. Yeah, Shaboozi. It's a real. Really a real thing. Yeah. A country artist, by the way. Black dude who had a big breakout hit, I think it was last summer.

[Blake]

I'll get right on listening to that.

[Andrew]

It was actually a catchy, catchy song, I have to say. So. Yeah, it is. Although I'm assuming Caboose is very, very upset with me right now. Yeah, he's. Let me know he's correct. I am correct. 239. This is Shaboozy. What a stupid name. Immigrants built. Built this country. Let's. Let's talk about that on the other side. 239 immigrants built this country.

[Pete Hegseth]

Literally.

[Andrew]

Actually. So this is for them, for all children of immigrants. This is also for those who came to this country in search of better.

[Pete Hegseth]

Opportunity to be a part of a.

[Andrew]

Nation that promised freedom for all and.

[Pete Hegseth]

Equal opportunities, opportunity to everyone willing to work for it. Thank you for bringing your culture, your.

[Andrew]

Music, your stories and your traditions here. You give America color. I love y' all so much. Oh, shut. What is his hat? He looks like he's a. Okay.

[Blake]

Looks like he's in the Ottoman or something.

[Andrew]

Shut up, Shaboozi. Literally, like, first of all, this is a nation founded by settlers. This is not a nation of immigrants, okay? We have immigrants when they suit our purposes, when we think it's a good idea to let them in. Illegals, border jumpers are not immigrants. Repeat with me one more time. Border jumpers and illegal immigrants are not immigrants. They are illegals. We had settlers. They came to a raw and open land. Yeah, there were Native Americans, that's true. But they came to an unsettled, undeveloped America. North America.

[Blake]

They did not. So the people who built America did Not immigrate into a pre existing country.

[Andrew]

Civilization.

[Blake]

An entire civilization from scratch.

[Andrew]

Yep. And guess what?

[Blake]

And it was amazing. And so everyone wanted to come join it.

[Andrew]

Yes, absolutely. And I. That line at the end, they give it color. Okay. Is that a attack on white people? Shaboozi. All the people that buy your records that play your songs. It's just. I, we're gonna keep going here. But, but I, I, I've.

[Blake]

We haven't done this.

[Andrew]

No, hold on. What's that? Yeah, well, that's where we're going.

[Blake]

All right.

[Andrew]

The Bad Bunny clip. I need the bad Bunny clip, guys.

[Blake]

Oh, we have it. It is 238.

[Andrew]

All right, before I say thanks to God, I'm gonna say eyes out. We're not savage. We're not animals. We're not aliens. We are Americans. All right, so, okay, this is the same guy who said that you have four months to learn Spanish, that he refused to speak English, he won't do a tour in America because he's protesting ice, and then he goes to the Grammys. So the only place that this Puerto Rican will speak English is in front of a bunch of communists in Hollywood at the Grammys. So. Oh, okay, so you'll lower your spell yourself to use the English language to go speak to a bunch of communists in Hollywood? At least. Let's just say radical progressives.

[Blake]

You didn't make them learn Spanish.

[Mike Johnson]

No.

[Andrew]

Why didn't you make the libs learn Spanish? Bad bunny. I thought you. I thought you wouldn't lower yourself to speak English in front of people. Hmm. Very, very fascinating point, but that. It's a good segue, because guess what? We're gonna have a big announcement in just a few minutes. At the top of the next hour, we've got a special guest coming on the show, and it's. We're gonna make some news today, and that's. That's gonna be a fun thing for us to do because I know y' all have been wondering about the All American halftime show, and we're gonna have the. We're gonna have the details today, and we're gonna have a special guest at the top of the show. Don't go anywhere. There it is. All American halftime show. 2, 8, 20, 26.

[Blake]

The halftime show of some kind of.

[Andrew]

Game of some sort of sporting event. Yay, sports.

[Blake]

You know, before we get off this. So we hit the Grammys. But the important thing is this is not just celebrities. It is a manifestation of an ideology that goes into the political realm. And so this clip also Got attention over the weekend and I really want to flag it. This is Boston's Mayor Wu. She was commenting to the press and she said this. Let's show 242.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

Every person, every human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter.

[Blake]

And so is that not the clearest encapsulation of. You might as well call it the Democrat platform of 2026. Every person in the world has the legal right to come to America. And the answer is no, you don't have legal right to come to America. That's not what our law says. It doesn't say you can come here and live here some indefinite duration of time until we adjudicate your asylum claim. That's a total invention of the last few years. But it is what they believe. And all I would say, if that is some sort of concept, that it proves to you, if you have a home and everyone in the world has the legal right to enter your home whenever they want. Do you own a home? No. No you don't. Because everyone in the world has access to it. The entire idea of having a country or having a home is that there is some principle of limited access to it.

[Andrew]

Well, and by the way, all of their ideas, they like to sit here and say, oh, America, we have all this money, all this wealth, and we were sort of obligated morally to just give it away to whoever wants to come knocking at the door. Every single idea that they put forward would ruin your home. Every single idea that they put forward removes the sovereignty of we the people over our own homeland. Every single idea they have would sow destruction and chaos and disorder and put your family's lives at risk. They, they are, they are essentially at advocating for the complete abolition of the rule of law. We are a rules based country. We have to be the rules keep things in order. They keep people in check. They protect innocent lives. And when you want to just throw it all out, you want to invite all the, you know, Sharia people from Syria to come over, see how that works out for you. There is a reason that murder rates are down 20%. There is a reason there has not been one single organized Islamic terrorist operations least successful in this country. Because guess what? We're, you know, enforcing the rule of law again and we're seeing the result.

[Blake]

There's a reason we have Moses in the House of Representatives.

[Andrew]

He's a great lawgiver.

[Blake]

Without law, you don't have a society.

[Andrew]

Yes. Remember, Jesus didn't come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. The Bible loves laws actually. We'll be right back. More on the Charlie Kirk Show. Don't go anywhere. All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. I think, I mean we're having, having fun here. I think Rich got. Something happened with rich. So we don't have rich. Welcome Back to the Bitcoin.com studio. Your one stop shop to buy, sell and trade Bitcoin or cryptocurrency in general. We love those guys. Thank you for supporting the show. Thank you for supporting them. Bitcoin.com so yeah, this isn't obviously if you're in this, this audience, you know how insane these people sound. But you gotta realize that to Blake's point, this is part of a larger ideology that is basically wants to destroy the rule of law. They hate laws unless it's attacking white people or rich people or business owners. Just look at Mamdani in New York City. So like if you're a white property owner, he's going to tax you. He's going to seize the means of production. So those laws they're going to institute, it's called anarcho tyranny where you apply laws against some while allowing tyranny and anarchy amongst the others. The preferred class gets zero oversight. Here's Rep. Pramilit Jayapal from the Progressive Caucus. Yeah, they actually need a caucus that's progressive because as if the whole Democrat party wasn't progressive enough, kind of insinuating, kind of saying the quiet part out loud here. 248 here.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

Are you calling for dismantling, abolishing whatever verb you want to use? I. Presumably that's not going to happen in the next couple of weeks as these negotiations are going on. Republicans are not going to agree to that and they still hold the majority in both houses. What are the specific reforms that you can demand that you are demanding? What are the red lines now as a condition of passing the funding bills? Yeah, I think this is a really important question.

[Mike Johnson]

You're right.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

We can't, we can't completely do what we want to do without the majorities. But what we can do is insist that ICE and CBP get out of Minnesota and our cities across the country where they are terrorizing people.

[Andrew]

Okay. She goes on 249 and I'll make the point on the backside of this. 249.

[Benny Ray Harmony]

We can take enforcement, we can ramp it down significantly. We can put a lot less money into this kind of cruelty and we can actually hold people accountable for what they are doing. We do not need a military force enforcing immigration law. But I do think that we are at a place where finally we can demand in a unified way real reforms and completely dismantle ICE and CBP and dhs. I'm not sure the DHS really needs to exist.

[Andrew]

So there she said it, she wants to dismantle. And you see little word swap, and by the way it's hilarious about this is that they did, you know, the msnow reporter knew, she said, well you're not saying defund, but you're saying dismantle. So now they're gonna say dismantle cuz defund is polling poorly. And speaking of polling, we got Rich barriers here. We'll bring them in for just a second here because we've only got five minutes left, Rich. Maybe we'll go a little bit longer in the break. Rich, welcome. I know you're having technical difficulties over there. Welcome back to the show, my friend.

[Rich Barris]

Thanks for having me, as always, whacked.

[Andrew]

Out by the storm.

[Rich Barris]

Andrew.

[Andrew]

It's all right. It's all right, brother. So this whole we got ICE walkouts everywhere, we've got Democrats calling to dismantle instead of defund ICE and dhs, the polling.

[Luke Rosiak]

Rich.

[Andrew]

Is there tantrums working? How are we looking?

[Rich Barris]

Well, look, you can always count on Democrats to overstep, Andrew. You can, because the truth is, and we talked about this, what last week or two weeks ago, about how ice, the sentiment surrounding ICE in America had been changing. The left's tactics were working. But Americans, this is where they messed up. Americans still support deportations. They still support the programs that Donald Trump backed that he ran on and that was elected to carry out. So they, I think they mistook, you know, wanting some modest changes. And we talked about them, a couple of them, the masks, right, getting operational control over areas. And there were modest changes that could have been implemented. Americans are not going to be okay with completely dismantling ICE and no longer being able to deport. That's just, that's an overstep. And even if we did see a little shift in the polling, that is very temporary. And once Americans go back to understanding that they're actually attacking their ability to have a sovereign country, it will end poorly for them. So you know, again, we have these debates in the country. One side gets an advantage and then they overstep. Andrew. It happens all the time.

[Andrew]

That's what the west side, that makes a lot of sense. So Rich, I got two questions here and I gotta move quick because we only got three minutes left. I want to ask about Insurrection act and then I want to ask about the special election in Texas because I think too much is being made of it. But the, the Insurrection act, in your opinion, if Trump would have called the Insurrection, Insurrection act immediately in Minneapolis, squashed it quick, just dealt with it, would. Do you think we would see better polling, better press, better optics, or do you think that the way this has played out has been necessary in some way?

[Rich Barris]

You know, I actually think this is where I probably disagree with a lot of people here. I think that people are looking for fast and decisive action. They let it stew for too long and they, you know, this is actually dates back to longer than Minneapolis. I mean before the new year into going into the holiday season last year, we were starting to see the left. They, they had complete control over the narrative. We weren't answering anything. We just gave them the ability to discuss this issue and talk about it how they wanted and then started to raise questions in people's minds like what crimes are you being deported for? We need a little bit more. We need our parameters to be like firmed up here so we understand what's going on. But again, this is where you're going to be an age divide. And I know we're running low on time. I just want to say I think you would have saw some of the older part of the coalition. Maybe not like it, think it was too much, but it's the young part of the coalition that has to be fired up right now and they want decisive action. They don't even care if he goes full Franco Andrew. They need him to move and make decisions.

[Andrew]

Yeah, I tend to agree with you, Rich. I mean, I know people don't want to see armed, you know, military in the streets, but they also want to see chaos. They don't want to see like libs getting away with it either. We can all clearly see that this is an op. All right, let's go really quickly to Senate State, Texas State Senate 9 runoff Dem wins this and this is typically a Republican held seat. Is it a big deal? I tend to not think so. It's probably not promising, but I think it's kind of a nothing burger. What's your thoughts here?

[Blake]

Here?

[Rich Barris]

Yeah, I got to disagree on that. And it's like it's not one thing out of, you know, it's not a one off. This is a string of underperformances by Republicans being driven. Again, it's going back to the last question. We have a huge part of the Republican coalition that just does not want to vote. They're not interested. They're, they're definitely disaffected. And Tarrant county is a bit, is a loss because this is the largest red county in the country. And it was one that had been shifting a little Democratic before, you know, when Biden won and then it swung back hard. Republicans do have an infrastructure there. They, there's, you know, there's their ballot chasing ops there, there's precinct activity.

[Andrew]

I get it, Rich. But like the turnout was 94,000 and in 2024 it was 400,330.

[Rich Barris]

But Andrew, why didn't they turn out?

[Andrew]

Well, I just don't think anybody, I just don't think anybody was paying attention, which is a huge problem. I totally get that. And I think that's the problem. Rich, I gotta go. But, but we're gonna continue this conversation next time with the great Rich Bears. Thank you, brother. We'll talk to you soon. All the best, brother. We'll be back.

[Pete Hegseth]

Terrence Bates here with your Real America's Voice news break. Thanks so much for being here with us. Congress is working to get the government fully funded. Procedural votes are expected as soon as today with passage of the appropriations bills happening potentially as soon as tomorrow. In the meantime, President Trump is back at the White House right now. That's also where Rav congressional correspondent Benny Ray Harmony is. Benny Ray, good afternoon to you.

[Terrence Bates]

Good afternoon, Terrence. Yeah, it is. Lots of noise happening here on Capitol Hill today and expected tomorrow as well.

[Pete Hegseth]

All right, so let's start there with Capitol Hill and this budget thing. It's drawn out, obviously. Last week, last week, President Trump brokered a deal for the Senate to pass these appropriation bills. Now it's back up to the House to kind of reconfirm and get them passed. Speaker Mike Johnson says he thinks he's got the votes to get this thing over the finish line. What's the buzz, if you will, though, around Capitol Hill as it relates to that?

[Terrence Bates]

Yeah, Terrence? Well, the biggest thing is that a lot of people expected this partial government shutdown to end today, first thing the, this morning after that funding ran out at 11:59 on Saturday night. But you know, Hakeem Jeffries, he said that the Democrats, he said they would not partake in making this a smooth and fast passing of these appropriation bills because they're holding up on those DHS funding. But the thing is, Terrence, is that bill, that DHS appropriations bill, that isn't even in those five minibus bills that were passed by the Senate on Friday. So now we do expect, like you said, Speaker Johnson said tomorrow he expects, expects he will have enough support for those votes. But Terrence, I want to point out there is only a two person difference in the majority. The GOP only holds two seats, you know, above the Democrats. And so this is looking to potentially be a little messy. There's so much noise happening from, you know, Schumer and the Senate leaders to the House leaders. And, and what Johnson is saying and what President Trump has said, that he will ensure the shutdown does not last long. It's really up in the air as of now. Now, like I said, the two seats is the big thing. Now Anna Paulina Luna, she mentioned great Congresswoman by the way. But she is also saying that she will not vote to pass these appropriation bills unless Johnson adds in that SAVE act, which we've heard a lot about, about election integrity. So I honestly, Terrence, you know, I am not quite sure what tomorrow, what that vote is going to look like.

[Pete Hegseth]

I'm curious if there's any wrangling within the White House and maybe the White House is keeping its cards close to its vest. But any information from the White House related to whether they're making phone calls, whether they're encouraging lawmakers who may be on the fence to kind of push them back over the fence?

[Terrence Bates]

No, Terrence, we have not heard anything on that front. It's pretty light here at the White House today. The president does not as of now have anything open. So we have not been hearing a lot from lower press from, from that press office and Caroline Levitt. But I assume at that 3pm signing today that we do expect here at the White House, hopefully the president will address in some sorts this government shutdown because I know a lot of people are worried about this and they don't want to see that 42 day shutdown again like we saw in October and November. Truthfully, Terrence, the country cannot handle another shutdown of that sort and then looking forward two weeks, that is when the DHS funding is going to run out. So can we expect arguments? Can we expect conversations? You know what, what that going to look like? Truthfully?

[Pete Hegseth]

No, absolutely. You mentioned this signing. At this point, we don't know exactly what the signing will entail. But if in fact it does open up to the media, I imagine that the focus of the questions will be about this government shutdown and how to potentially move forward. You've got to imagine that's what all the questions, or at least a large part of the questions Will focus on.

[Terrence Bates]

Absolutely. And I'm glad you brought that up, because that is the focus of a lot of reporters, a lot of correspondence here at the White House today is that government shutdown down. Because usually we hear a lot from the president, but even these past, you know, even last week, Terrence, we were in that Cabinet meeting with President Trump. He touched on the government shutdown right at the beginning. He said that he is not going to let it shut down again. But we did see, you know, this weekend, it did. It did shut down, but he didn't even take questions from reporters that day in the Cabinet meeting. And so what is he. Is he keeping his cards close to his chest? You know, we know President Trump, he. He in some ways does like to surprise people, and he likes to talk about things once he has a solution to them. I think that's one of the greatest things about this presidency is, Is. Is just the fact that when he speaks, you know, it's, you know, it's, it's real and it's about something that's truthfully happening right now. So I hope he speaks on that today and we get more answers for you.

[Kid Rock]

Absolutely.

[Pete Hegseth]

Benny Ray Harmony reporting at the White House. We, of course, will have more coverage for you throughout the day.

[Andrew]

All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. Hour two is underway. And as we hinted in hour one, we have a major announcement to make and a special guest as well. And here to help us make that announcement about the All American Halftime show is none other than Kid Rock himself. Welcome to the show, Mr. Rock. How are you? Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. We are so honored to have you. So excited to have you. And this is a major, major announcement. This is the first announcement about the All American Halftime Show. It's happening right here, right now. So thank you.

[Kid Rock]

Thank you, thank you. Thanks for having me. I'm excited, man.

[Andrew]

Well, exactly. You gave. And we just put it all out on social. So this is just happening as we speak. And I, I read your quote and I told your team I thought that was just absolutely amazing. So I'm going to read it. This just went out on the press release that just hit the wires. Says we're approaching this show like David and Goliath competing with the pro football machine and a global pop superstar is almost impossible. Or is it? He said he's having a dance party, wearing a dress and singing in Spanish. Cool. We plan to play great songs for folks who love America. Tell us, tell us what you mean by all that.

[Kid Rock]

Man. I spent some time crafting that quote, I'm not sure if I could top it right now.

[Andrew]

Pretty much, pretty good, man.

[Kid Rock]

You know, it's just like, it's like I said, it's like, you know, you're complete competing with this, you know, this, this powerhouse machine called the NFL. You know, in a certain way you're competing with it and in a certain way you're not either. I think it's kind of. I'm actually drafting an op ed right now that I think I might release on Wednesday. Kind of. How did this come to be? How did. Why did Turning Point have to have an alternative halftime to the NFL? And I think it's, you know, to sum it up quickly, it kind of goes back to what Taylor Sheridan figured out, you know, years back that, you know, half this country is just underserved entertainment wise. And we just really so many of us got tired of just you having Hollywood tell us how things are going to be and hearing all their political this and that and trying to, you know, shove, shove their agendas and the trans thing and everything down our throats. And it's like, you know, I guess we're just gonna have to have our own stuff for right now.

[Andrew]

Well, that's exactly right. And you're going to be joined by Brantley, Gilbert Lee, Bryce, Gabby Barrett, and you are going to be the, the headline here. Kid Rock performing at the All American Halftime Show. So for those you know what's. What was great about this, by the way? So I've been kind of seeing some of the behind the scenes here. And originally we listed all the artists in the press release and you know, this, this many Grammy. We just hit the Grammys in hour one, which is ironic but the, you know, because they're all anti ice or whatever. But so we send this over to your team and we get this note back. It's like, you know, Bob does not want to be associated. He, you know, here's what you could say and it was like, like, okay, you know, so we said global superstar and Waffle House legend award winner. And I was like, that is it. So we stripped any reference of the Grammys and all your awards next to Kid Rock and we, we instead we have Waffle House legend award winner. And I just thought that is so perfect. That is like exactly who we need headlining this made for TV concert. And you know, it's like, this is the thing, thing. I agree with you. It's kind of a David and Goliath thing. I love that framing because like this is a machine. We're going up against. Right. But really, but really, it's the, the American people have been underserved and they've got this big arena, there's big stadium, and it's going to be far away and it's, it's going to be. The cameras are going to be a mile away from the action. This is going to be intimate and exciting, high octane, high energy, and it's going to be made for tv. It's just a totally different experience than what you're going to get from the other guys. And you know, I, you could say what you want to say. I have to call the other guys and the, you know, that other guy. But I just think that what, what we're offering is so unique and you're gonna, you are the perfect person for this. I couldn't, I couldn't be any more excited.

[Kid Rock]

You go into these things, you know, there's. I'm very good friends with Lee Bryce, with. Bradley Gilbert's a good friend. I do not know Gabby. I love her, I love her music. But you kind of wonder what's everyone else doing? Because I, you know, I go into these things. I've really, I really spent a lot of time and effort putting something together and it's going to be something very familiar. And then I'm going to do a complete 180 on people and I'm kind of excited about that. And then Lee Bryce sent me something that he's going to do on there. I was like, wow, that is powerful and that's good. And it was so happy for me just to hear that, to know that, that what we're going to do is go out there, what a crazy concept, and just try to play some great music for people who love this country. It's that simple. That's, that's the only way we kind of, you know, take care of our audience. I guess you could call, maybe get a win. I'm not sure who our competition is. I mean, I saw some of the Grammys last night, kind of had some people here, so we're talking in between, but it was on the background. I was like, one point, I just go, wow, this is like literally a gathering for people with the woke mind virus. You just look around the room and you're like, wow, man, man, this is terrible.

[Andrew]

I, I couldn't, I, I mean, honestly, it feels like you, you can't even imagine what media they're consuming, what lies they're listening to. There's. They're anti ice, they're anti law enforcement. That, you know, and that they, you could feel this like this virtue signaling. Just constantly with them, they think that they really are doing something good. And really what they're doing is they're, they're destroying so much of the, of what makes this country safe and good. Good. The institutions that keep us safe. And then meanwhile I just, it literally feels like.

[Kid Rock]

And I read this book and it was this, this doctor, she was kind of explaining the generation and like going through mental illness and stuff. It's like it's literally come to be like if you don't have some sort of a mental illness or claim to have one at some level or something's wrong. Woe is me. Everything's bad. You kind of feel left out of this elite, you know, Hollywood elite group. It's just, it's just sad to see some of these people. I mean I look at that poor Billie Eilish girl, I'm like, just look at her. Like, looks like literally sad, just unhappy with, with everything in life. I'm like, that's got to be horrible. Like, I know you might want to look into g. You might want to look into Jesus girl.

[Andrew]

That's exactly right. Well, and, and speaking of which, we're, I mean we're gonna have, there's elements of faith. There's gonna be country music, rock music. There's. All of this stuff is going to combine into this, this one beautiful concert and I, I don't want to give too much away but it's going to be all over Turning Point Social. So our Turning point YouTube X Rumble. Of course we'll probably throw it up on, on, on some other social media accounts that we can't, that we control. Daily Wire plus tbn right here on Real America's Voice is going to be covering it. We love the guys over at Real America's Voice. So thank you Parker and Rob for covering that oan ntd and then it's going to be on Sinclair as well. So there's lots of places you can check it out. You can see it on the graphic there. But if you're, if you're watching the big game and you don't want to be fed a bunch of woke garbage or worry that the guy's going to come out in a dress or celebrate like the queer age. You just want something that the family can enjoy. But it's going to be excellent in like high octane entertainment. That's what we need to do. This, this is where you can go.

[Kid Rock]

Absolutely, man. And God bless you guys for putting this Together. When I first heard, you know, you guys just kind of announced it and said at Turning Point it's going to do an alternate halftime. Like, oh yeah, right on. Somebody needs to.

[Blake]

I'm excited today too because people would always ask me and I said I kind of actually didn't know what was going on. They were very, they were very tight lipped about the organization of this, I will say, say, but we wanted just to get people hyped up. So one of the guests we have performing, Lee Bryce, he did a tribute to Charlie a few months ago and just kind of give people, if they're not familiar with the artist, an impression of what they're about to hear. Let's play 300.

[Luke Rosiak]

And usually we do a couple other.

[Andrew]

Songs, but tonight I would like to. To play a song. Dedicated to Charlie Kirk and what he so adamantly stood for, you know, and I don't want to see a picture of this country without God in it, you know, and, and it seems like every day is trying harder and harder to do that. And I. But I got faith that ain't gonna go that way.

[Blake]

And the song he ended up playing was Kingdom Come. When Kingdom Comes.

[Andrew]

Yeah. Amen. And, and could you speak to kind of the, the faith element of this too? This is, it's not going to be like necessarily a worship set or anything, but I just, I know that's important to you as well. And are you planning on integrating any, any of that into your set?

[Kid Rock]

Man, I would love to tell people what I'm doing, but I think the element of surprise is really what's going to make it special because no one's going to be expecting this 180 that I'm going to do. It's, it's. I'm trying to make it as unselfish as possible, but at the same time just play something great. I'm like, there's, there's nothing, you know, that we can do that I can do. And I, trust me, I'm gonna come out and hit him with the Kid Rock like boom, bang the hole. But that's gonna stop very quickly and I'm gonna take it back to music because one thing I know for sure, no matter what Bad Bunny does, what the NFL is doing, nothing. Nothing is more powerful than a good song. Nothing. So if you just stick to playing good songs, that, that's the win right there. And of course, I mean, there's an aspect of, there's a very aspect of faith in this song that I'm going to do it's not my song. I'll tell people that. It's not a song I wrote, but I did write a verse for it which is very, very faith based.

[Andrew]

I love it. I don't know what else you can say here, but I know that you've got a lot going on right now. Now you've got different announcements you can make. Is there anything else you can tell us about your plans for the next couple of weeks, months? Any other releases that you want our audience to know about?

[Kid Rock]

Well, you know, funny enough, we're going to release the song that I'm going to perform for the Turning Point, you know, All American Halftime. So we're going to release it at midnight that night after the super bowl. And then we're going to go out and do. I think we're making an announcement this Friday. We're going to do some shows this year. Not a ton. I think it's maybe 10 or so awesome. So we're gonna. I think it's called the Freedom 250 Tour, and it's kind of. We're gonna announce that on Friday. And that's going to kind of lead to this huge thing that we're going to do in July 3rd in a stadium, which is going to be. I'm looking at like, I know everyone's going to celebrate America's 250th birthday, July 4th. I want to put together the biggest party for America on the eve of July 3rd. Kind of like New Year's Eve, you know, Know, ring a Liberty Bell and shoot cannons and fireworks off and play some music for folks. So. Well, kind of new. Ton of new music on the way. That's a very, very cool special guest. I think people are going to be wildly, wildly happy and surprised at the same time.

[Andrew]

I love that. So, everybody, you have a mission. You need to tune in to the All American halftime show. You know, when, when the other guys are doing their. Their sort of queer celebration, whatever, speaking Spanish. Whatever you want to do.

[Blake]

That's what.

[Andrew]

Fine. But we're going to be celebrating this country. It's the 250th anniversary of this country. Faith, family and freedom, with an absolute packed lineup of Kid Rock, obviously. And we've got Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett. An amazing show. And then your second mission after you tune in is to take Kid Rock's new song and make it number one across all the charts at midnight after the Super Bowl. So please do that. I've just, just. I, I've heard so many good things about the team working with you on this project. They, they've, you've been a, an absolute blast of energy and a breath of fresh air. You to you get it and thank you for everything you're doing to help make this a great experience, a great event and really successful.

[Kid Rock]

Thank you guys. Thank you guys for having the con ads to put it on. You know what I mean? I know it scares, I know it scares a lot of people in my business.

[Andrew]

Let's put it that it. That's a whole story for another day. But I mean when you're going up against the machine, it's, it's a machine. So God bless you, sir.

[Kid Rock]

A lot of, a lot of people in my position, there's, there's a lot of big acts that are very scared of that machine. I'll tell you that.

[Andrew]

You already know but I, I do know and I. Eventually there'll be a time to tell that story, but right now we're just going to focus on all this good energy and you're a big part of that. Thank you Kid Rock. God bless you.

[Kid Rock]

Thank you guys.

[Andrew]

All right, that was awesome with the great Kid Rock there but you know, sometimes you got to blow the brakes. And Nick Koca is going to be joining us just in a second here@the Bitcoin.com studio in Phoenix, Arizona. I hope you guys are excited. Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, Gabby Barrett, I want to tell you again, you know Kid Rock, he's famous for being a waffle house legend award winner and he's known for all summer long which is a great song. And we've got academy of country music award winner Brantley Gilbert known for bottoms up and country must be countrywide Grammy nominated and country music association award winning Lee Brice, excellent known for I drive your truck and rumor ACM new female artist of the year winner Gabby Barrett whose breakout song I hope which by the way, I know the song but I looked across all of all the platforms and it's just millions and millions and hundreds of millions of views on I hope so. That's a huge breakout. Anyways, no agenda. We just want you guys to be able to enjoy a great experience, a great act. Do we have Nick? You can send him in. We have more announcements to make here. So it's just, just one announcement after the next.

[Blake]

I feel like the honorary Charlie here. I think I've heard all summer long and that's about it.

[Andrew]

I have very well, maybe, maybe caboose could bring it up. Get I hope is a huge hit Daily Wire plus tbn, ntd Oan it is going to be syndicated on Sinclair, but right here, Real America's Voice, they're going to be carrying it right here. So if you're watching this show right now, just tune into Real America's Voice. They're going to have the direct feed. Are we not bringing in Nick Coca? Can I bring Nick Koca in here? Oh, all right. Never mind. I guess we're. We're rescheduling. So we have a big announcement to make, but apparently we're not going to do it. I don't know. Oh, I guess he is coming hot.

[Blake]

Okay, well, constant adventure here.

[Andrew]

I did not tell him to reschedule. I told him we had Kid Rock for a segment and then we were going to bring Nick Koca. In 30 seconds, we're going to have him in. Please send us your emails. Freedom. Charliekirk.com Let us know how you plan on watching the All American halftime show. Are you going to be tuning in YouTube right here. Real America's Voice rumble how you want.

[Blake]

Roger, one of our enduring friends of the show, emails us all the time. Sent us blushing smile emoji, prayer emoji, thumbs up emoji, heart emoji. I think that's a good. I think that's.

[Andrew]

Listen upbeat. I will tell you the number one person that we got emails asking that would be on the show. Come on in, Nick. The number one person we got requested was Kid Rock. So we were like, I mean, we have to go with Kid Rock. We have to. Nick, I'm sorry about the confusion.

[Nick Koca]

Oh, it's quite all right.

[Andrew]

I'm happy to be here. We have. So we just announced the All American halftime show. And we have another major announcement. Nick, you run the high school field program. So all the new Club America chapters that have been launched, like thousands of them, you are playing point. You have. You are probably the busiest man in Turning Point history at this point, minus Charlie, of course. But like, give us the announce. This is a major new announcement. It's part of a series of major new announcements.

[Nick Koca]

That's right, gentlemen. So on Wednesday, we are announcing a partnership with the state of Montana. Governor Gianforte is going to announce an initiative to put a Club America chapter in every high school in the state of Montana. We've seen this in states like Florida and Texas and Tennessee. Montana is joining the movement. I hope to see this kick off a lot more states through 2026. So join with us.

[Andrew]

This is happening on Wednesday.

[Nick Koca]

Wednesday, that's correct.

[Andrew]

Wednesday. So we're gonna do a big, big like kind of event announcing this more formally with the governor in Monte. So you're flying up to Montana?

[Nick Koca]

I am.

[Andrew]

You got a trip to Montana? It's terrible. Well actually in the winter I guess. I hope you get a ski trip in or something. But yeah, a little colder than Phoenix, but that's awesome. And didn't Indiana. Do we have is Indiana.

[Nick Koca]

That's right. Alex Clark made the announcement. We do have an event coming in the state of Indiana. Governor Braun is joining in.

[Andrew]

Isn't that amazing? And I'm not allowed to disclose yet, but there is another state potentially as well that's joining. You don't have to.

[Nick Koca]

There are many more states that are going to join the Club America cause.

[Andrew]

So do you hear this? This is major. So on the same day that we cover on this show, anti ice walkouts in Tucson, in la, Portland, Chicago, New York City, there is a movement that is happening across the country sparked by Charlie Kirk and helped facilitate by amazing people on the team like Nick, where we are getting whole states to back the Club America movement. It is a movement now and we are, we're closing out on like 4,000 high school chapters. I mean we're still sorting through this deluge of inquiries that came in after Charlie's assassination. Tell give us an update on that.

[Nick Koca]

Yeah, so we have over 3200 Club America chapters nationwide. And really what these states are doing is essentially standing behind our students and their right to assemble, their right to fight, to support patriotism and support their country. You have students that are bullied and intimidating for starting Club America chapters. Schools that try to deny their chapters, try to delay the approval of their chapters to be able to operate as any other school club, like a chess club or you know, whatever it is. And so these state leaders are saying that's not okay. These students support patriotism, they support the Constitution and they should have the right to do that just as any other student who wants to start an extracurricular club at their high school school.

[Andrew]

Yeah, well, and we have, we have literally there's all these clubs get together and they go, let's walk out of school on Friday and protest ice. This is why it's important to have a Club America chapter on campus that says no, we're not going to do that actually. And we love this country and we support law enforcement. And what you need when you're a kid in high school is you need other like minded kids to have your back. You need a, you need a core group of People that will support one another and that's why it's so important. And, and maybe just give the audience at home because we got actually a couple questions about this in our AMA on Friday. Yeah. What does a Club America chapter do?

[Nick Koca]

It's the go to place. If you want to be a future patriotic leader, if you love your country, if you believed in what Charlie believed in, if you want to stand out and make a difference, if you want to learn how to have a respectful debate and dialogue, if you want to work with, with community leaders and civic leaders, Club America is the place to be. If you want to be the next Charlie, if you want to be the next President of the United States, and you're a young person in high school wondering, how do I make a difference at this age? Join Club America. It's the starting point for your journey to become that active model citizen.

[Andrew]

I love that. And so you guys do community outreach, do voter reg. You have host speaker is you do community things, right? And so it's just you're also, by the way, which should not be understated here, you're connected to a larger movement which is Turning Point usa. So you, the students get invited to the national events, you get, you get potential grants to host speakers at your. In your local community, maybe on campus or off campus. Right? I mean, that's correct. There's all kinds of options that, that open up before you if you join a Club America chat. And this is what's so crazy. All these schools have like, you know, LGBTQ and the. Your queer rights stuff and, you know, but, but we run into all the problems. It's Club America that is often, you know, gets, gets challenged. That's why these are so important to have states. Governor Giamforte in this whole state of Montana, it's going to have our back. So if you're a kid that wants to start a club in Montana, you now have the red carpet out in front of you.

[Nick Koca]

That's right. No one's going to stop you.

[Andrew]

That's amazing. More states coming too. You're doing great work, Nick.

[Luke Rosiak]

Thank you.

[Andrew]

God bless you, man.

[Nick Koca]

Thanks for having me.

[Andrew]

We'll be right back.

[Pete Hegseth]

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[Andrew]

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[Pete Hegseth]

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[Andrew]

On air and on fire for the preservation of our nation. The Charlie Kirby show. All right, welcome back. Lots of big announcements. If you missed it, please get the podcast or watch it back here@the bitcoin.com studio videos. Lots of big announcements. The all American halftime show is been announced. The details have been announced. We have a massive, massive powerhouse of a lineup. You can check out more @American Halftime Show.com American Halftime Show.com but of course, the big announcement is that we've got Kid Rock, Brantley, Gilbert Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett all with huge number one songs. You're going to recognize all of them. You sing along. Good for the whole family. Faith, Family. Freedom. If you love America, you just want to have a good time. It's going to be great. Made for tv. It's going to be intimate. That's the thing. The cameras are like a mile away in those stadiums. This is going to be intimate. And then, of course, Nick Koka with our field team on the club American side, another statewide partnership, this one in Montana with Governor Gianforte. Massive, massive. Blake throwing it to you.

[Blake]

Alrighty. Yeah, we've got a friend of mine I used to know way back when I was at the Daily Caller, which was a decade ago at this point, but Luke Rosiak, and he's now a reporter, an investigator reporter at the Daily Wire. Are you there, Luke?

[Luke Rosiak]

I'm there, Blake. So great to connect with you again.

[Blake]

Awesome, awesome. Good to see you. This is, this is the legend he helped blow up in the Loudoun county story.

[Andrew]

Yeah, so I know of, Luke, because the Loudoun county story, which was obviously you, you delivered a governorship with that one, Luke. It was a, it was a huge, huge story.

[Blake]

Change the course of the country. I mean, I still use them. You're a series you did more than a decade ago on the DC subway system is one of my favorites for how DEI blows everything up and how it really works. But we've recently on this show, Luke, we've been talking a lot about the 8A program. A lot of the ways the government does extremely inefficient or wasteful or discriminatory contracting. Wastes a ton of your money, gives a ton of your money to scammers. And I saw this story you did at the end of last week, and it made me laugh really hard. And I just thought we should have Luke on to explain this because it's so, so illustrative of how things really work. The headline for everyone is how the military gave a homeless lesbians minority contracting firm $19 million. Luke, how about you tell this story for our audience?

[Luke Rosiak]

Sure. So eight contracting. I'm so glad you guys have been talking about it a lot. It gives no bid contracts if you're a women owned or minority owned firm. And the issue is a lot of times they're not even doing the work, they're just passing it through. And so this is a woman who had, she had like a rock band, actually a pretty decent band. And she was just like living in her van, going on tour with her bandmate who was also her, her wife, I guess. And so they decided to incorporate a company and they got that SBA designation to be a minority disadvantaged Business. And it's funny, actually, just because she's a woman. She's a woman, but she's a double victim because she also had one grandparent from Spain. So that's Hispanic. Yeah, you could be a descendant of Christopher Columbus and you'd be a Hispanic victim under the 8 program, and our government would give you preference.

[Blake]

So she, she had one grandparent from Spain, and so they said, you are a disadvantaged Hispanic who should get legal preferences from the government.

[Andrew]

Did her sexuality come into play here as well? I'm just curious.

[Luke Rosiak]

No, just women owned. But she's super feminist. And so she got this contract to make uniforms for the military, but she didn't own a factory or anything. She had no ability to make all this. So first of all, the contract was for New Balance clothes. So there's really only one place you can buy them is New Balance. But because the government wants to get the small business set asides and the minority set asides, they'll oftentimes do these contracts where the government is basically. And this is what I testified to the Senate about eight last month. And so I tried to say it's not all about. About individuals scamming the government. The government kind of knows that some of this stuff is going on. So they knew that somebody was just gonna, you know, pass it through to New Balance or pay New Balance for a license and then wind up sewing it themselves and creating some weird New Balance knockoffs. But anyway, this woman didn't have the ability to. To stitch anything herself. So I talked to a guy, a white male, who actually was in the garment industry, and he said that she, you know, was living in her car and said, look, I got this contract. Could, you know, like how I could actually do the contract. And he said, well, I, you know, I can do it for you. So he. She did all the work. And at one point he realized that she was kind of lying to the government and pretending it was her factory. And he did a FOIA to get the contract which said, you know, you're not supposed to be doing this. And so at that point, she started retaliating against him. She cast a curse on him. She's like a witch, I guess, and like all kinds of crazy stuff started going down. And she wound up suing, you know, one of the people doing all the work for her because she felt like they were kind of.

[Andrew]

She.

[Luke Rosiak]

She actually had a contract that laid the whole pass through scheme out in black and white, which usually people are smart enough not to do it. It's like, I Am going to broker you this contract. Don't talk to the military. Pretend that I'm doing it for you. And she had them sign it. So anyway, in the course of the lawsuit, it really backfired, and she wound up going out of business because she had to pay the attorney's fees for the. The her pawns, her tokens.

[Blake]

That's good news, of course. But at the same time, they never really were. They were never declared like, oh, this is a bad contract. They were never ruled in bad standing. No one ever got prosecuted or, or sued by the government for this. Correct.

[Luke Rosiak]

Right. I mean, it was only her own incompetence that caused it to collapse. The contract actually had a ceiling of $72 million. And so by the time she kind of screwed it up, it was 19 million had been paid out. Out. But, yeah, you know, I asked her for comment and she sent me 10 emails calling me an evil Jew and talking about evil war profiteers and saying that I had demonic male energy and that males are too warlike. And it's like, well, lady, you're. You're the one who got $19 million from the Department of War. And I think they kind of want war like, energy there. And certainly she's profited more off the military industrial complex than I have. But it's just a crazy way. I mean, this. In this case, it was just clothes, like training uniforms that the Marine Corps would use. But we could be talk. Talking about weapons here, and they're buying things and there's like, there's no chain of custody for where this stuff is actually coming from. It could just be like, crazy people who are totally unqualified making some of this stuff. And that's kind of one of the real perils of 8a.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Blake]

It's so ludicrous. I want to get this quote because it's in the article that she, she told you she is, quote, starting a coalition for women to run the planet Peace and light and love, like the orca whale, raise the frequency of the planet. Male energy is heavy and warlike and long overdue for a reduction. And yeah, it's. We have these program. It's such. It just is such a. I love this story because it's such a perfect illustration of the travesty that, oh, we want to give a leg up to these minority, these disadvantaged firms. And yet it's the exact. It's really just. You're paying this, like, feudal due to somebody. She's just. There's no real business. There's no real work Work, it's entirely just this payoff so that other people can do the work, but they get paid less than they would otherwise.

[Andrew]

And well, and it's. You think about. We started translating how much money is getting wasted in terms of how many lifetimes of average Americans taxes, you know, that were being just wasted on complete garbage like this. So it's just, you imagine how many Americans had to pay taxes last year whenever this contract went out that just went to some, you know, washed up, you know, female band member in a van that is blaming the Jews for global slavery or something like you think, let's just say that was 100 tax, you know, year receipts for Americans. So 100 people paid their taxes last year so that this burnout in a van who used to be in a band could do a pass through expense to New Balance. Like it's just absolutely insane when you get to that point and you think about. Nick Shirley would do the same things. He would say, I just, you think about all the people that are getting defrauded. It's taxpayers, we're the ones getting defrauded with this. It's infuriating.

[Blake]

Yeah. But so, Luke, another story. You get a lot of this. And so I wanted to flag another of your stories that tell the story of the CFO of the African Development foundation foundation.

[Andrew]

Or.

[Luke Rosiak]

So I did a really long series and sort of magazine style story back in May about this agency that's sort of like the little brother of usaid and it's supposed to give money to Africa. But I proved that they were doing exactly what people kind of speculated that USAID might be doing, which is they were giving grants to Africa, but then they had secret deals with the Africans that the money would come back to America, some of it in straight up bribes, but also just like kind of paying bureaucrats in D.C. to do their work.

[Andrew]

Work.

[Luke Rosiak]

So they were essentially hiding it from Congress and making it look like it was actually donations to poor people. So the African Development foundation, even the, one of the board members, he was the, the head of the, you know, Herbal Life that it's like a pyramid scheme that pushes like nutrition supplements. They were, he was the head, he was on the board of this government agency. And so they tried to push this for profit pyramid scheme on African peasants so that his company could make more money. Money. You know, there were allegations of all kinds of racial stuff where the, the, the general counsel that hired, actually they accidentally hired a white guy to be their top lawyer. And he was like, well, you guys are just violating the Law, like here's all these laws you're breaking. You're just like hiding all this money. Like the stuff you're doing is insane. And so they wind up wound up pushing him out and like calling the police on him. Just really corrupt stuff that gave the sense that like they were all in on hiding some really bad things.

[Andrew]

Things.

[Luke Rosiak]

And so this week the CFO actually pleaded guilty to something that I had said in my story, which is he was taking bribes from this particular company, which was in Africa, but it was created by an African American. I guess you could say he was a former federal employee who moved over to Africa and he was still friends with the guy at this agency. So he gave him a contract and some of it went back to him and then the rest was used just kind of to keep, to enrich his friend and then also to pay bills, including bureaucrats who were living in D.C. would get this random like wire of money coming from Africa. So the foreign aid was just sort of this pass throughs. And so he pleaded guilty. And then the Senate voted, had a vote to abolish it over the weekend. But actually 11 Republicans voted against abolishing this agency. They voted to table the amendment that was brought by Mike Lee. And this is people like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham and stuff like that. And so USAID is gone. This agency is way more corrupt. Granted it's a lot smaller, but it's like, it's quite a story. I mean it's just wild the stuff that they were doing. But we had 11 Republicans, you know, vote against actually abolishing it.

[Blake]

Yeah, that's just. Yeah, you're correct. It is at least smaller. But yeah, it's. And you're a government efficiency reporter. One minute here. Just can you give a general perspective how, what's the scale of how this is going on and how should Americans think about this? Just, I know obviously we've had this push on government efficiency. We've found a little bit of it. But the sense I get is just there's this absolute feeding frenzy and if you're not in one of these preferred groups, you're just kind of left out and treated as a sucker.

[Luke Rosiak]

Yeah, I mean certainly we were told when DOGE was making inroads that the DOGE was pointless because so much of the spending is in mandatory non discretionary spending like Medicaid and Defense. But it turns out that Medicaid and Defense are super fraud ridden. And I think that a lot of it hides behind privacy. But once you actually see it with your eyes it's like this is just blatantly scamming and the government is just paying out in a way that a charity would never do that because it's just clear that it's not even, it's not even helping anybody. But if we can't even get rid of an agency whose CFO admitted that he was corrupt and they blocked DOGE from coming in and it wasn't because they had this moral high ground. It was because they're high hiding their crimes. If we can't even get rid of 8A which the, the, the Alaskan Republican senators are against that because the Eskimos are in on the grift or the people that pretend to be Eskimos, I don't know what we're doing here.

[Blake]

Luke Rosiak, thank you very much. Check him out on X at the Daily Wire or check his book, Race to the Bottom Online.

[Andrew]

Thank you for joining us. All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. It's been an eventful Monday. I feel like the show has flown by. Yeah, I've had a great time. And you know, I, I have to say, you know, here@the Bitcoin.com studio, I have to say that the having Kid Rock on the show was like checking a box off my, you know, we, we actually had tried with Charlie a while back and it just didn't work out for whatever reason reason he was at our inauguration, you know, inaugural Eve ball or whatever. So I got to, got to meet Bob there. Bob Richie, Detroit Hip Hop scene. Now he's headlining our, our Super Bowl. So I did it. Our all American halftime. Our unrelated Vegas are just our big sports yay sports halftime thing with, you know. Yeah. For the all American people. People. Anyways, we're, we're excited about that was a great, great time. And then to, to see another state step up and support our Club America chapters is huge. Montana. Thank you, Governor Gene Forte.

[Blake]

Texas.

[Andrew]

Florida, Tennessee, Indiana, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Louisiana maybe. I think, I think I don't want to leave anyone out anyways. And there's more coming. That's the other, that's the other piece of this. And so, so you know, when you get depressed about all those student walkouts and the brainwashing that's happening, just remember there is a whole counter movement going on and Turning Point's playing a huge role in that. So we're just grateful for the partnerships and we have, we have more news being made that'll happen this afternoon. We've got Dan Patrick in from Texas. Gonna be great. We'll see him in just a bit and we'll have, we're gonna have to pre record because he's here today, but we might show it on the show tomorrow. So some more fun stuff happening there there. But today. And this will be our a good final segment for the show today. Today marks a 10, 10 year anniversary.

[Blake]

Do we have ready yet, guys? Otherwise I'll have to like, hi.

[Andrew]

Wait till they get it. But the, this is an auspicious anniversary.

[Blake]

An auspicious anniversary. It's, it's crazy. I will say I've got to filibuster a bit while they get it ready. Like we're reaching these 10 year anniversaries for so many Donald Trump related things. It's a little crazy for me to think that a good third of my conscious life has been with Donald Trump.

[Andrew]

It's been in the Trump era.

[Blake]

Yeah, the Trump era. And how everything has just revolved around him since he came onto the scene. Not, you know, just everything. Even when he's not in office. That's what everyone's talking about. That's what the press is most obsessed with. And it's almost easy to forget what it was like when he was still this insurgent candidate candidate that we were going into the 2016 election. And of all things, the big favorite was George W. Bush's brother, Jeb Bush.

[Andrew]

Good old Jeb.

[Blake]

George W. Bush's administration did not end well. He had record low approval ratings by the time he was leaving. Other than like Nixon during Watergate, he got us into multiple quagmire wars. And yet they were going to trot out this guy to run and they'd say, oh, that's going to be our nominee in 2016. And what happened over and over again is he just, he was not adroit enough to handle President Trump. And today, 10 years ago, I think was the day where I and many other people realized, like Donald Trump is going to win the nomination and he might win the presidency after that. It is Please Clap day.

[Andrew]

This is, this is the Please Clap day was a turning point in American history. History, pun intended. Very, very intentional. And what's interesting about this, it was the death knell, unbeknownst to many. But you said you picked it up, you could feel it in the ether. But it was the death of the neocons. The GOP had been dominated by warmongers. The invade the world, invite the world crowd. And who is more, I guess, I guess symbolically important in that than the Bush dynasty? Right? You've got Two invasions of Iraq, an invasion of Afghanistan. You know, two wars that lasted on and on and on, cost trillions of dollars, countless American lives, countless Iraqi lives and Afghani lives. I mean, this is a really important moment in history. So please take it away. Show us the clip, Blake.

[Blake]

Alrighty. And so we have. This was the week before the New Hampshire primary. And I believe Donald Trump didn't win the Iowa caucus. Correct. He lost it. And so this is New Hampshire primary a week out. Jeb Bush has a lot of money. He's been doing all this, and then he's speaking to a small crowd in New Hampshire, and this happens.

[Andrew]

Clip 304 is creating a more dangerous world. So here's my pledge to you. I will be a commander in chief that will have the back of the military. I won't trash talk. I won't be a divider in chief or an agitator in chief. I won't be out there, blow hardened, talking a big, big game without backing it up. I think the next president needs to.

[Mike Johnson]

Be a lot quieter, but send a signal that we're prepared to act in.

[Andrew]

The national security interests of this country to get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world. Please clap.

[Blake]

Please clap.

[Andrew]

And with that, that's more painful, actually than I remember.

[Blake]

Please clap.

[Andrew]

Lap. And at that, everyone thought low energy.

[Blake]

Oh, low energy gel.

[Andrew]

Low energy. And you know, it's ironic, just real.

[Blake]

Quick, a week later, on the 9th, Donald Trump, he won 35% of the vote in New Hampshire. He beat John Kasich. Remember that guy beat him by 20. That guy got second.

[Andrew]

John Kasich is basically a Democrat.

[Blake]

Basically. And that was the first primary he won. He won a bunch of them. After that, the rest is history.

[Andrew]

What a history. Ten years. You know, it's funny, you think about these kids walking out of high school right now. They're 18. They've basically the majority of their life has been dominated by President Trump. Even when Joe Biden was president, it was still dominated by President Trump. Their whole political conscious lives have been dominated by.

[Blake]

We have, we have staffers on this show who are young enough that they only faintly remember Barack Obama getting elected, which is really uncomfortable for me because I voted in that election.

[Andrew]

Yeah, no, I totally agree. Yeah, the. That's a wild stat. You know, and actually I was looking at some of these. There's a basketball player that. He was the youngest person to score 49 points. It was an SNL clip. It was going viral because he's a white guy. And it goes and The SNL guy who's black goes, this is a really bad start to Black History Month because you have this like 19 year old white guy scoring 49 points in the NBA. Anyways, I was looking at his birthday and it was like, yeah, it was like 2006. And that was the first thought I had. I was, I was like, he was not born when. He has no memory. He wasn't even alive when 911 happened. We're getting that far away from.

[Blake]

That's really Gen Z. That's actually the most, the easiest way to remember who Gen Z is is they don't remember 9 11.

[Andrew]

Sure.

[Blake]

It's like 1998 if you're three, you still don't really remember those things.

[Andrew]

A thousand percent. It's just. Yeah, it's, it's wild. Anyway, so this is, it's been a big day here. It's been a big 10 years for the country. And there's no doomerism allowed on the Charlie Kirk show. There's no, none of that.

[Blake]

No black pilling allowed. Really alliterative with one of the people on the show's name.

[Andrew]

Even with Black Pill Blake. Black Pale Blake is not even allowed to black pill. And you do. You do a pretty darn good job most of the time.

[Blake]

I do my best.

[Andrew]

Very proud of you.

[Blake]

I do my best.

[Andrew]

You try and be positive.

[Blake]

Charlie was also very good at that. Charlie, certainly you and I both know he could feel down a lot of the time and it was always internal. He said no black pilling. He would find the upside, he would find the way to learn. He would find the way to move forward. Because that was, that was your duty. Your duty was not to whine. Your duty was not to grow as your duty was to learn and to fight and hopefully win. But winning wasn't the point. Doing your duty was the point.

[Andrew]

You don't fight because you know you're going to win. You fight because it's the right thing to do. That's why we do things like the All American halftime show. That's why Club America is spreading all across the country to get high schoolers and Gen zers who don't even remember 911 11. But now they remember Jeb Bush because we just told him about it. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Take care. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.