The Charlie Kirk Show, February 3, 2026

Summary

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The Charlie Kirk Show — February 3, 2026

Podcast: Real America’s Voice | Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Charlie Kirk Show centers on culture war flashpoints ahead of Super Bowl week, the politics surrounding voter ID and immigration, debates over the direction of pop culture and major events, the influence of faith and values in public life, and concerns about demographic, cultural, and ideological shifts within America. The show features insights from regular co-hosts, elected officials like Rep. Brandon Gill and Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, and guest commentator Ridvan Idemir (Apostate Prophet), among others. The tone is fervently conservative and combative, stressing the importance of defending American traditions, sovereignty, Christian values, and resisting what they characterize as “woke” or “leftist” cultural takeover.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. FBI Arrest Anecdote and "Weaponization" of Law Enforcement

• [00:25–01:07]

• Guests recount law enforcement actions: Oscar Ramirez shares his experience of being roughly handled and arrested without immediate presentation of a warrant, leading to criticisms of intimidation tactics.
  • Oscar Ramirez: "They want to embarrass you, they want to intimidate you." (01:01)
  • Charlie Kirk: "They want to instill fear. And so that's why they did it that way." (01:04)

2. The Voter ID Debate: Popularity vs. Accusations of Supression

• [01:07–04:24, 26:32–38:41]

• Polling and public sentiment: Harry Entin highlights polls showing overwhelming majority support (up to 83%) for voter ID requirements, even quoting pop star Nicki Minaj.

  • Harry Entin: "83% in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj. They favor photo ID to be able to vote." (01:23)

• Counterpoints on history and equity: Sunny Hostin argues that strict voter ID echoes post-slavery suppression and creates obstacles, especially for women and minorities:

  • "It's sort of a vestige of, I think, post slavery laws..." (01:33)
  • "So really the bottom line is voter suppression." (01:56)

• Congressman Brandon Gill Interview [26:32–38:41]

  • Gill describes the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote, and criticizes Senate inaction:
    • "If you are an illegal alien, you shouldn't be voting in American elections..." (27:26)
  • He rebuts suppression accusations, frames Democrat resistance as a calculated move to influence future elections by importing sympathetic voters, and stresses broad public support for voter ID.

• Polling on racial breakdown:

  • Harry Entin: "85% of white people favor it. 82% of Latino, 76% of black Americans favor it." (36:27)

3. Super Bowl, Halftime Show Controversies, and Culture Wars

• [05:24–22:53]

• Alternative 'All-American' Halftime Show: Charlie and co-hosts discuss the decision to stage a competing, patriotic halftime event featuring Kid Rock and country stars—explicitly pitched as a rebuke to perceived “woke” pop acts at the main Super Bowl.

  • Charlie Kirk: "We're going up against a machine, a cabal... Stadiums didn't want to take it." (07:36)

• Culture and legacy discussions: The hosts talk about their long history of criticizing NFL halftime shows for political messaging and cultural direction.

  • Blake: "[Jay Z has] used it to book left wing, anti American kind of out of the mainstream acts." (12:23)

• Jokes about past show controversies:

  • Blake: "NFL is now the league of sexual Anarchy..." recalling Kirk’s old tweets (09:56)

• Bad Bunny and Green Day: They deride current acts selected for official performances, suggesting organizers requested Bad Bunny “tone down” his act due to a competing conservative event.

  • Caroline Levitt: "He understood the platform... to unite people." (21:21)
  • Blake: “Did he call him Bad Benny there?” (21:46)

4. NFL Leadership and 'Woke' Institutional Shifts

• [16:48–23:11]

• Roger Goodell criticism: Kirk and the panel harshly criticize the NFL Commissioner for "woke" stances and alleged failures of leadership on coaching diversity and political activism.
  • Charlie Kirk: "The NFL is like a vest. It's like a throwback to peak woke. Roger Goodell should be in a museum somewhere..." (17:16)
  • Blake: "He's the perfect bad Boomer. He can't preserve an amazing..." (23:07)

5. Pop Culture, Hypocrisy, and “Stolen Land”

• [40:44–45:41]

• Billie Eilish and “No One is Illegal on Stolen Land”: The hosts respond to Eilish’s pro-immigrant Grammys message by pointing out her home is on indigenous land and mockingly propose the Tongva tribe “reclaim” it.

  • Blake: "It might be time to occupy Billie Eilish's land." (42:23)

• Saul Alinsky tactics invoked (“make the opponent live by its own rules”) to highlight alleged absurdities of progressive positions.

• Ricky Gervais quote played to encourage celebrities not to grandstand politically:

  • Ricky Gervais: "You're in no position to lecture the public about anything." (46:15)

6. Islam in America: Demographics, Influence, and Ideology

• [52:35–64:08]

• Ridvan Idemir (“Apostate Prophet”) Interview: A deep dive into Islam’s theological incompatibility with Western values, challenges faced by religious minorities in Muslim-majority countries, and recent efforts to create sizable Muslim enclaves (Epic City, Qatar City) in the US.

  • Ridvan: "...when I was in Germany it was our duty...to never really integrate into society because the Quran says...do not befriend the Jews and the Christians." (53:59)
  • Describes Islam as inherently political, referencing apostasy laws, jizya, and the dhimmi system.

• Concerns about communal concentration and political power: Commentary on Yasser Qadhi’s support for planned Muslim communities in Texas/Arizona, linking them to future demands for theocratic accommodation.

7. Faith, Culture, and Political Strategy with Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick

• [75:12–94:23]

• Faith-driven civic engagement: Patrick urges public officials to invest in youth organizations like Club America to defend and propagate Christian, patriotic values, narrates his personal connection to Charlie, and calls the cultural struggle a battle of “darkness and light.”

  • Dan Patrick: "It's not a battle... of Republicans and Democrats. It's a battle of darkness and light." (76:48)

• Education, media, courts – ‘Three Pillars’ of Leftist Takeover:

  • "You have to take over the education system...the media...have the Supreme Court." (82:24)

• Saving Texas, Youth Engagement, and Hope for Gen Z:

  • Patrick and the hosts reflect on the need to sustain Texas’s conservatism for national viability, address voter complacency, and emphasize Gen Z’s potential as an “opportunity and solution” if reached with strong values and institutional support.
    • Charlie Kirk: "...Gen Z is not the problem, they're the opportunity and the solution." (90:12)

• Islamic enclaves and Sharia concern: Patrick asserts, "We're not going to allow Sharia law in Texas. We're going to go by the Constitution..." (93:18)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Charlie Kirk on Alternative Halftime Show (07:36):
  "This is a David and Goliath story. We're going up against a machine, a cabal... Any time you do anything important, you're gonna have the haters. I say bring it on."

• On the Voter ID Debate, Polls, and Pop Culture Allies (31:18):
  "The American people are with Nicki Minaj because what are we talking about here? ...83% in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj. They favor photo ID to be able to vote." —Harry Entin

• Dan Patrick’s Faith Challenge (76:48):
  "It's not a battle...of Republicans and Democrats. It's a battle of darkness and light. And what we are seeing across our country is darkness. And there's a movement in this country that wants to remove God from our country."

• Mocking Pop Star Activism over “Stolen Land” (42:23):
  "I think someone should get in contact with this tribe...it might be time to occupy Billie Eilish's land." —Blake

• Ridvan Idemir on Islamic Law and Integration (53:59):
  "...when I was in Germany it was our duty...to never really integrate into society because the Quran says...do not befriend the Jews and the Christians."

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Structued Timestamps

• 00:25–01:07 — Law enforcement anecdote & critique
• 01:07–04:24, 26:32–38:41 — Voter ID popularity, Gill interview
• 05:24–22:53 — Super Bowl, Halftime, Culture wars
• 16:48–23:11 — Roger Goodell/NFL ‘wokeness’
• 40:44–45:41 — Pop culture hypocrisy, ‘Stolen Land’
• 52:35–64:08 — Islam in America, Ridvan interview
• 75:12–94:23 — Lt. Governor Dan Patrick interview, Texas politics, youth, faith

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

• Deeply anti-“woke”, pro-traditional values
• Emphasis on fighting back through new institutions (media, youth orgs, culture)
• Frequent use of satire, mockery, and provocative rhetoric
• Support for strict immigration control, Christian public influence, and American sovereignty
• Cautious toward demographic and cultural change, especially regarding Islam and progressive activism
• Strong call for practical civic engagement and investment in conservative youth infrastructure

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This episode provides a sweeping tour of contemporary right-wing grievances, strategies, and rallying points ahead of a highly charged cultural and political moment, tying together headlines, pop culture, and interviews with public officials in a self-consciously combative, “culture warrior” style.

Transcript

[Sunny Hostin]

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.

[Charlie Kirk]

The Charlie Kirk show starts now.

[Oscar Ramirez]

All of a sudden, I feel myself being jostled and people trying to grab.

[Blake]

Me and put me in handcuffs.

[Oscar Ramirez]

And I said, what are you doing here? And they said, we came to arrest you. And I said, who are you? And then finally they identified themselves.

[Blake]

And I said, if you are who you are, then where's the warrant?

[Oscar Ramirez]

And they didn't have a warrant, so they had to wait for someone from outside, an FBI guy, to come in to show me a warrant.

[Charlie Kirk]

And I read it and still.

[Oscar Ramirez]

What does that mean? You know, it had to be maybe a dozen people, which is a waste, Jimmy, of resources.

[Brandon Gill]

It's more than just a waste of resources.

[Oscar Ramirez]

So they grab you and they take you where? Well, you're right about more than just.

[Blake]

A waste of resources.

[Dan Patrick]

They want that.

[Oscar Ramirez]

They want to embarrass you, they want to intimidate you.

[Charlie Kirk]

They want to instill fear. And so that's why they did it that way.

[Harry Entin]

The American people are with Nicki Minaj because what are we talking about here? So take a look here. Favor voter ID to vote. Look, I got all this polling on the street and going back since 2018, you'll notice on all of it, it's all north of 75%, 76%, 76%, 76%, 76%, 81. And then 83% in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj. They favor photo ID to be able to vote.

[Sunny Hostin]

It's sort of a vestige of, I think, post slavery laws where they. Where black people had to prove their right to vote. And oftentimes they couldn't vote because they couldn't pass some crazy test or they didn't have the appropriate id. It also affects women. Women that are married, maybe women. One, your passport reflects something that's different on your. On your birth certificate or on your driver's license. So really the bottom line is voter suppression. And I agree with him 100%. It's a brilliant notion that less voter ID laws allows more people to vote. And most democracies do it that way. We're the only ones that really don't do it that way. Governor Waltz gave an interview this week to the Atlantic where he compared what is happening to your city to that first battle of the Civil War at Fort Sum. And I'm just wondering what you make of that comparison.

[Dan Patrick]

It's terrifying.

[Charlie Kirk]

I think what he's saying is that a significant and terrifying line is being crossed.

[Dan Patrick]

And I would agree with that.

[Sunny Hostin]

If a civil war Begins, I volunteer, but not as a regular army person.

[Charlie Kirk]

Pick me to serve as a bioweapon.

[Sunny Hostin]

Let me spread hep C to the bad guys.

[Charlie Kirk]

My weapon isn't my gun.

[Sunny Hostin]

It's my hep C. Spread love, not war.

[Charlie Kirk]

By love, I mean hep C. Comment below. If you have hep C and you.

[Sunny Hostin]

Want to join my liberal bio arsenal, hep C can be cured via oral medication. But we're not gonna have hep C meds at wartime.

[Oscar Ramirez]

Yeah, so this is for Jelly Roll.

[Charlie Kirk]

You keep on getting up on stage.

[Oscar Ramirez]

Screaming about Jesus and God, but you also just said jesus has no political party. And you might as well have just.

[Charlie Kirk]

Said, I am maga.

[Oscar Ramirez]

I don't give a about these immigrants. These people are being ice the way.

[Charlie Kirk]

Women'S rights are being stripped.

[Oscar Ramirez]

Gay, trans, black, brown people are being.

[Charlie Kirk]

Treated in this country.

[Oscar Ramirez]

So you can keep that because, like.

[Charlie Kirk]

If that's the kind of Christian you want to be, I want no part of it.

[Sunny Hostin]

Will there be any ICE enforcement operations, to your knowledge, around the Super Bowl, Whether that's this week and at the game on Sunday?

[Caroline Levitt]

Security is obviously one of the things we focus on the most. It's a Tier 1 level event that involves unique assets at the federal level, state level, and the local level all working together. I see no change in that. In the preparations for the super bowl, we've not seen that. We're working with all three of those levels and doing everything we can to make sure it's a safe environment. And the federal government is a big part of that, including this administration, every other administration before that. I just anticipate we'll continue to do the work to make it the safest event.

[Sunny Hostin]

Bad Bunny made a pretty clear anti ice at the Grammys last night. What are you expecting in terms of political statement? Whether that's from Bad Bunny or Green Day or any of the other performers.

[Caroline Levitt]

I think everybody in one of. Listen, Bad Benny was. Is. And I think that was demonstrated last night. One of the great artists in the world, and that's one of the reasons we chose him. But the other reason is he understood the platform he was on and that this was. This platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together. I think Bad Bunny understands that, and I think he'll have a great performance.

[Dan Patrick]

Every day there's a battle for your.

[Charlie Kirk]

Mind Raging information coming from every angle with the will to deceive Fear not.

[Dan Patrick]

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.

[Charlie Kirk]

This is the Charlie Kirk show.

[Dan Patrick]

Buckle up, here we go.

[Charlie Kirk]

All right. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. It's February 3rd, 2026. Honored to be with you. The Bitcoin.com Studios. Your one stop shop to buy, sell, trade bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Do all your research there. And we're here in Phoenix. Blake Bitcoin.com Phoenix Bitcoin.com studio here in Phoenix. And boy, oh boy, did the world react to the all American halftime show announcement that they did.

[Blake]

I really liked the department of War asking how they could get in on it. That was an exciting one.

[Charlie Kirk]

Secretary Hegseth said on Twitter. He said, how do I, how do we get the Department of War involved? And of course, there's the graphic. Kid Rock was on the show yesterday. I mean, we might as well just reiterate. I just did a hit with Steve Bannon about it. But we've got Gabby Barrett, Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert and of course Kid Rock. I've been seeing the images. I can't share them, of course, because we have to keep this all, you know, sort of a surprise for you all in the viewing audience. But the production value is going not, it's not going to disappoint, put it that way. It is top, top notch. Made for TV viewing like a concert. Perfect to stream at home. You know, the stadium shows, it's always far away.

[Blake]

People have been asking, it's right on the graphic. But people have been asking, how do they watch it? There are a lot of ways to watch it.

[Charlie Kirk]

There's a lot of ways to watch it. But since we are on Real America's Voice right now, just tune in here. Just tune in here at Real America's Voice. So if you are watching this show, you know how to get here, you know how to find it. Just at the, when you know the, the action of the game, pauses, come right over and the stream will be up, okay? And Real America's Voice will be taking it. And I know they got some programming on either side of it. So it's going to be very seamless for our Real America's Voice audience. If you are more prone to streaming, it'll be all over our YouTube pages, X page, rumble page. You can check it all over there. Tbn, ntd, OAN Daily Wire. Plus those places will take it as well. And we're talking about potentially some others. But Real America's Voice is the one stop shop. Rob and Parker Sig instantly called when we made this announcement. In the fall and said, how do we get involved? How do we. How do we support what you guys are doing? So check it out right here on Real America's Voice. And this is a David and Goliath story. We're going up against a machine, a cabal, Stadiums didn't want to take it. I mean, the stories that we have of trying to put this together are truly worth sharing at some point. But what we have, I think we ended in just the right place. The reaction's been, I mean, obviously there's some haters out there, but that's actually part of the fun. Just embrace the hate. Like they're mad that we're doing this. And there's a lot of people that are very happy that we're doing this. Anytime you do anything important, you're gonna have the haters. I say bring it on. Bring it on. David and Goliath. Maybe you can't take on a pop mega superstar, international queer rights anti ice act in the pro football machine. Or maybe you can. We're gonna find out either way, we're gonna have fun doing it. And I think it's already a win that we're just doing it. Cuz guess What? It's the 250th anniversary of this country. We want to celebrate America. We don't want to. We don't want to crap on it. We don't want to be a part of this movement that's trying to indoctrinate our children into hating this country. So check it out. Sunday, you're going to be all gathered together anyways, barbecuing.

[Blake]

I just like that. It's like, you know, pause in the action of the game. What game? You might happen to be involved in.

[Charlie Kirk]

Some sort of game, some sort of sporting event. We're not sure, you know, and there's no specific one.

[Blake]

Nothing by name.

[Charlie Kirk]

There's. There's no names. Some people watch no names.

[Blake]

Some people watch pro Starcraft matches on Sundays.

[Charlie Kirk]

I'm sure. Yeah, I just, I just love it. I think it's one of the most fun things. And I was, I was texting in our group chat with Jack. No, this is it.

[Blake]

No, I'm revealing this one. What was great was it finally occurred to Andrew. Wait a minute. We're doing this because Charlie didn't like halftime shows.

[Charlie Kirk]

That's that.

[Blake]

And he never realized that before.

[Charlie Kirk]

Listen, I, I have a great story. When Charlie did the sexual anarchy tweet. I don't know if we have that. So it was during. It was a Couple years back when they were doing the rappers from the 90s, you know, it was like, who was it? It was Ice Cube. Was it Ice Cube? No, it wasn't Ice Cube. Anyways, it was like Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.

[Blake]

February 2022.

[Charlie Kirk]

And it was actually kind of a tame.

[Blake]

NFL is now the league of sexual Anarchy.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yes.

[Blake]

This halftime show should not be allowed on television.

[Charlie Kirk]

Well, and I remember because basically I took one breather from like monitoring my phone to go get some barbecue because I was at a Super bowl party, obviously. And then unbeknownst to me, in the five minutes I stepped away, Charlie fired off that. That all timer of a tweet. And I was just like, Charlie. That was the most tame halftime show that they've had in about a decade. But I think. And was he watching it, by the way?

[Blake]

Did he actually see it or did.

[Charlie Kirk]

He just assume he was watching it? He was watching it. And I mean, he was taking screen grabs to prove his point. And I was like, okay, all right. But anyways, the point is that Charlie always had a hot take on the halftime show. And, you know, I was sort of more in the head space of like, you know, people don't like the current offering. They don't like it. There's a demand in the marketplace. I didn't create the demand. The other guys created the demand by choosing their anti English speaking, anti ice queer celebrating person as the. As the performer. So I didn't create the demand. We didn't create the demand. So that's more where my head was at. But it turns out there's just a lot of demand. And yeah, obviously Secretary of War Pete Hegseth getting in the. In the mix. We had a bunch of different people from government agencies say, hey, how can we help? What can we do? We want to be a part of this. And a bunch of the streaming platforms reached out. It's been phenomenal. So the reaction has been great.

[Blake]

It's pretty fun because we're actually reviving an old tradition. Do you know how the other things halftime show got started in the first place? It started. They used to have more tame ones, and they thought, it's the Super Bowl. Nobody's gonna mess with it. And then other channels started to counter program it deliberately. And so, for example, in Living Color was that sketch comedy show that would.

[Brandon Gill]

Went on when you were growing up.

[Blake]

And they just did like a big episode during the halftime show window on a different channel to try to steal viewers during it. And that's when they went over the top and said, oh, we're gonna, they got Michael Jackson the next year, but now to keep the audience, they had good acts for a long time and now they've sort of come full circle back to bad acts that a ton of people don't want to watch.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, I, listen, I, that makes sense. They've, but they've gone, woke. Jay Z's running the show over there and yeah, that's, Listen, you get, you get your just desserts.

[Blake]

That's how we got here. This is a weird artifact of Florida Palooza. Around that time, everyone said the halftime show is racist. It needs to be more culturally aware. And they just gave Jay Z total creative control over it. And so he's used it to book left wing, anti American kind of out of the mainstream acts. I would say that stuff that does not appeal to the broad base of fans.

[Charlie Kirk]

We have a throwback Charlie clip when he's wearing a hat. It was at the old studio. This is from February 2022. Let's just play it 343.

[Dan Patrick]

Look, the super bowl halftime show has a reputation. People say it's a spicy program.

[Charlie Kirk]

Okay, listen, spicy.

[Dan Patrick]

It's supposed to be boundary pushing when you have the most televised event.

[Charlie Kirk]

This is true.

[Blake]

Most televised event for the entire year.

[Charlie Kirk]

One of the most televised events on the planet, by the way.

[Dan Patrick]

That should be a reflection of the virtue that hopefully you want society to embody.

[Blake]

Man, I never, I never saw that.

[Charlie Kirk]

This is funny, though. Look at this. 2014. Throw this up. 344. This is, this had one like, this is how few people were following Charlie on Twitter at the time in 2014. Clothing optional halftime performance. Question mark. 1.

[Blake]

Like, I just, man, that was he, he was, Was he still 20 at that time?

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, I, I, I just think this is amazing. Yeah, it, I don't know. He was born.

[Blake]

Yeah, he would have been 21. Yeah. No older than 21.

[Charlie Kirk]

And so Charlie's.

[Blake]

It's like, it's like the president hammering.

[Charlie Kirk]

Away at the halftime show.

[Blake]

Tweet for everything.

[Charlie Kirk]

There's a tweet for everything. He's been hammering for years and years. And here we are in 2026 and trying to do our best to honor him. And by the way, Charlie loved playing in the cultural space. He wanted to win the culture. I'll never forget, we were sitting down with a reporter in D.C. around the inauguration and won the, won the presidency, obviously. And he goes, what's next? Like, are you guys done? And he's like, no, we want to win the culture. And I remember that moment with Charlie really distinctly. And I just think this is exactly the way to honor his wishes, his mission, his legacy is to go straight for the jugular. Go straight for it and take on the cultural behemoth and the cabal and the machine all at 1 in 1 fell swoop. So we're gonna have a good time on Sunday. I hope you guys tune in right here in real America's Voice. We'll. All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. I want to tell you about our friends over at why Refi. Amazing people, amazing company. Yrefy.com you got to check them out. If you find yourself in a situation with private student loan debt that you cannot catch up on, you cannot get ahead on, you're falling behind on payments. That mountain of student loan statements is piling up on your kitchen table. You do not have to live this way. A lot of people, when they call y Refi, they can't even make their minimum monthly payment on their private student loan debt. That's not a good thing, folks. You do not have to live this way. You're probably depressed. I can't get over. When I visited their office, they were telling me all these stories about how suicidal people were when they were just dealing with this. They felt like their whole futures had been robbed in the attempt to improve their future prospects by getting a college degree. But instead they find themselves in a mountain of debt. They can't get jobs and they can't pay their. Their loans. And so people call them in desperate straits. And why Refi is there to help? They are good people. Good people. This is what they wake up every day to do is to help you get out from under your private student loan debt. So call them at 888yrefi34. 888yrefi34 or log [e-mail]. it's a quick 3 minute rate check with zero rate impact. They don't care if you have bad credit. Who else is going to tell you that? They'll even let you skip a payment every six months up to 12 times. So check them out. Why Refi is the best. Love those guys. Really, really. Just good, good people. Love. Why Refi. All right, so we got to do our obligatory super bowl week Roger Goodell takedown. We have to. But I did. I. We were planning on covering a little bit of the Epstein stuff, but I just. It's too juicy. I want to. I want to hit Roger Goodell. We're going to move that to tomorrow. So if you're wondering why we haven't touched on the Epstein stuff. I have my reasons.

[Blake]

There's a lot of it.

[Charlie Kirk]

There's a lot. There's 3 million documents and people are still parsing through a lot of them. And there's stuff on Bill Gates, which is funny, and Elon Musk, which is funny. And the Clintons agree. We're going to get this tomorrow. I want to do it right. So we're going to devote hour one to hitting that tomorrow because there's a lot to go through and I think we just have to. But I want to do it right. I don't want to rush it. So instead we're going to hit Roger Goodell, which is always.

[Blake]

He really wants to hit Roger Goodell.

[Charlie Kirk]

Listen, the NFL is like a vest. It's like a throwback to peak woke. Roger Goodell is a. Should be in a museum somewhere. It's like he, he shouldn't be doing the job he's doing. And yet it's like, like I would more suspect him to be like cased in formaldehyde up on some shelf in a scientist lab because he's acting like it is peak woke still. And he just is so squish. He's so beta. He's such a bad leader of that amazing league. And so we're just going to hit him. He was asked at the annual super bowl press conference about the lack of diversity in NFL coaches. 3, 10.

[Oscar Ramirez]

But everybody knows that this cycle was over. 10 for black coaches, 1 for 9 for coaches of color. So should you just be resigned to the fact now that basically nothing you do can move the numbers between three.

[Caroline Levitt]

To seven on coaches and three to seven on general managers? Those historic numbers that we've seen, I think we need to continue to make progress. And I believe that. I believe diversity is good for us. I think we have become a more diverse league across every platform, including coaching. But we still have more work to do. There's got to be more steps. So we're reevaluating everything we're doing.

[Ridvan Idemir]

It's.

[Blake]

It's like so. It's so. I feel like frankly, Charlie would have a good bit on this. Like, as you say, he should be in a museum, he should be in formaldehyde. Because he actually is this very almost the platonic form of this certain type. He's this like. He certainly looks like red America. He's a 66 year old boomer. Yeah, boomer. White male guy who's running a big institution. Like you'd think he's almost he could be in the dictionary is like, oh, this is a core Republican voter. And yet he's this guy who's overseen an institution that he didn't build. It was gifted to him essentially, or handed to him. And then he almost to keep himself on top, he gets paid 20, 30, $50 million a year, some insane amount. And he's thought, I can keep control of this by giving in to all of this woke stuff below me, all of this liberal stuff below me. I will midwife this new DEI America into being and they'll all love me for it. And that's the role he plays. And instead he's massively messing it up. He's making a ton of people angry. He's making the NFL worse than it was before when there really wasn't a big problem. Like, are we seriously going to claim that the NFL has a huge racism problem? Like, the entire concept is laughable. They're currently mad. They're mad because there were 10 coach openings and none of the new ones they hired were black one. So what, they want to hire the best coach this year didn't happen to go that way. Like right now they're going to go into 2026 with three black coaches. Three out of 32. That's a little over 10%. What's the black share of the country? A little over 10%. Wow. Wow, what a crisis.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, but how many black players are in the NFL?

[Blake]

Okay, but so what? Coaching is a different skill set from playing in the N. Why would the same people do it?

[Charlie Kirk]

I totally agree. Listen, I think you're right. He is a. By the look of him, he's red coated. He's gop.

[Blake]

That's how they do this to you.

[Charlie Kirk]

But here's the thing. He is. He is a vestige of an artifact of a previous, a bygone era of GOP country club Republicanism that proved to be feckless, that couldn't conserve jack that basically sat on their hands while we lost the country. So you're going to watch this man sit on his hands while he loses the NFL? That's what you're going to see. Can't stand this guy. He is. Okay. So he's then asked about Bad Bunny getting political and Green Day, who is famously very anti Trump but total washed up artist, by the way.

[Sunny Hostin]

314 Bad Bunny made a pretty clear anti ice statement at the Grammys last night. What are you expecting in terms of political statement? Whether that's from Bad Bunny or Green Day or any of the other performers.

[Caroline Levitt]

I Think every everybody and want to listen. Bad Benny was, is. And I think that was demonstrated last night. One of the great artists in the world. And that's one of the reasons we chose him. But the other reason is he understood the platform he was on and that this was. This platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together. I think Bad Bunny understands that and I think he'll have a great performance.

[Blake]

Did he call him Bad Benny there?

[Charlie Kirk]

Bad Benny, Bad Benny. Good old Bad Benny. That's how we're gonna.

[Blake]

Not our Benny, the bad one.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah. So Bad Benny. Good old Bad Benny Heat. So what that translation, that means they had a talk with Bad Benny when he started saying he's gonna wear a dress in celebration of queer icons and queer identity. And they said, could you tone it down just a little bit, please? We got this alternative thing that's happening over here and they're really upset that we booked you. Could you just tone it down? And he said, ice out.

[Blake]

But what's amazing, I think he's got him kind of by the short hairs, as it were. Like, what, he's not going to host it again? I don't think they ever really do a repeat super bowl act. There's really nowhere above. If he just says, if he told them, okay, fine, I won't do it. And then he just did it anyway. One, they have no way to stop him. And two, he'll basically be a lib legend forever.

[Charlie Kirk]

Of course he can absolutely humiliate. Structure is absolutely in the corner for Bad Benny to humiliate the NFL and to do it with bells on. And to do it and just ride the album sales all the way to the bank.

[Blake]

And Roger would deserve it. He would deserve it so much.

[Charlie Kirk]

Because you have been cucked, Roger, because. Yeah, because you have been hoodwinked by the machine that you created, by the cabal you have overseen and allowed to metastasize. You deserve every.

[Blake]

He's the perfect bad Boomer. He can't preserve an amazing.

[Charlie Kirk]

So we have Bad Boomer and Bad Benny. There we go. Brandon Gill joins us next.

[Oscar Ramirez]

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[Dan Patrick]

The voice of generations is the Charlie Kirk show.

[Charlie Kirk]

All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. Very excited about this guest. I've been wanting to have him on for a long time. Been watching him just absolutely crush it. And that is Brandon Gill. Representative Brandon Gill from Texas's 26th congressional district. He is the class president of the freshman class in the House. So self described, but I actually think it is probably true. Brandon, welcome to the show. We're honored to have you, Congressman. Thank you.

[Brandon Gill]

Yeah, thanks for having me.

[Charlie Kirk]

Absolutely. You've been doing such great work and we have your back 100%. And you are, I think, you know, it's funny Cuz actually, truth be told, Charlie got to the point where he was like, I don't, don't book congressman on the show anymore. Waste of rations. You know, it's like nothing happens over there. And it's like you have a zombie house. But you have been amazing and you are making waves because just yesterday you posted about this. I believe it was yesterday. Throw it up there. This is 352. I just sent a letter to Mitch McConnell asking his committee to stop stalling the SAVE Act. 83% of Americans want proof of citizenship to vote, yet the Senate has done nothing for 300 days. The house did its job, the Senate needs to do theirs. So Congressman, you, you went straight for Mitch The Mitch the McConnell machine. Tell us about this and why.

[Brandon Gill]

Well, sure, and thanks for having me on. I went there because we passed the SAVE act out of the House almost a year ago. You know, this is, I mean, you guys talk about it all the time. I mean, this is the most common sense piece of legislation you can imagine simply saying that if you are an illegal alien, you shouldn't be voting in American elections. If you're a foreign national and not a citizen, you shouldn't be voting. So we should have common sense measures like voter ID whenever you, whenever you register to vote. That's something that almost 85% of Americans in this country agree with. That means that a lot of Democrats agree with us on that. So we passed it out of the House almost a year ago. Now it's sitting in the Senate. And that gets taken up procedurally by the Senate Rules committee, which Senator McConnell chairs. And what we want to do is be very clear that it is the will of the House for the Senate to get this passed. You guys need to do. The American people are on our side. So let's get this thing moving and let's put it up for a vote in the Senate in a way that we can actually make this law.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, absolutely. Well, and I, you know, I've checked around on this, cuz when we booked you on the show, I wanted to see what the vibe in the Senate was. And I think we can get 50 plus one over there. I don't think you're gonna get Mitch, I don't think you're gonna get Lisa, I don't think you're gonna get Susan. I think you're gonna get Rand. Rand has signed on. Thune has been signaling that he's supportive of it. He said this publicly, that he's gonna take it to a vote. And the question is, you Know, could you pass this in a reconciliation bill? Could you, could you nuke the filibuster for a funding bill? Get rid of the zombie filibuster? There's all these options. So this looks like it can be a thing. Now, obviously you're in the House, not the Senate, right? So taking it back to the House, Speaker Johnson was doing a press conference this morning. I saw him talking about this. What? There's some confusion here. It's been sent back to the House to add some different stipulations. Does that mean you guys are gonna have to pass it again? Are we going to be able to pass that? Fill us in on the details there.

[Brandon Gill]

Yeah, so. So for quick background, we passed multiple appropriations bills out of the House. That includes the DHS funding bill, which funds, you know, the Department of Homeland Security, ice, fema, TSA agents, and everything sort of related in that area. We sent those bills over to the Senate. Now, while they were sitting in the Senate, Senate Democrats decided that they were going to go back on their agreement to, to pass these bills. They were doing that because they want to leverage the chaos. Minneapolis, in order to stop the President from carrying out his deportation agenda. Obviously that's not something that we're going to tolerate. It's not something the administration is going to tolerate. So what they did in the Senate is they combined all of those appropriations bills minus the DHS bill and sent it back to the House. What they did is they instead of passing the DHS bill as part of that package, they did a two week continuing resolution to buy two more weeks of time to negotiate that bill. So that whole funding package has come back to the House. We actually just voted on the rule. The vote is open right now. Last I checked, there were two people who are still no on the rule and two people who haven't voted yet. So that's still ongoing. If I were to guess that ends up passing. But again, that's playing out in real time right now. The next step is to vote on final package passage, which will be, and I believe about an hour or so.

[Charlie Kirk]

Okay, got it. Well, let's just go back a step here and show just how wildly popular these, these simple common sense measures are. You've got Nicki Minaj who is weighing in on this 331. What sensible, forward thinking, cutting edge leading nation is having a debate on whether or not there should be voter id? And then you have Harry Entin who basically, you know, chimes in and says, yeah, Nikki's right here. The American people agree with her 320American.

[Harry Entin]

People are with Nicki Minaj because what are we talking about here? So take a look here. Favor voter ID to vote. Look, I got all this polling on the screen going back since 2018. You'll notice on all of it it's all north of 75%, 76%, 76%, 76%, 76%, 81% and then 83% in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj. They favor photo ID to be able to vote.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, but here's the thing, Brandon. Cuz it's really a form of slavery and it's like a throwback to Jim Crow. This is what Sunny Hostin has to say about it.

[Sunny Hostin]

321 it's sort of a vestige of, I think post slavery laws where they, where black people had to prove their right to vote and oftentimes they couldn't vote because they couldn't pass some crazy test or they didn't have the appropriate id. It also affects women, women that are married. Maybe your passport reflects something that's different on your birth certificate or on your driver's license. So really the bottom line is voter suppression. And I agree with him 100%. It's a brilliant notion that less voter ID laws allows more people to vote. And most democracies do it that way. We're the only ones that really don't do it that way.

[Charlie Kirk]

Congressman. Do most democracies do it this way? And you know, are they, are you guys trying to keep married women from voting? Which by the way, married women vote the most conservative of all the female groups. So this is a really dumb thing to suggest anyways. Go ahead, Congressman.

[Brandon Gill]

Right, I know. And what the leftists, they're trying to deflect here, the reality is that what the left wants after four years of open borders is to bring in millions upon millions of people into the country illegally, provide a path to citizenship, eventually give them voting rights, but in the meantime they want those illegal aliens to impact congressional apportionment and to figure out ways to vote in our election systems. It's a way of sort of systematically rigging our elections in favor of Democrats at the expense of Republicans. What we're doing is we're simply saying no, you know, you've got to use a, you got to have a birth certificate to show, to show your age to play in little league baseball. I mean, you got to show, you get to show passport oftentimes to travel in the United States or to travel abroad certainly. So this is about as basic as it gets and again what Democrats are doing here is not trying to fight for voting rights or any of that nonsense that you hear every day is fundamentally what they're trying to do is erode the meaning of American citizenship and erode the distinction between US citizens and foreign foreigners who are in the United States. We're saying that if everybody can vote in the United States, if every foreign national, if every illegal alien is going to, going to the polls and voting in our federal elections, which means if an illegal alien votes in a blue state, that it impacts me and my constituents in Texas for federal elections, then you're eroding, you're essentially disenfranchising voters in red states or voters across the country. And we're saying we've had enough of this. You know, a core part of national sovereignty is being able to determine that the people who are a part of the body politic, who are citizens who have sort of, you know, bought into the social contract of the United States are the ones who get, and the only ones who get to determine how our government is run. And that's again that's something that most Americans agree with. It's such a basic, you know, core civic principle that we're trying to get back to, to. But the left is fighting against us because in, you guys know this very well, they see the saved act, they see illegal aliens voting and they say that is our ticket to, to electorally winning in the United States. Again, it's a way of systematically rigging our elections. That's why they see this as an existential threat.

[Charlie Kirk]

Well and if you look at the just domestic immigration inside the United States, blue states are losing population, they're losing native born Americans that hate the taxes, they hate the crime, they hate the regulations, they hate the malaise. I will tell you, I just moved from California, came to Arizona. You could feel the malaise in California. You can just feel it. You can feel businesses are struggling, nobody wants to hire anybody there because it's a terrible place to do business. So they're voting with their feet and they're getting out. And that's going to affect the electoral college. That's going to affect apportionments in Congress 100%. You're gonna see those chickens come home to roost in 2030 in a big way. But in the meantime, this is why they're fighting against DHS so hard. Cuz guess who's moving into those places? Guess who they're protecting? Illegals. And there's a reason for that. All the grift all the fraud, all the bilking taxpayer money. There's that new story that came out of Southern California with all those hospice centers within like a two mile radius. And I mean, it's, this is truly remarkable levels of fraud. And obviously the Somali story in Minneapolis kicked it off. But I have more bad news for Sunny Hostin. Hostin. Hostin, whatever. The gal from one of the cackling hens from the View. We've got some polling on black Americans and where they're at on voter ID as well. 355, take a look here.

[Harry Entin]

Favorite photo ID to vote, 85% of white people favorite. 82% of Latino, 76% of black Americans, favorite. So the bottom line is this, voter ID is not controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is not.

[Charlie Kirk]

Controversial in this country.

[Harry Entin]

It is not controversial by party and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that in fact, you should have a photo ID to be able to vote.

[Charlie Kirk]

So something of a. Okay, so let's just. Big picture here. You've got the voters who want it. You've got black, white, Hispanic voters that want it. Seems to me the only group that doesn't want this is like Stacey Abrams, Sunny Hostin, Hakeem Jeffries. Why the disconnect? What do Democrat leaders know that their voters don't?

[Brandon Gill]

Well, I mean, this has been the Democrat plan for a long time. And you know, this isn't a right wing conspiracy theory to say that Democrats are trying to import voters in order to get more Democrat voters. I mean, there's a book that came out about 20 years ago called the Emerging Democratic Majority. I mean, the thesis of the work is saying that essentially demographic changes in the United States politically benefit Democrats. And that is one of the ways that Democrats can hold on to power long term. So if you're an American citizen, it doesn't matter if you're, if you're white, if you're black, or if you're Hispanic or any other race. You recognize that eroding, eroding these principles and these ideas that really only hold to citizens. Voting rights, for instance, essentially disenfranchises American voters.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, well, and Brandon, specifically Texas, that's their big, big get. That's the white whale for the Democrats. We gotta fight and save Texas. We're actually gonna have Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick on the show in the second hour talking about just that. And he's been doing some great work with our Club America chapters in the state of Texas. We got to keep Texas bright ruby red. So we love seeing new stars like yourself rise up in the ranks. Doing great work in Congress. Keep up the great work, Congressman. You're doing a phenomenal job.

[Brandon Gill]

I appreciate that. We've got a whole lot more work to do and we've got a lot more fighting to do.

[Charlie Kirk]

All right, God bless you, Voice for the grassroots. Brandon Gill, we'll be right back. All right, welcome back. It's great. With Congressman Brandon Gill out of Texas. Good, good guy. Bitcoin.com studio your one stop shop to, to buy, sell, trade or, and just to research crypto and bitcoin. I want to tell you guys about one of our partners here and that would be strong sell. If you've been a listener to this show, a watcher for any amount of time, you will remember Charlie talking about Strong Cell. It was one of his favorite supplements and he would get asked about it everywhere. I don't know what it was about it, but maybe it's just because it was really great and Charlie was really, you know, impressed by the product. What makes it special is that it has a proprietary delivery mechanism of an enzyme called nadh. NADH is the power source for every cell in your body. Your body needs it, it lacks it. This has a special way of getting it into your cells. You give it a chance. If you try this product for four to six weeks, you're going to notice a massive, massive change, a turnaround. So please give it a shot. And right now is a perfect time to do it because they're doing a 90 day risk free money back guarantee. So completely risk free. Go to strongcell.com today. Use promo code Charlie at checkout to save 20%. So you save 20% on it with promo code Charlie, 90 day money back guarantee. So if for whatever reason you don't see me, see any difference, then you get your money back. But I think you're going to see a difference because it really works. I take it. It's an amazing product. Nadh power you, powers you up. Brain fog, fatigue, lack of energy, all that stuff. You can get rid of it. Go to strongcell.com promo code charlie. All right, Blake, are you living on stolen land? I think I just want you to go off on the concept of stolen land. No.

[Blake]

So this is great. So this happened. We talked about this a little bit yesterday. Let's revisit it. So we talked about the Grammys and one of the big lines that we really teed off on was Billy Eilish declared that everyone has the right to come here because no one is illegal on stolen land. Let's revisit it. 292 please.

[Charlie Kirk]

No one is illegal on stolen land.

[Blake]

Now a thing we didn't show but we should have yesterday is as it happens she has a quite palatial of course state.

[Charlie Kirk]

She's extraordinarily whatever.

[Blake]

293 with a very big wall and gate around it. It is not a super publicly accessible thing. But there's an excellent twist or follow up on this. So of course Eilish lives in the Los Angeles area and there are some indigenous former inhabitants or you know, tribes that are native to the Los Angeles basin. And it's the Tongva tribe. And some members of this tribe got in contact with the media and they pointed out we don't believe that we have ceded our land in this area. And so they released a statement to Fox News as the first people of the. Let's see.

[Charlie Kirk]

The greater Los Angeles of the Los Angeles basin.

[Blake]

We understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land. Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property. We do not. Scott. Update Value the instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history of this country. Or we do value. I guess. But. So it seems that she lives on stolen land.

[Charlie Kirk]

She lives on stolen land.

[Blake]

Which means if no one can be illegal on stolen land can you illegally trespass on Billie Eilish's property? And I think we should put this to the test. I think someone should get in contact with this tribe and offer them whatever supplies they need. Whatever legal funds they need. If you guys want to do a demonstration. I think it might be time to occupy Billie Eilish's land.

[Charlie Kirk]

I think we need a chop city on Billie Eilish's palatial estate.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Charlie Kirk]

I think we need chop. We need the summer of love and Billy. Billy, You've. You've really hemmed yourself in here. You're in a rock and a hard place. On stolen land. You're living in.

[Blake]

You're living on a glacial Los Angeles basin autonomous zone.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yes. There it is. I think that this needs to happen.

[Blake]

Labop.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah. I mean listen Bill, you've got enough money. You can buy another one if this doesn't work out. It'll be fine.

[Blake]

Or you know, she could do the right thing and she could bequeath it.

[Charlie Kirk]

Just give it to them.

[Blake]

To the tribe.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah. Make this.

[Blake]

She says stolen land.

[Charlie Kirk]

She's rich enough. She could just do it.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Charlie Kirk]

And she could. You could own the high. You could take the. The high route here, Billy. You could be the solution to the problem. You can be the. You can be the white savior. Billie Eilish.

[Blake]

This is not even really a joke. There's the classic Saul Alinsky tactic, is to make the opponent live by its own rules rather strictly. And you should make these commies who want to abolish America live at least for a moment by their own rules. And to zoom back on this. The point is to show that this is a crass absurdity. America is not a stolen country. It is not on stolen land any more than any other country in society, in human history is stolen land. Or for that matter, any more than all the tribes in America were on stolen land. If you want an example that calls to mind for me from the Dakotas, we have the Lakota people there. They complain that the Black Hills were stolen from them. Europeans have owned the Black Hills longer than the Lakota owned the Black Hills because they yoinked it from another tribe just shortly before. After they got the horse, they expanded. And that's all of human history. All of human history is this or that. Stone Age people, Bronze Age people moving around, constantly taking things. What actually gave us the concept of ownership and for that matter the concept of, of theft and property and all of that is civilization and law. And that is why you can't just steal somebody's land today. It's a great thing.

[Charlie Kirk]

But they want.

[Blake]

They hate those laws, they hate the west, they hate civilization. So they use those concepts to undermine them and blow them up. And it's just a pure anti civilizational resentment. But if Eilish is going to indulge that, make her live by it.

[Charlie Kirk]

I love that. Well said. Make Billie Eilish give back her stolen land. Her stolen mansion needs to go back to. What's the tribe's name?

[Blake]

It is the. What's the Tongva. That sounds like a Pacific island tribe.

[Charlie Kirk]

Or something like a South Pacific. Billie Eilish, we are hereby calling on you to give back your mansion to the Tongva tribe in the greater Los Angeles basin. You need to do it now. Do it today. You are rich enough to buy another piece of land on a non stolen piece of property on planet Earth. We're not sure what qualifies as non stolen at this point based on your guys faulty logic.

[Blake]

But that honestly I think we know it qualifies as non stolen if you know it's not white people.

[Charlie Kirk]

You could buy Jeffrey Epstein's island. Buy it? Yes. You could buy that probably stolen land.

[Blake]

Probably.

[Charlie Kirk]

I don't know where you're gonna find some non stolen land. Even the UK is. You could make the argument stolen, right?

[Blake]

Well, no. And the UK belongs to everybody.

[Dan Patrick]

That's.

[Blake]

Well, that's what they say now. Well, we can go deep down that rabbit hole. But if you're not willing to do all of those things, Billy, then we have another good take on what you're supposed to do. This is Ricky Gervais. It's 363.

[Charlie Kirk]

If you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to.

[Brandon Gill]

Make a political speech.

[Blake]

Right.

[Charlie Kirk]

You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So if you win, right, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God and oh, we are going to be having another conversation about civilizational conquering and one that is trying to conquer us. Now we have Ridvan the apostate prophet coming up next. Did you know it's not just Epic city in Texas. There is a whole Qatar. Qatar city being planned in the state of Arizona. And we're gonna unpack that and more with Ridvan, Apostate Prophet, former Muslim, now Christian. He's got all the. All the details. We'll be back in hour two.

[Oscar Ramirez]

Welcome to this Real America's Voice news break. I'm Terrence Bates. We begin this afternoon with exclusive reporting from El Salvador's infamous seacot prison. The massive maximum security facility was built as part of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's hardline anti gang campaign. It's a campaign that's seen tens of thousands of arrested and scores of violent gang members locked away. The facility can hold up to 40,000 inmates including members of Ms. 13 and Barrio 18 whose members have terrorized streets around the United States as well. Real America's Voice correspondent Oscar Ramirez filed this report from.

[Oscar Blue Ramirez]

We're located inside of the prison of Secot. This is what needs to be done in every part in Central America and South America. This is how you fight terrorism. This is how you clean a country. This is how you bring peace to the citizens. Not stepping away from them, not running away from the problems. This right here is how you resolve a problem. To remove every single terrorist that is located right here. It is because they were terrorizing the Salvadorian people, Central America and South America. This is a message to all of you in the United States of America who they are terrorizing with their domestic violence. This is where you need to be located. If you continue like that Nayibu Kele set up the example as a copy paste to bring peace to the citizens. And this goes to all of you shame bound that protects the cartels to not designate them as terrorists. Look what the example to all the regime in Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro Di Odao Cabello. This is how you resolve a problem. You don't resolve a problem from running away from it. You resolve a problem from attacking it from within and fixing the problem to bring peace to the citizens. To all the Democrats and you, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi Hill and Omar Rashida Tlaib, all you progressive mercenary politicians, here you are. If you want to take them, go ahead, you know, come and get them and take them home. They're waiting for you. Just defend their human rights.

[Oscar Ramirez]

That was Oscar Blue Ramirez reporting from El Salvador. Meantime, happening at the White House, President Trump scheduled to meet with Colombian President Gustavo Petro. That meeting is going to mark the first face to face encounter between the two leaders. The duo has spent months attacking each other over the US Military raid in Venezuela which deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. At one point, President Trump even threatened the potential, threatened the potential for similar action in Colombia. Petro has also chided the Trump administration for its attacks on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean. The meeting was initially set to be private, but there is a chance that it does open to the media if in fact that happens. We'll of course have coverage from you for you here on Real america's Voice. We're also waiting for White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt to take the podium outside the White House here. In short order, we're hearing that there's an opportunity for a press availability for her. The moment she takes the microphone. We'll of course take you there live so you can hear what she has to say. There will likely be questions about the president's meeting with Colombia's president and of course, the government shutdown, which we're expecting will end at some point in time today once Congress votes. All of this is coming up throughout the day. Make sure you stay right here on REAL America's VOICE for the very latest.

[Charlie Kirk]

All right, welcome back. Our two of the Charlie Kirk show is underway here. We've got two great guests this hour here at the Bitcoin.com studios. We've got Ridvan Idemir, also known as the Apostate Prophet, and that's gonna be up first. Then we have Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick from the great state of Texas. And I'm gonna ask him about some of the Islamification of the state of Texas as well. So it's kind of a theme this hour. He's gonna be in studio, which can be great. But first up is Ridvan, and he's become a friend, a trusted voice on this topic specifically. We had him at Student Action Summit at Charlie's request, and his content went viral all over the place. And you're with us now. Ridvan, welcome back to the show.

[Ridvan Idemir]

Thank you so much. It's a great pleasure to be here again.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, thank you for coming. I think this is the. So we have to keep hitting this topic. The. Yeah, we have to. Islamification of America, of the West. You are the Apostate Prophet. I think you chose your name sort of prophetically here because you are like one calling out in the wilderness, warning people about a conquering ideology of Islam. So start there. Ridvan, I'm kind of thinking back to your remarks at the Student Action Summit. Build the case from the ground up. Explain. Our audience knows this, but we have to keep repeating it.

[Ridvan Idemir]

Yeah. So the name is actually a very important thing. So I chose Apostate Prophet very specifically because apostasy in Islam. So leaving Islam is something that is explicitly and clearly punishable by death. It is punished by death according to traditional Islamic jurisprudence. And the majority of Muslims around the world today support the idea, actually, that if you leave Islam and you publicly speak about it, you publicly express that you have left Islam, you ought to be somehow punished. And traditionally, you are supposed to be put death. So this is not just a religion like any other religion, where your faith is simply between you and God or you and the divine. It is one that is a political system where leaving it is considered treason. It is considered betrayal in a political and very serious sense, in a military sense. So such a religion naturally will not only be hostile against its own apostates, but also against those that do not align with its values, those who stand against it with systems that are incompatible with its own values. And Charlie very often pointed out, and you can find this in many speeches and many tweets that he made, that Islam is incompatible with the West. So he pointed this out very, very clearly. He got a lot of backlash for it. He repeated it again when he was on stage with me, which was. Which was wonderful. He pointed out that people hate him for many reasons, and this is one of them, but it is simply true. It is a system that is incompatible with Western civilization. It is one that is all about. So I grew up as a Muslim, what I learned, and it's not just What I learned, but I learned, for example, that when I was in Germany it was our duty to be part of the society in a sense, but to never really integrate into society because the Quran says very explicitly and repeatedly, do not befriend the Jews and the Christians. They are friends of one another and whoever befriends them, he is one of them. They are supposed to be enemies of Allah. Muslims are, According to chapter nine, verse 29 and 30 of the Quran, subjugate and humiliate the Jews and the Christians and take protection money called jizya from them like the mafia. So that is the status that Muslims are supposed to have over them because they are supposed to be only slaves of and servants of Allah. And all other religions are supposed to be made subject to Islam, if not, when the time and opportunity arises, eradicated in favor of Islam. Only Islam is supposed to prevail. That is the ideology. That is the core of how Islam views politics and interfaith interactions.

[Blake]

Yeah, Ridvan, I would talk to Charlie about this a lot, of course, and I think that's a key point that's worth expanding on and emphasizing that Islam really does much more than Christianity, for example, have a vision for itself as a total lies. It offers much more explicit guidance. How do you set up society? How do you set up a political organization that is dominated by Islam? How do you live with other faiths, specifically by dominating them. And it's not, you know, as you say, jizya, there's a special tax you're supposed to pay if you're not a Muslim. There's, I believe in most. I'm not sure if this is in the hadiths or so on, but I know that in many Muslim countries they would have rules. You couldn't dress the same way. You had to be separated by dress. And even today in countries that aren't even particularly extremist on Islam in other ways, they still, they make it, for example, very easy to convert to Islam but impossible to convert out of Islam. And that can be weaponized in a lot of ways. I know there have been issues where, for example, Christian women have essentially been abducted and kind of forcibly converted or they're told they, they can't unconvert once some sort of process has been gone through. Elaborate on that a bit.

[Ridvan Idemir]

It is so the last thing that you brought up is a very tragic one. There are, there are lots of cases that is endless, especially in countries like Egypt, despite Egypt supposedly making steps toward modernizing and westernizing and collaborating more and all that. It is still a very everyday thing that the Coptic Christian community in Egypt is very much subjected to the violations by the Islamic communities. And so, I mean, everyone, every Coptic Christian in Egypt knows of somebody or knows somebody who was at some point abducted by Muslims and made to forcibly convert or, you know, stopped in the process. In Pakistan, it is very, very much known that the Christian community is very much silenced and they are in fear. In Muslim countries in general, Christians are brutally mistreated and suppressed. We have statistics on this that come out every single year by Open Doors, which is a Christian organization which keeps a list of countries in the world where there is the highest level of suppression of Christians. The top 50 of the top 50 countries where Christians are most suppressed in the world, the majority, probably 40 or more, are usually Muslim countries. It is very much part of Islam to, to be dominant and to suppress the other. And Christians are specifically considered a threat with other religions and with other groups they can often do kind of, you know, whatever they want to them. But with Christians, Christians are considered the strongest and largest religion. And there is a historical aspect to it as well of the clash between Islam and Christianity. So Christianity is considered an actual formidable enemy, an opponent. So with Christians, the Muslim society is generally specifically careful to put them in their place and subjugate them as much as possible while keeping a public profile of, hey, we're just friends, you know, we're good with each other and all that. So the tragic thing is that I spoke to a Coptic Christian organization once a while ago. They specifically asked me, when I asked them if I could publicly do, do something for them. They asked me to please not publicly speak of them of that organization in general. Because if, if the public associates me with them with my anti Islamic stance and all that, they could be severely persecuted and the Islamic communities in Egypt could take revenge basically on them. So they are in fear constantly for their lives. And you have correctly pointed out that so in the hadith, Muhammad did very often say that he came to fight the people until everybody becomes a Muslim. He did curse the Jews and the Christians, often mentioning the two of them together and often pointed out that Muslims should not dress like them and that they should dominate the Jews and the Christians. So it became Islamic law basically early on. It's called the dhimmi system, that when Muslims conquer neighboring countries, as they always should, and subjugate the Jews and the Christians and make them their subjects and their protection money, it is their duty to basically impose dress codes so that all Christians are supposed to dress a certain way All Jews are supposed to dress a certain way. They are supposed to wear things on their necks like a golden calf or a very heavy cross. But they're not supposed to worship in public. They're supposed to be distinct. And Muslims are supposed to be in every single visible and you know, every single way that you can feel it be made superior in society. So this is very much Islam.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah. Let's take a quick break here. We're going to keep going in the breaks more with Ridvan the apostate prophet.

[Caroline Levitt]

We'll be right back.

[Charlie Kirk]

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[Ridvan Idemir]

I mean, you could speculate it about. You could speculate about it all day long. The thing is, there are certain people who have actually spoken about this, certain Muslim voices, such as. One person to pay attention to very closely is Dr. Yasser Qadhi, was a recognized Islamic scholar. He is right here in America. I think he's from Texas. He has spoken about how this is a fantastic project. Epic City, for example. And more like this should come, according to him, to more and more strengthen the power and the presence of Islam in America and to slowly have more and more political influence in America, to have more political impact in America. And the thing is, if this was just a regular community, if this was just a peaceful, nice religion that just wants to live its own way and had no trouble where it goes, and had no ideas of imposing itself on the rest of the world and subjugating the rest of the world, all of this would not be a problem. You know, maybe you could welcome a little society that just has kind of quirky beliefs and all that. But Yasser Qadhi, for example, who has been a spokesperson, a speaker for Epic City and who kind of also ironically helped blow this up and caused a scandal through that. He is somebody who clearly believes, for example, that free speech should be limited, that even in America, in western countries or wherever Islam has more and more of a hold, people should vote for Muslims, no matter how devout, how traditional, or how secular they are, so that we can increase the Islamic influence and we can start demanding or making demands that are in line with Islam, such as respecting Islam, restricting apostasy laws and things like that. So an increase in demographics and a concentrated community would lead naturally to a strengthened political presence in that region, which would lead to electing Muslims in that region. And that is a starting point for them.

[Charlie Kirk]

Well, I mean, I have so many questions I want to get to. This one popped in my head. I'm just going to go with it. You're describing a form of Islam, I think, that a lot of people think of as this jihadis. But then you have Mamdani. If you were writing a New York Times editorial, you're just gonna profile Mamdani, like, what makes him tick? How Muslim is he? Does he really believe the precepts of Islam? Explain him to our audience.

[Ridvan Idemir]

So Zohranamdani is A very, very interesting case because if he was a politician in a Muslim country, he would be heavily disliked by the traditional Muslim voting bloc, by the traditional Islamic people, because he's very much a leftist. But things change once you go, once you leave the Muslim countries and go into the west, for example, where you have to play things differently. Let me give an example from the uk. In the uk, the Islamist or Muslim and Islamist forces are very much present in two major parties, which are the Socialist Labor Party and the very, very much far leftist Green Party. Such parties would be unacceptable among traditional Islamic groups in the Muslim world. But in the west they have to kind of go with these parties to push more inclusivist, subversive and pro Islamic politics and policies. So Ramdani, therefore, if, when he is a progressive, socialist leftist, is a perfect tool to do the exact same thing. Now I would not say that Zohra Mamdani himself is very much an Islamist, but he very much fits into this whole game that also, by the way, led to tragic consequences in Iran. Iran, as we see today, is ruled by a tyrannical Islamic regime that's 80% of the population or more absolutely hates. And this tyrannic regime overthrew the, you know, the monarchy and put itself at the top through the help of leftist socialists and communists. When you have a society where conservative non Islamic traditions have a hold, the best way to subvert it is to use progressivist leftist socialist movements and through them slowly infiltrate, overthrow the system and then establish your Islamic values. Because it is the easiest way.

[Charlie Kirk]

Well, and so yeah, I mean that, that makes a ton of sense. Like it's like water. It will go through the path of least resistance to get inside the rock, freeze it and shatter it. Right. So it makes sense that this is the route they would take in liberal Western democracies. So I only got one minute left here, Ridvan. But, but you know, Caroline Levitt's doing a press conference right now about, and she's talking about Iran. Do we have any idea how many people have really been killed by the regime there? And what do you think the next step should be? 1 minute. Real quick here, Rydvan.

[Ridvan Idemir]

So the estimates range. The estimates are very wide ranging. The Islamic regime itself says that thousands have been killed. There are estimates going from 30,000 at the moment to much higher, 60,000. I would say that the reasonable estimates are probably somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000. So that many people have been massacred, brutally massacred by the Islamic regime. No help has arrived. They sense that this thing is getting very serious. And they will lose grip over the government, over the Islamic regime. And what the Islamic regime under Khamenei, the supreme leader, the Shia leader, thinks is no matter how many people die, no matter how many people are killed, the individuals are not more important than the Islamic regime, than our ideology. So if we have to do it, we will massacre tens of thousands of people to uphold this. That has to end.

[Charlie Kirk]

Ridvan. Thank you, my friend. We'll have you on again soon. Dan Patrick joins us next.

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[Charlie Kirk]

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[Dan Patrick]

Well, first of all, I want to challenge every elected official out there who has money in their campaign account that they'll never spend on a campaign. They would probably give it to some other nonprofit to consider making, even if it's a $25,000 whatever it is. You know, campaigns are big in Texas, so we raise more money. I understand. Not Everyone has a million in their campaign account. But this should be a challenge for every God loving, God fearing elected official out there to support Club America campus on all of their high schools in their state. And that's why we want to do it in Texas. We want to have a chapter on every campus in Texas. And I knew Charlie in the early days when he was first getting started, he came to Texas a lot to raise money.

[Charlie Kirk]

There's your picture of you two.

[Dan Patrick]

There we go. And that was from Lubbock. Was that Lubbock?

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, West Texas. I was actually at that event.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, that was 2020. I think that was our last event we did together. And. But in those early days, you know, Texas has a lot of faithful people, a lot of conservatives, a lot of money. And so he would raise money there and we got to know each other. Long story short, for radio time, at the inauguration In January of 17, I was going to the Trump Hotel and Charlie happened to be walking in the door at the same time, held the door for me, and he said, dan, I've got something I want to share with you. And it was chaotic in there. You know, everyone was celebrating but Charlie, we sat down on the couch and he told me his vision, which was a mighty vision that we thought, can you really make this happen? Which he did. And so when I was on the phone with your team after that terrible day talking about, I want to get a chapter on every campus in Texas, it just came to me. Lord, put it on my heart. Pay it forward. You know, he gave his life for what he believed. So writing a check for a million dollars out of my campaign is the least I could do for that young man who sat on that couch and shared his dream and made it happen. And, you know, I chair. The President appointed me to be chair of the Religious Liberty Commission. And we'll report to the President later this year on our recommendations to restore religious liberty. Because the last administration, you know, attacked people of faith, of all faiths. And I just, you know, I think about where we are as a nation. It's not a battle, guys, of Republicans and Democrats. It's a battle of darkness and light. And what we are seeing across our country is darkness. And there's a. There's a movement in this country that wants to remove God from our country. I don't mind saying it because it's true. And those of us who are believers again in all denominations of all faiths, those of us who believe have to stand up and fight for that belief or we'll lose this country. You cannot change a country unless you change the culture of that country. And you can only change the culture by changing the character of the country. And you can only change the character by changing the heart of individuals. And you can only do that through faith. For me as a Christian, through Jesus. And, and that's where we have to get to. And when Charlie made that pivot from really politics to faith, that's when he changed the world and that's when he became a target. Because the other side does not want that. The totalitarian governments who want to take this country down, the first thing they have to do in any country is to destroy God, destroy civil law and order, to disrupt families by having boys play girls sports and make us fight about it over and over and over. This is a battle of darkness and light. In the book of Jude, right before Revelations, two words in the Bible. I really always remember that I love Jude said we have to contend earnestly today. We'd say fight for what you believe. You have to contend earnestly. And if we don't have combatants who contend earnestly and support what Charlie started, we will lose this nation.

[Charlie Kirk]

I don't know if you have anything, Blake.

[Blake]

I have lost. It's such a testament. I love you saying Charlie sits you down and he explains his vision to you. Because I think so many people had that experience the first time you meet Charlie and he just, he has that overflowing level of vision of ambition. And you sit there thinking, is this guy for real? I remember when I first started here and he would just say, turning Point usa, the most important organization in America. And I would, I'm always my cynical self amongst really. But then he went and he made that the reality, that level of self belief. And some people saw it right away, some people had to be won over to it. And eventually he proved all of us wrong. And that was the most stupendous thing ever.

[Charlie Kirk]

Think back to that moment. He had just been Don Jr's bag man on the campaign. Got to experience this incredible whirlwind. He's getting Cokes for Don Jr. He's taking the bag, he's doing social media posts. Then they win. Nobody thought they were gonna win. I don't, you know, it was a miracle, genuinely. And then he's in D.C. for this inauguration. Most people that are, what was he, 22 at that point, at that age with all of that that had just happened would have been probably partying at home and they would have been wasting the time. What is Charlie doing? He's Opening the door for the Lieutenant Governor of Texas. And then he sits down and says, I want to talk to you about Turning Point. Yeah, that is an amazing image. I hadn't heard that story, but what an amazing image.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, to accomplish what he did in such a short time means that you're focused on what you want to accomplish 24 7. You don't have time to party. You don't have time to think about anything else. And you put that first. And we have a great commission on my Religious Liberty Commission and Dr. Phil, Dr. Carson, Reverend Graham, Paula White, Timothy Dolan, Robert Barron, some of the great faith leaders and intellect in our country. And so Cardinal Dolan, the Cardinal of New York, who's now retiring, he said to me, he called me, he said, dan, I didn't know who Charlie Kirk was, and I saw this memorial and I thought, who is this person? And he said, I went back and watched his sermons, in essence, his speeches, and he said, he's a modern day Paul. We have to realize that if we don't think that God's hand is in what has happened, and not that he wanted to see the tragedy that happened to Charlie. You know, God is here to protect us and prosper us, but it's an evil world out there. And Charlie's life was taken because people feared what he was doing. They feared that he was being a voice that they wanted to snuff out. Yeah. And you have to look at President Trump. You know, this, this hatred towards President Trump. They feared him, and that's why they tried to assassinate him, is that you have to understand this leftist movement, this communist movement in this country has been going on for decades, and we've been asleep at the wheel. And there's three things you have to take over to in a totalitarian government to take over a country. Number one is you have to take over the education system. Does anyone want to argue that they haven't taken over the education system?

[Blake]

Saw the walkouts this past few days.

[Dan Patrick]

Saw the walkouts. Number two, you have to take over the media. You have to have the propaganda machine.

[Charlie Kirk]

You see the Grammys.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, it's everywhere. And then number three, you have to have the Supreme Court. And the reason they hate Donald Trump is they can't believe that guy that came down the escalator that day beat Hillary Clinton, who they thought was a shoe in. And the reason they don't like her either is because she lost to him. Because he stopped that. He stopped that from happening. Do you realize what the court would be today if Hillary Clinton had won, it would be a 63728 to one liberal court. And it wouldn't make any difference how conservative Texas is and how many conservative laws we passed. Everyone would be overturned. So that's why they hate Donald Trump. He stopped them on their 40 year mission. And so now what do they do? You can't have a civil society if you don't have law and order. These aren't peaceful protests. These are not guaranteed in the Constitution. They're committing felonies every day when they're attacking our police. And again, I go back to the transgender issue. We love all people. God loves all people and pray for these people to get through whatever issues they're having. I'm sorry. A man does not belong in a ladies room. And a young man should not take away the trophy or the chance to be on an Olympic team from a young girl. Nor should a man take away a small business loan from a woman who would qualify for it. You know what's going to happen next? Is someone who's 40 years old going to say, I'm a trans senior? You know, I really, I really believe I'm a senior. I want my Social Security benefits now. I mean, that's who I believe I am. I believe I'm 65. I'm not 45. I mean, this is craziness. And it's so crazy that we have to pass laws as we have in Texas to stop it. But that's what the left wants to do. Create chaos, Chaos, chaos. And this whole plan about illegal immigrants who came mostly across our border in Texas because we have 12, 50 miles of border with Mexico, to put that in comparison, that's Atlanta to Maine is how big our border was. You know, zigzag. But that many miles is the plan. Was this. Bring millions in, Bring millions in. And then when the next president, whoever it is, tries to run them out, we'll just go in the streets and we'll stop it. And so this is, this is all a clear plan. And so I come back around to it's not Republicans and Democrats. Look, there are a lot of good Democrats who are believers, who vote. They just don't know that their party's been hijacked. They just don't know it and they need to wake up to it.

[Charlie Kirk]

Well, that's a generous take.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, it's a generous take because at.

[Blake]

This point, it was more defensible 20 years ago.

[Dan Patrick]

I think it was more defensible. But I know that there are Democrats out there who, I know who are strong in their faith, go to mass every week or go to church every week, and they just don't see it for what it is. But they're waking up.

[Charlie Kirk]

Or they have bad theology and they think that they take the verses of the Bible about the sojourner in your land and all this stuff, and they skip the verses that says God lays out the boundaries and the borders of your country. So, I mean, Charlie really believed in educating the church to make sure they had good theology so that they didn't fall into an open borders trap. Right. So boundaries are where, especially with countries are where good ideas begin and bad ideas end or vice versa. And they're really, really critical. Especially if you look at a place like Texas, which is thriving, which is law and order, which is which. Which has such an amazing population with amazing character and history. You got to preserve that. You can't allow the erasure of your culture and your people. And we're seeing that in Europe and so many other places. I want to talk about young people in Texas when we get back. More with lieutenant governor of the great state of Texas, Dan Patrick, when we get right.

[Oscar Ramirez]

All right.

[Charlie Kirk]

Welcome back. We are here in studio with the great Dan Patrick, lieutenant governor of the state of Texas, the Lone Star State, proud state. But I will say, last time I was in Texas, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news. And I actually, we can talk about, you know, that special election if you want. I don't, I don't think that's indicative of where the state's at by any means.

[Dan Patrick]

Can you talk real quick?

[Charlie Kirk]

Yes, please.

[Dan Patrick]

The reason we lost that Senate seat, seat 74, we think the official number, 74,000. 74,000 Republicans who were one, two, three or four hours, who normally vote. Didn't vote.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah. It doesn't surprise me.

[Dan Patrick]

It's a, well, special election candidate. We'll take the seat back in November.

[Charlie Kirk]

I feel terrible for not knowing about it, but I didn't hear about it. Normally we like to highlight these things, tell people to get out and vote. We didn't even hear about it. So it was just something, something was off. And I will say I don't. I think the amount of damage this particular Democrat can do is fairly limited in the time they have.

[Dan Patrick]

And we'll take.

[Charlie Kirk]

Take the seat back. Okay. But when I was there, I was talking.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, we're not in session, so you.

[Charlie Kirk]

Can be ready to. That's what I'm saying. So young people in Texas, I fear there is a. You talk about complacent voters. But there is a complacency maybe amongst young people in Texas that maybe think that your generation is a little backwards and they want to be more progressive. That was the vibe I was getting when I was on the ground. So this is why I think what you guys are doing, doing and partnering with Club America at the high school level. Blake mentioned all these walkouts that we saw across the country, anti ice walkouts. I think it's so critically important that we save Texas. Everything depends on saving Texas from a national level.

[Blake]

I was just in Texas visiting a friend and we were meeting another friend of his and he was telling me he's in tech in Austin and the number of people fleeing California, the Bay Area, because of how bad that's gotten. And he was telling me there's really only a handful of places in the entire world that are really truly innovative where they're doing the cutting edge on technology, business and all of that. And one of them was Silicon Valley and they're ruining it. And he said, blake, I think it is existentially important for all of Western civilization that Texas remain Republican.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes. Well, first of all, you could never win the White House ever again. The electoral votes of New York, California and Texas. So you have a one party government forever. Secondly, we're not going to let them win Texas. But this was, in many ways this was a good wake up call because what happened in Tarrant county, one of the reddest counties in the country, they just couldn't imagine, even in a special election, a Democrat could win. And so now for the next eight months as we're campaigning, we'll be reminding people your vote really matters and you have to get out and vote. And that's all across the country. You know, I go back to this darkness and light. I think we have to approach people on where they are in their faith walk. You know, someone interviewed me, as you know, when we were coming in and they asked the question about, well, you know, is America really still a faith based country? And the answer, yes, I know. Because every time there's a crisis, where do people go? They go to their knees and pray. Whether it's a national event or whether it's a personal crisis, where do they go? And we have just, we have walked away. Those of us who are believers and not wearing it on our sleeves. I'm not trying to proselytize and convert anyone, although it is my great commission as a Christian.

[Charlie Kirk]

I am, I'm cool with it.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, I mean, that's what I do.

[Charlie Kirk]

But Someone come all. Yeah, please.

[Dan Patrick]

In my politics, I understand what, you know what I'm saying. I'm not going out there and saying before you leave, take a yard sign and I want your commitment. But if we are examples to people through how we behave and how we act, and if we can, through Club America, teach that to the next generation, then that generation will be the generation to inherit America, not the generation that we see in the streets.

[Charlie Kirk]

Well, and I believe what Charlie believed, that Gen Z is not the problem, they're the opportunity and the solution.

[Caroline Levitt]

Absolutely.

[Charlie Kirk]

And that's why, you know, we think that they've lost the plot of America. But Charlie proved that they had to be reasoned with, that we had to respect their pushback, that we had to respect their questions enough to answer them.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes.

[Charlie Kirk]

And once they hear the answer, you can win a lot of them over and they can be convinced it's not set. This is wet cement though, so we gotta keep winning them. Right. It's not set in America's. This unbroken chain of one generation passing on the values and the promise of America to the next. But that link is fragile right now, so we have to pass it on. But I think there is so much opportunity in Gen Z and they are actually really radicalized about a lot of things previous generations got wrong. And they're ready to move on them.

[Dan Patrick]

If we had the money. So another call for all elected officials out there with your campaign funds that you're sitting on, that you're never going to spend. Send a check. And you know, maybe you can't send a million dollars from your campaign because we have more in Texas and smaller states, but send something because we need to have a. We need to have Club America on every campus. Our young people are dying for it. Look, this is a whole different generation. They're drinking less, they're. They're abstaining from sex. They want, they want that family.

[Charlie Kirk]

They're hungry for it.

[Dan Patrick]

They're hungry for it. And we have to, to feed that hunger. And there's. Look, there's no one else on planet Earth except Turning Point that's willing to feed and has the ability to feed. We just need the funding to continue to do that because it's expensive to hire people to be on every campus.

[Charlie Kirk]

The growth was explosive after Charlie and I mean, we're talking hundreds of thousands of applications to start new chapters. We're still starting.

[Dan Patrick]

I check with our field team.

[Charlie Kirk]

We're still starting 50 new chapters a day. Do you have any. And that's registered student organizations approved on campus.

[Dan Patrick]

I don't even know how you do it. We've gone from about 300 before September to a thousand now in Texas. And of course we have, we have 1200 school districts. So we have a ways to go, but we're going to get it done. But I go back to. We cannot keep America the country that we used to have. I like to say the reason people are coming from to Texas is Texas is America. That all America used to be. And we do uphold the law. We are a conservative government. We protect the Second amendment. We protect religious liberty. This session I passed Senate Bill 10 to put the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Senate Bill 11 to put prayer back private time at every school. You know, as a lieutenant governor, I put in God We Trust in the Senate for the first time ever in history and under God in our pledge. And so I, I just think that you can't expect to turn around the culture of this country if you don't talk about these real issues from the Bible. You just can't do it.

[Charlie Kirk]

I totally agree. And you mentioned, though, the character of the people. You have to keep that intact. We've only got a minute left here, but you talk, you know, hear about Epic City, you hear about all the mosques that are popping up in Texas. What do we, what do you have to say about that?

[Dan Patrick]

Well, so we're actually having a hearing on it in the next couple of weeks in Texas, and our attorney general is dealing with that. And that's not going to happen. We're not going to allow Sharia law in Texas. We're going to go by the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Texas, and we're not going to put up with that. You know, we just need politicians not to be afraid to step up. There are a lot of people again, but like, one of the things that, that disaggrates me at the Democrat party is they don't. They're all cowards right now. They cower to the radical left that no one in that party will stand up and say what's right. And so that has to be a breakthrough. Somebody over there has to jump. So wait a minute. We're going down. I mean, I can't believe they're still running on men and ladies rooms. So that has to stop. But we, we as, again, it's not a political thing, but we as Republicans, we've got to take this mantle and move forward. I always say at the end of the day, me, I'd rather be kicked out of office than kicked out of heaven. So it's real simple when you come down to tough decisions. Follow Jesus or follow your faith and don't follow the world.

[Charlie Kirk]

Well, God bless you, sir.

[Dan Patrick]

Thank you.

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