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And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King In World War II, we've decided to share the ocean with Iran. We've given them the bottom half. We've damaged OR sunk over 120 of their navy ships. With battle damage assessments pending for many more. Oftentimes we have to wait a few days on battle damage assessment to get the real number. Their surface fleet is no longer a factor. Their submarines they once had 11 are gone. Their military ports are crippled.
Blake
President Trump is about to meet with Japan's prime minister.
Andrew
This is a critical moment.
Blake
The president demanding US Allies contribute more
Andrew
as we along with Israel, knock down a nuclear thirsty enemy and Iran and
Blake
protect key oil shipping lanes in the Middle East. A new joint statement from Japan and
Andrew
other allies signaling they are ready to
Blake
help secure the shipping now through the
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Blake
stabilize global energy supplies.
Andrew
Now that's counter to what some of
Blake
them have previously said.
Andrew
Joe Kent, the former director of the United States National Counterterrorist Center.
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This is from Semapur.
Andrew
He just resigned. He's now under FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information and the investigation predates his departure.
Research Narrator
In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water. It's about 140 million barrels. So depending on how you count it, that's 10 days to two weeks of supply that the Iranians had been pushing out. That would have all gone to China. In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days as we continue this campaign. So we have, we have lots of levers. We've got plenty more that we can do.
Military/Defense Commentator
Ours. $200 billion. I think that number could move. Obviously it takes more money to kill bad guys. So we're going back to Congress and Folks there to ensure that we're properly funded for what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future. An investment like this is meant to say, hey, we'll replace anything that was spent. And now that we're reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding the arsenal of freedom and cutting deals like our great deputy secretaries here is doing long lead times on exquisite munitions, we're going to be refilled faster than anyone imagined. And I think, you know, we're also still dealing with the environment that Joe Biden created, which was, which was depleting those stockholds and not sending them to our own military, but to Ukraine. Ultimately, we think this should be these, these munitions are better spent in our own interests at this point. And this kind of funding bill is going to ensure that we're properly funded going forward.
Cancer Survivor Advocate
There to answer questions. It's the evening we came at their convenience. We gave them really as much time as they wanted. And one congresswoman screamed C SPAN wasn't in there, so she didn't want to ask questions. Yet all day long they've been on social media saying they had all these questions. We sat there saying, anything you want to ask us, ask us anything you want to ask us. And they screamed C SPAN wasn't there. One of them. And then they stormed out of the meeting.
Attorney General/Legal Commentator
They didn't ask any questions. They did not ask any questions.
Blake
My goodness.
Attorney General/Legal Commentator
This is Attorney General, you've been completed. And this is why I think they did that because they've worked with some of you in the media to try to create a false narrative that there's a cover up. Does it look like a cover up? The Attorney General and Blanche and all the top brass at the DOJ in here to answer questions and yet they don't ask a single question. The only questions they ask. Will you commit to coming in for deposition? Will you commit to coming in for WC? They didn't ask a single question.
Cancer Survivor Advocate
Less than 1% error. Todd, do you want to add to that?
Attorney General/Legal Commentator
Yeah, no, that's right. We, we said from the beginning that, that any mistakes that were made and there should be no mistakes. And so when you say lawyers have said something, that's a, that's not a fair question. And you know, because we took pains to make, to protect victims when we were ident, when someone identified that there was a victim, we immediately pulled that document down, fixed it and put it back up immediately. Immediately. And so, so of course we don't ever want to do revictimize anybody that was victimized by by the horrible crimes of Mr. Epstein. But, but. And we didn't. And we didn't to the extent that mistakes were made. And there were mistakes made because of the reasons the Attorney Attorney General just said. But when they were identified to us, we fixed them immediately.
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was diagnosed, all I wanted to do was get back to work. I wanted to get back to that trajectory that I was on prior to the cancer. I Always felt like I had value. I had a place on the team. To just be treated with dignity, it means everything.
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Caller Ian
All right.
Andrew
Welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. It's March 20, 2026. The mobile Bitcoin.com studio. Still fighting that morning glare for the first 10 minutes is what it is. Blake, how we doing today?
Blake
You know, I was doing pretty well, and then I received news that is devastating for all late millennials like myself.
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The.
Blake
We'll get to it later, I'm sure. But the Chuck Norris news, that is the first Internet meme I remember getting reported on in a newspaper, which is this paper thing that had stories in it that used to exist.
Andrew
Let's start there. Chuck Norris died. I guess we found out about it today. I think he died yesterday at the age of 86. He was in Hawaii surrounded by family. He's one of the last great action stars.
Blake
Yeah, I think he was a lot. He was older than people expected. I mean, late 80s. I feel he became super. I feel like I associate him with the 90s. Walker, Texas Ranger. I associate him, of course, with a lot of the Internet humor that happened in the mid-2000s. And by then, he was already a pretty old guy. Quite the impressive figure.
Andrew
Yeah. So the Octagon, 1980. Eye for an Eye, 1981. Silent Rage, 1982. Lone Wolf, Wolf McQuaid, 1983. Missing in Action 1 through 3. And that was from 85 to 88. Code of Silence Invasion.
Blake
No one saw those movies, Andrew.
Steve Dace
It's.
Blake
It's Walker, Texas Ranger, man.
Andrew
Yeah, well, every syndicated. That was the 90s. Yeah, but that's because of your age. So he actually, he was one of the most accomplished karate champions in the history of the sport. Became a star with Good Guys Wear Black. He actually was in scenes with Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee cast him in the 1972 film Way of the Dragon. So there's those clips right there. So he. He was a phenomenal athlete and actually an accomplished martial artist. And then he became, you know, the. A Star. And then he took it to Walker, Texas ranger, which ran 200 episodes on CBS, which is pretty remarkable. And even up until his 86th birthday, he posted a video. Training and sparring at 86. So the guy was just what a machine. I mean, to be doing that at 86 is special.
Blake
But obviously we don't just like him because he was a, you know, a martial arts, a movie star guy. We like to highlight these guys. He was a patriot. And I think I remember it actually catching a lot of people off guard. Cuz this was the, this was the Bush era, which was a peak of everyone in Hollywood, every celebrity being left wing. And this is when all the jokes are going on the Internet. If you're under 20, you may not know these things. There was this whole trend of making, you know, viral Chuck Norris jokes. When Chuck Norris does a push up, he's not pushing himself up, he's pushing the earth down. When Chuck Norris jumps in water, he doesn't get wet, the water gets Chuck Norris. There's like 100 of these different jokes. And this is what passed for humor in the Bush era. But as I said, it was very, it was a very liberal time then. Very few celebrities, even if they were right leaning, would openly say so. And then it's 2000, it's early 2008, it's the primaries for the presidency and Mike Huckabee is running for president, making a long shot bid, and he's campaigning in Iowa. And it turns out that Chuck Norris is a Mike Huckabee supporter. And they cut one of the more memorable ads I think we will ever see in the history of American politics. Should we just play it? It's clip number one.
Steve Dace
My plan to secure the border.
Andrew
Two words.
Steve Dace
Chuck Norris. Mike Huckabee's a lifelong hunter who protect
Andrew
our second amendment rights.
Steve Dace
There's no chin behind Chuck Norris beard, only another fist.
Andrew
Mike Huckabee wants to put the IRS out of business.
Steve Dace
When Chuck Norris does a push up, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the earth down.
Andrew
Mike's a principled, authentic conservative.
Steve Dace
Chuck Norris doesn't endorse. He tells America how it's gonna be. I'm Mike Huckabee and I approve this message. So did Chuck.
Andrew
Chuck Norris approved. That's pretty good for 2008.
Blake
Yeah. And I should add, you know, he was, Chuck Norris was a, was a Christian. I think he wrote several. I think he wrote Christian books, you know, in addition to any memoirs.
Andrew
But he, he also came, he wrote eloquently about his political beliefs for years. And in 2016, he actually tried to rally everybody around President Trump. Obviously, this was an era of never Trumpism. The party was very divided. It was sort of a hostile takeover of the conservative movement. And he said if reluctant Republicans and other freedom loving citizens don't rally now behind GOP nominee Donald Trump, we could elect Hillary Clinton by default or by those who merely stay home on election day. And he said he'd only met Trump once 42 years prior during his retirement event at the World Martial Arts Champion. That was it. Quote, I haven't seen or spoken to him since. However, I will tell you, I liked him. He was very friendly and sincere. I truly believe that the people who have a negative view of Trump will be pleasantly surprised when he becomes the leader of our country. So Chuck Norris was not only courageous when it came to fighting in the octagon. Well, it wasn't the octagon. It was a mix. It was martial arts. He was a karate champion, but he was courageous when it came to expressing his, his own beliefs. A true American icon. Dead at 86. He will be missed. I also want to pay attention to or draw some of your attention to Jeff Webb. Jeff Webb was the founder of Varsity Brands. He was a friend of Charlie's, a friend of turning points. He died at 76 yesterday, tragically sporting accident. And he is just a dear, dear friend of mine for years. Always faithful, always kind, always generous with his time. Let's go ahead and play some clips. We actually did a Only in America documentary about Jeff Webb at one point. Play Cut four. Jeff Webb is kind of the personification
Steve Dace
of the American dream.
Blake
I'm joined now by Jeff Webb, who is the founder and creator of Varsity Script, providing a platform and a showcase
Andrew
for outstanding young people to really present that they can do. He created a whole brand where none existed around high school cheer created competitions, didn't do it to get rich. He just wanted to give young people an opportunity where they could have community, where they could share values, where they could compete. And he's truly an all American story of success. Let's play Cut five.
Steve Dace
What drives us is doing something great and building a great organization and really making a contribution to young people in this country. Young people today are not lazy. Some people like to say millennials, they're not lazy.
Andrew
I work with thousands of them every year. They're not lazy.
Steve Dace
They just, they just, they need some help in finding their way and they need some help with our institutions and making them more available to everybody.
Andrew
Yeah, that was, it's a real big loss for the Turning Point family. Jeff Webb been around for years. As a matter of fact, the first event I ever went to with Turning Point and Charlie, Jeff was there. So Jeff predates my time with Charlie and Turning Point and just a genuinely good hearted, kind man, generous man and again passed away too soon at 76. A sporting accident. And it's a reminder that we never know when your time is going to come and to live each day to the fullest and be grateful for, for the time that we have with the people that we love. A terrible reminder of it genuinely. He also at one point was the publisher and owner of the Post, Millennial and Human Events. So he was always in the fight. All right, I want to tell you guys about Strong Cell. Blake's gonna have to hold it down for me, as you know. And you have ripped me in the emails for forgetting my strong cell on the road. There it is. Blake as you all should.
Blake
Everyone rip on him more. Send more emails.
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Blake
We'll get into that in just a sec. Because, I mean, we've got a lot. So the one I want to hit, there's, there's endless reasons to fixate on the press, but this is the one that got my attention because it was going around today. It's actually from a couple days ago, but it's getting attention today. It's an essay in the New York Times. We study mass shooters. Something terrifying is happening online. And when I first saw the headline, I thought, oh, well, this is great, maybe the New York Times. Because the New York Times will sometimes come in very belatedly and they will admit a trend that is going on and like, give permission for the left to notice things. And we've noticed a certain trend among shooters, which is we have transgender shooters right now that are radicalized on discord, on Tumblr, on Reddit, on these various spaces. They're getting more violent, they're getting more demented. They're really being enabled. But the New York Times summarizes it this way. I'm going to read a pretty extended excerpt from this. We are witnessing the emergence of a new paradigm. A mass shooter no less, despairing about life's hardships, but younger, highly connected to online social networks and seemingly convinced that in acting violently, he or she is carrying out the only meaningful act possible in a world devoid of meaning. Consider a recent example. Last month in Tumblr Ridge, British Columbia, an 18 year old killed her mother and half brother at home, then opened fire at a secondary school she attended, killing five students and an educator. In the aftermath of the shooting, amid expected evidence of the shooter's despair, there emerged an alarming trail of online activity. On Roblox, the shooter had created a game simulating a mass shooting. Her TikTok account reportedly featured reposted videos of a mass shooter. She belonged to a Gore forum where users can post uncensored videos of violence, and so on and so on. Never mentioned anywhere in this article is the syllable trans. Never mentions that this woman who did this shooting was actually a biological male who had become convinced that she was a woman and then also became convinced that she had to do a mass shooting. Later in the article there was they mention in the Annunciation Catholic School Last August, a 23 year old fired through the windows of Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. She killed two children and wounded more than 20 others. The inscriptions on her weapons told the story of the online community of which she had been a part. And then they mentioned quoting the Columbine shooters and so on. Again, never mentions this is a transgender shooter. Never once. So Andrew, this is just, it's such a perfect example of this pattern that exists in the modern press and call it, you might call it boring news, anti news. You can read all of this, you can learn all of these facts. And yet, unless you're like us, where you know the background of this, you're basically being actively misled because they are not telling you something. The authors of this story 100% knew, and they are taking efforts to avoid sharing it with you. It's like when you read a New York Times article that'll talk about a major crime that's committed and they have to wait until 18 paragraphs in before you tell them. They mention their name or they might mention that they're a migrant, they're not from the United States. It's just, it's truly unbelievable.
Andrew
It kind of reminds me of our conversation with Lydia Moynihan from the New York Post yesterday, because she, she has to face these people on CNN every day where she described, you know, some of the reporting that you had to do in the mainstream press to ultimately, you know, tell the truth. You had to eventually acknowledge the truth, and all these journalists were loath to do it. Nobody wanted that assignment because they would essentially not be allowed back into polite society in the cocktail parties in the Acela corridor. So this. This is one thing to understand about the mainstream news media is it's like. It's like a giant mean girls club at a high school. So these people refuse to acknowledge a basic, fundamental biological truth that these are not women that are shooting up these schools or houses or whatever. These are men. These are violent men that have been deluded by a brain rot to think that they are women, and by lots and lots of medications that are being pumped into their bodies, twisting their brain, twisting their mind, and they won't admit a basic, fundamental truth that could actually get to the bottom of it and maybe make it stop. So if your goal in reporting is to expose truth and to affect the world and make it a better place, you're abandoning your central reason for being simply because you want to keep getting invited to other cocktail parties or get that next job. It's actually pretty disgraceful, the amount of lying that goes on in the propaganda, the agit prop here. And at some level, you just have to say, are you doing this intentionally to upset us? Because you know the underlying truth of this story and refused to report it? It's a bastardization of the calling, which is a high calling to report truth. And most of these people have no concept of what that truth is, and it's disgusting. I'm not shocked, though, Blake, to be fair.
Blake
Yeah, no, I mean, it's not shocking. It's a core element of the press, especially if you're the New York Times, because a lot of news outlets, they're just, you know, scrambling to get whatever clicks they can. The New York Times actually has the institutional power, and it is well aware of it, to shape what it is, okay, to believe what it's now acceptable to talk about. What is it? What it's unacceptable to talk about. And, you know, Charlie himself, he liked to point out that this is like, the big sacred cow is this, like, transgender cult that is devouring the nation's children. And even when they're willing to come out and say so and say that there's this new dark shooting online, they can't mention the giant elephant in the room. In fact, let's play that very quick before the break to clip 10 trans people have been made into kind of
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How many dead kids is it going to take for us to say we've
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How many mass shootings have to happen where we probably say, wait a second, you know, can we just calm down?
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Andrew
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Blake
I thought you were gonna this year. Not to be confused with the ungreat Steve Dace. Like there's two?
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Steve Dace
I think on a, on a, on a high level, we're the last outpost of Western civilization. We're all that's left or you know, sometimes we used to call it Christendom before we gave it that term. And so I, I think that there is a unique spiritual war happening right now for the direction of this country. And I think that's the backdrop of everything. And then I think we're coming out of really maybe since, you know, you have that period during the 60s, Gulf of Tonkin, JFK, MLK assassinations, RFK assassinations. That's before any of our lifetimes. I wasn't alive yet. My mom was just a teenager when all that was going on. So in our era, this is the last five years, beginning with the events of COVID on March 16, 2020. The last five years collectively is the most that any, any of this generation of Americans has been systemically lied to. That's broken a lot of our abilities to trust and to think. Skepticism and nihilism often get confused for one another. One is healthy, one is not. And then on top of that, you know, we have this last generation of the church just kind of took the generation off kind of from the original religious right in Francis Schaeffer. You know, we decided to sell Hawaiian shirts with Rick Warren and, you know, books with Joel Osteen and plant churches in cities like New York, like Tim Keller, and have like no cultural influence at all. Okay. In the most important city in America. And now it's an Islamist refuge. Right. So, and then the schools decided we can't critically think anymore because then the kids may out think us and the very dogmas we're trying to impress them upon them. So when you stir all of that into a witch's brew and into a cauldron, guys, and you pour it out. I think you have the current ecosystem that we're all operating in. And then on top of that, we had, who many of us thought was going to be our generational leader here, assassinated. And so when you throw that. So now the fulcrum of this, the Pl. The plumb line, you know, that. That I've talked about that I think every time I've been on here with you guys since Charlie's murder, that meme of Charlie as the giant Hoover, like, dam holding back right wing retardation. And then so we can learn to unite and win. And so when you throw all that in here, I think that's where you have this witches brew. That explains a lot of the various trend lines and headlines that we're seeing right now.
Andrew
Blake, your thoughts?
Blake
I mean, I don't want to muscle in on your guys's Protestant territory here, but Catholics have long had a different approach. Obviously. I mean, obviously we want to affect the culture, but there's much more, of course, unity of organization. But I guess what I have definitely appreciated in this cultural moment is like, we've had that. We've had that discussion, especially on the Thursday show, like, is America culturally a Protestant country or should it be even. Even kind of among the Catholics? And I actually think it basically is. One thing I've become very alert to is the way that Catholics in America are very different from Catholics abroad. Like, we'll have our sort of special Latin parishes and all of the Latin only ones, like, where you definitely get groups that still want to affect the culture by breaking away from it a little more and being more assertive. And we do need to have that.
Andrew
Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. I wasn't even interpreting anything of what Steve said in a Protestant versus Catholic sort of bifurcation.
Blake
I was thinking of the Rick war and the church planting stuff. I guess you don't have a Catholic Church plant operation. And it's. It's kind of funny. Like, there is a lot of chatter about it, how that works, and, like, you know, the flow. But, you know, churches rise and fall and decay. It's just. It's something I've become very alert to just really in the past year learning about it. And so I was, you know, I was listening to a podcast about the history of that. It's just. It's very new to me.
Andrew
You know, it's interesting. I did Ross Douthat's podcast, New York Times columnist. He wrote a book called Bad Religion and he talked about the, the vibrancy of the American church throughout the years has been the fact that there is this sort of competition for pew seats. Right. So when one denomination sort of falls off and loses their way, then another one will tend to, to fill the gap. And that has been basically marked by Reformed theology. It's been marked by charismatics. Different denominations and church movements would come up and fill that void. And so, yeah, America does retain its Protestant sort of ethos. It's, it's character. And I think that we have remained as vibrant as we have while the rest of the Western world has sort of fallen off because we have a competition for eyeballs. I hate to put it that bluntly, but that's essentially what it is. And I think, you know, you think of the book of Revelation when you talk about the, the God will snuff out the, the lampstands and, and you know, ones that are preaching the truth and lifting up the name of Jesus will take its place. I sort of am still holding on to the fact that there are revival type energies that we are seeing. And, and you've seen some of this in your neck of the woods as well, Steve. You know, you've seen, we did the Pick up the Mic tour that's come near your home and we've done, we've got these Make Heaven crowded tour stops that are going all across the country. They're all packed out. And I mean, at some level, I hate to devolve the conversation to such a place, but we are at a point where we either get revival or I'm afraid of what the future will hold.
Steve Dace
I think we are firmly ensconced in revival or bus territory. Now, the form of it, you know, we have a tendency, you know, there's a difference, I always say, between tradition and nostalgia. Tradition is where you look back on how you know truth. What's good, true and beautiful has worked itself out throughout human history with the Creator is revealed, are those things. And, and, and, and those, those things give you confidence that if applied in a contemporary way for the time in which you live, they're timeless and can work again.
Andrew
Right.
Steve Dace
And so I view tradition as a motivating factor. I view nostalgia as a paralyzing one. So it's got to look exactly the same way that it looked before. Otherwise it's very foreign to us and this can't be how things work. And so, you know, when I say without another great awakening, long term we're doomed, it doesn't mean that it has to be the exact same playbook as the great awakenings of the 18th century, but without that sort of systemic revival. I don't disagree. I mean, the systems are too far gone. We have and now a lot of our own people. I was with Lucas Miles, my good friend from TPUSA Faith, yesterday at Alan Jackson's church in Nashville and spoke to a group of pastors there, and what I said to them, the number one thing we need you guys to do right now, frankly, is to teach our people how to think. That even before now we get to what I want to do, which is worldview formation and belief installation, do I have permission to think? And we're kind of in this era right now where I've been so betrayed by official sources that even when the guys I voted for now control the official sources, I still think they're betraying me. I mean, they might be. I mean, I don't know. But, you know, what would be the metric? You can't. Skepticism in and of itself. No, some reactionaryism is good.
Andrew
Right.
Steve Dace
Someone breaks into your home and wants to harm you and your family, react. Right. Don't just pontificate, react.
Andrew
Right.
Steve Dace
But if reactionaryism is all you do, right. Well, so Lindsey Graham likes shamrock shakes, too, so I'm just not going to have them anymore. I mean, we've got to have a more contemplate, you know, a more. A more complicated and sophisticated epistemology than that. And I think that a lot of us in America right now don't know what to think or how to think. We just think we can't trust any of our thinkers, and we've got to fix that. Otherwise, I'm not sure how we can sustain ourselves moving forward.
Andrew
I mean, I. I tend to think that we're in a sifting moment.
Steve Dace
Totally agree. Totally agree.
Andrew
I think. I think this is why so many people look around and they don't know what to make of it. It's because it hasn't settled yet.
Steve Dace
I agree.
Andrew
And sometimes that just takes some time.
Blake
Yeah. And.
Andrew
And, you know, we went from a point where we said, you can't trust the experts, to we're gonna only trust people that are not experts. I mean, if you think about.
Blake
There's downsides to that.
Andrew
Yeah, there's downsides. You know, it's. At some point, I remember, I'm reminded of a moment after Student Action Summit last year where Charlie took a bunch of incoming. Because at Student Action Summit, we basically were as loud as anybody in the country about the Epstein files. We wanted to see transparency. It was basically what the whole event became about. And then on Monday, Charlie told me, he's like, you know, I think they got the memo. And he said on the show, we're going to trust our friends in the government, meaning people that we helped get in place, and we're gonna give them some bandwidth to go, man. The blowback was instantaneous. And what he was saying is like, at some point, we have to empower the people that we helped elect, that we helped put into positions of power to get this done and get it done the right way. We could argue till we're blue in the face whether that happened or not. But at some point, there has to be a middle ground where people use common sense. And I don't know that we're. I don't know that we're at a point where anybody's ready to do that yet. More with Steve Dace when we get back. Another segment with him. The great Steve Dace, not to be confused with the less great one. I want to tell you guys about All Family Pharmacy. All family Pharmacy are amazing people out of Florida. They built an incredible business. And the point of all Family pharmacy is to empower you with your own healthcare decisions. What is the current model? You get sick, you go to the doctor, he gives you permission to get X, Y or Z. Then you got to go wait in a line at a pharmacy. Don't do that. All Family pharmacy has all the things you need. They you get ready before you get sick. That's the key. Before you get sick. You keep your medications at home. Have them ready when you need the most. Everything's done online. A licensed doctor even reviews your requests and your medication ships straight to you. Antibiotics, antivirals, Tamiflu, Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, methylene blue, even your daily maintenance meds go to allfamilypharmacy.com Kirk use promo code KIRK10 to save 10%. All familypharmacy.com Kirk we'll be right back.
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Andrew
All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. We have Steve Dace with us. Check out his show on BlazeTV. He's one of the good ones, folks, one of the thinkers. And I love what you're saying, Steve, is that we need to teach a whole generation to think again, to use their common sense. I want to, I want to get into two things here in this segment. I want to, I want you to distill that idea more, why it's so important in this sifting moment that we find ourselves in. And then I want to lay out the stakes because there's a chilling new article out of New Republic which is a far left rag, but they lay out the stakes here pretty clearly. They say there will be no post presidential peace for Donald Trump. They even compare his sins to and scandals and crimes with the shocking likeness of the charges laid out in the Declaration of Independence against the last American king. So the stakes could not be higher right now. And yes, there's the graphic. There will be no peace for President Trump. My question to you is this sifting moment, what should our audience do with this moment of angst?
Steve Dace
Well, let's talk about what we think the sifting is first. I think what you're seeing is, I think Covid was a sifting. I think George Floyd was a sifting. I think the latest sifting was Charlie's assassination. And whenever you see, I think that's God moving, you see this throughout the biblical narrative. I mean, the greatest sifting of all, the formation of the Christian church.
Andrew
Right.
Steve Dace
Okay. And so whenever there's a sifting, it's because a mobilization is about to happen. But first, all right, the gardener is going to prune his garden. We're going to pluck some weeds out first. The general is going to make sure that he has the right troops that are actually trained for the battle ahead. And that's a painful process. And we are undergoing this right now. And I think the sifting is, will you, will you put your faith in God and in his word and then will you follow facts? I think that's the sifting that is taking place right now. Okay. Because there's some real Matthew 20:24 stuff going on right now, which is man, if those days were not shortened, even the elect would be deceived. I mean, the, the amount of AI and everything else that's going on right now, the amount of false headlines that's going on, that it's exposed right now. We've never been more bombarded with information in human history and more of it wrong than we are right now.
Andrew
Right.
Steve Dace
And, you know, I sometimes get these perpetual reactionaries to come back at me and say, well, we're only doing what you did during COVID All right, Steve? And I'm like, no, you're not. What I did during COVID was actually take the government's own data and show they were lying to you. They weren't showing you their own data. I can't do a SARAH prevalence exam. I don't know how to do a study like that. I can't give you, you know, itemized mortality data on Covid, you know, broken down by demographic. I don't have that data. I took it from the cdc, I took it from foreign government departments of health, and then I shone the light on their data that they didn't want to show people. In other words, I used facts. I didn't do endless contemplative speculations and, well, you know, just asking questions and maybe so's and did God really says. And that's what we're all kind of undergoing right now. And we're calling that critical thinking. And so I think we're watching a very painful sifting process go through on our side. And on their side, they are in lockstep right now. I mean, you have a fully formed weaponized religion of the state, the spirit of the age manifested in government. It has done this all throughout human history. It has manifested itself in human governments all throughout history. And you're watching that now happen in our history as well. And so I think what we should be praying for, frankly, guys, is for this sifting to speed up a little bit. All right? Lord, can we get this sifting? Can we reach its conclusion? All right, so that we don't fear that we are falling so far behind here to the organism, to the organized evil we're up against that we can't possibly catch up.
Blake
Well, Steve, what I kind of find myself thinking in terms of the great sifting. It's as you say, we have the sifting in terms of what, you know, are people able to maintain their, call it maybe mental composure, mental discipline to not fall for fake things on one end or complete propaganda on the other end. But I also think of the sifting like in society itself, that everything is so disordering and disorienting to people. A lot of people are kind of crashing out of society. That's the, you know, the aimless lost youth. They're not able to get careers off the ground. They're not able to have families, they're not able to really muster communities together. And where I think a real sifting is taking place is people who are able to attach to a community like that, that used to be almost everyone, you know, there was some sort of community you could attach to, but now there are people who are just going to never have that happen. They will live their whole lives that way, and then they'll basically select out because they'll never have families, they'll never have kids. And the little communities, which in many cases will be Christian communities, will be churches. They're going to have immense outsize importance, immense outsize power in the future just because they will be the ones who held together while everything else was flying apart.
Steve Dace
I think that's a, that's a brilliant observation and forecast, Blake. I completely agree. And, and I, I think on, on one hand, the, the older men, those of us entering our third act, play a huge role in this. You know, I've seen it with my own, with my own son.
Andrew
All right?
Steve Dace
He went looking for a job, didn't like this job, didn't like that job. Now he has a job that he really likes.
Andrew
Right.
Steve Dace
And, and, and his entire perspective on, I'm doing something that I enjoy, I'm contributing something, I'm earning a living. It's completely just. I mean, he's gotten reconnected back into the church again. He's involved in a really good young adults group. He's actually going to a young adults group at another church. And so why is he doing that? Well, you use that. That's the word that you use, community.
Andrew
All right?
Steve Dace
And so now he has found a work environment that he can be productive and rewarded for being productive and doesn't shame him for his belief system. And then he's going to places where he has peer groups that share his belief system. And that sense of community, that sense of attach. I mean, I can just see his entire, you know, outlook on things has dramatically improved just in the last couple of months because of everything that you just said. And I think it is imperative for us as older men now. We have to finish. I know. I keep harping on this, too, because I think it keeps being true. We have to finish. Well, we have to show the younger men that if you stick to it, I mean, I, you know, my wife wants to write an autobiography. I married a mailroom clerk. That's what I was when we got married. All right, the idea that I was going to do this for a living or get to write best selling books or produce a movie or not that no one would have looked at the man that she married 28 years ago and thought that's how this was going to turn out.
Andrew
Right.
Steve Dace
And all of us have some kinds of those success stories unless we truly are born into a handful of elite families. And so I think for the younger men to see us finish well, to finish the race, not trade in our wives for the 39 year old or 42 year old assistant, all right, not do something stupid or reckless with their inheritance and in fact maybe give it to them early when they're young and married and they're struggling, when they really need it then, not when they're 40, 45 and I'm dead. And by then they're probably, probably or hopefully established. These are things that as the older generation we need to be looking for. What are opportunities now to backfill, retcon the American dream so that when we then say to the younger generation, hey, you know, sack up, get tougher, stick in there, we give them evidence of how you can still be successful if you do that.
Andrew
Yeah, I think that's beautiful. I, I, I couldn't agree more because everything that you both just described is going to be countered with countless online communities that will, you know, lead to brain rot, lead young people astray. And we have to be leading forth. Education is leading forth, leading towards the truth, the truth of scripture, the truth of our faith. Steve Dace, thank you so much, my friend. I think this was actually a really important conversation. I hope the audience got a lot out of it. Ask us anything. Next hour, send us your questions. Join us. We'll be back in just a few minutes.
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I'm Bo Davidson from the Real America's Voice newsroom in Washington, D.C. joining us now is our D.C. neal McCabe, live on the ground at the White House. Neil, tell us about the Save America Act's progress in the Senate. Where is it headed and will we see a vote soon.
Neal McCabe
Yeah, good to be with you. So Republicans saw an opening this week because Chuck Schumer told a gaggle of reporters that he, that Democrats were not opposed to, to voter id. Yesterday, as he walked off the Senate floor, the number two Senate Democrat, Dick Durbin from Illinois, he basically told me the same thing. He says, you know, Democrats support voter id. And so with that in the ether, Republicans then decided to offer a clean bill and that where it would just be not the voter rolls, not the election integrity, just voter ID nationwide. And they offered it up last night. John Huston from Ohio offered it with asking for unanimous consent or uc. But Jeff Merkley, the Oregon Democrat, he, he basically objected. And so there it is. So today as we're speaking, the Senate is putting up another bill that's the Homeland Security funding bill. So what happens is right now the SAVE act is on the floor. You can't have two bills on the floor at the same time. So if the, if the Democrats vote with Republicans to take up the Homeland Security funding bill, then the SAVE act or the Save America act is then put to the side and then they're going the Senate leadership thune and the Republicans are going to have to bring it up again, either by unanimous consent or having a vote, which they have the votes to do. But right now that's sort of a fork in the road. They thought they had an opportunity to push almost a compromise, but a clean voter ID bill. The Democrats blocked it. But what you're seeing now is that forced to debate on the Senate floor, the Senate Democrats really don't have any legitimate arguments against voter and election integrity. And so instead of arguing the facts, they're arguing the process. And that's where we're at right now.
Bo Davidson
So, Neil, based on what you just said, do you think it's more likely, since two bills can't be on the same floor at the same time, that we see a vote on the DHS bill first today and then we'll shelve the Save America act for maybe next week?
Neal McCabe
Well, some of the talk in the Senate as I was wandering around the Capitol this week was that they didn't want to hand President Trump a loss by losing the cloture vote to end a Democratic filibuster. So taking up another piece of legislation is, it's almost like a soft off ramp with the option of picking it up later. Now, Tommy Tummerville from Alabama, he wants to pick up some amendments on the SAVE act and they expect to do that over the weekend. So what people have told me is that the Homeland Security bill will not be picked up. They will return to the SAVE act and they will continue through the weekend to force the Democrats to debate. And because let me just say you can only do two things on the Senate floor. You either debate or you vote. So if the Democrats say we're done talking, then they go to a vote. And so they're forcing the Democrats to keep talking through the weekend. That's what I see happening.
Bo Davidson
Neil, where do the Democrats stand with regard to homeland security? Is there a consensus there that they could get this bipartisan legislation passed?
Neal McCabe
The White House and Senate Republicans have offered some compromise on ICE officers being identified with perhaps like a badge number, certainly not names. They're not really going to compromise on masks. If ICE officers want to remain masked, the administration is not going to give on that. But the administration has said we're fine with body cams. We're fine with restricting ICE actions away from sensitive areas like maybe daycare centers and schools and churches. And so the White House has offered some compromises. But right now the Democrats are really going to die on this Hill. They want full on ID of ICE agents demasked and they also want judicial warrants, not administrative.
Bo Davidson
All right, Neil, well, thanks so much for joining us and thanks for giving us the updates on these two very, very important bills on homeland Security funding that and of course, the Save America Act. Thank you so much, Neil. And we'll take a short break and we will be right.
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All right, welcome back. Hour two of the Charlie Kirk show underway. It's our second hour on Friday, which means it's the Ask us Anything hour you can do. You can take part in this if you join us at members.charlie kirk.commembers.charlie kirk.Com help us keep the lights on. You guys mean the world to us so you get to be a part of the show on Friday. Send your questions in. First question is Caleb and Michelle. Love Caleb and Michelle. How are you guys? Welcome to the chart.
Blake
I had them on before but not in a while.
Andrew
It's. It's been a while, Caleb, relatively recently. Yeah. How are you Caleb? Hey, we're doing. We're doing really, really well. Thank you. How are you guys?
Blake
Oh, we're doing great.
Andrew
Doing great. It's Friday. So. So it is Friday. So a year ago, A year ago we called in and we talked to Charlie about his March Madness bracket and. And we're watching the tournament right now. We're doing a Charlie thing. It's on over there while we're on. On the stream here and missing him more at this time because loved hearing him talk about how much he loved basketball. So anyway, the question is, who do you have winning in your tournament and how are your brackets doing?
Military/Defense Commentator
All right.
Blake
I'm really glad we have Danny for this one.
Caller Danny
Refuse to join our office bracket pool.
Blake
I am a huge Scrooge on March Madness. I am. This is an underrated fact about me. I'm kind of a basketball hater. I don't. I like, don't like it as a sport. Like, you know, I have my little bit of sort of autism stuff. I don't. I don't like the design of the sport. I don't like watching basketball and. Yeah, so I like revolt against March Madness and refuse to. If you. I don't know who the number one seeds are. I don't know who's in the tournament.
Andrew
Goodness.
Blake
No winner. I'm a big Scrooge, but you guys.
Caller Danny
Doesn't like fun.
Andrew
Duke taking it all.
Caller Danny
Yeah, that's Arizona.
Bo Davidson
You.
Blake
You have Duke. There's like a guy in every pool. Andrew, who has Duke taking it all? Every single year.
Andrew
I've never ever, in any bracket I've ever built had Duke taking it all.
Blake
Okay.
Caller Danny
Yesterday, though. They probably should have lost yesterday.
Andrew
They should have. But Danny, who do you got?
Caller Danny
Yeah, I have Arizona winning it all.
Andrew
How far did you have that? The. You actually believe that or is it because you live in Arizona?
Caller Danny
No, they're a one seat. Like, I actually believe that. They're pretty good. I had Ohio State losing in the second round to Duke. I was pretty honest there. I didn't have them going too far. Big Ohio State fan. But yeah, they're. They're not a basketball school right now, so.
Andrew
At TCU, are they a basketball school ever? By two.
Caller Danny
They were a powerhouse about 10 to 15 years ago.
Blake
Okay, how many titles did they win?
Caller Danny
They went to a few Final fours titles, not so much, but.
Andrew
Yeah, that's all right. Caleb, who do you got? Who you got taking it all? I. I didn't pick a winner yet. I have, like, I don't know. This is probably a long shot, but Gonzaga or Yukon.
Caller Danny
Wait, how do you not pick a winner after the tournament?
Andrew
That's not how the bracket works.
Blake
Yeah,
Andrew
you're doing it wrong. I am doing it wrong. You're doing it wrong. This sounds like how I think about.
Blake
Maybe I should have a secret bracket and then I can reveal it after the tournament is over and thereby.
Andrew
Oh, yeah, like, we totally trust that you should.
Attorney General/Legal Commentator
Yeah.
Blake
Would I lie about that sort of thing, Andrew?
Andrew
I don't know. Maybe you would. Yeah. Michigan could do really well. Yeah. Interesting to see. If Arizona wins, we're basically not going to have a studio when that day comes. Michael's already saying he's wilding out. He's going. He's. We're going to lose him. We might not have a show. If Arizona wins, our team's going to lose it. Caleb, thank you for calling in my friend and thank you for bringing in a little bit of Charlie's spirit. Charlie. Charlie did not like the NBA, but he loved college basketball. He liked the Bulls, 90s Bulls, and he liked college basketball, the brackets. So, yeah, I'm into it. All right, next up we have Anthony. Anthony, what's going on?
Caller Anthony
What's up, guys? Blake, I can kind of agree with you. I don't watch basketball, but if I have to know. Danny, hold on. I work in the industry. Working it is more fun than watching it.
Andrew
Oh, you work.
Blake
What does that. What does that mean? Like, like the players are interesting or
Caller Anthony
like the shoot, like communications and marketing side? So you're always interacting with players. Media, game notes. I've worked a sweet 16 in an elite. A regional back in 2010 when it was at Syracuse. So I had Cornell, Kentucky, Washington and West Virginia. So it. Working it as an. As a person is a lot more fun than just sitting it on your couch or out with friends watching it. So you're. You're more into it. Like, I have guys in mind right now are in different regionals, working on staff.
Andrew
So. So. So Anthony, I totally agree with this. I went to my first NBA game like close to the court. I went to a Suns game. Somebody invited me and it was really cool in person. I hate watching basketball. NBA. I like watching March Madness. I hate watching NBA at home. It just like you don't have a. Any. Any sense of the size and athleticism of the players, but up close you do and you're. It. It's. It really is remarkable. They are tremendous athletes. Gotta give them their due.
Caller Danny
What makes Marchandis great is the upsets, though. Like the NBA, there's no such thing really as an upset because they're all professionals, which again, why college football is better than the NFL, because in college football, you also have the upsets. College sports are better than professional.
Blake
My problem with Basketball is just. I don't think the design of the game is good. Like the incentives to just.
Andrew
Here we go.
Caller Danny
Foul.
Blake
Endless at the end of a game so it slows down to a halt and they're just shooting all the free throws. And I feel like there's not that much strategy. Like they, it took them 40 years to figure out a three point shot was worth more than a two point shot. So you should shoot a three point shot. And then once they did that, it just totally wrecked the strategy. Guys are just chucking threes or they're doing layups. Nobody's ever trying to, you know, set up an isolation mid range jumper anymore. I just, I think it's all.
Andrew
Curry did kind of ruin the sport.
Caller Danny
Can you say his name again? What, what do you call it?
Andrew
What? Did I say it wrong? Curry. I thought you said.
Steve Dace
He did.
Caller Anthony
He did say Stefan Curry. It's Stephanie.
Andrew
Stephen Curry.
Caller Danny
Yeah.
Andrew
There's not a lot of ball knowledge.
Blake
Steph Curry.
Caller Anthony
Well, hold up before I get to my question. Andrew, I can agree with you on one thing. I used to work in the NBA for two years, so I see. I've seen the difference in pro and college and my picks to win it. If I had to pick right now, I didn't do a bracket. Arizona, Michigan, Duke or Florida are my top four. But I think Arizona is going to take it.
Caller Danny
Yeah, anybody but Michigan. I'm a hater of Michigan at all.
Caller Mark
All.
Blake
Yeah, we're aware.
Andrew
Yeah, yeah.
Steve Dace
Okay.
Andrew
Ohio State.
Blake
All right, Anthony, what's your, what's your other question? And we can maybe go into the other side.
Caller Anthony
This is my real question. How can you tell who's a good influencer on social media, in politics? Because there's a lot of them that just create podcasts, create short memes, animations, that kind of stuff. Interviews where they just want clicks. And we know what AI These days you can create a lot of fake propaganda. We see it all over. So like outside of you guys, Brandon Tatum and others, like, how can you figure out who is a good one to follow? Because I think a lot of people don't. The average person doesn't know who to follow. And they'll just follow everybody and some of the information is not true.
Andrew
A lot of it's.
Blake
That is a complicated question. Well, we should go either on the other side of the break or in the next segment with this because that's a rich question.
Andrew
Yeah. I will answer it succinctly like this. But we could build this idea out. One of the main things I look for Anthony is, does that person have skin in the game? Is there any cost for being wrong? That could mean they get involved in local elections. They're actually working the the system to try and affect change from a grassroots level. That's the one thing that kept Charlie grounded more than anything else is that he had touch points with the students. He had touch points with the voters. We have that turning point action. Everything we do, we're trying to advance the football. Another sports analogy, to make sure that the country's a better place, that we're leaving it a better place. And I will tell you that grounds you. It focuses you like nothing else. But we can keep building, building out the that idea on the other side of the spray because it's important. 1. All right, I want to tell you guys about another grounding element that you can bring into your lives, and that's education. If you are getting educated by the greats, if you're getting educated by those who have gone before you, by those who know these topics inside and out, that's Hillsdale College, Charlie's favorite college. They're amazing. One of the courses he took was the Genesis story. He took it front to back. He finished it. I actually remember when he was taking it. Taught by Hillsdale Professor Dr. Justin Jackson, absolute legend, this free online course explores the relationship between God and man. What happens in that relationship gets broken and severed and what reconciliation takes. It's a real college course. It's rigorous, it's challenging, but it's free and it's accessible for you if you want to learn. So visit CharlieForHillsdale.com to enroll today. That's CharlieForHillsdale.comto enroll today. That course and many others are available right there@charlie for hillsdale.com check it out. We'll be right back.
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No, Danny, how much of that is labeled as distressed or defaulted?
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Blake
45.
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45.
Blake
Bro, you leave that. You left out $5 billion.
Caller Danny
I apologize.
Blake
That's enough to build like one bridge in Maryland.
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Blake
Yeah, I mean, so it's a. First of all, it's just a great question. I think it's an important one and a lot of people are becoming aware of it. I think as you said, an important thing is skin in the game. Not just are they doing actual work out there, but sort of is there any accountability if they're wrong about things? And more to the point, you should just, even if they don't, you should look for signs that like if they make predictions, do you have to look. Sorry, I'm stumbling over my words. You want to look for a long term pattern here. You should see does this person offering like consistent takes on things. That doesn't mean they have to be right all of the time. But are they clearly coming from some sort of ideological foundation? Can you anticipate how this person will react to things in a way that isn't just chasing after clicks? Another thing I think that's worth looking towards is if a person is often alluding to having secret knowledge or foreknowledge of things, does that actually pan out? Because a very common way to sort of grift or attention bait is to suggest you have secret sources about stuff and then that nothing ever comes of it. Nothing ever emerges from this. A lot of people like to say, oh, you know, I have a lot of, you know, I have secret info that something big is going to drop in, you know, next week. And if it never happens, most people forget about it because the memory is like a goldfish. But you should watch those things and if, if they are doing that consistently. One of the great things on X, you can actually make lists of different users and you can put some on your list of this person actually BS's me a lot. Or you could put some on a list this person actually has been reliable. You can bookmark posts. Using those tools is a good way to keep track of who's reliable, who's honest, and who's less reliable. Another thing I like to look for is sort of emotional balance. I find that people who are less reliable, they tend to get insanely worked up about things. And it's always a new thing this week because emotional overload is very. It is clickbaity. It's very satisfying to people. It's very. People enjoy getting really worked up about things. And if a user is deliberately feeding that, if they're encouraging you to get really, really angry all the time about every new thing, if they're encouraging really drastic action all of the time, I find that's a sign that they're often just chasing after the most clicks that they can get rather than trying to lead you in a good direction. And I think Charlie was good about that. Charlie could be very strong in his views, but he wasn't endlessly having meltdowns about things.
Andrew
Well said, Anthony. Thank you for your question. I think it was a really, really good one. Unless, Danny, you want to add anything to it, we got.
Caller Danny
No, I just think staying consistent, if you continue to just keep going back and forth on different, different issues and keep contradicting yourself, then you can't really be trustworthy.
Caller Anthony
I appreciate it, guys. And I'm gonna send something to you guys so you can watch basketball different way. Like, I watch it.
Blake
All right. I don't think I'm gonna be sold. I am. I have become an enemy of the B ball.
Andrew
Like, be open minded.
Blake
I'm gonna. If I'm gonna stand here, eight men show up at my house and beat me up now or something.
Andrew
But deciding with the Dodger fan, that's, that's how, you know, I made, I made a good point, by the way. I think that the Dodgers team could beat Venezuela nine out of 10 times. That's what I'm gonna say. All right, Michael, you're up next. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. Thanks, Anthony.
Blake
Sorry. Ian is sorry about that. We'll get to you in a second. Michael. Ian.
Andrew
Ah, you trying to trick me here.
Caller Ian
All right.
Andrew
Hello, guys. How you doing? Good, good. How you doing, Ian? What's your question? Yeah, it's been. This has been good. I love. I love hearing this. Also, basketball. I mean, Michael Jordan is the goat. Charlie was spot on the nose with that, but, yeah. Anyways, don't get me started on basketball. I'll talk for hours on that. But I really. I've been working on gratitude this year. That's been a really big thing for me, and I just wanted to know what's. What are some things you guys are grateful for in your lives? And also secondly, what's something that Charlie taught you about gratitude? Because I know he was big on that, too. Yeah, I had a reminder of this last night, actually, Ian, you know, without getting into the gory details, yesterday was an adventure personally for me for a very variety of reasons. Blake knows a little bit about it. Sorry to be vague, but anyways, the. The point is, I was talking with my wife, and she looked at me, and she just kind of, like, threw up her hands, and she goes, isn't it great that you and me are good and that our kids are healthy? Like, isn't it good? That doesn't matter. Like, what's going on, what challenges that we have each other and that our relationship is strong. And I just thought, you know what? That's exactly right. It doesn't matter. All the noise. It doesn't matter. Everything that's swirling, all the tension, all the conflict, you know, I'm grateful for my wife and my family, and I'm grateful that I have a Christian faith that has, you know, guarded my heart and has guarded my life and helped me make better decisions. And, you know, it was. It was interesting. There's a pastor that I used to download his podcast all the time and listen to him, and he. He. He would acknowledge the fact he's. He was kind of a. A blunt guy. And he said, you know, if I didn't have, you know, if I wasn't saved by Jesus Christ, I'd be drunk, alone, divorced, and. And, you know, alone in some basement somewhere. And, you know, I was kind of. It's a blunt way to put it, but I do think that there is an element of all of our lives that if we didn't. If we weren't grounded in something eternal and something true and something that is tried and tested over the years and the millennia that we would find ourselves in a really, really terrible spot. Sometimes you still find yourself in a really terrible spot. But I'm grateful for those lasting things and those good things. And anyways, that's my answer. Blake, what about you? Danny?
Blake
Charlie was very good about gratitude, even in, even in defeat. I remember he was going on about the importance of gratitude right after the 22 midterms, which were very rough. And he did a great bit on Thanksgiving. Like, we have the most gratitude right now because we recognize the stuff that is truly central to us, which is faith, which is family, which is the immediacy around us, everything God's given us. I guess I'm running out of time here. I'm personally, I'm very grateful for those basic things. Maybe I can, maybe I can finish the answer a bit on the other side here.
Andrew
All right, we'll be right back. More at the Charlie Kirk Show. Don't go anywhere foreign.
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Blake
All right.
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Blake
Well, real quick, I wanted to get a few more gratitude points. First of all, I am personally very grateful. I know there's a lot of doomerism about the US I'm kind of grateful. Like, I think about the very basic things that I can still, as much as people complain, I can count on, like, a functional country, the rule of law. I can easily obtain food every time. I try to always take myself to that. Back to those, like, very root things. Like, as much as we are worried about this country, we have a very nice one, and we see a lot of things breaking down all around the world. And as much as we're annoyed by things that unfold around the world, for example, there's this war in the Middle east, and I don't think any of us like that it's happening. We do live in a country that is basically at peace. But I wanted to get more on that because I wanted to ask you, Danny, are you grateful? Do you have gratitude for Ohio State football?
Caller Danny
Well, first off, I'm grateful. I call it the four Fs. Faith, Family, Freedom, and friends.
Blake
So football's not football.
Caller Danny
It's kind of just something fun on the side. It's not. It's not the main thing. I'm grateful we beat Michigan this year. I am not grateful that there was a disaster game in Miami that I attended, and they lost pretty bad.
Blake
But you're feeling a little fair weather fan here. To me, they've won a title. They've won, what, what, three titles in the last.
Caller Danny
Well, see, we demand excellence, Blake. So we're not satisfied with losing. So it's a different type of breed.
Blake
I will say I am grateful the packers won a Super bowl, and I'm like, I want them to win more, but I'm. I'm glad we got one. Which Minnesota Vikings fans will never get to experience. Sorry, guys. It's true. But, yes. Now we can move on to the next question.
Andrew
Who's up? Yep.
Blake
Yeah. Michael.
Caller Ian
Hey, first off, I want to say thank you for helping to call attention to the issues we have in trucking. I. I called in and talked to Chart. Last time I called in and talked to Charlie, he actually held me over the break to discuss it. And, you know, unfortunately, I've had some tragedies between here and there in trucking, but I'm thankful that we're stuff done. My question is that with all of the talk about an immigration freeze, I was curious if there was any hope of keeping fiance visas Open. And as I said in the, in the question, you know, limiting it limited to 1 per. 1 per citizen. A lifetime limit of 1 per citizen.
Blake
Is this like a marriage visa?
Caller Ian
Yes.
Blake
All right, all right. Lifetime limit of one per citizen. Sounds like a good idea. It seems like very straightforward. You should not. That would be a good check on fraud at a minimum.
Andrew
Exactly.
Caller Ian
That's what I'm thinking. I, I've been talking to a, from South America for a while, looking to bring it up here and that whole immigration freeze thing would be a little
Andrew
bit of a kink in that.
Blake
Oh, well, yes, so. So I don't know if there's a discussion of a freeze on all spousal visas. I imagine even if we were to do a. Well, I go back and forth on this because obviously we've talked about a moratorium. It would feel extreme to say, oh, you can't bring your spouse in from abroad. But we also have to be very aware if we were to crack down on all other forms, it would encourage a big increase in, let's be frank, fraudulent marriage visas because people will find any means they can to get into the US if you want an example, Ilhan Omar. Yeah, I mean if you want an example, we also have, we have a visa for victims of crimes who can stain us so they can testify in a case or whatever. And just the other day we had yet another indictment. We've had many of these where they've caught rings of people faking crimes against their friends so that those friends can then get that visa and stay in the U.S. i think your idea of a, you know, a one person limit is, or a one lifetime limit is a good idea. Another one might be, you maybe have to add some like threshold expense to it, which I know is a pain, but it would encourage you to be very serious about those things. There's ways we can go about it and the truth is. Oh, is there?
Caller Ian
All right, yeah, it's a ten to fifteen thousand dollar expense once and that doesn't include travel or anything else because I've already game planned all this stuff out and I'm looking at about a 10 to $15,000 expense just to get her up here, which I'm fine with paying. My goal in life has always been to get married and have kids and my generation has been absolutely horrible at that. So come hecker, high water. I'm pushing. I, I am, me and her are focused on, on getting this done. It's just that, you know, the same as illegal immigration, deport all means all you know, when someone says we want to halt all immigration, okay, all means all, there is a hard stop and no one passes gun. And I would like to, I would like to, you know, I'll teach her the citizenship test myself, but it's not that hard. I'm sorry, it's just not. I will teach her that stuff. I'm active in my community. I will take her through that stuff. I just need to be able to get her up here.
Andrew
All right, well, what country is she coming from?
Caller Ian
Venezuela. She's more based than I am though.
Andrew
Yeah, there's a lot of really patriotic Venezuelans, actually. And by the way, we're, we're, we've endorsed on this show a net zero moratorium, which would essentially, it does mean there will be some spots and maybe, maybe we need to prioritize some of these marriage visas if they can be properly vetted for patriots like yourself. I'm open to that. But a net zero would essentially be about 200, 250,000 people would still be admitted because that's how many people are leaving the country every year. So as soon as the spot opens up, it opens up, up. Right. To Blake's point though, you know, the second, the second that you start making exceptions or carve outs, people will exploit them. And so you've got to. The starting point needs to be very firm, very rigid and very exacting. And the point is, is because we've just been so taken advantage of, we are the suckers, we are the marks for the entire world that wants to flood in here. And you know, it's basically arbitrage.
Caller Ian
Yeah, trust me, I know. That's why one per native born citizen, lifetime limit of one per native born citizen, not. You came in here and you became a citizen, you had to be born here, natural born citizen.
Blake
I think that's a good, that might be a good start. But it's a complicated topic and I think to kind of put a bow on it, A big thing to remember here is there's so many ways our system is just constantly exploited because we don't take the idea of having a good immigration policy seriously. And if we really did that, if we were serious about any immigrant who comes to the US should be improving the country. We should not be allowing criminals, we should not be allowing, you know, dependents. We should not be allowing problems to come into America. We can instantly make a vastly smarter system and we mostly refuse to do it. And I think merit, like marriage visas for clear cases where it makes sense to allow it is one of the less damaging things that we could have compared to the just endless importation of, you know, foreign. Bring their farm workers, tech workers, and so on.
Caller Ian
One person. You're not bringing your family up here. You can go down there and visit.
Andrew
Mm.
Blake
I think that's very reasonable and endless. Family reunification has been a disaster for America, very bluntly. But thank you for your question, and we want to make sure we have a few people still in the queue. Elizabeth, unmute yourself. What's your question?
T
Yes, hi. So mine's also about immigration as well. I don't know if you were aware that Ali Largiani, who was a senior Iranian official in the Supreme Leaders, like, National Guard, he was basically the guy who got the 40,000 protesters killed. He's, like, a truly evil person. And he was recently wiped out by Israel. His daughter is a professor. Well, was a professor at Emory University and had gotten her green card in 2021. I don't know if you guys. Not 21. I think it was 2020. No. Yeah, 2021 under Biden. And there was an article in the Post about all of these Iranian leaders and their kids getting visas and green cards educated here. There was that terrorist in Michigan who was here legally, whose brother was a leader in Hezbollah. There was a terrorist attack over in Austin, Texas. And it's just astounding that people aren't getting vetted. We have people filing for asylum claims, and it's like, four years later, they say, no, you declined asylum. They get to appeal. They get to stay here. It's 20 years later before you can legally get them out, and everyone's yelling at you, oh, they've been here for 20 years. How can you make them leave now? Meanwhile, they don't even speak the language still. Like, is there any possibility of, one, vetting these people better? And then, two, if you are claiming asylum that you have 14 days for your trial, and then there's a process where they can just sort of basically vet you out one way or the other. And if you don't qualify, they have to leave the country within another two weeks, and that's it. And if they want to appeal it, they can appeal it. But not on American soil.
Blake
Yeah, I mean, it's just the whole story with this, like, man's daughter. Yet you're correct. She was. She had a faculty position at Emory. And I don't know exactly how that came to pass, but this is a guy who's senior in a regime that is an enemy of the United States. And it seems like something broke if she's able to just very easily come here, unless we have hard proof that she's like basically a huge opponent of everything, you know, of the regime. Like if she was an actual, if she had skin in the game, as someone who'd like fought against the regime,
Caller Danny
she's flying back over there.
Blake
Yeah, but I don't. Yeah, it seems like she's flying back over there. And frankly, just looking at her faculty portrait, I don't think that she's an enemy of the regime. It just, it gets back to what we said with the last segment. We have such an unserious immigration policy. We just casually bring in people who are hostile to America, who are scamming America, who are plundering America. And as soon as we make it a priority to not let that happen, there's so many benefits we can build up for the United States.
Andrew
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Andrew
All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. We got a bit of a Rapid fire. Last segment here because we want to get through all the questions. But Blake, you got an interesting email question. I think. I think it deserves answering.
Blake
Yeah, yeah. We got one from Kelsey and she asked. A few weeks ago, Mikey posted some great pictures and videos of Charlie. And in one video, Charlie was eating in and out, which made me wonder what was his go to order at In N Out. Thank you, Kelsey. That's a fun one. And we actually had to do some research because the truth is Charlie didn't eat In N Out a lot. He loved In N Out, the company. He loved their Christian foundation. I think he even interviewed the founder at one point, Lindsay, and so he really loved it. That was kind of our go to. If we were ordering, you know, food for the office, it would be In N Out. But obviously not a big fast food guy. So we asked and Erica tells us his default order was a protein style double double. So I think that's two patties, two pieces of cheese, the two by two. And that didn't surprise me because Charlie only ate about four foods and bread wasn't one of them. So you never really see him eating a burger patty and cheese. I think cheese would be a luxury. You very rarely saw him eating cheese. The, the go to was beef, chicken, avocado, olive oil and sort of green vegetables. We'd say like lettuce or cabbage, but it was basically any green vegetable you could kind of do. And those are basically the only things he ate. And so that cheese on the In N Out burger, I was a. That was a very special luxury.
Andrew
He was celiac. He was celiac. So that's why I had to do it. Okay, Mick, you're up next.
Blake
Oh, Mick also wanted us to read it. Yes. So.
Andrew
And you want to read that Feeling great. Please read for me. There was a clip played during one of the breaks where Charlie was talking with a gentleman from Oregon, where I'm from, who wasn't sure if he should get involved in his local election. I myself am looking to move to South Carolina. What did Charlie and what do you guys think about conservatives moving from blue states to deep red states? I think it was basically pro. He, you know, oftentimes he would tell Californians, like, your vote will go further in Arizona if you want to move here. But he was also pro you saying, you know, if you, if you made the decision to stay and fight in Oregon or California, he was pro that. And he said, you know, but fight to win. And you don't fight because you know you're going to Win, you fight because it's the right thing to do. So wherever you are at, you need to find wins and ways to get involved that will move the needle. That's the main point. But if you're going to move and you're your votes now going to count for more, by all means, don't vote for Lindsey Graham. That's all I can tell you. Yeah, in South Carolina, I mean, I'd
Blake
add Charlie, for example, at the memorial, Stacy spoke. She was a member of our team who was in California, and Charlie was always pushing her to move to Arizona. And thankfully she finally did. Of course, Andrew, you've also come out to Arizona. I think in general, another reason besides just political calculations, Charlie would want people to move to red states because. Because you can live a better life in a red state. It's more affordable. You're more likely to be able to have a home better for your kids. You're less likely to be taxed to death. You're more likely to be able to practice your faith as you wish to go to the school that where your children can learn the way you want. You don't have to worry that insane people might abduct your children for the transgender cult. There's a million reasons to live in a red state that are not just who I'm going to vote for, who I can help elect, but that does matter as well. The movement of people to red states has been hugely helpful for us. We are better able to win elections because red states are growing, blue states are shrinking. And as long as we keep our states on side, that's going to produce a lot of benefits for us.
Andrew
Big if in places like North Carolina and Georgia. Those are the two I'm most worried about.
Blake
So, yeah, I mean they love to. They love to blue ify our red states. It's a huge hazard, but our states are well run. They are better. And that's something we can brag about. These. The vindication of red state government has been a big story of the past decade.
Andrew
It really has, actually. I'm glad you said that because it kind of flows into our next question. Mark, unmute yourself. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. Mark, can you guys hear me? Can you guys?
Blake
Yes, we can.
Andrew
Yes, we can.
Caller Mark
Oh, okay. Thanks for taking my call, guys.
Andrew
Absolutely.
Blake
One of the main reasons.
Caller Mark
Yeah, one of the main reasons why I started listening to Charlie Kirk and I loved this about Charlie, was his obsession with winning elections. One of the main reasons why I donate to guys is because turning point action and I don't want to say I'm a. What do you guys call them? The black pillars of the doomers.
Blake
Right.
Caller Mark
I don't know what you guys call it, but basically, I'm extremely worried about the midterms. But what I would like to see is, and I'm going to use, I think, Blake's term because he's a Catholic guy. The conservative conclave, I'm going to call it. I'm kind of calling it the conservative conclave, where we focus energy comparing policy from Dems to Republicans. There's a book called Questioning to the Close. If you look at the response from Amigal Spamberger after the State of the Union, she just kept asking three questions. What has. What is Trump done? Blah, blah, blah. What has Trump done? Well, she didn't. I mean, basically she was lying. But the concept is the same. We need the independent voters. And what I don't see hardly anywhere in conservative media is what is. There's no comparison between policy. Like the Republican policy is. Is superior to the Democrats have no policy.
Andrew
Well, I agree, Mark. This is interesting. It ties into two of the other questions. Who are the podcasters you can trust?
Blake
Yeah.
Andrew
You trust the ones that have skin in the game and that are actually working elections and trying to get the right people elected.
Blake
It got me thinking about this, because a reason they wouldn't be comparing Republican policies to Democrat ones is if they're just promoting conflict within the movement. And that's something we should have said about who you can trust. Look at who picking fights with you want.
Caller Mark
I love the.
Blake
I love to talk about the words that are on a Claymore mine. And for military lingo from front towards enemy. They should be facing the enemy, which is the left. And if instead they're facing your own guys and finding reasons to stoke conflict with other Republicans without really good reason, like, okay, we attack Lindsey Graham for reasons that we hope we're very clear on, but if they're constantly finding new Republicans to beef with, that's not a good thing. And so you're very right. We need our communicators talking about elections and talking about what Democrats rule means and what Democrat rule means is training in your kids. Crime, filth, disorder in the streets, higher taxes, like unlivability. It's California spending $40 billion on a train that will never carry anyone anywhere.
Caller Mark
I agree 100%. And this is why I was so adamant about getting through.
Andrew
Right.
Caller Mark
It's like I, I get so angry when I. This, this infighting is not helping anybody, but this is kind of why I'm calling it the Conservative Conclave, because it's like we're grabbing people from this space and saying, look, guys, if we lose the midterm in the Senate and the House, Trump is done. If we lose the House, he's not out of office, but if he loses both, he's done. And so.
Andrew
And if we lose the House.
Caller Mark
Yes. And if he loses the House Senate and we lose in 28, if JD doesn't win, they're coming after you guys. I mean, I hate to say it, right, Because, I mean, this is. I mean, this is why I loved about Charlie. He was so fearless. And the thing that I love, he went. He did his own RNC convention right next to the RNC convention. I was, like, stoked when he did that. And this is why, when I see conservative talk shows, I get angry. So I'm just asking, do you think
Andrew
we got to wrap the show? We gotta wrap the show. I hate to cut you off, but you're absolutely right. The Claymore mind is a great analogy, Blake. I think that was a great way to end it. We'll see you guys all on Monday. Till then, talk to you soon.
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Date: March 20, 2026
Episode Summary:
This episode of The Charlie Kirk Show centers on the ongoing cultural, political, and spiritual battles shaping America in 2026. The hosts reflect on the importance of truth-telling in media, the erosion and potential revival of American values, the aftermath of recent national tragedies, media bias on key issues like transgender rights, and the urgent need for critical thinking and community engagement. Tying it all together is a passionate push for conservative activism and gratitude in the face of adversity. The episode features news reactions, tributes to public figures, guest analysis, community call-ins, and robust listener interaction.
US-Iran Conflict & National Security
Congressional Hearings & Media Narratives
"He was a phenomenal athlete and actually an accomplished martial artist. And then he became, you know, a star... Even up until his 86th birthday, he posted a video. Training and sparring at 86. So the guy was just what a machine." — Andrew ([12:47])
"It's like a giant mean girls club at a high school. So these people refuse to acknowledge a basic, fundamental, biological truth... It's a bastardization of the calling, which is a high calling to report truth. And most of these people have no concept of what that truth is, and it's disgusting." — Andrew ([29:04])
"We're the last outpost of Western civilization. We're all that's left… I think that there is a unique spiritual war happening right now for the direction of this country." — Steve Dace ([38:08])
"We are at a point where we either get revival or I'm afraid of what the future will hold." — Andrew ([42:02])
Senate Showdown: Voter ID & Homeland Security Bills
Immigration Reform
How to Judge Political Influencers
“You want to look for a long term pattern here… are they clearly coming from some sort of ideological foundation?” — Blake ([85:24])
Gratitude and Personal Values
“Charlie was very good about gratitude, even in defeat. I remember he was going on about the importance of gratitude right after the 22 midterms, which were very rough.” — Blake ([91:20])
Red State Migration & Political Strategy
“If you're going to move, and your vote's now going to count for more, by all means... There are a million reasons to live in a red state that are not just who I'm going to vote for.” — Blake ([116:34])
The Conservative Conclave & Election Focus
On the role of truth in journalism:
"It's a bastardization of the calling, which is a high calling to report truth." — Andrew ([29:04])
On spiritual crisis:
"We're the last outpost of Western civilization. We're all that's left." — Steve Dace ([38:08])
On the need for intellectual discipline:
“We need to teach a whole generation to think again, to use their common sense.” — Andrew ([51:57])
The conversation is energetic, earnest, and driven by a sense of urgency about America’s future. The hosts blend analytical depth with humor, heartfelt personal reflection, and an unmistakable conservative populist bent. They frequently reference lived faith, American identity, and grassroots action as guiding principles. Listeners are encouraged to think critically, engage locally, and hold leaders—and the media—accountable to truth.
The episode serves as a rallying cry for conservative values and community engagement in troubled times. It warns against complacency and media bias, advocates for honest reporting and critical discernment, and calls listeners to gratitude, action, and a revival of enduring American principles.