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I don't think Senator Schumer can hear me right now. Maybe the government shut down included audio on Capitol Hill. People say, well, why can't you stop illegal immigrants or others from coming here? And the number one answer we give our constituents is when they come here, they can get jobs, get benefits against the law because of fraud. Raise your hand if government, if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. We do not think the comprehensive health care benefits should be extended to those who are undocumented workers and illegal aliens. We do not want to do anything to encourage more illegal immigration into this country. So are you telling me you're willing to vote no every time Leaders, right? I am not going to allow. Let me be clear. All right? You can quote me on this and quote me on, as we say in Vermont, for the cows come home. I will not let tens of thousands of fellow Americans die because they're thrown off of health care. In my state, people cannot afford a doubling in the health care premiums. We already pay the highest prices in the country for health care. People just can't afford it. And under current law, undocumented immigrants are already ineligible for Medicaid, the ACA exchanges, and for SNAP benefits, not a single undocumented immigrant in this country gets a dime in federal taxpayer dollars for any part of comprehensive Medicaid coverage. Not one. And so when we're Talking about nearly 14 million people who are going to be thrown off their health care insurance, millions of others who are going to be jammed up by this aggressive cut to snap, the largest cut to food assistance in American history. We're talking about American children there. How they characterize it. Characterize it is you want to give health insurance to undocumented immigrants. I understand that's not really an accurate depiction, but what it does do is that's a lie. It's a lie. But what you support does bring back funding for emergency Medicaid to hospitals, some of which does pay for undocumented immigrants and people who don't have health insurance. And also there is this provision, and it's not about undocumented immigrants. It's about people with asylum seekers and people with temporary protected status, et cetera, et cetera, but about their ability to get Medicaid, so they're non citizens. Why even include that in a bill knowing that they're going to seize right upon that and use that to message? Chuck Schumer is worried about a primary challenge from you. I want to just ask you straight up, like, are you planning to primary challenge him? Do you think that's why he's doing this? This is so not about me in this moment. This is about people being able to insure their children. And I will say, because I saw some senators speculating about this and I saw some Republican members of Congress saying, oh, well, if we have this shut down, it's because of aoc. Well, if that's the case, my office is open and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me directly. Well, for an immigrant in the U.S. it means living in constant fear, and it's painful to see. I just hope that they can be treated and that we all can be treated under principles of equity, equity or equity of outcome, which is to take from one group to another and to blame discrimination for that disparity. That is evil and it must be opposed at all costs. If I gave $100 to every single person in this room and you came back, some people would go buy some stock on Robin Hood. Other people would go out and have a nice time at the bar, and other people just lose the money. When you have liberty, outcomes will be different. It's a hard thing to say, but people will be rewarded for good choices and they'll be penalized for bad choices. That's the price of liberty. 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Extra See mintmobile.com When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi? The truth became a web of lies. It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, we kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together. Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. I'm Leon Neyfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Yes, that's right. Lock her up. Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Ben Ferguson. And I'm Ted Cruz. Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. Nationwide, we have millions of listeners. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else. We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family. So download Verdict with Ted Cruz now. Wherever you get your podcasts, every day there's a battle for your mind. Raging information coming from every angle with the will to deceive. Fear not. You found the place for truth. The voice of a generation that still has the will to believe in the greatest country in the history of the world. This is the Charlie Kirk Show. Buckle up. Here we go. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. I'm Andrew Colvett, executive producer of this fine show, joined as always by the one and only Blake Neff. Our secret weapon, our not so secret weapon. He loves that. He loves that nickname. And of course, Brandon Tatum, the officer Brandon Tatum. Thank you for joining us, my friend. Hey, it's my pleasure. You are a Phoenix local. You have been with us in and around Turning Point USA for many years, speaking at our events, tabling with us. And I mean, you're doing amazing work, my friend. And we're just honored to have you in studio next to the chair. Next to Charlie's chair. Yeah. Surreal, man. It's surreal being here, looking at the chair and seeing all Charlie's stuff and everything he's done and built. So I got mixed motions, man. You know, I feel angry. It makes me angry now that I'm here physically, you know, but also I'm still optimistic that, you know, God has his purpose and plan and Charlie was a big part of that. Yeah, man. Well, you've, like I said, you've, you know, one of the themes that we've been talking about in a lot of our shows is the fact that there's a lot of left wing violence, the rise of left wing violence. And, you know, you have seen it firsthand doing some of the work with us at tposa. And I think it was just in April, as a matter of fact, wasn't that long ago. So if I'm told there may be swear words in this clip, so let's play it as B roll. But this was you tabling at UC Davis doing kind of your own prove me wrong in April when a bunch of antifa thugs came up and basically robbed the whole table, took the tent. Oh, yeah. Tell us what happened here. They were nutty, man. It was. It was outrageous. The interesting part is that when I showed up to campus, they had already come to the table and destroyed it the first time. I wasn't aware of that. As soon as I got out the car, they were like, we're being attacked by the antifa. And the phone hung up. And then by the time I got, you know, from the car to the campus, they had already reset up everything and it looked like everything was back to normal. The video team did a really good job at doing that. And so I didn't realize what had happened. I see Antifa, you know, retreating and they're playing all this music and they're all dressed in black and the police are just standing around doing nothing. So I assumed that nothing serious had happened. And then they come back and they come back and the video team was telling me, man, you know, we want to leave. Like, these people are violent. They punched a couple of us. And I remember addressing the police officers head on. I said, look, man, you know, as a former cop, like, you guys have an obligation to protect us. What are you gonna do if they come back? You know, am I gonna have to swing on these people or are you gonna do something? And they literally told me to my face that we're not gonna do anything, we're just gonna cancel the event. And I said, that's not right. If they come back, we gotta be able to defend ourselves. Yeah, you guys weren't doing anything wrong. You're sitting there having a conversation and engaging in dialogue. And they were just like, instead of punishing the bad guys here, the people that are trying to interrupt the event and just disrupt everything, steal everything, we're just gonna tell you you can't do this anymore. Andrew. We didn't even start yet. I wasn't even on campus yet. They were just setting up the cameras and they came and attacked everybody. And then we hadn't even had a chance to say anything. And the funny, ironic part of it is that their violence have no filter. They claim they support blacks and black and brown bodies and all this stuff, but a black man comes on campus that don't say what they want to say, they are willing to attack us and nobody's gonna say anything about it. And it was very troubling to see what they did. You know, I defend a couple people and push a little non binaries out the way a little bit. A part of. Personally, I wanted to just go one by one and, and knock them all out, which I probably could have because they were all soft and weak and, and cowards. But you know, I wanted to do it in the, in the spirit of Charlie. Charlie wouldn't want to knock these people out. Well, maybe he wanted to, but he wouldn't. He would have been peaceful and saying, you know, don't touch him, let him go. But, you know, I had a little more in me on that day. But, you know, I kept it, I kept one of their bikes and well, I threw one of them, went flying a little bit, you know what I'm saying? You know, but they, you know, I had to give them some wings there for a little minute. But, but it's really worth pausing there on the fact that, you know, we've had this debate going back and forth the last few weeks where you've had, you know, the ADL cato coming out and being like, actually, most violence is, is right wing, but something like that where a bunch of violent goons like disrupted, forced essentially the cancellation of an event, attacked a bunch of people. That's never going to go into their stats, even though that sort of thing happens all the time. And it's absolutely a form of political violence. Did any of them get arrested? No, of course, no. No. And they, and they struck a woman right in front of police. I was standing next to him. I said, you see what she, they just hit that woman. And it was, you see the person that walked from behind, hit her in the head. So they can identify that person. They didn't even pursue them. Right. They went back to a central location to stage when they got on the scene and they left the same way, the right in front of the police station. And nobody got arrested. Well, I mean, there's two things that come to mind with this. Let's, let's first play Katie Davis Court. She's a reporter for the Post Millennial. She's been to Turning Point events and, you know, she's, she's a great person. She's super courageous. So she's out in Portland documenting the riots and the vandalism and the thuggery that's going on outside the ICE facility in Portland. And she got punched. Play cut one away. The Trump administration is absolutely correct in deploying federal troops here because Portland police has completely abandoned this zone. They refuse to go in, and everyone that shows up is on their own. So it's kind of like Chaz or Chop was in Seattle. They just, I guess, secede this territory ceded to antifa, and they just let everything play out. Yeah, that's absolutely correct. Yeah. So it's kind of going to what you're talking about. You go into these blue areas. So you're at UC Davis, which is a known hotbed for antifa. It's a known hotbed for just far left political craziness. She's up in Portland, Seattle, and she's describing the same thing where these cops are not getting, you know, and this is, this is the whole argument, by the way, for why we need the National Guard, because the cops and the local mayors and the governors are not backing these police officers to do their job. So they get, they stand back, they get tepid and they just let these, these Thugs run roughshod over law abiding people. Right. It's insane to me because to be quite honest, and obviously people know that I was a cop. It's easy for police officers to get these things under control. You have to start early. When they start gathering, you have to start, you know, integrating yourself in the crowd, making sure they disperse, not letting them build up and create riots. It's very easy to do it. We did it at the University of Arizona after the basketball tournaments. Whether win or lose, they ride and flip over cars and burn. You were in Tucson? Yeah, we're in Tucson. So we, we integrate in the crowd. We do it early, we get there early. You know, we kind of, I would say we make friends with people. Well, you also assert authority. We, we see, we did it in a, in, in a different way. Right. We came out early, we integrated into the crowd. Therefore they could not build units of violence. And we did that so that we didn't have to get the ride gear out. And if it came to it, we'll get the ride gear out. And we were going full bore. And they could do that, but they're refusing to do it. They have the manpower to do it, but they're refusing to use that tactic. They don't care. They want them to have free reign to shut us down. And going back to your point, they can say all they want about the right wing violence and all of this other stuff. They will never show a video. There isn't a video that exists of a left leaning person going to campus doing a speech or tabling or anything like that. And, and conservatives or people on the right bludgeoning them. The video don't exist. You, the video don't exist of left wing nut jobs going in the street and pushing abortion and conservatives are just beating them up and doing all this stuff. The videos don't exist, by the way, we've said it before, but it's, it bears repeating again and again and again. Our friend Charlie Kirk gets assassinated. We didn't burn down cities, we didn't loot businesses. We didn't. There wasn't mass rioting and mass violence taken to the streets. What was there, it was vigils and memorials and prayer. We are not the same. Right. Because ultimately the, the issue, yeah, these politicians are endemic of a larger issue because they're coddling these domestic terrorists, these violent extremists with the actual violent extremists. And, but it is a core. It's a, it's a core, it's a feature, it's not a bug of leftism that you result to violence because you believe that it's justified. You're not anchored in some deeper Christian truth about that. You know, God's God is, you know, vengeance belongs to the Lord or that government should wield the sword. No, that's not what that's about. They think that they need to take it into their own hands. And we're seeing that again and again. And so you've seen it firsthand. And so I want to talk to you about that. I'm going to tell you guys about Good Ranchers, one of my favorite partners on the show. I don't know if I have the read here for Good Ranchers. I do have it. All right. Good Rancher has always been a dear friend of this show. Corley and Ben spell amazing, amazing patriots that love Charlie and loved our show. Love Turning Point. And one thing this show has always been about is standing for the things that matter. 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It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit. We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together. Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Yeah, that's right. Lock her up. Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Ben Ferguson. And I'm Ted Cruz. Three times a week, we do our podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz. Nationwide. We have millions of listeners. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else. We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family. So down a Verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts. Because I know nothing about trans people, and they were honest because they had another person who was trans. It was a guy. It was a person who was born ambiguous, and the doctor actually picked male, and he probably should have been a female, and he ended up taking his own life. But they were honest about the mental health crisis that's going on, and it was a very fair and balanced argument, and therefore you could receive information better that way. Nowadays is propaganda. You see it in college campuses and you see it in schools. You know, my son went to a school in Seattle, and it was a propaganda center. I almost got in trouble at that school. You. They literally had in the math class. My son was. Wasn't doing very well in math. So as a good father, I go to the school to check out what's going on. They had LGBTQ flags that were as big as the walls in the math class. What does being gay got to do with math? Cultural, cultural, capture. Capturing the institutions. It was insane. It was insane. So, you know, the college campus is a reflection of that. And I hope we get to the bottom of why this propaganda is being. Well, this is one of the reasons Charlie railed against the College Cartel because so much of our institutional capture. Right. The long march through the institutions has started on college campuses. It's funded by college campuses. The research that undergirds it and justifies is that college campuses. Going to welcome back radio. Stay right there. All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. I'm Andrew Polvett, executive producer of this show, joined by Brandon Tatum, Blake Neff. Blake, you know, you and Charlie, I know, talked a lot about the College Cartel and how. Why college is a scam. I mean, maybe just, I mean, you, you went to Dartmouth. You are, I think, the most popular alum of Dart Dartmouth, aren't you? You have a fan club there. I've been, I think I've been denounced a few times. I mean, how bad, how bad are the. Are the Ivies? Well, it varies from Ivy to Ivy. And sometimes, you know, what's funny is sometimes the stereotypes don't even match reality. The funniest one for me was I think in 2020 and maybe in 24 too, but I think definitely 2020, Brown has the reputation as the most liberal Ivy, but I think it had the highest Trump voting percentage because it's also just a. It's a weird Ivy, I think, as part of it. So it's just, it's gonna get people who are a little different. And then like Dartmouth had a reputation as a conservative one and a good number of notable conservatives have gone there. Dinesh d' Souza went there. Laura Ingraham went there. I guess I went there. Dartmouth. Yeah, Dartmouth. Yeah. Well, Laura was the editor of the Conservative. Yeah, the Dartmouth Review. A lot of people end up going there because like the Dartmouth Review had. Dinesh would write about it in all of his books and it got very kind of famous for that reason. But yeah, the College Cartel, it's, it's operating kind of at every level. And when we just had this news story now there's kind of a Harvard knockoff Drudge Report, and I guess they recently hired a professor who moonlights as a drag queen named. Actually, I don't think I can say the name on this show, but you can look up Harvard Drag Queen professor and you'll find the name and I'm not gonna say anything. You'll look it up. We're not gonna be able to say it. But now I want to know what the name is. Yeah. Oh, he'll tell you. He'll tell you in the break. We're mystifying everyone now, but. So you have that there's so many things that go into it. You have the fact that it's overpriced because we subsidize it. When you subsidize the ability to pay for it, shocker. They just make their prices go up. And there's also so much like fake knowledge production going on where. Yeah, it'll hire this drag queen as some sort of professor of like, we're supposed to be like, you know, you know, sequencing DNA or, you know, you know, if you're gonna do the humanities, do the humanities. Like, I think people would actually be fine with English professors and history professors if they were studying Shakespeare and if they were studying, like, oh, let's make sure we know as much as we possibly can about, you know, the Roman Empire and the time of Christ or the English Civil Wars. There's things that you can study legitimately, but they've been totally subsumed into this political apparatus where you're only going to hire a history professor if their specialty is something hyper political. So they'll talk about queer studies and xyz, or they'll take a historical topic and they'll make it entirely about race or entirely about gender. And most people are not interested in that. Most people say this is political propaganda. You eventually get professors who are seeing politics as their full time job. You know, one of the professors we had at Maryland, she was quoted in Nicole Hannah Jones did that disgusting piece in the New York Times over the weekend. She this gross piece attacking Charlie. And one of the things she cites is that there is this professor at the University of Maryland who basically was mad because she was on the professor watch list. And she complains. She's like, I was on the professor watch list for doing my job, for seeking social justice. Wait, no, You're a public university professor. Seeking social justice is not your job. That's right. Your job is to teach people actually useful knowledge. Yeah, but that's an example of how entitled a huge number of academics have become. Well, and we should almost have this clip. I think it's just about ready 126. This is actually Cam Higby. I don't know which campus he was on or where he was doing this table. I think he did it at Union Station. Was it Union Station? Okay, so he's out doing tabling now. And I guess there was a swear word. So we're just gonna throw it as B roll. But he's sitting here. Go ahead and play it, guys. And he's, he's doing. Do we have it? Okay, there he is. So this, somebody comes up, assaults him and then he has to, he pulls out mace and sprays this guy a lot. So yeah, play it back. So this guy comes in and then he then punches him. Right there is that guy wearing like a crusader shirt. I don't know. But he ends up spraying him with mace. I mean, and then you've got, you got Steven Crowder who's going back out. He, he's, he's not announcing where he's going. He's kind of doing like a pop up version right where he's, he's putting on it. He's got a, he's got a vest on, bulletproof vest. He's got about, you know, 20 security guards. He's got bulletproof glass blocking the way. I mean, this is what it's come to. Brandon Tatum, take us into the break here. You got about a minute? I mean, what do you make all this? Well, I think we need to change. I think we need to call it out. I think we need to enforce the law a lot more. And I think we need to keep speaking because it's not an equal amount of disagreement on both sides. These people are radical nutjobs. They're crazy, they're evil. They're being propagated to and they want violence. They want to kill us. They don't want to talk, they don't want to reason with us. And you know the person that assassinated Charlie, what did he say? Sometimes they don't want to talk it, talk it out. They can't win an argument, so they rather kill you than win an argument. And you know the beauty of how God works. And you know, because I know we running out of time, but the jokes on them, because Charlie's legacy is just going to get bigger and there's going to be more people on campus and there's going to be more conversations and people are going to be emboldened. There's going to be more Charlie's and these cowards are going to lose at the end of the day. But we do need to keep fighting back. Amen, man. Well, we're going to, we're going to play some Charlie clips and we're going to have you help debunk some lies being spread about Charlie as only you can. We'll be right back. The US electric grid is approaching a breaking point as demand soars from data centers and home energy use. Our aging infrastructure can't keep up and the Department of Energy warns that without action, blackouts could surge 100 fold by 2030. The good news? One solution is already here. Propane. It's American made, stored on site and always ready. 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We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together. Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Yeah, that's right. Lock her up. Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Ben Ferguson. And I'm Ted Cruz. Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. Nationwide, we have millions of listeners. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else. We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family. So download Verdict with Ted Cruz now. Wherever you get your podcasts, it is day two of the government shutdown and no resolution appears to be in sight. Hi everyone. I'm Terrence Bates. I appreciate you being here with us this morning. Earlier today, White House press Secretary Caroline Levitt addressing the ongoing government shutdown. Democrats have voted for the clean continuing resolution that Republicans introduced 13 times in the past. Thirteen times. They voted for it as recently as March. And now all of a sudden, they are shutting the government down and they are holding our country hostage over a partisan political matter that the vast majority of the country disagrees with. And they know it's so unpopular that they're now running away from it. I saw some senators on television this morning saying we don't want to give health care benefits to illegal aliens. Yes, you do. Roll the tape. You can see time and time again, Democrats have supported that. 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This is CK challenges student to name him one institution that got better or the more it embraced DEI. I think this is a really important point. 123. You're thinking that DEI is versus excellence. I think DEI is for excellence. Show me one institution that got better, the more embraced DEI. What? One institution that got better, that embraced DEI, that got smarter, more competitive, leaner, more productive, and that was better than it was 10 years ago. Are our airports more efficient? Are we landing planes better? Are our airlines better? Is our government better? Is our schools better? Is our universities better? Are. I mean, show me one example. Is our public health authorities better? Show me one institution that's embraced DEI that has become better, more excellent than it was 20 years ago. It doesn't exist. DEI will destroy an institution from within. Right. And I love that he said that because people, some people don't have critical thinking skills on campus. They don't. They can't think about these things. Things they frame. DEI is having to do with just black people. Diversity, equity, inclusion. If you look at the statistical data points, it actually affects white women or they have more benefits in DEI programs than any other race. So really it's about white women. And then you have the LGBTQ community that's engrafted in that. It's really not helping black people to be quite honest, but ignorant folk think DEI is just black people. And the reason why DEI doesn't work is because if you want something to be excellent, you want it to be great, it has to be based on merit. I want the best and the brightest. I hire people all the time, and when I look at their resume, I don't give a flying flip if they're black, green, or orange. Right. I want to make sure that you're on. Aligned with our mission, but at the same time, I don't care who you are. What does your resume say? What have you done to prepare for this position? And most people who are rational, who are successful, that's how they operate their business. And to be quite honest, we don't need a white savior to tell black people that. Oh, little poor black man, let me pat you on the head and let me give you an opportunity. No, we are smart enough as black people to earn an opportunity. We go to school just like anybody else. We want greatness just like anybody else. We have the brain capacity, if you want to apply yourself, to do very, very well and be successful. And so we don't need these programs to try to lift up black people in an artificial way, because what happens is you lift up black people that are not prepared, and they make us all look bad. Just go after the people that are good enough. And if you want to help, help, help from the. From the front end. That means that elementary schools, that means in grade school, you're helping young people be educated and be prepared for the future. Therefore, they can be more competitive in a fair way. You don't wait to the end of the road to try to thrust people into. In positions of power. I think that's. It's. I wanted to flag this because I saw it the other day. So you mentioned, you know, there's a lot of DEI sex based for women. And I was. I saw this news the other day. So the London. London has one of the oldest stock exchanges in the world, one of the most historic. And in. They have a rule on the London Stock Exchange that to do an IPO, you need to have commit to having at least 40% women on your board. You need a woman in a top job. I don't know what that's defined as. And you need an ethnic minority director. In 2005, the London Stock Exchange had 339 IPOs that raised a total of 51 billion. Either dollars or pounds. I'm not sure, But I think pounds. 51 billion pounds. They are now down to 250 million. They've lost 99% of their IPOs because people are just deciding to IPO in a country where they don't have a million DEI hoops to jump through. To start your company. You should have put that. You should. I mean, it falls off a cliff. Yeah. That's wild. Well, what is a woman? Right? You know what I'm saying? At one point, what do you do? You know, I have half of the guys identify as women and then there we go. We quote. Well, I mean, we have that clip somewhere, actually, I think. But it's. They'll show it to me. We'll play. It's worth playing. It's worth remembering the insanity that we live through. But here, you know, here's a. Here's another one. I'm gonna play real quick here. This is. I guess. I guess we do have it. Let's play 124. Can you provide a definition for the word woman? Can I provide a definition? No. Yeah. I can't. You can't? Not in this context. I'm not a biologist. What did we do before biologists? Problem is biology's been taken over by DEI too. So even they don't know the answer. So. So it's a. It's a. It's a sick cycle. She, like. She's proven Charlie's point about brain power. Like, of course. Why they mad. Go look at this fool who's a woman who experienced female things almost every month. And she can't articulate what a woman is. She probably have children. I don't know if Katanji Brown have children, but at some point you have to Be able to be a genuine human being. And that's not genuine for you to act like you don't know what a woman is. Well, yeah, the fact you get tripped up with that question just proves the point. And by the way, I will say Ketanji, Brown, Jackson, and even some of the liberal justices on the court have gotten frustrated with just how insane she is and how poor her judicial skills are. So, I mean, it's bearing out and to your point, it's making black people look bad. Make them look bad. Clarence Thomas is doing an incredible job. We got his picture right behind him. He's an excellent man, but they hate him. He don't count and he doesn't count. And also just they would always do this, like, frankly, like, actually pretty racist thing when Scalia was still on the court. They would always just say, like, oh, Thomas is just Scalia's puppet or whatever, and they would do all of that. And then Scalia died and it's like, oh, oh, actually, Thomas is actually an amazing. He's actually the leader of the court, basically. Right, let's go ahead and play this. This is a new story here and it just. I wasn't actually planning on getting to it, but it's just too funny. So Serena Williams, I don't know if you've seen this story. It's the cotton thing. The cotton thing. So she goes into that. We lost Blake. So. So she goes into a luxury hotel and she's in the bathroom and there's a piece of decor that's just. It's nice looking. Let's just show it. We have it 125. But she gets real upset. Brandon Tatum, play 125. All right, everyone, how do we feel about cotton as decoration? Personally, for me, it doesn't feel great. So actually it feels like nail polishing for cotton natural. Going for like a Michael Jackson one glove thing. I don't know what you. You gotta be the stupidest person in the world to record yourself, make a video like that as her. First of all, she married to a white man, last time I checked. Then she talked about a nail polish remover. Well, you use the same cotton in your bathroom for nail polish remover. You don't have a problem with that? Cotton as a decor woman. White black people weren't only people at picking cotton. All right, what do you think they were doing before black people got over here? You know, as if every black person picked every cotton. You know, pick cotton everywhere. It's a plant, right? And everybody use it. She probably wear Cotton every day. Are you mad that you wear cotton? You know, these people are so disingenuous. And as rich as she is, why do you give a f about a little? And that's probably at a really nice hotel that she probably paid thousands of dollars a night. And you're gonna make it, make it a point to be upset about something like that. For what? What's the point? I don't know the point. I can't believe we're making cotton controversial. Right. And it's harmful to other young black people. These ignorant black folks are the biggest threat to young black people because somebody is taking her seriously with all of her accolades, with all of the success that she's had. They think that's her issue because she making it an issue. And you cannot function in life if you are crying about a cotton display somewhere in a multi million dollar hotel. Like, I, I just don't understand the logic there. And it's hurtful. And I wish these people would be called out. She should be. I remember I said it, I wrote it on X. I said, she's the. I think I said she's the dumbest person on planet earth. She should be ashamed of herself. Nobody writes that up though. But if Charlie Kirk says something right, it's, oh, this white guy is commenting on the stupidity of a per. You're not allowed to do that with a person of color. You're not a poc. Whatever. Just she's a black lady. What's wrong with that? I wish we could just be honest. Like, you know, I look back at like George Carlin and these comics of like yesteryear and like they could actually. It was like equal opportunity offense. And you look. Dave Chappelle, equal opportunity. Anybody that's throwing off this woke garbage is actually funny. Right? You know, but it was, I think it was a release valve for culture. Well, let's be honest. Like, if you black, you can do. You got the full spectrum. You can make fun of black people and you make fun of white people if you white. I don't see many comedian, white comedians making fun of black people. Only person that does it, I forget his name now. He was married to a black woman. No, no, he's. Oh, I know. He's Bill. Bill. Bill. No, no, not Bill Burr. He's married to a black woman too. Or he's with a black woman. I forget the guys now. He made a skit about the church when he go to a black church and how they stay all day and all this other stuff. The funniest thing ever. And I think he got a pass. He, he do a skit at black like comedy clubs. What was his name? Gary Owens. Okay, I haven't seen it. Yeah, you gotta watch this. Okay. Gary Owens goes hard. And the reason that is like this is because he was married to a black woman and he does this skit at some of the black comedy studios. So it was very funny. But outside of them, you can't find a white person making fun of black people when those who have done it and have done it well, it's incredibly funny. Yeah, well, I, I, I was just looking up his comedy. But that's, that's gonna be. Oh, he's funny. So we're gonna hit this next story. Brandon Tatum. It is the story on X and on social media right now. And we've only got a minute left in the segment. Segment. So let's just tease a little bit. Tease it. And Blake's got all the information on this, the guy who made this show. But there is a show on Netflix that is, I mean, we've seen kind of, you see these episodes where they kind of tease around the edges. Like they'll be like a trans cow or something. It's just real quick thing. Or Transformers, which, okay, they're robots. Maybe they're not boys. I don't know. You know, like, we've talked about it on the show a lot, Charlie. We talk about it. Those upset us a lot. This one is like, I'm trans and I am, you know, and I'm just, I gotta, it's my business and I'm gonna tell people when I want to tell people. I mean, it's the most full on full throated defense of trans ideology that you have ever seen. And it's for children on Netflix and people are boycotting. We have the details when we get right back. The US Electric grid is approaching a breaking point. 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Nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi? The truth became a web of lies. It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? Bad faith, political warfare and frankly, bullshit. We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together. Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Yes, that's right. Lock her up. Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Ben Ferguson. And I'm Ted Cruz. Three times a week we do our podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz. Nationwide, we have millions of listeners. 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We'll be right back. All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. Final segment with our friend Brandon Tatum. We're hit Netflix because I'm going to be actually, I know you got the first word. I'll just say this. When Charlie died, Charlie loved Seinfeld. And I have canceled my Netflix subscription before and I just wanted to watch Seinfeld like at the end of the night, late at night. I had long days. It's been a long, it's been a long couple weeks. And it just makes me happy to watch Seinfeld. And Netflix has Seinfeld. So I just hope that the people of Seinfeld will get in on this and like move the show somewhere else somehow. I'm sure. There's some contract they can. I don't think it's gonna happen. You have to be the change you seek in the world. I know. So for Charlie, I will stop watching Seinfeld. It literally is like one of those few things in my day. You can buy the DVDs. You know what? That's right. That's right. Okay. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna find a way to get around the Netflix Seinfeld thing, because this is really upsetting. We should play the clip too, but go ahead, Blake. Yeah, yeah. So we'll get into this. So this is about a show. It went viral recently because Libs of TikTok posted it. But to be clear, the show aired, I think, 21 through 23, ended in 23 for sure, which, among other things, is just absolute peak. Woke insanity at every single media outlet ever. The show's name was dead end Paranormal Peak. It's a children's show, animated, but it has all of this, like, aggressive kind of sexuality propaganda on it. What was the number again? We'll get it. Crud. I had it in front of me. You know, you get your one opportunity here, man, and you. You missed the clip here. I'll find it. Where are we? There's way too many of these. All right, here we go. Let's do 116. It's not the park. It's. It's me. I'm trans Norma. And everyone at school knows and everyone at home knows. And being here, it's like a whole new place. I can just be Barney, and I can choose if and when I tell people I've never been happier. And that's saying something. When I spent today chased by terrifying zombie mascots, Pugsley reminded me how I important it is to live your life without apology. So I think I gotta give living here a shot, don't you? You don't need my permission. I just wouldn't want Courtney as a roommate. We'll be the best of friends. All right, Brandon. Well, these people going straight to hell for the stuff that they're doing, in my opinion, I think it's. It's very troubling because when you look at the spectrum of. Of, you know, how many kids are actually trans are going through, it's rarely. It's not that many kids, man. You know, my son go to a massive school. 6a tons of students there, and I don't think they have a single trans kid at that school. And even in this. The school that he went to, that Was a public school. It probably was like one maybe. Yeah. So what they're doing is they're indoctrinating kids and putting this into their subconscious to begin to think about, well, am I trans? What is trans? Do I, am I boy? Could boys be girls? Can, can I get some attention right? If I, if I come out with this, this issue? Because that's what it's really all about. A kid don't know nothing about being trans. And they say kids know that they trans when they three. You know how stupid that is? You know, I, I got a, I got a four year old. You think my son know the difference between being a boy and a girl and all that crazy stuff? And if he does have a question about it as an adult, you have leadership that should tell him, no, you're a boy. You know, all you gotta do is check when you go to the bathroom, you, you got that one, another one. So. But they're doing this because if you can get into the subconscious mind of a developing child and you get it, you get these. It's the same thing. When kids get exposed to sexuality too early, it begins to warp their worldview and warp their mind and they drag that stuff on into adulthood where they're, they have a distorted view of what sex is and distorted view of what sexuality is. If you can start doing it earlier, earlier, in younger people, it may not manifest right away, but when they get a little older, it may manifest in a way that's detrimental. And before we get out of here, I just want to like the other reason we care about this, by the way. So that clip went viral on its own. But the creator of the show, his name is a Hamish Steele and one has total. Yeah, we should be able to throw it up here. I think they have it as B roll. But he was posting on Blue sky that he. First of all, he has this like very creepy future molester looking face, in my opinion. Let's see which one was. Oh, yeah. All right, there he is finally. Yeah. And he says he's a he. They pronouns. And then he says he said this the day after the assassination. I'm not sure who he was responding to. Why the f are you even commenting on this object head you. Yeah, you d head your sympathy for any of the families being slaughtered by your weapons. But a random Nazi gets shot and it's a public statement. You're such an effing evil. Yeah, just vile stuff. Absolutely vile person. This is the kind of guy who would say like, ah, love is everything, kindness is Everything. Tolerance. Such a fraud. Such a fat fraud. I want to. I want to keep this conversation going in the stream for a little bit because I don't feel like I'm done slamming Netflix. They've lost like $15 billion in market cap, but it's not enough. Okay, we will be right back in hour two. Talk to you soon. The U.S. electric grid is approaching a breaking point. As demand soars from data centers and home energy use. Our aging infrastructure can't keep up. And the Department of Energy warns that without action, blackouts could surge 100 by 2030. The good news? One solution is already here. Propane. It's American made, stored on site and always ready. Powering homes and businesses with cleaner, reliable energy that doesn't depend on the grid or the weather. Learn more@probane.com Take a deep dive into the stories making the news headlines across the world. The news agents. We're not just here to tell you what's happening, but why? From me, Emily Maitlis. And me, John Sopel with Global's award winning podcast, the News Agents dropping daily, covering everything you need to know about politics and current affairs. And the newsagents USA listening to the newsagents on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app and search the newsagents to start listening. What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi. Nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi? The truth became a web of lies. It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? Bad faith, political warfare and frankly, bullshit. We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together. Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Yes, that's right. Lock her up. Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Ben Ferguson. And I'm Ted Cruz. Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. Nationwide, we have millions of listeners. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else. We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family. So download Verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts. Terrence Bates here with your Real America's Voice news break. Thanks so much for being here with us. It is day two of the government shutdown and no resolution appears to be in sight. Plus, based on this true social post from President Trump, things are really about to get real. The president saying he'll be meeting with director of the Office of Management and Budget today in order to discuss which agencies should face mass firings as part of the current shutdown. He goes on to write, quote, I can't believe the radical left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They're not stupid people. So maybe this is their way of wanting to quietly and quickly make America great again. For more, let's bring in Real America's Voice chief White House correspondent Brian Glenn at the White House. Brian, how long until we might see the first layoffs? What is your thought? Yeah, I think we're going to see it, I think sooner than later. And of course, President Trump pushing out that true social post. And as of right now, as we speak, I can't confirm that that meeting has happened yet or if it's even concluded at this time. But those job cuts, those cuts that Russ Vote promised and of course President Trump supports them on, is going to to happen. And that's the reality of what the Democrats have got themselves into. Earlier, Carolyn Levitt did a press conference here, just a short gaggle with some reporters, and said, look, this solely falls on the responsibility of the Democrats choosing to kind of die on the Hill of extending health care benefits to illegal aliens, something that's highly unpopular with the, with the American people. But that's what they chose to do. And Terence, just remember, they voted for the same CR 13 times in a row, matter of fact, as recently as March. But this is what they want to hold up on, to hold this government up from being funding. Brian, the threat of these job cuts, is it a scare tactic or is this real? Say the government reopens today, would the president still be considering the job cuts? I think. I think so. I really do. I think they've taken a look, they've taken a look at the different branches and different agencies they're looking at. And they know that there's a lot of redundancy in a lot of these agencies and that there is some fat to be trimmed. Now, I don't Think it's just a scare tag now, obviously I think it is to a certain extent. There's some reality in that we do need to trim some of these agencies down and what a better time to do it than right now when it shut down. The reality is though, there at the White House, Brian, that work is still going on despite the government shutdown. Yeah. The agencies might not be funded and might be dark, but the lights are definitely on at the White House and there's a lot of work to be done. Which of course brings me to your trip yesterday to Memphis, Tennessee. You were there with the Attorney General, with the Secretary of War. The White House seems to be moving full steam ahead with deploying National Guard troops in some of these crimes ridden cities like Memphis, Tennessee. And there may even be plans for other cities to be on the list. That's correct, Terence. I know I'm hearing a little rumblings about Portland, Oregon. We're seeing all of the, the violence and some of the antifa presence in the last couple nights there on the streets there. And police really kind of don't have that in control. And residents want it. President Trump back on September 17, created that Memphis Safe Task Force. And of course, yesterday I joined Attorney General Pam Bondi and Pete Hetzek, Secretary of War, as they make their way to Memphis, rolling in overnight, dozens of arrests, everything from possession of gun to just outstanding warrants in general. So they really are cracking down. And I want to say though, there was a billboard in Memphis that said welcome to Memphis, now National Guard. So people are welcoming the National Guard to their city as they understand how crucial it is right now to lower the murder, rape and assault percentages that are in that city right now. So Portland could be next. And of course, President Trump has also mentioned Chicago. Right. Brian, put into perspective for us really quickly that it seems Memphis and Tennessee in general is the exception to the rule, as the governor there has been, has invited President Trump to bring in the National Guard and the city's mayor seems to be on board as well. Yeah. Isn't that interesting how you've got the mayor, which I don't think typically have been a big, I would call a Trump supporter at all. But they do recognize they have a problem in that city. And I think that resonates to other Democrat cities that here's the message. If crime is out of control in your city, please check your pride aside, do what, what's best for the community and your local and your state and bring the troops in. Absolutely. Brian Glenn reporting for us from The White House. Thanks so much, Brian. And thanks to you for being here with us. The US Electric grid is approaching a breaking point. As demand soars from data centers and home energy use, our aging infrastructure can't keep up. 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When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi? The truth became a web of lies. It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit. We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together. Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Yeah, that's right. Lock her up. Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Ben Ferguson. And I'm Ted Cruz. Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. Nationwide. We have millions of listeners. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else. We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family. So download Verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts. All right, welcome back to the hour two of The Charlie Kirk Show. I'm Andrew Colvett, executive producer of this show. I'm joined by Blake Neff, the not so Secret Weapon. And we have two guests from our field team. Everybody is talking about the field team and what the great work that you guys are doing. So thank you for joining. I really wanted to highlight the great work you guys are doing. We got Nick Koca, Club America Enterprise Director. Yes, sir. By the way, Nick is looking slim and trim and very, very healthy. Love to see that. Chris Gaffrey, College Enterprise Director. Why don't we start with you, Chris? Explain what it is you do and we'll just start there. What do you do? Yeah. So essentially, I oversee all of the college staff, all of the chapters, all of our field representatives, all of the regional managers, all of the operations that goes into the field program that Charlie built over so many years over the last 13 years. And we have a presence on so many of these college campuses across the country. We have a big part in those tours that Charlie loves so much. All of the things that we were doing these last few years on campus with the prove me wrong with these evening events, that's a lot of what I do is just travel the country and work one on one with these students. Get to see it firsthand what it's like being on a college campus as a conservative before Charlie's assassination and now. And the big difference is there. Yeah. And I mean, people have been asking about this. We're not doing the open air proved me wrongs. Right. And that's for security reasons. And there's just a lot, I mean, emotionally for all of us that goes into that. And you know, candidly, I'm relieved that we're not. But like, secondly, we are still doing the evening events and these evening events team, if you could throw some of this B roll, I mean, at Utah State, this was what, 6,600, 6,200 people at Utah State. And we had, I guess, Governor Cox, we had Andy Biggs, the great Andy Biggs. Love Andy. He's going to be the next governor of Arizona. We had Jason Chaffetz, who was actually there at uvu. So that was a really powerful. I know that was really powerful for him to kind of get back there and you see this footage. I mean, the energy is just incredible at these things. And this was our largest evening event of all time at a campus. And by the way, little hint, we're going to beat it. We're going to even exceed this in this campus tour. Tell us about this Yeah, I mean, I've been to more of these tour stops than I honestly can count. And coming back to Utah, there's definitely some closure there. And being that. And, you know, for context, I was not at UVU that day. But coming back to Utah and seeing so many of our students who were there at Utah Valley and seeing them be able to get that closure and having a room that is larger than a lot of our conferences. I mean, larger than ywls, larger than, you know, some of our student action summits that we've done, much larger than cls, you know, six times over than the largest chapter leadership summit that we've ever done. There's something about that. That feeling of standing on the floor and seeing so many people coming out three weeks later after a man was killed in the same state, just. Just an hour and some change away and saying, I am not afraid. I'm going to come out. I'm going to show face. I love that. Nick, let's transition, brother. So you are Club America. Club America is our high school brand at tpusa. And I will never forget this, especially because of obviously. Obviously what happened just a few weeks later. But we were in Aspen, we were talking with donors, and Charlie was like, we're gonna have of. We're gonna get Club America at 35,000 high schools. And I was like, Charlie, there's only 23 or 24,000 high schools. He's like, all right, fine, 23,000. You know, Andrew Cipher, who's the VP of field, great guy, was like, could we maybe like 10,000 or whatever. Like, you know, just because he's freaking out. Cause he's like, I know how hard this is gonna be. And Charlie's like, fine, all right, fine. You know. Cause Charlie was always pushing us and pushing us and pushing us more, more and more. And so within days of what happened, you know, finding out that there's 120,000 inquiries, about 50% of which to start new chapters, about 50%, maybe more, are high school Club America. That's right. So tell us about that, Nick. It's been amazing. See, there are two types of high schools in this country. High schools that have Club America chapters and high schools that will soon have Club America chapters. Well said. Well said. You're one of the two. We have had 1500 chapters that have started. So these are high school students coming together, organizing, building groups since. Since Charlie's. Oh, that's breaking news, folks. I'm probably gonna have to tweet that. Give me this clip, by the way. This is. I want to tweet that. That's a. That's a really big. I mean, you guys are making quick work. 1500. It's been amazing. I remember when Charlie sat right here and announced that we hit 1,000 chapters back in 2023, something that we thought was just a monumental goal when we first launched the program in 2022. And I think he'd be really proud to see the progress that has happened despite the tragedy. In his honor. In his honor, he inspired this. He put jet fuel behind it by being. Living his life in such a wonderful way, being so courageous and so stalwart in believing that we can impact the next generation. By the way, I just want to remind. I mean, you were. You've been with us long enough where you even saw when people thought it was still ridiculous that we could reach the next generation. And Charlie just was so dogged. He's like, no, we can. And you saw that kind of go from incredulity to like, what's happening? Well, it was crazy how fast it happened, too. It was like they just needed a new freshman class that suddenly had been all these people who saw Charlie videos, and it was. Since they were instantly like he was this huge celebrity. Yeah, they had probably. You're probably right. It was like these kids had been probably seen being seen Charlie videos on social media for years and years, and all of a sudden, they come into high school or college, and it was. It was like the Turnover, you know, 18 to 21 happened, and it was. They. They were ready. They were ready. And it was also a generation. When we're talking about the college kids that had been so beat up, their high school years were wrecked by Covid. Wrecked by Covid. A thousand percent. I mean, and talk about that, because you've been around long enough to see this thing blossom. Yeah, yeah. You know, I actually started when I started with Turning Point. I was a student, so I was the chapter president in Detroit, Michigan. If you know anything about Detroit, it is not a conservative city at all. And when I was a chapter president, I remember saying, hey, do you know who Charlie Kirk is? And unfortunately, every answer was, no. No one really knew him back then. And then. Now. The difference is everybody knows Turning Point. Everybody know. Even before he died, everybody knew Charlie Kirk. Love him or hate him, they knew who he was. Love Turning Point or hate Turning Point, they knew who we were. And to see that. That growth over such a short period of time and see the passion and the energy. I mean, I'll tell the story Real quick, right after the Utah State event, we went out and got ice cream. And the girl behind this is like some 17 year old high school girl. She asked us, she sees my jacket, says Turning Point. She's like, are you at Turning Point usa? I was just at that event. I just clocked in because I called off and I moved around my schedule so I could be at that event. And then she asked us for a picture, all of us that were there, Andrew and myself and the tourist team. And it's just so weird to think how much this organization and this movement has meant to people since Charlie's passing. And I think it's something to do with being too close to home, being a little too close to it, to realize, to truly realize the impact that we've had, that this organization has had, that the students have had, that Charlie has had in the last decade. It is really, I mean, it's earth shattering. It's breathtaking. I. I completely relate to that, by the way, because. And I would tell Blake this, I had to keep recalibrating how famous he was becoming. Cause I was always like, I don't know, like a year behind in my internal clock of. But then I would take him somewhere public and I was like, dude, you're like a beetle. It shocked me the most when we were doing the whole Nebraska push. And so we went on campus during the tailgating before a Huskers game and just hundreds of people mobbing around him. And of course it helped a lot that they wear red anyway at the University of Nebraska. So it's like everyone's wearing red. Red stuff. Yeah, for the Huskers game. And they're. Charlie. Yeah, the Charlie Chance. The Giant convoy. Well, and you got those chants at Utah State. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was a lot of chant lot. I mean, that first event that we did post Charlie's assassination, the energy in the room was just something different. It was just completely different. There was. There's hope that. I think that's the best way to put it. There's hope in the air, in amongst young conservatives. They want to get involved. They want to do something. They do not want to sit idly by. Why a man died. Well, I want to, I want to. I want to talk about the tour stops that are coming up and the future plans for high school with Club America, because we have a real big, real big tour that's still ongoing. Lots of new stops coming up. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. The US Electric grid is approaching a breaking point. As demand soars from data centers and home energy use, our aging infrastructure can't keep up. And the Department of Energy warns that without action, blackouts could surge 100 fold by 2030. The good news? One solution is already here. Propane. It's American made, stored on site and always ready, powering homes and businesses with cleaner, reliable energy that doesn't depend on the grid or the weather. 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Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. All right. We are diving into all the, all the great things that we're accomplishing on high school and college campuses right now in our tour. And we have so much more to fill you in on. But first, I want to tell you about the great people over@yrefi.com they sponsor our college tour. So Chris is really appreciative of that. I know that we all are. So if you have private student loan debt that's distressed or in trouble, you want to check it out, that's yrefi.com there's about $45 billion that's labeled as distressed or defaulted. So why refi does not care what your credit score is. They can help you reduce your monthly payment and guarantee interest rates under 6%, ensuring affordability and financial relief. Because of private student loan debt, so many of you are feeling. Feeling stuck and helpless. You don't have to live this way. You've even lost hope. Maybe you don't have to lose hope. You have hope. Why refi as your hope? They give you a light at the end of the tunnel. If your private student loan debt is keeping you up at night and ruining your life, it doesn't have to just call yrefi, that is 888-yrefi34 or log on to yrefi.com that's yrefy.com the great people at Yrefi are there to help you, and they are great people. And they've stood by us in this time, they've stood by our college tour in this time, and they've stood by the show. So that tells you everything you need to know about them. Them. So, guys, I am just so excited by the tour. So tell us, what have we done already? We did Megyn Kelly. That was the first one. So it was Michael. Oh, Michael Knowles in Minnesota. Yeah, yeah. He went to. Yeah, yeah. So we had Minnesota with Michael Knowles and then Virginia Tech with Megyn Kelly and Governor Glenn Youngkin. And then, yes, yesterday, I'm losing track of my days. Two days ago, we had Utah State, which was a phenomenal event. And by the way, I want to say something about that with Governor Cox. People were, you know, why did you invite Governor Cox? Well, it's because Governor Cox was speaking privately with our team and just saying, like, listen, I know Charlie hit me pretty hard. And, you know, he had some. He had some good points. And I want. I want to tell the world that, you know, and I thought he did a great job and did a fine job. So we are going to welcome back radio in just about 1 second. Second. Don't go anywhere. You know what? I just found out, Nick, you are the third longest tenured staff at Turning Point. Yes. I've been with Whoa. Turning Point USA since January of 2016. I remember someone just showed me a clip. Clip. We were at the RNC in Cleveland in 2016, and Charlie said, let's paint some signs. Let's get out there and make sure that people know that limited government principles are represented. So we took to the streets of Cleveland and started chanting, big government sucks. And we got a lot of people's attention. And it's amazing to see how far we've grown since then. That's amazing. And you have seen many iterations of this movement, of what Charlie has built here. And so you are a keeper of history. And I think you both are. And I think that's important because we lost Charlie far too early, far too young. And I've told this to the team. It's like there's just no replacing that experience that we've all had with an American legend. And to see it up close, to see how he operated, to see how he would inspire the troops, how he would motivate the staff, and how he would speak to students. And you guys are keepers of that legacy in a really, really important way. And I just want to encourage you that, you know, your jobs are more important than ever. And I know you know that. So why don't. I'm going to go high school, then college. Okay, high school. So 1500, we. I mean, you have tens of thousands of applications. Are we changing the way we're doing this? Has everybody been spoken to and communicated with? Like, how are we. So if you're out there in the audience and you're, you know, daughter or son or grandkid has reached out and inquired to start a chapter, what can they expect? What have you done already? What will happen in the. In the days ahead? Our field team, our representatives have been hard at work, just calling, picking up the phone, talking to hundreds of students every single day who want to get involved. And if you filled out a get involved form on our Club America website or on TPSA student's website, and you're in high school, expect a phone call from your field representative. They're going to tell you how to get your Club America chapter started and set you up with everything that you need to hit the ground running on your campus, that's a really important point. We know how to do this at Turning Point usa. So if you're a student out there or you're a parent of a student or grandparent of a student, and you're like how do you even do we tell you how to do it? Like we have a whole roadmap, we have all the tools and we're gonna set you up. And by the way, if there's multiple students that have applied from the same school or whatever, we'll put you together. That's right. We'll get you linked up. And by the way, that's really powerful because we have multiple from a lot of these schools because you know, if there are any trolls that are in or whatever, other people that shouldn't really be starting the chapter, maybe they're good at well intentioned but they just really maybe shouldn't be the president or vice president of a chapter. We're gonna find that out in this process, right? I mean we're gonna, we're gonna get the best. It's really amazing how we're able to bring people together. We have students that multiple from a single school that are reaching out. Maybe they know each other but they both loved and admired Charlie and want to step up. So we're able to bring these students together to make lifelong friendships. That's how when I got involved, when I met Charlie, the people that I met through Charlie I'm still very close friends with today. It's changed the trajectory of my life and of my career. And so we hope to do that for you. If you're a high school student looking to get involved for the first time, it will change your life. That's so, that's so right on. When you step out and you join this movement, you will, your life will never be the same for the better because you're something, you're going to be part of something that's much bigger than yourself. And that goes for our college camp. So it's a little different on college, just so you know, like we've got all these tens of thousands of applicants. Well, we've pretty much saturated the vast, vast majority of college campuses. So you're not going to get like a huge. We'll get some growth from it. But really like that top line number like Turning point had already kind of of hit a really big point on college campuses. But we're going to plug these people in, maybe door knock, whatever. We'll figure out what it is. Devoter Reg and we have these tours. So tell us what we can expect in the coming days because this tour is kicking off and we're not backing down. No, not at all. We're not not backing down. We're going to keep on going. We're going to keep this tour alive, we're going to be going all over the nation. We've got Tucker Carlson coming up. We've got. Who else? We've, by the way, we have a. We just locked one in and I can't say yet because I got to coordinate. We got to coordinate the. But it's big. Big. Yeah. So who else do we got, though? Yeah, we got a lot of, a lot of great people coming up. We have Savannah Chrisley. Savannah. Oh, we got Russell Brand. Yes. Governor Kevin Stitt. Yeah. Oklahoma. Yes. We're gonna have Governor Jeff Landry, Ali Betstucky. We have a lot of very exciting speakers coming up. And what we're really seeing is the excitement of students who are saying they want to get involved, they want to be there. I mean, I've never, I've been to so many of these stores. I've never seen students line up seven hours before the tour stop begins. And you are seeing young. I mean, the older generation did that. Yeah. I mean, it's crazy. Okay. Charlie always wanted the biggest venue we could get. And these schools would dink around with us and just give us such a hard time. That's why we started doing the campus hours out stops outdoors because it like they could just stream in. But now they're giving us these arenas and it's a beautiful thing. Gentlemen, you are more important than ever. I commend you. I salute you. We have your back. And I know you guys are doing the truly, truly hard and important work out there in the field. Thank you. Thank you, Andrew. Yeah. God bless you guys. More to come from this team, this growing team, because they're going to need more bodies. You guys are going to need more bodies to handle this. By the way, we already have a ton of staff all over the country. Going to be joined by Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. Next, we're going to talk about the shutdown. He's got a really interesting insight on that. And so don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. The US Electric grid is approaching a breaking point. As demand soars from data centers and home energy use, our aging infrastructure can't keep up. And the Department of Energy warns that without action, blackouts could surge 100 by 2030. The good news, One solution is already here. Propane. It's American made, stored on site and always ready. Powering homes and businesses with cleaner, reliable energy that doesn't depend on the grid or the weather. Learn more@probane.com Take a deep dive into the stories making the news headlines across the world, the news agents. We're not just here to tell you what's happening, but why? From me, Emily Maitlis. And me, John Sopel with Global's award winning podcast, the News Agents dropping daily, covering everything you need to know about politics and current affairs. And the newsagents USA listening to the news agents on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app and search the newsagents to start listening. What? I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi. Nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi? The truth became a web of lies. It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? Bad faith, political warfare and frankly, bullshit. We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together. Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? Benghazi is a Rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Yeah, that's right. Lock her up. Listen to Fiasco Bengal on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Ben Ferguson. And I'm Ted Cruz. Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. Nationwide, we have millions of listeners. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else. We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family. So download Verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to this Real America's Voice news break. I'm Terrence Bates. While federal workers are sitting at home and not at work during day two of the current government shutdown, Republican House leaders are on Capitol Hill and ready to get the government back open. Let's make absolutely clear what's happening here. Real pain is being inflicted upon the American people because 44 Democrats in the Senate have voted for the third time to reject the completely non partisan, completely clean, very simple 24 page continuing resolution that we passed in the House here two weeks ago. Now why did we do that? For a refresher for everyone. We have been working very hard, this leadership team, to get Congress working again. Congress has not done the appropriations process appropriately for many years now. And so we have forced the muscle memory back. Our appropriators have done a great job in bipartisan fashion, by the way, and they've worked very hard and passed 12 separate appropriations bills through the committee as is supposed to be done. However, only three of those measures have actually passed off the House and Senate floors. While there's still work to be done in the appropriations process, Senate Democrats, Democrats have decided to try and negotiate within the context of a government shutdown as opposed to during regular government business hours, if you will. Completely. They have made a decision that they would rather give taxpayer funded benefits to illegal aliens than to keep the doors open for the American people to keep vital services, veterans services, health care and nutrition for women, infants and children. Children they would rather not pay the troops and TSA agents and Border Patrol agents. They would rather stop services of FEMA in the middle of a hurricane season than to do the right thing for partisan political purposes. It is selfish, it is reprehensible and it is exactly the opposite of what they have all said themselves in their own words, very passionately. The US Senate has the day off, by the way, in observance of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. Senators are expected back at work tomorrow. That's a quick check of your headlines. As always, we appreciate you being here with us. We of course, will continue to follow the very latest as it happens related to the government shutdown. For now, let's get you back to THE Charlie Kirk show, relentless in spirit. You're listening to the Charlie Kirk show. All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. I'm Andrew Colvitt, executive producer of this fine show. And Blake Neff is still here with me by my side. And we are now empty on that side of the desk. But we are not empty for having guests because we have the great Senator Mark Wayne Mullen on the show from the state of Oklahoma, who I don't know if he, I think he pulled over on the side of the road to do this. This is fantastic. Senator, welcome to the show. Yeah, I did. I'm actually right off an exit ramp if you can't tell. I love it. Well, God bless you for that. I just want the audience to know what kind of guy this is on the other end of this call here. And when everything went down, one of the first calls I got, and it was just so sincere and so sweet and kind was, was this senator right here from the state of Oklahoma. So, and I saw you as well, at the White House, when J.D. was hosting the show and Vice President J.D. vance was hosting the show, and you just came by to say hello and give us hugs and tell us you were with us. So God bless you, Senator, for that. Thank you, man. I'm awfully proud of you all. I mean, very proud of you all. And it's just the love that you guys have for, for each other, the love you have for the country, it's just such a. Something you want to be part of, you gravitate to, right? It's, it's a Christian value that you see every walk of life that you say, I want, I want some of that. I want to be part of that. I want part of that light. And so thanks for letting me be part of it, brother. Yeah, man. Well, listen, I, we, we've got your back. I know you got ours. And, and you've been an important voice, though, in the, this whole year legislatively. I mean, you've been acting as a liaison between the House and the Senate on the bbb and you've been, you've working with the White House and you've been getting messaging out. Now, I wanted to bring a lawmaker in to talk about this shutdown. And it seems like this central debate here, you've got CNN saying it's not true. Democrats aren't fighting for health care and Medicare for illegals. Or is it, let me see, Medicaid eligibility for illegals. And you put out a tweet basically debunking this, that you're saying it is, and we're not gonna budge on it. Tell us what the truth is, Senator. True it 100 is, and I'll actually read it for you once we get it pulled up here. And their CR they strike subsection, and the subsection they strike is subsection 71109, alien metal, Medicaid eligibility. They're striking it out specifically of the obbb. Now, what they're saying, the slide of hand that they're saying here is they're saying, well, we're not, we're not giving illegals. Well, what they're saying is since we're not giving illegals is because Biden technically deemed them or gave them parole, and since he gave them parole, they're saying that they're not illegal. Well, they're 100. It entered this country illegally. They should have never been paroled. Biden was paroling 98 of everybody, the 20 million people that came across the, the border. And in the last four years, Biden paroled Them without even looking at their status. And what OBBB did was cut the waste and fraud out of it and said, we're not giving those individuals status of legal status to be eligible for Medicaid, which is why that says alien Medicaid eligibility. That's why that says that. And so when you look at their subsection, it completely strikes it. So they know exactly what they're doing. They're lying to the American people. And this is why that. And this is right here is why that they're saying they want the government open for four years, for four weeks, for $1.5 trillion. It basically undoes. Undoes all the waste and fraud we cut out of obb because they reinstate it and they want it done. They want to hold the American people hostage for four weeks. And that's not permanent. Open the government. That's just for four weeks and put that in perspective. Well, we lost them. No, I got you. Oh, you got me. Okay. Sorry, my. I can't see you guys. So good. To put that in perspective, it's 900. That's. That's $600 billion above the NDAA, which is our National Defense Authorization Act. That's not $600 billion above our defense budget. That's crazy. That's. That is actually insane. People don't understand how big of a line item healthcare is in our federal budget and how much of our insane debt is driven by health care spending. And so, I mean, so they lost this fight during the bbb, right. We ended up passing that, getting it accomplished, and our side candidly wanted even more cuts. And so here comes Democrats saying, oh, even the cuts you got, we're gonna shut down the government for it. And so then you've got Trump, who's brilliantly trolling Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer with these pretty silly memes, which is. We might have. We might have lost him right there. I don't know if you can hear me, Senator. You froze. No, he froze. I have a feeling we're gonna get back. It is just in general, so enraging where they. Yeah, they pull this scam where. Oh, yeah, we're not giving health care to illegal immigrants because under the Biden administration, we used this scam to just make. Make millions upon millions of people technically legal, because we give them all temporary protected status, which once your country's on temporary protected status, they never, ever go off. Well, by the way, they gave up the goat when we. During their own primary. And I can prove it to you. Yeah, let's play 129. Raise your hand if government. If your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. Okay. In the plants, in the audience are like, everybody, clap, clap. And so then they start class. I am a little grateful that, like, the peak insanity of, you know, 2018 through 2022, basically 23, is going to be the gift that keeps on giving because thankfully we have cameras. And, you know, the media is a lot more decentralized than it was even a few years ago. And they're just, they can't live down the fact that, oh, they can say, we don't want health care for illegals. Oh, then why did you all raise your hands to do it? And why did the entire audience applaud wildly? Yeah. And by the way, even Jake. Jake Tapper. I'll never, I will never, ever forget when Jake Tapper called Charlie an anti Semite. But right during his RNC speech. I will never. I brought this up on the show when Charlie was alive. It burned deep in me then. And man does it, even just saying his name right now. But I will give credit where it's due. He called out Jeffrey, sorta. It's weak, but he's calling out the hypocrisy of Hakeem Jeffries play cut 105. How they characterize it is you want to give health insurance to undocumented immigrants. Immigrants, I understand that's not really an accurate depiction. But what it does do is it's a lie. It's a lie. But what you support does bring back funding for emergency Medicaid to hospitals, some of which does pay for undocumented immigrants and people who don't have health insurance. And also, there is this provision, and it's not about undocumented immigrants. It's about people with asylum seekers and people with temporary protected staff status, etc. Etc. But about their ability to get Medicaid. So they're noncitizens. Why even include that in a bill, knowing that they're going to seize right upon that and use that to message? All right, so we have Senator Mark Wayne Mullen back. So Senator Jake Tapper basically says, well, of course it's a lie. Of course there's what they're saying is a lie. But like, but it's kind of true. So. So you can see Jake Tapper dancing around the issue a little bit. It. But even Jake Tapper is calling them on this garbage. Your reaction? Well, Jake, I was on the show right before that, right before Jeffrey came on, and Jake actually agreed. He's like, yeah, you're, you're, you're accurate. So when he talked to me, he, he knew it was right. But here's, here's something that people aren't even talking about. The $1.5 trillion that they're wanting to add back in isn't even. It doesn't have anything to do with the funding for discretionary spending. The $1.5 trillion that they're wanting to put back in was out of reconciliation. Reconciliation only dealt with mandatory spending. So Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security isn't involved in the funding bill that we're fighting for right now that's currently shut down. It's, it's the, the, the craziness is coming out of the Democrats right now by shutting down the government over something that doesn't have anything to do with the bill, then wanting $1.5 trillion and then the. Under. Then to understand that, Andrew, these same Democrats voted for this exact, exact same bill, the exact same language a year ago to keep the government open. We did a CR To December, we did another CR Continued resolution. So it's the same thing in January, before President Trump was in office. And then 10 of them, including Chuck Schumer, voted for this bill in March. Yeah. Nothing has changed. Well, so not, not one language, not one piece of language has changed. Well, I'll tell you what's changed. Chuck Schumer took a lot of heat for that, and AOC is nipping at his heels, and everybody, you know. So AOC saying, this isn't about me. Well, yeah, it kind of is about you. Because let's be honest, Chuck Schumer's fighting for his political life here. And he wants to prove to the base that he's still got it. He's still one of the cool kids. He's gonna get radical like his, like his left flank. But here's what I love. The old Republican Party senator would have completely botched and squandered this. This Republican Party is memeing Hakeem Jeffries into oblivion. And what. I mean, listen, he's calling it bigoted. Okay, well, you've got. It's a meme. It's a meme. And you are defending a lot of illegals that, as you mentioned, have just been labeled as legal, given parole, 98% of them. Well, we also know there was over 10 million, maybe it was as high as 15 million that came in. And all of them were seeking asylum. All of them were put into this status. So, de facto, you are giving health care to illegal. But here's what I love. Now the administration is playing offense and they're saying, hey, guess what? Russ Vote is going to go clear some dead wood while we got this shutdown going because we're going to find out what agencies are really doing the bidding of the US taxpayer play cut 130 this problem. And look, we have $0 coming into the federal government right now because the Democrats shut it down. So what Russ Vote is working diligently on is examining how we can fix this mess to ensure that critical funding continues, that we can get people paid. But the Democrats are making that very difficult. And that's why the president put out a statement this morning saying that we're going to start looking across the board at layoffs and at agencies that we feel do not best serve the American taxpayer that may need to be halted or temper or permanently cut. All right, so Senator, if you're still there. What, what yeah, there you are. What can be done? What can Russ Vote do at this point? We got about a minute left. Tell us what, what, what he can do. Well, when the Democrats succeeded power. Can you guys hear me just fine? Yep. When the, when, when the Democrats succeeded power and gave it to President Trump to force the shutdown, President Trump essentially gets to go around and deem every employee essential or non essential. Now, if you remember in 2017, 2018 and 2019, we went in a shutdown because of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the president said if you're not deemed essential, then you're fired because government should only be hiring essential employees. That's right. So now that Russ gets to go in, Russ folk gets to go in and say you're essential or non essential, we get to clear the fat out of these agencies. I want to point out something. During Biden's tenure, which was during COVID and none of these employees were showing up for work, they grew most agencies at 100 and 150. That's that. So to say we're going to cut 10% of the employee workforce by cutting the bloated federal government is nothing. It's easily done and this can be done within a matter of weeks. So the longer the Schumer shutdown continues because they could open, they could open the government in five minutes if they wanted to. And the longer it continues, the more fat we get a cut out of the federal government. So it's a win win for the Republican Party either way. Well, Senator, thank you for walking us through that and exposing the Democrat lie there because it's just so blatant. It's so blatant and it's so cynical. It's gross. Senator, thank you for joining us. I know you made. You made a pit stop just for this show. So God bless you for that. And thank you again for all of your amazing support for Charlie, for turning forward. Thank you, Sandra. 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So much younger. Charlie. We had the temporary, the limited shutdown that we had with Trump and he was saying we should use this shutdown as a chance to shrink government permanently. And he throws out a few things. Privatized tsa, privatize air traffic controllers, abolish the irs, Remove non essential workers. If they weren't essential, they shouldn't be there in the first place. Now, I don't know if Charlie would say the exact same thing today, but it shows the spirit of things that, okay, if you're having a government shutdown, you're having. Yeah, the trench battle over what gets funded, but you should always see it as an opportunity to achieve long term good. Rahm Emanuel from Chicago. Charlie took that page right out of Rahm Emanuel's book. You never let a crisis go to waste. Never let a Government shutdown go to waste, especially when it's their team that's forcing it. We're going to welcome back Radio final segment of the day next. Welcome back to the show. Andrew Colvitt here, executive producer of this fine show. Blake Neff and I, we might have. Danny. Danny, you should come in for this. Come on. Come on in there if he's there, because he was very excited, but I can start providing. Yeah, yeah. So basically, I wanted. So we put this in the title of the show, and so I'm a little annoyed that we're just getting it to it now, but basically there is. I don't. If this ad gets up. An NYPD cop on sick leave snuck into the Ryder cup in full tactical gear, claimed he was on Trump's security. And somehow. So, like, you texted me this, and obviously we've lived through this, like, terrible experience that we've all just lived through. And you texted me this, and you go, they're gonna get him killed. Yeah, they did the same thing. I remember we were discussing this last year right before Trump got shot, too. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Same thing all over again. Totally. I mean, and then. So it wasn't just that. This, though, Danny, this is egregious, by the way. Apparently this guy's on sick leave, but he's well enough to go sneak into the Rider cup in tactical gear. Yeah. Have full tactical gear, guns, everything. And he got through Secret Service by telling them, I'm just a part of the security team. Which is like just the craziest thing. Like, how does that. Like, what the heck? And I will tell you, there is like a. A scary thing. We actually corrected this at the. At, you know, where we're at, because, you know, you get these security guys and you're like, are they our security? Are they. Are they posing? So you gotta have, like, markers to, like, indicate. You gotta be secret markers that you can look at and know who they are. But this is really terrifying. And I will tell you that when we were doing campaign stops with Trump, I remember going. There was a couple where I was like, this is really. This is not tight security. Well, at one of the events last year, I believe it was the believers event that Trump spoke at. I snuck in, like, a back door with a bunch of food for Charlie and somehow just like, got in. That's allegedly. Allegedly similar. When we did our event in D.C. for the inauguration, there was, like, a big security thing to go through. And I don't. I to this day don't know exactly what happened, but I took some other staircase down and never went through security. And then I was. I was in the event, and I was just. I'm just not going to mention this to anybody. Yeah, well, I've been told reliably that it's gotten a lot better. That said, there's some troubling indications that maybe it hasn't. So what else happened? They also had. Well, at his Virginia golf course, a guy got through with a Glock, and they didn't catch him. Trump wasn't there at the golf course, but, like, a guy with a. With a concealed carry, and so he got through somehow. They didn't find it till afterwards. And then there was also a Secret Service agent at the UN that fell asleep with his gun, like, ready to go, fully loaded, and then left to go to the bathroom and left. Like, there's a picture of it. We may have the B roll of it. The gun just sitting propped up against the chair, and he's just gone. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. I mean, so, by the way, people wondering who Danny is. Danny, Charlie loved you so much. You guys were such. So tight. And Charlie's just like, where. Yeah, wherever Charlie was, you would be hanging around. You were helping him research topics. And you. You were just a real confidant for Charlie. Charlie loved your instincts on stuff. And so I love that you're telling us about. About the security stuff, because it's been a story. You've been like a dog with a bone on it. You're like, people are not tweeting about this enough. We're not talking about this enough. And I remember the UN story got some pub, because that was like, you know, unga, as they call it. And the. The. What exactly happened there? Again, it was like the. The. He was going down some escalators. The escalator is going up, and then suddenly broke at the exact time that, like, he was going on it, and they just left him there. The Secret Service just froze and just. They had no idea what to do next. Yeah. It was just absurd. So he's just sitting duck. Yeah. Here's the escalator. Right. So Trump is always very careful on stairways. He doesn't want to trip. Oh, and it stops. Like, I've never had that happen to me ever. And I've been on thousands of these things. How does that even happen? Like, did somebody. Were they trying to troll him? Yeah, there was, I think, communications that they said that, like. Like, UN staff was joking about doing that earlier in the week, and then it happened. So it was definitely personal, I think it's disgusting that the UN is in New York. I mean, I. Let's. I mean, it's a devil's advocate. If it left New York. Would you feel better if the UN was in Beijing? No, but I think the UN Off. I think it is a flex that we have the U.N. it's a flex, but gosh, come on. Like these people are just trolling. Would be if we had it in New York and weren't members of the US that would be ideal. Maybe that's the next stop. Yeah. And by the way, we got to throw up. Throw up. 314 this B roll. This is back to that NYPD cop who sneaks in to the. Do we know what happened to this guy? They said he's on leave now. On leave? How about you're fired? Why do we always do this? Okay, I get it that they have unions, but when you endanger the life of a. Of the president, United States, you don't deserve leave. You deserve to be fired immediately without pay or Benny's. That's how I feel about it. Well, Secret Service needs to say something too. Like they have a statement. They need to be held accountable for this. Absolutely. Danny Phillip, the man, the myth, the legend. Welcome to the show. 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