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Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives. And we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. How many years have I been telling you about Relief Factor? Quite a lot. Truth is I know millions of people, in fact, that over 100 million people that are struggling with some kind of pain, whether it knee pain, back pain, joint pain and exercise or getting older, whatever it might be. I'm so impressed with the team at Relief Factor. They are on a mission. You rarely see this kind of commitment. 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But as I was there in Burlington, anyone who's ever been to Burlington, Vermont, it's kind of a mixture of Berkeley, California and Boulder, Colorado with a little bit of Manhattan mixed into it. Generally, when I go to some of these liberal towns, I'm met with disgust or protest. It was actually incredible walking the streets of Burlington. We had people coming up saying, I listen to your podcast now. This is literally the town where Bernie Sanders was mayor. That's Burlington, Vermont. And we're actually going to be returning, I think, October 18th, right, Mikey? October 18th, to Burlington, Vermont. And we're going to have a great time there for our Turning Point USA tour. So we went to Vermont and over the weekend, some people actually stopped me when I was speaking at that church and they said, charlie, I listened to your podcast on Slow Motion Secession. I encourage all of you to check out the podcast we did on Slow Motion Secession. We got a lot of feedback from it. And they said, charlie, I'm already there. These are people that live in Vermont. They say, I want to go to a place that can disconnect from this government. They do not represent me. I say, hold on, slow down. And over the weekend, we received thousands, not thousands, probably hundreds of emails on that sort of sentiment. We received thousands of total emails, but hundreds of emails saying, charlie, you're naive. It's just a matter of time till we sever ties and we have to form our own country. And so I thought to myself, in my lot of time, I had thinking because of my flight being six hours delayed through Chicago o' Hare International Airport. Thank you. United was what? What is the left doing, if anything, to try to heal and mend our society right now? Do they even have an interest to do that? Do they actually want to bring this country together or are they actually forcing the hand? Or this will either result in a fracturing or a totalitarian authoritarian moment. And so right on cue, this last weekend, something that used to be not just non political, not just apolitical, but it was unifying beyond Republican and Democrat, and that is Olympic competitions. Sports are supposed to be. They're supposed to be not just unifying, they're supposed to be transcendent. Sports are supposed to be where you check your own biases. And you go towards a common goal, especially in the Olympics, where you are wearing the American flag and where you are representing a culture and a history and a people. I love sports. Growing up, I don't watch sports very much anymore and it saddens me. I wish I would still watch sports. I tried watching two minutes of the NBA, the Phoenix Suns and the Clippers and it was so unenjoyable. The players had such attitude. The level of play has gone into almost pickup basketball. No one plays defense anymore and not very enjoyable anyway. And not to mention the politics in it. And so this last weekend, an Olympic competition, this plays into this point and it kind of connects. The last episode we did in our podcast. I encourage all of you to check out our podcast where we were talking about this idea of slow motion secession. What happens if. What would you say if we were actually living through a slow motion, ever gradual divorce right now? Where people that have values, where they want to own firearms and go to church and raise large families and believe our rights come from God, they want to govern themselves. They no longer feel like the kingdom of Washington D.C. is properly representing them. They say, we want to make our own choices. And just based on a small sample size of our audience, which we deeply appreciate, people are getting there. And so I made the argument that's not healthy. It's not good for our nation, it's not good for our republic. I think we should be unionists and let the other side try to fracture and break us up if they so choose. And we should push back against that. And so the question then remains, are they doing. Is the other side doing anything at all to try to mend this? Well, in the Olympic competition over this last weekend, a person by the name of Gwen Berry. I've never heard this person before. Gwen Barry allegedly throws a hammer. That's what she does. She's a hammer thrower. That's fine. Did something that plays into this so perfectly is not the right word. It plays into this idea of a national divorce and a national decay and a slow motion secession. So Gwen Barry finished third or a bronze medalist. Gwen Berry is a black woman. She's a hammer thrower and she placed third. But her demonstration definitely overshadowed her achievement. United States athlete Gwen Berry said Sunday the criticism she's received. So what did she do? Is unwarranted. She turned her back on the American flag during the national anthem. You see the playbook being used and employed against us is the constant and relentless campaign to usurp and infiltrate transcendent traditions. One of the things that my generation grew up believing was something that should continue is Olympic competition and sport. Keep politics out of that. The nation comes first. Our ideals come first. Now, Gwen Barry, who is a black female hammer thrower, congratulations. Finished third. And instead of putting her hand over the heart, I kid you not, she put her T shirt on her head during the national anthem in sign of protest. And then she had the audacity to say that she was set up. That's right, that she was set up. That she was not actually that. That she's a victim. That she's the one that people should feel sorry for. How dare the United States Olympic Commission play the national anthem. And I want to dive into this in great detail because this is now the number one news story in the country where Gwen Berry. And she's, by the way, she's getting a ton of support, by the way, a lot of people are coming and supporting her for putting a T shirt on her head and saying that I do not respect the national anthem because of systemic racism. And I want you to think about this during the break. Is this sustainable? How much more of this cultural blitzkrieg can our nation take? Maybe we're more resilient and we could just take this forever. Or maybe we are now on fragile footing where people like Gwen Barry are going to force a national divorce. Did you ever read the fine print that appears when you start browsing in incognito mode? It says that your activity might still be visible to your employer, your school, or your Internet service provider. How can they even call it incognito? To really stop these people from seeing the sites you visit, you need to do what I do and use Express vpn. Think about all the times you've used the WI FI at a coffee shop, a hotel, or even at your parents home. 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One of his disciples is Angela Davis, a communist who runs a lot of the education system in California. One of his other disciples was a man by the name as a communist student activist by the name of Rudy Dutch Key. And he came up with this phrase called the Long March to the Institutions. And Marcuse wrote favorably about this, where Rudy said, if we as communists and as Marxists ever want to be successful, we have to infiltrate and we have to actually do the jobs that the Westerners or the Americans themselves are doing. I'm going to read with what Marcuse said in 1972 in a book called Counter Revolution and Revolt. To the extent to extend the base of the Communist student movement, Rudy Dutchki has proposed the strategy of the Long March to the institutions. Working against the established institutions while working within them, but not simply by, quote, boring from within, rather by, quote, doing the job, learning how to program and how to read computers, how to teach at all levels of education, how to use mass media, how to organize productions, how to reorganize and exchew planned obsolescence, how to design and at the same time preserving one's own consciousness and working with others. The Long March includes the concerted effort to build up counter institutions. They have been an aim of the communist movement, but the lack of funds was greatly responsible for their weakness and their inferior quality. They must be made competitive. This is especially important for the development of radical free media. The fact that the radical left has no equal access to the great chains of information and indoctrination is largely responsible for its isolation. Marcuse is saying they're only going to be successful if they infiltrate, if they challenge. And that includes media education, Hollywood movies, music, and yes, athletics. You see, athletics were always by design. Outside of some of the cultural radical trends that you might have saw on cable television or in music or in movie production. Sports were always trying to be kept bipartisan or nonpartisan. Michael Jordan famously said when he was pressured in the 1990s to endorse a Senate candidate, he said, republicans buy sneakers too. Now these rules of non engagement in American politics are no, they no longer apply because according to the current Revolutionaries. The injustice today is worse than the injustice in the Jim Crow South. The injustice today is worse than any other time in American history. Now, some of you listening right now think, how could anyone possibly believe that? Well, they go to college is how they believe that they are taught in college. That what they are living through right now is the greatest, most unjust time in American history. And that their dramatic revolutionary type action is necessary to change that. You see, athletes used to wrap themselves in the flag in the celebration of victory and something larger than themselves. They used to collapse and cry when they used to say that I am able to deliver a victory for the Americans against the Communist Russians. And we're going to remember some of the greatest moments in Olympic history. You see, Gwen Barry, a very unimpressive, sociopathic narcissist who finished third in the hammer throw is just the latest iteration or the latest manifestation of the ideas that your children are learning in grade school and high school. You want to see the real world implications of critical race theory. Gwen Berry embraces it when the national anthem plays. Instead of putting her hand over the heart, or even just. How about just putting your hands down and your head down? Just say that you are saying a prayer. Be somber and solemn and be one thing. Gwen Berry. If you wonder your third place, you did not win. Instead, she wanted all the attention to be put on her because she's a narcissist. That's what they teach at universities now. She put her T shirt on her head that said activist athlete. She turned her back to the flag and she looked bitter. Bitterness is destroying the country. The lack of gratitude. And what did Gwen Berry say in response to all of this when she was challenged? She said, that song has never spoke to me. I'm speaking out against all the people that have died under systemic racism. Hey, Gwen Berry, you're a black woman athlete. If we were so systemically racist, how are you able to compete? How are you able to get a scholarship at a major university? You are the embodiment of how great America is. I just wish you believed it. Are you saving for retirement or just treading water? 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How could she possibly get to the conclusion where she thinks America is so evil and so awful that she will turn her back during the national anthem and she will say that she is protesting systemic racism? And she said, I felt like I was set up. And they played the national anthem on purpose? Oh yeah, they played the national anthem on purpose, GWEN Barry that's sort of a prerequisite of being an athlete and winning. Well, I'm sorry you didn't win. You got third. She said, quote, they said they were going to play it before we walked out. And they played it when we were out there. But I don't really want to talk about the anthem because that's not important. The anthem doesn't speak for me. It never has. Well, then what does speak for you, Gwen Barry? The Chinese call for arms because you're wearing Nike up and down your uniform. And we're going to get to Nike, by the way. No. No American Patriot should ever buy Nike again. Nike came out and they said, we are a Chinese company. I kid you not. Nike would start at the University of Oregon. When my uncle and my father and my aunt were all there with Prefontaine and Phil Knight and all the gang there. They've now come out and they've said they are a Chinese company and I'll prove it to you. And Barry said, I'm here to represent those who died due to systemic racism. That's the important part. That's why I'm going. That's why I'm here today. My purpose and my mission is bigger than sports. What exactly do you mean, GWEN Barry? So she says we're a systemically racist country. So I was curious and I was just wondering what her story was. Was she beat by police officers growing up? Was she held against her will in solitary confinement? Was she imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit? No, she lived a rather good life, actually. Gwen Berry was born to two parents in Florissant, Missouri and attended McClure High School. She was a basketball player there. And then she ended up getting a scholarship and this is where she learned all these wonderful ideas to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Those Salukis. I think that's what they say. I think they are the Salukis in psychology and criminal justice. Well, that's obviously where she got all of these bad ideas. She then started competing in the 2008 Junior Championships. She then went on to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships. And she made her international debut in 2010 in the Under 23 Championship. In her last season at Southern Illinois, she reached new peaks. By the way, this is the longest, most ridiculous Wikipedia page for a hammer thrower. Let me just say, just for someone who throws a hammer, this, you'd think that she wrote Crime and Punishment or something. Anyway, it's incredibly detailed. She goes on, and by the way, this is not the first time she's decided to be a sociopathic narcissist. In the 2019 Pan American Games, Gwen Berry in Lima, Peru, was awarded the gold medal. But then she raised her fist in protest against the injustice of America and a president who's making it worse. She says, I'm here to represent all the people that have died due to systemic racism and in support of racial and social justice for all human beings. So, Gwen Berry, explain to me, if America was so systemically racist and awful, how could a black woman like you be able to go to college, get a scholarship and represent our athletics at the highest possible level? Do you think that would be possible in other countries? Do you think a black woman like you would be able to do that in Hungary or Bulgaria or in any other Eastern European country? Do you think that would be possible? Do you think it'd be possible to do that in China? Probably not. But she decides that the greatest point of focus for her is the United States of America. She's a deconstructionist. She has been told that she is oppressed, when in reality she's the opposite of oppressed. She is one of the luckiest people ever to be born in the history of the world, yet she's made it her job to focus attention on herself. She's been told that this country is awful and terrible. And she is in the mold of Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe, all in the same tradition of this college educated revolutionary. So Olympic sports used to be healing. You remember this cut 10 when we used to unify as a country because we beat the Ruskies, when we beat the revolutionaries, when we beat the Communists themselves. So we went from beating the Communists in the 1970s and 80s in hockey to now having them throw hammers for us and act as if they are bitter Marxist revolutionaries. Let's play. Cut 10. Remember when sports used to unify us? 28 seconds. The crowd gone insane. Karla, mind shooting it into the American end again? Morrow is back there now. Johnson. 19 seconds. Johnson over to Ramsey. The let the knock get checked by Ramsey. McClanahan is there. The puck is still loose. 11 seconds. You've got 10 seconds. The countdown going on right now. Morrow up to soap. 5 seconds left in the game. Can you believe in miracles? Yes. Unbelievable. Makes me emotional. Should make you emotional too. It's when hockey teams and sports and all Americans rallied together because we knew that we were in the midst of a theological struggle against the Soviet Union. We believed we were made in God's image and our rights came from God. And the Russians were the largest atheist country to date. They imprisoned their dissidents. We allowed our dissidents to speak freely in the street. Our athletes rallied around not behind Republican and Democrat, but behind the United States flag. Remember when Dan Snow visited Lake Placid to relive the incredible ice hockey match from the 1980 Winter Games between the USA and the Soviet Union? Let's play. Cut 11. The improbable. Well, it became the probable. We had a bunch of college kids, ages 19, 20, 21, taking on this professional team from the Soviet Union. So this is really about history in a political or nationalistic sense. I'm sure this game is being viewed with varying perspectives, but manifestly it is a hockey game. The United States and the Soviet Union on a sheet of ice in Lake Placid, New York. These are the inspirational words spoken by Herb Brooks, the coach of the US Team just before they went out on the ice. Great moments are born from great opportunity. That's what we have here tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. It's a goal. Kazetanova scored. If we played them 10 times, they might win nine. But not this game, not tonight. Tonight we're going to skate with them. And the Olympic handbook, Morrow is described as brutal. Tonight we're going to stay with them and shut them down. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Now go out there and take it. That's an international commentator reciting Herb Brooks speech. The famous speech, do youo Believe in Miracles? Well, the call was by Al Michaels, but the speech itself was in the locker room saying that they would beat us nine out of 10 times. Now, that was actually not the gold medal match. That was the semifinal. Most people don't know that sports are a reflection of our culture. And ever since we sent all of our best and brightest and most aspirational and ambitious people like Gwen Barry to college, they might as well wear the sickle and hammer themselves. Remember when George W. Bush threw the opening pitch at Yankee Stadium after 9 11, when the country came together after we were attacked by terrorists? I want you to ask yourselves this question while you listen to this tape. If 911 happened again today, who would they blame? And would America come together again? I don't think it would. Cut 12. I felt the raw emotion of the Yankee fans. The crowd just erupts in a chant of usa. There is nothing like it that I've ever experienced at a ballgame. It was was overwhelming. It was just overwhelming. President Bush is standing out there like a brick wall. I'm not afraid of terrorists. I'm going to stand all out here. I'm going to give you a thumbs up and I'm going to throw a strike. Say whatever you want to about George W. Bush. I certainly have. Joe Biden could not deliver the way in the moment that George W. Bush did. I don't think he'd be able to throw it five feet, let alone a strike straight from the pitcher's mound. Remember when the American Olympians celebrated victories for Team USA? This is kind of a montage. Let's play cut 13. Regardless of the race, color or background, when that national anthem plays and you are able to represent this beautiful gift we have been given that is transcendent, that is beyond you. Gwen Berry. But she is nothing more than a revolutionary, a product of the place that we send our children to. Go get educated. Play tape. Be stand for the national anthem of the United States of America. O say can you see by the dawn's worthy light it's all eyes on you and the flag what so proudly we pay. You've heard your anthem a million times before, but it means a little bit more when you're doing it with a gold medal around your night at the twilight. The moment is surreal. You know, you think everyone says, man, if they get on top of that podium, they're going to cry, they're going to sing their anthem. Time just to me, just time just stops. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous all the hard work that you have put in to get to that moment and you realize that moment is there. You realize in that moment that this is so much bigger than just yourself. It was a Medal for your country so much bigger than yourself. It was a medal for your country. Our current athletes that we are sending to compete on the national stage have no such reverence. Look, can I tell you something that really bothers me? When good people get scheduled for cancellation for no reason, that's what's happening to Mike Lindell. I was just with Mike Lindell with 15,000 of my closest friends in Wisconsin, and Mike Lindell was hosting an entire event. And the media went after him like you wouldn't believe. And they're trying to take my pillow out of every single store. Mike Lindell is a good person. And if you need pillows, maybe you're moving in for college, or maybe you want to build a pillow palace. Go to mypillow.com and always use the promo code, Kirk. Remember, they won't go flat. You can wash and dry them as many times as you want, and they maintain their shape. They're made in the United States. For a limited time, Mike is offering his premium MyPillows for his lowest price ever. You can get a Queen size premium MyPillow for $29.98, regularly $69.98. 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You know what you can go throw a hammer for? Go pick a nation. How about Somalia? That would be a good one. Go pick a country, any country where they do that sort of thing against America, Iran, Gwen Barry. I'm sure Iran would love to have you throw a hammer for them. You Might have to dress a little bit differently to accommodate the theological radical, Islamic theological, medieval tyrants over there who believe that women should not be clothed the way you were clothed the other day. But some people are saying, well, she has a free speech right to do this. Look, freedom of speech is there for us to pursue virtue. And also freedom of speech has its maxims. Just because you're able to do something at a certain time, is that the right time or the right place to do it as an athlete while you are being commissioned by our nation to go represent us? Of course not. And by the way, if Gwen Barry all of a sudden, during that ceremony, put a Make America Great Again hat on, how do you think the other side would be reacting if she all of a sudden put up an America first hat on during that ceremony? And the exact opposite. They'd say, kick her off the team. Kick her off the team. You see, during that moment, it's not about what sort of bizarre protest that you can try and put forward. In some ways, I feel sad for her. In other ways, my sympathy stopped short because she's an adult. She should know better than this. I feel sad for her because she has been hypnotized and propagandized to believe America is an awful country. And she looks at herself as a revolutionary. You see, she is doing more damage. Not just her, but her type, the LeBron James type, who have never done anything significant or worthwhile in their life. And yeah, people will say LeBron James won championships. He's also lost more championships than he's won. And he's also not a very smart person, and he'll never be Michael Jordan. So for the rest of his life, LeBron James will always be known as the man who chokes under pressure, who blames his teammates, walks off the stage preemptively, and will never be Michael Jordan. And in fact, I think that it should be against NBA code for LeBron James to wear the number 23. He's insulting the legacy of the greatest athlete. One of the greatest athletes of all time. Wayne Gretzky, is up there as the greatest athlete ever. But they're right there. Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky are two of the best. But you kind of see this idea of the activist athlete which was written on her shirt, and she put that on her head. What would drive a person to do that? Well, first of all, she probably has no mentors or people that would hold her accountable. In fact, she has nothing. But, yes, people around her. Number two, she actually, deep down believes America is a terrible and awful place. Maybe she hasn't traveled, or maybe she has been in an academic environment that has reinforced this idea, this pernicious idea that we are nothing more than an oppressor nation. And it's too bad, because our nation is on fragile footing, we can't survive. Many more chapters in this book of I want to revolutionize America. Therefore, instead of pandering to it or saying that she has a right to do it, which she doesn't, by the way, it must be met with discipline. It must be met with this very quick and decisive action that Go compete for another nation. Go renounce your citizenship and tell us how Mogadishu is this time of year. You see, the American Republic is a gift from the Lord. We celebrate that this weekend on Independence Day weekend, we played some tape of some of the greatest sports moments of all time. Do you believe in miracles? George W. Bush reopening Yankee Stadium? Sports are a reflection of the culture and Gwen Berry is a Colin Kaepernick Megan Rapinoe embodiment and I hope Team USA kicks her off decisively. And in fact, I would love to see Gwen Barry actually embody her own ideology. Renounce your citizenship and go find another country because you hate this one. Thanks so much for listening everybody. Email us your thoughts freedomarliekirk.com and if you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com God bless you guys. Speak to you soon. For more on many of these stories and news you can Trust, go to charliekirk.com.