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Hey, everybody here. I'm the Charlie Kirk show an ask me anything episode. I take your questions and we dialogue directly. We talk about behavioral problems in schools. I read a heartbreaking email, the constitution, the Epstein files, and more. If you want to ask questions, become a member. Members.charliekirk.com that is members.charliekirk. com Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. 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. 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 an 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. 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That's a good one. They looked great yesterday. My bra. So I did call McNeese over Clemson, so that was a good day. Some of my other picks didn't do too well. I begrudgingly here. Daisy's bringing my bracket in, so I'm going to. I actually haven't graded. Have we graded it yet? No, hasn't been graded. See, Daisy, she had Alabama State winning it all, which, yeah, a little rough. That was against Auburn. So let me think. Creighton won Michigan one. I was right about that. I was wrong about Yale. I thought Yale was gonna do it lot of games today yet High Point. I thought High Point was gonna be a sleeper, and I was incorrect. I have McNeese going to the Sweet 16, though. I had Xavier. Actually, I'm doing pretty well. I only missed a couple yesterday. I think I missed two. So that's a good day. That is a good March Madness day if you only missed two games. So I'm loving it, by the way. I got. I got the. I got the games up right now. I can't get enough of it. So what's on your mind, guys? Nope, that was our question. Yeah, we just wanted to see how we were doing with March Madness. You have another question, Michelle? No, we're good. You guys are the greatest. Thank you, guys. Thanks for the prayer and the support. Means so much. God bless you guys. Talk to you soon. Thanks. Yeah, you, too. Okay, who is next? Let me see what Miss Daisy has. She has to run back. Patty. Patty, thank you for being a member. What is on your mind? Hey, Charlie. Hope you can hear me. Yes. Good. So my question to you is about the proposal for the $150,000 tax break. You know, is it going to be a credit? Is it going to be everybody under 150? How do you think that's going to impact our revenue as far as income tax? I mean, personally, I think everybody needs to contribute at least a little, Right. So I think this comes out of something that Howard Lutnick said where he said the president's plan is for anybody under $150,000 to pay no tax. I don't quite know what the plan is. It might be no income tax. Remember, you also pay FICA tax. There's Social Security tax. There's income tax. I think the proposal is no tax on anything made under $150,000. I hear what you're saying. I personally think that there's way too much taxing for the working class, this country, people that work with their hands, people that work in trades. So I'm very much supportive of that. And I also think it shows a great mindset, regardless of the details. I think it's a really good mindset that they want to cut taxes for working people, for people that are in the middle class specifically. So thank you, Patty. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate all you do. All right, James. James, thanks for being a member. What's on your mind? I just wanted to know what we could do to try to. Because we're based as a Christian nation. I'm just trying to figure out what we can do to get back to being more Christly. Like, I see. I see that how our nation is going. It's. It's just not like it should be. We. We constantly are having so much arguments with each other. Like everybody wants to just be at odds. I don't know what we can do to fix it. It's a good question. Arguing is okay. Actually, I. Actually, I'm okay. Arguing is. Is fine. Condemnation for no good reason is not. A couple things. I try to point everyone back to the Ten Commandments. If you want to honor God, Christ our Lord says, follow my commands. The Ten Commandments are the eternal rubric. It is the baseline for a free society and a flourishing life. And we can go through them if you'd like. It is, you shall have no other gods before me, that you shall have no idols. You shall not take the Lord's name in vain. That you shall work for six days, you shall work. On the seventh day, you shall rest and the Sabbath day, you shall keep it holy, honor Mother and father, so that you may live long in the land of which you are in the only one of the Ten Commandments that includes a promise, and also your country. You shall not steal, you shall not murder, you shall not commit false testimony. You shall not commit adultery. And finally, you shall not covet. It's all from memory, by the way. And by the way, you, everyone in this audience, you should have the Ten Commandments committed to memory. I want to be able to study the Ten Commandments and know as much as a human being can know about those Ten Commandments. As one of, kind of my life's passion and my life's work, I read entire books on just the Ten Commandments, on just a singular commandment. Look, you have to dedicate your time to a certain genre of stuff. I think knowing the Ten Commandments is a really good place to start. Every one of our founding fathers knew them, committed their life to them. They had them on the walls of Congress. They still have them on the walls of Congress and the Supreme Court. It is a moral guide in a moral abyss. Now, as far as bringing people back to Christ, this is where our churches are failing terribly. One of the reasons why our churches are failing terribly is they talk only about a savior and. And not about what you need a savior from. They talk only about the sweetness of the gospel, but not the bitterness of sin. And so I think the church needs to do a much better job of that. And the church needs to lean in and fill that existential void. And I'll be Very honest. Even my non Christian great friends, they said Charlie Covid was a really bad look for the church. And I completely agree. The fact that the church was saying that we are filled with the spirit and that we believe in God and that this world is not our own, and they were quick to shudder in fear and mask and vax, I think was a great indictment of the moral cowardice of what the American church had become and is. You could buy booze, you go to a strip club, you could go to a marijuana dispensary, but you couldn't go to church to sing a hymn. I think it's terrible. I think it's wrong. It's. And I think the church has yet to repent and to properly atone for the failure that they had during COVID Thank you. Great question. Connie, what is on your mind? Thanks for being a member. Members.charliekirk.com hi Charlie. I wrote my question there. I'm wondering why the government can't push back against organizations like Soros and the money that they're infiltrating into things like Common Cause. I saw online read that India had raided a Common Cause institute there in India. And I'm wondering why we cannot do that. Why do we have to put up with this? I guess is my question. So a couple things. You're right. Common Cause is a big organization. It's growing. It's kind of the new moveon.org you guys can check it out. Common Cause. I'm not gonna even give you their website. They have a website called why should I plug their website? Right, Connie, you guys can look at it. They're all about going after Musk and all this. The key with Soros is you have to find things that he's done that's illegal, not just things that we don't like. I do not have any evidence of this, but. And that's not fair to say. I have circumstantial evidence. But I think a proper FBI and Department of justice investigation into the Open Society foundation and into the George Soros network, into the BLM activities in 2020 Floydapalooza is beyond necessary. And then secondly, is there an orchestrated campaign of who is burning down these Teslas? Who is going after these Tesla dealerships that is orchestrated, potentially funding domestic terrorism. And so Cash Patel and Dan Bongino should make it a top priority to go after anybody that is financing terror and financing the destruction of the United States of America. Thank you, Connie, so much. Really appreciate it. Thank you, Charlie. Kirk here. When faced with a threat. You might think of lethal force, but consider a less lethal option like Burna to avoid legal issues tied to firearms. As a strong advocate for the right to bear arms, I value diverse defensive options, and Burna offers an effective alternative. Proudly assembled in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Byrna's less lethal pistol launchers, loaded with tear gas and kinetic ammunition, can incapacitate an attacker for up to 40 minutes, allowing you to safely escape or call for help while reducing the risk of severe injury. Byrna is about preventing tragedy and preserving life without the consequences of using lethal measures. 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They exit dumber, angrier, with far less wisdom and a lot more hatred of core values and of America. Now Turning Point USA is helping change that. But let me read this email. In a previous episode we talked about, by the way, the problem with college educated women and here is this email. Charlie, I'm sorry to say that you are so right on with the selfishness of white college educated women. I sent my own daughter to a private Christian university in Texas where I live thinking this would be a safe place for her. She came out of it as a raging feminist. She's not a bad person. She's a generous person on some matters, but in those basic ways she's very much about self. Despite attending a Christian university, she came out of it as an agnostic. I love her forever, but we've simply agreed that we absolutely cannot talk about many matters involving politics or religion as we end up in huge arguments. I have no idea where she gets her ideas. She's been out of college for 10 years. She did Move to the most liberal city in the state of Texas after graduation. And her circles of people are like minded because of her ideology. I will never have a grandchild, which brings me great sadness. My daughter worked hard to get into college and did very well there. She of course, obtained a generally useless degree. My $40,000 of student loans brought me a daughter that definitely thinks my generation are a bunch of racists that don't understand how the world actually works. College was not just a scam, but it absolutely ruined my daughter and made her into a miserable person. No husband, no kids, just constant travel in search of something. I know what that something is, but she's of course not open to God. And that is the saddest part of all. Keep spreading the news. Maybe it will prevent someone else's daughter from being ruined by college professors. God bless. That is my life's work, one of my life's work. I have five or six things that I focus my life on is to hopefully save young people from going to college to become a tragedy. All right, David. David, what is on your mind? We are doing poor with the unmuting today. Otherwise it's a great program. David, what's on your mind? Hey, you did it. Good for you. You broke the speaker. Yeah, I figured it out. Thanks. Hey, Charlie, thank you for this. So I live in New York, unfortunately. I was, I was wondering if you're hearing anything or see anything, you know, with RFK and Trump regarding trying to do, to bring back religious exemptions for the, for the states that, you know, are demand this, you know, vaccine schedule. It's really important, you know, to me because, yeah, you know, my particular school, I mean, I saw some crazy stuff during COVID Those vaccines that were pushed. True story. Three staff members died in the span of two months after these shots went out. Multiple kids have collapsed. Nobody talks about it. I tried to bring it up at board meetings and they just stay silent. And I've been trying to speak up and trying to contact my politicians. Nobody calls back, nobody does anything. You know, the excuse from the Republicans are, oh, you know, the Democrats run the state and we can't bring those bills to the floor to bring back religious exemptions. It's like nobody, it's like nobody cares. It's like it's your case. What state are you in? New York. New York. It's a tragedy, I think. And let me, let me interrupt you because we're running out of time here and that's a great question. I live, I live in an amazing medical freedom state. Here in Arizona. So I take this stuff for granted. I want to try to work with Bobby Kennedy and President Trump to use some sort of federal money to say that you cannot force these extra vaccines on kids, especially those in religious environments. It's a serious issue. And I know producer Andrew's dealing with this right now in the free state of California and anything beyond the 1980s schedule, and that is with, I mean, you were talking about, they're mandating the COVID shot now for six months old. And this is outrageous stuff. And so I think there has to be a role for the federal government. And my other piece of advice is try to work through the courts. There has to be some decision somewhere. It used to be 10 vaccines. Now it's 72 shots for our babies. Something's not right and our kids are sicker than ever. History, economics, the great works of literature. Did you study these things in school? Probably not. Or even if you did, maybe it's time for an enjoyable refresher. Hillsdale College is offering more than 40 free online courses, including their newest course on totalitarian novels. In this free eight lecture course, you'll learn from Hillsdale College president Larry Arne as he goes in depth on four novels. 1984, Brave New World, Darkness at Noon, and that Hideous Strength. I love all four. Even though these novels were written in the 1930s and 40s, they're highly relevant today as they show what a tyrannical government does to human nature. More importantly, they can show us that faith, family and friends are worth fighting for. Maybe you read these books a long time ago in school. Maybe you've heard others talk about them and they seem a little intimidating. Let Hillsdale College, America's greatest college, help you make the most of them. Go right now to charlieforhillsdale.com to enroll. There's no cost and it's easy to get started. That is charlieforhillsdale.com C-H-A R L I E for hillsdale.com I wanna read an email really quickly and then we're gonna get to our next member. This is a member email. Charlie, thanks for everything Turning Point is doing in Wisconsin to help save our state during this critical Supreme Court race. I was at your town hall and appreciate you and Don Jr. Making the time. Let me just say, as I mentioned earlier, that event was brought to you by Big Pharma. Every drug in the world I took just to be able to do that event. I was sick, sick, sick and so glad I was able to do that thanks to the amazing mentors Brett in Milwaukee county and Brandon and Dane. Great. Guys, I'm newly elected vice chair here in Crawford County. I know you've been speaking. Please mention the importance of why Wisconsin needs to vote again. Well, Kelly, me even mentioning this is why and I believe Daisy, are we gonna post that episode of Don Jr. And I on the Charlie Kirk show podcast page. If you are listening to this, we are going to post our entire episode in Wisconsin with Donald Trump Jr. And I. So it's gonna be great. Okay, Lisa. Lisa, thank you for being a member. Members.charliekirk.com what's on your mind? Can you hear me? Yes. What is on your mind? Okay, so I just have a question about with the sort of the taking apart of the board of education, do you think that giving the power back to the states will not only increase our kids as academics, but help with the significant behavior problems we're seeing in the classrooms? Yes. I mean, the behavior problems are partially phone induced. Secondly, teachers are not able to discipline kids the way they used to because of fear of reprisal and political correctness. Hyperlocalizing things is always a better option. Abolishing the department education won't, I think, have any way either way on behavioral problems? I'm curiously. So what are you hearing from your experience regarding some of the behavioral problems? Because I actually, I will clarify this. Blake reminded me the Obama administration civil rights office at the department Education would go after local school districts for suspending kids too much and saying, oh, you're suspending black kids too much. Well, maybe those kids, not because they're black, just because they're not acting correctly should be suspended. So getting rid of that would be great. But Lisa, tell me what you're hearing and seeing regarding this issue. Well, I'll tell you what I'm seeing because I do work in an elementary school. I'm an occupational therapist. And so I'm in and out of classrooms and specifically mostly with special ed. But I mean, the behaviors are. You can't even make this stuff up. And I'm in one of the better counties in Georgia. But I mean, kids are kicking, hitting teachers, throwing things at teachers, peeing on the floor. I mean, it's unbelievable. I mean, I would never let my kids act like this. My kids would never do something like this. But teachers are leaving in droves because they can't do anything about it. They really don't like to suspend. So. And this is elementary school. So I just, I want to be clear. So there are kids that will hit teachers. What, what Grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade. Well, we had a kindergartner a couple years ago that threw a stapler across the room and hit the teacher in the head with it. So it goes all the way down to preschool, Kindergarten. Kindergarten and first grade really are the toughest because a lot of these kids have. They come from no structure at home. They've been sitting on their iPad since the day they were born. And you know, neurologically they're just messed up. Geez. I am far from a child behavioral therapist. I'm a parent. I know that even my 2 year old, there needs to be discipline and order and time out. Like no, you actually don't get that. And no, you don't always get what you want. And it's a battle. It requires active battling. And then the most important is no screen time. Matt Walsh said something really good. We're gonna post the Matt Walsh episode at some point too. And I really like it. We're gonna put it into our family as well, which is there is one screen for the entire family. It's a shared family screen. And there's no iPads, there's no iPhones. Each parent has a phone and that's it. And at least for our kids, there is no showtime, there's no screen time. The only time that my daughter has watched TV was with me last evening because we were watching March Madness and that was very important. Take that up, Charlie. That's great. So yeah, as an occupational therapist, would you see the screen time is a big, big issue, without question. And there's getting to be a lot of research and data to show that kids brains are just, they're developing completely differently. Because of screens. Yeah. I mean, and you could even say you made such a good point that kids, kindergartners who were basically boring in Covid, they didn't see people and they were on their phones. They have to be so behind right now. Just so behind. Right. I mean we're talking about a generational time bomb. Kids can't pick. They don't know how to hold a pencil. I mean they come into, they've never, they've never colored, they've never tried to write their letters. It's truly, it's devastating actually. So I am, I mean, I am curious. I mean my daughter is a great artist for her age, as I might say. No, but I mean we're constantly, always, you know, parenting how to hold. What do these parents do with their kids? They send them to daycare, I guess. When they were growing up. What are the Daycares doing. That's a great question. I don't know. I never sent my kids to daycare, so my kids now are 18 and 20, so that's a great question. I can't answer that. Well, you're very sweet and thank you for being a member and keep up the great work for special ed. It's really, really important and really great call. Okay, Scott is next. Scott, thank you for being a member. Members.charliekirk.com what is on your mind? Hey, Charlie, Dittos by the way. Oh, thank you, Major Dittos. That is a good rush. That is a rushism and I will accept it. It is a rush ism. And by the way, you've got your Jim Rockford look going today and you're rocking it. Good job. Well, thank you. Hey listen, the reason I called is I noticed that there's a lot of stock price manipulation going on both with elected officials, mutual funds, that sort of thing. And I was just curious if you thought that going to a zero tax on dividends would shift investment away from kiting stocks into more well run companies. I haven't thought about it much. So how are dividend stocks now taxed at ordinary income, not capital gains? I would imagine that's the case. Is that right? Correct. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that the gravitation away from stocks giving or companies giving dividends has been a bad move. For example, a company that still gives dividends is Campbell's Soup. They're well known for giving a good dividend. I think ExxonMobil used to give a really good dividend and they still do. Maybe I could be wrong, I'm drawing from memory here. But the incentive, of course when you have a dividend is to hold, is to hold that asset and it disincentivizes the kind of hedging and the kind of stock manipulation that we're currently seeing. I am far from an expert on the stock market. I leave that to a lot of other much smarter people. I will do private investments, but generally we need to reward risk takers and decrease taxes on our good faith investors. That is in general what we need to do. And I will encourage anybody though, if you're young, get in on the market at some level, learn the market, learn how it works. And if you don't know anything else, buy companies that you use. Very simple rule for life. Buy companies that you use. Thank you, my friend. I will think about that and it's a great question. Thank you. Okay, let's get to the next one here members.charliekirk.com what do we have? Jim? Jim, thanks for being a member. Make sure you unmute. Jim, what's on your mind? Oh, yeah, thanks for all you do. But I have kind of a question. I don't know if you have any evidence or anything, but I was wondering about the Epstein files. We haven't heard anything about that. Yeah, go ahead, please. I'm wondering if there's some kind of leverage that Trump is using with those. In other words, he had quite a few Democrats vote with him on the last. The, the deficit, the, you know, raising the death, the, the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling. Want to say deficit. So I don't know about that. I will say though that we need to get these files out now, whether they need to go through like redacted court records, which is something I've heard, there is no excuse whatsoever. At some point in time, hopefully sooner rather than later, we need a release of all the Epstein files. All of them. No redactions, no big black squares or boxes. But also we need the tapes, we need all of the correlated evidence. We deserve it. And President Trump signed an executive order releasing it. What are they hiding? Exactly. What are they hiding? And President Trump has demanded it. And President Trump should get what President Trump has asked for. And there's a lot of questions around the Epstein thing, a lot. And I look forward to getting some answers. And no, I do not believe that Epstein committed suicide. Blake, do you think Epstein killed himself? That's actually an interesting question. Which side Blake is on? The Epstein question. Is Blake a normie? On the Epstein question? He says, eh, probably. So he definitely killed himself. Kidding. Blake, I'm giving you a hard time. Thank you so much for being a member, my friend. I appreciate it. Gentlemen, let's get real for a second. Are you frustrated with today's woke dating scene? The apps, the games, the endless swiping. It's a waste of time. Finding a woman who shares your values, faith, family and patriotism feels nearly impossible. But it doesn't have to be. Selective Search, America's leading matchmaking firm, is changing the game. They connect strong, successful men like you. Men who love God, love America, and want a family with incredible women who share your values. These are intelligent, faith driven women who put family first and still believe in traditional values. Imagine that if you're single, 35 to 40 years old, conservative man in Southern California. Listen up. Selective Search has an exclusive network of women ready for the real thing. Here's the best part. 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Well, I think they designed it through two chambers, but yes, I do believe a civil majority in the House was sufficient, but they designed it to a 66 vote threshold. I believe in the Senate. Yes. And I think the reason they did that was so that undulations and differences of opinions and excitement in the public wouldn't cause the impeachment process to be used excessively. But it appears to me that they would put it in the House and they would make it just a simple majority because it is the People's House which implies that we have a say in these impeachments and we say that through our representatives and then ask them to get some to remove somebody who's trying to remove our rights under the Constitution. Hear what you're saying. The issue is that I believe in the Constitution. It prevents the Senate conviction unless there's 66 votes. But thank you, sir, we're running out of time. Really appreciate that question. Thank you. Okay, Benjamin. Benjamin, thank you for being a member. Charliekirk.com what's on your mind? Hey there, Charlie, how are you? Great audio. I'm a big fan. I'm a member. You're the man. Okay, I have a few questions. I'm not sure which way to go, but I think my main one is that the, I feel like the Christian church is being infiltrated by leftists and all these organizations, LGBQ and so forth. How do we help unmask them to show that they're doing more damage to Christianity? Well, but what they say the first, I think the unmasking is happening. I love that term. I would first encourage everybody though to make sure the local church that you are going to is one that is not woke and is not involved in this. It is not enough just to say that, oh, you know, it's a big problem. But your local church is like, well, I still like the music even though that they have a gay pride flag flying. So you have to make sure that your local church is a reflection of your values. Your second question, Benjamin. My second question is with Elon Musk. Even though aside from Doge and him having a super technology company, has President Trump ever thought about having Elon help out with the military as far as developing technology for the armed forces? It's a great question and the answer is he already is. Now he's not going to get classified briefings as far as like what China's, how we're going to attack or whatever against China. However, Space force is primarily an Elon Musk production. Space force right now is primarily just satellites and that is almost all Elon Musk. And so as far as developing better technologies, we have a crisis right now in our military. We have a crisis, of course, of the rank and file with the wokism. The DEI hegseth is cleaning all that up. The bigger crisis, though is we have a military manufacturing crisis. What we are producing warfare is antiquated. Full disclosure, everybody. Aircraft carriers are an antiquated way of fighting. It's going to be all about drones and artificial intelligence. It's going to be less about really expensive F35 fighters or even the new fighter that they just came out with, which is fine. And it's going to be more about can you have a $200 drone fly into the front lines. Tanks are becoming antiquated. And so there was this fake news story from the New York Times suggesting he was President Trump was giving classified briefings to Elon Musk. That is not true. But to create the finest fighting force on the planet, we have to fix the actual weaponry that our troops need. Warfare is becoming more and more of an unmanned game of who has the best gadgets. And I certainly hope we can keep up. Thank you. Benjamin. Great question to end out the week. Thank you. God bless. Take care. Excellent. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us. As always, freedomarliekirk.com thanks so much for listening and God bless. For more on many of these stories and news you can Trust, go to charliekirk.com.