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Ask Charlie Anything 232: Baseball Salary Cap? School Choice Trojan Horse? College on Autopilot?
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Charlie Kirk
Hey, everybody. Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio. We had a great ask me anything episode. Should we have a salary cap in Major League baseball? The most important question in front of us. Email us as always, freedom charliekirk.com Become a member today members.charliekirk.com and we also discuss so many other questions. We discuss school choice. We discuss scholarships. We also have a little bit of a conversation about our student action summit. We discuss Catholicism and Joe Biden and confession, the natural law. We talk marriage. We talk all sorts of different stuff. So email us freedom charliekirk.com and if you want to join this program as a guest, become a member today. 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.
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Brian
I want you to know we are.
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Charlie Kirk
Lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
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Andrew
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, organizations ever created, Turning Point usa.
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Charlie Kirk
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. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of the Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble gold investments@noblegold investments.com that is noblegoldinvestments.com it's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com we're going to get to our members call if you want to be a member on this call. It's one of my favorite hours of the week and I get to have some pretty fun hours of the week to talk to all of you that are the backbone of this program. I also sent out a tweet a little while ago and it's getting a lot of reaction, getting a lot of texts on it. We could talk about it this hour if you want to. Brian, I want your opinion on this. Very simple. The Major League Baseball needs a salary cap. Yes. He's two thumbs up. Andrew is. No. Because he's a Dodger fan and he just wants to be able to purchase his way to World Series. I think it's time that we draw a line in the sand and that we have a salary cap in Major League Baseball. Just like the NFL. Just like the NFL has A salary cap, and it's a better league because of it. I think it's important. We need to talk about the important issues here on the Charlie Kirk show, like Major League Baseball getting a salary cap. All right, Brenda. Brenda, what is on your mind? Blake says, did the Cubs lose? Yes, they lost the other night, but they're playing the Chicago White Sox tonight for what is called the Crosstown Classic, and they're playing at Comiskey Park. And so we will keep our eyes on that. Brenda, what is on your mind? Thank you so much for being a member. Members.charlie kirk.com. happy Friday. What's on your mind?
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Brenda
Well, thank you for taking my question. I just want to thank you. We went to Tampa. We had a academy there. Yeah. Which is now the education. My daughter and I, and then our grandson was across the street at the sas, had a great time. So one of the questions, one of the questions that came up there was about the scholarships for parents. And I'm just wondering if you would, I understand you want to meet the families where they are, and I totally agree with that. But I wonder, too, if we could have some kind of creative goal setting to undo some of the leftist policies. And four of them that started in 1913 were the 16th amendment, 17th amendment, the federal Reserve act, and the Tariff Act. And all of those really defeated Americans and our own income and made us pay the federal government. Can we undo some of that instead of taking money from the government for education of our children?
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Charlie Kirk
I think, yeah. I think what you're saying is the school voucher equivalent, is that correct? That for school choice is. Is that right, Brenda?
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Brenda
Yes.
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Charlie Kirk
Okay.
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Brenda
It concerns me. I know already in Florida they were requiring a test for the families to keep that money. And so you're forced to teach to the test.
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Charlie Kirk
Got it. So a couple thoughts. Yes. So do you remember my answer at the academy summit? I don't know if you were in the room when I gave my answer. I was. Because this came up twice.
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Brenda
Yes.
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Charlie Kirk
And so let me repeat that for the audience. So here's the concern. I got the question now. So Brenda is voicing a very good faith concern, which is like, hey, all this school choice momentum, does it come with strings if you want to homeschool your kids and that if you want to send them to charter schools or to private schools, what Brenda is voicing as a concern that if we embrace school choice and the money follows the child and that money is through a scholarship or through an esa, an educational savings account, all of a sudden, are we Going to have now public school and government influences in homeschooling environments and then in private schools. This is a concern I hear a lot. So the best test case, and Brendan knows my answer because this is what I said during the Q and A, is Arizona. Arizona had a monolithic, bureaucratic, government run educational system. We have the best school choice in the country in Arizona. Is it perfect? No. But you can take your taxpayer dollars because it's your money. You can go to a private school, you can go to a Catholic school, you go to a Christian school, you can go to any sort of co. Op. I think you can now go to even homeschools. So Brenda, my opinion is that we need more of that, especially in states like California and Illinois and New York, to allow the money follow the child. Because the current system right now is if you go to downtown Chicago, downtown Baltimore, you go to downtown Cleveland, you go to downtown Philadelphia, you have these kids that are just stuck in failing schools with no capacity, no ability to be able to choose a better school. And so in some ways you could joke that we are pro choice when it comes to schools now. At the same time, Brenda, I think we need to be vigilant because your concern is very legitimate. Anytime that we allow the government into anything precious or sacred, that they're going to abuse it. They're going to try to standardize it, they're going to try to make it overly bureaucratic. And so I don't know much about the Florida example. However, I can tell you that Florida school choice has generally been a big victory. I guess we're left with two options. We can continue in the current system where parents get none of their money back. And remember, I would only the language change, I would say is that these are government run schools using taxpayer money. So it's your money. You have a moral obligation to be able to send your money to the school of your choosing and of your liking. So if you're in an area that has a woke transgender men in female sports, men in female locker rooms like we see in Deerfield, Illinois, that parent should be able to take the 10, 15, 20,000 a year that they're paying in property taxes or the equivalent and be able to go to a private school, a voucher school, a Christian school, they should be able to go up the street to Christian Heritage Academy where I got educated and I gave my life to Jesus right there on Waukegan Road, intersecting with Willow. You know the area. If you're in Chicago and listen to this right now, the point being is I think we should want to have more choice, more capacity to send the money with a kid. However, Brenda, I think your concern is that, hey, this is a way to get the government in homeschooling environments. And so the solution is very simple. Then, Brenda, don't take the money. If you are a homeschool family, you don't have to take the money. Now if you take the money, then you might be inviting government strings. But if you absolutely do not want the government to come into the education of your kid, I'm going to tell you what we're going to do in our family. We're going to be educating our kids at home and we'll probably end up sending them to maybe a public school or a private school once they get into eighth or ninth grade. But at least for the first time many years, we're going to be homeschooling. We're not going to take any government money. We're not going to take any scholarship money. First of all, you know, we've been very blessed. Secondly, we don't want any government strings potentially with it. So, Brenda, I don't know if that answers your question or not, but I definitely know that it would explain it to the audience and I covered it during the Turning Point Academy Educator Summit. Final thoughts Brenda yeah, I totally agree.
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Brenda
That that helps a lot of families that are in desperate need right now. I just want going forward to set goals and so that we're not taxed directly with the income tax. I want to repeal the 16th amendment because then parents would have their own money to spend the way they want. It's not going to the government and coming back with strings. And so that's those four things that are passed in 19 began to rob us. So that's if we have that vision to set those kind of goals and policy based on the original intent of the Constitution, then I think the rest will take care of itself. At some point we won't need the scholarships from the government.
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Charlie Kirk
I hear you. That is a bigger lift and an ideal one. As much as we'd love to get rid of the federal income tax, that is definitely a bigger lift. But your concern is legitimate. I don't dismiss it. Given the facts in front of us, I can tell you in Arizona, Arizona and Florida schools are far freer and far better than Illinois and New Jersey schools. And I grew up in Illinois schools. You are stuck in that local school. The money does not follow the kid. Private schools are one of two categories. Number one, you are there only because of a Scholarship from another donor. So it's a very small population or like in the suburbs of Chicago, you go to St. Vitor and you have to pay a lot of money. You got to go pay 20 or $30,000 a year to go to St. Vitor now, which was the upper middle class kind of ruling class Catholic school in Arlington. Arlington Heights, Illinois, where I grew up. And probably those schools have become increasingly woke. Brenda, God bless you. Thank you for being a member. Really appreciate it. Charlie Kirk here. Crime is skyrocketing. You may already own a firearm, but before you face the financial and emotional weight of pulling the trigger, consider Burna. Burna's less lethal launchers fire tear gas and kinetic rounds designed to to incapacitate attackers for up to 40 minutes, giving you time to escape and call for help without deadly consequences. I use Burna. My family all has them. And now meet the new compact launcher. An amazing product. Sleek, slim, and hits like a sledgehammer. But the size of a smartphone. It's perfect for concealed carry, comfortable, discreet, and confidence building. It fires at 400ft per second with 41 joules per square inch of stopping power. That's enough force to halt a threat cold. But the legal and moral complexities of lethal force. What I love about Burna is they're proudly American. Over 80% of their compact launcher's components are sourced in America. And each unit is hand assembled in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Best of all, Burna is legal in all 50 states. No background checks. Ships directly to your door. Trusted by hundreds of police departments and government agencies around the world. Visit Byrna to learn more. That is by r n a.com Gina is a member. Gina, happy Friday. Thank you so much for being a member. What's on your mind?
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Gina
Thank you for taking my call this morning, Charlie. Appreciate everything that you do. My question is, do you have any personal experience or know anyone who has had personal experience with their own deep dive into AI on a personal and professional level?
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Charlie Kirk
So by deep dive, do you mean like really working with it for hours to see how powerful and how sometimes manipulative it can be? What do you mean by deep dive?
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Gina
That's exactly what I mean. I've got a friend that has really done professional work as well as personal exploration. And lately they've been some things on the Internet about people dating AI entities, actually asking them to marry them.
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Charlie Kirk
Correct.
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Gina
I've been of the opinion that anybody who gets swept away like that must have a severe lack of intelligence. But within the last week, Haley Carania and the Silverlock Staff addressed it with some personal experience. And the. The SGT report title of yesterday's podcast is Mount Doom. AI and the battle for your soul. I mean, there's a lot to this and I've not heard anybody that I really stand with that has taken that deep dive personally and professionally. And I was wondering if you had.
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Charlie Kirk
So, I mean, I, I wouldn't say I've taken a deep dive negatively. I've spent hours on AI and it could be very helpful as a research tool, as a synthesizer, and it could be very, very helpful to go through large documents. So sometimes people will send me like a 600 page document and I can be like, hey, can you just give me 20 bullet points? Very helpful for that. It's helpful to be able to read things quicker and synthesize that data. It's not always 100% accurate. People have to know that AI makes a fair amount of mistakes. I wouldn't say a lot of mistakes, but a fair amount of mistakes. With a few hiccups, though, AI is only going to get better. It's going to get two times as powerful every eight months or so. It's not even three years since Chat GPT3 came out. But you are correct. Gina. Let's just talk more about the personal implications here. People are already, quote, unquote, dating their AI chatbots. They are spending hours and hours and hours talking to these AI chatbots. And they're only going to get better. They're going to get more quote, unquote human. They're going to get even more manipulative. So there is a looming crisis happening with artificial intelligence. And we already have young men that are super isolated. There's a story from Psychology Today the emerging problem of AI psychosis. AI may be fueling psychotic delusions in a phenomenon known as AI psychosis or chatgpt psychosis. So you have a generation that is already hyper online. They're staring at their screens all day long. They're not dating, they're not getting married, and we are seeing birth rates plummet. Artificial intelligence is only going to make that worse. Now, AI is not all bad, though. I want to be very clear. I've said this story before on air. I'll say it again. But one of our top leaders at Turning Point USA who remain nameless, his brother was feeling really weird. He had kind of like bruising over his chest. He called his local doctor and he said, hey, I don't feel really good. What should I do? The doctor said, oh, just sleep it off. Take a Tylenol Maybe come see me next couple days. He took a picture of it and put it into ChatGPT. ChatGPT, within a half of a second responded with three red alert emojis saying you need to get to the emergency room immediately. You have sepsis and you are going to die. Well, it turns out he had an ingrown nail because he was doing some work around his mom's house that hadn't been cleaned in a while. He had an undiagnosed and an unknown bacterial staph infection that grew into sepsis, got to the hospital and barely saved his Life. He credits ChatGPT and AI for saving his life, for diagnosing him within half of a second where his primary care doctor was like, oh, just sleep it off. Now I that's only a second hand story, but seems pretty legit. I know everyone involved. AI is incredibly powerful at pattern recognition. It's going to replace jobs where that is a key talent. Another one, for example, is anytime my son, who does his best job to try to hurt himself or to try to hurt others at every any period of time, being a young boy just walking around with, you know, a golf club, anytime that he hits his head, you know, Erica's like, hey, how serious is this? So we text the pediatrician. But interestingly, we'll take a picture of his bruise, of his rash, put it into CHAT GPT and within seconds AI will be able to tell you, I'm not that serious. And so again, we don't want to trust it blindly. We double check that with the pediatrician and the best way that I can say there's so much other stuff I could talk about with artificial intelligence, right, is that it will unleash productivity. We'll be able to make better movies. If you have an idea for a movie right now, in the next two years, you'll be able to make that movie literally in front of a computer screen. The glass half empty views obviously will rob us, our humanity, fuel psychotic delusions and our ability to socialize, marry, reproduce, including all the job losses. But there will be so much productivity that will probably mean that more diseases will be diagnosed and more lives will be saved. However, it is like nuclear power. You use it correctly, it can light up a city. Use it incorrectly, you can get Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here. Brand new year, brand new opportunities to change the world for the better. It's easier than you might think. You can save babies by providing ultrasounds with preborn. Together with the Sanctity of Human Life Month, we're going to save 35,000 babies to show the world that not only do we believe life is precious, but but we're going to do something about it. Your gift of preborn will give a girl the truth about what's happening in her body so that she can make the right choice. 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Brian
Yes, thank you for taking my call. Can you hear me?
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Charlie Kirk
Yes, sir. How are you today?
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Brian
I'm doing fine. Went with my son truman to the SAS a few weeks ago. If she's 15 years old, thinking of starting a chapter in Pennsylvania. Hey. You correctly point out that many college degrees are a scam. However, you immediately set yourself up for the need to then clarify that stem, like degrees and some others are a good value. I strongly encourage you to use this momentum that you have now to introduce a new term that could bifurcate these two categories of college, quote education, unquote, and remove the confusion about the benefits of going to college. Yeah. I think you have a great opportunity to kind of just clarify that there's a difference here with some new terminology.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah. So what term would you recommend? By the way, thank you for coming to Tampa. I'm so glad your son enjoyed it. He should start a TPUSA chapter. And you're totally right. I say college is a scam. And then I have some exceptions, obviously. And just so. Just so we're clear, there will be a huge need right now for aerospace engineering, for industrial engineering. There's going to be a major need during this AI boom, especially also in the muscular class. What term would you possibly recommend?
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Anthony
You know, I thought.
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Brian
I thought you might ask me that. And it deserves more time than I put into it. I have thought about it, but I thought something that kind of perhaps conveyed the sense of the market value that his society needs this. I'm an electrical engineer and you know, as a father in front of my children, I've had countless discussions with the waitress, the waiter about, hey, what are you doing? Your life and, and you know, you know, people just don't have the kind of direction you're giving. You could, you could save so many lives, you know, you know, the way they waste totally time in their, in their future. But I think something market related and I'd be, I'd be happy to work with you, you know, or offer some things, but I don't think I put enough time into it. But I think the general concept is you have to relate to the value of what you're getting.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah. So a couple things. Number one, you're right, I do want to emphasize that there, according to Larry Fink, this is just one profession. There is a dramatic need for 500,000 electricians in the coming years. There's not a dramatic need for 500,000 sociologists. In fact, I tweeted out, and yes, it wasn't perfect grammar. I guess it was supposed to be fewer, not less. And people were harnessing on that. Whatever. It has 15 million views on Twitter. I said we need more electricians. And I should have said we need fewer sociologists. I said less. Whatever, people know what I meant. And the response from the left was out of control. No, we need more sociologists. I'm sorry, no, we don't. We do not need more people learning about the substructures of inequity or inequality. No, sociologists are not making the world a better place right now. Electricians are. And so, by the way, that doesn't require a four year college degree. I will say though, the biggest scam is just going to college on autopilot. Anytime you hear that someone is going to college on autopilot, they are going to be scammed. Oh, I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm going to go to a football game. I might join a fraternity. I'm going to have some fun. Unless it is a young lady especially, and sometimes a young man. They're going there to find a husband or a wife. Mrs. Degrees are proven to work. I know that people freak out when I say this, but it's true. What is more important than finding a mate? What is more important than finding your future husband? That's the number one concern that I get from our students at Turning Point usa. So if you go to college with a plan, and the plan is, hey, I want to go Find a mate to God bless you. We shouldn't make fun of that. We used to make fun of the Mrs. Degree oh, you're just going to go find a mate. You actually are finding somebody that you can have a life with. The thing that is way harder to find, by the way, in current American society than just to go be an accountant at a shoe company. Finding a spouse will make you better at the other part of it. And so. And thank you for saying you agree on that because the media lost their mind. How dare Charlie say you should go to college to find a spouse. And Daisy, who does a phenomenal job on our team, she says Mrs. Degree present. So she has the skill she got from college. I think she was pretty skilled going into college, but she found a husband and, you know, now she's expecting and it's amazing. That's the most beautiful of all the things that's worth going into debt for, that is worth going to college for. But you have an aim, you have a direction. Don't be aimless. Daisy said, actually, all my skills came from my actual job, less from college. Well, I knew that. I just didn't want to totally bash her college experience. But the college, they don't teach you that stuff. But number one reason people say I want to go to college, it's to network. Sure. The number one networking thing you should find is a future spouse or future husband. And so again, a man who wants to win a woman will care a lot more about having a real career. And so we should not have shame in that at all. In fact, there's. We're seeing marriage rates collapse, fertility rates collapse, dating rates collapse. Maybe we should celebrate the people that go to college for the purpose of building a life, finding a spouse and having kids. And Daisy says GCU was amazing for I didn't even mention the college for my faith. Finding a husband and making more lifelong Christian friends, honestly, that's worth it. If you go to college to go strengthen your faith, grow closer to God, find a husband. It doesn't matter what skills you do or do not get, you can always get skills. Shane says, same with me. But with a wife, very good. Michael on our team says so. He says, I use few skills I gained in college, but definitely more than I would have if I went to asu. Shots fired. God bless you, man. Thank you for being a member. But here's the thing. We need to have a whole different view of college. Go with a purpose, go with an intent. And if that intent is to find a spouse, we should celebrate that. If the intent is to go find skills for a specific career, celebrate that. But just kind of smoking weed all day long. If you don't have an intent, guess what? Go do a gap year. We have one at Turning Point Academy. College should not be a place to meander. If you wander throughout college, you will end up lost. Nicholas, thank you so much for being a member. Members.charliekirk.com what's on your mind?
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Nicholas
Hi Charlie. First off, I want to say thank you for everything with the SAS and cls. It was an amazing event and I'm hoping to be able to go back next year.
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Charlie Kirk
Thank you. I wanted to ask all you guys wanted. That was awesome. Thank you for doing that. Yeah, go ahead, Nicholas. Sorry I cut you off. Go ahead.
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Nicholas
You're completely fine. No, I wanted to ask, as a Catholic, I always get asked by a lot of people who claim to be religious how I don't support Democrats prominently like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi because they claim to be Catholic, because I don't morally stand with them. They're their morals are completely opposed to what I believe in. But they always ask me how can I stand firmly with Donald Trump who's a quote unquote rapist, womanizer, sexist, horrible individual. How can I argue theologically against them?
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Charlie Kirk
So I will give you a more Protestant view, but the Catholic view shouldn't be honestly that that far off. Number one in Catholic social teaching, there is a direct conflict of the sanctity of life between the platform of the Democrat party and the platform of the Republican party. Your response should first be, I am voting for platforms and policies, not personalities. I am voting for worldviews, not for one liners that people say. And so in Catholic social teaching there is a belief in the sanctity of life. The Catholic view is that by loving legal abortion, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi are in flagrant defiance of Catholic moral teaching and they should not be receiving communion unless they go to confession and repent of that sin. Not to mention in the Democrat policy platform is the erosion of the family and natural law. We talk about the parents party all the time. So what I'm getting at, I'll keep building this out, Nicholas, but the way I would respond is, guys, we're not voting for people, we're voting for policies. We are voting for platforms. Which platform is a better fit with Catholic social teaching? Well, first of all, pro life, family, this trans stuff, none of that fits within the Democrat Party. None of it. And it's very similar on the kind of the evangelical Protestant side, not to mention under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, religious liberty was under threat. Catholic institutions, schools, hospitals, adoption agencies increasingly came under attack for refusing to comply with mandates that violate Catholic teaching on contraception, gender ideology and same sex adoption. And the other part of this, though, is that which I think is very important. It's not about the individual. President Trump is a sinner. Guess what? I'm a sinner, too.
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Brian
You.
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Charlie Kirk
You are a sinner. We are all sinners. What are they fighting for? What are they advocating for? What worldview do they have? Are they being used for a bigger and a greater purpose? And I would argue, though, that President Donald Trump has been better for the Catholic cause than Joe Biden, who pretends to be a Catholic. Joe Biden pretends to go and get communion every Sunday and calls himself a serious Catholic. I think Donald Trump, who is not Catholic, has actually been better for the cause of Catholics than Joe Biden himself. So that's how I would respond at times. I would respond to that and I would just, I would, I would just also reiterate that you should not defend everything that another person says at all times. Okay, whatever. Instead, don't focus on what Trump says, focus on what Trump does. What does Trump do? What does? Well, he just defunded Planned Parenthood in the one big beautiful bill. Joe Biden didn't do that. Donald Trump is going after child sex traffickers. Donald Trump is making sure men are not in female locker rooms. Donald Trump is an advocate for religious liberty and freedom. He's ending trans surgeries. Donald Trump has put Catholics on the Supreme Court. Brett Kavanaugh, for example, Amy Coney Barrett. So that's how I would respond to that as an evangelical. And I'm sure my friend Jack Posobic, devout Catholic, would have an even better answer than me. But thank you for being member, Nicholas. Really appreciate it.
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Nicholas
Thank you, Charlie. Have a good rest of your day. And God bless.
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Charlie Kirk
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Anthony
Hey, Charlie, quick question because I just saw this come out today regarding Obama and everything that Tulsa Giller has come out with, people are wanting are saying, okay, he needs to be arrested whole nine yards. But with Trump's legal case that he won a couple years ago for presidential immunity, doesn't that apply to this, too?
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Charlie Kirk
Yes, I think you're right. It does. Blake has some thoughts on that. So that is the question is that if it applies to presidential immunity, I imagine it would be while Obama was president. Almost certainly. We don't know for certain. We don't know. We don't know. 100% assuredly, I should say we know almost certainly. I would say, though, that did any of this happen while he was outside of the president? Was Obama conducting the intel agencies while he was out of office? But we also have to find out more about what the charges potentially would be and what the criminal referral is. We do not know. And so I'm going to kind of the ball is in the hands of the DOJ now and I think Tulsi Gabbard has done a phenomenal job of exposing it. They agree with you. I have the words criminal conspiracy or seditious conspiracy and it's going to be up for them to make that case and approve it. Sorry, Anthony, one or one other thought really quick.
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Anthony
No, I agree with you on that. That's why I was just kind of confused because Obama could argue that, well, you know, Trump got it. Why can't I get it type case.
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Charlie Kirk
Yep. No, that's right. That's right. We're going to keep a close eye on that. Anthony, really quick yes or no. Major League baseball salary cap.
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Anthony
Check your email. He's already answered. I already answered your question and I tweeted to you, too.
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Charlie Kirk
I know. I want you to say it on air.
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Anthony
I sit on the fence. Reason being I, I always was with no sitting.
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Charlie Kirk
Anthony, we know each other too well.
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Anthony
No, this is no, no, no. And the reason I was sitting on the fence now is if you put a salary cap in, it actually favors MLB and owners to not invest in the team and keep more in their back pocket for themselves. So I, I saw the article or video. I have to try to find it because I'll send it to you and if I can get it, I'll get over to you because I work in the industry so I understand where both sides are coming from. But when I saw this, I'm like.
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Charlie Kirk
All I know is the NFL, they pour money into their team. The NFL pours their money into the team. So yes they do.
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Anthony
But man free a little bit different. Man freed a little bit different of a commissioner. And your next commissioner, I bet money on it, will be Theo Epstein.
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Charlie Kirk
Ah, you want to, you want to. And the reason being is I'll be okay with that.
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Anthony
The reason being real quick, he is the one with the rule changes and they need someone young and he had and he has all the ties to the owners and the owners like him.
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Charlie Kirk
That'll be I Smart money on it, Anthony. God bless you guys. Last question of the week. Matthew. Matthew, what is on your mind members? Charliekirk.com Last question of the week and.
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Matthew
Can I just say thank you to you and your team for brilliant Student Action Summit. I came over from the UK to Florida for that and it was brilliant. I came away with some brilliant friendships as well. Here in the UK I regularly speak out about my conservative beliefs through social media and to friends and different debates. Even in the face of relentless backlash that I get including death threats from the so called tolerant left. Especially when I voice my opinions on issues such as like the trans agenda and stuff here in the uk. Sadly, many of my friends who are conservative are afraid to speak up. They're worried that they'll be targeted the same way I have. They've seen the abuse that I've received. What advice would you give to them to stand their ground and speak the truth?
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Charlie Kirk
Look, the UK is a very difficult situation right now. The best advice I can have is you need to hold your ground and try to create a overwhelming grassroots majority of a free speech culture. As you know, police can knock on your door if you have bad posting. The UK needs a lot more bravery. You are not free and right now the thing that is lacking the most in the United Kingdom is courage and bravery. It is not Intelligence. There are so many smart young conservatives I met and Blake and I met while we were in Cambridge and Oxford. So many smart young ladies and young men. And they have wisdom and they get it. But what is lacking is bravery. And that is why courage, I think, is the ultimate virtue. Without it, you don't have any other virtues. You can't be free if you are not brave. And so what is, what is needed is a group of young people, especially young men, to be willing to say the unpopular thing even when there is a great social cost attached. I don't want to kind of crap too much on your country, but your country's in trouble. You know that. And I hope that your country can start to wake up. Yeah. I mean, again, I'm not here to insult your, your homeland. I don't like doing that. But you guys are in a, in a real rough spot. It's not totally lost if you guys wake up with bravery and with conviction. And you are our friend across the pond and we're going to keep on advocating for you any way we can. And in some ways, it's a little bit of a warning sign of where America could go if we are not vigilant. Hang in there. We have your back. And thank you for coming across the pond to the Student Action Summit. I hope to meet you next time. God bless you.
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Matthew
Thank you.
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Charlie Kirk
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