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As an aside, my first most retweeted tweet of all time is about standing with Tucker Carlson in the face of the violent leftist mob. Interesting how those two are the most rewarded tweets of all time. Which goes to point out that Americans are fed up with the left coming after what we consider to be valuable voices and institutions. Now, Representative Jim Jordan also came out in support of college football and saying America needs college football. You're right, Jim Jordan. God bless you. Now, in times of strife in our country, we decide our future by how much value we can create for ourselves. Trying to put a measurement on the amount of value, the amount of purpose Americans can have, is detrimental to everything this country stands for. Imagine if during the World War II effort, we didn't enlist the women of America to. To support our soldiers. Most historians say definitively that we would not have emerged victorious. We have seen suicides rising because of all these lockdowns and limitations, becoming, according to the CDC director, CDC Director Redfield, more deadly than the virus in parts of America. So, no, this is not just about a game. It's not just about an activity. And it shouldn't be a partisan issue. This is something much bigger. Football is. The left has always hated football, by the way. It's too masculine, it's too strong, it's too brutal. It's too American. They've been trying to cancel football for decades. They finally have their excuse to do so. And if anyone is listening to this, that is a football fan and is not outraged by what is happening right now, what's it gonna take? They've taken Easter from you. They took traditional Memorial Day and July 4th celebrations. They've taken church from so many of us. They took Palm Sunday from us. They've taken March Madness from us. They've taken you going to the beach in many places. I can't even go work out in a gym in Phoenix, Arizona, the parks. They've taken everything. And now they're going to take college football from us as well. And it's on its way to do that. But man, to take something that has so much meaning to so many people under the guise of safety is unthinkable to me. It really is. Hundreds of people will commit suicide if you cancel college football. Think about that. Hundreds of people right now that are breathing will most likely commit suicide if you remove something that has such incredible meaning to people as college football. Where in the big House in Michigan. They have 127,000 people gather on a football Saturday in Michigan. You're going to take college football away from Ohio State University when Ohio State might have one of the best college football teams ever assembled this year. You're going to take college football away from me where the Ducks of Oregon very well might win the Pac12 again and be able to go hopefully to the Final Four and maybe compete for a national championship. You already canceled the Ducks vs. Bucs game. Oregon Ducks vs. The Ohio State Buckeyes, of which I've been waiting for for 78. Seven to eight years since they announced it. I think it was eight years ago. But I'm not trying to make it all about me and try to have a pity parade. I'm not. What I am trying to make it about is the depression, the alcoholism, the hopelessness, the lack of direction and the lives you will ruin because you think you're saving lives. The central planning rule by fiat autocrats must be stopped. College football is now where the culture war is happening right now. Trevor Lawrence on the right side, Nick Saban on the right side, President Trump on the right side, Jim Jordan on the right side, and these chancellors and these presidents that are raising a lot of your tuition, if you're listening to this, you're a college student. They're raising your tuition. They're not even giving you a discount. When a lot of you go online for just a zoom call, they're canceling football. Now, mind you, when I go and I ask young people, and I do this all the time, why are you going to college? Why are you going to college? I get pretty poor answers, to be honest with you. People say, oh, I'm going because my parents are making me borrowing a boatload of money. That you do not have to study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist is not a great answer to go 50, 60, 70, $80,000 into debt. It's not a great answer, but an answer I get quite often is they have a great football team and I can't wait to be there on college football Saturdays. And it's a lot of fun. I say okay, it's not a great answer to go $70,000 into debt, but if that's your reason, then at least you have a reason. Even that has been removed. Fraternities and sororities all across the Big Ten are not needing this semester and next semester. You see college for years. One of the ways they sold themselves is, yeah, come get $85,000 in debt. You're going to learn to hate America. You'll probably be convinced that there is no God. We're going to create you into a very miserable and unhappy person. We're going to give you a piece of paper that probably will not let you get a job, so you have to go move in with your parents afterwards. You're going to become someone that has less direction and instead it'd be tougher and stronger to encounter a world that is troublesome around you. We are going to try to activate you, to try to remove things that are troublesome and try to make a safer environment instead of stronger people. But in exchange, at least you'll be able to go to a football game. And that's basically been the bargain for the last couple decades. Get the kids really excited, fill up in the stadiums. They meet a bunch of people that they think they're going to do business with the rest of their life. And that's the case at certain schools and send them out into the world. For these universities, college football is not going to happen in a lot of schools. I think the SEC might just self affiliate and have their own season, quite honestly, and I'll watch it enthusiastically. I love college football and I think the SEC is going to play no matter what. I think the SEC might just de. Affiliate from the NCAA and do their own games and have their own championship and their own way of crowning a national champion. Now, the NCAA might sanction them, but the SEC is too powerful and they actually need the ad revenue. And so that's. What's the real other interesting, ironic thing about all this, is that these universities, man, do they hate their students. They have such contempt for the people that pass through their colleges. They really do. They say they, they say they, oh, yeah, we care about students. No, you don't. No, you don't. I mean, there's some good schools out there. We talk about Hillsdale College, we talk about Liberty. They're so few and far between. I'll tell you what, these schools are able to subsidize a lot of the diversity programming, a lot of the lazy rivers, a lot of their expansion through the ad dollars that are given to the university. When they have football games on tv, they get licensing fees. It's a massive money maker for these universities, especially in bowl games and even more so in the College Football Playoff. So let's take Ohio State University. Ohio State University has tens of thousands of students. Between 50 to 60,000 students on campus and online. They will fill up Ohio Stadium with anywhere between 85 to 90,000 people. It's an incredible feat of engineering to even be able to put a stadium like that together. And the only way that they are able to justify that extraordinary cost is with the nine to 10 football games they have every single year. In fact, they're actually able to get up to 110,000 people. So now when the ruling class, the academics who do not care about their students, don't care about their student athletes, don't care about their alumni, they don't care about their fans, they just care about fulfilling their own careers and their agenda so that they don't get mean things written about them by the activist media. When they cancel college football, all of a sudden they are basically saying the millions of dollars of revenue that were coming into the university are not important. Now I'm all for divesting universities. I have an entire program at turning point USA called divestyou.com however, do you know how they're going to make up for that loss of revenue? They're just going to raise tuition on you. If you're a young person listening to this or a college student, these university presidents are not going to go tap their multi billion dollar endowments. The advertising revenue that they would get off college football actually pays for all the other sports. It pays for a lot of the women's sports. It pays for a lot of the less attended men's sports like golf and for all that. And so then when you do not have that advertising revenue, when you do not have the massive stadium attendance, which is extraordinary amount of money, when all college football gets canceled, the students are going to have to actually compensate for the revenue loss. So people that just say, oh, college football is just a rounding error. If you look at the largest stadiums for mass gatherings in America, 15, you can go to the top 15. Every single one of them, from Michigan Stadium to Beaver Stadium to Ohio Stadium to Kyle Field in Kyle Station, Texas to Nyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tiger Stadium, Bryant Denny, Darrell K. Royal, Texas Memorial in Austin, Texas, Sanford Stadium, Athens, Georgia, are all college football stadiums. Not NFL, not baseball, not NBA. It's college football. We are on the precipice of Robbing a core American institution around faulty science and activists that have overtaken academia that quite honestly have been trying to cancel football for quite some time. And this is a winning issue for the President, and the President needs to stay on it. But before we talk more about the President's polls, as you know, we do our Book of the Week review on Friday and we can't wait to share this week's book with you. But check out the last three Friday's books, the Prince by Machiavelli, Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell, and Carl Jung's Modern man in Search of a Soul. Again, we talk about Thinker. It's a terrific website. It's t h I n k r.org Charlie in our fast paced world, it's tough to make reading a priority. At least it used to be. A new app called Thinker has solved that problem by summarizing the key ideas from new and noteworthy nonfiction, giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite sized form. Read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes, including old classics like Dale Carnegie's how to Win Friends and Influence People to best sellers like Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life. If you want to change your preconceptions, expand your horizons and become a better thinker, well, then you must go to thinker.org charlie t-h I n k r.org charlie so, speaking of polling, let's give you a quick update. I encourage you to listen to our sister episode where we interview the great Terrence Williams. Some new polling shows that things are actually tightening. Now, one poll, there was a national poll, but we don't even talk about national polls that had Trump down 10 points nationally. Completely irrelevant, not applicable at all. National polls do not matter. Show me state polls. Show me trends. Now Monmouth, which has Donald Trump down 10 points nationally, had the same in August of 2016. However, there's a Marquette University poll in Wisconsin that shows Biden up five points. Now that might seem like bad news, but as we examine some of the new emerging polls on a statewide basis, which is more important, especially in battleground states, we have a totally different picture. Now remember, you could lose California by 80 points by 90 points, lose the popular vote and still win in a landslide with the Electoral College. Also something to consider with these polls, polls that conduct something called live caller with cell phones, they tend to skew Democrat. Why? This is what we call the shy Trump voter. I add three to four to all these polls always, especially in a presidential now remember, conservatives are much more likely to hide their true political opinions from public view. The presumption is that this includes from a pollster if it's live on a phone call. And this bears out in the polling methodologies. So a new poll in Arizona has Martha McSally, the incumbent Republican senator who was appointed by Congress Governor Doug Ducey. She is down five points where she was down nine points in a similar poll previously. So if you look at oh Predictive's trend line since December, it follows what we basically know to be true, that Trump was ahead at the end of last year and pre pandemic then things got really bad. We know that no one is denying it, but the race is tightening in the President's favor. Republican plus two in December to a low of Democrat plus nine and plus eight in May. And now it's improved for Trump to Democrat plus four for now. And now here's a new promising poll that shows Trump is beating Biden conducted by Rasmussen Pulse Opinion in the state of North Carolina. The poll of 750 likely voters shows the president beating Biden by a single point when leaners are included. So there's, we can cherry pick polls and there's some polls that show Trump down in some of these states, but the enthusiasm index is definitely in the President's direction. I think there are some major issues here that are missing from the conversation. If the President can continue to show significant gains when it comes to the Chinese coronavirus, get college football back on the airwaves. I think this is how his election to lose. I think he's going to have massive gains and I think the more the President is ahead of the curve on the issue of the economy and law and order, the better. Tomorrow we're going to go into a new story so, so do not miss the episode tomorrow. Make sure you type in Charlie Kirk show to your podcast provider Hit subscribe, give us a five star review screenshot and email us. In the subject line, say you want to be in the running to win a signed copy of Donald Trump Jr's new book. If you do that, then you will be in the running to get a new copy of Donald Trump Jr's new book Liberal Privilege. Final note. Joe Biden has more unanswered questions for his campaign than Donald Trump. Some of this polling might look grim. Some of this polling might not be excitable for you. I actually think it's going in the President's direction. He is making up significant gains. Republicans always rally late. They are late to coming to the polls and late coming to voice their opinion. Democrats are usually earlier at doing that, especially on a referendum election like they have against President Trump. Do not lose faith. Do not lose hope. 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