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Charlie Kirk
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You gotta stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA College chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord.
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Blake
Use me.
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Charlie Kirk
Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. The Charlie Kirk show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold. But the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends and viewers.
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Andrew Colvett
All right. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. It's February 17, 2026. Blake, how are you? I'm doing good. How we doing?
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Blake
Well, I mean, there's a lot of sad things in the world.
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Andrew Colvett
There's a lot of sad things in the world. I'm still not over Robert Duvall yesterday. I actually went back and watched a bunch of his clips on YouTube last night. And obviously there is the newest trans shooting that came out of Rhode Island. This time we're going to unpack that. We also have Riley Gaines joining the show halfway through the hour. Then we're going to turn our attention to Prop 4 in Utah. Got updates there. We made it across the finish line, at least we hope, in the gerrymandering Prop 4 story. Then we got Mike Davis in the second half of hour two. But first I want to pay homage to to the great Rush Limbaugh. It is the five year anniversary of Rush's passing. It is five months since we last Charlie and Charlie loved Rush. Charlie often on this show would remember Rush and would pay tribute to Rush. And Rush and Charlie were dear friends. Actually, Charlie said on this show after Rush's passing that Rush Limbaugh became a seven figure donor to the organization. He did it privately and quietly. That was the stipulation. And upon Rush's passing, Catherine, Rush's widow, gave Charlie permission to reveal that, make that public, as Charlie wanted to honor Rush Limbaugh in a very special way. And so I wanted to play just quickly here at the outset, a clip from Rush Limbaugh describing The first time that he met Charlie Kirk. 375.
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Rush Limbaugh (clip)
I don't want to jinx him, but I'm just going to tell you. They brought Charlie Kirk to the golf course to meet me about a month ago. He was in town to set up this Turning Point thing. And I spoke with him for about a half hour. This is the kind of guy that you can see really becoming big in politics as he gets older.
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Riley Gaines
He.
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Rush Limbaugh (clip)
It just has the carriage, the personality, the charisma. I. You may think this sounds weird, but I remember when Bill Clinton became president, people were saying that they just knew Bill Clinton was going to be president someday in college. He just had that kind of ambition. And he impressed people in a way that he could. Telling you that people are saying the same things about. About Charlie Kirk.
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Blake
Did Charlie ever actually golf?
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Andrew Colvett
Charlie hated golf.
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Blake
I thought so.
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Andrew Colvett
Charlie hated golf.
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Blake
That was one of our great similarities.
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Andrew Colvett
He thought it was a waste of time. He thought men should be spending more time with their families.
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Blake
That is such a Charlie thing. He'd be like, this takes like what, four hours to do?
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Andrew Colvett
I mean, you could go. You could do it in two maybe if it wasn't that crowd of a course. But still, it is a time consuming.
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Blake
You really would get why Charlie liked college football. And it was because you could watch it while doing other things. Like running Amfest.
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Andrew Colvett
Yeah. As I was saying, have it on in the. Yeah. And every so often he'd stop, look at the screen, a play would happen, then he'd move on. That was Charlie's idea.
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Blake
Remember, remember during the World cup, and he was watching on his phone in the middle of segments on the show and he would get distracted while doing the segment.
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Andrew Colvett
Yeah. Well, Rush was. I'll never forget when we started the show and Charlie said that, you know, he. He aspired to be more like Rush Limbaugh. And that. That was sort of a Northern star for Charlie. And then obviously that picture that you see on screen was Rush Limbaugh. One of our events, we honored Rush with an award down in Palm Beach. And then Rush got to introduce President Trump at one of our student action summits as well. And Charlie went and picked him up. Picked Rush up. They drove in the car back together and had a really long talk. And I just remember being very jealous. I didn't get invited to go along with Charlie to go pick up Rush, but Charlie told me all about it and said how amazing it was.
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Blake
As you say, he modeled himself on it. And that was one of Charlie's great strengths, is he had, you know, we had so many mentors, he had so many models, and he had no shame, just his. The way of, his way of attacking so many issues was, okay, well, what does the best person at this do? And I'll just copy them. And so that's why you would see funny aspects of this. Like you'd always call him Barack Hussein Obama because Schlimbach called him Barack Hussein Obama when he was listening to her in high school.
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Andrew Colvett
He.
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Blake
Yeah, I think Lady Graham is also. He would have the same nicknames as Rush because Rush was one of the best at it. Why wouldn't he copy him?
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Andrew Colvett
Yep. And well, so here's to you, Rush Limbaugh. You are still the goat. The greatest to ever do it. Five years on. We miss Rush Limbaugh in this movement. And now with Charlie gone, we miss Charlie so much from this movement and there will never be another like either of them. And so we pay. We. We pay tribute to the passing of Rush and the passion of Charlie at the same time. Two great friends, two great patriots, titans of their generations, and we miss them dearly.
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Blake
He didn't get to be president, but he got to be a prophet and a martyr, which are greater things.
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Andrew Colvett
Yeah. And he helped elect a president. And so there we are, Story one in the can, as it were. We want to turn our attention to what happened in Rhode Island. This is a terrible story at a youth hockey tournament where a trans shooter turns out to be the father, Robert Dorgan. He was born a male, also went by Roberta Esposito.
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Blake
That's the new euphemism that they've been using in articles. He was a person who used two different names.
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Andrew Colvett
That's a new euphemism. And I think, you know, we. Well, listen, let's just play the clip. 321. As for the suspect, can you confirm whether the suspects of male female is a transgender person? Is that something that he has in terms of information?
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Riley Gaines
So what I can say right now that we have identified the person, the suspect by a birth name. The birth name was Robert Dorgan. We have also learned that the person.
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Andrew Colvett
Does go by the name of Roberta. Robert, Roberta. What's the difference?
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Blake
It was even weirder because it's Dorgan, but then apparently went by Roberta Esposito. So. So possibly. I mean, obviously a clearly unwell person.
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Andrew Colvett
Well, and the daughter confirms it. Yes. So 322.
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Riley Gaines
My father was a shooter.
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Andrew Colvett
What happened?
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Charlie Kirk
Shot my family.
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Andrew Colvett
And he's dead now.
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Rush Limbaugh (clip)
What was the reasoning? Was there a family argument?
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Blake
He has mental health issues.
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Andrew Colvett
So, yes, she goes on to describe those mental health issues a little bit more. She says that he had been struggling with mental health for quite some time. She said, quote, he was very sick.
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Blake
So this is a little different. We wanted to talk about this. Of course, it's horrifying, but we've really been, we've just. Last week we were saying there have been a wave of transgenderism related shootings. And we said there is likely to be more. His is a little different from some of the other ones we've seen because it wasn't a young person who, you know, was diverted into this when they were unwell in high school. It was, it seems like it was more of a midlife crisis type thing, like, which is another type, but that's a threat as well.
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Andrew Colvett
And no, I mean, so we have images of this guy, I mean, obviously unwell. You know, Roberta, this is posting pictures of nails. If you can put that up. Guys, the nails, like, you know, cosplaying as a woman, wearing tank tops, like a woman, blue hair. I mean, this is, this is, you know, you can, you can feel this. Like, Andy no posted this image of this gentleman, I guess, you know, bearing his backside. Something was off here.
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Blake
Well, I mean, the most dreadful thing was just the day before someone said, Tim McBride, a trans person in Congress, is a man. And he said, keep bashing us, but do not wonder why we go berserk.
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Andrew Colvett
Yeah, I was responding to a Kevin Sorbo tweet.
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Blake
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Andrew Colvett
A little bit of a white pill here. Real clear. Investigations. Something we've talked about on the show before, but it bears repeating because it's so important. Surprising revival, Gen Z men and highly educated lead return to religion. So this is something. Yeah, there you go. There's the graphic right up there. Big news story. And I love this because it kind of drafts off the last story and I'll explain why. You saw this guy, Robert Dugan, another trans shooter. Did you know that 4 out of 10 liberal young gen Z liberal women are also that are religiously unaffiliated? So 4 out of 10 are religiously unaffiliated. 4 out of 10 also are LGBTQ. That's again, this is genes.
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Blake
That's quite the lineup.
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Andrew Colvett
That's Gen Z young Gen Z women that are liberals, progressive. 4 out of 10 LGBTQ, 4 out of 10 religiously unaffiliated. But here's what's great. Young men are flocking back to the churches, but they're not flocking back to mainline denominations. They're not flocking back to weak, watered down professions of the Christian faith. They want the high octane.
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Blake
No one has ever excitedly posted. I'm excited to announce that I have been baptized into the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Sorry, my dad's ex elca. I got a dunk on them sometimes.
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Andrew Colvett
This is what's fascinating. So they document a new report from Chapman center and Demographics and Policy. Dah, dah, dah. For the first time in decades, Pew Research notes that in the US at least, Christianity has stopped its nosedive as more people begin to see the efficacy and the rewards of religious faith and practice. So where are they going? They are returning to Orthodox faith. Christian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox. Those churches are booming. Like almost 100% increase in new converts. Catholic churches, conservative Catholic churches are booming. Conservative Protestant churches are booming. Charismatic churches are booming. Those are all like high octane. Give it to me straight.
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Blake
The most interesting part to me is that highly educated subset, because we should be frank. Charlie saw evidence of revival. We've seen evidence of revival. But at like the big picture, it's not necessarily showing up in Poland. It's that the decline has stopped. And yet if you talk to people, if you're in dc, if you're in, for example, like organized conservative circles, everyone can see that there is some. There's like this revival that young people Are joining in, they're showing up. A lot more people see it on the ground. And what I think you're seeing is you're seeing a big preference shift among the biggest kind of the cultural influencers, things that go downstream. So if this was 20 years ago, you'd be saying, oh, all the highly educated are bailing on religion and then that percolates downstream. It's kind of like, it's actually kind of like the trans epidemic that started with a few elites and then now we're seeing it spread everywhere else.
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Andrew Colvett
Well, we can see it in 392. Here's the graph. Weekly religious attendance by education. Graduate degrees are actually the most likely to attend every week. Bachelor's degree, just slightly below associate's degree. The lowest are high school graduates, which is fascinating. Yeah, it's almost like. And you see this with a lot of scientists too. A lot of scientists have found faith. A lot of, you know, the guy who cracked the human genome, devout Christian. So this, it doesn't surprise me in the one sense because the Gospels and the Scriptures are as deep and as wide and as complex. You can go, you can take it at a 101 level, which is deeply profound certainly. But the deeper you go into scriptures, the more tie ins, the more parallels, the more the richness just expands and explodes, the deeper you're willing to go with it.
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Blake
And I think there's so much, there's such rising awareness of just, I remember 20 years ago, so much smugness because people had grown up in such a culturally Christian environment that it could all be thrown away. It was like irrelevant. It was old fashioned. We can use reason to do all these things. And the past 20 years have seen that total vindication of how important faith is as the scaffolding for life to keep everything from going to hell, basically.
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Andrew Colvett
Well, I think there was a. I think people took it for granted that the culture was sort of stable and roughly approximately Christian. And therefore if you didn't participate in a weekly service, for example, you would still go out into the world and it would still feel approximately Christian because all of society is blessed by the Christian faith. All of Western society is blessed by the Christian faith.
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Blake
People have seen families, like families, disintegration. They're seeing, actually it is, you kind of need that, like I said, that faith scaffolding to really flourish to the maximum of your abilities in many cases. And I think for a lot of people that's the kernel of, well, if it's so much better to have faith, I think that Especially among the highly educated helps lead that process to. Well, then might it be true, actually. And then I think that takes a lot of people into actual conversion. I think that's a story I've seen play out many times.
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Andrew Colvett
100%. And we are gonna hit the CNN doc hard. There's a new piece that CNN just released this morning attacking the Charlie Kirk memorial as sort of ground zero of Christian nationalism rising up as if, by the way, as if that was a bad thing.
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Blake
If that gets to be a ground zero for any revival, then God bless that memorial and we' that with honor.
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Andrew Colvett
Yeah, 100%. And by the way, our society detached from the Christian faith is like a flower in a vase. It might look beautiful for a short time, but if it's disconnected from the roots, it will die, it will wither. And the same is true for the American culture, for Western civilization writ large, that if we do not re establish a connection with the root, the tree will wither, the fruit will be bad. So we need our faith. So this is one of the most important positive signs that you could see in the news today that young people, especially young men, because I believe young women will follow young men. Going back to church, wanting to get married, wanting to have families, wanting to build a life of purpose is one of the truly most positive signs that you could see in any news clipping across the landscape of the media. The fact that it won't get more press coverage is a darn shame. But we are going to cover it here because it's truly important. It's something Charlie poured his life into and I'm so glad to see RealClear investigations highlight this truly important development. For a lot of Americans, the healthcare system is reactive. You get sick first and then you wait for an appointment. Then insurance decides what you're allowed to have and suddenly the medication you need is delayed or it's not available. That is where all family pharmacy is different. This is not a typical pharmacy, it's family owned. I know these guys, they're great guys. Works with licensed doctors and is built around a simple idea. That's the idea that you should have the freedom to make informed choices about your own health and the ability to prepare ahead of time. So you're not reactive anymore. You're already prepared.
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Riley Gaines
How are you?
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Andrew Colvett
We're doing well. We're covering this story though, and I thought of you because you are one of the leading voices when it comes to, I would say, the mental illness of the trans insanity that has taken over women's sports, that has taken over so many aspects of our public dialogue and discourse. And now we're seeing this repeated, troubling one after the other incidents of shootings involving trans shooters. And it's kind of like when are we going to actually raise the alarm, call it what it is, that this is an epidemic of trans violence. I wanted to get your opinion on this, of how we even got here. You know, I said, I joked with you, Riley. I said, you're not a doctor, but you know, you know, but you've been studying this issue. Your response was beautiful. So maybe let's start there.
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Riley Gaines
Yeah, well, when we were talking on the phone today, you did, you said, you're not a doctor. And I said, well, Andrew, you don't have to be a doctor to understand, number one, the basis of the issue, right? Gender, ideology as a whole, the harm that it's causing, the destruction the, that it's causing. And now what we've seen, the death literal, I mean, how innocent lives are being prematurely taken from this planet. Charlie Kirk, being one of those we saw in Nashville, my backyard, where three little nine year olds, I think three adults as well in that scenario. We saw obviously what happened in Canada, what happened in Minneapolis and just in Rhode island this week. This is a very destructive mental illness disease, as you said, epidemic, social epidemic and contagion that is infecting, plaguing society. You don't have to be a doctor to speak to this. And you ask why? Right. Which is the million dollar question. But I think pretty plainly, pretty simply and at least how I understand, I think there's a couple routes you could go here. But I think what would resonate with most people is the problem this is the problem with the affirmation model that we have been seeing being used, whether it's the medicalization side of things, whether it's the respecting pronouns. This is the problem because think about what we are affirming by being accepting and affirming of this. We are really only deepening the eventual damage that is lurking underneath the surface. And I say underneath the surface because when we're talking about this demographic, oftentimes these are people with underlying conditions such as depression, anxiety, other personality or mood disorders. And those aren't the things that are being treated by these doctors or surgeons or healthcare professionals or therapists. No, they're being affirmed to believe that they were correct to feel as if they're born wrong. And that's a horrible message that anyone, of course children, but even adults for that matter, that's the message that they're receiving, is that they're correct to feel as if they're born wrong. So it's a really horrible, horrible thing. Prayers to the family of the victims. And I think it just leads with the question of, you know, how many more times do we have to see this? What has to be done? What is the answer? I can tell you what the answer is not. The answer is not gun control. Because guess what? In Canada and in Rhode island, where both of these atrocities in the past week took place, there are already strict gun laws. Okay, so. So gun control, that would not have worked because criminals, they don't trouble themselves with the laws. Why, by enforcing gun laws, really what you're doing is keeping the guns out of hands of good people who could prevent these tragedies. So horrible.
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Andrew Colvett
Riley. Yeah. And you said, the family of the victims, that's his family. So he killed his son. His senior son was a senior in high school and the mother of his son. And I said, wow, at one point when you were talking, because you basically verbatim took a line of Charlie's from 2023 after another one of these incidents had happened. I'm gonna have go ahead and play that clip. 378 trans people have been made into.
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Charlie Kirk
Kind of the sacred cow of American politics. You can't question it, you can't criticize it. And they believe they can threaten whoever they want. This is the ultimate top of the Impression Olympics. How many dead kids is it going to take for us to say, we've probably gone too far here and we should just ask a couple questions. How many mass shootings have to happen where we probably say, wait a second, you know, can we just calm Down.
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Andrew Colvett
Yeah. You asked the same question. Right. How many of these incidents is it going to take before we say the most mentally unstable, unwell, upset, bitter, whatever. Whatever the diagnosis is, how many incidents is it going to take before we stop pouring SSRIs down these people? How many hormone replacement therapies, this cocktail of drugs that we are giving the most unstable people in our society?
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah.
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Riley Gaines
First, let me just say it's so hard to listen to a video of Charlie Kirk. Honestly, I don't know. I know some people have found comfort in watching clips of his, but I really haven't. It's been really, like, difficult to listen, and especially this clip and listening to him speak to what would ultimately and prematurely take his life. What, just say a really horrible thing? But, yeah. And Talking about the SSR, SSRIs, I think that's another reason why we haven't seen, especially those who call themselves health care professionals, really question administering synthetic and unnatural chemicals and substances to those who identify as trans. Because it opens it. It opens the door for broader questions to those SSRIs, SNRIs, you know, antidepressant medication that are overly diagnosed and overly prescribed. Now, that is not me saying that antidepressants aren't useful and beneficial for some people, but they are being prescribed at an alarming rate, especially to people among my generation. And when you look at things and going back to talking about administering these. These chemicals and hormones to minors or adults for that matter, when you look at the effects of something like testosterone, what that has increased impulsivity, increased aggression, short temper, it really only magnifies the issues that are there, as opposed to. To creating new ones or diminishing them, it magnifies those underlying things. So again, when you're talking about, which is a commonality, someone with underlying mood disorders such as ocd, such as bipolar disorder or obsessed or adhd, whatever it is, depression, anxiety, that's what's being magnified here. And again, I think a large part of why we're seeing so many horrible tragedies committed.
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Andrew Colvett
Yeah. And you. You asked a question earlier. You said, what is the solution? Well, we know the solution isn't to affirm a disease and say, yes, you can have more and more of your own disease, your. Your own situation. Now, adults are gonna choose what they're gonna choose. We do have freedom in this country. They're gonna choose what they're gonna choose. But one of the storylines that we saw this morning that I think is tied into this, when we talk about solutions, is the rise in faith and it's not what this is not. The kids are not flocking back to watered down Christianity. They're. They're flocking back to the old, the good, the true, those face that have stood the test of time for millennia. And the go. The Protestant churches may be newer, but that, that are preaching a strong gospel, a masculine gospel, a, a, you know, it just straightforward, unapologetic gospel of Jesus Christ. That I believe, is what you're starting to see in culture as this pushback to this destabilization, this social societal anarchy that we're seeing. And maybe speak to that, Riley, because you're Christian, you're seeing this with young people that you speak to. What is the mechanism? Why are people flocking back to the faith, especially young people?
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Riley Gaines
Well, I think when, when analyzing religion, and I'll just speak pretty personally here, I feel a total sense of serenity and calmness and security and confidence in the stance that I've taken despite the constant attacks or death threats that are hurled my way. And honestly, Charlie was this way too. And I think that was very evident in how he conducted himself, how he's still willing to go out there knowing that threats existed. It's because he knew that what he was fighting for was the hope and the promise of eternal life. That is the only place you will ever find satisfaction. And I think oftentimes, especially when dissecting gender ideology, these people are desperately looking for their identity. They're looking for a place to find that identity. Well, I know as a Christian that the only place that you will find pure and total satisfaction is in placing your identity in Christ. And I think a lot of more, a lot of young people are becoming to understand that they're realizing this. And in that you're seeing a shift back to developing that relationship with Christ, seeking salvation. And a large part of that is, is the legacy that Charlie Kirk left. And honestly, like, I hate talking about it like this because it seems as if, you know, in speaking of the good things that happened following Charlie's death, selfishly, like I'd rather him still be here. But it was one of the consequences that we saw this revival, especially of young people going to church that Sunday after Charlie Kirk's assassination, I mean, there was no empty seat. People felt a conviction, a calling to go back to open their Bible, to maybe buy a Bible for the first time in their life. That's a really special thing. And it's again, it's the kind of life that Charlie Kirk lived. So we're seeing a lot of inspiration in that, I think, especially in my generation.
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Andrew Colvett
Yeah, well said. And I'm with you. To be honest, it's hard for me to watch Charlie clips, you know, the team and the audience. I know that it means a lot to people out there to see them, but for me, it doesn't get easier. So I'm with you. Riley Gaines, thank you so much for coming. You are uniquely positioned to talk about this issue. So God bless you. Keep safe and we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks for everything you're doing out there, too, with our students. You're doing a great job.
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Riley Gaines
Yeah, of course. Thank you, too.
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Andrew Colvett
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Blake
Oh, boy, they're bitten that bobby horse again.
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Andrew Colvett
There have been. Yeah, there have been multiple storylines that feel like I'm like, in 2021 again. Like, over and over and over again.
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Blake
2023, I think, was the peak where they were really. They were really emphasizing that Christian nationalism was going to be the threat du jour of 2024.
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Andrew Colvett
But, like, for real, what is wrong with Christians loving their country, being involved in politics? Isn't that how America was founded?
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Blake
Yeah, I mean, it's that classic thing where antifa will post, you know, these World War II, like, Antifa in World War II, when they would. Have they all considered their great grandfathers, like, the worst fascist imaginable? Of course, every view they hold.
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Andrew Colvett
Yeah.
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Blake
And so same thing, you're a Christian nationalist. If you believe anything that 90% of Americans believed from 1776 to 1970, consider this.
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Andrew Colvett
So CNN does a piece, Pamela Brown, who I know, talking about the radicalization of people at Charlie's memorial because Charlie was assassinated by a radical, by, as we talked about with Riley, somebody that was animated at least in part by his love affair with somebody that was trans. And instead of burning down the country like the real radicals did, we held vigils and memorials and people bought Bibles and they got baptized. How is that a bad thing? What are we even talking about here? So let me play the clip. 384 and if you don't get as ticked off as I do watching this, I don't know, this is just really infuriating stuff. 384 memorial service was one of the most potent examples of this shift in.
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Charlie Kirk
Our culture that we're experiencing right now.
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Andrew Colvett
Where a large segment of American Christians are being activated by these ideas, radicalized by these ideas that say that they.
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Charlie Kirk
Are the persecuted ones and that they.
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Andrew Colvett
Need to stand up for, for Christians rights. Well, you know, Charlie did get assassinated. You do realize that whoever this guy is, what's his name, he deserves to be made a little bit famous for being an idiot.
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Blake
I refuse to know the names of CNN personnel.
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Andrew Colvett
So we have a nation that was founded by Christians inspired by quite fanatical Christians, if anything. Yes. By the way, the only true form of Christianity is radical Christianity. There is Bible verses talking about if you're a lukewarm Christian, you will be spit out.
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Blake
And it's, it's one of those books Charlie liked, Tom Holland's Dominion that we, because we swim in the ocean of Christianity, even if you're not religious. Actually we don't recognize how fundamentally radical Christianity was from its very beginnings that it totally remade the moral order of the Roman Empire, of the other Europeans that converted to it, of the Middle Easterners who converted to it, that everyone who ran into Christianity in the first century, the second century, the third century for the first time they're thinking what in the world is this? It has to be a radical faith. It is not a faith that is just going with your completely innate passive impulses that prevailed everywhere around the world before it came along.
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Andrew Colvett
Well, and this is the point. I mean you look at what we talked about with the rise of Gen Z, men going to church, they're going to the ancient churches that have not bent the knee to the zeitgeist of the culture of the day. They're going with things that are proudly and unapologetically preaching the full gospel, the full weight of it. You know, they don't want a weak, watered down preaching style. They don't want that. That's exactly what the world offers. They don't want pseudo social sciences with a pew. That's what the world offers. They want radical Christianity that's boldly standing up for the principles of Jesus Christ and his death on the cross, risen from the dead on the third day, appearing before the apostles and then 500 and then 5,000. That's what they want. They want the full thing. And they want people inspired by that faith that to march into the public square and to build a world that looks more like the kingdom of God. That is the Christian faith.
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Blake
Let's go to the clip. Charlie. 395.
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Charlie Kirk
John Adams seamlessly said the Constitution was only written for a moral and religious people. It was wholly inadequate for the people of any other. The body politic of America was so Christian and was so Protestant that our form and structure of government was built for the people that believed in Christ our Lord. One of the reasons we're living through a constitutional crisis is that we no longer have a Christian nation, but we have a Christian form of government and they're incompatible. So you cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population.
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Andrew Colvett
Our little thing that we are discussing has made its way to Fox News 394.
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Fox News Anchor
Young men report feeling culturally dislocated or villainized by progressive secular discourse regarding masculinity. Traditional forms of Christianity, particularly Catholicism and Orthodoxy, offer a narrative of responsibility, sacrifice and hierarchy that appeals to men seeking a defined role in a fluid world. Now, the report also breaks down weekly religious attendance by education level and those with postgraduate degrees are at 30%. People with bachelor's degrees 28%. Emily, to add to this a little bit, okay, it's a worldwide phenomenon. 45% increase in the number of people baptized in France. In the UK, they have seen 18 to 24 year olds jump from 4% believers in attending church in 2018-16. But I love this. Most of this growth is concentrated among Catholics and Pentecostals. A shout out to my evangelical crowd there.
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Blake
4% is what it bottomed out in the UK that.
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Andrew Colvett
Well, what's crazy is that they, you know, they're talking about how young men specifically feel alienated by a progressive discourse. If you show that Yahoo. Again, just give me this picture of this guy with his glasses saying they're being radicalized. Stand up for the Christian faith. Well, what do you think is going to happen when you target pro lifers that are praying outside of abortion clinic? What do you think is going to happen when you spy on Catholics? This is what young men feel alienated by. That's a Karen with a beard right there talking about the rise of Christian nationalism. The rise of Christian nationalism is why we didn't burn down cities when Charlie was killed. What are they complaining about? What would you want in its place? A bunch of antifa thugs marching in the streets throwing Molotov cocktails? What would you want in its place? More targets looted, more buildings burned. Mangiones going around shooting the head of United Healthcare. Is that what you really want? I just don't understand what they're so upset about. This country is a Christian nation. It was founded by Christians as Charlie said. And guess what? Western civilization is defined by one through line Christianity. You are blessed by Christianity. Cnn. You are blessed by the fact that Christians are still driven to lead purposeful lives and get into politics, to get into business, to have families.
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Blake
If they don't like Christian nationalism, they are not going to like whatever comes after them.
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Andrew Colvett
Islamic nationalism, is that what you want? I don't think you want that. Alright, so we actually have a clip of Charlie being called a Christian nationalist by a student during a prove me wrong debate. Let's go ahead and play. Cut. Do we have the number 404? Christian nationalism I do not agree with at all. I think it's antithetical to the values of the early church. And I think how do you reconcile the especially white Christians in this America.
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Blake
Marrying politics and power with their faith in this country?
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Charlie Kirk
There's a lot there. I've never described myself as a Christian nationalist. So I'm a Christian and a nationalist, so I've never used those two.
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Andrew Colvett
And then right there, that and nationalist. Where in the scriptures does a Christian.
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Charlie Kirk
Thank you. Jeremiah 29:7 demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
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Andrew Colvett
Beautiful answer. It's true. We are called to support the nation state. It was God that defined the boundary lines of the nations and you know, render unto Caesar what is Caesar's render unto God? What is God? I mean there's God loves order. And this is, you know, a lot of these people that don't believe in, you know, being proudly nationalistic or patriotic. I see them as basically bleeding into the same concept. What the left wants to do is create a boogeyman that never existed until they sort of invented the term and then they use it as a cudgel to try and scare you and make you distance yourself from it. Well, listen, we're Christians and we love our nation. There's not much more to it than that simple house.
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Blake
For more on many of these stories.
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Andrew Colvett
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