AMA: Ask Us Anything 255: State of the Church? Normalization of Political Violence? Scripture vs. the Law?

00:00:03 Speaker 1: 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'll end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start at turning point, you would say college chapter. Go start aturning point youould say 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. 00:00:46 Speaker 2: Lord, Use me. 00:00:48 Speaker 1: Buckle up, everybody, Here we go. The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserved Gold, leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company. I recommend to my family, friends and viewers. 00:01:09 Speaker 2: All right, we are back. Hour two is underway. It is the Ask us Anything, And by the way, I just couldn't say enough good things about our guests here. Obviously, Mikey McCoy, the mediocretive Mikey McCoy, let's not insert an adjective, Mike McCoy. And then the what you call him, the jacked pastors, You are pretty jacked. He's a formidable. 00:01:38 Speaker 3: Heard his voice, he is a formidable presence. 00:01:40 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to say something I shouldn't. If I was coming down the side of the street in the middle of the night and you were walking past me, I would go to the other side just because you're so big. 00:01:50 Speaker 4: Well you know what, Andrew you are. Legitimately, if I was walking down the street and I saw you with that square Jon, I'm going to the other side as well. 00:02:02 Speaker 2: Shin bogging. Before we get to the whole I was gonna say, I was going to say, uh I was. I ended the last hour talking about men with chest yes, and that is I mean, I just I really do think there is no more powerful force in civilization than a fully formed men. And I did steal that from C. S. Lewis, but it really is who you are. You're a man of courage, you speak your mind, you are fearless. Maybe you're not fearless. Maybe you have fear, but you overcome it with your courage. And I know that all comes from your faith, and Charlie saw that in you as well. So we're just so glad to have you. 00:02:38 Speaker 4: Hey, it's an honor. First and foremost, I pay respect and homage to the legacy of Charlie Curtin. I will never forget him. He came along and supported my ministry when I had four hundred followers on Instagram, before I was known for going viral at school board meetings. Charlie believed in the work that I was doing, and so I have to always keep that at the forefront. We live in a day where loyalties don't matter. People betray you for nothing. It's rare where you see that a person may have had their demise, but yet and still the person remains consistent. We live in an age of inconsistent people. I won't betray his legacy. I'll continue to support TPUSA, support Erica Kirk, who's doing a phenomenal job. And you guys are trying to do something that's merely impossible. You're trying to carry on the work of a leader who's essentially a one of one leader, once in a lifetime leader. But you understand that what God gave Charlie was for Charlie. But there's an anointing and grace that God gives us all, and we have to flow in that anointing and in that grace may ten people to equal to what Charlie did. But yet and still we can do it because of the anointing that God leaves to do the work. 00:04:10 Speaker 2: Amen. Well well said, and you know we're just grateful to have I'm glad. We texted last night and I was like, dude, you gotta come. 00:04:18 Speaker 3: Indeed, yeah, before we get the questions I wanted to get. We talked about made the assistant suicide thing in Canada and it got a lot of emails, and I really a lot of people had strongness, and I wanted to read some of them because I thought it's important to really drive this point home, especially when it resonates with our audience. Debrah points out, I have a friend in Canada who has lupus or had lupas and could not get proper care, so instead they just offered her maid. She had just turned fifty, she has a husband, she has a child. She refused for obvious reasons, but Canada's health system is broken. Praise God that she is a Christian. 00:04:54 Speaker 2: They're literally shoving it down people's throat. Yes, they'll just say they're proactively encouraging it. 00:04:59 Speaker 3: You want to know, yea, and yeah, you want to know. What really freaks me out the most about this is how fast in one generation you can just switch to what was radical but is now normal. And I was talking to my family about, you know, growing up, their generation would see movies where you could talk on the phone to your watch, and they're like, and that happened in like twenty thirteen with the Apple Watch. But then now it's like, way early on the concept of a third trimester abortion was radical now and the concept of of you know, a medically assistant suicide radical, or transing your kid was radical, but within like a fifty year period, it's now normal. And so you have to ask yourself what's next, like what comes after that? And it's like they're going to start normalizing marriage to an underage child, They're going to start normalizing political polygamy or yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And in Canada it's I feel mention this Canada was more Christian than America after World War Two, if you can believe it. But I want a couple more. Joanne says, I know all about made in Canada because Canadian doctors bury their mistakes. My uncle had an ear infection at Quack Blue Air into it ruptured his ear drum and the infection spread. He traveled to Vancouver. They did nothing. He couldn't stand the pain any longer, and the doctor was more than happy to help him end it all. My aunt is still devastated two years later by the way he was treated. This is an evil ideology of death. 00:06:27 Speaker 2: Amen. 00:06:27 Speaker 3: And one more, Aaron points out, they should know that First, Corinthians, do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in you. If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy and you are that temple. Assisted suicide is an abomination. 00:06:46 Speaker 1: Wow. 00:06:46 Speaker 3: Amen to that, Aaron. But we have some subscriber questions, so let's dive into those. Our first one is from Caleb. Caleb, are you there unmute yourself? 00:06:57 Speaker 2: Yes? Howdy? 00:06:59 Speaker 5: I think great share that you guys have today because I had two church questions. I wanted to ask you guys. 00:07:04 Speaker 3: Excellent, excellent, what is it? 00:07:06 Speaker 5: Yeah? My first question was, many churches today seem to be struggling to keep young people connected and engaged. From your perspective, what does the biggest issue churches need to fix and what steps can they take to rebuild their communities? 00:07:19 Speaker 4: Well, first and foremost, the Bible says that God's truth endures to all generations. With that in mind, we don't need a baby boom or gospel. We don't need an X Gospel, we don't need a gen Z Gospel. We need the gospels preached by men who have been impacted and changed by the gospel. And so about seven or eight years ago I went to Barnes and Nobles to gain some understanding on what books were impacting kids. And seventy percent of the books that I saw that was postured in the front of the store were about the occult world or pagan worship, which told me that people want to delve into mysticystems. They want to know that there's something out there that's supernatural, and there is there's some false gods, but there's a real God that supersedes over the Earth, and now more than ever, we need to have an emphasis in the Christian Church on the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. People need to have an encounter with God. And when you have an encounter with God, no one can shake what you have seen and what you know. In addition, pastors must engage the culture. We can't leave it up to social media and TikTok to educate the church on what's right, what's true, and what's just. Many pastors today won't touch issues of transgenderism, abortion, the school system, issues of whether some states want school choice or not or not. They won't touch it because they are afraid to tick off their more liberal members. And so I say it this way that weak pool pitch create weak Christians. Scary preachers create scary sheep. And what we need now more than ever, our pastors who are not afraid to be bludgeoned right to be crucified, crucified afresh because of what they stand for and what they believe. Because of that, so many say nothing and they allow the podcaster to dominate what's being said. 00:09:25 Speaker 3: Wow. 00:09:26 Speaker 2: I also think comes to mind Proverbs twenty twenty two six. Train up the child and the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. It ties into what we were talking about with the Scouts, you know. That's why when we had ten million Scouts in nineteen seventy six, ten young men, it was a lot of young men being raised up in the way they should go. Let's go to the next question. 00:09:47 Speaker 3: I think I saw it. Caleb had a second half, but I think we did get to that. 00:09:52 Speaker 2: The main thing struggling with the church is struggling with this. We got weak pastors. Indeed, Yeah, I think we got. 00:09:58 Speaker 4: It all right. 00:10:00 Speaker 3: Thank you Caleb for your question. The online world moves fast, and it's moving even faster these days. That's why TikTok approaches teen safety with families in mind from the start, because discovery and creativity are both wonderful things, but it's important to make sure that safety comes first as well. On TikTok, teenagers have over fifty built in protections right from when they join accounts. 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Our next is rob rob unneute yourself and what's your question? 00:11:17 Speaker 2: Hey, gentlemen, Good afternoon, Good afternoon. 00:11:20 Speaker 6: So, uh so, I live in a smaller county in Florida, and actually a couple of months back, actually my wife called into you guys again. You get so many callers, you know, every week. I'm sure you don't remember, but she had called in and asked about how do we deal with an issue within our county, essentially that they're trying to hit us with an additional tax, and we had a unique idea for it. You guys actually gave her a really cool quote. You played a quote from Erica about having a velvet spine of steel and withstanding people that, yeah, yeah, yeah, really cool and quotes everywhere. But so, anyway, so they want to raise our taxes here, right, So we dug into the budget and what we found was kind of alarming. So over the course of about a ten year period, we actually found in our little Florida county about one hundred and eighty million dollars that nobody can really account for for why they collected at nine I'm an accountant, I have eleven spreadsheets all over this, and I mean it's actually legit, and not to get too nerdy on you, but basically, our property taxes grew by about one hundred and sixty one percent over the last ten years, but population only went up by about thirty five percent, inflations about twenty eight percent, So there's a big gap essentially. So like last year, they collected what would have been the equivalent of an actual like forty seven million dollars then they should have if they would have used the twenty fifteen baseline, and it's like close to two hundred million. So anyways, My question is, so we're looking to kind of relaunch this and present this information to our county on Monday. And one of the things we're doing is online. We're building out a website. We're gonna have an accountability scorecard as well for every elected official, every candidate in our area, and basically we want to get them on record publicly and saying, hey, do you support having an independent audit of our county? And only after doing that will you even think about raising taxes. So my question is is how do you actually get these officials to respond? And I ironically say this, Jen's the only reason she's not talking my wife on this right now. She's actually talking to a city council member right now. But we've had a lot of back and forth with people and they don't really want to commit to anything. So how do we get there? 00:13:34 Speaker 2: In Congress? 00:13:35 Speaker 6: Randy Fine got it? 00:13:38 Speaker 2: Actually, you know Randy Fine is going to be I guess just confirmed to speak at our event in DC. With that, Anna Paulina Luna is running well. 00:13:47 Speaker 3: So big picture, I think getting that the heart of it is there is I think the flawed assumption that government actually cares about stopping waste and in a lot of cases it doesn't. They often are the beneficiaries of higher waste that can often translate to having more personnel under them, just higher salaries for themselves, higher benefits for themselves, and more to the point, if you're in the government, there's not much of a penalty for having a lot of waste. It's not your money, it's somebody else's money. So the people you do, unfortunately have to get whipped up about it are the people who actually pay the taxes, because they're the ones who are harmed by this. And this is one of the big existential problems in America is as you tilt to where the number of people meaningfully paying taxes is less than half the population, you get to a point where there are arguably not enough people who have a stake in anything being run effectively, being run efficiently. So I think you have a good idea with trying to create websites create more local awareness of the scale of the problem. But in the end, something that has to happen is you basically have to make sure that this is something people will turn out and vote for in local races to change. 00:14:57 Speaker 2: Yeah, can you send us your website when it's up, please because I will route that send you the backing. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest with you. 00:15:07 Speaker 6: My dream would be again, I don't expect you to do it on the spot, but you guys and TP us a action I was not not money, not people, just a endorsement of you know what, you guys are doing good work and we're behind you. That would mean the world if you guys saw then was legitimate. Now and I understand and the need of that. 00:15:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I we got to edit, of course, but I you know assuming, I mean you guys, you guys remembers, so you've already have our good will and I want to I want to see it, but I would route it to some some officials that we could get to, especially in Florida, we know a lot. Also, we just had Byron Donald's on the show. If he was aware of this, I'm sure he'd be very interested. And then but to Blake's point, getting pop popular support, ground swell support in your local community and showing up at the city council meetings demanding accountability as opposed to raising taxes, I mean, this is the problem. You know, you have a Republican district that's acting like a bunch of Democrats. What a Democrats do in California, They tax and they spend and then they want to tax some more. Now they need billionaire's wealth tax, right, So this is this is what they do. And instead of fixing the problem underlying, it's not that you have a revenue problem, you have a spending problem. So stop acting like Democrats. Stop taxing us more. We want More's listen, taxation is essentially theft at some level right when, especially when it's not when it's not being used responsibly, it's certainly morally incumbent upon those elected leaders to use it responsibly. So I'm very motivated to help you and we need to. You know, sometimes you need to get examples, you need to scalp to basically get your point across. So please send us your website and we'll go from there. But good work. I love how motivated you guys are. This is the type of grassroots base energy that we need to take our country back. So hat tip to you guys, and you know, God bless you, and we need to. You know, sometimes you need to get examples, you need to scalp to basically get your point across. So please send us your website and we'll go from there. But good work. I love how motivated you guys are. This is the type of grassroots base energy that we need to take our country back. So hat tip to you guys, and you know, God bless you. Can we get to the next question here it would be Mick No, I think it's Brandon. Brandon, please unmute yourself. Welcome to the show. Hey guys, can everyone hear me? Yes, of course. 00:17:28 Speaker 7: So my question is how do we, you know, balance what it tells us in scripture to obey the authority we live in with fighting unjust laws. 00:17:43 Speaker 4: There are so many ways that you can unpack that question. The thing is, the powers that be are ordained by God. That's Romans chapter thirteen. 00:17:53 Speaker 2: Render under Caesar. 00:17:54 Speaker 4: That's right. But the problem with Caesar, Caesar wants too much. Right they Caesar wants to continue to take take from us. When you look at the Old Testament, you see the Hebrew boys who were thrown into a fire reference because they resisted what the king wanted. You see Daniel thrown in the lions down because he resisted what the king wanted. You see David fighting Goliath. Why because he resisted what Goliath was saying about the people of God. And so there lies a point, all right, where if the laws are unjust, i e. We are being forced to do things that are against our biblical worldview, we shouldn't succumb to those laws. We shouldn't do it, all right, we shouldn't adhere to it. Hats off to the mighty men of God who during the pandemic were told to close their churches, but instead of closing their churches, they kept their churches open. Now, many of them received fines, I'm sure the because that you know, and it finds, and they were pilloriad and bludgeon because of their belief system. But yet instead they kept their churches open. And what we're seeing right now is that the churches that resisted during the pandemic, those churches are thriving, and the churches that close down many of them are still shuttered. And so, yes, there is a point where we have to disagree and disobey the laws of the land if they go against scripture and what God has called us to do. We should do that dutifully, but we should also do it winsomely, not with the intent to create disorder or chaos, but we cannot support laws that go against our biblical review. 00:19:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, which is why I brought up the example from the Acts. Sure. Sure they were being told you can't spread the gospel the Gospel, and they said, sorry, that's our mandate. We have to do it against the authority of the land. 00:19:48 Speaker 3: I would also add that specifically here in America, and Charlie used to talk about this all the time, that honoring those an authority is different in our country. And I was at dinner at the CED last night and they were like shocked. I was going through the Constitution. They're like, I just we love this article, we love this this Declaration. It's just the most powerful document. But having free speech, having the Second Amendment, having all these things, the authority in our country is the people. And so when you're called to honor those in authority when there's unjust rules, specifically the example of COVID nineteen when they're shuttering the doors, but strip clubs who are allowed to be open, right when they're forcing pastors not to have counseling sessions with their congregants, but marijuana dispensaries were open, you know, And so you have to ask yourself. You know, here in America, we the people are the authority. But then even greater than that, you guys talked about. You know in Matthew, where Christ talks about rendering unto Caesar, what is Caesar's he says, hold up the Denarius, And so they hold up Narius. He says, Who's face is on that it? Caesar says, okay, so render unto Caesar's what is Caesar's? And to God what is God's. But now, in modern day society, specifically America and in the West, we've rendered unto Caesar what is God's? Marriage is God's, the right to life is God's. And yet we have this notion in our head that that belongs to the government, that belongs to Caesar's. You know, that's a political issue. I can't touch that. That's a political issue. I don't want to talk about that. But no, it's not. It's not a political issue. You guys are you're lost, you're confused about that. It's actually a biblical issue. You've rendered unto Caesar what is God's? 00:21:32 Speaker 2: Well, and this is the declaration of independence. We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And that's the beauty of the country. I completely agree. I literally was typing in we the people are the sovereign. We are the sovereign from which the consent. We allow the government to rule and govern by our consent because we are the sovereign. And the declaration of independence is a love letter to humanity and to God. Because God gives us those rights, a government cannot take those from us, because they come divinely from the Creator. 00:22:16 Speaker 4: That's right. Acts Chapter four, verse twenty nine says the now Lord behold their threatenings, and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak Thy word. Verse thirty one says, and when they had prayed, the place was shaken. They were assembled together, and they were all filled with the holy ghosts, and they spake the word of God with boldness. That word boldness, and the Greek gives you the word parhesia, which means the unreservedness of utterance. It also means freedom of speech. Boldness is freedom of speech. And so when the preachers preaches the whole counsel of God, from Genesis to Revelations. That's freedom of speech. When he holds back truth, it's not freedom of speech. And so we see pastors all around our country with holding freedom of speech because they fear government. 00:23:02 Speaker 2: Before he ever stepped behind a microphone, Charlie understood something important. Leadership begins with learning. He didn't chase a diploma or a title. He chased truth. Through Hillsdale College's free online courses. He studied the great works of the Classics, the principles of the American Founding, and the life changing truths of the Bible. Those ideas didn't just inform him, they shaped his character, strengthened his convictions, and prepared him for the challenges ahead of. One of the courses he took was The Genesis Story, taught by Hillsdale Professor doctor Justin Jackson. This free online course explores the relationship between God and man, what happens when that relationship is broken, and the path toward reconciliation. It's a real college course, rigorous, thoughtful, and accessible to anyone willing to learn. 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And one of the things that we've unfortunately seen normalized is violence against Conservatives and Christians, whether that's as far as trying to assassinate the president or you know, unfortunately successfully assassinating Charlie Kirk, down to you know, just people getting assaulted like I was assaulted during the first Trump administration when I was in school. There was a video going around Twitter a couple of weeks ago, this big kid just sucker punching this kid who had an ice A support I sign. And so with that, how do we effectively fight that culture of violence is okay against conservatives while maintaining our biblical values? 00:25:07 Speaker 2: Hmm, Yeah, it's like it. 00:25:11 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like when when, for example, you brought up the COVID example, when the government tells you not to do something and you know that it's a god given right to do the opposite, you stand in boldness to do it, whether or not you will be attacked, or whether or not you go to jail. And it's because you are fighting for something bigger, something greater than yourself, specifically when it comes to the values of truth that we hold. And so if the left is threatening violence against you, you know that you have a duty to stand up for that truth, to stand up for your values, regardless of if you're going to be attacked or not. And unfortunately, the trajectory of the left, especially when it comes to violence here in America, is they're becoming increasingly successful, not just in them assassinating our people, but also when it comes to the assassins, possibly in the case of Luigi Mangoni, the left mobilizing to make him this like hero. He's all he's a full care So every time there's a hearing at the courthouse, there's a bunch of leftist protesters that want to see Luigi and Mangioni walk free. For killing a man in cold blood, for assassinating a man for no other reason than he did not like the healthcare system that he was in charge of it. And it's very dark because this can succeed. It has succeeded in the past, where movements that love violence, embrace violence and promote it have successfully gotten They've had killers get away with things, they've gotten them very lenient sentences. You can see this if you want an ominous example, This would happen regularly in Russia before they had the Bolshevik Revolution, constant culture of assassinations and people who would get off quite lightly in many cases for involvement in those. And so how do we fight it, well, I would say politically a very important step. In areas where we have power, for example in Red States right now, and for that matter, in the federal government. You need to take a position of maximum hostility to politically driven violence, of course, and that can involve obviously prosecuting everyone you can, but also you have to lay down the law a bit. If your organization is clearly engineering riots, we're going to say you like, yeah, we need actual we should probably change raiko and make sure Raiko is capable of prosecuting. Yeah, organizations like that. You just you can't take a casual attitude. And so, for example, if you have these riots that happen on a campus to try to shut down a turning point speaker, as happened to Charlie many times, you have to actually say, this is a much bigger deal than we've acted like it is in the past. This is an attempt to destroy freeingo speech and to violently intimidate someone against doing something. Yeah, bam, you were trying to strip someone of their civil rights. We're going to throw you in prison for a decade. 00:27:55 Speaker 2: Thank you. 00:27:55 Speaker 3: Come again. 00:27:56 Speaker 2: Well, oh go ahead, Mike. 00:27:57 Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, call it out where you see it too. President Trump did such a great job at the State of Union when literally the Democrats are not standing up for Arena Zarutska violently murdered. 00:28:09 Speaker 2: They didn't stand up when he said we got to stand up against political violence either. They didn't care. They don't care. These people hate you, well, they hate you. And here here's what I would say too. Just I'm thinking about Charlie. You know, Charlie was aware of the threats against him. He was It's something he talked about on the show. I've seen the clips circulating online a lot, and you know, I'm reminded of Scripture. Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body. And hell, you know, there's a lot of people that believe in God, there's very few that fear him. And so as we can contemplate all of these questions, these deep, troubling, profound questions, ask yourself, do you just believe in God? Or do you fear him? And Charlie feared God. Charlie did everything because he feared God. I endeavor to be a man that fears God and doesn't fear man. And last thing I will say, and then I want to hear from Pastor John. We have a spiritual rot in this country. And there's a whole political party that has basically removed God from their platform. They've denied his edicts and his instructions and his commands. And so what we really need is we need revival. Now the Loft's going to call Christian nationalism and I'll do those smear jobs. We need revival and that ultimately is the only thing that's going to give enough people enough courage to face it. 00:29:33 Speaker 4: Consider the climate of where the early church was after the killing, the open killing of Jesus. John I believe it's twenty verse nineteen says, Then the same day, at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were a symbol for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst and sent into them, peace be unto you. This is after Jesus was killed, and the disciples are now in the upper room. They're hiding out, afraid, terrified for their lives. We don't want to go beyond these walls because they may kill us as well, because we just watched them kill our savior. Charlie believed that to live is Christ, but to die is gain. There's a difference. There's a mentality that's required to do kingdom work. You know, most people don't really know what that place looks like spiritually and mentally. But you have to become desensitized to the threats. The threats are intended to quiet you, to steining you, to keep you from speaking up. The threats are supposed to cause you to neuter your voice, censor yourself, self censorship. Right, all of these things are intentional. It's a plan to keep a person from doing what they know is just right and good. But Jesus spoke to his disciples and told them peace be unto you, and then he goes on to show them proof that he existed. And then ultimately he gives them, you know, the initial down payment of the Holy Spirit. Yeah, he breathes on them and gives them the power to go beyond their fears. And so the movement within Turning Point USA will thrive, it will continue to grow. So as long as we move beyond the fear, the threat of retribution, what could happen. I'll tell you what's going to happen. We're all gonna die one day. That's what's gonna happen. Yeah, that is a constant, it's not a variable. At some point, at some time, it will happen. That's it. And so the thing is, we want to fall forward while hanging and die with our boots on. We don't want to rust out, we want to wear out. There's a difference. There's some people who will choose to rust out. I'm not going to fight, I'm not going to contend because of the threat. Okay, but I just told you earlier that boldness means freedom of speech. Yes, we have to get back to that, to that secure place of biblical boldness, where we speak knowing that the threat is coming, because it may come, but we cannot die an hour or a second or a minute before God wills it to be. Yes, no man can erase that, No man can stop that until we speak knowing that Christ will protect this. 00:32:29 Speaker 2: Well, we know that the you know, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Indeed, and so what and I say this, and I'll say it again, what man endeavors to stop, God has already unleashed it and can't stop. And so that's we rest in that peace we have to because yes, and by the way, the revival is is is already unleashed it. It is and the pews that young people especially are going back to church, and they're going back to the full gospel that's there, not going back to weak church. 00:33:02 Speaker 3: Well to your point on the I mean it's right behind you Andrew sinners in the hands of an angry God. That's a sermon for those of you who have not read that sermon. Today, go read that sermon, and that is what the gospel used speak. Did you know during that sermon there use when like literally during this sermon there'd be people balling their eyes out out of fear of God, that they would have to pull them out of the congregation because they are a distraction from the sermon, sinners in the hands of an angry God. Today, when when when congregants are leaving the church during a sermon, it's because they were offended, not because the fear of God, not because they are crying out of fear of God. So it's the it's shifted, it's shifted. And so this this idea of fear that you might be attacked or killed by by the left for speaking truth, it's actually gain. It is to die is to gain. All of this is gained. And so the gospel has changed. I want to be found do the work that God called me to do when it is my time to go home. That's I do not want to be found on a golf course drinking on a Thursday morning. That's right, like that, that is not our goal in life. It's the opposite. 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And remember, y Refi doesn't care what your credit score is. Just go to yrefi dot com and tell them your friend Andrews sent you. We have a question here from Liz. You Liz. 00:35:22 Speaker 3: We lost Liz, but we wanted to get to her a question. She says, I live in Calvert County, Maryland. My question is did TPUSA try to open up a group in one of the public schools but was shut down because someone called the police. I am trying to get to the truth so I can go to our commissioners. 00:35:37 Speaker 2: Yes. 00:35:38 Speaker 3: So this is a story that happened about a week ago. It happened at Northern High School in Calvert County. I believe it's in specifically the town of Owens, so it's maybe about looks like about an hour south of Baltimore or so. This is a Republican leaning county. 00:35:54 Speaker 4: Uh. 00:35:54 Speaker 3: But there was a Club America meeting at this high school and some woman we don't know her full name. It appears her name was Nancy, but hopefully I don't think it's my mom, so we'll we'll hope that one. But anyway, this woman, unhinged woman saw this was event and said that it was they were trying to influence children in a negative way. So basically announced that she was calling child protective services over this event. Based on local news reports, it does not appear that the authorities took this terribly seriously. They were called, but police did not shut down this event. I think they probably had a good eye roll at this. So this is a good example of how deranged people will get. But my understanding is there were the authorities did not run with this report from an unhinged ovaber. All right, so excellent Anthony is next sports Anthony is back all right in itself and shoot. 00:36:46 Speaker 2: Welcome back. 00:36:47 Speaker 9: Okay, Hi guys, Well, actually I want to befoget to my question. 00:36:51 Speaker 2: I'm going to piggyback off what. 00:36:52 Speaker 9: You guys just finished. Have you paid attention to what's going on in Baldwinsville, New York with the high school and a teacher who tried to help the students start a tvsay. 00:36:59 Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yeah, we're very well aware of it, and we can't really comment on it yet because legal maneuverings happening. 00:37:06 Speaker 9: So yeah, so all right, So my question is this, so we had the State of the Union. We see all the Republicans on their side of the room stand up for everything, clap for all the good stuff. 00:37:16 Speaker 2: That we all like. 00:37:17 Speaker 9: But what is what Republicans and the GOP like not working together when they go back to their separate houses and not trying to pass the things that we the people want that we put them in charge of, like you know, save Act for one, And why do GOP members not just a federal level, but at every level, seem to have this infighting with each other. Why can't they ever unite? 00:37:44 Speaker 3: Ahead You could answer that one, Yeah, we need to do do his life's work. 00:37:52 Speaker 4: If it was that. 00:37:53 Speaker 2: I mean, I will give you an example to save Act. I've been talking with a bunch of different senators about this and right now, you know, they're all publicly saying they want this done. The problem is is there's parliamentary tactics that are involved different schools of thought about how to address the parliamentary tactics that you also have to ask the question, you know, can you get to fifty Right now? It looks like we're at forty nine because Tillis is out and Lisa Murkowski is out and Mitch McConnell's out. So fundamentally, at some sort of lower threshold level, you're talking about a hardwiring of the conservative mind. We're just like a rowdy bunch, and we're more independent thinkers. We're not as collectivist, we're not as high minded as the left. But really there's you know, an interest in the instance of Tom Tillis with President Trump, there's a few. You know, President Trump didn't like him. They it became a public view. Now Tom Tillis is going to make it his you know, lasting legacy to just be a thorn in his side. I don't know why that is. I don't know why Tom Tillis wants to go out like that. You'd have to ask him. He's not gonna come on this show. I've invited him, and so you know there's deeper questions. Rights Rakowski. We got her because of rank choice voting, which is a total sturge in Alaska. Mitch McConnell's on his way out, but he's been a pain in the butt for years. Okay, so you know these are issues. Ram Paul is very unpredictable out of Kentucky. By the way, Nate Morris for senator to take over for Mitch McConnell. We got to get him over the finish line. He's surging in the polls. So Nate Morris support that guy. So we need better We need better representatives, people that are as conservative as the voters. I mean, this is what Charlie spent so much of his time doing. That's why Charlie endorsed Nate Morris by the way and Andy Biggs in Arizona because we need we need better representation and a lot of these good old boy networks defend their own and NRSC has problems. It's it goes on and on and on. So I mean, if anybody else wants to jump in, please please do. 00:39:49 Speaker 4: But well, speaking of Tom Taylor's that's my senator. It's sad, it's a travesty. We've always known that in North Carolina. Oftentimes when special interests get involved in arc money, people begin to change. But I do want to show you all that I know this is this is a anomaly. I'm a black man in America with a I D. I just wanted you all to see this. 00:40:13 Speaker 2: You get this on the black market? 00:40:14 Speaker 3: No, I didn't get the I still. 00:40:18 Speaker 2: Right now? 00:40:21 Speaker 9: Did he get it in New York? And it says like no name for driver? 00:40:24 Speaker 2: Is this the cdo? Is this? Are you? I don't drive? You know, I will tell you on the special interest on the a special interest thing. So I went to this Capitol Hill Club for the first time, and I went with Andy ogles Uh the team there They wanted me to see it kind of as like a show you where the sausage is made. Really, and it's this club where all these Republicans. This where the Republicans hang out. You got to pay all this money to be a member, and then you go there and you have these like kind of like whatever dinner. They're not even that great and it's not even that pretty incident, but this is like the exclusive place where you meet with lobbyists and donors and stuff like this. And I literally I made the comment. I was like, my skin is crawling, and they were like, oh yeah, it's spiritually dark place. So you wonder kind of some of the deals and the maneuverings that are going on behind the scenes. This Capitol Hill Club is probably h you know, ground zero for a lot of that stuff. All right, I want to get to a couple more questions, Anthony, Is that all right? You get your question? 00:41:24 Speaker 9: No, that's perfectly fine. 00:41:26 Speaker 2: We've got it. One minute left, ye, Alice Elia, how do I say? 00:41:33 Speaker 3: We'll unmute yourself, Elashava and let us know if you got your name right and shoot it quick and we'll give you sixty seconds. 00:41:38 Speaker 10: Sorry, can you guys hear me. Yes, yeah, awesome. 00:41:41 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:41:42 Speaker 3: So it's Alicia. 00:41:46 Speaker 10: Yeah, so we're from Canada. It's my sister and I here, and our question is, so what do you guys think of I know you talked about made earlier in the episode, but what is your opinion of our currentrime minister right now, Mark Carney? And then also second fall up to that question, I'm curious. We are starting a youth political activism organization up here, and would you have any advice for us when it comes to making youth more conservative and helping young Canadians love their country? 00:42:20 Speaker 3: All right, speed round. First of all, Mark Karney is a creepy globalist lizard. He's very smart. He's clearly very smart. He's really very capable, and that's frustrating. He's very hostile to us, he is, but he's talented. We should not downplay because you know, we shouldn't underestimate him for creating an organization in Canada. Fearlessness is going to be the number one thing you need because your country doesn't have proper freedom of speech. 00:42:45 Speaker 2: It doesn't. 00:42:47 Speaker 3: It really is all in the woke stuff that's been receding in America. So you're going to need a huge amount of. 00:42:52 Speaker 2: Fearless social media. Social media. 00:42:53 Speaker 3: Social media endlessly fight where the people are, and that's going to be TikTok, that's going to be X, that's going to be Instagram. People are and engage. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com