Remembering Mike Ditka + AMA 281

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Buckle up, everybody. 00:00:49 Speaker 4: Here we go. 00:00:56 Speaker 2: Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show. a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. 00:01:17 Speaker 3: All right. Welcome, everybody. It is October 9th, 2026. We are here at the YRefi Studios in Phoenix, Arizona. And boy, oh boy, there is so much news to get to. But we want to start off by remembering Mike Ditka, who passed away at 86 years old today. He was an all-American legend, a patriot, an original. And we have so many great clips that the team found, including clips that Charlie was talking about Mike Ditka. He was a Trump supporter when it was very unpopular to be so, especially as a public figure. He had the courage of his convictions. He didn't put up with any gruff. He didn't have time for naysayers or time wasters. And that way he reminded me a lot of Charlie and he just spoke his mind and he passed away today. And it's important to remember the legends that fall and that go before us. 00:02:08 Speaker 1: This is the guy who, he was such a legend. He won a super bowl for the Chicago bears, which I'm not sure anyone else is ever going to do. I'm a Packers fan, of course, but he is an all time legend. So one of our emails, Frank said the most famous Chicago and of the past hundred years. And I'm including Obama. 00:02:25 Speaker 3: Well, Charlie would give him a run for their money, but yeah. 00:02:28 Speaker 1: Possibly, possibly, but Chicago legend, of course, but not just a sports legend, but a guy who had a very good philosophy on life, actually. 00:02:37 Speaker 3: Yeah, he did. We have a tweet here from Charlie quoting Mike Ditka. This was back in 2013. It had no retweets, no likes when we found this. Yeah, exactly. So now it has a few because people found it. Success isn't permanent. Failure isn't fatal. Mike Ditka. That was from 2013. Here's Mike Ditka on Colin Kaepernick. I was I grew up a 49ers fan. And so when Kaepernick went nuts, I'm also from Nevada. So he went to UNR. So when Kaepernick lost his marbles, it really kind of sucked for me because it kind of hit two of my fan bases there. Here's Mike Ditka on it. Stop 14. 00:03:15 Speaker 5: Coach, where do you stand on this whole Colin Kaepernick issue? 00:03:19 Speaker 6: What do you mean? 00:03:20 Speaker 1: Do you have a problem with Colin Kaepernick? 00:03:22 Speaker 6: I think it's a problem with anybody who disrespects his country and the flag. If they don't like the country and they don't like. 00:03:27 Speaker 7: Our flag, get the hell out. 00:03:28 Speaker 6: That's what I think. So if you're asking me, I have no respect for Colin Kaepernick. He probably has no respect for me. That's his choice. My choice is that I like this country. I respect our flag. And I don't see all the atrocities going on in this country that people say are going on. I see opportunities if people want to look for opportunities. Now, if they don't want to look for them, then you can find problems with anything. But this is the land of opportunity, because you can be anything you want to be if you work. Now, if you don't work, there's a different problem. 00:04:01 Speaker 3: Pretty simple. 00:04:01 Speaker 1: Great stuff, great stuff. And he was a guy, someone tried to heckle him. He called into a radio show that he was on once, and Ditka had a response that, Legendary. Legendary very much in the vein of, I think, what Charlie might say. Let's do clip five. 00:04:17 Speaker 8: Why did it appear that Mike was holding back, trying not to cry like the baby that he is? 00:04:25 Speaker 7: Well, Neil, I tell you. 00:04:26 Speaker 4: What you are, I can't say on the air. 00:04:28 Speaker 7: But I tell you what, I'm. 00:04:32 Speaker 8: 53 years old, and my office is at 250 North Washington. Anytime you want to meet me there, you call me back on the air. You tell me what time and when, and I'll whip your. 00:04:47 Speaker 8: You got that, big boy? It's easy to hide behind a microphone, son. Let's get your face out in public, and let's live where people have to see you every day, and we'll see who the gutless wonder is. 00:05:01 Speaker 1: The modern thing, it's easy to be tough anonymous. It's easy to be tough when you're not in person. Charlie also is a big believer. Go out, see people face-to-face, touch grass. 00:05:12 Speaker 3: Here's Mike Dick on President Trump's hot six. 00:05:16 Speaker 7: I think these people are, can I say this? I happen to support Donald Trump. I like Donald Trump. I think he's the best man, best qualified person. I think he'll do a great job for America. There's a lot of people out there who don't think that. But we'll have to wait and see. Let him do his job first. If he can possibly screw it up, screwed up nearly half as much as Obama. I'll be surprised. 00:05:40 Speaker 1: Nearly half as much as Obama. But Charlie himself talked about Ditka at least once. We'll see if we can find more, but we found this one pretty quickly. Let's do clip 17. 00:05:50 Speaker 9: Mike Ditka. I'm a big Ditka fan, by the way. 00:05:53 Speaker 3: Dabersh, okay? 00:05:54 Speaker 2: From Chicago, all of you listening on AM560, The Answer. No offense to all of you listening on 77 on the dial on WABC. God bless you guys, but I'm a Chicago-first program here as far as my own allegiance. 00:06:05 Speaker 3: Da Bears. Da Bears. There was me. There was me too. 00:06:08 Speaker 1: Man, when was that from? I don't recognize any of that. 00:06:11 Speaker 3: That was probably 2022. Okay. All right. 00:06:15 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:06:15 Speaker 3: Anyways, let's see here. So rest in peace, Mike Ditka. We're grateful for your legacy. And to the Ditka family, our hearts are with you. You lost a legend today. So We wanted to at least start the show with that because he truly was a great American and just had so much Chicago fight and spirit, that old school Chicago boy. But the other big story that I want to get, we have a lot of big stories. So we got Mark Halpern coming up in just a few minutes and Cook Political Report is moving more and more races in the Democrat favor. I'm not even convinced any of this stuff because we've now got a internal poll from Katie Hobbs in Arizona that shows that her approval rating is collapsing. And guess who they're blaming? Yep, Turning Point. Their internal memo says, Turning Point has flooded the airwaves with negative attack ads, swapping her and bringing her down. She's now well within the margin of error. Andy Biggs has seized the momentum in the state of Arizona. It's within four. 00:07:14 Speaker 7: Four. 00:07:15 Speaker 3: That's the internal polls. Guess what? We feel very confident in our ability to chase three to five points in this race. We've got 25% more ballot chasers in the state of Arizona than we had in 2024, and we threw the kitchen sink at Arizona in 2024. And it was the best performing swing state in the country then. So we like our chances. So please get out, support us, tpaction.com slash 100. We have seized momentum in the state of Arizona. Come help us, help us, help us. All we're going to do is going to give you 100 names of 100 people that are already conservatives that are registered to vote. And you're just going to talk to them and say, hey, our values are on the ballot. Come help us. Chase 100 names. We're going to give you 100 conservatives to talk to. and encourage them to get their ballot out. We'll give you a hotel room. We'll put you up in Arizona, Nevada, or New Hampshire. Be a part of the solution. Be a part of something bigger than yourself. We have momentum, folks. Here's what else you need to know. They admit conservatives are underrepresented in polling. First point. Second point. Undecideds are breaking for Andy Biggs, two to one. They're also very concerned that there's a no-labels candidate on the ballot and a Green Party candidate on the ballot. So be a part of the solution. Help us with the floridification of Arizona. We have 300,000 plus more registered Republicans in this state. We're up about four points from 2018 in the registration battle. We can do this very well. Who cares what Cook says? Who cares what Cook says? We can pull this off. We can hold the House and the Senate if we come out and we show up and we vote, okay? That's all you need to know. Don't look at the tea leaves every day and worry and let them suppress you, let them demoralize you. Be a part of the solution, tpaction.com slash 100. I'm begging you, come. Be a part of this. There is no better way to honor the legacy of Charlie Kirk than to put your feet on the pavement and knock on those doors and send the text and make the phone calls. Drive them to the ballot place if you need to. That's what we're empowering you to do. So be a part of it. And we would be honored, honored to have you join us in fighting to save this country. There's nothing more important this month. I'm telling you, it's going to be a great time. You're going to have the time of your life being a part of something bigger than yourself. President Trump is celebrating the fact that Columbus Day is back, baby. He's got a bunch of Italian-Americans and he's singing Ave Maria. 00:09:45 Speaker 1: He loves his operatic singing like that. It's very funny. I think every time I've been at an event that the president speaks at, he has that kind of playlist he likes to play, and he does that one opera song that I can't remember, and he'll play Phantom of the Opera. And every single time people are like, wow, I'm really surprised by the music here. And it's always the same music. 00:10:04 Speaker 3: It's like, how are we still surprised about this? 00:10:07 Speaker 10: All right. 00:10:07 Speaker 3: So there was a big debate last night. This is another toss up, a jump ball in Michigan. Abdul El-Sayed, I would say he's the odds on favorite, but he's an incredibly weak candidate. And he's a complete con artist. And finally, he was called a con artist last night by Mike Rogers, which I loved. But let's just play you some clips. We're going to have Mark Halperin join us next. And that's going to be great to kind of go through this. And we'll unpack the Cook Political Report and where the heck is James Talrico been. Lots of rumors about that squirreling. We'll try and separate fact from fiction for you guys. But let's play some clips from the debate. 00:10:42 Speaker 11: This is the same IRGC that has killed American troops in Iraq. It has blood on their hands, tried a terrorist attack here in the United States. If you can't condemn the IRGC, you have no business in the United States Senate. And if you think about why, you know, his supporters funnel money. from a group that supports the Muslim Brotherhood. He can't condemn a terrorist act that happened on our soil in the state of Michigan. He can't bring. 00:11:11 Speaker 1: Himself to condemn. 00:11:12 Speaker 12: I did condemn it, and you know it. 00:11:14 Speaker 1: Oh, you did not. You absolutely did not. 00:11:15 Speaker 4: Don't make stuff up. 00:11:16 Speaker 1: Don't make stuff up. 00:11:17 Speaker 4: You're talking about making stuff up. 00:11:18 Speaker 1: I literally condemned it, and you know it. 00:11:19 Speaker 11: This guy can't condemn it. He can't condemn Hamas. He can't condemn the Muslim Brotherhood. He says his home is Egypt. 00:11:26 Speaker 1: This is all starting to make sense. 00:11:28 Speaker 3: We are going to move along. Yeah, after that, Mike Rogers says, yeah, I might have a second home in Florida, but at least it's America, buddy. You've got one in the United Arab Emirates. Yeah, I mean, this guy, at some point, Blake, and there was a whole debate on CNN about this. I actually want to play it because I think it was an important clip. When a guy tells you who he is, when he can't condemn the easy stuff, then there is something deeper and darker at play here. And I think El-Sayed is that guy now. He refuses to. 00:11:58 Speaker 7: He. 00:11:59 Speaker 3: Chalks it up to, I'm not going to play the disavowal game. 00:12:01 Speaker 11: Okay. 00:12:02 Speaker 3: These aren't layups. 00:12:04 Speaker 1: These are layups, rather. 00:12:06 Speaker 3: These aren't hard calls. 00:12:07 Speaker 1: Do you condemn terrorists? It would be pretty simple to come out and just go cartoonishly over the top and be like, look, they want to make it about my Islam, but I'm the most fanatically anti-terrorist guy ever. Almost all American Muslims or basically like all patriotic American Muslims hate terrorists. He could lean in on that. He does not want to lean in on it. He has Hassan Piker help him with events because that's the rising tide of the left. 00:12:31 Speaker 3: Buddy with care. 00:12:32 Speaker 1: And it's a guy who says, yeah, buddy with care. People who will make excuses for terrorist adjacent people. People who will say terrorist attacks are good, will celebrate them in the U.S. That is a real faction on the left that they don't want to alienate. That's why he. 00:12:47 Speaker 3: Can't do it. Yep, he can't do it. He's telling you who he is, Michigan. Please, please, please pay attention. It's not 13. 00:12:54 Speaker 5: Is when he was asked, who's the greater danger to America, Israel or Iran? Three times he was asked that. He refused to answer. 00:13:01 Speaker 4: Afterwards, he said, that's a dumb question. 00:13:03 Speaker 13: And he was right. 00:13:04 Speaker 5: It is a dumb question because the answer is so painfully easy. But he couldn't say that. He criticized Mike Rogers for asking him to condemn Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, saying they're scary words. But he hasn't condemned them. And they are scary words because they've killed hundreds of thousands of innocents, including 3000 Americans three miles south of here. So at a certain point, it goes from either this is political malpractice. at the best, or he can't or he won't because of something deeper, and that is far more troubling. 00:13:33 Speaker 3: It's a good point. It's a good point, Peter Meyer. Peter Meyer is not my favorite guy on the planet, but he made a good point there, okay? Here's the other thing. Abdul's calling for mass amnesty, folks, mass amnesty. They will flood the border again. They will invade this country again. Do not give them power. Get motivated. It's all about enthusiasm. Do not give these crazy lunatics power to flood our borders again. Every single ounce of progress we've made, they're going to undo it in a blink. It's way easier to undo the progress we made than to establish the progress, to get ICE agents out there. It's incredibly difficult to fix the problem. Really easy to create it. Sod 11. 00:14:15 Speaker 12: I think we need a pathway to citizenship for folks who are stuck in limbo right now. You've got this tough guy attitude to immigration that's not keeping us safe. In fact, it's terrorizing folks in our streets. It's not funding the southern border, which needs to be kept safe. But what it is doing, it's weaponizing an agency of the government at the tune of Donald Trump and his group. 00:14:33 Speaker 3: Okay, okay. See that? The guy's a total radical. Total radical. Sat 12. 00:14:40 Speaker 11: Yesterday was October 7th. This is why you should get absolutely angry. He could not bring himself to even acknowledge the pain, the terrorism, the rape, the murders, cutting off of women's breasts, putting children in ovens, and killing them in front of their families. 00:14:58 Speaker 4: Could not even muster. 00:15:00 Speaker 3: So I've condemned that. 00:15:00 Speaker 4: He could not even muster. 00:15:02 Speaker 3: I've condemned that. I didn't turn it. 00:15:03 Speaker 1: Into political theater like you just did. He did not. All right, let me tell you this. 00:15:07 Speaker 9: I just need to respond. 00:15:08 Speaker 14: No, no, no. 00:15:08 Speaker 3: He's interrupted me. 00:15:09 Speaker 4: For about half of my time. 00:15:10 Speaker 12: So I'm so sorry, but I'm not somebody who tries to make political theater out of other people's pain. 00:15:15 Speaker 4: Your whole campaign is political theater. 00:15:17 Speaker 1: And you turned it into political theater. 00:15:20 Speaker 5: I'm sorry. 00:15:20 Speaker 11: Including putting on a white jacket and calling yourself a doctor. 00:15:23 Speaker 4: Shameful. 00:15:24 Speaker 3: Including putting on a white jacket and calling yourself a doctor. That's a whole other. Area of the controversy. Was he even like a real doctor? 00:15:32 Speaker 1: I've missed this one, actually. I've got to dive into that one. 00:15:36 Speaker 3: He sort of... He got the degree. Did he ever treat patients? In reality, it's sort of the allegation. Got to be careful with that. The truth is probably somewhere in between. But yeah, I mean, the guy's a... He called him a con man last night. 00:15:48 Speaker 1: I was hoping it would be that he had like a Jill... The Jill Biden doctorate. 00:15:51 Speaker 3: He's a doctor of Middle Eastern studies. 00:15:54 Speaker 1: Or something like that, yeah. 00:15:55 Speaker 15: Yeah. 00:15:56 Speaker 3: I mean, this guy... He doesn't want to condemn the Ayatollah. Listen, you don't have to like the war in Iran to understand the Ayatollah was not a good guy, okay? Killed Americans, enough said, all right? Buddy Buddy with Hassan Piker. Says he's a dual citizen, then he claims he's not. Okay, what's that about? Spent his summers in Egypt. He's got a luxury home in the United Arab Emirates. He's Buddy Buddy with care. He's getting money from a lot of groups that funnel money to terrorists, okay? There is a lot of smoke, which means there's a lot of fire. Okay? Abdul El-Sayed is a freaking disaster. And if we can't muscle up the courage and get our people out to vote against that guy, we've just got bigger problems. All right? Bigger problems. 00:16:40 Speaker 1: We will have bigger problems because what we've heard when we've talked to people is that he is absolutely– a person who is ambitious enough to think, ooh, he wins this race, I want to run for president in 2028. 00:16:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, even though he's an anchor baby. 00:16:53 Speaker 1: So if we can't stop him from being Michigan's problem, he will soon be all of America's problem in. 00:16:57 Speaker 3: A big way. He thinks he's Obama. He thinks he's a slick-talking Obama guy, and he's not. He's like 5'6, and he's barely American. 00:17:06 Speaker 1: And also, let's be real, Obama at least tried to run, ooh, I'm going to be more centrist. This is a guy, he wants to abolish ICE. He's talked about that. 00:17:15 Speaker 16: Yeah. 00:17:16 Speaker 1: All on board with a lot of the really radical left-wing positions that again is why he can't disavow these things because so much of their base wants it everything that you didn't like in 2020 2021 is coming back the second democrats have the ability to impose it on people biden wave is back actual socialism stuff is back woke terror is back it will be here. 00:17:42 Speaker 3: October 15th Write it down. Set an alarm because the second that date passes, there's no extension, no grace period, no second chance. Liens, wage garnishments, bank account seizures. That's the IRS taking what you've earned. If you filed an extension and haven't submitted your return yet, stop what you're doing and call America Tax Group, the nation's leading tax firm right now. Do so at 888-381-3816. Mention the code KIRK26 when you call for $ 250 off. 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I got to get out of the middle of this. 00:19:13 Speaker 1: Did you forget to send the scheduling email, Andrew? 00:19:15 Speaker 3: No, no, no. I sent it, and Mark was like, man, you got to send the email. I was like, Mark, I sent the email. He's like, okay, my bad. I got you back this time, Mark. 00:19:23 Speaker 17: Well, you got to copy my colleagues. Honestly, though, I'm glad to be here. Interview is halted until... Blake, you get Andrew to tell us. What are the other three good non-Western countries? I'm not going forward until you tell us. 00:19:38 Speaker 3: Well, I'll be honest. I think there's like– there's actually like maybe like. 00:19:42 Speaker 1: South Korea is good, but it's only going to be around about 10 years, and then it's going to disappear. 00:19:46 Speaker 3: Which one? 00:19:46 Speaker 1: South Korea. They're pretty good, but they have no babies, so it's just going to disappear like the others. 00:19:51 Speaker 3: I like Thailand a lot, actually. I like Japan. I still consider Taiwan. Singapore. 00:19:57 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:19:59 Speaker 3: To be honest. 00:19:59 Speaker 1: Singapore is the last British country in the world. 00:20:01 Speaker 4: You made up the number four. 00:20:03 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:20:03 Speaker 4: The other thing... Yeah, go ahead. 00:20:06 Speaker 15: No, no. 00:20:06 Speaker 3: You're the guy. 00:20:07 Speaker 4: I was going to say... I was going to say.... 00:20:11 Speaker 17: I love when you guys talk about Hillsdale and history and intellectual topics because one of you is a superficial cretin and the other one is a learned scholar. 00:20:21 Speaker 4: And it's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. I'm not saying which is which. 00:20:24 Speaker 17: It's just so funny to see you kind of keep the conversation going when you're playing on different planes. 00:20:29 Speaker 4: But I'm not saying which is which. 00:20:31 Speaker 3: Listen, listen. One of us is relatable to the average man. The other is an autist who went to college. dartmouth and he's not saying which is which i'm not saying which is which. 00:20:40 Speaker 17: Yeah well that was biographical now you're both geniuses i you both could probably graduate from hillsdale in three and a half years. 00:20:46 Speaker 3: Max i i would like to think i could pull it off in at least seven hey mark so the big story right now the big story they're called doctors mark um like dr el sayed the big story right now is in in dr joe biden talrico OK, I don't want to I don't want to get in the mud with the pigs. I don't I mean, listen, if he's having the big rumor right now is that he had a mental episode and that he had to check out. OK, I'm not you can log on. I'm not saying it's true or not. My heart goes out to him. I don't wish him any ill will. But if that's true. Then that does have implications on the race. What are you hearing? 00:21:23 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:21:23 Speaker 3: And help us separate fact from fiction here. 00:21:26 Speaker 4: I haven't had James Tallarica right here. James, come in. No, it's not here. 00:21:31 Speaker 3: Nobody knows where he is. 00:21:33 Speaker 17: The most likely explanation is some combination of pre-existing condition, maybe his diabetes and flu, has just laid him low. And it's hard to campaign. I remember Bill Clinton got the flu and a cold in 92. And he had troopers and a state plane. He had a lot of infrastructure. It was still hard for him. And he's a beast to go around. Tallarico doesn't really, he's just a state senator. He doesn't have a lot of infrastructure. So that's probably it. My theory, which was shot down today by someone in the know, is that he's like in San Francisco raising money and doesn't want people to know he's flying a private plane out of state to a liberal enclave. But that was shut down by somebody who I think probably would know. He does have a pre-existing condition. He does have diabetes. I know a lot of people right now with the flu seems to be going around. So that's probably the answer. But I also think he's raised a monster number in the third quarter. Don't sleep on the notion that he's trying to build up a lot of suspense. So when he announces he's raised $ 75 million, it's going to get more attention. 00:22:39 Speaker 4: That could be true. That could be it. That's a theory. And then the last thing is. 00:22:45 Speaker 17: You know, race is going pretty well for him. It's gotten tighter. So maybe this isn't a good strategy. But just as some Republicans would say the party would be better off if the president just, you know, laid low. Maybe he thinks if he lays low, the whole campaign's about Paxton and that's going to win it for him. So he's just sort of staying behind the scenes. Those would be my theories. But like most of the people you know, I know nothing. 00:23:11 Speaker 1: Does it at least strike you as weird that, for example, we just haven't gotten the TikTok, Twitter video of like, hey guys, hello, I still exist? Because some people have brought that up. Even if he's sick, he could. 00:23:24 Speaker 4: Make an appearance. 00:23:27 Speaker 17: If I'm right that he wants a big splashy return, I don't know why he needs to prove it. Assuming he's alive soon, I don't know that there's any reason to cater to the likes of his opponent and others who say, well, if you're alive, prove it. Whatever the reason is, he obviously doesn't want to prove it, assuming he's alive or assuming he could make such a video. So I don't, I don't read much into that. 00:23:49 Speaker 9: Okay. 00:23:49 Speaker 3: Well, Paxton is taking advantage of it. Uh, let's go ahead and throw up, uh, one 44 wanted proof of life. This is, uh, from Ken Paxton's own X account. So they're, they're having some fun with this. They got the, the, the where's Waldo one, one 39, but it's a, where's Jimmy day 12. Right. 00:24:09 Speaker 17: But again, but again, these, these are cute and they're great for conservative talk, but again, So what? Like this isn't about the price of gas. This isn't about Tallarico's positions on trans. Like there's a there's a story in The Washington Post today that ran this morning. That clearly came from the from the Paxson campaign about the flip flopping he's done on transit. It quotes a trans activist saying, we trust him. We know he's just taking this position for the election. But when he gets in, we know he'll do the right thing. That story would be getting a lot more attention if we all weren't sitting around talking about where he is. So maybe Paxton should be spending less time saying proof of life and more time saying this guy is a chameleon and a liar on trans issues. 00:24:52 Speaker 3: So fair enough. I think if you looked at the discourse right now about the state of the race, midterms are just right around the corner. Ballots in Arizona are out. People are going to start doing early balloting. A lot of people are looking at tea leaves, right? So they're saying, okay, the polls are one thing, but we have this registration advantage. And from some of the early returns, there's some promising returns for Republicans. But then there's the whole polling narrative. Cook Political Report will play this. I know you're very well aware of it. 00:25:20 Speaker 6: SOT7. 00:25:21 Speaker 16: The nonpartisan Cook Political Report, some breaking news here, just today shifted three more Senate ratings in Democrats' favor. 00:25:30 Speaker 10: Highlight? 00:25:32 Speaker 16: Kansas, which now moves from lean Republican to toss up. You can also see that New Hampshire goes from toss up to lean Democrat. North Carolina from lean to likely Democrat. 00:25:44 Speaker 3: And you even see South Carolina is in a likely. It's not even a lockup. And I think it was Nebraska. I mean, so obviously, if you look at the polling, Mark, Republicans, this is not a great cycle based on the polling. But then people are saying, hey, look at the early returns. And you had a tweet that I actually sent around to a bunch of people yesterday. And if you could throw it up, it is 145. You said you said voting behavior is. 00:26:12 Speaker 4: The one to take your picture of my cat. 00:26:16 Speaker 3: No, I tweeted yourself. Voting behavior is changing and it's misleading to compare this election to any recent one pre or post pandemic early in mail voting behavior. paint a completely new, may paint a completely new storyline this time. What do you mean there, Mark? 00:26:29 Speaker 17: Well, just parenthetically, stop looking at the public polls. I tell everybody this, particularly people who are skeptical about them. Don't pay attention to them. They're not very good. The real problem for Republicans in the House is the private polling is very bad. The Cook Political Report, you showed that they moved from Senate races. Today, they moved 18 House races, all in a Democratic direction. rely on public polls. They talk to the campaigns as I do. That's a much better way to understand what's going on. I think the House situation continues to be dire. The Democratic situation, the Senate situation has improved in the last few weeks for Republicans. The early votes, it's, you know, COVID, right, was a thing that impacted the early vote. The president's failure until recently and not consistently to urge Republicans to vote by mail and in person early. It's not clear that there's going to be a trend or a pattern that you can read from 20, 22, 24 that's going to inform the numbers here. Remember, early votes don't count for more. There's reasons campaigns like to bank them, but they don't count for more. And somebody who's going to vote no matter what, regular voter, it doesn't matter if they vote early. And the culture within both parties now is such that you may see Republicans doing better than two years ago or four years ago in the early vote. 00:27:46 Speaker 4: Read too much into it. 00:27:47 Speaker 17: It's not impossible that it could be meaningful, but there's no way to know because of the lack of historical continuity here on this issue. 00:27:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I will tell you, Charlie was a big part of changing the culture around voting. Vote early. Are movements too big to be jammed in one day? What if you get a flat tire? What if there's a snowstorm? Charlie was part of changing the culture, so we don't know that we can rely on as much Election Day vote as we could in the past. People could just be Changing the way they vote. 00:28:17 Speaker 4: 100%. 00:28:18 Speaker 17: And then again, you've got the leader of the party without Charlie, the president. Some days he says, everybody vote early and everybody vote by mail and let's bank those votes. And then other days he says, it's all corrupt. Don't do it. 00:28:30 Speaker 4: So. 00:28:32 Speaker 17: I do believe, and I think this is one of the, along with the financial advantage and the fact that red states in the end could just red, and that could save a lot of these House and Senate seats, narrowly, but still save them. I think the other thing is Republicans, because of the legacy of what you guys have done, some of the other folks, some of the stuff Elon's done, Republicans seem to have a much better turn out the vote, get out the vote operation, ballot chasing to make sure people hand them in. And that's that could be the difference in some races if they're close. 00:29:03 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I will tell you, Katie Hobbs came out with a new internal poll yesterday. She's up just four now. So the lead is shrinking. People are calling it a collapse for her. Biggs undecided is breaking for Biggs two to one. And we've got 25 percent larger army on the ground here in Arizona than we did in 2024. We feel very confident we can chase three to five points there of low props. So anything can happen. For example, in Arizona, it's all about turnout. All right, Mark, you said that in some ways Republicans are feeling a little bit more bullish about the Senate. The House may be... in a worse spot, but the Senate is, we're feeling better about it, okay? It could be one of these weird maps where you get, you know, a New Hampshire pickup, you get the main holds. You never know what's going to happen in Minnesota. That could just be an outlier because of all the fraud and all the terrible stories that are coming out of Minnesota. I was in D.C. recently, and I will tell you, you have all these meetings, you talk to these people, and you kind of find out what they really believe. And there's a lot of energy behind Michigan. There's a lot of people saying, hey, go get involved in Michigan. Go get involved in Michigan. We think we can upset there. I'm not convinced, but that debate last night, I actually thought Mike Rogers comported himself well and prosecuted the case against El Sayed pretty effectively. Even CNN had some great clips. What's your read on the Senate? 00:30:25 Speaker 17: I think there's going to be at least six races that are going to be toss-ups until Election Day, no matter what the public polling says. There's just too much uncertainty because of, as you suggested, and characterizing a few of the states, just the cross-cutting, both within individual states and between states, of cross-cutting trends and dynamics. You've got to hold up the possibility there's a blue tsunami of some size. And if that's the case. 00:30:53 Speaker 17: These other factors we talked about, the money, the ads, the debates, the turnout operations, it's not going to matter. Most of the Republican seats will be washed away. And that could be up to eight seats, honestly, maybe nine. If it's not a blue tsunami, in other words, if the conditions are such that Republicans can survive even in the face of a strong Democratic year, then I think places like Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Ohio, those all may be salvageable. 00:31:29 Speaker 4: Ohio even? Ohio is the. 00:31:33 Speaker 17: Toughest one right now because some people think it's gone for the Republicans and other people think there's been improvement lately. The governor's race is a problem for Republicans and that obviously has an impact. But I'd say Ohio... And Kansas right now, besides North Carolina, are the two most endangered. But my point is the red states may just sort of reassert their redness if Republican candidates can close strong. And in most of these races, besides Georgia and North Carolina, Republicans have good candidates. 00:32:01 Speaker 4: Texas as well. Problem. 00:32:05 Speaker 17: So today I would say I've gone down from about 75 percent chance Democrats take the majority in that Senate to about 60. But but it's going to be very difficult because of all these races that are going to go into Election Day is not not clear who's the front runner. 00:32:20 Speaker 3: OK, so that's that's I think a fair assessment. Sixty percent odds of taking. OK, I think that's very interesting. OK, so Michigan, let's go into the debate last night. Did you watch it? What was your reaction to it? And how do you see that particular race playing out? 00:32:39 Speaker 17: It's really just about whether El-Sayed can get the percentage of the black vote in Wayne County that he needs. 00:32:44 Speaker 4: That's really it. If he does, he'll win. If he doesn't, he won't. 00:32:47 Speaker 17: And the Rogers campaign is really doing a good job of taking advantage of the asymmetrical edges that he has, including the vulnerabilities of the Democratic candidate. But it's still a Democratic state in a blue year. And it's still the case that, you know, although some Democrats, including a group Democrats for Rogers, are are just not willing to accept this guy as their nominee. Other other Democrats like Barack Obama rallying around him. There's lots of stuff that happened in the debate. I want to point out one thing, which I think shows you why else that has an advantage. And this is the topic of my monologue on Next Stop on the episode that's out now. The press bias in the last month of the campaign is a real challenge for Republicans because they're fighting two on one. The debate last night, you know, there were lots of things that happened. But one thing that happened was El-Sad was asked something he'd been asked in the previous few days. Who's a bigger threat to America's national security, Israel or Iran? And 10 years ago, if you were asked that question in a debate, no matter what party you were in or what state you wanted to represent. If you didn't instantly say Iran, it would be the gaffe of the century and you'd lose the race. 00:33:58 Speaker 4: El-Sayed said, I'm not going to answer that. It's a hypothetical. 00:34:01 Speaker 17: And then he mostly proceeded to trash Israel. My point is, go read the coverage in the national media. Go read the coverage in Michigan. People aren't highlighting that moment. And it should be disqualifying. It that public mood is such that it's not disqualifying. But in a matter of qualifications to be a United States senator, if you really can't answer the question of Israel, our strongest ally in the Middle East, is more or less of a national security threat than Iran, I find that disqualifying, and yet it's barely in the coverage. 00:34:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, we have the clip here, Mark. Let's just go ahead and play it for our audience. 00:34:38 Speaker 12: I'm going to ask you again tonight, who do you think is a bigger threat to the United States, Israel or Iran? 00:34:43 Speaker 4: You have 60 seconds. 00:34:44 Speaker 12: And again, Rick, I'm just going to say that that's a ridiculous hypothetical, because here's what's happening right now. Our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran. We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and then choking off the world's energy supply. So this is a situation in which I don't think we should. 00:35:08 Speaker 9: Be a part. 00:35:09 Speaker 12: I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel. 00:35:11 Speaker 3: Yeah, in Canada, I can see that argument really resonating with some groups. 00:35:15 Speaker 17: Yeah, unfortunately it's– Blake's learned it enough to know that it's not a hypothetical. It's not a hypothetical question. It's a factual question. Who's a bigger threat? But he continues to hide behind and say it's hypothetical. Again, even if you say, as you just did, a lot of voters, including young voters, might say that's a good answer. In all these roundups, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, these rounds, five big moments, five takeaways from the debates. 00:35:40 Speaker 4: They don't even mention that moment. They don't even mention it. 00:35:44 Speaker 17: It's a big problem for Republicans in Michigan and elsewhere that that's not at least a topic of discussion for voters to know. He said that given an opportunity to clarify. Incredible to me. 00:35:55 Speaker 18: Yeah. 00:35:55 Speaker 3: Mark Halperin. Next up, two way TV. Doing a great job, Mark. Appreciate it. 00:36:01 Speaker 4: Thanks, guys. Love you both. 00:36:02 Speaker 3: We made this happen. Before he ever stepped onto a debate stage or behind a microphone, Charlie understood something really important, that if you want to lead, you first have to learn. Charlie believed that ideas shape character, conviction, and courage. That's why he spent years studying the classics, the American founding, and the Bible through Hillsdale College's free online courses. He would rave about these courses all the time. 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Let's just put it that way. And you get to partake in our Friday Ask Us Anything bus. Plus, when AmFest, we just announced our speakers, our first speaker graphic for AmFest. We're going to be doing a bunch of podcasts and long-form interviews. You get to be a part of that for free. Just come right in and take a seat. You get to see some of the biggest speakers in the movement. We're going to have a private room just for you there at AMFest. 00:38:35 Speaker 1: We always end up doing a lot of AMAs in person while we're doing that. Often members of the team. Sometimes the guests will get a part of it. 00:38:42 Speaker 3: Honestly, it's one of my favorite things that we do at AMFest. It's fantastic. 00:38:46 Speaker 1: We just kind of came up with it. 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Welcome to the show. 00:39:15 Speaker 6: Hey, guys. 00:39:15 Speaker 7: Can you all hear me? 00:39:16 Speaker 1: Yes, we can. 00:39:17 Speaker 3: Yes. 00:39:18 Speaker 6: Awesome. 00:39:18 Speaker 3: I just wanted to ask in. 00:39:20 Speaker 10: Ask around and see what are y'all's favorite national parks and if Charlie had one. 00:39:25 Speaker 1: All right. 00:39:26 Speaker 3: Oh, man. 00:39:27 Speaker 1: Uh do you know if he had a favorite. 00:39:28 Speaker 9: Dan acadia and grand. 00:39:30 Speaker 1: Canyon yeah i think so he went on vacation to acadia at least once did he go multiple times did he go there every year uh yeah about once a year okay so yeah he loved acadia that's main along the coastline and then of course grand canyon he was a big uh we talked about this last week actually that he really loved he was a big advocate for go to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. And I still have to do that. I've been there twice. That's probably a favorite of mine. I remember when I first went there, I messaged a friend of mine and I said that it was the eighth, ninth, and tenth wonder of the world. There's a lot of beautiful things in America, but that is truly one where there is nothing else like it on the planet. And it really stands out to me. Of course, I'm also a shill for my home state, so Badlands, very much worth visiting as well. Looks very neat. 00:40:17 Speaker 9: I've only ever been to the Grand Canyon. 00:40:19 Speaker 3: Really? 00:40:20 Speaker 9: In terms of national parks, yeah. 00:40:21 Speaker 3: Man, okay. So some of you might remember that I was off on Thursday and Friday last week, and I'm just sending the team these pictures. I didn't know we were going to get this question or I would have had them ready. But I actually took a four-day camping trip with my kids and some other dads, and it was awesome. It was all dude time, except I brought my daughters. Daughters were there too, but it was all dads and their kids. And we went between Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. Yeah, this is actual pictures. I just got them this morning. So these are actually pictures from where we took these can-ams up. So for four days, we were just mobbing around the desert, around the alpine, the canyon lands. These are actual pictures from our adventure. It was awesome. And there had been rain in the southwest. That's a real picture from it. So we were mobbing around in these Can-Ams going like 65 miles an hour down these Forest Service roads, these public lands. It gave me a whole new appreciation, not just for my kids. I loved it. We had to put our phones in a lockbox. It was a complete digital detox. And my Twitter handle is still suffering from the algorithm hates me now when I came back. But that's fine. It was well worth it. And the so anyways, we come back and we didn't I didn't look at my phone for four days, but I got to see some of the most beautiful land in the country. And it was completely desolate. We camped and there was nobody around. And it's right here just in the southwest, the four corners region and the canyon lands. It was so wonderful and beautiful. And it gave me a new appreciation for just what a heritage we have for, you know, in America with these public lands that everybody can go use. So I just so encourage you guys to go use them because we live in a beautiful country. And when you get out there and see it up close like that, it's really special. So anyways, just a touch there. And you've only been to one. You've got to see more. Zion is a must-see, in my opinion. Bryce Canyon, have you. 00:42:14 Speaker 10: Been to Bryce? 00:42:15 Speaker 3: I have not. 00:42:15 Speaker 1: I've never been to any of the ones in Utah. I should go. 00:42:18 Speaker 9: I'm waiting. 00:42:18 Speaker 1: I really want those self-driving cars to become where you can literally go to sleep while it drives you. Because once that happens, I'm buying a Tesla, and then I can just say, drive me to Zion. I go to sleep. I wake up there. Because they're just far enough away for it to be too annoying to drive up there for a weekend for me. 00:42:35 Speaker 9: See, I can't sleep in a car no matter what anyway. 00:42:38 Speaker 3: Oh, you will learn. 00:42:39 Speaker 9: We will learn. 00:42:40 Speaker 1: We will build the sleeper car. 00:42:41 Speaker 3: I actually have a Tesla already, and the full self-driving is legit. Legit. All right. Anyways. So it used to be terrible, but they've updated it, and now it's fantastic. I don't even worry about it anymore. I don't. to be really honest all right who's up next we have abby by the way glacier national park is gorgeous too hey guys what's up hello hey abby welcome to the show. 00:43:07 Speaker 14: I have a bible question this time do you guys read physical bibles. 00:43:12 Speaker 1: I have yes i have a physical bible it's the one i got for my family for. 00:43:15 Speaker 3: Christmas i only read physical well when i'm looking stuff up on the computer sometimes i'll use the the online stuff but No, when I'm reading for devotion time, it's got to be physical. I have to feel where I'm at. 00:43:26 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:43:28 Speaker 14: I've been trying to find another Bible that's bigger text, and I've only found one that's printed in the United States. The rest are printed in China or India, and they're full of errors and missing scriptures. So I was wondering if you guys have any knowledge on Bible publishers. 00:43:43 Speaker 18: Yes. 00:43:44 Speaker 1: That's so depressing because I feel the Bible is such a well-established text. You'd have to really screw up. It almost makes me wonder if they're printing these off an AI template or something. 00:43:53 Speaker 3: That's really strange. 00:43:54 Speaker 14: I've looked through at least 25 different Bibles. It's all China and India. Do you guys have any knowledge? I looked on Amazon. I looked at Barnes & Noble. China and India. 00:44:11 Speaker 1: I know Crossway has a lot of Bibles, and I believe they print in the United States. 00:44:15 Speaker 3: Church Bible Publishers out of Longview apparently has them. God's Glory Bible, a lot of new King James for some reason, the American publishers. 00:44:24 Speaker 14: That's the one I'm looking for. 00:44:26 Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah. So apparently Church Bible Publishers, you can literally just go to churchbiblepublishers.com. They offer midsize and large print King James version and new King James version. 00:44:39 Speaker 9: Yeah. 00:44:40 Speaker 3: Many covers are made by AA Leather in Florida. 00:44:43 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:44:44 Speaker 1: I feel obliged to say I think Charlie's favorite translation was English Standard Version, ESV. 00:44:48 Speaker 3: Yeah, ESV. 00:44:49 Speaker 1: So when we read quotes from it on air, I try to look up that version. 00:44:52 Speaker 3: My pastor did the same thing about 10, 15 years ago, said ESV is the best translation. I became a Christian on NIV, and I still remember more scripture out of NIV, so it's a little bit challenging for me. But ESV was our preferred version. But New King James is great. Listen, read the Bible. 00:45:12 Speaker 1: And I will say— I mean, if it's accurate. I know we are emphasizing the superiority of a physical Bible, but if nothing comes to the standard you're looking for, if you need a larger print one, I will note that if you get an e-reader version, you can get every translation on it, and then you can set the text so that it's larger, and I agree, a physical version is absolutely the ideal, but I just want to make sure that you're just aware that that's a potential solution. You can get one of those Like Kindle-y readers, they'll have the screen so it's not glaring in your eyes, and you'll still be able to go to sleep at night and all of that. So I just throw that out as an alternative that maybe you don't want, but others who have the same problem might consider. 00:45:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, I would check out Church Bible Publishers. It seems to be the best one. They run a little bit more pricey for the big font. There's more paper in it. Yeah, if you're just buying one, maybe it's still worth it. You know what I mean? Danny, who's up? 00:46:08 Speaker 9: We got Elizabeth. 00:46:09 Speaker 3: Elizabeth, please unmute yourself. Welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. 00:46:13 Speaker 15: Yes. 00:46:13 Speaker 11: Hi. 00:46:14 Speaker 13: Thank you for taking my call. 00:46:15 Speaker 3: Absolutely. 00:46:17 Speaker 13: So the reason I was calling, I was super excited to see the turning point communities for people that like are in university because I was, you know, loved Charlie and his vision and really wanted to support it. But I was a little bit lost because you had the four categories of young professionals, young families. first responders and minorities and so if you're like gen x and you're youthful in spirit and exuberance but technically don't qualify as young which community should you join. 00:46:46 Speaker 19: Probably probably families probably families i feel like we're very aspirational with that everyone's got a family i wasn't able to have kids oh well that's okay you could still i mean you have uncles and aunts and cousins your parents here i i do want to show this uh I want to put this up here for people. 00:47:04 Speaker 3: So you can check it out right now. It's a huge new thing. We started like a month ago, and we have over 600 communities already started, which is fantastic. So all you do is go to tpusa.com slash communities, tpusa.com slash communities. And as she just said, as Elizabeth said, You've got RISE, which is the nation's largest minority conservative movement. So that's going to be the HBCUs, inner cities, all that kind of stuff. Families dedicated to parents and caregivers raising the next generation, which, Elizabeth, I would argue you would fit just fine in that because you have a heart for this. Young professionals. So we have so many alumni that have graduated, and they still want to be a part of the movement. They still want to be involved. So that one's blowing up, young professionals. And then HEROES. That service, military veterans, first responders, all of those folks can join Heroes. So it's an amazing across-the-board opportunity because after we lost Charlie, there was just such an outpouring of people that were like, we want to be a part of Turning Point, but we don't know how because it's a student organization. And then we do have Turning Point Action, right? And we have coalitions over there as well. But, you know, maybe it's not an election year. 00:48:17 Speaker 4: Right. 00:48:18 Speaker 3: What are you going to do? So this is a way to plug into your local communities, host events, host speakers, all that stuff. We kind of are applying our chapter model to it. So you guys can still do what the kids are doing. And I mean, it's a lot of young people in this, too, but they're out of school. So I would I would say families, Elizabeth. That makes sense to me. 00:48:35 Speaker 1: We'd suggest that. And I mean, God, just God bless you for wanting to get involved. 00:48:38 Speaker 3: I love it. Yeah. But you can either join a community that's already in your area. If you have I mean, it's brand new. So be a part of the ground floor here. Or you can start it yourself. So just go to tpsa.com slash communities and check that out. Everybody should give it a look. And I think it's a wonderful new product program that we're offering. And the response has been overwhelming with very limited marketing, by the way. So it's fantastic. Thank you, Elizabeth, for your question. Who's up next, Danny? 00:49:10 Speaker 9: We got Jen. Hi, guys. 00:49:12 Speaker 3: How are you today? Hey, Jen. 00:49:13 Speaker 4: Howdy. 00:49:14 Speaker 15: Hey. So I've called in before, and I think you guys had given me a quote. one time from Erica that she had talked about, like a velvet spine of steel, I think. 00:49:27 Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember that. 00:49:28 Speaker 3: It's been a while ago. 00:49:30 Speaker 15: But you guys just kind of encouraged me to keep going, to be involved. I'm very passionate about education and school choice. 00:49:36 Speaker 9: I'm in Florida. 00:49:37 Speaker 15: Yeah. And I was recently named the coalition lead for parents and teachers for Byron Donalds. He's running for Florida governor. 00:49:43 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:49:44 Speaker 15: So I just wanted to. 00:49:45 Speaker 16: Say, thank you. 00:49:46 Speaker 15: You know, we're trying to keep parents in charge of their kids' education, whether that's homeschooling, whether that's private schools or micro schools or public schools, whatever that, that is. And his opponent, David Jolly is really trying to restrict that, especially for homeschoolers and a lot of the dollars that help our homeschoolers here. So, Um, I just wanted to call and say thank you because honestly, you guys kind of gave me that push and I'm finally here. I'm doing it. Um, and it's, you guys have been an inspiration. Charlie's been an inspiration and you know, now I'm here. 00:50:18 Speaker 3: So I just wanted to. 00:50:19 Speaker 15: Say thank you. And I'm hoping to kind of push Byron over the line, you know, especially in this area of education before the election, but just wanted to call and say thank you. 00:50:27 Speaker 3: What part of the state are you in by the way? 00:50:30 Speaker 15: Um, I'm on the East coast, like St. 00:50:32 Speaker 1: Augustine Daytona beach. 00:50:33 Speaker 3: Oh, awesome. 00:50:34 Speaker 18: Yeah. 00:50:34 Speaker 3: Well, So we actually you inspired us, too, because I remember your call in. And then we we ended up having Byron on the show because you I started looking into that race. It was basically a jump ball. We're feeling a lot better about that race right now than we were when you called. It's probably partly because people like you got off their couch and they got involved and they got inspired and they're putting their their feet to the pavement. 00:50:56 Speaker 1: I just can't believe that they would they would. Not one step back for Florida. Guys, the state has become an absolute juggernaut, and it's done it because it's had good Republican governance for decades in a row at this point. 00:51:09 Speaker 10: There's just a poll that came out yesterday that showed it was tied 45-all, but if you look at the crosstabs, they have men going plus eight for Dems and women going plus eight for Republicans. 00:51:20 Speaker 9: In the state of Florida. These people are like, oh, it's a close race. 00:51:24 Speaker 1: We're optimistic there, and it's thanks to people like you, Jen, who step up. 00:51:28 Speaker 3: Totally and i will say so florida is one of those states that is a victim of its own success a little bit jen because you had so many people move in just like yes it with just like with illegal immigration you start dealing with that and you see rents come down well the opposite is true when you have a such a mountain of people just come into a state whether it's from california new york or wherever you're gonna have upward pressure on prices so that's a that's a challenge that conservatives have to deal with in that state and plus you got the hurricane stuff you've got the insurance stuff which is just a function of where you guys are at in the world and the way the hurricanes work you tend to get hit by them a lot so that's always going to be a problem i don't care what solution anybody comes up with ensuring the state of florida is just perilous business uh but anyways i think i think here's here's the deal not one step back florida is an absolute gem of a state it's one of the few states that's run well i cannot imagine The Florida goes backwards. I just can't imagine it. I can't imagine it. And I've called some of my friends in the that that panhandle area that is a little bit soft on Byron and they're working on some things right now. So I'm feeling very good about that state. Are you hearing a change of sentiment on the ground? 00:52:40 Speaker 15: I think we've been feeling really, really good and seeing a lot of people coming out to things. And honestly, I feel like the momentum is there. So I feel like we're looking OK. I mean, I know some of the polls have come out, but so I feel really positive about it. And, you know, just these last few weeks hoping to push everybody if they want to go to ByronDonalds.com or join our coalition, you know, for parents and teachers keeping education in the parents' hands. That would also be awesome. 00:53:07 Speaker 3: You know, what what the left wants to do with education is just a tragedy and what they've already done to education. So we're actually seeing a renaissance now of parents getting back involved, taking control back from these far left super PAC teacher unions that all they do is want to control your kids, trans your kids, indoctrinate your kids and make sure they're not Christian, that they hate their country and that you have to spend your money on it. And it's just so so God bless you for what you're doing. It's one of the most important things. If you guys listen to the show often, you know I'm very passionate about breaking the back of the teachers' union. So, Jen, you're a woman after my own heart, and God bless you. We're going to get Byron over the finish line. I really, really feel good about it. But keep working. Got to run through the tape. And that's a good time to remind everybody, join us, tpaction.com slash 100. Go chase 100 ballots. You can do it. We'll put you in a hotel room. We'll get you everything you need. We'll train you. You get to talk to like-minded conservatives that just haven't got their ballot in yet. tpaction.com slash 100. He lived it out loud. It shaped how he lived, how he served, how he treated people every single day. Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, captures that heart. This documentary isn't just simply about remembering Charlie. It's an invitation for each of us to ask what kind of legacy we're building and whether we're willing to stand firm in our own faith when it's tested. I hope that you'll watch it with your family and have those conversations together. Go to angel.com slash kirk. That's angel.com slash Kirk. Become an Angel Guild member. Watch Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, and help bring more stories of faith, courage, and conviction to audiences around the world. Blake got an email question. 00:55:16 Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought this would be a fun one to ask. Darren emailed and asked, I was just wondering who your favorite NFL teams are. I know Charlie's were the Bears. I am a big Colts fan since they were in Baltimore. Which that goes back a while. My family lived in Maryland, and when they moved to Indiana... Oh, and then we moved to Indiana, and one year later the Colts moved to Indiana. So I feel God took a bit of Maryland with us. 00:55:39 Speaker 3: That's a deep tie. 00:55:40 Speaker 1: That is a deep tie. So I, of course, am a Packers fan. So that was a fun beef to have with Charlie. And, of course, we were honoring Mike Ditka today. I will say there's a song that we play at every Packers event, The Bears Still Suck. And it says in it, we wouldn't mind seeing Ditka run over by a truck because the Bears still suck. 00:56:01 Speaker 3: Oh, well. I wonder if they're going to sing that still. 00:56:04 Speaker 8: Oh, 100%. 00:56:04 Speaker 1: They play this weekend. 00:56:06 Speaker 9: 100%. The Bears play this weekend. 00:56:08 Speaker 1: I'll have to watch it. 00:56:09 Speaker 3: Well, you got to. But I bet it'll come. I bet there'll be like a classy like in remembrance of Mike Ditka. 00:56:14 Speaker 1: Maybe we can do. Maybe we can get like a Trump opera kind of more solemn version of it. 00:56:18 Speaker 3: My favorite team growing up was the 49ers. But then I already said this once today, but I. Kaepernick thing, I've never gotten fully back behind him because Kaepernick just ripped my heart out. But I do love George Kittle. I like Brock Purdy. I like Christian McCaffrey. I like Debo. I like Bosa. They've got a lot of players that I actually really like, but I don't know. They've never repented and asked for my forgiveness after the Kaepernick. 00:56:43 Speaker 1: You have to send them a letter. Otherwise, it doesn't count. 00:56:45 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:56:45 Speaker 9: I mean, I'm kind of a Bears fan. 00:56:47 Speaker 10: I used to be much bigger of a Bears fan, and then they drafted Caleb Williams, who's gay, and not allegedly, but also kind of really. 00:56:55 Speaker 3: He pulled his hammy, bro. He pulled his hammy. 00:56:58 Speaker 9: The allegations go way beyond just pulling his hammy. 00:57:01 Speaker 3: Painting the nails. 00:57:02 Speaker 9: He's worn dresses before. You wore a dress? 00:57:07 Speaker 15: Oh, yeah. 00:57:07 Speaker 10: He cries after he lost in college all the time. He's just an emotional guy. You can't lead a football team and be a beta male, and like. 00:57:15 Speaker 3: He's very talented. 00:57:16 Speaker 1: I've enjoyed the stats of their backup QBs are doing better than he did, though. 00:57:20 Speaker 9: Yeah, we're undefeated with the backup quarterbacks. 00:57:23 Speaker 10: So I'm kind of a Bears fan. They also ruined Justin Fields, who I loved. So I don't know. It's love-hate relationship with them. College football is way better anyways. 00:57:33 Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I'm a little bit mixed on college football after the NIL. 00:57:36 Speaker 1: I just, I don't really care. I've never cared about college football. South Dakota never had a good team when I was growing up. 00:57:41 Speaker 3: Well, that's another problem with me. Colin Kaepernick was the quarterback of University of Nevada, which is where my home team is. 00:57:48 Speaker 1: I would say if I pull for anyone, it's probably for North Dakota State because there's a generalized Dakota pride. 00:57:53 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's the only football team within 200 miles. 00:57:55 Speaker 1: And they do have Packers colors as well, so. 00:57:57 Speaker 3: I'll say that. Who's up next? 00:57:59 Speaker 9: We have Don. 00:57:59 Speaker 3: Don, welcome to the show. Please unmute yourself. 00:58:02 Speaker 20: Hi, guys. 00:58:03 Speaker 1: I've got a couple of questions. 00:58:05 Speaker 3: Great. 00:58:07 Speaker 20: The first one is I read online that Riley and Riley at Utah University had their case dropped by Utah, and I was wondering if you had any more information about that. 00:58:21 Speaker 3: Nope. That was the last I heard about it. I mean, we went hard. Erica, bless her, she ensured that they had proper representation in the state of Utah, and I will tell you, the people that were helping them out were very connected. I think they made some phone calls and put the fear of God in some of these people at the admin. So that was great. And, yeah, they dropped the case because, as you well know, I mean, for those listening who don't remember the story, they were out tabling, and some lefty lunatic came up with a cake that said Happy Kirkiversary. They put it online. It went viral. The girl gets doxxed, and then it's their fault. So that wasn't cool. That wasn't right. And then the admin came after them to potentially expel them. Well, we got them representation. The story went national. They are in a good spot. They're very, very safe and secure now. So we like those two a lot, by the way. But you know, my favorite part about that story is if you put up a side by side of the girl with the cake. versus Riley and Riley, it was like, you know, pick your fighter, Western man. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Who do you want to be representing your movement? Like these two all American, great looking kids, proud, respectful, very cheerful, courageous, despite death threats, doxing, all of this stuff. We were very proud of them. Very proud to, to help them out in the way that we could and have them on the show and amplify their story. So God bless them. But yeah, you said you had a second question. 00:59:47 Speaker 20: Yeah. I, I, in, In a commercial that Charlie was in a little while ago, he said that in 2024, he said the lower likely you were to vote, the higher you were for Trump. I was wondering if that was still true or if that switched. 01:00:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, so in general, the calculus is this. that Republicans used to be the more high-propensity voter, right? And then in the era of Trump, that flipped. And so we would often lose in the generic polls, and then on Election Day, we'd catch right up, okay? And we would do better in the midterms than they would. That's all flipped. 01:00:34 Speaker 1: Famously, they'd switch as they got close to Election Day. They just went from all registered voters to the likely voters, and usually that would be this GOP boost, like in 2010. But the trend has been away from that because... The GOP has shifted. We used to get a higher share of wealthier voters. Now we have a higher share of college educated. A lot of those people are very culturally left wing. They really got on board with Obama. They find Trump uncouth. Culturally, they dislike him. They're much more pro-immigration, things like that. And so the trend has been towards lower propensity voters, more downscale voters, being more Republican. But they are also, I think, more likely to be independent voters. more likely to be people who swing back and forth in general. 01:01:15 Speaker 3: Also more likely to be a little bit checked out, more libertarian. 01:01:19 Speaker 1: More likely to be young. 01:01:20 Speaker 3: Yeah. So this is a great opportunity to play this clip of Charlie talking about don't be a spectator. It's not 20. 01:01:28 Speaker 2: I'm not going to be a spectator. I'm going to give it my all. And that's my call to action to you to be an activist and a participant for righteousness, for goodness, for truth and for beauty. Not to just sit idly by and say, oh, it's all over. 01:01:41 Speaker 4: Jesus, set me up. Hurry up. 01:01:44 Speaker 2: I don't think that's biblical. 01:01:45 Speaker 3: I don't think that's biblical either. So if you are a low propensity voter, that's the time is now. The time for choosing is now. You've got to choose to work, to activate, to make a plan to vote and get 10 of your friends to do the same. We cannot give the control of this country back to these lunatics. Not one step back, as I like to say. Not one step back, absolutely. I'm sorry if I missed something. 01:02:12 Speaker 6: I said exactly. 01:02:13 Speaker 20: We've got to go after every voter if we're going to win this time. 01:02:17 Speaker 3: Our real problem right now is that a lot of these people are cynical. 01:02:22 Speaker 1: They want to get blackpilled very easily, and you have to reject that. You have to see the huge number of wins that have happened. You have to recognize the huge number of problems that are coming back if we allow the left to run free again. If you want to see what happens when the left gets exactly what it wants, you can go look at the UK. What's happening there now? You can go look at France. What's happening there, Yoko? You can look at Canada. We are an incredibly blessed country in so many ways. And to say, I am going to throw all of that out and throw in with all these other failing countries because of one or two issues where I'm very angry or something that's going to be ultimately fixable, like gas prices or beef prices, those are real problems. We are the problem-solving party. You are not going to fix those things by electing the problem-causing party. 01:03:12 Speaker 10: Well, and you don't even have to look there. You just have to look at four years under Biden. They went after all the January 6th people. They went after Trump, tried to throw him in jail forever. 01:03:20 Speaker 9: They shot him. 01:03:21 Speaker 1: They opened up our border to the entire planet. 01:03:24 Speaker 3: We had malaise, inflation, rampant inflation, massive spending. Look at 151. This was a conversation we had with some Canadian documentary filmmakers. We put this graph up here, and you will see the tale of two parties. Canada went the way of Trudeau, and they stagnated. Their GDP per capita stagnated, and we had Now we're well into our second Trump term, and look at us. Look at our GDP per capita growth since 1991. We're closing down at 80% GDP per capita growth. Canada, sideways. That is what we're up against. You can pick your future here, America. Do you want Canada? Do you want that red line? Or do you want to see actual growth and opportunity in the American way? 01:04:08 Speaker 1: I get why people can be frustrated about specific things, but we just have to harp on this point. It used to be there were successful red states and successful blue states and some failing ones on each side. But now it's just everyone's voting with their feet. Everyone is getting out of blue states. People flood out of New York. They flood out of Illinois. They flood out of California. They flood into the states that have had successful red state governance for the longest time. So people love to move to South Carolina, to Florida, to Texas. Even the Dakotas, trust me, no one's moving to the Dakotas because they love the mountain landscape there. There's not enough of them. Not very many mountains. They're only moving there because those states work. They're moving there because those states have real economies that you can raise a family in, where you can afford to do it. That's what we're trying to entrench for our country here. 01:05:01 Speaker 3: Absolutely right. 01:05:02 Speaker 9: We actually have this... Kylie, let me know if you have it. 01:05:07 Speaker 3: The graph. 01:05:07 Speaker 10: This graph of counties in the United States that are Democratic or Republican. And basically all of the Republican counties' population growth is from domestic migration of people basically fleeing blue states to red states. 01:05:19 Speaker 1: And Democrat counties, they only grow because they have to keep bringing in foreigners. 01:05:23 Speaker 3: Yep. 01:05:23 Speaker 10: So, yeah, as you can see on the left, the international migration is the only way that Democrat counties grow. And then you can see how all of the domestic migration is in the negative for Democrats on the left. 01:05:34 Speaker 9: And then for Republicans, it's in the positive. 01:05:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, the sad part is that natural change is so low. 01:05:40 Speaker 1: But that's also just young people move to cities and then they have their kids and then move out. 01:05:44 Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough. 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It is a Chris Pratt he's a new one we're adding to the list this year it's fantastic and so many more to come and some big debates that we have in store too so you're going to want to check that out all right who's our next uh Tim welcome to the show please unmute yourself hey guys. 01:06:47 Speaker 18: Um so I don't have so much a question it's just some information that I'd like to pass along yes please we get a lot of requests I think you know those of us that are involved get requests hey would you be a poll watcher well I've been a poll watcher I've been an election clerk and I've been an alternate election judge and so I've learned a lot by doing that, and a lot of the listeners may not know. Poll watchers are really restricted on what they can do. You can only talk to the election judge. You can observe, but you're kind of limited. And I was a poll watcher one time. I found out later the Republican Party was trying to call, but you can't use your phones in a polling place. But they're saying, hey, Tim, we don't have any Republicans in the polling place you're in. They're all Democrats. And by law, at least in Texas, and I'm sure this is everywhere, you're required to have representatives of both party working each election. But the problem is a lot of times they don't have enough volunteers to staff all of the polling sites. And so I'm in a very heavily Democrat area. And so I serve as an alternate election judge. And what that means is because in Texas, who runs that polling place is determined by how that precinct voted for the governor for the. 01:07:58 Speaker 4: State of Texas. 01:07:59 Speaker 18: So if Greg Abbott got the most votes, Republicans control it. If his opponent got it, the Democrats run it. And so we have polling places sometimes if we don't have enough Republicans where every worker is a Democrat. And when I was a poll watcher, there were times we were the only people in the polling place. There were no voters coming in. And so the poll watcher I was with who had done it before leaned over to me and said, this is where shenanigans can happen because this is when you can stuff a ballot. 01:08:27 Speaker 1: You're really hitting something important that In general, the left has a lot more parts of the country that are 95 plus percent Democrat, where you can just have big precincts in these big cities where it's exactly as you say. It's so Democrat, it's very difficult to get Republicans to fill important posts. And yeah, that's exactly where shenanigans happen, especially when you have the extended counting that they like to have. It produces more room for bad stuff to happen, and it doesn't even need to be centrally planned. When you add that amount of friction, it's easier for a rogue actor to do things. And I think the left is very aware of that. You don't need to plan for any fraudulent behavior. If you can just make it easier for your rank and file to nudge it here, nudge it there. That's why they love ballot harvesting. 01:09:11 Speaker 3: So, Tim, how do people get involved if they find themselves in a Democrat-heavy... district? What do they need to do? What's the action plan? Yeah. 01:09:21 Speaker 18: Contact your county Republican party. That's normally who's coordinating. Or you can go, in this case, I'm in Dallas County. You can go to the Dallas County Elections Department. They're always looking for clerks and alternate election judges and just say, I'm willing to work. And I would recommend the first time you do it, just be an election clerk because there's more involved with more responsibility with being a judge. As an alternate judge, I'm really just kind of a glorified clerk. But I did have one year, my, my Democrat judge came down sick and said, Tim, I need, you're going to be the election judge for that day. 01:09:55 Speaker 3: But, um, what are your, what is your job as an election judge, Tim? 01:09:59 Speaker 18: So as an election judge, you're responsible for opening up the poll. Um, I mean, assigning duties. I, and so signing up, how you guys are going to check in the voters. You guys are going to watch the ballot box. You guys are going to put out the signs and set up the polling place. You guys are going to, um, welcome the voters in, tell them to turn off their phones, things like that. At the end of the day, then it's the process of closing down the polling place, which is much more involved than I would have thought. There are a lot of controls in place, but it usually takes us an hour and a half to two hours to shut down, kind of package everything up, take it back to the drop-off site. The other thing is the election judge has to handle provisional ballots, and those are a pain in the neck. But because it's just there's more process involved in that. But, yeah, so that's that you're just kind of overseeing it. I mean, you are like you're like an official judge. And I mean, you can call the police to have them every once in a while you get somebody that just will not comply with. You know, they come in with a shirt on that's got one of the candidates names on it. And it's like, hey, you can't wear that in here. They'll put things like that. So you're kind of the official overseeing it. 01:11:11 Speaker 3: God bless you, Tim, for doing that. I hope you've inspired our listeners to get involved and help run these elections. We need conservatives at every single place within the apparatus of running our elections. We just do because, as you said, shenanigans happen. It is one of those vulnerabilities in the system. Be the solution. Plug the vulnerability up. Have eyes and ears on everything. Thank you, Tim. 01:11:35 Speaker 18: And you don't do it for the money, but you do get paid. 01:11:37 Speaker 1: You do it because it's the right thing and helps the country. 01:11:39 Speaker 3: That's right. 01:11:40 Speaker 1: All right, we have one more question to get to, I believe. So, Anthony, two minutes. Let's go. 01:11:44 Speaker 4: Hey, guys. 01:11:46 Speaker 21: By the way, Andrew, congratulations. 01:11:48 Speaker 3: I knew it. 01:11:49 Speaker 1: I knew he was going to talk about the Braves. 01:11:51 Speaker 5: No, no, no. 01:11:52 Speaker 21: I'm giving you congratulations. And I'll be standing up for the 31-year-old fan who got the foul ball who won't give it to the little kid. 01:11:58 Speaker 3: Did you see that? 01:11:59 Speaker 13: That was bad. 01:11:59 Speaker 3: I did, I did. 01:12:00 Speaker 21: Yeah, so I agree. No, I don't like that when people tell their little kids to go get a foul ball from someone else. So you kind of answered my question with another caller, but I'm going to probably give a suggestion. It's regarding the TPUSA community stuff, because I heard it this morning on Fox & Friends when I was working out. You have the four sections, but a fifth section might be helpful to– Fix cultures within companies is to put like a professional section where people, conservatives can network to look for jobs and maybe to help fix companies. Because I see it in my industry. For example, front offices of teams are very liberal. Locker rooms where players are, are very conservative. 01:12:46 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, well, we have the young professionals group. I don't know what the age limit is on that. 01:12:53 Speaker 21: But I think you should just do it for all people. Because I'm in my 40s, and it would be nice to work with more like-minded people and not have to worry about, oh, I can't talk about a certain thing in the office if I'm in a different company. 01:13:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean, that's a great suggestion. I'll bring it up with Pierre, who's running it. But yeah, you mentioned that you saw it on Fox & Friends. 01:13:11 Speaker 6: Yeah. 01:13:11 Speaker 3: We, uh, Griff Jenkins actually came to HQ, I guess like a two weeks ago, 10 days ago and interviewed all our program leads. So field team, it'd be Andrew Cypher, Tyler Boyer. They're doing a part two on it actually on Saturday or Sunday. And it's going to be all about like our election side of our, our work with turning point action. Tyler Boyer is going to have his big moment there, but I thought they did a great job on it. They walked around the campus with Erica, saw the memorials and the statues and, It was a beautiful piece. I think you can check it out on socials. They have it all published there. But, Anthony, God bless you, my friend. Good to hear from you again. That wraps it up for us. Until Monday, we'll see you then.