The Charlie Kirk Show - El-Sayed's Mask-Off Moment

Episode Date: August 25, 2026

Abdul El-Sayed is coming closer and closer to being the nation's first Muslim senator, and if the gossip is to be believed, a presidential run would be the very next step. John Doyle discusses El-Sayed's worrisome ties to extremist Hasan Piker and the current state of the anti-American red/green alliance. Plus, the WNBA says Enes Kanter Freedom can't join the league — but can't give a reason why! Riley Gaines explains the quandary America's best soap opera is in. Jason Wynn and James DeMelo explain the Andrizo Man ministry that uses four-day retreats to help men rediscover biblical masculinity, fix up their marriages, and more. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!    Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Well, it exposed more than we wanted to, actually, than a couple of these exchanges. This is a personal question, doctor. We'll get to that in just a second. But Jesse Waters had U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-S. Syed on his show last night. And this thing is a veritable clip machine. There's so much worth getting into here. Because there is a undercurrent, a narrative that is percolating on social media. that yours truly or Blake or Charlie certainly would count among those only have an issue with the rise of Islam in the West

because it is some Zionist op. That is not true. That is a lie. And when you have a piece of tape like we're about to play you from this interview with El Saeed and Jesse Waters, you realize how true the, I guess, concerns surrounding grounding Islam truly are. And they have nothing to do with Israel. Okay? Yeah, there is overlap. But there are true incompatibilities that emerge when you ask pointed questions. And so to Jesse

Waters' credit, I like Jesse, he's a friend, he did a great job. So we're going to start with some of the easy ones. Let's just talk about reparations. Let's start there and we'll work our way into the more Islamic-centered questions. Stop four. Reparations. Do you support that? I think we need to have an honest about the incredible debt that was put upon black folks as a function of slavery that we have yet to pay. And I just think that's fair. Like if people are enslaved and forced into servitude, and then we don't actually have a conversation about all that was owed, that our own country agreed was owed. I just think that it's past time to have that conversation.

That shouldn't be a crazy thing. I think it's important for our country to have a conversation about how we make people whole. You want to have a conversation about it because we have you on the record as backing it. But now you just want to have a conversation. I got it. That lingo always irks me. We need to have a conversation. That always means I want to do X, but I'm going to frame this like a, I don't know, like a nagging housewife or something.

It's a Trojan horse. It's a wolf and sheep's clothing. It's a poison pill. Have a conversation is expand the Overton window to the point where Normie America goes, yeah, you know what? We should all gather together and pay trillions of dollars to people that were slaves by people who never owned them. That was what 2020 was. Oh, we're going to have a national conversation about race. And it turns out the conversation was rip down statues, loot stores, get rid of every standard at universities, double the murder rate.

That's exactly right. Let's have a conversation about taking the country further left, okay? Reject that. As soon as some left, he says, let's have a conversation. Just know in the back of your head, he's full of crap, reject it, move on. Okay, stop five. So you think it's okay for a parent to slash his kids thing? A little bit off?

You think that? that's okay. I mean, do you, so do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Yeah, yeah, but I mean, that's a personal question. Okay. Doctor. So you probably should want to move on. You probably should want to move on. It's circumcision's different than castration. I think it's a problem. It's a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor, and a patient. And I'm just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's dingling. So if you really want to bring that up, you can. just think you guys are really selective about how you want to talk about these things. Abdul, Michigan's not going for that.

That is sick stuff. It's very wild how we framed that because Michigan, as we may know, has a serious problem with FGM. That's female circumcision. They lop off a lot there because they consider it a religious commandment. Yep. So just so you're aware, the false equivalency between circumcision, I believe that America still has the highest circumcision rate of any Western nation by some... We might, I don't know.

Because Islam countries actually do it as well. Well, so what's interesting there is trying to... And this is why today's stream is called the rise of the red-green alliance. Because what he's doing here is he's espousing radically pro-left sentiment by supporting the trans movement and genital mutilation of young kids before they've reached sexual maturity with circumcision. That's not a... And Jesse was 100% right there.

Castration and circumcision are not the same thing. That's wacky, Abdul. Play that on repeat up until November. This is what happens when you have foreign ideologies come in with foreign ways of thinking and viewing the world. Well, I wish we could blame that on foreigners. That, if anything, shows he's way too assimilated, that he's coming here.

He's managed to take the very American absurdity of, you can change your sex with a few hormones and a surgery, and it's totally harmless to do this to kids who are 10. eight, five years old. Ugh. Red Green Alliance. And we haven't even got into the Islam stuff.

SOT 7. You want to replace the right to bear arms with the right to health care. You don't want to replace the Second Amendment, do you? Well, look, man, I think more people are more worried about whether or not they can see a doctor than whether or not they can have a gun. I'm just going to put that out there.

I mean, you're dodging the question. Do you want to replace the Second Amendment? I'm just saying that more people are more concerned about seeing a doctor. doctor. If we had a right to health care in this country, they probably wouldn't. And I think that'd be a pretty good thing, don't you? I think you dodged the question. And that's a pretty big one in Michigan. That's exactly right. You remember, I'm reminded of the other time we just had a conversation, Blake, during BLM, and guess what? Gun sales went through the roof. You know why? Because people

were terrified that they couldn't stay safe because the police couldn't do anything. Because there was tens of thousands of crazed anarchists on the streets talking about a racial reckoning. And they were going through suburbs. They were going through like Santa Monica, burning buildings. Santa Monica. If you ever been to Santa Monica, it's a upper class enclave in Los Angeles. And that all got looted and burned. People wanted guns. So I don't know what he's talking about here, but what you are seeing is a very smooth talking man who thinks he's the second coming. He's like the Muslim Obama, unless you believe. That's not even get started. Not even get started. I'm not saying I do. I'm just saying I could predict the audience's reaction. But he thinks he's the second coming of Obama that he can talk his way

out of any corner. And that is another Trojan horse poison pill moment where he's actually telling you exactly what he thinks. So you better believe him. He doesn't believe in your Second Amendment rights. He just said it right there. All right, here we go. Abolishing ICE. Sadi. I know I don't agree with you on this. You want to abolish ice. Who's going to deport the criminal aliens from the country? Long before we ever had ICE, we had INS. We were able to. to enforce our immigration policies without shooting people in the face in the back of the head.

And we just celebrated our 250th anniversary. That was an anniversary of throwing away tyranny. Now, to bring that tyranny back under the guise of the U.S. government itself, that seems to me to be inconsistent with the freedom you and I both love. Yeah, but I mean, that's a dodge, Abdul. You got a guy here from Southeast Asia,

molested a kid. ICE just picked him up. You want that guy to stay in Michigan? I'm glad that that guy. guy got picked up, but that's a different thing than saying that INS would not have picked him. Jesse, you're too smart for this. It's a bureaucratic game you're playing, and that's a dodge. You need guys to get these guys out of the country. Yep, he's, so he wants to, what we've established, he wants genital mutilation of minors, he wants to support the abolishment of ice, he wants to take

your guns away, and this guy's smooth-talking, smiling, it's going to charm your pants off wolf and sheep's clothing. And a big distinction that we need to be making here, because this was such a false equivalency that El-Said does here. And Jesse presses him on a 2022 clipleg about where he compared the people that attack Sharia or criticize Sharia law as being rooted in white supremacy, which is, that's not the case. It's a take. It's a choice. That's a take. SOT six. You said getting rid of Sharia law was white supremacy. Can you explain that one? Canon law is the name for Christian law.

I don't begrudge you your right to practice your faith as you choose. I don't know why the idea that I could practice my faith as I choose is a problem. Nobody is trying to push Sharia law on anyone else, just like I hope. Nobody is trying to push canon law on anybody else because we live in America where you should have the freedom of your religion. There's a lot there. That is so stupid and dumb that it's going to take us a while to unpack it. Blake, I want to start with you. You know this stuff.

Canon law is more Catholic. It's more associated with Catholicism. Yeah, well, yeah. Canon law is basically. basically law for the internal conduct of Catholicism. Like, canon law exists, and it's like if the church is pursuing discipline against a priest or a bishop, canon law would be involved. There, whether you can annul a marriage or whether a marriage is valid, that's all.

Canon law, I don't know of any country on earth that has really ever in modern times been subject to canon law. I guess maybe the Vatican technically is or something. Yeah. But, and then even in the past, I guess a good way of illustrating this, even in Middle Ages, absolute peak of the Catholic Church's power, you actually wouldn't have canon law as your only law. You would have canon law and it would exist alongside civil law. And so sometimes you'd have like a priest might be subject to canon law and not normal. It was a very dramatic part.

We don't need to get into all the legal history of it. But it is quite different from under Islam where Sharia, I think, might literally just mean law. I should actually look that up. But it is much more explicitly an assertion of this is how all of society should be organized to be along Islamic principles. Yeah. And it's important for you guys to understand. So he's drawing a false equivalency, you know, which is no shocker. This guy lies as he breathes.

But Sharia is not a religious belief system per se. It claims authority that is more comprehensive to the civil and legal code. And it even has separate courts. So you have separate courts. if you're an Islamic or a person, a Muslim believer, you'll have separate courts. So it's fundamentally incompatible with the U.S. Constitution because it cannot operate in parallel to our own rules, laws, and customs and norms. Canon law has nothing to do with that.

As Blake said, it is an internal affairs kind of code, right? So you're dealing inside the church. This is dealing both inside the church, talks about what you can eat, how you get married, the time of certain celebration Sharia law does. But then it actually has courts of conduct that it sets up. Okay? So America has one civil legal system governed by the Constitution. And then we have obviously laws that are specific to certain states.

And those apply equally to everybody that is in those jurisdictions. So anyways, he's trying to say, hey, you're Christian. Just let us worship the way we will. Here's the big takeaway here. And this is why this stream is called the Rival. of the red-green alliance. It's because Muslims like El-Sayed will, when they are in the minority, they will form alliances, intersectional alliances with other minority groups in order to gain more and more political power. They will attach themselves to pet causes like the trans issue

or abolishing ice or open borders. They will attach themselves to every far-left minority intersectional grievance group that they can. But once they hit a certain tipping point, you better be darn sure that they will start instituting things like Sharia courts in a community near you. That is the whole plan. That is the whole game. That's where this is going. So this is not some Jewish op that makes me, Andrew Colvitt, that is not Jewish, that is America first as it comes, support efforts to raise awareness about the Islamification of the West. It is not that. It is It is a fundamental understanding of facts, logic, and reason that says this is where this train is headed. And we better get off it real soon.

Blake, am I missing something? Am I being unfair? I think that's the most important thing is the degree to which if you look at European countries, if you look at the UK, if you look at, I think it's been a big problem in the Netherlands. It's definitely been a concern in Denmark. It is the capacity for when you have a very large Islamic population, which we've never quite had. in the U.S. Like we've got little kernels of it in

Michigan, you know, they're concerned about it in Texas, but nothing remotely like they have, nothing remotely like what they have in Europe, in major cities, is you start getting an entire parallel society into formation where

in Britain it's going viral that they're publishing these manuals pointing out that like in Britain, you can't have sex with someone, even your wife if it's, you know, without consent. And that actually is rape and it's a serious crime.

And basically, one of the things is, is they have people who live, like, full time in the United Kingdom. But if they live in Birmingham, they can be deep in these parallel societies where the assumption is you live under Sharia. It's difficult to escape these things. There is legal disputes where people are saying, like, oh, well, actually, my husband has forbidden me from taking a job. What am I allowed to do? And people are saying, actually, in this country, you are allowed to get a job. Your husband can't ban you from doing that. Well, and that's a big story that the UK and America, by the way, we're doing the same thing.

We're importing people that you have to tell them that rape is bad. That you can't rape here. We have laws against that. Not allowed. Not allowed. Just in case. And by the way, it might affect your asylum claim if you rape somebody. Just letting you know.

That's an obscene thing to do. The fact that our leaders in the West are importing cultures that you have to remind that rape is bad is a complete abyssexual. of the moral responsibility that they shoulder. And they're refusing to shoulder, by the way. Because they're foisting this upon us against our well, mind you. Microplastics are becoming too much of a problem to ignore. They're in 94% of U.S. drinking water, 94%, 90% of our meat and seafood. And the average American inhales, get this, 68,000 microplastic particles each and every single

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without further ado we have john doyle from the blaze great show and by the way his follow-on x is great you do a great job there john good to see you again my friend so we've been talking about excited to be back yeah excellent and um genuinely you're you're one of the good guys guys, you're fighting for all the right things. So we have your back 100%. John, so we've been talking about in the first couple segments here about this interview between Abdul El-Sayed and Jesse Waters and pointing out some very fundamental differences that we are going to have when it comes to Christians and Muslims and being legitimately concerned about the rise of Islam in the West. And now, Abdul-El-Said has gotten himself into more trouble because he's linked up with Asam Piker.

We're going to get to that. You've been commenting on that. But there is this undercurrent that has emerged, as our voices have gotten louder, raising the alarms about Islam, that it's actually just a Jewish hop, that you are critical of the Islamification of the West because of the Jews. It's actually all propaganda. Here you go. Sat 19. Jesus is a very sacred prophet in Islam, so much so that when God sends his messenger back down when everyone is saved in the Quran. He does not send Muhammad. He sends Jesus back. Okay. So that's how holy and important Jesus is in Islam. How often have you heard that?

Never. Literally never. And I didn't know why until recently, to be honest with you. And now I know it was propaganda from Israel to get you, get Americans to hate all Muslims so that when Israel kills them and takes their land, you were going to say, well, I mean, what are you going to do? The Muslims are the terrorists. Not the Israelis, but the victims are the terrorists.

It has been an overwhelming propaganda campaign to smear Muslims in this country. John, have you seen this narrative rising up on social media, especially with the kids, Gen Ziers, millennials? And what's your reaction to it? Yeah, of course. I mean, it's the most popular idea in the world. I see it all over Instagram, all over Twitter. And it's extremely deceptive.

I mean, obviously these people are subversives, but we know as Christians, the one sin that can't be forgiven is the sin of blasphemy, which is to say to deny the divinity of Jesus Christ. And so frankly, I don't really care how respectful your religion is toward God if it's not actually acknowledging him to be God in the first place. You know, you're going to award him the status of profit or something and say that we at least have some kind of reverence for him. Ultimately, not only do you not acknowledge his divinity, you also have like a, what, 1,500 year history of killing those who do. So I guess thank you for the, you know, consolation prize, but that's not going to be sufficient to win the hearts of American Christian. So it's totally deceptive, totally subversive. And yeah, it's not actually a Jewish op to call out people who have defined themselves by their opposition to Western civilization for over a thousand years, a militant opposition actually to Western civilization.

I mean, if you want to get into how funny it is, you can go read the first section of the Quran, the first long section, I should say, it's called Vakow. And it talks about Moses. It talks about a lot of other prophets. They could just as honestly come out and say, Moses is an extremely important figure in Islam. King Solomon and King David, they are all extremely important figures in Islam. So really, we love those guys just as much as the Jewish people do, so we don't have a problem with the Jews. And I think we would all greatly roll our eyes at that assertion.

And I think that's the best way of illustrating just how absurd this claim is. So I want to pull up a quote from C.S. Lewis, and of course I just lost it. but it's an important quote. Here I got it now. This is from mere Christianity. And it's talking about more of a Western tendency to say, oh, I ascribe to the teachers of Jesus. He's a great moral teacher. But if you are going to call Jesus anything other than the Son of God, then you are ascribing to him something he did not ascribe to himself. And this is the point C.S. Lewis makes. He said, I'm trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about him. I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept

his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say, says C.S. Lewis. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg, or else he would be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was and is the son of God or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool. You can spit at him and kill him as a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come. with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. And I would add an addendum here that he did not open up the option for us to call him just a prophet

to be revered by Islam. That is not what he said he was. And that is not what Scripture reveals him to be. So the point is, I think your point is also the right point, that they have a history now, dating back over a millennia of being a conquering political ideology that wants to kill infidels, or at least tax them and subjugate them to some great extent. Yeah, that's absolutely the case. You know, we obviously are very skeptical of mass immigration from the third world, but it's one thing when you have demographics coming over and they want to come over and they want to maybe take jobs away from Americans and just more or less exist.

That's one thing. But it's another thing when these are people coming over who, as you mentioned, They have a very clear historic ambition to conquer the lands in which they settle. These are people who come over and establish these kind of ethnic beachheads for themselves and even form these communities like we saw during the break with that clip from that show maybe a year or so ago where these people are coming over talking about how they're going to work to establish Muslim-only communities, govern themselves. I grew up in Michigan with Dearborn in my backyard. So I'm intimately familiar with how these people tend to conduct business when they're allowed to come over

and establish these kinds of communities for themselves. and of course people in Europe, people in England are experiencing the same thing. So it's not the same as just any other immigrant group coming over. It's a very unique group in the sense that it does have political ambitions. And as we see with the El Saeed campaign, this is kind of the first sign of what these people are going to look like when they get into Congress. Perhaps we saw something with Ilhan Omar, you know, of course representing Minnesota. But this is something that we are going to have to be very concerned about as, you know, the decade progresses. We haven't really seen the first signs yet of what actual Muslim political.

organizing looks like at the federal level. And it's certainly something that we're going to have to contend with. Yeah. Amen. And that's the only sort of clear-eyed way of viewing this situation as it emerges and grows. So there's this other story that's now going on with Abdul-Sayed. And again, these are microcosms of a macro issue that we need to confront. So Abdul-El-Said has come up with a statement regarding Jeremy Moss, who is a Jewish Democrat out of Michigan. Again, a state you know well. And he is responding to comments that Hassan Piker has made, basically saying that if Moss links himself too closely with Israel, eventually somebody's going to take action. Now, this is coming from Hassan Piker, who has said capitalist blood needs to flow in the streets. He said people need to kill Rick Scott.

He's gloated and mocked the death of Charlie Kirk. How many other things is he done? He said somebody's got to do it when it comes to President Trump. I mean, this guy openly salivates when it comes to political violence. And here he is attacking another Jewish Democrat. And Abdul El-Sayed comes out and says, while politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, you know his name.

You know his name, Abdul. We're going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools, and health care. Because that's what Michiganders keep asking about. Your reaction. Again, they are insulting the intelligence of the American electorate. They are, they're being deceptive. They're being subversive. you know, this is not actually about affordability and gas prices and all of that.

You know, when you, when you convey rhetoric like that, what you're trying to get it at is that you really care about Americans, you really care about the issues that matter. But you have a curious association with a guy who not only like obviously is, you know, hostile to America, he said that we deserve the 9-11. This wasn't a joke. This is something that he emphasized. He declared it and said, sorry, I'm going to say it the same way that we would say, sorry, going to say it. There's two genders as if it's like an obvious truth. He displays photos of the World Trade Center on fire, like in the background of his little streaming setup. So you have an association with this guy, not just like you ran into him at a cocktail party or something and were the ones being deceptive by trying to frame it as a close association. It's obviously a close association.

So you now have to explain to us why out of the hundreds of millions of people we have in this country, you're like buddy, buddy with a guy who says that we deserve 9-11. That's not exactly something I would be saying if I really did care about the voters in Michigan. and Todd Beamer, you know, the American hero, Archpatriot, who famously led the Let's Roll Charge against the hijackers of Flight 93, saving hundreds of lives. That guy was from Michigan. So as someone who will be voting in elections in Michigan, I want to know, Mr. Al-Said, why is it that you have this close association with this guy who says that we deserve 9-11? Did Todd Beamer? Did he deserve to die that day? Hassan Piker says we do.

Or he did deserve to die that day. Why is that? Why do you have that association? It's such a good point. Call him out on it. Tell the story of Beamer really quick for our audience. Yeah, the passengers of Flight 93 were understanding that the plane was being hijacked. They were understanding that it was going to be crashed probably into a building, killing hundreds of people.

And so Todd Beamer led that charge and said, all right, let's roll. And some of the other men on the plane, they went and they got the terrorists and they ransacked him. They took control of the plane. And ultimately, they weren't able to land it successfully. They crashed and everybody on board was killed. But that gesture and that display of heroism saved countless lives that day. which was already a tragic day, obviously, for Americans. And he's a Michigander.

Yes. And, yeah, so we're not just making it about some Twitch streamer, Abdul. This is about you. I want to play this. This was from Jesse Waters last night. Jesse confronted El-Said about Hassan Piker. Go ahead and play Sat 17. You know, you face scrutiny for campaigning with socialist streamer, Hassan Piker.

Do you plan to continue to campaign with Hassan Piker in the general election campaign? Look, I'm less concerned now with who I'm campaigning with, a lot more concerned about who I'm campaigning, too. We've got a lot of work to do to continue to build the coalition that's going to be Mike Rogers. Would you welcome him, though? On the campaign trail with you? Like I said, I'm a lot more focused on who I'm campaigning to. And I'll tell you that the 3 million people who listen to Hassan are people, I want to make sure understand that there's a pathway into our politics. And so I'm going to continue to have the conversations with those folks who we desperately need to reach.

shout too. All right. Sorry, that was a meet the press clip, but it still addressed the central claim here, a little labeling issue. That's all right. So the point is, if you watch the way this guy operates, he's confronted with a tough question, and he always pivots back to, I'm more concerned with gas prices and health care. And I'm going to do that. But then he ends up telling you exactly the answer, which is, I'm not going to distance myself, Hassan Piker. And you can pound sand, up yours. I disrespect your question. That's essentially what he does, time and time again, and we saw that with the Jesse Waters clips. This issue, though, of refusing to distance himself from Hassan Piker should be disqualifying in a same country, John. Yeah, you would think so. I mean, aside from the textbook non-answer, he actually reveals something in that statement, which maybe we would kind of understand better than the average listener, which is when he's saying he wants to communicate to Hassan Piker's audience, that there's a pathway to politics for them. What is that saying? What kind of audience is Hassan Piker speaking to? He's, of course, speaking to an audience of millions of people who are far-left radicals who have largely given up

on mainstream politics. They want capitalist blood to flow through the streets. They celebrate when conservative figures are assassinated. So what this guy's trying to do is show those people, hey, you don't have to give up on politics. Trust me, there's actually a way into the system and you guys are all welcomed. So that's actually kind of alarming. People should be far more alarmed by that kind of rhetoric than, you know, the stuff that he's trying to say about, I guess, affordability or whatever, like managed, you know, planned economies regarding health care, gas prices, grocery. The fact that he's trying to act as a kind of like bottleneck, a kind of opening for the most radical people in the country to become more involved in mainstream politics,

I think that should be very alarming. And that he won't distance himself from somebody who's acting as the figure for that openly, you know, larping his Mao is a dong. I think that that's probably going to be the Achilles heel of the campaign if Republicans play it properly. So taking a step back, we've, We're fixating on this race, but we're two months out. It has been a challenging midterm overall. I think, you know, we can discuss do the polls peak for Democrats in August. It looks like it has several times around.

But you're a young guy. I assume you speak to young guys, unless you're like me and all your friends are older than you. But what do you think should be a closing message for Republicans, for conservatives, in this race and beyond to show people we're serious? We're solving problems. We deserve another two years at the helm in Washington to complete the work that President Trump has completed in these first two years. I think that we do have to focus a lot on immigration. I think we have to focus a lot on crime. I mean, we're still on this kind of like Biden era, COVID-era, COVID-era hangover in terms of things like, you know, inflation, affordability. And so J.D. Vance has done a really good job messaging to people showing that this is being addressed. We have the cost of new home purchases decreasing. There are ways to kind of alleviate. the elephant in the room being that we don't really feel like we're quite winning yet. But the stuff that's been done with immigration, the stuff that's been done with crime is, like, without exaggeration, probably going to save tens of thousands of American lives.

And, you know, cities are safer. So young people, what do they want to do? They want to go out. They want to go to restaurants, go to bars. They're now more able to do that in cities where prior to the second Trump administration, that would have been unheard of. And so really kind of leaning into that, I think, is going to be effective and showing like, hey, you're able to enjoy your life again because of the work that Trump and his administration have done.

So, yeah, groceries are still more expensive than they were five years ago. We're working on that. However, it's not as though you would have been better off under Democrat rule. That's obviously not the case. And I think it'd be good to remind them of just how bad things were politically, socially, economically, under the Biden era and show that, yes, while not perfect, things have drastically improved because of Donald Trump. There was this tweet from Christian Haynes, follow him on X and throw it up here. He goes, and it was, I retweeted this because,

I just think it's counter to the prevailing narrative right now, that things are terrible and no promises have been fulfilled and all this stuff. And he says it's just a series of generational wins after another. And it's like breaking. Trump confirms ICE proceedings against Ilhan Omar over alleged fraud. Breaking. The Supreme Court allows Trump's mail and ballot restrictions to take effect. Breaking.

The Trump admin to revoke visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers. Breaking. Ninth Circuit says district courts can't block ice operations over past harms. breaking ice arrest 1,328 illegals in Virginia and Maryland in just 14 days. Okay, to your point, it has not been perfect. But quietly behind the scenes, many of the campaign promises that we've been offered in 2024 are coming true. They're being worked on.

They're being fulfilled. And to your point, imagine the alternative. How many millions of more illegals would have been streaming in the country had Kamala Harris won? I don't know, maybe 5, 10 million more at this point. what's the alternative? How many trans surgeries for at hospitals across the country?

That guy was on a debate. Last night when they know they've lost on that issue over and over with the public and he's in an interview where he could try to just say, oh yeah, people went to woke one is crazy

and instead he's going full. Oh, you want to intrude on family's medical decision making for mutilating six year olds. They want to bring it back. They will bring it back. Woke is. not defeated, it's not abandoned.

Democrats have not decided to only focus on affordability. All of the ideological commitments are still there and will come back. Yeah, they haven't moderated at all, John. No, not at all. Yeah, by the way, when they say affordability, they don't mean better managing the economy. They mean making things more affordable by basically

giving them out for free, which of course we know doesn't actually work. And so everything they're doing is just lying. I guess it's just another day ending and why for the Democrats. But yeah, you know, everything that's been done with the Trump administration, like people who are complaining and saying that Donald Trump has betrayed us, nothing is being done. I haven't, I've heard crickets. They haven't come out to say, wow, this is really good. I guess I was wrong and perhaps I'll exercise better judgment in my reactions and declarations of it being completely over. No, they're going to just be quiet because they don't want the

embarrassment. And then the next time things don't appear to be going perfectly for us, they're going to just do the same thing, the same song and dancing, it's over, Trump betrayed us. We have to vote for Gavin Newsom to save America and teach the GOP lesson. It's just completely non-serious. Now, I could understand seeing the imminent leftist counterattack and seeing that things aren't going perfectly. I can understand, you know, expressing that and saying, hey, maybe we got to really play a perfect game here.

But just declaring that things are over the second anything doesn't go our way, which, by the way, it seems to be going our way. Like Trump is doing something. The courts come in and try to stop it. His hands are tied. I mean, what's he going to do? and then maybe in this case the court ends up siding with Trump saying you can't actually do that. Now it's a win.

It's not as though he wasn't doing anything. He's either doing something and it works or doing something and it's impeded. But he's working. He's working. We're making lots of progress too. John Doyle, great American patriot. Thank you, my friend. Before he ever stepped onto a debate stage or behind a microphone,

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That's Charlie for Hillsdale.com. Learn deeply. clearly lead boldly and carry it forward just like charlie blake has made fun of me so much for our weekly k-fabe wmba segment it's true i have but i do genuinely believe that it's more important than that and i'll explain why because you made this point and i think it was a really apt point in hour one when we had john doyle on that they are not moderating abdul el-sayyad was on fox news last night confronted about genital mutilation of minors, the trans issue. He had the opportunity to distance himself from it, but refused to.

No, I'm just going to stick it out. It's all about what the doctors want. It's all about what the patient wants. It's all about what the parents want. If they say that a young boy's penis should be lopped off, a dingling, then that's like circumcision, Jesse. So they aren't moderating. And these little enclaves of cultural, I guess, woke hegemony are still operating in the open. And one of them is the WMBA.

And so it becomes this whole bigger story. Now, the WMBA has said that Roycia White, who we had on this show and Ennis Cantor Freedom, are not going to be eligible to enter the WMBA. Now, they call it a publicity, son. That's what they told the SPN. That is exactly what it. a lot of great civil rights pioneers publicity. That's, well, they actually were publicity stunts in some way. They actually were.

They were in a lot of cases. Yeah, they were actually trying to get headlines, trying to make news stories happen. And sometimes that's the way you make change and you accomplish your goals. So now they're saying that they're not going to be allowed in the WMBA, but they can't really give you a rationale. So they, this is why you know, I made the joke yesterday. It's like, you know how the WMBA is run by WMBA?

is run by women, not because it's the women's National Basketball Association. It's because it's like they want you to read their minds. So they go and they do this HR meeting. They do a big consensus builder.

Have everybody come together to come up with a strategy on what to do with who's eligible for the WMBA? Are we going to let biological men play in the league or not? Well, they get done with that meeting and then they say,

well, we haven't reached a consensus yet. We needed to get. together. We needed to feel out our feelings, basically. Yeah. It's what they needed to do. It's, it's literally the most predictable outcome you can imagine. So they're consensus building. They don't reach a consensus. And multiple women in the WMBA have now said we would welcome a biological man onto the court. Well, the league says they're not going to welcome the two men that have declared eligible for the draft. And they won't give a rationale why. Now here's here's the actual. explanation. Wait, wait, hold on. Women are mad, but they won't say why. Yes. Sorry. I couldn't resist. Exactly. Couldn't recess. So they say here, the WMBA has not announced any plans. And let me put that in there so you guys can follow along. The WAA has not announced any plans to prevent and his canter freedom from attending future games after he was ejected from WinTrust Arena in Chicago and Sunday. But multiple sources told the SPN that the former

NBA player will not be eligible to play in the women's league. Sources around the league confirm that Cantor Freedom and fellow former NBA player Royce White, Roycia White, as she's lovably referred to on this show, are not eligible to play in the WMBA and after the pair declared themselves women and eligible for the draft. Cantor Freedom was removed from the building Sunday after a verbal altercation with Chicago Sky Point Guard, Natasha Cloud. Okay. So they don't tell you why. They don't tell you how, but sources are now confirming to ESPN that they will not be allowed. So here's what the translation is. they know they're not going to let them in they just haven't figured out what woke logic

to apply to them just yet because they know that if they use certain forms of logic it will be instantly any explanation will be an instant landmine detonating for them like they can't say oh we just know you're faking it because then you could apply that to so many

potential sex predators who've tried to get into girls bathrooms and the left has stood up for them they can't say actually we were only for real bioling biological women. That would definitely set off a landmine. One idea might basically be we're defining women as people who just aren't, who say the women and also just aren't too athletic

such that they would beat up on all the other women in our league. That might be the completely ridiculous strategy that they take, but it might be the most viable. But then they're giving up the game. But then they're giving up the game. That is, that is, again, we've gotten a lot of emails to people who are very confused about us with Roisha White and all of that. Yeah. That is ultimately what is going on here. We need to be clear for a second.

I don't know if we need to. Oh, do we? Okay. Maybe we shouldn't. Whatever. No, we had Roycia White on and she taught us a lot. She taught us a lot. Okay, that's all I'm going to say.

But here's what's so funny about it is they've gotten themselves into an ideological cul-de-sac and there's no real way out. Because if they admit that these are men, not women, then they're giving up on their whole trans rights are human rights. Trans-women or real women thing that they've got going. if they admit that they have physical abilities that surpass the WMBA female players, they're giving up the game there because that proves our point that they shouldn't be allowed on the court or the volleyball court or whatever insert sport here, weightlifting.

They are actually cornered. So they don't really have a good way out. Meanwhile, they're doubling, tripling down on insanity. Which I 100% support overall because as I said, the WMBA is not about, whatever basketball they're playing on the court. I don't care about that. All right. What it is is its amazing drama.

And in fact, this isn't even our only great drama story with the WNBA this week. Did you know that, Andrew? No, I know. This is where we're going. Yes, yes. So this, I was excited to talk about this

even before the drama over the weekend. So they have a team in Toronto, of course. I mean, imagine denying Canada, a WNBA team. They would have a meltdown. They're called the Toronto Tempo. And the New York Post is reporting. They have unveiled a non-binary

turtle mascot for the Toronto Tempo. They have two mascots actually. They have a tortoise and a hair because they're called the tempo. You can go faster. You can go slow. And so they have Des, the non-binary tortoise mascot of their Toronto Tempo, which pretty humorously, I was looking at up. Apparently, that's actually the second non-binary mascot. No.

Doppler, the Seattle Storm mascot, according to the rapidly generated AI information that Google gives you now. also a non-binary mascot. So this is something, if you guys have kids out there, and you let them watch certain shows or whatever, this is the new angle that they play. They use sort of cartoonish characters like

this to launder in non-binary ideas, ideologies, and they do it because, you know, they're not human per se, they're human-s, but they're not human, maybe they're just... I don't like turtles are non-binary, right? They're not one of those. Like, amphibians can, like, change their sex,

I don't think turtles can. Ninja turtles are definitely binary. Yeah, yeah, exactly. They like pizza. They're dudes. No, but this is what they do. So this is what you really need to be careful with. If you are a parent out there,

is you need to understand that they are laundering this stuff in now through cartoon characters that don't seem, they're non-binary. They don't really look male or female. They're just a cartoon. But then they'll work in certain themes. So this is the whole point. We often say woke is not dead.

It's just on pop. right now. And these enclaves of institutionalized woke power, like the WMBA, like the DSA, like El-Said, they're not backing down because they think that come November, they're going to have a big blue tsunami. It's going to take over everything and they're going to remount their forces. They're going to double down and they're going to come back with a vengeance. This is not a, this is not a moderating movement. This is a radicalizing movement. And we all need to be very, very honest about We do have the great Riley Gaines now. Riley, welcome back to the show. It's good to see you. You left us hang in there for a segment. So we were just pontificating about the non-binary

mascots in the WMBA, which is just another weird little wrinkle to throw in there. I want to get your whole take on all. They're saying that Ennis Cantor Freedom and Roysha White are not going to be eligible. They can't really explain a good rationale for why yet, but that's some publicity stunt. Give us everything you're thinking, Riley Gaines. I mean, isn't it just crazy that we are still having this conversation? And I have to think of new ways to explain my take. I mean, my take is the same now as it has been for the past, I mean, what, five or so years since I was personally and directly impacted by this issue. I mean, for the whole lot, my whole life I possess this take that men aren't women. It's insane.

that the WMBA, a professional women's sports league, is having these like conference style performative meetings with C-suite level executives and board members all gathered around a table to discuss what a woman is. And they don't know. Well, you have to assume actually that they do know, hence why now they're coming out and saying, you know, sources close to the WMBA. I don't think it's actually been traced back directly to the WMBA. I don't think that's been fact check yet, but sources are saying that are close to the WMBA that now they're saying that NS Cantor Freedom and Royce White or whatever name they want to identify. Roycia. Roycia, the beautiful, brave woman.

Yeah, she's a trans-black lesbian. Both of these lovely gals can't play in the WMBA and they can't fulfill their dreams of being the number one WMBA prospect at the 2027 draft. Of course, they know that men aren't women. that boys aren't girls, that males aren't females, that fathers can't be mothers. The WMBA knows this, just like the Democratic Party does. But for some reason, this is the hill that they're willing to die on. So I want you to picture, again, this conference-style boardroom.

They're sitting around this table, and they're really trying to conjure up a way to say that these men fully intact with their male genitalia and their beards and the fact that they can dunk on these 10-foot goals. they're trying to think of a way to prevent them from playing, but continue to be the most inclusive and diverse. You insert the buzzword, inclusive league in the history of all the leagues, but in the process, they've just become a laughing stock, which is really tragic.

It's really unfortunate to the women, to every woman in the league, even the ones who I don't agree with, even the ones who I don't necessarily like, like Dijonet-Karrington, like Natasha Cloud. It's unfortunate for them that the league has taken this approach because it's taking the focus off of their incredible ability to play basketball at a high level and to do it well. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the trans non-binary they, them, turtle that likes soft tacos and green sex toys that are being

thrown on the court and how the refs have this profound inability to protect Caitlin Clark and other athletes like her. Is it because she's white? Is it because she's straight? Who knows? But that's what we're talking about with this league. It's absurd and unfair to the athletes who have worked really hard. Blake loves that about it, by the way. He loves the K-fabe, the WWE of it all. It thinks it's the best thing that happened to the WMBA since they found it. That being said, what's your take on Caitlin Clark?

You know, she's now, she was sort of like a cause-seleb for a lot of right-wingers on the internet because she was obviously put upon. She's incredibly talented. She's been very quiet. And she's, you know, kind of comes off a little cowardly. I think people, it feels weird to say this. Like, they're sort of annoyed. that she has focused on basketball that they kind of wonder they basically she got very obviously

targeted a lot of players in league didn't like that she got a lot of attention that she got paid more there was definitely a racial dimension to it and i think they wanted her to basically call out what was happening and instead she's sort of meekly submitted to it she's still good but i think they wanted to see her fight back and they feel let down by her yeah what's your take Riley. You know, I think a lot of at least conversations that we see online from conservative profiles, conservative commentators, conservative influencers, they take the approach that Caitlin Clark should have this like moral obligation to speak up. And I actually don't really agree. I really don't. I don't think you can volunteer someone for the position that I have found myself

in that Sophie Cunningham has now willingly accepted and has done so, which was such confidence and with such courage, I don't think you can volunteer someone for that position. I mean, you guys know the effects of what happens when you do, whether it's the negative comments, the false headlines, the pressure, the smear campaigns, death threats that, again, you guys can attest to that have the ability to transpire to reality for you. I just don't think that's something that you can volunteer someone for. I think my main problem with Caitlin Clark and all of this isn't that she is, necessarily taking a hard line stance because we can tell.

I think it's safe to assume what Caitlin Clark thinks about this issue. I'm not going to say what I know personally and how she thinks on this issue, but it's safe to assume how she feels about this issue when asked about it. And she doesn't, again, repeat off the talking points that they're told, I think, to say or what we're supposed to believe that the league purports and what is then representative of the general public because she's not doing that. It's safe to say how she feels. I more so take an issue with how loyal Sophie Cunningham has been to Caitlin in her defense over the past few years, not just not on this topic, of course, but in her defense of of totally biased refs and unfair treatment, even when it comes to, you know, not being on the cover of 2K.

Caitlin Clark is there, or Sophie Cunningham is there to defend Caitlin Clark. Well, here Sophie Cunningham has found herself in the midst of this cultural storm and Caitlin Clark isn't there defending her friend. Take outside the team component of it. that's what I more so find to be a telling factor of someone's character. But I don't falter for not wanting to speak about this issue. I think it would just give the other side more ammo to hate her, quite frankly. So I think that's really insightful. So you're saying about Caitlin Clark, it's the silence is almost deafening, right?

It's what she's not saying that is the tell about how she feels about this larger issue. But you do take issue with the fact that she hasn't been more vocal, more supportive of Sophie Cunningham because Sophie Cunningham has had her back 100%. I mean, she takes hard fouls. She's in there. She's like her defender. She's getting into pointing stare-offs with people that are attacking them, which is just brilliant.

So Sophie Cunningham's stock has just been soaring. Meanwhile, Caitlin Clark's has been falling if I'm just calling balls and strikes. Is Sophie Cunningham going to take the WWE belt away from Caitlin? That's your take, though. I think she has. I think she has. I think Sophie Cunningham, like, if there was like a favorability rating amongst players, I would say Sophie Cunningham has a higher favorability rating amongst sports fans, right?

The left doesn't like her, right? The people who don't watch sports who have probably never played a sport. Also, I think that's important to mention. Of course, they're not going to like her. But among sports fans, I can say as an SEC fan, as an SEC athlete myself, certainly among SEC fans, like her favorability rating is through the. the roof and you don't see that. I'm not kidding.

Just like politicians. Like generally it's like a 50-50. Majority of sports fans love Sophie Cunningham. Yep. I count myself among them. And I told that I want to get the jerseys. We want the jerseys. We want players who fight.

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James, you founded Andreso Man to strengthen men. And you have a really powerful testimony about what this has done for your own marriage. And we're going to get into all of that. But as I was prepping for this and looking at your biography, James, I was taken aback by a piece of it, I think kind of the origin story of how you started this. You were a professional bodybuilder. Yeah. Which is cool unto itself.

And then you had a near-death experience, and then you were like, no, I actually died. Yeah. Let's just start there. Okay. Yeah, in 98, I was actually in northern part of Michigan, and I was T-bone, hit by a semi, and it broke my neck, broke my back, and I was dead at the scene when the paramedic got there. The off-duty paramedically saved my life. and he started pulling me out and started to, as a lot of paramedics told me,

it sounds like he broke a lot of rules because what he did to resuscitate me was off the normal way they did things. But he resuscitated me and I spent three months learning how to walk again, learning how to. Are you still able to lift? Yeah, yeah, I never stopped lifting. I think I rehabbed myself after a month and I was out of the hospital. They said I would never walk again because I broke the same. part of my neck that Christopher Reeves broke, remember, the actor.

And he fell off off the horse. He fell off the horse. And they said that I would never walk again because I couldn't feel my legs at the time. But the paralysis was due to the bruising of my spinal cord, not the cutting of it. So, yeah. Okay. And Driszo, man, you know, so there's like multiple parts here. Why did you found it?

And what were you seen in men that kind of inspired you? to found it and how does your own personal biography play into that yeah so andrezo first of all means it's a greek word for man up basically man up and man up to man up to act like a man yeah matter of fact your name andrew is a derivative of andrezo well that's why i'm extraordinarily man yeah that's why i'm 10 out of 10 you probably know your name has it has an origin of courage yes that's what i've been told so andrezo means courage it means you know bravery it means to man up to take responsibility so that's why i named it andrezo man and it's out of it's out of scripture it's at first corinthus 1613 um you know paul said it to his to men

that were acting immature he said andrezo up and they they translated it into greek that and so um so that's kind of the origin of the name i started it because as you know like you said my background was bodybuilding i was turning pro never got to professional level but i was at a pro level when god started to call me out of it and the reason why is that i had built all this identity, all this physical body, but I knew inside I wasn't the man that I needed to be. I knew that my soul was not at the level of my body. Yeah. And we're spirit, soul, and body.

And so I started realizing that I was very mature, very insecure. There's a lot of things about me. My marriage was in trouble. And I was like, I have to change things. I have to find out how to develop the man from the inside out. And so that kind of started my journey into what developed. to the Andrizzo Man ministries. Yeah, it's interesting because Paul talks about, he says, you know, physical exercises of some worth.

Yeah. But it's not eternal. It's not of eternal worth. Exactly. And you were sort of the living embodiment of that admonition. Great connection there. Yeah. Okay.

So you have this thing called the return. Yeah. And this is really near and dear to my heart. And I will tell you, everything we've gone through losing Charlie, people often ask Blake and I, like, how did you get through it? it how are you dealing with it and i always tell everybody first and foremost it's my faith yeah i feel god i feel the prayers of strangers but secondly it's it is my wife and my marriage we have our marriage has been the bedrock of everything that we've been able to get through in the hard times so the return is specifically helping men with their marriages yeah with their faith with their

marriage with their talk about it everything their fitness all of that on their finances we we you know what I've learned is man you can have all the other things right you can have your finances right you can have your your fitness right like I had but if your faith ain't right and your family ain't right all the other stuff is suffering eventually and so it's just prioritizing again getting your my faith I grew up in church but I never grew up in Christ I say that often I never knew Christ as the example of the ultimate

man. And that's, when that happened, when he became, I often say Christ-likeness and manhood are synonymous. You can't separate them. And so I realized that I needed to follow this man. I needed to know how he talked, how he walked, how he prayed.

And that just changed me completely. And it transformed my marriage. So you have been through the return. I have, yeah. Yeah. So the best, maybe the best way to explain what it is is what is it? Like, what is the return and what did it do for your marriage? Yeah, I would say in a nutshell, it's a four-day, yeah, it's a four-day men's intensive, right?

Where you go out into a beautiful part of East Texas in Piney Woods, and it's a very serene, just very peaceful place to go to, first of all. Which so much of us don't get that type of space and that time to really unplug and really be with ourselves, you know, outside of the city and all the things that we do. So you go there surrounded by a group of 14 to 16 brothers that are just like you and some that are very different. They're all walks of life. And you really just dive in and peel back the layers of who you are as a man. You know, I didn't think that I had some big problem when I went there.

And I didn't think that my marriage was on the rocks. What I tell people is that it just gave me the tools that I didn't know that I needed, actually for things that were coming around the corner, for me to be able to navigate those things in marriage, how to be a better father. how to be a better, just, support system for my wife and for our marriage, how to pray with our kids, how to lead my family. You know, so it's amazing in that way.

But you say, you credit it. So that's interesting. So you went to it and you weren't at a point in your life where you're like, hey, my marriage is on the rocks. But at least you didn't realize if it was or not. But you said things came around the corner. It was almost like God prepared you for what was coming next. Talk to me a little bit about. Yeah, you know, what's funny is I didn't.

There weren't things that I could put on, say, my marriage was on the rocks. But some of the tools that I learned on how to support my wife, how to pray with her and how to be with her, I didn't know that my wife was always wanting those things awaiting on, you know, the better man of me to come out, if you will. And it took God really just putting those things into my heart and showing me, you know, through the return that allowed me to become the man. She says that it was, it was always in there and she knew it was in me, but the return helped bring it out. So you arrive on, that's beautiful, by the way, you arrive on a Wednesday. Yeah, it's a Thursday now. Or is it Thursday?

Thursday through Sunday. Thursday through Sunday. Okay. So why do you need so much time? Well, or maybe it's not that much time. What is filling the time? Yeah, because you heard the statement, men have a lot of, they're like onions, you've got to peel a lot of layers. Yeah, fair enough.

So it takes time to, we don't just go for it right from the beginning. We peel the layers back. And so it takes time to do that. And we create a lot of space for men. to spend time alone and contemplating and thinking. And so there's a lot of woods time. We go out in the woods and we spend time. We let them go and spend...

There's a whole day where they do that. And so that's probably their favorite day because they get to spend some time alone and they get to think through things. That's very dude. Yeah, exactly. Because if I'm just hearing this, I'm like, I don't know if I want to go get touch you feel

with a bunch of dudes. But now you're telling me I get to spend time alone without kids answering emails things like that i get to now now you piqued my attention oh yeah we we do a lot of guy stuff we we throw hatchets we throw spears we shoot i mean it's not all sitting around talking you know it's it's a lot of it's a lot of due time it's a lot of brotherhood you know which is so important and which is really important so important yeah most men don't realize how little of that they have in their life and how healing and good yeah and enriching it can be for that yeah the hardest thing for me was to turn back on my phone.

I just, to reconnect to the world was very difficult because I felt it's such peace out there. I wish I had a few more days this day. And you're getting a phone call from me being like, hey, I'm running out of strong so please like I'll get rid of that. So, okay, I got

to believe that when these men get out there, you've probably encountered some pretty radical moments with them in the sense that maybe they start hearing from the Lord for the first time. Or maybe they have to confirm. Or maybe they have to confront some sin. Yeah.

You're hitting them all. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. That's a big part of it. Is they, when you, when they encounter God, there's not a man alive that encounter God that doesn't change. Right.

So we give them, we create the space for that. We create the atmosphere for that. We lay the table out for that. And it's their choice if they're going to receive, you know, start taking those in. And when they do, it's, it's amazing you see men come back from what we called the wilderness day. That's what we call the day they go out. They come back and they're like, I feel like, I think I heard God. And they start describing it. I go, man, that is all God. And they go, man, it was so easy. I go, yeah, you shut everything down. You took the distractions

out of the way. God doesn't fight all of that. He waits for you to initiate that. Yeah, this is interesting because we talk a lot about on this show about what smartphones are doing to like kids. Yeah. We don't talk a lot about what are they doing to grown men. Absolutely. Like a giant deafening noise at all times. 100%. Distracting you from stuff that really matters. And it's the strategy of the enemy.

He knows that. He knows that if he can distract you, he can keep you from hearing that. What we know is a still small voice, right? The Bible talks about that. And so... Kierkegaard talks about that too. He talks about the diversion.

Diversion is a tool of the enemy. 100%. Yeah. It is his hammer. It's his hammer, man. It's distractions. Wow. And so we have to be intentional.

and that's what we help these men learn the tools of being intentional, that they can, the same tools we give them on the event, they can take home and apply it and spend time with God. But you got to make the time for it, and you've got to see the need for it. So when we create this, one of the things we do that's very special is that men need a place where they feel safe, where they can talk about things and not be judged,

and we do a thing, no stones here, and that we're all equal, we're all men, we all have issues, we're all dealing with stuff at different levels. So let's talk about these deep needed conversations. I call them dangerous, dangerous conversations that men don't really feel at ease at talking about it at work or their business or with their wife. So we say, let's do it here because you're safe here. And men start to open up. And it's a beautiful thing.

Yeah. We talked a lot about it's the retreats, the help with men. marriages for married men, and that is incredibly important. Your chief goal in any marriage is to help your spouse get to heaven. I'm not married. Yeah. Does Andrews-a-man have a role for me? Absolutely.

Yeah. We have a lot of men that are not married that go to it. And, you know, when a man understands what a real man is supposed to be like, he becomes a lot more attractive. You know what I mean? Because that's the thing I was telling Andrew, that manhood has been, you see it inside. They're trying to redefine it. So the return is returning back to the original blueprint that God created men.

So we helped men understand. I wrote a whole book Andrizo Man is about being that man that God wants you to be. What are some like concepts about what the original blueprint? So one of the things that Paul, when he used the word Andreso, he gave five principles to what that looks like. A man is a man that is responsible. He's vigilant. First thing Paul deals with is vigilance. Then he deals with faith.

man of strong faith. Then he deals with a man of courage. He says you must be a man of courage. And he deals with a man of character, and he deals with a man of character. And he deals with a man of compassion. He hits these five things about manhood that I believe is one of the greatest principles of a quality man, which if you carry that, that wife is around the corner. I tell men, the woman that you're waiting for, God's waiting for you to become the man that she needs. Absolutely. And so I help you become that man that she needs. So guys say, I want that Proverbs 31 woman. I go, well, wait a minute, look at the man in that chapter. Become that man and you'll get that woman. So you want the woman, but God ain't going to be unfair to her and give her the man that's not ready for. So that's one of the

ways we help them and just help guys with their struggles. Men, men, all men have struggles and we help them get solutions to those struggles and how to be able to walk this this manhood. journey stronger. It's really important because part of the debate about what masculinity even is, right? We talk about what is a woman? Well, there's an equally important question. What is a man? And part of the conversation seems to center around, you know, it's about money, dominance, power, you know, aggression, how big are your muscles? And then the other one, you know, just sort of has this image, I think, of a man is this sort of weak beta male that's just very compliant. But it's like the biblical model for masculinity is neither of those two things.

No. And that's a guy. I mean, you nailed it. You know, I had the muscles. I had the strength. I had the power. Had the fame, the money and all of that. And I had a young marriage.

I tell you a little bit about my story. I had a young marriage. And I'm living in Venice Beach, the mecca of bodybuilding at the time. I used to live in. You know, you did? So I lived right there on Sunset Boulevard and worked that Gold's gym, the most famous gym in the world. I did in that Gold's gym. Yeah.

I've been to that Gold's gym too. Yeah. And so Arnold. was there, Lufring, all these guys that were my heroes, but I started looking at their lifestyle, and I'm like,

you know, I don't know if I want to live that way and have that kind of, you know, character. But the big thing that hit me was, you know, I had all this stuff in my marriage and was struggling.

I went out with a friend's one night. We started drinking. Next thing I know, pretty girl comes in. One of the guys go, man, I bet you can't get her. And without even thinking, I'm walking up to this girl

flirting with her and I leave with her. And now I'm in a situation, and I go, how did I get here? What led me to this place? You know? And come back. I'm feeling bad about it. Tell my wife, it

crushes her. She walks out. I'm 21 years old when that happens. And I stopped falling apart because I realized that was the most important thing in my life and I just lost it because of a stupid decision I made. And from that point on, I said, I have

to start learning what led me to that, what weakness was in me that I didn't know. And that's when today I'm married for 37 years. I have raised three wonderful girls that are doing great, that are married to great guys. And my marriage is incredible, but it took

a new man to build a marriage I have now. And that was a mistake that a lot of men make and continue to keep making because they don't understand the weaknesses in them that they just kind of glaze over and press down.

Right? And so, I helped them recognize it. I helped them discern mindsets and habits that are upbringing ingrained in us, you know. There's things about my upbringing that was very dysfunctional, that my father was a, you know, a terrible example to me that I look back and I go, man, that's not how a man acts. And so I had to go search for it. And I was lucky to have mentors come in my life to help me, but I was also lucky to have, by the way, the mentor thing is so huge.

And that's really what you're offering. You're offering an opportunity to be mentored and some stuff. Mentorship is so critically important. That's a great opportunity to loop in, who we were all friends with, Charlie, that one of his greatest strengths that I think is underappreciated is his absolute hunger for mentorship, that the sheer number of people he knew and looked up to imitated, sought lessons from, learned from. People would ask what he was doing in his private life.

And it was often talking to someone like Dennis Prager or this past, or James or or and just learn from them all the time voraciously that he was never a person who envied someone who had something he didn't have he would always think how can I get what that person has by learning from it. And so the key here is you got to be intentional about it. So if you want to get better, you want to, if you if you're having problems with your marriage or your marriage is flat, but you're not really having outweigh problems or if you just feel flat, if you if you if this is like stirring your soul right now, this is really amazing. So Strongsell, we work with you guys, we love you guys, and you're coming alongside. And you've lived this firsthand. This changed your life. And I don't know, maybe it's what is part of the origin story of Strongsell.

I don't know. I didn't ask you, but you guys are partnering with Andrizzo, man. Tell us what you guys are prepared to do right now. Yeah. So specifically for the show and our partnership with you all, we are willing for anyone who goes and signs up, use the discount code Charlie at checkout. And StrongSill will cover 50% of the entire. higher cost for the event. Wow. So it's andrezo man.com. I think we have the, there it is,

andrezo man.com code Charlie. That's the, so if you want to do this, it's, uh, it's a Thursday through a Sunday, you get to hang out with like-minded guys. It's an intentional time of being poured into working on some stuff. And if your heart is stirring right now, I mean, that's, so final pitch to you. So andrezo man.com code Charlie. Strongsell is graciously going to contribute. 50% if you sign up with that code right now, which is an incredible, incredible gesture. Thank you for that. Absolutely. Final pitch to the men who are maybe listening right now.

You know, Strong Cell will help you with your physical body, strengthen that. We will help strengthen your spiritual body. We'll help strengthen the man that's going to help you through the crisis in life. And we create this brotherhood that men need, a brotherhood that hears them, makes them feel a sense of a new cause in their life, a new purpose. in their life. And if you're out there and you need that, you need to know what it means to be a man and what it means to be a good husband, a good businessman, a good, you know, man in general, we can help you with that. Absolutely.

Critically important. Andrezo man.com code Charlie for 50% covered. It's amazing. Thank you for doing that. Absolutely. My pleasure. God bless you guys. We'll see you tomorrow.

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