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Ask Charlie Anything 219: Special Charlie/Erika Edition
Mon, 14 Apr
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Charlie’s wife Erika joins for an AMA focused on dating, marriage, and more. Questions include: -Who is more conservative, Charlie or Erika? -How do you know when it’s time to get married? -Are dating apps worth it or a waste of time? Become an Exclusives subscriber and ask Charlie a question on-air by going to members.charliekirk.com. Follow Erika @mrserikakirk, and join her Biblein365 program here: www.proclaim365.com. Watch ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: Who are Charlie and Erika Kirk and what is this episode about?
Hey everybody, an amazing conversation with my lovely, incredible wife, Erica Kirk from the Bitcoin.com studio. Check out her podcast as well. It's amazing, which is the Midweek Rise Up. Also go to BibleIn365.com. That is BibleIn365.com. If you want to read the entire Bible in a year, it's never too late to start. Go to BibleIn365.com. Email me as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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I love you. You're my best friend. Welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. Thanks, babe. I'm stoked. It's good to be back. It's been a while. We have asked the audience for questions. Yes, they had. They came up with some great ones.
There were some not so great ones, too, that Daisy had, too. There are some X rated ones, too. Weren't there, Daisy? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Not good. Not not radio appropriate. Not appropriate for anybody. I don't know. All right. So we are taking your questions and hopefully we'll be able to answer any thoughts that you have.
Great. Do you want to take that? You choose the first one. I'll pepper in the next one. All right. There's a few of them. Well, this one's easy. How long have you been married and when did you know it was time to get married?
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Chapter 2: How long have Charlie and Erika Kirk been married and when did they know it was time to get married?
We've been married since 2021. Engaged 2020. So it'll be four years. Four years. We laugh about this because our dates are so messed up because of babies, meaning there's so many dates to remember. I know. I get all the anniversaries. Anniversaries, like kids' birth dates. May 14th, August 23rd. So we've been married for four years. How did you know it was time to get married?
Almost four years in May. I proposed and she said yes. How did we know? You just know. It's also don't waste your time, right? Don't waste your time. And plus, we were ready to start our life together.
Chapter 3: Who is more conservative: Charlie or Erika, and why?
That's right. That was an easy one. That's easy. You pick one. Who is more conservative and why? Erica. Yes. By far. Not even close. I am a moderate compared to Erica. Andrew always jokes that once you got married to me, you got more based. That's true. That is true. No, Erica is very conservative. I was raised well. Yes, you have a great mom. Great mom. Great parents.
My grandparents were amazing. Fiercely right wing. Yes. My grandfather was an immigrant from Sweden and fought in World War II and the Korean War. Yeah, and he got the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and knighted by the King of Sweden, and he was always super far right.
Chapter 4: How has having children influenced Erika's conservatism?
Do you think having kids made you more conservative? 100%, which I didn't think was possible. But 100%, absolutely. And a better wife. And a better wife. Do you think that a lot of the fact that young women are liberals because they don't have kids usually, typically? Young women are liberals because they don't have kids. I'm asking. Yeah.
No, I wouldn't say that because I have some friends who are still not married and don't have kids and they're conservative and they're finding it hard to find a mate. But if you're saying traditionally speaking, like. the women who don't have kids are more left-leaning because they choose not to have kids. That's a whole different topic. They consider kids to being a burden.
A burden, a nuisance. But also, too, you have to understand, and that also goes back to How did you know it was time to get married? Understanding your biblical role as a wife and a mother and knowing that you're ready to step into that motherhood, that being a wife and that type of era of your life, if you will.
So here's a good one. What traits should conservative women be looking for in men and vice versa?
Yeah. I know one of the questions deals with... I was going to go off one of the questions that talked about the apps, but I think women for looking for their future spouse needs to hone in on the fact, is he going to lead you closer to Christ or further away? Make sure you're equally yoked. That's so important. Make sure that you are not looking for a man who...
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Chapter 5: What traits should conservative women and men look for in a spouse?
You know, the men that are just they're grabbing the low hanging fruit, meaning on the apps. Women get upset when they go on a date with a guy they found on the app and all of a sudden they ghost them or all of a sudden they're just not communicating with them anymore.
To me, it's because the guy didn't have to hunt for them, not saying they have to hunt for a woman, but they do have to seek out a wife. And since they didn't have to, they made it so easy on an app to just press a button and It it's just a number in their head. Like you want to be so much more than I'm not saying apps are bad. I mean, they're not the greatest thing.
I've had friends who did find their significant other on an app. But the likelihood it's like the lottery, the likelihood of you finding your future husband or wife on an app is a lot less likely to happen. So that to say. I I'm so blessed. It's so hard because I I literally won the jackpot with my husband. Vice versa. That's really hard.
I will say women should look for men that have self-control and men should look for women that are willing to submit, which is basically a non-feminist woman. Right. But the whole topic of submission becomes... That word really lights people on fire. It's biblical. I know. It's beautiful.
Marriage in the right context is so beautiful because your husband will give up anything and everything for you in a healthy manner, but they will literally love you and honor you and cherish you above all and put... All the noise aside and focus on wife, children, family. Daisy says there were quite a number of questions on submission. So dive more into that.
Okay. For me as a wife, my biblical role is to be the helpmate to my husband. That does not mean I'm less than you. That does not mean that I am above you. Thank goodness. I love that you lead our home. I love that you are such a You are so intentional with your faith and you are so intentional with just how you are as a father and a husband.
But as a wife, I am to quote unquote submit to you, which is a beautiful word, by the way, because that's the order of how it's supposed to go. And God will bless that. I am not to try and rival you. We're on the same team. We complement each other. The body, an eye is supposed to be an eye to see. You can't expect an ear to see.
There are certain things within the body that operate how it's supposed to be, similar to marriage. I am the wife. I am in charge of certain things, guardian of the home, helping with the children. That is so I can make it easy for my husband to do what he needs to do. There's a balance there. It's not... And then you get into the people who are saying, well, my husband's abusive.
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Chapter 6: What does submission mean in a biblical marriage and do women struggle with it?
They lose that fire that they got at the altar, that fiery spirit of this is the man I've been praying for. And they they get burned out because of the kids or because of circumstances. And then it's like submitting to my husband. That sounds exhausting. It's supposed to be liberating. It's supposed to be freeing. You are in charge of what you're in charge of.
Your husband's in charge of what he's in charge of. And it's supposed to be a beautiful thing. of a teamwork and symbolic within biblical marriage and symbolic within how God and Jesus and everything, just your whole faith is supposed to operate. So submission's a beautiful thing. Yeah, it says submit as Christ submitted. Submit to your husbands as, I have to look at the exact verse.
Well, husbands, yeah. Yeah, husbands submit to Christ. Ephesians 5. Yeah. Hey, everybody, you know what you need in your life? You need more trees. Did you know that Fast Growing Trees is the biggest online nursery in America with thousands of different plants and over 2 million happy customers?
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Use Kirk today. Offer is valid for a limited time. Terms and conditions may apply. I mean, I've never found, obviously, any problem with it. But do you think that most women struggle with it? Here it is. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. This submits that both husband and wives are called to serve and prioritize each other's needs.
Do you think that most women struggle with it because of a kind of feminist mentality that has seeped in?
Yeah, because I feel as if Christianity in itself has become... semi-feminized from the standpoint of, I know we've talked about this before, you know, the Pinterest Christianity with the little flowers all over the beautiful scripted font and like making the Bible feminine. And it's, it's not, it's a beautiful, beautiful, Not even a story.
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Chapter 7: How do Charlie and Erika handle hate and criticism from Charlie's work?
I know. What traits are conservative?
This is one that someone just emailed us in, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Oh, really?
Erica, do you ever get hate from Charlie's work? How do you handle it? Charlie, do you ever feel guilt, or do you ever deal with guilt when Erica gets hate? No, I don't.
I honestly, this is so I got I this is how I know God made us for each other. Because anytime I do get quote unquote hate, it's the same stuff you get like that. I don't even want to say it's not even worth saying it or repeating the things that were called or the names that were called. But yeah. Yes, I do. I've lost family members. I've lost friends.
But I actually am kind of grateful that that's happened because God has pruned my life in a way where I am surrounded in a circle now by people who love us, support us, pray with us, encourage us.
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Chapter 8: Are dating apps effective for finding a spouse according to Charlie and Erika?
Small, mighty circle. And that's what I would much rather have, a small, mighty circle than a massive one. It's the people that you can trust and pour into. And yes, do I get hate. Bring it on. Exactly. I'll have a velvet steel spine by the end of my life, so bring it on. I have nothing to fear.
Yeah, I mean, look, we get a lot of hate. We get a lot of death threats, but it's just part of life. It is. And it makes you stronger. Right. And honestly, if you are out there and you aren't getting a lot of hate, then... What are you doing? Well, yeah, Satan's not... You're not doing anything that bothers Satan. No, exactly. You're just being boring.
You're probably honestly doing the bidding of the enemy.
Right. No, it's true.
OK, let's see. EMS freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Lots of questions coming in from you guys. You want to do the dating app thing? Yeah, I mean, I kind of touched on it. Yes and no. I used to have stronger ones, but I don't think as many people are on them anymore than like dating apps and like dating services. Are those two different? I hear dating services are awful.
I hear that the ones that are very pro like dating apps and services. He always was. I mean, his thought is more options, the better. Yeah, but how lazy does that make the man to be able to be... They're presented a binder of women and they're like... Like a Mitt Romney binder full of women. Do you want a brunette? Okay, let's go down this manila folder.
Women are becoming notoriously pickier than men, though. Right. It's a big problem. They have a CVS receipt length checklist of what they want. There is a growing theme that women are actually grading. They say they're unhappier with the dating pool right now than men. I could see that. And part of it, by the way, is incredibly superficial. But are men unhappy with the dating pool of women?
No, not as unhappy as women. I think women, you know what's interesting? Some of it's superficial. They say that men aren't attractive. I know, but I'm thinking about all of the way, how we grew up, of how romanticized they made finding your future spouse. Like, you're going to be so in love. You're going to be swept up, and these flowers are going to be...
flying around you and you're going to be so like butterflies in your stomach and so i feel as if when people don't feel that immediately they're like oh this person's not the right one or they're just i don't know i think they're caught up in what they're supposed to that just i mean they're like they're like a christian tinder does that exist i don't know you have an ad for it well it's like a matchmaking service i think
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