The Ben Shapiro Show - July 09, 2026


A Guy Wore a Maroon Shirt. Candace Owens Lost Her Mind.


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9 minutes

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1,718

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137

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9

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17

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Candace Owens has uncovered the biggest, dumbest conspiracy theory in the entire entire universe of conspiracy theories. She thinks there were government decoys on the scene that day, and she thinks they were wearing maroon shirts.

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00:00:00.000 All righty, folks, I want to give you the single dumbest conspiracy theory in the entire conspiracy theory universe of Charlie Kirk. 0.83
00:00:06.000 And understand, this is a fiercely competitive category. 0.62
00:00:10.000 Candace Owens has now looked at the footage from the day Charlie Kirk was murdered and decided that the real story is the color of the shirts people were wearing.
00:00:17.000 It is the maroon shirt theory.
00:00:20.000 Candace Owens claims she noticed an unusual number of young men wearing maroon shirts that day, a lot of them seemingly there alone.
00:00:27.000 And her conclusion was not maroon is a normal color shirt.
00:00:32.000 It's these must be government decoys. 1.00
00:00:34.000 Government decoys so stupid that Candace Owens could uncover them by the color of their shirt alone. 0.99
00:00:41.000 Now, maroon is not exactly like an exotic shirt color. 1.00
00:00:45.000 Like they weren't wearing like peacock feathers or something.
00:00:48.000 And more importantly, there is a technical college called M Tech right there in Orem.
00:00:52.000 It's partnered with UVU, and their actual school colors are maroon.
00:00:56.000 So maroon shirts in the valley there are probably not a secret operational signal or decoy.
00:01:03.000 Yeah, man.
00:01:05.000 The withering intellect on this lady, my goodness.
00:01:08.000 Now, again, the evidence that is emerging in the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing is stuff that, because of contemporaneous media reporting, we already knew existed.
00:01:16.000 Like, for example, Tyler Robinson turning himself in at the behest of his parents.
00:01:21.000 See, here's the thing typically, when a murder suspect turns himself in to the cops and confesses to the thing, typically that is good evidence that he did the thing.
00:01:31.000 Typically.
00:01:32.000 Here is some of the footage from the turning himself in.
00:01:35.000 You can see this is the security footage.
00:01:39.000 You can see him from.
00:01:41.000 He walks in.
00:01:42.000 That is obviously Tyler Robinson.
00:01:45.000 And you see him in the police station preparing to turn himself in for the murder of Charlie Kirk.
00:01:52.000 And now he is wearing a maroon shirt.
00:01:57.000 One Candace Owens, she is claiming that may not be Tyler Robinson.
00:02:03.000 Quote As I demonstrated on my show.
00:02:06.000 There were many young men that all woke up and decided to dress in maroon shirts and light shorts on the day of Charlie's assassination.
00:02:12.000 The footage can be any one of these young men, and in my opinion, is likely multiple of them.
00:02:17.000 If Tyler Robinson's defense would like to contact me, I'd be happy to supply them the folder of the maroon boys that I began archiving when I noticed the bizarre fashion trend.
00:02:25.000 I have thus far ID'd two of them, but we'll focus on IDing the rest of them when I am back on air.
00:02:29.000 I have maintained that the feds had multiple decoy maroon boys on the ground that day. 0.84
00:02:33.000 Without a clear image, they certainly cannot declare it as Tyler Robinson, which is why all the Zionist influencers, oh, the, Are hoping they can simply hypnotize the public into trusting blurry images and videos. 0.68
00:02:45.000 Ooh, we're using our hypnotic powers to show you evidence. 0.82
00:02:48.000 Ooh, for such an open and shut case, they have thus far provided zero evidence of anything outside of a criminal government conspiracy, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the JFK assassination.
00:03:01.000 So she is now offering to help acquit, work to acquit the murderer of Charlie Kirk.
00:03:08.000 But don't worry, that's because she was Charlie's best friend and cares so deeply.
00:03:12.000 Clearly.
00:03:13.000 We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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00:04:36.000 She also put out a statement saying, This is to Blake Neff.
00:04:42.000 Blake, of course, is one of the higher ups at TPUSA.
00:04:44.000 No, Blake Neff, you watch every single episode of my show and therefore know exactly what my stance is, so don't play obtuse, Blakey.
00:04:53.000 I do not believe the footage of him turning himself in as a body double.
00:04:56.000 I believe the footage on and around campus of people in similar maroon shirts are all various decoys, and that is the reason that the footage is blurry.
00:05:03.000 My podcast is too big for you to lie about my position.
00:05:06.000 It's the Maroon Shirt Brigade, guys.
00:05:10.000 It's like the entire football team of the Arizona Cardinals is responsible for this.
00:05:14.000 It was the USC marching band.
00:05:16.000 I have always maintained that Tyler Robinson agreed to go into the police station despite maintaining his innocence because the former undercover officer, Mike Mitchell, told him he had no choice and would otherwise risk SWAT breaking into his home to arrest him, potentially putting his and his family's lives at risk.
00:05:29.000 I've never changed my position on this.
00:05:30.000 And thus far, there has been zero evidence presented which has disproven me.
00:05:34.000 As an example, here's just one shot of three different young solo men on campus that day wearing maroon.
00:05:40.000 Ooh, ooh, ooh.
00:05:45.000 I mean, chilling.
00:05:45.000 Wow.
00:05:47.000 I mean, crimson, maroon.
00:05:49.000 That's what it's all about.
00:05:50.000 It's about the color coding.
00:05:53.000 Because that's what you would do.
00:05:55.000 If you were going to commit a murder, you just go get a bunch of people as decoys. 1.00
00:06:00.000 Oh, retarded. 1.00
00:06:03.000 Oh, my gosh. 1.00
00:06:04.000 I said yesterday on X that Candace Owens is an IQ test and many people are failing.
00:06:10.000 She says, we also found young men bizarrely holding maroon shirts as though they were exchanging t shirts.
00:06:15.000 I believe we will eventually learn that some of these young men are part of a military unit because military units utilize color of the day to organize in undercover operations that require them to wear plain clothes and pass off as citizens.
00:06:28.000 Man, she is so on top of it.
00:06:30.000 My goodness. 1.00
00:06:32.000 Imagine if she were a doctor. 0.99
00:06:32.000 My goodness. 0.99
00:06:33.000 I mean, if she dedicated this kind of brain power to curing cancer. 1.00
00:06:38.000 I mean, my, like, just her blazingly astonishing intellect. 1.00
00:06:42.000 Whew, whew.
00:06:44.000 I mean, it just leaps off the screen at you.
00:06:49.000 This blazing intelligence, an IQ level that just exceeds Einstein by leaps and bounds.
00:06:57.000 Clearly, when she turns that laser like focus on a subject like Charlie Kirk's murder, she'll indubitably come up with a Hercule Poirot style solution.
00:07:10.000 To this.
00:07:11.000 I mean, like, how could we doubt her?
00:07:13.000 How could we? 0.99
00:07:15.000 Well, in the words of Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder, never go full retard. 0.95
00:07:19.000 And here's the thing a lot of people seem to be going full retard, not just by taking whatever cyber cyanide Candace is selling over an online Jonestown over there, by believing, because again, this all ties into a bigger thing, these broader conspiracy theories peddled by all of Candace's friends. 0.91
00:07:34.000 Because again, let's just be real about this. 0.99
00:07:37.000 Tucker Carlson says exactly the same kind of crap. 0.99
00:07:40.000 He just doesn't do the maroon t shirt stuff. 0.99
00:07:42.000 He's like, well, you know, we all know that Charlie.
00:07:45.000 Was probably not killed for trans stuff. 0.90
00:07:46.000 He was killed over Israel.
00:07:50.000 You've got Megyn Kelly over there saying, I would never, I would never.
00:07:53.000 F you. 0.99
00:07:54.000 You want me to condemn Candace Owens saying this stuff? 0.99
00:07:56.000 F you. 0.99
00:07:57.000 Never.
00:07:58.000 No way.
00:07:59.000 But I love Erica.
00:08:00.000 Oh, we love Erica.
00:08:02.000 We can all see.
00:08:03.000 We have eyeballs.
00:08:04.000 Those eyeballs are connected to our brain.
00:08:07.000 So we can see what's happening, guys.
00:08:08.000 Okay, but the thing is that these sort of broader conspiracy theories are all tied together.
00:08:14.000 It's all tied into a broader theory that your life is controlled by evil and mysterious systems, that you're not in control of your life, and that your spirit guide through this mysterious and chaotic universe is, once again, the platonic intellect of Candace Owens.
00:08:31.000 She will provide you the architecture of life.
00:08:35.000 Candace Owens will guide you through all of the kissitudes of existence.
00:08:42.000 Candace Owens, she and her friends, she and Tucker, she and May, all of them, they have great insight into how the universe works.
00:08:49.000 And if you just give them $9.99 a month, then they will help you to navigate all of the rocks and shoals that undergird the rivers of your life. 0.99
00:09:02.000 Folks, if you decide to buy into this, I'm sorry, you're the mark, you're the sucker. 1.00
00:09:06.000 Don't drink the Kool Aid, because it makes you dumb. 1.00
00:09:10.000 It makes you stupid. 1.00
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