The Charlie Kirk Show - 2023: A Turbulent Year In Review

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, 2023 is quite a year.

00:00:04.000 What word would you use to describe 2023?

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00:02:27.000 How would you summarize 2023?

00:02:30.000 We're getting lots of different ones.

00:02:32.000 I'm going to read some of these later.

00:02:33.000 They're hilarious.

00:02:34.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:02:35.000 And I was always thinking about this last year, and we're going to go through some of the highlights, the lowlights, the wins, the losses, the lessons.

00:02:41.000 So we have a lot to cover.

00:02:43.000 But as always, preparing, I was like, oh boy, you know, we're going to go through all the different news stories and the stuff that defined this year politically and culturally.

00:02:52.000 And I said, this year feels as if we're in a TV show where we just lived through the episode where it's obviously building.

00:03:06.000 You all know TV shows like this.

00:03:08.000 By the way, I don't watch nearly as much TV as I used to.

00:03:10.000 I watch almost no TV, actually, but in a different life.

00:03:14.000 I watched a lot of Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones.

00:03:16.000 I don't regret it, by the way.

00:03:17.000 Those are all excellent, excellent shows.

00:03:21.000 And sometimes you would have entire seasons, House of Cards, where very little occurs.

00:03:28.000 Not that nothing happened this year, but it's pointing and it's pointing and it's pointing towards a climax, a crescendo.

00:03:37.000 Game of Thrones probably is the best example of this.

00:03:40.000 And I'm not trying to nerd out on Game of Thrones.

00:03:42.000 You can ask Jack Pisobic about this.

00:03:45.000 He's a Game of Thrones aficionado.

00:03:48.000 But sometimes the big movie industry or TV industry, they do these filler episodes where they stretch out over three or four different episodes, something that could take one episode to try to get to the final point of the story.

00:04:08.000 They have to get all the chess pieces in place.

00:04:11.000 They have to get everybody on the right island, you know, in the right place and all the armies assembled when you know, okay, it's going down in that next episode.

00:04:22.000 All of a sudden, the forces that will are going to hit.

00:04:26.000 And I feel as if 2023 has been a chess piece setting type of year.

00:04:35.000 Almost everything points to 2024.

00:04:38.000 And if I had to, the number one news story of the year, without a doubt, without a doubt, was the indictment of Donald Trump.

00:04:46.000 Never happened before in American history.

00:04:48.000 Indicted for absolute complete nonsense, the mugshot heard around the world.

00:04:53.000 And by the way, our data shows this.

00:04:55.000 I asked our team, I said, hey, what was our number one performing podcast episode of 2023?

00:05:00.000 Our number one performing podcast episode of 2023 was summarizing and covering the Trump mugshot when Trump was arrested.

00:05:12.000 Number one story.

00:05:13.000 Number one episode that we did there.

00:05:15.000 So our data shows that too.

00:05:16.000 But in some ways, it doesn't feel complete, does it?

00:05:20.000 Can we at the end of 2023 and say, well, signed, sealed, and delivered, these battles are over.

00:05:26.000 We have a definitive winner.

00:05:28.000 No, it feels as if that you just lived through all the different chess pieces being put into place.

00:05:37.000 All of these stories have yet to be completed.

00:05:40.000 They have not come to a place of finality.

00:05:45.000 Instead, there is a great deal of mystery.

00:05:50.000 We don't know how they end.

00:05:52.000 In fact, 2023 was getting to that cliffhanger.

00:05:56.000 And tune in next season to find out what happens.

00:06:01.000 I was thinking, what were some of the great cliffhangers in movie or TV history?

00:06:08.000 And there's so many that come to mind.

00:06:11.000 And, you know, Daisy sent in some and the show.

00:06:16.000 Oh, I saw a couple episodes, succession or white lotus and like a lot of setup and a lot of just mystery and intrigue.

00:06:25.000 And what I'm getting at is the story is not over.

00:06:31.000 I have never lived through a year in my last 11 years of doing this where the year itself will be connected to the next year.

00:06:40.000 I mean, let's just think about every year post-COVID, 2022, 2020, chaos.

00:06:46.000 I actually liked 2020.

00:06:47.000 I know that sounds weird.

00:06:49.000 I had a great opportunity to kind of close it down, recalibrate.

00:06:53.000 I traveled, spoke.

00:06:56.000 2020 had its difficulties, lost friends literally who died in 2020.

00:07:00.000 But overall, it was a very blessed year.

00:07:02.000 2021, difficult year, no doubt.

00:07:06.000 2021 was one of the most difficult years I've ever had.

00:07:09.000 2022 was great until it wasn't.

00:07:12.000 The midterms were so underwhelming.

00:07:16.000 And 2023, if I had to summarize it, and we're getting a lot of different emails, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:07:23.000 It was a setup year.

00:07:24.000 It was also very gritty in some ways.

00:07:27.000 2023 did not come easy for a lot of people.

00:07:30.000 It took effort.

00:07:31.000 It took hustle.

00:07:33.000 It took commitment.

00:07:35.000 It took energy.

00:07:37.000 And it's not over.

00:07:39.000 And the year might be over in a couple of days, but it just almost points.

00:07:45.000 It directionally leads into the next episode.

00:07:51.000 And the episode will determine, and I don't want to be too hyperbolic.

00:07:59.000 I don't want to over-exaggerate, but the whole civilization feels as if it's going to be determined on 2024.

00:08:08.000 Think of all the different questions that we need answers to.

00:08:12.000 Is it, are we going to be citizens or slaves?

00:08:14.000 Are we going to have a border or are we going to be a globalist nightmare?

00:08:19.000 Are we going to trans our kids or protect our kids? 0.99

00:08:22.000 These are all open-ended questions that we're now living through that cliffhanger.

00:08:28.000 Is Biden going to be the nominee?

00:08:30.000 Are they going to put Trump in prison?

00:08:33.000 What's going to happen coming into November of 2024?

00:08:38.000 What is that even going to look like?

00:08:40.000 And what if 2024 is this huge anti-climax?

00:08:44.000 That 2023 was actually when they went, I think this is unlikely, but they went all out in 2023.

00:08:49.000 And it's just kind of they're out of stuff to do and they can't assassinate Trump and he wins.

00:08:54.000 Who knows?

00:08:55.000 There's this, you are right here.

00:08:56.000 I just want you all to pause and appreciate the mystery, the uncertainty, the unpredictability of what awaits you.

00:09:11.000 What a time to be alive.

00:09:12.000 When you really think about it, none of you know what's going to come next.

00:09:16.000 You can guess.

00:09:18.000 You can speculate.

00:09:20.000 You can hope that's fine.

00:09:22.000 We're all doing that.

00:09:24.000 And you're about to enter season four of the Biden regime.

00:09:29.000 And if you all of a sudden think that the confusion and the fog is just going to be lifted, think of all the different stuff that we have to solve.

00:09:41.000 We have nine different fronts that we're fighting on right now.

00:09:44.000 They're going to try to take out Elon and the fight for internet freedom.

00:09:46.000 By the way, what a winner he is of 2023.

00:09:50.000 What's going to happen with Hunter Biden?

00:09:53.000 You got people calling for Biden's resignation.

00:09:55.000 Is he going to be the nominee?

00:09:58.000 You got Donald Trump facing 700 years in federal prison.

00:10:02.000 They tried to take out Tucker Carlson in 2023 and he's back stronger than ever.

00:10:06.000 They tried to take out James O'Keefe and he's now doing bigger stories than ever.

00:10:10.000 2023, they try to take out some of our top people.

00:10:14.000 They also have tried to take out Twitter and that was largely unsuccessful.

00:10:21.000 A setup building, building, building.

00:10:26.000 For those of us that love classical music, you could just feel the intensity go up.

00:10:33.000 It hasn't reached that point.

00:10:35.000 And for any of you that might feel heavy or depressed, by the way, yesterday I was going to throw my computer at the wall.

00:10:43.000 I can't stand when we do the border story.

00:10:45.000 It just drives me insane.

00:10:46.000 I'm with you.

00:10:47.000 Feel so helpless.

00:10:48.000 It's so demoralizing.

00:10:49.000 It's so depressing.

00:10:50.000 So there's plenty to be upset about.

00:10:52.000 But what a time to live through this, to do something about it, because it's not over.

00:10:59.000 I do not feel a sense of completion.

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00:12:16.000 There are a lot of highlights this last year, and certainly some lowlights.

00:12:21.000 It doesn't even come close when you think about the Donald Trump indictment story.

00:12:26.000 Not even close.

00:12:28.000 The mugshot is just a symbol for an event that stretched over half of a year.

00:12:33.000 The unprecedented lawfare attack on Donald Trump to try and keep him from having a second term without having a fair election.

00:12:40.000 And we did a, I think, a complete job yesterday of summarizing Norm Eisen and all that stuff.

00:12:48.000 Alvin Bragg with the falsified business records and Stormy Daniels and the civil case in New York and Big Fanny Willis and the Mar-a-Lago case.

00:12:58.000 And then they're trying to kick him off the ballot.

00:13:00.000 Lawfare was the emphasis in 2023.

00:13:06.000 And a lot of us were taken by surprise.

00:13:09.000 A lot of us were taken by surprise, not myself, but many people in the audience, because we would say, oh, they won't abuse and profane the instruments of justice for political purposes.

00:13:23.000 Of course they will.

00:13:25.000 When you think about it, Donald Trump has been suffering under a perpetual impeachment process.

00:13:31.000 It's been this rolling persecution, this rolling targeting.

00:13:38.000 Now, the final outcome of all these cases is largely unknown, but whatever their outcome is, it will be all important.

00:13:44.000 And season four of this hellscape, illegitimate, delusional regime is coming next.

00:13:54.000 And you get to live through it all.

00:13:57.000 The prelude of building and building and building and building.

00:14:03.000 And I'm going to go through some of these stories, but most of these stories are not stories that we'll remember five years from now.

00:14:10.000 For example, the Chinese spy balloon.

00:14:13.000 Important?

00:14:13.000 Is it civilizational altering no?

00:14:15.000 Or the submarine that imploded going to the Titanic?

00:14:20.000 Or Jason Aldean's song, Try That in a Small Town.

00:14:23.000 And we're going to talk about some of this and go through it.

00:14:26.000 But it feels as if these are filler prelude events to get to the ultimate struggle, this battle that awaits us.

00:14:40.000 Let's play a piece of tape here.

00:14:42.000 Let's play cut 37.

00:14:44.000 Donald Trump now offering trading cards of the piece of the suit he wore during his mug shot, PlayCut 37.

00:14:52.000 Favorite President Donald J. Trump with some very exciting news.

00:14:56.000 My last two Trump digital trading card collections sold out in just hours.

00:15:01.000 And now I'm back with my latest series called the Mugshot Edition.

00:15:05.000 I wonder where that came from.

00:15:07.000 The first time we're creating a real physical Trump card.

00:15:10.000 Purchase 47 digital cards and we'll mail you a beautiful trading card.

00:15:16.000 It is an authentic piece of the suit I wore when I took that now famous mugshot and it was a great suit, believe me, a really good suit.

00:15:25.000 He's now, of course, making it famous and the most famous mugshot in history.

00:15:30.000 It was a year of Republican infighting.

00:15:33.000 Did the Republican Party have a good year?

00:15:35.000 No.

00:15:36.000 The Republican Party had an awful year, actually.

00:15:38.000 From the Speaker of the House deal to the lack of any deliverables, one of the big losers of 2023 is the Republican Party.

00:15:45.000 Ronna McRomney, who survived a chair vote against Harmeet Dillon, has record low cash on hand, record low impact.

00:15:56.000 We lost again in these fall elections in 2023 in Kentucky and many other states.

00:16:03.000 What has the Republican House of Representatives accomplished?

00:16:07.000 What have they actually achieved?

00:16:09.000 They had a mandate.

00:16:11.000 Did they cut any spending of the FBI?

00:16:13.000 Is the FBI's budget less today?

00:16:16.000 No.

00:16:16.000 Is the border secure?

00:16:18.000 No.

00:16:19.000 Is Merrick Garland impeached?

00:16:20.000 Nope.

00:16:21.000 Is Alejandro Mayorkas impeached?

00:16:23.000 Nope.

00:16:24.000 Largely, Republicans have just been overseeing the regime, protecting the regime, if you will.

00:16:31.000 One of the great disappointments is seeing that the Republican Party has become this controlled opposition uniparty.

00:16:41.000 And we aim to fix and try to change a lot of that, but there's no sugarcoating it.

00:16:46.000 2023 was a year where congressional Republicans could have stepped up and done something, stepped up and governed, stepped up and cut some of the spending, and they didn't.

00:16:56.000 CRs, debt increases.

00:16:58.000 Republicans haven't done anything with that.

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00:17:57.000 So I look back on this last year.

00:17:59.000 I did about 295 days of radio in our show.

00:18:03.000 We did 1,200 hours on air this year and over 550 plus speeches and interviews, and we traveled 230 days this year.

00:18:13.000 Now, people laugh when I say this, but we're going to do even better than that in 2024.

00:18:16.000 More speeches, more radio, more listeners.

00:18:20.000 By the way, over 136 million podcast downloads.

00:18:24.000 That's not an exaggeration.

00:18:25.000 Praise God.

00:18:26.000 136 million podcast downloads.

00:18:30.000 And I think that's one of the top podcasts in the conservative space.

00:18:34.000 Who knows?

00:18:35.000 Ben Shapiro's got a big show.

00:18:36.000 Bongino's got a big show.

00:18:38.000 Megan Kelly, but we're up there.

00:18:39.000 You know, we're top five.

00:18:40.000 Right now, we're number five in Apple News.

00:18:42.000 So we can show that image.

00:18:45.000 Praise God.

00:18:46.000 And by the way, this is not my day job.

00:18:48.000 This is half my job.

00:18:49.000 My other job is running turning point and turning point action, raising capital and speaking.

00:18:52.000 And this is just fun.

00:18:54.000 This is like morning fun.

00:18:55.000 And then we go to work and manage our 350 employees.

00:18:59.000 And praise God for all that.

00:19:00.000 But no, we're doing very, very well.

00:19:02.000 We had a great year.

00:19:03.000 But we need to commit in 2024 to work even harder.

00:19:07.000 We're going to apply ourselves even more.

00:19:09.000 More speeches, more interviews.

00:19:12.000 Because 2024 is obviously the chapter that this is leading to.

00:19:18.000 Yeah, we're right up there.

00:19:19.000 Praise God.

00:19:19.000 Tucker, number two, Shapiro, number four, and New York Times.

00:19:24.000 They're pesky.

00:19:25.000 They're tough to dethrone.

00:19:26.000 And by the way, some of it's misleading because all these guys take this week off.

00:19:29.000 And so we sneak up there, but it's all right.

00:19:32.000 We'll take the win where we can.

00:19:34.000 We take advantage of the week that everyone else Andrew says, stop saying that.

00:19:39.000 It's true.

00:19:40.000 I want everyone.

00:19:41.000 I'm a stickler for honesty.

00:19:42.000 I don't want people to be misled, but it's still, it's popular.

00:19:45.000 I mean, the show's doing very, very well, but we do better when other people, and we also do, it's true.

00:19:50.000 We have an amazing lineup of episodes.

00:19:51.000 We have Tucker Carlson, we have Steve Bannon, we have Vivek Ramaswamy, and it's just the RFK, by the way, the RFK Jr. program has just been going totally viral and more and more coming.

00:20:05.000 But it feels as if we've been living through the setup, the prelude, living through what is coming or the setup of what might come next.

00:20:16.000 We look back at this last year, Republicans have accomplished nothing.

00:20:21.000 They took a stand for nothing.

00:20:24.000 Remember this back in January?

00:20:26.000 Play cut 38.

00:20:29.000 I have the record for the longest speech ever on the floor.

00:20:32.000 I don't have a problem getting a record for the most votes for Speaker 2.

00:20:36.000 Thank you all.

00:20:39.000 I don't see how a few people, maybe it's five, maybe it's 20, sit because they want a gavel that they can't earn by the conference of themselves.

00:20:49.000 That would be interesting to me.

00:20:50.000 That's not what the constituents voted him for.

00:20:53.000 Kevin McCarthy is no longer Speaker of the House.

00:20:55.000 Speaker Johnson is, and the House majority has decreased.

00:20:58.000 One member went to go become a college president.

00:21:01.000 George Santos got expelled.

00:21:03.000 Now, when we look back at 2023, we did a lot of thinking about this.

00:21:10.000 You didn't know at the time how significant it would be.

00:21:13.000 But the horrific tragedy on October 7th really was, for Israel, a Pearl Harbor 9-11 event and still is impacting our domestic politics and impacting our culture war.

00:21:24.000 Play Cut 47.

00:21:26.000 Israel is at war.

00:21:28.000 We didn't want this war.

00:21:30.000 It was forced upon us in the most brutal and savage way.

00:21:34.000 But though Israel didn't start this war, Israel will finish it. 0.98

00:21:38.000 Hamas will understand that by attacking us, they've made a mistake of historic proportions. 0.57

00:21:45.000 We will exact a price that will be remembered by them and Israel's other enemies for decades to come. 0.99

00:21:53.000 The savage attacks that Hamas perpetrated against innocent Israelis are mind-boggling.

00:21:59.000 Slaughtering families in their homes, massacring hundreds of young people at an outdoor festival, kidnapping scores of women, children, and elderly, even Holocaust survivals.

00:22:10.000 Hamas terrorists bound, burned, and executed children. 0.99

00:22:14.000 They are savages. 0.98

00:22:17.000 Now, many of our amazing listeners who are Jewish have said, quote, one person just emailed us, the worst anti-Semitism in America in their lifetime. 0.96

00:22:25.000 And these pro-Hamas protesters have been very organized, very orchestrated, and hyper-aggressive.

00:22:32.000 And it's still playing out.

00:22:33.000 Joe Biden's base has defected from him.

00:22:36.000 The war in Israel is ongoing.

00:22:39.000 We have a college president that is no longer a college president, University of Pennsylvania.

00:22:45.000 There is a legit coup attempt to take out President Gay of Harvard.

00:22:51.000 The Israel issue is huge.

00:22:53.000 And if I were to credit this program as to a similar but different foreign conflict where we helped move public opinion on, and I just want to thank you, the audience, and to delight in our ability to move the Overton window, it's the Ukraine issue.

00:23:12.000 The Ukraine issue in my career has been one of the most 180 public opinion issues that I have experienced for quite some time.

00:23:23.000 From day one, we were not buying what the regime was selling.

00:23:27.000 From day one, and there were very few of us.

00:23:31.000 There was Tucker, there was Pesobic, there was this program and Bannon.

00:23:35.000 But boy, the emails that we received, some were nasty, but the vast majority disagreed with our position on Ukraine from the beginning.

00:23:46.000 And now I would say it's 99 to 1 in agreement with our position on Ukraine.

00:23:53.000 This year, support for the war in Ukraine, according to public opinion polls, has cratered nearly 30 or 40 points.

00:24:03.000 It has been completely inverted.

00:24:06.000 In 2023, we put the warmongers completely on defense, and they're not used to it. 0.90

00:24:11.000 They're used to getting whatever money they want, whatever funding they want.

00:24:15.000 One of the massive wins of the narrative war in 2023, thanks to Elon Musk, thanks to his ability to liberate Twitter, was on Ukraine.

00:24:26.000 It is an unpopular, very difficult argument to make to say that while we do not have a southern border, while we are being invaded of the population of Wyoming since Halloween, that we need to go spend $200 billion on a border dispute thousands of miles away.

00:24:46.000 It does not compute, nor should it, with the everyday average American.

00:24:52.000 It does not add up.

00:24:54.000 And we have been relentless on this topic.

00:24:59.000 And when I say 99%, I mean 99% of you, the audience.

00:25:03.000 I mean of the Charlie Kirk show, of the emails we receive.

00:25:06.000 Now, of the country, a majority are definitely in our camp.

00:25:11.000 But 99% of you in our audience are in complete harmony, complete agreement with no more money to Ukraine, try to broker peace, and why don't we secure our own border?

00:25:27.000 What a concept, right?

00:25:29.000 The Ukraine issue was one that the entire regime was force feeding us. 0.65

00:25:35.000 And now you look at op-ed after op-ed.

00:25:39.000 All of a sudden, the New York Times, many of the people say, well, maybe Ukraine doesn't need the Russian territory.

00:25:46.000 In fact, I'm trying to find this article yesterday.

00:25:48.000 It was unbelievable.

00:25:51.000 The headline of this article. 0.73

00:25:53.000 By the way, Nikki Haley is still shilling for Ukraine, go figure.

00:25:57.000 Here it is, New York Times.

00:25:58.000 Ukraine doesn't need all its territory to defeat Putin.

00:26:01.000 Oh, really?

00:26:03.000 Thanks, Sergei Shaman.

00:26:05.000 Now you tell us.

00:26:06.000 Now you don't need all the territory to defeat Putin.

00:26:10.000 And the saddest part of the entire Ukrainian conflict is how we used the poor Ukrainian people, the everyday man of Ukraine, as a human shield to get mowed down by Russian military so that we could protect this abstract idea of NATO while Zelensky gets rich, 0.62

00:26:36.000 while the oligarchs of Ukraine suspiciously are able to take in all of this money and make it disappear.

00:26:44.000 And we do not have an accounting for this money.

00:26:48.000 And credit to you, the audience.

00:26:50.000 We have significantly moved the Overton window and moved the dial on the Ukrainian issue.

00:27:00.000 So much so that there is now an impasse in Congress.

00:27:04.000 Now, where this ends up, I don't know.

00:27:06.000 But yesterday there was a story that came out and said American money appropriated Ukraine has run out.

00:27:12.000 They have run out of money.

00:27:14.000 Over $200 billion.

00:27:16.000 We don't even know the total number.

00:27:17.000 We don't know where it's going.

00:27:18.000 We don't know who's getting paid.

00:27:19.000 We don't know if it's going to our enemy.

00:27:20.000 We have no idea.

00:27:22.000 We have no idea where this money is going.

00:27:27.000 But you, the audience, are playing a huge role.

00:27:29.000 Are on the leading edge, the tip of the spear, to move public opinion and move the Overton window.

00:27:35.000 And you have what started as a very slim, like a significant minority, that doesn't make any sense, but a minority has grown and grown and grown now into the vast majority opinion with energy and velocity.

00:27:55.000 And it put the warmongers on defense.

00:27:57.000 I have not seen public opinion move so quickly on such a top priority regime, except for another issue, which if you were to say there was another narrative win in 2023, I'll tell you what it is.

00:28:10.000 Public opinion moved on two major issues positively in 2023.

00:28:15.000 One on Ukraine, and the second one, I think we played a big role in.

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00:29:22.000 You know, our social media platforms, praise God, have grown significantly this year, and specifically on one topic.

00:29:29.000 And I want to first give credit where credit is due.

00:29:31.000 Matt Walsh deserves a lot of credit.

00:29:33.000 He was a pioneer on this topic.

00:29:34.000 He was ahead of the curve.

00:29:36.000 He knows it better than anybody else.

00:29:38.000 And we are thankful for his leadership on it.

00:29:40.000 And honestly, I followed his lead in some ways.

00:29:42.000 I'd watch his videos and listen to his podcast.

00:29:44.000 Like, this guy really understands this topic.

00:29:45.000 It's not that I was ever not convinced of the severity of it, but he was so sharp in his commentary, so convinced it was civilizational ending, it caught my attention.

00:29:54.000 And then, of course, his movie, What is a Woman? Excellent.

00:29:56.000 And Libs of TikTok deserves a lot of credit as well.

00:29:59.000 Chao deserves a lot of credit.

00:30:01.000 And if you were to look at public opinion polls, if you were to look at political issues, a year and a half to two years ago, when Twitter was not liberated, the trans issue was an issue that a vast majority of Americans either were indifferent about, live and let live, who cares?

00:30:14.000 Not a big deal.

00:30:15.000 I'm not going to, you know, judge.

00:30:18.000 It's okay.

00:30:18.000 Maybe kids should be trans.

00:30:20.000 It doesn't matter.

00:30:20.000 And holy crow, this last year, praise God, has been one of the most dramatic awakenings I have ever seen in my 11-year career on what was considered to be a fringe issue that polite society was afraid to touch, and it moved quickly.

00:30:41.000 And I will tell you three stories, actually four.

00:30:44.000 Two people came up to me privately at Amfest, someone that you might know, by the way, and confided in me that his son has been captured by teachers and is now taking transition therapy, asking me what to do.

00:30:58.000 Another young woman came up to me and said that her daughter, same thing in college.

00:31:03.000 I was in Whole Foods. 0.80

00:31:04.000 A woman came up to me. 0.98

00:31:06.000 Charlie, love your show.

00:31:07.000 Love all this. 0.87

00:31:07.000 By the way, my daughter goes to school somewhere in the Midwest and is now taking testosterone voices down, growing a beard. 0.87

00:31:14.000 What do I do?

00:31:15.000 Another guy comes up to me at the gym.

00:31:17.000 Hey, Charlie, love your stuff.

00:31:19.000 All this.

00:31:19.000 By the way, I started following you because of the trans thing.

00:31:21.000 I thought it was exaggerated.

00:31:22.000 Three of my kids' friends are now currently transitioning.

00:31:26.000 What do I do?

00:31:27.000 This is a fire alarm, everybody.

00:31:29.000 That is not normal.

00:31:30.000 You do not have five or six people independently come up to you in grocery stores, gyms, and tell you that their close inner circle is quote unquote butchering themselves, transitioning.

00:31:43.000 So just as a pause, as a timeout, I will be proven right by this.

00:31:47.000 I have no macro data.

00:31:49.000 The numbers they're telling you about how many kids are transitioning are a lie.

00:31:54.000 They're so low, it's more kids than they're telling you.

00:31:57.000 There are more kids that are poisoning themselves than they are telling you.

00:32:02.000 I know it.

00:32:02.000 You don't have five people come up to you in a course of 72 hours with personal, emotionally charged stories.

00:32:09.000 By the way, usually people would come up and be like, oh, do you think Trump is going to win?

00:32:12.000 I'm like, ah, you know, let's take a selfie.

00:32:13.000 And it says like, Charlie, my daughter is taking testosterone.

00:32:16.000 What do I do?

00:32:17.000 I don't know.

00:32:18.000 I mean, I can connect you with Chloe Cole.

00:32:20.000 And by the way, these parents aren't even notified.

00:32:23.000 There's no informed consent.

00:32:25.000 But thanks to Matt Walsh's leadership and we have played a role.

00:32:28.000 And I'd say well over 100 million social media views.

00:32:32.000 Yeah, I think that's fair.

00:32:34.000 Instagram, definitely on YouTube.

00:32:36.000 Over 100 million views of our content this year.

00:32:40.000 We have gone more viral on the trans issue than any other issue.

00:32:44.000 And I'm proud of that because this is a civilizational defining issue.

00:32:48.000 What is real?

00:32:49.000 What is true?

00:32:50.000 What is a child?

00:32:51.000 Can you convince a nine-year-old?

00:32:54.000 Can you convince a 12-year-old to go take a bunch of hormones and change themselves?

00:32:58.000 Of course not.

00:32:59.000 And by the way, it's also where we have received the most punishment from YouTube.

00:33:03.000 We're currently under a strike from YouTube because we spread trans hate because we say that trans people have are suffering from a mental delusion, which of course they are, obviously. 1.00

00:33:13.000 They think that there's something they're not and they think that if they chop off their parts, they become that thing, which is not true.

00:33:18.000 It's not real.

00:33:19.000 This is a question of truth.

00:33:20.000 It's a question of what is real.

00:33:22.000 That is what it's at the fundamental part of trans.

00:33:24.000 That's why we believe it comes from an unclean spirit because it is at war with God's natural design.

00:33:29.000 It's trying to convince children, especially, that they can take a bunch of drugs, chop off their parts, and they magically become something else.

00:33:36.000 It's a false promise, false hope, and it is a pharmacological, surgical, quote-unquote, solution, butchery to a mental problem, what should be solved with counseling, watchful waiting, as Dr. Miriam Grossman beautifully articulates in her book, Lost in Trans Nation, which should be solved with prayer, camaraderie, fellowship, which should be solved, by the way, actually diagnosing the underlying problems, which is usually kids with autism Asperger's on the spectrum.

00:34:03.000 We go and say, hey, let's go have you get a mastectomy or let's have you go take testosterone.

00:34:08.000 This is child butchery, but praise God, Elon Musk deserves a lot of credit for this. 0.91

00:34:12.000 By the way, Elon Musk's, one of his 11 kids that we know of, is trans.

00:34:17.000 So he probably feels the same way.

00:34:18.000 He hasn't, he's been really polite about it, but he, to his credit, promoted What is a Woman to the top of Twitter and overruled all of the Twitter audi left-wing people?

00:34:28.000 Tucker had a big impact.

00:34:30.000 We have to pour gas on this.

00:34:31.000 And 2023, heavy year, gritty year, tough year, a setup year.

00:34:36.000 But I got to tell you, the one where we can say we moved public opinion is that don't groom or trans our kids. 0.97

00:34:47.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:49.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:52.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:34:53.000 God bless.

00:34:57.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - December 28, 2023

2023: A Turbulent Year In Review

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