The Charlie Kirk Show - April 17, 2023


Ask Charlie Anything 142: Walmart Bails on Chicago? Legos are Gay? Black on Black Crime?

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Walmart is closing stores in Chicago, but why not in other major cities? And how can we solve the problem of Black crime? Plus, abortion pill debate, and new footage from Indiana. Subscribe to our new show, "Ask Me Anything," wherever you get your shows.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today's Charlie Kirk show the Ask Me Anything episode.
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00:00:23.000 We talk about Walmart closing, black on black crime. 1.00
00:00:26.000 How do we actually solve the crime problem?
00:00:28.000 The big thing most mayors are missing.
00:00:30.000 We talk about the abortion pill debate and also some new footage you must hear at the end of this episode out of Indiana.
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00:01:26.000 Several questions to get to here.
00:01:28.000 Let's go to, hey, Charlie, did you see this is Anna from Villa Park, Illinois? 0.61
00:01:32.000 I know where that is.
00:01:33.000 Charlie, do you see that Walmart is closing half of its stores in Chicago?
00:01:37.000 Why are they doing it?
00:01:38.000 Well, first, I can tell you why they're not.
00:01:39.000 I can tell you a reason why they're not.
00:01:41.000 They're not closing it because of white supremacy.
00:01:44.000 Leave it there. 0.99
00:01:44.000 White supremacy is to blame for everything. 0.99
00:01:46.000 Yeah, I don't think Walmart is shuttering its doors because of systemic racism.
00:01:50.000 No, they're shutting their doors because of crime.
00:01:52.000 It's very simple.
00:01:54.000 And Walmart is closing stores across the country.
00:01:57.000 Half of them are being closed in Chicago.
00:01:58.000 They're losing tens of millions of dollars at each location, according to Walmart's press release.
00:02:05.000 And the reason is very simple because the looting and the stealing that's happening in downtown Chicago.
00:02:12.000 And you steal under $1,000 and there's no consequences.
00:02:15.000 I mean, imagine thinking like a left-winger.
00:02:20.000 How can we blame racism for this issue?
00:02:22.000 Yeah, this is not a racism issue.
00:02:24.000 This is a crime issue.
00:02:26.000 This is what happens when you allow criminals to do what they want to do, and you don't hold those criminals accountable.
00:02:30.000 They're able to steal $1,000 in no circumstances.
00:02:33.000 And don't be shocked when your Walmart closes.
00:02:36.000 Very similar to Whole Foods in San Francisco, different type of deal. 0.99
00:02:42.000 The defecation, the fornication, crime. 0.92
00:02:46.000 Don't be shocked when it happens.
00:02:47.000 Walmart is confirming that it will close four of its 10 stores in another far-left city.
00:02:52.000 I'm reading it at freedompress.com, leaving just four locations to serve millions of residents in Chicago, Illinois.
00:02:58.000 Now, I'm really no major fan of Walmart or what they've done to American small businesses.
00:03:03.000 It says, according to the statement, quote, these stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year and their annual losses nearly doubled in the last five years.
00:03:09.000 I wonder what has happened in the last five years.
00:03:11.000 Why do you think they're losing so much money?
00:03:13.000 Although the four stores that remain are also unprofitable, the company believes that, quote, this decision gives us the best chance to help keep them open and serving the community.
00:03:21.000 So Walmart basically says that their stores are becoming kind of like goodwill operations.
00:03:27.000 That's effectively what Walmart is saying in their press release.
00:03:30.000 They're like, yeah, look, we lose money here, but we're going to kind of just keep it open as like a Samaritan's purse thing.
00:03:37.000 Like, I mean, we're not going to make money.
00:03:38.000 Consider it a write-off.
00:03:40.000 We're going to serve the community.
00:03:43.000 Now, they just don't want to close every single store in Chicago because they don't want to be called racist.
00:03:48.000 That's the problem.
00:03:49.000 Walmart is basically going to take a couple hundred million dollar loss because if they closed every store, which would actually be in the best interest of Walmart because they're losing money, then they'd be like, oh, you're creating food deserts or pharmacy deserts.
00:04:05.000 I got such a kick out of this article on Politico.
00:04:07.000 It ties into this.
00:04:09.000 We just, we reread and we read and we read and we read when we prep for this stuff.
00:04:12.000 I read all day long.
00:04:13.000 Oh, this is just such a most delicious articles.
00:04:16.000 Politico.com.
00:04:17.000 So it is: 50 mayors open up about their battles with crime and gun violence.
00:04:23.000 And it goes through 50 mayors, and what are they dealing with the most?
00:04:27.000 And it's extraordinary how they just dance around the most obvious things because these people are ideologically held captive by the radical Marxists.
00:04:42.000 Violence interrupter programs.
00:04:44.000 What in God's green earth is that?
00:04:48.000 That's what one of the mayors said.
00:04:49.000 One of these mayors in this political piece.
00:04:50.000 So they interviewed 50 mayors, like, hey, what are you dealing with?
00:04:53.000 What are your biggest problems?
00:04:54.000 And this one person says, well, you know, we have a crime issue, but don't worry, we have a violence interrupter program.
00:05:00.000 New York City says the violence interrupter expansion is this.
00:05:04.000 It expanded the crisis management system, doubling the number of violence interrupter workers.
00:05:09.000 You're not familiar with the term of violence interrupter?
00:05:13.000 Do you know the best way to interrupt violence?
00:05:15.000 Handcuffs.
00:05:17.000 A prison cell.
00:05:19.000 No, no, no.
00:05:20.000 The new way, according to Politico, the expansion addresses public safety concerns by deploying credible messengers to mediate conflicts and engage with New Yorkers in their communities to reduce reliance on violence and disputes. 0.92
00:05:38.000 Woman's getting raped. 1.00
00:05:39.000 We need to have someone to go talk him out of it. 0.91
00:05:42.000 Effectively, someone's getting thrown in front of a subway bus.
00:05:47.000 We just need someone to kind of just talk to them.
00:05:50.000 These left-wingers, again, this all comes from a flawed philosophy. 1.00
00:05:54.000 If you think people are naturally good, you could believe this crap. 0.99
00:05:57.000 And Politico, Politico writes this huge article. 0.99
00:06:00.000 They make it seem so good.
00:06:02.000 Violence interrupter programs.
00:06:04.000 And the guy comes here and says, Hey, hey, bro, chill out. 0.99
00:06:07.000 Stop raping the girl. 0.99
00:06:08.000 Let's all just kind of do some weed. 1.00
00:06:10.000 Calm down.
00:06:12.000 Politico.com continues by some of these innovative ideas.
00:06:16.000 When they talk to 50 mayors across the country, 15 mayors mentioned drugs or addiction is a major problem in their city.
00:06:22.000 12 mayors mentioned economic inequality, poverty, or lack of opportunities.
00:06:26.000 Eight mayors mentioned guns or illegal firearms.
00:06:30.000 Seven mayors mentioned mental health.
00:06:31.000 Four mayors mentioned car theft or any type of stuff.
00:06:33.000 How about black-on-black gang violence?
00:06:35.000 Like you mentioned that.
00:06:36.000 No, I can't say that.
00:06:37.000 Can't say that.
00:06:39.000 Ah, you can't say it.
00:06:40.000 It is the sacred third rail.
00:06:43.000 Instead, we have to have violence interrupter programs.
00:06:48.000 Nearly half of the 50 mayors in the mayor's club said public safety was the single most pressing issue.
00:06:52.000 I wonder why.
00:06:53.000 Well, BLM took the entire country by the throat and held us hostage. 0.75
00:06:58.000 And we changed all of our public safety measures under a lie that America was systemically racist. 0.98
00:07:03.000 And we did this under the guise of Floyd Palooza, and you cowards fell for it.
00:07:08.000 Why do you think Politico all of a sudden has this long-ranging article about, well, we talked to all these mayors.
00:07:13.000 This is why the ideological culture fights that so many of you in this audience, respectfully, I say this, were afraid to engage in the summer of 2020, it has real life consequences.
00:07:28.000 Defund the police worked.
00:07:30.000 It worked for the criminals.
00:07:31.000 Criminals are doing what they want now.
00:07:32.000 They run the entire country.
00:07:34.000 Only three mayors out of the 50 said they were not concerned about crime.
00:07:39.000 The majority of mayors said their concerns about crime aligned with their residents.
00:07:43.000 Mayor's Club of the Politico members said their constituents have a mostly accurate view of crime rates in their communities, but they say mostly to blame is gun violence.
00:07:52.000 Not gang violence.
00:07:54.000 Not criminals.
00:07:54.000 No, no, no.
00:07:55.000 Gun violence.
00:07:56.000 These people, man.
00:07:58.000 When talking about adding more police, they say we need more community and social services.
00:08:04.000 What do you wish state lawmakers better understood about crime in your community?
00:08:07.000 Community.
00:08:08.000 How about this one?
00:08:08.000 A mayor of Dubuque, Iowa.
00:08:11.000 This is amazing.
00:08:13.000 He says, we still struggle in Iowa with some small drug offenses.
00:08:17.000 Marijuana is not legalized here for recreational use, and they're just not open to that conversation.
00:08:22.000 Oh, the mayor of Dubuque, Iowa, his main concern is that marijuana is still not legalized.
00:08:30.000 Mayor of San Diego, Todd Gloria, said fentanyl is very powerful, extremely addictive, and very deadly.
00:08:36.000 We need state laws addressing the people directly dealing with that poison.
00:08:39.000 Hey, Todd Gloria, San Diego, California mayor, why don't you close the border where all the fentanyl is coming across?
00:08:46.000 Oh, no, no, no.
00:08:47.000 You actually want more people invading the country. 0.98
00:08:50.000 When asked about policing, 34 mayors said that instead they want to hire 34 out of 50 said they want to hire more social workers to handle nonviolent policing duties such as mental health issues.
00:09:04.000 They said we need to spend more on housing and parks and recreation before we spend any more money on police.
00:09:11.000 Randall Woodfin, the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, said that we are seeing access to guns in urban courts.
00:09:19.000 No, no, no, we're seeing access to guns to people that are not raised by fathers.
00:09:23.000 You know, not a single mayor in this article mentions the fact that 75% of blacks are raised without a father around.
00:09:30.000 That's a much greater crisis than gun crime or any how about this.
00:09:34.000 Fathers are not around.
00:09:35.000 Oh, you can't say that because you can't possibly say that blacks need to lower the single motherhood threshold.
00:09:42.000 You can call it racist.
00:09:44.000 Cleveland, Ohio. 0.97
00:09:46.000 Justin Bibb, black man. 0.71
00:09:48.000 We need more tools at the local level to enforce illegal trafficking of guns in our city. 0.96
00:09:51.000 No, you don't, Justin Bibb.
00:09:52.000 You need more fathers in the home, loyally married to their spouse, raising children.
00:09:57.000 You don't need more gun laws. 0.94
00:09:59.000 The legislature here in Ohio has undermined home rule for us mayors to cut down on guns.
00:10:03.000 That plays a large driver in homicides we see across the state.
00:10:06.000 What percentage of the homicides that are committed by these gang members in Cleveland were raised by a mom and dad, stable in the home?
00:10:13.000 What percentage?
00:10:14.000 Can you find that number for me?
00:10:17.000 98% of guns that are used in crime are illegally obtained.
00:10:21.000 Gun control isn't going to stop that.
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00:11:28.000 Hey, Charlie, do you see that electric vehicles won't have AM radio?
00:11:31.000 I know you're a radio guy.
00:11:33.000 How do you think about that?
00:11:34.000 This is a really big story.
00:11:36.000 So whether they're doing this intentionally or not, the consequence will be if the radio industry does not adapt.
00:11:42.000 An all-out attack on AM radio.
00:11:44.000 Now, AM radio was dying.
00:11:45.000 It was basically dead.
00:11:47.000 It was roadkill.
00:11:48.000 It was left on the side of the road, and it was just a joke.
00:11:50.000 It was for just kind of replays of news items.
00:11:55.000 It was nothing.
00:11:55.000 And then a man changed the entire radio landscape.
00:11:59.000 One man did this.
00:12:01.000 One person did it.
00:12:02.000 He resurrected the entire AM dial.
00:12:07.000 Not the FM dial was robust and was growing at the time.
00:12:10.000 The AM dial was just dying and did not have a large audience.
00:12:13.000 It was Rush Limbaugh.
00:12:14.000 Rush Limbaugh saved the entire AM dial.
00:12:17.000 And Rush Limbaugh started to get back on AM stations and really started pioneering this idea of conservative news talk.
00:12:24.000 And even stations that were otherwise not conservative stations, they wanted to have Rush Limbaugh because he drove such an audience in the middle of the day.
00:12:32.000 People would clear their entire schedules for Rush Limbaugh.
00:12:35.000 And from Rush came other amazing talk radio voices.
00:12:39.000 Mark Levin and so many others that are in the talk radio hall of fame, Sean Hannity.
00:12:45.000 And as talk radio started to grow, all of a sudden it kind of became this dissident, decentralized, uncancelable medium of communication.
00:12:58.000 Talk radio was the conservative way to challenge the regime before we had social media.
00:13:04.000 Talk radio is where people would go and they'd rant and they would rave.
00:13:09.000 And by the way, what's really interesting, and this is a psychological topic, of why did why was the liberals never able to succeed in talk radio?
00:13:20.000 They have tried and they have tried and they have tried.
00:13:24.000 They have spent tons of money to try to stand up.
00:13:27.000 It's a very interesting thing.
00:13:29.000 And I don't quite know the answer to it.
00:13:31.000 There's a lot of interesting theories, which is why do they need another medium?
00:13:36.000 They already own all the propaganda networks because talk radio feels rebellious.
00:13:40.000 It feels contrarian.
00:13:41.000 And we're honored to be partnered with the great Salem Radio Network.
00:13:44.000 They've been nice enough to put us on radio stations across the country.
00:13:48.000 And so as AM radio has grown, it has been this check and balance against the regime.
00:13:54.000 And Dan Bongino is now on AM radio, and so many other great people are on AM radio.
00:14:01.000 And my colleagues at Salem and Eric Metaxas and Sebastian Gorka and the great Dennis Prager.
00:14:07.000 We have FM translators, but the AM dial is important.
00:14:10.000 Well, Biden's new electric vehicle mandate very well might destroy AM radio as we know it and with it would be very damaging to the conservative talk radio space.
00:14:21.000 Ford to phase out AM radio in its new vehicles.
00:14:24.000 Crosstown rival Ford is set to phase out, this is from GM Authority, to phase out AM radio functionality in its new vehicles, starting with the all-new 2024 Ford Mustang.
00:14:37.000 Now, there might be a technical reason for it.
00:14:38.000 Apparently, electric vehicles don't mix well with AM radio.
00:14:42.000 I don't understand the engineering of it.
00:14:44.000 There seems to be some reason for it.
00:14:46.000 But the consequence will undoubtedly be less distribution for conservative ideas.
00:14:53.000 Right now, conservatives dominate the AM dial.
00:14:55.000 Liberals do not dominate the AM dial.
00:14:57.000 NPR is almost all FM.
00:14:59.000 I don't think NPR has a single AM translator.
00:15:02.000 I don't think any AM stations, it was all FM.
00:15:05.000 AM stations are strong conservative.
00:15:08.000 You go to the largest cities, you know, KRLA, you go to the largest places, WIND, WMAL, you know, KFYI, the call signs, especially in these major areas that are AM dominated, all conservative talk radio.
00:15:23.000 Now, here's the thing that people must understand.
00:15:26.000 And this is just a separate engineering question.
00:15:28.000 If AM radio harms electric vehicle technology, that just makes me nervous to drive an electric vehicle.
00:15:34.000 It's just kind of a weird engineering glitch.
00:15:35.000 Someone has to explain it to me and put my mind at ease, just going to be honest.
00:15:38.000 But that apparently does.
00:15:39.000 Apparently, electric vehicle and AM radio does not mix.
00:15:42.000 This needs to be addressed, though.
00:15:44.000 This is a serious issue.
00:15:45.000 Either the radio industry needs to completely adapt and needs to get those FM translators or just go to full streaming.
00:15:52.000 There is an attempt.
00:15:53.000 They've been trying to get rid of AM radio for quite some time.
00:15:55.000 There were huge movements in the early 2000s as Rush Limbaugh was gaining so much power in the country.
00:16:00.000 How do we regulate him?
00:16:01.000 How do we, you know, get the Congress to have to restrict his ability to speak.
00:16:06.000 And so, you know, we are on...
00:16:09.000 We are on radio airwaves right now.
00:16:11.000 We literally have to fill out forms.
00:16:13.000 If I say the wrong word, we're regulated by the FCC, but they've never been able to shut us off.
00:16:17.000 Federal Communication Commission.
00:16:20.000 If they are able, though, to end AM radio through another means, that would be devastating for the conservative movement.
00:16:28.000 I'm flagging this.
00:16:29.000 We've got to figure it out. 1.00
00:16:30.000 We've got to see it before it happens, as America is going to go almost all electric, which is so stupid. 1.00
00:16:34.000 And it's so damaging. 0.98
00:16:36.000 And it's going to make a lot of cobalt miners rich and a lot of people poor. 0.84
00:16:39.000 We've got to figure out how we're going to keep talk radio alive.
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00:18:11.000 Elaine from Buffalo, New York says, Charlie, what is going on with this abortion pill dispute?
00:18:16.000 It's very unclear to me.
00:18:17.000 That's a little confusing.
00:18:18.000 I can understand that.
00:18:19.000 Okay, so effectively, here's what's going on.
00:18:21.000 I'm going to play you some of the reaction.
00:18:23.000 So the abortion pill, which is called Mifpristatone.
00:18:27.000 My goodness, I can't pronounce it.
00:18:29.000 Mifpristatone, okay.
00:18:30.000 Is one of two drugs used for abortion via medication as opposed to surgical abortion.
00:18:35.000 These are nasty drugs.
00:18:36.000 These are nasty.
00:18:38.000 The drug was approved in 2000, but it's a big deal now because of Dobbs.
00:18:41.000 And the Biden regime pushed through a policy letting it be prescribed via telemedicine and sent people and sent to people through the mail.
00:18:48.000 They're calling it medicine.
00:18:49.000 It's not medical care.
00:18:50.000 Abortion is not health care.
00:18:52.000 Let me just say that again.
00:18:52.000 It's not.
00:18:53.000 You might be okay with abortion.
00:18:55.000 It's not healthcare.
00:18:56.000 Since FDA approval is nationwide, this is a way for abortion pills to be available nationwide, regardless of what the state laws are.
00:19:02.000 So pro-life groups sued, arguing the FDA's original approval was improper and subsequent changes to the pill's prescription were wrong as well.
00:19:09.000 A judge in the Fifth Circuit ruled in their favor and ordered a nationwide stay on prescribing the pill.
00:19:17.000 Let me just be very clear.
00:19:18.000 Some people are saying, oh, this is about the pill.
00:19:20.000 Okay, this is not about birth control.
00:19:23.000 This is something different.
00:19:24.000 This is an abortifation.
00:19:26.000 Okay?
00:19:27.000 Just want to make sure everyone is very clear that there is a birth control pill, which is still very much legal in America.
00:19:33.000 You could have strong opinions either way about it.
00:19:36.000 It can really do a lot of damage to a young woman that people don't talk about. 0.71
00:19:39.000 We actually had a great guest on that a couple weeks ago, Dr. Daniel Amon, who talked about it.
00:19:42.000 That's not what this is.
00:19:46.000 This is an abortification.
00:19:48.000 It's a different thing.
00:19:50.000 Meanwhile, another federal judge has issued her own nationwide order saying to ignore the original order.
00:19:54.000 Basically, it's all headed for the Supreme Court.
00:19:57.000 The first question is this: why doesn't Congress take this up as an issue?
00:20:02.000 One of my biggest concerns is how the courts or the administrative agencies are basically playing ball, whether it be on the homosexual marriage issue or whether it be on abortion or on the issue of this abortion pill, where Congress obviously doesn't have the votes to talk about this.
00:20:24.000 They don't want to do this.
00:20:25.000 So it just all gets delegated to the administrative state.
00:20:28.000 The administrative state gets all the power.
00:20:30.000 The administrative state gets all the power.
00:20:32.000 Alexandria Casio-Cortez says, I don't think the courts have the authority to do this to have the authority over the FDA they just asserted.
00:20:42.000 Well, they do, AOC.
00:20:44.000 You're wrong.
00:20:46.000 That the courts are actually supposed to be a check and balance on the administrative state.
00:20:50.000 But more importantly, why don't you do the job?
00:20:53.000 Oh, because you know you don't have the votes in Congress to get this passed.
00:20:55.000 That's why.
00:20:57.000 Play cut six.
00:20:59.000 But I do not believe that the courts have the authority to have the authority over the FDA that they just asserted.
00:21:08.000 And I do believe that it creates a crisis.
00:21:12.000 It creates a crisis.
00:21:13.000 Now, this is the first time.
00:21:17.000 It's the AOC theme music.
00:21:21.000 This is the first time a judge ever overruled an FDA drug approval.
00:21:26.000 And she's right.
00:21:28.000 It does create a crisis because the left wants to ignore the courts.
00:21:32.000 It really comes down to a question of the administrative state: is there a check and balance on the unelected, unknown, and seemingly unchecked branch of government?
00:21:43.000 We call that the fourth branch of government.
00:21:45.000 Okay, so let's go to the next one.
00:21:46.000 I posted a video.
00:21:47.000 And again, I have mixed opinions on this video.
00:21:49.000 I largely think this is good, but it was done obviously a little clumsily.
00:21:53.000 But honestly, there's some righteous indignation here.
00:21:55.000 And of course, the Twitter audience is very upset about it.
00:22:00.000 So there's Lego wears trans stuff, and Lego is a child, obviously, for children. 0.99
00:22:10.000 Let's play the Lego cut here.
00:22:13.000 But the question is, why are you all in here with those pens on? 1.00
00:22:17.000 Do you think children care about what man sucks at home and what girl eats vaginas? 1.00
00:22:25.000 Do you think they care about it? 1.00
00:22:28.000 I mean, do you think they care about that?
00:22:29.000 I don't think they think about that personally.
00:22:30.000 Right, so while they're they think about it when they see your parents, yes, they do.
00:22:36.000 It's discussion.
00:22:37.000 That's all grooming.
00:22:38.000 All right.
00:22:40.000 Yeah, if you call security, tell security that you're in here wearing pride fraud.
00:22:45.000 Absolutely.
00:22:45.000 We want to shirt.
00:22:46.000 Come on, guys.
00:22:47.000 You know what's amazing?
00:22:47.000 It's time to leave.
00:22:48.000 Most children don't know.
00:22:50.000 He's been educated by me.
00:22:52.000 I think he's grooming. 0.92
00:22:53.000 It's bordered on pedophilia and child abuse for these weirdos to come in here and wear that. 0.77
00:22:59.000 And at the same time, kids buy from the store.
00:23:01.000 When does it stutter?
00:23:02.000 I'm sick and tired.
00:23:03.000 You don't have to try.
00:23:04.000 Yeah, but I came here to develop something.
00:23:06.000 When does it stop?
00:23:07.000 At some point, we need to stop pushing this mess on children.
00:23:11.000 So the left is saying that this man is out of control and that he's, you know, shouldn't have done this and he should have confronted him.
00:23:19.000 Look, yeah, he was a little intense.
00:23:21.000 He was probably a little bit clumsier than he probably should have been.
00:23:25.000 He could have been more inquiring.
00:23:26.000 He doesn't do it for a living.
00:23:28.000 But honestly, I'm going to come to his defense.
00:23:30.000 This is a father who's sick and tired of seeing gay pride flags where he's trying to buy his kids' Legos.
00:23:36.000 He's upset. 0.91
00:23:38.000 Yeah, he could have been less crass.
00:23:39.000 He could have been more precise in his language.
00:23:42.000 Legos are for kids.
00:23:45.000 And, you know, a lot of people are, you know, responding.
00:23:47.000 I just tweeted it out, and people say, you guys might have an easier time.
00:23:50.000 Vauch, you know, really rich coming from Vausch.
00:23:53.000 You might have an easier time with this culture war stuff you didn't come across as gigantic freaks all the time.
00:23:57.000 Voush, calling us gigantic freaks.
00:24:02.000 We'll handle him later.
00:24:03.000 He didn't confront Lego, Charlie.
00:24:05.000 He harassed random wageies. 0.90
00:24:06.000 I don't even know what that means.
00:24:07.000 I guess wagies is a random person who works.
00:24:09.000 I guess that's a new term for a viral video.
00:24:11.000 This is very cringe, Charles.
00:24:14.000 You know what's cringe? 0.98
00:24:15.000 Gay pride flags in front of kids. 0.52
00:24:17.000 This other woman says the person yelling XYZ and XYZ are like I say what in a toy store is the person being inappropriate in front of kids. 0.67
00:24:26.000 This is simple.
00:24:27.000 The dad is the danger to kids here. 1.00
00:24:30.000 I would not want my child who has two moms to hear that trash. 1.00
00:24:33.000 Oh, you're a lesbian. 1.00
00:24:35.000 Got it. 0.99
00:24:38.000 It's very simple.
00:24:39.000 A man and a woman can say that they are married, and that is not inappropriate.
00:24:43.000 If they talk explicitly at their sex acts in front of kids, that is bad.
00:24:47.000 It works exactly the same way when two ladies are married or two men. 1.00
00:24:50.000 It is so incredibly easy to understand.
00:24:52.000 No, it's not actually Amanda.
00:24:53.000 It's not easy to understand.
00:24:55.000 Are you fighting against the pornography in our schools?
00:24:57.000 Are you doing that?
00:24:59.000 By the way, the tweet has 31 million engagements.
00:25:02.000 I didn't plan for this tweet to go as viral as it did.
00:25:04.000 And again, I'm not doing a full-throated defense of the man.
00:25:08.000 I don't think he acted perfectly.
00:25:09.000 But honestly, we need more citizens to stand up and say this is crazy.
00:25:13.000 Not everyone is going to be as polished as Stephen Colbert when they walk into a Lego store and they see trans flags all over the place. 1.00
00:25:22.000 There is a little grittiness to it.
00:25:23.000 There's a little authenticity.
00:25:25.000 He's a dad.
00:25:26.000 He peacefully stands up.
00:25:27.000 He records it.
00:25:29.000 And he gets condemned and ridiculed for people.
00:25:32.000 Oh, I'm sorry.
00:25:32.000 You're worried about his tone?
00:25:35.000 And honestly, what the dad was kind of erupting in a volcanic rage was all of the accumulation of the drag queen, the textbook stuff, Mulvaney, the Biden administration, the trans shooter. 0.71
00:25:51.000 It was kind of an intersection point because that was his argument.
00:25:53.000 He said, one is enough enough.
00:25:54.000 And I sympathize with that.
00:25:57.000 Yeah, people, he's mad. 0.97
00:26:01.000 By the way, he might have full respect for the gay community, but he says, stay away from my kids. 1.00
00:26:07.000 Legos are for kids. 0.95
00:26:08.000 This is subconscious grooming.
00:26:10.000 It's what it is.
00:26:11.000 This is a child store. 0.98
00:26:13.000 There is no place for trans or gay flags around children, period. 0.98
00:26:19.000 The trans thing, especially, is a social contagion. 1.00
00:26:21.000 Somebody needs to explain why we have seen a 10,000% increase, might be either 1,000 or 10,000% increase over the last decade of kids identifying as trans.
00:26:33.000 The worker says, well, I don't think kids think about that.
00:26:35.000 Exactly.
00:26:36.000 Then why do you have the flag?
00:26:37.000 Why is it necessary?
00:26:38.000 Why are you forcing it about it?
00:26:39.000 You violated the live and let live.
00:26:42.000 That's what that father is upset about.
00:26:44.000 That father, albeit crass, intense, mad, angry, he's upset. 0.83
00:26:49.000 The country he used to live in is you can't go to a Lego store without them wearing a gay pride flag. 0.89
00:26:54.000 And you know what?
00:26:55.000 The reason this video went so viral is the left enjoys this.
00:26:59.000 The left knows that we get angry when this stuff is there and we get righteously angry and they mock us.
00:27:04.000 They troll us when we get angry.
00:27:07.000 They're like, oh, you're really angry that kids have to be exposed to trans flags. 0.99
00:27:12.000 They're the pervert party. 0.95
00:27:13.000 They always have been and they always will be.
00:27:15.000 They protect perverts at all costs.
00:27:18.000 That is outright grooming. 0.94
00:27:20.000 If the gay thing was as popular as you say it is, why do they have flags all the time?
00:27:27.000 Why do they need to be around kids? 1.00
00:27:30.000 The promise of live and let live was a great idea.
00:27:34.000 They violated it.
00:27:36.000 They crossed the line.
00:27:37.000 You need mutual cooperation for live and let live.
00:27:40.000 And now it's tyrannical.
00:27:42.000 You must wear the flag.
00:27:45.000 You must agree with me.
00:27:48.000 Again, I think the father is being miscategorized here.
00:27:51.000 Of course, he could have acted better.
00:27:52.000 This is not his job.
00:27:54.000 He's fighting for his kids, fighting for his livelihood, fighting for his country.
00:27:59.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.
00:28:02.000 We've got plenty.
00:28:03.000 Charlie, did you see the recent clip about social emotional learning?
00:28:07.000 Oh, yeah, this is something else.
00:28:09.000 This is Cynthia from Kentucky.
00:28:11.000 I want to just remind you guys that you have to fight in your local school boards.
00:28:16.000 These people are lying to you.
00:28:17.000 This is an extraordinary piece of tape done by the Accuracy and Media Foundation.
00:28:22.000 Haven't heard much from them recently.
00:28:23.000 This is an amazing accomplishment by them.
00:28:26.000 And basically, they had a series of undercover videos where they showed teachers and administrators, principals, and school board members saying, yeah, we lie to parents.
00:28:35.000 We have CRT.
00:28:36.000 We have social-emotional learning.
00:28:38.000 We have the elements of this, but we call it something else because we don't want the parental backlash.
00:28:42.000 Wait till you hear these videos.
00:28:44.000 Play cut 97 of school administrators in Indiana bragging in undercover video about how they lie to parents.
00:28:50.000 Play cut 97.
00:28:51.000 We've talked about to our textbook companies that are coming in to do presentations, and I actually prep them a little bit because I'm like, we want this in our curriculum.
00:29:00.000 So if you could just not say specifically this, then it won't cause a red flag with the community.
00:29:06.000 What else do you have to relabel or non-label like that?
00:29:10.000 I think really CRT, social emotion are landing up the two beats.
00:29:16.000 And we just have to avoid the words, you know, the labels.
00:29:21.000 We can still do the content, just don't label.
00:29:23.000 Yep.
00:29:24.000 Well, with the CRT stuff, it's not the theory that you're teaching as much as it is the tenets of.
00:29:29.000 Right.
00:29:30.000 Exactly.
00:29:30.000 You're not teaching it a theory.
00:29:32.000 You're just teaching that, you know, these are the events of history.
00:29:35.000 Yes, exactly.
00:29:37.000 That's what history teachers are approaching.
00:29:37.000 Okay.
00:29:39.000 Right.
00:29:39.000 Yeah.
00:29:40.000 So by the time they get into the higher education, they hear the theory and it's complete.
00:29:44.000 It's not out of left field.
00:29:46.000 It's not out of left field.
00:29:47.000 Exactly.
00:29:48.000 There's some context there.
00:29:50.000 Yeah, not out of left field.
00:29:51.000 They know all about CRT by the time they go to an overpriced college, go into debt.
00:29:55.000 Continues, cut 98.
00:29:56.000 Those are administrators, by the way.
00:29:58.000 These are administrators that are making decisions.
00:29:59.000 They're saying, we just have to be careful how we brand it.
00:30:02.000 You know, we're going to teach CRT, but we're not going to call it CRT.
00:30:05.000 We're going to do social-emotional learning, but we're not going to call it social-emotional learning.
00:30:08.000 This is happening in Indiana, everybody.
00:30:11.000 Indiana.
00:30:12.000 Play cut 98.
00:30:14.000 Don't have an equity department or anything like that.
00:30:17.000 So honestly, so we had what we've decided to do is not call attention to it because when you call attention to it, then questions are asked.
00:30:26.000 And I really believe that you can do more good under the radar.
00:30:31.000 Right before COVID, we had started some really deep diving into our curriculum and kind of doing that like white privilege walk and making sure, like just understand.
00:30:43.000 Right now I will tell you that we did tweak the name of our equity and inclusion committee just because we just didn't want to make a target of it and we we felt for the people that were a part of that membership and so we renamed it.
00:31:01.000 But that's the work we do is, when you rename it, right now it's named a work group.
00:31:09.000 That's innocuous.
00:31:10.000 Nobody's coming for a work group, a work group.
00:31:16.000 Is your kid involved in a work group?
00:31:19.000 Don't assume your school is telling you the truth.
00:31:21.000 You have to assume they are lying to you, as this explosive video show I mean, these teachers and these are not just teachers, these are administrators, the people in charge.
00:31:32.000 They say, yeah, you know, we still have the diversity, equity, inclusion committee.
00:31:37.000 We still have the elements of it.
00:31:39.000 We just call it a work group.
00:31:42.000 And they plot and they plan and they lie.
00:31:45.000 They have such contempt for parents.
00:31:47.000 They hate you.
00:31:50.000 They want to turn your children into revolutionaries.
00:31:53.000 And yeah, we still have social-emotional learning.
00:31:55.000 And yeah, we still have all the elements here.
00:31:58.000 We're not going to call it that because we don't want the backlash.
00:32:03.000 We don't want the parents coming after us.
00:32:07.000 I will say, though, there's a hidden lead, a buried lead of this entire video that the Accuracy and Media Foundation have done.
00:32:16.000 What do you think that buried lead is?
00:32:19.000 Shows that they're scared of the parents.
00:32:21.000 That's a good sign.
00:32:23.000 The buried lead is that there is, finally, an interest.
00:32:28.000 The buried lead is that these teachers have to lie.
00:32:31.000 It shows that what we are doing is working.
00:32:35.000 Exposing them.
00:32:36.000 It shows that you guys are listening and taking action.
00:32:39.000 That is an infuriating series of videos.
00:32:42.000 But the larger takeaway is that they have to lie.
00:32:47.000 They're no longer able to do this in public.
00:32:49.000 They can't own it.
00:32:50.000 They know now they're going to be called out.
00:32:53.000 And that should mean we should have the foot on the accelerator.
00:32:57.000 They know what they're trying to push is unpopular if they had to tell the truth.
00:33:01.000 For decades, they worked with impunity.
00:33:04.000 And now the secret is out.
00:33:06.000 That series of videos right there are groups of teachers that are afraid of the parents.
00:33:15.000 It's the first time in a long time that's ever happened for them.
00:33:17.000 So they have to be sneaky.
00:33:18.000 It should infuriate you, but it should also encourage you.
00:33:21.000 It means they know who's actually in charge and that they're coming for your jobs, for your pensions, for your job security.
00:33:28.000 So there's an encouraging wrinkle there.
00:33:31.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:33:36.000 Thank you so much for listening and God bless.
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