The Charlie Kirk Show - July 03, 2023


Ask Charlie Anything 150: What's the Evidence? Why is ESPN Dying? Good Movies to Watch?

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Joe Biden evidence Gary Shapley and Hunter Biden investigation movies
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Hunter Biden Joe Biden Bob Iger Jeff Van Gundy Gary Shapley Todd McShea Tony Bobulinski Bernie Sanders Andrew Peter Schweitzer Kendrick Perkins Max Kellerman Ron DeSantis Harry Potter Jalen Rose Zelensky Nixon Brian Ryan Chad Ocho Cinco and 34 more
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has been charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to obstruct justice, wire transfer violations, and other crimes related to his alleged involvement in the drug trade. Special Agent in Charge of the Joint Improving Criminal Complaints Against Joe Biden, Charlie Kirk, joins us to discuss all of this and much more.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Monday Ask Me Anything episode. 0.94
00:00:02.000 It is the end of Pride Month.
00:00:03.000 How did we do?
00:00:04.000 We take listener questions.
00:00:06.000 You guys should email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:09.000 We recap some Supreme Court decisions.
00:00:12.000 We talk about New York City's mayor, the New York City mayor, Eric Adams, and more.
00:00:18.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast.
00:00:22.000 Get your tickets to the Turning Point Action Conference at tpaction.com.
00:00:25.000 That is tpaction.com.
00:00:27.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:28.000 Here we go.
00:00:29.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:31.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:33.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:36.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:39.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:40.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:41.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:00:48.000 Turning point USA.
00:00:50.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:59.000 That's why we are here.
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00:01:11.000 We have lots of questions here.
00:01:12.000 I want to get to this one.
00:01:13.000 This one is from Mike in Alabama.
00:01:18.000 Charlie, I'm trying to track all this Biden stuff.
00:01:21.000 It's hard for me to even keep it straight.
00:01:22.000 Can you play, can you walk us through the evidence against Joe Biden and tell us what is the latest?
00:01:28.000 Yes, that is a great question.
00:01:30.000 Okay, there is literally so much going on.
00:01:32.000 And by the way, I have some inside information to share with you.
00:01:35.000 I can't tell you who it came from.
00:01:37.000 The House of Representatives is going to get even more aggressive.
00:01:40.000 And believe it or not, there are some new revelations that are still going to come out that are even worse for the Biden family.
00:01:46.000 It is not over.
00:01:48.000 There's some big stuff coming out.
00:01:50.000 Okay, so there are several aspects of this.
00:01:52.000 The first of which is just Hunter Biden's outright criminality operating as a proxy for his father, Joe Biden.
00:01:59.000 We see this in multiple ways.
00:02:01.000 So let's use one example.
00:02:03.000 Peter Schweitzer, who's been excellent on this, he has claimed for a while that Joe Biden was using a secret cell phone to be able to do this business.
00:02:12.000 Joe Biden claimed that he had nothing to do with Hunter Biden's business dealings.
00:02:15.000 Of course he did.
00:02:16.000 You're trying to tell Hunter Biden, who's a crackhead, was able to get millions of dollars for no reason whatsoever with no services rendered without his father being involved.
00:02:24.000 He was selling out American foreign policy, American policy decisions to enrich his own family. 0.78
00:02:30.000 It's treason.
00:02:31.000 So let's play cut four of Peter Schweitzer.
00:02:33.000 Breaking news on a cell phone that Joe Biden was using.
00:02:37.000 Tell us about that.
00:02:38.000 It's interesting.
00:02:38.000 What is the line of communications between Hunter Biden and his business partners and Joe Biden when he's vice president of the United States?
00:02:45.000 It's not the government phone.
00:02:46.000 It's not Joe Biden's personal phone.
00:02:49.000 We know from the laptop that Hunter Biden's business paid for a private phone line that Joe Biden used while he was vice president.
00:02:58.000 It was from ATT.
00:03:00.000 It was $300 a month.
00:03:01.000 It was a global phone where you could access somebody anywhere around the world.
00:03:06.000 And that may be the phone, for example, that the Ukrainian, the barisma executive, might have used in this allegation that he talked to Joe Biden in recorded conversations.
00:03:17.000 So Joe Biden is implicated here.
00:03:20.000 So there's two sides of this.
00:03:22.000 The first side is the actual crimes that they committed with wire transfers and selling out the country.
00:03:28.000 The second side of this is the cover-up of the investigation into their crimes.
00:03:32.000 So if I were to simplify this for anybody listening, there's the crimes they committed and then the crimes they committed to cover up the crimes they committed.
00:03:40.000 Those are the two buckets.
00:03:42.000 Now, when I say the crimes they committed, there's a lot of crimes that they committed.
00:03:48.000 Lying to federal investigators, probably destroying evidence, Foreign Registration Act violations.
00:03:55.000 Remember, the cover-up is what brought down Nixon. 0.98
00:03:59.000 But the Bidens are not dumb.
00:04:01.000 They knew they had to cover up because, unlike with Watergate and Nixon, the actual crime here is not worse than the cover-up, is worse than the cover-up. 0.91
00:04:12.000 That they were willing to be accused of a cover-up because the crime is actually worse than the cover-up.
00:04:16.000 When sometimes in D.C., the cover-up is worse than the crime.
00:04:20.000 Not in this case.
00:04:21.000 They were willing to risk being caught covering up.
00:04:24.000 And this should be getting mainstream coverage.
00:04:27.000 For those of you that might be confused on the Biden stuff, it's all around this guy, Gary Shapley.
00:04:33.000 How many whistleblowers do we need? 0.95
00:04:35.000 We have Tony Bobielinski.
00:04:36.000 We have Gary Shapley.
00:04:37.000 Hopefully soon we'll have Devin Archer.
00:04:39.000 So we have a ton of tape here on Gary Shapley that I'm going to go through.
00:04:43.000 He's a lead investigator.
00:04:44.000 He still works for the IRS in the Hunter Biden case.
00:04:47.000 And he said he uncovered conduct that warranted more serious charges.
00:04:51.000 I want to play all these pieces of tape.
00:04:52.000 How is this not the number one news story?
00:04:55.000 You're the whistleblower that works for the Internal Revenue Service that says somebody was coming in and telling us that we could not do our job.
00:05:04.000 Let's play cut 39.
00:05:06.000 If this was any other person, they likely would have already served their sentence.
00:05:10.000 Gary Shapley was a lead IRS supervisory agent in Operation Sportsman, the investigation into Hunter Biden.
00:05:18.000 Shapley said he uncovered conduct that warranted more serious charges.
00:05:22.000 There were personal expenses that were taken as business expenses. 0.93
00:05:27.000 Prostitutes, sex club memberships, hotel rooms for purported drug dealers. 0.95
00:05:34.000 How much did Hunter Biden owe in taxes? 0.97
00:05:36.000 So from 2014 to 2019, it was $2.2 million.
00:05:40.000 $2.2 million.
00:05:42.000 He gets a plea deal.
00:05:43.000 Well, let's see if the judge accepts it.
00:05:44.000 Play cut 40.
00:05:46.000 Shapley, who is still working for the IRS, told us that even before President Biden took office, he was directed to avoid leads involving Hunter's father.
00:05:56.000 There were certain investigative steps that we weren't allowed to take that could have led us to President Biden.
00:06:04.000 And you wanted to take them.
00:06:05.000 We needed to take them.
00:06:06.000 And you weren't allowed to take them.
00:06:08.000 That's correct.
00:06:10.000 Not allowed to take them.
00:06:11.000 So just again, there's the crimes and then there's the covering up of the crime.
00:06:16.000 Somebody is orchestrating this.
00:06:19.000 Now, remember, this was CBS.
00:06:21.000 This was not Newsmax or Fox News.
00:06:24.000 This is CBS that is pressing this.
00:06:27.000 Makes you wonder.
00:06:29.000 He's blocked from pursuing leads.
00:06:30.000 So Gary Shapley, play cut 65, says, we were not even allowed to ask about the big guy.
00:06:36.000 It is clear what is going on.
00:06:38.000 This could bring down Joe Biden.
00:06:39.000 And I don't even know if that's a good thing.
00:06:41.000 I'll be honest.
00:06:41.000 Some people say, oh, it's a great thing.
00:06:43.000 Be careful what you wish for because you might get a much better candidate than Joe Biden.
00:06:47.000 But justice is a good in and of itself.
00:06:49.000 It's the messiest of the virtues, according to Aristotle, but it's important.
00:06:53.000 Play cut 65.
00:06:55.000 As far as the president's involvement in that?
00:06:59.000 So that's kind of the crux of one of the issues here: we weren't allowed to ask questions about dad.
00:07:05.000 We weren't allowed to ask about the big guy.
00:07:07.000 We weren't allowed to include certain names and document requests and search warrants.
00:07:13.000 So, you know, we were precluded from following that line of questioning.
00:07:18.000 We weren't allowed to ask about the big guy.
00:07:20.000 That's a little bit of a wink and a nod to Tony Bobulinsky.
00:07:23.000 Remember when Tony Bobielinski was called the conspiracy theorist, smeared and slandered?
00:07:28.000 Because Tony Bobielinski, who did business with the Bidens, said very clearly that 10% was set aside for the big guy.
00:07:37.000 That whistleblower used the term big guy.
00:07:40.000 The fact that CBS did this is pretty amazing.
00:07:43.000 It means that the cone of silence is finally breaking.
00:07:46.000 It's an earthquake behind the scenes that CBS did this.
00:07:49.000 An earthquake.
00:07:51.000 It's play cut 66.
00:07:53.000 Based on all of the financial records that we did find, they've been analyzed.
00:07:59.000 And it was around 8.3 million he received from who?
00:08:05.000 They came from China, from CEFC, came from Ukraine, and from Romania.
00:08:10.000 I mean, to this day, there's still around $400,000 of unreported income from Burisma in 2014.
00:08:19.000 And then the statute of limitations then expires in November or December of 2022.
00:08:24.000 So those years are gone.
00:08:26.000 Democrats are always able to find ways to extend the statute of limitations against people they don't like.
00:08:31.000 And they knew what they were doing.
00:08:32.000 They were running out the clock.
00:08:34.000 Hundreds of thousands of dollars of unreported income from Burisma.
00:08:38.000 All roads truly do lead to Ukraine, don't they? 0.86
00:08:42.000 It's amazing, isn't it? 0.66
00:08:44.000 How we are funding a proxy war in Eastern Europe to then have hundreds of billions of dollars sent to Ukraine.
00:08:53.000 And our own president's family has personally benefited in millions of dollars from that very same country.
00:09:02.000 Play cut 67, the most serious felony charges were left off the table.
00:09:08.000 Play cut 67.
00:09:10.000 Is there criminal implications in what you were investigating when it comes to Hunter Biden?
00:09:17.000 Oh, absolutely.
00:09:18.000 And the most substantive felony charges were left off the table.
00:09:24.000 Which would have been what?
00:09:25.000 Which would have been evasion for 14, false return for 18 and 2019.
00:09:32.000 And this is just the tax stuff, by the way.
00:09:34.000 This doesn't count the foreign agent representation stuff they got Michael Flynn on.
00:09:38.000 This doesn't count all these kind of foreign money flows.
00:09:43.000 It doesn't count unreported foreign income.
00:09:45.000 It doesn't count bribery.
00:09:47.000 No, that's just there.
00:09:48.000 So there's a shakedown part of this, which you could find plenty of things in the criminal code.
00:09:54.000 So hopefully that answers your question.
00:09:55.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.
00:09:57.000 Several questions.
00:09:57.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:10:00.000 Charlie, did you see the news about Poland asking the United States for nuclear weapons in response to Russia putting weapons in Belarus?
00:10:07.000 Dwight from Carson City, Nevada.
00:10:10.000 Or is it Nevada?
00:10:11.000 Andrew will tell me.
00:10:13.000 So look, yes, I did see this, and it's some breaking news.
00:10:17.000 This is going in a terrible direction. 0.54
00:10:20.000 What is happening in Eastern Europe is quickly bringing the entire Western world in a seemingly tragic direction.
00:10:20.000 Okay?
00:10:29.000 Why what happens in Seattle needs to be tied into what is happening in a border dispute in Eastern Ukraine is a mystery to me.
00:10:38.000 But the amount of money that we are spending is nearly unlimited, $200 billion.
00:10:44.000 And I hate to say we were right, but we were right.
00:10:48.000 We were right when we said that what's going to happen in Ukraine is there's no limitations on this.
00:10:53.000 The regime does not know how to stop once they begin.
00:10:58.000 And the great defender, that Churchill of our time, the man that we're supposed to salute and teach our children about, have big posters, big posters of him looking into the distance, Zelensky, has now said we're not going to have elections because we're at war.
00:11:17.000 Playcut 47.
00:11:18.000 Will there be elections in Ukraine next year?
00:11:22.000 This is a global question.
00:11:24.000 And if we win, then they will.
00:11:27.000 It means there will not be a military time, there will not be a war.
00:11:31.000 The elections must be passed during a peaceful time, when there is no war, according to the legislation.
00:11:39.000 And that's why it's so true.
00:11:42.000 Now, look, I could have just played a tape there, and they could have said that they were going to send nuclear bombs and destroy Iran, and you wouldn't have known what they just said, because I couldn't understand a word of that. 0.97
00:11:51.000 However, what was just said there is that, look, we're at war.
00:11:55.000 We're not going to have elections.
00:11:57.000 I thought democracy dies in darkness.
00:12:00.000 Where are all the defenders of democracy?
00:12:01.000 He's supposed to be this beautiful example, this shining example of representative government.
00:12:07.000 We just get rid of all elections.
00:12:10.000 More aid is being sent to Ukraine.
00:12:12.000 Play cut 44.
00:12:14.000 Today, the Biden-Harris administration is announcing a new security assistance package for Ukraine as we continue to stand with the people of Ukraine as they defend themselves from Russia's brutal invasion.
00:12:25.000 This package includes key capabilities that will support Ukraine's counteroffensive operations, such as mine-clearing equipment, armored vehicles, and artillery rounds.
00:12:35.000 Who is that awful? 0.59
00:12:37.000 Who is that woman? 1.00
00:12:38.000 And why is she wearing a dress with dragons? 0.97
00:12:40.000 What is that all about?
00:12:42.000 Really strange.
00:12:43.000 Remember how the left has told us and people on the right, it's very important that Ukraine's democracy prevails, right?
00:12:49.000 They're a dictatorship.
00:12:50.000 We've said two thugs fighting each other. 0.59
00:12:52.000 Play cut 46.
00:12:54.000 President has said many times we're focused on what we can do to support Ukraine's effort to fight for their democracy.
00:13:00.000 Democracy must prevail.
00:13:02.000 The Ukrainian people are fighting the fight for their democracy and in doing so, for ours as well.
00:13:07.000 Assisting and helping Ukraine win this fight for democracy and freedom.
00:13:12.000 And of course, Ukrainian President Zelensky understands that what's at stake in Ukraine is bigger than just his nation.
00:13:19.000 It is literally a battle for freedom and democracy themselves.
00:13:23.000 They are showing the world what an existential fight for democracy looks like.
00:13:28.000 Existential fight for democracy, but no elections.
00:13:31.000 That's just too much of a distraction.
00:13:36.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
00:13:37.000 Just when you thought the government would stop trying to take over health care, Senator Bernie Sanders, that socialist Marxist communist, is pushing something that is no good.
00:13:46.000 I need your attention right now.
00:13:47.000 I'm urgently asking you to support the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste to stop the Senate from passing the Sanders Bill S1339.
00:13:55.000 It would raise the price of prescription drugs by making it harder for pharmacy benefit managers to continue to save an average of $1,000 per year for 275 million Americans just like you.
00:14:04.000 Bernie Sanders, he is a sneaky commie.
00:14:07.000 I'll tell you what.
00:14:07.000 He will not lower prescription drug prices despite what the bill says.
00:14:11.000 It will create a socialist healthcare system here in America.
00:14:14.000 I've read the bill.
00:14:15.000 It's dangerous.
00:14:15.000 You've got to stop it.
00:14:16.000 You have to sign lowermydrugprices.com.
00:14:19.000 I'm telling you, I'm involved in this.
00:14:21.000 You've got to get into the game.
00:14:22.000 Add your name to thousands who are standing up and saying you don't want more government interference in healthcare, but you must hurry.
00:14:27.000 The Sanders bill will come up for a vote in only a few weeks.
00:14:30.000 Go to lowermydrugprices.com.
00:14:32.000 All of us together must oppose the Marxist Bernie Sanders lowermydrugprices.com.
00:14:40.000 You know, I've been talking about this for a while, but it's really, it's a perfect, perfect day to focus on this.
00:14:46.000 You know what my morning routine used to be when I was in fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, especially in the summer?
00:14:53.000 Maybe Brian is similar.
00:14:55.000 I used to wake up and watch Sports Center.
00:14:57.000 I used to wake up before school, before summer camp, and watch Sports Center.
00:15:02.000 Sports Center was a great show.
00:15:07.000 And mind you, I thought sports was just, they were objectively easier to watch and better 15 years ago, 20 years ago.
00:15:16.000 I still watch college football.
00:15:17.000 I think college football is losing its shine and its appeal in some way, but it's still excellent.
00:15:22.000 Here's a question that triggers this, by the way.
00:15:24.000 Charlie, have you seen the layoffs happening at ESPN, Rich from South Dakota, Jeff Van Gundy, Jalen Rose, they laid off?
00:15:34.000 Are they going to have a network after this?
00:15:36.000 Susie Colbert and Scott, are you kidding?
00:15:40.000 Not Scott Van Pelt, no way.
00:15:41.000 No, but what's this other guy here?
00:15:42.000 Todd McShea.
00:15:44.000 He's just excellent.
00:15:46.000 He's great.
00:15:48.000 When did Disney buy ESPN?
00:15:51.000 I think that's the first, I think it was right around like 2008, 2009.
00:15:55.000 I could be wrong.
00:15:56.000 ESPN was the gold standard for sports entertainment.
00:16:01.000 And honestly, they did a fabulous job for years.
00:16:04.000 It was entertaining.
00:16:06.000 It was humorous.
00:16:07.000 It was light.
00:16:08.000 It was engaging.
00:16:10.000 And now ESPN is collapsing.
00:16:14.000 The ESPN layoffs are going viral.
00:16:17.000 That's right.
00:16:18.000 ESPN is cutting 20 on-air stars.
00:16:23.000 20 on-air stars.
00:16:24.000 Oh, I guess Disney bought them in 19, wow, 1995.
00:16:29.000 Okay, so I stand correct.
00:16:30.000 It's my whole life, basically.
00:16:31.000 ESPN is cutting 20 on-air stars.
00:16:36.000 Jeff Van Gundy, Max Kellerman, Kayshawn Johnson, poor guy.
00:16:40.000 What's a former wide receiver got to do to make a living around here?
00:16:44.000 Is he super woke?
00:16:45.000 Yeah.
00:16:46.000 Go work for him SNBC.
00:16:48.000 Did they fire that NBA commentator guy who's unbelievably woke?
00:16:53.000 You know what I'm talking about?
00:16:54.000 Who's a total buster?
00:16:56.000 Kendrick Perkins, yeah.
00:16:58.000 He's probably promoted.
00:16:59.000 He's awful, Kendrick Perkins.
00:17:01.000 He's a buster. 0.97
00:17:02.000 Did he ever? 0.99
00:17:03.000 I think he won with the Celtics once, didn't he?
00:17:05.000 Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett.
00:17:07.000 I think he was on that team.
00:17:08.000 Anyway, I like Jeff Van Gundy.
00:17:11.000 I thought he was a good coach.
00:17:13.000 20 on-air stars in a dramatic round of cutoffs.
00:17:16.000 Nobody is safe at ESPN.
00:17:18.000 And what I'm told is that more layoffs might be coming.
00:17:20.000 So what is driving this at ESPN?
00:17:23.000 The answer is ESPN has gone woke.
00:17:26.000 And it's just, they're not as boundary pushing or as funny or as interesting as they used to be.
00:17:34.000 Do you remember the old commercials?
00:17:36.000 This is Sports Center?
00:17:37.000 We have a couple I sent to Ryan.
00:17:39.000 I know if Ryan is cutting them up.
00:17:40.000 I know Andrew just said, wow, Max Kellerman.
00:17:43.000 I mean, these are top-level talents.
00:17:45.000 Todd McShea, Todd McShea worked his tail off.
00:17:48.000 That is not, he was very well sourced throughout the league.
00:17:52.000 And this is happening because ESPN decided to go a political route.
00:17:58.000 Now, these people will not acknowledge it.
00:18:00.000 Jeff Van Gundy, Jalen Rose.
00:18:02.000 These people will not admit or acknowledge that this is happening because that ESPN has decided to engage in politics.
00:18:12.000 All right, let's play just a little nostalgia here for all of you at home.
00:18:15.000 Let's play whatever tape this is.
00:18:18.000 I never got tired.
00:18:19.000 So my dad started calling me AD for all day and he's stuck with me ever since. 0.90
00:18:23.000 I like that.
00:18:24.000 AD all day.
00:18:25.000 Yeah.
00:18:25.000 So what's your nickname around here?
00:18:27.000 Me?
00:18:28.000 Yeah.
00:18:28.000 I don't really have a nickname.
00:18:30.000 Pretty much just calling me Scott.
00:18:31.000 Oh, Dave, what's up?
00:18:32.000 Hey, Bedwinter. 0.72
00:18:33.000 Guys are always clowning, you know. 0.63
00:18:36.000 Bedwinner. 0.83
00:18:39.000 Told you that in confidence.
00:18:41.000 Johnny.
00:18:43.000 Go ahead and get this facts out.
00:18:46.000 All right.
00:18:48.000 That's Adrian Peterson when he was once the best player in the NFL and then he tore his ACL.
00:18:52.000 Then he went to Oklahoma, if I remember correctly.
00:18:55.000 He was actually a really good guy.
00:18:58.000 That's just one of many.
00:19:00.000 And that was part of the This Is Sports Center kind of commercial genre.
00:19:06.000 ESPN can't rely on highlights anymore.
00:19:08.000 So then they lost those to YouTube.
00:19:10.000 So they need to then have really good content.
00:19:12.000 Instead, they went for politics.
00:19:14.000 And they could have done real sports discussion and real journalism.
00:19:18.000 Instead, it was just lectures about racism from Jameel Hill.
00:19:21.000 By the way, get some tape here of that.
00:19:23.000 Let's play another piece of tape of ESPN, Play Cut 116.
00:19:29.000 Stay with me, Chad.
00:19:31.000 Touchdown, Chad Johnson.
00:19:33.000 He's going to one of these.
00:19:38.000 If I did that in public, I'd find myself next.
00:19:43.000 That's the ESPN guys trying to give Chad Ocho Cinko recommendations for touchdown celebrations.
00:19:52.000 And ESPN keeps on promoting to people like Jamil Hill.
00:19:56.000 Jameel Hill opens up about leading ESPN's conservative culture after her controversial Trump tweet.
00:20:02.000 More recently, Jameel Hill ousted from Spotify after demanding a $100 million contract.
00:20:09.000 Yeah.
00:20:10.000 Out of a job again.
00:20:12.000 Sounds like a real winner over there.
00:20:14.000 You know, I hate to say this.
00:20:16.000 ESPN was never the same post-Suert Scott.
00:20:19.000 He was really special.
00:20:21.000 He was funny.
00:20:22.000 He was unique.
00:20:24.000 Passed away in 2015.
00:20:25.000 He was really, really great.
00:20:27.000 One of the best voices there.
00:20:29.000 Passed away in 2015.
00:20:31.000 Anyway, this is personal for me because, and look, I'm not a leftist, obviously.
00:20:35.000 I don't like to see institutions collapse.
00:20:37.000 I don't cheer for their demise.
00:20:39.000 I like to see things passed down.
00:20:42.000 I like to see things preserved, conserved.
00:20:47.000 And the way sports were 10 years ago, 15 years ago, I deeply and sincerely miss.
00:20:54.000 I do not enjoy watching the National Football League and having end racism on the bottom of every helmet.
00:21:01.000 I watch less football because of it.
00:21:03.000 In fact, sometimes I'm just like, it's not worth it.
00:21:05.000 I'll watch the playoffs.
00:21:06.000 I'll watch a game here or there.
00:21:07.000 College, I still watch, as I say.
00:21:11.000 I don't watch any baseball.
00:21:12.000 I think I watched one NBA basketball game.
00:21:16.000 I don't watch any hockey. 1.00
00:21:19.000 And I would if these sports, if I felt as if these leagues were in harmony with my values, NHL, they have these gay jerseys all over the place. 1.00
00:21:28.000 I think they said they're not doing that again. 1.00
00:21:29.000 Too late.
00:21:31.000 And so this is not just isolated to ESPN.
00:21:35.000 It's all of Disney.
00:21:37.000 And let's go through the list.
00:21:39.000 Disney's last eight films have lost the disgraced American brand over $900 million. 0.93
00:21:46.000 Strange World, never heard of it, lost $197 million and included a homosexual romance. 0.83
00:21:52.000 Lightyear lost $106 million and showed lesbians kissing. 0.69
00:21:56.000 Elemental features the company's first non-binary character and had the worst opening weekend in company history. 0.76
00:22:02.000 Now Disney is looking to cut $5.5 billion in expenses worldwide and is even firing talent at subsidiary ESPN.
00:22:09.000 Why is this happening?
00:22:10.000 So look, if you're the CEO of Disney, is it still Bob Iger?
00:22:14.000 I think it is because he went back.
00:22:15.000 He went anywhere back. 0.96
00:22:15.000 I think Iger's back. 0.96
00:22:17.000 So is Bob Iger a gay activist?
00:22:19.000 No.
00:22:19.000 Is he sympathetic to the gay agenda?
00:22:21.000 Yes.
00:22:21.000 But is he a gay activist?
00:22:22.000 No.
00:22:23.000 But Bob Iger is sitting in his office at Disney and he has to make decisions. 1.00
00:22:28.000 And somebody in his office warns him, Mr. Iger, if you push back on our grooming content, you're going to have a revolt of the homosexuals. 1.00
00:22:43.000 And that's the way this works: is that the LGBTQ groups, they take over these companies and they're loud and they're obnoxious and they're demanding and they are constantly requiring pandering, constantly requiring pandering. 1.00
00:23:03.000 I mean, you just have to keep on feeding that beast. 1.00
00:23:06.000 So Bob Iger would rather lay off Jeff Van Gundy and Todd McShea, who I think is excellent, than have to make the actual tough decisions and tell the gay mob, hey, you guys have cost us $900 million. 1.00
00:23:21.000 But here's another thing. 0.93
00:23:23.000 Bob Iger is reminded of something else too.
00:23:25.000 Who's going to design your movies?
00:23:28.000 It is not an overestimate to say that probably between 20 to 30 percent of Disney's graphic designers, writers, people in the motion arts are in the LGBTQ group and/or hyper-sympathetic of that. 1.00
00:23:42.000 I think that's probably fair. 0.98
00:23:43.000 And so if they get ticked off, their whole business model gets upset.
00:23:47.000 They are holding the entire profitability and the ability for Disney to turn into a serious business hostage unless you make all this. 0.99
00:23:58.000 We demand more lesbian kissing scenes. 1.00
00:24:01.000 And Bob Iger is probably like, geez, guys. 0.98
00:24:03.000 Like, can we run a business?
00:24:05.000 And his team is like, well, Mr. Iger, just so you know, if you are not 100% doing this, this, this, this, and this, then you're going to have a walkout.
00:24:13.000 And remember when they actually did that with Ron DeSantis?
00:24:16.000 Do you remember that?
00:24:17.000 When Ron DeSantis went after Disney and he deserves credit for what he did with Disney?
00:24:22.000 And there was all that walkout and all this. 0.99
00:24:25.000 Don't say gay.
00:24:26.000 You remember that? 1.00
00:24:26.000 When you get some of those films, some of the most fragile, turned tyrannical groups of activists in the country and the world are the LGBTQ employees. 1.00
00:24:39.000 They are vicious. 1.00
00:24:40.000 And they are holding the entire Disney conglomerate hostage.
00:24:49.000 Somebody says, Charlie, since you talk about how bad Hollywood is, what are some movies you do like, Anna, from Trenton, New Jersey?
00:24:56.000 It's actually right near Trenton, New Jersey recently.
00:24:59.000 I went to go see President Trump.
00:25:01.000 What movies do I like?
00:25:03.000 Well, I do love Lord of the Rings.
00:25:04.000 Lord of the Rings is an excellent film.
00:25:07.000 And I love all things Tolkien.
00:25:09.000 My favorite all-time movie, though, that I could just watch over and over again is Gladiator.
00:25:14.000 Love Gladiator.
00:25:15.000 It is an excellent film.
00:25:18.000 I think Russell Crowe does a terrific job.
00:25:21.000 Braveheart with Mel Gibson is a really, really good movie.
00:25:26.000 Trying to think what other movies I really enjoy.
00:25:29.000 Oh, Ridley Scott has a Napoleon movie coming out soon.
00:25:31.000 Might be good.
00:25:32.000 Probably won't be.
00:25:33.000 Probably some sort of corrupt wrinkle.
00:25:37.000 Yeah, look, I love movies.
00:25:38.000 I've seen hundreds, probably thousands of movies, grew up watching a lot of movies.
00:25:42.000 My dad collects movies, actually, so I've seen my fair share.
00:25:46.000 I think movies are just terrific. 1.00
00:25:49.000 I don't really watch many of them anymore because they've all really kind of gone fake and gay. 1.00
00:25:53.000 And it's just so, you know, out of out of the out of the mainstream. 1.00
00:26:01.000 But if you were to kind of go through some of the other movies, I'm just trying to jog my memory here.
00:26:07.000 Oh, yeah, of course.
00:26:08.000 The Godfather is one of my favorite movies.
00:26:09.000 I'm just looking kind of here.
00:26:11.000 Godfather is an excellent film.
00:26:14.000 And we have an obligation to be serious about our cultural consumption.
00:26:19.000 We are shaped by what we watch.
00:26:21.000 And by the way, you must understand the core canon of which your entire society is based on. 0.98
00:26:27.000 If we watch trash, we get trashier.
00:26:29.000 If we watch beautiful things, we have a chance to go to higher heights and to greater heights, I should say.
00:26:36.000 Another really great movie that I think is underrated is I do like the Cohen brothers.
00:26:43.000 They're excellent.
00:26:45.000 Trying to think what No Country for Old Men with Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin is an excellent film.
00:26:51.000 Do you know what makes that movie unique?
00:26:53.000 No music.
00:26:54.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:26:54.000 Brian knows it.
00:26:55.000 There is no music in No Country for Old Men.
00:26:58.000 We need fiction that elevates us, that makes us think about things bigger than ourselves.
00:27:03.000 We need to dive into the deeper things of heroes that deal with the complexities that we can resonate with.
00:27:12.000 Remember, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars are all the three same story, just repackaged.
00:27:17.000 Orphan grows up in a desolate place in a disadvantaged situation, raised by their uncle, not sure who raised that, who the actual biological father is or mother is, comes to age and goes on a journey away from that place of innocence, whether it be Tatooine or The Shire or under a Stairway and goes on a hero's journey, assembles a team of a couple people,
00:27:44.000 whether it be Hermoine or Hans Solo or Bill Bo Baggins, fights evil, but realizes the true evil is themselves.
00:27:55.000 So it becomes an inward fight, which is the true story of the Bible.
00:28:00.000 And you have to conquer your own nature.
00:28:02.000 What does Harry Potter have to do?
00:28:03.000 He realizes that it's his own scar, it's his own internal struggle that is the great struggle.
00:28:09.000 What does Frodo Baggins have to end up realizing that it is the ring, his temptation to want to put on the ring, that is the great struggle he has to overcome at the end?
00:28:20.000 What does Luke Skywalker have to overcome?
00:28:26.000 The temptation to go to the dark side.
00:28:30.000 Same story, hero's journey repackaged multiple times.
00:28:33.000 And it should be.
00:28:34.000 It resonates with us for a reason.
00:28:35.000 What is the hero's journey of the left? 0.53
00:28:37.000 You grow up an orphan and you become a trans activist and get your intimate parts chopped off and you stay on Lupron and antidepressants. 0.74
00:28:48.000 End of story. 0.95
00:28:50.000 Man grows up in successful, loving society, cuts off his parts, ruins the country, and kills himself.
00:28:56.000 We need to be serious about the art we consume.
00:28:59.000 We need better movies.
00:29:00.000 We need better stories.
00:29:02.000 And it's hard to see the trash that we are publishing out there right now.
00:29:07.000 It makes me miss the 80s and the 90s.
00:29:11.000 We were a better country and we can get it back.
00:29:15.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:29:20.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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