The Charlie Kirk Show - February 05, 2024


Ask Charlie Anything 175: Is Whatever Scripted? Britain and Islam? Why Attack the RNC?


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In this episode of the Whatever Podcast, host Charlie Kirk takes your questions and answers them. Today's questions include: 1. What does it take to be a good college student? 2. What's the worst college town in America? 3. What are the worst things a college student can do? 4. How do you feel about Josh Hawley? 5. What do you think about the Border Patrol? 6. What s the worst thing a college kid can do in a bar? 7. What is a good town in Isla Vista, California? 8. Is it better than a Gomorrah town? 9. How about a town in Arizona? 10. How bad is it?

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Monday.
00:00:01.000 It's an Ask Me Anything episode.
00:00:02.000 We receive your questions and we go through the whatever podcast from a different perspective.
00:00:08.000 I think you'll enjoy it.
00:00:09.000 We talk about the border.
00:00:10.000 We talk about Speaker Johnson.
00:00:11.000 We talk about Josh Hawley.
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00:01:27.000 Okay, let's get to the first question here. 1.00
00:01:29.000 Charlie, I saw you on some sort of a podcast with a bunch of women. 0.99
00:01:32.000 What on earth is this show?
00:01:34.000 It seems bizarre and scripted.
00:01:36.000 Thanks so much.
00:01:37.000 Okay, it is bizarre, but it's not scripted.
00:01:39.000 So I do want to spend some time on this.
00:01:41.000 We received tons of emails on it and overwhelmingly positive.
00:01:46.000 I don't think I received any negative, except some people said that I could have gone a little bit harder, which I don't agree with.
00:01:55.000 So tons of emails on the whatever podcast.
00:01:59.000 So here's how it works.
00:02:00.000 So there's this show that's based out of Isla Vista.
00:02:03.000 You see, Andrew, I didn't say Santa Barbara.
00:02:05.000 If I say Santa Barbara, Andrew gets very upset.
00:02:07.000 It's adjacent to Santa Barbara.
00:02:10.000 It's near Santa Barbara.
00:02:11.000 It's an Isla Vista.
00:02:12.000 Isla Vista.
00:02:14.000 Blake, what's a good town I could compare Isla Vista to?
00:02:21.000 Blake says Gomorrah.
00:02:24.000 Tempe, Arizona.
00:02:26.000 These are similar types of Sodom.
00:02:30.000 It's not exactly a great spot.
00:02:30.000 Yeah.
00:02:35.000 So anyway, this is a show, and it's very popular on the internet, especially the clips.
00:02:42.000 It goes for seven hours, and it's by a male host.
00:02:47.000 And there are anywhere between six to nine female guests.
00:02:53.000 And the guests vary from political operatives to OnlyFans girls.
00:02:59.000 If you don't know what OnlyFans is, it is a service where young ladies sell pictures of themselves or access of pictures themselves for a monthly subscription.
00:03:07.000 It's very popular.
00:03:08.000 A lot of young women do it. 1.00
00:03:10.000 And it's an awful trend. 1.00
00:03:12.000 It's really disgusting.
00:03:13.000 And then there are people that are outright involved in the performance and the production of pornography.
00:03:22.000 So you sit around the table and it's supposed to be a dating podcast.
00:03:25.000 And almost every single one of you have seen clips of it, whether you know it or not, because it's been one of the most viral podcasts in 2023.
00:03:31.000 And it goes on and on and on and on.
00:03:33.000 And I'm blown away by just how many people actually watch the clips of it.
00:03:37.000 And I'm the only conservative there and definitely the only traditionalist there.
00:03:42.000 And you just have, it's kind of this non-stop firing squad.
00:03:45.000 And I thought it was actually a really respectful conversation.
00:03:48.000 I did leave sad.
00:03:50.000 Very sad.
00:03:51.000 These are broken people.
00:03:53.000 And the feedback I've received from people is, you know, Charlie, I liked your approach and you seem to be really calm.
00:03:59.000 And yeah, I just, what am I going to go scold these people?
00:04:03.000 I mean, I wanted to try to hear what they had to say, show them that there is a better and a different life for them, and maybe win them over.
00:04:12.000 And I don't know if I did or not.
00:04:13.000 I don't know if I was successful in that regard.
00:04:16.000 But they're certainly struggling from an existential despair.
00:04:20.000 The young lady next to me, who I had no, by the way, I had no idea.
00:04:23.000 The young lady next to me, I thought was the progressive activist, and she looks like she's like 14.
00:04:29.000 I don't say that negatively.
00:04:30.000 She's just a young-looking girl. 1.00
00:04:32.000 Turns out she's the like the award-winning champion. 0.99
00:04:36.000 She's like the Super Bowl champion of pornography or something. 1.00
00:04:39.000 And she's literally there for the porn awards or something. 0.71
00:04:41.000 I'm not kidding. 0.53
00:04:42.000 That's why she was in town.
00:04:44.000 And I mean, these people are suffering.
00:04:45.000 They're suffering from an existential despair and they're involved in the active production of selling their bodies and allowing things being done to their bodies and selling the video of them.
00:04:56.000 And it's a very tragic thing.
00:04:58.000 And it's a trend that unfortunately is continuing.
00:05:00.000 I'm going to play some pieces of tape here from it.
00:05:02.000 And it's gone very, very viral, as you would probably imagine.
00:05:06.000 Millions and millions of views.
00:05:08.000 And I think it's only picking up because it gains more steam as things go on.
00:05:12.000 I'm trying to find the clips here.
00:05:14.000 So let's do this one here: 126.
00:05:18.000 This was a message I tried to land at the end.
00:05:21.000 Play cut 126, please.
00:05:23.000 I have sympathy for you.
00:05:24.000 I do.
00:05:24.000 You're trying to cope with the suppression of your soul.
00:05:28.000 And filming yourself having sex with other men and filming it is not the highest and best use of the talents that God gave you.
00:05:34.000 It's not.
00:05:36.000 That is a talent God gave me.
00:05:38.000 Well, it's not the highest and best use, and it's not a talent because, as I said, in my belief, that should be saved in a sacred domain.
00:05:44.000 We're not going to agree on that.
00:05:45.000 But I hope you change course.
00:05:48.000 I think you'll be happier and more joyful.
00:05:49.000 And I pray you don't have to suffer too much to realize that.
00:05:52.000 Well, in my belief, this is my most happy and joyful.
00:05:57.000 How do you respond to that?
00:05:59.000 How do you respond to that?
00:06:00.000 You have a 19 or 20-year-old who's putting herself out online, having sex with limitless amounts of men, saying that, well, in my belief, it is my happiest and joy.
00:06:09.000 I mean, okay.
00:06:10.000 You have free agency, you have free will.
00:06:13.000 What I wanted to make clear, though, is because it's not about her, right?
00:06:15.000 It's about the millions of other young women that might be influenced by what she's saying.
00:06:19.000 So if I was able to influence the other millions of people watching that this is a pattern of self-destruction and existential despair, then that's an accomplishment.
00:06:27.000 I don't think I got through to Molly.
00:06:28.000 And I'm praying for Molly.
00:06:29.000 That's not sarcastic.
00:06:31.000 I don't think that there is some sort of inner turmoil.
00:06:36.000 And in fact, we kind of flushed this out.
00:06:39.000 She doesn't have a good relationship with her father.
00:06:42.000 And it is a fact that a lot of people that are in kind of that e-girl space in the OnlyFan space that get into the production of adult or whatever you want to call it, I don't even like the term adult because it's a watered-down word.
00:06:56.000 It's degenerate pornography.
00:06:58.000 They're trying to get the attention and try to get the love of a man that they never got from their father. 0.99
00:07:04.000 Play cut 65. 0.98
00:07:05.000 If you could be with your boyfriend currently and I waved a magic wand and I said you can make a million dollars a year and never do porn again, would you?
00:07:13.000 No.
00:07:14.000 Okay.
00:07:15.000 He's used the wand.
00:07:16.000 You can make a million dollars a year.
00:07:18.000 You don't have to do the adult content.
00:07:21.000 Well, the thing is, I wouldn't have to do it.
00:07:23.000 That would be great, but I would still want to do it.
00:07:25.000 I mean, personally, like, I'm an exhibitionist.
00:07:27.000 I love putting my sexual self out there for other people to see, for other people to, like, you know, touch themselves to, have fun with.
00:07:36.000 I love.
00:07:37.000 Can I ask you a question?
00:07:38.000 Since you're about presenting yourself to the world, do you have a good relationship with your father?
00:07:45.000 Okay, here we go.
00:07:46.000 No, I don't talk to him.
00:07:50.000 I'm not surprised.
00:07:52.000 It will be hard to do this.
00:07:53.000 I do plan to return to the show, and I'm sure there'll be different guests.
00:07:59.000 But I have a wish.
00:08:01.000 And Brian, is that his name?
00:08:02.000 Brian, who hosts it?
00:08:03.000 Who, by the way, credit to him, he sits there for seven hours.
00:08:06.000 And they're very keen to have me back.
00:08:07.000 They said, you can come back anytime.
00:08:09.000 I would love to sit with that same group of young ladies one year from now, five years from now, and 10 years from now.
00:08:17.000 I think it would be fascinating.
00:08:20.000 I think, and I'm not here to do gotcha.
00:08:22.000 I would do it privately.
00:08:24.000 I would do it without cameras, just as a sociological experiment.
00:08:29.000 How are you doing?
00:08:31.000 How are you thinking about life?
00:08:34.000 Are you still enjoying putting your naked body online?
00:08:38.000 Are you still as happy and joyful as you said you were?
00:08:41.000 I would be fascinated by it.
00:08:44.000 Have you reconsidered anything?
00:08:46.000 Is there anything that did you hit rock bottom in any certain way?
00:08:50.000 I would be fascinated to kind of almost the same way that you kind of track people through a study.
00:08:55.000 Like, what do they call those?
00:08:56.000 There's lots of studies like that where they track people over like multiple decades of how they do.
00:09:01.000 Are you really true happy?
00:09:02.000 How are your relationships?
00:09:04.000 Thank you.
00:09:04.000 Longitudinal study.
00:09:06.000 That's exactly right. 1.00
00:09:07.000 I think it would be fascinating for the whatever girls to go through a longitudinal study and just kind of chart it. 0.99
00:09:16.000 How's your relationship stability? 0.89
00:09:17.000 Do you still want to have kids?
00:09:18.000 Are you going to have kids?
00:09:20.000 Are you struggling with substance abuse?
00:09:22.000 Do you feel need, want to deserve?
00:09:24.000 Do you have the existential despair thing solved?
00:09:27.000 I think it would be fascinating.
00:09:28.000 I think it would absolutely be fascinating.
00:09:30.000 And I say that as someone who is curious about humanity as a species.
00:09:36.000 And so my hope is that the young ladies there aside, because I don't know if I got through it, I don't know, is that the millions of people that have watched the clips of that can maybe think differently.
00:09:49.000 Maybe there's a better life.
00:09:51.000 Maybe getting married and having kids is the right path for you.
00:09:54.000 You have free will.
00:09:54.000 You have agency.
00:09:57.000 And maybe just the current culture might be emptier than advertised.
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00:11:12.000 All right, I want to play another piece, a couple pieces of tape here about this.
00:11:15.000 I asked about political commentary.
00:11:18.000 The way this came up was a little bit backwards.
00:11:20.000 Let's go to Cut89.
00:11:22.000 Do you think public political commentary is morally on the same plane as filming yourself having sex? 0.86
00:11:28.000 Yes.
00:11:28.000 Yes.
00:11:29.000 Yeah.
00:11:29.000 I think people, if anything, it could sometimes be worse, depending on what the person is talking about.
00:11:34.000 Worse, okay.
00:11:35.000 I think politics is definitely heavier than porn. 0.93
00:11:37.000 You think politics does more damage than porn?
00:11:39.000 For the actual life.
00:11:41.000 For 100%.
00:11:41.000 Like the world, yes.
00:11:43.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:11:44.000 Having sex with other men is not disrupting the world. 0.81
00:11:47.000 Well, not with sex, but filming it in December.
00:11:49.000 I think it's really helpful.
00:11:50.000 I'm not putting the world into championships. 0.99
00:11:52.000 And then a release of their semen that they can't control stuff then, so they go jerk off to meet the lonely boys. 0.98
00:12:00.000 We're helping them. 0.99
00:12:02.000 Also, I feel like it's their choice to watch.
00:12:05.000 We'll play another piece of tape here from the conversation.
00:12:08.000 Let's play Cut 69.
00:12:10.000 What is liberty?
00:12:10.000 Liberty is a concept that has been hotly debated by many political scientists, philosophers.
00:12:18.000 But liberty is one having the autonomy and self-determination to be able to make as many free and fair choices in their life and society as possible.
00:12:25.000 Fair.
00:12:26.000 And so, if liberty hurts somebody else, is it still liberty?
00:12:29.000 No, because now you're infringing upon other people's liberty.
00:12:31.000 So it comes in contact with other people's rights all the time.
00:12:33.000 So we have clarity but not agreement.
00:12:35.000 I view abortion by being a violation of the liberty principle because there's a victim. 0.54
00:12:39.000 You don't view it that way.
00:12:40.000 So we have reasonable disagreement.
00:12:41.000 Fundamental disagreement.
00:12:43.000 Yes, we have reasonable disagreement, but there's obviously a victim, right?
00:12:46.000 There's a baby that needs to be scraped aside, cast and put into a trash can.
00:12:49.000 That is a victim.
00:12:50.000 Therefore, it's the violation of the liberty principle that you articulated.
00:12:54.000 One more.
00:12:55.000 Let's go to this one.
00:12:56.000 Are you satisfied with the status of American men?
00:12:59.000 Play Cut 68.
00:13:00.000 How many of you are thrilled with the status of American men?
00:13:04.000 You think that they're strong and confident and they tell the truth?
00:13:08.000 I love an American man as an Irish girl.
00:13:10.000 Okay, well then you're the exception of the people.
00:13:10.000 Definitely.
00:13:12.000 They're all Americans or Silent Legion. 1.00
00:13:14.000 But hold on.
00:13:15.000 And I'm not going to say it's only because of porn because that would not be fair.
00:13:19.000 But porn consumption does not make better men.
00:13:21.000 We can't stand the state of men.
00:13:23.000 And yet there's nothing wrong with widespread proliferation of porn.
00:13:26.000 Which one is it exactly?
00:13:28.000 All right, let's get to some more questions here.
00:13:30.000 Changing topics.
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00:13:32.000 Lots of questions.
00:13:36.000 Let's go to this one here.
00:13:37.000 Charlie, what is going on with this British recruitment video?
00:13:41.000 I saw it on your Instagram.
00:13:42.000 It went viral.
00:13:43.000 Can you tell us about it?
00:13:44.000 Yeah, so let's play cut 42, please.
00:14:26.000 Okay, so that has gone completely viral.
00:14:30.000 That is the United Kingdom, where in this recruitment video, an individual is praying in Arabic as if you need another reminder that the entire West has been taken over or is being taken over in real time.
00:14:45.000 What a message to the Royal Air Force and to the great, amazing patriots that fought in World War II.
00:14:54.000 This is just one example of many.
00:14:57.000 And by the way, would they have a recruitment video in the West of somebody praying a Christian prayer?
00:15:02.000 Do you think so?
00:15:03.000 The United Kingdom has changed fundamentally.
00:15:07.000 Changed fundamentally.
00:15:10.000 From mass migration, and that's why I believe the 2024 election is going to be about mass migration and cheap money.
00:15:18.000 Four words: mass migration and cheap money.
00:15:20.000 Cheap money is what gives you inflation, gives you these raging deficits, gives you massive amounts of economic discord, and then migration.
00:15:32.000 The non-stop flow of foreigners into your country. 1.00
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00:17:33.000 Someone just emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:17:36.000 Hey, Charlie, can you tell us more about what happened in Vegas?
00:17:39.000 I caught some of the shows.
00:17:40.000 Go through some of the big wins.
00:17:41.000 Yes, there's a really interesting new article from Semaphore, semaphore.com.
00:17:46.000 It's syndicated on Yahoo News.
00:17:49.000 And I think it's largely helpful.
00:17:50.000 I mean, there's some left-wing stuff in there, but it's fine.
00:17:54.000 And let's go to this quote here.
00:17:57.000 He says, Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA started as an effort to supercharge conservative outreach to young people.
00:18:02.000 But the Vegas Conference is a reminder of how vastly its king-making ambitions, I don't know about that, within the Republican Party have grown.
00:18:08.000 The fact that Kirk and Turning Point Stable of Podcasters have become some of the MAGUP movement's premier podcasting shock jocks, okay, has, if anything, appeared to help that effort building its credibility among the GOP base.
00:18:20.000 At the moment, the RNC is shedding its own.
00:18:22.000 Look, we just want wins, and we want a Republican Party that reflects its voters.
00:18:25.000 It's not that crazy.
00:18:27.000 We just want to win.
00:18:28.000 I know that's a lot of words to say that.
00:18:32.000 We just want to win.
00:18:35.000 We just want to win.
00:18:36.000 Let's remind you of this wonderful montage from the Restoring National Confidence event that has gone totally viral.
00:18:41.000 Tons of media coverage.
00:18:43.000 PlayCut 52.
00:18:44.000 I'm here because I've been to an RNC training.
00:18:46.000 It is nothing like what they did at Turning Point.
00:18:48.000 They're giving us actionable things to actually do and win, which the RNC is not interested in doing for some reason.
00:18:54.000 I am the chairman of the Forsyth County Georgia Republican Party, and I am here because we have been lacking on tools and support from the RNC from a national level down to the county level.
00:19:07.000 We have people that are ready to get involved.
00:19:09.000 They want to go to work.
00:19:10.000 They just need to know what to do.
00:19:12.000 And so this has been a great opportunity for us to network with people and learn and just really fill up our toolbox with things we can take back home and get out the vote.
00:19:20.000 My name is Will Donahue.
00:19:22.000 I'm the president of the National College of Republicans, and we're here to support Turning Point and their ballot chasing initiative.
00:19:27.000 We've got students all over the country.
00:19:29.000 We were just in Iowa.
00:19:30.000 We were just in New Hampshire.
00:19:31.000 And we're here to help support Turning Point Action, help win the next election.
00:19:34.000 Thank you to Turning Point.
00:19:35.000 I've learned more in one day than I have in two years.
00:19:40.000 What are two or three things you learned that you're doing?
00:19:43.000 So they have the Turning Point data people have dug down to precinct level six precincts of mine that had target voters that were likely voters in 2016, 2020 that did not vote.
00:19:55.000 And they're Republicans down to 25,000 voters.
00:19:58.000 I can hit those six precincts now with my walk list.
00:20:01.000 I've never gotten that dug down from the RPOF or the RNC.
00:20:05.000 Turning point has done it.
00:20:06.000 I'm taking it home to my people, my precinct captains, and going out and doing this now.
00:20:10.000 25,000 votes.
00:20:12.000 That's amazing.
00:20:12.000 It's huge.
00:20:13.000 So thank you.
00:20:13.000 Huge.
00:20:14.000 Thank you.
00:20:15.000 Thank you to Charlie Kirk.
00:20:16.000 Thank you, Steve, for everything you do.
00:20:18.000 Now, I don't expect a fair shake from the media, but those clips were not covered.
00:20:24.000 They're trying to make it seem as if we were overly rabble-rousing.
00:20:26.000 We were very calm, very cool.
00:20:28.000 If you look at any of our broadcasts, any of that, I just wish that it would have been more coverage on the actual help, the actual help that we gave the grassroots.
00:20:36.000 This wasn't just a rally.
00:20:38.000 No, it was about equipping the grassroots with the technology, with the training, with the sophistication, with the battle plan that we can have moving forward.
00:20:46.000 We have to win.
00:20:48.000 To put it differently, we want two things.
00:20:51.000 We want wins and a Republican Party that reflects its voters.
00:20:54.000 Heck, one of those would be good.
00:20:57.000 I mean, if the Republican Party reflected their voters and lost, we can deal with that.
00:21:00.000 It's not ideal.
00:21:01.000 If the Republican Party won and hated its voters, that would not be ideal, but we could deal with that.
00:21:06.000 But to have an RNC that hates its voters and loses, that is a lethal combination.
00:21:14.000 So the success coming out of Vegas just continues.
00:21:17.000 And we've been, we had over, I think it was 60 members of the RNC, 50 or 60 members of the RNC that attend.
00:21:23.000 And that number is growing, by the way.
00:21:24.000 The RNC used to be, there used to be like 20 or 30 rabble rousers. 0.99
00:21:28.000 Now there are 50 or 60 of people that are really trying to change the RNC DNA from within.
00:21:34.000 The RNC posted the worst fundraising result, an adjustment for inflation in 30 years.
00:21:41.000 The worst in 30 years.
00:21:43.000 Completely unacceptable.
00:21:44.000 It's horrifying, actually.
00:21:46.000 We want to go win in 2024.
00:21:48.000 We are 10 months out from an election.
00:21:50.000 We're in February now of 2024.
00:21:53.000 June's going to be here before you know it.
00:21:55.000 And we have the worst fundraising year on record since 1993.
00:22:01.000 And now you have the RNC bringing out a line of credit and collateralizing the donor private information of people that gave when Trump was president via the RNC.
00:22:13.000 You have terrible fundraising and cash all going to legal fees, office expenses, consultants, flower arrangements, limousines.
00:22:22.000 The story of the 2024 election, and this is going to be, we are trending to lose unless we can fix this.
00:22:30.000 We're going to test if you can win an election with no money.
00:22:33.000 It'd be pretty amazing if you can. 0.98
00:22:35.000 Would mean we can finally fire a lot of useless people, by the way. 0.94
00:22:38.000 If you can win without money, then we're just going to totally reinvent politics. 0.68
00:22:44.000 We're on pace to get outspent 10, 15, 20 to 1 minimum.
00:22:47.000 The money has completely evaporated on the right, completely evaporated.
00:22:52.000 Largely because Republican donors don't like what the RNC is selling.
00:22:58.000 They don't like what the RNC is pushing.
00:23:00.000 They don't trust them.
00:23:02.000 There's no transparency.
00:23:03.000 There's no metrics that are put forward.
00:23:06.000 So Vegas was a huge success.
00:23:08.000 The media is still writing up about it and lots of stories being published.
00:23:13.000 Charlie Kirk strategy: fight every culture war, win every election.
00:23:17.000 I haven't fought every culture war, but point received.
00:23:21.000 Okay, let's get to another one here.
00:23:23.000 Someone emails freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:23:25.000 They've emailed us, Charlie, what are your thoughts on the social media hearing?
00:23:28.000 I heard Josh Hawley on your show.
00:23:31.000 I wish we would have gone deeper into it.
00:23:34.000 Can you play more pieces of tape?
00:23:35.000 Love the show.
00:23:36.000 Subscribe to the podcast.
00:23:37.000 Yes, I want to play this longer clip.
00:23:39.000 This is Josh Hawley quoting Zuckerberg's own study.
00:23:42.000 These social media companies are doing serious and material damage to the next generation.
00:23:47.000 There is a direct causal link between staring at the supercomputer in your right-hand pocket and scrolling and scrolling and scrolling.
00:23:54.000 There's a terrific, 75% of this documentary is excellent.
00:23:57.000 It's called The Social Dilemma by Tristan Harris.
00:24:01.000 It's really great.
00:24:02.000 The last 25% is really terrible.
00:24:04.000 It's like, we need social media regulation because the country is becoming too right-wing and we can't fight climate change.
00:24:08.000 Like, whoa, hold on a second.
00:24:10.000 But the first 75% is excellent.
00:24:11.000 Talks about how the algorithm works, how it manipulates your kids, how teams of neuroscientists are employed by these social media companies to try to play games with your kids' brains, how the inventors and the makers of these applications don't even allow their kids to use the very apps that they're pushing on you and your children.
00:24:29.000 Let's play Cut 53.
00:24:31.000 Did I hear you say in your opening statement that there's no link between mental health and social media use?
00:24:38.000 Senator, what I said is I think it's important to look at the science.
00:24:41.000 I know people widely talk about this as if that is something that's already been proven.
00:24:46.000 And I think that the bulk of the scientific evidence does not support that.
00:24:50.000 Well, really, let me just remind you of some of the science from your own company.
00:24:54.000 Instagram studied the effect of your platform on teenagers.
00:24:59.000 Let me just read you some quotes from the Wall Street Journal's report on this.
00:25:02.000 Company researchers found that Instagram is harmful for a sizable percentage of teenagers, most notably teenage girls.
00:25:09.000 Here's a quote from your own study.
00:25:11.000 Quote, we make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.
00:25:17.000 Here's another quote: teens blamed Instagram.
00:25:19.000 This is your study for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression.
00:25:23.000 This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.
00:25:27.000 That's your study.
00:25:28.000 Senator Hawley did amazing.
00:25:30.000 Zuckerberg sounds like Dr. Fauci there.
00:25:33.000 Oh, well, you know, the science is settled.
00:25:35.000 It's all fine.
00:25:37.000 So the other question that should have been asked of Mr. Zuckerberg is you have a chart of suicide body image issues for young ladies that skyrocketed in 2014, circle 2014, and say, hey, Mr. Zuckerberg, how else would you explain the near hockey stick increase as soon as smartphones were mass distributed?
00:25:59.000 I'm open for any suggestions or recommendations.
00:26:01.000 What would it be?
00:26:02.000 And I can tell you from personal experience, I graduated high school in 2012.
00:26:06.000 Almost no one had iPhones.
00:26:08.000 And by 2014, 15, iPhones were everywhere.
00:26:11.000 iPhones were super rare in 2010, 11, and 12, especially for young people.
00:26:17.000 When I was in high school, it was very, very hard to find an iPhone.
00:26:23.000 The biggest bump came right after I graduated high school.
00:26:26.000 So when I was in high school, the iPhone wasn't even considered to be that good of technology.
00:26:30.000 The BlackBerry was actually a better and more desirable phone back in 2008, 2009, 2010.
00:26:37.000 When I was in high school, it was such a great time to grow up, by the way.
00:26:42.000 I feel so sad for these kids to grow up without, to grow up in a time.
00:26:46.000 I'm so thankful I grew up in a time without phones everywhere.
00:26:49.000 It was a better life.
00:26:51.000 It was a better life.
00:26:53.000 It was a better country.
00:26:55.000 We were more pleasant to one another.
00:26:57.000 We were a happier country.
00:26:59.000 Of course, there were downsides.
00:27:02.000 Sometimes you had to go to the front.
00:27:04.000 I remember being in high school, I didn't have a cell phone.
00:27:07.000 And I'd have to go walk to the office, be like, I have to call home.
00:27:10.000 And they have like a big switchboard thing, and you just call your mom, call your dad, you know, communicate a message.
00:27:16.000 That was it.
00:27:17.000 Thanks.
00:27:18.000 If they needed to get in touch with you, there was some sort of emergency, they call the front office.
00:27:22.000 You were unreachable.
00:27:24.000 We survived.
00:27:25.000 We were happy.
00:27:26.000 I'll never forget.
00:27:27.000 I wish that there was still video when I went to high school.
00:27:30.000 This is like 10 years ago.
00:27:30.000 It was nothing.
00:27:31.000 There was no one like texting underneath the table.
00:27:34.000 It's just everyone was just drawing or doing whatever.
00:27:38.000 No phones.
00:27:39.000 We should get back to that.
00:27:40.000 It's a better country.
00:27:42.000 It's a better way of living, especially for developing brains, especially for teenagers.
00:27:49.000 Parents need to step up.
00:27:50.000 You could talk about all the laws and all this stuff.
00:27:52.000 There needs to be a parent-led awareness movement.
00:27:54.000 The same way that there was a parent-led awareness movement to stigmatize tobacco, to try to get kids not to smoke, there has to be a parent-led awareness movement to say, no more smartphones.
00:28:02.000 You got to wake up.
00:28:03.000 You got to take these phones away.
00:28:04.000 Your kids don't need them. 0.99
00:28:05.000 And by the way, you're neurotic, too. 0.68
00:28:07.000 If you think that you need to have a phone that you can text your kid at all times, oh my goodness, I must stay in touch with my kid all throughout the day.
00:28:13.000 No, you don't, actually.
00:28:14.000 That's like a new phenomenon.
00:28:16.000 It's completely unnecessary.
00:28:17.000 It's a creation of the modern neurosis that is infecting America.
00:28:22.000 You do not need that.
00:28:23.000 You don't.
00:28:24.000 You might think you do.
00:28:25.000 Oh, my goodness, how will I know to reach my kid?
00:28:27.000 Figure it out.
00:28:28.000 I grew up in a country without it, and it was a better place to grow up.
00:28:35.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
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00:29:37.000 I want to get to a piece of tape here.
00:29:39.000 As I've mentioned, I had a good conversation with Mike Johnson a couple weeks ago.
00:29:43.000 Not thrilled with how he's doing things, but you got to play with the team that you have.
00:29:48.000 And I'm trying to put all that aside.
00:29:50.000 I'm trying to say, okay, you're going to fight on the border.
00:29:52.000 He's saying the right things.
00:29:53.000 These are two pieces of tape here I want to highlight.
00:29:55.000 I want to be fair.
00:29:56.000 And again, I have a lot of respect for Speaker Johnson for calling me.
00:29:59.000 He didn't have to do that.
00:30:00.000 Play Cut 105.
00:30:01.000 This border deal, which is the crux of our issues in America right now.
00:30:06.000 It's the biggest crisis that we face.
00:30:07.000 I've been in 15 states since I've been the Speaker of the House for the last hundred days.
00:30:11.000 Everywhere I go, whether it's out west, Midwest, East Coast, Long Island, Deep South, everybody says the same thing.
00:30:18.000 We can't continue this.
00:30:19.000 This is not a sustainable thing.
00:30:21.000 I cannot understand why President Biden would not use his existing executive authority that he has right now to stop this.
00:30:28.000 He won't.
00:30:29.000 Yeah, instead, he said things like, Give me the power.
00:30:32.000 Give all the bad.
00:30:33.000 He knows that he has the authority.
00:30:35.000 We've documented it for him.
00:30:36.000 I've read to him the law myself, to the president, read him the provisions of the law and said, Mr. President, please take action.
00:30:43.000 He's doing great.
00:30:44.000 I got to give Speaker Johnson a good grade in that interview.
00:30:46.000 He sounds reasonable, measured.
00:30:49.000 Good rhetoric.
00:30:50.000 Now, here's where it's going to go.
00:30:51.000 We're heading for a shutdown.
00:30:53.000 My advice to Speaker Johnson remains the same.
00:30:56.000 You have to prep for impact.
00:30:59.000 You have to say, look, we're headed for a shutdown.
00:31:01.000 And if there's ever a time to shut it down, it's over the border.
00:31:03.000 Chuck Schumer has this fake border deal.
00:31:05.000 Now, you have to have some sort of an escape plan if you're going to shut it down.
00:31:09.000 What does success look like?
00:31:10.000 What does success look like?
00:31:12.000 And the problem with D.C. is they put too many things into one bucket.
00:31:15.000 So let's just start with one element of it.
00:31:18.000 You got to start with one.
00:31:19.000 Let's do 10 piecemeal bills.
00:31:21.000 You don't have to do this big supplemental.
00:31:22.000 They like putting all this nonsense in and they say, well, there's more good than bad.
00:31:26.000 It's just, it's so unhealthy.
00:31:28.000 Be the leader, Speaker Johnson.
00:31:30.000 That's a great interview.
00:31:31.000 When there's a crisis and when there's a disagreement, when there's a debate, the more reasonable person wins.
00:31:39.000 Speaker Johnson looks far more reasonable than Joe Biden.
00:31:41.000 He's got to play offense.
00:31:42.000 He has to prep for the narrative.
00:31:43.000 He should go on a non-stop media tour.
00:31:45.000 He should go one, two, three.
00:31:46.000 What are the three deliverables?
00:31:47.000 Number one, we want anyone with a felony or a DUI deported immediately.
00:31:50.000 That's number one.
00:31:51.000 It's a very reasonable ask.
00:31:52.000 The DUI thing, by the way, is hot as a pistol.
00:31:55.000 That DUI thing is very unpopular with independents.
00:31:57.000 It's incredibly unpopular with Republicans.
00:31:59.000 And Democrats just voted against it.
00:32:01.000 That's number one.
00:32:01.000 So say anyone with a DUI, we want to deport immediately and felony.
00:32:04.000 It's excellent.
00:32:06.000 Number two, we just got to completely seal the border.
00:32:08.000 No new people.
00:32:09.000 End of story.
00:32:10.000 End of program.
00:32:11.000 Number three, we need more funding immediately for Border Patrol.
00:32:14.000 DHS.
00:32:15.000 One, two, three.
00:32:16.000 Say until we get those three things, we're not doing work visas, we're not doing any of that stuff.
00:32:20.000 You have to have a reasonable packaged counter, or else they're going to just frame it as you're the shutdown artist, you're the no guy.
00:32:28.000 And yes, we don't want the Senate built.
00:32:29.000 Then counter with your own.
00:32:30.000 It's not going to be HR2, okay?
00:32:32.000 HR2 is great.
00:32:33.000 Unfortunately, you can't even get your own conference to pass HR2 anymore.
00:32:36.000 We've learned and they've admitted and they've acknowledged in this negotiation process they can actually close the border.
00:32:41.000 Seize on that, capitalize on that.
00:32:44.000 Speaker Johnson, you have a gift that, honestly, other speakers didn't have.
00:32:47.000 You're better on TV than Paul Ryan.
00:32:49.000 That was a great interview.
00:32:50.000 Smooth.
00:32:50.000 You looked great.
00:32:51.000 Handle it.
00:32:52.000 Good vocabulary.
00:32:53.000 Looked reasonable.
00:32:54.000 Let's get you out there more. 0.99
00:32:55.000 Let's play offense with that.
00:32:56.000 Very polished, very reasonable.
00:32:58.000 Wins over suburban type independent swing voters.
00:33:00.000 Fine.
00:33:00.000 I wish you were tougher on a lot of things, but let's use the advantage that we have.
00:33:03.000 So you have to have three asks.
00:33:04.000 One, two, three.
00:33:05.000 We're going to close the border.
00:33:07.000 We're going to fund Border Patrol.
00:33:08.000 And deportations have to be on the table.
00:33:10.000 Play offense on the DUI deportation issue.
00:33:13.000 It is an 80-20 issue.
00:33:15.000 80% of Americans think it's insane that if you kill somebody in a DUI, you don't get deported.
00:33:20.000 They cannot even comprehend it.
00:33:22.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:23.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:26.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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