The Charlie Kirk Show - Boomers and Banned Food Dyes

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here, live from the Bitcoin.com studio.

00:00:04.000 We are poisoning our kids with unnecessary dyes in our food.

00:00:06.000 Callie Means joins the program, author of Good Energy.

00:00:09.000 And what we saw at Texas A&M University is so...

00:00:12.000 Hopeful. So awe-inspiring.

00:00:14.000 The kids are alright.

00:00:15.000 They're moving in our direction in a major and powerful way.

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00:00:34.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:31.000 We're going to start today recapping our incredible day in College Station, Texas.

00:01:37.000 College Station is the home of Texas A&M University, Texas Agriculture and Medicine University, a very interesting place.

00:01:46.000 I got to tell you, I have been to a lot of college campuses.

00:01:49.000 I think I have probably been to more college campuses than any person in public commentary.

00:01:54.000 I have been to well over 180 college campuses.

00:01:59.000 All across the country I've been there.

00:02:01.000 There is something rather unique about Texas A&M University.

00:02:04.000 They have a different language.

00:02:06.000 They talk to each other differently.

00:02:08.000 They don't boo.

00:02:08.000 They hiss.

00:02:09.000 They say howdy.

00:02:11.000 They say gig'em.

00:02:12.000 And they have this war hymn that, I've got to be honest, I really like.

00:02:15.000 It was terrific.

00:02:15.000 It's their fight song, but no, no, you can't call it a fight song.

00:02:18.000 It is a war hymn.

00:02:21.000 It's quite interesting.

00:02:22.000 I've got to tell you, what we are seeing on these college campuses is profound.

00:02:26.000 It's real.

00:02:28.000 And I want to lead with it because it connects to a piece of data that is very important.

00:02:33.000 And it is a reminder of this truism.

00:02:38.000 In the year of 2025, how you receive your information is more important than even what you are receiving.

00:02:50.000 The how actually dictates the what.

00:02:53.000 The medium of which you view...

00:02:56.000 The world, or how the medium in which you get the information about the world, is critically important.

00:03:02.000 This was not as important in 1995.

00:03:05.000 With the exception of the great Rush Limbaugh on talk radio, if you were to read a newspaper, if you were to watch television, you would get some symmetry of what was happening in the world.

00:03:18.000 Social media has changed all of that, and previously social media was very difficult for us on the right.

00:03:24.000 Obama used social media to win both in 2008 and 2012.

00:03:28.000 Donald Trump, however, used social media to win in 2016.

00:03:31.000 2020, we all know what happened.

00:03:33.000 And then, of course, in 2024, we used social media to communicate to the younger generation and move younger voters so significantly, so substantially in a way that shocked the world.

00:03:43.000 A nearly 20-point move.

00:03:45.000 I was sitting down with some of our donors with Turning Point USA prior to the Texas A&M speech.

00:03:52.000 And they said, how are young people getting their information?

00:03:55.000 They said, what shows are they watching?

00:03:58.000 Well, they're not watching television.

00:04:00.000 They're not listening to radio.

00:04:01.000 They might do some podcasting, but typically and traditionally, they're just flipping through their social media feed.

00:04:08.000 That's easy to criticize, but honestly, it's advantageous.

00:04:12.000 Our content is better.

00:04:14.000 We espouse things that are rooted in truth, in goodness, and patriotism.

00:04:20.000 And yesterday, this was on full display at Texas A&M University.

00:04:24.000 Just to give you an idea of what the stamina day looks like.

00:04:28.000 I show up at Texas A&M University, and it was hot.

00:04:31.000 It was a hot Texas day.

00:04:33.000 So hot, in fact.

00:04:34.000 But unfortunately, two people in our crowd passed out.

00:04:37.000 They're okay.

00:04:38.000 But they were passing out from the heat and heat exhaustion.

00:04:42.000 So I sit there, and I will debate anyone that comes up to the microphone for three hours in the Texas humidity.

00:04:49.000 Prior to that, I actually sat down with the great Laura Trump for a half-hour interview.

00:04:53.000 After those three hours, I try to catch my breath a little bit.

00:04:56.000 And then, at 5 p.m., we have to get started all over again for our evening event.

00:05:01.000 And I want to play the...

00:05:03.000 Evening event.

00:05:04.000 I gotta tell you, I've been to a lot of events.

00:05:06.000 This was the most electric college campus entrance.

00:05:09.000 That is an auditorium of 2,800 people, and we had to turn away another 500 people at the door.

00:05:18.000 So we drew nearly 3,000 people during the day and over 3,500 people at night on a college campus, everybody.

00:05:27.000 Let's play cut 239.

00:05:30.000 I gotta tell you, this war hymn that Texas A&M has is pretty amazing.

00:05:34.000 But even more than that, it shows you this next generation is increasing in its attachment to conservatism.

00:05:43.000 Baby boomers are moving to the left. 1.00

00:05:45.000 It's a fact, everybody.

00:05:47.000 You don't like it when I say it.

00:05:48.000 The data shows it.

00:05:49.000 The protests show it.

00:05:51.000 Anecdotal, it shows it.

00:05:52.000 They're not moving very far to the left, but they don't like Trump, and they're increasingly more and more sympathetic with what the Democrats are doing.

00:05:59.000 Now, not the wonderful baby boomers in this audience. 1.00

00:06:01.000 I'm talking macro.

00:06:03.000 Macro, it is young people that are now becoming the backbone of the conservative movement.

00:06:09.000 Watch this.

00:06:10.000 This should give you chills.

00:06:11.000 play cut 239.

00:06:13.000 *Police singing*

00:06:24.000 Man, I want to watch the whole thing.

00:06:25.000 That's good stuff.

00:06:26.000 And almost every single person in the audience watches us on TikTok.

00:06:30.000 They watch us on Instagram.

00:06:31.000 They watch us on YouTube.

00:06:33.000 They listen to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast page.

00:06:37.000 And you put all of that together.

00:06:40.000 And you recognize and you realize there's something deep happening in this country.

00:06:44.000 And it's a bottom-up resurgence.

00:06:47.000 It's a bottom-up movement.

00:06:49.000 It's a realignment, dare I say.

00:06:52.000 We are getting back to this idea that actually, we want a future.

00:06:58.000 The next generation wants to be able to buy a home, to have kids, and be married.

00:07:02.000 And in the latest poll, I want to show this up on stage, the oldest voters, according to real clear opinion research, the older you are, the more likely you are to disapprove of Donald Trump.

00:07:15.000 It's just the facts.

00:07:16.000 I see this up close and personal.

00:07:20.000 I see this...

00:07:22.000 In my own community?

00:07:26.000 The older you are, the more likely you are to not like Donald Trump.

00:07:30.000 And that is because it is how you get your information.

00:07:34.000 When you are older, you are likely to watch CNN or Fox.

00:07:40.000 Not even Fox.

00:07:41.000 Fox is great.

00:07:42.000 But you're likely to watch cable news.

00:07:44.000 Again, Fox has been really great to us.

00:07:46.000 You watch MSNBC.

00:07:47.000 You watch the...

00:07:49.000 Local, nonsensical stuff.

00:07:51.000 You watch the white noise machine, Fox News being exempt from that.

00:07:55.000 That's why you've got to tell your friends, by the way, watch Real America's Voice.

00:07:58.000 And you're more likely to also be in a position where you don't actually think the established order needs to be disrupted.

00:08:06.000 Many people that are 70 plus do not like the talk of changing the economic order.

00:08:12.000 The idea of holding China accountable, they're like, well, we got really rich with China. 0.95

00:08:15.000 The whole idea of...

00:08:17.000 Disrupting the status quo in D.C.?

00:08:20.000 Come on, we don't want that.

00:08:22.000 Where younger voters say, no, this established order has been a disaster for us.

00:08:28.000 It's been destructive.

00:08:30.000 And also, at Texas A&M University, it must be noted that there was an attempted competing liberal group as well, and they drew a couple dozen people to their little thing.

00:08:41.000 With all this hype, and they flew all these people in the traveling circus.

00:08:45.000 And meanwhile, we were able to draw thousands and thousands of people.

00:08:49.000 This is highly unusual, because I went to the campus of Texas A&M University a decade ago, and we were outnumbered.

00:08:57.000 We were outnumbered by liberals, leftists, and Democrats.

00:09:03.000 We have done to keep on punching and punching and punching.

00:09:06.000 So now, the question is, can we...

00:09:10.000 Do the same with baby boomers. 1.00

00:09:12.000 How do we bring baby boomers and the 70-plus to now be as excited about conservatism and the Republican Party as the younger generation?

00:09:22.000 Let me just say right now, this is a great problem to have.

00:09:26.000 This right here is a phenomenal problem to have.

00:09:29.000 The Democrats know they have a much more troubling structural problem.

00:09:34.000 Their structural problem is one that could end their party over the next 30 years.

00:09:39.000 We might have a two-year problem, and I think we could get a lot of 70-plus people to come back home. 1.00

00:09:43.000 A lot.

00:09:44.000 I think once the information and the truth comes out, because so many people that are 75 or 80 are being lied to by the news that they are consuming.

00:09:53.000 And they watch the news all day long, and of course it's anti-Trump, and of course it's just complete nonsense.

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00:10:59.000 I want to be very clear.

00:11:00.000 When I talk about baby boomers, I'm not talking about the wonderful patriots in this audience. 1.00

00:11:03.000 There's been some people very fired up in the email saying, how dare you insult our generation?

00:11:09.000 It's just the data.

00:11:10.000 I mean, real clear politics is really reliable, and baby boomers are 14 points more disapproving of Donald Trump than they are approving.

00:11:19.000 The numbers are the numbers.

00:11:20.000 And also, don't feel obligated to defend your entire generation.

00:11:24.000 Please, it's not your family.

00:11:26.000 There's a lot of disagreement in a generation.

00:11:28.000 That's a whole separate topic for another time.

00:11:30.000 Okay, I want to get to this truth social that President Trump put up.

00:11:33.000 Very important.

00:11:34.000 By the way, it is the front page of the Wall Street Journal today.

00:11:37.000 Zelensky resists U.S. peace proposal.

00:11:40.000 Ukrainian president says Kiev won't recognize Russian control over Crimea.

00:11:44.000 This is not good.

00:11:46.000 This is bad news.

00:11:48.000 It is Zelensky that is now getting in the way of a potential peace proposal.

00:11:54.000 And President Trump has now reacted on Truth Social.

00:11:56.000 I'm going to read the entire Truth Social post.

00:11:59.000 I think it's very important.

00:12:00.000 It's breaking news while we're here on air.

00:12:02.000 Ukrainian President Zelensky is boasting on the front page of the Wall Street Journal that Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea.

00:12:08.000 There's nothing to talk about here.

00:12:10.000 This statement is very harmful to peace negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of Barack Hussein Obama and is not even a point of discussion.

00:12:21.000 Trump is right on this.

00:12:22.000 Nobody is asking Zelensky to recognize Crimea as Russian territory, but if he wants Crimea, why didn't he fight for it 11 years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired?

00:12:34.000 The area also houses, for many years before, the Obama handover, major Russian submarine bases.

00:12:41.000 It's inflammatory statements like this that Zelensky makes that makes it so difficult to settle this war.

00:12:47.000 He has nothing to boast about.

00:12:49.000 The situation for Ukraine is dire.

00:12:51.000 He can have peace or he can fight for another three years before losing his whole country.

00:12:55.000 I have nothing to do with Russia, but have something to do with wanting to save, on average, 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week who are dying for no reason whatsoever.

00:13:06.000 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:13:07.000 God bless President Trump for this.

00:13:09.000 You think George W. Bush would care?

00:13:10.000 George W. Bush never cared about the death of innocents.

00:13:13.000 He invaded Iraq and he couldn't care less. 1.00

00:13:14.000 He shrugged his shoulders.

00:13:16.000 The statement made by Zelensky today will do nothing but prolong the killing field, and nobody wants that.

00:13:23.000 We are very close to a deal, but the man with no cards to play should now finally get it done.

00:13:28.000 I look forward to being able to help Ukraine and Russia get out of this complete and total mess that would never have started if I was president. 1.00

00:13:35.000 Okay, let's go through some of the facts.

00:13:37.000 Crimea is not able to be retaken, period.

00:13:40.000 Let's get a picture of Crimea.

00:13:42.000 Crimea is on the southern tip of Ukraine.

00:13:45.000 Crimea, first of all, is massive, and it's always been part of Russia.

00:13:49.000 It never should have been handed over.

00:13:51.000 It was ceremonially handed to Ukraine.

00:13:53.000 The Crimean Peninsula borders the Black Sea, and Crimea is overwhelmingly Russian ethnically.

00:14:06.000 Nobody seriously disputes that Crimea wants to be in Russia.

00:14:10.000 It's where Russian wine is from, for example.

00:14:13.000 It's where the Russian naval fleet was and is headquartered.

00:14:18.000 The insistence on fighting over Crimea is what makes this war, quite honestly, insoluble.

00:14:25.000 Evil people in Washington have egged this on.

00:14:28.000 People like Dan Crenshaw see Ukrainians as cannon fodder.

00:14:33.000 They urge them to fight and die in a war they couldn't win because they just wanted to kill Russians. 0.72

00:14:41.000 And does Zelensky actually represent the will of the Ukrainian people?

00:14:45.000 We don't know.

00:14:46.000 There hasn't been an election in quite some time.

00:14:48.000 We want peace.

00:14:49.000 We don't just want dead Russians. 0.98

00:14:51.000 And for what point is this all continuing?

00:14:54.000 So I will disagree with, not disagree, but I will say President Trump says that Zelensky has no cards.

00:15:01.000 Zelensky does have one card to play.

00:15:04.000 And it's not a good one.

00:15:05.000 Do you know what Zelensky's card is?

00:15:07.000 Zelensky's card is him to say, oh, President Trump, Do you want to be the president that reigns over Putin taking Kiev?

00:15:16.000 That's his card.

00:15:18.000 Zelensky is going to emotionally and politically blackmail Donald Trump to keep this war going. 0.70

00:15:24.000 That's the only card that Zelensky has to play.

00:15:26.000 The only card that Zelensky has to play is to basically say, if you don't help me, Russian tanks will take over my capital, and that will be a political disgrace and a humiliation for you.

00:15:38.000 His other card, of course, is to try to start a nuclear war. 0.71

00:15:41.000 Have terrorists shoot up Russian cities, and he could totally do that. 1.00

00:15:44.000 There's a ton of Ukrainian sleeper cells all throughout Russia that can be activated and do all sorts of terrible stuff throughout Russia. 0.92

00:15:52.000 Terrible stuff.

00:15:54.000 But think about this.

00:15:55.000 Zelensky thinks he has the cards because he'll say, oh, you don't want to be the U.S. president that had Kiev fall the same way that Kabul fell.

00:16:03.000 I want you to think about how sinister that is.

00:16:05.000 Basically, Zelensky is saying, I know my country will fall.

00:16:09.000 If this war continues and you don't keep on giving me weapons, but you're going to be to blame and I will sacrifice my own people.

00:16:16.000 That's demented stuff.

00:16:18.000 Blessed are the peacemakers, and right now Zelensky is not acting like someone who wants peace at all.

00:16:24.000 I pray for the goodness of humanity we can end this war.

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00:17:29.000 We need to continue to summarize all of the wins that we are getting out of this Trump administration.

00:17:35.000 We have a border.

00:17:36.000 We are seeing a massive decrease in oil prices.

00:17:40.000 The price of eggs is down.

00:17:41.000 But also, we can't forget what Bobby Kennedy is also doing.

00:17:45.000 There are ingredients in our foods that should not be there.

00:17:49.000 Period. That other countries do not allow.

00:17:51.000 And Callie Means joins us now to discuss.

00:17:53.000 Callie, great to see you.

00:17:54.000 Author of Good Energy.

00:17:56.000 I'm one of the leaders of the Maha movement.

00:17:58.000 Callie, tell us this breaking news about banning red dyes and blue dyes from our food and the profundity of it.

00:18:05.000 It's a huge deal, Charlie.

00:18:08.000 The food industry is making the point that if you basically phase out ingredients that are banned throughout the rest of the world, it would impact 60 percent of food on grocery shelves in the U.S. They were saying that as if it was an argument not to do it.

00:18:20.000 To me, that's an argument to do it.

00:18:22.000 We have a huge problem where let's just take the food dyes. 0.90

00:18:25.000 These are petroleum and coal tar.

00:18:28.000 Every study and every piece of common sense would tell you that if a kid eats that every day, it's going to cause issues.

00:18:34.000 It clearly causes ADHD.

00:18:36.000 Every other country in the world has led to the conclusion that it should be out of the food supply.

00:18:41.000 The FDA, up until the Trump administration, has been a sock puppet of big food, big pharma.

00:18:46.000 And Charlie, it was momentous and extraordinary yesterday.

00:18:49.000 As of 4 p.m. yesterday, the FDA said this petroleum-based dyes, that they were safe.

00:18:55.000 Marty McCary got up there with Secretary Kennedy and said it is poison.

00:18:59.000 They said the FDA and the U.S. government and the Trump administration is going to take common sense actions to get these...

00:19:07.000 No-brainer chemicals out of our food.

00:19:09.000 Charlie, we talked about this a lot.

00:19:11.000 There's a chronic disease crisis.

00:19:13.000 President Trump and Bobby Kennedy talk about this all the time, right?

00:19:16.000 We have 38% pre-diabetes rates among teens in this country.

00:19:19.000 They're going to take common sense action, common sense wins, and we're going to look back on history at this year and this first 100 days of the Trump administration when finally the HHS, the FDA, and the U.S. federal government stood on the side of kids.

00:19:33.000 Okay, I want to make sure this is clear, though, that...

00:19:36.000 These are cosmetic colorings.

00:19:38.000 There's zero reason to have these if even one kid is hurt by them.

00:19:41.000 Is that correct?

00:19:42.000 How did we originally put them in here?

00:19:44.000 Because we wanted to have our kids be more entertained by their food?

00:19:48.000 That their food was too visually boring?

00:19:52.000 Am I understanding this correctly?

00:19:53.000 That they wanted to make our food more visually appealing and they risked child's health to do that.

00:20:00.000 That's sick stuff, Callie.

00:20:03.000 Zero nutritional value whatsoever.

00:20:07.000 They literally had scientists in a lab figure out how to combine literal petroleum to figure out how to make that neon red and that neon blue.

00:20:17.000 And this is really important, Charlie, because I'm a free market person.

00:20:21.000 This is actually a free market movement.

00:20:22.000 This is correction of corruption.

00:20:25.000 I always talk about it.

00:20:26.000 The cigarette industry...

00:20:28.000 Took over the processed food industry in the late 1980s and 1990s.

00:20:31.000 They're the ones who really popularized these colorings.

00:20:34.000 And they bought off the USDA to say they were safe.

00:20:37.000 They bought off the FDA.

00:20:38.000 They added 10,000 chemicals into our food.

00:20:41.000 The cigarette industry owned 40% of the U.S. food supply in the 1990s.

00:20:44.000 So there was real corporate capture here to tell us that these ingredients were safe for the sole reason of making that color pop.

00:20:53.000 Actually, Charlie, it's amazing.

00:20:54.000 We've dug into this.

00:20:56.000 The US companies make the food, make the Froot Loops, make all these foods.

00:21:01.000 In the U.S. with watermelon juice, with carrot juice, and they ship them to Canada and ship them to Europe.

00:21:06.000 U.S. exported food they make with safer ingredients.

00:21:09.000 So they've bought off the organizations here just to have that color a little bit brighter, knowing, knowing that it's harming kids.

00:21:17.000 Actually, Charlie, Mr. Paxton, Ken Paxton in Texas, just filed a lawsuit against some of the food companies because he thinks that they knew this many years ago, and he's actually searching for evidence of that.

00:21:30.000 That's clear.

00:21:31.000 I mean, the food companies knew what they were doing, and they said it's safe for kids.

00:21:35.000 So, again, just common sense.

00:21:38.000 We've got a long way to go, Charlie.

00:21:39.000 There's going to be win after win coming from Secretary Kennedy and President Trump.

00:21:43.000 But these are no-brainer actions.

00:21:46.000 And so I want to put this image up on screen, which is U.S. Froot Loops versus Canadian Froot Loops.

00:21:51.000 Okay, yeah, our Froot Loops are, I guess, mildly more colorful.

00:21:56.000 But Callie, what then?

00:21:58.000 So you just look at Canadian Froot Loops versus American Froot Loops.

00:22:00.000 Okay, ours pop a little bit more.

00:22:02.000 First of all, kids should not be being pushed Froot Loops in the first place, okay?

00:22:07.000 Not exactly a good nutritional item to be pushing to your kids.

00:22:12.000 Let's just put it that way.

00:22:13.000 And so these food companies...

00:22:16.000 Have been doing this for 30 or 40 years.

00:22:19.000 Why has the food industry been poisoning us?

00:22:22.000 Is it more profitable?

00:22:24.000 And name the names of the companies.

00:22:26.000 I imagine it's Kellogg.

00:22:27.000 It's these major companies that have been making hundreds of millions, billions of dollars.

00:22:34.000 And this food diet fight is a great one for you guys.

00:22:38.000 I completely and totally support it.

00:22:40.000 Keep on going, Callie.

00:22:41.000 This is a big deal.

00:22:42.000 You hit on something else.

00:22:44.000 So I'll name the names.

00:22:45.000 The Consumer Brands Association, the American Beverage Association.

00:22:48.000 These groups to this day are arguing petroleum-based dyes are safe.

00:22:53.000 And the American Beverage Association, Charlie, another huge win from President Trump and Secretary Kennedy.

00:22:58.000 They've said we need to take soda off food stamps.

00:23:00.000 Why is soda, soda, sugar-laden soda, the number one item?

00:23:06.000 On food stamps, $140 billion entitlement program that's supposed to be going to nutrition for lower-income Americans.

00:23:11.000 We are literally subsidizing $10 billion a year from food stamps, from the federal treasury to soda companies.

00:23:19.000 The American Beverages Association just last week said it was anti-science to suggest that...

00:23:25.000 Subsidized soda for kids increases obesity.

00:23:27.000 So these groups, the American Beverage Association and the Consumer Brands Association, which is where all these food companies hide, should absolutely be called out.

00:23:35.000 You mentioned the dietary guidelines and Fruit Loops not being healthy in general.

00:23:39.000 That's very important.

00:23:40.000 The U.S. government recommends Fruit Loops as part of a healthy diet.

00:23:44.000 The NIH funded a study under Biden that said Fruit Loops and Honey Nut Cheerios were healthier than...

00:23:50.000 Ground beef, then grass-fed beef, and eggs.

00:23:53.000 That's literally the guidance that's been coming out of the NIH.

00:23:56.000 That study was also funded by food companies.

00:23:58.000 A very important thing Secretary Kennedy is going to do.

00:24:00.000 It's not regulation, but it's getting control of our dietary guidelines.

00:24:04.000 Right now, the dietary guidelines recommend this crap to kids.

00:24:07.000 They recommend added sugar as part of a two-year-old's...

00:24:10.000 Healthy diet.

00:24:10.000 They recommend ultra-processed food as part of a healthy diet.

00:24:13.000 They say meat is bad and the best source of protein is beans.

00:24:16.000 It is insane.

00:24:17.000 President Biden said the top goal for the nutrition guidelines during his term was equity and inclusion.

00:24:21.000 It should be about scientific rigor.

00:24:23.000 Secretary Kennedy yesterday at HHS said a profound statement to me, Charlie.

00:24:28.000 He said sugar is poison.

00:24:29.000 Now, that doesn't mean we're banning sugar.

00:24:31.000 That doesn't mean you can't have your Coke.

00:24:33.000 But we should not be recommending it from the government, and we should not be subsidizing it.

00:24:37.000 That's the first two years of MAHA here, Charlie.

00:24:39.000 We're going to get the scientific recommendations correct so parents can make informed decisions, and we're going to stop the subsidies.

00:24:45.000 Right now, 90% of our agriculture subsidies go to ultra-processed food, corn, soy, wheat.

00:24:50.000 0.4% go to fruits and vegetables.

00:24:52.000 There's some basic market co-option that Secretary Kennedy, working closely with Brooke Rollins, who's been a champion on this, is going to fix.

00:24:58.000 So just to make sure I understand, this is going to be a guidance memo or a quote, not an executive order.

00:25:05.000 What is the actual technical details of everything around?

00:25:09.000 Oh, you got somebody coming up here?

00:25:10.000 Got a special guest?

00:25:12.000 We got Marty McCary, the FDA commissioner.

00:25:13.000 Amazing. The FDA commissioner who issued an...

00:25:17.000 And Vani Hari on the White House lawn.

00:25:20.000 We've got a full court press here.

00:25:22.000 Charlie's awesome.

00:25:23.000 Great to see you, Charlie.

00:25:25.000 But sorry, what were you saying, Charlie?

00:25:26.000 Have Marty talk about how important it is to ban these dyes and so on and so forth.

00:25:31.000 Translate that to him, please.

00:25:33.000 Can you talk about how important it is to ban the dyes? 0.74

00:25:35.000 Well, look, these are petroleum-based chemicals in our food supply.

00:25:39.000 And what are we doing?

00:25:41.000 You know, it's been like 35 years we've been watching this.

00:25:44.000 The data's pretty compelling.

00:25:45.000 Parents are speaking up.

00:25:47.000 They're saying their kids are behaving differently on these diets.

00:25:50.000 They're aggressive.

00:25:51.000 There's ADHD.

00:25:52.000 They stop.

00:25:52.000 The behavior goes to normal when they stop these artificial diets.

00:25:56.000 And it regresses when they reintroduce it.

00:25:58.000 So it's like, why are we taking these risks when there are healthy natural ingredients?

00:26:06.000 We're changing the way these get authorized so it'll be easier in the future.

00:26:10.000 And by the time all these steps take place and have been fulfilled, there will be no more petroleum-based artificial dyes than U.S. food supply.

00:26:20.000 No-brainer.

00:26:21.000 We got Vani Hari here, too, Food Babe, Charlie.

00:26:23.000 Hey, Charlie, I just want to say thank you so much for amplifying my voice during the Kellogg's campaign.

00:26:28.000 Two minutes.

00:26:29.000 It was absolutely incredible, the grassroots movement, and to putting turning point resources out there to capture that moment because, you know, frankly, the mainstream media wasn't there.

00:26:38.000 And so it was absolutely incredible to have your organization carry our voices and look at us now, look at what we've accomplished.

00:26:45.000 So thank you.

00:26:46.000 Three amazing papers.

00:26:47.000 Big win, Charlie.

00:26:47.000 This is something that really matters to moms.

00:26:50.000 You see this, Charlie.

00:26:51.000 And I know Turning Point saw this.

00:26:53.000 And you saw this early.

00:26:54.000 This is an issue.

00:26:55.000 I remember when Secretary Kennedy endorsed President Trump.

00:26:58.000 It wasn't on Front Page News, but you were talking about the grassroots.

00:27:01.000 X was talking about it.

00:27:02.000 This is changing the country here, Charlie.

00:27:04.000 And you saw that early.

00:27:05.000 This food dye announcement, that matters to parents. 0.67

00:27:08.000 You're seeing the grassroots celebration of this.

00:27:10.000 But I think these common sense wins are just going to keep happening, Charlie.

00:27:13.000 And I think it really matters to voters.

00:27:14.000 And something I said yesterday, you know, truly, where are the Democrats?

00:27:18.000 We would love to be working with them.

00:27:20.000 This is a bipartisan issue.

00:27:22.000 But, you know, whatever happens there is fine.

00:27:25.000 This administration is going to pound on common sense solutions like this.

00:27:29.000 Love it.

00:27:30.000 Thank you.

00:27:30.000 That is quite a trio.

00:27:32.000 God bless all three of you.

00:27:33.000 Thank you.

00:27:33.000 And we are going to make America healthy again.

00:27:35.000 God bless all three of you guys.

00:27:37.000 Thanks so much.

00:27:37.000 You never know who you're going to get when you do an interview with the White House gang.

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00:28:35.000 Okay, lots of news to get to here.

00:28:37.000 I do want to play this piece of tape, which I think is very interesting.

00:28:43.000 The state of the Democrat Party and where they are going to go from here.

00:28:48.000 The Democrats are thinking about embracing this new thing called Dark Woke, kind of like Dark Brandon, where they want to try to double and triple down on their most radical left-wing policies,

00:29:06.000 going even more to the left.

00:29:08.000 Now, I will be honest with you guys.

00:29:10.000 If we do not pass this massive tax bill, if we do not cut spending, and if we do not fulfill promises on deportations, There will be a fair amount of anxiety out there, and we could have base decay.

00:29:22.000 I'll be very honest with you.

00:29:24.000 Some people are starting to get a little bit antsy.

00:29:26.000 A little bit, just not a lot.

00:29:28.000 I see it in the grassroots.

00:29:29.000 I can feel it.

00:29:30.000 They say, Charlie, where are all the deportations?

00:29:32.000 And the answer, honestly, is they've been enjoined by the courts.

00:29:35.000 That is the honest answer.

00:29:36.000 The courts have largely enjoined our capacity and our ability to do mass deportations.

00:29:42.000 And we need a lot more money for Border Patrol and ICE, and we're going to get that.

00:29:47.000 One of the reasons why we are doing the campus tour as ambitiously as we are is we know that the campaign really has never ended.

00:29:54.000 These people think that they can now end MAGA even though that MAGA won the election.

00:30:00.000 And so now we are in the trenches.

00:30:03.000 This is all-out political warfare is what this is.

00:30:07.000 Dark woke.

00:30:09.000 Democrats are trying out a new attitude.

00:30:11.000 It's provocative, edgy, and perilously towing the line.

00:30:16.000 I'm going to tell you right now how you beat Dark Woke.

00:30:20.000 You beat Dark Woke by making them answer very simple questions about the most radical trans, social, parental, and education, and immigration issues.

00:30:33.000 The economic stuff is also changing right now.

00:30:36.000 You break Dark Woke by asking them, what is a woman? 0.91

00:30:39.000 Should men be able to be in female sports? 1.00

00:30:43.000 Should... Men be able to go into female locker rooms? 1.00

00:30:47.000 Nothing has changed except this is trashy woke, is what this is.

00:30:51.000 So they say it's woke, except it's nasty and hostile to people who disagree with it.

00:30:56.000 Oh, so you're going to win over more people being nastier and hostile.

00:31:00.000 Here's why they're doing this.

00:31:02.000 They think...

00:31:03.000 Actually, you know what?

00:31:04.000 It finally clicked for me.

00:31:06.000 Blake is going to love this.

00:31:07.000 In Republican politics, there is a belief that you can act like a mini-Trump when you run for governor.

00:31:14.000 Or you can act as a mini-Trump when you run for the Senate.

00:31:16.000 The laws of Trump do not apply to other candidates, period.

00:31:20.000 They think that because Trump is a little bit blunt and that our movement has become very truth-telling, that they need to be like Trump.

00:31:29.000 Let me tell you guys, the laws of Trump do not apply to you.

00:31:32.000 If you think that being dark woke and being nasty to those who disagree with it, so now you're going to be acting more like Trump because that's what you think Trump is?

00:31:42.000 And by the way, woke wasn't trashy before.

00:31:45.000 What has changed exactly?

00:31:47.000 Remember, this is why young people are becoming so conservative, because they are closest to the woke nexus.

00:31:53.000 They are closest to the woke life force.

00:31:56.000 They are on college campuses.

00:31:58.000 They're the ones that are getting criticized and penalized for pronoun police.

00:32:05.000 So it is now the ascendant dark woke.

00:32:09.000 I guess woke emboldens their base.

00:32:11.000 If they want to keep on going on this term, so be it.

00:32:15.000 Can they tell us what a woman is? 1.00

00:32:17.000 Can they tell us if a man should be able to go in a female locker room? 1.00

00:32:21.000 They can't answer those questions.

00:32:22.000 They can.

00:32:23.000 They will lose.

00:32:24.000 And they will lose again.

00:32:25.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:26.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:28.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 23, 2025

Boomers and Banned Food Dyes

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