The Charlie Kirk Show - April 29, 2025


Can The Left Learn To Podcast? ft. Tim Pool


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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) joins the show to discuss the rise of left-wing new media, and his recent speech at Harvard University, where he stood up for President Trump's anti-Semitism attack on the school.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Charlie Kirk here, live from the Bitcoin.com studio.
00:00:04.000 Tim Pool joins the show as we talk about, is it the rise of left-wing new media?
00:00:09.000 It's an important question.
00:00:10.000 And Senator Rick Scott joins us as we examine what his Senate colleagues are doing and not doing.
00:00:16.000 And he also just spoke at Harvard.
00:00:17.000 Very interesting story there.
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00:00:34.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:34.000 Here we go.
00:00:36.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:37.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:39.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:43.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:46.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:47.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:48.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:50.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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00:01:34.000 Joining us now is our great friend, Senator Rick Scott, from the wonderful state of Florida.
00:01:39.000 Senator, great to see you.
00:01:40.000 Thank you for taking the time.
00:01:41.000 You gave a speech at Harvard, is that correct?
00:01:45.000 And you actually backed President Trump's attack against Harvard at Harvard.
00:01:50.000 Am I understanding this correctly?
00:01:51.000 Absolutely.
00:01:52.000 Charlie, think about this.
00:01:54.000 First off, they've allowed anti-Semitic behavior.
00:01:59.000 Anti-Israel behavior.
00:02:00.000 That's wrong.
00:02:01.000 But I went up there and I talked about the fact they ought to be taxed.
00:02:05.000 By the way, Charlie, if you own an office building, do you pay taxes?
00:02:08.000 Yes.
00:02:09.000 If you own a restaurant, do you pay taxes?
00:02:11.000 Yes.
00:02:11.000 If you give a speech, do you pay taxes?
00:02:13.000 Yes.
00:02:14.000 Harvard's got $53 billion in the bank and they don't pay taxes?
00:02:19.000 That's wrong.
00:02:20.000 So these schools should be like all the rest of us.
00:02:25.000 They ought to be paying taxes.
00:02:26.000 But I defended Trump's policies with regard to tariffs.
00:02:29.000 I defended Trump's policies with regard to making our allies in Europe pay their fair share and defend their freedom first.
00:02:37.000 So those are the types of things I talked about, balancing the budget.
00:02:41.000 And guess what?
00:02:42.000 When you explain it, how it's going to impact you, that person, that student, they get it.
00:02:48.000 But we have to do what you're doing all the time.
00:02:50.000 You're going to these college campuses and you're explaining how it impacts their life.
00:02:54.000 And that's what we all ought to be doing.
00:02:56.000 And so how was that message received by the Harvard student body bashing Harvard at Harvard to Harvard students?
00:03:05.000 They didn't push back because when I asked the question, I said, how many of you think that we ought to pay people that don't even want to apply for work?
00:03:16.000 Nobody disagreed with that.
00:03:18.000 Nobody disagreed with me when I said, why isn't Harvard paying taxes when all the rest of us have to pay our taxes?
00:03:24.000 So they didn't push back.
00:03:26.000 They didn't push back on Harvard's anti-Semitism and that they shouldn't be discriminated against.
00:03:33.000 Nobody pushed back on that.
00:03:35.000 Who in their right mind thinks we ought to discriminate against people?
00:03:39.000 Or we should attack somebody because of their religion.
00:03:42.000 So, you know, I think what you want to do, you've been doing this all across the country.
00:03:46.000 So my plan is to continue to do this around the country because we've got to start standing up for what we believe in.
00:03:53.000 Because guess what?
00:03:53.000 It's common sense.
00:03:55.000 It's what the average person believes in.
00:03:57.000 Without a doubt.
00:03:58.000 And so let's now shift gears.
00:04:01.000 Your Senate colleague, John Ossoff in Georgia.
00:04:07.000 Who happens to be in cycle.
00:04:09.000 So this thing is very interesting on a variety of levels.
00:04:12.000 It's not just interesting in what he's saying, but there's a political dynamic here, and I want to make sure we have the humility to see whether or not we're missing, we're not reading the room.
00:04:23.000 Let's play the piece of tape here.
00:04:25.000 This is John Ossoff in Cut 110.
00:04:27.000 He's a very slippery young man, and I can say a young man because he's very young.
00:04:32.000 So am I, but he's young for a senator.
00:04:34.000 And he's saying that the president's conduct has already exceeded the threshold for impeachment.
00:04:42.000 This is a guy who's running for re-election in the state of Georgia, will likely face a challenge from Governor Brian Kemp, who will probably beat him and is very popular.
00:04:53.000 Playcut 110.
00:04:54.000 Why are there no calls for impeachment?
00:04:57.000 This is unacceptable.
00:04:59.000 I will not live in an authoritative country, and neither will any of these people.
00:05:04.000 You can do more.
00:05:06.000 Think outside the box.
00:05:08.000 He needs to be impeached.
00:05:10.000 There is no doubt that this president's conduct has already exceeded any prior standard for impeachment by the United States House of Representatives.
00:05:22.000 I agree with you.
00:05:24.000 But as I said at the beginning, I also have no choice but to be candid with you about the situation that we face and the tools that are at our disposal.
00:05:32.000 As strongly as I agree with you, man, the only way to achieve what you want to achieve is to have a majority in the United States House of Representatives.
00:05:40.000 Senator, help me understand what his political calculus here is and the idea of impeaching Donald Trump.
00:05:49.000 Well, I think he's a typical Democrat.
00:05:51.000 He'll show up and he'll say whatever it takes to say in that setting.
00:05:56.000 But he didn't say why he should be impeached.
00:05:59.000 And by the way, why wasn't he out there wanting to impeach Joe Biden when Joe Biden completely opened our border?
00:06:05.000 Completely opened our border.
00:06:07.000 Allowed criminals and terrorists and narco-traffickers to come flooding across our border. 0.99
00:06:13.000 I'm on the committee.
00:06:14.000 I'm on Homeland Security Committee with him.
00:06:15.000 He never cared about that.
00:06:18.000 But let's remember what this election is going to be about in 26. It's going to be about whether Donald Trump gets impeached.
00:06:25.000 If the Democrats control the House of Representatives, they will impeach President Trump like they did before for something that he should never be impeached for.
00:06:36.000 And they will have to have a trial in the Senate if we don't control the Senate. 0.99
00:06:39.000 So we need to get out there.
00:06:42.000 One, Ossoff needs to lose.
00:06:45.000 If Brian Kemp wins, we should have a big win in Georgia.
00:06:48.000 But there's a lot of great people in Georgia.
00:06:50.000 Kemp would be a great candidate.
00:06:51.000 He's been a great governor.
00:06:53.000 But we need to beat individuals like Ossoff.
00:06:56.000 But we have got to get a bigger majority in the House.
00:06:59.000 We have to have a majority in the House, but a bigger majority would be better.
00:07:02.000 Yeah, and I've certainly had my disagreements with Governor Kemp, but he objectively would be a very good general election candidate against the incumbent John Ossoff and increase our chances of keeping the U.S. Senate.
00:07:16.000 But do you think that John Ossoff and Democrats in danger?
00:07:21.000 Think that impeachment of Donald Trump is popular going into 2026?
00:07:25.000 That that's what the people want, especially 100 days into office?
00:07:31.000 The Democrats have lost their mind.
00:07:33.000 I mean, they still are fighting to have men win all the women's sports.
00:07:38.000 They're fighting to make sure MS-13 gang members get to stay in the United States.
00:07:44.000 They don't want anybody, any criminals deported.
00:07:47.000 You saw what the White House put together today with all those pictures.
00:07:51.000 Of all these people they've deported for the homicide and rape and all these things.
00:07:56.000 They want those people to stay in this country, stay in your neighborhood. 0.99
00:08:00.000 They've lost sight of what the American people believe in.
00:08:04.000 I think, you know, it's crazy.
00:08:06.000 Ossoff is just like them.
00:08:07.000 They are all out to destroy this country with this wokeism, men and women's sports, I mean, gang members in the United States. 0.63
00:08:17.000 It's like, who do they think their voters are?
00:08:20.000 Do you think people are this stupid?
00:08:22.000 But we've got to show up.
00:08:24.000 We've got to have good candidates.
00:08:25.000 We've got to show up.
00:08:26.000 We've got to talk about how we're going to solve the American public's problems.
00:08:29.000 President Trump is busting his butt.
00:08:32.000 He's going to have a lot to say about his first 100 days.
00:08:35.000 With the border, with the military recruitment, with trying to bring peace in Europe.
00:08:41.000 I mean, supporting Israel, getting down. 0.98
00:08:45.000 I filled up my car this morning at $2.99 a gallon.
00:08:48.000 So gas prices are coming down.
00:08:50.000 So he is getting a lot done, but he's working his butt off.
00:08:54.000 What Doge has been able to do, reduce regulation.
00:08:56.000 Now we've got a lot of work left to do.
00:08:58.000 We've got our nominees done, but we've got to get the Trump tax cuts permanent.
00:09:02.000 We've got to give him more money to secure the border.
00:09:04.000 We've got to give him more money to plus up the military.
00:09:06.000 And we've got to balance this budget.
00:09:08.000 Let's go here to another one of your colleagues.
00:09:11.000 Let's first the one in the House.
00:09:13.000 This is Hakeem Jeffries on the steps of the Capitol.
00:09:16.000 Play cut 195.
00:09:18.000 This is a time for us to put principles over party.
00:09:22.000 It reminds me, I think that's a powerful moment for us.
00:09:26.000 Reminds me of the letter that Ulysses Grant was said to have sent at the start of the Civil War.
00:09:34.000 And what Grant said is, there are but two parties in America right now, patriots and traitors.
00:09:44.000 Democrats sitting on the steps of the Capitol building doing nothing.
00:09:47.000 Shocker.
00:09:48.000 Let me play one more here.
00:09:49.000 This is from Cory Booker.
00:09:51.000 Play cut 196.
00:09:53.000 We got some power here.
00:09:54.000 Now, we said we were anchoring ourselves in the moral traditions.
00:09:58.000 When we came out here over 10 hours ago, Hakeem and I said this is a bigger moment than politics.
00:10:05.000 This is a moral moment in America, and we were going to sit here for a long time.
00:10:10.000 I didn't know we'd be sitting for 10 hours, but it's 10 hours and we're still going, and we got some great people here.
00:10:15.000 Senator, your reaction to your House and your Senate colleague?
00:10:19.000 What a waste of time.
00:10:20.000 I mean...
00:10:21.000 These guys have done nothing to secure the border.
00:10:25.000 They've done nothing to get American jobs.
00:10:27.000 They've done nothing to make the country safer.
00:10:29.000 They've done nothing to balance the budget.
00:10:31.000 They've done nothing to reduce your taxes.
00:10:32.000 I mean, what have they done?
00:10:34.000 I mean, nothing.
00:10:36.000 I mean, and they supported Biden the entire four years he was president with his open border policies, the criminals, the lack of new full-paying jobs, the unbelievable inflation.
00:10:47.000 So, I mean, it's like they are out in left field.
00:10:51.000 No one understands what they stand for anymore, except people.
00:10:54.000 I mean, I don't know.
00:10:56.000 I don't know who the Democrats think they report.
00:11:00.000 They support.
00:11:01.000 I mean, look at what they're talking about.
00:11:04.000 They're going to El Salvador and trying to get a gang member back into the United States?
00:11:10.000 Thank God for Donald Trump.
00:11:12.000 No kidding.
00:11:13.000 Senator, in closing, you mentioned this, but what is the timeline?
00:11:16.000 Just want to make sure that we're clear on the upcoming big, beautiful bill.
00:11:21.000 When can we expect this to start, the details to really surface, and to start moving through committee, etc.?
00:11:27.000 So it's starting to go through committee.
00:11:29.000 They're starting to have a lot of conversation, both in the House and the Senate.
00:11:32.000 We're working on how do we do all the things that we want to accomplish.
00:11:35.000 So I've got two meetings tonight to basically work with my friends at the House to try to figure out how do we balance a budget, reduce the taxes, make the Trump tax cuts permanent, secure the border, all these things.
00:11:49.000 So it's going to be a lot of work, but I'm optimistic that we can get it done in the next two months.
00:11:53.000 Senator, thank you so much.
00:11:55.000 We really appreciate your time.
00:11:56.000 Keep fighting for our country and the great people of America.
00:11:59.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:12:01.000 Next time we'll go to Harvard together.
00:12:02.000 I would love that.
00:12:03.000 Thank you.
00:12:03.000 You got to take me.
00:12:04.000 They won't have me.
00:12:04.000 Harvard, the fashion of free speech.
00:12:07.000 For whatever reason, I'm not allowed to speak there.
00:12:09.000 It's interesting.
00:12:09.000 You know, I'm banned from Brown as well.
00:12:12.000 I'm banned from Brown University.
00:12:13.000 I will say to Dartmouth's credit, though, they did invite me this fall.
00:12:16.000 They deserve some credit.
00:12:18.000 So that's a point for Blake.
00:12:20.000 Blake gets a point.
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00:13:25.000 About a year ago, I made a lot of news when I warned that when you hire pilots, Based on criteria that does not matter, you very well might have a slippage in standards and in quality.
00:13:42.000 DEI, affirmative action, disparate impact, all those together, when you are trying to hire the best, does not allow you to hire the best.
00:13:49.000 When I go to college campuses, it is a major issue that far left-wing activists have a difficulty understanding.
00:13:57.000 They say, but Charlie, the standards are the same.
00:13:59.000 The standards are the same.
00:14:02.000 Maybe.
00:14:03.000 Maybe not.
00:14:05.000 News came out this weekend, thanks to the New York Times, that should have been the number one news story on the planet.
00:14:11.000 Do you notice how quickly the media moved on to the fact that 70 people died?
00:14:15.000 70 people died in a plane crash?
00:14:20.000 70. Including 12 kids.
00:14:23.000 When a school gets shot up, and that tragic evil happens, and 15 souls are lost, it's nationwide news for a couple weeks.
00:14:32.000 But when there's a plane crash in our nation's capital, it gets out of the news cycle within a week because it doesn't fit the narrative.
00:14:40.000 According to the New York Times, the D.C. plane crash, the woman helicopter pilot ignored multiple warnings from her right seat, her male counterpart, about altitude and him directly telling her to turn away.
00:14:56.000 And she flew directly into a passenger jet.
00:14:59.000 She was at least 100 feet too high and did not drop elevation when her male co-pilot warned and didn't turn when he warned her.
00:15:09.000 Pure tunnel vision.
00:15:11.000 Even if the standards are the same across the board, sometimes the standards are lowered than across the board to just make diversity easier to achieve.
00:15:20.000 You have a culture of cutting corners and ignoring red flags.
00:15:24.000 We don't know whether or not This woman, who I think is also lesbian for the record, not that that matters, but it could play into kind of the DEI matrix. 0.62
00:15:33.000 It's not confirmed.
00:15:34.000 Okay, so not confirmed.
00:15:36.000 People say she might be, she might not be, so it's not confirmed.
00:15:38.000 It's not relevant.
00:15:39.000 What is relevant, though, is that she's responsible for the death of 70 people.
00:15:45.000 70 people.
00:15:47.000 Where is the media on this?
00:15:49.000 Oh, just kind of a throwaway story in the New York Times.
00:15:51.000 Well, why is that?
00:15:53.000 Well, it's because when you hire based on things that don't matter, you get plane crashes.
00:15:57.000 Remember the CEO of United Airlines promising more black and female pilots?
00:16:02.000 Playcut 213.
00:16:03.000 How is diversity and diversity targets working into the Aviation Academy?
00:16:07.000 We have committed that 50% of the classes will be women or people of color.
00:16:14.000 Today, only 19% of our pilots at United Airlines are women or people of color.
00:16:18.000 And by the way, from all the data I've seen, that's the highest of any airline in the country.
00:16:22.000 Correct me if I'm saying that.
00:16:23.000 So this is just based off your website, the people you list as executives.
00:16:26.000 But out of 11 people, three are women.
00:16:27.000 I believe one is a person of color.
00:16:30.000 That's correct.
00:16:31.000 For every job, when we do an interview, we require women and people of color to be involved in the interview process. 0.99
00:16:39.000 This is the little snake CEO of United Airlines, Steve Kirby.
00:16:45.000 Are there enough candidates to fill the 50% quota?
00:16:48.000 Why are 81% of United Airlines pilots currently white men?
00:16:52.000 Is it because they just happen to be the best pilots?
00:16:54.000 And this is so condescending to well-qualified people of color.
00:16:57.000 If white men... 0.53
00:16:59.000 Land planes safely.
00:17:01.000 What's the problem?
00:17:02.000 If hiring is based on merit, why aren't there more minority or female pilots? 1.00
00:17:07.000 And we now know that the incompetent person and the third-degree murderous person was an unqualified female pilot that killed 70 people. 0.86
00:17:17.000 The qualified male pilot was ignored.
00:17:20.000 Was it DEI?
00:17:21.000 We don't know.
00:17:22.000 But we tried to warn you that stuff like this was going to happen.
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00:18:28.000 Joining us now is a great friend and a great American, Tim Poole.
00:18:32.000 Tim has always been so good to me, and he's welcome on the show anytime.
00:18:36.000 Tim, great to see you.
00:18:37.000 Likewise, Charlie.
00:18:38.000 I appreciate everything you've done for me in kind.
00:18:40.000 So, Tim, you were recently at the White House.
00:18:42.000 I was thrilled to see that.
00:18:44.000 You got to ask a question in the briefing room.
00:18:46.000 Tell us about your time in the White House, and then I want to dive deeper into the state of alternative media, of which you are a pioneer.
00:18:53.000 But Tim, bring us into the room of your time in the White House, the press briefing room, and your time with President Trump.
00:18:58.000 Yeah, well, I didn't get to see President Trump while I was there, I wish.
00:19:02.000 But we do have a reporter who works with Timcast, Elad Eliyahu, who is in the press pool and does now get to, as part of our organization, ask questions of the president, which is tremendous.
00:19:11.000 He was also in the briefing room with me at the time.
00:19:14.000 I went in and I was able to interview Secretary Noem, Sebastian Gorka, and Secretary Duffy, which was also an honor and a privilege.
00:19:20.000 And then shortly after, they brought me to the White House briefing room.
00:19:24.000 It is kind of strange because they walk me through the back, the same as Carolyn Levitt.
00:19:28.000 So I'm walking into this room and into a sea of reporters all staring at me.
00:19:33.000 And it's not the same as them.
00:19:35.000 You know, they pile in from the back or however they come in.
00:19:38.000 And I did know the question I wanted to ask as soon as they asked if I would take the seat, which is, what I can't understand, you've got this media, they call it this media apparatus, sitting in this room and all of these chairs, the White House Correspondents Association that controls who sits where,
00:19:54.000 or they're about to lose that.
00:19:56.000 And they don't.
00:19:58.000 Ask anything substantive.
00:20:00.000 They ask the most generic and obvious questions.
00:20:04.000 I don't quite understand what they think they're accomplishing other than when you see Caitlin Collins, for instance, just argue for the sake of getting a viral clip.
00:20:13.000 And so my concern is you've got one new media seat and all of the rest of the chairs are a corporate media.
00:20:21.000 That say the exact same things as each other all the time.
00:20:24.000 That is the very fine people hoax and the covenant smear were just two examples from the past eight or so years.
00:20:29.000 But now we have the Maryland man hoax, where instead of saying an El Salvador illegal immigrant or adjudicated MS-13 gang member, they're saying Maryland man.
00:20:39.000 And so that's my question.
00:20:42.000 And I knew it was going to be...
00:20:44.000 I tried to maintain the decorum of not being...
00:20:49.000 Mean, I'll put it that way.
00:20:50.000 I could use more colorful language.
00:20:52.000 While still asking something that I thought was important for the American people to hear, I will add one thing that made it difficult was, you know, they said, you're going to come in, we'll sit you down, we'll let you ask the first question.
00:21:03.000 But before they did, Carolyn Levitt introduced a reporter who'd been there for 44 years and was retiring and everyone's clapping and cheering.
00:21:10.000 And I started getting nervous thinking to myself like, Am I about to rag on this corporate press as everyone's clapping and cheering for this journalist?
00:21:17.000 And so I got a little flustered on that one, but, you know, it went how it went.
00:21:20.000 And naturally, the reaction from the corporate press was anger.
00:21:24.000 And they're writing a bunch of articles that I'm bad or whatever.
00:21:27.000 One response that I think is particularly telling is that they're saying, I'm defending the Trump administration or softballing Carolyn Levitt, when my point is, all of these news outlets have the exact same line of thought.
00:21:40.000 There's no curiosity.
00:21:42.000 There's no attempt to actually explain context.
00:21:44.000 They all say the same things as if it's one company.
00:21:48.000 And for that, for calling that out, they say, I'm lobbing softballs.
00:21:52.000 So, Tim, you were in what's called the podcast chair, and credit to this White House for recognizing alternative media and the need to have decentralized communication platforms to push back against the mockingbird media press.
00:22:07.000 We have dominated in the podcast space.
00:22:09.000 You are a pioneer in that, and also the over-the-top space on YouTube and now Rumble and many other places.
00:22:15.000 But you are of the opinion that the left is adjusting, they're realizing their mistake, and they're starting to catch up.
00:22:21.000 I do agree with that.
00:22:22.000 I mean, I look at the top podcast charts right now.
00:22:25.000 Number one, two, and three are all libs.
00:22:27.000 It's the daily NPR and this Midas Touch one.
00:22:30.000 And then it's mostly conservative.
00:22:31.000 So we really have kind of that middle quadrant.
00:22:35.000 Our program is the third largest conservative one.
00:22:37.000 It's Megyn Kelly, Tucker, ours.
00:22:38.000 And it goes on from there.
00:22:40.000 But you're of the opinion that there is some adjusting, that there is some more capital flowing in this space.
00:22:45.000 Give us a little bit of a much-needed...
00:22:48.000 Warning on the horizon, what you're seeing from the left, who are very mad they lost the election in November and how they are adjusting.
00:22:55.000 They've been saying since the election, I mean, the day after.
00:22:58.000 I mean, they've been saying this before when Joe Rogan endorsed Donald Trump.
00:23:01.000 Without a shred of self-reflection, they said, how do we get our own Joe Rogan?
00:23:07.000 Not realizing they had one.
00:23:08.000 His name was Joe Rogan.
00:23:09.000 And by going crazy, by lying all the time, you push people like Joe towards Donald Trump.
00:23:15.000 When the truth is on the side of the conservatives, then it doesn't matter what your political argument is because it's based on lies that people will reject.
00:23:23.000 So I had warned right away, if Rachel Maddow can get $25 million for a once-a-week program, the powers that be, the Democrat institutions, the liberal media easily can take $25 million, go to a top liberal podcast and say, 0.99
00:23:38.000 we're going to spend $20 million in outdoor ads.
00:23:43.000 Google ads.
00:23:45.000 You will be ubiquitous.
00:23:47.000 Why wouldn't they?
00:23:48.000 They can pay this podcaster $5 million because they're not making that kind of money relative to, say, what the cable network guys were making, and then put the rest in just fabricating this space and this attention.
00:23:59.000 What people need to understand about how the podcasting space works largely is subscribers talk.
00:24:04.000 If you've got a platform with a million subs, you're going to get good bookings.
00:24:08.000 You're going to get top names, which in turn will get you more attention.
00:24:11.000 If they can pay for guests, If they can pay for appearances on big programs and TV, then what do you end up seeing?
00:24:19.000 Midas Touch, a liberal podcast, has taken the top spot for a short period, displaced Joe Rogan as the top podcast for, I think, one or two episodes.
00:24:26.000 Correct.
00:24:26.000 But this shows, it does show that they are course-correcting.
00:24:30.000 They're aware they need to course-correct.
00:24:32.000 They're going to start heavily investing in this.
00:24:34.000 And we know that big tech and the big media platforms are going to do whatever they can to prop them up.
00:24:39.000 And I think we are actually witnessing that right now.
00:24:41.000 When you look at the metrics for some of these top liberal podcasts, largely their YouTube platforms, somehow, right before the election, literally two or three months, their viewership doubles.
00:24:53.000 I wonder what that might be.
00:24:54.000 And so there's definitely going to be more money being poured into left-wing podcasting.
00:24:59.000 Do you think that their worldview is consistent with the medium?
00:25:04.000 You know, Tim, you have a great program where people can come on and it's just a chat for an hour and a half, two hours.
00:25:10.000 Because there's no gatekeeping, it's in the pursuit of truth.
00:25:14.000 There's really nothing to hold back.
00:25:17.000 Do you think the Democrats are equipped for that because they're so used to short soundbites and prepackaged material on cable news?
00:25:26.000 What I'm getting at is totalitarian leftism, Marxism, can it survive, exist and thrive in a place where there are no gatekeepers?
00:25:36.000 Largely no, but I don't think it's going to be an overnight flick of the switch.
00:25:41.000 Charlie, did you know that Hassan Piker did not know that Kilmar Garcia was from El Salvador?
00:25:48.000 So here's a guy who's got one of the largest left-leaning streams.
00:25:55.000 And when I appeared at the White House and made the point that I did, my only regret is that I didn't clarify he was from El Salvador because in response to this, Hassan Piker said, What do you mean he's not a Maryland man?
00:26:07.000 Are you saying he's from D.C. like he's not from Maryland?
00:26:10.000 Is that what he's claiming?
00:26:12.000 The dude, Hassan reads the New York Times, he reads the Independent or whatever, Daily Beast, and when they say Maryland man, he actually in his mind thinks and tells all of his millions of viewers this illegal immigrant that two courts found to be a member of MS-13 is just a man from Maryland.
00:26:32.000 The implication, of course, is that he's an American citizen or at the very least a permanent resident.
00:26:36.000 So while I do think there will be a leaking happening from the left podcast because they don't have the truth on their side, they will prey upon the more ignorant and angry individuals.
00:26:47.000 They're going to try and keep them isolated.
00:26:49.000 They spread lies about me.
00:26:51.000 They spread lies about you and everybody else to make sure they don't watch our shows.
00:26:55.000 Over a long enough period of time, they can't beat the truth, but I do think they'll hold out for some time.
00:27:00.000 Look, if they're going to puff up Hassan Piker, I mean, he's legitimately a moron.
00:27:04.000 And so I hope that's the person that they go all in on.
00:27:07.000 I've debated him multiple times, and there's not a lot going on up there.
00:27:12.000 And so I think he's very big on Twitch and all that.
00:27:15.000 But I want to just finish on this alternative media thing, because I think it's really important, Tim.
00:27:19.000 What can we as freedom lovers, conservatives, libertarians, non-leftists, what can we do to stay ahead of the curve to...
00:27:27.000 Make sure that we don't lose our incumbent advantage in this alternative media space.
00:27:33.000 It's tough, man.
00:27:34.000 I honestly, I don't have a good answer because money talks.
00:27:37.000 You know, if they dump tens of millions of dollars on TV, outdoor, and ads, advertisements work.
00:27:45.000 People should not underestimate this.
00:27:46.000 I think the right should be doing the same thing.
00:27:48.000 Timcast just launched a series of billboards.
00:27:51.000 These are outdoor ads.
00:27:53.000 All over the Midwest Rust Belt area where we tend to do very well.
00:27:57.000 So if you're driving around in Pennsylvania or Ohio, you're going to see a big billboard for Timcast IRL 8 p.m. on Rumble.com.
00:28:04.000 And we're doing this because, and I think more people should, you want to create that cultural ubiquity where even if they don't watch, they know who you are and then they...
00:28:14.000 The average person might say, oh yeah, I've heard of that person.
00:28:18.000 That can help protect this advantage while you have the resources and the space.
00:28:22.000 Because otherwise, they're going to shore up their attacks on the space.
00:28:28.000 They're going to lie, cheat, and steal.
00:28:29.000 But more importantly, they're going to put their fingers on the scales.
00:28:33.000 So that, say, YouTube, for instance, already doesn't recommend people on the right.
00:28:37.000 You can look at all the data going back 10 years.
00:28:40.000 It's, I think, you can track.
00:28:42.000 If you watch a video on YouTube, What are you likely to get recommended?
00:28:47.000 Independent conservative-leaning podcasts or even just anti-establishment non-liberal ones get recommended substantially less than establishment.
00:28:56.000 First of all, if you search for news, you're going to get CBS, NBC, ABC.
00:29:00.000 But if you watch a Charlie Kirk video on YouTube, you're probably going to get recommended some liberal podcaster and not something more in line with what the Charlie Kirk viewer might want.
00:29:10.000 So we need to stay vigilant.
00:29:12.000 I would say the biggest thing is word of mouth.
00:29:15.000 All podcasts grow largely due to people sharing it with their friends.
00:29:18.000 So for anybody who's a fan of The Charlie Kirk Show, you need to tell your friends to watch it.
00:29:22.000 You need to introduce them to it because that's what makes it work.
00:29:25.000 And people should watch TimCast as well.
00:29:27.000 Don't worry, we're not in the same time slot.
00:29:30.000 So they should watch Tim Pool IRL.
00:29:33.000 And TimCast is just great.
00:29:34.000 It's just a phenomenal show.
00:29:35.000 I always love watching it.
00:29:39.000 What does a mechanic and auto shop owner in Georgia, a taco restaurant operator in Arizona, and a life-saving medical innovator in Tennessee have in common?
00:29:47.000 They're all small business owners, and they're all thriving on TikTok.
00:29:51.000 Across the U.S., over 7.5 million businesses, from family-owned shops to entrepreneurs, are using TikTok to compete and grow.
00:29:58.000 We use TikTok all the time on The Charlie Kirk Show.
00:30:00.000 In fact, 74% of businesses on TikTok say TikTok has allowed them to scale their operations, increasing sales, and expanding to new locations.
00:30:08.000 And that growth means jobs.
00:30:10.000 Today, there's over 7.5 million U.S. businesses on TikTok employing more than 28 million people.
00:30:15.000 And that number keeps growing.
00:30:16.000 Small businesses thrive on TikTok.
00:30:21.000 Tim, can you just go into great detail of all the ways people can subscribe, all the way peoples can help, places to find you?
00:30:34.000 Please, Tim Pool.
00:30:35.000 Oh, yeah.
00:30:35.000 Yeah, we're on Rumble.com at 8 p.m. live every night right there on the front page, TimCast IRL.
00:30:40.000 And you can listen to our audio podcasts, of which we have a bunch.
00:30:44.000 TimCast IRL is the...
00:30:47.000 Mainly our main night show where we talk with a guest over various political issues.
00:30:51.000 And then I have the Tim Pool Morning Show, the Tim Pool Daily Show, which is available on all podcast platforms as well.
00:30:56.000 So, Tim, I want to play some pieces of tape here, but tell us about the White House Correspondents Dinner.
00:31:00.000 I admittedly did not catch a lot of it.
00:31:02.000 Catch our audience up to speed.
00:31:04.000 Well, of course, this is the cabal of elite journalists.
00:31:07.000 They think they're better than you.
00:31:08.000 They have secret chat rooms where they share story talking points, so they all march in lockstep.
00:31:13.000 And then, of course, the famous incident which occurred is when an Axios reporter started talking about how, you know what, we really missed this one.
00:31:21.000 We missed this Joe Biden was infirm story.
00:31:25.000 And, you know, people don't trust us now, but I'll tell you this, guys.
00:31:29.000 Everyone's saying that it's the mea culpa.
00:31:31.000 It's the media failed you.
00:31:33.000 No, they were in on it.
00:31:35.000 These journalists knew full well because no sane, rational human being watched Joe Biden say, and I quote, true in an ass shop of depression and then thought he was capable of doing this job.
00:31:47.000 But the media kept saying, and I say the media, but these journalists, these anchors, they were saying, you know, behind closed doors, he's as sharp as ever.
00:31:55.000 Anybody with eyes to see was thinking to themselves, what's wrong with Joe?
00:31:59.000 And it wasn't until they put him on that debate stage.
00:32:01.000 We were saying that back in 2020.
00:32:03.000 Let's play this piece of tape here.
00:32:05.000 Let's play Cut 140.
00:32:07.000 President Biden's decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, is capable of deception.
00:32:21.000 But being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves.
00:32:26.000 We, myself included, missed a lot of this story.
00:32:31.000 And some people trust us less because of it.
00:32:34.000 You guys did not miss it.
00:32:36.000 You saw it and you guys actively ignored it because it did not fit the narrative.
00:32:40.000 That's Alex Thompson from Politico.
00:32:42.000 This guy is a fraud.
00:32:44.000 This guy is a con.
00:32:45.000 I have to play 149.
00:32:47.000 And Tim, you'll bring us out of the hour here.
00:32:49.000 Playcott 149.
00:32:50.000 Beer brewed here, it is used to make the brew beer.
00:32:55.000 My memory is fine.
00:32:56.000 The president of Mexico, Sisi, did not want to open up the gate.
00:33:00.000 A solid meeting with the...
00:33:07.000 A meter on from Germany, I mean, from France, looked at me and said, I said, I'm going to be a president for everybody whether you live in a red state or a green state.
00:33:19.000 I, um...
00:33:21.000 Anyway.
00:33:26.000 All right, Tim, two and a half minutes.
00:33:28.000 The floor is yours.
00:33:29.000 Bring us out.
00:33:29.000 It's very sad to watch Joe Biden in those clips, to see that he was clearly struggling.
00:33:35.000 He was sleeping all day.
00:33:36.000 The speculation most of us had, I think, in real journalism, in real media, was that they probably would have him sleep all day and then give him an IV therapy drip or some kind of upper.
00:33:47.000 So that he could do these late-night appearances.
00:33:50.000 In one appearance, he had a bandage on his hand that appeared like he was getting IV therapy to try and help him do a job he was clearly incapable of doing.
00:33:58.000 Now, I think most people realize at this point, the corporate press is aligned with the Democratic Party, 100%.
00:34:05.000 They attack Donald Trump no matter what it is.
00:34:08.000 They never give him a single good day.
00:34:10.000 They referred to an ISIS leader who kidnapped and tortured women as an austere scholar.
00:34:16.000 And that was the moment some prominent personalities in media started to kind of question what was going on with, I think it was Nate Silver, who said, you can't give him one day?
00:34:28.000 No.
00:34:29.000 They are addicted to making sure that no matter what happens, Trump is the bad guy, the Democrats are the good guys, but I'll tell you what's interesting now.
00:34:37.000 They are trying to find a way back in terms of media, through podcasting or otherwise, but there are no leaders in the Democratic Party.
00:34:44.000 When we're putting together our graphics for the nightly show on Timcast IRL, we try to find prominent leaders in relation to these stories, and we've been going over it.
00:34:55.000 There is no leader in the Democratic Party that represents any of these issues.
00:35:00.000 Chris Van Hollen may be over the deportation.
00:35:02.000 Not really.
00:35:03.000 Nobody knows who he is.
00:35:04.000 There's no frontrunner.
00:35:06.000 AOC is considered to be the frontrunner, but she has 10%.
00:35:10.000 Support in the party as the frontrunner.
00:35:12.000 So it's a total mess for what they have right now.
00:35:15.000 And I'm not entirely sure in the short term they can recover from it.
00:35:19.000 But if Donald Trump and Kristi Noem can figure out, and Tom Homan, figure out this deportation thing, and Cash and Dan can clean up our election systems, the corruption in these various jurisdictions, we got to make sure that the 2030 census is done clean and correctly.
00:35:35.000 I'm not sure how the Democrats recover from this unless they abandon these insane policies, start speaking truth, admitting what's fake, and then try and, I don't know, win back some moderates.
00:35:46.000 But they're going to have to rapidly transform in a way I'm not sure is possible.
00:35:49.000 I don't think media gatekeeping is compatible with long-form podcasting.
00:35:55.000 Long-form podcasting flushes out BS way too effectively.
00:35:59.000 And way too easily.
00:36:01.000 Tim, great work.
00:36:01.000 Check out TimCast IRL.
00:36:03.000 Thanks so much.
00:36:03.000 Thanks for having me.
00:36:04.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:06.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.