The Charlie Kirk Show - Church Bells, Islamic Prayers, and “Memegate”

00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.

00:00:05.000 I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.

00:00:11.000 My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.

00:00:14.000 If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.

00:00:19.000 But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful.

00:00:24.000 College is a scam, everybody.

00:00:26.000 You got to stop sending your kids to college.

00:00:27.000 You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible.

00:00:31.000 Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter.

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00:00:39.000 I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.

00:00:41.000 Most important decision I ever made in my life.

00:00:43.000 And I encourage you to do the same.

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00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:49.000 Here we go.

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00:01:09.000 All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:01:11.000 Andrew Colvett in here.

00:01:12.000 Honored to be behind the microphone with you all.

00:01:15.000 I'm the executive producer of this fine show, joined by Tyler Boyer.

00:01:19.000 Tyler Boyer in the house.

00:01:20.000 You got rocking the 47 hat.

00:01:22.000 I love it.

00:01:23.000 It's iconic now, that hat.

00:01:25.000 This is the greatest hat.

00:01:26.000 It's really iconic.

00:01:29.000 I was actually at a church event last night, and I saw like five people just randomly wearing it.

00:01:33.000 Oh, it's everywhere.

00:01:34.000 Yeah.

00:01:35.000 I've seen that just out in public, especially here in Arizona.

00:01:37.000 We've probably given out tens of thousands of these hats.

00:01:40.000 And Charlie, of course, would throw them at the campus along with the MAGA hat.

00:01:43.000 Everywhere.

00:01:44.000 So if you see those images, you'd see the red and the white hat.

00:01:47.000 That was the way.

00:01:48.000 This was Charlie's vision, was the 47 hat and gold.

00:01:51.000 It's going everywhere.

00:01:52.000 It's everywhere.

00:01:53.000 In gold.

00:01:53.000 So, Tyler, we've got a packed show for you in store.

00:01:56.000 So our whole Turning Point Action team, so Tyler runs Turning Point Action.

00:02:01.000 And we've got our whole Turning Point Action team that has been redeployed, like, you know, paratroopers into New Jersey to help surge the troops there.

00:02:11.000 So we're going to talk to them, get a sense of what's going on in the ground.

00:02:14.000 And we also had a big event last night.

00:02:16.000 And so, you know, if you ever hear any naysayers out there about, you know, Turning Point is in trouble or whatever, well, listen, of course, we lost Charlie.

00:02:24.000 He was robbed from us.

00:02:25.000 And that's a terrible, terrible loss.

00:02:27.000 But I'm telling you that Charlie helped.

00:02:30.000 He's taught all of us everything we know.

00:02:33.000 There are lieutenants in each of these positions.

00:02:35.000 Our field team is stronger than ever.

00:02:37.000 It's growing.

00:02:38.000 It's surging.

00:02:39.000 And last night we had the great Tucker Carlson join us at Indiana University.

00:02:44.000 We had over 35, well, and his two dogs.

00:02:46.000 We had over 3,500 people in the biggest indoor venue at that university last night.

00:02:53.000 We turned away thousands.

00:02:54.000 And I've gotten a couple notes on this.

00:02:56.000 We turned away thousands, but let me assure you of a couple of things.

00:02:59.000 We got all the students in.

00:03:01.000 All the students that want to, so that was basically 90% students in that auditorium, 3,500, largest on campus.

00:03:09.000 We did have to turn away thousands, but what happens is we turn off the ticketing.

00:03:13.000 But if you want to be on standby, because sometimes people don't claim their tickets, right?

00:03:17.000 So they'll register and then they just won't show up for some reason because they're free tickets.

00:03:21.000 We don't charge for these on-campus events.

00:03:23.000 So sometimes when you don't charge, people don't show up.

00:03:25.000 And so we have a standby line, and there was thousands there.

00:03:29.000 We can't control who shows up for the standby line.

00:03:31.000 We got as many as we could in.

00:03:33.000 And yet, you know, that university just has a venue that's 3,500.

00:03:36.000 Now at Ole Miss and Auburn, we've got venues that are like 9,000 and 10,000.

00:03:42.000 So we're going to be able to fit a lot more people.

00:03:44.000 So if you want to go to those events coming up, obviously Ole Miss, we're going to have Erica Kirk, the one and only, and we're going to have JD Vance at, there's the graphic, and JD Hobby.

00:03:54.000 And then we're going to also have at Auburn, we're going to have Benny Johnson, Eric Trump, Lara Trump, and Coach Tubbervell, who's a senator from that state, and he's going to be running for governor.

00:04:04.000 And we're honored to have him join us there.

00:04:06.000 So lots of stuff happening on the turning point front.

00:04:10.000 And I will just say, whatever the vertical is, Tyler, we have growth.

00:04:16.000 We have massive growth that we're experiencing.

00:04:18.000 We've talked a lot about the campus.

00:04:20.000 tour.

00:04:20.000 We've talked a lot about field team and the program and across campuses, high schools and colleges.

00:04:25.000 But yesterday I broke some news on Fox News talking about how big the TPOSA faith has grown.

00:04:31.000 We've doubled our church network.

00:04:33.000 We've had 200,000 people sign up to become a part of Turning Point Faith, TPOSA Faith.

00:04:39.000 And we've, I mean, yeah, as you see some of these graphics, and that coincides with a 36% spike in Bible sales in the month of September.

00:04:47.000 So the Charlie effect is real and it is coursing through the soul and the spirit of this country.

00:04:54.000 And we're so honored to be a part of it.

00:04:56.000 We're humbled to be, it's a small role in this, but it's really you guys out in the grassroots, you sharing your faith, bringing your friends to church, encouraging others to do that, buying Bibles for your friends and your family members, restoring your marriages.

00:05:10.000 There is hope.

00:05:12.000 There is faith ascendant in this country.

00:05:15.000 And you see that on the campus.

00:05:18.000 You see that in our churches.

00:05:20.000 And you see it within TPOSA Faith.

00:05:22.000 There's going to be updates on action, I'm sure, that we could share.

00:05:26.000 There's going to be updates when it comes to Turning Point Academy.

00:05:29.000 So massive, massive growth across the board.

00:05:31.000 And we're just so grateful for it.

00:05:33.000 So all that being said, we have some news to get to.

00:05:37.000 And I want to get to Meme Gate because it's the silliest thing. 0.96

00:05:42.000 Meme Gate is very silly. 0.94

00:05:43.000 So President Trump shared a meme about no kings where he's flying in a fighter jet and excrement, you could say, fell on the head of a one Harry Sisson. 0.94

00:05:56.000 So can we play that video for us, please?

00:06:12.000 So, Tyler, did you think it was funny?

00:06:15.000 Yeah, I mean, every meme that the White House is posting is hilarious.

00:06:20.000 They've done a tremendous job.

00:06:21.000 Well, listen, and you could say, oh, we need to be more serious.

00:06:26.000 We need to, you know, and it's like Jack Posobiec, our friend Jack, had this great line.

00:06:32.000 And he said, Harry, show us where the doll hurt you.

00:06:38.000 Okay?

00:06:39.000 Let's go ahead and play Cut 201.

00:06:41.000 A meme is a meme.

00:06:42.000 I don't think a meme hurts anybody.

00:06:46.000 It's like, Harry, show us on the doll where the meme hurt you.

00:06:49.000 Donald Trump is going to post memes.

00:06:50.000 He's always been posting memes.

00:06:52.000 He's not going to stop posting memes.

00:06:54.000 So that was on Piers Morgan last night.

00:06:56.000 And he actually, it was Jack Posobiec.

00:06:58.000 I think Isabel Brown was there.

00:06:59.000 And then there was also Harry Sisson.

00:07:01.000 He showed up.

00:07:02.000 So show us on the doll, where on the doll, the meme hurt you, a great line.

00:07:07.000 And I just think it's one of these wonderful moments where I told Jack, I said, my only note for you is show us on the where on the bobblehead doll did the meme hurt you because Harry is getting widely, let's just say, savaged.

00:07:22.000 That's too hard.

00:07:23.000 Is that too hard?

00:07:24.000 He's getting kind of savaged online.

00:07:26.000 His head keeps bobbing.

00:07:27.000 Go ahead and play this.

00:07:28.000 I don't know if we need sound or not, but like cut 200.

00:07:31.000 And you just see Harry's head going up and down the whole time.

00:07:34.000 And I don't know where it's coming from.

00:07:36.000 There it is.

00:07:37.000 Yes.

00:07:38.000 So it just keeps going up.

00:07:40.000 And Harry's making the point that like, no, nobody, nobody posts memes or Hitler memes about President Trump.

00:07:48.000 That's not happening.

00:07:50.000 It's like, actually, Harry, it would be harder for us to find somebody who's a Democrat who has not called Trump Hitler, who has not posted a meme about him being a fascist or Hitler or Hitler sympathizing than it is to show you somebody that hasn't, right?

00:08:05.000 So go ahead, Dan.

00:08:06.000 Well, that's the difference, too, is that the memes and the jokes that the right makes on the left are just like fun.

00:08:15.000 They're actually funny, normal comedic stuff.

00:08:18.000 The stuff that the left did to the right, especially during the White House, I remember, I mean, think back, it wasn't that many years ago, Biden got in front of everyone with like dark red Vader vibes, calling everyone else fascist and basically sending the entire country into a tizzy against everybody was getting, I mean, these weren't memes.

00:08:38.000 These were just like, this was just villainous hatred towards Trump and towards conservatives.

00:08:45.000 Trump is actually kind of normalizing and saying, hey, these people who came into the White House four years ago and were walking around with a bunch of trannies and walking around with, again, they had nudity in the White House. 1.00

00:09:00.000 They had crazy stuff happening in the White House.

00:09:03.000 And Trump just makes fun of them.

00:09:04.000 That's all they did.

00:09:05.000 That was Harry, too.

00:09:06.000 Harry was just part of that whole thing.

00:09:07.000 I've got some of these.

00:09:08.000 This is a daily news. 0.97

00:09:09.000 Trump is Hitler. 0.70

00:09:11.000 Okay, that's pretty on the nose. 0.96

00:09:13.000 Show some more, guys.

00:09:14.000 The new Fuhrer.

00:09:16.000 That's from the Philadelphia Daily News.

00:09:16.000 What is that?

00:09:18.000 These aren't jokes.

00:09:19.000 These aren't jokes.

00:09:20.000 This is Trump praised Hitler shown on the side of a building.

00:09:25.000 This is, oh, oh, what is that?

00:09:27.000 That is the Washington Post with a side-by-side of Trump and Hitler.

00:09:32.000 So my point is this. 0.98

00:09:34.000 Harry, you might get upset that the president posted a meme about you with poop falling on your head. 0.91

00:09:40.000 I get it. 0.85

00:09:40.000 That's not nice. 0.85

00:09:42.000 But we've been called Hitler, Nazis, fascists for so long that we're no longer shocked when one of you believes it and picks up a gun and tries to kill us.

00:09:53.000 If you're tired of watching this country drift away from the values that made it great, it's time to get involved.

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00:10:33.000 So I have to play this just really quick on the Harry system.

00:10:38.000 Go ahead and play it cut 227.

00:10:42.000 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:10:43.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:10:45.000 One more time.

00:10:46.000 Just for good effect, one more time.

00:10:50.000 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:10:52.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:10:53.000 It just, it cracks me up so much because it's like, show me on the doll where the meme hurt you, Harry.

00:10:58.000 And it just happens to be that he impersonated a bobblehead doll.

00:11:02.000 Listen, you know, it's not nice to get pooped on by the president.

00:11:05.000 Tyler Boyer, glad to have you in the studio, man.

00:11:05.000 I get it.

00:11:07.000 It's great.

00:11:08.000 It was like you, I don't know, you were out doing political stuff and you're flying all around.

00:11:08.000 Glad to be here.

00:11:12.000 You're going visiting candidates, doing the stuff you need to be doing.

00:11:16.000 But I'm glad you could be here right now because raising some money, too.

00:11:21.000 Yep, which is important, which is critical.

00:11:23.000 Sadly, that is the state of the world that we live in.

00:11:26.000 In order to win these races, you need to have resources to win them.

00:11:29.000 And yeah, here we are.

00:11:31.000 So the left, I got to play this.

00:11:33.000 Hold on.

00:11:34.000 I got to find this.

00:11:35.000 Okay, so this is the left freak out of it.

00:11:37.000 I can't believe I'm spending this much time on it.

00:11:40.000 Play cut 193.

00:11:41.000 So when I see the president of the United States create an AI video wearing a crown and dumping excrement on the heads of American peaceful protesters and TikTok stars like Harry, I see him basically pointing painting a bullseye.

00:12:00.000 Wow.

00:12:01.000 Painting a bullseye on somebody like that.

00:12:03.000 I hadn't thought of it that way, but that's...

00:12:05.000 Why did he do it?

00:12:06.000 You know why he did it?

00:12:08.000 To show that he can do anything.

00:12:10.000 Anything he wants.

00:12:13.000 This is the richest thing ever is for Hunter Biden to get on broadcast and tell people Donald Trump believes he can get away with anything.

00:12:24.000 That's such a good point.

00:12:27.000 It's such a good point.

00:12:29.000 Hunter, you are the living embodiment of getting away with anything.

00:12:33.000 Okay?

00:12:34.000 First of all.

00:12:34.000 And then second of all, for him to say he's putting a target on his back.

00:12:37.000 No.

00:12:38.000 And I love that the guy goes, oh, interesting.

00:12:40.000 I hadn't thought about that.

00:12:42.000 I hadn't thought about it like that.

00:12:43.000 It's because it's insane.

00:12:44.000 That's not what he's doing.

00:12:45.000 No, he is making fun.

00:12:47.000 It's a meme.

00:12:48.000 It's a mockery of calling a president that was duly elected by the people of the United States, the citizens of the United States.

00:12:55.000 Hopefully they were all citizens.

00:12:58.000 And who is a president, not a monarch, who works his tail off every day for us to make good on the promises that we elected him to fulfill and to call him a king.

00:13:08.000 It's a phony, phony, rigged pretense.

00:13:12.000 I reject the premise.

00:13:15.000 I'm astounded that the guy who got away with federal gun charges, drug use with his ex-wife.

00:13:25.000 You don't have her girlfriend and sister-in-law.

00:13:27.000 I mean, President Joe Biden issued him a pardon for the gun conviction.

00:13:32.000 It was like 10 years, didn't it?

00:13:33.000 Didn't it span?

00:13:34.000 Like 10 years?

00:13:34.000 Well, it wasn't even Joe Biden.

00:13:36.000 It was the Autopen that did it.

00:13:37.000 Right, no, on Hunter, it was actually his signature.

00:13:39.000 It was his signature.

00:13:40.000 It was the one he did it for.

00:13:41.000 That's the one he did.

00:13:42.000 So that's the one he was sure that he was.

00:13:45.000 Which shows, by the way, that he was concerned that if he didn't do it in person, that it might be open to some scrutiny, which is another thing.

00:13:51.000 False tax returns, tax evasion, China with the investment baker that he met with on behalf of his, on behalf of his dad, Ukraine, Burisma.

00:14:00.000 I mean, we're talking all the laptop stuff, all the videos that are out there of every negative thing that he did.

00:14:06.000 And he gets, he gets on, this is crazy stuff.

00:14:09.000 No, it's totally crazy. 0.99

00:14:11.000 And by the way, the fact that like that I have to listen to this garbage. 0.96

00:14:15.000 I have a clip from Hakeem Jeffries, Bernie Sanders. 0.64

00:14:18.000 Obviously, you saw the Hunter Biden one.

00:14:20.000 The fact that they are so incensed at this, and we have to sit here and listen to their this slop and this fake outrage when you and I just lost our friend to real violence, to something real.

00:14:35.000 It's deeply offensive on a level that's difficult to put into words, candidly.

00:14:39.000 I don't think I can.

00:14:42.000 Anyways, let's just hear some more from them.

00:14:44.000 198.

00:14:45.000 Well, that video is deeply unserious, deeply unpresidential, and deeply un-American.

00:14:52.000 But unfortunately, it's the type of erratic, extreme behavior that the American people have continued to see from this president.

00:15:01.000 I mean, okay, whatever.

00:15:02.000 197.

00:15:03.000 Here's Bernie. 1.00

00:15:05.000 Look, Trump may be crazy, and he may be a liar, and he may do you describe. 1.00

00:15:10.000 I mean, it's hard to imagine a president. 1.00

00:15:12.000 I mean, I don't know what world these guys are living in. 0.87

00:15:14.000 President of the United States dropping feces on an American city.

00:15:18.000 Right. 0.88

00:15:19.000 All right.

00:15:20.000 I mean, it's a meme.

00:15:23.000 And this is why the left can't meme.

00:15:24.000 They are puritanical.

00:15:26.000 They are pearl clutchers. 0.98

00:15:28.000 They are cult members, honestly, to some sort of, You know, I don't know what the cult would be called, but it's like secular humanism, far less progressive, one world globalism.

00:15:41.000 It's all just they just want to target Trump constantly and just make up anything that they can come up with to attack Trump with.

00:15:51.000 It doesn't matter what he does.

00:15:53.000 He could congratulate leftists with something they'll attack him.

00:15:57.000 And they'll say, oh, he's insincere with that. 0.95

00:15:58.000 No, it really is very sick stuff. 0.97

00:16:01.000 And again, of a leftist on ASU's campus saying that we're Nazis, our students are Nazis, and then saying, Watch your necks. 0.60

00:16:10.000 And so when they dehumanize us, when they call us Nazis fascists and all this stuff, and then they act like it never happened, and they do it for years.

00:16:19.000 And then when we have to listen to this fake outrage about a meme, it's a meme.

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00:17:52.000 So, without further ado, Senator Eric Schmidt, welcome to the show.

00:17:56.000 And I mean, this is your first time back to our show.

00:18:00.000 And so I just want to give you a chance to reflect on that.

00:18:03.000 And you're doing great work in the Senate, by the way.

00:18:05.000 And I want to give you major props for that, for raising awareness about this rise of left-wing violence.

00:18:11.000 So the floor is yours, Senator.

00:18:14.000 Well, listen, man, it's good to be back with you.

00:18:16.000 And yeah, it's the first time I've been on the show since Charlie was assassinated.

00:18:21.000 And like many who knew him, it's just devastating.

00:18:26.000 And I'm not sure I, you know, there were interviews in the first couple of days, and I really struggled with the words because it just felt like it was such a big tragedy.

00:18:38.000 And you know him better than most.

00:18:41.000 And just his willingness to go out and try to convince people, go on college campuses.

00:18:47.000 And he was so effective.

00:18:48.000 And I think that's why his life was taken.

00:18:50.000 He was so effective with young people.

00:18:54.000 And just since then, you've just seen this outpouring of support and the conversion of minds.

00:19:02.000 And he also talked about his faith a lot.

00:19:05.000 That's a unique thing.

00:19:06.000 Not a lot of people do that in the public square.

00:19:09.000 Certainly, people that were Charlie's age talk about, hey, have kids, have a family, all those sorts of things.

00:19:14.000 They're really important lessons.

00:19:16.000 And I just think that his memory will carry on and the great work that you guys are doing at Turning Point, but he's going to be missed.

00:19:22.000 I mean, he's just a very unique character, not just somebody who was skilled like orator and debater, but was an operator.

00:19:30.000 And actually, I think about whenever I went down to the last weekend of the campaign, went down to Arizona to meet up with President Trump, and then we went to Michigan and Wisconsin and then back to New York.

00:19:40.000 And that final weekend, it was RFK was down there and others.

00:19:43.000 And just talking to Charlie and how optimistic he was.

00:19:46.000 He's like, hey, man, get back on that plane, go up there.

00:19:48.000 We got it handled here in Arizona.

00:19:49.000 He's just a very unique person.

00:19:51.000 And there's definitely, it's just a huge loss.

00:19:54.000 But really appreciate you guys are kind of soldiering on here and carrying forth that mission.

00:19:59.000 It's important work.

00:20:01.000 Well, I appreciate that.

00:20:02.000 And he really, really respected you, Senator, and trusted you, knew you were one of the good guys that were fighting and actually putting up wins for the conservative movement, part of this new vanguard of real conservatives, rock-rid conservatives that were not afraid to play offense.

00:20:21.000 And so we know that you are a huge part of that legacy and that fight that Charlie had.

00:20:27.000 And you're showing that.

00:20:29.000 And you've launched this Senate hearing to it's called Politically Violent Attacks: a Threat to Our Constitutional Order.

00:20:38.000 And I love it because you've gone so far as to say that the violence comes predominantly from one side of the aisle, which is a complete rebuttal to what you hear from the other networks, right?

00:20:50.000 You hear that this is a both sides issue.

00:20:52.000 This is left and right and right-wing extremists.

00:20:54.000 And Joe Biden saying that MAGA extremists are the number one threat to our democracy and the soul of our nation.

00:21:01.000 So what do you hope to accomplish in this, Senator?

00:21:04.000 I think it's great, and I'm glad you're doing it.

00:21:06.000 Well, thanks.

00:21:07.000 And you saying that about Charlie and how he viewed me.

00:21:11.000 I can't tell you how much that means to hear that.

00:21:15.000 But honestly, the genesis of this, it was a couple of days after his assassination that we had a judiciary hearing. 0.95

00:21:24.000 And I kind of went on this impromptu kind of rant about, you know, don't give me this both sides bullshit.

00:21:30.000 Was that the term that I used and just sort of like extemporaneously rattling off all of these incidents that, you know, the Waukesha Christmas parade, the Covenant school shooting, Butler, Pennsylvania, abundant life, Tesla's fireburned, firebombed, ICE facilities, the Minnesota Catholic school shooting, and of course, with the literally shooting Charlie Kirk in the throat as he was speaking truth. 0.89

00:21:57.000 This isn't a bull sides thing.

00:21:59.000 This is a symptom of a sickness on the left that I feel like has to be addressed.

00:22:03.000 And so that hearing next week will be the first in Congress, will be the first in the Senate to address this head on.

00:22:08.000 I don't think we should play this game with the left on this bull side stuff.

00:22:12.000 This is, if you kind of take a step back, Andrew, you go back to the early 70s, the weather underground.

00:22:20.000 They were firebombing, causing chaos.

00:22:23.000 It was a lot of violence that was coming from the left.

00:22:25.000 And there weren't real consequences there.

00:22:27.000 A lot of those people that were in charge of that movement, including Bill Ayers, went on to be tenured professors and into academia.

00:22:34.000 He actually hosted the first fundraiser for Barack Obama when he was running for the state Senate.

00:22:38.000 It kind of made its way into the political mainstream of the left.

00:22:42.000 They were rewarded for it.

00:22:44.000 And now we see it really playing out and metastasizing in the polling that you see, which is 25% of those who describe themselves as very liberal believe that political violence is justified to meet a political means, political ends.

00:22:58.000 Compare that to 3% of very conservatives.

00:23:00.000 That's 3% too many.

00:23:01.000 But don't tell me it's the same thing.

00:23:03.000 And when over half of those who are on the left side of the ledger believe that it's at least somewhat justifiable to murder President Trump, there's a problem that is not a both sides thing.

00:23:14.000 It is a real big problem for the left.

00:23:16.000 And so we're going to have a hearing on it.

00:23:18.000 We're going to have Michael Knowles come testify, who was a victim of a firebombing himself, of what's really behind all this and what are the strategies moving forward.

00:23:27.000 I've actually called for and written to Secretary Rubio to declare Antifa a international terrorist organization.

00:23:33.000 President Trump's declared him domestic terrorist organization.

00:23:35.000 I think this network runs far and wide.

00:23:38.000 It's coordinated.

00:23:38.000 They have safe houses.

00:23:39.000 They have funding.

00:23:40.000 We need to go at this thing and be aggressive, not just play defense, but play offense because this is a real threat to our country and the fabric of our constitutional republic.

00:23:49.000 Well, and let's just go through a couple examples here, Senator Schmidt, and thank you for all of that genuinely from my heart.

00:23:56.000 226, this is a video of a pink-haired person at the University of Arizona, and she's calling our turning point representatives that we're tabling there, Nazis.

00:24:08.000 And she says, watch your necks.

00:24:11.000 226. 0.98

00:24:12.000 Hey, Nazis, can you set up somewhere where I can avoid you easily? 0.99

00:24:15.000 Yeah, thank you. 0.90

00:24:16.000 Have a great day. 0.96

00:24:17.000 You, Nazi. 0.99

00:24:18.000 Watch your neck. 1.00

00:24:19.000 Thanks.

00:24:20.000 That's just one example. 0.76

00:24:21.000 Then you have this school teacher, if the team could get these images, Lucy Martinez.

00:24:25.000 She's a K-8 STEM teacher at Nathan Hale Elementary School in Chicago.

00:24:30.000 She, of course, was spotted and went viral, doing a handgun motion to her neck, mocking Charlie's assassination.

00:24:38.000 This is somebody that teaches students, children in K-8 STEM classes.

00:24:44.000 And we were provided with an email from one of the parents that kids goes to the school.

00:24:51.000 This parent sent it to us.

00:24:53.000 And the school makes no mention in this email, Senator Schmidt, of the vile behavior that Lucy Martinez demonstrated in an impromptu moment.

00:25:00.000 I call this life's pop quiz.

00:25:02.000 And if you fail it, I'm sorry.

00:25:04.000 That's what's going to happen.

00:25:06.000 You're going to have consequences.

00:25:07.000 Right now, the consequences of a lot of pressure from social media. 0.99

00:25:10.000 But as far as we know, she still has a job. 0.59

00:25:12.000 She's still employed.

00:25:13.000 She's still hoping probably to go back to her job teaching young people about science and math.

00:25:20.000 Meanwhile, she has been revealed to be a monster who believes that political assassinations of my friend Charlie, a husband and a father and a good man who lifted up debate and open dialogue, that she thinks that's something to mock out in the open in public.

00:25:34.000 And the fact that the monsters feel that they can be so public about it, shame on them.

00:25:39.000 And we need to make political assassination, political violence taboo again in this country. 0.75

00:25:43.000 And that starts with her getting a pink slip. 1.00

00:25:45.000 Yeah.

00:25:45.000 Well, and if you ever needed a bigger advertisement for school choice, there it is.

00:25:50.000 Can you imagine your kid being forced because you're in that public school and maybe you don't have the option to go to a Catholic school or a private school or religious school that that has to be your teacher for the rest of the year?

00:26:02.000 So, yeah, and there has to be accountability here.

00:26:04.000 I just, I tell you, Andrew, like it's a lot of it's being exposed.

00:26:09.000 The media doesn't want you to see it, but these are being captured, obviously, in social media turning points.

00:26:14.000 You know, the original clip that you showed, the second one, of course, then just happens to be viral.

00:26:18.000 The media doesn't want to talk about this.

00:26:20.000 And I think we have to continue to drive this conversation because we should stand unapologetically for free speech and we should condemn political violence at every turn.

00:26:28.000 There's no place for it.

00:26:30.000 But there is this growing desire among the left to take those sorts of matters into their own hands.

00:26:40.000 And there's a celebration culture.

00:26:41.000 I mean, I hate even talking about it after Charlie's assassination, but it just, it was sick to see so many people like celebrating this.

00:26:49.000 And these are people who like work at your school or they, you know, they work at the local deli.

00:26:54.000 Like, what in the hell is going on around here?

00:26:56.000 And, but I think you see it play out in so many different ways.

00:27:02.000 The left is sort of inherently sewn into this kind of violent framework.

00:27:06.000 And I'm not talking about everybody, but I'm talking about the people who really subscribe to the idea that they're part of a movement where the where violence is totally justified. 0.99

00:27:16.000 And, you know, it's the same kind of different, but you got this Trump derangement syndrome that gave, you know, and when you call half the country, and I talked about this in the hearing, you call half the country for a decade a basket of deplorables, bitter clingers, Nazis, trash, fascists. 0.95

00:27:37.000 Don't tell me that you're not othering in making it easier to sort of create this narrative that it's somehow justified because it's literally Hitler. 0.97

00:27:48.000 And, you know, you can be the person that stopped Hitler. 0.83

00:27:51.000 I mean, these people know what they're doing.

00:27:53.000 And even with the Snow Kings nonsense this weekend, these people, they've lost elections.

00:28:00.000 They've lost the debate.

00:28:02.000 There's a lot of, you know, whatever.

00:28:05.000 God bless you, go out and protest all you want.

00:28:08.000 But there is this element here on the left that I fully intend to expose.

00:28:12.000 I'm not going away on this.

00:28:14.000 And I'm not going to be, you know, shamed of this idea that it's a both sides thing.

00:28:19.000 This is predominantly, this political violence we've seen is predominantly coming from the left.

00:28:24.000 There's no doubt about it.

00:28:26.000 And it needs to be exposed.

00:28:28.000 And we need to have hearings on it.

00:28:29.000 There needs to be accountability.

00:28:30.000 And we need to disrupt these coordinated networks that facilitate it.

00:28:34.000 Yeah, no, that's exactly right.

00:28:36.000 I mean, that was the last text message that Charlie sent to Stephen Miller was saying we have to disrupt and destroy these funding networks that are fomenting political violence.

00:28:45.000 And, you know, I just think, God bless you, Senator.

00:28:48.000 Thank you so much.

00:28:49.000 We appreciate you making the time to come on the show today.

00:28:52.000 What you're doing is truly important.

00:28:54.000 So Godspeed, and I pray great success for that hearing.

00:28:58.000 Likewise, man, hey, praying for you, everybody in the Turning Point Network, the entire audience.

00:29:02.000 Everybody's still grieving, but this is important work that's going to continue.

00:29:06.000 And I appreciate you, too.

00:29:07.000 Thank you, Senator.

00:29:08.000 God bless you.

00:29:08.000 We'll see you soon and have you back on again soon, too.

00:29:10.000 Thank you.

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00:30:22.000 Tyler, why don't you just give like a primer on Turning Point Action really quick?

00:30:26.000 Yeah, no, we are in all of the key swing states across the country.

00:30:31.000 So we are the largest ground force.

00:30:34.000 Turning Point Action is working to lay the framework ahead of 2026, 2028 to ensure that we keep winning.

00:30:42.000 We have right now many things going on.

00:30:45.000 Arizona, we've got some key get out the vote opportunities actually at 10 o'clock right now.

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00:31:03.000 So it's Turning Point Action app.

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00:31:06.000 And tpaction.com, right?

00:31:08.000 TPactionaction.com if you want to get involved.

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00:31:13.000 Yeah, so we've had tens of thousands.

00:31:15.000 We have over 120,000 people that had signed up to get involved.

00:31:19.000 And you just talked about TPUSA Faith kind of being the more adult shows TP action.

00:31:24.000 I love it.

00:31:24.000 Well, 120,000.

00:31:26.000 That's breaking news, actually.

00:31:28.000 So everybody knows Turning Point for our college and high school program.

00:31:32.000 And we've talked a lot about how many signups have happened there.

00:31:36.000 The adult version of getting involved at Turning Point USA is TPSA Faith.

00:31:41.000 But then we also have Turning Point Action to get involved on the political side.

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00:31:48.000 It's a future person that's going to use the app.

00:31:50.000 I mean, it's really, that's amazing news.

00:31:53.000 So I'm glad you shared that with everybody.

00:31:55.000 So check it out, tpaction.com.

00:31:58.000 We're going to be continuing talking about turning point action in hour two.

00:32:01.000 So why we have this time with just you and I, Tyler, I want to talk about this Mehdi Hassan clip.

00:32:08.000 So he's basically calling for Muslim call to prayer.

00:32:11.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:14.000 I want to know what you think of this.

00:32:16.000 What do you think we should do when you have foreigners move into our country? 1.00

00:32:20.000 Mehdi Hassan is a Muslim.

00:32:22.000 I don't know his whole background, but he comes via the UK and now he's in America.

00:32:27.000 And so here's cut 212, him calling for church bells next to Islamic calls for prayer.

00:32:32.000 I think that if you can play church bells, you can pray the call to prayer.

00:32:36.000 We are as American as anyone else and don't take any BS from any.

00:32:39.000 Oh, do you think?

00:32:40.000 So question for the audience: do you think Mehdi Hassan is as American as anybody else?

00:32:47.000 Freedom at Charlie Kirk, I want you, I want to know your actual thoughts.

00:32:50.000 Give a thoughtful answer.

00:32:51.000 Mehdi Hassan, is he as American as you or I or Tyler Boyer here?

00:32:56.000 Go ahead, Ty.

00:32:57.000 Well, and just so that the entire audience understands, the loudspeakers outside of mosques play the call to prayer in Muslim-predominant countries.

00:33:08.000 This is something that has been fought and debated over across many places in Europe, even in Africa.

00:33:15.000 So in Africa, this has been banned in many countries.

00:33:19.000 It stopped because it's very loud.

00:33:22.000 It's very open.

00:33:24.000 And it's obviously anti-Christian and anti- Yeah, no, they think we're infidels.

00:33:30.000 Yeah.

00:33:30.000 Actually, that they, you know, if you actually read the texts of their holy scriptures, we're infidels.

00:33:37.000 And if we don't convert, we should be killed.

00:33:40.000 And if you, and if you sort of are agree to live at peace, they'll tax you to pay for their mosques. 0.99

00:33:46.000 So what Mehdi's suggesting is to come into places in America and force everyone to have to do this. 0.52

00:33:55.000 That's really what that's the end goal.

00:33:57.000 And this is not, I mean, this isn't even controversial.

00:34:01.000 This has been banned across Europe.

00:34:05.000 And yeah, I was going to say, a lot of Western nations have done the same.

00:34:07.000 But here's Muslim Dearborn Police Chief Shaheen on the Islamic Call to Prayer blasting five times starting at sunrise daily.

00:34:15.000 Play cut 210.

00:34:17.000 Oftentimes when we take readings, Council President, it's the ambient noise.

00:34:20.000 It's even louder than the call to prayer, to be honest.

00:34:21.000 The truck will go by hit a pothole and it's much louder than the call to prayer.

00:34:25.000 The two or three evaluations that we have had in the last couple years have been met with compliance as soon as we've talked to the religious institutions.

00:34:33.000 It's no different than church bells that you might hear on Sunday.

00:34:36.000 Oh, so no different than church bells.

00:34:40.000 Well, so our friend, Matt Walsh, took issue with this, and he said in reply to Mehdi Hassan, he said, Christianity built this country.

00:34:50.000 Islam did not at all in even the slightest way. 0.97

00:34:53.000 That's why we can have our church bells, you ungrateful little beep. 0.97

00:34:59.000 But he didn't say beep.

00:35:00.000 He said, he said the real B-word.

00:35:03.000 And, you know, honestly, it needed to be said, candidly, this country was born by settlers who came over from Christian Europe to set up religious freedom for themselves and to ask for the providence of Almighty God, of a Christian God, of Jesus, on this nation called the United States of America.

00:35:25.000 Now, it wasn't called that at the time, but it was called America.

00:35:28.000 And they were coming to the new world to set up freedom.

00:35:30.000 And we have been blessed by providence.

00:35:32.000 You know who has succeeded more in the modern time is Christian nations.

00:35:40.000 And there's a reason for that.

00:35:41.000 We have freedom.

00:35:42.000 We have individual responsibility.

00:35:45.000 We have open dialogue.

00:35:48.000 We don't subjugate our citizens.

00:35:51.000 These are the ideas that gave birth to the American Revolution and to the Constitution.

00:35:55.000 We trace our lineage back to the Magna Carta and so many other things.

00:36:00.000 The point is, and Matt's, I think, point is well made.

00:36:02.000 Somebody needs to say it.

00:36:03.000 So I'm not going to quibble over his choice of words here because it needs to be said.

00:36:08.000 America is a Christian nation and we will remain that way. 0.84

00:36:12.000 And one of Charlie's last and most passionate issues that he presented to the world was that we must not allow Islam to invade America. 1.00

00:36:22.000 We must not allow Islam to evade the Christian West. 0.97

00:36:25.000 And we're going to stay on that because that was Charlie's warning to us and we're not going to forget it.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 22, 2025

Church Bells, Islamic Prayers, and “Memegate”

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