00:00:55.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:53.000My condo association provides direct TV for all of us.
00:01:57.000Now, because of their decision, that's going to be put in jeopardy and not be able to happen.
00:02:02.000So joining us now is the CEO of Newsmax, does a fabulous job, Chris Ruddy, to talk about this very urgent issue with a specific action item for our audience.
00:02:39.000And we were removed from all their signals on January 24th.
00:02:43.00013 million homes couldn't, can't get Newsmax anymore, at least for the moment.
00:02:48.000Charlie, you know, this really starts in 21.
00:02:50.000Nancy Pelosi gets control of the House.
00:02:53.000Her Democratic minions send a letter to AT ⁇ T and other cable operators and say, take One America Channel, OAN, Newsmax, and Fox News off.
00:04:02.000And if you look through the list that DirecTV has for channels, they have what would barely pass as 1995 public access television of Vermont communist liberals ranting to themselves.
00:04:18.000I mean, I know this because when AT ⁇ T DirecTV made this announcement, I was really, really angry about it.
00:04:25.000So I started flipping through the channels, wondering, okay, I mean, are they getting rid of all these obscure vegan hippies that talk about, you know, LSD being legalized?
00:04:37.000And Chris, to your point, these incredibly unpopular liberal channels remain.
00:05:51.000There's a whole bunch of Obama Clinton people at the board.
00:05:55.000So we know, you know, that this, Alan Dershowitz has just said on Newsmax on the website we have it today that, you know, this is a cover for political reasons.
00:06:11.000There's no reason Newsmax should have been deplatformed.
00:06:14.000But other than they're cleaning up their channel guide for the 24 elections, they don't want people to have a voice that are dissenting from the liberal establishment.
00:06:25.000There is this very strange channel that I look through and I don't watch free speech TV.
00:08:57.000I know that it gets tricky because they have the right to decide what programming they have on there, but are they technically governed by telecom rules?
00:09:07.000Well, they're a big company, and big companies usually have a public obligation to be fair and diverse.
00:09:13.000You know, having 22 liberal channels and only Fox, only one conservative channel left now, leaning channel.
00:09:36.000Many other, we're on every other major cable system in the U.S. Fubo carries us as well.
00:09:43.000So feel free to change your system as well.
00:09:46.000And I think we just got to fight back.
00:09:48.000You know, our friend Dr. Ben Carson recently said that he felt our freedoms are at stake with this decision with ATT and that we need to fight back.
00:10:02.000If these major companies can just come in and shut you up, it's terrible.
00:12:21.000Set to take place tomorrow at ASU's Arizona State University's Gammage Auditorium.
00:12:26.000We'll feature speakers Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager, as well as personal financial coach Robert Kiwasaki.
00:12:34.000Faculty at the Honors College claim to have been made aware of the event, not through the established channels of communication, but rather through social media postings.
00:12:45.000So the professors are getting really fired up.
00:12:51.000The professors are really upset that Dennis Prager and I are going to be on campus.
00:12:58.000Irina Levin, who's an affiliate at the Barrett Honors College, said about me speaking, my initial response was shock.
00:13:09.000I do not think that the decision to host these speakers at Arizona State University's premier venue is in congruence with Barrett's principles as an institution.
00:13:22.000Outraged that conservative people might speak at the school-sponsored event, Barrett faculty then created a petition.
00:13:29.000This is what they're worried about, Dennis Prager and I coming on campus.
00:13:34.000They requested the university to condemn the event.
00:13:38.000Reports found that as of February 2nd, a majority of the faculty members from the Honors College have signed the petition, 37 out of 47, and criticized the university to even allow these speakers on campus.
00:14:08.000You are protesting as a religious studies scholar, Dennis Prager, who I would put Dennis Prager up against anybody on comprehensive knowledge of the Torah of anybody.
00:14:22.000He has written the premier Bible commentaries.
00:14:27.000For 40 years, he has taught the Torah, and he knows it really well.
00:14:33.000Maybe you could learn something from him.
00:14:37.000Michael Ostling, who's a religious studies scholar, he says, I want to make it clear that each petition on this signature petition was for a different reason.
00:14:47.000I believe these speakers represent ideas that go against the principles of Arizona State University Charter that stands for inclusivity and not exclusivity.
00:15:00.000Another professor says, when your college sells its soul to the highest bidder, this is the result.
00:16:02.000But really, attacking Dennis Prager, a rather learned man, fluent in seven languages, author of over a dozen books, 40 years on radio, conducts orchestras, and literally wrote a book called Happiness is a Serious Problem and has enriched the lives of no exaggeration of millions of people, maybe Arizona State University.
00:16:32.000You could just have a little bit of humility and recognize maybe this Dennis Prager guy has something to teach me.
00:16:39.000Especially on a topic that he happens to be an expert on, which is happiness.
00:16:57.000Maybe you enjoy being unhappy and you don't want other people to be happy.
00:17:01.000But obviously, he's popular and has a track record of being like, why not just let the event happen and say, okay, it's kind of annoying, whatever.
00:18:24.000Well, it's basically a movie to show how Disney has evolved.
00:18:28.000It was when I was a kid, it was the most family-friendly institution in America.
00:18:32.000I came to love Disney, as all Americans did.
00:18:35.000There were some signs that they were changing in the 1970s.
00:18:38.000They adopted when they bought ABC, which then took on Miramars as a distributor, putting out some anti-Catholic movies.
00:18:46.000But they didn't go deep into this woke culture until more recent times.
00:18:51.000And now Disney, along with a lot of the corporate 500, along with the healthcare sector and the military, very traditional institutions, have now taken on the left-wing agenda.
00:19:01.000That's what makes this different than what it was in the 1960s.
00:19:04.000Yeah, in the 1960s, they shouted people down like they did you at Arizona State and Dennis Prager.
00:19:10.000I've been shouted down out in California universities a long time ago.
00:19:14.000But it's worse today because today there's a hatred that is so deep, it's hard to imagine.
00:19:19.000The fact that Disney is now sided, instead of being agnostic and not getting involved in politics, just stick to their agenda, which was to make kids happy.
00:19:29.000Now they're out there sexualizing them.
00:19:31.000So I decided that, you know, enough is enough.
00:19:34.000If you're going to fight DeSantis on this and you're going to go after kids in kindergarten, that's five years of age, five through to eight in the third grade, then we have to really step it up and tell the truth about what's happening to Disney.
00:19:48.000And it's not just that Disney used to produce innocent or neutral content.
00:19:52.000They actually used to produce beautiful content.
00:19:54.000The stories that they would publish had Christian values all over them.
00:19:59.000Strong defending the weak, the hero's journey, the development from adolescence into maturity.
00:20:06.000I could go through story by story, Peter Penn or Pinocchio, the need to tell the truth and to be a commitment to honesty, or the idea of no longer being your former self and going on a journey of self-improvement.
00:20:18.000Disney was the hallmark of trying to enrich and instill adult values or proven, honestly, Christian values through these stories in cartoon form or in classical form.
00:20:33.000And the 1990s Disney is still great today.
00:20:38.000How did we go from the kind of the central canon of Disney, which you could say was, you know, Lion King, Snow White, Pinocchio, stories that really were embedded deeply into the consciousness of the Western tradition to now, no exaggeration, LGBTQ propaganda.
00:20:59.000You know, I'm back in the 1980s, I became one of the founding guys involved with the National Association of Scholars, and I stayed on their board of directors for 20 years running the Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh chapters.
00:21:11.000It's about keeping the academy clean, to keep it a space where merit counts, where free ideas, where it's the pursuit of truth, not politics.
00:21:20.000I mentioned that because the answer to your question, Charlie, is it all begins in the academy.
00:21:27.000I've never met more dysfunctional people in my life than the average college professor.
00:21:31.000And I spent many years being a professor.
00:21:34.000And there's a lot of good people out there, don't get me wrong, but they've got become increasingly disenchanted and alienated from our society with tremendous anger and resentment.
00:21:44.000It took a long time for it to seep into the society, almost percolating up.
00:21:49.000It starts these crazy seminars and associations and conferences, and it's taken a while, but it's now got into the mainstream culture.
00:21:58.000They've now been able to educate so many of our leaders in this country, beginning with the Ivy League, but not exclusively to an Ivy League schools.
00:22:07.000I taught at a small Catholic school in Pittsburgh.
00:23:26.000And so many adults are either They don't quite grasp how bad it is.
00:23:34.000Can you just give some examples of recent productions they've done that show how radical their content really has become?
00:23:42.000Well, when you have movies, little cartoons, when you have one boy who thinks he's maybe not a boy, uh, buying tampons with another boy in a supermarket, what exactly is the purpose of that?
00:23:53.000Why do they have gratuitous people of the same sex kissing each other as little kids?
00:23:59.000What message are they trying to send here?
00:24:02.000You know, it's back in April of last year, Charlie, that I wrote a letter to Bob Chapeck, who was the CEO at the time.
00:26:52.000The woke culture is at war with nature and nature's God.
00:26:57.000They don't believe there's such a thing as human nature.
00:26:59.000They don't believe there's such a thing as truth.
00:27:01.000They don't believe there's such a thing as God.
00:27:03.000They believe that all that exists is a social construct that is simply sociologically illiterate.
00:27:09.000And if they begin with that, if you have a war against human nature and deny its existence, then a man can become a boy, a man can become pregnant.
00:27:18.000You know, most in the times past, they would wind up in the asylum.
00:27:26.000They don't acknowledge that there are the laws of nature and nature is God, as Thomas Jefferson beautifully wrote in the Declaration of Independence.
00:27:33.000And they looked at any issue that might exist and they'll blame it on the structure of society, not that human beings themselves are flawed.
00:27:41.000And they also believe that nature is malleable, that human beings themselves are malleable.
00:29:22.000Well, these people are so totalitarian, you know, and they say, you know, it's against the values of inclusivity, which is exactly why we're not going to include Charlie Kirk.
00:29:38.000I hate to be overly simple, but all these roads eventually lead to a small amount of people in control of a lot of people without any sort of ability to flourish for what is good, true, and beautiful.
00:29:49.000Bill Donahue from the Catholic League is with us.
00:29:52.000Listen to here Disney play cut 54 of Disney.
00:30:03.000Meredith Roberts and like the our leadership over there has been so welcoming to like my like not at all secret gay agenda.
00:30:12.000And so like I feel like all that like momentum that I felt like that sense of I don't have to be afraid to like let's have these two characters kiss.
00:30:22.000Let's in the background this like I was just wherever I could just basically adding queerness to like the if you see anything queer but like I just was like no one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me.
00:31:46.000And good people need to start to fight.
00:31:48.000And they need to start to draw the line in the sand.
00:31:50.000I think one of the other reasons as to why Disney has become so radical is I also believe they're being held hostage by their own gay employees.
00:31:59.000There's a lot of the people in the creative arts that might not be gay themselves.
00:32:04.000There's plenty of those, but they are sympathetic to the LGBTQ cause, right?
00:32:12.000The Disney executives justified in shareholder meetings why they dug in so much with the Florida bill that their employees were so passionate about this employee walkouts.
00:32:33.000And I wish I could give you a more definitive answer in terms of what percent of those people in the gay community are that way, because there's plenty of evidence to show that they're not a monolithic group.
00:32:44.000I mean, you've got intellectuals, of course, like Andrew Sullivan, who's simply broken away from this whole transgender insanity.
00:32:50.000You've got Erica Anderson, who was the first psychotherapist in the country, transgender, who says, this has gone too far.
00:33:17.000But we also shouldn't live in a society where you have the tyranny of the minority, where those people with the biggest megaphone and access to Wall Street money and are afraid of interfering with this whole idea of equity and inclusion that BlackRock and the others are selling.
00:33:32.000We shouldn't be subject to them either.
00:33:35.000There needs to be more people who are in the gay community who are good people who want to speak up and say, listen, count me out.
00:33:51.000Email us freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
00:33:56.000Getting a fair amount of emails about the Arizona State University controversy.
00:34:00.000It really shouldn't even be much of a controversy.
00:34:02.000I mean, if you were to come up with the least controversial title of a speech, I think you would probably come up with Health, Wealth, and Happiness.