The Charlie Kirk Show - February 08, 2023


Disney's Disenchanted Kingdom with Bill Donohue and Chris Ruddy


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Bill Donahue from the Catholic League joins us to talk about Walt Disney, and Chris Ruddy from Newsmax talks about how Newsmax is being canceled by AT&T, a very important story. Hit subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show Podcast and get involved with Turning Point USA today.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, Bill Donahue from the Catholic League joins us to talk about Walt Disney.
00:00:05.000 And then Chris Ruddy from Newsmax talks about how Newsmax is being canceled by ATT.
00:00:11.000 Very important story.
00:00:12.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:00:32.000 Here we go.
00:00:34.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:36.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:38.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:41.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:44.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:45.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:46.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:48.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
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00:01:19.000 The amount of power that corporations have to be able to choose what you hear is disturbing, and it's somewhat of a new phenomenon.
00:01:28.000 AT ⁇ T, aka DirecTV has been for years going more and more in the wokey direction.
00:01:43.000 And I love watching Newsmax.
00:01:45.000 I know so many of you agree.
00:01:46.000 They do such a great job.
00:01:48.000 And actually, I watch them when I work out.
00:01:51.000 And I watch them on ATT.
00:01:53.000 My condo association provides direct TV for all of us.
00:01:57.000 Now, because of their decision, that's going to be put in jeopardy and not be able to happen.
00:02:02.000 So 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.
00:02:11.000 Chris, welcome to the program.
00:02:13.000 Well, Charlie, thank you for having me on.
00:02:15.000 I think you do a fabulous job when you're doing really incredible work on the media with young people and spreading the message.
00:02:22.000 Well, thank you.
00:02:23.000 So Chris, the floor is yours.
00:02:26.000 Tell our audience what's going on.
00:02:28.000 Well, a lot's going on.
00:02:30.000 I think a lot of people know that Newsmax was censored by AT ⁇ T Direct TV.
00:02:35.000 AT ⁇ T owns Direct TV.
00:02:37.000 They own 70% of it.
00:02:39.000 And we were removed from all their signals on January 24th.
00:02:43.000 13 million homes couldn't, can't get Newsmax anymore, at least for the moment.
00:02:48.000 Charlie, you know, this really starts in 21.
00:02:50.000 Nancy Pelosi gets control of the House. 0.61
00:02:53.000 Her Democratic minions send a letter to AT ⁇ T and other cable operators and say, take One America Channel, OAN, Newsmax, and Fox News off.
00:03:03.000 They're spreading disinformation.
00:03:06.000 They send this two-page letter.
00:03:07.000 They hold hearings.
00:03:09.000 AT ⁇ T complies.
00:03:10.000 We know they removed the One America channel last year.
00:03:13.000 It was a popular channel and they removed it.
00:03:16.000 They said it was cost-cutting.
00:03:18.000 This time they said with Newsmax, we're now the fourth highest-rated cable news channel in the United States.
00:03:23.000 25 million people watch us regularly.
00:03:25.000 That's Nielsen numbers in mind.
00:03:28.000 Nielsen.
00:03:29.000 And they said they were cost-cutting measures.
00:03:33.000 Meanwhile, they're keeping 22 liberal channels.
00:03:36.000 Most of the channels nobody even, barely anyone watches.
00:03:39.000 Every one of the channel gets a big license fee.
00:03:42.000 They're keeping them all, but they're removing Newsmax.
00:03:45.000 We say it's discrimination, it's targeting.
00:03:48.000 And people like Kevin McCarthy have spoken out.
00:03:51.000 Ron DeSantis said, you know, DirecTV makes excuses every time they get rid of a conservative channel.
00:03:57.000 So two channels in a row have been removed.
00:04:00.000 We're the second victim.
00:04:02.000 And 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.
00:04:18.000 I mean, I know this because when AT ⁇ T DirecTV made this announcement, I was really, really angry about it.
00:04:25.000 So 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?
00:04:37.000 And Chris, to your point, these incredibly unpopular liberal channels remain.
00:04:43.000 I'm not talking about CNN.
00:04:45.000 I'm talking about very strange programming that is incredibly radical.
00:04:52.000 Charlie, they have all of that, but think about even the entertainment channels.
00:04:55.000 They have all left-wing, Hollywood, violence, pornography.
00:05:00.000 Newsmax is a top 16 channel of all.
00:05:04.000 There's a couple of hundred cable channels they pay.
00:05:06.000 We're top 16.
00:05:07.000 We're top four news, top 16 overall.
00:05:09.000 So there's probably 100 channels lower than us in the ratings that they keep that have high fees.
00:05:17.000 Newsmax, they run around and say Newsmax wanted an excessive fee.
00:05:20.000 We wanted $1 per cable subscriber per case.
00:05:24.000 Very, very, very modest.
00:05:25.000 It's one of the cheapest that CNN gets $14 per subscriber.
00:05:30.000 For nothing.
00:05:31.000 Yeah, for nothing.
00:05:32.000 Well, for liberal propaganda.
00:05:36.000 But you have to remember AT ⁇ T's awoke company.
00:05:39.000 You know, they were the ones that weaponized CNN against Trump and the Republicans when they owned it.
00:05:44.000 The chairman of the ATT board is William Kennard.
00:05:48.000 He was Obama's chairman of the FCC.
00:05:51.000 There's a whole bunch of Obama Clinton people at the board.
00:05:55.000 So 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.
00:06:06.000 They're using economic.
00:06:08.000 He said this was political bias.
00:06:09.000 This was ideology.
00:06:11.000 There's no reason Newsmax should have been deplatformed.
00:06:14.000 But 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.
00:06:25.000 There is this very strange channel that I look through and I don't watch free speech TV.
00:06:31.000 The production quality is low.
00:06:33.000 It is far left-wing Stalinistic programming.
00:06:37.000 I can't imagine they're even in the same universe, Chris, of ratings of Newsmax, and yet they remain.
00:06:44.000 Well, look at the Vice channel, which you're familiar with.
00:06:46.000 Yes.
00:06:47.000 It appeals to millennials, right?
00:06:48.000 It's filled, I'm told, with pro-Antifa, pro-Palestinian stuff.
00:06:53.000 And Vice is a liberal channel for millennials.
00:06:56.000 It has no rating.
00:06:56.000 It's 20% of Newsmax's rating.
00:06:59.000 Yet DirecTV carries it on all its systems and it pays it as much money or more money than Newsmax was seeking.
00:07:08.000 So, and we find out that one of the board members on DirecTV is a board member of Vice.
00:07:13.000 Do you start getting a picture of where this is all going?
00:07:17.000 It's extraordinary.
00:07:18.000 So what's the plan?
00:07:20.000 Well, President Trump has come out very strongly, as you probably know, and said that he's canceling DirecTV.
00:07:25.000 He's canceling ATTs, their cell phones, they're wireless.
00:07:29.000 He thinks this is disgusting.
00:07:31.000 It's the second channel.
00:07:32.000 He's urging other Americans to cancel DirecTV and ATT products.
00:07:38.000 We have set up a number for people that want to call or complain or cancel.
00:07:42.000 It's 877 Newsmax, 877 Newsmax.
00:07:47.000 It's toll-free.
00:07:48.000 We'll connect you with DirecTV immediately and let them know.
00:07:52.000 And U-verse, which also cut us off.
00:07:55.000 And you can let them know we are not in negotiations.
00:07:59.000 They'll claim that to you.
00:08:01.000 They have made no effort.
00:08:02.000 We're open to negotiations.
00:08:03.000 They've made no effort.
00:08:04.000 We're not charging excessive fees.
00:08:07.000 They'll tell you that too.
00:08:09.000 But you got to let them know and vote with your feet and your pocketbook and your phone.
00:08:14.000 If you're not a subscriber to any of those, you support Newsmax, we're calling for hearings.
00:08:20.000 Call your congressman and senator if you call the 877 Newsmax number.
00:08:25.000 We'll connect you.
00:08:26.000 There's a button there you can connect with Congress, your senators.
00:08:30.000 Let them know not only do you want hearings on the Newsmax censorship and other censorship, but that you want a hearings date.
00:08:39.000 So again, people can actually help us by making these phone calls to 877 Newsmax.
00:08:45.000 And we have already driven in literally hundreds of thousands of calls since the 24th.
00:08:53.000 That's terrific.
00:08:54.000 And so is there any legal peth here?
00:08:57.000 I 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?
00:09:07.000 Well, they're a big company, and big companies usually have a public obligation to be fair and diverse.
00:09:13.000 You know, having 22 liberal channels and only Fox, only one conservative channel left now, leaning channel.
00:09:19.000 We know Fox is changing a bit.
00:09:22.000 So, you know, this is not fair.
00:09:23.000 This is liberals want diversity except when it comes to ideas, right?
00:09:28.000 They don't want to hear conservative viewpoints.
00:09:30.000 We have to demand those, or we have to go to services that do.
00:09:33.000 The DISH network carries Newsmax.
00:09:36.000 Many other, we're on every other major cable system in the U.S. Fubo carries us as well.
00:09:43.000 So feel free to change your system as well.
00:09:46.000 And I think we just got to fight back.
00:09:48.000 You 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.
00:10:02.000 If these major companies can just come in and shut you up, it's terrible.
00:10:05.000 The website is Iwantnewsmax.com.
00:10:08.000 Direct TV customers.
00:10:09.000 Call them toll-free at 877-763-9762.
00:10:15.000 I encourage all of you to call it 877-763-9762.
00:10:21.000 So check it out.
00:10:22.000 Chris, we're behind you.
00:10:23.000 Keep fighting.
00:10:24.000 Thank you.
00:10:25.000 Charlie, thank you.
00:10:26.000 I appreciate your support.
00:10:27.000 Thank you.
00:10:28.000 You're amazing.
00:10:28.000 Thank you.
00:10:29.000 Keep up the great work.
00:10:30.000 This is not just about Newsmax.
00:10:32.000 This is bigger than that.
00:10:32.000 This is about speech and what corporations are able to do to shut us up and chill our speech.
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00:10:51.000 So, but look, sometimes it feels like the world is being held together by duct tape, if we can find duct tape.
00:10:57.000 And one little push could bring the whole thing down.
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00:11:48.000 So tomorrow, I'm going to be speaking at an event with Dennis Prager at Arizona State University, ASU.
00:12:00.000 And it is causing a little bit of an issue, apparently.
00:12:04.000 So it is the Barrett Honors College.
00:12:07.000 We're speaking at this event.
00:12:08.000 I mean, can you think of a less controversial title of an event?
00:12:14.000 Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
00:12:17.000 That is the name of the event.
00:12:21.000 Set to take place tomorrow at ASU's Arizona State University's Gammage Auditorium.
00:12:26.000 We'll feature speakers Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager, as well as personal financial coach Robert Kiwasaki.
00:12:34.000 Faculty 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.
00:12:45.000 So the professors are getting really fired up.
00:12:51.000 The professors are really upset that Dennis Prager and I are going to be on campus.
00:12:56.000 Can't happen.
00:12:58.000 Irina Levin, who's an affiliate at the Barrett Honors College, said about me speaking, my initial response was shock.
00:13:09.000 I 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.
00:13:18.000 What principles are that exactly?
00:13:22.000 Outraged that conservative people might speak at the school-sponsored event, Barrett faculty then created a petition.
00:13:29.000 This is what they're worried about, Dennis Prager and I coming on campus.
00:13:34.000 They requested the university to condemn the event.
00:13:38.000 Reports 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.
00:13:56.000 This is Arizona State University.
00:13:59.000 Michael Ostling, who's a religious studies scholar.
00:14:02.000 I'd love to talk to him.
00:14:04.000 It's just so amazing.
00:14:05.000 Forget me.
00:14:06.000 I'm nobody.
00:14:08.000 You 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.
00:14:22.000 He has written the premier Bible commentaries.
00:14:24.000 He is fluent in biblical Hebrew.
00:14:27.000 For 40 years, he has taught the Torah, and he knows it really well.
00:14:33.000 Maybe you could learn something from him.
00:14:37.000 Michael 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.
00:14:47.000 I believe these speakers represent ideas that go against the principles of Arizona State University Charter that stands for inclusivity and not exclusivity.
00:15:00.000 Another professor says, when your college sells its soul to the highest bidder, this is the result.
00:15:06.000 What an outrageous embarrassment.
00:15:10.000 I'm not even on the promotional graphic either.
00:15:12.000 That's what's so incredible.
00:15:17.000 They didn't put me on the graphic.
00:15:21.000 They put Prager on.
00:15:22.000 That's fine.
00:15:23.000 I'm not complaining.
00:15:24.000 I'm just, it's interesting.
00:15:29.000 So these were other people, professor after professor after professor.
00:15:35.000 So if you guys want to attend our event at the Gammage Auditorium tomorrow, again, it's about health, wealth, and happiness.
00:15:45.000 And they really hate Prager too, just so we're clear.
00:15:49.000 But I'm much easier to attack than Dennis Prager.
00:15:52.000 I fully acknowledge that, okay?
00:15:54.000 I mean, if you were to say, Charlie, you know, who's the lower-hanging fruit?
00:15:58.000 It's the guy that didn't go to college.
00:15:59.000 That's 29.
00:16:00.000 I get that.
00:16:00.000 I'll defend myself.
00:16:02.000 But 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.
00:16:32.000 You could just have a little bit of humility and recognize maybe this Dennis Prager guy has something to teach me.
00:16:39.000 Especially on a topic that he happens to be an expert on, which is happiness.
00:16:44.000 You might laugh.
00:16:44.000 Oh, how can you be an expert on happiness?
00:16:46.000 He's studied it, thought about it, written about it, communicated it for 40 years.
00:16:56.000 And maybe it's not for you.
00:16:57.000 Maybe you enjoy being unhappy and you don't want other people to be happy.
00:17:01.000 But 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.
00:17:09.000 Oh, I'm at the bottom of the flyer.
00:17:11.000 Just a little thing.
00:17:12.000 It's fine.
00:17:14.000 It doesn't bother me.
00:17:15.000 Shows you the state of modern academia, doesn't it?
00:17:18.000 Arizona State University.
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00:18:02.000 Very important topic here and an incredibly important film.
00:18:07.000 Joining us now is Bill Donahue, creator of Walt's Disenchanted Kingdom and also the president of the Catholic League.
00:18:14.000 Bill, welcome to the program.
00:18:16.000 Thank you for doing this film.
00:18:18.000 I think it's incredibly important.
00:18:20.000 Tell us about it and we'll proceed from there.
00:18:22.000 Tell us about the film.
00:18:24.000 Well, it's basically a movie to show how Disney has evolved.
00:18:28.000 It was when I was a kid, it was the most family-friendly institution in America.
00:18:32.000 I came to love Disney, as all Americans did.
00:18:35.000 There were some signs that they were changing in the 1970s.
00:18:38.000 They adopted when they bought ABC, which then took on Miramars as a distributor, putting out some anti-Catholic movies.
00:18:46.000 But they didn't go deep into this woke culture until more recent times.
00:18:51.000 And 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.
00:19:01.000 That's what makes this different than what it was in the 1960s.
00:19:04.000 Yeah, in the 1960s, they shouted people down like they did you at Arizona State and Dennis Prager.
00:19:10.000 I've been shouted down out in California universities a long time ago.
00:19:14.000 But it's worse today because today there's a hatred that is so deep, it's hard to imagine.
00:19:19.000 The 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.
00:19:29.000 Now they're out there sexualizing them.
00:19:31.000 So I decided that, you know, enough is enough.
00:19:34.000 If 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.
00:19:48.000 And it's not just that Disney used to produce innocent or neutral content.
00:19:52.000 They actually used to produce beautiful content.
00:19:54.000 The stories that they would publish had Christian values all over them.
00:19:59.000 Strong defending the weak, the hero's journey, the development from adolescence into maturity.
00:20:06.000 I 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.
00:20:18.000 Disney 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.
00:20:33.000 And the 1990s Disney is still great today.
00:20:36.000 But so what changed then?
00:20:38.000 How 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. 0.96
00:20:57.000 Why did that change?
00:20:59.000 You 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.
00:21:11.000 It'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.
00:21:20.000 I mentioned that because the answer to your question, Charlie, is it all begins in the academy.
00:21:25.000 It always starts in higher education.
00:21:27.000 I've never met more dysfunctional people in my life than the average college professor.
00:21:31.000 And I spent many years being a professor.
00:21:34.000 And 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.
00:21:44.000 It took a long time for it to seep into the society, almost percolating up.
00:21:49.000 It starts these crazy seminars and associations and conferences, and it's taken a while, but it's now got into the mainstream culture.
00:21:58.000 They'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.
00:22:07.000 I taught at a small Catholic school in Pittsburgh.
00:22:10.000 It's all over.
00:22:11.000 It's taken a while, but it's now into the culture.
00:22:13.000 It's deep.
00:22:14.000 They've even succeeded in the corporate world.
00:22:17.000 My office is looking right down at the World Trade Center, where it used to be.
00:22:22.000 I saw the World Trade Center go down that day.
00:22:24.000 Down there is Wall Street.
00:22:26.000 There was a time when Wall Street would be on our side.
00:22:28.000 They no longer are.
00:22:30.000 They fund the most radical proposals in our society.
00:22:33.000 Disney's part of that group.
00:22:35.000 I want to play Cut 52.
00:22:36.000 It's the trailer to your excellent film.
00:22:38.000 People can find it at salemnow.com.
00:22:40.000 PlayCut 52.
00:22:42.000 Once upon a time, if it was a Disney movie, you knew it was going to be safe for children.
00:22:49.000 When I was in the seventh grade, a nun asked the class who was the most admired person in the world.
00:22:55.000 I said Walt Disney.
00:22:57.000 They had such wonderful, uplifting content.
00:23:01.000 Now it's questionable.
00:23:05.000 All is not well in the self-proclaimed, happiest place on earth.
00:23:09.000 Disney CEO Bob Chapek is reversing course, now speaking out against Florida's parental rights and education legislation.
00:23:16.000 This is an atrocity against children, and Disney has allowed itself to become part of it.
00:23:23.000 That's just a small teaser there.
00:23:26.000 And so many adults are either They don't quite grasp how bad it is.
00:23:34.000 Can you just give some examples of recent productions they've done that show how radical their content really has become?
00:23:42.000 Well, 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?
00:23:53.000 Why do they have gratuitous people of the same sex kissing each other as little kids?
00:23:59.000 What message are they trying to send here?
00:24:02.000 You 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.
00:24:08.000 Bob Iger is back in the saddle.
00:24:11.000 And I asked him, Listen, you've listened to the other side.
00:24:14.000 Cody Perkins is a noted evangelical and a friend of mine.
00:24:16.000 We'd like to come and visit you and just give you our take.
00:24:20.000 They wouldn't answer us.
00:24:21.000 Now, I thought they believed in inclusion.
00:24:23.000 That's their fifth value now, as they'd like to sell it.
00:24:26.000 But they don't believe in inclusion when it comes to Christians.
00:24:29.000 Listen, I do think I'm not a believer in an iron lore of history.
00:24:34.000 All right.
00:24:34.000 Things can change.
00:24:35.000 Disney can change.
00:24:37.000 I just saw the piece in the New York Times today.
00:24:40.000 They're getting beaten by a billion and a half dollars taking a loss with their streaming.
00:24:44.000 They lost 44% in the market value last year.
00:24:48.000 Hopefully, that's a bit of a wake-up call.
00:24:50.000 But all they need to do is go back to their moorings.
00:24:52.000 And I'm not asking them to go out there and wear the traditional moral values on their sleeve.
00:24:57.000 All I'm simply saying is be agnostic.
00:24:59.000 You should never have gotten involved trying to undermine DeSantis and undermine parental rights in the first place.
00:25:04.000 If they went back to their moorings, it'd get a lot of people off their back and they'd make more money.
00:25:09.000 So, at some point, hopefully, this movie will be a cultural marker and help be a catalyst toward that end.
00:25:16.000 I certainly hope so.
00:25:17.000 Everyone should cancel their Disney Plus subscriptions, too.
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00:25:56.000 Cut 53 Disney tampon buying clip.
00:25:58.000 I still haven't seen this clip.
00:26:00.000 It's on the I'm going to watch it for the first time with you.
00:26:02.000 Play Cut 53.
00:26:07.000 Excuse me.
00:26:08.000 Which of these products would you recommend?
00:26:12.000 Oh, um, well, these are the tampons I usually use.
00:26:18.000 Thank you.
00:26:18.000 I prefer pads.
00:26:20.000 They're more comfortable for me.
00:26:21.000 Thank you.
00:26:21.000 I always get the ones with wings.
00:26:23.000 Thank you.
00:26:23.000 Get them scented and bleach-free if you can.
00:26:25.000 Thank you.
00:26:25.000 Yo, my daughter loves these.
00:26:27.000 Thank you, might be easier if it's her first period.
00:26:30.000 These are really environmentally friendly.
00:26:32.000 So that's a male character.
00:26:34.000 I mean, it's just hard to believe what these people are thinking other than they're trying to take advantage of children.
00:26:42.000 And well, I can let me add something to that as a sociologist.
00:26:47.000 Given a lot of studies in this, written a lot of books on the subject.
00:26:49.000 It basically comes down to this.
00:26:52.000 The woke culture is at war with nature and nature's God.
00:26:57.000 They don't believe there's such a thing as human nature.
00:26:59.000 They don't believe there's such a thing as truth.
00:27:01.000 They don't believe there's such a thing as God.
00:27:03.000 They believe that all that exists is a social construct that is simply sociologically illiterate.
00:27:09.000 And 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.
00:27:18.000 You know, most in the times past, they would wind up in the asylum.
00:27:23.000 Now they're working in the academy.
00:27:25.000 That's well said.
00:27:26.000 They don't acknowledge that there are the laws of nature and nature is God, as Thomas Jefferson beautifully wrote in the Declaration of Independence.
00:27:33.000 And 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.
00:27:41.000 And they also believe that nature is malleable, that human beings themselves are malleable.
00:27:46.000 And so you're a religious man.
00:27:49.000 And so tell us why that is so against kind of normal Western values and Christian values. 0.56
00:27:57.000 In fact, this people of faith should be animated by this.
00:28:00.000 Well, as a Catholic, I believe in original sin, number one, that we're not perfectible.
00:28:05.000 And all the utopians of the 20th century, they all wind up killing each other by the hundreds of millions. 0.59
00:28:12.000 Hitler was a utopian, not just Stalin and Mao. 0.91
00:28:15.000 So let's get that straight.
00:28:16.000 And he was a man of the left, National Socialist.
00:28:19.000 Every totalitarian regime is one which should take a big government and made it even bigger.
00:28:24.000 So there's hardly a conservative idea.
00:28:27.000 Now, when you believe that human nature is like putty, then you can change it.
00:28:31.000 Then you can justify killing in the name of it because you know better than the people.
00:28:36.000 The intellectuals always know better than the people.
00:28:39.000 Marx knew better than the people.
00:28:40.000 They all hated their own people, didn't they?
00:28:42.000 I mean, they hated their own family.
00:28:44.000 I could go on for hours about Marx and what he did.
00:28:47.000 Look, we're being sold a bill of goods by dysfunctional people in history who reject nature and nature's God.
00:28:55.000 It always begins in higher education, and now it's into the major institutions of our society.
00:29:00.000 But the rank file is too big.
00:29:03.000 This game is not over.
00:29:04.000 The culture is up for Grahams, as far as I am concerned.
00:29:08.000 And anybody who says on our side that it can't get worse is crazy.
00:29:11.000 You have to be out there and stop being the spectator.
00:29:14.000 Start being the gladiators.
00:29:16.000 Even if they throw you out of Arizona State like you and Dennis, so what?
00:29:20.000 Let them do it.
00:29:22.000 Well, 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.
00:29:32.000 Really?
00:29:32.000 It's against the values of inclusivity.
00:29:35.000 It's all a camouflage for totalitarianism.
00:29:37.000 It all goes.
00:29:38.000 I 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.
00:29:49.000 Bill Donahue from the Catholic League is with us.
00:29:52.000 Listen to here Disney play cut 54 of Disney.
00:29:57.000 It's an executive, isn't it?
00:29:59.000 I believe it's a Disney executive play cut 54.
00:30:02.000 The showrunners were super welcoming.
00:30:03.000 Meredith Roberts and like the our leadership over there has been so welcoming to like my like not at all secret gay agenda.
00:30:12.000 And 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.
00:30:22.000 Let'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.
00:30:36.000 My not so secret gay agenda.
00:30:38.000 Bill, what's going on here? 0.96
00:30:40.000 This country and in the West in general is obsessed with two things and the most radical manifestation of them race and sex.
00:30:47.000 Race with CRT, critical race theory, and sex with transgenderism, which, you know, it is amazing how it's gripped the West. 0.62
00:30:56.000 And, you know, I think I'm like most Americans.
00:30:59.000 I don't care what faith you are. 0.55
00:31:01.000 People need to be respected for whom they are and not be bullied.
00:31:06.000 But that also would include people who are detransitioning.
00:31:10.000 They're the most bullied people in our society today who made the mistake of trying to transition from one sex to another.
00:31:17.000 Obviously, you can't do that.
00:31:18.000 You can't change a chromosome.
00:31:19.000 So the whole thing is a fiction.
00:31:21.000 But these people who are trying to get back the way they were are now being bullied and they're being bullied by the well-educated people.
00:31:27.000 It always begins with the well-educated people.
00:31:29.000 In this case, the therapist and others.
00:31:31.000 It's one thing to ask for tolerance, which means to put up with.
00:31:35.000 It's quite another to begin with affirmation.
00:31:37.000 I don't need to affirm anything.
00:31:39.000 Don't ask me to affirm that which I find viscerally repulsive.
00:31:44.000 I mean, I totally agree with that.
00:31:46.000 And good people need to start to fight.
00:31:48.000 And they need to start to draw the line in the sand. 0.84
00:31:50.000 I 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. 0.98
00:31:59.000 There's a lot of the people in the creative arts that might not be gay themselves.
00:32:04.000 There's plenty of those, but they are sympathetic to the LGBTQ cause, right?
00:32:10.000 And this is not, I'm not speculating.
00:32:12.000 The 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.
00:32:22.000 So can you talk about that?
00:32:23.000 Graphic designers, copy editors, they are disproportionately at least, at the very least, sympathetic to this radical LGBTQ agenda. 0.62
00:32:33.000 They are.
00:32:33.000 And 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.
00:32:44.000 I mean, you've got intellectuals, of course, like Andrew Sullivan, who's simply broken away from this whole transgender insanity. 1.00
00:32:50.000 You've got Erica Anderson, who was the first psychotherapist in the country, transgender, who says, this has gone too far. 1.00
00:32:57.000 I want nothing to do with it.
00:32:59.000 We saw it even in the movie.
00:33:01.000 We interviewed people who are admittedly gay, and they say they don't speak for me.
00:33:06.000 As usual, the loud minority is the one that his voice is heard.
00:33:10.000 But we don't live in a society where we have the majority taking away minority rights.
00:33:15.000 That's why we have a Bill of Rights.
00:33:17.000 But 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.
00:33:32.000 We shouldn't be subject to them either.
00:33:35.000 There 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. 1.00
00:33:42.000 This has gone too far.
00:33:44.000 I agree.
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00:33:48.000 Bill, thank you so much.
00:33:50.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:33:51.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
00:33:56.000 Getting a fair amount of emails about the Arizona State University controversy.
00:34:00.000 It really shouldn't even be much of a controversy.
00:34:02.000 I 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.
00:34:13.000 Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
00:34:14.000 That's the name of our talk tomorrow.
00:34:16.000 Dennis Prager and Robert Kiwasaki, who's very well respected.
00:34:19.000 Rich Dad, poor dad.
00:34:22.000 That's a great lineup.
00:34:23.000 It should be fun now.
00:34:24.000 But a vast majority of the professors at Arizona State University, 37 out of 47 of them, don't want us to be able to speak.
00:34:35.000 You know why?
00:34:35.000 Because they say these people are not inclusive.
00:34:39.000 Fascinating.
00:34:41.000 The least tolerant people typically end up being the ones that are telling you how tolerant they are.
00:34:49.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:51.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:55.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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