The Charlie Kirk Show - December 30, 2022


My Conservation with Greg Gutfeld LIVE from AmericaFest 2022

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Greg Gutfeld joins Charlie Kirk on The Charlie Kirk Show to discuss the iron dome of wokeism, cancel culture, and the power of the 5th estate. Charlie and Greg talk about the future of the show, why the show is so good, and why we should all be woke.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, my conversation at America Fest with Greg Gutfeld.
00:00:05.000 We talk about cancel culture, luggage theft, and the iron dome of wokeism.
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00:00:47.000 Here we go.
00:00:48.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:01:33.000 Greg, welcome to Phoenix.
00:01:35.000 Thank you.
00:01:35.000 Thank you.
00:01:36.000 Thank you for having me here.
00:01:38.000 I love TPUSA.
00:01:39.000 I love coming here.
00:01:41.000 And everybody's nice.
00:01:42.000 Last night I came in.
00:01:43.000 Nobody runs all over you and jumps on top of you.
00:01:44.000 They're very, very respectful.
00:01:46.000 Yes, we train them that way.
00:01:48.000 So, Greg, I first want to say your show is doing amazing.
00:01:52.000 It is, I want to make sure I get this right, the number one show in the 25 to 30, you know, 2540 demographic, right?
00:02:00.000 Yeah.
00:02:00.000 So we did, last year, we were talking about how the show was becoming successful and we were beating Kimmel and Fallon.
00:02:07.000 And we were talking about, okay, the current late night person is Colbert.
00:02:13.000 Now, and we were beating him once in a while.
00:02:16.000 Now I'm number one.
00:02:17.000 I mean, it's like, it's like.
00:02:20.000 So, yes.
00:02:22.000 And it's in the, it's in the, what is called the young person's demographics.
00:02:26.000 You know, it's because they always like to talk about how Fox, the Fox audience is like your parents and your grandparents and their parents.
00:02:35.000 Which is true because the audience is so large.
00:02:39.000 So if you have a large audience, you will have a lot of older people, but we also have more younger people than MSNBC or CNN combined and Comedy Central.
00:02:50.000 And I loved coming on.
00:02:51.000 One of the best parts about going on the show is you make your guests feel so comfortable because you actually laugh at their jokes.
00:02:57.000 Yeah.
00:02:58.000 And I was like, wow, Greg laughed at my joke.
00:03:00.000 I actually...
00:03:00.000 Well, that's, you know, even if it's not funny, Charlie, I will laugh.
00:03:03.000 No, the secret, the secret, I said this to you before, I'm a broken record.
00:03:08.000 The secret to the success of the five and Gutfeld is teasing.
00:03:13.000 And if you have people around, if you can't make fun of somebody or laugh with somebody, then you have no chemistry.
00:03:22.000 And I think that's what, you know, Kat and Tyra, we have great chemistry.
00:03:26.000 If you look at the five and you look at Dana and Jesse and myself, us three, like we, it's like a really well-oiled machine.
00:03:35.000 And now you have the judge and you got Harold and Jessica and what's that guy's name with the mustache?
00:03:43.000 Anyway, Geraldo.
00:03:44.000 But anyway, but you can tell, like, you can pass, it's like, it's like a band.
00:03:48.000 Everybody's got an instrument to play and it's fun.
00:03:50.000 But then if you compare that to other things, other like ensemble shows on CNN or MSNBC, you can see when it's bad.
00:03:59.000 You may not notice when it's good.
00:04:01.000 Like you'll get used to it watching the five, but when you notice when it's bad.
00:04:04.000 Like Morning Joe.
00:04:05.000 Yeah, Morning Joe is terrible.
00:04:07.000 It's like it's, I don't know which one's the puppet and which one's the puppeteer.
00:04:12.000 But I do miss Don Lemon handing off, or was it Chris Cuomo handing off to Don Lemon?
00:04:19.000 Both are gone.
00:04:20.000 The fact I didn't even know they were off CNN goes to show how irrelevant they are.
00:04:23.000 I really didn't even know that.
00:04:24.000 According to Don Lemon, he was promoted to the morning show.
00:04:28.000 Oh, promoted to the desirable 10 a.m. to noon demographic, right?
00:04:33.000 With their over-the-top ratings.
00:04:34.000 So you mentioned something interesting, Greg, which is at the core of the success of your program is teasing, which therefore, in order to be able to tease or receive teasing, you must not take yourself too seriously.
00:04:46.000 Amen.
00:04:46.000 And that is the 11th commandment of the left.
00:04:49.000 Thou shalt take themselves seriously.
00:04:50.000 This is what is killing the left, is that if you take yourself seriously, no one wants to be around you.
00:04:56.000 And the right has always been used to being made fun of.
00:04:59.000 Like, we're always the villains in movies.
00:05:01.000 We get it.
00:05:02.000 And we like, and oh, you know, we were interested in economics, capitalism, so therefore we must be greedy.
00:05:08.000 Okay, we'll take it.
00:05:10.000 You know, but it's like, you can't make fun of them.
00:05:13.000 And so that's why, so now you're seeing the whole comedy sphere being taken over by really ballsy comedians.
00:05:21.000 You start seeing it in England, you see Ricky Gervais or Russell Brand.
00:05:25.000 Russell Brand was a big-time leftist, not anymore.
00:05:28.000 And it's because he understood that leftism was suffocating comedy.
00:05:33.000 And in the teasing thing, that's a great correlation you made.
00:05:37.000 The teasing thing is that kind of like that hotel room flashlight, you know, where you try to look for the, that's how you can tell whether somebody has a sense of humor or not.
00:05:48.000 And like, if you start making fun of a leftist and they get pissed off, you know, it's you're seeing this now with Twitter.
00:05:54.000 It's like they were laughing their butts off when somebody would be permanently banned, but you give them a one-day suspension or a seven-day suspension.
00:06:03.000 They call it a massacre.
00:06:04.000 Did you notice that?
00:06:05.000 No, genocide.
00:06:06.000 Genocide.
00:06:08.000 They don't talk about fentanyl.
00:06:12.000 They don't talk about the crime epidemic.
00:06:13.000 But wait a minute.
00:06:14.000 You suspended Taylor Lorenz?
00:06:17.000 Oh my God. 1.00
00:06:18.000 Somebody do a welfare check on her. 1.00
00:06:20.000 Well, I could go on about Taylor Lorenz. 0.98
00:06:23.000 By the way, you know, we have more knowledge about when Jesus Christ was born than Taylor Lorenz.
00:06:28.000 You ever seen her Wikipedia profile? 0.94
00:06:30.000 They say she was born anywhere between 1984 to 1987.
00:06:33.000 It's a general range of dates.
00:06:35.000 Whenever I talk, most people don't understand the references when we talk about her on the show, but I always amp her age up to like the Taylor Lorenz in her mid-50s.
00:06:46.000 That's exactly.
00:06:47.000 No, but this is important.
00:06:48.000 I do have to emphasize this.
00:06:49.000 Some people are saying, who's Taylor Lorenz? 0.97
00:06:51.000 Taylor Lorenz, I think she still works the Washington Post. 1.00
00:06:54.000 She tried to destroy libs of TikTok's life. 1.00
00:06:56.000 Yes. 1.00
00:06:56.000 And one of the most cruel she would destroy your life. 1.00
00:06:59.000 She's a doxer. 1.00
00:07:00.000 Yes.
00:07:00.000 She was at the New York Times.
00:07:02.000 If the New York Times fires a leftist, that's a bad leftist.
00:07:08.000 Because generally they don't. 1.00
00:07:09.000 They only fire conservatives, but they even knew she was psychotic. 0.89
00:07:12.000 And there are some people when you look at them, you can see if they got crazy eyes. 1.00
00:07:17.000 She's crazy eyes.
00:07:18.000 I mean, like Sam Brinton.
00:07:19.000 Sam Brinton.
00:07:20.000 Remind people who he is.
00:07:22.000 Sam Brinton is an American hero.
00:07:25.000 The non-binary chief assistant of nuclear cleansing, whatever. 1.00
00:07:31.000 Shaved head, bright lipstick, no pedigree whatsoever, except some pretty impressive majors at MIT, but no sources whatsoever.
00:07:43.000 It's like he doesn't get cited for anything, but he gets this major job in the government.
00:07:47.000 And why?
00:07:47.000 Because he ticked the intersectional boxes.
00:07:51.000 It's the toxin of wokeness.
00:07:53.000 It doesn't matter if you're incompetent.
00:07:55.000 And of course, what happens to the crazy eyes thing, when you see somebody that is clearly not well, you can see it.
00:08:03.000 But wokeism tells you that it's on you.
00:08:05.000 It's your fault if you see it.
00:08:07.000 So you look at this guy who dresses up publicly in S ⁇ M and walks men on leashes, right? 0.99
00:08:14.000 But no, you're the weirdo. 0.87
00:08:17.000 How dare you? 0.81
00:08:19.000 He calls it puppy play.
00:08:21.000 So anyway, for those of you who aren't aware of this, he's gotten busted.
00:08:23.000 He has a really weird penchant for stealing other people's luggage.
00:08:28.000 It's creepy, women's luggage. 1.00
00:08:30.000 So what he'll do, and talk about stupid. 1.00
00:08:33.000 There's no more surveillance in the world than in an airport. 1.00
00:08:38.000 It's more than a bank.
00:08:39.000 And he'll go in and he won't check a bag, but he'll take a bag.
00:08:45.000 And then he said, oh, it looked like my bag.
00:08:47.000 And he says, well, it still had my clothes in it.
00:08:49.000 And that's physically impossible.
00:08:52.000 And he goes, I left the clothes.
00:08:53.000 It was in the hotel room.
00:08:54.000 No, you didn't.
00:08:55.000 Then they find out he did it in Vegas.
00:08:56.000 First, he did it in Minneapolis.
00:08:58.000 So he finally turned himself in.
00:09:00.000 And it's just, it did give me an idea for a game show called, I think called Baggage Carousel.
00:09:07.000 Whose luggage is it anyway?
00:09:09.000 Yes.
00:09:10.000 That's better. 0.98
00:09:11.000 I hate you, Charlie.
00:09:14.000 Gee, I actually, imagine a game show where baggage is just going around and the contestants have to grab it and you never know what's in it.
00:09:21.000 But whose bag is it anyway?
00:09:23.000 Pretty good.
00:09:24.000 Yeah, so, but I think what's so interesting about the story, though, is anyone who dare notice, and that's a theme I want to explore with you, Greg, is the crime of noticing.
00:09:33.000 We were called bigot, anti-trans.
00:09:36.000 And actually, in reality, it's like, okay, this person has, I believe, deep-seated mental problems. 0.94
00:09:42.000 I don't want to trivialize that.
00:09:45.000 He is in charge of something rather significant, right?
00:09:49.000 It's not as if he was in charge of, you know, like he was like a dog catcher for the Sacramento, you know, local, you know, mosquito abatement district.
00:09:57.000 Okay, this guy's in charge of getting rid of the nuclear waste.
00:10:01.000 I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, there's something of that, right?
00:10:03.000 Exactly.
00:10:04.000 That's exactly what he does.
00:10:05.000 If you don't do that correctly, I would imagine you would have like a Chernobyl type. 0.99
00:10:10.000 I mean, it's a high-stakes thing.
00:10:11.000 It doesn't matter.
00:10:12.000 It doesn't matter because you feel good that you hired him.
00:10:16.000 It doesn't matter if a disaster is looming.
00:10:18.000 It's important that you are so progressive and that, you know, oh, my friends are bigots.
00:10:24.000 They don't understand this.
00:10:25.000 I always go back and I think about the families, the families of a sibling or a parent who's going through this.
00:10:32.000 There's a recent Navy SEALs guy who transitioned, a crisp.
00:10:39.000 Yeah, and then made an announcement it was a mistake.
00:10:41.000 That it was a mistake.
00:10:42.000 And when you listen to him talking about it, it's like, duh.
00:10:46.000 But imagine his family at the time he was going through that and being forced into silence because of this idea that if you disagree.
00:10:55.000 So you're sitting there and you're going like, man, I don't want my brother.
00:10:57.000 I think my brother's got an issue.
00:11:00.000 He's courageous.
00:11:02.000 He's won so many medals as a SEAL.
00:11:06.000 And he's saying that he wants to be a woman.
00:11:08.000 And there's something wrong here.
00:11:10.000 Why can't we talk about it?
00:11:12.000 And what happened in this trans movement is they are smart enough to know that if they can silence you and keep you from talking about it, then it's over. 1.00
00:11:22.000 And so that's why it's amazing.
00:11:25.000 People might be too young to remember this.
00:11:27.000 There was something called conversion therapy.
00:11:29.000 They thought that your child would be gay.
00:11:31.000 They would like try to make him ungay. 0.79
00:11:34.000 But it was all psychological therapy, maybe some aversion therapy, and it was wrong. 0.90
00:11:39.000 Now the people that claim that it's wrong are willing to mutilate children.
00:11:43.000 So it's like, okay, if your son is expressing effeminate features or your daughter is expressing masculine features, surgery is the answer. 0.98
00:11:54.000 That's freaking Nazism. 0.98
00:11:57.000 It's insane. 0.99
00:11:58.000 And there are doctors.
00:12:00.000 There are pediatric associations that are doing this.
00:12:06.000 And you can follow the money and find, and it's like, it's like, they'll talk about a patient.
00:12:11.000 They'll go like, a patient can give you hundreds of thousands of dollars over a period of years because of the hormone blockers.
00:12:16.000 And it's just, it's, I said this on, I don't know what it was.
00:12:20.000 It was, maybe it was Friday's show.
00:12:22.000 I keep going, like, where are the adults?
00:12:24.000 Like, we used to, there used to be people. 1.00
00:12:27.000 It's like, where are the people in your community, whether it was the doctors or law enforcement or political leaders who go like, this is, this whole thing is full of crap. 0.98
00:12:37.000 Well, no one's doing it. 0.98
00:12:38.000 Well, it's because, Greg, where are the men?
00:12:40.000 Like, let's be more specific, right?
00:12:42.000 But, you know, you notice who we're stepping up in the parents' meeting, our moms, which is phenomenal and it's admirable.
00:12:49.000 Yeah.
00:12:50.000 And that is actually primal when it comes to.
00:12:53.000 What are we scared of?
00:12:54.000 This is an interesting thing.
00:12:55.000 It's like, what happened that made us scared?
00:12:59.000 Like, we were scared.
00:13:00.000 Well, the cancel culture exploded.
00:13:05.000 The idea of being called a racist or a bigot.
00:13:08.000 But if all of us aren't that and we just said enough, they're done.
00:13:14.000 You take the power away.
00:13:16.000 We're living in a time of delusion.
00:13:18.000 Like this, this kind of trans, and you always have to do the preface when you talk about this. 1.00
00:13:26.000 Of course, there are legitimate people that undergo sex changes.
00:13:29.000 I'm so, I mean, that preamble, it's like you gotta get preamble.
00:13:32.000 And they're adults, and you know, like, like Caitlin Jenner waited until the grandkids were grown.
00:13:40.000 But it's like, you know, to feel that you have to be quiet when they're talking about 13-year-olds or eight-year-olds.
00:13:46.000 Hell no.
00:13:47.000 You notice I don't swear as much anymore.
00:13:49.000 But it's like, no, it's like, it's worth getting canceled.
00:13:53.000 It's worth it.
00:13:54.000 There's no bat.
00:13:55.000 There's honestly, there's no battle other than the battle over private property and how in the last four years, I'd say three years since the riots, we've decided that private property is no longer private.
00:14:07.000 So you can have looting, you can have arson.
00:14:10.000 That is potentially as big a problem here.
00:14:12.000 It's like there's certain under there's certain like fabrics to society that hold us together.
00:14:18.000 One of them is respecting property and the other one is like biology.
00:14:24.000 So property and biology is under attack.
00:14:26.000 These are two huge things.
00:14:28.000 I remember I was talking to Tucker about this and he said it.
00:14:30.000 He's like, do you remember in grade school, if a kid got caught stealing something from another kid, that was over. 1.00
00:14:36.000 Like the kid was like shit. 0.99
00:14:38.000 Like it was such a weird thing to know a kid that stole something. 1.00
00:14:41.000 Now it's like you just like everybody's stealing.
00:14:43.000 It's what's happening.
00:14:44.000 It's the same thing with biology.
00:14:46.000 It's like, where are the adults?
00:14:48.000 We are letting people out of prison.
00:14:50.000 We are closing prisons.
00:14:52.000 We are handing rights over to victimizers and we're telling victims that they have to endure it.
00:14:58.000 That it's like, you know what?
00:14:59.000 That's the way it goes.
00:15:01.000 I mean, the recidivism in New York City is insane.
00:15:05.000 Every single crime committed is never a first-time criminal.
00:15:09.000 He's on his 12th or 13th.
00:15:10.000 And we just have to sit there and go like, wow, will anybody stand up for us?
00:15:14.000 You know, I'm complaining a lot.
00:15:17.000 I apologize.
00:15:18.000 Well, no, Greg, this is important.
00:15:20.000 This is comedy, people.
00:15:21.000 Well, but this is how this all connects, right?
00:15:24.000 So the lack of response or without challenging the lie of the DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, it becomes policy very quickly.
00:15:36.000 So what begins on a college campus, what begins on your cable television program, what begins on Twitter will then soon become policy.
00:15:46.000 For example, I remember seven or eight years ago, we hosted one of our first turning point events, and I said something, and I said, I really don't think it's a good idea to be normalizing the fact that you could just choose any gender that you want. 0.73
00:16:00.000 A rather innocent thing to say.
00:16:01.000 And I remember somebody said, Charlie, that's very inconsiderate, as an older person, considerate of people that have gender dysphoria.
00:16:09.000 And I didn't think much of it, but not even entertaining that this could get, I don't know, wildly out of control and eventually turn into the chemical castration of 11-year-olds or the medical mutilation of 14-year-olds.
00:16:20.000 So, Greg, in some ways, we are to blame for not fighting this stuff earlier.
00:16:26.000 I will take, I kind of, I have to say, when I was doing like Red Eye or the Five and talking about what was happening on campuses, it was under this mocking assumption that it stayed on campus.
00:16:39.000 It's like, oh, wait till these people, wait till these people get out in the real world, right?
00:16:43.000 They're not going to get a job, these gender studies majors, these woke, they didn't have a word, it wasn't woke, but let's say PC progress.
00:16:51.000 They can't get a real job.
00:16:52.000 Once they need to, the first time they have to pay a bill, they become an adult.
00:16:57.000 The first time they pay taxes, they'll become a conservative.
00:16:59.000 Boy, was I wrong because they got, they, they got jobs because of DIE, because what's that other thing that's dealing with corporations, ESG, ESG, which sounds better than it is.
00:17:13.000 What happened was you had middle management hiring these people that have nothing to do with profit or competence, but are you ticking the right box?
00:17:23.000 And where did they go?
00:17:24.000 They went into human resources.
00:17:26.000 And in human resources, it just continues the churn, this weird churn of like, it has nothing to do with the competence.
00:17:34.000 And then what it does is it creates a discomforting workplace where, why is this person here?
00:17:40.000 Why is this person reporting?
00:17:41.000 This person feels insensitive.
00:17:42.000 But my point is, I was wrong.
00:17:45.000 I thought that this stuff would end, but no, Disney.
00:17:48.000 Look at Disney.
00:17:49.000 What happened to Disney? 1.00
00:17:50.000 Look at American Girl.
00:17:52.000 So American Girl, I don't have kids.
00:17:54.000 I didn't know about that book, but I did that.
00:17:56.000 I think I did it on my show.
00:17:57.000 They have a book about like yourself.
00:17:59.000 It's one of those soft titles.
00:18:01.000 Whenever you see a children's book that has the word body in it, bad news.
00:18:08.000 It's like your body, yourselves, my body.
00:18:12.000 And so I'm looking at the pages and talking about like, you know, if you don't like your gender, there are places that you can go to without telling your parents.
00:18:20.000 And we have resources for that.
00:18:21.000 And they have like all these different names.
00:18:23.000 And I'm going, okay, this is American Girl, the most overpriced toy store in the world.
00:18:29.000 You're right.
00:18:30.000 I was talking to Tyrus.
00:18:31.000 Tyrus was saying, like, you know, you buy these little toys for the doll.
00:18:35.000 And he said, like, buying like a washing machine was like $70.
00:18:39.000 It's like, so now you understand why they do the woke stuff.
00:18:43.000 The woke stuff is their shield against being called greedy capitalists.
00:18:48.000 So all of this wokeism, which is energized by China, they want our companies to be obsessed with this stuff.
00:18:57.000 So like, oh, like, I'm not greedy.
00:19:00.000 Look how many special days we have.
00:19:02.000 Right?
00:19:04.000 If you work in a company, how many special days are there?
00:19:07.000 It's insane.
00:19:08.000 And sometimes they overlap.
00:19:10.000 Like, there'll be two special days.
00:19:12.000 Like, there'll be pan-Icelandic.
00:19:16.000 And then there'll be Trinidad and Tobago.
00:19:19.000 And it's like you're going, like, what is going on?
00:19:21.000 It's like, there's so many.
00:19:22.000 But it's like, this is what, this is to protect themselves from being the bad guy.
00:19:27.000 And all they have to do is throw money at this stuff.
00:19:30.000 And they think it goes away.
00:19:31.000 So there's two really smart points here, which is wokeism becomes a shield, a almost iron dome missile defense system of the most unethical behaviors of corporate America.
00:19:45.000 You cannot criticize Goldman Sachs anymore or American Express or Coca-Cola because they say, Hey, we got a bunch of trans people in our HR department.
00:19:55.000 And don't you know, today is December 18th, which is, you know, the lesbian Navajo Nation Day or whatever.
00:20:04.000 No offense, love the Navajo Nation, by the way.
00:20:06.000 Oh, boy.
00:20:07.000 Some of them by best fans.
00:20:09.000 But think about this.
00:20:10.000 And I know you got a lot of football fans out there, but we got to talk about why wokeism was so important to the NFL, right?
00:20:18.000 You're talking about brain injuries.
00:20:20.000 You're talking about brain injuries.
00:20:21.000 Greg, I can't understand this one, right?
00:20:23.000 Because I don't know, the average NFL viewer doesn't seem overly enthusiastic.
00:20:28.000 ESPN.
00:20:29.000 ESPN is a sports network.
00:20:31.000 There's no sports.
00:20:33.000 Increasingly, less and less.
00:20:35.000 But you're right.
00:20:35.000 You're right.
00:20:35.000 It's like, so they're looking at the sports, like, this is a great point because Disney appealed to people who don't go to Disney, activists.
00:20:47.000 Yes.
00:20:47.000 NFL appeals to people who don't watch football.
00:20:50.000 So they were appealing to, say, the, I would say, mostly publicists, public relations people that are on the kind of like the exterior of the industries, of all industries.
00:21:01.000 So they're the ones that go like, they're the white, guilty liberal that'll go like, oh my God, you know, this is so great.
00:21:07.000 We should be doing this, blah, blah, blah.
00:21:08.000 And it's like, no, the people sitting at home want to watch a football game.
00:21:12.000 They don't want to be lectured to.
00:21:13.000 Disney.
00:21:15.000 Or the, or those like just nauseating helmet stickers they put on the back of their helmet.
00:21:21.000 It takes all of us. 0.99
00:21:22.000 Like, shut up. 1.00
00:21:22.000 Like, you're making $9 million as a black guy. 1.00
00:21:25.000 I don't need to hear about how it takes all of us, okay?
00:21:27.000 But how about you go give half your money to school choice in inner city Detroit?
00:21:31.000 It takes all of us.
00:21:32.000 No, it doesn't.
00:21:33.000 Like, you go give your money.
00:21:35.000 But I mean, you gotta, but there is a there is a mechanism behind this.
00:21:40.000 And the mechanism is stay away from the brain injury stuff.
00:21:45.000 That's what it's like.
00:21:46.000 It's like, again, wokeism is designed as a shield.
00:21:50.000 So if you look at every company that is doing wokeism, you could almost always find a reason.
00:21:55.000 It's like the old follow the money. 0.95
00:21:57.000 Follow the guilt.
00:21:58.000 Oh, that's a good one.
00:21:59.000 That's really good.
00:22:00.000 Follow the guilt.
00:22:01.000 Do you have a TV show where you could talk about that?
00:22:03.000 If only I had another show, Charlie.
00:22:07.000 Yes.
00:22:08.000 My God.
00:22:08.000 But you know, that's what it is.
00:22:09.000 That's so smart.
00:22:10.000 Follow the guilt.
00:22:11.000 So basically, you have people that have become fabulously wealthy, Hollywood celebrities.
00:22:17.000 Yes, exactly.
00:22:18.000 And the best one.
00:22:20.000 Here's the best one.
00:22:21.000 If you want one person, Harvey Weinstein, biggest left-wing, biggest left-wing supporter of Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Obama, everybody gave millions and millions and millions.
00:22:33.000 And why? 0.99
00:22:34.000 He was raping women. 1.00
00:22:36.000 Now you see it. 0.99
00:22:37.000 That's like the encapsulation of everything.
00:22:40.000 That is the symbol.
00:22:41.000 And all of those people, they couldn't call him out on it because do you remember what he said?
00:22:45.000 So do you know what Harvey Weinstein said when he was in jail?
00:22:49.000 If you let me out, I can help defeat climate change.
00:22:52.000 Do you remember that?
00:22:53.000 No, I missed that one.
00:22:55.000 I will dedicate my life to climate change.
00:22:57.000 The virtue signal was his way to continue his awful, horrible deeds. 1.00
00:23:03.000 He should die. 1.00
00:23:04.000 He should rot in prison. 1.00
00:23:05.000 But he got 30 years. 0.98
00:23:09.000 He got 30 years of sexually assaulting women because he pretended to be for women.
00:23:14.000 I have a phrase for that.
00:23:17.000 Geez, I better not.
00:23:18.000 I call it, no, the P-Pass.
00:23:21.000 Bill Clinton's, you know, the Kennedys. 1.00
00:23:24.000 As long as you claim you're for women's rights, you can abuse women. 0.96
00:23:27.000 Ted Kennedy was a feminist who apparently forgot his feminism as he fled a car underwater.
00:23:34.000 Chapaquittic. 1.00
00:23:35.000 Yeah.
00:23:36.000 Follow the guilt, Sam Bankman Freed.
00:23:38.000 Yes.
00:23:39.000 Sam Binkman.
00:23:41.000 Sam Bankman wanted to make billions of dollars, but realized the way to do that is to veil it under virtue signaling.
00:23:47.000 He even admitted this, though, in an interview.
00:23:49.000 Yeah.
00:23:50.000 Where he said, he said, and it was like, it was a biblical term, sibleths or something in the sense of sibleths, the spirit of the time, basically.
00:23:56.000 I just have to say the stuff and you'll stop.
00:23:58.000 I don't even believe it myself.
00:23:59.000 Yes.
00:24:00.000 Yes.
00:24:00.000 I mean, and the funny thing is, if you look at him, I mean, he looks like, I don't know, he looks like an inflated, well, he looks like he could be on the view.
00:24:13.000 But I mean, like we said before, that is the fattest vegan I've ever seen.
00:24:19.000 That's right.
00:24:19.000 Dude, if you're going to be fat, eat meat.
00:24:21.000 I mean, at least enjoy being fat. 0.99
00:24:25.000 Like, don't tell, don't walk around with, he's got bigger breasts than every woman I've dated. 0.99
00:24:31.000 And I'm like, okay, and you're eating asparagus. 1.00
00:24:36.000 What a horrible life. 0.87
00:24:37.000 You're lying.
00:24:37.000 And then he opens the fridge, and as Tyrus has pointed out, you can see all these condiments.
00:24:42.000 It's like, who puts mayonnaise on vegetables?
00:24:44.000 Who puts mustard on bed?
00:24:45.000 This guy's eating nothing but hot dogs.
00:24:47.000 He's the type of guy that steals $8 billion from customers' accounts, by the way.
00:24:50.000 But then, but what did he do?
00:24:52.000 He was smart enough to lay out the virtue signaling carpet.
00:24:55.000 And he goes, No, if you come with me.
00:24:57.000 Oh, think about this.
00:24:58.000 I was thinking about this the other day.
00:25:00.000 So obviously, Tom Brady is one of the guys that is going to be sued.
00:25:04.000 I think he's being sued because he was one of the motors of FTX.
00:25:10.000 Yeah.
00:25:10.000 But think about this.
00:25:11.000 Brady's going to be fine no matter what he loses.
00:25:14.000 Imagine all those offensive linemen who, like, he said, hey, throw some money.
00:25:18.000 You got to buy some.
00:25:19.000 Imagine all these young guys that didn't know any better.
00:25:22.000 That, because it's, I find it interesting.
00:25:23.000 So it's billions and billions with thousands of victims.
00:25:27.000 And maybe that's why you don't hear that much because the money, like in a Ponzi scheme, is $2,000, $5,000, $10,000.
00:25:34.000 So they're going, but there are like, there was a school union, it was like $90 million.
00:25:38.000 Well, the California, the Canadian pension fund, Alberta or something, they put in a ton of money and they lost it all.
00:25:45.000 But Bankman Fried was playing the game.
00:25:48.000 It just was too big to sustain.
00:25:50.000 But he was able to understand, hey, I just have to give money to the correct politicians, say the right stuff.
00:25:55.000 I won't get investigated.
00:25:57.000 I won't get criticized.
00:25:58.000 You mentioned something that I want to make sure we go back and re-emphasize, which is you thought that the nonsense that happened on college campuses would stay there.
00:26:07.000 The equivalent metaphor I would use is we thought the gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Neurology would stay there.
00:26:14.000 Yes.
00:26:14.000 And the same way the mind pathogen on college campuses has leaked and infected our entire society.
00:26:20.000 Exactly.
00:26:21.000 And then, and when you talk about it, the people defending it will say it's necessary and it's not happening.
00:26:29.000 I love the fact that when, like with the leftism, it's necessary and it's not happening.
00:26:33.000 You know what I mean?
00:26:34.000 Well, it's not as bad as you think, but it's necessary.
00:26:36.000 There's a great pick your pick yourself.
00:26:38.000 Either be proud of it or say it's not happening, but don't say, oh, you know, it's that's what the gain of function.
00:26:45.000 They still, it's still going on.
00:26:47.000 It's still going on.
00:26:48.000 And Michael Anton had a great piece where he said, it's not happening and it's good that it is.
00:26:53.000 Yes, exactly.
00:26:53.000 And it's just so that's almost everything that happens in society, right?
00:26:57.000 Yeah.
00:26:58.000 Which is, hey, the border is perfectly secure and it's a good thing that 5,000 people are coming into our country every single day.
00:27:04.000 Exactly what it is.
00:27:05.000 It's like the border, the border is fine.
00:27:08.000 And they go, but you see, yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's no, but it's every example.
00:27:12.000 For example, it's, hey, there is no 9% inflation, but it's really good that prices are going up.
00:27:17.000 Yes.
00:27:18.000 Yes.
00:27:18.000 Wait, wait, which is it?
00:27:20.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:27:21.000 Yeah.
00:27:21.000 I guess in that term, what's it called that everybody keeps using?
00:27:26.000 God, where they paradox contradiction.
00:27:28.000 People lie to you.
00:27:29.000 Gaslighting.
00:27:30.000 Gaslighting.
00:27:30.000 It's like, see, I hate it so much, I can't remember it.
00:27:33.000 But it is, it actually is gaslighting.
00:27:35.000 Gaslighting is way overused.
00:27:37.000 It wasn't overused a couple years ago, but now it's everywhere because it's true.
00:27:42.000 Because it's true.
00:27:42.000 And by the way, gaslighting comes from a 1930s play that where literally a guy was psychologically manipulating his wife by slightly turning down the lights.
00:27:51.000 And she said, Why is it getting darker in here? 0.95
00:27:53.000 And he said, No, no, you're crazy. 0.98
00:27:54.000 Yes. 0.98
00:27:54.000 And so then it became in psychological literature, 40s and 50s, actually a clinical term of manipulating somebody to say, What you're what don't believe your lying eyes, essentially. 0.98
00:28:04.000 You know, I'm going to repeat that entire story on the five tomorrow and pretend that I came up with that.
00:28:13.000 I wrote a play called Gaslighting.
00:28:16.000 Yes. 0.99
00:28:16.000 And then when you deny it, I'm going to go, No, you're crazy. 0.99
00:28:18.000 That's absolutely crazy. 0.99
00:28:20.000 What are you talking about?
00:28:20.000 I wrote on the way back from Phoenix.
00:28:22.000 I was never at turning point.
00:28:25.000 Oh, you can't find a single person who saw me there.
00:28:28.000 Well, Greg, there's these pictures.
00:28:30.000 Oh, yeah.
00:28:31.000 Nice.
00:28:32.000 You heard what they could do exactly with AI?
00:28:34.000 Pretty powerful now.
00:28:37.000 And so, Greg, you mentioned another thing I'm going to harness on, which I do want to make sure at this event we celebrate the good things because we've been talking about some heavy stuff.
00:28:45.000 But what is your take on the significance, the improbability of what is happening at Twitter?
00:28:51.000 I mean, more than anything else, it's fun, it's exciting, but it's also, I believe, a moral good for Western civilization that we are able to now speak freely online.
00:28:59.000 Okay, there's so many, I will be scattershot on this because there's so many good things.
00:29:04.000 Number one, I did a monologue called, I think it was called the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and I said something like, They got media, they got the arts, and they got academia, they're going to go for social media.
00:29:17.000 And that's the way it, that's what happened until now.
00:29:21.000 So finally, we actually are taking something back to a guy who is willing to spend $44 billion on a principal.
00:29:29.000 And you can tell he's, I mean, when you listen, when you look at, I mean, the greatest thing about this is that he's not just running Twitter, he's using it.
00:29:38.000 He's using it in front of you.
00:29:40.000 He's not doing everything, like all the people that are complaining were doing things behind closed doors.
00:29:45.000 He's doing it right in front of you.
00:29:47.000 He goes, Okay, I'm going to suspend you.
00:29:48.000 And then he goes, Should I keep these people suspended?
00:29:50.000 You guys decide.
00:29:51.000 The way Elon is running Twitter is how I wish Trump would have run the FBI and the CIA and protests.
00:29:59.000 No, I'm not, it's not a criticism of Trump because the government is harder, but I think we wanted to see mass firings like, oh, Christopher Ray, Russia Gates suspended.
00:30:08.000 Yeah.
00:30:08.000 Like, oh, really?
00:30:09.000 Like, you're leaking against me?
00:30:11.000 You're fired.
00:30:12.000 Like, I mean, that's kind of the energy that we wanted.
00:30:14.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:30:14.000 And he's, I think, Musk is showing you how easy it is to do something if you have a single idea.
00:30:22.000 It's like, if you have a principle, you don't have to think that much about what you're going to do next.
00:30:27.000 You just do the right thing.
00:30:28.000 That's so, you know what I mean?
00:30:30.000 By the way, corporate America has no idea how to handle that.
00:30:32.000 Yeah.
00:30:33.000 They're like, wait, you're driven by ideals?
00:30:35.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:30:36.000 Wait a second.
00:30:36.000 I mean, we don't do that around.
00:30:37.000 How many meetings did you have before you suspect?
00:30:40.000 I didn't have any meetings.
00:30:41.000 I just said, hey, hey, guys, this person doxed my plane.
00:30:44.000 We're going to put him on for seven days.
00:30:46.000 And they're like, okay.
00:30:47.000 And you go, you didn't have a meeting?
00:30:48.000 Why would I have a meeting for that?
00:30:49.000 Seems so easy.
00:30:51.000 So he is a singular, he's a heroic force right now.
00:30:56.000 You know, and it's great.
00:31:00.000 It's great to see it happening.
00:31:02.000 And especially after all of the people who are complaining right now had the thumb on the scale.
00:31:07.000 And the only reason why they're complaining is Musk is showing you where the thumb was and pulled the thumb off.
00:31:13.000 And they're mad that they're and also, this isn't a speech thing when he did it because, you know, if they're doxing his family, he just turned into a dad.
00:31:22.000 It's like, you're telling people where my kids are, you're out of here.
00:31:25.000 And he grounded him.
00:31:26.000 That's what he did.
00:31:26.000 And they cried like little babies.
00:31:29.000 Who cares?
00:31:29.000 And I loved what he said to them: maybe seven days off Twitter will be good for your soul.
00:31:34.000 That's what a dad would say.
00:31:36.000 You know, I would never say that about Fox News.
00:31:39.000 Like, I would never say, you should stop watching my show for seven days because then I would get in trouble.
00:31:43.000 But he's like, look, you know what?
00:31:45.000 Get off Twitter for seven days.
00:31:46.000 It might be good for you.
00:31:47.000 It was such a great line.
00:31:48.000 And not to mention, he's releasing the Twitter files.
00:31:51.000 They get so angry.
00:31:52.000 And by the way, you know why they're angry?
00:31:54.000 Because you're supposed to cover it up.
00:31:57.000 Yeah.
00:31:58.000 Yes.
00:31:58.000 Powerful people, when you inherit something that another powerful person did that was wrong, you shred, destroy, smash, or bleach bit.
00:32:09.000 Powerful people never tattle or leak on other powerful people.
00:32:15.000 That's like an unspoken fact of the Aspen ski lift.
00:32:18.000 Yes, exactly.
00:32:19.000 Which is, hey, I got your back in case in an MA I find out that you were, I don't know, embezzling money.
00:32:25.000 Yeah.
00:32:25.000 And then, and then when something big comes out, they're like, oh, yeah, everybody knew.
00:32:29.000 Going back to the Weinstein thing, or the Italian Briscolone, Silvio, the prime minister who had these orgies.
00:32:36.000 Everybody knew.
00:32:36.000 All of a sudden, everybody in power knew about it.
00:32:39.000 Yeah, which one?
00:32:40.000 But, you know, Silvio Bertlusconi.
00:32:43.000 Turns out he gets these like crazy underage things.
00:32:46.000 And it's like, oh, yeah, everybody in power.
00:32:48.000 Oh, yeah.
00:32:48.000 That's those.
00:32:49.000 Why didn't you say anything?
00:32:51.000 Oh, perfect.
00:32:51.000 Epstein.
00:32:52.000 You know, oh, that's no surprise.
00:32:55.000 They said, well, it is to us.
00:32:56.000 We think it's weird.
00:32:58.000 But it's also, I mean, I just got, you know, there's a lot of media here, and the media smears all of you as conspiracy theorists far too often.
00:33:06.000 And the thing that you have to respond with, if you ever called that, say, hold on a second.
00:33:09.000 10 years ago, if I were to mention that a former president was flying on a private jet to an island with underage girls, you would have smeared me as a conspiracy theorist.
00:33:19.000 So maybe you should expand the horizons of what is possible and what is happening and stop calling people names and entertain that there might be more to the story actually unfolding.
00:33:29.000 It's kind of interesting to see how the family as an issue is bifurcated into you know a parents' party and an anti-children party.
00:33:40.000 Well, I call it the perverts party.
00:33:42.000 Yeah, that's a you can you can get away with that.
00:33:44.000 No, I think I'll call it the perverts party, but it's not as much fun.
00:33:48.000 Pervert party sounds fun. 0.64
00:33:49.000 This is people that are based on fun.
00:33:53.000 Charlie, come on, I'll take you to some parties in Italy.
00:33:55.000 No, no, but no, it is this.
00:33:59.000 It's like, you know, you don't mind that kids are being taken from their parents or having these anonymous whatever dealings with surgeons.
00:34:09.000 That's not, that's crazy.
00:34:10.000 Or having, I don't know, like even Drag Queen Story Hour, if you talk about it, people go, oh, you're so stayed.
00:34:16.000 It's like, no, dude, drag queen story hour, I'd love it.
00:34:20.000 But there's something that we used to call age appropriateness.
00:34:23.000 That's all we're saying.
00:34:24.000 Saying, if you want, hey, look, if you want to do your drag queen story hour, you go ahead, do it to your, to the, do it with your children, your, you know, family.
00:34:33.000 But you know what?
00:34:33.000 There's something like third graders, don't you, like, there's something insane about that.
00:34:38.000 And so that the Republican Party is now becoming the voice for sense, and they're becoming the voice for just chaos and weirdness.
00:34:44.000 Yeah, and then you're the bigot for saying that.
00:34:47.000 Yeah, it's probably not a good thing to have second graders exposed.
00:34:50.000 Exactly.
00:34:51.000 And there's something wrong with you.
00:34:53.000 And this is the funny thing: that, like, what have you, what have you gone through for the past 15 years?
00:34:58.000 You've been called a racist.
00:35:00.000 So, what, what, what's kind of what I always look for the analogy, kind of like the correlation.
00:35:05.000 The correlation is calling them a groomer.
00:35:07.000 Watch them how upset they get.
00:35:09.000 It's like that's where you get you kicked off Twitter.
00:35:11.000 Yeah.
00:35:12.000 If you call them a groomer, it's like, but it's like, okay, so now you know how it feels.
00:35:15.000 Every time I did something on Fox, I was called, I was called a racist or a bigot, and there was no evidence whatsoever.
00:35:23.000 So now I go, like, okay, so you're for this, you're for this.
00:35:25.000 Sounds to me like you're a groomer.
00:35:27.000 What kind of adult stranger would want to keep things from the parents of other children?
00:35:36.000 That sounds like a groomer.
00:35:40.000 So, Greg, just to kind of put a capstone on the Twitter topic, that's a major development over the last calendar year.
00:35:47.000 That's a civilizational change in how we're able to interact, have dialogue, challenge authority.
00:35:54.000 I mean, can you just build out the significance of that a little bit more?
00:35:58.000 Well, I think that we are like, this is perhaps, okay, I said this before.
00:36:10.000 What runs the media for the longest time was Twitter?
00:36:13.000 Because people in the media, in the mainstream media, don't have original ideas.
00:36:17.000 So they look, if there's an incident that occurs, they look to media for that narrative.
00:36:23.000 And the narrative is controlled by the people that control Twitter.
00:36:26.000 They turn that faucet off.
00:36:27.000 They turn that faucet on.
00:36:29.000 You ever notice how there's no news during the holidays?
00:36:31.000 That's because all the media went on vacation.
00:36:34.000 It's a narrative.
00:36:34.000 There's no news.
00:36:35.000 There's no news when they're at the Hamptons.
00:36:37.000 It's so strange.
00:36:38.000 So it's like, so what Musk has done is, hey, he removed the power source.
00:36:44.000 That's a big deal.
00:36:45.000 That's a big deal.
00:36:46.000 That means all of those things that were silenced, the half, the 50% of stories that you never saw now reappear.
00:36:53.000 And all of a sudden, you start noticing on your feed that there's no more crazy people coming after you.
00:36:58.000 And it's just strange.
00:37:00.000 But now you're seeing real stuff.
00:37:02.000 Before you thought you saw the news, you didn't see the news.
00:37:05.000 You were seeing manufactured narratives from a select group of progressives.
00:37:09.000 That's done.
00:37:11.000 And it's too hard for them to make it.
00:37:13.000 The best testament of this is watching them try to make a new Twitter and it's called Mastodon.
00:37:18.000 Have you seen this?
00:37:19.000 It's hilarious.
00:37:20.000 Can you think of a worse name?
00:37:22.000 Mastodon, by the way, is a great metal band.
00:37:24.000 It's not a liberal social media entity.
00:37:27.000 It just sounds really dark.
00:37:28.000 I mean, if I were to name a James Bond villain, Mastodon.
00:37:32.000 But it's hilarious is they're banning each other.
00:37:34.000 They're banning.
00:37:35.000 So some leftist goes, I'm done with Twitter.
00:37:37.000 And that person goes to Mastodon, and that person linked a New York Times piece got banned for Mastodon for linking a New York Times piece.
00:37:44.000 So it's like, there's nothing more pleasurable than watching the left, you know, eat their own.
00:37:49.000 Mastodon is where the big meal is.
00:37:53.000 You said something super smart the other day where you said Twitter is the assembly line of elite opinion.
00:37:57.000 Yeah, which is exactly right, where it kind of gets put together.
00:38:00.000 All right, so we only got a couple minutes remaining here, Greg.
00:38:02.000 We have a massive student audience, a really big student activist army at Turning Point USA.
00:38:07.000 You know, I always like to have you talk about, you know, what it's like to be in a community where you're not in the ideological minority.
00:38:14.000 You live in one in New York City.
00:38:16.000 The importance of speaking out, how you developed your career.
00:38:19.000 Just riff on that a little bit.
00:38:20.000 I always say, I said this, I think I said it the last time I was here.
00:38:23.000 And I'm going to say it again because I think it's the most important thing because I wish somebody had said it to me.
00:38:29.000 When you're outnumbered by somebody about an idea, let's say it's abortion, something that's like divided, you know, and you're in a situation on a campus, there's seven people just laughing at you.
00:38:42.000 You really don't believe the whole thing they always say to you is, you really don't believe that, do you?
00:38:47.000 You really don't believe that.
00:38:48.000 Come on.
00:38:48.000 Somebody's done that to you about something.
00:38:51.000 Your answer has to be, why is it important to you that I agree with you?
00:38:56.000 That's step one.
00:38:57.000 Because that forces them to ask themselves why they need to have a group.
00:39:00.000 It's like, why is it important for me?
00:39:02.000 Why is it important for you to have me agree with you?
00:39:05.000 And then the second part is, and I want to phrase it carefully because it's poignant.
00:39:13.000 Why would I, meaning you, why would I put myself through this when I could just be you?
00:39:22.000 Why would I choose to be ridiculed by you people when I could just be you?
00:39:27.000 Why am I doing that?
00:39:28.000 Do you ever wonder that?
00:39:29.000 Do you ever wonder why I'm suffering the slings and the arrows?
00:39:33.000 Do you ever wonder that maybe there's something more to this than what you think it is?
00:39:38.000 Why am I not, why should I join you?
00:39:41.000 My life would be so much easier, but I'm not.
00:39:45.000 Do you ever wonder why?
00:39:47.000 I don't even know if there's a response to that.
00:39:51.000 And what it does is it exposes that you really believe what you believe and that you believe it at a cost.
00:40:00.000 Yes.
00:40:00.000 And you might actually, out of those seven or eight people, one of them might actually go, wow, that person just told me I'm a sheep and they're right.
00:40:12.000 And maybe I should think about that.
00:40:13.000 You might not, it may not happen.
00:40:15.000 You may not get any of them, but it happened to you.
00:40:17.000 I mean, I learned from looking at other people.
00:40:20.000 And if you stand and you stand for your beliefs and you go like, look, yeah, I get it.
00:40:25.000 It would be so much easier.
00:40:27.000 The thing, saying it would be so much easier if I were you, I get it, but I'm not.
00:40:34.000 You should think about that.
00:40:36.000 That's like they will go like, wow, it's like they have to go home and then they have to do the strategic empathy where they have to think about, well, what is, why does Charlie think that way?
00:40:45.000 What does Charlie know that maybe I should listen to?
00:40:48.000 And that's the poke.
00:40:51.000 That's the first poke.
00:40:52.000 And it also makes you just seem pretty cool.
00:40:55.000 Greg, any closing thoughts?
00:40:58.000 I always have a great time here.
00:40:59.000 I think you guys are doing great work.
00:41:01.000 You know, you guys didn't exist when I was around.
00:41:05.000 And who knows?
00:41:06.000 You know, I was basically alone.
00:41:10.000 Yeah, at Berkeley.
00:41:12.000 So great job, you guys.
00:41:13.000 Greg, I speak on behalf of all the people here.
00:41:16.000 Your show's really special.
00:41:18.000 And we thank you for making us laugh and making fun of the bad guys.
00:41:22.000 God bless you, Greg.
00:41:23.000 Thanks so much.
00:41:23.000 Thank you, everybody.
00:41:24.000 Thank you.
00:41:27.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:41:29.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:41:33.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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