The Charlie Kirk Show - Netflix Craters and America's Woke Cultural Detox

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00:01:16.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:02:01.000 There's something very special happening right now in the country, and we're going to lead with a story that you might not expect us to lead with today.

00:02:08.000 It's one that is you probably saw on the business ticker.

00:02:12.000 You might see it in your stock portfolio, but it's an unexpected story.

00:02:17.000 So when you get, maybe you feel overweight or when you feel a little sloppy, there's a good impulse that we humans have that you should act upon.

00:02:27.000 Not all impulses are bad.

00:02:29.000 Where you say, man, I need to change what I'm eating.

00:02:32.000 I need to change my diet.

00:02:34.000 Now, a modern term for this that is used, especially in the health circles, is to detox.

00:02:41.000 This is why you'll see some people walking around drinking celery juice and doing keto diet, which is ketosis to get your body into a state of ketosis.

00:02:50.000 Don't recommend that, by the way.

00:02:51.000 It could be very bad for your heart.

00:02:52.000 It's where people go on diets and start working out.

00:02:55.000 And that's a good thing.

00:02:56.000 When people start to embark on a journey of self-improvement, we should be supportive of that.

00:03:02.000 We should tell, we should encourage people to continue to try to make themselves a better version of themselves.

00:03:10.000 In fact, you're going to start to see that a lot coming up in the coming months when people are going to start to get back into the gym or go outside and try to assume a healthier lifestyle.

00:03:19.000 Now, that is happening individually, but it's also happening culturally.

00:03:25.000 The same sort of impulse where you start to evaluate why am I eating these donuts for breakfast?

00:03:30.000 Why am I having a three-course lunch?

00:03:33.000 Why am I having dessert every night?

00:03:35.000 Maybe I need to cut back.

00:03:36.000 Maybe I need to reprioritize what I'm putting into my body so that I can actually have an outcome that I can live with, that I can have progress and I could be on the journey of self-improvement.

00:03:47.000 The very same thing is happening right now with the information and the content that we as a society consume and process.

00:03:57.000 The very same way as now people are starting to reject donuts and saturated fats and fried foods, people are now starting to say, why am I paying money every single month voluntarily for a subscription service that is feeding me the equivalent of saturated fats that might feel good when I watch it, but I feel really bad afterwards and it doesn't make me happier.

00:04:21.000 In fact, it makes me sadder.

00:04:23.000 And I just don't like what they're pushing out.

00:04:26.000 The example, of course, that I'm talking about is this incredible news that shows that Netflix is now down by 37%, their stock.

00:04:40.000 Down 37% in trading.

00:04:44.000 Now, it came out yesterday that Netflix reported a loss of 200,000 monthly paying subscribers during the first quarter of this year.

00:04:54.000 Netflix has embraced the woke agenda completely and totally.

00:04:59.000 Now, there's still some good content on Netflix.

00:05:01.000 I canceled my Netflix subscription because after they published Cuties, which I believe was very close to child pornography, and other people agree, it's hard to not come to that conclusion.

00:05:13.000 There's some fine content on Netflix.

00:05:14.000 Their show on Elon Musk is fine.

00:05:16.000 Their World War II documentaries are okay, sure.

00:05:19.000 But Netflix has gone all in on the diversity equity agenda.

00:05:25.000 In fact, Netflix has become a mouthpiece for the political correct regime.

00:05:30.000 They have entire categories dedicated to trans content, entire categories dedicated to fighting racism.

00:05:36.000 Netflix, of course, is now coming up against other competitors.

00:05:39.000 A big push from Disney, the grooming network, big push, which is Hulu, of course.

00:05:45.000 Hulu is owned by Disney.

00:05:47.000 A big push by Discovery Plus, HBO Max, and Netflix is now up against the wall.

00:05:54.000 Now, you might say, Charlie, what's the importance?

00:05:56.000 So, what if Netflix is cratering?

00:05:58.000 I don't think you quite understand the cultural impact that Netflix has over young people and how they view the world.

00:06:07.000 If 200,000 people are divesting from Netflix, they are doing the exact same type of behavior that people do when they say, I'm a little bit overweight.

00:06:18.000 Get me some celery juice, get me a gym membership.

00:06:20.000 I'm going to stop going out to the bar every evening and I got to get myself into shape.

00:06:25.000 What you are seeing is an entire country or culture start to kind of sit up straight with their shoulders back and say, That's not making me a happier or better person.

00:06:36.000 Now, Netflix seemed to be untouchable for years.

00:06:39.000 In fact, Netflix was part of the acronym of tech boom, which was called Fang, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, and Google.

00:06:49.000 They seem to be untouchable.

00:06:50.000 They just seem to be almost experiencing anti-gravity levitation in their stock price.

00:06:57.000 No matter what happened, recession fears, COVID fears.

00:07:02.000 Netflix just kind of grew.

00:07:05.000 And now Netflix is experiencing that what goes up must come down.

00:07:11.000 But Netflix decided to inject the very same virus that is being challenged at every single corner in American society.

00:07:19.000 They didn't not just inject it, they made it dogma.

00:07:22.000 They made it doctrine.

00:07:23.000 Netflix has unabashedly and wholeheartedly embraced the very same insidious ideology, the cancer, that is becoming increasingly unpopular in America.

00:07:37.000 So now you kind of see this.

00:07:38.000 You say, wow, CNN Plus, they spent a billion dollars cratering.

00:07:43.000 You see MSNBC, their ratings, cratering.

00:07:46.000 Netflix now.

00:07:47.000 And Netflix, I would argue, actually, is more influential in shaping the opinions, the thoughts, the perspectives, the worldviews, in challenging the values and the morals of a society.

00:08:03.000 Netflix is more influential in that regard than most media companies.

00:08:11.000 Most media companies do not have the kind of sway.

00:08:17.000 They do not have the kind of power that Netflix has.

00:08:20.000 One documentary from Netflix can change the world.

00:08:23.000 If you don't believe me, for whatever reason, we all decided to start caring about that weird guy from Oklahoma, the tiger guy.

00:08:31.000 What was his name again?

00:08:33.000 I just know Carol Baskin because that was kind of the whole thing.

00:08:35.000 The exotic Joe, Joe Exotic, exotic Joe.

00:08:40.000 And that was a Netflix documentary.

00:08:42.000 And like, we all sudden started like people were advocating for his pardon.

00:08:46.000 It's like this whole bizarre thing.

00:08:47.000 That's the power of Netflix.

00:08:50.000 Ozark, that's the power of Netflix.

00:08:53.000 It's when all of a sudden you have a show that just everyone needs to go see.

00:08:57.000 Now, of course, Netflix came onto the scene by publishing House of Cards with Kevin Spacey.

00:09:05.000 That was kind of their first content investment that really helped boost their rise.

00:09:11.000 But Netflix is going to have a decision, which is they are anchored to the pesky shackles of reality.

00:09:17.000 A stock price, which is now down.

00:09:19.000 I'm looking at it right now.

00:09:20.000 Down 38%.

00:09:22.000 They opened trading at $219 a share.

00:09:27.000 And it looks like they are, well, no, they're at $219 a share now.

00:09:30.000 And they opened trading at $350 a share, which means they created $124 per share.

00:09:38.000 They open at $350 and now they're at $219.

00:09:41.000 But will Netflix go and double and triple down on the, we need more trans content.

00:09:46.000 We need more BLM content? 0.92

00:09:48.000 Well, if that's the case, their stock price is going to continue to plummet because the American people don't want it.

00:09:53.000 You want a poll before a poll?

00:09:55.000 If you want a window into what's going to happen in November, look at Netflix.

00:10:01.000 People don't just not want that in their politics.

00:10:03.000 They don't want it in their home.

00:10:06.000 And now Netflix is scrambling and they're wondering, what happened?

00:10:09.000 I'll tell you what happened.

00:10:10.000 You've decided to create content that is at odds with Western values.

00:10:16.000 Turns out people actually don't want to pay for that.

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00:11:33.000 People don't want this garbage that has been produced in the last couple years post-Floyd. 0.82

00:11:42.000 Cut 50, CBS reports on the massive loss by Netflix. 0.92

00:11:45.000 Let's play Cut 50.

00:11:47.000 The streaming service Netflix today reported a loss of 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of the year.

00:11:54.000 It is the first time in a decade that Netflix has reported a loss of in subscribers, and it set the company stock plunging by 25% in after-hours trading.

00:12:04.000 Netflix is blaming the losses on increased competition, password sharing, inflation, and even the war in Ukraine.

00:12:12.000 Password sharing.

00:12:13.000 Yeah, that's it.

00:12:13.000 No, Netflix, it's not the war in Ukraine.

00:12:16.000 It's not password sharing.

00:12:17.000 And competition might be a little part of it. 0.98

00:12:20.000 It's that no one really wants to see the crap that you're publishing. 0.93

00:12:23.000 If you were producing beautiful content, if you were producing stories that were compelling, then people would be flocking to your service. 0.99

00:12:31.000 And there's some stuff on it, but generally, it's just the same sort of repetitive garbage.

00:12:38.000 People don't want that. 0.72

00:12:39.000 And they're starting to show that.

00:12:42.000 And so there are market principles at play here.

00:12:44.000 And you see that with CNN.

00:12:45.000 And the question will be: how will these organizations and companies keep themselves afloat?

00:12:52.000 What is going to be the bailout model?

00:12:54.000 I mean, you already saw massive media companies be bailed out by taxpayers in the midst of the pandemic through stimulus.

00:13:03.000 You saw huge amounts of taxpayer dollars go to bailout media companies.

00:13:08.000 Then you saw the CDC and NIH come in with incredibly overwhelming, like just incredible sums of money to advertise the vaccine and to advertise NIH and CDC propaganda.

00:13:24.000 A lot of media companies benefited from that and got a lot of money of get your back, get vaccine and get boosted today.

00:13:30.000 Tons of money from media companies.

00:13:32.000 So we know that.

00:13:33.000 But now those kind of those things are over for right now.

00:13:36.000 So what is going to keep these media companies afloat?

00:13:39.000 People don't actually want to consume their information.

00:13:42.000 And Netflix is a great example because the Netflix model is inherently brutal.

00:13:49.000 Where CNN can kind of hide how many people are watching, like, oh, we have web traffic and we have all these different types of airport traffic, which is, I think, CNN's, without airports, I don't know how many people would actually watch CNN.

00:14:02.000 There's a very interesting story as to why CNN is in airports.

00:14:05.000 They actually had to get FAA approval.

00:14:07.000 The federal and aviation admit, the Federal Aviation Administration does a contract with CNN.

00:14:11.000 CNN is also in your kids' schools, by the way.

00:14:14.000 It's called, it's not New Day, I'll think of it.

00:14:17.000 It's Channel 1, I think is what it's called. 0.94

00:14:20.000 CNN is in public schools all across the country and they get paid for that garbage, trying to condition kids into that.

00:14:27.000 Oh, CNN in the airports got shut down in January? 0.90

00:14:29.000 I didn't know that.

00:14:30.000 Huh.

00:14:31.000 That's why I'm happier when I'm going through airports and I don't have to wear a mask.

00:14:35.000 So CNN actually, okay, in January, they grounded their long-running airport network.

00:14:40.000 Yeah, without CNN in the airports, I don't know who would have actually watched it.

00:14:43.000 But also, they have the school propaganda piece.

00:14:48.000 But anyway, CNN is able to disguise and camouflage how many people are actually watching it.

00:14:54.000 They can make themselves seem more popular than they actually are.

00:14:57.000 Netflix can't do that because Netflix goes straight into the credit card statement and bank account of their users.

00:15:05.000 So Netflix's model is brutally transparent.

00:15:09.000 Netflix, if they do not have people that want their content, then they're going to go down like a rock.

00:15:15.000 And that's one of the reasons why Netflix has been basically able to defy gravity through their stock price and subscribers the last couple of years is because if you live by the sword, you're going to die by the sword.

00:15:25.000 If you live by the idea that subscribers are going to give you money, but then all of a sudden what happens when they stop giving you money?

00:15:31.000 And so because of that, their ascent has also now been their decline.

00:15:34.000 So their stock is now down 38%.

00:15:36.000 And so at the Netflix meeting, you got to wonder what they're going to try to do.

00:15:41.000 Here's what the wokies are going to say.

00:15:42.000 Here's what we need.

00:15:43.000 We need more totalitarian measures to make sure password sharing isn't happening.

00:15:49.000 Okay.

00:15:49.000 We need to end the war in Ukraine and Russia.

00:15:52.000 I agree.

00:15:52.000 I would love to see that war end.

00:15:54.000 I don't know how that impacts your company other than you shut off service in Russia, which I guess is a big market for Netflix, but not exactly sure.

00:16:03.000 They say it's hundreds of thousands of homes that they shut off in Netflix in Russia.

00:16:07.000 What's the other thing that they blamed?

00:16:09.000 They blamed other competition.

00:16:11.000 Okay.

00:16:11.000 So, but here's the thing: is that when you have an oversaturation of companies that are doing the same thing and you don't even do it well, don't be surprised, Netflix, when you crater Hulu, Discovery Plus, HBO Max, Netflix, I can't even remember all of them, by the way, YouTube TV, Amazon Video Prime, whatever.

00:16:34.000 They're all in kind of the same space, which is we need to have diversity, equity, inclusion, woke-type writings.

00:16:44.000 And the same type of story is like, okay, there's some like isolated urban youth who might think they're transgender.

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00:18:19.000 The only person, the only thing that I will try to see in Netflix in the coming months, and I'll just go over to my in-law's house to watch it, is Ozark.

00:18:29.000 It is a good show.

00:18:29.000 And I will say, Ozark, which I got into before Netflix went totally out of control, was very much immune to a lot of the diversity, equity, inclusion garbage.

00:18:43.000 It's a great show, and it's rare.

00:18:46.000 Let's go to Cut 53, a guest on Stuart Varney's wonderful program, says they lost 700,000 accounts because they shut down Netflix in Russia and that this trend will continue because the streaming services are coming off their COVID high.

00:19:00.000 This is an argument that it's a natural taper.

00:19:03.000 I don't quite agree with this argument.

00:19:04.000 Play Cut 53.

00:19:06.000 Well, first things first, I mean, obviously, they shut down all the accounts in Russia.

00:19:10.000 So I think that was like 700,000, but that's not the main issue.

00:19:14.000 The main issue here is, and we've talked about this before, Stu, all of the COVID darlings, whether it be Netflix, DocuSign, Zoom, any of the COVID darlings, they are getting crushed right now because they had all that pull forward at the beginning of the pandemic.

00:19:28.000 And now they're realizing that, you know, the game is changing.

00:19:33.000 And so people are looking at what can I cut out.

00:19:36.000 Now, that's not a good sign culturally, nor is it a good sign economically.

00:19:40.000 If you're about to head into a recession or a downturn, it's usually when people start to say, what can I cut out of what I have in front of me?

00:19:48.000 Cut 54, Stuart Varney guessed, on how people are looking at their bills and seeing what they can cut out.

00:19:54.000 Netflix is now being deemed non-essential.

00:19:59.000 Play Cut 54.

00:20:01.000 Yeah, I would say so.

00:20:03.000 As we've seen with Netflix, they're losing subscribers.

00:20:07.000 And I think the rest of them, folks are taking a look at their bills and thinking, well, what can I do without now?

00:20:13.000 And as the economy maybe slows a little bit, and as we have some fear of a potential recession down the road, people are going to start to take a look at their bills.

00:20:22.000 And I think all the streaming companies are probably going to see some losses.

00:20:28.000 Elon Musk responds to a tweet about Netflix cratering 20%, what's now 38%.

00:20:34.000 Elon Musk tweets, quote, the woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable.

00:20:41.000 Someone else responds, Prene Pothole, says the woke mind virus is the biggest threat to civilization.

00:20:47.000 Elon Musk responds, yes.

00:20:50.000 You're starting to see a consolidation against this cancer that has metastasized into every central organ of the West.

00:21:03.000 Everywhere you turn, it's like, why is this ever?

00:21:05.000 Why is our military talking about diversity, equity, inclusion?

00:21:09.000 Why do we have black-only dormitories at universities?

00:21:13.000 Why do we have black-only graduation ceremonies at Columbia University?

00:21:16.000 Why is United Airlines saying they're going to give preference to skin color when hiring pilots?

00:21:22.000 Why is Capital State 3 Advisors saying that they need a unanimous support from the board to hire a white man, but black people could be hired at any time?

00:21:30.000 Why is this happening?

00:21:31.000 Why is it that Apple has now come out with an emoji saying that men can become pregnant?

00:21:39.000 And the cancer is everywhere.

00:21:41.000 And what you're starting to see is a response where decent people are ready to go scorched earth and execute a metaphorical chemotherapy campaign against the woke cancer in our country.

00:21:57.000 And when you have cancer, to just kind of finish the metaphor, one of the first things they tell you to stop doing is stop eating bad sugar.

00:22:05.000 It just feeds the tumor.

00:22:08.000 So people are saying, look, the tumor is everywhere. 0.88

00:22:11.000 I'm not going to keep on just eating this Netflix garbage because it's actually making me feel really crummy. 0.95

00:22:17.000 And it's only further powering the people that I hate. 0.89

00:22:20.000 Now, if Netflix thinks the future of their company is pandering to 10 to 15% of the population, where people live in maybe Malibu or Manhattan or Boston, and all they care about is super radical, like transgender youth stories of kind of like the stories on Netflix are so bad because they're destroying the Western canon.

00:22:43.000 And there's this new thing they do in television now, which I just call meandering.

00:22:49.000 And if you watch some of these series, it's just there's no real story for a couple episodes.

00:22:55.000 It's just kind of the main characters wander.

00:23:00.000 And there's really not, there's no like a confrontation to evil.

00:23:04.000 There's no introspection for the betterment.

00:23:07.000 But there's a lot of the, and you see this in a lot of the stuff.

00:23:10.000 You could kind of see this in cable television too.

00:23:12.000 And I know enough of this just to be dangerous because I try not to watch this stuff.

00:23:16.000 But just out of curiosity, I, you know, I did in the last couple months here and there, just a sample of what are people watching?

00:23:22.000 And you see it, there's so many of these scenes where like the main character is like looking up at the sky and is always filmed from the top down.

00:23:30.000 And it's kind of the entire camera starts to rotate as if I don't know what is real.

00:23:35.000 I don't know who I am.

00:23:36.000 I don't know what existence is.

00:23:40.000 And they kind of get drawn through either a psychedelic experience or some sort of one-off friendship, or they become an activist.

00:23:49.000 And you watch this and you say, where is the kind of unfolding of the traditional Western story, which is broken person wants to improve, challenges evil, loves what is good, and goes on some sort of heroic adventure to go about doing it.

00:24:09.000 Now, that's way too complicated.

00:24:11.000 Now, one of the reasons why Ozark is a great show on Netflix is that it actually turns the Western cannon on its head.

00:24:19.000 It does a 180, and it does what made the Soprano so successful and what made Breaking Bad so successful.

00:24:26.000 Ozark took the Sopranos, took Breaking Bad, and just did it, I think, not better, but they did it differently.

00:24:33.000 And it's, okay, we're going to make the antagonist, the protagonist, we're going to play a trick on the audience, and we're going to make you go cheer for a drug dealer, a meth truck dealer in Breaking Bad, or go cheer for a money launderer, murderer in Ozark.

00:24:51.000 We call them anti-heroes, by the way.

00:24:53.000 And that is very difficult to pull off from a literary perspective.

00:25:01.000 But if you kind of think about what's happening right now, the coalition, how powerful is the team reality?

00:25:07.000 How powerful is the anti-woke coalition?

00:25:12.000 You got the most watched cable news show in history, Tucker Carlson.

00:25:17.000 You have the most listened to podcast in history, Joe Rogan.

00:25:21.000 You have the richest man in history, Elon Musk.

00:25:25.000 You have Donald Trump, who won more votes as a sitting president than any other president in history.

00:25:33.000 You have arguably the most popular governor in modern history, Ron DeSantis.

00:25:39.000 And not to mention, you have this incredible combination of Glenn Greenwald, once the hero of the anti-security state left.

00:25:48.000 You have Alex Berenson, Scott Atlas, moms and dads showing up at school board meetings, and then the entire conservative base.

00:25:58.000 How about Piers Morgan, Bill Maher?

00:26:02.000 I've said many times, I would much rather be on an all-star team than be an all-star myself.

00:26:09.000 And I look around, I say, wow, we got Tucker, largest cable news show on the team that I'm on.

00:26:16.000 Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Bill Maher, Piers Morgan, Glenn Greenwald, and then you got Bannon on the same time, same team of all this.

00:26:26.000 You kind of look around, and not to mention Bongino and all these other people.

00:26:30.000 And it bears repeating, the richest man in history, by the way.

00:26:33.000 No one's got more money than he does.

00:26:36.000 And it really kind of you look around, you say, this is a team that can win.

00:26:40.000 It's a team that's going to win.

00:26:43.000 Now, mind you, the team might, at the surface level, just look like an opposition network, right?

00:26:49.000 Which is very effective, by the way.

00:26:51.000 Opposition networks tend to win because in order to win, they just have to not lose.

00:26:56.000 That's one of the reasons why it's so hard to invade a country.

00:26:58.000 We made this point with Russia invading Ukraine early on that I think a lot of the kind of pro-Russian force, the pro-Russian propaganda people, you know, RT or whatever, they were like, oh, Russia's going to take it over in an afternoon.

00:27:10.000 And it's easier.

00:27:11.000 It's hard to conquer a country because in order to defend a country, you could lose every battle.

00:27:15.000 You just have to not lose the war.

00:27:16.000 You just have to outlast.

00:27:17.000 That's what the Taliban did. 0.73

00:27:18.000 It's what the American revolutionaries did.

00:27:22.000 But I don't think that this team, Tucker, Rogan, Enlon, Maher, all these people now consolidating together, I don't think it's just an opposition network.

00:27:34.000 I don't.

00:27:35.000 I think that all of us have an agreement.

00:27:37.000 Now, we might have disagreement on some very big things like abortion and marriage and all this, but we have agreement on some things.

00:27:43.000 Speech is fundamental to human existence.

00:27:45.000 Consent to the governed is necessary.

00:27:47.000 Human equality is an ideal worth striving for.

00:27:50.000 The Constitution is a beautiful political document.

00:27:52.000 No power should be centralized in one person.

00:27:54.000 We believe in checks and balances.

00:27:56.000 We believe in an independent judiciary.

00:27:58.000 We believe that states' rights need to be worthy to be preserved and protected.

00:28:02.000 We believe in individual sovereignty.

00:28:04.000 We generally don't like corporate power merging with governmental power.

00:28:08.000 And we really do not like this all-out war, this constant blitzkrieg against material reality.

00:28:21.000 The entire coalition is like, hold on a second.

00:28:24.000 You know, don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

00:28:26.000 Don't tell me you don't know what a woman is. 1.00

00:28:29.000 You could call this the A team.

00:28:30.000 You could call this the unexpected alliance.

00:28:34.000 What does the other team have?

00:28:35.000 They have like Joy Reed and Anderson Cooper and that eunuch that always goes on CNN, whatever his name is, and Don Lamond, and I don't know, super like fragile people like Whoopi Goldberg and labor unions.

00:28:55.000 Okay, I'll take our team.

00:28:56.000 Our team's going to win.

00:28:58.000 Team reality versus team woke.

00:29:01.000 Every single person in the category team reality is getting richer, more powerful, more popular.

00:29:06.000 And the opposite is happening on the other side.

00:29:08.000 Play Cut 56, MSNBC, starting to explain how Democrats are totally falling out of favor with the people.

00:29:17.000 Now, this is all happening simultaneously, and it's not a coincidence.

00:29:20.000 The 200,000 people that no longer want Netflix are also the people that are now saying, give us Republicans back in control.

00:29:28.000 The very same people that do not want to watch CNN Plus are the very same people that say, we want Republicans back in control.

00:29:34.000 You're starting to see it at every single corner, at every single turn.

00:29:39.000 So it's not just manifesting culturally.

00:29:41.000 It's not just manifesting economically.

00:29:44.000 It's not just manifesting in a way that everyone can see.

00:29:47.000 It's now manifesting politically.

00:29:49.000 And again, the winning team, if you will, when historians accurately write the kind of saga of this era, they will talk about the successful, unexpected coalition of Bernie Sanders liberal, Glenn Greenwald, who I have a lot of respect for.

00:30:07.000 I really have a lot of respect for him.

00:30:10.000 Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Bill Maher, Elon Musk, this program, and others consolidating together to defeat the woke, not to mention Brett Weinstein and Naomi Wolf and McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., all kind of coming together around very basic values of self-government,

00:30:37.000 the Constitution, and the rule of law, like stuff that we never used to not debate, where Democrats and Republicans used to always agree.

00:30:44.000 It could be Barry Weiss or Douglas Murray or kind of this entire collection of people together.

00:30:53.000 And it's becoming very powerful.

00:30:55.000 In fact, that is where the momentum is.

00:30:57.000 Where Peter Bogosian, who we're doing some work with at Turning Point USA, we got to have him back on the program soon, who is an atheist, I'm the opposite of an atheist, who is, some people would call him a liberal, but a free speech guy, who we're doing events with at Turning Point USA to challenge this woke virus, you think to yourself, just like a betting odds, right?

00:31:17.000 If you were like Caesar's Palace in Vegas and you say, which is the team that's going to win?

00:31:24.000 The team that's able to bring people together from different backgrounds, political affiliations, and religious views, people that are highly persuasive, likable, that are getting richer, more powerful, and more popular.

00:31:37.000 Is that team going to win?

00:31:39.000 Or is the team going to win the team that might control the institutions, but those institutions are floundering?

00:31:45.000 College enrollment, down.

00:31:47.000 CNN Plus subscribers, down.

00:31:49.000 Netflix, cratering.

00:31:51.000 Absent an Elon Musk bailout.

00:31:53.000 Twitter was cratering because their users are still down.

00:31:57.000 Which is the team that's going to win?

00:31:59.000 If you were Caesar's Palace and you were just kind of trying to handicap the odds, which is the one that you would put your money on?

00:32:04.000 What's the over-under there?

00:32:07.000 I could tell you the team that I'd put all, I'd go all in on the team that's able to get people to wear the same jersey that otherwise would hate themselves, not hate themselves, hate each other.

00:32:17.000 It's like Elon Musk with Tucker Carlson, Brett Weinstein with Steve Bannon?

00:32:26.000 How does that all work together?

00:32:29.000 Well, politically, it's manifesting into what will be a red wave absent some surprises from the Democrats that we must remain vigilant.

00:32:37.000 Play Cut 56.

00:32:39.000 What you can see there is a very close correlation between the president's, between how these polls are done, the generic polls, and how much vote share the president's party loses.

00:32:52.000 The more popular the president's party, the more they lose.

00:32:55.000 Not surprisingly, they're starting from a higher level.

00:32:58.000 And that red dot right there is where the Democrats and Joe Biden would be at this moment, which would be possibly losing another 2.4 percentage points beyond what they're polling behind at the moment by the time you get to election day.

00:33:13.000 Here's the issue the Democrats are going to realize very soon: they are in an unbreakable contract, they are in an agreement that cannot be dissolved.

00:33:25.000 They are in a partnership with the woke where a divorce is not going to be easily brokered.

00:33:33.000 You see, they decided to let the woke into their camp, and yeah, they got a momentary burst from it post-Floyd.

00:33:41.000 They got donations and they got moral signaling, but now people are realizing what they are, and Democrats will not be able to decouple from it.

00:33:48.000 It is now the base, it is the party of the Democrat Party and the A-team, if you will.

00:33:54.000 This incredibly unexpected alliance of people who love liberty and love the Constitution.

00:34:00.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:01.000 Email me your thoughts.

00:34:02.000 It's always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:04.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:34:05.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - April 20, 2022

Netflix Craters and America's Woke Cultural Detox

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