The Charlie Kirk Show - February 10, 2026


President Trump's Epstein Vindication


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Donald Trump called the Palm Beach Police Chief about Jeffrey Epstein in 2006, according to newly unsealed court documents. This is before Epstein was ever arrested for sex trafficking minors, but it's no surprise that Trump was one of the first people to call the police when they found out they were investigating Epstein.

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00:01:09.000 All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:11.000 It is February 10th, 2026.
00:01:14.000 Honored to be with you guys as always.
00:01:16.000 Blake, how are you doing?
00:01:17.000 I'm doing great.
00:01:18.000 It's been an interesting news cycle.
00:01:21.000 There's like three hearings going on in Congress right now.
00:01:24.000 There's also a trial in Los Angeles that we're keeping our eyes on.
00:01:29.000 It looks like Meta.
00:01:30.000 Google are presenting their case that they say they haven't been addicting young people to social media.
00:01:36.000 Turns out there's a lot of data that would suggest that they have been doing that.
00:01:40.000 Also, Todd Lyons from ICE is testifying before Congress and he's absolutely schooling Eric Swalwell on the five year old hoax story.
00:01:48.000 But I want to lead with a really, really fascinating wrinkle that has just emerged in the Epstein documents saga.
00:01:58.000 Yesterday evening, newly unsealed court documents show that Donald Trump.
00:02:02.000 Called the Palm Beach police chief about Jeffrey Epstein in 2006.
00:02:06.000 So, this is before he was ever arrested for pedophilia or for sex trafficking minors.
00:02:14.000 Yeah.
00:02:15.000 Or, well, we should be precise about what it is because we don't have that phone call.
00:02:19.000 What we have is we have a police report.
00:02:21.000 We have in 2019, not even that, we have in 2019, the FBI interviewed Michael Ryder, who had been the Palm Beach police chief at that time.
00:02:33.000 He apparently told, and this is even blacked out of the documents, but the Miami Herald is reporting it was this guy.
00:02:38.000 And he spoke with the FBI and then told them that this is how it unfolded.
00:02:43.000 So there is a chain here.
00:02:44.000 This is from the memory, the recounting of the then Palm Beach police chief.
00:02:49.000 But he does say that in July 2006, so that's just when Epstein is coming under investigation, I think before he's even been indicted.
00:02:58.000 Yep.
00:02:59.000 Trump calls Palm Beach police and he basically tells them.
00:03:04.000 Yeah, you guys should investigate this guy. 0.99
00:03:05.000 He's disgusting. 1.00
00:03:06.000 He's a creep. 1.00
00:03:07.000 He's disgusting. 1.00
00:03:08.000 But Ghislaine Maxwell is the really, he calls her evil. 0.99
00:03:10.000 He says she's the evil one and is doing bad stuff.
00:03:13.000 And he says people in Miami know about it and people in New York know about it.
00:03:18.000 And it doesn't seem like he gave them anything specific, but that he was encouraging them to look further into it.
00:03:25.000 Yeah, because everybody knows.
00:03:26.000 He said that everybody knows what he's been doing.
00:03:30.000 So this is pick 322.
00:03:32.000 The image displays a page of redacted testimony or statements related to Jeffrey Epson.
00:03:37.000 Epstein mentioning interactions with Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell.
00:03:41.000 Trump was one of the very first persons, as revealed by this document.
00:03:45.000 Again, it was from 2019.
00:03:46.000 It was a recollection of the 2006 interaction with President Trump.
00:03:50.000 That Trump was one of the very first people to call when people found out that they were investigating Epstein in 2006.
00:03:57.000 President Trump is quoted as saying he threw Epstein out of his club, called the police, and people in New York knew Epstein was, quote unquote, disgusting.
00:04:05.000 Sounds like President Trump.
00:04:06.000 Yeah.
00:04:07.000 Yeah.
00:04:07.000 It's one of his favorite words.
00:04:09.000 That's like right around when he was going.
00:04:10.000 He would do those Rosie O'Donnell. 1.00
00:04:12.000 He would like to attack her on Entertainment Tonight. 1.00
00:04:14.000 Rosie O'Donnell is disgusting. 1.00
00:04:16.000 She's a slob. 1.00
00:04:17.000 She talks like a truck driver. 1.00
00:04:19.000 Trump also reportedly stated that Maxwell was Epstein's operative and quote unquote evil, advising to focus on her.
00:04:28.000 So here's image 323 Palm Beach Country Club.
00:04:33.000 This is a quote from it.
00:04:34.000 Is a Jewish country club.
00:04:36.000 A lot of wealthy people are there and they flock together.
00:04:38.000 Mar a Lago is a mixture of everyone.
00:04:40.000 Donald Trump told Redacted that he threw Epstein out of his club.
00:04:44.000 Trump called the Palm Beach Police Department to tell him, Thank goodness you're stopping him.
00:04:50.000 Everyone has known he's been doing this.
00:04:52.000 End quote.
00:04:53.000 So that's the first part.
00:04:55.000 Now, yesterday, we also got a video from Ghislaine Maxwell pleading the fifth again and again and again before Comer and Andy Biggs.
00:05:09.000 So that was, we've got this clip here.
00:05:12.000 It's worth showing just for fun here.
00:05:15.000 Because it's interesting seeing them in their native habitat.
00:05:18.000 All right, 327.
00:05:19.000 Go ahead and throw it up.
00:05:21.000 Ms. Maxwell, were you a close friend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein?
00:05:27.000 I would like to answer your question, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question and any related questions.
00:05:38.000 My habeas petition is pending in the Southern District of New York.
00:05:42.000 I therefore invoke my right to silence under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
00:05:50.000 Let the record reflect that Ms. Maxwell has invoked the Fifth Amendment against self incrimination.
00:05:55.000 So, Chairman Comer confirms this 326. 0.99
00:05:58.000 As expected, Elaine Maxwell took the fifth and refused to answer any questions.
00:06:03.000 This is obviously very disappointing.
00:06:06.000 We had many questions to ask about the crimes she and Epstein committed, as well as questions about potential co conspirators.
00:06:14.000 But it looks like this little game of negotiation that's going on behind the scenes with the lawyers.
00:06:19.000 Rep. Andy Biggs, who's running for governor here in the great state of Arizona and is going to be the next governor of the great state of Arizona, said that Maxwell's lawyer, quote, said that she has no indication and would say so.
00:06:32.000 That neither presidents, Trump, or Clinton are culpable of any wrongdoing.
00:06:37.000 And that's one thing they said in this opening statement.
00:06:40.000 So, Comer said that Maxwell's attorney said she would, quote, answer questions if she were granted clemency by the president.
00:06:48.000 So, horse trading going on behind the scenes.
00:06:50.000 That's tough because when you make it that obvious, like certainly just from the political calculation, regardless of what actually happened, if that's the deal, unfortunately, anyone who's sold on there being wrongdoing is not going to buy that because they'll just say, Basically, she sold that story in return for a pardon.
00:07:09.000 Which makes it very tough, regardless of what truly happened.
00:07:09.000 Correct.
00:07:12.000 Yeah, but you know, what's great here is you've got these newly unearthed documents from the FBI, from the Palm Beach police chief, saying that Trump was calling him, you know, warning about evil, disgusting Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2006.
00:07:29.000 Which is funny because Trump, a thing that's worthy of note is in 2019, President Trump was saying he had no knowledge of anything Epstein was doing.
00:07:37.000 And so you do wonder what caused him to frame it that way.
00:07:43.000 I wouldn't be surprised if maybe it was like he just didn't want people to think he was a narc or something.
00:07:49.000 Well, I will tell you, I mean, Palm Beach, if anybody knows the Palm Beach area, it's like high school for rich people.
00:07:57.000 They're all talking, they all know, they all hear the rumor mill.
00:08:00.000 And so it's possible that President Trump just didn't have direct evidence or direct knowledge.
00:08:04.000 Yeah, he might have been in that way.
00:08:06.000 He had heard all of the stuff that was going on, wanted them to step in.
00:08:09.000 Also, President Trump has been very clear about this.
00:08:13.000 You know, I think Virginia Guffrey was working at Mar a Lago, I think in the spa there or whatever, and Jeffrey Epstein poached her from his club.
00:08:23.000 He didn't like that.
00:08:24.000 And I think he was trying to do that a lot of times with more staff than just Virginia.
00:08:29.000 And so, listen, if you're a business owner and another business is trying to keep poaching your staff, you don't like that.
00:08:36.000 And you're going to put your foot down on it. 0.95
00:08:37.000 So, I do think some of it was sort of a business related thing, some of it was rumor mill, this guy's disgusting.
00:08:44.000 And it seems to be that Epstein held on to this grudge for years and kept trying to keep it.
00:08:48.000 He's mentioned thousands of times in the files in one form or another, but he doesn't pop up the way others are, where they're emailing Epstein all of the time.
00:08:57.000 He's just this peripheral figure.
00:08:58.000 And I think a very real phenomenon is honestly, I suspect that Epstein himself probably believed that Donald Trump might have been the guy who essentially routed him out to the police, like may have been the guy who brought him down.
00:09:11.000 Well, and then he runs for president in 2016, 2015, 2016, becomes president.
00:09:16.000 Uber, uber important and famous.
00:09:18.000 Jeffrey Epstein then becomes even more fixated on him, wants to know how he can get him, how he can take him down.
00:09:24.000 And kind of, you know, I just think of scrap behind this guy.
00:09:27.000 I think it's just so funny that obviously President Trump took a lot of heat for he was skeptical of saying, you know, we don't need to release more of this stuff.
00:09:34.000 It's going to tag a lot of people.
00:09:36.000 And it caused all these people to say, oh, well, the president is hiding something. 0.99
00:09:40.000 He's the pedo president. 0.98
00:09:41.000 And then they finally, like, they dig in and they get this release. 0.94
00:09:44.000 And oh, it's this previously unreported report of President Trump calling the police on it in 2006.
00:09:50.000 Like, He truly is like the cleanest man ever when you think of the amount of effort to bring him down and what they ultimately find, whether it's business or whether it's this.
00:09:59.000 And I just want you guys in the audience to marvel in one thing the left is losing their mind about this revelation.
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00:11:21.000 This whole Jeffrey Epstein thing is a big, huge, giant story because we all sort of sense that children are being abused.
00:11:31.000 We all sort of sense that children are being taken advantage of.
00:11:34.000 They're being sexualized at a younger age.
00:11:36.000 They're getting online.
00:11:38.000 By the way, we go back to this meta Google hearing that's happening in California today.
00:11:43.000 There was a huge story that broke where these pedos, these perps were.
00:11:49.000 Soliciting minors on these platforms on Meta.
00:11:54.000 So, Facebook, Instagram, they were doing it kind of in open sight.
00:11:58.000 So, there's these sites have been used for distribution of child pornography.
00:12:06.000 It's a huge, actual problem.
00:12:08.000 And you can look at Hollywood, the way that they glorify the sexualization of young people.
00:12:12.000 I mean, we all kind of sense that this is happening.
00:12:15.000 I think sometimes it gets sensationalized, but there is a real problem here.
00:12:18.000 Go ahead, Blake.
00:12:20.000 I know the wheels are turning.
00:12:21.000 Well, it's just.
00:12:23.000 It's bad, although, no, I mean, it is bad.
00:12:26.000 Like, there's a lot of bad stuff.
00:12:28.000 I think I still feel I'm, you know me, I lean more towards our guest last week, Jay Beecher.
00:12:34.000 Yes, Beecher, who I do feel like we have, I think this Trump thing is revealing, which is that the president was basically correct.
00:12:42.000 He was warning a lot of people are going to be smeared by what comes out in these files when there's not going to be a lot of evidence against them.
00:12:51.000 And, like, so far, that's been borne out.
00:12:53.000 What's come out of these files has been interesting.
00:12:55.000 It's been really embarrassing for some people.
00:12:57.000 It's been embarrassing for Bill Gates.
00:12:58.000 It's been embarrassing for Larry Summers.
00:13:00.000 It's been very embarrassing for Noam Chomsky, which I'm very happy about because he's a deranged left wing academic.
00:13:06.000 But it hasn't been really revealing of what a lot of people were hyping that would get revealed by this.
00:13:14.000 You and I were very much in agreement on that, that it was going to be like.
00:13:18.000 Underwhelming for people.
00:13:19.000 There's a lot of crazy stuff in the Epstein files, by the way.
00:13:19.000 Yeah.
00:13:23.000 And you might see one person covering it and making a huge deal about it.
00:13:27.000 And then you'll go and look deeper and you realize that it's been debunked or it's some like rando emailing Jeffrey Epstein about a dead body buried in the desert.
00:13:35.000 But it literally, there's no FBI investigation.
00:13:37.000 There's no nothing.
00:13:38.000 There's no.
00:13:40.000 So, so literally, and we can attest this we get like so many crazy emails at freedom at charliekirk.com, like the craziest stuff.
00:13:49.000 It doesn't mean it's true.
00:13:50.000 It doesn't mean that there's any veracity to it, but people will email sometimes crazy things.
00:13:55.000 So, anyways, the point is you got to take everything with a grain of salt.
00:14:00.000 You got to dig deep.
00:14:01.000 You got to do your own research.
00:14:02.000 But another person that is in these files is Elon Musk.
00:14:06.000 And that was a little bit embarrassing.
00:14:08.000 And we're fans of Elon.
00:14:09.000 We want Elon to support the heck out of our GOP going into the midterms.
00:14:14.000 But he kind of framed it that he was rebuffing Epstein's advances.
00:14:20.000 To him.
00:14:21.000 A lot of people have done this.
00:14:22.000 And then, yeah, it's in the files.
00:14:23.000 And it's basically, it's the classic thing.
00:14:25.000 He's like, When are you having a wild party?
00:14:27.000 I want to go to it.
00:14:28.000 But he did want to go with his wife.
00:14:30.000 He was going with his wife.
00:14:30.000 He did.
00:14:31.000 And even if he didn't, it's like, in a lot of the emails, what they're saying is like, Oh, there will be women under 25 there.
00:14:40.000 Well, a lot of rich people want to get with women under the age of 25.
00:14:43.000 And that is different from literal pedophilia.
00:14:46.000 It behooves me to mention that.
00:14:46.000 Yeah.
00:14:47.000 It behooves me to mention that.
00:14:48.000 It's gross.
00:14:49.000 It's like very, it's unseemly.
00:14:50.000 It's, But it is legal. 0.96
00:14:51.000 It's dirty old man stuff. 1.00
00:14:53.000 Yeah, dirty old man stuff. 0.98
00:14:54.000 But listen, here would be my one note to our good friend Elon: there is a porn problem and a child porn problem on X.
00:15:04.000 I think what would be a great outcome from all of this is that you would clean up, just ban porn, and everything gets about 100 times better on that site. 0.84
00:15:13.000 Just ban it because there is garbage on that. 0.64
00:15:16.000 There's been numerous reporting on the fact that there is child porn on that site. 0.92
00:15:21.000 And if they want examples of this, like we can have a whole team send you what you need because it's gross.
00:15:29.000 And you have to sort of like the filters don't really work that way, that well.
00:15:33.000 But listen, like there has to be some sort of cleanup on aisle five here when it comes to these social media platforms.
00:15:40.000 And I think X should get cleaned up, honestly.
00:15:43.000 I think it would be a much better platform if they got rid of that stuff.
00:15:46.000 For some reason, it's still on there.
00:15:49.000 It's got a bot problem, sure.
00:15:50.000 Probably makes it.
00:15:51.000 Well, and that's it's just not worth it.
00:15:53.000 Don't make a deal with it.
00:15:54.000 No, it's not worth it.
00:15:55.000 You got to clean it up.
00:15:56.000 Make The site better, get rid of the porn, get rid of the, and you know, again, this is from reports.
00:16:02.000 Thank goodness I haven't seen it, but the reports say that there is child porn on that site, and that's despicable.
00:16:10.000 And I just think all resources need to be flooded in to X, make it clean, make it better, and then you get to be on the right side of this issue in multiple different ways.
00:16:20.000 It would be helpful because in Europe right now, I know they're making a push to ban X.
00:16:27.000 It's a very real one.
00:16:28.000 And it's the real reason they want to do it is because it has free speech on it. 0.87
00:16:31.000 And so they want to ban people who oppose mass immigration, who highlight grooming gangs by Muslim rapists and all of that.
00:16:38.000 But they seize excuses for it.
00:16:41.000 And to some extent, a lot like in the UK, they're using the fact that you can use Grok to change people's photos so that they're in a bikini, which frankly, I think Grok should be allowed to do because you can already do that with a Photoshop editor.
00:16:53.000 And it's also not illegal to do that in a bunch of other ways.
00:16:57.000 It would probably be easier, yeah, if you couldn't use it to make actual smut.
00:17:00.000 It would make that attack harder to do.
00:17:01.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:17:02.000 Well, and listen, I just want to be clear this is not an attack on Elon.
00:17:05.000 I think he inherited this problem.
00:17:06.000 The problem was pre existed, and it's a massive platform with hundreds of millions of users on it.
00:17:11.000 There's going to be a lot of bad actors.
00:17:12.000 But if you put your foot forward and you draw a line in the sand and say, hey, this needs to be cleaned up, then listen, you're going to generate a lot of goodwill, and the platform will be much improved.
00:17:23.000 So that is my request.
00:17:25.000 I think it would be a very, very solid step in the right direction.
00:17:31.000 The online world moves fast and it's moving even faster these days.
00:17:34.000 That's why TikTok approaches teen safety with families in mind from the start.
00:17:39.000 Because discovery and creativity are both wonderful things, but it's important to make sure that safety comes first as well.
00:17:46.000 On TikTok, teenagers have over 50 built in protections right from when they join.
00:17:51.000 Accounts for teens all start private by default, they're not open to the entire world.
00:17:55.000 And for those under 16, direct messages are turned off.
00:17:59.000 Only their friends can comment on their videos.
00:18:01.000 And that kind of approach matters because feeling confident and comfortable about these platforms your teenagers are on shouldn't mean digging through a bunch of menus and trying to set everything up yourself and worrying that you got it wrong.
00:18:13.000 TikTok is taking a proactive approach.
00:18:16.000 Their protections are built in from the moment those teenagers join so that safety and peace of mind for parents is there right from the start.
00:18:24.000 All of this is to say, when safety comes first, discovery and creativity can follow without fear.
00:18:30.000 Learn more by going to ticktock.comslash guardiansguide.
00:18:34.000 That's ticktock.comslash guardiansguide.
00:18:41.000 Very excited about this next guest, Frankie Bianco.
00:18:43.000 He's the general manager of the Zoo Sports Club in Tampa, Florida.
00:18:49.000 And he went viral, not by any choice of his, but just because the way he handled himself.
00:18:55.000 I thought it was brilliant.
00:18:56.000 Let's play the clip and then we'll bring in Frankie. 0.83
00:18:59.000 307. 0.89
00:18:59.000 Why aren't you playing Bad Bunny at the halftime show? 0.89
00:19:04.000 I put this halftime show on because this is what the majority.
00:19:06.000 Are you filming me?
00:19:08.000 Why are you doing that?
00:19:10.000 Why don't you play bad out?
00:19:12.000 I'm going to pay.
00:19:13.000 I'm going to pay first.
00:19:14.000 This is why.
00:19:15.000 I got to pay.
00:19:15.000 This is why I said no.
00:19:17.000 I got to pay first.
00:19:18.000 But I'm asking a question.
00:19:20.000 I'm not being violent.
00:19:21.000 Yeah, I got to pay first.
00:19:23.000 What's your job under?
00:19:23.000 I shouldn't pay.
00:19:25.000 For the full experience.
00:19:26.000 I came here to do a Super Bowl experience.
00:19:29.000 The full Super Bowl experience.
00:19:30.000 This is the halftime show.
00:19:31.000 This is not the halftime show.
00:19:32.000 It is the halftime show.
00:19:33.000 No, this is not the halftime show.
00:19:35.000 Time show.
00:19:35.000 I'm going to put this out on my social media.
00:19:37.000 There you go, baby.
00:19:38.000 Good.
00:19:38.000 All right.
00:19:39.000 There you go.
00:19:40.000 There's your attack. 0.97
00:19:42.000 You might lose a lot of confidence because you might look like a racist. 0.95
00:19:46.000 All right. 0.99
00:19:46.000 I guess you might look like a racist. 0.99
00:19:48.000 So do you. 0.66
00:19:49.000 Came here for the Super Bowl experience.
00:19:50.000 This is not part of the Super Bowl.
00:19:52.000 So don't come back.
00:19:52.000 This was not promoted.
00:19:53.000 So don't come back.
00:19:55.000 Well handled.
00:19:56.000 Well handled.
00:19:56.000 Frankie Bianco, General Manager of the Zoo Sports Club.
00:19:59.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:20:01.000 Good to have you.
00:20:02.000 Thank you for having me, guys.
00:20:03.000 I'm honored to be here.
00:20:04.000 Well, I'm sorry that you had to go through this experience.
00:20:07.000 But, you know, to me, when I see that clip, It was like capitalism in action.
00:20:13.000 You were just like, hey, our people want this show.
00:20:16.000 What do you want me to do?
00:20:18.000 Tell us what happened there and why you chose to handle it the way you did, sir.
00:20:23.000 Okay.
00:20:23.000 Thank you again, really, for giving me this opportunity.
00:20:26.000 I really do appreciate it because I honestly can't believe that it's to this point so quickly.
00:20:32.000 And it's silly to me.
00:20:34.000 But honestly, I can't tell you what happened Sunday without telling you from the very beginning about who we are.
00:20:41.000 The zoo sports club started out as the zoo private club.
00:20:45.000 We were going to be a private members only club.
00:20:48.000 It was designed that way, and we built our systems and the building and the decor all around that business model.
00:20:57.000 But in September of 2024, we had back to back hurricanes hit here in the Tampa St. Pete area for the first time in decades, and it wiped out our beaches.
00:21:08.000 It wiped out what is very, very important to those who live here.
00:21:14.000 Too many lives were negatively impacted.
00:21:17.000 And we started hearing from those people.
00:21:19.000 We started hearing from employee, restaurant and bar employees who didn't have a job.
00:21:24.000 We started hearing from the bands that didn't have a place to play.
00:21:29.000 We started hearing from the community that they didn't have a place to go, to gather, to meet, and to just enjoy and have fun.
00:21:38.000 So we, as a group, myself and the owners, met and decided that we were going to pivot a 90 degree turn.
00:21:46.000 And open up to the community.
00:21:50.000 Offer them everything that we have planned on being a private club.
00:21:53.000 Now we're going to be open to the public club.
00:21:55.000 We're going to give them an opportunity to come in and play pool or throw some darts or watch some of the incredible local bands.
00:22:03.000 And it didn't take long for us to realize that this was the right decision, that we have formed a really great community based establishment for everybody to come in and enjoy.
00:22:15.000 There were no rules to who can come in, there were only rules on how to act once you're there.
00:22:21.000 Um, and it's worked out very well, and we're very proud of what we built.
00:22:25.000 So that brings us to Sunday, where again, you know, it wasn't a political decision.
00:22:32.000 It wasn't a personal decision.
00:22:34.000 My personal beliefs and political side of the aisle I sit on had nothing to do with any of the decisions I make it work.
00:22:41.000 Um, it wasn't left or right.
00:22:45.000 It wasn't red or blue.
00:22:47.000 It was green.
00:22:48.000 It was money.
00:22:49.000 And I had about 250 people in the club and Around 240 some odd wanted the All American halftime show.
00:22:58.000 So that's what I put on.
00:23:01.000 The gentleman who videoed me, there was a friend of his with him.
00:23:06.000 And once he walked away, the friend came over to me to continue to try to talk to me about it.
00:23:10.000 And I explained to him, I said, you know, when it comes to business, the simple rule is majority rules, the needs of the many, so to speak.
00:23:19.000 He understood.
00:23:19.000 He shook my hand.
00:23:20.000 He went back to his seat at the bar and enjoyed the rest of the evening.
00:23:25.000 So, you know, business is business.
00:23:28.000 And that's what I base my decisions on when I run my club.
00:23:33.000 I think that's really well said, Frankie.
00:23:35.000 And so you're just basically saying so we had this private club.
00:23:38.000 A lot of those people are still your core customers.
00:23:42.000 They made a decision.
00:23:44.000 They said the vast majority, it sounded like 95, 98% of them were like, hey, we want to watch the All American halftime show.
00:23:53.000 So you gave the people what they wanted, but there was a few, you know, riffraff in there that wanted to cause a stir. 0.99
00:23:59.000 And this is what it's, you know, so this was a business decision.
00:24:03.000 That makes perfect sense to me.
00:24:04.000 You're being a good capitalist, you're serving your customers well.
00:24:07.000 And I also like the way that you handled that.
00:24:08.000 You said, don't film me, which is just such a rude thing to do in this day and age that people got their cell phones out and they want to make you internet famous in a bad way.
00:24:18.000 But I think, you know, you're going to be rewarded.
00:24:21.000 One, because of the way you handled this, you haven't been petty, you handled it like a gentleman.
00:24:25.000 You were strong and firm.
00:24:27.000 He was rude.
00:24:28.000 And then thirdly, I think you're going to find that, like you said, In the video, you're going to get customers out of this because there's a lot of people in the St. Pete, Tampa area that are going to appreciate the way you handled that and you stood firm on your line.
00:24:40.000 Have you got what has the feedback been?
00:24:43.000 I know your phones have been blown up, I know your emails have been blown up.
00:24:46.000 What's the feedback been from your local customers and your local community?
00:24:51.000 It has been 98% support.
00:24:54.000 Wonderful.
00:24:55.000 Which is obviously, yeah, yeah, it's been wonderful.
00:24:59.000 And yeah, I can't say anything negative about that because it really has been wonderful.
00:25:04.000 Our core.
00:25:05.000 A group of customers have been screaming support.
00:25:11.000 My staff, I am so beyond blessed with my team who, in the video, you can see they're all there.
00:25:19.000 They all came.
00:25:21.000 They have my back.
00:25:22.000 I have their back.
00:25:23.000 And they've been incredible with this because they're being impacted.
00:25:28.000 It's just unfortunate.
00:25:30.000 And really, I spoke to the owners obviously a lot lately.
00:25:34.000 And I just want us to get back to doing what we're doing.
00:25:38.000 I don't need to be.
00:25:40.000 I don't need to be looked at as anything more or less than I am.
00:25:45.000 I just want us to get back to what we do.
00:25:47.000 You know, we have a lot of fun at the club.
00:25:50.000 We have live music and games and great people come and visit us.
00:25:54.000 And that's, I just want to get back to that.
00:25:56.000 And I just, that's what I was hoping to accomplish by coming on your show because I'm hoping the message gets out that we're still who we are.
00:26:07.000 You know, I know who I am, I know who the owners are, I know who my staff is.
00:26:12.000 And at the end of the day, I can lean on that comfortably and believe that it's just going to work out the way it should.
00:26:20.000 Well, God bless you, man.
00:26:21.000 I think you were doing the right thing by your customers.
00:26:23.000 You handled yourself well.
00:26:24.000 You have nothing to be ashamed of.
00:26:26.000 And, you know, honestly, I appreciate that you listened to your customers.
00:26:31.000 You did the exact thing that the professional football league seems to not be able to do.
00:26:35.000 And you said, hey, they want to see this show.
00:26:37.000 We're going to put it up.
00:26:38.000 No questions asked.
00:26:39.000 And by the way, there were bars all across America that did the same exact thing.
00:26:43.000 I mean, Nashville was.
00:26:44.000 Full.
00:26:45.000 We got inundated with videos from bars in Nashville and Colorado and other places that were doing the same thing.
00:26:52.000 And I will just say that as somebody who's been through it, Blake can attest as well, Frankie, that somebody who's been through the internet swirl and the churn and the outrage mob.
00:27:02.000 It all lasts about five minutes.
00:27:04.000 It literally is like five minutes, man.
00:27:07.000 And then they get on to the next thing.
00:27:09.000 They get distracted by the next outrage. 0.98
00:27:11.000 And these are all miserable people.
00:27:12.000 These are people that their whole existence online is to just like throw wrenches into the gears of other people that are doing real things.
00:27:19.000 And that's what it sounds like you guys are doing at the club.
00:27:21.000 You're doing real things for real people.
00:27:24.000 You're creating a place where they can gather, they can feel like a part of a community.
00:27:28.000 And so God bless you.
00:27:29.000 You did great.
00:27:30.000 And, you know, listen, we put up huge numbers.
00:27:36.000 On Sunday evening.
00:27:37.000 Huge numbers.
00:27:38.000 They're bigger than I thought, actually.
00:27:39.000 We're working with a third party firm.
00:27:41.000 I saw that.
00:27:41.000 I was so happy to see that.
00:27:42.000 Yeah, I mean, it's going to end up being, let's just say, 50 million, okay?
00:27:47.000 Let's just say it's going to be 50 million.
00:27:48.000 It might be higher, might be a little less, but it's going to be approximately 50 million.
00:27:52.000 And that's a huge, huge deal.
00:27:54.000 And so there's a lot of people that are going to be emotionally attached to the fact that that was so successful.
00:27:59.000 And we see it already.
00:28:00.000 Like people are trying to say we bought the feed or there wasn't enough comments.
00:28:04.000 By the way, we ran the numbers, Frankie, and this is funny.
00:28:07.000 We're like almost 60% TVs that we're watching this.
00:28:11.000 So obviously, people don't comment when they're watching on TV device.
00:28:14.000 And you proved that at your club.
00:28:16.000 It was not like people were going to be able to jump in the comment section at your club.
00:28:19.000 But listen, I thought you did a great job.
00:28:21.000 Congratulations.
00:28:22.000 I think you're going to be rewarded richly and blessed from this.
00:28:25.000 And remember, five minutes outrage, and people know who you are.
00:28:28.000 I think your character shined through.
00:28:30.000 So God bless you, man.
00:28:32.000 God bless you guys.
00:28:32.000 Thank you very much.
00:28:33.000 That's really kind to say.
00:28:34.000 That means a lot.
00:28:35.000 Thank you.
00:28:36.000 Yeah.
00:28:36.000 This too shall pass, and then you get back to doing what you love.
00:28:41.000 All right.
00:28:41.000 Thank you.
00:28:42.000 I appreciate it, gentlemen.
00:28:43.000 Thank you again.
00:28:43.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:28:44.000 Frankie Bianco, general manager of the Zeus Sports Club there in Tampa, St. Pete.
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00:28:51.000 What a great guy.
00:28:52.000 He's just salt of the earth.
00:28:53.000 Those are the people that make this country great.
00:28:56.000 So God bless him.
00:28:58.000 And if you are in the Tampa, St. Pete area and you're watching the show, go pay them a visit.
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00:30:29.000 There's kind of conflicting data that's going back and forth.
00:30:31.000 There's an article, though, out of Breitbart that I think does a really good job of breaking it down.
00:30:36.000 It says almost half of Super Bowl watchers tuned out Bad Bunny.
00:30:40.000 Now, this is interesting because there's also a conflicting data point that's going around that's saying 135 million people watch Bad Bunny.
00:30:49.000 I'm not convinced I believe that number, but let's just assume it's true, which would be higher than what watched Kendrick Lamar last year.
00:30:58.000 It's a success, right?
00:30:59.000 So, but I actually think a lot of people probably because of the controversy might have watched both or they might have gone back and watched both.
00:31:07.000 Maybe they went back and watched ours.
00:31:09.000 But that's the headline.
00:31:10.000 It's coming from Samba TV, which is different than Nielsen.
00:31:13.000 So, that this is what's crazy, though.
00:31:16.000 This represents a 30, this is based on Samba's numbers, Samba TV.
00:31:20.000 This represents a 39% decline in Bad Bunny viewers when compared to last year's halftime.
00:31:26.000 Okay.
00:31:27.000 So, this is a quote from them.
00:31:28.000 Our latest viewership insights reveal.
00:31:31.000 That 48.6 million U.S. households tuned in to the Super Bowl, representing a 13% decrease from last year's game.
00:31:39.000 So already I'm kind of like.
00:31:40.000 The Super Bowl went down.
00:31:42.000 Not surprising.
00:31:43.000 The Chiefs, Eagles versus Seahawks, not as big a team.
00:31:45.000 Exactly.
00:31:46.000 So it just didn't feel like there was as much buzz about the game.
00:31:49.000 So it made sense to me there was a decrease from last year, 13% decrease.
00:31:54.000 That follows intuition right there.
00:31:56.000 Okay.
00:31:56.000 But then they're saying more people watched the halftime show, which is possible, people that aren't.
00:32:01.000 Football fans might have just tuned in for the halftime.
00:32:03.000 I think usually the halftime show does shed viewers relative to the game because that's when people get food.
00:32:09.000 They might get food then.
00:32:10.000 Not everyone cares.
00:32:12.000 They do the big halftime show to hold the people in.
00:32:15.000 But this is what's interesting.
00:32:16.000 So Samba says that while 48.6 million people tuned in for the game or households tuned in for the game, only 26.5 million U.S. households watched the halftime performance.
00:32:30.000 And that's down 39% from Kendrick Lamar's show.
00:32:33.000 This is per them.
00:32:34.000 So A 13% drop from last year's game, a 39% drop from last year's halftime.
00:32:41.000 Which would follow because we know, because listen, I'm seeing the numbers on the back end and we're working with this third party group to gather all the numbers.
00:32:49.000 And some of this stuff just takes time to come in.
00:32:50.000 Like we're working with Rob and Parker at Rav.
00:32:52.000 There are over 7 million confirmed views for their coverage, but they think they might get to 9 or 10 when all the numbers come in from all the, like Amazon.
00:33:02.000 You know, it takes a while for this to happen.
00:33:05.000 So that would fit, right?
00:33:06.000 That you would think, okay, there's this alternate.
00:33:08.000 Halftime show, the All American halftime show, and we know that we got real legitimate, like huge numbers for it.
00:33:14.000 And so Nolte in Breitbart says the reason you're seeing preliminary headlines based on Nielsen ratings that look like this 135 million tuned into the Super Bowl is due to the difference between viewers and household.
00:33:27.000 Nielsen measures viewers and they use like an algorithm to do it.
00:33:31.000 Samba TV measures households.
00:33:33.000 Samba TV also gets its data directly from about 50 million smart TVs where the owners opted in to have their viewership habits measured.
00:33:43.000 So, it's actually hard data here.
00:33:46.000 So, Samba might be, in theory, better data.
00:33:49.000 Now, that doesn't mean that Samba TV is superior to Nielsen.
00:33:52.000 What's that?
00:33:53.000 I just can't believe that there's like 50 million smart TVs.
00:33:55.000 I mean, people probably have now.
00:33:56.000 I mean, people probably have now.
00:33:57.000 Opt to do that.
00:33:58.000 No, but it's.
00:33:59.000 So, both are respected.
00:34:00.000 Nolte makes this point.
00:34:02.000 Both data points are respected in the TV and advertising worlds, and the data they produce is not seen as either or choice, but as complementary.
00:34:10.000 At the very least, Samba is using apples to apples data.
00:34:13.000 What he means by this is that Samba collected its data the same way for years.
00:34:18.000 So, the comparison from this year's ratings to last year's has credibility as far as trends, which, in any case, no matter how you measure it, are way down.
00:34:27.000 Yeah.
00:34:27.000 So, it's like, it's not that whether or not it captures the whole set of viewers, if they're working with the same pool of TVs, they can at least say, of the pool of TVs we have, we can reliably detect the number of viewers went down for the Super Bowl and then even more for the halftime show.
00:34:46.000 I kind of wonder how many people might have just.
00:34:48.000 Literally changed the channel because they were wondering Did I accidentally switch to the Spanish language broadcast?
00:34:54.000 Like, you know, it's always funny.
00:34:56.000 There are just tens of millions of people who are totally out of the loop.
00:34:59.000 So, like, they would have totally missed the, you know, it's all in Spanish halftime show.
00:35:04.000 So, but I totally agree.
00:35:06.000 You never know what people are doing.
00:35:07.000 Like, we saw that grandma clip from yesterday where she's like, Get this off.
00:35:10.000 She knew it was the Super Bowl.
00:35:12.000 Like, it's not that she didn't, but she just couldn't understand anything and she didn't like it.
00:35:15.000 And she's like, This, I, you know, whatever.
00:35:17.000 And that was the number one piece of feedback I heard.
00:35:19.000 I actually went on with Chris Cuomo and Geraldo Rivera last night to talk about this, and they were, you know, oh, what a celebration of the mosaic of America.
00:35:28.000 And I was like, guys, there were millions of people who couldn't understand a darn thing, and they were not happy about it.
00:35:35.000 Okay.
00:35:35.000 But so just to reiterate the point, Nielsen is building this off an algorithm, an equation that they use where they put a multiplier on a sort of a survey that they do.
00:35:47.000 This is using actual devices of an actual pool of data that they measure year to year to year.
00:35:54.000 Their data says there was a massive 22 million household drop off for the halftime show.
00:36:01.000 And honestly, it corresponds really, really closely with the numbers that we've seen.
00:36:07.000 Now, again, I'm going to, I don't, we don't have the final numbers.
00:36:11.000 I will just say that, like, what I'm seeing, if I'm approximating that 50 million viewer mark, is not crazy at all.
00:36:18.000 As a matter of fact, it might be a little low, depending on how Nielsen and this third party group end up calculating the numbers.
00:36:25.000 So, what we can tell you is that this was probably the second largest live stream in YouTube history.
00:36:31.000 And that's just Turning Points channel.
00:36:33.000 You add Charlie's, you add, Real America's Voice YouTube, OAN's YouTube, NTD's YouTube.
00:36:37.000 There was a couple other random YouTubes.
00:36:39.000 You add all those together, it very well could have been the number one live stream event in YouTube history.
00:36:44.000 And that means you're beating like the whole country of India that has like what, 1.6 billion people or something like that.
00:36:50.000 They had a national event.
00:36:52.000 They landed on the Indian Moon landing.
00:36:54.000 It was the number one.
00:36:55.000 Yeah, it was number one.
00:36:56.000 And then there was like some, I think number two was like a World Cup game.
00:36:59.000 So mostly it's a lot of World Cup games.
00:37:00.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:37:01.000 But of course, keep in mind some of those might have alternate streams just as ours did.
00:37:05.000 Sure.
00:37:06.000 Sure, sure.
00:37:06.000 I think it was a big win for us overall to be on a million different platforms.
00:37:11.000 You get the whole community coming together.
00:37:14.000 Yeah, you can view it the way you want.
00:37:17.000 We still haven't got TBN.
00:37:18.000 TBN was our provider, our platform that had the most traditional cable.
00:37:23.000 It's like 50 million households.
00:37:25.000 I think it's like 70 million.
00:37:26.000 Yeah, so they had the most.
00:37:28.000 So if you were kind of old school and you just wanted to switch the channel on your cable, that was the easiest option.
00:37:34.000 And we still don't have those numbers.
00:37:36.000 So I'm telling you, the numbers are big, big.
00:37:39.000 Big, big.
00:37:40.000 And talking to some of the people in the media world, they basically described this as a tectonic shift that the halftime show will never be the same again.
00:37:48.000 Listen, I feel bittersweet about that.
00:37:52.000 I love that we have institutions in the country still that everybody tunes in for.
00:37:56.000 But if you're going to disrespect such a huge swath of the country, and whether you meant to do it or not, again, no agenda here, no hate.
00:38:03.000 But whether you meant to do it or not, they felt disrespected, they felt disregarded, they felt forgotten.
00:38:10.000 And so they made a choice.
00:38:11.000 And we made a choice to provide something that they could tune in for.
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