00:00:00.000Today in the Charlie Kirk show, Andy Biggs joins the program to talk about the latest out of the U.S. House of Representatives and Jeremy Boring from DailyWire.com to talk about an amazing revolution happening in children's content.
00:00:53.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:23.000And one of my favorite people, one of my favorite entrepreneurs who has had an unbelievable amount of success in this space and is only getting started, joins the program because he's now getting into children's programming.
00:01:33.000Jeremy Boring from Daily Wire now launching Bent Key.
00:01:37.000Jeremy, I got to get this whole thing figured out.
00:01:39.000I have a one-year-old, so I don't want her watching any of this trans nonsense from Disney.
00:01:44.000So I'm going to be a very loyal customer.
00:01:47.000Tell us all about that launch and then also the Snow White news, which is awesome.
00:01:53.000Hey, Charlie, thanks for having me on.
00:01:55.000Yeah, it's the biggest initiative ever undertaken by the Daily Wire.
00:01:58.000We've launched an entirely new company called Bent Key.
00:02:01.000And as you described it, it's an entertainment app for kids.
00:02:04.000Right now, there are over 150 episodes of 18 series on the app, and five of them are original things that we created.
00:02:11.000The rest are things that we cultivated and licensed from around the world and carefully vetted to make sure that there are no left-wing sucker punches, that you can trust us when you put your kids in front of this content, that they're not going to be treated like political pawns or social experiments in a pet tree dish.
00:02:26.000They're not going to have values antithetical to your own inculcated in them as they're trying to be entertained.
00:02:31.000They're just going to get to experience adventure and wonder and imagination and joy and be children.
00:02:37.000And so talk, Jeremy, this shouldn't be an issue, right?
00:02:56.000So walk us through this where things really got bad, where you as an entrepreneur met with your team and said, okay, we have to now create children's content.
00:03:31.000They make the kind of content you were raised on and I was raised on, even that our parents were raised on.
00:03:35.000This goes all the way back, like I say, a century.
00:03:39.000So yes, there should be no reason why we have any opportunity in this space.
00:03:43.000And yet, a little over one year ago, Chris Ruffo leaked footage from inside Disney where they said the quiet part out loud, which we all were beginning to realize, but now we couldn't deny it any longer.
00:03:54.000And that's that executives and producers at Disney were inserted, quote, inserting queerness into their shows, had a quote, not so secret gay agenda, were inserting radical racial politics in their show, and were essentially being governed both at the corporate and content level with all the worst excesses of the woke left.
00:04:11.000And what we thought is, yeah, this content is for children.
00:04:15.000If you don't have Disney, if Disney has now betrayed its audience, not only is there a financial opportunity to get involved in this space, but there's a moral obligation to get into this space.
00:05:27.000They spent hundreds of millions of dollars on single pieces of content.
00:05:32.000So I have no delusion that we are today what Disney is today.
00:05:35.000But my hope is that over time, we might be what they were once upon a time.
00:05:39.000And that is an organization with a vision that will risk it all to pursue that vision and that you can trust with your kids, that your kids will be, that they'll want to watch it, Charlie.
00:05:49.000What I don't want is to meet some kid 15 years from now at a TPUSA event who says, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bent Key, my parents used to make me watch that stuff.
00:06:00.000I want to meet kids at TPUSA events 15 years from now who say, I grew up with a wonderful day with Mabel McClay.
00:06:34.000And it's just, I just want to compliment for people that are not in, you know, I'm not in the movie business, but I know enough of what it takes to even get this trailer set up.
00:06:43.000Just literally millions of dollars in cameras, equipment, actors, you know, costumes, you name it.
00:07:49.000Rachel Ziegler, the star of Disney's live-action adaptation of their own classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, started making headlines back in July saying that she wasn't a fan of the original movie, that the original movie needed some PC inserted into it, that it wasn't going to be about true love.
00:08:04.000It wasn't going to be about all of these antiquated ideas.
00:08:44.000I was sitting in Italy working on a whole other film that Daily Wire is producing, writing that little song, working with Brett after hours on singing it, shooting all of that footage.
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00:10:39.000Jeremy, you could take this wherever you want.
00:10:42.000When I first met you 10 years ago, you were doing work for a series of websites explaining and also exposing Hamas sympathizers and Students for Justice of Palestine, Muslim Brotherhood being embedded here in the Middle East.
00:10:55.000We've kind of taken our eye off that topic.
00:10:57.000There's been so many other domestic fights, but now that sleeper cell is awake and it is angry after the atrocities and the massacre of what happened in Israel.
00:11:07.000Jeremy, your reaction to what we've been seeing on these college campuses, I know it is not a surprise to you.
00:11:12.000You've been doing this work for quite a while.
00:11:14.000Yeah, Ben and I were working when you and I first met Charlie with the David Horwood's Freedom Center.
00:11:19.000And David was doing, I think, some of the earliest and most important work on this topic for many, many years.
00:11:25.000And even then, it was frightening, but I never would have guessed we'd be seeing the kind of images that we're seeing today.
00:11:53.000It's that the powerful are intrinsically bad and the weak are intrinsically virtuous.
00:12:01.000And anything that diminishes the power of the powerful is therefore a good and anything that enhances the power of the weak is inherently good.
00:12:09.000And this was created as a way of defending minorities against predominantly in the West, white Christian men who occupy a position of power in the majority.
00:12:20.000But there is an inherent flaw in intersectional hierarchy, and that is that one of the smallest minorities in the world, that is the Jews, have disproportionate success and power within most of the spheres in which they operate.
00:12:35.000And this has led the very movement that purports to defend the minority against the majority to be aligned on the side of the destruction of one of the smallest minorities that exists in the world.
00:12:49.000It's all because of one bad idea baked into the core of their ideology.
00:12:57.000If you understand intersectional hierarchy, you can understand what otherwise an outsider would say is a contradiction and makes sense.
00:13:04.000For example, one of the girls that was taking down posters of kidnapped Israelis was an ADL intern, was someone who worked for the Anti-Defamation League intern and is taking down posters of something that you would think that would fit their worldview.
00:13:18.000So, Jeremy, in closing here, and I want to just reiterate everyone, check out Bent's Key Children's Content.
00:13:54.000What have you learned that you could share with our audience of how we beat these intersectional activists, groups, organizations, et cetera?
00:14:02.000Ultimately, what they want to do is tear down all of the institutions.
00:14:04.000And one of the challenges that we have is that ironically, they already control all of the institutions.
00:14:10.000And so on the right, as a reaction to the fact that we've lost control of the institutions, we also want to tear down the institutions.
00:14:16.000And that has created a peculiar alliance between the radical left and the right in this moment.
00:14:23.000We share the same goal, which is always a bad idea for a movie, right?
00:14:26.000Movie never works when the good guys and the bad guys actually want the same thing.
00:14:30.000So I think the only way to beat them is for us to continue going through this painful moment that we're going through on the right of really coming to understand what it is fundamentally that we believe.
00:14:39.000And I would offer that what we should do is any institution that is beyond redemption, we tear down and replace, but we don't do so cavalierly.
00:14:50.000Instead, we begin by asking the question, can the institutions on which we built our civilization, can the institutions that have historically undergirded our civilization be redeemed?
00:14:59.000Because we have to have institutional power in order to defeat the left.
00:15:05.000You can't just beat them with tweets and you can't just beat them with nonprofit or for-profit organizations.
00:15:13.000We have to long-term be building institutions on which you can actually support the kind of civilization that we want to see.
00:15:19.000And a huge part of that is self-reflection about exactly what it is that we're endeavoring to do and risk taking, that we on the right have to once again get into the building business, not just the criticizing business.
00:15:34.000For the last decade, most of our work on the right has been about criticizing the culture.
00:15:39.000Instead, we actually have to create a culture.
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00:17:41.000I think New Yorkers are ready to come over, but they just don't want to come over until they know he's got the votes.
00:17:45.000They'll be the last people to come on.
00:17:47.000You saw some people come on the last note, but I'll tell you, if Jim can make peace with Steve Scalise and Scalise releases those last seven and persuades them, I think the next thing you go to see is that Jim Jordan is going to become the speaker.
00:18:00.000So can you explain the deal with Scalise, kind of where he is?
00:18:04.000He's been a little bit of a mystery for some of us that have been watching.
00:19:40.000And some of them are actually, let's just, this would be to be honest, some of them are mad at us for forcing them to have to vote for someone for a new speaker.
00:19:50.000And so they're mad at eight of us, and they think if they vote against Jim, somehow that retaliates against us.
00:20:15.000But I'm hearing from some people that there's this Joyce resolution that potentially that Democrats could align with some of the moderate Republicans and build a coalition government.
00:20:34.000That was not that big of a threat back then.
00:20:36.000But is that more of a threat now, given that we're in October, the moderates are losing patience?
00:20:41.000Walk us through, Andy, if you think that is a possibility on the horizon of Republicans effectively losing their majority through a process of not being able to select a speaker.
00:20:53.000Well, what they're talking about doing, Charlie, is there's several of them that have said that they want to give Patrick McHenry, who is Speaker Pro Tem, they want to give him broader power.
00:21:07.000And quite frankly, if you give the, given the power that you that they're talking about, you've effectively elected a new speaker in Patrick McHenry.
00:21:17.000That's the way I think the parliamentarian would kind of put it there with kind of a legal nuance, and that's the way I put on with a legal nuance as well.
00:21:26.000The question, of course, is, would those people do that?
00:21:32.000And some of them, if they were going to do it, I thought they were going to do it this morning, and they didn't do it.
00:21:37.000So we'll see if they're going to make that play.
00:21:38.000Now, what would happen, Charlie, is Patrick McHenry would be effectively the speaker.
00:22:18.000I don't know if it's real or not because I anticipated, it looked to me like on the floor, there was floor activity indicating this morning that they were going to go that way.
00:22:40.000Because I've heard from some people that the pressure campaign is actually not helping Jim Jordan.
00:22:46.000Is it to kind of let this process fold out, contact the representative, just go 10 out of 10 type scorched earth?
00:22:53.000Andy Biggs, what is the best way the grassroots can help this process to make Jim Jordan the next speaker of the House?
00:22:59.000Well, I would say don't go scorched earth because that is going to lock in some of these people a little bit harder.
00:23:06.000I think if you're going to call your own, you don't need to necessarily call any others, but call your own member and just say, look, I don't know why you're where you are, but I would respectfully request that you vote for Jim Jordan and you do it sooner rather than later.
00:23:23.000Those two things with a lot of respect that you vote for Jim Jordan, you do it sooner rather than later.
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00:27:39.000Now, not a single person was disenfranchised because of this meme.
00:27:44.000Not a single person who texted that number ended up saying that they were stripped or they were prevented from voting, disenfranchised.
00:27:53.000Now, there are other memes of left-wing accounts that did this for Trump supporters.
00:27:56.000Make sure you vote by text message Trump supporters.
00:27:59.000They're never touched by the government ever.
00:28:00.000One of the first acts of the Biden regime, this was in January 2021, two and a half years ago, they arrested Douglas Mackey and they arrested him and charged him in the southern district of New York.
00:28:12.000Mind you, a crime with no actual victims.
00:28:14.000But the DOJ circled back to prosecute him four years later, motivated by hate and vengeance and a Soviet show trial.
00:28:21.000They want to make an example that speech can land you in federal prison.
00:28:31.000Douglas Mackey went through what I would consider to be a very rigged trial in a very Democrat part of the world, and they tried him using the Ku Klux Klan Act.
00:29:27.000So they use that law and apply it 150 years later to Douglas Mackey, who made a joke on the internet that no one took seriously, that no one was disenfranchised with no victims to put him in federal prison.
00:29:43.000No one who wrote that law could have predicted it would have been used and corrupted for something like this.
00:29:48.000The more laws, the less justice, as Mr. Cicero would say, one-year Roman Council of the Roman Republic.
00:30:09.000The buried lead is that the federal government basically thinks blacks are so stupid that they see something where they say you have to text your vote in, and they must automatically believe they're so gullible that they need a federal law preventing that you can't text your vote in.
00:30:31.000Of course, they go after the satirists.
00:30:33.000Stalin imprisoned the joke tellers because at the root of joke telling and humor is truth.
00:30:41.000One of the most effective ways to challenge tyranny is by telling a joke.
00:30:46.000And number two, they're trying to quelch speech.
00:30:51.000It used to be that we had a robust First Amendment.
00:30:54.000By any measure, Douglas Mackey should never have been indicted, never been arrested, never should have been tried, never should have been convicted.
00:31:09.000It basically says that political speech can land you in federal prison.
00:31:15.000Even though you have Snoop Dogg saying, I want to shoot President Trump and Kathy Griffing, Kevin Griffin with the decapitated head of Donald Trump.
00:31:22.000They all, whatever, they get away from it.
00:31:25.000This right here of Douglas Mackey, who now has to serve seven months in federal prison, a young man who's already been through seven years of hell, is an example of the breakdown of our Constitution.
00:31:37.000Douglas Mackey will be going to jail as a political prisoner.
00:31:44.000This is not a free society, a country that locks up a joke teller for seven months because he put a meme on social media that no one took seriously.
00:31:56.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:32:01.000Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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