The Charlie Kirk Show - The Collapse of CNN, MSNBC and the Democrat Propaganda Machine

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00:00:40.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:25.000 With us right now is the amazing Alex Marlow, who's filled in for me on this program multiple times.

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00:01:46.000 Alex, welcome back to the program.

00:01:48.000 Charlie, I'm so happy to be here.

00:01:49.000 Thank you for inviting me.

00:01:50.000 Your set looks terrific.

00:01:51.000 Thank you.

00:01:52.000 I appreciate that.

00:01:53.000 And a lot to get into.

00:01:55.000 So I want to ask you, Alex, we've been covering the raids that are happening in the country by the government against the citizens right now.

00:02:03.000 I want to ask a broader question, though, which is why are Democrats not adjusting any of their strategy, their messaging, or their tactics?

00:02:13.000 I mean, they see the polls, they see that people are uneasy.

00:02:16.000 Why do you think that is?

00:02:18.000 I think that the reason why they're not adjusting right now is because they actually need to maintain that base.

00:02:25.000 The only people who like Joe Biden at all now are people who are knee-jerk, hardcore leftists, the type of people who see $8 gasoline, and they don't see it as a problem.

00:02:35.000 They see it as a benefit.

00:02:36.000 The people who see Disney grooming children into the trans cult, they see that not as a negative, but as a benefit. 0.90

00:02:43.000 They don't care about blue chip stocks and where things are with your 401k.

00:02:48.000 They've never cared about that stuff.

00:02:49.000 They care about, they're willing to sacrifice money.

00:02:51.000 They're willing to even sacrifice votes so long as they can advance the culture.

00:02:57.000 They think that's the long game.

00:02:58.000 We're seeing it in our academia, Charlie, as you know better than anyone, with the long march through the institution just completely gutting, ravaging our schools right now.

00:03:07.000 And I think that's why.

00:03:08.000 I don't think Biden has any chance at appealing to anyone at all right of center.

00:03:12.000 And the center has been gone for months.

00:03:14.000 So his only chance is to make sure he doesn't tick off those green radicals. 0.86

00:03:18.000 He doesn't tick off those people who are the LGBTQQ plus L. Remember, there's two L's now. 1.00

00:03:25.000 By now, second L.

00:03:26.000 Yeah, there's two L's by now.

00:03:27.000 I do have a question.

00:03:28.000 What's with the black circle now in the flag?

00:03:31.000 Have you noticed?

00:03:32.000 I don't know.

00:03:33.000 That's a new one.

00:03:34.000 I know.

00:03:34.000 I knew that they have the trans triangle that blends into the rainbow thing, but now they have a black circle in it.

00:03:45.000 Okay.

00:03:47.000 Do we have a picture of that, Connor?

00:03:49.000 Is that right?

00:03:52.000 I think we have it at Cut 81.

00:03:53.000 Is that right?

00:03:54.000 Hold on.

00:03:55.000 We got a flag here.

00:03:56.000 Oh, is this intersex? 1.00

00:03:58.000 Is this an intersex thing?

00:03:59.000 Oh, no.

00:04:00.000 Yeah.

00:04:01.000 So I think it must be intersex. 1.00

00:04:02.000 It's not that cut.

00:04:03.000 But anyway, sorry, I interrupted you.

00:04:05.000 I just, I was the intersex community.

00:04:08.000 So that's the, I mean, one of the most underrepresented communities.

00:04:12.000 I gotta, I gotta pick other than the two-spirit community. 1.00

00:04:14.000 Charlie, do you find it odd that Joe Biden, who's been in public life since I think about 25 years before you were even on this planet, that it just dawned on him like four weeks ago that he's really into the trans stuff?

00:04:25.000 Yep, not me.

00:04:27.000 Like a little odd.

00:04:29.000 It's maybe a little disingenuous.

00:04:32.000 Yeah, that he's he's trying to, I guess you're right.

00:04:35.000 You're trying to hold on to any constituency he possibly can at this point.

00:04:40.000 Oh, but okay.

00:04:40.000 So the recent inclusion of the intersex flag within the rainbow flag is a big step forward for this community, according to intersex people.

00:04:48.000 You know, what we what we do sometimes, some of my friends, that whenever a new flag comes out, whenever we're supposed to put out a new one, I will get a bunch of texts: new flag just dropped, like a new Kanye West or Drake album.

00:05:02.000 And it's just one of my favorite things going right now because there is a new flag that just drops.

00:05:06.000 How did Ukraine get on there?

00:05:07.000 How did Ukraine get on there?

00:05:08.000 That's the same thing.

00:05:09.000 Yeah, it kind of is close.

00:05:10.000 It does look like Ukraine's on there.

00:05:11.000 Can we show this up on the screen, please?

00:05:14.000 Charlie, picture if you were a gay person who actually was bullied because that did happen in this country.

00:05:19.000 Picture that that had happened to you when you were growing up and you were excited to get acknowledgement that, you know, to finally be treated equal in this country.

00:05:28.000 And then now, all of a sudden, like Ukraine and all this intersex stuff and the trans weirdos who've been trans for five minutes, they share your plight, Charlie. 0.99

00:05:35.000 They really do.

00:05:36.000 It's intersectionality.

00:05:39.000 That's it, right?

00:05:39.000 So yeah, watching on the live stream, here it is right there.

00:05:43.000 So basically, Alex, your answer is he has to hold on to the only base that he has.

00:05:48.000 But don't they see the polls?

00:05:50.000 They don't care about gas prices.

00:05:51.000 They don't care about inflationary pressures.

00:05:53.000 They don't care about the border.

00:05:54.000 I mean, I have my own personal theories, but I just, I always want to get opinions from smart people.

00:05:59.000 How is it that they just look what's happening?

00:06:02.000 They say, whatever.

00:06:03.000 I just, I don't understand the political calculus there.

00:06:06.000 No, no, I think some of them think it's a positive with the gas prices.

00:06:09.000 If you notice, of all the things he's demanding people do, he's demanding that he, he, what was he saying yesterday?

00:06:16.000 He was saying to the gas, the gas stations to lower prices now.

00:06:20.000 Like he's going to demand it as if he is that level of control.

00:06:23.000 And then he has his ridiculous gas tax holiday, which Charlie, I looked it up for my family.

00:06:28.000 We're going to save $65 over three months with the Biden gas tax holiday.

00:06:33.000 But it is the, this is the magic of live radio.

00:06:36.000 It happens so infrequently, yet so often.

00:06:40.000 Anyway, the point is, is that he won't drill.

00:06:43.000 And why won't he drill?

00:06:44.000 It's the green lobby.

00:06:45.000 The green lobby is so powerful to him.

00:06:47.000 He can't sacrifice any of them.

00:06:49.000 Even if that means the rest of the country is going to suffer and he'll get the blame.

00:06:52.000 So I want to ask another question here, which is, do you think Republicans are handling or harnessing this opportunity correctly?

00:07:00.000 Because this could be a once-in-a-generation wave where we could win in places we would never be able to win otherwise, get really amazing MAG America first people into office.

00:07:10.000 Do you think Republicans are handling this correctly?

00:07:12.000 I think that what happened with them trying to cave on red flag laws, for example, and trying to buckle on gun control is an example of them not handling it well.

00:07:23.000 It's very clear from my vast audience at Breitbart News and the Bright Bar News Daily show that we have and from our social pages, people don't want any compromise with Democrats right now.

00:07:33.000 They want to ride it out.

00:07:34.000 They want to wait for November.

00:07:35.000 They can't wait to vote.

00:07:36.000 They're going to vote almost all of them out that they can.

00:07:39.000 And then maybe we can talk about what's next.

00:07:41.000 But they certainly don't want any sops to the gun grabbers. 0.89

00:07:46.000 And that's, we all know what red flag laws are going to lead, they're going to turn into. 0.60

00:07:50.000 They're going to turn into people who don't have your political worldview getting targeted on their Second Amendment rights.

00:07:56.000 And yet you got, what was it, 14 Republicans supporting it in the Senate?

00:07:59.000 That's appalling to me.

00:08:00.000 And that they think this is good calculus shows me they haven't learned all their lessons from the past five or six years.

00:08:05.000 I think that's exactly right.

00:08:07.000 And I just 14 Republicans seem to never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity to destroy the political chances and what their possible calculus is.

00:08:18.000 I don't know what polling they're looking at, but you're exactly right.

00:08:21.000 Is that the Republican base, which is going to show up in huge numbers, by the way?

00:08:26.000 The one thing that could potentially stunt that energy is to go tell them, you know what?

00:08:32.000 When you give us political power, we don't care.

00:08:34.000 And especially in a time, Alex, where violent crime is going up, mental health issues are going up, which means a lot more people are seeing therapists and getting antidepressant medication.

00:08:44.000 Why does that matter?

00:08:45.000 You can get red flagged for that.

00:08:46.000 Your therapist could flag you without you knowing.

00:08:49.000 Someone who doesn't like you could flag you.

00:08:52.000 Former spouse could flag you.

00:08:55.000 Anyone could flag you for these reasons.

00:08:56.000 Meanwhile, violent crime is going up and you might not be able to properly protect yourself and your family.

00:09:02.000 And we might be seeing food and fuel shortages.

00:09:06.000 We might be seeing a summer of riots.

00:09:08.000 Your thoughts, Alex?

00:09:10.000 Yeah, one of the things also remember: we compromise on the boyfriend loophole or whatever, which I guess, if applied accurately, makes sense that it's harder core punishments if you're a spousal abuser.

00:09:21.000 But what's a boyfriend these days?

00:09:23.000 We just went through Me Too, where, you know, anyone who had a date with Aziz Ansari acted like that he was some sort of a predator.

00:09:29.000 When then we learn, of course, he buzzed years later.

00:09:31.000 That's such a good point.

00:09:33.000 Especially with this hookup culture nonsense on the hookup culture now.

00:09:36.000 How many people have been falsely accused since Me Too?

00:09:38.000 And now we're going to make compromises with these people.

00:09:40.000 It makes absolutely no sense to me.

00:09:42.000 And they aren't, and it's a good rule for life.

00:09:44.000 And anything you're doing, buying a home, anything, when you're not dealing with someone negotiating good faith, walk away.

00:09:50.000 It's that simple.

00:09:50.000 That's it.

00:09:51.000 It's just a rule for life.

00:09:51.000 Good faith.

00:09:54.000 So, Alex, I want to ask you: you're on the front lines.

00:09:57.000 You talk to people all the time on your wonderful program.

00:09:59.000 What's your sense of the grassroots?

00:10:02.000 Do you feel as if the base is getting properly amped up for a longer-term fight?

00:10:07.000 Because, you know, I've been in this for 10 years.

00:10:10.000 You've been in it longer than I have.

00:10:12.000 It seems that the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

00:10:15.000 Is our base prepared for that?

00:10:18.000 I think they're more prepared for it.

00:10:20.000 I'm seeing that people are something that really happened that was very interesting during the pandemic is that you started to see a lot more engagement on a micro level, starting in the schools, people looking over their kids' shoulders on Zoom and realizing that there was something really horrible that was going on in this country, that the indoctrination was starting much earlier, that all of a sudden we were getting these things like CRT pushed on us, the anti-science masking was being pushed on us.

00:10:49.000 And a lot of these things were happening that I do think brought people back into the fold who were trying the approach to try to punch out and just let a couple of people in Washington try to clean up the mess that we have.

00:11:00.000 I think a lot of people have been brought back in at a civic level.

00:11:04.000 Plus, the fact that, you know, in the Trump years, it became fun to be on the right and the left became scolds pretty much simultaneously.

00:11:11.000 You know, you're the party of Felicia Sonmez of the Washington Post all of a sudden, where you're just going around throwing tantrums on Twitter about your employers.

00:11:18.000 Like that doesn't bring people to your side.

00:11:20.000 So when you people, you know, the Donald Trumps of the world, the meme lords of the world who are online, who are almost all on the right these days, it's become cooler to be on the right.

00:11:30.000 So I think we have a lot working for us.

00:11:32.000 But I honestly, Charlie, I'll believe it when I see it.

00:11:35.000 It's such a long battle and there are discouraging moments.

00:11:38.000 And you have to be able to keep your head up during those moments.

00:11:41.000 And I want to see some resilience.

00:11:42.000 And I'm hoping the audience feels inspired by that.

00:11:45.000 I think that's right.

00:11:46.000 And to echo that point, you know, I asked one of my, I won't call it a friend, liberal people that I know.

00:11:53.000 And I asked them, I said, who on your side is in the business of persuasion and is good at it?

00:12:00.000 And they admittedly said, that's really not something we care about.

00:12:05.000 I said, oh, really?

00:12:06.000 They said, yeah, I mean, we have the factories of indoctrination.

00:12:10.000 They didn't use that word, but essentially, they don't have to persuade.

00:12:13.000 They just kind of control things.

00:12:15.000 Whereas you look at our side, every hour, Alex, you and I have to make arguments.

00:12:19.000 We have to be challenged.

00:12:21.000 I actually think that makes for a more durable, a more resilient movement, don't you think?

00:12:29.000 Absolutely.

00:12:29.000 It is the two types of mail I get the most for my radio show is number one is if my kids invade my studio or my dog invades my studio.

00:12:40.000 That's number one.

00:12:41.000 People always like that.

00:12:42.000 Or if I talk about what I had for dinner that weekend.

00:12:44.000 Number two is when I say something someone doesn't like.

00:12:47.000 It's the people who are loyal in the audience, people who listen every day who disagree with me.

00:12:52.000 And I take that heat every single day, and I know you do as well.

00:12:56.000 And then rarely do I get someone writing me an email saying, oh, that was a great point you made.

00:13:01.000 I never get that, but that's expected.

00:13:03.000 It's expected I make great points.

00:13:04.000 When people really want to reach out is when you blow it, when you are not seeing something clearly.

00:13:09.000 That's true.

00:13:10.000 And the audience is so engaged and so sharp.

00:13:12.000 But Breitbart and your show, Salem, has an amazing audience and super smart people.

00:13:17.000 We're going to hear from people, and that does sharpen our skills.

00:13:20.000 That's the opposite of what Joe Biden does.

00:13:22.000 Joe Biden acts like talk radio and alternative media like Breitbart doesn't exist.

00:13:27.000 You know who acts like we exist, Charlie?

00:13:29.000 The Communist Party, Paul Bureau.

00:13:31.000 They're reading us.

00:13:31.000 I can tell they're reading us because they basically react to us on the Global Pimes every day.

00:13:35.000 Biden is acting like we don't exist.

00:13:37.000 It's making him soft and lazy.

00:13:38.000 And that's exactly why he can't get out of his stirrup and he falls off his bike.

00:13:42.000 Yeah, I just think the Democrats, I think there's two tracks.

00:13:45.000 I think some of the Democrats are on cruise control and they're just kind of enjoying the lifestyle.

00:13:51.000 Chauffeur cars, nice title, fundraisers.

00:13:55.000 There is a more dangerous track of people that really concern me, of the people that are willing to use political power, that raiding political opponents, all of that.

00:14:07.000 And there's kind of a tension between the two of them.

00:14:10.000 Alex, thank you so much for joining us today.

00:14:12.000 Really appreciate it.

00:14:13.000 Great commentary as always.

00:14:14.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:14:15.000 Thank you, my friend.

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00:15:08.000 Let's play cut 81.

00:15:13.000 It shows the contempt the ruling class has for us.

00:15:16.000 I was joking around the team.

00:15:17.000 I said, Yeah, I saw that clip when I was in the ice bath this morning.

00:15:21.000 It's true.

00:15:23.000 I watch the markets as I get into 38-degree water every morning.

00:15:30.000 You should try it.

00:15:31.000 It'll wake you up.

00:15:31.000 Better than a cup of coffee and quicker than a cappuccino.

00:15:34.000 Play cut 81.

00:15:35.000 There is a great deal of Americans where it is uncomfortable that they're spending more, but they are not going to go under.

00:15:43.000 You know, you got to stop complaining when there's so many people who literally the inflation rate means they may only have two meals instead of three.

00:15:52.000 You still have your job.

00:15:54.000 So I'm going to need you to calm down and back off.

00:15:57.000 I need you to calm down and back off.

00:16:00.000 Who is this woman, by the way? 1.00

00:16:01.000 She's some sort of economic advisor.

00:16:07.000 You see, when you have a series of woke ideas, eventually the laws of nature will challenge them.

00:16:17.000 Eventually, you're going to fall off your bike.

00:16:24.000 Eventually, you won't be able to have these ideas stand up to the muster or the backlash of people that are suffering.

00:16:35.000 The arrogance, the hubris, the lack of humility, demagogues, all of them.

00:16:41.000 Let's go to CNN cut 77.

00:16:46.000 Consumer prices went up by 7.5% year over year in January before the invasion began.

00:16:52.000 And that was the fastest pace since February of 1982.

00:16:56.000 It's gotten worse since then because we've seen prices for gasoline, natural gas go up.

00:17:02.000 We've seen food prices go up.

00:17:03.000 And so inflation was a big problem.

00:17:05.000 It's gotten even bigger.

00:17:06.000 Literally, the White House is searching for solutions here.

00:17:08.000 But let's sum up what we just heard, right?

00:17:10.000 One, not likely to get through Congress.

00:17:12.000 Two, if it gets through Congress, it's going to have a minimal impact on your wallet, right?

00:17:17.000 What do we say?

00:17:18.000 $2.70 every time you fill up your tank.

00:17:22.000 Not a big mover.

00:17:23.000 And then also, it could backfire by making demand worse.

00:17:26.000 It's not going to address supply.

00:17:27.000 It doesn't help the revenue situation.

00:17:30.000 There's a lot of drawbacks there.

00:17:31.000 Is CNN actually doing honest journalism?

00:17:34.000 Why would that be?

00:17:35.000 Well, again, you can only operate for so long under this far-left, anti-reality propaganda prism.

00:17:46.000 It's not possible.

00:17:47.000 You can't do it.

00:17:48.000 No one wants to watch it.

00:17:50.000 So CNN on the edges is starting to do a little bit more reporting, and they're going to have more people watch.

00:17:55.000 A legitimate neutral news agency would be an unbelievable multi-billion dollar company right now that would hold the right accountable and hold the left accountable.

00:18:04.000 It'd be incredibly lucrative.

00:18:07.000 Can CNN accomplish that?

00:18:08.000 Well, they've hired a bunch of radicals the last couple of years.

00:18:11.000 And CNN is basically a Democrat super PAC.

00:18:17.000 And now all these commentators are worried that they're going to be fired.

00:18:21.000 So they're kind of moving to the middle and they're trying to be a little bit more critical of Biden.

00:18:24.000 And no one really knows what the kind of operating procedures are.

00:18:29.000 What is the mission statement of CNN right now?

00:18:32.000 Survive?

00:18:35.000 You see, when you print all of this money and you create all this money, this is an argument I've made a couple of times on this program, but it's very important.

00:18:42.000 When you have cheap money policies and you have hyper-inflated valuations in public markets and you have securities and equities that are far out of alignment from reality, you are then able to have the play money.

00:18:56.000 You're able to have the excesses to then tolerate the super annoying apparatch that otherwise would have no place in a business that is operating on tight margins.

00:19:09.000 So you have a series of tech companies that receive federal government PPP money.

00:19:17.000 They do extraordinarily well because everybody's watching at home, watching Netflix at home or doing Zoom meetings or buying technological products or ordering Amazon boxes.

00:19:28.000 And these tech companies then have the cash flows.

00:19:33.000 They have the opportunity and the ability to then have a thousand otherwise unnecessary HR department graduates from Yale and Columbia and Northwestern and Stanford who just talk about diversity, equity, inclusion all day.

00:19:50.000 Adds no strategic value to the company, by the way.

00:19:54.000 It doesn't make it more likely for these companies to be able to turn a better profit.

00:20:01.000 It doesn't give the companies a competitive advantage to be able to innovate quicker or better.

00:20:08.000 No, not at all.

00:20:09.000 Instead, it just kind of silences the potential inner revolution that could be happening at their company.

00:20:16.000 But now that we are headed to a recession and possibly a depression through crashflation, the crash of the economy with hyper-inflated prices because dollar bills are everywhere.

00:20:28.000 Companies are going to start to cut back.

00:20:30.000 And as companies start to cut back, who do you think is going to lose their jobs first?

00:20:36.000 People like Brian Stelter.

00:20:38.000 You see, Brian Stelter, he's kind of an affirmative action pick, not in the sense you might think.

00:20:44.000 Not, you know, he wasn't hired because of his gender or because of his race.

00:20:49.000 No, he's hired because of his lack of intelligence.

00:20:52.000 They have to have somebody like that. 0.99

00:20:53.000 Like they have to have some buffoon on payroll because they say, look, we just have to factor it in.

00:21:00.000 It's just, it's kind of our symbol of charity to the world is to have this person that literally no one follows Brian Stelter. 0.88

00:21:15.000 No one thinks he's smart.

00:21:18.000 And you just kind of keep him on TV.

00:21:20.000 It's like, that's just, it's our donation to the world.

00:21:26.000 This is us doing the right thing.

00:21:28.000 We could go send money for hurricane relief. 0.65

00:21:31.000 We could go try and stop the plight of black fathers. 1.00

00:21:36.000 Our contribution to the world is we're going to employ the otherwise unemployed eunuch, Brian Stelter.

00:21:43.000 But guess what?

00:21:44.000 Brian Stelter very well might be fired soon.

00:21:47.000 Worst ratings in nine years sees embattled CNN anchor Brian Stelter on the brink of having Sunday morning show canceled.

00:21:55.000 In addition, CNN is showing their ratings are so far down and it shows empirical evidence, a total cratering.

00:22:04.000 More Democrats are watching Tucker in the younger and middle-aged groups versus any other cable station.

00:22:12.000 And so kind of cable rating news wars are a little bit silly at times, but they're actually an objective measurement to see what are people consuming.

00:22:21.000 What is the news that is actually popular?

00:22:25.000 And this is a data point that I think we've contributed to the Zeitgeist rather compellingly, which is podcasting.

00:22:31.000 A vast majority of people who consume podcasts are under the age of 50.

00:22:37.000 A vast majority of people that listen to podcasts are in their 20s or 30s.

00:22:42.000 What are the most popular podcasts in the Apple news category?

00:22:46.000 We've talked about this a couple of times before.

00:22:49.000 Is it Drag Queen Story Hour?

00:22:51.000 Is it How to Make America Transgender again? 0.95

00:22:53.000 No.

00:22:54.000 If you look at the top 20 podcasts, it includes podcasts like ours, Steven Crowder, Michael Knowles, Glenn Beck, Steve Bannon, Walsh, Bongino, Daily Wire.

00:23:03.000 Conservatives do extremely well.

00:23:05.000 And the one thing about podcasting is that it's kind of how Facebook used to be.

00:23:10.000 It's super straight up.

00:23:12.000 There's no manipulating the algorithm.

00:23:14.000 It's like Apple, actually, it's well known in the podcasting world.

00:23:17.000 If you kind of get into this world, Apple really doesn't take their podcasting app that seriously.

00:23:21.000 I mean, they have like 20 or 30 people, from what I understand, that work on it.

00:23:25.000 It's not hyper-political.

00:23:26.000 They don't police the speech as much as kind of a Facebook or a Twitter or Google would.

00:23:31.000 They're kind of like, okay, here's your podcast.

00:23:33.000 It's approved.

00:23:34.000 Very good.

00:23:35.000 And if you go up in the charts, it's all based on algorithm, listens, and subscribes.

00:23:38.000 It's extremely political agnostic, at least in our experience.

00:23:43.000 It's just kind of, here's the data, here's where you are, whatever.

00:23:46.000 We're going to go work on building a new watch or whatever.

00:23:48.000 It's not a priority of Apple.

00:23:49.000 And that's honestly a really good thing.

00:23:51.000 We're thankful for that because it hasn't been taken over by the apparatches.

00:23:56.000 So you look at the top 20 podcasts.

00:23:58.000 Remember, when you're dealing with podcasts, you're dealing with a medium that is dominated by younger Americans.

00:24:05.000 But I look at the top podcasts, it goes, okay, there's NPR and there's the New York Times, but then it just goes one after the other: Shapiro and Walsh and Bongino and R program and Beck and Knowles and Fannin and Crowder.

00:24:17.000 And so with a massive pace, you see how conservatives are able to compete in a free and open market of ideas.

00:24:31.000 The Brookings Institution has actually come out to try to attack our podcast, to try to get it removed, saying that podcasting needs more regulation.

00:24:44.000 But just like cable news ratings, this country is far more center-right than I think people recognize or realize.

00:24:53.000 And this is the one thing I always tell Republicans that say, we have to pander to suburban voters that, I don't know, for whatever crazy reason, because they want gun control.

00:25:04.000 Things are a lot more fluid in life than I think political commentators give them credit for, give kind of the circumstances credit for.

00:25:13.000 You see, things can move, they can change, they can shift.

00:25:18.000 And so what we do in the podcast space, what we do in the radio space, what we do in the live stream space is we're constantly trying to make compelling and persuasive arguments to be able to move the Overton window.

00:25:34.000 A question somebody just asked us, freedom at charliekirk.com, is a great question.

00:25:39.000 Where would our country be without these conservative radio shows and podcasts?

00:25:45.000 Our program, Shapiro, Walsh, Knowles, Candace Owens, Steven Crowder.

00:25:51.000 You kind of combine all of this alternative media community that is not on cable TV, but is free thinking, is able to make arguments, is able to be creative in its presentation.

00:26:05.000 And it's by no means, you look at the entire gauntlet of the ones I just mentioned, the podcasts and the radio programs, none of them are caustic.

00:26:14.000 They're not, I wouldn't say they're mean or slapstick or kind of shock jock.

00:26:21.000 They're thoughtful pieces of work.

00:26:25.000 They're thoughtful, I call them pieces of art.

00:26:28.000 That's probably a step too far, but they're thoughtfully presented.

00:26:31.000 Let me put it that way.

00:26:33.000 They're well researched.

00:26:34.000 And so the audience themselves are saying, I don't just want to listen to the New York Times all day long.

00:26:39.000 I don't just want to listen to Rachel Maddow all day long.

00:26:43.000 I want to get different opinions.

00:26:45.000 And this drives the left mad.

00:26:50.000 And the thing I'm trying to warn people, and I've warned all the other podcasters with whatever I am friends with, all of them, I know them all.

00:26:58.000 They're all great people.

00:26:59.000 Is that, hey, we all have to stick together because the next line of attack is going to be after what they consider to be the propaganda channels, to be what they consider to be the kind of issue with society.

00:27:15.000 When Myra Flores won in the Rio Grande Valley in the second most Hispanic district in America in an 84% Hispanic district, they don't blame Myra Flores.

00:27:28.000 They blame the QAnon fringe platforms that influence Hispanics.

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00:28:50.000 Joe Biden is announcing they're going to invest $100 billion in public transit and take millions of cars off the road, inherently making you less free and our cities more liberal.

00:29:00.000 Play Cut 78.

00:29:03.000 And we're investing almost $100 billion in public transit and rail.

00:29:08.000 All the studies show that it will take millions of cars off the road and significantly reduce pollution if there's a serious transportation system available.

00:29:19.000 So I have a theory about this, and I could just imagine Media Matters writing it up, and that's fine.

00:29:24.000 I believe it's not a perfect correlation and not a perfect connection, but I think it's a 90% rule.

00:29:31.000 The more you drive, the more conservative you are.

00:29:35.000 Just look at the truckers. 0.75

00:29:38.000 I think that driving requires a form of responsibility.

00:29:44.000 It requires a sense of awareness.

00:29:47.000 What does it cost?

00:29:48.000 Insurance, gas prices.

00:29:52.000 Where public transit, which can be nice in certain circumstances, I don't think is actually ideal.

00:29:59.000 I think that public transit makes you unaware of the costs or the investment of what is required to get you from point A to point B. Where if you own a car in the suburbs or in the rural areas, you are intimately aware and invested in everything.

00:30:17.000 How much does the car cost?

00:30:18.000 How much does it cost to fill up?

00:30:20.000 Now, when you are thinking about costs, you generally end up being a conservative.

00:30:26.000 A good rule for life is the more you care about costs, the less likely you are to be a leftist.

00:30:34.000 A leftist is someone who does not consciously think about what is the cost.

00:30:40.000 Now, why is that?

00:30:41.000 Because the mark of a mature person is someone who asks the question, what is the price?

00:30:48.000 The left never asks that question.

00:30:50.000 And so, therefore, when you are driving, you're asking a question a lot more than you would if you're on a train and if you're on a subway.

00:30:57.000 Now, that's to say that a train or a subway doesn't cost money, but it's far less and you're not as aware and it's heavily subsidized.

00:31:06.000 Public rail or whatever form of transportation there might be, a bus, for example.

00:31:12.000 Whereas if you own your own car, you worry about your car payment, you worry about your insurance payment.

00:31:19.000 It seems as if when you have to fill up your pump, it is a conservatizing event.

00:31:25.000 You know, we've always talked about on this program, conservatizing events are owning property, getting married, and having children.

00:31:32.000 I would have to add a fourth as a conservatizing event.

00:31:35.000 Filling up a tank of gas.

00:31:39.000 Filling up a tank of gas turns someone from a ardent left-wing woke socialist to, man, why do things cost so much?

00:31:48.000 Ooh, now you're asking the right question.

00:31:51.000 You see, the more we can get young people to ask the question, what is the cost, the more likely they are to entertain and believe a conservative philosophy.

00:32:05.000 You see, a conservative philosophy comes from the original perspective that things are limited, resources are limited, your time is limited, and you must make a selection of choices.

00:32:23.000 Choices and the competition of choice and the allocation of resources is basically how we distill economics.

00:32:31.000 It's a series of human action, and it is the chasing of scarcity of goods for the ultimate ability for human beings to live and to prosper and to enjoy such goods and services.

00:32:43.000 You see, when you put a child, for example, through a college campus on debt that they can't even tell you how much they've borrowed, no cost, then go take public transportation back to their parents' home that they're not paying for, no cost, no cost.

00:32:59.000 It's easy to be a socialist or a liberal with other people's money.

00:33:03.000 In fact, it's incredible that people are anything but a left-winger when you are using other people's money.

00:33:12.000 But the second you have to use your own money and your own time and your own sacrifice and your own energy gets put into an invisible ball and then gets transmuted into work and labor that then comes out the other side as a paycheck.

00:33:28.000 And then that paycheck has to get stolen by the federal government and then has to get stolen at the gas pump, all of a sudden, that is a rather radicalizing event.

00:33:36.000 And I mean that in the most positive sense imaginable.

00:33:41.000 But having no responsibility and making few choices, not asking what the cost is, that's desirable for some people, but actually makes you less happy.

00:33:50.000 You will be a happier, more joyful person the more you ask yourself the question, what is the cost?

00:33:58.000 And so for that reason, I hope everyone still owns a car because I think it creates independence, it embraces a spirit of freedom, and yes, I think keeps America more conservative than not.

00:34:09.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:10.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:13.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:34:14.000 God bless.

00:34:17.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 24, 2022

The Collapse of CNN, MSNBC and the Democrat Propaganda Machine

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