00:00:00.000Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Alex Marlow from Breitbart.com.
00:00:04.000And then I talk about how one metric that shows that conservatives are winning the information war.
00:00:10.000And then finally, we talk about why driving makes you conservative.
00:00:13.000Oh, the left hates it when I say that.
00:00:15.000But if you own a car, I think you're more likely to be a conservative.
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00:01:55.000So 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.
00:02:03.000I want to ask a broader question, though, which is why are Democrats not adjusting any of their strategy, their messaging, or their tactics?
00:02:13.000I mean, they see the polls, they see that people are uneasy.
00:02:18.000I think that the reason why they're not adjusting right now is because they actually need to maintain that base.
00:02:25.000The 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.
00:02:58.000We'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.
00:04:08.000So that's the, I mean, one of the most underrepresented communities.
00:04:12.000I gotta, I gotta pick other than the two-spirit community.
00:04:14.000Charlie, 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?
00:04:40.000So the recent inclusion of the intersex flag within the rainbow flag is a big step forward for this community, according to intersex people.
00:04:48.000You 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.
00:05:02.000And it's just one of my favorite things going right now because there is a new flag that just drops.
00:05:11.000Can we show this up on the screen, please?
00:05:14.000Charlie, picture if you were a gay person who actually was bullied because that did happen in this country.
00:05:19.000Picture 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.
00:05:28.000And 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.
00:06:49.000Even if that means the rest of the country is going to suffer and he'll get the blame.
00:06:52.000So I want to ask another question here, which is, do you think Republicans are handling or harnessing this opportunity correctly?
00:07:00.000Because 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.
00:07:10.000Do you think Republicans are handling this correctly?
00:07:12.000I 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.
00:07:23.000It'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.
00:08:07.000And 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.
00:08:18.000I don't know what polling they're looking at, but you're exactly right.
00:08:21.000Is that the Republican base, which is going to show up in huge numbers, by the way?
00:08:26.000The one thing that could potentially stunt that energy is to go tell them, you know what?
00:08:32.000When you give us political power, we don't care.
00:08:34.000And 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.
00:09:10.000Yeah, 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.
00:10:20.000I'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.
00:10:49.000And 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.
00:11:00.000I think a lot of people have been brought back in at a civic level.
00:11:04.000Plus, 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.
00:11:11.000You 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.
00:11:18.000Like that doesn't bring people to your side.
00:11:20.000So 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.
00:11:30.000So I think we have a lot working for us.
00:11:32.000But I honestly, Charlie, I'll believe it when I see it.
00:11:35.000It's such a long battle and there are discouraging moments.
00:11:38.000And you have to be able to keep your head up during those moments.
00:13:55.000There 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.
00:14:07.000And there's kind of a tension between the two of them.
00:14:10.000Alex, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:15:35.000There is a great deal of Americans where it is uncomfortable that they're spending more, but they are not going to go under.
00:15:43.000You 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.
00:17:50.000So CNN on the edges is starting to do a little bit more reporting, and they're going to have more people watch.
00:17:55.000A 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.
00:18:35.000You 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.
00:18:42.000When 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.
00:18:56.000You'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.
00:19:09.000So you have a series of tech companies that receive federal government PPP money.
00:19:17.000They 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.
00:19:28.000And these tech companies then have the cash flows.
00:19:33.000They 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.
00:19:50.000Adds no strategic value to the company, by the way.
00:19:54.000It doesn't make it more likely for these companies to be able to turn a better profit.
00:20:01.000It doesn't give the companies a competitive advantage to be able to innovate quicker or better.
00:20:09.000Instead, it just kind of silences the potential inner revolution that could be happening at their company.
00:20:16.000But 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.
00:20:28.000Companies are going to start to cut back.
00:20:30.000And as companies start to cut back, who do you think is going to lose their jobs first?
00:21:44.000Brian Stelter very well might be fired soon.
00:21:47.000Worst ratings in nine years sees embattled CNN anchor Brian Stelter on the brink of having Sunday morning show canceled.
00:21:55.000In addition, CNN is showing their ratings are so far down and it shows empirical evidence, a total cratering.
00:22:04.000More Democrats are watching Tucker in the younger and middle-aged groups versus any other cable station.
00:22:12.000And 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.
00:22:21.000What is the news that is actually popular?
00:22:25.000And this is a data point that I think we've contributed to the Zeitgeist rather compellingly, which is podcasting.
00:22:31.000A vast majority of people who consume podcasts are under the age of 50.
00:22:37.000A vast majority of people that listen to podcasts are in their 20s or 30s.
00:22:42.000What are the most popular podcasts in the Apple news category?
00:22:46.000We've talked about this a couple of times before.
00:22:54.000If you look at the top 20 podcasts, it includes podcasts like ours, Steven Crowder, Michael Knowles, Glenn Beck, Steve Bannon, Walsh, Bongino, Daily Wire.
00:23:58.000Remember, when you're dealing with podcasts, you're dealing with a medium that is dominated by younger Americans.
00:24:05.000But 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.
00:24:17.000And so with a massive pace, you see how conservatives are able to compete in a free and open market of ideas.
00:24:31.000The Brookings Institution has actually come out to try to attack our podcast, to try to get it removed, saying that podcasting needs more regulation.
00:24:44.000But just like cable news ratings, this country is far more center-right than I think people recognize or realize.
00:24:53.000And 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.
00:25:04.000Things are a lot more fluid in life than I think political commentators give them credit for, give kind of the circumstances credit for.
00:25:13.000You see, things can move, they can change, they can shift.
00:25:18.000And 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.
00:25:34.000A question somebody just asked us, freedom at charliekirk.com, is a great question.
00:25:39.000Where would our country be without these conservative radio shows and podcasts?
00:25:45.000Our program, Shapiro, Walsh, Knowles, Candace Owens, Steven Crowder.
00:25:51.000You 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.
00:26:05.000And 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.
00:26:14.000They're not, I wouldn't say they're mean or slapstick or kind of shock jock.
00:26:50.000And 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.
00:26:59.000Is 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.
00:27:15.000When 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.
00:27:28.000They blame the QAnon fringe platforms that influence Hispanics.
00:27:38.000Look, did you get hit with a big tax spill you were not expecting with rates still being very low and home equity being high?
00:27:45.000It's the perfect time to refinance and get some cash out of your home.
00:27:48.000You could go to one of these woke banks, Citibank, Chase, where they hate you, they hate the country, and they hate Christianity.
00:27:56.000Or you could refinance right now all of your mortgage needs with my friends.
00:28:50.000Joe 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.
00:29:03.000And we're investing almost $100 billion in public transit and rail.
00:29:08.000All 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.
00:29:19.000So I have a theory about this, and I could just imagine Media Matters writing it up, and that's fine.
00:29:24.000I believe it's not a perfect correlation and not a perfect connection, but I think it's a 90% rule.
00:29:31.000The more you drive, the more conservative you are.
00:29:52.000Where public transit, which can be nice in certain circumstances, I don't think is actually ideal.
00:29:59.000I 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.
00:30:50.000And 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.
00:30:57.000Now, 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.
00:31:06.000Public rail or whatever form of transportation there might be, a bus, for example.
00:31:12.000Whereas if you own your own car, you worry about your car payment, you worry about your insurance payment.
00:31:19.000It seems as if when you have to fill up your pump, it is a conservatizing event.
00:31:25.000You know, we've always talked about on this program, conservatizing events are owning property, getting married, and having children.
00:31:32.000I would have to add a fourth as a conservatizing event.
00:31:39.000Filling up a tank of gas turns someone from a ardent left-wing woke socialist to, man, why do things cost so much?
00:31:48.000Ooh, now you're asking the right question.
00:31:51.000You 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.
00:32:05.000You 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.
00:32:23.000Choices and the competition of choice and the allocation of resources is basically how we distill economics.
00:32:31.000It'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.
00:32:43.000You 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.
00:32:59.000It's easy to be a socialist or a liberal with other people's money.
00:33:03.000In fact, it's incredible that people are anything but a left-winger when you are using other people's money.
00:33:12.000But 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.
00:33:28.000And 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.
00:33:36.000And I mean that in the most positive sense imaginable.
00:33:41.000But 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.
00:33:50.000You will be a happier, more joyful person the more you ask yourself the question, what is the cost?
00:33:58.000And 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.
00:34:09.000Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:10.000Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.