The Charlie Kirk Show - January 26, 2024


The Collapse of Regime Media


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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) joins the show to talk about the border deal, the collapse of institutional media, and the need for a border bill that secures the southern border and keeps illegal immigrants out of the United States.

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00:00:01.000 Senator Scott from Florida.
00:00:02.000 We talk about the looming border deal or lack thereof.
00:00:07.000 We also talk about the collapse of institutional media.
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00:01:27.000 Joining us now is a great man.
00:01:30.000 I wish he was leading the Senate and we'll dance around with that topic, but he's doing a great job.
00:01:35.000 Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida.
00:01:38.000 Senator, thank you for taking the time.
00:01:40.000 It's all about the border right now.
00:01:41.000 Immigration, immigration, immigration.
00:01:43.000 You've really been laying it down.
00:01:44.000 I want to play a piece of tape here to kind of frame up our conversation.
00:01:48.000 Let's play Cut 124, please.
00:01:50.000 So I think the bottom line is this.
00:01:51.000 If we cannot secure our border, we need to close the border.
00:01:54.000 If we have a president that doesn't want to secure the border, let's close the border until we get a president that actually is going to enforce our laws.
00:02:01.000 Senator, elaborate on that.
00:02:03.000 Well, first off, look, we've got a lawless administration.
00:02:06.000 Trump secured the border with the exact same laws that we have right now.
00:02:10.000 The Biden administration just made the decision that they want drugs, criminals, terrorists to come across their border.
00:02:18.000 Now, I'm sure there's a lot of wonderful people that want to come.
00:02:20.000 You know what?
00:02:21.000 I'm from an immigration state.
00:02:22.000 Come legally.
00:02:24.000 I don't want drugs, criminals, or terrorists.
00:02:26.000 So here's what we have to do.
00:02:28.000 We have to secure the border.
00:02:30.000 Look at what the Biden administration did.
00:02:32.000 So we're negotiating a border deal with the Biden administration that just went to the Supreme Court and said they wanted to close down what Texas is trying to do to secure their own border.
00:02:42.000 So if you, so somebody like that, do you trust them?
00:02:45.000 Absolutely not.
00:02:47.000 So the only way this is going to happen, we cannot do a bill unless it has some sort of measurement on something the Biden administration wants.
00:02:55.000 So say it's Ukraine aid.
00:02:56.000 Well, if you want Ukraine aid, if we're going to fund Ukraine and secure their border, then it's only going to happen if the number of people coming across our southern border goes down to what it was under Trump.
00:03:08.000 Now, they keep saying they're going to close to a deal.
00:03:10.000 Guess what?
00:03:11.000 Charlie, they don't want you to see the deal.
00:03:13.000 Yeah.
00:03:14.000 Where's the text?
00:03:14.000 No, but I just, so Senator, this is beyond frustrating to me.
00:03:17.000 So these are your colleagues who's negotiating here.
00:03:20.000 And I know you have to be respectful and you work on lots of different things together.
00:03:23.000 I totally get it.
00:03:24.000 But what's really going on here?
00:03:26.000 I mean, why are Senate Republicans putting up with this?
00:03:29.000 I know you aren't.
00:03:29.000 I know great Senator Ted Cruz is not.
00:03:32.000 But I mean, Senator Lankford, who I think is a really sweet person, I think he's making a terrible mistake here.
00:03:37.000 First of all, this should be done in the open process, not backroom deals is one of the reasons why people hate Washington, D.C.
00:03:44.000 Well, so I've been up here five years.
00:03:47.000 Here's how it works.
00:03:48.000 Schumer McConnell, they in a back room, they decide the deal.
00:03:53.000 They get somebody to write it.
00:03:55.000 Okay.
00:03:55.000 And then they spring it on us and say, you've got to vote on it right now.
00:03:59.000 And by the way, we're not going to take any amendments.
00:04:02.000 So either you care about this issue, so vote yes, or you don't care about this issue, you vote no.
00:04:08.000 That's what they do.
00:04:09.000 So it's not Lankford.
00:04:11.000 Lankford is smart about the border.
00:04:13.000 He's on Homeland Security on the same committee I'm on.
00:04:15.000 We get a lot of briefings.
00:04:17.000 We understand the problem.
00:04:18.000 He understands the problem.
00:04:19.000 He's being directed.
00:04:21.000 He's being directed by Mitch McConnell.
00:04:23.000 He has said, we are not going to.
00:04:25.000 We will not tie Ukraine aid to a drop in the number of people coming across our southern border and saying that's what's happening.
00:04:33.000 It's all driven by Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer.
00:04:36.000 So, and think about this.
00:04:38.000 And so like last week, we still didn't have the language.
00:04:43.000 And McConnell comes out and says, we're going to vote on it this week.
00:04:46.000 Well, that's why we have worked hard.
00:04:48.000 Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Roger Marshall, Eric Smith, and others.
00:04:53.000 We've said, no, no, no.
00:04:55.000 We're going to get the information.
00:04:57.000 The public needs to understand this.
00:04:58.000 Charlie, you should have plenty of time to understand.
00:05:02.000 So guess what?
00:05:03.000 You can give us advice.
00:05:04.000 How do you look at it?
00:05:05.000 How do the people in McAllen, Texas look at it?
00:05:08.000 How do the people in Miami, Florida look at it?
00:05:10.000 Because that's what we ought to be doing.
00:05:12.000 That's how government should work.
00:05:13.000 And guess what?
00:05:14.000 I should be able to do whatever amendments I want on the floor.
00:05:17.000 And if I can't convince somebody, that's it.
00:05:19.000 But here's the other thing we should be doing.
00:05:21.000 We cannot codify.
00:05:22.000 We cannot do anything to codify Biden's open door policy.
00:05:26.000 We can't limit what President Trump can do when he wins.
00:05:30.000 And by the way, where is the House of Representatives?
00:05:33.000 We have a majority.
00:05:34.000 Where's this speaker?
00:05:36.000 Why aren't they including Mike Johnson or somebody in leadership from the House as part of this negotiation?
00:05:41.000 Otherwise, we're just going to try to cram something down their throat.
00:05:46.000 I mean, this makes no sense.
00:05:47.000 It's so dysfunctional.
00:05:48.000 I had the opportunity to speak with Speaker Johnson recently, and I haven't exactly been approving of what he's been doing.
00:05:54.000 We had a good conversation.
00:05:55.000 It really was a good conversation.
00:05:56.000 I mean that.
00:05:57.000 But he blames you guys in the Senate.
00:05:59.000 He says, what's the Senate doing?
00:06:01.000 And I got to be honest, this bickering drives me nuts.
00:06:04.000 The country's collapsing.
00:06:06.000 I just, and I want to just emphasize there's some incredibly qualified people not named Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate, you being one of them.
00:06:15.000 You've run a state really well.
00:06:16.000 You did a great job as governor.
00:06:17.000 You ran a company really well.
00:06:19.000 You've been a great senator.
00:06:21.000 I mean, McConnell has to go.
00:06:23.000 And I know that is like the third rail here, but how many times are we going to put up with this sort of legislative deception, this sort of deploying his surrogates?
00:06:34.000 And I hear you on Senator Lankford.
00:06:36.000 Senator Lankford could decide not to negotiate, but all along I've said he's a proxy of McConnell.
00:06:42.000 I totally acknowledge that.
00:06:43.000 I find what McConnell is doing is awfully repulsive.
00:06:47.000 However, McConnell is also getting heat from his colleagues who have endorsed Donald Trump and see that the politics is changing.
00:06:55.000 I want to play cut 126, please.
00:06:57.000 Past few minutes, Jake Sherman with Punch Bowl News had this about a McConnell meeting with Republican senators.
00:07:03.000 Senator McConnell told a closed meeting of Senate Republicans today that the politics of the border has flipped and cast doubt on linking Ukraine and the border.
00:07:15.000 It quotes us him saying, when we started this, the border united us and Ukraine divided us.
00:07:19.000 The politics on this have changed, he told his GOP colleagues.
00:07:23.000 He said he referred to Donald Trump as the nominee.
00:07:26.000 We don't want to do anything to undermine him, and he wants to campaign and center it on immigration.
00:07:32.000 So, quote, we're in a quandary.
00:07:35.000 We're in a quandary.
00:07:36.000 So, if Trump wasn't doing well and Nikki Haley was ascendant, open borders would be acceptable.
00:07:42.000 I mean, please help me understand this because this is in some sort of foreign Senate speak.
00:07:47.000 Securing the border unites us.
00:07:49.000 I don't know one Republican senator that doesn't believe we ought to secure the border.
00:07:53.000 I actually don't know anybody that doesn't think we've got to do something.
00:07:57.000 Now, if it's not Ukraine aid, maybe it's something else, but it has to be something to force the lawless Biden administration to basically do their job.
00:08:08.000 So, all we're saying is we all want the border secure.
00:08:11.000 I don't know one Republican senator that doesn't, right?
00:08:14.000 And but we know that the Biden administration is not going to do it unless they have to.
00:08:18.000 So, why doesn't our leadership, why doesn't Mitch McConnell, who is, you know, is the Republican leader, why doesn't he, if he doesn't want to tie it to Ukraine, then find something else.
00:08:31.000 But don't keep us in the dark and then tell Langford and tell the negotiators, you cannot, you cannot tie it to the monthly Ukraine aid to how many people come across the border.
00:08:45.000 Then come up with something else.
00:08:46.000 Because I can tell you what, I don't know if it's a majority, but a lot of us have been saying we've got to tie these things together because it's the only thing we know that's going to get the Biden administration to do their job.
00:08:57.000 Yeah, and that's the other element of this, which is, you know, we have the CR that was passed that now goes to March.
00:09:05.000 If I were to just play devil's advocate here, Senator, and I don't loop you into this, but I'm deathly afraid that people that are in cycle, you're doing the right thing despite what they're trying to do to you.
00:09:17.000 But it's not as if courage increases the closer we get to election day.
00:09:23.000 It's not as if all of a sudden everyone's going to say, you know, we're nine months out from an election.
00:09:23.000 And you know this.
00:09:28.000 Now I'm really going to go lay down the gauntlet for a legislative fight.
00:09:32.000 Well, you know, the way I look at it is I'm a business guy.
00:09:38.000 I'm doing this because there's no country to move to.
00:09:40.000 This is a place we got to fight for everything.
00:09:43.000 And so the people of Florida have elected me three times, two times as governor, one time as senator.
00:09:47.000 They know who I am.
00:09:48.000 They know that I'm going to watch the money.
00:09:51.000 I'm going to create accountability.
00:09:53.000 So I'm not worried about that.
00:09:55.000 I mean, I'm up this cycle, but I am hell-bent on improving this country.
00:10:01.000 And if it means that somebody up here in DC doesn't like me, there's nothing I can do about it.
00:10:07.000 But the fact that Donald Trump is winning and will be our nominee does not change anybody in the Senate's decision.
00:10:15.000 They all know we want a secure border.
00:10:18.000 It's what we're dealing with is Mitch McConnell has said we're not going to tie real accountability and metrics to Ukraine aid because he wants Ukraine aid.
00:10:27.000 I get it.
00:10:28.000 He wants Ukraine aid.
00:10:29.000 All right.
00:10:30.000 I don't want Ukraine to lose.
00:10:31.000 I want Russia to lose.
00:10:33.000 I'm all in on that.
00:10:34.000 But I'm focused on our border before I focus on Ukraine's border.
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00:12:06.000 Senator Scott, I know we touched on this briefly.
00:12:09.000 What is the timeline then here?
00:12:10.000 You guys had the press conference.
00:12:12.000 There's allegedly going to be some sort of a border deal, but then Senator McConnell seems to be undermining that because of the politics of Trump.
00:12:20.000 This seems like it's going to hit a fever pitch soon.
00:12:23.000 When I speak to the House side, they say, well, we're waiting for the Senate side, and then we're going to swat it down, and then we're going to redo negotiations.
00:12:30.000 So what is the timeline looking like here?
00:12:32.000 Well, it's always up to Chuck Schumer, right?
00:12:34.000 He's the majority leader, so he gets to decide when we do anything up here.
00:12:38.000 But I don't know.
00:12:40.000 We had, you know, we had a conference meeting last week on the border.
00:12:43.000 We had one yesterday on Ukraine.
00:12:46.000 Because what we have to do is we have to get people together and have real conversations instead of having one person negotiate on our behalf.
00:12:56.000 And it's not really James Lankford.
00:12:59.000 It's Mr. McConnell.
00:13:01.000 So what we got to do is we've got to come up with how do we secure this border?
00:13:09.000 And I don't think it's hard.
00:13:12.000 I mean, I think that Donald Trump did it.
00:13:15.000 It's really just we got to go enforce the laws.
00:13:20.000 Now we can just sit here and wait until Donald Trump takes over next January, or we can say, what can we get done right now?
00:13:27.000 And I want to do the things that will force the Biden administration to do their job now.
00:13:31.000 Maorca is, you know, it just comes and lies to us and says the border's secure.
00:13:35.000 You know, Director Ray came and testified probably in November when I asked him the question is, are there terror cells around the United States as a result of an open border?
00:13:43.000 He said, absolutely.
00:13:45.000 And my Orcus is sitting right there.
00:13:47.000 Right.
00:13:48.000 So this is not insignificant.
00:13:51.000 We've got terrorist cells around the country.
00:13:53.000 We've got drugs.
00:13:54.000 We got criminals. 0.98
00:13:54.000 We got terrorists. 0.98
00:13:55.000 And we had a briefing the other day on the terrorists coming across, and they never can tell us all the facts.
00:14:02.000 Oh, well, we are just the ones that catch them.
00:14:05.000 And we don't know what they do with them afterwards, people do over at ICE afterwards.
00:14:10.000 And the CBP people are great.
00:14:12.000 They're trying to secure the border, but the people that they send over here to give us information never have all the facts.
00:14:18.000 No, and it's just, so there is this piece of tape here, Senator.
00:14:21.000 And for the sake of time, I'm not going to play it.
00:14:23.000 I don't know if you saw this.
00:14:24.000 It went totally viral.
00:14:25.000 There's a guy who's obviously Middle Eastern.
00:14:27.000 A reporter says, Hey, you know, where are you from?
00:14:30.000 And he kind of, in a very smuggly way, you know, says he's from the Middle East.
00:14:34.000 And they said, well, what's your name?
00:14:35.000 He said, oh, soon everyone will know my name.
00:14:38.000 Everyone will know my name soon.
00:14:41.000 And he says this in a way, and like the tone and the way he looks, it's as if he's threatening a terrorist attack.
00:14:49.000 And we don't know if he was released into the interior of the United States.
00:14:52.000 Some people are speculating that he's running.
00:14:54.000 He's a former head of an Islamic front group in the Middle East.
00:14:57.000 But, Senator, this is no joke.
00:14:59.000 And I have to be honest that for some of your colleagues that are fixated on national security, and I mean, let's play this piece of tape here.
00:15:08.000 You'll see it for yourself, Senator.
00:15:10.000 Play Cut 50.
00:15:10.000 I really want you to see this.
00:15:12.000 By the way, if you are smart enough, you would know who I am.
00:15:15.000 But you are really not smart enough to know who I am.
00:15:18.000 But soon you're going to know who I am.
00:15:21.000 Wow.
00:15:21.000 Very easy.
00:15:23.000 The entitlement.
00:15:24.000 The entitlement.
00:15:25.000 No, believe me, I'm much better than that.
00:15:27.000 The entitlement, guys.
00:15:29.000 Wow.
00:15:31.000 Soon you will know who I am.
00:15:32.000 Soon everyone will know who I am.
00:15:34.000 Now, maybe he's going to go run for city council as a foreign illegal, and maybe that's why we'll know. 0.95
00:15:41.000 But, Senator, I just is it going to take a dirty bomb in an American city because of an illegal to wake us up?
00:15:47.000 God forbid, I pray that's not true.
00:15:49.000 So please, your thoughts, Senator Scott.
00:15:51.000 But think about this, Charlie.
00:15:53.000 Biden brought 70,000 people without any IDs on those planes from Afghanistan.
00:15:58.000 70,000 people.
00:15:59.000 We have no idea where they are.
00:16:01.000 We have thousands of people who come from Iran.
00:16:03.000 We have thousands of people who come from Syria.
00:16:05.000 We have people coming from Lebanon.
00:16:07.000 Now, some of them, I bet, are just here to live our dream.
00:16:10.000 How many does it take?
00:16:12.000 Because what was there, 21 9-11 terrorists?
00:16:16.000 Without even guns?
00:16:17.000 How many does it take to do something horrible in this country?
00:16:22.000 And how long is it going to, by the way, how long is it going to take the next administration?
00:16:27.000 How long is it going to take Trump to try to clean up how many people that are druggists, are drug sellers, human traffickers, terrorists, you know, in our country?
00:16:39.000 How long is this going to take?
00:16:40.000 You talk to law enforcement around the country, and they're scared to death of the risk right now.
00:16:47.000 So I don't get it.
00:16:49.000 I mean, I just don't get why the Biden administration, the people who work there, don't they have families?
00:16:54.000 Aren't they worried about their kids and their grandkids?
00:16:57.000 Aren't they worried about something might happen to them when they see 70,000 people dying just a fentanyl overdose?
00:17:03.000 They don't care.
00:17:04.000 They don't care.
00:17:05.000 They want open borders and they say diversity is our strength.
00:17:08.000 And they believe that with religious fascination.
00:17:10.000 It is really, it's tragic that if we don't win in November here, we don't have a civilization.
00:17:16.000 I wish that wasn't the case.
00:17:17.000 Senator, please keep fighting.
00:17:19.000 And if we take back the Senate, which I think we will, yeah, when, I'm going to do whatever it takes to make sure that you're Senate majority leader.
00:17:27.000 So we'll be talking.
00:17:28.000 Thanks, Senator Scott.
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00:18:42.000 In the last decade, there has been not necessarily a new trend, but a habit of the rich, the famous, and the elite.
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00:19:05.000 You buy newspapers.
00:19:07.000 Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post.
00:19:10.000 Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon Shion bought the Los Angeles Times.
00:19:15.000 Lorraine Powell Jobs bought the Atlantic.
00:19:18.000 And those are just a couple examples off the top of my head.
00:19:20.000 If you have more money than you know what to do with, I mean, how many times can you tour the Aegean on a 130-foot yacht?
00:19:28.000 I mean, yeah, that's fine, but real power is vested in owning media companies.
00:19:36.000 You're able to basically control what people think and how they think it.
00:19:41.000 Lorene Powell Jobs owned the Atlantic. 0.98
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00:19:47.000 She could say she inherited it.
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00:19:52.000 It's part of the Emerson Collective.
00:19:54.000 And she has been subsidizing The Atlantic.
00:19:56.000 Jeff Bezos, one of the world's wealthiest men, previously the most wealthy man, worth $120,000, $30,000 billion.
00:20:03.000 Owning media companies is nothing new.
00:20:05.000 Titans of Industries did this in the 1950s and 60s and 70s as well.
00:20:09.000 But it's starting to hit a breaking point because of digital media and because of new media, people are saying, why do I have to pay money to go read the Washington Post?
00:20:20.000 Why do I need to read money to read the Los Angeles Times?
00:20:24.000 It's just too easy to start a new media outlet.
00:20:27.000 And look at our program right here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:20:30.000 We were the number one stream on the New Hampshire primary night.
00:20:34.000 150,000 concurrent viewers on our stream.
00:20:38.000 By contrast, NBC News did their own stream on YouTube and other channels.
00:20:43.000 And I think they might have 10 or 15,000 concurrence, maybe, maybe.
00:20:47.000 And that doesn't even count our amazing partners on Real America's Voice.
00:20:51.000 And we have a ragtag team because we care about it.
00:20:54.000 We're entrepreneurial and we've earned the trust of the audience.
00:20:57.000 While corporate force-fed regime media continues to get utterly destroyed, this program, The Charlie Kirk Show, is thriving like never before.
00:21:07.000 Our platform is growing. 0.97
00:21:09.000 And all the everything is racist and Trump is a dictator, Stooges. 0.97
00:21:14.000 Good luck making payroll. 0.72
00:21:16.000 Just because your show is inside the box or in a paper that no one reads does not give you an excuse to exist.
00:21:24.000 The market will decide, and there are great journalists out there, of course.
00:21:28.000 But right now, we're finally seeing the Great Purge.
00:21:32.000 And very wealthy billionaires who bought these news media companies and they said to themselves, yeah, I can write a $30 million check a year to kind of keep it going.
00:21:44.000 What's $30 million?
00:21:46.000 Well, you do that for six years and all of a sudden your CFO comes to you and says, hey, Mr. Bezos, just let you know, you know, you've subsidized $200 million of losses at the Washington Post?
00:22:00.000 He's like, what?
00:22:02.000 Yeah, I know that you say you really don't care, but is there any cost-saving measures that we should insist that the Washington Post does?
00:22:09.000 Same at the Los Angeles Times.
00:22:10.000 The Los Angeles Times, owned by Patrick Soon-Shioung.
00:22:15.000 It's like, look, all for owning media companies, but $50 million, $60 million a year losses?
00:22:23.000 And then it hits a breaking point.
00:22:26.000 These billionaires say, enough.
00:22:29.000 Why am I doing this?
00:22:31.000 That's a lot of money, even if you're worth $4 billion or if you're worth $30 billion to keep writing a $30 million check a year, $30 million, $40 million, $50 million check.
00:22:45.000 And the same way that we saw some of the major brokerage firms and banks go under in the 2008 financial crisis, we might be seeing the collapse of institutional overly partisan media.
00:23:02.000 I want to play this piece of tape here. 1.00
00:23:04.000 This woman is a wicked individual. 1.00
00:23:06.000 I don't say that lightly. 1.00
00:23:08.000 This person has deep-seated mental problems. 1.00
00:23:10.000 She's a neurotic freak. 1.00
00:23:12.000 She tries to destroy people's life. 1.00
00:23:14.000 She tried to destroy Shia from libs of TikTok. 0.97
00:23:19.000 She is not a good person. 0.98
00:23:22.000 She LARPs live-action role plays as a 23-year-old on social media when in reality, we actually don't know how old she is. 0.96
00:23:28.000 She's late 30s, early 40s, something. 0.99
00:23:31.000 She is not a good person. 1.00
00:23:32.000 She seeks to destroy and to lie and to steal. 1.00
00:23:37.000 She is someone that is a tomahawk cruise missile against people's existence. 1.00
00:23:43.000 She lobbies social media companies around disinformation. 0.98
00:23:46.000 And I am talking about Taylor Lorenz.
00:23:50.000 Now, if you don't know who Taylor Lorenz is, you should find out. 0.99
00:23:55.000 She is someone that, as I mentioned, went after libs of TikTok. 1.00
00:24:00.000 Here she is complaining. 0.99
00:24:01.000 Play cut 127.
00:24:03.000 Our journalism industry is basically in a free fall.
00:24:06.000 Today, the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 employees.
00:24:09.000 They wiped out their entire DC bureau in an election year.
00:24:12.000 They laid off pretty much all of their sports teams.
00:24:15.000 They killed their entire tech and business section.
00:24:17.000 They laid off breaking news writers, social media editors.
00:24:20.000 The list goes on.
00:24:21.000 But what's really dark is this is just the latest in months and months and months of layoffs in the media industry.
00:24:28.000 In fact, tens of thousands of journalists have been laid off in the past year.
00:24:32.000 Major media companies like BuzzFeed News have completely shuttered their news operations.
00:24:36.000 Time magazine also just laid off a ton of people.
00:24:39.000 And oh, Sports Illustrated basically shut down last week.
00:24:42.000 Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out.
00:24:49.000 And it's not just digital media sites.
00:24:51.000 Local news has been obliterated.
00:24:53.000 The newspaper industry is cratering.
00:24:55.000 Radio is essentially dead aside from NPR, which has been gutted.
00:24:59.000 Meanwhile, hundreds of workers at Condé Nast, the parent company of pretty much every major magazine from GQ to Vogue to The New Yorker to Vanity Fair are on strike because they're also facing impending layoffs.
00:25:11.000 Even mainstream national media outlets owned by billionaires like the Washington Post, where I work, and The Atlantic, where I used to work, have done layoffs.
00:25:19.000 If you're a young journalist, say there's almost no on-ramp to traditional journalism.
00:25:23.000 Even if you do get a job, journalists' salaries have been stagnant and even declined.
00:25:27.000 And by the way, we don't make that much to begin with.
00:25:29.000 I don't think people understand how bad the world would be without journalists.
00:25:32.000 All right, first of all, you're not that young.
00:25:34.000 You're almost 40.
00:25:35.000 So stop acting in that little high-pitched squeal like you're a recent college grad just trying to make it and you just graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
00:25:46.000 You're nearly Gen X. Again, she live action role plays as if she's some sort of 24-year-old.
00:25:52.000 Sorry, Taylor. 0.99
00:25:53.000 Number two, you're a freak. 0.98
00:25:57.000 I'm sorry. 0.98
00:25:57.000 She keeps her apartment at 90 degrees. 0.98
00:26:00.000 I'm sorry? 0.77
00:26:00.000 Like, you're some sort of strange Washington Post-employed reptile at this point. 0.77
00:26:05.000 Very weird.
00:26:07.000 Like, literally, she brags about how her apartment's at 90 degrees.
00:26:11.000 You know, I get emails every so often.
00:26:12.000 Charlie, where are the lizard people?
00:26:15.000 I don't know, but they certainly would keep their apartment at 90 degrees.
00:26:20.000 All kidding aside, good riddance.
00:26:22.000 Good riddance.
00:26:23.000 I mean, that was quite a list.
00:26:25.000 BuzzFeed, Sports Illustrated.
00:26:26.000 I hope they all go under.
00:26:28.000 Having experienced these companies, they don't mean well.
00:26:33.000 They're not journalists.
00:26:34.000 Taylor Lorenz is not a journalist. 0.98
00:26:36.000 She's not. 1.00
00:26:37.000 She's a political arsonist. 1.00
00:26:41.000 Some could classify what she does as personal terrorism. 1.00
00:26:47.000 I want you to think about what she tried to do to Libs of TikTok. 0.99
00:26:50.000 Libs of TikTok is literally just reposting TikToks. 1.00
00:26:54.000 And Taylor Lorenz decides to go so out of her way to dox her and to make her private identity public.
00:27:00.000 And by the way, then Taylor Lorenz complains, oh my goodness, we're under all these threats and all this sort of stuff. 0.84
00:27:07.000 She thinks that she's better than you.
00:27:09.000 She has dedicated her life to destroying other people's lives.
00:27:14.000 She has never done anything, anything productive. 1.00
00:27:18.000 What has she created?
00:27:20.000 Journalists are not actually journalists. 0.99
00:27:22.000 They're arsonists.
00:27:24.000 Tear down, destroy, and of course, never investigate the left, ever. 1.00
00:27:29.000 And doxing can be life-threatening if the wrong crazy finds out, but that's what Taylor Lorenz does, and she doesn't care.
00:27:35.000 And now she's complaining, oh my goodness, it's so sad.
00:27:38.000 All these media companies are going under.
00:27:40.000 This is great news, everybody, because the business models are not sustainable.
00:27:45.000 It's sustainable around here, though.
00:27:47.000 So if you actually tell the truth and you have an audience, you're going to be just fine.
00:27:52.000 But doesn't it go to show that they've built this fake, synthetic, artificial business model?
00:28:04.000 There are so few journalists actually left.
00:28:08.000 90% of the people that call themselves journalists don't actually do any reporting.
00:28:12.000 They just go on Twitter and repost whatever is trending and they call it journalism and they'll do a request for comment.
00:28:19.000 And if they don't hear back in 15 minutes, they'll still post this scintillating headline.
00:28:24.000 America's trust of media is at a record low.
00:28:29.000 And I'm glad that people are now voting with their feet.
00:28:34.000 The Tucker Carlson network is ascendant.
00:28:37.000 Our program is ascendant.
00:28:39.000 Dan Bongino's show is doing better than others ever.
00:28:42.000 Rumble is doing incredibly well.
00:28:44.000 Even you look at Joe Rogan, you look at some of these other programs, they're doing very, very well because people want shows that engage in dialogue in the pursuit of truth.
00:28:54.000 So you're seeing it now.
00:28:55.000 It's happening gradually than suddenly, everybody.
00:28:58.000 Sports Illustrated, empty newsrooms.
00:29:00.000 Media confidence in the U.S. matches record low in 2016.
00:29:05.000 And they're worse than you could even imagine.
00:29:07.000 Having dealt with them, having spoke to them, they don't mean well. 0.51
00:29:11.000 Some of them actually want people like me dead. 0.94
00:29:13.000 These are bitter. 0.99
00:29:14.000 These are resentful people.
00:29:17.000 And I hope that they get what is coming for them.
00:29:20.000 I hope that they have to go work at a nine-to-five job or go learn to code or go learn how to make a Frappuccino.
00:29:32.000 Because that's basically the talent set that they have.
00:29:36.000 In fact, making a Frappuccino is a lot harder than writing a low IQ rage-induced piece for the Washington Post and calling it disinformation.
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00:30:49.000 If you actually want to launch a conspiracy, there is one thing that could save these media companies, and it's Trump.
00:30:55.000 Not a joke.
00:30:56.000 The Los Angeles Times acknowledges it, by the way.
00:30:59.000 If you read all the musings and the rumblings of the Washington, the LA Times, they say, you know, Trump's not around.
00:31:06.000 We can't get all these liberals fired up to want to read about the Trump administration every single day.
00:31:10.000 And there's this beautiful picture, and it's an empty newsroom.
00:31:14.000 It's an empty newsroom.
00:31:15.000 Look at all of, this is one of the great pictures I've ever seen.
00:31:18.000 Now, some of you might say, Charlie, do not delight in the suffering of others.
00:31:22.000 Yeah, that's usually true.
00:31:23.000 I don't care.
00:31:24.000 I'm going to enjoy it.
00:31:24.000 These are bad people.
00:31:26.000 These are really, really bad people.
00:31:28.000 They are.
00:31:28.000 There's a couple good ones here or there, maybe one out of 30 or 40 or 50.
00:31:32.000 Having dealt with them, they've come after my family.
00:31:35.000 They've come after me.
00:31:36.000 They've lied.
00:31:37.000 They've tried everything they possibly can to attack us.
00:31:41.000 And I wish them justice.
00:31:43.000 LA Times newsroom, what's missing?
00:31:45.000 And all these journalists are crying.
00:31:48.000 And by the way, I think the Huffington Post is no longer.
00:31:50.000 Are they still around?
00:31:51.000 And BuzzFeed is no longer around.
00:31:53.000 And Vice News is no longer.
00:31:55.000 I mean, it is really stacking.
00:31:57.000 Now, Donald Trump could save some of these companies.
00:32:00.000 That is a real thing.
00:32:02.000 If Donald Trump were to win the presidency, which is obviously a possibility, they could resurrect some of these media companies.
00:32:11.000 Makes you think the only way that you could actually save some of these failing media enterprises.
00:32:17.000 This is a very, very promising trend, everybody.
00:32:19.000 And I've made this point before, but it's worth repeating.
00:32:23.000 It's worth repeating.
00:32:25.000 If you go on the Apple News podcast charts, of which I go five or six times a day, because I want to see how our show is doing, I'm a competitive guy.
00:32:32.000 I want to see how we're stacking up against the big dogs.
00:32:34.000 And considering that, you know, we're still new to the space and that we're up against shows that spend millions of dollars in advertising.
00:32:41.000 We do rather well, praise God.
00:32:43.000 But that's not the point.
00:32:44.000 If you take the top 15 podcasts in the news section on Apple Podcast, number one is almost always the New York Times.
00:32:52.000 They spend a lot of money on it.
00:32:53.000 No doubt, tough to take them down.
00:32:56.000 Number two, NPR.
00:32:57.000 They have a well-established thing.
00:32:58.000 Number three is this pod save America.
00:33:02.000 People say it's entertaining.
00:33:04.000 I can't listen to it for more than like five minutes.
00:33:06.000 Then it's Ben Shapiro, conservative.
00:33:09.000 Megan Kelly, conservative.
00:33:11.000 Dan Bongino, conservative.
00:33:13.000 Morning Wire, conservative.
00:33:15.000 Matt Walsh, conservative.
00:33:16.000 Then temporarily right now, it's this New Yorker thing, which I'm just going to dismiss because some of these charts, you can spike and then you go back down.
00:33:23.000 That has no staying power.
00:33:24.000 But then our program, number 10 on the Apple News charts, conservative.
00:33:28.000 Glenn Beck, 11, conservative.
00:33:30.000 Tucker Carlson, 12, conservative.
00:33:32.000 Then two NPR shows, and then Candace Owens, conservative.
00:33:36.000 So out of the top 15, if you take this New Yorker runaway princess thing, which I don't even know what this is about, serial investigative journalism of rural Minnesota.
00:33:45.000 Yeah, that should be in the true crime section.
00:33:48.000 That doesn't fit there.
00:33:49.000 So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
00:33:58.000 Nine out of 15, nine out of 15, well more than half of the top podcasts being consumed in America are conservative.
00:34:09.000 Shapiro, Megan Kelly, Dan Bongino, Mornin Wire, Matt Walsh, our program, Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens.
00:34:16.000 And then soon after it, it continues.
00:34:18.000 Steve Bannon, Ted Cruz, Mark Levin, Michael Knowles.
00:34:23.000 You can see the collapse of traditional media right in front of you.
00:34:26.000 And yes, the best of liberal media will survive.
00:34:29.000 The New York Times will 100% survive.
00:34:32.000 They do the best job.
00:34:33.000 And to be honest, I know this is like a thought crime.
00:34:35.000 They're not nearly as insane to work with as the Washington Post or even the AP.
00:34:40.000 The New York Times is awful, but I could tell you, if the New York Times are writing a piece about me, Andrew will attest to this.
00:34:45.000 The New York Times will at least listen.
00:34:46.000 They will be a stickler for fact and accuracy.
00:34:49.000 They'll still do a hit job.
00:34:51.000 But the New York Times, believe it or not, is fine because I think there was an editorial directive from the New York Times says, guys, let's not go full social justice warrior.
00:34:59.000 Let's be left, but let's not be Marxist.
00:35:04.000 The Associated Press is way worse than the New York Times.
00:35:08.000 The Associated Press is dishonest. 0.98
00:35:10.000 They're deceitful. 0.97
00:35:11.000 They're slanderous. 0.98
00:35:12.000 They are a terrible news organization.
00:35:15.000 And the New York Times knows that if they fall, the profession falls.
00:35:18.000 So the New York Times is the number one podcast out there.
00:35:20.000 It doesn't shock me.
00:35:21.000 They do a pretty good job.
00:35:22.000 It's actually easy to listen to.
00:35:23.000 It's called The Daily.
00:35:24.000 But after that, you have full-spectrum conservative ideological media dominance in the podcast space.
00:35:31.000 And who consumes podcasts?
00:35:32.000 Younger people.
00:35:34.000 That's a great sign for things to come.
00:35:36.000 It's a great sign for what's ahead.
00:35:38.000 And it shows you a window, another data point into why traditional media is crumbling and collapsing.
00:35:45.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:35:46.000 Everybody, email us as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:50.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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