The Charlie Kirk Show - The Left's Childfree Suicide Cult

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00:01:09.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show, February 27th, 2026.

00:01:09.000 All right.

00:01:14.000 Blake, welcome.

00:01:15.000 Howdy.

00:01:16.000 I feel like this is a day where we're almost, it almost feels annoying because it feels like we're on the cusp of very dramatic events or we can't see them.

00:01:23.000 So, Bill Clinton testifying on the Epstein probe, but it's behind closed doors.

00:01:27.000 Can't watch it.

00:01:28.000 Iran, we might bomb them any minute. 1.00

00:01:31.000 We might have a war over the weekend.

00:01:33.000 Apparently, U.S. personnel are getting evacuated from sites.

00:01:36.000 China just pulled their people out of Iran.

00:01:40.000 Yeah.

00:01:40.000 So, a lot going on there.

00:01:42.000 It could be.

00:01:43.000 The last minute brinkmanship before some deal is reached and it all pulls back, or the decision might be made.

00:01:49.000 But for now, we don't know.

00:01:51.000 We don't know.

00:01:52.000 There's a lot that we are paying attention to and watching.

00:01:55.000 Obviously, if anything breaks in the midst of this show, we will move to it immediately.

00:02:01.000 We've got stories we have to hit here in the first part of this hour.

00:02:05.000 Then we're going to bring in Brandon Herrera, who's running for Congress in Texas at the middle of this hour.

00:02:11.000 Then we have Pastor John Amonchukwu, Mikey McCoy.

00:02:14.000 We're going to be doing Ask Us Anything Fridays.

00:02:16.000 So, you can call in, join us, members.charliekirk.com, members.charliekirk.com, if you want to take part in that and actually ask questions on the air.

00:02:25.000 But first, let's just go over what happened yesterday really quick with Hillary Clinton.

00:02:32.000 She was actually in New York testifying before James Comer's committee about Epstein.

00:02:38.000 Everything seems to be about Epstein.

00:02:39.000 Yesterday, we talked a lot about it, debunking the NPR bombshell, which needed to be done.

00:02:44.000 I noticed that a lot of news, more, let's just say, broadcast news, From primetime, did that last night as well, following our lead.

00:02:54.000 So I was glad to see that.

00:02:55.000 But here's what I will say. 1.00

00:02:58.000 Hillary Clinton basically threw President Clinton under the bus yesterday. 0.99

00:03:02.000 598.

00:03:03.000 If you really have specific questions about the Clinton Global Initiative or the relationship between the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, you got to ask Bill Clinton.

00:03:14.000 And that's a great point.

00:03:15.000 The number of times that she said, I don't know, you'll have to ask my husband was more than a dozen.

00:03:22.000 Yeah.

00:03:23.000 So basically, frosty.

00:03:26.000 Frosty.

00:03:27.000 If you want to know the state of the Clinton marriage, That was probably a very good tell.

00:03:32.000 So, Bill Clinton has now come out with his statement.

00:03:35.000 He said, Good morning.

00:03:37.000 Welcome to Chappaqua, I guess.

00:03:40.000 I'm here today for two reasons.

00:03:42.000 The first is that I love my country, and America was built upon the idea that no person is above the law, even presidents, especially presidents.

00:03:50.000 Democracy requires every person to play their part, blah, blah, blah.

00:03:53.000 The second reason I'm here is that girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserve not only justice, but healing.

00:03:59.000 They've been waiting too long for both.

00:04:01.000 Though my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his brief acquaintance, before his crimes came to light.

00:04:07.000 And though I never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on, I'm here to offer what little I know so that I might prevent anything like this from ever happening again.

00:04:16.000 I'll be blunt.

00:04:17.000 I don't think Bill Clinton is there because he loves his country.

00:04:21.000 I think he's there because he loves young women, as we know with Bill Clinton.

00:04:25.000 Yeah.

00:04:26.000 And then he kind of goes on, you know, he's just saying, I had no idea the crimes Epstein was committing.

00:04:34.000 I know what I saw.

00:04:35.000 I know what I didn't.

00:04:37.000 As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing, I would have turned him in myself.

00:04:46.000 So that's going to be the tone today from Bill Clinton.

00:04:46.000 All right.

00:04:51.000 Bill Clinton's got a lot of explaining to do.

00:04:54.000 Lots of explaining to do.

00:04:56.000 We want to then transition over to this story.

00:04:59.000 So we're going to watch that.

00:05:00.000 Again, it's behind closed doors.

00:05:01.000 Maybe there'll be a leaked photo today.

00:05:05.000 Maybe I'll have to see.

00:05:06.000 We'll see.

00:05:07.000 But the headline from the New York Times, Blair.

00:05:11.000 Yes.

00:05:11.000 So sometimes Charlie would like to take a step back and focus on those big picture cultural issues.

00:05:16.000 And I think this is a great example of it.

00:05:18.000 If you open newyorktimes.com at this moment, their lead story is not Iran.

00:05:24.000 It's not Epstein.

00:05:25.000 It's the American birth rate is plunging.

00:05:28.000 Here's why.

00:05:29.000 Some say that's a good thing.

00:05:33.000 The political class is worried about the historic drop. 0.99

00:05:36.000 But the biggest change is among the youngest women.

00:05:38.000 Who are the least ready to have children?

00:05:40.000 It's entirely embracing the culture, like let's call it the culture of death, the culture of decline, the culture of no future. 0.90

00:05:49.000 Because this article comes out simultaneously with another headline, and we'll talk about both.

00:05:54.000 We have a story out of Canada with it was a report from the data chief of the Medical Assistance in Dying program for the province of Ontario.

00:06:05.000 It's the largest province in Canada.

00:06:07.000 In 2023, so it's even worse now, in 2023, 65 people.

00:06:13.000 We were able to kill themselves with the medical assistance in dying program on the same day they applied for it.

00:06:20.000 So that's the big news.

00:06:20.000 Exactly.

00:06:22.000 They get killed the same day that they applied for it. 0.94

00:06:24.000 Apply to suicide and get it the same day.

00:06:27.000 Can we just stop on this acronym of MADE? 0.56

00:06:29.000 MADE.

00:06:30.000 Medical assistance in dying.

00:06:34.000 It's euthanasia.

00:06:35.000 It's suicide.

00:06:36.000 And the Canadian government, we've known this for a while, but this is what was crazy.

00:06:42.000 Did you know that over 5% of deaths, of all deaths in 2024 in Canada, were made deaths?

00:06:50.000 That's, again, assisted suicide.

00:06:52.000 And they call it health care.

00:06:54.000 Now, what's also very creepy is there was a horrific case.

00:07:00.000 The only name we have for this is Mrs. B. Tried to withdraw her maid request and it was overridden by family.

00:07:12.000 So she didn't want to die.

00:07:14.000 She changed her mind.

00:07:15.000 She cited religious convictions and values for why she changed her mind. 0.66

00:07:21.000 And then they did it anyways and they killed her.

00:07:24.000 So that is a death cult when somebody who wants to live is unable to live because the doctors and a family member basically murdered her.

00:07:35.000 That's what that is.

00:07:36.000 That's murder.

00:07:37.000 It's not suicide.

00:07:38.000 That's murder.

00:07:39.000 Exactly.

00:07:40.000 No, it is.

00:07:40.000 And these issues are so innately linked together.

00:07:45.000 This desire to have no children, this desire to perpetuate adolescence, and then simultaneously at the end of life to rush into suicide.

00:07:56.000 Every horror story about assisted suicide that exists has already happened where people are pressured by family members into killing themselves because they're tired of taking care of them, where supposed.

00:08:09.000 Healthcare workers are pressuring someone into suicide rather than providing them actual treatment for what they want.

00:08:16.000 There are cases where people who are suffering from disabilities are basically told, Yeah, we can't actually supply you with any normal treatments, but you know, there is suicide if you want that, if you're feeling depressed about things.

00:08:28.000 And they're endlessly expanding it.

00:08:29.000 They're expanding it to teenagers, they're expanding it to people who only have psychological distress.

00:08:35.000 And I suspect inevitably they'll extend it to using it involuntarily on people that they decide are not worth.

00:08:42.000 Treating in no way.

00:08:43.000 And that is another story.

00:08:44.000 There's an image of a, this New York Post has an image of this 26 year old that was killed because I guess he had mental illness and they killed him.

00:08:57.000 He had mental illness.

00:08:59.000 So instead of dealing with the mental illness, they killed him.

00:09:03.000 Tell me that that makes any sense.

00:09:05.000 His name was, by the way, I want to get his name, Keanu Vafaini's parents.

00:09:11.000 His parents accused authorities of failing to protect their son who was euthanized at 26, despite a history of mental illness.

00:09:18.000 If we can put his picture up, I think that would be important.

00:09:22.000 Death cult. 0.98

00:09:24.000 I don't think any country will be blessed for embracing such despicable, disgusting ideas. 0.98

00:09:29.000 I want to show this picture. 0.98

00:09:30.000 This is the guy, throw it up, 631.

00:09:34.000 This is just a terrible story.

00:09:37.000 Keanu Vafayen accused authorities of failing to protect their vulnerable son, the parents of him, who was able to end his life with assisted suicide despite a history of mental illness.

00:09:51.000 They say that Vafayen had seasonal depression, suffered from type 1 diabetes, and lost vision in one eye when he died last December.

00:09:59.000 So they just killed him.

00:10:02.000 Here's what's very terrifying.

00:10:04.000 Is Governor Kathy Hochul in December said that she would sign a law, medical aid in dying, a bill giving state sanction to doctors in New York helping terminally ill patients end their lives?

00:10:19.000 It's such a dark thing.

00:10:20.000 Like, we always sympathize with people who are dying, but every incentive that legalizing assisted suicide creates is so profoundly negative for me.

00:10:30.000 You're giving extra power to people who, I'll be frank, are often already inclined to feel they have godlike power over individuals.

00:10:38.000 We Again, already have cases in other countries, and I think in this country, but certainly in others, where doctors decide, I don't think this person's life is worth living, so I'm going to push suicide on them.

00:10:51.000 I think that's the best outcome for them.

00:10:53.000 Once you are creating a system where the group of people who are supposed to treat illness have killed this person as a treatment, shockingly, they decide in a lot of cases, killing this person is easier than trying to cure them or help them.

00:11:06.000 Yeah, well, and again, when they first passed this law, it was bad enough, but they mandated a minimum 10 day wait period.

00:11:14.000 Now, people are getting killed on the same day.

00:11:17.000 Here's Charlie talking about medical assistance in death.

00:11:23.000 616.

00:11:24.000 The biggest innovation in Canada right now is they become the most famously pro suicide country in the world.

00:11:30.000 Not a joke.

00:11:31.000 They have a long wait for medical procedures, mass proliferation of drug usage, except, of course, if you want to be able to use suicide.

00:11:41.000 Suicidal drugs or suicide pods.

00:11:46.000 They call it MAID, M A I D, Medical Assistance in Dying. 0.92

00:11:52.000 Yeah, it's pretty gross.

00:11:53.000 And here's the sad part of this you have a bunch of people that are sucking up resources.

00:12:00.000 If you have socialized medicine, this is how you look at it.

00:12:03.000 They're consuming resources, they are either terminally ill or they want to die, and they're ready to die.

00:12:12.000 And so, why not just help them do it earlier?

00:12:14.000 Because guess what?

00:12:15.000 You'll save some money.

00:12:16.000 You'll save some resources.

00:12:17.000 I'm not saying that that is the major driving force.

00:12:21.000 I think they've convinced themselves that this is compassion, this is healthcare.

00:12:26.000 But you better believe it's at least one of the motivations.

00:12:28.000 It's sort of two things at once.

00:12:29.000 It's one, on the one hand, viewing people from the eyes of the state as purely like resource consumers who can be optimized out of things.

00:12:37.000 Like, oh, this person's at the end of their life. 0.99

00:12:39.000 They are useless. 1.00

00:12:40.000 Discard them. 0.99

00:12:41.000 And on the individual level, seeing life only as basically.

00:12:45.000 A hedonic exercise.

00:12:47.000 So, my life is not very enjoyable at this point, so I should just snuff it out at this moment.

00:12:54.000 And that's why it does relate so directly to the children question as well, because the same impulses that cause people to avoid having children, to actively reject it, which the New York Times is celebrating, are the same impulses that drive them to kill themselves when their lives are painful towards the end.

00:13:12.000 And I think Charlie observed that as well.

00:13:14.000 We have a good clip of him just talking about the attitude towards children.

00:13:17.000 Let's do 622.

00:13:19.000 Kids are largely presented as a burden, not a blessing.

00:13:22.000 The people that live the most joyful and deepest lives tend to have kids and then a lot of kids.

00:13:30.000 Their lives are harder, their lives are crazier, they're less about themselves, but they're deeper and more fulfilling. 1.00

00:13:38.000 So here's the New York Times bottom line they say that over half of women. 0.85

00:13:46.000 So they celebrate it because their main point is that there's less.

00:13:50.000 Sort of teenage pregnancies.

00:13:51.000 Okay, that's their top line. 0.89

00:13:53.000 But their top line is that now over half of 30 year old women, almost half, are childless. 0.96

00:14:01.000 In 1976, that was just 18%.

00:14:04.000 So at 30 years old, just 18% of women in America were childless.

00:14:09.000 And they have these quotes like Hope Beshever is one of these women. 0.69

00:14:12.000 She has a deep ambivalence about having children. 1.00

00:14:14.000 She wants control over her life after a chaotic childhood.

00:14:17.000 When she was 13, she had to care for her younger brothers, two and four, and while her father, a corrections officer, worked.

00:14:23.000 Sometimes I picture having a kid and I think of that overload.

00:14:27.000 Two kids, both in diapers.

00:14:29.000 Now 30, she is happily married and living in Denver.

00:14:31.000 She works at a gym and says she is selfish with her time.

00:14:36.000 And then she says, My husband and I, we like our peace.

00:14:39.000 Yeah, okay. 1.00

00:14:39.000 So this is all garbage. 1.00

00:14:40.000 I'll let you go off on that. 1.00

00:14:41.000 Yeah, this is all garbage. 0.98

00:14:43.000 So throw up that graph again. 0.92

00:14:44.000 They actually put the graph up a little early. 0.99

00:14:45.000 This is young married moms are the happiest.

00:14:48.000 This is from the general social survey from 2018 to 2024.

00:14:51.000 Married moms, 40%, this is between ages 22 and 35, that are very happy.

00:14:57.000 Married moms, 41%, by far the highest.

00:15:01.000 Married and childless, also the next highest.

00:15:05.000 Look who is very unhappy: unmarried moms and unmarried childless. 1.00

00:15:10.000 Okay?

00:15:10.000 Those are the groups, the cohorts that are not happy.

00:15:14.000 If you are a woman and your goal is to live a fulfilling life and a productive life and a happy life, guess what?

00:15:23.000 The odds are very much more in your favor to be happy and fulfilled if you are married with children or if you are married and you don't have children.

00:15:31.000 That's good to hear.

00:15:31.000 As Charlie would point out, it's not even just about, oh, you're rahidonic happiness.

00:15:36.000 Life is not about pleasure, life is about fulfilling duties as well.

00:15:40.000 Well, but you will be happier if you're pursuing duty and pursuing honor.

00:15:45.000 In the long run, you will, but it's also just, you have to say yes to.

00:15:48.000 Your life is not, oh, I'm just going to have fun and do whatever I feel like and have no obligations.

00:15:55.000 You.

00:15:56.000 Increase the meaning and importance of your life when you embrace having obligations to other people, as Charlie would say, obligations to God, obligations to a spouse, and yes, obligations to the children you and your spouse have together.

00:16:10.000 And it's a very bleak sign for our civilization if the New York Times is running out with this headline that just says, Actually, everyone deciding to not have kids is a good thing.

00:16:19.000 And yeah, maybe a half century from now, no one will be around anymore, but it's not our problem.

00:16:23.000 We'll have killed ourselves.

00:16:24.000 We'll just import a bunch of foreigners, we'll replace you. 1.00

00:16:30.000 Imagine being a young woman just finding out that you're pregnant, not knowing where to go or what to do, not even knowing exactly what is going on in your body.

00:16:38.000 While the whole world tells her it's just a clump of cells, you and I, we both know the truth.

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00:17:46.000 I am thrilled.

00:17:47.000 I'm stoked to have our next guest on the show.

00:17:50.000 I've been following him closely and watching his race from afar.

00:17:55.000 Actually, this will be the second time, and that's Brandon Herrera.

00:17:58.000 He is running for Congress in Texas.

00:18:02.000 Texas is 23rd, and it's made the news quite a bit.

00:18:05.000 Brandon, welcome to the show.

00:18:06.000 It's your first time.

00:18:07.000 We're honored to have you.

00:18:08.000 How's it going, brother?

00:18:09.000 That is quite the armory you've got behind you.

00:18:14.000 Just wait till you see the other gun rooms.

00:18:16.000 Much more impressive.

00:18:17.000 Oh my gosh.

00:18:18.000 How's it going, guys?

00:18:19.000 Some guys, they have book collections.

00:18:22.000 Other guys have whiskey collections.

00:18:25.000 And then there's this.

00:18:26.000 That's impressive.

00:18:28.000 Just to tell people, that is what you're known for.

00:18:30.000 You're not just piling up a lot.

00:18:32.000 What's the name of your channel?

00:18:33.000 So the channel is just my name, it's just Brandon Herrera.

00:18:36.000 So I've used that over the last few years to not only just have fun with friends and blow stuff up on the internet, which is my dream job, but also to kind of use that platform to teach people about firearm history, firearm engineering, design.

00:18:49.000 And usually that's a nice gateway drug into the importance of the Second Amendment and the importance of the Constitution.

00:18:55.000 You can tell that Brandon is entirely committed to the public interest because there is no other reason you would possibly step away from blowing stuff up on the internet to try to enter Congress.

00:19:05.000 Yes, right.

00:19:05.000 You already have the dream job, Brandon.

00:19:07.000 What the heck are you doing running for Congress?

00:19:10.000 So your race has garnered national headlines in a big way.

00:19:15.000 I've always been a fan of yours, even when you were running last time, and genuinely.

00:19:21.000 And.

00:19:22.000 Listen, you're going up against Tony Gonzalez, and he's come into some scrutiny.

00:19:29.000 Why don't you tell the story from your perspective of what's going on and why you think you would be better?

00:19:35.000 Well, so when I initially decided to run last time, I just had an issue with Tony's voting record.

00:19:35.000 For sure.

00:19:41.000 I think he's a rhino. 0.68

00:19:42.000 He voted to imprison President Trump.

00:19:44.000 He voted against the Second Amendment for a Democrat gun control bill, he voted against the Fourth Amendment with wireless surveillance of American citizens.

00:19:53.000 Voted against border policy, which is crazy in the biggest border district in the entire country here in District 23.

00:19:58.000 So I just had an issue with his voting record.

00:20:00.000 And that's an issue that continued.

00:20:03.000 I hope when we lost the last election, we lost it in a runoff because he got below 50% in the primary.

00:20:11.000 He lost it in a runoff by about 400 votes after outspending us 10 to 1.

00:20:16.000 So I figured that that would be a message that, hey, maybe you need to fix your behavior.

00:20:19.000 And unfortunately, it just didn't go through.

00:20:21.000 So I jumped into the race a second time.

00:20:23.000 Very shortly after, you know, the rumblings of this scandal, the affair, and everything started to hit.

00:20:30.000 And just this last few weeks, it seems like the dam finally burst and people are finding out the truth about the kind of person that Tony Gonzalez is and why he needs to be replaced.

00:20:40.000 So, the details of this case, I don't want to be salacious.

00:20:43.000 I don't want to hurl unfounded accusations.

00:20:47.000 You know, I just want to be respectful because a woman did take her life in this instance.

00:20:56.000 Would you walk us through what you know to be true?

00:20:58.000 Sure, 100%.

00:20:59.000 And, you know, a lot of people still say, you know, this is alleged, these are allegations.

00:21:04.000 I'm not even willing to do that at this point because, in my mind, from what I've seen and what I've seen proven, this is 100% fact.

00:21:13.000 Actually, during the last election, during the runoff election, probably like I think maybe 20 to 30 days out from the runoff against me, he engaged in predatory sexual behavior with a married female staffer.

00:21:28.000 Him, of course, being a married father of six, this is completely unacceptable behavior, especially with a subordinate.

00:21:34.000 But the text messages have been released now at this point where he was pressuring a staffer into a sexual relationship.

00:21:43.000 And then, you know, the husband found out about it.

00:21:46.000 It was a big ordeal, and one thing led to another.

00:21:49.000 And he essentially wrecked the home to the point where on September 13th of last year, she committed suicide via self immolation.

00:21:57.000 And it was pretty much swept under the rug.

00:22:01.000 He tried to bury it.

00:22:03.000 He would avoid journalists like the plague.

00:22:05.000 He would run away from journalists, ban media from all of his events, and wouldn't deny it until a couple months later when no evidence came forward, no hard evidence.

00:22:15.000 Then he went to a journalist and said, Oh, yeah, all of these rumors are untruthful, I believe is what he said, and just kind of swept it away and denied it.

00:22:22.000 And of course, we knew that wasn't true.

00:22:24.000 There's a lot of people, former staffers, that were coming forward that were trying to say, Hey, we know this is a lie.

00:22:30.000 But nobody would go on the record until about a month ago when a former staffer of his that worked with Regina Santos Aviles, the staffer who killed herself, a staffer that worked with her very closely came forward.

00:22:45.000 And he had text message receipts from Regina referencing the affair.

00:22:50.000 He had personal allegories of accidentally facilitating extramarital behavior with their family cabin between Regina and Tony.

00:22:59.000 And then Tony smeared me and the staffer saying, How dare I give a disgruntled former staffer a platform?

00:23:06.000 Which I didn't.

00:23:07.000 He went to the media.

00:23:08.000 I didn't facilitate that at all.

00:23:12.000 I didn't say a word about it until after everything came out in the media.

00:23:15.000 So it wasn't me giving him a platform.

00:23:17.000 He voluntarily went.

00:23:19.000 But of course, it's my fault that he engages in this sort of behavior.

00:23:19.000 To media.

00:23:23.000 And then after that, after his denial, the husband came forward with verified, forensically proven text messages from Regina and Tony.

00:23:34.000 And then now Tony's been caught in a lie, and I think his whole world's falling apart.

00:23:38.000 And speaking of accusations, I know in the past he's called you both an anarchist and a neo Nazi.

00:23:44.000 Those seem contradictory accusations to me.

00:23:48.000 Has he ever apologized for any of those attacks?

00:23:51.000 No, no, he still hasn't.

00:23:53.000 I was called a neo Nazi, a Klan member, an anarchist, and a California lover in the same campaign.

00:24:02.000 California loving liberal, which is funny because he took a clip out of context from a podcast where I had said, he clipped it where I said, California might be my favorite state in the country.

00:24:13.000 And he just clipped that.

00:24:15.000 The full sentence was talking about how beautiful California beaches were.

00:24:19.000 I said, you know, California might be my favorite state in the country if everybody who lived there didn't.

00:24:26.000 Yeah.

00:24:26.000 I mean, I'm pretty sure Charlie said the exact thing.

00:24:28.000 Well, Charlie loved Paradise and they ruined it.

00:24:30.000 I actually wrote an op ed for the California Post that ran on Sunday talking about how when I'd land in California with Charlie, he'd always go, This state is so beautiful.

00:24:38.000 It's a shame what they did to it.

00:24:40.000 Every time he would say something along those lines.

00:24:43.000 All right.

00:24:43.000 So, okay.

00:24:44.000 Let's get that story aside.

00:24:46.000 It's horrible, by the way.

00:24:48.000 I actually somehow missed the self immolation part of that story.

00:24:52.000 And I have to just say this out loud.

00:24:55.000 I obviously.

00:24:56.000 Extramarital affairs are awful on their face.

00:25:00.000 To do it in a way in which you might have been using funding or abusing the office or whatever is also terrible.

00:25:09.000 I just want to say, it sounds like if somebody's going to do that, self immolate, then I got to believe there's underlying stuff there with that person.

00:25:18.000 I just want to say that out loud because you can't put that all on an affair, in my opinion.

00:25:24.000 But again, I don't know the details.

00:25:25.000 It wasn't there.

00:25:26.000 But that strikes me as somebody with deeply. 0.93

00:25:30.000 Serious mental problems or something. 0.92

00:25:33.000 I don't know.

00:25:35.000 And none of us could know the full situation at this point.

00:25:37.000 The only person that could break this down objectively or give us the full story is no longer with us.

00:25:44.000 But one thing I can say pretty confidently is that the affair and then all of the consequences of it were 100% the domino that started everything cascading.

00:25:56.000 Got it.

00:25:57.000 Apparently, in order to cover it up, he was then kind of blacklisted her.

00:26:03.000 And kind of pushed her out of the job.

00:26:05.000 So she lost the two things that she cared about because of this affair.

00:26:08.000 And that's all right.

00:26:09.000 Well, it's just an awful story.

00:26:11.000 Yeah, Brennan, it's just an awful story.

00:26:13.000 Thanks for walking us through it.

00:26:14.000 So, what's your vision for Texas?

00:26:16.000 What's your vision as a congressman?

00:26:18.000 For sure.

00:26:19.000 Well, there's a lot of things, especially that are specific to this district.

00:26:22.000 So, District 23 goes all the way from the west side of San Antonio to the east side of El Paso and everything in between.

00:26:29.000 It's the biggest district in Texas and it's the biggest border district in the country.

00:26:33.000 And so, we need somebody who's going to be firm on the border.

00:26:35.000 Now, President Trump has done quite a lot.

00:26:38.000 To help solve the Biden border crisis.

00:26:40.000 It's night and day compared to where it was two, three years ago.

00:26:43.000 But a lot of that stuff needs to be codified.

00:26:45.000 We need to make sure the legislature actually passes bills that protect us because, you know, I hope we get eight years of JD Vance after Trump is over.

00:26:54.000 But, you know, the truth is, one of these days we will have another Democrat in office.

00:26:58.000 And if it was one stroke of a pen from President Trump to fix these things, it's one stroke of a pen away from being undone.

00:27:04.000 And we cannot afford that as a country.

00:27:07.000 Yeah.

00:27:08.000 One minute left.

00:27:09.000 Brandon, how can people support you, get behind you?

00:27:12.000 And what's the timeline right now for this race?

00:27:15.000 Well, it's the last day of early voting here in Texas, and the actual election itself is on March 3rd.

00:27:21.000 So the biggest thing is get out and vote.

00:27:23.000 Turnout is going to be everything.

00:27:24.000 It's the only way we're going to beat the Democrats in November, and it's the number one way that we're going to get people like Tony out of office in the primaries here.

00:27:32.000 So if you want to check out the campaign, it's BrandonHerrorForCongress.com.

00:27:35.000 But if you're out in Texas District 23, I would be honored to have your vote and give West Texas the conservative voice it deserves.

00:27:41.000 Well, Man, keep up the good work.

00:27:44.000 You have been making waves.

00:27:45.000 Like I said, I've been watching you from afar in the first race, and you darn near pulled that thing off, too.

00:27:52.000 I mean, you darn near did, which is a huge undertaking to take out an incumbent.

00:27:57.000 It just is.

00:27:58.000 It's a huge deal.

00:27:59.000 So I think this is going to be your year, and we're watching, keep shooting and blowing stuff up.

00:28:07.000 You know what I mean?

00:28:07.000 Don't ever stop.

00:28:08.000 I appreciate it, brother.

00:28:09.000 All right, Brandon.

00:28:10.000 Thank you guys so much for having me on.

00:28:11.000 Nice to see you, brother.

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00:29:13.000 Big breaker this morning.

00:29:16.000 It actually struck close to the heart of this show because Charlie, as many of you know, was an Eagle Scout, a proud Eagle Scout until they went woke.

00:29:25.000 And they went all the way.

00:29:28.000 They went all the way woke.

00:29:29.000 Did you know that 11 of the 12 astronauts who walked on the moon were Eagle Scouts?

00:29:35.000 I didn't know the exact number.

00:29:37.000 I knew Armstrong was.

00:29:38.000 Yeah, 11 of the 12.

00:29:39.000 So this was an institution in the country that trained young men.

00:29:44.000 In the way they should go, it actually honored God.

00:29:48.000 It told them to honor God in the country.

00:29:50.000 And they could not be an atheist and be a Boy Scout in good standing.

00:29:52.000 Yeah.

00:29:53.000 So this was, and it gave them obviously outdoor skills and so much more character building.

00:29:59.000 And then what did they do?

00:30:01.000 They went woke.

00:30:02.000 They did the DEI thing.

00:30:03.000 They actually changed their name from Boy Scouts to Scouts of America because why? 0.97

00:30:08.000 Now you have to let in girls. 0.98

00:30:10.000 Now, there's actually really important psychology behind why that's bad.

00:30:15.000 You need male only institutions. 0.99

00:30:17.000 Yes.

00:30:18.000 Of courses.

00:30:18.000 And why?

00:30:19.000 Because imagine a young boy in front of a bunch of other boys is going to try and fail and embarrass himself way more readily than if you put a bunch of girls in front of him. 0.69

00:30:31.000 If the girls are watching, he's not going to want to make a fool of himself, he's not going to want to do a bunch of stuff.

00:30:35.000 When you take teenage boys and you insert women in there, instantly everything becomes about their relations, like with those women, and they become much more likely to compete with each other rather than to cooperate with each other. 0.89

00:30:47.000 Tons of psychological stuff goes into this.

00:30:50.000 Actually, I didn't realize there's an old clip of Charlie.

00:30:53.000 He's made my point I just made.

00:30:55.000 603.

00:30:56.000 When I was 13 years old and I was worrying about climbing a rock or starting a fire, if there were young ladies around, I would not have been climbing a rock or starting a fire. 0.99

00:31:04.000 I would have been much distracted and talking, trying to make, you know.

00:31:07.000 Trying to make myself more socially acceptable and so on and so forth.

00:31:11.000 There's a lot of character development that happens between those critical ages and being around other young men that are going through the same problems and failing and taking risks, I think, is something that has made the Boy Scouts so successful.

00:31:23.000 And it's also those people that have studied gender exclusive education that go to show the exact same thing focus, attention to detail, especially amongst those critical ages, is something that we should not sacrifice or remove from.

00:31:35.000 That's a throwback.

00:31:36.000 Man, when I was 13 year old, he looked 13.

00:31:39.000 I know.

00:31:39.000 That is classic Charlie.

00:31:40.000 So he's right on target.

00:31:42.000 Totally.

00:31:42.000 Yeah, he was right on target, but you could tell he was younger.

00:31:45.000 It was great.

00:31:46.000 So, the big news this morning is that Pete Hegseth, because you got to understand the Boy Scouts and the Secretary of War, or the Department of War, there's been a long running sort of collaboration.

00:32:00.000 You know, that's the pipeline for future military.

00:32:02.000 They would do a military jamboree, and it would be on a military base.

00:32:05.000 Correct.

00:32:05.000 And there'll always be two.

00:32:06.000 A lot of the time they meet on military bases.

00:32:08.000 So, Pete Hegseth gets in there, and this was actually something that he told me about.

00:32:13.000 Before he was even in, that this was something that he wanted to focus on and fix.

00:32:17.000 And he has news this morning, 6 01.

00:32:20.000 Scouting America agreed to make several key reforms.

00:32:23.000 First, no more DEI, zero.

00:32:25.000 Scouting America will modify its policy to make clear that membership will be based solely on biological sex at birth and not gender identity.

00:32:33.000 Scouting will also make clear that biological boys and girls will not be allowed to occupy or share intimate spaces together.

00:32:41.000 Toilets, showers, tents, anywhere like that.

00:32:43.000 Scouting America will honor those who serve by waiving the registration fees for children of active duty, guard, and reserve.

00:32:50.000 Families.

00:32:50.000 In partnership with the War Department, Scouting America will introduce a new military service merit badge.

00:32:56.000 These and other changes that Scouting America's leadership committed to will hopefully result in a rededication to the foundational ideals that have defined Scouting for generations duty to God and country, leadership, character, and service.

00:33:12.000 It's so sad to read about it.

00:33:14.000 I'm noting in the Department of War's announcement on this that membership dropped from there were 10.

00:33:21.000 Million boys participating in just the Boy Scouts, only boys allowed in 1970.

00:33:26.000 And that's with a significantly smaller population, maybe a similar number of children of scouting age, less than 1 million participating in 2026.

00:33:35.000 And that's a big crash.

00:33:36.000 Even a few years ago, there was so much more.

00:33:39.000 The Mormon Church was very involved in scouts.

00:33:41.000 They broke away because they started admitting girls.

00:33:44.000 And I know a lot of other churches broke away.

00:33:46.000 That's the problem.

00:33:46.000 The only problem I will say, I mean, this is great work from Secretary Hegseth, a massive improvement, there's no doubt.

00:33:53.000 But the real. 0.99

00:33:55.000 Underlying issue here is that girls should do their own thing. 1.00

00:33:58.000 This is why we have Girl Scouts. 1.00

00:33:59.000 There should be Girl Scouts and there should be Boy Scouts.

00:34:02.000 Yes.

00:34:02.000 And it's so sad to follow the decline of the Boy Scouts because it really, in my opinion, is such a charter of the decline of America.

00:34:11.000 When you look at Boy Scouts' values as they were articulated, even when I was in it, just 20 years ago, it was such a perfect distillation of what you'd say are classic American values.

00:34:20.000 Like you should clearly be theist.

00:34:22.000 And let's be frank, it's a very generally Kind of Judeo Christian outlook towards the world, even if other religions are allowed in.

00:34:29.000 It's like American civic Christianity when there was just a sort of default.

00:34:33.000 Oh, yeah, like this is a Christian country and it has Christian values.

00:34:36.000 And that's what it embodied along with serving your country, all this pro citizenship stuff, and learn useful skills.

00:34:43.000 We had an organization that tens of millions of boys went through that just taught you to love God, love your country, and learn to do useful things, learn to be a man.

00:34:52.000 And they deliberately destroyed it over the course of decades.

00:34:57.000 Precisely because it was something so good and so beautiful.

00:35:00.000 Yeah, it's there. 0.98

00:35:01.000 There is a tendency in Western culture where the parasites, the horde of wokies or whatever, and the liberal malays will attack healthy hosts. 0.98

00:35:14.000 And they do that because. 0.99

00:35:18.000 They're good.

00:35:19.000 And you have to have a backbone.

00:35:22.000 You have to have strength of your own convictions, the courage of your own convictions to stop the onslaught.

00:35:28.000 You have to be able to defend the good, the true, the beautiful.

00:35:32.000 You cannot let the horde of vipers and wokies in our era take down what is good. 1.00

00:35:39.000 Ultimately, we have to be men, strong men, willing to defend those institutions.

00:35:45.000 And yes, women need to defend them as well.

00:35:48.000 Candidly, we're talking about Boy Scouts.

00:35:50.000 You need to raise up strong men.

00:35:52.000 I am telling you, there is no more effective, powerful force on the planet than a well formed, matured, fully functional, intelligent, self assured male.

00:36:07.000 Man.

00:36:08.000 That is a power source for Western civilization that cannot be defeated.

00:36:14.000 And so there will be all kinds of assaults against the development of young men into fully grown, fully matured.

00:36:22.000 Men.

00:36:22.000 It just will be.

00:36:23.000 And we have to protect the formation of men.

00:36:26.000 It's one of the critical duties of this show.

00:36:28.000 It's one of the critical duties of Turning Point. 1.00

00:36:30.000 Yes, we care about the women. 0.97

00:36:31.000 Yes, of course.

00:36:33.000 But I'm telling you, young men, fully formed, fully ready to take on the challenges of this generation and the next and the next after that, if we have those men, Western civilization will not only survive, it will thrive.

00:36:47.000 That's why there's always an attack against them.

00:36:49.000 So we must defend the men.

00:36:50.000 Charlie knew this.

00:36:51.000 We know this still.

00:36:52.000 Hopefully, you out in the audience know it as well.

00:36:58.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 27, 2026

The Left's Childfree Suicide Cult

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