The Charlie Kirk Show - August 17, 2026


The Post-Truth Internet + Assessing the Owens-Wilson Debate


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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
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00:01:17.000 Welcome back, everybody.
00:01:18.000 It is Monday, August 17th, back in the Phoenix studio.
00:01:22.000 Honored to be here with you, Blake.
00:01:23.000 How are we doing?
00:01:24.000 I'm doing great because I will say, as I was leaving the set on Friday, the Y Refi Mike flag whispered to me and it said, I still love you more, even though Andrew's coming back.
00:01:37.000 No, it did not.
00:01:39.000 It's an inanimate object.
00:01:40.000 Loves me more, obviously.
00:01:43.000 I want to.
00:01:43.000 We have so much to get to.
00:01:44.000 What a weekend.
00:01:45.000 I was.
00:01:46.000 Blake can say what he wants.
00:01:48.000 This is America.
00:01:49.000 I can't tell you how to think.
00:01:52.000 It's still America.
00:01:53.000 It's true.
00:01:54.000 I can explain the facts to you.
00:01:57.000 We believe in freedom, and sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes there's downsides to it.
00:02:02.000 My goodness.
00:02:03.000 Okay, so I was off this weekend.
00:02:06.000 It was sort of the end of the summer.
00:02:08.000 I promised my wife I'd put my phone down and be focused on her and the kids, which seemed like a reasonable.
00:02:15.000 Request and it was awesome.
00:02:17.000 Uh, we had some great time with the kids.
00:02:19.000 I saw we saw bighorn sheep right up close, like they came right to where our house was.
00:02:23.000 It was crazy.
00:02:24.000 So, anyways, great weekend with the kids.
00:02:26.000 But there was a lot that happened, and it's time to unpack it.
00:02:30.000 I will tell you, uh, I what a weekend to be away from your phone because you know there was this big debate with Andrew Wilson, Candace Owens, which we're going to get to get into.
00:02:40.000 Um, which if you watched that, send us emails and what you thought about it.
00:02:44.000 Yeah, we're interested in.
00:02:46.000 That.
00:02:46.000 Yep.
00:02:47.000 We're going to be talking about that with Viva Fry in just a little while.
00:02:50.000 And then we've got our Commit 100 that is just popping off here.
00:02:56.000 We're going to have Cliff Maloney and Tyler Boyer here to explain that.
00:03:01.000 And then we've got the great Alex Marlowe.
00:03:03.000 There it is.
00:03:04.000 There's the graphic.
00:03:04.000 This election won't win itself.
00:03:06.000 That is absolutely certain.
00:03:07.000 We need you guys to help us chase votes.
00:03:10.000 Okay.
00:03:10.000 We're going to be chasing ballots, low propensity voters.
00:03:13.000 We need all the help we can get.
00:03:15.000 We have to fight, fight, fight.
00:03:16.000 That is the key.
00:03:17.000 That's what Charlie would have done.
00:03:18.000 That's what.
00:03:19.000 We need to continue doing.
00:03:21.000 And, but, anyways, and there was this crazy story.
00:03:25.000 And I cannot help but feeling personally connected to it.
00:03:28.000 And that is, of course, the Lindsey Clancy story.
00:03:31.000 And the reason I feel personally connected to it is because it seems like there is a one to one overlap of the same people that were attacking Erica, attacking Turning Point, that are now raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for a woman who strangled her own children.
00:03:49.000 I, I, I cannot.
00:03:51.000 By her own admission, by her attorney's admission.
00:03:53.000 She admitted it.
00:03:54.000 She's blaming SSRIs and Adevan or Lorezapom and all the PAMs in the zones.
00:04:03.000 And it's the wildest thing.
00:04:05.000 So now the internet has taken it and is blaming the husband, is blaming the drugs, blaming anybody but the mom who did this.
00:04:15.000 They're saying she had postpartum depression, that is a very serious condition, and that her anxiety medication put her over the top and she became a homicidal maniac, somebody willing and able to murder her own children.
00:04:29.000 Blame it.
00:04:29.000 Okay.
00:04:29.000 If you're going to blame pharma, at least you're parroting what the defense is claiming.
00:04:34.000 What makes this wild to me, and I think they're wrong, but at least it's within the universe of something that could be alleged and you could believe it.
00:04:40.000 But the fact that there are so many people, and if you don't believe us, go on TikTok and look up Lindsey Clancy and just read the comments.
00:04:47.000 Go on Facebook.
00:04:49.000 Maybe, honestly, maybe talk to your friend.
00:04:51.000 If you're a mom, talk to your mommy friend groups.
00:04:52.000 A lot of them are following this.
00:04:54.000 It's the fact that they're just going out and they're just saying, I think the husband did it.
00:04:58.000 And they're spinning up entire alternate universes that the defense has never alleged.
00:05:02.000 Lindsay Clancy has never alleged, but tons of them believe this.
00:05:07.000 No, and they're also claiming astrology.
00:05:09.000 This is a real clip.
00:05:11.000 Thousands of women are saying online that she couldn't have killed her kids because of astrology. 1.00
00:05:19.000 Stop 15.
00:05:20.000 Lindsay Clancy's birth chart.
00:05:22.000 So, notice anything here?
00:05:23.000 She's got a north known Aquarius, south known Leo.
00:05:25.000 She's in her null return right now.
00:05:26.000 You know, just following all their birth charts and birthdays and zodiac signs, he did it.
00:05:32.000 He did it.
00:05:32.000 He's a Gemini man.
00:05:34.000 His birthday is June 15th.
00:05:35.000 Let me give you another example of who a Gemini man is. 0.85
00:05:38.000 Also, birthday June 14th, Donald Trump.
00:05:41.000 Patrick did it.
00:05:42.000 I've already gone over the forensic astrology charts that show that the perpetrator is a male, the perpetrator is having an affair, and that the victims, specifically Lindsay, were drugged during this.
00:05:56.000 I'm going to my popcorn.
00:05:57.000 I can't wait for this man to be humbled and for karma to do its thing.
00:06:01.000 I'm not sure any statement has ever given.
00:06:05.000 I've never heard that statement before and it's blowing my mind.
00:06:07.000 Forensic astrology.
00:06:09.000 Yes.
00:06:09.000 Forensic astrology, church.
00:06:10.000 Listen, I'm a Leo, so I appreciate them believing Leos can do no wrong, but.
00:06:15.000 Here's the thing, though.
00:06:16.000 We are living in a post truth, internet cooked my brain, the psychologist rationalized my evil behavior reality.
00:06:25.000 This is the only reality that seems to be gaining traction on the internet.
00:06:31.000 Now, we are free speech absolutists.
00:06:34.000 We love speech.
00:06:35.000 We think that you should not be curtailed in your speech.
00:06:38.000 But my goodness, is there ever been a moment in history where you're like, hey, some of those people that wanted a gatekeep are kind of making some points now?
00:06:47.000 Now we have to reject it because the bad people will use it to hurt the good people more often than not.
00:06:52.000 But this stuff is nuts.
00:06:54.000 Here is a clinical, I guess, a licensed therapist defending Lindsey Clancy.
00:06:59.000 Sop 14.
00:07:00.000 The Lindsey Clancy trial is going to be one of the most significant trials of your lifetime.
00:07:07.000 Never before have we seen so many mothers.
00:07:11.000 And women rally behind somebody who confessed to killing her three children.
00:07:19.000 And it is not because we cannot hold women accountable.
00:07:24.000 Many of us see ourselves in Lindsay.
00:07:28.000 Many of us know that we could have been only one step away from doing some of those horrific things.
00:07:37.000 Yeah, if that is what your therapist is telling you, if you have a therapist that sounds like that, Run.
00:07:45.000 Run as fast as you can.
00:07:47.000 Get away from them.
00:07:48.000 They don't want your good, they want to hurt you.
00:07:51.000 They are going to do severe damage to your life, to your psychology, to your emotional well being, to your spiritual well being.
00:07:58.000 And by the way, that's the whole thing that's just like boggling here.
00:08:02.000 Like, you're a devout Catholic.
00:08:04.000 I'm a devout evangelical Christian.
00:08:07.000 I am just sitting here watching this stuff going, go to church for the love.
00:08:12.000 Humble yourself under the scriptures.
00:08:15.000 This stuff is crazy.
00:08:16.000 You guys are getting led astray by every new little idea, every fleeting fancy, emotionalism.
00:08:24.000 All of this stuff.
00:08:25.000 So, to Blake's point, let's actually hear what the defense is trying to say, blaming it on the drugs.
00:08:30.000 SOT 19.
00:08:31.000 Jennifer Tufts, September 15th, 22, Sertraline, that's the Zoloft.
00:08:38.000 Then Lorazepam, October 21st, Jennifer Tufts.
00:08:41.000 Then Hydroxazine, Jennifer Tufts.
00:08:44.000 Lorapezam, Jennifer Tufts. 0.66
00:08:46.000 Busperone, Jennifer Tufts.
00:08:48.000 Lorazepam, increase, Jennifer Tufts.
00:08:50.000 Busperone, increase from 1 milligram to 5 milligrams, Jennifer Tufts.
00:08:55.000 Trazodone from another individual.
00:08:58.000 Floxatine, 10 milligrams, from another person named Julie Paul.
00:09:02.000 Julie Paul worked at the Saussure Hospital when she went there to go try to get some help from Saussure Perinatal Behavioral Health.
00:09:13.000 More medications.
00:09:15.000 That's what they're talking about in real life, but then you can go online, throw up 139, and they're just going to say, I don't believe it.
00:09:22.000 I think the husband did it because we have a screenshot where he looks creepy.
00:09:25.000 Yep.
00:09:27.000 And the reason I just, man, I have lived this.
00:09:30.000 Yeah, so this is the picture they're showing.
00:09:32.000 We have lived this.
00:09:34.000 It is nuts out there, man.
00:09:36.000 What people will believe in the aftermath of a tragedy, man, it makes your skin crawl because innocent people are getting absolutely lambasted while guilty people are being defended and $700,000 raised from them.
00:09:54.000 You think about Austin Metcalf, same situation.
00:09:57.000 All right.
00:09:57.000 So I have to play this because this was one of the clips that I saw this morning.
00:10:01.000 We're talking about Lindsey Clancy.
00:10:02.000 This is the mother of three that strangled them, then slit her own wrist and jumped out of a two story building.
00:10:09.000 And all the women are just saying, hey, postpartum depression is real.
00:10:13.000 Which, even if it is, it is real. 0.65
00:10:16.000 It is real.
00:10:16.000 It is real.
00:10:17.000 On the other hand, if you took a 19 year old, got on a bunch of drugs, and then did a school shooting, this is what I brought up on Thought Crime.
00:10:25.000 I don't think we would ever accept any depression medication related excuse for it.
00:10:30.000 It just.
00:10:30.000 You can't justify a person who has any kind of break that causes them to commit a crime that heinous.
00:10:35.000 And I think that should certainly apply to strangling your own toddlers as well as shooting up a kindergarten.
00:10:41.000 Of course. 0.87
00:10:42.000 This is all basic, easy math to do.
00:10:45.000 Okay.
00:10:45.000 With anybody with a moral compass that's at all attuned, if you have ever prayed at all one time, like this stuff is easy.
00:10:54.000 And the fact that it's apparently not, and they're raising $700,000 to defend this woman because, you know, the husband looks creepy, I guess, in a photo.
00:11:04.000 Okay, but this one caught my eye this morning because it's a person that has harassed Erica, has harassed me.
00:11:13.000 I don't know much about her, candidly, but I just, as soon as I saw it, I was like, ah, one to one.
00:11:20.000 It is like the Venn diagram of people that have harassed Erica and harassed Turning Point to are now defending a mom who murdered three of her kids is shocking the amount of real estate that the both.
00:11:33.000 Both of those concentric circles would overlap.
00:11:36.000 All right, let's play this.
00:11:38.000 Sot 25.
00:11:39.000 Are you a sheep?
00:11:40.000 No. 0.97
00:11:44.000 You're a dragon.
00:11:46.000 Be a dragon. 0.95
00:11:55.000 So, for those who couldn't see it, besides playing weird, creepy music, it says on the screen that Patrick Clancy, the husband, is about to be exposed for the psychopath that he is.
00:12:05.000 And yeah, they just, it's so important to emphasize that high level of overlap because we were discussing what's driving this.
00:12:13.000 And I'm not entirely sure what psychologically does it, but it's very clear there's a large universe of people, very large.
00:12:20.000 There's dozens of people whose full time job is making videos about this.
00:12:25.000 Posting about it, speculating about it, reading chats from viewers about it.
00:12:30.000 You can easily spend all of your free time marinating in this case, Charlie's case, cases like it.
00:12:36.000 Kroeberger, the Metcalf case.
00:12:41.000 And sure, true crime is popular.
00:12:43.000 I think you and I, we like a show about the hunt for a real serial killer or something.
00:12:47.000 I think that's what a lot of people assume true crime is.
00:12:49.000 But a lot of it has mutated into this bizarre sphere where it very, very frequently is creating very wild theories.
00:12:58.000 About cases where the evidence is more clear cut than is maybe compelling for good drama.
00:13:06.000 And then people just conjure.
00:13:08.000 And then also, there's just the constant social media need to go further, create new content, string stuff out.
00:13:15.000 And I think that incentivizes weirder and weirder reactions to these things.
00:13:20.000 I mean, there's a couple things that I'm thinking about here.
00:13:23.000 First of all, yeah, the true crime genre.
00:13:25.000 And by the way, you saw this in Hollywood the rise of the anti hero, right?
00:13:30.000 You know, I love Breaking Bad, for example.
00:13:32.000 Great show.
00:13:33.000 Charlie loved Breaking Bad.
00:13:35.000 But it is glorifying a meth cook, a meth dealer.
00:13:40.000 You end up finding yourself rooting for this person.
00:13:42.000 There is like a, you know, we've gotten away from.
00:13:45.000 This is why I don't watch these shows.
00:13:46.000 Yeah.
00:13:47.000 But we've gotten away just as a culture, from pop culture, of rooting for the guy in the white hat, right?
00:13:53.000 And we've sort of, you know, I guess, become accustomed to rooting for anti heroes, people that are fundamentally and morally flawed.
00:14:03.000 In some pretty egregious ways, it because it makes for good TV.
00:14:05.000 I get it.
00:14:07.000 I loved, like I said, I admit I loved Breaking Bad, but never in my mind would I then attribute the entertainment value of that and then invert my moral compass to the point where I'm trying to raise money and get a woman off who murdered three of her children.
00:14:23.000 I don't care what the excuses are.
00:14:25.000 Second thing, we have a massive mental health problem. 1.00
00:14:28.000 We have chronically online wine moms that literally they need strong male guidance. 1.00
00:14:34.000 I know that's maybe.
00:14:35.000 Controversial, but for whatever reason, this seems to be something that affects women more than it does men.
00:14:40.000 I'm not saying men are unaffected, but we need they're like these women. 0.99
00:14:45.000 If they had a man that was like, Wife, get off the phone, you need like we need to go touch grass together, let's go for a walk.
00:14:51.000 Like that, you know, it's interesting. 0.98
00:14:52.000 You say we have a mental health crisis.
00:14:53.000 You should watch what we did last Friday if you haven't, or watch the documentary it's about because I do think there's something to be said that the whole segment was about we do have a mental health crisis.
00:15:03.000 Is it caused by us constantly talking about it, marinating in therapy speak?
00:15:08.000 Therapy culture.
00:15:09.000 And one of the takeaways from that documentary, it was called Thank You for Sharing.
00:15:13.000 You guys should check it out, is it probably would be better if our response to mental health, the stuff that looks like mental health crises, might be, oh, you know, it might be, you know, sin is tempting me.
00:15:26.000 And so I should pursue religion more, read the Bible more, rather than, oh, I have this treatable condition that I should spend more time in therapy.
00:15:35.000 I should look at this list of medications that I should get on.
00:15:37.000 And there are definitely cases where there is a clear link where medication is helpful.
00:15:41.000 I think.
00:15:42.000 Actual schizophrenics with delusions, there are medications that help with that and they should take them.
00:15:47.000 But a lot of people are trying to medicate every single thing they do.
00:15:52.000 And we see a lot of disastrous outcomes from it.
00:15:55.000 And we see also a lot of people.
00:15:58.000 I think it's interesting that you mentioned Breaking Bad there because Breaking Bad's a dude show.
00:16:02.000 But there's like, what, The Housemaid?
00:16:04.000 Was that the name of that movie?
00:16:06.000 Where there's a lot of films out there that create this true crime dynamic.
00:16:10.000 Oh, this idyllic looking family.
00:16:12.000 Actually, the husband is abusive.
00:16:14.000 Actually, there's like sinister murders going on.
00:16:17.000 There's a lot of fiction like that out there.
00:16:19.000 And I think marinating it too much might be warping people's brains.
00:16:23.000 I'll remember my first trip to the UK, I met this old school Irish guy, and he said, I don't do therapy.
00:16:30.000 I just have a beer with the blokes down at the pub, and I work out all my problems.
00:16:33.000 And you kind of wonder did we have it right all along?
00:16:37.000 And we bailed on all of that for really expensive therapists that give you really expensive, damaging drugs.
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00:18:00.000 We're about to be joined by the one and only Viva Fry, former litigator and really just like a principal guy.
00:18:07.000 I just want to tell you: Viva, he's just stepped into this space where he's standing up for sanity and he didn't have to.
00:18:20.000 He's not paid, you know.
00:18:22.000 And he's just, he's so dogged.
00:18:24.000 And I just have, he's just won my respect in such huge ways.
00:18:28.000 He already had it, but nevertheless.
00:18:30.000 Viva Fry, my friend, how are you?
00:18:32.000 Good to see you.
00:18:33.000 The more you compliment me, the more conspiracies you're going to generate in terms of what you're going to do with.
00:18:37.000 I know.
00:18:38.000 Did the check clear?
00:18:39.000 Did the check clear, V?
00:18:41.000 Don't even give them the soundbite.
00:18:44.000 It's truly insane because, like, not that I'm independent, I'm independent, but like, I'm not a loner either.
00:18:49.000 I can't say that because Robert Barnes and I have our locals community and our show.
00:18:52.000 Yeah. 0.73
00:18:53.000 To a loner, as anybody gets in this business, and to be accused of taking bucks from Israel and to be accused of being a Zionist, because what every Zionist does is they move from Canada to America. 0.66
00:19:05.000 Like Zionists, they don't move from Canada to Israel. 0.63
00:19:07.000 And Zionists, the ones like me that criticize Israel in terms of what they did during COVID, experimenting on their population with the Pfizer jab, you know, that's the it's insanity. 0.83
00:19:17.000 It's true insanity.
00:19:19.000 And yeah, at some point, I could say, like, you know, I could pick to other subjects to.
00:19:23.000 Talk about.
00:19:25.000 But this is what drives me nuts it's leading people astray in a very meaningful sense.
00:19:29.000 And Hassan Piker just really perfectly illustrated the benefit that the left is reaping from this.
00:19:34.000 In addition to breaking up the right in the coalition and it's going to hammer the Republicans in the midterms, it also diverts the attention from where the attention should be political violence.
00:19:44.000 And Hassan Piper is all too happy to have the attention be shifted from where it truly is to where it probably is not.
00:19:49.000 Yeah, no, and we're going to get into that in the second segment.
00:19:52.000 That was kind of where I was going eventually here.
00:19:54.000 But Viva, I just want to say we don't work together.
00:19:58.000 I don't control it.
00:19:58.000 I don't know what you're saying, you know, all that stuff, all the necessary caveats.
00:20:03.000 And candidly, you're probably, if I'm just like, you know, judging us, especially Blake, Blake is like way on this side of the conspiracy spectrum, and I'm somewhere in the middle.
00:20:14.000 You're probably a little bit more prone to like entertain conspiracy.
00:20:17.000 I'll be more open to conspiracies when any of them end up being true.
00:20:20.000 Well, and I mean, listen, and here's what I think.
00:20:22.000 I think COVID broke our collective brains.
00:20:25.000 I genuinely think that COVID ruined so much because we were lied to on this mass scale, and we basically haven't recovered to it.
00:20:36.000 It was the first time the government really flexed all of its muscles to sort of shove down our throats a fake narrative, and now everything's fake to everybody, even when the facts don't line up.
00:20:46.000 And what I'm, we started the show, Viva, talking about this Lindsey Clancy story.
00:20:50.000 Where she even admits that she killed her three kids, and yet they're trying to get her off because of the Zoloft and all this stuff, and because of postpartum depression.
00:20:59.000 We are living in a post truth online narrative, and I'm genuinely worried it's going to cook people's brains even further, and that this will not stay online.
00:21:08.000 This will impact our electoral politics, this will impact our constitutional republic, and so many things.
00:21:14.000 But bringing it back here, Viva, you can opine on that if you want, but bringing it back to this debate that happened on Friday, I was off.
00:21:22.000 I had.
00:21:23.000 A long weekend with my kids, but I'm catching up.
00:21:25.000 I saw that you said that you thought Andrew Wilson won.
00:21:28.000 And then you went and talked with Alex Jones, who thought that Candace Owens won.
00:21:34.000 Why do you think the debate was worth having?
00:21:37.000 And why do you think that Andrew Wilson won?
00:21:41.000 Andrew Wilson won.
00:21:41.000 I mean, it's such a juvenile way of viewing it.
00:21:43.000 Andrew Wilson made some unforced errors, and it's the only one that they're running with where he couldn't name the seven charges offhand.
00:21:49.000 And he said it was murder instead of aggravated murder.
00:21:52.000 I operate on the basis that, first of all, Andrew Wilson could know nothing.
00:21:56.000 Of the actual proceedings, he could be totally ignorant to the proceedings.
00:22:00.000 What that debate was supposed to flesh out for those who are interested is any substantiating evidence that Candace had for any of her various theories from the get go.
00:22:10.000 The Egyptian planes, the trapdoor, he was shot from the front, he was shot from the back, he was shot from the down, he wasn't shot.
00:22:15.000 It was an exploding mic. 0.54
00:22:16.000 Israel had a hand in it, Erica Kirk was complicit.
00:22:19.000 It was the time to flesh out her theories.
00:22:22.000 And but like I said, this I don't think it's an appropriate discussion to have right now as to the overwhelming nature of the evidence.
00:22:29.000 Because we're at the stage of the preliminary hearings, and you talk about overwhelming, underwhelming, reasonable doubt at the trial.
00:22:34.000 Tyler is innocent unless proven guilty.
00:22:37.000 Right now, to have a debate as to the overwhelming nature of the evidence is a misguided, premature debate because they haven't had all of the evidence, nor has the evidence been tested.
00:22:47.000 So to say it's overwhelming, it is premature.
00:22:49.000 It is prejudging.
00:22:51.000 What you say right now is it's overwhelmingly the case, the probable cause is going to have been met and set that aside.
00:22:56.000 So Andrew missed the easy layup on the Naming the charges.
00:23:01.000 Then he went into a misguided accusation that he wouldn't ever been able to prove that Candace was cheating, which is how she listed all seven of them.
00:23:09.000 Incidentally, almost verbatim to the way it's described on AI, but it doesn't matter.
00:23:13.000 Okay.
00:23:14.000 I got this clip actually.
00:23:15.000 Can I play it?
00:23:17.000 I just like to say, you have to be careful with those things because a very common thing with conspirators is they're very good at specific details in whatever they're obsessed with.
00:23:26.000 And then it's that they put them together in a very.
00:23:28.000 Yeah.
00:23:29.000 The earpiece thing I didn't see coming, but this has apparently on online this morning.
00:23:33.000 It's raging.
00:23:33.000 So I'll play it.
00:23:34.000 Sot 30.
00:23:36.000 What is that?
00:23:37.000 What is that?
00:23:39.000 That's a newer piece.
00:23:41.000 Was that legal?
00:23:41.000 It's not like I'm out there saying big lies.
00:23:44.000 You see how he's touching his earpiece?
00:23:45.000 Yeah.
00:23:46.000 Was he wearing an earpiece?
00:23:47.000 100%.
00:23:48.000 He was.
00:23:49.000 Wait a minute.
00:23:49.000 100%.
00:23:50.000 What do you mean he was wearing an earpiece?
00:23:51.000 Are you ready?
00:23:52.000 Okay, go.
00:23:53.000 That's Candace's earpiece.
00:23:55.000 What does that mean?
00:23:56.000 They gave that earpiece to all of us.
00:23:58.000 So, everybody.
00:23:58.000 Oh, they had it too.
00:23:59.000 No, no, no.
00:24:00.000 But wait a minute.
00:24:01.000 Watch what just happened.
00:24:03.000 The market believes she had an earpiece of things being fed to us.
00:24:07.000 That was an earpiece that Candace's producers gave Candace, gave him.
00:24:10.000 We hear everything you guys, behind the scenes.
00:24:12.000 Is she going to say that on air?
00:24:14.000 She would easily, I don't think she would have a problem.
00:24:17.000 I think she will.
00:24:17.000 I don't think she has a problem with that, but that is their earpiece.
00:24:21.000 So everybody had an earpiece. 0.92
00:24:23.000 Everyone had an earpiece because she insisted on the debate being in her studio. 1.00
00:24:27.000 And so her staff gave people earpieces. 0.99
00:24:29.000 Yeah.
00:24:30.000 All right.
00:24:30.000 So half of the internet now believes that Andrew Wilson was cheating with an earpiece, or as if it made any difference.
00:24:37.000 The whole thing about debates like this is it's a game of chess in that everything is on the board, and you can't really cheat in the game of chess short of taking a player's piece off the table.
00:24:46.000 But although you did that, This is a debate.
00:24:48.000 Everyone should be able to fact check in real time, hear what they're saying, and you flesh out the actual substance of the ideas.
00:24:53.000 So set aside the fact that Andrew couldn't name the charges.
00:24:57.000 Like I told Alex Jones, big flipping deal.
00:25:00.000 I wanted to know what evidence Candace had to substantiate her hypotheses, her just asking questions that Israel was somehow involved.
00:25:08.000 And her answer at the end of the day was a big fat nothing other than the call.
00:25:13.000 And then she ended up with, it's just my opinion.
00:25:15.000 Like that's just your opinion, man.
00:25:16.000 That used to be a meme.
00:25:18.000 From the Big Lebowski that people would use to make fun of people who say, well, that's just my opinion.
00:25:22.000 And she actually just said that as the basis for why she said.
00:25:25.000 I know that.
00:25:26.000 Like, I literally thought at the end of this when I watched it, I was like, so wait, like, all the death threats, all the accusations, all the smears was just like, because you.
00:25:38.000 It was just free association, you know, vibes.
00:25:40.000 Okay.
00:25:41.000 So you mentioned the juice.
00:25:42.000 We'll start there.
00:25:43.000 This is from Milk Bar TV, guy online.
00:25:45.000 He does these compilation videos.
00:25:47.000 28.
00:25:48.000 Now, you have stated multiple times that you believe that Israel's involved in the death of Charlie Kirk.
00:25:53.000 Can you give me a clip?
00:25:54.000 Yes, we can pull up the clip.
00:25:55.000 That's what all of the evidence and all of the behavior points to Israel's involvement. 0.60
00:26:00.000 Those of us who believe that there is mounting evidence that Israel put a hit on Charlie Kirk, I think France and Israel are involved in Charlie Kirk's assassination. 0.87
00:26:08.000 And I'm going to put that out there with full confidence.
00:26:11.000 So I'm asking if you think that Israel and France were involved in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and you say with full confidence, I'm just asking for the evidence or at least.
00:26:21.000 Walk me through the mindset of why it is that you can think that.
00:26:24.000 I actually don't have to walk you through why I think.
00:26:27.000 Just watch the show.
00:26:28.000 Yeah, that seemed to be the whole pitch.
00:26:30.000 It seemed to be like, hey, just watch the show if you want to know what I think.
00:26:33.000 But like, we were here to hear you defend what you think.
00:26:36.000 And then, you know, the Washington Times put out this headline after the fact Candace Owens concedes no direct proof Israel killed Charlie Kirk in debate with Andrew Wilson.
00:26:46.000 So that one's there.
00:26:47.000 I know that, as you know, you'll be shocked to hear that there was no evidence there, Viva.
00:26:53.000 Here's another one.
00:26:54.000 That I Milk Bar does a great job of this complicit.
00:26:58.000 So she has claimed that Erica and Turning Point are complicit for months now in Charlie's assassination.
00:27:05.000 But now it's, I find out it's just complicit in suggesting that Tyler Robinson might be guilty.
00:27:10.000 Cut to 27.
00:27:11.000 There is why it is impossible for me to think that Erica Kirk is not complicit somehow.
00:27:17.000 That Tyler Robinson was 100% responsible for the death of Charlie Kirk.
00:27:21.000 Let's just say she believed it with every fiber of her being, believed all the evidence, because she did.
00:27:25.000 She just actually did.
00:27:27.000 Would it then follow that somehow she's complicit in his death?
00:27:32.000 I didn't say implicit in death.
00:27:34.000 You added those two words.
00:27:36.000 She goes on to say, I think, I believe if I'm remembering right, that he was just complicit, or she's complicit in Tyler Robinson being guilty in suggesting that.
00:27:48.000 So, this is what it's all been about, Viva?
00:27:50.000 No, but there was a post, I forget which one from when, she says that he was betrayed by people who eulogized him.
00:27:57.000 I mean, the whole point is this was something of a day of reckoning for Candace catching up to her.
00:28:04.000 Call it lies or call it just exaggerations or theorizing.
00:28:08.000 I've long said there's two types of lies.
00:28:10.000 Saying something you know to be false when you say it, or positively asserting something that you have no legitimate basis to positively assert when you do it.
00:28:18.000 She is very much guilty, in my view, of the second lie, which is when she said that the receipt or implied that the receipt from the Pangwich Cowboy Steakhouse proved that Tyler Robinson was there.
00:28:29.000 And during that debate, she has to concede that they never tied that receipt to Tyler Robinson before or after, and that nonetheless, she puts that in her official timeline as to how Tyler Robinson couldn't have been.
00:28:41.000 At or him at 11 o'clock to send the text message because he was at Cowboy Steakhouse eating a steak and Sprite, even though they have not, she admits, they didn't tie that receipt to him.
00:28:49.000 I don't understand how people don't, you know, get a little insulted.
00:28:53.000 Well, and by the way, Viva, they have the Celbrite, they pull data off his phone, they've got GPS data from, like, I guess his phone or his car or whatever.
00:29:02.000 The point is, you think the prosecution would go, you know, go into this knowing that they don't actually have his whereabouts where he needs to be?
00:29:11.000 Like, the defense wouldn't bring it up.
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00:30:14.000 All right, Viva.
00:30:15.000 Blake wants to play a clip here.
00:30:17.000 Yeah, I think this is just a great one.
00:30:20.000 It's a display of kind of her strategy, the whole debate, which is getting called out.
00:30:24.000 You had a year of shows spinning wild theories.
00:30:28.000 And when she's finally just asked straightforwardly, why do you believe these things?
00:30:33.000 She's like, oh, I can't actually say why.
00:30:35.000 I still think these things, but I can't say why.
00:30:38.000 This is a great example.
00:30:39.000 Clip three. 0.63
00:30:39.000 I think France and Israel are involved in Charlie Kirk's assassination. 0.63
00:30:43.000 And I'm going to put that out there with full confidence. 0.99
00:30:47.000 Okay.
00:30:47.000 I also, involvement.
00:30:48.000 I understand.
00:30:49.000 Yeah. 0.93
00:30:49.000 So you think, with full confidence, you think that France and Israel. 0.93
00:30:54.000 Yeah.
00:30:55.000 I mean, the person that gave me that thing that I reported said that French Foreign Legion were on the ground that day.
00:31:01.000 Again, this would be at a professional limitation for me to then go and probe that information that I handed over.
00:31:07.000 I can't do that.
00:31:08.000 I'm not the judge.
00:31:09.000 But you don't have any positive evidence of that.
00:31:11.000 Can you just stop?
00:31:12.000 It's actually just like annoying to hear you keep saying positive evidence.
00:31:15.000 Just ask me what I think, and I'll just tell you, yes, I think they are involved.
00:31:19.000 That's a claim.
00:31:21.000 You know, it's a claim.
00:31:22.000 The thing that bothers me, Viva, is that.
00:31:25.000 There's this constant burden shifting that happens where you make a really reckless, crazy claim, but then you feel like there's no responsibility that you need to back it up with any evidence.
00:31:35.000 It's worse than that.
00:31:36.000 It's worse than that.
00:31:37.000 And first of all, I've got no affinity for the Israeli government.
00:31:41.000 I've got no affinity for any government on earth.
00:31:44.000 If there were the slightest shred of evidence as of now, positive actual evidence, not like the absence of evidence is the evidence that Israel was involved, MI6, French intelligence, we would want to know it and we would want to act on it.
00:31:58.000 But you need a shred of it.
00:32:00.000 What they have and what they've been playing with the entire time is the absence of evidence is the evidence.
00:32:04.000 I make the accusation and, you know, okay.
00:32:06.000 It can hold up on the mens rea element, the intent. 1.00
00:32:09.000 Yeah, sure.
00:32:09.000 You can make an argument that Israel, Netanyahu, would want to take out Charlie if he was going to lead an entire generation of conservatives to switch their views on Israel.
00:32:17.000 Fine. 0.65
00:32:18.000 That same argument holds not just as true, but more true for the MMIW2SLGBTQIA plus community, who Charlie was very critical of. 0.92
00:32:27.000 And he was killed in that moment itself.
00:32:30.000 And so the rationale that they use to conclude that Israel was involved somehow in the absence of any shred of evidence is the exact same motivation that would also motivate the Trans LGBT community who were very angry at Charlie, except there's a slight more prima facie, at least commencement of evidence that Tyler Robinson did it versus an Israeli element.
00:32:51.000 And I appreciate the absence of the evidence is that Joe Kent asked Patel to look into a foreign nexus and Patel allegedly shut down or didn't follow up on that.
00:33:02.000 And I agree that that's a problem.
00:33:04.000 It's not a problem that implicates Israel per se or any foreign element per se.
00:33:08.000 It might be one that could potentially reveal a domestic element, which is why Patel would have had an inkling.
00:33:13.000 Or an incentive not to pursue it.
00:33:16.000 But it's always the absence of the evidence is the evidence, and you can never disprove that.
00:33:21.000 And bottom line, she gets up there and says, I believe, I believe, I feel, feels like 55 times during that debate.
00:33:26.000 Because this is all just intuition.
00:33:29.000 It's all, I'm putting out things that could be true in a crime novel, except I have zero evidence for it.
00:33:35.000 And her evidence, the reason for which she doesn't have the evidence, well, she can't go probe the leads that she got.
00:33:39.000 Oh, the receipt, you gotta go ask Diligent Denison because it's his story.
00:33:43.000 Oh, I can't reveal my sources.
00:33:45.000 Oh, someone from the French government high up with.
00:33:48.000 Intelligence of an alleged plot to kill me from the French legions told me.
00:33:52.000 So I go to the FBI and they probably think she's absolutely insane and then doesn't reveal the source to them because they didn't get back to her. 0.90
00:33:59.000 And then them not getting back to her is the reason why she didn't reveal the source and it's the evidence that the plot was true.
00:34:05.000 It's crime series insanity and people have fallen down this rabbit hole.
00:34:09.000 And to go back just to the beginning, where he said COVID broke people's brains, people no longer know what to believe and they can therefore justify believing absolutely anything.
00:34:18.000 The amount of people who don't understand how to compare comparables.
00:34:22.000 That comes to me and say, Viva, you think Brian Cole Jr. is a patsy in the pipe bomber case, but you believe this with Tyler Robinson.
00:34:29.000 I say, first of all, he'll get his trial.
00:34:31.000 And if I see evidence that proves his innocence or doesn't prove his guilt, we'll deal with that when we get there.
00:34:36.000 But anybody thinking that those two things are comparable, that Brian Cole Jr. was arrested five years after the most thorough investigation in the history of America, after he was initially investigated and then not followed up on, a month after Steve Baker releases an expose exposing who he thinks might be the January 6th pipe bomber, which is a Capitol Police officer, former and CIA employee.
00:34:56.000 And that the evidence that they have against Brian Cole Jr. are household items bought over the period of eight years.
00:35:01.000 Compare that to Tyler Robinson, who turned himself in right or wrong 33 hours later after his parents allegedly identified him, after his boyfriend identified him.
00:35:10.000 And people think that these are somehow comparable, so they can say Brian Cole Jr. is a patsy, so too must be Tyler Robinson.
00:35:15.000 People have lost their ability to think critically, and they can justify it because they have zero trust in the institutions, zero trust in the FBI, and to some extent, the FBI and the DOJ have to take responsibility for people's lack of faith.
00:35:27.000 Having been restored into the institution for the lies that they've been told now as relates to Thomas Crooks not having a social media footprint.
00:35:34.000 You know, Epstein killed himself, which people just won't believe, especially after the years of investigation that we're being told to not believe it.
00:35:42.000 And so people have such distrust in the system, they feel empowered to believe whatever the hell they want, even if it's not at all remotely comparable to the things that they have a legitimate basis to be questioning the narrative.
00:35:53.000 I agree.
00:35:54.000 And the laptop and COVID came from a wet market, all the things.
00:35:58.000 Go ahead.
00:35:58.000 Well, there's a very important clip that we need to get to because it gets to the heart of this and why it's so important to keep talking about this.
00:36:04.000 This was Hassan Piker last few days.
00:36:07.000 Talking about how he feels about the case.
00:36:09.000 32.
00:36:09.000 I can't like her tweets because she blocked me many, many years ago.
00:36:13.000 This is before she became our hero.
00:36:15.000 Okay. 0.58
00:36:17.000 Many, many years ago, Candace Owens blocked me.
00:36:20.000 I've not been a fan of Candace Owens.
00:36:22.000 I am a fan now.
00:36:23.000 And why is he a fan?
00:36:24.000 I think we got this in reverse order.
00:36:25.000 He's a fan because she's mangled the case.
00:36:28.000 31. 1.00
00:36:29.000 Can't speak out against this queen because this is a queen that successfully and single handedly undermined.
00:36:38.000 The Republican initiative to martyrize Charlie Kirk and use that example to crack down on political dissent.
00:36:50.000 I'm with her.
00:36:51.000 It's hard.
00:36:51.000 It's hard for me.
00:36:53.000 My brain says, no, it's probably Tyler Robinson, but my heart says, go, Candace, go.
00:37:00.000 Keep cooking.
00:37:01.000 You know, does that make sense?
00:37:03.000 Viva, I think this clip is probably one of the more infuriating ones that I've.
00:37:08.000 Seen in the aftermath because there was this moment where we were all focused on the violent left, assassination culture, rooting out these networks, rooting out the left wing violence ecosystem, the funding networks, whatever.
00:37:25.000 And what he just said there is so damning.
00:37:29.000 And she should so be ashamed of herself, candidly, for what has happened and what she has managed to distract everybody with French Foreign Legions, Egyptian planes, Fort Huachuca, all this.
00:37:39.000 Craziness. 0.95
00:37:40.000 He's a patsy.
00:37:41.000 He's a patsy.
00:37:43.000 That clip right there is so hard to watch because there's truth in it.
00:37:47.000 Well, no, it's the old expression, you know, never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake.
00:37:52.000 And he acknowledges what Candace is doing.
00:37:55.000 It is, whether or not it's of bad faith, it's a mistake from the perspective of his political ideology.
00:38:03.000 Can you imagine also the idea that, God forbid, you should martyrize, colloquially speaking, a man who did nothing other than engage in peaceful rhetoric, a man who was.
00:38:13.000 Nicer than 99.9% of the people out there who engaged, who changed minds, and who was brutally murdered because of the manner in which he did it and his persuasive abilities while doing it.
00:38:25.000 That is literally a martyr beyond the religious sense.
00:38:31.000 And they're so happy now because he doesn't get to get martyrized because it's almost like the institution that he built is being demonized.
00:38:38.000 They no longer get to focus on what is political violence and what is assassination loving culture out there.
00:38:46.000 From the Luigi Mangione.
00:38:47.000 With Luigi, it's funny, they don't claim he's a patsy.
00:38:49.000 They just claim he was righteous to do what he did because big bad CEO of a big bad health insurance company.
00:38:56.000 She knows what she's doing.
00:38:58.000 If she doesn't know what she's doing, Hassan Piker's telling her what she's doing and he's loving it.
00:39:02.000 He also believes it's Tyler.
00:39:04.000 Nobody's going to go after Hassan Piker and call him a Fed slobber, but he loves the fact that what she's effectively done is diverted from where the probable culprit is.
00:39:13.000 And I say this and I've said it before and I'll say it again. 0.63
00:39:15.000 There could be Foreign elements involved in this.
00:39:18.000 And I do sincerely believe, although I appreciate I can't yet produce any evidence, that people were radicalizing Tyler Robinson online.
00:39:25.000 And I still ask the same question that I've asked in the beginning Has the FBI, Utah state investigators looked into, identified, and cleared each and every person who was involved in a discourse?
00:39:35.000 Viva, I still have those same questions.
00:39:36.000 Just to be clear, I still have those same questions.
00:39:38.000 Nudging is a real thing that happens online.
00:39:40.000 These foreign actors, whether it's Russia, Iran, the CCP, they go into these chats, they nudge vulnerable young people to do radical things.
00:39:49.000 It's a known, proven phenomenon.
00:39:51.000 And I still have those same questions.
00:39:53.000 And then I got attacked for saying I still have those questions because, oh, now I ask questions.
00:39:56.000 Yeah, I don't have questions about the evidence that they.
00:39:59.000 Submitted a trial or the preliminary hearing, rather.
00:40:02.000 I thought that was pretty compelling stuff.
00:40:04.000 I think a lot of people with half a brain think that was pretty compelling stuff.
00:40:07.000 And then she goes on to say there's zero, she has zero confidence that he is culpable for this crime.
00:40:13.000 Zero.
00:40:14.000 But then she says, hey, if I saw new stuff, then yeah, I could be convinced, which is basically a contradiction in and of itself.
00:40:21.000 I just want to end it here, Viva, by sort of the bigger picture.
00:40:26.000 We are in a fight for, I believe, like reality of truth.
00:40:32.000 Where do we go from here and how do we fix it?
00:40:34.000 Well, you're going to find out whose assessment of reality or assessment of the present proves to be more accurate over time.
00:40:42.000 You may not know it in the moment, but when I was taking a lot of flack for just asking the questions about the Pangwitch receipt, it's my biggest go to example.
00:40:51.000 Because they say, we have it.
00:40:53.000 The entire timeline's blown open.
00:40:55.000 You got Baron Coleman talking about how it's impossible.
00:40:58.000 Tyler Robinson's a patsy.
00:40:59.000 He could never have gotten from A to B.
00:41:00.000 I was like, all right, assume you want to believe that.
00:41:02.000 These are the questions you're going to have to ask.
00:41:03.000 How does the receipt confirm it was the individual?
00:41:06.000 But they want to move on.
00:41:08.000 What feeds their foregone conclusions, and it's basically just motivated reasoning.
00:41:13.000 The truth will come out at the end of the day.
00:41:15.000 Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant.
00:41:16.000 You will see who put forward untenable, unsubstantiated theory one after the other.
00:41:21.000 And you'll know, I guess, who to trust and who not to trust.
00:41:23.000 But at some point in time, how do you bring back a little bit of sanity?
00:41:27.000 It's top down and bottom up.
00:41:29.000 I mean, people have to understand that skepticism is one thing, but conspiracy psychosis is entirely another.
00:41:35.000 And you should never trust anybody, but that doesn't mean reflexively believing the exact opposite, because that's just as bad as blind trust.
00:41:43.000 Question everything, and it doesn't mean that everything that the feds are going to tell you is going to be a lie.
00:41:48.000 Candace comes out and says zero percent confidence that Tyler Robinson's the right person.
00:41:52.000 She's operating on a foregone conclusion that the text messages, Discord chats are all falsified.
00:41:58.000 Now, if it turns out to be falsified, well, then holy hell, we do have a problem.
00:42:02.000 Well, you're not, you got like 17 agencies involved in one of the biggest conspiracies ever, if that's the case.
00:42:08.000 But you got surveillance footage, you got family members, you got his gay lover, you've got DNA, you've got yeah, you got fingerprint, you've got. 0.54
00:42:16.000 Geolocate.
00:42:17.000 And so, I mean, you would have to, I mean, I don't trust the government to park a car, let alone draft a conspiracy this sweeping and expansive, and nobody even talk about it.
00:42:29.000 Maybe there might be like, you know, maybe all of those shreds of evidence can be, you know, disassembled at a trial.
00:42:34.000 But we're at the preliminary hearing stage.
00:42:36.000 We don't need to belabor that.
00:42:37.000 The point is also based on a lot of disinformation, misinformation.
00:42:40.000 When you have some of these analysts coming out and saying, well, they can't disprove it because the information wasn't communicated to them and that's false.
00:42:47.000 That they've had the phone records for since March, the March disclosure.
00:42:52.000 The whole thing is, people come to the conclusion that they didn't raise any of these issues at the preliminary hearing because they couldn't.
00:42:58.000 What they don't understand is they can't now challenge them because at the preliminary hearing, they didn't challenge them despite having the requisite potential evidence or contradictory evidence to do it.
00:43:09.000 But it's a good point.
00:43:12.000 It's motivated reasoning to the extent that people already have the conclusions to which they've come.
00:43:17.000 The more they dig in their heels and the more they, you know.
00:43:19.000 Praise and celebrate the people who have led them to those erroneous conclusions.
00:43:23.000 From a sheer ego perspective, the more they have to continue to believe it and then continue to talk.
00:43:27.000 By the way, Aviva, I got to wrap it up here because we got to get ready for hour two here.
00:43:31.000 But I just want to say, you know, there was a bit of a debate whether we should cover the debate.
00:43:36.000 And my whole thing is listen, this has become a big story.
00:43:39.000 There's no denying it.
00:43:40.000 And I actually think that, you know, a lot of people, I knew that she has a bigger following.
00:43:45.000 So it was going to be like she won, she won, he lost, he lost.
00:43:47.000 You know, if you just like took the general temperature of the room, I happen to think that that is going to age extremely well.
00:43:54.000 Because the things that this debate will age extremely well, because the things that she admitted to were just crazy.
00:44:00.000 Like, actually, legitimately, nothing.
00:44:03.000 It was all opinion.
00:44:03.000 It was all just feels.
00:44:05.000 There's zero evidence.
00:44:06.000 And I think, you know, go ahead.
00:44:08.000 I think it's just if you see those clips we aired, it's remarkable to then tell someone this woman has been talking basically exclusively on this topic for a year because she's so eager to back off from everything.
00:44:21.000 She's so eager to turn everything into that's just my opinion.
00:44:24.000 I actually, I've not been offering, I don't have any.
00:44:27.000 Any positive evidence?
00:44:29.000 What have you been talking about for 300 hours?
00:44:32.000 Yeah.
00:44:33.000 Viva Fry, we could continue on for forever.
00:44:36.000 We could.
00:44:36.000 There's so much to get to.
00:44:38.000 There's so many more clips we didn't play.
00:44:40.000 But I appreciate you being on Team Sanity.
00:44:42.000 And yeah, we'll talk to you again soon, man.
00:44:45.000 Absolutely.
00:44:46.000 Thank you very much.
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00:45:45.000 There was one other clip I actually really wanted to play for our purposes here, just to kind of wrap this up because it was just the whole premise of this debate was the Patsy thing, right?
00:45:56.000 So let's go ahead and see the contradictions here.
00:45:58.000 Again, this is from Milk Bar TV, who does great compilations of this stuff.
00:46:02.000 Twenty six.
00:46:03.000 Candace's belief that there's overwhelming evidence that Tyler Robinson was a patsy and didn't kill Charlie Kirk.
00:46:08.000 Why is it that we should go with this idea that it was a patsy?
00:46:11.000 I'm not saying that we should go with the idea that it was a patsy.
00:46:15.000 I am saying that there is.
00:46:16.000 Oh, I thought that was the whole defense, your whole claim.
00:46:19.000 No, Tyler Robinson, they're going to convict him, right?
00:46:21.000 They found their patsy.
00:46:22.000 They're going to make it work.
00:46:23.000 The alleged shooter, you think they're a patsy?
00:46:25.000 Of course, they're a patsy.
00:46:26.000 Patsy, which is what Tyler Robinson is.
00:46:28.000 See, which is what Tyler Robinson is.
00:46:30.000 See, which is what Tyler Robinson is.
00:46:35.000 All right.
00:46:35.000 It was just a good clip.
00:46:36.000 We had to play it.
00:46:38.000 So, contradictions up the yin yang.
00:46:40.000 We are joined now by Tyler Boyer, and Cliff Maloney is joining as we speak.
00:46:45.000 Tyler, you are the COO of Turning Point Action, and we have a big announcement to make today.
00:46:51.000 We are launching in earnest Commit 100.
00:46:55.000 And Commit 100 is a word we used a lot in 2024, an expression we used a lot in 2024.
00:47:01.000 But for those who don't remember it, why don't you.
00:47:04.000 Tell us what it is.
00:47:05.000 Yeah, so we're really excited today to be launching again for 2026 what we launched in 2024, which was our Commit 100 program.
00:47:13.000 Our Commit 100 program was committing volunteers to chase 100 ballots, which is really exciting because we have an application, the TP Action application.
00:47:26.000 So if you go to tpaction.comslash app, you can download the app and be prepared.
00:47:32.000 And then go to tpaction.comslash 100 today, and it's live to get signed up.
00:47:38.000 And our team will start the process of assigning essentially 100 votes to chase during this election.
00:47:47.000 How it works is we have basically our team that we're working together with Citizens Alliance, and that's Cliff Maloney.
00:47:55.000 Who we have, who is here with us.
00:47:57.000 We're excited.
00:47:58.000 He's the GOAT.
00:47:59.000 He's the GOAT vote chaser.
00:48:00.000 He's, if you see him online and their organization at Doors Win Wars.
00:48:07.000 And the idea is that the teams will be working in conjunction to support getting people to Arizona, Nevada, and New Hampshire.
00:48:18.000 And if you'd like to attend and help chase votes, and we did this with thousands and thousands of people in 2024, we'll give you a hotel room.
00:48:27.000 You can stay for at least a week at a time, is ideal.
00:48:32.000 But stay longer if you want.
00:48:34.000 Stay longer.
00:48:34.000 You can devote an entire month of your life to just chasing votes and then go back to your job, go back to your normal life.
00:48:41.000 That's right.
00:48:41.000 Yeah.
00:48:41.000 So we make this extraordinarily easy for you, and we're partnering with Cliff Maloney and Citizens Alliance.
00:48:48.000 So, welcome, Cliff.
00:48:49.000 I think Cliff's on.
00:48:49.000 Yeah.
00:48:50.000 Hey, Cliff.
00:48:50.000 Welcome.
00:48:51.000 Exciting day, guys.
00:48:52.000 Appreciate you having me.
00:48:53.000 Big launch.
00:48:54.000 Let's win this thing.
00:48:55.000 2026.
00:48:56.000 Excited for the results.
00:48:58.000 You know, Cliff, when you're talking, all I can hear is your call from 2024.
00:49:04.000 You know, we should pull up that clip because it's always fun with Cliff's here.
00:49:07.000 It's like the most oft played clip from 2024.
00:49:10.000 Tens of millions of people have heard Cliff's call.
00:49:12.000 Hundreds of millions.
00:49:13.000 Like an angel from heaven.
00:49:14.000 I think it's the most seen clip probably of that moment specifically.
00:49:18.000 That moment.
00:49:19.000 And that's where Charlie realized that President Trump had been.
00:49:22.000 Elected for a second time is a beautiful moment.
00:49:25.000 And so when you come on, Cliff, all I hear is like, you know, the call.
00:49:30.000 The call.
00:49:31.000 We got to like brand it.
00:49:32.000 I think it should be the call, like the call of 2024.
00:49:35.000 Well, can I say this, Andrew?
00:49:38.000 None of that, and Charlie said the same thing.
00:49:40.000 He said this sitting right here on the show that that moment loses all its luster if we don't win in 2026, if we don't carry on what's there.
00:49:50.000 So the exciting part of this is that.
00:49:53.000 I hope to hear Cliff's voice give that call again on election night because we're probably going to be doing the same thing.
00:49:58.000 Yeah, we're going to be streaming that night.
00:50:00.000 We're going to be streaming that night, but they're okay.
00:50:02.000 Let's just call the elephant out in the room here, Cliff.
00:50:04.000 So we're partnering, Turning Point Action is partnering with your organization, New Hampshire, Nevada, Arizona, the Red Wall, as we're calling it.
00:50:12.000 We're going to get thousands of volunteers.
00:50:14.000 Everybody can go to tpaction.comslash 100.
00:50:17.000 You get a free hotel room.
00:50:19.000 We assign you a list of names.
00:50:21.000 It's all on your phone.
00:50:22.000 You go knock on doors, you send text messages, you harass nicely for them to get their ballot in.
00:50:27.000 The elephant in the room, though, is we got some headwinds.
00:50:29.000 We call that polite nudging.
00:50:31.000 Polite nudging.
00:50:32.000 Yeah.
00:50:32.000 Okay.
00:50:33.000 We got some headwinds this year.
00:50:35.000 Okay.
00:50:35.000 Like the vibes have been mixed.
00:50:40.000 Let's just say that.
00:50:41.000 Okay.
00:50:42.000 How are we approaching this?
00:50:43.000 Is anything different?
00:50:44.000 What do we got to do to get us over the finish line?
00:50:47.000 We're trying to keep the House, keep the Senate.
00:50:49.000 Cliff Maloney.
00:50:50.000 Well, look, I always tell people that, you know, and I think all of us would agree this was Charlie's vision.
00:50:54.000 I mean, you guys taught me this.
00:50:56.000 Charlie taught me this, which is work backwards from the presidential.
00:50:59.000 Right.
00:50:59.000 So before we even talk about, hey, how much should we be involved in 2026?
00:51:04.000 How much should we go all in?
00:51:05.000 Is it even worth it?
00:51:06.000 If things look bad, right?
00:51:08.000 If the pessimists want to say, well, we can't hold the House and the Senate, you know, is going to be a battle.
00:51:13.000 My answer to that is it doesn't matter, right?
00:51:15.000 We have to build permanent infrastructure in 2026.
00:51:19.000 We have to compete in 2026 if we want to be competitive for the White House in 2028, which everybody agrees that's what we're focused on.
00:51:29.000 But in the meantime, what are we doing?
00:51:31.000 Look, we're never going to move the needle more than five points with any of our ground game efforts, with any of our door to door, with any of the Commit 100 programs.
00:51:39.000 And I don't mean that as a bad thing, right?
00:51:41.000 But like to think to yourself, hey, We're going to be the ones that can control.
00:51:46.000 No, look, we can't control a lot of things.
00:51:47.000 We can't control the messaging of a lot of these campaigns.
00:51:51.000 We can't control some of the outside forces of what the left puts up or what the actual message of the day is.
00:51:57.000 But what we can control is do we match the Democrats' tactics?
00:52:01.000 Do we go and fight fire with fire to do what we're doing?
00:52:06.000 Turning Point, Citizens Alliance, we're one of the only two groups and a couple other partners that understand the value of putting boots on the ground, paid staff.
00:52:16.000 Volunteers, everyone out there, book your vacation now.
00:52:20.000 Come to Nevada, come to Arizona, come to New Hampshire, tpaction.com/slash 100.
00:52:26.000 This is what it's about: not coming up with excuses or reasons to not get involved.
00:52:31.000 It is going to be a battle for the midterms, but that's why we're operating this plan.
00:52:35.000 That's why we're launching Commit 100 again today, and we're honored to be a part of it.
00:52:40.000 Yeah, and the exciting part about this is that if you're on the East Coast, you have last election cycle, we only did this in Arizona and Wisconsin for the most part, and we had a few other states that we did it.
00:52:51.000 A little bit of Nevada, a little bit of Michigan as well.
00:52:54.000 But on the East Coast, we now have New Hampshire.
00:52:56.000 So if you're on the East Coast, if you're in the Northeast, there's a lot of New Yorkers, a lot of New Englanders who have said, Hey, I'd like to.
00:53:05.000 New Hampshire's it.
00:53:06.000 We got a place for you.
00:53:08.000 We're excited to have you there.
00:53:10.000 I'm going to tell you, and once we get out of break here, the polls are tightening up.
00:53:15.000 This is the worst polling era of every election cycle.
00:53:19.000 It's usually early August.
00:53:22.000 And Polling is coming back right now that's looking very good for Republicans, especially in these three states.
00:53:30.000 And so, everyone, but we need everyone, just like Cliff said, to show up and to do what the Democrats are going to do, which we know they're going to chase every vote that they possibly can.
00:53:39.000 We have to do the same.
00:53:40.000 Yeah.
00:53:40.000 Well, in New Hampshire, for people that aren't aware, has more registered Republicans than Democrats.
00:53:46.000 It's the Indy vote, right, in the middle that tends to get, you know, become, you know, I think the defining vote in that state.
00:53:53.000 But when you have so many Republicans that aren't just showing up in New Hampshire, the return on investment, the return on man hours and volunteers is huge.
00:54:02.000 Huge.
00:54:03.000 Huge.
00:54:03.000 And that's a state that has a conservative legislature, but tends to send Democrats to Washington.
00:54:07.000 So we got to fix that.
00:54:09.000 That's why we're focusing there.
00:54:13.000 Fox News decides Donald Trump is president of the United States.
00:54:19.000 We've got our Republic back, folks.
00:54:23.000 Let's go.
00:54:25.000 There it is.
00:54:30.000 Everybody should remember this moment.
00:54:32.000 Look, I'm going to echo Charlie from earlier.
00:54:35.000 Remember where you were when this happened.
00:54:37.000 Remember where you were when you realized that the Uniparty and all of these, you know, just the establishment, you said it's time to actually participate.
00:54:47.000 And look what you guys have done.
00:54:49.000 And if anyone deserves to get tears in his eyes, it's Charlie.
00:54:54.000 I think we all agree.
00:54:55.000 I think Erico is just one of the onions or something in the break room.
00:54:58.000 No one has worked harder than Charlie for this.
00:55:00.000 We gotta hear some words here from you, Charlie.
00:55:03.000 You put all this together, my man.
00:55:04.000 Let's hear it.
00:55:05.000 I am just humbled by God.
00:55:08.000 It's all God.
00:55:10.000 It's all God.
00:55:11.000 God alone.
00:55:13.000 God alone.
00:55:16.000 Decision desk has it.
00:55:18.000 Pennsylvania.
00:55:19.000 It's done.
00:55:22.000 It's done.
00:55:27.000 Man.
00:55:28.000 It felt so good.
00:55:29.000 Charlie was so good about keeping the whole movement on mission, being focused, laser focused on winning.
00:55:37.000 And we want to make sure we get back there, we stay on track.
00:55:39.000 Blake, you have an email you want to read.
00:55:41.000 Oh, yeah.
00:55:41.000 I just, people get so fired up about this.
00:55:43.000 We got an email from Jennifer who just.
00:55:45.000 She heard our list of states.
00:55:46.000 Please add Wisconsin to this list.
00:55:48.000 Please, it's ugly here and we need to do the same.
00:55:52.000 But I know we hear that a lot.
00:55:53.000 Everyone, a big anthem is people would love to have this in every state.
00:55:57.000 And I think we'd love to have it in every state.
00:55:59.000 But it shows how intense the work is.
00:56:02.000 We could promise every state and it would be half baked and lame and not really do the work.
00:56:08.000 And what we're committed to is a smaller number of states, but we're doing the full project, the full intensity, the full enchilada.
00:56:14.000 Yeah.
00:56:14.000 I mean, so we have an office in Wisconsin.
00:56:17.000 So we bring in Wisconsin.
00:56:18.000 Tom Tiffany's running.
00:56:20.000 Last week, we got the bad news that Francesca Hong was not who we're going up against in that state.
00:56:27.000 That's no reason to be less bullish about Tom Tiffany.
00:56:31.000 Tom Tiffany's great, he's a great candidate.
00:56:34.000 There's some great organizations that are working really hard in Wisconsin.
00:56:37.000 And I would label that kind of like our fourth place state.
00:56:41.000 We're focused on building the red wall because Wisconsin's part of the blue wall.
00:56:45.000 And we know that the left is investing so heavily into that state, they need that state.
00:56:49.000 They have no choice but to win that state.
00:56:52.000 And so, part of the strategy that we're employing with Arizona, Nevada, and New Hampshire is that you have to build the red wall to compete with the blue wall that they need.
00:57:02.000 Because if you are able to fracture, then even if they win that entire wall, then we still can win.
00:57:08.000 Yeah.
00:57:08.000 You're creating a scenario where we hold a national presidential election in 28.
00:57:14.000 And explain that to Tyler and Cliff how muscle memory, getting New Hampshire activated, Nevada activated, and Arizona activated for the long term is so important.
00:57:24.000 Yeah.
00:57:25.000 Yeah, so the first thing is that 2028, again, we're looking at the current map.
00:57:30.000 But remember, redistricting will happen for 2032.
00:57:33.000 And so the map actually becomes even more positive for Republicans in most red states, which makes it even more reason why the left will have to maintain basically their entire map that they were winning with for about 20 years.
00:57:50.000 So, Nevada and New Hampshire, part of their strategy is they kind of have to try to win Arizona.
00:57:57.000 Or other states like Georgia, North Carolina, things like that, right?
00:58:01.000 Which they're going to have to do.
00:58:03.000 So, us winning that is statistically important for us.
00:58:06.000 But then, states like Nevada and New Hampshire, they were counting on winning.
00:58:10.000 They were counting on those becoming bluer, and that hasn't happened.
00:58:14.000 They've actually, in many ways, become redder, where there's a Republican voter registration advantage, or there have been advantages over the last few years.
00:58:22.000 We just took the advantage, right?
00:58:24.000 It kind of flips back and forth a little bit, but it's really close.
00:58:27.000 And the point is that.
00:58:29.000 Between all three of those states, you have a dramatic voter registration advantage with Republicans. 0.71
00:58:34.000 That's a good sign, if anything.
00:58:36.000 Of course, there's still independence that you have to worry about and make sure that you have conservative independence.
00:58:41.000 You have to talk to them.
00:58:43.000 But yeah, that's the good starting point.
00:58:44.000 All right, Cliff.
00:58:46.000 So we're partnering with Citizens Alliance on Commit 100.
00:58:50.000 One more time on the URL it's tpaction.comslash 100.
00:58:53.000 Tpaction.comslash 100.
00:58:56.000 Give us our marching orders, Cliff.
00:58:58.000 You had the great call.
00:58:59.000 Just serenade us with your vocals here, Cliff.
00:59:03.000 By the way, Cliff is a former theater kid.
00:59:07.000 I give you the former.
00:59:07.000 As we confirmed.
00:59:08.000 We've confirmed this.
00:59:09.000 We've seen the performance.
00:59:11.000 I'm not making this up.
00:59:12.000 The serenading.
00:59:12.000 This is real.
00:59:13.000 Look, I appreciate that.
00:59:14.000 This is the only show I feel comfortable or forced to go into my theater days, which I've tried to delete from my past in the internet.
00:59:22.000 Look, I think I want to back up Tyler here.
00:59:25.000 The cool thing about working with Turning Point and the vision here if we are to make all three of these states, Arizona, Nevada, and New Hampshire, red states, it's not just that we become extremely competitive, it's that the left cannot win a national election again in our lifetime.
00:59:43.000 Right.
00:59:43.000 Let me say it one more time.
00:59:44.000 If we make all three of these states, Arizona, Nevada, and New Hampshire, red states, where we continuously win and trend red, the left is going to have to change their entire playbook.
00:59:55.000 So, yes, turning points involved in states like Wisconsin, Citizens Alliance, we're still doubling down on states like Pennsylvania.
01:00:02.000 But the reason that we're going all in on these three states is because it's going to force them to be uncomfortable.
01:00:08.000 It's going to force them to have to move resources.
01:00:10.000 So, anybody out there that is thinking, hey, listen, I want to block the communists, I want to stop the socialists.
01:00:16.000 This DSA takeover of the Democrats.
01:00:19.000 How do we stop it from infiltrating across the country?
01:00:22.000 TPAction.comslash 100.
01:00:25.000 Book a week.
01:00:26.000 Give us a week in October.
01:00:27.000 Give us a week leading up to the election.
01:00:29.000 Come out, get 100 voters to commit and actually make an impact on the election.
01:00:34.000 I want to make one point to what Blake said about resource allocation and other people saying, hey, why aren't we in these states?
01:00:41.000 I just did Dr. Drew's show a couple weeks ago and he was grilling me.
01:00:44.000 How do we flip California?
01:00:45.000 Look, we'd all love to flip some of these deep blue states.
01:00:49.000 But at the end of the day, if you have a major organization and you have a decision to make on where you put resources, it is extremely important to understand what are your capabilities, what are your tactics for groups like Turning Point and Citizens Alliance.
01:01:02.000 It's ground game, right?
01:01:04.000 We know how to grow out and we know how to match the Democrats at knocking on doors and making an impact that way.
01:01:10.000 Nevada, Arizona, New Hampshire are the keys to that success based on the rules, based on the Democrat resources, and based on redistricting, like Tyler said.
01:01:20.000 So, this whole game plan is coming together, and I really am excited.
01:01:23.000 So, folks out there, get involved.
01:01:25.000 I don't care what state you're in, we need your help on the ground.
01:01:28.000 So, join us in one of those states.
01:01:30.000 Be a part of something, right?
01:01:31.000 This is not just coming out.
01:01:32.000 You're not going to be isolated.
01:01:34.000 We're going to put you up in a hotel.
01:01:35.000 You're going to be part of a community, and you're going to be part of helping us to push back, not just in 2026, but to be the reason we deliver the White House in November of 2028.
01:01:47.000 Yeah, amen.
01:01:47.000 Be a part of something bigger than yourselves.
01:01:49.000 Do not give in to the doomers. 0.82
01:01:51.000 No black pilling allowed here.
01:01:52.000 We're happy warriors.
01:01:54.000 We do it in the way Charlie taught all of us to do it, and that is to put one foot in front of the other, build something.
01:01:59.000 Tearing down things is hard or is easy.
01:02:01.000 Complaining is easy.
01:02:02.000 Kvetching is easy.
01:02:04.000 Why don't you be a part of building something like a red wall and being a part of a community that contributes to saving the country?
01:02:10.000 That's what we have to get back to.
01:02:11.000 Tyler, final words.
01:02:12.000 Yeah, tpaction.com slash 100.
01:02:14.000 Tpaction.com slash 100.
01:02:16.000 Plan your vacation now.
01:02:17.000 Come out to Arizona.
01:02:18.000 Join us in Arizona, Nevada, or New Hampshire.
01:02:22.000 Arizona.
01:02:22.000 We love you in Arizona.
01:02:24.000 Polls are looking good.
01:02:25.000 Get out here.
01:02:26.000 Tpaction.com slash 100.
01:02:27.000 Mr. Arizona boy.
01:02:28.000 Can't help himself.
01:02:29.000 By the way, we've got hundreds of staff in all these states too, so you're plugging into that as well.
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01:04:02.000 Alex Marlowe, one of our faves, host of the Alex Marlowe Show, editor in chief of Breitbart.
01:04:08.000 Alex, how are we doing today?
01:04:09.000 Good to see you, my friend.
01:04:10.000 I'm doing great.
01:04:10.000 Great to see you guys.
01:04:12.000 Blake, nice to see you.
01:04:13.000 Andrew, always a pleasure.
01:04:14.000 So I woke up.
01:04:15.000 So I took the weekend off, right?
01:04:17.000 I promised my wife I was going to.
01:04:20.000 He looked at sheep.
01:04:21.000 He looked at the bighorn.
01:04:22.000 I saw a bighorn sheep, big proud guy, big horns, and some of his hair.
01:04:26.000 Right to purchase?
01:04:27.000 You're in the market?
01:04:28.000 No, it was like it came up to this house I was staying at.
01:04:31.000 It was amazing.
01:04:32.000 Like it just came up right to the house.
01:04:34.000 I was like, there's a bighorn sheep right out the window.
01:04:37.000 You know, I live in a part of the world where they actually release, I live on the outside.
01:04:42.000 Of town, literally two blocks over, and it's 18 miles of desertous mountain range.
01:04:47.000 And we actually have goats who are in the neighborhood.
01:04:50.000 There's hundreds and hundreds of them that actually eat the brush so that the whole neighborhood doesn't burn down.
01:04:56.000 And they're always there.
01:04:57.000 And it's just, it's such a delight to see them with the gym.
01:04:59.000 Yeah, and then they poop all over the place.
01:05:01.000 We could see that.
01:05:02.000 I think you call it scat, right?
01:05:04.000 They could see it all over the property.
01:05:05.000 We're like, man, there's some hooved animals around here.
01:05:08.000 And we saw them anyway.
01:05:09.000 So I want to get into this because, Alex, I woke up.
01:05:12.000 This morning, and I was like, oh, wait, JD Vance is a communist or something, big, big, big fat socialist.
01:05:18.000 And so I dug into this, and it's nothing at all like, and I do want to say there is an op, and it's all about 2028.
01:05:25.000 We know this.
01:05:26.000 Everything is a proxy war for 2028.
01:05:29.000 Who's going to be the nominee?
01:05:30.000 And the people that don't like JD, they just keep coming up with new stuff.
01:05:33.000 So this was actually a 2023 clip from 2023.
01:05:36.000 It's three years old.
01:05:38.000 We'll play the clip and explain it on the other side.
01:05:40.000 JD Vance on the dollar, SOT2.
01:05:42.000 I'm, this is like maybe super heterodox.
01:05:47.000 I am not sure that I think the reserve currency is actually good for the United States of America.
01:05:51.000 I think there is a good argument that reserve currency status is akin to coal in Appalachia.
01:05:57.000 It's a resource curse, right?
01:05:58.000 It allows your consumers to consume very cheaply, right?
01:06:03.000 That's been the story of the American economy for the last 15 or so years.
01:06:06.000 Even before that, we can just borrow basically in an unlimited way because we have the reserve currency.
01:06:13.000 All right, so that clip gets surfaced again.
01:06:16.000 In the break, Alex, I was talking about it with Blake, and he didn't even know that it was a three year old clip.
01:06:20.000 He just assumed it was from like yesterday.
01:06:22.000 Yeah, I figured this was, oh, he was speaking at an event, and I was like, oh, I'm not sure why he would be saying that.
01:06:26.000 I didn't, they dug up a three year old clip to complain about this.
01:06:29.000 Yes.
01:06:30.000 So this is actually, turns out, Alex, a very sort of obscure economics talk because JD is like, you know, pretty smart, and he likes studying things like economics.
01:06:41.000 And the resource curse is this it is, it's also called the paradox of plenty.
01:06:48.000 So, this is a very, again, obscure economics talk.
01:06:50.000 Okay.
01:06:51.000 It's the observation that countries richly endowed with natural resources, especially non renewable ones like oil, natural gas, and minerals, often experience slower economic growth, weaker development outcomes, higher inequality, more corruption, et cetera, because they are reliant overly so on a strategic advantage.
01:07:09.000 Right now, we were talking in the break again.
01:07:11.000 You could make the same argument about the South during the Civil War.
01:07:14.000 They were reliant on slave labor and they didn't want to get rid of that, but it actually resulted in less.
01:07:21.000 Favorable outcomes economically for them.
01:07:23.000 And when it came to war with the North, it was more industrialized, had greater advantages, right?
01:07:27.000 So this is something, it's obscure.
01:07:28.000 And nowhere in this does he say, Alex, that he wants to get rid of it.
01:07:32.000 He's just pointing out the downsides because nobody ever talks about the downsides.
01:07:36.000 Your reaction to this clip?
01:07:37.000 Yeah.
01:07:37.000 First of all, did it originate with this Phil Magnus character online who claims to be an economic historian?
01:07:44.000 Because that was where I saw it.
01:07:46.000 Yeah, I saw James Lindsay post it.
01:07:47.000 That's who I saw.
01:07:48.000 Okay.
01:07:49.000 So just that adds to the conversation, though.
01:07:52.000 Personally, I've always liked James, but the, I don't know who's got a hold of his Twitter account sometimes in recent months.
01:07:59.000 The point is, I text him directly and tell him the same, just to be fair.
01:08:02.000 Yeah, it's like, who's running it?
01:08:03.000 James, stop, stop, pull the keyboard away, please, sometimes, please.
01:08:07.000 No, but so this is the pointer.
01:08:08.000 I will talk economics, and we have a great economic newsletter, Breitbart, that I contribute to with John Carney called the Breitbart Business Digest.
01:08:14.000 Everyone should check that out. 0.99
01:08:16.000 But my expertise starts with media, and there's obviously an op like we can, with this guy, obviously, he's a big jerk who hates fans. 0.99
01:08:22.000 And so that's what he's doing. 0.96
01:08:23.000 And you should see that in that vein that this is being elevated.
01:08:27.000 Specifically, because despite the efforts to try to make Vance the villain of the Iran war, that's not working.
01:08:34.000 All the polls are suggesting that Vance is still by far the frontrunner for 2028.
01:08:38.000 And then people try to elevate Marco, and I love Marco.
01:08:41.000 I think Marco would be and hopefully will be an amazing president one day.
01:08:44.000 But Marco's basically already endorsed Vance.
01:08:46.000 So it is all about stopping Vance from being president.
01:08:49.000 And that always is deeply off putting to me because Vance is a super thoughtful person, even when you disagree with him, which is one of the things I love about him and one of the reasons why I've been a supporter of his since before he actually entered politics.
01:09:01.000 Is because of this, because he's not a shoot from the hip guy.
01:09:04.000 He's a guy who's a thinker who tries to think through this stuff.
01:09:08.000 But I think if I'm trying to interpret Vance, and I don't know why he'd have to respond to this stuff, but if he chooses to, he's concerned that us having no industrial base, having no manufacturing base, is a massive concern for the country when it comes to political costs, when it comes to national security, when it comes to Americans not having an economy that is stable.
01:09:30.000 And it just does encourage people to live beyond means and kind of inverts capital flows.
01:09:35.000 There's so many objections that I think are kind of reasonable to this position.
01:09:39.000 I would love to hear Vance's full take, but he's a guy who's always thinking about middle America.
01:09:43.000 He's always thinking about a peace through strength approach and having a robust manufacturing base.
01:09:47.000 And that's probably where this comes from.
01:09:49.000 But again, we're plucking things out of context to politically assassinate a guy.
01:09:53.000 Yeah.
01:09:53.000 And another thing, Charlie was a fan of the Chris Caldwell book, Age of Entitlement.
01:09:59.000 And a big theme of that is that America, because we could borrow so much money, we've avoided fixing.
01:10:07.000 Obvious problems far longer than other countries could get away with.
01:10:10.000 So that we borrowed a ton so we could have massive entitlement state and massive military that can invade every country.
01:10:17.000 And we've done that 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, up to the present.
01:10:22.000 And we might have had to actually fix a lot of these problems in the 80s or 90s.
01:10:26.000 It would have been painful.
01:10:28.000 We would have felt poorer while we did it, but we would have been getting them solved then.
01:10:32.000 Instead, yes, we've been very rich.
01:10:36.000 We've lived large, but it means.
01:10:38.000 The pain when we have to confront possibly losing reserve currency status, having to confront a debt crisis, will be a lot greater.
01:10:46.000 It could be a very great, it could be cataclysmic in theory.
01:10:48.000 Yeah, and I think that's such a good point.
01:10:50.000 We have not been forced to take our medicine earlier, belt tighten, deal with some of the entitlement issues that are exploding the federal deficit year after year after year.
01:11:00.000 And by the way, you know, a lot of people, Trump has, you know, been in favor of a weak dollar.
01:11:06.000 Why?
01:11:07.000 Because it increases exports, because it makes those exports relatively cheaper than they would be under a strong dollar.
01:11:13.000 And so JD's talking about this concept of, you know, there's upsides to having a reserve currency.
01:11:18.000 You can borrow, you can issue, you know, debt.
01:11:21.000 And people will buy it up, and that gives you flexibility.
01:11:25.000 It gives you ability to sort of run these deficits.
01:11:27.000 But is that a really good thing?
01:11:29.000 Does it hollow out our industrial core?
01:11:32.000 And what's ironic about this, too, Alex, without getting into wonky and the economics of it all, is that the dollar has lost 95% of its value since we became the reserve currency.
01:11:42.000 So, you know, I think people intuitively say, oh, I want a strong dollar because it makes me feel like America's strong or something.
01:11:51.000 But actually, president after president has pursued a weak dollar.
01:11:54.000 Posture to encourage exports.
01:11:56.000 We have this clip from President Trump here 34.
01:12:00.000 If it's ready, we should be ready.
01:12:03.000 Yep, loaded 34.
01:12:06.000 Why is the dollar falling so much?
01:12:11.000 And are you concerned about that?
01:12:13.000 Well, you know, I'm a person that likes a strong dollar, but a weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money.
01:12:17.000 Hate to tell you.
01:12:19.000 It's funny, he says that you might not understand why that is.
01:12:22.000 It's, for example, China.
01:12:24.000 It used to be the complaint forever that China intentionally kept their currency's value low.
01:12:28.000 Because when they say weak dollar, lower value dollar, what that effectively means is anyone can buy stuff from America for cheaper.
01:12:37.000 And so that's why China would keep it cheap.
01:12:39.000 They wanted to be this huge exporter. 0.92
01:12:41.000 So exporting everyone.
01:12:42.000 And it actually made Chinese have a harder time buying stuff from abroad.
01:12:46.000 But China said, we want that.
01:12:48.000 We want stuff made in China sent abroad rather than the other way around.
01:12:52.000 And we're seeing the consequences of that. 0.90
01:12:54.000 Yeah.
01:12:54.000 I just want to say this is so consistent with JD's whole ethos, which is that he's not rooting for Wall Street and people who get.
01:13:01.000 Cheap stuff from China to be the winners.
01:13:04.000 He wants the American factory workers, people in manufacturing towns to be the winners.
01:13:08.000 And you got to look at these things.
01:13:09.000 If we're a country that makes things, then his argument makes a lot of sense.
01:13:13.000 If we're just an economy and not a people and a homeland and a heritage, then his argument doesn't make sense.
01:13:18.000 So a lot of people are actually showing their own ignorance if they're trying to just cherry pick attacks on an out of context clip from years ago on this.
01:13:26.000 And it says more about the people sharing it because he's got a lot of, I think, really relevant things to say that are totally coherent here.
01:13:33.000 I totally agree.
01:13:34.000 And by the way, it's like, you know, I see a lot of these laissez faire guys, you know, get the government out of the way.
01:13:39.000 And it's like, okay, I get it.
01:13:41.000 But there is a role for government.
01:13:43.000 We learned this from Teddy Roosevelt, who went trust busting. 0.95
01:13:46.000 We learned this from immigration, right?
01:13:49.000 Businesses, laissez faire guys, would love mass immigration for cheap labor, but we rejected that.
01:13:54.000 There are limitations, there are incentives that a government could and should probably put in place to incentivize capital flows in the right directions, long term investments in the country.
01:14:04.000 I think that's what, you know, JD is getting at here, and I think it's totally fair and valid question to ask.
01:14:11.000 All right, Alex, top of Breitbart right now, it's got like almost a thousand comments.
01:14:18.000 Your Breitbart audience is eating it up.
01:14:20.000 Reddit banned Sophie Cunningham's name from WNBA forum as men and women's sports controversy rages.
01:14:28.000 Now, I haven't gotten you on any of this WNBA stuff, so I mean, there's the starting point, it's like, can men play in women's sports?
01:14:37.000 Sophie Cunningham says no, then she gets. 0.99
01:14:39.000 Smacked in the face, and she's trying to defend Caitlin Clark.
01:14:42.000 And then you got Royce White and Ennis Cantor Freedom declaring themselves eligible for the WNBA draft. 1.00
01:14:48.000 You got coaches defending the Dijon A mayonnaise mustard gal that like smacks her saying, hey, it was just a hard fat. 0.71
01:14:55.000 Like there is so much going on in the WNBA.
01:14:59.000 It's very hard to keep track.
01:15:01.000 I want your whole take.
01:15:02.000 What is going on here, Alex Marlowe?
01:15:04.000 Yeah, and none of it has to do with people playing well in basketball, which is just very true.
01:15:10.000 And important point that keeps making.
01:15:11.000 I finally played a second of actual basketball on my show, which has become the number one show.
01:15:17.000 WNBA podcast, I think, in the entire internet, the Alex Marlowe Show.
01:15:20.000 I cover it every single day.
01:15:21.000 By the way, I apologize for my lighting.
01:15:23.000 The power went out.
01:15:23.000 So I am holding one light up in the air.
01:15:26.000 Good for you.
01:15:27.000 So you guys can see me.
01:15:28.000 Live TV.
01:15:29.000 You know?
01:15:29.000 But it's the magic of it.
01:15:31.000 I can't get down to turn the power back on.
01:15:33.000 But look, I will tell you a couple important things.
01:15:36.000 I played one second. 1.00
01:15:37.000 It was Angel Reese blowing a layup to win the game, which was just delish. 0.98
01:15:40.000 I really enjoyed that.
01:15:41.000 But you gentlemen.
01:15:42.000 She's probably one of the best players, apparently, in the NBA.
01:15:44.000 She's the best player, I think, by far. 0.67
01:15:45.000 Like, I think she's by far.
01:15:46.000 Did she miss the player?
01:15:47.000 No, no, no.
01:15:48.000 I'm sorry. 1.00
01:15:48.000 There's so many Maja or something or other. 1.00
01:15:50.000 But I confuse her with the Dijonais.
01:15:52.000 Like, who named your kid after mixing mayonnaise and mustard, by the way?
01:15:55.000 It's just, didn't we read Freakonomics like 30 years ago?
01:15:58.000 And like, you're not supposed to name your kid Dijonais.
01:16:00.000 Like, it doesn't work.
01:16:01.000 It's not good for those job prospects unless you're going to the WNBA.
01:16:04.000 It sounds like you agree with me, Alex.
01:16:07.000 I took the bold step last week.
01:16:08.000 I am pro WNBA, not because I like watching women's basketball. 0.85
01:16:12.000 In fact, I don't really like basketball at all. 0.99
01:16:14.000 I think it's kind of the worst of our major sports.
01:16:17.000 Long story.
01:16:18.000 But I am very pro the WNBA deciding, wait. 0.98
01:16:22.000 Let's just lean into the pro wrestling angle.
01:16:24.000 This is a league with constant drama.
01:16:27.000 We have our coaches dumping on their own players.
01:16:30.000 Forget beefing with rival players, their own players.
01:16:32.000 We have the players.
01:16:34.000 It's like a work of fiction where you can just have players blatantly, egregiously fouling people, and the refs are like, didn't see nothing.
01:16:41.000 It's like something you'd see in a movie. 0.94
01:16:43.000 You have creepy race angles, you have the trans angle. 0.95
01:16:47.000 I'm sure there's just going to be a political angle. 1.00
01:16:50.000 There's endless angle.
01:16:52.000 Upon angle to this.
01:16:53.000 Are you saying that Vince McMahon is running the WNBA right now and we don't know?
01:16:57.000 So, this is brilliant because I've been calling it reality TV because it does feel like no one cares about what's real.
01:17:04.000 Just you get invited to the garden party and then everyone fights at the garden party and pokes their fingers in each other's eyes and yells about it.
01:17:10.000 And that's what's discussed.
01:17:11.000 But this is better because you really do see there's the heel character, you know, there's all the cap fighting, there's the unfair referees where you step on one player's neck, it's not a foul.
01:17:20.000 And then, you know, you tap someone on the shoulder and then you get thrown out of the game depending on the skin color of whoever's getting fouled.
01:17:25.000 But I just want to say something really important because I got to call out you gentlemen for doing one of the most important interviews of the year with Roischa White.
01:17:34.000 I had forgotten that black trans lives matter.
01:17:37.000 And now I'm reminded that black trans lives matter.
01:17:41.000 And I had not had that thought in a while.
01:17:44.000 And you guys brought that back up to me.
01:17:46.000 And thank you.
01:17:47.000 I had to check my privilege after that interview.
01:17:50.000 Alex, we're all getting better.
01:17:52.000 We're all evolving.
01:17:55.000 And we learn something new every day.
01:17:57.000 And when we are wrong, It's incumbent on us to make that right and to own it.
01:18:04.000 And Royce showed me the way.
01:18:07.000 So, one thing that I've been calling for, and I was not as clever about marketing as Clay Travis has been, which is very gifted in this thing.
01:18:15.000 So, but I've been saying for over a year what we need to do is one school, maybe like a low level Division I school, needs to step up and recruit all men for the girls' basketball team.
01:18:25.000 And then they're going to win 150 to two every game, they're going to win by 100 points.
01:18:30.000 Just go complete maximalist on this.
01:18:32.000 See how much they could rack up the score.
01:18:34.000 And then that'll end all this.
01:18:35.000 All this will be over. 0.91
01:18:36.000 The trans moment we've been obsessed with in this country will end that day that the men's team defeats the women in the championships after a 35 0 season, 150 2. 0.97
01:18:47.000 Once that happens, then we can move on from this. 0.97
01:18:50.000 And it's not going to happen.
01:18:51.000 No one's going to do that. 1.00
01:18:52.000 So maybe we need to get a coach trolling in there, get buying up a WNBA team, putting only men on there. 1.00
01:18:59.000 So maybe that's the move.
01:19:00.000 I'm genuinely sad that the Olympics wised up about this before.
01:19:04.000 I was kind of hoping we'd get one of those authoritarian regimes like North Korea just shows up with.
01:19:10.000 Yeah, a team of 12, 100% obvious dudes. 0.97
01:19:13.000 They've identified as women. 1.00
01:19:15.000 Libs are powerless to defend against it, and they absolutely dominate the Olympics. 1.00
01:19:19.000 That would have helped, but we fell short.
01:19:21.000 We didn't quite get that level of insanity in time.
01:19:23.000 Well, but this story that's up on Breitbart right now is like legitimately wild.
01:19:28.000 So the WNBA subreddit has banned the name of Indiana Fever Guard Sophie Cunningham from its forum.
01:19:37.000 So in the WNBA subredit, you can no longer type out the word Sophie Cunningham or the name Sophie Cunningham.
01:19:44.000 The forum's moderators will not allow users to use the word Cunningham, Sophie, Scunningham, Sophie, or Sophie, every possible variation.
01:19:54.000 Because they're preventing users from posting about the 30 year old player even on her birthday, Alex, because apparently it's causing too much controversy and debate about transgender athletes in female sports.
01:20:06.000 It's remarkable.
01:20:07.000 She's the most important athlete in the country right now for reasons like this because she's getting all of the people just to out themselves. 0.94
01:20:16.000 As anti free speech and embarrass themselves.
01:20:19.000 So, I also do have an update to this story that you're going to hear first on the show because you've been working on this is that apparently the moderators are backpedaling now, but they're not going to let people post unless they have good standing in the community.
01:20:28.000 So, you just can't come over there and write about Sophie Cunningham because you're inspired by her.
01:20:33.000 So, they're just trying to control speech because woke is on the run.
01:20:36.000 They're doing terribly right now.
01:20:37.000 They're not dead, but they're definitely doing terribly.
01:20:39.000 This is the latest example.
01:20:42.000 I think everybody.
01:20:43.000 So, do they sell male versions of the Indiana Fever jersey?
01:20:48.000 I will buy.
01:20:49.000 A bunch of Cunningham jerseys.
01:20:51.000 I literally, I literally, I gotta come out next week.
01:20:53.000 We all gotta wear the jerseys.
01:20:55.000 I'm now gonna go look this up.
01:20:56.000 You too can.
01:20:57.000 I'm gonna look this up.
01:20:58.000 If I can buy an Indiana Fever Sophie Cunningham jersey, I'm doing it. 0.98
01:21:02.000 I'm not gonna wear the female version though. 1.00
01:21:04.000 I need a dude's. 1.00
01:21:05.000 Are basketball jerseys even really that different by sex?
01:21:09.000 I don't know.
01:21:10.000 These are questions beyond my knowledge.
01:21:12.000 Alex Marlowe, editor in chief of Breitbart, hosts the Alex Marlowe show.
01:21:16.000 Thank you, my friend.
01:21:17.000 Good to see you.
01:21:17.000 Thanks, guys.
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