The Charlie Kirk Show - March 16, 2023


The Theft of Childhood with Karol Markowicz and Jobob


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Carol Markowitz talks about the stolen innocence of our youth, and then Joe Bob joins us to reflect on the frontline vandalism at UC-Davis. The Charlie Kirk Show is hosted by Charlie Kirk and produced by Andrew Dunn.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
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00:00:02.000 Carol Markowitz talking about the stolen innocence of our youth.
00:00:06.000 And then Joe Bob joins us to reflect on the frontline vandalism at University of California, Davis.
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00:01:13.000 An incredibly important subject we're going to explore here.
00:01:18.000 And we've talked and we've said this for a while: that the left aims to steal the youth, to rob the innocence of our children. 0.76
00:01:28.000 That's exactly the name of a new national bestseller, Stolen Youth by Carol Markowitz and Bethany Mandel: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation. 0.64
00:01:39.000 And Carol joins us now. 0.82
00:01:41.000 Carol, welcome to the program.
00:01:42.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:01:43.000 Thank you so much for having me.
00:01:45.000 Tell us about the book and how are our children's youth being stolen?
00:01:51.000 The book is an exploration of the way the woke culture has taken over all of our institutions, all of our schools, organizations, licensing organizations, basically every facet of society, and is now aiming all of their power at children to get them indoctrinated and to separate the family.
00:02:14.000 In the book, we open with a history chapter on totalitarian societies and the way that this is not new.
00:02:20.000 This is, you know, we have new words for it and we have new ideas that they're trying to push.
00:02:25.000 But the idea of separating the child from his parents and getting that child indoctrinated into whatever idea you want them to have, that's a really old tale.
00:02:35.000 And we're seeing it happening in America today.
00:02:38.000 Yeah.
00:02:38.000 And so what is the agenda by these people?
00:02:41.000 Are they knowingly trying to corrupt the youth?
00:02:44.000 Are they intentionally trying to steal their innocence?
00:02:47.000 What is the guys that they're doing this under?
00:02:49.000 You know, before I started writing this book, I probably would have said, like, no, they're not doing it on purpose.
00:02:55.000 They have their ideas about what makes the world better.
00:02:58.000 And they just, you know, they want to just bring their ideas to the front.
00:03:04.000 But looking and researching this book, we've really discovered some sinister stuff.
00:03:09.000 Like teachers' colleges, they literally use Marxist texts to teach teachers.
00:03:15.000 These teachers then disperse throughout the country and they're at a school near you.
00:03:20.000 And that is not by accident.
00:03:21.000 That's not, I whoopsie snuck in a Marxist book to teach the teachers.
00:03:27.000 All of it comes from this place of pushing leftism everywhere that they go.
00:03:32.000 So when you hear a concept like math is racist, and we explore that in the book, it comes from somewhere.
00:03:38.000 And it really does originate at, like, say, a teacher's college.
00:03:42.000 And that's where they pick up the concept and then they pass it along to our kids.
00:03:47.000 Yeah.
00:03:47.000 And that's just one example of, you know, of many.
00:03:51.000 Why are parents putting up with this?
00:03:52.000 Why are parents not standing more forcefully against this?
00:03:56.000 It's a great question.
00:03:58.000 And one reason is that parents don't believe it's happening.
00:04:01.000 Look, I was born in the Soviet Union.
00:04:03.000 I know that secrecy is a big part of this, that this push of ideology has to be.
00:04:08.000 It's not secret.
00:04:08.000 It's right in the open.
00:04:09.000 I don't understand.
00:04:10.000 It is.
00:04:11.000 It is out in the open.
00:04:12.000 But for example, nobody runs on a we want porn in the school library platform, right?
00:04:17.000 They have to sneak it in.
00:04:18.000 So parents just don't think it's happening at their school.
00:04:21.000 It's the same concept as like when you ask voters, you know, what do you think of Congress?
00:04:25.000 And they all hate Congress, but they all like their own Congressman.
00:04:29.000 That's where we are with schools.
00:04:30.000 They think that this is not happening in their schools.
00:04:32.000 And it's worse in red areas and red towns, red villages, because they think it's definitely not happening there.
00:04:39.000 And they think, well, my teacher is not on TikTok.
00:04:41.000 My teacher is not on libs of TikTok, you know, outing their Marxist agenda.
00:04:45.000 So it's not happening.
00:04:46.000 Well, only a small percentage of teachers are on TikTok.
00:04:48.000 Only a small percentage of teachers will even admit what they're doing.
00:04:52.000 So if you think this is not happening at your local school, like think again.
00:04:56.000 Yeah.
00:04:56.000 And I just, even when we show the evidence, they say, oh, it's not that common or I don't support that.
00:05:02.000 Or, you know, it's not that widespread.
00:05:05.000 I mean, I just want to play some tape here.
00:05:07.000 You know, this is RuPaul saying that drag queens are the Marines of the queer movement.
00:05:12.000 Play cut 10. 1.00
00:05:15.000 Drag queens are the marines of the queer movement. 0.98
00:05:18.000 Don't get it twisted and don't be distracted. 1.00
00:05:21.000 Register to vote so we can get these stunt queens out of office and put some smart people with real solutions into government. 1.00
00:05:29.000 So they look at the drag. 0.85
00:05:31.000 And by the way, James Lindsay, who's done incredible work, has identified several academic papers years ago about how drag is the gateway to corrupt children.
00:05:40.000 So I just want to make sure our audience understands here. 0.69
00:05:42.000 Carol, are you making the argument in the book Stolen Youth that there's an institution of grooming in our country?
00:05:51.000 Yes, absolutely.
00:05:52.000 It is absolutely a purposeful maneuver to get children to be sexualized early, to have their gender identity being questioned.
00:06:02.000 All of this is very purposeful.
00:06:04.000 And in the book, we go through why that would be.
00:06:07.000 Like, why would anybody want to do this to kids?
00:06:09.000 But it makes them easier to indoctrinate.
00:06:11.000 When the kids are afraid of everything, when they're all messed up, when their anxiety rates are an all-time high, our suicide rates are an all-time high.
00:06:18.000 These kids are troubled and they're much easier to control when they're troubled.
00:06:22.000 Again, we've seen this.
00:06:24.000 This is not new.
00:06:25.000 It's happened in societies throughout history.
00:06:28.000 We just never could believe that it would happen in America.
00:06:30.000 And it's hard for me to believe it too.
00:06:32.000 I am rah-rah, patriotic American woman who never thinks anything bad about the country.
00:06:38.000 I'm always like, yeah, we're so good.
00:06:40.000 But this is a really dark, sinister moment where this is actually happening and it's happening to children.
00:06:46.000 And the past societies where this was going on, the totalitarian systems where this was happening, those people can say they didn't know.
00:06:54.000 Today, we cannot say we don't know.
00:06:56.000 We know.
00:06:57.000 Read the book, you'll know.
00:06:59.000 Give us more examples to the skeptics out there of the sexualization of our children and stealing the innocence of the youth.
00:07:06.000 Well, look what's going on in Florida, where they keep discovering these pornographic books in school libraries. 0.94
00:07:12.000 And when Governor DeSantis is trying to put a stop to it, it's considered like he's book burning.
00:07:18.000 And of course, again, no parent wants pornography in their child's library.
00:07:23.000 It's just, it's a non-starter.
00:07:25.000 So they have to sneak it in.
00:07:26.000 They have to pretend that it's some, you know, kind of banning that's going on.
00:07:30.000 When obviously any parent that sees these books will say, no, I don't want this in my school library.
00:07:35.000 That's also the thing.
00:07:37.000 The woke and the reason that we use wokeism instead of like liberalism, a lot of liberals don't want this either, but they're afraid of this.
00:07:45.000 Liberals have always been weak.
00:07:46.000 They're weak across the board.
00:07:49.000 They are.
00:07:50.000 They're afraid of them.
00:07:51.000 They're afraid of being socially isolated.
00:07:53.000 They're afraid of being called names.
00:07:55.000 And the thing is, these are your kids.
00:07:57.000 You can't be afraid of this, you know, somebody criticizing you on Facebook.
00:08:00.000 You got to delete block and move on with your life because these are your kids that you have to protect.
00:08:05.000 The fact that liberals like whisper to me and say, I agree with you, but like, I really can't talk about this.
00:08:11.000 I'm sorry, it's too late for that.
00:08:12.000 Now you have to talk about it.
00:08:13.000 Now you have to fight back.
00:08:15.000 Yeah.
00:08:15.000 I mean, we see a lot of these liberals that they don't believe it's as entrenched or they don't understand the depth or the extent of it.
00:08:24.000 And I mean, there are some parents that are perfectly fine with their kids being groomed and being indoctrinated, which is just so bizarre and strange.
00:08:34.000 And so you use the term woke, which I like.
00:08:38.000 You know, obviously it was all over the internet the last couple of days.
00:08:40.000 I mean, woke is super easy to define.
00:08:42.000 Let's call everything racist until you control it or just try to destroy the institutions around you and remake them in a postmodern, post-structuralist image.
00:08:49.000 What would you say?
00:08:50.000 How would you define woke?
00:08:52.000 I often turn to the forced conformity part of it to describe woke.
00:08:57.000 It's not just leftism.
00:08:59.000 It's leftism through a very narrow lens.
00:09:01.000 Even the leftists get in trouble a lot of the time because they, you know, haven't caught up with the latest language or the latest words that are acceptable.
00:09:09.000 Wokeness makes you walk a really fine line of explaining yourself or having ideas.
00:09:15.000 Like a great example of that is, you know, you can't say, I'm not racist.
00:09:19.000 You have to say I'm anti-racist.
00:09:21.000 If you don't use that word, then you're out.
00:09:24.000 And, you know, I see it happening now.
00:09:26.000 I see on Instagram people saying that people of color, they don't like that anymore.
00:09:30.000 Very soon, people of color is going to be out.
00:09:32.000 And if you're still using it, you're going to be caught up in that dragnet where they, you know, will criticize you, call you racist for using a term that they themselves were using five minutes ago. 0.97
00:09:43.000 So, you know, the jokey explanation I like to give about wokeness is the old leftism is, I got a woman's studies degree.
00:09:51.000 The new wokeness is, I got a woman's studies degree, but I can't define woman.
00:09:56.000 What is their complaint with people of color? 0.93
00:09:59.000 30 seconds.
00:10:01.000 Because, you know, you're not, it's really, they're just changing the language so that they know who the in-group is.
00:10:07.000 We talk about this in the book as well.
00:10:09.000 They have to keep changing it so that they can keep targeting people.
00:10:13.000 Without new targets, you know, their movement dies.
00:10:16.000 Yeah, look, I think you're making a great argument here.
00:10:19.000 These people are tyrants.
00:10:20.000 They're Stalinists. 0.98
00:10:20.000 They're Maoists. 0.98
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00:11:37.000 Very important book, Stolen Youth by Carol Markowitz.
00:11:41.000 Check it out.
00:11:42.000 So, Carol, in the book, I'm not sure if you detail this, but I'd just be curious.
00:11:47.000 How do we go about fixing this?
00:11:49.000 There are three types of people.
00:11:50.000 There are infants.
00:11:51.000 There are the protectors of infants.
00:11:53.000 And there are predators.
00:11:54.000 Our predators are in our schools.
00:11:55.000 They're in our culture.
00:11:56.000 They're in our media, then our government.
00:11:58.000 How do we stop the predators from coming after our children?
00:12:01.000 Well, we present two different paths.
00:12:03.000 My co-author, Bethany Mandel, homeschools her six children.
00:12:07.000 I live in South Florida.
00:12:08.000 I send two of my kids to public school, one of them to private school.
00:12:12.000 And the paths really are different, but they end up hopefully at the same place, which is raising resilient children who aren't going to be crashing somebody's speaking event and throwing things through the doors and breaking glass.
00:12:25.000 We had our book party in New York City got crashed by protesters last week.
00:12:29.000 They also threw glasses around.
00:12:31.000 They hit Steve Forbes with a drink.
00:12:33.000 I hope to raise children who don't do things like that.
00:12:37.000 And I think that for me, we really lay the foundation at home.
00:12:41.000 We speak openly about our values.
00:12:43.000 We talk about what we believe.
00:12:44.000 We counter concepts that they hear out in the world.
00:12:48.000 And we make sure that we have a tight grip on raising them the way we want to raise them.
00:12:54.000 We don't, you know, take other people's suggestions on how to raise our children if that includes going to drag queen story hour. 0.88
00:13:02.000 We think that that's inappropriate and we don't care what everybody else says. 0.82
00:13:05.000 So the step one has to be being strong in who you yourself are and who your family, you know, how you want your family raised.
00:13:13.000 For Bethany, a lot of her concepts are pulling her kids out of culture, pre-reading all of their books, making sure that they don't watch anything that she finds offensive.
00:13:23.000 And, you know, those are different ways.
00:13:25.000 Like, I think my kids are going to encounter things in the world that I don't like.
00:13:29.000 And I want them to learn how to deal with it and how to, you know, not cower to it.
00:13:34.000 So the idea is to raise resilient children who grow into resilient adults and are able to live happy, fulfilled lives.
00:13:43.000 And it's a tragedy that it is coming to this.
00:13:47.000 I do agree with you in one sense that some decent people refuse to believe actually how awful and broken the country has become in this regard.
00:13:58.000 They just like, oh, come on, it can't possibly be that bad.
00:14:01.000 And it is.
00:14:03.000 And it's in our institutions.
00:14:05.000 It's in every kind of possible corner that we could think about or that we could imagine.
00:14:11.000 But I think there's also a very promising parallel effort, right?
00:14:15.000 New schools, new issues on this.
00:14:18.000 Ron DeSantis has been leading clearly on this.
00:14:21.000 Talk about some of the promising developments, the parents' party, because it's not all bad.
00:14:25.000 People, I think, are wake up.
00:14:26.000 A lot of people are waking up.
00:14:28.000 Is that right?
00:14:29.000 It's not all bad.
00:14:30.000 We have a chapter in the book on COVID because we felt like that was for a lot of people the meeting point of where they got involved.
00:14:38.000 We saw throughout COVID the way children were targeted with some of the worst restrictions and needlessly, and how their interests were just not considered at all.
00:14:48.000 But a lot of parents became motivated when they saw what the kids were learning over their shoulders.
00:14:53.000 And I think that that energy has stayed pretty strong throughout the country.
00:14:58.000 I think now we need politicians to take over some of that energy.
00:15:01.000 Like, what's the point of politicians who don't take action on behalf of children?
00:15:06.000 I, again, live in South Florida.
00:15:08.000 I moved here in large part because of Ron DeSantis's policies, COVID policies particularly, but also his just general school policies.
00:15:17.000 I think if you live somewhere where you're not feeling good about your school system, I know it's hard.
00:15:23.000 It was hard for us too, but you have to move your kids out of it.
00:15:26.000 Maybe that means private or parochial schools.
00:15:29.000 Maybe that means moving to a different town or a different state.
00:15:32.000 But saving your kids has to be your priority.
00:15:34.000 We go through a lot of this in Stolen Youth, but look, childhood is really short, and you really have only a limited opportunity to make your children become the kind of adults that you want them to be.
00:15:46.000 And taking action is just something throughout the book that we focus on.
00:15:50.000 Cut62 is a young girl around a bunch of parents, moms that are supporting them at Drag Queen child sexual exploitation. 0.99
00:15:59.000 Play Cut62.
00:16:01.000 All right, we're going to give you 60 seconds eclipsing.
00:16:21.000 The moms seem really thrilled and happy.
00:16:23.000 Carol, 20 seconds, summarize it all. 0.98
00:16:26.000 They would never be accepting of that if that was a woman stripper, if that was a woman twerking on their kid. 1.00
00:16:32.000 They would never be okay with that. 0.99
00:16:33.000 Why is it okay for it to be a man in drag? 1.00
00:16:35.000 It's not. 0.99
00:16:36.000 And again, parents need to be the first line of defense and they need to stop this sort of thing.
00:16:40.000 Check out the book, Stolen Youth.
00:16:42.000 Thank you so much, Carol.
00:16:43.000 We'll talk to you soon.
00:16:44.000 Thank you.
00:16:47.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
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00:17:49.000 In a second, we're going to have Joe Bob join the program, one of the great talents of Turning Point USA and the conservative movement.
00:17:54.000 Does a great job, great spirit, really good energy, and a lot of optimism.
00:17:59.000 Appreciate it.
00:18:00.000 He opens up for us at these events and he gets people going.
00:18:02.000 That's a tough job to be an opening actor.
00:18:05.000 It's not easy.
00:18:05.000 The audience is like, who is this guy?
00:18:07.000 And what is this all about?
00:18:08.000 And all this.
00:18:08.000 But he gets them going, gets him laughing.
00:18:11.000 It's great.
00:18:12.000 Okay, I want to play a couple pieces of tape here unrelated to Joe Bob.
00:18:16.000 I just can't get enough of this.
00:18:19.000 There is a genre here on the Charlie Kirk show that I delight in.
00:18:24.000 The genre is wondering if Jim Kramer can outdo himself.
00:18:33.000 How Jim Kramer can just go to higher and greater lengths when he's talking about what stocks to buy.
00:18:42.000 Here's just a 2022 montage of Mr. Kramer play cut 18.
00:18:47.000 In February of this year, Kramer tweeted, Winning Stocks I Like, Upstart and Airbnb.
00:18:52.000 Since then, Upstart's down about 80%, Airbnb, 40%.
00:18:56.000 In April of last year, when Coinbase just went public, Kramer endorsed the company, saying it's a $475 stock.
00:19:02.000 Since going public, Coinbase is down over 80%.
00:19:05.000 Netflix is down 61%, Roku, 70%, Peloton, 83%, Square, 60%, PayPal, 68%, and Zoom, 65%.
00:19:16.000 You could lose a lot of money if you listen to Jim Kramer.
00:19:19.000 80%, 60%, 40%, 60%.
00:19:22.000 Tragically, some people actually do listen to his advice.
00:19:25.000 But there's a lot of questions going around.
00:19:29.000 Plenty of questions.
00:19:30.000 What is happening in the banking system?
00:19:31.000 What's happening in the financial system right now?
00:19:33.000 I can tell you, whatever Jim Kramer tells you to do, don't do that.
00:19:38.000 Play Cut 17, Jim Kramer.
00:19:40.000 Remember when he was defending Bear Stearns?
00:19:42.000 Great company.
00:19:42.000 Phenomenal.
00:19:43.000 And don't invest in that Tesla company.
00:19:45.000 There's nothing to it.
00:19:46.000 Play Cut 17.
00:19:47.000 Okay, Peter writes, should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there?
00:19:52.000 No, no, no.
00:19:54.000 Bear Stearns is fine.
00:19:56.000 Do not take your money.
00:19:57.000 If there's one takeaway other than plus $400 somewhere, Bear Stearns is not in trouble.
00:20:02.000 I mean, if anything, they're more likely to be taken over.
00:20:04.000 Don't move your money from Bear. 0.94
00:20:06.000 That's just being silly. 0.99
00:20:08.000 Don't be silly. 0.96
00:20:09.000 Our own Jim Kramer yesterday said, I'm not sure that Tesla has a business plan that's going to work. 0.98
00:20:14.000 It's not a smart investment.
00:20:16.000 Is he right about it?
00:20:17.000 I'm sure he's right about something.
00:20:18.000 There's got to be something where he's been just off the charts, correct?
00:20:22.000 He was not just wrong about Bear Stearns.
00:20:24.000 People lost a lot of money, a lot of money, because they went bankrupt.
00:20:28.000 The Tesla thing, I don't know, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
00:20:33.000 Jim Kramer endorsed Silicon Valley Bank a couple weeks ago.
00:20:38.000 Guy still has a cable television program, remarkably, still giving people advice.
00:20:43.000 But on the note, I do want to play this.
00:20:45.000 I think Charles Payne had a super smart take on the Silicon Valley Bank situation.
00:20:50.000 Let's play cut 19, please.
00:20:53.000 All of the money that cascaded into our economy at the beginning of the pandemic helped us spur that big IPO and SPAC streak.
00:21:00.000 If you guys remember, we had over a thousand IPOs, 59% of them are offerings, 59% of SPACs. 0.97
00:21:06.000 90% of them were pure crap.
00:21:08.000 The others all went out overvalued. 0.99
00:21:11.000 Everyone who bought them at the IPO price, every American is losing money right now, even before this crisis.
00:21:16.000 In the meantime, though, all of that money went to Silicon Valley Bank.
00:21:20.000 This is the lockdown bank crash.
00:21:24.000 The lockdowns were completely unnecessary.
00:21:27.000 The lockdowns were one of the greatest mistakes in American and world history.
00:21:31.000 And we create all this money out of thin air because of the lockdowns.
00:21:35.000 We're less productive because of the lockdowns.
00:21:38.000 We get into all this technology nonsense, staring at screens all day long, online shopping, all that.
00:21:44.000 And these banks start to invest in bad products.
00:21:46.000 And I hate to say that we called it on this program, but we did.
00:21:50.000 I knew the economy was heading in a very troubling direction when donors would approach me at Turning Point USA saying, Charlie, do you know any business deals?
00:21:59.000 Do you know where I should put my money?
00:22:02.000 And I remember telling him, I said, this is not a good sign.
00:22:06.000 When there is a greater supply of interest to invest than there is a supply of good places or places of value to put your money, you get something called malinvestment.
00:22:20.000 Malinvestment happens when you create trillions of dollars out of thin air. 0.95
00:22:24.000 You invest in a bunch of garbage.
00:22:27.000 Just today, Meta, Facebook, slashed another 10,000 jobs. 0.95
00:22:34.000 Mark Zuckerberg has put a massive bet into the metaverse.
00:22:37.000 Turns out it's a massive failure.
00:22:39.000 People just don't want to put goggles on all day long and play in some sort of weird, abstract world of poorly defined characters and figures.
00:22:48.000 It's not a success.
00:22:49.000 I'm sure some people like it.
00:22:50.000 It sure is.
00:22:51.000 It's been, you know, some people are looking at, but it's by no means a profit driver for the company at all.
00:22:57.000 Nothing even close.
00:22:59.000 So malinvestment occurs when you create these trillions of dollars out of thin air.
00:23:05.000 And when you remove the moral hazard and people think they can be forgiven or bailed out, then what difference does it make?
00:23:14.000 I want to play another piece of tape here.
00:23:18.000 Let's go to cut 27.
00:23:20.000 Former Treasury's Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman admits with Silicon Valley Bank, the Biden regime effectively nationalized the deposit base.
00:23:30.000 Play cut 27.
00:23:32.000 What the authorities did over the weekend was absolutely profound.
00:23:37.000 They guaranteed the deposits, all of them, at Silicon Valley Bank.
00:23:42.000 And what that really means is that they have guaranteed the entire deposit base of the U.S. financial system.
00:23:49.000 This is a breathtaking step, which effectively nationalizes or federalizes the deposit base of the U.S. financial system.
00:23:59.000 The authorities, including the White House, are not going to say that because what I just said, of course, implies that they've just nationalized the banking system.
00:24:09.000 And technically speaking, they haven't.
00:24:12.000 But in a broad sense, they're verging on that.
00:24:16.000 Silicon Valley Bank is now marketing themselves.
00:24:19.000 I mean, they should be shut down for fraud at this point.
00:24:21.000 It's unbelievable.
00:24:22.000 Where they say why there is not a, please join us for a call to learn at Silicon Valley Bank why there is not a single safer place to keep or transfer your deposits than Silicon Valley Bank.
00:24:36.000 Parenthesis, fully insured with no limits or caps.
00:24:41.000 Is that the new baseline for the FDIC?
00:24:46.000 Is that the new standard?
00:24:48.000 Is the FDIC going to say the rules are made up and the points don't matter?
00:24:53.000 Welcome to Silicon Valley Bank, otherwise known as Whose Line Is It Anyway?
00:24:59.000 Speaking of a funny guy, we got Joe Bob with us.
00:25:02.000 I think finally he's on, ready to go.
00:25:04.000 Joe Bob, you're doing a great job at all these tours.
00:25:06.000 You got a tough job.
00:25:07.000 You got to warm up the crowd.
00:25:08.000 It's not easy.
00:25:09.000 You do a great job of it.
00:25:10.000 You were on the front lines yesterday.
00:25:12.000 You saw those windows smash.
00:25:14.000 You were right there.
00:25:15.000 What do you see?
00:25:15.000 What did you feel?
00:25:16.000 What did you sense?
00:25:17.000 Walk us through it.
00:25:19.000 Yeah, so it happened to be right there by complete luck of circumstance.
00:25:25.000 I was walking around the hallways and then saw a bunch of protesters break through the police barricade and were kind of cornering one of the police officers into the glass windows or the glass doors where everything ended up going down.
00:25:38.000 So I took out my phone, started filming, and we were able to let the officer into the building.
00:25:45.000 And, you know, naively, I thought, well, stop there.
00:25:49.000 And I was probably too close in hindsight to the doors when the first window got kicked in.
00:25:55.000 And that's when it all, well, pandemonium broke loose and they just shattered all of the doors.
00:26:00.000 Thankfully, the response of the riot squad was able to keep people out, or else I think they would have come in and seen how much damage they could actually do.
00:26:11.000 Which, like you said, this is way out of my alley.
00:26:14.000 I'm usually the sarcastic, snarky, funny guy, but found myself in the middle of a bunch of chaos, all because a bunch of emotional children didn't want to hear a guy talk.
00:26:26.000 And then not just talk, but allow them to talk too.
00:26:28.000 You want to have the mic?
00:26:29.000 You can do it, right?
00:26:31.000 So that's, and you mentioned it in your talk, but I feel like it should be reiterated over and over and over again.
00:26:37.000 I went out to talk to some people before the actual event that none of the rioters were willing to talk to me, but I did talk to some kind of students and I asked them, hey, did you know that you can go inside?
00:26:49.000 Anybody's welcome.
00:26:51.000 It's honestly kind of ironic that people are trying to break into the building, but you're more than welcome to come inside.
00:26:56.000 And not only that, we will give you a microphone.
00:26:59.000 And if you disagree, you get to the front of the line.
00:27:02.000 I guarantee you that the PA system is louder than any of your chants that you're going to yell outside.
00:27:09.000 So you're more than welcome.
00:27:11.000 But, you know, not to hammer the point home continually, but if they had good ideas and they had good arguments for those ideas, they would actually make them.
00:27:20.000 Ideas are either compelling or they are not. 0.98
00:27:22.000 And if you can't make a good argument for your dumb ideas, you resort to smashing windows. 0.51
00:27:26.000 And one of the issues, Joe Bob, that you pinpointed in your open is that this Gary guy, Gary May, lied about us at Turning Point USA, misrepresented our positions entirely. 0.96
00:27:38.000 And, you know, you saw what happened there.
00:27:41.000 I mean, you were literally feet away from them smashing the windows and all that.
00:27:44.000 Thankfully, you were not harmed.
00:27:45.000 But I mean, these are violent folks.
00:27:49.000 If they would have been able to, let's just say that they would have been able to breach those doors.
00:27:52.000 We don't know what would have happened, right?
00:27:54.000 We do not know what they would have done to our attendees, to our staff.
00:27:57.000 And by the way, the Sacramento Bee has now officially and publicly apologized.
00:28:02.000 They say a review of the video shows that Kirk never advocated for trans people to be lynched.
00:28:06.000 Oh, really?
00:28:07.000 Yeah, of course I wouldn't.
00:28:09.000 No decent person would ever even think that.
00:28:11.000 I never thought it's anything close.
00:28:12.000 And I mean, in the universe, what we said.
00:28:14.000 These notes have been added to the column.
00:28:16.000 The B regrets its comments, and we apologize for any misunderstanding this earlier version may have caused.
00:28:21.000 It's not a misunderstanding, Joe Bob.
00:28:22.000 There is violence because of them.
00:28:25.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:28:26.000 So we were at breakfast when that video you were talking about, the chancellor of the university put out a video saying how, you know, we really, really hate these people, but we're going to stand against hate in protest.
00:28:39.000 We were watching that video as it was, as this thing was unfolding.
00:28:42.000 And I just thought to myself, does this guy think this is going to lessen the temperature or raise it?
00:28:49.000 Of course, it clearly raised the temperature.
00:28:52.000 And I think, this is my own personal opinion, his words in that video emboldened some of those people who may or may not have been as radicalized, but I think it added to the temperature of the entire situation.
00:29:07.000 And of course, it goes without saying they're lying about a bunch of the stuff.
00:29:11.000 I think in the video, he said, Charlie Kirk advocated for violence, which of course, you just mentioned the Sacramento B said, no, he actually didn't.
00:29:20.000 But of course, nobody would do any of that sort of stuff.
00:29:22.000 And I think the main takeaway from this is going to be ultimately nobody who smashed any of the windows is going to be held accountable for that.
00:29:31.000 The chancellor won't be held accountable for his actions in all of this.
00:29:36.000 And nothing inevitably is going to happen to anybody who has their woke ideology with them and nothing else.
00:29:42.000 We're going to try our best.
00:29:43.000 We're going to pursue a legal strategy.
00:29:45.000 We don't know if we'll be successful, but they got to be sued.
00:29:47.000 They got to explain themselves in court.
00:29:49.000 You cannot go around as the head of a chancellor of a school and materially lie about a guest speaker and then violence breaks out.
00:29:56.000 You got to hold them accountable.
00:29:57.000 If we win in the courts, great.
00:29:58.000 If we lose whatever, we got to stand for what's right.
00:30:00.000 Joe Bob, you said something really smart yesterday in your open.
00:30:04.000 I want to give you a chance to riff on it.
00:30:06.000 You said the tribal human instinct is to go to association based on color or race or creed.
00:30:14.000 Advancements, moral progress rooted in the Christian tradition is actually saying race means that nothing, literally nothing.
00:30:21.000 Values, ideas, and actions matter.
00:30:24.000 Explain that to our audience.
00:30:26.000 I thought that was very powerful.
00:30:27.000 Yeah, so it was really just remarking on the fact that, yes, human nature is such that people flock towards familiarity and everybody does it.
00:30:37.000 There's no denying that that exists.
00:30:39.000 It has been the case since the entirety of human history and will be forever.
00:30:45.000 The problem that leftists have is when they talk about familiarity, it seems to only be the familiar of appearance.
00:30:54.000 They congregate in these woke circles that really are only based around, again, like I said, appearance or race or skin color.
00:31:04.000 The more advanced model of society and one that I hope that everybody occupies sooner or later is flocking to familiarity, but familiarity based in ideas and moral virtue and culture.
00:31:19.000 Like I go to a church here in Southern California where, you know, I don't talk about the race makeup of the church, but there are Asian people.
00:31:29.000 There are Hispanic people.
00:31:30.000 There are black people.
00:31:32.000 There are people of every single race and color. 0.99
00:31:34.000 And nobody talks about it because that's not why we're there.
00:31:38.000 We are there to congregate around an idea, in this case, our Christian faith, but nobody talks about the fact that the quote-unquote diversity in our church is outstanding because that's not why we're there.
00:31:54.000 And hopefully, my hope is that someday the entirety of the country can elevate to a place where we, like Martin Luther King said, what, 50 years ago, you can be judged by the content of your character, not the color of your skin.
00:32:08.000 So I would hope that that's the direction that the country is going.
00:32:12.000 You know, remains to be seen.
00:32:15.000 It is the fallen nature of man is to just associate with your tribe.
00:32:20.000 The Torah, the first five books of the Bible, and it's repeated all throughout the scriptures, but very clearly it says, for example, we talk about loving the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt, as it says, Exodus 23, 9, Exodus 22, 11. 0.75
00:32:38.000 This repeated idea that you must go out of your way to love the person that doesn't look like you, that is not from your tribe. 0.93
00:32:45.000 That takes effort because the natural urge is to only associate with people that look the way that you do, right?
00:32:53.000 Or people that are from your certain tribe or whatever.
00:32:57.000 I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:32:58.000 You're in this video, actually.
00:33:00.000 This is the video that Elon Musk replied to.
00:33:02.000 So you can add that to your resume.
00:33:04.000 Joe Bob, that you could say that Elon Musk has seen a video that I'm in.
00:33:09.000 So congratulations.
00:33:10.000 Playcut 57 of the mostly peaceful attempt of breaking and entering of our event at Turning Point USA, UC Davis, Playcut 57.
00:34:00.000 For those of you on radio, it is a group of trained activists trying to break in.
00:34:04.000 Final thoughts here, though, Joe Bob.
00:34:05.000 These are not just college kids, as that one guy said.
00:34:08.000 These were sophisticated people.
00:34:09.000 Am I mistaken?
00:34:11.000 No, there was a lot of people that showed up way ahead of time that fortunately the security and law enforcement were able to identify that were not even close to college age.
00:34:23.000 But the one thing that I really wanted to, that I thought while watching that video is the fascinating component about this, and I think you probably would think the same thing is I would love to just sit down and have a conversation with any of those people that tried to break in and just see what they think.
00:34:38.000 And that is the last thing that they want.
00:34:41.000 Not only that, I would have loved to have them come and ask a question.
00:34:44.000 I don't want to see violence.
00:34:45.000 I don't like vandalism.
00:34:46.000 I think it's awful.
00:34:47.000 It's messy.
00:34:48.000 It's terrible for all people.
00:34:49.000 Destruction of property is reprehensible.
00:34:51.000 I think it's akin to theft and stealing because you're destroying something that's not your own.
00:34:55.000 So then suck it up, ask a question, be an adult.
00:34:58.000 But no, we're living under the tyranny of the infants and these quote-unquote leaders that allow these infants to reign terror.
00:35:05.000 Joe Bob, we're out of time.
00:35:07.000 See you at the next campus event.
00:35:08.000 Check it out, tpusa.com.
00:35:09.000 Thanks so much.
00:35:10.000 Thanks.
00:35:10.000 See you soon.
00:35:11.000 Thank you.
00:35:11.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:13.000 Extremely proud and thankful for the commitment and the resolve of all staff members and all students at Turning Point USA.
00:35:21.000 We're doing something very special here.
00:35:23.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:25.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:28.000 Thank you so much for listening.
00:35:31.000 God bless.
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