The Charlie Kirk Show - THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 14 — Ukraine's Top Tranny Gets Fired. Russell Brand vs. The World. Thinking About Rome?

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00:01:19.000 For now, joining us tonight is fan favorite, 10 out of 10 rated, Blake Neff.

00:01:24.000 Say hi, Blake.

00:01:25.000 Hello.

00:01:26.000 That's where he goes.

00:01:27.000 Hi, Blake.

00:01:29.000 Andrew.

00:01:30.000 Andrew Colvett.

00:01:31.000 Yes.

00:01:31.000 Hello, Sir Andrew.

00:01:32.000 And Jack Posobiec.

00:01:34.000 I can't wait for the Halloween episode where Blake is like, okay, let's dive right into it.

00:01:44.000 Jack, true or false, we got a tranny fired. 1.00

00:01:49.000 True.

00:01:50.000 100% true.

00:01:51.000 Although, if I might add, the tranny has not just been fired. 1.00

00:01:55.000 This is in the quote-unquote Sarah Ashton Cirillo, aka actually known as Mike Ashton Cirillo, the spokes trainee for the Ukrainian military.

00:02:06.000 Not just fired, but actually placed under military investigation.

00:02:11.000 So very excited.

00:02:13.000 Not a good thing to be under military.

00:02:15.000 So we have the tape. 0.73

00:02:16.000 We have the tape of her talking about the Russian devils.

00:02:18.000 And then the question is, was there a Russian devil that was taken up by other means, which actually segues to our second topic?

00:02:25.000 We'll see.

00:02:25.000 That is a real thought crime.

00:02:26.000 But Jack, build this out.

00:02:27.000 You're on some sort of Ukrainian hit list. 1.00

00:02:29.000 The Ukrainian government wants you dead. 0.96

00:02:31.000 So Jack, tell us about it and then we'll get to it.

00:02:36.000 So yeah, the Ukrainian government, specifically their intelligence service, the SBU, has this website known as Murovrets.

00:02:45.000 And Murovorets is this, it translates roughly to peacemaker, but it's been referred to as a kill list or a hit list where they will place people that they consider to be, quote, enemies of Ukraine.

00:02:58.000 And now Elon Musk appeared on this list at one point.

00:03:01.000 The Pope appeared on this list at one point.

00:03:04.000 Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald are on this list.

00:03:07.000 And while we might think it's funny or silly, there's actually an American hostage right now that's being held by the Ukrainian government, a blogger and YouTuber by the name of Gonzalo Lira, who was living in Ukraine and was posting on his YouTube channel that he disagreed with Zelensky's government.

00:03:24.000 He was then summarily arrested by the special services of Ukraine and has since disappeared.

00:03:30.000 There have also been people that were placed on this list, including an Italian journalist, Andrea Rocelli, and numerous Russian bloggers, as well as one girl who's the daughter of a Russian political figure, who were assassinated in Russia using car bombs and other improvised explosive devices after being placed on this list.

00:03:52.000 After their killings, their entries on this dossier list wrote liquidated.

00:03:57.000 So I was placed on this list, and I just was made aware of that earlier this week, right around the same time that you were really exposing everything this American, I guess the word is American recruit for Ukrainian forces, Ashton Cirillo, was saying in this completely unhinged rant saying, all Russian propagandists will be hunted down wherever you are,

00:04:24.000 and your teeth will gnash as we show you justice.

00:04:29.000 Only he's not the one who was dishing out the justice.

00:04:33.000 It turns out he's actually the one who's facing justice now.

00:04:36.000 And so let's play the tape here.

00:04:38.000 And this is now play cut 22.

00:04:40.000 Russia hates the truth that their obsessive focus on a Ukrainian volunteer is simply allowing the light of the Ukrainian nation's honesty to shine brightly.

00:04:50.000 Next week, the teeth of the Russian devils will gnash ever harder and their rabid mouths will foam in uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Kremlin propagandist pay for their crimes. 0.93

00:05:03.000 And this puppet of Putin is only the first. 0.89

00:05:07.000 Russia's war criminal propagandists will all be hunted down and justice will be served as we in Ukraine are led on this mission by faith in God, liberty, and complete liberation.

00:05:19.000 So interesting headline here from Axios.

00:05:23.000 Zelensky's frosty welcome.

00:05:25.000 I'm going to read from Axios and tie this together.

00:05:27.000 And Blake, I want your comment on this, okay?

00:05:30.000 Nine months ago, somebody's phone is buzzing a lot.

00:05:32.000 So nine months ago, Zelensky received a two-minute standing ovation from both Democrats and Republicans.

00:05:40.000 This looks like a distant dream compared to what Zelensky has faced on his second wartime trip to Washington.

00:05:48.000 Some lawmakers are openly mocking Zelensky.

00:05:51.000 Privately, coalition is building against Zelensky in both parties.

00:05:55.000 Driving the news, Senator JD Vance and Chip Roy, six Republican senators and 22 House members, sent an open letter saying no more money to Ukraine.

00:06:02.000 Blake, is it possible that our tweet reached 5 million people?

00:06:06.000 We talked about it on our program, that the CIA Ukraine, let's just say Axis or coalition, they said, look, not a great idea to have a trans spokesperson who's threatening Westerners in English if we're trying to get more money out of Americans.

00:06:22.000 I think it is a very real possibility.

00:06:25.000 I would be stunned if there was not a phone call that happened somewhere along the line that just says, like, dude, you guys, like, you're not helping the cause.

00:06:33.000 To make this work, to keep the funding going, they need a bipartisan thing.

00:06:36.000 They have to make this a nonpartisan issue by having people on check. 0.99

00:06:39.000 Just got to kill. 0.81

00:06:40.000 If this becomes a Democrat versus Republican issue, Ukraine stops getting funding. 0.97

00:06:44.000 And the fastest way for that to happen is if Ukraine's like English-speaking mascot is this like an American passport holder who's grown breaths due to the hormones that he's taking and makes these bizarre videos where he's like faking some voice to sound like, are we supposed to bully? 0.86

00:07:05.000 This is what's interesting to me.

00:07:06.000 Are we supposed to believe that nobody in the hierarchy of the Ukrainian military proofread this speech?

00:07:10.000 No, that was just the spokesperson.

00:07:12.000 They're putting this person aside.

00:07:14.000 Spokesman.

00:07:15.000 Yes.

00:07:16.000 You got to be firm on this chart.

00:07:17.000 Okay.

00:07:18.000 Spokesmokman.

00:07:19.000 Oh, trans. 1.00

00:07:19.000 Steward is spokestrans. 1.00

00:07:20.000 But Andrew, do you?

00:07:22.000 Andrew, I think you're the best at this.

00:07:23.000 Brag on our show and Jack a little bit.

00:07:25.000 We were just kind of a ragtag remnant with no Tucker Carlson because Tucker would have done this himself, right?

00:07:29.000 Tucker would have handled this in 10 minutes.

00:07:32.000 But hey, there's a little bit of fight left.

00:07:35.000 This is an interesting little nother wrinkle of the power of our audience.

00:07:38.000 No, this was a 100% takedown.

00:07:41.000 I said that Jack and Charlie single-handedly took this down, but it would be like double-handedly, took this dude down.

00:07:47.000 Yeah.

00:07:47.000 And by the way, one of the things, Jack, sorry, I'm having a little trouble with my FP.

00:07:51.000 One of the things, Jack, maybe you know the details on this.

00:07:54.000 Sarah Ashton, or Sarah Ashton Cirrillo is actually a registered Republican.

00:08:00.000 His bio is like from the state of Nevada, was active in politics as a Republican, which should tell you something about the state of Republican politics, often at the state level.

00:08:13.000 But what's crazy is, I think you actually flagged the tweet.

00:08:17.000 You found the video.

00:08:19.000 The video was posted by some one of those hardcore Ukraine watchers highlights, like who probably is like a Russian propagandist.

00:08:25.000 And actually, the original narrative was like, look at this trans-Ukrainian American that's now in Ukraine going viral on the internet.

00:08:33.000 And we're like, that's not viral.

00:08:35.000 That's disgusting and like terrifying.

00:08:37.000 Gnashing of teeth, foaming. 0.55

00:08:39.000 So it was like, we got to blow this up.

00:08:42.000 You blew it up.

00:08:44.000 And instantly, we get this.

00:08:48.000 Actually, it was three steps.

00:08:50.000 Blew it up.

00:08:51.000 Everybody starts posting about it.

00:08:52.000 Jack, you were definitely like in the mix.

00:08:55.000 You might have posted before Charlie posted about, but I didn't see that.

00:09:00.000 But then Sarah Ashton comes to the United States, gets honored by the Las Vegas City Hall, gets a certificate of recognition from Dina Titus, from Catherine Cortez-Masto, from former Governor Sisilak.

00:09:19.000 Then the Smithsonian says, We want one of your uniforms, your Ukrainian military uniforms, for the Smithsonian.

00:09:27.000 And then the next day, the very next day, we hear this second recording.

00:09:32.000 I don't know if we have it, but it was like completely changed in tone.

00:09:37.000 Sarah Ashton Cirrillo, Big Mike, was completely different.

00:09:41.000 It was very subdued.

00:09:43.000 You could tell that whoever caught wind of all the negative press that was.

00:09:47.000 They started to see real chatter and from conservatives.

00:09:51.000 And meanwhile, conservatives are arguing about this $24 billion in Congress that Joe Biden is requesting.

00:09:57.000 Congress now has this 9:30 deadline.

00:09:59.000 Zelensky's planning to come over to win support.

00:10:01.000 Meanwhile, you got this crazy tranny talking about foaming at the mouth and gnashing the teeth and all this stuff. 1.00

00:10:06.000 Hunt down the rush. 1.00

00:10:07.000 Russian devil. 0.97

00:10:08.000 And by the way, it was a point you didn't make. 0.86

00:10:10.000 It was in English on purpose.

00:10:13.000 The audience for this was Westerners.

00:10:16.000 The audience for this is the first time.

00:10:17.000 We were the first one to make that point.

00:10:20.000 I will suggest, like, so first of all, this Cyrillo character doesn't know Ukrainian or even Russian, I believe.

00:10:27.000 Yeah, he doesn't know.

00:10:28.000 And so he's basically is communicating through Google Translate.

00:10:32.000 Relative to a lot of countries, Ukraine has a lot of people who don't know English.

00:10:35.000 I mean, that's not, that wasn't taught there in the 70s or 80s for sure.

00:10:38.000 It'd only be like the youngest people who know it.

00:10:40.000 So I would entertain the possibility that between this guy, you know, being a little nutty, you know, super, superficial evidence that that might be the case, and not knowing the language of the country that he's fighting for, that you will, and them not all knowing English.

00:10:55.000 I think it actually is possible.

00:10:56.000 This is basically this one nutball who's essentially being allowed to like. 0.98

00:11:01.000 That's even more concerning that the Ukrainian war effort, you could just have some random tranny going off. 1.00

00:11:06.000 Yeah.

00:11:07.000 Right.

00:11:07.000 Yeah.

00:11:07.000 And I, I mean, maybe it's a failure to understand domestic politics and understand how charged the trans issue is, especially with conservative America and really independents and swing voters.

00:11:18.000 It's wildly unpopular, actually, outside of the radical, loud minority on the Democrat side.

00:11:25.000 But here's what I'll say.

00:11:27.000 So then you get this message that's completely scaled down.

00:11:30.000 Then you have Zelensky coming to DC, right?

00:11:32.000 And like a day or two, instantly fired.

00:11:36.000 But here's the other thing that happened.

00:11:37.000 JD Vance saw all the coverage that we were blowing up on social media, wrote a letter asking for more information.

00:11:44.000 And here's a final piece of evidence.

00:11:47.000 In the follow-up video where Sarah Ashton Cirillo was toned down, Sarah Ashton Cirillo said that he was answerable to three people.

00:11:58.000 It was like Ukraine. 0.86

00:12:00.000 I don't remember those second liberty.

00:12:02.000 No.

00:12:03.000 And the American taxpayer.

00:12:05.000 Yes, that's right.

00:12:06.000 So Charlie's whole point was, who's paying for this? 0.95

00:12:08.000 Why are we paying for this crazy psychopath to come threaten Westerners that if we don't toe the line, we're going to be on some hit list like Jack. 0.93

00:12:17.000 And then sure enough, sure enough. 0.96

00:12:19.000 Oh, see, somebody's phone's vibrating and Charlie's phone is jingling.

00:12:23.000 That's totally my phone.

00:12:24.000 Yeah.

00:12:24.000 None of us is without sin.

00:12:26.000 Right.

00:12:26.000 Cast the first note.

00:12:27.000 So all of this played together and then boom.

00:12:32.000 Big Mike gets sidelined.

00:12:33.000 Big Mike.

00:12:34.000 And here we are.

00:12:36.000 But I mean, it just, I have to say, the power of this audience is incredible.

00:12:41.000 We had the New Hampshire 14th Amendment deal where the New Hampshire Republicans backed away.

00:12:46.000 We had the Ken Paxton deal where we blew up the phone lines of the Republican senators and apparently made their life miserable.

00:12:54.000 I'm not saying that's necessarily a good thing, but I'm saying we had a massive impact, got written up in a bunch of places.

00:12:58.000 And then Sarah Ashton Cirillo gets canned by the Ukrainian military.

00:13:02.000 These are like global national import type of subjects.

00:13:06.000 And the power of this audience, a hat tip to you guys.

00:13:09.000 Yeah.

00:13:10.000 So then, so Jack, let's build this out even more.

00:13:12.000 So the tide is turning.

00:13:16.000 And it's remarkable how relentless this program has been.

00:13:20.000 I got to brag on Steve Bannon's War Room, the Charlie Kirk show, Jack Pesobic, also turning point action.

00:13:27.000 Jack, I really believe one of the turning points was a signal boost where all of a sudden people, what we call emergent behavior, right, Jack?

00:13:35.000 When you and I, when all of a sudden people realize that it's okay to believe a certain thing, when that poll came out post-turning point action conference, you know, we had polls on Vivek and we had polls on Trump.

00:13:45.000 But Jack, what was the number?

00:13:47.000 This went far and wide.

00:13:49.000 This was this, I guarantee you, somebody printed this out and put it on Zelensky's desk.

00:13:53.000 I guarantee it.

00:13:54.000 What was that, Jack?

00:13:55.000 Happened over the summer.

00:13:57.000 So off the top of my head, I remember in general, there was a Trump wins the presidential straw poll.

00:14:03.000 It was something like 87%.

00:14:05.000 And then there was another question about continued support to Ukraine or continued involvement in Ukraine.

00:14:11.000 And that actually came in at 92%.

00:14:15.000 95%.

00:14:15.000 So the one thing, so 95.

00:14:17.000 So the one thing that pulled higher than Donald Trump at a turning point grassroots event was ending support for Ukraine.

00:14:27.000 That actually pulled ahead of Donald Trump.

00:14:30.000 And this was, you know, back when, you know, this was back when we had decided to bring in everyone.

00:14:37.000 And Turning Point, as they always do, bring in everyone from all over the country, state after state after state, coming to, I don't know if you guys, I'm sure you do have the breakdown of regions, et cetera.

00:14:47.000 But the point being is this is a national conference of some of the most active, some of the most really, really outspoken Twitter and social media personalities in general.

00:14:58.000 And one of the reasons is, Charlie, these guys, look, when you're in the influencer game, right?

00:15:03.000 As so many people in Turning Point, there's so many turning point influencers.

00:15:06.000 They know what is popular and what is unpopular.

00:15:09.000 And people always get this wrong because they'll say, oh, well, you know, these do this with Rush them well.

00:15:14.000 And they called him ditto heads because you just agree and amplify whatever Rush says.

00:15:17.000 No, no.

00:15:18.000 Rush was constantly listening to phone calls.

00:15:21.000 He was constantly listening to the pulse of the people.

00:15:24.000 That's what we have on our program to understand what's going on.

00:15:27.000 And then when people are emailing to Charlie, when people are emailing to me, when we're looking at comments, we're constantly seeing the mood.

00:15:35.000 And then, so these people that are at the turning point conference, they're directly responding to the received signal, the A-B testing that they're doing on a regular basis.

00:15:44.000 They're responding to that.

00:15:46.000 They're pushing forward because they can see the direction that people are going in.

00:15:50.000 This is why now all of a sudden, and then the next step, by the way, after we really exposed this person, this creature, Senator JD Vance.

00:15:58.000 And we have to give Senator JD Vance credit because he wrote a letter asking the Pentagon whether or not that person was receiving funding from the U.S. government to make these statements.

00:16:10.000 So we are seeing now all of a sudden Zelensky didn't really have the heroes welcome in D.C.

00:16:16.000 This is happening as we're doing this program.

00:16:18.000 There were real questions that were being asked.

00:16:20.000 Axios covers that, you know, Zelensky looked more stressed.

00:16:24.000 He didn't have this kind of two-minute like standing ovation.

00:16:28.000 Blake, you know, this might just be surface level politics, but it seems like this is a far more fragile funding arrangement than it was nine months ago.

00:16:36.000 It definitely is.

00:16:37.000 And one of the, I mentioned this earlier, it's very dark that one of the biggest reasons is like the West is turning on Ukraine for something that's like the Western elite's fault.

00:16:48.000 Like what's the big disaster?

00:16:49.000 Yeah, that's a fair point.

00:16:50.000 It's somewhat us, but it's also, yeah, like we, America did this disarm.

00:16:54.000 We were against it from the beginning.

00:16:56.000 You know, we were funding this war.

00:16:57.000 We were giving them all these weapons.

00:16:59.000 And what there's all this political pressure to do is like, you have to use these weapons to win this big victory to show that you're winning the war.

00:17:05.000 And so Ukraine had been doing, you know, given the odds against them, have been doing pretty well against Russia.

00:17:11.000 Russia had made no progress in the last year, basically.

00:17:15.000 They've been driven away from Kharkov, a major city in eastern Ukraine.

00:17:20.000 But there was all this hype, like the Ukraine spring offensive.

00:17:22.000 It's going to be the biggest deal.

00:17:24.000 It was the biggest open secret in the world that this was coming.

00:17:27.000 And they launched this big attack and it's a total disaster.

00:17:30.000 And we don't know the exact figures because they're all very secretive about it.

00:17:33.000 But it seems very possible that tens of thousands of soldiers were killed in this or, you know, 300,000 if you're Douglas McGregor.

00:17:40.000 But like a lot of people died and it made no progress at all.

00:17:43.000 Just add a zero.

00:17:44.000 And yeah, just add a zero to four.

00:17:46.000 Three zeros, maybe.

00:17:48.000 And so it was this big disaster.

00:17:50.000 And now everyone's like, can Ukraine win this war?

00:17:52.000 It seems like, you know, it seems like Ukraine's not committed enough.

00:17:55.000 Like they've only had tens of thousands of people die.

00:17:57.000 They're not as committed as us in Washington.

00:17:59.000 Well, and I got to be honest, I think that there might be finally, finally some, Andrew, I want your opinion, narrative penetration with the open border.

00:18:08.000 I think that anyone with a decent conscience that is getting flooded by their constituents, Andrew, we're the ones that are leading the charge here.

00:18:15.000 And I think it might be chipping away, right?

00:18:17.000 I mean, the turtle doesn't care, right? 0.57

00:18:19.000 Lady Graham, he gets sexual pleasure from like seeing people get invaded or something.

00:18:24.000 He gets off on this. 0.99

00:18:25.000 My number one priority is on camera and then bombing the hell out of Russia. 1.00

00:18:31.000 We will bomb him, displace him. 0.99

00:18:33.000 What country will he not invade? 0.80

00:18:34.000 But no, but in all seriousness, I was just watching the news and I'm trying to be as objective.

00:18:39.000 And I answered the day super cynical, right?

00:18:41.000 That we were going to get the pom-com squad of Republicans.

00:18:44.000 Even the ones that are on board were less gusto than nine months ago.

00:18:48.000 Yeah, I would say, okay, so we went pretty hard on John Cornyn today.

00:18:54.000 John Cornyn is Chamber of Commerce Republican from the state of Texas.

00:18:59.000 It's getting invaded currently.

00:19:01.000 And what is he doing?

00:19:02.000 He's in thehill.com being quoted as saying, well, no, if the House passes a CR without any Ukraine funding, well, it's going to get to the Senate.

00:19:11.000 We're just going to add it back in and we'll send it back to them.

00:19:13.000 Or we might do it ourselves and send it to them.

00:19:15.000 It's a different sort of process, whatever, all this parliamentarian gimmicks and tricks that they have in the Senate.

00:19:21.000 And then what happens?

00:19:24.000 You got Rand Paul, who stands up in the Senate.

00:19:27.000 So we, I mean, we counted the Senate. 0.89

00:19:29.000 The U.S. Senate is full of just god-awful Republicans. 0.99

00:19:32.000 Useless Republicans. 1.00

00:19:34.000 That's an interesting thought crime. 0.99

00:19:35.000 Why is the Senate works in the House?

00:19:36.000 That's a separate at time, though.

00:19:38.000 But it's a big deal.

00:19:39.000 But Rand Paul stepped up.

00:19:40.000 First, actually, Ron Paul blocked some mini buttons.

00:19:44.000 Or not Ron, not Ron Paul.

00:19:46.000 Um, uh, Ron Johnson, Ron Johnson blocked the miniwest.

00:19:49.000 He's been doing really good, yeah.

00:19:50.000 And then Rand Paul said, I'm straight up not funding it.

00:19:53.000 And then, what did we have today?

00:19:54.000 We had six senators: we had Mike Braun Marshall from Mississippi, right?

00:19:58.000 Or is he uh Roger Marshall's Kansas?

00:20:00.000 Kansas, oh, Kansas, that's right, Dr. Roger Marshall, and then we had uh Tuberville from Alabama, Alabama.

00:20:05.000 We had university, he's gonna be on the Charlie Kirk show next week, so we'll have Senator Tuberville there.

00:20:11.000 And then we've got that's great, yeah, we have Mike Braun, who, by the way, is the biggest Indiana running for governor most improved player.

00:20:17.000 He's doing this because he's running for governor.

00:20:18.000 Good, like that's that's an example of politics working for the betterment.

00:20:22.000 For those of you at home who don't know what I'm talking about, Mike Braun came in summer 20.

00:20:26.000 He went full-on CRE, but only for a moment.

00:20:29.000 Then Tucker decided to say, Yeah, and now I shall correct you.

00:20:32.000 Whoops, exactly.

00:20:34.000 So, um, and then we had, let me just add the list here: Mike Lee, he's great, yeah, he's great.

00:20:39.000 He's one of my favorite people, he's a great guy, missing in action, Senator Ted Cruz.

00:20:44.000 Uh, he has neocon tendencies, he does, he just does, you just gotta be honest, yeah, I mean, he does, and then uh, JD Vance, obviously, we said, um, and then Josh Hawley didn't sign that list.

00:20:52.000 No, he did, he was on the list, was he on the list?

00:20:54.000 Yeah, all right, so okay, so that's really interesting.

00:20:57.000 I, I, it, I think, Jack, you tweeted about this today, I believe you said there's been a total energy shift, and I couldn't agree more.

00:21:05.000 It was like three days ago, series of energy shifts, yes, we were dead on arrival.

00:21:10.000 This thing is get Ukraine's getting funded, the border's getting we're all gonna cuck out, and it's just gonna be business as usual, just like it was with the death ceiling. 0.57

00:21:18.000 I'm not saying it's not gonna happen, I'm saying there is a fighting chance, there is a resistance now that the Senate is on board to actually fight this thing back.

00:21:26.000 I really think we've got a chance to and I think, Charlie, it's gonna take us shutting down this government.

00:21:31.000 Yeah, I mean, shut this mother down, but let's like let's close on this. 0.61

00:21:35.000 And this is a question: let's pretend that we were you know pro-Ukraine neocons that really didn't care much about America.

00:21:40.000 But to look honestly, how could they actually increase their support?

00:21:45.000 They are a they're fighting gravity, is what I'm getting.

00:21:47.000 Is that they're a diminishing asset at this point, right?

00:21:50.000 They peaked.

00:21:51.000 Let's pretend we were all pro-Ukraine and we were how do you even rebuild consensus support?

00:21:57.000 You could fake hate crimes by Russia or something.

00:21:59.000 I mean, stuff like that, maybe when you know when Zelensky starts having all of his refugees do the terrorist attacks, you're like, It's Russia. 0.82

00:22:05.000 No, that's talking about this.

00:22:06.000 This is a real thing.

00:22:07.000 This is a real thing.

00:22:07.000 Zelensky's extorting Europe.

00:22:09.000 Like, it'd be a shame if the Louvre blew up.

00:22:11.000 This is honestly like way more shocking to me.

00:22:13.000 Nice Eiffel Tower you got there, Michael. 0.57

00:22:15.000 It's actually way more shocking to me than the Tranny thing because this Tranny, maybe he's just this weirdo who's the tranny thing's crazy. 1.00

00:22:21.000 But it's crazy, but this is Zelensky himself.

00:22:23.000 Gives an interview to The Economist, and he's just like, Yeah, you know, a million Ukrainian Michelangelo statues.

00:22:29.000 A million Ukrainians have fled to Western Europe, and like they're very grateful for how Ukraine has hosted them.

00:22:34.000 But, you know, if Europe stopped supporting Ukraine, I just don't know how these Ukrainians would respond to the disappointment and sadness they would feel about being abandoned.

00:22:44.000 They could do, they could do anything.

00:22:46.000 And do you know what that reminds me of?

00:22:48.000 Do you know what that reminds me of?

00:22:50.000 It's like right in 2020 when it turns out like two days later, it's apparently that Joe Biden wins the election and all the civil rights, quote-unquote, that's a very big air quote, by the way.

00:23:00.000 Civil rights groups didn't riot because they didn't call.

00:23:04.000 It's like these powers on the left that have these stormtroopers that can just be supposed to compliment them for not blowing up our society.

00:23:12.000 Exactly.

00:23:14.000 But aren't you glad?

00:23:15.000 It's a shocking thing.

00:23:16.000 But for the gravity thing, it is just like they would benefit so much if they could just watch like an 80s action movie and be like, okay, we need to channel the like the like tough military guy.

00:23:27.000 Get like the straightest guy possible.

00:23:30.000 Have him be the Ukrainian's crew. 0.99

00:23:31.000 He's cut.

00:23:31.000 He has like a have him like have this like orthodox icon in the corner.

00:23:35.000 He'll like talk about like God and Jesus a lot and just say like Vladimir Putin is a god.

00:23:39.000 Central cast it.

00:23:40.000 Yeah.

00:23:40.000 Central castle, by the way.

00:23:43.000 I was just going to say, you'd think that he, if he knows that there's Republican opposition, we said this on Human Events, that if he knew there was Republican opposition, why not just come out and say something like 20% of the funding will go towards child trafficking operations?

00:23:56.000 Like, just say something to try to get conservatives on your side if you know that's where the opposite is.

00:24:02.000 You should be even more unhinged. 0.90

00:24:03.000 You could be like the Russian military is like they're recruiting all of these like Muslims from the Caucasus and they're like here to like destroy Christians, like the oldest Christian place in Eastern Europe. 0.99

00:24:12.000 You know, Kingston, that's not even completely, you know.

00:24:16.000 Yeah, it's like it'd be something.

00:24:17.000 It'd be way better than like, we need to do this because then like the pink and baby blue flag will fly over Kiev till the end of time.

00:24:24.000 And that's what Putin wants to rip down.

00:24:27.000 Like that's basically doing Putin's own propaganda efforts for him. 1.00

00:24:31.000 It's doubling down on stupid. 0.99

00:24:33.000 Yeah, the current argument is like Western values are trans values. 1.00

00:24:36.000 And we're kind of like, yeah, we don't want to fund that.

00:24:38.000 Sorry.

00:24:39.000 The flag, the flag of the regime is the pride flag. 0.78

00:24:43.000 All right.

00:24:43.000 So now let's get to some serious thought crimes.

00:24:45.000 And it's a perfect segue.

00:24:47.000 Remember, the man, the dude, the trans dude, with name, Mike, big mic, right? 0.97

00:24:54.000 Said that the Russian devils will pay a price. 0.99

00:24:57.000 In fact, said that one week ago.

00:25:02.000 And then all of a sudden, the hit against Russell Brand happens.

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00:26:18.000 Okay, Jack, Russell Brand was speaking out against the Ukrainian war.

00:26:22.000 They say that they're going to take out a Putin puppet and then boom, the allegations on Russell Brand, which is a good segue there.

00:26:29.000 Jack, did Zelensky try to take Russell Brand out?

00:26:33.000 Well, Charlie, it certainly wouldn't be the first time that the Ukrainians have tried to take out someone in the West that they viewed as negative to them. 0.70

00:26:42.000 And I'm referring, of course, to the time that a foreign government interfered in the United States in our election, planted fake propaganda, laundered that fake propaganda through mainstream media, and had the campaign manager of a major political campaign in the United States fired.

00:27:00.000 That guy's name was Paul Manafort.

00:27:02.000 And this fake dossier, which was spread even before the infamous Steel dossier, the PP dossier that Jake Tapper loves so much and thinks about every single night while he's lying in bed, that the black ledger was a false document created by that very same organization of which I just spoke, the SBU, in Ukraine.

00:27:23.000 It was then laundered through Ukrainian politicians and used to claim that Paul Manafort was on some kind of Russian payroll.

00:27:29.000 Due to this scandal, Paul Manafort was actually, he actually had to step down as the head of the Trump campaign in the middle of the election.

00:27:38.000 So, Charlie, no, this wouldn't be the first time that the Ukrainians have done something like this, if so. 0.97

00:27:43.000 So now it's good time.

00:27:45.000 Blake, give us the facts.

00:27:46.000 What is Russell Brand being accused of?

00:27:48.000 So one of the things that's interesting is it's all from the UK, which Russell Brand's British.

00:27:54.000 That would make sense.

00:27:54.000 And it's three different publications.

00:27:56.000 The Times, UK, I can't remember the others.

00:27:58.000 I think one might be The Express.

00:28:01.000 And they come out with this set of allegations against him over the weekend, I believe.

00:28:06.000 And it's essentially, we got all of these women who say that Russell Brand was abusive. 0.70

00:28:13.000 One was a teenage girl who says that she was groomed for sex by.

00:28:19.000 Wait, the age is important.

00:28:20.000 No, I'll get to that.

00:28:21.000 I'll get to that. 1.00

00:28:21.000 She says she was groomed for sex by Russell Brand. 1.00

00:28:23.000 She was 16.

00:28:24.000 That is legal in the UK.

00:28:25.000 So it was perfectly legal.

00:28:27.000 But she says, like, you know, it was still an age gap.

00:28:29.000 It was exploitative grooming, whatever.

00:28:32.000 Several say that he sexually assaulted them.

00:28:35.000 For full context, Russell Brand has basically always been forthright, that he was like very promiscuous as a young man, went through a lot of relationships. 0.84

00:28:44.000 I think he said he was a sex addict.

00:28:46.000 Obviously, he's a pretty charismatic guy and not the worst looking guy.

00:28:50.000 So he would probably be able to have as many consensual relationships as he would like as a young man.

00:28:56.000 But they're coming out with all of this.

00:28:58.000 The most recent allegations go up only to a decade ago.

00:29:02.000 And on top of that, two things really have to be highlighted here, which is one, none of these women came forward on their own.

00:29:10.000 The publications set out to write something about Russell Brand. 0.99

00:29:13.000 It wasn't opposition research.

00:29:14.000 It was Oppo research.

00:29:15.000 100%.

00:29:16.000 The publications contacted women to get them to attack Russell Brand.

00:29:20.000 There was no, this did not start because a woman contacted a publication.

00:29:24.000 And then second, multiple of these women, most of whom are still anonymous, by the way, multiple of these women explicitly say they did this because they were upset about, like the political, his politics, like literally like.

00:29:36.000 And then I saw his, his rumble video about Ukraine and I realized what happened to Go wasn't what happened 15 years ago, that wasn't love, that was rape and that's like literally what this story is.

00:29:48.000 And we have the British government sending letters to TikTok, sending letters to Rumble, that are explicitly asking them like, are you doing things to keep him from monetizing this?

00:29:58.000 I'm gonna say I'm gonna be pretty bold here.

00:29:59.000 I'm gonna need some really convincing evidence, like I'm gonna need like video evidence of Russell Brand raping somebody, because I inherently don't believe this, like I just at surface level do not believe it real.

00:30:10.000 That's what it should be in general.

00:30:11.000 No, I'm just being honest, like I, years ago I thought Russell Brand was like obnoxiously liberal.

00:30:16.000 I think he's been courageous on the COVID stuff, outspoken against the pharmaceutical industrial complex.

00:30:21.000 I think he's hilarious, I think he's interesting and I said this on the program before and Andrew, you're kind of like our Hollywood person, Russell Brand A-list, A list like double A list.

00:30:32.000 Right, this is not just ahead of time.

00:30:33.000 Yeah there, I mean he.

00:30:34.000 He started get him Greek with Jonah Hill, forgetting Sarah Marshall, but also he had his comedy special.

00:30:40.000 Yeah, he was on Death In The Nile recently as a cameo appearance.

00:30:43.000 You just don't get that as some sort of consolation prize.

00:30:46.000 He was big, by the way.

00:30:47.000 Yeah no, he was great right, Jack?

00:30:48.000 I mean, that's not just a consolation prize.

00:30:50.000 The point is that he's really good now.

00:30:51.000 It's like a serious role.

00:30:52.000 Russell Brand was Top of the line, regime approved.

00:30:59.000 It's, you know, kind of funny.

00:31:00.000 Oh, I know what I'm thinking.

00:31:02.000 I know what I want.

00:31:03.000 Ryan, check out Russell Brand one year ago on Morning Joe.

00:31:06.000 Did you see this?

00:31:07.000 Where Mika was fawning over him?

00:31:09.000 Oh, we got to resurrect that clip.

00:31:11.000 Get that one.

00:31:12.000 Did you see the old one?

00:31:14.000 I think it was more than one year ago.

00:31:15.000 No, no, it was about a year ago.

00:31:16.000 I remember seeing it live.

00:31:18.000 I remember seeing it live when he was, and Mika was like all over him. 1.00

00:31:22.000 And so, look, I just want to say, I don't believe any of these allegations against Russell Brand.

00:31:28.000 And Russell is going to learn something, and he's going to learn it the hard way.

00:31:32.000 And I don't want him to learn anything the hard way, which is the liberals are going to abandon him here.

00:31:37.000 And only the right-wingers of the West will come to his defense.

00:31:41.000 Is that fair, Jack?

00:31:42.000 I wish that wasn't the case.

00:31:44.000 We've seen it a million times, though.

00:31:46.000 I will say that of the way that he's dealt.

00:31:49.000 Right.

00:31:50.000 That's true, Rose McGowan.

00:31:52.000 I will say, though, that the way that he's handled this is A, just A plus at this point in terms of get out before it takes place.

00:32:03.000 And then you actually saw Dave Portnoy, who I'm no fan of, actually copied the same Russell Brand playbook with Master Classic.

00:32:11.000 Which is good response.

00:32:12.000 I'm just saying good comms is good comms.

00:32:13.000 So when I see it, I'm going to call it what it is.

00:32:16.000 So him getting out in front of it, doing the video, explaining to everybody what this was all about, explaining where it was coming from.

00:32:23.000 That's what you do.

00:32:25.000 Never hide.

00:32:26.000 Never let your enemy control the narrative.

00:32:28.000 Never let your enemy define you.

00:32:30.000 Never let your enemy be the one in charge of the operation because you are in information warfare.

00:32:36.000 This is fourth-generational warfare.

00:32:39.000 In order to do that, what did he do?

00:32:40.000 He took the wind out of their sales.

00:32:42.000 He reframed the argument as there's a hit piece coming after me.

00:32:45.000 This takes away the element of surprise.

00:32:47.000 Then what happens next?

00:32:49.000 Then we start looking at it skeptically.

00:32:51.000 So we're already primed to look at this skeptically.

00:32:53.000 It doesn't come as a shock.

00:32:54.000 There's no shock value to it whatsoever.

00:32:56.000 What we find is that this is a situation, and a hat tip to Scott Adams for pointing this out.

00:33:02.000 You know, Charlie, we know that journalism and newsrooms have been getting gutted for the last decade across the entire world.

00:33:10.000 You just don't see investigative journalism in those days.

00:33:13.000 Not all news is bad.

00:33:15.000 Yeah, I know.

00:33:16.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:33:17.000 But you just don't see investigative journalism anymore.

00:33:19.000 It's just, it's not the same level it used to be.

00:33:22.000 It's not the same.

00:33:23.000 The price tag on it is much, much higher.

00:33:25.000 Usually it's just reports of somebody said something on Twitter and now I'm going to write up what he said and I'm going to get a bunch of clicks off of that and that's my job.

00:33:32.000 You hire a bunch of 20-somethings using ChatGPT to do it for you. 0.92

00:33:35.000 But when it comes to Russell Brand or Tucker Carlson or Elon Musk or Donald Trump, suddenly there's a limitless budget to how much investigation you can do and that you can even go down and knock on the doors of people who aren't complaining.

00:33:50.000 Do you have any idea how expensive and how much time it takes to find people who are not complaining and get them to come forward?

00:33:57.000 Here's, look, let's be honest.

00:33:59.000 Russell Brand would not have been touched ever if he would have just said, get the jab.

00:34:04.000 Zelensky is great.

00:34:06.000 Wear the mask and lock it down.

00:34:08.000 100%.

00:34:09.000 Here's Morning Mika.

00:34:09.000 All right.

00:34:11.000 I'm sorry, this is from a decade ago.

00:34:12.000 It resurfaced last year.

00:34:14.000 I apologize.

00:34:15.000 So let's play Cut 123.

00:34:17.000 Katie Kay and Brian Chackman are here as well.

00:34:19.000 And he already told Brian that he might want to disrobe.

00:34:22.000 I'm just saying.

00:34:23.000 I just thought maybe I could loosen up a little, show a little more chest here.

00:34:25.000 And he said, maybe I should have told you.

00:34:26.000 I only think Russell couldn't do that.

00:34:27.000 You look fantastic.

00:34:28.000 Put him on the table. 0.81

00:34:29.000 Kinky Boots. 0.98

00:34:30.000 Wow.

00:34:31.000 There are some boots.

00:34:32.000 Super nice.

00:34:34.000 You also look beautiful.

00:34:36.000 Okay, Russell.

00:34:37.000 It's like your desk is a puzzle.

00:34:39.000 I'm sorry about that.

00:34:39.000 It is.

00:34:40.000 What is a solution?

00:34:42.000 I think we've tried to walk back in. 0.86

00:34:44.000 There you go, be careful because that's a low-cut dress.

00:34:48.000 Sorry. 0.87

00:34:48.000 Okay. 0.87

00:34:49.000 I'm not flash and blood.

00:34:50.000 I've got instincts.

00:34:51.000 Oh, okay.

00:34:53.000 Tell me what you need to know.

00:34:55.000 I'm just sort of taking it all in.

00:34:57.000 I kind of like that.

00:34:59.000 Okay, so I'm going to play 124 here.

00:35:00.000 The point I'm playing for this, number one, the media all knew that he was a little bit of a tomcat.

00:35:05.000 I'm putting it nicely.

00:35:06.000 Frank confession, that is the longest Russell Brand clip I have ever seen.

00:35:09.000 Oh, is that right?

00:35:10.000 I've never seen a single Russell Brand movie.

00:35:12.000 Stand-up.

00:35:14.000 I think he's legitimately a plus talent.

00:35:16.000 The guy's got a gift.

00:35:17.000 Here's Morning Mika.

00:35:18.000 His interviews are.

00:35:19.000 Yeah, no, here's Morning Mika fantasizing she could be with Russell Brand with a water bottle.

00:35:23.000 Play Cut 124.

00:35:25.000 You've become nervous.

00:35:26.000 Why are you nervous?

00:35:28.000 You're a powerful woman. 0.59

00:35:29.000 You've got a lovely job.

00:35:30.000 What seems to be the trouble?

00:35:32.000 You've got hair like Princess Diane.

00:35:34.000 Oh, wow.

00:35:35.000 Okay.

00:35:35.000 You're ovulating.

00:35:37.000 Don't be nervous.

00:35:37.000 Starts in August.

00:35:38.000 Don't think about what I'm wearing.

00:35:40.000 What seems to be the trouble, Look?

00:35:41.000 No, I'm good.

00:35:42.000 I'm now going to do it.

00:35:43.000 What do you think that gesture means, the way you're touching that bowl?

00:35:45.000 What does that indicate?

00:35:47.000 What is that?

00:35:48.000 What's the subtext of that?

00:35:49.000 Oh, my God.

00:35:50.000 More morning, Joe, in just a moment.

00:35:53.000 Yeah, I don't think there's ever going to be a case where something's like not consensual.

00:35:58.000 Exactly.

00:35:59.000 That's what I'm trying to get.

00:36:00.000 The guy is like the... 0.94

00:36:02.000 I mean, look, I say this in the least gay possible way.

00:36:04.000 He's like super charming, right? 0.98

00:36:06.000 This is like the biggest chad in the universe.

00:36:08.000 Yeah, I mean, he's just like total alpha.

00:36:10.000 He's got the British accent.

00:36:12.000 What?

00:36:13.000 That straight men can appreciate other men as being good looking?

00:36:17.000 No, no, no.

00:36:18.000 I'm not making the Hellenistic argument here, Charlie.

00:36:22.000 What I'm saying is, is the real thought crime is that what determines whether or not those statements are harassment?

00:36:30.000 It is not the statements themselves.

00:36:32.000 It is not the person who is making them.

00:36:34.000 It is the person listening to them.

00:36:36.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:36:36.000 Can determine whether or not, in this case, Mika Brzezinski, because when I was a Navy officer, do you have any idea how many times we had to sit through the annual and then quarterly trainings on what you're allowed to say on the ship, what you're not allowed to say on the ship, et cetera, et cetera, red light behavior, yellow behavior, green behavior, all this other stuff.

00:36:54.000 But it's like he's up there and he's breaking all the rules and she's just laughing and going along with it.

00:36:58.000 And it's totally fine because she's determined it's okay.

00:37:02.000 But if this were Donald Trump saying all those things, and of course, and I just use him as a stand, I'm not trying to do the cliche thing.

00:37:08.000 But if that were someone she didn't like who is saying the exact same things in the exact same manner, if that show is done in New York, she could file charges against him.

00:37:18.000 Absolutely.

00:37:19.000 Or as it turns out in this one, where, you know, a decade later, he says something about the vaccine and you realize that it was sexual harassment at the time.

00:37:26.000 Exactly.

00:37:26.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:37:27.000 That's right.

00:37:28.000 So, I mean, look, they're going to try to take him out.

00:37:31.000 He's handling it really well.

00:37:34.000 And just add this to the list.

00:37:37.000 Elon Musk under criminal investigation for some sort of corporate perk thing.

00:37:40.000 The guy's worth $260 billion.

00:37:42.000 Okay.

00:37:43.000 If there was a problem, why wouldn't the IRS contact him?

00:37:45.000 Department of Justice for corporate perk paperwork.

00:37:48.000 It was worse than that.

00:37:48.000 It was like Tesla's like buying him a glass house because, you know, if he lives in a glass house, he can't throw stones at the government.

00:37:55.000 And, you know, it's like, oh, they screwed up the compensation package, which is usually done by the corporate.

00:38:00.000 Tesla, it goes public 15 years ago or so.

00:38:03.000 Tesla goes public worth $2.5 billion.

00:38:06.000 It is now worth $850 billion.

00:38:08.000 It is topped at over a trillion dollars.

00:38:11.000 I think the median Tesla investor is pretty happy with how Elon Musk has run his company.

00:38:17.000 No, but that gets you a criminal investigation by the Southern District of New York, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:38:22.000 And you're also getting sued at SpaceX because they didn't hire enough refugees for their super sensitive space rocketry program where you're not allowed to employ non-U.S. persons for it.

00:38:34.000 And they interpreted that as we can't employ refugees.

00:38:36.000 And so the DOJ just swoops in, sues them, wants them to take all of their money that they're using to develop the super special rockets that we use to shoot things to the moon.

00:38:44.000 And they're like, no, you have to pay $5 million in back salary to every refugee who applied to work at SpaceX wasn't hired.

00:38:52.000 Go ahead.

00:38:53.000 And just like, and again, like the hit job, you know, I want to read, if I can, this letter.

00:38:58.000 Just give me a moment to bring it up.

00:39:00.000 But actually, maybe you should talk to me.

00:39:04.000 But I mean, let's just be honest.

00:39:06.000 Okay.

00:39:06.000 This is a total thought crime.

00:39:08.000 The way that morning joke, the way that most women think this, they wish they could get in a sexual relationship with Russell Brand. 0.94

00:39:14.000 Okay. 1.00

00:39:15.000 Like these people are liars. 1.00

00:39:17.000 Women fawn over this guy. 1.00

00:39:18.000 Look at Mika. 1.00

00:39:19.000 She was like melting. 1.00

00:39:20.000 I mean, so give me a break. 0.90

00:39:22.000 You're trying to tell me Russell Brand has to get down to the level of rape. 0.97

00:39:25.000 You're lying. 0.99

00:39:26.000 You are lying.

00:39:27.000 Okay. 1.00

00:39:28.000 You are a liar when you are coming to Russell Brand. 0.99

00:39:30.000 Yes, that might be a thought crime. 0.99

00:39:32.000 I don't care.

00:39:33.000 Harvey Weinstein, totally see that. 1.00

00:39:35.000 Guy's a slob. 0.99

00:39:36.000 He's like overweight. 1.00

00:39:38.000 He's awful. 0.95

00:39:39.000 I totally understand. 0.98

00:39:40.000 I totally see the rape using power authority. 0.91

00:39:43.000 You're trying to tell me that Russell Brand needs to like resort to like strong patriarchy tactics. 1.00

00:39:49.000 The guy walks in the room and the women are taking off their clothes.

00:39:52.000 This is what's different about this situation, I think, than the purely American context, too, by the way, of Me Too.

00:40:00.000 Now, we can all agree that Me Too got completely unhinged and deranged.

00:40:04.000 You know, it really did.

00:40:06.000 It just flew off the rails.

00:40:06.000 All women believe all women, whatever.

00:40:08.000 All right.

00:40:09.000 But what's interesting here is that now you have the UK is sending out letters to Rumble and to YouTube to demonetize them without even being convicted of it.

00:40:23.000 That's even worse than that.

00:40:24.000 The Associated Press today is writing a whole story on Rumble because of the Russell Brand thing.

00:40:27.000 So all the power sources are coming after Rumble.

00:40:30.000 Exactly.

00:40:30.000 It's really about Rumble.

00:40:33.000 This is the letter yesterday that the chair of Culture, Media, and Sport Committee of the British Parliament sends to Rumble.

00:40:41.000 So communist.

00:40:42.000 Where it says, let's see.

00:40:44.000 We are also looking at Mr. Brand's use of social media, including on Rumble, where he issued his preemptive response to the accusations made against him by the Sunday Times and Channel 4's dispatches, which Channel 4, I believe, is like a British government-funded news outlet, by the way.

00:40:59.000 While we recognize that Rumble is not the creator of the content published by Mr. Brand, we are concerned that he may be able to profit from his content on the platform.

00:41:10.000 This is a person who has not been convicted of any crime.

00:41:13.000 I don't even know if he's been charged with any crime yet.

00:41:16.000 And they're just like, oh, well, he got these accusations.

00:41:19.000 So we need to delete him from the ability to make money.

00:41:22.000 And then we're claiming that, you know, Vladimir Putin and the Chinese are threats to free expression. 1.00

00:41:27.000 And meanwhile, we just have the British government going around and like vaporizing anyone that they feel like.

00:41:31.000 But put this in the European context, we just had this incident.

00:41:36.000 We haven't really talked much about it in Spain where the Spanish women, National Women's Cup team wins, and the president of the Spanish Professional Women's Soccer League or whatever, in a moment of exuberance.

00:41:53.000 Like if you play the clipback, maybe Ryan, you can get it.

00:41:56.000 It happened so fast.

00:41:57.000 It was like a moment of exuberance.

00:41:59.000 Well, it was a peck, a peck.

00:42:01.000 And if you've, I've lived in Spain for a year.

00:42:04.000 Condolences.

00:42:05.000 I'm telling you, those people peck all the time.

00:42:07.000 They kiss all the time. 0.99

00:42:08.000 They just won.

00:42:09.000 They just won for the first time in their nation.

00:42:12.000 This is hilarious.

00:42:13.000 Europe is like way more sexually liberated, liberated, liberal than America.

00:42:18.000 And now they're not, apparently.

00:42:19.000 Well, America's still American.

00:42:21.000 They walk around that is what I was saying.

00:42:23.000 The truth is, is like America's most toxic ideas go there.

00:42:26.000 You guys are talking over each other.

00:42:28.000 Yeah, what are you saying, Jack?

00:42:28.000 Okay.

00:42:30.000 No, no, I just, this just tying it back to what I said before is it is perfectly acceptable until the female decides it is not acceptable. 1.00

00:42:40.000 So she might do that, that same type of thing, or that guy may have done that 10 times before, but the 11th time when she decides that time is unacceptable, even though all the other times were fine, then it becomes a scandal because she made the decision because that's the way that our laws are written. 0.99

00:42:57.000 That's the way that our statutes are written on this.

00:42:59.000 That's the way our policies are written on this. 0.92

00:43:01.000 It is completely female-centric where women have all the control and is completely subjective for men. 0.98

00:43:06.000 Yet they can't tell you what a woman actually is. 0.99

00:43:08.000 Let's play cut 117.

00:43:10.000 I've brought some facts.

00:43:12.000 The pandemic created at least 40 new big pharma billionaires.

00:43:15.000 Pharmaceutical corporations like Moderna and Pfizer made $1,000 of profit every second from the COVID-19 vaccine.

00:43:20.000 More than two-thirds of Congress receives campaign funding from pharmaceutical companies in the 2020 election.

00:43:26.000 Pfizer chairman Albert Baller told Time magazine in July 2020 that his company was developing the COVID vaccine for the good of humanity, not for money.

00:43:33.000 And of course, Pfizer made $100 billion in profit in 2022.

00:43:38.000 And may I just mention that finally, and this is also a fact, that you, the American public, funded the development of that.

00:43:45.000 The German public funded the bioNTech vaccine.

00:43:48.000 When it came to the profits, they took the profits.

00:43:50.000 When it came to the funding, you paid for the funding.

00:43:53.000 As if you have an economic system in which pharmaceutical companies benefit hugely from medical emergencies, where a military-industrial complex benefits from war, where energy companies benefit from energy crises, you are going to generate states of perpetual crisis for the interests of ordinary people.

00:44:12.000 Separate from the interests of the elite.

00:44:15.000 You can see why they're taking him out.

00:44:16.000 He's way too, man, way too outspoken for the regime.

00:44:20.000 You cannot have an A-lister speaking like that.

00:44:22.000 But here's the thing.

00:44:24.000 I can't get over just how ferocious this has come down on him.

00:44:28.000 If you go through like a TikTok of all the allegations, it's like the specialist sex crime squad in the UK is now helping to investigate the damning allegations against Russell Brand.

00:44:38.000 It emerged Thursday.

00:44:40.000 You've got, what is this?

00:44:43.000 Russell Brand, big tech is coming down on him, demonetized.

00:44:47.000 Now they're coming after Rumble and X.

00:44:49.000 Now they want to talk to X because Elon Musk came out in his defense 38 minutes after the allegations rose.

00:44:57.000 Russell Brand accused of exposing his Willie to women, laughing about it on radio show.

00:45:02.000 Katy Perry called him a rasputin, and now that's come to light from 2013.

00:45:06.000 That's his former wife, like Katy Perry.

00:45:09.000 Oh, gosh, I have stories about Katie Perry. 1.00

00:45:11.000 Like she's some model of she's trying to steal a piece of property from a veteran in dementia in Santa Barbara right now.

00:45:18.000 Yeah, I know this.

00:45:19.000 I know about that story.

00:45:21.000 I will tell you, listen, I once upon a time lived in L.A. That's why I said you're our Hollywood guy.

00:45:28.000 I ran into Katy Perry at a party, and without giving details about it, I will just tell you, Charlie Kirk, that lady, whatever Russell Brand did, she was matching him step for step in those days.

00:45:40.000 I will tell you that, my counterpoint on that property, California girls, they're undeniable. 0.95

00:45:46.000 Fine, fresh, fierce.

00:45:48.000 They got it on lock.

00:45:50.000 So it seems like it's just, he's never seen Russell Brand, and he's quoting.

00:45:54.000 He quoted Carrie songs from 2011.

00:45:58.000 Suddenly, the only single guy on this show is becoming a little bit more suspicious as the episodes of thought crime, as we plumb the depths of thought crime here and the cerebral criminality.

00:46:11.000 I just got to be honest.

00:46:13.000 This Russell Brand one is a big deal to me.

00:46:15.000 Not because I'm a big Russell Brand fan, not because I've ever followed him that closely, not because I, but this is somebody who just happened to have a change of opinion.

00:46:25.000 Commit the crime of noticing, we will destroy you.

00:46:29.000 Yeah. 0.92

00:46:29.000 But look at this too. 0.92

00:46:30.000 He's now, he's married.

00:46:32.000 He's got a kid and another one on the way.

00:46:34.000 He's got a solid home life for like the first time in his life.

00:46:39.000 He's everything in his own personal ecosystem.

00:46:43.000 He always is going well. 1.00

00:46:45.000 He always admitted that he was a disgusting, vile human being. 0.99

00:46:49.000 He bragged about it and they cheered him on. 0.99

00:46:52.000 And now they're rewriting history again.

00:46:55.000 I mean, frankly, it's no different than the liberals tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln.

00:47:00.000 They're like, they're retroactively applying new rules to an old situation that they themselves cheered on.

00:47:06.000 And it's actually infuriating for that.

00:47:08.000 But I mean, we obviously don't condone sexual assaults.

00:47:12.000 He didn't do it.

00:47:13.000 But that's what I'm saying. 1.00

00:47:14.000 These women are lying. 0.99

00:47:16.000 I could say that confidently that they all come out at the same time. 0.85

00:47:20.000 And they even say it's because of their politics, right, Blake?

00:47:23.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:47:23.000 They're liars. 0.99

00:47:24.000 And by the way, I just, I refuse to believe that Russell Brand, who could have any woman in the world, somehow sexually assaulted women. 0.99

00:47:31.000 And it all comes out at the same time, coordinated when he happened to speak out against the Ukraine war, happened to be speaking out against Pharma.

00:47:38.000 And after Sarah Ashley said that a predator or that a puppet was going to put those down.

00:47:46.000 There's so much sick about it.

00:47:48.000 You get these spin-off hit pieces.

00:47:50.000 So we have like wired.com, the dark economics of Russell Brand.

00:47:54.000 Russell Brand.

00:47:55.000 You guys can bring it up on the screen, actually.

00:47:57.000 I've got it right here.

00:47:58.000 Russell Brand has built a massive following on YouTube and Rumble with his conspiracy-laden vehicles, videos.

00:48:05.000 He says the mainstream is out to get him.

00:48:07.000 But is it all just a grift?

00:48:09.000 Like a grift.

00:48:10.000 The dude has about 10 million Twitter followers or X followers, I guess we call it now.

00:48:16.000 He has six and a half million subs on YouTube.

00:48:18.000 Like they're basically Wired is mad that he can make any video he wants on YouTube and it will instantly be seen by more people than any Wired article ever written.

00:48:28.000 To the point, he's a great student, man.

00:48:31.000 To the point there, what's the grift?

00:48:33.000 Russell Brand, and Charlie, you just explained this, has been in movies and he's continued his career up through this.

00:48:40.000 It's not like he was suffering from some kind of dearth of popularity like so many of these other actors that turn to left-wing causes like you've seen over the years because they can't get work anymore.

00:48:51.000 So they have to constantly try to reinvent themselves through the climate, through antinatalism, like Ashley Judd did, et cetera, et cetera.

00:48:57.000 No, he's still been making great movies.

00:49:00.000 He's been in top features right up until one thing came out a year or two ago, the Death of Nile.

00:49:05.000 And so, no, I don't think this is a grift.

00:49:09.000 I think that he is just working through coming from where he came from, grew up without a father, thought he had one view of the world, and now he's discovering that there's another one.

00:49:20.000 I think it's genuine.

00:49:21.000 I really do.

00:49:21.000 And like the use of the word grift is so malicious there because like actual grift, you know, that refers to like getting money from people in like a scam sort of way.

00:49:29.000 So like you run a political organization that's like, we're going to stop Obama's commie agenda or whatever.

00:49:36.000 And, you know, you just blow it on fake stuff and you never achieve anything.

00:49:38.000 That's a grift.

00:49:39.000 Russell Brand is, I think he has like a pay-per-view show on Rumble, which you don't need to pay for.

00:49:44.000 You can still get almost all of his shows for free.

00:49:46.000 And he has a podcast and he has YouTube.

00:49:48.000 He also goes on tour and sells out.

00:49:50.000 Yeah.

00:49:50.000 So they all voluntarily want to hear from him.

00:49:52.000 The grift does people want to watch a Russell Brand show.

00:49:54.000 It's like calling The Simpsons a grift.

00:49:57.000 Like, because you watched an episode of it.

00:49:59.000 Yeah.

00:49:59.000 You know, I think you're like, don't watch it.

00:50:02.000 And absolutely true.

00:50:03.000 Like, I actually get really upset with the accusation of grift, by the way.

00:50:08.000 First of all, if you are talented and you are making content, you absolutely should get paid.

00:50:13.000 Not only you should, we need you to get paid.

00:50:16.000 We need every single active.

00:50:20.000 Oh, I hate it.

00:50:21.000 If you are not getting paid, you cannot survive.

00:50:24.000 If you cannot survive doing good work, spreading good messages, the Conservative Party is so guilty of this, and it pisses me off.

00:50:31.000 If you are calling people grifters out of jealousy, shame on you.

00:50:34.000 We need people to be able to survive doing content.

00:50:37.000 We need people to survive being able to be activists.

00:50:40.000 And shame on you for shaming people for doing it.

00:50:44.000 It's a new thing.

00:50:45.000 It's really bad.

00:50:47.000 Rush never experienced that.

00:50:48.000 Rush was always open about how much money he was making.

00:50:50.000 And everyone's like, yeah, you're popular.

00:50:52.000 He's like, I'm going to try and buy an NFL tissue.

00:50:53.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:50:54.000 Conservatism boat.

00:50:56.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:50:58.000 But now it's this new thing that if anybody makes any money, it's like, what is it called?

00:51:02.000 Tall poppy syndrome?

00:51:03.000 Yes, right.

00:51:03.000 It's a New Zealand thing.

00:51:04.000 Explain what that is.

00:51:05.000 Tall poppy syndrome is basically a New Zealand thing.

00:51:07.000 Well, no, the expression is kiwi, as far as I know.

00:51:11.000 Okay.

00:51:11.000 But it, but yeah, the poppies grow in Holland or whatever.

00:51:15.000 So it's like, but here's the thing.

00:51:17.000 The poppy field, if you look at them, and you can see this up in Washington State as well, they'll grow at a very even level.

00:51:24.000 Equitable.

00:51:25.000 So if one poppy grows too tall, the other poppy somewhere is like a connected organism.

00:51:31.000 Yeah, they will force the other poppy to stay stunted until the other ones grow up to its level.

00:51:37.000 So that's why every poppy field you see is at the same level.

00:51:42.000 And tulips as well do the same thing.

00:51:43.000 Oh, well, tulips would be more Dutch. 1.00

00:51:45.000 Yeah, that would be right.

00:51:46.000 Yes.

00:51:47.000 The Japanese version is the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

00:51:51.000 Yep.

00:51:52.000 Saying Japanese people are short, Blake? 1.00

00:51:53.000 Is that what you're saying?

00:51:54.000 Yes.

00:51:54.000 Yes, I am.

00:51:55.000 The average Japanese soldier in World War II was a four foot 10 man with no food and a ton of meth. 1.00

00:52:00.000 That's how they were able to hide in the forests of Guam for so many years.

00:52:04.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:52:04.000 You know, just to come out 30 years later and, you know, after the meth dried up.

00:52:08.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:52:09.000 After the meth dried out and they finally, you know, had to had to eat after their diet of, you know, 200 calories a day ran out.

00:52:15.000 Okay.

00:52:15.000 I don't know that I'm convinced that they were all lying.

00:52:18.000 I'm sure that Russell Brand did some things that were completely scumbaggy.

00:52:23.000 But what I am convinced of is that this is a coordinated hit.

00:52:26.000 This is an absolute result of him becoming more free thinking and anti-war, anti-vaccine.

00:52:34.000 This is absolutely an attempt to bring him down and to keep him from being so effective.

00:52:40.000 He's the type of voice, right?

00:52:43.000 I think different voices play different roles.

00:52:45.000 Yes, on our shows, we convert people.

00:52:48.000 We red pill them all the time.

00:52:50.000 But there is almost like a top of funnel effect to guys like Russell Brand and Joe Rogan, where they get them primed for seeing the world a different way, for exposing the corruption of the fake news media.

00:53:01.000 That's the other thing he does better than just about anybody.

00:53:03.000 He will take a full episode going over one BS New York Times article and he will call it out point by point.

00:53:10.000 And it's really expert.

00:53:12.000 I mean, hilarious.

00:53:13.000 No, and so the point is, I buy into all of that.

00:53:17.000 And I buy into the fact that this absolute dogmatic, insane, believe all women, now we're going to sick the UK government on it, just like the Spanish government's now involved in this one peck that lasted 0.5, not even 0.5. 1.00

00:53:34.000 Publicly, too, by the way. 1.00

00:53:35.000 Publicly, after a victory, we win the Women's World Cup and it's all derailed because of one neurotic woman. 0.99

00:53:45.000 This is completely, this is astro turf attack against him, and I find it despicable. 1.00

00:53:52.000 But I found, listen, he's been honest about it.

00:53:55.000 So, anyways, I digress.

00:53:57.000 And it's because of his politics.

00:53:58.000 And look, so Russell, you have allies in us, man.

00:54:00.000 And it's too bad that you have to go through this.

00:54:02.000 All right, Jack, let's play this one more piece of tape here.

00:54:05.000 You know, so they contacted the young ladies who Russell Brand slept with, which there are lots of, right?

00:54:10.000 He's like Sultan Brunei, Genghis Khan, King Solomon level.

00:54:13.000 Yes.

00:54:13.000 He was open about it, though, by the way.

00:54:15.000 And he's fixed it, right?

00:54:18.000 Allegedly.

00:54:19.000 I wish him well in his recovering sex addiction.

00:54:21.000 Yeah, he's like, no, I'm not joking. 0.99

00:54:23.000 He says he's a sex addict. 0.64

00:54:25.000 But this young lady says, look, yeah, we had a relationship and it was great.

00:54:29.000 But that wasn't put in the article.

00:54:30.000 Play cut 125.

00:54:32.000 I actually know who this is about.

00:54:34.000 And I have the receipts.

00:54:36.000 I was contacted in June by a journalist regarding a video I made about a certain celebrity and a weekend that we shared together.

00:54:45.000 The video is kind of viral.

00:54:46.000 It's on my page somewhere if you want to go see it.

00:54:49.000 And that certain somebody was, as most of you will be aware, Mr. Brand.

00:54:54.000 They weren't going to use my story because it didn't fit the narrative for their documentary because he wasn't an asshole to me. 0.93

00:55:03.000 But here are some of the messages.

00:55:05.000 Obviously, I will take out the person's name and stuff.

00:55:09.000 We had a phone call.

00:55:10.000 She contacted me for more information and I didn't contact her back because I kind of felt like it would be mean.

00:55:17.000 Anyway, there you go.

00:55:18.000 Put your bets on.

00:55:19.000 It's a documentary about the one and only Mr. Russell Brand.

00:55:23.000 And just a fun fact, astrology-wise, the lunar nodes of Destiny have shifted into Aries right on top of his Mars and Moon.

00:55:32.000 Brittany in the stars, baby.

00:55:34.000 Okay, bye.

00:55:36.000 Whoa.

00:55:36.000 The lunar charts have shifted to Aries, guys.

00:55:41.000 I think we just found the new thought crime segment.

00:55:43.000 Yeah, I can see why her and Russell got along.

00:55:44.000 Yeah, 100%.

00:55:46.000 I mean, I guess, you know, a truth here is like, if you're a guy as charismatic as Russell Brand, as attractive as Russell Brand, you create like, I think the slang term that like the insoles on the internet uses like alpha widows, where it's like they have a lot of exes and a lot of these women get really like, some of them were fun.

00:56:03.000 Some of them were like, oh, he was great, you know, like we just had a fun thing together.

00:56:06.000 And then, but some of them just like go insane.

00:56:08.000 Like they couldn't, they couldn't really last.

00:56:10.000 He got married now, right?

00:56:11.000 Yeah, and he got married and he married someone else.

00:56:13.000 He is.

00:56:13.000 And they has definitively, he has definitively rejected them in favor of someone else.

00:56:18.000 Yes.

00:56:18.000 And, you know, they go nuts from it.

00:56:21.000 It doesn't necessarily mean it's all lying, but people, like, you know, they can kind of rationalize things in their head.

00:56:26.000 And, you know, especially with all the politics, especially other women in their ear. 1.00

00:56:30.000 Other women will make other women do crazy things. 0.95

00:56:33.000 I was never, I would never be attracted to a man with those right-wing views.

00:56:37.000 And it must be.

00:56:39.000 Maybe I was great to.

00:56:41.000 You know, if they get to a certain age and those eggs aren't used, they scramble.

00:56:44.000 So that's right.

00:56:46.000 What is that expression? 1.00

00:56:47.000 A woman scorned, Charlie? 0.98

00:56:49.000 A woman scorned. 0.96

00:56:49.000 No fury. 0.96

00:56:50.000 That's right.

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00:58:02.000 Okay, Harry Rogers, or is it Henry?

00:58:04.000 I always get a rule.

00:58:05.000 Henry Rogers.

00:58:05.000 Henry?

00:58:06.000 Because he has the same name as a Daily Caller reporter, also named Henry Rogers.

00:58:09.000 Henry Rogers.

00:58:11.000 Now he's a grifter reporter. 0.95

00:58:13.000 Henry Rogers is a grifter.

00:58:14.000 What's going on, Blake?

00:58:15.000 All right, so Henry Rogers, this is just, I wanted to highlight this today because it is, we need a light story.

00:58:19.000 You know, they're besieging us.

00:58:20.000 They're trying to start a nuclear war.

00:58:22.000 So we have to give the truth about Henry Rogers, or as he's known to the world, Ibram X. Kendi, now the ex-director of the Ibram Kendi Anti-Racist Center.

00:58:31.000 So 2020, everyone was going insane.

00:58:33.000 They were like, they're going to burn down every city.

00:58:35.000 What can we blow money on to prove that we oppose racism?

00:58:38.000 And obviously, they gave, you know, what, $400 million to BLM, a gazillion dollars to the NAACP. 0.89

00:58:45.000 One of the big winners was Ibram X. Kendi, who is kind of, you know, Tanahisi Coates was a big deal like eight years ago, but he wasn't dumb enough. 0.92

00:58:52.000 They needed a dumber Tanahese Coates.

00:58:54.000 So we got Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be Anti-Racist. 0.63

00:58:58.000 That was put on all these reading lists.

00:58:59.000 And they gave him a bunch of money to start an anti-racist center at Boston University.

00:59:04.000 This is started with a, I've got the article here.

00:59:07.000 This was started with a lot of fanfare about three years ago.

00:59:11.000 It got a total of about $43 million in funding from various tech people, various institutions, and they were going to produce all the scholarship on anti-racism.

00:59:22.000 And three years in, they just announced last week that they're basically firing everyone at the center.

00:59:27.000 Money's out, shutting it down.

00:59:29.000 There's recriminations of a toxic culture at the center.

00:59:33.000 Who would have imagined that?

00:59:34.000 And also, some people are wondering where all of the money went because they got $43 million.

00:59:39.000 So, you know, you could pay, you know, 43 people or you could pay 20 people $500,000 a year for two years, and you'd get something out of that, presumably.

00:59:50.000 But what we got out of them was they set up an opinion page at the Boston Globe called The Emancipator.

00:59:55.000 It seems to put out an article a week, roughly.

00:59:59.000 They created a COVID race data tracker to see if black people or Hispanics or whatever were dying more of COVID.

01:00:06.000 That collected data until about March of 2021, and then it stopped.

01:00:11.000 And they hosted, they were scheduling an anti-racist book fair.

01:00:16.000 They held one of them on the internet, an online-only book festival.

01:00:21.000 And then the next one was canceled.

01:00:23.000 And that's pretty much it.

01:00:24.000 That's what they got for $43 million.

01:00:26.000 And so everyone's like, well, wait a minute.

01:00:28.000 So, yeah, yeah.

01:00:28.000 So there's an investigation into this.

01:00:30.000 Now they're investigating.

01:00:31.000 Because maybe they did the BLM thing where the money just went.

01:00:34.000 Yeah.

01:00:35.000 And, you know, the very bland version of it might have been they just literally like they had these hilarious offices like an associate director of narrative.

01:00:43.000 Like they had an entire narratives department, the way that you'd have like a Department of the Treasury, Department of Education, Department of Narrative.

01:00:50.000 Propaganda.

01:00:51.000 And, but they didn't seem to come up with a lot of narratives.

01:00:53.000 We tried to warn these people during Floyda Palooza that this is not going to end well.

01:00:57.000 You know, and get the same at the same thing.

01:00:59.000 This is probably what you were paying for.

01:01:00.000 You were paying to give a bunch of money to be like, oh, you know, anti-racism leader Ibram X. Kendi, author of the author of the brilliant bestseller, How to Be Anti-Racist and possessor of a brilliant 1,000 SAT score, as one of our top intellectuals.

01:01:14.000 That's true, by the way.

01:01:15.000 He got like a 1,000 on the SAT.

01:01:16.000 Well, because it's racist.

01:01:18.000 It's racist.

01:01:18.000 It is racist.

01:01:20.000 The SAT test is absolutely systemically oppressive to non-white. 1.00

01:01:24.000 It is.

01:01:24.000 It asks a lot of things.

01:01:25.000 It asks you to figure, solve for X. Solve for X. X is in his fake name.

01:01:30.000 Solve for X.

01:01:31.000 That could solve for himself?

01:01:35.000 He can't. 0.95

01:01:36.000 So Ibram X. Kendi is legitimately one of the most loathsome people in modern America. 0.57

01:01:41.000 Charlie, do you agree?

01:01:43.000 Yeah, I just want to read this because this is from the Boston local paper.

01:01:46.000 The complaints focused on the center's culture and its grant management practices.

01:01:53.000 Translation?

01:01:54.000 Money.

01:01:55.000 Meaning what they're spending money on and who's getting the money.

01:02:00.000 We previously initiated an examination of those grant management practices, and that will continue.

01:02:06.000 Based on additional information provided to us, we're expanding our inquiry to include the center's management culture and the faculty and staff experience with it.

01:02:16.000 We recognize Dr. Kendi's important work and the significant impact it had on anti-racist thinking and policy.

01:02:23.000 And while he takes strong exception to the allegations made in recent complaints and media reports, we look forward to working with him as we conduct our assessment.

01:02:31.000 Basically, this is Boston University doing the most, like, the lightest kid glove touch possible because they don't want to be called a racist.

01:02:39.000 100%.

01:02:40.000 Like, you just have to be super, super delight for what essentially is.

01:02:43.000 He might be doing illegal stuff, but we love Dr. Kendi.

01:02:47.000 This is the equivalent of L. Ron Hubbard creating like a cult based on, you know, he was a science fiction writer and then he created like a book that, you know, Dianetics.

01:02:58.000 Dianetics that created.

01:03:00.000 I'm not kidding.

01:03:00.000 Listen to this.

01:03:02.000 This sounds like some snake oil salesman and somehow all these liberal white elites just took it, hook, line, and sinker.

01:03:10.000 The only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination.

01:03:17.000 The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.

01:03:22.000 The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.

01:03:26.000 That is an anthem, like a, like a, what do you call it?

01:03:32.000 It's like a spiritual recant, like a cantation in Canada.

01:03:38.000 It is very spooky to me reading that.

01:03:41.000 And then to think that white liberals were hoodwinked into giving this.

01:03:45.000 Jack Dorsey gave him $10 million.

01:03:47.000 Of course he did.

01:03:47.000 Yeah.

01:03:48.000 And, you know, actually, I kind of have, I don't want to say respect, but I kind of like that we got, you know, Mr. Dr. Dr. Rogers because he's sort of, you need these ones who are dumb enough to really just come out and say what it is.

01:04:02.000 Because, you know, with the really sophisticated ones, basically, you know, the, I'm spacing our name, the, you know, how to be the way Robin D'Angelo. 0.52

01:04:13.000 Robin D'Angelo, they're like a lot more like vague about what they want, but he's the one who just kind of dumbly storms ahead.

01:04:19.000 Yeah. 0.96

01:04:19.000 Just like a law just wants black bathrooms and white bathrooms. 0.96

01:04:24.000 Well, he's just not even that.

01:04:25.000 He's just like, a law is racist if it has a different outcome.

01:04:27.000 Ryan, Ryan, you've got to get the clip of where he was asked what racism is and he does the what is a woman thing.

01:04:32.000 He says racism is when you guys are experiencing racism.

01:04:34.000 I remember the clip.

01:04:36.000 And he's just like, and he's like, it's a real thing.

01:04:37.000 It is.

01:04:37.000 And he's just like, we should have a department of anti-racism and they can nullify in the government.

01:04:42.000 And it can nullify any law if it's racist.

01:04:45.000 And a law is racist if it has a different outcome based on race.

01:04:48.000 Spoilers for all of you.

01:04:49.000 Every law ever passed has had different results based on race.

01:04:52.000 They're, you know, they're trying to find the race neutral policy for things.

01:04:56.000 And it's like trying to find the ether.

01:05:00.000 Jack, I feel like all of us combined are like the rush thing.

01:05:03.000 Are we getting sick of doing the I told you so thing?

01:05:06.000 We try to warn people on Ukraine.

01:05:07.000 We try to warn people on vaccines.

01:05:09.000 Try to warn people on masks.

01:05:10.000 Try to warn people on lockdowns.

01:05:12.000 Try to warn people on every one of these possible tensor topics on the border, on Biden, on voter integrity.

01:05:18.000 And yes, we warned people about the grift of the quote-unquote black intellectual movement, Jack Pasobic. 0.98

01:05:26.000 Well, you know, it was interesting because Chris Rufo just brought up my interaction with Kendi and said this was the beginning of the end for Kendi and then quote tweeted it.

01:05:35.000 This is from almost a full two years ago, back October 30th, 2021, where I caught Kendi tweeting something very in a thread and then deleted it very quickly.

01:05:50.000 And so what he had actually said was he found us, he said, he tweeted out this article that said, more than a third of white students lied on their race about college, lied about their race on college applications.

01:06:03.000 And then half of those applicants lied about being Native American.

01:06:06.000 More than three-fourths of the white students who lied about their race were accepted.

01:06:12.000 So then I wrote, Ibram X. Kendi just accidentally admitted that minority applicants have a better chance of getting into college, deleting his tweet, thereby debunking his entire life's work in just one tweet.

01:06:29.000 I remember this.

01:06:31.000 Then Kendi goes, he goes back to me.

01:06:33.000 They're lying about what I said.

01:06:35.000 I posted a tweet about, which shows exactly what he says.

01:06:38.000 Then he replies to this.

01:06:40.000 Here is their tortured line of thinking.

01:06:43.000 When white applicants think they have an advantage about lying about being a person of color, then that means they do have an advantage. 0.98

01:06:50.000 So that means that structural advantage doesn't exist.

01:06:53.000 So then I wrote, and this is the best part.

01:06:55.000 Then I wrote, I broke Kendi and just posted all the tweets.

01:07:00.000 And then Kendi responds the next day, Jack couldn't deny his lie.

01:07:03.000 So this is how he responded.

01:07:05.000 His broke reference has a long history within racist structures.

01:07:09.000 Of course. 0.94

01:07:10.000 White enslavers boasted of breaking black people when they did not break black people. 0.98

01:07:16.000 The resistance never stopped then, and it won't stop today. 0.98

01:07:20.000 He's referring, of course, to the black supremacist conspiracy theory of buck breaking. 0.68

01:07:28.000 So buck breaking is essentially, Charlie, do you know what buck breaking is?

01:07:33.000 No.

01:07:35.000 We're going to have to do, we should do a live reacting to that reaction to that.

01:07:38.000 And if you, I wouldn't want to watch it, but is a black supremacist, a conspiracy theory, even one that includes films that were made by the great Tariq Nasheed, the noted 90s rapper of such great singles as Washio Booty. 0.89

01:07:57.000 So Tariq is now in the black supremacist.

01:07:59.000 I'm not even joking. 0.92

01:08:00.000 Is now in the black supremacist game making videos called buck breaking. 0.99

01:08:04.000 Buck breaking, of course, is when a white slave-owning male would then sexually punish a male slave first by typically flogging him and then subsequently sexually assaulting or raping him in front of other slaves in order to humiliate him. 0.92

01:08:22.000 Now, what's interesting is that even on the on wiktionary.com, it actually states that the term buck breaking comes from the 21st century.

01:08:33.000 Yeah, so he just he believes in this like entirely like cracked out, bizarre internet conspiracy theory, which we have, we have some images, if you want to bring up 128 and 129.

01:08:43.000 So Tariq Nasheed, who was this kind of colorful guy, he appeared on Tucker Carlson a few times.

01:08:48.000 He has a very colorful Twitter presence.

01:08:50.000 Yeah, he makes this bizarre documentary.

01:08:52.000 I actually liked it.

01:08:53.000 I watched it.

01:08:54.000 I watched it.

01:08:55.000 It is a very bizarre, like, you know, it's.

01:08:57.000 You watched it?

01:08:58.000 Yeah.

01:08:59.000 So the thing is, it's kind of like the, it's like the Karen movie that came out on like BET a few years ago.

01:09:05.000 You got to be a glutton for punishment because like the plot of the movie, such as it was as a documentary, is that, you know, this practice, which didn't exist, but supposedly took place in the past.

01:09:15.000 What is that?

01:09:16.000 And that, you know, it exists today. 0.98

01:09:18.000 And like what it is, is like modern elites are trying to turn black men gay to like emasculate the black man. 0.98

01:09:26.000 And this will further sustain. 1.00

01:09:28.000 And black men hate this, by the way. 0.99

01:09:30.000 But there's some truth to that. 0.99

01:09:31.000 Yeah, they all complain that have you ever seen a, it's like every black actor in Hollywood eventually has to dress up like a woman. 1.00

01:09:39.000 Have you guys heard about this?

01:09:40.000 That's right.

01:09:41.000 Dave Chappelle talked about it.

01:09:42.000 He's like, I think it was Dave Chappelle.

01:09:44.000 Maybe it was, I think it was Dave Chappelle.

01:09:47.000 Anyways, it's like every black actor in modern Hollywood at one point or time or another has to play like a female role, like dress up and drag. 0.99

01:09:56.000 Right?

01:09:56.000 It's like a rite of passage.

01:09:58.000 It's crazy, actually.

01:09:59.000 Who besides Eddie Murphy?

01:10:02.000 There's a ton.

01:10:02.000 The guys in white.

01:10:03.000 I like when they say you got to do gay porn before I got to do straight porn because it's kind of like you would know about that, Jack, not me. 0.99

01:10:10.000 I wouldn't know that. 0.99

01:10:10.000 We're all shaking our heads. 0.99

01:10:13.000 Is that a thing, Jack?

01:10:14.000 I don't know.

01:10:14.000 Tell us.

01:10:15.000 Yeah, actually, Jack, can you talk about this for five, ten minutes?

01:10:19.000 I mean, if you need 10 minutes, you know, what can I say that I hear darf, disturbing things on the internet, but sometimes you don't have all the time.

01:10:28.000 Oh, yeah, even here.

01:10:29.000 I've heard about it, guys.

01:10:30.000 Jack does it so you don't have to, folks.

01:10:33.000 So all right.

01:10:35.000 Let's go to the tape of Ibermex Kendi. 0.95

01:10:39.000 Henry Rogers, play cut 127.

01:10:41.000 You talked about the importance of defining racism.

01:10:45.000 I didn't hear your personal definition.

01:10:47.000 Is there one that you would offer us?

01:10:49.000 Like, how do you define racism?

01:10:50.000 Sure.

01:10:51.000 So racism, I would define it as a collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas.

01:11:03.000 And anti-racism is pretty simple using the same terms.

01:11:08.000 Anti-racism is a collection of anti-racist policies leading to racial.

01:11:12.000 Anyone want to take yes?

01:11:13.000 Equity that are substantiated by anti-racist ideas.

01:11:18.000 Give that man $43 million.

01:11:21.000 Look, I'm going to go out on a limb.

01:11:22.000 I don't know, but I would just, I don't know where all that money went.

01:11:28.000 Listen, now that you say it, I'm even more convinced than ever that the SATs is just like straight up, very equitable.

01:11:37.000 We should make a parody.

01:11:40.000 Bring back the IQ test. 0.99

01:11:41.000 They're making the SAT dumber, by the way. 0.99

01:11:43.000 Did you know that? 0.99

01:11:44.000 Like they keep making it.

01:11:45.000 The SAT completely.

01:11:46.000 Lives want to get rid of it completely, but the SAT is trying to keep up. 0.99

01:11:49.000 So they keep making it dumber and dumber. 0.98

01:11:50.000 Like it used to be a pretty good IQ test. 0.98

01:11:52.000 Like only like three people in America would get a perfect score every year.

01:11:56.000 It was really tough to get a high score on it.

01:11:58.000 And they keep like lowering the ceiling to try to because they think if they kind of squash the ceiling, it will wipe out a lot of the disparities.

01:12:05.000 And they are failing at this point.

01:12:06.000 That's such a great lie.

01:12:07.000 The higher you make the standards, the more excellent everybody will become.

01:12:12.000 The lower you make the standards, the more horrible everybody will become.

01:12:15.000 And it is across the board, whether it's academics, whether it's work product, whether it's physical education.

01:12:21.000 You had that one Instagram going back to the 1950s and 60s.

01:12:26.000 We used to be an excellent physical education.

01:12:27.000 That thing did like, what, 4 million views?

01:12:31.000 It's sad the lowering of standards.

01:12:33.000 And Iber X. Kendi is like...

01:12:36.000 What's that?

01:12:37.000 Oh, yeah.

01:12:38.000 I thought we did a thought crime on that, right?

01:12:40.000 We mentioned it.

01:12:41.000 No, I did a whole hour on it. 1.00

01:12:43.000 Why do women need their own category in chess? 1.00

01:12:45.000 Oh. 1.00

01:12:46.000 Yes.

01:12:47.000 That was a great AMA.

01:12:49.000 That was excellent.

01:12:50.000 Yeah.

01:12:50.000 That was one of the, I think, one of the great Charlie Kirk show specialists.

01:12:53.000 Jack, why is it, Jack?

01:12:56.000 Well, I remember what Charlie said on there, and it's that men and women excel in different things.

01:13:01.000 And it's the right answer.

01:13:02.000 Micro and macro is the best way.

01:13:05.000 Men are better at strategy, geopolitics, big picture vision, sports, weather, politics, government.

01:13:11.000 Women are much more in relationships, feelings, conversations. 1.00

01:13:15.000 And chess is very analytical, strategic, and configuration.

01:13:20.000 I'm actually curious, Jack, I'll throw to you.

01:13:22.000 Sorry, sorry to interrupt.

01:13:23.000 I'm curious what our audience thinks about this.

01:13:26.000 Do you agree with the micro-macro thing?

01:13:28.000 It's not a matter of agreement.

01:13:29.000 Well, no, I mean, but is that a good way of explaining it?

01:13:32.000 I mean, when we say these things, women in the audience drop into the comments on Rumble. 0.93

01:13:37.000 Women think macro very poorly. 1.00

01:13:39.000 And men think micro very poorly.

01:13:39.000 They do.

01:13:41.000 It's why men don't clean up that Adam Sol as well. 0.54

01:13:43.000 It's more about like women don't know who fought in World War II.

01:13:46.000 But that's but they know all the neighbors' names and all the cousins' birthdays, and men don't.

01:13:51.000 No, that's what I was going to say: was that this was when in the Intel community, we always knew that if you wanted to target a terrorist network and you really wanted to know who's who in the zoo, you wanted to know everyone, you want to know their relational status, you want to know who liked who, who hated who, you had to find one of the girls.

01:14:07.000 Of course, you had to find someone's wife, you had to find someone's girlfriend, someone who was there to talk to you from the Lord's close to them.

01:14:13.000 And then boom.

01:14:14.000 Like, I could just sense it with my wife, who I'm reasonably assured is not a terrorist.

01:14:18.000 That just in our life, whenever it's somebody's birthday, whenever we have to remember something like that, you tell her one time, one time she will remember every single person in this room, like your daughters, your kids, she remembers all of it.

01:14:34.000 You tell her one time she remembers it.

01:14:35.000 Yeah, Erica's the same way.

01:14:36.000 By the way, we have different gift things, right?

01:14:39.000 If you're trying to find out, you know, who's the person that's going to try to, you know, plot a military strategy or retake Rome, right?

01:14:48.000 Blake, well, then there you go.

01:14:50.000 All right.

01:14:51.000 So here's the, here's the comments.

01:14:52.000 Kiss Asunders 25 says, the brain is different.

01:14:58.000 And then it's me again, Sy says women more closely cluster around the mean of IQ, guys more spread out. 0.87

01:15:07.000 That's very true.

01:15:08.000 That is true.

01:15:09.000 And then there's B Stanford81 says, yep, agree, though, although I tend to think I'm in the middle a little bit, but overall, yes, women think micro, men macro.

01:15:21.000 Don Meeker, I am typically extremely macro.

01:15:25.000 I often annoy the S out of men because they can't hang. 1.00

01:15:29.000 And by the way, that happens, by the way.

01:15:31.000 There's a standard deviation, and then there's people that are outside deviation.

01:15:36.000 I'm usually in my natural state, very macro.

01:15:39.000 But when I go to a, when if I have to go to a social function, I prefer talking to the women on weekends if it's like some family thing because I can't talk politics. 0.85

01:15:47.000 I'm like, because you're talked out, but you're talked out, but you don't have the, you don't have the, you're not, you're not necessarily at our level, right?

01:15:54.000 So they're like, so do you think that Michelle Obama?

01:15:56.000 I'm like, yes, dude, like, please, I'd rather talk to the women. 0.98

01:16:00.000 You know why? 0.97

01:16:00.000 Because the women will tell me my nine-year-old. 0.97

01:16:03.000 No, no, but the nine-year-old, they'll be like, my nine-year-old's getting trans by the local school board.

01:16:06.000 And here's the five people I talked to and had coffee with.

01:16:09.000 And then nine conversation.

01:16:10.000 And like, that's really interesting, right?

01:16:11.000 And the husband, and the husband's like, yeah, I heard about that.

01:16:15.000 And that's wrong.

01:16:16.000 Yes.

01:16:17.000 And it's like, it's totally different.

01:16:18.000 And so for me, that's way more interesting.

01:16:20.000 But I get the same thing because people know what I do for a living.

01:16:22.000 And so they all come up to me and the men want to talk about the macro stuff.

01:16:26.000 That's crazy.

01:16:27.000 I totally get where you're.

01:16:28.000 We've never talked about this.

01:16:29.000 This is actually very interesting.

01:16:30.000 I am the same way.

01:16:31.000 I don't want to talk about like, is Trump going to win?

01:16:35.000 That's the you think we got a chance in 2024?

01:16:38.000 I want to just throw a drink in your face. 0.58

01:16:40.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:16:40.000 Go away. 1.00

01:16:41.000 But it is more interesting when the woman goes, I watched What is a Woman and I think I'm a Republican now. 0.59

01:16:48.000 Or the woman says, I'm having a really hard time with my 11-year-old daughter.

01:16:52.000 And here's the thing she's dealing with.

01:16:52.000 Yes.

01:16:54.000 That's interesting.

01:16:55.000 But the tragedy is, they do also forget about it faster, I think.

01:17:00.000 Women, I just know, I know women who have just seen that.

01:17:02.000 Like, they'll see what is a woman, and they'll be like, that's horrifying. 0.97

01:17:04.000 That's so insane. 0.96

01:17:06.000 And then they just kind of like, they get reminded that Trump is like, well, you know, orange bad man. 0.77

01:17:10.000 And just sort of.

01:17:11.000 Well, this, yeah.

01:17:12.000 But this is an interesting thing.

01:17:13.000 There is the same way they forget about Rome.

01:17:15.000 Say that, say that again, Jay.

01:17:17.000 I said there's a really interesting green text.

01:17:19.000 No, no, there is a Dane Cook.

01:17:21.000 You got to look at Dane Cook, Women Never Forget. 1.00

01:17:24.000 Women have memories.

01:17:25.000 Have you ever seen this? 1.00

01:17:26.000 Well, women never forget a slight. 1.00

01:17:28.000 There's a caveat. 0.93

01:17:29.000 Oh, no, no, no.

01:17:30.000 You got to get Dane Cook's Circle of Fire.

01:17:32.000 No, it's like Circle of Hell or something.

01:17:34.000 It was by the way, what has happened to Dane Cook in the last time?

01:17:36.000 I haven't heard about it.

01:17:36.000 I used to see him at the comedy.

01:17:37.000 He's the master of disguise.

01:17:38.000 He's in disguise somewhere.

01:17:39.000 He's a big scandal and kind of was like, We got to bring Dane Cook back, okay?

01:17:43.000 Because he was very, I don't care if he plagiarized, his delivery was excellent.

01:17:46.000 If you could look, I'll find it.

01:17:48.000 Whoever was talking, finish your thoughts.

01:17:50.000 Why is he very hard on women this week?

01:17:54.000 Will you agree, Charlie?

01:17:54.000 No, I think we've been fair.

01:17:55.000 No, we've been fair, but I've just complimented women.

01:17:57.000 No, I know.

01:17:58.000 That's why I love the topic.

01:18:01.000 Yeah, we did.

01:18:02.000 But the truth is right now, young women are going heavy lib, while young men are going heavy conservative.

01:18:10.000 The country would basically be, I don't know, 80%.

01:18:15.000 Our government would be 80% Republican if it was just men voting. 0.99

01:18:20.000 I mean, women tend to be more swayed by the Democrat message because it's geared towards emotional manipulation.

01:18:26.000 Now, it's not 100% true one way or the other, of course.

01:18:28.000 You still got Eric Swalwell, and he's a Democrat.

01:18:31.000 But the point I'm making, though, is that we've been very hard.

01:18:35.000 But the strengths of women are something that we should pay attention to because we can message to them, we can single-issue vote to them.

01:18:43.000 I'm just saying, it's a fascinating look. 0.99

01:18:46.000 I mean, insight into it.

01:18:48.000 Men are different than women, and differences make life beautiful and worth living. 1.00

01:18:52.000 I mean, this is obviously a male-oriented show.

01:18:55.000 It's all men. 1.00

01:18:57.000 A lot of women that are chiming in in the chat.

01:18:58.000 Yes, because women like seeing men lead, obviously.

01:19:01.000 So, I mean, that's not a new phenomenon.

01:19:04.000 Do you want me to read this Lego thing that Jack found?

01:19:06.000 Yes, please.

01:19:06.000 All right.

01:19:07.000 So this is, take us maybe with a grain of salt. 0.88

01:19:10.000 This is like a green text post on 4chan, which no women are on 4chan.

01:19:14.000 So I should let you know.

01:19:14.000 4chan is a strange internet website with very special men on it.

01:19:19.000 And this is a post.

01:19:20.000 Lego did a study when they created the Lego friends line for girls, where they discovered that when a boy plays with a toy, and oh, by the way, this is on the screen if they want to bring this up.

01:19:29.000 When a boy plays with the toy of a character, he tries to become the character.

01:19:33.000 When a girl does the same thing, she tries to make the character become her.

01:19:37.000 So if you give a boy a Batman toy, he's going to want to know everything there is to know about Batman.

01:19:41.000 He'll try to think and talk like Batman when he plays with the toy.

01:19:45.000 Where are the drugs? 1.00

01:19:46.000 The girl, on the other hand, is going to make Batman go shopping, bake cookies, go to the prom, the bat prom, I guess. 0.94

01:19:54.000 That's not to say there aren't exceptions on both sides, but that's the data that allowed Lego to finally get a foothold on the girls' market after decades of failed attempts. 1.00

01:20:03.000 Now, if you look at how women approach things like Star Wars or remaking an animated movie, is it any wonder that so many of them want to reinvent the IP, intellectual property, either by feminizing it or changing the main character to look like them, which definitely is what they did with Star Wars, where it's just like 100% real. 1.00

01:20:19.000 What if we made Star Wars except all of the most important people would look like an angry single 45-year-old woman? 1.00

01:20:26.000 Bat woman. 1.00

01:20:27.000 But she's now the admiral of our men.

01:20:29.000 She's now the admiral of the resistance fleet.

01:20:31.000 All the evil people.

01:20:32.000 Okay, so we're going to play this.

01:20:33.000 It's a couple minutes long.

01:20:34.000 It's worth it.

01:20:34.000 You got to indulge me.

01:20:35.000 This is, again, we've been maybe a little, Andrew says a little hard on women. 1.00

01:20:39.000 Women win all the fights. 1.00

01:20:40.000 Women control society. 1.00

01:20:42.000 Okay. 0.99

01:20:42.000 I'm just saying locally to this show. 0.99

01:20:45.000 This is a fact. 1.00

01:20:45.000 Women run the world. 1.00

01:20:47.000 That's not, we live in a matriarchy. 1.00

01:20:49.000 Just look at Russell Brandon. 1.00

01:20:50.000 Play cut 131.

01:20:51.000 Now, let me tell you something. 1.00

01:20:53.000 Let me tell you why, women, you win 99.9% of all fights. 1.00

01:21:00.000 Yep. 1.00

01:21:01.000 Yep.

01:21:03.000 And I'll tell you why right now.

01:21:04.000 Here it is. 1.00

01:21:05.000 Because you are mental terrorists. 1.00

01:21:15.000 You are brain ninjas. 1.00

01:21:18.000 And you know how to get in there with your katana and just cut us and disappear into the night. 0.99

01:21:25.000 I'm going to tell you right now, this is how they do it, guys.

01:21:28.000 I'm going to help you so you know when it's coming next time and you know how to maybe try to stop this encounter from happening.

01:21:34.000 This is what's going to happen.

01:21:35.000 You're in the fight, okay?

01:21:36.000 It's going back and forth.

01:21:38.000 She's preparing to say a comment, okay?

01:21:41.000 She's going to comment on tap that she's going to say.

01:21:44.000 And it's the tiniest, it's just a little tic-tac-size comment.

01:21:49.000 But this is a fing detonator.

01:21:52.000 And she's going to say it, and it's going to go deep into your cerebellum, and it's going to sit there.

01:21:58.000 And at some point, three days later, 30 days later, it's going to explode right at you from within.

01:22:03.000 I'm telling you right now.

01:22:05.000 She's going to say this comment, and here's when you know it's coming.

01:22:08.000 Physically, I can show you when it's coming right now.

01:22:10.000 This is the physical movement that she's going to give to you.

01:22:13.000 If you're saying, Dane, how do I know?

01:22:14.000 How can I prepare myself?

01:22:15.000 Here's when it's going to happen. 1.00

01:22:17.000 During the argument, there's going to be a point where she's going to stop and change her game up.

01:22:22.000 The minute she starts agreeing with everything you're saying, look out.

01:22:31.000 You are in trouble.

01:22:32.000 Okay?

01:22:32.000 And I'll show you physically what's going to happen.

01:22:34.000 You're going to see her leg do this.

01:22:39.000 The moment her leg locks like this, you've just driven into f ⁇ ing Phil.

01:22:46.000 And she's the mayor.

01:22:50.000 So she's locked.

01:22:53.000 They're loving it right now.

01:22:54.000 They're loving it.

01:22:58.000 Now, at this point, she's going to start agreeing with everything you're saying, and that's bad.

01:23:03.000 The moment you start hearing her go, you know what?

01:23:05.000 You're absolutely right.

01:23:06.000 You're absolutely right.

01:23:06.000 And I didn't even know.

01:23:08.000 Why would I even know?

01:23:09.000 Because you're the czar of right.

01:23:11.000 And we're all just floating in the sea of wrong as you go by in your ship of right.

01:23:15.000 Just please tell me.

01:23:16.000 Throw me a lifeline so I know.

01:23:19.000 You're right.

01:23:20.000 I didn't even know if I'm right about this.

01:23:21.000 I could be wrong about right now, but you know.

01:23:23.000 Why don't you tell me if I'm right right now?

01:23:27.000 Right there. 1.00

01:23:30.000 The minute she starts hitting you with that, you better be prepared because there is a torpedo in the water.

01:23:36.000 And it's coming to get you. 0.99

01:23:39.000 Okay, so physically, here's what she's going to do.

01:23:41.000 She's going to lock the leg.

01:23:43.000 And then after she's done with her little, you're right, you're right, she's going to do something with her hand, with her arm.

01:23:49.000 And it's always different, but it involves touching her own face and then doing some kind of windshield wiper movement.

01:23:58.000 She's going to vary it up, and it's going to be something like this.

01:24:06.000 And look for this.

01:24:07.000 That's bad.

01:24:09.000 No, you go.

01:24:10.000 You go ahead. 0.85

01:24:14.000 Now, here's what she's going to do. 1.00

01:24:16.000 She's going to pivot her body. 1.00

01:24:18.000 She's going to pivot. 0.95

01:24:20.000 And then she's going to take three to five steps. 0.85

01:24:23.000 Three to five.

01:24:26.000 Three to five. 1.00

01:24:27.000 And she's going to slow down. 0.95

01:24:28.000 She's going to cock her head to the left. 0.95

01:24:31.000 She's going to say the comment. 0.97

01:24:33.000 She's going to say the comment.

01:24:34.000 And here's the thing.

01:24:34.000 There'll be no emphasis.

01:24:36.000 It'll be very subtle.

01:24:37.000 It'll almost be a whisper.

01:24:38.000 And why is that?

01:24:39.000 To make you listen.

01:24:43.000 And it is going to be a destroyer of worlds.

01:24:46.000 It's something like this, right? 0.94

01:24:47.000 She does the thing.

01:24:47.000 She's going to turn, and then she's going to go like this.

01:24:49.000 Well, you're stupid like your father. 1.00

01:25:10.000 And at first, that means nothing. 1.00

01:25:12.000 At first, we laugh at it.

01:25:14.000 You say it, you walk away.

01:25:15.000 We're like, ha What does that even mean by?

01:25:20.000 We have no idea that you just ninja our brain.

01:25:25.000 We're going to be in the basement 40 minutes from then, just pacing.

01:25:29.000 And it's going to slowly start to seep in.

01:25:31.000 We're pacing back and forth, thinking about it. 1.00

01:25:35.000 Stupid like your father. 1.00

01:25:39.000 My father's a brilliant man! 1.00

01:25:43.000 You didn't even know explosion.

01:25:49.000 All right.

01:25:49.000 Sorry for the length.

01:25:50.000 I just wanted to just say that he's one of the great Americans.

01:25:53.000 That's one of the great five minutes of all of comedy.

01:25:56.000 All right.

01:25:57.000 We want to talk about bioptimizers.

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01:26:40.000 So let's get to our favorite topic, SPQR, Blake.

01:26:43.000 Okay, all right.

01:26:44.000 So we're going straight to the deep web reveal.

01:26:46.000 It's very important.

01:26:47.000 We wanted to hit this last week.

01:26:48.000 It would have been a much more deep web reveal if we'd gotten there last week.

01:26:51.000 But now it's really deep.

01:26:52.000 Now it's more like kiddie, kiddie pool, web reveal.

01:26:56.000 It's gotten way more popular.

01:26:58.000 But we have to go around.

01:26:59.000 We have to figure out how often each member of our panel thinks about the Roman Empire, which SPQR is the Roman Republic.

01:27:06.000 That's the Senate.

01:27:08.000 We're talking about the Roman Empire specifically.

01:27:11.000 And so, you know, I should probably just go first because I insisted that we bring this up.

01:27:16.000 I think about the Roman Empire every single day.

01:27:18.000 Oh, me too.

01:27:18.000 You say, here's the Guardian headline.

01:27:20.000 Women across the world are asking men how often the ancient civilization pops into their head.

01:27:26.000 And the answer is frequently startling.

01:27:29.000 Theguardian.com.

01:27:32.000 So where did this come from, Jack?

01:27:34.000 Why all of a sudden are women so fascinated that we love Rome?

01:27:38.000 Well, I would just like to also point out that Blake thinks about Rome so much that he has literally been requesting it every single episode as the deep web reveal since we started the entire series.

01:27:52.000 Like, so we should talk about Rome this week.

01:27:54.000 I was like, Blake, why are we talking about Rome?

01:27:55.000 He's like, because it's important to talk about Rome because it's because look, it's very serious.

01:28:01.000 Why would we not talk about Rome?

01:28:03.000 It is important.

01:28:04.000 It is extremely crucial.

01:28:06.000 Rome is the eternal city.

01:28:08.000 Rome was the capital of the entire world at one point.

01:28:11.000 They conquered everything.

01:28:13.000 They conquered everything, the entire known world.

01:28:17.000 It is the country and the civilizational accomplishments that we continue to base almost everything in our society off of.

01:28:26.000 People say it's just plumbing.

01:28:28.000 Ha, that's a joke. 0.99

01:28:29.000 That's ridiculous. 0.88

01:28:30.000 Do you even understand that there are concepts in every contract that you sign that go all the way back to Roman law? 0.87

01:28:39.000 The obviously not the days of the week, but the months of the year themselves.

01:28:44.000 Do you want to know why October, November, and December?

01:28:48.000 So when I was a kid, this used to bother me, right?

01:28:49.000 I would say, well, you told me that Oct meant eight and nuf or nov meant nine and then deca meant ten.

01:28:56.000 And yet October, November, December, that's 10, 11, 12 of the month.

01:29:01.000 So what's going on here?

01:29:03.000 We have a different starting month.

01:29:04.000 That's why.

01:29:06.000 Well, and then because they added two months as well.

01:29:09.000 You're skipping past the important ones.

01:29:10.000 July and August.

01:29:11.000 July and August.

01:29:12.000 Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus and Augustus.

01:29:15.000 You know, our calendar, we have the Julian calendar.

01:29:17.000 It's the entire idea of leap years.

01:29:20.000 That's from the world.

01:29:20.000 We have the real calendar, the Gregorian calendar.

01:29:22.000 Obviously, Christianity basically is a Roman Empire thing. 0.88

01:29:25.000 Well, but like we get, we get Cicero from Rome and this idea of common law.

01:29:30.000 We get the idea of due process.

01:29:32.000 We get the idea of a republican form of government.

01:29:34.000 Not to mention their military prowess, strength.

01:29:36.000 The greatest stoicist ever to live, Marcus Aurelius, was the last of the great emperors, right?

01:29:42.000 Not to mention Julius Caesar is objectively one of the most amazing historical figures ever.

01:29:46.000 Love him or hate him.

01:29:47.000 He's like Donald Trump.

01:29:48.000 So he's, I mean, yeah, I mean, Julius Caesar wasn't a stoic, but he was incredible.

01:29:52.000 I met that on the list.

01:29:54.000 Yes.

01:29:54.000 Aurelius.

01:29:55.000 Aurelius.

01:29:56.000 Yeah.

01:29:56.000 And so, I mean, I think about Rome all the time, Blake.

01:29:59.000 And women are fascinated.

01:30:00.000 By the way, you know that the political people are like, and this is why they're right-wing fascists.

01:30:04.000 Yeah, and you know, and it's always like it's the longest-lasting empire that existed in certainly the Western world and basically ever for that matter.

01:30:13.000 And I guess you could throw in Egypt or some nonsense. 0.89

01:30:16.000 Ignore them.

01:30:17.000 So, you know, it lasts ages.

01:30:18.000 It has like a very well-documented rise, a very well-documented decline and fall.

01:30:22.000 So everyone's always thinking, like, is America like, you know, are we going to collapse the way Rome did?

01:30:27.000 No, we're going to collapse far faster.

01:30:29.000 We're collapsing actually.

01:30:30.000 More embarrassing for us.

01:30:31.000 We're in the midst of that.

01:30:32.000 How many years are we going to be able to do that?

01:30:32.000 There's no Rome a thing for comparison.

01:30:35.000 Rome was a thing.

01:30:36.000 And we're at Rome in terms of being the most powerful country in the world.

01:30:40.000 It wasn't for Rome was most powerful thing going for about 600 years, I would say.

01:30:46.000 Yeah.

01:30:46.000 So, but what are we at?

01:30:47.000 240?

01:30:48.000 Rome was 482.

01:30:49.000 482.

01:30:50.000 Yeah.

01:30:50.000 Right.

01:30:50.000 But where 476 is when in the Western Empire.

01:30:55.000 Or maybe Marco.

01:30:55.000 If we're counting.

01:30:56.000 He is wrong.

01:30:57.000 And if we're counting from the East.

01:31:00.000 If we're counting it from the East, you know, Rome goes till 1453.

01:31:03.000 Sure.

01:31:03.000 1453.

01:31:04.000 So they have a very, very long run of being very, very powerful.

01:31:08.000 America will become Brazil 2.0. 0.86

01:31:10.000 So something will keep going.

01:31:12.000 Yeah.

01:31:12.000 And, you know, that happens to Rome in the sense that kind of Rome becomes, Rome itself, the eternal city, does become this big million person melting pot of every culture.

01:31:22.000 And as a result, it becomes incredibly corrupt and decadent.

01:31:25.000 And then a bunch of Visigoths show up and they sack it. 1.00

01:31:28.000 And I would say they kill everyone, but actually, that's not true.

01:31:31.000 They just kind of steal everything.

01:31:32.000 So, Jack, you know why they call it Rome, right?

01:31:36.000 Because of Romulus.

01:31:38.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:31:39.000 Yeah.

01:31:40.000 The story of how Rome came to be.

01:31:42.000 I thought you were setting up like a weird question.

01:31:45.000 All roads lead to Rome, so they named their city that.

01:31:47.000 So then all that roads are just a little bit different.

01:31:48.000 No, Rome just with the road.

01:31:50.000 Yeah.

01:31:51.000 It started with a single kind of regional guy and it just caught on incredibly quick.

01:31:56.000 Rome started as one small town and it grew to encompass.

01:32:03.000 It's really more like four hills and they just kind of cheat and say this one hill is like several hills.

01:32:08.000 I mean, when I visited Rome, I was blown away.

01:32:10.000 It's one of the best cities.

01:32:10.000 The Roman Forum is incredible.

01:32:12.000 That legitimately blew me away.

01:32:14.000 Weren't you just talking about the Roman Forum, Jack?

01:32:16.000 Well, so I took my son to Rome for his fifth birthday a couple of months ago when we were on our way back home from speaking in Budapest earlier this year.

01:32:28.000 And Tanya stayed back to visit with family.

01:32:31.000 So my five-year-old and I, we spent his fifth birthday.

01:32:34.000 We did Rome.

01:32:34.000 We went to St. Peter's.

01:32:36.000 We did just everything.

01:32:36.000 We just everything to do in Rome.

01:32:38.000 We did for basically the weekend, just him and I.

01:32:40.000 And then even his school backpack is from Rome.

01:32:44.000 He even has a little statuette of the Colosseum that he just carries around with him pretty much all around the house.

01:32:50.000 And he just absolutely fell in love with Rome.

01:32:52.000 And then when we got to the road, the roadway of the emperors, and we were looking at the ruins of the forum.

01:33:01.000 And of course, the statues are there, the statue of Augustus Caesar, the statue of Julius Caesar.

01:33:06.000 He was really, really fascinated with just the architecture and then the photos and depictions of how Rome looked at the time versus the ruins that he could see now.

01:33:15.000 And he could understand, even at five years old, that he was looking at a picture of what something was versus what something is now.

01:33:22.000 And he even asked me, he said, Dad, are they ever going to make it back?

01:33:25.000 And I was like, one day, son.

01:33:26.000 Actually, funny enough, when we were out front of the Coliseum that night, I had just gone to take him and got him some strawberry gelato.

01:33:35.000 And I'm FaceTiming with Tanya, just kind of let her know we're there, you know, show her some cool pictures.

01:33:40.000 And of all people, this motorcade just flies by us on in the middle of the street, you know, presidential level motorcade.

01:33:48.000 I'm like, is this Georgia Maloney?

01:33:50.000 What's going on?

01:33:51.000 Is the Pope around or something?

01:33:52.000 But, you know, I couldn't see the Pope Mobile around.

01:33:54.000 So I wasn't really sure.

01:33:55.000 And you see presidential level motorcades in DC all the time, so I'm kind of used to them.

01:33:59.000 And so I wasn't sure who it was at the time.

01:34:02.000 Then I wake up the next morning and they say, Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky has made a surprise visit to Rome and landed last night.

01:34:09.000 So oh, great.

01:34:09.000 Zelensky literally photobombed me while I was trying to take a picture of my son at the Coliseum.

01:34:13.000 So there you go.

01:34:14.000 He haunts you.

01:34:15.000 Rome is the eternal city.

01:34:17.000 But I mean, you guys didn't answer the question, by the way.

01:34:19.000 How often do you guys every day?

01:34:21.000 I mean, I have a bust of Marcus Aurelius in my office.

01:34:24.000 I have Caesar crossing the Rubicon in my office, too.

01:34:27.000 I have like tons of Roman paraphernalia.

01:34:28.000 We talked about this in the chat.

01:34:29.000 We're Roman Catholic, so that's, I mean, that's pretty like we probably are.

01:34:33.000 I was born in Rome.

01:34:34.000 So there's that.

01:34:35.000 Yeah, you'll come home eventually.

01:34:36.000 You don't think about Rome.

01:34:38.000 And we constantly, constantly think of Rome.

01:34:40.000 No, I think of Rome.

01:34:42.000 So it was funny.

01:34:43.000 You like peppered me with questions in the chat.

01:34:45.000 You were like, do you, I was like, I don't get it.

01:34:48.000 Like, but he doesn't get it.

01:34:50.000 I know.

01:34:51.000 But then you started asking me.

01:34:52.000 I was like, well, I watched the documentary.

01:34:54.000 I, you know, the documentaries, multiple.

01:34:57.000 I watched, I think I even watched the HBO show about it, right?

01:35:00.000 At least some of the episodes.

01:35:02.000 I made about it a fair amount.

01:35:06.000 Do you even know who Claudius was?

01:35:08.000 Yes.

01:35:09.000 He slept with his sisters.

01:35:11.000 He's wrong.

01:35:12.000 He doesn't know who Claudius is, guys.

01:35:13.000 Caligula or Claudius?

01:35:14.000 Oh, Caligula.

01:35:15.000 Think about Caligula.

01:35:16.000 Yeah.

01:35:16.000 Sorry.

01:35:17.000 Wrong guy.

01:35:17.000 No, I think I know who Claudius is.

01:35:20.000 Wait, give me a hint.

01:35:21.000 Give me a reminder.

01:35:22.000 Claudius is the one who's like, was like disabled, and also he has the whole novel about him, I Claudius.

01:35:27.000 Nope.

01:35:27.000 And they got the BBC documentary.

01:35:29.000 No, no, that one.

01:35:29.000 Disappointing.

01:35:30.000 I don't know.

01:35:31.000 I don't think about it.

01:35:32.000 No, Tiberius.

01:35:33.000 Yes.

01:35:34.000 It was Tiberius.

01:35:35.000 Tiberius was the second emperor.

01:35:36.000 Yeah, I was going to say that I knew he was an emperor, but what's he famous for, though?

01:35:41.000 Not crossing the Tiber.

01:35:43.000 No, Tiberius is the Jeffrey Epstein emperor.

01:35:45.000 He was on Capri with Melestin and Eden, all the little boys.

01:35:48.000 I admitted this is not my strong suit.

01:35:50.000 I don't think about it all the time.

01:35:51.000 You're picking on Andrew.

01:35:52.000 I know.

01:35:53.000 It's got Andreas all.

01:35:55.000 This is one almost everyone's going to know.

01:35:57.000 Even women are going to know this. 0.72

01:35:58.000 Do you know who Maximinus Thrax was?

01:36:00.000 I don't even know who Maximinus Thrax is. 0.91

01:36:02.000 You guys are killing me.

01:36:03.000 They don't know who Maximinus Thrax is, everyone.

01:36:05.000 All of you guys are.

01:36:06.000 In the audience, do you know everyone in the audience knows who Maximinus Thrax is, guaranteed?

01:36:11.000 I mean, listen, I know about Caesar.

01:36:15.000 I know about the triumphant.

01:36:17.000 I know about the, you know, I know about the four of them.

01:36:19.000 Oh, there were two of them.

01:36:21.000 See, I know about the Caesar first one with the Pompey, Pompey, Caesar, and yeah.

01:36:26.000 Who was the third of the Triumphant?

01:36:27.000 Mark Anthony.

01:36:29.000 That was the second one.

01:36:30.000 It's Crassus.

01:36:31.000 Crassus.

01:36:32.000 He got gold portraits.

01:36:33.000 Yeah, I watched the Netflix.

01:36:35.000 Mark Anthony was in the second triumphant.

01:36:36.000 Yeah, second one was Octavian Antony and it's been a while.

01:36:39.000 It's been a while.

01:36:40.000 It's fuzzy now, but I, you know, listen, the point is, I am an appreciator, but I'm not the guy that thinks of Rome every day.

01:36:45.000 I just not.

01:36:46.000 It's killing me.

01:36:47.000 Yeah, so it's so funny.

01:36:48.000 When this came out, I think about River Day, but I didn't realize I consciously think about Rome as much as I think about Rome until this thing came out.

01:36:54.000 I was like, yeah, of course, we think about Rome all the time.

01:36:57.000 I don't have this.

01:36:59.000 When Elon Musk was going to fight Mark Zuckerberg, where were they going to fight?

01:37:02.000 They were going to fight in the Coliseum.

01:37:06.000 And that would have been epic.

01:37:07.000 It would have been epic.

01:37:08.000 It should have happened.

01:37:08.000 And then Mark Zuckerberg said, well, he's obviously not serious about it, so it's over.

01:37:12.000 And I was like, why don't you just wait until he says his surgery is done and then do it anyway?

01:37:17.000 He should have just invited Elon Musk to like a tech event in Rome and then just come out and be like, I'm ready to go.

01:37:23.000 Let's go to the Colosseum.

01:37:24.000 Just right now.

01:37:24.000 Coliseum.

01:37:25.000 Like Andrew.

01:37:26.000 Andrew.

01:37:26.000 It's not about necessarily knowing every piece of trivia about Rome.

01:37:30.000 It's about, could you imagine yourself in gladiator armor walking into the Coliseum to do battle with Mark Zuckerberg?

01:37:37.000 No, but here's the thing.

01:37:38.000 I mean, I would put gladiator as one of probably my topic.

01:37:42.000 Yes, look at him.

01:37:44.000 You know, listen, I'm an appreciator.

01:37:46.000 I genuinely don't think of Rome every day.

01:37:48.000 I don't.

01:37:49.000 So there you go.

01:37:50.000 It's crushing me.

01:37:51.000 It's not.

01:37:53.000 I think of our border every day.

01:37:55.000 It's not the street about Rome.

01:37:56.000 It is the dream that was Rome, right, Charlie?

01:37:59.000 It's about the dream that was Rome's dream and wisdom.

01:38:03.000 Yeah, especially the Republican style of government.

01:38:06.000 Now, here's the deeper cut.

01:38:08.000 How often do any of you think of the Byzantine Empire?

01:38:11.000 That's like Rome the sequel.

01:38:13.000 Increasingly much.

01:38:14.000 Increasingly much.

01:38:15.000 I think it costs as much as Rome.

01:38:17.000 Constantinople hashtag lambach.

01:38:19.000 Again, this goes to the colony.

01:38:20.000 Macro versus macro. 1.00

01:38:22.000 Women are not thinking about ancient civilizations because that's very macro. 1.00

01:38:24.000 It's incredible.

01:38:25.000 I genuinely Turks.

01:38:26.000 You think we forgot?

01:38:28.000 I genuinely think of things like the southern border every day.

01:38:31.000 That's macro.

01:38:32.000 And like, you know, it matters. 1.00

01:38:34.000 And women think about grocery shopping. 1.00

01:38:36.000 The desire to restore the Roman Empire did probably destroy Russia, and that's probably why we have the Ukraine war right now. 0.64

01:38:41.000 Cause set in motion.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - September 23, 2023

THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 14 — Ukraine's Top Tranny Gets Fired. Russell Brand vs. The World. Thinking About Rome?

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