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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk show an Arizona update as the Arizona Attorney General sends a scathing letter demanding answers.

00:00:06.000 The Arizona election should not be certified, period, until we figure out what the heck actually happened.

00:00:12.000 And then Seth Dillon goes to the latest Twitter news with us from the great Babylon B. Email us your thoughts as always freedom at charliekirk.com and support the Charlie Kirk show at charliekirk.com slash support.

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00:01:30.000 I want to dive into this Arizona Attorney General's letter.

00:01:35.000 I'll be honest, this letter is a lot more forceful than I would have anticipated.

00:01:38.000 It is from Mark Bernovich and Jennifer Wright to Thomas Liddy, the civil division chief from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.

00:01:46.000 And it goes into great detail one after the other, asking some questions.

00:01:50.000 And the biggest question that no one can answer, the question that is outstanding that no one can pinpoint is why is it that the machines were working perfectly fine on November 7th?

00:02:05.000 Everything was great.

00:02:06.000 And then on the morning of November 8th in Maricopa County, the machines just stopped working.

00:02:14.000 Now, for some of you that are watching online, you might not understand the significance of this.

00:02:20.000 The significance of all of this is as follows: The way that Maricopa does its elections is that you show up and you check in and you can forfeit your mail and ballot because Arizona has a lot of mail and ballots.

00:02:35.000 And then they print you a new ballot to actually go print, to actually go vote in person.

00:02:40.000 That's right.

00:02:41.000 They have to print you a new ballot on site so you could vote in person.

00:02:45.000 They print it out right there.

00:02:47.000 Then they have to run the ballot through the machine after you have filled out that ballot.

00:02:53.000 Now, according to the official line of Maricopa County, according to the official line of the largest county in Arizona, where 62% of all voters live in Maricopa County, according to them, it was just a toner issue.

00:03:06.000 It was just a matter of getting the toner settings right.

00:03:10.000 And by one or two in the afternoon, they got it all figured out.

00:03:13.000 Now, the machines and the printers have a network administrator.

00:03:19.000 Really, the question is: who is this administrator then?

00:03:23.000 So, essentially, what ended up happening is because then these ballots wouldn't go to the machines, lines started to form.

00:03:30.000 Chaos started to ensue.

00:03:31.000 When I went to go vote on election day, it was complete and total bedlam.

00:03:37.000 There weren't people working the check-in.

00:03:39.000 People didn't know where to tell you to go drop your ballot.

00:03:42.000 You said, I want to go vote in person.

00:03:43.000 And they say, Well, the machines are down and we call the technician.

00:03:46.000 We don't know what the problem is.

00:03:48.000 So, how is it?

00:03:49.000 What changed from November the 7th at night when they ran their test run and everything was fine to November the 8th at 6 a.m.?

00:03:58.000 What changed?

00:04:00.000 And why is it it only changed in Republican-heavy precincts or Republican-heavy voting areas?

00:04:07.000 This is Bill Gates speaking about whether Election Day printer problems impacted more areas than others.

00:04:13.000 Cut 39.

00:04:15.000 Hi, I'm Bill Gates, chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.

00:04:19.000 One of the questions that we've been getting since the general election on November 8th is: did the printer problems on Election Day impact Republican-leaning areas more than Democratic-leaning areas?

00:04:32.000 Well, as your supervisor, I want to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to cast their vote.

00:04:38.000 And we've reviewed this issue, and we found that the 70 vote centers that were impacted by the printer issues were spread all across Maricopa County, and they did not impact one part of the valley more than the other. 0.96

00:04:52.000 This guy is such a liar.

00:04:53.000 Conservatives vote more on Election Day, Bill Gates. 1.00

00:04:56.000 You know that. 0.99

00:04:57.000 You are a fraud. 1.00

00:04:59.000 So even in the most liberal areas, they become redder on Election Day. 0.98

00:05:04.000 72% of all people that voted in person on Election Day, a three-to-one margin voted for Kerry Lake, a three-to-one margin.

00:05:14.000 Bill Gates was asked a question: hey, why does it take 10 days to count votes?

00:05:19.000 Play cut seven.

00:05:21.000 Today, they're working on reconciling the Election Day ballots with check-ins.

00:05:26.000 They're also counting up all the write-in votes.

00:05:30.000 And finally, they're processing the ballots with signatures that have been cured since the deadline of 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

00:05:39.000 That's what election integrity looks like.

00:05:42.000 Oh, so he's lecturing us about election integrity.

00:05:46.000 He's saying that election integrity means taking 10 days to count your ballots.

00:05:52.000 But again, it begs the question: what changed exactly?

00:05:57.000 And now you might say, oh, Charlie, what difference does it make?

00:05:59.000 It's not that big of a difference.

00:06:00.000 This is a monumental difference.

00:06:02.000 248,000 people voted in person on Election Day.

00:06:08.000 248,000 people.

00:06:10.000 How many people were turned away because of the one-hour line, the two-hour line that started because of this sabotage machine malfunction and failure that happened in the way of voting that conservatives have a preference to vote more than any others?

00:06:26.000 By the way, we're looking at just a half of percentage of results.

00:06:31.000 We're talking about the current tally has Kerry Lake down so slightly.

00:06:36.000 Kerry Lake currently in the tally down 17,428 votes, down 0.6%.

00:06:44.000 In the Attorney General's race, it's a statistical tie, and Abe Hamaday is down 850 votes.

00:06:51.000 You see, when you create bedlam and chaos with machines all across the valley, people are less likely to go vote.

00:06:58.000 It is an election day suppression operation.

00:07:03.000 It's an election day way to be able to create a clog in the plumbing, a traffic jam on the highway where people say, forget it.

00:07:13.000 I'm not going to deal with that.

00:07:15.000 Not to mention the people that tried to check in and they were told to go to different locations.

00:07:19.000 How many Maricopa County poll workers told voters to go to a different location, which is against the law, by the way?

00:07:27.000 Oh, just go to another location.

00:07:28.000 By law, they have to service that person to vote right there.

00:07:31.000 And they said, just go to another place.

00:07:33.000 Now, will people be held accountable and be arrested for this?

00:07:36.000 I certainly hope so.

00:07:38.000 But the way it usually works is government officials can do whatever they want and they get away with it.

00:07:44.000 Let's go to this cut right here.

00:07:46.000 Cut 27, poll observer in Scottsdale discusses how four out of seven ballots were failing.

00:07:54.000 Play cut 27.

00:07:55.000 I was a poll observer on November 8th at the El Dorado Park Community Center in Scottsdale from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m.

00:08:02.000 Tabulator voter suppression issues started shortly after a county technician arrived to check our equipment.

00:08:08.000 Between noon and 12.30, approximately 20% of the ballots were failing.

00:08:12.000 Between 12.30 and 1 o'clock, four of every seven ballots were failing.

00:08:16.000 I'll never forget the look on these affected voters' faces.

00:08:19.000 They were in disbelief that our system of voting was failing them in a mass, en masse.

00:08:24.000 Our system of voting was failing them.

00:08:27.000 I saw it firsthand myself.

00:08:29.000 And where are the defenders of democracy?

00:08:31.000 Where are all these Democrats that say, you know, Republicans have an attack on democracy?

00:08:35.000 And so then we show up in major numbers on Election Day to vote in the way that we like to vote.

00:08:41.000 And what do we experience?

00:08:43.000 A sabotage ambush that no one has yet to answer.

00:08:47.000 And the Board of Supervisors, Bill Gates and Stephen Richer, they're just kind of smugly telling you, well, this is what election integrity looks like.

00:08:55.000 Election integrity is the fact that one out of five machines just fail.

00:08:59.000 One out of five machines just go down.

00:09:02.000 You see, when you have an election day and people are busy with their kids, with work, and they show up in a parking lot and there is a line that is two hours long, which was the case at a lot of places across the valley, you're going to have a taper effect.

00:09:21.000 Now, that taper might have been 20,000 people strong.

00:09:23.000 Well, guess what?

00:09:24.000 That 20,000-person taper very well might have been the difference.

00:09:28.000 You might say, oh, Charlie, 20,000 is too much.

00:09:30.000 Oh, really?

00:09:30.000 Out of 223 vote centers, all it would have taken is three to four people per hour to be able to create the taper that Kerry Lake lost by.

00:09:42.000 Do the math.

00:09:44.000 If three or four people per voting center per hour were deterred by lines, three to four people do four times 223 times 12.

00:09:56.000 That is the difference of the margin of error between Kerry Lake and Katie Hobbs as it stands.

00:10:03.000 And guess who Katie Hobbs is? 1.00

00:10:05.000 She's the Secretary of State. 1.00

00:10:08.000 She's the one that counts the ballots.

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00:11:11.000 Democrats are saying, well, look, it's legally nothing to have long lines.

00:11:15.000 This Democrat Irvine, Tom Irvine, by the way, this is the Washington Post that comes out.

00:11:20.000 You know, they say democracy dies in darkness, but in darkness you shall vote.

00:11:25.000 Wait, what?

00:11:25.000 I'm sorry.

00:11:25.000 Wait, what does that mean?

00:11:26.000 I mean, like, long lines are the best part of democracy.

00:11:29.000 Really?

00:11:31.000 It says this.

00:11:32.000 A legal expert said that if Republicans, don't you love how they use that experts, legal experts?

00:11:41.000 It's legally nothing, said Tom Irvine, a now retired lawyer with four decades of election law experience who represented Maricopa County in the 90s and 2000s.

00:11:50.000 There's no proof that anyone was disadvantaged, said Irvine.

00:11:53.000 Well, Tom Irvine, let me read this email I just received, freedom at charliekirk.com from Peggy.

00:11:59.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:12:01.000 I could not vote on Election Day.

00:12:03.000 I wanted to.

00:12:05.000 Only two locations in 85086, one in Anthem and one at 71st and Carefree.

00:12:12.000 I know that area.

00:12:13.000 Anthem had 400 people in line.

00:12:18.000 The other one had a mile-long line and a two and a half-hour wait.

00:12:24.000 It's a small church with only 30 parking spaces.

00:12:29.000 So people have been disenfranchised.

00:12:33.000 People were turned away.

00:12:35.000 Now, Bill Gates and the supervisors are saying everything is just fine.

00:12:41.000 Now, it's interesting.

00:12:42.000 We have this audio here where Bill Gates was doing an interview back in August saying the only way for the Republican Party to save itself is humiliation at the ballot box.

00:12:55.000 Play cut 19.

00:12:56.000 You said the other day, I think the way back, and I believe you're talking about your party, is by humiliation at the ballot box.

00:13:05.000 What do you mean by that?

00:13:07.000 Well, I fear, I fear that if we continue to nominate people who deny the truth, then what may have to happen is that we lose elections.

00:13:21.000 I guess we're going to have to lose elections, the guy says who's counting the votes.

00:13:26.000 Now, let's just scale this out.

00:13:29.000 Polling places were open about 12 hours in Maricopa County, 12 hours.

00:13:34.000 If just three to four people per 223 voting centers were deterred by the lines, just three or four people, based on the news, based on what they heard per hour, which is a very reasonable number, it's probably more than that.

00:13:50.000 That right there is the margin even factoring in the 70 plus percent that Carrie Lake won what she is down Katie Hobbs right now per voting center.

00:14:04.000 So if you do the math very quickly, you take out your calculator, you say, okay, let's say that three people per voting center were deterred.

00:14:12.000 Let's just say, and if you take 223, because remember, you might say, well, Charlie, only one out of five were affected.

00:14:18.000 No, no, no, no.

00:14:19.000 There were lines in other places because of this, because then people started to go to different voting centers.

00:14:24.000 It caused a chain of events.

00:14:27.000 223 times 4 times 12.

00:14:34.000 You have right there easily the margin when it comes to the Attorney General's race.

00:14:40.000 Easily.

00:14:42.000 And so what you have in a very simple way is people may have just heard about the chaos and not bothered to check in at all if their specific center was having problems.

00:14:52.000 They just said, oh, screw it.

00:14:53.000 Forget it.

00:14:54.000 Now, if you scale it up a little bit, let's just say six people per voting center or 10 people per voting center or 15 people per voting center.

00:15:02.000 I mean, this email we received right here, Charlie, the line was too long.

00:15:06.000 I did not vote right there.

00:15:08.000 People were affected right there.

00:15:12.000 And it wasn't some act of God.

00:15:15.000 I deserve an answer, not just me.

00:15:17.000 We deserve an answer.

00:15:18.000 Let me rephrase that.

00:15:18.000 We deserve an answer as to why did the machines work perfectly and flawlessly the night before, and they started to be completely and totally ruined the next morning.

00:15:31.000 What happened over that 12-hour period?

00:15:35.000 What changed exactly?

00:15:38.000 Because the result of it was a created traffic jam, whether it was intentional or not is actually irrelevant.

00:15:45.000 Even if you're not on board saying it was a sabotage, What is relevant and what is pertinent is what actually happened.

00:15:58.000 How many people were going to go vote on Election Day and they saw all the issues and they said, forget it.

00:16:03.000 We're not even talking about 5%.

00:16:04.000 We're not even talking about 1%.

00:16:06.000 If 0.6%, that right there very well could have been the margin of error for Carrie Lake to have won the election outright.

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00:17:26.000 There's a lot happening at Twitter.

00:17:28.000 We'll get back to the Arizona news in just a second.

00:17:30.000 There's a lot happening at Twitter right now, a lot.

00:17:32.000 And no better person to help us make sense of it all than somebody who very well might be responsible for getting Elon to purchase Twitter himself.

00:17:41.000 And he also has his account restored.

00:17:43.000 Seth Dylan from the wonderful website Babylon B. Seth, welcome back to the program.

00:17:49.000 Charlie, what's going on?

00:17:50.000 Good to see you.

00:17:51.000 Seth, tell us about what's going on with Twitter.

00:17:54.000 And I understand you guys got your Twitter account back.

00:17:58.000 We're back, man.

00:17:59.000 It was a long time coming.

00:18:00.000 We were, you know, when we got banned initially, or at least locked out of our account, we weren't permanently banned.

00:18:05.000 We were locked out, required to delete a joke that Twitter considered to be hateful conduct back in March earlier this year.

00:18:12.000 And honestly, we never expected to get back into Twitter.

00:18:15.000 I mean, who expects that when you get locked out by, you know, the powers that be, that they're going to change their mind?

00:18:22.000 Of course, they're not going to change their mind.

00:18:24.000 You need something else to come in and disrupt things and change things up.

00:18:27.000 And in our case, the richest man in the world happens to be a fan and friend of ours and came to our rescue.

00:18:33.000 So I'm not sure that everybody can count on that, but it was cool, I think, that we played a role in the decision-making process that went into his bid to buy Twitter and that we're now benefiting from him taking over.

00:18:44.000 Yeah.

00:18:44.000 And so now Donald Trump has his Twitter account back and there's all sorts of different changes happening over the weekend.

00:18:51.000 Kind of give us an update for all everyone listening.

00:18:54.000 What changed with Twitter over the weekend?

00:18:59.000 Well, you've had Musk come out and say Freedom Fridays on Twitter, you know, kind of teasing the fact as a spoiler alert that he was going to be setting some people free.

00:19:09.000 And it seems to have extended beyond Friday, he's unlocked a number of accounts.

00:19:12.000 I just saw that James Lindsay was unlocked.

00:19:14.000 Yep.

00:19:15.000 Project Veritas has been unlocked.

00:19:17.000 Of course, obviously Trump was unlocked in response to that poll that he ran.

00:19:21.000 So, you know, it's been unclear.

00:19:23.000 It had been unclear to a lot of conservatives, a lot of people on the right who felt like their voices had been suppressed and silenced and taken away.

00:19:29.000 It was unclear exactly what Musk was going to do about that.

00:19:32.000 It's still unclear, I think, how he's going to handle these issues broadly speaking for, you know, just your average Twitter user.

00:19:39.000 But it is extremely encouraging to see him coming in and lifting the banhammer on some of these bigger accounts that had been suspended for really just silly, ridiculous reasons.

00:19:47.000 Yeah.

00:19:48.000 So, Elon Musk opened it up for a Twitter poll, and 15 million people voted in it, and Donald Trump won.

00:19:55.000 And then you have people coming out saying, Well, I don't know if a poll is the best way to do this.

00:19:59.000 Oh, really?

00:20:00.000 Do you guys believe in democracy or do you not believe in democracy?

00:20:03.000 And so, Musk also has fired a bunch of really woke engineers and employees and is opening up the prisoners of war from the meme wars.

00:20:13.000 Let me just ask you, Seth, as someone who traffics in comedy rather well and is kind of the leading website in that regard, Babylon B, are you seeing Twitter actually become fun again?

00:20:24.000 Oh, are you kidding?

00:20:25.000 Twitter is more fun than it's ever been.

00:20:27.000 I mean, ever.

00:20:28.000 Part of the reason is because the left is just so worked up over this Elon Musk's ownership and some of the stuff that he's doing now on banning accounts.

00:20:37.000 I think, you know, obviously, unbanning or unlocking the Babylon Bees account triggered a lot of people, but Trump, I mean, they are losing their minds.

00:20:45.000 You've got accounts like CBS threatening to go off of Twitter and pause all their activity on Twitter as a precautionary action, you know, because they want to see what plays out.

00:20:56.000 It's like they have security concerns.

00:20:58.000 The stuff that's happening right now is just beyond parody.

00:21:01.000 It's really comical.

00:21:01.000 So, being on Twitter and seeing the freak outs from the left and the rejoicing on the right has been just a ton of fun.

00:21:08.000 I mean, it's the most entertaining website on the internet right now by far, and usage is up at record numbers for Musk.

00:21:14.000 So, I mean, the fact that they're talking about Twitter dying while it's thriving more than it ever has is kind of ironic and comical.

00:21:21.000 Yeah, let's go to cut one.

00:21:22.000 CBS News announces we're pausing all of our activity on Twitter.

00:21:25.000 Okay, we never asked you to be here anyway.

00:21:27.000 It's actually probably gonna be a better platform without you.

00:21:29.000 Play cut one.

00:21:30.000 And Musk has called for an emergency meeting for all remaining engineers in light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution.

00:21:37.000 CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site.

00:21:41.000 Yeah, we're pausing our activity on the site.

00:21:45.000 And then if you let's go to cut four, CNN reports that Elon Musk reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter account after allowing users to decide in a poll.

00:21:53.000 Play cut four.

00:21:54.000 This just ended to CNN.

00:21:55.000 Donald Trump's Twitter account is back.

00:21:58.000 Musk posted a poll on Twitter asking if people thought Donald Trump should be allowed back on the service.

00:22:05.000 Musk says the results showed that people wanted Trump to return.

00:22:08.000 He tweeted this: the people have spoken.

00:22:10.000 Trump will be reinstated.

00:22:12.000 Vox populi, vox day, which is Latin and means the voice of God, or sorry, the voice of the people, the voice of God.

00:22:22.000 They just don't even know how to comprehend it.

00:22:24.000 And so, so, Seth, walk through the significance of this for the American right, because currently, and myself included, there are some people that are a little bit down over kind of just somehow the midterm election results happened.

00:22:37.000 By the way, my favorite Babylon B headline of the last couple of weeks is Katie Hobbs projected winner of Arizona gubernatorial election with 180% precincts reporting.

00:22:48.000 It was brilliant.

00:22:49.000 Congratulations.

00:22:49.000 Well done on that.

00:22:50.000 But can you tell us and build this out a little bit?

00:22:53.000 How significance is this for, and you're a conservative, so it's okay for us to talk about this in conservative terms for the American right.

00:23:00.000 Elon's not even looking at this in political terms, but this is a big victory for us.

00:23:05.000 While all the midterm stuff was ongoing, Elon was actually getting into the weeds to build a virtual and online foundation that will actually allow us to probably win more in the future.

00:23:15.000 Do you agree with that?

00:23:17.000 I agree with that.

00:23:18.000 I think it's bigger than just a win, though, for the American right.

00:23:21.000 Obviously, it's huge for the American right, but I think it can't be overstated how big of a win it is for the American people in general.

00:23:28.000 Because what you had before, you know, what they're afraid of right now, what the left is freaking out about, is that you might actually have a platform where free speech exists, where people are allowed to speak freely.

00:23:38.000 Free people are allowed to speak freely.

00:23:40.000 They can't stand that.

00:23:43.000 They're so worked up about the fact that that is being threatened.

00:23:46.000 They think that's dangerous.

00:23:48.000 What they have no problem with is some kind of an authoritarian system where a few powerful elites that hold all this unprecedented power by owning these tech platforms where the vast majority of public discourse takes place, they don't have any problem with them deciding what's true and who can speak and what they can say because they controlled those strings.

00:24:07.000 They were the ones that were controlling that platform.

00:24:10.000 So now that Musk is threatened to take away some of that control, they're freaking out.

00:24:14.000 But the fact that he has done that means that people are actually going to be allowed to speak and debate these issues.

00:24:20.000 These prominent voices that have been sidelined are back and they're going to be pushing back on the madness, the insanity of the left.

00:24:26.000 And it can't be overstated how big that is.

00:24:28.000 It's massive.

00:24:29.000 And so it's going to go down that if Elon continues to play this out the way he is in November 2022, there might have been the red wave that never materialized in certain parts of the country, but there was a realignment of Twitter becoming an actual free speech platform.

00:24:50.000 I want to play another piece of tape here.

00:24:52.000 And again, this, just to see the reaction of this is just so incredible.

00:24:58.000 Now, Adie Klobuchar, who is Snow Woman, she says we must make Twitter a focus of this new Congress, PlayCut 24.

00:25:08.000 As you know, I've been way up front on this for a long time.

00:25:11.000 And this isn't just Twitter, as you just pointed out.

00:25:15.000 This is also about all of these companies.

00:25:17.000 There are no rules of the road in place.

00:25:19.000 Do they get to keep their immunity when they're actually amplifying hate speech and misinformation and making money off it?

00:25:27.000 So I think this should be a major focus for the Congress next year.

00:25:31.000 I think we have to, as well as getting everything we can get done by the end of this year.

00:25:36.000 Seth, a major focus for the Democrat Congress is Twitter.

00:25:44.000 Well, again, it's, you know, that's what they try to say is they use the euphemism, hate speech, misinformation, whatever.

00:25:50.000 You know, what they're talking about, what you and I know they're both talking about is opinions they don't like.

00:25:54.000 It's people that they don't like voicing opinions they don't like.

00:25:58.000 They can't stand that.

00:25:59.000 They feel like they have to squash it.

00:26:01.000 And the fact that Twitter or other platforms might actually let those opposing views be heard in the public square, you know, that becomes their top priority because that's the way that they win.

00:26:12.000 How do you prop up an insane and indefensible world of you that can't withstand scrutiny and criticism?

00:26:19.000 Well, you silence the scrutiny and criticism.

00:26:21.000 That's the only way to do it.

00:26:23.000 Yeah.

00:26:23.000 And the amount of accounts that are now being restored is very profound and significant.

00:26:31.000 And it goes to show how the left has been able to control the narratives over the last couple of years via this platform.

00:26:41.000 And here's the thing: you know, just I'm going to play another piece of tape here, and it's a little bit more of the same, Seth, but it plays into this point where, because there are these doomsdayers, and I can't stand the doomsdayers, and they email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, and that's fine.

00:26:53.000 They're welcome to.

00:26:54.000 They say, Charlie, everything's terrible.

00:26:55.000 Everything's awful.

00:26:56.000 This Twitter purchase means nothing.

00:26:58.000 If the Twitter purchase means nothing, why is it that Amy Klobuchar wants to have hearings about it?

00:27:05.000 If the Twitter purchase means nothing, why is that Ed Markey is responding like this, play cut 22, with a threat 22?

00:27:14.000 You cannot ignore what the federal government is requiring of your company.

00:27:19.000 And it also goes for guardrails that have to be built around social media sites that are allowing for Twitter for $8 to give someone an ability to impersonate who they are.

00:27:33.000 And that is not permissible.

00:27:35.000 They will pay a price if they don't put safeguards in place at Twitter.

00:27:40.000 Oh, so Twitter will pay a price, but TikTok can spy on our children and put forward medical mutilation trans, you know, equivalent to mind heroin, what they're putting into our kids' laps via their phone. 0.84

00:27:54.000 Your thoughts, Seth?

00:27:56.000 Well, you know, obviously, if even though Musk hadn't unbanned anybody when he first came in, they were saying stuff like this.

00:28:04.000 I mean, they were saying it before he started releasing people from Twitter jail.

00:28:09.000 Uh, and reinstating these accounts.

00:28:10.000 So they were afraid of him because he had specifically and explicitly said that he was going to return free speech to this platform.

00:28:18.000 Um, the question is, will he really do that?

00:28:20.000 And I think it's a fair question because, while he is reinstating some accounts, there is a real lack of clarity and understanding of exactly how he's going to allow free speech to flourish, while also uh, you know, dealing with this issue of the advertisers not wanting certain types of speech on there, the activists putting pressure on those advertisers.

00:28:38.000 They're pulling their funding.

00:28:39.000 He's got that to worry about because he needs revenue to drive the business for it.

00:28:42.000 How is he going to balance keeping this a profitable business and allowing free speech?

00:28:47.000 It remains to be seen how that's going to work out.

00:28:49.000 Yeah, I mean, I think Elon's going to figure it out.

00:28:51.000 Traffic is up, Twitter is more fun than ever, our engagement is really up and it's really exciting and we're enjoying it, and I think he's going to figure out how to monetize it.

00:28:59.000 But also, here's the thing with Elon is that this was an asset transfer.

00:29:02.000 For him, this wasn't necessarily a big purchase.

00:29:05.000 He just moved 44 billion dollars to another company, meaning that, if it goes down a little bit in value, he's going to be fine and as long as he can keep the lights on for the next year or two years, he's going to figure it out.

00:29:17.000 He's going to figure it out.

00:29:18.000 The guy is a genius and it's already working.

00:29:22.000 It's already working.

00:29:23.000 Free speech is actually very popular, especially when there's no other platform that really embraces it.

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00:30:32.000 Seth, tell us what's your favorite headline you got up right now.

00:30:38.000 Well, I mean, it's one that speaks to this whole thing.

00:30:40.000 With Elon Musk, we wrote a headline about how our Babylon beat writers were struggling to think of a joke worth 44 billion and honestly, it's like it's, it's fun, it's.

00:30:49.000 It's true.

00:30:50.000 We're feeling inadequate, like we can't earn this.

00:30:53.000 Remember that scene at the end of saving private Ryan, when they, when they, finally Tom Hanks is looking at Ryan as he's dying and he says, earn this with his last breath.

00:31:01.000 That's right, you know, like i'm feeling that pressure, like we need to earn this.

00:31:06.000 That yeah, it's.

00:31:06.000 Uh, there's a lot of pressure on you guys.

00:31:09.000 There's a lot.

00:31:10.000 I mean you didn't have three brothers die in war and have a special, you know, group of people come and rescue you.

00:31:16.000 I do want to play a piece of tape here just to remind our audience how, how important it is to just do the right thing and then you never know how the stars are going to align.

00:31:25.000 Here's Babylon be. 0.98

00:31:26.000 They're doing the right thing.

00:31:27.000 They're hosting Elon Musk, they get to know him and then, just so happens, Elon then asset transfers 44 billion dollars and liberates the public conversation.

00:31:36.000 Let's go back in the time machine, play cut 16.

00:31:39.000 And then you realize it's like, wait a second, is a comedy getting at an essential truth or trying to or is there is there a propaganda element or is it trying to push you in a particular direction or getting to an essential truth that is humorous?

00:31:57.000 And when it stops trying to get to an essential truth that is humorous, then it's just not that funny.

00:32:04.000 Tell us about that interview, Seth.

00:32:07.000 Well, it's funny how it came about.

00:32:08.000 We just reached out to Musk and asked him if, you know, if we came to him, would he do an interview with us?

00:32:13.000 And he responded within minutes to say, yes, he'd be happy to.

00:32:16.000 We just have to come to Austin.

00:32:17.000 So, you know, we asked for the interview and he granted it right away.

00:32:22.000 So, you know, it just goes to show that he's a fan of the Bean and has been for a while and was happy to sit down with us, which was really cool.

00:32:28.000 I mean, it was an amazing experience for us to get to sit with him and kind of pick his brain and do kind of an unconventional interview where instead of just asking him serious questions about like space exploration and Neuralink and Starlink and all these things that he's doing, just to like ask him fun questions, like if he'd rather be Fat Man or Iron Man, you know, like silly stuff like that.

00:32:48.000 Have a little bit of fun with him and see what he says.

00:32:49.000 But he did say a lot of things about speech and about comedy and the importance of humor and not taking ourselves too seriously in that interview.

00:32:57.000 So I think it was interesting, thought-provoking, and certainly a lot of fun and a great opportunity for us.

00:33:02.000 That is precisely why the left hates him, because one of the core commandments of being on the left is you must take yourself extremely seriously.

00:33:12.000 You can't make fun of yourself ever or allow anyone to make fun of you ever.

00:33:17.000 Seth, thank you so much.

00:33:18.000 Great job as always.

00:33:19.000 Babylon Bee, is traffic going very well there?

00:33:22.000 Oh, yeah.

00:33:23.000 Record numbers.

00:33:24.000 Congratulations.

00:33:25.000 And it's BabylonB.com.

00:33:27.000 Is that right?

00:33:28.000 Yes, BabylonB.com.

00:33:29.000 And you can now follow us on Twitter again.

00:33:31.000 The Babylon Bee, Twitter.

00:33:33.000 The fake news that you can trust.

00:33:36.000 Seth, see you soon.

00:33:37.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:33:37.000 And we'll see you at AmericaFest, too.

00:33:39.000 That's going to be a lot of fun.

00:33:40.000 Yes, looking forward to it.

00:33:41.000 It's going to be great.

00:33:42.000 Thank you.

00:33:45.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:46.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:50.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:33:51.000 God bless.

00:33:55.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - November 21, 2022

TWITTER IS AWESOME AGAIN with Seth Dillon

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