The Charlie Kirk Show - Unpacking Facebook’s ‘Woke’ Identity Crisis with Rep. Diane Black & Dr. David Black

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00:02:36.000 Welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show with us as producer Andrew.

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00:02:55.000 And we are honored to be joined by the blacks here today.

00:02:58.000 And we're going to keep going through the idea of kind of wokeism in the corporate space, the good companies and the bad companies.

00:03:05.000 And I just kind of want, let's start with Facebook.

00:03:07.000 Facebook gets a lot of attention.

00:03:09.000 And, you know, the Facebook, the overall rating for Facebook, according to secondvote.com, is the lowest rating I think a company has ever got.

00:03:17.000 It's just a one, flat across the board.

00:03:20.000 One on life, one on everything.

00:03:22.000 So please, you know, Diane or any, you guys could take it.

00:03:26.000 Just kind of walk us through.

00:03:27.000 Let's talk about Facebook and all the controversy surrounding that.

00:03:32.000 Well, I think what we're seeing is what we've suspected is better evidence coming out, better first-person testimonials about how Facebook is manipulating the news cycles, how they're suppressing conservative messaging, but also just how they're suppressing information like on the COVID crisis or the COVID pandemic.

00:03:53.000 But now we have insiders that are coming forward to speak on the activities that are going on inside that organization.

00:04:01.000 And I think the best we can hope for is that we get some political resolution to this on how we handle these big tech firms that are just so dominating the news outlets and the news information.

00:04:16.000 And so many people now go there for their news and they're being lied to, intentionally misled.

00:04:24.000 And other voices that they're in disagreement with are suppressed and censored.

00:04:28.000 And this is pushing censors.

00:04:30.000 Yeah, our First Amendment rights are just under attack by these big tech companies.

00:04:36.000 And Facebook is among the worst.

00:04:38.000 The good thing, Charlie, is there are people like you who have a great presence across this entire country, not with just one segment of the population, but across the populations.

00:04:48.000 And you attract a lot of young people and they're getting the opportunity to really know that they're being duped with what's on Facebook.

00:04:55.000 So I'm delighted that you do what you do because it's the younger generation that's really going to make a difference.

00:05:01.000 Well, thank you.

00:05:01.000 And it's hopefully we're, you know, we're continuing that trend.

00:05:06.000 And there's a lot of misinformation out there, especially from these big tech companies.

00:05:11.000 And so, Andrew, do you have a thought on the Facebook issue?

00:05:14.000 Because I know you've been dealing a lot with that from a press standpoint of kind of how they're framing it as, oh, no, Facebook actually has a conservative bias.

00:05:20.000 Can you talk about that, Andrew?

00:05:24.000 Yeah, this was actually hilarious.

00:05:25.000 I don't know if you guys saw this come through the news feed.

00:05:30.000 Well, probably not on their own news feed, but they're trying, there was a story out of Washington Post.

00:05:34.000 There were some stories out of the Wall Street Journal that's essentially said that Facebook is showing this terrible conservative bias against personalities that demonstrate misinformation or promote conspiracy theories, and that Facebook actually had made exceptions for people like Charlie Kirk by not removing their profile from Facebook's platform.

00:05:58.000 So they called and they asked for comment, to which we were like, well, we haven't experienced any of this favorable treatment from Facebook.

00:06:04.000 We've been demonetized.

00:06:06.000 We've been flagged.

00:06:07.000 And the thing that people don't really understand is that when you get flagged on Facebook, that is a multi, multi-man-hour project to get a flag removed, to deal with the Facebook fact checkers, to basically, you know, write in the caption, here's where Facebook is telling us that we're wrong.

00:06:26.000 It's third-party fact checkers, but it takes hours and hours and multiple emails and all of this stuff.

00:06:33.000 And what we found, and Charlie can attest this as well, there are certain topics that we know we cannot talk about now on Facebook.

00:06:41.000 They have just completely, it doesn't matter how nuanced your position is, if you go against the climate cult, for example, if you just say, hey, listen, simple idea, the temperatures were hotter, according to scientists, at different parts of the last couple millennia, right?

00:07:00.000 Between ice ages, this sorts of things.

00:07:01.000 You cannot say that.

00:07:03.000 They will come, they will find that post and they will flag it.

00:07:06.000 And then if you try and correct it or remove it, they say, well, no, you're a repeat offender.

00:07:12.000 We've already warned you about this.

00:07:14.000 So we just know on Facebook, we don't talk about the climate.

00:07:18.000 Think about how damaging that is, though, right?

00:07:20.000 When you see so much of our public policy is now being constructed around climate activism and climate change.

00:07:26.000 And you have one of the main platforms in America where we are not allowed to talk about it.

00:07:31.000 Yeah, and their total control over American society is extraordinary.

00:07:35.000 So, and then not to mention the $420 million that Mark Zuckerberg spent on the last election, $420 million to actually change the ballot laws as we know them.

00:07:44.000 It's just an extraordinary thing.

00:07:46.000 So let's talk about this next story.

00:07:48.000 And Andrew, you're in California, so maybe you could set this up or we can get into it.

00:07:51.000 Gender neutral toys?

00:07:53.000 What is going on here? 1.00

00:07:56.000 You know, I actually want to throw it to the blacks. 1.00

00:07:58.000 I mean, you guys actually alerted us to this story. 0.74

00:08:00.000 We haven't covered it yet on the Charlie Kirk show.

00:08:02.000 So this is breaking new ground for our audience.

00:08:06.000 I'm actually in California right now, hence I'm remote.

00:08:10.000 Tell us all about it because I can give you a reaction as a Californian.

00:08:15.000 Well, Andrew, there is now a requirement that every store that sells toys must have a gender-neutral aisle.

00:08:23.000 And so these now children will have an opportunity to go down an aisle and find something that would normally be a boy's toy, perhaps, would be a fire engine that was red, must be now pink and white, I guess.

00:08:38.000 But yes, that is a requirement. 0.81

00:08:40.000 And I just really hope that we don't see this being moved to those states all across our union that we will fight back and say this is absolutely ridiculous.

00:08:51.000 But this has been a movement underway.

00:08:54.000 Target has been a leader on this.

00:08:57.000 But states now, of course, California is always going to lead the way with a crazy idea.

00:09:03.000 And yeah, they want to get rid of the blue and the pink, you know, pink for girls, blue for boys.

00:09:09.000 They're trying to destroy it.

00:09:10.000 It's an artificial construct.

00:09:12.000 We know when little kids play, you know, if you take little girls and little boys, little girls are not going to run over to play with the little army men or with the trucks and all.

00:09:21.000 They're going to play with the dolls and the things that are appropriate for them.

00:09:25.000 Over the years, these toys have been developed for boys and girls based upon what they wanted, not what they were forced upon them.

00:09:33.000 This is being forced upon parents, forced upon our society.

00:09:38.000 The toys that we've had historically have been there because that's what those children wanted to play with.

00:09:42.000 That's just a social construct, though.

00:09:44.000 We're forcing that.

00:09:45.000 Don't you understand this?

00:09:46.000 Doctor, you're a doctor.

00:09:47.000 You know, this is all just psychology.

00:09:50.000 We force this on our poor kids, these gender norms. 0.99

00:09:53.000 Let me give a warning to every one of your listeners.

00:09:56.000 If you go to a doctor's office and you got to fill out a form to become a client or a patient of their office, if they ask you to list your sexual gender beyond male and female, walk away from that, doctor.

00:10:08.000 If they don't understand the basics of men and women or boys and girls, and they're asking you now to list one of the 127 different genders, walk away from them.

00:10:17.000 They don't know what they're doing.

00:10:18.000 I mean, it's just sad.

00:10:21.000 We have got to push back on this.

00:10:23.000 And it's just, it's just probably, there's no end to what the progressive movement is going to do to destroy the family structure.

00:10:34.000 And that plays itself out in so many different ways.

00:10:38.000 And they are just, and I think a lot of this just comes out of a lot of these corporations have diversity offices.

00:10:45.000 And out of these diversity offices come all these crazy concepts.

00:10:49.000 And the number one thing I wish we could get companies to do is do away with the diversity office. 1.00

00:10:53.000 And a lot of this nonsense will go away.

00:10:56.000 Yeah, that's incredible.

00:10:58.000 I completely agree with that.

00:10:59.000 But here's my biggest question about this whole like toy story.

00:11:03.000 I mean, not to get too graphic here, but I have a daughter and I have a son.

00:11:07.000 And when you, you know, the kids tend to remove the clothes from the dolls, anyways.

00:11:12.000 Eventually, there's a clothes are separated from the dolls.

00:11:15.000 You know, they don't have any gender, anyways. 1.00

00:11:18.000 I'm just, I hope that's not too obvious of a point.

00:11:22.000 I mean, it's just smooth plastic when you remove all the window dressing here.

00:11:26.000 So you guys have actually scored different toy makers.

00:11:31.000 Are there any good toy makers left?

00:11:33.000 What are the scoring?

00:11:34.000 Oh, gosh, I've got the, you know, the scores are, you know, Mattel.

00:11:38.000 Mattel has been, you know, they own just about all the big name toys, but Mattel and many other toy manufacturers have all gone off the deep end on these.

00:11:51.000 have Mattel at Hasbro.

00:11:52.000 Hasborough has gone off the deep head too.

00:11:54.000 Hasborough.

00:11:55.000 Yes.

00:11:55.000 Oh yeah.

00:11:56.000 Yeah, they're awful.

00:11:57.000 Yeah, we've got Wicked Cool Toys here as scored as a 3.00.

00:12:04.000 We've got Melissa and Doug scored at the 3.15, but Mattel at Lego is another one that is just becoming very woke and very much a part of the progressive agenda.

00:12:17.000 So, but we do have options out there.

00:12:20.000 And there are cottage industry toy manufacturers that are not going to engage in this behavior that may even be local to your community.

00:12:29.000 But it is a growing problem that the very people who develop toys for children are buying into this whole concept.

00:12:41.000 And it just ultimately destroys their marketplace.

00:12:45.000 You know, we do have Mattel, which is interesting.

00:12:47.000 Mattel on the life issue scores a 1.23.

00:12:53.000 Here's a company whose customer is a child, and yet they support abortion.

00:12:59.000 Who are the geniuses in the boardroom who say, gee, this is a great idea.

00:13:03.000 Let's put our profit dollars into an industry that destroys our customer.

00:13:09.000 I mean, you would, you can't make this stuff up.

00:13:13.000 That's a really good point, actually.

00:13:15.000 Go ahead.

00:13:16.000 Charlie's a crusader for life.

00:13:18.000 He's one of the most articulate advocates for it.

00:13:21.000 So, Charlie, that's to you.

00:13:22.000 Yeah, well, that doesn't surprise me, unfortunately, because when you fill these companies with people that are straight out of university and campuses, they're going to continue those beliefs.

00:13:34.000 So let's now get to kind of a field report because a lot of people are asking about this.

00:13:38.000 The Southwest CEO and kind of vaccine mandates in general.

00:13:43.000 What are we seeing from these companies that are being forced to administer the vaccine?

00:13:49.000 Are some of them pushing back?

00:13:51.000 Kind of give us some examples of what's going on here.

00:13:54.000 Yeah, we are seeing a pushback.

00:13:57.000 I'm sure you're following the In-N-Out Burger story in California, where they're actually having some of their restaurants having to limit themselves to drive-through.

00:14:06.000 They can't have people come into the restaurant because they refuse to ask for your vaccination status.

00:14:12.000 Yes.

00:14:13.000 And it's a principled stand.

00:14:15.000 It's costing them, costing them aggravation by government oversight as well as by restricting their business operations.

00:14:23.000 But you really have to admire In-N-Out Burger.

00:14:26.000 I do admire Southwest Airlines for speaking up and their CEO saying he doesn't want this.

00:14:33.000 And the Biden administration is determined to disrupt businesses with this mandate.

00:14:44.000 It's pitching employees against employees, the company against its own employees.

00:14:50.000 And it's just, you know, we may speak about it later, but Dan Bongino, a cumulus, he's saying, you know, I've been vaccinated, but I've got an agreement that people should be vaccinated.

00:15:05.000 He has a medical condition, I guess he shared that he needs to be vaccinated.

00:15:09.000 But he's pushing back to Cumulus, saying, you know, these employees should not be required by the corporation to be vaccinated.

00:15:17.000 And here we've got a government exercising every lever it has to force businesses to do things that they should never be engaged in.

00:15:27.000 And, you know, I've worked for a lot of businesses.

00:15:30.000 I had a health insurance plan.

00:15:32.000 I didn't go to my employer per se and say, tell me what I should do with my health care.

00:15:36.000 You know, I went to my doctor, you know, and I never went to a politician.

00:15:39.000 I've never gone to a politician in my life to find out how I should handle my health care.

00:15:44.000 But here we have the government putting this great power, this great pressure onto businesses.

00:15:54.000 But we're actually seeing also employees, like we've had GE walkout, employee walkouts that are pushing back on the vaccines.

00:16:01.000 And we're certainly seeing a lot of police unions and first responder unions and personnel that are pushing back.

00:16:08.000 And that's what it takes.

00:16:10.000 And there's a false narrative in the mainstream media that this forced vaccination is really popular.

00:16:17.000 I do not believe that's true.

00:16:19.000 Certainly there are people who are scared to death about this pandemic and they're advocates for it.

00:16:25.000 But when it comes to individual rights and liberties, no, individuals should be able to make their own decisions about what their health care is.

00:16:34.000 I think the really scary part about this too is that right now, people are uncertain about just what COVID, what it means and whether these vaccinations are working.

00:16:45.000 And we're seeing that people are still getting sick once they have the vaccinations.

00:16:48.000 But if the government can require us at this point in time to take these vaccines and we have no other choice, what next do they come up with?

00:16:57.000 What other thing do they come up with next to say, you've got to do this or you will lose your job?

00:17:02.000 And that's the scary part is if we don't fight back now, we're going to find ourselves in a really bad place where the government will be able to tell us whatever their next step is to say everybody must take this particular drug or this particular immunization or whatever it is.

00:17:19.000 And I think that right now is the time to push back and say, we are the United States and we have a right to our health care to say what we want to put in our body and what we do not want to put in our body.

00:17:30.000 So I know that those that are on the religious liberty side are getting a lot of help from various organizations.

00:17:39.000 And that is really helping them to be able to go to their employers and say, I do have a religious exemption.

00:17:46.000 And they may have that opportunity to be able to do what they believe is right for their body.

00:17:51.000 But I worry about folks just falling into the mantra of this, well, you have to do it.

00:17:56.000 Well, the government says I have to do it.

00:17:58.000 So I guess I better go do it.

00:17:59.000 And we just don't want to get that kind of mentality here in our country.

00:18:03.000 It's a scary thing.

00:18:04.000 Well, that's what's going on in Australia, for example.

00:18:06.000 They're much more inclined to put up with the draconian measures, lockdowns, and they've completely forfeited their own bodily autonomy, which is something that, you know, frankly, I just, I don't believe, I still don't believe that we're going to get to that point here in the United States.

00:18:22.000 I think there's too much fight left in this dog.

00:18:24.000 Check that, this was the cover of the New York Post today.

00:18:27.000 With deadline just days away, 37% of beat cops and 35% of FDNY, the fire department refusing the jab still in New York City.

00:18:40.000 So that's over 30% of those particular workforces.

00:18:43.000 We're talking about it on the business side, of course, but when you start talking about public services like that, that's ultimately going to have a massive impact on the entire country, including the economy.

00:18:54.000 And I also think it's going to send quite a signal to holdouts within these corporations that they have backup, that there's other people in other parts of the country that are also pushing back.

00:19:06.000 We've seen massive protests in New York and this sort of thing.

00:19:09.000 I want to see, I want to highlight a particular feature of Second Vote.

00:19:15.000 We talk about this growing, this crescendoing effect of all the different voices standing up in all the different parts of the country.

00:19:22.000 How do we use Second Vote?

00:19:23.000 There's a specific way, because a lot of people don't, they just still can't get their arms around how do they make an impact in this, right?

00:19:29.000 They can use Second Vote to send letters to these companies and encourage their employees, right?

00:19:34.000 And these employees need to get the attention of their executives, the board members.

00:19:38.000 Second vote can do that, right?

00:19:40.000 That is correct.

00:19:42.000 If you come to our website and you want to comment to these companies that are taking bad actions or if they're taking good actions, criticize, criticize, criticize, and also thank the corporations that are standing up.

00:19:55.000 But absolutely, that's been a feature since we founded Second Vote.

00:19:58.000 That's the kind of action we want from our subscribers.

00:20:02.000 We've had consequence to such action in the past.

00:20:04.000 We had Macy stop funding abortion. 1.00

00:20:08.000 They reached out to us after they were tired of hearing from our followers and they reached out to us to change their score on life because they were discontinuing any funding of abortion.

00:20:18.000 So we know it works.

00:20:19.000 We've had many examples of it.

00:20:21.000 In fact, just last week or for the past week, we've had two corporations reach out to us asking, how can we have our score improve?

00:20:29.000 What can we do to improve our score?

00:20:32.000 And that's because people are taking action.

00:20:34.000 People are reaching out and you can do that through our website.

00:20:38.000 You can search for these companies.

00:20:39.000 When you go to the company page, you'll see a link to reaching out to them for those who allow you to communicate with them.

00:20:46.000 Sometimes you may have to post something on the Facebook and we'll show that linkage there.

00:20:50.000 But and we are working on getting the CEO's email for every company as well as every member of the board of director onto our website.

00:20:59.000 So we can also start going to the person, not just the company.

00:21:03.000 Good.

00:21:03.000 It's incredible.

00:21:04.000 Good.

00:21:06.000 Charlie, I don't want to step on your here, but this, I'm seeing your report that Goldman Sachs has pulled out of Texas, which I, something that Charlie talks a lot about on the show, an idea that we talk a lot about is passing just offensive laws to the left.

00:21:23.000 Like if you don't want to see your state become a blue state, Charlie was just in Idaho, actually, Charlie.

00:21:28.000 We were talking about this in Idaho.

00:21:29.000 I saw the at the campus tour stop.

00:21:33.000 But it's like, you know, why is Goldman Sachs pulling out?

00:21:36.000 Should we be, is that a bad thing or is that a good thing?

00:21:40.000 Well, it's a bad thing.

00:21:42.000 I mean, once again, these big companies that are in the finance world are taking actions through their leverage they enjoy in the market.

00:21:54.000 And Goldman Sachs is very much involved in public financing, financing for state budgets and projects, et cetera.

00:22:03.000 And in Texas, they have passed a law through their legislature that if a finance company, a big finance company is harming the gun manufacturing industry or the ability of people to purchase guns, that they will be harmed by the Texas pension funds or the manner in which they fund their assets.

00:22:29.000 And so Goldman Sachs has chosen to exit the state of Texas in terms of public financing as a result of their activism on the Second Amendment issue.

00:22:39.000 One thing that I wanted to share with everybody, they're actually in one of our two funds that we have on the Chicago Board of Exchange.

00:22:45.000 We've had them on our Aegis fund, which is EGIS on the Chicago Board of Exchange, because they were neutral or better on border security and Second Amendment.

00:22:58.000 But now we've had to rescore them.

00:23:00.000 We will be taking them out of our funds.

00:23:02.000 We will take them out of our fund on the Chicago Board of Exchange based upon this activity.

00:23:09.000 But states have power.

00:23:12.000 They have a lot of money in their pension funds.

00:23:15.000 And actually, they can take action against these big finance corporations and help protect the Second Amendment, border security, or any of the issues that we follow at Second Vote that are fundamental to our society.

00:23:30.000 So now it's very interesting that Goldman Sachs, in other ways, has been a bad actor.

00:23:36.000 They got into our fund because on the issue for that fund, they were okay.

00:23:40.000 But we've just re-scored them, and we will be posting that score here within hours.

00:23:46.000 And we will be removing them from our fund.

00:23:49.000 Breaking news.

00:23:51.000 Coleman Sachs is getting re-scored.

00:23:54.000 Amen.

00:23:55.000 Charlie loves going to the Cook's show.

00:23:59.000 Exactly.

00:24:00.000 So, I want to focus in on this of some of the one, the kind of the, you look at some of the vaccine issue.

00:24:07.000 It's obviously been growing a lot.

00:24:10.000 And as of this conversation right now, and it's developing, Dan Bongino's show is not on air right now.

00:24:17.000 So that's developing, but we'll see.

00:24:20.000 It seems as if they're taking no prisoners.

00:24:24.000 But you are given some good news that people are actually interacting and want to change their score.

00:24:29.000 And I see conservatives starting to change their behaviors, especially when you see how much collective power, unrealized collective power that we actually have.

00:24:38.000 And so you look at some companies that are at least trying to do the right thing that are pretty good on the Second Amendment type issues.

00:24:46.000 You know, some that you have here is Tractor Supply or Polaris or Polaris.

00:24:52.000 One's not so good, Berkshire Hathaway, Intel, Comcast, Coca-Cola, Grubhub.

00:24:58.000 So just talk about some of the other news items since the last time we talked of some of these companies that are taking stands on this.

00:25:04.000 But do you see, do you see them backing away?

00:25:06.000 Do you see a general trend of these companies being a little more afraid of getting into this woke stuff?

00:25:12.000 Or do they just, or do you not see that difference generally?

00:25:15.000 Well, Charlie, you know, first of all, I think it's a partnership with Turning Point USA and how you've magnified our message.

00:25:23.000 You've really, this partnership, I think, is extremely helpful in what we're seeing.

00:25:28.000 And I think we're seeing activity by subscribers and folks that are coming to us through your programming.

00:25:35.000 And I think these companies that came to us since last week, I don't know, I haven't interacted with them or other areas, other folks have been interacting with them.

00:25:43.000 So I don't know what drove them to us exactly, but I suspect we're seeing more activity churned up here because you're helping to drive this messaging.

00:25:51.000 Well, thank you.

00:25:52.000 So I think that is a part of what's happening.

00:25:54.000 But yes, I think the fundamental premise here is if we speak up, companies will behave differently.

00:26:01.000 If they only hear the other side of the conversation and they don't hear our side of the conversation, then they will continue to pursue the progressive path.

00:26:10.000 So I, you know, I do think we are seeing companies that are listening.

00:26:17.000 Now, with regard to the COVID vaccine mandates, you're in a pickle with the government fining you if you don't follow their edict.

00:26:27.000 And In-N-Out Burger, though, is still, I can't, yeah, I come back In-N-Out Burger because it's such a principled stand.

00:26:34.000 It's amazing what they're doing.

00:26:35.000 They deserve such credit.

00:26:37.000 Yes.

00:26:38.000 And, but I'm sure there are many other CEOs out there.

00:26:43.000 And the fact that the Southwest Airline CEO spoke out, even speaking out today, is one measure of bravery and courage.

00:26:52.000 So I do think that we are seeing the tide turn and change on this conversation.

00:27:00.000 But it's because of your voice and other folks like you that are really publicly every day out there who are pushing back.

00:27:08.000 And that voice is beginning to be heard in the boardrooms and by the CEOs.

00:27:12.000 So I want to talk about the Major League Baseball.

00:27:15.000 So Producer Andrew's a big Dodgers fan, and thankfully they lost.

00:27:19.000 So I don't have to tolerate that.

00:27:22.000 And I stopped watching baseball after the Major League All-Star Game thing, but I temporarily put that on hold for the Chicago White Sox, the first team I cheered for that actually won a World Series in 05, but they got run over by the cheaters, the Astros.

00:27:35.000 I know someone from Houston is going to get so triggered because I say that.

00:27:38.000 So I'm kidding.

00:27:39.000 I get so much hate mail you wouldn't believe.

00:27:41.000 I'm not kidding.

00:27:42.000 I'm not kidding.

00:27:44.000 Andrew, why don't you?

00:27:45.000 Directed it.

00:27:46.000 Directed at Andrew.

00:27:47.000 Direct all of your anti-Astro hate at Andrew, all of your Dodger hate at me.

00:27:47.000 Yeah.

00:27:54.000 So what's going on in Major League Baseball?

00:27:56.000 Andrew, why don't you set the table here?

00:27:58.000 All right.

00:27:59.000 Well, here's the table being set.

00:28:00.000 But I do want to just quickly say thank you to the Charlie Kirk Show audience for, I mean, Second Vote is the preeminent organization that is active in this space that is pushing back against corporate tyranny and corporate wokeism.

00:28:13.000 So thank you guys for doing that. 0.75

00:28:15.000 And thank you to the audience for engaging it and making your voices heard, sending those letters, sending your opinions and pushing back against this just, you know, this culture of idiocy that's sort of crept into the corporate boardrooms.

00:28:32.000 It's making a difference, and you guys are key in that.

00:28:36.000 So anyways, I just want to say that because every time you hear that our audience is making a difference, it blows me away and it's a phenomenal thing to hear about.

00:28:44.000 Okay, baseball.

00:28:46.000 So Stacey Abrams got involved and accidentally ruined her local economy in Atlanta by removing hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity out of Atlanta because of Jim Crow 2.0, which was this milquetoast. 1.00

00:29:01.000 Honestly, it didn't go nearly far enough.

00:29:04.000 We covered that extensively on the show of voting rights and a voting integrity bill that was passed in Georgia.

00:29:11.000 They moved the all-star game to Denver, a predominantly white city that's terrible for playing baseball, by the way, because you're a mile above sea level and you can't get any spin on the ball. 1.00

00:29:22.000 Pitchers get destroyed.

00:29:24.000 Home runs all over the place.

00:29:25.000 Terrible venue.

00:29:26.000 Sorry, Denver.

00:29:27.000 Now we're going to get hate from Denver audience.

00:29:28.000 Okay.

00:29:29.000 Nothing against the Rockies.

00:29:30.000 Go Rockies.

00:29:32.000 So here's what happens.

00:29:32.000 Yeah.

00:29:35.000 The Dodgers are managed terribly and they blow all their starting pitching in relief rolls.

00:29:41.000 So we end up losing to the Braves.

00:29:43.000 Good for the Braves.

00:29:43.000 Okay.

00:29:44.000 Braves are going to the World Series.

00:29:46.000 Currently tied 1-1.

00:29:47.000 I think when this airs, we might have a 2-1 for one side or the other.

00:29:52.000 Point being is the irony of all ironies, and it's just poetic justice, that baseball has to confront the fact that its premiere event, the World Series, is now being hosted in Atlanta, where Jim Crow 2.0 still runs afoul and runs a muck, and Stacey Abrams has to just swallow a grin and bear it.

00:30:14.000 So have you heard from MLB on this?

00:30:17.000 Is there any updates on this?

00:30:19.000 Or are you just watching with glee like we are?

00:30:23.000 Well, first of all, God is good.

00:30:24.000 God has a situation.

00:30:28.000 You couldn't script this better.

00:30:30.000 I totally agree.

00:30:31.000 And I got to tell you, I work with baseball in my profession as a forensic scientist.

00:30:37.000 And there are so many good, good, good people within the baseball organization.

00:30:42.000 And that decision to harm Atlanta was, I think, like maybe Coca-Cola and others.

00:30:48.000 It was reactive.

00:30:49.000 It was without real deep thinking.

00:30:51.000 It was without really investigating the issues to verify the extremism that was being represented by the left.

00:30:59.000 But you can't really beat this kind of irony.

00:31:04.000 I don't have any, I personally don't have any inside information beyond what everybody else has witnessed.

00:31:11.000 But I think we should all enjoy the Stacey Abrams discomfort and the absolute perfect consequence to that bad, bad decision that harmed small, you know, when you go to these ball games, you've got all these small vendors outside the stadiums selling their wares.

00:31:32.000 And these are folks in Atlanta that were going to host that all-star game, the vendors around that stadium and in the stadium, they were going to profit well off of this.

00:31:41.000 And a lot of those were small black businessmen and women. 0.98

00:31:45.000 And that decision to move to Colorado, we don't have to rehash it.

00:31:49.000 It was just so wrong.

00:31:51.000 And this is just so right that they're able to recover from the all-star decision.

00:31:57.000 So I can't, I personally can't express a greater joy that these people in Atlanta can make up for the harm that was pushed on them by Stacey Abrams.

00:32:08.000 Well, I heard a rumor that Stacey Abrams was going to be on the field leading to Pledge Allegiance to the flag. 0.99

00:32:13.000 No, I'm just teasing.

00:32:16.000 She should, as governor of Georgia, she should definitely do that.

00:32:21.000 Now she's stumping for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia.

00:32:25.000 And hopefully her negatives are well up there in Virginia and it will backfire.

00:32:30.000 Just with the same as with Joe Biden, who's also stumping for him.

00:32:34.000 That's right.

00:32:35.000 But these cultural issues have a big impact on these elections, is what we're seeing.

00:32:38.000 Go ahead, Charlie.

00:32:39.000 Do you see in your baseball world?

00:32:41.000 I know a couple of people that own baseball teams.

00:32:43.000 I won't say who.

00:32:45.000 They were disgusted about what MLB did, and they have to be careful because there's all these agreements and all this, you know, it's very complicated.

00:32:52.000 But do you guys see, at least internally, that you could share with our audience from a CEO level and companies, or specifically in baseball, kind of people in charge being like, this is not who we are.

00:33:02.000 You know, we don't want to, this was an overreaction.

00:33:05.000 Do you guys see any of that?

00:33:08.000 Again, I've been historically involved in baseball, football, NASCAR, IndyCar, a lot of the professional sports area.

00:33:20.000 And the people I knew and the people I interact with at the very top, and I was also on the player side, players association side as well as on the league side.

00:33:31.000 I just, I was, I've been taken aback by some of the decision making that has gone on within the organization by the leaders who have the ultimate say.

00:33:41.000 You know, we were the first to break the story about the NFL helping to fund Black Lives Matter, the communist organization Black Lives Matter, back when they reached the agreement over Colin Copperdeck.

00:33:54.000 And we were the first to break the news story on that relationship.

00:33:58.000 But that isn't what I ever knew or saw within the league by either the employees or through the teams that I personally interacted with.

00:34:09.000 These have all been historically very patriotic, the kind of programs you would see on the field pre-game that were all patriotic.

00:34:19.000 So this is like a lot of what has gone on in big business, where we're getting these decisions made, but it doesn't seem like they're being made consistent with the values they really believe in.

00:34:33.000 And so whether it's the diversity office within the organization or maybe they just go to these cocktail parties and all talk among the same, you know, liberal thinking people, but these decisions, in my view, are so in conflict with what the organizations have been historically and the people that I've known within those organizations.

00:34:53.000 Yeah, that's well said.

00:34:54.000 So just again, for everyone listening, it's secondvote.com, promo code Charlie, secondvote.com, promo code Charlie.

00:35:00.000 In closing, what are some of the good stories you said in and out, but any other companies that caught your interest that people can support to actually say, you know what, that's something that we want to go buy.

00:35:10.000 That's something that we want to get behind.

00:35:12.000 Well, you know, I really like to close on the positive, but we have to talk, I think, about this Twix commercial that's up for Halloween.

00:35:21.000 And this is a negative, but it's owned by Mars.

00:35:26.000 You can come to our website and score Mars, and Mars is bad in many ways.

00:35:30.000 But this commercial that Twix has put up for Halloween is absolutely the people who made this commercial, in my opinion, ought to be in jail.

00:35:39.000 This is a child abuse.

00:35:42.000 If you've not seen the commercial yet, it could readily be found by just Googling for it.

00:35:49.000 But it's got a black-dressed witch kind of character taking a boy and dressing him up as a girl. 1.00

00:35:57.000 And when a healthy, normal, mentally stable young boy says that's not right, he's pulled out of the scene by a wind that comes and blows him away.

00:36:11.000 And this is just evil.

00:36:13.000 And we really need your followers to come to our website, go to the Mars page and communicate with Mars on this issue.

00:36:23.000 This is outrageous.

00:36:25.000 This is, I would say it's on the scale of the Gillette commercial about toxic masculinity and how they attacked all males, but it's worse than even that.

00:36:34.000 And you know, the outrage to the toxic masculinity of Gillette caused a lot of consequence within that organization.

00:36:43.000 We need to be outraged about this Mars commercial on Twix candy.

00:36:48.000 But we do always ask our followers and subscribers, go to companies and thank them when they do something good.

00:36:55.000 And unfortunately, the focus today seems to be on this Twix commercial that for Halloween is beyond any decent civil, respectful limits.

00:37:11.000 Charlie, the other thing that we do is we encourage people to shop local because really 85% of what you're purchasing many times is local.

00:37:19.000 If you can shop local, that's really the thing to do.

00:37:22.000 Support your own community and stay away from these big companies.

00:37:26.000 And the more they see their dollars fall, we know what happens then.

00:37:29.000 If your dollars start to fall, you start to reevaluate and say, what are we doing wrong?

00:37:34.000 What can we do to bring people back?

00:37:35.000 And that message needs to go out there, not only by the calls that are made to the companies, which we give you an opportunity to do, but also with the dollar that you spend out of your pocket.

00:37:44.000 Yeah, that's well said.

00:37:45.000 Andrew, any closing thoughts?

00:37:48.000 Oh, yeah.

00:37:48.000 My closing thoughts is that, you know, we talk about these companies, even MLB, which is filled, as you well know, as Charlie knows, filled with patriotic Americans.

00:37:59.000 I mean, I would venture to guess that, you know, the majority of the people that staff MLB are conservatives.

00:38:07.000 And yet we still see these terrible decisions getting made.

00:38:11.000 And yeah, we have this poetic justice and it's great, but they still made the decision.

00:38:15.000 It's still a loss for our country, for the culture in the end.

00:38:18.000 Why is this happening?

00:38:20.000 Because they feel the pain from the progressive left and they don't feel it from us.

00:38:25.000 And they fear them more than they fear us.

00:38:28.000 Well, the time for that has got to change.

00:38:30.000 The time to do something is now.

00:38:32.000 That's why we love having you guys on.

00:38:34.000 That's why we partner with Second Vote is because we see it as a critical piece of this whole equation to pushing back and to actually raising our voices louder collectively together so that they know that when they make choices that alienates half the country, there will be consequences.

00:38:52.000 So I just can't stress it enough.

00:38:54.000 Everybody get involved.

00:38:55.000 Everybody sign up, get your subscription, get the start sending letters to all of these companies all the time.

00:39:02.000 Do it a lot.

00:39:02.000 Do it loud.

00:39:03.000 Do it proud.

00:39:04.000 And don't hold anything back. 1.00

00:39:05.000 It's time to make sure they know there's consequences for being idiots. 1.00

00:39:09.000 To put it graciously. 1.00

00:39:12.000 Secondvote.com, promo code Charlie.

00:39:14.000 Thank you guys, and we'll talk to you soon.

00:39:16.000 Thanks so much.

00:39:19.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:39:20.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:39:23.000 And if you want to support our show, you can do so at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:39:27.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:39:28.000 We will see you in December, Phoenix, Arizona.

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00:39:33.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 29, 2021

Unpacking Facebook’s ‘Woke’ Identity Crisis with Rep. Diane Black & Dr. David Black

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