00:00:36.000As I sit next to a thing of Fiji water, as someone here bought a Coca-Cola product, they're no longer with us because they bought Coca-Cola products.
00:01:58.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:09.000And, you know, the Facebook, the overall rating for Facebook, according to secondvote.com, is the lowest rating I think a company has ever got.
00:03:17.000It's just a one, flat across the board.
00:03:27.000Let's talk about Facebook and all the controversy surrounding that.
00:03:32.000Well, 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.
00:03:53.000But now we have insiders that are coming forward to speak on the activities that are going on inside that organization.
00:04:01.000And 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.
00:04:16.000And so many people now go there for their news and they're being lied to, intentionally misled.
00:04:24.000And other voices that they're in disagreement with are suppressed and censored.
00:04:38.000The 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.
00:04:48.000And 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.
00:04:55.000So I'm delighted that you do what you do because it's the younger generation that's really going to make a difference.
00:05:01.000And it's hopefully we're, you know, we're continuing that trend.
00:05:06.000And there's a lot of misinformation out there, especially from these big tech companies.
00:05:11.000And so, Andrew, do you have a thought on the Facebook issue?
00:05:14.000Because 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.
00:05:25.000I don't know if you guys saw this come through the news feed.
00:05:30.000Well, probably not on their own news feed, but they're trying, there was a story out of Washington Post.
00:05:34.000There 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.
00:05:58.000So they called and they asked for comment, to which we were like, well, we haven't experienced any of this favorable treatment from Facebook.
00:06:07.000And 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.
00:06:26.000It's third-party fact checkers, but it takes hours and hours and multiple emails and all of this stuff.
00:06:33.000And what we found, and Charlie can attest this as well, there are certain topics that we know we cannot talk about now on Facebook.
00:06:41.000They 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?
00:07:00.000Between ice ages, this sorts of things.
00:07:14.000So we just know on Facebook, we don't talk about the climate.
00:07:18.000Think about how damaging that is, though, right?
00:07:20.000When you see so much of our public policy is now being constructed around climate activism and climate change.
00:07:26.000And you have one of the main platforms in America where we are not allowed to talk about it.
00:07:31.000Yeah, and their total control over American society is extraordinary.
00:07:35.000So, 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.
00:07:56.000You know, I actually want to throw it to the blacks.
00:07:58.000I mean, you guys actually alerted us to this story.
00:08:00.000We haven't covered it yet on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:08:02.000So this is breaking new ground for our audience.
00:08:06.000I'm actually in California right now, hence I'm remote.
00:08:10.000Tell us all about it because I can give you a reaction as a Californian.
00:08:15.000Well, Andrew, there is now a requirement that every store that sells toys must have a gender-neutral aisle.
00:08:23.000And 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.
00:08:40.000And 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.
00:08:51.000But this has been a movement underway.
00:09:12.000We 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.
00:09:21.000They're going to play with the dolls and the things that are appropriate for them.
00:09:25.000Over the years, these toys have been developed for boys and girls based upon what they wanted, not what they were forced upon them.
00:09:33.000This is being forced upon parents, forced upon our society.
00:09:38.000The toys that we've had historically have been there because that's what those children wanted to play with.
00:09:42.000That's just a social construct, though.
00:09:47.000You know, this is all just psychology.
00:09:50.000We force this on our poor kids, these gender norms.
00:09:53.000Let me give a warning to every one of your listeners.
00:09:56.000If 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.
00:10:08.000If 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.
00:11:34.000Oh, gosh, I've got the, you know, the scores are, you know, Mattel.
00:11:38.000Mattel 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.
00:11:57.000Yeah, we've got Wicked Cool Toys here as scored as a 3.00.
00:12:04.000We'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.
00:13:22.000Yeah, 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.
00:13:34.000So let's now get to kind of a field report because a lot of people are asking about this.
00:13:38.000The Southwest CEO and kind of vaccine mandates in general.
00:13:43.000What are we seeing from these companies that are being forced to administer the vaccine?
00:13:57.000I'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.
00:14:06.000They can't have people come into the restaurant because they refuse to ask for your vaccination status.
00:14:15.000It's costing them, costing them aggravation by government oversight as well as by restricting their business operations.
00:14:23.000But you really have to admire In-N-Out Burger.
00:14:26.000I do admire Southwest Airlines for speaking up and their CEO saying he doesn't want this.
00:14:33.000And the Biden administration is determined to disrupt businesses with this mandate.
00:14:44.000It's pitching employees against employees, the company against its own employees.
00:14:50.000And 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.
00:15:05.000He has a medical condition, I guess he shared that he needs to be vaccinated.
00:15:09.000But he's pushing back to Cumulus, saying, you know, these employees should not be required by the corporation to be vaccinated.
00:15:17.000And here we've got a government exercising every lever it has to force businesses to do things that they should never be engaged in.
00:15:27.000And, you know, I've worked for a lot of businesses.
00:16:19.000Certainly there are people who are scared to death about this pandemic and they're advocates for it.
00:16:25.000But when it comes to individual rights and liberties, no, individuals should be able to make their own decisions about what their health care is.
00:16:34.000I 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.
00:16:45.000And we're seeing that people are still getting sick once they have the vaccinations.
00:16:48.000But 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?
00:16:57.000What other thing do they come up with next to say, you've got to do this or you will lose your job?
00:17:02.000And 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.
00:17:19.000And 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.
00:17:30.000So I know that those that are on the religious liberty side are getting a lot of help from various organizations.
00:17:39.000And that is really helping them to be able to go to their employers and say, I do have a religious exemption.
00:17:46.000And they may have that opportunity to be able to do what they believe is right for their body.
00:17:51.000But I worry about folks just falling into the mantra of this, well, you have to do it.
00:17:56.000Well, the government says I have to do it.
00:18:04.000Well, that's what's going on in Australia, for example.
00:18:06.000They'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.
00:18:22.000I think there's too much fight left in this dog.
00:18:24.000Check that, this was the cover of the New York Post today.
00:18:27.000With deadline just days away, 37% of beat cops and 35% of FDNY, the fire department refusing the jab still in New York City.
00:18:40.000So that's over 30% of those particular workforces.
00:18:43.000We'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.
00:18:54.000And 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.
00:19:06.000We've seen massive protests in New York and this sort of thing.
00:19:09.000I want to see, I want to highlight a particular feature of Second Vote.
00:19:15.000We talk about this growing, this crescendoing effect of all the different voices standing up in all the different parts of the country.
00:19:23.000There'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?
00:19:29.000They can use Second Vote to send letters to these companies and encourage their employees, right?
00:19:34.000And these employees need to get the attention of their executives, the board members.
00:19:42.000If 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.
00:19:55.000But absolutely, that's been a feature since we founded Second Vote.
00:19:58.000That's the kind of action we want from our subscribers.
00:20:02.000We've had consequence to such action in the past.
00:20:08.000They 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.
00:21:06.000Charlie, 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.
00:21:23.000Like if you don't want to see your state become a blue state, Charlie was just in Idaho, actually, Charlie.
00:21:42.000I mean, once again, these big companies that are in the finance world are taking actions through their leverage they enjoy in the market.
00:21:54.000And Goldman Sachs is very much involved in public financing, financing for state budgets and projects, et cetera.
00:22:03.000And 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.
00:22:29.000And 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.
00:22:39.000One 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.
00:22:45.000We'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.
00:23:12.000They have a lot of money in their pension funds.
00:23:15.000And 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.
00:23:30.000So now it's very interesting that Goldman Sachs, in other ways, has been a bad actor.
00:23:36.000They got into our fund because on the issue for that fund, they were okay.
00:23:40.000But we've just re-scored them, and we will be posting that score here within hours.
00:23:46.000And we will be removing them from our fund.
00:24:20.000It seems as if they're taking no prisoners.
00:24:24.000But you are given some good news that people are actually interacting and want to change their score.
00:24:29.000And I see conservatives starting to change their behaviors, especially when you see how much collective power, unrealized collective power that we actually have.
00:24:38.000And 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.
00:24:46.000You know, some that you have here is Tractor Supply or Polaris or Polaris.
00:24:52.000One's not so good, Berkshire Hathaway, Intel, Comcast, Coca-Cola, Grubhub.
00:24:58.000So 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.
00:25:04.000But do you see, do you see them backing away?
00:25:06.000Do you see a general trend of these companies being a little more afraid of getting into this woke stuff?
00:25:12.000Or do they just, or do you not see that difference generally?
00:25:15.000Well, Charlie, you know, first of all, I think it's a partnership with Turning Point USA and how you've magnified our message.
00:25:23.000You've really, this partnership, I think, is extremely helpful in what we're seeing.
00:25:28.000And I think we're seeing activity by subscribers and folks that are coming to us through your programming.
00:25:35.000And 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.
00:25:43.000So 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.
00:25:52.000So I think that is a part of what's happening.
00:25:54.000But yes, I think the fundamental premise here is if we speak up, companies will behave differently.
00:26:01.000If 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.
00:26:10.000So I, you know, I do think we are seeing companies that are listening.
00:26:17.000Now, with regard to the COVID vaccine mandates, you're in a pickle with the government fining you if you don't follow their edict.
00:26:27.000And 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.
00:27:22.000And 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.
00:27:35.000I know someone from Houston is going to get so triggered because I say that.
00:28:00.000But 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.
00:28:15.000And 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.
00:28:32.000It's making a difference, and you guys are key in that.
00:28:36.000So 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.
00:28:46.000So 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.
00:29:01.000Honestly, it didn't go nearly far enough.
00:29:04.000We covered that extensively on the show of voting rights and a voting integrity bill that was passed in Georgia.
00:29:11.000They 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.
00:29:47.000I think when this airs, we might have a 2-1 for one side or the other.
00:29:52.000Point 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.
00:30:51.000It was without really investigating the issues to verify the extremism that was being represented by the left.
00:30:59.000But you can't really beat this kind of irony.
00:31:04.000I don't have any, I personally don't have any inside information beyond what everybody else has witnessed.
00:31:11.000But 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.
00:31:32.000And 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.
00:31:41.000And a lot of those were small black businessmen and women.
00:31:45.000And that decision to move to Colorado, we don't have to rehash it.
00:31:51.000And this is just so right that they're able to recover from the all-star decision.
00:31:57.000So 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.
00:32:08.000Well, I heard a rumor that Stacey Abrams was going to be on the field leading to Pledge Allegiance to the flag.
00:32:45.000They 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.
00:32:52.000But 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.
00:33:02.000You know, we don't want to, this was an overreaction.
00:33:08.000Again, I've been historically involved in baseball, football, NASCAR, IndyCar, a lot of the professional sports area.
00:33:20.000And 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.
00:33:31.000I 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.
00:33:41.000You 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.
00:33:54.000And we were the first to break the news story on that relationship.
00:33:58.000But 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.
00:34:09.000These have all been historically very patriotic, the kind of programs you would see on the field pre-game that were all patriotic.
00:34:19.000So 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.
00:34:33.000And 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.
00:34:54.000So just again, for everyone listening, it's secondvote.com, promo code Charlie, secondvote.com, promo code Charlie.
00:35:00.000In 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.
00:35:10.000That's something that we want to get behind.
00:35:12.000Well, 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.
00:35:21.000And this is a negative, but it's owned by Mars.
00:35:26.000You can come to our website and score Mars, and Mars is bad in many ways.
00:35:30.000But 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.
00:35:42.000If you've not seen the commercial yet, it could readily be found by just Googling for it.
00:35:49.000But it's got a black-dressed witch kind of character taking a boy and dressing him up as a girl.
00:35:57.000And 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.
00:36:25.000This 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.
00:36:34.000And you know, the outrage to the toxic masculinity of Gillette caused a lot of consequence within that organization.
00:36:43.000We need to be outraged about this Mars commercial on Twix candy.
00:36:48.000But we do always ask our followers and subscribers, go to companies and thank them when they do something good.
00:36:55.000And unfortunately, the focus today seems to be on this Twix commercial that for Halloween is beyond any decent civil, respectful limits.
00:37:11.000Charlie, 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.
00:37:19.000If you can shop local, that's really the thing to do.
00:37:22.000Support your own community and stay away from these big companies.
00:37:26.000And the more they see their dollars fall, we know what happens then.
00:37:29.000If your dollars start to fall, you start to reevaluate and say, what are we doing wrong?
00:37:35.000And 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.
00:37:48.000My 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.
00:37:59.000I mean, I would venture to guess that, you know, the majority of the people that staff MLB are conservatives.
00:38:07.000And yet we still see these terrible decisions getting made.
00:38:11.000And yeah, we have this poetic justice and it's great, but they still made the decision.
00:38:15.000It's still a loss for our country, for the culture in the end.
00:38:32.000That's why we love having you guys on.
00:38:34.000That'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.