The Charlie Kirk Show - February 12, 2024


Was the Super Bowl Scripted?


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The Charlie Kirk Show reacts to the Super Bowl. Also, a call to action to hold certain senators accountable, why I m actually thrilled Alyssa DeRozan is running for the Senate in Maryland, and much, much more.

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00:01:36.000 I want to talk about the Super Bowl.
00:01:38.000 Let's get the bad stuff out of the way. 0.97
00:01:39.000 We will hammer this black national anthem. 0.99
00:01:41.000 It is an insult to our country, our traditions, our customs that there was a black national anthem and a regular national anthem. 1.00
00:01:50.000 It's how DEI has marched into the institutions of the National Football League.
00:01:55.000 There was some woke stuff here or there, but to be perfectly honest, you know, I watched very carefully.
00:02:01.000 And some of you might say, oh, Charlie, the Super Bowl is a waste of time.
00:02:04.000 No, it's interesting because the Super Bowl is almost like a temperature check.
00:02:08.000 The Super Bowl mirrors the culture.
00:02:10.000 The Super Bowl doesn't necessarily lead the culture.
00:02:12.000 The Super Bowl is kind of a mirror.
00:02:14.000 There's symmetry between where the culture is and what you see in front of 120, 130 million people.
00:02:20.000 What's the final count?
00:02:21.000 How many people watch the Super Bowl?
00:02:22.000 I bet it's the most watched Super Bowl of all time.
00:02:24.000 My guess is 120, 130 million.
00:02:26.000 And so you see these Super Bowl ads.
00:02:28.000 You see the Super Bowl halftime show.
00:02:30.000 You get a little bit of a sense of where's the country at.
00:02:33.000 Now, in past years, specifically the 2020 Super Bowl, the 2021 Super Bowl in particular, the 2022 Super Bowl, the 2023 Super Bowl, almost every other ad had these nauseating Black Lives Matter, trans rights or human rights pride flag. 0.85
00:02:50.000 And there was a little bit of that, of course.
00:02:54.000 But there was a noticeable change.
00:02:56.000 There was almost a dodging effect on behalf of corporate America.
00:03:01.000 There's almost the big brands know that there's finally a price to pay.
00:03:05.000 That's not to say that every ad was perfect.
00:03:08.000 There were some ads that just made you just like, what was that?
00:03:11.000 In fact, the most liberal, the wokeiest ad of them all was the green family-funded, hobby lobby-supported He Gets Us advertisement, which is an allegedly a Christian outreach thing.
00:03:25.000 And we'll talk about that.
00:03:26.000 We have been speaking out against that for the last year.
00:03:29.000 Noble mission, poorly executed.
00:03:32.000 But I found it really interesting, and we'll get into whether or not the Super Bowl is rigged because we're getting tons of emails.
00:03:37.000 Charlie, the Super Bowl is rigged.
00:03:38.000 I'm not exactly a believer in that.
00:03:40.000 Football of all the sports is the hardest sport to rig.
00:03:43.000 So you're going to have to sell me on that.
00:03:46.000 We'll put that aside.
00:03:47.000 It was promising.
00:03:49.000 It was promising in the sense that the revolution seems to be stalled.
00:03:56.000 If the revolution was really picking up steam, you would have Disney unapologetically having kids with gay pride flags. 0.97
00:04:04.000 If the revolution was really picking up steam, you would have every single major brand embracing the core ethos and anthem of the current woke regime.
00:04:19.000 Now, again, the fact that there was a black national anthem was outrageous and, quite honestly, reprehensible to the country's traditions and patterns, traditions, and history. 1.00
00:04:28.000 We should not have two national anthems, to be clear.
00:04:31.000 There is one national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, that there's a DEI anthem, and then we have to have the regular, the normal national anthem. 0.94
00:04:41.000 It's just ridiculous. 0.60
00:04:43.000 So I'll grant you that one. 0.83
00:04:44.000 But let's look at this Disney advertisement.
00:04:47.000 This is the Walt Disney advertisement.
00:04:49.000 They went as lukewarm as you possibly could.
00:04:53.000 They went as lukewarm and honestly, kind of boring.
00:04:56.000 In years past, this would be a competition of who could have the wokeiest advertisement.
00:05:03.000 And I'll even go a step further.
00:05:05.000 If you watch the very careful eye, there was almost a dare I say, bring me back to how things were, make America great again cultural subtext.
00:05:19.000 Now, you might think I'm reaching a little bit too much.
00:05:21.000 You might think that I'm grasping at straws, but hear me out.
00:05:24.000 Almost every other ad prominently featured a musical artist, an actor, or an actress that was famous 10 or 20 years ago.
00:05:36.000 Whether it be Jennifer Anniston from Friends or Lil Wayne or Wicked, the movie trailer.
00:05:45.000 There is almost a constant drumbeat that nostalgia sells.
00:05:51.000 Well, if you were to philosophically capture the political power of Donald Trump's candidacy, it's nostalgia.
00:06:01.000 Let's go back to the country we used to have.
00:06:04.000 And I found it to be an interesting contrast.
00:06:06.000 At the beginning, you have this black national anthem that most people didn't even stand for, nor should you stand for the black national anthem.
00:06:13.000 And then you have the actual anthem, and then the advertisements were like, hey, here's this person that you used to listen to growing up.
00:06:21.000 In fact, the Super Bowl halftime show, which I wanted to hate, I thought part of it was a little weird, like put your shirt back on, dude, Usher.
00:06:28.000 But quite honestly, it was impressive.
00:06:30.000 He did a good job.
00:06:32.000 Judging on the kind of spectrum of Super Bowl nonsense, it was rather, let's just say, mild.
00:06:41.000 But even the Super Bowl halftime show were people that were very popular 20 years ago.
00:06:47.000 Is it possible that technology and modernity, things are changing so quickly that the population and the advertising experts probably see this, which is why different brands and different approaches were all going towards the same theme of how things used to be.
00:07:04.000 So two of the major takeaways.
00:07:06.000 It's number one, no one wanted to become the next Bud Light.
00:07:10.000 They did not want in front of the largest audience imaginable with a very strong Midwest core that was watching very closely Kansas City Chiefs.
00:07:22.000 They did not want to screw up.
00:07:24.000 The advertising agencies and the major blue chip companies entered this Super Bowl with a first do no harm approach.
00:07:35.000 Here's Disney's ad.
00:07:36.000 Think about it.
00:07:37.000 Disney, they could have had kids walking through the streets with their trans flags.
00:07:42.000 They could have had Pride Forever or BLM Revolution.
00:07:47.000 This feels like a Disney ad from 1996.
00:07:50.000 Play cut 20.
00:08:22.000 It's basically, it was just somebody playing piano and a bunch of words on the screen.
00:08:28.000 That's about it.
00:08:29.000 Could not have been more neutral.
00:08:31.000 If you were sitting in the Disney ad, and it was quotes from all the classics, if you were sitting in the Disney ad meeting, somebody, Bob Iger, must say, I want the most boring Super Bowl ad possible, guys.
00:08:44.000 We're getting hit by all these right-wing boycotts, and we don't want another Bud Light.
00:08:51.000 We don't want lawsuits.
00:08:52.000 We don't want more investigations.
00:08:54.000 I want the most boring 1996 ad.
00:08:58.000 And if you think it's boring, I don't even want any words being spoken.
00:09:03.000 Now, mind you, Bob Iger is going to have some sort of lawsuit from the American Association of the Blind because they couldn't understand the ad.
00:09:10.000 I'm half kidding.
00:09:12.000 And it was as down the middle as you can.
00:09:14.000 Do you think that was really what the Disney ethos was three years ago?
00:09:19.000 No.
00:09:20.000 And I could show you example after example after example. 0.79
00:09:24.000 The Super Bowl is a little silly at times.
00:09:27.000 It's the bread and circus type thing.
00:09:29.000 At the same time, it's a very accurate and powerful picture as to where the culture is.
00:09:37.000 It would be one thing if every commercial was talking about a brave new world and embracing the trans agenda and micro trips in our brains, but no.
00:09:47.000 In some ways, it was a cry for help.
00:09:50.000 In some ways, the Super Bowl narrative via the advertisements was a, can we go back to how things used to be?
00:09:59.000 Because the world we're living in is not that great. 0.91
00:10:02.000 And we miss the country where we didn't talk about race all the time and our kids didn't have their genitals being chopped off. 0.85
00:10:09.000 Can we go back to that? 0.82
00:10:11.000 That was the story, the untold story of the 58th Super Bowl via the commercials.
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00:11:27.000 Yeah, okay, he's Super Bowl champion.
00:11:29.000 He's, you know, dating Taylor Swift.
00:11:31.000 Good luck with that.
00:11:32.000 I mean, but this is inexcusable.
00:11:35.000 It's unacceptable.
00:11:36.000 And he's joking around about it.
00:11:37.000 No player should ever do this.
00:11:38.000 He should have been benched for the entire game.
00:11:41.000 It's cut 18.
00:11:42.000 This is Travis Kelsey acting like a maniac, shoving Andy Reid.
00:11:47.000 Play cut 18 here.
00:11:48.000 Let's just watch this.
00:11:49.000 To the fumble.
00:11:51.000 He comes over to Andy.
00:11:52.000 He goes, keep me in.
00:11:53.000 What happened is on the fumble, he was not in the game.
00:11:56.000 Noah Gray went in and he had to block.
00:11:59.000 All right, that's way too much spike protein.
00:12:02.000 Travis Kelsey's really fired up.
00:12:03.000 What a great spokesperson for Pfizer.
00:12:05.000 He starts shoving 65-year-old men nearly to the ground.
00:12:09.000 Bless your heart, Travis Kelsey.
00:12:11.000 Bless your heart.
00:12:12.000 So some people are saying, oh, is the Super Bowl rigged?
00:12:16.000 Look here.
00:12:17.000 No.
00:12:18.000 You really, I'm really supposed to believe that Brock Purdy is in on it.
00:12:21.000 Now, it depends on what you mean.
00:12:22.000 Do you really think the referees are also calling shots?
00:12:26.000 I mean, I will say the sport that is the easiest to rig is the National Basketball Association, is the NBA, just through ticky-tack fouls, superstar calls.
00:12:37.000 That is the easiest of all the sports to quote-unquote rig.
00:12:41.000 But the NFL, with 22 people on the field in four-second intervals with such chance and luck and field goals, they also called very, very few penalties yesterday.
00:12:53.000 Now, I will say this, that it did feel as if you're just watching.
00:12:58.000 You're like, oh my goodness, it's going to happen.
00:13:00.000 It's going to happen.
00:13:01.000 And they just keep on showing the Taylor Swift box, the Taylor Swift box.
00:13:07.000 It felt very, I don't want to say it felt scripted, but if you were to believe things were scripted, it would kind of play out that way.
00:13:16.000 However, and there's all these people, all these creepy guys next to Taylor.
00:13:20.000 I'm not going to get into any of that, okay?
00:13:22.000 I will say that the larger takeaway that I think is important is that it didn't feel as if the cultural revolution was making headway.
00:13:35.000 It felt as if the cultural revolution was in a holding pattern.
00:13:41.000 I'm not saying it's dead.
00:13:42.000 There were little signs of life, but it was not in your face.
00:13:48.000 It wasn't nauseating.
00:13:51.000 And that is a testament to you in this audience, those of you that have participated in these boycotts of Target, those of you that have pushed back.
00:14:00.000 This is a positive data point.
00:14:02.000 I expected when it started with this BLM, DEI national anthem, which we shouldn't even call it the national anthem.
00:14:08.000 We should just call it the BLM song because there's only one national anthem.
00:14:14.000 There's only one national anthem.
00:14:17.000 And it feels like we pushed back against all this nonsense back into the hellhole from which it came, at least for now.
00:14:28.000 You look at these major brands.
00:14:31.000 Let's just take a couple off the top of my head that I remember that had some advertisements.
00:14:35.000 Uber Eats.
00:14:38.000 You have Disney, Bud Light.
00:14:42.000 Any one of them could have decided to further lean in to this revolution.
00:14:48.000 And those loud voices in the HR department were just kind of cast aside.
00:14:53.000 No, we're not going to do that.
00:14:55.000 This is a major significant, this is significant, everybody.
00:14:58.000 Rush Limbaugh used to do this to his credit.
00:15:01.000 And by the way, if any of you say don't talk about football, Rush used to talk about football a lot more than I talk about football.
00:15:05.000 He would do hour-long shows.
00:15:08.000 Rush used to look at the cultural indicators that might lead to political outcomes, victory, loss, success.
00:15:17.000 If I was a commissar in the cultural revolution, if I was a DEI director and I watched that Super Bowl, I would have been a little demoralized because this was far less representation of Viva La Revolution that you're used to.
00:15:39.000 I'm trying to think off the top of my head.
00:15:41.000 Did I see a single ad with a gay pride flag?
00:15:44.000 Maybe one or two. 0.88
00:15:46.000 I think I saw some lesbian girls kissing or something on a Volkswagen ad. 1.00
00:15:50.000 Maybe.
00:15:51.000 The fact I'm grasping and grappling for it.
00:15:55.000 The Super Bowl is a mirror of the current culture.
00:16:00.000 It's a temperature check.
00:16:02.000 And it is an indicator that there is a growing majority of the country that is center right, that wants a country that no longer exists, but wants that country back.
00:16:16.000 And I will repeat what I said earlier.
00:16:18.000 You have Joe Biden, and he is the status quo.
00:16:21.000 The Democrat Party, everything's fine.
00:16:24.000 But the Super Bowl cultural narrative tells you a different story.
00:16:27.000 It tells you a story of tens of millions, if not over 100 million people that want a country back.
00:16:34.000 I certainly do.
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00:17:41.000 Keep the pressure on, by the way.
00:17:42.000 I'm told by a special source that Roger Wicker is very nervous.
00:17:46.000 The source texted me.
00:17:48.000 Keep up the pressure.
00:17:49.000 Roger Wicker is up in a couple months.
00:17:51.000 Mississippi is a ruby red state.
00:17:53.000 He needs to feel the heat.
00:17:55.000 He is feeling the heat today.
00:17:56.000 Everybody needs to call him.
00:17:58.000 Roger Wicker, we're going to put up his number as well.
00:18:00.000 They have taken advantage of Republican primary voters for so long.
00:18:04.000 This is the Mitch McConnell playbook.
00:18:06.000 The Mitch McConnell playbook is win in these comfortable red states, but don't actually govern in a conservative way.
00:18:13.000 Don't govern to represent Republican voters.
00:18:17.000 Don't actually put the country first.
00:18:20.000 And by the way, not to mention, we're borrowing $2 trillion a year.
00:18:23.000 We just have another couple hundred billion to throw around for Ukraine.
00:18:27.000 What is the total figure that we've spent on aid to Ukraine?
00:18:31.000 Can somebody come on this program and tell me the exact number?
00:18:34.000 Where has it gone?
00:18:35.000 Where is the forensic audit?
00:18:37.000 And why the urgency and the rapidity and the obsession for a foreign nation?
00:18:45.000 What does success look like? 0.99
00:18:46.000 And if you say the liberation of Crimea, you're a lunatic. 0.66
00:18:50.000 If you say that success looks like the liberation of Crimea, you should be nowhere near elected office.
00:18:58.000 Is Ukraine thriving?
00:18:59.000 How many Ukrainians have died?
00:19:01.000 Who is responsible for that?
00:19:03.000 Yes, Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
00:19:05.000 Who made the war last longer than it needed to?
00:19:08.000 Why did Joe Biden send Tony Blinken via Boris Johnson to obliterate a peace deal?
00:19:14.000 The American government involved itself in the destruction of a peace deal.
00:19:21.000 News reports talk about Ukraine running out of manpower.
00:19:24.000 What happens when they run out?
00:19:25.000 Are we going to send manpower?
00:19:26.000 Is Roger Wicker?
00:19:27.000 How about this?
00:19:28.000 Tough guy, Mark Wayne Mullen, can go fight in Ukraine.
00:19:31.000 Real tough guy.
00:19:32.000 Yeah, he could beat me up 100%, obviously. 1.00
00:19:34.000 He votes like a coward. 0.99
00:19:36.000 And the people of Oklahoma deserve a lot better. 0.97
00:19:38.000 Let's get those phone numbers up again.
00:19:40.000 There's no more hiding anymore.
00:19:41.000 This movement is now up in the open.
00:19:43.000 It's no more where you just have a couple cable television shows and a couple radio programs and you sell out your voters and there's a newspaper article and people forget.
00:19:50.000 We don't forget anymore.
00:19:51.000 The movement has changed.
00:19:53.000 We got Bannon, Benny Johnson, Jack Posobic, Vivek Ramaswamy, Donald Trump Jr.
00:19:58.000 We have a whole new communication platform that did not exist five or 10 years ago.
00:20:03.000 We have Real America's Voice, Salem Radio News.
00:20:06.000 We have podcasting.
00:20:08.000 We have all this whole new ecosystem.
00:20:10.000 And these senators don't realize it.
00:20:12.000 They think, oh, you know, Ukraine's the most important thing ever, Slava Ukrainia.
00:20:15.000 We're not going to do that.
00:20:16.000 And by the way, we won't be successful at every single corner, but we will be successful.
00:20:21.000 And let it be the warning to you, Mark Wayne Mullen.
00:20:24.000 You might end and suffer the fate of Liz Cheney.
00:20:27.000 That's how fired up the base is over this.
00:20:29.000 So be very careful.
00:20:31.000 Mike Gallagher, gone.
00:20:33.000 You cross this threshold.
00:20:35.000 And Roger Wicker in Mississippi, the only thing that would save Roger Wicker is a Trump endorsement.
00:20:39.000 That's the only thing that would save it.
00:20:40.000 And I certainly hope he doesn't do that.
00:20:42.000 So call these numbers to Mark Wayne Mullen.
00:20:44.000 Ask the questions. 0.95
00:20:45.000 If we're able to peel off two or three Republican senators, we can kill this thing. 0.99
00:20:49.000 The gloves are off. 0.99
00:20:51.000 They can't answer a single question about this.
00:20:54.000 They just call you a Putin puppet.
00:20:56.000 You must be polite when you call.
00:20:58.000 And I'm going to repeat the point I made earlier.
00:21:00.000 Our voice is ascendant.
00:21:02.000 Our voice is growing.
00:21:04.000 You got Senator Mike Lee on the program.
00:21:06.000 We had Senator Tuberville on the program.
00:21:09.000 Senator Vance on the program.
00:21:10.000 Senator Hawley speaking out.
00:21:12.000 Senator Ram Paul is speaking out.
00:21:14.000 And this is not like a 50-50 issue.
00:21:17.000 This is a 95-5 issue amongst Republican primary voters.
00:21:22.000 And they're just sticking two middle fingers to you and saying, huh, we're going to go take a Codel, which is a taxpayer-funded congressional delegation overseas with pallets of metaphorical cash to the Munich Security Conference to go hang out with Zelensky and the fellow pimp oligarchs of the Ukrainian government, spending our money that we don't even have, by the way. 0.70
00:21:43.000 We don't.
00:21:44.000 We're a debtor nation, and our priority is this abstraction of a war abroad with no offsets, no spending cuts.
00:21:52.000 Putting the Israel thing aside, I support the Israel money. 0.80
00:21:54.000 That's not the point here.
00:21:55.000 The Israel money is a small shred of what we're talking about here.
00:21:58.000 And that's warranted, and that's fine.
00:22:00.000 The Ukraine thing is a disaster. 0.83
00:22:03.000 The Ukraine thing is inexcusable, and our border is still completely and totally wide open. 1.00
00:22:08.000 Senator Wicker, Senator Rounds, and Mark Wayne Mullen is at the top of my list because Mark Wayne Mullen likes to play both sides.
00:22:16.000 He makes it seem like he's this big grassroots warrior, and he's from the reddest of red states.
00:22:20.000 You got to call these numbers.
00:22:21.000 By the way, just someone says that their phone lines are overcapacity.
00:22:27.000 Good.
00:22:27.000 Write down the number.
00:22:28.000 Call throughout the day.
00:22:30.000 And if Mark Wayne Mullen decides to actually represent his voters, he'll be welcome to come this program.
00:22:34.000 Be like, whoa, I felt the heat.
00:22:35.000 Good.
00:22:36.000 That's the way that a representative government should act.
00:22:39.000 If he or Mike Rounds or Wicker decides to vote against their voters, there will be consequences.
00:22:47.000 Just ask Liz Cheney.
00:22:48.000 I want to get this B-roll up here.
00:22:50.000 This is from Steve Bannon's war room.
00:22:52.000 This is a footage of what's happening on the border.
00:22:54.000 Not a single woman or child.
00:22:57.000 We're going to get this up on screen.
00:22:58.000 Literally, this video is thousands of just men on the border.
00:23:03.000 Now, maybe they segregated them based on sex.
00:23:06.000 Maybe that's why it's so dramatic.
00:23:08.000 Maybe not.
00:23:09.000 I mean, excited to meet your new neighbors.
00:23:11.000 Look at that.
00:23:13.000 Every single one of them is a fighting-age male.
00:23:16.000 I've been trying to warn people about this.
00:23:18.000 You're being invaded.
00:23:19.000 Every single one of them.
00:23:22.000 Oh, but no, we're focused on Ukraine.
00:23:24.000 All right.
00:23:24.000 So let's get in the trenches, everybody.
00:23:27.000 This is not done.
00:23:28.000 So this will not pass without a cost to the people responsible.
00:23:34.000 And by the way, Mike Gallagher, the soyboy from northern Wisconsin.
00:23:40.000 He's not running for anything.
00:23:41.000 We sent out the warning.
00:23:42.000 We sent out the salvo.
00:23:43.000 All of a sudden, he says, oh, I'm not running for re-election.
00:23:46.000 Get out of the way.
00:23:47.000 By the way, there's two Mike Gallagher's.
00:23:48.000 There's an amazing Mike Gallagher, and then there's a wimpy Mike Gallagher.
00:23:52.000 Mike Gallagher on Salem Radio Network is a great American.
00:23:55.000 Mike Gallagher from Northern Wisconsin, he's a future Boeing subcontractor, bought by the defense industrial complex.
00:24:04.000 I don't want to endorse or I don't want to impeach Mayorkas because I want a nice position on Raytheon's board.
00:24:11.000 Asta La Vista, Mike Gallagher.
00:24:13.000 So Mark Wayne Mullen, let's just focus on this guy.
00:24:15.000 I've never met the guy.
00:24:16.000 You know, he LARPs, live-action role plays, is a real tough guy.
00:24:20.000 You know, he was a UFC fighter in his past, so he's pretty tough, but doesn't vote tough.
00:24:25.000 But he's got a chance for redemption here.
00:24:28.000 Mark Wayne Mullen votes because he doesn't care about the invasion on the southern border.
00:24:31.000 Mark Wayne Mullen does not represent the people of Oklahoma currently.
00:24:34.000 It can change.
00:24:35.000 But Mark Wayne Mullen thought he could hide.
00:24:38.000 Oh, I can vote for this stuff.
00:24:40.000 And, you know, no one's going to notice.
00:24:44.000 It's important.
00:24:44.000 We got to put the pressure on the right targets, the right targets.
00:24:50.000 And if you look at the list, so you have Mark Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma.
00:24:58.000 And it's interesting.
00:25:00.000 There's a couple different lists here of people that have voted for this.
00:25:06.000 The final list here, an unusual session held on Sunday, the Sunday Super Bowl.
00:25:10.000 The vote garnered support from the final of these.
00:25:14.000 And again, this is the final roll call.
00:25:15.000 There's a couple different roll calls here.
00:25:18.000 So we have Mark Wayne Mullen, Mitt Romney, waste of time.
00:25:23.000 The other one that I want to focus on here, because you got to choose your targets.
00:25:26.000 You got to choose your targets precisely.
00:25:29.000 Who else should we choose?
00:25:30.000 Mike Rounds from South Dakota.
00:25:33.000 Perfect.
00:25:34.000 This is an ambitious guy.
00:25:35.000 He's from a deep red state.
00:25:36.000 When is he up?
00:25:38.000 So Mike Rounds is another one.
00:25:40.000 Why are these red state senators so obsessed with spending your money and sending it overseas?
00:25:50.000 What is that all about?
00:25:51.000 There must be a political cost to this.
00:25:53.000 And Mark Wayne Mullen, he has a chance to redeem himself.
00:25:56.000 Mike Rounds is gallivanting around.
00:25:58.000 Oh, Mitch McConnell is the leader.
00:25:59.000 He's terrific.
00:26:00.000 We're going to primer each and every one of you.
00:26:02.000 And by the way, buckle up.
00:26:03.000 Turning point action is gaining steam.
00:26:06.000 Mike Rounds is up next cycle.
00:26:08.000 If all of a sudden turning point action on a ragtag budget, if we draft a good candidate and we visit multiple times and we bring out the big voice to the conservative movement to go primary Mike Rounds in South Dakota, he will lose.
00:26:21.000 He's unpopular with the base.
00:26:23.000 We get enough support.
00:26:24.000 Doesn't matter how much DC money you put in there, Mike Rounds, or Mark Wayne Mullen.
00:26:28.000 You guys have taken advantage.
00:26:30.000 If you kind of look at, and I give Chuck Grassley a pass.
00:26:33.000 It's fine.
00:26:34.000 There's some of these that are not worth your time.
00:26:36.000 John Cornyn, Chuck Grassley, not worth your time.
00:26:38.000 Too popular, too much money, too big of a state.
00:26:40.000 If you look at where you can make the biggest impact, the reddest state. 0.98
00:26:45.000 So you could have a super bloody primary, and whoever wins, they're going to win the general.
00:26:48.000 So the race is the primary.
00:26:51.000 And they take advantage of their voters.
00:26:53.000 Mark Wayne Mullen is one of them.
00:26:55.000 And that smooth-talking Southerner, Kennedy from Louisiana, who's always got jokes, but he sells out his voters.
00:27:00.000 The kind of fascination with Senator Kennedy from Louisiana has always bothered me.
00:27:03.000 Oh, he's so funny.
00:27:04.000 Yeah, he's funny.
00:27:04.000 And then he sends money to Ukraine.
00:27:06.000 Get out of the way.
00:27:08.000 So the two that I want to focus on.
00:27:10.000 Can we get the phone numbers of Mark Wayne Mullen?
00:27:12.000 Let's just, everyone, I don't care if you live in Tulsa or if you live in Tallahassee.
00:27:17.000 This is going to be a national effort.
00:27:19.000 We all should call Mark Wayne Mullen's office and say, who do you think you are?
00:27:24.000 Be polite.
00:27:25.000 Don't swear.
00:27:26.000 Be direct.
00:27:27.000 And especially if you live in Oklahoma, say, why are you selling out the people of this great state?
00:27:33.000 What are you doing?
00:27:34.000 Why do you lie to us?
00:27:36.000 Can we have the phone number up there, please?
00:27:38.000 There must be a political cost for selling out your voters.
00:27:46.000 We're not just going to sit idly by.
00:27:47.000 Mike Gallagher, we sent out one salvo last week, banning all this, and you, whoop, I don't want to run anymore.
00:27:52.000 Senator Lankford, we're already taking care of him.
00:27:54.000 He's done.
00:27:55.000 He's already getting puff pieces in the New York Times.
00:27:57.000 But Mark Wayne Mullen, you might be next, my friend.
00:28:01.000 The people from the deep right state of Oklahoma.
00:28:03.000 They're not going to put up with this.
00:28:06.000 I'm fascinated by red state senator psychology.
00:28:11.000 People ask, Charlie, who would you interview if you could interview anybody?
00:28:16.000 Would you interview the Pope?
00:28:17.000 Would you interview Putin?
00:28:19.000 Putin would be interesting, but I think Tucker did it.
00:28:20.000 I think Tucker did an excellent job.
00:28:22.000 That's another topic for another time.
00:28:24.000 I would love to interview Elon.
00:28:26.000 Elon would be the exception, but largely the Putin, Putin or the Pope, I would have some idea what they were going to say with some certainty or some accuracy.
00:28:34.000 Elon, I have some questions that I would love some answers to.
00:28:37.000 I want, in a non-scripted way, in a very almost like clinical fashion, I want to sit down with Senator Lankford, Senator Mike Rounds from South Dakota, not in a gotcha way.
00:28:53.000 And I really want to understand the psychology of what motivates these people.
00:28:59.000 Because it's easy to say, oh, they're bought and paid for.
00:29:01.000 And we're going to get into this with Senator Vance because he's been talking about this.
00:29:05.000 And, but it is flummoxing to me.
00:29:12.000 We have no border.
00:29:13.000 The country's absolutely collapsing.
00:29:16.000 And these red state senators, mind you, red state senators that go out of their way to pander because they want to be treated well at the Munich Security Conference.
00:29:28.000 Now, mind you, if you're from a blue state, I don't treat you the same way.
00:29:32.000 And I actually, I'm going to get some big hate mail.
00:29:35.000 People are going to hate me for saying this, but it's true, and I'm consistent about this.
00:29:40.000 This is why I've never on this program attacked Susan Collins ever.
00:29:44.000 In fact, I've done the opposite.
00:29:45.000 I have praised Susan Collins. 0.69
00:29:47.000 The fact that we get a Republican senator in the state of Maine, she can vote liberal all the time, and she gives us a Senate majority and gave us Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett and Gorsuch, great.
00:29:57.000 Good for you, Susan Collins, which is why I'm going to get some big hate mail for this.
00:30:02.000 I was actually thrilled to see that one of my least favorite Republicans is running for the Senate in Maryland, Larry Hogan.
00:30:11.000 To be perfectly clear, we have no chance of winning the Maryland Senate race unless it's Larry Hogan. 0.87
00:30:16.000 Larry Hogan is a blowhard.
00:30:18.000 He is like a Mitt Romney, but Larry Hogan would caucus with Republicans. 0.93
00:30:23.000 Larry Hogan would give us better judges.
00:30:26.000 And it would be a chance for us to cement political power to stop the cultural revolution.
00:30:31.000 And some people say, oh, we must stop Larry Hogan and all this.
00:30:34.000 Maryland is a ridiculously deep blue state.
00:30:37.000 He's a former governor.
00:30:38.000 I don't like the guy at all.
00:30:40.000 But if Larry Hogan's going to go to the Senate and caucus with Republicans, wouldn't that be helpful in trying to slow down them trying to abolish the Electoral College and bring in a national popular vote and make D.C. and Puerto Rico a state?
00:30:55.000 He's on the record saying no D.C. statehood, no Puerto Rico statehood, good judges, good justices, and he'll just be so disappointing at times, make no mistake.
00:31:03.000 He'll be Mitt Romney on steroids.
00:31:05.000 But it'd be better than an Elizabeth Warren coming out of Maryland.
00:31:10.000 So if Larry Hogan were to be a senator, which I hope he does, by the way, I hope he does, because you have to have some pragmatism in politics.
00:31:17.000 You have a chance to all of a sudden make Chuck Schumer spend money in Maryland?
00:31:21.000 That's a diversionary of tactics that I think is excellent.
00:31:24.000 We need to think more like that.
00:31:25.000 I think it's excellent.
00:31:26.000 I'm glad he's running.
00:31:27.000 But I'm not talking about the Metropolitan Republicans.
00:31:31.000 I'm talking about people that represent and run in the reddest parts of the country.
00:31:36.000 I'm talking about people that represent Wyoming, South Dakota, Kansas, North Dakota, Nebraska, Tennessee.
00:31:46.000 And I'm fascinated by the psychology.
00:31:50.000 I want a full psychological workup of what makes them tick.
00:31:56.000 Because it certainly isn't what their voters want.
00:31:58.000 Their voters do not want more money to Ukraine.
00:32:00.000 Their voters do want funding for Israel.
00:32:02.000 Totally get that.
00:32:03.000 That's looped into there.
00:32:05.000 Fair, fine.
00:32:06.000 That's popular with the base. 0.61
00:32:07.000 They don't want just more ridiculous humanitarian aid going overseas with no strings attached.
00:32:14.000 But the continuation of what's happening in Ukraine, while we have so many problems here, it will require decades from now.
00:32:24.000 Historians are just going to be like, it's going to be so fascinating to see why the U.S. Senate representing the reddest parts of the country kept on sending money overseas while their homeland was deteriorating.
00:32:37.000 Where is the money going?
00:32:38.000 Do we have an audit?
00:32:40.000 And I just, I have to wonder, is the inner dialogue, monologue in Senator Lankford, for example, I just think he hates you.
00:32:47.000 And I know that sounds like a cop-out, but I think he has contempt for you and he's at war with you and he doesn't care what you think.
00:32:55.000 He just wants a good seat at the Munich Security Conference next to the NATO minister.
00:33:04.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:06.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:08.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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