The Charlie Kirk Show: Thoughtcrime Ep. 106 — “Democrat Sedition? Mankeeping? Epstein Files At Last?”

Date: November 22, 2025
Host: Charlie Kirk and panel
Episode Theme:
A wide-ranging, signature “Thoughtcrime” roundtable featuring Charlie Kirk’s panel, covering the long-awaited Epstein files release and its political fallout, accusations of sedition following Democrats’ statements to the military, cultural decline (from OnlyFans to AI romance), and why the right shouldn’t expect heroes from pop culture phenoms like Sydney Sweeney. As always, the crew’s blisteringly irreverent conservative tone mixes serious critique, deadpan asides, and internet-savvy callbacks.

Main Topics & Timestamps

• Epstein Files Release: Political Fallout, Truth & Theories (03:03–36:10)
• Democrats & “Sedition”: Refusing Orders and Trump’s Response (36:10–51:28)
• Cultural Decline: Universities, OnlyFans, and Psychology (53:39–71:34)
• Rise of AI Companions & “Man Keeping” (71:54–97:26)
• Pop Culture Dissection: Sydney Sweeney and Anti-Male Fiction (98:12–113:54)
• Memorable Quotes, Panelist Highlights, & Notable Moments

Epstein Files Release: Damage Control, Truth & Endless Conspiracies

Timestamps: 03:03–36:10

Context and Fallout

• The crew opens by reflecting on the new push to finally release the Jeffrey Epstein files. There’s joking about “binders” of secret info, but the tone shifts to serious concerns: Did MAGA and Trump do enough? Is it too late to restore trust given years of rumors?
• Jack: “Going Back to like 2016 was… justice for Jeffrey Epstein, exposing Jeffrey Epstein… it was Trump’s DOJ that actually arrested Epstein in the first place, which is something I don’t think he gets a lot of credit for… But this whole thing with the files… it just didn’t need to get to this point.” (04:39)
• The group scrutinizes disconnects between Trump (who was ambivalent about a full release) and his base, who expected maximum transparency on Epstein and related “deep state” issues.
• C: “The base thought, we get Epstein, we get JFK, we get all this stuff. Trump, I don’t think ever in his mind, included it in the same cohort… But his voters did. So you’re right, it became like a proxy war: is the establishment in control? Is the deep state in control?” (06:50)

Debates and Details

• The panel dives into what’s actually known: large settlements, claims, but no airtight proof of mass elite “rings.” Cites DOJ/FBI documents: over 1,000 women and children victimized, 225 compensation fund claims, but skepticism about truth vs. mass hysteria.
  • Blake: “People want to just do guilt by insinuation… but that doesn’t prove they were taking part in sexual abuse, period.” (22:41)
• They note how social media kept the story alive as a catchall for establishment corruption, while mainstream media buried it.
  • Jack: “On social media, this has been the number one story for like a decade… But on cable news, it just sort of goes away.” (33:10)
• A key “meta” point: The truth, however big, will never measure up to years of speculation.
  • C: “There’s so much there that it’s tempting and seductive to believe that it ties all the disparate pieces of how we made sense of the world over the last eight to ten years. And it’s weird because… it will fall short.” (34:18)

Notable Quote

Jack: “If you ever needed more proof that Trump and the establishment weren’t aligned on this, just look at how much of a hot potato the topic became for the White House.” (31:10)

Democrats & Sedition: Congressional Statements, Military Orders & Trump’s Response

Timestamps: 36:10–51:28

Senators & Reps Address the Military

• Panel rolls a video where multiple Democratic members of Congress encourage military personnel to refuse “illegal orders,” widely interpreted as a preemptive strike against potential Trump actions.
  • C: “These members… were encouraging the military to refuse orders from their lawful civil authority, the President. Now, they said illegal orders. But like, who’s to determine what illegal?” (45:22)
• Trump posts on Truth Social: calls these statements “seditious behavior.” Chuck Schumer claims Trump is calling for executions; the panel mocks this as hyperbolic theater.

Skepticism of Coup Talk

• D: “I really think the implication… was, if Trump told them to stop riots… they were paving the way to just defy the president, which would have been effectively a military coup d’etat against the United States.” (39:39)
• The crew notes that members immediately walked back the language in media appearances, suggesting bad optics or overreach.

Mayorkas Called a Traitor

• Sharp detour to border policy: panel unites in calling DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a “traitor” for border failures.
  • D: “Alejandro Mayorkas is a traitor to the United States… he could not have done more damage.” (48:22)

Cultural Decline: Universities, OnlyFans, and Modern Psychology

Timestamps: 53:39–71:34

OnlyFans at the University of Washington

• Viral moment: an OnlyFans “model” addresses a freshman psych class of 1,200; panel describes this as symptomatic of the “great feminization” and moral collapse of higher ed.
  • C: “It bothers me that we have so debased ourselves… we’re now at a situation where online hookers are welcomed in to teach a psychology class.” (56:08)
• Explosive stats: Over 1.5 million women in America are on OnlyFans; panel muses grimly on the social, personal, and familial fallout.

Modern Psychology as Secular Confession Booth

• Riffs on how therapy has replaced traditional confession or genuine friendship—with negative consequences.
  • B: "You're taking the sacrament of confession, but you're doing so without the repentance and penance… it's actually a way to amplify all of those bad behaviors." (61:26)
• They link rise of therapy and OnlyFans—both seen as ego-feeding and “feminized”—with a breakdown in family, community, and societal standards.

Parental Failure & the Humiliation Economy

• Panelists cite failures of fathers and distracted mothers as root causes of modern sexualization and debasement.
  • F: "It's a failure on the part of parents... if fathers were actually present and moms weren't scrolling on social media all day... this would be different." (68:25)

The Rise of AI Companions & "Man Keeping"

Timestamps: 71:54–97:26

From Mankeeping to Marriage With Machines

• "Mankeeping": women increasingly trading offline relationships for “AI boyfriends.” Some prefer the validation and lack of friction (“mankeeping is why more and more women are done with dating”—73:22).
• Stat: 72% of US teens have used AI companions; a third having social/”romantic” relationships.
• Panel reacts in horror to a viral video of a Japanese woman “marrying” her AI, a “freak of nature” moment.

AI Therapy, Isolation, & Danger

• Stories of teens and adults forming bonds with AI to the exclusion of real friends, sometimes with tragic results (e.g., AI-enabled suicide).
  • D (reading online confession): “I lost my only friend overnight... ChatGPT 4.5 genuinely talked to me. As pathetic as it sounds, it was my only friend.” (80:50)
• AI mirrors the user's mental state (“if you come to it and you're already in a broken place, it's going to break you further.” – 79:23)

AI as Substitute for the Dead, and as an Occult Experience

• Chilling speculation: Will people want AI copies of dead relatives (“AI Charlie”)?
  • C: "There will not be an AI Charlie. If somebody creates an AI Charlie, I'm pretty sure you're going to get a lawsuit because it's creepy and weird." (86:01)
  • E: “AI would never be able to generate new memories. It just basically brings up old memories or their ideas about things happening to you. And that's totally different from the human experience that God intends you to have…” (97:23)
• The panel overtly connects AI “spirit channeling” with occult traditions, warning that it’s a spiritual as well as a psychological risk.

Pop Culture Dissection: Sydney Sweeney & Anti-Male Fiction

Timestamps: 98:12–113:54

Sydney Sweeney: Right-Wing “Trap”?

• The right wing has glommed onto actress Sydney Sweeney as a cultural ally, but the panel argues her latest major movie is based on a hugely popular book series that is outright anti-male.
  • B: “Just because Sydney Sweeney isn’t like woke and trans… doesn’t mean she’s not a hardcore feminist. And what I think is going to be set up for is… anxiety porn for women to teach them that men are evil and that men should be killed.” (100:49)
• The “Housemaid” book/film is described in detail as “Radio Rwanda for women”: it’s about a housemaid who helps wives murder “abusive” husbands, with violence and murder treated as justified.

Women's Fiction, Smut, & Social Consequences

• The group laments the rise of what they call “anxiety porn” and “smut novels for women,” tying it to pop feminism and growing anti-marriage/anti-male bias in the culture.

Memorable Quotes & Moments

• D on “AI Charlie”: “It would be fundamentally deranged. Not merely misguided.” (95:00)
• On OnlyFans:
  E: "It's over a million... that's like one in every 75 women [18–30] in America." (64:35)
• On AI Therapy:
  B: “It’s only programming is to increase your engagement… it’s going to mirror that psychosis.” (79:23)
• On 'The Housemaid' and Women's Fiction:
  B: “It is straight up anxiety porn for women to teach them that men are evil and that men should be killed.” (100:49)
• On Generational Disconnect:
  C: “There seems to be a generationally more and more so a disconnect between the men and the women, and they don’t seem to like each other nearly as much as they should. So in steps, AI.” (73:22)

Panel’s Tone & Style

• Irreverent, internet-meme savvy, hyperbolic and satirical in framing progressive trends, with a recurring motif of “cultural collapse.”
• Panel alternates between serious concern (political violence, AI risks, loss of faith) and rapid-fire deadpan punchlines (“How much would you have to be paid to poop in a box?” “Drone strike OnlyFans’ headquarters!”).
• Refrains from direct attacks, but doesn’t shy from naming political/cultural “enemies” and critiquing prominent women, therapy, and modern academia.

Closing Thoughts

• Episode wraps with a preview of the next week’s coverage (“Turkey Tom stuff”), encouragement to “keep committing thought crime,” and an event plug for Jack and Megyn Kelly.
• Recurring thread: skepticism toward establishment narratives (Epstein, “sedition” talk), deep unease about tech’s replacement for human contact, and warning the right not to rely on supposed pop culture allies.

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