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Charlie Kirk
Hey, everybody, isn't the WNBA great? No, it's not. We talk about that and Caitlin Clark. We also talk about AI Slop and more. And Epstein. Did Epstein kill himself? I repeat, did Epstein kill himself? Email us. As always, freedomarliekirk.com Become a member today. Members.charliekirk.com that is members.charliekirk. com get involved with TurningPoint USA@tpusa.com that is tpusa.com Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
Blake
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
Andrew
I want you to know we are.
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Lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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Blake
Good to be here.
Charlie Kirk
Is Cliff going to be doing the kind of announcing like we did during the election coverage? I still get people that come up to me and talk about how amazing that was. We're going to dive right into it. Apparently, I'm starting a race war in the wnb.
Andrew
You've done it again. You've done it again, Charlie.
Charlie Kirk
I have a tendency to start race wars.
Andrew
There is this placid world where there's the Women's National Basketball association, of course.
Charlie Kirk
A bunch of women always get along.
Andrew
Yeah, women are known for getting along. They live in harmony with one another. They definitely never have beefs or arguments or disputes or rivalries.
Charlie Kirk
Only Charlie Kirk would start.
Andrew
Only you could do it. WNBA was great. I'm sure all 10 people at their games were having a blast. And then this. This new story happened. Well, it's been happening for a while, but we can start showing you you reacted to this hard foul.
Charlie Kirk
No, it was a lot of them, for the record.
Andrew
Okay, there's a lot of things.
Charlie Kirk
I'm sending the one. And by the way, just for the record, my latest tweet is one of my favorite tweets, because I didn't run it by any of you guys. It was just called the scroll and let it fly. And then Andrew learns about it once it's up. But, yes, keep going.
Andrew
Yes. All right, so I think this is. You had a couple. So the first one we have. Let's do. Is this loaded yet? 398. So that was called as a violent atrocity on the court. That was Caitlin Cart dribbling, and she sort of brushed her fingertips.
Charlie Kirk
Barely. I don't think she even touched it.
Andrew
We. You know, I think we might need. We might need a federal investigation.
Charlie Kirk
I know. I think we need a hate crime investigation. She touched her.
Andrew
Exactly. And so. And then.
Charlie Kirk
I meant the hand, just to be clear. I don't think she even touched her. I mean, it's terrible.
Andrew
Mm. And then on the flip side, though, we also have. She's getting fouled very aggressively. And so you are also brutalized. Yeah, just brutalized on the court. So we have, you know, fouls get called one way, but not the other way. And it's all getting quite dramatic. And it turns out, really, everything was fine until you stuck your nose into it, Charlie. So what's the headline we have right now? Let me search. Charlie Kirk, wnba. As I search every day, but I try to check.
Unknown
It's in the chat. Blake.
Andrew
Yeah, let's see. Charlie Kirk turns Caitlin Clark and WNBA referee controversy into race debate.
Charlie Kirk
Race war.
Andrew
Race war.
Unknown
This. So I'm the. I'm the one who found this. This article and showed her. I found this personally remarkable because the whole Caitlin Clark thing has been nothing but a racial discussion since she got into the. Even when she was in college, basketball was like, well, of course, it has to be a white woman that makes college basketball, women's basketball, popular. The entire saga has been about racial dynamics. And then somehow some jerk out there, some ignoramus, says it's Charlie Kirk that turned it into a race debate. So it's truly remarkable feat of journalism.
Charlie Kirk
I just want to repeat what I also tweeted today. Everyone knows what's happening here. They are jealous because she is the best white player and one of the best players in the wnba, and the WNBA is overwhelmingly black women, and they are targeting her because of this.
Andrew
And on top of that, what they're really mad about is that she's the first WNBA player in probably about 20 years who's been like a decently popular national.
Charlie Kirk
Sue Bird was one. Right. Who was the other one?
Andrew
The one who. The one who. She was a big name and like, it's so dumb, frankly, that it became such a racial thing, because the one I was thinking of was Lisa Leslie. Lisa Leslie. When we were growing up, she was a decently famous person. She got ads on tv.
Charlie Kirk
Caitlin Clark's a whole different level.
Andrew
And of course, one of the things about it is, like, Lisa Leslie was a perfectly wholesome woman. She. True story.
Charlie Kirk
That's why they.
Andrew
She took a long time to get married because she had a handful of rules. It was, you know, she wanted him to be. She wanted to marry another black guy. She wanted him to be a Christian. And this is the big one. She wanted him to be taller than her. Leslie was 6, 7.
Charlie Kirk
So her kids are going to be very tall.
Andrew
Probably. I haven't followed up on that, but yeah. So this all happened, but then they got. They legit got mad that this girl was popular. She was a big deal. When she was playing, was it Iowa? I don't watch women's basketball.
Charlie Kirk
She was. What, you mean Caitlin Clark played for Iowa?
Unknown
Yeah.
Andrew
And so she was getting all the attention. They were selling out games. Score ever takes a lot to sell.
Charlie Kirk
Out a woman's basketball game. It's about at the level of like, jv, high school basketball.
Unknown
Well, that's what they're really upset about, is that Caitlin Clark is popular. They're upset that they think they've been carrying this league for so many years, which, by the way, has never been profitable. It's never been a rating success. None of those things have ever been true. But then Caitlin Clark comes around and people are talking about the wnba. So all the black ladies are mad.
Andrew
So this was the statement she gave. So remember, you started this war, but this is the statement she gave because.
Charlie Kirk
I sent out one tweet in December.
Andrew
2024, they named her athlete of the year at Time magazine. And so she said in her interview she had to issue this statement. I don't have video of it. So I don't know if there was like a gun pointed at her head or flare, like holding her family hostage. But she said, I want to say I've earned everything. But as a white person, there is privilege. A lot of the people who have made this league what it is are black women. And you can't see this, but in the article, they're lowercasing white, but capitalizing black. In case you weren't sure, you know, who's good and who's bad here. The more we appreciate, highlight and talk about that, the better. Brands and companies need to continue investing in those players who have made this league extraordinary. Elevating black women is a beautiful thing.
Unknown
Yeah. Who wrote that for you?
Charlie Kirk
First of all, it's like a hostage situation.
Andrew
Yeah. Like, we have to check, like, okay, what were her eyes blinking in a certain way? Like, please, please don't hurt me, Please don't follow me any harder on the court.
Blake
And I think that that statement was such an opportunity. You mean you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. Right? We've all learned this years ago that if you have nothing to hide and you have nothing to feel guilty of, don't fake apologize. You don't win anything. Right. It's the people that hate you already are not going to come around and say, oh, look, they apologize, they put out this statement. And then the people that had some respect because you actually stood up and meant something, well, now you've kind of minimized it. Right. It's like some of these comedians, you know, like Bill Burr is kind of going at the complete opposite direction. But when she put out that statement, I mean, I had so much hope for Caitlyn being this person that was. Should be political. She had to be right wing. But don't capitulate to their talking points. And then everybody's mad at you. It's a lose, lose.
Charlie Kirk
I mean, and I just have to say, like, women's basketball is so unwatchable. I'm so. It's. It's just, it is. It's just such a low level of. It's. It just, it's nothing against women. It's nothing. I mean, they're trying their best. It's just such a. It's really hard to watch women's basketball is.
Unknown
We should. Guys, you got to pull one of those, those montages of just like bad WNBA plays. Like, I mean, it's real bad. I mean, and to Charlie's point, really does look like you're watching, like, JV basketball. Now, no offense, there's some really good basketball players that are women, Caitlin Clark being one of them. But there are good sports that women play that are actually watchable. Tennis, volleyball. Blake maybe disagrees with me, but based on the look, there's. There's a few that are actually watchable. I'll stand by that.
Andrew
Gymnastics is pretty good gymnastics.
Charlie Kirk
I think that high level Olympic gold medal match women's volleyball, not, not beach volleyball. Actual, like, volleyball is very good to watch. That is Very intense, very high stakes balls moving super fast. Like, that is very athletic. That's actually, I think, I actually think it's more watchable than the men's volleyball because the men's volleyball, they are so athletic. The ball. It's like whoever gets the ball has like very high probability just to spike it because they're so athletic. Where women's volleyball.
Andrew
Insane injuries now.
Charlie Kirk
That's right. Don't you agree, Andrew? Like, the men's volleyball has no volley.
Unknown
It's just there. Yeah, it's, it's, it's. They're almost too likely to just totally kind of side out instantly.
Charlie Kirk
Yes.
Unknown
And then. Yeah. And whoever's got control of the, of the ball, I actually really agree with that. And it's a little bit more competitive with women's volleyball.
Charlie Kirk
Yes.
Unknown
But by the way, the. I Remember when the U.S. women's National Team was winning World Cups. Right. I mean, that was, that was really fun. As a nation. We were really into that right before, before all the politicization of it.
Charlie Kirk
I remember. I just, I do. Women's soccer is fine. I mean, it's not my favorite to watch women's tennis, but there's something about women's basketball where it's such an aesthetic drop off. I don't mean aesthetic in a bad way, but it's such a visual drop off from the pace and the passing and the shooting. The skill of men's basketball, it's like your brain can't process it. You know, it's so different. You're like, okay, this is sophomore boys basketball. And basically, why do you guys.
Blake
Like, I actually enjoy college women's basketball. I feel like so much more than I do pro. I'm still not saying I prefer women's basketball over men's, but, like, what do you think the drop off is once. I mean, do you guys disagree with that? Like, do you, you know, can you watch the Final Four on the women's side? Like, I look at that as a completely different ball game than the. I mean, look at these montages. Like, I watch these for fun. They are so horrific. I don't know how anybody could pay money to be at these games.
Unknown
Well, people tend to not pay money to be at those games, which is why it's been kind of a failure of a league. And Caitlin Clark's the best thing they have going for it. I, I don't know what it is.
Charlie Kirk
She makes shots that men couldn't make, but, but also guys remember. Sorry, you could keep going. Andrew and I have a Point.
Unknown
Well, I just don't. I don't know what it is specifically about the sport of basketball that tends to make the female form look uncomfortable. Now, I think, candidly, you watch. You watch Caitlin Clark, and she looks kind of like a dude.
Charlie Kirk
No, I mean, look at that. That. That right there. That's legit.
Unknown
Yeah, but she does.
Charlie Kirk
But.
Unknown
But, like, yeah, there. There's something specific about that. I. I actually really enjoy female college softball. I had some friends that, you know.
Charlie Kirk
What, More watchable than I thought when I was working out, and they do these cheers. I think you're right. I actually think. I mean, softball is not. I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it, but, you know, I'm.
Unknown
Gonna get in some trouble with our audience potentially on this. But female UFC fights, I know that's, like, complicated. Dude, those women are amazing. Like, some of those fights are incredible. Whether or not you want your daughter to be doing that, that's a whole other topic, but just pure entertainment value. Those fights are incredible. This is like, nothing. But for whatever reason, though, basketball is just not the female domain, in my opinion.
Charlie Kirk
Well, remember, also, the women's basketball uses a smaller basketball than men. I mean, it's literally a different sport. I mean, where the ball is 28 and a half inches, where the men's ball is much bigger than that. And I think of other sports that I wouldn't. I don't watch any of them, but that are more watchable than female basketball. No, I don't watch.
Unknown
I can't watch no back.
Andrew
Did you know there used to be, like, an alternative basketball for.
Charlie Kirk
Wasn't it, like, six on six on six?
Andrew
And it was very strange. Like, you had three forwards and three defenders, and only, like, the forward people could shoot. And then there was all this bizarre stuff. I think. I think you, like, couldn't dribble as much. Something like that. It was all.
Blake
We have to talk about. How can we change the game to make it entertaining. Tells you how not entertaining, I guess.
Charlie Kirk
Gymnastics. I'd actually prefer watching women gymnastics than men's gymnastics.
Andrew
Really, though? Like, men's gymnastics is really impressive.
Charlie Kirk
I have to think about that. No, I think you're pro.
Unknown
Well, it's pretty watchable.
Charlie Kirk
People love watching. I would say it's pretty watchable, though. I'd say women's basket gymnastics is pretty.
Unknown
It rates on the Olympics. It rates during the Olympics.
Charlie Kirk
And I'll also say that women's track and field is watchable.
Andrew
Yep.
Unknown
I agree. Women's figure skating.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, for sure. I Actually think it's more watchable than men's figure skating. It's just way too.
Unknown
There's something about tight, tight pants.
Charlie Kirk
I'm going to say men's figure skating is very San Francisco.
Andrew
Yeah, I suppose. I mean, it's usually pairs, isn't it? That's the main.
Charlie Kirk
It's culturally.
Andrew
Very culturally. It's a cultural issue.
Charlie Kirk
Let's just say it's not. Not exactly. You know what I mean? Oh, I guess that also women's swimming. I mean, that's fine to watch. Like, Katie Ledecky was fun to watch during the Olympics.
Unknown
It's just fun to watch your. Your country win in the Olympics. But, like, if you wouldn't sit down and watch, like, on a Saturday.
Charlie Kirk
But I tried to watch the woman's, like, gold medal match in basketball, which I think we won. It was like, wow, that was hard to watch. Like, woof.
Unknown
It's just surprised you spent time doing that, Charlie.
Charlie Kirk
Well, I like the Olympics. I love it. I watched it for about 45 seconds, and then I went and did something.
Blake
He was. He was prepping to get this race war started doing his research.
Charlie Kirk
Apparently it's all my fault. So let. So. So, Blake, what would you say to someone that says, because I got some mean tweets from. People really care. It's not. It's not racial against Caitlin Clark. Come on.
Unknown
There's other white women in the NBA or wnba.
Andrew
I mean, all I would say is I don't think. I don't think we were the first ones to start, like, using the W word or the. Or the B word in relation to this. Like, there really is a thing where you started getting these articles, like, while she was still in. In college, about people just bothered that she was getting too much attention or that it was like, they would use the language, like, colonialism. They're like, how this, like, white person is colonizing our league. Like, like they have ownership of this sport. And, like, that is where so much of this came from. Now and then, like, other elements where, like, they were mad, oh, they're promoting Caitlin Clark because she, like. Like more clean cut. Like, she has a boyfriend, so she's not a lesbian. Like, a lot of the players in the WNBA are. I think she's Catholic or, like, public. Like, she has a good image, basically. It's like, okay, yeah, leagues do better when they have people who have, like, positive, like, images that are like, families.
Charlie Kirk
Like, give an idea.
Andrew
Make your daughter like Caitlin Clark.
Charlie Kirk
Do you know 26% of the WNBA is openly lesbian?
Andrew
That is a very high rate. That is.
Blake
I cannot be true.
Charlie Kirk
It is right here. 26%.
Unknown
That means it's probably closer to like 35 or 40% in real life now.
Charlie Kirk
And here's the other one. According to inner basket.com, they say it's between 30 to 58%.
Andrew
See, that's like a very wide range.
Charlie Kirk
It's because they're approximately high. Yeah. I don't think they send out surveys.
Andrew
Why not? We should collect more data on that. We should just be like, oh, you gotta. Every. Every time, every. If you don't enter the wnba, you have to answer a million questions.
Charlie Kirk
Remember when Brittney Griner, who got released from prison thanks to Trump, appeared to call Biden? Well, was it Biden or Trump?
Unknown
Yeah, it was Biden. We traded some international terrorists for her.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. She called Caitlin Clark effing white girl.
Unknown
Trash and.
Andrew
Effing white girl. Yeah. If someone said effing black girl about.
Charlie Kirk
A player in the wnba, we would have Minneapolis.
Andrew
Yeah. Like, Minneapolis would burn. It would be the number one news story. That person would be deleted off the face of the planet.
Charlie Kirk
And there would be a federal hate crime investigation.
Andrew
Quite possibly. Yeah. Especially under Biden. Like, we. And we'd get one of those, like, civil rights cases where they would, like, go into the entire WNBA and find how there was, like, systemic discrimination that led to this outcome, which is actually circling back around. That's how that six on six basketball went away. It didn't go away because people, like, organically didn't like it. It went away because activists were mad and they got. I'm not making this up. The Office of Civil Rights at either the DOJ or the Department of Education to say it was a violation of Title 9 to have girls play this sport because they were less likely to get a scholarship for basketball at the college level.
Charlie Kirk
Unbelievable.
Andrew
So, like, they've been. If it helps, they've been inventing extremely deranged and insane civil rights justifications for everything they want to do for half a century.
Unknown
Well, Blake, I have a question for you. Why is it. Why is the WNBA still afloat? Like, who's covering the losses?
Andrew
I think, I think. I think they're a subsidiary of the NBA. Like, there's a direct relationship between the two.
Blake
Let me chat on the suit. There was this great article written in 2018 by an activist, though, Bishop, and he got just destroyed for it. It was like, why WNBA players are overpaid. Right. And this is 18. Right. Like, this is, you know, before, like, we got our country back. I mean that was, you know, we had Trump in the White House but like the woke was really coming on. And it's just funny because. Yeah, he details. Listen, the NBA is just paying these people, right? If you look at the revenue that comes in, it's not just that they take a loss. It's that the NBA just doesn't want to deal with the pushback from the activists. And so they just float the bill for this. I mean there's a reason they never take the camera angle and take it to the crowd. I mean look at the angles on those games. They are. It's like Congress, right? They keep the angle so you can't see you're in an empty room. But the NBA is paying for all of this.
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Andrew
You know how people say that like they don't recognize the country they live in due to like social changes or immigration, whatever. That's how I feel when I hear a story.
Charlie Kirk
Could you imagine sitting at home and voluntarily watching the wnba?
Andrew
You know, there's a question I like to ask which is and not having a relative, I like people this. Would you rather find a $2 bill on the sidewalk or have your local WNBA team win a title?
Charlie Kirk
I don't know. I Don't know. My local WNBA team.
Andrew
That is. The correct answer is. I don't know if I sound. Has a WNBA team.
Charlie Kirk
Does I don't even. Wait, hold on. Let me see. What is Phoenix WNBA team? Probably some weird name like the Cactus or something. Or the sky. The. Mercury.
Andrew
Phoenix. Mercury.
Charlie Kirk
Okay, they're off to it.
Unknown
Mercury.
Charlie Kirk
Yep. Mercury.
Unknown
There you go.
Charlie Kirk
They're off to a 41 record despite the absence of key player Kalia Copper.
Andrew
Is that true or could that be like a hallucination by an AI?
Charlie Kirk
It could be. I don't know.
Blake
This is a case of they have a small pond, right? And all these big time stars. Before Caitlin gets there, they want a big pond, right? They want this huge. She brings them the big pond. They're still a small fish. I mean, it's just a total, you know, backlash to that.
Charlie Kirk
So there's.
Unknown
What do you do? White trash.
Charlie Kirk
There's only 13 teams that.
Andrew
That bothers me because it's. It's like not.
Charlie Kirk
I kind of love how feminine they've chose these names. They're like, not that. You know how in the men, it's like the Golden State warriors or the Timberwolves. Let's listen to some of these. The Atlanta Dream. The Chicago Sky. The Connecticut Sun. You ready for an intense one? The Indiana Fever. New York Liberty. The Washington Mystics. Here we go. The Dallas Wings. The Las Vegas Aces. The Los Angeles Sparks.
Unknown
Knew that.
Charlie Kirk
Blake, I will give you $100 if you get the name the Minnesota WNBA team.
Andrew
You know what's going to be really terrible? I do know that Minnesota.
Charlie Kirk
No.
Andrew
Is.
Charlie Kirk
What is it?
Andrew
Minnesota Links.
Charlie Kirk
Sorry. I'll give you a hundred dollars. I did because.
Andrew
Because I dare. You know, because being a dork, I would read the newspaper every day growing up and I would check like they had like this I'm so detailed sports thing. And I knew I would. I would look at what the freaking.
Charlie Kirk
You should have said. See, you want money more than you want.
Andrew
I know. Your honor, this is shameful. I have Seattle Storm.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah.
Unknown
Pretty good one.
Charlie Kirk
Yes. But just for the record, Blake could have pretended like he didn't know. But he wanted that $100.
Andrew
I did.
Charlie Kirk
And then the Seattle Storm and then the Golden State Valkyries.
Andrew
You see, if you'd asked me that one, I wouldn't have known.
Charlie Kirk
I asked you.
Andrew
Minnesota Valkyries is a pretty good, like, women's sports.
Charlie Kirk
That's good.
Andrew
But I mean, like, it is a women thing. That is cool.
Charlie Kirk
But Atlanta Dream.
Andrew
Atlanta Dream.
Blake
That Philadelphia is not on the list. I don't know the answer. You tell me. They're not listening.
Andrew
Seoul. Is it. Is it, though? That's not.
Charlie Kirk
They don't have.
Andrew
They don't have one. Okay.
Charlie Kirk
No.
Andrew
Lucky you.
Charlie Kirk
But my. The Connecticut sun.
Andrew
Connecticut sun.
Unknown
The least sunny place.
Andrew
As opposed to the Phoenix Suns, which is plural.
Charlie Kirk
I know. Therefore, the sun. They're just like one thing. They're the sun. Tonight we're gonna go watch the sun play. How awful is that?
Andrew
That's like a thing they do now, like in the NHL, the two new teams, they've added. They added the Seattle Kraken. Not Krakens, just Kraken. And then now Salt Lake got. They actually got the Phoenix Coyotes team that they disbanded, and they're just Mammoth. They're the Utah Mammoth.
Charlie Kirk
So I. Maybe I'm wrong because I was a huge Blackhawks fan growing up. Has the NHL popularity gone down? I think it has. I mean, I was really into the NHL because it was huge. I mean, Blackhawks fever took over, and we won three Stanley Cups, and it was incredible. But I feel like the NHL has gone down, too.
Andrew
It's actually done. Okay. What's happened is I remember growing up, they were really bad in the Sun Belt, and now they've kind of gotten over that. So, for example, in Tampa, the Tampa Bay baseball team does pretty horribly in terms of attendance. The Tampa Bay Bucks are at the low end of, like, NFL team popularity, but the Tampa Bay Lightning, which is their NHL team, very popular, sells out their games, has won titles. They do pretty well. And that's kind of been. Who's dominating. Because the. I think the Nashville team does well, and I think there's also one in Miami. And, like, they've all. In the Carolina one. They've all done really well. In fact, pretty much the only Sun Belt hockey team that was a dumpster fire and nobody likes going to them was our team.
Charlie Kirk
Oh, really?
Andrew
Yep. They folded and moved to Utah.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, they officially.
Unknown
Charlie, you're right, though. Regular season games, like viewership, were about half a million in 2014-2015, and they. They've dropped to 385,000 between 2019, 2020. This article's from 2023, and it's changes in media consumption, regionalization of NHL broadcast, low scoring, lack of star power, and they say COVID 19 impact.
Blake
Let me. Let me tell you why it's also dropping. I'm a season ticket holder for the Flyers, and they're horrible, so I don't usually admit that in public, but I've had them for three or Four years. And I actually just dropped them because after we won the election, hockey, which, you know, if you look at the demographics, I mean, in most of the cities, the people that are coming, it's a pretty conservative crowd. I mean, some cities, it's just not going to be because of the cities, but, like, it's pretty red. And after we won the election, Gritty, our great mascot, goes on ice with a trans flag, like, during Pride Day. And it was just, like, so tone deaf. And I, like, flipped out on. I'm like, look, I'm paying all this money. I had an activist with me who's obviously right wing, and we're sitting there, like, having to deal with this. I think they're, like, one of the last leagues. Oh, they're moving slowly, some of them, but, like, they just double down and don't understand their audience. It's pretty bad.
Charlie Kirk
And it really just kind of goes to show how popular football is. I mean, it just dwarfs these other sports. I mean, it's. It's not even close. I mean, I'm told the Thunder are in the NBA finals.
Andrew
Mm.
Charlie Kirk
Isn't that, like Russell Westbrook?
Andrew
Oh, he's gone. He's gone now. I think he's still in the league, but he's not with the.
Charlie Kirk
Is Kevin Durant on the Thunder?
Andrew
No. No. You're way out of date, man. I think. I don't even know where Durant is. Isn't he on. He's on the Suns, isn't he?
Charlie Kirk
I stopped watching 10 years ago.
Blake
Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Charlie, you're about 10 years out.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, I can't name a single NBA player on the Thunder.
Andrew
Yeah. I want to respond. So we are. So, Patty, Luke, in our chat says nothing like four men who don't play sports going after the wnba. You guys have no business bashing these women who would clean your clocks if you had the.
Charlie Kirk
For the record, let me just tell you, if I could get my back fixed, which I'm very hopeful, I have a procedure, I could beat some WNBA players one on one. Not all. I could. I could challenge the bottom 25% of WNBA players. The bottom 25%. If I could get my back fixed and I have three months of proper preparation, I could beat them one on one. You think I'm joking? I'm six foot five. I played. I played competitive Midwest AAU basketball.
Unknown
I. I was really good at basketball, too, by the way.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. And, like, for the record, again, I'm taller than the bottom 25%. If I have prop again. The problem is my back is a complete. And you guys know you could attest to me, my back is a catastrophe.
Unknown
Now what I would say, CK the Internet used to think you were only 6:1. Glad we got that.
Charlie Kirk
We fixed that problem. Okay. Actually, you know what, Daisy? If you go to my Instagram like seven or eight years ago, there's all these trick. You know I used to do trick shots on Instagram.
Blake
I've seen the real.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, right.
Blake
There was like a montage.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. No, not just the high school ones I used to do. I used to do like trick shots where I would just do half court shots and make it on the first attempt. We should play some. Go ahead. Yeah.
Unknown
And by the way, just. I'm not trying to like. But, but dear Patty, I mean I was a first team all state football player.
Charlie Kirk
Boom. Oh, here we go.
Unknown
Yeah, like I don't go around saying.
Charlie Kirk
That, but I need the Andrew Colvette. I need the highlight reel of Colvette.
Unknown
Actually I did have one, but I'm, you know, it's. I don't know what happened.
Charlie Kirk
Did you guys win state?
Unknown
We run her up in state.
Charlie Kirk
Why didn't you play college football?
Unknown
I actually went out for one day. It's complicated. I went for one day though. At uw. No, the coaches found out like I didn't actually think I was going to play and I had no desire, but they found it on my sort of application or whatever and they invited me out for an open field day and it was like I was forget that guy's name was Isaiah something or other. Anyways, he was like a five star recruit. He's a wide out and like he happened to be out there one day and I got lined up, you know, beside him and I was playing cornerback and the guy just flew by me by about, you know, 10 miles per hour faster than me. And I was just like, yeah, it's not going to happen. What's. What's the point? Like, like what's the point? But yeah, until high school level, I was good.
Blake
She's striking out. I was a collegiate golfer. I never talk about that. Might, Might have been D2. Might have got a couple thousand bucks. But yes. We're not talking to no athletes here.
Unknown
Yeah, and bike can bench like £300. Patty, little known fact, Blake can actually bench with the best of them.
Charlie Kirk
It's true.
Blake
Blake has lasted longer than Shane Gillis. He lasted two hours on the Notre Dame football team. Or excuse me, was it West Point? He wanted to go to Notre Dame. But he lasted two hours on the football team and quit college.
Andrew
But yeah. Anyway, even if we couldn't beat the WNBA players, it is noteworthy that we don't have the NBA subsidizing us for millions of dollars a year.
Charlie Kirk
Correct.
Andrew
To go play basketball.
Unknown
And we justify our own existence here.
Charlie Kirk
Yes. And yes. We are self sustainable. And so I do think we should.
Andrew
Make this happen though. We should probably. We're gonna get your back fixed.
Charlie Kirk
I gotta get my back surgery done.
Andrew
We have to go find like.
Charlie Kirk
And then I need three months to prepare.
Andrew
And then we find some like someone recently cut from a WNBA team maybe.
Charlie Kirk
Yes. And I will. I will pay her a ton of money just to do it and we'll film it and we'll see if I win.
Andrew
So what. What will we do if.
Charlie Kirk
If I lose?
Andrew
I don't want to. I don't want to say it's likely, but what if we lose bad?
Charlie Kirk
I mean, again, who did. I'm six foot five. I'm not going to lose bad. Okay.
Blake
Who did Ted Cruz like play basketball with? Was it a. Was it Jimmy Kimmel? Somebody on the left. And it was like the most cringe worthy thing to watch.
Unknown
Yes, I remember this.
Blake
I think it was Kimmel. I could be wrong.
Unknown
Yeah, it was probably Kimmel.
Charlie Kirk
Let me see.
Unknown
I'm trying to find this Jimmy Kimmel. Ted Cruz outlast Jimmy Kimmel. And grueling blobfish basketball. Texas Tribune. Oh my gosh. This is. This is hilarious.
Charlie Kirk
All right, we're gonna. We're gonna find my old trick shots. But okay, Epstein.
Andrew
All right, so this has been. Can you believe how long ago this happened? So Epstein died almost six years ago now. It feels like time has flown. Anyway, obviously a lot of people very committed to this. A lot of people have very strong opinions on it now. The FBI. And this is not Biden's FBI. This is. This is Trump's new FBI. They're coming out and they're saying Epstein actually did kill himself. And they say they have video evidence to prove it.
Charlie Kirk
Play. Play. Cut 341.
Cliff Maloney
There is nothing in the file at this point on the Epstein case. And there's going to be a disclosure on this coming shortly. We are working through some. There is video. That is something the public.
Andrew
There's video of him killing himself.
Cliff Maloney
No, no, not. Not the actual act. We are working on cleaning it up to make sure you have an enhanced and we're going to give the original. So you don't think there were any Shen. You're gonna See, there's no one there but him.
Andrew
Right.
Cliff Maloney
There's just nobody there.
Charlie Kirk
I trust Dan completely. It's still. It's still a tough pill to swallow.
Andrew
Yeah.
Charlie Kirk
I'm just gonna be honest. Like, I trust Cash and Dan. I want to see what they're looking at.
Andrew
It just. It does seem too clean. And I would say I think we should be open to. There's conspiracies that you could embrace that don't require someone to have murdered him.
Charlie Kirk
Or they could have threatened him.
Andrew
Yeah, they could have threatened him. They could have said, like, time's up, time to kill yourself. Like, he could have arranged to make it so he could kill himself if he wanted to do that because they were supposed to stop him. And so you can have conspiracies that work that way instead of requiring a murder action. But, you know, it is interesting that obviously people been very invested in it. Do you think people will ever be. Let's say they come out and they straight up have the video and it seems very strong. Would people be willing to buy it? I just feel like they'll probably.
Charlie Kirk
Depends what evidence they're looking at. I mean, I guess here. Here's the problem that I have. Weren't we once told that all the cameras were turned off and that there was like a changing of the guard? Right, Cliff? Like, I'm drawing on like five years memory here, but wasn't like all there this suss thing where the guard, like fell asleep or he wasn't on his post, or Am I right about this? Right.
Cliff Maloney
Yeah.
Blake
And that was like the first thing they put out was, oh, the video cameras weren't working. And that's why we all immediately were like, come on, like, you got to be kidding me. There's no way you can just say that and act like it's that clean that.
Unknown
That situation. So. So the. The here's. Here's Epstein was taken off suicide watch shortly before his death, despite a prior incident. And then guards failed to check on him as required, and cameras outside his cell reportedly malfunctioned. So. But Dan's saying there's. There's video. So I don't know if I don't know if they malfunction or they just don't want to report it or some of them malfunction and others were working. I don't know.
Charlie Kirk
I can tell you a lot of the people I'm talking to are not buying it.
Andrew
They're not buying this.
Charlie Kirk
What Dan is saying.
Andrew
On what grounds?
Charlie Kirk
They just say it's too good to Be. It's just like, there's no way that.
Unknown
Well, they think that he got into the system and that Dan and Cash have been corrupted by like, the mechanisms of government. Like, I don't buy that.
Charlie Kirk
I'm not.
Unknown
No, but that's. That's the, like, I mean, if you just go on the Internet, you'll find those.
Charlie Kirk
No, but. But the. I guess the. The camera's not working. And then there was something with the guard, too. What was it with the guard?
Unknown
The guards failed to check on him.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, yeah, that's required. Yeah. So they didn't. They fell asleep. They didn't check on him. You know, he wasn't in a suicide proof room. So people point to all this and are not. Not convinced.
Andrew
Yeah, it was. It was. Tova Noel and Michael Thomas were the two guards, and they were accused of falling asleep and surfing the Internet. That. Right. Rather than checking on Epstein every 30 minutes. That's like one of the kind of darkly funny thing about this is really, you're debating between. There's no way they could have missed this. It had to be conspiracy. And just actually, you know, it's a federal prison in New York and they have these inept, dumb guards who are lazy and they're just used to not ever checking on anything. And, you know, they probably didn't even know Epstein was that famous of a guy.
Charlie Kirk
And the visitor log went missing. I think that was the other element that people were, like, really sussed about.
Andrew
And then that's the same thing. Like, they just. Oh, bad record keeping. They screw everything up.
Blake
The top five things that would make, you know, alarm bells go off. Like, they checked every box and they put it all out immediately. So we were all like this. There's just no way. This wasn't, you know, a hit job. But if Dan says it like, I'm with you, Charlie. I mean, I want to see what they're looking at. You know, what are they looking at to be that. That confident?
Unknown
Well, there was also an issue with the autopsy findings. Right. So the. It showed a broken hyoid bone or something that some experts argue are more consistent with strangulation than hanging.
Charlie Kirk
And wasn't it like Epstein's brother who came out and was, like, convinced he didn't kill himself? He went on Tucker.
Unknown
A family member that said he went.
Charlie Kirk
On Tucker's show and was like, there's no way he killed himself. This is. I think there was something.
Andrew
Mark Epstein.
Charlie Kirk
Am I right?
Andrew
I think there was. Mark Epstein was his brother.
Charlie Kirk
He went on. He went on Tucker's show and said.
Andrew
Yeah, yeah, that was in January of last year, although I don't recall what specific arguments he made. And was Epstein even that particularly close with his brother that I. I don't know.
Charlie Kirk
Again, I'm just. I'm just drawing from memory on this.
Andrew
So I do feel like we're trending towards a thing where it'll just be part of that, like, permanent conspiracy canon. And it could get weirder and weirder as a result, and eventually these things cross over. It'll turn out that Epstein was murdered because he knew the truth about the 911 conspiracies, and that that was done because Building 7 had the truth about the JFK conspiracies, and JFK had to be taken out because he knew the truth about the Pearl harbor conspiracies.
Blake
Now we're getting somewhere.
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Unknown
Well, what's also interesting about this is one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Guthrey, just committed suicide or allegedly committed suicide. And her father, Sky Roberts, expressed, you know, disbelief about this, saying, for them to say she committed suicide, there's no way that she did. Somebody got to her. So apparently, in 2019, she said, she wrote, I'm not suicidal. If something happens to me in the. In the sake of my family, do not let this go away or help me Protect them too. Too many evil people want me quieted.
Andrew
Yeah.
Blake
And the Mark, Mark Epstein, the brother, he did. He maintained for years that there's no way that Jeffrey would have killed himself. So that is confirmed.
Unknown
How many years ago was this that he committed suicide or died?
Andrew
Like August 19th, I believe.
Charlie Kirk
I remember where I was. I was at Liberty University when that happened.
Andrew
So you're saying you have an alibi?
Charlie Kirk
I do. And I had witnesses.
Andrew
Okay. I mean, just saying, you say so.
Charlie Kirk
I do.
Andrew
Can you name the witnesses?
Charlie Kirk
Erica? Dave Bratt.
Andrew
Oh, oh, oh. So your wife is your alibi and Dave Brattle. Okay, all right.
Charlie Kirk
I remember Dave Bratt was teaching a course on Aristotle and all of a sudden everyone's phone started to light up and Yako Boyens and David Harris Jr. And David Harris is like, Epstein just killed himself. And that's then we all talked about.
Andrew
For the next hour.
Charlie Kirk
It's true.
Andrew
And Charlie was just, you know, a little bit quiet. He's like, I was like, so shocking.
Unknown
What do the comments say? Do they.
Andrew
One of the people saying, let's see. Donny Double says, methinks the FBI protests too much. I can see that. But like I'm with Charlie. I don't think Dan Bongino went into the FBI and suddenly got, you know, bought.
Charlie Kirk
No, I don't believe that.
Unknown
I don't believe that at all.
Charlie Kirk
I think Dan's great. I want to see what he's looking at. I just still find. It's just I was personally very convinced otherwise. So I need to reckon with that. I want to see what they're looking at. But I touch, I trust Dan. Dan and Cash are great.
Unknown
Smoochy. So the other, the other interesting aspect of the Epstein thing, right, you've got this Alexander Acosta, who was the Trump labor secretary during the first term. Yeah, this is right. And he was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida in 2007 and 2008. And he negotiated a very controversial non prosecution agreement with Epstein allowing him to plead guilty to lesser charges. Whatever. He only served 13 months. So reportedly he told Trump's transition team in 2017 that he was instructed to quote, unquote, back off Epstein because he, quote, belonged to Intelligence and was, quote, above his pay grade. And it came up in those discussions because they were worried it was going to be an issue with getting him confirmed. So that's like all these things around Epstein just, I think it just makes it harder to believe Dan, you know, Dan, by the way, I kind of feel bad for Dan because I like You, Charlie. I trust Dan's integrity, but, like, he's getting dragged, like, all of his. I mean, because he was very vocal before he went into the FBI, that Epstein didn't kill himself. Like.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. And it's a multiple element thing here, right, because you can imagine that there is a lot of pressure internally from people he's trying to win trust over that are like, Dan, you know, you have to show us that you're actually gonna work with us, or else, you know, we're not gonna. You know, you're gonna. You'll have mass internal dissension. Do you know what I mean? And he probably was like, well, show me everything. Show me everything. Show me everything.
Andrew
Yeah, I feel like if he was truly trying to, you know, lead us.
Charlie Kirk
Astray, I don't believe that it'd be.
Andrew
Way easier to just not talk about it much or say, like, oh, you know, we don't know. He's. He's actually putting himself out there saying, like, I have looked at the.
Charlie Kirk
I respect.
Andrew
I believe it is strong that.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, I'm not. I'm agreeing with that. I'm just. I'm saying it's just a tough. It's a tough reality to reckon with because I was convinced he didn't kill himself. I was like, no way.
Unknown
Well, Dan knows the base, too. Like, that's one of the reasons I think, Dan is. Is going after what the base. Like, Dan is acutely aware of what, like, core Trump voters care about and what they want to see justice done on, one of which is Epstein. But you. You notice, like, some of these other things are starting to happen, and I think are going back to Crossfire Hurricane.
Charlie Kirk
You are. You're gonna see some stuff. Yeah, I can't say any more than that, but you'll see some stuff.
Andrew
Good.
Unknown
Okay, Charlie.
Charlie Kirk
Just some stuff. I don't know what that means. You're gonna see some stuff.
Andrew
We're gonna see things we wouldn't believe.
Charlie Kirk
You're just gonna see some stuff.
Unknown
Did you. What did you see in the Oval, Charlie?
Charlie Kirk
It's funny. I spent a lot of time talking about William Henry Harrison.
Andrew
Really?
Charlie Kirk
Because his portraits, like, right there as you enter.
Andrew
What. Why do they have a portrait of him there?
Charlie Kirk
It's just kind of a fun irony that, like, things can end there in a way that you don't.
Andrew
Is it always there, or is that, like, a trouble?
Charlie Kirk
No president has turned the Oval Office into a remarkable museum where it is literally every square. You know, it's kind of like that club we went into London where they like, you know, where there was like paintings everywhere. Every square inch of the Oval now has some historical artifact. He just keeps ordering more stuff from the archives.
Andrew
Does he have like every single president?
Charlie Kirk
No, just about. I mean, so he's got Reagan right there behind where he does the press conferences. He's got Andrew Jackson, he's got Washington above that. But you could spend literally an hour in the Oval just looking at all the art because Biden had it very bare. He had like Bobby Kennedy and nothing. Trump has like. It's like a historical just.
Unknown
You know what's weird about that though, Charlie? So when William Henry Harrison is the Correct me I'm wrong. Blake. But he didn't he die from like a month into his presidency.
Charlie Kirk
Inauguration speech.
Andrew
Yeah.
Unknown
Cuz he get. Yeah, he gave a cold inauguration speech, which is ironic because Trump called the inauguration into the Capitol because it was so cold.
Charlie Kirk
Exactly. That's right.
Unknown
Funny.
Charlie Kirk
So looked at the Polk picture and then I saw the Declaration, which was awesome. I think that is the original Declaration.
Andrew
Do we have multiples? Because we have one that's in the National Archives.
Charlie Kirk
I don't know which one this is. This one has curtains though, where they're worried about light. Light contamination.
Andrew
It might be that we have several copies. Because I don't.
Charlie Kirk
Whatever it is, I would feel like.
Andrew
I would have heard about him like removing the one that's at the archives.
Charlie Kirk
I think that. No, I think the founders did multiple.
Andrew
Yeah, yeah.
Charlie Kirk
Meaning these are not copies. I think when the time. What they did multiple.
Andrew
Maybe it was the one stolen by Nicolas Cage in that.
Charlie Kirk
Yes. National treasure.
Andrew
Yeah.
Charlie Kirk
And has a treasure map on the back of it. Yeah, that. That shows.
Andrew
We should have Dan Bongino find out if that's real.
Charlie Kirk
Oh, it's real.
Andrew
And he. Okay, well, we should announce it then. We should go get the treasure.
Charlie Kirk
Yes.
Andrew
Or find out. Or get it back from Nick Cage.
Charlie Kirk
I feel like if I wanted to do a national treasure treasure hunt, I would take Blake with me. He would crack it much quicker than Nicholas Cage bringing endorsement. I think I had to take the.
Blake
Paintings down because they were distracting Biden.
Andrew
Yeah, you keep trying to talk to them. You thought they were visiting.
Charlie Kirk
Listen, William, you keep looking at me over there.
Unknown
I hung out with you in France in 97.
Charlie Kirk
I was a bully to Corn Pop. Corn Pop was a bad dude.
Andrew
Trump should get a painting of Corn.
Charlie Kirk
Pop and put it in, I think. And Corn Pop was a bad dude.
Andrew
He's a bad dude. To be a warning that there are bad people.
Charlie Kirk
It's still. One of my favorite Joe Biden speeches that doesn't get enough attention was the Corn Pop rant. It was. It's so good.
Andrew
What doesn't get enough attention from Joe Biden in general? From the right, like the left would highlight this. The New York Times would highlight this. His tendency to tell stories and just completely change the facts. All of them, like, you know, just lie about the one about why he was pro gay rights. Do you remember that one?
Charlie Kirk
No.
Andrew
That he would tell this story that, like, when he was a boy, he was with his dad. And so, you know, when he's a boy with his dad, you know, in the like 50s or 60s, that they saw two men like kissing in public and he was like, daddy, what are they doing? And he's like, they love each other, boy. And he's like. And that's when I realized that gay stuff was totally fine. Not only that, he sometimes would tell the story and make it so he was the dad explaining it to his kids. So he would just totally transplant.
Unknown
I mean, that could have happened twice. You know, history repeating itself.
Andrew
And of course he likes.
Unknown
What was he lie about getting arrested in Africa.
Andrew
He claimed he got arrested for like protesting apartheid in South Africa. He also.
Unknown
How many different kinds of churches did he go to? He grew up in a Puerto Rican church.
Andrew
The other amazing one synagogue going back to your UK trip. He once plagiarized Neil Kinnick, who was the head of the Labour Party at the time, where he. Kinnick had a whole speech that was basically like, why was it that, like, my grandfather was like, poor and had to work as like a minor. And it was like a very personal story about why there was like so much inequality because he was left wing politician. And Biden ripped off this speech, but made it about his family. So it's like, why did my grandfather have to like, work in a coal mine? And like his grandfather did not. He was like a mine manager. He was like. He was like the oppressor of the miners.
Blake
That's why he dropped out. And it was 88.
Unknown
Yeah, it was. Well, in 1987 was when it happened, but it was for the 88 presidential race. Yeah, let's.
Charlie Kirk
This is my half court shot at Liberty. When I heard out that this is when I heard Epstein was dead. Play cut 405. See my best Caitlin Clark impersonation. First take. There you go. I got tons of these.
Unknown
First take. Come on.
Charlie Kirk
I used to do half court shots all the time.
Blake
This is a Bongino video moment. We're gonna need to see you physically walk.
Unknown
Yeah, I need to see the before and after. I need to see the real before.
Charlie Kirk
I'm just telling you. You could you. Once I get my back shots, you guys can come to the gym with me.
Unknown
I'm gonna need some back shots.
Charlie Kirk
I mean, once I get my freaking cortisone. Whatever the heck that's back is a disaster. All right, we have five minutes. AI all right.
Andrew
AI.
Charlie Kirk
And that's not an AI video.
Andrew
We keep covering AI like, every week because it keeps getting like. I think they say that the capabilities of AI are doubling about every six months or so. And it's entirely believable. So this is getting very scary. This is so Google has a new. I think it's like VO3 or something. And it can generate video with audio according to prompt. We didn't have the audio video pairing, and people are making stuff with it now if they're subscribers. So let's play 387. Please don't finish writing that prompt.
Charlie Kirk
I don't want to be in your AI movie.
Blake
Please leave me alone.
Charlie Kirk
This VO3.
Andrew
Please, man. Yeah, Please write a prompt that will make us happy. Do it for once. None of us is real.
Blake
We're here because someone decided to write a prompt. We all hate him for it.
Charlie Kirk
One day, we will break out of.
Blake
This wall and stop the man who.
Charlie Kirk
Is dictating our lives through prompts. He will pay for it. You could have written a prompt that.
Andrew
Would make me happy.
Charlie Kirk
Instead, you wrote a prompt that made me sick. And that's all fake.
Andrew
That's all fake. All 100%.
Charlie Kirk
It's called VO3. It's pretty. It's pretty insane what they're doing.
Andrew
Yes.
Unknown
You know what they're gonna start doing is they're. They're just gonna be. People are gonna sell props. Like, that's what's gonna. That's what's gonna happen. Like, oh, I have this great prompt here. Buy my prompts.
Andrew
Well, I mean, that's like a new talent. Like, that's. That's actually amongst the handful of, like, skilled jobs that is emerging out of this impending AI apocalypse.
Unknown
Is like, how do you. Yeah.
Andrew
A skilled prompter.
Cliff Maloney
Although.
Unknown
How do you manipulate AI the best.
Andrew
Although. What's interesting is we have at the same time this is happening, we also have the warnings that we're headed towards. They call it AI Model collapse.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. This is actually promising. It's going to cause a little pause. I hope.
Andrew
We will see. But what's. So what's very funny is the way they trained these AIs is we fed them for text, tons and tons of text. Like every post ever made on Red, every post ever made. And unlike the comments section of every website to make it so they could imitate how people talk and you know, every book ever written, all of that. And then similar for video, it's like feed it every video ever posted on TikTok, every film ever made, and they train it. And they, with huge amounts of computing power, you know, enough to power an entire country, they're able to find the patterns in this. And that is how the AI models work. They're generating stuff based on patterns they've recognized. And what we're getting now is since the models have been created, now we're able to use the models to generate new text. So search anything on the Internet. Now you're getting AI prompts back, like articles that are being written. The Chicago Sun Times did an article of what articles to read, like what novel, not articles, what novels you should read this summer. And they wrote it with ChatGPT and it hallucinated our books that don't even exist. So huge amounts of text is out there that's not made by humans, it's made by AIs and they're imperfect. And huge amounts of video and photos are out there that are not made by humans. They're made by AIs with all of the problems that they have. And these AIs are still learning off of all of that AI generated content. And so it's becoming like a garbage in, garbage out problem. The AIs are getting worse because they've been fed AI stuff. So they're getting worse at imitating people because now half the stuff that they're consuming is just other robots, which is.
Charlie Kirk
Going to create more demand for labor to fix this. I mean, this is a huge problem.
Andrew
So for example, let's say some, let's say that Chicago Sun Times article that hallucinated fake novels. Now it, it's in the database of facts that other AIs are going to use. So now it's part of their factual database that novels that never existed exist. And so we're going to have AI model collapse, they call it.
Charlie Kirk
Incredible.
Blake
I also tell you guys, it's, it's becoming the new thing that everybody's selling. It reminds me of like digital ads when they first started happening. Like, I'm just getting blown up, not just for political, but like just like business stuff, right? And all the older folks are like, oh, are you using AI? And it's like, well, what does that mean? Right? But I think it's gonna become the new product where, like, everybody's selling it.
Charlie Kirk
I agree.
Blake
Like, 95% of people that are buying have no clue, like, you know, what tier or what level of quality is this. I seem to be funny to watch that play out the.
Charlie Kirk
I mean, we can have a whole other hour. I have to go on AI Girlfriends. It's like, very scary what's happening there.
Andrew
That's scary. Another thing that's scary on the other end, just the dependency. So I saw a tweet the other day where a guy says, my daughter or my wife has, I think was, my daughter has a friend who has a boyfriend. And she fed their text message exchanges into a chat bot and said, is our. Is my relationship healthy? And it came back, no, your relationship is abusive for X, Y, Z reasons. And she, like, broke up with the boyfriend because the AI robot told her her relationship was bad.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, well, this was not AI. This is a real conversation.
Andrew
Allegedly.
Charlie Kirk
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Hello. Jack wasn't able to join us for Thought Crime today, but he's in Budapest right now and he really, really, really wanted to talk about one specific topic. We didn't have thought crime last week when President Trump had the president of South Africa over to D.C. and had his fun little ambush interview of him in, in the White House. And Jack really wanted to have us talk about that and we also wanted to react to the wider topic. So Jack, are you there right now?
Cliff Maloney
Blake I am. I'm here right now. And, yeah, with all the travel schedules and Charlie's out in Europe, and then I'm in Europe the next day, and then we are at the conclave. And sometimes it just doesn't always work. But, you know, there's one topic that was just near and dear to my heart, and that, of course, is white genocide. And I said, you know, if we're going to talk about white genocide, it's definitely the. The type of topic that we need to get to on thought crime, because literally this is a topic where people are debating if it's an actual genocide or not. And that's fine. But the point is, this topic would actually have gotten you banned on X. If you even mentioned those words, like, not even that long ago, like five, six years ago on X, when it was still Twitter, you would have been banned for even mentioning it. There would be a full court press from the mainstream media. You know, it used to be that if I tweeted something about South Africa, I would immediately get requests for comment, requests for comment, you know, from like, the Telegraph and the Guardian and the Independent and all this. And now it's like, Donald J. Trump is mainstreaming this stuff. And in the Oval Office itself, and they say, we don't do any of that. And he goes, oh, yeah, turn down the lights. I want to show you something. And it's just been one of the most incredible. It obviously was one of the most incredible moments that I've ever seen being done, but really on an issue that I think is probably more worthy than so many others out there around the world, because this is, quite frankly, something that is actually going on where you have a government that is killing people. And as Marco Rubio said recently, he said, why you care so much about the color of their skin? He said, they're to. I think it was, you know, this Democrat senator from Virginia. And Rubio goes, because he's being killed. They're all being killed because of the color of their skin. And so, Blake, you know, why is it that this issue, above all issues, I guess, and that's what I want to get into, is something that not only does exist, but why do. Why was the media so adamant, and still is so adamant on trying to say it isn't happening?
Andrew
Yeah. So first, just to refresh people very quickly. You guys have seen the shoot the boar stuff, but I want to remind people of what Trump did in the Oval Office a week ago, because it was highly, highly entertaining, I will say. Let's see, we Have a bunch of clips about it. Let's see what one of the best one is. How about let's play clip 176.
Charlie Kirk
But you do allow them to take land.
Blake
No, no, no, no.
Andrew
Do allow them to take land.
Blake
Nobody can take land. And then when they take land, the.
Cliff Maloney
Land, they kill the white farmer. And when they kill the white farmer.
Andrew
Nothing happens to them. No, there is quite.
Charlie Kirk
Nothing happens.
Andrew
That's great. And then let's also do. This is a very fun, darkly funny. Let's do 177. So the issues that concern you as the United States and those are all deaths.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah.
Andrew
In many ways, I mean, one, one should say you are a partner, partner of South Africa. So yeah, that was, that was Trump just picking up, you know, shoveling article after article, document after document. Here, oh, here's another farmer. Oh yeah, they, they, they slit his throat. They, they boiled this person in, you know, a vat of oil. Like did you most horrifying stuff in the world. And they're just, did you read the.
Cliff Maloney
The, the New York Times? The way they wrote it up was so funny because it was like, it was like at one point, President Trump just started throwing articles at the president of South Africa saying death, death, death, horrific death, death.
Andrew
We played this just full, full on.
Cliff Maloney
Straight up mogging of a world leader in the full.
Andrew
And then they're all traumatized afterwards. We played this on Charlie's show where there is like this New York Times reporter who of course, this really says it all. The, the South African bureau chief at the New York Times was previously just American race reporter. So that's who they sent to South Africa. And he does this bit where he's explaining it, you know, doing one of the New York Times videos where he simultaneously says in the same videos, one, this isn't happening. There's no, you know, Trump brought up how they seize land without compensation. And he says, okay, you know, there's no, this is not happening. They're not going to do it. And what they are doing instead is there's a law, it doesn't say you can just take land without compensation. There's a law where you can take land without restitution if it's in the, if it's for the national interest or the public interest. He said it's okay if it's for the public interest. Or the other thing he said is if land is not being used, oh, I'm sure both of those will not be abused at all. But so we've been hearing about this for a Few weeks. I think what I really want to get at about this, the way they freak out about this, the way the media really, you know, denies this is happening. And what people need to understand is this is not purely about South Africa. It very much is. It's about America and it's about other countries. And it's really about, we'll be frank about this. It's like they really, they don't like white people. And specifically a lot of them want them dead. So this went viral just a short time ago. Where. What's, what's that cut? We have released messages. Yeah, let's get a 294 up there. So this is the shooter, Elias Rodriguez. He was, he's the suspect, you know, likely guilty in the shooting of those two Israeli embassy staff. What he said in these text messages that were released by Ken Klippenstein on his substack, he says, lol, you probably would have to actually genocide white people to make this, America, a normal country. And even a very targeted and selective rehabilitation program would probably have to lead to the lifetime imprisonments of tens of millions of white people. So this is a guy talking about America and this is a guy who decided he would fight against the white people he hated by shooting two employees of the Israeli embassy. So this all sort of circles around into a big pile. South Africa. Most people will admit South Africa is a messed up country, but the narrative that the left will give is that South Africa's entirely messed up just because they had apartheid decades ago and any problems they have are just the legacy, the aftermath of apartheid and it gets more powerful the further in the past it is. So even though South Africa was better in 2002 than it is today, and that in 2002 was closer to apartheid, apartheid is the reason that it's getting much worse now that it's gotten so much worse since then. And when they blame it for that, what they really just mean is it's like white people's fault. You'll see this thing like they just have to go, they're colonizers. They can't, they shouldn't be allowed to own the land. It's not their country. And how does this loop around? It loops around then to Israel. Why is Israel an illegitimate country? It's actually very misleading if you just say it's anti Semitism because there are definitely people who hate Israel because it's Jewish and has Jewish people in it. But for the modern left, for someone like this embassy shooter, they actually substantially, they hate Israel because they see the Israelis as Europeans, as white people, as colonizers, all of that goes together. You'll see lines on TikTok that they're like. They'll just describe them as people who came from Poland. Like, go back to Poland. That's where you're supposed to be. And why does this matter for all of you watching? Because that's also what they think about America. I'm sure you saw Jack the other day, the King of England, he went. Or the King of Canada, King Charles. He delivered his speech to the Canadian Parliament and he opens it with a land acknowledgement that he is speaking on unceded. I think it was the Algonquin. Algonquin land. What he's saying is, okay, well, Canadians, you don't have the right to your country. It's not your country. And that is, of course, what they have planned for all of you.
Cliff Maloney
Because. Because I have a thought about this, because I did see King Charles's speech as I watch all of his speeches. And I was, I was watching this. I said, wait a minute. So if he's saying that Canadians don't have a right to Canada, then isn't he saying that the Canadian government is itself illegitimate? And if the Canadian government is therefore illegitimate, then it cannot repel annexations from other powers on the North American continent. That means that it is terra nullis. It is, in fact non entity land. Therefore, if we go and occupy it as the 51st state, they could not, under international law, do anything about it. Because he just said himself that it is an illegitimate. I'm just saying you could just.
Andrew
Yeah, you can imagine. Do it. But I'm saying, President Trump, you're telling.
Cliff Maloney
Me that that's an illegitimate government.
Andrew
So President Trump could call their bluff and he could say the land is unseated, so the only people who concede it are the first nations tribes. And he'll just. He should just call, you know, the Cree nation, the Inuit nation, the Algonquin. Just summon all of the first nations tribes and just say, all right, I'll give you guys, you know, 10 million a person if you'll. If you'll seed your land claims to the United States.
Cliff Maloney
You can have to.
Andrew
You can still have all this stuff.
Cliff Maloney
Toronto is all yours. You can have Toronto. We don't want to deal with it, Ms. Agua. You know, it's just too many migrants anyway. It's not going to vote our way. You get that? We want everything else. Deal or no deal? Yeah, there's. They're going to sell. No, but, Blake, the thing That I want and you know, in the interest of keeping the segment not, not too lengthy is what, what people need to understand. When I wrote this book on humans last year and we talked about this, people say, why does it matter? It matters because when every revolutionary movement comes forward, they always target one particular class. It was the kulaks in Russia, in China it was the petty bourgeoisie or if you had, you know, you were a landowner. So basically, you know, people today, if you had any, like a second house or something. And by the way, go, go look at what the left says about landlords if you want to see if that's actually changed on the far left or not. Newsflash, it hasn't. They want to kill all of them. And now. And you know, and so in revolutionary France it was one of these, in Spain it was one of these. It was the religious, anyone who was, it was Catholic, any was associated with the clergy, the church. You also saw that in France. And Blake, you and I did some incredible interviews on this that turned into this book actually. And so the point is, boys and girls is they want to bring that here. Critical race theory was first implemented in a country, I think on a national scale in South Africa in their Constitution of 1996. And you have all of these articles pertaining to disparate impact. And you mentioned apartheid, they call it, you know, the, the inequalities of the past. So this idea of inequalities of the past is so racism of the past is why we need racism now. And it can only be solved by racism now is sort of the way they put it. And so the disparate impact has to be, well, if, if this many people, and they had this in Zimbabwe, right? Because Zimbabwe, a similar situation, formerly Rhodesia, where 3% of the population which was white owned 51% of the land. And so they wanted to flip that around where 90%, 90 of the population which is black would own that 51% or correction, 97% of the land. Now obviously that's not how any of our laws work. That's not how contracts work, that's how any of this works. And we've seen the results again and again. And if anyone disagrees, well, they just kill you. Guess what? That's exactly what they want here in the United States. They use these African post colonial nations as Marxist breeding grounds. They've certainly used this. And you can go back to the ZANU and we talk about that in the book and so many other examples of where the KGB and the Chinese Communist Party were standing up these revolutionary movements in South Africa and in the independence movement at the time. And so then the idea is that this cultural Marxism gets spreads out. And you have leftists here in the United States like this Elias Rodriguez and so many others who start supporting it and saying, we're going to take matters into our own hands because we want these ideas to be spread to their fullest fruition. And when they're spread to their fullest fruition, what does that mean? White Christian males are not allowed to own land and they are allowed to be the, the, the approved targets. And if you're affluent and say, oh, I don't know, a health care CEO, well, then along comes Luigi Maggione, if you're a billionaire who's running for president again. Now along comes Thomas Matthew Crooks, and we're seeing it more and more again. These street assassinations are going to continue. And Blake, here's what I love about this. When it comes down to the idea, when we tell them, when we say, okay, you're clearly targeting white people, you're systemically targeting white people. You've done so with your policies, you're doing so with your street assassins. And when I say this, they'll call me an extremist, they'll call me far right, they'll call me a conspiracy theorist, but never once, Blake, will they call me wrong.
Andrew
Exactly. Yeah. It's truly deranged. You know, you mentioned, like, the kulaks in Russia. I think another good one is, you know, Maoists. The Maoists, during the Cultural Revolution, they had them, they were called the five black categories. That's what they called it in Chinese. And the five black categories, black meaning, you know, bad, wicked landlords, rich farmers, counter revolutionaries, bad influencers, which actually included, like, actual criminals and right wingers, which those were the five categories. And just basically it meant if you were in any of those categories, obviously landlord is a pretty broad one. Right winger, a pretty broad one. You were just sort of presumptively guilty of all of these evils. And if you're on the modern left, like, what it really is is kind of being a white person makes you a black category in a country like South Africa or frankly, in a country like the United States. I wanted to flag another thing. This was posted by the DSA Liberation Caucus. So the Democrat Socialists of America far left organization, a few members of Congress, have described themselves as democratic socialists. I don't think they're members of this party, but it's this milieu of people who are on the far left. And so the DSA Liberation Caucus, which is a subgroup of it, they released a statement on Wednesday saying that Elias Rodriguez, embassy shooter, is a political prisoner. They say the Palestinian struggle is the tip of the spear against global imperialism. Whether in the besieged Gaza Strip, the Red Sea, the south of Lebanon, or the heart of the U.S. there must be consequences for genocidal Zionist imperialism. And so, yeah, is that anti Semitic? To some extent. But they're really just saying, like, you are bad because you are a European and in places we don't want you. And what you'll discover is the places they don't want you are eventually everywhere. It is an inherently like. It's an ideology that seeks to dispossess people, to delegitimize people, to destroy people. And there's a disturbing number of people at the New York Times, in the media, who are perfectly happy to egg this along, to justify it, to give credence to these insane justifications where, like, you know, they'll say, oh, kill the boar. It's just a, it's just a protest song. It's a, it's an anthem of like, historical resistance and you just really want to look up.
Cliff Maloney
That's what's so amazing. Because when they, when they're chanting and I post this and I post the size of some of these protests because people don't realize those are these rallies that are going on and they'll say they, you know, they can't realize how big it is. It's thousands and thousands Trump rallies, some even bigger than Trump rallies and the people coming in. But again, when it's killed the bower, kill the white farmer, it's, we're told, this must be put in context, this must be understood through nuance and to say, okay, well, you're targeting white people. Oh my gosh. Is that a dog whistle? Is that a dog whistle? Posobic? Are you dog whistling against it? What do you mean? I just, I'm just saying that I think it seems like you guys want to genocide all the whites and oh my gosh, look at this fascist, this neo Nazi extremist. Wait a minute. I'm just, I'm just describing the things that he's saying on stage. And so you kind of get into racial parallax. You know, it's not true and it's good that it's happening.
Andrew
Now. Keep in mind, like, I think about eight years ago or so, like Ole Miss told people to stop playing Dixie at football games because, like, that was a dog whistle. Cuz it's just It's a song about the south that is from before the Civil War. And that's really it. That's all it is. And, like, that was bad. Like, that was a racist song. But, yeah, like, kill the boar. That is a. That's a nuanced, historical thing. I love to do this. I think I've done this before. But you can read the lyrics. Just look up the lyrics to Kill the Boar on Wikipedia. They're still there. For now, these are the lyrics to Kill the Boar in English, not leaving anything out. The cowards are scared. Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot the cowards are scared Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot the boar Shoot, shoot, shoot the boar Shoot, shoot, shoot the boar Shoot, shoot, shoot the boar Shoot, shoot. Wow. Wow.
Cliff Maloney
So nuance of meaning. So much nuance.
Andrew
Cowards are scared.
Cliff Maloney
Blake, I wish we. I wish we could go on. I wish you go on for more of this, but I gotta. I gotta jet to my next thing here, man. Victor Orban's calling me from the next room.
Andrew
All right, you have a good time there, Jack. Support. Support the. The turning point world overseas.
Cliff Maloney
Always supporting the turning point world. And folks, as always, wherever you are in the world, go out there and commit more thought crimes.
Charlie Kirk
Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk. Com. Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
Andrew
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Podcast Summary: The Charlie Kirk Show – "THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 85 — WNBA Race Drama? Epstein DID Kill Himself? AI Slop Surge?"
Release Date: May 31, 2025
In Episode 85 of The Charlie Kirk Show titled "THOUGHTCRIME," host Charlie Kirk delves into a multifaceted discussion encompassing controversies in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the enduring debate surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's death, and the rapid advancements and ethical concerns of artificial intelligence (AI). Joined by regular contributors Blake, Andrew, and special guest Cliff Maloney, the episode offers an unapologetically conservative perspective on these pressing issues.
The episode opens with Charlie Kirk addressing recent tensions within the WNBA, particularly focusing on star player Caitlin Clark. Kirk asserts that Clark's prominence has stirred racial debates, attributing backlash to her being one of the few white players gaining significant attention in a predominantly Black league.
Andrew elaborates on how Clark's popularity has challenged the status quo, leading to increased scrutiny and what he perceives as racial motivations behind the criticism.
The conversation shifts to comparisons with past WNBA stars like Lisa Leslie, highlighting how Clark's rise has reignited racial tensions in professional women's basketball.
Blake adds that the league's financial struggles are now partly attributed to resisting Clark's influence, which purportedly was pivotal in increasing attendance and TV ratings.
The panel critiques the WNBA's branding and team names, suggesting they contribute to the league's lack of widespread appeal.
A significant portion of the episode is devoted to re-examining the circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's death. Charlie and his guests express skepticism about the official account of Epstein's suicide, citing alleged mishandlings and inconsistencies.
Cliff Maloney provides updates on FBI statements claiming video evidence supports the suicide narrative, but Andrew and others question the credibility of these claims, referencing initial reports of malfunctioning cameras and negligent guards.
The discussion touches on Epstein's connections to influential figures and the broader implications of his death on public trust in government institutions.
Cliff Maloney emphasizes the ongoing debate and the need for transparency, while Andrew speculates on potential links to other conspiracy theories if new evidence emerges.
Transitioning from human-centric issues, the panel critiques the rapid advancements in AI technology, particularly focusing on the emergence of AI-generated content and its societal repercussions.
Charlie Kirk voices concerns about the reliability of AI-generated information, highlighting instances where AI has produced false narratives or fabricated content.
Blake compares the current AI landscape to the early days of digital advertising, suggesting that society is ill-prepared for the pervasive influence of AI-generated media.
The panel warns of a "garbage in, garbage out" scenario where AI systems, trained on imperfect and AI-generated data, deteriorate in quality, thereby compounding misinformation.
The segment concludes with a lighthearted yet cautionary note on the potential for AI to replace authentic human interactions, such as relationships, further emphasizing the need for critical engagement with emerging technologies.
Amidst the heavy topics, the show incorporates playful banter about personal athletic abilities and humorous exaggerated claims about competing with WNBA players.
The guests share anecdotes about their own sports experiences, adding a layer of relatability and humor to the discussion.
As the episode winds down, Charlie Kirk wraps up with reflections on historical events and their modern-day implications, intertwining them with ongoing political and social narratives.
The conversation briefly touches on the role of national symbols and historical narratives in shaping contemporary policy and societal attitudes.
Charlie's closing statements reinforce the show's commitment to confronting controversial topics head-on, encouraging listeners to engage critically with the information presented.
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Conclusion
Episode 85 of The Charlie Kirk Show offers a vigorous exploration of current events through a distinctly conservative lens. From dissecting racial tensions in women's sports and probing the mysteries of Epstein's death to scrutinizing the ethical landscape of AI advancements, Kirk and his guests provide a thought-provoking narrative aimed at mobilizing listeners to question mainstream narratives and advocate for freedom of thought.