Happy 33rd Birthday, Charlie Kirk! You Were Right—Your Death Spawned A Global Awakening… | Ep 402

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The evidence was overwhelming. 4K HD. Anyway, you may have noticed if you were scrolling through social media that today is indeed October 14th, what would have been Charlie Kirk's 33rd birthday. And I was thinking about that and how actually Charlie, or at least the Charlie that I knew, not the manufactured ghost of Charlie that Turning Point presents today, who is nothing like the real Charlie. Charlie was never big on his birthday. He was sort of an old soul. I have no memory of him being excited about, birthday ever. His focus was always about striving toward a certain life goal, striving toward truth. And so today we're going to continue that. Our goal, if you will, or rather our war with everyone who continues to desecrate his memory with nonsense, fed slop. And I have to tell you that we made some fantastic new discoveries yesterday, as always, thanks to you guys back at home, which we're going to tell you all about. In other news, we are now covering this beat, America Has Fallen, there's evidence of that everywhere. And accordingly, I feel the need to actually weigh in on this Kelly Clarkson scandal. Don't worry if you're not from America and you don't know who she is. I'm going to bring you up to date on this original American idol crashing out in a Brooklyn store. It is indeed a sign of the most unfortunate times. Welcome back to Candace. Okay. Foremost back by popular demand. You guys were raving about our Pokemon cards. You wanted more of them. We have them. Some of you guys desire to trade these in the streets. You want to collect them. I want you to know that we of course have the Brian Harpole Pokemon card. That's probably, it's a really valuable one. Actually, you can see this one, he's doing the medical. He can take over medical duties from actually qualified doctors and, and professionals at any time. Also tattoo brothers. If you, if you've got the tattoo, you can team up and, but there is a weakness there at the bottom. What, what more was I supposed to do? Exactly. Then of course we have Yankin Bankin Frank. Oh, there he is. This is, I love this Poke card. These are the Hokie Pokemon cards. They're just saying whatever. CPR, perhaps he can do it sometimes he doesn't do it. So be careful, but he is indeed the chain, snatcher. You will snatch evidence right from police hands. I'll take that. No, you won't. It's mine. Um, the weakness is just, there's a lot of Yankin and Bankin. Anyways, you guys collect them. You got to collect them all. They're in the wild. The stories are in fact wild. And yesterday, of course, we introduced you to a very significant character. It was a lot to unpack. Val Peterson, the vice president of UVU, and apparently the guy, Dan, allegedly feared by faculty and allegedly very pro Erica and turning point USA. And we had wondered why, you know, if you're the vice president of school, why wouldn't you want to stand behind your faculty? And we of course had a few questions pertaining to what we learned about him just in the after incident reports that UVU, um, had outsourced the independent review. You know, explicitly we wanted to know where was Val Peterson on September 10th, the other day. He had a lot of duties. He oversaw, uh, EMS services at the UVU among it. So you just think that if he knew Charlie Kirk was coming, he may have been there. And the report tells us that no, actually he was 45 minutes away and we wanted to know where was he marking time. Well, thanks to you sleuths back at home and some brave yet clearly terrified faculty members at UVU, we were able to put some more pieces together. We confirmed from multiple sources with direct knowledge. But he was golfing actually, allegedly out in Heber, Utah. And one person claimed that he was actually taking part in a tournament. We found a few clubs and tournaments that could potentially match, match that description, but we don't need to venture a specific guess as to which one he was at. Suffice it to say, um, the story that he has told us that he was away golfing. Okay. And interestingly enough, and I want to be clear that this part, we have not yet been able to independently verify what we were working on it. We were also told that he was with governor Cox. Now we thought fact-checking that portion would be very easy because the governor publishes his schedule, um, onto the website publicly. And that includes in the past, he has published instances where he participated in golf tournaments. Strangely, however, we went to his website and despite September 10th, falling on a Wednesday, the governor's official schedule, did not list any commitments, not on the 10th, also not on the 9th. And that's interesting to me. And we can pull and show his schedule on the 9th. Um, this is 8th to the 14th. All we get is Monday, the 8th, and there's no 9th and 10th. And it's interesting. I would say it's interesting really just because September tends to be a notably busy season for politicians, for parents, for everybody. Summer's over, back to school, back to work. And again, I can't stress enough. This is midweek. Like why is nobody going to work? Like, this is crazy to me. I would also add that as far as we can tell, which I was kind of surprised by this, governor Cox has never stated where he was when he learned of Charlie's death. He's done interviews and he said, he's gone as far as to say, you know, I got the notification on my phone. And within a minute I was in the phone with the white house, but he's never said where he was when he got that notification. Again, so far as we can tell, if we are overlooking something, please send it. And the answer might, the reason why he hasn't said where he was when he got that notification, but he's never said where he was hasn't shared it might just be because no one's asked him, where were you? Were you golfing with Val? That would be interesting. But get this, because there's something else. In examining his published schedule that week in general, we did discover that governor Cox had a meeting on September 2nd with none other than Provo police officer, Tyler Clancy. House of rep, Provo police officer, many hats, homeless coordinator. Check this out. I can't make this up. This is again the published schedule on his website. You can see that at 5 p.m. he had a meeting with representative Tyler Clancy at his mansion, not Tyler's mansion, at the governor's mansion. Wow. What can I say? Tyler Clancy really is just so impressive. That's what I want to say. Imagine a one-on-one with the governor of the state in his mansion. And to be clear, the Utah house of reps there, they work 45 days a year. And he started it in 2023. So he's climbing this ladder quickly. He's making a lot of connections here. And I'm wondering what they spoke about. Maybe it was regarding his upcoming promotion. Who knows? I wonder if Tyler was wearing, which hat he was wearing. House of rep hats? Probably not, because they're in session beginning in January. Maybe the Provo police stopping human trafficking hat. Who knows? I thought you'd find that interesting. And ladies and gentlemen, or but, I don't even cover something else last night that is going to potentially not shock you at all, actually. You might be shocked initially, like I was, but I feel we are now far enough into this story that in the scheme of everything that we have learned regarding the surrounding cast of characters, you're probably just going to be like, yeah, yeah, that sounds right. And it's regarding Val Peterson, again, referred to by many as the most powerful man in the state of Utah. We learned that he has a brother named Charles Loritz Peterson. And this brother, Charles, was arrested this year, twice, actually, in two different states. First, on February 3rd, 2026, in Layton, Utah. Okay. And I'm just going to go through these charges with you because they feel significant. Do you want to guess the charge? Do you want to guess the charge at home, actually? I'm going to actually check the chat for this. Do you guys want to guess the charge, what it might be related to? Let's see. I'm going to give people a chance here. I feel like people might be able to know what's going on. Expect the worst from them. Was it kids again, says Mark Johnson. Mark Johnson. Mark. Someone said trafficking. How could you? What? Someone said children. kids, children, kids. Someone is guessing that it's related to pedophilia. This is I am. I don't everyone at home must be Miss Cleo. How are you guys able to discern these things? How do you know? Well, yes, you would. You're on the money, actually. Charges were as follows. First degree charge for enticing a minor into sexual activity. And I'm going to tell you what that specific charge means in the state of Utah. It means an actor commits enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity if the actor knowingly uses an electronic communication or an electronic communication device to, one, solicit, seduce, lure, or entice a minor or attempt to solicit, seduce, lure, or entice a minor or another person who the actor believed to be a minor to engage in sexual activity that is a violation of state criminal law. Two, if they communicate with any individual. With the intent to solicit, seduce, lure, or entice a minor or attempt to solicit, seduce, lure, or entice a minor to engage in sexual activity that is a violation of state criminal law. Or three, initiate contact with a minor or a person the actor believes to be a minor. Subsequent to the action described in subsection 2A by any electronic or written means, solicit, seduces, lures, or entices the minor or attempts to solicit, seduce, or lure, or entice a minor or a person that the actor believes to be a minor. Also, it could include B, which they have mentioned here, develops a relationship or trust with a minor or the minor's parent or guardian with the intent to solicit, to seduce, lure, or entice the minor or attempt to solicit, seduce, lure, or entice the minor to engage in sexual activity that is a violation of state criminal law. With the intent to solicit, seduce, lure, or entice the minor or attempt to solicit, seduce, lure, or entice the minor to engage in sexual activity that is a violation of state criminal law. Also, the charge that he was charged with aggravated sexual exploitation. And what that means is an actor commits aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor if the actor knowingly distributes or produces child sexual abuse material. Or B, is the minor's parent or legal guardian and knowingly consents to or permits the minor to be sexually exploited as described in subsection 2A. It also includes distributing material harm. If the minor is harmful to a minor, an actor commits distributing material harmful to the minor. If the actor intentionally distributes or offers to distribute or exhibits or offers to exhibit material harmful to minors, to an individual, or to intentionally produces, performs, or directs any performance before an individual, that is harmful to minors. Okay. So, you get it. Okay? You get it. Tells us then what the fines are. Then what happens? What happens is that in Utah, they decided to collaborate with Idaho. Because remember, I told you that Val Peterson is from Idaho. He's from Moscow, Idaho, where his father was a professor at the University of Idaho. Yes to you guys who kind of picked up what I was throwing down yesterday about Moscow, Idaho being at the center of some other crimes that I never felt right about the story that we were being told. Anyways, Utah. Utah, back to the Petersons, collaborated with Idaho, and he was additionally charged in Meridian, Idaho. And if you're wondering why that sounds vaguely familiar to you, it's because it's the same area that Macy Crofts, the one who allegedly, according to the UVU Review, insisted on having the event, wanted, she was on the call, and she wanted the event to be in the amphitheater. We talked about her. Uncle Kip. Kip Crofts, who was arrested just outside of Nampa, where Turning Point USA put on their assembly. That's right there. By the way, just Val Peterson's dad, that's where they're from, Nampa, Idaho. Like, born in Nampa, Idaho. So that's interesting. Anyway, Val's brother, Charles, was additionally charged in Meridian with four counts of soliciting a child. Here is the article, which is available on the Idaho Attorney General's website. Not a lot of details beyond this. It just tells us. That Attorney General Raul Labrador has announced that a Meridian man was charged in Idaho on March 5th, 2026, with four counts of enticing a child. Investigators with the Attorney General's Internet Crimes Against Children, ICAC unit, arrested Charles Peterson, 52, on February 3rd, 2026, after receiving a request for assistance from the Leighton Police Department on similar charges now pending in Utah. The charges listed above are merely accusations. And the defendant is presumed. Presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Yeah, it's important. It's important to note that, right? The charges listed are merely accusations. And the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless he is proven guilty. But, man, you guys. What do you think? Your opinion. Not your fact, but your opinion. Why is this a theme that we just keep coming up against? In this story, everybody involved who are going, why is this person, like, not team? Why is this person? So what are we doing? What's going on? And then we just dig a tiny little bit and you go, oh, OK. OK. It just keeps recurring. How many people do you know, just in a story, in a circle, in a friend group, that you just throw a rock and you keep hitting these kinds of charges? What? What do you guys think? Why does this theme keep coming up in the story? I have more questions. Why did President Donald Trump call Charlie Kirk in July and reprimand him for speaking out against the Epstein Files? Why did he do that? Why did the Epstein Files require so many top-level meetings in the White House, in the Situation Room? Why? Actually. Why can't we get a clear answer from Charlie's wife, Erica, regarding the story that we broke, her hanging out at a modeling office, allegedly in New York, people of direct knowledge, an office that was frequented by Jeffrey Epstein, a modeling agency that was started by the French pervert, Jean-Luc Brunel, who was Jeffrey Epstein's partner. It would be very easy for Erica Kirk to deny that she's ever been to that office. I would do so immediately. It would be very easy for her to deny that she was in charge of modeling apartments on the Upper East Side, which were occupied by young Eastern European models, as we were told, as we reached out for comment before we published the article, or we published the story. Why not? Why not just clarify that when people are already noticing that this theme of human trafficking just keeps coming up? It can't keep coming up. And while we're asking questions, why is it that turning point under her leadership appears to be so especially focused on access to high schools, Club America, which is being administratively forced upon students who are not signing up for this club? It's assembly time and you got to go. And no, that was not the explicit vision that Charlie Kirk had. We demonstrated that to you via his last company pitch, if you will, that he gave in front of investors in Aspen three weeks before his death. He said, He wanted it to be like a debate club where kids signed up and wanted to have, wanted to show up, wanted to host people. He didn't want to mandate assemblies using the arm of donors and influence in the region. Why do they have so much influence in the region of Idaho and Utah, actually? Why was Andrew Colbett allegedly at the White House meeting with top brass the day before the Epstein-Faust? The Epstein-Faust files were partially released to the public, I'll say. We know that they've been stripped. Millions upon millions of files. We're never going to get to see Pam Bondi saying that it would lead to the collapse of global economies if they released it. Two people in the White House emailed me and told me. We didn't know the Epstein files were coming out the next day, so we just tweeted it. Thankfully, I tweeted. I said, I don't know what this means, but I'm hearing Andrew Colbett's at the White House. Why is it that this administration? This administration is refusing to release them in their entirety? What would lead to the collapse of global economies, and why not just let them collapse? You know, they panicked, and they pretended that it was just ludicrous when I began discussing various elements of the Charlie Kirk assassination. And I said, hey, these are the facts. He was changing his mind. He had changed his mind regarding Israel. He was done with them. I said, hey, White House. The French Foreign Legion's presence, they were there on the day, on the ground that day. It's a fact that still has never been disputed by the White House, I might add. They presented it, though, as if I was just spewing grand conspiracies. France, Israel, the United States government, all working together. Shared interest regarding Charlie Kirk. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Let me be perfectly clear. Jeffrey Epstein would be the literal manifestation of all three of those nations. He worked directly for the Rothschilds, who credit themselves with having created the state of Israel in 1948. You can go watch those videos. they say we did that. His convicted partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, was born in France. He therefore ran his trafficking operations in and through France extensively. He owned property and businesses in France. Jean-Luc Brunel, who hung himself, perhaps was suicided in a cell, French. Modeling agencies, French. Yeah, actually, suddenly those three states working together would make a lot of sense if Charlie Kirk was threatening to turn against Israel. And I think it means something that Pam Bondi, as I mentioned earlier, said that it would lead to the crash of global economies if the Epstein files were released in their entirety. That would mean that globally, countries would have to work together to make sure that never happened. And while he was going on about Epstein, I was going on about Brigitte and Epstein and working on an Epstein series. And by he, I mean Charlie. Of course, on his show every day was hitting hard. I was talking about pedo-criminal networks in France. And I look at this whole picture and I know where we stand here. I just know where we stand. It is, yeah, Charlie's would be his 33rd birthday today. And I think that the best gift that anyone could give to Charlie on his birthday is not an empty tweet or an Instagram post. It's an empty tweet. It's an empty tweet. And I think that the best gift that anyone can give to Charlie on his birthday is not an empty tweet. It's an empty tweet. It's an empty tweet. It makes me sick. Looking at the posts, they make me sick. I have to have kind of a subsisting from the internet for a day because I just go, how do you wake up every day and just choose to be an absolute fraud? How do you pretend to care about Charlie? I don't know how they do it. Like, I struggle with that, that they're able to do it and they don't even flinch. But yeah, I think the best gift to Charlie on what would have been his 33rd birthday is that we just keep discussing the Epstein files. We keep pointing out what's actually happening here and that we acknowledge that Charlie was terrified in the end. He woke up one day and he realized that his life was a Truman show, that he had trusted his lieutenants to run things and he didn't know what was going on in his company. And he had questions and they were not content to answer those questions and they still are not content to answer any questions, actually. He realized that people around him were characters that had been intentionally cast and that the success of his company was not something that he had realized in the first place. But I will say on a positive note that Charlie knew that death was coming. He knew that his death, though premature, would be tied to a wider awakening. And as we discuss these things now, we can just guess what we're going to find. I think we can all conclude that Charlie was right. So happy birthday, Charlie Kirk. We'll be back after a brief break. All right, you guys, for 20 years, pre-born has stood in the gap between fear and hope. And this year alone, God has used pre-born to save nearly 60,000 babies from abortion. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the abortion industry has not slowed down. It actually just adapted. 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I mean, that's what we were hitting at when I started looking into the Brigitte story. I was like, this is, this person doesn't exist. This person doesn't exist. You can't just not exist for 30 years and then gaslight the public and be like, I have enough power and resources to gaslight you as to why I can't produce a single photo of me across 30 years of my life. Like this is the Brigitte Macron story. No one's asking for blood. Nope. No one needs to know that. It's not that extreme. You allegedly had three kids, some photos, raising them pregnant in the hospital, birthday parties, nothing, nothing. It's just a dark hole. And then they look at us and they go, you're crazy. How dare you think this? Like, yeah, we, we think it. We think a lot. And we're just seeing more and more of that. And like we discussed yesterday, this, this Katie Zacharia character who is the new press secretary. I'm just watching people defend this and pretend like, oh, this is totally fine. This is like first day nerves. And it's totally fine that we can't confirm her background. She's been providing commentary on Fox News. I'm sure she's a nice girl. I have something personal, something personal against Katie. It's just, I happen to notice that she seems to have no idea what she's talking about. She seems to be confused. And I don't know how she got this position. And it's a bit weird that you pretended that you the bar, I'll say allegedly, but people can't confirm it. And I want to be clear, the school she went to, Pepperdine, same school as Erica. I don't know if they're manufacturing these girls. Like Erica's credentials were all over the place. Kind of felt like they were made up, if we're being honest. But Pepperdine confirmed that she went to the school. That's not in question. They confirmed that she got a degree. We know that she got her bachelor's degree. We know that she finished at law school. Did you pass a bar? You can't just pretend to be a practicing attorney. If you didn't pass the bar, where did you pass the bar? Here is the answer that she gave when she was next to Trump and the reporters just asked her, hey, where, where did you, where'd you pass the bar? Take a listen. Where did you pass the bar exam? He said she's an attorney. Where did she pass the bar exam? Which state? Which state? Can you tell us? When I moved to China. That's her answer. Her answer is when I moved to China. That's my new answer. If you ask for any qualification, when I moved to China, that's totally legit. Like I moved to China, not, you just, did you just go there and they gave you a, just gave you a, said, yeah, here you go. This works everywhere. Was it a card? How does this work? Obviously she does not want to answer the question because she can't answer the question because she did not pass the bar exam. She did not pass the bar exam. And so this is all made up and it's massively embarrassing to Trump. It's massively embarrassing that we have people. who are so tribal, they won't call this out and say it's wrong. It's just wrong. Trump got duped. Why she was put into that position, I'm not sure. But you need to be honest. You lie about everything. I get so frustrated when people lie about the small stuff, OK? You're lying about everything from the Epstein files all the way down to whether or not this chick passed the bar in America. Like, how much do you hate us? How much do you hate us? It's like, can you just tell the truth about something? Just, like, toss us a bone. Tell us the truth about something. We need to know that reality isn't slipping away from us this quickly. And on that notion, I thought it was just such a perfect analogy for everything that has happened in America. Like, the America we thought we knew is so over. And as a millennial, I feel like we peaked when American Idol, which was a show which premiered back in 2001, 2002, and we believed in reality TV. Like, we believed that we were watching reality when we watched TV. We had no idea of this concept of what I refer to as the Midas touch. Somebody pulled through the ranks, and it's all preplanned. Producers are planning it. And actually, it's our reality that's being impacted. And I just remember how I felt when Kelly Clarkson, who was the first American Idol winner back in 2002, 16 years old, who told she was a waitress, no connections, just a wonderful voice. Because she sang in church. I just want to go back to how I felt when she sang, a moment like this, when she won, and she was giggly. And we're like, oh, what a sweet girl. And then there's this story that's happening today. We fast forward, and Kelly Clarkson is quite literally crashing out. She's crashing out because she went to a store in Brooklyn called The Art of Play. And let me just, by the way, let me give you the bird's eye view of this. It's actually an appropriate term to use, the bird's eye. Just so you know, in Brooklyn, this is not like Jay-Z's Brooklyn, okay? This isn't like where you're running around and you're seeing crackheads. This is like where really wealthy people and their kids that have trust funds want to feel alive. So they pretend that they're thrifting at shops, but like it kind of costs like the price of Chanel bags to thrift at these stores, but they just want to know that it's like pre-owned. It's like where Lena Dunham goes, where like Taylor Swift is writing an album. I wrote this album in Brooklyn. I just wanted to feel connected to people, but it's just, it's really wealthy people. Like there's nothing really happening here. There's no substance that's happening here. And everyone's kind of a trust fund baby or connected into the industry in some way. That's kind of this area of Brooklyn in a nutshell. But yes, you can hit areas like where Jay-Z is. But where she went to the store called Art of Play, and she walked in and she saw a bird that she wanted to purchase, an automated bird. And she said, I want to buy a bird. And she said, I want to buy an automated bird that was made by an artist. Okay. Right out the gate, this is not a relatable story. She's already lost. This is not a really, nobody hopped out into a store and was like, is that a $15,000 automated bird? I want to have that. So let's just show, can we show this automated bird that she wanted to buy? And she was in the store for four minutes. Can we just, let's just show the bird. Hey, Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. Now, I don't know if you've heard, but Mint's premium wireless is $15 a month. But I'd like to offer one other perk. We have no stores. That means no small talk. Crazy weather we're having. No, it's not. It's just weather. It is an introvert's dream. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Upfront payment of $45 for three month plan. $15 per month equivalent required. New customer offer first three months only. Then full price plan options available. See mintmobile.com. So that's Molly, the auto automated bird. If that's your thing and you want to buy it, great. She hops into the store dressed normally as people are dressed. And these are the people that are so rich that they buy clothes to look homeless. Do you get what I'm saying? Like that's, that's the general vibe of like a Brooklyn hipster. Like they buy the jeans ripped and distressed and they're actually more expensive than if you just bought the jeans normally. Nobody is judging you for coming into a store in Brooklyn and having a cap on. Also, welcome to New York. Everyone kind of has an attitude, right? I'm from New York. This is, I just, I know exactly the kind of vibe of where she was at. So she went to the store and she clearly, I think, genuinely misunderstood when she saw Molly, the automated bird, which I have questions for why she wanted to buy it. But she wanted to own this. Okay. For $15,000, she saw $15,000 on the wall and what they met at meant by that, which is you come up, happen upon this in places that are artsy is you can buy something similar to this. The artist's name is this. And for $15,000, they can make you a near, you basically are commissioning art at that, at that point. And so she has a very quick back and forth with somebody who's probably making minimum wage and didn't treat her like a queen. And she's like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't her like the celebrity that she is and told her that it wasn't for sale because it wasn't. It's it's affixed to their wall. It's obviously not for sale. It's like it's not like a shirt on a dummy. Actually, you can go to stores and a shirt on a dummy will not be for sale. They'll tell you that. And you just go, OK, it's not that one's not for sale. It's the last one. We're not going to strip the dummy. She loses her mind, storms out and says that she was basically discriminated against. Truly, like she tweeted out or went on to Instagram and immediately wrote that she had been discriminated against and that it was her pretty woman moment. OK, she wrote, just drove all the way to Brooklyn to check out the store I thought looked really rad and had a few things in mind to buy and literally was looked at as if I couldn't afford it and was told he could find something comparable for me. Wow, dude, you're an idiot and just lost a huge sale. But y'all should go check out Art of Play in Brooklyn if you enjoy being treated like Julia Roberts character and pretty woman for sure. Check it out. Thumbs down. She tweeted this 15 minutes ago. She said, I'm not going to strip the dummy. I'm not going to strip the dummy. I'm not minutes after she left the store. She was only there for four minutes and the guy told her that it wasn't for sale. That's all that happened to her. By the way, generally speaking, if you did show up dressed like a prostitute, he has every right to kick you out of the store if you did. Like the lesson of that pretty woman moment is like you kind of should judge somebody who comes in dressed like a stripper at your store. I'd probably say get out of my store. But she's trying to pretend she was screaming against and they released the video of what's happening in the store. Everyone looks the same because it's Brooklyn. Just a bunch of Caucasian people that are shopping in a store. She was not discriminated against. The guy just literally tells her no for a second and says that she can buy another one, but she wants that one. And so watching her, this has now been going on for a week of back and forth. Now the owner's coming out saying that they're getting death threats. He's being dramatic about it. He was not there at the store when this took place. And all that happened is that Kelly. Kelly Clarkson was treated normally. That's really the story is that Kelly Clarkson was treated normally and she's sort of used to having the carpet rolled out. She definitely would not make it in New York. She wanted to, for whatever reason, purchase this bird for $15,000 and thought she would find an audience online that was sympathetic in this economy to a multimillionaire who has 15. That's a down payment on a house. And she just wants to buy a bird that I actually find generally to be annoying. I wouldn't want that. I wouldn't want this in my house. It sounds loud. It sounds annoying. I don't know what she's planning on doing with that bird. But the fall of this American idol is another sign of the times. I'm telling you guys, America has fallen. Then no longer do we have the society where we looked up and we saw the sweet 16-year-old girl that we thought was just a waitress and probably was maybe potentially very wealthy and like prepared. Who knows? I don't. I couldn't believe anything now. I wish we could go back to the world where we believed in celebrities, that we believed in their struggles, that we believed that, you know, Kelly Clarkson needed the $15,000 bird and that the store really did discriminate against her rather than just treated her like a regular human being. But I want you guys to know that that world is gone. That world is over. And the crash out of Kelly Clarkson is indeed proof that we are. We've stepped into a whole new reality. So I'm sorry to report on that, America. But there is no such thing as an American idol anymore. It's completely over. We will be right back. 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Danny Trejo, the actor who is allegedly stuck in a bench appearance, kind of tricked him into, allegedly, his son is claiming, Variety is reporting that people were going, why is Danny Trejo participating in this movie with Ben Shapiro and, you know, Ben Shapiro is producing, rather, and it's a pro-ice project, which goes against his roots, his Mexican roots, and Danny Trejo apparently had never even heard of Ben Shapiro before signing on for this new movie, Pawn Shop. And his son says that it's really effed up. He's basically handcuffed to the screen. He's like, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know project. The statement from Danny Trejo's son reads, for anyone seeing this-ish with my dad, he was booked on a film. It's not pro-ice. It's not overtly pro-anything. His agent described it as, quote, a complicated story about a complicated time where everyone looks bad except you, the hardworking Mexican shop owner who just wants peace. He jumped at the idea of playing a good guy. About two weeks into shooting, everyone, including us, found out Ben Shapiro was involved. That is so exactly what I think happened, by the way. My 82-year-old dad said he had, never heard of Ben Shapiro. I had to explain to him who that is and what kind of guy he is. My dad contractually cannot badmouth him, the film, or walk away without being sued for breach of contract. He couldn't even release the statement that he wanted to. It's effed up. He is handcuffed to the stupid project. And so many people have instantly turned their back on him without knowing any of the facts. Ben Shapiro got Mexicans to abandon one of their heroes, got his own name to the top of Google searches, and made us look like angry fools, lacking any nuance. He wins. Okay, so I want to let you know that, yeah, he will sue you for breach of contract. He won't just sue you for breach of contract. He will follow you across states. He will stalk you. You can't leave Ben Shapiro. I just want to give some free advice to Danny Trejo that, yeah, the tricky contract clauses, not knowing who somebody is, feeling entrapped, and then being like, this is just morally wrong. If you try to get out of that contract, you're getting sued. Sue sued. I mean, then he will encourage others to sue you with their money. It is ball bereth, okay? It is like a blood contract oath, and the only way out is death, really. I tend to believe that. I'll call it from personal experience. Let me tell you, you better just do the movie, or you're going to have to deal with a psychotic stalker for the rest of your life, who will then. Probably try to take your business, your kids' businesses. He's probably already plotting against one of your kids. I'm guessing he's already, because he just can't be normal and realize that some people just don't want to work with him. They don't want to work with him. They want to move on in their lives, and that's not acceptable, according to him. So stay in it, Danny. If you need someone to talk to, I'm here. Top comments from yesterday's episode. Kim Wood writes, we are going to need Pokemon cards for everyone now. Got to catch them all. Okay, we will get on it. We do, of course, have more so that you can trade. We got to get Mikey and Blake Neff, obviously. We're going to get. We'll get on it. We should probably sell a pack. It'd be funny if we get together a little pack to sell. I'll work on that. Lily writes, with so many people working to get rid of child trafficking, you have to wonder why there's still child trafficking. Hmm. Tend to agree with you on that one. It's a thing that everyone's doing, and yet it seems like the problem is growing. How is that possible? Interesting. Very interesting. Okay, reading comments from today's episode. We have Patrick J. Carlin writes, on Charlie Kirk's birthday, and since he cared so deeply about America, I propose that we trash the immoral America and elect Queen Candace as the sole ruler of it. A representative democracy only will work if you have a moral society, and we do not have one anymore. Okay, Patrick, I'm not going for queen. I'm going for dictator. It's different, but you've got to keep up, okay? I want to be the dictator of the United States. As long as I tell you that, and then you vote for me, you know that I'm never leaving office, and I don't have to If he needs a day off, weeks off, Theo Vaughn will fill in, then if I find my terms acceptable, we can move forward. So let me know if those terms are acceptable. Joseph writes, have you seen Tom Cruise's new film, Digger? I like to think of the film as the portrayal of what Charlie Kirk's world would have been had he accepted Bibi's offer of taking TPUSA to the next level and then living in a world that is fake and gay thereafter. I have not seen that movie, but I will watch it. And yeah, if it's living, that decision coming to you that you can go to the next level, I'm going to watch it. I'm going to watch it. I'm going to but you have to sell your soul. You can see that many people in the wake of Charlie's assassination got that offer and said yes. And it's just so shocking. I wake up every day and I'm like, I can't believe I worked with these human beings. And they just, they lie every day. They don't care. They can obviously comprehend and understand the very many holes in the story. The common sense ones, you don't have to do any digging. Do you think he had a steel neck and this amazing thing happened from 150 yards with a bullet? Do you think bullets dance in the air? Um, no, but there we live in a world of tremendous cowardice. Mellie writes like this, even though it might not be much to yell out to Charlie that we will never give up. And he is beyond loved. I think you meant like, like this comment or like this episode. And I think he knows he is loved. It's just not by the people that he thought he was loved by, which is sad, but more people than ever, I think, know his story. And that's what he wanted to do. He wanted to impact the world. And he did. Did you see Ben Shapiro getting called out for Israel? I did not. I only saw the thing about Danny Trejo, Danny Trejo contract. And I instantly just went, this is so exactly what would happen. And that's what they do. It's just what they love a contract. Like I said, Ball Barith, the contract lords as they view themselves. Ashley writes, birds of a feather flock together and you are known by the company you keep. Pay attention to the company that people keep. Sometimes that tells you more than their words ever will. That is very true. And that is why I am out on politics unless you elect me dictator one day, maybe. TB writes, Candice, you inspired my daughter to join speech and debate. You are inspiring a younger generation of young women to speak the truth and deliver their thoughts with grace and confidence. I can't wait to see her go max. Thank you for that. I also hope that it inspires her to consider homeschooling and to take a look at the university system and to recognize who built it and what that system is about and to see if she can make it outside of it. I think that's I think we do just have to completely recreate the wheel. And the Cornell seven is evidence of that really. It's all of these conversations are just such a race to the bottom. Like Brooklyn, what side you got? Kelly Clarkson or the store owner. Everyone's a trust fund baby. It's Brooklyn. Everyone's rich. You don't have to pick a side. Everyone's fine. Okay. They can afford to not have any sales probably at that store. Tapping into a trust fund, just having some fun playing with mom or dad's money. If I could guess. Kelly Clarkson her show just ended she's looking for something to do she wants a 15k bird I want to know where now that we're all in this story where are you putting that bird in your house Kelly we deserve answers where where were you going to put it up how often were you going to use it who was it going to be a gift to someone like where actually did you see this and go I must have this I just I have questions I always have questions I need to know more about the bird and now the the owner is trolling her and he says the word Molly the bird is now worth 15 million which I do find to be kind of funny and now she really can't afford it everybody in the story is just absurd and over the top this is this is rich people having fun Brittany Reddick writes like me my daughter is a huge Candace fan she and her eighth grade classmates will be traveling to DC in a few weeks and she is insisting on her friends wearing your CIAT when they visit the White House they want to go max yes they wouldn't even recognize that it was actually a Candace shirt so you'd be so fine to wear it they think oh we have young students coming up that like the CIA like that's probably what they would think so she's probably totally fine to wear and she should wear it speaking of which if you'd like to buy merch you guys know where to do that you can buy that CIA shirt you can join Brittany's daughter and her eighth grade classmates that are going to be wearing the shirts to the White House join that experience that experience funny one would be this is my second favorite shirt they might pick up on that one they might pick up on that one that would be absolutely hilarious buy yourself a cup a mug like I said we will have more merch dropping soon I think by the end of this week yeah we will have which is oh my gosh that's tomorrow so don't hold me to it because you know how my memory is these days this baby has to be coming soon because guys I can't even see like my eyesight is so bad and that's always my tell before I go into labor so we shall see either way well actually not either way if I if I have a baby tonight you won't see me tomorrow but I don't think I'm having a baby tonight so we'll see tomorrow. 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