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Krystal Kyle & Friends

Episode 257: Keith Edwards

Krystal Kyle & Friends

Krystal

News, Politics

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Lefty commentator Keith Edwards joins us for a conversation about the violence of the Trump administration and the challenges to left-wing organizing and reporting.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody, Crystal Kyle and friends.

0:09.5

Today we're going to be talking to Keith Edwards, whose channel just absolutely exploded.

0:14.4

I was just talking to Mac backstage in the control room, and he pulled up the channel.

0:19.1

And he's getting like 300, 400,000 views per video. And he checked checked apparently he started like a year ago. It was amazing. He's got over a million subs. So lucky, I'm going to uninvite him because I had to work in the trenches or in my subs. Like what are you doing, bro? Over a million subs in a year? Like what is this sorcery that is going on right now? We can ask him that. You know, I should actually ask him that.

0:38.6

But excited to get to that.

0:55.6

We'll talk to him in a little bit, but we got a lot of stuff before we get to that. So, Trump delivered an Oval Office address last night, and people were speculating, oh, my God, is he going to announce, like, a land war in Venezuela now? That was the speculation. And I gotta be honest, when I first heard with that speculation, I was like, that sounds plausible, right?

0:54.2

Like, why the fuck else would you randomly call an oval office address? Like, what are you going to do? Yeah. And you had people saying it really confidently. Like Tucker Carlson was like, this is happening. Antibor.com, which I trust more than Tucker Carl, they do some real reporting, we're like, this is what our sources are saying. So, yeah, it was plausible. Apparently, though, that was total horseshit. And he just wanted to babble about he's the greatest president of our time. So what was your take on that speech? Because it was bizarre. It was bizarre. You know, he didn't even feel like he wanted to babble. The whole thing was rushed. It was like, I guess we now know why he did it.

1:29.1

But my vibe was like, someone forced you to do this. You didn't really want to. You're just like going through the motions here, sort of like angrily and frustratedly going through the motions. Of somebody forced him to do it? Hold on to it. Hold on to it. Because I, you know, and I knew there had been some reporting behind the scenes that his advisors were making a sort of like concerted, coordinated effort to get him to care about affordability because they see what a bad issue it is for them politically.

1:55.1

And so, yeah, I mean, he goes through a bunch of absolute bullshit, blames everything on Biden, you know. And then at the same

2:02.0

times, like, the economy is amazing and we're doing great A plus plus plus, plus, as he famously said

2:06.5

previously. So the whole thing was extremely strange. So the Daily Beast says that it was Susie Wiles,

2:14.2

the chief of staff, that made him do it because that article came out.

2:18.1

I thought it was New York Times. Apparently, it was Vanity Fair.

2:19.8

Yeah.

2:20.3

And they like, you know, she spilled the tea on everybody and everything and called Elon Musk a ketamine head drug addict and said that fucking J.D. Vance is an idiot conspiracy theorist. And like, just like everything you can imagine is throwing everybody right under the bus. Yeah. And then she's like, I didn't say that.

2:32.2

And they go, here's audio of you saying that.

2:33.8

And she's like, oh, shit.

2:35.7

So apparently she was like, I didn't say that. And they go, here's, here's audio of you saying that. And she's like, oh, shit.

2:35.7

So apparently she was like, you're doing this speech. And, and the Daily Beast is saying it was literally to just distract from her story, which had blown up colossally. So that actually kind of makes sense to me. And Trump is literally on a hot mic after the speech saying that.

3:09.9

That's Susie made me do it. Really? Yes. He's on a hot mic. That was the energy was like, I don't want to be doing this. I mean, it was the fastest he's ever delivered a speech. There were no, you know, he normally goes off prompter and says this, says some funny thing about this or that or what I. There was none of that. It was like, how fast can I read the speech and get the fuck out of here? It was the vibe.

3:11.0

Yeah.

3:11.6

And. that says some funny thing about this or that or whatever. There was none of that. It was like, how fast can I read the speech and get the fuck out of here? It was the vibe. Yeah. That does track. Okay. So we have a piece of this piece to show you. Here he is talking about Somalians. Take a look. Look at Minnesota where Somalians have taken over the economics of the state and have stolen billions and billions of dollars from Minnesota and indeed

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