Dr. G Analyzes Erika Kirk Body Language After Charlie Kirk Assassination on The Charlie Kirk Show

[00:00] Hey everybody, Dr. G here. I'm a

[00:01] clinical and forensic psychologist as

[00:03] well as a body language expert. And

[00:05] today we're going to be analyzing the

[00:06] behavior and body language of Erica

[00:08] Kirk. Before we get started with this,

[00:09] couple of quick things. One, I wanted to

[00:11] make sure you know this is not a

[00:12] psychological evaluation of any kind.

[00:13] These are just my opinions. In addition

[00:15] to that, I do want to remind you to like

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[00:17] content just like this. All right, let's

[00:19] go. What we're going to be analyzing

[00:20] today is Erica Kirk on the Charlie Kirk

[00:22] show. I have had so many people

[00:24] requesting me to analyze Erica Kirk. I

[00:26] wasn't really comfortable analyzing her

[00:28] after the shooting or at the memorial,

[00:30] but this is her on a podcast and it

[00:32] gives us some really interesting

[00:33] information about her body language.

[00:35] Now, most of what people have been

[00:37] requesting is wanting to know whether or

[00:38] not she's authentic, whether or not

[00:39] she's real or whether or not she's

[00:40] faking her emotions. And that's really

[00:42] what we're going to look at today. All

[00:43] right, let's just jump right in. We

[00:44] really tried to

[00:47] um discern properly how to go about the

[00:52] next few stages and steps of everything.

[00:56] And we've been very intentional

[00:59] in in a way that always keeps Charlie

[01:02] first. And

[01:04] >> now you'll see right after she says

[01:06] keeps Charlie first, you see blinking

[01:07] right afterward. There is stress

[01:10] bringing up Charlie's name because

[01:12] obviously there and we're going to talk

[01:13] about this. Obviously there's a

[01:14] tremendous amount of trauma that has to

[01:16] come with what's happened so far. But

[01:18] even right afterwards, her body is

[01:19] unconsciously trying to feel calm again

[01:21] after mentioning that. But then

[01:22] something interesting happens following

[01:24] this

[01:24] >> in in a way that always keeps Charlie

[01:28] first and his dreams.

[01:31] >> Now you see this smile right here. This

[01:32] is what we call a douchin smile. This is

[01:35] very much a real smile. the way that the

[01:37] eyes wrinkle, the way the the corners of

[01:39] the mouth go up, that all matches what

[01:41] would be a legitimate smile. So when

[01:42] people are saying, "Is she acting?" Not

[01:44] right here. She isn't. That seems to be

[01:46] actual. She actually feels good right

[01:47] there.

[01:48] >> Way that always keeps Charlie first and

[01:52] his dreams

[01:54] alive and his legacy.

[01:55] >> And then afterwards, she says, "Keeps

[01:56] his dreams alive." When she raised her

[01:58] eyebrows, she wants you to understand

[02:00] she is planning on keeping his dreams

[02:01] alive. That's something she's actually

[02:03] feeling as she's talking about it.

[02:04] Because when we raise our eyebrows, it

[02:05] brings attention to our face and that's

[02:07] what she's focused on. You have to think

[02:09] so much of this is unconscious. So it's

[02:11] not like if she's trying to perform in

[02:13] in some way that she could fake all of

[02:14] these things. What she's saying right

[02:16] now really does seem to be tied into how

[02:17] she's feeling

[02:18] >> first and his dreams alive and his

[02:23] legacy going. And what's so beautiful is

[02:26] to see all of you

[02:29] step in and do that. And so part of the

[02:32] reason why I wanted to I agreed to come

[02:35] on because this is not going to be a

[02:37] forever thing of me being on the hosting

[02:39] the show um was because I I gave

[02:45] assurance to people that Turning Point

[02:48] USA is continuing and it is. I mean we

[02:52] are so

[02:52] >> now I've had a number of people ask

[02:54] about why she has a tendency to look up.

[02:56] Watch this is what I'm talking about

[02:57] right here. Turning Point USA is

[03:00] continuing.

[03:00] >> Now, looking up like this does not

[03:02] appear to be involuntary. In other

[03:04] words, this seems to be something that

[03:05] she's actually doing. Many of the

[03:06] behaviors we do are automatic. When we

[03:08] look around, when we're thinking or if

[03:09] we look down, we tend to not realize

[03:11] we're doing that. As she's doing this,

[03:13] this very much looks intentional. And

[03:14] so, I assume that when she's doing, this

[03:16] is her way of signaling she's connecting

[03:18] with Charlie. That's certainly what it

[03:19] appears to be at this point. So like I

[03:21] said this is this is not so much an

[03:22] involuntary behavior

[03:24] >> assurance to people that Turning Point

[03:27] USA is continuing and it is. I mean we

[03:30] are

[03:31] >> see so when she says Turning Point USA

[03:33] is continuing she raises her eyebrows

[03:34] looks up. I do think that that in is is

[03:37] her intent to talk to or connect with

[03:39] Charlie. At least that would be the way

[03:41] that it seems to me. the show when we

[03:44] talked about this became very intimate

[03:45] for me

[03:47] because

[03:49] I was there from the beginning of all of

[03:51] it

[03:52] >> and I'll never forget

[03:54] >> once again you're seeing real happiness

[03:56] here. She does seem to be able to really

[03:59] connect with some feeling of peace right

[04:01] now as she's talking about these things.

[04:02] These do not appear to be fake smiles.

[04:04] I've seen a lot of fake smiles, lots of

[04:06] fake tears. There's a lot of fakery that

[04:08] I analyze in trials and so forth. This

[04:10] doesn't seem to be fake. As much as

[04:11] people go, is she acting? This doesn't

[04:13] seem like it. There in terms of the body

[04:16] language itself, it all seems to be very

[04:17] legit.

[04:18] >> I was there from the beginning of all of

[04:20] it.

[04:21] >> And I'll never forget

[04:24] 2020 when literally the world,

[04:26] >> we close our eyes and we think about

[04:28] things that we don't like. So, as she's

[04:29] talking about 2020, lot of people did

[04:31] not have the best year in 2020. And it

[04:34] seems like as she's talking about it,

[04:35] you see her actually connecting with

[04:36] that

[04:37] >> 2020 when literally the world stood

[04:41] still and Charlie and I would go hiking

[04:43] every morning.

[04:45] And

[04:46] >> see, raising her eyebrows when she's

[04:47] saying every morning. That's what she

[04:49] wants you to focus on. She's talking

[04:50] about relationships. She wants people to

[04:52] understand her relationship. So watching

[04:54] somebody's eyebrows can give you so much

[04:56] insight into when they're feeling

[04:57] something really strongly

[04:58] >> still. And Charlie and I would go hiking

[05:01] every morning

[05:03] and we would just talk about what life

[05:06] and the crazy things going on and every

[05:09] single day. He read every email.

[05:12] >> I know you guys have said that so many

[05:13] times, but I can vouch for that cuz

[05:15] there were times where he would forward

[05:17] me some of the emails that he would get.

[05:19] >> So, you can hear how the way that she's

[05:21] saying this. She's picking up her rate

[05:22] of speech. She can be slow and

[05:24] deliberate when she wants to get a point

[05:25] across. She's feeling excited about

[05:26] this. She really does mean what she's

[05:28] saying right here. So, I think there's

[05:30] some genuine deep authenticity as she's

[05:33] talking about the fact that Charlie Kirk

[05:34] actually read every email that he was

[05:36] really into it. She seems genuinely

[05:38] excited right here.

[05:38] >> Not going anywhere. My husband's voice

[05:41] will live on. The show will go on. We

[05:44] will have rotating hosts, rotating

[05:47] casts, rotating people coming on.

[05:49] >> Some great people next week.

[05:50] >> Unbelievable. We will have consistency.

[05:53] The members only group will continue to

[05:56] go on. all of his socials that God has

[05:59] blessed us with.

[06:00] >> So, you can see at times she squints a

[06:02] little bit and we do this at times when

[06:04] we're getting intense. I think that the

[06:05] idea the show must go on. This is very

[06:08] important to her. I think that she

[06:09] really means this because there is an

[06:11] intensity about this when she speaks

[06:13] about it.

[06:13] >> People coming on some

[06:14] >> great people next week.

[06:15] >> Unbelievable. We will have consistency.

[06:18] The members only group will

[06:21] >> and you see she looks at the camera when

[06:22] she's talking about this. Watch this

[06:23] right here.

[06:24] >> Unbelievable. We will have consistency.

[06:26] the members.

[06:28] >> So, we will have consistency. She really

[06:30] wants people to understand this. And

[06:31] that's what's interesting and what's

[06:33] different about when she's talking about

[06:34] this relative to some of what she's

[06:36] talked about before. So, we're seeing a

[06:38] difference in body language here and

[06:39] what we saw at the beginning. At the

[06:40] beginning, she was connecting with the

[06:41] other people in the room, sharing

[06:43] stories, talking about Charlie, feeling

[06:44] good. Now, she's talking about

[06:46] continuing the legacy of Turning Point

[06:48] USA and the Charlie Kirk show. There is

[06:50] an intensity here. I think this is

[06:51] something she feels very strongly about.

[06:53] And so you're not seeing the smiles and

[06:55] the warmth in the same way at this

[06:57] point. And that's not being critical. I

[06:58] think that's just a difference in how

[07:00] intense she is and how serious she is

[07:02] about what it is that she's doing.

[07:03] >> All of his socials that God has blessed

[07:06] us with, the people who follow those

[07:08] socials will go on. Nothing is changing.

[07:11] But I want to preface. We're not

[07:12] awkward. We're not like weird.

[07:14] >> So you can see the way that she has her

[07:16] hand up right here. This is actually

[07:17] very meaningful because if you tell

[07:18] somebody to put their hands up, they'll

[07:20] they'll put their hands up in that exact

[07:22] position. Usually, it's both of them

[07:23] because they want people to know, hey,

[07:25] I'm not doing anything here. And the the

[07:26] message she's trying to get across is

[07:28] things are going to stay the same.

[07:30] Things are going to continue to be good.

[07:31] If you liked Turning Point USA or the

[07:33] Charlie Kirk show before, you're going

[07:34] to continue to like it. And I think that

[07:36] that message is really important to her

[07:37] right now. You see her looking at the

[07:39] audience and focused on the audience

[07:41] when she's talking about this. So, this

[07:42] is very different than the body language

[07:44] you're seeing when she's talking about

[07:45] or to Charlie.

[07:47] >> Not like weird.

[07:49] >> We're not cringe. We're not going to be

[07:50] tweeting as if it's him. That's tonedeaf

[07:53] and really disturbing.

[07:54] >> See, tonedeaf and really disturbing. You

[07:56] see the eyes closed again. She doesn't

[07:57] like thinking about that because that's

[07:59] awkward. It's strange. She wants to make

[08:00] sure people know they're not going to do

[08:02] anything weird as they continue forward.

[08:04] >> And anyone who does that, it's like

[08:06] morbidly off.

[08:08] >> Um, that's not what's happening. What's

[08:11] happening is the team is keeping this

[08:12] alive because we have Charlie in each

[08:14] and every one of us. And it is going to

[08:17] be continually the northstar of the

[08:21] conservative movement of the voice of

[08:24] the youth of the voice of the base and

[08:27] that will not end.

[08:28] >> So you notice when she said youth her

[08:30] eyebrows raised base eyebrows raised

[08:32] these are the people that are really

[08:33] important to her. This is something that

[08:34] she really wants people to know she's

[08:36] connected with and she feels that.

[08:37] That's what I mean by whether or not

[08:39] she's acting or authentic. When she

[08:41] talks about connecting with youth,

[08:43] you're seeing the eyebrows go up. With

[08:44] politicians, for example, it looks very

[08:46] different. We see politicians talk about

[08:48] these kinds of things all the time, and

[08:50] their timing tends to be off. They they

[08:52] know a lot of the body language. They're

[08:54] taught enough of the body language where

[08:55] they know how to orate and how to speak.

[08:57] It's very hard to fake this. So, as many

[08:59] people go, I I don't get her behavior

[09:02] like it seems like it's acting. The

[09:04] parts that matter, all of that seems to

[09:06] actually be quite authentic.

[09:08] >> Interviews that no one's heard of. We

[09:10] have stuff from Korea and Japan that no

[09:13] one's heard of.

[09:14] So, I mean, in the words of my husband,

[09:17] buckle up because there is a lot of

[09:20] content to be had and we have so many

[09:22] amazing things down the pipeline that we

[09:25] are working on currently that will

[09:27] >> unveil in time.

[09:29] >> I am so excited.

[09:30] >> So, I've seen a number of people

[09:31] critical of the fact that she is smiling

[09:33] right now. That two weeks after Charlie

[09:35] Kirk's assassination that she seems to

[09:37] be able to smile, that she's able to

[09:38] connect with some degree of happiness or

[09:40] joy. But understanding how people deal

[09:42] with loss is an incredibly complex

[09:44] thing. You got to also think about the

[09:46] degree of trauma that you would

[09:48] experience with what she's been through

[09:49] for the past couple of weeks. Part of

[09:51] what the human mind does is it does help

[09:53] us compartmentalize. Just because she

[09:55] experiences happiness here doesn't mean

[09:58] that she doesn't also continue to feel

[09:59] sorrow. And so part of what we have to

[10:02] be able to do when we are healthy

[10:03] actually is to be able to at times

[10:05] compartmentalize. At times maybe even

[10:07] the brain's going to numb you out a

[10:09] little bit. and we're going to have

[10:10] moments where we feel good, we feel

[10:11] inspired, we feel connected. So the idea

[10:14] that she is experiencing happiness right

[10:16] right now or having a podcast where she

[10:18] is able to smile, I actually don't think

[10:20] is strange despite the fact that some

[10:21] people seem to be bothered by it.

[10:23] >> We're working on currently that we'll

[10:26] >> unveil and do touch.

[10:27] >> I am so excited.

[10:29] >> Yeah.

[10:29] >> And so

[10:30] >> by the way, those are things Charlie

[10:31] himself

[10:32] >> that he wanted.

[10:32] >> He wanted I we were working on some big

[10:34] things. All right, we'll go ahead and

[10:36] wrap things up here. Hopefully, this is

[10:37] helping you better understand some of

[10:38] the behavior and body language that we

[10:40] saw. I know a number of people have been

[10:42] curious as to whether or not Erikica

[10:43] Kirk appears to be acting, whether or

[10:45] not she's putting on a performance.

[10:46] Based on what we saw today, most of the

[10:49] emotion that she expressed seemed

[10:51] authentic. I think anytime somebody's on

[10:52] a podcast, there's a certain degree of

[10:54] performance because that's just part of

[10:55] the way that we speak when we're

[10:57] interacting with other people and it's

[10:58] being recorded. But as far as the

[11:00] emotion, the emotional seem to be quite

[11:02] real. And to address some of the

[11:03] criticism I've seen about her smiling

[11:05] and some of her demeanor on this, people

[11:06] saying that it's peculiar or it's

[11:08] strange, I actually don't think that it

[11:09] is. I think that everybody deals with

[11:11] trauma and loss in different ways. And

[11:13] just because somebody isn't sad

[11:14] constantly every second of the day after

[11:16] a loss for months at a time doesn't mean

[11:19] that they aren't functioning normally.

[11:21] But if you have any thoughts about this

[11:22] or if there's anything else you want me

[11:23] to analyze, please let me know in the

[11:24] comments below. Last thing before we get

[11:25] finished up is I do want to remind you

[11:26] to like and subscribe if you want to see

[11:28] more content just like this. All right,

[11:29] thanks for watching.