The Charlie Kirk Show - October 27, 2024


Would the Church Remain Silent in The Face of Evil? My Speech at Charis Bible College


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1 hour and 7 minutes

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186.914

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12,679

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1,010

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

In this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, host Chris Cross speaks with Turning Point USA Youth President, Charlie Kirk. They discuss the current state of evangelical Christians and the need for them to get out and vote in the mid-term election. They also discuss the impact of a new study from George Barna showing that 51% of Evangelical Christians aren t planning to vote in this election, and what can we do to change it. They also talk about why the church should be doing more to engage in the political process and why Donald Trump is the best candidate to win in 2020. This episode is sponsored by Noble Gold Investments, a company that specializes in gold and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you can protect your wealth by becoming a Patron of Noble Gold Investing. That's where I buy all of my gold! Go to NobleGoldInvestments.co/TheCharlieKirkShow and use the promo code "memberscharliekirk" at checkout to get 20% off your first purchase. If you like what you hear on the show, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and become a Member! You'll get 10% off the purchase of a piece of gold and I'll give you access to the show's newest digital product, "Noble Gold Investments." I'll be giving you a 20% discount when you become a Patron! I'm giving you an ad-free version of the show on my next episode! Thank you for supporting the show! - click here! Chris Cross - The Charlie Kirk - "The Charlie Kirk "The White House" - and I hope you'll join us in the next episode of The Charlie KirKirk Show! "The President Show" - The Christian Leadership Podcast (featuring Charlie Kirk Charlie Kirk's newest podcast, "The Christian Leadership Network & more! & much more! "The Godly Candidate" on the Christian Leadership Conference Podcast! . is a podcast hosted by Chris Cross - The Godly Candid Podcast, featuring the leader of the Godly Campaign Podcast. and the leader behind it all, Andrew McLeod from the Turning Point of the Church of God's Voice Podcast , Andrew McElroy, the president of the Christian Revolution , and the founder of TPSA Faith, and the man who helps lead the movement to save the country's future in 2020?


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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, I'm Chris Cross from the country.
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00:00:29.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:01:26.000 So this is Charlie Kirk.
00:01:28.000 Awesome.
00:01:38.000 We've heard Lucas mentioned this new study that's out from George Barna showing that 51% of evangelical Christians aren't planning to vote in this election.
00:01:50.000 I was just wondering if you could comment on that and share, do you have any thoughts about what's causing that level of apathy, number one?
00:01:57.000 Number two, what can we do to change it in the little time we have left?
00:02:00.000 Yeah, well, first, honored to be here, everybody.
00:02:02.000 And Andrew, you do such a great job, and he should be applauded for the great work he does.
00:02:05.000 I'll tell you, it's really, really terrific.
00:02:10.000 So, why am I in Colorado with 18 days to go?
00:02:14.000 You know, I'm in crisscrossing the state of Arizona.
00:02:16.000 We're chasing ballots, by the way.
00:02:17.000 We are beating the Democrats in early voting in Arizona.
00:02:21.000 Thank you.
00:02:24.000 And we're beating them badly, by the way.
00:02:26.000 It's really great.
00:02:27.000 We were down 18 points at this time in 2020.
00:02:29.000 We are up 12 points right now at the same time.
00:02:32.000 So we're really seeing a big change there.
00:02:34.000 But this really came to be with a meeting I had with Lucas.
00:02:38.000 We're so honored that he's leading TPSA Faith and he's doing a wonderful job.
00:02:42.000 I said, Lucas, we have to wake up the church.
00:02:44.000 I am seeing warning signs.
00:02:46.000 I said, where out west, you know, because geographically and positionally I need to stay near Arizona.
00:02:51.000 Because that's really my passion right now and my home.
00:02:53.000 Can I go and address a big audience where hopefully it could be heard, you know, on Christian television?
00:02:58.000 And he said, well, how about Andrew's place?
00:02:59.000 I said, he'll have me.
00:03:01.000 I'll be there.
00:03:01.000 And so that's really what came there.
00:03:02.000 And this was because of the Barna study and because of what I've been seeing.
00:03:07.000 And again, we have the largest get out the vote turnout operation in the country with one goal to get Donald Trump back in the White House to save the country, right?
00:03:15.000 That is our goal.
00:03:20.000 And we can spend a lot of time at a future date, Andrew, you know, diving into why he's the best candidate, all that.
00:03:26.000 I will talk about that from a Christian perspective.
00:03:28.000 I think it's rather self-evident of exactly the stakes and what's going on.
00:03:33.000 But what is so perplexing to me is that now this is my third or fourth major presidential cycle.
00:03:39.000 And I've seen kind of the baseline of what we can expect out of church engagement.
00:03:43.000 Why the church cares so little about the country at this particular juncture.
00:03:49.000 And I can tell you, George Barna's data is correct because we see this from other pastor summits that were done by other organizations where people are going up saying, there is no good godly candidate here.
00:04:00.000 Sit this one out.
00:04:02.000 I'm on these text message threads of some pastors that are saying, we are not going to tell our congregation to speak out whatsoever.
00:04:09.000 And here I am, just kind of as the idle observer, doing everything I can to hold myself back.
00:04:14.000 And I wanted tonight to be an opportunity to speak clearly, To the church, to the Christian community here, to not just encourage, but challenge, motivate, but also get off your tails and do something in this election right now.
00:04:31.000 Because it is the missing ingredient.
00:04:35.000 And so, let me be as blunt as possible.
00:04:37.000 If Kamala Harris wins, it will be because the church handed her the presidency.
00:04:42.000 Right.
00:04:43.000 It is the only missing ingredient that we see right now.
00:04:46.000 I do GOTV for a living.
00:04:48.000 Guess what?
00:04:49.000 Young people are coming our way in a historic way.
00:04:52.000 Young men are the most conservative they've been in 50 years.
00:04:55.000 So you can't say, oh, it's all a bunch of those college kids at Boulder.
00:05:02.000 Heidi will tell you, I was at Boulder a couple weeks ago.
00:05:04.000 We had thousands of kids show up.
00:05:06.000 So it's not their fault.
00:05:08.000 Guess who else is rising up?
00:05:09.000 The muscular class, the working class of this country, the truck drivers, the plumbers, the electricians, the welders, the police officers.
00:05:15.000 So you can't blame them.
00:05:18.000 We have moms that go to school board meetings that are rising up in huge numbers.
00:05:21.000 So you can't blame them.
00:05:23.000 What I'm getting at is the missing ingredient is what we've always taken for granted is that the church actually cared about the nation.
00:05:31.000 And I cannot say this, and I am not exaggerating it, George Barna, who is the gold standard of polling, this guy is not just some random person that they've selected, has said that we are on pace for a 13% decrease of Christian turnout.
00:05:45.000 He has polled thousands of pastors, the vast majority of which will not even speak about this election.
00:05:51.000 And this is a five-alarm fire in the clearest terms.
00:05:54.000 So why is this happening?
00:05:56.000 There are three reasons.
00:05:57.000 The first of which is that there is this spirit of pomposity and self-righteousness that some pastors have decided to invoke where they will say, I am a Christian and I'm a believer in Jesus.
00:06:12.000 Donald Trump is a sinner and I can't vote for a sinner.
00:06:16.000 Now, for any of you that have opened your Bible, you know how outrageous this is?
00:06:19.000 We are all sinners that fall short of the glory of God, and we need Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
00:06:27.000 And, I apologize, I'm giving a longer answer, but this is...
00:06:32.000 I do talk for a living.
00:06:34.000 We're low on time.
00:06:35.000 We've got a country to save your people.
00:06:36.000 And secondly, they'll also say, and I want to lean right into this.
00:06:41.000 They'll say, but Donald Trump is not pro-life how I'd like him to be.
00:06:44.000 Now, I'm 100% pro-life to the place where I will speak at pro-life pregnancy centers across the country.
00:06:50.000 I donate to them.
00:06:51.000 I raise money for them.
00:06:52.000 I go into hostile, liberal college environments and make an absolutist And an abolitionist argument when it comes to abortion.
00:06:59.000 You will not find someone that has the battle scars of the pro-life movement like I do.
00:07:05.000 And yet I look at Trump's record outside of the rhetoric.
00:07:08.000 Because talk is cheap.
00:07:10.000 And I say, wait a second.
00:07:11.000 We have ten states that have abolished abortion.
00:07:14.000 Do you know that?
00:07:15.000 We have Texas, Oklahoma, the Dakotas.
00:07:18.000 That is only possible thanks to Donald J. Trump.
00:07:21.000 George W. Bush didn't give that to you.
00:07:23.000 Ronald Reagan didn't give that to you.
00:07:25.000 Newt Gingrich didn't give that to you.
00:07:26.000 God bless him.
00:07:27.000 It was Donald J. Trump that gave you Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh the most pro-life victories we've ever seen in history.
00:07:37.000 And...
00:07:38.000 And let's even zero in on the rhetoric.
00:07:40.000 When Donald Trump is asked, he defends the reversal of Roe versus Wade.
00:07:45.000 He'll say, this is what legal scholars wanted it, sending it back to the states.
00:07:48.000 So we have 10 states that have abolished abortion completely.
00:07:51.000 You know, that was a dream I was told that would never happen by some of the more cynical voices.
00:07:56.000 Am I right, Andrew, in that way?
00:07:57.000 People said, oh, that's never going to happen.
00:07:57.000 That's true.
00:07:58.000 And yet it took a billionaire from New York, who wouldn't always necessarily go to church and live the colorful life, Not part of that spirit of pomposity and self-righteousness and sanctimonious garbage we see in our church too often.
00:08:10.000 To get in the arena to fight for babies and save their lives.
00:08:17.000 But they say, oh Charlie, you know, his rhetoric.
00:08:21.000 Again, talk is cheap.
00:08:23.000 He showed the type of justices he'll put up.
00:08:26.000 He has also been morally clear against the horrors of late-term abortion.
00:08:29.000 But again, let's just talk about the reality here.
00:08:32.000 You're trying to tell me you can stay silent because silence is consent.
00:08:35.000 Silence is consent.
00:08:37.000 When slavery was happening, oh, you know, I said nothing.
00:08:39.000 Consent.
00:08:40.000 When the gulags were happening in the Soviet Union, silence, consent.
00:08:43.000 Auschwitz, silence, consent.
00:08:45.000 Oh, I'm going to be silent and not vote for Kamala Harris because I'm more godly than another person.
00:08:50.000 You are cosigning, therefore, on a Democrat party.
00:08:54.000 That has abortion clinics outside of their national convention.
00:08:58.000 I saw it with my own eyes.
00:09:00.000 When I went to the DNC in Chicago, which by the way, one of my greatest accomplishments ever, breaking into the DNC and getting onto the floor of the DNC. It's amazing.
00:09:08.000 They truly are the party of open borders.
00:09:10.000 It's really amazing.
00:09:11.000 No restrictions, I got right down there.
00:09:13.000 Eventually they did deport me, but that's a separate issue.
00:09:15.000 So, I saw it with my own eyes.
00:09:21.000 Abortion clinics of women holding babies in utero, and they walk out without the baby.
00:09:27.000 That's what the DNC, in their official sponsored encouraged programming, had at their national convention.
00:09:33.000 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris turned Easter into the Transgender Day of Awareness.
00:09:36.000 Remember that?
00:09:38.000 And so, we're going to go really deep in the policy here, but just on that one sticking issue that I hear from pastors, he's not as pro-life as I would like to be, and I always say, did you vote for George W. Bush?
00:09:49.000 Oh yeah, and he's a great Christian.
00:09:50.000 Really?
00:09:51.000 A great Christian whose wife was pro-choice and he never, ever spoke at the March for Life and never gave us pro-life justices?
00:09:57.000 So there's something else here, man, and what exactly is it?
00:10:00.000 Let me tell you.
00:10:02.000 You are too high on your own supply of Christian doctrine.
00:10:06.000 And you don't like the fact that Donald Trump is not quoting Bible verses all the time, even the fact he's delivering victories for us Christians all the time.
00:10:13.000 So maybe you should humble yourself before the Lord and realize he's being used as a vessel for God's purposes here in this country.
00:10:22.000 Amen.
00:10:24.000 Amen.
00:10:27.000 Awesome.
00:10:30.000 Thank you.
00:10:44.000 Man, I don't have much to add to that.
00:10:49.000 Where do you think we stand as far as the election goes?
00:10:53.000 I know we're in a battle, but where do you think we are now?
00:10:55.000 Let me tell you, the positive and the challenging is that the early voter turnout is amazing right now.
00:11:00.000 I mean, in Georgia and North Carolina, where the terrible hurricane hit, despite the fact that people do not have internet, they don't have power, electricity, the colder weather is coming in, some peoples are home, homes are destroyed, the highest ever turnout they've seen in western North Carolina, despite all of that.
00:11:15.000 Praise the Lord.
00:11:17.000 They are literally crawling over debris to go vote in this election.
00:11:23.000 In Arizona, we're beating them in early voting.
00:11:25.000 We crushed them in voter registration.
00:11:27.000 But this is not the time to celebrate.
00:11:28.000 We are up against a beast, a machine that will do anything to hold on to power.
00:11:33.000 And so that's why I'm here, because I'm looking at it and I'm saying, huh, this thing's going to be close, and we're playing without our anchor.
00:11:42.000 We are playing like cut flowers right now.
00:11:44.000 What happens when you cut flowers and you put them in a...
00:11:46.000 You lose your foundation, those flowers die.
00:11:49.000 And cut flowers is what's happening in the country.
00:11:51.000 You cut out flowers from the church, which is the foundation, they're going to wither.
00:11:56.000 And so I think our chances are 50-50 right now.
00:11:59.000 But it wouldn't be 50-50 if the church spoke up.
00:12:02.000 I'm telling you, if 31 million evangelicals are planning to stay at home, And it's easy to blame them, but who deserves the condemnation and the challenging is the trembling pastors that shake like a leaf if you dare say anything that might make people offended.
00:12:18.000 Let's remind each other what church is.
00:12:21.000 Church is not a place where you go to be affirmed.
00:12:25.000 Church is a place where you go to be saved and corrected.
00:12:28.000 It is not a place to be told about how your lifestyle is the greatest thing ever.
00:12:33.000 You go there to be reminded that you need a savior and that your life is currently in error.
00:12:38.000 But people don't like that.
00:12:39.000 They say, well, that's not very nice if I tell the people that come to church in that way.
00:12:43.000 Well, hold on a second.
00:12:44.000 What exactly are you running here?
00:12:46.000 Is it a church, which is about correction and elevating the divine?
00:12:50.000 Or is it a place where a TED Talk occurs with organized parking, above average coffee, and a motivational speech, and good music with nice lights?
00:12:59.000 What exactly are you running there?
00:13:01.000 You see, a church in its proper context.
00:13:06.000 As Andrew has done a great job throughout his career, and what a great example, by the way, for other pastors to follow.
00:13:12.000 A church should be unafraid to go against the culture and not conform to the world, but preach the word.
00:13:18.000 The church...
00:13:23.000 The church must lead culture.
00:13:25.000 And allow me to say one other thing on the abortion.
00:13:27.000 Politicians are reading the script of which we provide them.
00:13:30.000 Don't hold Donald Trump to a higher standard than you hold your pastor to.
00:13:34.000 If I have to hear from another Christian, well, you know, Donald Trump's not as pro-life as me.
00:13:39.000 I say, well, has your pastor...
00:13:40.000 Spoke out regularly against the slaughter of the unborn?
00:13:43.000 Well, no, no, my pastor doesn't do politics.
00:13:45.000 Oh, so you want Donald Trump to speak out on holy matters when the person you tithe an offer to that you call your home church won't even whisper about it.
00:13:54.000 Got it.
00:13:56.000 That's good.
00:14:00.000 Well, I think you dealt with the abortion issue and Donald Trump very well.
00:14:04.000 But there's so many other issues, Andrew, if I may.
00:14:07.000 Sure.
00:14:08.000 Well, I was just going to ask.
00:14:09.000 Another thing that I've heard people comment on is, well, they think that the 2020 election was stolen and that the vote is rigged, and so they just lose heart.
00:14:19.000 What difference does it make?
00:14:20.000 As a Christian, I believe that cynicism and despair is a sin.
00:14:29.000 And we know this in the book of Numbers, which is called in the wilderness.
00:14:32.000 God despised when the people of Israel in the wilderness were despairing.
00:14:37.000 When they were complaining all the time, there is no hope.
00:14:41.000 First of all, as Christians, we have to reject this fleshly idea from the demonic that our action doesn't mean anything.
00:14:49.000 All of our actions should glorify God.
00:14:52.000 Everything we do should point up.
00:14:54.000 From what we eat, to who we marry, to how we raise our kids, to where we go to church, to how we educate our young people.
00:15:01.000 But let's talk about 2020.
00:15:03.000 Despite all the shenanigans, everybody, we fell 41,000 ballots short in Arizona, in Wisconsin, and Georgia.
00:15:11.000 And guess what?
00:15:12.000 There were millions of people who did not vote because they believed that it would not occur.
00:15:18.000 And the easiest way to make sure that your vote won't be counted is not vote.
00:15:24.000 So that's why we have teamed up to make sure that people practice the most secure voting methods possible.
00:15:31.000 Instead of putting your mail-in ballot in the mail, walk it right down to that county recorder's office.
00:15:37.000 If you guys want to vote in person, then go vote in person.
00:15:40.000 There are secure ways to do it.
00:15:42.000 But people say, but Charlie's not 100% secure.
00:15:45.000 But that is such a sloppy argument.
00:15:47.000 Because I can 100% guarantee the Democrats will take over the country if none of us vote.
00:15:52.000 And so, that kind of negativity and that cycle of cynicism is something that we as Christians are forbidden from engaging in.
00:15:52.000 That's right.
00:16:02.000 I agree.
00:16:03.000 And David Barton also made a point that there are hundreds and hundreds of cities that have tightened the voter thing, so we are making an improvement in that area.
00:16:14.000 Let me ask you about the economy, because I think everybody recognizes that inflation is way up and everything.
00:16:21.000 And I remember Kamala Harris, when she was asked about the economy, said that she inherited the worst economy in decades from Trump, which in my estimation is a bold-faced lie.
00:16:31.000 How do you respond to that?
00:16:33.000 Of course it is.
00:16:34.000 And so, let's look at something that we as Christians should care about.
00:16:38.000 Private property is a Christian virtue, meaning the ability to own property.
00:16:41.000 The first ever real estate transaction...
00:16:44.000 Do you know this, Andrew?
00:16:44.000 I'm not going to quiz Andrew on the Bible.
00:16:45.000 He'll know it.
00:16:46.000 Was Abraham buying the plot of land to bury his wife and himself in Hebron.
00:16:52.000 It's the first ever real estate deal in the Bible.
00:16:54.000 The idea of ownership of land is a biblical idea.
00:16:57.000 A workman is worth his wages.
00:16:59.000 We should want more Americans, especially young people, to be able to own property, not have to rent for the rest of their life.
00:17:06.000 It is good for everybody.
00:17:09.000 It builds equity.
00:17:10.000 It rejects cynicism.
00:17:12.000 It makes you more invested in your community.
00:17:14.000 It makes you more likely to develop a family.
00:17:17.000 We are becoming a nation of renters.
00:17:19.000 When Donald Trump was president, you could buy a home earning $75,000 a year of combined family income.
00:17:27.000 Now it requires $130,000 a year, and it's near $150,000 a year in the Denver metro area.
00:17:34.000 It has nearly doubled.
00:17:37.000 In the last four years.
00:17:38.000 And why is that?
00:17:39.000 It's because Kamala Harris decided to pump the economy with $6 trillion of unnecessary government spending, which then increases asset prices.
00:17:50.000 Simple supply and demand.
00:17:52.000 This is why sand is cheap and diamonds are expensive.
00:17:56.000 When you have more of something, it becomes worth less.
00:17:58.000 When you have less of something, it becomes worth more.
00:18:01.000 And additionally, which again is an issue I really want to emphasize here, when you have 10 million new people come into your country, and those people need a place to live, it will raise the asset price as well.
00:18:12.000 So Kamala Harris has allowed the largest invasion in American history to occur In a short period of time, when people come in.
00:18:19.000 You guys see it in Aurora, Colorado, of Trendelaga, taking over apartment complexes that we are currently subsidizing.
00:18:26.000 And allow me to speak about this from a Christian perspective, because I don't hear this often from pastors, but...
00:18:32.000 Not well-educated and wokey pastors, if I may, will fall for this immigration nonsense.
00:18:39.000 And you'll see this, by the way, with these just repulsive he-gets-us advertisements that they run during the football games.
00:18:46.000 It's bad theology.
00:18:47.000 It's bad at its core.
00:18:48.000 Well, they'll say, but Charlie, Jesus wanted open borders.
00:18:52.000 Now, first of all, there is no theological basis whatsoever.
00:18:55.000 What Jesus and the scriptures call for is to love the sojourner, to love the foreigner.
00:19:00.000 However, borders is an explicitly biblical idea.
00:19:03.000 In fact, I know Donald Trump's favorite book of the Bible.
00:19:06.000 Do you know this?
00:19:07.000 It's the book of Nehemiah because it's all about building the wall.
00:19:09.000 The entire book.
00:19:14.000 Awesome.
00:19:17.000 It's literally about building the wall of Israel.
00:19:19.000 So, um...
00:19:21.000 The idea of sovereignty of nations.
00:19:23.000 And let's remember, God told us and showed us that he rebukes a one-world government.
00:19:29.000 The idea of sovereignty and borders came out of Genesis 11, when Nimrod wanted to build the city of Babel of a oneness of the world, to build a city upon himself.
00:19:39.000 And God scattered the people in all different lands and nations and different languages because God wanted smaller micro-communities of governance, not the World Economic Forum.
00:19:49.000 Which of course is what Kamala is pushing us towards.
00:19:51.000 But let's get to the inexcusable facts that every pastor in America should be speaking about.
00:19:57.000 If I ask you a hypothetical, would a pastor be in error if he did not speak against slavery in this country?
00:20:03.000 Say, of course.
00:20:04.000 Would a pastor be in error if a pastor did not speak about how kids are being sold into sex slavery?
00:20:10.000 Well, newsflash, there are more people being sold into slavery in this country right now on the southern border than any time in the last couple hundred years.
00:20:17.000 And the church is silent.
00:20:18.000 There are 320,000 kids that we know of.
00:20:22.000 That have gone missing, many of whom are now teenage prostitutes and sex slaves for the cartel in the interior of the United States.
00:20:30.000 But the church is silent.
00:20:32.000 You see, Kamala Harris did this with a direct action when she decided to get rid of DNA testing on the border.
00:20:38.000 Quickly, here's how it works.
00:20:39.000 You show up on the border as a 13-year-old girl.
00:20:41.000 By the way, you're raped an average of three times in that voyage to get to the border.
00:20:45.000 You are currently being used as a sex toy by the cartels all the way up till there.
00:20:50.000 The typical mode of operation under Donald Trump was something called DNA testing.
00:20:55.000 Thanks to modern technological breakthrough, you do swabs, saliva swabs of each individual.
00:21:00.000 You put it in and in 90 seconds you can have an affirmative or a negative DNA match.
00:21:05.000 So is the person with the minor actually the relative or is it somebody else?
00:21:09.000 Super simple, easy to use.
00:21:11.000 Take 90 seconds.
00:21:12.000 You don't have to send it out to Abbott Laboratories.
00:21:14.000 90 seconds.
00:21:15.000 One of the first actions that Kamala Harris took with Joe Biden was to get rid of DNA testing.
00:21:20.000 So here's how it works.
00:21:22.000 They show up on the border, trembling 13-year-old girl who was just raped a couple times.
00:21:27.000 You could tell her head is down.
00:21:28.000 I've seen it myself.
00:21:29.000 You can go to Yuma to see it.
00:21:30.000 Is looking down and a muscular 35-year-old pimp says, I'm her dad.
00:21:35.000 And there is no DNA testing that occurs.
00:21:37.000 So instead, they just say, sign on the paperwork, here's your asylum date, it's in three years, of course it never comes, and the girl is now a sex slave in the United States.
00:21:46.000 Under Trump, we do a DNA test, be like, you're lying, that's not correct, we're going to find out who her parents actually are, because we're not going to co-sign to her becoming the worst thing that we could possibly tolerate.
00:21:56.000 However, the church is uninterested in this.
00:21:59.000 Exactly.
00:22:00.000 Pastors are too interested in bigger buildings and more budgets and not in the fact that kids, God's children, are being sold as sex slaves in our own country.
00:22:09.000 This is not happening in Afghanistan.
00:22:12.000 This is not happening in some far-off distant land.
00:22:15.000 This is on our turf.
00:22:16.000 This is in our own nation.
00:22:18.000 And I can't make the moral argument more clear than that if there's just one issue.
00:22:23.000 Just vote to end modern-day slavery.
00:22:25.000 That's it.
00:22:26.000 But what I just get at this is that...
00:22:28.000 Many of these pastors either don't know this or they don't know the stakes of this.
00:22:31.000 I know we're over time or whatever.
00:22:33.000 But it's very...
00:22:35.000 I cannot drive this point home enough.
00:22:37.000 Which is that don't judge the world for their failure if the church is silent.
00:22:42.000 We will behold to a higher account.
00:22:44.000 It will go down.
00:22:45.000 This will go down to a similar but not the same.
00:22:49.000 It's in the ballpark of the church's failing during Nazi Germany.
00:22:53.000 We will be judged for this.
00:22:54.000 That's right.
00:22:56.000 Awesome.
00:22:59.000 Charlie, we want to go to some Q&A time, but I just want to ask one more question here, if we can, which is, everybody that's here and everybody that's watching online, what can we do to increase voter turnout among fellow Christians?
00:23:14.000 Yeah, it starts at the top.
00:23:16.000 Look, we're short on time right now.
00:23:17.000 We're 18 days out.
00:23:18.000 But for those of you guys that are in good churches, you have to ask the questions of the people in your church.
00:23:24.000 For example, if you have a small group, if you have community groups, you have text threads, go through your list and make sure all 20 are voting.
00:23:31.000 Make sure all 30 are voting.
00:23:33.000 Do that GOTV list.
00:23:34.000 And again, the way I look at it is that we have marriage ministries, we have prison recovery ministries, we have drug rehabilitation ministries.
00:23:41.000 We have ministries for everything.
00:23:43.000 Why don't we have a ministry to make sure that every person that shows up at the church is voting?
00:23:47.000 Period.
00:23:47.000 End of story.
00:23:48.000 It's a very simple ask, right?
00:23:50.000 We are called to be salt and light.
00:23:51.000 What do salt and light have in common?
00:23:53.000 They change the environment that they come in contact with.
00:23:56.000 Christians are currently not changing the environment of America at all.
00:23:59.000 So that's a very simple way.
00:24:00.000 But more importantly is this.
00:24:02.000 And this might be a little harsh for you.
00:24:03.000 I don't care.
00:24:03.000 You invited Charlie Kirk to this place.
00:24:05.000 I mean, come on.
00:24:06.000 All right?
00:24:06.000 Which is this.
00:24:08.000 Listen.
00:24:08.000 If you go to a church...
00:24:11.000 And you might say, well, that guy gave a nice sermon and it's just so nice and it's just so warm and I always, you know, leave feeling so good and they have good Easter service and Christmas service on my friends and they're silent on this.
00:24:21.000 If your pastor remains silent after multiple loving but direct and truthful confrontations, you need to cut it off and say, I'm going to find another church.
00:24:30.000 You have to stop supporting those churches because you are then a co-sponsor in a thing that you guys are all agreeing me with.
00:24:37.000 You guys are then subsidizing and co-sponsoring the silence on the sex slavery on the border.
00:24:43.000 It's easy to point fingers, but if you guys are putting $100 a week into a church that remains silent, then you guys are signing off on the silenced evil.
00:24:52.000 So stop doing that and leave those churches.
00:24:54.000 Amen.
00:24:56.000 All right.
00:25:03.000 Well, I think we're ready to do some Q&A with the audience.
00:25:07.000 We have ushers that have microphones and mic stands, and so they're going to get those in position there.
00:25:14.000 And this will be available, I know, online.
00:25:17.000 Please text this to your pastors, your friends.
00:25:19.000 Let's make this conversation go viral, right, guys?
00:25:22.000 I want the church to hear what we have to say tonight.
00:25:25.000 Alright, so if you have a question for Charlie, just come on up and get in line.
00:25:29.000 The usher's there at the end of the aisle.
00:25:31.000 And looks like we've got some folks coming forward here, Charlie.
00:25:35.000 So does TPUSA have any volunteer opportunities for people to help with this Get Out the Vote campaign?
00:25:41.000 Yeah, again, we look to expand to Colorado in a future date.
00:25:46.000 We are proving the model of ballot chasing, voter registration in Arizona, and a little bit in Wisconsin, other states, but really all in Arizona.
00:25:53.000 Look, you guys know this.
00:25:55.000 I'm not telling you anything you know.
00:25:55.000 Heidi knows this.
00:25:56.000 It's been anybody else.
00:25:56.000 They perfected the blueprint here in Colorado, and they're trying to bring it to Arizona.
00:26:00.000 So I have to kind of quell their invasion temporarily, and then we can come back and do a rescue mission here in the state.
00:26:06.000 I did talk to someone in the know, just so you know, yesterday, who said that the early returns on the mail-in ballots here, the Republicans are outpacing their performance in 2020, and the Dems are underperforming based on 2020.
00:26:19.000 Praise God.
00:26:19.000 Praise God.
00:26:23.000 All right.
00:26:24.000 Do we have anyone that has a question?
00:26:26.000 Gosh, I'm privileged to be first.
00:26:29.000 And I had a question, but you actually answered it with your opening statement.
00:26:33.000 It was, why are you in Colorado?
00:26:35.000 Because you have so many boots on the ground in the swing states.
00:26:40.000 So since you already asked it, can I pray for you?
00:26:44.000 So Father, I just lift up Charlie Kirk to you right now in Jesus' name.
00:26:48.000 I thank you, Lord, that he seeks you, he finds you, and he follows you.
00:26:53.000 I thank you, Lord, that you have created him with a boldness that he steps into willingly.
00:26:58.000 And Lord, I just thank you that...
00:27:00.000 Because he binds kindness and truth around his neck and writes it on the tablet of his heart that he has favor and good standing with you and with man.
00:27:13.000 And I thank you, Lord, that you surround him with a hedge of protection and that everything that you want for this country is coming to fruition in Jesus' name.
00:27:27.000 Amen.
00:27:29.000 Thank you so much.
00:27:31.000 God bless you.
00:27:31.000 Thank you.
00:27:36.000 Hi, I'm such a big supporter.
00:27:37.000 I went to all your Turning Point conventions over the summer, volunteered for you in Boulder, bought all your books, listened to your podcast, write postcards to swing voters with Turning Point accent.
00:27:47.000 Come on, we got more stuff.
00:27:47.000 Is that it?
00:27:49.000 Take the Hillsdale online college courses.
00:27:52.000 And I sent a message to my pastor about why Kamala Harris shouldn't be president that you said in your podcast the other day.
00:27:58.000 Anyways, huge fan.
00:28:01.000 I'm a part of the Young Republicans in Colorado.
00:28:02.000 Colorado, we've been working hard to flip blue state legislative seats to red.
00:28:13.000 Yes, it's so amazing to see so many people here and you getting a standing ovation.
00:28:18.000 And I'll go up to people with MAGA hats or these Bible college students, and they're like, wow, like, it's so cool.
00:28:22.000 You're so passionate about politics.
00:28:24.000 And I'm like, yeah, thanks.
00:28:25.000 You should come door knock with us.
00:28:27.000 And they're like, yeah, no, like, I'm not doing that.
00:28:30.000 And there's always an excuse of why they're busy.
00:28:33.000 And a part of me is mad.
00:28:34.000 Like, we saw this in Germany when millions of Jews were slaughtered because the church did nothing.
00:28:39.000 I truly believe if there's a will, there's a way.
00:28:42.000 I'm tired of the talk.
00:28:43.000 I want action.
00:28:44.000 My question is, how as a 19-year-old Christian girl do I motivate people to actually fight for this country by chasing ballots, testifying at the Capitol, or signing postcards or door knocking?
00:28:55.000 What a great crib it up for her.
00:28:57.000 What's your name again?
00:29:00.000 I want to meet her afterwards.
00:29:01.000 I want to meet her.
00:29:02.000 That's great.
00:29:03.000 Let me tell you in Colorado what needs to happen.
00:29:06.000 You guys need to lean into the trends that are the low-hanging fruit.
00:29:09.000 For example, here's what happens in blue states.
00:29:12.000 It's happening in California.
00:29:14.000 I know I'm in my home state of Illinois.
00:29:15.000 There are hundreds of thousands of people that agree with us that don't engage because they think it's just a waste of time, right?
00:29:20.000 They're like, oh, my vote doesn't matter.
00:29:22.000 It's too blue.
00:29:23.000 So what is the low-hanging fruit?
00:29:25.000 Well, the low-hanging fruit are the people that work with their hands, regardless of skin color, especially men that do not have a place in the Democrat Party.
00:29:33.000 You need to find them, register them, and bring them into the fold, the same way the Democrats have become the party of the college-educated voter.
00:29:40.000 Now, I will tell you the challenge of Colorado.
00:29:43.000 The challenge of Colorado is that it is the second most college-educated state in the country, Massachusetts being one, Colorado being two.
00:29:50.000 Now, that's bad because, obviously, you go to learn to hate the country and hate yourself and believe there's no God when you go to college.
00:29:55.000 Unless it's, you know, Carys Bible College, of course, right?
00:29:57.000 So, obviously.
00:30:00.000 So, you need...
00:30:01.000 The college-educated problem is a longer problem.
00:30:04.000 But there are, and I don't know the numbers, hundreds of thousands, I know, on the western slope of people that are not registering and not voting.
00:30:12.000 And here's the thing in particular.
00:30:15.000 Men of all ages, all backgrounds, as long as they don't have a four-year degree, are going Republican by like a 60 or 70% margin.
00:30:22.000 And so I'm sure you see that on the ground, right?
00:30:25.000 Now, young ladies are a separate issue.
00:30:27.000 We can discuss that later on.
00:30:29.000 So what you could do is that I would make a big push in the coming years in Colorado.
00:30:34.000 Run up the score with men.
00:30:36.000 Register more of them to vote.
00:30:37.000 Really go after the plumbers, electricians, the welders, the people that are in the union trades.
00:30:41.000 And then understand that it's going to be a decade-long, if not a decade-and-a-half-long fight to win back the state.
00:30:48.000 But I always look at the question, is the state as...
00:30:53.000 Is it being accurately presented by its political outcomes?
00:30:57.000 And some states are.
00:30:59.000 Colorado is not.
00:31:00.000 You guys are...
00:31:01.000 You vote, in quotes, far more Democrat than the values of this state actually are.
00:31:08.000 And I do think you're a center-left state in some ways.
00:31:10.000 You have to be honest with that.
00:31:12.000 But I do an event in Colorado, and look at this.
00:31:15.000 We have like 3,000 people here.
00:31:17.000 I mean, there is a remnant.
00:31:19.000 There is a...
00:31:20.000 A community that wants to take back the state.
00:31:23.000 But then a final point is you have to start local and then branch out from there.
00:31:27.000 You've got to win the school boards and the superintendents and then the state legislative races before you then win the governor's races.
00:31:33.000 Thank you so much.
00:31:34.000 God bless you.
00:31:35.000 Amen.
00:31:40.000 Hello, Charlie.
00:31:41.000 How are you doing?
00:31:42.000 My name is Robert Ortega.
00:31:44.000 And I was thinking...
00:31:46.000 I watch you all the time...
00:31:48.000 I hear your podcast every day.
00:31:50.000 And I always want to talk to you.
00:31:54.000 And one of the situations we have right now is the church.
00:31:58.000 You're right about that.
00:31:59.000 But another situation we have is about the Latino community.
00:32:03.000 I follow you.
00:32:04.000 I follow Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh, Candace Owens.
00:32:09.000 You guys are the best.
00:32:11.000 And I see that you have everything.
00:32:15.000 You have Jewish people, Catholic people.
00:32:17.000 Christian people, black people, but I haven't seen any representative from the Latino community.
00:32:25.000 Now, I agree with a lot of your points about the immigration that is basically out of control right now.
00:32:33.000 I have a really good friend.
00:32:35.000 He's from Venezuela.
00:32:36.000 He doesn't like to come all these people because for our job, they take a lot of our income because they go to the low basis.
00:32:45.000 So we have to go lower because they go much lower.
00:32:49.000 So, basically, in all the time that I listen to you, I never hear something that promotes the Latino vote.
00:32:59.000 I hear that you say, well, if they come here illegally, they have to go.
00:33:03.000 I understand that, but there is some people like me, you know, I come here, I have my papers, I think that I own something for the country, I do myself as a volunteer for the fire department, Because I own something for my community.
00:33:18.000 But from the perspective of gaining Latino votes, I don't see that connection.
00:33:27.000 And I think that's really important for what we're doing right now.
00:33:30.000 No, it's a great point.
00:33:32.000 And in Project 2025, not that one, a different one, we can talk about expanding that.
00:33:38.000 I will say this, though, that I try to get away from just black outreach, Hispanic outreach.
00:33:44.000 I think that these values are applicable to all people of all backgrounds and all races.
00:33:49.000 And I think one of the ways that we reach Hispanic voters is two ways, through men and through the church.
00:33:56.000 And I think we're seeing that.
00:33:57.000 In Arizona, we're doing record numbers with Hispanics.
00:34:01.000 And I want to just be clear, I say it all the time, but I'll say it again, which is that you came here legally with your papers.
00:34:07.000 And it is an injustice that other people can cut in line and defraud our system and get benefits, which then makes you feel like, well, why did I do it the right way when people cut in line?
00:34:20.000 We want illegal immigration to be punished and legal immigration to be rewarded.
00:34:25.000 That is the position of our movement.
00:34:27.000 So...
00:34:30.000 And finally, we are seeing more and more distinctions, less about race.
00:34:36.000 This is actually one of the more positive things happening in politics.
00:34:39.000 Race doesn't tell you as much about someone's politics anymore.
00:34:43.000 Instead, class and sex will.
00:34:46.000 Which is really interesting.
00:34:47.000 And I actually think male-female distinctions matter.
00:34:50.000 I don't think Hispanic-black-white distinctions matter.
00:34:53.000 I don't care about your skin color.
00:34:54.000 I care about your values.
00:34:56.000 But I think male distinctions actually really matter a lot.
00:34:59.000 I think God made men and women and made them different.
00:35:01.000 And I think that those differences are beautiful.
00:35:03.000 But class is the most interesting.
00:35:05.000 The Republican Party is becoming the party of the middle class.
00:35:08.000 By definition, if you're the party middle class, eventually you will win elections because there's more people in the middle class than in the elite or in the permanent underclass.
00:35:17.000 And so, love that feedback and thank you so much.
00:35:20.000 Appreciate it.
00:35:20.000 Thank you.
00:35:26.000 Kirk.
00:35:26.000 So, real quick, two questions.
00:35:29.000 What would be, like, the top three most impactful books in your life that you've read?
00:35:34.000 Or that, like, you know, whether that's Christianity or politics or whatever.
00:35:38.000 And then the second one would be, how would you self-educate yourself?
00:35:41.000 Like, what's the most effective way?
00:35:43.000 How would you self-educate yourself most effectively?
00:35:46.000 Great.
00:35:47.000 So, I'll start with the second question.
00:35:48.000 I try to read 100 books a year.
00:35:50.000 When you don't go to college, you have so much time on your hands.
00:35:53.000 So...
00:35:55.000 And I listen to podcasts all the time.
00:35:57.000 I take learning, I call it going to the intellectual gym, right?
00:36:02.000 The same way that a bodybuilder goes to the gym every day, someone who's in my space has to constantly be consuming content, reading books.
00:36:09.000 I'll give you a couple of reads that changed my life.
00:36:11.000 Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis is a game changer.
00:36:15.000 And...
00:36:16.000 It's very important to remember when you're reading Mere Christianity, it was originally delivered as radio addresses during the Blitz in London.
00:36:23.000 Anything by C.S. Lewis is amazing.
00:36:25.000 The second book is not a Christian book, but it points to Jesus, which I think is one of the most powerful books of the 20th century, which is Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
00:36:34.000 Viktor Frankl lost everything in the Holocaust, survived a concentration camp, and he believes that outside of the absolute immediate necessities, food and water, that the number one Need of humanity is meaning.
00:36:47.000 It is not sex, it's not power, it's not money, but it's meaning.
00:36:52.000 And I think if you read it now, like about 50, 70 years later, now that we're living through a society that has electricity for everybody, Wi-Fi, cell phones, we're wealthy, but we're also suicidal, depressed, anxious, alcohol, and medically addicted.
00:37:07.000 Viktor Frankl's hypothesis 70 years later that he developed in a concentration camp is more true than ever.
00:37:14.000 Where he realized in the concentration camp that the person, even though that they were the sickest person and the weakest person, if they had a reason to survive in the concentration camp, they would.
00:37:25.000 The person that got sick that gave up hope would die within 48 hours.
00:37:30.000 And then that points to Jesus, because Jesus is ultimate meaning.
00:37:34.000 Just off the top of my head, the third one, which is a unique one, again, I'm just kind of riffing on this, would be the book that built your world, or the book that changed your world, by an Indian author by the name of Vishal Mangawaldi.
00:37:47.000 I know it's kind of very obscure.
00:37:49.000 He's an amazing guy.
00:37:50.000 He makes the argument that we as Christians have no idea how much the Bible and Christian worldview have built America and that everything we think is common sense is actually Christian sense.
00:37:50.000 I've met him.
00:38:02.000 From free speech to private property rights to universal human equality to separation of powers to independent judiciary to...
00:38:09.000 to proven innocent, to giving money to the poor, to all these things that we think are normal, actually not normal.
00:38:14.000 Because he says, I grew up in a country that wasn't Christian Indian.
00:38:18.000 And he says, we don't take care of the poor.
00:38:20.000 We have a caste system.
00:38:21.000 It's not normal to say that murder is wrong.
00:38:23.000 We discard babies all the time in India.
00:38:25.000 And he says, from an Indian perspective, you come to America, you realize that the Bible has built this unbelievable society and civilization.
00:38:32.000 So, there you go.
00:38:33.000 Amen.
00:38:34.000 Thank you.
00:38:39.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:38:39.000 My name is Charles Montana.
00:38:42.000 Thank you.
00:38:43.000 That's a great name.
00:38:45.000 Charles Montana.
00:38:46.000 You should be like a folk singer or something.
00:38:48.000 Charles Montana.
00:38:50.000 Like Johnny Cash.
00:38:51.000 Charles Montana.
00:38:52.000 You've got a career there.
00:38:53.000 My wife and I, we went to this Bible college.
00:38:53.000 What's your question?
00:38:56.000 Andrew, you've changed our life.
00:38:59.000 Charlie, you have inspired me to do what I can to save this nation.
00:39:05.000 I'm from the beautiful battleground state of Georgia.
00:39:09.000 My wife and I were planning on starting a church there in Georgia.
00:39:13.000 And we have in 2026 a Senate and Governor's race.
00:39:17.000 In 28, Presidential and Senate race.
00:39:20.000 I wonder if you want to get anything started in Georgia.
00:39:23.000 We're going to be in the Gwinnett County area.
00:39:25.000 I want to work for you.
00:39:27.000 So if there is any way that I can get connected with you, if there's any email address I can reach, I want to work for you.
00:39:34.000 Yeah, well, we are hiring, and we are motivated to hire people like you.
00:39:38.000 So if you went to this college, that's what we call a job interview, right?
00:39:45.000 So Mikey can handle that.
00:39:49.000 Let me just speak.
00:39:50.000 I want to encourage you to start the church in Georgia.
00:39:53.000 Because Georgia does not need more churches.
00:39:55.000 It needs better churches.
00:39:56.000 We are in Georgia, yes.
00:39:58.000 And there are plenty of churches in Georgia.
00:40:00.000 But boy, the quality of churches has just gone down.
00:40:03.000 I mean, Georgia is like the home of the weak and the cowardly and the trembling that don't speak out.
00:40:09.000 And so there is a population there that is culturally Christian.
00:40:14.000 But they're not being fed a biblical worldview.
00:40:17.000 And that's one of the reasons why Georgia is a perfect example, everybody, of a state that was once reliably Christian, conservative, Republican, that has become a battleground state, and it is solely because of the church.
00:40:29.000 It is exhibit A, numero uno, of what happens when the church no longer takes its rightful role as counselor of the king.
00:40:38.000 So we'd love to work with you.
00:40:39.000 Start that church.
00:40:40.000 We'll help any way we can.
00:40:41.000 Thank you.
00:40:42.000 Sounds good.
00:40:43.000 Hi, my name is Donna Ryan, and I'm a boomer.
00:40:53.000 Came from Massachusetts, transplanted to California, retired from LA County Sheriff's Department as a law enforcement technician.
00:41:02.000 And I have four beautiful granddaughters, one who is very much, she goes to a Christian college, but she very much believes in socialism.
00:41:14.000 What college?
00:41:15.000 Biola.
00:41:17.000 Well, that's not a Christian college.
00:41:18.000 Oh, it's not?
00:41:20.000 No, they have Ed Stetzer as the head of their theology department.
00:41:23.000 I'm being facetious.
00:41:25.000 They haven't been Christian in a long time at Biola, but yeah.
00:41:28.000 They're what we call woke Christian.
00:41:30.000 They've been completely consumed by the woke mind virus.
00:41:33.000 And again, if I'm offending you, excellent.
00:41:36.000 No, I just thought it was.
00:41:38.000 I didn't know.
00:41:40.000 Biola's a joke, and it has been for quite some time.
00:41:42.000 I'm sorry.
00:41:43.000 Maybe, is there another one that begins with a B? No, no, you're describing the right college.
00:41:48.000 Okay.
00:41:50.000 But how do I, what books or what can I do to show her that we all don't need a living wage collectively.
00:42:00.000 We need to work for it and earn it.
00:42:04.000 And also with the issue of abortion, we've gone a long way since the 60s.
00:42:13.000 Safe, legal, and rare, right?
00:42:15.000 Pardon me?
00:42:16.000 I'm sorry, I meant we used to be safe, legal, and rare when it came to abortion.
00:42:20.000 Well, we had free clinics.
00:42:21.000 They gave out free birth control.
00:42:23.000 They gave out, I was a rape counselor.
00:42:27.000 We had the morning after pill in the 60s and the 70s.
00:42:31.000 Now abortion seems to have taken over what birth control used to do as far as using it yourself, taking care of it yourself.
00:42:42.000 How do I impress on my granddaughters, on the young women around me, that even the young men, that they're going in the wrong direction?
00:42:52.000 It's a great question.
00:42:53.000 And I mean, with the Biola stuff, your granddaughter is a perfect example of the type of sloppy theology that they're teaching.
00:42:59.000 And then she, of course, has a screwed up worldview, right?
00:43:02.000 So that's why I said what I said.
00:43:05.000 Because, for example, at a school like this, or a school like Hillsdale, that never would happen.
00:43:11.000 Because they actually educate properly.
00:43:14.000 It's going to be tough.
00:43:15.000 What you're pinpointing on the living wage stuff, one of my passion projects is to teach economics to pastors, because I find that economic literacy amongst pastors, would you agree with that, Andrew?
00:43:26.000 I would.
00:43:27.000 Yeah, is that supply and demand, inflation, gross domestic product, money velocity, it's just kind of an unknown thing.
00:43:34.000 And I think it's really beautiful.
00:43:36.000 If you think about it, if we believe that God designed the heavens and the earth and everything within, and that God gave us dominion to take this earth for man for his purpose, then we believe that the laws of physics and the laws of mathematics are all meant as the language of the natural world so that we can flourish.
00:43:51.000 And yes, the laws of economics too.
00:43:53.000 And if you look throughout the Bible, by the way, what is storing up for a famine?
00:43:57.000 That is the law of economics, right?
00:43:59.000 It's the law of scarcity at play.
00:44:00.000 So all throughout the Bible, there's some great books on this, so I would encourage with that.
00:44:04.000 But more importantly than ever, how do you impress upon?
00:44:07.000 It's a longer conversation, but you need to get down to morals and worldview.
00:44:11.000 And the most important thing is this, which is what instructs your worldview.
00:44:15.000 If your worldview is not biblical in nature or biblical in root, you're going to get bad politics.
00:44:21.000 You're going to get sloppy morality and sloppy philosophy because of that.
00:44:25.000 So happy to recommend some books, but you are the most important thing.
00:44:29.000 You staying on your granddaughter and making sure that you don't let her go to the dark side.
00:44:33.000 That is your task and that is your purpose.
00:44:35.000 Thank you.
00:44:36.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:44:37.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:44:43.000 Thank you so much for coming out.
00:44:45.000 There's a couple big proposals in the Colorado voting right now that are really hard to see and hurt my heart a lot.
00:44:52.000 One, repealing the definition of marriage.
00:44:54.000 And the second one is codifying abortion in the Colorado Constitution.
00:44:57.000 And the specific one I want to get into is they're trying to make it so that the state taxes can start funding abortion health care in the state.
00:45:06.000 So from this point forward, I assume that'll get passed just with how Colorado votes.
00:45:11.000 From this point forward, I mean, hopefully we can get it.
00:45:15.000 To be honest, he's probably right.
00:45:16.000 So you have to be, I mean, let me ask you a question, though.
00:45:18.000 Andrew, what percentage of pastors are speaking out against that amendment, would you say, in this state?
00:45:22.000 I don't know.
00:45:22.000 Would you guess?
00:45:23.000 I mean, half?
00:45:25.000 Five percent.
00:45:26.000 Well, then that thing's going to pass.
00:45:28.000 I mean, so don't boo him.
00:45:29.000 Don't say no.
00:45:30.000 If only five percent of pastors are speaking out against taxpayer-funded abortion, you guys got no shot.
00:45:36.000 Right?
00:45:36.000 You've got 95% of pastors and churches silent, and you think that something's going to be defeated?
00:45:41.000 But please, yeah, continue.
00:45:42.000 Thank you.
00:45:43.000 Good point.
00:45:44.000 I'm trying to talk to as many people as I can to vote against it, but my moral conundrum is, if I stay in the state past that point, if it gets passed, then my tax dollars will be going to support abortion.
00:45:54.000 And so I'm stuck between voting with my feet and moving to a more conservative state to show that these laws aren't okay, or staying in a state like Colorado and actually fighting against the laws actively.
00:46:04.000 And I'm not sure what would be more effective.
00:46:05.000 That is a very, very smart question.
00:46:07.000 And I want...
00:46:08.000 So first, from the federal government, the courts have decided that you cannot fund abortion...
00:46:19.000 Not the courts, but they find ways around it.
00:46:22.000 At least employers can't provide abortion-provided services through employer-provided healthcare.
00:46:28.000 I would struggle.
00:46:30.000 Arizona is on a similar trajectory, unfortunately.
00:46:32.000 We're not having taxpayer-funded abortion, but we have Prop 139 that's going to allow abortion up until the moment of birth.
00:46:38.000 I mean, and it's unfortunately going to pass because, you know, we did a poll, only 7% of Arizona pastors are speaking out against it.
00:46:44.000 And I do have to say something, though, and I know this might bother some people, and again, you know me.
00:46:48.000 But it's, you know Catholics are far more outspoken on this stuff than we are, guys.
00:46:54.000 And my mom was raised Catholic.
00:46:56.000 My wife was raised Catholic.
00:46:57.000 And, you know, there's a lot of kind of like anti-Catholic stuff that happens in evangelical circles.
00:47:02.000 And I get it.
00:47:03.000 I understand it to a certain extent.
00:47:04.000 But guys, understand that the Catholic faithful is far more outspokenly pro-life than your average evangelical church.
00:47:11.000 And I think that needs to be repeated and that needs to be internalized.
00:47:14.000 I'll just give my example in Scottsdale and I will get to your question.
00:47:17.000 In Scottsdale, the Archdiocese of Scottsdale, Father Klein, has said if you vote for a Democrat this cycle, you are in rebellion of the Catholic Church.
00:47:28.000 Like, do not take communion.
00:47:31.000 Like, that's a big deal, right?
00:47:33.000 And we don't hear that kind of moral teaching very often.
00:47:36.000 So, I personally would struggle to live in a state where my taxpayer-funded dollars went for abortion.
00:47:41.000 I'm not staying for the move.
00:47:43.000 I'm doing this on the fly, though.
00:47:45.000 It would be very difficult for me to work as hard as I work, to pay as much as I pay in taxes, and know that would go towards the slaughter of the unborn.
00:47:53.000 So you make what's right for you.
00:47:54.000 I'm not saying to leave the state.
00:47:55.000 There is an equally as good moral argument to stay and fight.
00:47:59.000 Okay?
00:48:00.000 And so I want to make sure you're hearing me correctly, but I would struggle with that.
00:48:03.000 I would.
00:48:05.000 Thank you.
00:48:05.000 God bless you.
00:48:06.000 Hi, my name is Thomas Pascal.
00:48:14.000 I am, first of all, it's nice to see you first-hand Charlie and to the great pastors and great speakers and the presentation.
00:48:21.000 I would have to say, you know, as an independent radio show host for decades since Trump declared his running for president, you know, to be on the front lines on this and the right side of history, by the way, I got two questions.
00:48:33.000 One of them is, what happens if they don't certify the election and Not only that, how do we stop the steal, especially with everything that's happening in this country right now?
00:48:46.000 So the first question is a super smart question.
00:48:49.000 And that is not getting enough attention.
00:48:52.000 And I'm intentionally not covering it on my radio program and podcast because it's not relevant.
00:48:57.000 Not yet, and it will be, but we have a whole plan for it.
00:49:00.000 Guys, we have Jamie Raskin saying that if they win the House of Representatives, that they might not certify Donald Trump as the winner.
00:49:07.000 Now, these are the people that attack Donald Trump for even asking questions about the 2020 election.
00:49:11.000 So, what's the solution?
00:49:14.000 Guys, we have to keep the House of Representatives for that reason and that reason alone.
00:49:18.000 And you guys have seats here in Colorado that are going to really matter.
00:49:22.000 And so, Colorado might not send its electoral votes for Trump, but it very well might decide whether or not Trump can actually serve as President of the United States.
00:49:30.000 And so you have to win these House of Representatives seats.
00:49:33.000 That is such a smart point.
00:49:34.000 Do you guys understand what he's talking about technically here?
00:49:36.000 If you're not, let me just explain it to you.
00:49:37.000 Is that even though if you win the Electoral College, the Electoral College meets in mid-December.
00:49:41.000 You guys remember they transmit their votes all the way to Congress.
00:49:44.000 Congress meets on January 6th to go through a performative Quote, unquote, ceremonial vote, as they say now.
00:49:49.000 But the House of Representatives can decide not to certify the election.
00:49:53.000 Which, of course, what they attacked us for back in 2020, for asking the questions about the sloppiest, most fraudulent election in American history.
00:50:00.000 And yet, this time, they're saying they won't do it because he's a felon or that, all this sort of stuff.
00:50:04.000 And they might do it.
00:50:05.000 These people are not just going to hand over power back to us and to Donald Trump.
00:50:09.000 So there is a plan.
00:50:10.000 The easiest, quickest plan, we control the House of Representatives.
00:50:13.000 We can do it rather simply.
00:50:14.000 And you guys need every blue state that says that you guys don't have to partake in getting Donald Trump elected.
00:50:19.000 I want this to be clipped up.
00:50:21.000 And every blue state voter in California and New York, vote for your Republican House of Representatives because you're actually voting it as a proxy for Donald Trump becoming President of the United States.
00:50:30.000 It's incredibly important.
00:50:33.000 Very good.
00:50:35.000 To the other part, how you stop the steal, we're not going to completely stop it.
00:50:38.000 We have some better laws thanks to David Barton in certain states.
00:50:41.000 Georgia's cleaned up some stuff.
00:50:42.000 We're too late in the game, honestly, for some of it.
00:50:44.000 We need poll watchers and all that stuff.
00:50:46.000 The most assured way is that we have to overwhelm the system with so many ballots and so many people and do what we did in 2016 and make it too big to rig.
00:50:54.000 Appreciate it.
00:50:54.000 Thank you so much.
00:50:55.000 Thank you.
00:50:58.000 Hi.
00:50:59.000 My name's Kenzie.
00:51:00.000 I'm 21.
00:51:01.000 I am a first-generation Coloradan, a first-time home buyer this year, and I just got married two months ago.
00:51:10.000 My question for you is, within your family, how do you make conscious, healthy decisions with our food system being as bad as it is?
00:51:19.000 Also, what has to take place in order for America to turn around their overall health issues?
00:51:25.000 I love this question, by the way.
00:51:27.000 And it's a very, it's a very important biblical question.
00:51:29.000 And I think one of the sins that the church is most guilty of is sloth and the inability for us to call out sloth within the church.
00:51:37.000 And I will, I will talk about that.
00:51:38.000 Uh, I got one person applauding cause it's not a popular thing to say.
00:51:41.000 Um, but let, let me first say, uh, I love that you got married young.
00:51:45.000 We as Christians are not doing a good enough job of celebrating young marriages and, In fact, we see...
00:51:51.000 I see pastors be like, oh, wait to your late 20s or early 30s to get married.
00:51:55.000 Where does this come from, guys?
00:51:57.000 I mean, we need to do a better job of celebrating the covenant of marriage and having children in the church, right?
00:52:04.000 So...
00:52:04.000 So I love that you got married.
00:52:09.000 Have Mormon levels of children, okay?
00:52:11.000 So...
00:52:15.000 To the point about making healthy decisions.
00:52:17.000 You know, I'm kind of a crazy person when it comes to this stuff, right?
00:52:21.000 I don't eat sugar.
00:52:22.000 I eat very, very few carbohydrates, right?
00:52:24.000 I eat like five different things, fast every day.
00:52:27.000 You know, I'm a hawk with this.
00:52:28.000 Obviously, no drugs, no alcohol, none of that stuff.
00:52:30.000 And that's how I'm able to, you know, do 18 hours every day, talk 11 hours a day, travel the country.
00:52:35.000 And the scriptures tell us it, that your body is a temple.
00:52:38.000 And what you put into your body is actually a form of worship or of desecration to the Lord.
00:52:45.000 And you need to be reminded of that, that since your body is a temple, if you are putting substances that actively hurt your body but consume your flesh, then you aren't using your body as a way to elevate to the Lord.
00:52:56.000 And so, how can we get back to a more healthy track?
00:53:00.000 This is why I am thanking God that Bobby Kennedy has endorsed Donald Trump and is part of his agenda.
00:53:09.000 I could give an hour-long speech on this.
00:53:11.000 I won't.
00:53:11.000 But I'll just kind of isolate a couple figures that I think are important.
00:53:14.000 Japan has 3% of their 15-year-olds that are chronically obese or overweight.
00:53:20.000 Half 50% of our 15-year-olds are chronically obese or overweight.
00:53:24.000 25 years ago, autism was 1 in 10,000 kids.
00:53:28.000 Now it's 1 in 25 kids.
00:53:31.000 Something is happening, and it's the environmental pollutants that It very well might be that ridiculously aggressive childhood vaccination schedule.
00:53:39.000 I'm not here to tell you what to do with your kids, but you got to use some logic and common sense here.
00:53:43.000 If you are just pumping vaccines into a beautiful six-month-old baby, You guys make your own decisions.
00:53:50.000 That's the end of Charlie Kirk's commentary on that.
00:53:52.000 But I'm a big medical freedom advocate on that.
00:53:58.000 But most importantly, I think it is the food and the food supply.
00:54:01.000 If you just take one example of hundreds, for example, Kellogg's cereal.
00:54:05.000 Kellogg's cereal in America.
00:54:08.000 If you put up Kellogg's cereal versus Canadian cereal, Kellogg's cereal in America is colored with blue dye 22 and Xantham gum and red dye 84, which is illegal and forbidden in Canadian cereal.
00:54:22.000 And these ingredients have been shown to...
00:54:25.000 Increase likelihood of autism, behavioral disorder issues, attention deficit disorder issues, and yes, obesity.
00:54:32.000 This is so bad, everybody.
00:54:33.000 Let me tell you what the Democrats' plan is for this and what Donald Trump's plan is, which is two different things.
00:54:37.000 And I know we're running out of time, but it's so important.
00:54:39.000 The Democrats are about to authorize Ozempic.
00:54:46.000 We are actively poisoning our youth.
00:54:52.000 What Donald Trump will do is he will send Bobby Kennedy in like a heat-seeking missile into the FDA and the CDC. And he will blow up the food pyramid.
00:55:04.000 He will get rid of these people that use this fake science that's saying, oh actually highly processed foods are good for you, which is a bunch of garbage and nonsense.
00:55:13.000 We will promote from the top down a whole food diet where it's not heavy on rice and grains and potatoes and elevates lean proteins and healthy fats.
00:55:22.000 Which literally is what helps create brain material.
00:55:25.000 Raw brain material literally comes from healthy fats.
00:55:28.000 We've demonized fats, even though fats are what's the most necessary thing for you to live.
00:55:32.000 There are three types of food.
00:55:33.000 Proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
00:55:35.000 Only one of those you do not need, two of those you do.
00:55:37.000 Proteins and fats you need to live.
00:55:39.000 You don't need carbohydrates.
00:55:40.000 The one thing you don't need to live is the one that we elevate more than anything else in this country.
00:55:43.000 And so it can go on at length, but it's what we as Christians should care about our Love your neighbor as yourself.
00:55:49.000 And if your neighbor is actively being poisoned by your big corporations, it's time to say no more.
00:55:54.000 Donald Trump will do that with Bobby Kennedy.
00:55:56.000 Another reason to vote for him.
00:55:57.000 Thank you.
00:56:00.000 Sorry, guys.
00:56:01.000 Very good.
00:56:03.000 Alright.
00:56:03.000 Hello.
00:56:04.000 Can everyone hear me?
00:56:05.000 Cool.
00:56:06.000 My name is Luke.
00:56:06.000 Alright.
00:56:07.000 I am 18 years old.
00:56:09.000 It's my first election coming up.
00:56:10.000 I am voting for Trump.
00:56:15.000 Yay, a lot of supporters in here.
00:56:17.000 All right, so I got two questions for you.
00:56:18.000 They're kind of, they're not really similar, so I'm going to start with the first one.
00:56:22.000 Back in 2020, when I paid attention to the election with Biden's campaign and him versus Trump, they didn't really push on Biden's campaign too aggressively, to the best of my knowledge.
00:56:35.000 It didn't look like they were trying at least as hard as they are for Kamala.
00:56:39.000 And it just got me wondering, do you think they are scared to cheat again in any sort of way?
00:56:45.000 Because they are trying so much harder to push Kamala than they were for Biden.
00:56:50.000 And I feel like they feel like now they cannot cheat in the same way they did before.
00:56:54.000 Do you feel like they are scared to cheat?
00:56:57.000 Scared might be one explanation for it.
00:56:59.000 I also think that we're watching.
00:57:01.000 Don't discount citizens watching and the eyeballs that we have on this.
00:57:05.000 I can't really read into the liberal psyche, except I will tell you this.
00:57:09.000 They're very worried that they're on the precipice of her collapsing completely.
00:57:13.000 It is happening in real time.
00:57:15.000 Her poll numbers are diving.
00:57:16.000 They're not having the voter registration numbers they wanted.
00:57:19.000 Voter turnout is not what they want.
00:57:20.000 You saw that Bret Baier interview?
00:57:22.000 I mean, what a disaster that was for her.
00:57:24.000 Oh my goodness, right?
00:57:26.000 By the way, Brett Baer, where did that come from?
00:57:27.000 Thank you, Brett Baer, right?
00:57:29.000 Send you a signed MAGA hat.
00:57:31.000 I mean, I thought it was great.
00:57:33.000 Yes, what's your second question?
00:57:34.000 I want to get to as many as possible.
00:57:35.000 Yeah, and the second question is, for an 18-year-old, you know, starting out in this broken economy, thanks to the Biden campaign and Kamala and all of them, what do you think the best advice for just an 18-year-old just starting out in life is as of right now?
00:57:51.000 It's a great question.
00:57:52.000 First of all, the best investment are things that you can invest in yourself.
00:57:55.000 So the knowledge base, take Hillsdale online courses, the books that you read.
00:58:00.000 Look at life as to what you ought to do and what you need to do, not what you deserve, and not what you think you're entitled to.
00:58:06.000 The sooner as a young man you realize that you have a duty to your country, to the divine, to build a family and have kids, not that the world has to send you something, the happier you will be, the more productive you'll be, and the more meaningful life that you will live.
00:58:18.000 So...
00:58:19.000 Finally, which is this, which is when you are young, take the risk that you will regret not taking when you're older.
00:58:25.000 Going to college is largely a waste of time unless you go to this college.
00:58:28.000 If you want to start a business, start a business at a young age.
00:58:31.000 If you want to travel the country, travel the country at a young age.
00:58:34.000 And finally, save yourself for marriage and elevate purity and do not share your sexual experience with other people.
00:58:42.000 Purity culture must be celebrated and elevated more in Christian circles and it's kind of been cast aside.
00:58:48.000 Find a woman to marry, get married and have lots of children and defend that family and provide for that family as the man of that family.
00:58:54.000 Thank you.
00:58:54.000 Thank you.
00:58:55.000 So I have more of like a personal question.
00:59:04.000 With how busy your schedule is and everything, I'm just wondering how you keep your relationship with Jesus, like the main thing in your life practically, day to day, like how that looks because you're doing so many good things, good works, just how that looks like.
00:59:17.000 Well, it's one of my favorite questions because it's actually what my next book is going to be all about, which you'll have me back.
00:59:22.000 My next book is called Stop in the Name of God, the Case for the Sabbath, which of course Shabbat literally means stop.
00:59:29.000 I am not Seventh-day Adventists, but I do believe that the Shabbat or the Sabbath is the mystery, the secret that so many Christians overlook that is the gateway to allow you to observe the other nine commandments and to put Jesus first.
00:59:43.000 I'm not saying this in a legalist way.
00:59:45.000 I'm not even saying that you're biblically commanded to do it.
00:59:47.000 I'm saying you're missing out if you are not obeying the Sabbath.
00:59:50.000 That's what I am saying.
00:59:51.000 I'll tell you my own life.
00:59:52.000 I turn off my phone on Friday night.
00:59:54.000 It goes back on on Sunday.
00:59:55.000 When I fly back, it is all family, all Saturday.
00:59:58.000 Maybe a little college football.
01:00:00.000 But things that I enjoy.
01:00:01.000 It says in the scriptures, what does it say?
01:00:03.000 For six days you shall work, and the seventh day you shall rest.
01:00:07.000 Let's remember what the Bible says about the Sabbath.
01:00:09.000 God himself rested on the seventh day.
01:00:11.000 It is the only of the Ten Commandments which is a ritual.
01:00:15.000 And that means it's pretty darn important.
01:00:17.000 In the Jewish tradition, it is the holiest of all days, equivalent with Yom Kippur.
01:00:22.000 It is a standing celebration in time of which you say what?
01:00:26.000 Thank you God for creating the heavens and the earth.
01:00:29.000 We are commanded to say praise of thanksgiving to God at least once a week in a ritual way.
01:00:35.000 Say God thank you for life.
01:00:36.000 Thank you for putting this all into existence.
01:00:39.000 Thank you for giving us what we have around us.
01:00:41.000 So I believe in a country where we are so distracted, that we are so suffocated, that we are flooded with Texts and emails and pings and dings and Netflix and Hulu.
01:00:51.000 That maybe we look back to the scriptures of the thing that we're missing.
01:00:54.000 That a country where we used to shut it down for one day.
01:00:57.000 And here is the test.
01:00:59.000 You ready for the Sabbath test?
01:01:00.000 The Sabbath test is this.
01:01:02.000 If I cannot walk into your home and tell that it's the Sabbath, because it looks like every other day, you're not honoring the Sabbath.
01:01:11.000 If it looks like every other day, then you aren't dedicating one day to God.
01:01:14.000 Yes, you should give money to the church.
01:01:16.000 Yes, you should give money to charities.
01:01:18.000 But I'm challenging you.
01:01:19.000 Give one day.
01:01:21.000 Give time to God.
01:01:23.000 The thing that we're the most protective of, and it's changed my life.
01:01:27.000 I started doing this back a couple summers ago.
01:01:29.000 It allows me to honor my parents better.
01:01:31.000 It allows me to put my marriage first.
01:01:32.000 It allows me to put Jesus first and God first.
01:01:34.000 When I'm not just looking at emails and text messages all day, you might say you're too busy.
01:01:38.000 Look, I'm busier than you.
01:01:39.000 I'm sorry.
01:01:39.000 I hate to pull rank on this one, guys.
01:01:41.000 Okay?
01:01:41.000 You aren't more busy than I am.
01:01:43.000 You might have more stuff going on, okay?
01:01:45.000 But it's the question of what matters most.
01:01:47.000 What I love about honoring the Sabbath, it's that it's a test.
01:01:49.000 It's God putting a test, saying...
01:01:51.000 Obey my commands.
01:01:52.000 We are called in the scriptures to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind.
01:01:57.000 In Deuteronomy 6 through 5, if you honor the Sabbath, it makes it so much easier, sweeter, and deeper.
01:02:03.000 That's how I do it.
01:02:04.000 Thank you.
01:02:07.000 I think this will be the final question, yeah?
01:02:10.000 Hey Charlie, I'm Luke's dad, and I grew up being mentored by a friend of yours that we all miss, Rush Limbaugh.
01:02:18.000 Discovered him when I was in high school.
01:02:19.000 Wasn't Rush the best, everybody.
01:02:21.000 I miss Rush every day.
01:02:22.000 I really do.
01:02:23.000 And I'm a children's pastor, so I have a ministry there.
01:02:27.000 But he inspired me to start my own business.
01:02:30.000 I'm not going to mention it because I don't want to look like I'm promoting it.
01:02:33.000 But he inspired me and taught me, trained me.
01:02:37.000 He did a lot of what you do where he didn't just comment on the things of the day, but he trained and he taught me.
01:02:42.000 And he educated the whys behind his responses to the current events.
01:02:46.000 And that's what I appreciate about you.
01:02:48.000 And I wanted to say, in a lot of ways, you're an answer to prayer.
01:02:50.000 Because when I became a dad to Luke, and I say became a dad, my son's adopted, he came into our home as a baby.
01:02:59.000 And by the way, you're actually a father as a biological father.
01:03:02.000 I want you to know that.
01:03:03.000 Yes, amen, amen, amen.
01:03:05.000 Amen.
01:03:06.000 But I wished there was a Rush Limbaugh for my son.
01:03:11.000 And I just want to say thank you for what you are for the young people of our country because Rush played such a role in my life.
01:03:21.000 I know you got to meet him.
01:03:23.000 I love that sound clip at the beginning of your show where he says, folks, he's running the White House, you know, and I know you're very proud of that.
01:03:30.000 That is quite a quote.
01:03:32.000 The question I have for you, Luke has, he's 18 now, he's finishing up homeschool and he started his own business.
01:03:39.000 What advice would you give to my son?
01:03:41.000 But to young people, there's great freedom, there's great independence, there's great ownership, there's great pride and confidence that comes to starting a business.
01:03:49.000 Not everyone knows, although your fans know, that you started Turning Point at 18 and Look what it's become.
01:03:56.000 Became an advisor to the President of the United States in your 20s.
01:04:00.000 I'm not trying to give you strokes, but I'm trying to say.
01:04:03.000 What would you say to young people?
01:04:05.000 What advice on starting a business, being independent, pursuing that American dream?
01:04:11.000 Because they're not teaching that to kids today.
01:04:14.000 Rush taught that to me.
01:04:16.000 Teach that to us briefly if you can.
01:04:18.000 Thank you for that.
01:04:21.000 You're right.
01:04:21.000 I graduated high school, took a gap year.
01:04:23.000 It's been 12 gap years, and we'll see if I go back.
01:04:28.000 Yeah, so to start a business, it's a long question.
01:04:31.000 I know we're over time already, but let me just say this when it comes to start a business, which is that going to zero to one is the hardest thing.
01:04:37.000 It's the hardest interval.
01:04:37.000 Be unafraid to ask for help.
01:04:39.000 Find someone who is good at your craft, who is great at your craft, and try to mentor under them or work for them for a short period of time.
01:04:46.000 Still are their best practices.
01:04:47.000 But the most important thing about starting a business as an individual is that it doesn't matter if you're doing aluminum siding, a carpentry business, a plumbing business, auto mechanic.
01:04:57.000 It does not matter.
01:04:58.000 It's that the individual entrepreneur itself is a consistent theme.
01:05:02.000 Number one, how you act in private and public must be consistent.
01:05:05.000 Be a person of higher integrity and honor.
01:05:07.000 That is important.
01:05:08.000 You will not make it as a fraudster or a huckster.
01:05:11.000 The best thing about market principles, it's hard to build a big business over time while lying to a bunch of people.
01:05:16.000 You get a bad reputation, no one wants to work for you, and your business falls apart.
01:05:20.000 So integrity is number one.
01:05:22.000 Number two, There is no replacement for relentlessness, hard work, grit, and hustle.
01:05:27.000 I don't care about your complaints.
01:05:29.000 Build a better product, right?
01:05:30.000 And it did such good for me being 18, 19, 20 in this space when people thought it was crazy and nuts and all that.
01:05:36.000 And finally, search for your big break because it will come.
01:05:39.000 If you work hard enough as a young person, you would be amazed at how many people that have made it that are willing to give you a contract that you don't really deserve, willing to kind of give you a break they don't deserve because they feel for you as a young person.
01:05:49.000 Lean into that!
01:05:51.000 I could tell you, you know, you mentioned one of them.
01:05:52.000 I had no business getting to know Rush Limbaugh.
01:05:55.000 He became a mentor, a friend, and he gave a million dollars to Turning Point USA before he died.
01:06:00.000 This was, and it was because he saw in me and maybe other, you know, the next generation that was rising there.
01:06:06.000 So that's the advice I have, but always keep God first and glorify Him in all that you do.
01:06:11.000 Awesome.
01:06:13.000 Very good.
01:06:15.000 Nope.
01:06:16.000 Can I just summarize the moment?
01:06:18.000 Well, guys, how was that, huh?
01:06:23.000 We are so thankful for you, Charlie, for Turning Point, for deeper relationship going forward.
01:06:31.000 Guys, let's not just walk away tonight feeling good or fired up or saying, wasn't that a great message?
01:06:38.000 Find a way to get involved.
01:06:40.000 Find a way to make a difference.
01:06:42.000 Just if you got one more person to vote who wasn't otherwise going to vote, who's going to vote according to biblical values, it could make a huge difference.
01:06:51.000 Remember, if we could put that slide on the screen of the Civic Action Checklist, again, if you guys have that available, you can also get that QR code at the Truth and Liberty booth.
01:07:00.000 Stop by our booths and the Turning Point booths and every other thing out there and take advantage of all those resources.
01:07:06.000 And let's keep praying.
01:07:07.000 Remember, God is the God of miracles.
01:07:09.000 Amen?
01:07:09.000 Yeah, and let me just...
01:07:10.000 Please.
01:07:11.000 One last thing, everybody.
01:07:12.000 You have to be in the arena.
01:07:13.000 I know some of you guys say, I've done everything that's been asked of me.
01:07:15.000 I watch Fox News.
01:07:17.000 I bought the pillow.
01:07:18.000 I've done everything, Charlie, okay?
01:07:24.000 Yeah, by the way, promo code Kirk at mypillow.com.
01:07:26.000 I'm watching you, okay?
01:07:28.000 And those Giza dream sheets...
01:07:32.000 Slippers.
01:07:33.000 Lucas knows that I'm talking about those slippers.
01:07:35.000 It's the man in the arena that counts.
01:07:37.000 Get in the arena, fight to save the country, glorify God in all that you do, and this country will be saved.
01:07:42.000 God bless you guys.
01:07:43.000 Thank you.
01:07:43.000 Amen.
01:07:44.000 Amen.
01:07:44.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
01:07:46.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:07:48.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.