The Charlie Kirk Show - May 19, 2025


Ask Charlie Anything 224: Chinese All-Cash Buyers? Biggs for Arizona? Conquering California?


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Turning Point USA has become one of the most impactful Christian organizations in the country, and it s all thanks to the work of a man named Charlie Kirk. In this episode, Charlie talks about the impact that Turning Point USA is making on America's colleges and universities, and why it's important to have a Christian presence on campus.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here, live from the Bitcoin.com studio.
00:00:04.000 Ask Me Anything episode of one of our best member calls ever.
00:00:07.000 If you want to join these member calls, it's members.charliekirk.com.
00:00:10.000 We talk about the impact that we're making on college campuses.
00:00:13.000 Why is it that housing prices keep going up?
00:00:15.000 Is there something wrong with the fact that moms have to go right back into work after having a kid? 1.00
00:00:21.000 Am I optimistic about California?
00:00:23.000 And why is it that we're unable to stop men from winning female sports championships?
00:00:28.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:31.000 Become a member today, members.charliekirk.com.
00:00:34.000 And get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa.com.
00:00:37.000 That is tpusa.com.
00:00:39.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:40.000 Here we go.
00:00:41.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:43.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:45.000 I want you to know we are lucky.
00:00:47.000 To have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:48.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:51.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:53.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:54.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:02.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:39.000 Okay, everybody, welcome back.
00:01:41.000 Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:01:43.000 It is a beautiful Friday here.
00:01:45.000 We have the members call.
00:01:47.000 That is members.charliekirk.com.
00:01:50.000 Members.charliekirk.com.
00:01:52.000 If you want to join the show, you can become a member.
00:01:55.000 Ask whatever you'd like.
00:01:56.000 Our first member question is from Donna.
00:01:59.000 Donna, thank you for being a member.
00:02:01.000 Happy Friday.
00:02:02.000 What is on your mind?
00:02:05.000 I'm just curious, when you go to the colleges and universities, how many of those students come to faith when you're there?
00:02:14.000 Great question.
00:02:15.000 You have a little bit of a reverb, Donna, so we're going to mute you while I answer that question. 0.82
00:02:19.000 So, the answer is quite a few.
00:02:21.000 Now, we don't tabulate it, but I would make an argument that, because we get hundreds of emails, thousands of testimonials, people that are constantly saying, Charlie, I'm going back to church because of it, because of you, because of your videos, because of your campus attendance.
00:02:34.000 I would say at least thousands.
00:02:36.000 And we had well over 38,000 people that attended in-person my campus event this semester.
00:02:42.000 In fact, our team, yesterday we had a really great C-level meeting at Turning Point USA.
00:02:49.000 They had a great report.
00:02:52.000 100,000 students attended our events in-person this semester.
00:02:58.000 I want you to think about that.
00:02:59.000 100,000 students attended our events in person this semester on campuses across the country, and that doesn't include high school.
00:03:07.000 That is a remarkable accomplishment, everybody.
00:03:10.000 Remarkable.
00:03:11.000 When you have 100,000 students that attend your events in person, no one comes close.
00:03:18.000 I'm not here to criticize the other Christian campus groups, but I will say this.
00:03:23.000 I never see them on campus usually.
00:03:24.000 I don't think they're really moving the dial.
00:03:27.000 I don't think that they're really preaching the gospel in the way that is biblical and scriptural.
00:03:31.000 And I would make an argument that what we are doing, even though we are not a quote-unquote ministry the way that young life is, I think that what we are doing is actually bringing more people to faith, more people to a belief in God,
00:03:47.000 than even some of these very well-funded Christian ministries on campuses are.
00:03:51.000 I'm not trying to criticize Campus Crusade and all that, but I don't see them on campus.
00:03:55.000 I don't feel they're There really is no aura where we're able to draw thousands of people and talk about the Lord, talk about Jesus, and of course talk about America, conservative principles, to bring back purpose.
00:04:08.000 It goes back to one of my favorite books.
00:04:11.000 I encourage everybody in this audience to read this book.
00:04:13.000 If there are like five books you should read in life, this is one of them.
00:04:17.000 It is Man's Search for Meaning.
00:04:20.000 Viktor Frankl makes...
00:04:21.000 An explicitly biblical argument and spiritual argument in the book, which is outside of food and outside of water, man's greatest need is meaning.
00:04:32.000 It is not sex.
00:04:34.000 It is not notoriety.
00:04:37.000 It is not popularity.
00:04:39.000 It is purpose and it is meaning.
00:04:41.000 In fact, he proves in the will to meaning in this book, Man's Search for Meaning.
00:04:47.000 He proves that in the concentration death camps of which he was subject to it, the people that happen to live at a much higher correlation and survive terrible sicknesses and diseases were ones that had the meaning.
00:05:01.000 And there's a lot of scientific data to show this, that you can literally die of a broken heart, that people that give up hope, they're more likely to die, more likely to have their body just give up, that your immune system is actually tied to your purpose and your teleological aim.
00:05:15.000 So the answer is quite a few.
00:05:17.000 Give their life to the Lord, and we hope to have that increase.
00:05:19.000 And I only wish that there were evangelists willing to go sow into the harvest right now.
00:05:25.000 But I'm not seeing it.
00:05:26.000 I'm not seeing enough pastors.
00:05:27.000 I'm not seeing enough people on campus that are willing to lean into this moment.
00:05:32.000 Instead, I see far too much wokeism and the weak, fake gospel being taught on many of these campuses.
00:05:38.000 Jeff, thank you for being a member at members.charliekirk.com.
00:05:41.000 What is on your mind?
00:05:42.000 Hello, Charlie.
00:05:43.000 Thanks for all you do.
00:05:46.000 In my humble opinion, Carrie Lake should be the current Senate Governor of Arizona, but that didn't happen because of voter fraud. 1.00
00:05:56.000 And I am all for Andy Biggs, but in your opinion, has enough been done to clean up voter fraud in Arizona so that...
00:06:06.000 Andy Biggs and other mega candidates can actually be elected and put into office.
00:06:12.000 Great question.
00:06:13.000 So the first answer is, we don't know, but probably yes.
00:06:18.000 And the reason being, of course, President Trump won the state by nearly 200,000 votes.
00:06:22.000 And it's because we embraced early voting and we did ballot chasing, which increases our ability to not have a bunch of machines fail on Election Day.
00:06:31.000 So I think we proved in 2024 that we can win statewide.
00:06:35.000 Also, just so we are clear, we just had a major legal decision where we just removed a bunch of non-citizens and questionable people from our voter rolls here in Arizona.
00:06:45.000 A huge decision that was not covered.
00:06:47.000 But look, no election is going to be perfect.
00:06:50.000 Nothing is going to be, you know, 100% precise.
00:06:52.000 But this is a fact, and this is why I believe Andy Biggs can be governor of Arizona.
00:06:57.000 Of course, obviously, and that's why we endorsed him, is that Donald Trump won the state in Arizona more than any other battleground state.
00:07:06.000 It's the best-performing battleground state.
00:07:08.000 That's remarkable.
00:07:09.000 And we won House seats, and we won legislative seats, and it was large in part thanks to our Turning Point Action ballot-chasing operation.
00:07:17.000 So Andy Biggs is a disciplined guy.
00:07:19.000 He's a conservative guy.
00:07:21.000 He's a family guy.
00:07:22.000 And I will also notice this.
00:07:24.000 Some people say, well, Andy Biggs can't win a general election.
00:07:27.000 Well, first of all, Andy Biggs is the only person running who's actually ever been elected to something.
00:07:32.000 So that's a weird contention.
00:07:33.000 Number two.
00:07:35.000 Be careful thinking that a more moderate candidate can automatically win statewide.
00:07:39.000 Just say that to Senator Martha McSally. 0.99
00:07:41.000 She lost twice statewide, being a moderate candidate from Tucson.
00:07:46.000 Did work.
00:07:47.000 Thirdly, do you know that one out of all three people in the Phoenix metro area live in the East Valley?
00:07:53.000 It is a largely forgotten ingredient to the Arizona political formula.
00:07:58.000 The East Valley, of course, is Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert.
00:08:01.000 Queen Creek.
00:08:01.000 This tends to be a very Mormon population.
00:08:04.000 Andy is LDS.
00:08:05.000 They tend to have undervoted for Republicans in recent years.
00:08:10.000 They have significantly undervoted.
00:08:12.000 The main reason being is they might not like Trump or they were too tied to Jeff Flake or whatever.
00:08:18.000 Andy will run up the score in the East Valley, and that is in Mesa and Chandler and Apache Junction.
00:08:25.000 Why?
00:08:25.000 He represents that area.
00:08:27.000 And he is very well respected.
00:08:29.000 He was a state legislative candidate there, office holder there.
00:08:33.000 So for all those reasons, and I believe that Andy Biggs could actually be a better election candidate versus a more moderate candidate.
00:08:40.000 And let me make a third argument, is that...
00:08:43.000 If we are trying to rebuild the Trump coalition, where Trump won this state by nearly 200,000 votes, yes, of course, moderates matter.
00:08:52.000 But do they matter as much as the hundreds of thousands of working men that may not vote in the midterms?
00:08:58.000 I can make an argument someone more in the Trump mold in November of 2026 in a statewide election is actually more likely to defeat Katie Hobbs than someone that is a more moderate kind of lookalike of Katie Hobbs.
00:09:12.000 Nothing against the attempt to try to run a more moderate candidate.
00:09:15.000 I know the intent.
00:09:16.000 The intent is like, look, we want to win back the governor's mansion.
00:09:19.000 But I would actually say that Andy Biggs being more conservative is not a disadvantage.
00:09:24.000 It is actually an advantage to winning the governor's race in Arizona.
00:09:29.000 Or else the plumbers, the welders, electricians, the young men on campus that I talk to, they are going to need a reason to go vote.
00:09:36.000 And a more MAGA-type candidate.
00:09:38.000 Is one, in a lower turnout election like we are going to see in 2026 versus 2024, someone like Andy Biggs is, in my opinion, a no-brainer.
00:09:47.000 So one out of three voters from the East Valley, and not to mention the rules.
00:09:51.000 If you run a more moderate candidate, the counties like Cochise and Yuma, the counties that are very, very conservative, they tend to have an under-representation.
00:10:03.000 They tend to under-vote.
00:10:05.000 And we want to see candidates.
00:10:07.000 That are able to communicate in Yavapai, which is a very conservative candidate, and run up the score there.
00:10:14.000 So to answer your question, yes, I have full faith that Andy Biggs can win.
00:10:18.000 We've made some changes.
00:10:19.000 We need to make even more.
00:10:20.000 But President Donald Trump winning by 200,000 votes in 2024 is evidence that a Republican can win statewide here in Arizona.
00:10:27.000 And I hope to win back the attorney generals, the secretary of state, and the governors.
00:10:31.000 And Andy Biggs being at the top of the ticket will give us a great advantage to do that and will help us tremendously.
00:10:36.000 To make J.D. Vance the 48th President of the United States in 2028, because this state will matter significantly in the 2028 map.
00:10:45.000 Let's go to our next member here, Matt.
00:10:47.000 Matt, thank you for being a member.
00:10:48.000 How are you doing?
00:10:49.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:10:50.000 Can you hear me?
00:10:50.000 Yes, I can.
00:10:51.000 Wonderful.
00:10:52.000 Well, good afternoon here on the East Coast, and thanks for everything you do.
00:10:55.000 My question would be around Senate candidates for Georgia and North Carolina, certainly pivotal states.
00:11:01.000 Kemp, obviously, choked, I think, probably with pressure.
00:11:05.000 Along with kind of the Sununu GOP establishment type kind of crew to keep MAGA from advancing in 28 or 26. Any thoughts on candidates in those, Georgia and North Carolina?
00:11:18.000 So keep going.
00:11:19.000 Sorry.
00:11:20.000 No, just any thoughts on, you know, do we have any candidates in the works?
00:11:23.000 I know Georgia's bench is pretty light.
00:11:24.000 North Carolina, we've got a couple options.
00:11:26.000 Clearly, it's one of our strongest state parties with Wally, Lara, etc.
00:11:29.000 Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
00:11:30.000 Yeah, no, that's a great question.
00:11:31.000 So, yeah, thank you.
00:11:32.000 Sorry.
00:11:32.000 The connection was not great for me.
00:11:34.000 Feedback was there.
00:11:36.000 Not your fault.
00:11:37.000 So Michael Watley is the chair of the RNC.
00:11:39.000 I like Michael Watley.
00:11:40.000 I get along great with him.
00:11:42.000 And he's been very good to me.
00:11:43.000 He's been a very honest broker.
00:11:45.000 I've got to be honest.
00:11:46.000 A big upgrade from Rana.
00:11:48.000 Michael's always been a straight shooter.
00:11:49.000 He's from North Carolina.
00:11:50.000 I think, look, if Tom Tillis doesn't run, look, I only hesitate.
00:11:55.000 Do we really need another bloody primary?
00:11:57.000 Maybe we do.
00:11:58.000 Because maybe we just got to make an example out of Tom Tillis.
00:12:00.000 What he did to Ed Martin was so wrong and was just so...
00:12:05.000 Inexcusable.
00:12:06.000 And so I think Michael Watley would be a Trump loyalist.
00:12:09.000 He'd be great.
00:12:10.000 I have no idea if Michael Watley would be as conservative as I'd like, but who knows?
00:12:14.000 Honestly, he could win.
00:12:16.000 Tillis is no good.
00:12:17.000 And so I don't think Laura Trump will do it, but I think Michael Watley would be a phenomenal potential replacement there.
00:12:26.000 Someone who could win a general election, someone who's got the Trump endorsement.
00:12:29.000 So I think Watley would be someone worth considering for sure.
00:12:33.000 Thank you, Matt.
00:12:35.000 Sorry, Charlie.
00:12:36.000 With Kemp not running, our Georgia bench is even lighter than North Carolina on a statewide level.
00:12:42.000 With Raffensperger and Duncan, all those guys, and Chris Carr, the whole team there.
00:12:48.000 I don't even know.
00:12:49.000 Would Collins consider leaving the VA?
00:12:53.000 Is there anybody that can win a statewide out there?
00:12:55.000 Yeah, man.
00:12:56.000 That's such a good question.
00:12:57.000 You know who I wanted was David Perdue.
00:13:00.000 But David Perdue is a U.S. ambassador to China because Perdue was a former—yeah, keep going.
00:13:05.000 Yeah, sorry.
00:13:05.000 Continue.
00:13:06.000 Is a Loeffler redux an option?
00:13:08.000 I mean, I know we're kind of scraping the bottom here, but Ossoff, he is just a nobody, and he's kind of a fool.
00:13:14.000 He's sort of like a theater kid, white Obama, and he needs to be beat. 0.73
00:13:20.000 Georgia is our state.
00:13:21.000 Let's go.
00:13:21.000 And he's very beatable.
00:13:23.000 With the right candidate, he is very, very beatable.
00:13:26.000 I don't have a great answer for you.
00:13:28.000 I don't know Georgia politics that well.
00:13:29.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene has declined running, so she has said she's not going to run.
00:13:35.000 So it's a kind of open question, and I would love to see a good candidate kind of pop up.
00:13:39.000 Honestly, I think that if we just kind of run a normal Georgian, no novelty stuff, I think we got a good chance. 1.00
00:13:47.000 I think that the state wants just kind of a normal Georgian-type candidate.
00:13:53.000 Thanks so much, man.
00:13:54.000 Thanks for being a member.
00:13:56.000 God bless you.
00:13:56.000 Happy Friday.
00:13:57.000 Let's go to David.
00:13:58.000 David, what is on your mind?
00:14:00.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:14:02.000 You hear me okay?
00:14:03.000 Yes, David.
00:14:04.000 How are you?
00:14:05.000 Okay, good.
00:14:06.000 Question here.
00:14:07.000 Got two questions.
00:14:08.000 We're in Communist California, and we want to know how we can battle the rogue judges.
00:14:14.000 We have a boy running in a girls' event.
00:14:22.000 I'm aware of it.
00:14:24.000 A.C. Hernandez.
00:14:26.000 A.B. Martinez.
00:14:27.000 Yes.
00:14:28.000 And what's your thoughts on that?
00:14:31.000 How do we, you know, how do we corral it, I guess?
00:14:41.000 Well, first of all, your governor who told me that he doesn't like men and women's sports should do something about it.
00:14:46.000 I actually texted him this morning.
00:14:47.000 I'm not going to say what I texted out of, I want to have some level of confidentiality there in case he actually does something.
00:14:54.000 I'm not holding my breath.
00:14:54.000 But essentially, I'll tell you the essence of it.
00:14:57.000 You said you're against this.
00:14:59.000 Why don't you stand up against it?
00:15:00.000 I want to actually keep you up to the break.
00:15:02.000 There is a piece of tape that I sent this morning of this man bragging about how he's going to win the state title.
00:15:12.000 I sent it this morning.
00:15:13.000 Is that even registering as you're competing?
00:15:18.000 Honestly, no.
00:15:19.000 I'm still a child.
00:15:20.000 You're an adult, and for you to act like a child shows how.
00:15:25.000 You are as a person.
00:15:28.000 Nothing I can do about people's actions.
00:15:30.000 Just focus on my own.
00:15:31.000 On Saturday, other competitors beat Hernandez in two of her three events. 0.70
00:15:35.000 She won first place in triple jump.
00:15:38.000 She is not currently ranked nationally, and she has been outperformed by over two meters in her jumps by girls competing in states that have banned gender-affirming care.
00:15:48.000 All I thought was, I don't think you understand that this puts your No, no.
00:16:02.000 You lost to a girl.
00:16:03.000 You lost to a girl.
00:16:05.000 We'll be right back.
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00:17:04.000 And just to be clear, that AAB Hernandez is probably going to win the state championship.
00:17:20.000 And just so we are clear...
00:17:22.000 Not every single biological man can beat a biological woman in every single competitive sport. 0.84
00:17:28.000 However, 890 medals have been stolen, and this man is likely going to win that accomplishment.
00:17:34.000 And so the moral insanity and the perverse nature of the left is on full display and likely going to win the state championship.
00:17:47.000 And of course, Democrats are doing nothing about it.
00:17:49.000 And the judges are doing nothing about it.
00:17:51.000 Because the worldview of the left rejects any distinctions of male-female.
00:17:56.000 They reject any male-female distinctions.
00:17:59.000 They do not exist.
00:18:00.000 They believe they are constructs, not biological realities.
00:18:03.000 We believe that they are biological realities rooted in a natural law designed by a creator.
00:18:08.000 They believe they're just social constructs.
00:18:11.000 So, I don't have a good call to action other than we need to just keep on...
00:18:16.000 Making a big stink out of it, but this man is likely going to steal and to cheat a medal away from a woman.
00:18:23.000 I actually believe, of all the culture war issues, I'm the most optimistic here.
00:18:29.000 I think we're going to win this one in the long run.
00:18:31.000 They made the full culture war push and they failed.
00:18:33.000 It was too ridiculous.
00:18:35.000 And honestly, I mean, the Democrats, the fact that they are holding onto this, it's only going to continue to be a political win for us in the midterms and a political win for us in the general election.
00:18:45.000 So the more they hold on to it, the worse they're going to be politically.
00:18:49.000 But eventually, I think we are going to deliver a final death blow to this cult.
00:18:54.000 I really believe it.
00:18:55.000 I think we're going to win in the wrong run.
00:18:57.000 I think it is so outrageous.
00:18:59.000 It's so ridiculous.
00:19:00.000 It's such an affront to our senses that I do think we're going to win.
00:19:04.000 So one more question.
00:19:07.000 So say she wins the state title.
00:19:11.000 She's jumping.
00:19:11.000 Actually, she's jumping the triple jump.
00:19:13.000 She's four feet. 0.99
00:19:15.000 Longer than the second place.
00:19:18.000 So what happens to that?
00:19:19.000 She gets this title, or she gets this record.
00:19:25.000 What girl is going to beat that? 1.00
00:19:28.000 Right.
00:19:28.000 I have to keep correcting you.
00:19:29.000 It's not a woman. 0.95
00:19:30.000 It's a he. 0.98
00:19:31.000 Yeah, it's a he. 1.00
00:19:33.000 Right.
00:19:33.000 But no woman is going to beat that.
00:19:35.000 And that's the point, is that male-female distinctions mean nothing, and they're going to receive the medal.
00:20:11.000 Thank you so much, David.
00:20:14.000 The Trump administration, I mean, we are so far left right now.
00:20:20.000 They're putting rubber snakes on the floor of the House so that the Speaker can say, see, I wasn't calling y 'all snakes.
00:20:28.000 There's snakes all over the floor.
00:20:29.000 It's just childish, petty craziness.
00:20:33.000 And our Republican leadership on the local levels say, oh, well, we don't...
00:20:38.000 Don't use the term rhino.
00:20:39.000 That's not nice.
00:20:41.000 Don't call out fake Republicans.
00:20:43.000 That's not nice either, and it's counterproductive.
00:20:46.000 So if we're not supposed to call them out, or we're not supposed to call them fake Republicans or rhinos, how are we supposed to root them out? 0.99
00:20:56.000 Great question.
00:20:57.000 You are a victim of your own success, and you are a great listener and member because the fact you mentioned the, quote, red state paradox warms my heart, which means that something I'm saying is being listened and internalized.
00:21:07.000 So if people understand, the red state paradox is when a state becomes too red and becomes too conservative.
00:21:12.000 It actually can work against you because then the Democrats run as Republicans and there is not a competitive Republican-Democrat dynamic.
00:21:19.000 Therefore, they infiltrate the Republican Party and these are people that just want to be elected to anything.
00:21:23.000 They are the kind of quasi-narcissistic sociopathic types that will do whatever possible to get political power and say the things and learn the phrases and learn the mantras and they will infiltrate your party.
00:21:34.000 Can I give you an example?
00:21:37.000 Former Democrat County chair, all the way back to Carter, I have some recommendations,
00:22:04.000 and part of it is that Texans have to start acting like Texans again.
00:22:08.000 Thank you.
00:22:11.000 You have to get involved in your local Republican Party.
00:22:14.000 That is number one.
00:22:15.000 Number two, as the state continues to get more conservative, it's very clear of what a Republican actually stands for and what that means.
00:22:23.000 And a great example, and I'll just kind of leave it here because I could do a whole show on this, is the fact that more Republicans are not up in arms about Epic City, East Plano Islamic City, that is being put in Plano.
00:22:35.000 And you're aware of this.
00:22:36.000 Let me ask you.
00:22:37.000 I mean, you're a member.
00:22:37.000 You're tied into this.
00:22:38.000 You're smart.
00:22:39.000 How many of your fellow Texans either know about it or are read into it or have concern about it?
00:22:45.000 Everyone that I talk to has concern about it.
00:22:49.000 The problem is we can raise all kinds of cane And I am involved in our local Republican Party.
00:22:56.000 We try to be as active as we possibly can because we're trying to raise the alarm.
00:23:02.000 What is going on here?
00:23:03.000 But the people that are in leadership in our local Republican parties are very, like I said, don't say rhino, don't say fake Republican.
00:23:12.000 Everyone needs to get along.
00:23:14.000 And I don't know how to fight a battle if you're not fighting.
00:23:17.000 I agree.
00:23:19.000 Well, look, listening to this program and being a member...
00:23:22.000 It helps, I hope, fortify your worldview and strengthen you.
00:23:26.000 It does.
00:23:27.000 You are in the middle of a good problem.
00:23:29.000 And let me just leave you off with some encouragement.
00:23:31.000 It is much better to be stuck in a red state paradox than a blue state terror.
00:23:37.000 Our listeners right now in Colorado and in Illinois and in New Jersey to some extent and to Rhode Island, they say, I wish that we had a red state paradox.
00:23:49.000 You have a good problem.
00:23:50.000 Your problem is much...
00:23:51.000 Easier to fix than the California and the Hawaii problem.
00:23:55.000 Thank you.
00:23:55.000 God bless you.
00:23:56.000 Thanks for being a member.
00:24:19.000 Go to noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:24:23.000 Trey, thank you for being a member.
00:24:25.000 Members.charliekirk.com.
00:24:26.000 What's on your mind?
00:24:28.000 Hey, long time no talk, Charlie.
00:24:29.000 How are you?
00:24:30.000 Doing great.
00:24:31.000 How are you?
00:24:33.000 Good, good.
00:24:34.000 Well, I just wanted to say thank you.
00:24:35.000 I feel like I haven't gotten a chance to formally thank you for April 7th.
00:24:39.000 Man, that was the largest, we had the largest event ever held on Green Street at the University of South Carolina.
00:24:45.000 I mean, the energy and the crowd was completely unmatched.
00:24:49.000 And Trey, I have to just say, I'm sorry about the lightning.
00:24:52.000 I would have stayed for three to four hours.
00:24:53.000 I hope you know that.
00:24:56.000 So first, before we get to your question, educate the audience.
00:24:59.000 I believe you're our Turning Point chapter leader.
00:25:01.000 Is that right?
00:25:02.000 At Columbia?
00:25:02.000 Is that correct?
00:25:04.000 Former chapter president.
00:25:05.000 I just graduated this past Friday.
00:25:07.000 Very good.
00:25:08.000 I love the adherence to the technicalities, but you're still the Turning Point chapter leader in my mind.
00:25:12.000 Talk about what happens when we do one of these events.
00:25:15.000 What is the impact?
00:25:16.000 What is the vibe?
00:25:17.000 What is the ripple effect when we come and do an event on a college campus?
00:25:20.000 Walk our audience through that.
00:25:22.000 Absolutely.
00:25:23.000 So, I mean, when we brought Charlie out to Green Street, it was just a completely unmatched energy from the crowd.
00:25:31.000 I mean, we had 1,600.
00:25:34.000 It was the biggest event that we had on that street.
00:25:40.000 But all in all, I mean...
00:25:42.000 We, everyone is so, everyone in that crowd was so open-minded to just hearing what you have to say and you're able to just change a lot of minds and a lot of perspectives.
00:25:52.000 We saw, I mean, we've completely, since the 7th, I mean, we've completely changed the culture on campus.
00:25:58.000 Yeah, talk about that.
00:25:59.000 Talk about what happens post-leaving.
00:26:01.000 That's what gives me the real, the real affirmation.
00:26:04.000 Please continue.
00:26:05.000 Those that were independent started to shift more conservative and the conservatives.
00:26:11.000 Became even stronger conservatives.
00:26:13.000 I mean, the impact and the effect that it had on the students was just...
00:26:22.000 That crowd was unlike anything that I've ever seen, and I've seen so much positivity from people.
00:26:30.000 I've gotten so many thanks.
00:26:33.000 And gratitude for bringing you out to campus that day.
00:26:36.000 And it warms my heart.
00:26:39.000 It really does warm my heart, Charlie.
00:26:40.000 This organization has changed my life, man.
00:26:44.000 And, you know, students are just so much more, you know, like, open to talking about their...
00:26:51.000 People are a lot more...
00:26:52.000 On this campus specifically, like, people are much more, you know, like, open to talking about their conservative beliefs.
00:27:00.000 And either...
00:27:02.000 And for Democrats as well, it's like they're all open and willing to discuss, you know, whatever's on their mind.
00:27:08.000 And that's what I really tried to make our weekly chapter meetings about is just engaging in and facilitating, you know, civil conversations and debates.
00:27:17.000 So it's been great.
00:27:19.000 It's a beautiful testimony.
00:27:20.000 Thank you for that.
00:27:21.000 And I don't know, what do you plan to do now that you're graduating?
00:27:24.000 Then we'll get to your actual question.
00:27:25.000 Well, I actually just applied for this political organization.
00:27:30.000 I don't know if you heard of it, but it's called Turning Point USA.
00:27:33.000 I'll put in a good word.
00:27:33.000 I'll put in a good word.
00:27:37.000 And I'm sure we'll be following up.
00:27:40.000 I'm also considering getting my broker's license within the next year or so as well.
00:27:45.000 So I'm going to be studying over the summer and then...
00:28:06.000 Right, right, right.
00:28:17.000 It got me thinking that there were a lot of...
00:28:20.000 I remember he was addressing the housing crisis and how the Trump administration is taking measures to ensure that we're bringing manufacturing back into the U.S. with...
00:28:38.000 I'm fading right now.
00:28:43.000 Bringing steel and semiconductors back into the U.S. for manufacturing domestically.
00:28:50.000 But really, what caught my ear was the housing crisis.
00:28:56.000 I feel like people my age are being forced to rent because of bigger corporations buying houses.
00:29:06.000 And those corporations are forcing people my age, Gen Zers, To rent and not buy, but we want to buy.
00:29:17.000 So my question to you, is the Trump administration taking any actions to mitigate this, what I could call a renting crisis, where bigger corporations will stop buying up houses?
00:29:39.000 So, yes.
00:29:40.000 So, homeownership, by the way, is critically important.
00:29:43.000 We want people to own.
00:29:43.000 This is by a tangent, by the way, why we went so hard on the Invest America idea earlier in the week.
00:29:51.000 We're going to have a whole other program when I get back from the debating at Oxford and Cambridge about the Invest America because owning stuff matters.
00:30:01.000 It's worth considering the penalties on the ownership of tons of housing by large firms.
00:30:07.000 I think that a prohibition on major firms buying single-family homes is something we should entertain because the problem is this, is that there are kids that are then being outbid of their dream home by Chinese cash buyers and major private equity firms with $10 trillion.
00:30:28.000 BlackRock comes in and buys a home, buys a single-family home, and a young...
00:30:34.000 The person's like, well, I finally got...
00:30:36.000 Think about how tragic this is.
00:30:37.000 There's this young couple that I know of in Phoenix, and their combined family income is about $110,000 a year.
00:30:46.000 They're doing pretty well.
00:30:47.000 I mean, in today's economy, it's not as well as it used to be, and they really want to own a home.
00:30:51.000 And they found their home, and they went to the bank, and they had to wrangle the bank.
00:30:55.000 It was months of meetings with the bank.
00:30:57.000 And back and forth with the bank, and finally, they were able to get...
00:31:00.000 A loan approval, and it was like their dream, and so they go and they put an offer on the house, and as soon as they finally have that house and everything is finalized, boop, they get a phone call from their realtor.
00:31:12.000 Sorry, you've been outbid by a cash offer.
00:31:14.000 By 5%, the house is now gone.
00:31:18.000 And so then they go back to the bank, and they have to go back to this whole process, and so they have to go find another house that fits their criteria.
00:31:24.000 This is happening every single day.
00:31:28.000 Real families.
00:31:29.000 Of young people are being outbid by major corporations and foreign buyers.
00:31:35.000 I'm sorry, there's something fundamentally morally wrong with that.
00:31:38.000 I'm a free market guy.
00:31:39.000 I'm all about free markets.
00:31:41.000 You will cease to have free markets if people don't own stuff.
00:31:45.000 It is definitionally prerequisite numero uno to a market, which is owning, not renting.
00:31:52.000 It's a no-brainer.
00:31:53.000 So while I'm not excited to have prohibitions on who can buy what, Number one, I think we can all agree the Chinese Communist Party coming in with cash buyers should not happen.
00:32:07.000 I think President Trump should sign an executive order prohibiting foreign nationals from China to be able to buy single-family homes.
00:32:15.000 I bet he could do that by just a national security executive order.
00:32:18.000 I have no idea the technicalities of it, but I bet he could.
00:32:21.000 Number two, which is more complicated, is why is it that our young people, that we have a social compact to, That we have sowed into, then have to go into the world.
00:32:34.000 They have tons of student loan debt.
00:32:37.000 They've done everything right.
00:32:38.000 They get married.
00:32:39.000 They're 28 years old, and they want to start a family.
00:32:41.000 And they have to go pile together all of their savings from families, from their family, and maybe even take out a loan from a family member to just get the down payment for their dream home.
00:32:52.000 And boop-de-da-poop.
00:32:54.000 The American dream gets stolen by a major firm.
00:32:57.000 I'm sorry, that's insane.
00:32:58.000 When you rent and you don't own, it creates a different incentive structure.
00:33:04.000 You view things differently.
00:33:06.000 You do not make improvements on a rental.
00:33:09.000 You don't have the same sort of honor or pride or understanding or connection to the asset.
00:33:20.000 You don't have the same community.
00:33:23.000 And I just keep going back to this, and Trey, thank you for the question.
00:33:26.000 I know we spend a lot of time on this, but you're terrific.
00:33:29.000 I keep going back to this mantra that was repeated by people I don't like.
00:33:37.000 And they told us that you will own nothing and you'll be happy.
00:33:41.000 I'm sorry, that creepy statement keeps on repeating in my head.
00:33:45.000 And then I look at the purchasing of all these homes to rent back to kids.
00:33:50.000 I say, is that what they meant?
00:33:52.000 I'm sorry.
00:33:53.000 I remember that.
00:33:54.000 I remember that.
00:33:54.000 I want young people to own lots of homes and to flourish.
00:33:58.000 Thank you, Trey.
00:34:02.000 What does a mechanic and auto shop owner in Georgia, a taco restaurant operator in Arizona, and a life-saving medical innovator in Tennessee have in common?
00:34:10.000 They're all small business owners, and they're all thriving on TikTok.
00:34:14.000 Across the U.S., over 7.5 million businesses, from family-owned shops to entrepreneurs, are using TikTok to compete and grow.
00:34:21.000 We use TikTok all the time on The Charlie Kirk Show.
00:34:23.000 In fact, 74% of businesses on TikTok say TikTok has allowed them to scale their operations, increasing sales, and expanding to new locations.
00:34:31.000 And that growth means jobs.
00:34:33.000 Today, there's over 7.5 million U.S. businesses on TikTok employing more than 28 million people.
00:34:38.000 And that number keeps growing.
00:34:40.000 Small businesses thrive on TikTok.
00:34:47.000 Yes, Myra, what's on your mind?
00:34:52.000 Do you have hope for California this coming governor election?
00:34:55.000 You know what?
00:34:56.000 I don't want to get your hopes up.
00:34:57.000 But if the stars align, I give you guys a 25% chance.
00:35:01.000 And that is much more than I thought I would say previously.
00:35:04.000 You can elect a non-Democrat governor of California.
00:35:11.000 Might have to be an independent.
00:35:12.000 I endorse Steve Hilton.
00:35:15.000 Steve Hilton is great.
00:35:16.000 Even though I've endorsed Steve Hilton, I'll say if Caruso runs for governor as a Democrat, that would be very interesting.
00:35:22.000 I'm just going to be honest.
00:35:23.000 A lot of people in California are upset with the status quo.
00:35:26.000 Cost of living is too high.
00:35:27.000 Homelessness.
00:35:28.000 Wealth gap.
00:35:29.000 Housing prices.
00:35:30.000 Am I optimistic?
00:35:32.000 No.
00:35:32.000 But I give you a 20-25% chance if the stars align.
00:35:35.000 And why is that?
00:35:36.000 San Francisco and LA are such heavy beasts to overcome.
00:35:40.000 If you just look at the numbers, it's so overwhelming.
00:35:44.000 It's so difficult.
00:35:46.000 Someone puts in our chat.
00:35:48.000 They're hellholes!
00:35:48.000 Yes, okay.
00:35:49.000 I mean, yeah, that's one way to put it.
00:35:51.000 All right, thank you.
00:35:52.000 I was over in Arizona.
00:35:54.000 Yes, keep going.
00:35:54.000 I was over in Arizona with my husband for the Commit 100 over in October.
00:36:00.000 Thank you for doing that.
00:36:02.000 We got to meet you in your studio.
00:36:04.000 Yes, I remember that.
00:36:05.000 Yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:36:06.000 It was your anniversary or your birthday or something, right?
00:36:08.000 Yes, exactly, yes.
00:36:10.000 Would we be able to use a TP commit 100 app here for the governor?
00:36:15.000 Yes, we are.
00:36:16.000 The Turning Point Action app will be operational in all 50 states.
00:36:19.000 And so we're excited to roll that out.
00:36:22.000 Although we will not have...
00:36:23.000 People on the ground full-time in California.
00:36:26.000 We will have activists like you.
00:36:28.000 And I could not...
00:36:29.000 California is like a second home.
00:36:30.000 Don't tell the California Franchise Tax Board that.
00:36:33.000 But it's like a second home in the sense where I spend a lot of time there, give a lot of speeches there, a lot of friends there.
00:36:38.000 My pastor's there.
00:36:39.000 We vacation there.
00:36:40.000 And I want to see California safe.
00:36:42.000 There's still a phenomenally amount, millions of decent people in California.
00:36:46.000 I can't say the same about Massachusetts.
00:36:48.000 I'm kidding.
00:36:49.000 No, I'm not.
00:36:50.000 All right.
00:36:51.000 I look forward to seeing you on June 30th.
00:36:52.000 Thank you.
00:36:53.000 Look forward to it as well.
00:36:54.000 Yeah, that's Pastor Rob McCoy's retirement party.
00:36:57.000 Looking forward to that.
00:36:58.000 Joseph, Joseph, what is on your mind?
00:37:00.000 You're the final question this week.
00:37:01.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:37:03.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:37:03.000 Do you know if there's any plans or actions and plans, even financial burden of child care, making it easier for parents to have more time at home, or just...
00:37:27.000 Yeah, I mean, look, first of all, God bless you guys.
00:37:30.000 Actually, I would love to do a longer conversation about this.
00:37:35.000 It is increasingly economically impossible for the wife to stay at home, and that is bad for the country. 0.90
00:37:43.000 It is bad for America if the wife wants to stay at home and the mom wants to stay at home, and you can't make that happen. 0.91
00:37:51.000 I do encourage families to try to think outside the box.
00:37:53.000 Try to really live within your means.
00:37:55.000 Vacation locally.
00:37:56.000 Use coupons.
00:37:58.000 Homeschool.
00:37:59.000 I will say this, that at Turning Point USA, we already offer three months maternity leave.
00:38:03.000 We just had a meeting.
00:38:04.000 We're probably going to extend that to six months for people that have been around for a certain while.
00:38:08.000 We've got to look through all the legal technicalities, but we want to be the most pro-family organization.
00:38:12.000 In the country.
00:38:13.000 And I have a lot of more thoughts on this, but it's more of a macro tragedy that it is not economically simple for a father to work and support the family and the wife or the mother has to go back into the workforce.
00:38:30.000 There is something structurally wrong with our economic configuration if moms are able to give birth and then 90 days they have to be back at a cubicle. 1.00
00:38:41.000 I find something wrong with that.
00:38:43.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:38:44.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:38:46.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:38:47.000 God bless.