In this episode, Charlie talks about the importance of having the tough financial conversations before you get married. He talks about who's in charge of the money, who's going to pay the bills, and what to do if you don't have enough to live on.
00:00:44.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:50.000We 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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00:02:27.000Methodical, transparent, very let's just say provocative conversations around finances means that you will have a healthier marriage.
00:02:37.000Talk early in your relationship about these things because people tend to avoid these conversations because they get too invested and they're afraid that these conversations might actually end up causing harm in the marriage.
00:02:52.000So while you are in this fiancé stage, it is very important that you get premarital counseling.
00:05:16.000But I see more marriages fall apart on the finance question.
00:05:20.000And then the other question, this is where premarital counseling should flush this out, but you guys have just got to do the work yourself as well.
00:05:54.000You see, you get married to your spouse and you're in that honeymoon phase and you might think, oh, I grew up where we open up the house and the whole neighborhood comes and it's great and all the kids are over and you constantly have people around and you...
00:06:11.000There's no right or wrong answer, by the way.
00:06:15.000We didn't have a lot of people over all the time, and it worked great.
00:06:17.000But I knew that there were people down the street where constantly there was just, that's the house where you went to go play, where there were barbecues, you went to the pool party.
00:06:38.000And then the final thing I'll say, again, I could do a whole seminar on this, I could write a whole book on this, is you have to isolate what are acceptable vices in your relationship.
00:06:50.000You must write down acceptable and unacceptable vices.
00:08:47.000And if you don't, you do not know male nature.
00:08:49.000God knew male nature so much, he built it right into the Decalogue.
00:08:53.000So, Gracie, I hope that's helpful, but just kind of the other components that are find a great church, find a really good pastor, And, as Aristotle would say, a marriage is at its best—he would say a friendship—but marriage is at its best when you're not just looking at each other, but you're both looking at Jesus, when you're both looking at God.
00:09:15.000When you make God the transcendent third, as Bishop Barron would say, in your relationship— You are lifting up the marriage where it's not just about yourself or about each other.
00:12:18.000The challenge is this, is that the AI people, the AI community, they claim there is just not enough American talent to be able to source the AI boom.
00:12:39.000Well, I think that the H-1B program was designed and it's understood to be for kind of gaps and holes.
00:12:46.000In the labor force that we can provide to fill.
00:12:49.000And it's become just a way to get a compliant labor force that will work for half the money and never complain because it will get deported because the sponsor will then leave.
00:13:50.000What H1B has become is a replacement of American labor for stuff that is like so abominable They're replacing, like, hairdressers and nannies.
00:14:20.000Well, and I hope your job's not replaced by H-1B, but we need to, it comes down to a fundamental thing.
00:14:26.000Do you believe American labor should be protected, or do you think it should just be a feeding frenzy and just a major open border, just source of bedlam?
00:14:37.000And they use H-1B for IT companies that are almost all H-1B staffers.
00:14:42.000They're just a giant immigrant core, basically all from India.
00:14:59.000We spoke a few weeks ago about the best presidents, but I wanted to talk to you a bit more since I recently became the president of Turning Point USA at Dallas Baptist University.
00:15:11.000So I was wondering if you could give me some advice on how to run the organization since I'm trying to get it off the ground.
00:15:17.000Well, first of all, thank you for wanting and for being a Turning Point USA chapter leader.
00:15:21.000My best piece of advice is be likable.
00:15:24.000I know that this is a strange piece of advice.
00:15:53.000You want to be firm in your belief system, but you don't want to be overly dogmatic in your present The first chapter that we had was at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
00:16:08.000It's our 13-year anniversary yesterday of Turning Point USA.
00:16:11.000I don't have time to tell the entire story, but so much of the conservative uptick on campus, thanks to Turning Point USA and the amazing Turning Point USA High School and College Chapter Network, partially is that...
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00:18:23.000I just wanted to know what your thoughts were on Elon's statement of Trump being on the Epstein list, what you thought his motive was, because it was a bit shocking, and I'm always concerned when people go after someone's character.
00:18:37.000So quickly like that, when they might be upset.
00:18:41.000I addressed this earlier in the program, but I don't anticipate everyone to watch.
00:18:45.000I also have an entire podcast on this.
00:18:46.000So two quick thoughts, and I'm not going to give you the full answer, Melissa, because it'll take like an hour.
00:18:51.000First of all, in the actual Epstein files that have already been released, Donald Trump was mentioned, but not in an incriminating way.
00:18:57.000He happened to run a club that Jeffrey Epstein went to and then got kicked out of.
00:19:01.000So just because you're mentioned in documents doesn't mean that you are incriminated in the criminal behavior.
00:19:06.000But let's also just kind of use some of our reason here.
00:19:08.000You're trying to believe that the Democrats who wanted to put Donald Trump in prison for 700 years, take away his business empire from him, be able to derail him.
00:19:26.000If they really wanted to embarrass Donald Trump, they would have just released this part of the Epstein files, and it would have just been potentially catastrophic for him.
00:19:34.000So, no, there's nothing incriminating there.
00:19:36.000And also, just so we are clear, Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer, David Schoen, has come out and has said Donald Trump has no incrimination whatsoever in any of the Epstein files.
00:19:47.000It is an untrue attack, and I hope the two are able to reconcile soon.
00:19:59.000We're in communist California and my question is how do we vet the new or we're trying to get rid of the supermajority and we want to get better people in there because the people that we have in California in the legislature are not listening to
00:20:32.000It's going to start, though, with winning over Hispanics.
00:20:48.000I actually think in the next 20 years we could turn California red, but it's going to take a lot of effort, it's going to take a lot of investment, and it's going to take a lot of time.
00:21:22.000Me being a legal immigrant here in the United States, I came to this country knowing that it's the greatest Christian country on the world.
00:21:32.000So just wanted to know your thoughts on if the legal immigration system or rather the process will improve in the future or will it stay as it is or might get like shut down.
00:21:45.000And for me, should I keep pursuing my American dream or should I be ready to give it up?
00:22:26.000But if you have demonstrated that you can assimilate, If you've demonstrated that you come here with skills, if you can demonstrate that you love the country, then we'll be open to that.
00:22:36.000People will be more okay with skilled immigration when we've sent back the flood of illegals and the fake asylum seekers and the family migration flood of this country.
00:22:47.000Besides my own opinion, though, let me tell you, Ashish, President Donald Trump is a very pro-legal immigration president, and so I think based on everything you've described about yourself, you have very little to worry about.
00:26:38.000Again, you guys can have any opinion you want.
00:26:42.000If you're secular out there, if you're atheist out there, and you are listening, it is inarguable that Western foundation was built on the foundation of the Scriptures.
00:26:52.000And if you want to take the Scriptures away, you're going to take the foundation of which the entire house is built.
00:28:21.000Do not cut for the life force that gave you life, or else you end up like cut flowers, where you have something beautiful for a little while, and then it shrivels and dies.
00:28:32.000Private student loan debt in America totals about $300 billion.
00:28:36.000About $45 billion debt is labeled as distress.
00:29:46.000And I've been wondering what the Trump administration may have up its sleeve to try to address the housing crisis amongst people of my generation.
00:29:57.000So we're just kind of fighting the battle out here and wondering what may happen.
00:30:03.000It kind of seems a little ridiculous to me that we've got something like 15% of houses in Phoenix owned by these big real estate companies.
00:30:35.000So that will increase under the Big Beautiful Bill.
00:30:38.000Number three, if we get a booming economy again, which I believe this Big Beautiful Bill does not cut as much spending as we'd like, but my goodness, we are going to see growth, then interest rates can come down.
00:30:49.000And once interest rates come down, that will be the signal for mass home building.
00:30:53.000And then finally, President Donald Trump will open up federal lands for homes, which we absolutely should do.
00:31:01.000The federal government owns way too much land out west.
00:31:04.000And by the way, I think we should really entertain banning these big conglomerates from taking up housing inventory.
00:31:10.000I don't think that you, as a father of five, an American, and we have a social contract and a compact to you.
00:31:17.000As a father of five, she has to compete against BlackRock for a home.
00:31:22.000I think that we should put you first and not have some big conglomerate swoop in with a cash offer if you're trying to get a house for your five kids.
00:31:58.000In California, you kind of answered it with the other members' question, but how do we kind of unite?
00:32:05.000I know Steve Hilton has his Golden Together, and Rick Grinnell has his Fixed California.
00:32:11.000But if we could take the turning point action and what you guys did with Arizona and your door knocking and boots on the ground, how do we get that going in California better for next year's primary especially?
00:32:25.000Because we've got to get a Republican across the finish line for the primary because we do top two here.
00:32:30.000And it's not just the governor, it's across the board.
00:32:33.000How do we get competent people into these offices?
00:32:36.000I don't know if you're familiar with the insurance crisis we have going on in California.
00:33:49.000As long as California is a blue state, it's frankly better in some ways to lose it by 5 million votes than like 500,000 because those Dems and Libs haven't left for Nevada or Texas or Arizona.
00:33:59.000But we're helping Steve Hilton in any way we can.