The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 234: Angry Young Men? Lonely Young Women? College's #1 Priority?

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio.

00:00:04.000 It's not good for men to be alone.

00:00:06.000 Why are men gravitating towards some dark stuff on the internet?

00:00:09.000 We address that.

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00:00:24.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:24.000 Here, we go.

00:00:25.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:27.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:29.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:32.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:36.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:37.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:38.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

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00:01:32.000 I actually want to start with a member email that we got.

00:01:36.000 It's very important.

00:01:36.000 It's from Stephanie.

00:01:38.000 And it's something I'm hearing more and more.

00:01:40.000 And I think I'm uniquely positioned to address it.

00:01:42.000 She says, Stephanie writes this, Hi, Charlie.

00:01:45.000 I'm a concerned parent of a 21 and 19-year-old man, young men.

00:01:49.000 I've seen some pretty big changes in my sons in the last 18 months.

00:01:52.000 Their attitudes about women, Israel, and even God have worsened.

00:01:57.000 I try to temper and dispute these fice out false ideologies, but I don't think I make a dent.

00:02:02.000 I'm praying constantly for the Lord to intervene and change their hearts and bring them back to Him.

00:02:07.000 However, I wondered if you consider doing a show on this.

00:02:09.000 Many, maybe touch on some false teachings by conservatives that are brainwashing young men to hate women, Israel, and even question Christianity.

00:02:16.000 I think parents should be aware and equipped to help their sons.

00:02:19.000 I feel like you have a platform to do this.

00:02:21.000 Thank you so much for your time.

00:02:22.000 I want to lead by this because there's a lot of different reasons for this.

00:02:25.000 Let me first start as to why this is happening and then how we address it.

00:02:29.000 The first, of course, is the why.

00:02:31.000 Young men are entering a disordered society. 1.00

00:02:34.000 It's disordered in dating.

00:02:36.000 It's disordered in male-female relations. 1.00

00:02:39.000 It's disordered economically.

00:02:41.000 Young women are more empowered to engage in the venom of feminism where they just want free sex and that they want nothing to do with men in any sort of deep relationship. 0.97

00:02:53.000 I experienced this recently where I spoke to a couple of young women at a certain event I was at, and they're like, We just use men for sex, money, and dinners. 0.99

00:03:04.000 Wow, it's pretty dark.

00:03:05.000 So, young men are souring on male-female relations.

00:03:10.000 Secondly, the economics drives some of this, but not all of this.

00:03:14.000 It's in disordered economic environment.

00:03:17.000 It's harder than ever to buy a home.

00:03:18.000 Rents are going up.

00:03:20.000 But there's a second part to it that I think sometimes is missed here.

00:03:24.000 So, the first of which we need to talk about why it's happening, but then also realize that it's actually not excusable that you engage in this.

00:03:32.000 So, I want to play this TikTok here.

00:03:33.000 This is from a young man.

00:03:34.000 It's gone very viral, and he's articulating some of the economic resentment that drives this partially.

00:03:40.000 Play cut 442.

00:03:41.000 They tell us to stop eating out and rent $2,000 a month.

00:03:45.000 Oh, save for retirement, and yet you can barely save for next week.

00:03:50.000 Go buy a house.

00:03:52.000 Every house is half a million dollars, brother.

00:03:55.000 I'm not asking for a handout, man.

00:03:57.000 We're asking for a freaking fair shot at life.

00:04:01.000 Our parents did not work harder than we work right now.

00:04:05.000 They were simply just given a better chance.

00:04:08.000 Their wages covered their lives, their bills, their hobbies, their passions.

00:04:13.000 Our wages barely cover our freaking bills for the month, dude.

00:04:19.000 No amount of budgeting can ever fix a system designed to keep us down. 0.57

00:04:23.000 We're doing the best that we can, and yet it feels like the outcome has already been decided.

00:04:29.000 A lot of young men Feel that way.

00:04:31.000 They're getting priced out of this economy.

00:04:33.000 They can't afford homes.

00:04:34.000 So we have to build more homes, deport a bunch of illegals, end the H-1B scam, be harsher on crime. 0.97

00:04:39.000 All those things will help.

00:04:40.000 But what does it mean for you out there if you are a 19 or 20 or 21-year-old man?

00:04:46.000 Well, the problem is when you are economically disordered and societally and relationally disordered, you tend to find yourself engaging in bitterness and resentment politics.

00:04:55.000 And at that moment, we must call timeout.

00:04:58.000 It is all good, fair, and acceptable to say I can't afford stuff and it's wrong.

00:05:03.000 It's all good, fair, and acceptable and should be actually highlighted to say my parents had it easier than me.

00:05:09.000 I am with you.

00:05:10.000 There has been an intentional intergenerational thievery campaign to plunder and to steal your future.

00:05:17.000 But the question, the operative question is, what did you do about it?

00:05:21.000 Politically, we're working on it.

00:05:22.000 That's what Donald Trump wants to do.

00:05:24.000 However, this is where it gets a little bit dark because you can use that disordered reality.

00:05:32.000 You can use the fact that young people are on the outside looking in and you can mobilize it towards treacherous means.

00:05:42.000 There are a lot of voices out there trying to win over young men.

00:05:44.000 Now, mind you, I don't try to win over young men.

00:05:47.000 We try to speak truth.

00:05:48.000 And whoever likes what I have to say, they end up following me.

00:05:51.000 We have moms that follow us. 1.00

00:05:52.000 We have young women that follow us. 1.00

00:05:54.000 We have senior retirees.

00:05:55.000 We have veterans.

00:05:56.000 We have Hispanics. 0.96

00:05:56.000 We have Blacks. 0.96

00:05:57.000 We have Asians.

00:05:58.000 I would postulate that we have actually one of the most diverse audiences of anybody in the right-wing world.

00:06:05.000 We have Jews, we have secularists, we have atheists, we have Christians, we have Mormons, we have Catholics, because we don't pander.

00:06:12.000 We don't try to just have a little fringe, little corner.

00:06:16.000 And that's the key is some content creators, they just want to hold on to a fraction of the population, constantly feeding it what they want to hear.

00:06:24.000 And some people that are catering specifically to the resentment of young men, they might consider themselves be right-wing, but what they actually represent sometimes is very similar to the left rhetorically.

00:06:36.000 They promote resentment-based views of the world.

00:06:39.000 They promote blaming other people for your problems and not taking ownership of your life.

00:06:44.000 And that is key.

00:06:46.000 Yes, the rules are rigged against you.

00:06:48.000 Yes, you don't have it like your parents.

00:06:50.000 Now what?

00:06:51.000 You're going to complain and just stare at your screen all day long?

00:06:54.000 Are you going to go make yourself more physically fit?

00:06:57.000 Are you going to go to church?

00:06:57.000 Are you going to stop watching pornography and stop doing drugs and stop drinking alcohol and stop staring at your screen till 3 a.m.?

00:07:03.000 The question is not the environment, which is important and we must address, but the most important thing is what are you going to do with your agency?

00:07:12.000 On the left, you hear people say all the time, well, white people are racist and that's why minorities can't get ahead.

00:07:18.000 But on the right, this is key.

00:07:21.000 More and more you are hearing from some fringe voices is that you can't succeed because we're ruled by the Jews or some Zionist occupied government.

00:07:31.000 And that is the term they use.

00:07:33.000 It's easy to sell people on hating.

00:07:35.000 It's extremely seductive and shallow to tell people they can hate somebody.

00:07:41.000 And it's even morally justified.

00:07:43.000 People get into online subcultures, chats, groups that feed all of this.

00:07:48.000 And it's cycles of anger and negativity.

00:07:50.000 And then to have some compassion is they can't afford anything.

00:07:54.000 So they can't afford anything.

00:07:55.000 So that resentment is just a fire, it's unstoppable bonfire that is fed.

00:08:02.000 They can't afford stuff.

00:08:03.000 So they go back on the internet and they say, this is why you can't afford stuff.

00:08:05.000 And then they can't afford more stuff.

00:08:07.000 And then the women they want to date, the modern woman is just unfortunately. 1.00

00:08:11.000 Again, we have some wonderful, sweet women that work for us here at Turning Point of the Charlie Kirk Show. 1.00

00:08:15.000 But so many of the modern women are just so on the other planetary when it comes to what young men are looking for. 1.00

00:08:21.000 They don't want tradition or piety.

00:08:23.000 They want something completely different.

00:08:26.000 But here's the raw truth.

00:08:28.000 This is the key.

00:08:29.000 People who view themselves as the chief arbiters of success in life, they live better lives.

00:08:35.000 And we've always promoted that at turning point, always.

00:08:38.000 It's not that there are no problems.

00:08:40.000 There are a ton, especially for young people.

00:08:42.000 In fact, we are one of the few.

00:08:43.000 I went on Tucker Carlson's and I talked about BNPL.

00:08:46.000 And we talked about debt finance.

00:08:48.000 And we talked about homes and renting.

00:08:50.000 All that is legit and that it's fair game.

00:08:52.000 But we always, always, always, always say that those problems are fixable.

00:08:57.000 And they are fixable through our own actions. 0.95

00:09:00.000 And if you reduce some of the right-wing, quote-unquote, right-wing commentators that are saying this, you reduce it down to we'll get better once we kick out all the Jews. 0.99

00:09:08.000 Now, there's something dark about you, actually, if you're saying that. 0.99

00:09:11.000 Oh, it's going to get better if we just kick all the Jews out of the country. 1.00

00:09:14.000 If you are a young man today, there's honestly a ton of opportunity out there. 0.98

00:09:19.000 Unemployment is low.

00:09:20.000 The Trump economy is really heating up.

00:09:22.000 Learning skills are easier than ever.

00:09:24.000 College is less necessary than it was 15 years ago.

00:09:26.000 Salaries for skilled work in America are high, and there's a labor shortage.

00:09:30.000 In fact, people that are working in AI, they say there will be more millionaires created in the next five years than we're creating in the last 50 years.

00:09:35.000 Let me say that again.

00:09:36.000 There will be more millionaires created in the next five years than last 50 years.

00:09:41.000 You have a good idea for a business, go use AI and work with it.

00:09:44.000 If you have an idea for a movie, go use AI and try to publish it.

00:09:47.000 Don't just stare at the screen and go blame the people in the shadows that you don't like.

00:09:52.000 Instead, go be a champion and go on an adventure.

00:09:56.000 Own your future.

00:09:58.000 Don't blame somebody else because you don't have it.

00:10:00.000 Getting married is harder.

00:10:02.000 I agree.

00:10:02.000 It's hard to find a woman.

00:10:04.000 But you don't fix it by scrolling through endlessly.

00:10:08.000 And by the way, I think deep down, you know it's bad for you.

00:10:11.000 It's kind of like watching porn or doing drugs.

00:10:14.000 It doesn't make you feel good.

00:10:15.000 Here's a good rule of life.

00:10:16.000 If you feel worse after you engage in something repeatedly and you feel just broken and darker, it's probably not good for you.

00:10:25.000 Getting married is harder.

00:10:26.000 You fix that by going to church, getting engaged in a community.

00:10:29.000 Stop drinking.

00:10:30.000 Maybe you go to the Catholic church.

00:10:32.000 Maybe you go to a good evangelical church.

00:10:33.000 The point being is you look up, you don't look at your screen.

00:10:36.000 Look up at the transcendent.

00:10:38.000 Go read books.

00:10:39.000 Take a Hillsdale online course.

00:10:41.000 Go lose 10 pounds.

00:10:43.000 Go for a walk.

00:10:44.000 Turn off your phone.

00:10:45.000 Honor the Shabbat. 0.98

00:10:46.000 Learn a foreign language.

00:10:48.000 All of that is accessible to you.

00:10:49.000 You have a supercomputer in your right-hand pocket, and this supercomputer should be used for self-improvement, taking inventory, journaling, self-authoring, aiming at a transcendent destination.

00:11:01.000 Instead, you don't use this supercomputer for resentment and bitterness.

00:11:05.000 That is wrong.

00:11:07.000 And it's doable.

00:11:08.000 If you're fat, eat better and work out.

00:11:10.000 If you're poor, I get it.

00:11:12.000 The economy has not been in favor of you, but there are ways to still make money.

00:11:16.000 Take a second job.

00:11:17.000 If you're young and you have a lot of energy, figure it out.

00:11:19.000 Push yourself.

00:11:20.000 You will feel more satisfied and feel more connected to purpose. 0.98

00:11:27.000 Or you could do all that stuff or you can blame the Jews.

00:11:32.000 Choice is yours.

00:11:33.000 One will give you joy, purpose, children, and a future.

00:11:37.000 The other one, I think we know where that leads.

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00:12:47.000 Let's go to the next member, members.charliekirk.com.

00:12:50.000 Melissa, what is on your mind?

00:12:52.000 Can you hear me?

00:12:53.000 Yes, how are you?

00:12:55.000 I'm great.

00:12:55.000 I'm so excited to be on with you.

00:12:57.000 I'm a longtime listener.

00:12:59.000 And a couple of years ago, I was able to hear you speak at Baylor with my daughter.

00:13:04.000 Oh, wonderful.

00:13:04.000 I remember that event.

00:13:05.000 Yes.

00:13:07.000 Baylor's got some problems.

00:13:08.000 I'll tell you what, but that's for another time.

00:13:11.000 Another time.

00:13:12.000 Well, I wanted to talk to you today about my state of New Hampshire, largely inspired by you and other conservative voices.

00:13:20.000 I'm stepping out in faith, and I'm running for Congress in New Hampshire's first district.

00:13:24.000 Amazing.

00:13:25.000 Phenomenal.

00:13:26.000 Yeah.

00:13:27.000 And I've met your turning point action rep here, Davis Miller.

00:13:31.000 He's great.

00:13:31.000 He's at all of our local Republican events.

00:13:35.000 In fact, he's speaking at my town's committee meeting next week.

00:13:38.000 And I understand that you're hiring more field reps here and that you see our state as an opportunity to flip our federal seats.

00:13:46.000 I'm extremely optimistic myself, obviously being in the race and being on the ground here.

00:13:51.000 So I'd love to hear from you what you're seeing that makes you view our state as an opportunity.

00:13:56.000 And I'm also curious if New Hampshire will be one of your stops on your college tour this fall.

00:14:01.000 So great question.

00:14:02.000 I don't know if I'm coming this fall.

00:14:04.000 So we like New Hampshire for a lot of different reasons.

00:14:06.000 We're going to be investing pretty substantially in New Hampshire if we can raise the capital.

00:14:10.000 And even if we can't, we're going to have definitely a fighting force there.

00:14:13.000 So New Hampshire is interesting.

00:14:14.000 New Hampshire has two Democrat senators and Democrats have won New Hampshire every single year presidentially for the last 20 years, but it has a Republican governor, as you well know.

00:14:22.000 It actually has more registered Republicans than Democrats in New Hampshire.

00:14:26.000 Republicans control the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and they control a lot of the House of Representatives, a lot of libertarians, and very, very grassroots politics.

00:14:34.000 So we like that.

00:14:35.000 Their state house is extremely large, 400 members, one of the largest in the country.

00:14:39.000 And it's also growing with a lot of freedom seekers throughout the Northeast.

00:14:44.000 A lot of freedom seekers from Massachusetts and Connecticut and Vermont.

00:14:47.000 They are going to New Hampshire.

00:14:49.000 Now, the question is always the independents and how you mobilize them and how you reach out to them.

00:14:54.000 However, it is very, it's clear that New Hampshire, like Arizona, they will elect Arizona.

00:14:59.000 They will elect Republicans to statewide office.

00:15:02.000 So we want to try to invest in New Hampshire to possibly win a Senate seat or two Senate seats in the future.

00:15:07.000 And if you're able to do that, you're able to create another, you're able to create a red wall to counter the prior blue wall.

00:15:15.000 If the Democrats are able to win back Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, taking New Hampshire plus Nevada, it's basically like winning another battleground state.

00:15:24.000 And so I'm cautiously bullish on New Hampshire.

00:15:28.000 As you know, there are some really fast-moving towns and cities like Portsmouth and Nashaw and Manchester.

00:15:35.000 New Hampshire has an increasing population, which not every northeastern state does.

00:15:39.000 And I know I was just in Maine.

00:15:41.000 I know a lot of Mainers that are moving to New Hampshire for freedom and for lower taxes. 0.83

00:15:48.000 And there's a lot of spillover from Massachusetts, which people think is bad, but it's actually not.

00:15:52.000 A lot of the spillover is actually more right-wing, center-right people that are a little more conservative, that don't want to have the nonsense that they see in Boston or they see in Portland.

00:16:04.000 And so, again, New Hampshire is very local.

00:16:07.000 It is very grassrootsy.

00:16:09.000 My piece of advice for you is be everywhere, campaign throughout the entire state.

00:16:13.000 And even if you don't win, here's my piece of advice.

00:16:15.000 If you don't win, you could one day be White House press secretary.

00:16:19.000 Caroline Levitt ran for Congress. 0.82

00:16:22.000 We endorsed her.

00:16:23.000 She came on our show when she was just the congressional candidate, and now she is the White House press secretary. 0.99

00:16:28.000 So I believe running for office is good for you, even if you don't win.

00:16:31.000 It develops your character.

00:16:32.000 You get to know the state.

00:16:33.000 It boosts your name ID.

00:16:34.000 So don't look at it as victory or defeat, whether or not you win.

00:16:38.000 Look at it as victory, no matter what, that you are going to win, even if you do not win, and you could run again.

00:16:44.000 And it's a great thing for your kids and your family members to see that you are winning, even if you don't get the most amount of votes.

00:16:51.000 It's that kind of growth mindset.

00:16:53.000 You will become a stronger person and a stronger mom and a better neighbor and a better community member.

00:16:58.000 And again, look at Caroline Levitt. 1.00

00:16:59.000 Caroline Levitt did not win her congressional seat.

00:17:02.000 She should have, and everyone thought, wow, you know, what will her future be?

00:17:06.000 Well, now she's one of the most name-recognized ID people in the conservative movement, doing a fabulous job defending President Trump every single day as press secretary.

00:17:13.000 So work hard.

00:17:15.000 You're going to do great.

00:17:15.000 I hope to see you in the granite state.

00:17:18.000 And I think we're going to be visiting sometime soon.

00:17:20.000 Thank you so much.

00:17:22.000 I want to just kind of continue on this idea of growth mindset.

00:17:25.000 We live in the greatest country ever.

00:17:27.000 And some people are trying to convince you that we don't.

00:17:29.000 President Trump has improved this economy dramatically.

00:17:32.000 The one big beautiful bill is just kicking in.

00:17:35.000 There's never been a better time to start a business and have a growth mindset and make money than right now in the United States of America.

00:17:42.000 Yes, it's hard.

00:17:43.000 Things are expensive.

00:17:44.000 They are out of touch, out of reach.

00:17:46.000 Affordability is a massive thing, but the number one inhibitor to getting money is your psychology.

00:17:53.000 It's your mindset.

00:17:54.000 Fix that, and you'll be in a good spot.

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00:18:54.000 Julie, Julie, what's on your mind?

00:18:55.000 Members.charlikirk.com.

00:18:57.000 What's on your mind?

00:18:58.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:18:59.000 Well, thank you so much for taking my call.

00:19:01.000 I greatly appreciate it and thank you for everything that you do.

00:19:05.000 My question is basically regarding Arizona, because we have a huge governatorial race coming up, and I don't see that we've really addressed the voter ID and the problem with the machines and things like that.

00:19:20.000 And I thought that we were all gangbusters to go forward and get that resolved.

00:19:27.000 I don't see enough action coming up, and the election is right around the corner.

00:19:32.000 Any suggestions or thoughts on that?

00:19:35.000 Yeah, so I think that as far as so your question is about voter ID and voter roles, is that right?

00:19:42.000 Correct. 0.75

00:19:42.000 So I would say that, look, first and foremost, I agree that Maricopa is a cesspool of corruption and just complete and total nonsense. 0.75

00:19:50.000 However, I would add on top of it that we still won in 2024 without all of it, without all the kind of changes that we need.

00:19:59.000 You know, President Trump won by major margins.

00:20:01.000 We won by nearly 200,000 votes.

00:20:03.000 And so we still need to fix a lot of things in the Maricopa level.

00:20:06.000 We need to clean our voter rolls.

00:20:07.000 We need to take the illegals off our voter rolls. 1.00

00:20:09.000 But get out the vote and ballot chasing is still key to outvote the fraud and to outchase it.

00:20:15.000 So thank you so much.

00:20:16.000 Really appreciate it.

00:20:17.000 I got to get to get to some more.

00:20:18.000 Okay, what's next?

00:20:19.000 Daisy?

00:20:20.000 Dave.

00:20:21.000 Dave, what is on your mind?

00:20:22.000 Thanks for being a member.

00:20:23.000 Members.charliekirk.com.

00:20:25.000 Well, hi there, Charlie.

00:20:26.000 Thanks.

00:20:27.000 Appreciate you having me on the second time around.

00:20:29.000 So appreciate you, man.

00:20:31.000 Thank you.

00:20:31.000 Yes.

00:20:32.000 I wanted to run something by you real quick.

00:20:34.000 So props to Kane at Citizen Free Press.

00:20:37.000 These are two of them that he's had on recently.

00:20:39.000 So Winston Sears a week ago had tweeted out about the Virginia man who tried to abduct a child at a local mall.

00:20:50.000 And shocking, we come to find out that he's got 43 priors.

00:20:54.000 I don't know the actual citizenship status of the man, so I have to be fair in that regard.

00:21:00.000 But then there's another article from Alabama about a Haitian immigrant who is running from some legit, you know, for some legitimate reasons who seems to be pillar of the community.

00:21:12.000 So I'm kind of thinking a carrot and stick model here that I'd love to get your take on.

00:21:18.000 So number one, with legal enhancements, why can't we just add legal enhancements almost like tongue in cheek here, like a three-strike policy where we say, hey, we're going to put a, you know, first time, if you get a speeding ticket or something, you know, whatever, we're going to put an enhancement that's going to mark you for deportation.

00:21:37.000 Three times around, guess what?

00:21:38.000 We're tired of it.

00:21:39.000 So instead of letting you get to number 43, Charlie, let's get you at like five.

00:21:45.000 You know, but then at the same time, why can't we have a carrot?

00:21:49.000 You know, some grace, I don't know what you want to call it, where if I can get $50 million for rabid breeding habits from, you know, major universities, why can't I find enough money to put something like Hillsdale together that gives a program for people who want to be pillars of the community,

00:22:06.000 who are illegal, that learn our constitution, learn our form of government, learn to speak English, yada, yada, yada, and can be ready if and when we decide to turn this around and bring them into the community.

00:22:19.000 So I just wanted to get your take.

00:22:21.000 Two stories that got me going.

00:22:23.000 So first of all, I totally agree.

00:22:26.000 Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. 1.00

00:22:30.000 And just everyone knows there's a Virginia guy who kidnapped a kid.

00:22:33.000 He had 43 priors in Fairfax.

00:22:35.000 There's a lot of deportations that have yet to happen.

00:22:37.000 That's right.

00:22:38.000 He kidnapped a kid and he had 43 priors.

00:22:41.000 And this is, Blake called this, boy, Blake called this shot that we said we're afraid we're going to see an increase in kidnappings in this country.

00:22:49.000 And you can see the video right there.

00:22:51.000 And we are.

00:22:52.000 You know, we were kind of without a lot of kidnapping problems in this country for decades.

00:22:55.000 It was very, very rare.

00:22:57.000 Most of the times you guys hear the Amber Alerts, it's just a usually almost always a custody battle.

00:23:02.000 Well, we are now seeing a return of kidnapping thanks to the third world coming in because the third world, kidnapping is very, very normal. 1.00

00:23:12.000 Three guys did 200 Home Depot burglaries in the news today.

00:23:16.000 We are an invaded, infected country.

00:23:18.000 And for those that, those that have kids, it's horrifying to think about the amount of kidnappers that are just lurking around.

00:23:24.000 Again, kidnapping was not a problem growing up in this country.

00:23:29.000 Everyone would agree.

00:23:29.000 20 or 30 years ago, kidnapping was not a country, it was not a problem at all.

00:23:34.000 But now we're seeing more and more of it being a problem because we have imported a third world where kidnapping is normative criminal behavior.

00:23:42.000 You kidnap the kid of somebody wealthy and you hold them hostage against to go get some sort of ransom.

00:23:48.000 And people don't let their kids go outside by themselves anymore.

00:23:51.000 People say, what kind of country do you want?

00:23:53.000 I want a country where I feel my kids can go outside right now.

00:23:56.000 But with all the third worlders prowling around, I don't feel safe with that. 1.00

00:23:58.000 And you shouldn't either.

00:24:00.000 I mean, you walk the streets of New York City.

00:24:02.000 It is an occupied third world city now.

00:24:04.000 It's sad.

00:24:05.000 So that Virginia guy kidnapped a kid.

00:24:07.000 He had 43 priors, 43 priors.

00:24:11.000 And trick-or-treating is dying down because parents are just too scared.

00:24:14.000 We're a nation where we have locks and security systems.

00:24:16.000 That was not the country I grew up in.

00:24:18.000 The country I grew up in is like, oh, you didn't lock your doors, no big deal.

00:24:21.000 But you become a nation of strangers and you have rape gangs all throughout Europe.

00:24:26.000 People don't trust going to the mall, going to the park, no-go zones.

00:24:31.000 You become what you import far too often.

00:24:34.000 Britt is next.

00:24:35.000 Britt, what is on your mind?

00:24:37.000 Members.charliekirk.com.

00:24:39.000 Hi.

00:24:41.000 So now that I'm older, I am looking to date.

00:24:45.000 And I've just become really frustrated because I find that a lot of men nowadays, even though they're 30s, they're very disrespectful.

00:24:55.000 They expect you always to put out on the first date.

00:24:59.000 And if you don't, they ghost you.

00:25:02.000 And they just, they haven't been treating me my friends very well at all.

00:25:07.000 And they don't even seem to have like good careers or like the maturity level.

00:25:13.000 And I was wondering why you think this is and how we can find Christian conservative men who will treat us well.

00:25:22.000 So it's a very important question.

00:25:24.000 This is a major breakdown.

00:25:26.000 And again, we covered this earlier in the hour: the disordered social norms that we're living through. 0.68

00:25:32.000 Respectfully, if I had a young man, they would say that the women are the worst. 1.00

00:25:36.000 Women don't want any connection. 1.00

00:25:39.000 They dress way too provocatively. 0.97

00:25:41.000 They are constantly sleeping around.

00:25:44.000 They are entitled.

00:25:45.000 And both sides have grievances.

00:25:47.000 And so I don't really know the way to answer that, to be honest, except that you need to go to church, try to find a wholesome Christian man there, and save yourself for marriage.

00:25:59.000 And one of the most important things is maximize your contact with the world.

00:26:04.000 Not just going to church, that's important, but join organizations, join clubs, become a hobbyist, and be involved in things in your community.

00:26:13.000 You will not just meet people by staring at a screen all the time.

00:26:16.000 Okay, thank you.

00:26:17.000 We got to get to one more question here.

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00:26:23.000 Hi.

00:26:24.000 I just wanted to say congratulations for making it onto South Park.

00:26:27.000 That was such a great.

00:26:29.000 It was a great review of the whole team, too.

00:26:31.000 It was wonderful to watch.

00:26:33.000 It's epic.

00:26:34.000 And I'm wondering if you're going to create a chocolate Charlie Kirk award to give to special guests or sell.

00:26:40.000 I think it's a great idea.

00:26:42.000 I think it's great.

00:26:43.000 By the way, thank you.

00:26:44.000 But all you guys that are members of CharlieKirk.com, look how far we have come.

00:26:48.000 South Park had the Charlie Kirk Awards, and we'll just call them the Master of Debate Reward Awards.

00:26:53.000 There it is right there.

00:26:55.000 The Charlie Kirk Master of Debate, right?

00:26:57.000 We're just going to add a little word.

00:26:58.000 And you could see right there, I think we need to add it.

00:27:00.000 And by the way, people say, Charlie, are you going to do the Charlie Kirk Master of Debate Awards at Amfest?

00:27:04.000 I think we have no choice.

00:27:07.000 I think We have almost no choice.

00:27:10.000 So, thank you so much.

00:27:11.000 Really appreciate it.

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00:28:20.000 Matthew.

00:28:21.000 Thank you so much for answering my call.

00:28:23.000 So I'm heading out to Faith Baptist Bible College in Ankeny, Iowa.

00:28:28.000 This will be my first time going to college.

00:28:30.000 Great.

00:28:31.000 I was just wondering, how would you manage time between going to classes, working, and then, I guess, getting quote-unquote the college experience?

00:28:40.000 So it's a good question.

00:28:41.000 I never went to college, so I don't know.

00:28:42.000 And I mean, look, don't forsake the community.

00:28:44.000 That's why you're there, trying to meet your future wife.

00:28:47.000 But also, obviously, you're there for a reason.

00:28:49.000 You're not there just to have fun.

00:28:50.000 You're there to study and to learn.

00:28:52.000 And so you said you're going to a Baptist college.

00:28:54.000 Is that right?

00:28:55.000 Yes.

00:28:56.000 Yeah.

00:28:56.000 So I don't think drinking will be a problem at that college.

00:29:00.000 However, one of the best things about college is tons of young people to socialize with.

00:29:04.000 But again, you're going to a Baptist college.

00:29:05.000 You're not there to drink and party, but you're there to explore big ideas and have the tough conversations and to debate and have dialogue and disagreement.

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00:29:29.000 And that's the one thing that we've done really well here on the Charlie Kirk show and Turning Point USA.

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00:29:34.000 I say this as humbly as I can.

00:29:35.000 Our team works harder.

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00:29:38.000 Michael and the entire gang, they're here from like 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. sometimes accommodating my crazy schedule.

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00:29:47.000 Do an additional Bible study.

00:29:48.000 Do local politics.

00:29:49.000 Be involved in the Iowa primary race in 2027 to 2028.

00:29:52.000 It will not be boring if the Democrats don't get rid of it because they think Iowa's too white. 0.96

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00:30:03.000 Okay, next, let's go to Marissa.

00:30:05.000 Marissa's the last question today.

00:30:07.000 Marissa, she says, Hi, I would like to know where you think we should start looking to learn more about politics.

00:30:14.000 I found a new interest in politics.

00:30:15.000 I wanted to learn more, but from a reliable source.

00:30:17.000 Look, I hate to overly self-promote, but the Charlie Kirk show is a great place to start.

00:30:22.000 And we talk about it every day from a biblical worldview.

00:30:25.000 And according to Alabama, we're the second most listened to show behind Fox News.

00:30:31.000 And we love Fox.

00:30:31.000 I'm going to be on Fox News, I think, next week.

00:30:34.000 Last night, that was on Fox News, and it went very well.

00:30:37.000 It was phenomenal data that shows the power of this program.

00:30:40.000 And look, when you're able to build something, you're in a unique category.

00:30:45.000 And the team deserves all the credit of how we've been able to drive and create and take risks.

00:30:50.000 But building is hard.

00:30:53.000 And that is what makes us different in a conservative movement.

00:30:55.000 We've built organizations.

00:30:57.000 We've built trainings.

00:30:58.000 Right now, as I'm doing this, we're doing a pastor's training.

00:31:00.000 Right now, as I'm doing this, I have 230 full-time employees that are just in our high school and college department right now.

00:31:06.000 We got to raise over $100 million a year.

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00:31:19.000 Right now, as I do this, we have Blexit trainings.

00:31:21.000 We have our Turning Point Academy Homeschool Initiative.

00:31:23.000 We have our classical initiative.

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00:31:27.000 Right now, as I'm doing this, we have our social media team.

00:31:30.000 We got viral videos.

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00:31:35.000 Not to mention, we have all the other stuff that we're doing.

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00:31:42.000 It's hard to build stuff.

00:31:44.000 And I want to be a nation of builders and of risk takers.

00:31:48.000 And people call me a lot of names.

00:31:50.000 The one name I wish they would call me more is an entrepreneur.

00:31:54.000 Because that is true.

00:31:55.000 There's a lot of different things you can insult, but building is hard.

00:31:58.000 They say, oh, it's just because you got a little bit of money and raise money.

00:32:01.000 There's a lot of people in politics on the right and the left that have raised a lot of money.

00:32:04.000 Again, I'm not taking credit for it.

00:32:06.000 It's thanks to the glory of God and his mercy and his grace and his compassion.

00:32:10.000 And the team deserves the credit.

00:32:12.000 But what we, not I, but what we have built here is exceptional.

00:32:16.000 It is remarkable.

00:32:18.000 It's unique.

00:32:18.000 It's extraordinary.

00:32:20.000 It's something that rises above the rest.

00:32:23.000 And again, it's easy just to yammer endlessly and to complain.

00:32:27.000 A lot of people can do that.

00:32:28.000 But to build stuff that lasts, that's something that I'm most thankful for.

00:32:33.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:34.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:37.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 11, 2025

Ask Charlie Anything 234: Angry Young Men? Lonely Young Women? College's #1 Priority?

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