The Charlie Kirk Show - How to Rescue Your Children From Predatory Educators — Live from Amfest

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, my speech in front of the Turning Point Academy breakout at Amfest.

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00:00:44.000 Here we go.

00:00:45.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:47.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:49.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:52.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:56.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:57.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:58.000 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.

00:01:06.000 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.

00:01:15.000 That's why we are here.

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00:01:27.000 Well, good morning, everyone.

00:01:28.000 Welcome to Turning Point Academy's breakout session.

00:01:31.000 We're so glad that you're here and so glad that you got here early so you could be here.

00:01:37.000 We're really looking forward to this time.

00:01:39.000 And I just wanted to let you know that Turning Point Academy is not a school.

00:01:42.000 It's a movement of education to reclaim, revive, and reform education across the country.

00:01:48.000 And it's happening.

00:01:55.000 After our special guest speaks today, and we're going to have time for a little bit of Q ⁇ A after that, we're going to share a little bit more about Turning Point Academy, some things we think you'll be very, very interested in knowing.

00:02:06.000 But first, we want to show you this brief video just to give you a taste of what we're all about.

00:02:11.000 Watch this. 1.00

00:02:14.000 A California kindergarten teacher is facing outrage after discussing gender identity with her students.

00:02:20.000 New test scores show dramatic learning loss.

00:02:23.000 It's called SOGI for sexual orientation and gender identification.

00:02:28.000 We do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to.

00:02:33.000 Oh, that one?

00:02:37.000 There is a right and a wrong way to educate a child.

00:02:43.000 My good friend Charlie Kirk is taking on the left's agenda, launching Turning Point Academy.

00:02:49.000 For 10 years, you've been building a movement.

00:02:51.000 Now you're building schools.

00:02:52.000 I think this is a great opportunity in front of us.

00:02:55.000 Turning Point Academy is committed to reclaiming, reviving, and restoring virtuous, God-centered education through the seeding of 5C schools.

00:03:09.000 Our five C's?

00:03:11.000 Christian, classical, conservative, church-based, and cost-affordable.

00:03:18.000 With the start of schools across the country and with plans of several others in the works, we're also so thankful that we've been able to have educator summits across the country where educators from private, public, and homeschooling environments have joined us in Phoenix and also in Chicago.

00:03:37.000 Turning Point Academy is like that gold seal, that stamp of who we are and what we represent.

00:03:44.000 It's one of the hardest things I've ever done and already the most rewarding thing that I've ever done.

00:03:51.000 Everything that's going on in public education isn't just bad, it's actually evil.

00:03:57.000 And we have to provide a place where Christian families can go that their kids can know what's true.

00:04:02.000 We wanted somebody who was wise enough, who had the road wisdom, to walk with us.

00:04:06.000 And it was after we prayed that prayer that we got connected to Turning Point Academy, and they instantly became the most valuable partner that we've had in our journey, and they remain that to this day.

00:04:16.000 My child can read at a really high, high level.

00:04:19.000 He's reading really big books, and he's doing the omnibus classes with his other friends here.

00:04:24.000 It's a blessing, and God's going to bless everyone, just as he's blessing Turning Point Academy.

00:04:31.000 We're so grateful that we can make these opportunities available through the generous gifts and donations and contributions of a number of donor friends.

00:04:41.000 Another area is taking advantage of the various curricula that we have available.

00:04:46.000 We've developed a number of pieces of curriculum that we believe would be very helpful.

00:04:51.000 And then we would appreciate if you would consider being a part of our Turning Point Academy Association.

00:04:57.000 We are bringing together people from across the country as well as schools that share a common vision and desire to make a positive difference in the world of education.

00:05:07.000 And so we invite you to participate and be a part of making all of this possible as we seek together to bring reformation to education across our nation.

00:05:18.000 Join Turning Point Academy and Turning Point USA in doing the hard work to save America, one school at a time.

00:05:30.000 Turning Point Academy will restore the memory of the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:05:49.000 One of the things Charlie has said is that he's going to work harder in 2024 than he's done previously.

00:05:54.000 I don't think that's possible.

00:05:56.000 I do know that he's already speaking several times this weekend, and we're so grateful that he's willing and able to speak for us at our first breakout here at Amfest.

00:06:07.000 And as I think about Charlie, I think it's only appropriate that he is the first speaker because it was really his vision that launched Turning Point Academy a little over two years ago.

00:06:18.000 And we as a division are only about a year and a half old, so we're still growing and getting traction, but we're excited about what's happening.

00:06:27.000 I just want to say a word for the one person here that may not know Charlie.

00:06:31.000 So I'm going to just tell you very quickly that Charlie, as you know, is the founder of Turning Point USA, started in the northern suburbs of Chicago 11 years ago.

00:06:41.000 And fast forward to the present, Turning Point USA is now the fastest growing and largest student, conservative student organization in the country.

00:06:51.000 I think you know that.

00:06:53.000 I can't believe there'd be many conservative organizations that are larger in Turning Point USA in general.

00:06:57.000 But I want to tell you something that you may not know.

00:07:01.000 Charlie's influence extends so much beyond Turning Point USA, which we are so grateful for.

00:07:06.000 And I know that you are as well.

00:07:08.000 I just want to give you one or two really quick examples of that.

00:07:11.000 I was talking recently to a man who's very connected in the state of Florida in terms of Florida politics.

00:07:17.000 And he said, I don't think Charlie gets enough credit for electing, getting Ron DeSantis elected in the first election.

00:07:24.000 I share that only as an example of the way that God is actually using Charlie to have influence across the country in so many ways that we don't know.

00:07:33.000 But I want to share one other very, very quickly before Charlie comes.

00:07:36.000 I know many of you are teachers and educators, and I think this story will encourage you.

00:07:40.000 In the northern suburbs of Chicago, there is a faithful fifth grade teacher who taught for almost three decades in a Christian school in the northern suburbs of Chicago.

00:07:51.000 And this teacher, Mrs. Cindy Weber, would faithfully go up and down the aisles praying over the desk of her students, praying for her students, and really seeking their spiritual welfare as well as their educational welfare.

00:08:06.000 And during the course of her tenure as a teacher there at this school, there was a fifth-grade boy, tall or fifth-grade boy, who was always carrying a football around with him and always organizing the other students, she told me.

00:08:21.000 And she said, I saw leadership qualities in him.

00:08:25.000 During the course of that fifth grade year, in God's goodness and mercy, really, to him, but to all of us, that fifth grade boy committed his life to the Lord Jesus Christ.

00:08:38.000 And that set the trajectory of that boy's life.

00:08:45.000 And that boy was Charlie Kirk.

00:08:48.000 And little did Mrs. Cindy Weber know that her faithful prayers and shepherding of those students would impact literally millions and millions of people through Charlie Kirk.

00:08:59.000 And so I share that with you as those of you that are involved in education, whether homeschool, as a teacher, as an administrator, the impact that you are having and the potential impact you can have.

00:09:10.000 When I think of Charlie, I think of the words of G.K. Chesterton just a little over 100 years ago.

00:09:15.000 I think this is so true of Charlie.

00:09:16.000 He said, the true soldier fights not because he looks what is in front of him, not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

00:09:27.000 The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves that which is behind him.

00:09:34.000 And for Charlie, that's our Lord first and foremost, but also our nation.

00:09:39.000 And we're so thankful that Charlie is a true soldier and that we have the privilege of hearing him this morning.

00:09:44.000 Please join me in welcoming Charlie Kirk.

00:09:48.000 That's crazy, brother.

00:09:50.000 That was really great.

00:09:51.000 Thank you.

00:09:58.000 Hello?

00:09:59.000 Hello.

00:10:00.000 Great to be here.

00:10:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:10:01.000 All right.

00:10:02.000 That was really great, Hutz.

00:10:03.000 Give it up for Hutz. 0.71

00:10:03.000 He's doing a great job running Turning Point Academy. 0.71

00:10:08.000 Well, just so honored to see this turnout and so good to be able to see so many of you.

00:10:12.000 On stage, I only can see like a couple hundred, and it's just amazing.

00:10:16.000 So it's so great to see so many of your faces.

00:10:18.000 I'm going to speak for just a little bit and then let's do some QA.

00:10:21.000 But I want to make sure a couple things that I emphasize.

00:10:24.000 Number one, you need to learn more and support Turning Point Academy.

00:10:28.000 If you have kids in grade school, if you have kids in high school, in government school, you've got to get plugged in.

00:10:32.000 Hutz and Jennifer and the team, they're doing unbelievable work, guys.

00:10:36.000 And it is growing fast.

00:10:38.000 We are getting association schools.

00:10:40.000 It's one of the most important things we're doing at Turning Point USA to kind of lead this education revolution.

00:10:45.000 So that's number one.

00:10:46.000 So say hello afterwards.

00:10:47.000 Go by the booth, especially if you are a parent of a kid right now that, you know, eighth grade, seventh grade, that is really where a lot of this stuff is happening.

00:10:58.000 And a lot of this indoctrination and this nonsense.

00:11:01.000 Number two, I want to talk about the purpose of education because I think we've really gone awry in this country.

00:11:07.000 And even some conservatives, by the way, don't understand what education is.

00:11:11.000 If you ask an everyday kind of run-of-the-mill conservative, they'd say, oh, you know, education is about getting skills for the workplace.

00:11:19.000 Is that what education is?

00:11:22.000 And it sounds good, right?

00:11:23.000 In fact, I used to say that.

00:11:25.000 I used to say, you know, we need to get people to be really good and prepared for a career.

00:11:30.000 Now, that's helpful, but education has never been about that.

00:11:34.000 That is a Prussian, German, honestly totalitarian approach to education. 0.88

00:11:40.000 What education used to be, and it comes from a Latin word which means to lead forth, is the development of the soul of the student, is to make the student understand what is good, true, and beautiful.

00:11:54.000 Education should be to create good people.

00:11:59.000 And the skills can always be layered on after.

00:12:02.000 Instead, education is not about wisdom.

00:12:05.000 It's about, oh, you know, here's memorization and just memorize for the test and that's it.

00:12:11.000 And, you know, just here's some skills and some widget stuff.

00:12:15.000 How often in education do we ask the question of any young person, what is good?

00:12:20.000 What is evil?

00:12:21.000 What is moral?

00:12:22.000 What is holy?

00:12:23.000 What is profane?

00:12:24.000 And at some point, we conservatives and Christians too, we said, well, I just don't want, I want a neutral education.

00:12:33.000 How often have you heard this, right?

00:12:35.000 There's no such thing as a neutral education.

00:12:40.000 Let me say that again.

00:12:41.000 It's impossible.

00:12:42.000 You might say, oh, no, no, I can make it possible.

00:12:45.000 Okay, at some point, there will be a teacher that says, now, no cheating.

00:12:50.000 I thought this was a neutral education.

00:12:53.000 Who are you to say cheating's wrong?

00:12:55.000 And they'd say, well, you know, it's obvious.

00:12:57.000 No, no, actually, it's not obvious that cheating is wrong.

00:12:59.000 By whose standard?

00:13:01.000 What is good?

00:13:02.000 And maybe the teacher would say, you know, don't cut in line.

00:13:06.000 You know, you have a single file.

00:13:08.000 Or don't steal, you know, your friend's lunch.

00:13:12.000 Don't interrupt the teacher.

00:13:14.000 Respect your teacher.

00:13:16.000 Those are all moral statements.

00:13:19.000 There is no such thing as a neutral education.

00:13:22.000 And we have fallen for this lie.

00:13:26.000 Where we say, oh, you know, I can't stand when parents say, you know, let's get CRT out of the schools because I just want my kids to learn math, science, and arithmetic.

00:13:34.000 Now, that sounds good, but hold on a second.

00:13:37.000 You think that just getting rid of CRT in the schools, you're going to have this like beautiful neutral education?

00:13:42.000 At some point, a student is going to ask the question, well, but why do you say this is right and this is wrong?

00:13:49.000 And the teacher will say, oh, it's just common sense.

00:13:52.000 No, it's actually not common sense.

00:13:54.000 I was struck by a new friend of ours at Turning Point USA and this unbelievable lunch.

00:13:58.000 And this is graphic, and I just want to be clear.

00:14:00.000 This is a real thing, okay?

00:14:02.000 And he does mission work in the third world.

00:14:04.000 I've never been to Africa.

00:14:05.000 I have been to the third world.

00:14:06.000 I've never been to Africa.

00:14:07.000 And he was telling me about the mission work he was doing.

00:14:09.000 And he was talking about how he goes to Uganda, especially, and he goes to these slums and these villages, millions and millions of people, right?

00:14:16.000 Not a Christian area. 1.00

00:14:17.000 The gospel is spreading there, praise God, but largely pagan and just kind of natural. 1.00

00:14:22.000 And he says, yeah, you know, it's common practice.

00:14:24.000 He said this so casually.

00:14:24.000 He goes there and does emergency surgeries for people that can't afford it.

00:14:27.000 He says, yeah, it just happens all the time that if a spouse dies or mom dies, you just don't want a baby.

00:14:32.000 You just leave the baby by the fireplace and you abandon it and people just keep walking by until the baby dies.

00:14:36.000 And we in the West, like, oh my goodness, we gasp.

00:14:39.000 Happens all the time in Africa. 0.97

00:14:42.000 All the time.

00:14:43.000 You never hear this, right?

00:14:44.000 All the time.

00:14:45.000 Ask any missionary that goes into the third world.

00:14:47.000 It's like commonplace.

00:14:49.000 Because it's not normal.

00:14:51.000 It's not natural.

00:14:52.000 You have to teach people that that is evil.

00:14:56.000 We're so conditioned in the West because we've inherited a Christian morality, because we've inherited a biblical morality, that when we hear that, we gasp.

00:15:06.000 Because thankfully, you've been taught correctly by somebody somewhere to know that is evil. 0.99

00:15:13.000 In Uganda, they're like, that baby's a parasite. 1.00

00:15:16.000 By the way, how's that any different than Planned Parenthood? 0.98

00:15:18.000 Just be honest, okay?

00:15:19.000 How is that any different than what Planned Parenthood does in this country?

00:15:22.000 It's not, is the answer.

00:15:23.000 Now, what is the point?

00:15:25.000 The point is, if we don't get education right in this country, it is not common sense to preserve the values of the morals that we hold.

00:15:34.000 And this is something that I repeat time and time again.

00:15:37.000 And I'm sure there's some people here that might be, you know, not as religious or secular.

00:15:42.000 I'm so glad you're here, by the way.

00:15:43.000 I hope you're moved throughout this weekend to develop your spiritual life and give your life to Christ.

00:15:48.000 I really mean that.

00:15:49.000 I hope that this weekend pushes you towards that, okay?

00:15:52.000 And but and my great friend Frank Turek here, by the way, this is a great American.

00:15:59.000 I love this guy.

00:15:59.000 He is such a great Christian.

00:16:01.000 And I've learned a lot from him.

00:16:03.000 So sometimes, you know, I'll talk to somebody and I understand the attitude.

00:16:08.000 I want to meet people halfway because the attitude of a so-called neutral education space is this.

00:16:13.000 It comes from a good place, but intentions don't mean anything in this, okay?

00:16:17.000 It comes from a space of, I don't want to impose.

00:16:20.000 That's where it comes from.

00:16:22.000 It comes from, well, I just don't want to tell other people.

00:16:25.000 So I just kind of want everyone to get along and live and let live.

00:16:30.000 And we have had that false promise of neutrality.

00:16:34.000 And you know who doesn't have neutrality?

00:16:37.000 The LGBT people and the DEI people.

00:16:40.000 They march into the classroom and groom your children while we're arguing for a neutral public square.

00:16:46.000 And even if we get back to neutrality, there will be no neutrality.

00:16:51.000 Because at some point, someone's going to raise their hand like kids love to do in sixth grade.

00:16:55.000 I have a question.

00:16:57.000 Is it okay if I take hormones and I think I'm a boy?

00:17:01.000 But what does a neutral educator say?

00:17:04.000 Maybe at best, go ask.

00:17:06.000 Go talk to your parents.

00:17:08.000 But that's a moral answer.

00:17:12.000 That's something that is a moral biblical answer.

00:17:14.000 Go talk to your parents.

00:17:16.000 So there's no such thing as neutrality in education.

00:17:20.000 At some point, you have to make a statement of what is true.

00:17:24.000 And so if you're here and you say, you know, I'm not crazy about the religious thing, that's fine.

00:17:27.000 Then you have to answer, what is your instruction manual for life?

00:17:32.000 What is the operator's manual?

00:17:33.000 And I'm open to any answers, okay?

00:17:35.000 Because I do a lot of reading.

00:17:37.000 I read 120 books a year, okay?

00:17:39.000 And I encourage you guys to do it.

00:17:40.000 I listen to them two times speed sometimes, so just to make you feel better, okay?

00:17:44.000 No, it's true, but it counts, okay?

00:17:46.000 It counts.

00:17:50.000 And I'm open, okay?

00:17:53.000 Here's my operating manual, the Bible.

00:17:56.000 Okay?

00:17:57.000 That's my operating manual.

00:17:58.000 That's it.

00:17:59.000 So, and, but I don't mean this condescendingly.

00:18:03.000 Anybody, you guys can submit your operating manual for what you think of civilization and what you think education should be based on, okay?

00:18:10.000 Maybe it's, you know, John Locke, or maybe it's Machiavelli, which would be really weird.

00:18:15.000 And, you know, maybe it's Rousseau, whatever it is, right?

00:18:18.000 And at some point, this is where their argument collapses.

00:18:23.000 They'll say, it's just kind of like a combination of common sense and attitudes and community values.

00:18:28.000 No, what's the thing that you reference?

00:18:32.000 What's the thing that you say that we point at?

00:18:36.000 Whatever that might be.

00:18:37.000 And what we've allowed our Supreme Court to do, which was a terrible decision, we've allowed our traditions to do, is there's no standard.

00:18:45.000 And therefore, the worst standard fills the void.

00:18:50.000 And government schools, they say that they're supposed to be viewpoint neutral.

00:18:54.000 And they're the opposite of viewpoint neutral.

00:18:56.000 Now, the owner's manual of the country is the Declaration of the Constitution.

00:19:00.000 That's the owner's manual.

00:19:01.000 And it should be.

00:19:02.000 The Constitution is an unbelievable document, which, by the way, is inspired directly and built on biblical principles.

00:19:08.000 But when you go into education, you're a parent, or even if you're in college, it's an important question.

00:19:13.000 And you might have a different answer. 0.98

00:19:15.000 You might say, Charlie, you know, the answer to that question, my owner's manual, the most important book is, you know, Pray, Eat, Love, or whatever that stupid book is, right? 0.92

00:19:24.000 Love, Eat, Pray, or whatever, right? 0.96

00:19:25.000 Or, you know, something.

00:19:28.000 But it's amazing how people can't answer that question.

00:19:34.000 They haven't thought through it.

00:19:35.000 It's like, by what do you reference to find out how to act?

00:19:39.000 I just kind of act how I feel.

00:19:40.000 Well, that's a really bad idea, first of all.

00:19:43.000 You wonder why you're so unhappy and you have no purpose?

00:19:47.000 Because you're not referencing anything to get direction from.

00:19:50.000 Because, look, life can be very confusing, but it's less confusing and easier for those of us that every morning and every night and throughout the day, we can kind of go back to our compass, back to our navigational tool, right?

00:20:05.000 And say, am I in alignment?

00:20:07.000 Should I have treated that person that way?

00:20:09.000 Maybe I was a little rude.

00:20:10.000 Maybe I was a little prideful.

00:20:11.000 Maybe I was too aggressive.

00:20:12.000 I get too aggressive.

00:20:13.000 I'll be honest.

00:20:13.000 That's one of my sins.

00:20:16.000 No, we all have sins, right?

00:20:17.000 I tend to be aggressive.

00:20:20.000 And also, honestly, not really tolerant.

00:20:22.000 But that's a separate issue.

00:20:25.000 A tolerant of evil for the record, okay?

00:20:27.000 If you love God, you must hate evil.

00:20:29.000 No, it's Psalm 97:10.

00:20:30.000 It's the real thing.

00:20:31.000 But what I love about what Turning Point Academy is doing is, in a loving way, but a direct and truthful way, which is the gospel, love and truth, is saying that there is going to be a standard of which we base education on.

00:20:45.000 That we are not going to fall for the false trap of neutrality.

00:20:50.000 And whatever that might be, and the danger of falling into this false thing of neutrality that happens time and time again is the outgrowth: you have vulnerable students that then are able to be intercepted by the Marxists because they have nothing of which they have a navigational tool.

00:21:11.000 They have no compass.

00:21:13.000 They have no map.

00:21:14.000 And they go right into college and somebody says, Oh, by the way, let me introduce you to a compass in a map.

00:21:20.000 It's called the Communist Manifesto or Das Kapital, or even worse, your map should be your feelings.

00:21:30.000 Your map should be you.

00:21:34.000 Because if you have nothing transcendent of which to base your action on, then you just say, You're the most important thing in the world. 0.98

00:21:44.000 That's why the self-esteem movement is trash. 0.98

00:21:46.000 I can't stand it. 0.99

00:21:48.000 And people say, People say all the time, you know, the self-esteem movement is this wonderful thing.

00:21:54.000 Hold on a second.

00:21:55.000 I'll prove it to you, okay?

00:21:56.000 I'll prove to you how I go to these schools sometimes.

00:21:58.000 It drives me crazy.

00:22:00.000 And I was, these posters, and they say, you're perfect the way you are.

00:22:06.000 And it sounds good, right?

00:22:07.000 Feels good.

00:22:08.000 You know, like the bumper sticker, and they're all perfect the way you are.

00:22:10.000 So I remember we had one of these in like seventh or eighth grade, and I, you know, I was kind of a brat.

00:22:14.000 And I asked the teacher, I said, if I'm perfect the way I am, why do I have to do homework and why am I in school?

00:22:24.000 What is that all about?

00:22:27.000 And then she said, well, what do you think the sign should say?

00:22:30.000 And I said it a little sloppier, but I'll give you a better answer.

00:22:33.000 You're not all that you yet could be.

00:22:35.000 What a much better thing to tell a young person.

00:22:38.000 Right?

00:22:39.000 You got a lot of work to do, but one day maybe you can get there.

00:22:42.000 That's a lot different than you're perfect the way you are.

00:22:46.000 You're perfect the way you are is inward-facing, that you have all the...

00:22:50.000 Actually, you don't have the answers.

00:22:51.000 You don't.

00:22:52.000 You don't.

00:22:54.000 I hear all the time they say, you know, you just have to dive deeper within yourself. 0.99

00:22:58.000 I think that's a bunch of trash, honestly. 0.97

00:23:00.000 What has that gotten us? 1.00

00:23:01.000 Transgenderism. 0.67

00:23:03.000 My feelings matter.

00:23:05.000 What does that get us?

00:23:06.000 Suicide.

00:23:07.000 It does. 1.00

00:23:08.000 If you only think about yourself all the time, there's nothing external, and you don't like the way things are going, just kill yourself.

00:23:12.000 I know that sounds really brutal, but it's 100% the morality or the lack thereof that leads to the most suicidal generation in history, the most drug-addicted generation in history.

00:23:22.000 The least, you know, let's just say the most fragile generation in history because they can't have any other ideas that might violate them.

00:23:29.000 And this is what drives me crazy, though.

00:23:31.000 Some of the trans zealots, they say, oh, you know what?

00:23:33.000 Feel unsafe because of words that you say.

00:23:35.000 And our answer shouldn't be, oh, well, you know, I'm really sorry.

00:23:38.000 Why on earth does your personal anxiety dictate my ability to speak the truth?

00:23:43.000 Like, where did we ever go wrong?

00:23:48.000 Where I have to now accommodate my language because you collapse into a puddle because I say something that's biologically true.

00:23:59.000 So, anyway, Turning Point Academy is doing a great job, everybody.

00:24:02.000 I spent more time on that than I wanted to, and I'm glad I did.

00:24:04.000 So, I talk for a living.

00:24:06.000 I'm sorry.

00:24:06.000 It's just, you know, they have me on this schedule that's unbelievable.

00:24:10.000 I'm like doing like 11 hours of speeches a day.

00:24:12.000 It's great.

00:24:13.000 I'm telling you, I'm going to work the hardest I've ever worked in 2024.

00:24:16.000 I want you guys to sign that pledge too, whatever that is, okay, guys?

00:24:19.000 Whatever that is.

00:24:21.000 All right?

00:24:22.000 Just, and, and that is the last thing I'll say.

00:24:25.000 It's for those of you that listen to the Charlie Kirk show, thank you, by the way, that listen to the podcast.

00:24:29.000 God bless you guys.

00:24:30.000 Thank you, that watch on Real America's voice.

00:24:32.000 Thank you, guys.

00:24:34.000 You know, sometimes when God wants to send you a message, you just have to be willing to hear.

00:24:38.000 And I just kept on one after the other, and podcasts and sermons and random opening of Bibles and readings, the Hebrew word hynani just kept popping up.

00:24:48.000 And I mentioned this in the speech last evening, and I want to emphasize this: it's this incredible phrase, which is, here I am, is the best English translation, but it doesn't do it justice, okay?

00:24:57.000 It literally means, God, what are the marching orders?

00:25:02.000 And it comes at times of inflection.

00:25:05.000 It's not used generously in the Hebrew Bible, in the Torah, in the Word of God.

00:25:10.000 It is not used a lot.

00:25:11.000 It's used at high, high points of indecision, what we would call turning points.

00:25:19.000 When Abraham was tested by God at the binding of Isaac, and he says, Here I am.

00:25:26.000 When Moses, who had a great life, by the way, he got along with his father-in-law, like, what a great thing, honestly.

00:25:34.000 Got away, you know, they're not chasing him for murder because he did something he shouldn't have done, but that's a separate issue.

00:25:43.000 And all of a sudden, like, he's living a nice life.

00:25:46.000 And burning bush, here I am.

00:25:50.000 Moses' life was very tough from that point forward.

00:25:53.000 It was.

00:25:54.000 Moses is one of the sadder figures.

00:25:56.000 I think he's actually one of the most amazing people in the Bible.

00:25:59.000 But he's one of the sadder figures because here's this guy living a great life, and he's like, okay, I am going to lead you.

00:26:04.000 I'm going to have you, Moses, be my instrument because you're willing.

00:26:08.000 Here I am.

00:26:09.000 Makes you think: was God waiting for somebody to just say, what are the marching orders?

00:26:13.000 Makes you think, why did he choose Moses?

00:26:15.000 Well, we do know that Moses stood up for the vulnerable and stood up for the weak.

00:26:18.000 We know a little bit.

00:26:18.000 Abraham, we have no idea why he was chosen.

00:26:20.000 He's like a random guy living with his dad, like you, Abram.

00:26:20.000 No idea.

00:26:24.000 Yeah, leave your father's home.

00:26:24.000 What?

00:26:25.000 And you're kind of like a loser. 0.99

00:26:27.000 Like, it'd be nice if you showered once in a while and shaved. 1.00

00:26:31.000 Guy's a total mess, right?

00:26:34.000 Moses, on the other hand, we have some idea of why he is, but he's willing and his life changes forever.

00:26:40.000 And you look at Moses' story, and God says, look, I get it.

00:26:44.000 The Hebrews, the most unimpressive group of people in the history of the planet, right? 1.00

00:26:48.000 And by the way, you know, that's not my words.

00:26:50.000 Just read the Bible.

00:26:51.000 They're complaining.

00:26:52.000 They're lying.

00:26:53.000 They're cheating.

00:26:54.000 This is the words of Dennis Prager, right?

00:26:56.000 It's like not exactly building like temples and conquering lands.

00:27:02.000 This is not like the Assyrian Empire, okay?

00:27:04.000 It's not like God picked the Assyrians and said, I'm going to make a great people out of you.

00:27:08.000 These people were slaves, the lowest of all lows.

00:27:12.000 And Moses says, here I am.

00:27:13.000 And God delivers them from Egypt. 0.96

00:27:15.000 And you guys know the story and the miracles.

00:27:17.000 A couple days in the desert, the Hebrews are like, yeah, you know, we might go back to slavery because we had better food. 1.00

00:27:17.000 They go into the desert. 1.00

00:27:24.000 What?

00:27:24.000 Yeah, like, oh, we had cucumbers, lemon, you know, melons, leeks, meat.

00:27:27.000 Literally, it's there in the book of Numbers.

00:27:29.000 They're like, these are all the food that we had.

00:27:31.000 We miss being slaves.

00:27:32.000 We hate this freedom thing.

00:27:33.000 It's like, okay, you are very unimpressive.

00:27:36.000 But Moses was faithful, and it started with that attitude of here I am.

00:27:40.000 Isaiah, Samuel, you see this repeated throughout the scriptures.

00:27:44.000 And I think that needs to be our attitude through this conference and through 2024, which is, what are the marching orders?

00:27:51.000 God, use me.

00:27:52.000 No more on the sidelines, right?

00:27:55.000 And history is made by people who ask God, what are the marching orders?

00:28:00.000 And they do come at monumental times.

00:28:02.000 You know, somebody says, Charlie, what is your prediction for 2024?

00:28:06.000 I said, I don't do predictions, but I will make one prediction.

00:28:09.000 2024 is going to be biblical.

00:28:11.000 Whatever you think about 2024, there's like all these different forces combining.

00:28:17.000 I have no idea what it's going to look like.

00:28:19.000 I can't wait to see.

00:28:20.000 I'll tell you.

00:28:21.000 Whether it's going to be good or not so good or really great or not so great.

00:28:27.000 I am insanely thankful that we get to kind of see this whole thing unfold and play a small part.

00:28:34.000 And Turning Point Academy is on the cutting edge of that, guys.

00:28:37.000 Educating the next generation, passing down these values to students and doing so in a winsome, persuasive, and effective way.

00:28:45.000 And I'll close with this.

00:28:47.000 Yeah, look, I'm a product of Christian education.

00:28:49.000 I'm a product of a single teacher, Cindy Weber, who did her job.

00:28:53.000 And she did her job every day.

00:28:56.000 And she had no idea that the desks she was praying over and the students that she was speaking to, what was going to happen, right?

00:29:02.000 And, you know, here's this, again, I couldn't sit still.

00:29:06.000 Still can't.

00:29:08.000 Kid who was probably not an easy student to teach, but she faithfully taught me. 0.99

00:29:13.000 And she faithfully poured into me.

00:29:15.000 And then 19 years later, here we are, the largest movement in the country, period.

00:29:23.000 And you kind of go back to that point of origination.

00:29:26.000 And for those of you that are losing hope, I love what Martin Luther said, right?

00:29:30.000 Which is if you think the world is ending, plant a tree.

00:29:33.000 Go plant a tree.

00:29:34.000 Like, go do something that you know will bear fruit tomorrow.

00:29:39.000 And yeah, you know, things looked bad 19 years ago, too.

00:29:41.000 It always looks bad, right?

00:29:42.000 It seems that way in the modern era.

00:29:44.000 But now look at this beautiful thing of hope and think about if am I going to do my job so that 19 years from now, there might be another change maker that is doing something and pushing forward?

00:29:54.000 That's the marching order, especially for the parents and grandparents here in the room.

00:29:57.000 Okay, let's do some questions for the time we have remaining.

00:29:59.000 Thanks for sitting through that, guys.

00:30:00.000 Yes.

00:30:00.000 Let's line up single file, guys, okay?

00:30:03.000 Let's make them questions, not statements with inflections.

00:30:06.000 Okay.

00:30:08.000 Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

00:30:09.000 Yes, ma'am, right here.

00:30:11.000 Hi, thank you so much.

00:30:12.000 I was wondering if the Christian Academy will also allow for people of other faiths.

00:30:18.000 I'm a Zoroastrian, which is the oldest monotheistic religion, the three wise men who visited Jesus.

00:30:22.000 From Iran, right?

00:30:23.000 So I was just wondering if that, and Judaism and other faiths that are in alignment with Christianity, because they're smaller numbers, but they're still in alignment with this whole value system that you're talking about.

00:30:23.000 Yes.

00:30:35.000 Yeah, it depends.

00:30:35.000 I mean, the parents have to sign a statement of faith.

00:30:37.000 That's the way it works, right?

00:30:38.000 So it depends on the school, right?

00:30:40.000 And I'm happy to talk and dialogue privately, but if the parents are willing to sign a statement of faith and willing to kind of go through that process, then yes.

00:30:48.000 And I know that specifically Christian Heritage Academy, one of the two parents had to sign a statement of faith.

00:30:52.000 But I've actually never met a Zoroastrian, so that's really cool.

00:30:56.000 So I'd love to chat with you later.

00:30:58.000 God bless you.

00:30:58.000 Thank you.

00:30:59.000 Thank you.

00:30:59.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:31:00.000 Are there any plans for TPUSA to help parents and their students?

00:31:04.000 Yes.

00:31:06.000 To help parents and their students who try to start chapters like Downers Grove High School, and they reject it because they think TPUSA is radical.

00:31:14.000 I know we could start them outside, but is there anything that could be done to try to fight back when they just reject it because they don't like your organization, but they have other organizations within the school?

00:31:26.000 Yeah, at that point, and we're happy to help.

00:31:29.000 We have to go to the courts at that point.

00:31:30.000 Because that's a great example, right?

00:31:32.000 So you've been fighting like heck.

00:31:33.000 I think you're on like a terror watch list or something, right?

00:31:36.000 Yeah.

00:31:37.000 We all are, okay?

00:31:41.000 I know someone was like, ew, terror watch list.

00:31:43.000 Yeah, you're on the list too.

00:31:44.000 You have no idea.

00:31:44.000 Walk in here.

00:31:45.000 They're tracking you.

00:31:46.000 You're all getting audited.

00:31:49.000 Some people aren't laughing.

00:31:53.000 Thank you, Jay.

00:31:54.000 And so, Terry, I want to just, he's done a great job.

00:31:56.000 He gets patted down at airports.

00:31:57.000 He's on the domestic terror watch list.

00:31:59.000 No, I'm not kidding.

00:32:00.000 It's a real thing.

00:32:00.000 Because he tried to start a turning point group and the whole thing.

00:32:03.000 That's a great example.

00:32:04.000 Donners Grove, North or South?

00:32:06.000 Which one is it?

00:32:07.000 North?

00:32:09.000 My kids go to South, but South rejected.

00:32:11.000 Yeah, my mom actually went to Donner's Grove South.

00:32:13.000 So they say we're neutral.

00:32:16.000 But except we don't want Turning Point.

00:32:19.000 We're neutral.

00:32:20.000 We don't want to have a constitutional club.

00:32:23.000 No, no, they're not neutral.

00:32:25.000 You guys know that, right?

00:32:26.000 And they have been neutral for quite some time.

00:32:29.000 The death of modern education is when we bought into the false promise of neutrality.

00:32:34.000 By the way, Bill Federer over here is another great American.

00:32:36.000 Love Bill.

00:32:37.000 He does a great job.

00:32:40.000 Yes, sir.

00:32:42.000 Good morning, Charlie.

00:32:43.000 My name is Ludovico.

00:32:45.000 My friend over there, John, we started a Turning Point chapter at a private school with about 500 kids in Los Angeles.

00:32:56.000 And so my question to you is: how do you feel we could expand our reach not only to members of our school but to neighboring schools who have been indoctrinated for countless of years in the education system?

00:33:06.000 Well, first of all, this is why we're going to win, everybody.

00:33:08.000 We have this high school remnant.

00:33:11.000 It's amazing.

00:33:12.000 I love it.

00:33:15.000 The bad guys don't know how to deal with this.

00:33:17.000 The more they try to stifle and suppress us, there's this next generation that is popping open.

00:33:22.000 Look, here's what I'll say: is really pray about the word being winsome, which is nobody wants to associate with angry political activists.

00:33:30.000 So just always stay joyful and happy despite all the opposition.

00:33:34.000 And as far as finding other schools, social media is a great tool of doing that and reaching out and encourage debate and encourage dialogue with those that disagree, right?

00:33:42.000 You should invite it.

00:33:43.000 You should seek it out.

00:33:44.000 You should try to have those.

00:33:46.000 And honestly, it will strengthen your arguments.

00:33:49.000 It's as good for you as it is for them.

00:33:51.000 Okay?

00:33:52.000 And I want you to understand that I have cut my teeth with plenty of debates, as you probably know.

00:33:57.000 And you get better as years go on and you research and you know your stuff.

00:34:00.000 But it's good for you to have your arguments challenged.

00:34:05.000 Maybe I haven't thought of it that way.

00:34:06.000 By the way, I don't know it all when I go to these campuses.

00:34:10.000 Now, I'll say 99% of these kids have no idea what they're talking about.

00:34:13.000 1% of the time, though, 1% of the time, they'll say something that either they thought of, which maybe they did, or they stumbled upon that I have to reconsider.

00:34:21.000 So I go back and I, and all of a sudden, you do that for 11 years, and you're pretty good at what you're pretty good, and you know what you believe and why you believe it.

00:34:31.000 One of the reasons why we are able to get so many people to leave the left is because they have never had, first of all, it's very hard to strengthen your argument on the left, but they've never had to defend their position against opposition.

00:34:46.000 Ever.

00:34:46.000 And so they just believe it, and it's the dominant opinion, and the other people are awful.

00:34:51.000 And the next thing you know, like awful, right?

00:34:53.000 Next thing you know, they're 21 or 22, and they see a video of Candace Owens or of Charlie Kirk or Brandon Tatum, and it shocks their world.

00:35:02.000 And they're like, well, that makes sense.

00:35:03.000 And what do I actually believe?

00:35:05.000 And these defections start to really happen, right?

00:35:07.000 Because they've never actually thought deeply about their position.

00:35:10.000 But having that happen in high school is super important.

00:35:12.000 God bless you, men.

00:35:13.000 Thank you so much.

00:35:15.000 Good morning, Charlie.

00:35:17.000 So myself and my chapter from Suffolk University are here.

00:35:23.000 And so I had a question about the work that Turning Point Academy is going to do for morality and education.

00:35:30.000 So we posted a tweet from Riley Gaines on our chapter Instagram story, and we were met with a meeting requiring a letter requiring us to have a meeting with the Office of Title IX because we, quote, used the club social media account to post a derogatory message relating to transgender females.

00:35:46.000 This behavior may violate the Title IX policy and or other university policies, end quote.

00:35:52.000 I'd like to know the kind of work that Turning Point Academy is going to do to sort of oppose the Biden administration's redefinition of the Title IX policy.

00:36:00.000 This is so important.

00:36:01.000 And I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it, which is we made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s.

00:36:12.000 I know that sounds radical.

00:36:13.000 You have no idea what we actually ushered in.

00:36:15.000 We ushered in a second American founding.

00:36:18.000 You might say, oh, it's a wonderful thing.

00:36:19.000 No, it's not.

00:36:20.000 The civil rights leviathan that we brought in in the mid-1960s, there's a book called Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell, is you built a DEI permanent federal bureaucracy.

00:36:31.000 They said at the time we're re-founding the country.

00:36:33.000 So this is a great example.

00:36:35.000 We thought we were getting minor adjustments in our laws in the mid-1960s to fix what was, of course, bad discrimination, racism, all that stuff.

00:36:43.000 What we actually got, what we got was a super weapon in the federal government that can be reaccommodated to the coolest, newest thing.

00:36:50.000 So this is an interesting example.

00:36:52.000 Turning Point USA chapter at Suffolk University that receives federal funding.

00:36:57.000 So they're under all these guidelines.

00:36:59.000 And they post a tweet.

00:37:00.000 What was the tweet?

00:37:02.000 I mean, anything Riley says is obviously rooted in reason, right?

00:37:06.000 This was a real dizzy. 0.79

00:37:07.000 So this trans activist tweets out, trans women are women. 0.98

00:37:11.000 And then Riley retweets them in quotes and says, hot dogs are dogs.

00:37:15.000 And we got, we had to have a meeting with Title IX for that, of all things.

00:37:19.000 No, no, but this is important, everybody.

00:37:21.000 So then you guys all laugh, but he could get kicked out of school under a Title IX complaint using the Civil Rights Act that we as conservatives worship.

00:37:34.000 Oh, MLK's a great guy.

00:37:35.000 Actually, MLK was awful, okay?

00:37:36.000 He's not a good person.

00:37:38.000 He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.

00:37:40.000 I hope you guys understand that.

00:37:41.000 And that sounds like a thought crime.

00:37:42.000 Go research MLK.

00:37:43.000 You should go research it.

00:37:44.000 Okay?

00:37:45.000 And we'll be doing more and more shows on that.

00:37:47.000 And so we get the Civil Rights Act passed, and now you might get kicked out of school.

00:37:51.000 I don't think you will be.

00:37:52.000 This happens all the time.

00:37:53.000 We have dozens of Turning Point USA kids under active Department of Education Title IX investigations right now for tweets and social media postings.

00:38:02.000 I've lost count of how many meetings I've had to have with my family.

00:38:04.000 So meetings, right?

00:38:04.000 And they tear you up in the bureaucracy.

00:38:06.000 And I don't think people realize that the federal government is now coming after the speech of students saying biological reality using the mid-1960s Civil Rights Act that was passed with good intentions.

00:38:21.000 Okay, we want to fight racism.

00:38:22.000 Nobody likes racism.

00:38:24.000 That is now this permanent DEI-type bureaucracy.

00:38:27.000 So what can we do?

00:38:29.000 We have to get the courts to step in here.

00:38:31.000 Thankfully, we still have the Supreme Court, but the courts have been really weak on this, honestly.

00:38:34.000 The federal courts just yield to the Civil Rights Act as if it's the actual American Constitution.

00:38:39.000 You read some of these decisions, they're like, well, you know, the Civil Rights Act says this and we can't touch it.

00:38:43.000 Like, whoa, Since where is the Civil Rights Act supposed to protect the feelings of young people in college that are suffering from a mental disorder?

00:38:56.000 Like, where did that come from?

00:38:58.000 And you could see they're going to use it now.

00:39:01.000 When I say that it was a refounding of the country, I mean it.

00:39:05.000 They're going to use the Civil Rights Act, as they have, as a way to get rid of the First Amendment. 0.79

00:39:11.000 Think about it.

00:39:12.000 Your speech is limited because of something passed in the 1960s.

00:39:17.000 Okay, I know that might have been a little too radical for you guys, but we're going to keep diving into it.

00:39:22.000 All right, thank you.

00:39:22.000 Hello, Mr. Kirk.

00:39:24.000 My name is Dylan Galvan.

00:39:25.000 I am from Texas, San Antonio, Texas.

00:39:27.000 And we actually started a chapter, yeah, I feel like a month ago.

00:39:31.000 It's very small and got like three people.

00:39:33.000 But we're trying to get started.

00:39:36.000 Everything, Matt.

00:39:36.000 Give it up.

00:39:38.000 It all matters.

00:39:44.000 And my question for you is: if you had friends that used to be Christian, but now are starting to get influenced by negative sources, starting to go and get misled, how can you bring them and redirect them closer to the truth without kind of turning them off and completely lead them astray?

00:40:03.000 It's a beautiful question.

00:40:04.000 And Dr. Turek is one of the best at this.

00:40:05.000 So young person that was Christian and left Christianity.

00:40:09.000 So I'm going to generalize, okay?

00:40:11.000 But if a young person was raised Christian and leaves Christianity, they're probably leaving less about the facts and the support of evidence around Christianity and more about something that they personally might be dealing with and or they just need to be loved on, right?

00:40:26.000 And so the answer to the question is going to be more about the heart than the head, right?

00:40:31.000 You're not going to win them back to Christianity by saying, well, let me sit down and tell you about how Josephus wrote extensively about why the resurrection was true, which, by the way, is convincing.

00:40:44.000 The fruit of the transformation of the gospel is what you're going to need to see with them, right?

00:40:49.000 It's to love on them.

00:40:50.000 Show them the grace and the mercy of Almighty God, right?

00:40:54.000 That's my answer.

00:40:56.000 And it's sad.

00:40:57.000 It happens a lot.

00:40:59.000 A majority of, what's the number?

00:41:01.000 60 or 70% of kids that are raised Christian leave the faith.

00:41:04.000 Barna, what is it?

00:41:04.000 I don't know.

00:41:06.000 It's 70%, right?

00:41:08.000 That's a crisis, everybody.

00:41:09.000 7-0% of kids that are raised Christian leave the faith.

00:41:14.000 I blame us.

00:41:16.000 I blame us.

00:41:17.000 The world is always going to be lost, and the world is always going to be doing it.

00:41:20.000 We have to do a better job of strengthening and fastening.

00:41:24.000 And also, I think we have to continue to do a better job of elevating the right Christian voices for our young people to support and to follow, you know, on social media and in pop culture.

00:41:35.000 So love on those people, right?

00:41:38.000 Because it sounds like that person is probably hurting.

00:41:41.000 Maybe they have a parent issue.

00:41:43.000 Maybe they had a breakup.

00:41:44.000 And the number one reason young people leave the faith is they will see injustice, they will see pain, and they will see evil.

00:41:53.000 And they have never thought through or been taught correctly how to address evil, pain, or suffering.

00:42:00.000 And it literally, Frank does this.

00:42:02.000 Frank travels the country with apologetics.

00:42:04.000 And it's like two buckets, right, Frank?

00:42:06.000 It's the people that have never dealt with the evil question or people that think there's no evidence for Christianity.

00:42:11.000 It's one of two.

00:42:13.000 But then they might see this and then they get bitter. 0.99

00:42:15.000 And then they're like, oh, these Christians are awful, right? 1.00

00:42:18.000 And so that's really where love can come in and love hopes all things.

00:42:22.000 So thank you.

00:42:23.000 Yes.

00:42:23.000 Appreciate it.

00:42:24.000 Hello, my name is Matt Egerdale.

00:42:26.000 I'm here because of my son Liam here.

00:42:28.000 He did a victims of communism project and got recognized and got our, we flew out from Florida and we've really been enjoying our time here.

00:42:37.000 Appreciate your testimony.

00:42:38.000 Thank you.

00:42:39.000 And love what you've been saying here, even to these young men here.

00:42:42.000 But what I'd like to ask you is if you could share just with us the gospel in a nutshell, that would be awesome.

00:42:49.000 Sweet.

00:42:49.000 I'm happy to do that.

00:42:51.000 So look, everyone has a court date coming up.

00:42:54.000 So when you leave this earth, you're going to have to be in front of the supreme judge of the world.

00:42:58.000 Founding Fathers wrote that in the Declaration of Independence, by the way.

00:43:01.000 And you're going to have to account for every mistake you ever made.

00:43:04.000 And my sentencing is going to be a long, long, long, long sentencing.

00:43:10.000 So justice, justice is you get exactly what you deserve.

00:43:14.000 We all deserve eternal damnation because we're sinners, we're self-interested, and we continue to sin.

00:43:21.000 Mercy is getting less of what you deserve.

00:43:22.000 So you go in front of an almighty God and you get maybe a reduced prison sentence.

00:43:27.000 But grace, which is the gospel, the gospel in one word is grace, is all of a sudden you're about to get that sentencing to go into eternal damnation.

00:43:37.000 And somebody says, oh, no, no, no.

00:43:38.000 I know him.

00:43:40.000 And all of a sudden, your place is taken.

00:43:44.000 Like, I've already paid for that because I know him.

00:43:48.000 I don't know about you.

00:43:49.000 I don't want to have to face an almighty God and hear the words, I don't know who that is.

00:43:56.000 That they were too interested in social media or their own life or the pleasures of this world.

00:44:00.000 Gospel in four words is Jesus took my place.

00:44:05.000 Gospel in three words is him for me.

00:44:08.000 Gospel in two words is substitutionary atonement.

00:44:12.000 Very wordy.

00:44:13.000 Gospel in one words is grace.

00:44:15.000 You don't earn a spot in heaven.

00:44:19.000 You don't do good things to get to heaven.

00:44:22.000 You do good things because you're saved.

00:44:25.000 It's a big difference.

00:44:26.000 It is a free gift that we can't even comprehend.

00:44:30.000 What makes Christianity different is that God, the Logos, took the imperfect form, us, out of love. 0.56

00:44:41.000 Only love can explain Christianity. 0.96

00:44:43.000 Other religions can be explained other ways, and that's fine.

00:44:47.000 Only Christianity can be explained through love.

00:44:50.000 And so I hope everyone makes that decision in their life.

00:44:54.000 And by the fruit, you will know them.

00:44:56.000 The fruit of Christianity has changed the world for the better and has seen more people break through of addiction and suffering.

00:45:03.000 And it says in Romans 12:2, do not conform to the ways of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

00:45:10.000 So that's the gospel in the best way I can say.

00:45:17.000 We'll take two more here and there, okay?

00:45:19.000 And then I got to go give another six speeches or something.

00:45:22.000 Hello, Charlie.

00:45:23.000 First of all, I completely agree with you about the civil rights.

00:45:26.000 I believe everyone deserves the right to freedom of association.

00:45:31.000 Thanks.

00:45:32.000 So my question is: in our libraries and even bookstores, I've personally seen an overwhelming amount of woke indoctrination.

00:45:39.000 So does Turning Point Academy have a solution to revitalize libraries as places of knowledge and truth for everyone?

00:45:44.000 Yeah, that's such a great question.

00:45:46.000 We're going to try our best.

00:45:47.000 One of the tragedies, which no one knows about, is the American Library Association is so insane.

00:45:56.000 I just hope you understand it.

00:45:57.000 You'd think that the one place, just if you ever have a spare moment, go to the American Library Association website.

00:46:04.000 It will blow you away.

00:46:06.000 It's like you're reading the most radical Marxist pro-LGBT. 0.84

00:46:10.000 Think about it.

00:46:11.000 Think about how smart these people are, right?

00:46:13.000 They say, okay, if we take over the libraries, that's a way to kind of create, to take over the sourcing material for how young people learn.

00:46:23.000 So we're going to try our best.

00:46:25.000 The problem is the courts are terrible on this.

00:46:28.000 We need a judge to stand up and say that pornography has no place in the hands of children.

00:46:34.000 We need a judge to stand up and say that, okay?

00:46:40.000 And this is what drives me crazy.

00:46:43.000 Again, if I could contribute to kind of shaking up the American right, I hope I can, because I'm pretty good at that, which is people say, oh, that's free speech.

00:46:52.000 The founding fathers never intended profanity or desecration or let's just say depravity to be speech.

00:47:01.000 Speech should point towards a moral good.

00:47:04.000 This is this fake viewpoint neutrality nonsense that we've bought into.

00:47:09.000 That's why people say, well, Charlie, don't you defend Satanists' right to have a, you know, in the Iowa State Capitol?

00:47:17.000 No.

00:47:17.000 No, of course I don't.

00:47:19.000 And they say, well, it's not tolerant.

00:47:20.000 Correct.

00:47:21.000 I'm not tolerant of Satan.

00:47:22.000 I don't know how else I could put that. 1.00

00:47:25.000 Go back to hell, Satan. 1.00

00:47:26.000 You have no place in the Iowa State Capitol in the United States of America. 1.00

00:47:30.000 Period.

00:47:31.000 Okay?

00:47:32.000 I don't know why. 0.91

00:47:33.000 And then some of these lunatics on social media.

00:47:36.000 Well, you know, I don't support lawless.

00:47:39.000 Okay, first of all, no one was hurt, okay?

00:47:41.000 And if there was ever a law to violate, the law to violate would be slaying Satan.

00:47:46.000 I'm sorry.

00:47:46.000 Like, I don't know how clear this could be.

00:47:49.000 Like, the evil one has a monument in Iowa State Capitol, and we should walk by and be like, yeah, so glad I live in a country where Satanists have rights too.

00:47:59.000 The blessings of liberty allow Lucifer to be present in the state capitol.

00:48:03.000 Like, that's insane, if you believe that.

00:48:05.000 I'm sorry.

00:48:05.000 That's insane.

00:48:06.000 That's never the intent of the founding of the country ever.

00:48:09.000 You know what Thomas Jefferson would do?

00:48:11.000 Thomas Jefferson would deist.

00:48:12.000 He'd go by and burn it.

00:48:13.000 That's what he would have done.

00:48:14.000 Like, they wouldn't, you think that they, if there was a satanic symbol in the White House, you think he'd be like, yeah, this is exactly what we had in mind.

00:48:21.000 You know, free speech for Lucifer.

00:48:24.000 So, thank you.

00:48:25.000 Last question.

00:48:27.000 God bless you, Charlie.

00:48:28.000 I love you.

00:48:31.000 2024 is going to make the 60s look like the 50s.

00:48:39.000 And there's a bad guy that you don't talk enough about.

00:48:44.000 I heard you talk about Martin Luther King. 0.99

00:48:48.000 But the worst scumbag on earth was J. Edgar Hoover. 0.99

00:48:56.000 I could buy into that. 0.99

00:48:57.000 So thank you for the question.

00:48:59.000 So I don't know if that was a question, but I'll take it.

00:49:02.000 Love the spirit, though.

00:49:04.000 For those that don't know, J. Edgar Hoover, he started the FBI.

00:49:06.000 The FBI building's named after him.

00:49:07.000 He started the domestic police force and probably was a cross-dresser. 0.99

00:49:10.000 Okay.

00:49:11.000 Let's get to the last question here.

00:49:13.000 Let's end with a student.

00:49:14.000 Yes.

00:49:14.000 But, sir, I love the question.

00:49:15.000 I'm going to do a whole show on J. Edgar Hoover because you prompted me.

00:49:18.000 So thank you.

00:49:21.000 Last question.

00:49:23.000 My name is Morgan Allen.

00:49:25.000 I'm from Albuquerque.

00:49:26.000 And one thing's been.

00:49:27.000 Can you spell Albuquerque?

00:49:36.000 I'm giving you a hard time.

00:49:37.000 I can't spell Albuquerque.

00:49:41.000 Anyway, so.

00:49:44.000 Anyway, so one thing's been going through wide is what's redubbed with all this, like, you know, like the fixed-board.

00:49:51.000 So are we going to fix the entertainment process from Disney in OA?

00:49:57.000 Well, and this is where everyone needs to play a strong role, right?

00:50:00.000 Cancel your Hulu subscriptions.

00:50:01.000 Cancel your Disney Plus subscriptions.

00:50:04.000 You guys have more purchasing power than you would believe, right?

00:50:06.000 There are so many alternatives out there.

00:50:08.000 I'm learning about them.

00:50:09.000 Daily Wire has a great thing.

00:50:10.000 Sherwood Kids has a great thing.

00:50:13.000 So find those options and pursue that.

00:50:15.000 I love the question.

00:50:16.000 I'm giving you a hard time.

00:50:16.000 I can't spell Albuquerque either, okay?

00:50:18.000 God bless you.

00:50:18.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:50:20.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:50:22.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

00:50:27.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - December 23, 2023

How to Rescue Your Children From Predatory Educators — Live from Amfest

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