The Charlie Kirk Show - How to Stump A Nihilist, Save America, and Win the Culture War Live from the Texas Youth Summit

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00:00:08.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:08.000 Recently, I had an amazing conversation in Texas with my friend Christian Collins at the Texas Youth Summit.

00:00:14.000 I gave some opening remarks and then I took questions directly from students.

00:00:18.000 It's basically AMA Monday, so you're hearing all sorts of back and forth and an opportunity where I was able to have a discourse with young people that were dealing with mental health issues, self-identity issues, and so much more.

00:00:29.000 We dive into that in this episode and so much more.

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00:00:48.000 Texas Youth Summit.

00:00:50.000 I take questions straight from students.

00:00:53.000 There is a crisis happening with young people in our country.

00:00:56.000 It's one of the most positive feedback I've ever received from a speech is this speech. 1.00

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00:01:03.000 Here we go.

00:01:04.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:15.000 I want to thank Charlie.

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00:01:17.000 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.

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00:02:57.000 I want to speak to young people in particular here, and because there's a lot happening in this country that, quite honestly, the political elite are not talking about.

00:03:05.000 And while I do talk about politics almost every single day in my podcast, I'm actually not going to really talk very much about politics.

00:03:11.000 I'm actually going to talk about things that are kind of parallel to politics, but I think are actually much more important.

00:03:16.000 And for adults out there, I want you to listen as carefully, if not even more carefully.

00:03:21.000 There's a crisis happening with young people in this country, the likes of which I can't even put into words.

00:03:25.000 And the adults have absolutely failed young people in America.

00:03:28.000 It's that simple.

00:03:29.000 We shut down our country for nine months.

00:03:32.000 We told them that you can't have prom, you can't have graduation, no summer sports.

00:03:35.000 If you get even close to each other, you're all going to die.

00:03:38.000 Now, no, seriously, one out of four of young people, according to the Centers for Disease Control, have contemplated suicide in the last 90 days.

00:03:45.000 One out of four.

00:03:46.000 There's an epidemic of suicide with young people in America.

00:03:49.000 And if you're like me, you know friends that have committed suicide in just the last couple of months.

00:03:54.000 Not to mention antidepressant medication is now the number one most prescribed medication for young people across the country.

00:04:01.000 We now have seen alcoholism, marijuana use, cocaine, and of course pharmaceutical usage on exponentially up.

00:04:08.000 And by the way, it wasn't good, it wasn't easy to be a teenager before all of this, but we made one of the dumbest decisions ever in the history of society to shut down all of society at once, especially when young people were at more risk of dying from the flu than from the Chinese coronavirus.

00:04:25.000 That is not the same for every single age group, by the way.

00:04:27.000 If you're over the age of 50 with pre-existing conditions, this threatens you greatly. 0.93

00:04:32.000 But saying that we should shut down all the schools for six months, shut down every social activity, shut down all the sports, and you expect young people to just end up exactly the same, what an unbelievably dumb thing that was to do. 0.69

00:04:47.000 It really was.

00:04:51.000 And for any politician, I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat.

00:04:56.000 It's actually irrelevant to me.

00:04:58.000 It's an issue of right versus wrong.

00:05:00.000 It's an issue of decency.

00:05:01.000 And they say it's all about human beings.

00:05:03.000 Yes, the human beings that are 16 years old that are committing suicide because they have no social contact with anyone, it's about them.

00:05:10.000 For the small business owner that put their entire life savings into a hair salon in Houston or in Austin or in Dallas that is now being forced to close by some maniac politician, some power-hungry politician, I don't care if it's a Republican or Democrat, they're to blame.

00:05:24.000 For any politician that says we must shut down the churches but we can keep the abortion clinics open, they should resign.

00:05:29.000 I don't care if it's a Republican or a Democrat.

00:05:32.000 It's that simple.

00:05:34.000 And so for young people in particular, we're on pace to have 500,000 less children next year than this year.

00:05:43.000 That's right.

00:05:43.000 We're on the verge of a population collapse.

00:05:46.000 52% of young people that are college graduates are living at home with their parents.

00:05:51.000 We have 18 million unemployed young people in America.

00:05:54.000 And then what adults do, and this is a mistake for conservatives.

00:05:58.000 So adults got to start taking responsibility for this country.

00:06:01.000 You just got to start doing it because you are leaving a worse country for your kids, everybody.

00:06:06.000 And I'm saying this as lovingly as I possibly can.

00:06:08.000 I'm not saying this rooted in condemnation, just very honestly, that if you think there's no consequences to this, you're wrong.

00:06:15.000 Additionally, you look at the birth rate, I mentioned 500,000 less people next year than this year, the civilizational collapse that we're on the verge of.

00:06:23.000 There are more single 30-year-olds than married 30-year-olds.

00:06:26.000 Think about that.

00:06:27.000 That you have more people that.

00:06:30.000 And so what I was about to say is that we tell young people, just work hard and find a job.

00:06:33.000 Well, what happens when you shut down our whole country?

00:06:35.000 What jobs are we supposed to find?

00:06:37.000 That's what adults are saying.

00:06:39.000 That's kind of the conservative mantra, right?

00:06:40.000 And I believe it, right?

00:06:42.000 If we didn't decide to destroy our economy, which thank God that President Trump is finally trying to get it back on track.

00:06:48.000 But for adults out there, the way you communicate to young people, and by the way, I'm going to talk to young people in a second because there's nuance to this.

00:06:55.000 To the students out there, there's nuance.

00:06:57.000 But for the adults out there, it has to be more than, oh, just go work hard and get a job.

00:07:01.000 Because right now, we have completely ravaged the entire landscape economically in our country.

00:07:05.000 However, for students out there, everything I've just said does not give you a hall pass to go play the oppression Olympics.

00:07:14.000 Okay, let me be very clear.

00:07:16.000 My speech to the adults for how dumb of the decisions that they made in political office and what they let happen does not give you an excuse to all of a sudden do the Alexandria Casia-Cortez thing.

00:07:26.000 Where, no, it doesn't. 0.94

00:07:28.000 Where all of a sudden you say, everyone before me is awful and give me free stuff and I deserve it.

00:07:32.000 That's actually not true.

00:07:34.000 In fact, you must admit that, yes, there's been some really awful mistakes.

00:07:37.000 You must admit it's going to be harder for you to succeed.

00:07:40.000 But then you're going to say, I'm going to double apply myself.

00:07:42.000 I'm going to get creative.

00:07:43.000 I'm going to find a way out of it.

00:07:45.000 I'm going to continue to act responsibly, act morally and ethically, sit up straight with my shoulders back, as Jordan Peterson would say, get my goals sharp and clear.

00:07:54.000 I'm not going to blame other people for my problems.

00:07:56.000 And it's still possible to succeed in this country because it is.

00:08:00.000 And so nothing what I've said, it's absolutely worthy of applause.

00:08:03.000 Nothing I have said, nothing is an excuse for any young person out here then turn to your parent and say, see, Charlie said, no, no, no, no, that's not what I'm saying.

00:08:13.000 In fact, it's extra motivation for you to start to take responsibility for yourself, for your sphere of influence, and then for your country.

00:08:20.000 So here's the big point.

00:08:22.000 Our parents have failed us.

00:08:24.000 It's time for us to stake responsibility for our country.

00:08:26.000 It's that simple.

00:08:27.000 Okay?

00:08:28.000 They have decided that they don't want to leave a better country for us.

00:08:31.000 And I'm sure that some of you have good parents that have done a good job.

00:08:34.000 But now this is the call to action for you to get involved and get engaged.

00:08:37.000 Because now it's really on us, right?

00:08:39.000 It's what kind of a country do we want to live in?

00:08:41.000 The kind of country I want to live in is one where you can have many children responsibly, get married, live a normal life, have a country where we don't judge people on the color of their skin, have a country where you can speak your mind freely out of fear of getting kicked off of social media, losing your job, getting kicked out of a classroom, or getting punished because of your beliefs.

00:09:02.000 Having a place where you can have some nuance, where maybe you might be, you know, fiscally liberal, but socially conservative.

00:09:08.000 That's fine.

00:09:10.000 Whatever it might be, right?

00:09:11.000 Where you actually can have...

00:09:13.000 By the way, I long for the days where people can actually respectfully disagree about things.

00:09:18.000 Those days are now not happening in our country. 0.99

00:09:20.000 We're now back into these tribal groups. 1.00

00:09:22.000 And by the way, I'm not blaming it. 0.97

00:09:23.000 It's actually not at all.

00:09:25.000 It's the exact opposite what the media will say.

00:09:28.000 This is because of Trump.

00:09:28.000 It's actually not because of that at all.

00:09:30.000 It's President Trump who's actually the guardian of freedom of speech, ending the endless wars and agree to disagree type politics, where it's the left that says, if you don't agree with us, if you don't post a black square, you're a bad person.

00:09:41.000 Like, no, actually, you're a bad person for making me do something that is racist.

00:09:44.000 So thank you very little.

00:09:45.000 Like, that's actually what it is. 0.98

00:09:50.000 And I'm going to talk about that for a second because this entire black square thing, and you guys know exactly what I'm talking about, young people in particular, was totalitarian at its worst. 0.96

00:09:59.000 The test of totalitarianism is not what you do, it's what you don't do. 0.95

00:10:04.000 Think about this.

00:10:05.000 It's the test that if you don't take a knee, you're an awful human being. 0.99

00:10:09.000 And now, by the way, I'm not telling you if you posted a black square, you're a bad person. 0.95

00:10:12.000 I'm actually not saying that.

00:10:13.000 I'm saying that if all of a sudden you went to other people and you bullied them because they didn't post it, then that's actually a problem.

00:10:18.000 Because if all of a sudden you go out of your way and you're saying, if you don't do the same level of activism that I did, you're somehow less moral than I am.

00:10:27.000 Like, wait, what are you talking about?

00:10:28.000 Maybe I actually, true, I value all life. 0.52

00:10:31.000 Maybe I think that BLM Incorporated wants to destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family, is chancing for cops to die outside of the hospital in Compton, Los Angeles when cops were fighting for their life, and is judging people based on the color of their skin.

00:10:43.000 I don't think that's a good thing.

00:10:44.000 Maybe we actually might want similar goals, but just because I don't post that singular black square when you tell me to, and you're not in charge of me, maybe you should stop making a value judgment against me.

00:10:53.000 Maybe that would be nice. 0.54

00:10:55.000 And so that's the actual future that I think we want in our country.

00:10:58.000 And for this is a youth summit, and I think this is so important that we're all gathering because right now we are seeing for the first time in our country's history, our generation is going to have it harder than the parent, the generation that preceded us.

00:11:11.000 And so this is where politics comes into it far too much.

00:11:14.000 And it's just the reality of it.

00:11:16.000 And so the question you have to ask yourself is, what am I willing to do to be able to live a life that I can get married, have a job, have children, and have some responsibility?

00:11:27.000 And that's the key word.

00:11:28.000 One of the major reasons that what's happening in our country is happening is that we have not said to young people, you must have some form of responsibility in your life.

00:11:40.000 How many high schoolers are out there?

00:11:42.000 Raise your hand, high schoolers.

00:11:43.000 It's awesome.

00:11:44.000 You're more mature than college kids.

00:11:45.000 Congratulations.

00:11:46.000 It's true.

00:11:47.000 And for college kids out there, I'm not saying this insultingly, you're probably fine because you're here, but generally, right?

00:11:53.000 Generally.

00:11:54.000 Why is that?

00:11:55.000 High school seniors are far more mature than college seniors on average.

00:11:58.000 Why?

00:11:59.000 It's because your parents are around.

00:12:00.000 That's why.

00:12:01.000 It's because you're actually held accountable.

00:12:03.000 You probably have to get up between 7 and 7:30.

00:12:05.000 You can't stay up to 1 a.m. binge drinking every single night.

00:12:08.000 And someone's looking over your shoulder all the time.

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00:12:33.000 Look, if you guys want a real meal, no more of that frozen stuff.

00:12:38.000 You need American meat.

00:12:40.000 We have a beautiful country here.

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00:12:44.000 Because of that, we need to have everyone rewarding American ranches and American ranchers.

00:12:50.000 The reason why we've partnered with goodranchers.com is because I looked into it.

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00:14:41.000 And I'm going to say some things that are awfully provocative here, and that's why I'm here.

00:14:46.000 We have way too many people going to college in our country.

00:14:48.000 Way too many people.

00:14:50.000 And you have to applaud. 0.98

00:14:52.000 You can say, oh, boo, oh, you're awful. 0.96

00:14:53.000 Okay, fine. 0.97

00:14:54.000 Let me tell you what.

00:14:55.000 I don't care.

00:14:56.000 I mean, it's just true.

00:14:57.000 We have way too many people going to four-year college.

00:14:59.000 Way too many people.

00:15:00.000 For high schoolers out there, take a deep breath.

00:15:01.000 It's okay if you don't go to four-year university.

00:15:03.000 It's actually okay.

00:15:04.000 I'm going to be the first one to tell you that.

00:15:05.000 It's okay.

00:15:09.000 Anyone who tells you that you need to go to four-year college to succeed is lying to you.

00:15:12.000 I didn't go to college.

00:15:13.000 You don't need to go to college.

00:15:15.000 Now, by the way, if you're going to college, it might be a good choice.

00:15:17.000 I don't know.

00:15:18.000 The cool thing about liberty is that everyone can make the choices that they see fit.

00:15:21.000 This idea that you must do something is what?

00:15:22.000 We just covered this, that you must do it.

00:15:25.000 It's not a good thing.

00:15:26.000 So let's talk about college right now because I know a lot of you are wrestling with this.

00:15:30.000 Just take a pause.

00:15:31.000 And if you're being asked the question, hey, where are you going to school?

00:15:35.000 Not, hey, why are you going to school?

00:15:37.000 That's a problem.

00:15:39.000 You should be able to have a very good reason to go tens of thousands of dollars into debt.

00:15:43.000 A very good reason to go do that.

00:15:46.000 No matter what it is, if you're going to go purchase a home or a car, going into debt requires a good reason.

00:15:53.000 Here's my couple tests with college.

00:15:54.000 Number one: are you going to get a skill or are you going to get a piece of paper?

00:15:59.000 Two completely different things.

00:16:01.000 If you're going to college for a very specific reason and you're working backwards from a goal, I want to be an engineer.

00:16:07.000 I want to be a doctor.

00:16:09.000 I want to be a lawyer.

00:16:10.000 I want to go, I want to go be a business.

00:16:12.000 I want to be in business and finance.

00:16:13.000 And you say, this school will make that happen.

00:16:17.000 That's a good reason to go to college.

00:16:19.000 A bad reason to go to college.

00:16:21.000 My parents are making me.

00:16:23.000 Bad reason.

00:16:24.000 And for parents out there, you got to break this entire landscape of how you communicate with it.

00:16:31.000 Because when I talk to young people privately, it's the number one reason why they give.

00:16:35.000 Because first of all, it's young people that are usually filling out the student loan debt forms.

00:16:39.000 They're the ones that actually have to have the 80, 90, 100, $150,000 into debt.

00:16:44.000 And I've really boiled it down.

00:16:46.000 I'm going to say this is as kindly and softly as I can.

00:16:48.000 If you're a parent out there and you are not willing or able, I should say, to look your neighbor in the eye and say, My kid is not going to college, going to college, and I'm okay with that.

00:17:01.000 If that conversation scares you, then it's more about your ego than your children's future.

00:17:08.000 It's that simple.

00:17:12.000 We need more people in two-year technical schools.

00:17:16.000 We need more people to be first responders.

00:17:18.000 We need more people to work with their hands.

00:17:20.000 We need more entrepreneurs.

00:17:21.000 We need more people to take gap years.

00:17:23.000 We need more people in the United States military.

00:17:30.000 I employ 160 young people.

00:17:32.000 I can tell you this: where you go to college means absolutely nothing to me.

00:17:35.000 In fact, if you didn't go to college, you probably have an upper hand to probably get a job with me, probably.

00:17:41.000 Seriously, because then I know you weren't totally brainwashed to hate our country.

00:17:44.000 And so, and if you survive, terrific, that's great.

00:17:48.000 However, break free of this hypnotic idea that you must go, that you must go instead.

00:17:58.000 In fact, actually, if you go, it might be the right decision.

00:18:01.000 I'm going to keep saying that.

00:18:02.000 Instead, start from the default position of just a thought exercise tonight with your parents.

00:18:08.000 I'm not going to go.

00:18:09.000 I'm going to prove to myself I should go.

00:18:11.000 For example, if you have more than $40,000 in debt, it will take you 20 years to pay that off with interest.

00:18:17.000 Just so you understand, you're signing your life away of future earnings, future mortgage payments, future car rent, whatever it is.

00:18:24.000 Your entire financial livelihood could be determined by the time you're 22.

00:18:28.000 Just understand that.

00:18:29.000 It's a really big decision to make.

00:18:32.000 Here's the other thing about college: we have kids that are borrowing money they don't have to study things that don't matter to go find jobs that don't exist.

00:18:39.000 So the national graduation rate is 59%.

00:18:43.000 Understand that.

00:18:43.000 That means that 59% of young people that go to college will graduate.

00:18:48.000 41% that go to college will not graduate, but they will graduate.

00:18:52.000 They will exit with one thing, and that's usually debt.

00:18:54.000 So we send kids to college.

00:18:56.000 Any college kids out there that know people that dropped out?

00:18:58.000 Yeah, how about like a couple hundred, right?

00:19:00.000 Happens all the time.

00:19:02.000 If any business had a 59% success rate, they'd be shut down by the federal government for scamming parents and scamming their consumers.

00:19:10.000 Instead, 59% graduation rate, we keep on sending kids to this mill of anti-American indoctrination.

00:19:18.000 Okay, it would be one thing.

00:19:19.000 But then people say, but they need to go to college to get the jobs, right?

00:19:24.000 That's what parents say.

00:19:25.000 44% of those that graduate 10 years later, according to the New York Federal Reserve, are employed in jobs that don't require a college degree.

00:19:33.000 You guys ever been to Starbucks?

00:19:34.000 I've never seen so many people with college degrees.

00:19:37.000 Seriously.

00:19:38.000 Everyone has college degrees that work there.

00:19:40.000 It's true.

00:19:42.000 44% end up in positions that don't require a college degree.

00:19:47.000 So if you're out there and you have anxiety, you're like, I got to get a specific test grade.

00:19:51.000 I got to get this done.

00:19:53.000 Okay, maybe you do.

00:19:53.000 That's fine.

00:19:55.000 However, maybe you don't.

00:19:56.000 Maybe what really matters in our country, what really matters is how you act, how hard you work, and if your aim is correct.

00:20:07.000 That's really what matters in our country, right?

00:20:09.000 Not if you went to Stanford or Yale.

00:20:12.000 Who cares?

00:20:12.000 Like, okay, whatever, fine, great.

00:20:13.000 You learned Howard Zinn's history of the American people or whatever.

00:20:16.000 Like, great, okay, sure.

00:20:18.000 Which is exactly what they teach, right?

00:20:20.000 And so I think what's going to happen in this country, and for those of you in college, you know exactly what I'm talking about here, because the fact that these universities, most of them, if not all of them, did not offer tuition adjustments for becoming nothing more than a Zoom call this semester, because it actually completely blows up one of the arguments that parents always give me about college.

00:20:43.000 They say, okay, I get it, Charlie, but they're going to meet lots of people when they're in college.

00:20:47.000 Well, they're not meeting anybody right now.

00:20:50.000 So why exactly has tuition not been adjusted?

00:20:59.000 This goes back to my guiding thesis of what I'm saying.

00:21:02.000 Young people out there, take responsibility for your life and take responsibility for your country.

00:21:07.000 Do you know what part of taking responsibility is?

00:21:09.000 No more excuses.

00:21:10.000 Excuses are awful.

00:21:11.000 That's what the left does.

00:21:12.000 They have an excuse for everything.

00:21:14.000 Instead, you say, okay, life is really bad.

00:21:17.000 Whatever.

00:21:18.000 Our immigration policies are terrible.

00:21:20.000 Our politicians don't represent us.

00:21:22.000 By the way, I have a whole book about all that stuff.

00:21:23.000 Okay, so I get it.

00:21:25.000 But I never, ever want to see conservatives start to compete in the Impression Olympics.

00:21:30.000 Ever.

00:21:31.000 Because they will always win.

00:21:34.000 Always.

00:21:35.000 Instead, and by the way, that's a really miserable way to live your life.

00:21:38.000 Instead, a much better way to live your life is all these things are challenges in front of me.

00:21:42.000 And I'm going to continue to believe that if I improve myself, my future will be better.

00:21:49.000 That is what has always made our country a phenomenal country, is this idea of earned success.

00:21:55.000 And so the left is the exact opposite.

00:21:57.000 They truly believe that if you apply yourself and if you work hard, then you can't succeed in this country.

00:22:04.000 It's actually impossible, that the systems are so incredibly broken, so backward, you're going to keep on hitting a ceiling and you'll never be able to break through. 0.98

00:22:12.000 This is complete rubbish, everybody. 0.95

00:22:13.000 Do not believe this stuff for a second. 0.99

00:22:16.000 When someone is trying to tell you that your dreams are not possible in America, what they're really trying to do is trying to create a culture of mediocrity and dream suppression.

00:22:25.000 It is not the case.

00:22:26.000 It isn't.

00:22:27.000 And I'm saying with that, all the caveats of all the obstacles that are actually present in our country, which are quite a few.

00:22:34.000 And so I say this kind of on the general landscape of kind of how we interact with education in our country.

00:22:40.000 For any young parents out there that are listening that still have kids in grade school or high school, I highly encourage you to homeschool your kids.

00:22:46.000 I'm a huge advocate of homeschooling.

00:22:48.000 Very big advocate.

00:22:54.000 I remember growing up in the suburbs of Chicago when homeschooling was not exactly a positive thing.

00:23:01.000 Everyone would make fun of the homeschool kids.

00:23:03.000 Now, my goodness, homeschooling should be the default option if anyone is able to do it.

00:23:08.000 And if not, that's fine too.

00:23:09.000 That's why we are a huge, that's why we're huge advocates of school choice and educational mobility.

00:23:14.000 And the other thing is this, which, and I'll kind of talk to some, we'll have some question and answer time here, which I'm really looking forward to and diving into this.

00:23:22.000 But if you kind of look at what decisions you want to make for your life, and if there's anyone out here, I'm going to speak because the law of averages, there's somebody out here right now who's going through a really tough time, whether through mental health issues or depression.

00:23:37.000 This is a real thing, and our political class does not talk about it at all.

00:23:41.000 You talk to the political elite, they just talk about tax cuts and all that.

00:23:44.000 They completely miss what's actually going on in your life.

00:23:47.000 Number one, can I challenge young people out there?

00:23:50.000 Delete one social media app from your phone.

00:23:52.000 One.

00:23:53.000 Do it forever.

00:23:54.000 Find one and delete it.

00:23:57.000 Not a lot of applause for that.

00:23:59.000 Everyone's like, yeah.

00:24:01.000 I don't know.

00:24:04.000 I'm telling you right now.

00:24:06.000 Take it from someone who's deleted all the social media apps from my phone.

00:24:09.000 I have an amazing staff that posts for me.

00:24:11.000 These apps.

00:24:13.000 I have that.

00:24:13.000 By the way, I completely admit I am one of the biggest hypocrites when talking about this because I built my entire following on social media.

00:24:21.000 Okay.

00:24:21.000 I have 7 million combined followers on all the platforms.

00:24:24.000 I get it.

00:24:25.000 Okay.

00:24:25.000 And I'm telling you right now, I actually have more of a standing to tell you.

00:24:29.000 These things are designed to be addictive.

00:24:31.000 They're designed to turn you into a worse person, to make you less human, and to make you, quite honestly, less nuanced in your thinking.

00:24:39.000 The more that you guys engage, whether it be on TikTok or Snapchat, Instagram, whatever those ones are that you open up, and you can find it on your screen time, by the way, six hours, seven hours, eight hours.

00:24:52.000 Think to yourself: am I a human being or am I a human that has some sort of sideboard capacity and I'm actually a slave to my phone?

00:25:00.000 Think about it.

00:25:02.000 Because if your phone dominates what you do and how you do and how you interact, then just take a pause and just say that's actually not how God made us.

00:25:10.000 It's not.

00:25:11.000 I mean, a phone should enhance your humanity.

00:25:12.000 I'm not saying that you should get rid of it altogether.

00:25:14.000 I think texting is kind of a good way to communicate generally.

00:25:16.000 I think email is awesome.

00:25:18.000 You know, I think that calling somebody is helpful.

00:25:20.000 But if you're picking up your phone 685 times to check Instagram to see how many likes you have, that's not good.

00:25:25.000 And that's the second thing. 0.86

00:25:26.000 And this is mostly to young women out there.

00:25:28.000 And then I'll talk to young men.

00:25:30.000 And just very bluntly, what happens on social media is not real life.

00:25:33.000 It doesn't matter how many likes you get.

00:25:34.000 It doesn't matter what people say.

00:25:35.000 They wouldn't say it to your face.

00:25:37.000 And that's why I'm a huge believer that sometimes you just shouldn't have those apps altogether.

00:25:41.000 And for young women out there, I get these messages a lot, your net worth is not, your value to society is not judged in how many Instagram likes you get.

00:25:49.000 It's not.

00:25:49.000 It's actually a really, really bad way to judge it.

00:25:52.000 It's a huge issue.

00:25:53.000 And people don't talk about it enough.

00:25:54.000 For young men out there, and by the way, I do have to say that there is a war on men in our country.

00:25:59.000 The hyper-feminization of our country is one of the most disastrous things that has happened.

00:26:04.000 And it's bad for women too, by the way.

00:26:05.000 It's bad for women and it's bad for men. 0.99

00:26:13.000 A society can become too feminine. 0.94

00:26:15.000 It can become too masculine.

00:26:16.000 It needs to be a blend of both.

00:26:18.000 That is how God made marriage.

00:26:19.000 That is how God made us. 1.00

00:26:21.000 You need the intuitive, calm capacity to reason out difficult problems of nurturing in females. 0.63

00:26:31.000 And you need the seek to adventure capacity to protect in males.

00:26:35.000 Those kind of attributes blend beautifully in any sort of functioning society.

00:26:39.000 But we've hyper-feminized our society where young men in particular are told that you're awful by the time you're 15.

00:26:46.000 We are in a hyper-feminized school system where young men learn by involvement and being physically active, yet you're sitting still for six hours a day, which is much easier for a young woman to be able to succeed in that.

00:26:59.000 That's why young women get better grades than young men generally, not for any other reason than besides that. 0.75

00:27:04.000 It's just young men, by the time they're 16, they cannot sit still for biochemical reasons that they cannot control.

00:27:11.000 But for young men out there, here's one very specific thing that I'm challenging you to do, which is, and for parents out there, I want you to listen very carefully to how I'm saying this, which is that the reason why young men are more likely to commit suicide, engage in alcoholism, be jobless by the time they're 25, be homeless, die at work, all these sorts of different things that are like, oh my gosh, like we have a patriarchy.

00:27:36.000 I don't think so.

00:27:37.000 Every single number doesn't look like it is because we have not challenged young men to grow up by the time that they're 16.

00:27:44.000 We have allowed a nation of boys to be permanently infantilized till the time they're 25 or 27 or 30.

00:27:53.000 I'm going to prove this to you.

00:27:54.000 If you guys can make a commitment today to never ever say this again, oh man, I have to go adult today.

00:28:01.000 Guys heard this?

00:28:01.000 It's now a new verb.

00:28:03.000 This is like civilization ending stuff, okay?

00:28:06.000 Where all of a sudden this idea of adulting is a negative.

00:28:11.000 If you're all here, you're old enough to be able to hear all these sorts of different speeches.

00:28:15.000 You guys are now in the cusp of actually becoming a recognized adult in America.

00:28:18.000 It's a really good thing.

00:28:19.000 It comes with a lot of freedom.

00:28:20.000 Let me tell you the problem, though, that your school system will never tell you.

00:28:24.000 Yes, you guys can go get endlessly drunk till 2 a.m.

00:28:27.000 You can go make all these sorts of different morally questionable decisions. 0.99

00:28:31.000 You will be a miserable person. 1.00

00:28:32.000 I can guarantee you that. 1.00

00:28:34.000 You will.

00:28:34.000 Go try it.

00:28:35.000 Go tell me how your life is in two years.

00:28:36.000 Seriously. 1.00

00:28:38.000 You will be unbelievably miserable. 0.96

00:28:39.000 The school system won't tell you this, by the way. 0.58

00:28:42.000 Saving yourself for one person for marriage is like heresy in the school system.

00:28:47.000 Instead, they're like, oh, go take all these pills.

00:28:48.000 Like, okay, no.

00:28:50.000 Like, actually, maybe I won't.

00:28:52.000 Maybe I'm going to actually save myself.

00:28:54.000 And all of a sudden, you say that in a school system, they're like, well, we can't teach that.

00:28:57.000 No one's going to listen to it.

00:28:58.000 Well, let me tell you right now.

00:28:59.000 The reason why we are the most miserable generation in American history is because we have not taught young people the true meaning of freedom.

00:29:06.000 The true meaning of freedom is that you're responsible for something.

00:29:10.000 Now, let me tell you what that means.

00:29:13.000 Being responsible is that I will not stay up till 5 a.m. to play video games because I'm going to be a wreck the next day.

00:29:22.000 And then all of a sudden I will be less able to serve other people.

00:29:25.000 You see, the idea of responsibility comes from the Bible.

00:29:27.000 It comes from the Christian ethic that I want to be able to serve others.

00:29:32.000 Here's the test of responsibility.

00:29:33.000 And I mean no way, by the way, to be like condemnation of anyone that might be in the other category.

00:29:39.000 But if you wake up, if you do not show up tomorrow to anything, if you just sit in your basement all day, and if no one's life is impacted tomorrow by you sitting in the basement, no one.

00:29:56.000 If no one's like, hey, where's Suze?

00:29:57.000 Susie, where is she?

00:29:59.000 Where's Billy?

00:30:00.000 I miss him.

00:30:01.000 Then you have no responsibility.

00:30:04.000 If you spend all day in the basement and somebody has a harder day tomorrow, you have some responsibility.

00:30:10.000 Go after whatever that thing is.

00:30:12.000 Find more of that.

00:30:14.000 That's why God gave us the rules, not because he hated us, not because he was the fun police.

00:30:19.000 Well, actually, if you follow the Ten Commandments, you will actually be truly free.

00:30:23.000 That's freedom.

00:30:24.000 Freedom is not indulging yourself in a bunch of internet consumption things or putting substance in your body.

00:30:29.000 No, that's actually a form of slavery. 0.99

00:30:31.000 Like you do that, you're going to be an unbelievably miserable person.

00:30:35.000 And take it from me, who I have lost dozens of friends from suicide since I graduated high school that thought that life was nothing more than putting the right substances in their body. 0.93

00:30:44.000 Or they thought life was nothing more than pulling up the next funny thing on their phone that was completely gross and out of character.

00:30:51.000 Instead, the people that applied themselves and actually cared much more about self-control than self-indulgence are leading very, very meaningful lives.

00:31:00.000 And I know this is hard when you're young because when you are young and all of a sudden you're coming into adulthood, you want to be able to say, I'm going to just, I'm invincible.

00:31:09.000 I can do anything you want.

00:31:10.000 And by the way, if you go do that in a couple of years, you'll come back and say, Charlie, you're exactly right.

00:31:14.000 And by the way, I didn't come from this.

00:31:15.000 I don't know.

00:31:15.000 It's a 5,000-year-old text that has been saying this for quite some time.

00:31:19.000 It's not exactly a brilliant breakthrough.

00:31:22.000 But I'm telling you that for us and our generation, we're going to have to grow up quicker than almost any other generation in recent memory.

00:31:29.000 We're not able to have this little period where we can just not wait till 30 till we grow up, or else we're not going to have a country.

00:31:35.000 So, the idea is that we have to take responsibility early and take it often.

00:31:40.000 And so, and by the way, it's really hard.

00:31:43.000 It's actually what I'm talking about is one of the hardest things you get to do in your life.

00:31:46.000 It's hard because the temptations are all around you to do all these sorts of different things.

00:31:51.000 And so, I want to take questions, but before I do, I just want to reinforce that if there's anyone out there that is dealing with self-identity issues or depression or anything, I want to tell you this: Number one, you're a lot tougher than you might think.

00:32:03.000 It's a very important truth.

00:32:05.000 Number two, that somebody out there needs you.

00:32:08.000 You might not think that you need you, but somebody else needs you.

00:32:11.000 So, instead of just all of a sudden saying like, no one needs me, you're wrong.

00:32:14.000 That's not correct.

00:32:16.000 And number three, challenge yourself before you even think of anything unthinkable of self-harm.

00:32:23.000 Challenge yourself to an extent where I need to be pushed more.

00:32:26.000 What happens a lot when this starts to this epidemic of suicide in our country that our political elite have decided doesn't matter, including politicians up and down the state level in this state and many other states, is very simple and very clear.

00:32:39.000 We have not challenged our young people enough to take responsibility at a younger age.

00:32:42.000 Okay, let's do some questions.

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00:34:12.000 So, Charlie, you know quite a lot about starting something, and you did it at such an early age.

00:34:18.000 And one of the things that I love about you is you never looked at you never let anybody look down on you because of your youth.

00:34:24.000 You went after it, you built something, and you have this entrepreneur spirit.

00:34:29.000 So, what do you tell young people that want to start something and make something out of their lives and take some risks? 0.98

00:34:34.000 Yeah, there's a lot of wisdom in a company I don't think very highly of, which is Nike, because they fund BLM and make their things in China.

00:34:42.000 However, there's a lot of wisdom in those three words that they have on their shirt, which is just do it.

00:34:47.000 If anyone is telling you that you need to do something before you take a risk or pursue the dream, they're lying to you.

00:34:53.000 If you have something that you want to do, go do it right now.

00:34:56.000 And I'm living evidence of that.

00:34:58.000 I started an organization when I was 18 years old, suburbs of Chicago, no money, no education except high school, no connections, and no idea what I was doing.

00:35:08.000 All I had was energy, I had work ethic, and I had my path somewhat straightened out in the sense like I kind of knew where I wanted to go.

00:35:16.000 I had many variations, incredible amount of trials, sleepless nights, traveled over 330 days a year, most earning no money for the first five years, asking people for money, doing all sorts of different things.

00:35:32.000 Where we are today, a kid from Chicago who didn't go to college, where I had to literally sneak into the Republican convention in 2012.

00:35:42.000 Eight years later, I'm opening the Republican convention.

00:35:45.000 Only in America is a story like that possible.

00:35:48.000 And a couple thoughts on this.

00:35:51.000 Number one, as much as I would like to take credit for it, I won't, because I had amazing people that believed in me early.

00:35:58.000 And my mentor, may he rest in peace, Bill Montgomery being one of them.

00:36:02.000 And that's the other thing is find someone that is multiply older than you are and listen more than you talk.

00:36:10.000 It's kind of something we should teach every young person, right? 0.96

00:36:13.000 And make sure they're out of the school system because whoever's in the school system will probably tell you something foolish.

00:36:17.000 So find someone who's in the actual world, who has been steeped in wisdom, has actually been through something in their life, and just ask questions and listen to their stories.

00:36:27.000 Understand that you probably don't know everything by the time you're 16 or 18.

00:36:32.000 In fact, there's a phenomenal quote, which is, I only wish I would have known how little I actually knew when I thought I knew it all.

00:36:42.000 It's a perfect quote, which is, you actually, if you think you know it all, just take a stop.

00:36:46.000 Like, just time out.

00:36:47.000 And then kind of the other thing is when you're trying to start something from nothing, the best way to move forward, and this is something we do not do enough of young people, is the capacity to endure opposition.

00:36:59.000 We have created such fragile young people, it is incredible, that they have to start screaming in protesting because someone says an idea that they disagree with. 0.87

00:37:07.000 The actual world, the non-collegiate world, is a brutal place. 0.99

00:37:12.000 It's actually an awful place. 0.64

00:37:13.000 There's tons of mean people. 1.00

00:37:17.000 They will cut your throat.

00:37:18.000 And what college should be, but it's not, what college should be is a place where you become a tougher person.

00:37:24.000 It's not what college is.

00:37:26.000 Instead, it makes you a weaker person.

00:37:28.000 And it also makes you trained to try to say, I disagree with that.

00:37:32.000 Take that thing away.

00:37:34.000 That's why you're seeing this happen all across our country.

00:37:36.000 That's why you're seeing the crisis of cancellation everywhere because the campus activists have gone from college campuses to run all of American society.

00:37:45.000 Wow.

00:37:46.000 That's such a great answer.

00:37:47.000 What do you guys think?

00:37:54.000 So many of you may want to be in Charlie's position one day doing something that everyone, the youth, the conservative youth are listening to, having the influence that he has, Instagram followers.

00:38:07.000 But one thing I've learned is that the bigger the blessing, the bigger the burden.

00:38:11.000 And there's something that goes with that.

00:38:13.000 There's a weight that goes with that.

00:38:15.000 And so first of all, I just want to say that, Charlie, we're praying for you.

00:38:18.000 Thank you.

00:38:19.000 And Charlie needs those prayers.

00:38:20.000 So continue to pray for Charlie because he's really being used.

00:38:23.000 He may not speak in religious platitudes all the time, but he's doing God's work and God is using him.

00:38:29.000 So I want to encourage you to pray for Charlie.

00:38:32.000 And I also want to ask you about, Candace said something so interesting the other day.

00:38:36.000 She said she finds ways, you know, in the seriousness of politics to find some joy and laughter and finding humor in the situations.

00:38:46.000 So what are some ways, I have a follow-up question to this, but what are some ways that you take some of the pressure off?

00:38:51.000 Because I imagine there's some stress that goes with what you do.

00:38:54.000 So what are some of the ways that you take some of the pressure off?

00:38:57.000 Yeah, there's a little stress.

00:38:58.000 I mean, that's the other lesson is that I just want to be very clear that if you want to achieve some form of success, you're going to have to work every weekend.

00:39:06.000 You'll have to probably, you'll probably sleep five hours a night for the first five years of doing what you're doing.

00:39:12.000 You're going to lose your closest friends.

00:39:14.000 Your relatives will spite you as soon as you find some form of success.

00:39:17.000 Now, if you want to be mediocre, then you won't encounter that.

00:39:21.000 But all of a sudden, if you want the glam and fame, buckle up because it's hard.

00:39:25.000 It's worth it, no doubt.

00:39:26.000 It's absolutely worthwhile.

00:39:28.000 But yeah, look, some pressure releases is everything becomes relative.

00:39:32.000 I'm an evangelical Christian.

00:39:33.000 It's the most important thing in my life.

00:39:35.000 And actually understanding that we are made in God's image.

00:39:38.000 Thank you.

00:39:41.000 And actually understanding the truth of the Bible and understanding actually how awful of a person I actually am, which I am.

00:39:47.000 Everyone is. 0.73

00:39:49.000 And we need to tell that more clearly to young people is that you're actually really terrible.

00:39:54.000 And you need Jesus.

00:39:55.000 And, you know, seriously, it's that simple.

00:39:58.000 Instead, we do the opposite.

00:39:59.000 We tell young people, you're the greatest thing ever, self-esteem.

00:40:02.000 And they're like, well, I'm 14.

00:40:03.000 I'm still trying to figure this out.

00:40:05.000 And it puts an unneeded amount of pressure, actually.

00:40:08.000 And so I just want to kind of clear, I want to communicate that first and foremost.

00:40:12.000 And secondly, kind of just, you know, I really don't do much besides this.

00:40:20.000 People say, well, what do you do for fun?

00:40:22.000 It's like, you know, traveling 330 days a year and, you know, doing all this is kind of my life, and I love it.

00:40:28.000 I'm doing two podcasts a day, one on Saturday, one on Sunday.

00:40:32.000 It's a 24-7 type of exercise.

00:40:34.000 It really is.

00:40:35.000 And the kind of the fight that we're in in our country warrants that right now.

00:40:39.000 But yeah, look, I mean, there's always humorous moments.

00:40:41.000 There's things that, but I really enjoy reading every night and exploring big ideas.

00:40:48.000 In fact, I love being able to wrestle with oppositional ideas and being able to find just the wisdom of people that came before me, right?

00:40:58.000 Of Socrates and Plato and Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Burke, the architects of our entire society is something that we've completely lost, I believe.

00:41:08.000 He raises so many good points there.

00:41:10.000 And I think he's doing what he's passionate about because he finds fun in doing what he's doing for work, too.

00:41:17.000 So he's one of those types, and he's a higher achiever.

00:41:20.000 So I'm sure he's energized by accomplishing a lot of the things that he does.

00:41:25.000 So one of the things that I wanted to ask is when you get to the place that you're working so hard day in and day out for everything that you're doing, you've obviously had to work with all different types of people.

00:41:42.000 How do you keep people around you?

00:41:45.000 What does your inner circle look like?

00:41:47.000 And how do you, as a leader, lead effectively in your position?

00:41:52.000 Well, we have a great team at Turning Point.

00:41:55.000 I have a phenomenal girlfriend that really supports me.

00:41:57.000 And that's a very important thing is find someone that believes in you and supports you.

00:42:03.000 And it's a very, it's probably the most important thing.

00:42:05.000 And I'll tell you that my inner circle at Turning Point is three to four people.

00:42:11.000 And we've been through a lot together.

00:42:13.000 You have to know loyalty.

00:42:14.000 You have to know commitment to truth.

00:42:18.000 And I challenge to say that we're friends.

00:42:21.000 We are friends, the people that I work with.

00:42:24.000 But more than anything else, we are battle-tested together.

00:42:27.000 And that's a very important thing.

00:42:29.000 Look, dealing in politics, I deal with literally thousands of people that want me wiped off the face of the earth every single day.

00:42:37.000 No, seriously.

00:42:37.000 And I deal with dozens of reporters that their daily job is to destroy my life, that listen to every word I ever say anywhere at any time.

00:42:45.000 Their full-time job, and it should just say, destroy Charlie Kirk, was my job between 2020 and 2024.

00:42:53.000 And they're very well funded, and that's what they do.

00:42:55.000 I want you to just imagine that if you had 24 people that chased your life around every day trying to destroy your life.

00:43:01.000 Like, that's what I go through.

00:43:02.000 And by the way, whatever.

00:43:03.000 It's the price of our journey.

00:43:07.000 But yeah, look, when you associate with people around you, the most important thing is loyalty and integrity.

00:43:14.000 Those are the two most important things.

00:43:16.000 The rest can kind of fill in the gaps, but you need people that will tell you the truth always, and you need people that are loyal to you.

00:43:22.000 And unfortunately, we have a disloyal culture that has happened in our country.

00:43:27.000 That's honestly just to kind of make it a little political.

00:43:29.000 I think it is one of the most disgusting things when someone goes and gets the honor to serve around the president of the United States and then they go write a book a year later saying how awful that president was.

00:43:38.000 I don't care if you hated him.

00:43:39.000 I don't care if you didn't like him.

00:43:41.000 I think it is one of the most disgusting things that someone, I really do.

00:43:46.000 And here's one of the lessons I wanted to extract for you: is that leaders that are high achievers that are doing and accomplishing things, they're careful about who they associate with.

00:43:55.000 And you as well should be careful about who you associate with.

00:43:59.000 And maybe you're in high school now and come 10 years from now, five years from now, even the people that you're associating with now aren't going to be your closest friends.

00:44:08.000 And so realizing pleasing the people around you maybe isn't always the most important thing.

00:44:14.000 So bear that in mind.

00:44:15.000 And so these are some practical life things that I've extracted from Charlie, and I'm excited that he's answered that.

00:44:25.000 As far as policy goes, let's start with a question on this side, and then we'll go to that side.

00:44:31.000 Hey, Charlie, huge fan.

00:44:33.000 I listened to you in an old episode of the Candace Own Show like a year and a half ago, it must have been, and you said that you thought we shouldn't have been in Vietnam.

00:44:40.000 And I just wanted you to elaborate on that opinion a little bit.

00:44:43.000 Yeah, so I got an email.

00:44:45.000 I don't know if you sent me an email this morning, actually.

00:44:46.000 Someone emailed me on my podcast, and you guys can always email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:44:51.000 Look, this is something where I disagree with the traditional Republican establishment with all respect to prior speakers.

00:44:57.000 I truly mean this.

00:44:58.000 I've aired my differences with him on podcast form before, but I think that the Republican Party and the Democrat Party has, I think it's been a disservice to our country to believe that we can nation build in every corner of our planet.

00:45:09.000 I think that this misadventures around the world is something that we should take an honest diagnosis of. 0.64

00:45:17.000 Less about the Vietnam War, and I do think the Vietnam War was a total mistake, especially how we did it through draft form, and where I could make an argument for the draft. 0.83

00:45:27.000 Geopolitically, I do not believe that the Vietnam invasion and prolonged conflict there was in the best interest of America or the American middle class.

00:45:34.000 But let's just talk about the Iraq War. 0.78

00:45:36.000 Is that okay? 0.90

00:45:37.000 Because I think that one's more applicable to our country. 0.75

00:45:39.000 The Iraq war will go down as one of the worst foreign policy mistakes in American history.

00:45:43.000 We displaced the dictator, who was, of course, a bad person.

00:45:46.000 There's lots of bad people around the world.

00:45:48.000 But what is the proper role of American foreign policy?

00:45:50.000 Is it to try to impose Western values to places that don't want it and will never believe it?

00:45:54.000 Or is it to protect the homeland, preserve the people that we are elected to do so, preserve first principles, and then use force wherever necessary to eliminate enemies, foreign and domestic, such as Qassam Soleimani and al-Baghdadi.

00:46:09.000 But the idea of a ground invasion in Iraq where we spend well over a trillion dollars, lose over 5,000 Americans, where a veteran commits suicide on average, I think the average was every couple hours a veteran commits suicide in our country from PTSD from the Iraq and Afghanistan war.

00:46:26.000 I think that's a misapplication of American force.

00:46:29.000 Look, here's the thing that I learned about American foreign policy: we are not an empire.

00:46:34.000 We should not be an empire.

00:46:35.000 We're actually really bad at trying to be an empire.

00:46:37.000 Like, if we were an empire, then just admit it.

00:46:39.000 And we're not.

00:46:40.000 And so I think that American foreign policy over the last 20 years has been a very, it's been, by the way, it's been really bad for our generation, just so you know. 0.82

00:46:49.000 The amount of debt that we've had to incur through these foreign invasions, the diminishment of our U.S. currency, and why is it that we're building bridges and roads and tunnels in schools in Iraq, and we have 15 schools in Baltimore where black kids can't read at grade level. 0.69

00:47:01.000 Like, that sounds like a weird prioritization. 0.86

00:47:05.000 Our elected leaders should say the first and foremost issues that impact our country is our citizens. 1.00

00:47:12.000 Not the Iraqi people. 1.00

00:47:14.000 And so While there are plenty of people in good spirit that will support the endless war in Afghanistan, that think we should be there for another 20 years, I think we should end the war in Afghanistan. 1.00

00:47:27.000 I think we should never have gone into Iraq. 0.86

00:47:29.000 And this is something that really pleases me about President Trump, is that the Republican Party, we are now able to have these conversations where we have to say we are not nation builders, nor should we be.

00:47:38.000 We have huge problems in this country.

00:47:39.000 We lose 70,000 people a year to opioids every single year.

00:47:43.000 As I mentioned, 35,000 people to suicide.

00:47:46.000 We have a fadless epidemic where 77% of black babies are born without fathers.

00:47:51.000 We have wide open borders. 0.96

00:47:53.000 Our infrastructure is the laughingstock of the world.

00:47:55.000 Our airports are falling apart.

00:47:57.000 Yet we're supposed to continue to spend hundreds of billions of dollars overseas.

00:48:00.000 Why exactly?

00:48:02.000 In a nation that may have had some terrorists passing through there at some point, the more that we are honest about the mistakes we made overseas, the better that we can chart our course in those kind of capacity.

00:48:12.000 So yes, I am unafraid as a conservative to say that certain adventures overseas should never have happened.

00:48:19.000 In fact, I think that kind of approach will actually make us a more prosperous country in the future.

00:48:24.000 And that's awesome.

00:48:27.000 So it's 22 veterans commit suicide each day.

00:48:31.000 That's an astronomical number, and that needs to change.

00:48:34.000 So we need to pray for our vets.

00:48:36.000 And the great thing about President Trump is he wants a strong military, but he doesn't want to nation build and send everyone all across the world.

00:48:43.000 We love that.

00:48:44.000 All right, next question.

00:48:45.000 Charlie, in the unfortunate event that Joe Biden wins on November 3rd, how do you think that would impact the future of Christianity in America?

00:48:54.000 It's a great question.

00:48:55.000 Thank you for being here.

00:48:58.000 So, yeah, look, it will impact it terribly in a variety of different ways.

00:49:05.000 First of all, so if Joe Biden wins, people say, let me just start this way.

00:49:09.000 People say, Charlie, what are you going to do?

00:49:11.000 And I'll say, I'm going to do exactly what I would do if Trump wins.

00:49:13.000 I'm going to wake up at 6 a.m. the next day.

00:49:15.000 I'm going to do two podcasts.

00:49:16.000 I'm going to host my radio show.

00:49:17.000 I'm going to get to work.

00:49:18.000 No matter what happens, we're going to get to work, right?

00:49:21.000 And so I want everyone to be very clear here that win or lose, you're going to be involved the day after the election, right?

00:49:30.000 That victory or defeat, you're not going to allow that to say, we're giving up on America, we're done. 0.96

00:49:35.000 Like, that's foolish. 0.97

00:49:36.000 That's not going to happen. 0.82

00:49:37.000 But look, just to be very honest with you, a lot is going to be determined in the next 45 days.

00:49:42.000 And I mentioned this earlier.

00:49:43.000 If the Republicans are able to fill the Supreme Court seat, that will positively impact the U.S. Supreme Court for generations to come, which is why I support that.

00:49:55.000 With that being said, if Joe Biden were elected president of the United States, which will basically be a Harris administration because they've said that, you will have a war on Christianity, the likes of which we have not seen since the Obama administration, but it'll be much worse.

00:50:11.000 It'll be the criminalization of churches.

00:50:13.000 It'll be the forced contraception mandates.

00:50:16.000 It'll be more and more judges, if they were to be able to get the Senate control to do so, that are hostile to the faith.

00:50:23.000 And we saw this under Barack Obama with the little sisters of the poor that were forced to pay for contraception, which is absolutely diametrically against the Catholic faith and the tradition.

00:50:38.000 And the other part is this, let's just talk about life.

00:50:40.000 Let's just talk about the need to protect pre-born lives.

00:50:44.000 You know, we have a million abortions every single year in our country. 0.93

00:50:48.000 One million abortions.

00:50:49.000 That's 3,000 abortions a day.

00:50:51.000 So we were told early on, and the way that your public schools will probably talk to you about abortion, is they'll tell you that, oh, abortion is needed for the case of the rape or life of the mother.

00:51:02.000 And so if Joe Biden gets elected, he won't speak at the March for Life like Donald Trump has. 0.73

00:51:06.000 He'll restore Planned Parenthood funding, and it will be a crusade against pre-born lives where we're finally making steps in the right direction, thanks to President Donald Trump. 0.57

00:51:17.000 Who, for Christians out there, they say, Well, I don't like Donald Trump. 0.99

00:51:20.000 I don't like his style.

00:51:21.000 I'll say, first of all, if you're so worried about style over the amazing things that he's done for our country, like you're way too focused on pettiness, in my opinion, okay?

00:51:30.000 Oh, I don't like his tweets.

00:51:32.000 Okay, great, fine.

00:51:34.000 That's the first thing.

00:51:35.000 The second thing is this: so, let me, by the way, I'm gonna be so brutally honest here in the state of Texas.

00:51:41.000 Why is it that Christian George W. Bush never spoke at the March for Life?

00:51:47.000 Why is it that Christian George Bush give us John Roberts?

00:51:52.000 Why did Christian George Bush never move the embassy to Jerusalem? 0.69

00:51:55.000 Maybe because Christian George Bush didn't have a backbone, and Donald Trump does. 0.90

00:52:08.000 And he's making a very good point.

00:52:10.000 And Trump puts America first.

00:52:12.000 He doesn't put other countries first.

00:52:14.000 He doesn't apologize for America.

00:52:15.000 And that's one of the things that we love about our president.

00:52:18.000 Let's take the next question.

00:52:21.000 Hello, my name is Mark.

00:52:22.000 And you're talking about how a lot of youth need to start taking a lot more responsibility.

00:52:29.000 What's like the one thing you think that society could change that could help that the most?

00:52:34.000 It's a great question.

00:52:35.000 Thank you.

00:52:37.000 So let's just talk from a public policy perspective.

00:52:40.000 I think the hyper-urbanization of our country has been a mistake.

00:52:43.000 And you guys are seeing this here in Harris County.

00:52:46.000 I think the Republican Party should say, we're not going to allow buildings over four stories to be built anywhere in America.

00:52:50.000 The more vertical our buildings get, the more liberal our cities get.

00:52:54.000 No, seriously, think about this.

00:52:55.000 No one talks about this.

00:52:56.000 It's a very interesting point.

00:52:58.000 You see all those high-rises going up in West Houston, right?

00:53:00.000 As that happens, all of a sudden, Houston becomes more liberal.

00:53:03.000 It's very interesting because if you rent property and you don't own property, you're much less likely to care about what's happening around you.

00:53:08.000 So our founding fathers recognize this.

00:53:10.000 They said, go own land.

00:53:11.000 Go get into the soil.

00:53:13.000 Get into the roots.

00:53:14.000 And so one of the reasons as to why Portland and Seattle and Los Angeles, they're all perpetually burning is they have young people that are $70,000 into debt.

00:53:22.000 They have no jobs to be found anywhere.

00:53:24.000 Their lives are not getting better when they're 27, when they're 28, when they're 29, and they own nothing.

00:53:30.000 They're renting.

00:53:31.000 All their money goes to hyper-inflated rent because they're all living in the same sort of cluster. 0.99

00:53:35.000 And so from a public policy perspective, we should sell our federal lands out west to people under the age of 35 to married couples for like no money. 0.99

00:53:44.000 That's what we should do. 1.00

00:53:45.000 We should tell married couples, go out to Nevada, go out to Colorado. 0.58

00:53:50.000 Here's a thousand acres.

00:53:51.000 We're going to sell you an acre for basically no money if you're married and you're going to have at least three children. 0.95

00:53:56.000 Like that's basically what we should do because we have a population collapse.

00:54:00.000 We have a civilizational collapse.

00:54:02.000 We have a responsibility collapse. 0.99

00:54:04.000 It's that stop living in these inner cities.

00:54:04.000 It's that simple.

00:54:07.000 Start going, go re-embrace the rugged Western spirit.

00:54:11.000 And people say, well, there's no land.

00:54:13.000 Have you seen a map of the American West?

00:54:15.000 I mean, it's all owned by the federal government.

00:54:17.000 Nevada is 97% owned by the federal government. 0.98

00:54:20.000 If they just sold a couple thousand acres, you could say, go, young families, and have a life that isn't in BLM-infested Harris County. 0.97

00:54:29.000 Like, go, seriously, I'm not saying you guys should move, but get out of the urban areas. 0.99

00:54:32.000 It's where really bad ideas all of a sudden start to translate into public policy really quickly.

00:54:37.000 That's one of the reasons.

00:54:38.000 And here's why.

00:54:39.000 There's a great essay.

00:54:40.000 You guys should read it.

00:54:40.000 It's called The Tragedy of the Commons.

00:54:42.000 It's very interesting, which is when everyone owns something, no one owns something.

00:54:46.000 This is why public parks are doomed to get trashed all the time.

00:54:50.000 Not on my yard, right?

00:54:51.000 Your parents will say, my yard, I take advantage, I take care for.

00:54:54.000 The public park, oh, somebody else's responsibility.

00:54:56.000 When everyone owns something, no one owns it.

00:54:59.000 And when no one owns anything, no one has any responsibility, and you'll get into chaos.

00:55:02.000 So, from a public policy perspective, I tell young parents in particular, go start a mortgage as early as you possibly can, especially right now with interest rates so low.

00:55:10.000 I mean, debt is bad.

00:55:12.000 The only kind of debt that I support is mortgage.

00:55:14.000 Really, because you're building equity, you improve your home, you touch it, you feel it, you use it.

00:55:19.000 It's something that can actually improve your life year after year.

00:55:22.000 And so, what can we do broadly a public policy way?

00:55:25.000 That's one of the ways.

00:55:26.000 The other way is this: when you have a culture of debt, when you have young people that are $70,000, $80,000 into debt because of student loans, when they can't find jobs, they're quickly going to dive into nihilism, which is a belief in nothing, okay?

00:55:39.000 So, nihilism is a fancy academic term for a belief in nothingness.

00:55:43.000 We're nothing more than clumps of cells, nothing matters, whatever.

00:55:47.000 This is a very dangerous thing.

00:55:48.000 And we have to be very serious and honest about the kind of public policy decisions that we are making where all of a sudden young people feel as if the country is not for them.

00:55:56.000 And I just want to just be very kind of, I kind of want to have a bridge here.

00:56:00.000 If you're out in this audience and you are a Bernie Sanders supporter, I actually kind of really get it.

00:56:04.000 I do.

00:56:05.000 And I know that might sound like, what are you talking about?

00:56:07.000 I get it if you think the entire system is rigged against you.

00:56:10.000 I get it if you think that the politicians are backwards and broken and corrupt, because most of them are, almost all of them are.

00:56:16.000 The solutions of Bernie Sanders are evil. 0.97

00:56:19.000 They're horrendous.

00:56:20.000 When Bernie Sanders starts railing against how opportunities are being robbed from young people, I kind of get that.

00:56:25.000 I do. 0.99

00:56:26.000 I really do.

00:56:27.000 And so if you have friends that are Bernie Sanders supporters, understand that they actually can be much more converted into being conservatives than Joe Biden supporters.

00:56:33.000 It's actually a really interesting bridge, that the Bernie people actually have some very, they have some correct observations about some things that are going wrong in our country.

00:56:42.000 And I think that one of the mistakes is that, like, oh, the Bernie people, they're always, like, actually, they're actually much more convertible than you might think.

00:56:48.000 And actually, some of them hate war.

00:56:50.000 They don't like corrupt politicians.

00:56:52.000 They just, their solutions are just so awful, but they don't know anything.

00:56:54.000 It's fine.

00:56:55.000 Like, they're young, okay?

00:56:56.000 I mean, that shouldn't be the, that shouldn't just be the end of the conversation.

00:57:01.000 It should be the beginning.

00:57:02.000 The final thing is this: that when you get older, your life is going to get more difficult but more meaningful.

00:57:08.000 And so that it's really hard to find a meaningful life without having difficulty.

00:57:11.000 Those things are usually tied together, right?

00:57:14.000 So in order to find, if you want to live a good life, one that gives you some form of fulfillment, then you're going to have to do something hard every single day.

00:57:24.000 The left has been trying to crack this code for 2,000 years.

00:57:27.000 How can we have meaningful life with no responsibility?

00:57:31.000 It's actually against the biblical truths that we know.

00:57:33.000 You're going to have to endure a daily slog of responsibility.

00:57:38.000 So I hope that helps answer your question.

00:57:40.000 And I'm happy to go over if I don't know.

00:57:43.000 That's a great answer.

00:57:44.000 Yeah, I can answer.

00:57:45.000 I could talk all day.

00:57:46.000 Yeah, and one thing that we can remember is that President Trump in 2016, he won a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters.

00:57:52.000 They were disenfranchised because, unfortunately, his opponent couldn't reach him.

00:57:57.000 So there's an inroad there.

00:57:58.000 Next question.

00:58:00.000 I'm a huge fan of you and your podcast.

00:58:02.000 And please announce your name, too.

00:58:03.000 Oh, I'm David.

00:58:04.000 I'm a huge fan of you and your podcast.

00:58:06.000 Thank you so much.

00:58:07.000 Yeah, I'm subscribed.

00:58:08.000 You're subscribed.

00:58:09.000 Yeah.

00:58:10.000 My question is: you and other conservatives agree with Milton Friedman's libertarian views, right?

00:58:16.000 But he also believed in legalizing drugs.

00:58:19.000 Oh, no, not even close.

00:58:19.000 So what is your...

00:58:22.000 So, yeah, look, I actually, as I get older, I become less libertarian.

00:58:25.000 I become more libertarian on guns, actually, and less libertarian on other things.

00:58:28.000 No, it's interesting.

00:58:29.000 I become more libertarian on guns.

00:58:30.000 I think that firearm restrictions should basically go away and meaningful, like people should just be able to own weapons.

00:58:35.000 I'm kind of on that way.

00:58:37.000 So, however, when it comes to, and I'm more libertarian on speech, I'm probably more a libertarian on some foreign policy things.

00:58:47.000 I'm way less libertarian at immigration, ridiculously less libertarian on any sort of thing of immigration, and also on markets.

00:58:54.000 But let's talk about drugs, okay?

00:58:56.000 This is a really interesting thing.

00:58:57.000 I actually used to espouse a position when, so I went to high school in the suburbs of Chicago, and everyone who wanted weed could get weed, right?

00:59:05.000 It was illegal, but everyone could get it.

00:59:07.000 So that kind of was my framing.

00:59:09.000 And so I used to go around the country and I'd say, what good does it do to keep it illegal?

00:59:14.000 Let's decriminalize it.

00:59:16.000 Let's let people have it at all times.

00:59:18.000 We'll tax it.

00:59:18.000 It'll be this like wonderful libertarian utopia, right?

00:59:21.000 And so, but I'm an empiricist.

00:59:22.000 What does that mean?

00:59:23.000 That's a really fancy word for, I look at evidence, right?

00:59:26.000 I don't care how people feel.

00:59:27.000 I like data.

00:59:28.000 I like facts.

00:59:29.000 All of you should be empiricists, right?

00:59:31.000 All of you.

00:59:33.000 Right?

00:59:34.000 If someone says, what is your political ideology?

00:59:36.000 You'll make them, you sound so smart.

00:59:38.000 I'm an empiricist.

00:59:39.000 It's like, awesome.

00:59:39.000 I'm an empiricist.

00:59:40.000 I like data, right?

00:59:42.000 So I like data.

00:59:43.000 So then I asked after a couple years, because you guys should never be dogmatic in anything, by the way.

00:59:47.000 Dogma is bad.

00:59:49.000 Bad.

00:59:49.000 Don't be dogmatic.

00:59:50.000 Don't be like, oh, I'm against this always.

00:59:52.000 Always challenge and say, does the evidence support my opinion?

00:59:58.000 So I believe that, okay, decriminalization, legalization might be a good idea.

01:00:02.000 Okay, maybe.

01:00:03.000 So then I asked, how's it going in Colorado?

01:00:06.000 Is it making Colorado a better state for young people to succeed?

01:00:10.000 Is it making middle-class families more likely to be able to escape poverty and get into a higher level of socioeconomic income?

01:00:18.000 Are there drunk driving rates going down?

01:00:20.000 Are they seeing more incidents of it?

01:00:22.000 Is it good for schools?

01:00:23.000 And the answer was, it's a disaster.

01:00:24.000 Now, the weed people, they'll tell you it's great, right?

01:00:27.000 They'll say, oh, it's terrific.

01:00:29.000 Like, we have tax revenue and all this sort of stuff.

01:00:30.000 Like, it's a complete disaster, okay?

01:00:33.000 They have people that are 12 years old that are getting admitted to the ER.

01:00:36.000 And by the way, the marijuana that you parents were smoking in the 70s is not the weed that your kids are doing.

01:00:40.000 It's laced with hallucinogens.

01:00:42.000 It's laced with LSD sometimes.

01:00:44.000 It's very, very dangerous.

01:00:45.000 Now, I'm not trying to condemn anyone here who's done weed, okay?

01:00:48.000 I'm not.

01:00:48.000 Like, I'm not moralizing towards you.

01:00:50.000 In fact, I would highly recommend you stop doing that, but that's a different thing.

01:00:55.000 I don't think it will lead to a productive life, okay?

01:00:57.000 But nothing I'm saying is like, you're a bad person if you do that.

01:01:00.000 It's kind of indifferent, okay? 0.98

01:01:01.000 Instead, what kind of laws do I want to have happen in my country that are going to make us more likely to be able to compete against China in the 21st century? 0.93

01:01:09.000 So here's a really interesting, provocative way to think about it. 0.86

01:01:12.000 Does China want more American youth on weed or less American youth on weed? 0.53

01:01:16.000 Of course they want more American youth on weed. 0.88

01:01:18.000 Of course they do.

01:01:19.000 We know that it probably will make you less likely to be entrepreneurial.

01:01:23.000 It will stunt productivity.

01:01:24.000 It also has, and by the way, this idea that it's not a gateway drug, it's absolutely a gateway drug, okay?

01:01:29.000 I know very few people in my life that have overdosed on opioids that just started opioids.

01:01:33.000 Like, oh, let's just start with like heroin.

01:01:35.000 Like, okay, no, you were doing weed when you were 12, okay?

01:01:38.000 And that's not to say there's not medicinal things that I think are very valid.

01:01:42.000 I know people that have CBD on it, but when it's laced in THC, I just don't think it creates a beneficial country.

01:01:48.000 And by the way, and then it's this kind of culture where it is now being as pervasive as alcohol.

01:01:53.000 And people say, well, what about alcohol?

01:01:54.000 Don't you want to disallow them?

01:01:55.000 Like, wait, hold on a second.

01:01:56.000 I wouldn't necessarily make alcohol illegal, but if we act like alcohol is this victimless drug, like what kind of country are you living in?

01:02:02.000 I mean, 50,000 people die every single year of alcohol-related death or vehicular manslaughter.

01:02:09.000 It's not as if like we've conquered alcohol in our country.

01:02:11.000 In fact, you know, you're most likely to die from a family member who's under the influence of alcohol.

01:02:16.000 That's actually the most dangerous you are going to be in your life.

01:02:19.000 That's the most dangerous from a sort of death in America of domestic death.

01:02:23.000 And so, but also I think the alcohol example is making something that's currently legal illegal instead of making something that's currently illegal legal.

01:02:30.000 So it's not exactly a perfect argument.

01:02:32.000 But I also don't think that we can, anyone is just like, what about alcohol?

01:02:35.000 I'm like, well, what about it?

01:02:36.000 It's actually doing a lot of damage to our country.

01:02:38.000 Like, I think it would be a really good thing if less people drank every single night.

01:02:42.000 I think that would have more meaningful relationships.

01:02:44.000 I think that domestic abuse would go down.

01:02:46.000 I think that it's actually not a good thing to have a culture of intoxication at all times where you can't watch a cable news program without someone at a bar having something to ease up their conversation.

01:02:56.000 I actually think that that's not a good thing.

01:02:58.000 And I think the Bible tells us be very wary of drunkenness.

01:03:01.000 It's very clear that drinking is okay in certain, it depends on your denomination. 0.69

01:03:04.000 The Baptists say, like, you heretic.

01:03:06.000 Like, okay, but like, some people believe that drinking is okay.

01:03:09.000 By the way, I'm not a drinker, right?

01:03:11.000 Like, it's been a long time since I've had anything to drink.

01:03:13.000 Let me be very clear.

01:03:14.000 But I also think that we have to have a pause of what kind of country do you want to live in and what are the trends that are making us less competitive and a less, I would say, free society.

01:03:24.000 And I think that more people that are doing addictive substances is not a trend I want to go into, which is why I have vocally opposed the legalization of marijuana in the states, and I think you guys should too.

01:03:34.000 And I came from a position where it was like, oh, it'd be okay, but I know that it has other, it makes people, in my opinion, less productive, less likely to succeed.

01:03:44.000 To answer your question, I don't hold that view because I'm afraid that we have such a simultaneous cultural avalanche happening in our country.

01:03:52.000 There's so many problems.

01:03:53.000 Why would we add another one?

01:03:54.000 Like, oh, yeah, by the way, people want to commit suicide.

01:03:56.000 We have depression everywhere.

01:03:57.000 Let's also legalize weed. 0.97

01:03:58.000 Like, that's a really dumb idea, right? 0.93

01:04:00.000 Especially when we already have all these problems. 0.98

01:04:05.000 That's a really profound answer.

01:04:08.000 And just to clarify, it's not anti-biblical to drink.

01:04:17.000 I mean, Jesus turned water into wine.

01:04:19.000 And so we don't have to have a legalistic mindset about that.

01:04:22.000 But on the other hand, we just got to keep in mind that is it beneficial to human flourishing?

01:04:28.000 So keep that in mind.

01:04:30.000 And a lot of times what he's saying is definitely true.

01:04:32.000 No, and I was just saying some churches do hold that view.

01:04:34.000 So I don't mean to offend you if you are.

01:04:36.000 Yeah, well, no, it's perfect.

01:04:37.000 So, and I don't drink either, so, but I just, yeah.

01:04:40.000 So, next question.

01:04:42.000 My question is to you, or I'm just going to do a little backstory.

01:04:45.000 I go to high school.

01:04:46.000 I'm actually a junior in high school.

01:04:47.000 I'm actually in my local theater department at the high school.

01:04:50.000 And a lot of the other people don't normally agree with me, but I still wear my Trump mask anyways.

01:04:54.000 Anyways, that's not part of the point.

01:04:56.000 My question to you is: yesterday, Candace spoke about how the left uses linguistics to make their side sound more appealing until you read the fine print.

01:05:02.000 Being surrounded by these people at school, how can I use the linguistics, use Republican linguistics to convey my thoughts respectfully?

01:05:09.000 Well, first of all, I want to start with something you probably didn't come to talk about, which is more conservatives need to be involved in the arts, in theater, in music, in all of that.

01:05:18.000 It's a very important thing.

01:05:19.000 Very important.

01:05:20.000 And this, look, the idea of Western beauty, of Bach and Beethoven and Shakespeare, should not be forgotten that that is part of the ethic and the worldview that we have.

01:05:32.000 And it's very interesting that you mentioned your theater.

01:05:34.000 You should stay in theater, right?

01:05:35.000 You're probably surrounded by a bunch of communists, but that's okay.

01:05:38.000 And that's fine.

01:05:39.000 It's good.

01:05:39.000 But you shouldn't leave.

01:05:41.000 And conservatives, we should be more embracing of people that are in the theater, in the arts, right?

01:05:45.000 That's a place that we don't contend enough for, okay?

01:05:48.000 So I just want to say that.

01:05:49.000 The other thing is linguistics.

01:05:51.000 Thank you for listening to my podcast.

01:05:53.000 I try to do part of that.

01:05:54.000 The best piece of advice I have for you with liberals are people on the other side.

01:05:57.000 Look at them as the opportunity, not as the obstacle.

01:06:00.000 It's very important.

01:06:01.000 Every liberal you talk to is someone that should be converted to the kingdom of Jesus Christ, hopefully eventually, could become a constitutional conservative.

01:06:09.000 Come could become a patriotic American.

01:06:11.000 Don't look at them as someone you're going to run over.

01:06:12.000 Like, I'm going to go run through it.

01:06:13.000 No.

01:06:14.000 Okay?

01:06:15.000 It's an opportunity.

01:06:16.000 That's number one.

01:06:17.000 Number two is ask questions.

01:06:18.000 It's very important.

01:06:19.000 Always be non-stop inquiry.

01:06:21.000 Your dialectic should be one of inquiry.

01:06:24.000 Don't tell them what you believe.

01:06:25.000 Ask them why they believe what they believe.

01:06:27.000 Did you ever think that maybe America is not as awful as you're articulating?

01:06:32.000 Why is America so bad? 0.93

01:06:34.000 Have you ever heard about how in the last 30 years, there's a waiting list of 35 million people that want to come into this country?

01:06:45.000 If we were so bad, why is that the case?

01:06:47.000 Have we done anything right as a country?

01:06:48.000 Like, these are easy questions, right?

01:06:50.000 And they're actually really good starting points.

01:06:52.000 The third thing is this, is this is very important for all of you, and I know that a lot of you are in debates.

01:06:58.000 A lot of you are in conversations, right?

01:07:01.000 Your style will largely be more important than your substance and how people judge your debate.

01:07:08.000 Not raising your voice, never ever engaging in ad hominem, ever.

01:07:12.000 Never insult someone because they might look funny, because they might be wearing a weird shirt, ever.

01:07:19.000 And if you do, you're wrong.

01:07:20.000 That's not the way that you engage towards truth or you contend to truth, okay?

01:07:24.000 You don't feel like, oh, you might get too excited.

01:07:27.000 You have to learn, get the muscle memory to calm down your heart rate, right?

01:07:32.000 Not get too excited.

01:07:34.000 It's okay if someone disagrees. 1.00

01:07:35.000 And if they say, you're a dumb, stupid person, you don't get too excited. 1.00

01:07:40.000 You say, well, thank you. 1.00

01:07:41.000 I don't hold that belief, but let's keep on talking.

01:07:45.000 And I have hundreds of hours of video that show exactly how to do that, of these apparatus coming up in my face and they're screaming at me and all that.

01:07:53.000 It's a very important thing.

01:07:54.000 And the final thing is this, which is it's the conversations, not the conversions.

01:07:58.000 I can't tell you how many liberals have listened to my podcast and then they email me a couple months later and they say, Charlie, after listening to 20 of your episodes, I'm now a conservative.

01:08:08.000 I'm now a Christian.

01:08:09.000 You would never, never, never lose hope that what you are doing could be convincing and persuading people.

01:08:18.000 So thank you for the question.

01:08:20.000 What a great answer there.

01:08:22.000 And there may be people that are triggered by what he's saying, but he's a happy warrior.

01:08:26.000 We've used that terminology.

01:08:28.000 Download it into your hard drive.

01:08:30.000 Be happy warriors.

01:08:31.000 Be positive.

01:08:32.000 Don't call people names, but answer the questions.

01:08:34.000 And that's what he's doing well.

01:08:36.000 And we really appreciate him for doing that.

01:08:38.000 Okay, so next question.

01:08:41.000 What does a victory in the culture war look like?

01:08:45.000 What does a victory in the culture war look like?

01:08:47.000 My goodness.

01:08:49.000 A generation of young people that are more thankful than angry to live in America.

01:08:56.000 And that's the best, that's the shortest answer I can give.

01:09:05.000 But I think that we have a gratitude crisis in our country.

01:09:08.000 I think that all good things come from being thankful.

01:09:11.000 If you think about it, when you are happier, you're usually thankful that something happened to you or something is around you.

01:09:17.000 And you should be thankful every day.

01:09:18.000 You live in a great country.

01:09:20.000 Hopefully you're generally healthy.

01:09:22.000 In fact, we're the least thankful country.

01:09:24.000 That's also the wealthiest country.

01:09:25.000 Go figure that one out.

01:09:27.000 I mean, we're so unthankful, we're so full of ingratitude, yet we have things really, really well, really good in our country, I should say.

01:09:33.000 Things are terrific.

01:09:34.000 So that's an interesting point.

01:09:36.000 So the culture war also is, I want a country where everyone can speak their mind without having some sort of cost against them.

01:09:44.000 I think that we need to have a country where you can wear your MAGA hat without being kicked out of class, without being kicked off of social media, or being socially isolated.

01:09:52.000 That would be a victory where the self-censorship crisis ends.

01:09:56.000 And that's the other thing, everybody, is that do not self-censor.

01:10:04.000 Do not shut yourself up.

01:10:06.000 That's a very important thing.

01:10:08.000 Somebody might be trying to shut you up, but then the moment that you're like, I'm not going to wear the Trump shirt because I'm afraid of how people are going to look at me in the grocery store.

01:10:16.000 Or I'm not going to wear, you know, my Jesus Christ as Lord shirt because I'm afraid that I might get some funny looks.

01:10:23.000 That is what self-censorship looks like.

01:10:25.000 Now, if somebody else is making you do that, completely different thing.

01:10:28.000 But if you're the one that's doing it and you have the right to do it, then that's a different terrain that we have to contest on.

01:10:35.000 Thank you for the question.

01:10:36.000 Appreciate it.

01:10:40.000 Be bold and don't be afraid.

01:10:42.000 I think that's the right answer there.

01:10:43.000 Okay, could you announce your name and then ask your question?

01:10:46.000 My name is David, and I just have some questions.

01:10:50.000 When you started Turning Point, USA, what was your main goal and what inspired you to do that?

01:10:56.000 It's a great question.

01:10:57.000 I wish I could say that when I started Turning Point, I knew exactly how it was going to end and I had a perfect plan in mind.

01:11:03.000 For any of you that want to start anything, it's okay if you don't have a plan.

01:11:07.000 You have a talent, you have a passion, you go after it, and then it kind of just unfolds.

01:11:12.000 Looking at where Turning Point is today with 160 people on staff, well over 2,000 campuses represented, and the incredible reach that we have, it's hard to be able to kind of backtrack and see how far we've been able to go.

01:11:25.000 But I didn't have that vision from the beginning.

01:11:27.000 I just wanted to save our country from the younger perspective.

01:11:31.000 That was it.

01:11:31.000 I just felt that we were in a crisis in America and doing nothing was not acceptable.

01:11:36.000 That's really what I believed: I was not going to be a spectator when our country was deconstructed and disintegrated from within.

01:11:44.000 That was my opinion.

01:11:45.000 And it still is.

01:11:49.000 Thank you.

01:11:50.000 Thank you.

01:11:51.000 Great question.

01:11:52.000 Now let's go to you.

01:11:53.000 And would you please announce your name and then ask your question?

01:11:56.000 My name is Ruth Ellen.

01:11:58.000 And I was wondering, what is the hardest obstacle that you have faced and how did you overcome it?

01:12:03.000 Wow, that is a great question.

01:12:05.000 The hardest obstacle that I faced was when people I thought I trusted betrayed me.

01:12:12.000 That is a tough thing for anyone.

01:12:14.000 And there is no playbook to go through that, but it teaches you a lot about yourself and a lot about who you surround yourself with.

01:12:22.000 And that's why I encourage young people to get involved in taking risks, starting businesses earlier than not, because you're going to encounter that.

01:12:31.000 Someone's going to tell you that they're going to do something and they don't do it.

01:12:34.000 Someone's going to tell you one thing and a different thing happens.

01:12:37.000 And that's a very hard thing for a young person in the process, is betrayal.

01:12:41.000 It really is.

01:12:42.000 And so that was hard.

01:12:44.000 And also just the general adversity, right?

01:12:47.000 Just generally just trying to get something started and having everyone tell you you're not going to succeed.

01:12:52.000 You're going to fail. 1.00

01:12:53.000 You're dumb. 1.00

01:12:54.000 Stop doing this. 1.00

01:12:55.000 You must go to college.

01:12:56.000 You have no idea what you're talking about.

01:12:58.000 And knowing why I was doing what I was doing and keeping my goals sharp and clear.

01:13:04.000 Remember, that's how you keep your goals sharp and clear.

01:13:07.000 There's a couple things you guys walk away with.

01:13:09.000 That's one of them.

01:13:10.000 Then I was able to get my path correct and aim towards the good.

01:13:14.000 If you know why you are doing what you are doing, as I mentioned earlier, you're a lot tougher than you think.

01:13:20.000 If you know the why, you'll figure out the how.

01:13:23.000 If you know the why, you can get through almost anything, no matter what opposition.

01:13:26.000 But all of a sudden, if you get in that moment of pressure and adversity and you can't tell someone why you're doing what you're doing, you'll probably shatter.

01:13:34.000 So thank you so much for the question.

01:13:36.000 It's terrific.

01:13:38.000 And sometimes I'm sure it gives you thicker skin as you continue to go on and on and on and it makes you tougher.

01:13:45.000 So that's a great, great perspective.

01:13:46.000 I love the shirt.

01:13:47.000 I recognize it because you listen to my podcast.

01:13:49.000 So thank you.

01:13:50.000 Police officers matter.

01:13:51.000 Do we agree?

01:13:52.000 Yes.

01:13:58.000 Please announce your name and then ask your question.

01:14:00.000 My name is Caitlin and I'm from California.

01:14:03.000 I go to school at California State University, Fullerton.

01:14:07.000 Yeah, there's a big controversy happening.

01:14:09.000 I'm well aware of it.

01:14:11.000 And so obviously a lot of my friends are super liberal and I live in a sorority house with a lot of girls who are super liberal and one of them in particular is very has a nihilistic worldview, atheist, super liberal.

01:14:26.000 And how do I go about that, like trying to help her or combat that without still having to live with her as a roommate?

01:14:34.000 It's a great question.

01:14:36.000 So all of you are going to encounter nihilists at some point in your life.

01:14:39.000 You probably already have, where there is no God.

01:14:42.000 We're all just a clump of cells.

01:14:44.000 Everything here is an accident.

01:14:46.000 Why even be here?

01:14:48.000 It's just a very dark, very hedonistic type view eventually, because then why not just stuff myself with all these substances?

01:14:55.000 It's really, it's really a dangerous thing to believe.

01:14:58.000 Number one, let's just talk about atheism really quick.

01:15:00.000 And if there's any atheists here, by the way, God bless you.

01:15:03.000 Thank you for being here.

01:15:05.000 And exactly.

01:15:07.000 So thank you for being here.

01:15:09.000 So, and no, I mean that because I don't view atheists or people that are secular as the obstacle.

01:15:15.000 I think of you as the opportunity.

01:15:16.000 I want to be in heaven with you one day, and I pray that you will be.

01:15:19.000 So that's the first thing is this: light will always triumph darkness.

01:15:24.000 And when dealing with atheists, there's a couple just logical imperfections in their worldview that I'm going to give you a couple hard wires right now. 0.70

01:15:30.000 I'm going to give you a couple cheat codes. 0.99

01:15:31.000 You ready?

01:15:32.000 So here's a couple cheat codes for atheism.

01:15:34.000 They're going to say there's no such thing as absolute truth, right?

01:15:36.000 That's one of their big things.

01:15:38.000 And say, do you believe that absolutely?

01:15:41.000 I mean, if there's nothing as absolute truth, and what you just said might not be absolutely true, then you're believing something that might actually not be true.

01:15:48.000 So, which they're not, which they are.

01:15:50.000 So that's the first thing.

01:15:51.000 The second thing, and this really kind of drives them nuts.

01:15:53.000 I wouldn't recommend using this, by the way, is that without God, there would be no atheists.

01:15:57.000 Like, it really drives them out of control. 0.56

01:16:01.000 And I mean, whatever.

01:16:03.000 So the other thing is this: when you're trying to talk to a nihilistic person, I think that, and there's a lot of different ways to go about it, but there's one thing they can't answer.

01:16:13.000 You ready for it?

01:16:14.000 Here's the cheat code.

01:16:15.000 The social Darwinists that believe that in Darwinism, there's one thing that always gets them confused.

01:16:24.000 It's music.

01:16:26.000 What is music?

01:16:28.000 Now, they will say that music came from songbirds.

01:16:30.000 Like, no, no, no, no, that's noise.

01:16:32.000 What is music?

01:16:33.000 Why do certain pieces of music make you cry?

01:16:37.000 Why do certain pieces of music make you feel something that you just can't quite articulate?

01:16:43.000 Why does some music sound better than others?

01:16:45.000 Because we believe, those of us that believe in God, that music is something that is extra-spiritual.

01:16:51.000 It's actually a connection to a higher power.

01:16:53.000 That's why the longest book in the Bible is literally songs, psalms.

01:16:58.000 The last chapter of the book of Psalms is about using trumpets and using instruments to glorify God.

01:17:05.000 They can't explain music.

01:17:08.000 They also can't explain beauty.

01:17:10.000 Ask them, is there anything in this world that is beautiful?

01:17:13.000 Go drive to Malibu and say, let's look at the sunset.

01:17:16.000 Is that beautiful?

01:17:17.000 Why?

01:17:17.000 Yes.

01:17:18.000 Why is it that when human beings see an open ocean, we all agree there's something good about this?

01:17:25.000 It's because we all have hardwired in us a yearning to desire the good and reject the bad.

01:17:33.000 A size in our heart that only God can fill.

01:17:36.000 Even the nihilists will admit this when they're confronted with it, and they don't have an answer for it.

01:17:40.000 And so, my advice to you: maybe you'll play Mozart, maybe something like that, and you listen to that music, and all of us will agree there's something so sweet and harmonious about this.

01:17:49.000 And those of us that believe in the Bible, we can explain it, right?

01:17:52.000 We know what that is because we use music as a way to glorify God.

01:17:56.000 That is why all of the great conductors and all of the great orchestra, all the great individuals of Mozart and Bach, and all of them, they all said on the top of their music, Glory be to God, always, because what they were doing to try to glorify God, always.

01:18:11.000 So, that's there.

01:18:12.000 I could go a lot deeper into that.

01:18:14.000 But my advice to you is don't look at her as, how am I going to live with her?

01:18:18.000 Instead, say, how am I going to live forever with her?

01:18:21.000 How do I bring her to heaven?

01:18:23.000 That's my advice to you with her, okay?

01:18:28.000 Thank you.

01:18:29.000 Great question.

01:18:31.000 We got time for just maybe one more.

01:18:33.000 Sorry, I have long-winded answers.

01:18:36.000 Hi, I'm Payton Mai.

01:18:37.000 I'm 16 and I'm a senior in high school.

01:18:38.000 Hi.

01:18:39.000 I have two questions for you.

01:18:40.000 Okay.

01:18:41.000 Okay, my first one is, as you know, America seems to be split into two factions, one being the left and the other one being the right.

01:18:48.000 The left believing that America's principles and Western ideology doesn't work and that it needs to change.

01:18:53.000 A lot of my friends, because I'm not originally from Texas, sadly, I'm from Maryland.

01:18:58.000 And I've discussed with my friends and they say, like, hey, like, I'm not on the front lines like true people are.

01:19:06.000 And it just, to me, it seems like the left looks at like as the riots now as a revolution, you know?

01:19:14.000 And so are we on the brink of a civil war?

01:19:16.000 And what would that modern civil war look like?

01:19:18.000 And when will we heal?

01:19:20.000 Look, those are weighted words, civil war.

01:19:22.000 I think that it's more like a revolution, though.

01:19:24.000 I mean, I think there's a difference between civil conflict and a revolution.

01:19:27.000 I think there is a legitimate form of insurrection that is being attempted in our country where people want to try to displace the people in power and try to find power themselves.

01:19:37.000 I don't want any of that.

01:19:39.000 I want to be very clear.

01:19:40.000 I'm trying to bring down the temperature in the room.

01:19:42.000 Like, I'm actually trying to say, can we have dialogue again?

01:19:45.000 Well, one of the things they don't believe in is dialogue.

01:19:47.000 They don't believe in freedom of speech, freedom of ideas.

01:19:49.000 They don't.

01:19:50.000 They don't want a marketplace of ideas.

01:19:51.000 Just read their literature, read what they believe in.

01:19:54.000 They do not believe in dialogue.

01:19:56.000 And that's why I said I love nuance.

01:19:57.000 That's why I want people that disagree to come to my events.

01:20:01.000 And that's why I think that it's really healthy to continue.

01:20:04.000 I mean, part of my whole shtick was don't be dogmatic.

01:20:06.000 Be an empiricist, right?

01:20:08.000 Follow the data.

01:20:09.000 Follow the facts.

01:20:11.000 Those sorts of things will make sure you never get to that kind of conflict.

01:20:15.000 When you get away from empiricism, when you get away from Judeo-Christian values from the Bible, because understand the West is a blend of reason and revelation, right?

01:20:24.000 Those two things together.

01:20:26.000 And all of a sudden you just get to tribalism, which is where the left is trying to bring us, then yeah, conflict will come.

01:20:31.000 And that's a really bad thing and we should reject it.

01:20:33.000 You had a second part of the question, though.

01:20:34.000 Yeah, I did.

01:20:35.000 But also talking about the riots, like we haven't had, like, these riots that we're seeing, like every major city in America is being burned to the ground.

01:20:44.000 When will this end?

01:20:45.000 It just doesn't seem like nobody wants to talk.

01:20:47.000 Well, look, I'm going to tell you guys right now, and I'm not trying to scare anybody, but man, this confirmation fight for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the country's going to really go through a tough time right now.

01:20:59.000 I'm telling you.

01:21:01.000 And they have already said last night, their organizers, they will burn cities down to the ground.

01:21:05.000 This is before the election.

01:21:07.000 Now, I hate to look so just like simply politically at it.

01:21:10.000 It's going to help the president politically probably if they start burning down every city.

01:21:14.000 But I just, I actually think this is so bad for the country that if you disagree with something, you're going to go burn down Seattle.

01:21:21.000 Like, really?

01:21:22.000 I mean, we don't do that.

01:21:23.000 I mean, if we, it's like, that's not, could you imagine for a second, if I could tell a quick story, I was at the White House for the Republican National Convention acceptance speech with the president, and all of us walk outside of the White House, and waiting for us were 3,000 BLM Inc. rioters that were pelting stuff at us and were assaulting senators and all of it.

01:21:46.000 Could you imagine if there were 3,000 MAGA hat wearing people outside of the Obama White House or a Bernie Sanders event or a Joe Biden event?

01:21:55.000 If Joe Biden could have that many people, which he wouldn't, but you know, that's the whole point.

01:22:01.000 People say, well, we're really divided because the right's too far.

01:22:04.000 I'm like, well, no.

01:22:07.000 No, we're not doing that.

01:22:09.000 We're not burning down cities.

01:22:11.000 And I'm not trying to say we're better people or anything.

01:22:13.000 I'm just basically saying on the moral landscape, we are not doing what they are doing.

01:22:17.000 We're not.

01:22:18.000 We are not waiting outside of their events.

01:22:21.000 I mean, they're not sending death.

01:22:23.000 We're not doing that sort of stuff.

01:22:24.000 And if we are, if one person does, you better believe we hear about it on the front page of the New York Times, right?

01:22:30.000 But when they have people that throw Molotov cocktails at police officers in New York City, it's considered to be a peaceful protest.

01:22:36.000 It's outrageous.

01:22:38.000 Thank you.

01:22:38.000 And also the other thing is, this is a personal question of mine.

01:22:42.000 I'm 16 years old and I'm a senior in high school.

01:22:45.000 I'm about to finish high school in three years because I was homeschooled.

01:22:49.000 Should I take a gap year or go right into school?

01:22:53.000 So I really hesitate to give personal advice because I don't know everything about what you do.

01:22:58.000 I'm really careful with that.

01:22:59.000 So everything I give is general and you guys can pick and choose what you like.

01:23:02.000 All my advice to you is ask yourself.

01:23:06.000 In one year, what type of person do I want to be?

01:23:10.000 What do I want to know that I don't currently know?

01:23:12.000 What do I want to master that I'm currently not a master of?

01:23:15.000 And how do I go about doing it?

01:23:16.000 If college is the answer, then go do it.

01:23:18.000 If a gap year of traveling, then go do it.

01:23:20.000 If mission work, whatever it might be, I could tell you this, that if more people took gap years, our country would be a better place, 100%.

01:23:27.000 Like, that's what I can tell you.

01:23:28.000 Is that gap years are phenomenal?

01:23:30.000 Young men in particular should absolutely take a gap year.

01:23:33.000 Get that out of your system before you get into debt.

01:23:36.000 Like, just go that gap year for young men in particular.

01:23:40.000 So take what you want out of that.

01:23:42.000 I know that's kind of general, and you're probably looking for, like, go do this, go do that.

01:23:45.000 Not going to be the one.

01:23:46.000 But I will say that a gap year can be a phenomenal thing.

01:23:50.000 Okay.

01:23:50.000 Truly.

01:23:51.000 Thank you.

01:23:52.000 That's it.

01:23:53.000 Want to do one more?

01:23:54.000 Yeah.

01:23:57.000 And it used to be that the left and right, when we say left, liberals and Republicans, conservatives at least agreed that this was a good country.

01:24:04.000 But now these leftists, they hate America.

01:24:06.000 We have nothing in common with them, which is very, very sad.

01:24:09.000 And so with the last question, we're going to take it to you.

01:24:13.000 Could you tell us your name and then ask a question?

01:24:16.000 My name's Allison.

01:24:18.000 What question would you pose?

01:24:21.000 Something to us, the audience, something to make us think.

01:24:25.000 What questions would you pose to us to, well, honestly make us think and maybe take to our family and friends and teachers to discuss those questions with?

01:24:37.000 So your question is, what question would I pose to the audience as kind of just an action step?

01:24:42.000 Yes.

01:24:43.000 Yeah, look, I think that this is a very important, it's a great question.

01:24:46.000 Thank you.

01:24:48.000 The question is this, which is, what are you willing to lose for America?

01:24:52.000 That's the question.

01:24:54.000 And the answer for conservatives is we're not willing to lose a lot.

01:24:57.000 That's been the answer.

01:24:59.000 And we like to think that we're losing a lot, but we're not.

01:25:02.000 We were founded by a country that they literally pledged their lives and their sacred honor.

01:25:06.000 I mean, they died and they bled for this incredible experiment.

01:25:10.000 We're worried about being kicked out of a class.

01:25:12.000 I mean, give me a break.

01:25:13.000 I mean, we're dealing on the fringes of societal privilege right now.

01:25:18.000 I mean, by the way, there is no white privilege, but there is American privilege.

01:25:21.000 Let me tell you what.

01:25:22.000 We're so incredibly lucky to be living in this country.

01:25:24.000 We have it so good.

01:25:26.000 We have things so stable and so incredibly, we're so blessed.

01:25:32.000 So that's the question is, what am I willing to lose?

01:25:35.000 Because the left is willing to give everything to get back into power, right?

01:25:38.000 They're willing to burn things down.

01:25:40.000 I'm not saying that should be us.

01:25:41.000 They're willing to spend more money than us.

01:25:43.000 They're willing to infiltrate school systems.

01:25:45.000 So the question is, what am I willing to do?

01:25:47.000 And for young people out there, it's a different question than adults.

01:25:50.000 For adults, my goodness.

01:25:51.000 I mean, if you're not getting involved in school board races and you're not getting involved in local elections and all that, we're getting pummeled on every level.

01:25:59.000 Harris County is incredibly Democrat now because Republicans sat by and did nothing while the Democrats out-organized us.

01:26:06.000 That's just an honest truth.

01:26:07.000 It's just true.

01:26:08.000 And for young people out there, the call to action is, and this is kind of a wake-up call, it's now our country, okay?

01:26:18.000 And so take responsibility for the country now.

01:26:22.000 We know all the problems that have been made, all the mistakes.

01:26:24.000 You run for office.

01:26:25.000 You support people that run for office.

01:26:27.000 You apply yourself.

01:26:28.000 You do the right thing.

01:26:30.000 That's now the call to action.

01:26:32.000 Every single person in this room, if you feel more motivated today than you did beforehand, then all of a sudden you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

01:26:40.000 You go volunteer for local elections, right?

01:26:42.000 You go make phone calls.

01:26:44.000 You go stand for truth in your classroom, whatever it might be.

01:26:47.000 Start a Turning Point USA group, which I highly recommend, by the way.

01:26:50.000 You'll have a lot of fun.

01:26:52.000 And so, those are the types of things that I would like to post to everybody.

01:26:55.000 So, can I have one call to action?

01:26:56.000 Is that okay?

01:26:57.000 So, as mentioned, thank you, by the way, and thank you for my podcast.

01:27:01.000 Thank you guys for listening.

01:27:02.000 I do two podcasts a day, one on Saturday, one on Sunday.

01:27:06.000 If everybody in this room took out their phone and subscribed to the Charlie Kirk show, everyone has a podcast app.

01:27:12.000 It takes literally 10 seconds, no cost at all.

01:27:15.000 We could beat the New York Times by tomorrow morning, which I think is a moral thing to do, which is a good thing.

01:27:21.000 Just type in and you press that beautiful subscribe button to no charge.

01:27:25.000 I would consider it to be a phenomenal blessing.

01:27:27.000 And the last, can I close this?

01:27:29.000 You want a five-star review, too.

01:27:30.000 Yeah, and a five-star review.

01:27:32.000 But look, guys, we young people, I'm 26, I'm not that much older than you.

01:27:39.000 We have been given an unbelievable gift, okay?

01:27:42.000 We didn't ask for it.

01:27:44.000 We just have been given this gift of a free society.

01:27:49.000 And so now it's up to our generation, where most of our other generation are doing the Cortez-Bernie Sanders thing, whatever, right?

01:27:56.000 Let that be.

01:27:56.000 But now it's up to our generation to say, do we want to keep it or do we want to lose it?

01:28:01.000 It's that simple.

01:28:03.000 After all these generations, by the way, if you were a young person in the 80s, if you were a young person in the 80s, you could have gotten along by being like, oh, yeah, I'm not really different.

01:28:12.000 Now you don't have that question.

01:28:13.000 You don't have that opportunity.

01:28:14.000 It's this simple.

01:28:15.000 I want to keep this country a beautiful republic with Freedom Association, building families, being able to speak your mind, free enterprise, the American dream, all these things we talk about, where we judge people on character, not on the color of your skin.

01:28:29.000 I want that country or not.

01:28:31.000 So what do you do?

01:28:31.000 You take responsibility for that country and you say, we are going to keep it.

01:28:36.000 That's the call to action.

01:28:37.000 It's our generation's chance to right the wrongs of the generations before us.

01:28:42.000 I believe in you guys.

01:28:43.000 I'll be fighting alongside you.

01:28:44.000 Thank you guys so much and God bless.

01:28:45.000 Thank you.

01:28:49.000 Thank you guys so much for listening.

01:28:50.000 And if you guys want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com, tpusa.com, email us at freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:28:57.000 Any questions you have.

01:28:58.000 And if you want to win a Amy Coney Barrett shirt, just show us your subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show.

01:29:03.000 Type in Charlie Kirk Show, hit subscribe and give us a five-star review.

01:29:07.000 Fill that seat.

01:29:08.000 Stay focused.

01:29:09.000 Hold the line.

01:29:10.000 God bless you.

01:29:12.000 Talk to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 28, 2020

How to Stump A Nihilist, Save America, and Win the Culture War Live from the Texas Youth Summit

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