Charlie and Lance are on a tour of college campuses, and Lance is at one of the most important events of the summer, the Student Action Summit, in Tampa, Florida. They discuss the need for freedom on campus, and how the church should address it.
00:00:04.000My conversation at Ziklag, where I go through the very obvious but important differences between men and women and why is it that the church has become so feminine.
00:00:15.000Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:17.000Okay everybody, it is the event of the summer.
00:00:29.000We have Pete Hegseth coming, Christine Elm, Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, Greg Gutfeld, Laura Ingram, Ross Ulbricht, Byron Donalds, Tom Homan, Ben Carson, Brett Cooper, Michael Knowles, Brandon Tatum, Benny Johnson, Jack Pesobic, Riley Gaines, James O'Keefe, and more.
00:01:26.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:35.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:38.000It really is the Lord's providence on many different ways that Trump's life was spared on the 13th of July in Butler, Pennsylvania, that so many sequential events.
00:02:49.000And I see this opening and this opportunity.
00:02:51.000I know you guys have been talking about this a lot here.
00:02:55.000We are in complete harmony with what Lance is doing, and we want to be helpful with Turning Point USA and TPSA Faith.
00:03:01.000But I want to give you just a short update from the front lines, kind of to play into what you guys have been talking about with the real divide in the country, which is male versus female, talk about that and how the church, I think, is not properly addressing it.
00:03:14.000So, as you know, I visit college campuses, so you guys don't have to, and we are in the midst of an even more ambitious campus tour than what we saw in the fall.
00:03:25.000I'm visiting, I think, 27 college campuses, almost one every single day.
00:03:32.000Last week, we were at Illinois, University of Illinois, Illinois State, Purdue, University of South Carolina, and Michigan State University, drawing crowds of three, four, five, 6,000 people.
00:03:40.000Students in the middle of the day, largest events they have on campus, coming in in record numbers.
00:03:54.000I'm going to get into that because I think it's really instructive and helpful for how we think about how the church should address this moment in culture.
00:04:01.000And by the way, one of the reasons why these students are showing up in record numbers is they tell me how dissatisfied and underwhelmed they are with American Christianity and the church.
00:04:10.000And I'll tell you, and I'll build that out further.
00:05:01.000He just literally just walked away as if he was being ushered away.
00:05:04.000So the truth of the Bible on full display on a college campus.
00:05:09.000So I am kind of like an unofficial, let's just say like generational anthropologist where I could tell you what's going on with the species and what's going on with the next generation.
00:05:21.000And I say this as you guys know my heart, as humbly as I can say it, probably better than almost any expert on TV.
00:05:28.000I could tell you actually what a young person is thinking, what they're going through, what's motivating them, what's driving them.
00:06:05.000It's happening in Germany, where young men under the age of 30 are actually even more conservative than their grandparents.
00:06:12.000And so I want to just repeat that, that if you take an average 21-year-old man, whether it be black, Hispanic, Asian, or white, they are actually more conservative than an average 75-year-old man.
00:06:22.000In fact, again, this is not a criticism.
00:06:27.000Baby boomers are moving more to the left and Gen Z is Moving more to the right.
00:06:31.000You could decide not to like that, but it's the truth.
00:06:33.000Baby boomers are much more likely to say the institutions don't need to be revolutionized.
00:06:38.000They don't like the talk about how our system is rigged.
00:06:41.000Again, I'm sure there's plenty of exceptions here in the baby boomer department.
00:06:45.000But also, where do you get your information from?
00:06:48.000If you're a baby boomer, you're watching CNN, you're watching cable news, you still trust the newspaper.
00:06:53.000Where a young person is getting it straight from the source, they're getting from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, and some of these decentralized places.
00:06:59.000So, when you look at the data, the men of the West are moving dramatically to the right.
00:07:41.000I'm not saying it's a good thing, but 17-year-old men detest at their core, especially a shrill, you know, person who needs the Lord to tell them what to do.
00:08:02.000Even worse, to tell them that they're bad for existing.
00:08:06.000To tell them that they are, at their core, just dust.
00:08:23.000And, you know, Gavin Newsome on his podcast.
00:08:24.000He's doing the hand thing, you know, when I go on there, right?
00:08:27.000He's like, why are young men moving so far to the right?
00:08:31.000Again, young men don't like to take orders from women, and they certainly do not like to have a hyper-feminized, anti-masculine agenda that is presented in every form or fashion.
00:08:45.000Now, the easy way to explain this is like, okay, it's just a war on men.
00:09:43.000And so what Herbert Marcuse did in the Frankfurt School post-1950s is he extrapolated the economic Marxist lens and then applied it to the cultural Marxist lens.
00:09:52.000Said, instead of looking at the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, we're going to apply it to race and gender.
00:09:58.000That is critical theory and cultural Marxism in a nutshell.
00:10:01.000You guys should repeat that to all of your neighbors whenever you're going for a walk because that's what's going on.
00:10:06.000Okay, that explains 99% of all of our problems.
00:10:09.000So therefore, you must come up with a villain.
00:10:11.000If your whole life is viewing things through the prism of not right versus wrong or just or unjust or moral, immoral, which how we view the world, we view the world through is it right or wrong?
00:10:22.000Is it pleasing to God or displeasing to God?
00:10:25.000Is it closer to the decalogue or further from the decalogue?
00:12:03.000If any pastor that you know cannot just tell you what I just told you in 90 seconds on cultural Marxism, they need to be lovingly confronted and rebuked by you.
00:12:12.000And you have to stop giving money to that church because they have no idea what they're talking about.
00:12:26.000They are not equipped for the spiritual warfare of what is coming through the doors of their church, of what is educating their future youth pastors, of what is educating the people that are coming in to go become saved.
00:12:37.000So as a secondary, though, if white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men, and then by definition, you know, further all men are the problem, they've created their victim identity politic group, okay?
00:12:50.000They have created the group that must be hated at all costs and pathologically.
00:12:56.000So the men of the West have realized this over the last five years, and we've started To resist it, we started to resist it through social media.
00:13:03.000We started to resist it through our advocacy.
00:13:05.000And you see this with Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn and all these different channels that are ascendant.
00:13:10.000And yes, we are resisting it through our votes.
00:13:14.000In fact, 18 to 29-year-old men were the most dramatic move of any demographic into this last election cycle, more so than any other demographic.
00:13:23.000They moved over 25 points in President Trump's direction.
00:13:27.000And mind you, this is the takeaway point.
00:13:30.000There was no like special super PAC dedicated to this.
00:13:33.000There was no multi-billion dollar Koch brother-funded, ridiculous, we have to go reach out to the Hispanic Project dedicated to this.
00:13:40.000There is no like, we need to start a new media company just for young men.
00:13:45.000No, by the way, could you imagine saying that?
00:13:48.000People would be like, no, what are you, a sexist?
00:13:51.000No, instead, it was like Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA, and like a couple of our truth tellers, and it happened largely organically as a resetting and a rebalancing.
00:14:01.000Sometimes we shouldn't fight God's design or nature, and we should look at imbalances in nature and just try to reconfigure it.
00:14:18.000Like just let nature come back into alignment with God's design.
00:14:21.000Like that's a better political strategy than all these other like concocted corporate funded secular BS that we've lived through.
00:14:28.000So we've seen the men of the West resist this.
00:14:32.000They don't like taking orders from women.
00:14:33.000They certainly do not like the totalitarian impulses that we've seen designed.
00:14:37.000And even beyond that, this is where it becomes like, let's just say more controversial, but it's fine.
00:14:43.000If the church is serious about reclaiming culture, again, this is where people are going to get a little uneasy, we must crush feminism at its core.
00:14:49.000Feminism is a byproduct of the worst possible impulses.
00:14:53.000And again, I'm not here to say you can't have female pastors.
00:15:03.000What is interesting to me is feminism.
00:15:05.000Feminism is an outgrowth of this idea that first and foremost, that the woman must be liberated.
00:15:11.000You guys should all agree, read the feminine mystique.
00:15:13.000If you want to read the original anthem of where feminism came from, it is the feminine mystique by Gloria Steinman, where she literally was like, I am a prisoner in my home raising children.
00:15:29.000And I am going to be liberated from the prison of my home.
00:15:34.000And by doing so, the world will become a better place.
00:15:37.000And women will then go into the corporate career and we won't have to, you know, go just bear children and we'll be happier and we'll be like men and we'll be able to make good decisions.
00:16:04.000Is that the women actually want someone to say that?
00:16:07.000What I find when I go to these campuses is there's millions of young women that are like, can someone please make it societally acceptable, but I don't have to go work in a fluorescently lit corporate office for 10 hours a day from some corporation that doesn't know my name to go put numbers in an Excel spreadsheet so that I can go work to the age of 32 to not find a boyfriend and have to go home to a bunch of cats.
00:17:19.000We got to help the homeless and we got to feed the help the people that are infirmed, all that.
00:17:23.000But societally, the most unhappy people in America are people that were raised in a Christian environment and thrust into a corporate world and believe the material secularist lie.
00:17:35.000And by far, they're screaming to us in data after data, survey after survey, poll after poll, conversation after conversation.
00:17:43.000I wish I could just go marry a man and be a mom as God designed it.
00:17:49.000And for whatever reason, we're like really hesitant to say that because like, I don't know, like some Chardonnay wine mom's going to scream at the back of our church and like send an email?
00:18:19.000And if you prioritize finding a mate, then you're going to find that.
00:18:23.000And again, there are 28 to 30-year-old women that are all of a sudden doing TikTok videos, being like, wait a second, I'm 28 years old, and I want to date for a couple years and then be engaged for a year, and then I want to be married for a couple years and then have kids.
00:18:35.000So I'll be 36 by the time I have kids.
00:18:37.000And they're like, wait a second, maybe I should take more seriously getting married.
00:18:43.000Again, this is why feminism has driven this entire problem, which is like toxic to its core.
00:18:48.000And I don't just mean third-wave feminism.
00:18:50.000I mean feminism at its core is toxic because the most beautiful thing is a mom that stays at home and raises children.
00:18:57.000The most blessed thing, the most godly thing, the most important thing, the most necessary thing.
00:19:02.000And we as Christians have kind of gotten away from it.
00:19:05.000We've kind of played into like, well, you can have it all type thing.
00:19:08.000Okay, actually, you can have it all, but make sure you get the order right.
00:19:12.000Have kids when you're 23, and then you can go back to college because college will still be there when you're 38, and go have a career in your 40s, and then you can actually go visit your kids in college and go to school alongside of them.
00:19:26.000Instead, we fight nature, as is the modern way.
00:19:46.000So for 12 years, when you are your most, like, you have the most energy and the most drive, we don't want to utilize that towards repopulating the species or raising godly kids, but instead to go sell shoes.
00:20:01.000So if you want to understand the male-female distinction, men are now going more conservative, they're going more to the church, but they won't go to your church if it's hyper-feminine.
00:20:09.000I'll explain to what I mean that in a second.
00:20:13.000But it will only happen if A, there's more godly role models of women that honestly speak against this corporate nihilism that has infected young ladies' heads.
00:20:26.000You know, one of the biggest lies being sold to American people right now is that you're in control of your money, especially when it comes to crypto.
00:20:32.000But the truth, most of these so-called crypto platforms are just banks in disguise, fully capable of freezing your assets the moment some bureaucrat makes a phone call.
00:20:40.000That is not what Bitcoin was built for.
00:20:52.000No one can touch your crypto, not the IRS or not a rogue bank, not some three-letter agency that thinks it knows better than you do.
00:21:00.000This is how it was intended by the original creators of Bitcoin.
00:21:03.000Peer-to-peer money, free from centralized control, free from surveillance, and free from arbitrary seizure.
00:21:09.000So if you're serious about financial sovereignty, go to Bitcoin.com, set up your wallet, take back control, because if you don't hold the keys, you don't own your money.
00:21:40.000It's like they dance around on this topic, right?
00:21:43.000Instead, it's like, well, you know, if you want to go pursue a career, you are lying to that young lady and telling her that she has a 50% chance of not having kids if she prioritizes her career the first 12 years of her adult life.
00:21:54.000And they will say in survey after survey, I want kids more than anything else.
00:21:58.000If that's what you want more than anything else, then why don't you go hunt it?
00:22:01.000Because then they'll tell you, well, because everyone around me, including my pastor, my parents, my friends, and my neighbors, say, you must go get a good job.
00:22:10.000And then we wonder why it's the most suicidal, alcohol-addicted, antidepressant-addicted generation in history, where 30-year-old women, more than half, either goes, and I'm not assailing this.
00:22:25.000They either go see a psychologist, see a counselor, they're on bezodiazepans, they're on Zoloft, they're on Xanax.
00:22:31.000And you wonder why they've declared all-out blitzkrieg on something God designed them by the age of 28, which is called the red alert.
00:22:39.000You better have kids soon or else those eggs are going to run out.
00:22:43.000And that might sound cruel or insensitive for a man to say from stage, but if you want to win the culture, there is a harvest out there that you can't believe to get back to the roots of how God designed us.
00:22:53.000Because we are now at the late stage of modern feminism.
00:22:56.000And of course, hilariously, and then we'll take some questions, at the latest stage of modern feminism, of course, is like the greatest thing for sex crazy young men on college campuses.
00:23:07.000Which, of course, so again, premarital sex, unfortunately, we can't find many churches that speak out against premarital sex anymore.
00:23:25.000It speaks to the sex is so different for men and women.
00:23:28.000And so what happens is that women are said, hey, be just like men and go sleep with as many people as you can when you go to college.
00:23:35.000Just like political incorrect segment, if you're sending your Christian son or daughter to a college, they're almost certainly having premarital sex.
00:23:41.000I'm just telling you right now, you might think, not my son, not my daughter.
00:23:46.000And it's fine, but that's what happens when you go to college because they go to strip themselves of their morals to go be part of the world, not go.
00:23:52.000And by the way, at the Christian schools, it's the worst.
00:23:54.000Let me just say, oh my goodness, it's worse than even at the public schools.
00:23:57.000And I won't say any names of any schools, of course.
00:24:01.000And all that kind of nervous laughter should is, of course, because the church has radically failed with this.
00:24:48.000Which is this, which is that what is easier to fix?
00:24:53.000A 19-year-old's desire to sleep with a lot of women, demand, or this newfound, awful phenomenon of young ladies giving their body to every man who wants it?
00:26:00.000Because feminism has given men what they've always wanted, which is like they don't have to work for sex, they don't have to do anything, they don't have to be impressive, they have to breathe.
00:26:10.000And literally, they get the better end of the deal.
00:26:12.000Where it's still holding them hostage, but you know, the real issue is that the women become like catastrophically screwed up because of this.
00:26:22.000And I'm not saying that as a pejorative.
00:26:53.000By the way, there's literal bonds that are created.
00:26:55.000So, again, I say this on these campuses, and again, this is where I really don't care.
00:27:00.000If women stopped giving their bodies over so easily, it would fix so many of these problems.
00:27:06.000Because then men would have to become more impressive, aka grow up, and stop being boys in order to get what they want.
00:27:12.000They would have to shave and shower and stop doing drugs and stop watching porn and be more impressive because then they couldn't get the thing that they ultimately desire.
00:27:19.000And so it creates actually a better society.
00:27:22.000So the incentive structure is for a 19-year-old that wants that more than anything else, is I have to be extremely impressive to even get that girl's attention.
00:27:29.000How it works today is the opposite, is that the girls are like, I'm going to make myself as easy and as open for men as possible because I'm told that is the ultimate liberation because saving myself was a form of captivity.
00:27:41.000Do you see how crafty Satan has been in all this?
00:27:44.000And by the way, these are dynamics that go all the way back to the garden.
00:27:49.000Honestly, if you want people to come to your church, be as blunt as I'm being right now.
00:27:52.000I know that might like, you know, oh, what do you mean by that?
00:27:55.000It's like so much political correctness has come into the church.
00:27:57.000So many pastors are afraid that they're going to lose people and lose their congregations.
00:28:02.000And I say this, like how many Christian ministries that you guys know on college campuses are drawing 5,000 kids at a 12 p.m. at a random college campus with a couple days' notice?
00:28:14.000And the reason being is they're starving for truth.
00:28:17.000They're starving for an alternative perspective because they see the degeneracy all around them.
00:28:22.000They've seen the collapsing of society and they know something is wrong and they don't exactly know what it is.
00:28:29.000And to be perfectly honest with you, the church is missing the greatest revival that has been given to them in the history of the church ever.
00:28:37.000Young men say, Charlie, I have to drive two hours to go find a church that I respect.
00:30:21.000And the church right now is really uncertain of how to approach it because they're afraid of offending too many people to get to the ultimate harvest.
00:30:29.000More young men that I know of are converting to Catholicism than Protestantism.
00:30:40.000There's a lot of oughts and ought nots.
00:30:42.000A lot of Protestant churches, honestly, it's like a lot of Jesus loves you.
00:30:47.000It's not going to cut it for a 19-year-old boy that wants a military boot camp manual for life that wants to be able to go on an adventure.
00:30:56.000So the question is, will the church embrace it?
00:30:59.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:31:00.000Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:31:03.000Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.