The Charlie Kirk Show - LIVE From University of Oklahoma—Charlie's First Stop on TPUSA GenFree Tour

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:00.000 We are currently on the road.

00:00:02.000 I can honestly say, I don't know where I am, but we're having a great time.

00:00:05.000 And we had a great event in Oklahoma, and we wanted to share it with you.

00:00:09.000 People said it was one of the best speeches I have given recently.

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00:00:45.000 We talk about what's happening in the news, the atrocity of a shooting that's happening in Boulder.

00:00:51.000 We talk about the future of the party, we talk about why we believe what we believe, and so much more.

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00:00:58.000 Here we go.

00:00:59.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:02:23.000 It's great to be with you guys.

00:02:24.000 We're going to have a lot of fun tonight.

00:02:26.000 And I want to thank our amazing Turning Point USA chapter leaders and everyone that's worked so hard on this event.

00:02:31.000 I want to thank our hosts, this Hilton Garden Inn.

00:02:36.000 It's kind of hard to find a venue every once in a while nowadays.

00:02:39.000 So I want to give it up for our wonderful hosts that allowed us to have this event.

00:02:42.000 So thank you.

00:02:43.000 It seems that having in-person events are very hard right now.

00:02:48.000 There's a lot happening in our country, and I want to get through a lot of things tonight.

00:02:52.000 Some things that are happening that are impacting all of your lives, especially at your colleges, your high schools.

00:03:01.000 Maybe if you're homeschooled, you might be able to avoid some of this stuff, but it's definitely in our media and almost everywhere in our pop culture.

00:03:09.000 A couple of days ago, there was an atrocity in Colorado, and our heart goes out to all those victims.

00:03:15.000 And we were very slow to rush to judgment, as we should be in those instances.

00:03:19.000 And not everyone was.

00:03:21.000 So immediately, the gun grabbers, the people that want to take away our Second Amendment rights and our constitutional rights, they were quick to try and label this atrocity of what happened in Boulder, Colorado, as something that was just not untrue, but it was opposite of the truth.

00:03:35.000 And so you guys know who Mina Harris is.

00:03:37.000 Do you know who this is?

00:03:38.000 It's the niece of Kamala Harris, not a very popular person.

00:03:42.000 So she tweeted, this is very important.

00:03:46.000 This is where critical race theory and all this nonsense leads you.

00:03:50.000 The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago.

00:03:53.000 Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country.

00:03:57.000 This is what she said.

00:03:58.000 The niece of Kamala Harris, taking exactly after her aunt, another person, Dr. Oni Blackstock, people will continue to die, verified on Twitter, just so that white men can own guns and reinforce the power they already have.

00:04:12.000 Now, if you now know, 12 hours later, we know that was not the case.

00:04:16.000 The person that did this awful shooting, not that it should matter that much either way, but all of a sudden, if they want to overly racialize everything, hold on, this person was an Islamic fundamentalist.

00:04:26.000 This person hated Donald Trump.

00:04:27.000 It's not a white person that walked into a grocery store and started shooting indiscriminately.

00:04:33.000 And the activist media is not covering any of this.

00:04:35.000 I want you to imagine this, though.

00:04:36.000 I want you to imagine if anyone, Donald Trump Jr., tweeted this out.

00:04:41.000 The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago.

00:04:43.000 A violent fill-in-any other color except white men.

00:04:47.000 Could you imagine?

00:04:48.000 So why is this all of a sudden acceptable?

00:04:51.000 Well, it's because in the last year, my goodness, has our country changed, right?

00:04:55.000 I mean, this is our first campus event in over a year.

00:04:59.000 I guess it's sort of a campus event.

00:05:01.000 And my goodness has so much changed.

00:05:03.000 Not only have we gone through what I consider to be the worst mistake in American history, the unconstitutional immoral lockdowns, and we should never lock down our country again, ever.

00:05:18.000 Not only did we go through a series of lockdowns that crushed small businesses, I'm going to tell you why we did the lockdowns because it's a very important point that I think everyone misses.

00:05:27.000 And it's not because of science.

00:05:28.000 They've never actually followed the science.

00:05:30.000 They follow the scientists that they like that are wrong about everything, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, who should be fired immediately and held accountable for the damage that he's done to our country.

00:05:43.000 Gone through the lockdowns.

00:05:44.000 And then last May, there was the death of George Floyd.

00:05:49.000 And I did a whole video on this.

00:05:50.000 I encourage you to check it out.

00:05:51.000 It's probably been one of the most misrepresented news items in the media in the last nine months.

00:05:57.000 And look, every death is a tragedy, but that's a very complicated death.

00:06:02.000 It's not as simple as the media makes it believe.

00:06:06.000 Very well, George Floyd might have been overdosing while that was happening.

00:06:09.000 He said, I can't breathe seven times before the police even laid hands on him.

00:06:13.000 And Derek Chauvin was following the Minneapolis police code by putting his knee on the back of his neck, as it says in the guidebook to do it.

00:06:21.000 And you can say that shouldn't be the code.

00:06:23.000 It's a different argument.

00:06:24.000 And I think there's probably an argument to be made that manslaughter, but first-degree murder based solely on racial discrimination, and then we're going to blow up our whole country and change the way we educate our children, that's not wise.

00:06:36.000 And that's what we did the last 10 months, 12 months in our country, where because of that one incident, which all of you have seen and has been on repeat, which again is more complicated than anyone in the activist media ever led you to believe, led us to allow a sinister and bigoted philosophy and ideology to now be the prevailing philosophy in almost every single one of your schools called critical race theory.

00:07:00.000 And I'm sure if you go to University of Vocal, anyone, any University of Oklahoma people here?

00:07:04.000 It's awesome.

00:07:05.000 Now, I can't see anything.

00:07:07.000 Now, is any Oral Roberts people here?

00:07:10.000 I have to say, congratulations.

00:07:11.000 That is just, it's just awesome.

00:07:13.000 No, it really is.

00:07:14.000 And it's a really great thing.

00:07:18.000 And beating Ohio State, beating Florida, it's awesome.

00:07:22.000 And all of Oklahoma should be very happy.

00:07:24.000 So congratulations.

00:07:25.000 And so I don't know if it's the case at Oral Roberts, but definitely at OU, I could tell you critical race theory is probably all throughout your curriculum, all throughout what your teachers.

00:07:33.000 Am I right?

00:07:34.000 I'm just guessing.

00:07:35.000 So what is this?

00:07:35.000 Okay.

00:07:36.000 And how is it that Mina Harris, the niece of the Vice President of the United States, is able to wrongly label this as just saying this is an epidemic of white people killing as terrorists.

00:07:49.000 And the main reason is that we have decided, and we being not exactly everyone in this room, but our leaders and weak conservatives are to blame for this, that all of a sudden we are going to make the color of people's skin the most important thing in our country.

00:08:04.000 I don't want to live in that country.

00:08:05.000 That is not a good thing.

00:08:07.000 I grew up in an America like nine years ago where I was told that if you care about people's skin color, you're a bigot.

00:08:14.000 And that's exactly right.

00:08:15.000 I care about your character.

00:08:17.000 I care about your soul.

00:08:18.000 I care about your actions.

00:08:19.000 Your skin color is completely and totally irrelevant to me.

00:08:23.000 In fact, if you care about people's skin color, maybe you're the racist.

00:08:29.000 So this is an ideology that is not just now in the fringe of some North African lesbian poetry class at the University of Oklahoma, right?

00:08:43.000 This is everywhere.

00:08:45.000 This is in our corporations.

00:08:47.000 It's in our military.

00:08:48.000 It's in our schools, obviously.

00:08:51.000 And what is it exactly?

00:08:53.000 Because I know there's a lot of parents in this room and watching online, and you're probably a little shell-shocked.

00:08:57.000 You say, where is this coming from?

00:08:59.000 Where we're teaching our children to care about their immutable characteristics, which we know where that leads.

00:09:05.000 And it's not just civilizational ending stuff.

00:09:08.000 It is humanity ending.

00:09:11.000 And so where is this coming from?

00:09:12.000 It comes from a very specific type of philosophy rooted in critical theory from a group of thinkers, Jacques Derrida, Michelle Foucault, Herbert Marcuse, who basically believed a couple things.

00:09:25.000 There's no such thing as absolute truth.

00:09:27.000 There's no proper reading of a text.

00:09:29.000 You've probably heard this before.

00:09:31.000 And that everything in life, whether you realize it or not, is a power struggle.

00:09:35.000 They took the Marxist power dynamic and they applied it to American society.

00:09:39.000 And they said, the real power dynamic of what's happening in America, whether you realize it or not, is white people are oppressing people of color, specifically black people, all the time.

00:09:50.000 So what do the critical race theorists actually believe?

00:09:54.000 They believe that there's no such thing as individuals, that you are not actually an individual.

00:09:58.000 You are a member solely of your group.

00:10:00.000 Now, groups do exist, but groups are not nearly as important as first and foremost as recognizing that you, as an individual, have your own agency, your own action, your own capacity to speak, and you must be held accountable for your own actions, not the actions of a group.

00:10:15.000 That's basically one of the most fundamental ideas of Western civilization.

00:10:19.000 Where do we get this idea from?

00:10:20.000 We get it from the Christian ethic.

00:10:22.000 We take this for granted, but before the teachings of the Bible were mixed with the findings of the Enlightenment, everyone was almost always judged based on who their parents were, based on where they came from, based on what territories they controlled.

00:10:36.000 And so blood used to matter a lot more.

00:10:38.000 And so it's like your ancestry, who your parents were was always very important.

00:10:42.000 Western civilization changed that.

00:10:44.000 And it didn't change it perfectly or immediately.

00:10:46.000 But over time, it's like, okay, you are going to have to make something out of your own life.

00:10:50.000 And you're going to have to be held accountable for your own action and your own decisions.

00:10:55.000 And so what we have seen over the last couple decades is this idea of critical race theory says, no, you're not actually an individual.

00:11:02.000 You're not.

00:11:02.000 That you are nothing more than a part of your group.

00:11:06.000 So if you're a white person in this room, you are simply an oppressor, whether you realize it or not.

00:11:13.000 Doesn't matter if you grew up as an orphan, you're still a white person.

00:11:16.000 Sit down and shut up.

00:11:17.000 You're an oppressor.

00:11:18.000 They take into zero account any sort of circumstantial evidence whatsoever.

00:11:22.000 And this is widespread, as I mentioned, all throughout our society and culture.

00:11:26.000 The second thing they believe is they do not believe in dialogue.

00:11:28.000 Do you notice that free speech is something that is dying quickly in our country?

00:11:32.000 Now, why is that?

00:11:33.000 They believe that dialogue, which comes from the Greek word through logos, truth, or reason, or talking, through talking, we're able to find truth, right?

00:11:42.000 So when we're able to talk about things, we're less likely to get to actually physical conflict.

00:11:46.000 That's a good thing.

00:11:48.000 Talking is a pressure release valve for any society, and it should be.

00:11:51.000 That's why I'm a free speech absolutist.

00:11:53.000 I believe even if you have awful ideas to say, that you should be able to say them, especially on digital social media, I'll get that in a second, and that some guy in his pajamas in Menlo Park, California should not have the power to shut you up on Facebook and Google just because he disagrees with you.

00:12:15.000 And I'm going to make the constitutional conservative argument for why big tech must be reined in.

00:12:21.000 And I could just imagine all of our YouTube numbers are going to plummet because that's exactly what ends up happening because they're in control of the dialogue in our country and we never should have given it to them.

00:12:29.000 And so the critical race theorists, and I call this the woke industrial complex.

00:12:33.000 So they call themselves woke because they say, I've awoken with how much racism there is everyone.

00:12:38.000 No, you actually have awoken to how foolish you actually are.

00:12:41.000 There's no wisdom in critical race theory.

00:12:43.000 No appreciation for what came before you.

00:12:44.000 No understanding of our history.

00:12:46.000 No appreciation for what it means to live a good, complete, and full life.

00:12:51.000 It's the exact opposite.

00:12:53.000 And so the other thing that the critical race theorists teach, and you're probably seeing this in your education system in one way or the other, is that you should be given a bigger platform to speak based solely on what you look like.

00:13:05.000 It doesn't matter if you have something true to say.

00:13:07.000 They instead say, white people, sit down and shut up, allow somebody else to talk.

00:13:11.000 Now, it doesn't matter if the other person is saying absolute gibberish or nonsense.

00:13:14.000 Instead, it is the, it's worse than reverse racism.

00:13:19.000 It is racism.

00:13:20.000 Going after other people's skin color, saying that you should not talk based on something you could not control.

00:13:26.000 Now, let me be very clear, and I always have to make this claim because the activist media needs, I don't know, you guys know, is that if you are a racist, you got a lot of work to do.

00:13:37.000 You should repent, apologize, and I hope you find Jesus Christ in your life.

00:13:41.000 I really do.

00:13:42.000 Now, if you're a white person and you're not a racist, you have nothing to apologize for.

00:13:45.000 That's a very simple thing to say.

00:13:47.000 And the media, they lose their mind when I say something like that.

00:13:50.000 But just your existence and your actions, unless they are racially motivated, you are not inherently doing something racist just because you are a certain way.

00:14:00.000 A belief in that is something that is so sinister and so dangerous.

00:14:05.000 Okay, so finally, I want to break this apart, which is how far is this and how do we fight back against this?

00:14:11.000 And so if you've noticed in the last year, there's this whole idea of cancel culture, right?

00:14:16.000 I'm sure a lot of you have experienced this in one way or the other.

00:14:19.000 And basically, it's this non-stop competition of people saying, I'm a better person than you are, right?

00:14:27.000 And it is so unbelievably dangerous for any sort of country or civilization to participate in something like this.

00:14:33.000 And so this is how it works.

00:14:34.000 It's basically you were 10 years ago, you tweeted something that might be a little bit, I don't know, not politically correct, and therefore you should lose your job and your entire career should be abolished.

00:14:45.000 You've seen this happen.

00:14:45.000 I mean, don't we all feel so much safer that Dr. Seuss and Aunt Jemima and Gone with the Wind are now no longer in our society, right?

00:14:51.000 It's complete and total nonsense.

00:14:53.000 Of course, we allow Cardi B to go do whatever that is, but Dr. Seuss is gone.

00:14:57.000 Like, it's, it's, in the same week we have to hear that Dr. Seuss must be censored from everything, but it's good for seven-year-olds to go watch Cardi B do that disgusting routine on network television on the Grammys, which of course is so incredibly inherently contradictory.

00:15:12.000 And so this is all rooted in basically a power struggle.

00:15:17.000 And they want they being the left, the totalitarian left, in what they are trying to seek to do, they are trying to abolish any sort of speech discussion, nuance, or growth.

00:15:28.000 There are things I'm sure every single person in this room did 10 years ago.

00:15:32.000 You look back and say, yeah, I'm not the same person I was.

00:15:35.000 That's a good thing.

00:15:37.000 Becoming more mature, developing better character should be appreciated and applauded.

00:15:42.000 You see, never do they say, okay, you might have tweeted something 10 years ago.

00:15:45.000 Do you still believe that?

00:15:47.000 Instead, they say, oh, you must always be that person who you were 10 years ago.

00:15:51.000 I'm going to destroy your life.

00:15:52.000 That is not a sign of a mature or wise society.

00:15:55.000 And just a word of the wise to everyone out there.

00:15:58.000 If you encounter cancel culture in your own life, and I can't stand that term, but you guys all know what it means, please do me a favor, rally around other people that might come under this.

00:16:09.000 We have to start pushing back against this nonsense and this garbage.

00:16:12.000 Stand by other people that are so destructive to our country.

00:16:19.000 It really is.

00:16:20.000 And so I want to get into this other thing, and there's so much I want to cover, which is kind of this false choice that we as conservatives are sometimes given.

00:16:32.000 So I want to be very clear.

00:16:33.000 I can't stand socialism.

00:16:34.000 We have a whole organization dedicated to debating against socialism and deconstructing socialism.

00:16:40.000 But there's a third way our country can go.

00:16:42.000 We can either go in a pro-American direction, which I pray will go, and I'll talk about what that looks like and what it means, which is stronger families, having more children, increasing church attendance, having small businesses flourish again, restricting immigration, all these things that are very, very important to our country.

00:16:56.000 Or we can go away, that's totally socialistic.

00:16:58.000 But there's a third way, and we as conservatives must be outspoken against the socialist threat and also the corporatist threat.

00:17:07.000 And this is where this critical race theory woke industrial complex, it all kind of comes together.

00:17:13.000 I will make the argument that certain private corporations are more powerful than our government.

00:17:18.000 And that's not a good thing.

00:17:20.000 So we as conservatives for years have been trained never to challenge private companies.

00:17:25.000 Amazon, so what?

00:17:26.000 They're a private company.

00:17:27.000 They have all this power.

00:17:29.000 We'll eventually get a competitor.

00:17:31.000 I no longer want to tolerate that discussion.

00:17:34.000 I no longer believe that.

00:17:35.000 Instead, I will make the argument that the corporate oligarchy that's running our country is actually doing more to restrict your God-given freedoms and rights than our government.

00:17:45.000 That's not to say the government can't vote and isn't, but let me give you a good example.

00:17:50.000 If Google decided to pull down this live stream right now, what would my recourse be?

00:17:55.000 I could sue them and it would get tossed out immediately.

00:17:59.000 Now, if the federal government came in and pulled the cord on our live stream, I could sue them and I would probably win because the government's not allowed to do that.

00:18:07.000 You'd have representation.

00:18:09.000 You would be able to bring them through court.

00:18:10.000 You have the right to sue your own government.

00:18:13.000 These private companies have more power than our own consent to the governed compact.

00:18:19.000 And I use the word government, but really the deeper word is this partnership that we have or we're supposed to have with the Constitution.

00:18:26.000 Now, what is the Constitution and why does it exist?

00:18:29.000 So some people say the Constitution is there to limit government.

00:18:33.000 That's half true.

00:18:34.000 It's not the total truth.

00:18:35.000 The Constitution, first and foremost, is there to protect naturally granted freedoms and liberties given to us by God.

00:18:42.000 The Founding Fathers understood this.

00:18:44.000 And we're actually in the midst of a theological debate in our country, whether people realize it or not.

00:18:47.000 And it's very simple.

00:18:48.000 It's admitting that there is a God and you are not him.

00:18:51.000 It's really not that hard.

00:18:53.000 And most people on the left refuse to acknowledge that, right?

00:18:56.000 There is no God and I might be him.

00:18:57.000 And so, and the Constitution recognizes this, and the Founding Fathers were so brilliant.

00:19:08.000 And anyone who's being taught anything but that in your schools, you are getting such a disservice.

00:19:12.000 I'm happy to go through all of the biggest lies, Three-Fifths Compromise, Founding Fathers owned slaves, happy to go toe-to-toe with anyone on that stuff because there's so much history there that you're not being taught that I don't want to spend too much time to unless there's someone that is more interested in that in the question and answer time.

00:19:29.000 The point is that the Founding Fathers, they believed that human beings in their state of nature had a moral obligation to be free.

00:19:37.000 Freedom of consciousness, freedom to own property, freedom to defend themselves, freedom to pursue your own destiny and pursue your own happiness, freedom to worship your creator.

00:19:46.000 And so, the biggest form of threat against that freedom that they could possibly think of was a very strong government.

00:19:54.000 Despots, tyrants, rulers, people like Joseph Stalin, people like Pol Pot, people like Mao Cedong.

00:20:01.000 And generally, the American Constitution has done a good job of preventing that from coming to our country so far.

00:20:10.000 So far, it's done a pretty good job.

00:20:11.000 Why?

00:20:12.000 Because the American Constitution spreads power over space and time.

00:20:17.000 Space.

00:20:18.000 States created the federal government, federal government didn't create the states.

00:20:21.000 For example, Oklahoma should not be told what to do by New York or California.

00:20:26.000 You have your own sovereignty.

00:20:27.000 You have your own elections.

00:20:29.000 You have your own ability to determine what you want to do.

00:20:34.000 That's something that makes the American system different over space and over time.

00:20:39.000 Most countries, you could take over the entire government in one election cycle.

00:20:43.000 In this country, it takes minimum six years to win state, local, and federal elections because it takes six years to control the Senate because it's only up one-third at a time to get really radical things passed.

00:20:57.000 So the founding fathers put systems in place to slow down the potential threat of tyranny.

00:21:03.000 And God bless them for that.

00:21:05.000 However, I'm making the argument, and conservatives, and I know that I see a lot of heads nodding, that right now the primary form of potential tyranny is, of course, potentially the federal government and the president.

00:21:19.000 But I think even more so, it's those private companies in Menlo Park.

00:21:24.000 And this is a hard thing for conservatives to talk about.

00:21:26.000 I get it.

00:21:26.000 We're trained to say private business, private business, private business.

00:21:29.000 Let me ask you a question.

00:21:31.000 If you ride the highway down to Dallas, about three hours from here, and you get pulled over and you say, sir, you're wearing a Make America Great Again hat, you are not allowed to drive on this highway.

00:21:40.000 You say, says who?

00:21:42.000 Well, we're a private highway, and that's the way it's going to work.

00:21:45.000 No one would stand for that, right?

00:21:47.000 You'd say, no, this is the only way I can get to Dallas.

00:21:50.000 Now, there are private highways all across the country.

00:21:52.000 A better example would be from Gary, Indiana to Chicago.

00:21:55.000 It's a privately owned highway, Chicago Skyway.

00:21:57.000 By federal law, you are not allowed to discriminate based on who drives on that highway.

00:22:01.000 The people closest to angels and the people of the scum of the earth, they are allowed to drive on that highway.

00:22:07.000 It's true.

00:22:08.000 It's called access to free and open transportation.

00:22:10.000 You cannot all of a sudden have a gate that says people that voted for Donald Trump are not allowed to ride on this highway.

00:22:16.000 It's not allowed.

00:22:17.000 It's against the law.

00:22:18.000 The same should be said for social media because now those are the highways of information in our country.

00:22:25.000 And so when you have a company that has 92% of all search results, 92%, and they're supposed to all of a sudden be treated like your local coffee shop, that's just a dumb argument.

00:22:41.000 I hate to say that.

00:22:42.000 And that is a corporatist argument.

00:22:44.000 That is an argument made for and by trillion-dollar companies that want to run your life.

00:22:49.000 So why did the lockdowns happen?

00:22:51.000 I mentioned this earlier.

00:22:53.000 It's not because of the science.

00:22:54.000 Originally, I get two weeks, I get a month, I get six weeks.

00:22:57.000 We're still trying to figure it out.

00:22:59.000 But once we realize that who is most at risk, once we realize that this virus, most people, especially in our age demographic, we're just going to survive, is that you had a higher likelihood of dying in an automobile accident than from this virus.

00:23:10.000 And by the way, it's a very legitimate virus for all people, but especially for people over a certain age with certain underlying health conditions.

00:23:17.000 And those people should take the virus very seriously.

00:23:20.000 However, the cost of locking down the country was far greater than what the alternative would have been in Florida.

00:23:27.000 Shows us that.

00:23:28.000 that Florida has open schools, open businesses, the second oldest population in the country, and they're doing unbelievably well all across the board.

00:23:38.000 Now, so why do the lockdowns continue?

00:23:41.000 Well, think to yourself, who got richer during the lockdowns?

00:23:45.000 Bingo.

00:23:46.000 You ordered a lot of packages from Amazon, didn't you?

00:23:49.000 No, you didn't.

00:23:50.000 Good for you, because you're an American patriot.

00:23:52.000 That's why.

00:23:57.000 No, but think about it.

00:23:59.000 How many of you know at least two small businesses that will never reopen because of the lockdowns?

00:24:03.000 Almost every hand goes up.

00:24:05.000 Amazon is booming.

00:24:07.000 Jeff Bezos is worth $155 billion.

00:24:10.000 The Louis Vuitton guy is worth $136 billion.

00:24:14.000 It's not a good thing for the country when that happens, when 40% of small businesses disappear over the course of one year.

00:24:20.000 And then what the federal government does to try to save it is they send everyone $1,400 to subsidize inactivity.

00:24:28.000 Instead, what they should do is they say, you know what, Amazon?

00:24:30.000 Instead of a stimulus bill, we are going to pass a monopolistic bill and we're going to break you into 15 different companies and send them back to states like Oklahoma and Kansas and Missouri and get some competition going instead of Jeff Bezos ruling like King George used to rule us over.

00:24:45.000 And I do not make that comparison lightly.

00:24:47.000 When you're able to control e-commerce, search engine results, you're controlling hearts, minds, decisions, and businesses.

00:24:54.000 And we as conservatives must be very clear what we stand for.

00:24:57.000 I love markets because why?

00:25:00.000 Because they serve human beings.

00:25:03.000 We must have a pro-human agenda in everything we do.

00:25:06.000 That includes, by the way, protecting those that can't protect themselves in the womb.

00:25:23.000 This pro-human agenda is now what is going to be the future, I believe, of the conservative movement, which is we care about family formation.

00:25:32.000 We care about making our young people live full, complete lives with developing character, hopefully in the pursuit of absolute truth.

00:25:41.000 We are not going to bow down to some corporate oligarchy.

00:25:43.000 We want small business and entrepreneurship to flourish in our country.

00:25:48.000 We want people that are 18, 19, 20, 21 not to go $80,000, $90,000 into debt to go search after a job that they were promised that will disappear overnight so they have to go work in minimum wage work and their only hope is debt forgiveness.

00:26:03.000 And I want to say something about this because I think conservatives get the debt forgiveness argument wrong in one way.

00:26:08.000 I do not support debt forgiveness, but I have sympathy for people that advocate for it.

00:26:12.000 And here's why.

00:26:13.000 Because most people that go far into debt, you were lied to.

00:26:18.000 You were lied to by the cartel.

00:26:20.000 You were lied to by politicians that said you must go to college to succeed.

00:26:24.000 And then you're left with all this debt burden after four years.

00:26:27.000 And you say, I am not getting a job or a career that can correlate with the amount of money I borrowed.

00:26:32.000 I would be angry too.

00:26:34.000 And so we as conservatives must understand that a large portion of the younger population, younger generation, they're gravitating to Bernie Sanders and all these other politicians because they're the only ones that will validate some legitimate concerns they have.

00:26:46.000 Let me be clear.

00:26:47.000 I can't stand the victim thing.

00:26:48.000 I'm not saying that you should just go around and have the oppression Olympics and say, give me something free all the time.

00:26:53.000 I think that's nonsense.

00:26:54.000 At the same time, I will say that there has been a sequence of public policy decisions that have negatively impacted our generation.

00:27:04.000 And there has to be some way to address that, hopefully from a pro-conservative, pro-American, pro-human agenda.

00:27:09.000 And that's the question that is going to be in front of the conservative movement in the next couple of years.

00:27:15.000 Because the conservative, and you're seeing this happen right now, and in Washington, D.C., we're seeing a uniparty run our country, right?

00:27:23.000 It seems as if that there's one party rule that wants us to be continually in these foreign wars overseas, that want us to continue to do these bad trade deals, which, by the way, have destroyed tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in this state alone, where they ship jobs overseas to Wuhan, China, and they bring back piles of plastic and they say, Aren't you a lot richer?

00:27:42.000 You say, No, my cousin is addicted to opioids, my breastfend committed suicide, and the high school can't fund itself.

00:27:48.000 The local manufacturing plant has been turned into a soccer field.

00:27:51.000 How exactly am I richer?

00:27:53.000 They say, Oh, well, the guy down the street, he's able to have three Maseratis, and all of a sudden they're perplexed when that guy puts a MAGA hat on for someone that promises better days for tomorrow.

00:28:03.000 Listen to the concerns of your voters.

00:28:05.000 You might learn something: trade, wars, immigration.

00:28:09.000 Those are the three things that former President Trump, a friend of mine, talked about, and he hit a cord.

00:28:15.000 Because those are the three things that the Uniparty says we're not supposed to talk about.

00:28:19.000 We're not supposed to talk about how we bring in so many people into our country every single year, both illegal and illegal, which is why I called for an immigration moratorium two weeks before President Trump did last year, because I believe that every single one of you deserves an American job first before somebody that comes into our country and prices you out of the job market.

00:28:40.000 You should be given preference.

00:28:41.000 You borrowed the money.

00:28:42.000 You studied through our system.

00:28:43.000 Your parents paid the taxes.

00:28:44.000 We have a compact.

00:28:45.000 We have a promise.

00:28:46.000 We have an obligation to our citizens and our graduates to employ you before somebody in another country.

00:28:51.000 My compassion, my heart goes out for those people.

00:28:53.000 That is not what a nation is.

00:28:55.000 A nation takes care of their fellow countrymen first.

00:28:59.000 Then we can worry about being extendedly compassionate beyond that.

00:29:06.000 With the ever-increasing numbers of makes like Fiat, Kia, and Models Pacifica X-T5, it is now impossible to stock all the parts you need in a traditional chain storefront.

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00:29:32.000 One reason to repair and maintain your cars is to save money that then you can use for other important things like the mortgage or food.

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00:30:30.000 My heart goes out to those of you that are $40,000 into debt that studied computer engineering and you're trying to find a high-tech job and then all of a sudden an H-1B visa comes in and cuts you out from it because they're willing to work for less than what you say, well, I have to pay off my debt.

00:30:49.000 You see, immigration is one of the most important issues that it seems Republicans and Democrats can get along with.

00:30:57.000 And I'm not going to make a political statement on this, and we're a nonprofit, so I'm just going to talk facts on this.

00:31:03.000 There's a reason why all of a sudden Republicans and Democrats want to push an amnesty bill right now.

00:31:07.000 Why?

00:31:08.000 Well, we know why Democrats want more immigrants into America.

00:31:11.000 Why?

00:31:11.000 Votes.

00:31:12.000 It's that simple.

00:31:13.000 Pure power.

00:31:15.000 Now, there's two P words: Republicans want one.

00:31:18.000 Democrats want power.

00:31:19.000 They just want power.

00:31:20.000 It's that simple.

00:31:21.000 Now, why would Republicans want this?

00:31:23.000 Because they betray the promise to their voters, profits.

00:31:27.000 I think the profit motive is a healthy thing for entrepreneurs.

00:31:30.000 But I think when you put your profit motive above your patriotic duty to your country, I got a lot of problems with that.

00:31:37.000 Especially the promises that were made to you.

00:31:40.000 I want you to think about this.

00:31:41.000 Your parents paid property tax and income tax to your state, local, and federal government for years, paying into a system.

00:31:48.000 And then all of a sudden, when you're 23 years old and maybe $30,000 into debt, you go and try to find a job, and all of a sudden, you get priced out from somebody halfway across the world.

00:31:58.000 And God bless them.

00:31:58.000 I wish the best for them.

00:32:00.000 But that's a violation of the American promise, isn't it?

00:32:02.000 Because the American promise is if you pay your taxes and do what's right, eventually the promise will be returned to your children.

00:32:08.000 And that's who gets priced out of this.

00:32:10.000 But that's where Republicans see an opportunity brought to you by the Chamber of Commerce.

00:32:14.000 And the Chamber of Commerce wants to keep wages low and more people coming into America.

00:32:18.000 And as a byproduct of this, why are we spending all this money in Washington, D.C.?

00:32:23.000 If you guys want to get really Machiavellian with me, I can build this out for you.

00:32:26.000 If you don't know, Machiavelli, Niccolio Machiavelli wrote The Prince, highly recommend it.

00:32:30.000 It's really brutal.

00:32:31.000 It's awesome with politics.

00:32:32.000 It describes a lot.

00:32:34.000 A lot of the things that you guys say, I don't recommend employing it in your daily life, but it actually explains a lot.

00:32:39.000 A lot of things you'll say actually come from that ends justify the means, would rather be hated rather than loved.

00:32:45.000 And it was written in a time when a bunch of Italian families were fighting for power, and he was basically an observer and realized human behavior when it comes to the pursuit of power is willing to put aside their publicly declared ethics and the pursuit of power.

00:32:57.000 And boy, was Machiavelli right.

00:32:59.000 Why are we spending all this money?

00:33:01.000 Why did we spend $1.9 trillion after we spent $1 trillion in December, after we spent $4 trillion in the federal budget, after we spent $2 trillion, now Joe Biden wants to spend another $3 trillion?

00:33:10.000 Whoa!

00:33:11.000 That happened quick.

00:33:12.000 Why?

00:33:12.000 Now, the short answer is, Charlie, I want to addict people to government programs.

00:33:16.000 That's half the answer.

00:33:18.000 The other side would say, or the people say, Charlie, we want to invest in our energy and our info.

00:33:23.000 That's all much of nonsense.

00:33:24.000 We know that's not true.

00:33:25.000 You look at where this money's actually going.

00:33:27.000 You are subsidizing inactivity.

00:33:29.000 And when I was having, I don't know if this is the case in Oklahoma or not, because you guys are good, hardworking people, but I could tell you in other states, it's impossible to find an Uber right now.

00:33:36.000 Why?

00:33:37.000 Why would anyone want to work, drive their car if you get $1,400 plus unemployment?

00:33:41.000 So why would I want to do that?

00:33:42.000 I could extrapolate that example to other parts of the American economy, small businesses, restaurants.

00:33:47.000 A lot of people are having trouble finding workers right now because you subsidize inactivity.

00:33:52.000 Here's why.

00:33:55.000 When you inflate your currency, there are only a couple ways to manage that.

00:34:00.000 Because that's what we're doing.

00:34:01.000 We are going full speed ahead into a long-term inflation cycle.

00:34:05.000 It's just the way it is.

00:34:07.000 And if you own land and you have revenue-producing assets that you can touch, you're going to be okay in inflation.

00:34:14.000 You're going to get crushed by inflation?

00:34:16.000 Working people.

00:34:17.000 People that do not have a lot of hard assets, people that go paycheck to paycheck, you're going to get crushed.

00:34:22.000 And their solution will be to create more money and to subsidize that.

00:34:26.000 But there's a deeper reason why they want to inflate our currency.

00:34:29.000 Because the other way you could raise rates, they don't want to do that.

00:34:32.000 They are not going to raise interest rates.

00:34:34.000 They're addicted to cheap money.

00:34:36.000 You could bring more people into America.

00:34:38.000 See, if you expand the supply of human beings that are trading anything by definition, then that pre-existing thing that you're, the aforementioned thing, I should say, that you're trading is then spread amongst more people.

00:34:51.000 So if you have 335 million people that are trading in dollars, and then you have 370 million people that are trading in dollars, well, therefore, the inflated currency gets a little less inflated.

00:35:01.000 They're making an argument to bring 30 million people into America in the next five years.

00:35:06.000 They're creating that set of circumstances.

00:35:08.000 That's what they're doing.

00:35:10.000 They are creating a crisis that only open borders can fix.

00:35:13.000 And we know exactly where that heads.

00:35:15.000 So let's talk about open borders because I don't think that we talk about this correctly enough.

00:35:20.000 And we come across as being as being portrayed as hateful and heartless and soulless.

00:35:24.000 Let me be very clear.

00:35:26.000 I want closed borders because I care about the well-being of the people on the southern border.

00:35:30.000 There are children that are being rented.

00:35:32.000 15,000 children a month, according to Tom Homan, former director of immigration customs and enforcement.

00:35:38.000 15,000 children that are being rented like they're a blockbuster videotape.

00:35:44.000 You guys don't even know what that is.

00:35:45.000 Like a VHS.

00:35:47.000 Like they're being rented like they're a car.

00:35:49.000 The sickest thing you can imagine to be unaccompanied minors to gain entry into our country.

00:35:54.000 The women that are sex trafficked across our southern border, the drugs that flow into America, the guns, the firearms.

00:36:00.000 And we're supposed to believe that a porous border is something that is in the best interest of those people.

00:36:07.000 That is a lie.

00:36:08.000 You all of a sudden want to crush the cartel.

00:36:11.000 You want to crush the flow of drugs?

00:36:13.000 Police our border like we go police the border of Afghanistan or Korea.

00:36:18.000 If we took our border 1 100th as seriously as we take the North Korean border, almost all those problems would disappear overnight.

00:36:25.000 But the powers that be don't want that because they want low wages, they want more votes, and they're quietly in agreement for that.

00:36:32.000 But also, I want to make this other point, which is BLM Incorporated, which is how I call the Black Lives Matter movement because they're a corporation more than anything else.

00:36:40.000 They say they care about the livelihood of black Americans in our country.

00:36:45.000 Then why on earth would they want to bring in another 20 to 30 million people to undercut the wages of black Americans in the inner city of our country?

00:36:54.000 Well, because they actually don't want flourishing wages and they don't want those communities to get richer because as soon as they get richer, they may no longer be liberals.

00:37:03.000 Everything they want is in the pursuit of power.

00:37:06.000 The establishment on the other side in the pursuit of Chamber of Commerce appeasement, sometimes power, sometimes profits.

00:37:12.000 I am saying tonight, what I am seeing that's optimistic from my friends JD Vance and other people is that a new conservative movement, thanks to our former president Trump, is coming and it's gaining traction like you wouldn't believe, which is that it's really exciting.

00:37:28.000 And it's one that puts our nation first, that does not look at America as a temporary colony to just maximize corporate profits.

00:37:41.000 But this is our home.

00:37:43.000 This is where our families are.

00:37:45.000 We care about this place.

00:37:46.000 We care about the well-being of it.

00:37:48.000 We want a place where families can flourish, small businesses can thrive, and that a small subset of 50 companies does not dictate every decision that we make.

00:37:58.000 And here's the last argument I'll make about that corporate dominance, which is, if you're not even bought on the economic arguments I just made, you understand that they hate your value system if you're a conservative, right?

00:38:10.000 They were supposed to be on team right, and they're the ones that are bringing in Robin D'Angelo to go teach the employees of Coca-Cola that all white people are racist.

00:38:20.000 So for the corporations out there, if I didn't convince you on all of that, you broke your compact with conservatives the moment you invited the woke industrial complex to go run your corporations.

00:38:31.000 I want nothing to do with those corporations that go out of their way to go teach their employees to hate themselves and hate America.

00:38:39.000 And so what's the response to that?

00:38:41.000 And here's the exciting thing: is you go back to the Constitution, right?

00:38:45.000 The Constitution is a pro-human document.

00:38:48.000 The Constitution wants to preserve our humanity through and through.

00:38:51.000 Your right to speech, your right to property, your right to associate with your loved ones and also be able to worship your Creator however you see fit.

00:39:00.000 But also, the Constitution, so remarkable, is that it gives you the sovereignty.

00:39:09.000 We have the power.

00:39:12.000 And this is why these corporations, and this is why the wealthiest people in our country are now starting what I call a top-down revolution.

00:39:20.000 Does it feel like all of a sudden the most powerful people in the country are pressing down on the people?

00:39:26.000 It's the first revolution that I've seen in a long time where the ones in charge are declaring war on the people that have nothing.

00:39:33.000 It's perplexing, isn't it?

00:39:35.000 Usually the Russian Revolution, Chinese Revolution, Cuban Revolution, it's the people that are pushing back against it.

00:39:40.000 Instead, it's the people that have $140 billion in the bank account saying, you know who the problem is?

00:39:44.000 Christians in Oklahoma.

00:39:45.000 That's who we're going to go crush.

00:39:48.000 And I'm telling you right now that the sooner we truly get woke and we wake up on this stuff, they're nervous because they know that their plunder is coming to an end.

00:39:59.000 They're nervous because they know that the issues I just articulated, which is putting our country first, caring about your fellow countrymen, actually talking about flourishing families, these are 80% winning issues.

00:40:11.000 These are not just like 50-50 wedge issues.

00:40:14.000 They want us distracted talking about our skin color while the actual issues that will win us elections are right in front of us.

00:40:21.000 They want us distracted on being like, I'm so sorry that I may or may not be the worst person in the history of the planet.

00:40:27.000 Let me take a knee and give you my entire bank account.

00:40:29.000 Don't do that.

00:40:30.000 Do not submit to these people.

00:40:32.000 They want you distracted from their theft.

00:40:36.000 Because the moment that we stop talking about these stupid, silly issues, which there's no logic, there is no historical backing for any of it, their time will be up.

00:40:46.000 And so people say, Charlie, what does success look like for you?

00:40:50.000 A couple things.

00:40:50.000 Number one, I want our kids to love America again.

00:40:53.000 I want our kids to get fired up about our country again.

00:41:03.000 We have to teach our values or else those values will not exist.

00:41:08.000 We have to get into the curriculum.

00:41:09.000 We have to train teachers.

00:41:11.000 And we have to be unafraid to say that America is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:41:15.000 We are the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:41:17.000 We're the most generous country, most benevolent country, most creative country for a reason.

00:41:23.000 And that reason is different than anyone that might tell you.

00:41:25.000 It's not because we stole the land and that we're colonialists and any of that stuff.

00:41:29.000 The reason is from our founding, there was always a commitment to improving ourselves, improving our nation, protecting our home, and pursuing the good.

00:41:38.000 That is a moral country.

00:41:40.000 I will defend it against any other country in the history of the planet.

00:41:43.000 Have we made a mistake?

00:41:44.000 Of course we've made mistakes.

00:41:45.000 We're human beings.

00:41:46.000 Look at the raw material we're dealing with.

00:41:49.000 Human beings are unbelievably broken by nature.

00:41:52.000 Don't believe me?

00:41:53.000 Most countries are totally screwed up.

00:41:55.000 If you think people are naturally good, you could only believe that because in America, people are basically good.

00:41:59.000 That's the only way you could possibly believe that.

00:42:03.000 And of course we've made mistakes, but America's not a mistake.

00:42:06.000 America's a gift.

00:42:07.000 We've been given the short gift, and currently we have a decision to make.

00:42:12.000 And I'll get to questions.

00:42:17.000 Okay, good, yeah, good screen.

00:42:18.000 And this gift will be protected and preserved and advanced based on our action and our commitment.

00:42:24.000 So I understand there's a lot of depression going around.

00:42:27.000 I understand there's a lot.

00:42:28.000 Get over all that stuff right now.

00:42:29.000 So I'm telling you right now, the reason the ruling class and the elites are preemptively declaring war on you in your classroom on social media amongst your friends is they are nervous.

00:42:40.000 They're nervous that all of a sudden the 75 million people become 95 million people.

00:42:45.000 They're nervous that protecting one's country is actually very popular.

00:42:50.000 And so this can be our greatest moment and it should be.

00:42:53.000 But their entire campaign is one of silencing and suppression and intimidation.

00:42:57.000 And the moment that we don't put up with it anymore, which is why these events matter so much, that we don't put up with this nonsense anymore, victory is inevitable.

00:43:04.000 I truly believe that.

00:43:05.000 Okay, let's get some questions, guys.

00:43:06.000 Thanks for letting me rip through all that.

00:43:08.000 Thank you.

00:43:09.000 Goodness.

00:43:11.000 Okay, questions right here.

00:43:13.000 Hello.

00:43:14.000 So my question is about, so I'm in a crisis communication class at my college, and we were asked to come up with solutions for like the population control and whether we want to feed more people or whatever.

00:43:27.000 Well, one of my peers said that the solution should be that the U.S. should pay about $3 million a year for contraceptives, for the world's contraceptives.

00:43:37.000 My question is: how do we get the average student to realize that that money doesn't just come from the government?

00:43:44.000 It's not magic.

00:43:45.000 It's so I'll do you one better.

00:43:46.000 So the premise of your class is that we have too many people and we don't have enough.

00:43:52.000 Yeah, I reject the premise.

00:43:55.000 We need more children, not less children.

00:43:57.000 Our country's on the verge of a population collapse.

00:44:01.000 And so here's one piece of advice I'll give you for everyone in the room.

00:44:05.000 As soon as you're talking about how we're going to pay for something, we've already lost the debate.

00:44:09.000 First, you should say, why should we pay for that nonsense at all?

00:44:12.000 And by the way, we shouldn't fund contraceptive.

00:44:14.000 We should fund any of that garbage.

00:44:15.000 But back to what you're saying.

00:44:16.000 So this is basically are being taught earth worship, okay?

00:44:19.000 And that's what's being taught in most schools, which is somehow we must put the earth above the well-being of human beings.

00:44:26.000 Remember, we have a pro-human agenda, right?

00:44:28.000 Now, we shouldn't abuse the earth.

00:44:29.000 We shouldn't pollute the rivers or the lakes, but always we should have a belief in human supremacy.

00:44:35.000 I know that's like a weird thing to say, but that's basically where this conversation goes right now.

00:44:39.000 I believe human beings are image-bearers.

00:44:41.000 You're made in the image of God.

00:44:43.000 Every life is a gift.

00:44:44.000 It should be preserved and protected.

00:44:46.000 We have a million abortions a year every single year.

00:44:48.000 And I believe if you can't get that issue right, then look at all the other issues you screw up beyond that.

00:44:53.000 But also, this is something that happens in the academy far too often, which is we have too many people, we need to get rid of population.

00:45:00.000 I'm going to make a prediction that's the opposite.

00:45:02.000 In 30 years, we're going to see declining population like you've never seen before.

00:45:06.000 We're already seeing it here in America.

00:45:08.000 So in the last year, you have a lot of people at home, people spending time locked down.

00:45:13.000 You'd say, oh, birth rate's going to go up to dramatic decrease like we've never seen before.

00:45:18.000 Why?

00:45:20.000 Half economic, right?

00:45:22.000 It's expensive to have kids.

00:45:23.000 People say, I'll have one of each, like they're picking out a Toyota or something, right?

00:45:28.000 The other is that if you don't believe that children are necessary to be fruitful and multiply, to replicate your values and replicate yourself, why have children?

00:45:38.000 So if you don't teach people that having children is necessary, and those of us that believe in the Bible, we have an answer for that.

00:45:45.000 It's like the second chapter of the Bible, Be Fruitful and Multiply.

00:45:49.000 Might be the third.

00:45:50.000 Anyway, the point is that it's right there.

00:45:52.000 Then why have children?

00:45:54.000 If you actually believe that climate change is an existential threat, which is complete gibberish, nonsense, and balderdash, and all of you guys should be unafraid to push back against all that garbage, because it's designed for one thing, power and control.

00:46:07.000 And let me just tell you something that is a general rule.

00:46:12.000 If your biggest worry in life is existential, you live a great life.

00:46:19.000 If your biggest worry is the sky falling and not sanitation, nutrition, getting murdered on the way home or being beaten, you live a very nice life.

00:46:30.000 You do.

00:46:32.000 This climate change nonsense can only happen in a rich, generally peaceful society.

00:46:38.000 This doesn't, you think that the people in the slums of India who have to worry the 300 million that don't have access every single day to functioning toilets, you think that they're worried about the sky falling?

00:46:48.000 Or maybe that they want a coal-fire power plant to be able to have a hospital or a school.

00:46:55.000 And so I guess the final point I'll make on this, which is so important, is reject the premise.

00:47:01.000 The premise of that whole thing is that more people, population increasing, much reduced people.

00:47:06.000 I don't agree with that at all whatsoever.

00:47:08.000 I think that we should have a commandment to be fruitful and multiply.

00:47:14.000 I do not believe even close that human population is what is destroying the entire earth.

00:47:20.000 And even beyond that, I think that if people, if that's their biggest concern, just it's nice to lightly remind them that you live a great life.

00:47:29.000 Maybe you should worry about improving yourself, not destroying the world around you.

00:47:32.000 Thank you.

00:47:33.000 It's good.

00:47:40.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:47:40.000 Hi.

00:47:41.000 So I'm an officer in the Army.

00:47:42.000 I'm stationed about two hours away.

00:47:43.000 Thank you for your service.

00:47:44.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:47:44.000 Appreciate it.

00:47:46.000 So one thing the Army is really good at is preparing for the last war.

00:47:52.000 We're not really good at preparing for the next war.

00:47:54.000 We don't know what we're going to face.

00:47:55.000 We pretty much, by the time a war finishes, if it finishes these days, we're good at that.

00:48:02.000 So I have two years left.

00:48:04.000 I've been in the Army for 10 years, but I'm going to be transitioning out soon to go to law school.

00:48:08.000 I think there's a greater threat at home than there is abroad.

00:48:12.000 So my question to you to kind of take that from the military to the conservative movement, and you talked about corporatism already, is what do you think we should prepare for in the future?

00:48:23.000 Because I also think that the conservative movement is also really good at being retroactive instead of proactive.

00:48:29.000 I like the framing of your question, and I agree with you.

00:48:32.000 So things we have to anticipate.

00:48:33.000 Conservatives, we got to start owning our own stuff.

00:48:36.000 Our own servers, our own tech companies, our own banking institutions.

00:48:40.000 We got to own our own stuff.

00:48:42.000 And I hate to make it overly political, but there's a real threat of trying to use corporate power against political opponents.

00:48:55.000 That's number one.

00:48:56.000 Number two, I think there's a couple long-term goals and objectives I have for the conservative movement.

00:49:01.000 I think we have to double the homeschooling population in the next five years in our country.

00:49:05.000 And we need to make it easier to homeschool.

00:49:09.000 And then finally, I think that we need to encourage young people to get married earlier and celebrate that.

00:49:14.000 And that's a really big problem.

00:49:15.000 And so, and then, and then I have some other ones, which is we should reduce college enrollment and all that, but that's a different, you know, not, we need more plumbers, electricians, and welders, and police officers, and veterans, and entrepreneurs.

00:49:29.000 We need more people that work at their hands.

00:49:31.000 So I like the framing.

00:49:34.000 I also think we have to anticipate that one of the biggest fights, and we need to be on the right side of this, is artificial intelligence, and that we should be unafraid to say that we should use the power of government to manage artificial intelligence.

00:49:46.000 Artificial intelligence, it's very scary where it's happening on this.

00:49:49.000 I think this is a bipartisan issue.

00:49:50.000 But if we don't, we are going to be working for these machines very soon.

00:49:54.000 They should always be serving us.

00:49:55.000 And that's something that's happening quick.

00:49:57.000 And we have a little bit of a window here while this technology is still getting worked out before it hits the mass market.

00:50:01.000 But I want to thank you again for your service.

00:50:03.000 And that's a very smart question.

00:50:04.000 So thank you.

00:50:10.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:50:11.000 So my dad couldn't make it tonight.

00:50:13.000 He's actually working.

00:50:14.000 But before I started, I wanted to let you know that he's a huge fan.

00:50:17.000 You actually sent him an autographed book once.

00:50:19.000 What's his name?

00:50:20.000 LG Hamilton.

00:50:21.000 Hi, LG.

00:50:22.000 You're filming me there, and you're filming me there.

00:50:25.000 So I'm a high school student here in Edmond, and I wanted to ask your advice, any advice that you would give to a high school student that's about to graduate like me.

00:50:34.000 I've been accepted to multiple universities, but I'm not really sure what my path is in life yet.

00:50:40.000 What advice would you give?

00:50:41.000 It's a great question.

00:50:43.000 You got to ask yourself the first question, which is so important.

00:50:47.000 Why do you want to go to college?

00:50:49.000 It's a really important question.

00:50:50.000 Not where.

00:50:51.000 Now, if you have a good answer to that question, then the next one can be where, and I'll tell you how to answer that question.

00:50:56.000 But I'll make the argument that not every person needs to go to four-year college.

00:51:00.000 That if you're not ready to borrow the money to get right into it, it's okay to take a gap year.

00:51:04.000 I took a gap year, and it's been nine and a half years of a gap year, and it's worked very nice.

00:51:12.000 And I want to be very clear.

00:51:15.000 My criticism of college is not a criticism of learning.

00:51:18.000 My other charge for you tonight is to learn something new every single day.

00:51:22.000 Read the great books.

00:51:24.000 Take the Hillsdale online courses.

00:51:26.000 Listen to Victor Davis Hansen.

00:51:28.000 Pursue truth everywhere, guys.

00:51:30.000 It's going to make you a better activist.

00:51:32.000 It's going to make you a happier and wiser person.

00:51:35.000 It will clarify what's happening in the news.

00:51:38.000 It'll make you less anxious.

00:51:39.000 The more you learn, the better off you'll be.

00:51:42.000 So I want to say, even if, and what's so amazing in the digital age, there's not a lot of positives out of these computers that we walk around with.

00:51:48.000 But one of the positives, guys, is you know what people would have given 250 years ago to have all that access to information in a moment's notice?

00:51:55.000 Use it for good, not just endless TikTok videos of whatever that is, right?

00:52:00.000 And so I'll say this as well, when there's other people that are probably wrestling with this question as well, which if you take a gap year, which I'm a big fan of, it's kind of a time to take a breath.

00:52:11.000 Go find what you think you want to be and go find someone who's good at that thing and find out if that's really what you want to be.

00:52:20.000 What I find is that the first go at it is usually not exactly what you think it is.

00:52:26.000 Get that out of your system.

00:52:27.000 You might want to be an auto mechanic and you might be like, this is the worst thing ever.

00:52:31.000 Good.

00:52:31.000 Get it out of your system.

00:52:33.000 And maybe you're going to end up being a professor because God knows we need more of those that actually love our country.

00:52:38.000 And so the point is that if there's a time to explore, it's when you have no liabilities.

00:52:44.000 The time to explore is when you have no kids, you're not married, and you have no debt.

00:52:50.000 So if there's something you want to get into, that's the time to do it when you're 18 or 19.

00:52:54.000 But I also want to say this, which for the high schoolers out there, don't immediately roll into college if you feel you're just getting pressure from your friends, your teachers, your guidance counselors, and yes, your parents.

00:53:09.000 So I'm going to have a little message to parents watching online and here.

00:53:12.000 I'm going to say this lovingly.

00:53:14.000 If you're not prepared to turn to your neighbors, when you see them at the supermarket and say, my son or daughter, little Johnny, is not enrolled in college, and I'm okay with that, then it's more about your ego than your kid's education.

00:53:31.000 And that's a very serious thing we have to talk about at times.

00:53:34.000 And so, and I will say this, that many parents want what's best for their children.

00:53:41.000 And they've been told that college is absolutely the best decision.

00:53:45.000 But 41% of people that go to college don't graduate.

00:53:49.000 41% national graduation rate is 59%.

00:53:51.000 I know it's better here in Oklahoma, but that's the national graduation rate.

00:53:56.000 How many of you know someone who dropped out of college?

00:53:58.000 The entire hands go up in the room.

00:54:01.000 You know those people have a little less confidence, right?

00:54:03.000 A little more uncertainty.

00:54:05.000 They're kind of a little bruised, takes them a little while to get along.

00:54:07.000 They never should have went in the first place.

00:54:09.000 You know why?

00:54:10.000 Because suburban parents don't want their kids to become plumbers.

00:54:15.000 Because we've been taught that plumbers and electricians are the dumb people.

00:54:20.000 You know it's true.

00:54:22.000 You know it's true that the archetype you have of a plumber is someone who comes in who's a little smelly, doesn't really have his act together, works with his hands.

00:54:30.000 You want your kid to go be a philosopher, right?

00:54:32.000 To go study South African migratory bird studies or whatever.

00:54:38.000 There's some good things to study in college.

00:54:39.000 There are.

00:54:40.000 Science, technology, engineering, math, and it's what you do with it.

00:54:43.000 Do it manageably.

00:54:44.000 But the point is that the pressure sometimes comes from this idea of my kid will not work construction.

00:54:49.000 Let me tell you what, we have a deficit in the muscular class in our country right now.

00:54:54.000 We have a shortage of electricians, HVAC, plumbers, computer engineers, people that can code.

00:55:00.000 Far too many philosopher kings that are serving iced macchiato lattes at local Starbuckses, telling you that we just need one more trillion-dollar stimulus bill and then the revolution will come to our country.

00:55:14.000 There's nothing wrong with blue-collar work.

00:55:16.000 I don't care about where you went to school.

00:55:18.000 I don't care about your piece of paper you have.

00:55:26.000 What matters is your character, which comes from the Greek word tattoo, imprint.

00:55:30.000 It's who you are.

00:55:31.000 You can't change it.

00:55:32.000 I care about your wisdom.

00:55:33.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of things that never change.

00:55:36.000 Things that are eternal.

00:55:37.000 There's practical knowledge and eternal knowledge.

00:55:39.000 Practical knowledge, fine.

00:55:40.000 You go to Harvard, you got a lot of practical knowledge.

00:55:42.000 You have zero wisdom.

00:55:43.000 No God, no wisdom.

00:55:43.000 Why?

00:55:44.000 There's no God at Harvard.

00:55:45.000 There's no wisdom.

00:55:46.000 Plumbers have more wisdom than the philosophers at Harvard.

00:55:49.000 Let me tell you that much.

00:55:51.000 So pursue something immediately that you want to explore more than anything else.

00:55:56.000 It might be the right thing, the wrong thing.

00:55:57.000 For me, I got lucky.

00:55:58.000 Ended up being the thing I love, the Turning Point USA.

00:56:00.000 We have this amazing national movement that's bigger than anything I could have dreamed of.

00:56:03.000 I got lucky, and I guess this is an expression that would work well, Governor.

00:56:06.000 I hit oil.

00:56:07.000 Is that what you say around here?

00:56:09.000 We struck it.

00:56:11.000 And I know that's not going to be the case for everybody.

00:56:15.000 But I want to say this.

00:56:16.000 Your work ethic, your character, your motivation, your drive is what's the most important thing.

00:56:21.000 And the final, final thing I'll say is this: is care about your development as a human being.

00:56:25.000 Care about whether you're making ethical choices, whether you are acting responsibly, whether that you are becoming the true reflection of the person you want to be eventually.

00:56:35.000 And if you're not, ask yourself the question why.

00:56:37.000 I wish college did that.

00:56:39.000 College, unfortunately, now is more about convincing you that there's no beauty and no truth in the world, but let's get you very mad about destroying the world around you.

00:56:49.000 So I hope that is a little bit of advice for you to consider.

00:56:52.000 And I wish you well.

00:56:53.000 Thank you.

00:56:54.000 God bless you.

00:57:00.000 She is one of the most powerful voices for faith, family, and for freedom.

00:57:04.000 Someone I know very well.

00:57:05.000 We had a lot of fun together for a couple of years at Turning Point USA, and she's doing awesome.

00:57:10.000 And she's a frequent guest of the show.

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00:58:40.000 Hey, Ms. Kirkson, my name is Will Goodwin.

00:58:42.000 I am a vice president at one of your chapters.

00:58:44.000 I've been in the middle of the day.

00:58:44.000 Awesome.

00:58:45.000 Thank you.

00:58:45.000 And my question is, so this is great, right?

00:58:48.000 I mean, we love this, right?

00:58:49.000 Don't we?

00:58:50.000 Everybody love this?

00:58:52.000 So you're guiding young minds to the truth and the good and, you know, kind of how we should vote, I guess, in that way.

00:58:59.000 But if the Democrats are stealing our votes, then what do we do?

00:59:01.000 Amen.

00:59:02.000 I agree.

00:59:03.000 So let me walk through election integrity.

00:59:05.000 First of all, thank you for your leadership in Turning Point USA.

00:59:07.000 So anyone listening to our podcast?

00:59:09.000 Anyone?

00:59:10.000 Oh, awesome.

00:59:11.000 It's my best friend.

00:59:13.000 I think those of you that do, you know that we spend a lot of time on election integrity, more than most, and we paid a price for it because you're not supposed to talk about that sort of stuff.

00:59:22.000 Let me first say that.

00:59:24.000 This election was the most interfered with election in American history.

00:59:28.000 Let me talk about what we know, then what is probably happened, and then what we need to find out.

00:59:33.000 Is that okay?

00:59:33.000 Three different categories.

00:59:34.000 Here's what we know.

00:59:35.000 $400 million came in from the tech giants into an organization called the Center for Technology and Civic Life that changed the way we did elections in our country forever.

00:59:44.000 And they subsidized mail-in voting.

00:59:46.000 We know this.

00:59:47.000 Not in just subsidized mail-in voting.

00:59:49.000 They put a whole machine together, a whole process that streamlined it.

00:59:52.000 It's called the Center for Technology Civic Life.

00:59:54.000 This is unprecedented.

00:59:55.000 $400 million overnight from the wealthiest people on the planet saying that we want everyone to vote by mail.

01:00:01.000 We know, this is in the no category.

01:00:04.000 Jimmy Carter told us this.

01:00:05.000 Every study has told us, says that mail-in voting is the most susceptible to potential fraud, especially if you do not have an infrastructure in place to be able to facilitate it.

01:00:16.000 Example number one, Georgia.

01:00:18.000 2016, Georgia had 248,000 more or less mail-in votes.

01:00:22.000 In 2020, they had over 1.2 million.

01:00:25.000 They weren't prepared for it.

01:00:26.000 Huge increase.

01:00:27.000 Here's what we also know, that there were agreements done in private, and Governor Kemp did this with Secretary of State Rothensberger, where they relaxed the signature verification standards in Georgia.

01:00:39.000 So you have more mail-in votes, more relaxed signature verification standards, things change altogether.

01:00:44.000 Let me tell us what we know.

01:00:47.000 The social media companies directly intervened on behalf of Joe Biden.

01:00:52.000 Remember the Tony Bobulinsky Hunter Biden story?

01:00:55.000 Under normal circumstances, that's an October surprise bigger than anything we've ever seen before in American politics.

01:01:02.000 And yet that was buried.

01:01:03.000 New York Post is not even allowed to tweet about it.

01:01:05.000 Social media companies deactivated people's accounts.

01:01:08.000 Facebook kicked people off altogether.

01:01:10.000 And all the trending topics, the fact checkers, the conversation was put in a box and it said, you are not allowed to get outside the guidelines of criticizing the person running for office.

01:01:19.000 Why did they do that?

01:01:20.000 Well, because in 2016, one of the main reasons why Donald Trump won was because the tech companies did allow dialogue, speech, and for things to be spread.

01:01:27.000 And they said, we're never going to allow that to happen again.

01:01:29.000 Let me tell you about the things that probably happened.

01:01:32.000 When you have this many votes, when you have this volume happening, and all of a sudden you have these vote dumps in the middle of the night, and you're kicking out poll watchers, you basically invite every single form of potential shenanigans, interference imaginable.

01:01:47.000 We've got to figure out more about this.

01:01:49.000 And this probably happened.

01:01:50.000 And we're still working this through the courts.

01:01:52.000 Now, let me get to the final thing, okay?

01:01:54.000 Which is the thing that we don't have enough to build out, which is really, really important to get to this, which is if we do not have a serious conversation, and Joseph Stalin said this very famously, you could vote one way, it's account the votes actually matter, of how the votes are tabulated in our country, then people are going to lose faith in the entire system altogether.

01:02:14.000 Now, there's a hand recount happening in Arizona right now.

01:02:17.000 2.1 million votes are being hand recounted.

01:02:19.000 That's a good thing, and we should support that.

01:02:21.000 Because here's why.

01:02:22.000 The more transparency, the better.

01:02:24.000 If there's nothing there, show us.

01:02:27.000 Stop hiding it.

01:02:28.000 Be in the front of this conversation.

01:02:30.000 Instead, it seems that they're running from it.

01:02:32.000 They're dancing around it, and they don't want to have an honest and true conversation around it.

01:02:35.000 But I want to just say one thing.

01:02:37.000 We're going to fix this.

01:02:38.000 We're going to make sure of it.

01:02:40.000 Keep the pressure on.

01:02:41.000 Keep the pressure on some of these other states to fix elections.

01:02:44.000 The way you guys do elections in this state, very good.

01:02:47.000 I want to commend your legislators for taking this seriously because I'm telling you right now, you go to these other states, it is a complete circus and a mess.

01:02:54.000 And another governor that I want to give a shout out to, Governor Ron DeSantis, who's doing a pretty amazing job.

01:03:00.000 And who had all of his election results in by 9.30 Eastern with zero allegations of massive fraud?

01:03:14.000 So those are the three different categories.

01:03:15.000 But let me tell you this, we can't give up on it.

01:03:17.000 I'm glad you asked about it.

01:03:18.000 I didn't mean to minimize.

01:03:20.000 There's only so much time I have to cover certain topics.

01:03:22.000 But I also want to say this.

01:03:23.000 Do not become a cynic.

01:03:26.000 People say, I'm never going to vote against.

01:03:27.000 Stop it.

01:03:28.000 You know how lucky it is you're even allowed to show up to somewhere, even if they shred your ballot?

01:03:32.000 And by the way, this whole thing, I'm never going to vote against it.

01:03:34.000 It's not like it's a huge waste.

01:03:35.000 Like you have something better to do.

01:03:36.000 Like, yeah, I'm 10 minutes out of my schedule.

01:03:38.000 I'm going to stick it to the man.

01:03:39.000 No, like, that's hard.

01:03:41.000 You're going to wait in Starbucks line for 25 minutes.

01:03:43.000 I'm not going to go vote because I'm such a, look how important I am.

01:03:46.000 Cut it out.

01:03:47.000 Get involved then.

01:03:49.000 Become an election judge.

01:03:51.000 Get involved with your state legislators.

01:03:52.000 If those of you in other states that might not be here that drove, be optimistic.

01:03:57.000 Be solution-oriented, guys.

01:03:58.000 That's who we are.

01:03:59.000 Don't be a, I get these emails, and God bless them.

01:04:01.000 I know they're coming from a good place, but it drives me a little bit mad because they're like, I'm never voting again.

01:04:05.000 Nothing ever matters.

01:04:06.000 That's what they want you to say.

01:04:09.000 They want you to give up.

01:04:10.000 They want you to have zero faith.

01:04:12.000 Instead, let's say, okay, there's things on the margins.

01:04:14.000 Let's try to fix it.

01:04:15.000 Let's go about it factually.

01:04:17.000 Let's go about it assertively.

01:04:18.000 And that's the way we should go about it.

01:04:20.000 Do not become a cynic, everybody, and ask questions.

01:04:24.000 And I'm telling you right now, I think there's going to be some very big revelations about some of these things in the next couple weeks and months.

01:04:29.000 Thank you for your question.

01:04:30.000 I really appreciate it.

01:04:30.000 Thank you.

01:04:34.000 I drove three hours to see you.

01:04:37.000 Texas?

01:04:38.000 Wichita, Kansas?

01:04:39.000 Oak, awesome.

01:04:40.000 Thank you for being here.

01:04:41.000 Oh, yeah.

01:04:42.000 Okay, so one of my questions is, I live in actually a pretty liberal part of my town, and most of the people are Hispanic and they are black as well.

01:04:51.000 And they use racial victimization for the reasons they can't succeed in life.

01:04:56.000 Me and my dad aren't obviously like that.

01:04:58.000 So my question is, what can I do to debunk that?

01:05:02.000 And also, what advice do you have for me as a Hispanic conservative?

01:05:07.000 So first of all, thank you for being here.

01:05:09.000 Three and a half hours, that's seven hours round trip.

01:05:11.000 So thank you for being here.

01:05:17.000 It's hard to be a conservative in America, but it's especially hard to be a conservative if you're Hispanic or black.

01:05:23.000 And I want to say that it's going to be tough.

01:05:26.000 You're going to be called a race trader.

01:05:27.000 You're going to be called all these sorts of things, right?

01:05:30.000 But you're on the right side of this.

01:05:32.000 Let me tell you why.

01:05:33.000 Do you consider yourself more of a Republican than a Democrat, I would imagine?

01:05:36.000 Okay, good.

01:05:37.000 I'm witnessing.

01:05:38.000 I know.

01:05:41.000 You'd be amazed.

01:05:42.000 Sometimes I get all sorts of answers.

01:05:44.000 Trump had a very diverse coalition ideologically.

01:05:46.000 Let me just tell you that much.

01:05:48.000 The Republican Party's on the right side of this, and we always have been.

01:05:51.000 The Republican Party was formed as an anti-slavery party in Ripon, Wisconsin.

01:05:55.000 Abolition of slavery.

01:05:56.000 The Republican Party, which our first president is Abraham Lincoln, who famously said, if slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

01:06:03.000 The Republican Party was on the right side of women's suffrage, was on the right side of putting blacks in Congress the first time ever.

01:06:09.000 The Republican Party has always been about the empowerment of the individual regardless of your skin color.

01:06:14.000 Always.

01:06:15.000 The Democrat Party, regardless of what your professors and the pundits will tell you, have always been on the side of suppressing human potential and freedom.

01:06:22.000 And I'll prove it to you.

01:06:23.000 They went from the plantation to intimidation to entitlement.

01:06:28.000 So it used to be that Democrats, they've always cared about skin color.

01:06:31.000 That's the one through line, right?

01:06:32.000 They've always cared more about skin color than about character.

01:06:35.000 And that's a good question to ask, right?

01:06:36.000 Say, why does skin color matter so much?

01:06:39.000 Why is it that, why don't we care about people's character?

01:06:42.000 And they might say, well, because of systemic levels of oppression, have they said that to you, something like that?

01:06:47.000 Yes, sir.

01:06:48.000 Then you should ask a couple questions.

01:06:50.000 If there were systemic levels of oppression, why is it that the richest immigrant group in America for a couple years were Nigerian Americans into America?

01:06:59.000 If we're so systemically racist, how is it that Nigerian Americans were able to succeed so much in our country?

01:07:03.000 Why is it that Asian Americans are actually richer on average than white Americans?

01:07:07.000 Why is it that 3 million black people have immigrated legally into this country, 2 million from Africa, 1 million from the Caribbean since 1970?

01:07:16.000 You know, we're the only multiracial country on the planet that's really able to keep its act together.

01:07:21.000 There's a reason for that.

01:07:22.000 It's because Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream that we are all taught as an ideal is now being crushed is actually a very moral objective, which is I care about your character.

01:07:32.000 I care about who you want to be, who you are, and what you do.

01:07:36.000 So I would reject the overracialization that anyone tries to engage in that.

01:07:39.000 And the other thing is this, is say, and I would push back against this, is that the left, they actually, if you read really intimately, they engage what Clarence Thomas would famously said, say, as the bigotry of low expectations.

01:07:55.000 Great example of this is voter ID.

01:07:58.000 So I support voter ID laws.

01:07:59.000 Voter ID is a very simple, obvious thing.

01:08:01.000 But they say that's so racist because black people can't get ID.

01:08:06.000 That's what they say.

01:08:07.000 I say, no, no, you're racist for believing black people can't get ID.

01:08:12.000 I actually think that every human being is perfectly capable of getting an identification.

01:08:16.000 And by the way, as a side note, how do they think that people are going to prove their ancestry when it comes to reparations?

01:08:20.000 Like you can get your paperwork together to prove yourself eight generations as an ancestor of slave, but you can't get a voter ID to go vote.

01:08:27.000 It's completely off topic.

01:08:27.000 Anyway, that's a side note.

01:08:29.000 Everything you stand for as a conservative, though.

01:08:31.000 I want to empower you.

01:08:33.000 It's about lifting up the individual.

01:08:36.000 Everything, not the group.

01:08:38.000 You believe that we want school choice because we want to improve people's well-being.

01:08:43.000 We want freedom of speech because we want the best ideas to win.

01:08:46.000 We are through and through about the elevation of the individual.

01:08:49.000 And so I want to encourage you on that.

01:08:51.000 And I also want to say, don't give up because you're going to be called all these nasty names and all of this.

01:08:57.000 But we're so happy you're in the conservative movement.

01:09:00.000 And God bless you for coming tonight.

01:09:01.000 So thank you.

01:09:07.000 Hi.

01:09:08.000 I'm a Christian, Jesus-loving, homeschooling mom.

01:09:12.000 Just graduated my first.

01:09:13.000 Thank you.

01:09:14.000 But I am also an entrepreneur and I sell on Amazon.

01:09:18.000 I am a part of hundreds of homeschooled moms, Christians, pastors, missionaries, and we all are entrepreneurs on Amazon.

01:09:27.000 And it has opened so many doors for me and my family.

01:09:29.000 So a question for you, a lot of people don't understand this, and I didn't know this either, but Amazon is a huge, we're actually just renting warehouse space from them.

01:09:38.000 So I can't even ship my product from my UPS, the local post office store, for the same price that they ship it, mail it, all of it for me.

01:09:47.000 So my question is, I do not like, of course, what's going on with Amazon and Bezos, that 30% of the sellers on Amazon are people like me.

01:09:56.000 So what do we do?

01:09:58.000 I get questions a lot and I don't ever know how to respond because I know it's been a really good thing.

01:10:02.000 Yes.

01:10:03.000 So look, I bash Amazon for a reason.

01:10:06.000 Of course, there's been positives.

01:10:08.000 You're a testament to that.

01:10:09.000 But I think the negatives are getting way out of control.

01:10:11.000 We need a conservative alternative for you is what we need.

01:10:14.000 And we need it very soon so that, because here's what I'm telling, here's the threat.

01:10:18.000 You say you love Jesus and love America.

01:10:20.000 They could take you off Amazon at any moment.

01:10:22.000 Oh, I know that.

01:10:23.000 But we also, I sell Made an American product, and I think there's a demand for that on Amazon.

01:10:28.000 But I know it's a threat because what we've noticed is that the Christian products available on Amazon are small.

01:10:33.000 So we try to hit that market.

01:10:35.000 Whether or not the market's just not there in the same way it used to be, they could take us off.

01:10:40.000 Yeah, and so there needs to be a competitor.

01:10:43.000 But what they've done is They've made it where that is the best business decision for you based on their size.

01:10:51.000 So you must have to conform in some ways, maybe not yet, to the woke industrial complex by being on it eventually.

01:10:58.000 And so that's one of my arguments for breaking up Amazon, which is eventually their ideology might very well impact your ability to sell or move your goods.

01:11:07.000 And so, look, there's positives and negatives to all things.

01:11:12.000 Amazon has obviously been a positive for a lot of different things.

01:11:15.000 But the negative is that you're able to go online for sure.

01:11:19.000 The 40% of small businesses that have disappeared in this country, large in part because of the corporatization of our country of Amazon, haven't.

01:11:26.000 And so the success stories need to be maybe re-platformed on a different place.

01:11:30.000 But I'm also of the belief that Amazon is a very strong, you know why they're able to do the shipping the way.

01:11:36.000 So Amazon's not, they don't have like flying drones yet.

01:11:40.000 Well, they sort of do.

01:11:40.000 But like the point is that they're not totally that way.

01:11:43.000 You know, they're actually not a shipping company.

01:11:46.000 They're a server company.

01:11:48.000 $16 billion of their revenue every single year come from servers like Twitter and Netflix use their servers and they have a huge profit on that side and they need a loss on the other side to be able to basically put up against their gains.

01:12:01.000 So they're able to put packages for less, which is the equivalent of dumping products.

01:12:06.000 Right, but that's what's good for me as an entrepreneur.

01:12:08.000 And that's why it's hard because I don't have to have the storefront.

01:12:12.000 I'm still making a living.

01:12:14.000 The point is that they're going to get you addicted to that and they will raise the prices eventually.

01:12:19.000 That's the fear, right?

01:12:20.000 And this is the dumping model that the Chinese have done for us forever, right?

01:12:23.000 They'll bring in all this cheap steel or cheap solar panels and eventually go, oh, this is wonderful.

01:12:28.000 And they'll turn on a 25% increase, right?

01:12:30.000 And then they'll say, you have to conform to our LGBTQ standards.

01:12:33.000 It'll happen like that.

01:12:35.000 So I hear you totally.

01:12:36.000 And I admit it because they're able to subsidize it.

01:12:38.000 I think we need an alternative, so you're not going to be putting that in that box.

01:12:41.000 So what do we do?

01:12:42.000 I mean, I'm just asking for me and all of the models that work with me.

01:12:46.000 I don't know the specifics of your business model.

01:12:48.000 I would start looking for other options soon.

01:12:49.000 Hopefully they'll be able to do it.

01:12:51.000 But also, my other piece of advice is find other people in your position and build a coalition.

01:12:56.000 Your power is in your strength and unity of maybe 600 other people that are doing the same thing as you.

01:13:00.000 Then you have staying power with Amazon.

01:13:02.000 They're like, hey, if you do this, then you're going to lose all of us.

01:13:05.000 If that makes sense.

01:13:06.000 So then you're no longer alone, but you kind of have a coalition together.

01:13:09.000 Thank you.

01:13:10.000 We'll do a couple more and then we're going to hear from the great governor.

01:13:15.000 So this is not a specifically political question, but one thing in the last couple of years that has even gotten me interested in politics is the many different books I've read that have kind of showed me the importance of politics as an expression of a nation's values, values, and principles.

01:13:31.000 So I wanted to ask you, what has been the most impactful book that you've read in your life?

01:13:36.000 Boy, I mean, the Bible would be number one, obviously, and I encourage everyone to read it.

01:13:41.000 So there's a book recently that's been phenomenal.

01:13:46.000 It's by Vishal Mangalwaldi.

01:13:48.000 It's called The Book That Built Your World.

01:13:49.000 I highly encourage, I mean, we're just talking about it before.

01:13:52.000 It's absolutely terrific.

01:13:53.000 Federalist papers are phenomenal.

01:13:55.000 I highly encourage everyone to read and reread those.

01:13:58.000 It's kind of the anonymous explanation of the greatest political document ever written, which is the United States Constitution.

01:14:05.000 There's so many.

01:14:06.000 I mean, anything by Edmund Burke is terrific.

01:14:08.000 His commentaries on the French Revolution are phenomenal.

01:14:11.000 But I would encourage this, that it's less of a singular book and it's more on the canon of a book, of books.

01:14:16.000 It's more on kind of a Seek series.

01:14:18.000 And so what do I mean by that?

01:14:20.000 Be very familiar with the thoughts and the ideas that impacted our entire system of government.

01:14:25.000 Here's an example.

01:14:26.000 Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence, the laws of nature and nature is God, and also life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

01:14:32.000 Did he come up with that?

01:14:34.000 No.

01:14:34.000 He's basically a plagiarist.

01:14:36.000 Took it from John Locke.

01:14:38.000 Where did John Locke learn from?

01:14:40.000 So you keep diving, dig, dive deeper and deeper.

01:14:43.000 The point is that the understanding where these ideas came from are super important.

01:14:48.000 And a book that I've reread that I really encourage everyone is Aristotle's book on politics and Aristotle's book on ethics.

01:14:54.000 It's 2,400 years old, but guess what?

01:14:56.000 It's just as applicable today.

01:14:57.000 Why?

01:14:58.000 Human beings don't change.

01:15:00.000 Human nature is constant.

01:15:01.000 No matter how much technology we get and all this stuff, we are just as broken, greedy, self-interested, and awful as we were 2,400 years ago.

01:15:08.000 You read Aristotle's Politics, you think you're reading the Wall Street Journal that's happening today.

01:15:13.000 I kid you not, in the first chapter of Aristotle's Politics or something, I did a whole podcast on this.

01:15:17.000 You guys might have heard this.

01:15:18.000 He talks about closing schools and that despots and tyrants want people to not be able to recognize each other as a way to try to dehumanize them.

01:15:27.000 2,400 years ago.

01:15:29.000 Now, why do I love that?

01:15:31.000 It's because all of a sudden you realize that there are some things that never change.

01:15:35.000 And that's the other piece of advice is go find wise and beautiful things that were written before you and know them very well.

01:15:42.000 You'll be a happier person because of it.

01:15:44.000 Thank you.

01:15:45.000 Thank you.

01:15:51.000 Howdy.

01:15:51.000 Hey no, man.

01:15:52.000 So here in Oklahoma, you know, in a lot of conservative circles, I know my circles, my family and friends, a lot of people talk about the secession of Texas as like a last-ditch backdoor plan B.

01:16:03.000 It doesn't seem very feasible to me, but I was wondering if you had any thoughts on that.

01:16:06.000 Yeah, it's not feasible.

01:16:07.000 I mean, look, I'm an opponent in the current state for a couple different reasons.

01:16:15.000 The temporary unity we have in this country is so unique.

01:16:19.000 It is.

01:16:19.000 And it's something we shouldn't take for granted.

01:16:22.000 And let me just tell you, we look at history, the balkanization of any territory does not end well.

01:16:30.000 The most famous recent example could be Yugoslavia, where after the death of Tito, of course, the Yugoslavian Balkan Peninsula, that's where we get the term balkanization from, split into four different countries.

01:16:41.000 And we all know what happened after that.

01:16:42.000 It was brutal.

01:16:43.000 It's not good.

01:16:43.000 It was awful.

01:16:44.000 Because then you get in all sorts of different discussions.

01:16:46.000 What happens to the military?

01:16:47.000 How do you power yourself?

01:16:48.000 What are your trade agreements?

01:16:49.000 So I don't like it.

01:16:51.000 And I understand the thought process.

01:16:52.000 It's not that I don't like it philosophically.

01:16:55.000 Whoa.

01:16:55.000 It's not that I don't like where people's anxieties come from, if that makes sense.

01:17:00.000 But I'm going to hold out for this, for this country and this beautiful gift we've been given.

01:17:05.000 There's something very special in our unity, and I also think there's something I haven't touched on at all tonight, which, by the way, every one of our speeches this week will be different.

01:17:12.000 We're going to Missouri tomorrow than Kentucky, and one of those, I'm going to really focus on China, but I'll talk about it right now.

01:17:17.000 The Chinese Communist Party is an existential threat to everything we love, and they would love nothing more than to see America fractured.

01:17:22.000 That would be a gift to them.

01:17:23.000 So for just that reason, start and stop alone, we should be very, very slow to try to self-separate.

01:17:30.000 And that's me speaking in current time as it is, for a lot of different reasons.

01:17:34.000 And I know that there's really good people that are thoughtfully trying to go about it, and they mean well.

01:17:38.000 But also understand this is not...

01:17:40.000 Anyone here that dealt with divorce knows that it's not exactly something that's enjoyable.

01:17:46.000 And this would be an exponent of a million, right?

01:17:49.000 And so we have a gift.

01:17:50.000 It's a gift that you're able to drive south and go to Dallas without having to go through a checkpoint, right?

01:17:55.000 It's a good thing.

01:17:56.000 Let's try to preserve that.

01:17:57.000 Well said.

01:17:58.000 Thank you.

01:18:05.000 You mentioned Boulder and Atlanta earlier, and I was wondering your opinions on how to prevent future shootings from happening.

01:18:12.000 It's a great, great point.

01:18:14.000 So, I mean, I don't like mass shootings.

01:18:17.000 They are actually statistically comprised and composed of far less of the gun violence deaths in our country than people would believe.

01:18:26.000 So let's take each example.

01:18:28.000 We're still learning about both of them.

01:18:30.000 I mean, the obvious thing in front of us is a mental health issue.

01:18:33.000 We know that.

01:18:34.000 I think that we're medicating our children far too young in our country.

01:18:36.000 I think the pharmaceutical lobby has way too much power over getting our young children to be taking medication they should not be taking.

01:18:43.000 And I think that's part of it.

01:18:45.000 It's number one.

01:18:46.000 Number two, I think that we have to understand that in these instances, we have to have all the facts laid out in front of us before we try to make any sort of public policy decisions.

01:18:56.000 But let me tell you what we shouldn't do.

01:18:58.000 That's okay.

01:18:58.000 Because that's actually equally as important.

01:19:01.000 What we shouldn't do is we shouldn't pass a bunch of gun registry gun confiscation bills in Congress and vote for them because something really awful, tragic, and unspeakably evil happened.

01:19:12.000 That's the lesson that we had from the last 10 years.

01:19:15.000 I'm glad we did not rush to judgment after the brutal tragedy in Broward, Florida, or in Newtown, Connecticut.

01:19:22.000 So there's 33,000 gun deaths that happen every single year in America.

01:19:25.000 It sounds like a lot, right?

01:19:27.000 Well, two-thirds of those are deaths by suicide.

01:19:30.000 Two-thirds.

01:19:31.000 So all of a sudden, that 30,000, I'm only saying this because you're going to hear all these arguments repeatedly.

01:19:35.000 So I'm going to give you a little bit of help here.

01:19:37.000 That 33,000 number is actually not as high as you might think.

01:19:39.000 It's 11,000.

01:19:40.000 About 800 is accidental discharges, people just being fools with their weapons.

01:19:45.000 The vast majority of the remaining can be attributed to domestic disputes or gang violence using handguns.

01:19:53.000 Handguns are by far the number one firearm used in death when it comes to in this country.

01:19:58.000 So if it is the public policy position of the Democrat Party to ban handguns, then be clear about it.

01:20:04.000 It's a very unpopular position and it would do very little to actually reduce crime.

01:20:08.000 Now they focus, and Joe Biden, I don't even think he knows what this means.

01:20:12.000 I don't think he knows anything, he said.

01:20:14.000 But he comes and he says, I want to ban assault rifles, right?

01:20:18.000 It's a made-up term.

01:20:19.000 It doesn't exist.

01:20:20.000 Anyone that understands weapons and understands firearms says that does not, that doesn't mean anything.

01:20:25.000 So they say, well, it's AR.

01:20:27.000 Well, AR stands for armalite rifle, not assault rifle.

01:20:32.000 So I'm going to say something that is hard to say, but I'm going to say it anyway.

01:20:35.000 Liberty's hard.

01:20:37.000 Liberty comes at a price.

01:20:40.000 Sometimes our love of liberty comes up against our love for human beings.

01:20:44.000 And they're not contradictory, by the way.

01:20:47.000 But sometimes say, oh, my goodness, these people passed away.

01:20:51.000 Is there something we could do through a public policy position to make this never happen again?

01:20:54.000 And I'm here to tell you, no.

01:20:56.000 And any policy prescription wouldn't get your desired outcome actually done.

01:21:00.000 And the cost will be the sacrificing of all of our liberties together.

01:21:04.000 And this comes to a final point.

01:21:05.000 Why do we have the Second Amendment?

01:21:07.000 Most conservatives are afraid to talk about this.

01:21:10.000 We just dive right into it.

01:21:11.000 It's not for hunting.

01:21:12.000 I love hunting.

01:21:13.000 It's not for self-protection.

01:21:14.000 That's fun too.

01:21:18.000 It's because the founding fathers knew that if a citizenry did not have the potential to defend itself against tyranny, this is nothing more than a hostage situation.

01:21:29.000 In Hong Kong, when the Chinese Communist Party was tyrannizing their citizens 18 months ago, they had all the power.

01:21:37.000 If every Hong Kong resident had an AR-15 at home, the Chinese Communist Party would have went to the table, they say, what do you want?

01:21:44.000 It actually reduces the threat of future violence, the fact that people are able to own firearms and weapons.

01:21:49.000 Let me say this.

01:21:50.000 If we have this liberty, you have to make good choices with that liberty.

01:21:54.000 But you look at the statistics, you look at how many people own weapons in our country, how many people own firearms, it's amazing how responsible we actually are with these weapons.

01:22:03.000 The vast majority are people that are engaging in violent crime anyway, with gang loyalties, and they're in the pursuit of crime anyway.

01:22:10.000 It is not the target of their bills as per usual.

01:22:13.000 And so unfortunately, we're going to have to go through another gun debate in our country.

01:22:17.000 So I'm not going to be able to answer the first part of it because I need more information, but I'll tell you what we're not going to do.

01:22:21.000 We are not going to allow our God-given liberties and rights to be infringed upon.

01:22:25.000 We are not going to allow responsible gun owners to be slandered in the media, and we are not going to allow them to take our weapons away.

01:22:29.000 That's what we're not going to have.

01:22:31.000 Thank you.

01:22:39.000 I have a kind of a coattail question off that.

01:22:41.000 So, in light of the recent mass killings that have happened, how do we educate our schools?

01:22:47.000 And nowadays, I know back in the day there used to be gun safety in schools.

01:22:50.000 How do we fight back against the government trying to do these unconstitutional gun grabs?

01:22:55.000 And then, how do we get schools to start showing that guns aren't as bad as the media portrays them to be?

01:23:00.000 Because I know many people think that AR-15 is a fully automatic when it's really just the modern-day swimming rifle.

01:23:04.000 And it could be illegally adjusted to be fully automatic, right?

01:23:07.000 And that's against the law.

01:23:08.000 So, first of all, you need great governors like you guys have here that will protect your Second Amendment rights.

01:23:13.000 Thank you, Governor Steve.

01:23:17.000 And that's a big deal.

01:23:21.000 It's a big deal to have good leaders.

01:23:23.000 Don't take that lightly.

01:23:24.000 A lot of states don't.

01:23:25.000 And so, that's a big deal.

01:23:28.000 You know who the fastest growing population in America that's buying firearms right now?

01:23:31.000 Young women.

01:23:32.000 Violent crime is on the rise.

01:23:34.000 It is.

01:23:36.000 If you care about women's rights, which by the way, what is a woman?

01:23:40.000 They can't answer that question anymore, right?

01:23:42.000 What is a woman?

01:23:43.000 It's like.

01:23:45.000 Oh, no.

01:23:47.000 You want to see that just like, and listen.

01:23:47.000 Right?

01:23:49.000 You want to talk about the great equalizer?

01:23:51.000 Firearms, the great equalizer.

01:23:53.000 One of the biggest reasons, and this is not the main reason.

01:23:56.000 I already told you the main reason why with the Second Amendment, but a secondary reason is self-protection.

01:24:00.000 And young women should be given, obviously, the right and responsibility.

01:24:04.000 I think that's a good way to actually.

01:24:05.000 The reason why these gun grabs have been unsuccessful is because moms and women stand up against it.

01:24:13.000 We kind of know how men are going to vote on this issue generally.

01:24:16.000 It's like an 80-20.

01:24:17.000 But I think we need to lean in on that more.

01:24:19.000 Because you asked the question, how are we going to change public perception?

01:24:22.000 We need to talk about how moms and women are the fastest-growing gun owners in the country for a reason.

01:24:28.000 And that's a really good thing.

01:24:30.000 And so we need to publicize it more.

01:24:32.000 We need to run advertisements, whatever it is, we need to talk about that more because the perception is that it's all men and it's all just for violence.

01:24:40.000 And that's just not the case at all.

01:24:42.000 It's mothers that love their family and love their children and care about their communities that go and buy those firearms.

01:24:47.000 You want to go see the biggest increase in gun ownership in the last two years.

01:24:50.000 It happened right after all those riots in the country.

01:24:53.000 You notice how popular gun ownership was then.

01:24:55.000 So I hope that's somewhat helpful.

01:24:56.000 But the other thing is this: we cannot, in these times of tragedy, because it is, it's a tragedy, allow all of our public policy decisions to be steered by emotion.

01:25:08.000 That's a hard thing to do.

01:25:10.000 Founding fathers, remember, they put the Constitution to spread power throughout time and throughout space.

01:25:16.000 Time is important because then cooler heads hopefully prevail.

01:25:20.000 That's why impeachments that happen in 12 hours or less are a really bad idea.

01:25:25.000 Founding fathers knew this.

01:25:26.000 If you're going to do something big, do it slowly and do it correctly.

01:25:30.000 Measure twice, cut once.

01:25:31.000 Especially when you're talking about taking away people's firearms.

01:25:34.000 So that's the biggest thing I tell everyone.

01:25:36.000 I wish I could just say, let's have this conversation in one week when we have all the facts and we're not completely emotionally driven.

01:25:43.000 But unfortunately, the media has a narrative.

01:25:45.000 They have an agenda.

01:25:45.000 We know that.

01:25:46.000 And that's where you guys come in.

01:25:47.000 It should be a no-compromise position.

01:25:49.000 But do it factually.

01:25:51.000 Do it compassionately.

01:25:52.000 But do it directly and have no compromise on this issue.

01:25:55.000 Thank you.

01:25:55.000 I appreciate it.

01:26:00.000 The last question, and then we'll invite your great governor up.

01:26:02.000 Yes.

01:26:03.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:26:03.000 I'm Pam Pollard.

01:26:04.000 I'm a former state Republican Party chair and now National Committee woman.

01:26:08.000 And I do have my secret weapon here in my purse, so I'll hold on to it.

01:26:12.000 One of those gun-totin mamas.

01:26:14.000 But I just wanted to say thank you for what you do, for what you do for the young people.

01:26:19.000 To the young people in the audience, the Republican Party invites you to come in, but we can't get you to come, but Charlie can.

01:26:25.000 So thank you, Charlie, for that.

01:26:27.000 We have a young lady in the back who is the chairman of the Democrat Party in her county and of her college.

01:26:32.000 She told me that you and what you had to say, the intelligent conversation that you bring to the young people is what changed her.

01:26:39.000 So I just wanted to say thank you, Charlie, for what you do.

01:26:42.000 Thank you for saying that.

01:26:43.000 And so it's awesome.

01:26:47.000 And I just have a question about the HR1 being passed.

01:26:55.000 Okay, yeah.

01:26:56.000 Super quick.

01:26:57.000 HR1, I just want to reinforce that previous point.

01:27:00.000 I'm sorry.

01:27:01.000 Everyone get involved on the local level.

01:27:01.000 Great.

01:27:03.000 And you guys got great leaders here.

01:27:04.000 And we're about to hear from one.

01:27:07.000 HR1, nationwide mail-in voting.

01:27:10.000 Basically, it would destroy fair and free elections as we know it.

01:27:13.000 Instead of trying to fix our elections, they're trying to permanently fix our elections through HR1.

01:27:20.000 And it's very dangerous, very destructive.

01:27:22.000 Your two great senators here have already come out against it, and they deserve to be commended for that.

01:27:26.000 And they're doing the right thing.

01:27:27.000 And we're seeing this happen very quickly.

01:27:29.000 It comes down to two people: Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema.

01:27:33.000 And I believe prayer is something that is real.

01:27:35.000 It's not just a meditative thing.

01:27:37.000 Pray for the two Democrats in West Virginia and Arizona that they will hold the line on the filibuster to not break the filibuster to pass HR1.

01:27:44.000 It's basically all in their hands.

01:27:45.000 And that's for a lot of different reasons.

01:27:47.000 Losing Georgia, for those of us that care about Republicans getting elected, turning point being a nonprofit, we have to be careful the way we word that.

01:27:56.000 We're very disappointed by that.

01:27:57.000 It comes down to cinema and mansion.

01:27:59.000 That's it.

01:28:00.000 And so if they decide they say we need the 60-vote threshold, it's not going to happen.

01:28:04.000 And so your senators do a wonderful job for you guys here.

01:28:07.000 So I'd encourage them to keep on doing that.

01:28:10.000 It's going to come down to some other states like West Virginia, Arizona.

01:28:13.000 Thank you for your intelligent question.

01:28:14.000 So I want to now say we are honored here to have a wonderful governor.

01:28:20.000 I could tell you, from other states that locked down far too long and infringed on liberties, you got a governor that has courage and he has guts, and you guys should be very thankful for that.

01:28:29.000 So please welcome the great governor of Oklahoma up on the stage.

01:28:35.000 Wow, thank you so much.

01:28:38.000 Hey, thank you.

01:28:40.000 Thank you.

01:28:44.000 I understand, Charlie, that this is your first event back in over a year.

01:28:48.000 That's right.

01:28:49.000 And you chose Oklahoma.

01:28:54.000 We chose it because it's open and you've been doing a wonderful job.

01:28:57.000 You really have been.

01:28:58.000 Absolutely.

01:28:58.000 Well, you know, we are about freedom in the state of Oklahoma.

01:29:02.000 One of only nine governors that did not shut down, that did not do mask mandates.

01:29:13.000 Took a few bullets back in March, April, and May and June.

01:29:16.000 But we're starting now, people are starting to wake up and starting to take Oklahoma's lead.

01:29:21.000 And our numbers are not dissimilar to any other state that took much more draconian methods.

01:29:28.000 California, for example, still shutting down businesses.

01:29:31.000 A lot of their schools are still shut down.

01:29:34.000 I have been hammering, Charlie, our schools to be open.

01:29:37.000 And now we have every school in the state of Oklahoma is open.

01:29:46.000 And Charlie, you're going to love this.

01:29:49.000 I'm giving an award, an economic development award, to Gavin Newsom.

01:29:54.000 Okay?

01:29:55.000 He has done more for economic development in the state of Oklahoma by what he's doing with his policies in California.

01:30:03.000 So commerce has never been bigger.

01:30:06.000 People are just sick of it.

01:30:07.000 So I'm so happy that you're here.

01:30:09.000 And I really want to thank the young people in this room for being engaged.

01:30:17.000 Man, when I walked in here and I saw this room filled to come hear you speak, I mean, it's just, it warms my heart.

01:30:25.000 I'm telling you, an informed citizenry is so important.

01:30:28.000 Once you know the issues, like you said, we are on the right side of this.

01:30:33.000 And so just do not be afraid.

01:30:35.000 The Bible teaches us 365 times.

01:30:37.000 I think God tells us, do not be afraid.

01:30:39.000 Be bold.

01:30:40.000 And I'm just so sick of people telling us how we should live.

01:30:44.000 And we believe in personal responsibilities in Oklahoma.

01:30:47.000 So.

01:30:54.000 As long as I'm your governor, I'm going to make sure that we stand for those God-given rights.

01:30:59.000 We stand for the Second Amendment.

01:31:01.000 And we'll protect our liberties here in the state of Oklahoma.

01:31:03.000 So, absolutely.

01:31:04.000 Thank you.

01:31:05.000 Thanks, guys.

01:31:06.000 And I...

01:31:07.000 Thank you, Governor.

01:31:07.000 Give it up, guys.

01:31:09.000 Great governor of Oklahoma doing amazing.

01:31:10.000 And so thank you so much.

01:31:15.000 So I just want to thank all you guys coming tonight.

01:31:17.000 Stay engaged.

01:31:18.000 Stay involved.

01:31:19.000 You have a wonderful leader here.

01:31:20.000 I want all of you guys to run for office and do all sorts of different things.

01:31:24.000 And thank you for coming tonight and make this the starting point for your involvement.

01:31:29.000 If you're not involved with Turning Point USA, please do that and start a high school group, start a college group.

01:31:34.000 And if we have just piqued your curiosity, your action will determine the future of the country.

01:31:41.000 If you believe that, the country will be saved.

01:31:43.000 We've been given this gift.

01:31:44.000 Stay involved.

01:31:45.000 Do not be intimidated.

01:31:46.000 I want to thank our amazing purple shirt warriors, what I'm going to call them.

01:31:49.000 They do a great job.

01:31:51.000 And also, just a quick thing of total self-promotion.

01:31:57.000 If you are not yet subscribed to the Charlie Kirk show, I know you laugh, but how great would it be to beat the New York Times on the podcast charts by tomorrow?

01:32:06.000 That would be great.

01:32:07.000 And so you take out your phone and just type in Charlie Kirk show the podcast app.

01:32:13.000 It really helps us and makes us less likely to be canceled.

01:32:16.000 So you guys own the future of the country.

01:32:19.000 Act it, believe it, and our best days are ahead.

01:32:22.000 God bless you guys.

01:32:23.000 Thank you so much.

01:32:29.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:32:30.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:32:33.000 If you want to get involved with Turning PointUSA, go to tpusa.com.

01:32:37.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:32:38.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 24, 2021

LIVE From University of Oklahoma—Charlie's First Stop on TPUSA GenFree Tour

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