The Charlie Kirk Show - June 12, 2023


My Appearance at the Texas Leadership Summit


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In this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk speaks to a group of high school and college students about the importance of standing up for your beliefs and fighting for freedom in the face of adversity. This episode is sponsored by Turning Point USA, the nation's largest conservative youth organization.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Today in the Charlie Kirk Show, super important episode.
00:00:03.000 Stop what you're doing and listen to every word of this.
00:00:05.000 You are going to love it.
00:00:06.000 But before we get into it, please consider supporting us at charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:00:13.000 Thank you for supporting us.
00:00:15.000 Thank you for emailing us.
00:00:16.000 And also get involved with TurningPointUSA at tpusa.com.
00:00:19.000 Can't forget that.
00:00:20.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:22.000 Here we go.
00:00:23.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:25.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:27.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:30.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:34.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:35.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:36.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:37.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:44.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:53.000 That's why we are here.
00:00:56.000 Well, thank you.
00:00:56.000 All right.
00:00:57.000 Good to see you guys.
00:00:58.000 So this is a first of its kind thing.
00:01:01.000 I want to thank our great field staff.
00:01:03.000 You know, we have this big picture.
00:01:05.000 We want Texas to be the biggest state for Turning Point USA in the country.
00:01:11.000 And all of you are going to play a really and are playing a very, very big role in that.
00:01:15.000 And I love this state, and this state's very important.
00:01:19.000 And it's really kind of a question of whether this state is going to go in a conservative direction or a not so conservative direction.
00:01:27.000 And I know a lot of you are experiencing this on the front lines in your high schools and your college campuses.
00:01:33.000 And so I know I'm not supposed to do this, but I want to do a lot of questions and hear from you.
00:01:38.000 You know, the team was like, oh, you can't do questions, you know, at the first speaker.
00:01:43.000 I'm like, I'll talk for a little bit and then we'll do some questions.
00:01:45.000 So how many high schoolers do we have?
00:01:47.000 It's amazing, isn't it?
00:01:47.000 Raise your hand.
00:01:48.000 And then college, raise your hand.
00:01:50.000 Okay, more college than high school.
00:01:52.000 We should all really be excited about that.
00:01:55.000 The future is very bright.
00:01:57.000 And then the young ladies, are you sticking around for the women's summit? 0.97
00:02:00.000 I hope.
00:02:01.000 Yeah, okay, good. 1.00
00:02:02.000 And for the men, no transitioning or any of that. 1.00
00:02:05.000 You're not allowed to go there. 1.00
00:02:07.000 So a couple of things I want to make sure I mention.
00:02:10.000 Look, the country is in a terrible spot, and that's not going to be my main message, but I don't have to spend too much time on it.
00:02:16.000 It's not the country I grew up in, and I'm 29 years old. 0.77
00:02:19.000 Okay, so 10 years ago, you would not have a gay pride flag the size of the state of Texas flag. 0.98
00:02:25.000 You say this ridiculous nonsense when you're driving in? 0.99
00:02:28.000 Is it like, is it the state of gay or is it the state of Texas? 1.00
00:02:31.000 It's the craziest thing. 1.00
00:02:31.000 I don't understand. 1.00
00:02:32.000 And by the way, you guys probably are like me, live and let, live on that stuff, whatever.
00:02:37.000 But are you kidding me?
00:02:38.000 Like that, that is a direct insult of like, what actually runs the state of Texas?
00:02:42.000 Drives me nuts.
00:02:44.000 And that wouldn't have happened 10 years ago.
00:02:47.000 And now you have this state of affairs where you're not even allowed to voice an opinion about that, where forget about having differences of opinion.
00:02:55.000 They call you the worst possible names, bigot.
00:02:57.000 You know, they try to cancel you and go after you.
00:03:01.000 But I want to just encourage you that right now in your high school or college chapters or what you are doing is more important than ever before.
00:03:10.000 I know it's going to be difficult.
00:03:12.000 You're going to receive a lot of adversity almost as a guarantee of it.
00:03:16.000 But you have a unique blessing in your life, which is you can, at a young age, you get to either become a tougher person or a weaker person.
00:03:27.000 Okay.
00:03:28.000 So if you were to have left-wing views, anyone go to UT Austin?
00:03:32.000 Anyone at UT?
00:03:34.000 UT Austin in particular?
00:03:36.000 Yeah.
00:03:36.000 So spoke there.
00:03:37.000 Were you there when I spoke last year?
00:03:38.000 Or yeah, I did the whole table thing.
00:03:42.000 To be a liberal at UT Austin is not hard.
00:03:44.000 All right.
00:03:45.000 Basically, everybody else is they would share their values and your beliefs.
00:03:48.000 To be a conservative is very difficult at UT Austin.
00:03:52.000 To hold those views, to hold those values, you become tougher and you have to learn how to defend those views.
00:03:59.000 Life is not easy.
00:04:00.000 Life is going to throw a lot of different things at you.
00:04:04.000 You're going to have to, you know, you're going to wake up one day and something's not going to go the right way.
00:04:08.000 You're going to have to pay bills and go to work.
00:04:11.000 And all of a sudden, you realize that, you know, the kind of cushy life that colleges try to present to you, it's not realistic at all.
00:04:19.000 And so, but the people that gain muscle for life are the ones that are going to succeed.
00:04:25.000 And that's what conservatives have a blessing when you guys stand for your beliefs and you guys have to endure adversity.
00:04:34.000 Because here's the issue: many people on the campus left, they want to change the world so that they don't personally have to become tougher.
00:04:46.000 They want to get rid of the things that trigger them.
00:04:49.000 They want to get rid of the curriculum that they might not like.
00:04:56.000 If I come on a college campus to speak, they do everything they possibly can to try to pick it or protest or try to prevent me from speaking.
00:05:04.000 Whereas your perspective is like, hey, you know, the odds are going to be stacked against me, but I'm going to get tougher and stronger because of it.
00:05:15.000 You're actually going to become a better citizen.
00:05:17.000 And you should have to look at things.
00:05:19.000 10 years from now, it's going to matter a lot more whether or not you stood for your values and your beliefs than how easy your college experience was.
00:05:30.000 I could tell you right now, the people that had college experiences where they had to fight for every inch and they were canceled and smeared and slandered and lost friends and doxed, it sucks when you're in the midst of it.
00:05:43.000 But four, five, six years later, these are the most successful people that there's nothing that could be thrown at them that will intimidate them.
00:05:53.000 And so you get a chance to lean into that, right?
00:05:56.000 I'm not going to give you the speech where it's like, hey, embrace conservative ideas and your life will become easier.
00:06:02.000 It won't, but it will become better.
00:06:05.000 That's a big difference.
00:06:07.000 Better is way, that is a deal that you should want to take over ease.
00:06:13.000 An easy life is not a deep life.
00:06:15.000 It's not.
00:06:17.000 It's very shallow.
00:06:18.000 If you want an easy life, you're at the wrong organization.
00:06:21.000 If you want a full life, you're at the right organization.
00:06:26.000 If you want a life where you talk about the biggest ideas and issues, where you're going to be persecuted and condemned for saying things that are obviously true, then you're in the right place.
00:06:38.000 And so what's exciting is that most of your counterparts are going to be constantly in a shallow life existence, talking about things that don't really matter, disparating talking points they heard on TikTok, where you get to dive deep into the principles, the ideas, the philosophy that does take more work.
00:07:00.000 But once you go on that journey, and no, you're never actually totally there, myself included, you're going to start to find more fulfillment.
00:07:07.000 You're going to start to understand what is good and what is true and what is beautiful, Not just what is easy and pleasurable.
00:07:14.000 And that's a life worth living.
00:07:16.000 You see, in modern education, which most of you are part of, unless you're homeschooled, and if you are, praise God.
00:07:23.000 You homeschooled?
00:07:24.000 Great.
00:07:24.000 Good.
00:07:25.000 So, in modern education, they believe that all ideas must be equally presented.
00:07:34.000 They don't even believe this anymore, actually, which is hilarious.
00:07:37.000 They believe that the left-wing idea is going to be equally presented.
00:07:39.000 We believe that, yeah, sure, you can present ideas, but that there are absolutes, that there is a better way to live, that there is a good, that there is a true, and that when it comes to government, when it comes to politics, when it comes to the formation of the individual, that we should try to explore that and not act as if everybody has their own truth and does whatever is right in their own eyes.
00:08:04.000 It's a very dangerous equation.
00:08:06.000 So, look, you have a big thing ahead of you.
00:08:10.000 And let me just kind of speak about this from a personal development standpoint, which is really not talked about enough.
00:08:18.000 You know, this right now, you guys are all Generation Z?
00:08:21.000 Any millennials?
00:08:22.000 Okay, good.
00:08:23.000 One millennial?
00:08:24.000 Yeah, we share a generation.
00:08:27.000 Most depressed, suicidal, alcohol-addicted, and drug-addicted generation in history is Generation Z. Lockdowns play a big role.
00:08:36.000 Staring at screens, not helpful. 0.60
00:08:37.000 How is it then a generation that has everything given to them is the generation that kills themselves the most? 0.90
00:08:43.000 That's something worth talking about.
00:08:45.000 Most colleges won't even talk about it.
00:08:47.000 Let me tell you one reason: it's because we've told an entire generation that there is no ultimate purpose for existence.
00:08:54.000 I believe that the most important question that you can answer, and you could all have your own answer to it.
00:08:59.000 I believe there is a correct answer, is: is there a God and are you that God?
00:09:04.000 I believe it's the most important question, right?
00:09:07.000 And if you do not know the answer to that question, that's fine.
00:09:10.000 I'm glad you're here, but you should wrestle with that question every single day.
00:09:14.000 That's a very important question.
00:09:16.000 Because if you end up believing that, then your whole life goes on a different trajectory.
00:09:21.000 That means your existence is not an accident.
00:09:23.000 That means there's a purpose to your life.
00:09:25.000 That means you're created with intentionality.
00:09:27.000 But if you're just a series of accidents and mistakes, well, then, yeah, you could get into an existential void really quickly.
00:09:35.000 And so, from a personal development standpoint, I want to just encourage you to go through the praxis, which is a Greek word, the practices of saying no to modernity at least once or twice a week.
00:09:50.000 There is this built-in, there's this built-in worship of all things modern.
00:09:58.000 And look, don't get me wrong, some things modern are great.
00:10:00.000 I love the fact that we have antibiotics, and you should too.
00:10:03.000 Millions of people used to die from very preventable bacterial infections.
00:10:08.000 Now, you just take an antibiotic, that's praise God for that, right?
00:10:11.000 I think it's a good thing that we have Advil.
00:10:13.000 When I get a headache, I want to have some form of an NSAID or a cetamedophen.
00:10:18.000 But I don't think it's a good thing that when I go out to a restaurant, families are staring at screens and not talking to one another.
00:10:24.000 I think that's awful.
00:10:25.000 I think it's damaging and it's cruel and it's bad for the soul.
00:10:30.000 I don't think it's a good thing that kids are eating processed foods and not going outside in vitamin D during the summer.
00:10:37.000 I don't think it's a good thing that 25% of young boys will spend more time inside than outside the summer.
00:10:44.000 That's crazy.
00:10:46.000 I don't think that's good.
00:10:47.000 I think modernity is worshipped way too much.
00:10:51.000 And in fact, I think we need a restoration of the roots that actually make us human.
00:10:55.000 And from a personal development standpoint, if you're going through these things, you're like, my goodness, my head is constantly spinning.
00:11:01.000 I don't feel the way I could, you know, the way I should is that you've become a product of really dopamine development of mass corporations that are manipulating you to feel isolated, scared, exhausted routinely.
00:11:15.000 And yeah, a lot of it goes through these little digital pacifiers that we think you need.
00:11:20.000 I personally turn off my phone every Friday night and turn it back on Sunday night.
00:11:24.000 That's my Shabbos, which means stop Sabbath in the scriptures.
00:11:30.000 You don't have to be that extreme about it, but it will bless you.
00:11:34.000 The more intentional you are to stay away from the excess of modernity, the better your life will be.
00:11:41.000 And the way that the public school system, the government school system, trains you is that your answers must always be through the products of a modern corporation or a modern thinker.
00:11:55.000 When what if I told you the answers could actually have been 2,000 years ago?
00:12:02.000 Hey, everybody.
00:12:03.000 Look, if you're pro-life, listen carefully.
00:12:05.000 It's important to advocate for pro-life laws.
00:12:08.000 I'm all in favor of that.
00:12:09.000 Pro-life legislation, supporting pro-life candidates.
00:12:12.000 But you have to simultaneously do the other thing.
00:12:14.000 I believe you actually have an obligation, which is to support women in need and babies in need that are at risk of being aborted.
00:12:22.000 Look, when you introduce a girl to her baby by providing an ultrasound, you're giving her the truth at the most critical and important time in her life.
00:12:31.000 85% of the time when they actually see the baby, they choose life.
00:12:37.000 Now, mind you, pre-born provides resources.
00:12:40.000 They provide diapers, baby clothes.
00:12:43.000 And I encourage you, if you're pro-life, to pray about this, are you giving money to actually support the unborn if you are voting for pro-life?
00:12:49.000 Look, $140 gives five mothers a free ultrasound and saves babies.
00:12:53.000 $280 can save 10 babies, and just $28 a month can save a baby a month for less than a dollar a day.
00:12:58.000 I'm a donor to this organization, and you should be too.
00:13:00.000 A $15,000 gift will provide an ultrasound machine that will save lives for years to come.
00:13:05.000 Whether you want to save one baby or five or hundreds, this opportunity is just a phone call or click away.
00:13:11.000 I think the world of pre-born, I give money financially.
00:13:15.000 And every one of you that are pro-life, I believe you have a duty and an obligation to go to preborn.org/slash Kirk and give as you can, give your best gift, or call 833-850-2229.
00:13:27.000 That is 833-850-BABY.
00:13:30.000 Go to preborn.org/slash Kirk.
00:13:32.000 That is preborn.org/slash Kirk.
00:13:38.000 And so then the next most important question you have to struggle with, I believe it's very clear, and every founding father believed it was very clear, is, let me ask you guys: are human beings naturally good or naturally bad?
00:13:52.000 Who wants evil?
00:13:54.000 Anyone think human beings are naturally good?
00:13:57.000 Oh, okay.
00:13:57.000 Anybody?
00:13:58.000 Cool.
00:14:00.000 So let's think about that.
00:14:02.000 Cool.
00:14:03.000 If that was true, why do you have to teach a baby to be good?
00:14:11.000 No, but you have to teach them to not be selfish, stop lying.
00:14:15.000 Where do they learn lying?
00:14:24.000 Where did the kids learn to turn parents against one another?
00:14:31.000 No, by the time they're 18 months years old, they're turning parents against each other.
00:14:36.000 So where did they learn that?
00:14:40.000 Yeah, they're born with it.
00:14:43.000 Yeah.
00:14:44.000 Yes.
00:14:44.000 Do you have a thought on this?
00:14:46.000 If you believe that we're all born with inherent good, we're also born into a world of sin.
00:14:46.000 It could go either way.
00:14:50.000 So that creeps in in every single aspect of our life, whether it was through the mother, through the generation, if you believe that as well.
00:14:56.000 And through your own experiences and your inherent, like growing up as a child, you see different things and you have a choice in your head.
00:15:04.000 And since we are born in a fallen world, that choice can be tempting one way or another.
00:15:09.000 It's like almost instinctual.
00:15:11.000 But if you believe that we were inherently evil, then those are already there.
00:15:16.000 Those are already developed.
00:15:18.000 But before the fall, I think we were inherently good.
00:15:21.000 But we're after the fall, right?
00:15:21.000 Good.
00:15:25.000 You're a Christian, right?
00:15:26.000 What does the scripture say about the heart?
00:15:30.000 What is specifically about the heart?
00:15:31.000 Oh, sorry.
00:15:32.000 Should we follow our heart?
00:15:35.000 If it's led by God, I think yes.
00:15:38.000 But we understand that like Satan understands scripture.
00:15:41.000 So equally the same things that you're reading, he can also manipulate that.
00:15:45.000 And that's why I think it's very careful of what you're listening to.
00:15:48.000 What you consume is super important.
00:15:50.000 This is an important question that most schools don't wrestle with. 0.93
00:15:54.000 So I believe human beings are awful.
00:15:56.000 And it's pretty clear. 0.95
00:16:00.000 And I know it.
00:16:01.000 I'm raising a daughter.
00:16:02.000 And as soon as you become a parent, you're like, I didn't teach you that, right?
00:16:08.000 And I love her to death.
00:16:09.000 She's super sweet. 1.00
00:16:10.000 She is innocent in some ways, incredibly narcissistic.
00:16:15.000 There's, you know, I have to then teach her compassion.
00:16:18.000 I'll give you another, who here had to be taught manners?
00:16:21.000 Yeah, of course, everybody, right?
00:16:22.000 It's not uploaded in your operating system.
00:16:25.000 How about, you know, being taught to say thank you.
00:16:30.000 Yeah, gratitude is not normal.
00:16:32.000 Yes, sir.
00:16:33.000 Yeah, yes, sir, and yes, ma'am, right?
00:16:35.000 Now, you're right.
00:16:36.000 There is some form of a your environment, your parents can direct towards good action.
00:16:42.000 But the question is, and again, I'm not, this is really constructive.
00:16:46.000 I just think it's super important.
00:16:48.000 I'll tell you why.
00:16:49.000 In the state of nature, right?
00:16:51.000 Which is there are three social contract theorists.
00:16:54.000 I pray to goodness that you guys know this.
00:16:57.000 Okay, so the question is: if you just put somebody in the woods, what are they in that state of nature, right?
00:17:03.000 So John Locke believed in tabula rasa, blank slate, neither good nor bad, could be formed by the influences around us.
00:17:11.000 He was the most important and most influential in the American founding.
00:17:14.000 Thomas Hobbes, who I love, wrote The Leviathan, who believed that human beings are nasty, brutish, and short to one another.
00:17:23.000 And he largely believed that because he was writing during the English Civil War and he saw a lot of nasty, brutish, and short behavior.
00:17:31.000 Can't blame him.
00:17:32.000 But then the most tricky of all of them, who I believe is completely wrong, but he is the most powerful influence over modern education when it comes to this question, is a French Genevan philosopher on the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
00:17:47.000 Anybody ever read Rousseau?
00:17:48.000 Okay, good.
00:17:50.000 Read it carefully, please, because he's very tricky.
00:17:53.000 He wrote Confessions and the Idol Walkings of Something.
00:17:56.000 I can't remember the name.
00:17:58.000 And so he believed that human beings are naturally born good, and everything else around us is what contaminates us.
00:18:08.000 So he would value the infant over the adult.
00:18:12.000 He would value the primitive over the civilized.
00:18:15.000 And so he would then extrapolate this.
00:18:17.000 So hear me out.
00:18:19.000 If the human being is naturally good, then he had to go right, Well, then why is there so much injustice?
00:18:28.000 And he said the injustice is then not because the raw material with what you're dealing with needs to be developed, but the society needs to be revolutionized, right?
00:18:38.000 And so Marx saw this and was like, bingo.
00:18:42.000 So then Karl Marx took Rousseau and said, oh, my goodness, human beings are perfect.
00:18:48.000 Now, if human beings, so Rousseau being an idealist, he was the beginner of what is called modern romanticism, okay?
00:18:57.000 Which I think is garbage, but that's, we could, we could debate that, okay? 0.71
00:19:02.000 I think there's some beautiful qualities to Rousseau's writing on romanticism, but any of you that deal in the real world know that it's, it's complete nonsense. 0.96
00:19:12.000 So, but he would say, oh, look at these tribes, for example, these indigenous tribes.
00:19:18.000 And one of the famous tribes he actually never visited.
00:19:21.000 He heard secondhand, he wrote about how peaceful they were.
00:19:23.000 So then an explorer goes there and they murder him.
00:19:27.000 It's like, yeah, they're not as peaceful as you might think, right?
00:19:30.000 Because his belief was that we're naturally good if you don't contaminate the culture of the civilization.
00:19:38.000 And I see you have a thought, but just give me one sec to close it out.
00:19:41.000 So then Rousseau would believe, therefore, to create a better world, we must change all the isms, get rid of sexism, get to capitalism, get rid of racism, institutionally and systemically.
00:19:52.000 Sound familiar?
00:19:54.000 Right? 0.63
00:19:55.000 Whereas John Locke or even Thomas Hobbes, because I'm a radical on this, would say human beings are awful.
00:20:02.000 Therefore, the most important question a society can answer is how do we create good people?
00:20:10.000 And that's what the West used to care about.
00:20:13.000 Every founding father believed that human beings were either naturally awful or naturally neutral, right?
00:20:21.000 Now, if you believe human beings are naturally neutral, we can agree to disagree.
00:20:24.000 If you think human beings are Rousseauian, then we're going to, I'd love to learn more about that because it's just so objectively not true.
00:20:31.000 So, but the issue is at the very least then, the project should be let's worry less about ending climate change and worry more about are you making your bed acting ethically and not watching pornography and not getting, not doing drugs.
00:20:49.000 Do you have a thought really quick?
00:20:51.000 I will say like evil is obviously going to overcome this world.
00:20:54.000 And I think that's why he, in the Bible, he uses people like King David and like Apostle Paul was the worst of sin.
00:21:00.000 And I think it's a testimony showing that like Christ will overcome all evil.
00:21:05.000 And that's overall my belief in that.
00:21:07.000 So yes, sin is strong, but God is stronger.
00:21:10.000 Yeah, no, I agree.
00:21:11.000 And understand that the battle between your, and again, when I say human beings are naturally bad, there are sparks of goodness within you, obviously.
00:21:23.000 You still have a soul and there's a wrestling for it.
00:21:27.000 But without development, education, and parenting, you will anchor into the direction of the nature.
00:21:35.000 You're not going to anchor.
00:21:36.000 So let's just think, for example, you all probably know people that did not get the fatherhood parenting that you would have liked for them.
00:21:46.000 Right?
00:21:48.000 What do we know?
00:21:49.000 They yield towards the gravitational pull of their lower appetites and natures, right?
00:21:56.000 That just goes to show that the natural programming is more in that direction.
00:22:01.000 And so that's why you have to be, okay, the parenting, stop doing this and do that.
00:22:06.000 Stop doing this for the 10,000th time, right?
00:22:08.000 The reiteration and the repeating and the incentives and then the punishment.
00:22:14.000 And then, yes, I do agree with you.
00:22:17.000 And for those of you that don't believe in Jesus, the one part that I want to just challenge you, though, is that the reason that we believe Jesus has ultimate authority is that we believe he's the embodiment of truth and that there is an iron law of the universe that points towards things that are objectively true.
00:22:37.000 So at the very least, I hope that there can be At least some wrestling in your own personal ideological and philosophical development of I believe something that is objectively true should be the transcendent organizing principle.
00:22:55.000 I want to tell you guys about something every single one of you can benefit from, and you guys need to change.
00:23:01.000 It's who we use when we go to get mortgages.
00:23:03.000 Look, I balance a lot of stuff.
00:23:04.000 I'm traveling all the time, my show, and I recently needed to get a mortgage to get something figured out.
00:23:10.000 And it was a tough one.
00:23:11.000 And I didn't want to go to those woke banks.
00:23:13.000 I, you know, I did previous, my last mortgage we did, it was with a woke bank, and they were just, they were bureaucratic and they donate the BLM and the gay agenda and all that stuff. 0.68
00:23:22.000 And I said, what can I do to actually, and I said, of course, duh, hello, andrewandtodd.com. 0.89
00:23:28.000 They're Christian.
00:23:29.000 They're conservative.
00:23:30.000 Our worldviews are aligned.
00:23:32.000 They're fabulous people.
00:23:33.000 When I needed a mortgage, of course, I went to my friends, Andrew Delray and Tadavakin at Sierra Pacific.
00:23:39.000 And look, this is the first time I used them because, you know, we were just recently started doing stuff on the show and partners.
00:23:44.000 I said, okay, let's see how it is.
00:23:45.000 You know, we do a lot of things together.
00:23:46.000 I was blown away.
00:23:47.000 They respond within minutes.
00:23:49.000 They walked me through everything.
00:23:50.000 They took care of all those details I didn't have time for.
00:23:52.000 And I said, boy, guys, I now see how great you guys actually are.
00:23:56.000 And yes, no more of this woke stuff.
00:23:56.000 Responsive.
00:23:59.000 Stop using the woke banks.
00:24:01.000 Oh, I want to refinance my home and I'm going to go to a bank that hates me.
00:24:04.000 Stop doing that.
00:24:05.000 Instead, go to AndrewandTodd.com.
00:24:07.000 So if you or someone you know is moving from blue states to red states, AndrewandTodd.com.
00:24:11.000 Have an aging family member that needs financial relief because you may be a reverse mortgage, AndrewandTodd.com.
00:24:17.000 Are you self-employed and finding it hard to qualify?
00:24:20.000 Or first-time homebuyer?
00:24:21.000 AndrewandTodd.com.
00:24:23.000 Again, what I love, again, I'm just friends with them.
00:24:25.000 So I could tell you, I have no other reason to say this except that it's true.
00:24:29.000 They're fabulous.
00:24:30.000 They work hard.
00:24:30.000 We go out to dinner together.
00:24:32.000 They're great people.
00:24:33.000 So don't depend on those woke banks, the big banks.
00:24:36.000 They do a terrible job, by the way.
00:24:37.000 They're funding all the destructive stuff.
00:24:39.000 They want centralized bank digital currency.
00:24:41.000 They're all part of the great reset.
00:24:42.000 This is a group of guys.
00:24:43.000 They do a great job.
00:24:45.000 And stop depending on woke banks for what I needed.
00:24:47.000 I saw it firsthand.
00:24:49.000 They got it done for me.
00:24:50.000 And it was very complicated.
00:24:52.000 It was a ficket.
00:24:52.000 It was a maze.
00:24:53.000 It was a labyrinth.
00:24:54.000 And they said, oh, you got to do this and this.
00:24:56.000 And I'll make this phone call.
00:24:56.000 We'll do this and this paperwork.
00:24:58.000 And again, these other banks that I deal with, it's like, here's 955,000 pages to sign, and they don't call you back, and they don't work weekends.
00:25:05.000 I had a problem with one of the things on the process because it was one thing that wasn't filled out.
00:25:09.000 And they respond on a Sunday within minutes. 0.91
00:25:11.000 You're trying to get a response from a woke bank on a Sunday. 0.71
00:25:14.000 You'll say, sorry, no response. 0.82
00:25:16.000 So check it out.
00:25:17.000 It's AndrewandTodd.com, 888, 888, 1172.
00:25:20.000 That's how you call them.
00:25:21.000 And say, Charlie Kirk sent you.
00:25:22.000 You might actually get them on the phone.
00:25:24.000 Again, they're value-aligned, honest, trustworthy, wonderful people.
00:25:28.000 I use them.
00:25:29.000 You should use them too.
00:25:30.000 Super responsive, blown away.
00:25:32.000 And I could say, if they're good for me, they're good for you.
00:25:35.000 Love these guys.
00:25:36.000 AndrewandTodd.com, 888, 888, 1172.
00:25:39.000 And finally, some of you might say, oh, Charlie, bad time to buy a home.
00:25:43.000 I don't know about that.
00:25:44.000 You should look what's happening.
00:25:45.000 Commercial real estate is one thing.
00:25:47.000 Private single-family home ownership, it might actually stabilize and go up in the next year.
00:25:54.000 If you're young, it might be the time to get in.
00:25:56.000 Think about it, pray about it.
00:25:57.000 But most importantly, go to AndrewandTodd.com for all your mortgage needs.
00:26:01.000 Great guys, AndrewandTodd.com.
00:26:05.000 Yes, you have a question?
00:26:07.000 You can be able to say that godly principles are the definition of goodness when we're inherently evil.
00:26:13.000 And so most, and if anyone disagrees, I'm not going to like do the thing that I do on campuses so we could chat.
00:26:20.000 Okay, so we're here to learn, right?
00:26:24.000 And so thank you.
00:26:26.000 Here's the other thing I'll say is that if you're religious, great.
00:26:30.000 If you're not, fine.
00:26:31.000 But it is a fact, and I will hold this, that if a society does not have absolute truth that comes from a belief in the divine, then you're going to live in an awful society.
00:26:46.000 And so there's a belief the founding fathers didn't believe in such a thing.
00:26:50.000 That's not true.
00:26:52.000 They were clear advocates in the Declaration and the Constitution of ethical monotheism, okay?
00:27:00.000 One God.
00:27:01.000 one morality, right?
00:27:03.000 Not paganism, not polytheism.
00:27:06.000 And so there is all, whether it was Catholicism or Episcopalian or Anglican or Presbyterian, it was a garden variety.
00:27:15.000 Charles Carroll, a signer of the Constitution, was Catholic, right?
00:27:18.000 He founder of Maryland, Mary Land, right?
00:27:21.000 So, I mean, there's all sorts of different there, but Thomas Jefferson, who was a very bizarre Christian, but he did, to his great credit, mention God four times in the Declaration of Independence, right?
00:27:33.000 And in fact, at the end of the Declaration of Independence, I encourage you all to read it in your personal time. 0.88
00:27:39.000 It is an appeal, which almost could be translated as a prayer, as to the supreme judge of the world, right?
00:27:46.000 You should just read the last paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.
00:27:49.000 It's amazing.
00:27:50.000 And read it not as if you're reading a declaration.
00:27:53.000 Read it as if you're reading something in church.
00:27:55.000 It's a very different prism.
00:27:56.000 We appeal to the supreme judge of the world.
00:28:01.000 That's really charged language, isn't it?
00:28:04.000 And so God is mentioned four times.
00:28:06.000 And so the founders get labeled by modern educators as being these liberal, not like Democrat, liberal, but like Democrat Party, but liberal, modern rejection of all religion.
00:28:20.000 It's just not true.
00:28:23.000 John Adams had one of the most beautiful quotes.
00:28:25.000 You guys probably know it, where he said that the Constitution was written solely for a moral and religious people. 0.97
00:28:32.000 It is wholly inadequate for the people of any other, right?
00:28:35.000 So our system, the reason, one of the reasons our country is falling apart, I've actually never said it like this.
00:28:41.000 I'm sure I'm running out of time.
00:28:41.000 I'm sorry.
00:28:42.000 I'm going to go over a little bit.
00:28:43.000 Five minutes, yeah.
00:28:45.000 I'm going to talk to the boss.
00:28:48.000 I'm kidding.
00:28:48.000 I'm giving you a hard time, Nick.
00:28:50.000 One of the, well, I've never said it like this.
00:28:53.000 One of the reasons our country is in a mess is we have an oil and vinegar situation right now.
00:29:01.000 They don't, you ever see oil and vinegar try to mix?
00:29:04.000 It's not, doesn't, doesn't work.
00:29:07.000 The Constitution cannot mesh if the people are not moral and religious.
00:29:15.000 It can't, it's just, you have this Constitution, it's a beautiful document, but then you're dealing with a people that are increasingly secular and not quite moral.
00:29:24.000 It's incompatible.
00:29:27.000 Does that mean we have to throw the whole thing out?
00:29:29.000 Absolutely not, right?
00:29:30.000 But that's one of the reasons you're seeing this catastrophe in our country right now.
00:29:35.000 Yes, you have a question or a thought.
00:29:36.000 Okay, so my question is, what's your advice with dealing with family members who are liberals, but at the end of the day, you still want to love them, but you can't get along with them.
00:29:47.000 What's your advice on that?
00:29:48.000 Yeah, so here, really good question.
00:29:51.000 First of all, let's talk about the types of family members, okay?
00:29:54.000 Not every family member needs to be treated the same.
00:29:56.000 This is like heretical stuff in the modern world.
00:29:59.000 Your parents come first, okay?
00:30:02.000 Unless you were like absolutely physically and sexually abused by your parents, you have to honor your parents, okay?
00:30:08.000 You are, it's good for you, it's good for them, and it's good for the country, okay?
00:30:11.000 Because I get questions.
00:30:12.000 Well, Charlie, my mom was mean to me.
00:30:14.000 That's not a good excuse.
00:30:15.000 It's not.
00:30:16.000 You must treat your parents heavily.
00:30:18.000 You must understand the intergenerational bond.
00:30:20.000 They brought you into this world.
00:30:22.000 They're human.
00:30:22.000 They're flawed.
00:30:23.000 You must honor them.
00:30:24.000 You must go out of your way to remedy your relationship, heal a relationship, even if it's broken.
00:30:29.000 They committed crimes against you.
00:30:31.000 That's not what I'm telling you.
00:30:32.000 Again, that's so rare in the scheme of it.
00:30:36.000 Most people are like, I don't talk to my parents because we don't share a politics.
00:30:39.000 That is inexcusable.
00:30:40.000 You should honor your parents regardless of differences in politics.
00:30:44.000 Now, at the same time, probably not with your parents, but it might happen this way.
00:30:48.000 Whether it's cousins, family members, sisters, aunts, uncles, whatever, you have to be intentional to, if they want to sever a relationship over politics, that's their prerogative.
00:30:58.000 You should never sever relationships over politics.
00:31:01.000 You should try to, again, it's going to happen because unfortunately, one of the hard-charging beliefs of the American left is you shall not have friends with people on the American right.
00:31:11.000 It's like one of their 10 commandments, right?
00:31:14.000 And you shall not, right?
00:31:16.000 You shall not associate.
00:31:17.000 I mean, I'm sure all of you have lost friends and all this, and they left you.
00:31:20.000 You didn't leave them, right?
00:31:22.000 Now, you could probably naturally grow apart because you don't share those values, but you have to be intentional and be like, look, I really don't want to talk about politics.
00:31:29.000 There's other things in the world to talk about.
00:31:32.000 Now, one of the reasons why Turning Point USA is so successful and why you are here is that you actually get to achieve what Aristotle called the highest form of friendship, right?
00:31:41.000 So superficial friendship is like, oh, I like your shoes.
00:31:44.000 Like, let's go hang out.
00:31:45.000 And let's, okay.
00:31:46.000 The second form of friendship is let's do something together, right?
00:31:49.000 Sports team, you know, and those are probably some really good friends, but those don't last.
00:31:54.000 The highest form of friendship, the ultimate friendship, is when both friends are looking at the same teleological purpose.
00:32:00.000 They're looking at the same ultimate truth.
00:32:03.000 Those are real friends.
00:32:04.000 And that's why Turning Point USA is so important is because you're like, I can finally find friends that are looking at the thing far out in the distant that I share.
00:32:14.000 Does that make sense?
00:32:16.000 Where it's not just about shoes or shopping or about, you know, superficial stuff, right?
00:32:21.000 Or even like, you know, winning a sports championship, which is fine, but not ultimately as important.
00:32:26.000 Yes.
00:32:26.000 What issues should we be focusing on in order to move the needle?
00:32:30.000 What issues should you be focusing on to move the needle?
00:32:32.000 Yeah, look, I mean, macro, micro, right?
00:32:36.000 So on the micro level, you're going to be playing a lot of defense with people.
00:32:40.000 It's difficult sometimes to always set the terms properly with that.
00:32:48.000 Here's my take. 1.00
00:32:49.000 On macro, I think the trans thing is like the biggest, biggest thing happening in the country right now. 1.00
00:32:57.000 People disagree, but I think when you have fundamental biology and speech changed simultaneously, I mean, you're kind of going after existence itself. 1.00
00:33:08.000 But yeah, look, here's my advice to you.
00:33:10.000 If you have strong, deeply held beliefs on certain issues that are considered to be untouchable, you should lean in on those.
00:33:19.000 The more you talk about those issues, the more comfortable you will be.
00:33:24.000 The more you'll also realize if you actually believe it or if you're just repeating something you heard on a podcast.
00:33:30.000 And then you'll be able to hear questions about it.
00:33:32.000 And you think, like, oh, that's interesting.
00:33:34.000 I never thought of it that way.
00:33:35.000 The more you have to defend your positions at a younger age, the better prepared you'll be for a lifetime.
00:33:40.000 That's why young conservatives are the remnant.
00:33:44.000 It's because you're constantly defending your positions constantly.
00:33:47.000 You have to go look at sources and facts and listen to broadcasts and all this.
00:33:51.000 Yes, question here.
00:33:52.000 So my question is, you mentioned what you consume is very important.
00:33:56.000 That's right.
00:33:56.000 And with the impact music has on the soul and how demonic our current music industry is, what are your thoughts on the importance of conservatives creating a music industry that glorifies God, family, and country?
00:34:08.000 Yeah, I think some people have tried.
00:34:11.000 I mean, I'm going to get like picketed.
00:34:13.000 I don't like country music.
00:34:14.000 I think it's awful.
00:34:16.000 Yeah.
00:34:18.000 I mean, it's just.
00:34:21.000 Yeah.
00:34:22.000 It's just unbelievably overrated.
00:34:27.000 It's terrible, actually.
00:34:32.000 I like worship music though, so that's that's good.
00:34:35.000 Be careful.
00:34:36.000 I mean, I don't want to be like overly legalistic, but please be careful what worship music you're listening to, okay?
00:34:44.000 Again, I'm really not big on like hyper-legalism, but there is some worship music that it's like, and God said you could do everything you want to do.
00:34:53.000 I'm like, yeah, that's not good.
00:34:56.000 Yeah.
00:34:57.000 Or the one song Reckless Love. 1.00
00:35:01.000 It is so theologically stupid. 0.99
00:35:03.000 Like there's nothing reckless about the love of God, right? 0.99
00:35:07.000 I think they meant well when they wrote it, but and it like sounds poetically cool, but like that's not, that's not supported at all.
00:35:16.000 There are some great music that where they just like reading scriptural verses.
00:35:20.000 So I'm big on worship music.
00:35:21.000 Be careful what you consume.
00:35:23.000 You become who you spend the most time, five people you spend most time with.
00:35:26.000 You should list tonight.
00:35:28.000 Who are the five people you spend the most time with?
00:35:29.000 That's who you're going to be.
00:35:31.000 And then you become and you believe the music, the podcast that you consume the most, right?
00:35:36.000 And the books you read.
00:35:38.000 So decide who you want to be, and that's who you are 90 days out.
00:35:41.000 So if you're around gossiping people, low energy people and negative people, you're going to become that.
00:35:46.000 And if you're around positive people, faith-filled people, you're going to become that.
00:35:50.000 Final question, and I'm going to get really yanked offstage.
00:35:53.000 I'm actually from the El Paso activism hub.
00:35:55.000 Oh, wow.
00:35:56.000 Good for you.
00:35:57.000 And I know there's some other people here from the border.
00:36:01.000 And I'm wondering, I've been wondering for quite some time, what are the most effective ways that you'd say us chapters on the border can take advantage of the first-hand opportunities we've been given, such as seeing illegal aliens storm entries or be escorted by Border Patrol almost every day?
00:36:16.000 Yeah, first of all, be safe.
00:36:18.000 I mean, that's not your role.
00:36:19.000 Your role is to hopefully win hearts and minds over with students and young people.
00:36:23.000 I mean, this here is a, I've lost my patience with this whole thing. 0.99
00:36:27.000 The governor of Texas needs to do a lot more and say we're not going to allow another person to illegally come into this country.
00:36:33.000 I just think the whole thing is outrageous. 1.00
00:36:35.000 I really do.
00:36:37.000 I don't know why we're putting up with it.
00:36:39.000 We're playing happy dance with this whole thing.
00:36:41.000 It's just, it's nonsense.
00:36:42.000 Yeah, I got it.
00:36:43.000 Do I have five more minutes or I have to go?
00:36:45.000 I have to go.
00:36:46.000 Okay.
00:36:48.000 So for further commentary on that, listen to my podcast, my show.
00:36:51.000 Let me just close in this.
00:36:52.000 We need you guys for our country needs you.
00:36:54.000 Texas, we're doing a big investment in Texas big time.
00:36:57.000 Stay engaged and stay involved.
00:37:00.000 Again, it's the opposite speech you might expect, where you might be expecting me to say, your life is going to become infinitely easier.
00:37:08.000 No, but what did I say?
00:37:10.000 It'll become better.
00:37:12.000 The tougher the thing you do, the younger the age, the better and deeper life. 0.98
00:37:18.000 If you want to live a shallow life, go become a trans activist. 0.98
00:37:24.000 If you want to leave a fulfilling life full of vitality and promise and hope, you're in the right place. 0.98
00:37:31.000 God bless you guys.
00:37:32.000 Thanks so much.
00:37:37.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:38.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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