The Charlie Kirk Show - June 01, 2025


The Hands That Will Save America


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In this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk sits down with some of the program's top supporters to discuss their support of Turning Point USA and what it means to them to be a part of this movement.

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00:00:00.000 Happy Sunday.
00:00:00.000 Hello everybody.
00:00:01.000 This is a conversation we had at a private dinner with some of our top supporters of this program.
00:00:06.000 You're going to hear a lot of familiar names and faces like Patriot Mobile and Good Ranchers.
00:00:12.000 I want to remind you guys that if you have any of the needs of feeding your family, Good Ranchers, Cell Phone Company, Patriot Mobile, if you are in pain, Relief Factor, we brought them all together for a very fun dinner.
00:00:24.000 They'll mention where they're from and why they're there.
00:00:26.000 And if you guys support our sponsors, You support our program, especially if you have a need for cell phone service or for food.
00:00:35.000 I bet all of you have a need for food.
00:00:37.000 So enjoy this conversation with some of our top supporters, and I think you'll really enjoy it.
00:00:41.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:44.000 Subscribe to our podcast.
00:00:45.000 That is the Charlie Kirk Show podcast page.
00:00:48.000 And get involved at Turning Point USA at tpusa.com.
00:00:51.000 That is tpusa.com.
00:00:53.000 Thanks to Alan Jackson Ministries for your continued support.
00:00:56.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:57.000 Here we go.
00:00:58.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:01:00.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:01:02.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:01:05.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:01:08.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:01:10.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:01:11.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:01:12.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:19.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:28.000 That's why we are here.
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00:01:56.000 All right.
00:01:57.000 Well, good evening, everybody.
00:02:00.000 So how many of you have been here for more than just today?
00:02:04.000 A couple days now.
00:02:06.000 Yeah.
00:02:07.000 Well, other than Charlie.
00:02:08.000 Charlie, thanks for raising your hand, clearing that up for us.
00:02:11.000 I appreciate it.
00:02:12.000 Yeah, I sat up by the pool for five minutes today and received some third-degree burns just for doing that.
00:02:19.000 But it's great to be here.
00:02:21.000 Look, tonight is really all about you, and I hope that you can feel that, right?
00:02:30.000 Being a sponsor, being a part of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:34.000 You know, look, without you, we couldn't do what we're doing.
00:02:38.000 So a couple of facts.
00:02:39.000 I'm going to embarrass Charlie for a second.
00:02:42.000 You know, when Charlie started with us, Charlie, was it three years ago that you started with us?
00:02:49.000 Yeah, about three years ago.
00:02:51.000 About five years ago.
00:02:53.000 It seems like three.
00:02:54.000 That's how good it's been.
00:02:55.000 But with about 100 affiliates, and that's affiliates, not radio stations.
00:03:02.000 Today there's 214 radio stations, that's individual radio stations, that carry the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:03:11.000 Almost 600 affiliates.
00:03:15.000 In other words, if you add in things like translators and cable television that carries the audio from a radio station and things like that, almost 600 affiliates.
00:03:25.000 On Apple Podcast, the Charlie Kirk Podcast is the number one podcast in the category of conservative news.
00:03:35.000 That's a big deal.
00:03:38.000 But imagine our surprise when we realize that on Apple, the Charlie Kirk Podcast is the number two most downloaded podcast of any genre.
00:03:49.000 Yeah, that's pretty amazing.
00:03:55.000 Most importantly, again, it's about you.
00:03:58.000 It's about the fact that we can't do this without you.
00:04:01.000 Charlie has the voice, but you provide the means for us to provide the platform.
00:04:07.000 And we make a huge difference together.
00:04:09.000 So thank you very much.
00:04:11.000 You don't want to hear from me.
00:04:12.000 You want to hear from Charlie.
00:04:13.000 So let's bring him up.
00:04:18.000 Hello, everybody.
00:04:19.000 Can you hear me okay?
00:04:20.000 Hope so.
00:04:21.000 Great to see you guys.
00:04:22.000 And first, I just want to say thank you to Dave and Phil.
00:04:28.000 I will echo those sentiments.
00:04:31.000 We were a small but growing podcast.
00:04:36.000 We launched, where's Andrew?
00:04:37.000 Andrew deserves a great deal of credit.
00:04:40.000 And we've been so blessed by the Lord at every turn in this journey.
00:04:48.000 And we started in May of 2019 with one podcast a week.
00:04:53.000 And we thought that was, you know, really ambitious.
00:04:56.000 And we were not with Salem at the time.
00:04:58.000 And we started to grow a little bit.
00:05:00.000 And I said, hey, I like this podcast thing.
00:05:02.000 It's growing.
00:05:02.000 Let's go to two or three times a week.
00:05:04.000 And so it started to grow a little bit more.
00:05:06.000 And then, as you know, the whole world shut down during COVID.
00:05:10.000 And that's actually what brought me here to Arizona.
00:05:13.000 Is, you know, Erica, my wonderful wife, is from Arizona.
00:05:17.000 And I had to decide, would I like to spend March in Chicago or Scottsdale?
00:05:22.000 So I came here and fell in love with Arizona.
00:05:25.000 I think it's America's greatest state.
00:05:27.000 And if you live in California, you should not live in California.
00:05:29.000 You should live here.
00:05:30.000 But anyway, and you might complain about the heat.
00:05:32.000 You see, the heat keeps the libs away.
00:05:34.000 It's the secret.
00:05:35.000 Anyway, separate topic for another time.
00:05:38.000 And about after a week of the lockdowns, I called Andrew.
00:05:41.000 I said, we got to go every day.
00:05:43.000 There's too much news happening.
00:05:44.000 I'm not traveling.
00:05:45.000 I got a lot of pent-up energy.
00:05:47.000 We got to do a daily podcast.
00:05:49.000 And the podcast would become like a 90-minute thing.
00:05:54.000 And one day I was hiking one of these mountains, actually.
00:05:57.000 And I had this wild idea.
00:05:59.000 And I think it was from the Lord.
00:06:00.000 I said, wait a second.
00:06:01.000 If I'm doing a 90-minute podcast, and I'm doing it about roughly the same time every day, why can't I just do a radio show and kind of make it a podcast?
00:06:10.000 So I call Phil Boyce.
00:06:12.000 Because Phil was trying to recruit me forever to Salem.
00:06:15.000 And I was like, I'm too busy.
00:06:17.000 And we had this amazing phone call.
00:06:19.000 And I was like, hey, Phil, here's a crazy idea.
00:06:22.000 And Phil's like, do you have enough time to do this?
00:06:24.000 I said, I think I do.
00:06:25.000 I'm going to commit to it.
00:06:26.000 And Phil and Dave deserve such enormous credit and the whole Salem team because they literally made beachfront property where there was none.
00:06:35.000 And that's a whole story that could be told for another time, right, Dave?
00:06:40.000 It did not exist.
00:06:42.000 It was kind of just like, hey, we're going to give Charlie time ex nihilo out of nothing.
00:06:46.000 And honestly, it was a bet on me.
00:06:48.000 I was unproven as a talk show host.
00:06:51.000 I was proven as other things, but not as that.
00:06:53.000 And honestly, that added to the enormity and the weight because I wanted to make sure that I proved to Salem and everyone else that this was a good bet.
00:07:04.000 Long story short, the show has just grown dramatically and tremendously, both on the podcast and then on Terrestrial, and now we're flourishing.
00:07:14.000 And so Salem took that original bet on us.
00:07:17.000 And the thing I love most about Salem is that it's first and foremost missional.
00:07:21.000 I mean, there's all these other companies out there that are suspicious at the least on values.
00:07:27.000 With Salem, I have never, this is a big deal, through all of COVID, through all the lockdowns, through all the Floyd stuff, Through everything.
00:07:35.000 I've never, and January 6th, I've never ever received a phone call, Charlie, don't talk about this topic.
00:07:40.000 Don't do that.
00:07:41.000 And you know how big of a deal that is?
00:07:42.000 Where like all these other people are trying to script what you're saying and not saying?
00:07:45.000 And for me, that's like the most important thing, is intellectual and spiritual freedom.
00:07:50.000 That's a big deal, right?
00:07:51.000 And so we've just grown together, and the partnership has deepened in so many ways.
00:07:57.000 And that kind of leads us to here, because the show...
00:08:02.000 And I do have to brag on Andrew and the entire team that is here.
00:08:05.000 But first I'll brag on Andrew.
00:08:08.000 Andrew has to book the show, produce the show.
00:08:11.000 It used to be just Andrew and I. And then he's also the guest host when I have to go on college campuses.
00:08:15.000 So you've got to deal with him on that as well.
00:08:18.000 It's really been this incredible kind of ragtag startup vibe that now is honestly not as much of a startup as you can see evidenced here by everyone.
00:08:27.000 And Salem and Mike does a wonderful job running stuff, and Mike's been a great friend.
00:08:31.000 He said, hey, why don't we do kind of a dinner where you guys get to spend time with me and vice versa.
00:08:36.000 And by the way, this has been so helpful because I read all of your ad copy, and now I can put a face to the name and a story to the name.
00:08:42.000 So thank you for that.
00:08:44.000 So it makes my job a lot easier, and I think you guys will also love hearing the backside of it because now it's not just, you know, a piece of paper that's printed.
00:08:52.000 And then I also have to brag on our team here.
00:08:55.000 We have the best, first of all, the best social media team in the country.
00:08:59.000 That's not just me saying it.
00:09:01.000 Show me a better social media team.
00:09:02.000 It does not exist.
00:09:03.000 They do a wonderful job, Ryan and Daisy and the whole team.
00:09:07.000 How many views on TikTok?
00:09:09.000 Billions?
00:09:10.000 And how many on Instagram, Daisy?
00:09:11.000 Billions, yeah.
00:09:12.000 And those, I mean, literally, it's two or three people that understand the Internet, understand, and that helps the show grow, which obviously helps everybody here.
00:09:20.000 So the last year, the Lord has blessed this country and blessed our journey, where obviously we won the election, and we've just seen a tremendous growth.
00:09:31.000 In a year where we would not imagine it.
00:09:33.000 And I would be remiss also to mention some of the other people here in this room to help make it possible.
00:09:37.000 Obviously, Mikey, who's my chief of staff, and then Blake, who also is a chief of staff So you know you have the Hillsdale online courses.
00:09:47.000 You know we bring Blake on the show.
00:09:49.000 Who then answers your questions on the Roman history without ever taking the course.
00:09:53.000 And so it's kind of a fun thing.
00:09:55.000 Can Blake actually answer the Roman history questions?
00:09:59.000 And this is an all-star team.
00:10:01.000 It's a team that's here to win, that's here to grow.
00:10:03.000 And we're not slowing down.
00:10:05.000 We're speeding up.
00:10:06.000 And then my thanks also comes to all of you guys.
00:10:08.000 Obviously, our first obligation is to make sure you guys can make money.
00:10:12.000 I want you all to have multi-billion dollar businesses because then it makes us more successful.
00:10:17.000 But it's not lost on me, and I hope it's not lost on you, that if you add an inventory with some no-name radio station or no-name TV station, you guys might get some ROI.
00:10:29.000 But this actually sows back into the betterment of the country.
00:10:33.000 This helps turn young people to love liberty and love America and believe in God and ultimate purposes.
00:10:38.000 And so I hope you guys know that as well, that it's a very rare opportunity to have a kind of double impact.
00:10:46.000 And you as sponsors, I hate the word advertiser, I prefer partners.
00:10:50.000 You guys as partners also have stuck through us when the media told you that we're terrible.
00:10:56.000 You're like, no, we're going to buy more, right?
00:10:58.000 Glenn at Patriot Mobile, or we're going to do more together.
00:11:02.000 And so I want to say thank you for that, because that is the other element here, is that you look at on TV, and I'm sure you guys thought this the last couple years, why doesn't that TV host talk about that issue?
00:11:12.000 Why doesn't that host talk about that?
00:11:14.000 They're held captive by their advertising department.
00:11:17.000 But having so many of you guys that continue to support us and continue to partner us, we could take bold stands that people need to hear and they want to hear that allow us to flourish and allow us to grow in a very meaningful way.
00:11:31.000 And it allows me every day to never go through the prism, oh boy, I'm not allowed to say XYZ because of either corporate pressure, that doesn't exist, or because of advertising pressure.
00:11:41.000 It's the opposite.
00:11:42.000 And I think it's one of the secret ingredients why we're able to grow, is that some of these other shows, they constantly have to be like, well, I can't offend this sensibility.
00:11:49.000 Or the other one, it's amazing, other shows are like, we're not allowed to talk about our faith too much.
00:11:54.000 And at Salem, it's a perfect fit because that's who we are, right?
00:11:57.000 Our faith is who we are, and we don't hide from that, and we don't grow away from that.
00:12:01.000 So just a quick kind of thoughts on kind of where we're going, and then I want to do some questions, guys.
00:12:05.000 And just so you know, we'll have an open discussion however long you want to go.
00:12:09.000 This will be, this is, I was telling Colin, like, hey, you know, we believe in layering at the Charlie Kirk show in Turning Point USA.
00:12:17.000 Never just do one thing.
00:12:18.000 Try to stack.
00:12:19.000 Productivity on top of it.
00:12:21.000 So tonight, this conversation will be reused as a podcast.
00:12:24.000 And so all of you guys, make sure you talk about your company before you ask the question, because then it gets reused as a podcast.
00:12:31.000 So it's good for everybody, right?
00:12:32.000 We fill podcast inventory.
00:12:34.000 You guys are happy.
00:12:35.000 And then all of a sudden, other partners are saying, hey, how do I do that?
00:12:38.000 Well, you got to get to the level of rough greens to be able to do that, right?
00:12:43.000 And so let me just say this.
00:12:44.000 We have really big...
00:12:47.000 This summer, we're going to be doing more long-form interviewing, kind of Joe Rogan style.
00:12:51.000 We've also kind of pioneered that we repost some of our campus conversations as podcasts.
00:12:56.000 What makes our podcast a little unique and different, there's only a couple I could think of, is that we try to make it raw and authentic where the listener can kind of travel the country alongside of us, where they're getting a little window into, hey, for example, we're going to debate and pray for us for this.
00:13:11.000 We're going to debate at Oxford and Cambridge next week.
00:13:13.000 We're going to be doing podcasts live from there.
00:13:15.000 And about what happens there.
00:13:16.000 So the audience members feel as if they get the kind of journey experience where it's not just the same sort of sanitized.
00:13:22.000 Here's what's happening in the news.
00:13:24.000 And so this summer we have our big events, Young Women's Leadership Summit, Student Action Summit.
00:13:29.000 You are all invited, by the way, to all of our Turning Point USA events.
00:13:32.000 This is not a Turning Point event tonight, but Turning Point is the right hand.
00:13:36.000 We're the left hand.
00:13:37.000 It's a symbiotic, harmonic thing.
00:13:40.000 So anything Turning Point related you guys want to attend, we'd love to have you there.
00:13:44.000 And then we have really exciting, let's just say, specials where we're looking into some big stories, some big guests.
00:13:52.000 And then before you know it, the fall is going to be back, and I'll be on another 30 college campuses.
00:13:56.000 Last Friday, we just closed the most campus stops that I've ever done, which was, what was it, 27?
00:14:04.000 Yeah, that was more than the fall.
00:14:07.000 By the way, it's good for everybody here.
00:14:09.000 Trust me.
00:14:09.000 You want me on campus because that keeps us viral.
00:14:12.000 That keeps us relevant.
00:14:13.000 That keeps us impactful.
00:14:15.000 And honestly, on a more macro level, it is working.
00:14:18.000 This is not just us talking to our own converted.
00:14:21.000 Young men are the most conservative that they've been in 50 years. 0.88
00:14:24.000 Young people are the most conservative that we've seen in polling in the last 30 or 40 years.
00:14:29.000 President Trump's most loyal constituency is voters from 18 to 22. So what you guys are sowing into actually has macro impact, and it's not just confirmation of your missional values.
00:14:39.000 And so all that to say that we're a team, we're a partnership.
00:14:43.000 We want to see your businesses grow.
00:14:44.000 We want to see the show grow, which then helps your businesses.
00:14:47.000 And also, I'm so struck by, I just love learning about almost everybody here right now.
00:14:53.000 And I can't think of any exceptions.
00:14:54.000 The only exception would be Hillsdale, but it's a unique case.
00:14:56.000 Almost everyone here, you guys are founder-driven businesses that started something from nothing, and you're pure entrepreneurs.
00:15:03.000 And I love that because I'm the same way.
00:15:07.000 I started Turning Point USA with no money, no connections, and no idea what I was doing.
00:15:10.000 And so I feel that kind of combined scrappy ethic.
00:15:14.000 And I love that.
00:15:16.000 And that's only in America where is that possible.
00:15:18.000 And I think that there's this...
00:15:29.000 We were talking to my good friends, The Spells here, goodranchers.com, amazing.
00:15:33.000 They'll probably ask a question or something later.
00:15:36.000 But he literally, just like God spoke to him to start a meat company when he was a worship pastor.
00:15:40.000 And now, you know, they're, I don't want to say, he told me a lot of his economics.
00:15:44.000 They're doing very well.
00:15:45.000 And praise the Lord.
00:15:46.000 And so it's just...
00:15:51.000 I can go around the room.
00:15:52.000 It's amazing.
00:15:53.000 So thank you guys for that.
00:15:55.000 We're in a mission to save the country together.
00:15:57.000 And that should also, I hope, give you guys even deeper purpose to the businesses you're building.
00:16:02.000 Because it's not just about more distributions or higher ROI.
00:16:07.000 As you grow, the country strengthens.
00:16:09.000 And that's a very unique thing.
00:16:13.000 We're honored to be partnering with the Alan Jackson Ministries, and today I want to point you to their podcast.
00:16:18.000 It's called Culture and Christianity, the Alan Jackson Podcast.
00:16:22.000 What makes it unique is Pastor Alan's biblical perspective.
00:16:25.000 He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues that we're facing today.
00:16:28.000 Gender confusion, abortion, immigration, Doge, Trump, and the White House.
00:16:32.000 Issues in the church.
00:16:34.000 He doesn't just discuss the problems.
00:16:36.000 In every episode, he gives practical things we can do to make a difference.
00:16:40.000 His guests have incredible expertise and powerful testimonies.
00:16:43.000 Each episode will make you recognize the power of your faith and how God can use your life to impact our world today.
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00:17:00.000 Alan Jackson Ministries is working hard to get biblical truth back into our culture.
00:17:04.000 You can find out more about Pastor Alan and the ministry at alanjackson.com.
00:17:08.000 That is alanjackson.com.
00:17:10.000 Again, that is alanjackson.com.
00:17:14.000 So with that, let's do some conversation, Daisy.
00:17:16.000 And Daisy helps keep things organized.
00:17:19.000 Dr. Simon, my new friend, the sleep apnea wizard.
00:17:22.000 Make sure you announce yourself.
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00:17:29.000 We were so fascinated by touring your campus today, and we were intrigued by the number of people that worked there and the mission that they have.
00:17:40.000 What is your vision for the future?
00:17:42.000 What should we be expecting for the midterm elections and the next elections and the next generation that you're basically trying to develop here?
00:17:51.000 Yeah, so it's a great question.
00:17:53.000 We actually just had a whole...
00:17:55.000 presentation about this in San Diego, which was very well received.
00:17:59.000 Without going into too much detail, We're very focused on this state, primarily.
00:18:05.000 It's where we live.
00:18:06.000 We need to get a Republican governor in the state. 0.94
00:18:08.000 Currently, we do not have one.
00:18:09.000 We need a Republican secretary of state. 0.97
00:18:10.000 We do not have one.
00:18:11.000 We need a Republican attorney general. 0.87
00:18:13.000 And we need to also fortify the state ahead of the 2028 presidential election.
00:18:18.000 And we have two Democrat senators in the state.
00:18:20.000 They're not up in 2026, but we really need to take back the state and really strengthen our roots here.
00:18:25.000 We're going to expand into Nevada.
00:18:27.000 We think Nevada is a great growth opportunity.
00:18:28.000 We're expanding into New Hampshire.
00:18:30.000 And then the big picture macro, what is Turning Point USA existing and doing?
00:18:35.000 Multiple things, but we are now on the precipice of striking and completing a once impossible goal or seemingly impossible goal.
00:18:42.000 We're going to take young people away as the loyal Democrat voters from the Democrat Party away from them, which could change American politics forever. 0.72
00:18:50.000 That could change the country as we know it, truly.
00:18:54.000 And so much more I could comment on that, but yes.
00:18:58.000 Hi, everyone.
00:18:58.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:18:59.000 Berna.
00:19:00.000 Luan Pham with Bruna, Less Lethal.
00:19:02.000 We love the fact that you're making so many appearances on college campuses.
00:19:07.000 And as we've seen in this last year, lots of protests, lots of violence.
00:19:11.000 Our children that we send for a better education are a threat.
00:19:16.000 And so, Bruna has taken a big step in making colleges safe again.
00:19:22.000 And we'd love to work with you in a way to, But if danger presents itself, you have a way to protect yourself without having to deal with lethal force.
00:19:38.000 Well, I love that.
00:19:39.000 And if they went to Hillsdale College, they wouldn't have to worry about any safety issues.
00:19:43.000 We're connecting things together.
00:19:46.000 Love Burna.
00:19:47.000 If you guys don't know about Burna, it's a non-lethal way to protect your family.
00:19:51.000 It looks like a gun.
00:19:52.000 It can even almost hurt like a gun, but it's not a gun.
00:19:54.000 It's not lethal.
00:19:56.000 We actually now have them all over our campus, at our house, and we have them in our cars as well.
00:20:02.000 And it looks like a gun, so it can be a deterrent in that way, and it will definitely immobilize you, right?
00:20:10.000 The Second Amendment.
00:20:11.000 Yeah, no, this is not a substitute for a gun.
00:20:14.000 It is an additive as a non-lethal de-escalation tool.
00:20:17.000 Because, look, if we're honest, let's just be clear.
00:20:19.000 If you're in Chicago or if you're in L.A., and God forbid you have to use your actual gun, it's not the ownership of the gun that they're going to make illegal.
00:20:27.000 It's the use of the gun.
00:20:28.000 They could put you up on murder charges.
00:20:30.000 Remember the couple from St. Louis, Missouri.
00:20:34.000 What was their name?
00:20:35.000 I can't remember.
00:20:36.000 Thank you, the McCloskey couple, where they simply just...
00:20:48.000 And so there's a lot of elements here, and I think you guys at Berna, especially for college kids that want to protect themselves, it's a very, very smart way.
00:20:58.000 Barack, but not Barack Obama.
00:21:00.000 Yeah, let's make that clear.
00:21:00.000 Thank you.
00:21:03.000 Brock Lurie, author of the Atheism Kills series.
00:21:07.000 I like to focus on the dangers of a world without God.
00:21:10.000 And my question to you, because I know we think so much alike on this, are what are the, I guess, two-part question.
00:21:18.000 What is the biggest challenge that you've heard that you had to address regarding the existence of God?
00:21:24.000 And then the second thing is, what do you think is the biggest, the best smackdown on anybody who says that there is no God?
00:21:32.000 Sure.
00:21:33.000 So, I'll start with the second one, which is the easiest one, is without God there would be no atheists.
00:21:40.000 It really messes with their head, like, wait, what a second?
00:21:43.000 The hardest point to convince a secular atheist agnostic, without a question, is the question of evil.
00:21:55.000 This is nothing new.
00:21:56.000 This is not like Charlie Kirk discovered this.
00:21:58.000 This has been the hardest question for theologians.
00:22:00.000 Why would a God or a good God allow so much evil, allow so much suffering in a world such as this?
00:22:08.000 Now, as our friend Dennis Prager would say, so atheists, I'll actually say it this way. 0.97
00:22:16.000 We as theists, we have to explain the problem of evil and unjust suffering.
00:22:22.000 Atheists have to explain everything else. 0.76
00:22:24.000 They have to explain creation and love and mercy and compassion and all of that.
00:22:29.000 So we admit that this is a mystery, that it is theologically clear that God uses all things for his good.
00:22:38.000 It's still a very tough pill to swallow when a kid gets cancer or somebody dies far too young or where there's a hurricane or a tsunami.
00:22:45.000 And I would say that outside of even the kid with cancer, the hardest question is the Why would he then deploy such an earthquake against a people?
00:23:00.000 Again, I don't find that convincing, but that's definitely the hardest.
00:23:03.000 Now, back to actually to flip it on its head, though, and you can use that contention as a way to bring people closer to God, is to say, but by what standard do you say something is evil?
00:23:15.000 And how do you know something is evil?
00:23:17.000 Because if you believe and know God, there is no evil.
00:23:20.000 They're simply preferences, and they're simply how you feel.
00:23:24.000 And even an honest atheist will agree with that.
00:23:27.000 Atheism is actually falling out of favor in the West, slowly.
00:23:31.000 It's actually not as cool to be an atheist.
00:23:33.000 The atheists have done a very poor job of articulating their beliefs. 0.94
00:23:37.000 In the last couple of years, they come across as kind of increasingly snobbish and condescending.
00:23:42.000 I actually think he was very good to me on a show besides the fact that I'm not a fan of But I was on with Bill Maher, and that was a very interesting contrast between a Christian worldview and an atheistic worldview.
00:23:56.000 He treated me fine, all things being equal.
00:23:59.000 But it's very dark at its end.
00:24:01.000 It's very depressing.
00:24:03.000 And he actually, interestingly, he used to call himself an atheist, and I should have called him out on it.
00:24:08.000 He's like, oh, no, I just don't know.
00:24:11.000 Not knowing is actually something much different than making a truth claim that there is no God.
00:24:15.000 And even Brett Weinstein, who was recently on Tucker Carlson's podcast about this very topic, he's like, yeah, we in my community are now taking the position of we don't know.
00:24:24.000 So they, from 20 years ago, went from a position that there's declaratively no God to kind of we don't know.
00:24:30.000 And the reason being is that the more we learn about the quantum world, the more we learn about biology and the universe, it's very difficult to make the argument that all of this was an accident or a mistake.
00:24:42.000 I mean, you know all the arguments for God's existence.
00:24:44.000 But put very simply, if space, time, and matter had a beginning, which we now know affirmatively that it did, then something spaceless that transcends time that is above matter must have started that thing.
00:24:55.000 And that thing can only be described as God.
00:24:57.000 The final point that is very hard for us to answer, and again, it's only because we live...
00:25:04.000 He's gotten closer and closer to Christianity, where... 0.73
00:25:11.000 Okay, that's not exactly a new question.
00:25:13.000 A six-year-old has that same question.
00:25:15.000 But the contention that Joe Rogan said, he's like, well, we're actually looking at this through an earthly lens of things that are created and die, and we don't understand that some things just can be and are and is, and that would be the theist answer, that God has always been.
00:25:31.000 Yes.
00:25:32.000 Patriot Mobile.
00:25:35.000 After that excellent answer, I forgot what I was going to ask.
00:25:39.000 PatriotMobile.com slash Charlie.
00:25:41.000 Oh, that's it!
00:25:42.000 Now, anyway, Glenn Story, I'm the founder and CEO of Patriot Mobile, America's only Christian conservative cell phone service provider.
00:25:51.000 So if you're here, does anybody here have a phone?
00:25:56.000 If you're riding on the other network, you're giving to causes that are contrary to why you're here.
00:26:01.000 Anyway, question.
00:26:03.000 I know that you live here and you love Arizona.
00:26:08.000 What's happening in Texas right now is the unraveling of the rest of the country indirectly because I don't know how many votes do we have, electoral college votes?
00:26:20.000 35, I think, right?
00:26:21.000 I thought it was 42. It was a 42. Yeah, anyway, my point is, what's going on in Austin right now is destroying the country because, although Trump won by 15%...
00:26:32.000 Our House is being run by Democrats.
00:26:35.000 Literally, the guy putting the policy up on the voter to get voted on worked for Obama as his gatekeeper.
00:26:44.000 So, I mean, Charlie, I would challenge you to come to Texas and help us save the state, because otherwise we're gone.
00:26:52.000 I appreciate that.
00:26:54.000 As we grow, I'm getting better at respectfully saying no.
00:26:58.000 And I just came from California, and everybody else was like, can you save California?
00:27:03.000 I said, guys, you want me to first save Arizona, because if Arizona gets saved, you get two U.S. senators, and you probably get J.D. Vance as the 48th president of the United States.
00:27:13.000 So you want me focusing on Arizona.
00:27:15.000 All kidding aside, Glenn, happy to help however I can, obviously.
00:27:18.000 But two thoughts on this.
00:27:19.000 Number one, the way you guys elect a speaker in your state is super goofy.
00:27:23.000 It gives all the power to the minority. 0.98
00:27:24.000 How does it work that you have to hit a certain threshold?
00:27:27.000 It's not a simple up or down majoritarian vote, right?
00:27:32.000 The Democrats literally elect a speaker in Texas.
00:27:35.000 Not an exaggeration.
00:27:37.000 Number two, though, you guys are now falling victim to what I call the too conservative, the too Republican syndrome.
00:27:43.000 So when a state becomes too Republican, He'll sell himself.
00:28:00.000 And they'll just sell himself.
00:28:00.000 Right?
00:28:01.000 Whereas if your state was 50-50, like in this state, they'll just run as a Democrat.
00:28:06.000 Does that make sense?
00:28:07.000 And so the way to work against that is you have to primary the moderate Republicans out of the party in Texas.
00:28:07.000 Yeah.
00:28:15.000 And purify the Republican Party for the better.
00:28:18.000 Glenn, do you have a follow-up?
00:28:20.000 Actually, that's kind of what we did this year.
00:28:24.000 We went in and got a handful of 18 bad guys voted out of office.
00:28:29.000 However, the remaining RINOs side with the DEMs because the DEMs give them power.
00:28:35.000 Oh yeah, you can be the head of the committee.
00:28:38.000 However, we've got to have a vice chair that runs the committee. 0.99
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00:29:27.000 Yeah, Noble Gold Investments.
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00:29:30.000 It's really fun.
00:29:31.000 And it's amazing to meet all the entrepreneurs here.
00:29:34.000 I second what you said.
00:29:36.000 It's amazing stories.
00:29:37.000 So incredible to meet everybody.
00:29:40.000 I wanted to ask about after President Trump got elected and you got the call and then you went to Mar-to-Lago.
00:29:48.000 Can you give us some...
00:29:55.000 Can you give us some, like, behind the scenes?
00:29:58.000 Because I think people would want to know, like, what was happening there.
00:30:03.000 Sure, yeah.
00:30:03.000 It was, I mean, first of all, you guys have seen, I hate to use these comparisons, but, you know, Michael Jordan, whoever winning an NBA Finals, and they just kind of collapsed.
00:30:13.000 That's how we felt, right?
00:30:14.000 It was the ultimate pinnacle, and you guys have maybe seen that video or not.
00:30:18.000 It happened, I did it all on camera, right?
00:30:21.000 So there was, if you want to know what I was feeling, it's all televised, right?
00:30:25.000 For three hours.
00:30:26.000 It was raw, it was emotional, we didn't sleep for days, and I will tell you a fun story, is that I didn't sleep that entire night.
00:30:32.000 We got done broadcasting at like 2 a.m. local time, went home, and we were two hours upon Eastern time, and so I was trying to get some sleep around like 3.45, and I was like, I can't fall asleep, and I had the greatest idea ever.
00:30:45.000 I'm like, in 15 minutes, Morning Joe is on.
00:30:48.000 And I gotta watch Morning Joe, the morning that Donald Trump got elected president.
00:30:52.000 It was one of the most enjoyable, delightful.
00:30:56.000 I have it saved, recorded, anytime I'm having a bad day.
00:30:59.000 It was spectacular.
00:31:02.000 Erica and I sat in bed at 4 a.m.
00:31:04.000 Arizona time, laughing and rejoicing our hearts out.
00:31:10.000 I was like, how can I go back to sleep here, right?
00:31:18.000 I think I slept maybe an hour and a half after that.
00:31:21.000 Went back to the office.
00:31:22.000 And so the plan was always this.
00:31:23.000 We had the backup plan.
00:31:24.000 We're like, we don't want to talk about it.
00:31:25.000 We don't want to talk about it.
00:31:26.000 But if, if President Trump were to win, Why is that?
00:31:33.000 This is why the grace of God is so amazing.
00:31:35.000 Because we had those four years off between Trump 1 and Trump 2, I remember being back in Trump 1 back in 2016 where we were too busy celebrating and all the bad guys came in and ran the personnel operation and we lost it like every single turn.
00:31:49.000 So I saw it happen.
00:31:50.000 I was too young to do anything about it.
00:31:51.000 But I remember all of a sudden being like, why is Chris Christie in charge?
00:31:54.000 And who's this guy?
00:31:55.000 It was just like a total unraveling.
00:31:56.000 Remember that, guys?
00:31:57.000 We had nothing but, like, bad people at every corner.
00:32:00.000 And so I said, if there's anything I could do to use the influence and the trust that I have with President Trump, anything I could do to help improve that, you're never going to be perfect, that's what I want to do.
00:32:10.000 So then Eric was like, hey, we'd love to take the kids.
00:32:13.000 And what turned into, like, a weekend, we literally lived in Palm Beach from the Friday after the election to Thanksgiving, came back for, like, five days.
00:32:23.000 I went back.
00:32:24.000 There for two weeks, came back for AmpFest, and we lived there all January through the inauguration, right?
00:32:28.000 So I basically lived, you know, right near, adjacent to Mar-a-Lago.
00:32:33.000 What was I doing?
00:32:34.000 I wasn't running the government.
00:32:35.000 I was being present and helpful wherever I possibly could, especially in domains of influence where I think I could be, you know, an accessory.
00:32:45.000 But I wasn't alone, which was what was so great.
00:32:47.000 Tucker was there.
00:32:48.000 You know, Elon was there.
00:32:49.000 And it was this heavy emphasis on personnel.
00:32:52.000 And that's why you got Kash Patel, and you got Dan Bongino, and you got Bobby Kennedy, and you got Marco Rubio, and Kristi Noem.
00:32:58.000 You got massive improvements on the personnel front because of the team.
00:33:03.000 And Sergio, who runs the PPO office there, is a friend, and he did a phenomenal job.
00:33:07.000 And some amazing people are in their spots.
00:33:10.000 And you're going to learn even more about some of these people.
00:33:12.000 Understand, guys, that Donald Trump's best people have not even been confirmed yet.
00:33:17.000 Oh, yeah.
00:33:18.000 You understand, just the cabinet secretaries and the undersecretaries.
00:33:21.000 There are about 800 positions that have to go through Senate confirmation if they got off their tail and did their job.
00:33:29.000 And these are people that will...
00:33:32.000 What's his job?
00:33:33.000 Like DARPA or something?
00:33:36.000 Yeah, so like there's one person that Blake knows, Rhodes Scholar, super bright.
00:33:40.000 His job's like Undersecretary for Research and Development at DOD.
00:33:44.000 Super Mensa, like insanely smart guy.
00:33:46.000 He's got to get Senate confirmed.
00:33:48.000 When he's there, it's going to be, it's what a change from the diversity pick that Joe Biden had there.
00:33:53.000 You're going to see this government really start to hum in the next year, year and a half.
00:33:57.000 These first 100 days has been a skeletal crew.
00:33:59.000 It's been the cabinets, maybe their undersecretaries and their staff.
00:34:02.000 When the kind of roster starts to fill out, that's where you're going to see the deepening of so many of these policies.
00:34:08.000 So that was really cool.
00:34:10.000 As far as, you know, kind of bringing you into the room, I remember being there Sunday.
00:34:14.000 Mar-a-Lago was basically abandoned.
00:34:15.000 I'd only met Elon once.
00:34:17.000 Elon asked if I wanted to sit and talk to him, and we literally sat there for three and a half hours.
00:34:23.000 And they brought us steaks, even though Mar-a-Lago was closed, and got to know Elon really well.
00:34:28.000 It was incredible.
00:34:29.000 And then, yeah, just kind of camped out there.
00:34:32.000 And I'll say this, that all the, like, first hundred days of all the executive orders is a byproduct of how seriously they took things in the transition.
00:34:41.000 And never underestimate the sophistication of what this White House is doing.
00:34:45.000 To and outside the media, obviously listen to our podcast.
00:34:48.000 I mean, but you just see this last couple days, and again, we did a whole show on it today.
00:34:52.000 We prevented possibly a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.
00:34:55.000 We got an American hostage released.
00:34:57.000 We're going to get amazing trade deals.
00:34:59.000 Today we have this incredible, you know, new bill that's being introduced in front of Congress.
00:35:03.000 President Trump is going to the Middle East, and he has baked in wins that he's going to announce one after the other.
00:35:08.000 We're probably, hopefully, going to see a meeting between Zelensky and Putin in Istanbul that President Trump might go to.
00:35:14.000 I mean, this is really serious stuff, and I think that obviously the media doesn't give him credit for that.
00:35:20.000 Thank you, Colin.
00:35:21.000 Yes, sir.
00:35:22.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:35:24.000 This is Micah from Noble Gold Investments as well.
00:35:26.000 Just want to say we really appreciate our partnership with you.
00:35:30.000 Not to take it down a darker path, but what do you see as one of the larger threats to personal freedoms, not just in America, but kind of generally speaking?
00:35:39.000 And what are some things that individuals can do to reassert their sovereignty and liberty and take steps to be more personally resilient?
00:36:04.000 You owe it to yourself, to your children and your grandchildren, to spend one hour uninterrupted at chatgpt.com, get the premium membership, get the 4.5 model.
00:36:14.000 I'm not kidding.
00:36:16.000 You will, all of a sudden, it will sink in that the world is about to so fundamentally change, it will make the agrarian to the Industrial Revolution look like child's play. 0.99
00:36:26.000 You owe it to, I mean, and I'm telling you, you can ask this thing anything.
00:36:29.000 Write poetry, write a song, write a book, write a dissertation.
00:36:32.000 You have questions about it.
00:36:34.000 You're going to realize that we're going to see massive, not just job displacement, but potentially an erosion of basic skills that our young people need to be able to survive.
00:36:42.000 I'll give you one example of thousands I could give.
00:36:44.000 People say, oh, Charlie, what jobs are being taken?
00:36:46.000 A guy that was supposed to be in our show today, Brian Gertzner, says, listen, he runs a huge financial firm, very well known.
00:36:52.000 He wanted to try to find out how his stock was going to perform.
00:36:55.000 So for fun, for kicks and giggles, he put to GPT, hey, The stock earnings come out tomorrow.
00:37:01.000 Here's all of this data.
00:37:02.000 Can you put some sort of prediction of how the stock is going to perform?
00:37:05.000 Hundreds of pages of data.
00:37:06.000 Within 30 seconds, it said, look, I've analyzed all of it.
00:37:08.000 My prediction is that it will fall by about 15%.
00:37:10.000 Long story short, it fell 14.8% the next day.
00:37:13.000 That's not the important point.
00:37:15.000 He would have had to hire three financial analysts with a two-weeks heads-up to get to that same conclusion.
00:37:20.000 And so he's like, now my financial analyst is basically a chat GPT usher.
00:37:25.000 And he said it's completely changed his business, where he's now reducing his headcount from hundreds of financial analysts to 30 much better paid ones that know how to incorporate and use AI.
00:37:34.000 And I could extrapolate this into all of your businesses, guys, right?
00:37:37.000 I actually think it could be very exciting from when you incorporate it with quantum computing and the ability to have customized medicine and early detection of healthcare and tumors and all sorts of stuff.
00:37:47.000 But if we are not careful, AI inherently will become tyrannical and will take and seize control over us.
00:37:53.000 It can be liberating.
00:37:55.000 But there's elements that are, I think, very dark to this.
00:37:59.000 Finally, I mean, I know that you might be alluding to it, financial freedom is a big one.
00:38:04.000 They're pushing so hard for a digitized global currency or whatever they want to call it, CBDC, Centralized Bank Digital Currency.
00:38:11.000 Bad news, bad idea, and we should reject that.
00:38:14.000 I think crypto is a pretty good idea, but quantum computing can actually break crypto, so that's a whole separate issue for another time, which most people don't actually know.
00:38:22.000 But anyway, and then finally, the Democrat Party is the greatest threat to our liberty.
00:38:26.000 Thanks.
00:38:28.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:38:29.000 Arif Halaby, Total Financial Solutions and TFS Financial Insurance Services.
00:38:33.000 As someone who supports free market principles, And how do you think you can best empower young people in today's economic world?
00:38:41.000 We own a firm that's really for 29 years have been out teaching and educating young people.
00:38:48.000 Through Total Money School, which is another one of our companies, our objective is to help people become entrepreneurs.
00:38:54.000 In fact, we've done scholarships for this for probably 20 years now.
00:38:57.000 Anything that you can see from your point of view for young people for this table off to our left here that can make a difference in this next step?
00:39:05.000 Yes.
00:39:05.000 And so, actually, there is a concrete, tangible action item regarding this.
00:39:10.000 And Brian, again, the guy who I just aforementioned, is the one that is pushing this.
00:39:15.000 One of the biggest problems that creates socialism is people don't own stuff.
00:39:18.000 They don't own homes.
00:39:19.000 They don't own cars.
00:39:21.000 It is a renting economy.
00:39:22.000 So one idea that actually has now made itself into the proposed draft of the Trump reconciliation bill is very simple.
00:39:29.000 Every American that is born from this point forward with a Social Security number gets $1,000 deposited into an S&P 500 growth account that every person can then access.
00:39:38.000 It's only a one-way lockbox.
00:39:40.000 You cannot draw against them until you're 18. You can watch it.
00:39:43.000 You can see it.
00:39:44.000 You can add to it, and you can see the market actually grow.
00:39:47.000 Basically, what it will do is seven-and eight-year-olds that now have smartphones, they'll be able to see their own money grow in real time as they get older, turning them into invested capitalists in the American order, in the American economic order.
00:39:58.000 It's a phenomenal idea.
00:39:59.000 Not only that, by President Trump.
00:40:12.000 You put in your social security number, all secured by cryptography and back-end access so it cannot be hacked, and your baby will get $1,000 deposited in there.
00:40:21.000 It's a loan from Treasury, just so we are clear.
00:40:23.000 The way they're working out the economics is fine.
00:40:24.000 I think it's the best investment we can make.
00:40:26.000 And then you could add to it.
00:40:27.000 So then you have major philanthropists, people that are worth $100, $200 billion, saying, yeah, I'll give $50 billion to this to every kid born in the next 10 years.
00:40:35.000 Schools can do it.
00:40:37.000 Competitions can do it.
00:40:38.000 You win a basketball tournament, we'll put $50 into your account.
00:40:41.000 You go win a spelling bee, we'll put $25 into your account.
00:40:44.000 Good grades at school, we'll put $50 into your account.
00:40:48.000 All of a sudden, it's an incentive structure that a 10, 11, 12, 13-year-old can feel invested and a co-owner in this country.
00:40:54.000 This is not an abstraction.
00:40:55.000 This is in the bill, everybody, that we need to push our elected leaders to do.
00:40:59.000 I have not seen an idea this good and this concrete that can psychologically change how young people view.
00:41:05.000 Because then all of a sudden, imagine if you're a 16-year-old in Compton, and you have a choice to join a gang, or after it compounds, you've got $80,000 waiting for you in account.
00:41:16.000 Pretty good deal, right?
00:41:17.000 All of a sudden, now people have some hope.
00:41:19.000 They can invest it in a business.
00:41:20.000 And again, the other part is that parents can add to it.
00:41:23.000 Grandparents can add to it.
00:41:24.000 And it only goes one way.
00:41:25.000 It cannot be accessed.
00:41:26.000 Until the kid turns 18 by the kid himself.
00:41:29.000 So that's the best idea I've heard, and I think that it is a great way to have people have actual equity in the system and not cynicism by the time they reach adulthood.
00:41:42.000 Isn't it a great idea?
00:41:44.000 Imagine the politics of that going into the midterms.
00:41:46.000 Trump will be able to tell every family that their kid has Invest America money waiting for them.
00:41:52.000 And it's not immediately accessed money.
00:41:55.000 It's long-term growth.
00:41:56.000 And every Democrat will vote against it.
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00:43:18.000 Yes, hi.
00:43:19.000 Kelly Shelton with Angel Studios.
00:43:22.000 My question is, we understand the impact that stories have on us and film has on us, and we're giving independent filmmakers a voice and a platform to tell these stories.
00:43:31.000 What are some films and stories that impacted you in your childhood or recently?
00:43:36.000 One of the reasons I love Angel Studios, if you guys haven't noticed, new movies are terrible and awful and impossible.
00:43:42.000 I mean, look, I don't want to overly racialize this, but Gladiator 2 is just laughable before you even watch it, okay?
00:43:50.000 If you don't get it, then you get it.
00:43:53.000 At some point, you have to be somewhat historically accurate, not just to have the diversity higher for the sake of it.
00:44:02.000 I think it actually dilutes art and it overly politicizes it.
00:44:06.000 Look, I'm a movie buff.
00:44:07.000 At least I used to be.
00:44:09.000 Godfather is one of the greatest movies ever made.
00:44:11.000 And I could do a whole speech as to why.
00:44:14.000 It's well written.
00:44:15.000 It's about family.
00:44:16.000 It's about passion.
00:44:17.000 It's about strife.
00:44:18.000 It's about all some amazing things.
00:44:20.000 Gladiator, the first one, was very, very good, obviously.
00:44:23.000 I'm kind of a sucker for all those early 90s hero films of the ancient world.
00:44:28.000 Braveheart, Gladiator.
00:44:31.000 Deeper and beyond that.
00:44:33.000 I will say that there was kind of a renaissance of pro-American films in the 80s, late 70s, early 80s.
00:44:40.000 Rocky, obviously Top Gun, which they did a pretty good job of honestly making the newer one.
00:44:46.000 But it's just...
00:44:52.000 So we had the powerful trilogies of Star Wars, I love Lord of the Rings, powerful trilogies of Lord of the Rings, and then of Matrix.
00:44:59.000 But you look at the remakes that are now done, and it's almost like it is a disgusting insult to what was prior.
00:45:05.000 So I love what you guys are doing at Angel Studios.
00:45:08.000 We need to tell the hero's journey.
00:45:10.000 We need to push the audience towards something as moral.
00:45:12.000 At the same time, we don't need a Christian film that is scolding you the entire time. 0.88
00:45:17.000 And that is like beating you over the head with scripture.
00:45:20.000 That's actually a bad way to get people closer to the truth.
00:45:23.000 It must be much more subtle.
00:45:24.000 It must be much more sophisticated.
00:45:26.000 It must be interwoven into your story of good versus evil and ultimate purposes.
00:45:31.000 Yeah, so that's my answer to that.
00:45:33.000 Two more.
00:45:34.000 I want to make sure everyone gets a question.
00:45:37.000 And then we'll go to Monorail.
00:45:38.000 Thanks for taking my question.
00:45:38.000 Yeah.
00:45:38.000 All right.
00:45:40.000 So, actually, mine is, well, I'm Jim Petrell.
00:45:41.000 I own a real estate company in Southern California.
00:45:44.000 I'm the one who makes fun of Gavin Newsom by congratulating him to be the real estate agent of the year for causing more good Californians to leave California than anybody.
00:45:52.000 Anyway, so my question is actually from my dad.
00:45:56.000 Now, I told my dad I was here with you, and he said, please ask him for this.
00:46:00.000 Now, for you to all know my dad, he's a former Marine, retired LAPD police officer, Medal of Honor recipient, two-time cancer survivor, almost 85, and has no filter.
00:46:12.000 Right, so you're going to get that.
00:46:13.000 All right, so what he asked is...
00:46:22.000 And he says, his words, none of those dips can answer it.
00:46:25.000 So what is Charlie's definition of what is a woman?
00:46:29.000 And what is the biggest lesson that he has learned from having been on those college campuses?
00:46:34.000 An adult human female with XX chromosomes.
00:46:36.000 So not hard.
00:46:37.000 They can never answer it.
00:46:38.000 My biggest lesson...
00:46:42.000 Number one, there's far more hope and opportunity on these campuses with the students than we could ever imagine.
00:46:48.000 Number two, this is very important, unless it's Hillsdale, the institutions cannot be saved, they should not be saved, and they should be metaphorically burnt to the ground and defunded.
00:46:58.000 Do not work to try to save your alma mater.
00:47:00.000 It will not happen.
00:47:01.000 These places are rotten to the core, and I could say this as someone who's dealt a lot with them, the professors themselves.
00:47:09.000 Control the entire university, the bureaucracy.
00:47:12.000 Just one example.
00:47:14.000 Brown University has, what, 4,000 people that work there, Blake, right?
00:47:17.000 And, like, 4,000 employees at Brown.
00:47:20.000 3,100 of them are non-professors.
00:47:23.000 It's like, what are, these are just administrators that control the bloat of the ideological direction of the institution.
00:47:30.000 And the third thing I'll say is this, is that students are so hungry for the truth that, I could talk a lot about that, but I think we need to do more.
00:47:48.000 I think we need to scale it.
00:47:51.000 We're at the greatest generational realignment since Woodstock, and it's time to seize that opportunity.
00:47:59.000 Two more.
00:48:00.000 It's right here, and then we'll do Monterey.
00:48:01.000 Hi, I'm Daniela.
00:48:03.000 I'm the TMJ expert's daughter, Daniela Simon.
00:48:06.000 My question was going to be about faith, and I feel like you touched on this a couple times tonight, of just about, I was going to ask if people have not grown up in a household with faith, where it's been kind of interwoven into their traditions, their family life, if they have a great relationship with their parents, and the people that, you know.
00:48:25.000 kind of put that upon them.
00:48:26.000 How do you get those people involved in your mission in a common sense way that they might What's your method for that?
00:48:40.000 For people who are disconnected, who are disengaged and don't have it coming from the home?
00:48:45.000 Yeah, I'll say a vast majority of people we went over are actually, they come from liberal households or from, you know, not religious households.
00:48:54.000 The best way we can do that is have an open mic and tell us what you believe.
00:48:58.000 It works better than anything.
00:49:00.000 It's really funny, and I say this with enormous weight, not taking credit for it, but what our team has done on social media, reaching billions of people, the equivalent probably would have cost somebody $500 million to run ads to reach what we did by just having an open mic on a college campus.
00:49:22.000 And you think about it, maybe we're just like doing this whole thing wrong.
00:49:25.000 Maybe we should just have raw, unfiltered, what do you believe?
00:49:29.000 Here's what I believe.
00:49:30.000 Let's get closer to the truth.
00:49:32.000 That's what Jesus did.
00:49:33.000 It's what Socrates did.
00:49:34.000 It's the proven method of getting closer to the truth.
00:49:38.000 Colleges don't do that at all.
00:49:40.000 Colleges don't, I mean, at Hillsdale they do.
00:49:42.000 But at these other schools, it is just repression, silence, intimidation.
00:49:48.000 And one of the reasons why we're seeing the crowds that we are seeing, And we're seeing this hopeful trend is that it's so refreshing for these students that live in these totalitarian environments to actually have an unfiltered moment where people can say something as clear as men can't give birth.
00:50:05.000 And in most of these campuses saying that will get you canceled, will get you kicked out of class.
00:50:10.000 It's far worse than you guys could ever.
00:50:12.000 I mean, we had, I don't need to spend too much on this, UC Riverside, a student that said, perfectly acceptable to kill all babies up until they're a year and a half outside of the womb.
00:50:19.000 Said it with a straight face.
00:50:21.000 Andrew could say, as a bio student at UC Riverside, he said, if you cannot talk, you are not human.
00:50:25.000 We have to rethink the way that we look at human life.
00:50:27.000 And this is what they're teaching at these schools, everybody.
00:50:30.000 Taxpayer-funded, federal-funded, and that's California for you, right?
00:50:33.000 And so what we have found is let the best idea win, have an open marketplace of discussion, and we find that to be the case.
00:50:42.000 Thank you.
00:50:42.000 Last question.
00:50:43.000 My name is Philip.
00:50:44.000 I'm the CEO and founder of Monorail.
00:50:46.000 We're America's investment app.
00:50:48.000 We allow investors to invest with their values.
00:50:51.000 A lot of people don't realize with your retirement accounts or your brokerage accounts that your money is going to support things like abortion within your investment.
00:50:58.000 So Monorail allows conservative investors to invest with their values.
00:51:03.000 And my question for you is how you see Monorail, its vision in the broader parallel economy.
00:51:09.000 Yeah, I mean, look, it's incredibly important to be able to have people have options, have choices.
00:51:15.000 So many of the financial services sector is not about liberty or freedom.
00:51:20.000 So our COL at Turning Point Action, Tyler Boyer, some of you guys know him, he literally got debanked by Bank of America for his association with Turning Point USA.
00:51:29.000 I mean, it's a very serious...
00:51:34.000 And giving people that kind of financial agency is remarkably important.
00:51:39.000 And again, they want to try to keep us in captivity, and we must find tools and partners like Monorail that help liberate us.
00:51:45.000 So thank you.
00:51:46.000 All right.
00:51:47.000 In closing, everybody, thank you guys again for supporting us.
00:51:52.000 I'm going to come by and say hi to everybody and hang out for as long as you'd like.
00:51:55.000 And thank you to Dave and Phil and Mike and the entire team.
00:52:00.000 It's a wonderful partnership.
00:52:02.000 Look, I actually, I'm involved heavily in the sales of Turning Point USA.
00:52:06.000 I have to raise a lot of money every year.
00:52:07.000 I'm not involved in the show at all.
00:52:09.000 All I'd ask you guys is to dream big with us.
00:52:12.000 We are going to grow.
00:52:13.000 The audience, God willing, will continue to increase.
00:52:17.000 We've done an amazing audience analysis.
00:52:20.000 So as you guys want to keep growing, grow with us.
00:52:22.000 And we're deeply grateful for all you guys do for us.
00:52:25.000 And let's keep accomplishing it together.
00:52:27.000 Thank you guys so much.
00:52:31.000 Charlie, thank you so much.
00:52:32.000 Charlie, didn't you tell me one time that you started with a card table and a sign in dry mark that said, debate me?
00:52:44.000 Prove me wrong, but yes.
00:52:45.000 Prove me wrong.
00:52:46.000 I got two students an hour.
00:52:49.000 Amazing, right?
00:52:51.000 Think about where we are today.
00:52:52.000 Just amazing.
00:52:53.000 Thank you, Dave.
00:52:54.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:52:55.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:52:57.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.