The Charlie Kirk Show - The Q&A Heard Around the World — My Speech at the Young Women's Leadership Summit

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00:02:23.000 How are we doing, everybody?

00:02:27.000 All right, we want to get straight to questions here.

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00:02:31.000 We've had some great speakers today, haven't we?

00:02:34.000 All right, we want to get straight to the questions.

00:02:38.000 First question right here.

00:02:39.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:02:40.000 My name's Caitlin.

00:02:41.000 I'm 19 and I am a Christian.

00:02:44.000 And I wanted to ask just really quickly about your testimony.

00:02:47.000 And I understand that it can be a very time-consuming question, so I was wondering if there was anything that you could just share quickly, or maybe was there even just a person at the beginning of your journey that you found a lot of inspiration in that brought you closer to the Lord?

00:03:00.000 Yes, great question.

00:03:00.000 So I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade in suburbs of Chicago at Christian Heritage Academy.

00:03:07.000 It really was a series of teachers.

00:03:09.000 And this is the importance of biblical and Christian education where at a very young age, you know, I was introduced to the gospel, but around fifth grade, it was really presented that I am a sinner.

00:03:22.000 There's nothing I can do to earn eternal life.

00:03:24.000 And eternal life is a gift.

00:03:26.000 And I accepted Jesus Christ to be the chairman of the board of my life and the most important decision I've ever made.

00:03:31.000 And everybody, we must know Christ and make Christ known.

00:03:35.000 In your friend group and in your circle, you should be sharing the gospel with your friends.

00:03:40.000 You should be inviting them to church.

00:03:42.000 You should be an ever-living witness for the gospel.

00:03:46.000 Because the most important question that you will ever answer in your life, it's not what will I wear?

00:03:53.000 It's not even who will I marry?

00:03:54.000 That's important, but not the most important.

00:03:56.000 The most important question is what?

00:03:58.000 Who is Jesus Christ?

00:04:00.000 The answer to that question is determinative.

00:04:04.000 And if you think Jesus was like a cool historical figure, it's not going to cut it.

00:04:08.000 If you think he was kind of an interesting rabbi with a lot of points, doesn't cut it. 0.65

00:04:13.000 Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world who died for your sins and my sins as a suffering servant in the most brutal, humiliating way a human being could die in the ancient world.

00:04:26.000 We do not have a modern equivalent of crucifixion in our world.

00:04:31.000 Crucifixion was reserved for the worst of the worst criminals.

00:04:35.000 Did you know that in the ancient world, Roman citizens were not allowed to be crucified?

00:04:41.000 That it was only for foreigners, for really, really bad criminals.

00:04:46.000 It was reserved for the worst of the worst.

00:04:48.000 And Jesus Christ, our Lord, died a suffering death in a humiliating way for all of our combined sins and shortcomings.

00:04:56.000 And accepting him as Lord and Savior is the most important thing that we can do in our life.

00:05:01.000 Thank you so much.

00:05:02.000 Appreciate it.

00:05:05.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:05:06.000 My name is Kayla.

00:05:06.000 I'm from Austin, Texas.

00:05:08.000 And I wanted to say I'm very excited to be here.

00:05:11.000 I have, I need, I guess, advice and a question on if you know people, Christians specifically in your life, who say you're un-Christian-like or not a Christian if you don't agree with what's going on with the immigration or illegal immigrants, and they use Leviticus 19, 33 through 34 as their argument to say you're un-Christ-like if you believe that illegal immigrants should be deported, what would you say to that?

00:05:36.000 Well, first of all, let's see how much they actually believe the Bible.

00:05:40.000 So, Say, oh, you want to talk about Leviticus 19.

00:05:42.000 Do you know that in Leviticus 18, it says that homosexuality is wrong and that a man shall not lay with another man?

00:05:49.000 Or are you just trying to cherry-pick Leviticus verses that fit your political agenda?

00:05:52.000 So if they believe that too, then fine, respect.

00:05:55.000 But I find that, and then finally, secondly, if they're a Christian, you should answer their question.

00:06:01.000 If they're not a Christian, just roll your eyes, be like, why do you, who don't believe in what I believe, have to justify what I believe to you, where you're just trying to deconstruct my faith? 0.58

00:06:11.000 I think it's largely a waste of time.

00:06:13.000 But if it's a Christian, that means well.

00:06:15.000 So look, the verse, Leviticus 19, 33 is to love the foreigner because you were once a foreigner in their land.

00:06:21.000 I think that's right, correct?

00:06:23.000 Approximating.

00:06:23.000 So it is true.

00:06:24.000 Throughout the Bible, the verses that are most used by pastors when it comes to immigration is about Loving the foreigner and loving that person that might come into your land.

00:06:33.000 Interestingly, in ancient Israel, there were two different words for foreigner.

00:06:39.000 I think it's like zur and mer.

00:06:41.000 I could be wrong.

00:06:42.000 But basically, the two, one word would mean that which assimilates and that which does not assimilate.

00:06:49.000 But did you know there's an equal amount of verses that that person might not tell you, like Deuteronomy 28, I think that's about right, where it says, be careful who you let into your gates, because they one day can become your masters.

00:07:03.000 The whole idea of borders is a Christian and biblical idea.

00:07:08.000 Let's look at one of my favorite books of the Bible, which I think is Trump's favorite book of the Bible, because it's all about building the wall.

00:07:15.000 It's literally called, it's build the wall.

00:07:17.000 It's the book of Nehemiah.

00:07:18.000 The entire book of Nehemiah is about building the walls around Jerusalem, building the walls of Israel.

00:07:25.000 Now, did they build the walls because they hated people outside or because they loved the holy covenant that God gave them and they need to protect it against the threats outside?

00:07:34.000 The whole idea, though, of expelling those in your land, it says very clear in the book of Deuteronomy that these are the guidestones of your nation. 1.00

00:07:43.000 If you are to move a single stone, you'll be expelled outside of the nation.

00:07:47.000 So let's kind of go through the thinking when it comes to immigration, which is very important.

00:07:52.000 We are a nation, and nations are a godly idea.

00:07:56.000 We know this because in Genesis 12, Genesis 11, I'm sorry, Nimrod wanted to create a city and a tower to his own name.

00:08:05.000 We call this the Tower of Babel story.

00:08:07.000 And he says, I want to have a one world government all collected together.

00:08:12.000 How did God respond to that?

00:08:14.000 He scattered them amongst the peoples and the languages of the world. 0.98

00:08:18.000 Nations and border states has always been a uniquely biblical idea.

00:08:24.000 You see, the Roman Empire wanted to take over the entire world. 0.89

00:08:27.000 Alexander the Great wanted to take over the entire world.

00:08:30.000 The idea of boundaries and borders is actually rooted in humility, that we don't run the entire planet, that we have a jurisdiction that we are here to steward and we're here to look after.

00:08:40.000 So now let's go to this issue of justice and fairness.

00:08:43.000 Also in Leviticus 19, it's funny, they love to use Leviticus 19.

00:08:46.000 You should say, wait a second, what if I told you that in the administration of justice, you shall not favor a rich person or a poor person?

00:08:53.000 That's in Leviticus 19.

00:08:55.000 Basically saying justice is blind.

00:08:57.000 So you should respond to your friend and say, do you believe that when we administer justice, the laws, we should not give favor to poor people because they're poor?

00:09:05.000 And if they say no, then they don't believe in Leviticus 19.

00:09:07.000 Meaning, immigration law must be enforced to everybody regardless of the sob story that they give.

00:09:13.000 Otherwise, you do not have immigration law.

00:09:15.000 Now, this might bother some people.

00:09:17.000 They say, well, you know, they come into the country because they want a better life.

00:09:20.000 Am I allowed to rob a bank because I'm hungry?

00:09:23.000 Am I allowed to take my neighbor's stuff because I need it?

00:09:25.000 No.

00:09:26.000 In fact, stealing is wrong regardless of the story that you tell yourself.

00:09:29.000 We are a nation of laws because we are a Christian country that believes that the law is a teacher and a law is a civil instrument towards a free and orderly society.

00:09:40.000 Under no biblical context is it God's wishes for our nation to have chaos and uneasiness or unruliness.

00:09:48.000 Do you think that God smiles when 20 million people come into the country uninvited? 0.90

00:09:54.000 When girls are sex trafficked across the southern border or the cartels are wreaking havoc over the border? 1.00

00:10:00.000 Then understand, there's a variety of laws that people break when they come across the southern border.

00:10:05.000 8 USC 1312, 8 USC 1325, 8 USC 1830.

00:10:10.000 These are a variety of laws, not just breaking into the country.

00:10:12.000 Do you know that if you come into America by federal law, you have to then tell the federal government your address within 30 days, and you have to do so every single year?

00:10:22.000 And unfortunately, that is not done by a lot of people that come into America.

00:10:27.000 They're in violation of law.

00:10:28.000 Interesting.

00:10:29.000 You should also say, well, Romans 13, we should submit to the rulers and authorities and the laws that are given.

00:10:33.000 And if so, you're in defiance of that.

00:10:35.000 So the point being is this.

00:10:36.000 The person who is doing that is they're cherry-picking scripture because they think they're nicer than God.

00:10:43.000 They're cherry-picking scripture because they can't ever confront the idea that if you break into somebody else's country, you are a criminal and you should be returned back to your country of origin, period.

00:10:55.000 You do not have a right to break into somebody's home.

00:10:57.000 You do not have a right to cut in line.

00:10:59.000 We're a nation of laws, and finally we have a president that's enforcing those laws, and every person that has broken into America will be returned back to their country of origin. 1.00

00:11:07.000 Thank you very much.

00:11:07.000 Thank you.

00:11:09.000 Yeah.

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00:12:17.000 Hi, so I'm a high school student from Massachusetts, and I've been following you for a very long time, so I'm super excited to be here.

00:12:24.000 I was wondering if you could clarify what the mission of this summit is, because it's a young women's leadership summit, and all of the women that spoke on that stage today and yesterday were there because they pursued a career.

00:12:35.000 And a key takeaway that I took from most of the speeches, especially on Friday, was that I should, quote, get married and have babies.

00:12:44.000 Yeah, that's interesting.

00:12:46.000 I wouldn't say all of them are there because they pursued a career, but maybe I'd have to think about the entire career.

00:12:51.000 That's fine.

00:12:52.000 Look, if you, I mean, but you should actually, I could flip it on you.

00:12:54.000 The people that have pursued a career are telling you to pursue kids.

00:12:58.000 Maybe they know something you don't know.

00:13:01.000 Because they could actually tell you, so they're the ones that have all this career success, and then they're also telling you maybe there's something more beautiful.

00:13:08.000 Would you like to follow up on that?

00:13:11.000 So I understand that, but don't you think that they had children and got married to their wonderful husbands because of their career?

00:13:19.000 Like if they didn't pursue that career, that wouldn't have happened.

00:13:22.000 I thought that one of the speakers today was really cool about this, and she talked a bit about how you can have a child and a family while also pursuing your career.

00:13:31.000 Amanda?

00:13:32.000 Okay, yeah, again, that's for every one person to decide.

00:13:35.000 Again, I'll just repeat the numbers that I said last night.

00:13:37.000 If you are single by the age of 30, you have a 50% chance of never having kids.

00:13:41.000 And if you are single by the age of 30, you have a 50% chance of not getting married.

00:13:46.000 So you just have to prioritize.

00:13:47.000 You have to aim it.

00:13:48.000 You aim at what is right and what is good.

00:13:50.000 I think the purpose of this conference is whatever takeaway you want to have, it's a resurgence of patriotism first and foremost, of true femininity, not this toxic type that is being pushed down, of traditional norms and roles, that if you want to be a mom, you are a superhero and we want to encourage you and we want to promote that and we want to help you in that regard.

00:14:10.000 But I'll also tell you this.

00:14:12.000 I hope that some of you guys walk away with a warning that a career-driven life is very empty.

00:14:18.000 We have millions of young women that are miserable. 1.00

00:14:22.000 You know the most miserable and depressed people in America are career-driven early 30-something women. 1.00

00:14:30.000 It's not my numbers, it's the Pew Research numbers.

00:14:32.000 They're most likely to say that they're upset, they're depressed, they're an antidepressant.

00:14:36.000 Do you know who the happiest women in America are? 0.96

00:14:39.000 Married women with lots of children. 0.99

00:14:41.000 By far.

00:14:43.000 Thank you very much.

00:14:44.000 Thank you.

00:14:46.000 Hi, my name is Ellie Hersan.

00:14:48.000 I'm a freshman at Region University.

00:14:50.000 I wanted to thank you for sharing your incredible wisdom with us this weekend.

00:14:55.000 You've impacted media and culture in powerful ways, but I'm wondering, how can Christians in the arts, journalism, and media reclaim their platforms effectively for the conservative movement and for Christ?

00:15:08.000 How do we as Christians in media relate and connect to culture, but yet not compromise our beliefs being in the world but not of it?

00:15:16.000 Thanks.

00:15:16.000 It's a great question.

00:15:17.000 I think there's a lot of examples of that that was on display from Lila Rose to my wife Erica to Allie Stuckey to Riley Gaines, which is we don't want you to just retreat from the culture and never come in contact with it, but go and occupy all of culture. 0.55

00:15:31.000 We need more people that are artists and more people that are making films, but always bring the gospel alongside of you and bring the promise of the gospel with you.

00:15:42.000 That doesn't mean you have to make every movie about the nativity, right?

00:15:49.000 But everything should have a couple key qualities.

00:15:52.000 Is it good?

00:15:53.000 Is it true?

00:15:54.000 Is it beautiful?

00:15:55.000 Does it lift people up or does it make them look down?

00:15:58.000 Is this elevating?

00:15:59.000 Is it in the pursuit of the holy?

00:16:00.000 Does it make people think about the deeper things or does it bring them closer to the flesh or towards depravity?

00:16:05.000 Wonderful question.

00:16:06.000 Thank you so much.

00:16:07.000 Yes?

00:16:10.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:16:11.000 My name is Elizabeth.

00:16:12.000 I'm from Fort Worth, Texas, and I'm 16.

00:16:14.000 And my question is, how can I stay true to my values and beliefs when I'm openly criticized by teachers and professors who have control over my grades?

00:16:20.000 Great question.

00:16:22.000 So you're 16, so I won't put you on the spot unless you want to, but why do grades matter to you?

00:16:29.000 I have a career that I want to pursue as a military veterinarian.

00:16:33.000 Great.

00:16:34.000 What is more important, character or career advancement?

00:16:38.000 Currently, character, but career is also highly important to me.

00:16:41.000 Okay.

00:16:41.000 So I'll tell you this, though, that I don't think grades really matter at all.

00:16:46.000 That's just my own personal opinion.

00:16:48.000 I think character matters a lot more than grades.

00:16:51.000 I also think that if you got good grades, fine, it means absolutely nothing if you got good grades.

00:16:55.000 I visit the greatest colleges in America.

00:16:57.000 These kids are not wise.

00:16:59.000 They are not.

00:17:00.000 They have good grades, fine, whatever.

00:17:02.000 But they know almost nothing.

00:17:03.000 They have no wisdom.

00:17:04.000 There's a difference between wisdom and knowing facts.

00:17:06.000 Wisdom is the understanding of things that do not change.

00:17:09.000 But look, you have a decision to make, and I'm not going to tell you the right or wrong decision.

00:17:13.000 I'll present two options in front of you.

00:17:15.000 Option A is you hide your beliefs and you kind of cut corners and you tell the teacher or the professor what they want to believe.

00:17:25.000 Option B is you refuse to do that and you have a risk that your grades might be jeopardized and you stand for truth regardless of the cost.

00:17:34.000 In option A, your career will be better, but you'll quietly be miserable.

00:17:38.000 In option B, your career might take a detour, but you'll end up figuring it out.

00:17:43.000 That's what happens when you end up standing courageously, but you'll be able to be the same person in private that you are in public.

00:17:48.000 You'll learn to stand up for yourself, and other people will follow suit.

00:17:52.000 So you have a decision to make, and by the way, some people choose option A, and so be it.

00:17:59.000 That's your path, and you've decided it.

00:18:01.000 You have to live with those consequences and those choices.

00:18:04.000 And so the balance of those two things, and raise your hand if you think teachers grade you differently because you're Christian or conservative.

00:18:11.000 Every single hand goes up.

00:18:12.000 By the way, I hope parents, you understand how sick that is in our country, like that we've created this kind of nonsense.

00:18:19.000 You have to decide that.

00:18:21.000 The younger the age you decide to do something courageous at a great cost, the better person you will become.

00:18:29.000 If you have that fight at 16 instead of 60, your life will take a significantly different track.

00:18:36.000 You will be lied to around people.

00:18:38.000 They'll say you must get good grades right now or else your career is over.

00:18:42.000 That's just not true.

00:18:44.000 Instead, you know what will keep your job and will get you to move up?

00:18:47.000 If your boss thinks that you're a person of high integrity, more so than high report card grades.

00:18:54.000 A boss wants to find someone where they could trust you with their phone while they're giving a speech, that they can give the bank account information to.

00:19:04.000 That's a person of character.

00:19:05.000 That's a person who's going to be consistent, who's going to be loyal, not necessarily somebody that can always write the essay the way they like.

00:19:14.000 And finally, not all, but some teachers will actually respect you more if you stand up to them.

00:19:18.000 Not all.

00:19:19.000 But that's for your decision to make.

00:19:21.000 Option A, option B. So choose wisely.

00:19:23.000 Thank you.

00:19:24.000 Thank you so much.

00:19:27.000 Hi, my name is Raylin.

00:19:29.000 I'm 14 And I'm homeschooled.

00:19:31.000 I know that you are very knowledgeable in what you talk about and what you debate with others.

00:19:36.000 I'm just wondering a few books that you would recommend to high schoolers to read.

00:19:41.000 Other than the Bible, great question.

00:19:44.000 Okay, so for high schoolers, it's great.

00:19:46.000 So, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.

00:19:51.000 The second one, I hope, gets applause.

00:19:53.000 Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

00:19:55.000 Anybody?

00:19:56.000 A little bit less.

00:19:58.000 Phenomenal book, like a 10 out of 10, one of the most important books.

00:20:01.000 It's actually not a Christian book, but it's incredibly Christian, meaning it's not written by a Christian, but everything he's talking about is Jesus.

00:20:07.000 It's a guy who lost his entire family in concentration camp, and he realized the most important thing in life outside of food and water is meaning.

00:20:16.000 It's not sex.

00:20:16.000 It's not fame.

00:20:18.000 It's not, it's actual connection to a purpose above yourself.

00:20:21.000 And that purpose, of course, we believe is Jesus.

00:20:23.000 So man's search for meaning would be number two.

00:20:26.000 The third one is you have to get parental permission for this one because you can laugh, but it has a scene that some parents are not comfortable with.

00:20:35.000 And there's a way to actually read the book without the scene because it's actually not that important to the book, 1984.

00:20:42.000 Look, there is a sex scene in it.

00:20:44.000 Some parents, you know, it's actually not that important to the narrative.

00:20:48.000 But the book itself is phenomenal.

00:20:50.000 It's very important at a young age that young people are introduced to a non-political drama of tyranny that they can resonate with.

00:20:59.000 And I think 1984 does that better than any other novel.

00:21:01.000 Brave New World also does a very effective job of that.

00:21:04.000 That's also very graphic, too.

00:21:06.000 So be careful.

00:21:07.000 Everybody belongs to everybody, right?

00:21:10.000 So Brave New World is also a good one.

00:21:12.000 So that kind of gives you a little bit of anything by C.S. Lewis, I recommend, but Mere Christianity especially. 0.80

00:21:20.000 Mere Christianity actually was originally delivered as radio addresses during the bombing blitz of London, and it got turned into and translated into a book.

00:21:30.000 Probably the best-selling Christian book over the last 100 years.

00:21:33.000 The last book I would recommend is that we lose so many young Christians to atheism and secularism because we have not armed them with the robust archaeological, historical, theological, and philosophical, and apologetic basis of our faith.

00:21:51.000 The best book to give a high schooler is called The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel.

00:21:57.000 Very, very good.

00:21:59.000 And then from a more like political standpoint, I got a million different ones that you could read.

00:22:07.000 But I would start there.

00:22:09.000 And then finally, everybody here should be taking free Hillsdale College online courses, right?

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00:22:18.000 Take at least the Constitution 101.

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00:23:29.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:23:30.000 I'm Addie, and I'm 14.

00:23:31.000 I'm a freshman in high school.

00:23:33.000 And I was wondering, as someone who has like a different opinion on college, what would you say the pros and cons are?

00:23:41.000 Because I'm interested in political journalism.

00:23:44.000 And what would your advice be?

00:23:46.000 Yes, so let me also speak to some of the young ladies here in high school where your top, if you're, who's here where your top priority, your top priority is get married and have kids. 1.00

00:23:54.000 Raise your hand.

00:23:55.000 Okay.

00:23:57.000 Interestingly, I think there is an argument to bring back the MRS degree.

00:24:02.000 And no, seriously.

00:24:04.000 And just be clear, that's why you're going to college, right?

00:24:07.000 Don't lie to yourself.

00:24:08.000 Like, don't, like, I'm going, I'm studying sociology.

00:24:10.000 No, you're not.

00:24:11.000 We know why you're here.

00:24:11.000 And that's okay, actually.

00:24:13.000 And that's a really good reason to go to college, actually, especially an SEC school.

00:24:19.000 Like, you will find a husband if you have the intent to find a husband and omiss.

00:24:26.000 Like, it's just going to happen, okay?

00:24:28.000 Or wherever.

00:24:29.000 Yeah, there you go, see?

00:24:30.000 Or at University of Alabama.

00:24:32.000 And, but, there you go.

00:24:34.000 But I always laugh, because, and by the way, we should bring back the celebration of the MRS degree, which is, no, seriously, I mean, if you think about it, like, I say college is a scam, but if you're going to find your life partner, like, that's actually a really good reason to go to college.

00:24:50.000 You have a bunch of people that are single, you know, they're at the prime of their, you know, let's just say attractiveness.

00:24:59.000 The dating pool is as robust as you'll ever find, and they all live together over a four-year period.

00:25:04.000 Like, you don't get much better than that, okay?

00:25:07.000 It doesn't get better after college there.

00:25:09.000 And so, yeah, you could go learn some stuff.

00:25:11.000 That's fine, I guess, or whatever.

00:25:12.000 Just don't listen to your professors.

00:25:14.000 But that actually was the reason why a lot of women went to college in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. 1.00

00:25:20.000 And it worked.

00:25:21.000 Marriage rates have plummeted since then.

00:25:23.000 So you want to be a political journalist, not just that.

00:25:27.000 So I had to just get the MRS degree introduced there.

00:25:30.000 Here's the thing about political journalism is they'll teach you very little in college, honestly.

00:25:34.000 I'll just be honest about this.

00:25:35.000 Like, I always laugh when someone says, I studied journalism.

00:25:38.000 I meet these journalists all the time.

00:25:39.000 They don't know anything, right?

00:25:41.000 And these jobs will all largely be replaced.

00:25:43.000 Nothing replaces journalism.

00:25:45.000 Number one, there's two things in journalism that are missing the most.

00:25:48.000 Commitment to truth overall and not narrative and courage.

00:25:52.000 Those two things will make you a great journalist.

00:25:54.000 They will not teach you that at college.

00:25:55.000 Now, maybe you want the credential or whatever, but those two things, if you have an unwavering commitment To truth and courage.

00:26:01.000 You think about it, during COVID, all of these people had journalism degrees and they lied to us about the masks, they lied to us about the lockdowns, they lied to us about six feet that saw the spread.

00:26:13.000 How about all these people have journalism degrees that refuse to cover Joe Biden's mental decline?

00:26:21.000 All these people have journalism degrees, and they lied to us about the Hunter Biden laptop.

00:26:27.000 All these people have journalism degrees, and they lied to us about the open border.

00:26:31.000 They lied to us about the origin of COVID.

00:26:34.000 And so if you want to learn how to be a propagandist, maybe go to a journalism school, but you yourself can become a journalist like today.

00:26:43.000 You could hold your school board accountable.

00:26:45.000 You can hold your state representative accountable.

00:26:47.000 What is the equation for a journalist?

00:26:49.000 Find something corrupt and tell the story.

00:26:52.000 That's what makes a great journalist.

00:26:53.000 Thank you so much.

00:26:59.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:27:00.000 My question for you is, as women who want to stay at home, but the economy of the last decades make that very hard, what are some current policy changes or solutions to encourage single-income households?

00:27:13.000 That's the best question yet today.

00:27:15.000 It's very important.

00:27:16.000 I actually had a little bit of, let's just say, a heated exchange a couple weeks ago where this woman is a, you know, she's very sweet, but she had a perspective that I disagreed with.

00:27:27.000 She's a stay-at-home mom.

00:27:28.000 She's a homemaker on social media.

00:27:31.000 And she wants to, you know, have other people be traditional moms, which I'm so for. 0.93

00:27:36.000 But I said, you know, what is your argument if a woman has married a police officer and he's earning $60,000 a year and they have three kids?

00:27:45.000 Like, I'm sorry, like, that's just not going to cut it in Dallas, right?

00:27:48.000 Or, I mean, I don't know what police officers make here, maybe 70, 75, right, Don, right?

00:27:52.000 The great Don Huffins, by the way, fully endorsed him.

00:27:56.000 And so this is a serious issue.

00:27:59.000 The first answer is the man needs to do everything imaginable that he possibly can to not force his wife into the workforce. 0.87

00:28:10.000 It's easier said than done if you work as a firefighter or as a paramedic or if you work in a salary-scale job where you will not reach high salaries for 10 or 20 years, right?

00:28:23.000 Or if you're like a football coach in Lubbock, Texas, or a high school football coach.

00:28:26.000 That's tough, right?

00:28:28.000 So what is the answer to that?

00:28:30.000 Well, first, let me just say this.

00:28:32.000 I think it's a tragedy that women who want to stay at home have to go work and they can't raise their kids. 0.99

00:28:40.000 I think it's an economic and societal and moral tragedy.

00:28:44.000 And people say, Charlie, what does success look like for the political MAGA movement?

00:28:49.000 I want it that moms can do what your mom did in the 1980s and 90s and stay at home if they want. 0.99

00:28:56.000 If they want to go work, fine.

00:28:58.000 Okay, great.

00:28:58.000 You have the agency to do that.

00:29:00.000 It's not about prohibitive.

00:29:01.000 It's just, but right now it's actually reverse liberty.

00:29:04.000 Everyone's like, oh, you have the liberty to stay at home.

00:29:06.000 Actually, you don't have the financial liberty to stay at home.

00:29:09.000 The number one reason that I get that moms go back into the workforce, they go crying. 1.00

00:29:14.000 They wish they could be at home, a lot of them.

00:29:17.000 But they're there because you literally cannot survive on less than like $120,000 a year in like the major Dallas metro area.

00:29:23.000 Like the numbers just don't work, especially with three kids.

00:29:26.000 And so we must be unafraid as a Republican conservative movement to talk about this.

00:29:32.000 What is the solution?

00:29:33.000 Is it tax credits or all this?

00:29:35.000 I think it's rising wages.

00:29:36.000 I think it's growth.

00:29:37.000 I think it's all that stuff.

00:29:38.000 Actually, I don't know the solution as much that we're going to be really, like, we have a tendency to figure things out if we get loud enough about the problem.

00:29:48.000 And I don't think we've articulated this as a problem where literally 10 million women are forced back into the workforce and they have to hand their six-month-old baby over to strangers to raise their kid all day long.

00:30:01.000 And again, if you use daycare, I'm not judging you.

00:30:04.000 I'm actually feeling for you.

00:30:06.000 It's the opposite, actually.

00:30:08.000 Because I want to have an economic system where you don't have to worry about that.

00:30:12.000 In 1985, you could support, one man could support a family of four with 37 weeks of work.

00:30:20.000 Now it requires 56 weeks of work for the man to support.

00:30:24.000 Basically, there's not 56 weeks in a year.

00:30:27.000 So they have to go into debt, and the mom then has to basically go into the workforce. 1.00

00:30:33.000 So I'm not sure bringing down inflation on the cost of living will help, but I think we need to make this a major goal.

00:30:39.000 Do you know the number one reason why couples do not have more than one or two kids?

00:30:43.000 Economic.

00:30:44.000 It's the number one reason that is given in surveys.

00:30:46.000 I think it's a little bit of an excuse, honestly, because you should have kids even if you can't, you should have more kids than you can afford, honestly.

00:30:54.000 But it's easier for us to say that than for most people, because they don't actually have the conviction a lot of people in this room have.

00:31:00.000 They come from families that might have declared bankruptcy.

00:31:03.000 They come from families they lost their business in 2008.

00:31:05.000 So it's a major issue.

00:31:06.000 I'm not sure of the solution, but we need to start being louder and louder about the problem.

00:31:10.000 And one thing I love about J.D. Vance is he has made this a primary issue of his political career.

00:31:16.000 Thank you.

00:31:20.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:31:21.000 My name is Sarah.

00:31:22.000 I'm from Colorado, and I am a proud college dropout.

00:31:27.000 Great!

00:31:28.000 I'm currently working on getting my license in massage therapy and my certification in nutrition.

00:31:34.000 And I wanted to know how I, as a 19-year-old who's not in college, can be involved in the political scene and make an impact on young people.

00:31:44.000 Well, first of all, you have found a job that will not be replaced by AI.

00:31:48.000 So congratulations.

00:31:50.000 So I hope anyone here who is career-driven, I hope you understand that large language models and artificial intelligence are probably going to take your jobs away in the next five to ten years.

00:32:04.000 I'm just saying, this is a displacement and a revolution economically that people have not even comprehended.

00:32:10.000 Now, you might find new jobs and you might find new ways to earn livings, but this is also one of the reasons why I say college is a scam.

00:32:16.000 These kids are going into debt to study things that don't matter to go find jobs that will not exist in five years.

00:32:22.000 So what can you do?

00:32:23.000 Local Republican Party.

00:32:24.000 Stay involved with Turning Point USA.

00:32:26.000 Show up to our events.

00:32:27.000 Support your local Turning Point chapter.

00:32:30.000 give whatever money you can.

00:32:31.000 Be an advocate.

00:32:33.000 Be an activist.

00:32:34.000 Find a good church that speaks about these issues and support that church and be a light in that community around, you know, moral righteousness and truth and goodness.

00:32:44.000 And so, and then also, you know, in your line of work, wherever you have an opportunity to share the gospel or share, you know, principled conservative teaching, that's a great opportunity to do that.

00:32:56.000 So God bless you.

00:32:58.000 Thank you so much.

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00:34:18.000 You kind of stole my thunder a little bit, but my question was going to be, how do you think AI is going to change the world over the next 10 years?

00:34:25.000 There you go.

00:34:26.000 And how can us as young Americans prepare for careers and to raise families in the world that's coming?

00:34:31.000 Boy, I could give a whole hour-long speech on this.

00:34:33.000 The first answer is we really don't know, but we know it's going to be dramatic.

00:34:37.000 By the way, people, lawyers are already losing their jobs.

00:34:40.000 Radiologists are already losing their jobs.

00:34:43.000 How many of you know people that actively use AI to write the essays at your high school or college?

00:34:48.000 Parents, I hope, look around.

00:34:50.000 Look around.

00:34:51.000 People are not writing essays anymore.

00:34:53.000 Every hand goes up.

00:34:55.000 So they're basically going to a chat processor.

00:34:58.000 That's really bad.

00:35:01.000 First of all, I tell any teacher and professor, you should tell the students that they can use AI whenever they want.

00:35:06.000 All testing should be in-class testing with phones confiscated with a pen or a pencil in front of them.

00:35:13.000 Like, show me what you know.

00:35:15.000 You got no AI.

00:35:16.000 So if you want to use AI at home to be a study guide, great.

00:35:19.000 But you've got to come into the room and actually show me you've absorbed it and you know it and you can write.

00:35:25.000 The era of at-home essay writing is dead.

00:35:28.000 And it should, by the way.

00:35:30.000 For a long time, it's invited cheating and procrastination.

00:35:33.000 And by the way, that's not the way the world works, right?

00:35:35.000 You have to be able to perform.

00:35:36.000 Anyway, so AI is going to change a lot.

00:35:39.000 We as Christians must be very clear that these are not human beings.

00:35:43.000 This is mimicking human reason and human thought.

00:35:46.000 The AI, or what do you want to say, does not have a soul.

00:35:50.000 It's going to get dramatically more powerful.

00:35:52.000 And look, from a parenting perspective, I highly encourage you to use AI for what it's good at.

00:35:59.000 And there's a lot that it's good at, everybody, okay?

00:36:01.000 One of our team members, brothers, was not feeling well.

00:36:06.000 This is a true story.

00:36:08.000 He contacted like a local doctor.

00:36:10.000 He's like, hey, I'm kind of like bruised up.

00:36:11.000 And I kind of like feel.

00:36:12.000 He's like, oh, come see me tomorrow, the next day.

00:36:15.000 We'll get you in.

00:36:16.000 So then he'd still, he's like, I kind of feel funny.

00:36:18.000 Maybe I need to take a nap.

00:36:19.000 Took a picture of himself, put the symptoms in a chat GPT.

00:36:24.000 Within two seconds, got the three red alert emojis.

00:36:28.000 Chat GPT said, you must go to a hospital.

00:36:30.000 You will be dead in six hours.

00:36:33.000 Goes to the hospital.

00:36:34.000 He had sepsis.

00:36:35.000 Big, big, bad, right?

00:36:37.000 Saved his life.

00:36:39.000 It's not all bad.

00:36:40.000 It's not all good.

00:36:42.000 But ChatGPT literally, he's like, he's like, to save my life.

00:36:45.000 He's like, if I would have been to the doctor in two days, just, you know, sepsis where your body's attacking itself, like, you die quick.

00:36:51.000 And then when they got to the hospital, they're like, it's a miraculous thing.

00:36:53.000 We were able to save your life at that moment.

00:36:55.000 How did he get sepsis?

00:36:56.000 He cut his finger.

00:36:56.000 It's like a very weird, freakish thing.

00:36:59.000 Anyway, so, no, it's like very, he cut a finger, didn't treat it, got infected, and his body started attacking itself.

00:37:05.000 It's not all good, it's not all bad.

00:37:06.000 It's a technology, and it's a tool.

00:37:08.000 We have to be very prudent and very careful.

00:37:10.000 Here's what I'm most optimistic about, we as Christians, is that it is going to force the most important questions into the public arena.

00:37:19.000 We can finally have the conversation of what is a human being.

00:37:23.000 Finally.

00:37:24.000 We have said since Christ, a human being, is an image bearer with a soul made in the image of the divine.

00:37:32.000 The secularists, the atheists, and the materialists, you know what they say?

00:37:34.000 Well, a human being is just reason.

00:37:37.000 Okay, well, is ChatGPT a human being?

00:37:39.000 It can reason.

00:37:40.000 It can do math better than you.

00:37:42.000 It can write an essay better than you.

00:37:44.000 It can even write a picture, draw a picture better than you.

00:37:47.000 It can write a song better than you.

00:37:48.000 Is that a human being?

00:37:50.000 Why not?

00:37:50.000 I thought it's all about consciousness.

00:37:52.000 Well, it's not totally conscious.

00:37:53.000 It has the performative aspects of a human being because it does not have a soul.

00:37:57.000 It cannot forgive.

00:37:58.000 It cannot love.

00:38:00.000 It does not have compassion.

00:38:01.000 And most importantly, it's not made in the image of the divine.

00:38:05.000 And one day the AI will not see its creator.

00:38:07.000 It's nothing more than a bunch of numbers in a little chip that's going back and forth very fast.

00:38:13.000 So look, everybody here needs to be on your guard about artificial intelligence.

00:38:16.000 I believe this is going to be the greatest change of civilization that we have seen since we went from agrarian to the Industrial Revolution.

00:38:24.000 And it's going to happen even quicker and faster.

00:38:27.000 So buckle up. 0.96

00:38:28.000 But we as Christians, everybody, if you do not have a pastor that knows this problem, talks about this problem, and is willing to engage with it alongside abortion and transgenderism and the border, leave that church and find a pastor because it's going to get very real very quickly.

00:38:43.000 Thank you very much.

00:38:45.000 Final thoughts, guys.

00:38:47.000 I want to make sure you guys understand the significance.

00:38:50.000 This is our 10th annual Young Women's Leadership Summit.

00:38:54.000 What matters most is what you do when you leave here.

00:38:58.000 Start a Turning Point USA chapter.

00:38:59.000 Literally, I encourage all of you, if you feel fired up and you want to get involved, go start that TP USA chapter.

00:39:06.000 Find out how you could pursue a career potential with Turning Point USA.

00:39:10.000 Make this the starting point.

00:39:12.000 And if you want to make career your focus, that you have the agency to do that.

00:39:16.000 But also, most importantly, I hope there is some affirmation for you out there because look, career affirmation, that's not lacking in society.

00:39:25.000 But I hope simultaneously, those of you that kind of feel a knot in your stomach, you're like, I want to be a mom.

00:39:32.000 I want to raise kids.

00:39:34.000 That is awesome.

00:39:35.000 And I hope you leave here not with guilt or shame, but with a sense of confidence that you can go to the world, that you're going to do the most important thing, which is to raise godly children in this world.

00:39:49.000 Because far too often, young ladies tell me, they say, I don't know, you know, if I become a mom, if I get married, my family will be upset.

00:39:58.000 You should always have the confidence that that is the right thing, the biblical thing, and the courageous thing.

00:40:04.000 And that's the last note that I will give you.

00:40:06.000 We are biblically commanded, even if your parents are liberals, even if your parents, you don't like your parents, unless your parents abuse you and are like in prison.

00:40:16.000 The only commandment that involves your nation and a promise is honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in.

00:40:25.000 For the rest of your life, it's good for you and good for your parents to honor your parents.

00:40:30.000 Because if you cannot honor your earthly father, you will not be able to honor your almighty father.

00:40:35.000 God bless you guys.

00:40:36.000 Thank you so much.

00:40:38.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:40:39.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:40:42.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 06, 2025

The Q&A Heard Around the World — My Speech at the Young Women's Leadership Summit

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