The Charlie Kirk Show - The Q&A Heard 'Round the World

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, YWS Part 2.

00:00:02.000 This is the QA that went viral because I said something so unbelievably controversial.

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00:00:36.000 Here we go.

00:00:37.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:39.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:41.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:45.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:48.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:49.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:50.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:00:58.000 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.

00:01:07.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:10.000 Let's waste no time and let's get to as many questions as we can.

00:01:15.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:01:16.000 I'm Sophia.

00:01:17.000 I come from parents who immigrated to the U.S.

00:01:21.000 And after 20 years and over $40,000, they came here legally and I was born here in the greatest country in the world.

00:01:29.000 So I owe everything to this amazing country.

00:01:32.000 So what would you say to legal immigrants such as my parents who have spent thousands of dollars and waited years, even many decades to enter to the U.S. legally, now seeing border jumpers who are crossing this border and taking advantage of our government and the government supporting them rather than legal immigrants? 0.79

00:01:52.000 Yeah, that's a great point.

00:01:54.000 So I have very little patience and tolerance for the trespassing, border jumping that's happening on our southern border.

00:02:00.000 It's not immigration. 0.61

00:02:01.000 It's an invasion into our country. 0.94

00:02:04.000 And it's happening every single day.

00:02:06.000 The governor of Texas should be a lot firmer on this.

00:02:09.000 He's been okay, but not great, honestly.

00:02:12.000 We should have a zero tolerance policy.

00:02:14.000 The entire military should be mobilized.

00:02:16.000 And we should say our country will not be invaded.

00:02:19.000 I don't know about you, but I care much more about our own country being invaded than what's happening in Ukraine. 0.90

00:02:25.000 And I wish our leaders cared about what's happening on our southern border a lot more about than whichever, you know, oh, what thug is going to control eastern Ukraine?

00:02:33.000 That's not interesting to me.

00:02:35.000 What's interesting is when you're invaded with 10,000 people a day.

00:02:39.000 And yes, it is insulting, but this is a pattern.

00:02:41.000 This is a theme.

00:02:43.000 The law-abiding citizen in America is routinely put down while the criminal, the trespasser, gets elevated.

00:02:56.000 We are seeing a set of customs where heroin addicts, vagrants, arsons, arsonists, and violent criminals get away with whatever they want to do, people trespassing into the nation, and law-abiding citizens have to then pay the price.

00:03:11.000 So what advice do I have?

00:03:13.000 We need more people that came here the right way to say, you're not welcome here if you break into my country, period. 1.00

00:03:20.000 And some people say, well, Charlie, that's not very Christian of you.

00:03:22.000 No, actually, borders are biblical.

00:03:25.000 They come straight from the Bible.

00:03:27.000 In fact, if you say that anybody anytime is welcome into your home or to your nation, that is saying that I don't want to protect my nation from something that might threaten it.

00:03:38.000 The law must be blind towards emotion.

00:03:42.000 Someone say, oh, well, they've walked 600 miles and they really want to be in here.

00:03:46.000 It's irrelevant what they want.

00:03:48.000 What is relevant is what is right.

00:03:49.000 And it is not right to open up your country to people that intentionally break our laws.

00:03:54.000 Every single trespasser that has broken to America should be immediately deported, not given any sort of treatment, in-state tuition.

00:04:02.000 They broke into our country. 0.65

00:04:03.000 Go back to your country of origin and go make that country great. 0.99

00:04:06.000 And let's put our citizens first.

00:04:07.000 Thank you very much.

00:04:12.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:04:13.000 This is a different direction from the last question, but I just wanted to ask, since from the conservative movement, a lot of people are pushing, you know, getting married young, having kids young, starting a family.

00:04:26.000 And from a Christian perspective, this culture of dating isn't really in the Bible.

00:04:31.000 So I was just going to ask from, you know, a Christian perspective, someone who's young and just started dating, what is your advice in dating and pursuing marriage as a Christian?

00:04:43.000 Sure, great question.

00:04:44.000 First of all, let me ask, who here wants to find a husband? 0.96

00:04:47.000 Okay, so he's going to kill me. 0.95

00:04:47.000 Raise your hand. 0.95

00:04:49.000 There's someone that works for my team who's very high IQ.

00:04:52.000 If you can email me resumes, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:04:56.000 I'm not kidding.

00:04:57.000 He's going to murder me.

00:04:59.000 So he's very smart.

00:05:00.000 So freedom at charliekirk.com, I could tell you, very ethical, very capable.

00:05:05.000 All right, so what advice?

00:05:07.000 So look, you're here to hear the truth, right?

00:05:13.000 I recommend saving yourself for marriage.

00:05:16.000 Okay?

00:05:18.000 And I'm not here to shame you if you've made a different decision or if you disagree.

00:05:23.000 But that, you're going to live a better life if you do that. 1.00

00:05:26.000 And women have a lot more negotiating power than I think you realize in that situation. 1.00

00:05:31.000 You might say, well, none of the men will date me. 0.64

00:05:33.000 Well, you're dating the wrong men.

00:05:34.000 Okay?

00:05:35.000 Let me be very honest.

00:05:37.000 And I do recommend, though, there's a real thing that you will hear, is that if you put off dating seriously for the intent of marrying, dating is not a vocation.

00:05:47.000 It's not a hobby.

00:05:49.000 It's not to use time.

00:05:50.000 Dating must lead towards something.

00:05:52.000 So you must date with the intent to marry.

00:05:55.000 So you should not even open yourself up into the dating pool, period, if you can't potentially see, at least at the criteria beginning, spending the rest of your life with that person.

00:06:05.000 It's not, you know, this whole idea of dating, like, oh, I'm just trying to, you know, figure out if I'm good at this thing.

00:06:11.000 You know, it's not basketball, right?

00:06:13.000 It's not the more you do it, the better you get at it. 0.95

00:06:16.000 Okay, that's a modern garbage way of looking at it, right?

00:06:21.000 And again, I'm not here to, you know, be judgy or say if you make other individual decisions, I can just say, though, that people that decide to make what I believe should be sacrosanct and holy in a biblical marriage construct all of a sudden shared with multiple partners, I think is not an ideal that we should share with young women and young men in particular. 0.68

00:06:44.000 I think it's beautiful if you're able to do it in your life and if you get good enough advice early on to say, I want to save that incredible moment and that practice with the person that God has intended me as my soulmate to spend the rest of my life with.

00:06:59.000 And the issue for young ladies is you're going to get, at least from what I understand in talking to people, is that there's a fair amount of fear of, oh, fear of rejection or being fear of being called names.

00:07:09.000 Again, you have to just basically say, yeah, okay, whatever.

00:07:12.000 You can call me whatever you want.

00:07:14.000 I'm waiting for my soulmate.

00:07:16.000 And if you disagree at that or if you've already made a different decision, then tell me how that works out for you.

00:07:21.000 That's fine.

00:07:22.000 But this is something that's proven and I think is an ideal that needs to be repeated because it's so rare in our secular postmodern world.

00:07:31.000 Also, you should just be very clear about your intentions from the beginning.

00:07:34.000 You should say, you know, if you, and again, I'm not necessarily, I am probably, I'm against dating apps if you're using them to hook up.

00:07:41.000 I'm not against dating apps if you're using them to marry.

00:07:43.000 Good luck because most of the dating apps, people aren't there for that.

00:07:46.000 But if you're in your late 20s, you should use everything at your possible disposal to try to find a partner.

00:07:51.000 I don't think they're just a tool, but most of the apps are not a tool for good things.

00:07:55.000 But you should be very clear about your intent, which is: I am here to find a life partner.

00:08:01.000 And if that scares the man off, good.

00:08:03.000 You just saved a bunch of time, right?

00:08:06.000 And so we have a men's summit too at Turning Point USA, and we're trying to instill with them, you know, virtue and also understanding the differences between men and women because men, their nature given by God, they want variety more, but that's not an excuse to watch pornography or be promiscuous.

00:08:25.000 And so men have to fix a lot of things.

00:08:27.000 How many of you are displeased with the quality of American men when you go to date?

00:08:31.000 Yeah, almost almost every, and there's applause, yeah.

00:08:33.000 And that's that's a big problem, right?

00:08:35.000 And so, but do not lower your standards because men have become feminized versions of metrosexual culture, right?

00:08:42.000 Instead, but you, in my personal opinion, you should enter the serious dating pool earlier than not, right?

00:08:50.000 I'm talking 22, 23, 24.

00:08:53.000 This whole idea of putting your career first, I think is a very, very dangerous proposition.

00:08:57.000 It could work out for you, but I hear stories every day.

00:09:00.000 Charlie, I decided to go become a partner at a law firm, and now I'm 32 years old, and I can't find anyone because all the good ones are gone.

00:09:07.000 There is some truth to quote unquote, the good ones being gone.

00:09:12.000 The window does narrow, and so I think you should prioritize what do I want most in my life?

00:09:17.000 And if that thing is the best thing that I think a human being can do, which is to get married and have kids, then you should do that with clear intentionality.

00:09:25.000 Thank you for the question.

00:09:26.000 Appreciate it.

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00:10:07.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:10:08.000 My name's Isabelle, and I semi-recently found out about Turning Point USA and have quickly become passionate about it.

00:10:18.000 So being semi-new to all of this, do you have any advice for those like myself who are still learning and maybe aren't the best on the spot debating against the very aggressive leftists?

00:10:33.000 Well, first of all, welcome.

00:10:34.000 I'm so glad that you want to be part of our movement.

00:10:37.000 So thank you.

00:10:39.000 Yeah, look, I try to make a habit of always telling the truth.

00:10:43.000 You're going to be called a lot of names and you're going to probably lose friends.

00:10:46.000 Raise your hands if you lost friends because of politics.

00:10:49.000 Every single hand goes up.

00:10:50.000 And how many of you wish you probably could still be friends with those people?

00:10:53.000 Raise your hands.

00:10:54.000 Yeah, so and half and half.

00:10:55.000 Good.

00:10:56.000 So it's too bad.

00:10:59.000 Friendships get severed over this stuff.

00:11:01.000 So you have to be ready for that.

00:11:02.000 Smeared, slandered, doxed, you know, your grades will be lowered.

00:11:05.000 You're like, wow, that sounds terrible.

00:11:07.000 Yeah, but it's worth it to fight for things that are eternally true.

00:11:12.000 It's worth it to fight for things that are transcendent.

00:11:16.000 It's worth it to sacrifice maybe your reputation or your friendship, your proximity or your comfort for things that are going to outlast you, right?

00:11:26.000 So my advice is just brace for impact, but also try to build community.

00:11:32.000 And that's what you're going to do here.

00:11:33.000 You are not alone.

00:11:34.000 You're not the only one that is going to be in the trenches of fighting for a better America and fighting for the things that we care about.

00:11:42.000 And we're here to support you throughout, whether it be starting a high school chapter, starting a college chapter, giving you the on-the-ground assistance, showing up to events like this, campus tours, podcasts, you name it.

00:11:54.000 We're here to supply you with all that.

00:11:56.000 But everybody has their gifting, right?

00:11:58.000 Some people have a gifting to think quickly on their feet or to be able to answer questions.

00:12:02.000 I'm okay at that, right?

00:12:04.000 Some people have a gifting of organizing and community building.

00:12:09.000 Find your gifting.

00:12:10.000 You don't have to be a master class debater to be involved at Turning Point USA.

00:12:14.000 And in fact, if a super aggressive leftist comes up to you, it's a perfectly acceptable way to say, it's like, I'm not here to debate.

00:12:22.000 I'm not interested in talking right now. 0.95

00:12:24.000 If you're not comfortable, you don't have to talk to these lunatics, okay?

00:12:27.000 I have deeply held beliefs.

00:12:28.000 I don't want to deal with you right now is perfectly fine, okay?

00:12:31.000 And in fact, they're not here to actually try to debate.

00:12:33.000 They're here to try to humiliate you, most of them, okay?

00:12:36.000 Now, if you feel equipped to do that, I'm highly encouraged to do it if you feel that's your calling or you feel comfortable doing it.

00:12:41.000 Welcome aboard.

00:12:42.000 Can't wait to have you part of Turning Point USA.

00:12:44.000 Thank you so much.

00:12:49.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:12:50.000 My name is Madison, and my sister is Bella over here.

00:12:56.000 So my question is, I started my own Christian-based conservative clothing brand two and a half years ago as I am not married and want to use my talents in this season to glorify God.

00:13:07.000 But it's been a struggle to promote lost and found apparel, which is my clothing brand, and share God's word through my clothing in a field that's clearly satanic and will silence you if they disagree with the message you're trying to share with others.

00:13:23.000 I've been shadow banned on social media before, and frankly, I think that I still am because it's been such a struggle to promote, you know, online on Instagram and TikTok.

00:13:37.000 And so my question is, how do I share this with others and get off the ground after working tirelessly on it with little to no success for two and a half years?

00:13:47.000 Yeah, it's it all depends on how you define success, right?

00:13:50.000 So there's a great book, The Gap and the Gain.

00:13:52.000 It will take you like two hours to read, which is you can either define where you're at as a gain in your life or something that is a big gap.

00:14:00.000 So you could define it as a success or you could define it as a blessing that you went through two and a half years.

00:14:06.000 And did you get tougher?

00:14:08.000 Did you understand more about the world?

00:14:10.000 Did you learn more about yourself?

00:14:12.000 Did you learn more about the parasitic left?

00:14:14.000 You're nodding your head, right?

00:14:15.000 All of a sudden, maybe that is a success, right?

00:14:19.000 So the point, I think you should reframe what you think is success.

00:14:23.000 Yeah, I mean, you're not Balenciaga, praise God, right? 0.96

00:14:26.000 Or any of that crap that's being peddled on TV.

00:14:30.000 But when you are fighting towards something good and you do so in a disciplined fashion, failure is largely just how you categorize it or define it. 0.76

00:14:40.000 You might fall short of a standard of material success, but I wouldn't call that as a lack of success.

00:14:45.000 I wouldn't.

00:14:46.000 Because it's always a, in my opinion, a worthwhile journey to go on to fight for something that is bigger than yourself and something that is transcendent.

00:14:55.000 So, but to the more immediate question is, well, if you want to achieve that kind of material success and sell that clothing, then success leaves clues.

00:15:05.000 Find other people that are doing something really well and do what they're doing or do it better.

00:15:10.000 And I mean, the great innovators of our time are relentless.

00:15:14.000 You know, I could tell you, Turning Point USA, after two and a half years, it didn't look like there was much success.

00:15:20.000 And then 11 years later, we're the largest movement of its kind on high school and college campuses and in churches.

00:15:26.000 I mean, so there's a ramp-up period, but it depends on what you define as that success.

00:15:34.000 You should also look at, has it developed my character?

00:15:37.000 Has it deepened my understanding of things I care about?

00:15:39.000 If yes, that's a big gain in your life and a significant blessing.

00:15:44.000 But as far as trying to turn fashion around, that's not my thing.

00:15:49.000 You should ask, go to Erica and ask that because she's far more literate in that than I am.

00:15:54.000 Thank you so much.

00:16:00.000 Hi, Charlie Kirk.

00:16:01.000 My name is Elaine Navarro.

00:16:02.000 As a conservative woman coming from a family who immigrated here from Cuba in the 60s when cashler was taking over, what advice would you give to me as a conservative woman who is wanting to start a podcast and wanting to jump into this movement of spreading the conservative message and especially freedom?

00:16:21.000 Yeah, so my first piece of advice for any one of you that are influencers or want to be influencers, you should want to spread goodness and truth more than wanting to be famous, okay?

00:16:32.000 So the desire to be famous, please, like, I just, I pray you try to pray and strip that away.

00:16:37.000 It's a bad thing to want to do, okay?

00:16:40.000 You're going to act in ways you otherwise would not want to act and you're going to do things you otherwise would not want to do.

00:16:45.000 So let me just encourage you for that.

00:16:47.000 And then the best way to do it is to start doing it.

00:16:50.000 Start the podcast, start talking, figure out what works.

00:16:53.000 You know, the Charlie Kirk show started with no listeners and now it's something, right?

00:16:58.000 So every single one of you possess that.

00:17:00.000 But then if you have a belief that I'm going to outwork my competition, that is something that will then be a defining characteristic, right?

00:17:09.000 And in life, you largely get what you pour into.

00:17:12.000 So if you pour a lot into your podcast and you want it to be successful, then it will be successful.

00:17:16.000 If you want something else to be successful, then so be it.

00:17:19.000 So as far as advice, you know, tell the truth.

00:17:22.000 And if you want to be successful, you can.

00:17:24.000 You all have that capacity and that ability, but you're going to have to put a lot of work.

00:17:28.000 The things that are important in life do not come easily or immediate.

00:17:32.000 It takes a lot of discipline and dedication.

00:17:35.000 Thank you so much.

00:17:40.000 Are you feeling burned out and a little tired?

00:17:42.000 Look, I want to tell you about something that I've become a big believer in.

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00:18:11.000 And so what does NAD stand for?

00:18:13.000 Well, try to take a note here.

00:18:15.000 It is nicotinamide adenonide dinucleotide.

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00:18:21.000 NAD.

00:18:22.000 It's a coenzyme that is central to metabolism.

00:18:26.000 Again, don't take my word for it.

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00:18:31.000 I've been taking NAD for quite some time.

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00:18:37.000 How do you do the 300 days a year?

00:18:39.000 Look, it's not only because of this.

00:18:39.000 How do you do that?

00:18:40.000 I eat well and do other things as well.

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00:20:34.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:20:35.000 I'm Clarice.

00:20:37.000 Everyone has always told me that I have what it takes to go into office and that they can always see me in office.

00:20:48.000 I am hesitant to go into office or run for office one day because I'm four foot eight.

00:20:54.000 I have a baby face and I don't think I'm that intimidating.

00:20:58.000 What is your advice to me who is hesitant to run for office one day?

00:21:03.000 So let me ask you, let's put all that stuff.

00:21:05.000 That stuff doesn't matter.

00:21:07.000 What can you do that other people struggle at?

00:21:09.000 What's your gifting?

00:21:11.000 Normally when I'm in debates, I have no emotions.

00:21:14.000 I don't care what you say.

00:21:16.000 I'm going to tell the truth, tell you what it is.

00:21:19.000 That's way more important than your height, let me tell you.

00:21:22.000 So do not allow whatever limiting factor that you just articulated get in the way.

00:21:29.000 Use it to your advantage.

00:21:30.000 Okay, you're four foot eight.

00:21:31.000 Not a lot of people are four foot eight.

00:21:33.000 You'll definitely stand out.

00:21:35.000 People will remember you.

00:21:36.000 So all of a sudden, you see how I flipped that?

00:21:38.000 All of a sudden, what you think is a negative actually could be an advantage.

00:21:42.000 The association that you assigned to it might actually be incorrect, right?

00:21:47.000 And I don't, I mean, you said something about the face.

00:21:50.000 I think you have a great face.

00:21:50.000 You have a memorable face.

00:21:52.000 So whatever the world is telling you, it's like, okay, I'm going to use actually what the enemy meant for evil or what you think the enemy means for evil for good or whatever you're ascribing it to.

00:21:52.000 Okay.

00:22:01.000 You could flip that immediately, right?

00:22:04.000 And so you have the power to do it.

00:22:05.000 And yes, you have a stoic ability to debate and to converse.

00:22:08.000 Every single one of you in this room have what it takes to be a talented person in office or in corporate life.

00:22:15.000 Most importantly, please become a wife and start a family.

00:22:18.000 That is the most important thing if you so feel called and want to be happy.

00:22:21.000 I really encourage you to do that.

00:22:22.000 But that shouldn't be the only thing you do if you so choose you have the agency to do that.

00:22:27.000 But you could run for office.

00:22:29.000 And by the way, you said the most important thing.

00:22:31.000 Other people already see it in you.

00:22:34.000 So if other people already see that you could run for office, then you need to just agree with other people and go do it.

00:22:40.000 God bless you.

00:22:41.000 Thank you so much.

00:22:44.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:22:45.000 So my name is Megan Ramon, and I'm a 21-year-old Cuban-American studying at the University of Florida.

00:22:51.000 And I wanted to say that I've been following you and your story for a really long time.

00:22:56.000 You inspired me to speak out and stop staying silent.

00:22:59.000 You helped me realize that because I am allowed to live in this great country, I have just as much a right to speak on my beliefs as a liberal does.

00:23:07.000 And for that, I want to thank you.

00:23:09.000 But now I had to say that this country is my world because it has offered me so many opportunities that my family, who are stuck and locked under an iron grip in a communist country, can only ever dream of.

00:23:22.000 I struggle now with watching that blessed flag change into this dull and sad version of what it once stood for.

00:23:28.000 And it hurts me so badly.

00:23:30.000 How do you believe I can best work to maintain my faith in this beautiful country and its future and our future as conservatives in a literal bowl of rabid piranhas?

00:23:43.000 I love that.

00:23:44.000 First of all, you being here is a big deal.

00:23:47.000 And we're going to be talking about the action items, right?

00:23:50.000 You first and foremost have to get your own house in order, right?

00:23:53.000 Being the best citizen you personally can be, dedicating part of your career towards saving the country is very important.

00:23:59.000 Believing it can be saved and refounded and revitalized is equally as important.

00:24:05.000 And look, they want to demoralize you.

00:24:07.000 They want to try to make you surrender, give up.

00:24:09.000 They want to try to have you go to the middle and sue for peace.

00:24:13.000 What they are afraid of is that there is this young movement that is growing in intensity and in numbers that are going to take leadership positions, people like Ana Paulina Luna, people that are doing such a great job, and they're very, very afraid of that.

00:24:28.000 And look, you said it best.

00:24:30.000 You have family connections to people that lived under totalitarianism.

00:24:34.000 Now, let me ask you: in Cuba, what did Castro do to his political opponents?

00:24:41.000 Blew them out of the water.

00:24:43.000 Yeah, put them in prison, right?

00:24:45.000 Now, we would never do that in this country, obviously.

00:24:48.000 We would never, you know, we would never indict our political opponents because we're afraid they might beat us in an election.

00:24:53.000 We don't do that, right?

00:24:55.000 That's stuff Putin would do, right?

00:24:57.000 Sure.

00:24:58.000 Maybe we should bring some of the ideas here that we're so afraid of sending over there.

00:25:03.000 Anyway, we would never do such a thing.

00:25:07.000 What you can do, I mean, look, it's going to be a thing I just keep repeating: is you have to be intentional in an attitude of citizenship, of dedication to your community, to your loved ones, and the people around you.

00:25:20.000 And then you have to fight.

00:25:22.000 And every opportunity, if you so feel called, every time somebody around you tries to tell you to use a pronoun that you don't want to use or a piece of, I mean, you have to fight the micro-tyranny, right?

00:25:35.000 So if someone says, Yeah, call me by a pronoun and I'm a boy, you know, you can see their man, like, I'm not going to do that.

00:25:40.000 Like, it's an insult to my intelligence.

00:25:42.000 You can't tell me what to say or do.

00:25:44.000 Sorry, can't do that, not by force, not going to do it.

00:25:47.000 And so remember, the T in LGBT stands for totalitarianism and tyranny. 0.99

00:25:53.000 It doesn't stand for transgenderism. 1.00

00:25:55.000 It's, I'm going to force you to believe my creepy, weird gender ideology.

00:26:00.000 Thank you so much.

00:26:01.000 I appreciate it.

00:26:05.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:26:06.000 My name's Toby.

00:26:07.000 First of all, I just want to say thank you for all the work that you do and for inspiring us all to fight for truth and freedom.

00:26:14.000 My question is: how did you start and form Turning Point USA?

00:26:18.000 And what advice would you give to many of us who are confused on what to do other than starting a chapter?

00:26:25.000 Are you in high school or college?

00:26:26.000 College.

00:26:27.000 Okay.

00:26:28.000 Do you think college is worth it?

00:26:31.000 Somewhat.

00:26:32.000 Okay, there you go.

00:26:33.000 Good.

00:26:34.000 So, what actually steps to do?

00:26:38.000 Yeah.

00:26:38.000 Yes.

00:26:39.000 So, very similar to the other.

00:26:40.000 So, you got to take time every single day to learn and to study and to dive deep into ideas that really matter.

00:26:47.000 You have to become the best personal possible version of yourself from a health standpoint and from just a general citizenship standpoint.

00:26:55.000 And then you have to ask the Lord for opportunities to fight and save the country every single day.

00:26:59.000 You know, it's not going to come easy.

00:27:01.000 It's not going to come lightly.

00:27:03.000 And then you have to say, okay, I'm going to be in this fight for the rest of my life.

00:27:06.000 For the rest of my life, I'm going to be in this struggle for faith, for freedom, and for America.

00:27:12.000 And the most immediate way to do that is to get involved with Turning Point USA and get your friends to do the same.

00:27:18.000 Thank you.

00:27:18.000 Appreciate it.

00:27:24.000 Okay, so lately I've seen a lot of posts or jokes about like we should secede and we should separate.

00:27:33.000 And I never felt that way, but whenever I saw Title 42 come down and Texas just left to like defend itself with little to no assistance, the thought or the feeling that came inside of me is like we're being treated like a colony.

00:27:48.000 What are your thoughts on like those jokes and Like do you think that the federal government cares about us anymore?

00:27:57.000 Well the federal government's at war with all of us right now.

00:28:00.000 That is a fact We have a government that hates every single one of us That's what that indictment means is that if you believe in a certain worldview We're gonna put you on a show trial and humiliate you and try to destroy your life No, I don't support the secession stuff.

00:28:14.000 We are probably headed towards a national divorce and that makes me very sad.

00:28:18.000 I don't celebrate that.

00:28:19.000 I want to do everything we possibly can to keep the union together.

00:28:22.000 But let's be very clear.

00:28:23.000 The radical left does not want to live in the country with us.

00:28:26.000 They don't.

00:28:28.000 They're the ones that passed sanctuary city laws where they defied federal government immigration law, where they said illegals are welcome.

00:28:35.000 They're the ones that routinely talk about how they don't want to live in a country with us.

00:28:39.000 What do I have in common with somebody in downtown San Francisco? 0.98

00:28:43.000 They salute the gay flag. 0.85

00:28:44.000 I salute the American flag. 0.87

00:28:46.000 Literally, if you saw a video yesterday, the police department is saluting the gay flag go up, not a parody in the Sheriff's Department of San Francisco.

00:28:54.000 I salute the American flag.

00:28:55.000 I believe in the Constitution.

00:28:57.000 They do not.

00:28:58.000 I believe skin color doesn't matter. 0.97

00:28:59.000 They believe skin color does matter.

00:29:01.000 What really unifies us anymore?

00:29:03.000 Very little.

00:29:04.000 So unless something dramatically changes in the next 10 or 15 years, we are going to probably see a national divorce.

00:29:11.000 And that really makes me sad.

00:29:13.000 Unless a leader can come in and heal this country and absolutely put the radical Marxists in their place and put this country back to actually the place it should be, which is a center-right country, then we're probably going to be in a really, really difficult spot.

00:29:28.000 I don't celebrate that.

00:29:29.000 I don't want that, but that's what we're looming towards.

00:29:32.000 Because you can't, it's unsustainable to have South Dakota, North Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi completely just waged war upon by Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country.

00:29:47.000 Thank you so much.

00:29:53.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

00:29:54.000 Just when you thought the government would stop trying to take over health care, Senator Bernie Sanders, that socialist Marxist communist, is pushing something that is no good.

00:30:03.000 I need your attention right now.

00:30:04.000 I'm urgently asking you to support the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste to stop the Senate from passing the Sanders Bill S-1339.

00:30:12.000 It would raise the price of prescription drugs by making it harder for pharmacy benefit managers to continue to save an average of $1,000 per year for 275 million Americans just like you.

00:30:21.000 Bernie Sanders, he is a sneaky commie.

00:30:23.000 I'll tell you what.

00:30:24.000 He will not lower prescription drug prices despite what the bill says.

00:30:28.000 It will create a socialist health care system here in America.

00:30:31.000 I've read the bill.

00:30:31.000 It's dangerous.

00:30:32.000 You've got to stop it.

00:30:33.000 You have to sign lowermydrugprices.com.

00:30:36.000 I'm telling you, I'm involved in this.

00:30:38.000 You got to get into the game.

00:30:39.000 Add your name to thousands who are standing up and saying you don't want more government interference in healthcare, but you must hurry.

00:30:44.000 The Sanders bill will come up for a vote in only a few weeks.

00:30:47.000 Go to lowermydrugprices.com.

00:30:49.000 All of us together must oppose the Marxist Bernie Sanders lowermydrugprices.com.

00:31:01.000 Good afternoon, Mr. Kirk.

00:31:03.000 My name is Abigail, and I'm one of the co-presidents of the new TPUSA chapter at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

00:31:13.000 My other co-president is right there.

00:31:15.000 She's awesome.

00:31:17.000 So like these other women in this room, I am very driven career-wise.

00:31:23.000 And my goals are set on succeeding as an orthopedic surgeon.

00:31:28.000 And I have really rarely thought about even getting married, having children, and even going into dating.

00:31:37.000 Like, it's just something that I never really thought about.

00:31:41.000 Would you be able to give me some advice as somebody who so badly wants to succeed in surgery, but to get out of residency fellowship, I'm going to be 30 before I can really focus on myself.

00:31:55.000 So what's some advice for really balancing my career as well as venturing into settling down?

00:32:02.000 You're going to have to choose which one matters more, and that will be up to you.

00:32:07.000 So first of all, thank you for being involved with Turning Point USA.

00:32:09.000 So here's my piece of advice.

00:32:13.000 Go try to spend a couple days with babies. 0.73

00:32:16.000 And if it doesn't move you to want to have some of your own, then go do the surgeon thing.

00:32:21.000 I mean that.

00:32:22.000 If you don't get baby fever being around young kids as a young lady, then you kind of have your answer.

00:32:29.000 But if you're around a young child or a young baby, or like all of a sudden something greater than yourself gets activated, or all of a sudden you feel maybe a prodding by the Holy Spirit, then you got something to think about.

00:32:39.000 But look, you could potentially do both.

00:32:41.000 You could become an orthopedic surgeon and still do that.

00:32:44.000 But there will be a lot of people that says, oh, just put the family thing on hold and put that on hold.

00:32:48.000 I just want to caution you, a reality is that there are a lot of successful 35-year-old orthopedic surgeons that have cats and not kids.

00:32:58.000 And they're very miserable.

00:33:00.000 Most of the radical left is largely being run by childless young ladies, young women that are in their mid-30s that are super miserable and antidepressants because I think they're missing something, which I think that they're missing one of the most fulfilling things.

00:33:17.000 Now, you might not be feeling that, or you might be designed in a way where you might not feel it at all, but I encourage you to try to lean into that if possible.

00:33:24.000 And there's nothing wrong with being driven to your career, but I'm career-driven, but my relationship with God and my family come way above my career.

00:33:33.000 And I think all of you guys should have that exact same thing.

00:33:35.000 If you so desire, if you want to just say all career all the time, maybe it will work for you.

00:33:40.000 But the evidence is overwhelming.

00:33:41.000 That will lead to an empty life.

00:33:43.000 And then you got to ask yourself, why do you want to be successful, right?

00:33:46.000 What is it?

00:33:47.000 Is it material success?

00:33:48.000 Is it a title?

00:33:49.000 If that's the case, then that will never actually bring you ultimate fulfillment.

00:33:52.000 It might bring you the actual practice of doing it could bring you fulfillment.

00:33:57.000 So pray about it, think about it.

00:33:58.000 I'm not here to tell you one way or the other, right or wrong.

00:34:01.000 But I also want to make sure I tell you the truth that the cautionary tale ahead of you is that if you say, I never want to have a family, I never want to have kids, I never want to get married, that could change by the time you're 28.

00:34:14.000 Things can change very quickly.

00:34:16.000 So explore it, think about it, pray about it.

00:34:18.000 And my own two cents is that I think you'll find a lot of joy if you ever decide to get married.

00:34:24.000 Thank you so much.

00:34:25.000 Appreciate it.

00:34:28.000 Hi, my name is Lucky, and I'm 15, and I just got out of a Christian school, but it's not really Christian.

00:34:34.000 But they like to use the name for it, and I don't really know why, because they are anything but Christian.

00:34:42.000 And I was treated really badly for being conservative.

00:34:46.000 And honestly, it takes, it's hard to get out.

00:34:50.000 And for me, I had to take three tests to get into a different school.

00:34:54.000 So do you see Turning Point doing anything for students in private schools who are treated badly or anything like that?

00:35:02.000 Yeah, first of all, let me just say, for parents out there, be very careful sending your kids to Christian schools. 0.99

00:35:07.000 We get more incidents of wokeism and leftism from Christian schools than even some government schools.

00:35:12.000 Be very, very careful.

00:35:14.000 The amount of Christian schools that have been captured by this woke ideology is absolutely incredible.

00:35:20.000 And so, yes, we do.

00:35:21.000 We actually have Turning Point Academy that's up and running.

00:35:24.000 You guys should go check out the booth out there and really exciting, growing division of Turning Point USA.

00:35:30.000 And we have high school chapters as well.

00:35:32.000 But I just want to encourage you: don't let this get you down.

00:35:35.000 Don't let this get in the way of you becoming a stronger and better version of yourself.

00:35:40.000 Look at it as a blessing, that all of this that you're experiencing is going to make you tougher and better equipped for the fights ahead.

00:35:47.000 God bless you.

00:35:48.000 Thank you so much.

00:35:49.000 All right, we'll take a couple more.

00:35:51.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:35:52.000 My friends, and I would love to know what's the number one piece of marriage advice based on what you've learned from your marriage.

00:36:00.000 What you prioritize is what you get.

00:36:02.000 God needs to be the head of your marriage always. 0.99

00:36:07.000 And you have to make sure you are using the spiritual disciplines.

00:36:11.000 If I had to give some candid, honest feedback to Christianity, the fact that we no longer honor the Sabbath, I think, is why our divorce rate is 50%.

00:36:20.000 One of the main reasons.

00:36:21.000 The Sabbath is a gift given to us by the Lord that 90% of Christians do not observe, period. 1.00

00:36:27.000 And the Sabbath really means Shabbat, which means to stop.

00:36:31.000 And when you have no phones, no shopping, no cars, and you have nothing but to focus on your family for a 24-hour period, yeah, that makes your marriage a lot better.

00:36:40.000 But all of a sudden, if you have all these external distractions, you know, I think you're going to be in a tough spot.

00:36:45.000 But also, as far as marriage advice, obviously I'm still learning.

00:36:50.000 We're two years into this, praise God.

00:36:52.000 But, you know, you have to understand the differences between men and women.

00:36:56.000 And also, if I were to say another thing, it's you have to make sure there's a spiritual component to your relationship, or else you're going to be in a lot of trouble.

00:37:05.000 Thank you so much.

00:37:06.000 Appreciate it.

00:37:08.000 All right, a couple more.

00:37:09.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:37:11.000 My name's Chloe Ball Hagen, and I'm from Boise, Idaho.

00:37:15.000 I'll be starting a chapter at my high school in the fall.

00:37:18.000 Wonderful.

00:37:19.000 So I kind of have a question that I've been trying to answer for a long time.

00:37:24.000 And it's why does it feel like the media and Hollywood and advertising is dominated by liberals when we show up and we fight with freedom, family, and the American flag?

00:37:38.000 So that's just my main question.

00:37:40.000 Yeah, I mean, look, first of all, liberals went into culture intentionally.

00:37:44.000 They went into Hollywood.

00:37:45.000 They went into all these things.

00:37:47.000 And we never contested in it.

00:37:48.000 We never decided to be engaged or get involved at all.

00:37:52.000 They're going to collapse.

00:37:54.000 They will. 0.99

00:37:54.000 Because the stories that they're peddling and the things that they're putting forward is garbage and it's unsustainable. 0.99

00:38:01.000 And those stories don't actually resonate with their target audience.

00:38:04.000 And so it's just a matter of time before I think there's actually a recalibration there.

00:38:09.000 But we as conservatives have to get into the arts.

00:38:12.000 We have to get into entertainment and get into theater to try and go about change that.

00:38:16.000 Thank you so much.

00:38:17.000 All right.

00:38:17.000 This will be the last question because we're running out of time.

00:38:20.000 Hello, my name is Hope, and I did apply to be on the roundtable with you and your wife.

00:38:24.000 But I assume that the majority of the people that are here are pro-life.

00:38:30.000 But one thing that I think people forget is the children after life is chosen, right?

00:38:37.000 So what are some tangible actions that people can do? 0.98

00:38:42.000 Because obviously there are a lot of young women here that are unable to foster or donate financially.

00:38:47.000 So are you able to give any two advice, tangible actions that we can do to help the children that are in an unsafe or unstable environment in the future?

00:38:56.000 That's a great question.

00:38:57.000 Now that Roe versus Wade is repealed, and praise God, it's repealed.

00:39:00.000 We have to do everything we possibly can to try to fight and contest for every single life.

00:39:05.000 And so I'm partnered with Pre-Born, which is a wonderful ministry.

00:39:08.000 And I think you guys should check it out.

00:39:10.000 You should give financially if you can to these groups.

00:39:12.000 But honestly, we have to make it easier to adopt through churches and easier to have Christian organizations.

00:39:19.000 The adoption process is way too bureaucratic.

00:39:22.000 It's a disaster, to be perfectly honest.

00:39:25.000 There's 2 million people on the adoption waiting list right now, and there's a million abortions every single year.

00:39:30.000 So there's twice as many people willing to adopt as there are abortions.

00:39:34.000 There's no such thing as unwanted children in this country.

00:39:37.000 It does not exist.

00:39:38.000 And so you should all know in your local community, where's my pregnancy crisis center?

00:39:44.000 Am I involved in the pregnancy crisis center?

00:39:46.000 Volunteering activism and helping them out.

00:39:48.000 One of the most important things you could do.

00:39:50.000 Thank you so much.

00:39:51.000 All right, everybody, go get some lunch.

00:39:52.000 I know there's a lot of breakouts going right now, and we'll see you in the afternoon.

00:39:56.000 Thanks so much.

00:40:00.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:40:01.000 Everybody, email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:40:04.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:40:06.000 And also, if you want a giveaway opportunity for a free book of the college scam, email me, freedomatcharlikirk.com.

00:40:15.000 And the first five people that email me will be in the running, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:40:19.000 Thanks so much for listening.

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