00:00:29.000As always, you can email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, and listen all the way through to the end of this episode for a giveaway opportunity at the very end.
00:00:50.000His 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.
00:00:58.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:17.000I come from parents who immigrated to the U.S.
00:01:21.000And after 20 years and over $40,000, they came here legally and I was born here in the greatest country in the world.
00:01:29.000So I owe everything to this amazing country.
00:01:32.000So 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?
00:02:06.000The governor of Texas should be a lot firmer on this.
00:02:09.000He's been okay, but not great, honestly.
00:02:12.000We should have a zero tolerance policy.
00:02:14.000The entire military should be mobilized.
00:02:16.000And we should say our country will not be invaded.
00:02:19.000I don't know about you, but I care much more about our own country being invaded than what's happening in Ukraine.
00:02:25.000And 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?
00:02:43.000The law-abiding citizen in America is routinely put down while the criminal, the trespasser, gets elevated.
00:02:56.000We 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.
00:03:27.000In 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.
00:03:38.000The law must be blind towards emotion.
00:03:42.000Someone say, oh, well, they've walked 600 miles and they really want to be in here.
00:04:13.000This 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.
00:04:26.000And from a Christian perspective, this culture of dating isn't really in the Bible.
00:04:31.000So 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?
00:05:37.000And 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.
00:05:52.000So you must date with the intent to marry.
00:05:55.000So 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.
00:06:05.000It'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.
00:06:13.000It's not the more you do it, the better you get at it.
00:06:16.000Okay, that's a modern garbage way of looking at it, right?
00:06:21.000And 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.
00:06:44.000I 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.
00:06:59.000And 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.
00:07:09.000Again, you have to just basically say, yeah, okay, whatever.
00:07:22.000But 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.
00:07:31.000Also, you should just be very clear about your intentions from the beginning.
00:07:34.000You 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.
00:07:41.000I'm not against dating apps if you're using them to marry.
00:07:43.000Good luck because most of the dating apps, people aren't there for that.
00:07:46.000But if you're in your late 20s, you should use everything at your possible disposal to try to find a partner.
00:07:51.000I don't think they're just a tool, but most of the apps are not a tool for good things.
00:07:55.000But you should be very clear about your intent, which is: I am here to find a life partner.
00:08:03.000You just saved a bunch of time, right?
00:08:06.000And 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.
00:08:25.000And so men have to fix a lot of things.
00:08:27.000How many of you are displeased with the quality of American men when you go to date?
00:08:31.000Yeah, almost almost every, and there's applause, yeah.
00:08:33.000And that's that's a big problem, right?
00:08:35.000And so, but do not lower your standards because men have become feminized versions of metrosexual culture, right?
00:08:42.000Instead, but you, in my personal opinion, you should enter the serious dating pool earlier than not, right?
00:08:53.000This whole idea of putting your career first, I think is a very, very dangerous proposition.
00:08:57.000It could work out for you, but I hear stories every day.
00:09:00.000Charlie, 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.
00:09:07.000There is some truth to quote unquote, the good ones being gone.
00:09:12.000The window does narrow, and so I think you should prioritize what do I want most in my life?
00:09:17.000And 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.
00:10:08.000My name's Isabelle, and I semi-recently found out about Turning Point USA and have quickly become passionate about it.
00:10:18.000So 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?
00:11:02.000Smeared, slandered, doxed, you know, your grades will be lowered.
00:11:05.000You're like, wow, that sounds terrible.
00:11:07.000Yeah, but it's worth it to fight for things that are eternally true.
00:11:12.000It's worth it to fight for things that are transcendent.
00:11:16.000It'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?
00:11:26.000So my advice is just brace for impact, but also try to build community.
00:11:32.000And that's what you're going to do here.
00:11:34.000You'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.
00:11:42.000And 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.
00:11:54.000We're here to supply you with all that.
00:11:56.000But everybody has their gifting, right?
00:11:58.000Some people have a gifting to think quickly on their feet or to be able to answer questions.
00:12:50.000My name is Madison, and my sister is Bella over here.
00:12:56.000So 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.
00:13:07.000But 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.
00:13:23.000I'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.
00:13:37.000And 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?
00:13:47.000Yeah, it's it all depends on how you define success, right?
00:13:50.000So there's a great book, The Gap and the Gain.
00:13:52.000It 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.
00:14:00.000So you could define it as a success or you could define it as a blessing that you went through two and a half years.
00:14:15.000All of a sudden, maybe that is a success, right?
00:14:19.000So the point, I think you should reframe what you think is success.
00:14:23.000Yeah, I mean, you're not Balenciaga, praise God, right?
00:14:26.000Or any of that crap that's being peddled on TV.
00:14:30.000But 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.
00:14:40.000You might fall short of a standard of material success, but I wouldn't call that as a lack of success.
00:14:46.000Because 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.
00:14:55.000So, 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.
00:15:05.000Find other people that are doing something really well and do what they're doing or do it better.
00:15:10.000And I mean, the great innovators of our time are relentless.
00:15:14.000You know, I could tell you, Turning Point USA, after two and a half years, it didn't look like there was much success.
00:15:20.000And then 11 years later, we're the largest movement of its kind on high school and college campuses and in churches.
00:15:26.000I mean, so there's a ramp-up period, but it depends on what you define as that success.
00:15:34.000You should also look at, has it developed my character?
00:15:37.000Has it deepened my understanding of things I care about?
00:15:39.000If yes, that's a big gain in your life and a significant blessing.
00:15:44.000But as far as trying to turn fashion around, that's not my thing.
00:15:49.000You should ask, go to Erica and ask that because she's far more literate in that than I am.
00:16:02.000As 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?
00:16:21.000Yeah, 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?
00:16:32.000So the desire to be famous, please, like, I just, I pray you try to pray and strip that away.
00:16:40.000You'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.
00:16:45.000So let me just encourage you for that.
00:16:47.000And then the best way to do it is to start doing it.
00:16:50.000Start the podcast, start talking, figure out what works.
00:16:53.000You know, the Charlie Kirk show started with no listeners and now it's something, right?
00:16:58.000So every single one of you possess that.
00:17:00.000But 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?
00:17:09.000And in life, you largely get what you pour into.
00:17:12.000So if you pour a lot into your podcast and you want it to be successful, then it will be successful.
00:17:16.000If you want something else to be successful, then so be it.
00:17:19.000So as far as advice, you know, tell the truth.
00:17:22.000And if you want to be successful, you can.
00:17:24.000You all have that capacity and that ability, but you're going to have to put a lot of work.
00:17:28.000The things that are important in life do not come easily or immediate.
00:17:32.000It takes a lot of discipline and dedication.
00:17:50.000NAD is a precursor for your body to be able to create ATP, which is basically the life force of everything that you do.
00:17:58.000And look, there's a lot of people out there that are promising energy and doing all this, but go do some research on NAD and go see actually how incredibly important it is for high performance to be able to go actually get it to the next level.
00:18:40.000I eat well and do other things as well.
00:18:43.000But if you look at NADH, especially when it combines with CoQ10 and marine collagen, it boosts your body's cellular function.
00:18:50.000I would never tell you guys to go do something I myself did not do.
00:18:54.000And Strong Cell has been able to put together a scientific breakthrough in cellular health replenishment that combines NADH, CoQ10, and marine collagen.
00:19:03.000When you combine them together, you get mental clarity.
00:19:19.000I'm talking about overall health from the cellular level.
00:19:22.000NADH has been called the anti-aging enzyme that helps with so many issues like brain fog, short-term memory loss, blood pressure, heart disease, blood sugar retention, and so much more.
00:21:52.000So 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.
00:22:45.000So my name is Megan Ramon, and I'm a 21-year-old Cuban-American studying at the University of Florida.
00:22:51.000And I wanted to say that I've been following you and your story for a really long time.
00:22:56.000You inspired me to speak out and stop staying silent.
00:22:59.000You 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.
00:23:09.000But 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.
00:23:22.000I struggle now with watching that blessed flag change into this dull and sad version of what it once stood for.
00:23:30.000How 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?
00:23:44.000First of all, you being here is a big deal.
00:23:47.000And we're going to be talking about the action items, right?
00:23:50.000You first and foremost have to get your own house in order, right?
00:23:53.000Being the best citizen you personally can be, dedicating part of your career towards saving the country is very important.
00:23:59.000Believing it can be saved and refounded and revitalized is equally as important.
00:24:05.000And look, they want to demoralize you.
00:24:07.000They want to try to make you surrender, give up.
00:24:09.000They want to try to have you go to the middle and sue for peace.
00:24:13.000What 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.
00:24:58.000Maybe we should bring some of the ideas here that we're so afraid of sending over there.
00:25:03.000Anyway, we would never do such a thing.
00:25:07.000What 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.
00:25:22.000And 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?
00:25:35.000So 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.
00:25:40.000Like, it's an insult to my intelligence.
00:27:24.000Okay, so lately I've seen a lot of posts or jokes about like we should secede and we should separate.
00:27:33.000And 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.
00:27:48.000What are your thoughts on like those jokes and Like do you think that the federal government cares about us anymore?
00:27:57.000Well the federal government's at war with all of us right now.
00:28:00.000That 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.
00:28:14.000We are probably headed towards a national divorce and that makes me very sad.
00:28:28.000They're the ones that passed sanctuary city laws where they defied federal government immigration law, where they said illegals are welcome.
00:28:35.000They're the ones that routinely talk about how they don't want to live in a country with us.
00:28:39.000What do I have in common with somebody in downtown San Francisco?
00:28:46.000Literally, 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.
00:29:13.000Unless 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.
00:29:29.000I don't want that, but that's what we're looming towards.
00:29:32.000Because 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.
00:29:54.000Just 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.
00:30:04.000I'm urgently asking you to support the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste to stop the Senate from passing the Sanders Bill S-1339.
00:30:12.000It 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.
00:30:21.000Bernie Sanders, he is a sneaky commie.
00:31:17.000So like these other women in this room, I am very driven career-wise.
00:31:23.000And my goals are set on succeeding as an orthopedic surgeon.
00:31:28.000And I have really rarely thought about even getting married, having children, and even going into dating.
00:31:37.000Like, it's just something that I never really thought about.
00:31:41.000Would 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.
00:31:55.000So what's some advice for really balancing my career as well as venturing into settling down?
00:32:02.000You're going to have to choose which one matters more, and that will be up to you.
00:32:07.000So first of all, thank you for being involved with Turning Point USA.
00:32:22.000If you don't get baby fever being around young kids as a young lady, then you kind of have your answer.
00:32:29.000But 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.
00:32:39.000But look, you could potentially do both.
00:32:41.000You could become an orthopedic surgeon and still do that.
00:32:44.000But there will be a lot of people that says, oh, just put the family thing on hold and put that on hold.
00:32:48.000I 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.
00:33:00.000Most 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.
00:33:17.000Now, 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.
00:33:24.000And 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.
00:33:33.000And I think all of you guys should have that exact same thing.
00:33:35.000If you so desire, if you want to just say all career all the time, maybe it will work for you.
00:33:58.000I'm not here to tell you one way or the other, right or wrong.
00:34:01.000But 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.
00:36:02.000God needs to be the head of your marriage always.
00:36:07.000And you have to make sure you are using the spiritual disciplines.
00:36:11.000If 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%.
00:36:21.000The Sabbath is a gift given to us by the Lord that 90% of Christians do not observe, period.
00:36:27.000And the Sabbath really means Shabbat, which means to stop.
00:36:31.000And 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.
00:36:40.000But all of a sudden, if you have all these external distractions, you know, I think you're going to be in a tough spot.
00:36:45.000But also, as far as marriage advice, obviously I'm still learning.
00:36:50.000We're two years into this, praise God.
00:36:52.000But, you know, you have to understand the differences between men and women.
00:36:56.000And 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.
00:37:19.000So I kind of have a question that I've been trying to answer for a long time.
00:37:24.000And 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?
00:38:17.000This will be the last question because we're running out of time.
00:38:20.000Hello, my name is Hope, and I did apply to be on the roundtable with you and your wife.
00:38:24.000But I assume that the majority of the people that are here are pro-life.
00:38:30.000But one thing that I think people forget is the children after life is chosen, right?
00:38:37.000So what are some tangible actions that people can do?
00:38:42.000Because obviously there are a lot of young women here that are unable to foster or donate financially.
00:38:47.000So 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?