The Charlie Kirk Show - September 04, 2023


The Rising American Caste System: My Speech at PHP Las Vegas


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Learn English with the President of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk. In this episode, Charlie talks about what it means to be an American and why it s so important to be a woke American. He also talks about how important it is to be woke, and why we should all be woke.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Monday.
00:00:01.000 Happy Labor Day.
00:00:02.000 My conversation at PHP.
00:00:04.000 We talk marriage, we talk Jesus, the gospel, Trump, and more.
00:00:10.000 And I encourage all of you to get involved with Turning Point USA.
00:00:14.000 That is tpusa.com.
00:00:17.000 We have some very exciting campus tour stops coming up this fall.
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00:00:40.000 That is tpusa.com.
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00:01:06.000 I love hearing from all of you.
00:01:07.000 So email me freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:01:10.000 That is freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:01:14.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:01:15.000 Here we go.
00:01:16.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:01:18.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:01:20.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:01:23.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:01:26.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:01:27.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:01:28.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:01:30.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:01:36.000 Turning Point USA.
00:01:37.000 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.
00:01:46.000 That's why we are here.
00:01:49.000 So, Charlie, very excited to have you here.
00:01:54.000 Our theme this year is saving America.
00:01:58.000 What do you think are our top three, four, five, or whatever on the top of your head, biggest enemies, killing this dream of America and killing this experiment called America?
00:02:09.000 Well, first, honor to be here.
00:02:11.000 I love speaking at PHP.
00:02:12.000 You guys have great energy, I got to tell you.
00:02:14.000 It's great.
00:02:17.000 And big fan of Patrick and really what he brings to the world.
00:02:22.000 Look, we could get into this if you want.
00:02:24.000 I think we're in a spiritual war in our country, and I think that we need to acknowledge that.
00:02:28.000 But honestly, look, there's a couple things that I really want to focus on.
00:02:32.000 As a nation right now, we are struggling to be able to articulate what it means to be an American.
00:02:40.000 And so, personally, if you look at what has made America a different country, what has made it the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, it's that we, the country I grew up in, and we are losing it, we care much more about what you can change versus what you can't change.
00:02:58.000 For example, I don't care about the color of your skin. 0.84
00:03:01.000 I do not care about the color of your skin. 0.99
00:03:03.000 I care about your character.
00:03:04.000 I care about your actions.
00:03:06.000 I care about the results.
00:03:07.000 I care about your grit.
00:03:09.000 I care about your hustle.
00:03:10.000 I care about your integrity.
00:03:11.000 I do not care about the color of your skin. 0.99
00:03:13.000 And guess what?
00:03:14.000 You shouldn't either.
00:03:15.000 I care about things you can change and things you can improve upon.
00:03:19.000 We're losing that in this country.
00:03:22.000 Instead, people feel as if their identity is either in their skin color or their, you know, their personal sexuality.
00:03:34.000 The country, America's, the promise of America is it does not matter who my parents were.
00:03:41.000 If you go to India, India's a different country than America. 0.78
00:03:45.000 You're in a caste system.
00:03:48.000 America is now becoming a recast society where you're supposed to be put in a box based on, let's just say, pre-programmed identity characteristics.
00:04:00.000 And this is disempowering for all people, by the way.
00:04:04.000 And so what is harming the American experiment or the promise of America?
00:04:11.000 We are teaching our young people to participate in what I call the oppression Olympics.
00:04:16.000 It's a competition of who can get the most points because I'm the most oppressed person.
00:04:23.000 Instead, it should be, so what?
00:04:26.000 Work harder.
00:04:27.000 Wake up earlier.
00:04:28.000 Stop doing drugs.
00:04:30.000 Stop drinking.
00:04:31.000 Save money.
00:04:33.000 Stop gambling the money away.
00:04:35.000 I know you're in Vegas, so it might not be popular, but whatever.
00:04:39.000 The message should be, I don't want to hear your complaining.
00:04:44.000 Look, I talk a lot about the problems of the woke or whatever. 0.57
00:04:48.000 Honestly, you know what the division in America really is?
00:04:51.000 Between people who complain and people who produce.
00:04:54.000 It's that simple.
00:04:55.000 That's the true division in America.
00:04:58.000 And look, there's some things you could legitimately complain about, but then the question is, what do you do about it?
00:05:07.000 Do you own that and you assume that in your actions and your beliefs?
00:05:10.000 And you know this.
00:05:11.000 Or instead, do you say, that's actually not a true picture of who I am?
00:05:15.000 I'm going to become a better version of myself.
00:05:17.000 I'm afraid we're losing that.
00:05:18.000 This is not even political, quite honestly.
00:05:20.000 This is an existential question for the nation.
00:05:22.000 And by the way, for those of you that want to make money and earn a good living and build wealth, I can tell you, you will never be the best version of yourself if you allow other people to convince you that you can't be better because of your skin color, because of your sexual identity, because of the community you came from. 0.54
00:05:44.000 You must resist those narratives at all costs if you truly want to be successful in America.
00:05:51.000 It's awesome.
00:05:54.000 I mean, Charlie, I'm Filipino by DNA and background.
00:05:58.000 I was raised in Chicago.
00:05:59.000 I went to Morton High School in Berlin Sisters of the area.
00:06:02.000 I'm not kidding.
00:06:02.000 And I wasn't raised around a lot of Filipinos.
00:06:05.000 It was an Italian neighborhood.
00:06:07.000 It was a Latino neighborhood, African-American neighborhood right there.
00:06:11.000 Anyway, my cousins always asked me, how come you're not considered one of the top Filipino American businessmen in the country?
00:06:17.000 I said, I don't care about being a top Filipino. 0.94
00:06:20.000 I care about being a top businessman, period.
00:06:23.000 And so, but I want to be a devil's advocate, Charlie.
00:06:28.000 Chicago is one of the most racially segregated big cities in America.
00:06:32.000 We know that.
00:06:34.000 We know who lives on the North Side, Southside, Burbs, Lake Forest, Palatine, Schaumburg, et cetera.
00:06:40.000 And they say, Charlie, it's easy for you to say that, Charlie.
00:06:43.000 You got this whole white privilege gut going on for you.
00:06:45.000 You know, it's easy for you to say that.
00:06:48.000 What would you respond to that?
00:06:49.000 Yeah, so a couple things.
00:06:50.000 I didn't go to Nutrier, if you know.
00:06:54.000 So let me tell you.
00:06:54.000 Where the rich kids go?
00:06:55.000 Look, I had a nice upbringing, no doubt.
00:06:59.000 But I'll tell you where I grew up.
00:07:00.000 I went to Wheeling High School, which was a minority, majority high school.
00:07:04.000 So I was a minority as a white male.
00:07:06.000 And looking back now 10 years, the high school has changed a lot.
00:07:10.000 Do you know what was remarkable about my four years in high school?
00:07:13.000 Nobody cared about race.
00:07:15.000 There was no BLM.
00:07:16.000 There was no white privilege walks.
00:07:18.000 You know what we cared about?
00:07:20.000 We cared about whether or not you were a good person.
00:07:23.000 We cared about your actions.
00:07:25.000 We cared about whether or not you wanted to apply yourself to become the best possible version of yourself.
00:07:33.000 And so I laugh, you know, when people will say, oh, you know, you have white privilege.
00:07:37.000 And I'll say, well, hold on, look, let's study.
00:07:39.000 Are you your own individual?
00:07:40.000 Are you your own individual person?
00:07:42.000 Let's just isolate that.
00:07:44.000 Everybody has problems, whether it be single motherhood, sickness, cancer.
00:07:48.000 Those are not isolated to one particular racial group.
00:07:51.000 And let's pretend for a second that white privilege is legit and real, which it isn't.
00:07:55.000 It's not.
00:07:56.000 But let's pretend that it is, okay?
00:07:58.000 Let's pretend that it is.
00:07:59.000 Now, what are you going to do about it?
00:08:00.000 Are you going to spend the rest of your life being an activist on the side of the road with a sign?
00:08:04.000 Or are you going to go be the best entrepreneur that you can, create a business, push yourself to new levels?
00:08:11.000 That's the question.
00:08:12.000 And what I resist at all costs are mass narratives that disempower the potential of the entrepreneur.
00:08:21.000 Why is America the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world?
00:08:24.000 One of the other reasons is that if you want to be successful, meritocracy allows you to do that.
00:08:32.000 So a meritocracy allows you and rewards the best possible decisions and you climb up the ladder appropriately.
00:08:40.000 And you look at this, I'm sure a lot of you are first-generation or second-generation Americans.
00:08:44.000 Why are we the envy of the rest of the world?
00:08:46.000 What have we done differently?
00:08:47.000 Well, we've set up our systems in such a way, and we're losing it, where you yourself can make those good decisions.
00:08:54.000 You can save money.
00:08:55.000 You can delay gratification so that you can then have a better future.
00:09:00.000 You want to get rich?
00:09:01.000 The secret to getting rich, Charlie, how'd you get successful?
00:09:04.000 You delay feeling immediately good, and then one day you can get successful.
00:09:09.000 You know who remains poor?
00:09:11.000 People that spend money on immediate highs.
00:09:14.000 Liquor, alcohol, drugs, other Vegas-centric activities.
00:09:20.000 And look, I can get into the numbers or the figures into all like, oh, there's white privilege thing and all this.
00:09:25.000 If that's going to be your life's calling to just complain about this, you've already lost. 0.92
00:09:30.000 You're going to remain permanently government addicted and poor.
00:09:34.000 I guarantee it.
00:09:35.000 However, if you say, okay, there might be some truth, not some truth, I'm happy to get in the numbers.
00:09:39.000 I'm not interested in that right now.
00:09:40.000 Instead, have you done everything you possibly can?
00:09:44.000 And so I get lectured, I go to college campuses, and so you don't have to, and I hear all these ideas.
00:09:50.000 And, you know, there's this, there's people that are overweight.
00:09:54.000 They haven't shaved in like two months.
00:09:57.000 And their hair is down to their hips.
00:09:59.000 And they're telling me that America is systemically racist and that we're going to die of climate change and that I need to give my money because I'm part of the 1%.
00:10:08.000 And I'm like, how about you make your bet and get a haircut before you lecture me that I need to give away my hard-earned money?
00:10:15.000 Like, why don't you go and improve yourself?
00:10:18.000 And what I'm getting at is you must break free of the mass media simulation that seeks to control you.
00:10:26.000 You understand?
00:10:26.000 They want to make you permanent consumers, addicted to government programs, addicted to substances.
00:10:31.000 They don't want you to be trim.
00:10:33.000 They don't want you to be healthy.
00:10:35.000 They don't want you to be taking the best supplements or eating the best food.
00:10:40.000 They want you to be androgynous consumers where you are miserable, where you are, quite honestly, depressed on antidepressants all day long.
00:10:48.000 The best way to break free of that is to say, I am not going to consume what the mass media networks are feeding me.
00:10:56.000 I am my own sovereign being made in the image of God, and I'm going to flourish beyond the bad guys' wildest imagination.
00:11:08.000 I would say this, Charlie.
00:11:09.000 When I initially mentioned George Pallagio, Unity had invited me to speak at their regional conference, and you're one of the speakers there in a regional, smaller conference than this.
00:11:17.000 That's why I had the first time to interview backstage, meet you.
00:11:21.000 And you just had recently gotten married.
00:11:22.000 I will say right now, you look more fitter after getting married.
00:11:26.000 And by the way, you guys, you weren't even concerned when I said, oh, you want to do 22 push-ups?
00:11:30.000 Want to do 22?
00:11:31.000 Only we worry about was can I do that by suit?
00:11:34.000 Yeah, no, that's right.
00:11:34.000 And so the typical guy today is worried about doing push-ups.
00:11:38.000 If I'm with you in high school, and if I read about some of the articles about you in high school, you were constantly challenging liberal teachers in high school.
00:11:46.000 And I was a goofball in high school. 0.99
00:11:48.000 If I was voted to be something in high school, I'd be voting stupidest laugh and sense of humor. 1.00
00:11:52.000 But you're being voted the crazy kid, the kid that was out there. 0.99
00:11:56.000 So, what got you to start thinking that way to challenge your teachers? 0.82
00:11:59.000 So, I want to just tell you a little bit more about my story.
00:12:02.000 I never went to college.
00:12:03.000 So, I've been 11 years as an entrepreneur, all sorts of different nonprofits, businesses, you know, traveled the country, traveled the world.
00:12:10.000 And I just want to encourage you: if you do not have that worthless piece of paper from a local college, you could still succeed to great heights in this country.
00:12:23.000 Okay?
00:12:25.000 Now, if you do have that worthless piece of paper from college, it means nothing.
00:12:32.000 It means nothing.
00:12:34.000 It doesn't do anything for me.
00:12:35.000 In fact, it probably might tell me some other things about what I have to deprogram you.
00:12:41.000 I guarantee you, some of you right now have friends, family, parents that are saying, Oh, why didn't you get that piece of paper?
00:12:49.000 Why didn't you go $100,000 in debt?
00:12:51.000 And you're probably at this event and you probably hear that whisper.
00:12:56.000 You probably hear that.
00:12:57.000 You're like, Man, can I still succeed? 1.00
00:13:00.000 Because the media, the government, your leaders think you're stupid if you do not have that piece of paper. 0.99
00:13:08.000 Let me prove it to you. 0.99
00:13:09.000 Do you notice how they do political polling in this country?
00:13:13.000 They do college-educated and non-college-educated.
00:13:17.000 What are they really telling you? 0.99
00:13:19.000 This is what the smart people think, and this is what the dumb people think. 0.99
00:13:23.000 But who has wisdom? 0.99
00:13:26.000 It's a much deeper question.
00:13:28.000 The least wise people in American society go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford.
00:13:34.000 They believe men can give birth, literally.
00:13:38.000 There is more wisdom in the PHP community and the plumbing community and the electrician community than all the halls of the Ivy League schools. 0.81
00:13:48.000 And let me tell you why.
00:13:50.000 Because you're here because you want to be more and you are rejecting this idea of just staying still.
00:13:59.000 I think that's beautiful.
00:14:00.000 Honestly, some of the most entitled people are the people that go to Brown or Dartmouth because they think they have it made.
00:14:07.000 So I didn't go to college.
00:14:09.000 We're partners in that way.
00:14:10.000 And you know what?
00:14:11.000 It's been the best thing for me.
00:14:13.000 I'm already pretty driven.
00:14:15.000 You know, I work pretty hard and have, literally, I was tallying it up, traveled 3,100 days in the last 11 years, Millian Meyer Club in every single airline, visited all 50 states 10 times over, the whole thing.
00:14:29.000 But what motivates me sometimes, and I want this to be motivation for you, is when some snob, sanctimonious person comes up to you and they say, oh, yeah, you didn't go to college.
00:14:42.000 What do you have to offer?
00:14:43.000 The next time you hear that, do you say, I'll show you.
00:14:48.000 Because they're always going to try to keep you down.
00:14:51.000 Here's why.
00:14:52.000 And because you're not in the club.
00:14:56.000 It's almost a secret society where the way you enter the club is a special diploma or a special piece of paper.
00:15:05.000 What would challenge them and empower you is all of a sudden when they realize that there are hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs that want it more, that can create value in such unbelievable ways because you didn't need to go to those four years in college.
00:15:21.000 But what it was I like in high school?
00:15:23.000 Look, I mean, answer the question, I mean, it kind of come full circle.
00:15:26.000 Look, I wanted to be successful.
00:15:29.000 It was an interesting thing when I first started at Turning Point USA.
00:15:34.000 I thought desire was an equally distributed, let's just say, characteristic in people.
00:15:43.000 If you simply want it more than your competition, that's a big deal.
00:15:49.000 That alone, you don't need to be even smarter.
00:15:51.000 You don't even have better ideas.
00:15:53.000 Just pure grit, hustle, and desire.
00:15:57.000 That alone can be a huge defining characteristic in that way.
00:16:01.000 And so, look, I want to just kind of finish the question on this.
00:16:07.000 There will be people that try to say no and try to keep you down at every single turn.
00:16:12.000 I've experienced it.
00:16:13.000 But you have a choice.
00:16:14.000 And this is what's so beautiful about acknowledging you're a sovereign being.
00:16:18.000 You're not a cog in the wheel.
00:16:20.000 You're not going to be an androgynous consumer, is that you can use the condemnation or you didn't go to college, you're not smart. 0.71
00:16:28.000 You can use it as an excuse to stay fat and lazy or as an excuse as fuel to the fire to say, I'm going to show that person. 0.83
00:16:37.000 I could tell you, that is a darn powerful motivational tool. 0.91
00:16:41.000 To then 11 years later, when I look back at my high school classmates that now have $200,000 in debt and they studied North African lesbian poetry at NYU and they're serving triple shot Frappuccinos posting on Facebook about America's systemically racist.
00:17:02.000 And I was like, you know what?
00:17:03.000 You have the piece of paper.
00:17:08.000 Toilet paper.
00:17:10.000 I'm married.
00:17:12.000 I have a daughter.
00:17:12.000 I love my country.
00:17:14.000 I have purpose.
00:17:14.000 I'm joyful.
00:17:15.000 We have a beautiful organization.
00:17:16.000 But hey, keep your piece of paper, pal.
00:17:19.000 Yes.
00:17:21.000 Yeah.
00:17:21.000 Hey, keep it up.
00:17:26.000 Yesterday, Charlie, I gave a talk on who wants to be a millionaire.
00:17:29.000 And I said, who is raised in the language of brokenes? 0.68
00:17:32.000 And who's raised in the language of rich knees or milliones?
00:17:35.000 And so your father, Robert Kirk, was an architect and an investor entrepreneur in senior living communities, which is awesome because that's the community I forgot my parents in now.
00:17:49.000 Did your dad raise you with this type of language?
00:17:52.000 Did he plant these seeds of how to look at the word world from an entrepreneur perspective?
00:17:56.000 How did your dad raise you this?
00:17:58.000 I have great parents.
00:18:00.000 In fact, here's how great my parents were.
00:18:01.000 When I said I wasn't going to college, they didn't try to completely disown me from the family, which is a mark of great parents.
00:18:09.000 So look, I grew up around entrepreneurs.
00:18:12.000 And so what is an entrepreneur?
00:18:15.000 An entrepreneur is a problem solver.
00:18:17.000 It's that simple.
00:18:18.000 Who here wants to be rich?
00:18:19.000 I want to be rich.
00:18:20.000 I want to be successful.
00:18:21.000 Great.
00:18:21.000 Find a problem and solve it and you'll get rich.
00:18:24.000 It's that simple.
00:18:25.000 Find something people are complaining about.
00:18:28.000 Remember the Division of America, complainers and producers, complainers and creators, and then solve the problem. 0.84
00:18:35.000 I can't get away.
00:18:36.000 I can't get around Vegas very quickly or cheaply.
00:18:39.000 Okay, how about we have a ride share service?
00:18:40.000 We'll call it Uber or Lyft.
00:18:43.000 Oh, I, you know, the coffee really is awful at the local gas station.
00:18:47.000 Okay, we're going to revolutionize the way we do coffee.
00:18:49.000 Dunk and donuts, Starbucks.
00:18:50.000 Find something people are complaining about and then develop a solution and then you're able to get rich.
00:18:57.000 And so what it requires, though, is it requires an entire mindset shift.
00:19:02.000 And here's one of my challenges for you is to start realizing the thought patterns that might be holding you hostage or prison that are actually keeping you in a place of control, not in a place of growth.
00:19:17.000 And the best way to isolate this is by journaling.
00:19:21.000 Journaling is great because it's intentionally slow.
00:19:24.000 You cannot write as fast as you think.
00:19:27.000 Therefore, it requires you to be precise in what you're actually thinking.
00:19:31.000 And so, if you journal every single day, you're like, wow, I'm really negative about myself.
00:19:36.000 Like, I'm over focusing on the heaviness and the pessimism.
00:19:41.000 And then all of a sudden, you could be like, you know what?
00:19:43.000 I'm going to develop better thought patterns.
00:19:45.000 There's a great book called The Gap in the Game that really emphasizes this.
00:19:48.000 It's changed my life.
00:19:49.000 It's a great book.
00:19:50.000 But you have a total choice over what type of thought matrixes you are going to bring into your own life, which is really beautiful when you think about it.
00:19:59.000 Because the rest of society, of colleges, and the media would actually lead you to believe that you are not able to control the attitude you bring to the rest of your life.
00:20:11.000 Doing this for 11 years, I've had a chance to meet over 200 billionaires, meet people all across the world.
00:20:16.000 What's the one thing the rich, the wealthy, and the successful have in common more than anything else?
00:20:21.000 It's not their intelligence.
00:20:22.000 It's not.
00:20:24.000 It's not even that they all went to college.
00:20:26.000 It's not.
00:20:27.000 It's the attitude that they bring to life.
00:20:31.000 The attitude of self-made entrepreneurs of high levels is an attitude that you present something that 99% of the world would consider to be an impediment.
00:20:42.000 They look as an opportunity.
00:20:44.000 It is the biggest reason that divides the wealth creators versus people that are permanently government addicted.
00:20:51.000 Crazy.
00:20:52.000 By the way, I'm just, yeah, there you go. 0.89
00:20:54.000 I was thinking about our CEO, Patrick McDavid, doesn't have a college degree, immigrant. 1.00
00:21:01.000 Our income, top income earners of PHP, 95% of don't have a college degree.
00:21:06.000 I don't have a college degree.
00:21:07.000 You don't have a college degree.
00:21:08.000 Success leaves clues.
00:21:10.000 And so I'm thinking about Turning Point USA.
00:21:12.000 You took your graduation money.
00:21:15.000 And there's, as I was researching, how did you create this organization?
00:21:19.000 There's a gentleman that you track down.
00:21:22.000 What's his name?
00:21:24.000 Foster Freeze.
00:21:25.000 Correct.
00:21:25.000 Can you see his name again?
00:21:27.000 Foster Freeze.
00:21:28.000 Foster Freeze.
00:21:29.000 So you're 18, 19 years old, and you hit him up, you're getting ready, and he donates $10,000 to your organization.
00:21:36.000 Can you tell me what that preparation is like?
00:21:38.000 Because you don't have a, you're 18, how old are you at that time?
00:21:40.000 18, 19 years old?
00:21:41.000 Yeah, 18, 19.
00:21:42.000 And you were prepared.
00:21:44.000 You were ready to have a conversation with him.
00:21:46.000 So this is what drives me nuts.
00:21:47.000 I met a college kid recently.
00:21:48.000 I said, what are you studying?
00:21:50.000 He said, I'm studying entrepreneurship.
00:21:51.000 I said, well, that is a waste of time and money, man.
00:21:54.000 You don't study entrepreneurship.
00:21:56.000 You do entrepreneurship.
00:21:58.000 Come on.
00:22:01.000 Here's the thing.
00:22:03.000 I give advice to entrepreneurs all the time.
00:22:05.000 And look, we've been so blessed, okay?
00:22:07.000 We have 350 employees at Turning Point USA.
00:22:10.000 You know, we do over $80 million in revenue.
00:22:12.000 We have 280,000 donors.
00:22:14.000 We're, praise God, beyond my wildest expectations.
00:22:17.000 So, but one of the things I learned about being an entrepreneur is that you could get into a place of paralysis in planning.
00:22:26.000 I have to have the business plan perfect, then I have to.
00:22:28.000 No, you don't.
00:22:30.000 The only thing you have to be able to answer is why.
00:22:35.000 That's it.
00:22:36.000 You don't need all the other stuff is easy.
00:22:38.000 You could hire people for that and figure it out.
00:22:40.000 So when I met Foster Freeze in a stairwell, I had no money, no connections, no idea what I was doing.
00:22:46.000 I decided I was going to take a gap year off college.
00:22:48.000 It ended up being, again, 11 gap years.
00:22:50.000 It's an ongoing, it's a gap decade.
00:22:54.000 I had no idea what I was doing, but I had passion and I had the why.
00:22:58.000 My why was very simple: I love America and we're losing it.
00:23:02.000 I want to do something about it.
00:23:06.000 That was my answer.
00:23:07.000 And he was like, well, what are you going to do?
00:23:08.000 And I could throw out all these ideas and they were, half of them were awful.
00:23:12.000 But he sensed the passion because I had the why that was configured correctly.
00:23:19.000 If you understand your why, you can get through any, any what or how, any.
00:23:25.000 And so when you try to go into business as an entrepreneur and you're thinking about all the obstacles or, you know, I have to perfectly plan this, you understand that is a prison mindset.
00:23:39.000 If you bet on yourself in an entrepreneurial scenario, you're going to be adjusting along the way anyway.
00:23:45.000 You're like, oh, well, this or that, or you're going to be learning in real time.
00:23:49.000 But it requires you to first take that first step.
00:23:52.000 And that's what we did at Turning Point USA.
00:23:53.000 And I mean, I didn't know how to do payroll or hire people or fire people or any of it, but you learn along the way.
00:23:59.000 And that's the other thing.
00:24:01.000 Surround yourself with successful people that are ethical.
00:24:05.000 You end up being the average of who you spend, the five people you spend the most time with.
00:24:11.000 So another kind of homework assignment for you.
00:24:13.000 Write down who you spend time with.
00:24:14.000 The five most people you spend time with, that's who you are.
00:24:17.000 So if you spend time with gossipers, with low energy complainers, if you spend time with people that are always kind of getting a buck for free, that's who you're going to be.
00:24:26.000 But if you spend time around people like Patrick Bett David, people that are high energy, that are ethical, that are pushing boundaries, looking for solutions, that is going to rub off on you.
00:24:37.000 Audit your relationships and purge the people that are weighing you down.
00:24:42.000 You will become better because of it.
00:24:46.000 He asked for 10 grand.
00:24:48.000 You guys got to ask people for $199.
00:24:51.000 So let's talk about that.
00:24:52.000 So when you are recruiting people to Turning Point USA, it's a nonprofit.
00:24:58.000 There's not a lot of upside there.
00:25:00.000 We have a lot of upside here.
00:25:01.000 You could be a millionaire.
00:25:02.000 You could be financially free.
00:25:04.000 Not so much in the nonprofit world.
00:25:06.000 So what message are you selling people to come on board at Turning People USA?
00:25:10.000 Who's the enemy?
00:25:11.000 How do you retain them?
00:25:13.000 And what's the upside for them to want to stick with you?
00:25:15.000 Yeah, it's a great question.
00:25:16.000 I mean, so in the nonprofit world, there's a lot of comfort.
00:25:22.000 There's a lot of just slow moving.
00:25:23.000 We're entrepreneurs.
00:25:24.000 We move super fast.
00:25:25.000 That's why we've gone from $0 to $80 million in revenue in 11 years.
00:25:29.000 And we're the largest in the conservative space because we bring kind of this entrepreneurial disruptive mentality to a space that is otherwise honestly boring and comfortable.
00:25:40.000 We're able to attract the best talent, not because I can pay them the best.
00:25:43.000 And if they want to go make more money, go work for Goldman Sachs, right?
00:25:48.000 Go work for Google.
00:25:49.000 But do you know what I tell them?
00:25:51.000 You're never going to have to be asked your pronouns at Turning Point USA. 1.00
00:25:57.000 You're not going to have to go through some stupid struggle session. 0.99
00:26:01.000 And you get to actually wake up every single day and be fulfilled. 0.99
00:26:05.000 Your soul will be fed and watered in a way that you would be not even close to at a regular corporate job.
00:26:14.000 At Turning Point USA, we have the best staff in the country that works their tails off because every single day they could say, I am waking up to save America.
00:26:23.000 I am waking up to do the work to help make sure my grandkids can live in a free society.
00:26:28.000 And I got to be honest, the upside has just been tremendous.
00:26:33.000 And we're able to recruit great talent.
00:26:36.000 We're able to get people engaged and involved.
00:26:38.000 And we have members of Congress now.
00:26:40.000 You know, many of you know Candace Owens, who got her start at Turning Point USA, a great and powerful voice.
00:26:46.000 And so if you get the why correctly, then that purpose fills the void in a very, very powerful way.
00:26:55.000 Candace Owens just interviewed Andrew Tate.
00:26:58.000 Our CEO flew to Romania to interview Andrew Tate.
00:27:02.000 His message seems to be suppressed.
00:27:03.000 He just finally got released from home arrest.
00:27:09.000 What do you think is keeping the powers at be afraid of that message that Andrew Tate is bringing out to the world?
00:27:17.000 Yeah, I mean, look, Andrew is a very smart man, and I'm not going to get into all the accusations against him.
00:27:21.000 I don't know the truth, or we'll find out.
00:27:23.000 But I will say this, what he says is so powerful.
00:27:25.000 And let's emphasize on that.
00:27:27.000 What Andrew Tate is doing is he's communicating a warning of what happens when society becomes too feminine.
00:27:33.000 Now, if I offend you with this, good, because honestly, it's the truth.
00:27:36.000 And you need to hear it.
00:27:37.000 So, by the way, for the ladies in the audience, I would venture a guess, you are underwhelmed by the feminization of American men as it's happening around you.
00:27:52.000 I hear it all the time. 0.99
00:27:53.000 So, a society can become too feminine. 0.85
00:27:56.000 It also can become too masculine.
00:27:58.000 So, we know what happens when a society becomes too masculine.
00:27:58.000 Okay?
00:28:01.000 You get Mussolini, right?
00:28:03.000 You get too dictatorial, too rigid.
00:28:05.000 That's where you quote unquote get the kind of authoritarianism that we're what against.
00:28:10.000 But have we ever thought deeply, what happens when a society archetypically becomes too feminine? 0.94
00:28:16.000 That's an interesting question, isn't it?
00:28:19.000 Well, all of a sudden, you get the complete disregard for rules, customs, and guardrails because you want to accept all things.
00:28:28.000 You get feelings-based societal governance over rationality-based societal governance.
00:28:36.000 It is the man's job in a marriage and a, when you raise a child, to say no. 0.85
00:28:41.000 That is my job as a father.
00:28:43.000 No, In a society when you do not have people saying no, really bad ideas start to metastasize and infect the entire culture.
00:29:01.000 And so, let's just use a great example: it is, in my personal opinion, and I think in the opinion of the natural law, evil and wrong to support the chemical castration of children under the guise of gender-affirming care. 0.67
00:29:17.000 Absolutely.
00:29:18.000 Absolutely.
00:29:19.000 Evil and wrong.
00:29:25.000 A masculine energy would say, We're not putting up with this.
00:29:28.000 It's not going to happen.
00:29:29.000 No, no, no.
00:29:30.000 But a feminine energy would say, But I want to care for them.
00:29:34.000 I want to have compassion for them.
00:29:36.000 I want to have compassion too.
00:29:37.000 You know how you have compassion? 1.00
00:29:38.000 Not by chopping off their balls, okay? 1.00
00:29:41.000 That's right. 1.00
00:29:42.000 Or getting them loopron.
00:29:44.000 So, look, Andrew Tate, controversial figure, but honestly, is Andrew Tate saying anything that 30 years ago would not have been commonplace to say we are seeing the American man porn addicted, lowest testosterone rates in 30 or 40 years, least married, least purpose, most suicidal in history.
00:30:08.000 Why?
00:30:09.000 It's because our society is configured towards collapsing the American man.
00:30:15.000 That's bad for men. 1.00
00:30:16.000 It's bad for women. 1.00
00:30:17.000 It's bad for our country.
00:30:19.000 And that's, I think, one of the reasons why Andrew Tate has become so unbelievably successful, is he does it in an eloquent and charismatic way with a lot of wisdom.
00:30:28.000 And if you wanted to conquer a country, you would have the men start becoming women and killing themselves. 1.00
00:30:38.000 When you're looking at that, unbelievable. 0.72
00:30:50.000 When you're looking at where men are today, you just got married a couple years ago?
00:30:55.000 Yeah.
00:30:56.000 Okay.
00:30:56.000 So for the singles that's here, how did you go about finding your wife, your spouse, your partner?
00:31:03.000 Yeah, I'm a big fan of marriage.
00:31:06.000 And if you're not married, I highly encourage it.
00:31:08.000 So here's, and have as many kids as you possibly can, by the way, having kids is like the best thing ever.
00:31:14.000 Look, If you know anything about my podcast or my public commentary, I tend to push back against like prevailing garbage in the media.
00:31:24.000 I think hookup culture is so bad for society. 0.64
00:31:27.000 I think that overindulging in these hookup apps is so terrible.
00:31:30.000 I think pornography is destroying American men at such high levels.
00:31:34.000 And again, I'm not moralizing in the sense, like I literally mean this: that if you're struggling with it, I totally get it.
00:31:40.000 These are predatory products.
00:31:41.000 I'm just telling you, you can live a deeper life if you don't engage in these things.
00:31:47.000 Look, from a biblical standpoint, I think marriage is one of the most awesome things that God has given us.
00:31:52.000 And I don't think we do a good enough job of celebrating marriage in our society.
00:31:58.000 I don't think we lift it up as this beautiful ideal.
00:32:02.000 And, you know, I went to a college campus recently and they said, you know, I asked them a very simple question: what is a woman?
00:32:11.000 They couldn't answer the question, obviously, because they're so smart, they can't answer the most basic stuff.
00:32:16.000 And you want to know what a woman is, marry one. 1.00
00:32:20.000 You'll find out very quickly. 1.00
00:32:24.000 And this idea that men and women are exactly the same, only unmarried people could come up with an idea as stupid as that. 1.00
00:32:34.000 Men and women are exactly the same. 1.00
00:32:36.000 Right. 0.75
00:32:36.000 Get married for like a week. 0.75
00:32:42.000 And what you realize is in marriage, it is two polar opposite types of, not polar opposite, in some ways polar opposite, but opposite parts that come together in a union for a purpose.
00:32:56.000 And it's not just the purpose of raising children, right?
00:32:59.000 It's the purpose of fighting for the good, the true, and the beautiful, of supporting one another, of trying to honor the divine.
00:33:06.000 And you don't get that just through a Tinder date.
00:33:10.000 That's shallow. 0.98
00:33:12.000 That's just seeking an orgasm. 0.98
00:33:15.000 Like, okay, anyone can do that. 0.94
00:33:17.000 Here's a good rule for life.
00:33:18.000 The hard things are the beautiful things.
00:33:21.000 Things that require work are going to nourish your soul a lot more than, like, oh, I met this person at a Vegas bar.
00:33:27.000 Be careful, by the way, with that.
00:33:30.000 And by the way, I'm not, if you did that last night, like, okay, you know, there's God forgives.
00:33:37.000 Whatever.
00:33:38.000 So just ask for forgiveness and God will give it to you generously.
00:33:40.000 I mean that.
00:33:41.000 Like, honestly, we're all sinners.
00:33:43.000 What I'm trying to get at, though, is when you get married, you realize, like, wow, my life was completely empty before that.
00:33:50.000 And there's a reason why the dress for the man is the same at a wedding and a funeral.
00:33:58.000 You ever think about this?
00:34:00.000 Because you're saying goodbye to your previous self.
00:34:06.000 The woman is the icon, the symbol of beauty, almost always in all white, right? 0.98
00:34:13.000 Ascendant.
00:34:14.000 The man is usually in black and white, like he's attending somebody's death, because it is his death.
00:34:26.000 No, but think about it: it's the death of the bachelor mindset, it's the death of promiscuity, it's the death of the wandering eye, it's the death of immoral behavior, it's the death of texting girls casually, it's the death of I get to do what I want to do, it's the death of just going to the bar with friends, it's the death of acting like an infant, it's the death of playing video games till 1 a.m.
00:34:58.000 And it's the birth Of a man boom hit a cord there, bro. 0.79
00:35:24.000 Get over there.
00:35:29.000 So, so you brought you brought up the Bible.
00:35:32.000 So, let's go down that road.
00:35:33.000 You brought up the Bible, let's go down that road.
00:35:35.000 I often look at Proverbs and Ecclesiastes as a way to model my life.
00:35:41.000 Same author, Solomon, Selma.
00:35:43.000 Correct.
00:35:43.000 And he was the son of David.
00:35:45.000 David, and he was hanging out with Bathsheba and etc., etc.
00:35:49.000 And Solomon did not finish well, but that's a correct. 0.70
00:35:52.000 Right, because David had mighty men, Solomon had mighty women, lots of them, lots of them.
00:35:58.000 But Proverbs 31 also is a great framework for women for a woman of noble character.
00:36:04.000 And so when I'm looking at my wife, like, wow, she checks off all the boxes.
00:36:07.000 And I'm thinking about as a man and his perspective, because the way I commit to my wife is the way I commit to my business.
00:36:14.000 How you do one thing is how you do everything.
00:36:16.000 And when you're looking at the Bible in terms of finance and money, God and money, a lot of people are raised into thinking that, hey, Charlie, you've got a lot of money.
00:36:27.000 It's a sin.
00:36:29.000 You should just be content.
00:36:30.000 Relax. 0.76
00:36:31.000 You shouldn't be so damn ambitious.
00:36:33.000 God's going to provide. 0.92
00:36:34.000 What would you say to Christian and believers out there that being rich is a sin?
00:36:40.000 So, first of all, I love the word.
00:36:41.000 And if you're not in a relationship with Jesus Christ, I encourage you to do that.
00:36:44.000 It'll change your life.
00:36:45.000 And I want to see you guys in heaven.
00:36:47.000 Amen.
00:36:48.000 So, and if you're not convinced and you're like, oh boy, I didn't come here to hear religion.
00:36:55.000 Well, look, God loves you so much that he would even bring you to Las Vegas to hear about his son.
00:37:00.000 So.
00:37:02.000 Rich in city, baby.
00:37:04.000 I came here to do things that I will not do at home.
00:37:07.000 Too bad.
00:37:08.000 You're hearing about Jesus Christ.
00:37:09.000 You're getting it straight here, okay?
00:37:11.000 So I love the word so much.
00:37:14.000 The more you read the word, the more it reads you.
00:37:16.000 It's this relationship.
00:37:17.000 It's infinitely deep, the harmonizing of the scriptures.
00:37:21.000 And I've been doing a deep study of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
00:37:25.000 But we could talk about that if you want.
00:37:27.000 You're talking about two things.
00:37:29.000 Number one is a misreading of Jesus' commandment around money.
00:37:33.000 He says, the love of money is the root of all evil.
00:37:37.000 Okay?
00:37:38.000 None of you should love money.
00:37:41.000 You should not.
00:37:43.000 Instead, you should understand money is a tool.
00:37:46.000 It comes from a Greek word techne, a technology.
00:37:48.000 You can use it for good or you could use it for bad.
00:37:52.000 Now, but what does Jesus say about multiplication?
00:37:54.000 This is a much more important teaching.
00:37:57.000 The parable of the talents is one of the strongest lessons towards modern economy and entrepreneurs.
00:38:05.000 If you're not familiar with the parable of the talents, Jesus, our Lord, is talking to his disciples about a scenario.
00:38:12.000 He talked in parables, and it was a way that we could better understand what God wants to tell us.
00:38:17.000 So Jesus says, look, there's three people, okay?
00:38:19.000 And they're all given a certain distribution.
00:38:22.000 And by the way, this is totally true.
00:38:23.000 If I picked three random people and I brought them up on stage and I said, you get $5, you get $5, and you get $5, a day later, someone would have $0, someone would have $20, and someone would have $100.
00:38:36.000 And in the parable of the talents, one of the people hides their money, right, under a rock.
00:38:44.000 Another person modestly multiplies, and another person tremendously multiplies that money.
00:38:50.000 The person that hid their talent.
00:38:51.000 Now, a talent can actually be applicable to your actual talent or money, right?
00:38:56.000 So it actually in this story meant money.
00:38:58.000 Who did nothing with it?
00:39:00.000 Who hid it under a rock received condemnation in the parable?
00:39:05.000 How dare you do nothing with what God has given you?
00:39:09.000 Every single one of you, this is why I can't stand when people say, follow your heart.
00:39:14.000 That's bad advice.
00:39:15.000 Don't do that, okay?
00:39:16.000 I'm going to do what I love.
00:39:18.000 Don't do that.
00:39:19.000 Do what you're good at.
00:39:22.000 Every single one of you has a God-given skill.
00:39:27.000 Every single one of you.
00:39:28.000 So you might say, well, Charlie, I don't know what my skill is.
00:39:31.000 What do people compliment you on?
00:39:33.000 That is different.
00:39:34.000 Maybe you're good at noticing, good at writing, good at speaking, good at organizing, good at empathizing, good at, whatever it is.
00:39:41.000 Find that skill that you don't truly hate and then pursue that.
00:39:45.000 Whatever it is.
00:39:46.000 For me, my number one love would be college football.
00:39:50.000 Like, okay.
00:39:51.000 But yeah, right?
00:39:52.000 Yeah.
00:39:54.000 Got one College World fan.
00:39:55.000 That's great.
00:39:57.000 But it's not the thing I'm best at.
00:39:59.000 I enjoy what I do, and obviously I've learned to love it, but I'm good at speaking.
00:40:04.000 I'm good at communicating.
00:40:05.000 I'm good at writing.
00:40:06.000 I'm good at doing these things.
00:40:07.000 And so in the parable of the talents, Christ wants you to identify what God has given you and to take it and make more of it and to multiply it.
00:40:18.000 And that is across the board, including financially.
00:40:22.000 Now, I'm not going to do the whole like prosperity gospel thing where God wants you to be rich and all this.
00:40:28.000 I could tell you, God does not want you to be sitting still.
00:40:33.000 That is a fact, and I'll prove it to you.
00:40:35.000 All of us need to read Genesis 12 and the story of Abram.
00:40:39.000 And that applies, especially to men, but applies to women too.
00:40:42.000 Get off your tail, leave your father's home, and go on an adventure.
00:40:48.000 Genesis 12 is this incredible thing.
00:40:50.000 So it's the city of Babel and Genesis.
00:40:52.000 Sorry, I could always rock it.
00:40:54.000 Genesis 11 is this crazy story, city of Babel.
00:40:57.000 They want to build a one-world government.
00:40:58.000 God says, not so fast.
00:40:59.000 Sound familiar anyway.
00:41:00.000 So Genesis 12, you hear about this guy, Abram, living at his parents' home until his like 70s, like sitting around, and God says, get up, go on an adventure.
00:41:12.000 And boy, was it ever an adventure.
00:41:15.000 God does not want you to be comfortable.
00:41:17.000 He wants you, as it says in Joshua 1:9, be strong and courageous to go forth.
00:41:23.000 Do you think Moses was thrilled when he was in Midian?
00:41:26.000 He had a great life.
00:41:27.000 Father-in-law likes him.
00:41:29.000 That's not always the case.
00:41:30.000 Thankfully, it is for me, but if you get married, you'll realize that.
00:41:32.000 Father-in-law likes him, right?
00:41:34.000 Jethro, everything's great.
00:41:35.000 And he's just going for a stroll. 0.99
00:41:38.000 And that darn bush had to be on fire. 0.99
00:41:43.000 And his life changed forever. 0.99
00:41:46.000 In fact, it changed so much that in Numbers and Deuteronomy, Moses repeatedly says, God, why did you make me do this?
00:41:55.000 These people won't stop complaining.
00:41:58.000 These people are the worst. 0.97
00:41:59.000 You're talking about the Hebrews. 0.98
00:42:01.000 He's like, why?
00:42:02.000 And God says, because I told you.
00:42:04.000 And I am who I am.
00:42:06.000 Tough luck.
00:42:08.000 But he called them on an adventure that changed human history.
00:42:12.000 Time and time again, the heroes of the Bible are people that leave comfort and they go towards adversity.
00:42:17.000 They leave what is easy and they go towards what is good.
00:42:21.000 And that is a call for each and one of your lives.
00:42:23.000 Come on.
00:42:25.000 Come on.
00:42:29.000 Speaking of scripture, 1 Timothy 4, 12 says, Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young.
00:42:35.000 But set an example for the believers in speech and conduct and love and faith and impurity. 1.00
00:42:40.000 Charlie, you're 29 years old.
00:42:42.000 I get the top 10 questions I've been personally asking here down the hallway.
00:42:46.000 Matt, how do I get to people because I'm young?
00:42:49.000 How do I get people to believe me because I'm young?
00:42:51.000 It didn't seem like you've had a problem with that.
00:42:54.000 Yeah, so here's my advice, especially if you hear that a lot.
00:42:58.000 Every single one of you now, thanks to these literal supercomputers, for no charge, you can take learning very seriously.
00:43:06.000 Every single one of you should do this.
00:43:07.000 If you want to be an entrepreneur, you have to be a lifelong learner.
00:43:09.000 You should be reading at least 50 books a year.
00:43:11.000 You should be listening to fulfilling, soul-enriching content for two hours a day.
00:43:15.000 And you should cut out all of the soul-depraving Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, all that.
00:43:22.000 So you only have so much time.
00:43:23.000 You only have so much energy.
00:43:24.000 So you have to choose not just what you eat physically, but are you going to consume junk food in television, junk food in radio, junk food in podcasting?
00:43:34.000 You want to be taken seriously?
00:43:36.000 Read 50 books over the next decade.
00:43:37.000 That's 500 books, 50 books a year for the next decade.
00:43:41.000 That's 500 books on entrepreneurial, on American history, on finance, on economics.
00:43:46.000 There's no lack of them, right?
00:43:47.000 And they're all out there.
00:43:48.000 By the way, most of them, they're like 20 bucks a pop, but if you want to, there's like free versions, there's YouTube lectures.
00:43:53.000 There is no excuse for anybody in this room to not take learning seriously.
00:43:59.000 So there's two ways.
00:44:00.000 So let's talk about wisdom, right?
00:44:02.000 Which Proverbs and Ecclesiastes is the book of wisdom.
00:44:05.000 So Solomon, God comes on to Solomon.
00:44:07.000 Solomon, what do you want?
00:44:08.000 He says, I want wisdom.
00:44:10.000 And so what is wisdom?
00:44:12.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of things that don't change.
00:44:16.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of eternal truths.
00:44:20.000 Wisdom are things that will be just as true 100 years from now as they were 200 years prior.
00:44:25.000 Knowledge can change, right?
00:44:27.000 Knowledge is facts and figures.
00:44:28.000 Who's the governor of this, center, or that?
00:44:30.000 That's important.
00:44:30.000 But wisdom is answering much more important questions.
00:44:33.000 What is good?
00:44:34.000 What is evil?
00:44:34.000 What is our relationship with God?
00:44:36.000 Why are we here?
00:44:37.000 What is my purpose?
00:44:38.000 Where am I going after I die?
00:44:39.000 What is love?
00:44:40.000 What is mercy?
00:44:41.000 What is justice?
00:44:42.000 What is prudence?
00:44:42.000 What is temperance?
00:44:43.000 Where do the best people live?
00:44:44.000 Who are the worst people to live?
00:44:45.000 What are the best form of governments?
00:44:46.000 These are things that matter a lot more than facts and figures that you could recite quickly just to take a test.
00:44:55.000 Every single one of you has in front of you an ability to obtain wisdom.
00:45:00.000 So there's two ways to get wisdom.
00:45:02.000 One is through a lot of life experience, multi-decades of suffering, and you might get some wisdom.
00:45:10.000 Or you can pursue texts, authors, and writers that have presented these things, the Bible being one of them.
00:45:18.000 But there is an unlimited canon in the Western tradition that is accessible to each and every one of you.
00:45:25.000 You're like, wow, I never thought of that before.
00:45:27.000 And where does wisdom truly begin?
00:45:29.000 Wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord.
00:45:32.000 Understanding that there is a God and you are not him.
00:45:37.000 Those two truths. 1.00
00:45:39.000 And if I may just say one other thing on this, why are college campuses some of the most idiotic environments on the planet? 1.00
00:45:49.000 Because they don't honor God and without God, there is no wisdom. 1.00
00:45:52.000 These are godless institutions where they are constantly scrapping and searching for answers when it's accessible to each and every one of us.
00:45:59.000 So if you want to be taken seriously as a young person, listen more than you speak.
00:46:04.000 Read more than you project.
00:46:07.000 So delete your social media apps on your phone and instead dive deep into the great ideas.
00:46:12.000 When I say, Charlie, how do I do this?
00:46:13.000 So I partnered at Hillsdale College, free resource, charlie4hillsdale.com is charlieforhillsdale.com.
00:46:19.000 35 online courses.
00:46:20.000 They'll enrich your life significantly from the Bible to Aristotle to American history.
00:46:24.000 If you are a lifelong learner, you will be successful and you will be an accomplished entrepreneur.
00:46:29.000 That's awesome.
00:46:32.000 I think there's some people here that went to Hillsdale College too as well.
00:46:34.000 So Greg and Bess Smith, I think, when they went to Hillsdale College over here, when you're looking at children, you're around Trump a lot.
00:46:43.000 You know, we talk about accessibility.
00:46:45.000 You know, you just did an event in Florida a few weeks ago where the top conservative candidates, President Jacanas, were on stage rocking the stage.
00:46:52.000 And you're going on PBD podcast talking about, yeah, I text DeSantis' camp, but it takes me a minute.
00:46:58.000 But I call Trump and he picks up.
00:47:01.000 When you are around his family, around his kids, from your observation, how has he raised his kids to integrate and see them as part of his personal life and business life?
00:47:12.000 Can I just like riff on Trump just for his idea?
00:47:15.000 Yeah.
00:47:15.000 So, look, I'm sure you guys all have mixed opinions of him.
00:47:18.000 I honestly have heard it all.
00:47:19.000 I really don't care.
00:47:20.000 So, I mean, I'm not here to convince you otherwise.
00:47:22.000 I'm just going to convince you one thing, okay?
00:47:24.000 That you might hate the man, you might love the man, you might think he's terrible, you might want him in prison or whatever.
00:47:29.000 If you want to be an entrepreneur, listen very, successful and listen very carefully to what I'm telling you, okay?
00:47:35.000 You will experience adversity in life.
00:47:38.000 It's a guarantee.
00:47:39.000 There'll be times where you get sued, you get lied about, you get leaked on by a former employee.
00:47:44.000 All these things are a guarantee of being an entrepreneur.
00:47:49.000 And we hear about on the media every single negative of Donald Trump. 0.88
00:47:54.000 Narcissist, egotist, whatever.
00:47:55.000 Do we ever hear about the virtues of Donald Trump ever? 0.75
00:47:58.000 Let me tell you one.
00:48:00.000 I pray that you guys are a fraction as tough as he is when the whole world comes collapsing down around you or around him.
00:48:12.000 And you might say, oh, Charlie, that doesn't convince me.
00:48:14.000 If you are facing 600 years in federal prison, literally like 100 different lawsuits, everybody coming against you, I don't know if I'd have the fortitude to keep on going.
00:48:25.000 But I just want you to look at him in a different way the next couple of weeks and say, boy, he has every reason to give up.
00:48:31.000 Every single reason to say no more, because you will be in a place in life in the next decade or two where it feels like the walls are closing in, where everything is collapsing.
00:48:41.000 And I want you to look and say, you know what, despite all the negatives I hear about him, I think it is darn admirable that this guy keeps on fighting and he keeps on scrapping and he will not give up.
00:48:50.000 So as far as his kids, he's raised great kids.
00:48:57.000 Look, I'm biased.
00:48:58.000 President Trump has been a great friend.
00:49:00.000 We've gotten to know each other really well.
00:49:01.000 He treated me super well.
00:49:03.000 I'm awfully defensive of him in the sense of just like, I don't think people really understand who he is.
00:49:08.000 He's an alpha beast entrepreneur that loves his country, that is the bodyguard of Western civilization.
00:49:15.000 He's like New York City entrepreneur, developer, meets UFC fighter, you know, meets just like, I want to see the country in a better place.
00:49:26.000 And I really am, I'm saddened by where we're at in the country, regardless of your politics.
00:49:33.000 I really, it doesn't really bother me.
00:49:35.000 I think we can all agree that it's just flat out wrong that you can use the instruments of government to go indict a, like, honestly, if you hate Trump so much, go beat him in the ballot box.
00:49:44.000 Like, stop indicting him.
00:49:46.000 Okay.
00:49:46.000 You are, you are cutting in line to try to interrupt a direct referendum of whether or not you want this person to be an elective office or not.
00:49:54.000 And so the other thing I'll say about this, I've never seen a human being work as hard as Donald Trump.
00:50:01.000 I just had dinner with him a couple weeks ago in Bedminster, New Jersey.
00:50:04.000 And like, I'm a pretty high energy guy, and he exhausts me, like, exhausts me.
00:50:08.000 Like, after two hours of a dinner with him, I'm like, I got to go to bed.
00:50:11.000 He's like, and how about this and this guy and this?
00:50:13.000 And have you, you seen this thing?
00:50:14.000 And like, and this again, he's like, oh, my goodness.
00:50:16.000 And 77.
00:50:19.000 And Benjamin Button, I think he's getting younger.
00:50:21.000 It's like unbelievable.
00:50:23.000 I see him.
00:50:23.000 He's like, he's looking fitter and better.
00:50:25.000 And in some ways, like all this opposition is like a life force to him.
00:50:29.000 And I'll kind of just repeat what I said in a different way, though, which is, you know, it's easy to complain.
00:50:37.000 It's easy to give up.
00:50:38.000 It's easy to do all those things.
00:50:39.000 But there's going to be a question where there's a fork in the road.
00:50:43.000 Do I surrender or do I persevere?
00:50:46.000 Do I surrender or do I persevere?
00:50:49.000 And I've learned the lesson firsthand from him that whenever I come against opposition, that I'm going to keep on pushing through.
00:50:56.000 Amen.
00:50:56.000 Amen.
00:51:00.000 We have debates on stage internally.
00:51:04.000 We have debates, okay?
00:51:06.000 So you're a great debater.
00:51:07.000 Any points that you give to somebody, regardless of debating on stage here for this conference, or debating out when we're running our businesses and debating with folks in our communities, and we may have some future politicians and some policymakers here, or we give birth to future governors and presidents are at out of this.
00:51:23.000 Honestly, don't become a politician.
00:51:25.000 Get super rich and then donate to politicians.
00:51:27.000 It's way nicer.
00:51:28.000 Okay.
00:51:29.000 So please, it's like we have enough politicians.
00:51:32.000 We need more entrepreneurs, value creators.
00:51:36.000 Debating.
00:51:37.000 Three things.
00:51:38.000 Know your audience.
00:51:39.000 Are you trying to win over an external audience or are you trying to win over the person you're debating?
00:51:42.000 That's not the same thing, right?
00:51:43.000 So if you're debating in a classroom, if you're debating on an online forum, you might be trying to win over somebody else, not the actual person you're debating.
00:51:52.000 Number two, it's not some sort of crazy thing, but just ask questions.
00:51:56.000 Instead of telling people what you believe, say, oh, where has that ever worked before?
00:52:00.000 Or that's interesting.
00:52:01.000 Have you ever considered it from this way?
00:52:03.000 Ask questions.
00:52:03.000 Number three, know your material.
00:52:06.000 There is no replacement to understanding the knowledge of whatever you're debating. 1.00
00:52:10.000 And so, you know, it motivated me to not go to college because I was tired of people telling me that I was stupid and dumb. 0.98
00:52:16.000 I was like, okay, I'm going to read more than you. 0.99
00:52:18.000 I'm going to study more than you.
00:52:20.000 And I take learning just as seriously as anything else I do.
00:52:24.000 Just as seriously as some of you guys go to the gym, as seriously as you guys, you know, whatever it is that you take seriously, people say, Charlie, what's your hobby?
00:52:31.000 Like, honestly, my hobby is reading and turning my phone off and learning.
00:52:34.000 I love learning about all sorts of different types of topics, geopolitics, economics, history, philosophy.
00:52:40.000 And there's so much out there that can sharpen you for a very, very adversarial world.
00:52:47.000 And honestly, I think it's fun.
00:52:48.000 I think it's fun to learn.
00:52:50.000 I think that if you have a passion for a topic, becoming a master of it, I find great delight and comfort in that.
00:52:57.000 Charlie, we got the last couple of minutes here.
00:52:59.000 I'm going to give you a final word here.
00:53:00.000 What do you want us to take away from this conversation for us to save America?
00:53:05.000 What's going on today?
00:53:06.000 I know you mentioned entrepreneurship.
00:53:07.000 You mentioned a lot of different things.
00:53:08.000 What would you like to have us take away?
00:53:10.000 Yeah, thank you for that.
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00:53:30.000 A couple things.
00:53:31.000 Please, my encouragement for you is break out of the media matrix of the mindset that they have in you.
00:53:38.000 We live in a beautiful country.
00:53:39.000 There's so much opportunity in front of you.
00:53:42.000 You are the master of your own destiny and that you can chart a course that is better for yourself and for your kids and for your grandkids.
00:53:50.000 You live in the envy of the world.
00:53:53.000 So you have a choice.
00:53:54.000 You can, and if I were to divide the country again, there's two other groups of people.
00:53:59.000 There are the grateful and the ungrateful.
00:54:02.000 The mark of the happiest and the most joyful people on the planet are people that make the conscious decision and attitude to engage in gratitude.
00:54:13.000 Gratitude is the fruit that makes all other things taste sweet.
00:54:18.000 Ingratitude is the gateway drug towards resentment, towards bitterness, and towards envy.
00:54:25.000 And every single day, if you go through the conscious decision of, I am going to say, I am thankful to God or whoever you want to be thankful to for my circumstance, for life, for breath, that I get a chance to be on this planet, as it says in Esther, for such a time as this, your entire mindset will shift.
00:54:45.000 We could go all day long, and I don't mean this in a joking way, and we could bring up 100 random people in this arena and we would hear story after story of difficulty, of parents that died unexpectedly, of kids that are dealing with health challenges.
00:55:00.000 All of that is legitimate.
00:55:03.000 But is that what we are going to assume as our permanent place of dwelling?
00:55:08.000 Instead, if you say, I am grateful that I live in this nation, I'm grateful that I have a chance to be able to take risks.
00:55:13.000 I'm grateful that I get to be an entrepreneur.
00:55:16.000 Everything starts to change.
00:55:18.000 And you look at these things as opportunities, not as obstacles.
00:55:22.000 You will break through in a place.
00:55:23.000 And honestly, you will no longer be part of the generation that is the most suicidal, alcohol-addicted, drug-addicted, porn-addicted generation in history.
00:55:33.000 And it's just as simple as a mindset shift.
00:55:36.000 And let me just kind of close with this because you did open the door previously.
00:55:39.000 The most important way that you will be thankful, though, is realize that there's a God who created you and he loved you so much that he sent his son on a rescue mission to save you.
00:55:50.000 And there's nothing you do for it.
00:55:52.000 You don't earn it.
00:55:53.000 You accept it.
00:55:55.000 It is a free gift right in front of you.
00:55:59.000 The gospel in four words is Jesus took my place.
00:56:04.000 Three words, him for me.
00:56:06.000 Two words, substitutionary atonement.
00:56:08.000 One word, grace.
00:56:09.000 Every single person in this room will have to meet our Creator.
00:56:13.000 I am thankful beyond any words that when I have to go hold account for all of my treachery, my deceit, my lying, my self-righteousness, I have a bailout card.
00:56:23.000 So I'll be able to say, I gave my life to your son, Jesus Christ.
00:56:27.000 And for that, I will be bailed out for all my sins.
00:56:31.000 God bless you guys, and thank you so much for having me.
00:56:38.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:56:39.000 Everybody, email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:56:43.000 Thank you so much for listening and God bless.
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