00:01:37.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:49.000So, Charlie, very excited to have you here.
00:01:54.000Our theme this year is saving America.
00:01:58.000What 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?
00:02:17.000And big fan of Patrick and really what he brings to the world.
00:02:22.000Look, we could get into this if you want.
00:02:24.000I think we're in a spiritual war in our country, and I think that we need to acknowledge that.
00:02:28.000But honestly, look, there's a couple things that I really want to focus on.
00:02:32.000As a nation right now, we are struggling to be able to articulate what it means to be an American.
00:02:40.000And 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.
00:02:58.000For example, I don't care about the color of your skin.
00:03:01.000I do not care about the color of your skin.
00:03:48.000America 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.
00:04:00.000And this is disempowering for all people, by the way.
00:04:04.000And so what is harming the American experiment or the promise of America?
00:04:11.000We are teaching our young people to participate in what I call the oppression Olympics.
00:04:16.000It's a competition of who can get the most points because I'm the most oppressed person.
00:05:18.000This is not even political, quite honestly.
00:05:20.000This is an existential question for the nation.
00:05:22.000And 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.
00:05:44.000You must resist those narratives at all costs if you truly want to be successful in America.
00:09:59.000And 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%.
00:10:08.000And 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?
00:10:15.000Like, why don't you go and improve yourself?
00:10:18.000And what I'm getting at is you must break free of the mass media simulation that seeks to control you.
00:10:35.000They don't want you to be taking the best supplements or eating the best food.
00:10:40.000They want you to be androgynous consumers where you are miserable, where you are, quite honestly, depressed on antidepressants all day long.
00:10:48.000The best way to break free of that is to say, I am not going to consume what the mass media networks are feeding me.
00:10:56.000I am my own sovereign being made in the image of God, and I'm going to flourish beyond the bad guys' wildest imagination.
00:11:09.000When 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.
00:11:17.000That's why I had the first time to interview backstage, meet you.
00:11:21.000And you just had recently gotten married.
00:11:22.000I will say right now, you look more fitter after getting married.
00:11:26.000And by the way, you guys, you weren't even concerned when I said, oh, you want to do 22 push-ups?
00:11:34.000And so the typical guy today is worried about doing push-ups.
00:11:38.000If 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.
00:12:03.000So, I've been 11 years as an entrepreneur, all sorts of different nonprofits, businesses, you know, traveled the country, traveled the world.
00:12:10.000And 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.
00:13:28.000The least wise people in American society go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford.
00:13:34.000They believe men can give birth, literally.
00:13:38.000There is more wisdom in the PHP community and the plumbing community and the electrician community than all the halls of the Ivy League schools.
00:14:15.000You 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.
00:14:29.000But 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.
00:14:56.000It's almost a secret society where the way you enter the club is a special diploma or a special piece of paper.
00:15:05.000What 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.
00:15:21.000But what it was I like in high school?
00:15:23.000Look, I mean, answer the question, I mean, it kind of come full circle.
00:16:20.000You'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.
00:16:28.000You 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.
00:16:37.000I could tell you, that is a darn powerful motivational tool.
00:16:41.000To 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.
00:17:26.000Yesterday, Charlie, I gave a talk on who wants to be a millionaire.
00:17:29.000And I said, who is raised in the language of brokenes?
00:17:32.000And who's raised in the language of rich knees or milliones?
00:17:35.000And 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.
00:17:49.000Did your dad raise you with this type of language?
00:17:52.000Did he plant these seeds of how to look at the word world from an entrepreneur perspective?
00:18:50.000Find something people are complaining about and then develop a solution and then you're able to get rich.
00:18:57.000And so what it requires, though, is it requires an entire mindset shift.
00:19:02.000And 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.
00:19:17.000And the best way to isolate this is by journaling.
00:19:21.000Journaling is great because it's intentionally slow.
00:19:24.000You cannot write as fast as you think.
00:19:27.000Therefore, it requires you to be precise in what you're actually thinking.
00:19:31.000And so, if you journal every single day, you're like, wow, I'm really negative about myself.
00:19:36.000Like, I'm over focusing on the heaviness and the pessimism.
00:19:41.000And then all of a sudden, you could be like, you know what?
00:19:43.000I'm going to develop better thought patterns.
00:19:45.000There's a great book called The Gap in the Game that really emphasizes this.
00:19:50.000But 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.
00:19:59.000Because 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.
00:20:11.000Doing this for 11 years, I've had a chance to meet over 200 billionaires, meet people all across the world.
00:20:16.000What's the one thing the rich, the wealthy, and the successful have in common more than anything else?
00:20:27.000It's the attitude that they bring to life.
00:20:31.000The 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.
00:23:07.000And he was like, well, what are you going to do?
00:23:08.000And I could throw out all these ideas and they were, half of them were awful.
00:23:12.000But he sensed the passion because I had the why that was configured correctly.
00:23:19.000If you understand your why, you can get through any, any what or how, any.
00:23:25.000And 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.
00:23:39.000If you bet on yourself in an entrepreneurial scenario, you're going to be adjusting along the way anyway.
00:23:45.000You're like, oh, well, this or that, or you're going to be learning in real time.
00:23:49.000But it requires you to first take that first step.
00:23:52.000And that's what we did at Turning Point USA.
00:23:53.000And 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.
00:24:14.000The five most people you spend time with, that's who you are.
00:24:17.000So 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.
00:24:26.000But 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.
00:24:37.000Audit your relationships and purge the people that are weighing you down.
00:25:25.000That's why we've gone from $0 to $80 million in revenue in 11 years.
00:25:29.000And 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.
00:25:40.000We're able to attract the best talent, not because I can pay them the best.
00:25:43.000And if they want to go make more money, go work for Goldman Sachs, right?
00:25:51.000You're never going to have to be asked your pronouns at Turning Point USA.
00:25:57.000You're not going to have to go through some stupid struggle session.
00:26:01.000And you get to actually wake up every single day and be fulfilled.
00:26:05.000Your soul will be fed and watered in a way that you would be not even close to at a regular corporate job.
00:26:14.000At 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.
00:26:23.000I am waking up to do the work to help make sure my grandkids can live in a free society.
00:26:28.000And I got to be honest, the upside has just been tremendous.
00:26:33.000And we're able to recruit great talent.
00:26:36.000We're able to get people engaged and involved.
00:27:37.000So, 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.
00:28:43.000No, In a society when you do not have people saying no, really bad ideas start to metastasize and infect the entire culture.
00:29:01.000And 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.
00:29:44.000So, 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.
00:30:19.000And 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.
00:30:28.000And if you wanted to conquer a country, you would have the men start becoming women and killing themselves.
00:30:38.000When you're looking at that, unbelievable.
00:30:50.000When you're looking at where men are today, you just got married a couple years ago?
00:32:42.000And 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.
00:32:56.000And it's not just the purpose of raising children, right?
00:32:59.000It's the purpose of fighting for the good, the true, and the beautiful, of supporting one another, of trying to honor the divine.
00:33:06.000And you don't get that just through a Tinder date.
00:34:14.000The man is usually in black and white, like he's attending somebody's death, because it is his death.
00:34:26.000No, 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.
00:34:58.000And it's the birth Of a man boom hit a cord there, bro.
00:35:45.000David, and he was hanging out with Bathsheba and etc., etc.
00:35:49.000And Solomon did not finish well, but that's a correct.
00:35:52.000Right, because David had mighty men, Solomon had mighty women, lots of them, lots of them.
00:35:58.000But Proverbs 31 also is a great framework for women for a woman of noble character.
00:36:04.000And so when I'm looking at my wife, like, wow, she checks off all the boxes.
00:36:07.000And 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.
00:36:14.000How you do one thing is how you do everything.
00:36:16.000And 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.
00:38:23.000If 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.
00:38:36.000And in the parable of the talents, one of the people hides their money, right, under a rock.
00:38:44.000Another person modestly multiplies, and another person tremendously multiplies that money.
00:40:07.000And 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.
00:40:18.000And that is across the board, including financially.
00:40:22.000Now, I'm not going to do the whole like prosperity gospel thing where God wants you to be rich and all this.
00:40:28.000I could tell you, God does not want you to be sitting still.
00:40:33.000That is a fact, and I'll prove it to you.
00:40:35.000All of us need to read Genesis 12 and the story of Abram.
00:40:39.000And that applies, especially to men, but applies to women too.
00:40:42.000Get off your tail, leave your father's home, and go on an adventure.
00:41:00.000So 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.
00:43:24.000So 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?
00:45:39.000And if I may just say one other thing on this, why are college campuses some of the most idiotic environments on the planet?
00:45:49.000Because they don't honor God and without God, there is no wisdom.
00:45:52.000These are godless institutions where they are constantly scrapping and searching for answers when it's accessible to each and every one of us.
00:45:59.000So if you want to be taken seriously as a young person, listen more than you speak.
00:46:32.000I think there's some people here that went to Hillsdale College too as well.
00:46:34.000So 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.
00:46:43.000You know, we talk about accessibility.
00:46:45.000You 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.
00:46:52.000And you're going on PBD podcast talking about, yeah, I text DeSantis' camp, but it takes me a minute.
00:47:01.000When 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?
00:47:12.000Can I just like riff on Trump just for his idea?
00:48:00.000I pray that you guys are a fraction as tough as he is when the whole world comes collapsing down around you or around him.
00:48:12.000And you might say, oh, Charlie, that doesn't convince me.
00:48:14.000If 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.
00:48:25.000But 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.
00:48:31.000Every 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.
00:48:41.000And 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.
00:48:50.000So as far as his kids, he's raised great kids.
00:49:03.000I'm awfully defensive of him in the sense of just like, I don't think people really understand who he is.
00:49:08.000He's an alpha beast entrepreneur that loves his country, that is the bodyguard of Western civilization.
00:49:15.000He'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.
00:49:26.000And I really am, I'm saddened by where we're at in the country, regardless of your politics.
00:49:33.000I really, it doesn't really bother me.
00:49:35.000I 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.
00:49:46.000You 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.
00:49:54.000And so the other thing I'll say about this, I've never seen a human being work as hard as Donald Trump.
00:50:01.000I just had dinner with him a couple weeks ago in Bedminster, New Jersey.
00:50:04.000And like, I'm a pretty high energy guy, and he exhausts me, like, exhausts me.
00:50:08.000Like, after two hours of a dinner with him, I'm like, I got to go to bed.
00:50:11.000He's like, and how about this and this guy and this?
00:51:07.000Any 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.
00:51:43.000So 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.
00:51:52.000Number two, it's not some sort of crazy thing, but just ask questions.
00:51:56.000Instead of telling people what you believe, say, oh, where has that ever worked before?
00:52:20.000And I take learning just as seriously as anything else I do.
00:52:24.000Just 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?
00:52:31.000Like, honestly, my hobby is reading and turning my phone off and learning.
00:52:34.000I love learning about all sorts of different types of topics, geopolitics, economics, history, philosophy.
00:52:40.000And there's so much out there that can sharpen you for a very, very adversarial world.
00:53:39.000There's so much opportunity in front of you.
00:53:42.000You 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.
00:53:54.000You can, and if I were to divide the country again, there's two other groups of people.
00:53:59.000There are the grateful and the ungrateful.
00:54:02.000The 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.
00:54:13.000Gratitude is the fruit that makes all other things taste sweet.
00:54:18.000Ingratitude is the gateway drug towards resentment, towards bitterness, and towards envy.
00:54:25.000And 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.
00:54:45.000We 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.
00:55:23.000And honestly, you will no longer be part of the generation that is the most suicidal, alcohol-addicted, drug-addicted, porn-addicted generation in history.
00:55:33.000And it's just as simple as a mindset shift.
00:55:36.000And let me just kind of close with this because you did open the door previously.
00:55:39.000The 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.
00:56:09.000Every single person in this room will have to meet our Creator.
00:56:13.000I 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.
00:56:23.000So I'll be able to say, I gave my life to your son, Jesus Christ.
00:56:27.000And for that, I will be bailed out for all my sins.
00:56:31.000God bless you guys, and thank you so much for having me.