The Charlie Kirk Show - The Truth About Misinformation LIVE from Florida State University

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, my campus stop at Florida State University.

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00:00:22.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:24.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

00:00:26.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:30.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:33.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:34.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:35.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:00:43.000 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.

00:00:52.000 That's why we are here.

00:00:55.000 Thank you guys.

00:00:56.000 I understand we have some friends outside as well.

00:00:58.000 It's too bad.

00:00:59.000 Maybe they're in the room or maybe they'll be here later.

00:01:00.000 Who knows?

00:01:02.000 Nothing that we haven't seen before.

00:01:05.000 Actually, last time I was at Florida State University, was anyone at that speech a couple years ago?

00:01:08.000 Maybe a freshman or two?

00:01:09.000 Yeah.

00:01:10.000 That was the last speech I gave before all the lockdowns, actually.

00:01:14.000 And that was a lot of fun.

00:01:16.000 I remember we actually got a question at that event.

00:01:18.000 Someone said, hey, Charlie, what do you think about this COVID thing?

00:01:23.000 And it turns out it just changed our entire society.

00:01:25.000 Well, let me rephrase that.

00:01:26.000 The way we reacted to it changed our entire society, which was one of the worst mistakes I think we've ever made as a country and as a civilization.

00:01:34.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:01:35.000 But I do want to address one of these flyers that they have, Kirk off campus, which is just hilarious.

00:01:41.000 I've actually never heard that one before.

00:01:43.000 But there's one part of it that I do want to focus on, where it says, Florida State University continues to platform far-right influencers like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro.

00:01:54.000 Love Ben, does a great job.

00:01:55.000 These people invade our communities.

00:01:57.000 That's what we're doing tonight.

00:01:58.000 We're invading.

00:01:59.000 Is that right?

00:02:00.000 Spread their misinformation and oftentimes get funding from the university to do it.

00:02:04.000 This must change.

00:02:05.000 Join us in protesting.

00:02:06.000 Okay, but I want to talk about the misinformation thing because that's such an interesting thing.

00:02:10.000 Because you're starting to hear that more and more in our society right now, which is that people on the right are somehow purveyors of misinformation.

00:02:18.000 And, you know, everything we do is rooted in facts and what's, you know, can be proven.

00:02:22.000 And it's not misinformation that they're worried about or facts.

00:02:25.000 It's facts they don't like.

00:02:26.000 It's facts that they want to make sure that students don't hear or opinions that are actually not going to be able to be presented.

00:02:32.000 But while we're on the topic of misinformation, shouldn't we talk about actually who's been spreading the most misinformation over the last couple of years?

00:02:39.000 And I was thinking about some of the biggest stories kind of that have dominated the American news cycle.

00:02:44.000 You remember for quite some time during the 2020 presidential election, there was, and again, here's just a good rule for life, like exhibit A of why not to do crack cocaine. 0.92

00:02:54.000 It makes you do really dumb things.

00:02:56.000 Like, I don't know, drop off your laptop at a laptop repair shop and forget to pick it up. 0.80

00:03:01.000 And by the way, who used laptop repair shops anymore?

00:03:04.000 The whole thing is so bizarre.

00:03:05.000 So Hunter drops off his laptop repair, his laptop at a laptop repair shop, forgets to go pick it up, and then somehow it expires over a certain window and the property becomes the computer repair shop, his laptop, and then he then gives it to Rudy Giuliani.

00:03:22.000 And all of a sudden, there's this laptop out there.

00:03:24.000 And almost instantaneously, the media picked up a story that was complete and total disinformation and misinformation, which was that 50 intel experts came out and they said, this story is Russian disinformation.

00:03:36.000 Remember this right in the midst of an election.

00:03:38.000 And you might love Biden.

00:03:40.000 You might hate Biden.

00:03:41.000 You might say, I hate Trump.

00:03:42.000 I love Trump, whatever.

00:03:43.000 But that's cheating.

00:03:44.000 You're not allowed to do that.

00:03:46.000 You're not allowed to all of a sudden come out using the media, social media, and intel agencies and say this is Russian disinformation because it's a story that you're afraid might actually impact the election results.

00:03:56.000 And so who got held accountable for spreading that misinformation or disinformation?

00:03:59.000 Nobody.

00:04:00.000 They just kind of shrugged their shoulders.

00:04:02.000 In fact, Mark Zuckerberg just recently came out in an interview with Joe Rogan.

00:04:06.000 And Joe Rogan is awesome.

00:04:07.000 He's one of the last, I think, legitimate free speech liberals.

00:04:10.000 I don't even know if he's a liberal, libertarian, what do you want to call him?

00:04:12.000 He's entertaining and smart and fun and actually hears other ideas, which is refreshing, where Mark Zuckerberg went on Rogan's show and basically said, yeah, the FBI made a special visit to Facebook headquarters and told us that we have to clamp down on this story.

00:04:28.000 And so if you tried to share the Hunter Biden laptop story in the midst of the election season, which by the way, contained, let's just say, some rather juicy and salacious details about not just Hunter's personal conduct, but the soon-to-be potential president of the United States doing business deals with our adversaries.

00:04:44.000 And if you even talked about it on Twitter, you had your Twitter account suspended for spreading disinformation and misinformation.

00:04:50.000 So you got to wonder, like, who's actually the ones that are spreading the misinformation in our country?

00:04:54.000 Remember this story where they said that the virus came from a bat in the Himalayan mountains?

00:05:00.000 Remember that?

00:05:01.000 They said, oh, yeah, it's just kind of came from a random wet market, is what they said.

00:05:06.000 Well, now we know that it was from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:05:09.000 In fact, early in the pandemic and our reaction to the pandemic, if you dared even say that it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, then you could have lost your social media account and then you could be labeled as a disinformation artist.

00:05:22.000 I see a pattern, and we're going to keep on going through this list, that sometimes when they go the hardest after disinformation, it actually tends to be one of the most truthful things that actually ends up needing to be discussed and to be spread and heard about.

00:05:36.000 Another one that I think is really interesting and important was during the summer of 2020, during Floyd of Palooza, when we decided to destroy our entire country around a lie that America is systemically racist, which of course we're not.

00:05:46.000 We're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:05:49.000 We're a very decent country.

00:05:50.000 We don't give ourselves credit for that.

00:05:52.000 Is the mostly peaceful protest.

00:05:54.000 And my favorite picture was CNN that was doing their news hit while the Wendy's behind them was burning.

00:05:59.000 Like, yeah, it's mostly peaceful out there.

00:06:01.000 Things are fine.

00:06:03.000 And you extrapolate that through public opinion polls and what people actually thought, and it was this amazing kind of contradiction where the media was telling us everything was peaceful, everything was fine, or they said, oh, yeah, protesting needs to be disagreeable.

00:06:17.000 Who says it needs to be peaceful?

00:06:18.000 When it actually became very clear that entire cities were burning down.

00:06:21.000 And I can go through story after story from how they mislabeled Kyle Rittenhouse, the Nicholas Sandman, to how they told us that the vaccines were going to prevent transmission and that it was 100% safe and effective.

00:06:30.000 And you got to wonder, like, okay, so you guys are ones that are spreading misinformation.

00:06:35.000 And here's the best way you respond to misinformation is just, we're not going to shut you up and you don't shut us up.

00:06:40.000 And then we're able to disagree and we're able to have dialogue because you guys are going to spread all this nonsense.

00:06:45.000 But that's not what's happening here.

00:06:47.000 What's happening is they label anyone on the American right that might have a difference of opinion.

00:06:52.000 All of a sudden they say, we are now going to be able to use force and power to be able to stop your ability to speak.

00:06:57.000 And so speech, and we take it for granted and it's quickly disappearing in our country because there's two forms of censorship.

00:07:03.000 And we'll talk about both of them tonight.

00:07:05.000 One that happens internally and one happens internally, one happens externally, is the speech is the best way to be able to find out what is true and how you react to certain crises or things happening in your country or civilization.

00:07:18.000 If you are not able to consume information that is accurate, or not even to say information that's accurate as you see things happening in real time, you're living in some form of a tyranny, period.

00:07:27.000 And it's really interesting because the big censorship in this country is not just coming from the government.

00:07:33.000 That's obviously happening with the kind of intimidation of people on the right from raiding Mar-a-Lago to raiding pro-life leaders across the country, the unprecedented weaponization of our government.

00:07:43.000 But it's also happening where people say, Charlie, if I spoke out the way you do, I would lose my job.

00:07:49.000 I'd get kicked out of class.

00:07:50.000 I would get graded differently.

00:07:52.000 I want to have a career.

00:07:52.000 The biggest form of censorship in this country is you shutting up you.

00:07:57.000 And it's people that say, I'm afraid to wear a MAGA hat to go to a grocery store.

00:08:01.000 I'm sure we have some MAGA hat here.

00:08:02.000 God bless you, someone that has the courage to do that.

00:08:04.000 Always somebody.

00:08:05.000 There's always, they're right, front row.

00:08:06.000 There you go.

00:08:07.000 And there's always somebody.

00:08:10.000 But most people, they do it in quiet.

00:08:12.000 And the question should be why.

00:08:13.000 I mean, you could see kind of the apparatus outside.

00:08:15.000 They obviously are unashamed, you know, to spew their venom.

00:08:18.000 And they have a right to do that.

00:08:20.000 They have a right to say whatever they want to say.

00:08:22.000 And that's fine.

00:08:24.000 But here's the thing is that I'm confident, and you should be confident if you love liberty and freedom.

00:08:28.000 We're going to beat those people.

00:08:29.000 I mean, just look at them.

00:08:29.000 Obviously, we're going to beat them.

00:08:32.000 But all we need is an opportunity to speak.

00:08:34.000 They know that if there's actually a marketplace of ideas and you're allowed to have ideas spread and people be persuaded, then that's a massive threat to the current status quo that they're trying to usher in.

00:08:45.000 And you go through topic after topic after topic after topic.

00:08:48.000 And so I always find it truckling when people, you know, kind of zero in on that misinformation thing.

00:08:53.000 And that's not to say that people get things wrong.

00:08:55.000 I do my best to try to correct things.

00:08:57.000 You might get facts and figures that are off and you should do your best to kind of, oh, so that wasn't right.

00:09:01.000 Or that should be, you know, focused on more.

00:09:03.000 But no, you have entire narratives where there is a posture and an intent around things that are completely and totally fabricated.

00:09:10.000 I'll give you another example.

00:09:11.000 So a public opinion poll, they asked just, you know, a thousand adults in America, how many blacks do you think are killed by whites every single year?

00:09:19.000 Or how many unarmed blacks do you think are killed by whites every single year?

00:09:19.000 Okay.

00:09:22.000 And the responses were like 1,000, 1,500, you know, 70.

00:09:27.000 Like that's about the average of what people thought.

00:09:29.000 When in reality, the amount of unarmed blacks killed by police officers or killed by white people, it's something like 40 people a year.

00:09:36.000 Or if you just count police, it's about 18 people a year.

00:09:38.000 How is it that you have people that believe it's 1,200 or 1,500 when in reality, it's in the teens or the early 20s?

00:09:45.000 It's because, well, the media is very, very good at making you believe that there's a problem that actually doesn't exist, much larger than it really is.

00:09:51.000 It's this massive propaganda campaign that happens.

00:09:54.000 Another great example is this, is that, and this is the media fear-mongering propaganda campaign, is that during the height of COVID, asked American adults by political affiliation, what's the chances you think you're going to be hospitalized if you get the Fauci virus or the Chinese coronavirus?

00:10:10.000 What is the likelihood?

00:10:12.000 And registered Democrats or registered people on the left would say that there is a 50% chance that I will be hospitalized if I get COVID.

00:10:21.000 In reality, it's 1% to 5%, depending on age.

00:10:24.000 How is it that people would believe so firmly a 50% chance that you'd be hospitalized?

00:10:29.000 It's because the misinformation artists, the center of the misinformation hub themselves is they're designed to keep you fearful and ignorant and not understanding what's actually happening in the country.

00:10:39.000 And I'm sure there's some people on the left here tonight.

00:10:41.000 I'm glad you guys came.

00:10:43.000 But we'll have dialogue and we'll have discussion, hopefully, and see where we agree and disagree.

00:10:48.000 But it's very tempting to want to use power that you have to shut up people you don't like because you think they're super evil.

00:10:57.000 Like, oh, there's never been anything like these right-wingers right now.

00:11:00.000 We have to shut them up. 0.87

00:11:01.000 And then, okay, over a period of time, let's say you shut every single conservative up.

00:11:06.000 Do you think that all of a sudden the censors are just going to stop until they shut up you, until there's no disagreement on the left?

00:11:12.000 I'll give you a great example.

00:11:13.000 Tulsi Gabbard.

00:11:14.000 Tulsi Gabbard, you might like her, you might not like her, you might agree or disagree.

00:11:17.000 Where is there space in the American left right now for Tulsi Gabbard's opinion on foreign policy or wokeism?

00:11:24.000 It doesn't exist. 0.81

00:11:25.000 She's not allowed to even express those opinions anymore.

00:11:27.000 She says it herself.

00:11:28.000 She said, there is no space for a classical liberal on the American left to be able to say that what we're doing in Ukraine is not exactly smart.

00:11:36.000 We need to ask more analytical and, you know, let's say deeper questions. 0.96

00:11:40.000 And I think that it's really dumb to tell kids that men can become pregnant. 0.93

00:11:43.000 Like really basic stuff, right? 0.97

00:11:46.000 That doesn't exist.

00:11:47.000 And basically, and we learned this from the Russian Revolution and from kind of Bolshevikism, is that as soon as you use the power of censorship, it knows no limitations whatsoever.

00:11:57.000 Like, yeah, we got to shut those guys up.

00:11:57.000 So it's tempting.

00:11:59.000 We have to be able to say that those people can't speak.

00:12:01.000 Like, okay.

00:12:02.000 And eventually it will come for you.

00:12:03.000 And eventually, here's the thing, speech is inherently messy.

00:12:07.000 You get all sorts of people that are characters that you might not like, things that, you know, opinions that you might find reprehensible.

00:12:13.000 But through a pattern of allowing people to speak, even with those things, is eventually over a period of time, the American people have to come to some approximation of what is best for them.

00:12:23.000 That has always been the track record.

00:12:25.000 The worst thing you could possibly do is then use the government and then private actors.

00:12:29.000 And that's the other thing that I find so funny is that one of the accusations that, what is this, the Students for a Democratic Society, SDS, says about turning point USNS, they call us fascist, which is just hilarious.

00:12:40.000 They don't really know what fascism is.

00:12:41.000 But like, okay, what is a fascist?

00:12:43.000 A fascist is someone that tries to use government force to collude with private interests for a very specific purpose.

00:12:48.000 How is that not the American government going to Facebook and asking them to censor political opponents?

00:12:54.000 How is that not an act of some sort of technocratic fascism, of saying, we're going to go to Google and say that you must say that if you say certain perspectives or opinions, you're not allowed to have them.

00:13:04.000 And so kind of putting all this together, I find it very comical and interesting every time people accuse us of misinformation.

00:13:10.000 Not to say we get everything right.

00:13:11.000 It's not to say that every opinion we have is popular.

00:13:13.000 But the most prevailing narratives of the day are not rooted in truth, unfortunately, by the big propagandists.

00:13:18.000 I want to close on a couple things and we'll do some questions.

00:13:20.000 I want to make sure we always save plenty of time there so that we can have a good conversation there.

00:13:26.000 Look, our generation, I'm millennial, not Generation Z.

00:13:28.000 And so I guess we could say our generation.

00:13:30.000 I'll say your generation for all intents and purposes. 0.91

00:13:32.000 By the way, I have to thank Generation Z. Finally, there's a generation boomers hate more than millennials. 0.52

00:13:38.000 So I hear it all.

00:13:39.000 It's really great.

00:13:40.000 Congratulations.

00:13:41.000 Finally, they said, those Generation Z, they're the worst.

00:13:44.000 It used to be all millennials, the worst ever at all time. 1.00

00:13:47.000 But this is kind of really more to the adults first and then to the students, which is I want to kind of focus on something I said earlier, which is we say that COVID did all these things.

00:13:56.000 And even I'm a little sloppy in my language at times because I'm so used to saying it the way the regime says it.

00:14:02.000 But it really was not COVID that hurt young people.

00:14:04.000 It was our reaction to it.

00:14:06.000 And every single metric from weight gain to suicide to psychiatric drug medication to alcohol all went in the negative direction during these lockdowns.

00:14:17.000 And for what?

00:14:18.000 It will go down as one of the worst mistakes ever made in decent society and in our civilization, all around kind of this prevailing dogma of mass propaganda and of fear.

00:14:30.000 And now you have a generation that now, let's just pretend everything was fine health-wise, despite the fact that all of these things went up, anxiety, depression, mental health issues, all those things went up.

00:14:40.000 Let's just talk economically, our response to this.

00:14:42.000 And this is where, you know, I'm trying to warn conservatives that if we don't get actually a coherent message around these sorts of topics and these issues, the socialists are going to have quite a field day with the next generation because when people don't own anything, they make for perfect socialists.

00:14:57.000 And everything is twice as expensive, minimum, in every major metropolitan area over the last two and a half years.

00:15:03.000 And we did that.

00:15:05.000 Both parties did that.

00:15:06.000 Conservatives and liberals decided to go print a bunch of money we did not have to inject it into mass stimulus packages.

00:15:12.000 Obviously, the current administration did it more than the prior one, but there is no doubt that it was a bipartisan agreement to go continue to inflate the currency and to basically create what is record inflation, where many of you in this room probably have a fair amount of economic cynicism where you say, where exactly is this American dream that was promised to me?

00:15:35.000 And honestly, you have a point.

00:15:37.000 And I'm not one to play victim.

00:15:38.000 I'm not one or to say you should play a victim.

00:15:40.000 I'm not one to say that young people should bash their adults or their elders, the adults or elders or their parents.

00:15:45.000 But honestly, there needs to be a mass apology to Generation Z and to young people for what we did over the last two years, which was a drive-by shooting of a generation.

00:15:54.000 And then we just say, oh, just go work harder.

00:15:56.000 Actually, no, how is a young person supposed to go buy a home right now?

00:16:00.000 How are they supposed to afford a mortgage with everything twice as expensive?

00:16:03.000 And by the way, they could barely pay for basic goods and services.

00:16:06.000 And then obviously, many of you are obviously in debt going to college, of which I have a lot of opinions around that that we can get into if you want.

00:16:14.000 And the essence is this, is that this has been intergenerational robbery, the likes of which we have never seen.

00:16:20.000 And just the message of, oh yeah, just go get your act together, go work together, that doesn't cut it.

00:16:24.000 Now, for all you students out there, on the inverse, I implore you to reject just playing a victim and being cynical.

00:16:32.000 It's still a beautiful country.

00:16:33.000 There's still huge opportunity.

00:16:35.000 You can still get through it with grit and hustle.

00:16:37.000 There's been a lot of obviously bad things that have been dealt to you.

00:16:40.000 And they were done by bad decisions and decisions by people that are not of your generation.

00:16:46.000 Despite all of that, there's still an immense, there's an immense amount of wealth and happiness that you can have in your life with all of that through earned success and the proper application of your effort.

00:16:58.000 There is still not in America a good reason to say, I'm just going to give up.

00:17:03.000 I'm not going to do anything.

00:17:04.000 I'm going to throw it all away.

00:17:05.000 So I kind of put it on both sides.

00:17:06.000 But honestly, I say this to adults all the time because a lot of adults now that the stock market has gone down dramatically, they're feeling a little bit more.

00:17:14.000 But when I say adults, I mean, people of the age of 50, they'll say all the time, they say, you know, this Generation Z is so cynical and all they want is free stuff.

00:17:21.000 And they're, you know, 20 years old and they want socialism because they don't want to work.

00:17:25.000 I say, that's some people, obviously.

00:17:27.000 But honestly, the vast majority of young people find socialism attractive because they've been lied to their entire life.

00:17:32.000 They went to go get a degree they know that is largely worthless to go study stuff that doesn't matter to go find jobs that don't exist.

00:17:38.000 They've done everything they've been told.

00:17:39.000 Go get the vaccine.

00:17:40.000 Go stay at home.

00:17:41.000 Go wear a mask.

00:17:42.000 Don't see your friends.

00:17:42.000 And guess what?

00:17:43.000 It has done complete generational carnage to the ones they love, including themselves.

00:17:47.000 And so they look up at adults and they're like, oh, really?

00:17:49.000 We just have to go work harder and apply more?

00:17:50.000 How about you guys leave a country that's even a little bit free or prosperous for us?

00:17:54.000 Because here's what's going to happen.

00:17:56.000 If conservatives don't get our act together and we don't get more young people doing three very basic things, buying homes, getting married and having kids, you're going to have a socialist revolution in this country, the likes of which you've never seen.

00:18:05.000 And it's going to be very, very hard to stop.

00:18:07.000 Because if a generation is increasingly not owning property, not getting married and not having kids, what on earth are you supposed to tell them to go work for? 0.67

00:18:14.000 What are they trying to conserve?

00:18:15.000 They're going to say, you know what, let's just go take the money from adults.

00:18:18.000 It's a bad idea.

00:18:18.000 And that's going to be very hard to stop.

00:18:19.000 I don't support it.

00:18:20.000 It's morally questionable at best.

00:18:22.000 I don't find it to be supportive at all.

00:18:24.000 But for those of you that actually want a free enterprise to exist and to survive in the future, you have a generation that is being completely priced out of the housing market.

00:18:34.000 And then you have these massive Wall Street firms coming in like BlackRock.

00:18:37.000 And what are they doing?

00:18:38.000 They're buying up single family homes across America to turn you into lifelong renters to make it so that you can never actually buy into the housing system to be able to build equity and to build wealth.

00:18:51.000 And boy, that's not a country that is sustainable.

00:18:54.000 One of the things that actually creates, I think, de-radicalized politics is when people own stuff.

00:18:59.000 People that own homes tend to not burn down Wendy's.

00:19:01.000 Good rule for life, right?

00:19:03.000 People that are married and have kids tend to not go march in the streets endlessly against systemic racism.

00:19:08.000 They got other things on their mind.

00:19:09.000 But you have the least married generation. 1.00

00:19:11.000 We have a population collapse that is down 20 to 30 percent.

00:19:14.000 And this increased kind of aura of cynicism.

00:19:17.000 And I hate to be too big into the materialism because I think we have a spiritual crisis in our country as well.

00:19:22.000 But when a generation works super hard, and there's a lot of you that work hard, you work in minimum wage jobs, you study, and you're getting poorer, that creates a lot of nihilism, like a ton.

00:19:34.000 When all of a sudden you're working a job just to stay poor, you're like, why don't I just go get government benefits?

00:19:39.000 Like it would be easier.

00:19:41.000 And that's not an exaggeration.

00:19:42.000 I'm sure in Tallahassee, this has not been immune from inflation.

00:19:46.000 But in many of the metropolitan areas, people that are 25 to 35, they're working extra hours, they're putting more time in, and it's not even enough to stay out of debt.

00:19:54.000 In fact, the recent study shows that 30% of Gen Z slash millennials are going to have to go into debt this calendar year just to pay for basic needs, groceries, and rent.

00:20:05.000 And so over a period of time, what's going to prevent them from then supporting the Bolshevik Marxist that says, you know what, let's just go take it from the most productive because you've been scammed.

00:20:15.000 Now, I don't support the conclusion.

00:20:17.000 I think there's some prudent steps we could take to actually restore this stuff, but man, we did this to ourselves.

00:20:22.000 And if we just think it's going to auto-correct or self-correct by doing the same things we've been doing the last 20 or 30 years, I think that's sadly mistaken.

00:20:28.000 I'm sure we could actually agree with some of the people on the left in this room, but here's where we will probably disagree with some of the people on the left, or maybe we'll agree or not.

00:20:36.000 It depends on where you're coming from, is that there is still a purposeful life ahead of you, is that there's so much that could still be done of getting married and having a wonderful and beautiful life.

00:20:47.000 It's just going to take some proper steps from our leaders to actually care more about your generation.

00:20:52.000 I could say our generation, but I'll say your generation than the people of Ukraine. 0.98

00:20:56.000 Because if you ask me, sending $70 billion to Ukraine is an insult to every single one of you that is going into debt to go pay your rent, while our citizens and your generation is working harder than ever, can't even put food on the table, and is going into a nihilistic, cynical tornado.

00:21:12.000 And we're like, well, we need to go send Zelensky another $70 billion.

00:21:16.000 And then Zelensky comes out and he demands money from us.

00:21:18.000 Like, okay, pal, how about you set this one out?

00:21:20.000 How about we go put our students first that are working their tail off, that have been lied to to go get degrees that really don't matter, that are never actually going to make them learn anything substitute.

00:21:29.000 Maybe you guys are learning wonderful things all the time, and you could tell me that later.

00:21:31.000 But vast majority of students that graduates say they wish they wouldn't have gone at all if it wasn't for just getting a piece of paper in return.

00:21:38.000 And I think it's long past time for a realignment of priorities in more ways than one.

00:21:43.000 And I sure hope our leaders start to listen.

00:21:45.000 Okay, let's do some questions, guys, and thank you for sitting through that.

00:21:48.000 And so we could do a line.

00:21:50.000 So just some ground rules for the questions.

00:21:52.000 Try to keep it to a question.

00:21:54.000 I might want to have a dialogue back and forth, and that's fine.

00:21:57.000 If you disagree, you guys can go to the front of the line.

00:22:01.000 I think it's generally a conservative audience here tonight.

00:22:03.000 So please don't heckle or boo or treat somebody poorly if they say something you find objectionable.

00:22:10.000 Let it be known at Turning Point USA events, if you disagree, you're given a platform and we could figure out what to do about that.

00:22:17.000 I challenge every single left-wing organization and group to do the same.

00:22:21.000 Okay, let's start here.

00:22:22.000 Hey, Charlie, thank you for being here in Tallahassee today.

00:22:26.000 So I'm the president of the new Turning Point USA chapter at Tallahassee Community College.

00:22:30.000 Awesome.

00:22:31.000 And we've been struggling recently to get some recognition by the faculty and the leadership of the school, obviously.

00:22:40.000 Kind of an uncooperative administrative body, you could say.

00:22:45.000 So I was just wondering if you had any tips for helping us gain the trust of those teachers and school leaders who could potentially help us launch our student group while still keeping to our conservative America First Values.

00:22:58.000 That's awesome.

00:22:58.000 Well, first of all, thank you for your commitment and your leadership.

00:23:01.000 You should be applauded for that.

00:23:02.000 That's awesome.

00:23:03.000 And look, it's going to take grit and hustle.

00:23:06.000 You got to find a faculty sponsor.

00:23:08.000 Not easy, right?

00:23:09.000 I'm sure there's one.

00:23:10.000 And if you can't find one, at least try to find one person that you might disagree with that still believes in freedom of speech.

00:23:16.000 That, like, hey, do you at least believe that something that you might not agree with has a right to exist on campus?

00:23:21.000 But honestly, this is all a very good exercise for you.

00:23:23.000 And I just want to encourage you personally.

00:23:25.000 The difficulty, the opposition, navigating a community that might not agree with everything that you hold is going to make you a tougher, more resilient person throughout your entire life.

00:23:36.000 Just having everything easy when you are young creates a lot of misery.

00:23:40.000 It does.

00:23:41.000 And I have a whole theory about this, which is that young people are the most comfortable generation in history, which is why they're the most depressed generation in history.

00:23:49.000 There's a great book called Comfort Crisis.

00:23:51.000 You guys should check it out by Michael Easter, which makes this argument that we as a human species, we're not designed just to be able to sit around all day and have three meals in perfectly air-conditioned to climate-controlled situations.

00:24:03.000 Over a period of time, it actually creates a lot of anxiety and depression.

00:24:07.000 And so, opposition is a good thing.

00:24:08.000 I would consider that to be a blessing.

00:24:10.000 At the same time, we're happy to give you resources and help in any way possible.

00:24:15.000 And I'm positive you'll be able to find hopefully a sponsor or two throughout it.

00:24:18.000 But look at it as a blessing.

00:24:20.000 Look at it as almost a metaphorical muscle-building opportunity so that later in life you will have gone through being called nasty names, not being in the majority, and eventually you'll be stronger because of that.

00:24:31.000 Okay?

00:24:32.000 Thanks for being here.

00:24:32.000 God bless you.

00:24:38.000 Thank you for coming.

00:24:38.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:24:40.000 I'm a part of the exec board for the Turning Point USA chapter at FSU.

00:24:45.000 So we really appreciate having you.

00:24:46.000 Thank you for all your hard work.

00:24:47.000 Great job.

00:24:48.000 Well, thank you for coming.

00:24:50.000 I just have a quick question for you.

00:24:52.000 What is your advice to young adults who are in relationships with a significant other who has opposing political views?

00:24:58.000 Yeah, great question.

00:25:01.000 So obviously, everyone is free to make their own choices.

00:25:04.000 I think that is a recipe for disaster.

00:25:07.000 I do.

00:25:08.000 And I'm not saying break up with that person.

00:25:11.000 I'm not saying you can't have a nice time.

00:25:14.000 But here's a good question.

00:25:17.000 Eventually, you might have children.

00:25:19.000 Let's pretend you have children with that person, okay?

00:25:21.000 Whose values are you going to teach the kid, right?

00:25:24.000 Who gets the dis.

00:25:26.000 I'm just saying, like, I'm just asking more hypothetically.

00:25:28.000 What kind of school do you send the kid, right?

00:25:31.000 Do you send it to a public school and government school or to a Christian school?

00:25:34.000 And who decides then?

00:25:36.000 And then over a period of time, you know, when you start living for a year or two or three years together, and all of a sudden the news comes on and tension is already high in the house.

00:25:47.000 Are you going to be able to discuss the nightly news politely and wonderful together?

00:25:50.000 Are you going to see it all in the same way?

00:25:52.000 What about charitable giving?

00:25:53.000 Are you going to want to give to the same charities?

00:25:55.000 I could go on and on and on and on.

00:25:57.000 And I've seen it work every once in a while.

00:25:58.000 I've seen people with opposing views build really beautiful lives and do great things.

00:26:03.000 But I've seen it be of disaster more times than not.

00:26:06.000 That doesn't mean, by the way, if you have find someone that shares your views, that it's going to be the most wonderful thing ever.

00:26:11.000 But if you want to have children, then I believe firmly you have to marry somebody or be with someone that sees the world the same way you do, or else it's not fair to the child.

00:26:21.000 Or else they're going to be having competing and confusing narratives and dialogues passed down to them at all times.

00:26:28.000 And so do what you will with that.

00:26:30.000 But I just, I also have seen a lot of people say, oh, I'm going to change them.

00:26:35.000 Yeah, that, yeah, that's not a good idea.

00:26:39.000 That usually doesn't work.

00:26:40.000 And by the way, if you are in a relationship to change somebody, that's really not what a relationship is, right?

00:26:48.000 Typically, people that go into a relationship with the intent of transforming the other, yeah, that ends like the Hindenburg.

00:26:56.000 God bless you.

00:26:57.000 Thank you.

00:26:57.000 Appreciate it.

00:26:58.000 Thank you.

00:27:00.000 Oh, boy.

00:27:04.000 Okay.

00:27:05.000 I'm liberal, Mr. Kirk.

00:27:07.000 I mean, okay, I voted for him in the 2020 election, but.

00:27:10.000 Oh, good.

00:27:12.000 You're not that liberal.

00:27:13.000 Okay, but things changed my mind.

00:27:14.000 But anyways, I'm young, obviously.

00:27:19.000 And I was wondering about trickle-down economics.

00:27:24.000 I was wondering, when is it going to trickle down for me?

00:27:27.000 Because historically, like, I don't know, I've never personally seen it.

00:27:32.000 Like, for example, Liz Truss got, well, she resigned over the dumb tax things.

00:27:38.000 George Bush said it was voodoo economics.

00:27:41.000 So, my question to you is: would trickle down, I mean, or when is it going to trickle down?

00:27:48.000 Yeah, I'm not a defender necessarily of trigger-down economics.

00:27:51.000 I mean, I think in some ways, if you want to talk about supply side versus demand, here's the thing: I happen to be, I used to be a really economic libertarian, and then I grew up and you start to see that you actually need, you know, some checks and balances on externalities in the market.

00:28:05.000 I am a big defender of the market, though, generally.

00:28:07.000 So, how should we approach economics?

00:28:10.000 I suppose that's a question, right?

00:28:12.000 And so, here's how I'll answer that: which is that an economy should serve people, people should not serve the economy.

00:28:18.000 Okay, I think you and I could both agree with that.

00:28:20.000 And so, I will defend, though, the idea of giving tax cuts to businesses.

00:28:25.000 That's a very good idea because businesses are run by people and businesses employ people.

00:28:30.000 Now, should you only give them to big businesses?

00:28:32.000 No, I think that's silly.

00:28:33.000 But the vast majority of businesses in America are small businesses run by entrepreneurs.

00:28:38.000 And so, for example, my entire economic viewpoint is to make you more empowered and easier for you to be able to start a business and grow a business from something to nothing.

00:28:48.000 So, you can call it whatever you want.

00:28:48.000 You can call it free market economics, entrepreneurship-focused economics, whatever it is.

00:28:52.000 But I think you and I could find some common ground on some things. 0.93

00:28:55.000 For example, I think it's wrong and it's stupid and it's silly that the largest corporations in America don't pay anything in income tax, whether it be Amazon or ExxonMobil. 0.96

00:29:03.000 It's not fair, it's not right. 0.97

00:29:05.000 And I think a lot of these loopholes are designed to be able to favor the corporate lobbyists in Washington, D.C., while everyday people get completely and totally crushed.

00:29:13.000 And I'm a conservative saying this.

00:29:15.000 Do you want to chime in really quick?

00:29:16.000 Oh, yeah.

00:29:17.000 Yeah, I agree with you.

00:29:19.000 I am not a big fan of bailouts.

00:29:20.000 Like during the COVID pandemic, I was against it.

00:29:24.000 Yeah, the airline industry had to be bailed out by the American people.

00:29:27.000 And I don't think that's right.

00:29:28.000 If you have to shut down for a week and your whole business collapse, like probably not a sustainable business.

00:29:33.000 Yeah, it's not a sustainable business.

00:29:34.000 That's your fault.

00:29:35.000 It's not for you to take the wealth of the American people and just put it back to your health.

00:29:40.000 So let me find, let me say one last thing I think that hopefully we can agree on.

00:29:43.000 And this is where I'm probably in the most harmony with libertarians, okay?

00:29:48.000 Which is what we are doing to our currency is immoral and wrong and has been warned for multiple decades and generations by people in the kind of libertarian community.

00:29:58.000 And it makes every single person in this room poorer and it makes the oligarchs and it makes the people that run our society richer.

00:30:05.000 A hyper-inflated currency benefits people that already have hard assets that are able to move money quickly.

00:30:11.000 Working people get crushed by inflation.

00:30:14.000 And so let's put this, let's put trickle-down economics aside.

00:30:17.000 Let's say this: we need to have a monetary policy that does not destroy the value of the dollar 10% year over year so that everyday people can save and with expectations so that they all of a sudden don't have to say, well, I'm going to get 10% poorer this year.

00:30:34.000 You know what ends up happening?

00:30:35.000 People end up spending all their money on stupid stuff because you have just created mass economic cynicism. 0.99

00:30:41.000 They say, what's the point in saving? 0.99

00:30:43.000 What's the point in going into the market?

00:30:45.000 It's just going to crash.

00:30:46.000 And so I think you and I could both agree that from a monetary standpoint, we should encourage saving over spending and restore the purchasing power of the American muscular middle class.

00:30:56.000 God bless you, man.

00:30:57.000 Thank you.

00:30:57.000 Appreciate it.

00:31:03.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:31:04.000 So I used to be a conservative.

00:31:06.000 I no longer am now.

00:31:08.000 I'm actually a libertarian now.

00:31:09.000 And a big reason for that is what I see as a contradiction within conservatism between supporting freedom, freedom of speech to bear arms, and support for law enforcement.

00:31:25.000 Because if the government were to infringe on our freedoms even more than it already has, such as banning assault rifles, for example, then the police would be the ones to enforce such tyrannical edicts as the Canadian truckers discovered.

00:31:41.000 So is there a contradiction here for conservatism?

00:31:43.000 Why or why not?

00:31:44.000 Very smart question.

00:31:45.000 I can see where you're coming from.

00:31:47.000 So the way I would answer it is that we look at the FBI a lot differently than a local sheriff.

00:31:52.000 So local sheriffs have been the ones defying all of these kind of gun-grabbing regulations and measures because the sheriff is probably someone in your local community you trust, probably someone that got elected publicly, probably someone whose kids goes to local school and almost always is a strong adherent to the Constitution.

00:32:09.000 But I think you are yielding towards is something you and I could have a lot of agreement with, which is it's the FBI, the ones that take the knee for BLM, the ones that are calling for mass gun control. 0.62

00:32:21.000 Do I trust them?

00:32:22.000 Absolutely not.

00:32:23.000 But do I think that local police is not just important, but necessary for human flourishing?

00:32:29.000 Absolutely.

00:32:30.000 And so I'm a localist with this stuff.

00:32:32.000 I think that the less federal control when it comes to a lot of these issues, the better.

00:32:36.000 I question so much of the legitimacy of what the FBI is doing recently.

00:32:41.000 And it pains me to say that as an American patriot, where I look at everything they do through a political lens now, from raiding Mar-a-Lago to spying on Donald Trump to the raiding of the homes of pro-life leaders.

00:32:54.000 So your apprehension as a new libertarian is totally right.

00:32:58.000 But I would just challenge you to be like, hey, that's a lot different than Sheriff Mark Lamb, for example, in Arizona, who is elected by the local people and doing everything he possibly can to go after smugglers and would never enforce a gun confiscation measure.

00:33:12.000 And so we need to support our local police.

00:33:16.000 Very, very important.

00:33:17.000 They're in our community.

00:33:18.000 They're one of us.

00:33:19.000 Where the FBI is, though, I look at them as almost kind of infantry for the regime.

00:33:24.000 Does that make sense?

00:33:25.000 Well, it's that, you know, police, whether federal, state, or local, they're tasked with upholding, you know, all the laws of the United States of America, federal, state, and local.

00:33:34.000 So if the federal government were to, for example, pass a law that banned assault rifles, then wouldn't the local police then be compelled to enforce that law?

00:33:45.000 Is that not something that's not?

00:33:46.000 That's a good question.

00:33:47.000 We've already seen, though, a track record and a pattern of local police and sheriffs, hundreds saying, I will not enforce any of these.

00:33:53.000 Montana, for example, okay, came out through every one of their sheriffs and said, we're not going to enforce an assault rifle ban.

00:33:58.000 We will ignore the federal government.

00:34:00.000 So I would just challenge you to kind of look at some of that, at how some of these more local law enforcement agencies are already vocalizing that they are willing to say we are not going to enforce an unconstitutional measure from the federal government.

00:34:12.000 But your apprehension is well-founded.

00:34:14.000 I don't consider it a contradiction.

00:34:16.000 I consider it a nuance and an important difference.

00:34:18.000 But I think you would also agree.

00:34:20.000 You need some form of law enforcement.

00:34:23.000 And I would much rather be policed by people that live in our communities that are close to us and share our concerns than somebody far off in a distant land.

00:34:31.000 And I'll close with this.

00:34:32.000 The left does not want to defund the police.

00:34:34.000 They want to destroy local police and replace it with a national police force.

00:34:39.000 And so you and I can definitely have agreement that a national police force is horrifying.

00:34:44.000 It's something we do not support.

00:34:46.000 I want thousands of local sheriffs that are accountable to the people and far less federal involvement kind of parachuting into our communities telling us what to do.

00:34:55.000 Thank you for your time.

00:34:55.000 God bless you, man.

00:34:56.000 Thank you.

00:35:01.000 Hi, I'm Trevor Waller, and I just had a question.

00:35:04.000 Why do you think that leftists and liberals and people on the left side or why they push anti-science ideas in our school systems?

00:35:14.000 Like they push the ideas where it's like a man can be a woman, a woman can be a man, there is no difference between genders, and why parents accept that?

00:35:23.000 And then one last question.

00:35:25.000 What do you think we should do with public school systems?

00:35:27.000 Should we try to change them?

00:35:28.000 Should we take kids out of the public school system, homeschooling? 0.99

00:35:31.000 Because I'm a homeschooler.

00:35:32.000 Just wondering what you thought.

00:35:34.000 So why do parents put up with it?

00:35:34.000 Yeah, great, great.

00:35:36.000 That's a mystery to me.

00:35:37.000 I think that's changing, though.

00:35:38.000 I think parents are starting to push back.

00:35:41.000 I think there is kind of a default setting of being polite in a lot of these communities, and parents don't want to come across as being impolite.

00:35:48.000 So why do they teach things that are contrary to science?

00:35:51.000 Yeah, that's a really important and good question.

00:35:53.000 They would disagree with how you just categorized it, even though it is, you know, science in and of itself.

00:35:57.000 But they also have a different view of what science is.

00:35:59.000 I gave a whole speech on this in Kansas City that I encourage you to check out, which is science properly understood should be about the preservation of human life and the advancement and the flourishing of human life.

00:36:09.000 Science, like I would say, improperly applied, is about exerting your own will and dominion over nature to show supremacy over the design or let's just say the state of what nature is.

00:36:21.000 I'll give you an example, right?

00:36:22.000 So two forms of medical technology that could be used by the same person for two complete and total differences, okay?

00:36:29.000 An abortion and a C-section. 0.97

00:36:31.000 One gives life and protects life, and one destroys life.

00:36:35.000 They're both instruments of science, because if you look at a test tube, you're not going to find morality in a test tube.

00:36:40.000 So you have to bring some form of morality into science, right?

00:36:43.000 This is one of the great lies, I think, a secularist.

00:36:45.000 So they say, oh, you can find morality in science.

00:36:47.000 Now, at some point, you have to have some sort of a construct and a framework, right?

00:36:50.000 These are tools that you use, right?

00:36:53.000 And so with that kind of advancement of technology, praise God, we have C-sections in America, right?

00:36:58.000 It's the most commonly performed surgery in America that has saved millions of pregnancies and babies that otherwise we don't know would have happened.

00:37:05.000 But then you have abortion, very similar procedure in the way a trained technician has to do that, but a completely different result.

00:37:12.000 And so the question really needs to be, what is science?

00:37:14.000 What is the point of science?

00:37:16.000 I believe science should be first and foremost an inquiry into the natural world, understanding it.

00:37:21.000 And if we have to intervene, if we have to create something new, it has to be under the moral framework of allowing human beings to flourish and to succeed.

00:37:28.000 Your question about the public schools, look, I'm a local guy.

00:37:31.000 If local areas want to have public government schools, so be it.

00:37:34.000 But I think we have to abolish the Department of Education in Washington, D.C.

00:37:38.000 I think we have to restore parents' rights to be able to have school choice and vouchers.

00:37:42.000 And let me just say, you have a very, very good education program here in Florida.

00:37:48.000 You're very lucky.

00:37:49.000 Other states would give a lot to be able to have the type of educational mobility you have here in Florida.

00:37:53.000 God bless you, man.

00:37:54.000 I love homeschoolers.

00:37:56.000 Thank you.

00:37:56.000 Appreciate it.

00:37:56.000 Thank you.

00:37:59.000 And if you guys disagree, you could come to the front.

00:38:01.000 Just want to make that known.

00:38:02.000 No pressure.

00:38:04.000 Hi, my name is Sarah.

00:38:06.000 My parents got divorced when I was a toddler.

00:38:09.000 I have no memory of them together.

00:38:11.000 I'm 21 years old right now, and I got married this past day.

00:38:14.000 Congratulations.

00:38:15.000 That's phenomenal.

00:38:17.000 That's thrilling.

00:38:18.000 So I've never had a good role model in terms of marriage with my parents.

00:38:24.000 So I was wondering, what would your best advice be for having a long, happy marriage?

00:38:28.000 So I've been married a year and a half, so I don't know about long or happy.

00:38:31.000 I don't know about happy.

00:38:32.000 I don't know about long.

00:38:33.000 So don't know about long.

00:38:35.000 So, but we're working on the length.

00:38:38.000 So look, I mean, it's not about you.

00:38:40.000 That's the most important thing that you'll learn really quick.

00:38:42.000 It's about service.

00:38:43.000 It's about commitment to the other.

00:38:46.000 And this is the thing I always laugh about, you know, when people say men and women are the same. 0.99

00:38:50.000 When you're married for like an afternoon, you realize men and women are very much not the same.

00:38:54.000 Right?

00:38:55.000 And so, I mean, a great example is, you know, when a man comes home from work, there could have been a nuclear explosion at work.

00:39:00.000 How is work?

00:39:01.000 It was fine.

00:39:02.000 It was good. 1.00

00:39:03.000 Where the wife just will talk about every single detail. 1.00

00:39:06.000 That is just the nature, right? 0.91

00:39:08.000 It's completely different.

00:39:10.000 And then, you know, Dennis Prager has a really great speech on this that drives the left crazy, which is that men's nature is towards variety, okay?

00:39:20.000 And I think it's very important for wives to just say to their husbands, thank you for being loyal to me.

00:39:25.000 It's a very important thing.

00:39:27.000 A lot of men don't hear that enough.

00:39:29.000 And it drives some women like, I don't want to have to say that.

00:39:31.000 It's like, well, just study a little bit about men's nature and understand how men are kind of programmed towards variety.

00:39:36.000 It's a very important thing.

00:39:38.000 The final thing is just carve time for one another.

00:39:41.000 And I mean, I'm a big believer in the Ten Commandments.

00:39:43.000 I believe the Sabbath is one of the great gifts from God to be able to preserve the family.

00:39:47.000 I think the Sabbath, properly understood, is the preservation of the family.

00:39:52.000 And so I turn my phone off every Friday night, turn it back on Sunday morning.

00:39:55.000 I'm unreachable by the world.

00:39:57.000 And you just have to focus on another person.

00:40:01.000 The last thing I'll say is this: social media and phones will do everything it possibly can to get in the way of your marriage.

00:40:07.000 So do what you can to put those aside, silence them.

00:40:10.000 And I wish you a very, very long and happy marriage and hopefully children sometime soon.

00:40:15.000 And I fully support young people getting married early.

00:40:18.000 I think that's a very important thing.

00:40:19.000 Now, the reason, and people say, well, it's a risk.

00:40:21.000 Why can't I wait till I'm 28 or 30?

00:40:23.000 You know, because what if it's the mouth?

00:40:25.000 Everything in life is a risk.

00:40:26.000 Okay, everything has a risk.

00:40:27.000 But there's also another risk that you have to acknowledge, which is the risk of our thousands of listeners that email me and they say, I'm 35 and I haven't found anybody and it's too late.

00:40:38.000 That's a risk too.

00:40:39.000 And I could tell you right now, the risk of having resentment, of having guilt or having not guilt, having despondency or having just kind of regret, that's the better word.

00:40:51.000 That's a risk that some people need to know just as much as the risk of you might not be able to go to Paris every summer.

00:40:58.000 And so I don't think we communicate that all the time to young people.

00:41:01.000 So God bless you.

00:41:02.000 Thank you.

00:41:02.000 Thanks for being here.

00:41:09.000 What's good, Mr. Kirk?

00:41:11.000 So I'm not sure how up to date you are with what's been going on with Kanye West and his interview with Tucker Carl.

00:41:19.000 It's hard to keep up with it.

00:41:20.000 Yeah, it's not a lot.

00:41:22.000 His interview with Tucker Carlson and Cuomo and the podcast.

00:41:27.000 But I was wondering, what are your thoughts on what he had to say about the media and politics in general?

00:41:33.000 And in specific, what are your thoughts on him and Candace Owens in the White Lives Matter t-shirts?

00:41:40.000 Also, do you believe that or what or do you believe that Donald Trump was a good president?

00:41:46.000 Why or why not?

00:41:47.000 Okay, that's a lot of questions.

00:41:49.000 Let me start with the easiest.

00:41:51.000 I wrote a whole book saying Trump was a good president.

00:41:53.000 So yes, definitely believe that.

00:41:55.000 And he was a great president economically, American Strength, Energy Independent, all that sort of stuff.

00:41:59.000 So I wrote a whole book on that.

00:42:02.000 So to your, and I will answer the most controversial part of the question intentionally because it's important that people are honest.

00:42:09.000 So I don't love the way what Kanye said, but I do not think that Kanye is an anti-Semite because I'm a behaviorist.

00:42:16.000 And I have never seen Kanye ever treat someone who is Jewish without respect or honor or decency.

00:42:22.000 That's a very important thing, which is, okay, should he have said what he said?

00:42:26.000 That's debatable and questionable.

00:42:28.000 However, the outrage from people to cancel him and throw him out the window.

00:42:31.000 I asked the question is, how has he treated people that are Jewish?

00:42:34.000 And across the board, he's treated them very well.

00:42:36.000 So that says a lot.

00:42:37.000 Before you start all of a sudden going to the rafters and saying he's the worst person ever because of what he said, and I think it could have obviously been worded differently.

00:42:45.000 I had the opportunity to spend some time with him, you know, over a summer.

00:42:50.000 And that was a whole whirlwind of time.

00:42:52.000 That was back in 2018 or 19.

00:42:54.000 And I found him to be an incredibly decent and loving father.

00:42:58.000 And so I think a lot of these character slanders and smears against him are wrong and awful and from people that have never met him.

00:43:03.000 So that was kind of the first answer to that.

00:43:05.000 The second thing is he's undoubtedly one of the most talented artists of a generation.

00:43:10.000 His communication style is not for everyone.

00:43:12.000 He says things that, you know, people don't like.

00:43:16.000 Okay, that happens a lot in life.

00:43:18.000 Stop taking yourself so seriously.

00:43:20.000 Instead, understand this is someone who's worth multiple billions of dollars that is now speaking out against a couple things.

00:43:26.000 What he calls a genocide in the black community, which is regular abortion.

00:43:30.000 That's a very serious thing he's speaking out against.

00:43:32.000 And he's also talking about liberating this idea that you must believe a certain thing because you're a skin color.

00:43:38.000 So I support the White Lives Matter shirt because white lives do matter. 0.94

00:43:42.000 All lives matter.

00:43:43.000 And the outrage from the kind of collective media, I think, was rather insane.

00:43:46.000 So do you have a follow-up with that?

00:43:48.000 No, that was pretty much it, but I think you're a great orator and appreciate the answer.

00:43:53.000 God bless you, man.

00:43:53.000 Thank you so much for being here.

00:43:54.000 Thank you.

00:44:01.000 Hello, Charlie.

00:44:02.000 Thank you for being here today.

00:44:04.000 My name is Ari Dahlgin.

00:44:05.000 I am a freshman political science major at Florida State.

00:44:09.000 My question is going to be about two things you've said tonight: our leaders stepping up for us and the freedom to make our own choices.

00:44:18.000 But first of all, I want to ask why the orange branding were in Tallahassee, not Gainesville.

00:44:23.000 Oh, that's it.

00:44:25.000 So, in all fairness, it is the national branding.

00:44:28.000 So, every tour stop gets the orange shirts.

00:44:30.000 Okay.

00:44:30.000 That's a fair question, I have to say.

00:44:32.000 It is.

00:44:32.000 Okay.

00:44:33.000 But for the record, I have spoken more at Florida State University than at the University of Florida.

00:44:37.000 So, let's just be sharing.

00:44:43.000 So, I think my question is going to be a lot different than other people, especially people who disagree with you.

00:44:52.000 I am one of them.

00:44:54.000 I'm going to throw you, Candace Owens, and Ben Shapiro, into the same category: three people who are mainstream to the modern conservative movement.

00:45:04.000 All three of you host podcasts, you go to colleges, and host events like these.

00:45:12.000 And I'm sure you know that there are a lot of moments where people come up, try to challenge you, and you end up, I guess I would say, winning an argument, and it ends up getting posted on social media.

00:45:24.000 People say, Oh, Charlie Kirk owns the libs.

00:45:28.000 But at the end of the day, I don't think that trying to win an argument is a win for either of us.

00:45:38.000 Because even though we have these events, our politicians still continue to screw our lives over every day.

00:45:45.000 And you were talking about our leaders stepping up for us.

00:45:48.000 So, my question to you, and let's say Candace Owens or Ben Shapiro were to also hear my question: is that why have neither of you or any of you considered running for political office?

00:46:02.000 And I just want you to know that I wouldn't vote for you because I disagree with you guys on nearly everything, but I think you guys would win because obviously, obviously, because obviously, you know, you guys are very good at marketing, you have huge platforms.

00:46:20.000 Instead of coming here debating against college students who all three of you have a clear advantage over because you have more life experience, why don't you debate the politicians who we are all critical of and actually make the laws in order to right their wrongs?

00:46:37.000 Well, two things: I'm happy to debate anybody.

00:46:38.000 I debate college professors if they want to come on the show.

00:46:41.000 I'll debate AOC.

00:46:42.000 She's welcome anytime on my program.

00:46:43.000 I'll have a long debate with Rashida Talib or Elon Omar, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders.

00:46:50.000 I think Candace Owens and Ben would also agree, or Matt Walsh or Michael Knowles, kind of all of us in the same sort of team, if you will.

00:46:56.000 We'll have a conversation with anybody as long as it's in good faith.

00:46:59.000 Now, the reason we're here on college campuses and we take open questions, and I don't think it's debating, I think it's just respectful disagreeing.

00:47:06.000 And if someone really gets heated, then yes, we are going to kind of ramp up the temperature and kind of just show the world kind of the proper way to have dialogue.

00:47:13.000 But look around in the room, and I think that if I, by show of hands, do you think that most of the professors on campus are conservative or liberal?

00:47:21.000 They'd probably say it's mostly liberal on campus, and they're hearing mostly liberal.

00:47:25.000 So we're here to hopefully broaden the intellectual and ideological diversity on campus and to do something that's actually more important than running for office, which is to give so many young people here the confidence and the courage and the reminder that they're not alone and that there's other people that think the way they do on campus and to be able to give them a community and network.

00:47:44.000 And so I think your question's in good faith, right?

00:47:47.000 I'm not here to, you know, just obviously I've been doing this for 10 years.

00:47:51.000 And so if someone has a disagreement, we'll have fun back and forth.

00:47:55.000 At the same time, though, I think it's important that from some people who see our campus interactions forget winning or losing the debate, I think it's really helpful for the hundreds of millions of people that have seen our videos or the views over the last couple of years to kind of see what it's like to have two ideas collide in real time without scripting of cable TV.

00:48:16.000 I think that's exciting and helpful for people, right?

00:48:18.000 You know, for example, if I asked you, do you think men can become pregnant?

00:48:22.000 I don't think you asked me that.

00:48:23.000 Well, I'm just asking you.

00:48:24.000 Do you think men could become pregnant?

00:48:26.000 I don't think so.

00:48:27.000 Okay, good.

00:48:28.000 So we agree.

00:48:29.000 So you're not leftist, you're a liberal.

00:48:31.000 And that's important for people to see.

00:48:33.000 And I think there's value and merit in that.

00:48:35.000 So thank you, men.

00:48:36.000 Appreciate you being here today.

00:48:42.000 Good evening, Charlie.

00:48:44.000 My name is Martin Walker.

00:48:46.000 I'm the vice president of the chapter at TCC.

00:48:49.000 Awesome.

00:48:50.000 From my understanding, you wrote a book.

00:48:53.000 You had mentioned that college was not for everyone.

00:48:55.000 Yes.

00:48:56.000 And getting a degree from me, it's not the end of the world.

00:48:59.000 I just want to be successful.

00:49:01.000 I just want to, me personally, I want to get more politically active or involved in politics.

00:49:08.000 How would someone like myself go about doing that?

00:49:10.000 Great question.

00:49:11.000 So a degree in politics means next to nothing, right?

00:49:14.000 If you want to get into politics, no one's going to care about where you went to school.

00:49:17.000 Politics is the closest thing to a pure meritocracy of any industry you'll ever see.

00:49:21.000 It's, are you going to show up early at precinct committee meetings?

00:49:24.000 Are you going to make the phone calls?

00:49:25.000 Are you going to drive halfway across the state for an event with 15 people?

00:49:29.000 Are you going to be a body man to a state rep and kind of help them out really when they need it?

00:49:33.000 And so basically, if you want to make it in politics, you have to do the gritty hustle work for years and eventually you'll get a shot to move up.

00:49:41.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:49:42.000 I can make the effort.

00:49:44.000 Then you're going to succeed in politics.

00:49:46.000 I mean, so at Turning Point USA, we have an amazing staff, 250 people.

00:49:49.000 And our Turning Point USA staff is a majority of them started as Turning Point USA chapter leaders doing the nitty-gritty work and then got internships and then started to work their way up through the ranks.

00:50:00.000 And so it's, we love people that dedicate themselves and work really hard and kind of in the political space.

00:50:07.000 You know, it's a place where you could be really significantly rewarded by doing that.

00:50:10.000 So absolutely.

00:50:11.000 Thank you.

00:50:12.000 Thank you.

00:50:12.000 God bless you, man.

00:50:18.000 Good evening, Mr. Kirk.

00:50:20.000 My question is not for myself, but it's from my brother, actually.

00:50:24.000 He's a huge fan.

00:50:25.000 So I've gotten permission to record your response.

00:50:30.000 So if it's okay with you, I'll read his question to you and then I'll start recording.

00:50:35.000 And then if you could say, like, I don't know, hi, Brendan, or something, that'd be pretty cool.

00:50:39.000 Is his name Brandon or Brendan?

00:50:41.000 Brendan.

00:50:42.000 Ooh, I was going to say let's go, Brandon, but you can say, let's go, Brendan.

00:50:42.000 Brendan.

00:50:48.000 He'd like that too.

00:50:48.000 Let's go, Brendan.

00:50:49.000 Okay, good.

00:50:51.000 All right, so here's his question.

00:50:53.000 Who would you like to see in office for president in 2024?

00:50:56.000 Is it Trump or DeSantis?

00:50:58.000 Yeah, I mean, if so, who would it be and why?

00:51:00.000 And if not either of them, who would you like to see in office?

00:51:03.000 I've gotten this.

00:51:03.000 I've received this question at every tour stop.

00:51:06.000 And so I do encourage people to watch it, but I'll give you the same answer I've given everywhere.

00:51:09.000 And hi, Brendan.

00:51:10.000 How are you?

00:51:11.000 Let's go, Brendan.

00:51:11.000 Good.

00:51:13.000 So, look, I've said this is personally, speaking personally, not on behalf of Turning Point USA or Turning Point Action.

00:51:20.000 I've said this.

00:51:20.000 If Trump runs again, I'm going to back him again.

00:51:22.000 I'm a loyal guy.

00:51:23.000 I can't stand in politics where people say one thing and do another, or they're all of a sudden very wishy-washy, with all that being said.

00:51:29.000 With that kind of pretext, I'm a massive Governor DeSantis fan.

00:51:33.000 I think he's amazing.

00:51:35.000 I think he's done such a great job for the state of Florida.

00:51:39.000 Governor DeSantis very well might be a once-in-a-generation leader that we're looking for.

00:51:44.000 I have looked far and wide for a reason not to like Governor DeSantis, and he has been incredible.

00:51:49.000 Now, I'll close with this, on this question.

00:51:51.000 I think Governor DeSantis would make a phenomenal president.

00:51:55.000 I know Trump made a great president.

00:51:57.000 And so I know that getting him another four years would make us energy independent again, would get this entire Ukrainian mess figured out, would get our economy roaring again, would secure the southern border, would restore confidence of the nation in a way that's very profound, would get CRT out of our military, wokeism out of our schools. 0.99

00:52:17.000 That's enough for me to be able to say, hey, you earned the right to another four years, especially after all the nonsense and the shenanigans that happened in the 2020 election.

00:52:26.000 Thank you, Brendan.

00:52:27.000 Thank you, men.

00:52:30.000 Thank you, Mr. Kirk.

00:52:31.000 Have a good one.

00:52:33.000 Hi.

00:52:34.000 Hello.

00:52:35.000 Given the concerns you've expressed about censorship and interference with free speech, I wonder how you view the laws in Florida and other states that restrict what professors can teach about racism in the classroom.

00:52:48.000 I mean, obviously, you disagree with the doctrines you teach, but why, you know, would you extend to them the same right to free speech that you advocate for everybody else?

00:52:57.000 No, I mean, it's a matter of curriculum, right?

00:52:59.000 So I would ask a question, should we teach the flat earth theory in physics?

00:53:05.000 Right?

00:53:06.000 Should we teach bloodletting in biology? 0.97

00:53:10.000 Should we teach lobotomies in medical school? 0.52

00:53:14.000 Or should we teach eugenics in ethics?

00:53:16.000 No, there's some ideas that are so reprehensible and provably wrong, they shouldn't be anywhere close to an academic environment.

00:53:22.000 Now, a professor obviously has the freedom of speech to say what he or she wants individually, but from a curriculum standpoint, from what you're able to measure or test, to say that all of a sudden we're going to teach that race matters, that somehow that people are suffering from a pandemic of whiteness, as Coca-Cola would say, or just critical theory or critical race theory.

00:53:42.000 No, that has no place in an educational environment because in an educational environment, it's less about really the opinion of the teacher or the opinion of the student.

00:53:51.000 It's the pursuit of the soul and the entire being of the student towards truth, goodness, and beauty.

00:53:58.000 And so you must have a teleological destination for that.

00:54:02.000 Just one follow-up.

00:54:02.000 Yes, a follow-up.

00:54:04.000 So you would say that the idea that there's systemic racism in this country is as off-base as the idea that the earth is flat and as provably wrong as the idea that the earth is flat?

00:54:13.000 Yes.

00:54:14.000 I mean, I would ask you, how are we systemically racist?

00:54:17.000 Well, I mean, we could have a long discussion, but I'm a journalist.

00:54:20.000 I don't think it's a place for it, but possibly if you attended a class on it, you might get in a debate with the professor and see what their data shows and whether it's a matter of scholarly dispute.

00:54:31.000 I mean, there's a lot of books on both sides, or whether it's as I'm not aware of a lot of scholarly, well-accepted books that advocate that the earth is flat.

00:54:41.000 So I would say this is a matter of scholarly debate.

00:54:44.000 There was till Galileo came along.

00:54:46.000 Well, anyway, thank you very much.

00:54:46.000 Okay.

00:54:48.000 And yeah, just to close it, yes, I think advocating for black-only dormitories is a moral equivalent of bloodletting, lobotomies, and flat earth theory. 1.00

00:54:48.000 Thank you. 1.00

00:54:56.000 I think it's evil, it's wrong, and has no place in American education.

00:55:02.000 Hi.

00:55:03.000 Thanks for coming out.

00:55:04.000 We really appreciate it.

00:55:06.000 Both of my grandparents went into the hospital with COVID A year ago, last May, and they were doing fine, like getting better with everything.

00:55:15.000 Um, off like whatever, they were both getting better.

00:55:17.000 They were both feeling better.

00:55:18.000 Expressed to my family that they were feeling better until they were put on Remdesivir, which was supported by Tony Fauci, and then they both died.

00:55:27.000 I also had a friend last night who passed away from the vaccine due to heart failure.

00:55:32.000 He's 19 years old.

00:55:33.000 Is there anything that anyone is doing, your team or anyone that you know, to bring Tony Fauci to justice?

00:55:40.000 Yeah, that's a really good question.

00:55:42.000 So, I mean, I hope, and thank you for the journalist that's there.

00:55:46.000 And by the way, I correct myself.

00:55:47.000 Galileo did not posit that the earth was not flat.

00:55:50.000 He posited the heliocentric theory of the earth.

00:55:52.000 And so, I was mistaken by saying that.

00:55:54.000 But let me just ask a question for everyone here in the room.

00:55:58.000 How many of you know someone that had a very serious reaction to the vaccine to the point of irreversible health damage?

00:56:05.000 Raise your hand.

00:56:06.000 Okay, so about half the hands are up.

00:56:08.000 If this is true, and this happens everywhere I go to every single audience, then the CDC is not just lying, it's the greatest cover-up in modern American medical history because they say it's one in a million.

00:56:18.000 And every single room I go to, hands go up.

00:56:20.000 So, either everyone's lying and they're in on its mass conspiracy theory, or there's something here that people really are ignoring intentionally.

00:56:27.000 So, look, Anthony Fauci should be in prison for what he has done. 0.99

00:56:31.000 He's a liar. 0.98

00:56:34.000 He's an unbelievably sinister person, and there's not enough being done. 0.98

00:56:38.000 And the new Congress, whoever ends up controlling it, priority number one needs to make sure Anthony Fauci gets held to justice.

00:56:45.000 And I'm very sorry to hear about the Remdesivir encounters.

00:56:49.000 The pushing of Remdesivir is nothing more than expensive poison on an entire population that did not need it.

00:56:55.000 Meanwhile, any conversation around ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D levels, intravenous therapy, potential ozone intervention, baby aspirin was suppressed from the top levels of our medical authorities.

00:57:09.000 And so, I'm going to make it a top priority to try to hold Anthony Fauci accountable, and I encourage all of you to do the same.

00:57:15.000 Thank you.

00:57:21.000 Hey, Mr. Kirk, my name is Sam.

00:57:22.000 Do I have permission to record your answer?

00:57:24.000 Yeah, when we're live streaming, so okay, cool.

00:57:27.000 I know that you and other conservative speakers have spoken at length about left-leaning universities and colleges, and I agree with you to that point about how toxic it could be.

00:57:36.000 My question is: is there any blame to be placed on students who are coming into colleges without any moral ideals, without any political ideals?

00:57:47.000 And if there is blame, whose fault is it?

00:57:50.000 What's causing this?

00:57:51.000 And what can we do about it?

00:57:52.000 There's a little blame on students, but you can't totally blame an 18-year-old for not having a certain grasp of a moral framework.

00:57:58.000 I mean, I put the blame on the parents for the parents for not teaching morals or ethics or proper civics or history.

00:58:06.000 And also, it's not just college, it's high schools now, it's elementary schools, it's grade schools.

00:58:11.000 And so, I just say to parents all the time: you have to make it your full-time job to make sure your children share some form of values of your own.

00:58:19.000 And obviously, there might be some differences and nuances there, but I wouldn't put a lot of blame on the students.

00:58:24.000 A lot of kids are 18, they do what they're told, they really haven't thought that deeply yet.

00:58:27.000 That's not an accusation or criticism, it's just the way it is.

00:58:29.000 I put it more on the educational system and parents not properly doing their job.

00:58:34.000 God bless you, man.

00:58:34.000 I agree with you.

00:58:35.000 Thank you.

00:58:39.000 Thank you for coming.

00:58:39.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:58:40.000 I'm a sophomore here at FSU, but I'm from Massachusetts and spent my last years of high school during kind of Massachusetts restrictions from the coronavirus.

00:58:50.000 I watched how incredibly detrimental it was to my community's mental health, and I really appreciate what you said about America's response to COVID and everything that came with it.

00:58:58.000 Thank you.

00:58:59.000 Why do you think America is not more focused on those issues as opposed to COVID deaths?

00:59:05.000 Why is the CDC so focused on coronavirus deaths as opposed to the increasing amount of suicides, obesity, alcohol, everything you mentioned?

00:59:13.000 Why do you think that COVID is the focus instead of everything that was detrimental to mental health during that period of time?

00:59:19.000 Yeah, I mean, look, no one gets more powerful talking about suicide.

00:59:22.000 No one does.

00:59:23.000 You get a lot more powerful talking about an invisible contagion that could be spread at any moment.

00:59:28.000 You got to wear a mask, got to take a vaccine, got to lock down society, destroy small businesses.

00:59:32.000 Pfizer makes $100 billion.

00:59:34.000 A lot of people get wealthy and powerful off of that.

00:59:36.000 I hate to be that sinister or cruel, but if our leaders cared about us, if our leaders really cared, they'd be talking about the 90 to 100,000 fentanyl overdose deaths that happen every single year in our country, sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party, trafficked in by the Sina Ola Cartel across the southern border, of which I bet half of this room knows someone in their life that has suffered from a fentanyl overdose in one way, shape, or form.

00:59:56.000 And they're now doing it in the form of candy where kids are getting fentanyl-laced candy and it's killing kids all across the country.

01:00:02.000 But the CDC is more worried about making sure you have your seventh booster, of which they say has now been tested on eight mice, not humans.

01:00:10.000 All you guys should know that, by the way, if you get your booster, it's tested on mice, not humans.

01:00:15.000 And they admit that it doesn't even stop transmission.

01:00:17.000 What are we doing here?

01:00:18.000 Well, what happens is we have an entire country that's controlled by a pharma industry that does not care about the well-being or the interests of young people.

01:00:26.000 The leading cause of death for a young person is either drug overdose or suicide.

01:00:31.000 That should just be a fire alarm for our society.

01:00:34.000 Our leaders should just say, time out.

01:00:35.000 What are we doing here?

01:00:36.000 There is a risk in everything.

01:00:39.000 There's a risk you might get the flu tonight.

01:00:41.000 You might get a cold.

01:00:42.000 You might get food poisoning.

01:00:44.000 Saying there's no risk is insane.

01:00:46.000 And you know what's so amazing is that we told the generation of students that now live in total fear that are eight, nine, and 10 years old that there might be an invisible virus around the corner that might kill you, even though statistically that they're in more danger in the car being a passenger to and from school every single day than COVID ever was for them.

01:01:05.000 And so, look, a fearful population is easier to control.

01:01:08.000 A fearful population allows tyrants to be able to do what they wish with a population.

01:01:13.000 A population that cares about liberty and is courageous is a tyrant's worst nightmare.

01:01:18.000 God bless you.

01:01:19.000 Thank you so much.

01:01:20.000 Thank you.

01:01:25.000 Good evening, Charlie.

01:01:26.000 My name is Jonathan Ramirez.

01:01:28.000 I happen to be a conservative.

01:01:29.000 I went to three Trump rallies.

01:01:31.000 I'm very serious about my stance on politics and supporting people who voice the same principles that I agree with.

01:01:40.000 Despite me being a conservative, I do happen to be pro-choice.

01:01:44.000 How do you feel on the matter and where as a nation we can come together to agree on something sensible?

01:01:51.000 Sure.

01:01:52.000 Well, I'll just ask you: when do you think human life begins?

01:01:54.000 Me personally, when I feel like it begins with the heartbeat, sir.

01:02:00.000 Okay, so then you would six-week ban is okay then?

01:02:04.000 I'm pro-choice with exceptions.

01:02:06.000 No woman, I don't feel like if a woman is due to have a child next week, that she could choose to abort the child. 0.87

01:02:14.000 That's not decency. 0.99

01:02:15.000 That's not decent.

01:02:17.000 Okay, so but why a heartbeat?

01:02:18.000 Like, what's the reason for that?

01:02:21.000 Why a heartbeat?

01:02:22.000 Yeah, like, so do you think we should not allow abortions right around six weeks?

01:02:25.000 I'm just gonna.

01:02:25.000 However, I feel like six weeks is slightly too early only because, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not a gynecologist, but that means that week six, that means missed for period by three weeks give or take, and that's already then it's too late.

01:02:43.000 Potentially, right, but there's a heartbeat around six weeks.

01:02:45.000 Correct.

01:02:45.000 So, just to play it out, that would be a termination of human life, right?

01:02:49.000 Correct.

01:02:50.000 So, so, why do we have murder laws then?

01:02:50.000 Right.

01:02:55.000 You ask, why do we have murder laws?

01:02:56.000 Yeah, because that'd be murdering a kid, right?

01:02:58.000 If it's a human life, by your own estimation.

01:03:00.000 Correct.

01:03:03.000 So you stumped me there.

01:03:05.000 I'm not going to lie.

01:03:06.000 You did stump me there.

01:03:07.000 I contradict myself where I stand with the matter.

01:03:10.000 That's why I'm asking more or less what's your take on it.

01:03:13.000 Yeah, so my take is this.

01:03:14.000 Life begins at conception.

01:03:16.000 And when life is formed in the womb and deoxorbonucleic acid is created, a new being comes into formation.

01:03:26.000 And that being is still growing.

01:03:28.000 It's still on its process.

01:03:30.000 But we as human beings tend to have size, level of development, environmental, and degree of dependency privilege.

01:03:39.000 We think just because we're bigger and stronger and no longer in a womb, we have a moral right to do whatever we want to those that are still in the womb. 0.57

01:03:48.000 And the toughest questions are the ones when we ask, what does it have to do with me?

01:03:53.000 And is it worthy of protecting those that can't protect themselves?

01:03:57.000 And so to be consistent, we say that's when human life begins.

01:04:01.000 And just because the being is small, just because the being is in a womb, doesn't mean that we have a moral right to obliterate it.

01:04:08.000 Does that make sense?

01:04:09.000 Yes, it does.

01:04:10.000 I think you're actually pro-life.

01:04:13.000 I am.

01:04:15.000 I just think, you know, of personal situations and things that matter.

01:04:20.000 But let's play that out just for a second.

01:04:22.000 Situational ethics.

01:04:23.000 For example, if a family is going bankrupt because the four-year-old is eating too much food, you can't kill the four-year-old to be able to reduce the family budget, right?

01:04:33.000 Correct.

01:04:35.000 If I have the time, I will say for one reason that I am, I do happen to be pro-choice.

01:04:41.000 A lot of people that is pro-life feels like it is an extremity for women that is already on the system to continue to have more kids.

01:04:52.000 I hear you.

01:04:53.000 To be given more funds.

01:04:56.000 So with the same notion, I feel like it's like having your cake and eating it too.

01:05:02.000 If you don't want women to be able to have the option at holding an abortion, but feels like they shouldn't continue to get more welfare.

01:05:11.000 That means that child being brought into the world is going to not be brought up to the same measures.

01:05:17.000 I think you're coming at it from a good perspective.

01:05:21.000 I reject kind of situational Malthusian ethics in that regard, in the sense that if it just makes your life easier, it doesn't mean you can commit an injustice against another human being.

01:05:31.000 The same goes for arson or robbery or whatever it might be.

01:05:34.000 But I will agree that we have to make it easier to adopt kids in America.

01:05:37.000 There's 2 million families right now on the adoption waiting list, and there's a million abortions every single year.

01:05:43.000 So the idea of an unwanted pregnancy is statistically untrue.

01:05:47.000 And I believe that churches and communities, and yes, even at times, city and state and local governments need to step up and say, okay, we want Roe repeal, but we have to make sure that families and parents and moms have the support that they need.

01:05:59.000 And I'll say one final thing.

01:06:00.000 I think you agree. 0.99

01:06:01.000 To the cowardly men that impregnate women and disappear, shame on you. 1.00

01:06:06.000 And you're a big part of this problem. 0.99

01:06:08.000 100% correct.

01:06:09.000 God bless you.

01:06:10.000 Thank you.

01:06:16.000 Charlie, you spoke about the economic hardship that a lot of young Americans are facing.

01:06:21.000 What can conservatives do to make a difference on that?

01:06:26.000 Like, how can we modify our national economy to relieve that suffering?

01:06:33.000 I mean, that's very real.

01:06:35.000 Yeah, I mean, this is what's so frustrating, right?

01:06:37.000 Is that we're kind of under the tyranny of academics right now.

01:06:40.000 So just a couple of very simple things.

01:06:41.000 We got to get energy independent again.

01:06:43.000 It's very simple.

01:06:44.000 We got to drill baby drill, drill far, drill wide, and tell Greta Thunberg to get the heck out of our national discourse and start actually understanding how energy policy impacts every single person in this room, okay? 1.00

01:06:56.000 We've got to bring down the price of oil. 1.00

01:06:58.000 We've got to tell OPEC to go shove it.

01:07:00.000 We have to go exporting oil again.

01:07:01.000 You've got to get oil beneath $40 a barrel quickly.

01:07:04.000 Now, that impacts everything.

01:07:05.000 Let me just say, that lowers the cost of food because you've got to transport it, the cost of transportation.

01:07:10.000 The second thing, and these are very agreed upon things.

01:07:12.000 Second thing is we have to go after inflation with a sword, right?

01:07:16.000 We have got to go through intentional monetary policies that cool the quantitative easing of the last 15 years.

01:07:22.000 You got a follow-up?

01:07:23.000 No, I was just going to say, do you think that it's sort of the academic and media elite that put us in this situation to begin with?

01:07:30.000 It was their policies and their philosophy, their propaganda that made it so that our national economy became over-financialized and it ate out the real economy.

01:07:43.000 Yeah, I mean, it all kind of, there's a couple things that happened in the 1990s.

01:07:47.000 We allowed China into the World Trade Organization.

01:07:49.000 We had NAFTA.

01:07:51.000 We repealed Glass Siegel, which never should have happened, amongst other things.

01:07:54.000 And then 9-11 happened.

01:07:55.000 We lowered interest rates.

01:07:56.000 As soon as Greenspan did that, as soon as we set the precedent that there's any sort of economic misery, any sort of economic hardship, we could just kind of turn the lever on cheap money.

01:08:05.000 It set this 20-year cycle that we're still living through right now with all that other nonsense of the deindustrialization of the American economy, of the hyper-financialization, as you say, led to 08.

01:08:15.000 And then what was our immediate reaction to 08?

01:08:17.000 Not was it wasn't just financial and fiscal stimulus.

01:08:19.000 It was then monetary stimulus, is that we're going to lower rates unrealistic.

01:08:23.000 And so then what ends up happening?

01:08:24.000 COVID happens.

01:08:25.000 And our reaction to COVID got to go down to record low rates.

01:08:28.000 Well, there is a price of doing a 20-year sugar high.

01:08:31.000 It's unsustainable.

01:08:32.000 And so we've been on a 20-year monetary sugar high, not caring about the next generation, not caring about your purchasing power, couldn't care less about any of it.

01:08:40.000 And so the result is what we're living through right now, which is you have hyperinflation and almost very dangerously low economic growth in a tumbling stock market.

01:08:48.000 Yeah, you're living through crashflation, basically, even worse than stagflation.

01:08:52.000 And so if I was head of the Federal Reserve, I mean, the only way to say is that we're going to have to go through an intentional six-month recession to get this solved.

01:09:00.000 There is no other way to do it because you've created this ridiculous, unrealistic circumstance.

01:09:05.000 But Wall Street doesn't like that.

01:09:06.000 Americans don't like that.

01:09:08.000 So basically, here's what's going to happen.

01:09:10.000 My prediction is that we are now going to be told by our elites we have to get used to 8% to 10% inflation for the next decade.

01:09:18.000 It's the only way to do this.

01:09:19.000 Unless you're willing to tighten the belt, the new normal will be 8 to 10% inflation, and you're just going to have to get used to it.

01:09:26.000 That's catastrophic.

01:09:26.000 Of course it is.

01:09:27.000 That's the agenda to reset the currency, allow the globalists into our system, to destroy the American dollar by other means.

01:09:35.000 That's my prediction.

01:09:35.000 You're going to see a labor market collapse in March.

01:09:37.000 Mark my words.

01:09:38.000 You're going to see unemployment go to 4 or 5%.

01:09:40.000 And then you have a crash stock market, hyperinflation, just in time to try to blame the Republicans.

01:09:45.000 Thanks.

01:09:45.000 Thank you, Charlie.

01:09:47.000 All right.

01:09:47.000 And if you guys disagree, happy to come up.

01:09:50.000 Okay.

01:09:51.000 We'll take a couple more.

01:09:52.000 Yep.

01:09:52.000 Hey there, Mr. Kirk.

01:09:53.000 I'm David May.

01:09:54.000 I'm 17.

01:09:54.000 I'm a junior in high school here in Tallahassee.

01:09:57.000 It is a great honor to be here and be able to speak to you.

01:10:00.000 I'm a huge fan.

01:10:02.000 And so I don't know if you watched the Kemp Abrams debate Sunday night.

01:10:07.000 I didn't.

01:10:07.000 I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest Kemp fan.

01:10:10.000 He's better than Stacey Abrams, for sure.

01:10:12.000 For sure.

01:10:13.000 So, and I watched parts of it.

01:10:16.000 So Abrams attacked the election integrity of Georgia, which is currently experiencing record voting, especially in early voting.

01:10:24.000 And Kemp responded that it's easier to vote, harder to cheat.

01:10:27.000 So my question is, especially with how the mainstream media is now mad at DeSantis here in Florida for allowing some leeway in the counties affected by Hurricane Ian, how can we, in a debate with just ordinary people, refute those claims that particularly red states are somehow manipulating votes and manipulating populations to turn the election in their favor?

01:10:50.000 Yeah, I just find it hilarious because we just spent the last year and a half talking about election integrity and being called election deniers and misinformation spreaders.

01:10:58.000 And now they're talking about how voting is not accessible enough and how elections are being manipulated.

01:11:03.000 And we're like, oh, yeah, that's perfectly normal.

01:11:05.000 You're allowed to say, which one is it exactly?

01:11:07.000 And so, look, here's the thing.

01:11:09.000 You just got to stay factual on this.

01:11:10.000 Again, I'm not the world's biggest governor Kemp fan.

01:11:12.000 I could tell you why, but I think he's obviously better than Stacey Abrams.

01:11:16.000 And I say this in my own personal capacity, not on behalf of Turning Point when I say that.

01:11:20.000 But I just want to re-emphasize when it comes to this kind of voting in Georgia, they have voting months now.

01:11:28.000 It's easier than ever to vote.

01:11:30.000 If you don't have time to vote in Georgia, I don't know what you're doing.

01:11:33.000 Okay.

01:11:34.000 They have precincts, they have mail-in balloting, they have abs.

01:11:37.000 I still think it's too much time, and it's so open to it.

01:11:40.000 And so, look, here's the issue.

01:11:43.000 In Georgia in 2018, these are approximation of numbers, right?

01:11:46.000 There were 247,000 mail-in ballots, okay?

01:11:50.000 In 2020, there were 1.2 million.

01:11:53.000 Those numbers about right?

01:11:54.000 Yeah, 1.2 million.

01:11:55.000 So if you think that when you increase mail-in ballots by nearly five times, that there's not going to be some sort of spillover or overflow, mule operation, whatever you want.

01:12:08.000 I mean, it's just silly to make that argument.

01:12:10.000 So, look, I support the voter, the voter integrity reform measures.

01:12:13.000 And the final thing I'll say about this with Stacey Abrams, it always makes me laugh.

01:12:16.000 She still has not admitted she lost the 2018 governor's race.

01:12:20.000 Okay?

01:12:21.000 So don't give me this whole thing about election deniers. 0.98

01:12:23.000 Stacey Abrams still goes around being like, I'm the duly elected governor of Georgia from 2018. 0.99

01:12:29.000 Why hasn't her house been raided by the FBI? 1.00

01:12:33.000 She's part of the regime.

01:12:36.000 Got to get some more questions.

01:12:37.000 Thank you so much, Mr. Kirk.

01:12:38.000 Appreciate it.

01:12:43.000 Hi, Mr. Kirk.

01:12:44.000 I'm a freshman here at Florida State University, and I am grateful and humbled to be here.

01:12:48.000 And I have looked up to you for many years, as well as other people like Jack Basobiak and similar people.

01:12:55.000 So I'm grateful for all that you have done for us.

01:12:58.000 And I would like to ask you a question.

01:13:00.000 I actually wrote many questions, but this was the one that I thought was the best.

01:13:04.000 So let me pull it up here.

01:13:08.000 While I agree with having a limited government and believe that we should have that in the long run, wouldn't a limited federal government allow for states to infringe on our constitutional rights, such as the right to life?

01:13:18.000 Do we need to temporarily use big government to protect our God-given rights in godless states like California?

01:13:24.000 Good question.

01:13:25.000 So thankfully, I don't live in California, but a lot of people do watching on the live stream.

01:13:28.000 Hello, our California people.

01:13:31.000 So I believe in a small but strong government.

01:13:33.000 That's an important part, right?

01:13:35.000 So if you go read the Federalist Papers, of which I encourage all of you to read, if you ever want to get ready for bed and fall asleep, they're beautiful.

01:13:42.000 They are.

01:13:42.000 It's just, they're written in a type of English that isn't really around, but you could learn so much.

01:13:47.000 You read the Federalist Papers, there was this tension.

01:13:49.000 And by the way, read the anti-Federalist papers too.

01:13:52.000 They're just as interesting.

01:13:53.000 That kind of gang of three, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, who formed our structure and system of government, in a lot of different ways, they were debating in the open air against the Jeffersonians, and both won, right?

01:14:07.000 And so what they wouldn't really admit is that they took a lot of things to heart from Jefferson's critique of too strong of a centralized government.

01:14:14.000 But basically, history vindicated Hamilton, okay?

01:14:17.000 History showed you need some form of a federal government because the Articles of Confederation were a mess.

01:14:23.000 Absolutely.

01:14:24.000 The Articles of Confederation, you had no centralized government, you had nothing.

01:14:27.000 And so there were coups, there were rebellions, no one knew how to trade, there was not the strong system of government, all this sort of stuff.

01:14:33.000 And so to answer your question, should we have a federal, is it time to use big government?

01:14:38.000 No, it's not.

01:14:39.000 What it is time, though, is to pass laws that do protect the most basic things.

01:14:44.000 So for example, if I'm a big supporter of pro-life legislation in all 50 states, if you can't protect those people that can't protect themselves, you're not even doing the most basic thing that government should do.

01:14:55.000 Okay?

01:14:56.000 And I mean, so you have this insanely sick and twisted thing in events.

01:15:00.000 Let's take the state of Oregon, okay?

01:15:02.000 So in the state of Oregon, you have a, it's an amazing cartoon, right?

01:15:07.000 Of a guy that is sniffing cocaine with a straw.

01:15:11.000 Which one do you think is illegal?

01:15:13.000 The straw.

01:15:15.000 I think the straw is because probably because, you know, of all of the leadership.

01:15:18.000 That's the left.

01:15:19.000 Bogus and light, bogus, sorry, environmentalism.

01:15:22.000 It's environmentalism over, I don't know, human decency and flourishing.

01:15:26.000 So that's big government gone awry and not even doing its basic basic things.

01:15:29.000 All right, I got to get some more questions.

01:15:30.000 Thank you, man.

01:15:31.000 Sorry about my misuse of words there.

01:15:33.000 No, you're great, man.

01:15:34.000 Thank you so much.

01:15:34.000 I hope you have a great rest of your day.

01:15:36.000 Thank you.

01:15:42.000 Hey, Charlie.

01:15:43.000 Thank you so much for being here.

01:15:44.000 I'm a student here at FSU and I'm a member of Turning Point.

01:15:47.000 Awesome.

01:15:47.000 So it's awesome to see you here.

01:15:48.000 I've been a fan for years.

01:15:49.000 Love to talk to you today.

01:15:51.000 So my question is more about the future.

01:15:54.000 I know no one can tell the future, including me, but in the next 10 to 15 years, I want to have, I want to be married and I want to be starting a family.

01:16:02.000 I'm one of five kids to two loving parents who've been married over 20 years.

01:16:07.000 And I just, I'm a strong believer in raising my own family.

01:16:11.000 So, however, like you say, inflation, it's on the rise.

01:16:15.000 It's becoming harder and harder to make and save money.

01:16:18.000 You also talk about how depression is at the high for this generation.

01:16:22.000 And I've noticed that people who are in jobs they don't tend to like or don't aren't in jobs that they love, they're more likely to have depression or some form of mental health issues.

01:16:33.000 So for me, like the careers, some of the careers I'm interested in don't pay the kind of money that I think it would take to support the kind of family I want, especially because I want to have a lot of kids because I'm a family with a lot of kids.

01:16:48.000 So how do you think that I should go about finding a career that I both enjoy and pays the bills so that I can be happy and raise my family?

01:16:58.000 Because I think being happy is necessary to emotionally, physically, and mentally support.

01:17:03.000 So let me challenge one of your frameworks.

01:17:05.000 I think it's going to be helpful for you.

01:17:07.000 Don't go do what you're interested in.

01:17:09.000 Do what you're good at.

01:17:10.000 So what's your skill?

01:17:12.000 Talking, persuasion.

01:17:14.000 Well, you can make a lot of money talking because I'm not kidding.

01:17:18.000 If you are good at communication, from a public speaker to a writer, you can make a ton of money.

01:17:22.000 Now, what are you interested in?

01:17:25.000 Business is a huge interest.

01:17:28.000 I also like, I like groups like Turning Point or groups where you advocate for something.

01:17:36.000 I'm a huge mental health advocate.

01:17:38.000 I'm huge on that.

01:17:41.000 You'll figure it out.

01:17:42.000 The point is this, is that I hear kids all the time say that, you know, I'm following my heart and my passion.

01:17:47.000 That's a really bad idea.

01:17:48.000 And it's the worst advice.

01:17:50.000 Follow your skill that you don't hate.

01:17:52.000 No, seriously.

01:17:53.000 And then you'll, if you don't hate, I'll give you a great example.

01:17:56.000 If I followed my passion, I'd be a college football coach.

01:17:59.000 Seriously.

01:18:00.000 And I mean, I love college football more than anything else.

01:18:03.000 And by the way, I'm not a fan of your coach.

01:18:05.000 I'm just going to be very honest.

01:18:07.000 He's not going to make it.

01:18:08.000 He's not going to bring you to the promised land.

01:18:10.000 I'm telling you right now.

01:18:10.000 It's not going to happen.

01:18:11.000 Mark my words.

01:18:12.000 Just wait.

01:18:14.000 Just wait.

01:18:15.000 Okay.

01:18:16.000 When was the last time you guys went to a bull game, right?

01:18:19.000 Not a long, not a while.

01:18:20.000 What?

01:18:22.000 Two wins away?

01:18:24.000 Wow.

01:18:24.000 What is it?

01:18:25.000 Week seven?

01:18:26.000 Yeah.

01:18:27.000 I'm saying Florida State is like, you compare that to Bowden, okay?

01:18:32.000 You guys should be undefeated, is what you should be.

01:18:34.000 But anyway, I don't know how I even got onto that.

01:18:35.000 I don't mean to insult, but I love college football, a big fan.

01:18:39.000 Now, if Florida beats you guys this year, I think he might be getting the X, but we'll see.

01:18:43.000 So, and, but that's not what I'm the best at.

01:18:48.000 Did that make sense?

01:18:48.000 Yeah.

01:18:49.000 It's about your following your skill, okay?

01:18:52.000 And following your skill is very important because then other things start to fall into alignment.

01:18:56.000 Okay.

01:18:56.000 And make sure you don't hate that skill.

01:18:58.000 And then the final thing is this.

01:18:59.000 You just have to dedicate, if you want to be successful in life, you have to dedicate yourself to hustle and grit.

01:19:04.000 It's very rare to find.

01:19:05.000 Show up the earliest, leave the latest, and complain the least.

01:19:09.000 You do those three things.

01:19:10.000 I don't care what you do.

01:19:11.000 You're going to move up because that's very, very hard to find.

01:19:13.000 Yes, sir.

01:19:14.000 Thank you.

01:19:14.000 God bless you.

01:19:15.000 Thank you.

01:19:19.000 Hey, Charlie.

01:19:20.000 My name is Sharon.

01:19:21.000 I'm a mom of four.

01:19:22.000 Thank you for being here.

01:19:23.000 Thank you for being here.

01:19:25.000 My oldest is actually your age, and my youngest is a junior in high school.

01:19:29.000 He's right over there.

01:19:30.000 Anyway, my question is, well, first of all, all four have gone through public school, which back in 1999, when we started that, it didn't seem like a bad idea.

01:19:40.000 And actually, we've had many great teachers, and it worked well for us for a long time.

01:19:45.000 But obviously, in recent years, our eyes have been opened, and there's been a lot of going on and agendas pushed within the school system.

01:19:52.000 I'm also the local chapter chair for our Moms for Liberty.

01:19:55.000 So been on the forefront of the forefront.

01:19:57.000 Great job.

01:19:57.000 Been on the forefront of trying to fight our district, who has been one of the ones, you know, defying the governor and our state laws.

01:20:03.000 So my question for you is around school choice.

01:20:06.000 I see that Arizona just this year voted to have a statewide school choice system.

01:20:10.000 It's really good.

01:20:11.000 And actually, I've been feeling with the frustration locally that maybe it's a better idea to put energy and time into supporting, getting behind, advocating for a statewide school choice system in Florida.

01:20:24.000 Yes.

01:20:25.000 So the issue with your Florida education is you guys have a very tricky funding model, right?

01:20:31.000 So if I understand correctly, every school district gets appropriated the same amount of tax dollars.

01:20:35.000 Am I understanding that correctly?

01:20:36.000 Per student is how I understand it.

01:20:38.000 Yes, that's right.

01:20:38.000 So that's correct.

01:20:39.000 So it gets funded by a student.

01:20:40.000 That is very unusual, right?

01:20:42.000 So Illinois, it's based all on school district and it's all sort of messed up.

01:20:45.000 But I'm still a huge school choice advocate.

01:20:48.000 The problem, the only issue is that you're going to have trouble getting it through the legislature because there's a lot of these deals that have been made and relationships and infrastructure that's built there.

01:20:57.000 And so I would start small.

01:20:58.000 So Arizona just passed the best school choice legislation in the country.

01:21:01.000 It took 20 years to get there of small incremental work.

01:21:04.000 It's so good in Arizona.

01:21:05.000 Any parent can send their tax dollars to any school of their choosing at any time, regardless of circumstance.

01:21:10.000 I want that school.

01:21:10.000 I want that private school, that charter school, that.

01:21:12.000 It's full choice.

01:21:14.000 It's awesome.

01:21:15.000 And so if a Hispanic family in the west side of Phoenix who's just really struggling economically doesn't like the local school, they could pull the trigger and get their kid to a successful school.

01:21:23.000 If they don't like CRT, the woke is, and the pornography in their school, boom, they can move it right up, right?

01:21:28.000 And so I would encourage you guys to entertain that.

01:21:30.000 I'm not a policy wonk on this thing, but you guys have a very, you have a much better school choice system than most other states.

01:21:39.000 And I hate to give credit to him for this, but Jeb Bush did a pretty good job, actually, on schools and for at least getting a charter model.

01:21:47.000 And more broadly and nationally, the Florida charter system inspired so many other states to get involved in it.

01:21:54.000 And Jeb was really kind of the pioneer of that, as much as it pains me to say.

01:21:59.000 But I would still argue for school choice.

01:22:01.000 And more than that, I just think the fight also has to be in curriculum standards and all this.

01:22:06.000 And Governor DeSantis deserves such credit for not allowing the CRT nonsense.

01:22:12.000 I know it's still happening and it's going back door and all of that, but to set a standard from the state level is so incredibly and critically important.

01:22:18.000 Absolutely.

01:22:18.000 Very thankful for him and what he's doing on stage.

01:22:20.000 He's a courageous leader.

01:22:21.000 Thank you.

01:22:22.000 Thank you.

01:22:22.000 All right, last question.

01:22:26.000 Hey, Mr. Charlie, how you doing?

01:22:27.000 First off, going olds.

01:22:29.000 Okay.

01:22:29.000 I have a question for you, man.

01:22:30.000 We'll see how it works.

01:22:31.000 Yes, sir.

01:22:33.000 I'm a junior at Florida State University.

01:22:35.000 I have a question for my sister who is a campaign manager for District 114.

01:22:39.000 She's younger than me, actually. 0.98

01:22:40.000 She's only 20.

01:22:41.000 Wow. 0.51

01:22:41.000 So she's got here at the House of Representatives. 0.51

01:22:43.000 We were wondering, property taxes, insurance, and association dues account for half of property owners' expenses.

01:22:51.000 How much do you think these costs are impacting the rents, you know, besides the fact that inflation has doubled the prices of the housing market as it is right now?

01:22:59.000 A fair amount.

01:23:00.000 So you're talking about Florida.

01:23:01.000 Right.

01:23:01.000 Yeah.

01:23:02.000 And I have to say, you guys, you have it so well in Florida.

01:23:04.000 I was a Florida resident for a couple of years and now I'm Arizona.

01:23:07.000 You have no income tax on corporate or personal.

01:23:09.000 You know how rare that is, okay?

01:23:11.000 That in Arizona, we have a 3.8% income tax and it's all this nonsensical corporate tax.

01:23:15.000 So you got to fund your government somehow, right?

01:23:18.000 So, and if you were to try to find, I'm not a huge opponent of using property taxes if necessary.

01:23:24.000 I think that's probably better than sales tax.

01:23:27.000 And the reason being is that the bigger the property, the more tax.

01:23:30.000 In some ways, it is kind of a little bit more distributed based on income.

01:23:33.000 I'm not a fan of any tax.

01:23:34.000 I wish we could get rid of all of it, right?

01:23:35.000 But the one thing I really don't want to see happen is an increase in the sales tax.

01:23:41.000 I'm really opposed to that.

01:23:42.000 That is a direct tax on working people and on lower middle class families, right?

01:23:48.000 But I think Florida had a surplus that am I wrong two years, a year and a half ago?

01:23:53.000 Maybe I'm wrong.

01:23:54.000 But look, a surplus means you're spending too much money.

01:23:56.000 And so the next Florida budget needs to cut spending instead of trying to find more revenue sources to try to just continue to expand the budget.

01:24:04.000 So not too in the weeds on the policy wonk side of it, but the other part is insurance.

01:24:10.000 And I hate to break it to Floridians, but I am kind of a big believer in flood insurance.

01:24:15.000 And that's kind of a big part of living in Florida.

01:24:18.000 I hate to say it.

01:24:20.000 That shouldn't drive it up too much, though.

01:24:21.000 The bigger drive of rent is inflation and also a development housing crisis.

01:24:29.000 Don't know how that applies in certain metropolitan areas in Florida.

01:24:31.000 I think that they've actually been pretty pro-growth on this.

01:24:34.000 But at least out west, there's a massive housing crisis because of the environmentalists.

01:24:38.000 They are not allowing new development to happen.

01:24:40.000 So less supply, rent goes up, people moving back in with their parents.

01:24:43.000 It's just a terrible, it's a downfall disaster.

01:24:46.000 So, yeah, thank you so much.

01:24:47.000 Thank you.

01:24:48.000 All right, guys.

01:24:49.000 Well, I want to thank our incredible Turning Point USA group again.

01:24:53.000 Stay engaged, stay involved.

01:24:54.000 Make sure you are registered to vote and you vote and you get your friends to go out and vote as well.

01:24:59.000 Very, very important.

01:25:00.000 We're 19 days out from the election, so make sure you do that.

01:25:02.000 I don't care who you vote for.

01:25:04.000 I'm not here today to tell you who you vote for, but make an informed decision and kind of internalize all this and do with what you want.

01:25:11.000 But the final thing I'll say is this: is that your generation, our generation, is going to be tasked with a lot of responsibility.

01:25:17.000 Take this seriously.

01:25:18.000 Continue to consume the news.

01:25:20.000 Ask questions.

01:25:21.000 Go to events like this.

01:25:22.000 Organize with people that share your values.

01:25:24.000 Find the Turning Point USA chapter at your local school and reject cynicism and apathy and nihilism.

01:25:29.000 Those are terrible things.

01:25:30.000 And I think our best days are truly ahead.

01:25:32.000 Thank you guys who listen to our podcast and follow us.

01:25:35.000 We appreciate it.

01:25:36.000 God bless you guys.

01:25:37.000 Thank you.

01:25:40.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:25:42.000 Email me your thoughts as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 23, 2022

The Truth About Misinformation LIVE from Florida State University

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