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00:01:00.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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00:01:27.000And love this weekend that we've had a chance to spend together.
00:01:30.000Yeah, every one of these services has been different.
00:01:33.000So if you missed the prior three, I think each one has its own unique flavor.
00:01:37.000And I said I wanted one to be kind of dedicated to what's going on with young people in this country, specifically in education, some of the struggles.
00:02:47.000And so, not to mention antidepressant medications up 300%, alcoholism, drug use, sexual abuse, social isolation, every number we could possibly imagine.
00:03:00.000And you couple that together with we're on verge of a population collapse in this country.
00:03:05.000Again, another number that should be kind of on the headline news.
00:03:07.000We're on pace to have 500,000 less children next year than this year.
00:03:10.000It's the most dramatic drop-off in the population that we've ever seen in our country's history.
00:03:28.000I just think that we're teaching ingratitude to our children.
00:03:30.000We're not properly teaching our history.
00:03:32.000We're teaching people to be angry that they live in America, not thankful that they live in America.
00:03:37.000And I've focused on that quite a lot, but I don't think that's the complete picture.
00:03:40.000I think that's definitely one of the input variables and formulas.
00:03:44.000But there's something a lot deeper going on.
00:03:46.000And there's a material side to this that people have to recognize and realize.
00:03:50.000And so if you've grown exhausted in seeing Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, or even Louisville kind of being burning and rioting and looting, it's very easy to attribute some of that when it goes on for days.
00:04:02.000It's like, oh, the kids, the young people don't quite understand their history, which is true, or they don't understand what's going on.
00:04:09.000But there's something that I think we have to get honest about, that despite a lot of young people working very hard and playing by the rules, their lives are not getting materially better.
00:04:17.000And a lot of young people borrowed money they didn't have to go study things that didn't matter, go find jobs that didn't exist.
00:04:23.000And we carted off a huge portion of our younger population to highly inflated degree mills with class sizes that are bigger than this church attendance, where learning is sparse, wisdom is non-existent, and skills are not being taught.
00:04:37.000And we acted as if that's going to make us a wealthier and happier country.
00:04:40.000And now 10 years later, when we've doubled our college population, we recognize that only 59% of kids that go to college graduate, 41% drop out.
00:04:47.000The average college graduate in this country is graduating with $38,000 in student loan debt.
00:04:52.000And we stuff them in our major metropolitan cities such as Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York, where you're not building equity, you're not buying property, you're renting, you're barely making enough money to survive.
00:05:02.000And then after 10 years, we look at the data, we say, wow, out of all the people that borrowed money and went to college, 44% of them are employed in jobs that don't require college degrees.
00:05:11.000So why did they go to college in the first place?
00:05:13.000And so all of a sudden, we're seeing this very understandable outrage that when a young person is 28 and then they're 32, their material net worth is almost unchanged.
00:05:24.000They're still maybe $40,000, $50,000, $70,000 in the hole.
00:05:43.000For a virus for young people that had a 0.00005 death rate for people our age, you took away spring sports, summer sports, prom, graduation, commencement, social gatherings, any sort of social connectivity, church gatherings across the country, trying to stop the spread.
00:06:05.000And our generation is paying a disproportionate price here.
00:06:08.000When you have bad trends that are happening, when you shut everything down, you have a crisis, those trends only continue and they accelerate.
00:06:14.000And so now we need to kind of take a timeout and we say, what exactly is happening with people under the age of 25?
00:06:19.000And are we creating, are we actually being able to hand a country to the next generation where they're going to have family formation?
00:06:26.000They're going to have robust church attendance.
00:06:29.000Are they going to have agreed upon morals and values?
00:06:31.000And will they want to accept the country in the prior state?
00:06:34.000So I'm telling you right now, when you have 30 million young people that don't believe the system works for them, when they're working hard and their net worth is not improving at all, where their debt burdens are unsustainable, medical debt, personal debt, credit card debt, student loan debt, not even talking about home mortgage debt, by the way.
00:06:50.000At some point, the people with the most energy, they're going to topple the system that you live in.
00:07:16.000I'm going to talk about that in a little bit.
00:07:17.000We just let off 13,000 pilots from working.
00:07:21.000I mean, we are talking about people that have an incredible technical skill that are now being laid off.
00:07:26.000And a lot of it was preventable, this kind of mass blanket shutdown where we were trying to kill a mouse with a missile, where we should have had people shelter in place, trust people to make good decisions.
00:07:36.000And by the way, despite the attacks, despite the misrepresentations, front page of the New York Times five days ago, Sweden outpacing European countries in death rates, infection rates, mortality rates.
00:07:48.000And then the subhead is: it's still unsure exactly what Sweden did correctly.
00:08:26.000And I'm telling you right now, when people that, Jeff Bezos, when his net worth has gone up by $65 billion when all of your net worth went down, there's a problem here.
00:08:35.000And the problem is that working people are going to lose faith in this system.
00:08:39.000And people that shower before work and shower after work, that work with their hands, these are the people that, whether you like it or not, they're the backbone of this country.
00:08:48.000And I think that sometimes some of that anger is misaligned.
00:08:51.000I think sometimes it's misattributed, but it's real, nevertheless.
00:08:54.000You can try to convince people that you're wrong, stop doing this.
00:08:56.000But when Bezos is $65 billion richer, Zuckerberg is $50 billion richer, and normal working families are seeing medical debt, student loan debt unchanged, their mortgage debt almost, and they're saying, is this system really in the best interest of myself?
00:09:22.000What we have done to young people is we have asked high school seniors, and that's why I wanted to do this with the high schoolers out here and with young people, is we ask the same question over and over again.
00:10:36.000We need more plumbers, electricians, HVAC police officers, entrepreneurs, gap year, people that serve in our United States military, people that work with their hands.
00:10:44.000And I find a lot more wisdom in the plumbing community than in the Ivy League intellectual community.
00:11:05.000So for parents out there that want to throw whatever object is next to you at me, let me be very clear that it might be the right choice for your child.
00:11:28.000And also, by the way, you're going to play Russian roulette with your kids' values, by the way, if you send them to college.
00:11:33.000They are going to come across evangelistic atheism.
00:11:35.000They're going to come across an anti-American, anti-Western belief system of which we don't have to completely talk about again, but it's highly effective, very persuasive, and it creates unhappy people.
00:13:32.000I represent 2,000 of them in our organization.
00:13:35.000I've met more college kids, talked to more college professors.
00:13:38.000College should be, and the ideal, and again, I buy into the idea of college completely, but it's not the idea is not happening, is to create tougher people for an uncertain world.
00:14:24.000Instead, they challenge students to become activists to try to tear down the system around them.
00:14:30.000And so people, the question is: so, well, if you want to become a lawyer, doctor, all those sorts of things, college is absolutely the right reason for you.
00:14:35.000But if you're like, I'm going to figure it out when I get there, that's a really bad reason to go to college.
00:14:58.000We hire more high school graduates than college graduates, and they're our best employees that we have at Turning Point.
00:15:02.000I know limitless entrepreneurs that do the same.
00:15:05.000In fact, business owners across the country are demanding less people that have come from the academy and more people that have come from real-world work.
00:15:12.000Military veterans, for example, people that have worked their hands, entrepreneurs, community college graduates.
00:15:17.000And so applicably, what does this look like?
00:15:19.000I think that we need to encourage more young men in particular, and I'm going to build this out, to take gap years.
00:15:24.000I'm a huge fan of gap years for a lot of different reasons.
00:15:28.000Because the college system, and by the way, if you have a biblical worldview, you should be very careful sending your kid to college because everything that you try to tell your kid not to encounter is not just there, it is encouraged.
00:15:39.000You know that most university campuses have men's dorms and girls' dorms right next to each other, right?
00:16:04.000And why would we send our young people to a system that has been proven to put them into debt, lower their aspirations, and just kind of give them the only option is to kind of go work for kind of a less than desirable Fortune 500 company.
00:16:18.000You know how many entrepreneurial ideas that just disappear because kids get student debt?
00:16:22.000The next generation of business owners, and number one reason I hear from kids, I have this idea, I want to do this, why don't you do it?
00:16:54.000And I'm not trying, I mean, if you have a kid in college, I'm not trying to say you're doing the wrong thing or condemning or any of those.
00:16:59.000I'm simply, and I know exactly what I'm doing.
00:17:02.000I'm trying to be intentionally a little bit more provocative than I need to be to start a conversation that I know will help you, your family, your kids in the country.
00:17:26.000Who out there is repeatedly critiquing the fact that most colleges didn't offer tuition adjustments now that our kids are basically taking Zoom classes?
00:17:42.000And the reason they didn't adjust tuition is because they'd realize, because they would admit immediately they're charging your kid way too much to go to college.
00:18:05.000And so that kind of framework is perfect for kind of a want to be socialist revolution because we need a lot of young people that are suffering materially.
00:18:13.000Of course, it's tempting to want to steal other people's stuff to alleviate your own financial suffering.
00:18:21.000My argument is stop complaining, go find someone to marry, be loyal to that person, stop doing drugs and drinking, and go work hard.
00:18:27.000Like, okay, that's a really hard argument, right?
00:18:29.000But actually, it's more of an opportunity than you might believe because I meet 18-year-olds that have lived in a world where they know nothing but hedonistic indulgence culture by the time they reach 18 years old.
00:18:41.000And it's the most miserable generation in American history.
00:18:50.000And so, but what's really fascinating to me is all the things we spend our time talking about in this country and the people who are about to inherit it are on pace to have less babies than any other generation, less happiness, less wisdom, and more debt.
00:19:06.000And that's somehow an issue that we don't even discuss openly and honestly.
00:19:10.000And I don't even consider this to be political, by the way.
00:21:02.000We have the lost boys in our country, where we have grown infants, basically.
00:21:06.000And I don't mean any insults to any men here, but that's just what it is.
00:21:11.000Where you have a generation of men that have no responsibility whatsoever.
00:21:16.000And whether it's been subsidized by somebody else or they didn't take responsibility for themselves, that's the way it is.
00:21:21.000And so when I go and speak to audiences and I challenge young men to take responsibility for their life, which is exactly what is needed, all of a sudden kind of a light turns on.
00:21:31.000They're like, no one's really challenging me to do that.
00:21:33.000I've always been told everything from kind of a kind of a victim kind of complaining like I'm the problem and I have to change.
00:21:39.000And that over time creates a very sad set of circumstances where men are 20 times more likely to commit suicide, far more likely to die at work, far more likely to declare bankruptcy, unemployment for men is much higher, college graduation for men is much lower, master's, doctorate degrees, all these sorts of things.
00:21:54.000Yet we tell these young men from the time they enter college, you understand there's a patriarchy and a horrible person.
00:21:58.000They're like, all right, I'm going to cash out.
00:22:01.000I mean, you're going to keep screaming in my face that I'm the worst person in the world.
00:22:49.000If you're not ready to give your kid a firearm, don't give them a smartphone.
00:22:53.000These smartphones are designed through the social media companies to be more addicting than cigarettes.
00:22:59.000Young women in particular, it's even more dangerous than with young men.
00:23:02.000I cannot convey, I've deleted all the social media apps off my phone.
00:23:06.000I have seven and a half million followers on these combined platforms.
00:23:09.000I know the people that have designed these companies.
00:23:11.000These things are doing more damage to your children than if they were smoking cigarettes.
00:23:17.000From how they communicate, how they interface with the world, how they do not have romantic relationships.
00:23:23.000We are seeing driver's licenses go down by 20%.
00:23:26.000We are seeing dating go down, marriage rates, you name it, because we have these digital pacifiers that are supposed to give us some sort of comfort.
00:23:33.000Where all of a sudden you interface through the prism of some sort of box that's supposed to give you the next dopamine rush.
00:23:39.000It's actually possible to be raised in this country without one.
00:23:43.000I thank God every day that I grew up in high school without a digital pacifier.
00:23:58.000And it's actually possible to communicate with people outside of that little box, that supercomputer that they give you.
00:24:04.000We need to become more human in our country, less cyborg.
00:24:08.000And it's a very important thing that we need to do.
00:24:10.000And I think the other thing that, and I'm happy to, you know, just kind of stop and we can dialogue more on this, which is I'm actually doing, this is the best I've done so far.
00:26:02.000And we've brought people the gospel through it and we are able to reach them.
00:26:05.000However, if we never look at the other side of the coin and we don't look at, oh, wow, these tech companies are actually designing the feed after what gives you the highest rush of outrage, addiction.
00:26:19.000I mean, they're designing it and they change the feed constantly.
00:26:22.000And they say, oh, the algorithm is neutral.
00:26:24.000No, algorithms are opinions written in code, is what they are.
00:26:28.000There's somebody out there that is designing your child to think differently about the world.
00:26:35.000Do you know the average kid spends seven and a half hours on their smartphone every single day?
00:26:42.000We are now adjoined to some sort of tech oligarch of small group of people that don't share your values, by the way, just so you understand, that are impacting your kid more than the church and more than you are.
00:26:54.000And so that should give everyone kind of a timeout.
00:26:56.000And it's happening quicker than I think we can even understand.
00:27:16.000But even more than that, I think that there needs to be a recalibration and kind of a reassertion of what is a human being, right?
00:27:25.000And a human being is, of course, first and foremost, broken and depraved by nature in the state of sin, and we need Jesus Christ as our ultimate and only salvation.
00:27:35.000And the path that we are on right now in this country and this generation is one where we're going to encounter problems and difficulties that very well could put the entire system in jeopardy and could leave our country less free, could disintegrate our country, and is dealing with very real material, financial, cultural, and social costs around it.
00:27:56.000And what are you, as you're traveling, what are you beginning to see in terms of, you know, an uptick, some signs of hope, some pockets of change and transformation, you go, that gives me hope, where the rest is deeply concerning.
00:28:09.000What are you seeing that you go, that there is a bit hopeful?
00:28:13.000Well, I think that the hopeful piece is that the solutions we have work.
00:28:18.000And so when you have a married less, depressed generation, the solution is, well, go get married and stay loyal to that person and go have lots of children.
00:28:27.000Like that's worked for a couple thousand years.
00:28:29.000Like if you think you've cracked the code as being like this really like hip feminist and like I don't I don't need to get married.
00:28:35.000Well, maybe it's going to work for you.
00:28:36.000But like generally the rule is to get married and have children.
00:28:39.000And that works really well and it's worked for a couple thousand years.
00:28:45.000Like it's something that every human being should do, especially in a biblical context.
00:28:48.000But I also think that the positives and the optimistic part of what we're seeing out there is that people have a yearning for learning right now.
00:28:58.000And we've seen this in the last couple services where people are asking really informed questions.
00:29:27.000And I see a re-engagement of the church on these sorts of issues, which is terrific.
00:29:33.000And thank you for having me to be able to communicate this to you because it's not exactly a typical church service.
00:29:38.000But I think we all agree, like, wow, if we don't get this thing with the next generation right, a lot of things are going to start to fall apart and crumble, right?
00:29:45.000And so for the young people out there, everything I mentioned is legitimate.
00:29:50.000And I just want to tailor it to the 25, 26, 27-year-olds, or 18 to 26-year-olds, or even high schoolers.
00:29:57.000The country got shut down unnecessarily.
00:30:18.000And whether you're happy about it or whether you're uneasy about it, now you have to start making a sequence of decisions so that this life will be a little bit better for yourself and for future generations.
00:30:27.000And so to be perfectly as blunt as I possibly can, stop complaining and start taking responsibility for every single action you make in your life.
00:31:12.000So, responsibility is the interconnectedness of human beings and loving your neighbor as yourself, a biblical idea.
00:31:19.000When you're just in your basement sipping, you know, energy drinks endlessly to 3 a.m., not caring about your appearance, like the lost boys that we let happen far too often in our country, you have no responsibility at all whatsoever.
00:31:34.000So, as Jordan Peterson says, sit up straight with your shoulders back, look at people in the eyes, make your goals sharp and clear, and stop doing one thing in your life you know that's bad for you.
00:31:43.000Everybody in this room is doing one thing that you know that is bad for you.
00:31:47.000Maybe it's drinking, maybe it's too much of a TV show, maybe it's a relationship.
00:31:52.000Addition sometimes happens through subtraction.
00:31:54.000And if you drop one thing in your life that's bad for you, you'd be amazed at how you could liberate from that addiction, from that focus.
00:32:02.000And I think you can live a much more fulfilled life because of it.
00:32:28.000So, for anyone over the age of 55, if you're not mentoring somebody under the age of 25, you're doing it wrong.
00:32:35.000What are you doing with that wisdom that you have?
00:32:38.000If you're over the age of 30 and you have wisdom, go find a mentee right now because they need you and they do not have the confidence to ask for it.
00:33:27.000But all of a sudden, when kind of a semi-father figure comes into the picture or a semi-mother figure comes into the picture that's non-family related, that's rooted in biblical wisdom, that has a skill in something you care about.
00:33:38.000It could be technology, computing, or carpentry.
00:33:41.000I can't communicate to you how effective that is to the stewardship of young Christians.
00:33:46.000And necessary, and it happens so rarely, it stuns me.
00:33:52.000It shows that you're one phone call away from being able to walk you through what you want to do.
00:33:57.000And so kind of back to the education piece and kind of asking the question of what should we do with young people and how should we prepare them for this ever chaotic world.
00:34:06.000Of course, ask the question, hey, why are you going to college?
00:34:20.000And ask yourself the question, if I put this in a very conservative money market account over four years, what would that look like?
00:34:27.000And if my kid went and worked for four years and acted ethically and did the right thing, where would they be in four years versus four years of going to this university and all that money disappearing?
00:34:37.000And a lot of families, when I communicate, they're like, oh, wow, that $250,000 would turn into $300,000.
00:34:42.000The four years, they'd have a job, pay rent, be debt-free.
00:34:45.000And if they still went to church, I'd be proud of them.
00:35:05.000It's because parents are unwilling to turn to their neighbor and tell their neighbor, yeah, my kid's not going to college and I'm okay with that.
00:35:13.000That's a conversation that is like a no-fly zone.
00:35:16.000Instead, it's like, no, I'm a proud Stanford mom.
00:35:36.000Well, I mean, look, especially if you're talking about someone who has, you know, you've got a lifetime invested in these little lives.
00:35:45.000Especially if you're a child of God, a follower of Christ, you've done the best you can, though imperfectly, to try to instill ideas that are eternal, ideas that long after you're gone, they're still going to work in the life of your children.
00:35:58.000And then you, you know, again, we succumbing to pressure from the outside as a parent, you go, well, like, I couldn't stomach the fact that we would be one of those that our kid didn't go.
00:36:09.000You know, not only is it to school, but where specifically is it to school?
00:36:15.000And then only to have your kid, you know, just completely scrambled in that way and say, I kind of, there was a stewardship granted to me and my child, my children.
00:36:24.000And at the end, because of pressures not divine, I have great regret, great, great regret, and some, in some cases, some terrible loss.
00:36:37.000You've shared in times some very specific, practical, I mean, super practical details for the young kid as it relates to the gap year.
00:37:17.000Some of the greatest companies and greatest innovations that we all enjoy today were from people in their early 20s that took massive risks.
00:37:24.000And I can sympathize with that because I had an idea when I was 18 and I didn't go to college and I took the risk and it's grown into something bigger than I ever could have imagined.
00:37:33.000If I would have went to college, it never would have happened.
00:37:37.000And so here's the thing that I encourage for gap years.
00:37:39.000So just you understand, I originally took a gap year and it's been eight and a half gap years, right?
00:37:44.000And people say you're going to go back to school.
00:38:23.000And they will give you a job that would have taken you four years and a million interviews to get.
00:38:28.000I'm telling you, it's so rare to have that kind of confidence where a young person dresses nicely, looks in the eye, and they'll say, I'll sweep the floors.
00:38:38.000And any entrepreneur out there can sympathize with that kind of gritty attitude.
00:38:42.000I've done this recently, where a young man from Thousand Oaks, California, who's the son of my pastor, Rob McCoy, 18 years old, was being told by everyone he has to go to college, and God bless his parents for believing in him.
00:38:54.000He's 18 years old doing the Mr. Miyagi thing for us at Turning Point USA, you know, kind of stuff and shirts.
00:39:00.000But he's earning a good wage, no debt, has his own apartment, meeting amazing people.
00:39:04.000He listens to Jordan Peterson podcasts and our podcast every day.
00:39:08.000The kid has more wisdom than any other college professor I've ever met at 18 years old.
00:39:16.000And he has found out what he wants to do and doesn't want to do in his life.
00:39:20.000He never wants to work on a shipping dock ever again.
00:40:01.000And that could have been an easier way to go about it.
00:40:05.000And the other thing is this, which is the most important thing that kind of in the marketplace that I have found that is the differentiator, which is what, if you are willing to work harder than the person next to you and act ethically with integrity, those two things are so hard to find.
00:40:48.000I would have been like, oh, I went to Stanford and Harvard to go listen to how great I am.
00:40:52.000So there's an element to kind of grittiness that's created there that sometimes I think gets kind of insulated, but also applicable steps, which is, and this is just a rule, and the Bible talks about this so clearly, just be so careful taking debt, guys.
00:41:04.000I mean, debt is the slavery of the free.
00:41:06.000There's verse after verse in Proverbs about the danger of indebtedness.
00:41:11.000And we kind of just sign away the debt with young people that is so horrifying when it's $100,000, $150,000, $175,000 in debt before they're even 22 years old, before they even can comprehend these numbers.
00:41:24.000And so, you know, just go through the same sort of financial management you would getting a car or a home when you kind of take those applicable steps.
00:41:31.000And maybe community college is the answer.
00:41:49.000In fact, there's such a skill gap that the politicians like, we have to continue to import people from India that actually have these skills.
00:41:56.000Meanwhile, 57% of our college graduates are studying psychology or the soft social sciences, which is fine, but it's a great way to get a job at Starbucks.
00:42:06.000It's a really bad way to get a high-paying job that actually has a skill.
00:42:11.000And again, it's going to be all about kind of skill development.
00:42:14.000And the other thing is this, and I want to kind of comment on the kind of the church vein here, which is kind of in the college landscape, the fastest growing religion is atheism.
00:42:22.000And I am approached by more atheists on college campuses that try to persuade me to believe in nothing than Christians that approach me that try to persuade, that they don't know me, that try to tell me about the good news of Jesus Christ.
00:42:35.000So if you send your kid to college, there's a chance that all of a sudden you will never recognize their value system or them again.
00:42:42.000And everyone needs to understand that truth.
00:42:45.000I get thousands of emails of parents, and it pains me.
00:42:49.000Charlie, I sent my kids to school and they won't talk to me anymore because I'm a Christian and I'm a conservative.
00:42:58.000And because that kind of ingratitude is taught quite often at these university campuses.
00:43:03.000And so anyway, I just want to be kind of very clear about this.
00:43:07.000The goal should be, how do we create a country where our young people can live quiet and peaceful lives like it tells us in 1 Timothy.
00:43:15.000And so we have to challenge our young men to marry earlier and marry women and have, be loyal to those women, which is a rarity in the landscape, make good choices and have many children.
00:43:31.000And for young women, We should be very clear.
00:43:33.000Whatever you want to do, you should have the freedom to do.
00:43:36.000But it's okay to get married before the age of 30.
00:43:55.000I mean, I think that there was something that kind of worked in the 1950s where all of a sudden the birth rates were going up and families were flourishing and we valued the nuclear family and fatherlessness wasn't 77% as it is in the black community.
00:44:09.000And so there's a responsibility crisis in this country.
00:44:15.000Where people are saying other people should be responsible for me.
00:44:19.000One of the things that has just driven me nuts the last couple weeks and months is where they say like, well, everything is about being safe.
00:45:03.000Okay, make choices that are okay for yourself.
00:45:06.000But this idea that all of a sudden we are going to micromanage every single decision and you're going to be comfortable and safe is so unbelievably misleading and it's dangerous.
00:45:17.000Because what has always made decent Western civilization different is a commitment to the brave, a commitment to the wise, and a commitment to the reason, not a commitment to the automatic that we're just going to say that, well, we can keep you safe.
00:45:43.000But this kind of idea that all of a sudden we're going to micromanage people's behaviors at the expense of so many other people is just foolish and wrong and backwards.
00:45:52.000And so the other kind of point to this with young people out there that I highly encourage every student out there is the amount of opportunity afforded you at this period of time is incredible.
00:46:13.000It's actually your country to dominate.
00:46:16.000Like, it is easier than ever because there are so many people that just are kind of in the professional complaining industry, like Colin Kaepernick.
00:46:34.000And I want to challenge you to that because it's an optimistic message.
00:46:37.000It's a message that whatever you think you can, whatever your dream is you have for yourself, do so in the pursuit with biblical values and for the good of the kingdom.
00:46:46.000But only in a matter, and I'll give, I'm look, I'm living proof of this.
00:46:50.000I'm a kid that didn't go to college from the suburbs of Chicago, who's now 26 years old, 2,000 campuses, 160 people on staff.
00:46:58.000We've been blessed to have, you know, $31 million operating budget, two podcasts today, soon-to-be national radio show, and Friends of the President of the United States.
00:47:06.000Only in America is a story like that possible.
00:47:14.000Well, we've closed each of our services in prayer, but I would love if you would close the service in prayer.
00:47:21.000And would you pray, you know, for this next generation?
00:47:24.000And just as you feel, I'd know we spoke in the back, and you get these emails about kids that say, look, if it weren't for your podcast, if it weren't for what you just said, I would have taken my life.
00:47:37.000So would you just close our, by the way, as we mentioned earlier, we've got, we'll have four or five almost hours of content.
00:47:47.000This is one specific thing that Charlie really wanted to talk about, and we kept it for this audience because we felt like we might have the broadest sort of reach of the young people and the parent.
00:47:56.000But we've talked about all kinds of things that matter right now for the church in this day and age.
00:48:03.000And we'll have it all available for you.
00:48:05.000But so would you just close our weekend in prayer over this next generation and those even maybe struggling right now in sort of that deep, depressive state?
00:49:15.000They're experiencing a lot of difficulty and struggle.
00:49:18.000We pray for those people that are just thinking in the terrain of self-harm that you might give them comfort and that you might give them direction and that they might find the mentorship that they need.
00:49:30.000And we pray for the adults out there that they may make informed and wise choices for their children and with their children and that they may take the education seriously.
00:49:38.000And we thank you for the gifts that have been given to us and afforded to us that we might acknowledge those every single day.
00:49:45.000And we thank you for sending your son, Jesus, the ultimate salvation.
00:49:49.000And we pray that we might be a wise and brave church in this moment in our country.
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