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Charlie Kirk (0:00)
Hey, everybody. My conversation at University of Illinois, we take an open mic, we answer a lot of questions about Garcia, the open border, about transgenderism, about abortion, and more. Email me, as always, freedomarliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast. Open up your podcast application and type in Charlie Kirk show and make sure you guys consider becoming a member today. Members.charliekirk.com that is members.charliekirk.com thanks to Alan Jackson Ministries for your continued support. Buckle up, everybody here. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. 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. 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. That's why we are here. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of the Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble gold investments@noblegold investments.com, that is noblegoldinvestments.com. it's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com thank you, everybody. Please take a seat. It's great to be back in Illinois, I'll tell you what. All right, let's see. Who. Anyone from Wheeling. Come on. Someone's got to be from Wheeling. Inevitably. Hersey. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We don't like Hersey. Anyone from Wheeling up there? All right, I'll tell you what. Illinois. One person from Wheeling. You go to Wheeling High School. That's what I'm talking about. Anybody else? No, no, no. Hersey. No, we don't like Hersey. Where'd you go to middle school, is the real question. Where? No. River Trail? Stephen? Worse. London? No, no. MacArthur Middle School, everybody. That's the best.
Audience Member 1 (2:05)
Where?
Charlie Kirk (2:05)
Wheeling. I love it. All right, well, I went to Wheeling High School. I'm from Illinois. I know we got a lot of people from the suburbs of Chicago here. It's great to be here, everybody. Thank you for the great welcome. Sorry for the delay getting in, but a lot I could talk about here. We honestly want to get right into question and answer, because that's the most fun, and that's why people wait in line to kind of see that and Experience that lot happening in the country. In case you missed it, I don't know, a couple months ago, we won a presidential election, which is pretty awesome. And what you are seeing is sometimes the not so perfect process of taking back a government from a prior regime that ignored its own citizens. The very good news is we have a southern border again, which is amazing. There was 10,000 people crossing the border a day under Joe Biden. Now that number is basically and effectively zero. Securing the southern border. President Trump is doing everything he said he was going to do. I believe we're going to get the whole tariff thing figured out. We'll talk about that tonight. We'll have a great discussion there. President Donald Trump signed an executive order saying no men in female sports, no men in female locker rooms, declaring the cartels as a foreign terrorist organization. Signing an executive order, of course. Drill, baby, drill. Oil prices, by the way, are down nearly $20 in just the last couple of days. You're going to see that at the pump very soon. All that to say, though. Nothing. Obviously, when you take over an administration is going to go perfectly. But what is so refreshing is to finally see a person who was a candidate, who became president doing exactly what he campaigned on and not just turning his back on his voters and doing something that is the opposite. Everybody in this room, regardless if you're a Trump lover or a Trump hater, there is a sense of urgency for you. Gen Z, thankfully, by the way, is increasingly becoming the most conservative generation in history. It's moving very, very quickly. Some great stuff, everybody. A lot better than millennials. I'll tell you what, when I spoke here eight years ago, we could barely fill a 100 person room and now we have to, we're going to turn away like 600 people tonight. It's incredible, but it's a, it is a serious issue that is facing Gen Z. You are the first generation in American history to have a future that is materially worse off than your parents. You are the most suicidal generation in history, the most depressed generation history. It is harder than ever to own a home. Harder than ever to be able to work hard and get ahead. Many of you are going to experience yourself in the, in the, in the red, not in the black of your financial situation. What has gone down is a breakdown of the social compact and the social contract, which is that we have decided that the next generation does not deserve the same future that your parents had. And I believe that's one of the big breakdowns as to why so many young people decided to Trust Donald Trump with their vote back in November. It was basically, it was a signal. It was a cry for help. It was a distress signal of a generation that owned nothing and is not happy and understands that if you do not have a meaningful opportunity to do the very basic things, get married, have children, start a family, own a home, and instead you have to go move to the big cities like Indianapolis or Chicago, rent for the rest of your life and maybe get married, maybe have kids, maybe not, and you kind of continue on this. This cycle of misery. Meanwhile, your parents like, oh, yeah, it was super easy for us to buy a home in Hinsdale in the 1970s or 80s. Like, well, I don't know if you're ever going to be able to do that under the current economic, established order. So what you are seeing is hopefully a rebalancing of that. Young people overwhelmingly voted for that in an amazing way back in November. Because regardless of your political affiliation, the next generation, I believe, doesn't just deserve better, but it's generational theft, it's intergenerational thievery to steal from young people just so that the older generation can have a nice decade. And we saw this explicitly during the lockdowns. The lockdowns, in my opinion, was one of the greatest mistakes in modern American history, was one of the greatest public policy mistakes. We never should have locked down our schools. We never should have canceled prom, graduation. One of the greatest mistakes ever. And the argument that was made was that, well, we're going to make you, the kid, suffer because you might infect grandma. This is a moral disaster. We are the first generation in American history where parents were willing to make their kids suffer so that they could have it nicer. I want you to think about how perverse that is. Every other generation would be. I, the adult, will live a worse life so my kid can live a better life. This is the first time where they said, we're going to shut down the schools even though the kids are going to commit suicide more. They're going to be more isolated, they're going to be more depressed, even though half of girls by the time they reach the age of 25 are going to be on antidepressants or clinically depressed or some sort of general anxiety disorder, largely because of the outgrowth of COVID Even though we're going to see all of these mental health issues coming out of COVID we're still going to lock everything down for something that was never a threat to you in this audience. This virus was never a threat to you in this audience. But we did this under the guise in the medium that, well, you might go infect somebody older than you. Well, hold on a second. Wouldn't the smarter thing have been just to quarantine the older individuals and let the younger people still have school and still have sports and not shut down Illinois schools for a year and a half? And we saw it as a catastrophic failure. Reading levels went down, math levels went down. And it's a generation that is left behind. And now we're trying to catch up by doing that. We need to see wages go up, we need to see debt levels go down. And quite honestly, we need to allow women to be women again and men to be men again. Enough of this persistent war on masculinity. In my personal opinion, we need to see young people get married earlier and have more children and have increased families. The cycle of just going to go move to a major metropolitan area, as I said, go work for a company that does not like you, does not care for you, and quite honestly resents you, just so that you could have like a two bedroom, two bath in the Gold coast and act like you're living the dream? Let me tell you what the actual dream is. The real dream is being able to wake up every single day with a wife who loves you or a husband that loves you. And even if you're struggling, even if you're going through life with tension, to have children, not just a bunch of cats and a nice job working for Boeing because, oh, I'm told that we have to go pursue the corporate dream. There is a deeper existence out there than what you have been sold for the young ladies out there. I understand that there's hyper feminist lie that's being pushed. You got to go to college, you got to get a job. That's all fine, that's great, pursue your passions, do all that. But understand the happiest women in America. This is definitionally true. The data shows it. The happiest women in America are not the CEOs, they're not the mid level managers, they're not the HR executives. The happiest women in America are married with kids. By far. They are the happiest women in America by far. And we need to, we need to not just give young ladies the permission for that. We need to say that the most elevated, heroic and courageous thing that you could do in this country is not go get a second master's degree at University of Chicago. It's maybe have more kids than you can afford, build a family beyond what your apartment can actually hold. That is actually what it looks like to be a hero in modern America. Not wearing a mask, fighting systemic racism in the streets of Grant park, acting as if you're some sort of social justice warrior activist. One is a hero and one is a coward. Okay with that. I actually just did a three hour event earlier at Illinois State University. Don't hold that against me. So I'm largely talked out until we start getting to Q and A. These events, as you can imagine, take incredible stamina. We're doing this every day. Yesterday we're in South Carolina, two events today, then we go to Purdue. We don't like Purdue. And then we. Yeah, exactly. We don't like Purdue. And then we go to. We really don't like Michigan State. I'm going to Michigan State on Friday. So let's do Q and A. How are we doing this, guys? We're going to line it up somewhere in the aisles. We're going to dive right into it because I know that's the most fun. As a reminder, guys, be respectful of people who ask questions. Even if you might disagree with the questioner, do not interrupt. Give them the respect that you don't always get. And also, if you disagree, the line will format here. If you disagree, work your way to the front of the line. We want active disagreements. We will take a question, of course, from conservatives, but I love all my MAGA hat, people, honestly. Thank you. We could talk all day long about how great things are. We want to hear the disagreement. We want to have the back and forth. That's why we're here tonight. Right? Okay with that, let's get to some questions. Yes, Sir.