Charlie Kirk (4:18)

Hello, everybody. Can you hear me? Okay, Hope so. Great to see you guys. And first, I just want to say thank you to Dave and Phil. I will echo those sentiments. We were a small but growing podcast. We launched. Where's Andrew? Andrew deserves a great deal of credit. And we've been so blessed by the Lord at every turn in this journey. And we started in May of 2019 with one podcast a week. A week. And we thought that was, you know, really ambitious. And we were not with Salem at the time, and we started to grow a little bit. And I said, hey, I like this podcast thing. It's growing. Let's go to two or three times a week. And so it started to grow a little bit more. And then, as you know, the whole world shut down during COVID And that's actually what brought me here to Arizona is, you know, Erica, my wonderful wife, is from Arizona, and I had to decide would I like to spend March in Chicago or Scottsdale. So I came here and fell in love with Arizona. I think it's America's greatest state. And if you live in California, you should not live in California. You should live here. But anyway. And you might complain about the heat, you see, the heat keeps the libs away. That's the secret. Anyway, separate topic for another time. And about after a week of the lockdowns, I called Andrew. I said, we gotta go every day. There's too much news happening. I'm not traveling. I got a lot of pent up energy. We gotta do a daily podcast. And the podcast would become like a 90 minute thing. And I was like. And one day I was hiking one of these mountains actually, and I had this wild idea, and I think it was from the Lord. I said, wait a second. If I'm doing a 90 minute podcast and I'm doing it about roughly the same time every day, why can't I just do a radio show and kind of make it a podcast? So I call Phil Boyce, because Phil was trying to recruit me forever to Salem. And I was like, I'm too busy. And we had this amazing phone call and I was like, hey, Phil, here's a crazy idea. And Phil's like, do you have enough time to do this? I said, I think I do. I'm gonna commit to it. And Phil and Dave deserve such enormous credit. And the whole Salem team, because they literally made beachfront property where there was none. And that's a whole story that could be told for another time, right, Dave? It did not exist. It was kind of just like, hey, we're going to give Charlie time. Ex nihilo out of nothing. And honestly, it was a bet on me. I was unproven as a talk show host. I was proven as other things, but not as that. And honestly, that added to the enormity and the weight, because I wanted to make sure that I proved to Salem and everyone else that this was a good bet. Long story short, the show has just grown dramatically and tremendously, both on the podcast and then on Terrestrial. And now we are. We're flourishing. And so Salem took that original bet on us. And the thing I love most about Salem is that it's first and foremost missional. I mean, there's all these other companies out there that are suspicious at the least on values. With Salem, I have never. This is a big deal. Through all of COVID through all of the lockdowns, through all the Floyd stuff, through everything. January 6th, I've never, ever received a phone call. Charlie, don't talk about this topic. Don't do that. And you know how big of a deal that is where, like, all these other people are trying to script what you're saying and not saying. And for me, that's like the most important thing is intellectual and spiritual freedom. That's a big deal, right? And so we just. We just grown together, and the partnership has deepened in so many ways. And that kind of leads us to here, because the show has almost been an exponential growth. And I do have to brag on Andrew and the entire team that is here, but first I'll brag on Andrew. Andrew has to book the show, produce the show. It used to be just Andrew and I. And then he's also the guest host when I have to go on college campuses, so you got to deal with him on that as well. But it's really been this incredible kind of ragtag startup vibe that now is honestly not as much of a startup as you can see evidenced here by everyone and Salem. And Mike does a wonderful job running stuff, and Mike's been a great friend, said, hey, why don't we do kind of a dinner where you guys get to spend time with me and vice versa. And by the way, this has been so helpful because I read all of your ad copy, and now I can put a face to the name and a story to the name. So thank you for that. So it makes my job a lot easier. And I think you guys will also love hearing the backside of it, because now it's not just, you know, a piece of paper that's printed. And then I also have to brag, on our team here, we have the best, first of all, the best social media team in the country. That's not just me saying it. Show me a better social media team. It does not exist. They do a wonderful job. Ryan and Daisy and the whole team. How many views on TikTok? Billions. And how many on Instagram, Daisy? Billions. Yeah. And those. I mean, literally, it's two or three people that understand the Internet. Understand. And that helps the show grow, which obviously helps everybody here. So the last year, the Lord has blessed this country and blessed our journey, where obviously we won the election, and we've just seen a tremendous growth in a year where we would not imagine it. And I would be remiss also to mention some of the other people here in this room to help make it possible. Obviously, Mikey, who's my chief of staff, and then Blake, who also is. And this is. I got my Hillsdale friend here. So, you know, you have the Hillsdale online courses. You know, we bring Blake on the show, who then answers your questions on the Roman history without ever taking the course. And so it's kind of a fun thing. Can Blake actually take, you know, answer the Roman history questions. And this is an all star team. It's a team that's here to win, that's here to grow. And we're not slowing down, we're speeding up. And then my thanks also comes to all of you guys. Obviously our first obligation is to make sure you guys can make money. I want you all to have multi billion dollar businesses because then it makes us more successful. But it's not lost on me, and I hope it's not lost on you that if you buy ad inventory with some no name radio station or no name TV station, you guys might get some roi. But this actually sows back into the betterment of the country. This helps turn young people to love liberty and love America and believe in God and ultimate purposes. And so I hope you guys know that as well, that it's a very rare opportunity to have a kind of double impact. And so, and you as, and you as sponsors. I hate the word advertiser. I prefer partners. You guys as partners also have stuck through us. When the media told you that we're terrible, you're like, no, we're gonna buy more, right Glen? At Patriot Mobile or we're gonna do, you know, more together. And so I wanna say thank you for that because that is the other element here is that you look at on TV and I'm sure you guys thought this the last couple years. Why doesn't that TV host talk about that issue? Why doesn't that host talk about that? They're held captive by their advertising department. But having so many of you guys that, you know, continue to support us and continue to partner us, we could take bold stands that people need to hear and they want to hear that allow us to flourish and allow us to grow in a very meaningful way. And it allows me every day to never go through the prism. Oh boy. I'm not allowed to say XYZ because of either corporate pressure that doesn't exist or, or because of advertising pressure. It's the opposite. And I think it's one of the secret ingredients why we're able to grow is that some of these other shows, they constantly have to be like, well, I can't offend this sensibility or the other one. It's amazing. Other shows are like, we're not allowed to talk about our faith too much. And at Salem it's a perfect fit because that's who we are, right? Our faith is who we are and we don't hide from that and we don't grow away from that. So some quick kind of Thoughts on kind of where we're going. And then I want to do some questions, guys. And just so you know, we'll have an open discussion. However long you want to go, this will be. This is. I was telling Colin, like, hey, you know, we're. We believe in layering at the Charlie Kirk show and Turning Point usa never just do one thing. Try to stack productivity on top of it. So tonight, this conversation will be reused as a podcast. And so all of you guys make sure you talk about your company before you ask the question, because then it gets reused as a podcast. So it's good for everybody, right? We fill podcast inventory. You guys are happy, and then all of a sudden, other partners are saying, hey, how do I do that? Well, you gotta, you know, get to the level of rough greens to be able to do that. Right? And so let me just say this. We have really big goals this summer. We're gonna be doing more long form interviewing, kind of Joe Rogan style. We've also kind of pioneered that. We repost some of our campus conversations as podcasts. What makes our podcast a little unique and different. There's only a couple I could think of is that we try to make it raw and authentic where the listener can kind of travel the country alongside of us, where they're getting a little window into, hey, for example, we're going to debate and pray for us for this. We're going to debate at Oxford and Cambridge next week. We're going to be doing podcasts live from there and about what happens there. So the audience members feel as if they get the kind of journey experience where it's not just the same sort of sanitized. Here's what's happening in the news. And so this summer, we have our big events. Young Women's Leadership Summit, Student Action Summit. You are all invited, by the way, to all of our Turning Point USA events. This is not a Turning Point event tonight, but Turning Point is the right hand. We're the left hand. It's a symbiotic harmonic thing. So anything Turning Point related you guys want to attend? We'd love to have you there. And then we have really exciting, let's just say specials, where we're looking into some big stories, some big guests, and then before you know it, the fall's gonna be back and I'll be on another 30 college campuses. Last Friday, we just closed the most campus stops that I've ever done, which was. What was it? 27. Yeah. That was more than the fall. And by the way, it's good for everybody here. Trust me, you want me on campus because that keeps us viral, that keeps us relevant, that keeps us impactful. And honestly, on a more macro level, it is working. This is not just us talking to our own converted. Young men are the most conservative that they've been in 50 years. Young people are the most conservative that we've seen in polling in the last 30 or 40 years. President Trump's most loyal constituency is voters from 18 to 22. So what you guys are sowing into actually has macro impact and it's not just confirmation of your missional values. And so all that to say that we're a team, we're a partnership, we want to see your businesses grow, we want to see the show grow, which then helps your businesses. And also, I'm so struck by, I just love learning about almost everybody in this here right now. And I can't think of any exceptions. The only exception will be Hillsdale. But it's a unique case. Almost everyone here, you guys are founder driven businesses that started something from nothing and you're pure entrepreneurs. And I love that because I'm the same way. I started Turning Point USA with no money, no connections and no idea what I was doing. And so I feel that kind of combined scrappy ethic and I love that. And it's only in America where is that possible. And I think that there's this need to tell that story to a generation that frequently thinks that that kind of success is not possible in this country. We were talking to my good friends, the spells here goodranchers.com Amazing. They'll probably ask question or something later. But he literally, just like God spoke to him to start a meat company when he was a worship pastor. And now, you know, they're, I don't want to say he told me a lot of his economics. They're doing very well and praise the Lord. And so it's just. Or Glenn that started Patriot Mobile from absolutely nothing. I can go around the room. It's amazing. So thank you guys for that. We're in a mission to save the country together. And that should also, I hope, give you guys even deeper purpose to the businesses you're building. Because it's not just about, you know, more distributions or, you know, higher roi. As you grow, the country strengthens. And that's a very unique thing. We're honored to be partnering with the Alan Jackson Ministries. And today I want to point you to their podcast. It's called Culture and Christianity, the Alan Jackson Podcast. What makes it unique is Pastor Allen's biblical perspective. He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues that we're facing today. Gender confusion, abortion, immigration, Doge Trump and the White House issues in the church. He doesn't just discuss the problems. In every episode, he gives practical things we can do to make a difference. His guests have incredible expertise and powerful testimonies. Each episode will make you recognize the power of your faith and how God can use your life to impact our world today. The Culture and Christianity Podcast is informative and encouraging. You can find it on YouTube, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes. Subscribe Alan Jackson Ministries is working hard to get biblical truth back into our culture. You can find out more about Pastor Alan and the ministry@AlanJackson.com that is AlanJackson.com again that is AlanJackson.com so with that, let's do some conversation. Daisy and Daisy helps keep things organized. Dr. Simon, my new friend, the sleep apnea wizard. Make sure you announce yourself.

Micah (17:24)

And you know Dr. Eddie Simon, the TMJ expert. They were so fascinated by touring your campus today and we were intrigued by the number of people that work there and the mission that they have. What is your vision for the future? What should we be expecting for the midterm elections and the next elections and the next generation that you're basically trying to develop here?

Charlie Kirk (17:52)

Yeah, so it's a great question. We actually just had a whole presentation about this in San Diego which was very well received. Without going into too much detail, midterms might be a little rocky for us. We're very focused on this state primarily. It's where we live. We need to get a Republican governor in the state. Currently we do not have one. We need a Republican Secretary of State. We do not have one. We need a Republican attorney General. And we need to also fortify the state ahead of the 2028 presidential election. And we have two Democrat senators in the state. They're not up in 2026. But we really need to take back the state and really strengthen our roots here. We're going to expand into Nevada. We think Nevada is a great growth opportunity. We're expanding into New Hampshire. And then the big picture macro. What is turning point USA existing and doing multiple things. But we are now on the precipice of striking and completing a once impossible goal or seemingly impossible goal. We're going to take young people away as the loyal Democrat voters from from the Democrat Party away from them, which could change American Politics forever. That could change the country as we know it. Truly and so much more. I could comment on that, but yes.

Micah (18:58)

Hi, Charlie. Hi, everyone. Berna, Luan Pham with Burna Less lethal. We love the fact that you're making so many appearances on college campuses. And as we've seen in this last year, lots of protests, lots of violence. Our children that we send for a better education are a threat. And so Berna has taken a big step in making colleges safe again. And you know, we'd love to work with you in a way to get that message across so that, you know, you have the very right to go to school, feel safe, but if danger presents itself, you have a way to protect yourself without having to deal with, you know, lethal force.

Charlie Kirk (19:38)

Well, I love that. And if they went to Hillsdale College, they wouldn't have to worry about any safety issues. See, we're connecting things together. Love, Burna. If you guys don't know about Burna, it's a non lethal way to protect your family. It looks like a gun. It can even almost hurt like a gun. But it's not a gun, it's not lethal. We actually now have them all over, you know, our campus, at our house, and we have them in our cars as well. And it can. It looks like a gun. So it can be a deterrent in that way and it will definitely immobilize you. Right. For the record, we support the Second Amendment and we. Yeah, no, this is not a substitute for a gun. It is an additive as a non lethal de escalation tool. Because look, if we're honest, let's just be clear. If you're in Chicago or if you're in la, and God forbid you have to use your actual gun, it's not the ownership of the gun that they're going to make illegal, it's the use of the gun. They could put you up on murder charges. Remember. Remember the couple from St. Louis, Missouri? What was their name? I can't remember. Thank you. The McCloskey couple, where they simply just had guns being shown and waved at a riotous BLM crowd on their property. And they were facing criminal charges because of that. And so there's a lot of elements here. And I think you guys at Burna, especially for college kids that want to protect themselves, it's a very, very smart way Barack, but not Barack Obama.

Breck Lurie (21:00)

Thank you. Yeah, let's make that clear. Breck Lurie, author of the Atheism Kills series. I like to focus on the dangers of a world without God and my Question to you, because I know we think so much alike on this. What are the, I guess two part question. What is the biggest challenge that you've heard that you had to address regarding the existence of God? And then the second thing is what, what do you think is the biggest, the best smackdown on anybody who says that there is no God?

Charlie Kirk (21:33)

Sure. So I'll start with the second one, which is the easiest one is without God there would be no atheists. It really messes with their head. Like, wait, what a second. The hardest point to convince a secular atheist agnostic without a question is the question of evil. This is nothing new. This is not like Charlie Kirk discovered this. This has been the hardest question for theologians. Why would a God, or a good God allow so much evil, allow so much suffering in a world such as this? Now, as my, our friend Dennis Prager would say, so atheists actually say it this way. We as theists, we have to explain the problem of evil and unjust suffering. Atheists have to explain everything else. They have to explain creation and love and mercy and compassion and all of that. So we admit that this is a mystery, that it is theologically clear that God uses all things for his good. Still a very tough pill to swallow when a kid gets cancer or somebody dies far too young or where there's a hurricane or a tsunami. And I would say that outside of even the kid with cancer, the hardest question is the deaths of natural causes like tornado, hurricane. Because there is this belief that God controls the natural world. Why would he then deploy such an earthquake against the people? Again, I don't find that convincing, but that's definitely the hardest. Now back to actually to flip it on its head though, and you can use that contention as a way to bring people closer to God is to say, but by what standard do you say something is evil and how do you know something is evil? Because if you believe and know God, there is no evil. There's simply preferences and there's simply how you feel. And even an honest atheist will agree with that. Atheism is actually falling out of favor in the west slowly. It's actually not as cool to be an atheist. The atheists have done a very poor job of articulating their beliefs in the last couple years. They come across as kind of increasingly snobbish and condescending. I actually think he was very good to me on the show, besides the fact that I had to smell marijuana for two hours. But I was on with Bill Maher and that was a very interesting contrast between a Christian worldview and an atheistic worldview. He treated me fine, all things being equal, but it's very dark at its end. It's very depressing. And he actually, interestingly he used to call himself an atheist and I should have called him out on it. He's like, oh no, I just don't know. Not knowing is actually something much different than making a truth claim that there is no God. And even Brett Weinstein, who was recently on Tucker Carlson's podcast about this very topic, he's like, yeah, we in my community are now taking the position of we don't know. So they from 20 years ago went from a position that there's declaratively no God to kind of we don't know. And the reason being is that the more we learn about the quantum world, the more we learn about biology and the universe. It's very difficult to make the argument that all of this was an accident or a mistake. And I mean, you know all the arguments for God's existence. But put very simply, if space, time and matter had a beginning, which we now know affirmatively that it did, then something spaceless that transcends time, that is above matter, must have started that thing. And that thing can only be described as God. The final point that is very hard for us to answer. And again, it's only because we live. Joe Rogan actually had a very good conversation about this today. He's gotten closer and closer to Christianity where basically they say, but you know, who created God? Okay, like okay, that's not exactly a new question. You know, a six year old has that same question. But the contention that Joe Rogan said he's like, well we're actually looking at this through earthly lens of things that are created and die and we don't understand that some things just can be and are and is. And that would be the theist answer that God has always been. So yes, Patriot Mobile.

Glenn Story (25:35)

After that excellent answer, I forgot what I was going to ask.

Charlie Kirk (25:38)

So patriotmobile.com Charlie Ah, that's it now.

Glenn Story (25:43)

Anyway, Glenn Story. I'm the founder and CEO of Patriot Mobile, America's only Christian conservative cell phone service provider. So if you're here, does anybody here have a phone? If you're riding on the other network, you're given to causes that are contrary to why you're here. Anyway, question. I know that you live here and you love Arizona. What's happening in Texas right now is the unraveling of the rest of the country indirectly because I don't know how many, how Many votes do we have? Electoral college votes?

Charlie Kirk (26:20)

35, I think. Right.

Glenn Story (26:21)

I thought it was 42.

Charlie Kirk (26:22)

42, yeah.

Glenn Story (26:23)

Anyway, my point is, what's going on in Austin right now is destroying the country because although Trump won by 15%, crews won by 7, 8, our house is being run by Democrats. Literally. The guy putting the policy up on the voter to get voted on worked for Obama as his gatekeeper. So, I mean, Charlie, I would challenge you to come to Texas and help us save the state, because otherwise.

Charlie Kirk (26:51)

Thank you, I appreciate that. As we grow, I'm getting better at respectfully saying no. And I just came from camp California and everybody else was like, can you save California? I said, guys, I got it. You want me to first save Arizona? Because if Arizona gets saved, you get two U.S. senators and you probably get J.D. vance as the 48th president, United States. So you want me focusing on Arizona. All kidding aside, Glenn, Happy to help however I can, obviously, but two thoughts on this. Number one, the way you guys elect a speaker in your state is super goofy. It gives all the power to the minority. How does it work that you have to hit like a certain threshold? It's not a simple up or down majoritarian vote. Right. The Democrats literally elect a speaker in Texas. Not an exaggeration. Number two, though, you guys are now falling victim to what I call the too conservative, the too Republican syndrome. So when a state becomes too Republican, like Alabama, Mississippi or Tennessee or Indiana, and there's no Democrat party, the super ambitious 26 year old who's not very ideological but wants power, he'll just run as a Republican.

Glenn Story (27:59)

He'll sell himself.

Charlie Kirk (28:00)

Right. And they'll just sell himself. Whereas if Your state was 50, 50, like in this state, they'll just run as a Democrat. Does that make sense?

Glenn Story (28:06)

Yeah.

Charlie Kirk (28:07)

And so the, the way to work against that is you have to primary the moderate Republicans out of the party in Texas and purify the Republican Party for the better. Glenn, do you have a follow up? Really?

Glenn Story (28:20)

Yeah, actually that's kind of what we did this year. We went in and got a handful of 18 bad guys voted out of office. However, the remaining Rhinos side with the Dems because the Dems give them power. Oh yeah, you can be the head of the committee.

Charlie Kirk (28:38)

Right.

Glenn Story (28:38)

However, we got to have a vice chair that runs the committee.

Charlie Kirk (28:42)

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Colin Plume (29:27)

Colin Plume, yeah. Noble Gold Investments. Excited to be here. It's really fun and it's amazing to meet all the entrepreneurs here. I second what you said. It's amazing stories. So incredible to meet everybody. I wanted to ask about after President Trump got elected and you got the call and then you went to Mar a Lago. Can you give us some, I saw you in Florida for a minute, for literally one minute, I think. Can you give us some like behind the scenes? Because I think people would want to know like what was happening there.

Charlie Kirk (30:03)

Sure. Yeah, it was. I mean, first of all, you guys have seen, I hate to use these comparisons but you know, Michael Jordan, whoever, winning in NBA Finals and they just kind of collapsed. That's how we felt, right? It was the ultimate pinnacle. And you guys have maybe seen that video or not happened. I did it all on camera, right? So it was, there was, if you want to know what I was feeling, it's all televised, right? For three hours. It was raw, it was emotional. We didn't sleep for days. And I will tell you a fun story is that I didn't sleep that entire night. We got done broadcasting like 2am local time, went home and we were two hours behind Eastern time. And so I was trying to get some sleep around like 3:45 and I was like, I can't fall asleep. And I had the greatest idea ever. I'm like in 15 minutes, Morning Joe is on and I gotta watch Morning Joe the morning that Donald Trump got elected president. It was one of the most enjoyable, delightful. I have it saved, recorded anytime I'm having a bad day. It was spectacular. Erica and I sat in bed at 4am Arizona time, laughing and rejoicing our hearts out watching morning. Mika and Joe Scarborough have to report that Donald Trump won the popular vote and electoral vote landslide. It was, it was, I was like, how could I go back to sleep here, right? I think I slept maybe an hour and A half after that, went back to the office. And so the plan was always this. We had the backup plan. We're like, we don't want to talk about it. We don't talk about it. But if. If President Trump were to win, I'm going on, like, within 48 hours, I'm going to Mar A Lago. Why is that? This is why the grace of God is so amazing. Because we had those four years off between Trump 1 and Trump 2. I remember being back in Trump 1, back in 2016, where we were too busy celebrating and all the bad guys came in around the personnel operation, and we lost, like, every single turn. So I saw it happen. I was too young to do anything about it, but I remember all of a sudden, be like, why is Chris Christie in charge? And who. Who's this guy? It was just, like, a total unraveling. Remember that, guys? We had nothing but, like, bad people at every corner. And so I said, if there's anything I could do to use the influence and the trust that I have with President Trump, anything I could do to help improve that, you're never gonna be perfect. That's what I wanna do. So then Eric was like, hey, we'd love to take the kids. And what turned into, like, a weekend. We literally lived in Palm beach from the Friday after the election to Thanksgiving, came back for, like, five days. I went back there for two weeks, came back for Amfest, and we lived there all January through the inauguration, right? So I basically lived, you know, pseudo right near adjacent Mar A Lago. What was I doing? I wasn't running the government. I was being present and helpful wherever I possibly could, especially in domains of influence where I think I could be, you know, an accessory. But I wasn't alone, which was what was so great. Tucker was there, you know, Elon was there, and it was this heavy emphasis on personnel. And that's why you got Cash Patel and you got Dan Bongino and you got Bobby Kennedy and you got Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem. You got. You got massive improvements on the personnel front because of the team. And Sergio, who runs the PPO office there, is a friend, and he did a phenomenal job. And some amazing people are in their spots. And you're going to learn even more about some of these people. Understand, guys, that Donald Trump's best people have not even been confirmed yet. Oh, yeah, you understand just the Cabinet secretaries and the undersecretaries. There are about 800 positions that have to go through Senate confirmation. If they got off their tail and did their job. And these are people that will. What is Joe Jewell going to do? Blake. What's his job? Like DARPA or something? Yeah. So, like, there's one person that Blake knows, Rhodes scholar, super bright. His job's like, Under Secretary for Research and Development at dod, super mensa, like, insanely smart guy. He's got to get Senate confirmed. When he's there, it's going to be. It's what a change from the diversity pick that Joe Biden had there. You're going to see this government really start to hum in the next year, year and a half. These first hundred days has been a skeletal crew. It's been the cabinets, maybe their undersecretaries and their staff. When the. When the kind of roster starts to fill out, that's where you're going to see the deepening of so many of these policies. So that's been. That was really cool as far as, you know, kind of bringing you into the room. I remember being there Sunday. Mar A Lago was basically abandoned. I'd only met Elon once. Elon asked if I wanted to sit and talk to him. And we literally sat there for three and a half hours. And they brought us stakes. Even though Mar A Lago was. Was closed and got to know Elon really well, was incredible. And then, yeah, just kind of camped out there. And I'll say this, that all that, like, first hundred days of all the executive orders is a byproduct of how seriously they took things in the transition. And never underestimate the sophistication of what this White House is doing. Tune outside the media, obviously, listen to our podcast. I mean, but you just see this last couple days, and again, we did a whole show on it today. We prevented possibly a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. We got an American hostage released. We're going to get amazing trade deals. Today we have this incredible new bill that's being introduced in front of Congress. President Trump is going to the Middle east and he has baked in wins that he's going to announce one after the other. We're probably, hopefully going to see a meeting between Zelensky and Putin in Istanbul that President Trump might go to. I mean, this is really serious stuff. And I think that obviously the media doesn't give him credit for that. So. Thank you, Colin. Yeah. Yes, sir.

Dave (35:22)

Thank you, Charlie, this is Micah from Noble Gold Investments as well. Just want to say we really appreciate our partnership with you. Not to take it down a darker path, but what do you see as one of the larger threats to personal freedoms, not just in America, but kind of generally speaking. And what are some things that individuals can do to reassert their sovereignty and liberty and take steps to be more personally resilient?

Charlie Kirk (35:51)

Sure. So I don't know, we don't know how this story's going to end, but if all of you guys in your businesses are not learning and constantly using AI, you guys are going to be out competed by everybody around you. You owe it to yourself, to your children and your grandchildren to spend one hour uninterrupted@chatgpt.com get the premium membership, get the 4.5 model, I'm not kidding. And you will, all of a sudden it will sink in that the world is about to so fundamentally change, it will make the agrarian to the industrial revolution look like child's play. You owe it to, I mean, and I'm telling you, you can ask this thing anything. Write poetry, write a song, write a book, write a dissertation. You have questions about it, you're gonna realize that we're gonna see massive not just job displacement, but potentially an erosion of basic skills that our young people need to be able to survive. I'll give you one example of thousands I could give people say, oh, Charlie, what jobs are being taken. A guy that was supposed to be in our show today, Brian Gertzner, says, listen, he runs a huge financial firm, very well known. He wanted to try to find out how his stock was going to perform. So for fun, for kicks and giggles, he put to ChatGPT, hey, the stock earnings come out tomorrow. Here's all this data. Can you put some sort of prediction of how the stock is going to perform? Hundreds of pages of data. Within 30 seconds it said, look, I've analyzed all of it. My prediction is that it will fall by about 15%. Long story short, it fell 14.8% the next day. That's not the important point. He would have had to hire three financial analysts with a two weeks heads up to get to that same conclusion. And so he's like, now my financial analyst is basically a chat GPT usher. And he said it's completely changed his business where he's now reducing his headcount from hundreds of financial analysts to 30 much better paid ones that know how to incorporate and use AI. And I could extrapolate this into all of your businesses, guys, right? I actually think it could be very exciting from when you incorporate it with quantum computing and the ability to have customized medicine and early detection of health care and tumors and all sorts of stuff. But if we are not careful, AI inherently will become tyrannical and will take and seize control over us. It can be liberating. But there's, there's elements that are, I think very dark to this. Finally, I mean, I know that you might be alluding to it, financial security, financial freedom is a big one. They're pushing so hard for a digitized global currency or whatever they want to call it. Cbdc, Centralized bank Digital currency. Bad news, bad idea. And we should reject that. I think crypto is a pretty good idea, but quantum computing could actually break crypto. So that's a whole separate issue for another time, which most people don't actually know. But anyway. And then finally, the Democrat party is the greatest threat to our liberty. So yes.

Unknown Speaker (38:27)

Thanks. Thank you, Charlie. Erif Halaby Total Financial Solutions and TFS Financial Insurance Services. As someone who supports free market principles and how do you think you can best empower young people in today's economic world? We own a firm that's really for 29 years have been out teaching and educating young people through Total Money School, which is another one of our companies. Our objective is to help people become entrepreneurs. In fact, we've done scholarships for this for probably 20 years now. Anything that you can see from your point of view for young people for this table off to our left here, that that can make a difference in this next step.

Charlie Kirk (39:05)

Yes. And so actually there is a concrete, tangible action item regarding this. And Brian again, the guy who I just aforementioned is the one that is pushing this. One of the biggest problems that creates socialism is people don't own stuff. They don't own homes, they don't own cars. It is a renting economy. So one idea that actually has now made itself into the proposed draft of the Trump reconciliation bill. Very simple. Every American that is born from this point forward with a Social Security number gets $1,000 deposited into an S&P 500 growth account that every person can then access. It's only a one way lockbox. You cannot draw against that until you're 18. You could watch it, you could see it, you could add to it and you could see the market actually grow. Basically what it will do is 7 and 8 year olds that now have smartphones, they'll be able to see their own money grow in real time as they get older, turning them into invested capitalists in the American order. In the American economic order. It's a phenomenal idea. Not only that, by President Trump in July of next year at the 250th birthday of America. President Trump will be able to hold up a phone in the way only Trump can do, say every baby will be able to log on to investamerica.com, you put in your Social Security number, all secured by cryptography and backend access so it cannot be hacked. And your baby will get $1,000 deposit in there. It's a loan from Treasury. Just so we are clear the way they're working out, the economics is fine. I think it's the best investment we can make. And then you could add to it. So then you have major philanthropists, people that are worth 100, $200 billion, saying, yeah, I'll give 50 billion to this, to every kid born in the next 10 years. Schools can do it, competitions can do it. You win a basketball tournament, we'll put 50 bucks into your account. You go in a spelling bee, we'll put 25 bucks into your account. Good grades at school, we'll put $50 into your account. All of a sudden it's an incentive structure that a 10, 11, 12, 13 year old can feel invested and a co owner in this country. This is not an abstraction. This is in the bill, everybody that we need to push our elected leaders to do. I have not seen an idea this good and this concrete that can psychologically change how young people view. Because then all of a sudden, imagine if you're a 16 year old in Compton and you have a choice to join a gang or after it compounds, you've got $80,000 waiting for you in account. Pretty good deal, right? All of a sudden, now people have some hope, they can invest it in a business. And again, the other part is that parents can add to it, grandparents can add to it, and it only goes one way. It cannot be accessed until the kid turns 18 by the kid himself. So that's the best idea I've heard. And I think that it is a great way to have people have actual equity in the system and not cynicism by the time they reach adulthood. Isn't it a great idea? And imagine the politics of that. Going into the midterms. Trump will be able to tell every family that their kid has Invest America money waiting for them. And it's not immediately accessed money. It's long term growth. I mean, it's. And every Democrat will vote against it. If you want to make sense of the change and the chaos happening around us, you're going to need God's help. That's why Alan Jackson Ministries, a friend of mine, created the Culture and Christianity podcast, the Culture and Christianity Conference and their weeknight news show, Alan Jackson. Now, millions of people also listen to Pastor Alan Jackson's powerful sermons each week. I do on radio, television, satellite, and online. In today's world, there's desperate need for truth, and Alan Jackson Ministries feels a sense of urgency to deliver God's truth and a biblical perspective to anyone who will listen. We can't afford to be complacent. Their mission is to help people become more fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ, which is the most important thing, giving your life to the Lord, including here on the Charlie Kirk show. Go to alanjackson.com Charlie that is alanjackson.com Charlie to find recent podcasts, shows and sermons. Be informed, find encouragement. Hear the truth delivered in a way that just makes sense. You'll also find books, studies, prayers, and other tools to help you grow in your faith again. That's alanjackson.com Charlie alanjackson.com Charlie this is our time to make a difference. Check it out right now. Angel Studios. Phenomenal. Yes, yes.

Dave (43:19)

Hi.

Charlie Kirk (43:19)

Kelly Shelton with Angel Studios. My question is we understand the impact that stories have on us and film has on us and, and we're giving independent filmmakers a voice and a platform to tell these stories. What are some films and stories that impacted you in your childhood or recently? One of the reasons I love Angel Studios, if you guys haven't noticed, new movies are terrible and awful and impossible. I mean, look, I don't want to overly racialize this, but Gladiator 2 is just laughable before you even watch it, okay? If you don't get it, then you get it. It's like you have at some point you have to be like some somewhat historically accurate, not just to have, like the diversity higher for the sake of it. I think it actually dilutes art and it overly politicizes it. Look, I'm a movie buff. At least I used to be. Godfather is one of the greatest movies ever made. And I could do a whole speech as to why it's well written. It's about family. It's about passion. It's about strife. It's about. It's about also my amazing things. Gladiator, the first one was very, very good. Obviously, I'm kind of a sucker for all those, like, early 90s hero films of the ancient world. Braveheart, Gladiator, Deeper and beyond that. I will say that there was, there was kind of a renaissance of, like, pro American Films in the 80s, late 70s, early 80s, right. Rocky, obviously, Top Gun, which they did a pretty good job Honestly, making the newer one, but it's just that we had kind of the powerful trilogies that built my upbringing. So we had the powerful trilogies of Star Wars. Powerful. I love Lord of the Rings. Powerful trilogies of Lord of the Rings and then of Matrix. But you look at the remakes that are now done, and it almost like it is a disgusting insult to what was prior. So I love what you guys are doing at Angel Studios. We need to tell the hero's journey. We need. We need to push the audience towards something as moral. At the same time, we don't need a Christian film that is scolding you the entire time and that is like beating you over the head with scripture. That's actually a bad way to get people closer to the truth. You must be much more subtle. You must be much more sophisticated. It must be interwoven into your story of good versus evil and ultimate purposes. Yeah, so that's my answer to that. Two more. I want to make sure everyone gets a question and then we'll go to Monorail. Yeah.

Jim Bottrell (45:38)

All right. Thanks for taking my question. So actually, mine is, well, I'm Jim Bottrell. I own a real estate company in Southern Southern California. I'm the one who makes fun of Gavin Newsom by congratulating him to be the Real Estate Agent of the Year for causing more good Californians to leave California than anybody. Anyway, so my question is actually from my dad. Now, I told my dad I was here with you, and he said, please ask him for this. Now just for you all know, my dad, he's retired or former Marine, Ret. Retired LAPD Police Officer, Medal of Valor recipient, two time cancer survivor, 80, almost 85 and has no filter.

Charlie Kirk (46:12)

Right.

Jim Bottrell (46:12)

So you're going to get that.

Charlie Kirk (46:14)

All right.

Jim Bottrell (46:15)

So what he asked is, well, Charlie's always on the college campuses asking students, what is the definition of a woman? And he says his words, none of those dip can answer it. So what is Charlie's definition of what is a woman? And what is the biggest lesson that he has learned from having been on those college campuses?

Charlie Kirk (46:34)

An adult human female with XX chromosomes. So not hard. They can never answer it. My biggest lesson. That's a great question. Number one, there's far more hope and opportunity on these campuses with the students than we could ever imagine. Number two, this is very important. Unless it's Hillsdale, the institutions cannot be saved. They should not be saved, and they should be metaphorically burnt to the ground and defunded. Do not work to try to save your alma mater. It Will not happen. These places are rotten to the core. And I could say this as someone who's dealt a lot with them. The professors themselves control the entire university, the bureaucracy. Just one example. Brown university has what, 4,000 people that work there? Blake. Right. And like 4,000 employees at Brown, 3,100 of them are non professors. It's like, what are. These are just administrators that control the bloat of the ideological direction of the institution. And the third thing I'll say is this, is that students are so hungry for the truth that we've done a very poor job as Christians first and foremost, and less so as conservatives of reaching these students. I could talk a lot about that, but I think we need to do more. I think we need to scale it. And again, we're at the greatest generational realignment since Woodstock, and it's time to seize that opportunity. Two more right here and then we'll do monorail.

Daniella Simon (48:01)

Hi, I'm Daniella. I'm the TMJ expert's daughter, Daniela Simon. My question was going to be about faith. And I feel like you touched on this a couple times tonight of just about. I was going to ask if people have not grown up in a household with faith when, where it's been kind of interwoven into their traditions, their family life, if they have a great relationship with their parents and the people that, you know, kind of put that upon them, how do you get those people involved in your mission in a common sense way that they might. The whole thing you were saying with movies of just like interweaving it into. It has to be complex. It has to be subtle, all of that. What's your method for that? For people who are disconnected, who are disengaged and don't have it coming from the home?

Charlie Kirk (48:45)

Yeah, I'll say a vast majority of people we went over are actually. They come from liberal households or from, you know, not religious households. The best way we can do that is have an open mic and tell us what you believe. It works better than anything. It's. It's really funny. And I say this with enormous weight. Not that not taking credit for it, but what our team has done on social media, reaching billions of people, the equivalent probably would have cost somebody $500 million to run ads to reach what we did by just having an open mic on a college campus. And you think about it, maybe we're just, like, doing this whole thing wrong. Maybe we should just have raw, unfiltered. What do you believe? Here's what I believe. Let's get closer to the truth. That's what Jesus did. It's what Socrates did. It's the proven method of getting closer to the truth. Colleges don't do that at all. Colleges don't. I mean, at Hillsdale they do. But at these other schools, it is just repression, silence, intimidation. And one of the reasons why we're seeing the crowds that we are seeing and we're seeing this hopeful trend is that it's so refreshing for these students that live in these totalitarian environments to actually have an unfiltered moment where people can say something as clear as men can't give birth. And in most of these campuses, saying that will get you canceled, will get you kicked out of class. It's far worse than you guys could ever. I mean, we had. I don't need to spend too much on this. UC Riverside, a student that said perfectly acceptable to kill all babies up until they're a year and a half outside of the womb said it with a straight face. Andrew could say as a bio student at UC Riverside, he said, if you cannot talk, you are not human. We have to rethink the way that we look at human life. And this is what they're teaching at these schools, everybody taxpayer funded, federal funded, and that's California for you. Right? And so what we have found is let the best idea win, have an open marketplace, a discussion. And we find that to be the case. Thank you. Last question. My name is Philip. I'm the CEO and founder of Monorail. We're America's investment app. We allow investors to invest with their values. A lot of people don't realize with your retirement accounts or your brokerage accounts that your money is going to support things like abortion within your investment. So Monorail allows conservative investors to invest with their values. And my question for you is how you see Monorail, its vision in the broader parallel economy. Yeah, I mean, look, it's incredibly important to be able to have people have options, have choices. So many of the financial services sector is not about liberty or freedom. So our COO at Turning Point Action, Tyler Boyer, some of you guys know him, he literally got debanked by bank of America for his association with Turning Point usa. I mean, it's a very serious. Now that's not happening as much as it used to, but it very well could. And giving people that kind of financial agency is remarkably important. And again, they want to try to keep us in captivity. And we must find tools and partners like Monorail that help liberate us. So thank you all Right. In closing, everybody, thank you guys again for supporting us. I'm going to come by and say hi to everybody and hang out for as long as you'd like. And thank you to Dave and Phil and Mike and the entire team. It's a wonderful partnership. And look, I actually, I'm involved heavily in the sales of Turning Point usa. I have to raise a lot of money every year. I'm not involved in the show at all. All I'd ask you guys is to dream big with us. We are going to grow. The audience, God willing, will continue to increase. We've done an amazing audience analysis. So as you guys want to keep growing, grow with us and we're deeply grateful for all you guys do for us and let's keep accomplishing it together. Thank you guys so much.

Dave (52:31)

Charlie, thank you so much. Charlie, didn't you tell me one time that you started with a card table and a sign in drymark that said debate me.

Charlie Kirk (52:44)

Prove me wrong?

Dave (52:45)

But yes, yeah, prove me wrong.

Charlie Kirk (52:46)

I got two students an hour.

Dave (52:49)

Amazing, right? Think about where we are today. Just amazing.

Charlie Kirk (52:53)

Thank you, Dave. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us. As always, freedomarliekirk.com thanks so much for listening and God bless.

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