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Charlie Kirk
Hey, everybody. Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio. An amazing new piece of data that shows where young men are. It is the low testosterone party and the high testosterone party. We then talk about a federal hate crime in Cincinnati with Senator Bernie Moreno. And then we also dive into an important story. Why are we so fat as a country and bringing back presidential fitness standards? Email us, as always, freedom charliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast, that is the Charlie Kirk show podcast page. And get involved with TurningPoint USA@tpusa.com that is tpusa.com Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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Senator Bernie Moreno
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.
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Charlie Kirk
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@noblegoldinvestments.com that is noblegoldinvestments.com it's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com There is a generational realignment that has been occurring the last couple of years. Now. We are one of the few shows that is covering this on a regular and a daily basis. Goes to show that the younger demographic is leading the right wing realignment all across the west. And some new numbers have come out that are just dramatic, that are worthy of us leading with. This is from a Pew Research survey. It shows incredible partisan swings just from 2023 to 2025. The most notable of all of them is 18 to 29 year old men. We can put it up on screen. Have swung 44 points. That's right. Men ages 18 to 29 have become 44 points more conservative, more Republican over the last two years. I've been focused on this issue my entire life. My life's work has been realigning this. My life's work has been trying to take the younger demographic from its adherence and its attachment to leftism and bring them home towards a pro American nationalist, conservative perspective. And what's so fascinating is that young ladies are also moving in major numbers. Young ladies, according to Pew research, have moved 14 points since 2023. Young men ages 30 to 49, 15 points. Now, what is driving this? Well, we've gone through the toxic masculinity. Young men are told that they're fascists and terrible just because they lift weights and they want to be a man in American society. Part of this is economic. Part of this is also the kind of cultural, religious forces. The left has become so powerfully uncool and unlikable, evidenced by. I mean, I'm sure they're going to do their best to try to roast us on the upcoming south park episode. But I think the way we're taking it is the way that conservatives should take comedy. The left. The left is mad. They are angry that I am not angry. The left is mad that I am not mad that south park is going to do their thing. But more interesting, and this, again, this fires up a lot of people in this audience, but it's important. Again, everyone in this audience, you are exempt from this. But this is a very important trend that is worthy of appreciation and study. That since 2023, older men above the age of 65 have become 6 points more Democrat. Older women only 2 points more Democrat. So you look at the realignment as baby boomers have become a little bit more Democrat over the last couple years. Not you in this audience, but it's true. The data shows this. Young people are moving dramatically and just we've done this kind of bit a couple times. But if you are an older American, you should want to see this change. Young white men, 20 years old, 20 year olds are more likely to vote Republican than white men at 70. Goes to show what we're doing at Turning Point USA. It's not just working, it's saving the entire bedrock of the civilization. The work that we are doing at Turning Point usa. And by the way, we have a new staff training. Right now. We're adding 70 new people to our full time grassroots army to start high school chapters across the country Club America groups. You see, this is one thing the left doesn't understand. The left just thinks that I'm kind of like, oh, he's just an Internet personality. He goes to college campuses, he goes viral. That is like 1% of what I do. We have a standing, well financed, well trained, motivated, gritty army of organizers that start high school chapters, college chapters, events. We have a pastor's training coming up next week. Go 4600, 466 up on screen. That right there is just new full time staffers that we are adding. That's like the Gen Z summit that they did last week. And you see right there, that's just the full time. We have a thousand full time people on payroll at Turning Point USA. And so when people donate 5 bucks, 10 bucks, 5,000 bucks, the Turning Point USA, you are financing full time bodies on the ground to fight for the culture war. That looks like the voters of tomorrow's summit. But let's go back to the data. This is not a criticism of Baby Boomer. It's not a criticism of a lot of you in this audience because you guys are the exception. But it does go to show that the reason why the country has moved profoundly right is a bottom up youth led movement. The media has done a little bit of coverage of this, but but not nearly enough. Not nearly what is justified. It is the greatest generational realignment since Woodstock. And the last gasp, who is holding the line for the Democrats? It really is women. It really is 30 to 40 year old women. You see the left always assumed that they could play the waiting game. Just wait and the conservatives will die and young people will be liberal forever. The they thought that time will inevitably benefit them. Turns out they did not factor in what we are doing at Turning Point usa. They did not factor in this grassroots campus infrastructure that we have been able to put together the billions of views that we have on TikTok and Instagram. Now many young people are conservative and conservatives are having way more kids than liberals now. So the liberals are depopulating themselves. The liberals are too busy getting abortions, worshiping contraceptives, having maybe one kid and five dogs. Where we as conservatives are the one with big families. We're going back to church religion matters in 10, 20 years from now. The math does not look very good for the liberals and that is why they had to try to keep the borders open under Joe Biden. You see how this all connects together. Keep the borders open under Joe Biden because conservatives were having kids. So we have to bring in a third world voting population so that third world voting population can be more loyal and adherent to our agenda. Meanwhile, conservatives are the ones they hate because they hate the body politic of the United States of America and they want to import the people that they do not like. Democrats have always struggled winning white voters and you just see some of these images from our last, last campus tour. We are just a couple weeks away from the restart of our fall campus tour and I can Tell you right now, this campus tour coming up in the fall and it's going to be the most fun, most watched, high profile and this data is remarkable. Now you can make an argument that part of the Democrat resistance is within the AARP crowd. 65 plus men are now D plus 6. Since 2023, boomers have not really gotten over their opinions of Trump because it's all about media consumption. If you are getting media from cable television again, Fox News is awesome. I was honored to be able to hosted this last weekend but exempted from Fox News. If you're watching even network tv, cbs, abc, NBC, cnn, you're going to have a different worldview. I call it the white noise machine, Mockingbird Media. I don't think people truly appreciate that our spring tour did bigger numbers than the fall tour which was ahead of an election. More views, more attendees, more impact. What you're looking at through this generational data right now is not just historic, it is hope. It is not just that which will be written down the history books. It should give you the most hopeful idea and a picture of a future. In fact, if your kind of baby boomer counterparts are going to the left and your grandkids are going to the right, that should make you stand up in roaring applause. Every time the left says toxic masculinity, another 20 year old registers Republican. You know we were a little worried over the last couple weeks. Boy, are younger men going to leave the Trump coalition. The Democrats did all the work for us the last couple of days. Their reaction to the Sydney Sweeney ad that has just like further made young men conservative or at least anti leftist for an entire generation. No one wants to be part of that entire political project. What has happened is that things have become so big, so impossible to ignore that even our debate clips have become a cultural phenomenon on South Park. The left, they are a party of killjoys. They're a party of hall monitors of. They are a party of shrill childless women that want to scold you for not using the right pronoun. This is a significant cultural shift, not just politics. Gen Z is drinking less, they're smoking less, they're lifting more, they're healthier, they're not ashamed of being white and Christian and it's cool to be conservative right now. And they're going back to church. It's not just history, it is hope. You are starting to see what America will look like 10 years from now. And it's looking red, white and blue. You have a lot of choices for cell phone service with New ones popping up all the time. But here's the truth. There's only one that boldly stands in the gap for every American that believes that freedom is worth fighting for. And that is Patriot Mobile. The good news that you can switch to Patriot Mobile today without sacrificing quality or service. Are you worried about coverage? Well, don't, because Patriot Mobile uses all three major US Networks. If you have service in America today, you'll have as good or better coverage with Patriot Mobile. Think switching is a hassle? 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I do think that there is a direct correlation between someone's testosterone and their politics. I would love to have a study done on this on young men. The lower their testosterone, the more likely they are to be Democratic. Or it's probably not a one on one. It's not a one to one. Oh, Shane says it's scientific. Great. I bet, I mean I bet that the lower your testosterone is, the more likely you are to be controlled. To be. Yes, I'll take the ninth booster shot, please. Boost me harder, daddy. Government. Yes, Pfizer. I'll do whatever you want. Where the higher testosterone rate, you're like, no, I'm not actually going to. I'm going to think for myself. I might not agree with you all the time. The lower testosterone, the more compliant you are. And there's a lot of reasons why testosterone rates are going down. Microplastics is probably the biggest. Our diet is crummy. And so the more that we are seeing the Democrats pander, they're actually fighting biology. Democrats are not going to be able to win over high testosterone men because they're too self directed. Here's the study. Testosterone eliminates strategic pro social behavior through impacting choice. Consistency in healthy males. Said differently. Quote, we show that exogenous, sorry, exogenous testosterone fully eliminated strategic feigned pro sociality and thus decreased submission to audience expectations. Said differently. The lower your testosterone is, the more of course the more likely you are going to be subservient and compliant. Our republic needs alpha men. And basically the translation is men stop faking it when their T is high. It's a good way to kind of put the translation, but you kind of extrapolate this to our politics. Young women are moving to the right as well put this up because young women want high testosterone men. I think that that's the way we should frame it now is hey, young ladies, do you want a high testosterone or a low testosterone man? That's a very simple question. Young ladies, if they want a low testosterone man, they want someone that they can control. Young women have become 14 points more Republican since 2023. And I think our young women's leadership summit at Turning Point usa, our turning Point action outreach, I think it's largely to credit for it. I think we, we have been on the cutting edge. Alex Clark has done such a great job. There's so many hilarious yet sad articles by miserable liberal women who just can't find a guy that they can find compelling. They just can't do the math. The men that they are dating have testosterone too low. All the men in their dating pool are low T soy weirdos. And you look at our events, they're jocks, they're frat bros, they're normal dudes. They're, they have a Zyn pouch in one hand and they are a protein shake in another. One of my favorites is when these guys come up in their kind of athletic gear to go ask a question and they come with kind of a big protein shake, homemade. That's how you know it's legit. And there's so many videos of women saying, why are all the hot guys Republican? Because the high testosterone guys are Republican. I'm trying to make sense of it for you. So if you want a high testosterone, entrepreneurial, risk taking, value creating, defender of the family husband, then you got to get out of the Democrat voting pool. And for young ladies out there, stop being Democrat. If you want to find an attractive man, a self directed man, if you want to find one that will protect your family, then stop being a Democrat. I'm sure there are a lot of young Democrat ladies out there that will See this clip. If you want to be able to find the man of my dreams who will be able to protect me and they'll do pull ups, well then you got to get a low testosterone dating pool. The Democrat party owns the low testosterone dating pool. I mean you look at some of those. That clown show that tried to follow me around the country. Remember that clown show, that circus act that came. I mean you could, you could blow those men over. Just, it's like there's no, there's nothing there. Yeah, the UN F America clown show. You look at their men. Whoa, that's androgynous to say the least. They're part of the whole Subaru crowd. The Yoga Mat coalition. Look, America needs a testosterone reset. Yeah, I mean, David Hogg's a good example, but some are other those YouTube trolls that follow me around. I mean, look, David Hogg, look at this. Just pinnacle of American masculinity that we could put up. I mean, I mean, come on. And that's that, that right there. Young ladies don't want this. I mean, they don't. And they look at that like you. Okay. I mean some young ladies do. The young ladies who want that, they're the ones that want to control the relationship. So they want to mess up the entire natural order of how marriages should be constituted, which of course is scriptural and biological where the man is the head of the household. David Hogg would not be the head of the household. Some young ladies want to be alpha women. That's fine if you want to do that. But I would caution you a little bit, that doesn't work out very well. Most young ladies though, they want to be provided for. They want to be taken care of. They want to have kids. The problem is not always political. It's biological. And testosterone explains a lot of it. The Democrats, they own the low T market. Alright, listen up. This is America's birthday. And while we celebrate with fireworks and family, let's not forget this country did not happen by accident. It was built by people who believed in freedom, faith and family and who were willing to fight for it. That's exactly why I love amac, the association of Mature American Citizens. 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Senator Bernie Moreno
Yeah, thanks to our previously junior senator. Became the senior senator when I beat Sherrod Brown. And then he went off somewhere. I think he's in the White House. I've heard, being vice president. So that made me the senior senator.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, you're doing a phenomenal job, Bernie. We've known each other for a while. We met each other, I think, in an elevator at the Republican national convention in 2016 and we've been friends ever since. So, Senator, let's get down straight to business here. What happened on the streets of Cincinnati? What is the significance of it? And you've been speaking out a lot about it, to your credit, Senator.
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Senator Bernie Moreno
Well, let me go through the beginning because, Charlie, it's worse than you think. So here's what happened. I'm going to start with Holly. She doesn't want her last name used for obvious reasons. She has a special needs child that she's been taking care of. She's about my age, so she's not a spring chicken. Had wanted a nice night out with some friends. So two couples went to downtown Cincinnati. They had a great time. As they were leaving the place, they basically got attacked by a crazy mob of people. She's again a middle aged woman. She's not participating in any of this. In fact, she's trying to stop it. As you can see in the video, a gentleman basically knocked her out. If you look at the video, you actually think he may have killed her. He hit her so hard and she woke up, pool of blood. In fact, one of the things Charlie, she kept saying to me was so much blood. She's there passed out in the video, she's saying, so much blood. She wakes up, there's a police, one police officer there that came towards the end of this 10 or 15 minute engagement. No statement, no hey, what happened? No police report. And ready for this one, Charlie? She took an Uber home. Nobody called an ambulance, nobody called 911. She got an Uber and went home. Of course, when she got home, she realized the magnitude of her injuries. Checked herself into the hospital. She had sent me the pictures that I posted yesterday. She had sent this to me on Sunday. I didn't want to put those out there because, you know, look, nobody wants to see pictures of yourself like that. But the way the city leaders, quote unquote, were portraying this. Let me go through it. Number one, the congressman, Greg Landsman. No commentary at all, Charlie. You know what he was tweeting about for the last week? Ukraine. We have to send more money to Ukraine. That's his entire being is let's take all American money and send it to Ukraine. No comment about the fact that this woman, his constituent, almost got killed. The mayor, attended a misfit mayor's conference in Cleveland and then took off for. For Canada. You can't make this up, Charlie. The guy I don't even think is back in Cincinnati yet. He is in Canada. Issued no statements until Monday. It was some poll tested garbage. Then you look at the police chief. What does the police chief say? What she could have said was that the city of Cincinnati has, does not have enough funding and there are 200 police officers short. And then when police do arrest criminals, they, they're immediately released. She could have said that. But because she's a political hack, what does she do? She blames social media. That's the problem. Now she's not the worst, Charlie. Let me keep going. Then you got the county prosecutor, a complete dope named Connie Pillage. She replaced a phenomenal prosecutor that we used to have in Hamilton County. What happened? They arrest the guy who almost murdered this woman, this completely innocent woman that did nothing other than attend dinner with friends on a Friday night. They get the guy, he has a previous gun charge, Charlie. He is out immediately, thanks to her on $400 in bail. Now, I saved the best for last, Charlie. City council member Victoria Parks. What a beauty she is. What did she say? That the people who got beaten, the people who almost got killed. Holly, who is now having trouble breathing, has a concussion, has now been to the hospital three different times. They deserved the beating they got. She made those statements. She says she stands by those statements and she's currently an elected official in the city of Cincinnati.
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Charlie Kirk
I mean, this is like breathtaking stuff. And so I just want to. I don't like doing this, Senator, but it's necessary. The. The reason they're acting this way is because it was an all black mob attacking white victims. That's that, that's why they're doing this. And again, I don't like racializing these situations. But the obvious is imagine if it was a white mob beating up three blacks. I mean, this would be the biggest story on the planet with all we would be talking about. And you just went through a leader that says they deserve it. And so this. It seems as if they want criminals on the street terrorizing the public. That is the goal. White people get shamed about white mob violence from 100 years ago. Put 478 up on screen. These are two of the attackers that went up against the young lady. The dude on the left is the one that hit Holly. Senator, are we going to see from the Department of Justice federal hate crime charges here?
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Senator Bernie Moreno
So that was. So I talked to all the victims on Sunday in depth. What happened? Walk me through every minute of it. So the four gentlemen, plus Holly, it's. They feel that they were targeted because of their race and let's erase the race. It doesn't matter they're white or black. Targeting somebody because of the race is illegal in this country.
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Charlie Kirk
Thank God. That's exactly right. Yes. And. And it's time for us to enforce it against. Go ahead.
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Senator Bernie Moreno
Anybody? Yeah, anybody. So, as you know, Pam Bondi is a dear friend. Phenomenal. Attorney General Cash Patel is a dear friend, reached out to both of them and say, hey, look, I can't trust the local political leadership here to do the right thing. Can you poke in and see what's going on? To their credit, Attorney General Pam Bondi jumped out and immediately. Harvey Dhillon has been all over this, has spoken to the victims, and we're going to get to the bottom of it. Look, if you target somebody and inflict harm on somebody because of race, you're going to go to jail for a long time in this country. And if we don't respect that level of civil rights authority in this country, we're in deep trouble. So what I've done today, Charlie, is I reached out via letter to the city council and the mayor, hopefully gets back from Canada at some point and said, look, you have 30 days to put together a plan in which you're going to ensure that you protect the civil rights of your citizens. By the way, basic element of their job, if they don't do that or fail to submit an adequate plan, I'm going to send a letter to the President, United States, and ask them to suspend all federal funding from all agencies to the city of Cincinnati. As much as that would kill me to do that because I want Cincinnati to thrive. But these political leaders cannot get away with allowing somebody like Hawley to almost be murdered on the streets. And Charlie, did I mention she went home in a fricking Uber?
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Charlie Kirk
This lady had blood all over concussion. She went home in an Uber because.
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Senator Bernie Moreno
The police are so demoralized. It's crazy. I mean, if that was your mom, Charlie.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, hold on. But. Hold on. Yeah, I just. So they're demoralized, but honestly, let's be. They didn't want to get near a black mob because they didn't want to be called racist. They don't want to get in the way of a black mob. Wild thing. That's the. That's the truth here. There were 200 police officers. The 200 police officers didn't intervene because when you intervene with blacks committing crimes in the streets, there's a chance that you as a police officer could lose your job and your pension. So basically because of this, we have a bunch of police officers that sat and spectated on a woman that was nearly beat to death who was lucky to be alive and had to Uber home afterwards because the police were afraid of interrupting a black night out. Basically, the black night out. Let's go hunt down a bunch of whites called wilding. Happens all the time. And we're still living under the consent decrees of the Obama era. I want to play. Cut 479 this is the Cincinnati police chief. There were 200 police there that sat idly by while a white lady was beat to a pulp by a black mob. Placot479 Social media and journalism and the.
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Unnamed Police Chief
Role it plays in this incident. And yes, guys, that's you. That is you. Social media. The post that we've seen does not depict the entire incident. That is one version of what occurred. At times, social media and mainstream media and their commentaries are misrepresentation of the circumstances surrounding any given event. What that does that causes us some difficulties in thoroughly investigating the activity and enforcing the law.
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Senator Bernie Moreno
It's your fault, Charlie.
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Charlie Kirk
Holly got injured. We want to see a colorblind society and have these laws enforced equally. Senator, final thoughts.
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Senator Bernie Moreno
Look, Charlie, we're not going to let this stand. I'm going to stay on this story. I don't want any more situations like Holly. We're going to go after these political leaders. We eventually have to replace them. But in the meantime we have to get them to do their damn job.
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Charlie Kirk
Senator, thank you so much. Again, we want to have the laws enforced equally. Thank you for basically fulfilling the whole mandate that we don't care about the color of your skin. We care about the content of Your character. And if you're hunting down people, the content of your character is not so good. Senator, God bless you. Thank you for doing so well representing the people of Ohio. Talk to you soon. Thank you.
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Senator Bernie Moreno
Thank you, Charlie.
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Charlie Kirk
Very grateful for his leadership. I want to make sure I clarify what I said. The police force is down 200 people, but there were police nearby that did not intervene. That is correct. I don't know if there were 200 police officers nearby, but there were police officers that were nearby that did not intervene. It's a remarkable story, but again, let's repeat why the police officers did not intervene. The police officers were likely not to intervene because when, you know, a group of blacks are prowling around going wilding, which is what they were likely doing, again, that is part of urban black culture. Wilding where you go. That's what happened the Central park five situation. They were wilding throughout that entire night. And so they go out and they say, let's go attack some white folks. And by the way, some gangs actually look at that as, hey, you have to go attack a white person. You get your little teardrop beneath, you know, little tattoo teardrop. And so the police. If you get in the way of a black mob and you're a police officer, you could lose your pension. How dare you. Stop it. And so a white girl was beat to a pulp. She's lucky to be alive. And again, if you are a. If you are a police officer and you get in the way of a black group, you could go to prison. You could be compared to George Floyd or to Ferguson. So police officers are just going to watch and stand by. You could get dragged through years of court. So police officers are more likely to watch a black mob attack a white because they don't want to lose their pension. You see you tracking here, it's more than a demoralized police force. It's more than that. It's partially. It's a paralyzed police force because of racial politics. Private student loan debt in America totals about $300 billion. Why refi refinances private student loan debt and they do not care what your credit score is. 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I've had my fluctuations with weight over the last couple of years and we all need to be honest about that, that when you get a little bit too pudgy, you get a little bit too fat. You need to be honest. You need to stop eating those carbohydrates. And yes, you got to get in shape. Breaking news today, President Trump is signing an executive order to bring back the physical fitness test back to schools. He'll be joined by Kansas City kicker Harrison Butker, former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, and Bryson Dechambeau, among others. So Dwight D. Eisenhower, which by the way, he was one of the greatest presidents in American history and probably the best president of the 20th century. There's your thought crime of today and one that I think we're going to be proving over the next couple of years. So stay tuned because I like Ike and you should too. We learn a lot from him. He established the 1956 Presidential Fitness Test to assess cardiovascular fitness, upper body and core strength, endurance, flexibility and agility. According to Harvard Health, the test included a one mile run, pull ups or push ups, sit ups, shuttle run, sit and reach. Children in the top 15% received the Presidential Fitness Award established by LBJ. Obama replaced the test in 2013 with the Presidential Youth Fitness Program, putting more emphasis on students health than their performance. We need to bring back the Presidential Fitness Test and we need to have a fitter country. Some people say, well, what about the overweight kids? Honestly, maybe a wake up call that they should stop eating Cheetos and Doritos all day long and they should go for a walk instead of playing video games or staring at their screens. Maybe it's a wake up call for these kids instead of taking Ozempic. Maybe go find a three mile walk instead of staring at screens all day long. Now of course Parents need to reinforce this, but we need to culturally promote the idea that fitness is good and President Trump bringing this back. By the way, President Trump is in great shape for nearly 80 years old. I mean, he's in phenomenal. Considering 80 years old, he does pretty well. But going more broadly to the entire society, regardless of who the President actually does this, being fit and thin is better than being fat and out of shape. You are happy, you have less depression, you have less anxiety, and you look at how the nation we used to be, we used to be a sculpted nation and now we are a fat and slovenly nation. You'll live longer. The big picture is this the test. This is from Axios. Featuring challenges like the 1 mile run, pull ups and then the sit up reach was once a rite of passage for America's youth. It was also a source of anxiety and shame from more than a few kids who ended up feeling like they weren't strong enough for the President's or Arnold Schwarzenegger's purposes. Anxiety. Welcome to life. If you're a little fat and you can't do push ups, then get yourself into shape. Shame. Okay, maybe your BMI is too high. Maybe that's the wake up call that you need. Maybe you should be able to run a mile. Oh, well, you know I was born overweight. Yeah, but you weren't born obese. Everyone has a certain genetic code, but being obese is a choice. Shame is good if it points you towards being better. Now, shame is not good if people are like using shame or peer pressure to get you to underage drink or to watch porn. That's bad shame. But good shame is peer pressure towards the good. And this is good peer pressure. If all of a sudden everyone around you is super cut and doing push ups and pull ups. Body fat percentage is even better metric, by the way, than bmi. And that's why you should feel shame if you cheat on your spouse or steal the same thing that happened at the Coldplay concert. Maybe instead of enabling kids to be fat and unhealthy, we should encourage ourselves to overcome life's many obstacles. Yes, life is tough. Sometimes you're gonna have to publicly speak. Should we get rid of public speaking? Well, they have in many of our schools. Oh, I have anxiety about taking tests. Should we get rid of tests? Well, they have in many schools. The anxiety of a child means nothing. If you are not feeling anxious when you're at school, then you're not ready for life. You should feel anxiety on a nearly daily or weekly basis. When you're at school, good anxiety, not bad anxiety, not the anxiety that you think you'll be treated unfairly, but the anxiety of, I don't know if I'll be able to pass this test. I remember back at Boy Scout, I used to go to Boy Scout camp every summer and there was this very serious swimming test and I failed it the first year. I was young, I was trying. It was a sixth grade test. I was a fourth grader. And the next year, all year I trained, all year I trained in the pool to pass that test. And it was just like, dominated my mind. It was, I gotta pass that test. I gotta pass, I gotta pass the Boy Scout swimming test. And my parents were like, they would drive me to the pool, they would drive me. And all year I was obsessed about passing this Boy Scout swimming test. It was hard. It was in the middle of a lake. It was Camp Napawan up near Wisconsin, Wild Rose, Wisconsin. And finally the next summer came, I didn't sleep the entire night and I passed that test. And it was one of the most fulfilling things in my life. I failed it one summer and I did it the next summer. And by the way, you know almost every man out there, you should be able to do 30, 40, 50 pushups. Prior to a couple of years ago, I couldn't do any pull ups. I could do about seven or eight legit pull ups. Now my goal is to get to 10 or 15, just be in shape, push yourself. Being slovenly and overweight is a choice. Now you might be a little more pudgy, you might put on a couple of pounds. I, I'm not saying that if you're 10, 15 pounds overweight, I get that. But if you are so overweight that you need a wheelchair by age 30, I'm sorry, we shouldn't put up with that. We want a fit, we want a lean. We want a strong, a healthy, a determined country. Not one that is sloppy, slovenly, overweight and unhappy. I'm so glad President Trump is bringing back the fitness test. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us. As always, freedomarliekirk.com thanks so much for listening and God bless. For more on many of these stories and news you can Trust, go to charliekirk.com.