This Could Change Your Children's Education Plan Completely

Summary

Podcast Summary: "This Could Change Your Children's Education Plan Completely" – The Charlie Kirk Show

Release Date: May 27, 2025

In this compelling episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk, alongside Dr. Ty Gooch and Dr. Hutz Hertzberg, unveils a groundbreaking initiative poised to revolutionize Christian education for young leaders. The discussion centers around Turning Point Academy's Prep Year, an innovative program designed to equip students with a robust biblical worldview, classical education, and civic virtues essential for impactful leadership.

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1. Introduction to Turning Point Academy Prep Year

The episode kicks off with Charlie Kirk introducing an exciting announcement from Turning Point Academy. Addressing parents, grandparents, and students contemplating higher education, Charlie sets the stage for a transformative educational opportunity.

Charlie Kirk [00:00]: "How many of you actually want them to learn something? Well, we are here to announce Turning Point Academy for prep year."

2. Educational Philosophy and Curriculum

Dr. Hutz Hertzberg delves into the heart of the program, emphasizing a biblical perspective intertwined with classical education principles. The curriculum is meticulously crafted to foster leadership, critical thinking, and spiritual growth.

Dr. Hutz Hertzberg [02:01]: "Training of the mind, whole life transformation... helping students learn with rhetoric, helping students learn in a collegial style of learning where they don't just listen from lecture content but they actually learn to engage and to think."

The program prioritizes hermeneutics, teaching students how to study and interpret the Bible effectively.

Dr. Hutz Hertzberg [10:07]: "It's called hermeneutics, how to get at the truth... look, learn, live... learn step by step. It's not studying Hebrew, it's not studying Greek, but there are simple God-centered ways."

3. Program Structure and Daily Life

A typical day at Turning Point Academy blends rigorous academic sessions with experiential learning. Mornings are dedicated to classroom-based learning led by experts, while afternoons focus on practical experiences like hikes, museum visits, and community service.

Dr. Hutz Hertzberg [19:15]: "They wake up in the morning... morning context of learning... afternoon where it'll focus more on experience... physical challenges... trips to the capital of the state."

The environment is designed to be intentional and safe, mirroring the amenities of a college campus but within a supportive and faith-driven community.

Dr. Hutz Hertzberg [20:24]: "They get to kind of peer in and maybe even to influence... Nothing exactly like this."

4. Application Process and Scholarships

Dr. Ty Gooch outlines the application process, highlighting the urgency due to limited scholarships generously provided by donors.

Dr. Hutz Hertzberg [09:14]: "This opportunity is time-sensitive because we've had generous donors donate the equivalent of $20,000 scholarships for every student that's accepted."

Prospective students are encouraged to visit turningpointacademy.com to fill out an interest form, proceed to the application phase, and undergo an interview process.

Dr. Hutz Hertzberg [24:08]: "Fill out an interest form... phase two... set them up for an interview and the process will get going from there."

5. Addressing Challenges in Christian Education

The conversation shifts to the current shortcomings in Christian education, notably the lack of biblical literacy among students, even within Christian institutions.

Dr. Hutz Hertzberg [08:08]: "The lack of biblical literacy from Christian students... they have not been taught how to study the truth for themselves."

Turning Point Academy aims to bridge this gap by providing a comprehensive biblical education that empowers students to become influential leaders grounded in their faith.

6. Goals and Impact of the Program

The ultimate goal of the Prep Year is to produce well-rounded, biblically literate leaders ready to make significant impacts in various spheres, including the military, entrepreneurship, academia, and public service.

Dr. Hutz Hertzberg [13:31]: "Prep year, students will have been thoroughly exposed to what it looks like to walk with Christ... equipped to walk into a myriad of different opportunities."

Participants will gain a deep understanding of freedom, self-governance, and free speech from a biblical standpoint, fostering a commitment to uphold these values in society.

Dr. Hutz Hertzberg [16:45]: "Understanding that it's not just free speech, but the freedom to express worship to God in the ways that he described."

7. Final Call to Action

As the episode concludes, both hosts urge listeners to seize this unique educational opportunity. The combination of classical education, biblical teachings, and leadership training positions Turning Point Academy's Prep Year as a pivotal step for young individuals aspiring to lead with integrity and purpose.

Dr. Ty Gooch [25:19]: "This is as good as it gets. Turningpointacademy.com."

Charlie Kirk [26:19]: "Turningpointacademy.com... It's what college should be... the foundation."

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Key Takeaways

• Turning Point Academy Prep Year offers a nine-month immersive program combining classical education with a strong biblical foundation.
• The curriculum is designed to foster leadership, critical thinking, and spiritual growth through a blend of academic and experiential learning.
• Generous scholarships make the program highly accessible, with a straightforward application process available at turningpointacademy.com.
• The program addresses significant gaps in current Christian education by enhancing biblical literacy and civic virtues.
• Graduates are poised to lead with integrity in various sectors, embodying the program's mission to create impactful Christian leaders.

For more information and to apply, visit turningpointacademy.com.

Transcript

[Charlie Kirk]

Hey, everybody. Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio. Very excited for an announcement from Turning Point Academy. How many of you in the audience right now are thinking about going to.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

College, but you know that college might not be for you?

[Charlie Kirk]

How many of you are a parent right now or a grandparent and you.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Have a young grandkid or kid that.

[Charlie Kirk]

Is like, I don't know if I.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Want to go to this school.

[Charlie Kirk]

And you actually want them to learn something. Well, we are here to announce Turning Point Academy for prep year.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

And the man behind it all is Dr. Ty Gooch @ Turning Point Academy. And this is a super exciting announcement and honestly blessed that we're able to talk about this.

[Charlie Kirk]

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[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are.

[Charlie Kirk]

Lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

[Unknown Speaker]

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.

[Charlie Kirk]

We will not embrace the ideas that.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.

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[Dr. Ty Gooch]

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[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Great to see you too. Glad to be here.

[Charlie Kirk]

What is Turning Point Academy prep year?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

It is the culmination of what you and Dr. Hutz Hertzberg, Chief Education Officer, have been working on to prepare students for life, to be leaders, to have impact and if they go on to college, to be ready to be influencers when they get there.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

And so essentially what it is, and I want to get into the specifics, is that this is an opportunity not to go to four year college, but to be immersed into the details and into the great books and the great ideas from a biblical perspective to actually recreate what college should be. Is that correct?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

That's right. Training of the mind, whole life transformation. The program will include mentors that come in like yourself, to help students understand economics from a biblical worldview perspective and how to read and process through the great writings of Western civilization in a way that has a biblical infusion of truth at the foundation of them.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Yeah. So let's so, so walk through technically how this works. So someone is going to. We already have people that have signed up and people can check it out@ turningpointacademy.com that's turningpointacademy.com they're going to. This is going to be in Fort Worth this year, correct?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

That's right.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

And we already have some people that signed up and they are going to do what exactly? They move into dorms and they're going to really create what college should be.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah, but that would be a short sighted statement of what the facilities are like. They're incredible facilities. The accommodations are off the charts. There's going to be a retreat center, conference center like experience for the students, the size of the dorms, the excellence of the dorms. But more than just the experience on the outside, it's the way that their hearts and lives will be transformed. There'll be a week long modular training format where from a classical education perspective, helping students learn with rhetoric, helping students learn in a collegial style of learning where they don't just listen from lecture content but they actually learn to engage and to think and then with virtue and wisdom how to apply the truths that they're learning.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

So yeah, talk more about that and also talk about your background. How did you lead to this? Your PhD. You also played college football, which is awesome. Like your journey. Like tell our audience about this and why you feel prepp year is such an important project for the country and the kingdom.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

I've been involved in Christian ministry for the better part of the last 25 years, prior to which I did play football at Northwestern University. And I see you have a Big Ten representation back there.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

I'm going to the Oregon Ducks Northwestern game.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Oh, that's great. That's great.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Those tickets were so expensive because they're retrofitting their field.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

And I won't ask you who you're going to vote, who you're going to be for.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Probably the Ducks, but my mom did go to Northwestern.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Okay, fair enough. Fair enough. So that experience though, it was one where I learned myself to learn to engage with what it meant to stand for my faith.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Yes.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

So I went from there and went and got a Master's of divinity and not a PhD but a doctorate in ministry, which is relevant for this program because of the application of truth to life. And so as a part of this last 25 years of serving in ministry, mostly pastoral, I've also been in Christian education, just focused on teaching seniors in high school biblical worldview at a couple of different Christian schools, at a Bible college, a senior seminar capstone classroom program context where it's so evident students need to learn to finish well so they can go be influencers right away. Young leaders already leading in many ways now being prepared not just to go and sort of flail in the context of the ideologies that are being pumped out by some institutions, but to go into flourish and what it means to be girded up in their faith and to influence others toward the ways of Christ.

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[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Tell us more about what you would teach in that biblical worldview where you were a teacher, a guest speaker, a seminar and as these were seniors in high school. Talk about talk about that more.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah, it's really a holistic perspective from the beginnings of understand the clarity of what it means to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ. Right the perfect life and sacrificial death and resurrection from the dead of Christ. The that's so critical that they understand it's not just a general faith, a general belief. There's specific tenets of the faith that are necessary. And so from that standpoint, then moving to what do I do in response to the gospel, how do I live? How do I think? What does marriage look like? What does stewardship look like? Of the gifts that I've been given, also of the resources that I've been able to glean of the talents and skills. So all of that in addition to some of the more nuanced aspects of intellect. Right. The Bible makes it super clear, Charlie, super clear that the beginning of knowledge and wisdom is the fear of the Lord. It's the fear of the Lord.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Yes.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Right. And so to start there and to think, oh, I really don't need to go beyond here to get to where God wants me to go. And so to help students understand, yes. Let's bring all of the intellect of.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

The world, let us reason together. It says in the book of Isaiah. Right?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

That's right. That's right. Bring it all in here and then watch how it is reasonable, redefined and ultimately pushed aside by the choose that come from.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

So you did that for 20 years.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

You said about so in large part, yes. But then in Christian education, as a guest lecturer, as an overseer of interns for undergrad and master's students. Yes.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

What did you see that changed over the years when you talked taught this to students?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah. The lack of biblical literacy from Christian students. From Christian students. And oftentimes in Christian schools, number one question, always answered, always answered with a no. Have you been taught how to study the truth for yourself? Negative, negative, negative across the board. Even with some students that are actually in college, in Bible colleges, as a guest lecturer or in a senior seminar context. And so it's a great opportunity to help the students that apply. And some of these students are just the best representation in certain Categories of Excellence. One student that's applied and been accepted a 33 on the ACT. Another student, two students already accepted at well known institutions across the country with scholarship money.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

They're putting that they're coming to prep.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Year so that they can come prepare to go use that education to the best of its ability.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

And this is what college should be at the core. And it really. So Again, this is turningpointacademy.com and Turningpoint Academy is doing so much great work. I just, I really. But there is a, there is an immediate kind of call to action that for. Because we have a deadline essentially. Right.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah, it is, it's approaching and this is the most unique opportunity that a student, especially a student that wants to go be a leader could have because of generous donors building on the foundation of Turning Point Academy, where we have the Educator summit coming up July 10th through the 13th for all educators across the globe. Globe. Great opportunity. Go to our website, you can see more there. But this opportunity is time sensitive because we've had generous donors donate the equivalent of $20,000 scholarships for every student that's accepted.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

And so they have to pay very little, almost to nothing.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah, the students that get accepted, they'll pay $1,000 deposit fee just to let us know that they're seriously committed after they go through the intervention process.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

That's incredible. And so when. So I want to go back to something you said and I'm sure that Turning Point preppier will dive into this. Have you been taught how to learn the truth? Can you say that again and contextualize that more, please?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Right. So in seminary context and Bible training context, it's called hermeneutics, how to get at the truth. Everybody has access to the truth, but it's important to learn how to study the truth.

[Unknown Speaker]

Why?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

So that I don't bring my. I do as much as I can to put aside my inclinations and I let the Scriptures speak for themselves. We are overrun right now with people quoting from the Bible out in culture saying, oh, this is Jesus, this is truth. And they're really not representing the truth of Jesus at all. They're representing what they thought culture would demand and impose upon them. And then they're slapping scripture on top of it. Instead of that, let's push culture aside, let's let the Scriptures speak for themselves and then let the Scriptures define culture, which is so much of what. Of what you do and what you have done with Turning Point in many, many regards. So hermeneutics, how to study the Bible. Let me learn step by step. Simple. It's not studying Hebrew, it's not studying Greek, but there are simple God centered ways, not people centered ways to learn. To study the Bible. There's a. One of the methods is just look, learn, live, look at the text, see what the author sang to the original audience. Learn, learn from the scriptures based on what it objectively says and then let's figure out how to live it out.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

And so let's apply that then to. Would you say that most students coming into prep year have had a Christian education of some sort?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Absolutely. Absolutely. They are at this point, for the applicants that we've gotten, number one off the charts in several ways. Some are worship leaders at their churches or in their context. Some are already super skilled in the area of graphic design and photography, et cetera. All of them have a testimony of how the gospel of Christ has already impacted their lives. Many of them already have begun to lead in spiritual context on their campuses or in their homeschool context. And now they're just eager for somebody to come alongside them to help them grow in what they've done. You wouldn't believe this. One of the students we learned through the interview process, she had just written a document to the local governor to challenge, to challenge the public office about the importance of taking a stand on important biblical issues. A 30 page document, well written, presented it. And so we get on this interview and then she says, well, I just got back from this event, right? What was it, a sports event? A local? No, she's standing for important things in our culture for Christ.

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[Dr. Ty Gooch]

What would you say the end result success would be? After nine months of Turning point academy.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Prep year, students will have been thoroughly exposed to what it looks like to walk with Christ. Because of a biblical understanding of prayer life and spiritual pursuits, they will be involved in what it means to also go and serve in the community in various contexts. They'll take trips to the capital of the state that we're in, we'll take trips to public office. And at the end, they'll be fortified in their understanding of biblical worldview in a way that equips them to walk into a myriad of different opportunities, whether it's military, whether it's entrepreneurialship in the marketplace, whether it's going to focus on preparing to be a homemaker, whether it's preparing for for public office. They'll have clarity on how their background Their aptitude, their skill sets apply to those different contexts.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

What would you say is the biggest problem facing Christian education?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah, you know, the biggest problem facing Christian education is that it is, it's oftentimes marketed as something that it used to be, that it no longer is. Right. Something that's going to help students understand how to think properly. And I wouldn't suggest that that's what it is. I just remember sitting at this incredible institution, undergrad, receiving class or lecture and the professor espouses this content and I'm a freshman and I thought, oh, he's telling us these facts. I'm taking notes and I raised my hand, I asked the question and I asked, so these facts you're helping us understand. And he paused, he said, wait, they're not facts, they're theories. I had no more questions because I thought I want to hear facts. I want to hear data that is true and time tested. I don't want to hear theories, I can go read about those on my own as I so choose. I want the information that's necessary. So that now is, I would say one of the biggest divides is the data, the information that's being presented, is it fact or is it theory, ideological and from culture and essentially from man. Whereas classical education foundation information moving on to the middle stage, which is understanding, moving to virtue and wisdom, which education. I've heard you say education needs to lead forth. Yeah, it needs to move into that now. You know, public education is saying that they don't extend virtue and wisdom. Oh. But they are trying to infuse with the ideologies a way in which it's applied. So we've got a great partner and our host at in Dallas.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Tell us more about that.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

You couldn't have a better first year start because the leaders, Dr. Dockery and at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, so many like minded leaders there, the provost and the dean of students, great leaders that are going to help us just by helping the environment be created and to create a means through which students might find another one of the pathways, which is academia, where they go in to be influencers. Maybe they're not a lawyer, maybe that. But they go into the academia context and get degrees that will have helpful payoff not just for what they benefit from financially, but how they can impact.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

The culture and the. They'll also be exposed to the civic virtues as well. From a biblical perspective. Correct. Why is it that, you know, self government and free speech are biblical? Talk about that as well.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah, so already on turningpointacademy.com. there are resources for young students and older students alike to understand the Constitution, to understand the Bill of Rights, to walk through economics. And our leader, Jennifer Burns, the director of academics, she's laid out a great set of resources. Well, when these students get into the prep your program, they're going to walk through a fresh version, but from a biblical worldview. They'll understand that as you relate it to free speech. You chatted a little bit about that just recently. And to understand that even from Exodus, for instance, everybody knows the story of Exodus where the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. And everybody thinks it's about them being treated poorly, which that did matter to God's heart. But the most redundant, the most thorough expression of concern that God had is that they weren't free to worship him as he had prescribed. And so, yes, we will help students understand the importance of having the right to free speech, having the right to gather freedom freely and to express worship to God in the ways that he described.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

It is God's heart for humanity and for his people to live in a free society. He does not. Tyranny is not in God's plan for his people.

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[Dr. Ty Gooch]

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[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

That's great. The students are going to Be in a cohort format. So they'll be on this campus in this retreat center like context, and they'll wake up in the morning. It'll be mostly classroom context in the morning. Or there'll be an expert that comes in for the given week to focus on content, not just delivery, but content exchange, helping the students work through how to apply what they're hearing, what they're learning. So that'll be generally a morning context of learning. And then they'll move to the afternoon where it'll focus more on experience. And we'll get out and there'll be physical challenges where we do hikes together. Nothing too extreme, but just helping students understand that this is a whole life perspective of the gospel impacting someone's life. So they'll go on hikes, we'll go visit different museums and different things like that. We're going to come to America Fest.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Amazing.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

In December, and that'll cap off the end of the year. But that's generally what a day looks like. And then the evening, there'll be some time. They will do some work, they'll do some reading in the evening, and they'll have lots of time to interact with one another and their cohort context. At Southwestern Theological Seminary Baptist Seminary, the facility has a swimming pool, they have a fitness center. And so almost 200 acres of property.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

You get the kind of college amenities.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

That's right. In an incredibly intentional context. Super safe. If I'm a parent sending my kid off to a place I've never been to before, super safe. The environment there is everything a parent could want and more.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

And it will also lead itself to what college should be, which means partnership. And talk about some of the instructors you yourself will be presenting quite a lot. And I can't think of almost any other college where they'll get this kind of singular instruction. Because the class sizes, quote, unquote, will not be hundreds of people.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

No, no. It'll certainly be under 100. And this first year it'll probably be closer to 30 to 40, which is amazing.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

You think about the value proposition for a student. It's incredible, right?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah. The intentionality, the ability to interact with the mentors not just in that context, but also, Lord willing, long term. And so. So that exchange is going to be super valuable in addition to the students learning to take what they learn and take it back to where they go to next.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Yeah. So let's. Let's talk more about, just for a second here, equipping disciples, because that really is the goal. And what would you say are some of the. Not just approaches, the hermeneutical ones, but also just from a theological perspective, some of the things that you've learned, and I know you touched on this, but some errors that you want to try to write at this work you're doing at Turning Point Academy.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah. You know, the apostle Paul makes some things super clear and in parts in the book of Acts and in some of Luke's writings. But there's this tension that exists, and the tension is, am I going to choose to please man or am I going to choose to please God?

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

In Acts 5.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah, that's right. And also in Romans 12 and several other places. Right. And so as it relates to that, students are going to understand there's some things that God not only asks, not only advice, but he commands these things of us. And then he says, you know, you can't do both. In Galatians 1:10, you can't please man and please God. I love that caveat. Unless man wants what God wants, and then that's how you can get your twofer. But that's not up to me. Yes, it's up to me to just stand for what God says I to stand for. So helping students understand what it means to live for courage and, you know, befeterer and yourself and. And people like Erwin Lutzer as well, coming into. Yeah, just because.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

And Dr. Herzberg as well.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Dr. Hertzberg. Absolutely. For sure. Time tested truth tellers with humility and strength and grace all wrapped up in one package. So I would say that's what makes it distinctive. It's not just information being delivered, but it's with courage and clarity. Which is another thing that Paul says, just make open statements of the truth. Make open statements of the truth. Don't worry about trying to package it and trying to figure out.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

I've heard anyone say that before.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah, it's Paul's heart because he's concerned.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Where did Paul say that?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

He says it in Second Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 3 through 4.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

And amazing.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

In his first book to the church in Corinth, he says, don't come with wisdom and knowledge of man. Why? There's something at stake. Because if you don't choose to proclaim the gospel of Christ and Jesus Christ resurrected, then you have the risk of teaching people to follow you and avoiding following God. Because then the power now is about me, and it's not I'm going to live and die.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

That was Moses. Great sin.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah, that's right.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Because he thought he could actually turn the rock into water. So. Okay, that's amazing. That's turningpointacademy.com and so the people can apply right now.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

They can, they can. There's a three step process.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Yeah, walk through that, please.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

On the website it walks right through at the bottom. When you go to turningpointacademy.com prepyear, you go scroll down to the bottom. I've given you all the content, so just get right down to it and get to the first step, which is to fill out an interest form. But time is running short because the spaces are filling up and we don't have forever. We just want to solidify and start moving forward. So.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

And it's this September, this fall, fall.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

2025, because of generous donors. Generous donors have said, we want this to happen, we want it to happen now. And so we say yes, of course we want this to happen to.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Yes.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

So they go to phase two. They can go right to phase two right now and they can fill out the application and then send off their reference forms, after which we will set them up for an interview and the process will get going from there.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

I will say that what you've put together and the team has put together at Turning Point Academy, this will be far more life changing than just another year at a, you know, college. You'll dive deep into these ideas. You'll come out as a sharp biblical citizen. And it will take some work too, right?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

It will, yeah, it will. It's not a, it's not a lazy program. It's not just come and, you know, sit by the poolside and. But it's going to be, and it's not just going to be academically engaging, it's going to engage their hearts, it's going to challenge some of their preconceptions. Yeah, it will.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

And provoke them towards the higher things and the ultimate purpose.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

That's right.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Well, we're super excited. Dr. Gooch, any final thoughts here and thank you for joining the team and about education or what we're trying to do at Turning Point Academy, it's great.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

To be a part of the team and I would just say go to turningpointacademy.com you hear that everybody?

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Do that right now and apply.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah. You won't find a better opportunity and the scholarships won't last forever. So get in on it and make sure that you get the opportunity to come.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

So right now, just so you hear it, if you are a high school.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Senior, 18 to 20 years old.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Oh, that. Okay. Or if you maybe you're not.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

You may have graduated last year and you may have realized that there isn't a great option you're excited about. Come, we'll help you get it figured out.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Super affordable. And you might be just drifting or you might just kind of be wondering. This is pretty. It's an amazing opportunity, right, that you could go in Fort Worth, Texas, and combines foundational, classical, Christian and civic curriculum with immersive skill based environment. I mean, that's as good as it gets.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Yeah, I would say so.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Is there anything like this in the country?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

There's nothing exactly like this. And even if someone created it, what hasn't happened is it hasn't been created for a scholarship exchange for free.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Yeah. I mean it just, I think about it like there this idea of a prep year and this could get really big. I mean this could get thousands of.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Students that every time people hear about it, they want it more and they want it in their city. And it is coming to Illinois next fall.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

So renovations, maybe Virginia.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

That's right. That's right. And so it's, it's already lined up, contract signed, committed to work with our partners at Jetson University with Dr. Croom there.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Well then the other advantage is that since they're on a college campus, they get some of the college campus vibe or activities and.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

That's right.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Energy, right?

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

That's right. They get a chance to kind of peer in and maybe even to influence.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Yes, yes. Because they'll be learning stuff they might not always be learning there.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Absolutely.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Dr. Gooch, thank you so much. It's turningpointacademy.com it's right there on the front page. Prep year. Preparing for life, leadership and impact. We put this together. Dr. Gooch deserves the credit. Hutz deserves the credit for transformative opportunity. Ages 18, 19, 20. Right? 18, 19, 20. You guys can go live nine months in Fort Worth, Texas. Maybe if you live nearby, it's not that big of a lift and you will learn things. It will. That will change your whole life. It's what college should be. And then you guys can go get whatever degree and do there. But that sets you on the course and it's kind of a, it's kind of a dream because I talk about college scam and all this. This is what we need. This is the foundation. So. Turningpointacademy.com Dr. Gooch, thank you so much.

[Dr. Hutz Hertzberg]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Dr. Ty Gooch]

Charlie, check it out.

[Charlie Kirk]

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[Dr. Ty Gooch]

God Bless.

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