1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: My name is Charlie kirk I run the largest pro 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: American student organization in the country, fighting for the future 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: of our republic. 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 2: My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: you're going to end up miserable. 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 2: But if the most. 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: Important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful. College 9 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your 10 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: kids to college. You should get married as young as 11 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start 12 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:33,840 Speaker 1: at turning point, you would say, college chapter. Go start 13 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: atturning point you say high school chapter. Go find out 14 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 1: how your church can get involved. Sign up and become 15 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 1: an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in 16 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: fifth grade, most important decision I ever made in my life, 17 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: and I encourage you to do the same. 18 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 2: Here I am Lord, Use me. 19 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: Buckle up, everybody, Here we go. 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And I want to thank university for making 29 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: this easy. I don't say that about every college I visit, 30 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 1: and so this is great and I appreciate it. And 31 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: I want to thank our amazing Turning Point USA leaders 32 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: that help put this all together. They deserve a lot 33 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: of credit, and they are doing what I believe is 34 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: one of the most difficult things for a young person 35 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: to do in America, which is to vocally state your 36 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: beliefs against what is popular and what is considered to 37 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: be the prevailing kind of wisdom of the age or 38 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: lack of wisdom, quite honestly, and that's a big deal. 39 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: As young conservatives, you're basically saying, I don't care if 40 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be smeared or slandered, if somebody's gonna call 41 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: me names. I'm gonna stand for what it's true. And 42 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: there's a price to that. And even here in you know, 43 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: the mostly conservative South, I'm told that there's a fair 44 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,119 Speaker 1: amount of liberals actually in Lexington. Maybe not maybe, maybe 45 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: that's not true. We'll find out, I guess later tonight. 46 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: But certainly on college campuses, I bet that's true. 47 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 2: But it's a big. 48 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: Deal when I see young people that are saying, I 49 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: know the price. I know the cost. And there's a 50 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: great question that I always ask, you know liberals that 51 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: come to these events, and it's just very simple, which 52 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: is is it difficult to hold the beliefs. 53 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 2: That you have? And the answer is no. 54 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: I mean, if you are a BLM LGBTQ activist, that's 55 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 1: not difficult. You're accepted by professors, you're accepted by the administration. 56 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: You know what is difficult, it's difficult at times to 57 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: be a turning point USA leader on campus. You're graded differently, 58 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 1: you're looked at differently, you're even called names. And therefore 59 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: the question then should be why do you think I 60 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: keep on believing in conservative ideas even though it's very difficult. 61 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: It doesn't make my life easier. Maybe it's because there 62 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: might be something to our belief system that makes me 63 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: want to actually fight for it that I believe it 64 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: so much because of what is good, true and beautiful 65 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: and because of the facts and the evidence and the 66 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: reason and the history behind it. 67 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 2: And so I'm super inspired by that. 68 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: I was I was traveling here with a friend of mine, 69 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: Tom Lewis, who's here somewhere, and I asked him the 70 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: question when I ask most people before I speak, which is, Hey, 71 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: what do you want me to talk about? And he said, Charlie, 72 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: I think it would be helpful if you laid out 73 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: the differences between the wokies and conservatives. The wokies is 74 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: like a catch all term, right, Basically people who are 75 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: let's say, as far away from enlightenment to believe that 76 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: men can become pregnant. You know, that's kind of a 77 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: catch all term. But I think there's really important because 78 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: people say, Charlie, we are. 79 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 2: So divided in America. I think that there's some truth 80 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 2: to that. 81 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 1: I think that some divisions are actually healthy to actually 82 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: see where each side stands and be able to draw 83 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 1: those lines and be able to say, you know, that 84 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: actually isn't my viewpoint. But there are five things that 85 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,679 Speaker 1: I've come with tonight that I think are really important 86 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: to show the difference between what I as a conservative 87 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: or we as people that believe in the natural law, 88 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: or people that believe in what would be considered classical 89 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: conservatism versus kind of this new phenomenon of postmodernism, post structuralism. 90 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: You call it leftism or liberalism. And the term woke, 91 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: by the way, is a catch all term. You can 92 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: like it, you cannot like it. It actually comes from 93 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: a belief that you have now been able to wake 94 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: up to all the systemic injustice and oppression around and 95 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: now you are enlightened enough to be able to see 96 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: that there's racism around everywhere, and that at that moment, 97 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: you're woke. I honestly think it's somewhat helpful to now 98 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: have a word other than liberal or left to describe 99 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: the most insane things that are happening. I'll give you 100 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: one example, and most people know this that the Toronto 101 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: Raptors are a national basketball team, obviously, and they do 102 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: this video for Women's Month or Woman's Week or whatever 103 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 1: it is, right, and they're just kind of off the 104 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: cuff social media video. You've seen those kind of promo videos, 105 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 1: and they play them kind of during halftime or you know, 106 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: during timeouts, and you know, they say, okay, why do 107 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: you guys appreciate the women in your life or why 108 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: should we appreciate women? And the players for the Raptors say, 109 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 1: you know, oh, they're they're queens and they're amazing and 110 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: they're the only ones that could procreate. Oh, I can't 111 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 1: say that. The Toronto Raptors published that video and quickly 112 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: were forced to take down that video and issue a 113 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 1: multi paragraph apology, groveling that saying that this is not true. 114 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 2: We're gonna be better. 115 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: This is so we're really learning that the idea that 116 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: only women can pro create. Could you imagine the locker 117 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: room after that the Toronto Raptors, I mean, no better 118 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 1: way to radicalize National Basketball Association players to being right 119 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: wingers than being like, no, no, actually, you're too dumb to 120 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: think that only women can become pregnant. And it's one 121 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: thing to believe in it, insane thing, that's nothing new. 122 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: What's different, though, is to force us to believe it 123 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: and not be able to challenge it. 124 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 2: And I'm not going to put up with that, and 125 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 2: you should neither. 126 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: When this is how you know these ideas are so 127 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: poisonous and awful is that they couldn't let the video 128 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: play and then why don't we hear from all the 129 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,679 Speaker 1: experts that could tell us that what the basketball player 130 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: said was wrong where he literally just said they're the 131 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: only ones that can pro create. God bless them to 132 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: the mothers of the world. That's not true in the 133 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: world of the woke, because they believe men can become 134 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: pregnant and birthing people and all that different sort of things, 135 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: right and so, and that was so offensive they had 136 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: to then use force to take it down. And then, 137 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: of course you must then apologize even though you're not sorry. 138 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: That's what's so interesting is I think if you actually 139 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: are sorry in life, you should apologize. 140 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 3: If you're a parent, you don't need to be told 141 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 3: that online safety is important. That's why TikTok has over 142 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 3: fifty pre set safety and privacy settings, and beyond that, 143 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 3: parents can set up family pairing to help shape their 144 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 3: teens experience on the app. With family pairing, parents can 145 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 3: get visibility into their teens followers and who they follow, 146 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 3: help restrict content that's not right for them, and set 147 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 3: screen time limits. Parents can also set restricted times so 148 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 3: they're not on TikTok when they shouldn't be because feeling 149 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 3: good about the time your teen spends online shouldn't come 150 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 3: with guess work. In addition to the already built in 151 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 3: safety and privacy protections, family pairing gives parents more tools 152 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 3: to shape their teens online experience based on what's right 153 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 3: for their family. Remember when safety comes first, discovery and 154 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 3: creativity can follow. Learn more by going to TikTok dot 155 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 3: com slash Guardian's guide. 156 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 2: Here's a good rule for life. 157 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: Never apologize for if you did not do something wrong 158 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: and someone is demanding an apology from you, that's a 159 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: hostage situation that is not necessary of an apology. That's 160 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: I'm so I need you to justify my weird worldview, 161 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,559 Speaker 1: So please, you know, apologize. What did I do wrong? Well, 162 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: you hurt my feelings? Well, okay, but I said that 163 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: only women can be unpregnant. I have so many examples 164 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: of this, by the way. For example, Hershey's Chocolate in 165 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 1: the Just the Last couple of weeks, which is again, 166 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: you know, not exactly I would consider to be a 167 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: company at the top of the list of you know, 168 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: political activism. But Hershey's comes out with a dude that 169 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: is appropriating womanhood and is like dancing around and frolicking 170 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: and says, you know what being a woman to me 171 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: means this, it's a man. It's like a man with 172 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: long hair telling us, and he's like, go buy Hershey's chocolate. 173 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,599 Speaker 1: And I have a deeper theory about this that I 174 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: think is really important, which is the NBA example aside, 175 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: but certainly with Hershey's, and definitely with the NFL, and 176 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: definitely with some other companies. I think these companies use 177 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: the woke stuff as a way to distract us from 178 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,680 Speaker 1: the bad stuff these companies are actually doing. For example, 179 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: maybe it's not a good thing to give eight year 180 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,439 Speaker 1: olds chocolate and corn syrup, but Hershey doesn't want you 181 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: talking about that because they're cool, because they have men 182 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 1: frolicking around as women. I think the woke thing serves 183 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: as almost a smoke screen and a veneer and a 184 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: camouflage from us actually criticizing some of these companies and 185 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: organizations from the legitimate damage they're doing to I don't know, 186 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: contribute the childhood obesity. I mean, again Hershey's, I love chocolate. 187 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 1: You probably love chocolate, But of all the things I 188 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: would think that Hershey would be very worried about. I 189 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 1: didn't think it would be their gender politics. I just 190 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 1: don't think they would weigh in on that. But they 191 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 1: do that because they think they can be immune to 192 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: the pressure from the activist class if they put out 193 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 1: those sort of weird infomercials. The NFL is the same thing, 194 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: by the way, these nauseating end zones end racism, like 195 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: all this stuff. The NFL just doesn't want to talk 196 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: about concussions. And I love football, by the way, I 197 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: love football, but the NFL has covered up concussions for 198 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 1: the last twenty years and they act as if it's 199 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: not a risk factor in a playing football. 200 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 2: I think football is beautiful. I think we should continue it. 201 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: I think we've got to figure out a way to 202 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: try to limit concussions and actually have players not be 203 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: penalized for actually sitting weeks out like Tua you know, 204 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: was totally mistreated with the Miami Dolphins this last season. 205 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: But the NFL doesn't want you talking about that, because 206 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: the NFL instead would say, well, we're we're enlightened because 207 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: you know, we we have the gay flag or whatever 208 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: in our end zone, or we're gonna end racism. Okay, 209 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: ending racism would is a very virtuous thing. Obviously, to 210 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: try to do. Probably gonna take more than a decal 211 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: on the back of a helmet. 212 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 2: Just probably. 213 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: How about we create good people and have kids that 214 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: can read in our public schools in Baltimore. Like, maybe 215 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: that's probably more important than ending racism. Just probably, right, Okay, 216 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: So I have five differences, and you guys can disagree 217 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: on this, but I actually think these even if you 218 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: disagree with everything I stand for and everything that we 219 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: believe at turning Point, USA, I think these five differences 220 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: are actually these are facts of the distinctions between the 221 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: divide the majority divide. Now there are nuances here. You 222 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: might be a Libertyarrian, you might be a socialist, you 223 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: might be you know. So these are general kind of 224 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: categories of five things that I think that are differences 225 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 1: between someone who thinks more on the conservative side or 226 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: someone who had self identify on the American left. And 227 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: the first of which is really important, which is do 228 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: you believe that there is or an ability to believe 229 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: in absolute truth? Do you believe that there is truth 230 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: that might transcend your own opinions? And this is a 231 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 1: very important thing. I'm a Christian, I wear it on 232 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: my sleeve. I think the further, we've gotten away from 233 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: our Christian roots. The more unhappy, less joyful, more miserable 234 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: and violent our country has become. It's not a popular 235 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 1: thing to say in America, but it's true, so you 236 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: could take it for whatever it's worth. But in secular 237 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,959 Speaker 1: society and in the Bible, it says very famous verse 238 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: and man did whatever is right in his own eyes right, 239 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,839 Speaker 1: basically saying, you want moral chaos, you have subjectivity. I'm 240 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: gonna do whatever I want whenever I want to do it, 241 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: because I'm the most important thing. That's a very modern 242 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: way to view your existence, by the way, very modern. Instead, 243 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: the more traditional way, which I think is more healthy 244 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: and actually anchored in wisdom, is that, Okay, I do exist, 245 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: but I'm made in the image of a creator that 246 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 1: is much more powerful and is actually divine, and I 247 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: am not. And I should first care about my obligations 248 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: and my duty and my service more so than my 249 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: own personal feelings. Are my own personal opinions, that's a 250 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: lot more important than thinking are the most important thing 251 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 1: in the world. In fact, I think it actually creates 252 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: unhappier people. I get to that in a second. 253 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 2: Is there truth? 254 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: And I will hear all the time people will say, Charlie, 255 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: there is no such thing as absolute truth. The only 256 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: thing is your own personal perspective and or power dynamics. 257 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: The problem not only is this a problem when you 258 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: play it out in kind of just utilitarian ways, because 259 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:15,559 Speaker 1: eventually somebody's gonna be in charge. Okay, eventually somebody's truth 260 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: is going to reign supreme. And history shows us that 261 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: if you believe that there's no absolute truth, you're gonna 262 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 1: get a Stalin who's willing to use brutal power to 263 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: eventually get to the top of that hierarchy. And nobody 264 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: wants to live in that country. Okay, I shouldn't say nobody. 265 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 1: You shouldn't want to live in that country. 266 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 2: Okay. 267 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:36,199 Speaker 1: The idea of having absolute truth is basic in speech. 268 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: If you do not have agreed upon terms or vocabulary 269 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: where we can have discussion, then what exactly are how 270 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: we ever supposed to remedy our differences. 271 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 2: This is why I am so. 272 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: At times I get accused as being obtuse, which I 273 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: consider to be a compliment. So firm about language precision 274 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: when it comes to sex and gender, because if you 275 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: all of a sudden are allowing words to mean whatever 276 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: those words want them to mean. Then you no longer 277 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,119 Speaker 1: have the ability to be able to remedy your differences 278 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: with somebody who disagree with You're talking on different planets, 279 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: and boy, is that not the case in America today. 280 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 3: Imagine being a young woman just finding out that you're pregnant, 281 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 3: not knowing where to go or what to do, not 282 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 3: even knowing exactly what is going on in your body, 283 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 3: while the whole world tells her it's just a clump 284 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 3: of cells. You and I we both know the truth. 285 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 3: We know it is a baby. And once she has 286 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 3: an ultrasound that you provide and she sees the truth 287 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 3: of the baby growing inside of her, you help her 288 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 3: choose life. When you join us in providing ultrasounds with 289 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 3: preborn and she sees her baby and here's her baby's heartbeat, 290 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 3: you will double the likelihood that she will choose life. 291 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 3: And one hundred percent of what you give goes to 292 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 3: providing ultrasounds one hundred percent preborn Separately. 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Today again, that's eight three three 302 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 3: eight five zero two two two nine, or click on 303 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 3: the preborn banner at Charliekirk dot com. 304 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 2: I'll give you an example. 305 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: Here's one word that means something completely different to one 306 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: side than it does to the other side. 307 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 2: And this is sad the word insurrection. 308 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: Okay, for half the country, they see what happened on 309 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: January sixth, and they say that is a violent overthrow 310 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: of our government. When reviewing the forty five thousand hours 311 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: of footage, I don't think it was a noble thing. 312 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: Obviously to go smash windows and to try to harm 313 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: police officers, But largely it was a bu bunch of 314 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: buffoons that were kind of like Amateurville, USA, that had 315 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: really some planning to no planning whatsoever. And if that's 316 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: an insurrection. It's the first insurrection American history where the 317 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: guards are showing the insurrectionist surround the place they're trying 318 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: to take over. Here, here's the windows, and this with that, 319 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 1: they're docins at a museum. That's not an insurrection, that's 320 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: a tour guide. And yet they keep on repeating this 321 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: in the last couple of days insurrections. That's really bad 322 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: because then it dilutes the term. I'll give you another example. Racism. 323 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: Racism is real, it is it's evil because that means 324 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: you are putting a label on somebody that they did 325 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: not earn something. 326 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 2: They cannot change something, no. 327 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: Matter how hard they try, they can't break outside of 328 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: that label. That is stereotyping somebody's actions and judging them 329 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: and putting them in a box before they've ever ever 330 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: done something to you. 331 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 2: That is evil, it's wrong, it's terrible. 332 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: But however, if you say racism in America, some people 333 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: on the left will say, but black people can't be racist. 334 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: This is a predominant prevailing viewer. They say, well, white 335 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 1: people are racist no matter what, when basically, the classical 336 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 1: definition of racism is one that we should not just accept, 337 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: that should be predominant, which is any person of any 338 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: race could be racist at any time. It's wrong and 339 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: it's evil. And guess what, We're actually not that racist 340 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 1: of a country. We're actually the least racist country ever 341 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: to exist in the history of the world. We're actually 342 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: rather decent to each other, considering we have every nation 343 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: represented on the planet, every language spoken. We've let more 344 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: people into our country than any other country ever to 345 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: exist in the history of the world, and we largely 346 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: get along. 347 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 2: That's a big deal. 348 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 1: In fact, we have a supply and demand problem with 349 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,399 Speaker 1: racism that if you are a famous soon to be 350 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:45,719 Speaker 1: failed actor in Chicago, you have to fake your own 351 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: hate crime. There's so little racism that you got to 352 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: go all of a sudden, put like a noose around 353 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: your neck and act as if, oh my goodness, they're 354 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: hunting me down on the streets and screaming this is 355 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,199 Speaker 1: maga country. That's how you know you don't live in 356 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:00,199 Speaker 1: a racist country. We have to fake your own hate crime, 357 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 1: and by the way, you do it really sloppily, and 358 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 1: you think people are gonna believe you. By the way, 359 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: I'm from Chicago. I knew this whole thing was bs 360 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 1: as soon as I heard negative thirty degrees. You go 361 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 1: out to subway that's really weird at like two am, 362 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: Like that whole thing is really strange. And then he 363 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: says that the two people come up with Maga hats 364 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: and proclaim this is Maga country, and then they throw 365 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: the noose around him. And then when the police come 366 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 1: back into his apartment, he's still wearing the news and 367 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: the police officer, God bless him, he'said that one of 368 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 1: the funniest lines in the history of police bodycam footage. 369 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: First thing, first thing the police officer says, is why 370 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 1: are you still wearing the news? It's like it's been 371 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: in It's like been twenty minutes. Like I get it. 372 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: It's like, don't you think you take it off? Like 373 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 1: that's you're wearing it like it's it's a costume because 374 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: it was a costume. Okay, So when words start to 375 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: mean something that they don't actually mean, then you get 376 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: into power dynamics and that's really bad. So but deeper 377 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: than that, My challenge to you, even if you don't 378 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 1: think there is absolute truth, I challenge you to at 379 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: least entertain the idea that there is absolute truth, because 380 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 1: otherwise you actually then self contradicting your own viewpoint. Which 381 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: one of my favorite dialogues have ever had with a 382 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: student is they say, Charlie, there is no such thing 383 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 1: as absolute truth. I say, well, is that absolutely true? 384 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: And immediately it collapses, right, because then you're using the 385 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: paradigm that you're trying to criticize against the person that 386 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: you're going. Okay, second thing is this, which is okay? 387 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 1: It kind of ties into this. What matters more in 388 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: trying to make difficult political decisions or difficult decisions reason 389 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:38,719 Speaker 1: or emotions? Okay, Reason should always matter more than your emotions. 390 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: Your emotions are important. Your emotions, though, can deceive you 391 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: because they fluctuate. They also are incredibly subjective. We need 392 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: to go through a political process where reason is much 393 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 1: more important than emotion, and emotion should not mean nothing. 394 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 1: When you see five thousand people go across your southern 395 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 1: border every single day, you should be angry about that. 396 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: When you see children that are allowed to have drag 397 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: queens performed in front of them, you should be angry 398 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: about that. However, the way that we go about actually 399 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: doing something should dictate and use reason because reason actually 400 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 1: tempers that emotion and then you're able to build consensus 401 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: based on that reason. You could, you can have agreed 402 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: upon terms and agreed upon language. I'm afraid that our 403 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 1: politics has become way too emotive and not very logical. 404 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: And by the way, this is actually sometimes both sides 405 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: are equal opportunity offenders of this, so there's not one 406 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 1: side versus the other. 407 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 2: I get upset on both sides about this. 408 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: But largely in American life today, and especially I think 409 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: in the in the viewpoint of what we call the wokies, 410 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: it is hyper emotional and very little factual. So for example, 411 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 1: you know when I will go on to college campus 412 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: and they'll say, you know, Charlie, you cannot be a 413 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: black person and walk down the street without the police 414 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: coming and gunning you down. It's super frequent, it's super common. 415 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: But then you use your reason, you say, well, how 416 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: common is it how many unarmed black men are killed 417 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 1: by the police every single year? And estimates they'll say thousand, 418 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: two thousand, five, ten thousand, fifty thousand. It's eighteen And 419 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: that's according to the Washington Post, not exactly a right 420 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: wing outlet. 421 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 2: Okay, eighteen is too much. You go look into that. 422 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 2: It's actually less than that. 423 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: It's more like ten or eleven because the way they 424 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: determine it is actually really kind of sketchy. It's like 425 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:24,439 Speaker 1: some people were trying to run over the top of 426 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 1: the car. They were reaching for some that could have 427 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 1: been a weapon. Okay, let's say that it's fifteen out 428 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 1: of millions of police interactions every single year and a 429 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: very very difficult job that keeps us all safe. Are 430 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,880 Speaker 1: we really supposed to disassemble modern society because of fifteen 431 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 1: examples that are very subject to error when emotions are 432 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: heightened and you're in the heat of the moment. So 433 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 1: that's using your reason against emotion to actually come to 434 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: a conclusion. And the summer of twenty twenty Floyda Palooza, 435 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: we decided to allow our emotion to literally burn down 436 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 1: our civilization. We should never let that happen again, because 437 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: the reason should have been, actually, we're not a racist country. 438 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: There's no excuse for what happened in Minneapolis. 439 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 2: That's bad. 440 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 1: It's also extremely rare, and to connect that all of 441 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: a sudden a sixteen nineteen project were systemically racist and 442 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: all that this is not true. But if you don't 443 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: believe in absolute truth, and that argument is not very convincing, 444 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: is it. That goes back to the first point third 445 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 1: one this victims and victors look. Part of the Marxist 446 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:32,199 Speaker 1: view is constantly looking at things through either race, gender, 447 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:36,359 Speaker 1: class right. So Marx originally was really big on class. 448 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 1: Actually he said some things that were sort of true 449 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: about that. We can talk about that later. Then gender came. 450 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: They're totally done with that one, by the way, because 451 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: they can't tell you what. 452 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:44,439 Speaker 2: A woman is. 453 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: But the big one that they're really driving home is race, right, 454 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: which is constantly trying to tell people that there is 455 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 1: something that you have a disadvantage against you, that you 456 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: have a barrier, that you have a limitation based on 457 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,680 Speaker 1: something you can't change. This is one of the most 458 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 1: immoral and evil things that you can tell a young 459 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 1: black person in America, or a young Hispanic person, or 460 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: anyone an ethnic minority. 461 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:09,679 Speaker 2: If you're telling them. 462 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,399 Speaker 1: Out of the gate that there are these boogeyman barriers 463 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: that might prevent them from flourishing and success and prosperity. 464 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: By definition, that student will be less likely to take 465 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: a risk, to engage in self discipline and to try 466 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: to get to a higher place of flourishing. You're basically 467 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: telling them the game is so rigged against you, the 468 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: white man, the structural structure against you, that you shouldn't 469 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: do that. Instead, it should be you know what, you 470 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,239 Speaker 1: might get jypped here and there by a jerk, but 471 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: we actually largely live in a decent country, and you're 472 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 1: going to find some decent people, and if you don't 473 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: like that decent person, quit and find a decent person instead. 474 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,479 Speaker 1: Be gritty and be tough, and if you do that, 475 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: you can succeed in this country. That's a much better 476 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: message than telling everybody that they're a victim simply because 477 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,719 Speaker 1: of the color of their skin, and that is a 478 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: massive divide as we see manifest in our country today. 479 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 3: Charlie had an absolutely relentless passion for learning. I saw 480 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 3: it up close and personal in every waking moment, every 481 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 3: spare moment that he could. He had a book open, 482 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 3: he had a podcast open, he had a Hillsdale Online 483 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 3: course open. He was always diving into new ideas, absorbing information, 484 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 3: studying up and sharpening his skills. That's why I loved 485 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 3: doctor arn at Hillsdale College. They shared a deep understanding 486 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 3: that learning is the key to shaping your character, creating courage, 487 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 3: and changing lives. Charlie never stopped learning, and neither should you. 488 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 3: Through Hillsdale's online courses, he spent time studying the classics, 489 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 3: the American Founding, and the enduring truth of the Bible. 490 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 3: Now it is your turn. With Hillsdale's free online courses, 491 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 3: you can follow in his footsteps, learning from real professors 492 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 3: and challenging yourself with rigorous coursework that's free and accessible 493 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 3: to anybody who's willing to learn. A great place to 494 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 3: start is their brand new course on logic and Rhetor 495 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 3: learn from Hillsdale professors how to speak masterfully, make a 496 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 3: powerful point and see how clear thinking leads to better 497 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 3: decision making and more effective speech. Don't wait, go to 498 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 3: charliefur Hillsdale dot com to enroll today. It's completely free. 499 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 3: This is a real good one. By the way, logic 500 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 3: and rhetoric, pick up the mic, carry it forward. Learn 501 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 3: like Charlie. Start right now at Charlie for Hillsdale dot com. 502 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 1: Okay, I could talk about that one forever, but I'm 503 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 1: gonna go quick number four, which is probably one of 504 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: my favorites, and it should be. Honestly, if I was 505 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: king for a day, that would be really something. 506 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 2: I gotta tell you. If I was king for a day, 507 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 2: I would make it a nation. 508 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: I would I would make it a requirement that every 509 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: class in college or high school at least debates, thinks, 510 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: and reads on the topic of whether or not man 511 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: is basically good or basically evil. This is one of 512 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: the most fundamental questions when you talk about politics and 513 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: life forms almost every other question when it comes to politics. Now, 514 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: spoiler alert, if you're a Christian, you cannot believe man 515 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: is basically good. Okay, it's impossible, Just a little spoiler alert. 516 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: It's incompatible. Most of the secular world, though, believes that 517 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,879 Speaker 1: man is born good and corrupted by the influences outside 518 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: of him. So born perfect and corrupted by racism, corrupted 519 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,919 Speaker 1: by capitalism, corrupted by all the corporatism, all this stuff, 520 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: and therefore we can't blame the human being who is flawed. 521 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 1: We got to change all society and that will make 522 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: the world better. I'm a parent of now a six 523 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 1: month old. I think other parents would agree. If you 524 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: want a masterclass in demonstrating human nature, have children, and 525 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: you'll learn human nature very quickly. Like I never taught 526 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 1: you that, But that's very bad. Stop doing that, Like 527 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: where did you learn that? It's because their nature, I 528 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: believe is naturally bad. Does that mean are all bad? No, 529 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: there is a tension. You do have a conscience. In fact, 530 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: in Genesis three, not to talk too much about the 531 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 1: Bible because somebody might find it unpersuasive, even though it 532 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 1: built the civilization you're in. 533 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 2: But that's a separate issue. Cain. 534 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,199 Speaker 1: One of the most amazing dialogues is Cain talking to God, 535 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: where God asks him what happened to your brother? And 536 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: Cain did not immediately say, well, I murdered him? 537 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 2: Of course. 538 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: Instead, his answer, and I'm just paraphrasing from memory, it 539 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: was actually somewhat defensive. Basically it was like, what am 540 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,920 Speaker 1: I my brother's keeper? And there's a lot of different 541 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: ways to read that verse, but basically that's playing defense 542 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: because I believe God did put an element of conscious 543 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: in every single human being. 544 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 2: However it wasn't enough. 545 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: That's why you had of the no way, a covenant 546 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,679 Speaker 1: and eventually the Laws of Israel. And then obviously we 547 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: believe as Christians, you know, Jesus Christ, God incarnate to 548 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: lead us towards the absolute truth. But the point being 549 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: is that I do believe there is some agency for 550 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: a human being to be able to. 551 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 2: Judge good and bad. But guess what. 552 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: What we know through human history and just raising children 553 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 1: is that usually your nature wins out against the dialogue 554 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: in your head. So the question should be what do 555 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 1: we do about it? Try to raise good people, pretty simple. 556 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 1: Teach young people what is right or wrong, and punish 557 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: them when they do wrong. Pretty simple. Well, it's actually 558 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: not that simple, because civilizations have tried to figure it 559 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: out for quite some time. In fact, America was figuring 560 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: it out really well when we used to at a 561 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: certain model of education we've gotten away from them. If 562 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: people are naturally good, then you can excuse all the 563 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: injustice in the world. If people are naturally not good, 564 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: then the problem is very simple. Make them better understand 565 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: their nature. You see, when a college student believes they're 566 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: naturally good and they know they're not, it actually can 567 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: be very tormenting to them. Instead, we should say, your 568 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,239 Speaker 1: nature is rather crummy, and if you work hard at 569 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: it enough, you can actually become a pretty good person. Instead, 570 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: if you tell a nineteen year old your nature is perfect, 571 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 1: they become an activist because they think everything wrong about 572 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: the world is outside of them. Instead, you should say, 573 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: the biggest problem and the biggest challenge you have every 574 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: single day is the person you see in the mirror. 575 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: It's you versus you. It's not you versus climate change. 576 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: It's not you versus systemic racism. It's not you versus transphobia. 577 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: How about you make your bed, shave and stop smelling 578 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: like a mess before you tell me that America is 579 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: systemically racist. We used to tell our children in America. 580 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: We used to tell our children, you got a lot 581 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: of problems and America is great. Now we tell our 582 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: children America has a lot of problems and you are great. 583 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: And the result is the most miserable, suicidal, depressed, confused 584 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: generation in American histay, because we've taught them that their 585 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 1: past is crummy, no ability to improve their current life 586 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 1: unless they tear everything down around them. That creates activists 587 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 1: and arsonists, not good people. 588 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:12,719 Speaker 2: Okay. 589 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: Finally, one that I could go on at some length here, 590 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: which I think is really important, which is what is 591 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: man's relationship with nature? And this is one that is 592 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: going to just be the number one issue that I 593 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 1: don't know tonight the questions that we'll get, but I 594 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: get this question probably more than anything else. Charlie, what 595 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: do you think about climate change and all this? And 596 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 1: I'm happy to discuss all of it, But you cannot 597 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: even begin to get into that debate until you could 598 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,479 Speaker 1: tell me, on moral terms, what you believe man versus 599 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: nature and how they should coexist. I believe in a 600 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: hierarchy of man of nature. I believe nature is there 601 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: for us as human beings, to be able to use, 602 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: to put human beings first. I do not believe we're 603 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: here to worship nature. I do not believe we are 604 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: here to get some sort of, let's say, religious. 605 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 2: Kick out of nature. 606 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: I think nature is made by God, who is outside 607 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: of nature, for man, who is above nature, to be 608 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: able to flourish. 609 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 2: Why does that matter? 610 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: Well, if you believe that nature and man are equals, 611 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: or even worse, if you believe that nature is above man, well, 612 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you then have an argument 613 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: to shut down industrial production to limit human population. 614 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 2: You see, Earth worship. 615 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: Is nothing new. It is coming back, though in great, 616 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 1: in great detail. The question in front of us should 617 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: be And this is what I always ask of the 618 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: climate change people, is, would you believe the same policy 619 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: prescriptions that you have to you know, some of them. 620 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 1: There's some nuances here, right, but get rid of fossil fuels, 621 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: you know, widespread electric vehicles, all this stuff. Would you 622 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: still believe that if you believe that human beings actually 623 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 1: have a hierarchy over nature? And you might say, well, 624 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 1: that's insignificant because I want to save the environment to 625 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 1: be able to save human beings. Okay, so that's actually 626 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: a good argument if it was true, if you can buy, 627 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: if you can get me to buy into quote unquote 628 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: scientific consensus, after everything I've been told by the scientific 629 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 1: elites over the last three years has been proven to 630 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: be a synthetic, fabricated lie, whether it be the virus 631 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 1: came from a bat in the Himalayan mountains and kicking 632 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: me off Twitter for mentioning it, shutting down kids and 633 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: putting on masks, of which epidemiologically was one of the 634 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: worst stupidest things we could ever do to young teenagers. 635 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: And then to force on an mRNA gene altering shot 636 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 1: onto a younger generation and tell them if you don't 637 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: get this, you don't go to college. 638 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 2: You can't go to the military. 639 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: You can't get a job, and then not even an 640 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: apology from Fauci or ro Lenski or the people in charge. Yeah, 641 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: excuse me while I say, yeah, you probably haven't earned 642 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: my trust the last couple of years. In fact, you've 643 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: earned my distrust. Like when you are really getting towards something, 644 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: I think there actually might be. 645 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 2: An alter three of motive behind you. 646 00:32:55,240 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 1: So man's man's relationship with nature is very important. I 647 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 1: believe you have to be able to express that on 648 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 1: the moral terms. 649 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 3: For more on many of these stories and news you 650 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 3: can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com.