Ask Charlie Anything 234: Angry Young Men? Lonely Young Women? College's #1 Priority?
Charlie takes an hour of questions live from CK Exclusives subscribers, including: -Why are so many men embracing very dark worldviews online, and what should they do instead? -Why is running for office a good idea, even if you don't win the race? -What should be the top priorities for your time when starting at college? Become an Exclusives subscriber and ask Charlie a question on-air by going to members.charliekirk.com.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I actually want to start with a member email that we got.
It's very important.
It's from Stephanie.
And it's something I'm hearing more and more.
And I think I'm uniquely positioned to address it.
She says, Stephanie, Stephanie writes, says, hi, Charlie.
I'm a concerned parent of a 21 and 19 year old man, young men.
I've seen some pretty big changes in my sons in the last 18 months.
Their attitudes about women is real.
Women, Israel, and even God have worsened.
I try to temper and dispute these false ideologies, but I don't think I make a dent.
I'm praying constantly for the Lord to intervene and change their hearts and bring them back to him.
However, I wondered if you consider doing a show on this.
Maybe touch on some false teachings by conservatives that are brainwashing young men to hate women, Israel, and even question Christianity.
I think parents should be aware and equipped to help their sons.
I feel like you have a platform to do this.
Thank you so much for your time.
I want to lead by this because there's a lot of different reasons for this.
Let me first start as to why this is happening and then how we address it.
The first, of course, is the why.
Young men are entering a disordered society.
It's disordered in dating.
It's disordered in male-female relations.
It's disordered economically.
Young women are more empowered to engage in the venom of feminism where they just want free sex and that they want nothing to do with men in any sort of deep relationship.
I experienced this recently where I spoke to a couple of young women at a certain event I was at and they're like, We just use men for sex, money, and dinners.
Wow, it's pretty dark.
So young men are souring on male-female relations.
Secondly, the economics drives some of this, but not all of this.
It's a disordered economic environment.
It's harder than ever to buy a home.
Rents are going up.
But there's a second part to it that I think sometimes is missed here.
So the first of which we need to talk about why it's happening, but then also realize that it's So I want to play this TikTok here.
This is from a young man.
It's gone very viral, and he's articulating some of the economic resentment that drives this partially.
Play cut 442.
They tell us to stop eating out and rent $2,000 a month.
Oh, save for retirement, and yet you can barely save for next week.
Go buy a house.
Every house is half a million dollars, brother.
I'm not asking for a handout, man.
We're asking for a freaking fair shot at life.
Our parents did not work harder than we work right now.
They were simply just given a better chance.
Their wages covered their lives, their bills, their hobbies, their passions.
our wages barely cover our freaking bills for the the month dude No amount of budgeting can ever fix a system designed to keep us down.
We're doing the best that we can, and yet it feels like the outcomeome has already been decided.
A lot of young men feel that way.
They're getting priced out of this economy.
They can't afford homes.
So we have to build more homes, deport a bunch of illegals, end the H1B scam, be harsher on crime.
All those things will help.
But what does it mean for you out there if you are a 19 or 20 or 21 year old man?
Well, the problem is when you are economically disordered and societally and relationally disordered, you tend to find yourself engaging in bitterness and resentment politics.
And at that moment, we must call time out.
It is all good, fair, and acceptable to say I can't afford stuff and it's wrong.
It's all good, fair, and acceptable and should be actually highlighted to say my parents had it easier than me.
I am with you.
There has been an intentional intergenerational thievery campaign to plunder and to steal your future.
But the question, the operative question is, what did you do about it?
Politically, we're working on it.
That's what Donald Trump wants to do.
However, this is where it gets a little bit dark because you can use that disordered reality.
You can use the fact that young people are on the outside looking in.
And you can mobilize it towards treacherous means.
There are a lot of voices out there trying to win over young men.
Now mind you, I don't try to win over young men.
We try to speak truth.
And whoever likes what I have to say, they end up following me.
We have moms that follow us.
We have young women that follow us.
We have senior retirees.
We have veterans.
We have Hispanics.
We have blacks.
We have Asians.
I would postulate that we have actually one of the most diverse audiences of anybody in right-wing world.
We have Jews.
We have secularists.
We have atheists.
We have Christians.
We have Mormons.
We have Catholics because we don't pander.
We don't try to just have a little fringe.
little corner.
And that's the key is some content creators, they just want to hold on to a fraction of the population constantly feeding at what they want to hear.
here and some people that are catering specifically to the resentment of young men they might consider themselves be right-wing but what they actually represent sometimes is very similar to the left rhetorically they promote resentment-based views of the world they promote blaming other people for your problems and not taking ownership of your life and that is key yes the rules are rigged against you yes you don't have it like your parents now what You're going to complain and just stare at your screen all day long?
Or are you going to go make yourself more physically fit?
Or are you going to go to church?
Are you going to stop watching pornography and stop doing drugs and stop drinking alcohol and stop staring at your screen till 3 a.m.
The question is not the environment, which is important and we must address, but the most important thing is what are you going to do with your agency?
On the left, you hear people say all the time, well, white people are racist and that's why minorities can't get ahead.
But on the right, this is key.
More and more you are hearing from some fringe voices is that you can't succeed because we're ruled by the Jews or some Zionist-occupied government.
And that is the term they use.
It's easy to sell people on hating.
It's extremely seductive and shallow to tell people they can hate somebody and it's even morally justified.
People get into online subcultures, chats, groups that feed all of this.
And it's cycles of anger and negativity.
And then to have some compassion is they can't afford anything.
So they can't afford anything.
So that resentment is just a fire, it's unstoppable.
Bonfire that is fed.
They can't afford stuff.
So they go back on the internet and they say, this is why you can't afford stuff.
And then they can't afford more stuff.
And then the women they want to date, the modern woman is just, unfortunately, again, we have some wonderful, sweet women that work for us here at Turning Point of the Charlie Kirk Show.
But so many of the modern women are just so on the other planetary when it comes to what young men are looking for.
They don't want tradition or piety.
They want something completely different.
But here's the raw truth.
This is the key.
People who view themselves as the chief arbiters of success in life, they live better lives.
And we've always promoted that at Turning Point, always.
It's not that there are no problems.
There are a ton, especially for young people.
In fact, we are one of the few.
I went on Tucker Carlson's and I talked about BNPL.
And we talked about debt finance and we talked about homes and renting.
All that is legit and that is fair game.
But we always, always, always, always say that those problems are fixable and they are fixable through our own actions And if you reduce some of the right-wing, quote-unquote, right-wing commentators that are saying this, you reduce it down to we'll get better once we kick out all the Jews.
Now, there's something dark about you, actually, if you're saying that.
Oh, it's going to get better if we just kick all the Jews out of the country.
If you are a young man today, there's honestly a ton of opportunity out there.
Unemployment is low.
The Trump economy is really heating up.
Learning skills are easier than ever.
College is less necessary than it was 15 years ago.
Salaries for skilled work in America are high, and there's a labor shortage.
In fact, people that are working in AI, they say there will be more millionaires created in the next five years than were created in the last 50 years.
Let me say that again.
There will be more millionaires created in the next five years than last 50 years.
You have a good idea for a business, go use AI and work with it.
If you have an idea for a movie, go use AI and try to publish it.
Don't just stare at the screen and go blame the people in the shadows that you don't like.
Instead, go be a champion and go on an adventure.
Own your future.
Don't blame somebody else because you don't have it.
Getting married is harder.
I agree.
It's hard to find a woman.
But you don't fix it by scrolling through endlessly.
And by the way, I think deep down, you know it's bad for you.
It's kind of like watching porn or doing drugs.
It doesn't make you feel good.
Here's a good rule of life.
If you feel worse after you engage in something repeatedly and you feel just broken and darker, it's probably not good for you.
Getting married is harder.
You fix that by going to church, getting engaged in community, stop drinking.
Maybe you go to the Catholic Church.
Maybe you go to a good evangelical church.
The point being is you look up.
You don't look at your screen.
Look up at the transcendent.
Go read books, take a Hillsdale online course, go lose 10 pounds, go for a walk, turn off your phone, honor the Shabbat, learn a foreign language.
All of that is accessible to you.
You have a supercomputer in your right-hand pocket, and this supercomputer should be used for self-improvement, taking inventory, journaling, self-authoring, aiming at a transcendent destination.
Instead, you don't use the supercomputer for resentment and bitterness.
That is wrong.
And it's doable.
If you're fat, eat better and work out.
If you're poor, I get it.
The economy has not been in favor of you, but there are ways to still make money.
Take a second job.
If you're young and you have a lot of energy, figure it out.
Push yourself.
You will feel more satisfied and feel more connected to purpose.
Or you could do all that stuff, or you can blame the Jews.
Choice is yours.
One will give you joy, purpose, children, and a future.
The other one, I think we know where that leads.
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Melissa, what's on your mind?
Can you hear me?
Yes, how are you?
I'm great.
I'm so excited to be on with you.
I'm a long time listener.
And a couple of years ago, I was able to hear you speak at Baylor with my daughter.
Oh, wonderful.
I remember that event.
Yes.
Baylor's got some problems.
I'll tell you what, but that's for another time.
Another time.
Well, I wanted to talk to you today about my state of New Hampshire, largely inspired by you and other conservative voices.
I'm stepping out in faith and I'm running for Congress in New Hampshire's first district.
Amazing.
Fenomenal.
Yeah.
Yeah, and I've met your Turning Point Action rep here, Davis Miller, he's great.
He's at all of our local Republican events.
In fact, he's speaking at my town's committee meeting next week.
And I understand that you're hiring more field reps here and that you see our state as an opportunity to flip our federal seats.
I'm extremely optimistic myself, obviously being in the race and being on the ground here.
So I'd love to hear from you what you're seeing that makes you view our state as an opportunity.
And I'm also curious if New Hampshire will be one of your stops on your college tour this fall.
So great question.
I don't know if I'm coming this fall.
So we like New Hampshire for a lot of different reasons.
We're going to be investing pretty substantially in New Hampshire if we can raise the capital.
And even if we can't, we're going to have definitely a fighting force there.
So New Hampshire is interesting.
New Hampshire has two Democrat senators and Democrats have won New Hampshire every single year presidentially for the last twenty years, but it has a Republican governor, as you well know.
It actually has more registered Republicans than Democrats in New Hampshire.
Republicans control the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and they control a lot of the House of Representatives, a lot of libertarians and very, very grassroots politics.
So we like that.
Their state house is extremely large, 400 members, one of the largest in the country.
And it's also growing with a lot of freedom seekers throughout the Northeast, as a lot of freedom seekers from Massachusetts and Connecticut and Vermont, they are going to New Hampshire.
Now, the question is always the independence and how you mobilize them and how you reach out to them.
However, it is very, it's true, it's clear that New Hampshire, like Arizona, they will elect Arizona.
They will elect Republicans to statewide office.
So we want to try to invest in New Hampshire to possibly win a Senate seat or two Senate seats in the future.
And if you're able to do that, you're able to create another.
You're able to create a red wall to counter the prior blue wall.
If the Democrats are able to win back Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, taking New Hampshire plus Nevada, it's basically like winning another battleground state.
And so I'm cautiously bullish on New Hampshire.
As you know, there are some really fast-moving towns and cities like Portsmouth and Nashaw and Manchester.
New Hampshire has an increasing population.
which not every northeastern state does.
And I know I was just in Maine.
I know a lot of Mainers that are moving to New Hampshire for freedom and for lower taxes.
And there's a lot of spillover from Massachusetts, which people think is bad, but it's actually not.
A lot of the spillover is actually more right-wing, center-right people that are a little more conservative that don't want to have the nonsense that they see in Boston or they.
see in Portland.
And so I, again, New Hampshire is very local.
It is very grassrootsy.
My piece of advice for you is be everywhere, campaign throughout the entire state.
And even if you don't win, here's my piece of advice.
If you don't win, you could one day be White House press secretary.
Caroline Levitt ran for Congress.
We endorsed her.
She came on our show when she was just a congressional candidate, and now she is the White House press secretary.
So I believe running for office is good for you.
Even if you don't win, it develops your character.
You get to know the state.
It boosts your name ID.
So don't look at it as victory or defeat, whether or not you win.
Look at it as victory no matter what, that you are going to win even if you do not win and you could run again.
And it's a great thing for your kids and your family members to see that you are winning even if you don't get the most amount of votes.
It's that kind of growth mindset.
You will become a stronger person and a stronger mom and a better neighbor and a better community member.
And again, look at Caroline Levitt.
Caroline Levitt did not win her congressional seat.
She should have.
And everyone thought, wow, you know, what will her future be?
Well, now she's one of the most name-recognized ID people in the conservative movement doing a fabulous job defending President Trump every single day as press secretary.
So work hard.
You're going to do great.
I hope to see you in the granite state.
And I think we're going to be visiting sometime soon.
Thank you so much.
I want to just kind of continue on this idea of growth mindset.
We live in the greatest country ever.
And some people are trying to convince you that we don't.
President Trump has improved this economy dramatically.
The one big beautiful bill is just kicking in.
There's never been a better time to start a business and have a growth mindset and make money than right now in the United States of America.
Yes, it's hard.
Things are expensive.
They are out of touch, out of reach.
Affordability is a massive thing.
But the number one inhibitor to getting money is your psychology.
It's your mindset.
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have a huge governatorial race coming up and i don't see that we've really addressed the voter id and the problem with the machines and things like that.
And I thought that we were all gangbusters to go forward and get that resolved.
I don't see enough action coming up and the election is right around the corner.
Any suggestions or thoughts on that?
Yeah, so I think that as far as so your question is about voter ID and voter rolls.
Is that right?
Correct.
So I would say that, look, First and foremost, I agree that Maricopa is a cesspool of corruption and just complete and total nonsense.
However, I would add on top of it that we still won in 2024 without all of it, without all the kind of changes that we need.
You know, President Trump won by major margins.
We won by nearly 200,000 votes.
And so we still need to fix a lot of things in the Maricopa level.
We need to clean our voter rolls.
We need to take the illegals off our voter rolls.
But get out the vote and ballot chasing is still key to outvote the fraud and to outchase it.
So thank you so much.
Really appreciate it.
I got to get to get to some more.
Okay.
What's next?
Daisy.
Dave, Dave, what is on your mind?
Thanks for being a member.
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Well, hi there, Charlie.
Thanks.
Appreciate you having me on second time around.
So appreciate you, man.
Thank you.
Yes.
I wanted to run something by real quick.
So props to Caine at Citizen Free Press.
These are two of them that he's had on recently.
So Winston Sears a week ago had tweeted out about the Virginia man who tried to abduct a child at a local mall.
And shocking, we come to find out that he's got 43 priors.
I don't know the actual citizen citizenship status of the man.
So I have to be fair in that regard.
But then there's another article from Alabama about a Haitian immigrant who is running from some legitimate reasons who seems to be a pillar of the community.
So I'm kind of thinking a carrot and stick model here that I'd love to get your take on.
So number one with legal enhancements, why can't we just add legal enhancements almost like tongue in cheek here, like a three strike policy where we say, hey, we're going to put a, you know, first time if you get a speeding ticket or something, you know, whatever, we're going to put an enhancement that's going to mark you for deportation.
Three times around, guess what?
We're tired of it.
So instead of letting you get to number 43, Charlie, let's get you at like five.
You know, some grace, I don't know what you want to call it, where if I can get $50 million for rabbit breeding habits from major universities, why can't I find enough money to put something like Hillsdale together that gives a program for people who want to be pillars of the community who are illegal, that learn our constitution, learn our form of government, learn to speak English, yada, yada, yada, and can be ready.
If and when we decide to turn this around and bring them into, you know, into the community.
So I just wanted to get your take.
Two stories that got me going.
So first of all, I totally agree.
Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.
And there's a Virginia guy who kidnapped a kid.
He had 43 priors in Fairfax.
There's a lot of deportations that have yet to happen.
That's right.
He kidnapped a kid and he had 43 priors.
And this is Blake called this, boy, Blake called this shot that we said, we're afraid we're going to see an increase in kidnappings in this country.
And you can see the video right there.
And we are.
You know, we were kind of without a lot of kidnapping problems in this country for decades.
It was very, very rare.
Most of the times you guys hear the Amber alerts.
It's just a, usually almost always a custody battle.
Well, we are now seeing a return of kidnapping thanks to the third world coming in because the third world kidnapping is very very normal three guys did 200 home depot burglaries in the news today we are in it we are an invaded infected country and for those that those that have kids it's horrifying to think about the amount of kidnappers that are just lurking around again the kidnapping was not a problem growing up in this country everyone would agree 20 or 30 years ago kidnapping was not a country was not a
problem at all But now we're seeing more and more of it being a problem because we have imported a third world where kidnapping is normative criminal behavior.
You kidnap the kid of somebody wealthy and you hold them hostage against.
against to go get some sort of ransom.
And people don't let their kids go outside by themselves anymore.
People say, what kind of country do you want?
I want a country where I feel my kids can go outside right now.
But with all the third worlders prowling around, I don't feel safe with that.
And you shouldn't either.
I mean, you walk the streets of New York City.
It is an occupied third world city now.
It's sad.
So that Virginia guy kidnapped a kid.
He had 43 priors.
43 priors.
And trick or treating is dying down because parents are just too scared.
We're a nation where we have locks and security systems.
That was not the country I grew up in.
The country I grew up in is like, oh, you didn't lock your doors.
No big deal.
But you become a nation of strangers and you have rape gangs.
all throughout Europe.
People don't trust going to the mall, going to the park.
No go zones.
You become what you import far too often.
Brit is next.
Brit, what is on your mind?
members.charliekirk.com.
Hi.
So now that I'm older, I am looking to date and I've just become really frustrated because I find that a lot of men nowadays, even though they're thirty, they're very disrespectful.
They expect you always to put out on the first date.
And if you don't, they ghost you.
And they just haven't been treating me and my friends very well at all.
And they don't even seem to have like good careers or like the maturity level.
And I was wondering why you think this is and how we can find Christian conservative men who will treat us well.
So it's a very important question.
This is a this is a major breakdown.
And we again, we covered this earlier in the hour, the disordered social norms that we're living through.
Respectfully, if I had a young man, they would say that the women are the worst.
Women don't want any connection.
They dress way too provocatively.
They are constantly sleeping around.
They are entitled.
And both sides have grievances.
And so I don't really know the way to answer that, to be honest, except that you need to go to church, try to find a wholesome Christian man there, and save yourself for marriage.
And one of the most important things is marriage.
Not just going to church.
That's important.
But join organizations.
Join clubs.
Become a hobbyist.
And be involved in things in your community.
You will not just meet people by staring at a screen all the time.
Okay.
Thank you.
We got to get to one more question here.
Tasha.
thank you so much for being a member members dot charlie kirk dot com hi i just wanted to say congratulations for making it on to south park that was great it was a great review of the whole team too it was wonderful to watch um it's epic and i'm wondering if you're going to create a chocolate charlie kirk award to give to special guests or sell i think it's a great idea I think it's great.
By the way, thank you.
But all you guys that are members at charliekirk.com, look how far we have come.
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I think we have no choice.
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Thank you so much for answering my call.
So I'm going to Faith Baptist Bible College in Ankeny, Iowa.
This will be my first time going to college.
Great.
I was just wondering how you would manage time between going to classes, working, and then, I guess, getting, quote, the college experience.
So that's a good question.
I mean, I never went to college, so I don't know.
And I mean, look, don't forsake the community.
That's why you're there, trying to meet your future wife.
But also, obviously, you're there for a reason.
You're not there just to have fun.
You're there to study and to learn.
And so you said you're going to a Baptist college, is that right?
Yes.
Yeah, so I don't think drinking will be a problem at that college.
However, one of the best things about college is tons of young people to socialize with.
But again, you're going to a Baptist college.
You're not there to drink and party, but you're there to explore big ideas and have the tough conversations and to debate and have dialogue and disagreement.
So do things with people.
Get out of your comfort zone.
Become a lifelong learner.
Read books you never would.
Get involved.
Start a Turning Point USA chapter.
Get involved in your local community.
Do stuff.
Don't just sleep all day long and just be a slob.
And not saying you would or be slovenly.
Just be active constantly.
And that's the one thing that we've done really well here on the Charlie Kirkshire on Turning Point USA.
turning point you would say we've outworked everyone i say this as humbly as i can our team works harder our editors work harder michael and the entire gang they're here from like 5 a.m to 10 p.m sometimes accommodating my crazy schedule we will outwork you and it's a way to feel fulfilled join a book club do an additional bible study do local politics be involved in the iowa primary race in 2027 and 2028 it will not be boring uh if the democrats don't get rid of it because they think iowa is too white seize the day carpe that dm be active do stuff don't just sit around and
hope things come to you okay next let's go to marissa marissa's the last question today marissa she says hi i would like to know where you think we should start looking to learn more about politics.
I found a new interest in politics and want to be learned more, but from a reliable source.
Like I hate to overly self-promote, but the Charlie Kirk show is a great place to start.
And we talk about it every day from a biblical worldview.
And according to Alabama, we're the second most listened to show behind Fox News.
And we love Fox.
I'm going to be on Fox News, I think, next week.
Last night, I was on Fox News and it went very well.
It was phenomenal data that shows the power of this program.
And look, there's going to, when you're able to build something, you're in a unique category.
And the team deserves all the credit of how we've been able to drive and create and take risks.
But building is hard.
And that is what makes us different in a conservative movement.
We've built organizations.
We've built trainings.
Right now as I'm doing this, we're doing a pastor's training.
Right now as I'm doing this, I have 230 full-time employees that are just on our high school and college department right now.
We got to raise over $100 million a year.
We have 500,000 donors.
We got Turning Point Action.
Right now we got Turning Point Action guys that are following around Ruben Gallego in Iowa.
Right now we have Turning Point Action people doing voter registration in the East Valley of Arizona.
Right now as I do this, we have Blexit trainings.
We have our Turning Point Academy Homeschool Initiative.
We have our Classical Initiative.
We have our Gap Year Initiative.
Right now as I'm doing this, we have our social media team.
We got viral videos.
We have our campus tour coming up.
We have our Believer Summit.
We have Amphest.
Not to mention, we have all the other stuff that we're doing.
We have our evening event.
We have shows.
We got Alex Clark.
We got Joe Bob.
We got Turning Point Tonight.
It's hard to build stuff.
And I want to be a nation of builders and of risk takers.
And people call me a lot of names.
The one name I wish they would call me more is an entrepreneur.
Because that is true.
There's a lot of different things you can insult, but building is hard.
They say, oh, it's just because you got a little bit of money and raised money.
There's a lot of people in politics on the right and the left that have raised a lot of money.
Again, I'm not taking credit for it.
It's thanks to the glory of God and his mercy and his grace and his compassion and the team deserves the credit but what we not I but what we have built here is exceptional it is remarkable it's unique it's extraordinary it's something that rises above the rest and again it's easy just to yammer endlessly and to complain a lot of people can do that but to build stuff that lasts That's something that I'm most thankful for.
