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We have a written one here if we want to start with that.
Let's start with Jen, I think.
All right, let's start with Jen.
Jen?
Hi, good afternoon.
Hey, Jen.
How are you?
Good.
How are you?
I'm great.
What's your question?
So I'm a homeschool mom who basically saw an issue in our community.
I've tried to step up and find a different solution.
We're Florida.
So basically, we have county commissioners who voted to pass a new tax, and none of them live in our actual area.
So we don't, it's literal what I've been teaching in our homeschool is taxation without representation, right?
So I started an initiative that took this solution.
It's a little bit outside of the box.
I've spent a lot of time researching and talking to people in the community.
And this week, our local newspaper did a report on it, on our effort, and they, it was very negative and kind of mocked me for it.
People really can't get past the headline.
And it is, it's a little radical to some, but I'm proposing a new county for our area to give us a little bit more representation and naming it after President Trump.
So my question kind of is, how do you guys, you know, how did Charlie, because there's a lot of negativity surrounding my effort, just push through and persevere, you know, when this negativity comes?
Like, how do you, you know, I've got kids.
We're just a regular family.
We homeschool, you know.
How do you kind of push through that?
Yeah, I mean, I'm happy to take this one.
You know, because I will tell you that Charlie was no stranger to negative headlines and to being taken out of context, to smear pieces, hit pieces, all the things.
And it got to the point where we literally would just, we would put him in the chat.
I would drop the new article in the chat that was, you know, completely taking something he said out of context.
And he would, he would literally go, LOL.
And, you know, obviously Charlie had a big microphone.
He had this show.
He had his social media.
So I don't want to say that it's one-to-one, but you said it yourself.
What he would do is he would just push through and he would advance the points he was making.
He would advance positive lines.
He would advance the actual mission that he was on, not the representation that somebody would give him or paint a picture of him that was a lie.
But you call a lie a lie.
You confront your accusers, you call it a lie, and you push forward and you continue building and building and building.
And I mean, Charlie's whole POV on this was that we were going to outwork you.
We were going to out-hustle you.
We were going to out-message you.
And so that's the point.
We built positive lines where we could.
We built coalitions where we couldn't, allies where we could, and we pushed through it.
Mikey, yeah.
Great question, Jen.
Nice to meet you.
I saw this video this morning and I thought it was so awesome.
It was Charlie and Erica.
Charlie's sitting here.
Erica's sitting right there.
I think we have it.
Yeah, it's a long clip, so maybe we don't want to play it.
But he basically, the question was to Erica: Do you get the same hate messages and headlines and attacks that Charlie does?
And she said, Yeah.
And I thought that was a really interesting question because you don't always think maybe Erica's not receiving this, but she was.
She said, Honestly, I've lost family members.
I've had people attack me.
I've lost friends, but it's my pruning season.
She goes, and I'm figuring out in this season who's my friend and who's not.
She said, and then on top of that, she goes, I have a velvet spine of steel.
She goes, you can't let anything get to you.
She's like, you're soft on the outside, but nobody can get to you on the inside.
I think a really important thing to always emphasize, I think, here is the faith angle.
If you really are meditating on that part of it, if you're praying a lot, if you're always thinking, how can I serve God with my actions?
What would God want me to do?
I think that helps a lot in these situations.
That gives you a lot of strength when you're under attack.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear and you have truth on your side.
Yeah, you have truth on your side.
And so if truth is for you, nobody can be against you.
But then at the same time, if you're always living for God, you have nothing to fear.
Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
I will say, and we should play this clip.
We're going to play it for you, Jen, because I do think it's inspiring.
But, you know, we've lived in this weird post-Charlie world.
And, you know, there's conspiracies, there's, you know, allegations.
I mean, there's a whole bunch of crazy stuff.
But I will tell you, because I've gotten a few friends that'll be like, how are you doing with all this?
And I'm like, I literally don't feel it.
I do not feel it.
I don't sense it.
It doesn't affect my life because I live with the understanding that what God has unleashed, man cannot stop.
The haters cannot stop.
They can harass you.
They can torment you.
They can kind of make your day miserable, I'm sure.
But God is doing a work.
God is doing a pruning, I think, in our movement.
God is doing a pruning in the country.
And Erica says it really, really well.
408.
Erica, do you ever get hate from Charlie's work?
How do you handle it?
Charlie, do you ever feel guilt or do you ever deal with guilt when Erica gets hate?
No, I don't.
I honestly, this is so.
I got, I, this is how I know God made us for each other because anytime I do get quote-unquote hate, it's the same stuff you get.
Like that, I don't even want to say it's not even worth saying it or repeating the things that we're called or the names that we're called.
But yes, I do.
I've lost family members.
I've lost friends, but I actually am kind of grateful that that's happened because God has pruned my life in a way where I am surrounded in a circle now by people who love us, support us, pray with us, encourage us.
Small, mighty circle.
And that's what I would much rather have-a small, mighty circle than a massive one.
It's the people that you can trust and pour into.
And yes, do I get hate?
Bring it on.
I'll have a velvet steel spine by the end of the end of my life.
So bring it on.
I have nothing to fear.
Based.
Such a good clip.
That fired me up this morning.
And I hope it fires you too.
Jen, I mean, I was ready.
I was ready for the day.
Yeah.
Next question.
That velvet steel spine is amazing.
Isn't that a good line?
It's a good thing.
So, I mean, that's such a good line.
So thank you for that.
I have not seen that one.
And I'll be putting that up in my bedroom.
I love it.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Good for you, Jen.
Thanks for being a member.
We're going to go to Rain next.
Rain, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Hello.
Hi, Rain.
Hey, how are you guys?
We're hanging in.
How are you?
What can we do for you?
What's your question?
So, my question is: well, I have two.
First question is: what do you think is going to become of this Mamdani meeting at the White House today with Trump?
I think we may talk about that.
I'm so nervous that Trump is even allowing him in his orbit.
Well, keep in mind, Trump is a real estate guy.
He, frankly, he loves having meetings.
He will meet.
It's so funny that so many people are so appalled.
They're like, oh, we'll never meet with him.
Trump is clearly a person who will meet with anyone.
He met with Kim Jong-un.
He met with, you know, Mitt Romney, all these Republicans.
Yeah.
I totally get that.
Yeah.
But this guy is like the head of a movement that is trying to overthrow everything about what our country is about.
For sure, for sure.
But as they said, he met with Kim Jong-un.
He wants to meet with Putin.
He wants to meet with Putin again.
He met with Democrats all the time during his first term, even though they were trying to topple him.
I've heard people on our own side, they've complained that Trump almost takes too many of these meetings.
But that's just what you're getting with the type of person Trump is.
He is, he thinks of what he is.
He's a businessman, real estate developer.
He comes from a world where you resolve disputes, where you resolve impases through direct face-to-face contact, through direct conversation.
But do you think that some of that contact, like on a spiritual level, that some of that contact can affect, can affect a person?
I think it can.
And I think that limiting your involvement with like, you know, spiritual democracy.
Well, that's true.
You got to be careful what you let in into the house.
I actually really agree with you, Rain.
But I would say Trump will meet with anybody.
I'm not worried about.
Trump is so hardened in his ways.
Like, I don't think he's, it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks, if you will.
I'm not worried about new habits at 80.
No, nobody's, nobody's rubbing off on Trump here.
What he's doing is he's going to size up his opponent.
I think it's going to go both ways.
I think there's going to be some warning shots fired.
Don't pull him handshake.
Don't mess with me in this way.
You stay out of my way in this way.
We're going to be okay.
And we are coming with ice.
That's what's going to happen.
That's, in my opinion, that's what I'm saying.
That's what you have to be.
You have to be that way to be like diplomatic.
And win hearts and minds.
I get it.
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Rain, what's your second question?
Hey.
Okay, so for the record, I want you guys to know that I still have on the security bracelet from the Charlie Kirk memorial that I went to at the LSU student union on Friday afternoon.
Like, I just decided that God was going to, it'll fall off when it's supposed to.
But, you know, and every time I go to the grocery store, wherever, and I want it to be a conversation piece because I just, I don't know, I just feel compelled. to let that be an opening to good conversation like Charlie wanted to do.
And God, I got tears in my eyes right now.
One thing that is breaking my heart is the stuff that's going on with Candace Owens and the things that she's saying.
And it seems to be so valid, but like my heart is pulling.
I don't know.
My discernment is saying to steer clear of that, but I don't know.
I'm just torn.
And I just don't understand why it's not being addressed.
I mean, especially when she's saying things that seem so sound.
And it hurts.
It just hurts because, God, I mean, I've been watching Charlie Kirk for over four years.
Watching him got me through some very dark years with my daughter and who was sexually assaulted by an NOPD, a New Orleans police officer at the trial, just dealing with the FBI.
I mean, we dealt with every three-letter agency and we came out on top.
And I feel like pressing into what I was watching every day with Charlie helped me through that.
And I just, I'm looking for some clarity.
Blake?
I know that's serious.
I know it's not me.
I'm sorry.
I mean, what you're saying.
No, it's totally fine.
And it's very, I love, yeah.
So many people love Charlie, whether they, the people who knew him best, but also just people who'd never met him at all because they had that.
He could speak to so many people with his forthrightness, with his he was just one of the most honest people ever in a lot of ways.
There was nothing hidden with him.
And he could speak so well with so many people.
He was brutal.
And my heart breaks for you because I know there's so many people like you out there.
And what people, those things people are saying, I would encourage you not to, not to take the outlandish things to heart, not to let people divert you from what Charlie was really about, what his mission was really about.
And I think, Blake, you said it well.
It's like we have to give space for people to grieve.
There is a trial coming up.
We understand that sometimes when we don't speak on every topic, it creates a bit of a vacuum.
And there is, just so you know, there's a reason for some of the silence on certain things and the choosing not to engage in certain things.
But I loved Rain's heart.
And you could tell that she is grieved just by Charlie not being with us and the anchor that Charlie was in her life, but also the fact that, you know, she wants to carry his mission forward and she wants everybody to be unified and on the same page.
So, Mikey, I don't know if you want to add anything to that.
Yeah, I mean, Andrew, you said it.
If there's silence on something, oftentimes people say that's silent because it's true.
That's not why.
Like, there's so many accusations out there against so many people.
Even one of them were like a sermon that my dad gave where he said that I had blood on me.
And for the record, like, he gave that sermon.
I called my dad moments after everything happened and I was screaming.
I was listening to that card.
Blake was next to me.
I was screaming on the phone.
I said, Charlie was shot in the neck and he had blood all over him.
He said, and I was thinking that there was a lot of blood.
And I said, call every pastor and pray, pray for a miracle.
And he thought for some reason that I said I had blood on me.
So he gives a sermon 72 hours later where he addresses that conspiracy.
And he says that I had blood on me.
Okay.
I didn't see that sermon.
And then about a month later, that was like trending all over social media.
And I called my dad and I was like, did you actually say this?
And he was like.
Yeah, I just found out it's not true.
So like behind every single one of these are a human being.
For an entire month, my dad had to live with nightmares every night that his son actually did have blood all over him.
Didn't you say he got emotional when he found that?
He got emotional when I was on the phone with him being like, that's not true.
Why did you say that?
He was so glad to hear it wasn't true.
Yeah, like not everything is some grand scheme.
And just because someone's not answering all of your questions when you want them to answer your questions does not mean it's not going to be a problem.
To close the loop on this, I think.
I think, but there's a lot of people, a lot of people are deeply affected by this.
And for some people, the temptation of something very emotionally upsetting is they want to like, frankly, sometimes there's a temptation to lash out.
And I would remember that, I would encourage you to remember all of us love Charlie.
All of us care deeply about Charlie.
It is fundamentally, I'll just say it, it is fundamentally outrageous and insane to say that any of us would have wanted Charlie dead or wanted anything bad to happen to him.
And when we get emails where people just say, you killed Charlie or like, you're lying about everything, I would strongly encourage those people to reflect on what is motivating them to do these things.
I want to also say there is a point where you, you know, it's, it's deeply frustrating that somebody like Mikey would have to even dignify some of like, you know, this story that you just, you'd have to even dignify that with a response.
I mean, it's so insane.
But by the way, I love that Rain is wearing a, she was talking about her bracelet from the memorial.
And it was funny because just this morning I saw a bunch of like we are Charlie Kirk bracelets on Mikey's desk.
I was like, I want one of these.
I never wear these kind of bracelets.
Not really my thing, but I'll wear it for Charlie.
So I thought that was that was great.
Jonathan, you're next.
So my question is, what are the big races in 2026?
How can we get involved in those races?
All right, I can take the first part.
The biggest races.
Obviously, the one Charlie would have cared the most about and the one that's very near to our heart.
Arizona governor is up this next year.
We want to get Andy Biggs into, I always want to say the governor's mansion.
Arizona doesn't have a governor's mansion.
They're too cool for that.
We want him to get into the governor's office.
There's a lot of good we can do in this state, but we need the governorship back.
We need to undo the grievous injustice of four years ago, three years ago, I guess.
But that is one of the most important.
A lot of other governorships are up, and a lot of them are term-limited guys.
So we have to, you know, Ron DeSantis is term limited out in Florida.
We need to make sure a Republican wins that one.
That might sound super easy, but remember, eight years ago, or six to seven years ago, we only won that by, what, 30,000, 40,000 votes.
It was very close.
Florida is never a lock.
It's a big state.
Ohio is going to be an open seat.
Texas, we have Abbott running for another term.
They're going to put a lot into trying to flip that one.
And then in the Senate, we have, frankly, it's going to be a defensive map.
We have 22 Republicans up and only 13 Democrats.
We need to defend the Florida Senate seat.
We need to defend the Texas Senate seat.
We have an open seat in North Carolina that we need to defend.
Our best chance for a pickup is probably going to be Georgia.
Or Michigan.
We're going to need a pretty strong showing for Michigan to go away.
So, just a reminder: so, Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate.
So, we're talking about Senate.
So, you got North Carolina.
It's an open seat.
You got Tom Tellis, who's leaving.
I think that's going to be challenging.
Yeah, and they're running the Roy, I think it's Roy Cooper, who is a former governor, the Dems are.
Yeah, versus running a popular guy who's very popular.
Yeah, so that's going to be a challenge.
I wouldn't, that's going to be tough.
Michigan, we have an open seat.
Senator Gary Peters is retiring.
It's a toss-up race.
Blake is not feeling that great about it.
It's tough.
Ohio, so Republican Senator John Husted is defending the seat.
And former Democrat Sherrod Brown is being actively recruited to run again.
So we'll see what happens there.
Georgia, John Ossoff.
So he's considered vulnerable.
Maine, you have Senator Susan Collins.
She's a moderate Republican.
Charlie always is good stepping up.
People complain about Susan Collins.
Deal with it.
She is far better than any Democrat will ever get from Maine.
And if we lose her, we'll probably never get that seat back.
We are fighting to defend college.
Yeah, and in Texas, you obviously have Senator John Cornyn, who is going to get primaried by Attorney General Ken Paxton and some others.
So we'll see what happens in Texas.
We should hold the Texas seat.
If we don't, we have really, really big.
Of course, the House races are going to be very interesting this year around because we have all of these new maps that will possibly cause a lot of seats to flip.
We're going to be seeing how that shakes out.
Obviously, the Texas map at this point is in the courts, their future.
We have a few states we're still fighting to get those new maps passed.
Indiana, I believe Ohio is still in contention.
So we'll see how those all shake out.
But we should get to the other half of the question, which is how you can get involved.
Yeah, how you can get involved.
I mean, Tyler would say this: first of all, get involved at coalitions.com.
We own the URL.
That's a turning point action URL.
So it's, you know, a lot of people are like, oh, we want to start a turning point chapter for adults in this state, this state.
The way we do it is we don't do the turning point chapter thing, which is like kind of our campus base for high school and college campus.
But if you're an adult and you want to get involved and plugged in, go to coalitions.com.
You can plug in whether you're a farmer, you're a mom, Latinos, African American, all the things that you, the little kind of groups that you might have affinity groups for, you can plug in there.
But they all gather all collectively and together.
And there's a coalition for you to join.
And then what we do is we dispatch those coalitions with technology, data, door knocking lists, all the things that you need to get involved in your local community and your local races.
So coalitions.com would be the main thing.
There's other ways to get involved at Turning Point Action.
You could apply for actual staff jobs if we're hiring in your area in Arizona.
We're going to have a lot of employment opportunities for full-time ballot chasing.
But that will not be the only place that we do that in 2026.
But as Blake said, Arizona is going to be a key, key focus for us.
Just simply, it's not only important for the sake of the country and the state of Arizona, but it was so dear to Charlie that you better believe we're going to leave it all out on the field on that one.
So check out TP Action for opportunities.
Download the app, Turning Point Action app, and check out coalitions.com.
So hopefully that answers all of your questions.
Any follow-up here?
We do have about a minute left.
If you have any questions, you have one other question, actually.
I was actually at some of the smaller events where I couldn't find the videos, but I was able to ask some questions.
Where would I find the videos for those?
Like, I was able to ask Tom Hooman, not in the main session a question, but in a smaller session.
Do you have videos for them?
Where can I find those?
Do you mean like the members?
The QA's at member events?
Oh, those might be old Charlie episodes.
You could possibly.
It was AM Fest last year.
I was at.
Yeah, so those are.
Yes.
Jonathan, those are going to be at members.charlikirk.com.
They're exclusive member interviews.
So that's one of the value ads that we give to our members.
So those are actually.
I don't know if I'm not a member.
That's how I was able to do it.
Yeah, yeah.
So annoyed I couldn't find them.
Yeah, no, they're on the members site.
So you can actually search those through the member site.
Obviously, they get kind of buried, but just search Tom Homan, for example, or whatever, and you should be able to bring some of that stuff up.
So they are there.
Yeah.
All right.
I know we're working on all of that because we get a lot of questions about finding old episodes.
Yeah, and we are going to be working on a full sort of AI search.
Now, we are not going to create an AI Charlie.
I just want to be very clear about that.
Blake's been fixed on the story.
I don't even talk about AI stuff.
I just mean a good database of searchable old Charlie episodes, which was less of a concern.
What I'm saying is we're using AI tools to make it even more searchable.
So it'll actually scan kind of the things he said and things like that.
So if you remember something that he said and you're going to look for it.
So we're going to build that whole database.
It might take all of 2026 to build it.
I'm not sure.
Hopefully we can get a faster timeline, but we are going to build that so everybody can get all of the things that Charlie said and search them with the help of AI.
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Next up is Elizabeth.
Elizabeth, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
What is your question?
Yes.
Hi.
First, like I said, I'm still praying for all of you.
You're doing an amazing job.
Thank you.
Continuing Charlie's legacy, and you should just be so proud.
And everyone thinks that.
And can I just digress on my question for one second?
When people are listening to maybe other individuals who claim to be in the conservative space, they should remember that Charlie was a godly man who surrounded himself with godly men who thought of him as a son, that his friends thought of him as a brother, that he was a leader and a role model in his community.
And he built an organization where like senators and congressmen were like dying to get on the show because they were proud to be associated with him.
So if you are listening to someone who was not like that, you should turn off their podcast and turn back on Charlie Kirk Show.
Here, here.
Well said.
What's your other question?
Yeah, no, well said.
Thank you for that.
And thank you for the kind words.
Genuinely.
That means a lot to us.
Thank you.
You're very welcome and very well earned.
The reason that I was calling, and this isn't about financial support to Israel, because that can be debated one way or the other, and that's fine.
But what has been bothering me lately are the absolute disgusting lies being told about Israel.
And I just wanted to sort of give a small example.
Population growth in the West Bank in 1967 was 700,000 people.
In 2025, it was 3,400.
That is a population growth of 2.7 million.
That's 4.9 more Palestinians than there were since 1967.
In the Gaza Strip, it was 350,000.
Now it's over 2.1 million, and that's a 5.2 times increase.
My point is they are lying about Israel committing a genocide.
I mean, there's definitely a funny line I saw.
Do you know the humorist Dave Berry?
He's been in newspapers a long time.
He's pretty old now.
The humorist Dave Berry, someone showed me an article he wrote in 1990, and it was about the UN.
And he says, the UN General Assembly exists to allow every, it allows every random third world nation into it.
And it exists primarily to pass resolutions condemning Israel for everything, including sunspots.
And it really is, there's an element.
It's exactly like you say.
There is perfectly valid grounds to criticize the exact nature of our relationship with Israel.
Should we fund them?
Should we give them this or that weapon?
Do we need to have unconditional support for any specific political action?
Should the U.S. ambassador be meeting with a convicted traitor?
No, but you can discuss all of those things, but it's also the case that a lot of people just, they have an obsession with it that clearly transcends anything that is reasonable.
And they have this intense dislike verging on hate.
And some of that will just become telling lies about it.
And what I like to emphasize is there's something about it that it goes beyond its actual importance to America as an issue.
For a lot of people, how you feel about Israel has become this symbol of how you feel about the wider world.
And it's perhaps specifically because it is actually a place so far away from America.
It allows people to get really amped up in their emotional and moral energy about it, while at the same time not having direct skin in the game on what the outcome is.
And I think that really allows people to just say whatever.
Like if you tell a lie about your neighbor, that neighbor might punch you in the face.
But if you tell a lie about a country on the other side of the world, probably nothing is going to happen to you.
Correct.
I think.
Also, did you guys know that they're Supreme Court justice?
They have an Arab Muslim on their Supreme Court.
Did they pass that bill?
I remember we talked about that a couple of years ago.
Israel's entire court system is pretty wild.
They're one of those countries where the judges can appoint their own successors.
Can you imagine how terrible America would be if judges in this country just could appoint, like you'd have super liberal Supreme Court of the 70s, the court that did Roe v. Wade, and they would just be appointing their own successors.
You can't have Reagan or Trump or, you know, appointing more conservative justices to change it.
Just appointing liberals forever.
That is actually how they ran things.
They definitely did run things in Israel.
I'm not sure if that bill passed.
I haven't closely followed it.
But there's just a lot of wild things.
An important thing to remember, it is a real country.
It is not just a thing that exists on TikTok.
It is not just a thing that exists on social media.
It is a real country with its own internal divisions, its own issues.
It's not this monolith.
That's what drives a lot of weird conspiracy theories about it, that all Jews or all Israelis have the same opinion and operate in concert.
All I can say is if you think all Jews have the same opinions, you've clearly never met any of them because they go to one Shabbat dinner.
They argue with each other all the time.
Well, and I always think, you know, the allegation, you know, Jewish people run the world or something like that.
It's like, have you ever seen the UN and how many sanctions and have been leveled against Israel?
And it's basically, you know, so if they can control the world, they would control the UN, but they don't.
But to your point, you know, I mean, I was looking at the numbers with your question about the Palestinian birth rates.
And, you know, they do have a very high birth rate.
Their population has actually increased, albeit at a slower rate than it otherwise would have during the war.
And that, again, is probably because of people emigrating out.
It was over 100,000 people that got out through the Rafa crossing.
They suggest that about 50,000 have died in the conflict.
So, I mean, listen.
When they say about killing children, they use child soldiers.
And that has been documented by the United Nations.
Well, and they use, they use bad stuff.
They use human shields that seize a control of a territory.
They're bad dudes.
Here's the thing.
I hope that we can pray for peace.
I hope that we talk about this issue much, much less because the peace holds and it becomes a long-term peace.
And I think I speak for a lot of us when we say it would be wonderful not to have to talk about this area of the world nearly as much moving forward.
Thank you so much for your question.
Laura, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Hi, folks.
Can you hear me okay?
Yes, we can.
Wonderful.
Well, thank you.
I want to be brief so I can be considerate of others' times, but I do want to say I am so sorry for your loss of Charlie.
I think that you guys have been doing the absolute best you can to move forward and carry his mission.
And that's so clear to me and so many of us.
And we feel very, I can speak for myself here, but feel very comforted when we come to join the show every day because it feels like we're interacting with parts and pieces of Charlie.
Thank you, sir.
Through all of you.
It's very sweet, Lord.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So something that, and I actually, I was building up the courage to maybe join a live before Charlie was killed was to talk about the hiring processes right now.
So obviously Charlie was a big advocate for, you know, college is a scam.
And I myself, I have a very successful degree and not I'm sorry, career and not having a degree.
And many people that I know have, you know, worked their way up in life and just become, you know, self-learners and have done the same.
But when, you know, something happens and they need to go and look for a job, they're hit with automatic rejections because these, I guess it's the hiring systems have this nice little check mark of, you know, four-year degree or master's degree.
And if you're not hitting that, then you're automatically getting thrown out.
So these well and overqualified candidates are getting completely, they're not even passing a person's desk.
It's just automatically getting filtered out.
They're putting in over 200 applications and getting absolutely nowhere and not able to talk to a real person about it.
So just, you know, in feeling empowered and not needing a degree to be successful, how do you guys recommend, you know, people that don't, but are having a hard time getting a job?
How do we navigate the employment search?
First of all, I just want to empathize greatly with how horrible it is.
I think applying for a job was annoying and frustrating five years ago.
It's gotten an order of magnitude worse with, frankly, artificial intelligence because now there are people who can spam essentially unlimited applications.
They can use AI to write their cover letters, write their customers, like instantly customize your resume towards this page, and they can endlessly spam.
And then you have similar AI robots evaluating the applications.
It's made the entire process just that much more horrible.
And I think it's going to lead to probably a resurgence of what would be very old-fashioned, which is the need to really leverage personal relationships, build personal relationships, and leverage those to find employment.
I guess I can only, speaking to myself, I can't give a lot of specific job advice on how to get a job in a specific field.
What I can say is that professionally, it's the friendships I've had, the close conversations I've had with those I know that have panned out the most in giving me opportunities.
I remember you bragging one time that you've never had a job that you've applied for.
Yeah, and that's that's I don't really want to say that with someone when people are struggling because I know that's a very tough thing to say.
You just kind of network.
What I could say, like, so as an example, it's sort of weird to say, but getting involved in the elections, for example, and not just getting involved, talking to all of the people that you volunteer alongside about what they do, what their work is.
None of that is going to specifically get you a job.
But knowing lots of people, it will increase your ability to be lucky.
Yeah.
You think of those people who have that story.
Oh, I was just having that conversation and it turned out it totally changed my life.
Or you've heard that story where you talk to someone in the line at the grocery store and oh, 40 years later, we're married and we have eight kids.
Everyone's heard those stories.
You increase your ability to be lucky by being out there, by knowing more people, and also by acquiring skills.
You think, what is something you could be better at that has a possible professional use?
And that might be a handyman-type skill.
Those are always in demand.
It might be computer programming, except now that's getting displaced by AI.
It is genuinely.
Go be a plumber.
I don't think AI will displace that anytime.
I don't want to be too smug about that because it's a great thing.
We shouldn't shame that.
We shouldn't know.
We should shame that.
But we've gotten emails from people who say, I went to trade school and I've struggled there.
A lot of trade stuff is actually quite insular.
There will be family shops and they're somewhat hostile to union barriers.
You don't want to just say, oh, it's easy.
Go to trade school.
You'll automatically get a job.
We never want to dismissively say it's super easy.
Do you guys have any other thoughts?
I mean, I agree with the part about relationships.
Relationships are the absolute key.
And I would also say that for young people, what I often tell young people is find somebody that you really, really look up to, respect in the field that you're interested in pursuing, and call them.
Ask them to take you out for coffee.
Say, I'll work for you for free.
Can I get an internship?
Anything.
I'll just get coffee.
I'll be the donut and coffee runner guy.
Just offer to get your foot in the door and then work your tail off.
That is, I think, the most wonderful thing for young people that they can do.
Find somebody you respect, that you look up to, who's the best in their field, and just do everything you can to get in their way.
And good things tend to happen.
My nephew, I gave that advice to my nephew, and it worked out very, very well for him.
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I believe we have Sarah.
Hi, guys.
Hey, Sarah.
Welcome to the show.
Hi.
Thanks.
How are you?
We're doing all right.
We're doing all right.
What's your question?
Yeah, so I'm from Canada.
I actually called in last week.
And my question is, there's a turning point U.S., there's a turning point UK.
And there was a turning point Canada, but up until 2018, well, actually, it ran for about a year and a half.
And then it just miraculously disappeared.
And its X account is like totally inactive.
And there seems to be nothing from that particular group.
I'm just curious, do you guys know what happened at Turning Point Canada?
I don't think that was actually ever officially.
I don't think it was official.
So what happened was we, many years ago, we helped start the TPUK chapter.
It was like an affiliate, but essentially it runs fairly independently.
There's, you know, they're still sort of quasi-connected part of us, same spirit.
They promote Charlie's comments and his social media videos and they run their own accounts.
And when Charlie and you guys went to the UK, you guys connected with some of those guys that are still connected with that account.
So there is talk, by the way, from some of these groups in, I think, like Alberta and others that want us to start.
I think those conversations are ongoing.
I don't think we've made a decision.
You know, we are an America First organization.
There's no doubt about it.
And so we are hesitant to put our attention outside of the domestic affairs.
We were really realizing this in the last few months, you know, when Charlie went to the UK, Charlie went to Korea, went to Japan, that he had become actually this global hero of so many people.
So many, it's easy to forget.
So many people around the world look up to America because we have this assertive conservative movement that is not that we have real freedom of speech.
We can really confront big issues.
It inspires a lot of people.
And so while we are America First, he certainly did not think American values were exclusive to America or Christian values.
They were God-given.
We believe that they're innate.
And so we would want to promote those things.
So as we've talked about on this show, we had Sarah Rogers from the State Department on the other day.
We're still in discussions on what this might look like, but there's a lot of hope we could use the Turning Point brand, Charlie's personal memory, to promote those values, especially free speech, you know, the Christian West and so on around the world.
We're not sure what that might look like, but it might include some sort of global turning point.
Canada would be an obvious place to plant that.
They need it.
So we have a question from Kimberly.
Kimberly, please unmute yourself.
Welcome to the show.
Kimberly.
There you are.
I love how excited we all get.
I know how to do this.
This is my first time, so I don't know what's going on.
Welcome, welcome.
Thank you.
I'm grateful to have you.
Okay.
I'm sorry to say that I never had heard of Charlie Kirk before he died.
And that day, that's when I heard of him, of course, because it was all over the news that he died, you know.
And I just wish I would have heard of him a long time ago because he's like, he's saying everything that I've done.
I, okay, I got married when I was 17.
I have 11 children.
My oldest son is his age, Charlie Kirk's age.
But my oldest son died three years ago.
And eight of my children were born at home.
All of my children were homeschooled.
I have eight grandchildren that were born at home.
And I was, I got saved when I was very young.
I was four years old.
Anyway, I just listen to Charlie Crook all the time now.
Of course, every day, like I listen to his shows and to you guys.
And it's just amazing what he did in the short time that he was here, you know?
Yeah, it is.
It is.
I think, Kimberly, just something.
First of all, 11 kids is amazing.
Yeah, that is a legendary.
Charlie would be applauding you right now and saying, well done.
Well done.
Well done.
But also, I just want to say, you know, it's something I've actually talked about with E.
I don't think she would, Erica, I don't think she would be offended that I bring it up here, but I've talked about it with you as well.
Looking back on Charlie's life and he would get so impatient, like about little things.
And it was actually really endearing about him.
He, you know, he just moved at such a rapid clip with everything, everything.
And I look back on it and I kind of realize it's like he knew.
He knew his time was going to be short and he maximized so much of his life.
Every day he squeezed so much out of it.
It was really amazing.
And how much content he banked.
I remember we used to have conversations and he'd be like, truthfully, I think we're banking too much content.
But now there's such a rich archive of history for us to look back on.
But there's also something beautiful.
This is an example of the macro, which is Charlie was a good, faith-based human being.
And you share your story about how you discovered him after, after, and you feel like maybe it was just a little too late and you wanted to discover him when he was still alive.
And you just are learning more about him.
And the deeper you go, you have such a love for him.
But that's how we feel as Christians, too.
That there's just once you start that relationship with Christ.
And this is something I just feel like Charlie would be saying right now is you go deeper and you get to know him more.
And like that, Charlie was amazing because he lived for something greater than himself.
And that was Christ.
He died for something greater than himself.
And he died for something greater than himself.
And I just think that's, that's you're, you're giving such a beautiful analogy right now of what we as Christians feel, that, that Charlie died for something bigger than himself and that we one day, hopefully, hopefully we too can die for something greater than ourselves.
Yeah.
And Kimberly, I don't know if you got to your question yet or not.
So I want to make sure I give you a chance to ask what you wanted to ask.
I didn't, well, I didn't really have a question.
I mean, I wanted to say stuff.
That's totally fine.
That's totally fine.
That was a beautiful testimony.
You know, and Kimberly, like something I said actually at the memorial that I think is important is just that, you know, we don't grieve the way the world grieves.
You know, I obviously losing Charlie was probably the hardest thing that I've ever been through that this organization has ever gone through, obviously.
But we don't grieve the way the world grieves.
And I feel like God has given me all of these beautiful little just clues and moments of realization, you know, whether it was we weren't doing, we weren't doing a campus tour.
We were doing a tent revival.
And Charlie wasn't just a political figure or podcaster.
He was a prophet to a whole generation of Americans.
He's a modern day founding father and he died a martyr.
And I miss him.
He's the first thing I think about when I wake up.
He's the last thing I think about when I go to sleep.
But I'm so grateful that I got to spend so much time so close to him, genuinely.
