542. Charlie Kirk’s Personal Story

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson engages in conversation with Charlie Kirk—author, speaker, and founder and CEO of Turning Point USA. They delve into Kirk’s emergence as a leading voice in the Conservative movement, his choice to bypass traditional higher education, and the early indicators of ideological bias in academia. The discussion also addresses how the university system has not only tilted toward the hyper-feminine but has transformed into a large-scale scam. Additionally, they examine academia’s departure from timeless questions of good and evil, faith, and foundational philosophy, to a focus on Marxist economics and cultural capture. Charlie Kirk is the Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rallying, organizing, and empowering students to advocate for principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government. With a presence on more than 3,500 high school and college campuses in all 50 states, and supported by over 350 full-time staff members, Turning Point USA stands as the nation’s largest and fastest-growing conservative youth activist organization. In addition to Turning Point USA’s on-campus presence, it also operates a massive online outreach initiative that garners billions of video views annually and reaches millions of Americans every day with conservative, pro-America content. In addition to his role at Turning Point USA, Charlie also serves as the CEO and founder of Turning Point Action, a related entity operating under a 501(c)(4) status. Turning Point Action’s mission is to embolden the conservative base through grassroots activism and to provide voters with the necessary resources to elect true conservative leaders. Turning Point Action has earned recognition as one of the leading grassroots forces in the country today. This episode was filmed on March, 19th, 2025. | Links | For Charlie Kirk: On X https://x.com/charliekirk11/ On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfaIu2jO-fppCQV_lchCRIQ Turning Point USA website https://www.tpusa.com/ Read “Right Wing Revolution” https://45books.com/products/right-wing-revolution-pre-order

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0:00.0	Looking back from your position of wisdom, what do you have to say to the American public about
0:04.8	your cookie advocacy? I should have been advocating for, you know, reduction in hamburger or steak
0:11.7	prices. The funny undercurrent of that is that's kind of what started my political advocacy.
0:15.3	I know. It appeared to me that you were of that American evangelical stripe. When I met you, I thought, okay, so that's
0:22.1	Charlie's Caldron, the matrix out of which he emerged. Maybe Caldron's not the right metaphor.
0:27.7	But I'm curious, think that your political rebellion took a conservative form.
0:32.9	Yes, the non-political, non-istorical literature that we were being assigned was what I call pre-woke,
0:39.0	very much anti-colonialist, anti-Western, that we are the contaminants on the world,
0:44.7	that we are polluting other tribes.
0:46.9	I've learned a lot of things in the last 10 years that have shocked me so bad I don't know
0:51.8	how to recover exactly.
0:53.2	And one of them was that...
1:10.0	Hello, everybody. I'm talking to Charlie Kirk, and Charlie came out of nowhere 10 years ago
1:15.9	and built the world's most influential organization of young conservatives. And he did that from scratch. He did that by going to universities
1:30.3	pretty much single-handedly,
1:32.3	setting up card tables, offering to discuss and debate,
1:37.3	all the issues that weren't being discussed
1:39.3	and debated in these places set up for exactly that reason.
1:42.3	And iterating as he grew,
1:46.7	establishing conservative clubs on campuses all across the United States,
1:54.4	building a grassroots organization,
1:57.2	learning how to debate,
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