My name is Charlie Kirk.

I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.

My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.

If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.

But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You've got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a turning point USA College Chapter. Go start a turning point. You would say high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist.

I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.

Most important decision I ever made in my life.

And I encourage you to do the same.

Here I am.

Lord, use me.

Buckle up, everybody.

Here we go.

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All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. I'm Andrew Colvin, executive producer of

this show. Hour 2 is kicking off now. We have a great guest for this. It's going to help make sense of

the insanity of shutdowns and so much more. And that is Ryan James Gerdeski. He's the host of a numbers game podcast and he is also in

charge of 1776 Project Pack. Ryan James Gerdesky, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me on Andrew. Yeah, great to see you. We also have Blake Neff here.

I want to open this up to a larger conversation. But let's start with this shutdown fight.

I mean, this is, okay, so there was a vote

last night, and then all hell breaks loose in the Democrat caucus. They're freaking out because they feel

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