Hey, everybody, an advertiser-free episode of My Conversation in Menlo Park, San Jose, Silicon Valley, brought to you advertiser-free of those of you that support us, Charliekirk.com slash support. I love to hear your thoughts from this, freedom at charliekirk.com. I take questions near the end of the speech. You're going to love those. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this this country he's done an amazing job building one of

the most powerful youth organizations ever created turning point us a we will not embrace the ideas

that have destroyed countries destroyed lives and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses

across the country that's why we are here a great turnout you You know, I was told California's all locked down and everything.

It's like freedom's alive here in the Bay Area, right? My goodness.

It's an honor to be here at my friend's church, Pastor Mike McClure, who is one of the most courageous pastors in America.

And for those of you that have never been to this church before, you're watching online,

and you don't know about Pastor Mike McClure.

He opened his church in an act of boldness of his faith,

and he has been attacked and smeared and persecuted by this local government at every turn,

and he has refused to bend the knee to the secular government agencies.

And I've gotten to know Mike and a lot of the other Calvary pastors across California.

And for those of you that know, Mike, he is, he really believes that the

Lord is in charge. The church is essential. And this was a testing moment for a lot of different churches

in the last year. And it would have been very easy in this community, which is one of the least

churched communities in all of America, to just shut down and just say, you know what? I'm going to go turn our church into a YouTube channel. But, you know, I talked to Mike and Mike said, you know, Charlie, we're facing millions of dollars of fines. We're facing all these different pieces of backlash. By the way, if you're BLM incorporated, you'd go burn down half a city, but you can't open the church.

But he said all of that is worth it because we have brought hundreds of people to Christ

because we have in-person church, not just the online stuff.

And it's an incredible thing.

And so we wanted to do an event here in the Bay Area.

And what is a church?

That's a great question, right?

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