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🗓️ 3 August 2025
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Graham Stephan and Jack Selby's Iced Coffee Hour podcast has become one of the most popular podcasts discussing business, entrepreneurship, politics, health and more, and they recently had Charlie on as a guest. They discuss how Charlie built TPUSA from scratch, the top three things he would change in America, what society gets wrong about wealth, the Gen Z religious revival, and more.
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, my conversation with the iced coffee hour, they interview me about dating, about marriage, about investing, and more. |
0:07.6 | Happy Sunday, everybody, email us. As always, freedom at charliecirk.com. Get involved at turning point USA. |
0:11.9 | at tp.usa.com. That is tp.usa.com. Thanks to Alan Jackson Ministries for your continued support. |
0:18.8 | 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 country. He's done an amazing job, building one of the most powerful |
0:38.0 | youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have |
0:43.8 | destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses |
0:49.1 | across the country. That's why we are here. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of the Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. |
1:03.7 | Learn how you could protect your wealth with noble gold investments at noble goldinvestments.com. |
1:10.3 | That is noblegoldinvestments.com. It's where I buy all of my |
1:13.8 | gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. Charlie Kirk, thank you so much for coming on the ice coffee hour. |
1:21.3 | Thank you guys. I'm a big fan. I've seen a lot of your clips and so it's great to be sitting down. |
1:25.5 | That means a lot. In 2012, when you were just 18 years old |
1:28.8 | at the Republican National Convention, you approached billionaire Foster Free. Yes, I did. And you |
1:34.1 | asked him to help you out with your idea, Turning Point USA. What was the conclusion of that conversation |
1:39.2 | and what did that teach you about life and risk? Wow, it's a great question. So I was just recently graduated from |
1:45.8 | high school. I wanted to go to West Point before that, didn't get in, and it ended up being |
1:51.1 | one of the greatest things that never happened to me. And so I went to the Republican National |
1:55.4 | Convention. I studied like all the major donors. I had to kind of like sneak my way into the RNC grounds, if you will. And I, at the fourth day, I was so demoralized. I was like, oh, this is not working. I have this idea for Turning Point USA, which basically the idea was to try to win over young people around conservative ideas. And I was in a stairwell, literally a stairwell. And so, and then I saw Foster Freeze doing like a podcast interview with this major cowboy hat on. And I gave him the stairwell pitch. You know, people talk about the elevator pitch. I gave him a stairwell pitch. And he told a couple jokes. He was the sweetest, most godly, incredible person ever. He was actually took me seriously because here I was 18 years old, no money, |
2:34.3 | no connections, no idea what I was doing and no reason that he should be listening to me. |
2:38.0 | And this guy, for the people that know, Foster Freeze started from nothing in rural, I think it was |
2:43.5 | like Rice Lake, Wisconsin, became like the top mutual fund manager for like 30 years, the brand |
2:49.2 | to wine fund out of Delaware, like legendary stuff, right? |
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