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Charlie's Club America Dream, One School At a Time
December 12, 2025 · 37 min
Charlie said he wanted 30,000 Club America chapters in the nation's high schools — quite the dream, since America only has 27,000 high schools in the first place! Turning Point's Nick Cocca joins to announce a major step toward Charlie's goal. Tyler Bowyer talks about the war plan against Indiana Republicans who voted in favor of more Democrat House seats. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Series The Charlie Kirk Show December 12, 2025 · 37 min · The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie said he wanted 30,000 Club America chapters in the nation's high schools — quite the dream, since America only has 27,000 high schools in the first place! Turning Point's Nick Cocca joins to announce a major step toward Charlie's goal. Tyler Bowyer talks about the war plan against Indiana Republicans who voted in favor of more Democrat House seats. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ...more Show the full description Show less Charlie said he wanted 30,000 Club America chapters in the nation's high schools — quite the dream, since America only has 27,000 high schools in the first place! Turning Point's Nick Cocca joins to announce a major step toward Charlie's goal. Tyler Bowyer talks about the war plan against Indiana Republicans who voted in favor of more Democrat House seats. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Charlie Kirk (born October 14, 1993) is an American conservative activist, author, and political commentator. He is the founder and president of Turning Point
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1:44 you royalty fees for using the name.
1:46 I know you're introducing me, but that isn't gonna come on your next expense report.
1:50 Dang it. Alright. But we we have a lot of fun things to talk about. First of all, we saw that AmFest promo again. We are 1 week out. 1 week out. Now if you wanna buy a ticket, you can't. It is totally sold
2:02 out.
2:02 But Tune in live. Tune in live.
2:05 You'll be
2:05 the vice president. You'll have a lot of other speakers.
2:08 Yep.
2:08 You can tune in live. You can get in line for tickets next year. They go on sale pretty early. You can get yourself hyped up, and there will be tons of clips, tons of episodes. It'll all be extremely exciting. I've been
2:19 getting emails that are asking how do what should I do at Am Fest? And my advice is just meet people. This is about grassroots energy. Make friends because that's how you have engagement in the next election. People you
2:29 know, you go out, you organize, and do things together.
2:32 Yeah.
2:32 A few other housekeeping items, Stop in the Name of God remains on sale. It is sold out in various venues, but it'll be replaced soon enough. That's the great thing about capitalism. When you run out of something, they
2:44 make more of it. And it's a lovely book, getting great reviews from people reading it all across the country.
2:52 I like it. 1 real quick thing on that. I I thought it was so interesting when that when it was kinda made aware, stop in the name of God, kind of the idea of honoring the Sabbath. I went back and looked at
3:03 a couple text messages with me and Mikey where I sent him videos and was like, hey. Can I can I send
3:08 this along to Charlie? And he said, yeah. But he's on Sabbath.
3:11 And this is 2 years ago
3:13 Yeah. That he's been doing this, that he was doing it. It was very, like, prominent in his life, not necessarily known to the entire world. But, like, even then, kind of in private chats, it's like, yeah, you can. Not
3:24 gonna see it for another day.
3:25 Yeah. But Yeah. He called it his secret weapon. It was like he and he would always say too, you know, the punishment for missing the Sabbath is
3:32 You missed the Sabbath.
3:33 You missed the Sabbath. Because it was actually a gift that was just waiting for you to receive it. And by not doing it, by not honoring it, you were missing out on the gift. It was a punishment in and of itself. But it
3:44 was the secret weapon to Charlie. In 6 days, he worked his butt off. And then the seventh day, he rested. Mhmm. And I you could you could see and he would talk about this all the time, how he
3:56 would be even more exhausted if he didn't get a full Sabbath. But he looked forward to that day every single every week.
4:03 Alright. Well, so another Charlie thing besides that book, he always said he wanted to put a Turning Point USA chapter, and later a Club America chapter in 30000 high schools across the US, which shows 2 things.
4:14 Aggressive. Charlie was incredibly ambitious. Mhmm. And 2, we really needed to increase America's birth rate. Because there are only 27000 high schools in America. So we gotta open
4:22 3000 more. Well, that's why he that's why he kept pushing that.
4:25 So that's
4:25 why I said have more kids, more
4:27 kids, and he wanted to build new towns because new towns would need new high schools. That was clearly his agenda item. Mhmm. So he wanted a lot more Club America chapters. So we have a very exciting announcement related
4:38 to that. Yep. So we have Turning Point USA's Enterprise Director, I believe is his title. Nick We have Nick Coco. Are you there, Nick?
4:46 Yes, gentlemen. I am here. Thank you for having me.
4:49 Yes. Alright. Well, let's just cut right to it. What's what's the big announcement?
4:53 Well, I'm here in Nashville, Tennessee in the state's capital. We just had a big announcement with governor Bill Lee and senator Marsha Blackburn, a partnership to put a Club America chapter
5:05 in every single high school in the state of Tennessee.
5:09 Wow. How many states does that bring us to Nick? Where states have made that announcement?
5:15 Well, Mikey, it all started with the amazing former superintendent Ryan Walters in Oklahoma, putting out of support for Club America chapters. From there, we went into Florida with Governor DeSantis
5:27 and then we just wrapped up on Monday, our announcement with Governor Greg Abbott in the state of Texas, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, as you know, committed 1000000 dollars to TP USA and Club America.
5:38 Yeah.
5:39 And so Wow. We just finished our partnership there. And today, Tennessee makes, number 3 or number 4.
5:46 That's amazing. I'm I'm already just checking now. You've got over 3000 high schools in Texas. You have about 2500 high schools in Florida. I'm looking here. 1800 public high schools in Tennessee. I think these are all
5:57 public, you'd have about 10 boost that by about 10 to 15 percent to get privates. Yeah. Oklahoma's probably another few hundred to 1000. And it's we're we're actually getting well on our way there at 30000. Think we're
6:09 We just need the birth rate part.
6:10 Yeah. We need the birth rate out. I are are we on pace still? I think we are doing 50 new chapters a day across the US, both between college and high school. That does the the amount of
6:21 inquiries are through the roof, the amount of students joining. Nick, do you know the number of how many students have attended a Club America meeting or a TPUSA college chapter meeting since 9 10? How many people
6:33 have come?
6:34 Yes. Since Charlie's assassination, we have seen chapter numbers for high schools spike to about 50, 60 per meeting. I was at the
6:46 first meeting of a high school chapter in Alabama. We were standing room only in a classroom. More than 50 students came in to hear about their new Club America chapter.
6:56 Wow. Wow. That's amazing. That's amazing. And we want these to be vehicles for a lot of different things. It can be for discussing philosophical issues, for getting engaged at the grassroots level, for just
7:08 normal community involvement, running a bible study. It's really it runs the gamut what you can do with this if you're an engaged student. And if you have any good stories, email us freedom at charlie kirk. We love
7:19 hearing stories about the success of our chapters, things they've been able to do. We love sharing those.
7:24 Nick, 1 of the things oh, well, 1 of the videos that came up in my feed the other day was Charlie talking about how little his high school did on the founding and the founders and the brilliance of the founding of the
7:36 country. How much do you think these Club America chapters will kind of infiltrate into the actual curriculum itself? These are these are clubs on campus, but I do think there's going to be some
7:47 more intrinsic value into the actual education. I think teachers would probably more be more likely to, be able to, you know, talk about the founding a little bit more even beyond what curriculum might already be.
7:59 That's right, Joe Bob. We are a future leaders club. Club America serves to empower those patriotic leaders of tomorrow. So they're learning about the constitution. They're learning how
8:11 to have a respectful debate and dialogue on the issues of today. They're networking with community leaders that could be anyone from their local mayor to the governor of their state. So they're making
8:23 connections with these folks. They're going to make their career and they're bringing in speakers like Riley Gaines, who is at our event today for this announcement to learn how to stand up
8:35 for girls, for girls sports and a wide range of issues. So I think through the leadership of our students, they're gonna change the culture on their high school campus.
8:46 There are already Turning Point alums who have become members of Congress. I don't think That's right. America's not old enough. They cannot legally run for congress yet.
8:55 But we have crazy stories of business leaders coming to us and just begging us to get access to the student pool that we have across the US, both in high school and college. But there's stories of students in high school
9:05 graduating and immediately getting a high paying job.
9:08 That that's amazing thing. Yeah.
9:10 Nick, you said it. These we're we're a future leaders club.
9:13 Future leaders. You can learn running a organization in your high school for real. Not the fake ones that people found so they can look good on a college application. Way too much of that. But if it's
9:24 a real organization that's trying to do real things in your community, you learn skills. You look at that's what Charlie was so amazing at. Charlie didn't need a college degree. He had he learned on the job of how to
9:35 organize, how to be a leader, and he became this stupendous figure. Every single person running a Club America chapter can be future Charlie Kirk. And that that's what we want. We want everyone to be Charlie Kirk in the
9:46 future. Mhmm. 30 seconds, Nick. Are we looking at are there other states that have expressed interest we might be able to be hearing from soon, hopefully?
9:54 There certainly are. I do want to say, I hope that we can see more come from states like Montana and Idaho and Iowa and maybe even my home state of Ohio.
10:05 But we're gonna be working with anyone and everyone we can at the state level to simply say, hey, we have the students back and we support their right to free speech and to form a
10:17 club.
10:18 That's amazing. Thank you so much, Nick. We gotta get to those 30000. Gotta get
10:23 to gonna get to work.
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11:30 We got a a very breaking news email in that's must be read to the entire country.
11:35 Oh, yes.
11:36 Mikey, reveal it. It says, Joe Bob in the daylight, I thought he was only a nighttime vampire.
11:41 I think they might be referring to to the show Turning Point Tonight, which airs at 10 PM eastern on Real America's Voices, which I usually do. So that that I do come out during the day. And it's not often, but
11:53 I It's rare.
11:53 It is a vampire, but, like, you it's like the Twilight vampires who just kinda sparkle in the daylight?
11:58 Yeah. More tan, but, yeah, definitely also a vampire.
12:00 He does go to bed around 3 AM and wake up around noon every day.
12:04 That is yeah. Really? No. But I
12:07 I I should probably. That's that's
12:08 what a lot of comedians do.
12:09 I did that when I worked at Fox, basically. You So I didn't I didn't like to do things before I went to work, and it
12:15 was an evening show. I would just roll in to work at 1 PM. So I would
12:19 get up really late and then stay up
12:20 really Now the
12:21 question is, did you use that as an excuse just to sleep in later?
12:24 Like, were you was that your primary goal, and then
12:26 you just got a job that allowed you to be a lazy No.
12:32 On on the topic of, Club America, I I thought I had a really good idea. Turns out it's not that great of an idea. Obviously, we wanna have more kids, therefore, bolster more high schools, which would allow us to get to
12:44 that 30000 number. But, also, what if we acquired high schools? So I thought, how many high schools does Greenland have? 2. So, yeah, that's that's the problem. I thought it was a good idea.
12:55 Greenland has 4 high schools. No. They 4. 4 secondary schools in the entire country.
13:01 So That's not gonna work.
13:02 That would
13:02 be It does help.
13:03 It does help. It's about 1 1 thousandth of the additional high schools.
13:07 Okay.
13:07 So are are you against making progress on this goal, Blake?
13:10 Is that what I'm hearing?
13:11 Oh, that's right. I you are kinda
13:13 You know, we do have a lot
13:14 of Greenlanders coming to Amfest. We have a whole group of them.
13:17 Really? So that's like 1 percent of the population if we get Uh-huh. 5
13:20 or something. There's like 15 of them coming. Speaking of, we'll give away 2 AmFest tickets on the show today. If you email us freedom at charlie kirk dot com and you have interest in coming, I know we're sold out, but
13:32 let's give out 2 on the show today. What do we think, Blake? Is that a good idea?
13:36 I think that's great. Let's do it. Okay. You're gonna have to run this this lottery because I don't know how how those work.
13:41 We're gonna do it. I I have several friends who have now not necessarily come out of the woodwork, but in the last couple weeks, be like, hey. How how do I get tickets to AmFest?
13:50 Tell them to email freedom at charlie kirk. That is
13:52 literally the only way you can do it because I kind of text back or or say back laughing like you can't. It has been sold out.
14:01 And and sold out is probably even an understatement because I think capacity limits are probably a concern. You know, Elon Musk. Is this true that he quote tweeted you?
14:11 He did.
14:12 Well, that was that was really interesting.
14:14 Did he what did he quote tweet you about?
14:15 Well, I was talking about some of the some of the percentages. Do we
14:20 have that clip of the percentages?
14:21 This is such a
14:22 good clip. Might be able to pull
14:24 it for later on the show, but I effectively was outlining some of the lower percentages of Somali immigrants in other countries, in other countries.
14:32 We we actually have that. We have this. So we
14:34 we got it.
14:35 Let's let's do 3 3 7.
14:37 When people criticize Somali foreigners in western countries, here are a few things to keep in mind. In Norway, 27 percent of Somali born households do not
14:49 rely mainly on government assistance. In Sweden, 36 percent of Somali born adults are either employed or in education. In Denmark, 31 percent of Somali immigrants and their
15:01 descendants are not on public benefits. These are just a couple things to remember during the discussion of whether or not we should let more third worlders in the United States. I hope this helps.
15:12 So Elon Musk, the world's richest man, he replied to that. He he kind of he he may weighed it in his head, and he replied, put up 3 3 6. He replied,
15:23 wow. Well, I'm just so
15:25 grateful that he understood the sarcasm of it.
15:28 Yes. Because I
15:28 think I got I got the overwhelming majority of people understood, oh, these are very low numbers. And Yeah. And and maybe it's not
15:36 advantageous to let a bunch of third rollers into western countries. It was the music for me.
15:41 I love it.
15:42 We've already got a few entries in the AmFest 2 ticket lottery. So
15:46 Keep emailing. Keep emailing at charlie kirk dot com. Oh, that that the odds are pretty good.
15:51 The odds are great. That's only paying attention, and you're able to get here.
15:53 Oh, wow.
15:54 This is very good That's, that's fantastic. There I mean, to go back to that, fun little Internet video, there was a little bit of concern of the sarcasm not
16:05 reaching everybody entirely. There were a bunch of there were not a bunch. Maybe, like, 5 or 6 comments that go, wait a minute. These numbers are terrible. Yeah. What are you talk why are why is this lib trying to push
16:16 his ideology on me? And I I kinda said that. But this
16:20 is why we need Club America, because among other things you can learn through Club America is how to make good arguments to be America first, to be pro America. And to do
16:29 it with sarcasm, satire And
16:31 to do it with wit and humor, and you know, maybe if you have a big enough chapter, you could have Joe Bob come to your chapter 1 day.
16:37 Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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17:51 Alright. So we're all upbeat. We're getting a ton of emails. Very excited. About these Amsest tickets. We'll we'll choose 1 before, probably at the
18:00 end of the hour maybe. End of the hour.
18:01 We'll see. But 1 of those people who asked, Jessica says she would love 2 tickets to Am Fest, but she also said something that is very important. She wanted us to shout out that she's planning an event with
18:13 TP Action in Indiana because she says 2 of the traitor state senators in her county didn't vote for a very important bill
18:25 yesterday.
18:25 Mhmm. We've
18:26 talked about this a lot on the show. Yep. Indiana, we've got President Trump has been whipping Republicans across the country. Redo your maps. Get more Republicans elected to Congress. This is important for
18:38 executing the agenda I got elected on. Indiana voted for Trump by about 20 points. Yep. They voted for him in all 3 elections. The base seems to like this, but
18:50 the Indiana senators do not. No. And so they didn't they voted on it yesterday. There is a there are 40 Republican aligned senators in the state. They needed 25, and they got
19:01 19. 21 of them failed us. So we're gonna talk about this with Tyler Boyer, who is joining us long distance. Are you there, Tyler?
19:10 What's up, guys? How are we doing?
19:12 Well, we're not doing great right now. These Indiana guys failed us, didn't they?
19:16 Oh, man. Yesterday was a dark day for Indiana. Probably 1 of the worst days or the most embarrassing days Indiana's had since it voted for Obama in the in the first election. And you
19:28 can see why you have some slippage in the state because you're surrounded by really terrible Republicans who make really terrible decisions. This the bill that was being produced was
19:40 a pretty straightforward bill. It was to offset, the manipulation schemes that are being run by Democrats nationwide, and and states that are
19:52 far less the blue. They are hijacking congressional seats. And in Indiana, Indiana is 1 of the unique states that kinda made a mistake last redistricting, and
20:04 they gave 2 seats to Democrats that many argued were not really justified. Indiana is 1 of the deepest, reddest states in the country, and there are many arguments to be
20:16 made for a 9 0 Republican map. And so naturally, the president's team said, hey, you know, that now is the time to go back and redistrict and look at
20:28 this thing and and get us a 9 0 map instead of a 7 2 Republican 7 Democrat 2 map that currently exists because we need you to step up. And so they produced the bill,
20:40 the grassroots, the entire Republican Party across the country and across Indiana supports this. All of the polling shows, 70, 80 percent of Republicans support this. It's a no brainer. And
20:51 yesterday was the time to shine for the senate Democrat or senate Republicans. And they showed up, and they needed 25 votes as you mentioned, Blake, or 26 votes to pass it, and only
21:03 19 voted for it. 21 voted against it.
21:07 Alright. I wanna get, Joe Bob and Mikey in here, but very quick, because Charlie would do this, we need we need some just direct accountability. Let's throw up 3 26. And if you're a Hoosier, pay attention to this because
21:18 these might be your senators. These are the Republicans who did not vote for this new district. We're just gonna go through them. We have senators Eric Bassler, we have
21:30 Veneta Becker, we have Mike Bohachek, we have Roderick Bray, Brian Buchanan, Jim Buck, Ed Charbonneau, Brett Clark, Mike Crider, Spencer Deary, Dan
21:42 Durnulke, Blake Doriot, oh, letting me down on the Blakes. Sue Glick, Greg Good, Travis Holdman, Jean Lising, Ryan Mischler, Rick
21:53 Niemeyer, Linda Rogers, Kyle Walker, and Greg Walker. I apologize if I missed any of those names, but if you'd voted with us, we wouldn't be reading them.
22:03 You you did pretty good, Blake. There's a couple of people to to really point out here that are in deep, deep red. Like, we're talking 20 to 30 point Trump districts, a couple of them. Senator
22:14 Durnal or spelled Durnalk with a c at the end. Dan Durnal was 1 of those individuals. Greg Good, who is a person that has has,
22:26 who works currently for US senator. Senator Ryan Michler has was actually in Florida. He spent so much time outside of the state that he actually had to he missed a couple of votes. He missedShow more
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