From the Archive: Charlie’s 2023 Live Free Tour Speech at Texas Tech

**Charlie Kirk** (0:03)
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 got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible, have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA 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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Thank you, everybody. Please take a seat. Thank you.
It's great to be back in Lubbock, Texas. I got to tell you, I was here earlier last fall. I guess I'll tell you why I was here. It's going to upset some of you. So my father and my uncle, my aunt, all went to the University of Oregon. So we're big Ducks fans. See, now you guys are going to get upset. See, and I, okay, first of all, I have nothing against, I was a big Texas Tech fan. Rest in peace, well, Mike Leach when he was here, and I was always pulling, and I can't stand the Longhorns, they're awful. So we can agree on that, right? Okay, so we're all, and so we make a habit out of trying to go to a game or two, and Lubbock isn't too far from Phoenix where I live, and I come here, we had an amazing time, and everyone was super gracious, except for all the F-bombs being thrown at us, Duck fans. And it was the goof, I was literally getting upset, I got to tell you what you guys do. This throwing the food thing on the, what is this all about? You know, there are tortillas flying, whatever. And then I learned they tried to get rid of it, and you guys kept the tradition alive. And I kind of had respect for it. I kind of said, you know what? You guys keep doing it, regardless, no matter how much they try to tell you, you guys keep fighting the man and you keep on throwing. And I kid you not, I saw somebody up in the cheap sheets. There was a tortilla that flew like 150 yards and went right on the 30 yard line. And you guys put like holes in them to try to perfect the aerodynamicism.
Do you guys like the frat houses? Like, you know, you try out or you you kind of figure out the best way? I've never seen tortillas fly so far. So I needless to say, it was, you guys totally choked. I gotta be honest. It was not a good night at the end of it. And, but anyway, good memories for me, not so good for you. But, and then we, we, okay, it's very passionate folks here.
And then we had a great Sunday at Trinity Church. So it's great to be back in Lubbock, Texas, everybody. And.
And do me a favor. Anytime you ever, ever play those Longhorns, you gotta beat them. That's just, it's gotta be right in there. So, I don't wanna talk for too long before we get to questions, because I think that's the most important and the most fun, and that's why you're here.
I've done a lot of studying recently about the history of Texas. And it's fascinating. And this is kind of one of the last bastions of how Texas used to be, and what the future of Texas should really look like. Which, Texas was largely unsettled. In fact, so much so that the Mexicans were like, if you guys can settle in Texas, you can have it. If you're able to kind of figure something out in Texas, go ahead. It's not easy land, it's tough land. You have the Comanche Indians that were not exactly easy to live with, and very, very violent. So my people, the Scots-Irish, were crazy enough to navigate the Appalachian Trail and go west and come to this place now known as Texas. And in the early stages of Texas, Texas was the closest thing to a Jeffersonian republic. There was really like no police, no standing army, and it was the law and the belief in the Code of the West that kept Texas together. And it's very interesting. It's the most similar, the most eerily similar example I can find to how the Hebrews lived in the Old Testament, where they had no police and no standing army. And it wasn't perfect. People still, you know, did bad things. But Texas turned into this powerhouse, where so many different cultures and different civilizations said, you know, we don't really want to settle there. And for whatever reason, Texas all of a sudden started to grow and grow and became its own country first, the Republic of Texas. And anytime you spend time around Texans, there's, there's something different. There's, you're Americans, but you're also Texans. I'll never forget. The first time I did a speaking event in Texas, they did this hail Texas flag thing. And then also that's what this is really nothing against it because I love people that are proud of where they're from and thankful for where they're from. And in the clearest possible way, Texas needs to start acting like Texas again. And Texas need to get that attitude back where you need to go tell the federal government to go pound sand. You're going to secure the border yourself. And.