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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, no doubt about it. The Charlie Kirk movement in
Turning Point USA was on a big role and now
is on a huge role. This snowball is turning into
an avalanche around our country. Praise God for that. And
joining us not to talk a little bit more about
this focus on the family. Zach Metler joins us, one
of the brightest young Americans who believed in Charlie Kirk.
Good morning, Zach, welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey JT, good morning. How you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm doing great. I appreciate you being here. I mean,
it's just crazy to see the response after Charlie was
assassinated by the different I guess chapters if you will
or want to be chapters of Turning Point on all
of these campuses, more than I mean, thirty forty thousand
requests please come to our college. This is just an
(00:43):
overwhelming response to me in a good way.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, it's truly crazy. There was I think thirty thousand
requests within a couple of days after his assassination. Then
I saw it was sixty thousand, and it's now Actually
last I saw up to over one hundred and twenty
thousand requests. Incredible in USA chapters so it's truly and
young people I think who are so touched by Charlie
are wanting to get involved and wanting to get engaged,
and are turning to TPUSA is one one way to
(01:08):
do that, and I think that's just a truly good thing.
There's only twenty five thousand high schools in the country,
and there's five thousand college campuses, so we could easily
see a TPUSA chapter on every single high school and
college campus in the country, far exceeding Charlie's goal even
for the organization.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, absolutely love it too, And I'm going to get
your thoughts too. On church attendance spiking. We saw that
as well. I think people young people now, especially when
you've got the likes of AOC and Mundani, the socialist
left for young people and the academia that leans so left,
where these kids are graduating or attending school as we speak,
(01:45):
it's just you know, rubbing them the wrong way. And
Charlie was opening up, you know, the door and shedding
light on the darkness was being spewed by a lot
of these people that you know, Once this happened, it's like,
well wait a minute, this is horrible here. So I
Charlie made sense about the bottom line is that Christ
comes back to the center of what he stood for,
(02:06):
and the opinions came from the Bible, not just to
anybody that's in a university or somebody that's smarter than me.
But you know what's God's opinion on it? And your
thoughts on how this church attendants Spike. Do you think
it's going to be long lasting?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I certainly do. Gen Z actually is now the most
church going generation of all. So we go to church
more often than Millennials, than Boomers, than Gen xers. We
are now the most church going generation. And I think
a lot of that is because of the problems that
we've been handed. Right, We've got a lot of issues,
gen Z does. A lot of us come from broken families.
Almost one quarter of individuals under eighteen lived with one
(02:43):
parent and no other adult, which is the highest in
the world. Actually, many of us are failing to start
families of our own. A lot of our brothers and
sisters have been aborted, right, and so a lot of
us are very lonely. We have exceedingly high rates of
anxiety and the depression. I mean, there's just so many
problems that gen Z has, but we're looking for solutions,
(03:05):
and thankfully Charlie turned us to those kind of transcendent
meaning that have provided purpose to so many people through
faith and family and duty to country that gen Z needs.
And so we have been turning, thankfully back at church
to try to find that meeting. And one of the
things that he would always say is, you know, the
most important thing a young man can do is not
(03:25):
vote for a certain party, even though that's important, but
it is to get married and to have children. So
we're turning to faith and family to find that meeting,
to find that solution to these problems that we're facing.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, it's what God wants us to do. He wants
us to multiply, he wants us to have families, and
he wants to glorify, you know, He wants to be
glorified in all of this. You know, when you talk
about young people, you're right, they're scattered all over the
place with what the world has to offer them, and
it's bombarding and social media certainly does not play a
good part in some of that. But I think social media,
(03:58):
if this wave continues, social media can be taken over
by the light and not so much darkness, just like
the movement of church attendance in the request for the chapters,
I think and hopefully we'll see the difference in social
media and what's popping up there.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, that would be beautiful. And Charlie, you know, he used
social media for good. So that's something that we can
all kind of take to heart and say, hey, how
can we, you know, maybe utilize social media young people.
We spent about nine hours a day on screens, So
if we could just dedicate a small portion of that
time to sharing truth, to sharing things that are good
and beautiful, I think that'd be a great thing. But
(04:34):
Charlie just about a week before, two weeks actually before
he was assassinated, he wrote on Twitter he said, just
for words, he said, Jesus is the answer. And I
think a lot of young people praise God or taking
that to heart, or returning to church, maybe going for
the first time. That's that's a beautiful thing. The Christian
writer Totolian he said that the blood of the martyrs
(04:54):
is the seed of the church. And so this instance
of evil, this instance of horrible, this is horrible, the
evil act of Charlie's assassination. God is now using for
good and thank him for doing that one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So how do we keep this bubble that came after
the assassination and the big influx of so much interest going,
How do we maintain the strength that it has now?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I would encourage everybody to just maybe decide on one
thing that you could do to kind of honor Charlie's legacy.
Whether it's having a conversation about faith or a moral
issue with somebody who you think might disagree with you
in a respectful but maybe slightly confrontational way. Just not
something that's hostile, right, try to model that kind of
spirit of dialogue that Charlie had, whether it's starting a
(05:38):
TPUSA chapter. Do one thing to honor Charlie's legacy, and
if we all did that, I think there world would
be a much much better place.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Well, he was eighteen years old when he found a
turning point, Charlie Kirk was, and you're a young man yourself,
and Brilin Hollyhand, who's also a friend who's going to
Auburn now from Tuscalosa here in our state, is on
the same path that you are in continuing to spread
the gospel and have conversations and getting young people out
to understand that you're right. There's better answers for you
(06:09):
than the world has to offer, and Jesus is the
answer for sure. Well, Zach, God bless you for the
work you're doing, and you've always got an open door
here anytime you want to come by.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Thanks so much, Jati
Well, no doubt about it. The Charlie Kirk movement in
Turning Point USA was on a big role and now
is on a huge role. This snowball is turning into
an avalanche around our country. Praise God for that. And
joining us not to talk a little bit more about
this focus on the family. Zach Metler joins us, one
of the brightest young Americans who believed in Charlie Kirk.
Good morning, Zach, welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey JT, good morning. How you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm doing great. I appreciate you being here. I mean,
it's just crazy to see the response after Charlie was
assassinated by the different I guess chapters if you will
or want to be chapters of Turning Point on all
of these campuses, more than I mean, thirty forty thousand
requests please come to our college. This is just an
(00:43):
overwhelming response to me in a good way.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, it's truly crazy. There was I think thirty thousand
requests within a couple of days after his assassination. Then
I saw it was sixty thousand, and it's now Actually
last I saw up to over one hundred and twenty
thousand requests. Incredible in USA chapters so it's truly and
young people I think who are so touched by Charlie
are wanting to get involved and wanting to get engaged,
and are turning to TPUSA is one one way to
(01:08):
do that, and I think that's just a truly good thing.
There's only twenty five thousand high schools in the country,
and there's five thousand college campuses, so we could easily
see a TPUSA chapter on every single high school and
college campus in the country, far exceeding Charlie's goal even
for the organization.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, absolutely love it too, And I'm going to get
your thoughts too. On church attendance spiking. We saw that
as well. I think people young people now, especially when
you've got the likes of AOC and Mundani, the socialist
left for young people and the academia that leans so left,
where these kids are graduating or attending school as we speak,
(01:45):
it's just you know, rubbing them the wrong way. And
Charlie was opening up, you know, the door and shedding
light on the darkness was being spewed by a lot
of these people that you know, Once this happened, it's like,
well wait a minute, this is horrible here. So I
Charlie made sense about the bottom line is that Christ
comes back to the center of what he stood for,
(02:06):
and the opinions came from the Bible, not just to
anybody that's in a university or somebody that's smarter than me.
But you know what's God's opinion on it? And your
thoughts on how this church attendants Spike. Do you think
it's going to be long lasting?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I certainly do. Gen Z actually is now the most
church going generation of all. So we go to church
more often than Millennials, than Boomers, than Gen xers. We
are now the most church going generation. And I think
a lot of that is because of the problems that
we've been handed. Right, We've got a lot of issues,
gen Z does. A lot of us come from broken families.
Almost one quarter of individuals under eighteen lived with one
(02:43):
parent and no other adult, which is the highest in
the world. Actually, many of us are failing to start
families of our own. A lot of our brothers and
sisters have been aborted, right, and so a lot of
us are very lonely. We have exceedingly high rates of
anxiety and the depression. I mean, there's just so many
problems that gen Z has, but we're looking for solutions,
(03:05):
and thankfully Charlie turned us to those kind of transcendent
meaning that have provided purpose to so many people through
faith and family and duty to country that gen Z needs.
And so we have been turning, thankfully back at church
to try to find that meeting. And one of the
things that he would always say is, you know, the
most important thing a young man can do is not
(03:25):
vote for a certain party, even though that's important, but
it is to get married and to have children. So
we're turning to faith and family to find that meeting,
to find that solution to these problems that we're facing.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, it's what God wants us to do. He wants
us to multiply, he wants us to have families, and
he wants to glorify, you know, He wants to be
glorified in all of this. You know, when you talk
about young people, you're right, they're scattered all over the
place with what the world has to offer them, and
it's bombarding and social media certainly does not play a
good part in some of that. But I think social media,
(03:58):
if this wave continues, social media can be taken over
by the light and not so much darkness, just like
the movement of church attendance in the request for the chapters,
I think and hopefully we'll see the difference in social
media and what's popping up there.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, that would be beautiful. And Charlie, you know, he used
social media for good. So that's something that we can
all kind of take to heart and say, hey, how
can we, you know, maybe utilize social media young people.
We spent about nine hours a day on screens, So
if we could just dedicate a small portion of that
time to sharing truth, to sharing things that are good
and beautiful, I think that'd be a great thing. But
(04:34):
Charlie just about a week before, two weeks actually before
he was assassinated, he wrote on Twitter he said, just
for words, he said, Jesus is the answer. And I
think a lot of young people praise God or taking
that to heart, or returning to church, maybe going for
the first time. That's that's a beautiful thing. The Christian
writer Totolian he said that the blood of the martyrs
(04:54):
is the seed of the church. And so this instance
of evil, this instance of horrible, this is horrible, the
evil act of Charlie's assassination. God is now using for
good and thank him for doing that one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So how do we keep this bubble that came after
the assassination and the big influx of so much interest going,
How do we maintain the strength that it has now?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I would encourage everybody to just maybe decide on one
thing that you could do to kind of honor Charlie's legacy.
Whether it's having a conversation about faith or a moral
issue with somebody who you think might disagree with you
in a respectful but maybe slightly confrontational way. Just not
something that's hostile, right, try to model that kind of
spirit of dialogue that Charlie had, whether it's starting a
(05:38):
TPUSA chapter. Do one thing to honor Charlie's legacy, and
if we all did that, I think there world would
be a much much better place.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Well, he was eighteen years old when he found a
turning point, Charlie Kirk was, and you're a young man yourself,
and Brilin Hollyhand, who's also a friend who's going to
Auburn now from Tuscalosa here in our state, is on
the same path that you are in continuing to spread
the gospel and have conversations and getting young people out
to understand that you're right. There's better answers for you
(06:09):
than the world has to offer, and Jesus is the
answer for sure. Well, Zach, God bless you for the
work you're doing, and you've always got an open door
here anytime you want to come by.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Thanks so much, Jati
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