The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 158: Why Observe Shabbat? Is Vivek Trustworthy? Low Class Mugshots?

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, happy Monday.

00:00:01.000 Ask Me Anything episode.

00:00:03.000 Did we catch something in the RNC rules?

00:00:05.000 We review it in real time.

00:00:06.000 We talk about why I honor the Shabbat.

00:00:09.000 I think you'll love it at the end of the episode.

00:00:11.000 It could bless your life.

00:00:12.000 Consider it.

00:00:13.000 Maybe it's for you.

00:00:14.000 Maybe not.

00:00:14.000 Also, Vivek for what role?

00:00:17.000 Here's a role I think Vivek should take immediately.

00:00:20.000 I think you'll love it.

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00:00:39.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:40.000 Here we go.

00:00:41.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:24.000 A lot of people are talking in the Rumble chat.

00:01:26.000 Hello, everybody.

00:01:28.000 See you guys tap, tap, tap in here away.

00:01:31.000 So if you guys have questions, we will take a Rumble chat question as well.

00:01:37.000 Let's get here.

00:01:37.000 Charlie, I really liked what Vivek was saying on Wednesday night, but I've seen a lot of Republicans talk a good game than fail me in Washington.

00:01:43.000 Vivek has come out of nowhere, and suddenly the most popular non-Trump Republican can he be trusted, John and Toledo, Ohio.

00:01:49.000 I have not known Vivek for a very long time, but here's what I could say: Vivek does not act like most politicians.

00:01:56.000 He texts back immediately.

00:01:58.000 He'll take phone calls.

00:01:59.000 He'll receive coaching.

00:02:01.000 He enjoys being pushed intellectually on issues.

00:02:04.000 When I feel that he was incomplete on some recent issues that he spoke about, he would talk to me for 20 or 30 minutes.

00:02:10.000 I can't, only Donald Trump would be willing to do that.

00:02:14.000 Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Mike Pence, they all know better than you, right?

00:02:17.000 So for that, I think it's really helpful.

00:02:19.000 I haven't known Vivek for a long time, so I can't vouch for that, but I've never had a negative experience with him.

00:02:26.000 He speaks at our turning point stuff.

00:02:28.000 He shows up.

00:02:28.000 He does the work.

00:02:30.000 And so I have to say that means a lot to me.

00:02:32.000 For me, if you show up at our events and you do the work, you go up in my estimation.

00:02:40.000 This is what really bothered me about Ron DeSantis.

00:02:42.000 Ron DeSantis did not show up to the Turning Point Action Conference.

00:02:46.000 And also, I will be very honest with you.

00:02:49.000 I have a soft spot for entrepreneurs.

00:02:51.000 That's why I like Donald Trump and that's why I like Vivek.

00:02:54.000 Creating value in the marketplace is very hard.

00:02:57.000 Running for political office is nowhere nearly as hard as creating a multi-billion dollar business.

00:03:03.000 And so I have questions for Vivek.

00:03:06.000 I had a phone call with him this morning about something, and he's willing to communicate.

00:03:09.000 He's willing to talk.

00:03:10.000 He's always given a fair hearing on this show.

00:03:13.000 And so that's what I'll say about that.

00:03:14.000 People say, you know, Charlie, you know, where does he stand on this stuff?

00:03:17.000 You're going to have to ask him that.

00:03:18.000 But he works his tail off.

00:03:19.000 He travels.

00:03:20.000 He travels the country.

00:03:22.000 He does a ton of interviews.

00:03:24.000 Somebody says here on the Rumble chat, Charlie Vivek says the right things because he knows what will make him popular.

00:03:31.000 Okay.

00:03:32.000 Well, that actually doesn't bother me that much.

00:03:35.000 I know that sounds strange. 0.99

00:03:37.000 I would rather have somebody say the right things, understanding that's how you win political support, than say the stupid things arrogantly and smugly towards the base. 0.99

00:03:49.000 Listen to the base. 1.00

00:03:53.000 Listen to the bass.

00:03:55.000 And so I'm not an apologist for Vivek.

00:03:57.000 I do consider him a friend.

00:03:59.000 I think he deserves an honest look.

00:04:02.000 Every candidate should have to experience tough questions.

00:04:05.000 But I'm biased when somebody does carve time to come on our podcast and come to our turning point events.

00:04:10.000 That means a lot to me.

00:04:12.000 It does.

00:04:13.000 Somebody's asked me, Charlie, do you think he should be Donald Trump's vice president?

00:04:18.000 No.

00:04:19.000 I think he should be Donald Trump's chief of staff.

00:04:22.000 That is a much different role.

00:04:25.000 We need a talented, high IQ, hard-driving, mission-oriented, MAGA chief of staff.

00:04:33.000 Vivek Ramaswamy has built massive businesses.

00:04:38.000 He has dealt with the highest levels of business, finance, government.

00:04:43.000 If we want to slay the administrative state, and one day Vivek wants to be president, Vivek would have a much better political future if he could prove that he went and became chief of staff for a couple years and disassembled the administrative state, the shadow government.

00:05:02.000 That would be a phenomenal role for Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:05:04.000 And look, having visited the White House over 100 times and kind of seeing how the flow of things happen there and the energy and the pace, Vivek is cut out for that.

00:05:16.000 Not everybody that was in the running or even had the job as chief of staff was in the running.

00:05:21.000 Mark Meadows did a great job.

00:05:22.000 He really did.

00:05:23.000 He had a tough time and a tough there.

00:05:25.000 But a lot of the people, they're not exactly high-functioning. 0.97

00:05:28.000 I'm not saying they're dumb. 0.87

00:05:30.000 It's just, it's typical DC culture. 0.96

00:05:32.000 Like, let's go get a beer.

00:05:34.000 Vivek comes from a business background, entrepreneurial, startup, venture capital, private equity, high pressure, high expectations, where you're used to working 19, 20 hours a day.

00:05:47.000 I come from that world.

00:05:48.000 That's how we built Turning Point USA.

00:05:50.000 Not that I came from that world, but that's the culture we have here.

00:05:53.000 That's why I have to force myself to honor the Sabbath or else I would just work all day and I would drive myself into a hole.

00:05:58.000 It's a, let's just say, a focus on preservation.

00:06:02.000 Also, God gives us the gift of the Sabbath.

00:06:04.000 So anyway, I think that'd be a great role for Vivek.

00:06:07.000 Vivek is so smart.

00:06:08.000 I think we all agree that Viveka is smart.

00:06:10.000 And by the way, if you don't trust Vivek, chief of staff is a role that you could fire immediately, right?

00:06:14.000 VP, you can't.

00:06:15.000 So I think it's great.

00:06:16.000 You say, here are the 10 things I want to get done.

00:06:18.000 And if he wants to be president one day, he could say, I was the chief of staff for Donald Trump and we disassembled the FBI and we fired 300 bad agents and I mean all this stuff, you know, we closed down the Department of Education.

00:06:32.000 He thinks clearly about this stuff.

00:06:35.000 And I could see this.

00:06:36.000 I could say this as somebody who, again, has seen the inner kind of flow of government, you know, having spent time in the White House, it's a very hard job.

00:06:47.000 It's a very, very difficult job to be chief of staff to the president of the United States, especially when it's not just coast.

00:06:54.000 You have to have good people skills.

00:06:56.000 You have to read people really well.

00:06:58.000 You have to handle the media because you still have to go in front of the media.

00:07:00.000 You have to run the entire thing.

00:07:02.000 By the way, a lot of the power of the government goes through OMB.

00:07:07.000 This is a really interesting thing.

00:07:08.000 The Office of Management and Budget.

00:07:10.000 You see, OMB usually just people think it's just the budget.

00:07:15.000 The management part actually is where people overlook.

00:07:19.000 It's really more management than it is budget.

00:07:21.000 The OMB is the offensive coordinator of the federal government.

00:07:25.000 And the OMB reports directly to the chief of staff.

00:07:28.000 And so what Vivek would be able to do is he would be able to have a group of very loyal people at OMB, and he'd be able to call shots.

00:07:37.000 And Donald Trump would then be able to be the actual CEO, the actual CEO of the country.

00:07:42.000 And because Vivek Ramaswamy has run for political office, he does have publicly stated positions.

00:07:49.000 And to be interested, you know, if you want to design a government to slay the administrative state, which I think is the number one issue, right?

00:07:56.000 The crusade against the fourth branch of government.

00:07:58.000 That is now my number one issue.

00:07:59.000 People say, Charlie, what is your number one issue?

00:08:01.000 The number one issue for me is fourth branch of government.

00:08:04.000 That's number one.

00:08:05.000 Okay.

00:08:05.000 If you want to design a, by the way, this is how businesses work.

00:08:10.000 You understand in economics.

00:08:11.000 Economics properly understood is that everybody has incentives.

00:08:15.000 Everybody has motivations.

00:08:17.000 So if, obviously, Vivek wants to be president either today or tomorrow or in 10 years from now.

00:08:22.000 He wouldn't be running if he didn't want to be president.

00:08:24.000 So you take somebody's ambition and you use the ambition for your purpose and the purpose of the country.

00:08:32.000 And you say, okay, Vivek, you have ambition to be president.

00:08:36.000 What a great opportunity for you to run the entire federal government, which would be the most amazing, the most incredible and amazing campaign accomplishment that you could say later on.

00:08:47.000 So that's my answer to that.

00:08:48.000 Somebody says here, Charlie, stop with the Vivek drum beating.

00:08:51.000 He's a WEF plant and not to be trusted.

00:08:54.000 So you have to be honest, right?

00:08:56.000 So Vivek sued the World Economic Forum for slander because they put him on the website and they took him down saying, you're right, we never had anything to do with you.

00:09:05.000 So you can have objections to the candidate, but I encourage you guys just to make sure that your criticisms are fair and accurate and honest because that one did get proven incorrect.

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00:12:22.000 I am curious.

00:12:24.000 We're getting some mixed feedback.

00:12:26.000 Some people say, Charlie, I don't like the Trump mugshot.

00:12:30.000 It's low class.

00:12:31.000 Do you guys want to see the Trump mugshot behind me?

00:12:34.000 Say in the rumble chat or email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:12:38.000 It's defiance.

00:12:40.000 It's taking their symbols and owning them and giving them a middle finger and saying, we are not going to suffer.

00:12:47.000 We're not going to be angry.

00:12:49.000 We're not going to be bitter.

00:12:50.000 Bitter is a better word.

00:12:51.000 We are angry because you tell us to.

00:12:53.000 It's inverting it.

00:12:55.000 It's using their energy against them.

00:12:59.000 I'm going to get more information on the RNC rules.

00:13:02.000 In the meantime, somebody says in the rumble chat, Charlie, are they really going to lock down the country again?

00:13:06.000 Yes.

00:13:07.000 Play cut 173.

00:13:09.000 COVID-19 forcing a school district to shut down.

00:13:12.000 Rungay ISD, southeast of San Antonio, is reporting 20% of its teachers and staff have COVID, including the superintendent.

00:13:21.000 Tonight, as the school leader recovers, he spoke exclusively with Kin Sfeim's Elisa Nijavez on closing schools after starting just two weeks ago.

00:13:30.000 So we've learned nothing.

00:13:33.000 Now, in their defense, that's a very small school district, 20% of teachers.

00:13:36.000 Maybe they don't have the capacity to do it.

00:13:38.000 But honestly, they should not have closed the school just out of principle.

00:13:41.000 They should have kept the school open, even if they couldn't have functioning classes.

00:13:45.000 Just out of principle, they should have kept the school open because of how tragic the school closures were during COVID.

00:13:51.000 Peter McCullough says, new booster for XBB 1.5 has no hope of working against Aeris EG5, which is a very mild and brief head cold.

00:14:01.000 I am easily treating them in my practice in vaccinated and unvaccinated.

00:14:05.000 Americans should not line up for any boosters.

00:14:07.000 That's Dr. Peter McCullough.

00:14:10.000 And by the way, I'm messaging right now with our field team, our amazing Turning Point USA field team, and we are ramping up.

00:14:19.000 We are lining up because we have the nation's largest movement of students, of pastors, high school, college for the largest do not comply campaign that you could imagine.

00:14:31.000 The two places that we are going to push that forward is churches and campuses.

00:14:36.000 Those are our sweet spots.

00:14:37.000 Churches and high school, college, church.

00:14:40.000 Let's just put it that way.

00:14:41.000 High school campuses, college campuses, and churches.

00:14:45.000 Those three.

00:14:46.000 That's where Turning Point USA is strongest in our grassroots.

00:14:49.000 TPUSA Faith is a juggernaut.

00:14:51.000 Our field program is a beast.

00:14:54.000 We're not going to put up with it.

00:14:55.000 We will not comply.

00:14:57.000 We will not comply.

00:14:59.000 We are not going to lock down.

00:15:00.000 We're not going to put up with it.

00:15:03.000 Okay, let's get to another story here.

00:15:06.000 Oh, yeah, there's another couple schools that closed today as well.

00:15:09.000 In fact, we're keeping it.

00:15:10.000 We have a live kind of drumbeat with our Turning Point USA team because we're keeping an eye on this to try to see it before it happens.

00:15:17.000 School districts, 30 school districts closed this week and halt in-person classes over COVID.

00:15:25.000 Kentucky School District, Lee County School District, and many others.

00:15:29.000 It's happening.

00:15:30.000 We learn nothing from the forced masking, the totalitarianism.

00:15:34.000 Our leaders do not care about this generation being the most suicidal, alcohol-addicted, drug-addicted in history.

00:15:43.000 They do not care.

00:15:45.000 And if you are a parent, do not put up with it.

00:15:47.000 Do not send your kid to a school that would close down.

00:15:51.000 Do not send your child to any one of those environments.

00:15:54.000 If you are a business, do not lock down.

00:15:56.000 If you go to a church, do not lock down.

00:15:59.000 Do not put up with it.

00:16:02.000 It's coming. 0.99

00:16:03.000 And by the way, this is creating a dumber generation than we've had in the past. 0.96

00:16:06.000 They're not reading the same. 0.98

00:16:08.000 They're not processing information the same.

00:16:10.000 Maybe that's part of the point.

00:16:12.000 Maybe that is the point.

00:16:14.000 We need mass, peaceful, civil disobedience.

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00:17:25.000 Okay, so I caught this, and now it's going viral, and people in the Rumble chat are kind of going crazy about it in a good way.

00:17:32.000 I mean that they say, hey, Charlie, what is going on with this ASA thing?

00:17:35.000 You're leaving me in suspense.

00:17:36.000 Lots of questions on this.

00:17:37.000 Okay, so Asa Hutchinson, by all public accounts, lost the debate.

00:17:42.000 He was the worst.

00:17:44.000 He was like a waste of time, shouldn't have been on stage.

00:17:46.000 But he said something that came to me literally right before I went to bed.

00:17:50.000 Am I remembering this correctly?

00:17:52.000 It's like literally, you know, you're about to go to bed, you're about to go to bed, and then boom, you kind of like, it's like as if the plane is like, and you just take off again.

00:17:58.000 And I was wide awake.

00:18:00.000 I was wide awake.

00:18:02.000 Did Asa really say that?

00:18:02.000 Hold on a second.

00:18:04.000 And right now, we are going, we have the RNC rules package in front of us.

00:18:08.000 So let's play this tape for you to hear it again.

00:18:10.000 What Asa Hutchinson says, it's not just the New York Times thing.

00:18:13.000 Ignore that.

00:18:14.000 Like the ballot access thing is Supreme Court.

00:18:17.000 Parties can do whatever they want.

00:18:19.000 That's even more horrifying to me.

00:18:22.000 That there might be a rule in the RNC package.

00:18:26.000 And he says this, Asa Hutchinson is a former DA.

00:18:30.000 He's a former attorney general.

00:18:31.000 Listen very carefully.

00:18:33.000 He first says our rules, then he says RNC rules.

00:18:39.000 Play cut 172.

00:18:40.000 And over a year ago, I said that Donald Trump was morally disqualified from being president again as a result of what happened on January 6th.

00:18:49.000 More people are understanding the importance of that, including conservative legal scholars who say he may be disqualified under the 14th Amendment from being president again as a result of the insurrection.

00:19:03.000 This is something that could disqualify him under our rules and under the Constitution.

00:19:10.000 And so obviously, I'm not going to support somebody who's been convicted of a serious felony or who is disqualified under our Constitution, and that's consistent with RNC rules.

00:19:23.000 Whoa, whoa, consistent with RNC rules.

00:19:26.000 So we have the whole rules package.

00:19:28.000 Our team is the best in all of media.

00:19:31.000 This thing is literally an unforgiving, like 600-page document that they're going through right now.

00:19:37.000 Rule appointed, pursuant, pursuant, rule, appointed, pursuant, pursuant.

00:19:41.000 So they're going through that.

00:19:42.000 But this doesn't seem to be a gaffe.

00:19:46.000 This doesn't seem to be something that Asa Hutchinson was messing up.

00:19:51.000 He said it a couple times.

00:19:53.000 And if this is indeed in the rules, which we're searching about candidates and ballot access and all that and resolutions, who's feeding that to him?

00:20:03.000 Because no one actually reads the RNC rules.

00:20:06.000 It's like, I mean, what we are, but it's like largely unreadable. 0.98

00:20:10.000 Is there a scenario where Donald Trump might win the primary and then at the convention in Milwaukee, somebody goes, because they had that stupid gavel, pursuant to clause four, section three, the nominee cannot be a convicted felon. 0.97

00:20:36.000 That's what Asa is saying. 0.99

00:20:36.000 I don't know. 0.99

00:20:39.000 My guess is that the rules say that they're the same rules that are in the Constitution.

00:20:46.000 That you have to have the same required.

00:20:48.000 My guess is that it's abstractly written without having, just knowing how these RNC people operate.

00:20:54.000 That it says that every, you have to be constitutionally qualified to be the nominee.

00:20:59.000 That's my guess.

00:21:00.000 Asa Hutchinson is no stranger to saying the quiet part out loud.

00:21:07.000 And if you connect these two together, Asa Hutchinson is also saying he doesn't believe Donald Trump will be the nominee.

00:21:16.000 Well, that's weird because Donald Trump is up 60 points.

00:21:19.000 What's going on here exactly in Play Cup 24?

00:21:23.000 Of course, if you believe that he's not qualified under our Constitution, the 14th Amendment, then he's not going to even be in the picture.

00:21:33.000 Well, I agree with you, but did you sign the pledge as a condition of being in the debate that you'll support the eventual nominee?

00:21:40.000 I'm just trying to find the consistency with your stated positions.

00:21:43.000 I admire some of them, but some of them don't add up.

00:21:45.000 You got to think a little bit lawyerly here that I signed it saying I'm going to support the nominee of the party.

00:21:52.000 I do not believe that Donald Trump will be the nominee of the party, so I can feel comfortable in signing that pledge.

00:21:59.000 Okay, so Asa Hutchinson says on stage that there are RNC rules.

00:22:06.000 We have not yet found that rule.

00:22:09.000 So that should give you a little bit of a relief.

00:22:11.000 Okay?

00:22:13.000 We have not yet found that rule, but we're looking through it.

00:22:17.000 But then he goes to MSNBC, and despite Donald Trump up 60 points, he doesn't believe Trump will be the nominee.

00:22:24.000 Let me tell you what I think is going to happen.

00:22:27.000 Asa Hutchinson, alongside Chris Christie and maybe Mike Pence, will attempt a highly technical rules resolution committee coup at the Milwaukee Convention.

00:22:42.000 That's what they are signaling.

00:22:45.000 It says here in the rules, in all elections or selections of delegates or alternate delegates to the National Convention, the following rules shall apply.

00:22:53.000 Delegates and alternate electors of the National Convention may be elected, selected, allocated, or bound only in one of the following members: primary election, state election.

00:23:02.000 So I don't know what Asa is getting at here.

00:23:06.000 I don't see it, actually.

00:23:08.000 But he's not just saying it in one place.

00:23:11.000 He's saying it in multiple places.

00:23:14.000 It would be unbelievably deranged to do this, but people in D.C. are very, very delusional.

00:23:20.000 They think they can get away with things they can't.

00:23:23.000 This would be the Russia gate within the RNC.

00:23:28.000 How do we stop it?

00:23:31.000 We stop it by flushing it out and shining a light on it now.

00:23:37.000 That's how we stop it.

00:23:41.000 I don't quite see in the rules where he gets this.

00:23:44.000 But I could see that there will be a rules challenge.

00:23:48.000 And who exactly would then vote on it?

00:23:51.000 The voting members of the RNC, that 168 that we've been talking about for quite some time, I did my best to try to get a new chairman.

00:24:02.000 All of a sudden, the 168 are going to matter a lot more.

00:24:07.000 Keep your eye on Asa Hutchinson.

00:24:08.000 I don't trust that guy.

00:24:09.000 The way he's talking, he's talking like a man with a plan.

00:24:12.000 You got to be vigilant.

00:24:14.000 Okay, let's get to some more questions here.

00:24:18.000 Also, potentially, just as a thought, by the way, Ada Hutchinson, or whatever his name is, Asa Ada, I don't know, has a pending resolution potentially in the works about delegate provisions.

00:24:31.000 Maybe there's a morals clause in the RNC rules that we're unfamiliar with.

00:24:36.000 I don't know.

00:24:37.000 I don't know.

00:24:39.000 Very murky, very strange.

00:24:42.000 Let's play a piece of tape here.

00:24:45.000 Play cut 118.

00:24:47.000 I think the American people deserve to know whether everyone on this stage agrees that I kept my oath to the Constitution that day.

00:24:56.000 There's no more important duty.

00:24:58.000 So answer the question thing.

00:25:00.000 I've answered this before.

00:25:01.000 Why are we?

00:25:01.000 So yes.

00:25:03.000 Mike did his duty.

00:25:04.000 I got no beef with him.

00:25:05.000 But here's the thing: is this what we're going to be focusing on?

00:25:08.000 I'm relieved.

00:25:08.000 Going forward, the rehashing of this?

00:25:10.000 I'll tell you, the Democrats would love that.

00:25:13.000 We still win if we let them get away with it.

00:25:15.000 I'm not letting Bobby hang out in the basement this time.

00:25:19.000 We're going to run him ragging around this country and we're going to hold him accountable.

00:25:23.000 It's really strange.

00:25:24.000 Mike Pence wants everyone to know about his.

00:25:27.000 How does everyone feel about what I did?

00:25:29.000 That's really narcissistic, actually.

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00:26:37.000 You know, I get a lot of questions about that.

00:26:39.000 They say, Charlie, why do you talk about Shabbat so much?

00:26:42.000 You're a Christian.

00:26:44.000 And I say, look, first of all, if you believe Jesus is Lord, then you believe in the creation and the promises of God are complete through the entire Bible.

00:26:52.000 But I'm not going to get too theological.

00:26:54.000 If you rest for 24 hours, you will be blessed.

00:26:58.000 And if you decide not to, then that's fine.

00:27:01.000 I know that my life before honoring the Sabbath and after honoring the Sabbath, they don't even compare.

00:27:06.000 And some people say, well, Charlie, why Saturday instead of Sunday?

00:27:09.000 That's a good question.

00:27:10.000 And I don't want to be overly legalistic about it.

00:27:12.000 Maybe Sunday is a better day for you to totally rest.

00:27:15.000 But I love, for me personally, ending Friday after a long week and totally shutting off.

00:27:23.000 And on Sunday, I'm already thinking about Monday.

00:27:25.000 On Saturday, I can truly rest and I can truly stop.

00:27:31.000 And so whatever day works for you, for me, it's the old traditional Jewish Sabbath.

00:27:36.000 Might watch some college football.

00:27:38.000 And that's the other thing.

00:27:39.000 People say, well, Charlie, do you do any electronics?

00:27:42.000 Well, the scriptures say, for six days you shall work, for one day you shall stop.

00:27:48.000 So, I do things I enjoy.

00:27:50.000 I'm just no work.

00:27:52.000 I don't check citizen free press.

00:27:53.000 I don't check my email.

00:27:54.000 I don't check my text message.

00:27:56.000 I don't check my social media.

00:27:57.000 I don't do anything that involves work.

00:28:00.000 But thou shalt exclude college football because watching college football is the furthest thing from work for me.

00:28:07.000 And I am, I got to be very honest.

00:28:09.000 I wage boycotts and wars against all the woke stuff.

00:28:13.000 And I have, everybody has some form of contradiction in their life.

00:28:16.000 I think it was F. Scott Fitzgerald or something.

00:28:18.000 He said the mark of a deep thinker, someone who can hold two inconsistent beliefs simultaneously.

00:28:25.000 Somebody said that.

00:28:27.000 I think college is a scam, and I love college football.

00:28:32.000 I totally acknowledge it's one of the great contradictions in my life.

00:28:36.000 I like bash against college.

00:28:38.000 College is terrible.

00:28:39.000 Stop sending your kids to college.

00:28:41.000 College is awful.

00:28:42.000 College is this.

00:28:42.000 And then I plan my entire fall schedule basically around Saturdays college football.

00:28:48.000 There are very few sports.

00:28:49.000 I don't watch the NBA.

00:28:50.000 I don't watch the MLB.

00:28:51.000 I casually watch the NFL.

00:28:53.000 Only a couple friends that I have in the league, people I've gotten to know.

00:28:56.000 Jimmy Garoppolo, who I grew up with, and Kirk Cousins, and who's from Chicago.

00:29:00.000 A couple people that I know in the league that I'll watch.

00:29:03.000 That's it.

00:29:04.000 Justin Herbert, who went to Oregon, who's amazing.

00:29:05.000 I'm not friends with him, but he's incredible.

00:29:07.000 But then college football is the one thing that I really take seriously.

00:29:11.000 That is the one that I really take seriously.

00:29:12.000 But look, here's the point.

00:29:14.000 In this highly technological world where we're all staring at screens, we're all overindulge in the news cycle.

00:29:25.000 Let me say this: you're missing out.

00:29:28.000 You're missing out if you are not stopping for one day.

00:29:32.000 In the book of Deuteronomy, which means second law, Moses was giving his farewell address.

00:29:39.000 And as Moses was giving his farewell address, he repeated the Ten Commandments, which were identical except the commandment that had to do with the Sabbath, the Shabbat.

00:29:52.000 And when it was repeated in Deuteronomy, he said, For six days you shall work and for one day you shall rest because you are no longer slaves in Egypt.

00:30:04.000 What Moses was saying in his farewell address is, why do you have the Sabbath?

00:30:09.000 You have the Shabbat, you have the Sabbath because only slaves work for seven days.

00:30:15.000 You are not a slave to your work.

00:30:17.000 And by the way, it's a two-pronged commandment.

00:30:19.000 You should not be resting for seven days a week.

00:30:22.000 It's okay to take vacations.

00:30:23.000 That's obvious.

00:30:24.000 That's fine.

00:30:25.000 But you should not be resting in your normal flow of work for more than one day.

00:30:31.000 And I encourage you guys to have that in your schedule.

00:30:33.000 Just the one little thing that you can look forward to and you plan.

00:30:36.000 You say, that I'm going to just shut it all off.

00:30:39.000 It actually makes you work harder.

00:30:41.000 It makes you think clearer.

00:30:43.000 It makes you get what you want to get done before that.

00:30:45.000 It's a finish line.

00:30:46.000 It's a self-imposed deadline.

00:30:49.000 And it's biblical.

00:30:50.000 And it's freeing. 1.00

00:30:51.000 And in this mad world we live of tyrants, despots, degenerates, and cockroaches. 0.99

00:30:57.000 It's very freeing. 0.99

00:30:58.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:31:00.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.

00:31:02.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - August 28, 2023

Ask Charlie Anything 158: Why Observe Shabbat? Is Vivek Trustworthy? Low Class Mugshots?

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