The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 191: Trump vs. Adversity? The Power of Agency? Achieving Serenity?

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00:00:13.000 I take your questions about happiness, expectations.

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00:02:50.000 Okay, first question here from one of our members.

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00:02:57.000 Brad says, Charlie, did you get to spend any time with Trump after the town hall event yesterday?

00:03:02.000 Curious if he's in good spirits.

00:03:03.000 Yes, I actually spent 45 minutes with him before he took the stage.

00:03:08.000 And he is something else.

00:03:11.000 He is a his ability to keep having fun despite everything that is happening to him and being thrown at him is remarkable.

00:03:21.000 And so he did the TikTok thing yesterday, where he said, you know, Biden's TikToks.

00:03:26.000 And we should play that clip.

00:03:27.000 That clip hasn't gone as viral as I thought it would.

00:03:30.000 I tried to get him to do that as a TikTok, a TikTok on TikTok.

00:03:35.000 And he's like, no, I want to save it for the debate.

00:03:37.000 And then he just goes up on stage and he was feeling it.

00:03:40.000 And he did it.

00:03:42.000 So he did that backstage before, but he's in excellent spirits.

00:03:45.000 And I do want to play the tape again of the TikTok that I did make with President Trump.

00:03:51.000 182, Play Cut 182.

00:03:54.000 President, we're on TikTok.

00:03:55.000 What is your message to younger voters right now?

00:03:57.000 Well, the big message is vote for Trump.

00:03:59.000 We're going to make our country greater than ever before.

00:04:01.000 We had something going that was incredible and just horrible what's happened.

00:04:06.000 This is the worst president in history, Joe Biden.

00:04:09.000 And you look at it, even as a representative, he goes over to France and something happened that was not good.

00:04:14.000 I don't know what it is.

00:04:15.000 But we're going to make our country greater than ever before.

00:04:18.000 And I appreciate all your support.

00:04:20.000 Thank you.

00:04:20.000 And you'll never ban TikTok.

00:04:21.000 That's for sure.

00:04:22.000 I will never ban TikTok.

00:04:23.000 Thank you.

00:04:25.000 That was a little bit backstage there.

00:04:29.000 Oh, did we not tweet that video out?

00:04:30.000 We got to tweet that video out.

00:04:32.000 Trump and I backstage.

00:04:33.000 That's a good one.

00:04:34.000 So this is important.

00:04:36.000 I've had a chance to spend time with a lot of politicians, dozens of senators, dozens of congressmen.

00:04:44.000 Trump is very, very unique.

00:04:46.000 First of all, his commanding presence, he just completely dominates the room.

00:04:51.000 Secondly, he's incredibly curious.

00:04:54.000 And this is something that you'll never hear from the critics.

00:04:59.000 Oh, it's all about him.

00:05:00.000 He is relentless in how he asks questions.

00:05:03.000 Relentless.

00:05:04.000 First thing, how are we doing in Arizona?

00:05:06.000 How's this trending?

00:05:06.000 What's the number one issue?

00:05:07.000 How should I word this?

00:05:08.000 What about this?

00:05:09.000 Do you like this?

00:05:10.000 What's going on here?

00:05:10.000 How about just drill?

00:05:12.000 You have to be ready.

00:05:12.000 It's almost you have to prep yourself because you know that the machine gun of questions are coming through.

00:05:18.000 Secondly, he is relentlessly positive.

00:05:23.000 Regardless of what you tell him, he'll turn it into a positive.

00:05:26.000 And so, you know, I really think that this indictment thing has ended up being a good thing.

00:05:29.000 And maybe the conviction thing.

00:05:31.000 I mean, he's not happy about it, but the way he views the world is that he looks at the world as an opportunity to spin the negative towards the positive.

00:05:40.000 This is Donald Trump doing the Tic-Tac routine.

00:05:44.000 Is it TikTok or TikTok?

00:05:47.000 Too many ticks.

00:05:48.000 PlayCut 140.

00:05:49.000 I'll tell you what.

00:05:50.000 It's the single biggest.

00:05:51.000 I even have that here.

00:05:53.000 I have something here.

00:05:54.000 Huh?

00:05:55.000 Let me see.

00:05:56.000 Because you asked this question.

00:05:57.000 I think I'll show it.

00:05:58.000 Should I show it?

00:05:59.000 I don't know if you're going to see it.

00:06:01.000 Look.

00:06:03.000 TikToks.

00:06:06.000 This is what inflation does.

00:06:10.000 This is what inflation does.

00:06:13.000 This is whatever.

00:06:16.000 Okay?

00:06:17.000 Look.

00:06:19.000 Not good, right?

00:06:20.000 But that's.

00:06:22.000 I kid.

00:06:22.000 But that's.

00:06:23.000 There really is no kidding.

00:06:24.000 It's serious.

00:06:25.000 People can't live.

00:06:26.000 Donald Trump held up a small little TikTok compared with a TikTok, TikTok, get it all messed up container and contrasted the two.

00:06:39.000 We have another cut here.

00:06:42.000 Let's put 196 up on screen here.

00:06:44.000 So this is the live TikTok follower counter where we see the difference.

00:06:50.000 So Joe Biden has had a TikTok since February, late January, and he has 365,000 followers.

00:06:58.000 By the way, the Charlie Kirk show, our TikTok, has 1.6 million followers.

00:07:03.000 So we have 1.3 million followers more than the president of the United States.

00:07:07.000 Donald Trump has 5.8 million TikTok followers, 5.8 million, a 5.5 million follower difference.

00:07:20.000 Yeah, where are those 81 million votes?

00:07:23.000 It really makes you wonder, those 81 million votes.

00:07:25.000 Are they all going to come out and show up in big numbers again?

00:07:29.000 All right, let's get to another question here.

00:07:31.000 But yes, he's in excellent spirits.

00:07:32.000 He's as good as I have ever seen him.

00:07:35.000 He's on top of his game.

00:07:36.000 He has not lost a step.

00:07:38.000 Jennifer says, Charlie, I was at Dream City yesterday for the turning point town hall with Donald Trump.

00:07:44.000 I was so inspired.

00:07:45.000 Besides signing up to be a precinct committeeman, what else can I do?

00:07:49.000 So we've been through this.

00:07:50.000 You have to become a change agent, a force multiplier, and that includes registering new voters.

00:07:57.000 You have to be a heat-seeking missile to low-propensity voters.

00:08:02.000 Everybody that's listening, you have in your life low-propensity voters.

00:08:08.000 People that say, ah, you know, it doesn't really matter, or it's kind of rigged, or I don't need to show up.

00:08:13.000 You need to find those people and demand they register to vote, and then you need to chase those ballots.

00:08:18.000 If every single person in the movement does that and does that in the early voting month, our movement will be very, very hard to stop.

00:08:28.000 Very hard to stop.

00:08:30.000 You see, the Democrats have spent tens of millions of dollars and have sophisticated and superior machinery.

00:08:42.000 And that machinery involves full-time ballot chasers on the ground, full-time voter registrators on the ground, full-time community operatives on the ground.

00:08:51.000 And it's very hard to raise that kind of money.

00:08:54.000 We're doing our best at Turning Point Action, TPAction.com.

00:08:58.000 However, if we have a volunteer force that works our tail off, if we have a volunteer army, we can close that gap.

00:09:09.000 And it starts with every single one of you.

00:09:11.000 How many voters did you register in the last week?

00:09:14.000 How many people were you able to find and to get on the voter rolls?

00:09:18.000 And it requires grittiness.

00:09:20.000 It's not easy by any means.

00:09:22.000 It's not easy.

00:09:23.000 But it is some of the most necessary work that can be done.

00:09:28.000 And it's accessible to everybody.

00:09:29.000 And you become a one-person change agent.

00:09:32.000 Here's a great example.

00:09:33.000 Many of you have kids that are 18 or 19, and they're just kind of, oh, you know, I'm not sure if I vote.

00:09:40.000 Get your kids to vote and get them to vote for Trump.

00:09:45.000 Every single parent or grandparent out there, you need to make sure that your kids are voting and voting correctly.

00:09:50.000 That is an easy place to start.

00:09:52.000 Those are net new voters.

00:09:53.000 Those are new voters that were not in the system back in 2020 because they just turned 18 or 19.

00:09:58.000 They were 14 four years ago.

00:10:00.000 You find them, you get them registered, you get them into the system, and you get them to vote.

00:10:06.000 Cousins are the same.

00:10:07.000 Just make sure they vote the right way also.

00:10:09.000 So, hey, you better vote for Trump.

00:10:10.000 You better vote Republican.

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00:11:22.000 Josiah says, Charlie, I would like to know your take on expectations since listening to Dennis Prager on this topic.

00:11:29.000 I've often wondered how that relates to political decisions that seem out of our control.

00:11:34.000 I've enjoyed listening to all of your shows over the last five years, and I'm grateful for the members' experience you've created.

00:11:39.000 Well, we're going to get the experience is going to get even better as we continue to build out the website and do all sorts of different things.

00:11:46.000 Thank you, Josiah.

00:11:47.000 So, what Josiah is referencing here, and I know Dennis Prager very well.

00:11:51.000 I think I've listened to more Dennis Prager than almost any other person alive.

00:11:57.000 I listen to him frequently.

00:11:58.000 He's incredible.

00:11:59.000 So, Dennis Prager writes in his happiness book.

00:12:02.000 The book is called Happiness is a Serious Problem.

00:12:05.000 Dennis Prager says he learned from a Buddhist that you must keep your expectations at nothing, at zero. 0.62

00:12:12.000 So, for example, if you are about to go on vacation and you have a picture in your mind that the vacation is going to be perfect, that the flight will be tranquil and you will get there early and it will be sunny and you'll get to the resort and you'll check into your hotel room and you'll be relaxed and your family will love it.

00:12:35.000 If that is the picture you have in your mind, and then you wake up and the flight is delayed five hours and the airport is packed and you have to eat that crummy airport food and you finally depart and then you land and it's rainy when you get there and the hotel doesn't have your room ready and you're not feeling very well.

00:12:55.000 One of your kids is sick.

00:12:57.000 You're willing to consider that entire experience a failure as just awful because you had very, very high expectations.

00:13:08.000 So Dennis believes that you could become a happier person by starting off with no expectations, zero expectations.

00:13:16.000 So on that vacation, just saying, I have no expectation for this to be wonderful or terrific, I'm entering with nothing.

00:13:23.000 And it's actually, it does create a happier person because you don't get your hopes up necessarily and you keep your expectations down.

00:13:30.000 I try to do the same thing in politics too, and that's your question there, Josiah.

00:13:34.000 I think it's very important, though, that even though that like screwed up vacation, that theoretical situation that I'm putting forward would be very lackluster and not enjoyable, you have a choice of what you do with it.

00:13:45.000 And a lot in life is a choice.

00:13:47.000 This is why I like Viktor Frankl so much.

00:13:49.000 This is why I appreciate Man's Search for Meaning, which is that we have a choice of how we act to our circumstances.

00:13:56.000 This is one of the most liberating truths that a person can internalize.

00:14:03.000 That you have the power, you have the agency to decide how you will react to your circumstances.

00:14:12.000 You do not always have the power, the agency to create your circumstances.

00:14:17.000 Sometimes you do.

00:14:18.000 You get to choose how you act and more importantly, how you react and how you make sense of those situations.

00:14:27.000 And so, for example, if you have a flight delayed, you can look at that as a terrible thing, or you have more time to listen to your favorite podcast.

00:14:37.000 You have more time to walk around the airport and get two miles of steps in.

00:14:40.000 That is a conscious decision that you make of how you are going to react to something that is lackluster.

00:14:48.000 So, Dennis Prager writes in his book, Happiness is a Serious Problem, which I recommend to all of you.

00:14:52.000 It's a terrific book, that expectations and gratitude are the two most important things to happiness.

00:14:58.000 That keeping your expectations to zero, and then when something good happens, you are more likely than to be thankful because you had no expectations.

00:15:07.000 And you cannot be happy if you are ungrateful.

00:15:12.000 That has never happened in the history of the world.

00:15:14.000 There's never been a happy person who is also not grateful.

00:15:18.000 The two happiest people in conservative media is Tucker Carlson and Dennis Prager.

00:15:24.000 Would you agree Tucker's up there, Andrew?

00:15:26.000 He's a genuinely happy person.

00:15:28.000 Super cheerful, very joyful.

00:15:30.000 The two things that Tucker and Dennis have in common, they're incredibly grateful, but they're remarkably curious about their surroundings.

00:15:40.000 They love to learn.

00:15:42.000 Those who love to learn tend to be happier as well because they have a zeal and a zest for life.

00:15:47.000 They want to learn everything they can, read as many books as they can, to internalize the complicated world around them.

00:15:57.000 And so, Josiah, it's a very smart question.

00:15:59.000 I love Dennis Prager.

00:16:00.000 He has his fireside chat.

00:16:01.000 It's a great podcast.

00:16:02.000 I listen to it.

00:16:03.000 He does a terrific job.

00:16:04.000 A lot of emails here, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:16:07.000 If you are a member, you can ask us questions.

00:16:08.000 I want to get to this one question here, but it ties into a previous question we had about our event.

00:16:13.000 And I want to highlight an NPR article.

00:16:15.000 That's right, National Public Radio article that says the following.

00:16:20.000 After two years, Trump returns to Arizona with a new partner in campaigning.

00:16:24.000 On Thursday, Trump held a town hall event sponsored by Turning Point Action, which focuses on mobilizing young conservatives at Dream City Church.

00:16:31.000 To a chanting crowd of thousands, Trump vowed to make his voter mobilization efforts too big to rig.

00:16:38.000 Continues, the event underscores a new campaign tactic, directly using outside organizations to lead canvassing efforts to turn out voters.

00:16:46.000 Trump's presence in the state, his first this cycle, is seen as an endorsement of Turning Point's new Chase the Vote initiative.

00:16:53.000 The town hall also comes days after the Trump campaign and the RNC committee announced a swamp the vote initiative.

00:16:59.000 And by the way, we also now have Michael Watley speaking in Detroit, Chairman Watley of the RNC.

00:17:03.000 You got to let Lauren know.

00:17:04.000 He texted me that.

00:17:05.000 I forgot to alert her.

00:17:06.000 But that, yeah, he's coming, which is great.

00:17:08.000 Really thrilled about that.

00:17:09.000 How awesome is it to say that we're going to have the chair of the RNC there?

00:17:13.000 Because I could tell you six months ago, we would not have had the chair of the RNC at any of our events.

00:17:18.000 I think we would have invited Rana.

00:17:20.000 We're going to make November too big to rig, and we're going to overwhelm the ballot boxes, said Charlie Kirk.

00:17:24.000 There is no path to the White House without Arizona.

00:17:27.000 We're going to out-register them.

00:17:28.000 We're going to outwork them.

00:17:29.000 Arizona is one of the key swing states that could determine the outcome of the presidential election.

00:17:33.000 Chuck Coughlin, CEO of High Ground, a political consulting firm in Arizona, I don't know.

00:17:39.000 I feel as if he used to do bad quotes about us, right?

00:17:43.000 He used to be like the guy they would call, but he was actually very nice.

00:17:47.000 He was very nice to us in this one.

00:17:49.000 He used to be really nasty, I think.

00:17:51.000 It's a real, really a base motivational visit to make sure the people in Arizona, his team in Arizona, knows that he cares, Chuck Coughlin says.

00:17:57.000 They've got to feel his confidence in order to be mobilized and engage this cycle.

00:18:00.000 And that's not the case right now.

00:18:02.000 You can definitely feel it because he's not been out here.

00:18:04.000 Okay.

00:18:04.000 Continues.

00:18:05.000 There's preliminary discussions about potential visits that were never finalized.

00:18:08.000 Due to scheduling conflicts continues.

00:18:10.000 But then the big quotes are these.

00:18:12.000 And I'm going to kind of play this.

00:18:15.000 Stepping into a void, into part of that void is turning point action.

00:18:18.000 Speaking at Dream City Church, Kirk called on supporters to convince their fellow conservatives to turn out to vote, blaming low turnout and mobilization and recent state losses for the party.

00:18:27.000 This is exactly right.

00:18:28.000 The NPR absolutely got this right.

00:18:30.000 I blame us.

00:18:32.000 I blame us.

00:18:35.000 I blame our side.

00:18:38.000 The group is working to create an organizing effort to support Trump in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

00:18:43.000 Their goal is to raise $100 million and hire ballot chasers to doorknock, canvas, register voters, and encourage people to vote, whether it's in person or by mail.

00:18:50.000 So far, they've raised tens of millions of dollars, have hired hundreds of staff, and are onboarding 20 to 40 new staffers every week, according to Andrew Colvette.

00:18:57.000 But there is one quote I want to make sure I hit here.

00:19:01.000 It's the end quote, which is my favorite one at this piece, which is, it is the organizational ability that doesn't exist a cycle inside the GOP.

00:19:09.000 And Turning Point is presenting themselves as an alternative organizational front to be able to do those voter ID and turnout activities.

00:19:16.000 When thinking about an 11,000 vote margin, Trump lost by last cycle.

00:19:20.000 Colvett believes his efforts could make the difference this time.

00:19:22.000 Quote, Turning Point seems to be a place where it can marshal resources and human assets to help a campaign, whereas the GOP is not.

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00:20:38.000 I wore this at a golf tournament in Eugene, Oregon.

00:20:41.000 Well, first of all, Go Ducks.

00:20:43.000 Just going to say that.

00:20:44.000 Right, Andrew?

00:20:45.000 National runner-up. 0.52

00:20:47.000 Andrew is the national runner-up, first loser.

00:20:52.000 We won the fiesta, actually.

00:20:55.000 The Liberty Flames were defeated, okay?

00:20:59.000 The mighty Liberty Flames.

00:21:01.000 We could have beat the Liberty Flames with 10 people on the field, okay?

00:21:05.000 Quick question: When is Trump speaking in Detroit?

00:21:07.000 When and whom are the meet and greets with?

00:21:09.000 It's because Father's Day weekend.

00:21:10.000 Appreciate any insight you could share.

00:21:11.000 Lastly, will there be a breakout?

00:21:12.000 How to use the Turnboy Act Turnpoint Action App?

00:21:14.000 Yes.

00:21:15.000 President Trump will be speaking on Saturday as far as breakouts.

00:21:17.000 Tons of them meet and greets, I don't know, but usually really big names.

00:21:21.000 Download it, have some questions.

00:21:22.000 And yes, we have an entire breakout session on app technology and being a liaison for the app.

00:21:27.000 Brad says he is a member.

00:21:29.000 Charlie, congrats on the baby boy.

00:21:31.000 My question is still regarding the Nebraska special session.

00:21:34.000 Will they become a winner, take all state or not, Brad from Texas?

00:21:37.000 We are on it.

00:21:37.000 We have a big announcement from the People's Convention where we're going to bring this back up to the surface.

00:21:42.000 We have not kept, just so you know, we have not lost focus on it.

00:21:45.000 It's not like we've been keeping on it every single day.

00:21:48.000 It's just a matter of we wanted to allow them to have some breathing room and a breathing period, especially some of their lawmakers are in Ukraine.

00:21:54.000 No exaggeration.

00:21:55.000 Some of the lawmakers are literally in Ukraine.

00:21:58.000 Charlie, what should I say to people in my life who clearly haven't looked into the Trump trials and think they're holier than now for quote not voting for a felon?

00:22:06.000 How to explain the trial to someone who clearly thinks they know everything about it?

00:22:11.000 Well, first, you need to talk about this question of, wait a second.

00:22:15.000 So why would you not vote for somebody who has been a victim of a show trial?

00:22:23.000 What is that all about?

00:22:26.000 The idea of not voting for a convicted felon, what is he tried for?

00:22:31.000 What did he actually do?

00:22:32.000 You should ask them and press them.

00:22:33.000 And by the way, this was beyond the statute of limitations.

00:22:36.000 This is very important, and people haven't talked about this.

00:22:38.000 Typically, almost non-capital offenses in the federal register of laws and also state laws is a five-year statute of limitations.

00:22:47.000 So you rob a bank, the government has five years to charge you, to indict you from the conclusion of that activity.

00:22:56.000 You have five years.

00:22:58.000 So in New York, Andrew Cuomo signed a law, and people don't know this.

00:23:06.000 As he was outgoing as governor, he signed a bill into law that extended the statute of limitations to six years and 47 days, basically expanding the window and saying, no, the statute of limitations is no longer five days.

00:23:25.000 It's six years and 47 days.

00:23:27.000 Obviously, trying to give the local Manhattan district attorneys more of an opportunity to be able to go after Trump.

00:23:35.000 To give you an idea of how pernicious this is, I have to read this.

00:23:40.000 Is that Trump's lawyers moved to dismiss the case based on the statute of limitations?

00:23:46.000 But Judge Murshon rejected the argument.

00:23:48.000 In a pretrial decision, the judge said the pandemic extension stretched out the deadline for the prosecution by one year and 47 days.

00:23:57.000 In other words, this felony prosecution had to be commenced within six years and 47 days from when the crimes were allegedly committed.

00:24:04.000 From when Alvin Bragg filed the charges, it was only days away from expiring under the statute of limitations.

00:24:11.000 New York is the only state in the country that I know of that expanded their statute of limitations because of COVID, allowing the government more leeway to claw back to older, quote-unquote, crimes to give the government more money.

00:24:24.000 This was done only to try to go after Donald Trump.

00:24:28.000 That's number one.

00:24:29.000 And a lesser and not talked about element of it.

00:24:32.000 Number two, CNN legal analyst describes how a Trump conviction was a political hit job.

00:24:38.000 Judge donated money.

00:24:39.000 Alvin Bragg boasted on the campaign trail to go after Trump.

00:24:42.000 Again, we'll link this at charliekirk.com.

00:24:44.000 This was a political hit job.

00:24:46.000 But you should also ask those holier-than-thou family members, why would they vote for an unconvicted felon named Joe Biden?

00:24:54.000 Ask them seriously: who has done more damage to the country?

00:25:00.000 Who has actually, in their life and in their business dealings, done worse, Joe Biden or Donald Trump?

00:25:10.000 It's a very serious question, which is Joe Biden peddled foreign influence for cash via the Chinese Communist Party and foreign governments via his son.

00:25:21.000 Donald Trump got convicted in a Moscow show trial for 34 counts for a business records dispute, falsifying business records.

00:25:33.000 Jessica, who is a member, says, Charlie, level with me.

00:25:36.000 I'm a huge Trump supporter, but I find it's hard not to feel defeated.

00:25:39.000 It's everywhere I turn, we're losing, and social media is full of liberals gloating they finally got Trump.

00:25:43.000 It's exhausting.

00:25:44.000 Do you have any advice?

00:25:45.000 This must be an older question because it doesn't feel that way at all.

00:25:48.000 I mean, you look at social media, we are defeating them on TikTok.

00:25:52.000 We are beating them in a huge amount of chatter as far as the conversation on digital social media.

00:26:01.000 I don't feel that way at all.

00:26:03.000 Not to mention over $400 million raised for Trump's campaign from 2 million individual donors.

00:26:10.000 It is quite remarkable.

00:26:13.000 Okay, let's go here.

00:26:15.000 John says, Love the show, Charlie.

00:26:17.000 Do you ever get exhausted by a constant string of bad news?

00:26:20.000 Sometimes it's hard not to.

00:26:21.000 Well, of course, but again, it is a decision of how you're going to react to it.

00:26:25.000 If you are going to react to the bad news and allow yourself to be worn down, then absolutely.

00:26:33.000 This is why this is literally life-saving for me.

00:26:37.000 This is why tonight my phone goes off and I take a Shabbat.

00:26:42.000 I do not read the news for an entire day.

00:26:46.000 I do not know what is happening in the world for an entire day.

00:26:49.000 And I have proof of this.

00:26:50.000 When Israel was attacked by Hamas, I had no idea it was happening.

00:26:56.000 I had no clue.

00:26:58.000 I was reading my Bible.

00:27:00.000 I was going for walks.

00:27:01.000 I was kind of just chilling out.

00:27:02.000 All of a sudden, I turned my phone back on the next Sunday morning.

00:27:05.000 I go from Friday night to Sunday morning, 36 hours out my phone.

00:27:08.000 It is life-saving.

00:27:09.000 I turn on my phone.

00:27:10.000 A thousand-plus people dead killed by Hamas to Hamas who killed Israelis.

00:27:18.000 God invented Shabbat for a reason. 1.00

00:27:22.000 It is the only one of the Ten Commandments that is different in Deuteronomy when it is repeated after Exodus.

00:27:31.000 In Exodus 20, the Ten Commandments are there, and the Shabbat is mentioned in Exodus 20.

00:27:36.000 And then it's repeated in Deuteronomy, but it's a little bit different.

00:27:40.000 So in Exodus 20, when the decalogue was given down to Moses, the Ten Commandments, remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.

00:27:51.000 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day to the Lord your God.

00:27:55.000 On it you shall do no work, neither you nor your son or daughter or male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 0.87

00:28:02.000 By the way, that is, animals get a shout out in the Ten Commandments.

00:28:06.000 Very few people know that.

00:28:08.000 Continues, For in six days the Lord made heaven, the earth, and the sea, and that all is in them, and on the seventh he rested.

00:28:15.000 Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy, which means separate. 1.00

00:28:19.000 Okay, so then Moses basically gives a farewell address in the book of Deuteronomy.

00:28:25.000 The entire book of Deuteronomy is basically Moses saying goodbye to the Joshua generation about to enter the land of milk and honey. 0.99

00:28:31.000 And so he repeats every single one of the Ten Commandments, basically word for word, except the Sabbath, which is very important.

00:28:38.000 Observe the Sabbath day, so on and so forth.

00:28:40.000 And he says, quote, you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt.

00:28:48.000 And the Lord your God brought you out there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm.

00:28:54.000 Therefore, the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

00:28:59.000 Only slaves work all seven days.

00:29:02.000 You can be a very wealthy slave.

00:29:05.000 What Moses is saying here is, why would you guys work seven days?

00:29:08.000 You're no longer a slave.

00:29:09.000 God delivered you out of slavery.

00:29:11.000 He delivered you out of the house of bondage.

00:29:12.000 Why are you working seven days?

00:29:15.000 Very interesting difference there.

00:29:18.000 So, yes, sometimes the news get me down, but my 36 hours without my phone keeps me sane.

00:29:23.000 Charlie, what did you say to an atheist who says, I'm tired of people trying to convert me?

00:29:27.000 It's very disrespectful, more so than not.

00:29:29.000 I wish people would grow up and know it's all superstition.

00:29:32.000 Okay, and he goes on here.

00:29:32.000 I said a few things.

00:29:33.000 First of all, if you're an atheist, why does it bother you so much?

00:29:37.000 It's all just a bunch of cells.

00:29:39.000 And if you're so right, just prove them wrong.

00:29:41.000 That's what I always laugh when atheists say, stop trying to convert me, but it's all just a bunch of meaningless matter, isn't it? 1.00

00:29:49.000 Why is that such a concern to you?

00:29:52.000 Let's go to Rhonda.

00:29:53.000 Charlie, how's the new baby?

00:29:55.000 Amazing.

00:29:56.000 Getting a little bit of sleep, not enough.

00:29:58.000 Praying for you.

00:30:00.000 And yeah, that's the question there.

00:30:02.000 Let's go to another one here, long one, which actually might come with a piece of tape here.

00:30:10.000 Charlie, are you following the Hunter Biden gun trial?

00:30:13.000 What's going on there?

00:30:14.000 You know, we haven't covered that yet.

00:30:16.000 Let's kind of play a little bit of a Jesse Waters clip here.

00:30:18.000 This is from one of our members who asked the question.

00:30:20.000 Let's play Cut 64.

00:30:22.000 One juror's childhood best friend died from a heroin overdose.

00:30:27.000 Another juror has an alcoholic brother-in-law.

00:30:30.000 He called it a disease.

00:30:32.000 Brother-in-law is now dead.

00:30:34.000 One juror's dad was shot dead, and his brother was arrested for narcotics possession.

00:30:40.000 Another juror pled guilty to a DUI.

00:30:44.000 Another juror had an older brother addicted to PCP and heroin, but doesn't think people should own guns if they're addicted to drugs.

00:30:52.000 Although another juror says weed's no big deal, and you should be able to buy a gun on it.

00:30:59.000 And another juror worked for the Secret Service.

00:31:02.000 Her husband, still in the Secret Service.

00:31:06.000 Ashley Biden reportedly smiling when she heard that.

00:31:10.000 Yeah, imagine if Hunter Biden gets off on the gun charges.

00:31:16.000 Meanwhile, Donald Trump gets 34 counts.

00:31:19.000 And yeah, that is the same Ashley Biden from the diary.

00:31:23.000 That's exactly right.

00:31:24.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:31:25.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.

00:31:27.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

00:31:31.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 10, 2024

Ask Charlie Anything 191: Trump vs. Adversity? The Power of Agency? Achieving Serenity?

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