The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 45: My Biggest Lessons from 2020

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, on a special Monday episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, we of course are doing our Ask Me Anything.

00:00:05.000 This is the last Monday of the year, so I take your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, and I kind of share some 2020 lessons as we say goodbye to this year.

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00:02:50.000 Hey, everybody.

00:02:51.000 Happy Monday.

00:02:52.000 I'm thrilled to be back speaking to all of you.

00:02:56.000 What a 10 days it has been on the Charlie Kirk Show in Turning Point USA.

00:03:01.000 We have worked hard in our life, but I can tell you the last 10 days have been the most stressful yet rewarding 10 days in the history of Turning Point USA, the Charlie Kirk Show, and everything that we really want to do on this program and that all of you so generously support.

00:03:20.000 Started December 17th when things really started to get ramped up right before our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit.

00:03:27.000 On the 18th, we had our major event, fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, and then opening session on December 19th.

00:03:34.000 And you heard some panels and discussions from that, but I could tell you, I have never been more proud of a group of people than I am of our amazing team here on the Charlie Kirk Show and Turning Point USA.

00:03:48.000 We had thousands and thousands and thousands of people come to Palm Beach.

00:03:52.000 The county made it difficult, to say the least, to satisfy all the people that we were promised that were going to be able to come hear from all these incredible speakers.

00:04:01.000 Our staff adapted beautifully and wonderfully on their feet, accommodating students the best they could, especially in opening night.

00:04:10.000 And eventually, we were able to accommodate basically everyone that was there, which we were really pleased of, just because of county ordinances and shutdowns and lockdowns and all that nonsense.

00:04:20.000 But our staff really persevered amazingly.

00:04:23.000 My days would start at 6 a.m. if I was lucky to sleep in a little bit.

00:04:28.000 We would be interviewing people all day.

00:04:30.000 You've heard some of those interviews from our Student Action Summit, taking care of logistics, trying to wrap up end-of-the-year business at Turning Point USA, running all over that convention floor.

00:04:41.000 Long days, very stressful, dealing with a lot of press, a lot of media, local health officials, but we did it.

00:04:47.000 And I can tell you, I have been incredibly blessed by just enjoying what we have done the last couple days at Turning Point USA and here on the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:04:58.000 Our team has been taking a couple well-deserved days off, but here we are just kind of knocking on the door on the last Monday of the year.

00:05:06.000 And I told our team, look, I want to get back in the saddle.

00:05:09.000 I want to do our Ask Me Anything episode.

00:05:12.000 That is something that we have always promised you.

00:05:14.000 That we are doing here on the Charlie Kirk Show to take your questions.

00:05:19.000 And I had a couple days to enjoy Christmas.

00:05:22.000 I had a couple days just to kind of reflect on this last year.

00:05:25.000 And I have some big kind of takeaways and lessons that I want to share with all of you.

00:05:29.000 Some things that I think are important, just to kind of take a moment to reflect on what exactly was this year.

00:05:38.000 It's a year that we're not going to forget anytime soon.

00:05:42.000 What was the best part of 2020?

00:05:46.000 And what was probably the worst part of 2020?

00:05:48.000 But I think more than anything else, all of you should do this in one way or the other.

00:05:52.000 Take a moment this year, turn off your smartphone, and just reflect on the last 12 months.

00:06:00.000 Where were you 12 months ago?

00:06:02.000 What were you seeing?

00:06:03.000 What were you thinking?

00:06:04.000 What were you hearing?

00:06:05.000 Were you excited?

00:06:07.000 Were you nervous?

00:06:08.000 You probably couldn't have imagined these last 12 months.

00:06:13.000 But I look at everything as a potential blessing, as a seed of equivalent benefit.

00:06:20.000 And this last year, despite it being just awful in so many different ways, has been one that has been filled with blessing and, quite honestly, some lessons that I would love to share with all of you.

00:06:30.000 And that's kind of the first question I want to take.

00:06:32.000 Cynthia from Alabama asked me, Charlie, what has been your highlight of 2020?

00:06:36.000 And so I had the opportunity to journal the last couple days.

00:06:39.000 I wasn't very active.

00:06:40.000 I just kind of took a pause to reflect and to pray and to kind of have an opportunity to think, wow, what a wild year.

00:06:50.000 So just give you an idea of how many podcasts we did here on the Charlie Kirk Show this year.

00:06:56.000 Just since June, we averaged two podcasts every single weekday and one on Saturday and one on Sunday.

00:07:04.000 That is a little over 300 podcasts that we produced just since June.

00:07:11.000 And on the entire year, we surpassed 370 podcasts.

00:07:19.000 The most high-producing team, I think, in the entire country here on the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:07:25.000 And that's what you guys help support us.

00:07:27.000 That's what you guys help support at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:07:31.000 Gave hundreds of speeches all across the country, did hundreds of interviews.

00:07:36.000 And amazingly, despite the lockdowns, despite the shutdowns, despite a lot of things that were uncertain, we were able to accomplish almost all of our goals here on the Charlie Kirk Show and independently at Turning Point USA.

00:07:51.000 So, I want to go through a couple lessons that I think a lot of you would benefit from and hopefully be blessed to hear.

00:07:58.000 Five big lessons that I learned in 2020, which is number one, take what is in front of you, don't make excuses.

00:08:06.000 I want you to think back to the beginning of the lockdowns in March.

00:08:09.000 There was uncertainty.

00:08:11.000 People were very troubled.

00:08:13.000 They were worried.

00:08:14.000 And a lot of people all of a sudden started to use all of the chaos as excuses, excuses not to hit their goals, excuses not to reach to the next level.

00:08:27.000 We never did that at the Charlie Kirk show and at Turning Point USA.

00:08:31.000 Instead, we use this as, dare I say, an opportunity.

00:08:34.000 More people at home, maybe it's a chance for us to produce more content, less travel.

00:08:39.000 Maybe it's a time to dive deeper into big ideas.

00:08:43.000 I learned in 2020, more than any other lesson, that no matter what is happening around you, look at it as a blessing.

00:08:52.000 I know that might fall on deaf ears for some people here that have lost loved ones.

00:08:56.000 I lost friends this year, but generally, everything can be turned into an amazing opportunity and a blessing.

00:09:04.000 For us here on the Charlie Kirk show, we stayed put for seven straight weeks.

00:09:08.000 From mid-March to early May, we did not travel.

00:09:11.000 We didn't board a plane.

00:09:12.000 It was the longest period of time that I went without traveling ever since the start of Turning Point USA.

00:09:20.000 And I could tell you during that time, I was more at peace.

00:09:26.000 I was more focused on exactly what we wanted to achieve.

00:09:32.000 It was a great opportunity for us to go through the entire organization at Turning Point USA and on the Charlie Kirk show.

00:09:40.000 Why are we doing what we are doing?

00:09:42.000 Should we start doing podcasts every single day?

00:09:44.000 Because before the lockdown, we were not doing episodes every single day.

00:09:48.000 So it proved to us a great opening to really challenge every one of our guiding principles and beliefs.

00:09:59.000 Take what is in front of you.

00:10:00.000 Do not give or make any excuses.

00:10:04.000 Number two, be open to major changes.

00:10:06.000 Ride the current.

00:10:07.000 Don't fight the current.

00:10:09.000 During the lockdown, it was tempting to kind of want to fight what was happening on the local level.

00:10:14.000 Instead of trying to act as if things were not changing in front of us, the major changes, at first, I thought there's no way I'm going to be grounded for more than 10 days.

00:10:28.000 Well, it ended up being 50 days that I was in Phoenix, Arizona, without traveling.

00:10:34.000 And that was a big change for me.

00:10:36.000 And so instead of fighting the current, I kind of just released, I let go.

00:10:41.000 I said, God, you're in charge.

00:10:43.000 What do you want me to get out of these 50 days?

00:10:47.000 And I can say definitively, those 50 days was one of the greatest gifts I've ever had in my entire life.

00:10:54.000 Spent more time with family, spent more time with my now fiancé.

00:10:57.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:10:59.000 I was able to really put out two or three year goals of where we wanted to be on podcasting.

00:11:06.000 That was where a majority of our idea of launching this podcast into a national radio show came from, which now we're on radio stations all across the country.

00:11:18.000 If you would have told me at the beginning of the year, Charlie, you would be a radio show host in addition to a podcast host, I said, what are you talking about?

00:11:26.000 I don't have time for that.

00:11:28.000 You see, I had certain limiting beliefs in only the lockdown, which of course I'm against lockdowns, but we all played kind of team ball for the first couple weeks of which I'm talking about.

00:11:41.000 But without the lockdown, without this sort of disruption, I never would have found the path that we are on right now.

00:11:51.000 We recommitted to our ideals at Turning Point USA, also to not take government PPP taxpayer funding.

00:11:58.000 We doubled down on the original mission statement of the Charlie Kirk show.

00:12:06.000 So we are open to major changes.

00:12:07.000 I was a little bit resistant at first, but I can tell you that riding the current instead of fighting the current ended up being one of the sweetest gifts that I had in 2020.

00:12:19.000 The third lesson I learned in 2020 is learn something new every single day.

00:12:26.000 I forget stuff just as much as anybody else.

00:12:29.000 Actually, I walk around, everyone in the office here knows this to be true with this notepad filled with notes and kind of just one-off sentences that I hear.

00:12:40.000 But more than anything else, in my notepad is when I start to explore big ideas.

00:12:44.000 I'm hardly an expert in astrophysics or in Newtonian physics or in the laws of thermodynamics.

00:12:53.000 But there were a couple days where I really committed myself to spending a few hours to try to at least understand the big picture ideas.

00:13:04.000 What am I not currently understanding about the laws of physics and how can it apply to my life?

00:13:10.000 Topics such as the life and death of Stalin, the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong's Red Guard, the book of Enoch, to what was the first ever book written in the Bible, the book of Job.

00:13:26.000 What does it actually mean to be an Abrahamic religion?

00:13:29.000 All of these things I spent hours researching, watching lectures on, reading books on how the Scots built the modern world to the history of the Vikings.

00:13:40.000 I love to learn.

00:13:41.000 And every single day, I challenged myself to learn something new.

00:13:45.000 Now, I didn't remember all of it.

00:13:46.000 This is an excuse I get from people all the time.

00:13:49.000 Well, Charlie, why should I learn?

00:13:50.000 I'll forget most of it.

00:13:51.000 Well, first of all, write it down.

00:13:53.000 You're more likely to remember it than you can re-reference it.

00:13:57.000 But this year, because of all the idle time I had for those seven weeks, I learned something every single day.

00:14:03.000 I listened to new podcasts.

00:14:04.000 I read more books than I ever have.

00:14:06.000 And even when I read a book, I find one sentence that I really like.

00:14:09.000 I say, huh, I'm going to do a deep dive on that person.

00:14:12.000 Your mind is a muscle.

00:14:13.000 Use it every single day.

00:14:14.000 And I pray that we are able to bless some of you with some of these big picture ideas that we have been exploring, some of these moments in history, the moments in time where our teams is kind of sitting around.

00:14:28.000 We say, huh, it'd be super interesting to do a deep dive on Mao's Red Guard.

00:14:33.000 And we did.

00:14:34.000 You guys can go back in that episode over the summer that we dove deep into Mao's Red Guard or into Fidel Castro's Cuba or into Teddy Roosevelt.

00:14:42.000 I did an entire week on Teddy Roosevelt.

00:14:44.000 Some of you might have remembered that.

00:14:46.000 There's so much knowledge out there that we don't know.

00:14:49.000 And it's that old expression, the more I know, the more I realized how little I knew when I thought I knew it all.

00:14:55.000 And that has been a huge takeaway in 2020.

00:14:58.000 If there's one thing that I challenge you to do in 2021, and maybe this podcast can be a source to fulfill this challenge, learn something every day.

00:15:08.000 People say, Charlie, what do I do?

00:15:10.000 The more you learn, the more you'll realize what you need to do.

00:15:14.000 Dive deeper into the great ideas.

00:15:16.000 Read the Bible.

00:15:17.000 Read the great thinkers of Voltaire and Socrates and Plato and Aristotle and Descartes and Hume and Mill.

00:15:25.000 Read the thinkers that have played with life's greatest questions.

00:15:30.000 Some of them you might fundamentally disagree with.

00:15:32.000 I know I disagree with plenty of them, but they always get my mind moving.

00:15:38.000 God gave us this beautiful gift, which is the ability to process information, retain information, be able to contemplate different ideas.

00:15:48.000 Wisdom is the capacity to distill information and apply it to your life.

00:15:53.000 And that's why I encourage all of you every single day learn something new.

00:15:57.000 I feel that I am pursuing life at its highest possible capacity when I'm learning something new.

00:16:07.000 And I try to do that every single day.

00:16:09.000 And people say, well, Charlie, how do you learn stuff every single day?

00:16:12.000 I watch lectures, long, information-rich lectures from Hillsdale College, from Hoover Institution, from some of the great thinkers and writers of our time.

00:16:23.000 And then I look at debates.

00:16:24.000 I watch people that I don't always agree with.

00:16:27.000 I'll watch a lecture from Sam Harris.

00:16:29.000 But you have to understand that it's more than just passively watching a lecture while you're on your phone.

00:16:34.000 You turn your phone on airplane mode.

00:16:36.000 When you watch a lecture, you need to really watch it.

00:16:38.000 You need to be there with a pen and piece of paper with subtitles on, capturing everything that they're saying, pausing.

00:16:44.000 A two-hour lecture should take you about six and a half hours to watch because you're constantly pausing, reflecting, writing things down, saying, do I believe that?

00:16:52.000 If I don't believe that, why don't I believe that?

00:16:55.000 A notepad should be filled with your reflections, with your limiting beliefs, with little questions that you might search on the internet afterwards.

00:17:05.000 That is an active listener of a lecture.

00:17:08.000 A passive listener is you turn on the lecture and you're kind of flipping through Instagram or you're flipping through Twitter and, oh yeah, I'm hearing some smart things here and there.

00:17:16.000 You will not be filled with the fulfillment of learning if you're just a passive learner.

00:17:23.000 And this is outside of college, this is outside of high school.

00:17:25.000 And you say, Charlie, I'm looking through how I can satisfy my desire to be a better citizen.

00:17:33.000 I'm feeling a little empty right now.

00:17:35.000 What I tell people all the time is if you feel empty, you feel like you're not getting enough out of life, you need to be learning more.

00:17:43.000 Learning is one of the greatest gifts that God gave us to be able to challenge our current preconceptions, to be able to wrestle with these big ideas.

00:17:58.000 And if you think you got it all sorted out, well, then please email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, because I would love to learn from you.

00:18:06.000 If you think that you've learned enough in your life, I'd love to learn from you.

00:18:13.000 So that's the third thing that was my biggest takeaway from 2020.

00:18:16.000 Learn something new every day.

00:18:17.000 I challenge all of you to do that.

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00:19:36.000 Number four, if you do something that you know is good for you daily, you will like where you end up.

00:19:43.000 This is one piece of advice in 2021 that I encourage all of you to do.

00:19:47.000 Do one thing that you know is good for you.

00:19:51.000 Do it daily and do it seriously and see where you end up a year later.

00:19:58.000 This is something that we don't talk about enough, which is some people in economics and finance would call this compound interest, but the same can be for investing in yourself.

00:20:07.000 What is one thing you know that is good for you?

00:20:09.000 Just think about it.

00:20:10.000 It could be eating a certain vegetable.

00:20:13.000 It could be doing a certain exercise.

00:20:14.000 It could be stop doing something, which is the same as doing something.

00:20:18.000 It takes a conscious act to stop doing something.

00:20:20.000 Maybe it's stop drinking something.

00:20:22.000 Maybe it's not going to a certain website.

00:20:24.000 Maybe it's stop doing business with a certain person.

00:20:27.000 Whatever that might be, find that one thing that you know is good for you.

00:20:30.000 It might be a hard thing.

00:20:32.000 It might be running.

00:20:33.000 It might be stretching.

00:20:35.000 It might be reading a certain book.

00:20:36.000 Find that one thing and do it every day.

00:20:41.000 Do it for 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes.

00:20:43.000 It might be reading the Bible every single day.

00:20:45.000 I could tell you that this year, I had three things that I do every single day, every single day.

00:20:52.000 And for me, there is something as simple as stretching because I had a really bad back injury in the days I don't stretch.

00:20:58.000 I very much regretted it, but I could tell you I did this every single day in 2020.

00:21:03.000 For number two, it's listening to something that challenges my limiting belief to a scientist, to a lecturer, every single day.

00:21:11.000 That kind of goes back to number three, which is learning something new every single day.

00:21:14.000 And then number three, eat something absurdly healthy every single day.

00:21:19.000 I do it every day.

00:21:20.000 You'll have more energy.

00:21:21.000 You'll have more clarity.

00:21:22.000 You'll have more fulfillment.

00:21:25.000 Some people might just be taking your supplements.

00:21:27.000 Whatever that is, you do it every single day.

00:21:32.000 Become focused on what that might lead you to.

00:21:37.000 And hopefully it'll be a fulfilling life.

00:21:40.000 But that idea of committing yourself day in and day out, maybe it's self-sacrificial.

00:21:46.000 Maybe you hate those 10 minutes of exercise.

00:21:48.000 Maybe you hate those 15 minutes on the treadmill.

00:21:52.000 Whatever that might be, but you know that if you do that every day, or even most days, but challenge yourself to do it every day, where you will end up a year from that day is ahead of everybody else.

00:22:03.000 Because most of the world does not apply themselves daily to good things.

00:22:08.000 They do the opposite.

00:22:09.000 They apply themselves negatively daily.

00:22:13.000 They'll put a substance in them that is not very good for them. 0.96

00:22:16.000 They'll watch just total and complete trash on TV.

00:22:18.000 They won't take notes.

00:22:20.000 They won't dive deep into big ideas.

00:22:23.000 They won't surround themselves with people that lift them up.

00:22:28.000 Instead, they become hyper-focused on significance as the world measures it today.

00:22:37.000 Am I getting enough Instagram likes?

00:22:39.000 Am I getting enough Twitter engagements?

00:22:41.000 Am I getting enough retweets?

00:22:43.000 When in reality, it's, am I pursuing an ultimate good day in and day out?

00:22:51.000 You know, having the last couple days to kind of rest, which I do highly recommend those of you that are living very active lives, rest is critical.

00:23:00.000 However, if you do nothing but rest, you will not live a fulfilling life.

00:23:06.000 I truly believe that progress and that movement is what life is all about.

00:23:12.000 Showing that you are moving up the ladder, that you are improving yourself, which means you must measure everything.

00:23:21.000 And measure everything from not just financial, that's helpful, I guess.

00:23:27.000 That won't bring you happiness, though.

00:23:29.000 But are you making progress to a certain goal?

00:23:32.000 I know a lot of you are going to be making New Year's resolutions, a lot of you.

00:23:39.000 And a lot of you are going to be making weight loss goals and all this.

00:23:43.000 I can tell you, I have never not kept a New Year's resolution.

00:23:47.000 I'm very careful and very precise in the goals that I make because I take them very seriously.

00:23:53.000 Because I feel that if I do not fulfill that goal, I will have betrayed myself, which there is no greater feeling of being let down than the betrayal of oneself.

00:24:03.000 And I hope you feel very similar to that.

00:24:07.000 But life is movement and life is progress.

00:24:10.000 Progress with the ones you love.

00:24:11.000 Progress with your children.

00:24:13.000 And you will be beaten down.

00:24:14.000 There'll be times you fall short.

00:24:16.000 But the things that you do daily, that you promise yourself that you are going to do every single day, that you know are good for you, that might be difficult, those are the things that will keep you anchored when life inevitably throws a tsunami or a hurricane or an unpredictable curveball towards you.

00:24:36.000 That is what will keep you focused on true north.

00:24:39.000 That is what will keep you focused on attaining success.

00:24:45.000 Number five, the fifth takeaway that I learned in 2020, which is to forgive people.

00:24:52.000 Everyone makes mistakes, myself included.

00:24:54.000 I've made a lot of mistakes in my life.

00:24:56.000 I encourage all of you to be more open to forgiveness in the next couple of weeks and months, because people are on edge right now.

00:25:07.000 People are making mistakes and people are saying things they don't mean, I being one of them.

00:25:13.000 But if people are willing to ask for forgiveness, I encourage you to be willing to give that forgiveness.

00:25:23.000 It's not easy to live in the world right now.

00:25:27.000 It's not.

00:25:28.000 There's a lot of difficulties, a lot of challenges.

00:25:30.000 I think social media is a rotten to the core cancer that is ruining our young people.

00:25:36.000 It's ruining our interactions.

00:25:37.000 It's destroying our humanity.

00:25:40.000 And if people really mean it and they realize the misstep that they made, be open and willing to forgive.

00:25:48.000 I know the reason I'm sharing this advice is because I have been forgiven this year by many people.

00:25:54.000 I've made a lot of mistakes, said a lot of things I didn't mean.

00:26:00.000 And when I asked for forgiveness, it was one of the greatest gifts.

00:26:04.000 For those of you that have ever done anything where you had a pit in your stomach and then you confront that person and you ask for forgiveness and you get it, it's a gift that is beyond anything you could ever touch.

00:26:18.000 You feel liberated.

00:26:19.000 You feel as if you've been given something you don't deserve.

00:26:21.000 Quite honestly, none of us deserve forgiveness, especially those of us that are Christians.

00:26:25.000 So my challenge to you, maybe you're sitting through a Christmas season right now and you just got in a very big debate and a very big argument and a shouting match with somebody or somebody took something from you.

00:26:37.000 And now if they don't ask for forgiveness, I encourage you to forgive them anyway.

00:26:41.000 That's a much higher level of forgiveness to offer.

00:26:44.000 But let's just, let's just, for argument's sake, that's a different podcast for a different time.

00:26:47.000 Should you forgive people that don't ask for forgiveness?

00:26:49.000 The answer is yes.

00:26:50.000 It's a very hard thing to do.

00:26:52.000 It's much more complicated than just a yes or no answer.

00:26:54.000 But let's pretend there's someone that has asked you to forgive them, even if it's half-hearted, but they mean it a little bit.

00:27:02.000 Give them the gift is my piece of advice to you.

00:27:06.000 It'll make you a happier person.

00:27:09.000 You're never going to find life's greatest moments of breakthrough by harboring resentment and bitterness because you say to yourself, I'm not ready to forgive this person.

00:27:24.000 And maybe there is something that is so beyond.

00:27:25.000 And by the way, I don't take this out of context.

00:27:29.000 If somebody committed a crime against you or did something unspeakable, that is not what I'm talking about.

00:27:36.000 I'm talking about arguments.

00:27:37.000 I'm talking about disagreements.

00:27:38.000 Talking about things that you know deep in your heart that you're withholding forgiveness that you could release.

00:27:44.000 That's what I'm talking about.

00:27:46.000 So, forgive somebody.

00:27:49.000 One day you'll be in need of forgiveness.

00:27:50.000 It's a beautiful gift.

00:27:52.000 Give into the world that which you hope to receive.

00:27:55.000 So, here are three big highlights for me this year.

00:27:58.000 I guess I'm spending a lot of time on just a singular question.

00:28:01.000 By the way, I'm taking all of your questions.

00:28:02.000 You guys email us at freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:28:05.000 I hope to get some other questions, but I think this is important as we kind of just do a year-in review reflection.

00:28:11.000 My biggest highlight of the year is I was engaged this year.

00:28:14.000 I got engaged, which we're super thrilled about, Erica and I.

00:28:17.000 I encourage all of you guys to listen to that podcast episode, I'm Engaged Exclamation Point.

00:28:21.000 You guys can listen to that by scrolling back in the podcast archives and checking that out.

00:28:27.000 My second biggest, and just kind of another thought on that: I encourage all of you that are thinking to yourself, How do I live a fulfilling life?

00:28:35.000 Go find somebody worthy of pouring love into and stay loyal to that person.

00:28:40.000 It's the opposite advice that you'll get from many people in kind of our secular humanist culture, but it's how you find fulfillment in the world.

00:28:49.000 And I'm still learning this, obviously, just got engaged, and maybe next year I'll have even more advice to be able to share with you.

00:28:55.000 But it's a very, very sweet, wonderful journey.

00:29:01.000 It really is.

00:29:02.000 It's beyond any form of podcast or radio or political success that God has blessed me with.

00:29:11.000 It's something that is one of life's greatest gifts.

00:29:16.000 It really is.

00:29:17.000 And so, I know a lot of you are struggling to find somebody.

00:29:20.000 Well, first of all, pour into yourself and ask yourself, maybe be critical of yourself: am I somebody worthy of attraction of another person?

00:29:31.000 And that means in a variety of different ways.

00:29:33.000 Am I living with integrity?

00:29:35.000 Am I going out into the world sending energy and sending a message that I am ready to be loyal to a singular person?

00:29:41.000 Or am I doing the victim Olympics?

00:29:45.000 I can't find anybody.

00:29:46.000 It's so horrible out there.

00:29:48.000 Love doesn't exist.

00:29:50.000 You become the energy mantra that you repeat.

00:29:54.000 You do.

00:29:55.000 But if you're focused on gratitude, Lord, thank you for today.

00:29:59.000 I can't wait to find somebody.

00:30:01.000 You exercise every day.

00:30:02.000 You eat responsibly.

00:30:04.000 You tell the truth.

00:30:07.000 You'll find somebody.

00:30:09.000 I guarantee it.

00:30:10.000 It's the laws of nature.

00:30:11.000 You will find somebody, and God will make sure of it.

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00:31:13.000 The second greatest experience that I had this year was a very conscious decision I made over Labor Day weekend with our team.

00:31:22.000 We had a conference call at Turning Point Action, our political vehicle.

00:31:27.000 And I asked our team, I said, what do we want to do the next 63, 64 days, however much time it was?

00:31:37.000 And we all made the decision that no team would work harder than the Turning Point Action team.

00:31:43.000 And I traveled nonstop.

00:31:44.000 I gave speeches all across the country, from Maine to California to Wisconsin to Florida.

00:31:49.000 Many of you listened and heard and attended a lot of them.

00:31:52.000 And thank you for that.

00:31:54.000 I spoke to tens of thousands of people up close and personal, hundreds of thousands of people.

00:32:00.000 If you count the live streams, millions of people, if you count the clips and the podcasts, it was a wonderful once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and blessing.

00:32:08.000 And I mean it because of this.

00:32:10.000 A lot of people are saying, Charlie, what are we going to now do about the election?

00:32:14.000 It's a great question.

00:32:15.000 We'll dive into that.

00:32:15.000 We'll unpack that.

00:32:17.000 But a lot of the election was decided on whether or not you volunteered, whether you stepped up and registered voters, whether you went and bet to go be an election judge.

00:32:26.000 And some of that made a difference, some of that didn't, because of the obvious fraudulent systems that were built.

00:32:34.000 But here's a blessing that God gave me.

00:32:36.000 I can rest assured that I could not have done any more during that election season.

00:32:43.000 I pushed myself as hard as I have ever pushed myself towards anything in my life.

00:32:48.000 Red-eye flights, speaking till midnight, live streaming radio every day, two podcasts a day, taking questions till they kicked us out of venues, speaking from Miami to Dallas to southern Wisconsin to all over North Carolina, crisscrossing the country for a unified purpose.

00:33:10.000 It was a blessing because a lot of people feel guilt.

00:33:16.000 If Joe Biden becomes president, I feel sadness.

00:33:19.000 I do not feel guilt.

00:33:21.000 I don't.

00:33:23.000 I looked back to my calendar.

00:33:24.000 I said, I don't know if I physically would be able to do that again, truly.

00:33:29.000 I don't know if I'd be able to survive that schedule, that rigor, that intensity that it took.

00:33:35.000 God gave us the strength.

00:33:38.000 And I believe that if every single political team out there worked as hard as we did at Turning Point Action, especially towards election fraud and electoral fraud, maybe there would have been a different outcome.

00:33:48.000 Maybe not.

00:33:49.000 We don't know that.

00:33:51.000 But the answer to a lot of people's questions is, what can I do?

00:33:56.000 The answer is next time an election comes up, because there will be another election.

00:34:01.000 And there's some stuff on January 6th I do want to talk about, and there's some measures that we can get into that I do want to add some detail and color to.

00:34:08.000 However, let's pretend Joe Biden becomes president.

00:34:10.000 What can I do?

00:34:11.000 Remember, learn.

00:34:12.000 And number two, so next time there's a moment that requires action, you shouldn't have to answer that question.

00:34:21.000 Because instead, it's, no, no, no, this is what I did.

00:34:25.000 These are the doors I knocked on.

00:34:26.000 These are the precincts that I dominated.

00:34:29.000 These are the people I talked to.

00:34:31.000 These are the votes I was responsible for.

00:34:33.000 It's the money I raised, the money I gave.

00:34:37.000 That's the correct answer.

00:34:39.000 Because I can tell you, a lot of well-meaning patriots out there are feeling guilty.

00:34:48.000 We do not have that feeling here.

00:34:50.000 There is nothing we physically could have done more.

00:34:54.000 In fact, a lot of our team members got sick right after the election because we worked ourselves so hard, literally into the ground.

00:35:01.000 There's a team member who fell asleep in his car driving out of the office.

00:35:07.000 Thankfully, it was in Park.

00:35:10.000 So that was a great gift.

00:35:11.000 It taught me a lesson, too.

00:35:12.000 That when I was on that conference call on Labor Day weekend, going into the election, I made a decision and I acted upon that decision.

00:35:22.000 That's a very fulfilling thing.

00:35:25.000 For those of you that say, Charlie, I'm in a rut right now.

00:35:28.000 What do I do?

00:35:30.000 Go make a tough decision and stay focused on that.

00:35:35.000 It might be, you know what? 0.99

00:35:37.000 I feel like garbage. 0.80

00:35:38.000 I don't like the way alcohol makes me feel. 0.96

00:35:41.000 Then go write down on your calendar right now, March 10th, and you say, I'm not going to drink till March 10th.

00:35:48.000 Can you do that?

00:35:49.000 If you can't, you have a problem.

00:35:52.000 If you can't go over New Year's, you can't go through Valentine's Day.

00:35:55.000 March 10th is a completely arbitrary date.

00:35:58.000 But if you just say, oh, I'm going to take some time off, you're going to break that promise to yourself.

00:36:02.000 Make it a date.

00:36:03.000 A goal is a dream at the deadline.

00:36:06.000 And for us, it was Election Day.

00:36:08.000 We're going to collapse.

00:36:09.000 And we did, I can tell you.

00:36:11.000 As a team, no one worked harder.

00:36:14.000 It's a phenomenal opportunity.

00:36:16.000 The people I talked to, the things I learned, the vistas that we traveled through, once in a lifetime opportunity, despite the fraudulent outcome.

00:36:29.000 And that's kind of the second lesson here: which is while a lot of people were waiting for other people to do the work for them, we did not step up the way we should have when it came to election judges, voter fraud operations.

00:36:46.000 And we're going to step up and make sure that never happens again at turning point action in a lot of the work that we're doing.

00:36:51.000 We will never allow what happened to happen again.

00:36:57.000 But the thing I encourage you is to become a participant, not a spectator, and all these different things.

00:37:04.000 Number three, the third biggest highlight is my learning breakthroughs: the late night lectures, the late night conversations I had with experts and researchers and books I read, where all of a sudden I had that kind of eureka moment.

00:37:21.000 2020 was a beautiful blessing for me because things made more sense than they ever have.

00:37:26.000 They made more sense religiously, philosophically, politically, spiritually.

00:37:31.000 2020, because I committed myself to learning more than ever before, I had more breakthroughs than I ever have had.

00:37:40.000 That allowed me to make better arguments, to think more clearly, to see the direction of head, to see who we're up against.

00:37:47.000 It was a phenomenal blessing.

00:37:52.000 So, those are the three big highlights for me.

00:37:54.000 In 2020, getting engaged, the 2020 election experience, not the outcome, of course, currently, and learning breakthroughs.

00:38:03.000 The biggest story of the year, I know a lot of you are emailing me, and Victor from North Carolina just emailed me this as well.

00:38:09.000 Charlie, what do you think the biggest story of the year is?

00:38:12.000 Well, obviously, the lockdowns and the virus are the biggest story of the year.

00:38:16.000 But three other big stories that I had: obviously, the Great Steal, the election fraud.

00:38:21.000 I'm going to get into that in another episode.

00:38:23.000 I don't want to spend too much time on this episode on that.

00:38:25.000 But remember impeachment when they impeached our president, when they thought that was going to be the top story of the year?

00:38:32.000 When Adam Schiff led the fraudulent political impeachment against Donald Trump? 0.56

00:38:38.000 Remember, BLM Incorporated? 0.79

00:38:40.000 Of course, you do. 0.53

00:38:41.000 They're still here when they burn down the streets of our city, burned down the streets of our cities in the name of racial justice. 0.93

00:38:49.000 No other story was so manufactured, so artificial, than the idea that America is a racist, bigoted, homophobic, colonialist country.

00:38:56.000 And it has done irreparable damage to our country.

00:39:01.000 And then finally, we've talked about this in another episode: the great silencing: Hunter Biden, hydroxychloroquine, and heinous voter fraud.

00:39:10.000 The three stories that shaped 2020 that we were not allowed to talk about. 0.50

00:39:14.000 The fact that Joe Biden is bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party, and Hunter Biden was the cash cow for that.

00:39:21.000 Hydroxychloroquine, which is a cheap drug that very well could have solved the Chinese coronavirus epidemic and outbreak and heinous voter fraud. 0.76

00:39:31.000 A whole episode on all of this on how voter fraud happened in plain sight.

00:39:38.000 Nevada Native Voter Project from the whistleblowers in Wisconsin that had developmentally disabled people vote for them, or people vote for the developmentally disabled people.

00:39:49.000 The 1,774% voter registration increase for 90-plus-year-olds in Pennsylvania, Allegheny County stopping all of their votes, the random vote drops in Fulton County, the signature verification problems, the changing of voting locations in heavily Republican areas, the $400 million spent on the Center for Technology and Civic Life, all of it.

00:40:11.000 If you talk about Hunter Biden, hydroxychloroquine, or heinous voter fraud, you get kicked off social media.

00:40:16.000 We've talked about how creepy and eerie the great silencing is.

00:40:21.000 And that's where we are headed right now, where they're going to shut us all down on social media.

00:40:26.000 If they can't shut us down on social media, they'll try to shut us down through other ways, legal ways and other ways.

00:40:31.000 They are now, the left is planning their great invasion.

00:40:36.000 They are trying to plan their metaphorical kill shot against decent, patriotic, conservative Americans.

00:40:43.000 And that's where all of us must come in.

00:40:47.000 We must have a counteroffensive.

00:40:49.000 We must take terrain.

00:40:50.000 We must grow to new horizons.

00:40:52.000 And that's what we are pledging to do here on the Charlie Kirk Show every single day.

00:40:56.000 It's been a very difficult year for a lot of people.

00:40:58.000 I lost friends this year, very good friends.

00:41:01.000 I know a lot of you did as well.

00:41:03.000 I hope my lessons are somewhat helpful to a lot of you.

00:41:07.000 But more than anything else, be thankful this New Year's and this Christmas season.

00:41:11.000 Be thankful that you have the blessings you have in front of you.

00:41:14.000 And if you, like me, are feeling unsettled and angry about what has happened in our country, make a plan and let's stick to that plan.

00:41:25.000 Find a date where you want something to happen and let's make that change happen.

00:41:32.000 We still hold the power in this country.

00:41:34.000 We are citizens, not subjects.

00:41:36.000 We are co-rulers in America.

00:41:39.000 And I'm getting thousands and thousands of your emails, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:41:43.000 Charlie, what can we do?

00:41:44.000 I hope some of my advice is helpful to that.

00:41:44.000 What can we do?

00:41:47.000 And I pray that on January 6th, some senators step up.

00:41:51.000 I am skeptical whether or not the Republican establishment will step up and challenge the election results in great numbers.

00:41:59.000 But if none of that happens and Joe Biden gets sworn in as president of the United States, it's time for a metaphorical battle plan.

00:42:06.000 There is no giving up.

00:42:08.000 It's now time to fix our election system, end this mail-in ballot nonsense.

00:42:14.000 Apply yourself to a better country, a more active citizenry.

00:42:22.000 And that's exactly what we are going to do.

00:42:24.000 I feel so thankful for what we've been able to accomplish here at the Charlie Kirk Show, Turning Point Action and Turning Point USA.

00:42:30.000 We're on radio stations all across the country.

00:42:33.000 We have college chapters, over 1,000 high school and college chapters across the country at Turning Point USA.

00:42:39.000 We had an amazing event at our Student Action Summit.

00:42:42.000 All of that and more is made possible thanks to you guys.

00:42:45.000 Especially if you like this program and you feel this program has benefited you in any way, you can go to charliekirk.com/slash support and support us.

00:42:54.000 I guess I only got to two questions today, but I think it was fitting to go through this last year and talk about some of the biggest stories.

00:43:02.000 Obviously, the virus, the lockdowns, the election, the fraud, and the social media silencing that went with it.

00:43:11.000 Stay focused on the good and what you can do.

00:43:15.000 Learn, dive deep, listen to this podcast daily, and make sure you're subscribed to it and support it if you can, because that's what we are doing for listeners all across the country and patriots that feel like they're losing their country.

00:43:28.000 It's a great blessing to be able to speak to you guys every day.

00:43:31.000 We take these conversations very seriously.

00:43:33.000 There's hours and hours of prep that go into these conversations every single day.

00:43:38.000 And so I want to thank you guys for getting behind us and supporting us.

00:43:41.000 CharlieKirk.com/slash support.

00:43:44.000 Email us your questions, what you learned this year, freedom at charliekirk.com, and how God blessed you and kind of the journey that you've been on.

00:43:52.000 I'd love to hear and see, you know, kind of what you guys are thinking and what you guys have been reflecting on.

00:43:57.000 We'll be back with more episodes very soon.

00:43:59.000 I wanted to take this last Monday of the year to say thank you.

00:44:02.000 Hopefully share some of the wisdom that I know that I learned this last year.

00:44:06.000 We got a very big fight for us in store in 2021.

00:44:09.000 We're going to win.

00:44:10.000 We are.

00:44:12.000 We have a plan.

00:44:13.000 We have the energy.

00:44:14.000 We have the focus and we have truth.

00:44:16.000 Let not your hearts be troubled.

00:44:18.000 Stay focused on the good.

00:44:20.000 Thank you guys so much for listening.

00:44:21.000 God bless.

00:44:22.000 Speak to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - December 28, 2020

Ask Charlie Anything 45: My Biggest Lessons from 2020

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