The Charlie Kirk Show - Left Wing Media Stays Slandering ft. Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager joins the show to defend and discuss the assassination of President Donald Trump and the question of whether or not God saved President Trump from being killed by an anti-Semite. Charlie and Dennis discuss the possibility that God did save Trump, and why it is so hard to be a tumbler in the face of a bullet that could have killed a president. Charlie also discusses CNN's character assassination of him, and his thoughts on the possibility of God saving President Trump. If God saved Trump, why did he have to be shot? Does God have a plan for Trump s life? Does he have a purpose for his assassination? Is he a victim of self-defense, or is he the victim of an attack by a would-be assassin? What does God have to do with all of this, and how did God save Trump from the bullet that would have killed him? The answer to all of these questions and more is simple: God did not kill Trump, but did He prevent the bullet from being fired at Trump? This is a question we should all be asking God to save President Trump, or did He just let the bullet come to his rescue? Charlie and I agree that God saved him from being shot by a crazed gunman? Learn more about the Trump assassination and the possible divine intervention by God in this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show on today's episode of the Charlie Kirker Show. Charlie's show on the Charlie Kirk's newest podcast, Am I an Anti Semite? Subscribe to The Charlie Prager's new show on his new podcast Am I An Anti Semitimite? Subscribe to the show? Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Podchaser and become a supporter of the show on iTunes! Subscribe on PodcastOne Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Spreaker Subscribe on YouTube and leave us a review on PODCAST Connect with your thoughts on this podcast? Like and share the podcast on your favorite podcast on social media and share it on your podcast on the social media pages! and we'll be listening to Charlie's thoughts on what Charlie Kirk does on the show and what he thinks about it on The Charlie's new book "Am I an Antisemite and what else? on TikTok is a good guy does he would like to do in the future of the future? and more! on the next episode of Charlie Kirk:

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00:01:42.000 Joining us now is one of my mentors and teachers, one of my favorite people in the world, Dennis Prager.

00:01:49.000 Dennis, thank you for taking the time.

00:01:51.000 I just want to say it is worth coming on just to hear those words from you.

00:01:56.000 Thank you.

00:01:57.000 It actually moves me, given how impressed they are with you.

00:02:01.000 Well, thank you.

00:02:02.000 And every day your ideas are reaching millions, not even from your mouth.

00:02:07.000 And I hope you know that.

00:02:08.000 That your life's work has this force-multiplying effect.

00:02:13.000 Dennis, there are several things I want to discuss with you, including CNN's character assassination of me, because I felt as if you could help me through that.

00:02:22.000 But first, I want to go through the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.

00:02:29.000 Your analysis, I thought, was terrific and very clear.

00:02:33.000 We're eight or nine days removed from that.

00:02:35.000 This is the first time a president or former president has been shot since Ronald Reagan in nearly 40 years.

00:02:44.000 Nine days later, what are your thoughts, Dennis Prager?

00:02:46.000 Well, pretty much what they were immediately, that it was more or less inevitable.

00:02:52.000 That was the title of my column last week.

00:02:55.000 This was an attempt on his life.

00:02:59.000 You can't have half the country, including virtually all of its major institutions, Academic, media, etc.

00:03:09.000 saying that Hitler was going to come to power if Donald Trump became president and not have this reaction.

00:03:18.000 We don't know the politics of the would-be assassin, to the best of my knowledge.

00:03:22.000 We don't know.

00:03:24.000 But it doesn't change my observation that it's not possible to have a drumbeat of this man is Hitler. 0.75

00:03:37.000 And not have some violent consequence to that state.

00:03:41.000 I mean, the truth is, if you believe that Donald Trump is Hitler, what is your moral argument against assassinating?

00:03:51.000 There was no moral argument against assassinating Hitler in the 1930s or 1945.

00:03:58.000 So, that was my first reaction.

00:04:02.000 It didn't used to be my reaction.

00:04:05.000 And, you know, then there are the religious questions, which you know I love.

00:04:09.000 Did God prevent Bullitt from killing him?

00:04:12.000 And I don't know.

00:04:15.000 My answer is, we just don't know.

00:04:19.000 You can't say with certitude God did, and you can't say with certitude God didn't.

00:04:26.000 You have one obvious, and I won't spend a lot of time on this, but Whenever people say, and I totally understand their saying, it seems that God saved Trump.

00:04:40.000 Why didn't he save the retired fire chief?

00:04:46.000 And that remains a mystery.

00:04:49.000 However, it's hard to look at the projectile of the bullet going just... Correct.

00:04:56.000 It's hard to just say that was... Yes, I agree.

00:04:58.000 I agree.

00:05:00.000 And that's why I said, all I'm saying is, all of us religious people have to be a drop tumbler.

00:05:06.000 We can't say for certain what God does or doesn't.

00:05:10.000 But, and you've always been consistent on this, you're open to the possibility that God actively intervenes in... Totally.

00:05:17.000 Yes.

00:05:17.000 Totally.

00:05:18.000 In fact, I would argue that the odds are 51-49 that he did.

00:05:25.000 And we don't know God's ways, and we don't know his plan or purpose for life.

00:05:31.000 And you said in your fireside chat, which I listen to every single episode, Dennis, by the way, that Donald Trump's response to getting shot showed that he was larger than life.

00:05:43.000 Dennis, you don't know who a person really is until they're in a moment of crisis.

00:05:48.000 That's right.

00:05:48.000 Tested is the word.

00:05:50.000 That's right.

00:05:52.000 I mean, that was a larger-than-life response.

00:05:56.000 And, you know, with all the talk, he's a narcissist, he's self-involved, he's an egotist and all of that, and there is certainly truth to that.

00:06:04.000 The vast numbers of people are.

00:06:08.000 But deep down, he does believe the country is infinitely more important than him.

00:06:17.000 And I think that moment showed.

00:06:20.000 I completely agree.

00:06:21.000 And the reaction after the assassination, Dennis, where you had hundreds of thousands of people, including some people that were working for congressional staffers, saying, you missed.

00:06:33.000 Why can't you be more accurate?

00:06:35.000 Dennis, we get to that place, as you say, because when you call somebody a Nazi, when you call somebody a fascist, Why wouldn't you then want to assassinate him?

00:06:45.000 Now, I found it to be interesting, Dennis.

00:06:48.000 The very same people who were saying that Donald Trump is Hitler, moments later were saying, we're praying for Donald Trump and a speedy recovery.

00:06:58.000 Well, which one is it exactly?

00:06:59.000 Is he Hitler? 0.50

00:07:00.000 Or are you praying for Hitler? 0.64

00:07:03.000 Right.

00:07:04.000 Because if Hitler had been shot, I would not have prayed for a speedy recovery. 0.94

00:07:09.000 Exactly.

00:07:11.000 I would have prayed for a prolonged period of pain and then death.

00:07:16.000 But which one is it do you think they actually believe?

00:07:19.000 Do you think that they believe that he is Hitler?

00:07:21.000 Or do they not necessarily believe that and that is just a tactic or a ploy to animate their troops?

00:07:27.000 Okay, this is one of the most ongoing indecipherables of my life.

00:07:35.000 Does the left believe what it said?

00:07:38.000 Do they believe Ben Mendelsohn?

00:07:39.000 Do they believe Steve Byrne?

00:07:42.000 Did they believe that Russia and the Trump campaign colluded?

00:07:46.000 Did they believe that the grandfather of Jewish grandchildren, the father of a Jewish daughter, People said that Nazis are fine people. 0.63

00:07:57.000 They believe that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.

00:08:02.000 The list of lies that they tell, that they really believe America was founded in 1619, that it's a systemically racist country, it's endless.

00:08:11.000 So I would say that their first statement of it, they don't believe, and that over time if you say anything enough, You can come to believe it.

00:08:25.000 I'm not sure O.J.

00:08:27.000 Simpson believed he killed his ex-wife by the end.

00:08:33.000 So does it remain a lie if you believe it?

00:08:36.000 It remains a lie.

00:08:37.000 A lie is an objective statement. 0.97

00:08:40.000 Are you a liar?

00:08:42.000 That's the moral dilemma. 0.97

00:08:47.000 If you believe what you say, are you a liar?

00:08:51.000 Now, if you say that Trump said that Nazis are fine people at Charlottesville, even Snopes, which is left-of-center fact-checker, said it's false, just plain-out false.

00:09:05.000 He never said it.

00:09:07.000 If you read Snopes and you watch the Steve Cortez video made six years ago on PragerU, which has over 10 million views, about the Charlottesville lie, and you still say it, Do you believe it?

00:09:23.000 In other words, is everybody wrong?

00:09:26.000 All the evidence I reject.

00:09:30.000 As a general rule, which is not directly answering your question, I hope I did directly answer it, but if not, rephrase it and I'll try again.

00:09:40.000 People believe, in general, what they want to believe.

00:09:44.000 Yes.

00:09:45.000 That is why the world isn't a good place.

00:09:49.000 I mean, it's a I have a blessed life, not complaining at all.

00:09:54.000 But there's so much evil in this world, and it's because of lies.

00:09:59.000 Lies are the root of evil more than any other single thing. 0.59

00:10:03.000 And to tell the truth, Charlie, you know this, I know this.

00:10:08.000 If you're committed to telling the truth, you will be hated.

00:10:11.000 There is no beloved truth teller.

00:10:15.000 Abraham Lincoln was known as Honest Abe.

00:10:18.000 He was shot to death.

00:10:20.000 So Dennis, I don't know if you heard the news.

00:10:22.000 According to CNN, I am an anti-Semite.

00:10:26.000 Let's play Cut 60.

00:10:28.000 Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA has been accused, credibly, by other conservatives of having an anti-Semitism problem within its ranks.

00:10:38.000 Eric Erickson wrote in a post that Turning Point USA was looking like not just a drifting operation but an anti-Semitic drifting operation.

00:10:45.000 Ben Dominich, a co-founder of the Federalist, wrote if Charlie Kirk remains the head of TPSA, the right has an anti-Semite problem that will follow them into the coming elections.

00:10:54.000 So Dennis, I guess I'm an anti-Semite now.

00:10:56.000 That's a new one.

00:10:57.000 Well, if it's of any consolation, according to, let's see, what was it, the Louisiana State Senate Democrats, PragerU is anti-Semitic.

00:11:09.000 They actually passed the resolution.

00:11:11.000 It was ultimately not passed by the Senate, but the Democrats passed the resolution condemning PragerU because they're using PragerU materials in Louisiana public schools.

00:11:22.000 Five times they said we're anti-Semitic.

00:11:25.000 I'm Jewish, Alan Esper is Jewish, and Marissa Sprite is Jewish.

00:11:29.000 Three people who run the organization.

00:11:32.000 So they use these terms because all the left does, including The Times, is smear.

00:11:42.000 They don't debate They never debate.

00:11:45.000 How many times did I invite the Arizona State University professors who condemned you and me as bigots and haters and so on?

00:11:53.000 Any one of you want to come on my show, I'll give you millions of people.

00:11:57.000 Just give me 15 minutes in your classroom.

00:12:00.000 Even don't give me 15 minutes, just come on my show.

00:12:04.000 And they don't.

00:12:05.000 They don't debate, they smear.

00:12:07.000 So let me tell everybody, so let me just give my quick Jewish bona fides.

00:12:13.000 Not only am I born a Jew and a religious Jew, I went to Jewish schools, I founded a Jewish synagogue, I founded a Jewish day school.

00:12:22.000 I'm on the fifth volume of a Torah commentary.

00:12:25.000 I have taught Jewish history and religion at Brooklyn College.

00:12:32.000 My life has been involved so much in fighting anti-Semitism and in helping bring Jews back to Judaism.

00:12:40.000 So, I have pretty good credentials as a committed Jew.

00:12:43.000 Let me just say what I said in wanting to send to the New York Times.

00:12:53.000 I'm at a loss for words, which is rare for me.

00:13:01.000 But to call you an anti-Semite, it's really like, how do you refute the Earth is flat?

00:13:08.000 If someone says the earth is flat, you're somewhat lost for terms.

00:13:12.000 Well, you know, we do have a lot of evidence for it's roundness. 0.98

00:13:18.000 I mean, but you sound somewhat pathetic. 0.99

00:13:21.000 That's it? 0.99

00:13:22.000 That's the best you can come up with?

00:13:24.000 It's round?

00:13:26.000 So let me just say, I called Charlie a few weeks ago.

00:13:30.000 Or texted you, I don't remember which it was.

00:13:32.000 Because I caught you on a college campus defending Israel to all these anti-Israel people.

00:13:40.000 And you were about as good as it gets in calmly destroying the Jew-hating, Israel-hating kids on the camp.

00:13:50.000 I saw you on the internet.

00:13:53.000 I saw you on YouTube defending Israel so terrifically.

00:13:58.000 Anti-Semites don't defend Israel, just for the record. 0.89

00:14:02.000 Jew haters also hate Israel.

00:14:04.000 But lovers of Israel, or defenders of Israel, which is more important than even lovers, is a separate issue.

00:14:11.000 Let me give another example, which I did give to the New York Times.

00:14:14.000 When you and I spoke at Arizona State, folks, those of you listening or watching, you probably don't know this because Charlie would not have told you.

00:14:23.000 Let me tell you.

00:14:24.000 So Charlie and I were invited to speak at Arizona State University.

00:14:28.000 He spoke for a half hour, then I spoke.

00:14:31.000 And his entire talk, which blew me away, was on why he has decided to observe the Sabbath.

00:14:40.000 He's a Christian.

00:14:41.000 He's a believing Christian.

00:14:42.000 He has Sunday as a holy day.

00:14:44.000 But he has incorporated the Sabbath, the Jewish Sabbath, like, for example, not using his cell phone for 24 hours.

00:14:55.000 Do you know any anti-Semites who speak to a mostly non-Jewish audience about the virtues of Shabbat?

00:15:06.000 Folks, the absurdity of it is you can choke on it.

00:15:10.000 But hey, I've been called an anti-Semite. 0.95

00:15:13.000 University of Wyoming, when I spoke there, they said, oh, you know, and the usual, you know, six term, sexist, tolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, bigoted, and anti-Semitic.

00:15:26.000 But no, but the point, the bigger point is this. 0.97

00:15:30.000 What the left has done has raped, and I use that term all the time. 0.50

00:15:35.000 It is not over the top. 0.96

00:15:37.000 They have, they rape language. 0.99

00:15:40.000 And anti-Semite, and Hitler, and all of that, and genocide, they have been raped. 0.98

00:15:47.000 And if you look it up in the dictionary, there are two definitions to rape, and that is the physical, horror, sexual rape, and the non-sexual rape, like the rape of the rainforest, a term that is frequently used. 0.98

00:16:04.000 So, they are raping language when they speak of you as an anti-Semite.

00:16:11.000 And Dennis, just so everyone understands the timeline, and thank you for defending me, Dennis, your true friend, is that I was preparing to speak in front of the RNC in a primetime capacity, which is a great honor, I have to say.

00:16:23.000 I was very touched by that.

00:16:25.000 9.30 Eastern on the opening night.

00:16:27.000 And as I'm preparing for my speech, without them ever asking for comment, two hours before they drop this story, the New York Times does.

00:16:36.000 I'm not prepared to deal with this story at this time.

00:16:38.000 You know, preparations, logistics, and then CNN takes that story before I'm ever able to defend myself.

00:16:44.000 Andrew, by the way, our amazing PR guy and producer, was on the phone yelling at them.

00:16:49.000 They said, sorry, the story is the story.

00:16:51.000 And before I was able ever to defend myself, CNN was calling me an anti-Semite while I was speaking for 10 minutes straight on television.

00:16:59.000 Well, you... What they loathe about you, among many things, obviously, is you're white, you're spectacularly effective, but done with the USA. 0.97

00:17:14.000 Virtually miraculous.

00:17:17.000 The only reason I don't say miraculous is I want to give you the credit.

00:17:21.000 I say it's miraculous.

00:17:22.000 I give the Lord all the credit.

00:17:23.000 You're allowed to say that, but those of us who are not engaged... You're very kind.

00:17:23.000 Okay, fine.

00:17:30.000 Yeah, I am kind, but this is not an example of my kindness.

00:17:33.000 It's just the fact what you did is remarkable.

00:17:36.000 Anyway, you have You threaten them, and you're Christian, and you're white, and you're male, and so you must be, by almost definition, if you're a conservative Christian, to the New York Times, the odds are you're an anti-Semite. 0.52

00:17:55.000 That's how they think.

00:17:57.000 And it's, uh, they do it through innuendo and a character assassination.

00:18:02.000 And so, you know, Dennis, the best way I'll get back at them, and I'm still counting on you to write the forward because I'm working on it, is my book on the Sabbath.

00:18:10.000 And that's the best way to get back on them, is send them a signed copy.

00:18:13.000 Stop in the name of God.

00:18:17.000 All you have to do is, here's my book on the Sabbath from your Your anti-Semitic opponent, Charlie Burke.

00:18:26.000 That's right.

00:18:26.000 And the title of the name is Stop in the Name of God.

00:18:30.000 And so, Dennis, I'm counting on you to write the foreword.

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00:19:41.000 As a Jew, as an American, and I guess even more important as a lover of truth, and it sounds so

00:19:51.000 cliched, at least my credentials as a Jew are pretty severe.

00:19:56.000 I've written, I mean, I just gave a few earlier.

00:19:59.000 I have written the most widely read English introduction to Judaism.

00:20:05.000 I mean, that's not inconsequential.

00:20:09.000 My book on antisemitism, perfectly appropriate. 0.99

00:20:13.000 I wrote a book on antisemitism.

00:20:15.000 It's going into its third edition.

00:20:18.000 It has never gone out of print in 40 years.

00:20:23.000 Not many books could not be set up.

00:20:24.000 And Simon & Schuster is publishing another edition, updated with the post-October 7th writing, that is coming out in a few months, called Why the Jews.

00:20:36.000 My life has been largely devoted to this. 0.96

00:20:40.000 I loathe anti-Semites. 0.94

00:20:42.000 I love Charlie Kirk. 0.88

00:20:45.000 So either I'm wrong, or the New York Times is wrong about Charlie Kirk.

00:20:51.000 Thank you, Dennis, and that is the New York Times.

00:20:54.000 So I want to shift gears here, Dennis, and get into a philosophical and personal note that I found to just be fascinating.

00:21:02.000 Is that right?

00:21:02.000 You've visited, what, 131 countries?

00:21:05.000 As of two weeks ago, 132.

00:21:07.000 That's what I want to ask.

00:21:10.000 What did you learn in Greenland?

00:21:13.000 Oh, actually, I think I mentioned it on a fireside chat.

00:21:18.000 You did, and also you did on Dennis and Julie.

00:21:21.000 Yes, it's a big deal actually.

00:21:23.000 It's about the concept of thinking that there are places in this world that are really out of it.

00:21:32.000 And that if you lived there, you would feel so out of it as to be inconsequential.

00:21:39.000 And Greenland would be as good an example.

00:21:42.000 You can't get more out of it than Greenland.

00:21:45.000 Maybe rural Togo. 0.62

00:21:48.000 I don't know.

00:21:48.000 I'm just picking a name and I've been to Togo as well.

00:21:52.000 So there's a very interesting lesson in all of this that I realized very early in my travels in life.

00:21:59.000 Wherever you are is the center of the world, and I believe that is a gift from God.

00:22:04.000 Yes.

00:22:06.000 When I was in Greenland, I didn't think, oh man, am I out of it?

00:22:10.000 I just thought, wait a minute, I have my wife here, I have Alan and his wife with me, I have a hundred people that I really care about, listeners to my show who came with me, and I realized, life continues.

00:22:29.000 The people who live in Greenland, and only 50,000 people live in this giant, giant island.

00:22:35.000 It's second to only Australia's size as an island.

00:22:39.000 These people don't think they're out of it.

00:22:42.000 They go to work.

00:22:43.000 They get an education.

00:22:46.000 They do or don't go to church.

00:22:49.000 They get married.

00:22:50.000 They have children.

00:22:51.000 They have a community.

00:22:53.000 They have hobbies.

00:22:55.000 That's their life?

00:22:56.000 That's the life of people living in New York City?

00:22:59.000 New York City, it may be the financial center of the Western Hemisphere, but for the vast majority of its inhabitants, that plays no role in their life.

00:23:11.000 Their life is exactly what I just described.

00:23:14.000 I get married, I have friends, I have hobbies, I have children, I go or don't go to church.

00:23:21.000 So it's a very good lesson in life.

00:23:25.000 Your life is the center of your life, and it should be, by the way.

00:23:29.000 It should be.

00:23:30.000 That doesn't make you a narcissist.

00:23:33.000 Your life is really important.

00:23:35.000 I learned in yeshiva, the Jewish religious school, which I attended till 19, I learned a great phrase that is normative Judaism.

00:23:46.000 Every human being should say, I'll even say it in Hebrew, bishvili mirvah haolam.

00:23:53.000 For me the whole world was a it's a it's a very beautiful it's not narcissistic not egotistic but one should regard that God made this world for me and it's for me if I'm in Greenland or New York or Tokyo so that that was a very Powerful sense that I got when I was there.

00:24:17.000 Right.

00:24:18.000 And also about variety, Dennis, that I so I I've is I've been to Alaska during the summer where the sun went down

00:24:25.000 for 30 minutes.

00:24:27.000 Right. What what what did life tell you?

00:24:29.000 What did you learn about life being in the Arctic Circle where it was dark for what, 25 minutes?

00:24:35.000 Yeah. Well, you're probably you have something in mind.

00:24:39.000 So tell me what you have and then I'll.

00:24:41.000 Well, just that human beings crave variety.

00:24:44.000 But here's my question is, Dennis.

00:24:46.000 Oh, oh, that's the variety you were talking about. Yes.

00:24:48.000 No, no, no, but let me ask you a question I want to ask you about this.

00:24:51.000 Do you, do you have the nature where you could live in a place like that?

00:24:51.000 Right.

00:24:55.000 Right, so there are two issues here.

00:24:57.000 Yeah, I didn't know what you meant by variety.

00:24:58.000 When you speak about the humans want variety, I immediately went to men and women.

00:25:03.000 I'll show you where my mind goes.

00:25:06.000 Yes, but that's equally important, but that's not... Yes, yes, bless your soul for acknowledging it.

00:25:12.000 No, we are, again, we were built to want seasons.

00:25:19.000 We were built to want changes in diet.

00:25:24.000 You can't live on your favorite food.

00:25:27.000 That's human nature.

00:25:29.000 We want night and day.

00:25:31.000 We don't want all night or all day.

00:25:34.000 So, yes, that's a very big factor.

00:25:36.000 Could I handle it?

00:25:38.000 I do believe I could handle both extremes.

00:25:42.000 I couldn't do it 12 months a year, and, of course, no place on Earth has it 12 months.

00:25:47.000 So, in the Arctic, it's both basically light or I'll take 12 months and dark largely, not completely, in either case for 12 months.

00:25:59.000 Yes, I think I can handle it.

00:26:01.000 Certainly it's easy to live without night.

00:26:04.000 Just close your shutters, you put on an eye shade, which is exactly what I did.

00:26:10.000 It's harder to live with darkness as pervasive and maybe a couple of hours of sunlight.

00:26:19.000 It's harder, but these people, they're not going out of their minds.

00:26:24.000 Some people do react adversely, but by and large, they can handle it.

00:26:30.000 However, that's not what we want.

00:26:32.000 We want night and day.

00:26:35.000 In that sense, we do want the binary.

00:26:40.000 We want male and female. 0.99

00:26:41.000 Well, I guess my question, Dennis, is that do you think that certain people, I don't know if my nature, I could in the winter only see the sun for an hour, in the summer only see night for an hour, and do you think that certain individuals, they cannot exist in the extremes?

00:27:01.000 Well, it depends what the extreme is, but in this instance, I think I could.

00:27:08.000 I don't know if you could, only you know.

00:27:11.000 And by the way, I'm not sure I know if I could.

00:27:14.000 My supposition is that I could.

00:27:17.000 First of all, my ability to tune out, and it sounds bizarre, but it's a gift from God, I believe.

00:27:24.000 It's like if there's a baby crying, I could still write my book on my computer.

00:27:30.000 I don't mean a baby in my own house.

00:27:32.000 I mean like, like on an airplane.

00:27:34.000 Yes.

00:27:34.000 I can handle that.

00:27:36.000 I don't like it, but I can tune out.

00:27:38.000 There are people who can't.

00:27:39.000 I'm similar.

00:27:40.000 I'm very similar.

00:27:41.000 Unless it's my baby, then it just, it can't, it's not even.

00:27:43.000 Yeah.

00:27:44.000 If it's something I'm responsible for.

00:27:46.000 Okay.

00:27:47.000 If you can tune out of the baby truck, continue your work.

00:27:47.000 Yes.

00:27:52.000 I think you could handle... Look, you experienced it.

00:27:55.000 You said in Alaska you saw the sun go down for a half hour, and you could read a book at night, right?

00:28:01.000 At midnight, it was perfectly light enough to read a book.

00:28:05.000 I don't think you were going mad, and I don't think you would.

00:28:09.000 It's not the ideal.

00:28:11.000 We do crave variety.

00:28:13.000 We crave night and day, and I broadened it.

00:28:16.000 We crave male and female.

00:28:22.000 If there's no male and female, if there's no night and day, it is disruptive to the human condition. 0.99

00:28:30.000 Dennis, speaking of your fireside chat, I was looking up right here.

00:28:34.000 You are on episode 350.

00:28:36.000 Your first episode was when Obama was still president.

00:28:40.000 What is the lesson you have for listeners of doing important good things with regularity?

00:28:46.000 I think this is a very profound point.

00:28:49.000 Well, thank you.

00:28:50.000 I don't know how profound it is, but I do know, Jack, the way to accomplish something in life is to do something regular instead of a vast amount periodic.

00:29:09.000 You know, in light of that, Charlie, you'll really get a kick out of this, although I'm so flattered.

00:29:15.000 You know me so well, you might have heard me say this.

00:29:19.000 Are you familiar with how I reacted when I got my latest book of my Bible commentary?

00:29:26.000 No.

00:29:26.000 I hope you're not, because you'll get a kick out of this.

00:29:29.000 So when Deuteronomy arrived, Numbers is coming out this year, so four out of the five books will have been published by the end of this year.

00:29:37.000 By Christmas time, the Rational Bible Volume 4 will be out.

00:29:41.000 So when Deuteronomy came in the mail, and it's beautifully, I insisted on it, it's beautifully I even choose high-quality paper.

00:29:54.000 It's a very, very good-looking book.

00:29:57.000 All four books.

00:29:59.000 Anyway, so Deuteronomy comes in the mail.

00:30:02.000 I looked at it.

00:30:04.000 It's 500 pages.

00:30:05.000 And I write concisely, so this is not intimidating.

00:30:09.000 But it's a big book.

00:30:11.000 And I give you my word, Charlie, I wasn't thrilled.

00:30:16.000 I wasn't ecstatic.

00:30:17.000 I wasn't on author's high.

00:30:21.000 My immediate reaction was, when did I write this?

00:30:26.000 I was puzzled.

00:30:27.000 That is amazing.

00:30:28.000 And the answer is... That is amazing.

00:30:32.000 Yes, it is amazing.

00:30:33.000 I laughed at myself at my immediate reaction.

00:30:39.000 You get something done by doing something You taught me that six years ago on one of your fireside chats or radios shows.

00:30:54.000 And people say, Charlie, how do you build this?

00:30:56.000 How do you do all these things?

00:30:57.000 If you do it regularly and you do it with discipline and intentionality, it is similar to compound interest in investing.

00:31:06.000 It is remarkable what you're able to achieve.

00:31:12.000 Did you know that since 1980, China and India's fossil fuel use has soared 600% and 700% respectively?

00:31:19.000 During that time, China's life expectancy shot up 14 years, and India soared by 17 years.

00:31:26.000 Seems a far cry from AOC's alarmist message that if we do not adopt her extremist policies and ideas, life would end, incomes would crater, and the world would end in 12 years.

00:31:37.000 Famines have been wiped out because we can move food quickly and efficiently, because American energy saves lives.

00:31:44.000 And in America, we produce that energy more cleanly than anywhere else on Earth.

00:31:47.000 I'm Charlie Kirk here.

00:31:48.000 I want you to know the facts when you're debating your liberal relatives or friends.

00:31:52.000 So listen carefully.

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00:32:05.000 These facts are irrefutable.

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00:32:11.000 These facts are brought to you by the Prairie Operating Group, dedicated to safe and responsible production of American energy.

00:32:21.000 There is another advantage, which you have not heard me say, that since we're discussing it, you've provoked this, which is the beauty of dialogue.

00:32:33.000 Well, you know, I do Dennis and Julie and This podcast each week and I realize is as open as I am on my own programming and being in dialogue with someone like with you now, it draws more thoughts out of which it's inevitable.

00:32:50.000 So here's another one on the on the beauty of a little regularly as opposed to a great amount irregularly.

00:33:00.000 And that is you won't have burnout because you If you do a little regularly, that means on the day that you're doing that little, you will have time to play.

00:33:12.000 You will have that time for family.

00:33:16.000 You will have that time for other things than work.

00:33:21.000 That's, by the way, that is... People ask me, how do you have so much energy?

00:33:25.000 And I have the same amount as I had when I was 25.

00:33:27.000 How do you have so much energy if you're 8?

00:33:30.000 And...

00:33:32.000 One, I have many answers, but one of them is I play every day.

00:33:38.000 I always say this, I take a vacation every day.

00:33:41.000 And people, it's odd that people take a vacation every day.

00:33:45.000 I do.

00:33:47.000 And I'm adamant, I will engage in any one of my myriad hobbies on any given day.

00:33:54.000 I don't, unless it's like the last day before a book is due or something like that.

00:34:01.000 I will never work all day.

00:34:04.000 And that's been a real preserver of energy and enthusiasm and non-burnout and so on.

00:34:12.000 So it's an you get more done and you can do more by a regular smaller amount

00:34:20.000 And I need to do a better job of taking a vacation every day.

00:34:23.000 off. Is that clear? I hope it's clear. It's very clear and I need to do a better job of taking a

00:34:29.000 vacation every day. I need to... I know, I know, and I'm pushing you, but no, no, but listen seriously.

00:34:37.000 No, it's a big deal.

00:34:38.000 You do once a week, and that's huge.

00:34:40.000 No, I do.

00:34:41.000 That's a very big deal.

00:34:42.000 That's why I'm writing the book, is that I am unreachable for one day a week, which is... That's right.

00:34:49.000 It's Friday night to Sunday morning.

00:34:49.000 Not just one day.

00:34:51.000 I take two nights.

00:34:53.000 It's no practical difference.

00:34:53.000 Two nights.

00:34:57.000 There's so many takeaways.

00:34:59.000 What's awesome is how people, after about a year, they know not to contact you.

00:35:04.000 Oh, you're on Shabbat.

00:35:05.000 Oh, you're on Shabbat.

00:35:07.000 Oh, I won't contact you.

00:35:08.000 That's right.

00:35:09.000 It is amazing.

00:35:10.000 All of a sudden, my phone seems to die.

00:35:13.000 I have to almost check, is the battery working?

00:35:16.000 That's because everybody knows.

00:35:17.000 Continue on that thought about the Shabbat. 0.66

00:35:19.000 Well, since time is fleeing, I do want to add one thing on this disgusting charge against you of anti-Semitism.

00:35:32.000 By sheer coincidence, I had nothing to do with this, just want you to know.

00:35:37.000 So my younger son has started doing a podcast, and if I didn't think he was wonderful, I would have told him gently, you know, this may not be your calling, but I think he's really... He has talent.

00:35:52.000 So his name is Aaron Prager, and he has a thing, a podcast, AP Unfiltered.

00:35:58.000 It's one word, not two words.

00:36:00.000 And his latest one is all about you.

00:36:03.000 I sent it to you.

00:36:07.000 You will get a big charge out of it.

00:36:09.000 And you know, you'll do what you want with it or nothing.

00:36:12.000 But I really, I wanted you to know, if there was an inkling in the Prager family, you know, beware of Charlie Kirk, I don't think he would have devoted his whole podcast to your answering a student at the University of Alabama On the race issue.

00:36:29.000 I just, you know, just thought your listeners might want to know how revered you are in the Prager household.

00:36:37.000 I got that email from you this morning, and I thought it was that you sent to him, so it's very nice to know that it was completely... Yeah, no, I sent it to you.

00:36:45.000 I sent it to you, and it's like 15 minutes.

00:36:48.000 I'd love you to watch it.

00:36:49.000 I will.

00:36:50.000 I know you're a super, but it'll touch you.

00:36:52.000 That's why.

00:36:53.000 Thank you.

00:36:54.000 In closing here, Dennis, sum up this historical moment.

00:36:58.000 Biden is no longer running.

00:37:00.000 We have this Democrat implosion.

00:37:02.000 Donald Trump got shot.

00:37:04.000 We've never lived through anything quite like this.

00:37:06.000 Dennis, take us back from a historical perspective and break it down for our audience in closing here.

00:37:12.000 In a nutshell, I had a guest on who said brilliantly the Republicans, no policy, and Democrats, no policy.

00:37:26.000 I thought that was a very, very insightful comment.

00:37:33.000 They know how to win.

00:37:36.000 We know how to govern, but they know how to win.

00:37:40.000 And so they knew this guy's going to lose for them, and they got rid of him.

00:37:46.000 You know the Orwellian world in which we live, where the New York Times is there, what a statesman.

00:37:52.000 All their columnists are writing, what a great man.

00:37:57.000 He put his country ahead of his own self.

00:38:01.000 The man was forced out, okay?

00:38:03.000 He didn't do that.

00:38:04.000 It's a total lie.

00:38:05.000 It's a total lie.

00:38:06.000 It's not a little lie.

00:38:08.000 There's no truth to it.

00:38:10.000 The New York Times and the Democratic Party elite forced him out.

00:38:16.000 He had no choice.

00:38:18.000 That's why he backed out.

00:38:20.000 So the question is, and The obvious one, how will she do?

00:38:28.000 But if I have one minute, I want to make a point that I made last week about the convention, and I've made it all of my life, the staggering error of all Republicans, virtually all if not all, that is they attack their opponent, they don't attack the left and the Democratic Party.

00:38:55.000 When they shouted last week, Joe must go, I got on the radio and said, big error.

00:39:01.000 Joe will go.

00:39:03.000 And then what?

00:39:05.000 Because they're all Joe.

00:39:07.000 All Democrats are Biden.

00:39:10.000 It is irrelevant what their last name is, with the exception of Manchin.

00:39:10.000 All!

00:39:15.000 And it's a partial exception.

00:39:17.000 They're all Joe Biden.

00:39:21.000 Every Republican should be talking about the damage the Democratic Party and the left have done to Western civilization and to America.

00:39:29.000 Over and over.

00:39:31.000 My opponent is irrelevant.

00:39:34.000 My opponent could be James or Johnson or Bernstein or O'Connor or Gonzales.

00:39:41.000 It doesn't matter.

00:39:42.000 My opponent is a Democrat.

00:39:44.000 They're ruining the country.

00:39:46.000 If you vote for my opponent, you are voting to ruin the country.

00:39:50.000 Kamala Harris is completely interchangeable with Joe Biden.

00:39:54.000 End of issue.

00:39:55.000 Dennis Prager.

00:39:56.000 Check out PragerU and Dennis' podcast and the Dennis and Julie podcast.

00:40:00.000 Thank you so much.

00:40:02.000 Thanks so much for listening everybody.

00:40:03.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:40:06.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 23, 2024

Left Wing Media Stays Slandering ft. Dennis Prager

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