The Tucker Carlson Show - September 22, 2025


Full Speech: Tucker’s Charlie Kirk Memorial & Their Best Moments on God, Christianity, and Hope


Episode Stats

Length

31 minutes

Words per Minute

182.6286

Word Count

5,743

Sentence Count

455

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

Charlie Chaplin was a Christian evangelist, a political activist, and a loving father and husband. He passed away at the age of 63, leaving behind a wife, a daughter, a son, a brother, a friend, a husband, a father and a husband. His death was mourned by his family, friends, and the Christian community.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Tucker Carlson.
00:00:13.020 Oh, that made me emotional.
00:00:15.680 Made me emotional to see that.
00:00:18.600 Susie Wiles had tears in her eyes,
00:00:20.680 which you don't often see in politics, but it's real.
00:00:24.520 This is the most unbelievable thing I think I've ever seen.
00:00:27.320 And I don't...
00:00:31.320 Whatever happens next in America, I hope it's in this direction
00:00:35.920 because God is here and you can feel it.
00:00:39.480 And Charlie would have loved this,
00:00:40.640 not just because he loved large groups of people,
00:00:43.740 but because ultimately he was a Christian evangelist.
00:00:47.580 And it actually reminds me of my favorite story ever.
00:00:51.640 So it's about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem
00:00:54.200 and Jesus shows up and he starts talking about the people in power
00:00:59.420 and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do,
00:01:03.500 which is telling the truth about people.
00:01:05.680 And they hate it and they just go bonkers.
00:01:08.280 They hate it and they become obsessed with making him stop.
00:01:11.160 This guy's got to stop talking.
00:01:13.000 We've got to shut this guy up.
00:01:15.260 And I can just sort of picture the scene
00:01:17.080 in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around
00:01:19.600 and eating hummus thinking about what do we do
00:01:21.660 about this guy telling the truth about us.
00:01:24.940 We must make him stop talking.
00:01:28.140 And there's always one guy with the bright idea
00:01:30.320 and I can just hear him say,
00:01:31.440 I've got an idea, why don't we just kill him?
00:01:34.020 That'll shut him up.
00:01:35.960 That'll fix the problem.
00:01:37.180 It doesn't work that way.
00:01:45.700 It doesn't work that way.
00:01:47.080 Everything is inverted and the Beatitudes tell it,
00:01:49.860 I think, the most crisply.
00:01:51.380 Everything is sort of the opposite
00:01:52.420 of what you think it's going to be.
00:01:54.920 Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted.
00:01:57.360 That is true and you can feel it here.
00:02:00.140 The thing about Charlie's message,
00:02:01.720 I've thought a lot about it
00:02:02.860 and I'm trying not to be emotional
00:02:04.580 because in addition to everything else,
00:02:06.440 he was a wonderful man and a decent man
00:02:08.120 and one of those rare people you meet
00:02:09.820 who you just groove with in conversation
00:02:11.500 and have these very intense conversations
00:02:13.700 that you don't stop thinking about,
00:02:15.160 which is my experience with him.
00:02:16.800 But the main thing about Charlie and his message,
00:02:20.140 he was bringing the gospel to the country.
00:02:24.220 He was doing the thing
00:02:25.700 that the people in charge hate most,
00:02:28.660 which is calling for them to repent.
00:02:30.840 So how is Charlie's message different?
00:02:35.500 And Charlie was a political person
00:02:37.160 who was deeply interested in coalition building
00:02:41.460 and in getting the right people in office
00:02:43.480 because he knew that vast improvements
00:02:47.040 are possible politically.
00:02:48.560 But he also knew that politics is not the final answer.
00:02:52.540 It can't answer the deepest questions, actually.
00:02:55.700 That the only real solution is Jesus.
00:02:59.500 And the reason, it's really simple.
00:03:05.880 Politics at its core is a process
00:03:09.300 of critiquing other people and getting them to change.
00:03:13.940 Christianity, the gospel message,
00:03:16.460 the message of Jesus begins with repentance.
00:03:21.300 Christianity calls upon you to change.
00:03:24.700 Our core prayer given to us by Jesus,
00:03:30.020 the Lord's prayer,
00:03:32.500 demands that we forgive other people,
00:03:35.040 but preceding that is a request for our forgiveness.
00:03:39.140 In other words, forgive us our sins,
00:03:41.920 meditate on what we've done wrong,
00:03:43.580 how we've fallen short,
00:03:44.820 and then it becomes possible to forgive other people.
00:03:47.980 That is a call to change our hearts from Jesus.
00:03:53.740 And that is the only way forward in this country.
00:03:56.900 That is the only solution to where we all know we're going.
00:04:00.360 And Charlie knew where we were going without that.
00:04:04.000 And that is not a call for being politically passive.
00:04:06.240 Of course not.
00:04:07.900 I stood in many stages with Charlie
00:04:09.540 calling for various people to be elected,
00:04:10.940 particularly Donald Trump.
00:04:12.280 And I'm proud of that.
00:04:13.380 It's only an acknowledgement that what Charlie was really saying
00:04:17.280 is that change begins the only change that matters
00:04:21.220 when we repent of our sins.
00:04:25.640 We, me.
00:04:28.120 A recognition that the real problem is me
00:04:30.640 and how fallen I am.
00:04:33.340 And that was the reason that Charlie was fearless
00:04:37.880 at all times, truly fearless.
00:04:40.160 To his last moment, he was unafraid.
00:04:43.780 He was not defensive.
00:04:45.220 And there was no hate in his heart.
00:04:47.760 I know that because I've got a little hate compartment
00:04:49.800 in my heart.
00:04:50.820 And I would often express that to Charlie
00:04:52.940 about various people.
00:04:54.120 And he would always say, always say,
00:04:56.400 that's a sad person.
00:04:58.200 That's a broken person.
00:04:59.280 That's a person who needs help.
00:05:00.680 That's a person who needs Jesus.
00:05:03.260 He said that in private.
00:05:06.300 Because he meant it.
00:05:08.380 So I guess I would just say this gathering
00:05:10.740 and God's presence,
00:05:11.860 God's very obvious presence in this room,
00:05:14.140 the presence of Jesus,
00:05:15.240 is a reminder of what we've known for 2,000 years,
00:05:19.900 which is any attempt to extinguish the light
00:05:23.900 causes it to burn brighter.
00:05:26.320 Every single time.
00:05:28.300 So as we proceed into whatever comes next,
00:05:38.300 and clearly something's coming next,
00:05:42.080 remember this moment.
00:05:44.080 Remember being in a room with the Holy Spirit
00:05:46.980 humming like a tuning fork.
00:05:48.680 This is the way.
00:05:52.360 Right here.
00:05:53.440 This is the way.
00:05:55.280 And that is what Charlie Kirk was saying
00:05:57.160 underneath it all.
00:05:58.140 Thank you.
00:05:58.800 And God bless.
00:06:08.860 Charlie Kirk, ladies and gentlemen.
00:06:10.300 Your faith is the most important thing
00:06:16.060 because for those of us that are Christians,
00:06:18.280 it doesn't drive you crazy.
00:06:20.980 You actually see what's going on,
00:06:23.320 which is that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,
00:06:26.100 but against principalities and darkness and spirits,
00:06:29.940 that there is a spiritual war here.
00:06:32.340 And you're right, Tucker.
00:06:34.180 I find people in this space
00:06:36.640 that are not anchored to faith,
00:06:39.920 anchored to Jesus,
00:06:41.320 they do lose their mind
00:06:42.680 because there is no rational
00:06:46.140 or reasonable explanation
00:06:48.080 for what the country is doing to itself
00:06:50.740 or what we are experiencing.
00:06:52.580 But if you then see and you know
00:06:54.640 that there is a God and we are not him,
00:06:58.500 that there is an entire dimension
00:07:00.320 of angels and demons and spirits
00:07:03.380 that are constantly struggling around us
00:07:06.040 and that there is a supernatural dimension,
00:07:08.660 as you mentioned,
00:07:09.640 all of a sudden that does then make sense.
00:07:11.820 We're just here temporarily in the Christian view.
00:07:14.260 There's an afterlife for us.
00:07:15.740 There's the next life.
00:07:17.000 Our bodies will actually resurrect.
00:07:19.080 Christ our Lord will come back
00:07:20.420 and reign over this earth
00:07:21.740 in the thousand year millennia.
00:07:23.200 So we shouldn't be overly fixated.
00:07:24.980 But until that happens, they're rotting.
00:07:26.620 We're all rotting.
00:07:27.100 By the way, it's like-
00:07:27.860 So just like deal with it, accept it.
00:07:28.940 Yes, exactly.
00:07:29.720 Like you have an expiration date.
00:07:31.280 Yes.
00:07:31.620 And God is in charge of that.
00:07:34.800 So what do you do with that?
00:07:36.060 Amen.
00:07:36.340 And so if you look at the biblical figures,
00:07:38.480 they weren't like overly interested
00:07:40.020 in like, you know, mastering the back nine.
00:07:44.240 No.
00:07:44.880 You know, at the Naples Country Club.
00:07:46.400 No.
00:07:46.820 It was, God wants us in four words.
00:07:49.680 Love God, love people.
00:07:50.780 For those of us that know the truth,
00:07:53.460 we know that our God is a God of order and distinction.
00:07:57.000 What is the first thing that God did?
00:07:58.560 In the Hebrew scriptures, it says,
00:08:00.460 well, and also our scripture in the original Genesis,
00:08:03.120 Bereshit, which is in the beginning,
00:08:04.560 God created the heavens and the earth.
00:08:05.920 And then he separated and he made sense.
00:08:08.460 He made order out of chaos.
00:08:10.680 Our God is a God of order.
00:08:12.480 And order only comes with distinctions.
00:08:14.840 And distinctions are necessary.
00:08:17.200 Think about all the distinctions that God set up
00:08:19.400 in the first six books of Genesis
00:08:21.120 that are currently under attack.
00:08:23.140 The distinction between male and female.
00:08:26.560 The distinction between man and nature.
00:08:29.860 The distinction between the holy and the profane.
00:08:33.100 The distinction between good and evil.
00:08:36.460 The distinction between infant and adult.
00:08:39.720 These distinctions have always been
00:08:42.060 what Western civilization were built upon.
00:08:44.480 But it is Satan's goal to blur
00:08:46.700 and eventually destroy those distinctions.
00:08:49.320 Because those distinctions of which we get order,
00:08:51.400 and if you do not have that order,
00:08:53.300 then you have the closest thing
00:08:54.580 to satanic chaos here in our country.
00:08:58.760 Man!
00:09:00.780 People can't see the future.
00:09:02.960 Period.
00:09:03.580 Because they're not God.
00:09:04.860 They can only sort of muddle along
00:09:06.160 in the half darkness and do their best.
00:09:08.660 And so as soon as you have leaders who imagine
00:09:10.700 that there's a really clear line
00:09:13.360 between today and three years from now,
00:09:16.260 and they can see what it is,
00:09:17.440 like you're going to wind up in disaster.
00:09:19.460 The Ukraine war.
00:09:20.380 Again, we're surrounded by examples of this.
00:09:23.680 And so really what you need in a leader
00:09:25.120 is good intent.
00:09:27.000 And humility.
00:09:27.840 And humility.
00:09:28.520 Those are the two things.
00:09:29.540 You want someone who, you know,
00:09:31.400 imperfect as he may be,
00:09:32.380 will make a good faith effort
00:09:33.620 to uplift his people, A.
00:09:35.980 And B, you need someone
00:09:37.440 who understands his limits in doing that.
00:09:40.120 Like I'm going to try.
00:09:41.260 His place too.
00:09:42.160 Yeah.
00:09:42.380 There's a God.
00:09:43.240 I'm not him.
00:09:44.000 There's something sovereign above me.
00:09:45.540 And you're not allowed to kill people
00:09:48.140 except in self-defense.
00:09:50.340 Let me repeat.
00:09:50.920 You are not allowed to kill people
00:09:52.740 except in self-defense.
00:09:54.120 And if you do, you are evil.
00:09:55.500 What about spreading democracy?
00:09:56.880 It's really, you know,
00:09:57.860 it comes in all these various justifications
00:10:00.560 throughout time.
00:10:01.740 But just to restate,
00:10:02.880 you are not allowed to kill people
00:10:05.240 except in self-defense.
00:10:06.800 That's the most basic rule of them all.
00:10:09.100 And if you find yourself doing that,
00:10:10.520 you are evil or abetting evil
00:10:11.840 on the side of evil.
00:10:13.460 And if you lose that,
00:10:14.980 and like people make mistakes all the time
00:10:16.680 and what you think is self-defense
00:10:18.460 is actually an act of aggression or whatever.
00:10:20.180 I mean, these are complicated scenarios
00:10:22.260 as they occur, right?
00:10:23.700 And you do your best to make the right decision.
00:10:26.240 But if you don't go into it
00:10:27.560 with the knowledge that as a human being,
00:10:29.460 you are not in charge of life,
00:10:30.620 you did not create it,
00:10:31.520 and you were not allowed to take it
00:10:32.780 except to preserve your own life
00:10:34.100 or those are the people you love
00:10:36.480 or the people you're in charge of.
00:10:37.560 If you don't know that and say it
00:10:39.820 and repeat it to yourself every single day,
00:10:41.440 you will wind up murdering
00:10:43.900 millions and millions of people.
00:10:45.920 I really believe that there's such a hatred
00:10:47.780 for Christianity that any part of the population
00:10:50.080 that is like remotely Christian,
00:10:51.580 they inherently hate you
00:10:52.980 because the real goal is to eliminate Christianity.
00:10:56.680 Do you notice that they never are like enthusiastic
00:10:59.820 about bringing in major parts of the population
00:11:02.440 of Eastern Europe that are super Christian?
00:11:04.760 Yet they're like,
00:11:05.460 let's go bring in the witchcraft country.
00:11:07.560 Kind of weird.
00:11:08.960 Like more witchcraft,
00:11:10.100 less Christianity.
00:11:10.860 I don't understand how that works out.
00:11:12.860 But the contempt is very simple.
00:11:17.080 Is that they think that they are so much better than you.
00:11:21.280 It is an elitist hierarchical position
00:11:23.820 and that you're an annoyance.
00:11:26.280 That your concerns,
00:11:28.260 that what you're doing
00:11:28.960 is just kind of stay out of the way.
00:11:30.460 And I know people disagree with me.
00:11:31.580 I think this is behind the push
00:11:32.680 for legalizing marijuana.
00:11:34.260 I think this is the push
00:11:35.040 for trying to overly medicate the society
00:11:36.720 is they do not want a disagreeable citizenry.
00:11:40.060 This is why they want testosterone rates to go down.
00:11:42.340 This is why they wanted to kick
00:11:43.380 the alpha men out of the military
00:11:47.500 with the vaccine
00:11:48.460 is because a population
00:11:50.380 that asks questions
00:11:52.100 and stands up to the powerful
00:11:53.640 is a threat to them.
00:11:55.320 So they'd much rather have you be subdued,
00:11:57.440 just watch TV,
00:11:58.320 not care about what's happening
00:12:00.060 and just kind of stay on your benzodiazepines
00:12:02.520 or Valium or marijuana
00:12:04.740 and three beers a night
00:12:06.380 and then you're agreeable.
00:12:07.860 But what has always made America different
00:12:10.500 as a beacon of liberty
00:12:11.500 is that we would call BS on tyranny
00:12:13.400 whenever we see it.
00:12:14.800 And that is what is at the heart of this movement.
00:12:17.740 And they look at you as an annoyance.
00:12:20.900 Do people want to be free?
00:12:22.460 And that is a very difficult question to answer.
00:12:25.720 In the book of Exodus and Numbers,
00:12:28.320 the answer is no.
00:12:30.080 Is that if you fail to teach a generation
00:12:32.480 the value of liberty,
00:12:33.860 they actually instinctively
00:12:35.000 don't want to be free.
00:12:36.500 When God delivered his chosen people
00:12:38.440 out of Egypt
00:12:38.960 and he performed the most amazing miracles imaginable,
00:12:41.880 you know,
00:12:42.140 the Nile River goes red
00:12:44.280 and frogs from the sky
00:12:45.480 and the firstborn dead
00:12:47.440 and the Red Sea parts
00:12:49.660 and they go into the Sinai Desert.
00:12:52.440 After a couple chapters,
00:12:54.060 they're like,
00:12:54.840 hey, we want to go back to Egypt.
00:12:56.920 We want to go back to slavery.
00:12:58.760 Why?
00:13:00.000 Because the food was better.
00:13:02.240 Literally, we had melons,
00:13:04.240 leeks, cucumbers, and meat.
00:13:06.340 And they say,
00:13:06.740 hey, Moses,
00:13:07.560 can we go back to Egypt?
00:13:08.900 Now, mind you,
00:13:09.280 this is when God
00:13:10.200 blew quail off course
00:13:11.880 and manna from heaven
00:13:13.020 and they need and wanted for nothing,
00:13:14.580 but they preferred to be slaves
00:13:16.820 that were taken care of
00:13:18.060 than free citizens in the desert
00:13:20.400 where they had to be responsible.
00:13:22.840 And that is a very important lesson
00:13:25.220 for all of us
00:13:26.060 that liberty is a value
00:13:27.860 that we must pass on,
00:13:29.620 that we must cherish,
00:13:31.080 and part of the population
00:13:32.700 will never wake up
00:13:33.760 because they would rather be in Egypt.
00:13:36.340 And what is in front of us
00:13:37.680 in this election cycle
00:13:38.720 and what is in front of us
00:13:40.000 in this culture right now
00:13:41.140 is do you want to live
00:13:42.520 as a free citizen?
00:13:43.680 And that might be hard.
00:13:45.240 That means you have to
00:13:46.320 provide for your family.
00:13:48.120 You might have to make tough decisions.
00:13:49.260 Or do you want to just go be
00:13:50.780 a Russian serf back in Egypt
00:13:52.980 where they give you
00:13:54.100 your little ration every month
00:13:55.660 and you have no liberty
00:13:56.880 and you have no freedom?
00:13:58.280 That is really what's
00:13:59.280 in front of us right now.
00:14:00.680 And I think we're seeing
00:14:02.460 a revival begin to happen
00:14:04.140 because it really is spiritual
00:14:05.100 at its core
00:14:05.740 where the American people
00:14:07.620 are going to demand,
00:14:08.580 no, we do not want
00:14:09.920 to go back to Egypt.
00:14:10.960 We want to live free.
00:14:12.440 We know it's harder,
00:14:13.680 but that is the American way.
00:14:19.260 So you really feel that?
00:14:21.080 I mean, I think it's important.
00:14:22.700 I feel that too,
00:14:23.500 but I'm not quite as articulate
00:14:24.640 on this question as you are
00:14:26.620 and I don't travel as much.
00:14:28.160 But you see signs of that?
00:14:30.580 Oh my goodness, yes.
00:14:31.700 I just want to say
00:14:32.340 I'm not predicting
00:14:33.160 that Donald Trump
00:14:33.900 will win in November.
00:14:34.860 If we had an election,
00:14:36.060 by the way,
00:14:36.400 where we didn't have
00:14:36.840 mail-in ballots
00:14:37.440 all over the place
00:14:38.240 and signature verification,
00:14:39.600 I think Donald Trump
00:14:40.280 would easily win in November
00:14:41.480 for the record,
00:14:42.200 but we don't.
00:14:43.780 Tucker, when we go
00:14:44.680 to college campuses,
00:14:45.560 I was at Kansas State
00:14:46.720 today, by the way.
00:14:47.340 I will tell you
00:14:50.720 they didn't treat us
00:14:52.940 very well,
00:14:53.440 so you guys got to
00:14:54.000 call them up and say
00:14:54.840 they were worse than
00:14:56.100 Boulder and Madison,
00:14:56.960 by the way.
00:14:57.680 I'm not here to talk about that.
00:14:59.340 Is that true?
00:15:00.760 Very liberal administration.
00:15:02.380 We had an outdoor event.
00:15:03.480 In the state of Kansas.
00:15:04.680 Yeah, we had 2,000 kids there
00:15:06.200 and we had a permit
00:15:07.840 for amplification
00:15:08.800 and it ended at one
00:15:10.500 and usually campuses
00:15:11.460 let us go over one.
00:15:12.520 Okay, you have 2,000 kids.
00:15:13.920 Not a big deal.
00:15:14.420 I was literally in Boulder
00:15:15.500 this week.
00:15:16.100 Administration was like,
00:15:16.760 it's fine.
00:15:17.340 You guys are having a good time.
00:15:18.620 You know, we're not...
00:15:19.500 I was in Madison.
00:15:20.320 It's fine.
00:15:21.040 In Manhattan, Kansas,
00:15:22.180 the minute that we hit
00:15:23.560 the end of our permit,
00:15:24.820 they started like
00:15:25.300 pulling out plugs.
00:15:26.120 You got to turn off
00:15:26.680 all the mics.
00:15:27.580 Never seen anything like it.
00:15:28.820 It was insane.
00:15:29.820 So, for those of you
00:15:31.580 that are alum of Kansas State,
00:15:32.940 you should contact them
00:15:33.980 and stop giving money
00:15:35.060 to Kansas State.
00:15:36.240 Pull your donations
00:15:37.080 from Kansas State.
00:15:38.300 Okay, so...
00:15:39.540 No, I'm not kidding.
00:15:41.440 Do not fund schools
00:15:43.460 that treat conservatives
00:15:44.420 this way.
00:15:44.760 And by the way,
00:15:45.240 you could say,
00:15:45.660 why is it that
00:15:46.840 CU Boulder,
00:15:48.080 which is like Leningrad,
00:15:49.680 treated Charlie Kirk
00:15:50.960 better than Kansas State?
00:15:52.820 Great talking point.
00:15:54.180 But when we do these events,
00:15:56.220 Tucker,
00:15:56.500 on campus,
00:15:57.320 we cannot find rooms
00:15:59.340 big enough
00:15:59.740 to fit all the students
00:16:00.760 that want to attend
00:16:01.700 our on-campus events.
00:16:03.300 Really?
00:16:03.940 We cannot find
00:16:04.860 physical spaces
00:16:05.840 to fit all the students
00:16:07.520 that want to come
00:16:08.440 to our events.
00:16:08.840 Gen Z men
00:16:10.060 are the most conservative
00:16:11.760 that men have been
00:16:12.540 in 50 years.
00:16:14.300 50 years.
00:16:16.720 And
00:16:17.200 I also see
00:16:20.300 I see
00:16:21.440 young and old
00:16:22.580 of people
00:16:23.060 that are starting
00:16:23.580 to shed
00:16:24.240 their prior affiliations.
00:16:26.120 Republican, Democrat
00:16:26.740 mean nothing.
00:16:27.820 And they're starting
00:16:28.440 to get down
00:16:28.880 to first principles.
00:16:30.340 And I mean,
00:16:30.620 we do every day.
00:16:31.580 Anyone watch
00:16:31.940 the Charlie Kirk show,
00:16:32.640 by the way?
00:16:32.960 Anyone?
00:16:33.320 Thank you guys.
00:16:33.920 It really means a lot.
00:16:34.440 And
00:16:35.460 I have to stay
00:16:37.740 ahead of the audience.
00:16:39.020 How informed
00:16:39.860 the average listener
00:16:41.040 and viewer is?
00:16:42.420 Have you noticed this,
00:16:43.240 Tucker?
00:16:43.880 The depth...
00:16:44.720 I don't solicit feedback.
00:16:45.760 I don't want to be embarrassed.
00:16:46.940 Yeah, but
00:16:47.340 they are actively
00:16:49.120 correcting me.
00:16:50.480 If I get a date wrong,
00:16:51.980 if I get a name wrong,
00:16:53.620 emailing,
00:16:54.120 Charlie,
00:16:54.420 you should know
00:16:54.740 better than that.
00:16:55.340 And I love that
00:16:57.760 because that means
00:16:58.720 that
00:16:59.080 the learning
00:17:01.900 is a two-way street
00:17:03.220 and that
00:17:04.320 I really believe
00:17:05.220 and I learned this
00:17:06.080 from Dr. Larry Arnn
00:17:06.940 from Hillsdale College.
00:17:08.280 He said,
00:17:08.620 Charlie,
00:17:09.000 we will not save
00:17:09.740 the country.
00:17:10.500 By the way,
00:17:10.880 Hillsdale is America's
00:17:11.800 greatest college.
00:17:12.340 We all agree.
00:17:13.040 It really is.
00:17:14.260 He said,
00:17:15.160 we will not save
00:17:16.200 the country
00:17:16.820 until we get
00:17:18.940 the citizenry
00:17:20.160 to want to
00:17:21.320 prioritize learning
00:17:22.280 because you cannot
00:17:22.960 have liberty
00:17:23.680 without learning.
00:17:24.840 And I don't mean
00:17:25.220 liberty like public
00:17:26.160 school learning.
00:17:27.040 I mean,
00:17:27.580 hey,
00:17:27.800 instead of watching
00:17:28.480 the ninth NFL
00:17:29.460 football game
00:17:30.080 that weekend,
00:17:30.960 turn it off
00:17:31.500 and listen to
00:17:33.000 an audio book.
00:17:34.100 Read the Gulag Archipelago.
00:17:35.580 Read 1984.
00:17:36.760 Read Brave New World.
00:17:38.820 Go deeper.
00:17:40.440 That,
00:17:40.820 that is,
00:17:42.000 the regime
00:17:42.740 hates
00:17:43.480 an informed population.
00:17:45.460 They hate
00:17:46.280 that you guys
00:17:46.800 know what's going on.
00:17:47.860 They despise
00:17:49.240 when you know history.
00:17:51.160 Is it Ecclesiastes?
00:17:52.260 I think it is.
00:17:52.880 By Solomon?
00:17:53.780 By what?
00:17:54.820 Ecclesiastes,
00:17:55.340 the book.
00:17:55.640 Yes,
00:17:55.820 correct,
00:17:56.160 yeah.
00:17:56.760 You know,
00:17:57.120 sort of like,
00:17:57.520 one of the two books
00:17:58.080 written by Solomon.
00:17:58.740 Yeah,
00:17:59.240 like,
00:17:59.680 what is all this?
00:18:00.400 The first line was,
00:18:01.440 this is all meaningless.
00:18:02.200 Exactly,
00:18:02.940 that's exactly right.
00:18:03.840 What a depressing book.
00:18:05.780 It literally opens up
00:18:07.280 like it's like
00:18:07.960 a suicidal 17-year-old
00:18:09.460 dog.
00:18:09.740 It totally is.
00:18:10.460 Like,
00:18:10.800 meaningless,
00:18:11.400 meaningless,
00:18:11.860 all that is meaningless.
00:18:12.860 It's Ecclesiastes 1,
00:18:14.040 and you're like,
00:18:14.580 what is this?
00:18:15.720 You've probably read it
00:18:16.640 like 10 times
00:18:17.460 and understand it's deeper meaning.
00:18:18.820 It actually gets better
00:18:19.780 because he says with God
00:18:21.340 there actually is meaning.
00:18:22.060 No,
00:18:22.280 that's right,
00:18:22.880 and I've read it
00:18:24.260 precisely one time
00:18:25.600 sitting alone.
00:18:26.220 Solomon had all the women
00:18:27.400 he wanted,
00:18:27.820 all the trappings,
00:18:28.520 all the splendor,
00:18:29.220 and he's like,
00:18:29.640 it's all meaningless.
00:18:30.600 But that is kind of the,
00:18:31.840 that is exactly,
00:18:32.960 that is the one thing
00:18:33.660 that I,
00:18:33.960 not that I have all the women
00:18:34.720 and all the money
00:18:35.220 or whatever,
00:18:35.760 but like you do reach
00:18:36.520 an age in life
00:18:37.020 where you're like,
00:18:37.400 okay,
00:18:37.840 you know,
00:18:38.060 I've achieved all my
00:18:38.880 dumb little goals
00:18:39.640 that I set out for myself,
00:18:40.700 and they're all very small bore
00:18:42.240 because they always are,
00:18:43.700 and like,
00:18:45.420 okay,
00:18:46.240 like what,
00:18:47.200 is that,
00:18:47.540 was that worth it?
00:18:48.540 Was the prize worth winning?
00:18:49.780 Did that bring me,
00:18:51.040 you know,
00:18:52.280 joy and fulfillment
00:18:53.600 and like knowledge of,
00:18:55.860 you know,
00:18:56.860 eternal life?
00:18:57.480 No.
00:18:58.100 And so I do think
00:18:59.040 that is a,
00:18:59.520 that is very common,
00:19:00.640 that's almost universal
00:19:01.620 among middle-aged men
00:19:04.240 who run by and large
00:19:05.780 the U.S. government,
00:19:06.460 and so it's a very
00:19:08.480 natural temptation
00:19:09.260 to be like,
00:19:09.680 you know,
00:19:09.840 what can I achieve?
00:19:11.060 I try to read the Bible
00:19:11.860 every day.
00:19:12.620 I can't stand
00:19:13.680 reading a digital Bible
00:19:15.260 unless I absolutely have to.
00:19:16.760 I write,
00:19:17.400 I like reading
00:19:18.060 from a physical Bible.
00:19:20.080 No distractions,
00:19:22.220 no pings,
00:19:22.920 no dings,
00:19:23.700 no phone calls,
00:19:24.520 no tweets,
00:19:25.140 no telegrams,
00:19:26.340 and yeah,
00:19:27.680 that's the other thing,
00:19:28.420 which is,
00:19:29.180 if we want to get back
00:19:29.860 to first principles
00:19:30.680 and you want hope,
00:19:32.740 we must put God first
00:19:34.140 in everything that we do
00:19:35.500 and understand
00:19:36.420 that we are nothing here
00:19:38.740 but just for a short instant,
00:19:40.760 a short little glimpse,
00:19:42.880 and we act
00:19:44.160 not out of outcome,
00:19:46.240 but we act out of obedience.
00:19:48.400 What I am doing right now
00:19:49.680 to try to help Trump win
00:19:51.500 and try to do all these things,
00:19:53.180 I have no idea
00:19:54.440 if we'll be successful.
00:19:55.760 So why do you do it, Charlie?
00:19:57.040 It could be rigged,
00:19:57.880 it could be all this.
00:19:58.760 Happy to go into that.
00:19:59.900 I do it
00:20:00.620 because I love God
00:20:02.480 and we're called by Jesus
00:20:04.100 to love him
00:20:05.540 in everything that we do
00:20:06.940 with our heart
00:20:07.900 and our soul
00:20:08.980 and our strength
00:20:10.000 and our mind
00:20:10.800 and God cares deeply
00:20:12.780 about the type of society
00:20:14.140 that we live in
00:20:15.020 and there's not God's heart anywhere
00:20:16.960 for us to live in tyranny.
00:20:18.120 Jeremiah 29.7
00:20:19.800 Demand the welfare
00:20:21.060 of the nation that you are in
00:20:22.220 because your welfare
00:20:23.100 is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:20:25.020 Psalm 97.10
00:20:26.100 But those of you
00:20:27.120 who love God,
00:20:28.460 hate evil,
00:20:29.700 we are called
00:20:30.580 to go into the public square
00:20:32.560 and to contest
00:20:33.840 for those who cannot
00:20:34.800 fight for themselves
00:20:35.900 to fight for liberty
00:20:37.380 and liberty is God's idea,
00:20:39.540 not man's idea
00:20:40.680 and what we are seeing culminate
00:20:43.560 I think is a crescendo
00:20:45.040 of a multi-decade spiritual battle
00:20:47.160 which is now currently
00:20:48.720 manifested in the political
00:20:50.000 and we do it
00:20:51.040 not because
00:20:51.900 you know,
00:20:52.560 we hope Trump is going to win
00:20:53.660 we do it
00:20:54.580 to honor a God
00:20:55.900 that loves us.
00:20:57.080 Why are so many young people
00:20:57.920 going back to church?
00:20:58.780 Let's talk about something promising.
00:20:59.860 It is happening.
00:21:00.560 It's happening in record numbers.
00:21:01.840 Because God is moving.
00:21:02.920 That's why.
00:21:03.960 I mean,
00:21:04.280 I would,
00:21:04.700 if you'd asked me that
00:21:05.760 three years ago
00:21:08.520 I would have said
00:21:10.180 it's because
00:21:11.020 the promise
00:21:12.040 of the modern West,
00:21:13.400 the post-war West,
00:21:14.460 God died
00:21:14.940 and we dropped the atom bomb
00:21:15.940 on Hiroshima obviously
00:21:17.180 because we assumed
00:21:18.580 God-like powers.
00:21:20.300 We have the power
00:21:21.180 of life and death
00:21:21.880 over the planet,
00:21:22.620 over humanity itself
00:21:23.640 and so that was literally
00:21:24.820 the moment when the West
00:21:25.560 stopped believing in God
00:21:26.420 and things began to fall apart.
00:21:28.000 Not defending Imperial Japan,
00:21:29.360 it's just a fact.
00:21:30.760 Rather,
00:21:31.060 that's my interpretation
00:21:31.660 of the facts.
00:21:32.080 But anyway,
00:21:33.000 this has been happening
00:21:34.320 for a long time
00:21:35.120 and the prizes
00:21:36.520 that we award
00:21:37.460 to the winners
00:21:38.200 in our society
00:21:39.020 are mostly not worth having.
00:21:40.320 It's just material wealth
00:21:41.180 which is not the source
00:21:41.960 of happiness
00:21:42.420 as anyone who's ever
00:21:43.940 gotten rich,
00:21:44.420 including me.
00:21:45.120 I've been rich and poor.
00:21:46.680 You know,
00:21:46.960 it's better than being in debt
00:21:48.060 which is bad
00:21:49.060 but it doesn't make you happy.
00:21:51.080 Of course not.
00:21:51.820 Not being in crisis
00:21:52.640 makes you happy.
00:21:53.260 Of course,
00:21:53.660 that's right.
00:21:54.020 Not being in debt,
00:21:54.900 not having a mortgage,
00:21:55.580 that's all good.
00:21:56.320 That's important.
00:21:56.860 But like,
00:21:57.120 how much French toast
00:21:57.840 can you eat?
00:21:58.620 Like,
00:21:59.220 seriously,
00:22:00.640 you know,
00:22:00.880 how many hours
00:22:01.460 can you sit in bed?
00:22:02.380 It's like not that exciting
00:22:03.340 actually.
00:22:04.000 So I would have told you
00:22:05.100 three years ago
00:22:05.660 if you said,
00:22:05.920 why are people returning
00:22:06.620 to church?
00:22:07.240 Why is Christianity resurgent?
00:22:08.460 I would say
00:22:09.320 because they found
00:22:11.200 Western materialism
00:22:12.620 fundamentally unsatisfying
00:22:13.860 and they're looking
00:22:14.300 for something more.
00:22:15.180 I'd no longer think that.
00:22:16.620 I think what you're seeing
00:22:17.540 is a supernatural phenomenon.
00:22:19.700 I think you're seeing
00:22:20.700 the Spirit of God
00:22:21.700 moving among people.
00:22:24.600 I can't believe
00:22:25.080 I'm saying this.
00:22:26.200 You're an Episcopalian?
00:22:27.240 I know I was.
00:22:27.700 What is wrong with you?
00:22:28.640 I left when it became Wiccan
00:22:30.120 but that's how I was raised.
00:22:31.940 You're talking like a Pentecostal.
00:22:32.880 No,
00:22:33.240 I don't know what I am
00:22:34.720 but I just,
00:22:35.240 I try to describe things
00:22:37.200 as honestly as I can.
00:22:38.600 Clearly we've seen
00:22:39.200 evil move among us.
00:22:41.020 Correct.
00:22:41.400 We see it all the time.
00:22:42.700 All the time.
00:22:43.740 It's not rational.
00:22:44.860 It's not political.
00:22:45.780 No one's getting rich from it.
00:22:46.960 The point is destruction.
00:22:48.420 That's the point.
00:22:49.180 Why would you give fentanyl
00:22:50.000 to addicts?
00:22:50.940 Why would you invite
00:22:52.000 500,000 Haitians here
00:22:53.200 with no job?
00:22:53.760 COVID shot.
00:22:54.220 The COVID shot.
00:22:55.020 It's only to destroy.
00:22:55.980 So we all know that.
00:22:57.520 That's evil.
00:22:58.160 That's what evil looks like.
00:23:00.020 But evil has a counterbalance
00:23:01.500 which is actually more powerful
00:23:02.800 and it's called good.
00:23:03.740 It's the Spirit of God.
00:23:05.660 And you are seeing that
00:23:06.940 and I am seeing it in,
00:23:08.440 I mean,
00:23:08.720 all the time
00:23:09.620 and it's what keeps me
00:23:10.400 from being despondent.
00:23:11.480 And I see it
00:23:12.080 as you see everything
00:23:12.840 through other people.
00:23:14.240 And I've lived in a secular world
00:23:15.720 my whole life
00:23:16.520 and certainly in the news business
00:23:18.280 for 35 years
00:23:19.120 I've only known secular people.
00:23:20.600 There are no religious people
00:23:21.400 in the news business.
00:23:22.200 None.
00:23:23.320 Maybe in the editing room
00:23:24.760 or something
00:23:25.160 but they don't talk.
00:23:26.280 And I now know people
00:23:28.700 personally really well
00:23:30.020 who are like,
00:23:30.620 yeah,
00:23:30.860 I was like praying the other day
00:23:32.400 or was reading the Bible
00:23:33.320 or I think I believe in Jesus.
00:23:35.560 What?
00:23:36.020 Use the J word?
00:23:37.740 And I'm seeing that everywhere.
00:23:40.580 And so that leads me to believe
00:23:42.500 this is not organic.
00:23:43.740 This is supernatural.
00:23:44.640 People don't say that.
00:23:47.280 They're not moved to that
00:23:48.520 except by God's power moving them.
00:23:51.240 You don't have eyes to see
00:23:53.420 or ears to hear
00:23:54.960 unless God gives them to you.
00:23:57.560 So I think that.
00:23:58.340 So how has God been at work
00:24:00.740 in your life?
00:24:03.300 I don't know.
00:24:04.040 I'm so focused
00:24:04.660 on my inherent shittiness
00:24:05.660 that it's sometimes hard to see it.
00:24:08.340 That's why you're a good Christian.
00:24:09.740 I don't know.
00:24:11.140 The first rule of Christianity
00:24:12.400 is understand you are
00:24:13.640 Well, I definitely marinated that.
00:24:15.700 Totally depraved.
00:24:17.040 I'm definitely aware of that.
00:24:19.000 Total depravity is the beginning.
00:24:21.140 You know you need Jesus
00:24:22.100 if you stay in total depravity.
00:24:23.440 Because I always tell
00:24:23.980 the kids who work for me
00:24:24.900 the one person I don't trust
00:24:25.940 is me
00:24:26.300 because I know him so well.
00:24:27.560 No, I think I'm just
00:24:31.520 so aware of it.
00:24:34.220 I mean, I think one of the ways
00:24:35.680 that people change
00:24:37.460 when they start thinking about God
00:24:38.680 is your timeline gets longer
00:24:40.240 and you realize
00:24:41.520 that this is just a snapshot
00:24:42.820 in eternity
00:24:43.760 and it's not the end
00:24:45.140 and it wasn't the beginning
00:24:46.260 when you were born.
00:24:47.280 Like, this is a lot bigger.
00:24:49.780 You start thinking about
00:24:50.740 what happens after you die.
00:24:52.340 It's not the end.
00:24:53.440 And you start seeing the world
00:24:54.700 in those terms.
00:24:55.640 Death is not the worst thing.
00:24:57.800 You know, you can live
00:24:58.880 in hell on earth
00:24:59.840 by being trapped by lies
00:25:01.980 and that's a choice
00:25:03.060 that all of us make every day.
00:25:04.360 Am I going to participate
00:25:05.140 in the lie or not?
00:25:06.840 And it's not that hard
00:25:07.720 to say, no, I'm not.
00:25:09.060 And it's incredibly,
00:25:10.580 I hate the word,
00:25:11.180 but it's true,
00:25:11.700 empowering
00:25:12.240 to decide
00:25:13.700 that to the extent
00:25:14.400 I remember
00:25:15.200 I'm not going to lie.
00:25:16.600 And we're also prone
00:25:18.320 to lying, me included.
00:25:19.540 Like, they just like,
00:25:20.040 come out, lies all the time.
00:25:21.280 I'm lying, we're lying.
00:25:22.540 You know, we're just like,
00:25:23.140 that way.
00:25:24.200 But if you try,
00:25:25.980 be like, no, no,
00:25:26.460 I'm going to tell the truth
00:25:27.160 in the small things
00:25:29.060 and the big things.
00:25:30.220 No, I think the fish
00:25:31.100 was only 13 inches.
00:25:32.100 It was not a 19-inch trout.
00:25:33.400 I'm just going to be honest.
00:25:34.100 I think it was 13 inches.
00:25:35.520 I'm a trout fisherman.
00:25:37.300 If you just get in the habit
00:25:38.720 of doing that,
00:25:40.300 you find yourself
00:25:41.380 filled with this crazy power
00:25:43.280 from outside you,
00:25:44.240 which is by definition
00:25:45.220 supernatural power,
00:25:47.200 and you become stronger.
00:25:48.500 The more you tell the truth,
00:25:49.500 the stronger you become.
00:25:50.520 I really believe
00:25:51.320 that I've experienced that.
00:25:52.580 The spoken truth.
00:25:53.780 The spoken truth.
00:25:54.600 That's the logos.
00:25:55.460 In the beginning was what?
00:25:56.540 The logos.
00:25:57.360 The word.
00:25:58.280 Which is the word logos.
00:25:59.460 Yeah.
00:25:59.780 Which is the spoken truth.
00:26:00.660 And the word was?
00:26:01.540 And the word was flesh.
00:26:03.180 Yeah.
00:26:03.400 And the word was God
00:26:04.520 and God became flesh, yeah.
00:26:05.760 Yeah.
00:26:06.260 Everything you're saying
00:26:06.840 is inherently spiritual.
00:26:08.040 You think there's a spiritual dynamic
00:26:09.480 to all of this.
00:26:10.580 And can you talk just briefly,
00:26:11.940 I know we're running out of time,
00:26:12.620 how your spiritual journey
00:26:14.420 has deepened
00:26:15.640 in the last couple of years.
00:26:17.640 I know you've been reading
00:26:18.340 the Bible even more
00:26:19.800 as an Episcopalian
00:26:21.180 that seems to be
00:26:22.580 quite an accomplishment.
00:26:23.780 Reading the Bible even more.
00:26:25.120 I didn't read the Bible
00:26:25.700 at all before, so.
00:26:26.340 I'm being generous.
00:26:28.760 Yeah, I mean,
00:26:29.740 I haven't had much
00:26:31.320 of a spiritual journey.
00:26:33.260 I'm such a flawed person
00:26:34.860 that I don't even want
00:26:35.940 to be associated
00:26:36.520 with Christianity
00:26:37.060 because I don't want
00:26:37.720 to discredit it.
00:26:38.780 But I mean that.
00:26:40.200 That means you're
00:26:40.760 a true Christian.
00:26:41.280 Oh, I don't know.
00:26:41.820 I don't want
00:26:42.820 to be called that.
00:26:44.140 But I'm very superstitious
00:26:45.920 on that point.
00:26:47.360 No, I'm a really flawed person,
00:26:49.620 obviously.
00:26:50.800 But, yeah, I mean,
00:26:52.440 there's, I think,
00:26:53.740 I will say this,
00:26:54.900 there is a Christian revival
00:26:57.240 underway in the United States,
00:26:58.360 a low-key Christian revival.
00:26:59.620 I see it all around me.
00:27:02.400 It's not the kind of tent revival
00:27:04.380 that you imagine
00:27:05.160 from, you know, 1923.
00:27:07.440 it's something else.
00:27:09.760 It's a different manifestation
00:27:11.040 of the same thing.
00:27:12.820 And I see it everywhere.
00:27:14.600 And by everywhere,
00:27:15.200 I mean in the conversations
00:27:16.340 that I have with people
00:27:17.040 I'm talking to,
00:27:17.840 where people who've lived
00:27:19.660 totally secular lives,
00:27:20.580 as I have,
00:27:21.280 I've lived a very secular life,
00:27:23.160 are all of a sudden
00:27:23.840 referring to God
00:27:24.960 or some power
00:27:27.740 beyond themselves
00:27:28.780 in a way that would have been
00:27:30.520 really striking
00:27:31.760 five years ago.
00:27:33.680 No one I knew.
00:27:34.700 I mean, you're from
00:27:35.140 a different world,
00:27:36.320 a world that's much more
00:27:37.180 in touch with the spiritual,
00:27:39.300 with the transcendent.
00:27:40.560 But I'm not.
00:27:41.340 I mean, I'm from a world
00:27:42.020 that's in touch with, like,
00:27:43.820 what is happening today.
00:27:45.560 That's it.
00:27:46.180 I've never heard people
00:27:47.160 talk like that, ever.
00:27:49.140 And now,
00:27:50.340 practically everyone I know
00:27:51.020 is talking like that.
00:27:52.080 What is that?
00:27:53.820 And that's a sign to me
00:27:56.100 that, yes,
00:27:58.720 the spiritual realm
00:28:00.180 is, like, obvious to people
00:28:01.780 who had never thought about it before.
00:28:02.800 What I'm seeing is that
00:28:03.880 people are asking the question,
00:28:05.920 why are they doing this?
00:28:07.060 And the spiritual
00:28:07.740 is the only explanation.
00:28:09.000 Of course.
00:28:09.500 Because it defies reason.
00:28:10.880 What did God say?
00:28:11.860 He said,
00:28:12.240 it's not good for man to be alone.
00:28:14.000 Exactly.
00:28:14.560 But he wasn't alone.
00:28:15.620 He had God.
00:28:17.540 What he was saying is that
00:28:18.480 it's not good for man
00:28:19.420 to be without a woman.
00:28:20.440 Of course.
00:28:21.180 So it's not enough for man
00:28:22.120 just to have God.
00:28:23.040 And some people don't like
00:28:23.980 this teaching, but it's true.
00:28:25.080 Adam had God.
00:28:25.820 He had a relationship with God.
00:28:27.260 Man,
00:28:27.920 if you look at almost
00:28:28.780 every third world country
00:28:29.980 where men don't feel
00:28:31.420 that they are able to have
00:28:32.500 economic prosperity
00:28:33.540 or any romantic future,
00:28:35.380 you get either revolution,
00:28:36.780 gang violence,
00:28:37.460 or complete disconnect.
00:28:39.400 Or suicide.
00:28:40.040 Or suicide,
00:28:40.540 which is what we have, right?
00:28:41.460 So it's the most suicidal
00:28:42.260 generation in history.
00:28:43.500 Now, I don't want to paint,
00:28:44.280 like, a totally negative picture
00:28:45.380 because there is one
00:28:47.320 really good trend,
00:28:48.260 and it's not because
00:28:49.300 of baby boomers,
00:28:50.080 and it's not because
00:28:50.800 of our leaders.
00:28:51.860 I guess that.
00:28:53.140 Well, no,
00:28:53.620 it's men,
00:28:54.060 young men are going back
00:28:55.080 to church.
00:28:55.640 That is legit.
00:28:56.300 That's happening
00:28:56.900 because, honestly,
00:28:58.080 it's the only thing
00:28:59.080 that they can find.
00:29:00.060 It's a life raft
00:29:01.720 in this just tsunami
00:29:03.340 of chaos and disorder.
00:29:05.600 So I get asked all the time,
00:29:06.540 well, why are they going
00:29:07.220 to the Catholic church?
00:29:08.060 Why are they going
00:29:08.500 to Orthodox church
00:29:09.240 more than the Evangelical church?
00:29:10.360 And I'm Evangelical.
00:29:11.360 I'll say, well, first of all,
00:29:12.400 they want something
00:29:12.940 that has lasted.
00:29:14.340 They want something
00:29:14.800 that is ancient
00:29:15.400 and that is beautiful.
00:29:16.680 Something that has stood
00:29:17.240 the test of time.
00:29:18.100 Something that's not going
00:29:18.540 to change.
00:29:19.380 Something that's all of a sudden
00:29:20.060 not going to all of a sudden
00:29:20.740 just flip around
00:29:22.180 and have some sort of
00:29:23.520 transgender story hour.
00:29:26.720 So that's a really positive trend
00:29:28.600 in the midst of all this.
00:29:30.340 So my great hope
00:29:31.400 is the spiritual hope
00:29:32.380 that the young men
00:29:33.820 that are lost
00:29:34.300 and if any young man
00:29:35.080 is listening to this right now,
00:29:36.540 like stop watching porn,
00:29:38.360 stop smoking weed,
00:29:39.820 stop drinking endlessly,
00:29:41.420 find yourself back to church.
00:29:42.860 That will reorient your life.
00:29:44.120 I agree.
00:29:44.500 And do what the church
00:29:45.280 tells you to do, right?
00:29:46.960 Find a woman,
00:29:48.260 marry her,
00:29:49.240 provide,
00:29:49.700 have more kids
00:29:50.240 than you can afford.
00:29:51.380 That's my advice
00:29:52.140 for young men.
00:29:52.900 Yes.
00:29:53.180 Don't play the victim.
00:29:54.020 Even though you legitimately
00:29:54.960 can play the victim card
00:29:56.040 on everything we've said,
00:29:57.180 the mindset of a victim
00:29:58.620 is parasitic to your soul.
00:30:00.140 Are you hopeful?
00:30:02.200 Of course I'm hopeful.
00:30:03.480 I'm hopeful in first,
00:30:05.000 of course,
00:30:05.280 in Jesus Christ
00:30:06.020 because for those
00:30:07.320 that know Christ,
00:30:08.440 we know how this story ends
00:30:09.660 and we know that
00:30:11.040 there's a creator
00:30:12.180 and there's a divine perfecter
00:30:13.540 to all of this.
00:30:14.720 Everybody,
00:30:15.500 it's more than just
00:30:17.180 getting a reverse mortgage
00:30:18.420 on your home.
00:30:19.460 It's more than buying
00:30:20.580 relief factor.
00:30:21.760 It's about getting
00:30:22.620 into the arena
00:30:23.420 and what does that mean?
00:30:24.960 It means if you are actively
00:30:26.500 not being criticized,
00:30:28.520 canceled,
00:30:29.460 smeared,
00:30:30.200 or slandered,
00:30:31.260 you are a spectator,
00:30:32.420 not a participant.
00:30:33.560 We will save this country
00:30:34.920 when all of us
00:30:36.080 are participants
00:30:36.960 in this fight.
00:30:38.680 That means
00:30:39.580 that you guys
00:30:40.640 can sign up
00:30:41.440 and take vacation time
00:30:43.640 and come to Arizona
00:30:44.520 to go chase ballots
00:30:45.800 for Donald Trump.
00:30:46.640 We will put you to work.
00:30:47.560 This means you guys
00:30:48.620 can write letters
00:30:49.340 to swing voters
00:30:50.040 in key states
00:30:50.860 pleading for them
00:30:51.880 to make the right decision.
00:30:53.180 This means educating your kids,
00:30:54.940 homeschooling your kids,
00:30:55.880 and taking them
00:30:56.400 out of government schools.
00:30:57.540 This means
00:30:58.360 that you're going to feed
00:30:59.960 your kids and grandkids
00:31:00.960 healthy food
00:31:01.780 and not that highly
00:31:02.860 processed garbage
00:31:04.040 that is currently
00:31:05.120 being put down
00:31:06.060 by the big ag companies.
00:31:07.760 This means you're going to learn
00:31:08.840 every single week
00:31:09.700 and prioritize it.
00:31:10.940 This means you are going
00:31:11.760 to be an active citizen
00:31:12.720 and as we said it earlier,
00:31:14.340 an active,
00:31:15.060 informed,
00:31:15.480 thoughtful,
00:31:16.240 deep,
00:31:16.520 and faithful citizen
00:31:17.440 is the greatest threat
00:31:19.340 to a tyrannical regime
00:31:20.620 and in that,
00:31:21.580 Tucker,
00:31:21.820 I have hope.
00:31:22.960 Amen!
00:31:24.440 Charlie Kirk,
00:31:25.360 ladies and gentlemen,
00:31:26.180 thank you.
00:31:26.720 Thank you.