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Charlie Kirk (0:00)
Hey, everybody. Happy Thanksgiving. We have a great show in store for you today. Make sure you guys get your tickets right now for AmFest. That is AmericaFest.com AmFest.com AmFest.com I know you're going to enjoy this episode, so become a member. Members.charliekirk.com that's members.charliekirk dot com and just one more thought on America Fest. America Fest is the best event of the year. We are adding more and more speakers. It's remarkable. Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Don Jr. Ben Carson, Tim Poole, Josh Hawley, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Anna Paulina, you name it. Amfest.comamfest.com and our conversation with Ken Paxman is next. Email us. As always, freedomarlykirk.com Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie. What you've done is incredible here.
Ken Paxton (0:46)
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
Charlie Kirk (0:48)
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie.
Ken Paxton (0:56)
He's an incredible guy.
Charlie Kirk (0:57)
His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one.
Ken Paxton (1:01)
Of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, created Turning Point usa.
Charlie Kirk (1:05)
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of the Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble gold investments@noblegold investments.com that is noblegold investments. Com. It's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegold investments.com Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. I love Thanksgiving. It's one of my favorite days of the year. I think it speaks very well to our nation that there is a day where we stop and say thank you, as the great Dennis Prager would say. And Dennis Prager is in a tough spot right now. And you should say a audible prayer for Dennis Prager right now. He is. He's in a tough situation, and we want him to have a healthy and speedy recovery. Dennis would say in his happiness hour, you cannot be happy if you are not grateful. The ingrates, the ungrateful, make the world worse. The grateful make the world better. On Thanksgiving, you must be grateful to something. You could be grateful to your parents, grateful to your friends, but of course, grateful to Almighty God. And boy, do we have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. What do you think about three, three weeks ago, 22 days ago, there was a nation on edge, nation full of anxiety. We were told that Kamala Harris was up in the polls, and we knew that it was an existential survival question. Was this nation going to continue to exist? Was this nation going to survive? And God shined his grace on this great republic. And I believe our best days are ahead, that we are on the verge of an American renaissance, a restoration. It's as if America is being powered up, it's being booted up. We are emerging from our slumber. And how thankful we are that Donald Trump didn't die on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania. How thankful that we are that we were spared from all of the civil chaos. We all dodged a bullet on July 13th and on November 5th. I love Thanksgiving because people from all different walks of life and different faiths can come together and say that gratitude is a necessary practice and being grateful is a practice. You must be intentional about it. We are not naturally a grateful people. In fact, we're very ungrateful. In the book of Exodus, God's chosen people leave Egypt. And how long until they were complaining that they did not have meat like they did when they had. They were slaves in Egypt? I believe it's numbers 14. I could be wrong. The Book of Numbers. No, it's actually maybe 18 or 12. I'm all over the place. I'll find it in a second. Where the people of Israel complain. They complain that they don't have good enough food, even though God sent quail off course and manna from Heaven. It's numbers 11. Thank you. We'll read from numbers 11 here because it's a wonderful story on how the people constantly complain. When the people complain, it displeased the Lord, and the Lord heard it, and his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burnt among them and consumed them in the uttermost parts of the camp. We are a complaining people. You see, Thanksgiving, and the fundamental story of thanksgiving is to understand that there is a God and you are not him, that there is a cosmological order and a cosmological plan above all of us, and that we must have the humility to know that God is sovereign and that we can easily lose perspective. And I encourage all of you today, tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, this Thanksgiving weekend, turn off your devices and just say to the heavens, thank you. Thank you. And yes, there is much work yet to be done. There are many fights left to embark on. But what would have been if Kamala Harris would be president elect right now? Now, that would be a tough Thanksgiving. We would still Be saying thank you because there would be so much for to be thankful for. You got to keep the main thing, the main thing, God, family, country. And you see, when you're thankful, I think it invites humility. I believe gratitude and humility are sister virtues because by definition, when you are thankful, you are not necessarily taking credit for everything. When you are thankful, you're not saying that it's all because of you, that there's something that was given to you, that you are the recipient of something external that you did not make happen. And we are all recipients of this beautiful nation. And look at the remarkable sequence of events that have come together. The world's richest man, a Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, former DNC co chair Donald Trump, surviving all together to reclaim our nation. I just, I am blown away with humility at that truth. Humility allows you to grow and improve, to evolve, to strengthen and deepen in your understanding. You see, the left thrives on ingratitude. You look at the last of the Ten Commandments, Thou shall not covet. It's a very interesting commandment because it's the only of the Ten Commandments that deals with the mind. It deals with the inner workings of the being, not just the external. All the other 10 are largely behavioral. You shall have no other gods before me. That's somewhat internal. You shall have no idols. You shall remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. You shall not use the Lord's name in vain or carry the Lord's name in vain. You shall honor your mother and fathers and may live long in land which you are in. Shall not murder, you shall not steal. You shall not commit adultery. But coveting, Coveting. Well, how can you covet your neighbor's donkey or your neighbor's wife if you're thankful? And the answer is, you can't. Gratitude is the fruit that makes everything else taste sweet. But then you must be thankful. To whom? To the Almighty God. The left feeds off of fear and smugness and ingratitude. The activist energy that fuels so many of these campus radicals is not gratitude. I believe if you graduate from college, you graduate with a degree in. In gratitude. Our side feeds off of love, community and patriotism. And so, as you sit around the Thanksgiving table this Thanksgiving, just be thankful that we still have a country. Thankful that we have the ability and the agency. And the table is set for the greatest reclamation of the Constitution in American history. Be thankful that we have this window in time that was given to us, that we did not earn to fulfill the founder's mandate that we have a 100 year detour that we've been taking post Woodrow Wilson for FDR to Richard Nixon to Lyndon Baines Johnson. It was one president after the other, one decision after the other that grew government that got us off the founder's course, that made the citizens smaller and the Leviathan bigger. And we have this opportunity and we should be thankful for the opportunity. And what I'm saying is we should be thankful that we have an opportunity to fight, that what we do actually matters. And isn't that the greatest of all the things to receive? It's not that we received the end result. We have received a chance. That's what we received. We did not receive the nation back fully intact, but we received an opening. And isn't that all that we were asking for? We were asking for just give us a chance. Give us the ability to use our free will and our agency, our capacity to think, to be able then to restore liberty if the people were to want it. But a prideful and a cocky nation will not be saved. You must be humble before the Lord and say thank you for allowing us this second chance that we do not deserve. That we do not deserve. Because we have, we have taken such a detour away from our founding values, from our foundational ideas, from our birth certificate. And Thanksgiving is a uniquely American tradition going all the way back to the original story of Thanksgiving to today we pause and say thank you. I think it is one of the greatest traditions in American history and just our whole country to say thank you. Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
