What to Be Thankful For in 2025

Summary

The Charlie Kirk Show

Episode: What to Be Thankful For in 2025
Date: November 26, 2025
Host: Charlie Kirk
Co-Hosts: Andrew Colvett (Executive Producer), Blake Neff
Special Appearances: Erica Kirk, Lane Schoenberger

Episode Overview

In this pre-Thanksgiving episode, the Charlie Kirk Show focuses on the discipline of gratitude during challenging times, reflecting on both political and personal reasons to be thankful in 2025. Alongside commentary on breaking news—including the dismissal of major Trump-related legal cases and leaked diplomatic efforts in Ukraine—Charlie’s team discusses recent media controversies, the state of the conservative movement post-2024, and the administration's tangible achievements. The episode is both a critical discussion of current events and a call to refocus on thankfulness for blessings, progress, and perseverance.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Opening Reflections and Calls to Activism (00:03–01:13)

• Charlie Kirk’s Philosophy:
  • Urges listeners to prioritize “doing good” over “feeling good”:

    “If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful.” (00:11, Charlie Kirk)

  • Promotes family values and skepticism about college:

    “College is a scam, everybody. You gotta stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible.” (00:19, Charlie Kirk)

• Call to Action:
  • Encourages activism through Turning Point USA and church involvement.
  • Shares the personal importance of his faith.

2. The Collapse of the Fani Willis Georgia Case (01:13–05:49)

• News Update: Georgia declines to pursue the Fani Willis case against Trump and associates, marking an anticlimactic end to one of 2024’s major stories.
• Analysis by Blake Neff:
  • The case and other Trump-related prosecutions are described as “entirely politically motivated” and fundamentally flawed.
  • Highlights the “humiliation” and resource waste resulting from high-profile legal attacks:

    “All of the Trump criminal cases were ultimately like this, even the one where he got convicted. Huge problems with it.” (04:30, Blake Neff)

• Notable Quote:

  “They would bring up these cases that are half baked, they're entirely politically motivated, and they go down to an embarrassing defeat.” (04:52, Blake Neff)

3. Leaked Ukraine Peace Negotiations and Intelligence Agency Skepticism (05:57–17:33)

• Leaked Call Overview:
  • Recent leaks suggest backchannel negotiations led by Steve Witkoff, with a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine/Russia.
  • Debate over the intent and beneficiaries (“cui bono?”) of the leaks; skepticism about the foreign policy establishment’s narrative.
  • Hosts frame negotiation “coaching” as normal business practice, especially in Trump’s dealmaking style.

    “That's a very standard form of negotiation.” (09:12, Unknown Female Commentator from audio clip) “If Trump says he likes it, that probably makes sense.” (09:54, Blake Neff)

• Comparison to Past Leaks:
  • Parallels drawn to the 2019 Vindman/Ukraine whistleblower saga, highlighting longstanding tensions with intelligence agencies and their influence on American politics.
• Discussion of Deep State/Intelligence Community:
  • Schumer’s infamous warning recapped:

    “They have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” (15:39, Chuck Schumer)

  • Blake Neff emphasizes that the intelligence community should not have unchecked power over elected officials.

    “That's despicable. We live in a republic. Voters get to decide what actually happens in their country.” (16:36, Blake Neff)

4. Media Controversy: JD Vance, Erica Kirk, and Joy Reid (18:43–23:44)

• Joy Reid's Conspiracy Theory:
  • Reid speculates about a relationship between JD Vance and Erica Kirk, tied to racial and political subtexts:

    “They can't have the successor to Maga be the guy with the brown Hindu wife. ... That ain't gonna work. That's why he's throwing his wife under the bus. ... Or she's in on it, right. And she's playing slap and tickle with Erica Kirk.” (19:19, Joy Reid)

• Hosts’ Response:
  • Andrew and Blake denounce Reid’s remarks as “deranged,” tasteless, and revealing of the “spiritual core of the left.”
  • Erica Kirk offers a heartfelt explanation in a clip from Megyn Kelly:

    “I love. I hug is like you're an intense hugger. Whoever is like hating on a hug needs a hug themselves. ... If you want to take that out of context, go right ahead. Again, that to me shows that you need a hug more than anyone else.” (21:48, Erica Kirk)

    • The hosts praise JD Vance's leadership and empathy, and condemn the left for “jeering at the suffering of a widow.”

5. What to Be Thankful For in 2025 (23:44–36:10)

• Reframing the Right’s Mood:
  • Acknowledgement of “fracturing on the right” and “bad vibes,” but an emphasis on resisting negativity.

    “People have decided to fixate on things they are unhappy about rather than things they are happy about. ... This can easily just become a self perpetuating cycle." (24:25, Blake Neff)

• Major Points of Thanksgiving:
  • Border Security:
    Trump’s policies had an immediate impact—“no more open border, real ICE expansion.”
  • Peace Abroad:
    Notable ceasefires in Israel/Gaza and progress in Russia/Ukraine.
  • Policy Achievements:
    • Major rollbacks of DEI, quotas, and race/gender-based policies in executive agencies and universities.
    • Ending “woke” standards in the military, including name changes and gender-neutral combat standards.
    • Closure of 21+ transgender clinics, signaling a significant cultural/policy swing.
  • Economic Gains:
    • Core inflation down to 2.1% (lowest since Trump’s first term), and major drops in egg and gas prices.
    • $31 billion in monthly tariff revenue; onshoring manufacturing.
  • Justice Achievements:
    • Pardoning January 6th defendants.
  • Vice President JD Vance:
    • Praised as a worthy standard bearer for the movement and a close friend of Charlie's.
• Notable Quotes:

  “We have so much progress compared to a year ago.” (29:51, Blake Neff) “By God's grace alone, we took our country back.” (30:16, Thanksgiving tweet from Charlie Kirk) “Charlie modeled for all of us, gratitude and Thanksgiving and always looking up to God.” (31:09, Andrew Colvett)

• Reminders of Faith and Historic Gratitude:
  • Scripture and historic Thanksgiving proclamations cited.

    "Jesus Christ is the King of the world. ... Give your life to Christ.” (30:35, Charlie Kirk tweet)

  • Early Americans and pilgrims gave thanks even amidst hardship and mortality.

6. Listener Engagement & Closing Thanks (36:10–end)

• Listener Mail:

  “I am thankful for Charlie and the insight of those closest to him.” (36:10, Email from listener Rita)

• Hosts Wish Audience Well:
  • Thanksgiving wishes and encouragement to focus on gratitude.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful.” (00:11, Charlie Kirk)
• “All of the Trump criminal cases were ultimately like this, even the one where he got convicted. Huge problems with it.” (04:30, Blake Neff)
• “They have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” (15:39, Chuck Schumer)
• “That's despicable. We live in a republic. Voters get to decide what actually happens in their country.” (16:36, Blake Neff)
• “They can't have the successor to Maga be the guy with the brown Hindu wife. ... That's why he's throwing his wife under the bus. Poor Usha. Or she's in on it. ... And she's playing slap and tickle with Erica Kirk.” (19:19, Joy Reid)
• “[About gratitude] ... Charlie modeled for all of us, gratitude and Thanksgiving and always looking up to God.” (31:09, Andrew Colvett)
• “We have so much progress compared to a year ago.” (29:51, Blake Neff)
• “By God's grace alone, we took our country back.” (30:16, Charlie Kirk tweet)
• “I'm thankful for ... the insight of those closest to him.” (36:10, Listener Rita)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Life/Activism Philosophy: 00:03–01:13
• Georgia/Trump Legal News: 01:13–05:49
• Ukraine Peace Plan Leak: 05:57–13:03
• Intelligence Agencies/Schumer: 13:58–17:33
• Joy Reid/JD Vance Controversy: 18:43–23:44
• Conservative Movement Thankfulness: 23:44–36:10
• End/Listener Email: 36:10–end

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Tone and Language

The episode blends serious news analysis with grassroots activism and faith-based exhortation, using unapologetic, sometimes confrontational conservative rhetoric, especially when reacting to political adversaries or media controversies. The Thanksgiving theme encourages a sense of hope, perseverance, and communal gratitude, in spite of adversity and opposition.

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Conclusion

This episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, though rooted in the day’s major headlines, is ultimately a rallying call to be grateful—for enduring values, policy victories, national and personal resilience, and the leaders and friends who sustain their movement, especially at a time of profound grief and uncertainty. Even as the hosts wade through broken legal cases, media hostility, and difficult cultural battles, they close the show by modeling the very gratitude they advocate.

Transcript

[Andrew Colvett]

Foreign.

[Charlie Kirk]

My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You gotta stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start Attorney Point USA College chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord.

[Blake Neff]

Use me.

[Charlie Kirk]

Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. The Charlie Kirk show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers.

[Andrew Colvett]

All right, Happy Wednesday. It's the Charlie Kirk Show. I'm Andrew Colvett, executive producer of this fine show, joined by Blake Neff. It is the day before Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving, yeah. We have a lot to be thankful for this this year, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the loss. And I think, Blake, you said it best. Even, especially in the midst of what's been a really rough season, we have to practice the discipline of being thankful, being grateful for the mercies of God, the blessings of God Almighty, and we will do that in this show. We are going to spend probably the second half of this hour doing that. First, we've got a couple breaking news stories that we want to get to. First, big breaking news story this morning. Blake Neff. The state of Georgia is basically refusing or declining to pursue its case, the Fannie Willis case, against Donald J. Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and many others. This is a fitting end, but kind of a whimper in what was a main huge story of 2024.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah, I wanted us to start with this because I think it actually perfectly encapsulates the life arc of a lot of things we've lived through in the Trump era. There's. How many times have the walls been closing in? About 50,000 different times. There was a meme video of the walls are closing in. How often they said it in, I think, 2016 or early 2017. And it's just been the same way ever since. So when Trump was out of office, they waited a few years. They didn't do anything initially, and then suddenly 20, 23, they thought, let's roll out all of these indictments of Trump Manhattan in Georgia, and then the two federal cases, Eugene Carroll, the business case. Yeah, of course. Yeah. The business case, the Carroll case. All of these things to take him down. And a lot of them, they'll superficially look formidable. He's got four different criminal indictments and all these civil cases. And what has always stood out to me is how every single one of them has some insane flaw either. Unprecedented use of the law of law and law. Total novel reinterpretation. I remember, remember this case, the Fulton county case. It included in the indictment that as part of his conspiracy to do various bad things, that Trump encouraged people to turn on oan to watch, I believe, the Georgia legislature hold a hearing. That was part of the conspiracy. I believe another part of his conspiracy was encouraging, was that he, like, called lawmakers. I believe he called lawmakers and urged them to vote a certain way on legislation, which I will observe is part of the First Amendment. Your right to petition lawmakers for redress of grievances. I believe that extends to the president. They had things like this. And then, in case you've forgotten, Fanny Willis also hired her boyfriend, Nathan Wade, onto the case. They paid him, I believe, over $600,000. They were taking luxury vacations. They tried to lie about the fact that they were in a relationship. He, I believe, might have left his wife or girlfriend as part of this. There was a whole sordid background to that. All of this, I bring up to you again, and now we've come here. Nothing came of it. It ended in total humiliation. They have to drop the case. Millions of dollars were wasted so big fani Willis could look like a big superstar. And so many things are like that. All of the Trump criminal cases were ultimately like this, even the one where he got convicted. Huge problems with it. I think it would have gone down in court eventually.

[Andrew Colvett]

You're talking about the E. Jean Carroll case?

[Blake Neff]

No, not the Carroll case, the Manhattan case.

[Andrew Colvett]

Oh, yeah, of course, of course.

[Blake Neff]

So just one thing after another. They would bring up these cases that are half baked, they're entirely politically motivated, and they go down to an embarrassing defeat.

[Andrew Colvett]

You mean the Manhattan case where he successfully paid back his bank loans?

[Blake Neff]

No, no, no, no, no. This is the one where they said that he was engaging in what was. It was the election case.

[Andrew Colvett]

You know, it was with. You're talking about with Stormy Daniels.

[Blake Neff]

Yes, yeah, yeah, Stormy Daniels. The hush money. They said it was a illegal campaign contribution. Yes, to allegedly play hush money. And then they also that it was a felony because he was covering up a federal crime that the federal government had never charged him with, had in fact investigated and declined to charge him for.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yes.

[Blake Neff]

And then they tell the jury, you can just pick whatever crime you feel like might have been covered up. You don't even need to unanimously agree on a crime. All of these things are like that. And so we wanted to open that because today is Thanksgiving.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well, the day before you can.

[Blake Neff]

Not today. Yeah, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Thank you, Andrew.

[Andrew Colvett]

Fact check.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah.

[Andrew Colvett]

And so, but all this, you know, this is what gets me is there's another round of this that seems to be about to pop off. And now Bloomberg has somehow gotten its hands on a leak between a Witkoff, Steve Witkoff, special envoy appointed by President Trump to handle Ukraine Russia issues, he's been traveling all over the world working on peace negotiations and, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy advisor. So this is a news story breaking today, Blake, where it seems to be a story where I instantly wanna ask cui bono? Who benefits? Right? Because if you. Let's go through the paces here. So there was a 28 point peace plan that was leaked. Right. First leak. And by the way, Jack Posobec actually predicted that there was gonna be a leaked phone call yesterday, which is pretty remarkable cause it came out today, which. Or it came out last night and there was a 28 point peace plan which was widely derided by the foreign policy establishment as too pro Kremlin. So then we get the EU coming in and we get a follow up peace plan which is much more, let's say pro Ukrainian. There was basically. You had made the point earlier this week, Blake, that the 28 point peace plan was somewhat remarkable in the sense that it actually included a provision where the US would, would identify portions of formerly Ukrainian land as now Russian land and territory. That's a pretty big deal. So this one, the, the new peace plan does not necessarily have that. It has a, doesn't, doesn't have a cap on the size of the Ukrainian military. There's other things that would, would you obviously interpret as more pro Ukrainian, pro Europe. Right. There's basically a NATO Article 5 type security guarantee involved in the new plan. So it's much, much more pro Ukrainian. I think the 28 point plan is much more pragmatic and probably realistic where this is going to finally end out in the end. But now we have a leak. And you have to ask why would somebody leak this phone call between Wyckoff and Ushakov. So the call is essentially, I think, a nothing burger. But it's being made much of in the press because it appears to them and the way they're painting it is that Witkoff is playing ball with the Russians, coaching the Russians on how to sell this peace plan to Trump. Right. Trump, you're the peace president kind of glazing President Trump, giving his ego a boost. And I think that this is completely par for the course. This is standard operating procedure, standard negotiation tactics. And I believe the President agrees. Let's go ahead and play cut 232.

[Erica Kirk]

This audio that Bloomberg has of Wyckoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you and get on your head.

[Unknown Female Commentator]

No, but that's a standard thing, you know, because he's got to sell this to Ukraine. He's got to sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what he's. That's what a dealmaker does. You've got to say, look, they want this, you've got to convince them of this. You know, that's a very standard form of negotiation.

[Andrew Colvett]

Blake, do you think that's a standard form of negotiation?

[Blake Neff]

I don't whether it's standard in diplomacy. It's standard with what Trump does. Trump is a real estate guy. Trump is a guy who is. He likes Witkoff because Witkoff negotiates the way I think Trump likes to make deals. And I think of how you might make deals in the business world. It probably would be normal to tell someone, hey, before you talk this guy, here's how you're gonna make sure this conversation goes well. That is a normal conversation that you will have if you are in, you know, a business world of negotiation. And I think it's. If Trump says he likes it, that probably makes sense. That's probably true.

[Andrew Colvett]

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[Unknown Male Commentator]

Set out like a 20 point peace proposal just like we did in Gaza. We put a 20 point Trump plan together that was 20 points for peace. And I'm thinking maybe we do the same thing with you. My point is this. Okay, okay my friend. I think that the very point our leaders could discuss hey Steve, I agree with you that we will congratulate. He will say that Mr. Trump is a real peace man and so and so that he will say maybe he says President Trump, you know, Steve and Yuri discussed the very similar 20 point plan to peace and that could be.

[Blake Neff]

Something that we might AI is not good enough to justify that that infliction upon us.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, that was actually wrong version. There's another one that's going around which is much better. But the point is there is coaching going on.

[Blake Neff]

You don't want a better one because then people will think it's the real one.

[Andrew Colvett]

No, that's true. But I mean this was a phone call. It was trying to be. It was supposed to be a reenactment. That was a bad version of that but the point is they're trying to coach President Trump and everybody's saying, look at the Kremlin's too involved. But this all strikes me as a throwback to the 2019 Vindman leak. And there is this amazing, amazing cut here that I'm gonna pull up in just a second of. Basically you have Vindman testifying before Congress and then Adam Schiff jumps in to protect Vindman. And it is this really telling moment that just is. I'm having flashbacks to 2019, so you have to have them with me too. Let's go ahead and play. Cut. I believe this would be 233. Did you discuss the July 25th phone call with anyone outside the White House.

[Charlie Kirk]

On July 25th or the 26th?

[Unknown Male Witness/Testifier]

Yes, I did. My core function is to coordinate US government policy, interagency policy. And I spoke to two individuals with regards to providing a. Some site, some sort of readout of the call.

[Charlie Kirk]

Two individuals that were not in the White House.

[Unknown Male Witness/Testifier]

Not in the White House.

[Andrew Colvett]

If I could interject here. We don't want to use these proceedings.

[Charlie Kirk]

It's our time.

[Andrew Colvett]

I know, but we need to protect the whistleblower. Oh, need to protect the whistleblower.

[Blake Neff]

Whistleblower.

[Andrew Colvett]

So this is how this happens.

[Blake Neff]

That was just, that's such a bizarre episode in hindsight, that entire whistleblower saga where there was someone who was just making allegations against the President that were ridiculous. And then people, hundreds, thousands of people knew who this person was, but you couldn't say their name on television because they were the whistleblower. It was Eric Sierra Mellow. That was the name, right?

[Andrew Colvett]

Shimmerella, whatever.

[Blake Neff]

I can't pronounce these.

[Andrew Colvett]

So. So yeah, he was the whistleblower. He. But, but basically what that was was an instance of somebody got a readout of the call, thought it wasn't good, and then accuse the President, which ends up resulting in crazed impeachment proceedings. So these are the stakes that we're playing with. And never forget. Six ways to Sunday. The intelligent agencies have six ways to Sunday of getting you the notorious warning from the good Chuck Schumer, who's now up against it. By the way, his approval rating in New York is in the low 30s, the lowest that he's ever had, his back against the wall. We could play the cut. Why not?

[Chuck Schumer]

244 take on the intelligence community. They have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So even for a practical, supposedly hard nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this.

[Blake Neff]

What do you think the intelligence Community would do if they were motivated?

[Lane Schoenberger]

I don't know.

[Chuck Schumer]

But from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them. And we need the intelligence community. We don't know what's going. Look at the Russian hacking. Without the intelligence community we wouldn't have discovered it.

[Blake Neff]

Do you think he has an agenda to try to dismantle parts of the intelligence community? I mean this form of taunting hostility.

[Chuck Schumer]

Let me tell you, whether you're a super liberal Democrat or a very conservative Republican, you should be against dismantling the intelligence community.

[Blake Neff]

No video. No video is a better argument for just a systematic purge.

[Chuck Schumer]

Yeah.

[Andrew Colvett]

We have 17 of intel agents.

[Blake Neff]

The intel agents just fire huge numbers of people at random if you need to. I think totally CIA because it's so sinister.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Blake Neff]

Oh well, we only know these things if the intelligence community tells us. And if you better do what the intelligence community wants, don't make them upset or they'll get back at you. That's despicable. We live in a republic. Voters get to decide what actually happens in their country.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well, and in this instance I would doubt that it's the CIA, that maybe there's involvement of the CIA. But you look at this, this was a. It could have been Ukrainian intel, could have been MI6, could have been the Five Eyes. You gotta ask yourself, who benefits from leaking this call to sabotage a peace plan? Because they think it's. They think that the Trump administration is being too pro Kremlin. But I will say it again. I think the original 28 point plan is the more pragmatic, honest plan that has the greatest chance of success. Europe didn't. Europe thought it was bending the knee to the Kremlin. I disagree.

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[Andrew Colvett]

All right, we have to address something here.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah we get this just just came in hot in from from the very top. So we'll get to the Thanksgiving part in a moment. But we're both very big fans of Erica Kirk and she she wanted us to talk about something that has just bubbled up.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well I actually commented on it last night I have to say. So this is not new to me. Let's go ahead and play cut. 258 this is Joy Reid pushing the deranged conspiracy theory. It is deranged that JD Vance is going to leave his wife Usha, second lady for Erica.

[Joy Reid]

258 they can't have the successor to Maga be the guy with the brown Hindu wife. They're also Christian nationalists. That ain't gonna work. That's why he's throwing his wife under the bus. Poor Usha. Or she's in on it. Right. And she's playing slap and tickle with Erica Kirk. So weird as I've ever seen.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah.

[Joy Reid]

It's she's like in her Tammy Faye era. Okay. Holding on the back of his head and rubbing on his head some weird.

[Andrew Colvett]

Don't do that today.

[Joy Reid]

Said I'm start thinking something's going on. Why you holding the back of his head? I'm like you, you not doing that right. Then you're supposed to be a widow. You in leather pants.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah.

[Andrew Colvett]

That's not widow wear.

[Joy Reid]

Could you imagine if wouldn't it be the most perfect fairy tale MAGA fairy tale.

[Unknown Male Commentator]

Yeah.

[Joy Reid]

If he finally sees the light that he needs a white queen instead of.

[Andrew Colvett]

This brown Hindu oh golly rubbing on his head. Baby pants.

[Blake Neff]

I, I'm annoyed. I'm a little bit annoyed that you know when we we had the Megyn Kelly thing last week and they were, you know, they were praising her because she was a little anti trans. It's just like I remember warning you this is a disgusting woman. She's going to say something very disgusting very soon. How soon it was.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. So I think what's really sick about this and I'll tell you is that these are three deranged, likely post menopausal women that are flippantly turning. A moment of shared grief where JD Vance, the vice president, goes out of his way to honor his friend Charlie by traveling halfway across the country to talk to students at a Turning Point USA event. And he greets Erica, who just had watched this truly emotional video that the team put together. A tribute from Charlie actually to Erica about Charlie talking about his wife. And JD Leans in and Erica will tell the story but and says he'd be so proud of you. And they hug. It's a moment of shared grief and they turned it into some sexualized liberal fever dream where they're projecting their own grossness and their own racism towards Usha onto really good people. And I find that disgusting. And by the way, Blake, it is a true insight into the spiritual core of the left.

[Blake Neff]

For sure. For sure. But she did want us to play this. So this was Erica with Megyn Kelly a few last weekend. Let's play explaining this. 266.

[Erica Kirk]

For those of you who know me, I never. I, I'm a very. I love. I hug is like you're an intense hugger. Whoever is like hating on a hug needs a hug themselves. I will give you a free hug anytime you want to hug. My love language is touch if you will. But seriously, that hug. So I will give you a play by play walking. They just played the emotional video. I'm walking over. He's walking over. I'm starting to cry. He says he's so proud of you. And I say God bless you. And I touch the back of his head. Anyone who have I've hugged that I have touched the back of your head. When I hug you, I always say God bless you. That's just me. If you want to take that out of context, go right ahead. Again, that to me shows that you need a hug more than anyone else.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. And I mean, listen, she says God bless you and it was actually a really beautiful, touching moment between two friends. And just want to reiterate so much gratitude and thanksgiving for Vice President J.D. vance and second lady Usha, who have stood by Erica in this moment of tremendous grief and sorrow. And she's grateful. We all are grateful for the way that J.D. vance has provided such incredible leadership. I mean statesmanship. Not only was this a tremendous loss to Erica, but this was a tremendous loss to the entire country. And J.D. vance rose to the occasion in more ways than one. But just think about this. This is what's so gross about this moment is that it's the sneering and the derision and the jeering at the suffering of a widow just because her slain husband happened to be conservative. And they think they have the right to. To completely smear this moment. And Erica more directly, I find it tremendously disgusting. We're talking like 70 days away from her going through the unthinkable. And this is their reaction.

[Blake Neff]

That would be their reaction. It was their reaction if you looked online the week after. They're fundamentally gross people. Fundamentally disgusting. They are as, let's be frank, Joy Reid is as hideous on the inside as on the outside.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well said. Well, I think we dealt with that sufficiently. We've been promising it. Blake. Okay, so there's a lot of talk about the fracturing on the right. I would say that the enthusiasm has waned in moments. And I think it's important that we refocus and we say, what are we thankful for? Because actually there's a lot to be thankful for. You do not have President Kamala Harris.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah. And it's especially important. We talked about this a good amount yesterday. We talked about it on thought crime as well, that Charlie and Charlie and the early Americans both believed it was especially important to express thanks. In adversity, in difficulty. And there's no adversity like what we've had in these past three months. And there's also a lot of adversity on the country. And as you say, the movement fracturing apart. There's people who are upset about one thing or another. There's almost a bad vibe over the country where people have decided to fixate on things they are unhappy about rather than things they are happy about. And this can easily just become a self perpetuating cycle. And so we wanted to tag, we wanted to reframe things we wanted to focus on. This is the end of the year. What are the things you should be grateful for? And there are a lot of them, both personally and there are a lot of them nationally. On the political level, when Charlie was talking at the end in his Thanksgiving message last year, Charlie says God has shown mercy upon our country. And we've seen that mercy actually manifest. It wasn't just a hopeful thing. We've seen one of the things we should never forget to talk about. We had a year ago, we had a complete, wide open border with the entire third world. We had a de facto traitor, Alejandro Mayorkas, running the show, letting in gangsters from China, you know, possible terrorists from Central Africa, everyone coming in and overnight Close the door. President Trump closed the door. We don't have an open border anymore. We have a real border. And it happened so instantaneously and so totally that people allow themselves to forget that it happened. And instead this is the sort of. It's the grievance mindset. It's the mindset of I'm mad there are not enough deportations happening quickly enough. We agree, we would like more deportations, we would like faster deportations, and yet we're attempting to do them. We actually have the arrests happening, we have deportations being made, we have multi billion dollar ICE hiring expansion to accelerate it in the following year. We should be thankful for those things. We should be thankful for a ceasefire in the Israel, Gaza war and the other ceasefires that have happened, for the progress towards a ceasefire in the Russia, Ukraine war, the deadliest war in Europe in nearly a century.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well, I totally agree. And this is the conundrum that the administration faces, right, where they get peace in the Middle east, something everybody wanted. But then instantly you see the chatter. And by the way, I've contributed to this and I make no apologies for it. But then it's sort of like domestic. The domestic front is not getting enough attention, which is true. Nevertheless, it's a heck of a job being the President of the United States. I want to call out attention to one other thing that we're thankful for. We talked about it before the show, Blake, and you know, you can be kind of a hard grader and I like that about you. But one of the things that you gave the president and this administration really high marks on was some of the changes within the hiring policies of the executive branch. And so go ahead.

[Blake Neff]

And 100% they came in. They actually do have right wing revolution round. There's one back there. Yeah, there's that sort of fantasy scene. Cause it was written before Trump came back into office where it's describing a possible day one of the administration with this cascade of executive orders. And that's pretty much what the admin did in real life. Trump said bring me pieces of paper to sign. And some of those he signed. He repealed orders going all the way back to LBJ that mandated dei. They didn't call it that at the time, but mandated dei, affirmative action, all of these race based, sex based, discrimination based quotas for how you do things and imposing them on contractors, on the private sector. And he sweeps these things away. He goes to these universities that have just gotten unlimited money from the American people for decades, without question. And he goes to Columbia. He Goes to Penn and he says, he, you guys are doing anti American stuff. You're allowing crazy students to harass people because they're Jewish or they're white or whatever. And you're not allowed to do that. You actually have to change your admissions so they're fair otherwise. And you have to have other rules to make sure there's no harassment. Otherwise we're cutting off the money. There was a news story just the other day. Colombia is worried Trump will cut off their supply of international students. So they're looking to expand their undergraduate class of mostly domestic admits up to 20%.

[Andrew Colvett]

Wow.

[Blake Neff]

So more actual Americans might get to go to Columbia. They might get to have access to one of the greatest universities in America for Americans.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. And that's well said. I didn't see that. So many little things too.

[Blake Neff]

Just he got rid of those dumb Biden era names on all of our military bases where they went to Fort Bragg.

[Andrew Colvett]

Hey.

[Blake Neff]

The fort that trained the men who won World War II. And Biden says, yeah, get rid of that name and call it Fort Liberty.

[Andrew Colvett]

I'm grateful for Pete Hegseth and by the way, I'm grateful that Charlie fought for Pete Hegseth as hard as he did because we got rid of all of these WOKE standards. We got rid of the now we have gender neutral combat standards. Got rid of all the furries and the LGBTQ poem readings and all this stuff out of the middle. I'm very grateful for that because my brother serves and he says it's been night and day.

[Blake Neff]

If you look issue after issue, there's so much progress compared to a year ago. And we'll continue this. You have to look at where the progress has been made.

[Andrew Colvett]

Alright, I want to show the audience some of these Charlie Thanksgiving tweets that are just amazing. Go ahead and throw up.208. This is Charlie says Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours. We are thankful for the gift of salvation, our amazing children and God's mercy on our great country this year. Take a moment today to be grateful that we did it. By God's grace alone, we took our country back. Here's one from November of 2020. Throw up. 209. Jesus Christ is the King of the world. He died for you this Thanksgiving. Give your life to Christ. How about this from November 2024. 2:17. Psalm 104. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him. Bless his name. And here's yet another 219. This is from last November. I'm overwhelmed with gratitude. This Thanksgiving, what a time to be alive. Charlie was an expert at being grateful, with a whole movement full of people that are really good at being not so grateful, maybe being a little negative kvetching, whatever word you want to put on it. Charlie modeled for all of us, gratitude and Thanksgiving and always looking up to God, which is truly the model from the first Thanksgiving and onward. Even in Abraham Lincoln's declaration of the first Thanksgiving, it was always looking to God and being grateful to the Almighty for the providential hand that he's had on this country.

[Blake Neff]

Many, many of the pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving weren't there, I think, even a year later, and they did it anyway.

[Andrew Colvett]

And our country has a history of fasting and prayer, and especially in the early days of the founders. And so we need to model what they hand it down to us. Be grateful for the many blessings. And we're going to continue talking about some of our favorite things that we're thankful for this year, because there is much to be grateful for. All right, I'm going to say one of the things that I'm really happy about, actually. Charlie ended up becoming really convinced about the big beautiful Bill. Now, I know that it was contentious, it was a tough road to get there, but guess What? It funded ICE, expanded ICE, and it funded our border security. Huge, huge win. ICE was one of the few areas of the U.S. government that had not ever expanded since its founding. So since ICE had come onto the scene, it had not grown, they had not added personnel. We got that done with the one big beautiful Bill act. And I am very, very happy about that.

[Blake Neff]

The ICE expansion in particular, I'm just looking through. I encourage you go look up list of executive orders in the Trump administration. Maybe even look up, look up what Democrats are complaining about from the Trump admin. You might find some stuff you like quite a bit. I'm just looking through here. We got. So as of August, at least 21 transgender hospitals or clinics had closed their doors, including the largest one in the country in Los Angeles. Just again, it's like the border. It's almost an overnight total 180 degree swerve from something that was incredibly evil. And now I'm so annoyed because I'll run in, you'll see people who will say, actually, that issue was always a distraction. That issue, that issue doesn't really matter much. It mattered a lot. They were mutilating children. They still want to do it. They're fanatical about it. The scale of the evil, how sinister it was, the scale of the lie they had to tell that you could just, a boy could just become a girl or the other way around was so unthinkable. And the fact that we actually don't talk about it nearly as much anymore, other than the occasional, oh, a guy goes into a girl's locker room or something. Things have gotten so drastically better and that's so heavily due to who we have in the White House, who we have making policy in this country, who we have setting the conversation. And that is an amazing mercy on our country.

[Andrew Colvett]

How about this? Core inflation is down to 2.1, the lowest since Trump's first term. Egg prices are down 53%.

[Blake Neff]

I think I saw gas stat.

[Andrew Colvett]

Get this, there's the cheapest gas in the country, Oklahoma, 250 a gallon. But you can get it here in Phoenix at 319A gallon.

[Blake Neff]

319. That's pretty low for Phoenix. Yeah, we had, you know, usaid, usaid, USAID totally. We dismantled this giant foreign aid apparatus that gave money to a lot of things that once people saw what it was, they did not care for it. We have the January 6th pardons. A thousand people who were. It was the biggest manhunt in American history to find every single person who was remotely adjacent to this event and treating it as the new Pearl Harbor. It was this core part of the new left wing, anti maga third foundation of the country myth that we basically need a new constitution to wage war on MAGA pardons. It's just over with. January 6th is done and we have Vice President J.D. vance.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yep.

[Blake Neff]

We have, we don't have Charlie anymore. We have one of, we have the person he saw as one of his best friends in politics, one of his closest political analogues in politics, who shares his thoughts about nationalism, who shares his thoughts about faith, who shares his thoughts about so many things, immigration. And that man is the Vice President of the United States. Every single day. He's blossoming as a communicator on X. He's, he's hosted this program. He's done so many things. He's such a worthy standard bearer for the cause. And Charlie fought so hard specifically for that. You and I saw it, how much he campaigned for that behind the scenes throughout 24. And we have him as this leader.

[Andrew Colvett]

And I totally agree, JD is the best. And he's, you know, he's got a bright future ahead. That's all we'll say here. Here's what else I'll say $31 billion in tariff revenue this last month. I know, Blake, that's not your on your list, but it's on my list. I am all about if it works. If it works.

[Blake Neff]

He ran on it. He has the opportunity.

[Andrew Colvett]

I'm grateful for it. I'm grateful for it. And that is. Listen, I love, I love trying to onshore manufacturing and I love the trillions of dollars of pledges. We obviously want to see those shovel ready.

[Blake Neff]

We'll close the hour with this. We have an email from Rita who says, I am thankful for Charlie and the insight of those closest to him. Thank you very much, Rita.

[Andrew Colvett]

Happy Thanksgiving. We will see you next week.

[Blake Neff]

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