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here. We go. Charlie, what you've done

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is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on

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the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky

1:08

to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's

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running the White House post. I

1:13

wanna thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy.

1:15

His spirit, his love of this country. He's

1:17

done an amazing job, building one

1:19

of the most powerful youth organizations ever

1:21

created turning point USA. We will

1:23

not embrace the ideas that have

1:26

destroyed countries, destroyed lives,

1:28

and we are gonna fight for freedom on

1:30

campuses across the country. That's why

1:32

we are here. Thank

1:35

you, everybody. Tom, that was excellent.

1:38

Thank you, and thank you

1:40

guys for showing up tonight. It's

1:42

a lot more controversy around this than

1:44

I would have expected. And

1:47

I can't even see that,

1:49

but that

1:53

could you think of a less controversial title

1:56

of a speech, health, wealth,

1:58

and happiness And somehow

2:00

that gets to be super controversial. Right?

2:03

I mean, evidently, I

2:05

suppose everything does. So

2:08

look, I there's couple of things I wanna talk

2:10

about, and I do wanna address this

2:13

last week, but I wanna make sure

2:15

The proper thanks is in order

2:18

despite all the clamoring and the nonsense.

2:21

Arizona State University deserves credit

2:23

for still allowing this event. To proceed.

2:33

And I mean that non star

2:35

cast. I mean, not exactly a

2:38

college fan that

2:41

that's supposed to be somewhat funny. But no.

2:45

I mean that it's it's a big deal. This is allowed

2:47

to proceed. And happen and

2:50

continue. So I

2:52

I wanna I wanna address some of these

2:54

attacks. So if you could say whatever you want about

2:56

me, doesn't bother me, But

2:58

when you start attacking Dennis

3:02

Prager, and I I mean this.

3:04

I mean, and and the person who was attacking

3:06

him, was a religious

3:09

studies scholar, which,

3:11

if you know anything about Dennis Prager,

3:13

who probably has published

3:16

more, written more, spoke

3:18

more, and broadcasted more about

3:20

the Torah and the Hebrew Bible

3:22

than any person alive on the planet

3:25

I would just say that if you're a religious

3:28

studies scholar, you could probably

3:30

learn something from Dennis Prager instead

3:33

of wanting to kick them off your campus. And

3:40

look, I could defend myself. It's fine. I just

3:42

and Dennis probably won't even get get into most of

3:44

this, but it does tell you something

3:47

that You could disagree with everything

3:49

that I might say or Dennis might say.

3:52

However, if your profession

3:55

is to study religion, and

3:57

someone who has now

3:59

successfully published four out

4:01

of five bible commentaries, which

4:03

I don't know if you've seen Dennis' rational bible,

4:06

It's one of the most amazing accomplishments

4:09

of the modern era going verse by

4:11

verse of the five books of Moses.

4:14

And understanding the original biblical Hebrew,

4:16

and and the quote was it's just so funny.

4:19

It says, I wanna make it clear that each

4:21

signature on this petition was for a different reason.

4:23

I believe these speakers represent ideas

4:25

that go against the principles of ASU,

4:28

charter that stand for inclusivity and not

4:30

exclusivity. Or if you're for inclusivity,

4:33

then why do you want the event not to happen?

4:35

That's not very inclusive of you. I'm

4:42

so tolerant which is why I don't want

4:45

other ideas to occur. It's

4:47

really Interesting. So,

4:51

look, I also wanna make a special shout out

4:54

to the ten professors who didn't sign

4:56

the petition. Are

5:00

are any of them here, if you're here?

5:04

Because all the emphasis was thirty seven

5:06

out of forty seven. I mean, this non sarcastically.

5:09

I was impressed that there were ten holdouts, that

5:12

there were ten professors that

5:14

said, I'm not comfortable signing this

5:16

petition. That was

5:18

more than I expected, truly. But

5:20

it does tell you a lot about you

5:22

know, where the academy is

5:25

headed. And again, it's I don't wanna paint with too

5:27

broad of a brush. But if you are a professor

5:29

that signs a petition like that, just so intellectually

5:31

lazy, and just so sloppy,

5:33

you know, you're you're an intellectual midget or

5:35

coward, in my opinion, not

5:37

to wanna be able to defend your

5:39

position. And

5:43

Quite honestly lazily and sloppily

5:45

and it's an insult to everyone who worked really hard

5:47

to get a PhD just

5:49

to say that stuff, like, oh, he's a white nationalist. Like,

5:51

really, like, what's your substantiation for that? Would

5:53

you like to comment, by the way, open invite for any one

5:55

of the thirty seven professors? You're welcome on

5:57

my national radio program anytime, and

6:00

you can have an uninterrupted opportunity

6:03

to tell me in front of millions

6:05

of people why you believe the stuff

6:07

you believe or are you too cowardly because

6:09

you just wanna sign petition and then go

6:11

off into the distance with your moral superiority.

6:18

Alright. Enough

6:20

of that. But again, the university

6:23

deserves credit for not cowering to

6:25

the mob that is important. Alright.

6:27

I it's funny because I was I'm still, like,

6:29

planning to talk about some of the most, I

6:31

would say, non controversial things. Not non controversial

6:34

for me, but there's two very simple things

6:36

that I want you guys to walk away with that I think

6:38

could be helpful and that I think could

6:40

bless you. And I think that could

6:42

address a lot of other issues. So the name of the talk is health,

6:45

wealth, and happiness. So I was thinking to myself, what

6:47

is one thing that you could do

6:50

that has been proven over a

6:52

long period of time that could make

6:54

it easier to be healthy. Wealthier,

6:57

not just wealthy financially or materially, but hopefully

6:59

wealthier in the soul and happier.

7:02

And it didn't take long for me

7:04

to realize something I started doing

7:06

a year and a half ago, largely thanks to Dennis

7:08

Prager and many others, that has been proven

7:10

to work for thousands of years that

7:12

I think America I know America

7:14

used to honor and America

7:21

I'm getting IIII I'm getting LASIK

7:23

surgery, so my eyes are not what it I know what his

7:26

science said. I'm sure it was

7:28

not wise. Am I right? I'm just just

7:30

guessing. So it

7:33

Yolked, that's what it said. You'll go with

7:35

that. That's my truth tonight.

7:37

So what

7:40

has worked for thousands of years that

7:42

have helped help people get healthier

7:45

happier and wealthier. The real wealth

7:47

that matters is the wealth of the soul, the depth of the soul,

7:49

not material wealth, but material wealth can help

7:51

you. And it's something I started to do a year

7:53

and a half ago. That didn't come up with

7:55

obviously, but it's something that I think America

7:58

has forgotten. And it's stopping

8:01

for twenty five hours a week. But

8:03

simply honoring the Sabbath. This

8:06

is something that I'll be very honest modern

8:09

American Christianity has done

8:11

a horrendous job of this. However, I'm gonna challenge

8:14

even theatheist of the secularist that thank

8:16

you for coming for the speech. I'm not gonna even

8:18

try to make religious case for this. I'm

8:20

gonna tell you that if you do stop,

8:22

which is what the word means, shabbat

8:24

to stop, you'll be healthier, you'll

8:27

be wealthier, and you will be happier.

8:29

So if if you if you think about the

8:31

idea of the Sabbath or the

8:33

Shabbas, I know we have some religious

8:36

Jews here that do this every week. So

8:38

for them, this is this is somewhat easy,

8:40

but I'm just on a newcomer to this. Right?

8:42

My idea of the Sabbath was like

8:44

putting my phone away for thirty minutes and

8:47

watching football. Right? That was my idea of the

8:49

Sabbath. I would work every day,

8:51

every minute, every hour, and

8:54

a really good pastor friend mine plus Dennis'

8:56

teaching said, Charlie, you need to stop.

8:59

I said, why do I need to stop? I got work to They

9:01

said, well, you need to stop in the name of God. You know, kind

9:03

of play off of the stop and the name of love. And

9:06

I said, well, what do you mean? Shabbat mean stop.

9:08

If God rested after creating the world

9:11

of which I believe, then you should too.

9:14

And so July of two

9:16

thousand twenty what would

9:18

that be? Two thousand twenty one, a year and a half ago,

9:20

I decided to do it. Friday night turn off

9:22

my phone, and at first, it's incredibly difficult.

9:24

I'll tell you if you do this, it creates

9:26

anxiety separation with your

9:27

phone, you're one of

9:28

the world's falling apart. It's tough.

9:30

And it takes work the first couple

9:32

months to do it. But then after five

9:34

or six months and you really get into it,

9:36

you start to expect it. And you start

9:38

to look forward to it. And I kid

9:41

you not with no exaggeration and

9:43

no hyperbole, the way that

9:45

you used to look forward to Christmas

9:47

once a year. I look forward to Friday nights.

9:50

Because now I and I believe they don't have

9:52

don't expect you to necessarily adopt this belief.

9:54

I believe God commanded us to do it. So therefore,

9:56

I say God wants me to cross my phone. He doesn't

9:58

want me to watch the news, which is honestly refreshing

10:01

because it's all I do for six days a week. And

10:03

all I care about is family, reading

10:05

books. For twenty five hours, I

10:07

stop. And I am a healthier

10:09

and happier person because of it. And

10:15

in our mental

10:18

health issues are across the country, depression,

10:20

anxiety, and I would just submit

10:24

maybe instead of

10:27

prescribing incredibly

10:31

let's just say, powerful, pharmacological

10:34

agents of benzodiazepines, iazepines, Xanax,

10:38

Zoloft, maybe first we should tell a

10:40

young

10:40

person, turn off your phone for

10:42

twenty four hours a week.

10:45

It slows down your life. In

10:48

a more religious, transcendent context,

10:51

it also makes

10:54

you have to do the work, go

10:56

through the action, of saying,

10:58

I did not create this world, I

11:01

am not in charge of this world, and

11:04

what I'm doing is not necessarily as

11:06

important as at least for one day

11:09

honoring that there is a transcendent

11:12

melody and harmony to our existence.

11:15

Now, But for those

11:17

of you that say, Charlie, I'm too busy.

11:19

I'm too busy. It's too much for

11:21

me. I get that

11:24

maybe. However, what

11:27

could be more important than

11:29

stopping and saying I'm going

11:31

to honor the cathedral built in

11:33

time to say that

11:36

my health, my relationship, my creator,

11:38

my family, is so important. And

11:40

I would argue that the more radical you

11:42

are about the Sabbath the more you're

11:44

gonna get out of it. To say

11:46

totally turn off the phone, totally

11:48

put it away, I'm gonna totally disconnect

11:50

from technology, and I could tell you, It is

11:53

one of the greatest blessings in my life. And

11:55

you have something to say once

11:57

a week, at least I have a Sabbath

11:59

to be able to honor. America used to this. We have

12:01

blue laws used to work really well. I

12:03

truly believe it's not the only reason,

12:06

but one of the reasons why America has become

12:08

a less happy country, more depressed,

12:10

and more anxious is because

12:13

we are hurrying ourselves into

12:15

oblivion. It is the joyless

12:18

search for joy. And

12:21

that is what modernity has given us.

12:23

You want a a you want a three

12:25

thousand year old hack? Just

12:27

stop for once a week. Okay? The second thing, which is

12:30

also part of the ten commandments, which I was

12:32

so I I wasn't planning on talking about this.

12:34

I was so moved by conversation I had upstairs.

12:37

Which this is mostly for young people, but it's

12:39

also for all people. It's so incredibly important.

12:41

And this is something that if I were to say one

12:43

thing that college does not do a good job

12:45

of, It is telling young people that

12:47

you have a moral obligation to honor

12:49

your parents. And I

12:52

I cannot emphasize how important this is.

12:55

And I'm not saying,

12:58

you have to love your parents. As a Christian,

13:00

it does say that in the new testament, but just focusing

13:03

on this word honor means to

13:05

treat your parents heavily. If

13:07

you do not honor your parents and you do not

13:09

and it doesn't just say that it comes with a promise

13:11

also involves your nation because it says, honor

13:13

your mother and father so that you may live long in

13:16

the land of which you are in. You think about it.

13:18

As America has stopped honoring our

13:21

parents, We have

13:23

become less free and closer

13:25

to totalitarianism. The

13:27

the less that we honor our parents the

13:30

less likely we are to be able to engage

13:32

in self government. This is not the most popular

13:35

message to give on college campuses because

13:37

the propaganda that is typically

13:40

sit on all not to this campus. All campuses is

13:42

your parents don't know as much as we

13:44

know. We're enlightened and they're not.

13:47

And For

13:49

your sake and their sake.

13:51

For the country's sake, I want

13:53

to implore you. You will be

13:55

a happier wealthier person

13:59

if and healthier person

14:02

if you do the work to honor your parents

14:04

and I'll give you two specific reasons. Number

14:06

one, as you get older,

14:08

especially if you have a child, which by the

14:10

way, I think this is a thought crime. You should

14:12

get married and have children. You will be happier

14:14

healthier and wealthier if you do those three things by

14:16

the

14:17

way. It changes your life for the better.

14:22

Once you have children, you

14:25

your respect of your parents goes

14:27

up dramatically. It

14:32

does. And They're

14:35

worthy of honoring. They

14:37

are. Now you might say, Charlie, I have the worst parent

14:39

in the world. Dennis has written so

14:41

much about that topic you guys can just go

14:43

into it. With him and ask him

14:45

questions about it. Here's the point. Ninety

14:47

nine percent of you tonight. Do

14:50

not have abusive parents. They might have

14:52

different politics. They might have different views.

14:54

They might have different religion. None of that

14:56

is an excuse not to honor

14:58

them. Period. You talk

15:00

to them? And you spend time with them. Okay.

15:03

Last thing, I have no idea how

15:05

I'm doing on time. I think I'm okay.

15:08

But alright. How

15:10

do you live a

15:11

healthier, wealthier, happier life? I

15:13

didn't come up with this. The next speakers are gonna

15:15

talk about this. You have to go

15:17

through the intentional steps

15:20

of being thankful. Every

15:23

single person in this room has something

15:25

to be thankful for. Materity

15:27

in general, and unfortunately far too many

15:29

colleges will

15:31

encourage you to be ungrateful. Not

15:34

grateful. Here's something

15:36

that we all can say that we should be thankful

15:39

for that I'm afraid we are losing.

15:41

We live in the greatest country ever to exist

15:44

in the history of the world. The

15:47

second part of that is you didn't build it.

15:52

You inherited it. So don't

15:54

mess it up. You

15:56

see, The

16:02

brilliance, the heroism, the courage, the piety, the

16:04

courage, the piety, that went into

16:06

building this civilization was not a mistake.

16:10

And I'm I'm

16:12

afraid we're not telling young people that as

16:14

best as we could. And so

16:16

when I hear that America is systemically

16:19

racist, bigoted from the

16:21

start, colonialist, misogynistic, homophobic,

16:24

all these different things, And

16:26

I think to myself, you

16:28

live in the freest, the once freest country. I

16:30

don't know if we're still the freest, but I'll use that a general

16:32

sweeping term. Definitely the most successful materially.

16:35

Without a doubt, the most benevolent, the most generous

16:38

country ever to exist in a history of the world,

16:41

Are you even able to thirty second sound bite?

16:44

Tell me why? Or are you able

16:46

to recite the reasons why there's all

16:48

these flawed and just This is here's just a

16:50

really simple tourism for life, is

16:52

that most countries are crummy.

16:56

They are. You happen to live in a good

16:59

one. That's a reason to be thankful.

17:05

Okay.

17:08

Second thing that I encourage you to do,

17:11

blame yourself for your own problems. There

17:17

are exceptions to all rules, and I'm sure somebody

17:19

here could tell me an exception. Of something

17:21

so terrible that happened to you and

17:23

that you gotta deal with that. But ninety

17:25

nine point nine percent of all of you watching

17:27

online are here You

17:30

are the reason you are unhappy, you

17:32

are the reason you are poor, and you

17:34

are the reason you are not where you want to be.

17:37

Period. That

17:40

is actually very empowering. As

17:43

Victor Franklin famously said in his

17:45

book, Man Search for Meaning, that I

17:47

encourage all of you to read. There's a patient

17:49

that came into his office one day, and he

17:51

said, boy, I hope there's something wrong with me.

17:55

Said, what do you mean? He said, well, if there's

17:57

something wrong with me, then

17:59

I can fix it. But if

18:01

there's something wrong with society, then

18:04

there's no hope. So if you

18:06

are not where you want to be, that should be

18:08

really empowering. Maybe you can work harder

18:10

wake up earlier. Stop drinking. Stop doing hookup

18:12

culture. Stop doing drugs. Become

18:15

a better person. Read a book. Get off

18:17

TikTok. Stop spending so much time

18:19

on your phone. You are to blame

18:21

for where you are. It's not your parents fault. It's not

18:23

society's fault. It's not racism's

18:25

fault. It's not transphobia's fault. It's

18:27

you. So decide who you wanna

18:29

be.

18:34

And finally, The

18:37

last thing I'll say and I

18:39

suppose I'm somewhat approximating my time

18:41

limit. Right? So am I okay? Ish?

18:43

Outland the plane? Okay. Got it.

18:47

They're giving me the hard pull. I apologize. No

18:49

prompt. I

18:52

was once, like, on a college campus and someone

18:54

said, Charlie, there is no such thing as absolute

18:56

truth. And I asked, do you believe

18:58

that absolutely? The

19:03

people that are telling you there's no truth in the world

19:05

are pretty convinced that

19:07

that is true. At some

19:09

point, you're gonna have to live in somebody's

19:11

truth. There is a truth. I hope

19:13

you find it. There is a God

19:16

and you are not him. He wants you to be

19:18

happy and healthy and to honor him.

19:20

Thank you and God bless you all.

19:26

Thanks

19:26

so much for listening everybody. Email me your thoughts

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