The Man in the Arena: My Speech to the International Order of Teddy Roosevelt
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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What lessons does Theodore Roosevelt teach to conservatives today? He has many, but one of the most important, Charlie argues, is the importance of discomfort. Theodore Roosevelt was a weak boy, but grew into a man of intense physical exertion. If we want to be the victorious "man in the arena," Charlie says, then we must reject comfort and reject ease, and instead embrace the importance of effort, challenging ourselves, and making ourselves into the strongest version of ourselves.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, my conversation at the International Order of Teddy Roosevelt, amazing people. |
| 0:04.5 | I talk about Teddy Roosevelt and the need for us to educate the next generation. |
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| 1:27.9 | I'm actually not a huge Martin Luther King fan or whatever. Super flawed guy. But I was watching the last, the audio, was listening to the audio of the last speech that he gave the night before he was killed. April 3rd, 1968, he was killed the next afternoon. And he gave this speech. And he had just been, cheating with a bunch of different women. Okay? Yeah, he had a tendency to do that. Oh, my gosh. No, he was, like, a redict sexually out of control. But he gave this speech in which he clearly predicted his own death. Like, there is no doubt if you listen to this that God is speaking through Martin Luther King. And, again, I don't like Martin Luther King's program. I don't like his behavior. There's a lot of, you know, worshiping Martin Luther |
| 2:05.2 | King is absurd to me. But I got to say, if you listen to that speech, God is speaking through Martin |
| 2:10.3 | Luther King. There's no other explanation for that. And you're like, well, that's kind of consistent |
| 2:15.2 | with what we know. We're all flawed. |
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