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Speaker 1: Hey, there are folks. It is September tenth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: We are recording once again because Charlie Kirk has died.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ that we

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Speaker 1: are recording Robes just not long after the previous one

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Speaker 1: when we got word that the conservative activists, Trump's supporter

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Speaker 1: and Maga Darling have been shot on a campus at

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Speaker 1: a university in Utah. But it wasn't too terribly long

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Speaker 1: afterwards and rogues everyone said, who was there? It didn't

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Speaker 1: look good. Sure enough, he has passed.

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Speaker 2: It's incredibly sad, just thirty one years old. Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 2: He's a husband, he's a father of two children, and

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Speaker 2: he was murdered. And in the last episode we didn't

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Speaker 2: yet know that he had passed. We knew it was serious,

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Speaker 2: but we also had verified reports from the university that

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Speaker 2: is suspect was in custody. Well, a lot has changed

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Speaker 2: since our last episode because now police have told us

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Speaker 2: and the university has confirmed that assassin, the person who

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Speaker 2: murdered thirty one year old Charlie Kirk, is at large

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Speaker 2: and police are now going building to building trying to

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Speaker 2: find the gunman.

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Speaker 1: So this now Folks is an ongoing certainly still developing,

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Speaker 1: but now a potentially dangerous situation for the kids on

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Speaker 1: the campus of Utah Valley University out there just outside

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Speaker 1: Provo in Utah. This is a large campus. It's the

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Speaker 1: largest public university in the state, but forty six thousand students.

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Speaker 1: That is a significant community in Robes. Earlier, it was

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Speaker 1: almost immediately after the shooting that there was video floating

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Speaker 1: around that a suspect was in custody. There was video,

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Speaker 1: in fact of a man being arrested, but there was

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Speaker 1: some sense, at least for this campus, some sense of

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Speaker 1: relief that the person wasn't on the run. This now

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Speaker 1: we are talking about an assassin is on the loose

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Speaker 1: as we.

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Speaker 2: Speak, correct, and students have now been told that they

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Speaker 2: need to shelter in place. But anyone who's still on

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Speaker 2: campus right now, police are offering escorts to get them

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Speaker 2: to where they need to be and to stay put.

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Speaker 2: They're putting public transportation available out They want the kids

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Speaker 2: as far away from this crime scene, but certainly this

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Speaker 2: ongoing scene because they don't know where this gunman has

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Speaker 2: fled to. This person is completely and totally at large.

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Speaker 2: We haven't even gotten a description, because yeah, we were

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Speaker 2: even noting how bizarre the man who they arrested looked.

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Speaker 2: He didn't look the part. Not that there is a look,

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Speaker 2: but certainly you wouldn't expect an older gentleman to be

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Speaker 2: arrested for a crime like this in a sea of

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Speaker 2: college students. So now we don't even have an idea

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Speaker 2: of who the person is they're looking for, but we

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Speaker 2: understand that several obviously, the FBI, SWAT teams, state police.

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Speaker 2: I believe there are at least four separate agencies on the

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Speaker 2: scene and I'm sure more coming that way trying to

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Speaker 2: figure out and find and apprehend the person responsible for

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Speaker 2: this heinous crime.

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Speaker 1: But they were able to tell us very early on.

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Speaker 1: At least the university was in a statement that whoever

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Speaker 1: the gunman was fired from a building they believe some

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Speaker 1: two hundred yards away. That suggests practice, precision, know how,

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Speaker 1: certainly premeditation some staking out was involved. So a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions about that, but that part will continue. I

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Speaker 1: don't think robes no anyone has put anything out law

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Speaker 1: enforcement that thinks that anyone else necessarily is a target

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Speaker 1: or this person is a threat to someone else, because

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Speaker 1: in a crowd of hundreds or maybe even thousands out

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Speaker 1: there today. There was one shot that was heard, that

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Speaker 1: was fired and one person was hit, and now that

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Speaker 1: one person is dead.

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Speaker 2: But now that person who committed that crime could be desperate.

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Speaker 2: So it's just unclear what is going to happen next.

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Speaker 2: But the focus right now is on thirty one year

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Speaker 2: old Charlie Kirk, who has unexpectedly died on stage, literally

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Speaker 2: under a tent, debating students taking his tour on the road,

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Speaker 2: and ironically was talking about gun violence. The moment that

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Speaker 1: It was an odd point. Even when you do see it,

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Speaker 1: you will see it. Don't encourage you to look at it,

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Speaker 1: but it's there for all to see. And we heard

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Speaker 1: the witness statements robes early on. Immediately some of the

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Speaker 1: That was just immediately, so much blood and they talked

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Speaker 1: them just described how much blood there was. Look, there's

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Speaker 1: you know, there were a lot of cameras up and

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Speaker 1: sure enough, someone caught a fairly close shot of the

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Speaker 1: see this. It's devastating, is what happened. When you hear

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Speaker 2: And those are images that none of us will be

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Speaker 2: able to get out of our heads. And I would

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Speaker 2: argue none of us should get out of our heads

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Speaker 2: because this is where we're at, that things have gotten

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Speaker 2: to this level, where this is how we react. This

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Speaker 2: is how we debate, This is how we show how

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Speaker 2: like this for there to be a bipartisan reaction of

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Speaker 2: similar vested interests. No one at least. We're hearing from

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Speaker 2: Democrats and Republicans alike, everyone now saying enough, this can't

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Speaker 2: keep happening. This is not okay. This is not how

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Speaker 2: we solve our differences. This is not how we show

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Speaker 2: each other how we feel about one another, and I

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Speaker 2: hate that it takes something like this where we actually

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Speaker 2: start to see and you know, I actually feel like

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Speaker 2: a broken record, and I actually feel silly even saying

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Speaker 2: this out loud. But you always keep thinking, Okay, this time,

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Speaker 2: this time, when people see what happened, when we see

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Speaker 2: will stop, We'll do better, will be better? Still waiting.

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Speaker 1: And what the problem robes another problem with what you said,

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Speaker 1: or your sentiment or what your hopes are is that

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Speaker 1: we are having a different conversation, the conversation taking place

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Speaker 1: in the arena that you and I don't spend as

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Speaker 1: much time, and that's social media. We have a different

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Speaker 1: measured type of conversation. We are friends and family that

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Speaker 1: we disagree with over politics, we still talk and it's

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Speaker 1: we don't get engaged and can't understand that today as

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Speaker 1: we sit here, hours from this shooting happened and now

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Speaker 1: this young man is dead, there are people out there

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Speaker 1: openly celebrating the fact that he's dead.

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Speaker 2: It's sickening.

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Speaker 1: They are like their names are attached to some of

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Speaker 1: the comments they are leaving about this young man.

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Speaker 2: On TikTok on social media, and I've even had some

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Speaker 2: people share with me text messages among people of a

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Speaker 2: not like his politics, who have just seemingly reacted with callousness,

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Speaker 2: with a disregard for human life. And again it's this

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Speaker 1: Better than us, by the way, better than we've done.

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Speaker 1: This is their turn now.

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Speaker 2: Have dehumanized someone that they disagree with, have dehumanized someone

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Speaker 2: who they don't like, And isn't that exactly what they

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Speaker 2: accuse the other side of doing. That's the problem. So

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Speaker 2: anyone who's taking any joy or pleasure or even a

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Speaker 2: little celebration of the irony that he was killed by

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Speaker 2: is taking any pleasure from that, ask yourself how you're

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Speaker 2: any better than anyone else. That's what I feel so

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Speaker 2: sick and by not just the fact that this has

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Speaker 2: social media. Young people especially celebrating his death.

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Speaker 1: And look, folks, I if you aren't familiar with his

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Speaker 1: ages of twelve and twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know, maybe twelve and thirty.

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Speaker 1: You know, Yes, he's all over. They know exactly who

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Speaker 1: he is, to the point that yes, in fact, I

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Speaker 1: had a twelve year old call and say, hey, did

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Speaker 1: you hear what happened with Charlie Kirk my daughter? I'm like,

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Speaker 1: how the hell do you know about this? We had

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Speaker 1: just been on top of it. Yep, and that's why

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Speaker 2: Both of them texted me almost immediately.

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Speaker 1: And both of them got their news from TikTok yah.

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Speaker 1: So they are seeing this guy for the past couple

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Speaker 1: of years in robes. I can applaud this is a guy.

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Speaker 1: He was thirty one years old. He's been sharing a

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Speaker 1: running in very high circles at his very young age

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Speaker 1: because he was passionate about something early on, he built it,

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Speaker 1: he stuck with it. Look, you can think whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to think about his ideas about his politics, but

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Speaker 1: a damn shame that someone who was able to achieve

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Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I mean he he his voice resonated

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Speaker 2: was very clever in creating this setup where he would

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Speaker 2: and lively discussion, debate, conversation. But to think that that

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Speaker 2: we talk about how words are weapons and words matter,

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Speaker 2: and how you choose your words matter. It can be

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Speaker 2: life or death. You can anger someone so much. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure he did nothing personally to this person, but something

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Speaker 2: he said or the things he believed in created so

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Speaker 2: much anger and hatred. It's just appalling.

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Speaker 1: Again, as of this recording, we do not know who

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Speaker 1: might be. But there is really no other way to

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Speaker 1: think about this other than this conservative superstar, young man

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk is dead and has been targeted at an

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Speaker 1: event on a Utah university today. We call him Robes,

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Speaker 1: a conservative superstar, a Trump ally, a friend to the way,

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Speaker 1: call um all these things, husband and father to two

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Speaker 1: very young kids. That's how you humanize the story, right,

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Speaker 1: He's to call him an activist and he's a supporter,

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Speaker 1: and he's an ally, And that's a dude who is

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Speaker 1: a dad to two little little bitty babies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And we've been watching all the news coverage and

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Speaker 2: they're putting up the family photos and you're seeing him

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Speaker 2: his hand, or you know, behind political signs. No, he's

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Speaker 2: just there with his family on a beach, hugging them, laughing, smiling.

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Speaker 2: You're seeing that side of him that I think so

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Speaker 2: many people look at politicians through a different lens, as

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Speaker 1: And folks, we are going to We mentioned it a

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Speaker 1: a still developing, disturbing story out of Utah, where Charlie Kirk,

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Speaker 1: even if some people here aren't familiar with his name,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fair to say that Sabine Ava and Analyse

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Speaker 2: Some of them are more tempered, but none of them

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Speaker 2: And hopefully it was a healthy debate in the forms

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Speaker 1: But he's dead, not today. I mean, you could say

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Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff you lead with on this day.

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Speaker 1: This stuff is it's shocking how much of it is

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Speaker 2: They think that if if you are going to make

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Speaker 1: Okay, And folks, these are going to be direct quotes

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Speaker 1: I'll start with this. Someone wrote, is the bullet? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, what if he survives? Another writing after he

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Speaker 2: How about gone too late? God is good?

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Speaker 1: And there were several out there who would write something

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Speaker 2: Views, and then to have a callous attitude about that,

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Speaker 2: But if you claim you're willing to die on that hill,

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Speaker 2: righteousness about that. It's get you read what you sew

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Speaker 2: without any any acknowledgment of this tremendous loss. That there

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Speaker 2: was a murder, a callous murder that took place in

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Speaker 2: front of a thousand college students for what to prove what?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm looking. I was thinking of something

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Speaker 1: But what if you can't beat them? Is this what

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Speaker 1: that what we're is that the lane were going that

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was from Donald Trump. In fact, all the

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Speaker 2: lower thirds the graphics that you see all had Trump

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Speaker 2: But Donald Trump put this out on truth Social and

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Speaker 2: The great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead. No

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Speaker 2: one understood or had the heart of the youth in

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Speaker 2: out to his beautiful wife Erica and family. Charlie. We

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Speaker 1: Again, folks. This is still a developing story because there

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Speaker 1: fear in Utah right now. There is as of this recording,

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Speaker 2: people who don't believe what we do. It's just an

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Speaker 2: with that, thank you for listening to us. I made

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