WEBVTT - A Faith Awakening - September 17th, Hour 2 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.240 Thanks Scott Chad. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.040 An hour two Sean Hannity Show told free on numbers 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.880 eight hundred and nine pot one, Sean, if you want 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.840 to be a part of the program. In just a minute, 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.960 we're going to be joined by our friend Selena Zito, 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.880 And she has a great piece out in the Washington Examiner, 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:23.360 the Awakening FUC Coming, and she talks at length about 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:30.480 already the impact of Charlie Kirk on young people his message. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.240 I mean, I spent most of the last weekend watching 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.600 videos of Charlie and the things that he was saying 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.080 to younger people that really it kind of takes a 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:44.879 younger person to say it to them, and it was, 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.040 it was so impactful. And anyway, the article she goes 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:52.800 into great specificity in detail, and you know, young people 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.440 distraught over this. Remember kids in college today, they were 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.600 not alive during nine to eleven oh one, and this 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.440 is in packed a lot of kids in a massive way. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:08.160 And she describes what happened at the Sanctuary Church and 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:12.039 how you know, busloads and busloads of kids you know, 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.200 were going there. Pastor Jason Howard was taken aback by 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.560 the size, the scope, the number of young people that 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.600 came out on Sunday for service. He said, I'll be 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.039 honest with you, I'm in my forties. So I was 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.319 caught off guard by the response from people who were 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.880 in my church in their twenties. They were much more 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.880 in tune with Charlie's influence than I was. His assistant 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.320 pastor was very much tuned in. He's twenty two years old, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.560 and his immediate reaction was to the spontaneity of all 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.760 this is that we're going to pray. And the day 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.840 after Charlie was assassinated, he had a whole bunch of 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:52.200 people just gather in his backyard praying. Selina Zito is 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.600 now with us her book. By the way, she was, 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.640 you know, right next to President Trump. She was right 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.520 there at Butler in PA and wrote her number one 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.240 New York Times bestselling book, Butler. If you haven't read it, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.640 please get a copy. The untold story of the near 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.000 assassination of Donald Trump in the fight for America's heartland, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.560 and now we live in this assassination culture. Selena, first, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.080 congratulations on being number one on the New York Times. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:21.720 It was great to have you on at the time. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.840 It's always great to have you on and I appreciate 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.239 your time, and I thought this article was really deep 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:29.000 and profound. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.520 Oh, thank you so much, and thanks for having me 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.400 on about the book. And I think this book is 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:43.120 very relevant and important because one of the first experiences 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.760 I had after President Trump was shot was I went 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:51.560 out on a one of my grandchildren's soccer games. Right, 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.240 there's a bunch of suburban soccer. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.160 Mom there by the way, For the record, Selena is 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:57.679 not old enough to be your grandmother. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:58.600 I'm just saying. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.239 They were all sort of lined up, and I would 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:04.960 see them all the time because I'd go to my 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.160 grandchild daughter's soccer games. I had no idea what their 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:14.000 political affiliation was or their face, right, but they were 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:19.080 on paper they should have been Paris voters, right, college educated, 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:24.920 live in the suburbs, right, and upper middle class. I 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.800 was stunned, and I detailed this in this book and 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.280 interview these young women about the amount of women who 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.880 had MAGA haffs on red Mega hafs just two days 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.600 after the president was shot. And so we would get 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.760 into a conversation and I'm like, you know, I have 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.200 no idea what your affiliation was, and they're like, yeah, 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.680 we were always afraid Christy Well, the one girl's fame 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.600 was Chrissy. I was sort of always afraid to put 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.840 it out there. But my attitude now is if he 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.320 can take a bullet for me, I can wear a 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.880 hat and not and be bold about it. And I'm 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:06.840 seeing the same thing happening post Charlie's assassination and in 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.880 a really profound way. And I'll give you two examples. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.760 First is that story that I wrote. I mean, these 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.640 kids just came and we're not we're not talking like 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.640 you know, lily white suburbs. We're in the city of Pittsburgh, 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:26.640 in the Hill District, a historic black neighborhood in Pittsburgh, 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.120 and they are coming by the boss loads of every size, 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.840 shape and color and there and and they're they needed 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.440 to be somewhere right. They needed These are kids that 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.559 are out of faith or have just come to face 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:45.839 and they needed to be somewhere with purpose because they 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.480 saw him in two ways. They may not have always 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:54.880 agreed with everything he said politically, but they loved how 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.320 bold he was with his face and that was something 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:59.880 that was very very important. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.200 Did you see this over thirty two thousand requests for 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:09.360 New Turning Point USA campus chapters have been filed since 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.680 Charlie Kirk's death thirty two thousand, and the message is 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.440 even going higher. I mean, and the requests are going 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.240 higher day by day. I mean the service that's I 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:22.920 was planning on going out there. I'm not going to 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:24.719 be able to make it in one day this weekend, 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:29.279 but they will see seventy plus thousand people out there. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:30.240 Yeah, and. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.279 There's two little two teenage kids here on the street 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.880 who is starting one at the local high school. I 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:42.880 spoke at a Turning Points event in Butler, Pennsylvania this summer, 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.359 and it was at Slippery Rocket University and it was 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:52.240 jam packed, like it was jam packed, and there were 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.279 kids everywhere. So this is and as a note in 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:59.640 this story, this isn't this awakening. I have noticed the 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:05.240 beginning and last summer and we began among young people, 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.279 and I kept and I write it in the book, 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.800 but I kept reporting it as well, said telling people 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.599 like y'all aren't paying attention to these young people. They're here, 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:20.400 they're at the Trump rallies, right. They see the intertwined 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:28.280 messages from protecting religious liberty to republic conservative populism, and 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.320 it's a message that hits them. It's something that's been missing. 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.800 Last last night, I sat for ninety minutes of my 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:42.240 little grandson's flag football practice, and the amount of mothers 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.960 that have been suburban mothers. Again, different group of mothers 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.919 talking about what happened to Charlie Kirk. These are women 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.640 in their mid thirties who have little boys that were 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:56.160 playing flag football, who were talking about their thinking about homeschooling. 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.039 Now they don't like what they see from the influences 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:03.599 from these teachers. They're thinking. They're devastated by what they're 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.280 seeing that other community leaders like doctors and nurses are 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.840 and they're mad. They're not just sad, they're mad. And 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.440 I don't think that people understand the force that they 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:20.280 have awakened with not just in his assassination, but also 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:25.680 in how they have behaved afterwards, whether it is denying 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.920 it or encouraging it to happen to other people that 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.000 are conservative, populous. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.360 I don't like outside events because nobody's going to be 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:40.080 able to afford a secret service type of protection, which 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.520 is what you would need if you're doing an outside event. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.920 So I'm urging people, you got to go inside, make 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.520 sure everybody gets magged before they come in. You can 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.520 do a sweep before of an inside area and make 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:58.000 it secure and then you know, you then go in 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.160 and do your event. You know, at that point you know, 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.080 I also recommend that you be on a stage, that 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.080 you be elevated and not on the same level as 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.760 the people that are in the room, because they can 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.160 rush you, and you know, at that point you get 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.440 have people off stage. I've had that type of security 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:16.800 many many times in my life. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:22.280 Yes, And instead of recoiling, and that's a really important point, Sean, 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.720 instead of recoiling and my reporting all day, it'll probably 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:30.600 be out on Friday about the amount of women who 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.559 have gone to local gun stores just in western Pennsylvania 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.199 as first time gun owners and wanting to be and 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.200 signing up for training has been through the roof. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.600 I think the keyboard there is training over the years. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:44.480 People know. 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.360 I've had a pistol carried my whole life, even in 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.040 New York City if you get it, and that's hard 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.560 to get if you get enough death threats. I even 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.720 had one when I lived in New York, believe it 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.520 or not, I turned it in when I moved to Florida. However, 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.920 I mean, it's hard to get and you really have 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.800 to make a compelling case why you need one, and 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.360 you get enough death threats, I guess I passed the threshold. Selena, 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.559 I guess I'm not that like, but I mean, it's 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.800 kind of scary out there. I urge everybody to have something. 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.360 I mean I have obviously I carry I have a 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.000 six hour P three twenty and I also carry Berner. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.320 I carry the new cl launcher. It's a non lethal, 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:29.480 very effective technology way to incapacitate any perpetrator. So I 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.720 urge people their advertisers on the show, and I believe 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:32.960 in it. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.160 I'm the same way, same person get death threats all 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:37.800 the time. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:38.800 And. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.920 People don't know, those of us that are in the 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.960 public eye that this is this happens with regularity. Oh yeah, 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.120 I have because we don't because we don't talk about it. 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.480 We just keep it to ourselves. You don't want to 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:53.520 call attention to it. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.800 That is absolutely right. And and yeah, so the so 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.640 the gunshops that I've been talking to said, you know, 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.600 there's all of these people are being very responsible. They 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.560 want to learn. They don't want to just buy a gun. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.560 They want to understand how to work it. And most 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.760 of the gunshops that I've talked to have have target 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.560 practice and behind their buildings, right, and so they go 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:21.559 right to a professional. But people just don't feel safe 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.959 among their neighbors. Like, think about that, Sean. Think about 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.880 the amount of doctors we have seen, and nurses and 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:34.319 people that teach our children and our grandchildren that they 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.880 have not just said, oh, I didn't like him, like 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.760 so whide. If someone says that I don't care, but 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.760 have just said like I wish the rest of them 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.840 would die too, it's like, oh, wait a minute, you're 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:49.120 talking about me. You're talking about me your patient, And 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:50.800 it's very chilling. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.760 The amount of hatred we've seen. What's your reaction to it. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.000 I've chronicled a lot of it. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:56.360 You know. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:00.439 I didn't cry after Butler. When you and I've talked that, 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.680 I wondered when it would happen. I think a lot 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.640 of that had to do with sort of how to 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.960 work immediately, right. I had to work in the moment, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:15.720 so it's never given that space to consume what I experienced. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.640 But I'll tell you what. I cried my eyes out 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.560 on Wednesday, first for Charlie and Erica, and then for 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.400 the young people he influenced. But then as I saw 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.680 the hatred come out, it broke me. I can't believe 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.120 there are people out there that can think like that. 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.800 There are plenty of people that I don't agree with, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.560 maybe even don't like. I would never think about saying 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.439 something like that when. 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.920 You think about what you lived through at Butler, being 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.120 right there in the front row, right near the president 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.520 when the shot rang out. We now know, by the way, 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.800 the distance of a millimeter more profoundly than ever. And 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:03.200 you think back to that day and how how close 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.360 Donald Trump came to being assassinated right in front of 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:07.000 your eyes. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:13.000 Yeah, and I realined that moment every night when I 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:17.600 say my prayers, and I and I and I relived 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.800 the conversation that I had with him the next day 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.880 along with that. And that's when he talks about God, 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.760 when he talks about divine intervention and intervention. What was 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.040 my purpose, Selena? Why am I still here? I never 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.839 ever turned my head. I never put a chart down, 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.760 at least not on that side, and never in the beginning, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.240 sometimes at the end. And he talked profoundly about how 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:47.920 his faith was moved in that moment, and I can't 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.719 imagine if both of them were gone right now, I 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:53.160 can't even imagine. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:58.240 I've had this conversation with it myself, and I would argue, 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.360 having known him for thirty years, that that day, that 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.199 moment changed him in every good way, to be very honest, 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.320 and we have had conversations with it. You know, I 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.200 talked to him. He has not looked at the video 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.840 of Charlie getting shot. He says he won't look at it. 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.280 I you know, I understand that, and you know what 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.600 I was thinking about, Sean. You know, one of the 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.360 things that really has gutted the president and and motivated 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.319 him to be so purposeful in everything that he's done 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.240 is not the fact that he was shot at, but 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:35.080 the fact that Corey Comparatoy died, someone who went there 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.960 that day to celebrate him, to celebrate President Trump with 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:43.760 his family, and in many ways, that's what Charlie was doing. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.720 He was celebrating the movement, he was talking about things 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.920 in a very and so I'm not shocked at all 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.320 that that's his response, because in many ways, Charlie and 0:13:55.720 --> 0:14:01.120 Corey COMPATORI were there for reasons that are very associated 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.400 with President Trump. I can't imagine how hard this is 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:05.920 on him. 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.920 It's I think we now are officially living in an 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.360 assassination culture and we better be very aware of it. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.439 And the left really does need to examine their consciences 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:23.120 collectively and tone this rhetoric down, as John Fetterman said, 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.200 and stop with the Nazi talk and allegations. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.280 Selena, love you, You're the best. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.880 By the way, if you have not read her book Butler, 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.560 number one New York Times bestseller, we have a link 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:37.560 on Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com, bookstores all around 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.840 the country. It's called Butler, The Untold Story of the 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.280 near Assassination of Donald Trump in the Fight for America's Heartland. 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.960 We appreciate you as always, Selena, thank you, thank you, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.520 love you brother the best. Quick break right back. We'll 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:57.000 continue on the other side. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:14:59.840 Quarterm. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.880 There is a beautiful part and some that there's some 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.320 we we are not going to be able to calculate 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.400 through the prism of history. We will the magnitude and 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:16.680 the impact of what has happened with this assassination of 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:22.280 Charlie Kirk. We just but it all the evidences. As 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.280 we just discussed what Selena Zito is there. I want 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.360 to play a montage people going to church and saying 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:34.280 how their churches were packed because of what we all 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:35.400 have been living through. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:37.680 I have been to. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.280 Church like twice in my entire life. 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.080 Since Charlie Kirk is unable to go to church this Sunday, 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.680 I'm going to go and take his seat for him. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:49.040 Els. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.640 I didn't know Charlie Kirk, never met that guy before 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:54.200 in my life. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.760 And something else that I've never done before in my 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.040 life is believing. 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.600 I'm gonna wear this suit to church. I'm going to 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:06.200 go to church. 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:14.040 I'm going to try to be a better father, husband 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.120 and leader for my family. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:19.560 They deserve that. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.120 Charlie Kirk, Look what you did. No parking, No parking 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.560 at all none. How to park like five blocks away 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.760 from church because everyone wants to come now? Amen, Thank 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.080 you Jesus, Thank you, Charlie. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:32.160 We went to church today. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:37.560 It was the first time in twenty years for me 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.720 and Devon. It was the first time for our children. 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.000 After the events of the last week, Devin and I 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.720 had a lot of talking that was happening between us 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.920 about the type of life that we want for ourselves 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.120 and how we want our boys to be. You know, 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.200 we talk about Charlie Kirk, We talked about a man 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.879 of God who was not afraid to stand in his 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:11.399 convictions in anything. And we are raising three boys that 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.720 will one day be men, and we want those boys 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.600 to be as strong in their convictions as Charlie Kirk was. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.199 Wow, how powerful is that? You know? 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.000 I will say I love my parents for so many 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.520 different reasons, and I know that they had a much 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.399 harder life than me, and I know I stand on 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.199 their shoulders and the shoulders of my four grandparents that 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:42.000 came to this country legally from Ireland, and they they 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:46.320 grew up poor. My parents grew up poor, and my 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:50.960 parents sacrifice so much, my mother prison guard, working double shifts. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:55.320 The main reason was to give their kids a better education. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:18:02.520 And that that manifested itself by sending, you know, all 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.199 all their kids to Catholic schools. And I went to 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:09.280 Catholic schools for four years, and whether I knew what 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.480 was happening or not, it did happen. And that is 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:17.919 that those values and belief in God grew inside of me, 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.560 whether I knew it was happening or not. And as 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.040 I got older, then I just embraced it more and 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.760 more and more and again. Christians, the first thing that 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.080 they will acknowledge is we've all sinned and fallen short. 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.560 We just want to be better people, and we're asking 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.480 for forgiveness for sins and we're asking for help to 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.119 be bigger, better people. And the fact that so many people, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.520 you know, misrepresent what it means to be a Christian 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.959 is it's it's a it's a sore point for me because, oh, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.000 Christians think they're perfect. No, they just they just have 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.119 a belief system and they have a desire to be 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:53.679 their best person, their best self. 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.600 And to hear that is pretty amazing. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.880 And if when people interview me and they'll say, well, well, 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.359 how did you survive where so many others, you know, 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.800 have not been able to survive as long as you 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:11.000 have in the industry that you work in, you know, 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.480 I go back to my parents. I go back to 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:20.440 the values of hard work and faith that they instilled 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.600 in me. And they never took vacations because they were 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.680 spending all that money on Catholic schools they could barely afford. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.959 And that my belief in my faith in God is 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.879 the other thing I've said this on the air before, 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.200 not new, but I'm just sharing it with you now. 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.960 And that foundation is at the heart of I think 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.320 in an industry where, you know, all those years I 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.080 worked in restaurants, ten years and ten years in construction, 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.960 nobody wants your autograph, nobody wanted a sel Fiel. Those 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:58.880 selfies weren't a thing back then. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:05.120 And and while I might get, you know, request now, which 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.680 I'm very grateful to, always accommodate because I feel great. 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.720 I'm grateful to this audience for giving me this microphone 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:17.200 and that camera every night. But it's really those things 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:21.520 that that have kept me somewhat grounded. Linda would argue 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.879 maybe not fully grounded, but that's a different issue for 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.200 a different day. But you know, my faith grows as 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.159 stronger as I get older, and I don't think I 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.600 you know, there's a belief in the Bible that of 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:38.000 yourself you can do nothing, and it's true and that 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:42.160 every you know, I consider my life an undeserved life, 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.399 and I know many of many of us life is 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:49.120 a gift and is precious and Charlie left us way 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.760 too young, gets our busy phones eight hundred and nine 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:56.080 four one sean. If you want to be a part 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.480 of the program. Mike in California. Hey, Mike, how are 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.159 you glad you called great Sean. 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:04.680 I just wanted to start with I'm glad you were 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:07.639 talking about what you just spoke about just now. And 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:15.040 I'm a teacher and we're Thean minister in California third grade. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.879 I just feel like the left is really trying to 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:22.520 paint Charlie as a political commentator. They keep saying out 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:27.199 our political firebrand, political political political But what he is, 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:31.720 what he is to us who believe, is he's a 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:36.639 Christian martyr, and he's an American Christian martyr, the most 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:40.160 prominent one since Martin Luther King Junior, which they've tried. 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:44.119 I teach history, and when you read the history books, 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:47.520 it's doctor Martin Luther King now junior, and I have 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:49.760 to tell him, well, it's reverend doctor. I have to 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:51.879 tell him what he had a doctor of because and 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:55.439 you have to insert that, because they're trying to wipe 0:21:55.560 --> 0:22:02.159 Christianity from the face of America. And it's a total 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:05.959 disservice to him and a loss of honor to his 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:11.760 memory than not calling an American Christian martyr because he 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.879 died for his faith. Everything he talked about all the 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:18.240 time was rooted in faith, just like you said your 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:23.280 morals are rooted in your faith. Was he was constantly 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:27.320 like he talked about the nature of God, he descended Christianity, 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:32.840 he talked about the nature of man. Against the transgender indoctrination, 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:37.160 which is, I believe, religious dogma in itself, because if 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:42.760 you ask a transgender person give me an immutable characteristic 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:46.040 of a man or a woman, they can't a physical one. 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:50.280 It all goes to metaphysical and metaphysics is a department 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:55.359 of religion. So they are trying to indoctrinate with religious dogma, 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:58.960 and they've been successful establishing religion in the name of 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:02.320 government all over the place. And I actually like that 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:04.480 and needs to get fought on that. But my main 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:07.840 point today is just that we need to refer to 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:10.919 Charlie as an American. 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:11.680 See. 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:13.919 But this is why Charlie was such a shock to 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:18.320 the system when he'd go into these hostile environments and 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:24.679 he'd talk about faith and God and values and you know, 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:28.959 old fashioned values about how men should treat women, you know, 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:31.080 not going to frap parties and throwing up in the 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:33.639 bushes after I mean I had my rules for my 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:36.480 kids when they went to college. If I told them 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:38.240 in the way I told it to them, you would laugh, 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:43.520 I promise, and he would do it. And the shocking 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:48.160 thing is is because schools barely mention God anymore. It 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:51.119 was a shock to the system. And because they are 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:54.880 in doctrination centers, it was a shock to the system. 0:23:55.760 --> 0:23:59.200 And that's what made it all the more powerful. It 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:02.240