1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. You probably know 3 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: about now that Robby Kirk passed a couple of hours ago. 4 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: He was shot assassinated actually at I think it was 5 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: noon odd. At a time like this, details like time 6 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: don't really matter, do they. At some point time will 7 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: come for all of us. Charlie was only thirty three 8 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: years old, too darn young, too much left to do. 9 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:05,919 Speaker 1: But I trust in the plan of the man above. 10 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 1: But I also recognize that it is our duty that 11 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: we celebrate and remember, we remember the work that people do, 12 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: the deeds they leave behind. August seventeenth, just three weeks ago, 13 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk posted at twelve forty one pm in the 14 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: lunch hour, he posted, It's all about Jesus and that 15 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: that popped up for me today. And if you want 16 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: a reason, I know, Oh you're mad. I'm mad. I 17 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: am mad. I'm not going to say the things I 18 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: want to say. And I have heard from a number 19 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: of people core listeners, Charlie's supporters, frustrated Americans, wounded Americans, 20 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: that you want to hear me scream and holler that 21 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 1: time will come, but not today. It's not what I 22 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: see as my purpose. You got your purpose. I got mine. 23 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: You post what you want to post, you say what 24 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: you want to say, you text what you want to text. 25 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: That's your business, not mine. And I'm not saying you 26 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: shouldn't do it. That's not what I'm saying at all. 27 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: I am saying this that I at a moment like this, 28 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: I have always tried to step back from my personal 29 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: emotions and contemplate the bigger meaning of it all. Because 30 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: there is a bigger meaning to everything. Sometimes we can't 31 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:13,959 Speaker 1: see it. You know. A friend of mine, Sundance had yesterday, 32 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: told me he was very upset about Irina Kutrushka, Karuska, Karutzka. 33 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm going to mispronounce that name a thousand times. 34 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: It's a Ukrainian name. It ain't Adam Smith. It ain't 35 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: easy to me. I don't mean to in any way 36 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: reduce her importance or different names different places. But at 37 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: the end of the day, the name she was assigned 38 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: at birth by her mother is smaller than what her 39 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: life represents. The totality of her actions and deeds and 40 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: kindness and love, sacrifices, generosity, She mattered Charlie mattered, but 41 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: so my friend Sundane's head. He's a singer and a songwriter. 42 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: He won the Voice you might remember his name from that. 43 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: He got to perform with Kiss highlight of his life 44 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: on stage live where that's every musician's dream. But yesterday 45 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: he said he was he was really bothered by this 46 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: innocent girl being murdered by someone. She didn't know, the 47 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: fact that she was a woman and he was a man, 48 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: the fact that she was white he was black. When 49 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: you strip all that back, the real horror of it 50 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,559 Speaker 1: all is that a human being was killed by another 51 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: human being for absolutely no reason, for no reason, none 52 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: at all. And my buddy was bothered by that. As 53 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 1: the parent of children, he said, you know what, I 54 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: can't imagine and getting the news my child has died. 55 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I think about Charlie's family getting the 56 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: news today had been shot. I think about them getting 57 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 1: the final word that he's not going to make it. 58 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: There was hope. There was hope, and that's what you 59 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: have at a moment, like that's all you have, and 60 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: you cling to that hope. You'll make a deal with God. 61 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: I'll do whatever you want. I'll stop smoking, eating, running around, lying, stealing, 62 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: whatever it is I don't do right, I'll do that right. 63 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: That's what people promise in a moment like that, anything 64 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: because you're holding on to hope. Please, you're negotiating for 65 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: more time, this time that we take for granted. And 66 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: my buddy wrote a song. It's pretty brief, and I'm 67 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: going to play it because it relates to Charlie's passing today. 68 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: I was going to play it tonight anyway. I was 69 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 1: going to play it in reference to the shark, the 70 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: Charlotte murder that was connected. That was that? Yeah, that happened? 71 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: How about that? And and I was going to play 72 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: it for a reason to make a point, in addition 73 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: to the fact that I think it's a beautiful song. 74 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: Where was He just recorded this on his iPhone last 75 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: night at two twenty two and he sent it to 76 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: me and I woke up to it this morning. Just 77 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: give it a listen if you would, and I'll explain 78 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: to you why I played it in relation to Charlie's 79 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: assassination today. 80 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 2: Did she do it? To it? 81 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: Just better. 82 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 2: To oba? Did she died a big circle that kept 83 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 2: his song in sad? Did she died the darnst with 84 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 2: the line wrong him of rats only one man. 85 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: Reason she had a due. So if you know my 86 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: friend's ed, you know that he has gone through the 87 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: peaks and valleys of National winner of the Voice, performing 88 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: with kiss, who work in the overnight shift, underpaid, away 89 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: from his wife and kids, washing down oil tankers and 90 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: everything in between. And he makes his living with his 91 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: guitar and his voice and his words. And if you know, 92 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: that's his ministry, that's his purpose, and he's found it, 93 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: he's living it. And he was in the ravages of 94 00:07:54,760 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: alcoholism and it damn near took him down and he 95 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: gave his life over to the Lord. And part of 96 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: what he does when he's singing, whether it's a bar 97 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: or a church, is that he shares that ministry when 98 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: he says in there that only he knows why that 99 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: girl had to doctor. Only he knows why Charlie had 100 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: to die. And it isn't the person who stabbed as 101 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: the person who shot. You can capitalize the h This 102 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: is the Michael Barry Show at two forty eight pm today, 103 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: a couple of hours after Charlie Kirk He's been shot. 104 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: Weary while speaking at an event on a campus in Utah. 105 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: Turning Point UK, which is part of the organization Charlie led. 106 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: Turning Point USA, posted Charlie is alive and fighting in hospital. 107 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: He's joined us in praying for him. I was getting 108 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:11,559 Speaker 1: reports from within the organization, within our mutual friend group 109 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: up until the moment that President Trump announced that he 110 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: had been assassinated, that he had gone to meet the Lord, 111 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: that there was still a pulse. Lynn Beck had reported 112 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: that he had been told there was still a pulse. 113 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: Gun's daughter was at the event where Charlie was speaking, 114 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: and that he was in surgery, that there was hope. 115 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: Charlie's a fighter, you know. Not all heroes wear capes. 116 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: Not all bad asses or big bulky guys, or a 117 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 1: great shot with a weapon or fantastic hand to hand fighters, 118 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: rappers or whatever or else. Everybody has a tool, an 119 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 1: instrument by which they can serve God, by which they 120 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: can protect others, make others think. And there were people 121 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:29,199 Speaker 1: reporting Charlie's death before he had officially expired. Now, I'm 122 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: not going to spend a lot of time on media 123 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: coverage here. I've already spoken about that earlier. The time 124 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: and place to discuss media coverage is maybe another day. 125 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: But I will say this, be careful getting all your 126 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: news from people whose job it is to get the 127 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: most clicks or likes or eyeballs, or for that matter, 128 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: of talk radio, because some of these people are warped 129 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: and twisted and they care most about the number of people. 130 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: Quantity over quality, clout overcorrect. Just because something is being 131 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: reported doesn't make it true. People report things because somebody 132 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: told them something, and that's someone who told them something 133 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: might have heard it from someone else, and that person 134 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: might have just had a gut feeling. There are all 135 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,319 Speaker 1: sorts of things that go into all of this. I'm 136 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,119 Speaker 1: sure there will be a number of things reported reported 137 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: about Charlie's death that won't be true, some of which 138 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: will be designed to incite, some of which will be 139 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: designed to tarnish him. I mean, that is the game 140 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: that is played, But you and I we don't live 141 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 1: in a game. His wife is not more tonight that 142 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,680 Speaker 1: the game got the better of him, that he didn't 143 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:13,479 Speaker 1: finish his speech. She's mourning the loss of the fellowship, 144 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: the shared burdens and joys of marriage, of parenting his children. 145 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 1: I think his youngest was about a year and a 146 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: half and I think he's oldest was about three and 147 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: a half. I don't care if he Charlie Kirk or 148 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: the local plant worker where you're unemployed or you're a billionaire. 149 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: Family wants family, children want mommy and Daddy took him 150 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: in at night, and he won't get to do that. 151 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 1: And that hurts my heart so much, not just for 152 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: Charlie's kids, but for every child for which that happens. 153 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: And to have that be the result not of an 154 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: accident or disease, we understand that, but of a choice 155 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: made by a human being to take from Charlie his 156 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: own life, but to take from his children their father. 157 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: You have to be a sick and twisted soul to 158 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 1: be in that position. And yes, I join with you 159 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: in warning that person punished to the fullest extent of 160 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: the law. And yes, I understand the anger and the rage. Yes, 161 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: the only thing that helps me through all of this 162 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 1: is that I didn't have to report it live on air, 163 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: because I certainly would have said things that would then 164 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: be recorded that I wished I hadn't, not because they 165 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: weren't true, not because they're not authentic, and in many cases, 166 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: because they're not healthy in their life good. Our job 167 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: is not now to become the left. We are better. 168 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: We are better than that The Michael Berry Show, Michael 169 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: Berry Show. We are all going to meet that moment. 170 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: We just don't know what day to put on our calendar. 171 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: I am not a fatalist in that sense. I am 172 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: a devout Christian who believes in God's plan. The very 173 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: complicated thing to understand how God can allow Charlie Kirk 174 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: to pass when here was a man in service to 175 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: help not just his countrymen, but humanity, A man who 176 00:14:54,120 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: was loving his wife and the children brought into this world. 177 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: Why him? When there are people so old they wish 178 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: they could go. Their prayer is to be taken by 179 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: God because their earthly shackles are painful, withered, they've lost 180 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:28,119 Speaker 1: everyone else they love. Why Charlie. I spent all afternoon 181 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: thinking about whether he would alter his schedule if he knew, 182 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: and I don't know that he would. How many people 183 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: could say that call me naive, but I always try 184 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 1: to look at what you can take out of a 185 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: situation the following day, how we can be better till 186 00:15:55,720 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: the day we too are gone. I'm not accepting of 187 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: what happened today. I'm not in any way tolerant of 188 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: it or from it. I'm just not going to say 189 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: things right now that are not a good use of 190 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: my energy. I might say, I'm in private. I do 191 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: not believe in weakness in the face of evil. I 192 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: believe in justice. A number of folks email me today hurting, 193 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: and I understand that what I do. And I don't 194 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: think I'm any bigger or better than Clay and Buck 195 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: or Glenn or Sean or Jesse or Mark or Michael 196 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: Savage or any of the other hosts you may listen 197 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: to people you may follow Megan Kelly, that is that 198 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: is not my belief. Each of us has a role, 199 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: just like every teacher, mother or father, janitor, plant worker, cop, firefighter. 200 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:16,199 Speaker 1: It is not my place to do that. It is 201 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: my place for me personally, which I will share with you, 202 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: which is really what our show is. I'm not here 203 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: to preach to you. I'm not here to tell you 204 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: how to live your life or how to react on 205 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: a daylight today. Who am I to do that? What authority? 206 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: By what authority would I do that? I can just 207 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 1: share with you my thoughts and maybe some suggestions, which 208 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: you're free to take or leave as you like. A 209 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: number of people reach out to me calling for anger 210 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:59,199 Speaker 1: and violence, to which I say, are you first? Are 211 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: you first to age and violence? Probably not. Most people 212 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: who want violence want other people to carry it out. 213 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: Maybe they'll get their popcorn and watch. Well. I got 214 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: news for you. When you engage in violence, you risk 215 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: violence against you, You risk violence against your own spouse 216 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: and kids. I've had the benefit of the experience of 217 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: talking to a lot of people who served in war, 218 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: and not one of them ever said when they came 219 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 1: home that was fun. Wish I could have stayed longer. 220 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: Wish I could have killed more and watched more killed 221 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: on my side. It's dirty, man, It's awful, it's painful. 222 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: It is not in our nation's interest to be split 223 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 1: in this way. Charlie Kirk had posted, we don't have 224 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: to live like this. What good words to live by? 225 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: We don't. It doesn't have to be like this. We 226 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 1: can make changes. We should not shirk from our duty 227 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: to pursue truth, not just for the sake of truth, 228 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 1: but for future generations, just as it was done for us. 229 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: There were Charlie Kirks who came before Charlie Kirk. Some 230 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: of them were killed. I think of Nathan Hill's great line, 231 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:32,360 Speaker 1: I regret that I have but one life to live 232 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: for my country. I think he was eighteen years old 233 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: at the time. Wow to face down death in that manner. 234 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 1: A number of folks who do what we all do, 235 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: which is try to shape opinion, try to make people 236 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: think with dialogue and discussion and facts and perspective and 237 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 1: opinion and truth fearlessly. I think how many of us 238 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 1: have said, man, Charlie makes me nervous going on on 239 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 1: those campuses. He makes me nervous, But you know what, 240 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:13,479 Speaker 1: he understood the risks. And I think that is one 241 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 1: of the greatest tributes to Charlie is that Charlie Kirk 242 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: was fearless. How many people are fearless. How many people 243 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: believe in their faith so much they're willing to die 244 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 1: for it. How many people believe in truth in the 245 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 1: American way, in our future so much so that they're 246 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: willing to walk into the belly of the beast, the 247 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 1: eye of the hurricane. I always feared that this would happen, 248 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: that it could happen to President Trump, who was shot. 249 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: Other attempted to a side after that. Charlie should be 250 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 1: honored for his bravery to do what he did as 251 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: long as he did The Michael Berry Show, Michael Verry Show. Well, 252 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: America is in mourning right now. It is a sad, tragic, 253 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: horrible day. Charlie Kirk has been assassinated. And there is 254 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: no sense to make of this, no way around that. 255 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: There is no sense to make of this, just anger 256 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: and bitterness. You know, one of the most wise things 257 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 1: I saw, one of the most measured things I saw, 258 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: was from a guy whose name you will recognize, maybe 259 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: because he threw a baseball very well, and also because, 260 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: like Charlie, he was very blunt and unafraid in a 261 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 1: world of cowards. John Rocker, I don't have the quote 262 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: in front of me, but it's stuck with me for 263 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: the last well, I don't know, six hours or so, 264 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: five hours, four hours since he said it. He said, 265 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:47,360 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was just trying to make improvements in our 266 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 1: country through open conversations and dialogue. He didn't take up 267 00:22:54,359 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: a gun, He didn't try to subdue people physically, he 268 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: believed until the moment he died in discussion. You know, 269 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: we're going to disagree on things. Transgenders into schools, converting 270 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: our kids to death penalty, gun policies, has policies, we disagree. 271 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: That's not unique to Americans, It's not unique to our time. 272 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: It goes back to the beginning of time. We can 273 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: disagree on what time we're going to eat dinner, or 274 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: we can disagree with our child whether that's the right 275 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: person for them to marry, or we can disagree with 276 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: our boss over whether this is the best way to 277 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,880 Speaker 1: accomplish a task or the best use of our time. 278 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: We disagree on everything. It's healthy, it can be fun, 279 00:23:54,359 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: it's stimulating. But what we cannot do is devolve into 280 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: the saddest state of affairs of having to kill someone 281 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 1: physically violently because we cannot express our opinion vis a 282 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: vis them. Charlie Kirk did what almost nobody who does 283 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 1: what we do did. He didn't sit behind a microphone. 284 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: He didn't hide behind a television camera on a TV 285 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: set in a building secured by tough men. He went 286 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: out on to campuses. He talked to young people. I 287 00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: don't want to do that. Hell, Rush didn't even do 288 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 1: that for a long time before he passed. Charlie had 289 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: a ministry, a purpose, vision, and even people who vehemently 290 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:19,120 Speaker 1: disagree with that should respect that this is not how 291 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: you resolve disagreements. You don't even have to resolve disagreements. 292 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: You can agree to disagree. So all I'm gonna say 293 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: for today, there will be a lot more in the 294 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: heat of the moment. I've come to learn, after a 295 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 1: lot of years in public life that my immediate emotions 296 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: are not always something that I'm later proud of expressing, 297 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: because I have run the gimmick today. Hope, hope that 298 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 1: Charlie was alive, anger that this happened, And of course 299 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: I can't deny it like everybody else, I blame it 300 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: on certain people and things and movements and words, organizations. 301 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:20,120 Speaker 1: And there'll be time for that conversation. I just determined 302 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: that that time was not right now. But I know 303 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: you are hurting. Whether you loved Charlie, likes Charlie, tolerated Charlie, 304 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: didn't know much about Charlie. You recognize what this means. 305 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 1: You recognize what this moment in our country means. Do 306 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: not become the left. I'm not saying turn the other 307 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 1: cheek because I'm not Jesus Christ. He was the son 308 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 1: of God, he was perfect, I'm not I'm angry. I 309 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: have thoughts, but for now, I will pray. I will 310 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,919 Speaker 1: pray for Charlie's eternal soul, and I will pray for 311 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: his wife and his two children. And I will pray 312 00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 1: for our nation.