1 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: Very Show is on the air, as President Trump posted, just. 3 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 2: Now the great and even legendary Charlie has died. Gret 4 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 2: He then paid tribute to him and the incredible influence 5 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 2: he had, particularly on young people, noting that he was 6 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 2: loved and admired by all, and the President noting especially. 7 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: Me, and now he is no longer with us. He 8 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: then on behalf of him and Melania sent his sympathies 9 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: to Charlie's beautiful wife, Erica, and their family, their two children, 10 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 1: closing with Charlie, we love you. That's all we're going 11 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: to talk about on the program today. Let mean, for 12 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: those of you knew to the program, let me explain 13 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: a couple of things, because it will help you understand 14 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: why I talk about certain things and don't talk about 15 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: other things that maybe you expect me to. This is 16 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: not every other program out there. We're no better, no worse. 17 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: We're just different and there's a place for every kind 18 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: of show. We do the show we want to do, 19 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: and so that you understand what that is, let me 20 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: start by saying, whether you loved Charlie Kirk liked him, 21 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: appreciated what he did, kind of knew who he was, 22 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: showed up his events, followed turning Point USA, follow his career, 23 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: followed him on Twitter, watched listened to his show, or 24 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: just kind of had a general idea that you and 25 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: he maybe agreed on most things, or maybe hadn't even 26 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: formed an opinion on it, whatever that may be. If 27 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: your first reaction upon finding out that he's been assassinated 28 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: today while speaking on a campus, if your first reaction 29 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: is to rush and see what MSNBC or CNN or 30 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: for that matter, NBCCBS, ABC has said about him, Certain 31 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: in your mind that at a minimum, they're not going 32 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: to pay proper tribute to his life and his accomplishments 33 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: and his service and his mission. But relatively certain they're 34 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: going to say he deserved it, which of course they did. 35 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: They're going to say he was hateful, which of course 36 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 1: they did. If the first place you turned upon getting 37 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: that news is people you don't care for who hate you, 38 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: I think we need to rethink our priorities because you 39 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: weren't going to find comfort and solace in their words. 40 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: It means the immediate reaction was not to make sense 41 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: of this, but to be angry at the very people 42 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: who have created the environment in which these sorts of 43 00:03:52,720 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: things are festering and occurring all too often. Kirk turned 44 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: to God. He had a post three weeks ago, it's 45 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: all about Jesus. If it's all about Jesus for you, 46 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: the place to turn is not seeing in ready to 47 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: smash your TV. That's not going to give you what 48 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: you personally need at that moment. Yeah, I'm mad. I'm furious, 49 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: and I'm not just furious because I feel certain this 50 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: comes from the left, because the Democrats, because they get 51 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,919 Speaker 1: away with it. Because if it was this and everyone. 52 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 1: I'm mad because a father will not be there to 53 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: tuck his children in tonight, two little children that he 54 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: loved dearly. We got so many men who make babies 55 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: and don't raise them. But here's one who loved his children, 56 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: he loved his wife. Eric now a father and head 57 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 1: of household, who provided and cared and loved, sacrificed for 58 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: them will not be there. Then we move out one 59 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: ring on this circle. We all claim what we believe, 60 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: our personal faith as Christians, our love of our country, 61 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: our belief in its greatness, our belief that it changed 62 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 1: the world, and continues to be so, continues to do so. 63 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: But do we do so fearlessly? Do we do so 64 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: with such confidence that the mission is more important than 65 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: the safety of it. Charlie didn't take unnecessary risks. He 66 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: didn't go looking for trouble. I think the most brilliant 67 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 1: thing I saw, the most measured thing I saw, said today, 68 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: came from John Rocker, former a baseball player, who would 69 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: have thought and he said. All Charlie Kirk wanted to 70 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 1: do was debate the great issues because he believed in dialogue. 71 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: That's all he wanted to do. What he died, he'm doing. 72 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: The last word he spoke before if he was killed, 73 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 1: was violent and wanting to bring an end to it. 74 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show. I am very 75 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 1: comfortable with the end of life. Those sayin should both. 76 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: I'm very comfortable with mortality. It is part of the plan. 77 00:06:55,080 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: Even if you weren't a believer, any serious study of 78 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: science would tell you it is eventual and inevitable. It's 79 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: just a question of winning. How today, I spend a 80 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: lot of time after the initial news thinking through what 81 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: I could learn from this, How our nation will change 82 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: from this, how people will change how people will react, 83 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: how people will act tomorrow and the next day and 84 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: the next day, because many people live headlined to headline, 85 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: story to story, whether it's Trump getting shot in the head, 86 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: or tiny little Ukrainian refugee lady getting stabbed in the 87 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: throat by a man who didn't know her, or Charlie 88 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: Charlie Kerr being shot. As of this moment, I don't 89 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: think we know who the shooter is. There's a man 90 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: who was grabbed and there seems to be certainty that 91 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,679 Speaker 1: he was not the shooter from law enforcement on the scene. 92 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: His behavior is quite odd for a man who wasn't. 93 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: But there is video making its way around the internet 94 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: at a time when the curiosity seekers just can't get 95 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: enough that appears to be a man who might likely 96 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: be the shooter, crouching in a shooting position and running 97 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: on a roof. All of those are details. You're going 98 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: to get that around the clock, around the clock. This 99 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: will be a banner day for news, the news industry, 100 00:08:55,840 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: the website's Twitter banner day. They'll make more money today 101 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: they normally do. And in a sense, Charlie would get 102 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: a kick out of that that he could contribute to 103 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: that it's a sign of his massive influence. Four days 104 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: short of being thirty two years old, a kid to 105 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: me and the impact he had. Six weeks ago, he tweeted, 106 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: get married, have kids, and stop partying into oblivion. Leave 107 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: a legacy, Be courageous, Happy Sunday, God bless all the 108 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: parents out there. Little could he know that six weeks 109 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: later his legacy would be cemented, his work on this 110 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: earth done. How many of us could say, if we 111 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: were taken in a moment, in whatever manner, that we 112 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: did everything we could. We stood for everything we believed, 113 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: we cared for those who God placed into our care 114 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 1: with everything we had. We didn't say, but once I 115 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: get this done, I'll take care of that. How many 116 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: people could say that, we're not going to spend time 117 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: on the show today if you're wondering with all the theories, 118 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: the details, there's so much of that out there already. 119 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: I can't add anything to that. I don't measure up 120 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:55,319 Speaker 1: to that, especially because I refuse to state a lot 121 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: of the things that I get, ninety five percent of 122 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:04,439 Speaker 1: which are untrue. There are already artificial intelligence videos making 123 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:09,079 Speaker 1: their way around the Internet. There's accusations that this group 124 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: was involved, or that group was involved. We'll find that out. 125 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: There's a time and place on the day I die. 126 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 1: If I'm still on the air and somebody cracks this mic, 127 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: please don't let it be Ramon because he'll fall asleep 128 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: or hit the dinger too many times. But whoever it 129 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: is that they put in behind this microphone, the only 130 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: thing I want them to say is how much I 131 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: loved being a husband and a father, and how much 132 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 1: I loved you, and how much you meant to me, 133 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: how much I loved the people who got behind me 134 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: as sponsors and programmers, and all the people who allowed 135 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: me to get an opportunity to get in the game, 136 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: to try to save this country. All I want, I 137 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: don't whoever it was it brought my end, whether it 138 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: be cancer or a car wreck or an assassin, they 139 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: don't deserve this day. This is Charlie Kirksday, and in 140 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: my opinion, you're free to have your own. It does 141 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: not honor the work this young man did to engage 142 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: in that same silly Internet universe currency of clout chasing 143 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: by claiming to be the person who has this or 144 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 1: that inside information. We did have good news from his 145 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: camp earlier today that he'd been rushed into surgery and 146 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: there was a chance he would survive. I don't know 147 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: if that was true. I do know that I have 148 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: seen mothers and fathers of young ones who've died, and 149 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: when the news is delivered, the first word out of 150 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: their mouth is always the same, no, no, no no, 151 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 1: and they will push you away because they don't want 152 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,079 Speaker 1: to believe it. You hold on to hope, especially such 153 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: a young man. Just a matter of days ago, Charlie 154 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: posted It's all about Jesus. He didn't say it's all 155 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: about Jesus. But if you don't pray to Jesus, that's 156 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,079 Speaker 1: all right. It's all about Jesus unless that's not who 157 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: you pray to. Hope, that doesn't offend. That's what he 158 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: did and that's why he did it. I'm not worried 159 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: about Charlie. I'm worried about us. Through Marcus the Trail, 160 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: the lone survivor, I got to meet Dakoda of Myers, 161 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: the Medal of Honor winner, I think the youngest to 162 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: have won it since I don't know in a very 163 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: very myyer, not Myers, in a very very long time. 164 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: And we were in the studio then, so we used 165 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: to do in studio interviews. We don't do that anymore. 166 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: And oddly enough, one of the reasons I don't reasons 167 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: I don't let anyone know where our studio is. And 168 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: I think this is also true of Mark Levin. I 169 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: think it was also true of Rush is we don't 170 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: want the crazies to have an opportunity to silence us. 171 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: And so Dakota came in and sat down and we 172 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: started having a conversation. And this is a man who 173 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: faced down death in war. He was wearing a shirt 174 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: that said own the Dash, own space th dash, owned 175 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: the Dash period and as he would want you to do, 176 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: I said, Dakota, what does that mean? He said, well, 177 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: when you die, which we all will, there'll be the 178 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: date you were born, and there will be the date 179 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: that you died. And that part's not really important. What 180 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: matters is that Dash own that dash. We're not all 181 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: given the same number of years on this earth by 182 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: any means. Charlie was four days short of his thirty 183 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: second birthday. That's too darn, young dad, coming he did 184 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: more in his thirty one years, three hundred and sixty 185 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: one days, then most people will do in a lifetime, 186 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: a full lifetime. I want a third caught. He can't 187 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: get away with this. That cannot happen. Every resource should 188 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: be exhausted. During the break there was a press conference. 189 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: It's still going on now. There's nothing. They're saying. They 190 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: don't know much yet, at least not that they're willing 191 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: to say. I'm not a news show. We have news 192 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: in between our show. That's their job. It's not mine. 193 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: When I tell you we're not a news show, I 194 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: mean it. Sean's a news show. It's what Seawn does. 195 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: He's very good at it. Not to say we're better, 196 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: we're different. What I do is try to provide perspective 197 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: for the news that you can get a hundred other places, 198 00:16:54,240 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: and maybe that can add to your overall consumtp of 199 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: the news and how you process it and what you 200 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: do when you lay in bed tonight and think about 201 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: the day you had and what's happening tomorrow in Charlie 202 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: Kirk's life and his assassination and how it can happen 203 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: in his family, and what you'll do tomorrow and who 204 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: will be tomorrow, And I hope I can contribute something 205 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: to that. So that's what I do, But Dakota's comment 206 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 1: has stuck with me. Here's a man who went to war, 207 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: Here's a man who faced down death every day, own 208 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: the dash. If all we do in response to Charlie 209 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: Kirk's assassination is get really angry and wrote and post 210 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: really angry things, have we honored the life that he led? 211 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: Is that his legacy to get people really stoked up, 212 00:17:56,520 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 1: so when they assassinated him, we'd be for how long? 213 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: How long are you going to sustain that anger? Really? 214 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: For honest, you're not impressing me with how mad you are. 215 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: We're all mad. Of course we're mad. You think Donald 216 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: Trump's not mad. We don't make many good decisions in anger. 217 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: Anger is what dogs feel, Anger is what terrorists feel. 218 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 1: Anger is what gang bangers and turds, mentally slow people 219 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 1: like democrats feel. Our job is to figure out who 220 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 1: and what we are and what we're going to do. 221 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: Because now there's nobody on stage, the seat is empty, 222 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:59,199 Speaker 1: the microphone silent. Oh sure, I've watched that video one 223 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: hundred times, two hundred. I don't know. I've seen every 224 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: different angle that was available before we went on the air. 225 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: I don't know why I guess I wanted to make 226 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 1: sense of it. I guess partly because we're curious, of 227 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 1: morbid curiosity. I'm not sure it appeals to our better senses. 228 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much of our desperate desire to 229 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: see more and learn more of the facts is a 230 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: good thing or healthy thing. If we're completely honest, it 231 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: might be like that eighty eighth bond bond. We keep 232 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: eating them, but they're not good for us. But we 233 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:41,719 Speaker 1: convince ourselves. We convince ourselves that we just love our 234 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: country and we love Charlie. And because we love Charlie, 235 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: we love our country and want the best. And the 236 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: Left is evil. Give me more details, Give me more details, 237 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: Give me more details. Tell me again how evil the 238 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: left is. I didn't need Charlie Kirk to be assassinated 239 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: to know how evil the left is. I don't think 240 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: there are any more evil because they assassinated him. But 241 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: that's not because I think it's okay they assassinated him. 242 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: That's because I already knew how evil they were. I 243 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: already knew what they were going to say when he 244 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 1: was assassinated. I just didn't know what the event was 245 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: that they were going to have that opinion of because 246 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: they didn't speak about Charlie Kirk. They didn't know him. 247 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: They didn't speak about you or me or real people 248 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: that don't have a talk show or a television show 249 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: or a column or a website. They did what they'd 250 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: do all day, every day because they're evil and they 251 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: are in service to evil. I believe, truly believe in 252 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: good and evil. I think good people sometimes engage in 253 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: evil things, and I even think evil people sometimes engage 254 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 1: in good things. But I believe in good and evil, 255 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: and I believe it is a battle, and I believe 256 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: that we have to choose good. I want swift justice, 257 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: I want thorough justice. I want every person involved to 258 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 1: be hunted down and hanged. But in the meantime, I'm 259 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,640 Speaker 1: going to serve God and try to improve this country. 260 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 1: And me being angry it's not going to help you show. 261 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: FBI Director Cash to Tell has posted the subject for 262 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 1: the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie 263 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 1: kirkis now in custody. Thank you to the local and 264 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: state authorities in Utah for your partnership with the FBI. 265 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: We will provide updates when able. There was an old 266 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: man named George Zen who was arrested on the scene. 267 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 1: He was saying some crazy things like shoot me now. 268 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: He was acting erratically. There was video footage of a 269 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: man on a roof that this old man clearly could 270 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 1: not have been. This person is going to turn out 271 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: to be much younger and in much better shape the 272 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: way he was moving on top of that roof, and 273 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 1: those details will come out. We will find out who 274 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:27,360 Speaker 1: they are. I am not as skeptical of the FBI's 275 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: efforts under cash Betel's leadership and under the President's direction 276 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:35,959 Speaker 1: as I would be were this another administration, and I 277 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,440 Speaker 1: will engage in a war of words, and I will 278 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: call out the black racism, the black violence, the white 279 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: liberal nonsense, the craziness, the white liberal racism. I will 280 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: demand that our borders be closed and that children not 281 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: be cross dressed or have their wieners cut off. I 282 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 1: will never stop doing that because I belie leave I 283 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: believe in what I say, not to entertain or engage 284 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: or insight. I believe that these are the best things 285 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: for our children and for our country, and I will 286 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: not stop believing those and I will not stop saying 287 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 1: those things. I have chosen a lane for myself. I 288 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: am not all things to all people, neither my message 289 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: nor the medium. I do not go out and do 290 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 1: university speeches. That was a commitment I made to my 291 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 1: wife years ago. But I admired Charlie that he did, 292 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: and for that manner I admired Ben that he did. 293 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: I do and I always did. That's brave, that's fearless. 294 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 1: I am less brave and less fearless when it comes 295 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: to that action. I don't go out in public and 296 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: announce where I'm going to be on the few occasions 297 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,199 Speaker 1: I do. I have a lot of security. Charlie was 298 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: traveling light considering the threats on him. Sure he faced 299 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: it down every day. I've always admired people who could 300 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: do that. That's not stupid, that's not crazy. That's tough. 301 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,360 Speaker 1: How tough I am not, certainly not at this point 302 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: in my life. And maybe if Charlie lived to be 303 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,199 Speaker 1: fifty four, maybe he wouldn't have done that either. I 304 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: don't know, but he was where he knew he needed 305 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:36,120 Speaker 1: to be. And I do think there is a purpose 306 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 1: to all things, though it is not obvious to us 307 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: at that moment. We are too close to everything, too emotional, 308 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 1: too attached to be able to understand the bigger picture 309 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: of things and how it will unravel. Rush used to 310 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 1: say that understand what's happening in real time. We don't 311 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 1: understand it. We can't make sense of it. We can 312 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: just react silly. As it is a song that Garth 313 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: Brooks used to sing sometimes, I thank God for unanswered prayers. 314 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: How many things that we wish would be granted unto 315 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: us do not happen, And we later realize that that 316 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: was God's plan and that it was better that it didn't. 317 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 1: Oh my heartaches for that family. We're all gonna die, 318 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 1: and if I'm the first to go, don't worry about me. 319 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: I have had a wonderful, wonderful life. My mother said 320 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: that to me a week before she died, when she 321 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 1: made the decision to end her try treatment and head home. 322 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 1: He said, I don't want you to cry for me 323 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: one time. I've had a great life, and as usual 324 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: I didn't follow her direction. That has given me so 325 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: much peace. I think about what Charlie Kirk said, not 326 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: in the privacy of his own bedroom, not at a 327 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: dinner party of people who shared his beliefs. I think 328 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 1: about what he said, surrounded by a bunch of people 329 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: who wanted him dead. If you want to know how 330 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 1: much they wanted him dead, feel free. There was a 331 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: whole cesspool of internet out there just waitinglick click click, 332 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: click click click. Go get after it. Go dig in, 333 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: drink deep, swallow it all, choke on it, and vomit everywhere, 334 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: because that's what it does to you. It's poison. It 335 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: is poison to your soul. Make no mistake, I am 336 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: not saying that we pretend this didn't happen and go 337 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: on our merry way and say God will find a way. 338 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,719 Speaker 1: All is well. No, no, no, that is not what 339 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 1: I am saying. To be clear, This does not make 340 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: me afraid. This makes me more resolute that in my 341 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: lane doing what I'm doing, I want to do it better. 342 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: I want to do it more effectively. I want to 343 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: do it more fearlessly. And I would hope we would all. 344 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: What a legacy for a thirty one year old, for 345 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: all intents and purposes to me at my age, kid 346 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: who started this in his teens, What a legacy If 347 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: he could inspire the nation, boy, that's a bigger legacy 348 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 1: than any of us are ever going to achieve as 349 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: the head of an organization. What if more people say, 350 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 1: you know what, I got to come forward. I need 351 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: to go give speeches. I need to evangelize for truth. 352 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 1: I need to speak out about the harmful effects of 353 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 1: bad policies and bad philosophies and toxic, toxic practices, some 354 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: of which do so under the name of a religion. 355 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: Now there's a legacy, because that's what we are left with. 356 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: We don't get to rewrite this history. We are left 357 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: with a legacy, and we have to ask ourselves where 358 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 1: will we spend the energy God gave us? Because if 359 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: you cared about this potion, because you listened to him 360 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: and you loved what he did. His goal was to 361 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: change this country for the better and save the next generation, 362 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: two of which were his own. And we should focus 363 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: our energy in ways that do that. Productive ways anger 364 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: not really productive for it. Prayer, resolute conviction, action, fearlessness, kindness, love. Funny, 365 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: the Bible's kind of timeless, isn't it.