September 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a powerful and emotionally charged broadcast centered on the tragic assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The hosts open the hour with heartfelt reflections on the gravity of the moment, describing the national mourning and personal grief felt across the country, especially among young Americans who admired Kirk’s work in political activism and free speech advocacy.
The episode underscores the political motivations behind Kirk’s killing, framing it as a targeted act of violence stemming from ideological hatred. Travis and Sexton argue that the left’s increasingly hostile rhetoric—labeling political opponents as “Nazis” or “Hitler”—has created a dangerous climate that justifies violence in the minds of radicalized individuals. They draw parallels to previous acts of political violence, including the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump and other attacks on conservative figures, asserting that these incidents reflect a broader pattern of left-wing extremism.
Throughout the hour, the hosts provide updates on the FBI investigation, including details about the suspected shooter, the weapon used (a bolt-action rifle), and the ongoing manhunt. They also highlight disturbing reactions from some corners of the internet, particularly on platforms like Bluesky, where users reportedly celebrated Kirk’s death. This reaction, they argue, reveals a “demonic” and “psychotic” undercurrent within the far-left that glorifies political violence.
The show also touches on broader cultural and political themes, including the erosion of civil discourse, the weaponization of language, and the need to defend free speech and constitutional values. Travis and Sexton emphasize that Kirk was a “happy warrior” who believed in debate over violence, and they call on listeners to honor his legacy by continuing to speak truth and resist intimidation.
In addition to the assassination, the episode acknowledges the solemn anniversary of 9/11, drawing connections between the attacks on American freedom then and now. The hosts argue that just as terrorists sought to silence liberty in 2001, today’s political violence similarly aims to suppress dissent and conservative voices.
Listeners are invited to call in and share their thoughts, with one caller from Tampa expressing outrage over the left’s incendiary rhetoric and asking when political leaders will be held accountable for inciting violence. The hosts agree, reiterating that the mainstream Democratic Party bears responsibility for fostering a toxic political environment.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in. It is going to be a hard show.
It is going to be a difficult show. I imagine
that a lot of you are like both the Buck
and myself. It's hard to sleep. May not have gotten
a lot of sleep, probably have been hopefully hugging your kids,
your grandkids closer, and trying to deal with the fact
(00:20):
that we live in a world where if you have
the wrong opinion, and I know many of you, sadly,
including me, have expected things like these. We've been talking
about it, unfortunately for over a year after President Trump
took a bullet to the ear. It's awful. We ended
yesterday's show. Buck and I, if you watch on video,
(00:44):
are regularly scrolling through our phone to make sure that
we are the absolute best informed and get you information
as fast as we possibly can. And Buck saw it
first yesterday during the show, and I could see in
his face that something was very bad. And unfortunately, about
(01:05):
an hour after the show ended, Buck, you were basically
on Fox News when it happened. And Charlie Kirk is gone,
thirty one years old. He leaves behind a young son,
young daughter, very very young son and daughter, loving wife.
And they killed him because they did not like his
(01:27):
political opinions. And we're going to talk a lot about
this and have a big conversation with all of you.
But I think at its essence, this is where words
are violence leads to I think if you have to
boil it down. The left has accepted the idea that
if you or I or any of us say something
(01:48):
that they do not like, that violence is an appropriate response.
And where this event, this assassination took place was In
many ways, he's perfectly reflective of the impact that Charlie
Kirk has had in his life. On a college campus
(02:09):
with an open mic where anyone on the campus could
walk up and tell him why he was wrong, and
they could debate anything under the sun, and he had
done this, and he was so profoundly successful at it
that he had particularly moved the hearts and minds of
(02:29):
many young men. And Buck, I'll toss it to you
here in a second. But let me tell you this.
My two oldest boys their entire school today in Nashville
dressed up in coats and ties in honor of Charlie Kirk.
And you went to a school where you had to
dress up sometimes. Let me tell you, these boys don't
want to wear coats and ties. They usually are always complaining.
(02:53):
They're like, oh, it's a coat and tie day, dad.
The whole school wore coats and ties in honor of Charlie.
Can I understand some of you, maybe you're in your sixties, seventies, eighties,
You might not have been the target audience necessarily seeing
this content, But I would tell you, particularly if you
have sons, grandsons, young people in your households, they may
(03:15):
be hurting quite a bit and impacted by this far
more than even you might have been. So buck that
it is just a devastating yet sadly not unexpected to
meet event.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It's a day of mourning for the whole country because
of what happened within the last twenty four hours. And
also it is the remembrance of nine to eleven today,
so it's a particularly hard and emotional day. It was
going to be before this horrific event happened, And now
we sit here with you, and we we grieve with.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
All of you.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Because of what happened to Charlie, and which is just horrific.
Beyond I we were when Clay saw me yesterday, I
was felt like I was going to throw up. When
we were I was reading the initial text messages about it,
and we were on this we went into a commercial
break at the very end of the show. Of course,
I didn't want to say anything at first, because this
(04:15):
is there's some news stories that you know, you just
cannot get wrong, you can't and there's so much false
information out there these days, and so so we really
wanted to be just bring you the facts about this.
And then I was on with Will will Kine, who's
a been a friend of mine now for I don't
know fifteen almost fifteen years, and and Will texted me
(04:36):
and said, will you please come on and talk about
what's going on? And I got some I got word
when I was on the air. It was very early
on in the show, Clay, but I had already been
informed pretty reliably that Charlie wasn't going to make it.
But then I again, I, you know, we're dealing with
the not certain, you know. You obviously I can't say
(04:58):
that if I'm not one hundred percent sure, But I'm thinking,
and I'm you know, it's just all the processing, the grief,
the trauma that people feel right now. We feel it
with you. Clay and I both knew and liked Charlie
and had a tremendous respect for what he had built
(05:19):
and what he had done, and in this last election
playing a critical role, especially with getting that youth vote,
to start to see reality. And it's it's just one
of those moments, Clay, where you go to bed at night,
to the degree you can even sleep and it's still
(05:41):
you know, just doesn't feel like this could have been
what happened. It's it's so horrific and it's so wrong
and evil on so many levels. I feel for Charlie's family,
his wife, his two small children, his mom, his dad, everybody,
all of his family is just you know, it's I
(06:02):
don't know how it's possible for them to even begin
to deal with something like this. Charlie was a force
of nature. Charlie was doing really incredible work and returning
in a lot of ways. I think, Clay, the conversation
(06:23):
back to some of our core and most important founding principles.
All right, let's talk about let's have this debate, let's
have this exchange of ideas. And you know, I know
that there's this sense that, well, we are in mourning,
and so should we get into the politics of this
right away, Charlie was assassinated. I mean, this was a
(06:47):
terror act. This was an assassination.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
This we was kilmed because of his politics. That's right,
it's impossible not to talk about politics.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's exactly what I want to express. Thank you. Yes,
it's this wasn't a you know it would be. It
would be tragic and horrible if he had died because
of you know, an armed robber who shot him or
something like that. That would be horrible. That would be
a terrible crime. But this was done because of who
Charlie was. We all know that. In fact, the FBI
(07:16):
and will continue to I am hopeful that there will
be an arrest while we are on the air today.
That's not going to bring Charlie back, and I know
that this is not going to be able to comfort
the grieving right now in a in a meaningful way,
but it will at least be the justice system beginning
(07:37):
to do what it is possible for the justice system
to do to create some accountability. I think this should
be a death penalty case or the individual involved. I
am hopeful that they will get this person. There's reporting
that they they have the weapon us was a bolt
action rifle. That is confirmed by the FB. I watched
(08:00):
the press conference this morning. It's two hundred yards perhaps
two hundred plus yards shot. So it's somebody who had
an understanding of how they had some practice. This is
not someone who bought a gun and then the next
day went just went on a shooting spree. This is
somebody who had some ability to shoot it with accuracy.
(08:22):
They're saying they think it's right now. The person the
main personal interest is college age. We'll see. I mean,
they've been a lot of you have updated.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
On what we just mentioned. I just retweeted they have
shared photos of the individual that from FBI Salt Lake
City Field Office. They have photos of the man that
they believe is responsible for the shooting. And I just
retweeted those college age as you were going to.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Write, so they have clear video college age. I will
note that there have been numerous photos of individuals of
interest shared previously, including FBI statements that we have. This
is this is where the investigative process can be a
little confusing or can create some confusion, especially in the
online ecosystem. A person of interest does not mean we
(09:08):
have the person. It's exactly what it sounds like it's
we think this is a person we definitely need to
speak to. There have been a couple of those people
in custody. Initially there was the there was some crazy
old guy who was saying, you know, and people thought
that he did not he was right there, he didn't
had nothing to do with the shooting, or you know,
it clearly wasn't him. So there's been a lot of
(09:32):
iterations of this already. So Clay, yes, there's there's video
out there of this individual. The FBI has also confirmed
that there are things written on the rifle and I
believe on the shell casings from this morning's press conference,
which is going to be it's going to tell us
(09:54):
what the we know the motivation as politics, we know
this was an assassination. We might have a more direct sense,
a more precise sense of what this maniac. And I
agree with people say when you say maniac, that makes
it sound like a person not of their right mind.
It's really just demonic. It's a demonic act to do
(10:15):
this to Charlie, to do this to Charlie's family, to
do this to the American people. And one thing I
can say to all of you, Clay totally. I know
he co signs on this. I know that he is
of the same heart and mind and this as I am.
If something like this had happened to a prominent Democrat,
I also would have felt sick to my stomach. I
also would have said, what the heck is going on
in this country? This is disgusting, it is egregious, it
(10:39):
is inhuman. And yet Clay, last night I was on
I went on Blue Sky. Do you know about you?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Have you been on the Guy? I didn't go on,
but I have seen the postings. I mean, this is
not a fringe part of the left. There is malignant
glee over this assassination that is widely shared and disgusting.
But I don't want you thinking, oh, this is They're
going to try to say, oh, this is just an
(11:08):
aberrational individual. This is not reflective of ideas on the left.
There is a huge, toxic, foundational core of the Democrat Party,
of the far left in this country that is celebrating
political violence and assassination of people. They don't like Blue Sky,
which I do not recommend any of you download or
(11:28):
go on, but I felt like I needed to in
advance of this show and it's honestly, it's so depraved.
It is a giant echo chamber of people congratulating each
other and cheering for what happened yesterday. It's the most apault.
I mean, I honestly just nightmare stuff. You go, you
(11:52):
look what is wrong with these people. Charlie never advocated
violence against anybody. Charlie Uh, never you know, raised a
hand against anyone. His whole thing was let's talk, let's talk.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And and an assassin kills him. And and we cannot
think of this as something that occurred in a vacuum.
Clay or or you use the word aberind or that
you know that this is something It was twice they
tried to kill Donald Trump. These are all people of
the same ideology. Twice they tried to kill Donald Trump.
(12:30):
Now we've had people shooting up, Uh. We had the
shooting up the church in Minneapolis because of radical trans ideology.
We had the Nashville Manifesto hidden from us because it
was a radical trans terrorist. But I don't I don't
know what the stated ideology this person is other than
it's someone who hates Trump, hates Charlie is of the left,
and therefore Clay is part of this. This just rotten.
(12:54):
This this fetid nass psychosis that Democrats think, and they
can say any You can't just run around saying people
are Nazis all the time, because a lot of people
think that if you could go back in time and
kill Nazis, that would be a good thing. I want
to keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I went off on this last night, and I was
on with our friend Sean Hannity in the evening. That
to me is the crux of all of this. There
are consequences when you say, hey, my political opponents are Nazis.
Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler, they are fascists. They're going
to overthrow the government. There's not going to be an
(13:32):
election in twenty twenty eight. The guy who tried to
kill Trump and West Palm Beach said he was doing
it because he believed Trump was Hitler. If you truly believe,
and some of these crazy people do, If you truly
believe that Trump is Hitler, or that you're Hitler, or
that I'm Hitler, or that Charlie Kirk is Hitler, or
all of you out there who voted for Trump or Hitler,
(13:53):
then don't tell me right after you kill someone or
attempt to kill someone. We condemned politic violence because it's
a lie. Political violence would be justified if we were
Adolph Hitler. And in their brain, some of their crazy,
deluded followers are taking that charge and they believe it,
(14:15):
and they killed Charlie Kirk over it, I one hundred
billion percent believe, and they tried to kill Donald Trump
over it. And they would try to kill you, and
they would try to kill me, and they would try
to kill anyone that they believe is hilarian because they
think they're a hero in their deluded mental sphere.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
This Charlie was. We knew Charlie, but he was also
on our on our team. He was doing what we do,
meaning Clay and I and so many others. Do you know.
He was doing a podcast in a radio show and
he was spreading the truth, the truth. So they killed him.
He was killed. He an assassin's bullet took his life
(14:56):
because he was speaking the truth. And to Clay's point,
the same people cheering for this, which is which is
just monstrous. And I had to know that it was
true before I could tell you. But that is happening
a lot of people, a lot of people on the left.
The psychosis of these people is is really troubling for
(15:19):
the future of this country. While while people on the
right and people voted for Trump are grieving and thinking
about Charlie's poor wife and his kids, and people are crying,
and I'm getting text messages from people. I can't sleep
at night. All I can think about is Charlie's wife
and his kids and what have they done to us?
And then I and then there are democrats who are acting.
We can't ignore it, and we won't ignore it. We'll
(15:41):
come back, we'll talk about this more, and we want,
we'd want to take a lot of your I know
a lot of you want to weigh in and speak
to us about this. You have things to get off
your chest. You want to speak from your heart about this,
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Speaker 2 (17:11):
That was Charlie. And we're going to be playing some
remembrance clips of our friend and a champion for free speech,
for America, for the truth, Charlie Kirk. Going to be
spending time in memoria of him today on the show,
and continue also to look at the investigation. We want
his killer in cuffs and facing the full might of
(17:34):
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
I do think that you mentioned earlier, oh politics, This
is politics. This is the Left deciding that they're going
to use violence to shut down what they consider to
be accurately and a powerful and articulate voice for basic
(19:18):
common sense in America. And I think that everybody out there,
regardless of what you do, just like I think it's
not at the timing on this, the connection is to
me quite self evident with the twenty fourth anniversary of
nine to eleven. There are always going to be people
(19:39):
that hate the freedoms that we have in the United States,
whether it's freedom for basic human rights, whether it is
freedom of speech, and I think it's incumbent upon all
of us in whatever we do in life. Everyone out
there listening to rise up and ensure that people who
want to silence speech and people who want to attack
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our freedoms, that they don't win, because their goal is
to provoke fear. Their goal is to create cowardice among people.
And I think we have to respond in the exact
opposite way and be braver and stronger and more courageous,
even if that does sometimes entail elements of risk. And
(20:24):
I said this to you off air, and I talked
to my boys. I'm just gonna be honest with you, guys.
My boys are old enough, I think to understand it.
I talked about the fact that they were I think
it's fair to say profoundly saddened and impacted in a
way that because they're so young, I don't know that
they've had to deal with things like this. And I
(20:45):
talked about what their school and everything else. It could
be any of us. I'm not surprised, That's what I'm saying.
This feel has felt just like when I knew and
we talked about Trump was going to get shot, the nastiness,
the pure evil bond and see the the glee that
you see for evil on the left. It's not ending,
(21:08):
it's getting worse. There is a toxicity inside of their
souls that is manifesting itself in violence against people that
they see as threats.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Well, there's there's a lot, a lot there and we
are seeing it in the ugliness of it. And we
saw it after Trump was shot as well, because there
were so many people on the left who were or
were very open that they were sad that the president
was okay or that yeh, the soon to be president
was okay, and also had not a single thought for
(21:39):
the husband, the father who was killed in that field and.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
By about they said he didn't even get hit in
the ear. Gavin Newsom shared a big thing, a ketchup, like, oh,
he just made it up. It's not even real, that's
what they said.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
But a man lost his life that day as well,
and it was something that the Democrats and the left
and they just completely ignored. Look, we have to deal
with this. We have to be honest about what the
response is here. Because there was an attempt to get
a moment of silence yesterday for Charlie in the United
(22:11):
States Congress, and Democrats booed or jeered during this refused,
refused there. These are representatives of the United States Congress
and they paid by the taxpayer, supposed to represent I mean,
I know some of you are going to say, well,
that's absurd, but these Democrats are supposed to represent our
(22:31):
highest ideals of this republic. And an American, a father,
I mean, a husband, a fundamentally good man, and an
important man, and a kindment was fighting for his life
shot at a speech and Democrats are are jeering during
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the moment of you we can't they won't do that.
What is wrong with these people that I just Clai,
We have to ask this question. It's not just the shooter.
It's not just the shooter. What is wrong with these
people who don't understand that this was an assault on
all of us, our most fundamental values, and this was
(23:15):
a demonic act that undermines the most important things about
what makes this a country.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I think it all ties together. Actually, whatever you think
about the United Healthcare Company, when the CEO was executed
in cold blood on the streets of Manhattan, the guy
who killed him, became a pin up model for the left.
They tried to turn him into a hero. When the
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high school track stabbing happened in the Texas area Austin,
they raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the high
school kid who stabbed the other high school kid in
the heart and killed him at attract me and he
still has a public defender. So that money was spent
(24:09):
on houses and cars. As my understanding, I think that's
I think that's correct. You can string all of these
demonic evil acts together and there is no both sides
ism here, and certainly it connects to Butler, Pennsylvania and
all this. There is no on the right, however you
(24:30):
want to classify it, because I really at this point
see much of this in the prism of good and evil.
There is no equivalent action on the right. If, as
we said on this program, you said it a little
bit earlier, if who is, if Rachel Maddow were speaking
on a campus and someone blew her head off, I
would be horrified, and I think almost every one of
(24:54):
you out there listening would be horrified too. Whoever you
want to say on the left is an articulate voice
for what believe violence is never the answer. Beat them
in the court of public opinion, beat them with your ideas,
with your arguments.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
This is just I'm observing. I'm observing something here on
the right, we are generally speaking the ones with all
the guns, not including state and law enforcement, a military.
But at Cibilians, we're the ones with all the guns, right,
and the Democrats will only say we're all gun nuts
and we're with the ones all the guns. And yet
look at who has been shot at, killed, almost killed
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in acts of political violence and an assassination, assassination attempt
or an assassination, which is what happened to our friend Charlie.
It all comes from the left. It all comes from left.
They talk about the political violence on January sixth. There
was not a single person involved in January sixth, which
was a small group of the much larger group that
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was involved in what is basically a protest that turned
into a riot.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But the point is.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
No one brought a gun, There were no cops killed.
That was a lot. The only person killed was Ashley
Babit as we know that is there and Clay. They
turned the FBI loose under Biden, and they ruined people's
lives for nothing under the allw it's political violence. They had,
you know, massive fencing and everything around Capitol Hill like
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we were under siege for months just to make their point.
And I can sit here and say, Okay, they shot
at Trump. They shot him in the ear, They tried
to shoot him again. There was a gunfire. You've seen
that golf course. How close he got. They tried to
kill unbelievable that that happened. Yeah, they tried to kill
about a dozen conservative members of Congress. And people say,
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who's they? Leftist lunatics? Do I have to spell this?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Aw?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Do we have to all pretend like we don't see this.
People who believe the rhetoric that's on MSNBC, and that's
on the New York Times editorial page, not on the
front of the internet.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
We're not talking about the this is so important. They
pay their heroes. They put Djokar sir Naiev, the Boston
marathon bomber, on the cover of Rolling Stone to make
him look like some kind of a you know, a hottie.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
These There is something sick and demonic on the left,
in the left, at the top, at the top. I'm
not talking in the fringe. I'm not talking. There is
something deeply wrong in the soul of the opposition to
Trump and the right and yes to our friend Charlie,
and they killed him for it. They killed him for it.
(27:35):
We know what happened here, and so this is why
I You know, there's there's the deep sadness that we're
talking about, but then there's also we wake up today
and look, I've already seen these emails from people, those
of you, some of you who have been listening to
me do this show for or do doing radio now
for over a decade. I'll even listening to Clay since
back in the OutKick days and early in the morning
(27:56):
doing this long. One thing I can promise you is
we're not moving one in off of what matters. We're
not backing off of the truth at all, because we
care about this. We know how much the truth matters
to the country in this moment in time, and we
know that Charlie, if he was here with us, would
say exactly the same thing. Stay in the fight. We're
not backing off one inch. It's not going to make
us change what we say, how we say it, how
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we bring tooth through people. But Clay, we also can't
can't avoid the conversation. It's a painful one about what
is what is the opposition? What are they doing?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Where?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Where is the sense of decency? They want to do this?
Both sides? There's no both sides is them. I can
sit here and rattle off assassination attempts against people on
the right, and by the way, to your point, it
would be horrifying if this had happened to people on
the left. But we don't do that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Our side doesn't do that. What is going on here,
it's very clear, and if a crazy person does do something,
there isn't an entire uh apparatus like you pointed out
a blue sky where people are tap dancing on the
grave of Charlie Kirk. It does not exist.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Look at all the people who have been fired. We
haven't even gotten into this. We'll talk about this more.
People are getting fired for either you know, in some
cases openly celebrating this, which is just I don't you
have no there's just no contact with one's own soul
and basic humanity. To see what anyone saw yesterday, and
(29:30):
we saw it, we saw the video. We didn't just
read about it, and to have any feeling other than
pure revulsion and terror at the evil inflicted on a
human being. And I'm telling him Blue Sky it I'm disturbed, Clay.
(29:51):
I'm disturbed by by the reactions to it brought. And
I mean hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands. This is what
we talked about. If nine to eleven happened today, and
you've talked about at your school, there was a small
at that point. It was a fringe of people that said, well,
America is the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
We deserved this.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
There was a flag burning, there were burning flags. I
had a friend who was just finding out, Well, the
flag burning happened a couple weeks later, but I had
a friend who was still grieving about the loss of
her sister in one of the towers, and she was
standing next to me because Clay, they did this at
a bring the community together in grief meeting, Like we
were all supposed to just sort of hug each other,
(30:32):
and people showed up and burn flags instead. America got
would have deserved this happened at my school.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Twenty years ago. I think it's far worse now. Twenty
four years ago. Look, we're doing a show. We're talking
about very serious things and occasionally, we're gonna have to transition.
We're gonna talk about things that are not very serious,
and I will tell you this. We're gonna play some cuts.
Charlie was on with us in November and we got
some cuts from it and I shared this. Some of
you may have seen me talk about it with Sean
Hannity last night. Charlie was a warrior for truth and justice.
(31:04):
He also to get away sometimes from serious stuff. We
would text he and I just about college football, just
about sports. It's a big sports fan. Loved the Oregon Ducks,
absolutely loved the Orgon Ducks. Would build his entire events
around making sure that he could watch Oregon Ducks football
games on the field. When they beat Ohio State last year,
(31:26):
some of you remember that game. And so Charlie was
a sports fan as many of you are, and I'm
a huge sports fan. I'm gonna be at a game
this weekend. I'm going to try to get away sometimes
from serious things in life. And Price Picks. We are
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(32:11):
fun and get away from the awfulness for a little
bit of time, which is what I'm going to try
to do this weekend. I know many of you are
as well, and we will continue to take your calls
and react as we roll through what is an absolutely
devastating day of news.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
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a lot of it with the Sunday Hang.
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Speaker 2 (32:55):
We'll have a lot of remembrance of Charlie Kirk today
on the show, and also remember it is the anniversary
of nine to eleven, as we know, so it is
a particularly Solemn Day today and we'll play clips from Charlie.
But we know that he was a happy warrior in
what he did, and he would want us to continue
(33:18):
to talk about the issues and certainly to continue to
speak the truth and speak our minds. And we want
to hear from you as well. Let's take a talk
back here, Bb. This is Susan who sent us a
message from Tampa, Florida.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Play it.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
This is Susan from Tampa Bay, Florida. I am so
heartbroken for Charlie's family and what happened yesterday, and it
is just unexcusable. But I want to know when are
the people in our government that have been calling Trump
(33:54):
Hitler and all of his followers maga, When are they
going to pay because they're inciting all this.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, this is what I went off on Hannity last night.
You guys have heard me talk about it for a
long time. You can't incite violence and then condemn it
when it happens. It is just it's so dishonest when
you tell people they think these people are diluted in
their brains, they think they're the hero of a film.
(34:24):
In their mind, there's like a movie soundtrack playing in
the background and they're the hero and they're killing Hitler.
That's what they've convinced themselves. The guy I guarantee you
who killed Charlie Kirk, he bought into all of this
and he believes I guarantee you. He thinks he's a
hero for killing Charlie Kirk. The guy who tried to
(34:47):
kill Trump thought he was a hero. Both of them did.
You can't incite violence and then condemn it when it
happens and act like you had nothing to do with
the initial incitement. And that's what the Barack Obamas and
the Joe Biden's of the world, the Kamala harris Is
of the world, all of them. They what is the
equivalent attack that we like, Oh, you're a communist, which
(35:11):
is actually sometimes very much true in the case of
Mamdanni right like, there is no right wing equivalent to
your Hitler. You're the worst person basically that anybody can
think of. We have a debate buck where people are like,
should you kill baby Hitler? And people go back and forth, Hey,
what would have been the right decision? They think they're heroes.
(35:32):
That's where this comes from. This is directly a result
of the rhetoric from the left and their leaders. This
is like pretending otherwise, is doing a disservice to basic,
basic honesty.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
It's important to remember in the both sides ism and
to the way to avoid falling into that intellectual uh
dishonesty which they're going to try to foist on all
of us. Is what and clan I are talking about.
What is being said by the left, by the opposition
to Trump, the opposition to Maggot, the opposition to Charlie
(36:05):
and what he stood for. It's coming from the most
powerful and most financially supported and most prominent voices in
the Democrat Party. They all say that Trump is a
unique threat to democracy. They all say that Trump and
his supporters are like Hitler and they wanted to ruin
everyone's life who was even present at the Capitol on
(36:26):
January January sixth. So this is not a fringe thing
with them, and we have to address this realistically.
Welcome in. It is going to be a hard show.
It is going to be a difficult show. I imagine
that a lot of you are like both the Buck
and myself. It's hard to sleep. May not have gotten
a lot of sleep, probably have been hopefully hugging your kids,
your grandkids closer, and trying to deal with the fact
(00:20):
that we live in a world where if you have
the wrong opinion, and I know many of you, sadly,
including me, have expected things like these. We've been talking
about it, unfortunately for over a year after President Trump
took a bullet to the ear. It's awful. We ended
yesterday's show. Buck and I, if you watch on video,
(00:44):
are regularly scrolling through our phone to make sure that
we are the absolute best informed and get you information
as fast as we possibly can. And Buck saw it
first yesterday during the show, and I could see in
his face that something was very bad. And unfortunately, about
(01:05):
an hour after the show ended, Buck, you were basically
on Fox News when it happened. And Charlie Kirk is gone,
thirty one years old. He leaves behind a young son,
young daughter, very very young son and daughter, loving wife.
And they killed him because they did not like his
(01:27):
political opinions. And we're going to talk a lot about
this and have a big conversation with all of you.
But I think at its essence, this is where words
are violence leads to I think if you have to
boil it down. The left has accepted the idea that
if you or I or any of us say something
(01:48):
that they do not like, that violence is an appropriate response.
And where this event, this assassination took place was In
many ways, he's perfectly reflective of the impact that Charlie
Kirk has had in his life. On a college campus
(02:09):
with an open mic where anyone on the campus could
walk up and tell him why he was wrong, and
they could debate anything under the sun, and he had
done this, and he was so profoundly successful at it
that he had particularly moved the hearts and minds of
(02:29):
many young men. And Buck, I'll toss it to you
here in a second. But let me tell you this.
My two oldest boys their entire school today in Nashville
dressed up in coats and ties in honor of Charlie Kirk.
And you went to a school where you had to
dress up sometimes. Let me tell you, these boys don't
want to wear coats and ties. They usually are always complaining.
(02:53):
They're like, oh, it's a coat and tie day, dad.
The whole school wore coats and ties in honor of Charlie.
Can I understand some of you, maybe you're in your sixties, seventies, eighties,
You might not have been the target audience necessarily seeing
this content, But I would tell you, particularly if you
have sons, grandsons, young people in your households, they may
(03:15):
be hurting quite a bit and impacted by this far
more than even you might have been. So buck that
it is just a devastating yet sadly not unexpected to
meet event.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It's a day of mourning for the whole country because
of what happened within the last twenty four hours. And
also it is the remembrance of nine to eleven today,
so it's a particularly hard and emotional day. It was
going to be before this horrific event happened, And now
we sit here with you, and we we grieve with.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
All of you.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Because of what happened to Charlie, and which is just horrific.
Beyond I we were when Clay saw me yesterday, I
was felt like I was going to throw up. When
we were I was reading the initial text messages about it,
and we were on this we went into a commercial
break at the very end of the show. Of course,
I didn't want to say anything at first, because this
(04:15):
is there's some news stories that you know, you just
cannot get wrong, you can't and there's so much false
information out there these days, and so so we really
wanted to be just bring you the facts about this.
And then I was on with Will will Kine, who's
a been a friend of mine now for I don't
know fifteen almost fifteen years, and and Will texted me
(04:36):
and said, will you please come on and talk about
what's going on? And I got some I got word
when I was on the air. It was very early
on in the show, Clay, but I had already been
informed pretty reliably that Charlie wasn't going to make it.
But then I again, I, you know, we're dealing with
the not certain, you know. You obviously I can't say
(04:58):
that if I'm not one hundred percent sure, But I'm thinking,
and I'm you know, it's just all the processing, the grief,
the trauma that people feel right now. We feel it
with you. Clay and I both knew and liked Charlie
and had a tremendous respect for what he had built
(05:19):
and what he had done, and in this last election
playing a critical role, especially with getting that youth vote,
to start to see reality. And it's it's just one
of those moments, Clay, where you go to bed at night,
to the degree you can even sleep and it's still
(05:41):
you know, just doesn't feel like this could have been
what happened. It's it's so horrific and it's so wrong
and evil on so many levels. I feel for Charlie's family,
his wife, his two small children, his mom, his dad, everybody,
all of his family is just you know, it's I
(06:02):
don't know how it's possible for them to even begin
to deal with something like this. Charlie was a force
of nature. Charlie was doing really incredible work and returning
in a lot of ways. I think, Clay, the conversation
(06:23):
back to some of our core and most important founding principles.
All right, let's talk about let's have this debate, let's
have this exchange of ideas. And you know, I know
that there's this sense that, well, we are in mourning,
and so should we get into the politics of this
right away, Charlie was assassinated. I mean, this was a
(06:47):
terror act. This was an assassination.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
This we was kilmed because of his politics. That's right,
it's impossible not to talk about politics.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's exactly what I want to express. Thank you. Yes,
it's this wasn't a you know it would be. It
would be tragic and horrible if he had died because
of you know, an armed robber who shot him or
something like that. That would be horrible. That would be
a terrible crime. But this was done because of who
Charlie was. We all know that. In fact, the FBI
(07:16):
and will continue to I am hopeful that there will
be an arrest while we are on the air today.
That's not going to bring Charlie back, and I know
that this is not going to be able to comfort
the grieving right now in a in a meaningful way,
but it will at least be the justice system beginning
(07:37):
to do what it is possible for the justice system
to do to create some accountability. I think this should
be a death penalty case or the individual involved. I
am hopeful that they will get this person. There's reporting
that they they have the weapon us was a bolt
action rifle. That is confirmed by the FB. I watched
(08:00):
the press conference this morning. It's two hundred yards perhaps
two hundred plus yards shot. So it's somebody who had
an understanding of how they had some practice. This is
not someone who bought a gun and then the next
day went just went on a shooting spree. This is
somebody who had some ability to shoot it with accuracy.
(08:22):
They're saying they think it's right now. The person the
main personal interest is college age. We'll see. I mean,
they've been a lot of you have updated.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
On what we just mentioned. I just retweeted they have
shared photos of the individual that from FBI Salt Lake
City Field Office. They have photos of the man that
they believe is responsible for the shooting. And I just
retweeted those college age as you were going to.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Write, so they have clear video college age. I will
note that there have been numerous photos of individuals of
interest shared previously, including FBI statements that we have. This
is this is where the investigative process can be a
little confusing or can create some confusion, especially in the
online ecosystem. A person of interest does not mean we
(09:08):
have the person. It's exactly what it sounds like it's
we think this is a person we definitely need to
speak to. There have been a couple of those people
in custody. Initially there was the there was some crazy
old guy who was saying, you know, and people thought
that he did not he was right there, he didn't
had nothing to do with the shooting, or you know,
it clearly wasn't him. So there's been a lot of
(09:32):
iterations of this already. So Clay, yes, there's there's video
out there of this individual. The FBI has also confirmed
that there are things written on the rifle and I
believe on the shell casings from this morning's press conference,
which is going to be it's going to tell us
(09:54):
what the we know the motivation as politics, we know
this was an assassination. We might have a more direct sense,
a more precise sense of what this maniac. And I
agree with people say when you say maniac, that makes
it sound like a person not of their right mind.
It's really just demonic. It's a demonic act to do
(10:15):
this to Charlie, to do this to Charlie's family, to
do this to the American people. And one thing I
can say to all of you, Clay totally. I know
he co signs on this. I know that he is
of the same heart and mind and this as I am.
If something like this had happened to a prominent Democrat,
I also would have felt sick to my stomach. I
also would have said, what the heck is going on
in this country? This is disgusting, it is egregious, it
(10:39):
is inhuman. And yet Clay, last night I was on
I went on Blue Sky. Do you know about you?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Have you been on the Guy? I didn't go on,
but I have seen the postings. I mean, this is
not a fringe part of the left. There is malignant
glee over this assassination that is widely shared and disgusting.
But I don't want you thinking, oh, this is They're
going to try to say, oh, this is just an
(11:08):
aberrational individual. This is not reflective of ideas on the left.
There is a huge, toxic, foundational core of the Democrat Party,
of the far left in this country that is celebrating
political violence and assassination of people. They don't like Blue Sky,
which I do not recommend any of you download or
(11:28):
go on, but I felt like I needed to in
advance of this show and it's honestly, it's so depraved.
It is a giant echo chamber of people congratulating each
other and cheering for what happened yesterday. It's the most apault.
I mean, I honestly just nightmare stuff. You go, you
(11:52):
look what is wrong with these people. Charlie never advocated
violence against anybody. Charlie Uh, never you know, raised a
hand against anyone. His whole thing was let's talk, let's talk.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And and an assassin kills him. And and we cannot
think of this as something that occurred in a vacuum.
Clay or or you use the word aberind or that
you know that this is something It was twice they
tried to kill Donald Trump. These are all people of
the same ideology. Twice they tried to kill Donald Trump.
(12:30):
Now we've had people shooting up, Uh. We had the
shooting up the church in Minneapolis because of radical trans ideology.
We had the Nashville Manifesto hidden from us because it
was a radical trans terrorist. But I don't I don't
know what the stated ideology this person is other than
it's someone who hates Trump, hates Charlie is of the left,
and therefore Clay is part of this. This just rotten.
(12:54):
This this fetid nass psychosis that Democrats think, and they
can say any You can't just run around saying people
are Nazis all the time, because a lot of people
think that if you could go back in time and
kill Nazis, that would be a good thing. I want
to keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I went off on this last night, and I was
on with our friend Sean Hannity in the evening. That
to me is the crux of all of this. There
are consequences when you say, hey, my political opponents are Nazis.
Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler, they are fascists. They're going
to overthrow the government. There's not going to be an
(13:32):
election in twenty twenty eight. The guy who tried to
kill Trump and West Palm Beach said he was doing
it because he believed Trump was Hitler. If you truly believe,
and some of these crazy people do, If you truly
believe that Trump is Hitler, or that you're Hitler, or
that I'm Hitler, or that Charlie Kirk is Hitler, or
all of you out there who voted for Trump or Hitler,
(13:53):
then don't tell me right after you kill someone or
attempt to kill someone. We condemned politic violence because it's
a lie. Political violence would be justified if we were
Adolph Hitler. And in their brain, some of their crazy,
deluded followers are taking that charge and they believe it,
(14:15):
and they killed Charlie Kirk over it, I one hundred
billion percent believe, and they tried to kill Donald Trump
over it. And they would try to kill you, and
they would try to kill me, and they would try
to kill anyone that they believe is hilarian because they
think they're a hero in their deluded mental sphere.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
This Charlie was. We knew Charlie, but he was also
on our on our team. He was doing what we do,
meaning Clay and I and so many others. Do you know.
He was doing a podcast in a radio show and
he was spreading the truth, the truth. So they killed him.
He was killed. He an assassin's bullet took his life
(14:56):
because he was speaking the truth. And to Clay's point,
the same people cheering for this, which is which is
just monstrous. And I had to know that it was
true before I could tell you. But that is happening
a lot of people, a lot of people on the left.
The psychosis of these people is is really troubling for
(15:19):
the future of this country. While while people on the
right and people voted for Trump are grieving and thinking
about Charlie's poor wife and his kids, and people are crying,
and I'm getting text messages from people. I can't sleep
at night. All I can think about is Charlie's wife
and his kids and what have they done to us?
And then I and then there are democrats who are acting.
We can't ignore it, and we won't ignore it. We'll
(15:41):
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we'd want to take a lot of your I know
a lot of you want to weigh in and speak
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Speaker 2 (17:11):
That was Charlie. And we're going to be playing some
remembrance clips of our friend and a champion for free speech,
for America, for the truth, Charlie Kirk. Going to be
spending time in memoria of him today on the show,
and continue also to look at the investigation. We want
his killer in cuffs and facing the full might of
(17:34):
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
I do think that you mentioned earlier, oh politics, This
is politics. This is the Left deciding that they're going
to use violence to shut down what they consider to
be accurately and a powerful and articulate voice for basic
(19:18):
common sense in America. And I think that everybody out there,
regardless of what you do, just like I think it's
not at the timing on this, the connection is to
me quite self evident with the twenty fourth anniversary of
nine to eleven. There are always going to be people
(19:39):
that hate the freedoms that we have in the United States,
whether it's freedom for basic human rights, whether it is
freedom of speech, and I think it's incumbent upon all
of us in whatever we do in life. Everyone out
there listening to rise up and ensure that people who
want to silence speech and people who want to attack
(20:00):
our freedoms, that they don't win, because their goal is
to provoke fear. Their goal is to create cowardice among people.
And I think we have to respond in the exact
opposite way and be braver and stronger and more courageous,
even if that does sometimes entail elements of risk. And
(20:24):
I said this to you off air, and I talked
to my boys. I'm just gonna be honest with you, guys.
My boys are old enough, I think to understand it.
I talked about the fact that they were I think
it's fair to say profoundly saddened and impacted in a
way that because they're so young, I don't know that
they've had to deal with things like this. And I
(20:45):
talked about what their school and everything else. It could
be any of us. I'm not surprised, That's what I'm saying.
This feel has felt just like when I knew and
we talked about Trump was going to get shot, the nastiness,
the pure evil bond and see the the glee that
you see for evil on the left. It's not ending,
(21:08):
it's getting worse. There is a toxicity inside of their
souls that is manifesting itself in violence against people that
they see as threats.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Well, there's there's a lot, a lot there and we
are seeing it in the ugliness of it. And we
saw it after Trump was shot as well, because there
were so many people on the left who were or
were very open that they were sad that the president
was okay or that yeh, the soon to be president
was okay, and also had not a single thought for
(21:39):
the husband, the father who was killed in that field and.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
By about they said he didn't even get hit in
the ear. Gavin Newsom shared a big thing, a ketchup, like, oh,
he just made it up. It's not even real, that's
what they said.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
But a man lost his life that day as well,
and it was something that the Democrats and the left
and they just completely ignored. Look, we have to deal
with this. We have to be honest about what the
response is here. Because there was an attempt to get
a moment of silence yesterday for Charlie in the United
(22:11):
States Congress, and Democrats booed or jeered during this refused,
refused there. These are representatives of the United States Congress
and they paid by the taxpayer, supposed to represent I mean,
I know some of you are going to say, well,
that's absurd, but these Democrats are supposed to represent our
(22:31):
highest ideals of this republic. And an American, a father,
I mean, a husband, a fundamentally good man, and an
important man, and a kindment was fighting for his life
shot at a speech and Democrats are are jeering during
(22:54):
the moment of you we can't they won't do that.
What is wrong with these people that I just Clai,
We have to ask this question. It's not just the shooter.
It's not just the shooter. What is wrong with these
people who don't understand that this was an assault on
all of us, our most fundamental values, and this was
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a demonic act that undermines the most important things about
what makes this a country.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I think it all ties together. Actually, whatever you think
about the United Healthcare Company, when the CEO was executed
in cold blood on the streets of Manhattan, the guy
who killed him, became a pin up model for the left.
They tried to turn him into a hero. When the
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high school track stabbing happened in the Texas area Austin,
they raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the high
school kid who stabbed the other high school kid in
the heart and killed him at attract me and he
still has a public defender. So that money was spent
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on houses and cars. As my understanding, I think that's
I think that's correct. You can string all of these
demonic evil acts together and there is no both sides
ism here, and certainly it connects to Butler, Pennsylvania and
all this. There is no on the right, however you
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want to classify it, because I really at this point
see much of this in the prism of good and evil.
There is no equivalent action on the right. If, as
we said on this program, you said it a little
bit earlier, if who is, if Rachel Maddow were speaking
on a campus and someone blew her head off, I
would be horrified, and I think almost every one of
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you out there listening would be horrified too. Whoever you
want to say on the left is an articulate voice
for what believe violence is never the answer. Beat them
in the court of public opinion, beat them with your ideas,
with your arguments.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
This is just I'm observing. I'm observing something here on
the right, we are generally speaking the ones with all
the guns, not including state and law enforcement, a military.
But at Cibilians, we're the ones with all the guns, right,
and the Democrats will only say we're all gun nuts
and we're with the ones all the guns. And yet
look at who has been shot at, killed, almost killed
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in acts of political violence and an assassination, assassination attempt
or an assassination, which is what happened to our friend Charlie.
It all comes from the left. It all comes from left.
They talk about the political violence on January sixth. There
was not a single person involved in January sixth, which
was a small group of the much larger group that
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was involved in what is basically a protest that turned
into a riot.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But the point is.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
No one brought a gun, There were no cops killed.
That was a lot. The only person killed was Ashley
Babit as we know that is there and Clay. They
turned the FBI loose under Biden, and they ruined people's
lives for nothing under the allw it's political violence. They had,
you know, massive fencing and everything around Capitol Hill like
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we were under siege for months just to make their point.
And I can sit here and say, Okay, they shot
at Trump. They shot him in the ear, They tried
to shoot him again. There was a gunfire. You've seen
that golf course. How close he got. They tried to
kill unbelievable that that happened. Yeah, they tried to kill
about a dozen conservative members of Congress. And people say,
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who's they? Leftist lunatics? Do I have to spell this?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Aw?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Do we have to all pretend like we don't see this.
People who believe the rhetoric that's on MSNBC, and that's
on the New York Times editorial page, not on the
front of the internet.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
We're not talking about the this is so important. They
pay their heroes. They put Djokar sir Naiev, the Boston
marathon bomber, on the cover of Rolling Stone to make
him look like some kind of a you know, a hottie.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
These There is something sick and demonic on the left,
in the left, at the top, at the top. I'm
not talking in the fringe. I'm not talking. There is
something deeply wrong in the soul of the opposition to
Trump and the right and yes to our friend Charlie,
and they killed him for it. They killed him for it.
(27:35):
We know what happened here, and so this is why
I You know, there's there's the deep sadness that we're
talking about, but then there's also we wake up today
and look, I've already seen these emails from people, those
of you, some of you who have been listening to
me do this show for or do doing radio now
for over a decade. I'll even listening to Clay since
back in the OutKick days and early in the morning
(27:56):
doing this long. One thing I can promise you is
we're not moving one in off of what matters. We're
not backing off of the truth at all, because we
care about this. We know how much the truth matters
to the country in this moment in time, and we
know that Charlie, if he was here with us, would
say exactly the same thing. Stay in the fight. We're
not backing off one inch. It's not going to make
us change what we say, how we say it, how
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we bring tooth through people. But Clay, we also can't
can't avoid the conversation. It's a painful one about what
is what is the opposition? What are they doing?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Where?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Where is the sense of decency? They want to do this?
Both sides? There's no both sides is them. I can
sit here and rattle off assassination attempts against people on
the right, and by the way, to your point, it
would be horrifying if this had happened to people on
the left. But we don't do that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Our side doesn't do that. What is going on here,
it's very clear, and if a crazy person does do something,
there isn't an entire uh apparatus like you pointed out
a blue sky where people are tap dancing on the
grave of Charlie Kirk. It does not exist.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Look at all the people who have been fired. We
haven't even gotten into this. We'll talk about this more.
People are getting fired for either you know, in some
cases openly celebrating this, which is just I don't you
have no there's just no contact with one's own soul
and basic humanity. To see what anyone saw yesterday, and
(29:30):
we saw it, we saw the video. We didn't just
read about it, and to have any feeling other than
pure revulsion and terror at the evil inflicted on a
human being. And I'm telling him Blue Sky it I'm disturbed, Clay.
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I'm disturbed by by the reactions to it brought. And
I mean hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands. This is what
we talked about. If nine to eleven happened today, and
you've talked about at your school, there was a small
at that point. It was a fringe of people that said, well,
America is the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
We deserved this.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
There was a flag burning, there were burning flags. I
had a friend who was just finding out, Well, the
flag burning happened a couple weeks later, but I had
a friend who was still grieving about the loss of
her sister in one of the towers, and she was
standing next to me because Clay, they did this at
a bring the community together in grief meeting, Like we
were all supposed to just sort of hug each other,
(30:32):
and people showed up and burn flags instead. America got
would have deserved this happened at my school.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Twenty years ago. I think it's far worse now. Twenty
four years ago. Look, we're doing a show. We're talking
about very serious things and occasionally, we're gonna have to transition.
We're gonna talk about things that are not very serious,
and I will tell you this. We're gonna play some cuts.
Charlie was on with us in November and we got
some cuts from it and I shared this. Some of
you may have seen me talk about it with Sean
Hannity last night. Charlie was a warrior for truth and justice.
(31:04):
He also to get away sometimes from serious stuff. We
would text he and I just about college football, just
about sports. It's a big sports fan. Loved the Oregon Ducks,
absolutely loved the Orgon Ducks. Would build his entire events
around making sure that he could watch Oregon Ducks football
games on the field. When they beat Ohio State last year,
(31:26):
some of you remember that game. And so Charlie was
a sports fan as many of you are, and I'm
a huge sports fan. I'm gonna be at a game
this weekend. I'm going to try to get away sometimes
from serious things in life. And Price Picks. We are
going to give you a pick, as we do every
single week on Thursday on this show, and so you
(31:49):
can go to Price Picks. We won last week. Travis
Kelcey more than one half receiving yard Derrick Henry more
than one half rushing and receiving touchdown, Jaden Daniels more
than one and a half touchdown passes. That's the pick.
You can go to prize picks dot com. You can
use my name Clay. That's price picks dot com. My
name Clay, and hopefully we'll be able to have some
(32:11):
fun and get away from the awfulness for a little
bit of time, which is what I'm going to try
to do this weekend. I know many of you are
as well, and we will continue to take your calls
and react as we roll through what is an absolutely
devastating day of news.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Sometimes all you can do is laugh, and they do
a lot of it with the Sunday Hang.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
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Speaker 1 (32:48):
If you follow the ten commandments, your life will be
objectively better and your society will be objectively better.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
We'll have a lot of remembrance of Charlie Kirk today
on the show, and also remember it is the anniversary
of nine to eleven, as we know, so it is
a particularly Solemn Day today and we'll play clips from Charlie.
But we know that he was a happy warrior in
what he did, and he would want us to continue
(33:18):
to talk about the issues and certainly to continue to
speak the truth and speak our minds. And we want
to hear from you as well. Let's take a talk
back here, Bb. This is Susan who sent us a
message from Tampa, Florida.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Play it.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
This is Susan from Tampa Bay, Florida. I am so
heartbroken for Charlie's family and what happened yesterday, and it
is just unexcusable. But I want to know when are
the people in our government that have been calling Trump
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Hitler and all of his followers maga, When are they
going to pay because they're inciting all this.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, this is what I went off on Hannity last night.
You guys have heard me talk about it for a
long time. You can't incite violence and then condemn it
when it happens. It is just it's so dishonest when
you tell people they think these people are diluted in
their brains, they think they're the hero of a film.
(34:24):
In their mind, there's like a movie soundtrack playing in
the background and they're the hero and they're killing Hitler.
That's what they've convinced themselves. The guy I guarantee you
who killed Charlie Kirk, he bought into all of this
and he believes I guarantee you. He thinks he's a
hero for killing Charlie Kirk. The guy who tried to
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kill Trump thought he was a hero. Both of them did.
You can't incite violence and then condemn it when it
happens and act like you had nothing to do with
the initial incitement. And that's what the Barack Obamas and
the Joe Biden's of the world, the Kamala harris Is
of the world, all of them. They what is the
equivalent attack that we like, Oh, you're a communist, which
(35:11):
is actually sometimes very much true in the case of
Mamdanni right like, there is no right wing equivalent to
your Hitler. You're the worst person basically that anybody can
think of. We have a debate buck where people are like,
should you kill baby Hitler? And people go back and forth, Hey,
what would have been the right decision? They think they're heroes.
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That's where this comes from. This is directly a result
of the rhetoric from the left and their leaders. This
is like pretending otherwise, is doing a disservice to basic,
basic honesty.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
It's important to remember in the both sides ism and
to the way to avoid falling into that intellectual uh
dishonesty which they're going to try to foist on all
of us. Is what and clan I are talking about.
What is being said by the left, by the opposition
to Trump, the opposition to Maggot, the opposition to Charlie
(36:05):
and what he stood for. It's coming from the most
powerful and most financially supported and most prominent voices in
the Democrat Party. They all say that Trump is a
unique threat to democracy. They all say that Trump and
his supporters are like Hitler and they wanted to ruin
everyone's life who was even present at the Capitol on
(36:26):
January January sixth. So this is not a fringe thing
with them, and we have to address this realistically.
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