The Assassination of Charlie Kirk | Best of Sept. 11 | The Rick Burgess Show - The Rick Burgess Show

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Ready to go America. And we work our way through
another one today. Speedy, Greg's here, Adler is here. As
you heard, as we gave you the starting lineup. We're
not going to, you know, pretend otherwise. These are the

(02:00):
days when we do what we do for a living
are the most difficult and uh and they are because
we understand that there's so many of you out there.
Uh and you're you're having such a wild range of
emotion uh and uh and and it's all over. Some
of you are like, I wanna I want to sit

(02:21):
here with you guys, y'all are like my friends. I'm
so glad you feel that way. And I let's let's
do therapy today. I want y'all to be my counselors.
Let's let's work through this, and let's let's go through it.
Then there's people that say, man, I need a break
from all this.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
I need y'all to give me a laugh today, and
I need I need something like uh just to kind
of help me. Then there's people that are saying, I
need something spiritual. I want I want to I want
to talk about this from a spiritual standpoint. I want
to know what's going on in our world. I want
to know if we're approaching you know, the end.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
You know, it just feels like darkness is increasing. Uh,
and I want to have that conversation today. Hey, guys,
don't forget nine to eleven. Uh, So this is this.
We're not pretending this is going to be simple. But
everything that you're out, those those scenarios, and I certainly
didn't name them all because there's so many unique needs

(03:18):
out there, but I will say, in general, everything I
just mentioned we will cover. We're not going to spend
the whole show on any of it, but the show
will include all of it. Yeah, so there we go. Yeah,
the show's real. Yeah, and and we understand that, and
so we will do all of that because that's our DNA.
That's who we are. So we we aren't just comedy.

(03:38):
We aren't just news and headlines. We aren't just spiritual.
We're we're a little bit of all that now, we
we we do go more toward the comedy now, kind
of like the early days of of Rick and Bubba.
We we we we definitely are intentionally doing more of that,
and that seems to be what this show was supposed

(04:01):
to do. However, we certainly didn't leave talking about serious
things either. We still have the Bible study had it yesterday.
We still talk about, you know, our faith and the
things we believe, and we still do very serious things too,
probably not as much of it when it comes to
headlines and news as we were doing toward the latter

(04:22):
years of Rick and Bubba. But today, obviously this is
at the forefront, and we'll probably do more of it
today than we've done this year, but we won't do
the whole show on it, so we'll kind of mix
and match. So it is the twenty fourth anniversary of
the attack on America nine to eleven, and today we
rise adding to that another political assassination in our nation's history.

(04:46):
And those are always jolting, they're shocking, you know. I
wish I really do, And you know, I'm a grown man.
I'm sixty years old. I've seen some really really horrible things.
I've lived some horrible things. I'm not new to difficulty,
calamity and tragedy. However, I wish I had not seen

(05:09):
the video that was sent to me yesterday, the close
up shot, And I would encourage all of you out there,
if somebody sends you don't just go clicking on things
with the Charlie Kirk assassination because it's it's traumatizing stuff.
It really is. And I'm not saying that we you know,
act like it didn't happen. I don't mean that, but uh,

(05:30):
it's it's some rough stuff, and you need to be
careful what your kids are seeing and and based on
their age and how you want to walk all that out.
But it's it's reckless out there, and which is normal
in the time that we're living in. So just be
aware of that. I would, I would caution you on that.
So we we were all just kind of I actually
had finished the the Bible study and was in a

(05:53):
meeting with two men and we were discussing deep spiritual things,
and so I kind of eased back into my office,
ready to grab my stuff and go home for what
Speedy and I got to do yesterday afternoon, which was,
you know, a pleasure to do.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
And I look down at my phone, and of course,
what do I see. I see nothing but text from
people simply saying Charlie Kirk unbelievable. And I'm like, I don't,
I don't have any idea what's going on. And then
Speedy sent the video to the group text and I
realized something's going. I thought I was about to see
Charlie Kirk saying something really you know, provocative and once again,

(06:34):
you know, taking some ridiculous liberal and and showing them
that they can't logically debate him. And uh, and I
really thought that was that's what I was going to see.
And of course when I clicked on it, what I
saw I wish I had never seen. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
And as we as we start this show, uh, we

(06:56):
we have we do not have anybody in custody. We
have vetted out someone who I guess was a protester.
That was the older gentleman. He's clean. As far as
the assassination, we had a person of interest. I think
they've released them. And so the shooter and everybody behind

(07:17):
the shooter are unknown at this point, so we don't know.
Watch some professionals and listen to it. I'm not an expert,
but just based on the things that we have experienced
over sixty years of life and over forty years of
covering things like this, I agreed with the assessment. I

(07:39):
would be surprised if it wasn't a professional assassin. The
way it all happened and the fact that we don't
have him. Usually when it's just I'm mad and I've
got a gun and I can shoot it pretty good,
kind of like Butler. But after I shoot, I don't
really have a plan. The assassins, they they ease in.

(08:01):
They they if they get you, it's a kill shot
and they ease out.

Speaker 6 (08:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
And it feels that way. Now it may turn out
that that's not right, but it but it sure does
feel that way. And then of course you get into well,
if it's a professional hit, Uh, who called for it?
And that'll who knows? I don't have that. I don't
have those answers today and no one does. But but
we will see. Now we will talk about, you know,
the broader topic of the state of our society. Now,

(08:29):
I will say this because we do tend to sometimes
live in our own time and and forget about history.
Political assassinations have been around a while, yeah, uh, we
you know, we've we've seen unfortunately too many of those,
and so that that isn't new. But the toxic society

(08:51):
that we're living in right now, and what feels like
ever increasing darkness over just disagreements politically and spiritually. Now,
now that feels you know, when you think about Abraham
Lincoln being assassinated, I mean that was after the Civil War,
the darkness of the Kennedys, uh, Martin Luther King Junior,

(09:17):
you know, and and and the list just kind of
and then the attempts on Reagan and the attempts, the
attempt on Trump. You know, you look at all those
and you know, even though these are all people trying
to kill people for political or moral reasons. Now it

(09:38):
just feels like we're in a time where something that
would have been an elevated debate at the coffee shop
now ends with, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna kill you.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
I keep trying to make my point and you keep
refuting my point, and I can't seem to win this argument,
and I'm just I'm just gonna kill you, you know, I mean, and.

Speaker 8 (10:00):
Or you're hitler.

Speaker 9 (10:02):
It just yeah, you're compared to just because of different opinions,
you're the mass mass killer, the worst, one of the
worst mass killers.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
Here.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, it's like we we we now must destroy you,
as you just said, either destroy your life, your your vocation,
your ability to make a living, are physically kill you
because I don't agree with you politically or morally. That's
that feels new.

Speaker 10 (10:27):
This is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
So we'll we'll unpack the Charlie Kirk situation for sure. Uh,
and we're doing that now, we'll we'll go back. I
mean the thing too, is like I literally started getting
emails in text yesterday. When do you think you guys
are going to talk about this? And I'm like, when
you're talking about five hours, it's going to be on
our mind. There's no way we're not going to talk
about right out of the gate. So we may talk

(10:55):
about a little while, put a pause on it, pick
it back up.

Speaker 6 (10:58):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
I don't know any other way to do it when
you're doing such a show that is so long, and
you know, you got people that this show to them
is two hours from now, and others are saying I'm
here right now, let's go. And then you've got somebody saying, well,
I want to hear that. So that's the beauty of
the archive. It's impossible for us in the live show
to cater to every need or preference, but you can

(11:22):
go back on the podcast or the YouTube archive and
go back and catch our discussion about anything anytime on
your own time, so keep that in mind too. So
we certainly know this and Adler and I you mentioned
the speedy it really was. I don't want to get
overly spiritual as far as the feeling like that somehow

(11:44):
there was a calling put on this show that was
our role in trying to prepare for the way things
are going in our society. But you can't really ignore
the fact because you know, we're just one of many
platforms that God uses. Anio Bush will do as we say.
He's what's wonderful, not the platform or the voice that

(12:06):
is speaking or the instrument that's being used. But it
is interesting that we were approached about doing a podcast
about the supernatural, and of course we drew a hard
line on that, saying we're not going to do you know, Bigfoot,
space Aliens, ghost, slender Man, fill in the blank, but

(12:26):
agreed if it because feel like it was super important,
not knowing some of the things that were ahead. Yeah,
let's do a podcast that will concentrate on trying to
educate everyone, including ourselves, continuing to educate on spiritual warfare
because most of the things that people tilt their head
about in our society. I can't believe that somebody would

(12:48):
just do something so wicked. Well, that's because you're underestimating
a spiritual component to all this. Now, our country for
some reason doesn't want to take on the spiritual component
of it because it's not popular and not everybody shares
the same belief So we just we try to figure
out ways to answer things. Well, I tell you what
it's like. When when we started themanchurch dot com, Pat

(13:13):
Morley had written not patm mo, was it Pet money? Yeah,
had written the book many years ago called Man in
the Mirror. I think it's Pat More and I have
that right, check me on that atter. Is that right,
Pat Morley? Man in the Mirror? Uh So so anyway, Uh,
he he wrote a book that kept talking about Patrick Morley. Yeah,
that he kept talking about and he was one hundred

(13:34):
percent correct that the church too many times when it
comes to reaching and discipling men, they keep trying to
address the symptoms, but they're not addressing the disease. Let's
go help this guy with his porn problem, noble, But
but why does he have a porn problem.

Speaker 11 (13:52):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Let's go talk to this guy about him being a drunk.
But why is he a drunk?

Speaker 11 (13:56):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Let's talk about how he's not being faithful to his wife.
Why is he not being faithful to his wife? What's
the disease? And so we have a bunch of events
and we challenge men they need to clean their act up,
but then we never equip them to do it. What's
the disease? And he correctly pointed out in this book
the disease is we don't really disciple men. We don't

(14:18):
equip them. We challenge them, but we don't equip them.
And if all you do is challenge but you don't equip,
you just frustrate people. So that's when we felt called
to say, well, we've read this book. Pat's right, we
have talked about this too. Why don't we do something
about it. So we created a system and resources to
also equip, not just challenge. We certainly challenge, but we

(14:42):
equip as well. And that's not our concept, that's the
Bible's concept. Okay. So I think we do the same thing,
is that we want to go after the symptoms of
the things that are wrong in our country, but we
won't go after the disease. And the disease is we
are spiritually dark. We are an immoral society, and we

(15:03):
continue to blaspheme and allow God to be blasphemed, and
we are perpetuating these wicked and evil people. And when
you are dealing with demonic wicked darkness, demonic wicked darkness
loves chaos, kill, steal, destroy, And what we do is

(15:28):
we go I don't want there to be a lot
of wickedness in our world. And we go out and
we create an environment where the soil is rich for demonic, black,
dark wickedness. And then we seem a gas that it's everywhere.
We've created the soil, We've fertilized the soil. And so
now we've gone from people that could sit down and say,

(15:50):
well I have to disagree with that, and what I
disagree with you, and let's hear your narrative, and now
you hear mine and disagree to disagree. You can even
get passionate in agree and disagree. But now we're like, well,
I'm so frustrating you, I'm just gonna kill you. You
said something I don't like, So I'm not just gonna
stop talking to you or not agree with you. I'm
gonna kill you. And this is happening in cities all

(16:12):
over our country. It's happening that we saw yesterday. But
until we're ready to take on some tough things and
absorb some real truth from a spiritual standpoint, we're not
gonna change anything. Bottom of the hour.

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(18:20):
exactly right, And we've actually talked about this at some
man churches. Is in the book I mentioned and I remember,
and it's so so true. Is that sometimes you know,
we say this talking to men and stuff, saying, I
think most of us, if we are worth anything, we

(18:42):
would be willing to die for our families, die for
our wives. I think some of us who are followers
of Jesus, we'd go, you know what, I would die
for my faith, and that is certainly noble, but you know,
it's a lot more difficult living for it, living at
my faith, living for my wife, living for my children,

(19:06):
living for the cause, and because you know, that's that's
much harder, and that's day day to day stuff. And
that's what we're hoping to try to help with because
if we something's got to change with the spiritual component
of our country. And here since we're also today twenty
four years ago nine to eleven, Well, we've talked about

(19:26):
this before. Everybody remembers that the churches were packed, they
were packed, and God was allowing something to try to
get our attention, and for a moment he had it.
He had it, and so as human beings have been
prone to do, not only did we eventually get tired

(19:49):
of that and drift back to where we were, we
went darker than we were before. Yeah, I mean doubled down.
We doubled down and said, not only will we turned
to how we were morally as a country, We're gonna
be worse and and really really show you how how
outrageous we can be, and how dark and pagan and

(20:12):
blasphemous we can be. And there's this spiritual warfare. We'll
talk about it. You know now it looks like Adler
and I at one time. It seems as the weeks go,
we're like, all, we have a few things we can discuss.
And also before we know, we got more than we
can get in the forty minute podcast. Yeah, so you know,
we we had already planned on talking about the cold
blooded murder in Charlotte. We'd already talked about the school

(20:35):
shooter last week on that episode, and so I guess
now we can add you know, the Charlie Kirk situation
and the other things we're going to cover, and that'll
be coming out this weekend. But so nine to eleven
is today something else that you know, I know, we
say never forget I think we have. Frankly, yeah, And

(20:56):
and then you get into the you know, have we
forgotten the answers? Yes, Uh, we didn't learn anything from that.
Uh we we we thought we would. I mean, we
learned to tell people to take the shoes off and
get on airplanes and things like that. But as far
as you know, and we as far as the morality
of the country changing, you know, people tend to be

(21:18):
willing to make deals with God when they're afraid, but
then eventually they get to where they're not afraid anymore.
And the reason why, as we said a thousand times,
if you're ever looking for why God allows pain and suffering,
is because it works. And and here here we are,
again hoping with something like this where everybody's pondering everything

(21:39):
about themselves and how did we get where we are?
How did we get like this? Uh, it's hard. It's
time to ask some hard questions and make some adjustments.

Speaker 10 (21:47):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
And but the kind of things that need to change
are going to require courage and sacrifice. So we'll see. Uh.
But that's so that's really all I have on that
right now. I have some emails in stuff that we'll
get into, and hey, burge and and but if y'all
I know, y'all, may you know I don't want to

(22:07):
get into things that you know that you're gonna be
able to get everywhere else. But I'm sure you guys
have got you know. It was an emotional day for
y'all too well.

Speaker 12 (22:15):
I was just looking back at the you know, Glenn
Beck asked you to be on Glenn Back TV on
Friday to talk about the Minneapolis shooting and they wanted
some talking points and you you spit them out in
like like five minutes. You spit them back out to me,
and I just want to read them. And and this

(22:37):
is this is before what happened yesterday. Yeah, but it
really it really talks about what you just said and
the problem that we have.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (22:44):
This is what I sent back to Glenn Back's producer,
what are the talking points? Rick wants to focus on
signs that it's demonic mental illness versus demonic oppression or possession.
Number two, how do we combat combat the trend? Number three?
Does it seem that it's becoming more prevalent?

Speaker 1 (23:03):
And why?

Speaker 7 (23:04):
Four?

Speaker 12 (23:05):
This is a big one. Does the church seem to
be equipping the congregations on how to deal with this?

Speaker 1 (23:10):
And five?

Speaker 12 (23:11):
You can't solve spiritual problems with secular solutions. And those
really hit home to where we are yep, in a
big way.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah. I don't know whether the Glenn Back TV show
will now pivot to having so much to do with
this that maybe I won't be on, But as of
right now, I think it'll just be added to the
list of things we'll talk about.

Speaker 12 (23:29):
Yeah, and speaking of Glenn Beck, this is after it
broke and I sent you guys that, and I had
not watched the video fully, especially the close up, So
I apologize for sending that to y'all. But he reacted
in a way he was actually recording his evening show
when he could tell his wife because he has a
home studio, he could tell his wife was in the

(23:52):
other room and her reaction. He said, he actually said,
can we stop the recording? You know, I need to. Hey, honey,
are you okay? You know, in apparent he had a
daughter that was at the event, if I know this.

Speaker 8 (24:02):
Correctly, and he said his daughter was in the tent.

Speaker 12 (24:05):
It was in the tent, okay, Well, she was very
close by, and so, as you can imagine, he was
very emotional about it. And so I hope that they
continue with this special because I think it can. I
think it's it's very timely because now you can there's
a lot more to discuss than just the other but
it still hits home to those points that you were discussing.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, and if Glenn is too upset to do something
like that, or that they want to change what they
want to do tomorrow, that's completely understandable. But if that
opportunity continues to afford itself, and as of right now
it still is. I look forward to that conversation.

Speaker 12 (24:40):
And having boys in their twenties. I was able to
talk to him all yesterday and they they even said, Hey, Dad,
I don't know why, but this one hits different, and
I don't know why. I don't know if it's because
they followed him so much, because if you were under thirty,
his influence and his voice on college campuses and to

(25:01):
that generation was big into your I mean, Trump was
even crediting him with winning the election because he was
able to masterfully impact and have influence with those in
that age group, and it really turned things. And I
guess that's why. But we were able to have long
discussions and I'm seeing through text nation that it offers you,

(25:25):
you up an opportunity to talk to your either adult
kids or teenagers or even younger about this situation in
the darkness it's in this country. But they were like that,
I don't know why. I can't tell you why, but
this one hits different.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Man, Well, I think you hit on it. I mean,
Greg and I have kids older than Charlie Kirk. He's
thirty one or was thirty one and now is in perfection,
but his earthly life lasted thirty one years. I mean,
like I said, Greg and I both have kids that
are five and six years older than him, you know,

(25:59):
And so I think it's their guy. And he became
as you know, the left and the way they saw
things morally and politically. They took over the education system
of college campuses, and so Charlie Kirk almost became the
antidote to that. He would come into the college campus
and say, now, I know there's been a lot of

(26:19):
things y'all been taught, but I'm going to logically talk
to you about how absurd some of these world views are.
And then he would always stand on, you know, defending
the word of God as you know, being God inspired,
that the standards that God laid down, there's a reason
those work versus the you know, being in opposition to that.

(26:43):
So he could politically and spiritually defend his faith and
defend his political views. And I don't think young people,
I think they look at Charlie Kirk and when they
see no offense. I mean, it's just a fact. It's
the reason why I don't do much youth ministry anymore.
I don't think they look to me and go I

(27:05):
don't think I'm as effective there anymore. I think that's
why I'm in men's ministry now and sharing and I
do marriage together. You know, there was a time when
I was the you know, thirty something year old guy
on the radio. Maybe now I'm the sixty year old
man with a gray mostly gray beard, you know, standing
up there, and I may have some wisdom, but I'm

(27:26):
not their age, right, And I'm not saying you always
have to be. There's wisdom in listening to older people.
I don't mean that, but I'm talking about in certain settings,
a sixty year old man or Donald Trump in his
seventies up there talking about these things to college age
and young adults is different than somebody that looks like them,
sounds like them, is closer to where they are in life.

(27:48):
And he says, oh, no, what these older people are
saying is actually right. That's a whole different thing. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (27:54):
Yeah, I think Speedy to your point too, is that
he was so young, and he had his act together,
and he was so eloquent, and he was so good
at putting out his opinion and it was based on
the Bible and it was based on history. His daily
podcast I was a listener to. He was over the
past year. He became my favorite podcast to listen to.

(28:15):
He was encouraging. He also made me feel like such
a loser in a good way. He was so yes
and just how early he There are many people that
said that they met him ten years ago. And they
were like, you know, big, big time political commentators were like,
one day, I'm gonna be working for that.

Speaker 8 (28:33):
Kid, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (28:35):
Yeah, And uh, he just was. He had a great
way of saying things. I think that it's people people
have said. You know, all he did was talk to people.
That's all he ever did, and he was he was
hated so much for it. But yeah, all he did
was share his thoughts and share his opinions. And that's
an important thing to remember. He was a huge free

(28:55):
speech guy, a huge family man, and just it's just
so sad to see the one year old and the
three year old that are going to be in.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, and when you're in that that time of life now,
so I know that hits hard with you too, and right,
and you're you're close to his age, so I understand
a little bit older, but you have small children too.
He was in that time of life you're in. But
another point, Adler, which that's beautifully said, he didn't just
say he wanted to talk to you. He didn't deny
you the opportunity to refute what he said and debate.

(29:27):
He wanted you to take the mic and say, prove
me with it. Yeah, and that's why he was hating. Yeah,
and that's why when I'm talking about that, that is
somebody I thought said this beautifully on Text Nation. We
had Rush Limbaugh. They had Charlie Kirk as far as
that logic to teach you why the conservative point of view.
Now Rush wasn't as evangelical as Charlie, but from a

(29:50):
political standpoint, you're right, we'll be back. You got the
Rick Burder's show. Thanks for being with us. So the
last time we were together, we talked about the Charlie
Kirk horror, but also another school shooting of some kind. Adler,

(30:11):
tell us what happened.

Speaker 9 (30:12):
Yeah, this is east of Denver in Evergreen, Colorado. A
student shot two of his peers Wednesday in a suburban
Denver school, Evergreen High School, and it kind of got
swept under the rug as we all saw the horror
of the Charlie Kirk event. The shots were fired inside

(30:33):
and outside. Law enforcement came and within five minutes they
found the shooter had taken his own life. One of
the students is stable and the other student is in
critical condition. Again, this is at Evergreen High School. It's
just east of Denver, Colorado.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
So there you go, more and more and more. And
that kind of takes us into a couple of emails
that were sent in overnight, obviously wanting to discuss this topic.
So it says, uh, so, hey, Burge, Charlie was only
thirty one years old, his kids both under four. Now
that a father, ohe the evil? What a great man.

(31:12):
He was a follower of Christ and an advocate for reason.
If there's no tribute for him today, I would be shocked.
Please spend at least two or three segments on this
great American hero, which we've done. And then he says, warning,
please tell people not to watch these graphic videos out there.
It said needless death over a peaceful conversation. Whoever did

(31:33):
this needs to be found and and and you know,
punished to the full extent of the law. So anyway,
uh that that's a great point, and we have talked
about that. You're right, certainly, and we'll talk about it
more later in the program. Hey burg, Hey Burge, I
know you guys will talk about this, which we're already doing,
but I want to send you my thoughts on it.

(31:54):
I've been a listener to the Wednesday Bible Study on Acts,
which we did a long time ago. This week you
mentioned the boldness of the Apostles so many times, and
I just knew it was God's showing me something, and
today I saw it. I don't want to compare Charlie
to the Apostle Paul by any means, but I think
his platform of going to college campuses and debating the

(32:15):
world through the lens of Christ was very bold, and
I honestly don't think he was killed for any reason
other than the fact that he met opposition in a
spiritual way and he was changing the u's point of
view and the generation and turning them toward Christ. My
thoughts was, you've mentioned suffering for God's glory. When I

(32:36):
heard the news, that hit me big time. How is
this tragedy going to bring glory to God? And I
think Charlie answered that partially because three days ago he
made a post about revival in the youth of America.
And I want to say, I think his senseless murder
was the beginning now of that revival that he was
already seeing and said, and also do you think that

(32:58):
he would be considered a for Christ? Now? Thanks and
have a great day. Well, obviously, I do think he
was killed, no doubt because of the evil side of
it in the spiritual realm, no question. But he was
also killed for his political views. But the fact that
he was so bold about his faith publicly and was

(33:20):
working to turn others to Christ with the platform that
always brings spiritual war, because his platform was worthy of attack.
So yes, I think, certainly in many ways, Yes.

Speaker 8 (33:34):
If I could read.

Speaker 9 (33:36):
This is from Erica Kirk, Charlie Kirk's wife, earlier in
the earlier in the day yesterday, she actually tweeted out
this verse Psalm forty six to one. God is our
refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Speaker 7 (33:51):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Timely Yeah, well very so. One more hey birds. Like
many people, I'm shocked by the news of Charlie Kirk's
passing in the terrible situation regarding his earthly death, but
I'm surprisingly at peace. It's not that I'm not angry
or upset, of course i am. It's not that I
don't have an earthly reaction or opinion on it. But
in spite of that, God is still at work to

(34:14):
provide peace and comfort in the midst of tragedy. He
certainly does. That's kind of where I've been since the
news broke. I'm not really one to talk about my
political views in public. I have my views and views
that align with what Charlie stood for. But I know
this whole terrible situation will be politicized enough already, so
I think it's important to focus on how God can

(34:34):
turn what the adversary meant for evil and turn it
into good. I find peace in knowing that Charlie is
in the presence of the perfect Savior that he so
intentionally sought to make known and honor. I'm comforted by
the fact that, while tragic and hard to understand, this
didn't take our Lord by surprise. I'm reminded of Psalms
one thirty nine sixteen and how God knows all the

(34:55):
days that we are to live before we've ever lived one.
You are correct. I look forward to say how God
now takes this terrible event and uses it to further
the Kingdom of Heaven. My hope is that we won't
waste this suffering, as you have taught us many times,
that drives us to action, to love people, to share
the hope of Christ, be light in such a world
of darkness. I pray for his family, as I know

(35:17):
many are, but I find myself challenged and convicted by
his death. I hope to live my life with such
passion and fire through my relationship with Christ, with the enemy,
with that same enemy, and I hope he sees me
as a severe threat enough that he'll have to deal
with me. I certainly don't wish this upon myself, but
I do want to have that kind of impact. That's Carson,

(35:42):
you know what, That's exactly right, Urson. And so many
times when people try to go after someone who's making
a difference. We've seen this throughout our history in a
moral way and calling out the immorality of the world
and demanding change from a moral and political stance. The

(36:05):
adversary always underestimates this and thinks, well, just kill them
and that'll be the end of it. And so many
times the adversary, as he's done so many times, and
these wicked demons, they just play right into God's hands
and they martyr someone like this, and it only makes
the movement even stronger. It happens when the church is persecuted,

(36:27):
and it usually happens when someone with a voice is
made a martyr. So they probably would have been better
off to have just left him alone, and now it
likely will make his impact only stronger. I hope that's
the result, like you, Carson, and it challenges all of
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(38:04):
ten minutes in radio. We have read emails, we have
a commentary on today. Two big events today, one new
one twenty four years ago, remembering nine to eleven, twenty
four years ago. We'll get into some of that coming
up a little bit later on, and also yesterday's cars,

(38:27):
including the assassination of Charlie kirk So. But on unscreen
phone calls, you can talk about whatever you want to,
but we want to give you the opportunity. Some of
you you are texting stuff in we're looking at that.
Thank you for those questions. We'll answer those as best
we can impossible to see them all.

Speaker 9 (38:43):
Here's a better and we're just trying to figure this
out and not jump to conclusions gang and.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Set a concept.

Speaker 9 (38:49):
Yeah, and that's that's we're just trying to find the
truth of this. Here is a better, more zoomed in
and stabilized shot of the smudge. What I thought was
a smudge, and it is moving much more human like here.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
That's the footage I was talking about, Oh wow, it's.

Speaker 8 (39:02):
Stabilized and it looks a lot better. That sure is
a person's movement.

Speaker 12 (39:07):
Yeah, that's okay, the good job that that is definitely
a person.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Now, well I know the good gracious. I know the
FBI has has faced recognition technology that's pretty advanced. I
don't know if that is that enough for them. I
don't know, but we'll see. To the phones, we go, Yeah,
that's definitely a person on the roof. And somebody on
text Nations said, I use my hunting app which these
are very advanced, to take the property. And if he

(39:34):
was on that building, the shooter really it's only about
one hundred and thirty six yards and.

Speaker 8 (39:39):
It's a straight shot.

Speaker 12 (39:41):
And whoever you are, quit text in eight times in
a row. Good gracious, thank you, see we see it.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
I am yeah. And I've noticed there's a three three
four that while they're multiple texts, one's see hold on,
let me see here, man.

Speaker 12 (39:56):
I appreciate you, buddy, but one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
he come on, ten eleven, come on, come on, come
on now.

Speaker 8 (40:03):
But this is a straight shot. This is a straight shot.
Upon the first horrible, horrific viewing of that footage. I
was thinking, you're going to take a shot that would
be came from the side, but that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Yeah, no, I think I think they I think you
hit him in the front right here, shooting forward and sadly.
Uh to the phones, we go, Welcome to the show
on screen. Phone calls go.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Ahead, Hey, this is Nathan from Huntsville.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Okay, go right ahead.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
I just wanted to call in and talk to Rick.
You know, the whole Charlie Kirk thing, all these men
out here, you know, going out but claiming the gospel
of Jesus Christ, doing a public venues, things like that. Man,
I just I just wanted to have the whole Rick
Burgess army, just to pray for Rick as he goes
out and continues to do that for his protection and

(40:54):
everything goes on.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Haim, Oh, thank you for that. Yeah. And and man,
I have prayer warrior here in this studio. And you're right,
so many great ones out there and all the men
that are on the team, and and so yeah, we
we are prayed up. I remember, even all the way
back in the Billy Graham days when people would ask him,
what do you need when you're going to do an

(41:17):
event he said, I need three things. I need prayer,
and I need prayer, and I need prayer. And so
thank you for that. That that's that that is one
of the most powerful weapons we have. And I've been
guilty of this too, brother, I have where sometimes I
think it's a last resort or well, I guess I
could pray when I'm when I need to realize. According
to scripture, man, that's the most powerful thing we have.

(41:39):
I mean, it really is the word of God in prayer.
I mean, that's that's offense. Uh, we continue, So thank
you for that. That's very kind. Rick Burder's show go
right ahead. You're on unscreen phone calls Hey morning, guys,
Hey buddy.

Speaker 13 (41:52):
Hey, I quit Collin Eventually. I've been seeing multiple videos
and everything, and multiple people talking about that the shooter
was at a downward angle, of course, but they're saying
that when it hit Kurt that you can see a
trinkle of fluid coming from his chest and they're saying
that it hit his collar bone and ricocheted up and
that's what has come out and what you know made

(42:15):
it pass away.

Speaker 9 (42:19):
I mean, bullets will go in a weird pattern in
people's bodies that they will, they'll will ye.

Speaker 8 (42:26):
But yeah, it looked like a juggular was was It
was just completely.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Destroyed, just from things and the knowledge we do have
of high powered rifles. The minute I saw the video,
I wish I had never seen. When I saw it,
I told the guys, I said, he's not going to
survive that now. Yeah, there's just no way. Some other
things to discuss, we we we remember nine to eleven

(42:53):
twenty four years ago today. So you know, it's it's
interesting how little you know children know about this and
we're supposed to pass history along now. Based on my
trip to Tingle Tinglewood Festival and my conversation with children, Please, parents, please,

(43:16):
if you are well versed on American history, teach it
to your children, because the government schools are not fact.
But we had Nnima, a texture that is a former
intern that's right, said now teach us fifth grade? Is
that right?

Speaker 12 (43:31):
Yeslahlah blah, fifth grade? Yes, fifth grade elementary school teacher.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Any insight for those of us that will have children
today that we're not alive during the attack on nine
to eleven, twenty four years ago on how we can
educate them on this, well, I think you have to
you have to be willing to say that we You're
not trying to scare kids, but there are enemies of

(43:58):
our country that it exist. And even though we are
a free country and a constitutional republic, the freedom is
never paid for. People are constantly trying to take it
from us. We continue to have to pay the debt

(44:18):
to continue that. We're so grateful for all those that
have and continue to. And sometimes people are so against
who we are and they mean to do as harm
that they'll even try to attack us on our on
our own soil. And I think if you're trying to

(44:38):
really look at history, I mean, other than the Civil War,
this was the first time that we ever were attacked
on our own soil. I remember the way that felt,
don't you that was I mean, of course the Civil
War we were fighting against ourselves, so that that's we
never had a foreign You.

Speaker 12 (44:55):
Have Civil War Pearl Harbor and nine to eleven.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Yeah, and Pearl Harbor, like I say, it was on
the lower forty eight No, but so yeah, So I
would I'd educate them on what the motivation was that
we were considered as part of the West to be
a great evil by a radical religious point of view

(45:22):
that believes that we all should submit to their belief
system or be killed. Right, And they were able to
commandeer airplanes and use them for weapons, and talk about
the adjustments we made as a country and what we've
learned about from that, and then talk about, you know,

(45:46):
how it affected all of us, how it changed a
lot of us, how many lives were lost, and explain
to them, you know why we have to have a military,
that we live in a world where we have to
protect ourselves. It's nothing to be terrified of, and they
shouldn't be gripped with fear. But just tell them it

(46:09):
was a time and talk about the heroes, the people
who were so heroic trying to rescue people and did
rescue people, and you know, it'd be a great time
for them to honor first responders and have a great
maybe a greater respect for them than they do. I'd
use that as an opportunity to talk about that. These
people sure don't do it for the money. They do

(46:31):
it because they're trying to serve our communities and it's
a call on their life and we should be grateful
for them. That's right, great opportunity to talk about that. Yeah, Yeah,
I think you just hit all those great points. Yeah,
what the country was founded on, our beliefs, our freedom
that was attacked because you know, they're against everything that

(46:51):
the West stands for and what we stand for, and
so it's a great opportunity to talk about the history
of the country and how it was founded and our
principles and that are forgotten. Now we've talked about that today.
Oh yeah, those are all great point. Yeah. The War
of eighteen twelve. Of course, honestly when the British came back,
they were angry. They still thought it was theirs though,

(47:11):
but you're right, yeah, yeah, that's a good point. That
is a good point. Yeah, so that you know, I
talked about that out at Tinglewood. The Revolution is extremely impressive,
but War of eighteen twelve, that was a miraculous victory
because hey, this time they came back, they were ready. Yeah,
and they were mad and they and it was There

(47:33):
were some things that happened in the War of eighteen
twelve that, of course used at one time. We're studying
the history books. They're not now like miraculous storms that
kind of came out of nowhere that normally didn't happen
during that time of year that helped us win. So
it's interesting. So, yeah, you're right, War of eighteen twelve.
Good point. So so I would I remember going to work. Oh,

(47:56):
I mean, isn't it amazing? I remember being live on
the Airy Goodness.

Speaker 12 (48:00):
Greg and I were talking about this before the show.
There's some markers in your life that it doesn't matter
how many years passed by, you still remember it like
it was yesterday. And obviously that's one of them. As
as you know, some of you that are really were
real young. It's it might be hard to remember, but
if you were an adult or old enough to remember things,
I'll never forget where we were, where I was standing

(48:23):
in the studio, Rick.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Real sunshiny day. Yeah, it was a beautiful day, it
sure was. And uh, Greg was not on the show yet,
so it was Speedy, Bubba Me, Don, Juan, Mark Prater,
good Weather, Mickey Dean was in the studio.

Speaker 12 (48:42):
Jim Dunaway.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
At one point Jim Dunway came up, Yeah he did,
and and that's kind of that's who all was there
during during that time and it and it began to
be unpacked while we were on the show. If you
want to hear that you can go to wherever you
get music. All the Rick and Bubba CDs are there,

(49:03):
and of course it would be on two thousand and
one a space oddity, Yeah, I mean a radio audi. Yeah,
I think it would be on that one. Yeah, and
you can find it on cuts, so you can just
buy the cut. Greg and I were talking nine to
eleven tribute. It's there.

Speaker 12 (49:18):
Greg and I were also talking about the fact that
we were in New York that year and when uh
And went.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
What what was it? The North Tower? What's everyone we
were in We're in the very top of it.

Speaker 12 (49:27):
Yeah, we were at the restaurant that's at the top
and we were sitting there looking out over New York
City and yeah, it was I guess January maybe or
February of that year.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
Yes, what was you XFL?

Speaker 12 (49:41):
Yeah, the XFL and and so as a matter of fact,
I think we went back and found the exact date,
and I can't remember, but we were up there and had.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Lunch, yeah, and uh And was already in place. Oh yeah, yeah,
it was.

Speaker 9 (49:54):
So the video that we've we've played in the past,
that's available on our social media as well if you
just just search September eleventh, Thrick and Bubba.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Okay, yeah, so you can go and hear the speedy
put it together all that out to put together some
stuff too for video, and you can kind of relive
what it was like for us to be on the air.
But I know a lot of you remember what you
were doing, and some of you have requested because it
is nine to eleven and we are looking back on
twenty four years ago when we were attacked, could you

(50:26):
get the national anthem coming out of this particular break?
And answers yes, you can think it is appropriate to
play that today. We certainly don't do that every day
on the show any longer on this show, but today,
no doubt it's appropriate. So we'll do that too, Rick

(50:46):
birders show unscreen phone calls, go ahead.

Speaker 14 (50:50):
Hey, good morning, guys, that's stand up.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Hey, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 14 (50:54):
So, like everybody else, you know, my spirit is troubled.
So I just wanted to share a couple of versus
with you guys. I was doing some study for my
sermon for this week and one of this verse popped
up and I was like, Wow, if he couldn't be
more true. Eccles Ecclesiastes eight eleven says, when a crime
is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to

(51:15):
do wrong.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Yeah, that's true. It's true. You know you have justice
on a lot of this stuff, and we need to
have do you do process, no doubt, but it needs
to be swift, it needs to be consistent, and it
needs to be severe. H you're right. Rick Berger's show
using phone calls.

Speaker 15 (51:34):
Go ahead, Yeah, Hey, Rick, how y'all doing this morning?
Fellas doing good?

Speaker 1 (51:39):
I hope you're doing well.

Speaker 15 (51:41):
Oh man, listen to the show man. We're all sitting around,
everybody throwing the guys well, apply not all. We're not
all army. Sure, sure some of us are. Yeah, we
got deployed on that nine eleven. I remember I was
cooking wrecks and when we got called in at nine
o'clock in the morning, my wife had just flew in

(52:02):
her and my lovely blonde hair, blue eyed girl from Germany.
Excuse me. We'd picked him up at twelve o'clock on
September the tenth, and by the time I got home
from Jackson, Mississippi, five early in the morning. But hey,

(52:23):
I was up cooking breakfast when I got the phone
call to Brunt come back to do it, yep, And
I was like, man, what was going I couldn't fail.
It was going on to turn the radio, and I
think it was daf yeah, Rick and Bubba probably so,
and Ya was telling us about the planes, and I'm like,
oh my god, here we go.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Thank you for being willing to go, brother, and all
of you guys there listening together as a group. We're
so thankful for men like you. We continue Rick Berger's
show unscreen phone calls.

Speaker 7 (52:52):
Go ahead, Hey, Rick, can y'all doing this morning?

Speaker 1 (52:56):
We're doing all right, man, I hope you're well.

Speaker 7 (52:58):
I'm doing all right. Well, God bless y'all. I just
want to talk about this Charlie Kirk situation that had happened.
I mean, oh God, bless everybody.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Man.

Speaker 7 (53:10):
You know, Charlie is only a couple of years older
than me, and I just can't imagine something like that
happening to me and my wife and my two kids
being left behind like that. And I just I just
pray as a nation we can get to a point
where we just aren't so hateful towards each other just
for disagreeing on stuff big or small.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Yeah, that is what seems to have changed. There's a dark,
twisted toxic. It's toxic. You can feel it, you know,
around disagreement and the spiritual conversations and disagreement and the
political conversations and ideology and world views it used to be,

(53:50):
which is what Charlie Kirk was promoting. Let's have conversations,
Let's see if you can walk out a narrative, Let's
see if we can discuss this back and forth. And
at one time I thought we would embrace that, and
it's kind of one of the main, uh, you know,
principles this country was built on, is the freedom to
express yourself and to have debate and to redress the

(54:10):
government and things like that. And now it's uh, you know,
we we scream, we yell, and if you frustrate me
too much, I'll kill you. Uh it just uh yeah,
I agree. Rick Berger's show unscreen phone calls, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (54:24):
Hey, good morning guys. Uh just wanted to just wanted
to say for everybody listening not to let their heart
be hardened by what's going on in the world and
in turn to Jesus, because he loves you and what
going on and I don't see it stopping anytime soon.
I hope you guys have a great day.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
Yeah, you know, if you if you listen to uh,
you know the uh Jesus talking in Matthew twenty four
again again, I know there's some people say it's coming soon.
We don't know the day or the time. But he said,
now there's gonna be birthpangs and you'll you'll know those.
And one of the things that he talked about is
the society will become more and more unreasonable. The society

(55:04):
would become more and more toxic. And you know, and
we can somebody's asking, is it really that way we
talked about that last hour? You know, not probably since
the beginning of human beings, because we have Genesis six
when God killed everybody but eight people. But as far
as post Church Age, post Pentecost are to be more accurate,

(55:27):
in our lifetime, have things gotten darker and twisted and
more wicked, Yes, since the beginning of the world. Maybe not,
but in our lifetime yes. And see that now we're
in the Church age, so we're working our way to
the end. Now, this is that seventieth week that we
don't know the length of it. Top of the hour

(55:53):
on you know Greg, by the way, is not here
for the rest of the show. Greg has has an
active week. He's had two breakfasts with grandparents with his grandkids,
and we want the guys to be as involved in
their children and grandchildren and family stuff as possible. We
have a weird work schedule, so a lot of things

(56:13):
that are just simple, you know, for some parents can
be quite complicated for us, and we do the best
we can. But we also Greg and I have a
mom who needs help, can't drive anymore, and she has
appointments and all that, and so Greg is now taken
Mom to one of her appointments. And some doctors will
work with us and see her in the afternoon, but

(56:34):
some want They said, now, the contests we need to
do today are they, you know, checking you got to
come and we only do am So so Greg is
gone to take mom to that.

Speaker 12 (56:44):
Did you like my speech, my pep talk to him? Yeah,
you about be kind? Yes, you change your tone. You
told him he needed to change his tone before.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
You got there.

Speaker 12 (56:52):
Yeah, yeah, well he was. He was button up some
things here at work, making sure he didn't leave any
trails behind. And I said, hey, you need to you
need to watch your tone. Your tone is a little rough.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
I thought he was a little tonish with us today.

Speaker 6 (57:04):
Yeah, we're we're today is tough and and I don't
but well, you know, anytime we got anything honest, even
though we we're happy to do it, it's still it's
still a schedule.

Speaker 12 (57:15):
And uh, but he'll he'll start worrying about it hours ahead.
And I'm like, hey, you need to when when that
truck pulls up, your mom gets in the truck. It
needs to be nice.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
Greg. Let me tell you something. Greg is is surprising.
How about this? Greg is surprisingly caring to his family. Yes,
of course, shockingly care he really is. Yeah, and apparently
my mother thinks right is the preferred.

Speaker 12 (57:39):
And he'll switch it, you know, he'll it was hard
Greg walking out, but he'll be oh he's already switching
it right.

Speaker 9 (57:44):
Oh yeah he Uh, someone was bothering this bothering him
this morning. He tried to soothe with with peanuts by
eating peanuts.

Speaker 8 (57:51):
He tried to soothe himself. As you can see, there's
a huge.

Speaker 9 (57:54):
Pile of peanuts on the floor, like it looks like
an elephant had been sitting there.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
But well, yeah, don Day brought peanuts yesterday and Greg.

Speaker 12 (58:03):
Yeah, if we were tracking an animal, this would not
be hard to feel.

Speaker 8 (58:06):
Oh, here it is.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Yeah. If you walked in here and didn't know us,
you were like, wow, y'all got a circus somewhere.

Speaker 8 (58:11):
Yeah, yeah, where's the elephant?

Speaker 1 (58:15):
Tonight's Super Bowl rematch? Yeah, Chiefs host the Eagles, they
do tonight. I can't do pro football on Thursday night.
I'm speaking now for Greg since he's not here. Yeah,
I just never do. I just I don't know why.
It's a great matchup.

Speaker 12 (58:27):
Well, you know, if you look at it like you know,
you just love football. Uh, And every night there's an
option there is starting earlier in the week. But tonight
it's a it's a big it's a big one too.
I mean the Chiefs coming off a loss to the
Chargers in Brazil, that's a big. When Eagles, of course
beat the Cowboys spitting incident, He's back, Carter's back, but

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going into Arrowhead's that's gonna be something.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
No, that's not easy to ask.

Speaker 12 (58:52):
I thought it was always where is it go?

Speaker 8 (58:54):
Commander's Packers?

Speaker 15 (58:56):
Tonight?

Speaker 8 (58:56):
I thought Chiefs Eagles is on Sunday?

Speaker 12 (58:58):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (59:00):
I thought I had?

Speaker 8 (59:00):
I had it tonight a minute, Commanders.

Speaker 12 (59:03):
Oh you are right, buddy.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
I'm sorry, Adler. You just corrected us on sport.

Speaker 12 (59:07):
Thank you, Adler, Thank you body.

Speaker 8 (59:09):
It's just like a Google. It's really not about sports.

Speaker 12 (59:11):
It's about team Oh yeah, the Chief and Angels sports.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
What's wrong with me? The win?

Speaker 8 (59:15):
It's a sports win.

Speaker 12 (59:16):
It's the Commanders and the Packers.

Speaker 8 (59:17):
You're trying to be living.

Speaker 10 (59:18):
The real RI is the Rick Burgess Show.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
Uh And we did correct It's it's Packers Commanders tonight.

Speaker 12 (59:30):
Thank you Adler. Yeah, thanks Bud, Thank you sports host.
I was so focused on just that game. That's a
big game.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
I'm saying I'm thinking of developing under Big Vox Entertainment.
Another podcast, Addler on Sports.

Speaker 12 (59:41):
Adler on Sports watch out everybody, Well he is a
soccer coach, Yes he is.

Speaker 8 (59:45):
Yeah, who's a famous like sports analyst?

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Who's a famous one?

Speaker 13 (59:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (59:50):
Anybody?

Speaker 1 (59:50):
There's lots of them?

Speaker 8 (59:51):
Yeah, whose analyst? Or who who's the Walter Cronkite of sports.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
And currently like currently are just of all time?

Speaker 8 (59:58):
No, the Walter Cronkite.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
Yeah, it's probably Chris Berman is big.

Speaker 8 (01:00:02):
Okay, who's he? Who's that?

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Kirk Goudy.

Speaker 8 (01:00:06):
Oh, Chris Berman, I know Berman? Yeah yeah, yeah, wait who.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
As you say, I'm sorry you were not even born,
you said, Chris Goudy Sports show, Kurt not the gollon Fox.

Speaker 8 (01:00:16):
Well yeah, okay, Well, I was trying to think of
a nickname for myself.

Speaker 9 (01:00:20):
Yeah, and I could be like, you know, Adler, Aikman
Adler or something.

Speaker 8 (01:00:26):
It will be Troy Aikman played for the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
What about Keep's a big one.

Speaker 8 (01:00:31):
He's Jack okay, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:00:34):
And then who's that guy that Will Ferrell would impersonate
all the time.

Speaker 8 (01:00:37):
If the if the moon was made out of cheese,
would you eat him?

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
Yeah? That's that's not that wouldn't be a good That's baseball.
That's the Cubs. Yeah, okay, Harry Carrey, Harry Carey, John
Gruden is awesome.

Speaker 12 (01:00:47):
But also Beth Mowens. You could be Beth Adler.

Speaker 8 (01:00:50):
Oh yes, I'm pretty much. Yeah, the Beth Mowings of
the show. Right, I'm the sports expert you are.

Speaker 12 (01:00:57):
Some people are saying Mini Madden, Oh.

Speaker 8 (01:01:00):
Okay, ere we guy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
Is that hurt a little?

Speaker 8 (01:01:02):
No, no, nothing could hurt me right now? You words
don't hurt me?

Speaker 9 (01:01:09):
Number Yeah, yeah, you know, like if you stub your toe,
but like if your hand is cut off, you're like,
my toe doesn't hurt at all.

Speaker 8 (01:01:17):
So it's one of those.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
Days, right, Okay, So some people are asking me if
I got rid of who's Doris Burke on the NBA Finals?

Speaker 4 (01:01:25):
I did?

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
I never. I don't know Doris. I'm not fami.

Speaker 8 (01:01:28):
Okay, she's a sports commentator.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
You could beat Tony.

Speaker 12 (01:01:33):
I can't handle that to you.

Speaker 8 (01:01:34):
You probably recognize you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Could beat Tony Romo. They're gonna bring the blitzer, Chris
gub you know, so yeah, come on, come on school.

Speaker 8 (01:01:48):
So uh, Minnie Madden's good, Madden's hard to beat.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Mini Madden is fantastic, and I would produce that podcast
next week.

Speaker 9 (01:01:56):
I remember being a kid and hearing Madden breaking things
down when he started drawing on the screen, and I was.

Speaker 8 (01:02:03):
Like, whoa, the future is the future right now?

Speaker 9 (01:02:06):
And it's kind of mud mouth, but it didn't matter
because I'm talking about.

Speaker 8 (01:02:14):
You.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
See, yes, I've never seen you try that.

Speaker 9 (01:02:17):
My ground right and moving mouth like that doesn't work good.
I'm actually I remember, I'm just like.

Speaker 8 (01:02:25):
This is football thing is amazing.

Speaker 9 (01:02:26):
This guy's saying boom and he's drawing on the screen,
any saying boom.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
What about how a co sound? Okay? Who is that?
That's good?

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
That was?

Speaker 12 (01:02:37):
That was John Thomas Howard. I don't know what that was.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
I was wondering. Is it the Packers in Commandos tonight
recap of the Super Bowl? I am confused.

Speaker 8 (01:02:50):
So it's still bad that they commanders commanders?

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
Is so bad? Hey, Rick, watch the pack? When I
watch watch the Pack, I love the backers and I
just can't watch them. I can't. I don't know what's
going on. I don't know why. I don't. You know,
my goodness, one of my best friends as a packer.

Speaker 8 (01:03:07):
Is it seven?

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Rich Wingo was.

Speaker 8 (01:03:10):
A hoss on the pack?

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
What was that? Was Madden? That Madden? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:03:18):
Mine was better?

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Oh my gosh, you that was the worst. That was
the worst of tempt of any impression you've ever done.

Speaker 8 (01:03:27):
The game is at seven fifteen tonight.

Speaker 12 (01:03:30):
I go to Best So it's on Prime video so we.

Speaker 9 (01:03:33):
Could yes, yes, I won't see that, so we could
watch forty five minutes of it.

Speaker 8 (01:03:36):
I got it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
I've got to get in bed, I've got to be
in bad by seven forty five to night. I got you.

Speaker 15 (01:03:43):
I was.

Speaker 8 (01:03:43):
I was in a dream that sounds like an absolute dream.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
I was in bed late last night. I can't do
that again. Yeah, that's just I had.

Speaker 12 (01:03:50):
I had big eyes.

Speaker 8 (01:03:50):
I can't do to not sleep either last night at all.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
I'm going on too. Yeah, Rick, that hurt. Oh man,
that's about all I got to.

Speaker 6 (01:03:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:03:59):
I woke up at too and could not sleep. My
spirit was just so troubled man, honestly. Yeah, just being
real right now.

Speaker 12 (01:04:04):
Oh that's true.

Speaker 9 (01:04:05):
There's a man rough one now, you know.

Speaker 12 (01:04:10):
Do you remember that email back to what happened yesterday,
the email that you talked about. That might be it. Yes,
somebody is saying here that the FBI is updating that
is that?

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
Is that true?

Speaker 9 (01:04:21):
Okay, So earlier in the break I mentioned to you
guys that Stephen Crowder has said that he has an
exclusive He was received an email from an officer at
the atf Okay and he included a screenshot of the
email and it talks about how you know the specifics
of the event. The suspect fired one shot from an

(01:04:41):
elevated position on a rooftop in an adjacent building on
the campus. Surveillance video shows the subject jumping off fleeing
the area on foot. Atf and other law enforcement located
an older model imported Mauser thirty six caliber bolt action
rifle rifle wrapped in a towel in a wooded area
near the campus.

Speaker 12 (01:05:01):
And this is just what they're We're just saying with
their reporting.

Speaker 9 (01:05:03):
That is what Stephen Crowder is reporting at this time.
I will say, you guys, remember the horrific Nashville Covenant
Covenant School in church shooting. Yes, Stephen Crowder was the
person to the first person to release the manifesto that
we couldn't get access to because it would make transgender
people not look great. And Stephen Crowder was one hundred

(01:05:26):
percent right about that. So he tends to have one
good sources and two legitimate material. Okay, So that's just
at this time, Crowder is saying that the spent round
was still in the chamber, the spent cartridge was still
in the chamber. The other cartridges that were left did
have some political words on them.

Speaker 12 (01:05:51):
Fox News is now reporting they did find a rifle
in the woods and the suspect fleeted to a local neighborhood.

Speaker 16 (01:05:56):
Is the Rick Burgess show, Gosh your mighty, it's hard
I understand.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
I know, trying to get things done.

Speaker 12 (01:06:08):
I should have said fled or he fleed, not fleeted.

Speaker 10 (01:06:12):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (01:06:12):
And and I understand, matter of fact, as soon as
the Rick Burgess show, I went fled. It was all fair.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
The gunman fleeted into it.

Speaker 12 (01:06:21):
And I know, and it's a very serious matter. But
I'm just saying as far as the staff goes and
me and my messed up mine, I don't know why
I have been said fleeted. I was trying to get
it in and I just.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Just come back and gave the update. You didn't have to.

Speaker 8 (01:06:37):
Fleeted is a word. If that makes you feel any better.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
I know, but it's just not sure in a sentence, right, No,
you didn't use it. No, And I just says fleeted
or fleeted like a fleet of trucks.

Speaker 12 (01:06:49):
You know, I said fleeted like he fleeted.

Speaker 8 (01:06:51):
Oh, well that's not that's not a word.

Speaker 12 (01:06:53):
That's a I understand. I I called myself out on it.
And Rick, when I we went to break, you hit
the button and just stared at me. I did, uh,
And so I do want to acknowledge that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
And I remember thinking to myself, I knew I recognize
you from slow class.

Speaker 12 (01:07:09):
Yep, so appreciate you sympathy. I wish you never mind.
So here here So here's so here's the update, serious
on serious note, And we were going we were trying
to get it all in. Adler talked about an email
that Crowder got from an ATF agent and and we did.
And I guess we were trying to get the information
in so it didn't sound like we were just a

(01:07:29):
bunch of conspiracy theorists that were throwing stuff around. We're
just trying to report what would and this is fast
going and so we're trying to just update you as
it goes along. Okay, And they did say the local
police department did say that the suspect he blended in
with the college students. They have good images of them
that he or video of the shooter that has not

(01:07:50):
been released. They did find the rifle in the woods,
and they do believe he fled to a nearby neighborhood.
That's that's what we know. Is are is that what
the press and the police have released.

Speaker 9 (01:08:03):
Here is the FBI corroborating multiple details that we mentioned
in that that email. Here is the FBI confirming that
on just for just this just happened.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
If you guys want that, Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:08:17):
This morning, I can tell you that we have recovered
what we believe is the weapon to be that was
used in yesterday's shooting is a high powered bolt action rifle.
That rifle was recovered in a wooded area where the
shooter had fled. The FBI laboratory will be analyzing this weapon.
Investigators have also collected footwear impression print.

Speaker 9 (01:08:42):
There you go, palm print, footwear impression. And to you
guys point, we have good video of this individual.

Speaker 8 (01:08:47):
Is what they're saying.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Yeah, don't want to speculate, but if you do speculate,
always say you're speculating when teaching the Bible or just conversation.
If everything they're saying turns out to be confirmed and
it sounds like that they do have the gun and
they do have this, now you're kind of leaving the
professional assassin narrative and now you're down to crazed, radicalize

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person who just despised, you know, the things that Charlie
Kirk held deer. He hated his ideology, he hated his morality,
and wanted to kill him, and was able to commandeer
a weapon that could make that kind of shot from
that kind of distance and then you've got to get

(01:09:35):
back in there again. How do these people keep getting
a line of sight to people who are speaking like this?
Because with these kind of weapons even I wouldn't say novice,
but just if you can steady a high powered rifle
and you can put the crosshairs on someone's body that

(01:09:56):
is sitting or standing from this kind of distance, these
these weapons make those shots relatively easy.

Speaker 9 (01:10:03):
Yeah, and Rick, you mentioned you had a friend that
used a like hunting app to measure the distance.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
If that's accurate, and.

Speaker 9 (01:10:10):
Well, I mean you can you can even do that
on Google Maps as well. And I'm looking right here.
You guys can see us see if I do a
control click, where is it measured distance? And it's a
it's around four hundred feet from this building to where
Charlie was four hundred four thirty feet. So that is

(01:10:31):
not an outrageous shot to me, and it is that's
not there, It is right there.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Yeah. So so anyway, we'll we'll see when we get
the information. But I think, I mean, nothing's going to
bring back Charlie Kirk. How As we said earlier in
the show, when we really unpacked all this what Charlie
Kirk was doing. Now someone else and and many people

(01:10:57):
need to pick up that baton and can you And
I think we will see that. I think I think
these evil people always horribly miscalculate. Well, you know, I
will go and I will kill the person that is
the face of a movement, and that'll kill the movement.
Usually it only makes the movement stronger. Yeah. Uh, And

(01:11:19):
people will then become more courageous and say, well, you know,
if he's out, then I must be next, and I'm
gonna be the person to continue the message. I do
think if you're trying to protect maybe your point of
view as the shooter, you've only made your point of
view less desirable by people. Yep. And you've done two things.

(01:11:40):
You've galvanized the ideology you hate, and you've taken your
ideology and made it more undesirable by more people. So
you accomplish nothing in this. And now you're gonna go
to jail if we find you forever and could possibly
be executed by the State of Utah. That's how this

(01:12:01):
is all going. So those of you out there that
may have similar thoughts, this does not have a good ending,
and it doesn't accomplish anything. No, it makes the situation
that even you're trying, you would you should sit down,
and maybe the problem is you can't walk out your narrative,
and you can't find a way to solidify your narrative,

(01:12:22):
and you can't handle the fact that maybe your narrative
is wrong or needs to be addressed. So you just
freak out, become toxic, toxic and wicked, and you just
kill somebody that you don't like what they say, maybe
about what you believe, or you could sit down and say,
here's what I believe and let's have a conversation about it,
which is what Charlie Kirk in his movement was all about.

(01:12:42):
And all you've done is made the situation worse. You've
accomplished nothing, and now your life is ruined. And you've
also taken a dad and a husband from a family.
You've done nothing but be wicked, and you're gonna pay
a price for it. And you're and you're onet of
you now gets demonized, not lifted up, accomplished nothing. Yeah,

(01:13:07):
and and I'm you're just playing right into the adversary's hands.
And that's sad.

Speaker 9 (01:13:15):
And I'm praying for for peace I'm praying for people
to follow Charlie's example of how he lived his life,
and I'm praying that there's no like crazy revenge, you
know what I'm saying, No, no escalation.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
That accomplishes nothing. That's what the opposition of Charlie Kirk
is hoping people will do. Because the fact that cities then,
like you look, see, he was dangerous. He was dangerous.

Speaker 12 (01:13:39):
The fact that cities want burned to night will tell
you everything you need to know, because each side reacts differently.
But but to your point, you know, it's it has
me doubling down and and focusing more on being a spiritual,
spiritual leader from my family and for my adult boys,
and and the and and my daughter in law and

(01:14:02):
my grandson, because that's what we each can do. Because
in a time like this, you feel like you're overwhelmed,
You're like, well, how can I help?

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
What can I do?

Speaker 12 (01:14:10):
And that is doubling down on your faith in the
way you live your life, one life at a time.
And if we're all doing that, then we change this
darkness into light.

Speaker 6 (01:14:19):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
Yeah, we talk about this all the time, and I
can't tell you how many times we've said this with
the team at the Man Church. Every time we get
a good testimony, one of the guys will always say,
every one of those men represented a family, and then
the ones that don't have a family yet they represent
a future family. And that's how you get things done.

(01:14:41):
Here's let's look at Let's listen to cut two and three.
So here is Charlie saying how he wanted to be remembered,
and then the next cut is what we all hope
is what his wife had to say about him. So
here is, first of all, Charlie Kirk talking about how
he wanted to be remembered. How do you want to
be remembered? If I die, everything just goes away.

Speaker 8 (01:15:04):
How would you if you could be associated with one thing,
how would.

Speaker 12 (01:15:07):
You want to be remembered be I want to be
remembered for courage from my faith. That would be the
most important thing. The most important thing is my faith
in my life.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Exactly what did I do with my faith that impacted society,
glorified God and impacted the Kingdom of God? What did
I do that showed boldness and courage like those who
were before us that started the church back at Pentecost?

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Do I have that kind of boldness, and even if
my life was taken, will it glorify the one that
I serve? And the next Here is his wife, Erica
describing her husband.

Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
Ah, he is.

Speaker 5 (01:15:53):
My husband. Charlie Kirk is a force.

Speaker 8 (01:15:56):
He is a force.

Speaker 5 (01:15:58):
He is bold when the world demands silence. He is
fearless where others flinch, and he has taken on the
battle of the next generation, changing these hearts and minds.
I know you guys have seen it at the college campuses,
changing the hearts and minds of these kids. It's not
a career to him, it's a calling. And it's so

(01:16:23):
incredible to see as a wife how God has prepared him,
how God has molded him and used him. All while
he's doing that, he's still the spiritual head of our family.
It is my honor to be able to introduce you
guys to one of the greatest fighters that I know,

(01:16:45):
who is so intentional, who is so amazing, and he
never backs down from the fight because he knows who
and what he fights for, and that is God, It's
his family and its country. I want to introduce you
guys to my husband, Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
May that be uh what our wifs said about us,
We'll be back into the evil person who did this.
These college students are gonna come away from this, most
all of them, not all of them, but most of
them saying I don't want to be like you. I
want to be like him because you're a coyward. We'll

(01:17:24):
be back. Stay close, you know how you just say, Hey,
we were doing all we can do, we got all
we can stand. Yeah, but you know what I will say,
we we have a blast, and we we're all we're

(01:17:44):
all guys that like to get after it, and we
we love doing all the things we do. It's like
I was telling those those kids last night at that movie. Shoot,
you know, if you if you're doing what you love,
that's one part. But you also got to have a
work ethic to go with it.

Speaker 7 (01:17:58):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
And and also understand that success is defined in many ways.
You know, it may not always be that you're this
you know, well known person, you know, coast to coasts
and doing all this and nine houses and twenty five
cars and all this. It may be that you just
do your job really really well, and you love what

(01:18:21):
you do and you're making an impact where you are.
Uh And you're getting better at what you do. Uh,
and sometimes that also is successful and and you know
it's you know, is what you're doing matter? And are
you doing it well? So you can want to do something,
you can even desire to do something, but can you

(01:18:41):
put in the work, can you bang on your craft?
Can you get better? Yeah? So there you go a
couple of things to hit you with, especially since we've
we've been talking about it so much for obvious reasons.
Of a couple of man churches going on coming up,
and then one event that men are women can attend
this weekend. There is a man church on Saturday in Mantachie, Mississippi.

(01:19:05):
Blake Prime will be there and oh no, it's Manachian's
all right, Mantachi Mantat Why I say it right? Okay,
mantatch you've got me thrown with fleetd uh. And then
and anyway, so that's coming up on Saturday, Blake Prime
will be there Centerville Baptist Church. Manchurch. Go to Themanchurch
dot com. It's there. And then Sunday night Lord Willing,

(01:19:25):
I'll be over in Boonville, Mississippi, Gaston Baptist Church. That's
for men, women kids. The whole family, So looking forward
to that and then Orange Texas. You've got a man
church one day coming bringing the Ringers, Rich Wingo, Andy Blanks,
and I'll be with them, all three of us speaking
at First Baptist Church, Orange Texas. So go to the

(01:19:45):
Manchurch dot com. All the details not only about these
but others coming up are there as well. So we're
still tracking the latest, you know, with Charlie Kirk while
looking back at twenty four years go, you know when
we had the attack on nine to eleven, and then
of course we also I mean, this is all just

(01:20:06):
feels so I really do think I'm kind of conversing
right now with the guys. And you know, Sherry said
she my wife had a similar We were all a
little restless last night. Yeah, and I think it was
because there's just so much dark and so many you're
just you're kind of but we can't even though it
affects us, we're all humans. We can't let evil overcome good.

(01:20:30):
Can't good wins. It does, and we all know how
this is going to end. And and the folks that
are under the authority of Christ and people of faith,
he wins. This is all going to be resolved. And
you know, anytime there's something that comes across is difficult, hard,

(01:20:53):
you can't let it. You can mourn, of course, you
can be angry, you can be sad as long as
it's right, of course, but you can't let it cause
you to also commit sin, and you can't let it
to cause you to lose hope. Those two things we
can't absolutely And so that's kind of the rhythm that

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we've been trying to remind you of today but acknowledging that, Yeah,
I mean, I'm looking. Here's the train stabbing suspect update today.
Another shooting in Colorado last night, Charlie Kirk assassinated. Yeah,
all this is hard stuff, that's just scratching the surface,
but remember remember it will be overcome.

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