The Great Charlie Kirk – Top 3 Takeaways, September 11th, 2025

For the right, it’s time to fight, fight, fight, it’s the next chapter in Charlie’s life. After all it’s about freedom itself.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show. Thanks for listening. Passion
plus talent is unstoppable. It's time for today's Top three takeaways.
Yeah what today?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
What us thinking?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Day twenty fourth anniversary of nine to eleven and the
ongoing manhunt the assassination of the Great Charlie Kirk the
theme of my Top three takeaways today. Here's where we
stand as far as that goes. Fox is Matt Finn.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Two suspects were taken into custody of but both were released.
The FBI set up a tip line. Authority say the
shooter appear to be an all black and on a
roof the Utah Valley University chiefs of Police says six
police officers were working this event, in addition to Charlie's
personal security team's. Utah Governor Spencer Cox calls to the

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shooting a political assassination.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, no doubt there. And on that note, my top
takeaway for you is fight, fight fight. You know, last year,
multiple political assassination attempts took place, and ironically, here we
are with jury selection in one of those cases concluding yesterday.
In fact, in under an hour. Now that trial is

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going to begin. Be it by the grace of God,
that President Trump is with us today this year, during
the year at the Great American Comeback. Charlie Kirk on
Wednesday was kicking off his American Comeback Tour, his first
stop Utah Valley University, and it proved to be his

(01:49):
last stop on this Earth. During the Q and A, as
part of the trademark proved Me Wrong debate, a coward
with a bullet who obviously couldn't win an argument with
currently killed him, killed the thirty one year old husband
and father, and my immediate thoughts were of shock, but

(02:14):
not surprise. The most effective leaders are the top targets.
I was talking to Florida's Attorney General, James Uthmeyer just
a bit ago about this. I was thinking about the
generational impact here quite a bit yesterday, because there's no

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doubt that for a generation of young adults, the most
effective conservative leader has been the founder of Turning Point USA.
I think there is a lot of synergy between what
excers when my generation experienced with Ronald Reagan in the

(03:02):
eighties and with the advent of Rush Limbaugh. I think
Charlie Kirk for younger adults and for younger teams still
even he was their Rush, and I believe Trump is
their Reagan. And that's also where I've got a bit

(03:27):
of a hopeful message on the other end of this.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
But let's walk through it.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
So Turning Point USA an organization born out of Charlie's
disillusion with indoctrination on school campuses and what he correctly
believed was a desperate need to combat it across the country.
He organically created a grassroots political force with hundreds of
thousands of student members across the country that he spoke

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to on over six hundred college campuses. And if that
was all he had ever done, if that was it,
that would have been nothing short of incredible.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
But it was just the beginning.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Charlie became a national radio host for Salem Radio, a
top podcaster, a best selling author, a contributor to numerous
national news organizations digitally and on TV. Many people who
knew Charlie much better than me can speak to the man.
Many students, many millennials and Jim Zeer's younger than me

(04:36):
can speak to his impact on them better than me.
What I can speak to and perhaps offer some insight on,
is the uniqueness of his incredible will, bravery and talent
to excel at the highest level as a political organizer

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is an incredible talent unto itself. To engage and completely
open debate with anyone one on one and effectively never
lose for two decades that had never previously been done.
To host a national radio show successfully especially requires exceptional talent.

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To become a top podcaster speaks to that talent to
become a best selling author just altogether different type of skill.
Being a great digital content creator and a digital newswriter
as well keew and far between, as are trillion pactful
TV news contributors. And so the point is this, all

(05:44):
those achievements require slightly different skills and for almost anyone
else just doing any one of those things, any of
them and have had the success that he did with
any one of those things. Man, I mean, that's you've
done something there, hallmark of a highly successful career. For

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Charlie to have done them all and by only thirty one,
that demonstrates what a force of nature he is, and
I say is rather than was, because A, if anyone
in this business was right with God, Charlie right with God.

(06:28):
And b because while he alone was a unique figure,
what he's done, has just begun. Yesterday wasn't the end
of Turning Point USA or Charlie Kirk's story. It was
the beginning of the next chapter. My second takeaway today

(06:49):
Fox's Marian Rafforting.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Many people do credit Charlie Kirk with putting President Trump
back in the White House. That includes Donald Trump Junior,
who posted this on social media. The impact he had
on young people is immeasurable. There's no question that Charlie's
work and his voice helped my father win the presidency.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
See yeah, President Trump, he survived his assassination attempts and
he was able to say fight, fight, fight with blood
streaming down his face yesterday.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Charlie Kirk was not able to do the same. Last year.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
He was Charlie and his team that were on the
front lines doing what needed to be done to successfully
swamp the vote so that President Trump was back in
the position to be able to fight for our country.
Charlie was key and making that a reality. And it
made me think as I was kind of going through
this yesterday, dating back to October twenty second and twenty

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twenty one, something that I've talked about. If you've heard
me over the year since. No doubt you've heard me
speak to it somewhere along the way, because it was
a sentinel moment for me.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Back then.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
When I brought this to you, a lot of people
thought I was out to lunch, kind of like you know,
going back twenty years ago, when I said South Florida,
one day, we'll save this country from itself.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
People like your nuts don't hear that anymore.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
But anyway, as I mentioned back almost four years ago,
said this is a generational opportunity for Republicans.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
I'm the real life walking talking to Alex P. Keaton.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Loving Reagan as a kid was a thing for me
in millions in my generation. He's the primary reason that
those of us who are products of eighties, you know,
the gen xers, tend to be more conservative than boomers
or millennials. Anyway, that's the generational opportunity in front of
Republicans right now. We discussed how Biden's performance is the

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worst by any president since Jimmy Carter, and in the
context of it being darkest before Dawn I pointed out
that it took Jimmy harder for us to get Reagan.
So here we are the generational opportunities for Republicans if
they can emulate the principles of Ronald Reagan, starting with
freedom and liberty. It's the biggest teachable moment in the

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here and now. Isn't about taxes or welfare, or free
puppies and free Biden Bucks and goodies that are anything
but free. It's about freedom itself. Believe it was my
third takeaway on that day. It's my third takeaway today Tonight.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American
values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died, the values
of free speech, citizenship, the rule of law, and the
patriotic devotion and love of God.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, it is about freedom itself. Continuing with what I
mentioned about four years ago, Americans inherently want it. The
big eye about the left and the Democrat Party generally
is that they're they're liberal, which is often confused by
kids young adults to equal liberty. So they've often been

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taught that's the way to go. It's all part of
the marketing scam in which they'll refer to themselves as
as democratic or the democratic part. Nothing democratic about your
freaking party, your ead, your freaking primaries. On top of
everything else, they'll refer to themselves as democratic as opposed
to Democrats. That's are ruse, confuse immigrants and people coming

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of age who aren't yet politically aware and want to
support the democratic process. The Republican Party, with good leadership
is the party of freedom, of liberty and personal choice.
The Democrats are the party of dictates, mandates, and censorship.
And this was not something I said four years ago,
but is so incredibly applicable.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
They're the party of death.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
From abortion on demand to endless political assassination attempts right
down by the way, to hunting kids in school. You
know what happened in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago,
transgender leftists going out there hunting kids. That a political assassination.

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Same deal with the transgender person attacking those kids in
a religious school in Nashville last year. That's a political assassination.
People all forget about Steve scalasan aw he was nearly
taken out. And by the way, a lot of people
even in the state forget our governor, who was a

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congressman then literally talked to the would be assassin at
that baseball field. That was eight years ago. He won't
even talk about that stuff anymore. The culture of death
on the left, attempt to assassinations didn't start with Trump
last year. We're basically a decade into this being a

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NonStop thing by them. Now, last thing I mentioned in
this context about four years ago, I said, this is
now being realized by the youngest voters in this country. Now,

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what I didn't say then but is absolutely appropriate to say,
is that the pre eminent reason that it was realized,
that the potential that I talked about back then was realized.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Was because of Charlie Kirk in his work.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
He was the person who got out there and effectively
communicated that message to people of that age. He made
it happen. He get out there in communities and the
grassroots got votes out.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
And so it.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Culminated in this outcome that I shared with you last November,
following the greatest comeback in American history and President Trump's win,
said the biggest political shift over four years ago was
with voters under thirty. In twenty twenty, Donald Trump lost
with voters under thirty by twenty five points. On Tuesday,

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his deficit was only six. Voters under thirty voted the
most conservatively. They haven't any presidential election since Ronald Reagan
was on the ballot in nineteen eighty four. Saw this
all kind of comes full circle with this Bob process here.
So yeah about that. It's been over thirty six years

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since Ronald Reagan was president. It's been over twenty one
years since he died. For that matter, it's been over
four and a half years since was with us. The
legacy lives on daily in this country with a generation
of adults permanently shaped by the philosophy and the policy.
Charlie Kirk has influenced the views of two generations of

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young adults, and his legacy is going to live far longer.
You know. Charlie fought like few did for President Trump
so that Trump could fight for all of us and
finished doing what needs to be done to make America
great again. And the wards to President Trump yesterday, the
great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead. No one

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understood or had the heart of the youth in the
United States of America better than Charlie. Now, I have
a lot of thoughts on what went down here, including
what my instincts tell me about this not being a coincidence.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
The question.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Preceding this assassination being do you know how many trenchend
Or Americans have been mass shooters over the last ten years.
I'll save that for more appropriate time, but as for
all on the right, it is time to fight, fight, fight,
because it is the next chapter in Charlie's life, and

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after all, it is about freedom itself.