September 12, 2025 • 29 mins
Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10th, 2025. At just 31 years old, a husband, father, and one of the most influential conservative leaders of our generation was taken from us in front of the world.In this special tribute episode of America Unfiltered, I reflect on Charlie Kirk’s life, legacy, and the movement he built that changed American politics forever. We talk about his impact on free speech, his role in making conservatism cool again, the demonic rise of political violence in America, and why we must honor his memory by finishing what he started.This episode is raw, emotional, and unfiltered — not just about Charlie’s legacy, but about the state of our nation and the battle between good and evil that is now undeniable.All that and much more in today’s special tribute episode of America Unfiltered with James Paskalides.
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America, we are back. Today.
We have a special episode. This is a very sad episode.
Most of you know what happened already.
Charlie Kirk was assassinated onSeptember 10th, 2025, and we're
going to speak about it today. We're going to speak about his
life, his legacy. We're going to speak about what
the future of America looks likeafter this, what the future of
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conservative politics looks like.
We're going to talk about the rise in political violence and
we will talk about how this country should move forward
together, how we need to end thepolitical violence and all the
destruction that's happening right now.
I first want to start by talkingabout Charlie Kirk's legacy.
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Charlie Kirk was born on October14th, 1993, passed away on
September 10th, 2025. He was assassinated.
Charlie Kirk started many companies and he influenced the
youth in a way that no one had ever done in America before,
including myself. When I first started getting
into politics, it was because ofCharlie Kirk's inspiration.
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Charlie Kirk inspired me to be more political.
Seeing his TikTok, seeing his reels, seeing his YouTube videos
of him debating whether it was against people on college
campuses when he went to Oxford and took on the entire Oxford
debate team, Charlie Kirk never feared any person when it came
to the challenge of debate and sharing ideas.
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He encouraged us to share ideas.Charlie Kirk is what encouraged
a lot of young Americans to speak their minds in a time
where they felt like they didn'thave a voice.
When I felt like I didn't have avoice, when I felt like if I
spoke my mind about politics, I would immediately be shut down
or criticized, Charlie Kirk spoke up for people like me.
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Charlie Kirk gave us a reason topush forward.
He let us know that being silenced was the the way to
destroy ourselves and being silenced was the way to bring
more violence to this country. That we need to continue to have
a dialogue, whether we agree or disagree with people, and that
pushing that dialogue forward, pushing our message forward, and
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continuing to share our thoughtsand ideas with individuals who
agree and disagree is the way that a country will prosper.
If we stop sharing these ideas, if we stop talking about them,
we will end up with more destruction.
We will end up with more deaths,we will end up with more
violence in this country. Charlie Kirk's passing is, I
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mean, it's so hard on all of us.It's it's really hard on me.
These last few days have been very sad.
I've barely slept. I have barely spoken.
I am still in shock. It doesn't feel real and I don't
know if it will for a long time.I have watched everyone of
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Charlie Kirk's videos. I was a big listener of his
podcast. I watched all his campus
debates. I have watched him every day
almost since 2018 or so. Maybe 2019 is It hurts it.
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It feels. It feels like we all knew him,
even if you know we never met him.
It feels like we knew him. You know he was on our TV's and
our phones every day. He was speaking to people and
repeating points that we believed in and even on things I
disagreed with him about. I, you know, over the last few
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months, I've definitely given him a ton of shit on his
position on Israel versus mine, and I've given him a lot of
criticism. But Charlie Kirk encouraged us
all to disagree. He encouraged us all to keep
disagreeing with each other and speaking our minds and doing it
civilly. That's why he would sit in front
of these college campuses and debate people for hours on end.
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Charlie Kirk, your legacy will never be forgotten.
And millions more. Charlie Kirks were born on
September 10th, 2025. That radicalized millions of us.
Nobody should have any calls to violence.
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Nobody should have any, any retaliation, anything like that.
It is important that we act within the will of God.
It is important that we act within how Charlie Kirk would
have wanted us to respond. He would not have wanted us to
respond with violence. He would have wanted us to use
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our voices, use our right to free speech.
He would have wanted us to debate people.
He would have wanted us to continue to speak our minds,
challenge people, maybe even getsome of the people fired who are
celebrating it and things like that.
But he would not want us to to use violence.
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And again, I understand how you guys are probably feeling as
well. I'm feeling the same way.
Like I'm saying violence is not the answer and it should never
be the answer. But like many of you, I feel the
same. The same urges, the same the
same hatred and the same disgustand anger and sadness.
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And I, I have that same feeling,if I've never been more ready in
my life to pick up a gun and fight for America, for this
country, for free speech, for people like Charlie Kirk who
gave their lives for free speech, that's not the answer.
The answer right now is to continue to use our voices and
to finish what Charlie Kirk started.
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Charlie Kirk started a movement that I couldn't do in 1000
lifetimes. Charlie Kirk started a movement
that captured the hearts and minds of young conservatives and
young individuals everywhere. People loved him and people
hated him for his ideas, but he never shield away or back down
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from sharing them. He he encouraged more people to
be open about their conservativepolitics, and he even made it
cool to be conservative again. There was a time where it became
a very bad thing to be conservative socially and if you
weren't liberal, you weren't cool.
And Charlie Kirk changed that. Charlie Kirk made it so we had
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that voice so people like me could do my show.
And even though me and him wouldn't agree on everything, he
would still want me to voice my opinions every day.
He would still encourage me to. He would encourage all Americans
to because that's who he was. Charlie Kirk is leaving behind a
three and a one year old, a son and a daughter, a loving wife.
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He was a devout evangelical Christian and his wife was a
devout Catholic. They attended daily masses.
This is really sad and really hard.
I I never thought I would be making an episode like this or
talking about this. I might have disagreed with the
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guy on a lot, but Charlie Kirk was a hero and Charlie Kirk was
the face and voice of mainstreamconservative politics.
He was the he was the epitome oflike, you know, if, if your
neighbor was Charlie Kirk, if all your neighbors were Charlie
Kirk, you'd live in the best place ever.
He was such a great person, sucha great man, inspiring man, kind
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man, a man of God. He put God over everything in
his family right after that. This is just heartbreaking.
I am. I'm so sad that we have this
rise in political violence in our country.
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It is detrimental to the society.
We have people on both sides of the aisle who do it, but it
predominantly comes from the left.
It is overwhelmingly coming fromthe left, actually.
You know, when Luigi Mangione shot the CEO of that healthcare
company in the back of the head,people celebrated over it.
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And as we saw the most graphic assassination we'll probably
ever see in our lifetime from a political figure or a pray we
ever see in our lifetime of a political figure, people
celebrated it. Literally, someone stood up and
cheered the second it happened in the crowd.
That's demonic. That's evil.
It is the evil that resides around us that we need to root
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out. I don't care if you're a
liberal, I don't care if you're a Republican or I don't care if
you're Democrat. I don't care if you're
conservative or what you are. We're all Americans.
There's good and there's evil, and it doesn't matter whether
we're left or right. It matters whether you're good
or you're evil. And we need to root out the evil
from our society because it is around us.
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The satanic influence is everywhere around us and we can
see it rising. We can see it in our media.
We could see it in our social media.
We could see the propaganda everywhere, and we could see it
with the rise in political violence.
We just had that woman stabbed on the train.
We had Luigi Mangione shoot thatguy in the back of the head.
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Someone took a shot at Trump. A Democratic politician was
killed just a couple months ago.And now this.
Now, Charlie Kirk, the largest voice in mainstream conservative
politics, the largest voice in youth politics, someone who
captured the entire youth by their hearts and minds, was
struck down in front of thousands of individuals and it
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took the FBI days to be able to arrest this individual finally
this morning. This is a really hard episode
for me to make, so I'm sorry, everyone, please bear with me in
these just pause moments and just gathering and collecting my
thoughts. I'm not writing a script or I
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didn't write a script or anything for this.
It's just me speaking about how I feel about Charlie and the
political violence and where I feel this country needs to head.
Charlie, we will never forget your legacy and we will honor
it. We will finish what you started.
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I don't know what will happen with Turning Point USA.
I don't know who will fill your shoes, or I don't think anyone
even could. Like I said, in 1000 lifetimes,
I can never accomplish what Charlie Kirk accomplished.
And that's not just me, that's most people.
You know, any big name you see in conservative politics could
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not have done what Charlie Kirk did or else they would have done
it themselves. What Charlie Kirk did was
immensely selfless. Charlie Kirk was warned multiple
times that people would attempt to take his life.
Charlie Kirk had to spend millions of dollars on security.
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Charlie Kirk had to do what he could to protect himself at all
times, and demonic influence wasstill able to interfere.
He was taken way too young. He was 31 years old, 31, a
father of two, and a husband again.
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A better man than you, me, or any of us will be.
We should all aspire to be more like Charlie Kirk every day.
We should all aspire to speak our minds truly.
We should all aspire to push back on narratives and not
accept things as they are. We should all aspire to be
better Christians and be better to our families.
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Be more involved with our families and devote our lives to
God and our families and our country the way Charlie did.
Not just some days, every day. Charlie was a stoic individual
who on the days he didn't want to wake up, you wouldn't even
notice because he got up and didit anyway.
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You wouldn't notice Charlie's bad days from his good days
because he was so stoic and he was so dedicated to his craft
and dedicated to helping this country that you would never
even notice again. We should all do what we can to
be more like Charlie Kirk every day.
If everyone acted a little bit more like him, the world would
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be a way better place. People who are justifying this
saying any argument that CharlieKirk has said in the past
justifies this. They're saying that Charlie Kirk
would speak. You know he was anti abortion.
Charlie Kirk didn't want people to get murdered, so you murdered
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just. It's fucked up.
They say that because Charlie Kirk spoke about black crime
that he deserved this. Because Charlie Kirk wanted to
live in a safer nation for his wife and children.
He deserved this. She's super fucked up.
There's been a lot of speculation over the last few
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days over who the shooter was, the motives, what had happened.
That's the reason I didn't do a show for the last couple days
beyond just needing a day or twoto really put my thoughts
together and think about all this.
This is a very, very hard thing,but I don't think it's positive
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to engage in the conspiracy talkeither following tragic events
like this. You know, there was speculation
whether it was Israel. There was speculation whether it
was transgender. There was speculation whether it
was someone who had been radicalized.
And we find out this morning theindividual's name that they're
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arrested, and it was a radicalized individual.
But all the people engaged in conspiracies, I, I just don't
think it's positive. I think right now the family is
in mourning. Erica, Kirk and their children
are right now probably in the saddest times of their entire
lives that they will ever have to deal with.
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And they don't need to be reading all that on social
media. Not that they're actively
looking, but just in case. It's like we don't need to be
flooding social media with conspiracy theories when we
don't know the answer. It's better to just wait for
answers. That's why another reason why I
waited a couple days. It's just I wanted more clarity
on the situation and waiting till today was able to provide
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me with the clarity of who the person was who actually
committed the ACT. So that way I could more
accurately report on it. Because if I came and did this
on the day he got shot, it wouldhave been me.
Just again, I've never been moremad.
And I think a lot of people understand that feeling.
A lot of young conservatives outthere understand the exact
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feeling I have right now. If I've never been more pissed
off in my life, I'm sad, I'm pissed off, I'm hurt, I feel
lost a little bit. A a mentor and a role model to
us all was taken too early, way too early at 31 years old.
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Not only that, I mean, we all found out, you know, someone
texted us, we opened social media, whatever it was for me,
it was my cousin called me and said, did you see Charlie Kirk
got shot? And immediately I was like, no
fucking way, No way. Maybe maybe someone just walked
up to the mic and shot him in the shoulder.
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Maybe it hit his bulletproof vest.
I know he wears 1 and then I open X and about 80 to 90 times
in a row I see the video. It's the only thing on my For
You page and in my following, everyone was posting the video
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and I was very in between on that.
I was. A huge part of me thinks that
video should not be on social media because, again, the family
does not need to be seeing that.There are rumors that Charlie
Kirk's daughter ran to Charlie Kirk after he was shot because
she was scared of the sound. They don't need to be seeing
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that. But there's another part of me
that thinks that that image in that video should be burned in
every American's mind, especially every young
Americans, for a few reasons, for the political violence that
we need to show that it needs toend.
And so you have that feeling again, I don't want people to be
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sad and pissed off, but after something like this, we all
should be. We should be furious.
We should want answers and not revenge, but we should want
answers and we should want clarity.
We should want dialogue. Again, we should in times like
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this, listen to people like Charlie Kirk, go back and listen
to some of his old videos and wisdom and advice where it's
just in times like this, we needto continue to talk.
We need to not resort to violence.
We need to be stoic. We need to be clear with our
intentions. Our intentions need to be
extremely clear because again, we could go down the rabbit hole
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of they killed Charlie Couric. OK, let's pick up our guns.
Let's go kill this person. This person.
What is that going to solve? What is that going to fix?
It's only going to cause more death, more destruction.
It's not going to help anybody. It's only going to hurt this
nation. The left is more willing to go
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do acts like this, but the rightis more capable of finishing any
conflict. The left doesn't want to start a
long term conflict with the right.
And I don't want to have a conflict with anyone in my
nation. I want to live as Americans.
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The left has to stop pushing us like this.
They have to stop pushing us down this path where they're
taking shots at Trump and celebrating it and killing
Charlie Kirk and celebrating it and they're celebrating Luigi
Mangio and selling fucking LuigiT-shirts and shirts with Charlie
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Kirk dying on it. It's so heartbreaking.
I'm, I'm trying to, as I'm filming this, I'm trying to not
get over emotional. I'm trying to just keep a calm
tone the entire time because I Icould start yelling, I could
start screaming, I could start getting mad into the camera.
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I could start bawling my fuckingeyes out.
I could go. Anyway, here.
I mean, I, like I said, I'm feeling a range of emotions, as
are most Americans. We're all, we're all pissed off,
we're all upset, we're all sad, we're all, we're all feeling
like we need guidance. Nick Fuentes gave a amazing
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monologue last night. About it, I reposted it on my
YouTube channel for you guys to check out.
It's going to be way more, way better put together than this
one for sure. But it's important that I put
this one out as well because like I said, Charlie was an
important person to me. I've watched him every day since
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I started being political. And when I started my show, he
was who inspired me to start it.You know, I wanted to model my
show after things he was accomplishing and after the
model he set for conservative politics of you can speak your
mind, even if people aren't going to agree, you do have the
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ability to speak your mind and he don't have to be ostracized
for it. It's really easy to be angry.
It's really easy to want to. I guess I'd go pick up a gun and
fight, but it's a test to forgive and it's a test we need
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to pass. Again, we need to act in the
will of God. Everybody.
I know I'm all over the place inthis.
But again, it's really hard to to think about all this and to
speak about all this. I, I practice what I was going
to say over and over again. I didn't write anything down,
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but as I sat in front of the camera and press record, it just
feels so different. It's, it's not me sitting in
front of a mirror practicing. It's me actually talking about
someone who I would say was a hero to me in a lot of ways.
You know, being assassinated, being taken from us all too
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early by pure demonic evil, the evil that we need to root out of
this world. I want to talk about who the
individual was. I'm not going to talk too long
about it because the FBI hasn't released a ton of information
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and I'm sure they will release more.
But Tyler Robinson was the killer when he was 22.
Seemed like he did possibly havemental and social problems.
A very deranged person. There are rumors that this
individual could have been schizophrenic, but I'm not going
to say that for sure because I want to get this reporting
accurate, but I hope you get thedeath penalty.
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Tyler Robertson. One day you will meet your Maker
and Creator and you will have toanswer for this because I know
God love Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk devoted his life to
Christ. Well, I may not have agreed with
him on everything. I agree with him on that.
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He was a more devout Christian than most people and I could
never compare to the amount of knowledge he had, the way he's
able to just quote biblical verses and the way he is able to
use it in debates and the way heis able to reference it in his
everyday life and act accordingly.
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He was a better man than a lot of us.
And like I said, if all our neighbors were Charlie Kirk, we
would live in a lot better place.
My closing thoughts and remarks to all this are again, I want to
encourage everybody who's thinking about acting violently,
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who's thinking about retaliationand revenge, Please put down
your weapons, put down anything,pray, go hug your family, touch
grass, take a nap, drink some water.
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Charlie Kirk wouldn't want that.Charlie Kirk would want us to
act accordingly to how God wouldwant us to act.
Charlie Kirk would want us to use our voices, not our guns.
Charlie Kirk would want us to, again, just act in the will of
God. And that's what I'm encouraging
everyone to do today. Charlie Kirk, a loving father
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and husband, was taken all too early from us at 31 years old.
But we will never forget him. The young Americans who were
gathered around Charlie Kirk at a student Action summit at his
Turning Point USA events. The young Americans who followed
him on social media. We will finish what you started.
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We will pick it up where you left off and we will finish what
you started, Charlie Kirk. We will.
He will speak out against the radical woke indoctrination of
our children. We will speak out against the
violence that happens and the political violence that's
starting to rise. We will finish what you started,
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Charlie Kirk. I promise you that.
That is my my promise to you. Beyond the graves.
I'm heartbroken, I'm distraught,I'm angry, I'm sad.
I have probably the widest rangeof emotions I think I've ever
felt in my life. This is one of the saddest
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moments in my life. This is one of the saddest
moments that I've been alive forin American history.
I don't think America will ever be the same or I will ever be
the same. But please, everybody, don't act
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violently, but don't back down either.
Never back down, Never take a backward step.
Always be ready to defend yourself and your life, but
never be the aggressor. Charlie Kirk would want us to
push forward and move forward. And Charlie Kirk would want us
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to keep speaking, keep debating,keep engaging in political
discourse and engaging in politics.
Who would want us to convert more people to being Christians?
He'd want us to bring more peacethroughout the world.
Charlie Kirk, I pray for you today and I will pray for you
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and your family every day. This is heartbreaking.
I really can't believe I'm filming this right now.
I this is the most real it's felt is talking about it like
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this. Like I said, I haven't slept.
I haven't. I've barely talked to anybody
for the last few days. I'm sorry, I'm taking all these
pauses. I'm just trying to gather my
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emotions and thoughts. I'm going to sign off.
I, I don't know what else to sayright now.
I am, I'm overwhelmed with emotions right now.
I'm overwhelmed with, like I said, just feelings of anger,
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sadness, every, every emotion. I think we all need to do what
we can to try and be better people.
We need to do what we can to communicate better.
And we need to do what we can tomake this country safer because
right now there is a rising trend of violence that is very
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scary. I want to pray for everyone's
safety. I want to pray for Charlie Kirk.
I want to pray for Charlie Kirk's family and children.
I want to pray for all Americans, politicians or not.
I want to pray for their safety and please, I encourage everyone
to do that too. I also want to encourage all my
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listeners. Go get your first communion, get
baptized, get confirmed, do a confession.
If you already have some of those things, go do another
confession and go to Mass this Sunday.
Life can end at any moment, and that was shown to us this week.
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Life is precious and it can end at any second unexpectedly.
Go to confession, be right with God, be right in your own mind.
Do what's right for America, anddo what Charlie Kirk would do.
I'm going to sign off today. I hope you guys do have a
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blessed day, a blessed weekend. I will see you guys Monday.
Thank you.
America, we are back. Today.
We have a special episode. This is a very sad episode.
Most of you know what happened already.
Charlie Kirk was assassinated onSeptember 10th, 2025, and we're
going to speak about it today. We're going to speak about his
life, his legacy. We're going to speak about what
the future of America looks likeafter this, what the future of
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conservative politics looks like.
We're going to talk about the rise in political violence and
we will talk about how this country should move forward
together, how we need to end thepolitical violence and all the
destruction that's happening right now.
I first want to start by talkingabout Charlie Kirk's legacy.
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Charlie Kirk was born on October14th, 1993, passed away on
September 10th, 2025. He was assassinated.
Charlie Kirk started many companies and he influenced the
youth in a way that no one had ever done in America before,
including myself. When I first started getting
into politics, it was because ofCharlie Kirk's inspiration.
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Charlie Kirk inspired me to be more political.
Seeing his TikTok, seeing his reels, seeing his YouTube videos
of him debating whether it was against people on college
campuses when he went to Oxford and took on the entire Oxford
debate team, Charlie Kirk never feared any person when it came
to the challenge of debate and sharing ideas.
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He encouraged us to share ideas.Charlie Kirk is what encouraged
a lot of young Americans to speak their minds in a time
where they felt like they didn'thave a voice.
When I felt like I didn't have avoice, when I felt like if I
spoke my mind about politics, I would immediately be shut down
or criticized, Charlie Kirk spoke up for people like me.
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Charlie Kirk gave us a reason topush forward.
He let us know that being silenced was the the way to
destroy ourselves and being silenced was the way to bring
more violence to this country. That we need to continue to have
a dialogue, whether we agree or disagree with people, and that
pushing that dialogue forward, pushing our message forward, and
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continuing to share our thoughtsand ideas with individuals who
agree and disagree is the way that a country will prosper.
If we stop sharing these ideas, if we stop talking about them,
we will end up with more destruction.
We will end up with more deaths,we will end up with more
violence in this country. Charlie Kirk's passing is, I
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mean, it's so hard on all of us.It's it's really hard on me.
These last few days have been very sad.
I've barely slept. I have barely spoken.
I am still in shock. It doesn't feel real and I don't
know if it will for a long time.I have watched everyone of
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Charlie Kirk's videos. I was a big listener of his
podcast. I watched all his campus
debates. I have watched him every day
almost since 2018 or so. Maybe 2019 is It hurts it.
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It feels. It feels like we all knew him,
even if you know we never met him.
It feels like we knew him. You know he was on our TV's and
our phones every day. He was speaking to people and
repeating points that we believed in and even on things I
disagreed with him about. I, you know, over the last few
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months, I've definitely given him a ton of shit on his
position on Israel versus mine, and I've given him a lot of
criticism. But Charlie Kirk encouraged us
all to disagree. He encouraged us all to keep
disagreeing with each other and speaking our minds and doing it
civilly. That's why he would sit in front
of these college campuses and debate people for hours on end.
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Charlie Kirk, your legacy will never be forgotten.
And millions more. Charlie Kirks were born on
September 10th, 2025. That radicalized millions of us.
Nobody should have any calls to violence.
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Nobody should have any, any retaliation, anything like that.
It is important that we act within the will of God.
It is important that we act within how Charlie Kirk would
have wanted us to respond. He would not have wanted us to
respond with violence. He would have wanted us to use
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our voices, use our right to free speech.
He would have wanted us to debate people.
He would have wanted us to continue to speak our minds,
challenge people, maybe even getsome of the people fired who are
celebrating it and things like that.
But he would not want us to to use violence.
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And again, I understand how you guys are probably feeling as
well. I'm feeling the same way.
Like I'm saying violence is not the answer and it should never
be the answer. But like many of you, I feel the
same. The same urges, the same the
same hatred and the same disgustand anger and sadness.
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And I, I have that same feeling,if I've never been more ready in
my life to pick up a gun and fight for America, for this
country, for free speech, for people like Charlie Kirk who
gave their lives for free speech, that's not the answer.
The answer right now is to continue to use our voices and
to finish what Charlie Kirk started.
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Charlie Kirk started a movement that I couldn't do in 1000
lifetimes. Charlie Kirk started a movement
that captured the hearts and minds of young conservatives and
young individuals everywhere. People loved him and people
hated him for his ideas, but he never shield away or back down
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from sharing them. He he encouraged more people to
be open about their conservativepolitics, and he even made it
cool to be conservative again. There was a time where it became
a very bad thing to be conservative socially and if you
weren't liberal, you weren't cool.
And Charlie Kirk changed that. Charlie Kirk made it so we had
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that voice so people like me could do my show.
And even though me and him wouldn't agree on everything, he
would still want me to voice my opinions every day.
He would still encourage me to. He would encourage all Americans
to because that's who he was. Charlie Kirk is leaving behind a
three and a one year old, a son and a daughter, a loving wife.
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He was a devout evangelical Christian and his wife was a
devout Catholic. They attended daily masses.
This is really sad and really hard.
I I never thought I would be making an episode like this or
talking about this. I might have disagreed with the
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guy on a lot, but Charlie Kirk was a hero and Charlie Kirk was
the face and voice of mainstreamconservative politics.
He was the he was the epitome oflike, you know, if, if your
neighbor was Charlie Kirk, if all your neighbors were Charlie
Kirk, you'd live in the best place ever.
He was such a great person, sucha great man, inspiring man, kind
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man, a man of God. He put God over everything in
his family right after that. This is just heartbreaking.
I am. I'm so sad that we have this
rise in political violence in our country.
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It is detrimental to the society.
We have people on both sides of the aisle who do it, but it
predominantly comes from the left.
It is overwhelmingly coming fromthe left, actually.
You know, when Luigi Mangione shot the CEO of that healthcare
company in the back of the head,people celebrated over it.
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And as we saw the most graphic assassination we'll probably
ever see in our lifetime from a political figure or a pray we
ever see in our lifetime of a political figure, people
celebrated it. Literally, someone stood up and
cheered the second it happened in the crowd.
That's demonic. That's evil.
It is the evil that resides around us that we need to root
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out. I don't care if you're a
liberal, I don't care if you're a Republican or I don't care if
you're Democrat. I don't care if you're
conservative or what you are. We're all Americans.
There's good and there's evil, and it doesn't matter whether
we're left or right. It matters whether you're good
or you're evil. And we need to root out the evil
from our society because it is around us.
(09:30):
The satanic influence is everywhere around us and we can
see it rising. We can see it in our media.
We could see it in our social media.
We could see the propaganda everywhere, and we could see it
with the rise in political violence.
We just had that woman stabbed on the train.
We had Luigi Mangione shoot thatguy in the back of the head.
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Someone took a shot at Trump. A Democratic politician was
killed just a couple months ago.And now this.
Now, Charlie Kirk, the largest voice in mainstream conservative
politics, the largest voice in youth politics, someone who
captured the entire youth by their hearts and minds, was
struck down in front of thousands of individuals and it
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took the FBI days to be able to arrest this individual finally
this morning. This is a really hard episode
for me to make, so I'm sorry, everyone, please bear with me in
these just pause moments and just gathering and collecting my
thoughts. I'm not writing a script or I
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didn't write a script or anything for this.
It's just me speaking about how I feel about Charlie and the
political violence and where I feel this country needs to head.
Charlie, we will never forget your legacy and we will honor
it. We will finish what you started.
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I don't know what will happen with Turning Point USA.
I don't know who will fill your shoes, or I don't think anyone
even could. Like I said, in 1000 lifetimes,
I can never accomplish what Charlie Kirk accomplished.
And that's not just me, that's most people.
You know, any big name you see in conservative politics could
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not have done what Charlie Kirk did or else they would have done
it themselves. What Charlie Kirk did was
immensely selfless. Charlie Kirk was warned multiple
times that people would attempt to take his life.
Charlie Kirk had to spend millions of dollars on security.
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Charlie Kirk had to do what he could to protect himself at all
times, and demonic influence wasstill able to interfere.
He was taken way too young. He was 31 years old, 31, a
father of two, and a husband again.
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A better man than you, me, or any of us will be.
We should all aspire to be more like Charlie Kirk every day.
We should all aspire to speak our minds truly.
We should all aspire to push back on narratives and not
accept things as they are. We should all aspire to be
better Christians and be better to our families.
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Be more involved with our families and devote our lives to
God and our families and our country the way Charlie did.
Not just some days, every day. Charlie was a stoic individual
who on the days he didn't want to wake up, you wouldn't even
notice because he got up and didit anyway.
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You wouldn't notice Charlie's bad days from his good days
because he was so stoic and he was so dedicated to his craft
and dedicated to helping this country that you would never
even notice again. We should all do what we can to
be more like Charlie Kirk every day.
If everyone acted a little bit more like him, the world would
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be a way better place. People who are justifying this
saying any argument that CharlieKirk has said in the past
justifies this. They're saying that Charlie Kirk
would speak. You know he was anti abortion.
Charlie Kirk didn't want people to get murdered, so you murdered
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just. It's fucked up.
They say that because Charlie Kirk spoke about black crime
that he deserved this. Because Charlie Kirk wanted to
live in a safer nation for his wife and children.
He deserved this. She's super fucked up.
There's been a lot of speculation over the last few
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days over who the shooter was, the motives, what had happened.
That's the reason I didn't do a show for the last couple days
beyond just needing a day or twoto really put my thoughts
together and think about all this.
This is a very, very hard thing,but I don't think it's positive
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to engage in the conspiracy talkeither following tragic events
like this. You know, there was speculation
whether it was Israel. There was speculation whether it
was transgender. There was speculation whether it
was someone who had been radicalized.
And we find out this morning theindividual's name that they're
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arrested, and it was a radicalized individual.
But all the people engaged in conspiracies, I, I just don't
think it's positive. I think right now the family is
in mourning. Erica, Kirk and their children
are right now probably in the saddest times of their entire
lives that they will ever have to deal with.
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And they don't need to be reading all that on social
media. Not that they're actively
looking, but just in case. It's like we don't need to be
flooding social media with conspiracy theories when we
don't know the answer. It's better to just wait for
answers. That's why another reason why I
waited a couple days. It's just I wanted more clarity
on the situation and waiting till today was able to provide
(15:19):
me with the clarity of who the person was who actually
committed the ACT. So that way I could more
accurately report on it. Because if I came and did this
on the day he got shot, it wouldhave been me.
Just again, I've never been moremad.
And I think a lot of people understand that feeling.
A lot of young conservatives outthere understand the exact
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feeling I have right now. If I've never been more pissed
off in my life, I'm sad, I'm pissed off, I'm hurt, I feel
lost a little bit. A a mentor and a role model to
us all was taken too early, way too early at 31 years old.
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Not only that, I mean, we all found out, you know, someone
texted us, we opened social media, whatever it was for me,
it was my cousin called me and said, did you see Charlie Kirk
got shot? And immediately I was like, no
fucking way, No way. Maybe maybe someone just walked
up to the mic and shot him in the shoulder.
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Maybe it hit his bulletproof vest.
I know he wears 1 and then I open X and about 80 to 90 times
in a row I see the video. It's the only thing on my For
You page and in my following, everyone was posting the video
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and I was very in between on that.
I was. A huge part of me thinks that
video should not be on social media because, again, the family
does not need to be seeing that.There are rumors that Charlie
Kirk's daughter ran to Charlie Kirk after he was shot because
she was scared of the sound. They don't need to be seeing
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that. But there's another part of me
that thinks that that image in that video should be burned in
every American's mind, especially every young
Americans, for a few reasons, for the political violence that
we need to show that it needs toend.
And so you have that feeling again, I don't want people to be
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sad and pissed off, but after something like this, we all
should be. We should be furious.
We should want answers and not revenge, but we should want
answers and we should want clarity.
We should want dialogue. Again, we should in times like
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this, listen to people like Charlie Kirk, go back and listen
to some of his old videos and wisdom and advice where it's
just in times like this, we needto continue to talk.
We need to not resort to violence.
We need to be stoic. We need to be clear with our
intentions. Our intentions need to be
extremely clear because again, we could go down the rabbit hole
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of they killed Charlie Couric. OK, let's pick up our guns.
Let's go kill this person. This person.
What is that going to solve? What is that going to fix?
It's only going to cause more death, more destruction.
It's not going to help anybody. It's only going to hurt this
nation. The left is more willing to go
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do acts like this, but the rightis more capable of finishing any
conflict. The left doesn't want to start a
long term conflict with the right.
And I don't want to have a conflict with anyone in my
nation. I want to live as Americans.
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The left has to stop pushing us like this.
They have to stop pushing us down this path where they're
taking shots at Trump and celebrating it and killing
Charlie Kirk and celebrating it and they're celebrating Luigi
Mangio and selling fucking LuigiT-shirts and shirts with Charlie
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Kirk dying on it. It's so heartbreaking.
I'm, I'm trying to, as I'm filming this, I'm trying to not
get over emotional. I'm trying to just keep a calm
tone the entire time because I Icould start yelling, I could
start screaming, I could start getting mad into the camera.
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I could start bawling my fuckingeyes out.
I could go. Anyway, here.
I mean, I, like I said, I'm feeling a range of emotions, as
are most Americans. We're all, we're all pissed off,
we're all upset, we're all sad, we're all, we're all feeling
like we need guidance. Nick Fuentes gave a amazing
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monologue last night. About it, I reposted it on my
YouTube channel for you guys to check out.
It's going to be way more, way better put together than this
one for sure. But it's important that I put
this one out as well because like I said, Charlie was an
important person to me. I've watched him every day since
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I started being political. And when I started my show, he
was who inspired me to start it.You know, I wanted to model my
show after things he was accomplishing and after the
model he set for conservative politics of you can speak your
mind, even if people aren't going to agree, you do have the
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ability to speak your mind and he don't have to be ostracized
for it. It's really easy to be angry.
It's really easy to want to. I guess I'd go pick up a gun and
fight, but it's a test to forgive and it's a test we need
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to pass. Again, we need to act in the
will of God. Everybody.
I know I'm all over the place inthis.
But again, it's really hard to to think about all this and to
speak about all this. I, I practice what I was going
to say over and over again. I didn't write anything down,
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but as I sat in front of the camera and press record, it just
feels so different. It's, it's not me sitting in
front of a mirror practicing. It's me actually talking about
someone who I would say was a hero to me in a lot of ways.
You know, being assassinated, being taken from us all too
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early by pure demonic evil, the evil that we need to root out of
this world. I want to talk about who the
individual was. I'm not going to talk too long
about it because the FBI hasn't released a ton of information
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and I'm sure they will release more.
But Tyler Robinson was the killer when he was 22.
Seemed like he did possibly havemental and social problems.
A very deranged person. There are rumors that this
individual could have been schizophrenic, but I'm not going
to say that for sure because I want to get this reporting
accurate, but I hope you get thedeath penalty.
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Tyler Robertson. One day you will meet your Maker
and Creator and you will have toanswer for this because I know
God love Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk devoted his life to
Christ. Well, I may not have agreed with
him on everything. I agree with him on that.
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He was a more devout Christian than most people and I could
never compare to the amount of knowledge he had, the way he's
able to just quote biblical verses and the way he is able to
use it in debates and the way heis able to reference it in his
everyday life and act accordingly.
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He was a better man than a lot of us.
And like I said, if all our neighbors were Charlie Kirk, we
would live in a lot better place.
My closing thoughts and remarks to all this are again, I want to
encourage everybody who's thinking about acting violently,
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who's thinking about retaliationand revenge, Please put down
your weapons, put down anything,pray, go hug your family, touch
grass, take a nap, drink some water.
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Charlie Kirk wouldn't want that.Charlie Kirk would want us to
act accordingly to how God wouldwant us to act.
Charlie Kirk would want us to use our voices, not our guns.
Charlie Kirk would want us to, again, just act in the will of
God. And that's what I'm encouraging
everyone to do today. Charlie Kirk, a loving father
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and husband, was taken all too early from us at 31 years old.
But we will never forget him. The young Americans who were
gathered around Charlie Kirk at a student Action summit at his
Turning Point USA events. The young Americans who followed
him on social media. We will finish what you started.
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We will pick it up where you left off and we will finish what
you started, Charlie Kirk. We will.
He will speak out against the radical woke indoctrination of
our children. We will speak out against the
violence that happens and the political violence that's
starting to rise. We will finish what you started,
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Charlie Kirk. I promise you that.
That is my my promise to you. Beyond the graves.
I'm heartbroken, I'm distraught,I'm angry, I'm sad.
I have probably the widest rangeof emotions I think I've ever
felt in my life. This is one of the saddest
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moments in my life. This is one of the saddest
moments that I've been alive forin American history.
I don't think America will ever be the same or I will ever be
the same. But please, everybody, don't act
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violently, but don't back down either.
Never back down, Never take a backward step.
Always be ready to defend yourself and your life, but
never be the aggressor. Charlie Kirk would want us to
push forward and move forward. And Charlie Kirk would want us
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to keep speaking, keep debating,keep engaging in political
discourse and engaging in politics.
Who would want us to convert more people to being Christians?
He'd want us to bring more peacethroughout the world.
Charlie Kirk, I pray for you today and I will pray for you
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and your family every day. This is heartbreaking.
I really can't believe I'm filming this right now.
I this is the most real it's felt is talking about it like
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this. Like I said, I haven't slept.
I haven't. I've barely talked to anybody
for the last few days. I'm sorry, I'm taking all these
pauses. I'm just trying to gather my
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emotions and thoughts. I'm going to sign off.
I, I don't know what else to sayright now.
I am, I'm overwhelmed with emotions right now.
I'm overwhelmed with, like I said, just feelings of anger,
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sadness, every, every emotion. I think we all need to do what
we can to try and be better people.
We need to do what we can to communicate better.
And we need to do what we can tomake this country safer because
right now there is a rising trend of violence that is very
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scary. I want to pray for everyone's
safety. I want to pray for Charlie Kirk.
I want to pray for Charlie Kirk's family and children.
I want to pray for all Americans, politicians or not.
I want to pray for their safety and please, I encourage everyone
to do that too. I also want to encourage all my
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listeners. Go get your first communion, get
baptized, get confirmed, do a confession.
If you already have some of those things, go do another
confession and go to Mass this Sunday.
Life can end at any moment, and that was shown to us this week.
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Life is precious and it can end at any second unexpectedly.
Go to confession, be right with God, be right in your own mind.
Do what's right for America, anddo what Charlie Kirk would do.
I'm going to sign off today. I hope you guys do have a
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blessed day, a blessed weekend. I will see you guys Monday.
Thank you.
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