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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Left-wing lunatics
hoped for a funeral.
America got a revival ASunday's service like nothing
I've ever seen before.
Last week we covered thetragedy.
Today we cover the triumph.
Let's honor Charlie Kirk todayon Share the Struggle Podcast.
Let me tell you somethingEverybody struggles.
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The difference is some peoplechoose to go through it and some
choose to grow through it.
The choice is completely yours.
Which one you choose will havea very profound effect on the
way you live your life.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
If you find strength
in the struggle, then this
podcast is for you.
Do you have a relationship thatis comfortable with
uncomfortable conversations?
Uncomfortable conversationschallenge you, humble you and
they build you.
When you sprinkle a little timeand distance on it, it all
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makes sense and it all makessense.
Most disagreements.
They stem from our owninsecurities.
You are right where you need tobe.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
ooh.
What it do, what it do, what ithot did it do.
Good Lord, Almighty, am I soexcited to be back with you.
Oh, it's true, it is damn true.
Episode 272.
That's another week of me andyou, 272 consecutive weeks.
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To be exact, I'm coming at youa little more positive, a little
more encouraged, a little moreuplifted today because y'all, I
went to church on Sunday.
I think all of America went tochurch on Sunday.
We started off today's show,the intro to the show.
We're talking about the factthat last week we spent a lot of
time talking about the tragedy.
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We tried to highlight the man,but we discussed the tragedy.
Today we're going to dig intothe triumph.
I don't know how many of youtook the time to watch, to
partake, to be a part of, toparticipate in the Charlie
Couric Memorial, but it wasabsolutely incredible.
I actually turned YouTube on inmy office.
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I was making all kinds of stuffgetting ready for a Freiburg
fair, because you know we'regetting ready to head out there.
Actually, tomorrow I will betraveling to Freiburg, me and
the wifey and the little, butit's crunch time this time of
year, right, where I'm spendingcountless days and hours and all
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forms of morning afternoon,night delight, the whole night.
Right, you're in it to win itthis time of year.
So Sunday I turned on YouTube.
I Sunday I turned on YouTube.
I went over to Turning Point,usa.
I subscribed to Turning Point,which I think it seems like half
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of America to the same thing.
I subscribed to Turning Pointand I put on the Charlie Kirk
tribute, the memorial fromArizona, which I believe had
over 100,000 people inattendance, plus the stadium
across the street was full ofpeople and there's millions
watching all around the world.
They were talking about thefact that this was probably
going into the day they wereprojecting it was going to be
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viewed by more people thanviewed the actual Super Bowl.
So that in itself is prettyincredible.
So that in itself is prettyincredible.
But I turned on Turning Pointon YouTube and it was tremendous
because there was nocommercials.
There's no, nothing.
It's a live stream.
It was the entire service, allthe buildup, all the lean into
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the actual service.
They had a bunch of Christianmusicians coming out and
performing.
Brandon Lake was there with hisgroup and it was just
incredible.
And I don't even know the exacttime I turned on Turning Point.
It must have been like 9 or 10am here on the East Coast and I
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watched and listened to and wasa part of that entire service.
I didn't miss a second of thatservice and I don't think it
ended until after 7 pm.
I want to say it was maybeclose to like 7.30 on the East
Coast, which here's a fullfrontal confessional for you,
america.
I'm a diehard Cowboys fan.
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I don't miss a game.
I watch every Cowboys game thatI possibly can.
If it's televised, I'm watchingit, so much so that if I'm at
an event I'll have it on myphone.
If I have to be at an event,I'm usually watching it on my
phone.
I didn't once turn over to theCowboys game.
I didn't once check my phonefor a score.
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I didn't once pay any ounce ofattention to anything except for
Charlie Kirk, his friends, hisfamily, his mentors, everybody
that came up there and spoke.
I truly felt it was the mostimportant thing I could possibly
do.
This is monumental.
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This is such an amazing part inUS history.
This, legitimately, is aturning point for American
history.
This is a turning point forAmerica.
When Charlie founded andstarted Turning Point many years
ago, he didn't know how fittingthat name would be, and the
fact that he would be theturning point for this country.
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We witnessed a full-on revivalon Sunday.
We did not tune in for afuneral.
We all tuned in and became apart of a revival.
It was so heartwarming to mewhen people started coming out
and saying this assassin thoughthe would be witnessing a
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funeral.
These crazy, lunatic leftiesthat are out there losing their
minds celebrating on his gravewere hoping to watch a tearful,
agonizing, painful funeral.
Instead, they got the tears,they got the emotion, they got
the heartfelt.
But they they got the tears,they got the emotion, they got
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the heartfelt.
They also got the optimism.
They also got the biggest doseof Jesus they could have ever
imagined.
They got a revival and it wastremendous.
All the stories I could sithere for hours and go over all
the stories, but I'm hopefulthat you all watched it and if
you didn't, I encourage you togo back and watch it.
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It was tremendous.
I am going to highlight some ofthe stories and some of the
things that I heard that reallyresonated with me.
One of them, as we're justhaving this conversation, is the
first person that came out tospeak that Charlie asked to
speak.
He referred to him as America'spastor.
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He said you are America'spastor.
And when he was talking to himabout being America's pastor,
they were actually on a retreat.
I believe he said they were inmaybe Korea, kuwait I honestly
can't remember.
But he said he was sitting withCharlie and he said listen, I'm
not America's pastor and, to behonest, you travel so much.
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I'm barely your pastor.
I don't even get to see you onSunday.
I'm not America's pastor.
And Charlie said you absolutelyare America's pastor and
someday you will prove to theworld that you are America's
pastor.
You will prove me right as he'sthere speaking.
He said Charlie, my friend, youwere right again, because today
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, right now, at this moment, Iam the pastor for America.
It was the first guy to speakand I already broke down.
It was incredible.
There were so many speeches thatcame about that were just so
moving, so inspiring, soheartbreaking to think that all
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this tremendous stuff, all thispositivity, all this stuff that
Charlie had created and he'sdone in his life and his 31
years of life I realized duringthis that my wife's older than
Charlie Kirk and you just startto think how this world was
robbed of such a great man, anamazing heart and such a beacon
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of faith.
It's so incredibly saddening toknow what the world lost, but
there's some things I'm going toshare with you today that I
really truly feel will leave youencouraged, because they
certainly left me encouraged,but hearing all these stories,
so many of them, really trulyresonated with me, and the
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amazing thing is number one tohave all these people out there.
There's still politicians andinfluencers out there saying the
most hateful, negative thingsabout Charlie.
I saw AOC, who I do believe isgoing to try to run for
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presidency as the Democraticcandidate.
She literally came out andagain and just went off about
how much of a hateful personCharlie was and all the things
that he had said, and it'sincredible to me that people
could just be that numb and thatinconsiderate and that just
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belligerently stupid and it'sheartbreaking to know that.
But my wife just threwsomething in the background, or
the baby did.
I'm not sure.
We're multitasking tonight,folks.
I'm recording the podcast.
My wife is packing for the fairand the baby is everywhere
doing whatever the hell shefeels like.
Okay, so you might have heardthat she threw a belt buckle.
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She's getting ready for thefair.
That's reasonable.
I would appreciate it if shewouldn't interrupt such a
heartfelt moment, but you knowshe's one.
She's going to do what shewants to do.
But some of the tremendoushighlights of this memorial, of
this service, of this revival,was hearing how many people were
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accepting Jesus, acknowledgingJesus for the first time.
They talked about how manypeople have reached out and said
I went to church for the firsttime.
They talked about how manypeople have reached out and said
I went to church for the firsttime, I opened a Bible for the
first time, I went back tochurch for the first time in a
long time.
So many people saying thosethings was incredible.
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It was inspiring.
Last week we talked about how Ithink there was I'm already
forgetting the numbers, butthere was a couple thousand
chapters of Turning Point andthen there was a 27,000 request
for a new chapter.
Last week, and it's already bySunday, was up to 67,000
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requests for new Turning Pointchapters.
It was amazing all that we wereable to learn about Charlie, all
these inspiring stories right,these interactions that people
had with him.
All the times he made suchpositive impacts on people.
We were able to learn so muchmore about the man, so much more
than I ever knew.
I didn't actually know how muchof an impact he had on this
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recent presidential election.
I knew of the impact.
I knew he helped get youngvoters, but I didn't realize
that Turning Point wasorganizing all those Trump
rallies.
I didn't realize how much of anintegral part of the presidency
he was.
I didn't realize how he washelping to establish cabinet
members.
I didn't realize that he is, infact, the person that brought
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JD Vance to Donald Trump and JDVance.
Vice President Vance gave anincredible speech.
My absolute favorite part ofthe speech was Vice President
Vance discussing his faith andthat he's a devout Christian and
he's talking about his beliefs.
But he's always been a littlenervous about sharing his
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convictions, about sharing hisfaith in public.
You know, running for differentpolitical seats and offices and
now as the vice president, hesaid he was always a little
nervous and that Charlie alwaysencouraged him to express his
faith and to show it and to beokay with it.
And he said that he realizedbecause of Charlie Kirk, in the
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past 10 days he's acknowledgedand talked about Jesus Christ
more in the past 10 days than hehas in his entire political
career combined.
Charlie is removing the stigma.
He's encouraging people toembrace and showcase their faith
.
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Vice President Vance's speechand with that in honor of
Charlie Kirk, I have decidedthat I will no longer make
excuses or shy away from myfaith here on this podcast,
because since the beginning ofthis podcast we've hovered
around the subjects of God.
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We've talked about us exploringour faith and embracing our
faith, but we didn't alwaysreally get into those things
because I don't believe intrying to, you know, push or
press anything onto anyone.
But that doesn't mean that Ishouldn't be proud of what I
believe.
That doesn't mean that Ishouldn't be okay in saying I
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believe in Jesus Christ.
And from this point on, inhonor of Charlie Kirk, because
of that speech, I will no longershy away from my beliefs.
When I'm in here on a podcaststruggling through something,
growing through something, and Imention prayers and the power
of prayer and all those things,I will no longer shy away, I
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will no longer deny.
You can book that and you cancount that from this day forward
.
There's quite a few thingsthroughout the memorial that
really hit home for me and acouple of them.
One of them started off earlywhere there was this I believe
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it was like a college professorthat you know.
It was actually going to honorCharlie and Erica with an
honorary college degree comingup in May.
But he said one piece of advicethat he gave to Charlie and he
said he'd never thought to hearfrom him again.
But he heard from him many,many more times.
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Then they became close friendsand he was a mentor and he was
giving mentor and he was givingum Charlie some some advice and
and he told him you have tosuffer.
You have to suffer.
And I'm not going to get intothe whole context and of what he
said.
I hope you guys go and listenand look it up and and indulge
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in that for yourselves.
But for me it hit home.
For me you have to sufferAnything worth having, anything
worth working for, anything thatyou really truly put your heart
and mind towards.
You need to suffer.
You have to suffer to get towhere you want to be.
And when I heard that, it mademe realize all the suffering
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that myself and my family havebeen going through, have been
growing through, because there'sbigger and better and brighter
out there for us and we'refixated on that for us.
But those goals, thosecommitments, those dreams, those
aspirations, they don't comewithout sacrifice and they don't
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come without great layers ofchallenge and obstacles.
And I feel like over the pastcouple of years, I have never
suffered more but I've neverbeen rewarded more in different
areas of my life.
I've lost my father, I've givenup and walked away from
relationships and people andfriends and family.
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I've said goodbye to careers tochase dreams.
I said goodbye to beingfinancially secure, to taking
major risks and being insecure,and I was rewarded with the most
amazing, precious gift I couldhave ever asked for in Paisley
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Rain.
And there's all these otherthings in my life that are
coming to me based on thesacrifice this year for my
business.
I've sacrificed more than Iever could have imagined and
I've suffered more than I evercould have planned on.
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We're getting rewarded withmore sales than we've ever had,
but we're suffering along theway.
Just hearing those words,knowing that I'm suffering for a
reason.
Right, this too shall pass.
I'm suffering for a reason.
And in saying this too shallpass, that's kind of ironic too,
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because I say that all the time.
And in listening to some of thethings about Charlie going into
this weekend, he mentioned oneof his favorite quotes to say
one of his favorite lines to sayis this too shall pass.
And if you've been listening tothe podcast for the 270 plus
episodes, you've heard me saythat a million times.
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This too shall pass.
And Charlie said he always usedthat because it helped him stay
grounded.
In good times and the bad, weoften say this too shall pass.
When we're struggling, whenwe're suffering, we say this too
shall pass.
When we're struggling, whenwe're suffering, we say this too
shall pass.
We're not going to stay thisdown on our luck.
We're not going to stay thisdepressed.
This too shall pass.
We're not going to stay thisbroke.
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I never looked at it from theother side of the coin, where
Charlie said it helped him staygrounded, because in times of
great wealth, in times of greattriumph and victory, remind
yourself this too shall pass.
So not only will the bad timespass, but the good times will
too.
So it helps you to staygrounded and to realize I can
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get through this and I mustenjoy this.
So if you're struggling, pleaseknow this will pass.
So if you're struggling, pleaseknow this will pass.
If you're overachieving andyou're hitting all those marks
and you're living your life toyour fullest, be grounded, be
present, enjoy it, because this,too, shall pass.
Another thing for me that reallyhit home, because I'm really
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just trying to spend my timetoday with you.
Just trying to spend my timetoday with you digging into some
of the few key words, keyspeeches and key moments that
really truly resonated with me,and to share that with you, in
hopes that, if you haven'twatched all these speeches, you
go back and you do watch and youlook for and you listen to
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hopes and clues.
And I've always said this thatsuccess leaves clues along the
way.
Charlie is an extremelysuccessful individual and his
story is going to leave theseclues for success to each and
every one of us.
And these are some of thethings that I picked up.
That number one give me peacein knowing that Charlie
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fulfilled his purpose.
Give me peace in knowing thatCharlie fulfilled his purpose.
He's on to bigger and greater.
You know obstacles andchallenges and quests, and that
is something that gives youpeace and can give you hope in
these dark times.
But it also can give you peaceand hope and motivation that you
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can pull through whatever it isthat you're going through.
And for me, I want to say thatthere was another thing from
Charlie.
That really hit home for me.
And it was an interview wheresomebody asked him flat out if
you were to die, if you were topass away, what do you want to
be known for?
And he said I want to be knownfor my courage.
I want to be known for mycourage to my faith.
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And instantly it just justpiqued all my emotions and and
all my, all my feels.
This person in the interviewroom says what do you want to be
known for?
Courage.
Courage for my faith.
Courage is doing the rightthing when you don't know if
it's going to work out.
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Courage is committing yourselfto the correct course of action,
regardless of the costassociated with it.
Courage is a choice and Ichoose courage.
Everything above that hit meand it got into my feels and it
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put me in this moment ofreflection and an instant prayer
where I instantly hit my kneesand said I needed to hear that.
And that landed on me right now, for me, at the right time, for
many reasons.
If you are a loyal listener ofthe podcast and you are a day
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one, get your ones up.
I acknowledge you, I recognizeyou, I appreciate you.
If you're a new one here, ifthis is a day one for you here,
then I'm going to issue achallenge for you here.
I'm going to want you to goback to episode 234, finding
your guiding word.
So, to start the year off,every year we kind of begin to
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forecast our year, project ourgoals, paint out those dreams,
list those goals and keyobjectives to attaining our
dreams and our goals.
And this year I had an episodewith my wife.
It was on New Year's Eve and wewere asking each other
questions getting ready for thenew year.
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We were looking at our goals ina different perspective and one
of the things this year was tofind and identify a guiding word
.
I'm somebody that grew up with asports background and playing
football.
My coaches used to commonlycome up with a word and say this
is our word.
This is our word, this is ourmantra, this is our mission for
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the season.
We're going to cling to this,we're going to hang on to this,
we're going to contribute in allof our actions to this word.
Right, whatever we do is goingto come back to this word, and I
wanted to adapt that into ourgoals and begin to really focus,
pray, meditate, manifest.
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What is that word for me?
What is that word that when Isee it, I feel something right.
There's certain words to methat have great meaning and
they're tattooed on me likeredemption or relentless.
There's words that you want toidentify to help you get to
where you want to be, to helpyou live the life you want to
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live.
And when you can find thosewords and you identify those
words, you then, during the year, when you're struggling, when
you find yourself going to makea difficult decision, you go
back to that word and you askyourself am I making the right
choice based off of my word?
Are my actions lining up withmy guiding word?
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And if you go back to episode234, we're going to outline our
guiding words.
And if you go to episode 235,we use that word to start making
decisions.
So what I want to tell you isstart making decisions.
So what I want to tell you isepisode 234, back on the eve of
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2025, I identified two wordssacrifice and courage.
To me, sacrifice and sufferingare very similar.
If I just kind of reflect on,you need to suffer that whole
phrase that we just went back on.
That's part of it.
But my overwhelming word forthis year, my guiding word, was
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courage, and I spent a greatdeal of time discussing with you
courage and all it meant to meand how it inspired me and all
the new challenges for me.
In episode 235, I use courageto make difficult decisions.
You fast forward towards the endof the year and I hear a man
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ask Charlie Kirk, what do youwant to be known for?
Courage Courage, for my faith.
Courage is doing the rightthing when you don't know it's
going to work out.
Courage is committing yourselfto the correct course of action,
regardless of the costassociated with it.
Courage is a choice and Ichoose courage.
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That conversation, that moment,it hit me, it moved me, it
inspired me.
This entire day, this revival onSunday, the multitude of hours
I spent in prayer, in thought,in reflection.
It was truly, truly incredible.
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I sat back and I asked myselfyou imagine that you live a life
that makes the difference thatCharlie did?
Can you imagine that you thinkabout all those people we're
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talking 67,000 requests to starta Turning Point chapter.
All the people you know goingto church for the first time.
All the people opening a Biblefor the first time.
You think of opening a Biblefor the first time?
You think of the 100,000 peoplein attendance, the millions
watching all around the world.
Can you imagine a life thatmakes that level of difference?
Can you imagine living a lifethat makes that difference every
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single day?
It's incredible, it's inspiring, it's motivating, it's humbling
.
Sunday was an incredibleexperience.
Again, for the 1,000th time, Iencourage you, if you haven't
done so already, go back andwatch those speeches.
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If you don't have the time forall of them, then find some
people that you can relate toand that you're inspired by.
But ultimately, if you can onlypick one speech, find Erica
Kirk.
Watch her speech, and Ichallenge you to not break down.
I challenge you to not beovercome with emotion emotion
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when Erica stood there and shechose to forgive the young man
that assassinated her husband.
It was incredible.
There was one part of herspeech that I'm going to read
back to you that I hope bringssome I don't even know how to
the best way to put it, becausethere's so many emotions that
come from this but I hope itbrings some peace to you, some
comfort to you, and I hope thatit can help you understand that
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Jesus does exist, that we arehere for a reason.
We all have a purpose andCharlie lived and fulfilled his
great, tremendous purpose, andhis life, in fact, is a turning
point for America.
I'm going to read this quickstatement, a little excerpt from
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Erica's speech.
Just a few miles from here, twoyears ago, at AmericaFest 2023,
charlie delivered his speech onstage for our TPUSA faith event.
Charlie loves speaking off thecuff he's very good at that
without a script, so Ipersonally didn't know what he
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was going to say, and what hechose to speak about that day
was his submission to the willof God.
He quoted one of his favoriteBible verses Isaiah 6, 8.
Here I am, lord, send me.
After Charlie finished, I methim backstage and I spoke to him
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, and I'll never forget this.
I said Charlie, baby, pleasetalk to me next time before you
say that statement, because whenyou say something like that,
there is so much power in thatverse.
When you say here I am Lord,use me, god will take you up on
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that.
And he did.
He did with Charlie 11 days ago.
God accepted that totalsurrender for my husband and
then called him to his side.
More than anything, charliewanted to do, not his will, but
God's will, and over these past11 days, through all the pain,
never before have I found asmuch comfort as I now do in the
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words of our Lord's prayer Thywill be done.
I'm getting emotional and I'mtearing up just rereading that
speech, because that's it.
That's all of it, there'snothing else to be said.
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I want to share two more quickthings to kind of connect and
correlate my family and ourstory with Charlie and Erica and
this speech and why and howthese things kind of hit home
for us.
First off, the Lord's Prayer.
For me that's one of the mostpowerful prayers, so much so
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that I have part of it tattooedon my chest.
And number two over the weekend, on Saturday I was in the
office working and my wife andPaisley and my mother went out
yard sailing and they foundthemselves at the flea market.
And this flea market is thelast place my father visited
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before he was admitted to thehospital.
It's the place where my dadactually collapsed and had the
ambulance called and it's wheneverything started to spiral.
From that point on, my wife andmy mother were at that same
flea market walking around andAllie was kind of rummaging
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through some trinkets and shefound this coin and she picked
it up and she saw that it waslike in an epoxy type cross and
before she could even read itand look at it, the lady that
was selling it said you can havethat, you can have that.
And she said you.
And she looked down and therewas a coin with a cross and the
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other side was the Lord's Prayer.
This is America's Turning Point,charlie Kirk.
You are America's Turning Point.
I wholeheartedly confess adifference was made in me
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because of you.
I am going to commit more andmore to my faith.
Because of Charlie Kirk andwhat happened and I know I'm not
alone I hope somebody out therelistening to me today can find
the courage today to say I am abeliever.
They can find the courage todayto buy the Bible, to open the
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Bible, to find a church, to goto church.
I hope and pray that todaysomeone, somewhere, somehow
finds God and that is ourgreatest tribute to Charlie Kirk
.
They wanted a funeral.
They wanted a funeral.
They got a revival America.
We are so back.
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Thank you for supportingCharlie Kirk's American dream.
Now go wash your hands.
You're a freaking savage.
That's it and that's all,biggie Smalls.
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I truly thank you forsupporting my American dream.
Now go wash your fucking hands,you filthy savage.