October 15, 2025 • 38 mins
Grief can flatten you—or forge you. On Charlie Kirk’s first heavenly birthday, we sit with the weight of loss and the power of witness as Erica Kirk accepts the Presidential Medal of Freedom and models a fearless, faith-first path forward. That moment reframed our day and our decisions, pulling a simple prayer—“Thy will be done”—from ink on skin into the center of our work, our words, and our homes.
We open up about the tension between honoring a legacy and avoiding the appearance of profit, and how hundreds of conversations at the Fryeburg Fair shifted our view. The result is a community-shaped tribute: two made-in-the-USA designs—Freedom and Fearless—that pair a bold front with a half cross on the back, “God, Family, Country,” and “Live like Charlie: faith over fear,” finished with a gold signature. It’s more than merch; it’s a commitment to carry a message with integrity and intention.
Along the way, we dig into what surrender really means—active alignment, not passive waiting—plus why America’s leadership vacuum starts at the kitchen table and stretches to our biggest stages. We talk courage you can practice, “peace through strength” as moral clarity with backbone, and how Erica’s voice is shaping a new standard for public leadership: honest, compassionate, unafraid.
If you’ve been looking for a way to turn pain into purpose and belief into action, this one’s for you. Listen, share with a friend who needs courage today, and subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next. And if the message moves you, check out the Freedom and Fearless tributes at loudproudamerican.shop and tell us how you’re choosing faith over fear.
If you found value in today's show please return the favor and leave a positive review and share it with someone important to you! https://www.sharethestrugglepodcast.com/reviews/new/
Find all you need to know about the show https://www.sharethestrugglepodcast.com/
Official Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077724159859
Join the 2% of Americans that Buy American and support American Together we can bring back American Manufacturing https://www.loudproudamerican.shop/
Loud Proud American Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Loudproudamerican
Loud Proud American Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loud_proud_american/
Loud Proud American TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@loud_proud_american
Loud Proud American YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmYQtOt6KVURuySWYQ2GWtw
Thank you for Supporting My American Dream!
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Thy Will Be Done.
Today, on the first heavenlybirthday of Charlie Kirk.
Today, on the day that we recordthis podcast, Erica Kirk
receives the Presidential Medalof Freedom for her husband.
Thy Will Be Done.
(00:22):
Today, we acknowledge that God'swisdom is greater than our own.
We admire Erica Kirk's strengthand fearlessness.
And we discuss how us here atLoun Proud American honor
Charlie Kirk and his legacy.
Let me tell you something.
Everybody struggles.
(00:42):
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 have avery profound effect on the way
you live your life.
(01:53):
Am I so excited to be back withyou?
Oh, it is true.
It is damn true.
How you doing, baby boo?
Y'all know I missed you.
Welcome to the Loud, ProudAmerican sponsored, precisely,
perfectly, beautifully namedpodcast, Share the Struggle,
because everybody struggles.
But the truth is, boys andgirls, chipmunks and squirrels,
(02:16):
when you have the courage tospeak your struggles, there is
strength from your story.
Everybody goes through it,everybody grows through it.
When you're willing to share it,then you can help anybody else.
You don't even know who you canhelp.
This is Share the StrugglePodcast.
We are coming to you withepisode 275.
(02:38):
That is 275.
Five beautiful weeks,consecutive weeks of you and me.
Oh, it's true.
It's damn true.
Together, me and you, we havenot missed one week yet.
Don't forget, you can find allbeautiful things about this here
podcast at www.share theshruggle podcast.
(02:59):
To all my day ones, my loyalones, my faithful ones that have
been listening since the firstone.
I acknowledge you.
I appreciate you, and I welcomeyou back to each and every one
of you that is new here.
Welcome to our show.
Welcome to this positive tribethat's building a positive vibe.
We appreciate you.
We welcome you.
(03:20):
We embrace you and love you.
That's right, brother.
Love, we love you.
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
Well, with all that out of theway, I gotta say, we've been
picking up uh new listeners fromall over the country, actually
all over the world.
Pretty excited by that.
I appreciate all the new onesthat are out there listening.
(03:41):
I've been doing a poor job at mygrassroots gorilla marketing
campaign when it comes to uhadvertising for the podcast.
I literally just realized, um,and I mean, call me silly on
this one here, folks.
You get so motivated and drivento um, you know, market and
drive your own like day-to-daybusiness that I forget that I
(04:02):
can be marketing the podcast atthe same time.
I mean, we will travel with somepodcast merch, but I was just
thinking about it and I waslike, man, the thousands of
people that we've met throughoutthe year that have purchased
from us, why did I not justleave a freaking flyer with a
business card or something intheir damn bag to say, hey, this
(04:24):
is what we do, this is who weare.
Why did I not do that?
Am I an idiot?
Don't answer that.
Don't you dare answer that.
Thankfully I'm not recorded withmy wife because she would call
me out for that.
I mean I love recording with mywife, but I could I I appreciate
dodging a stray right there,because she would have come at
me with that.
You know what I mean?
Said, yeah, you're an idiot.
I've been telling you to dothat.
(04:46):
That's pretty much how thatwould go.
So you could just envision herbeing across from me saying,
Hey, stupid, I've already saidthat.
Well.
Anyways, I subjected myself tomy own criticism.
But I was just trying to say,without really just kind of
pounding the streets here, we'reseeing some growth throughout
the country, and I'm excitedabout that.
And I appreciate each and everyone of you that continue to tune
(05:06):
in.
I've heard from so many of you.
It feels like when I get to theFreiburg Fair, it's like the
grand finale of the year where Isee so many of you, so many of
you loyal listeners.
It's like the one time of theyear where we actually see each
other, and uh, it's so cool, andit's so great to hear from so
many of you that say, Hey man,still listening.
You know, I like this about thisepisode.
Uh, that stuff's great, man.
(05:27):
It means it means everything tome.
So I appreciate that.
And uh I just want to say uhthank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you for that.
Well, I didn't mean to ramblethere.
Did I ramble?
Lord, I apologize if I rambledright there, but uh, I'm excited
to be back with you and to sharethose things and to say thank
you.
So I guess I needed to get thatout the way and start things off
(05:47):
that way today.
But I am recording this episodeof the podcast rather late in
the evening on a Tuesdayevening, October 14th.
This episode will drop on awinning Wednesday, October 15th.
The reason why I am so late tothe recording studio tonight,
which happens to be uh theLabrad American production
(06:10):
office, the reason why I'm solate to the studio here, to this
little recording session, isthat today is Charlie Kirk's
birthday, his first heavenlybirthday.
It's also a um a special daybecause it is a day of
remembrance honoring CharlieKirk, and there's a there was a
(06:31):
very special gathering in theRose Garden with President Trump
and Erica Kirk, where he awardedher the Presidential Medal of
Freedom in honor of her husband.
And um, that was an incredible,touching thing to see.
It's also amazing to think thatyou know President Trump is over
in the Middle East signing peacedeals and puts the priority on I
(06:57):
committed to my friend Charlieand to his wife Erica that I
would be back home for thisceremony, I would award this
medal.
He held true to his his word andmade that happen.
And not to just kind of jump alloff track here, but doesn't it
feel like a lot of this is justcomes from a higher a higher
(07:23):
power and a higher meaning?
Thy will be done, right?
That's the message for today.
Thy will be done.
It's incredible for me to thinkwhat America has gone through
over the past few years, and youthink about the assassination of
Charlie Kirk and the spiritualawakening, this real life
(07:48):
revival that has taken place inthis country, and to think
within the 30 days of CharlieKirk being publicly taken from
all of us, from his family, allthat has changed, can you
imagine that within that amountof time there has been a peace
(08:08):
deal in the Middle East,something that we never thought
possible, something that startedwith President uh President
Trump's Abraham Accords in hislast term, but clearly went off
the rails over the past uh fouryears, and and everything that's
gone on, it really goes tosignify, and I'm not gonna go
too far off on the deep endhere, but peace through
(08:29):
strength.
Loud Proud American, we have at-shirt, it's not on our website
right now because we sold outcalled Midnight Hammer, Peace
Through Strength since 1776.
And Midnight Hammer is theoperation in Iran where we with
a B, um the B bombers went outthere and just dropped uh bombs
on the um nuclear plants andsignified that America's back,
(08:55):
that there is peace throughstrength.
We are not afraid and ashamed touse our strength and our
military for the right of man.
And when President Trump struckthose those new that nuclear
power plant, those you know,hidden tunnels, and when he blew
that place up, that signifiedthat we mean business.
(09:16):
And that that sign of strengthsparked this peace deal that we
have, because now Hamas andothers know that America isn't
here to play.
So you have that foundation thatcomes into play.
But for me, thy will be done.
(09:37):
What happened with Charlie Kirk,the spiritual awakening, the
revival throughout the worldthat has taken place in that
short amount of time since, weare having peace in the Middle
East, in the Holy Land.
This this isn't irony, thisisn't lost on me.
This this is God's will, thywill be done.
(10:00):
And for those of you that areout there asking yourself the
meaning, thy will be done, thisis being driven home to me in my
in my head because number one, Ijust finished watching a few
hours ago Erica Kirk acceptingthat presidential medal of
freedom and saying, Thy will bedone.
And that has been her mission,her husband's mission that she's
(10:23):
continuing.
And um, it's a part of theLord's Prayer, which is my
favorite prayer, which uh partof that is tattooed on my chest.
Thy will be done is a prayer ofsubmission that acknowledges
God's wisdom that is greaterthan our own, and asks that his
purpose be realized on earth asit is in heaven.
It is a statement of faith andtrust, expressing a willingness
(10:44):
to align one's own desires andplans with God's will, accepting
the outcomes that God allows.
It's a submission to a higherpower, and it's aligning with
God's plan.
It is a foundational requestthat places God's purpose before
our own personal needs.
Not as I will, but as you will,demonstrating the ultimate
example of surrender to God'splan, even in the face of
(11:07):
suffering, the submission to ahigher purpose.
The phrase is a way ofsurrendering one's own will and
placing it under God'sauthority, trusting that God
knows what's best, aligning withHis plan, a petition to have
God's loving plan fully realizedin the world, which can involve
an increase in righteousness, acall to love and forgive others,
and taking on challenges to fillGod's purpose.
(11:30):
Seeking divine guidance,praying, Thy will be done, is
also a way of asking forguidance, direction, and
strength to endure whatevercircumstances God allows, even
when they are difficult.
Embracing change and action, thephrase is not meant to imply
passive waiting, but rather anactive participation and
fulfilling God's will, whichinvolves making one's life and
(11:51):
actions conform to God'scommands and purposes.
Thy will be done.
When I listened to Erica Kirktalk this evening, saying, Thy
will be done, I couldn't helpbut draw the parallels and think
about the suffering that's goneon in this country, the
suffering for her and her familyand losing her husband, for
losing the father of herchildren.
(12:11):
Hearing all those things andthen acknowledging thy will be
done.
This is all part of the plan.
The suffering is part of theplan.
The spiritual awakening is partof the plan.
The peace in the Middle East ispart of the plan.
I truly hope and pray that weare off two brighter days.
Thy will be done is somethingthat I have always kept close to
(12:34):
my heart.
It's it's part of a tattoo on mychest, but it's something that I
now want to adapt and use asmore of an everyday mantra.
Thy will be done.
Knowing and as you guys havelistened to me over the past
five years, and you listened tome and all these dark days and
difficult times, you've beenhere for me when you know I've
(12:55):
doubted whether my business cancontinue, when I've had scary
medical situations with myfamily, when I've had to say
goodbye to my father, all thosedark, desperate days.
I've gone through certainphrases and mantras and and and
things to help motivate me tokeep me sane, like this too
shall pass, thy will be done.
(13:15):
I can only get through some ofthese things, acknowledging the
fact that this is all part ofGod's plan, and on the other end
of this suffering, there is agreater purpose and there's a
greater will and there's ahigher way.
So I just continue to tellmyself that day after day,
hearing Erica speak today, andknowing that she can use thy
will be done, those four wordsto help get her through the loss
(13:39):
of her husband, the televised,so publicly talked about and
discussed loss of her husband.
If those four words can help herget through that tragedy, then
those four words can help youand me get through each and
every day.
I hope that you, like me, adoptthy will be done as a way to
pull you through your dark days,through your difficult days, and
(14:02):
get you on the right track inall ways.
That is something I'm hoping fortoday.
That is something I got fromCharlie Kirk's birthday.
That is something I got from thepresidential medal of freedom
ceremony that I watched in theRose Garden.
That is what I've got from allthe reflection that I've done
over the past month that haspassed since Charlie's passing.
(14:25):
It is all for a greater good, itis all for a higher purpose.
And when you think about thosethings, that's what you have to
hold on to to help pull youthrough.
So that's what I'm feeling.
That's where I'm at.
That's the reason why we'rerecording so late tonight.
And as I kind of core out theonion and peel back the layers
and discuss some of those thingswith you, you'll understand why
(14:46):
we're here so late.
Because it's been very importantto me to honor Charlie Kirk in a
certain way.
And I'm going to connect thedots over the past few weeks,
episodes, and shows with thisnext little story here.
Because when Charlie Kirk wasassassinated, you guys heard the
story of me and my family takingadvice from Charlie Kirk and
(15:10):
putting down our phones,unplugging from social media,
and taking time to be presentwith our families, with our
loved ones, with our faith.
We abandoned social media andall forms of media.
We got together as a family, mymy wife, my daughter, my mother,
and myself.
We went to a local county fair.
We spent time together.
(15:30):
We we talked a lot.
We discussed everything that washappening.
We we prayed over it, we wediscussed over it, and um my
initial thoughts were that Iwanted to do something to honor
Charlie Kirk.
I wanted to um make a tributet-shirt, a loud proud American
collaboration, and um that wasmy initial instinct, and I
(15:53):
wanted to bring that to theFreiburg Fair.
And then as I sat with thosefeelings, I began to think that
that's not the right way to goabout it.
I began to think that I'm nothere to benefit from a tragedy.
I don't want to try tocapitalize on difficult times,
it just doesn't sit right withme.
(16:15):
So, with all that being said, Idecided, nope, I'm not gonna do
this.
I'm not gonna make this, um, I'mnot gonna do this kind of
tribute.
This isn't the right thing forme to do right now.
And with that being said, andwith that being my decision,
from the very first moment thatI arrived at the Freiburg Fair,
even before we opened the doorsor began to set up our tent,
literally just rolling in, Ibegan to get asked, Where's your
(16:38):
Charlie Kirk merchandise?
What did you do for a tribute?
What do you have to honorCharlie Kirk?
And they began to say, I'm nothere to profit off of tragedy.
I can't bring myself to do it.
That turned into dozens anddozens, which turned into no
exaggeration, probably hundredsof people that came to me asking
for Charlie Kirk merchandisewhen I sent him to a tent that I
(17:00):
surely know was just there topurely benefit and profit off of
this situation.
I still couldn't bring myself tothe fact that it was a good
idea.
But so, so many of you came tome and said, Listen, you're
looking at this all the wrongway.
You're looking at this throughthe wrong lens.
The point we're making here isthat you have an audience and he
(17:22):
has a greater audience, but whynot carry on his legacy?
Why not honor his legacy, hiscommitments, his traditions, his
foundation with your brand?
It's just one more way to honorthe man, it's one more way to
spread awareness, it's one moreway to bring new eyes to the
(17:45):
greater cause.
And after so many conversationswith so many of you that said, I
am waiting for you to do this.
I want to purchase one of theseshirts from you, I want the
collaboration, I want to have aloud proud American shirt with
your logo on it, with a CharlieKirk message on it.
I want that.
With that being said, with allthose requests, throughout the
(18:07):
week I began to say to myself,Man, I wish I did this because
so many of you want this.
And I know that once we leavethe fair, we're never gonna um,
you know, really encounter allthe people that asked again,
right?
But so many of you said, Ireally want you to do this.
And even after leaving the fairand making the decision that I
wanted to do this, I still beatmyself up over the decision and
(18:28):
over the design.
And uh part of me wanted to justmake something very quickly
after the fair and get redCharlie Kirk t-shirts out there
for his birthday because I knowthat was one of the calls to
actions today was to wear redfor Charlie Kirk.
So I wanted to do that, but thenI felt like we're rushing it.
I need this to be right, andwith the desire and the and the
(18:52):
quest for it to be right and tobe perfect and to not be cookie
cutter, to be somethingdifferent, I took more and more
time, but I put the expectationon myself that today was the day
it needed to be announced today,and it took me longer than it
should.
But uh, the wife and Paisley andmyself, we jumped on Facebook
Live tonight and we showcased toour social media followers a
(19:15):
pre-sale opportunity at twoCharlie Kirk designs, some Loud
Proud American tributes to theman himself.
We have one, everybody asked fora Freedom Design T-shirt, which
Loud Proud American has beenoffering our own Freedom Design
t-shirt for nearly five yearsnow, which sold incredibly well
at the fair because of theconnection with Charlie Kirk and
(19:38):
the Freedom shirts that he sooften wore.
But there's a specific font andstyle everybody wanted, so I
wanted to give that to them andalso do something a little
different.
So on the back, you're gonnahave a cross, a half of cross,
when it says God and family andcountry.
And the next shirt that we madewas a fearless shirt.
(19:58):
So across the front it saysfearless, and on the back is
another half a cross.
So these shirts kind of gotogether and some symbolism
there, and it says live likeCharlie, faith over fear, and it
has a gold signature, a goldCharlie Kirk signature.
Both of them will don the loudproud American logos and be
proudly made in the USA.
(20:20):
And um, it's our tribute, andit's our way to honor the man,
and it's something different.
And when um the the fearlessshirt came about, me and Allie
have been on the couchdiscussing this and throwing
different ideas at each otherand looking at photos and quotes
and biblical verses and and anduh Allie was like, I really
(20:40):
think we should do somethinglive like Charlie, and and and
we really went into the message,and then it just all kind of
connected.
And then she messaged me todayand said, I think that um we
need to be fearless.
I think that that's the rightmessage.
I know we wanted to do a freedomshirt, but for this shirt, I
think fearless is really themessage we need to convey.
(21:02):
And while I was putting thefinishing touches on that design
today, Erica Kirk is giving herspeech today, and she describes
Charlie, her husband Charlie, asfearless.
And she goes into the fact thathe was fearless, that it was
faith above all.
And as soon as I heard thosewords, Allie had texted me from
(21:24):
upstairs with my uh my motherand and with Paisley, and uh it
just broke me.
Like, this was right, we'redoing the right thing.
It's now I feel good about it.
Now I feel okay with it, and nowI can embrace it, and um thy
will be done, right?
That's just everything has justfelt right, and uh from that
(21:48):
moment on I now feel good.
So we just went live.
We've um roughly put those twodesigns on our website.
We're gonna dig into it andfine-tune those things and clean
that up on the site in the nextcoming days.
But you can go on there and do apre-sale purchase of those
shirts atloudproudamerican.shop, and uh,
they will be fulfilled uh in thenext two to three weeks based
(22:10):
off of uh waiting a little bitof time to see how many we need
to order and then getting themin and produced and sent out.
So that's what's been going onhere at Loud Proud American.
That's the uh the tribute, thepressure, the deadline, and the
reason for why I'm recordingthis um so late at night.
But um that's kind of me, man.
That's I I set myself to theseto these dates, these um
(22:35):
important moments in time, andum I stress myself out to make
them happen, but they seem tohappen.
They don't always go the waythat you would prefer them to
go, but they they do go, right?
I was uh going to put out anemail blast today and everything
as well, but I just couldn'thandle all of it between
starting my day at uh at 5 a.m.
(22:58):
and uh I literally got up,brought my mom to work, checked
right into the office, put a fewhours in on these designs, then
went right into Daddy Daycarefor the day, and um here we are,
right?
But it's the way it was supposedto be, and um, I'm incredibly
proud by these designs, and I dofeel like they are a couple of
items that we're gonna have onour shelves for years to come.
(23:20):
So I'm incredibly excited uhabout what has happened today,
and I'm honored that I feel sogood about the tribute that
we're making for Charlie Kirk.
So exciting stuff here.
I encourage each and every oneof you, if you're listening, to
go over to our Facebook page forLoud Proud American and check
out the live, or head on over towww.loudproudamerican.shop,
(23:43):
check out the items, and uhmaybe purchase some for
yourself.
When you talk about honoringCharlie Kirk, there really is no
greater honor than what was donetoday.
President Trump giving EricaKirk the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, that whole ceremony wasincredible, and um for her to
(24:09):
continue to get up in the faceof heartache and despair and
tragedy and suffering and be sograceful, so fearless, so
strong, is incredibly inspiring.
I think that we are witnessingthe making of one of the most
(24:30):
influential and greatest femaleleaders in American history.
I do feel like we're on the cuspof Erica Kirk becoming one of
the greatest female leaders Ishall say any leader, male or
female, but it's inspiring on awhole different level right now
(24:53):
her being the widow of a greatleader that was tragically taken
from us.
But we are witnessing history,we are witnessing the I don't
even know the best way to putthis, guys, other than just
(25:16):
fully take in, acknowledge, bepresent, and understand what's
happening.
When you see Erica Kirk speak,and when you see her speak in
these difficult, dark times,it's incredible.
Her speech at the memorialunbelievable.
(25:42):
Her words, even from the momentof Charlie's passing, the post
that she's made, the continuedpost, the continued resilience
that she has shown, and thentoday's speech yet again, we are
witnessing the formation of anew great American leader.
(26:06):
This is a turning point forAmerica.
This is a turning point in ourhistory, and we are watching
with our own two eyes if we canbe receptive to it, we can pay
attention to it, we can bepresent for it.
We are witnessing the formationof the next great American
(26:27):
leader, a turning point inAmerican history.
Erica Kirk is going to beresponsible for the next new
chapter and direction in thiscountry.
The way she speaks, how sheholds herself, the passion and
the compassion that she has isunbelievable.
Four days ago was the 30-dayanniversary of Charlie's
(26:52):
passing, and she made a post onher ex on her Twitter, and um I
just want to read this for youand kind of take you into the
heart and thought and minds ofErica and her family.
There is no linear blueprint forgrief.
One day you're collapsed on thefloor crying of the name Jesus
(27:13):
in between labored breaths.
The next you're playing withyour children in the living
room, surrounded by familyphotos and feeling a rush of
something you can only attemptto define as divinely planted in
bittersweet joy as a smilebreaks through your face.
They say time heals, but lovedoesn't ask to be healed.
(27:34):
Love asks to be remembered.
It's humbling to realize thatthis magnitude of suffering
didn't steal my love for myhusband.
It amplified it.
It crystallized it.
I carry my Charlie in everybreath, in every ache, and in
every quiet act of day-to-dayliving as I attempt to relearn
(27:57):
what that rhythm will be.
And what I've realized throughthese past thirty days is the
greater the suffering, the purerthe love, and I have never loved
him more than I do now.
I don't know how you feelhearing it from me, but I can
(28:17):
tell you how I feel reading itfrom her.
And I have tears in my eyes.
I'm overcome with emotion.
I can feel her heartache andheartbreak.
I can feel her passion and herlove, her dedication and
commitment to her kids.
The way that Erica expresses herfeelings, the way she can convey
(28:43):
a message that portrays theabsolute heartbreaking pain and
fear that she has, yet can putsuch a positive twist on life
knowing thy will be done,knowing that there is a greater
plan, knowing this is for areason.
(29:04):
It is incredible to read herstatements, to feel the
heartache, to be overcome withtears, and realize just the
amount of strength that thatwoman possesses, the way she can
(29:26):
describe her feelings frommoment to moment, and still
outline her beliefs andconvictions.
If she can remain faithful, ifshe can remain steadfast in her
beliefs in these times, in thedarkest of times, what does that
say about you and me when westruggle day to day?
(29:50):
What does that say about mepersonally when I stop and think
like how much stress andheartache and and and
overthinking did I put on myselfover mechanics?
Mechanical failures.
How much stress and heartache doI put on my family over making
payments month to month?
I think about those things.
They're minor, they'reminuscule, they're not worth
(30:13):
sweating over, they're not worthsuffering over when you think
about what she's going through,what she's growing through.
If you don't find strength fromErica Kirk's struggle, then I
don't know where you findstrength.
I don't know where you findcourage.
I don't know where you findfaith if you don't find it in
her words.
They are incredible.
(30:34):
Again, today with anotherspeech, it was incredible.
I don't know how she has thestrength to, in front of
everybody on a live microphone,say, I asked my little girl what
she wanted to say to daddy todayon his birthday.
Just her phrasing and thequestion broke me.
(30:57):
Then to hear her daughtertalking about her dad and him
wanting him to celebrate with aice cream cupcake, and it's it's
um it's it's incredible.
It's an amazing example ofstrength, passion, compassion,
and faith.
And we are witnessing theformation of the next great
(31:21):
American leader.
And if you've been listening tomy podcast, if you've been
following my brand over the pastfew years, I put a great
emphasis on the fact that I dotruly believe that America is
suffering from a leadershipproblem.
We have a leadership vacuum.
We are not making leaders thatwe used to make, we are not uh
(31:44):
raising our youth the way thatit used to be raised.
We have a a culture of keyboardwarriors, of unchecked
accountability and anunwillingness for hard work that
doesn't manifest in the greatleadership for anyone.
I have long said America issuffering from a lack of
(32:06):
leadership.
I think President Trump beingback in office and the people
he's instilled into hiscabinetry, which many of them
recommended and suggested byCharlie himself, they're giving
America a new list of leaders.
We're building a new um justbook of leadership.
And if we go back to 2020 andthen the four years of the Biden
(32:31):
years and all the suffering thatwe've gone through and the the
war, the hate, the despair, allthe death and suffering that's
happened, I said through allthose times we're lacking
leadership.
And it was on both sides of theaisle, and it's in all levels of
media and life and reality.
Because if you start small andsay, How many kids do you know
(32:54):
that don't have leadership?
They don't have a strongparental voice that's providing
leadership.
We see some of the drug epidemicthat happens, some of the, you
know, just undisciplinedchildren that are out there that
are lost looking for hope.
Charlie was trying to provide apath and a direction and
leadership for a lot of ouryouth that is that is lost and
(33:16):
forgotten.
But if you think about theproblems for some of these kids,
I talked to you last week aboutkids coming in my tent and
yelling, free Palestine andtalking shit about my product
being completely disrespectful.
A lot of that starts from a lackof leadership.
There's no parent at home forthem saying, No, that's not how
we act in public.
(33:36):
Because that's also leadership.
Being a good parent isleadership.
So when you start at the verybasic level, the very base level
for leadership, being a goodparent, being a good role model,
being a good sibling, being agood father, husband, brother,
those things, there's a lack ofleadership there.
And that manifests and grows allthe way up the ladder.
(33:58):
We look at some of thesemainstream celebrities that have
crackerjack ass crack opinionsthat aren't they're not willing
to put their true faith andfeelings and convictions out
there for anyone.
They're not willing to say whatthey want to say for fear of
what's about to be said aboutthem, for fear of being
canceled, for fear of not beingaccepted, for fear of being
(34:20):
outcasted.
We're losing leaders becausethey're scared to speak up.
America's been suffering from alack of leadership.
When there was all this fightinggoing on, we should have had
people from both aisles.
If you want to talk aboutpoliticians, when all the chaos
was going even when thebeginning of like the pandemic
(34:41):
scenario and and the riots, theGeorge Floyd riots, can you tell
me why Barack Obama didn't comeout and say, and the violence,
this isn't the way to moveforward, this isn't the way to
honor somebody, this isn't theway to get change.
No, he lacks leadership, he wasnot willing to speak up.
(35:02):
No Democrat was willing to speakup during that time.
And there were so manycelebrities that were unwilling
to speak up and say, Hey man,why are we doing this?
Instead, we have all thesepeople in high places saying
your president is Hitler, andand and saying, you know, die
fascists and all these things.
They're provoking and creatingviolence because America is
(35:24):
starved of leadership.
I am here to tell you, if youopen your two eyes and you open
your one heart and you arereceptive to it, Erica Couric is
becoming the next great leaderfor this great country that we
all so certainly need.
Erica, I'm here for it.
Erica, I support you.
(35:44):
Erica, I've always believed inyour husband's message and his
willingness to debate, hiswillingness to give a platform
to his greatest adversaries andcritics.
I say to you, Charlie Kirk, welldone, good and faithful servant.
You are have shaped and led theway far more than you could ever
(36:07):
possibly imagine.
And to Erica Kirk, thy will bedone.
She certainly will make magichappen.
She will move mountains, and shewill be the face of the biggest
spiritual awakening and Americanrevival in our history.
(36:27):
Thank you for supporting theKirks American Marshall of the
Holmes of Healthy Savage.
That's it and that's all, BiggieSmalls.
(37:04):
If you're a fan of the GrandCracking, you wanna find me on
Instagram for all the kids, atickety talkin on the TikTok,
you can find me on both of thoseat loud underscore proud
underscore American.
(37:28):
Big old thank you to the boysfrom the Gut Truckers for the
background beats and the thingtalk to your podcast.
If you are enjoying what you'rehearing, track down the gun
truckers on Facebook just thirdgun truckers.
Give that motherfucker a like.
(38:07):
Now go wash your fucking hands,you filthy savage.
Thy Will Be Done.
Today, on the first heavenlybirthday of Charlie Kirk.
Today, on the day that we recordthis podcast, Erica Kirk
receives the Presidential Medalof Freedom for her husband.
Thy Will Be Done.
(00:22):
Today, we acknowledge that God'swisdom is greater than our own.
We admire Erica Kirk's strengthand fearlessness.
And we discuss how us here atLoun Proud American honor
Charlie Kirk and his legacy.
Let me tell you something.
Everybody struggles.
(00:42):
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 have avery profound effect on the way
you live your life.
(01:53):
Am I so excited to be back withyou?
Oh, it is true.
It is damn true.
How you doing, baby boo?
Y'all know I missed you.
Welcome to the Loud, ProudAmerican sponsored, precisely,
perfectly, beautifully namedpodcast, Share the Struggle,
because everybody struggles.
But the truth is, boys andgirls, chipmunks and squirrels,
(02:16):
when you have the courage tospeak your struggles, there is
strength from your story.
Everybody goes through it,everybody grows through it.
When you're willing to share it,then you can help anybody else.
You don't even know who you canhelp.
This is Share the StrugglePodcast.
We are coming to you withepisode 275.
(02:38):
That is 275.
Five beautiful weeks,consecutive weeks of you and me.
Oh, it's true.
It's damn true.
Together, me and you, we havenot missed one week yet.
Don't forget, you can find allbeautiful things about this here
podcast at www.share theshruggle podcast.
(02:59):
To all my day ones, my loyalones, my faithful ones that have
been listening since the firstone.
I acknowledge you.
I appreciate you, and I welcomeyou back to each and every one
of you that is new here.
Welcome to our show.
Welcome to this positive tribethat's building a positive vibe.
We appreciate you.
We welcome you.
(03:20):
We embrace you and love you.
That's right, brother.
Love, we love you.
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
Well, with all that out of theway, I gotta say, we've been
picking up uh new listeners fromall over the country, actually
all over the world.
Pretty excited by that.
I appreciate all the new onesthat are out there listening.
(03:41):
I've been doing a poor job at mygrassroots gorilla marketing
campaign when it comes to uhadvertising for the podcast.
I literally just realized, um,and I mean, call me silly on
this one here, folks.
You get so motivated and drivento um, you know, market and
drive your own like day-to-daybusiness that I forget that I
(04:02):
can be marketing the podcast atthe same time.
I mean, we will travel with somepodcast merch, but I was just
thinking about it and I waslike, man, the thousands of
people that we've met throughoutthe year that have purchased
from us, why did I not justleave a freaking flyer with a
business card or something intheir damn bag to say, hey, this
(04:24):
is what we do, this is who weare.
Why did I not do that?
Am I an idiot?
Don't answer that.
Don't you dare answer that.
Thankfully I'm not recorded withmy wife because she would call
me out for that.
I mean I love recording with mywife, but I could I I appreciate
dodging a stray right there,because she would have come at
me with that.
You know what I mean?
Said, yeah, you're an idiot.
I've been telling you to dothat.
(04:46):
That's pretty much how thatwould go.
So you could just envision herbeing across from me saying,
Hey, stupid, I've already saidthat.
Well.
Anyways, I subjected myself tomy own criticism.
But I was just trying to say,without really just kind of
pounding the streets here, we'reseeing some growth throughout
the country, and I'm excitedabout that.
And I appreciate each and everyone of you that continue to tune
(05:06):
in.
I've heard from so many of you.
It feels like when I get to theFreiburg Fair, it's like the
grand finale of the year where Isee so many of you, so many of
you loyal listeners.
It's like the one time of theyear where we actually see each
other, and uh, it's so cool, andit's so great to hear from so
many of you that say, Hey man,still listening.
You know, I like this about thisepisode.
Uh, that stuff's great, man.
(05:27):
It means it means everything tome.
So I appreciate that.
And uh I just want to say uhthank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you for that.
Well, I didn't mean to ramblethere.
Did I ramble?
Lord, I apologize if I rambledright there, but uh, I'm excited
to be back with you and to sharethose things and to say thank
you.
So I guess I needed to get thatout the way and start things off
(05:47):
that way today.
But I am recording this episodeof the podcast rather late in
the evening on a Tuesdayevening, October 14th.
This episode will drop on awinning Wednesday, October 15th.
The reason why I am so late tothe recording studio tonight,
which happens to be uh theLabrad American production
(06:10):
office, the reason why I'm solate to the studio here, to this
little recording session, isthat today is Charlie Kirk's
birthday, his first heavenlybirthday.
It's also a um a special daybecause it is a day of
remembrance honoring CharlieKirk, and there's a there was a
(06:31):
very special gathering in theRose Garden with President Trump
and Erica Kirk, where he awardedher the Presidential Medal of
Freedom in honor of her husband.
And um, that was an incredible,touching thing to see.
It's also amazing to think thatyou know President Trump is over
in the Middle East signing peacedeals and puts the priority on I
(06:57):
committed to my friend Charlieand to his wife Erica that I
would be back home for thisceremony, I would award this
medal.
He held true to his his word andmade that happen.
And not to just kind of jump alloff track here, but doesn't it
feel like a lot of this is justcomes from a higher a higher
(07:23):
power and a higher meaning?
Thy will be done, right?
That's the message for today.
Thy will be done.
It's incredible for me to thinkwhat America has gone through
over the past few years, and youthink about the assassination of
Charlie Kirk and the spiritualawakening, this real life
(07:48):
revival that has taken place inthis country, and to think
within the 30 days of CharlieKirk being publicly taken from
all of us, from his family, allthat has changed, can you
imagine that within that amountof time there has been a peace
(08:08):
deal in the Middle East,something that we never thought
possible, something that startedwith President uh President
Trump's Abraham Accords in hislast term, but clearly went off
the rails over the past uh fouryears, and and everything that's
gone on, it really goes tosignify, and I'm not gonna go
too far off on the deep endhere, but peace through
(08:29):
strength.
Loud Proud American, we have at-shirt, it's not on our website
right now because we sold outcalled Midnight Hammer, Peace
Through Strength since 1776.
And Midnight Hammer is theoperation in Iran where we with
a B, um the B bombers went outthere and just dropped uh bombs
on the um nuclear plants andsignified that America's back,
(08:55):
that there is peace throughstrength.
We are not afraid and ashamed touse our strength and our
military for the right of man.
And when President Trump struckthose those new that nuclear
power plant, those you know,hidden tunnels, and when he blew
that place up, that signifiedthat we mean business.
(09:16):
And that that sign of strengthsparked this peace deal that we
have, because now Hamas andothers know that America isn't
here to play.
So you have that foundation thatcomes into play.
But for me, thy will be done.
(09:37):
What happened with Charlie Kirk,the spiritual awakening, the
revival throughout the worldthat has taken place in that
short amount of time since, weare having peace in the Middle
East, in the Holy Land.
This this isn't irony, thisisn't lost on me.
This this is God's will, thywill be done.
(10:00):
And for those of you that areout there asking yourself the
meaning, thy will be done, thisis being driven home to me in my
in my head because number one, Ijust finished watching a few
hours ago Erica Kirk acceptingthat presidential medal of
freedom and saying, Thy will bedone.
And that has been her mission,her husband's mission that she's
(10:23):
continuing.
And um, it's a part of theLord's Prayer, which is my
favorite prayer, which uh partof that is tattooed on my chest.
Thy will be done is a prayer ofsubmission that acknowledges
God's wisdom that is greaterthan our own, and asks that his
purpose be realized on earth asit is in heaven.
It is a statement of faith andtrust, expressing a willingness
(10:44):
to align one's own desires andplans with God's will, accepting
the outcomes that God allows.
It's a submission to a higherpower, and it's aligning with
God's plan.
It is a foundational requestthat places God's purpose before
our own personal needs.
Not as I will, but as you will,demonstrating the ultimate
example of surrender to God'splan, even in the face of
(11:07):
suffering, the submission to ahigher purpose.
The phrase is a way ofsurrendering one's own will and
placing it under God'sauthority, trusting that God
knows what's best, aligning withHis plan, a petition to have
God's loving plan fully realizedin the world, which can involve
an increase in righteousness, acall to love and forgive others,
and taking on challenges to fillGod's purpose.
(11:30):
Seeking divine guidance,praying, Thy will be done, is
also a way of asking forguidance, direction, and
strength to endure whatevercircumstances God allows, even
when they are difficult.
Embracing change and action, thephrase is not meant to imply
passive waiting, but rather anactive participation and
fulfilling God's will, whichinvolves making one's life and
(11:51):
actions conform to God'scommands and purposes.
Thy will be done.
When I listened to Erica Kirktalk this evening, saying, Thy
will be done, I couldn't helpbut draw the parallels and think
about the suffering that's goneon in this country, the
suffering for her and her familyand losing her husband, for
losing the father of herchildren.
(12:11):
Hearing all those things andthen acknowledging thy will be
done.
This is all part of the plan.
The suffering is part of theplan.
The spiritual awakening is partof the plan.
The peace in the Middle East ispart of the plan.
I truly hope and pray that weare off two brighter days.
Thy will be done is somethingthat I have always kept close to
(12:34):
my heart.
It's it's part of a tattoo on mychest, but it's something that I
now want to adapt and use asmore of an everyday mantra.
Thy will be done.
Knowing and as you guys havelistened to me over the past
five years, and you listened tome and all these dark days and
difficult times, you've beenhere for me when you know I've
(12:55):
doubted whether my business cancontinue, when I've had scary
medical situations with myfamily, when I've had to say
goodbye to my father, all thosedark, desperate days.
I've gone through certainphrases and mantras and and and
things to help motivate me tokeep me sane, like this too
shall pass, thy will be done.
(13:15):
I can only get through some ofthese things, acknowledging the
fact that this is all part ofGod's plan, and on the other end
of this suffering, there is agreater purpose and there's a
greater will and there's ahigher way.
So I just continue to tellmyself that day after day,
hearing Erica speak today, andknowing that she can use thy
will be done, those four wordsto help get her through the loss
(13:39):
of her husband, the televised,so publicly talked about and
discussed loss of her husband.
If those four words can help herget through that tragedy, then
those four words can help youand me get through each and
every day.
I hope that you, like me, adoptthy will be done as a way to
pull you through your dark days,through your difficult days, and
(14:02):
get you on the right track inall ways.
That is something I'm hoping fortoday.
That is something I got fromCharlie Kirk's birthday.
That is something I got from thepresidential medal of freedom
ceremony that I watched in theRose Garden.
That is what I've got from allthe reflection that I've done
over the past month that haspassed since Charlie's passing.
(14:25):
It is all for a greater good, itis all for a higher purpose.
And when you think about thosethings, that's what you have to
hold on to to help pull youthrough.
So that's what I'm feeling.
That's where I'm at.
That's the reason why we'rerecording so late tonight.
And as I kind of core out theonion and peel back the layers
and discuss some of those thingswith you, you'll understand why
(14:46):
we're here so late.
Because it's been very importantto me to honor Charlie Kirk in a
certain way.
And I'm going to connect thedots over the past few weeks,
episodes, and shows with thisnext little story here.
Because when Charlie Kirk wasassassinated, you guys heard the
story of me and my family takingadvice from Charlie Kirk and
(15:10):
putting down our phones,unplugging from social media,
and taking time to be presentwith our families, with our
loved ones, with our faith.
We abandoned social media andall forms of media.
We got together as a family, mymy wife, my daughter, my mother,
and myself.
We went to a local county fair.
We spent time together.
(15:30):
We we talked a lot.
We discussed everything that washappening.
We we prayed over it, we wediscussed over it, and um my
initial thoughts were that Iwanted to do something to honor
Charlie Kirk.
I wanted to um make a tributet-shirt, a loud proud American
collaboration, and um that wasmy initial instinct, and I
(15:53):
wanted to bring that to theFreiburg Fair.
And then as I sat with thosefeelings, I began to think that
that's not the right way to goabout it.
I began to think that I'm nothere to benefit from a tragedy.
I don't want to try tocapitalize on difficult times,
it just doesn't sit right withme.
(16:15):
So, with all that being said, Idecided, nope, I'm not gonna do
this.
I'm not gonna make this, um, I'mnot gonna do this kind of
tribute.
This isn't the right thing forme to do right now.
And with that being said, andwith that being my decision,
from the very first moment thatI arrived at the Freiburg Fair,
even before we opened the doorsor began to set up our tent,
literally just rolling in, Ibegan to get asked, Where's your
(16:38):
Charlie Kirk merchandise?
What did you do for a tribute?
What do you have to honorCharlie Kirk?
And they began to say, I'm nothere to profit off of tragedy.
I can't bring myself to do it.
That turned into dozens anddozens, which turned into no
exaggeration, probably hundredsof people that came to me asking
for Charlie Kirk merchandisewhen I sent him to a tent that I
(17:00):
surely know was just there topurely benefit and profit off of
this situation.
I still couldn't bring myself tothe fact that it was a good
idea.
But so, so many of you came tome and said, Listen, you're
looking at this all the wrongway.
You're looking at this throughthe wrong lens.
The point we're making here isthat you have an audience and he
(17:22):
has a greater audience, but whynot carry on his legacy?
Why not honor his legacy, hiscommitments, his traditions, his
foundation with your brand?
It's just one more way to honorthe man, it's one more way to
spread awareness, it's one moreway to bring new eyes to the
(17:45):
greater cause.
And after so many conversationswith so many of you that said, I
am waiting for you to do this.
I want to purchase one of theseshirts from you, I want the
collaboration, I want to have aloud proud American shirt with
your logo on it, with a CharlieKirk message on it.
I want that.
With that being said, with allthose requests, throughout the
(18:07):
week I began to say to myself,Man, I wish I did this because
so many of you want this.
And I know that once we leavethe fair, we're never gonna um,
you know, really encounter allthe people that asked again,
right?
But so many of you said, Ireally want you to do this.
And even after leaving the fairand making the decision that I
wanted to do this, I still beatmyself up over the decision and
(18:28):
over the design.
And uh part of me wanted to justmake something very quickly
after the fair and get redCharlie Kirk t-shirts out there
for his birthday because I knowthat was one of the calls to
actions today was to wear redfor Charlie Kirk.
So I wanted to do that, but thenI felt like we're rushing it.
I need this to be right, andwith the desire and the and the
(18:52):
quest for it to be right and tobe perfect and to not be cookie
cutter, to be somethingdifferent, I took more and more
time, but I put the expectationon myself that today was the day
it needed to be announced today,and it took me longer than it
should.
But uh, the wife and Paisley andmyself, we jumped on Facebook
Live tonight and we showcased toour social media followers a
(19:15):
pre-sale opportunity at twoCharlie Kirk designs, some Loud
Proud American tributes to theman himself.
We have one, everybody asked fora Freedom Design T-shirt, which
Loud Proud American has beenoffering our own Freedom Design
t-shirt for nearly five yearsnow, which sold incredibly well
at the fair because of theconnection with Charlie Kirk and
(19:38):
the Freedom shirts that he sooften wore.
But there's a specific font andstyle everybody wanted, so I
wanted to give that to them andalso do something a little
different.
So on the back, you're gonnahave a cross, a half of cross,
when it says God and family andcountry.
And the next shirt that we madewas a fearless shirt.
(19:58):
So across the front it saysfearless, and on the back is
another half a cross.
So these shirts kind of gotogether and some symbolism
there, and it says live likeCharlie, faith over fear, and it
has a gold signature, a goldCharlie Kirk signature.
Both of them will don the loudproud American logos and be
proudly made in the USA.
(20:20):
And um, it's our tribute, andit's our way to honor the man,
and it's something different.
And when um the the fearlessshirt came about, me and Allie
have been on the couchdiscussing this and throwing
different ideas at each otherand looking at photos and quotes
and biblical verses and and anduh Allie was like, I really
(20:40):
think we should do somethinglive like Charlie, and and and
we really went into the message,and then it just all kind of
connected.
And then she messaged me todayand said, I think that um we
need to be fearless.
I think that that's the rightmessage.
I know we wanted to do a freedomshirt, but for this shirt, I
think fearless is really themessage we need to convey.
(21:02):
And while I was putting thefinishing touches on that design
today, Erica Kirk is giving herspeech today, and she describes
Charlie, her husband Charlie, asfearless.
And she goes into the fact thathe was fearless, that it was
faith above all.
And as soon as I heard thosewords, Allie had texted me from
(21:24):
upstairs with my uh my motherand and with Paisley, and uh it
just broke me.
Like, this was right, we'redoing the right thing.
It's now I feel good about it.
Now I feel okay with it, and nowI can embrace it, and um thy
will be done, right?
That's just everything has justfelt right, and uh from that
(21:48):
moment on I now feel good.
So we just went live.
We've um roughly put those twodesigns on our website.
We're gonna dig into it andfine-tune those things and clean
that up on the site in the nextcoming days.
But you can go on there and do apre-sale purchase of those
shirts atloudproudamerican.shop, and uh,
they will be fulfilled uh in thenext two to three weeks based
(22:10):
off of uh waiting a little bitof time to see how many we need
to order and then getting themin and produced and sent out.
So that's what's been going onhere at Loud Proud American.
That's the uh the tribute, thepressure, the deadline, and the
reason for why I'm recordingthis um so late at night.
But um that's kind of me, man.
That's I I set myself to theseto these dates, these um
(22:35):
important moments in time, andum I stress myself out to make
them happen, but they seem tohappen.
They don't always go the waythat you would prefer them to
go, but they they do go, right?
I was uh going to put out anemail blast today and everything
as well, but I just couldn'thandle all of it between
starting my day at uh at 5 a.m.
(22:58):
and uh I literally got up,brought my mom to work, checked
right into the office, put a fewhours in on these designs, then
went right into Daddy Daycarefor the day, and um here we are,
right?
But it's the way it was supposedto be, and um, I'm incredibly
proud by these designs, and I dofeel like they are a couple of
items that we're gonna have onour shelves for years to come.
(23:20):
So I'm incredibly excited uhabout what has happened today,
and I'm honored that I feel sogood about the tribute that
we're making for Charlie Kirk.
So exciting stuff here.
I encourage each and every oneof you, if you're listening, to
go over to our Facebook page forLoud Proud American and check
out the live, or head on over towww.loudproudamerican.shop,
(23:43):
check out the items, and uhmaybe purchase some for
yourself.
When you talk about honoringCharlie Kirk, there really is no
greater honor than what was donetoday.
President Trump giving EricaKirk the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, that whole ceremony wasincredible, and um for her to
(24:09):
continue to get up in the faceof heartache and despair and
tragedy and suffering and be sograceful, so fearless, so
strong, is incredibly inspiring.
I think that we are witnessingthe making of one of the most
(24:30):
influential and greatest femaleleaders in American history.
I do feel like we're on the cuspof Erica Kirk becoming one of
the greatest female leaders Ishall say any leader, male or
female, but it's inspiring on awhole different level right now
(24:53):
her being the widow of a greatleader that was tragically taken
from us.
But we are witnessing history,we are witnessing the I don't
even know the best way to putthis, guys, other than just
(25:16):
fully take in, acknowledge, bepresent, and understand what's
happening.
When you see Erica Kirk speak,and when you see her speak in
these difficult, dark times,it's incredible.
Her speech at the memorialunbelievable.
(25:42):
Her words, even from the momentof Charlie's passing, the post
that she's made, the continuedpost, the continued resilience
that she has shown, and thentoday's speech yet again, we are
witnessing the formation of anew great American leader.
(26:06):
This is a turning point forAmerica.
This is a turning point in ourhistory, and we are watching
with our own two eyes if we canbe receptive to it, we can pay
attention to it, we can bepresent for it.
We are witnessing the formationof the next great American
(26:27):
leader, a turning point inAmerican history.
Erica Kirk is going to beresponsible for the next new
chapter and direction in thiscountry.
The way she speaks, how sheholds herself, the passion and
the compassion that she has isunbelievable.
Four days ago was the 30-dayanniversary of Charlie's
(26:52):
passing, and she made a post onher ex on her Twitter, and um I
just want to read this for youand kind of take you into the
heart and thought and minds ofErica and her family.
There is no linear blueprint forgrief.
One day you're collapsed on thefloor crying of the name Jesus
(27:13):
in between labored breaths.
The next you're playing withyour children in the living
room, surrounded by familyphotos and feeling a rush of
something you can only attemptto define as divinely planted in
bittersweet joy as a smilebreaks through your face.
They say time heals, but lovedoesn't ask to be healed.
(27:34):
Love asks to be remembered.
It's humbling to realize thatthis magnitude of suffering
didn't steal my love for myhusband.
It amplified it.
It crystallized it.
I carry my Charlie in everybreath, in every ache, and in
every quiet act of day-to-dayliving as I attempt to relearn
(27:57):
what that rhythm will be.
And what I've realized throughthese past thirty days is the
greater the suffering, the purerthe love, and I have never loved
him more than I do now.
I don't know how you feelhearing it from me, but I can
(28:17):
tell you how I feel reading itfrom her.
And I have tears in my eyes.
I'm overcome with emotion.
I can feel her heartache andheartbreak.
I can feel her passion and herlove, her dedication and
commitment to her kids.
The way that Erica expresses herfeelings, the way she can convey
(28:43):
a message that portrays theabsolute heartbreaking pain and
fear that she has, yet can putsuch a positive twist on life
knowing thy will be done,knowing that there is a greater
plan, knowing this is for areason.
(29:04):
It is incredible to read herstatements, to feel the
heartache, to be overcome withtears, and realize just the
amount of strength that thatwoman possesses, the way she can
(29:26):
describe her feelings frommoment to moment, and still
outline her beliefs andconvictions.
If she can remain faithful, ifshe can remain steadfast in her
beliefs in these times, in thedarkest of times, what does that
say about you and me when westruggle day to day?
(29:50):
What does that say about mepersonally when I stop and think
like how much stress andheartache and and and
overthinking did I put on myselfover mechanics?
Mechanical failures.
How much stress and heartache doI put on my family over making
payments month to month?
I think about those things.
They're minor, they'reminuscule, they're not worth
(30:13):
sweating over, they're not worthsuffering over when you think
about what she's going through,what she's growing through.
If you don't find strength fromErica Kirk's struggle, then I
don't know where you findstrength.
I don't know where you findcourage.
I don't know where you findfaith if you don't find it in
her words.
They are incredible.
(30:34):
Again, today with anotherspeech, it was incredible.
I don't know how she has thestrength to, in front of
everybody on a live microphone,say, I asked my little girl what
she wanted to say to daddy todayon his birthday.
Just her phrasing and thequestion broke me.
(30:57):
Then to hear her daughtertalking about her dad and him
wanting him to celebrate with aice cream cupcake, and it's it's
um it's it's incredible.
It's an amazing example ofstrength, passion, compassion,
and faith.
And we are witnessing theformation of the next great
(31:21):
American leader.
And if you've been listening tomy podcast, if you've been
following my brand over the pastfew years, I put a great
emphasis on the fact that I dotruly believe that America is
suffering from a leadershipproblem.
We have a leadership vacuum.
We are not making leaders thatwe used to make, we are not uh
(31:44):
raising our youth the way thatit used to be raised.
We have a a culture of keyboardwarriors, of unchecked
accountability and anunwillingness for hard work that
doesn't manifest in the greatleadership for anyone.
I have long said America issuffering from a lack of
(32:06):
leadership.
I think President Trump beingback in office and the people
he's instilled into hiscabinetry, which many of them
recommended and suggested byCharlie himself, they're giving
America a new list of leaders.
We're building a new um justbook of leadership.
And if we go back to 2020 andthen the four years of the Biden
(32:31):
years and all the suffering thatwe've gone through and the the
war, the hate, the despair, allthe death and suffering that's
happened, I said through allthose times we're lacking
leadership.
And it was on both sides of theaisle, and it's in all levels of
media and life and reality.
Because if you start small andsay, How many kids do you know
(32:54):
that don't have leadership?
They don't have a strongparental voice that's providing
leadership.
We see some of the drug epidemicthat happens, some of the, you
know, just undisciplinedchildren that are out there that
are lost looking for hope.
Charlie was trying to provide apath and a direction and
leadership for a lot of ouryouth that is that is lost and
(33:16):
forgotten.
But if you think about theproblems for some of these kids,
I talked to you last week aboutkids coming in my tent and
yelling, free Palestine andtalking shit about my product
being completely disrespectful.
A lot of that starts from a lackof leadership.
There's no parent at home forthem saying, No, that's not how
we act in public.
(33:36):
Because that's also leadership.
Being a good parent isleadership.
So when you start at the verybasic level, the very base level
for leadership, being a goodparent, being a good role model,
being a good sibling, being agood father, husband, brother,
those things, there's a lack ofleadership there.
And that manifests and grows allthe way up the ladder.
(33:58):
We look at some of thesemainstream celebrities that have
crackerjack ass crack opinionsthat aren't they're not willing
to put their true faith andfeelings and convictions out
there for anyone.
They're not willing to say whatthey want to say for fear of
what's about to be said aboutthem, for fear of being
canceled, for fear of not beingaccepted, for fear of being
(34:20):
outcasted.
We're losing leaders becausethey're scared to speak up.
America's been suffering from alack of leadership.
When there was all this fightinggoing on, we should have had
people from both aisles.
If you want to talk aboutpoliticians, when all the chaos
was going even when thebeginning of like the pandemic
(34:41):
scenario and and the riots, theGeorge Floyd riots, can you tell
me why Barack Obama didn't comeout and say, and the violence,
this isn't the way to moveforward, this isn't the way to
honor somebody, this isn't theway to get change.
No, he lacks leadership, he wasnot willing to speak up.
(35:02):
No Democrat was willing to speakup during that time.
And there were so manycelebrities that were unwilling
to speak up and say, Hey man,why are we doing this?
Instead, we have all thesepeople in high places saying
your president is Hitler, andand and saying, you know, die
fascists and all these things.
They're provoking and creatingviolence because America is
(35:24):
starved of leadership.
I am here to tell you, if youopen your two eyes and you open
your one heart and you arereceptive to it, Erica Couric is
becoming the next great leaderfor this great country that we
all so certainly need.
Erica, I'm here for it.
Erica, I support you.
(35:44):
Erica, I've always believed inyour husband's message and his
willingness to debate, hiswillingness to give a platform
to his greatest adversaries andcritics.
I say to you, Charlie Kirk, welldone, good and faithful servant.
You are have shaped and led theway far more than you could ever
(36:07):
possibly imagine.
And to Erica Kirk, thy will bedone.
She certainly will make magichappen.
She will move mountains, and shewill be the face of the biggest
spiritual awakening and Americanrevival in our history.
(36:27):
Thank you for supporting theKirks American Marshall of the
Holmes of Healthy Savage.
That's it and that's all, BiggieSmalls.
(37:04):
If you're a fan of the GrandCracking, you wanna find me on
Instagram for all the kids, atickety talkin on the TikTok,
you can find me on both of thoseat loud underscore proud
underscore American.
(37:28):
Big old thank you to the boysfrom the Gut Truckers for the
background beats and the thingtalk to your podcast.
If you are enjoying what you'rehearing, track down the gun
truckers on Facebook just thirdgun truckers.
Give that motherfucker a like.
(38:07):
Now go wash your fucking hands,you filthy savage.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Bobby Bones Show
Listen to 'The Bobby Bones Show' by downloading the daily full replay.