September 26, 2025 • 40 mins
Todd returns from Montana and dives straight into one of the most pressing issues in America today: the rise of political violence and the disturbing refusal by some in Congress to condemn it. A recent House resolution honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk—while also condemning his assassination and political violence in all forms—passed with bipartisan support, yet dozens of members voted “no” or abstained. Todd breaks down what that vote means, why it matters, and how it reflects a deeper clash of worldviews shaping our culture and politics.
In this episode, Todd also reflects on ten years of “conservative, not bitter” broadcasting, the importance of persuasion over rage, and how the legacy of Charlie Kirk has challenged him to rethink and expand the reach of this program. He shares stories from his own life—including a hard-hitting football memory—to illustrate what it means to fight with conviction but without bitterness.
Later, Todd highlights the shocking response from Shelby Campbell, a congressional candidate in Michigan, who mocked Kirk’s death on TikTok. Todd explains why conversations with people like her are necessary, even when difficult, and previews how his show may evolve to meet today’s cultural battles head-on.
The episode closes with a personal reflection on Todd’s family trip to Glacier National Park, the value of rest, and the renewed energy he brings back to the microphone.
In this episode, Todd also reflects on ten years of “conservative, not bitter” broadcasting, the importance of persuasion over rage, and how the legacy of Charlie Kirk has challenged him to rethink and expand the reach of this program. He shares stories from his own life—including a hard-hitting football memory—to illustrate what it means to fight with conviction but without bitterness.
Later, Todd highlights the shocking response from Shelby Campbell, a congressional candidate in Michigan, who mocked Kirk’s death on TikTok. Todd explains why conversations with people like her are necessary, even when difficult, and previews how his show may evolve to meet today’s cultural battles head-on.
The episode closes with a personal reflection on Todd’s family trip to Glacier National Park, the value of rest, and the renewed energy he brings back to the microphone.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Yes, my friends, back at it here in the Full
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have happened in our in our absence. I want to
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to John Crane for all filling in for us here.
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Over the course of.
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The past week, again, my family and I we were
in Montana, actually spent some time at Glacier National Park
with my extended.
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That's I want to catch up on some things here
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Speaker 3 (03:11):
Morning returning I I've you know, doing this every day.
I love this.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I hope that you know that we've done this for
ten years now. But doing this every day, you get
in a routine. And sometimes routines can be good, and
sometimes routines, you know, sometimes we got to break bad,
bad habits.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But you know, when you get out of the routine
for a week, it is a tough uh.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It is a very well well oiled machine behind the
behind the scenes here to get things done, and it's
just hard to get back into it and not have
some hiccups along the way when I've been gone. So
a little bit of that going on, not a lot,
but a little bit of that going on here today,
my friends.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So, but I want to talk.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I want to talk about this House Resolution seven one
nine that is the Honoring the Life and Legacy of
Charles Charlie James Kirk that passed on September nineteenth, about
a week ago. It passed three hundred and ten yays,
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fifty eight Mays, and thirty eight I guess those were
just presents, basically people who have just abstained, just said
that they were president or whatever. And I want to
talk about this a little bit because this this resolution
was designed to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and
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not only that, but to condemn political violence as a whole.
We're at a point. In fact, I talked about this
on the Todd Talk today. We have a we're at
a point that we this nation is dealing with some heavy,
heavy things. It shows up in our politics, but this
runs much deeper. And I know some of our hosts
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touched on this last week. I know John Crane touched
on this even yesterday. That politics is downstream of culture.
That culture is really downstream from worldview, and it's how
we look at the world. It's it's how we look
at the meaning of life, the reason that we're here,
whether or whether there is or is not a God.
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Those things shape our worldview, our worldview shapes our culture,
and our cultural perspective shapes our politics. So I think
you've got to trace us all the way back to
our worldview, and we have diametrically opposed worldviews in this country. Now,
it's interesting here in this great nation. You know, we've
been referred to or called a melting pot here in
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this society, in this culture. And there's a lot of
good things that can come from having different types of
people in a country, right, A lot of countries don't
have this. You can have a lot of diversity of
thought and ways of dealing with things.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Which is is a good thing. It can be a
good thing.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But difference is just because the sake of being different
isn't necessarily good, and it's also not good if our
differences take us not just from you know, somewhat, I
guess morally equivalent perspectives on just doing things differently. That's
different than saying here is here is someone who does something.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's abject, that's just objectively.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Evil or not good, or that is morally or ethically whatever. Right,
So it's just difference in and of itself is not
a necessarily good or bad thing. It's what are those
differences is the differences between the approach or the worldview
is one of those things clearly superior if it is,
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if something is true, for example, you want the society,
you want culture, your entire culture to accept this, regardless
of what maybe the subculture is. You would like all
people to accept the truth. In fact, the mission of
this program, my friends, those of you that have listened
for some time, you may have heard me say this,
but the mission of this program is to help others
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hear and receive truth. I come at this each and
every day from a perspective of a Bible believing Christian
who believes in conservative principles and values. Some of those
principles conservative principles and values, I think can some of
them clearly have their roots in Biblical teachings. Others I
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think you could potentially tie to. And some are just
that they don't. They're not spoken about in the Bible.
There are some things that the Bible doesn't tell us
every detail and facet. The Bible doesn't tell you how,
for example, to unclog a drain in the bathroom right,
or to unclog a drain in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That's not the point.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But there are some things when we're talking about worldviews
and values right and wrong, the moral code that comes
from God. So some of that stuff is built upon
directly upon conservative values are built directly upon biblical values.
Some of them are just things that we think that
we've learned through living this side of heaven, that we've
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decided that those are values that we want to pursue.
And then you've got another side, another worldview that's out
there today that's becoming more and more prevalent, that is
encouraging and celebrating political violence, which I would say to
the same people out there, regardless ultimately of what your
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worldview is, your religion is, reasonable, people should be able
to agree and say this is unacceptable, this must be condemned.
And so most of them did vote, three hundred and
ten of them in the House to pass this resolution,
but there were thirty eight who didn't want to take
a stand in fifty who said no. What were they
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saying no to, Well, they said that they don't want
to lionize an individual with whom they find a troubling.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Ideology or worldview.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So a lot of these leftists that these Democrats who
voted against this resolution, which again condemned Charlie Kirk's assassination,
condemned political violence as a whole, honored the life of
Charlie Kirk, honored his family, honored his faith, and at
its core calls on Americans to reject violence and to
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recommit to civility. That was the general purpose of that legislation,
and they voted no against that. Now, I try to
be sometimes out of an abundance of caution, and to
try to be to extend the island branch as much
as I can to those on the other side of
the aisle. I can understand to a point not wanting
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to give to honor a person whose ideology I vehemently
disagree with. But if you look at what the purpose
of this is, and look, I know everything can be politicized,
but surely, surely we could all put aside even the
ideology for a moment, even the belief system for a moment,
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and say, whatever happens in American next, wherever we go politically,
whatever the next political battle looks like, it cannot look
like this.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Surely we could all agree on that.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But we can't. We can't agree on that. So this
condemns assassinations in all political violence. It commends law enforcement
for swift action. It extends condolences to Eric at Kirk
and the family, honors the life of Charlie Kirk, his
legacy as a Christian, as a family man, as a
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defender of liberty. Calls Americans to reject violence, engage respectfully,
and uphold shared values. I want to talk a little
bit more about this, and really this show is ten
years old, and you go back to the early days
of this show. Our position, if you will, if you're
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our slogan, our tagline is conservative not bitter. So I've
from day one I have extended an olive branch. You
don't listen when you engage in this sort of activity
like I've done, when you engage in the sort of
activity Charlie Kirk engaged in where you're talking about ideas
when you know there's gonna be fierce opposition, There's gonna
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be fierce opposition, There's gonna be heated debates and disagreements.
You might be called names, you might be maligned, and
you know those sorts of things. You expect that and
that comes with the territory. But there's a line, there's
a line that this resolution is trying to clearly draw,
to clearly draw that says, look, we gotta not hate
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one another. And at its core, that's what conservative not
bitter means. And I remember, in fact, the tagline of
this program I was was I guess the the byproduct
or the the the consequence, not the consequence, but the
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I guess the the the outcome of what I had
learned from a dear friend of mine who passed away
earlier this year, tragically.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
His name was Brad Justice. But I worked with Brad.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
He was a had a marketing firm here in central Indiana,
helping clients all over the all over the place. But
he I worked with him for a while and I
learned a lot about marketing. And one of the things
I realized and I learned from Brad was it's important
to clearly identify who you are, what you believe, and
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how you're different from the crowd. And there's a lot
of screamers out there. There's a lot of screamers in
my friends on the right too. I'm not saying, listen,
the bullets are flying in one direction, but I'm saying
there's a lot of people out there who are I'm
not blaming them for the temperature. I'm saying. I come
with this from a perspective of I want to persuade people.
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I want to persuade. I want to give people the
tools to be more persuasive in their personal interactions with
other people. And that doesn't happen when the temperature gets
too high. Now, it doesn't mean that we shy away
from it too many people here. Some people here conservative,
not bitter, and think that there's.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
No fight in that. Friends, I'm gonna tell you a
story real quick.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Oh boy, this is a little embarrassing for me, But
you know that I played football for if you listen
to this program at Butler University. In fact, I got
the Butler shirt on here today, back twenty five years ago.
And I was a little guy, one of the smaller
guys on the team. Played the defensive back, but I
always thought I was a linebacker trapped in the body
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of a defensive back. And I remember I had two
speeds on and off like there was no there was
no it was either one hundred percent or zero. I
was either engaged in the player. I was on the
sideline right. And I remember I had a teammate one
time he told me he was a receiver. His name
was Kyle. I won't tell you his last day, but
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I liked him a lot. Called me Huffy Combs back.
I didn't even know. This is how this is how
distant I was from pop culture. He kept calling me
Huffy Combs. I had no idea where that came from
until later on. But he said, man, Huffy Combs. I
don't want to go up against you.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
In a drill.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
And I said, what are you talking about? Man, He's like,
you go too hard. He's like, you're too rough you.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Apparently when I tackled him, I would I pinched him.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I said, what, I'm grabbing whatever I can grab to
get a hold of you, to get you down.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I'm not trying to pinch you. How in the world
do you even do that on a football field at
high speed?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Anyway, And he made a comment where he made he said, man,
he made a comment and said that it was dirty,
and it really bothered me, to be honest, because I
was not between the whistles. If it was legal, I
was going to engage in it. But at the whistle,
you know, I'll pick you up or whatever. Didn't really
talk trash. Fact that was pretty quiet back out there
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on the on the field in those days. But after
talking with him, I realized what he meant was, you're
just too intense. And I remember starting many a fight,
several let's say, several fights on the not intentionally, just
out of intensity. So I just say that to me,
to say to you, conservative not bitter doesn't mean there's
not a time to fight, to be intense or anything
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like that. What conservative not bitter means is that I
don't hate the people who were opposite of me. I'm
not bitter about the ground that we've lost in this
country over the generations, over the decades that have moved
us further to the left. I want civility. I was
raised in a Union Democrat home. I don't mind getting
a little bit dicey or a little bit intense in
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our conversations. But there's no way it should ever get
anywhere near the level that it's gotten today with the
assassination of Charlie Kirk, with the attempted assassination of President Trump.
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go back to this discussion here about about Charlie Kirk
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and what he did because there's some things I want
to say.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I listen.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I've said before, I don't follow anybody. How do I
want to say this? Yeah, I used to listen to
Rush every day. Rush was the standard bearer. Rush, to me,
was the greatest who's ever done this by a country mile.
Charlie Kirk was incredibly effective as well, the next generation,
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if you will, of what Rush did, and it evolved.
Charlie Kirk evolved this into something that what was effective
at getting outside of the conservative bubble, and it was
more proactive. It wasn't just I'm going to talk about
something all day and then let people come in. If
they're interested, I'm going to go out to them. And
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that's what he did, and he made it personal and
he handled it well. He modeled civil discourse. I don't
care what people say he modeled civil discourse. It's right
there for anyone to say. Yes, there were times he
got a little bit fiery. Yes there were times he
did that, but so what it was just an intense discussion.
It's pretty rare from what I saw. But I say
all this same I didn't I didn't follow it all
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the time, So there might be things that I don't
know about But I've seen a lot of his stuff,
a lot of his debates on campuses and so forth,
a lot of his conversations and very civil, very civil.
And he's founded Turning Point USA when he was eight
ten years old. It's just remarkable, remarkable accomplishments. And you
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know this, and looking at the success he's had and
looking at the needs out there, this has impacted the
way I think about the program that we produce every
day too. We've done this, as I've said, for ten years,
and we're deliberately doing some things a little bit different.
I'm starting to I don't know specifically all the things,
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but I do know that we are in perilous times,
and I do know that in order for us to
escape escape these perilous times, or to overcome them, or
to defeat the side that's perpetrating these evils and that
sort of stuff, in order for that to happen, we
have to engage. And I think, I think sometimes you know,
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my thinking is we talk about the issues of the day,
and then we use those as bring boards to talk
about things that are even more important and that are
rooted in truth, the kind of the underlying principles that
lead us to some of the ways of thinking in
the conservative movement. And that's been kind of the what
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I want to say, the roadmap for the show each
and every day. But I've realized in seeing what's out
there and how dire the circumstances are, that I've got
to find ways to break out side of that all
of us do and whatever particular whatever our sphere of influences,
and to engage more proactively, not just you know, try
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to drive people to the program, but get out there
more and do some different things.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So we're working on some things sere.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
In fact, you might see us do more interviews, and
that's what I want to talk about in the next segment.
You may have seen you may have seen an individual
who's running for congress. Her name is Shelby Campbell. She's
running for Congress in Michigan. I'm going to play this
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quick SoundBite here. She's on TikTok's it's a weird Twitter.
Excuse me, TikTok handle, I can't I think she took
this video down. Oh it's soup for change, s O
up soup the number four change. That's where she is
on TikTok. So you know that we've talked about some
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things on this program where people have been celebrating the
death of Charlie Kirk or mocking whatever that sort of thing.
She took it, but this is a nine second video
or it might have been lost. Someone's had to record
this because I think she might have taken it down.
I don't know that it was up last night when
I looked, but I reached out to this lady and
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she emailed me back. I didn't think she would. I
emailed her last I mean it was late, it was
I don't know, one in the morning something like that.
Emailed her and said, hey, I know what you've you know,
you said something about Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Like to have you clear that up on the show.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And I told her a little bit about us, and
she says she would love to do that. We'll see
where this goes. My point is, I'm gonna play this
real point.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Jimmy Kimmel's back, but you guys can't get your person back.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I think that's a I hope that's a sound that
she's used there and not her own laugh. But she
said the Jimmy Kimmel's back, but you guys can't get
your guy back. Referring to Charlie Kirk, she says, how
bad does it hurt? Is how she starts it, how
bad does it hurt? Jimmy? Jimmy Kimmel's back, but you
can't get your person back. And then she had that
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demonic laugh that hopefully was just a sound that she
piped in. But we're gonna see if she'll talk with this.
And those are the sorts of things I think we've
got to address this head on.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I got some other ideas as well, but I'm up
against the clock. Gotta take a break.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
My friends, you're listening here to conservative not better talk
on your host Todd huff back in just a minute.
Welcome back, my friends. I want to play this SoundBite again.
It's a short clip again. This is a person in
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Michigan running for the thirteenth District, which is in Detroit.
Her name is Shelby Campbell. She made this post. I
don't know if it's still up. It was last night.
I looked again this morning. I couldn't find it. I
found it if someone else had recorded it, and that's
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or they've I don't know they've they've reshared it.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
But this is this is what we have. This is
the clip that she she put together. It's nine seconds.
You gotta listen fast. I'm gonna shut up and play
it now.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That doesn't hurt Jimmy Kimmel's back, but you guys can't
get your person back.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You get the idea, how bad does it hurt that
Jimmy Kimmel's back, but you can't get your person back.
Talking about Jimmy Kimmel, who was suspended, I've got stuff
in the stack of stuff for that as well. I
don't know that I'll be able to get to that,
but basically, you know, before I left, Jimmy Kimmel had
been suspended for comments he made about Trump, particularly related
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to the death of Charlie kirk And that's been discussed,
but ultimately the comments I thought that was the most reprehensible.
He effectively compared Charlie Kirshy's death. I don't even feel
comfortable talking about this, but to mourning the loss of
a goldfish. Now, he was saying Trump was acting like
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he's mourning the loss of a goldfish, not the loss
of a good friend. So you could say he was
mocking Trump, but nonetheless, that's what he was out for.
Or suspended for they've brought him back, Sinclair and Next
Star have decided not to carry the program. I think
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it's about twenty or twenty five percent of the ABC
syndicate network that's not going to be showing Kimmel's show anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
That's going on.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
So she's celebrating that. She's celebrating that by posting this.
So I reached out to her. I reached I won't share.
I try to not do, but in general, I saw
this again. This is in continuation of what we talked
about last segment, which was one of the things.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
The impact as I.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Think, as I think about Charlie Kirk's legacy and what
he's done and how effective he's been, it's just encouraged
me to do things a little bit, a little bit differently,
sometimes maybe a lot differently, and listen for those of you.
Every once in a while, one in I mean it's
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one in a thousand or every ten thousand, someone will
say this is you know, you're trying to be an opportunist.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I mean, this is crazy to me.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Well, I'm a guy with the microphone, right, I started
this in a bedroom closet ten years ago. I'm not
I'm trying to do things more effectively. This nation is
hanging in the balance this We are in a cold
civil war that has had flashes of heat recently. With
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this violence, this has to be addressed immediately. We're in
great need of spiritual revival in this great nation. We're
in need of Jesus. This nation needs to return to
Jesus immediately. We need to do that as individuals, and
we need to have the boldness to share that with
other people. And people hate the truth. They hate it
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that the opposition hates the truth. They like living in darkness.
And when you shine a light, listen, not because I'm
special or anything else, and anyone else who does this.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
But by doing bye bye, by.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Speaking the truth, you immediately get enemies because they hate
the truth. They like living in darkness. They love their sin.
They don't want to change that they are they are
consumed by it. They are enslaved by their their sin.
Now that doesn't mean there can't be differences of opinion
on certain things, but we've gotten to the point where
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that's a legitimate thing that I have to say on
this program. And so when I look at the you know,
the state of things and the direness of the situation,
and I look at how effective Charlie Kirk was, which
I always, you know, knew that he was, but in
seeing just the level of impact the outpouring towards him,
but both unfortunately of the hate, but also of the
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love towards him and the honor and respect him. By
the way, this bill, this willing, this resolution should have
been unanimously passed. I don't see what the big problem
here is. You do not have to agree with his
ideas and his world of view and ideology, but my goodness,
surely we can agree that this stuff cannot be allowed
to happen. And so as I've thought about this, and
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I know, you know, I go back to I go
back to even my own life.
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I mean, I was I was not raised.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I was always taught Biblical values, but I wasn't raised
in a Christian home.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I didn't know anything really about the Bible.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Had two wonderful parents, but I just that wasn't part
of their life, and I didn't know anything. I think
I went to vacation Bible School a couple times as
a kid, and I think I went to well, I know,
I went to weekday religious at which was something that
you could voluntarily go to in school when I was
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a kid. I know some school districts still have this,
but you had to go off the school premises. We
went to this little relocatable trailer and we would study
the Bible for thirty minutes a week or whatever it was.
It was on a Tuesday or a Thursday or some
such thing. And I remember I remember learning the Bible
for the first time. I remember the Gideons coming to
our school and handing out these little bitty red Bibles, and.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I remember as a kid reading that at night. I
remember praying.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Now, of course my prayers were God give me this,
God do this for me, God that.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
But I didn't know anything. I didn't know anything.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And that sticks with me because I think that there
is still I know that there are people who are
embracing this evil that's out there, you know, just completely.
They have decided in their hearts they're going to pursue
and chase after this evil. They're gonna defend evil, They're
gonna defend darkness. They're gonna mock death, They're gonna do
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all this sort of stuff. They're gonna say terrible things
about Charlie Kirk or whoever. They're gonna say terrible things
about you, they're gonna try to tear down God.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
They're gonna be just all these sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And there are certainly those people, But there are people
who just genuinely don't know, and how are they gonna
know if we don't tell them?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
How are they gonna know?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And I don't mean and we just hear this program,
I mean collectively people who are interested in sharing messages
of truth that ultimately direct people to the Cross of Christ,
truth about just the moral order of the universe, the
design of the universe, the some of these principles that
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are that we all need to know. How will they
know if we don't tell them? And how will they
be told if they're not listening or viewing or congregating
in areas that we normally do it. And so that's
been Charlie Kirk's impact on me. That's been and I've
been rethinking some of the fact. If you go to
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our website, you'll see that it's different than it was.
You'll see eventually in the not too distant future, us
doing some things that we haven't done before.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Not to steal thunder or not.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
To any just just to learn and to adapt, and
to realize that the stakes are high, and that it's time,
it's long past time for us to do everything in
our power.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Let the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
I don't know where, if, or where we'll succeed, or
how where we'll fail, and everything else. But the idea
is to take the message of truth and deliver it
in such a way whatever that looks like. Having conversations
like hopefully I'll have with this person running for Congress.
We'll see what happens. I just wanted to tell you
about that, to let you know and give you a
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heads up. Reach out to her office and tell them
go on Todd's show, tell them that Todd mentioned that
she she said she was She says she would be
very interested in doing this. She put me in touch
with her campaign manager. So we'll see where it goes.
But I think these are the things you're going to
start seeing here on the program us maybe adding some things,
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improving some things, changing some approaches to find ways to
reach people where they are.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I would encourage you to do the same as well.
All the stakes are high and we need to do
everything we can to deliver this message.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
So, and I have Charlie Kirk to thank for teaching
me that, And so we want to get better at
doing that because we want people. We want all people
to hear and receive truth. Not that we have it
all figured out here, my friends, I want to say
that too. I know it's tempting to think that we
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do know. I know that it is, but I don't
have it all figured out. But I do know this.
There are things that are true that have been revealed
to us, and it is imperative that we speak those
things to the next generation, for all Ears who are
interested in truth, because if we don't speak and proclaim
the truth, the truth is replaced by a lie. It
creates a void when the truth is not spoken, when
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the truth is not adhered to, when the truth is
not respected, lies come in and fill the void. That's
what's happening in this culture or the course of many
many decades now, and that has to be stopped and reversed.
So more on this, my friends, they get to the
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Speaker 3 (34:07):
Welcome back my friend's third and final segment.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I mentioned you know that we've been out last basically
the last week we spent some time in Glacier National Park.
I don't know if you've ever been there. It's a beautiful,
beautiful place. It's the name of the road oz road
to the Road to the Sun. Is that it road
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to the Rising Sun something like that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
It's one of the going there.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
We go going to the Sun road going to the
Sun Road. It's a beautiful drive. It's not easy to
get to glaciers. It's remote to begin with. The park
is massive. We stayed in a little town called Whitefish,
which was a nice little town. I know Oz enjoyed that.
The kids enjoyed that. Just a beautiful, beautiful place. Two
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things I'll tell you. Number one, I'll tell you just
I guess a quick little summary of what we did.
So we go to Whitefish. We stay with my brother
and our sister in law for a few days. The
kids love their aunt and uncle. They drove out there.
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They stopped at the bad lands and different places like that.
We flew into callous spell if that's how you say it.
Spent time in Whitefish, and then of course went to
the park. Beautiful the going to the Sun Road, as
I said, absolutely beautiful. Some of the most beautiful views
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I think I've ever seen. That drive reminded me in parts.
It's different. So if you've done this, I don't want
you to think that I'm saying it's the same. But
some of that drive was treacherous. I mean, you're going
up the side of the mountain and you can see down.
I don't know how far, all the way down straight
down to the river at the bottottom of the I
guess the valley there reminded me a little bit, not
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exactly it was. It was much different, in fact, I
would say, in a way more treacherous than the hall
that we took up Pike's Peak several years ago. Not
as high, but also.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Straight down.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I would say, it's more straight down, more guardrails too,
but nonetheless just a beautiful, beautiful place. Went on on
a longer, well relatively long hike, especially when it's up
at you know you're gaining elevation and so forth.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Just beautiful, beautiful things.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
We saw a brown bear I had wanted to see
When I told the kids before we left, I want
to see a brown bear. They did not want to
hear anything about that. Of course, they're envisioning that. They
thought old Dad wanted to see one face to face
on the trails. It's not what I wanted to see.
What happened is exactly what I wanted to see, which
was look at a bear from the vehicle as we
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were driving through park and we saw a bear. It
was a younger bear, but hefty fella. He was eating
some berries off, the trees crossing this stream and so forth.
But just the beautiful, beautiful park if you get the chance.
You know, our national parks are unbelievable in this country,
the natural beauty, especially in the ones out west. We've
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been to several, but not anywhere near all of them.
In fact, some of the most beautiful ones, the biggest ones,
we have not yet been to. But I would say
Glacier National Park is for lots of reasons. It's a
great place to go. But again, to go there you
want to, I mean, you want to have an interest
in the outdoor experience of Montana. I mean, there's not
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a whole lot else to do. I'm not minimizing it
because it's part of what makes it special is that
it is kind of untouched in a lot of ways,
meaning it's remote and so forth.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
But it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
For those of you who have been, you know exactly
what I'm talking talking about. If you haven't been, I
just wanted to tell you that was a great experience
and if you can ever go, it's definitely something we're seeing.
I'll also tell you on the way home, I mentioned
that my brother and sister in law drove We flew
and had no problem getting out to Montana, but on
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the way back, it's a tiny airport in Callispell, I
got stopped at security because apparently, when the ticket was booked,
the name was entered incorrectly. This was actually not something
that we did when the ticket was secured. This was
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something I think in the airlines system, and I couldn't
get through security, so I got sent over to the
desk of the airline and there was about a I
don't know, a twenty or thirty minute period where I
wasn't convinced I was getting home that day. But after
some back and forth and realization as to what happened,
the lady at the counter told me it's the same
exact thing that happened the day before.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Something in the system is basically.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Putting a second name before some of these tickets, and
so my name wasn't what matched my ID, so I
had to go back. They got it fixed and I
got on the aircraft. But there was a short period
of time that I did not think I was going
to be on the aircraft coming home, but we made
at home.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
I've missed you, listen. I love doing this show.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
You know, vacations are good and much needed. For those
of you that work a lot that like what you
do professionally, let me remind you that those moments, those
moments of stepping away, turning things off for a walk
and give you perspective, can give you fresh approaches to things,
can help you recharge, rest improve in ways. Just by
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taking that time off and not to mention, the people
that you love the most get to have a little
bit more time with you or I got to have
more time with them, and I absolutely loved every second
of it. I was, you know, you didn't want to
leave that beautiful place, but you also I was also
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ready to come home because I like this.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
You know, if you love what you do, they say
that you'll never work a day in your life, and
that's there's some truth in them. I mean, I bust
my hump over here. Don't misunderstand me. There's a lot
goes on behind the scenes. But let me tell you this,
this is something that I love that I've been looking
forward to getting back. So it is good to be back,
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my friends. So it's Friday. I hope you have a
wonderful weekend. We will continue continue next week, my friends,
we'll be back on Monday. Have a great weekend, SDG.
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Yes, my friends, back at it here in the Full
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you to Micah Clark. I want to say thank you
to John Crane for all filling in for us here.
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Over the course of.
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The past week, again, my family and I we were
in Montana, actually spent some time at Glacier National Park
with my extended.
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Family, with my brother and sister in law, and so.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's I want to catch up on some things here
and I also want to well three things.
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Number one I want.
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To talk about just some things that have happened since
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Number two, I've got it, you know.
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Speaker 3 (03:11):
Morning returning I I've you know, doing this every day.
I love this.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I hope that you know that we've done this for
ten years now. But doing this every day, you get
in a routine. And sometimes routines can be good, and
sometimes routines, you know, sometimes we got to break bad,
bad habits.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But you know, when you get out of the routine
for a week, it is a tough uh.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It is a very well well oiled machine behind the
behind the scenes here to get things done, and it's
just hard to get back into it and not have
some hiccups along the way when I've been gone. So
a little bit of that going on, not a lot,
but a little bit of that going on here today,
my friends.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So, but I want to talk.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I want to talk about this House Resolution seven one
nine that is the Honoring the Life and Legacy of
Charles Charlie James Kirk that passed on September nineteenth, about
a week ago. It passed three hundred and ten yays,
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fifty eight Mays, and thirty eight I guess those were
just presents, basically people who have just abstained, just said
that they were president or whatever. And I want to
talk about this a little bit because this this resolution
was designed to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and
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not only that, but to condemn political violence as a whole.
We're at a point. In fact, I talked about this
on the Todd Talk today. We have a we're at
a point that we this nation is dealing with some heavy,
heavy things. It shows up in our politics, but this
runs much deeper. And I know some of our hosts
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touched on this last week. I know John Crane touched
on this even yesterday. That politics is downstream of culture.
That culture is really downstream from worldview, and it's how
we look at the world. It's it's how we look
at the meaning of life, the reason that we're here,
whether or whether there is or is not a God.
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Those things shape our worldview, our worldview shapes our culture,
and our cultural perspective shapes our politics. So I think
you've got to trace us all the way back to
our worldview, and we have diametrically opposed worldviews in this country. Now,
it's interesting here in this great nation. You know, we've
been referred to or called a melting pot here in
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this society, in this culture. And there's a lot of
good things that can come from having different types of
people in a country, right, A lot of countries don't
have this. You can have a lot of diversity of
thought and ways of dealing with things.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Which is is a good thing. It can be a
good thing.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But difference is just because the sake of being different
isn't necessarily good, and it's also not good if our
differences take us not just from you know, somewhat, I
guess morally equivalent perspectives on just doing things differently. That's
different than saying here is here is someone who does something.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's abject, that's just objectively.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Evil or not good, or that is morally or ethically whatever. Right,
So it's just difference in and of itself is not
a necessarily good or bad thing. It's what are those
differences is the differences between the approach or the worldview
is one of those things clearly superior if it is,
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if something is true, for example, you want the society,
you want culture, your entire culture to accept this, regardless
of what maybe the subculture is. You would like all
people to accept the truth. In fact, the mission of
this program, my friends, those of you that have listened
for some time, you may have heard me say this,
but the mission of this program is to help others
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hear and receive truth. I come at this each and
every day from a perspective of a Bible believing Christian
who believes in conservative principles and values. Some of those
principles conservative principles and values, I think can some of
them clearly have their roots in Biblical teachings. Others I
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think you could potentially tie to. And some are just
that they don't. They're not spoken about in the Bible.
There are some things that the Bible doesn't tell us
every detail and facet. The Bible doesn't tell you how,
for example, to unclog a drain in the bathroom right,
or to unclog a drain in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That's not the point.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But there are some things when we're talking about worldviews
and values right and wrong, the moral code that comes
from God. So some of that stuff is built upon
directly upon conservative values are built directly upon biblical values.
Some of them are just things that we think that
we've learned through living this side of heaven, that we've
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decided that those are values that we want to pursue.
And then you've got another side, another worldview that's out
there today that's becoming more and more prevalent, that is
encouraging and celebrating political violence, which I would say to
the same people out there, regardless ultimately of what your
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worldview is, your religion is, reasonable, people should be able
to agree and say this is unacceptable, this must be condemned.
And so most of them did vote, three hundred and
ten of them in the House to pass this resolution,
but there were thirty eight who didn't want to take
a stand in fifty who said no. What were they
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saying no to, Well, they said that they don't want
to lionize an individual with whom they find a troubling.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Ideology or worldview.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So a lot of these leftists that these Democrats who
voted against this resolution, which again condemned Charlie Kirk's assassination,
condemned political violence as a whole, honored the life of
Charlie Kirk, honored his family, honored his faith, and at
its core calls on Americans to reject violence and to
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recommit to civility. That was the general purpose of that legislation,
and they voted no against that. Now, I try to
be sometimes out of an abundance of caution, and to
try to be to extend the island branch as much
as I can to those on the other side of
the aisle. I can understand to a point not wanting
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to give to honor a person whose ideology I vehemently
disagree with. But if you look at what the purpose
of this is, and look, I know everything can be politicized,
but surely, surely we could all put aside even the
ideology for a moment, even the belief system for a moment,
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and say, whatever happens in American next, wherever we go politically,
whatever the next political battle looks like, it cannot look
like this.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Surely we could all agree on that.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But we can't. We can't agree on that. So this
condemns assassinations in all political violence. It commends law enforcement
for swift action. It extends condolences to Eric at Kirk
and the family, honors the life of Charlie Kirk, his
legacy as a Christian, as a family man, as a
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defender of liberty. Calls Americans to reject violence, engage respectfully,
and uphold shared values. I want to talk a little
bit more about this, and really this show is ten
years old, and you go back to the early days
of this show. Our position, if you will, if you're
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our slogan, our tagline is conservative not bitter. So I've
from day one I have extended an olive branch. You
don't listen when you engage in this sort of activity
like I've done, when you engage in the sort of
activity Charlie Kirk engaged in where you're talking about ideas
when you know there's gonna be fierce opposition, There's gonna
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be fierce opposition, There's gonna be heated debates and disagreements.
You might be called names, you might be maligned, and
you know those sorts of things. You expect that and
that comes with the territory. But there's a line, there's
a line that this resolution is trying to clearly draw,
to clearly draw that says, look, we gotta not hate
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one another. And at its core, that's what conservative not
bitter means. And I remember, in fact, the tagline of
this program I was was I guess the the byproduct
or the the the consequence, not the consequence, but the
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I guess the the the outcome of what I had
learned from a dear friend of mine who passed away
earlier this year, tragically.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
His name was Brad Justice. But I worked with Brad.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
He was a had a marketing firm here in central Indiana,
helping clients all over the all over the place. But
he I worked with him for a while and I
learned a lot about marketing. And one of the things
I realized and I learned from Brad was it's important
to clearly identify who you are, what you believe, and
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how you're different from the crowd. And there's a lot
of screamers out there. There's a lot of screamers in
my friends on the right too. I'm not saying, listen,
the bullets are flying in one direction, but I'm saying
there's a lot of people out there who are I'm
not blaming them for the temperature. I'm saying. I come
with this from a perspective of I want to persuade people.
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I want to persuade. I want to give people the
tools to be more persuasive in their personal interactions with
other people. And that doesn't happen when the temperature gets
too high. Now, it doesn't mean that we shy away
from it too many people here. Some people here conservative,
not bitter, and think that there's.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
No fight in that. Friends, I'm gonna tell you a
story real quick.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Oh boy, this is a little embarrassing for me, But
you know that I played football for if you listen
to this program at Butler University. In fact, I got
the Butler shirt on here today, back twenty five years ago.
And I was a little guy, one of the smaller
guys on the team. Played the defensive back, but I
always thought I was a linebacker trapped in the body
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of a defensive back. And I remember I had two
speeds on and off like there was no there was
no it was either one hundred percent or zero. I
was either engaged in the player. I was on the
sideline right. And I remember I had a teammate one
time he told me he was a receiver. His name
was Kyle. I won't tell you his last day, but
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I liked him a lot. Called me Huffy Combs back.
I didn't even know. This is how this is how
distant I was from pop culture. He kept calling me
Huffy Combs. I had no idea where that came from
until later on. But he said, man, Huffy Combs. I
don't want to go up against you.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
In a drill.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
And I said, what are you talking about? Man, He's like,
you go too hard. He's like, you're too rough you.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Apparently when I tackled him, I would I pinched him.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I said, what, I'm grabbing whatever I can grab to
get a hold of you, to get you down.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I'm not trying to pinch you. How in the world
do you even do that on a football field at
high speed?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Anyway, And he made a comment where he made he said, man,
he made a comment and said that it was dirty,
and it really bothered me, to be honest, because I
was not between the whistles. If it was legal, I
was going to engage in it. But at the whistle,
you know, I'll pick you up or whatever. Didn't really
talk trash. Fact that was pretty quiet back out there
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on the on the field in those days. But after
talking with him, I realized what he meant was, you're
just too intense. And I remember starting many a fight,
several let's say, several fights on the not intentionally, just
out of intensity. So I just say that to me,
to say to you, conservative not bitter doesn't mean there's
not a time to fight, to be intense or anything
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like that. What conservative not bitter means is that I
don't hate the people who were opposite of me. I'm
not bitter about the ground that we've lost in this
country over the generations, over the decades that have moved
us further to the left. I want civility. I was
raised in a Union Democrat home. I don't mind getting
a little bit dicey or a little bit intense in
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our conversations. But there's no way it should ever get
anywhere near the level that it's gotten today with the
assassination of Charlie Kirk, with the attempted assassination of President Trump.
And this is something that all people should be able
to get behind, but they can't more to say on this,
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go back to this discussion here about about Charlie Kirk
(17:37):
and what he did because there's some things I want
to say.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I listen.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I've said before, I don't follow anybody. How do I
want to say this? Yeah, I used to listen to
Rush every day. Rush was the standard bearer. Rush, to me,
was the greatest who's ever done this by a country mile.
Charlie Kirk was incredibly effective as well, the next generation,
(18:01):
if you will, of what Rush did, and it evolved.
Charlie Kirk evolved this into something that what was effective
at getting outside of the conservative bubble, and it was
more proactive. It wasn't just I'm going to talk about
something all day and then let people come in. If
they're interested, I'm going to go out to them. And
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that's what he did, and he made it personal and
he handled it well. He modeled civil discourse. I don't
care what people say he modeled civil discourse. It's right
there for anyone to say. Yes, there were times he
got a little bit fiery. Yes there were times he
did that, but so what it was just an intense discussion.
It's pretty rare from what I saw. But I say
all this same I didn't I didn't follow it all
(18:44):
the time, So there might be things that I don't
know about But I've seen a lot of his stuff,
a lot of his debates on campuses and so forth,
a lot of his conversations and very civil, very civil.
And he's founded Turning Point USA when he was eight
ten years old. It's just remarkable, remarkable accomplishments. And you
(19:06):
know this, and looking at the success he's had and
looking at the needs out there, this has impacted the
way I think about the program that we produce every
day too. We've done this, as I've said, for ten years,
and we're deliberately doing some things a little bit different.
I'm starting to I don't know specifically all the things,
(19:30):
but I do know that we are in perilous times,
and I do know that in order for us to
escape escape these perilous times, or to overcome them, or
to defeat the side that's perpetrating these evils and that
sort of stuff, in order for that to happen, we
have to engage. And I think, I think sometimes you know,
(19:54):
my thinking is we talk about the issues of the day,
and then we use those as bring boards to talk
about things that are even more important and that are
rooted in truth, the kind of the underlying principles that
lead us to some of the ways of thinking in
the conservative movement. And that's been kind of the what
(20:15):
I want to say, the roadmap for the show each
and every day. But I've realized in seeing what's out
there and how dire the circumstances are, that I've got
to find ways to break out side of that all
of us do and whatever particular whatever our sphere of influences,
and to engage more proactively, not just you know, try
(20:39):
to drive people to the program, but get out there
more and do some different things.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So we're working on some things sere.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
In fact, you might see us do more interviews, and
that's what I want to talk about in the next segment.
You may have seen you may have seen an individual
who's running for congress. Her name is Shelby Campbell. She's
running for Congress in Michigan. I'm going to play this
(21:05):
quick SoundBite here. She's on TikTok's it's a weird Twitter.
Excuse me, TikTok handle, I can't I think she took
this video down. Oh it's soup for change, s O
up soup the number four change. That's where she is
on TikTok. So you know that we've talked about some
(21:27):
things on this program where people have been celebrating the
death of Charlie Kirk or mocking whatever that sort of thing.
She took it, but this is a nine second video
or it might have been lost. Someone's had to record
this because I think she might have taken it down.
I don't know that it was up last night when
I looked, but I reached out to this lady and
(21:49):
she emailed me back. I didn't think she would. I
emailed her last I mean it was late, it was
I don't know, one in the morning something like that.
Emailed her and said, hey, I know what you've you know,
you said something about Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Like to have you clear that up on the show.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And I told her a little bit about us, and
she says she would love to do that. We'll see
where this goes. My point is, I'm gonna play this
real point.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Jimmy Kimmel's back, but you guys can't get your person back.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I think that's a I hope that's a sound that
she's used there and not her own laugh. But she
said the Jimmy Kimmel's back, but you guys can't get
your guy back. Referring to Charlie Kirk, she says, how
bad does it hurt? Is how she starts it, how
bad does it hurt? Jimmy? Jimmy Kimmel's back, but you
can't get your person back. And then she had that
(22:43):
demonic laugh that hopefully was just a sound that she
piped in. But we're gonna see if she'll talk with this.
And those are the sorts of things I think we've
got to address this head on.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I got some other ideas as well, but I'm up
against the clock. Gotta take a break.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
My friends, you're listening here to conservative not better talk
on your host Todd huff back in just a minute.
Welcome back, my friends. I want to play this SoundBite again.
It's a short clip again. This is a person in
(23:16):
Michigan running for the thirteenth District, which is in Detroit.
Her name is Shelby Campbell. She made this post. I
don't know if it's still up. It was last night.
I looked again this morning. I couldn't find it. I
found it if someone else had recorded it, and that's
(23:37):
or they've I don't know they've they've reshared it.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
But this is this is what we have. This is
the clip that she she put together. It's nine seconds.
You gotta listen fast. I'm gonna shut up and play
it now.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That doesn't hurt Jimmy Kimmel's back, but you guys can't
get your person back.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You get the idea, how bad does it hurt that
Jimmy Kimmel's back, but you can't get your person back.
Talking about Jimmy Kimmel, who was suspended, I've got stuff
in the stack of stuff for that as well. I
don't know that I'll be able to get to that,
but basically, you know, before I left, Jimmy Kimmel had
been suspended for comments he made about Trump, particularly related
(24:25):
to the death of Charlie kirk And that's been discussed,
but ultimately the comments I thought that was the most reprehensible.
He effectively compared Charlie Kirshy's death. I don't even feel
comfortable talking about this, but to mourning the loss of
a goldfish. Now, he was saying Trump was acting like
(24:48):
he's mourning the loss of a goldfish, not the loss
of a good friend. So you could say he was
mocking Trump, but nonetheless, that's what he was out for.
Or suspended for they've brought him back, Sinclair and Next
Star have decided not to carry the program. I think
(25:11):
it's about twenty or twenty five percent of the ABC
syndicate network that's not going to be showing Kimmel's show anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
That's going on.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
So she's celebrating that. She's celebrating that by posting this.
So I reached out to her. I reached I won't share.
I try to not do, but in general, I saw
this again. This is in continuation of what we talked
about last segment, which was one of the things.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
The impact as I.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Think, as I think about Charlie Kirk's legacy and what
he's done and how effective he's been, it's just encouraged
me to do things a little bit, a little bit differently,
sometimes maybe a lot differently, and listen for those of you.
Every once in a while, one in I mean it's
(26:01):
one in a thousand or every ten thousand, someone will
say this is you know, you're trying to be an opportunist.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I mean, this is crazy to me.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Well, I'm a guy with the microphone, right, I started
this in a bedroom closet ten years ago. I'm not
I'm trying to do things more effectively. This nation is
hanging in the balance this We are in a cold
civil war that has had flashes of heat recently. With
(26:32):
this violence, this has to be addressed immediately. We're in
great need of spiritual revival in this great nation. We're
in need of Jesus. This nation needs to return to
Jesus immediately. We need to do that as individuals, and
we need to have the boldness to share that with
other people. And people hate the truth. They hate it
(26:54):
that the opposition hates the truth. They like living in darkness.
And when you shine a light, listen, not because I'm
special or anything else, and anyone else who does this.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
But by doing bye bye, by.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Speaking the truth, you immediately get enemies because they hate
the truth. They like living in darkness. They love their sin.
They don't want to change that they are they are
consumed by it. They are enslaved by their their sin.
Now that doesn't mean there can't be differences of opinion
on certain things, but we've gotten to the point where
(27:26):
that's a legitimate thing that I have to say on
this program. And so when I look at the you know,
the state of things and the direness of the situation,
and I look at how effective Charlie Kirk was, which
I always, you know, knew that he was, but in
seeing just the level of impact the outpouring towards him,
but both unfortunately of the hate, but also of the
(27:47):
love towards him and the honor and respect him. By
the way, this bill, this willing, this resolution should have
been unanimously passed. I don't see what the big problem
here is. You do not have to agree with his
ideas and his world of view and ideology, but my goodness,
surely we can agree that this stuff cannot be allowed
to happen. And so as I've thought about this, and
(28:08):
I know, you know, I go back to I go
back to even my own life.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I mean, I was I was not raised.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I was always taught Biblical values, but I wasn't raised
in a Christian home.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I didn't know anything really about the Bible.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Had two wonderful parents, but I just that wasn't part
of their life, and I didn't know anything. I think
I went to vacation Bible School a couple times as
a kid, and I think I went to well, I know,
I went to weekday religious at which was something that
you could voluntarily go to in school when I was
(28:43):
a kid. I know some school districts still have this,
but you had to go off the school premises. We
went to this little relocatable trailer and we would study
the Bible for thirty minutes a week or whatever it was.
It was on a Tuesday or a Thursday or some
such thing. And I remember I remember learning the Bible
for the first time. I remember the Gideons coming to
our school and handing out these little bitty red Bibles, and.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I remember as a kid reading that at night. I
remember praying.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Now, of course my prayers were God give me this,
God do this for me, God that.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
But I didn't know anything. I didn't know anything.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And that sticks with me because I think that there
is still I know that there are people who are
embracing this evil that's out there, you know, just completely.
They have decided in their hearts they're going to pursue
and chase after this evil. They're gonna defend evil, They're
gonna defend darkness. They're gonna mock death, They're gonna do
(29:38):
all this sort of stuff. They're gonna say terrible things
about Charlie Kirk or whoever. They're gonna say terrible things
about you, they're gonna try to tear down God.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
They're gonna be just all these sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And there are certainly those people, But there are people
who just genuinely don't know, and how are they gonna
know if we don't tell them?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
How are they gonna know?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And I don't mean and we just hear this program,
I mean collectively people who are interested in sharing messages
of truth that ultimately direct people to the Cross of Christ,
truth about just the moral order of the universe, the
design of the universe, the some of these principles that
(30:19):
are that we all need to know. How will they
know if we don't tell them? And how will they
be told if they're not listening or viewing or congregating
in areas that we normally do it. And so that's
been Charlie Kirk's impact on me. That's been and I've
been rethinking some of the fact. If you go to
(30:40):
our website, you'll see that it's different than it was.
You'll see eventually in the not too distant future, us
doing some things that we haven't done before.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Not to steal thunder or not.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
To any just just to learn and to adapt, and
to realize that the stakes are high, and that it's time,
it's long past time for us to do everything in
our power.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Let the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
I don't know where, if, or where we'll succeed, or
how where we'll fail, and everything else. But the idea
is to take the message of truth and deliver it
in such a way whatever that looks like. Having conversations
like hopefully I'll have with this person running for Congress.
We'll see what happens. I just wanted to tell you
about that, to let you know and give you a
(31:26):
heads up. Reach out to her office and tell them
go on Todd's show, tell them that Todd mentioned that
she she said she was She says she would be
very interested in doing this. She put me in touch
with her campaign manager. So we'll see where it goes.
But I think these are the things you're going to
start seeing here on the program us maybe adding some things,
(31:50):
improving some things, changing some approaches to find ways to
reach people where they are.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I would encourage you to do the same as well.
All the stakes are high and we need to do
everything we can to deliver this message.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
So, and I have Charlie Kirk to thank for teaching
me that, And so we want to get better at
doing that because we want people. We want all people
to hear and receive truth. Not that we have it
all figured out here, my friends, I want to say
that too. I know it's tempting to think that we
(32:29):
do know. I know that it is, but I don't
have it all figured out. But I do know this.
There are things that are true that have been revealed
to us, and it is imperative that we speak those
things to the next generation, for all Ears who are
interested in truth, because if we don't speak and proclaim
the truth, the truth is replaced by a lie. It
creates a void when the truth is not spoken, when
(32:52):
the truth is not adhered to, when the truth is
not respected, lies come in and fill the void. That's
what's happening in this culture or the course of many
many decades now, and that has to be stopped and reversed.
So more on this, my friends, they get to the
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Speaker 3 (34:07):
Welcome back my friend's third and final segment.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I mentioned you know that we've been out last basically
the last week we spent some time in Glacier National Park.
I don't know if you've ever been there. It's a beautiful,
beautiful place. It's the name of the road oz road
to the Road to the Sun. Is that it road
(34:31):
to the Rising Sun something like that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
It's one of the going there.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
We go going to the Sun road going to the
Sun Road. It's a beautiful drive. It's not easy to
get to glaciers. It's remote to begin with. The park
is massive. We stayed in a little town called Whitefish,
which was a nice little town. I know Oz enjoyed that.
The kids enjoyed that. Just a beautiful, beautiful place. Two
(34:59):
things I'll tell you. Number one, I'll tell you just
I guess a quick little summary of what we did.
So we go to Whitefish. We stay with my brother
and our sister in law for a few days. The
kids love their aunt and uncle. They drove out there.
(35:20):
They stopped at the bad lands and different places like that.
We flew into callous spell if that's how you say it.
Spent time in Whitefish, and then of course went to
the park. Beautiful the going to the Sun Road, as
I said, absolutely beautiful. Some of the most beautiful views
(35:41):
I think I've ever seen. That drive reminded me in parts.
It's different. So if you've done this, I don't want
you to think that I'm saying it's the same. But
some of that drive was treacherous. I mean, you're going
up the side of the mountain and you can see down.
I don't know how far, all the way down straight
down to the river at the bottottom of the I
guess the valley there reminded me a little bit, not
(36:04):
exactly it was. It was much different, in fact, I
would say, in a way more treacherous than the hall
that we took up Pike's Peak several years ago. Not
as high, but also.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Straight down.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I would say, it's more straight down, more guardrails too,
but nonetheless just a beautiful, beautiful place. Went on on
a longer, well relatively long hike, especially when it's up
at you know you're gaining elevation and so forth.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Just beautiful, beautiful things.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
We saw a brown bear I had wanted to see
When I told the kids before we left, I want
to see a brown bear. They did not want to
hear anything about that. Of course, they're envisioning that. They
thought old Dad wanted to see one face to face
on the trails. It's not what I wanted to see.
What happened is exactly what I wanted to see, which
was look at a bear from the vehicle as we
(36:59):
were driving through park and we saw a bear. It
was a younger bear, but hefty fella. He was eating
some berries off, the trees crossing this stream and so forth.
But just the beautiful, beautiful park if you get the chance.
You know, our national parks are unbelievable in this country,
the natural beauty, especially in the ones out west. We've
(37:21):
been to several, but not anywhere near all of them.
In fact, some of the most beautiful ones, the biggest ones,
we have not yet been to. But I would say
Glacier National Park is for lots of reasons. It's a
great place to go. But again, to go there you
want to, I mean, you want to have an interest
in the outdoor experience of Montana. I mean, there's not
(37:47):
a whole lot else to do. I'm not minimizing it
because it's part of what makes it special is that
it is kind of untouched in a lot of ways,
meaning it's remote and so forth.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
But it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
For those of you who have been, you know exactly
what I'm talking talking about. If you haven't been, I
just wanted to tell you that was a great experience
and if you can ever go, it's definitely something we're seeing.
I'll also tell you on the way home, I mentioned
that my brother and sister in law drove We flew
and had no problem getting out to Montana, but on
(38:21):
the way back, it's a tiny airport in Callispell, I
got stopped at security because apparently, when the ticket was booked,
the name was entered incorrectly. This was actually not something
that we did when the ticket was secured. This was
(38:42):
something I think in the airlines system, and I couldn't
get through security, so I got sent over to the
desk of the airline and there was about a I
don't know, a twenty or thirty minute period where I
wasn't convinced I was getting home that day. But after
some back and forth and realization as to what happened,
the lady at the counter told me it's the same
exact thing that happened the day before.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Something in the system is basically.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Putting a second name before some of these tickets, and
so my name wasn't what matched my ID, so I
had to go back. They got it fixed and I
got on the aircraft. But there was a short period
of time that I did not think I was going
to be on the aircraft coming home, but we made
at home.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
I've missed you, listen. I love doing this show.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
You know, vacations are good and much needed. For those
of you that work a lot that like what you
do professionally, let me remind you that those moments, those
moments of stepping away, turning things off for a walk
and give you perspective, can give you fresh approaches to things,
can help you recharge, rest improve in ways. Just by
(39:51):
taking that time off and not to mention, the people
that you love the most get to have a little
bit more time with you or I got to have
more time with them, and I absolutely loved every second
of it. I was, you know, you didn't want to
leave that beautiful place, but you also I was also
(40:11):
ready to come home because I like this.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
You know, if you love what you do, they say
that you'll never work a day in your life, and
that's there's some truth in them. I mean, I bust
my hump over here. Don't misunderstand me. There's a lot
goes on behind the scenes. But let me tell you this,
this is something that I love that I've been looking
forward to getting back. So it is good to be back,
(40:35):
my friends. So it's Friday. I hope you have a
wonderful weekend. We will continue continue next week, my friends,
we'll be back on Monday. Have a great weekend, SDG.
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