September 11, 2025 • 14 mins
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Charlie Kirk’s assassination has shaken America to its core. For many, it feels like 9/11 all over again—a moment of dread, anger, and clarity about what’s at stake. In this episode:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608
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Charlie Kirk’s assassination has shaken America to its core. For many, it feels like 9/11 all over again—a moment of dread, anger, and clarity about what’s at stake. In this episode:
- Why Charlie Kirk’s voice was so dangerous to the status quo
- How his faith and intellect made him a true threat to secular America
- The history of martyrs—from Socrates to JFK—and what Charlie’s death means in that lineage
- Why his loss must spark a new generation to carry the mantle
- The one solution Charlie believed could truly save America
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk I, September eleventh. The irony
of this is that I haven't I haven't felt had
this type of feeling. And it's even hard to put
your arms around. It's like a combination of anxiety, dread, helplessness.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's like a.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Bunch of feelings rolled in all together. I haven't had
that feeling since September eleventh, two thousand and one, when
I was newlywed with my wife living in a queen's
apartment on September. I haven't felt this way.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It really is much much bigger deal than I think
people are really letting it on out on. Here is
a here's a young man, here's a young man, and
there's plenty of been plenty of them throughout history, you
know that. Think about history, Think about the people that
people killed, Socrates, Jesus, Christ, the Apostles, martyrs, saints. We'll
(01:30):
go to twentieth century.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
John f.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, people that really could
have made it, did make a difference, but could have
done much more.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
They became dangerous.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Charlie Kirk was was dangerous to the status quo and
the powers that be. He understood, he understood that this nation,
this nation is not a secular name. Oh I know, Oh,
separation a church and state. Yeah, do a little homework, Okay,
separation of church and states. Basically, it's not about separation,
(02:08):
it's about not establishing a state religion. Take a look
at the states that came together in the original state constitutions.
See if you could serve in office if you weren't
a God fearing, church going person. Not happening, No way,
no how, John Adams I cite this all.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
The time here on the program.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Knew that our society does not work. Okay, the United
States Constitution only works if you have a God fearing people.
That's why it's not working. That's not that's why it's
how work. And Charlie knew that. He knew that this,
(02:59):
this America, it was going to fail unless we changed
our ways and we turned back to God.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
He knew that.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
He would go and do something that that. It's one
of my favorite things in the world to do have
conversations with people. It was interesting the left wing fella
that sank Lingard from the young Turks, and he was
(03:33):
to be much more bombastic. But he has definitely he's
definitely come around, without a doubt, he's much more amicable.
He's talked about, you know, my rule, you know, go
at it hard in a debate, and he said this,
put it out there and rule after that, go out
and have a beer. And he said, that's what I
did with Charlie Kirk, and that's what you're supposed to do.
(03:54):
I talk about this all the time.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
How to win an argument is to come to some
sort of truth that that's what winning and that's what
a true debate is. That's what he did to do.
He'd set up there, change my mind and have a
debate with somebody without having to tear them down, take
them apart. He It's one of the things again, you know,
(04:22):
Trump and I stylistically, we just don't mesh.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
By any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I can't stand the petty names and the name calling
and makee I don't do that I don't like that shtick.
Charlie's I like because he's a true intellectual. He was
truly inquisitive out there. He wanted to He treated the
people that he was debating with with with warmth, with kindness,
(04:47):
even if they'd be nasty to him. I walk away
from people that are nasty. I learned that a long
time ago. I explained that here on the program. They
learned that doing radio talk shows. Okay, he didn't do that.
You think about figuring out. I talk about this all
the time. I said, God gives each and every one
(05:08):
of us a talent and ability, and we're supposed to
take it, and we're supposed.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
To do something with it, build, create, protect, and teach.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He wanted to go to want to go to West Point,
didn't get in, didn't get into West Point, decided, you
know what, decided I'm going to start this group. I'm
going to start this turning Point USA started when he
was in high school.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
When it was high school.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I actually saw the video today, his first appearance Fox
Who's back in twenty twelve when he was in high school.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Look at what he did. He wanted to becoming.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
He said he wanted to be a different kind of
Rush Limbaugh. Okay, Rush Rush own the radio without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
He figured out.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
They said, you know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna
do it versus I'm gonna do it digitally. I'm gonna
do the new media, and I'm gonna go on college
campuses all around the country, and I'm going to engage
with kids, you know, being a conservative on a college campus.
I mean certain schools it'll fly, but most again, I
think it's gotten a hell of a lot better as
(06:22):
of late because of him opening up kids minds to
new ideas, having a conversation with them. That's some sort
of threat. Again, you're talking about you're talking about true conservative.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I espouse conservative ideals all the time here on the program.
And again it's like they're saying, the old ways are best. Uh,
get married, have children, hold on to them for dear life, Okay,
build a family.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's not it's not hard. It is really not.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I thought it simple recipes, okay, to be happy to
simple bloody recipe for crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, we seem to have lost it. There was that
old Polish joke. You know, I can I.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Can do Polish jokes because I'm yeah, well, you know,
they forgot the recipe for ice.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
There's simple recipes to life, and that's what he talked about.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
He genuinely had a fear of God, like we're all
supposed to have.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
He actually this for me.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I've been on the air for twenty five years, been
in the air for twenty five years, most ninety five
percent of the time, I really was hesitant to talk about.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
My faith and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And the odd thing about that is is that you know,
the principles that we apply to people's portfolios.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And investing a lot a lot of them found in
the Bible. I say it all the time. I mean
this stuff, Why are you guys successful? What we do
is work for a gee I don't know forever. And
I mean real hesitant to that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
He kind of watching him kind of freed me up
to some degree. And again many I've turned off many
listeners because when I when I talk like this, I
talk about certain things and the realities and things that
I believe in. I mentioned I mentioned that. I think
(08:47):
it was a couple of weeks ago here in a
program program a book that I read A song for Nagasaki.
You get this book, it's able. It's very famous in Japan,
not so much here. It's a story of Takashi and
the guy and that's an atheist in Japan, you know, converted.
(09:08):
This is you know during World War two, prior to
World War two, started his conversion and lost his well else,
his wife, his kids were luckily away when they dropped
the bomb on Nagasaki.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Which is so happened to drop the bomb ground zero on.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
The cathedral got the cathedral Nagasaki. If you know anything
about Nagasaki, that long history of when Catholicism was first
brought into Japan and then wiped out when one of
the leading emperors had the samurai wiped them out and
torture to the stories of faith. These people holding onto
(09:47):
their faith, they wouldn't bend, they wouldn't break again, martyrs
like Charlie Kirk martyrs.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
And again he he.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Said something after at the bomby he basically turned the
bombing of Nagasaki and saying, you know, because of us,
we're ending the war. We've got to bring this country
back together. We can't let we can't let what has
happened here go for not and again, I don't want
to ruin the story. I highly recommend the book. It's
a great book. It's a great story. I can only hope,
(10:22):
we can only hope and pray because again that the
death of Charlie Kirk will hopefully spawn the creation of
a million other Charlie Kirk's maybe to be a good
kick in the pants for a lot of young people
(10:44):
out there, saying, I got I have to take up
his mantle where he left off. Hey, it's worked in
the past, hasn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Okay, it has I was like, I said, you know, paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yesterday last night, and I didn't even know I had
a bunch of shows I had to do today. I
didn't even know how I was going to be able
to pull it off this guy. And then and I said,
I can't. You know, I got to get it together here, Okay,
I get the other is that I got. And again
like now I'm starting to get a you know, and
I hope this is I'm getting a renewed vigor.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I am.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I'm getting a renewed vigor. You can't let his death
go for not now he can. He's not replaceable. It
was brilliant, brilliant at what I'm over twenty something years
older than he is, and he is he was Jedi
when it came to debate, I.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Mean, outstanding at what he did.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And I truly believe he would have ended up becoming
president someday, and a good one, and a good one
because again the empathy in him. But that's that's not
going to happen now, obviously, So what are we going
to do about it?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
What are you going to do about it? I shed
many tears yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
My wife, my kids. My kids are huge fans, their
friends are huge fans. I'm getting text messages all, you know, left,
right all over the place from them. They I mean angry,
my friends violently angry about this.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
And anger is okay. I was wonder that.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Sometime and I was watching Father Mike Schmidz today. He said,
anger is okay, Okay, there's nothing wrong. It's it's natural
human response to be angry. It's what you do with
that anger.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You're gonna sit back, You're gonna do nothing, or I'm
gonna continue to try to maybe save this country, because
that's exactly what Charlie was trying to do. And I
me point blank honest. Okay, sorry, are you secular people
out there. The only way to save this.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Country is you get people back to church, plain and simple,
that's it. Okay. There's no government program.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
There's no government program that's going to solve the problem
that we have on fathers.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
In a home.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
There's no government program that's gonna solve all of these
problems we have when it comes to welfare, all these
other issues. Real simple, Okay, you get people back to church. Problem,
solve all answers. All answer is gonna be found right there. Amazing,
isn't it. You got all these politicians that we vote for,
vote for me, I'm gonna do this, that, and the
(13:56):
next thing.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
They don't do a damn thing. They don't do a
damn thing. That's where your answers are. Charlie knew that God,
bless man praying for your soul. You're gonna be missed.
Watch Dog on Wall Street dot Com
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk I, September eleventh. The irony
of this is that I haven't I haven't felt had
this type of feeling. And it's even hard to put
your arms around. It's like a combination of anxiety, dread, helplessness.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's like a.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Bunch of feelings rolled in all together. I haven't had
that feeling since September eleventh, two thousand and one, when
I was newlywed with my wife living in a queen's
apartment on September. I haven't felt this way.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It really is much much bigger deal than I think
people are really letting it on out on. Here is
a here's a young man, here's a young man, and
there's plenty of been plenty of them throughout history, you
know that. Think about history, Think about the people that
people killed, Socrates, Jesus, Christ, the Apostles, martyrs, saints. We'll
(01:30):
go to twentieth century.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
John f.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, people that really could
have made it, did make a difference, but could have
done much more.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
They became dangerous.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Charlie Kirk was was dangerous to the status quo and
the powers that be. He understood, he understood that this nation,
this nation is not a secular name. Oh I know, Oh,
separation a church and state. Yeah, do a little homework, Okay,
separation of church and states. Basically, it's not about separation,
(02:08):
it's about not establishing a state religion. Take a look
at the states that came together in the original state constitutions.
See if you could serve in office if you weren't
a God fearing, church going person. Not happening, No way,
no how, John Adams I cite this all.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
The time here on the program.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Knew that our society does not work. Okay, the United
States Constitution only works if you have a God fearing people.
That's why it's not working. That's not that's why it's
how work. And Charlie knew that. He knew that this,
(02:59):
this America, it was going to fail unless we changed
our ways and we turned back to God.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
He knew that.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
He would go and do something that that. It's one
of my favorite things in the world to do have
conversations with people. It was interesting the left wing fella
that sank Lingard from the young Turks, and he was
(03:33):
to be much more bombastic. But he has definitely he's
definitely come around, without a doubt, he's much more amicable.
He's talked about, you know, my rule, you know, go
at it hard in a debate, and he said this,
put it out there and rule after that, go out
and have a beer. And he said, that's what I
did with Charlie Kirk, and that's what you're supposed to do.
(03:54):
I talk about this all the time.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
How to win an argument is to come to some
sort of truth that that's what winning and that's what
a true debate is. That's what he did to do.
He'd set up there, change my mind and have a
debate with somebody without having to tear them down, take
them apart. He It's one of the things again, you know,
(04:22):
Trump and I stylistically, we just don't mesh.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
By any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I can't stand the petty names and the name calling
and makee I don't do that I don't like that shtick.
Charlie's I like because he's a true intellectual. He was
truly inquisitive out there. He wanted to He treated the
people that he was debating with with with warmth, with kindness,
(04:47):
even if they'd be nasty to him. I walk away
from people that are nasty. I learned that a long
time ago. I explained that here on the program. They
learned that doing radio talk shows. Okay, he didn't do that.
You think about figuring out. I talk about this all
the time. I said, God gives each and every one
(05:08):
of us a talent and ability, and we're supposed to
take it, and we're supposed.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
To do something with it, build, create, protect, and teach.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He wanted to go to want to go to West Point,
didn't get in, didn't get into West Point, decided, you
know what, decided I'm going to start this group. I'm
going to start this turning Point USA started when he
was in high school.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
When it was high school.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I actually saw the video today, his first appearance Fox
Who's back in twenty twelve when he was in high school.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Look at what he did. He wanted to becoming.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
He said he wanted to be a different kind of
Rush Limbaugh. Okay, Rush Rush own the radio without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
He figured out.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
They said, you know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna
do it versus I'm gonna do it digitally. I'm gonna
do the new media, and I'm gonna go on college
campuses all around the country, and I'm going to engage
with kids, you know, being a conservative on a college campus.
I mean certain schools it'll fly, but most again, I
think it's gotten a hell of a lot better as
(06:22):
of late because of him opening up kids minds to
new ideas, having a conversation with them. That's some sort
of threat. Again, you're talking about you're talking about true conservative.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I espouse conservative ideals all the time here on the program.
And again it's like they're saying, the old ways are best. Uh,
get married, have children, hold on to them for dear life, Okay,
build a family.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's not it's not hard. It is really not.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I thought it simple recipes, okay, to be happy to
simple bloody recipe for crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, we seem to have lost it. There was that
old Polish joke. You know, I can I.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Can do Polish jokes because I'm yeah, well, you know,
they forgot the recipe for ice.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
There's simple recipes to life, and that's what he talked about.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
He genuinely had a fear of God, like we're all
supposed to have.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
He actually this for me.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I've been on the air for twenty five years, been
in the air for twenty five years, most ninety five
percent of the time, I really was hesitant to talk about.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
My faith and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And the odd thing about that is is that you know,
the principles that we apply to people's portfolios.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And investing a lot a lot of them found in
the Bible. I say it all the time. I mean
this stuff, Why are you guys successful? What we do
is work for a gee I don't know forever. And
I mean real hesitant to that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
He kind of watching him kind of freed me up
to some degree. And again many I've turned off many
listeners because when I when I talk like this, I
talk about certain things and the realities and things that
I believe in. I mentioned I mentioned that. I think
(08:47):
it was a couple of weeks ago here in a
program program a book that I read A song for Nagasaki.
You get this book, it's able. It's very famous in Japan,
not so much here. It's a story of Takashi and
the guy and that's an atheist in Japan, you know, converted.
(09:08):
This is you know during World War two, prior to
World War two, started his conversion and lost his well else,
his wife, his kids were luckily away when they dropped
the bomb on Nagasaki.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Which is so happened to drop the bomb ground zero on.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
The cathedral got the cathedral Nagasaki. If you know anything
about Nagasaki, that long history of when Catholicism was first
brought into Japan and then wiped out when one of
the leading emperors had the samurai wiped them out and
torture to the stories of faith. These people holding onto
(09:47):
their faith, they wouldn't bend, they wouldn't break again, martyrs
like Charlie Kirk martyrs.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
And again he he.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Said something after at the bomby he basically turned the
bombing of Nagasaki and saying, you know, because of us,
we're ending the war. We've got to bring this country
back together. We can't let we can't let what has
happened here go for not and again, I don't want
to ruin the story. I highly recommend the book. It's
a great book. It's a great story. I can only hope,
(10:22):
we can only hope and pray because again that the
death of Charlie Kirk will hopefully spawn the creation of
a million other Charlie Kirk's maybe to be a good
kick in the pants for a lot of young people
(10:44):
out there, saying, I got I have to take up
his mantle where he left off. Hey, it's worked in
the past, hasn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Okay, it has I was like, I said, you know, paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yesterday last night, and I didn't even know I had
a bunch of shows I had to do today. I
didn't even know how I was going to be able
to pull it off this guy. And then and I said,
I can't. You know, I got to get it together here, Okay,
I get the other is that I got. And again
like now I'm starting to get a you know, and
I hope this is I'm getting a renewed vigor.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I am.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I'm getting a renewed vigor. You can't let his death
go for not now he can. He's not replaceable. It
was brilliant, brilliant at what I'm over twenty something years
older than he is, and he is he was Jedi
when it came to debate, I.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Mean, outstanding at what he did.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And I truly believe he would have ended up becoming
president someday, and a good one, and a good one
because again the empathy in him. But that's that's not
going to happen now, obviously, So what are we going
to do about it?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
What are you going to do about it? I shed
many tears yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
My wife, my kids. My kids are huge fans, their
friends are huge fans. I'm getting text messages all, you know, left,
right all over the place from them. They I mean angry,
my friends violently angry about this.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
And anger is okay. I was wonder that.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Sometime and I was watching Father Mike Schmidz today. He said,
anger is okay, Okay, there's nothing wrong. It's it's natural
human response to be angry. It's what you do with
that anger.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You're gonna sit back, You're gonna do nothing, or I'm
gonna continue to try to maybe save this country, because
that's exactly what Charlie was trying to do. And I
me point blank honest. Okay, sorry, are you secular people
out there. The only way to save this.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Country is you get people back to church, plain and simple,
that's it. Okay. There's no government program.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
There's no government program that's going to solve the problem
that we have on fathers.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
In a home.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
There's no government program that's gonna solve all of these
problems we have when it comes to welfare, all these
other issues. Real simple, Okay, you get people back to church. Problem,
solve all answers. All answer is gonna be found right there. Amazing,
isn't it. You got all these politicians that we vote for,
vote for me, I'm gonna do this, that, and the
(13:56):
next thing.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
They don't do a damn thing. They don't do a
damn thing. That's where your answers are. Charlie knew that God,
bless man praying for your soul. You're gonna be missed.
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