Sept. 15, 2025

The Legacy of Charlie James Kirk Lives On

The Legacy of Charlie James Kirk Lives On
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Season 2

The ideology of any spiritual or political figure can be measured by its legacy. Does it end with the demise of the figure who championed it? Or does it go forth even stronger than before? Only time will tell if Charlie Kirk's vision of Turning Point will go forth even stronger or fade into history as some are hoping. Odds are the millions who follow Kirk not only here in America, but around the world and the solid rock principles he espoused are essential to a legacy. Join me as we discuss.

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Well, good afternoon, glad you could join us. I'm Bill

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Martinez and we're going to talk about the legacy of

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Charles Charles James Kirk. You know, my wife pointed out

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that James Kirk must have been his parents must have

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been Star Trek fans. I don't know that for a fact,

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but you know, it just kind of just sticks out

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that his middle name was James, and of course hurt,

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you know, why not. But anyway, a lot to discuss

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about Charlie. It's it's kind of hard to imagine here's

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a fellow citizen who loved this country and wanted the

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best for each of us to be treated in the

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manner which he's been treated. Yes, I get greatly honored,

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not only here in the United States but around the world,

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which just says something about this thirty one year old,

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I guess, iconic generational figure. Many have thought that. In fact,

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my good friend Dennis Brager, and I'm going to read

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an email from him in just a moment, said that

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Charlie was probably on a trajectory to become a potential

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presidential candidate down the road. And I think Dennis is

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spot on with that, you know, with that consideration, because

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he was just he was just so sharp. And I

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know the kids, you know where he went to, you know,

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in these universities, some of the kids would make fun

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of him because he didn't have a degree. And then

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he challenged the head and you know, asked him, you know,

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a Socratic question, you know, well, how's this, how's this

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working out for you? Is your future look bright? Do

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you look like you're going to be very successful with

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your degree? You know, because there's lots of other people

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ahead of you right now that aren't doing too well

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with degrees. And Charlie, when he went to a school

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and went to college, I think he maybe a semester

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maybe somewhere, maybe most was the year. I think anyway,

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he realized that it just didn't fit, it wasn't for him.

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And so has he declared himself he's he's self taught

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and no question about it that he is uber intellectual.

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He has the IQ and he was also just of

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an incredible inquiring mind. Bill Fetterer another dear friend. In fact,

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I'm doing a show tomorrow with Bill on our Daily

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Show at Bill Martinez Show dot com. You can tune

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in for that because he'll be on for the whole hour.

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We're going to talk about constitution and Constitution Day you

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know this week, by the way, in case you didn't

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know or forgot, a critical day I believe in our

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nation's history is to understand the Constitution. When there's so

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many people that don't, you know, even with the people,

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there's a result we're left ignorant and we're left in

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a position to be manipulated because we don't know when

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we fail to understand the dynamics of the Constitution how

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to protect us now, to protect one another. And so anyway,

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we're going to talk about that, but more specifically, we're

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going to spend some time in talking about Charlie Kirk.

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Bill and Charlie were very very close, communicated on a

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weekly basis, emails back and forth, and Bill, you know,

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shares those emails with us, and you know, so needless

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to say, there's a good portion of the country that

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is still in shock and processing you know what happened.

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You know, how how could this happen? You know? And

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I can tell you in many ways, Charlie and I

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were very much aligned. You know, our love for country,

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I love for the Constitution, but more importantly is our

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love for Jesus Christ and our faith. And I think

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this is one of the things that a lot of

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people didn't quite understand about Charlie. What what drove him

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and what made him so effective, And it started with

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his heart. He had a pure heart, and his heart

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was you know, toward people looking at them like the

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Bible says, made in the image of God. When you

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consider another person that your eye to eye with and

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having a conversation that they're made in the image of God.

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You know, there's no class structure here. You know, as

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one theologian said, I have never as a result of that,

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he says, I've never met a mere mortal, and I

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can tell you I tried to live my life that way.

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I've tried to live my life in such a way

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that I didn't look at somebody in a less than position.

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And I don't know, maybe because where I was raised,

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and you know, the family that I came from. You

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know my parents, he had actually their grandparents had immigrated

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to the United States, and my dad served in World

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War Two. He was with Patent and the European Theater

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at the Battle of the Bulge. He was a medic.

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Three of his sons, including myself and my two other brothers,

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served in the military during the Vietnam War. My number

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two brother was more in the in the heat of it.

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He was in combat. My oldest brother was a staff sergeant.

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I think about as closely got to it was the

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Nang And then I ended up. You know, I'd have

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been the third brother. It's like saving Private Ryan right

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and his things would work out. Because of my broadcasting career,

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I ended up doing Good Morning Camp Pendleton. You may

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have heard me relate that story before, so I tell people, yeah,

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I did Good Morning Camp Pendleton. Not quite as funny

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as Robin Williams, and certainly if I'd have been anywhere

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close to funny as funny as Robin Williams. I'd had

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been kicked out of the Marine Corps. But you know,

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I was blessed to serve the country, and it was

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my honor to do that, as it is for anybody

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that serves our country in the military. It's an absolute honor.

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And and we're grateful. We're grateful that people will say, hey,

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thank you for your service, and it's very very kind

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and respectful, uh to honor and uh and I you know,

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for me, I mean, you know, I I honor you know,

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our fellow veterans, especially those that fought in combat. And

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thank god, it's such a small percentage, but nonetheless, uh,

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you know, we lost some uh that were kiad Uh,

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some that are still a live today, but you know

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carry the wounds of Vietnam as they do in other

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wars that have happened since then. And so anyway, that's

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that's all part of my heart. But getting back to

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Charlie's position, and this is something that people, you know,

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unless you're unless you're a faith it may you may

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not understand the context and why Charlie was so humble

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and uh. And also why you know, people were so

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quick to kind of put words in his mouth and

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to assign assigned to him some sort of ideology that was,

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you know, first from the truth in my in my

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humble opinion. I mean, you may have disagreed with him,

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and that's okay. I think that that's important. It's the

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first amendment, right, I mean, of all amendments. I mean,

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why would that be the first amendment? You know, our

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founding fathers realized that freedom of speech and was so

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critical to the advancement of Western civilization that we must

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be open to have conversation. If we're canceling one another,

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then you know, you may have heard me say this before,

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is we render ourselves stupid. It's it's very uneducated, you know,

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to to do that, to cancel somebody, not listen to them.

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As my father used to say, you know, you need

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to listen to the other side because you don't know

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what part of the puzzle that you're missing that could

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fit and just makes sense all of a sudden, you know,

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light bulbs go on. You know what I'm talking about,

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and it makes sense and and maybe and and the

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deal is, I got to tell you I have to

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left because I still hear my father telling me this,

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and you know that, hey, just slow down, be patient,

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listen to what the person is saying. And you'd also say,

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listen to their heart. And because you can get a

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lot from listening to another person's heart. You can you

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can hear their pain, you can feel their pain and

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uh and and that stuff that maybe you know, agitating

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you and annoying you. It's it's out of their pain.

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But if we think, you know, that it's against us

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and it's our responsibility, which it isn't. You know, you're

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not there, you're not the you're not the cause of it.

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You're just kind of associated with it because you happen

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to take a position that right now they perceive, you know,

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is real pain for them. And all that's fine. But

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you know, if if you talk it out, and I

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can say in those cases when I've been able to

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be successful in doing that, you sense the temperature goes down,

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there's calm uh, there's an understanding between both sides that

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elevates the conversation and achieves a better solution. And that's

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why we've maintained on this show that our goal is

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not about parties, not about the Democrat Party or Republican Party.

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I think this is one of the worst things that

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our country. And we were warned, our founding fathers warned us,

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and George Washington is that party is going to be

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the end of us soon as we have parties and

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it's us against them, it's the red shirts against the

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blue shirts, or you know, kind of deal and you're

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at each other's throats and it's all a competitive deal,

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and you lose sight of what's most important. What's most

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important is this great American idea that is right there

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in the Declaration of Independence in our constitution, that lays

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out the rules of play in which all of us

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can be successful and attain things that are beyond our imagination.

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I mean, this is why people want to come to

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this country because of the opportunity that is here and

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that needs to be protected. And is saying in course

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thing is that we protect that in such a way

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so that it's not an orchestrated equity, because as soon

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as you do that, then you you've screwed everything up

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because it's no longer equitable. You want, you want to

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have a fair shot at it, and that's that's the

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critical thing. And you know, Charlie, believe in that. I

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believe in that. I believe that that's what makes things

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things fair, is that you have a fair shot that

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to exercise the giftings and talents that God has blessed

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you with, because I think one of the biggest frustrating

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things is for you to be having a talent and

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it'll wake you up in the middle of the night

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and frustrate the Holy what have you? Autio. Or if

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you're working for another organization and you're what I characterize

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a round peg in a square hole, well, those those

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friction points, because those where you're not fitting and you

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get these friction points going on, that just agitates you

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to no end and you're not a fun employee to

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work with, right and uh and on many levels, you know,

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because when you go and work for an organization, not

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only do you want this organization as a seed, but

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you want those around you to succeed and to be elevated.

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And if you're working together, then you can elevate one

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another and be able to do a lot more together

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than you can apart. And I've been blessed in several

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occasions in my life to work with organizations and be

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able to exercise that philosophy. And I can tell you

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when we did that, we were extremely successful. Everybody on

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the team was blessed. They you know, surpassed their economic

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goals and their earning goals and that It was a

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lot of lot of fun. But for me, the biggest

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fun for me was to watch them grow and watch

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them accept one another, to really be a team as

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diverse as it was. You know, we had a good

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mix of you know, men and women from you know

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races and you know, different races and that, and you know,

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here's here, here I am, you know, blessed to lead

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the team, and it was such an honor. But our

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attitude was that, look at we're going to respect one another.

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We were going to come alongside one another and do

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what we could to help one another. And everybody won

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that way. So again, my philosophy is like Charlie's was,

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was that it was you know, for the good of

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all concern. And what made it good was because it

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started with the word of God. You know, words matter,

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and these I say to these people, and this isn't

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you know the first time we've talked about this, because

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I've been warning, been warning you for the last couple

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of years, the rhetoric was getting amped up in such

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a way that somebody was going to get hurt. And

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you cannot tell me that the assassination of you know,

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Charlie Kirk was just coincidental. They had nothing to do

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with the sentiment and the words that were put out there,

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you know, people calling him a fascist, like, how do

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you how do you come up with that? I mean,

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I've watched a lot Charlie Kirk's videos and there's not

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any one time that I could come around and come

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away from and say, oh, you know, he's overstepped. It's

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he's a fascist. You know. But we use these terms

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so loosely, and we assign them to our opponents in

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such a way that it is dangerous. It's it's worse

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than yelling, you know, fire in a crowded theater. It's worse.

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And this has been going on for a long time.

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And I agree with the Vice President, you know that

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it seems to be coming more from one side and

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the other, and I get it. The general context is,

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you know, we say, well, you know, what happens on

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both sides, you know, because we're trying to be fair minded.

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I guess but when you don't place blame where it

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needs to be placed, then the people that deserve the

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blame are somewhat exonerated. And I said this the other day,

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is that because consequences are dulled out in a universal

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way and done so to ameliate the offense, the person

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that deserves the consequence doesn't feel the full brunt of

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their actions. That makes sense, Hey, it's somewhat ameliated. It's

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homogenized in such a way it softens the blow. Well,

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by softening the blow, we reduce the effectiveness of you know,

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of the consequence. And as a result, you know, like

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we've had here in our country. In some states, it's

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okay to steal up to one thousand dollars worth of

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worth of goods, no arm, no foul, you need jews

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the intentions, go steal them. You know you need you

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need a dress, Go steal the dress. Okay, you're not

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going to go to jail. So right, some of these

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it's insane, right, I mean, how do you live that?

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It's just you know, it's it's uncivil. It's nonsense, you know,

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because I can't even imagine even if you got away

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with it in the short time that your conscience said

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some point wouldn't catch up with you, or that maybe

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you'd run out of you know, those thousand dollars. I

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don't know, opportunities or whatever. You know, you might slip

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over and oh, well, you know you got eleven hundred

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dollars worth or I don't know. It's just it's all absurd.

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And what's happening is you've got stores as a result

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in these local communities that serve these local communities, you

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know they're moving out. Yeah, they got upset and they

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you know, tired of losing money. I mean it's very painful.

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And you know they lock up stuff. You go in,

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you go, I just wanted to, you know, to a toothpaste.

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somebody to come in with a key unlocked, you know,

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the unlocked the shelf so you can get your tube

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of toothpaste. I mean, this is America. Are you kidding me?

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This is what's come down to. And the thing is

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is that, you know, quit fooling yourself. Look at who

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the perpetrators are. And I know, you know, people don't

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want to admit it. They don't want to you know,

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say it, just like they don't want to say, well,

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you know, all this rhetoric and everything is coming from

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one political spectrum. You know, when I was in political

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science classes in college, you know, we talked about the

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lunatic fringe. Well, you know, we're living with the lunatic fringe,

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and they are picking crazy, crazy to such a degree

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that they would justify murdering murdering a figure, a generational

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figure like Charlie Kirk, and it didn't even have to

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be Charlie, could be anybody. And these murders are happening,

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you know, are across our country, and we sit there

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and we look at what happens in Chicago, for example.

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Oh you know, it's like it's not that bad, well,

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not that bad for you because one of your kids

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wasn't one of the six or eight people that got killed,

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all right, And every weekend this keeps on happening. I mean,

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it's almost like, you know, speaking of Vietnam, it's almost

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like we've become numb to it. You know. I remember

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when I was growing up, and you know, before you know,

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I went in the military, we'd get these body counts

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and these casualty reports every night, right, and it just

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got to be like it was just part of the

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TV set. It became meaningless, and he realized that, wow,

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you know we're talking you know, we're talking a lot

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lot of people, hundreds of thousands of young kids, you

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know my age, younger even you know that are going

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in there and they're no more and you know, in

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their families, and like we we had reported here a

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couple of weeks ago with George Lutz, you know, for them,

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every day's Memorial Day. You know, this is why we're

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supporting you know, the Honor Flag, the Honor and Tribute

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Flag that George Lutz has created in this campaign because

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you know, we want to support these these families who

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have lost a loved one in military service and they're

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gone forever, I mean, for the rest of their lives.

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The family will be caring that whole in their heart

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of their loved one, you know, these these gold Star families.

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So you know, this is this is part of the

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fabric of America. And you know, whether it's Charlie Kirk

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or over what two million casualties we've had of people

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who have bravely gone forth to the end our constitution

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to defend our freedoms. You know, we owe it to

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them to preserve you know, to preserve this this country's

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democratic republic, you know, as was asked of as you

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recall Benjamin Franklin after one of the conventions, a woman

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asked him says, okay, well, what kind of what kind

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of government do we have here? He's as well, lady,

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you know, a democratic republic if you can keep it.

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And I mean, how profound that word? You know, that

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response was, if you can keep it? I mean, because

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you know we have the left and the Democratic Party

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particularly stringing and yelling about democracy is being threatened. Well,

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I think they got to part partly right. First of all,

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it's a democratic republic, not a democracy. So again words matter, right,

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So we need to put it in proper perspective. The

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democratic republic is being threatened. But who's threatening it? Not

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somebody who's a determined boogeyman? You know, like here you

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got mom, Donnie who Now Kathy Hokele, the governor of

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New York, is decided to indoors who says he's going

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to be Donald Trump's worst nightmare. The guy's the mayor

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of New York. How is he going to be Donald

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Trump's worst nightmare? I think Donald Trump at the federal level,

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and with all the monies they can or cannot be

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sent to New York because they need help. I mean,

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I think that he's more in a position to be

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a night bigger nightmare for Mom Donnie than the other

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way around. And just like with Letitia James, you know, saying, well, okay,

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I'm going to go and you know, elect me because

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I'm going to go after Donald Trump. I mean, really,

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this is the kind of political environment in which we

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want to live in. And then they wonder why, Okay,

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you know, they were all concerned good retribution. You know, Oh,

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Donald Trump's going to get back to these people. Well,

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in part again going back to what I said earlier

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about consequences, if people don't pay the consequences for the

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damage that they've done, then they just keep on doing

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it or it's just it's acceptable, and it becomes and

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then what happens the next time the offense is even worse.

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And that's what's happened, and gradually over the decades, is

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that the type of you know, voter fraud, the type

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of law fair you know, the type of you know,

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political manipulation and meanness, it just keeps amping up and

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no consequence is paid figure. Okay, just get away with it,

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and until finally what happens, All hell breaks loose and

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now we've got serious problems, and you know, some people

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are going to be shocked. And it's almost like you

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remember the abortion doctor Godsnell, right, he was just shocked.

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He couldn't believe that he was going to go to

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jail for conducting abortions and selling baby parts and doing

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all that. He was just shocked because it had been

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going on for so long and everybody's kind of doing it.

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And guess what. One of the things he said to

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I was a faalum, I believe, and they were in

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a meeting said hey, you know a couple of years,

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I mean, this is nothing because it'll be acceptable. And

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I remember when she relayed that story to me, and

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I thought, wow, is this is this the trajectory of

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our society that we would think so little of life

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that you know, aborting babies, selling baby parts, you know,

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organ harvesting and all that is all acceptable. I mean,

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we have we're pretty much there, sadly what we've done

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to those who cannot defend themselves, the unborn, and I

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mean it's a sad commentary on our society. But again,

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you know, getting back to Charlie Kirk, and what we

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believe in is that, you know, we believe life is paramount.

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It is a gift of God and that needs to

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be held in the utmost of respect because it sets

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the condition for society. You know, Mother Teresa said that

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in so many words, that a nation that doesn't respect

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life is a nation that is just doomed. And we

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have gotten away with this for a long time. Again,

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consequences aren't there, you know, some of the consequences are hidden.

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And I believe this is why Roe v. Wade went

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back to the States because the women, although some of

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them spoke out quite courageously about saying, look at the doctor's,

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the whole medical industry lied to me, like you've not

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heard that anymore, and you haven't been hearing a lot

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of that lately. How the the big pharma and medical

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industrial complex, how they've misrepresented and lied to us. Well,

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the women who have gone through these abortions have realized

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that it's not just a you know, a clump of

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cells that you can cut out and have no impact,

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no meaning, you know, and I think you still I

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was watching some actress the other day and claiming that

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she's had something like forty three abortions and she was

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proud of it. I don't know how our body could

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handle forty three abortions, so I think she's a bit hyperbolic.

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But regardless, it's like, wow, I mean, how cold hearted

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you have to be and how irresponsible do you have

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to be to keep getting pregnant and feel like, you know,

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the best form of birth control in your orbit is

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just to abort and kill that child. And society doesn't

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get away with that without some consequence. Because the thing

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is is that which started the conversation, is that you

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have to look at this from the spiritual component of

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it all. You know, we are tripart human beings, mind, body,

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and spirit. Okay, these three components make up who we are,

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and you can't extract one from the other. And you

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may think, Okay, I'm gonna just I don't want anything

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to do with God. I'm going to sere my conscience,

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which we're warned of in the Word of God not

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to do that. You know, there's a huge consequence for that.

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But there are people who have done that, and it's

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these people that Charlie and I you know, pray for

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it and then we hope that whatever it takes, that

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you would discover the truth, because it's not just the

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medical industrial complex, it's not just the federal government, you know,

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go on down the line. You know these three letter agencies.

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You know what happened in the Ara of COVID, I mean,

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the level of deception that took place. But you see,

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the deal is is that when you buy in to

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this big fat lie that truth doesn't exist, that it's relative,

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it opens up the door to deception. And we have

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been deceived for decades here. And the reason I mean,

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the reason I'm here behind this microphone I'm talking today

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is a result of what I felt that God was

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calling me to do, and that was to do a

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show that was focused on the truth. And you've heard

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me talk with my good friend, doctor George Barnet, and

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doctor George Barnet was instrumental in my early journey, you know,

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to this end, and that was to pursue the truth,

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no matter where it led. I felt like it was

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so valuable that you know, that is our north star,

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that everything should pivot off the truth, you know, regardless

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of what they tell you in school. Just test it

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against the truth. What the doctors tell you, test it

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against the truth, what your heart is telling you. What

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does the truth say? And where do you find the truth? Okay?

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And to me, in my journey of life, I've discovered

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and I've been grateful for God's mercy. I've discovered that

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the truth is anchored in God says, the fear of

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God is the beginning of all wisdom. Think about that.

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I know some people say, oh, fear of God. You know,

459
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like you, all of a sudden, some cosmic camera is

460
00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:38.960
going to come down here. Now, there's a lot to

461
00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:42.400
be understood about what you know what that means, you know,

462
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the fear of God. It's it's a righteous fear. It's

463
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understanding that you know all that component of who God

464
00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:51.960
is in his character. He's a loving God. He loves you,

465
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he cares for you. I mean, he designed he designed

466
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a world that would be good for us, but unfortunately

467
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for the fall of man. And you go back to

468
00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:03.279
the beginning in the book of Genesis. In the beginning,

469
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God he created all this stuff for us. And after

470
00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:09.839
his crowning achievement of creating man and women, he says, oh,

471
00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:11.880
this is you know each day he would say, this

472
00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:14.599
is God, this is good, this is good. But the

473
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last day, the sixth day before he rested, he goes,

474
00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:21.000
this is really good, this is very good God himself.

475
00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:24.680
God says this, not your neighbor, you know, not some

476
00:26:24.920 --> 00:26:27.000
college counselor who doesn't think a whole lot of you,

477
00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:31.640
or maybe a divorce attorney. Maybe we'll have fun. But regardless,

478
00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:35.680
God says, hey, you're very good. And he created us.

479
00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:39.000
He created us in his image, in the image of God.

480
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The triun Godfather's Son, and Holy Spirit were created in

481
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that image. That's what makes us so precious. And when

482
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you hold to that and understand, as I said earlier,

483
00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:51.279
that you are connecting with somebody on this plane, in

484
00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:54.160
this in this time spectrum. I mean, we are here

485
00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:59.400
right now. You may think by some sort of cosmic accident,

486
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or you know, you think, okay, this is what God wanted.

487
00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:06.319
I mean, think about it. I mean, that's huge to

488
00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:10.119
think that you are here right now by God's design,

489
00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:13.839
not because of your mother, your father, aunts and uncles

490
00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:17.000
and all that kind of stuff, but because God himself said, hey,

491
00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:19.759
I want you here right now, Charlie Kirk, I want

492
00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:23.880
you here right now. And Charlie Kirk was given a

493
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huge mantle. And you know, as Erica said, as Charlie,

494
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you know, went to be face to face with his

495
00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:36.319
Lord and his Savior. You know, you know, Charlie heard

496
00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:39.519
those words that every Christian wants to hear. Well done,

497
00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:43.880
good and final good and faithful servant, Enter into my rest.

498
00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:49.160
I mean, that is so loaded with so much goodness. Again,

499
00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:51.240
this speaks of God's love for us and how much

500
00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:54.519
he cares for us. Enter in. You know, great job,

501
00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:57.039
you did great. And the thing is is that it's

502
00:27:57.079 --> 00:27:59.400
not just that God was saying that at that moment

503
00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:03.519
you left your body and came to be in his presence.

504
00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:07.799
All along the Bible says that Jesus is there next

505
00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:10.400
to the Father cheering us on, you know, going hey,

506
00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:13.480
hey Dad, look, you know, look at what Rebel's doing.

507
00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:16.359
Look at it and she awesome. You know, hey, she

508
00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:18.960
got it, you know. And you know, look at Joe's doing,

509
00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:21.440
and you know, and they're high five. I just see

510
00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:23.160
him high five and in heaven on this and this

511
00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:26.480
is all cool. You know, he's cheering us. He's cheering

512
00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:29.079
us on because he told he told the apostles the

513
00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:32.440
apostles were like in wonderment, going, well, you know all

514
00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:35.160
these miracles that you've done, this is incredible. And you

515
00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:37.359
just said, hey, look at You're going to do even

516
00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:40.200
greater things. And why could Jesus say, she said, because

517
00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:42.240
I'm sitting next I'll be at the right hand of

518
00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:45.880
the Father, and you will do even greater things. Pretty awesome, right,

519
00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:50.200
And so here Jesus goes to the cross for us

520
00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:55.160
to neutralize, to pay the price of sin that we

521
00:28:55.240 --> 00:28:58.039
all come into this world because this is a fallen world,

522
00:28:58.359 --> 00:29:01.079
and this is why we need God. And I'm I'm

523
00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:05.759
speaking this way to you because I'm concerned that even

524
00:29:05.799 --> 00:29:10.440
though right now there's there's a resurgence. Interestingly enough, last weekend,

525
00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:14.839
I'm told the number one book sales, the number one

526
00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:17.160
book to sell over the weekend was the Bible. No

527
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:21.400
doubt what happened in Utah resulted in this effect. The

528
00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:24.319
other thing is is that people were complaining at church,

529
00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:27.920
where's my parking space? I don't know, my parking space

530
00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:31.559
is not there. You know, some some new, some new

531
00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:34.440
me has come in and taken over my parking space.

532
00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:38.839
Guys out there, aren't we silly? I mean, we're silly humanoids.

533
00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:40.880
You know, we want you know, we can talk about Jesus,

534
00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:42.759
we talk about oh, we want everybody to go to heaven.

535
00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:45.000
But don't take my parking space and get out of there.

536
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:47.359
That's my seat in the pew, you know, because that's

537
00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:49.799
where I sit every Sunday. What are you doing sitting

538
00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:52.559
in my seat. It's like, all of a sudden, we're

539
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:53.319
a bunch of Sheldons.

540
00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:53.559
You know.

541
00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:55.920
You know what I'm talking about because Sheldon always had

542
00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:58.519
his favorite spot on the couch. You can't sit in

543
00:29:58.519 --> 00:30:01.920
the Sheldon spot. But you know, I'm sure God is

544
00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:05.039
entertained by some of our silliness. But the deal is

545
00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:07.480
is that, you know, right now we're at a time

546
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:12.519
when we can really I want to say, and I

547
00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:16.680
say this with such honor and respect for Charlie, is

548
00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:19.920
that that he not have died in Vain. And I

549
00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.519
know that it's been an encouragement all over the world.

550
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.119
I mean, you see what's going on. I mean Australia,

551
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:30.680
New Zealand, in Europe, you know, baseball games, Yeah, and

552
00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:33.640
there's some knuckleheads out there, but by and large, I

553
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:35.759
mean it's like, okay, people are kind of getting it

554
00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:37.960
and You've got a lot of people going to church

555
00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:41.000
right now seeking the truth. And and my prayer for

556
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:43.440
the church is that you don't compromise the truth. Okay,

557
00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:45.880
the kids have been lied to, we've all been lied to. Enough,

558
00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:49.240
give it to us straight. You don't need to, you know,

559
00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:52.640
butter it up. You know that the truth is right there,

560
00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:55.720
because that's why Jesus came to set us free. I mean,

561
00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:57.680
think about it. I mean we talk about freedom here

562
00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:00.559
in America, but we're talking about eternal free him that

563
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:04.799
Jesus gave us. And when you are exposed to that,

564
00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:08.440
it's so liberating. It's kind of like in a way,

565
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.720
why Charlie could do what he did, fearlessly go out

566
00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:14.880
into the belly of the beast and you know, open

567
00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:18.279
himself to attacks by people, people lying about him, and

568
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.640
he just held his calm, He held his peace, as

569
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:24.759
the Word of God would say, you know, don't surrender

570
00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:28.079
your peace, okay, sit in the peace of God, in

571
00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:31.839
knowing that your destiny is assured. That God has called

572
00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:34.119
you to do something, and what he called you to do,

573
00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:36.480
he's going to He's going to outfit you, he's going

574
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:39.680
to prepare you know, everything that you need to get

575
00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:42.240
that done. And I know you may say, look at well,

576
00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:45.119
if God was really for Charlie Kirk, why was he assassinated?

577
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:47.960
I'll tell you that that's the number one question that

578
00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.000
was asked immediately. Why Well, you know, go back to

579
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:55.880
the book that Charlie was very engaged with on a

580
00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:58.039
daily basis, and that is the word of God. And

581
00:31:58.079 --> 00:32:00.240
the word of God will tell you what. Because because

582
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:03.359
evil's here, and you've heard me say this before, we

583
00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:07.279
we just overlook evil. We really don't pay attention to it.

584
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:09.920
And Evil loved that because it goes well, you know, hey,

585
00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:12.160
they're not they're not paying attention. I can do whatever

586
00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:15.559
I want to do. But see, if you know the

587
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:19.759
difference between good and evil, and your guard is up,

588
00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:23.000
then you can stop evil before it even gets to

589
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:26.960
your door. All right, But if it's inconsequential to you

590
00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:30.119
and you're too busy being a consumer, as my good

591
00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:32.960
friend Jeff Kemp would say, I love his expression of

592
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:36.079
that because I think it's our condition. It is our condition,

593
00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:39.039
our country. We have been trained to be consumers everything.

594
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:43.200
It's about consuming, you know, our relationships. We consume our relationships.

595
00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:45.519
It's not about what I can what I can do

596
00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:48.480
to serve you? As Charlie would say, he would wake

597
00:32:48.519 --> 00:32:49.880
up every morning and say, God, what can I do

598
00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:52.559
for you? What? What? What do you want me to

599
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:55.240
do for you? It wasn't that Charlie was coming and say, God,

600
00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:57.960
hey I need this, I need more money because turning points,

601
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:00.039
you're trying to do this, we're trying to expand, and

602
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:02.440
then we got to you know, no, it's just God,

603
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:05.119
what do you what do you need from me? And

604
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:07.440
I think there's a lot that we can take away

605
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.480
from that is that in our relationships, you know, with

606
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:13.240
our wives and friends, you know, are we consuming them

607
00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:15.319
or are we looking, you know, to serve them? As

608
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:17.720
Jesus said, I mean, Jesus shows up at the Last

609
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:21.119
Supper with a towel and a basein of water, starts

610
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:24.680
washing the apostles feet and they're freaking out, WHOA, what's

611
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:28.359
going on here? Well, we can all look from that example,

612
00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:32.599
which is all pointing to the eternal truth that we're

613
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:35.759
here to serve and not be served. And when we serve,

614
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:40.680
that's when we're more most fulfilled. And I believe that

615
00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:45.319
that's when you know, we're joyful, we're most free because

616
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:48.200
you know. I was when I was an adjunct professor

617
00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:50.920
in southern California. I would share with the kids that

618
00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:55.319
you know, when in living life, the things to consider

619
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:59.599
is particularly when you know you were working somewhere, because

620
00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:01.880
I used to try brain my salespeople and other people

621
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:04.960
that I work with on these principles. The number one,

622
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:07.240
you should enjoy what you're doing. You know, when you

623
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.280
consider that you're off to work eight ten hours a day,

624
00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:14.840
at least, you know you should enjoy it. Right my dad,

625
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:16.679
you say, look at you find something you enjoy doing.

626
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:19.000
You don't, You'll never have to work for the rest

627
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:22.440
of your life. And for the most part in my career,

628
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:25.639
I've been very, very blessed to enjoy what I'm doing,

629
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:27.880
So I say, look at, enjoy what you're doing. The

630
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.360
second thing is that you have to have a fair

631
00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:35.039
chance to win, you know, so and buy that it's

632
00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:37.599
not that you're winning at somebody else's expense, but that

633
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:42.280
you are accomplishing you're being productive. Okay, So, if you're

634
00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:46.679
a you know, five foot seven inch basketball player and

635
00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:50.079
you want to be a center competing in the NBA,

636
00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:53.599
probably not that good. Odds are you're not going to

637
00:34:53.639 --> 00:34:56.800
have a fair chance to win. And you know, and

638
00:34:56.840 --> 00:34:59.039
I used to tell people outside use the example that

639
00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:01.440
if you were a brain search and if you're killing

640
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:03.519
nine out of ten people that you take the surgery,

641
00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:06.800
probably need to find another gig, you know, So you

642
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:09.840
got to have a fair chance to win with the

643
00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:12.639
giftings and talents that God's blessed you with. And speaking

644
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:16.159
of which, the third issue is that with the giftings

645
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:19.159
and talents God's blessed you with, those have to be

646
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:22.159
exercised and grown. You want to see somebody who's frustrated,

647
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:24.320
I'll tell you. I can tell you in a couple

648
00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:28.440
of minutes and find out that if they're wired in

649
00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:32.679
a certain way and that wiring is not being you know,

650
00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:36.440
exercised and developed, boy, they'll be frustrated to no end.

651
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:39.280
And you know, when you look at the US labor

652
00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:42.000
force that I found this to be quite interesting that

653
00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:45.000
what it all comes down to is less than ten

654
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:49.320
percent of the US labor force has any sense of fulfillment.

655
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:52.119
So nine out of ten people are cranky to no end.

656
00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:54.239
I mean, it's no wonder when you go to a restaurant,

657
00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:58.000
you know, you go someplace that requires some sort of service,

658
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:01.519
that it's not always the best experience, right. A lot

659
00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:04.239
of people just aren't happy because they're miscasts. And I

660
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:06.880
get it for a season. Sometimes, you know, when tough

661
00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:08.760
times fall and you say, okay, hey, look at I

662
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:10.679
got to go wash dishes because I got to put

663
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:12.480
food on the table, I got to keep a roof

664
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:14.960
over my head. If I got to toss a hamburger

665
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:16.679
or two, I'm going to do whatever it takes. You know,

666
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:19.519
in the old days, you could be a Walmart greeter.

667
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.159
Now you can't even be a Walmart greater. But regardless,

668
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:24.239
you're going to do whatever it takes right in order

669
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.440
to do. And I get that for a short term,

670
00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:29.719
but long term, you want to be doing something that

671
00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:32.679
is consistent with the wiring, with the talents and gifts

672
00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:35.239
that you have so you can grow and develop them.

673
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:37.360
And I would say, look at if you enjoy what

674
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:39.719
you're doing, you have a fair chance to win. You're

675
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:42.800
winning more than you're losing. That the giftings and talents

676
00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:46.719
that you have are being exercised and grown. I used

677
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:48.559
to say that that would give you the fourth component,

678
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:51.719
which is fulfillment, which I mentioned to you. Less than

679
00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:53.719
ten percent of the US labor force. According to US

680
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:56.840
labor studies, people have found themselves to be fulfilled. I

681
00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:59.559
mean it's pretty sad, isn't it that you know, with

682
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:01.920
all the opportunities that are here, that you would have

683
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:04.199
such a small percentage of people that aren't you know,

684
00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:07.159
aren't fulfilled, not happy. Well, And I will share this

685
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:09.639
with you as I'm in this classroom in southern California

686
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:13.880
and I'm giving this presentation to these young kids, uh,

687
00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:17.000
and one that I've given for many years. And all

688
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:18.599
of a sudden I get to the point and I'm

689
00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:22.559
getting ready for the big denu mount of the expression.

690
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:25.280
You know, Okay, it's here. It is you know, it's

691
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:29.199
about fulfillment. And about that time, the spirit of God

692
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downloads a new component and I told the kids. I

693
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:34.599
stopped and I said, hey, I got to tell you

694
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this is this is fresh. If I can be so

695
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bold to say from the throne room of God, I

696
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:42.320
can't thank Good credit for this. This isn't me. This

697
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is what God, I believe is impressing my spirit to

698
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:48.000
share with you. And that is the highest calling you

699
00:37:48.039 --> 00:37:51.760
can have. Is freedom, not fulfillment, but freedom. Think about

700
00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:54.639
that and it you know, when it hit me, I

701
00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:57.480
started thinking of all the ways in which, you know,

702
00:37:57.519 --> 00:37:59.880
we enjoy freedom, all the ways in which our freedom

703
00:37:59.920 --> 00:38:05.320
is compromised, you know, by bad decisions. You know, governmental entities,

704
00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:09.440
people that want to consume you, not serve you, all

705
00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:15.159
these things that collide with the issue of freedom and freedom.

706
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:18.679
You know who gives us freedom, you know, Jesus himself

707
00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:22.159
goes to the cross so that we could truly be free.

708
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He paid the price for us. Yeah, that freedom, and

709
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:28.840
I mean it just it overwhelmed me. And even when

710
00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:31.320
I think about it to this day, I think, how

711
00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:34.119
lucky are we? How lucky are you? And I would

712
00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:37.039
say that, you know, if you truly want to be free,

713
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:40.320
I mean not free like way some of these professors

714
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:44.719
talk about it, I mean genuine freedom and all that

715
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:48.119
it represents, that where you can have true joy and

716
00:38:48.199 --> 00:38:52.679
happiness in your life. That's where it begins. It begins

717
00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:55.039
right there at the crossroads of the cross. And what

718
00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:57.920
your decision will be. My prayer is that you would

719
00:38:58.119 --> 00:39:01.920
choose rightly and that you would really that all that

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God has given us is there and that we can

721
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make a difference, because I think right now we're on

722
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the verge of another awakening of an incredible magnitude. Yes,

723
00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:15.800
evil will still rain, no doubt about it. It always happens.

724
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:17.559
I mean that happens in the seventies when we had

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00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:20.360
a revival. I thought was quite interesting because we have

726
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:22.880
the Jesus movement going on at the same time we

727
00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:26.360
had woodstock, sex, drugs, rock and roll crazy. Huh. So

728
00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:28.920
it's just the nature of the world. It's not like

729
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:31.320
it's all going to be one hundred percent, but at

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00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:35.679
least for you and your household, why not choose, choose

731
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rightly and lean in to the word of God. Okay,

732
00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:43.760
you bought the Bible, right lean into it. Yes, some

733
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:46.639
of it can be difficult, but this is why I

734
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:50.239
recommend that you find a church that teaches the Bible,

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00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:56.159
that there's Bible studies. You associate with other people who

736
00:39:56.239 --> 00:39:59.719
are seeking the truth and hold to the truth of God,

737
00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:02.360
and they're not there in it for themselves with some

738
00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:06.360
sort of prosperity message. And you know, this is the thing.

739
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I mean, it's like Jesus told the apostle, said, look it,

740
00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:12.079
you're going to go out there. You're not going to

741
00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:14.639
accept money. You went out you went out there without money.

742
00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.199
You're not going to accept money, don't expect to be

743
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paid and uh, and the Apostles were true to that issue.

744
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And when you know, people did take care of them

745
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:26.519
and help them out, but they weren't sitting there, you know,

746
00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:32.119
being chauffeured around in some you know, beautiful chariot, you know,

747
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:33.280
going from city to city.

748
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Uh.

749
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You know that should be a big warning sign for

750
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:40.400
you right away, is that's not That's not God's economy.

751
00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:43.159
And I pray that you discover the truth, the truth

752
00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:46.840
that will you know truly set you free. But I'll

753
00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:49.519
tell you, uh, you know, we lost a good man

754
00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:53.360
in Charlie Kirk. But I believe, you know, as the

755
00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:57.360
Bible talks about that seed that goes to the ground,

756
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it must die. And the good news is when that

757
00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:04.559
seed dies, it multiplies. And I believe that this is

758
00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:09.760
going to is the future is the word for Turning

759
00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:13.639
Point already, I mean this past weekend, I mean they

760
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:17.920
were about nine hundred chapters of Turning Point in universities

761
00:41:18.199 --> 00:41:20.960
across the country. Nine hundred they already had over the

762
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:25.239
weekend over thirty four hundred requests for new chapters. Now

763
00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:29.079
thirty four thousand. I'm sorry, thirty four thousand. Okay, that

764
00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:32.440
would cover just about every university in the United States.

765
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So you know, the people are the kids are hungry

766
00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:38.559
for it. And I think this is why Charlie Kirk

767
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:42.639
was so received in some regards, because what happened it

768
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:45.199
validated a lot of these kids that were in these

769
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:50.079
classrooms being being indoctrinated, and they realized there's something some

770
00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:53.119
not fitting here, some not right. And so you have

771
00:41:53.159 --> 00:41:56.920
a truth bearer who comes to the campus and he

772
00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:03.679
spoke eloquently, He debated with a true concern of the

773
00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:07.000
people he was debating with out of respect. Not once

774
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:09.000
did I ever see him get upset and pitch a

775
00:42:09.039 --> 00:42:13.159
fit and throw a microphone at him or anything. You know,

776
00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:20.679
he was consistently respectful because again, who was he seeing? Imajodo?

777
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Another humanoid just like you and me, made in the

778
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image of God, and he respected them well. As we

779
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:31.559
wrap things up, I want to play for you a

780
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:36.199
video the Turning Point has put out which casts the

781
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:41.639
vision and again kind of helps summarize the story of

782
00:42:41.679 --> 00:42:45.440
what happened last week. Go ahead, play it. Now.

783
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We're acting in about fifteen campuses, and we're growing very

784
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:54.440
very quickly, and keep in mind this is not just

785
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:56.400
a flash in the pan movement. We're going to become

786
00:42:56.440 --> 00:42:59.360
an institution to give them the power and the confidence

787
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:01.400
to stand up and let their voice be heard. I

788
00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:03.800
started this organization when I was eighteen years old. I

789
00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:05.960
decided not to go to college. I didn't get in

790
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:08.280
my dream school, which was the United States Military Academy

791
00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:10.440
at West Point. I have this idea to galvanize and

792
00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:13.119
motivate the future youth of this country around a core

793
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:15.960
set of ideas, not just political parties or politicians. And

794
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:18.239
the ideas are really America is the greatest country in

795
00:43:18.239 --> 00:43:20.760
the history of the world. Constitutions, the greatest political document

796
00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:22.519
ever written in free enterprise, the most sured way to

797
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:24.880
lift people out of poverty and create prosperity for all.

798
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:27.880
Those are the three big ideas, and I think that's something.

799
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That can win.

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00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:39.119
We as Christians are called to go into the public

801
00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:43.079
arena to correct error with truth. So I go to

802
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:45.679
college campuses and there's a lot of error. We're all sinners,

803
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:48.480
we are all living error. I'm far more interested in

804
00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:51.360
what God wants of me than what I want from God.

805
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:53.719
I have to say this without getting emotional, but I'm

806
00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:55.639
very proud of my husband, and I know many of

807
00:43:55.719 --> 00:44:02.079
you are too. You have worked so hard, and I

808
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:05.119
know a lot of you have seen obviously his video

809
00:44:05.239 --> 00:44:07.800
is on TikTok and all the stuff he does on campus,

810
00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:11.880
but no one gets to see him from my angle

811
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:24.599
except for myself and our children fall and the sacrifices

812
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:28.920
that he made this year. He's amazing.

813
00:44:29.119 --> 00:44:31.280
I'm very blessing and I would not have been able

814
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:33.199
to do any of it without Erica. And that's the

815
00:44:33.239 --> 00:44:38.360
real truth. I'll tell you what you are here as

816
00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:42.400
a grassroots response to the top down revolution happening in

817
00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:45.039
this country. I want our Turning Point USA students to

818
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:48.119
receive a round of applause. These are the freedom fighters

819
00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:51.119
of America.

820
00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:54.519
And the media said the Turning Point could never run

821
00:44:54.599 --> 00:44:58.000
a ground game. They weren't experienced, They didn't know. Charlie right.

822
00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:03.719
This is the greatest generational realignment since Woodstock. This generation

823
00:45:03.880 --> 00:45:06.599
is the most conservative generation that we have seen and

824
00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:10.760
well over fifty years, and the numbers show it. What

825
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:14.639
young people especially are screaming at is they say, give

826
00:45:14.719 --> 00:45:18.719
me a structure that I can live my life by,

827
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:22.639
and especially with young men, more challenging of them more

828
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:24.599
saying you know what, honestly, I'm not going to talk

829
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:27.119
down to you. Stop being a boy and become a man.

830
00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:29.159
You want to learn what that means. Come to church

831
00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:30.519
and I'll tell you what it means to become a

832
00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:34.079
man because we have the greatest story ever told. What

833
00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:36.760
can I do to save the country? You answer that

834
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:39.960
question every single day because you are doing the work

835
00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:43.840
to save this beautiful republic. You are doing something that

836
00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:45.599
is bigger than you.

837
00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:49.599
If everything completely goes away, how do you want to

838
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:50.159
be remembered?

839
00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:52.280
I want to be I want to be remembered for

840
00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:55.239
courage from my faith. That would be the most important thing.

841
00:45:55.320 --> 00:46:00.599
Most important thing is my faith in my life.

842
00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:13.360
And it puts it all in perspective, doesn't it. Charlie

843
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:17.079
Charley Kirk right there, we're are you know, our appreciation

844
00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:21.000
a turning point, and I know that God has great

845
00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:24.480
plans for turning point going forward. And the legacy of

846
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:28.480
one Charlie Kurt. He uh changed a lot of lives

847
00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:32.840
and and this will have a generational impact. This will

848
00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:37.400
go on because of his faithfulness to his God, the

849
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:41.800
faithfulness to his mission, and his faithfulness to those that

850
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:47.039
he served and we will be eternally grateful for Charlie Kirk.

851
00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:49.559
Thank you for being with us. May God bless you,

852
00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:52.039
May He keep you, May He make his face shine

853
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:55.360
upon you. May He be gracious unto you, and may

854
00:46:55.440 --> 00:47:04.000
you experience his peace. God bless Pretty b