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Charlie Kirk dead with your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I'm still I'm still I'm I'm I'm trying to, uh
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  Speaker 1: to just process this, this murder, this murder of Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Kirk today, it's uh, it's it's weighing on me. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you, so you folks may be
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  Speaker 1: my therapeutic sounding board for the next hour. For all
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  Speaker 1: I know, A two me WTVN is the number or
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred sixt ten wtv And I got Alex Stone
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  Speaker 1: from ABC News coming up, like, get mad in because
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  Speaker 1: he waited through the break. Matt, you're on sixthen WTVN.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, Chuck, you know, obviously what happened today is
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  Speaker 2: just an incomprehensible tragedy, and you know, thinking about Charlie's
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  Speaker 2: wife and Charlie's kids, you know, just absolutely breaks my heart.
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  Speaker 3: There was a caller earlier though, that she kind of
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  Speaker 3: seemed almost like, you know, well, what are where, what
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  Speaker 3: do we do? Where do we go from here? And
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  Speaker 3: what I would say to everybody on the on the
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  Speaker 3: on the radio today who's listening, is you know, truths
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  Speaker 3: will always prevail and the light will always overcome the darkness,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, when you go back and you think
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  Speaker 3: about it, and you know there was you know, William F.
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  Speaker 3: Buckley with National Review as a conservative voice in this country.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know there was there was you know,
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  Speaker 3: Walter Williams and Thomas soul And you know, when Rush
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  Speaker 3: passed away, we all thought, oh, man, who's going to
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  Speaker 3: replace Rush? And now you know, Buck Sexton and Klay
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  Speaker 3: Travis have picked up that man on. They're doing an
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  Speaker 3: amazing job. You know, what happened to Charlotte today was
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  Speaker 3: was a tragedy. But there will be new voices that
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  Speaker 3: come up and and and share the truth of conservatism
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  Speaker 3: and and and share the truth of what they believe in.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Charlie was a professing Christian. He believed in
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  Speaker 3: He believed in Christ as his savior. He believed in
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  Speaker 3: God as the creator and the Holy Spirit is sustaining us.
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  Speaker 3: And that may have got him murdered for anything, you know,
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  Speaker 3: versus his opinion on gun rights or abortion or welfare
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  Speaker 3: or anything like that. It may have been his professor
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  Speaker 3: in Christianity. But there will we should always have hope.
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  Speaker 3: There will always be somebody that comes to the front
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  Speaker 3: of the line of battle that will stand up and
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  Speaker 3: will speak the truth and will share the truth and
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  Speaker 3: that that's what we have to believe in.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Matt, Thank you very much, buddy. Keep
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  Speaker 1: your head up. It's it's a hard day for many
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  Speaker 1: of us because this guy, I mean, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, thirty years younger than me, but I still
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  Speaker 1: looked up to him his ability to communicate with a crowd,
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  Speaker 1: not to force anything down anyone's throat, but to get
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  Speaker 1: them to think, to converse, to interact. And I mean
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was He was perceived as being one
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  Speaker 1: of the good guys, even for those that disagreed with him.
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  Speaker 1: And this is not the way I expected his story
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  Speaker 1: to end. Alex over Maybec News is on the job
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  Speaker 1: out there. We know that it happened. We know that
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  Speaker 1: we've lost Charlie Kirk, Alex. Do we know anything else?
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  Speaker 1: Do we know who a suspect is? At this point, we.
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  Speaker 4: Don't know, because yeah, Chuck, they don't have one at
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  Speaker 4: this point. They initially thought that they did, and we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna get up there. This is a sound inside the
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  Speaker 4: room right now where they're about to come out any
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  Speaker 4: moment and say what they do know and to give
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  Speaker 4: us more details. But initially they thought they had the
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  Speaker 4: shooter in custody. You probably saw the social video of
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  Speaker 4: an older gentleman who they had kind of bent over
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  Speaker 4: and hands behind his back that they were bringing out. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: but now they're indicating that he had nothing to do
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  Speaker 4: with it and that that was not the shooter. It
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  Speaker 4: looks like the wrong place, wrong time of where he was,
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  Speaker 4: and the thought that he was a shooter, but he's not.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty clear from all of the experts we've been
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  Speaker 4: talking to of where the shot came from and the
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  Speaker 4: caliber of it and the sound and the way it
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  Speaker 4: came in. The shooter had the advantage of elevation on
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  Speaker 4: a rooftop or up on the There was a balcony
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  Speaker 4: kind of behind the crowd where the crowd was standing.
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  Speaker 4: But nobody apparently that we know of yet saw the shooter,
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  Speaker 4: so it may have been hiding on a rooftop or
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  Speaker 4: hiding behind something with that elevation. But I mean, it
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  Speaker 4: was panic when it was when that one shot came out.
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  Speaker 4: These women were there, just.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone got down.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone was so scared.
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  Speaker 1: I heard a loud bang, which I figured a shot
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  Speaker 1: would be a little bit louder, Just one shot straight
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  Speaker 1: in Charlie Kirk.
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  Speaker 4: And he was on this Proved Me Wrong tour. He
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  Speaker 4: was going to go to other places in Utah and
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  Speaker 4: Colorado and Minneapolis and Virginia and Turning Point. USA. Had
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  Speaker 4: been saying that this was going to be a huge turnout.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they had seen the America come back to Her,
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  Speaker 4: American come Back to Her earlier in the year that
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  Speaker 4: had done very well on university campus. Says they thought
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  Speaker 4: that this was gonna be the same thing. And it
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  Speaker 4: was today with the crowd that was there, and that
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  Speaker 4: it was a large crowd, and it was Q and A.
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  Speaker 4: He was taking questions, he was answering about transgender issues
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  Speaker 4: in that moment, and then the one shot right into
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  Speaker 4: what looked like his chest, but those there say into
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  Speaker 4: his neck. But it was pretty much fatal in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: It was. And I observed the video. I did not
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  Speaker 1: have audio on here in the studio. I observed the video.
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  Speaker 1: He looked as if any exchange he might have been
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  Speaker 1: in was not confrontational at all. It was his typical
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  Speaker 1: charming Charlie out there making a point. He seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be in good form and good spirits. And then I
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  Speaker 1: saw him reach up to the side of his head
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  Speaker 1: there by his jawbone, and then he was gone, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it's in some way, Alex, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 1: I think it might have been easier to take if
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  Speaker 1: he was screaming back and forth with some rabid person
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  Speaker 1: in the audience and they pulled out a gun, it
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  Speaker 1: would have least made sense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, from the looks of it, it looks like this
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  Speaker 4: was planned. You know, that this was not and we
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  Speaker 4: understand from those who were in the crowd that it
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  Speaker 4: was probably sixty to seventy percent supporters and then twenty
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  Speaker 4: thirty forty percent who were opponents of his But this
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  Speaker 4: wasn't in the moment. This seems like this shooter had
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  Speaker 4: a you know, some kind of rifle, had the advantage
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  Speaker 4: of altitude, of being up high, of more of a
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  Speaker 4: a single bullet assassination. Really, that this was not just
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  Speaker 4: in the moment angry decided to fire a shot. That
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  Speaker 4: this seems like something that was much more planned than that.
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  Speaker 4: So even you know, if and those who were there
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  Speaker 4: said they were surprised that they were not checked for
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  Speaker 4: weapons going into it, that it was just kind of
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  Speaker 4: everybody could hang out on the campus and listen to
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  Speaker 4: him talk. But that probably wouldn't have made a difference,
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  Speaker 4: because it doesn't seem like that this was just somebody
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  Speaker 4: in the crowd who in that moment pulled out a gun,
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  Speaker 4: that it would appear that this was something much more planned,
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  Speaker 4: and that they were somewhere but not in the crowd itself.
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  Speaker 1: Right there. I know you have your hands full and
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  Speaker 1: the schedule to keep. We'll probably talk tomorrow, Alex Stone,
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  Speaker 1: ABC News. Thank you for being there when we need you, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: you got it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: What about the fifteen minutes past the hour? Now? Eight
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  Speaker 1: two one, nine eighty six is the number eight one
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  Speaker 1: WTV And I just Zach and I have been talking
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  Speaker 1: off the air a lot, and I'll be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: I see this. This isn't like a right wing thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not looking at him as one right wing guy
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  Speaker 1: to another, or one broadcast guide to another. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at him as you know, his dad, as as husband,
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  Speaker 1: as you know in my case, dad, the grandkids. And
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  Speaker 1: I saw one person say thankfully his his child was
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  Speaker 1: only two years old. I'll tell you what my two
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  Speaker 1: year old granddaughter this morning, she said time for bye bye,
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  Speaker 1: love you, Paul, Paul hugging kiss don't tell me the
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  Speaker 1: child's only two. Don't tell me about that child only
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  Speaker 1: being too, and he'll never hold him again, and they'll
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  Speaker 1: never give him aug and kiss again. Because he dared
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  Speaker 1: to have an opinion that somebody didn't want him to have.
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  Speaker 1: He dared to articulate thought somebody didn't want him to share.
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  Speaker 1: He dared to get people to think and opened their
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  Speaker 1: minds to something other than whatever they'd been programmed with.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't rude, He wasn't a nasty spirited person. He
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  Speaker 1: went to these college campuses and he talked and he said,
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  Speaker 1: here's my point of view, and he invited those who
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  Speaker 1: disagreed up to the microphone and he let them talk,
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  Speaker 1: and he had the audacity to then ask them questions.
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  Speaker 1: I was just watching some videos yesterday a student identifying
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  Speaker 1: as transs I guess gender. I never know whether to
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  Speaker 1: say trans sexual, transgen. I don't know. That's not disrespect,
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  Speaker 1: that's just ignorance on my part. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to call. But the guy or the person was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was obviously a male person wearing a
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  Speaker 1: wig and wearing a dress and speaking with what he
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  Speaker 1: thought was an ef feminine way, and Charlie allowed him to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, talk about everything that made him a woman.
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  Speaker 1: And he asked him, have you had any surgeries? And
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  Speaker 1: this person said, no, I haven't had surgeries, but I
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  Speaker 1: still feel like a woman, So you had no surgeries.
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  Speaker 1: The extent of your dedication to this is that you
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  Speaker 1: wear clothes that are normally reserved for women, and you
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  Speaker 1: speak in a funny voice that you think sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a woman, and you call yourself a woman. That is
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  Speaker 1: your dedication to being a trans person. Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: And the guy said, well, I don't need any more
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  Speaker 1: than that, and Charlie asking, and then I will ask you,
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  Speaker 1: with all due respect, if I put on a brown makeup,
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  Speaker 1: am I a black man? It's a valid argument. This
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  Speaker 1: person's had no physical alterations. They're just wearing the clothes
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  Speaker 1: and claiming the title. But it started a conversation with
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  Speaker 1: this person that actually ended in I'll have to think
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  Speaker 1: about that. Not I hate you, I want you, dad,
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to think about that. That's the way this
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  Speaker 1: thing works for me. This is all I try to
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  Speaker 1: get you to do is think, talk, Just don't swallow
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  Speaker 1: everything hole that's thrown at you. You're not a seal
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  Speaker 1: for goodness sake. Think, think everything through things, always ask
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  Speaker 1: for more. There's no such thing as too much information.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way I've tried to be and that's what
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  Speaker 1: I saw in him, and he was he was someone
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  Speaker 1: I was proud of, even though I never knew him anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm trying my best not to let this
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  Speaker 1: affect how I sound to you tonight, but I am
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  Speaker 1: legitimately kind of just just shaken up by the fact
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  Speaker 1: that this is what we have become. We disagree with you,
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  Speaker 1: therefore we will kill you. And I'll be damned if
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  Speaker 1: somebody out there is not going to make an excuse
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  Speaker 1: for whenever they catch this person, they will start making excuses.
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  Speaker 1: They were already online yesterday politicians elected officials making excuses
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  Speaker 1: for the guy that killed the woman on the train
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  Speaker 1: in Charlotte. Well, what we have to understand was he
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  Speaker 1: was in pain, but she's dead. Man. We are in
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  Speaker 1: bizarre world. A TWOTV and is a number. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: a few in here. Mark, you're on sixth WTV.
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  Speaker 5: And good evening. I wanted to reach out and mention
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  Speaker 5: that Charlie Kirk was in Columbus August twenty fifth and
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  Speaker 5: spoke at the Lincoln Reagan Dinner of Delaware County. He
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  Speaker 5: spoke at the Hilton up at Polari, and anybody who
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  Speaker 5: got to be there and got to listen to Charlie,
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  Speaker 5: it was quite amazing. What an impressive characters, such a
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  Speaker 5: heart for our young citizens, unbelievably spoke of of just
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  Speaker 5: how challenging everything is for them. He was spoke of
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  Speaker 5: his love for the Lord, and he was just so dynamic.
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  Speaker 5: He was just somebody who when you listened to, he
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  Speaker 5: just drawed you in. And it was a wonderful night.
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  Speaker 5: And I just wanted to make sure that anybody that
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  Speaker 5: was there was just take him away and just over
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  Speaker 5: the top impressed with this man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, his ability to connect those young people with something special,
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  Speaker 1: that's probably the highest praise I can give him. I
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  Speaker 1: met a lot of the TPUSA kids during the last election,
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  Speaker 1: college kids that were out here work in the Trump campaign,
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  Speaker 1: and they were an impressive group of youngsters. His influence
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  Speaker 1: over them, his testament to who and what he was