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In Honor of Charlie Kirk, Having One Leg Up on Public Discourse MUST CONTINUE! 9-11-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: I've needed a lot of time to process and decompress
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  Speaker 2: and talk about the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. I
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  Speaker 2: needed a lot of time to process and talk about
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  Speaker 2: twenty four years since ninety eleven. And you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking comfort in right this moment is the Major
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  Speaker 2: League Baseball logo that was rolled out the very first
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  Speaker 2: anniversary of September eleventh, And they've put that logo on
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  Speaker 2: the boards across America and across ballparks in America the
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  Speaker 2: last twenty three years, and I think it's a reminder
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  Speaker 2: that we can find comfort in baseball. It gave us
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  Speaker 2: comfort in the fall of two thousand and one. We
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  Speaker 2: can find comfort in the game of baseball that I
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  Speaker 2: can't find comfort anywhere else because it's a homegrown feel.
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  Speaker 2: It's an era where that Piazza homer on September twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and one, and then the Yankees magical run
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  Speaker 2: in the World Series. Sure you would have wanted that
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  Speaker 2: under your belt to make it a four peat, and
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  Speaker 2: with everything going on following the terror attacks of September eleventh,
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  Speaker 2: But as a nine year old watching that hole fall unfold,
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  Speaker 2: and then a year later be at the anniversary of
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven where they put that logo on the
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  Speaker 2: board against the Orioles. It brings me back to that
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  Speaker 2: comfort of what baseball can do, how it can heal us.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm common enough now thanks to this logo to
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  Speaker 2: share with you how it feels. The fact of the
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  Speaker 2: matter is, Charlie Kirk was a member of as you know,
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  Speaker 2: I work on Salem.
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  Speaker 1: Media Group and just a few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Ago Mike Gallagher calling me a loyal employee of Sale Media.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's a SoundBite for the records. Well, Charlie
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  Speaker 2: Kirk not only was a loyal employee to Salem Media,
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  Speaker 2: he was out there doing public discourse. And yes, Ben
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  Speaker 2: Shapiro does that too, but hitting the college campuses that
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk.
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  Speaker 1: Did year after year.
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  Speaker 2: Like he did yesterday and was supposed to complete yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: probably has impacted so many lives. He probably didn't realize it.
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  Speaker 2: But then I think of the radio side more because
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  Speaker 2: either before him when he was on twelve to two,
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  Speaker 2: or after him, either on the Piscopo hours or the
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  Speaker 2: Gallagher hours before he would be on, or after him
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  Speaker 2: with Idella. I feel like I lost a radio brother
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  Speaker 2: and a colleague because we did share those same airwaves
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  Speaker 2: at different times. And whatever you believe or don't believe,
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  Speaker 2: he would say he was a human being and the
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  Speaker 2: way he was assassinated in cold blood is unacceptable.
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  Speaker 1: You can ask Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: I was slamming the table four or five times yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the heinousness of.
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  Speaker 2: This, the uneasy way someone for two hundred dollars yards
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  Speaker 2: out could just kill a political opponent. And I've tried
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  Speaker 2: to also think about the way this impacts my world,
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  Speaker 2: because he and I are not too much older ages apart.
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  Speaker 2: He was thirty one continuing to launch his Turning Point
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  Speaker 2: USA even more and I'm thirty three, also working on launching.
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  Speaker 1: And we make our livings. And Charlie made his living.
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  Speaker 2: Opining, yes from the right side of things, but opining
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  Speaker 2: about the news of the day, the culture of the day.
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  Speaker 1: And he made his mark.
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  Speaker 2: That's why Phil Boyce brought him on here a few
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  Speaker 2: years ago to Salem Media because he could see he
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  Speaker 2: was making his mark at the time, and he influenced
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  Speaker 2: so many.
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  Speaker 1: To vote for Trump. Yes, but he was an influencer.
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  Speaker 2: And if you ever noticed his videos of public debate.
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  Speaker 1: It seems that he was not.
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  Speaker 2: Aggressive with the.
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  Speaker 1: Debater, He was not.
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  Speaker 2: Rude to them, let them talk, and then he would
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  Speaker 2: take him to school a little bit, wouldn't he.
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  Speaker 1: On a wide array of subjects. But the bigger.
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  Speaker 2: Question is what we still be able to have political
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  Speaker 2: discourse after this clear, clear targeting, an assassination of a
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  Speaker 2: political opponent took place.
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  Speaker 1: It's troubling.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's podcaster and it's people on the air
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  Speaker 2: in different capacities. We should all feel a comfort in
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  Speaker 2: being able to express ourselves without intimidity, a feeling like
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  Speaker 2: you be intimidated for it. That's the freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 2: That is the first Amendment. We should be able to
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  Speaker 2: live in a society where we can go to work
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  Speaker 2: and not have to worry about being stabbed to death
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  Speaker 2: on a Charlotte rail We should be able to go
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  Speaker 2: to a Mitzvah truck and do our daily mitsva if
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  Speaker 2: you are a Jewish person, without being intimidated for it,
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  Speaker 2: without being circled by the vultures. And personally, I think
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  Speaker 2: I should be able to walk out of my radio
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  Speaker 2: studio after a long day of engineering and producing feeling
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  Speaker 2: not a feeling about what a good day it was
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  Speaker 2: and not having to look over my shoulder, Oh is
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  Speaker 2: there a protesters or someone there the founder or address
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  Speaker 2: on the website.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just run.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of thoughts through my head. And though I
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  Speaker 2: cannot ascribe to all the views that Charlie Kirk has
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  Speaker 2: talked about, that's the distinction someone I cannot ascribe to
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  Speaker 2: all the views, I can say.
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  Speaker 1: He stood firm in what he believed.
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  Speaker 2: And probably you know it has changed so many lives
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  Speaker 2: with those beliefs, and that should be celebrated. I was
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  Speaker 2: calling Mike Gallagher today. It calls mean for Mike Gallagher.
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  Speaker 2: Someone went on the air and said, you know, Charlie
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  Speaker 2: brought me closer to God. That's a special call to
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  Speaker 2: take right there. And so as someone who's originally behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes, was hired to be behind the scenes, only
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  Speaker 2: getting more airtime since the really twenty two starting point
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  Speaker 2: with the Episcopal Joe Piscopo show. Over the years and
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  Speaker 2: in my health and now shake it off Martin Lucas,
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  Speaker 2: I've thought about it a lot since this horrific assassination
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  Speaker 2: of someone just two years younger than me. If they're
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  Speaker 2: going to come after the up and coming thirty plus
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  Speaker 2: year olds. Do I step behind the scenes or do
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  Speaker 2: I just keep plugging along and talking about what's on
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  Speaker 2: my heart every day? On one look up Alex Network.
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  Speaker 2: See the whole point of the shooting was not just
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  Speaker 2: to shoot and kill horrifically Charlie Kirk. It was the silence,
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  Speaker 2: dissent and disagreement. But we should not let them silence us.
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  Speaker 2: No matter what view you might have, you should be
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  Speaker 2: able to freely express it. Look at how many and
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  Speaker 2: people got me grup for this, but look how many
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  Speaker 2: protests have really only gotten bad because people started skirmishes
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  Speaker 2: with the cops, not really the other way around.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen videos.
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  Speaker 2: Of screaming people protesters at cops. Cops really didn't do
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  Speaker 2: anything unless it got physical. I've seen Fifth Avenue be
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  Speaker 2: divided between pro Trump and anti Trump protests. Maybe the
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  Speaker 2: key was across the street, but it didn't get violent.
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  Speaker 2: They were able to expe rest themselves without harm or issue.
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  Speaker 2: We need to get back to that discourse where yes,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have two opposing sides.
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  Speaker 1: And still.
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  Speaker 2: Come out of it unscathed and maybe through the protesting
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  Speaker 2: learn from each other, talk to each other. I wrote
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  Speaker 2: this about nine to eleven, and I feel it's so
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  Speaker 2: so important today. I said it was a tragic beginning
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  Speaker 2: to the fall of two thousand and one. It however,
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  Speaker 2: did show our resilience an underlying want to be unified.
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  Speaker 2: And while I know tomorrow September twelve will go back
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  Speaker 2: to arguing about today's world, let's work on unity instead
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  Speaker 2: of division. It's what those who lost their lives on
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  Speaker 2: September eleventh, two.
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  Speaker 1: Thousand and one would want.
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  Speaker 2: How did we go from a Congress that's saying God
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  Speaker 2: bless America in unison on the steps of the Capitol
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  Speaker 2: to now a political opponent, a political dissident gunned down
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  Speaker 2: in two shore a time. And I have often ascribed
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  Speaker 2: to the idea that God has our time of return
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  Speaker 2: home and his etched in us somewhere, we just.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know it.
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  Speaker 2: But these acts of evil should not speed up God's
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  Speaker 2: It should not speed up someone's expiration date. Let me
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  Speaker 2: say that again. These acts of evil should not be
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  Speaker 2: able to speed up someone's expiration date.
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  Speaker 1: And what do I mean by that?
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  Speaker 2: If someone gets in their wonky head to gun down
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  Speaker 2: someone they disagree with, they're not only killing a human life,
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  Speaker 2: this case a husband and a dad of two. But
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  Speaker 2: they are also ruining I feel, God's plan and cutting
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  Speaker 2: it short, and yes, in the sense expediting the expiration date.
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  Speaker 2: So how do we stop those from not only committing evil,
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  Speaker 2: but from expediting expiration dates we all have somewhere within
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  Speaker 2: our DNA. How do we stop it? How about we
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  Speaker 2: first unify? How about we first unify and take comfort
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  Speaker 2: that we have each other's back. And I think in
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  Speaker 2: a way people are going to take comfort in some
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  Speaker 2: odd way. I can't take comfort in it. I can't
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  Speaker 2: take comfort that he's gone home to the Lord. It's
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  Speaker 2: too early for him to go.
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  Speaker 1: Home to the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: This killer ruined God from That is the point. Evil
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  Speaker 2: ruins God's plans. It's not that God isn't there for us.
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  Speaker 2: It's that evil ruins God's plans.
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  Speaker 1: And we have to wipe that out. We have to
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  Speaker 1: wipe out that evil that now I feel.
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  Speaker 2: Could be lurking on our shoulders and daisy every step
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  Speaker 2: of the way. It feels like that.
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  Speaker 1: But let's work together.
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  Speaker 2: On preventing evil from ruining God's plan for us. And again,
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  Speaker 2: it the that gun crowd is chiming in and rightfully
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  Speaker 2: so here. But this has to do with the heart,
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  Speaker 2: That's what it has to do with. There was someone
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  Speaker 2: who've vehemianly disagreed with Charlie Kirk and decided to take
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  Speaker 2: him out. That's not the America I know or was
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  Speaker 2: raised in. We don't kill off political opponents. We have
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  Speaker 2: public discourse, we have debates. I always say this country
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  Speaker 2: was formed through debate. I always say, if the founding
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  Speaker 2: fathers didn't debate to make it, we wouldn't be a
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  Speaker 2: free country right now. But debate got us here two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and forty nine years later, and I prayed debate
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  Speaker 2: will still be alive and well to get us to
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  Speaker 2: two hundred two years and beyond, because that's the only way.
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  Speaker 2: If we hear each other, if we listen to each other,
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  Speaker 2: not just hear each other, listen to each other.
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  Speaker 1: Then yes, we can move forward.
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  Speaker 2: We can get to the year two fifty m beyond.
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  Speaker 2: As I think about this, Charlie Kirk was exercising what
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  Speaker 2: the Founding Fathers built our country on. He held the
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  Speaker 2: public square, and that public square should be accessible to.
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  Speaker 1: All, not one viewpoint.
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  Speaker 2: There have been so many colleges that cancel a quote
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  Speaker 2: unquote right wing speaker. I remember that they had to
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  Speaker 2: shut down the Schumer book tour when he agreed with
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  Speaker 2: Trump to not close the government down. So it truly
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  Speaker 2: lurks in both directions, the idea of being canceled, the
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  Speaker 2: idea of.
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  Speaker 1: Succumbing to.
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  Speaker 2: The woke bob, which Charlie I don't think ever did,
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  Speaker 2: by the way.
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  Speaker 1: And so as I wrapped my head.
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  Speaker 2: Around being affiliated, let me say this way, as I
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  Speaker 2: wrapped my head around being on that same airwaves as
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk, and though trying to bring a very different
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  Speaker 2: approach to the airway, whenever I get a chance to
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  Speaker 2: be on, I asked myself, and I pray to myself,
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  Speaker 2: pray to God, actually.
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  Speaker 1: Pray to God, that.
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  Speaker 2: I should still to tell me whether I should still
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  Speaker 2: be speaking up or not, or whether I should go
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes. But that wouldn't be what Charlie Kirk
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  Speaker 2: would want for anybody in the media world, and it
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be what my parents raised me to do. My
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  Speaker 2: mom's a journalist. She wrote and wrote and wrote. My
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  Speaker 2: dad listened to talk raative, listen to the public discourse.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I got involved with all of this, and
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  Speaker 2: If I were to shut up now, I'd be doing
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  Speaker 2: a disservice, firstly to the fifty thousand people that have
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  Speaker 2: thankfully downloaded, and to myself, and to what Charlie Kirk's
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  Speaker 2: message is, which is, have the public discourse, have the debate,
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  Speaker 2: have the conversation, so God bless it. Let's have it
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  Speaker 2: nearly every day here at one look up Alex