Alex Stein Delivers an Emotional Tribute to Charlie Kirk, Calling Him America's Greatest Citizen

[00:00] viral video over the last couple days. We covered it extensively yesterday of the

[00:05] drag show for kids in Dallas, Texas. There was one man who actually went to

[00:11] the or tried to go to intervene and be an adult and do what was actually

[00:18] necessary. That's Alex Stein, number 99. I think I got that right. He's

[00:24] hilarious. Alex, welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. Charlie, you're a legend. Oh my gosh,

[00:30] you're calling me 99. I feel like I made it. You know, the man, the myth, the legend. Charlie, thank you for having me on. I really appreciate it.

[00:37] Your um your reputation precedes you. The thing you when you went to the schoolboard meeting in Dallas, it's one

[00:43] of the funniest things I've seen in a very long time. And so you went to this drag show, they didn't let you in. So

[00:51] they're obviously, I don't know, homophobic or something. Like, walk us through this. Well, listen. This is this

[00:57] is the thing about this drag show. And you know, in the in our culture right now, they're doing the drag queen story time at the public library. Now, that's

[01:03] disgusting. That's terrible, Charlie. But at least I'm grind so I got no games. Ask yourself

[01:11] why would I make you lame at all cost?

[01:18] Yeah. Got to break them. Well, ladies and gentlemen, uh, boys and

[01:23] girls, uh, welcome to the show. I'm not trying to act like a mess. I'm just emotionally really upset right now,

[01:29] obviously, because of what happened. And I just I just feel so bad for

[01:37] Charlie and his family. I never felt so much pain for another person other than

[01:42] like a family member. And I just feel so bad right now. And I'm not gonna just sit here and cry. I gotta compose

[01:48] myself. But just watching that and people don't understand that Charlie Kirk could have canceled me a million

[01:54] times. A million times. I did some very boneheaded things. And uh

[02:01] he always stuck with me even when I was um not representing Turning Point in the

[02:09] best light. And I know um everybody's going through it right now. Everybody's

[02:15] very uh in a lot of pain, especially seeing something as graphic and as

[02:22] horrible as what we all witnessed. Um, but I just I I I am having trouble right

[02:29] now finding anything positive about this situation because I know there's people

[02:34] out there and it's very true that Charlie's legacy will live on forever, but the world is significantly worse

[02:40] today without Charlie Kirk than it was yesterday.

[02:48] And Charlie had my back so much and and he didn't and and he didn't have any

[02:53] motivation other than he actually believed in the first amendment. He believed in the second amendment. He

[02:59] believed in the whole entire constitution. And the problem with society and the world that we live in is

[03:06] that we live in such a sick, disgusting world that a person that is truly good

[03:11] like Charlie Kirk gets taken out because everybody that I meet in politics has

[03:18] some sort of skeleton in their closet is, you know, whatever. Nobody's

[03:23] perfect. But the closest thing to perfection when it comes to a human being and

[03:30] following God's commandments and defending the Constitution, there's no better example in the entire universe

[03:37] than Charlie Kirk. And when you are perfect like that and when you don't have skeletons in your

[03:43] closet and you cannot be um blackmailed,

[03:48] they will publicly execute you in front of thousands of people and they will

[03:54] make you scared on purpose. And obviously, I'm

[03:59] not going to get into any of the conspiracy surrounding what's going on with Charlie's horrible, horrific

[04:04] murder, but there's a lot of questions that have not been answered that we're all struggling with.

[04:10] And I'm so frustrated with just

[04:18] this entire situation because I once again, like I was saying

[04:23] earlier, cannot find a silver lining whatsoever. When you're a 31year-old

[04:29] man father that has accomplished more than 99.9% of the population

[04:38] and you're brutally murdered in front of your wife and two kids,

[04:43] that is a sick world that not even the the most sinister Hollywood script

[04:49] writer would would write and produce. And that's the current reality in which

[04:55] we live in. And nothing feels real. Me sitting here and saying Charlie Kirk is dead does not feel real.

[05:03] Doesn't feel real at all. And everything with Turning Point is,

[05:08] you know, obviously on hiatus. And that's uh really bad for society. And

[05:14] that's the problem that all the ignorant people on the internet that are celebrating this, they're ignorant

[05:21] idiots and their opinion does not matter, but they don't understand the ripple effect that this is going to have

[05:27] on society. Charlie Kirk would have been president of the United States of America.

[05:33] No doubt in my mind. No doubt. And he was brutally murdered in front of

[05:40] the whole entire world. and we don't have any answers. And

[05:47] the the biggest conservative organization in the world has taken an incredible hit.

[05:54] And America has taken an incredible hit. And I have zero faith in the federal

[06:01] government or any of our agencies and even getting justice for this because

[06:07] it's it's unjustifi you can't justify this. There's no oh corporal punishment.

[06:13] None of that matters. We literally lost the most influential

[06:19] non-politician in the world. And you see the outpouring support for

[06:25] Charlie. Not one person has anything negative to say

[06:31] because like me, anytime they had a business dealing, personal dealing, fan

[06:36] encounter with Charlie, he was incredibly respectful. And that's why I'm a little sad because

[06:45] not trying to make it about me, but I go and I do put myself in situations where

[06:50] it if if somebody heard, "Oh, Alex got shot at a college event." People would be upset, but they'd be like, "Well, maybe he had it coming to him." Charlie

[06:57] Kirk had nothing coming to him. He only debated with respect in class.

[07:04] And that is another reason why he's no longer here because most human beings don't have the self-control and the

[07:11] orator skills that Charlie has. And he was a threat.

[07:17] And who he was a threat to, I don't know. But Charlie never did anything

[07:22] wrong to anybody. To whoever took him out. Took him out because they disagreed

[07:29] with his message. And nobody should die for having a disagreement

[07:35] on a particular political viewpoint. And a lot of what happened

[07:42] in the response to this is meant to upset us. And so it's okay

[07:50] to feel like this. It's okay to be upset. That's normal. But that was

[07:56] that was the whole plan was to demoralize us and and make us fight one

[08:02] another. And there's something going on that uh that is not good in the world.

[08:07] And we live in a in a dark evil world where being truly good like Charlie

[08:13] makes you a target for the most evil things. Literally, I'm not even being

[08:18] physicious like this was satanic and demonic to have this happen in front of the world, in front of his family.

[08:26] I I just can't even comprehend that this is real.

[08:33] And uh you know, thinking of Charlie, uh you know, like I want to play a video of

[08:40] some of our funny encounters, but I just don't even know if it particularly feels right because

[08:47] You know, I emulate Charlie. You know, I'm older than Charlie. He's younger than me, but I look up to Charlie and

[08:54] he's once again, a lot of people when you're going around college campuses calling yourself Charlie Kurt and acting

[09:01] like, you know, an idiot. A lot of people get mad about that. Charlie had a sense of humor. Charlie was actually

[09:08] cool and funny. He was not It was not a It was

[09:14] He was authentic. when nobody else is.

[09:19] And he gave me so many chances for no reason. And I know I keep

[09:26] repeating that. I don't even know why. I don't even know why Charlie even gave me chances. But I mean, I do know why.

[09:32] Because Charlie's a good person. Because he's a good human being. That's why. Because he actually defends the Constitution. I do know. But I'm just He

[09:37] didn't have to do it. Like he just didn't have to do it. But he actually wanted me to grow and become more well

[09:47] known. And a lot of people don't even realize it was actually Charlie Kirk that kind of motivated me to do what I

[09:54] do today because I mean it makes me so sad to think about. So, you know, I was going through like a really bad time

[09:59] obviously after my mom passed away and uh I was going to city council meetings

[10:06] and uh I uh I was just like I mean some of them were

[10:13] getting some views and stuff. Not that many views, maybe 10 20,000 views which is good for me. I was pumped at the time.

[10:20] Um but I went I did this heartbeat bill speech where I said you know um I'm so

[10:26] mad that you guys are you know outlawing abortion basically because it's you know

[10:32] only the full it's the most foolproof form of contraception and you know I don't want a bunch of baby mamas and I

[10:38] was like just saying all these repugnant things that that a pro-choicer says you know clump of cells like all of the

[10:46] keywords and Uh, it got shared. The first person that made it go viral was

[10:52] Charlie. Charlie shared it on one of his I think it was like Rumble at first or maybe it was YouTube. I forget. But I

[10:58] remember that popped off and I was like, "What the hell? This on Charlie Kirks. It kind of got a million

[11:04] views." I was like, "What?" And that's what set off the light bulb in my head. I'm like, "Man, I need to

[11:09] kind of do this like kind of culture jam. Kind of like pretend that I'm the crazy person that I'm trying to make fun

[11:15] of." And so if it wasn't for Charlie, even him not even realizing just the effect

[11:21] that he had by sharing my content and letting his audience see who I was before he even knew who I was was

[11:27] instrumental in the little bit of success that I've had.

[11:32] And Charlie probably don't even know that. And then, you know, uh he decides to

[11:41] say, "Hey, Alex, I'm going to let you be a, you know, turning point influencer." or I forget what it was called. I mean,

[11:47] it sounds crazy, but I was so excited to be a part of Turning

[11:53] Point. And uh I had some controversial people on my podcast and very easily he could have canceled me for that.

[12:00] And I told him I didn't know about the previous heat and Charlie believed me and he gave me a second chance when he

[12:06] did not have to. And for that, I was so thankful. And

[12:11] then, you know, fast forward two, three years later, I'm, you know, planning on

[12:16] going on my second college tour for Turning Point this semester, which is obviously um not going to happen, but I

[12:22] will uh go speak at a college again. I don't know when that will be, but I'm not going to let this stop me because I know

[12:31] that if Charlie would have lived, which we all were praying for him to live, um

[12:36] Charlie would go back to a college campus because Charlie was fearless. He was bold and uh I want to emulate that

[12:43] boldness. So I'm not going to be in fear and I'm not going to be scared to go to a college campus. Um

[12:51] but that's obviously, you know, down the road. That's not right now. And um

[12:58] yeah, I'm just like filled with so many emotions. Just like one second it's

[13:03] frustration because of the situation, the second I'm like just hurt for everybody that's

[13:11] going through this very traumatic event that happened on the day before September 11th,

[13:16] which is just insane.

[13:22] um doesn't make a lot of sense. But none of this makes a lot of sense

[13:28] because when you're Charlie Kirk and you're actually respectful, why would somebody want to hurt you when Charlie's

[13:34] literally never hurt anybody and never would? Um

[13:39] and like I just I don't understand how the world

[13:46] works sometimes and why the good ones get taken out. Like I

[13:51] don't know how that is God's plan. I do think it is God's plan, but I just don't know why. I can't like I can't

[13:57] comprehend a guy that gives his life for the Lord and um something so terrible happens. I

[14:06] I just I'm I I can't wrap my head around it. I really can't. And uh I don't know

[14:11] if we'll ever get any closure. I know that I will never get any closure because I've Charlie helped me out. But

[14:18] in person, I think we only had probably about five conversations, but you know, I had some text messages and some we

[14:24] talked through intermediaries a lot actually through Turning Point. Um, but uh I just can't believe that I'm never

[14:31] going to get to talk to that guy again and I owe him so much. Um,

[14:37] I just can't believe it. That just doesn't doesn't feel real. Um,

[14:44] so yeah, I mean that's what that's what's going on. And I know you guys are obviously feeling, you know, horrible.

[14:51] Uh, I will say this though,

[14:56] I think there's like a level of, yeah, we should go after the people that have, you know, tarnishing Charlie's name, but

[15:01] Charlie wouldn't do that. Like, Charlie wasn't as vindictive as that. Like, so I don't know. Charlie wouldn't want us to

[15:07] go start a race war. That's the last thing Charlie would want to do. He'd want to talk it out. He would want to

[15:15] talk it out. But there are people that don't want to talk it out. And uh that's why we all

[15:22] need to protect ourselves. The world we live in is not the world that our parents grew up in. It's not the world that our parents' parents grew up in.

[15:29] It's a very dark place. The internet has ruined uh humanity probably for good.

[15:35] And we can probably we probably are at a inflection point where there's no going

[15:41] back. And uh this will have a ripple effect that we

[15:49] will not even be able to quantify because it will be so great. It will be

[15:54] so big that we have no idea the repercussions. The the fact that Charlie

[15:59] would have been the president one day and now that's not going to happen. It

[16:05] changes the entire course of history. And that's not I'm not being dramatic.

[16:11] That's just a fact. that the world is much worse off without

[16:18] Charlie Kirk. And yes, his legacy will live on, but just know that

[16:29] nothing is better today.

[16:34] Um, and I know that like a lot of people right now are just like me. They're

[16:40] really frustrated. They're like, "What?" You know what?

[16:46] Why haven't we caught the killer? How did he do this?

[16:52] Those answers, I don't know if we're ever going to get um and I'm not going to just sit here and talk about negative

[16:58] stuff. I'm just trying to be real right now. I can't be anything but but real. Like, I just don't have a lot of faith

[17:04] that we're going to get the answers that we deserve. So, uh,

[17:10] yes. I just owe Charlie so much. I would not even

[17:18] probably have, you know, as big of a following or anything without him. And

[17:25] the fact that he let me go speak at those campuses. Not trying to make it about me, but I just, you guys just don't understand how good of a person

[17:32] Charlie is. Like I I just I wish that I could be like Charlie so much so that I

[17:38] literally emulate him as a character playing Charlie Kurt. Like that what is it? Uh um you know what's the sincerest

[17:46] form imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Like literally that's what I was trying to do because he was so

[17:52] successful. He created a blueprint and a style that really can't be emulated

[17:57] because he has a motor and engine inside of his body that could not be stopped

[18:04] that I don't have and that nobody has. And for all of the people that are saying, "Oh, well, it's time for other

[18:09] people to step up and fill Charlie's void." Charlie's void will never be filled by anybody because nobody will

[18:16] come close to being as significantly culturally relevant as Charlie was at

[18:21] his age. Nobody. Not nobody. Nobody.

[18:28] And the world and our country is a weaker country now without people like

[18:35] Charlie Kirk defending our Constitution. Our liberties, our ability to speak

[18:42] freely is literally under attack.

[18:48] And Charlie was the best fighter for the First Amendment

[18:54] by going to colleges, inviting literally anybody. Do you realize how hard that

[18:59] is? Do you realize how hard that is to just these people can pick any topic and

[19:04] they're going to go there and they're going to try to stump Charlie Kirk? He sets himself up

[19:10] to fail and he always succeeds. You have no idea how challenging that is

[19:16] just having anybody come up. And yes, a lot of people that he come up there, you know, is not that smart, but trust me,

[19:21] Charlie has debated a lot of very smart people and he's come out on top. Not

[19:26] logical arguments that are hard to debate and Charlie always found a way.

[19:32] And he would want us to continue carrying on his legacy. There's no doubt about that. But uh I just I know that I

[19:40] can't do that. I know that um nobody can do that because Charlie's

[19:46] legacy was one of one. He's just such a unique guy that uh it's just uh he's

[19:52] irreplaceable. Irreplaceable. So, uh I don't know how how

[19:59] much we should show, but I do want to I guess h I already got emotional. Like I I am just such a wreck right now. And I

[20:08] feel like I'm going to get even more emotional if we play that video. But I mean, I guess let's let's play it. And uh you

[20:16] guys can see they edited the Which one? The the uh is this the is that the first

[20:21] one where the one where the kid got mistook you? Yes, that's one.

[20:26] Let's play one. Charlie, how are you?

[20:31] I'm so good to see you all. Everybody calls me the fake Charlie Kirk, you know. How you doing, young man? Dude, I

[20:37] thought you were Charlie Kirk. I am Charlie. No, you're not. Yes, I am. Charlie Kirk? Yes. Why do you think I have this crew?

[20:43] Are you actually? Yes. Let's take a selfie. What do you mean? What? Who do you think I am? You're Charlie Kirk? Yes. Turn USA.

[20:49] Yo. Yo, bro. It's Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk is here. Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk.

[20:56] Charlie. Actually, Charlie Kirk. I'm actually Yes, dude. I'm Charlie.

[21:02] Really? Yes. Dude, take a self. How do you not know this? Why do I have a camera crew, dude? I'm obviously Charlie like gosh

[21:09] it's bugging me that I'm this well known turning point

[21:17] Kirk you know I'm speaking at University of uh uh Nevada Reno and uh University

[21:22] of Washington uh uh in Seattle all because of you. Hilariously I'm speaking at Nevada Reno

[21:28] so we can kind of like I know I'm trying to follow I'm the fake Charlie Kirk. I follow you around. Who's actually speaking right? I could

[21:34] go like that. We need to do a sketch like that. So I could go do the Alex Stein day. Yeah. Or No, not even that. But you need

[21:40] to just like mix me in just and you could just say I couldn't make it and then you really come out. Oh, I think it's great.

[21:45] I know. Tell Andrew to text me that video where you really Yeah, that one guy one guy really thought I was at him. He's like, "You're

[21:52] Charlie." I'm like, "Yes, I'm the dollar store version." All right. Well, uh, just want to say, "Hey."

[21:58] Thanks, man. I know you're on the grind. Thanks, Charlie.

[22:03] Charlie thought it was funny. Just thought that video was funny. Didn't care at all. They didn't have any hard

[22:08] feelings. Like

[22:14] I'm just so sad. So sad. Everybody's so sad. Everybody is. Everybody should be

[22:20] sad. Everybody should be sad. Everybody should be really, really, really, really, really sad. And if

[22:26] you're not, you just, you know, it is what it is. You're not dialed in to what's going on in the world. And you

[22:31] know, there's a saying, ignorance is bliss. And uh sometimes I kind of do

[22:36] wish it's like the movie The Matrix. Um I think it's like Cyrus, I forget which character, like he decides, but Cipher,

[22:45] whatever. Cipher. Yeah, sorry. I get to mix up Cipher decides to plug back into the Matrix because he wants to, you

[22:51] know, he wants to he doesn't want to fight the bots. Like, you know, they don't even have food. They're like in, you know, a ship and, you know, they

[22:57] can't even like poop, right? He's like, "No, I'd rather plug back into the matrix and have a thick steak and have

[23:03] sex and, you know, just feel life even though it's fake." Um, and that's kind

[23:08] of like where we're at right now. Like, the world is so dark and so hard to

[23:14] comprehend that it would almost be nice to be ignorant so that you wouldn't

[23:20] comprehend how terrible things really are. But that's not really how we should be. I I don't really think that, but I

[23:26] just go through a lot of emotions in my head and I'm like, you know, how do I

[23:32] make uh this sadness go away? And it doesn't seem like uh it will go away for

[23:37] a while. And obviously, I've had a lot of traumatic things happen to me in the

[23:43] last few years, losing my mother and losing my best friend Hank Keller. And then even before all that, my best

[23:49] friend at the time, Clark Gable, or coworker, he was really close. So, I have uh have sadly gotten

[23:57] desensitized to losing people that I love. But seeing what we saw yesterday

[24:02] was the most graphic video I've ever seen in my life. And I've seen all kinds of terror videos. I've seen all kinds of

[24:09] Ukraine war videos. I've seen the Luigi Manion video. I've seen a lot of faces

[24:15] of death videos, you would classify them as. And what we saw yesterday was the most graphic video I've ever seen in my

[24:22] life. and I just can't comprehend it. I keep

[24:28] using that word, but I just still can't wrap my head around it and all the

[24:33] unanswered questions. And it's driving me uh really uh it's

[24:40] making me really sad. Making me really sad. And uh yeah, I uh I'm obviously not

[24:49] going to quit like going out and doing this. I know I said that earlier, but uh it just doesn't feel right um right now

[24:58] even going to a college right now. Tim and I were supposed to go to Penn State Timool obviously

[25:05] was supposed to go and debate at Penn State October 10th and we cancelled that.

[25:11] But I'm not going to cancel all my events. I mean maybe through Turning Point for the time being. I think that's what we need to do. That's the right

[25:17] thing to do. But I'm just saying down the down the road there will be a time and place where we can go back on a college campus and fight for Charlie's

[25:24] legacy. And I will say this that until the day that I die, I will always defend

[25:31] Charlie Kirk's legacy. And I've always had defended Charlie Kirk's legacy. And

[25:36] there was people on this show that have criticized Charlie that I've had conversations with after the fact that

[25:42] have all changed their opinion on Charlie because Charlie is a hero. He's an

[25:48] American hero. He's a martyr. Martyr, whatever. You know what I mean? Martyr.

[25:54] And he died for our liberties, our freedom. And his shirt

[26:00] said freedom on it. Like it just doesn't even seem real. like he literally died protecting

[26:07] freedom of speech.

[26:13] And that's why I'm going to spend every moment that I can and every opportunity that I get to defend Charlie Kirk. Not

[26:20] that he needs to be defended at all. I'm just saying because of what he did to me, people need to know that.

[26:26] I want people to know that I would not even be known if it wasn't for Charlie.

[26:34] And I will never stop saying that ever. I mean, it was there's about three guys

[26:40] that really kind of helped me out a lot at the beginning that kind of popped me off was Mark Dice, Charlie Kirk, and

[26:47] Gavin McKinnus. They kind of all three of those guys helped me out a lot and they didn't need to. They didn't know who I was. And so, till the day I die,

[26:54] I'll always shout out those guys. Um, but especially Charlie because

[27:00] no disrespect to Gavin starting the Proud Boys is pretty culturally re relevant and Mark obviously is an

[27:06] incredible commentator. Uh, Charlie was destined to be president of the United

[27:13] States of America. And that's a different level of success that very few people could be even

[27:19] considered for. Have no idea how Camela Harris was even considered for that. It makes no sense. that

[27:25] Charlie would have actually won his election if he ran and we're never going to have that

[27:30] opportunity to have him as our president. It just makes me absolutely sick.

[27:39] And like there's more there's there's more videos we have and we have like stuff from the crime scene, but I don't

[27:45] even the the illness and the pain in my stomach, the nausea that I'm feeling. I

[27:50] don't even really want to cover it because I don't want to I've constantly relived it. We all have constantly

[27:56] relived it because we can't even go on social media without reliving it. and

[28:01] were basically all victims of, you know,

[28:07] maybe it was, you know, just one killer, but we're all victims of this.

[28:13] Just seeing it, witnessing it, and society will never be the same.

[28:22] And maybe it shouldn't, maybe it shouldn't be the same. Like, I'm not I'm not saying that we should

[28:28] do a civil war, we should do the opposite of that. Like I was saying, Charlie, be respectful. But like I guess maybe like

[28:34] this is a message to uh either wake up or plug into the matrix and just be

[28:40] ignorant and just tune it out and just kind of be like, you know, a debt

[28:48] slave your whole life and just don't have any belief in God and, you know,

[28:53] just uh have a meaningless life. But Charlie would not have wanted that. He would

[28:58] want society to know that your life is important and your life means a lot. And

[29:04] Charlie at 31 years old's life has meant more than anybody could ever imagine.

[29:10] And I just am really at a loss for words when it

[29:17] comes to the constant feelings of uh despair and

[29:22] then and then you know anger and then fear

[29:29] and and just the overall kind of like you know there's like certain truths you have to accept in

[29:35] life like one of them is like that life is not fair. You have to accept that or else you'll go crazy. You will go crazy

[29:42] if you don't understand that life is not fair. And there's going to be people that work less hard than you, that are more successful than you. There's going

[29:48] to be people that catch breaks that they don't deserve. That's life. But when you see a person get taken out like Charlie,

[29:58] life is so egregiously unfair. It makes it almost unbearable.

[30:06] And that's the struggle that people are going through, especially young people that Charlie is trying to reach out to, is that they have that unbearable stress

[30:13] and anxiety because they cannot afford a home. They can't afford to go to

[30:19] college. They got to go to into debt to go to college for a job that they're not going to get unless they're the right

[30:24] color. And these are universal truths. This isn't racism. This is just true facts.

[30:32] And sometimes facts hurt people's feelings. I think that's Ben Shapiro's thing. I don't even want to talk about

[30:37] him right now. But these are hard truths that Charlie

[30:43] told that people needed to hear in order to help guide them in the right direction.

[30:50] And now they will not get that advice. They will not get that civil debate to

[30:57] let them form their own opinion. And

[31:04] we will never know what the world would have been like

[31:10] if yesterday didn't happen the way it did.

[31:15] I mean, I would even go so far as to say, and I don't want to

[31:21] get cancelled for this or anything, but I don't know if Trump's presidency can

[31:28] even be successful anymore. And I'm not blaming Trump. I'm just saying to lose a

[31:34] person like Charlie. This is like 911. This is like the pandemic. As this is a terrible,

[31:43] unthinkable tragedy that will affect the course of history

[31:50] significantly. Just like 911,

[31:55] just like major tragic events, just like Pearl Harbor, this is on the same level as that.

[32:03] I would even argue that this is possibly potentially be more impactful than some

[32:09] of those terrible tragedies because I don't know if a future president died in 911. I don't know. I

[32:15] don't know. We'll never know, right? But I do know that a future president died yesterday.

[32:27] I just

[32:33] I mean I just I just makes me so sick.

[32:39] Doesn't feel real. I don't know. I don't know if the chat's probably liking this episode. Just sitting here crying the whole time. But uh I don't know what to

[32:47] do, guys. I'm really uh just really really hurt. And uh a lot of opportunities that Charlie gave me

[32:54] unnecessarily. Like I I just feel so bad that I can't thank him.

[33:00] Like thanks. You have no idea. It's weird. It's weird. But I'm not trying to make it about me. It's not about me.

[33:06] It's not about me. And I'm just personally um upset because like I'm

[33:14] looking at all the big picture stuff about how we lost a future president, how the world's never going to be the

[33:19] same. But like I can't help but think in the back of my head my personal losses

[33:24] that a guy that thought I was funny, liked me, let me go represent his organization at colleges all across the

[33:31] country would have been great if he's president. He likes me. Well, how does that not help me? My life is significantly worse.

[33:39] And all of our lives are. I'm just saying. My life is worse.

[33:45] All of our lives are worse. All of our lives are worse. I just

[33:51] can't. I just can't. Uh I don't know. People are like in the

[33:57] chat, I should continue his legacy. Guys, I can't continue Charlie's legacy. I mean, there's just no I mean, I we'll

[34:02] go and always defend Charlie and we'll always talk about him in the most

[34:08] positive way possible, but I'm just saying those are shoes that I don't fit in. Okay? It's like a baby trying to put

[34:15] on cowboy boots. Their dad's cowboy. I can't fit in his cowboy boots. I cannot

[34:21] I cannot fit in his shoes. A lot of people can't fit. Nobody can fit in his shoes. And even if you put 20 people

[34:28] trying to finish you, like that's not the same. It's not the same. The world will never be the same.

[34:35] And I stopped saying this because our words have power

[34:42] and when we say something

[34:47] could potentially happen, we almost give it the power to happen. And uh

[34:54] so I want to be careful with with what I say, but um uh

[35:00] we always talk about how this is a war and we talk about how, you know,

[35:06] once we can't win with our words, people were Charlie even said it, they're going to use violence.

[35:12] So even though we knew that this was a possibility,

[35:17] nobody really thought that this would ever happen like this.

[35:23] Nobody really thought that because we are we're naive. We're naive. We're

[35:28] like, you know, society's bad. These people are shooting up schools and this and that. This stuff happens, but it's not going to happen to me. Not going to

[35:34] happen to Charlie Kirk. Not going to happen to this. like and then when it happens

[35:41] you you just you can't calculate that possibility being real and that's where

[35:47] we're at. I'm in the uh stage of um disbelief. I mean we all saw it so I

[35:54] know it's real but I just well every time I say that Charlie Kirk has passed away at 31 years old it doesn't feel

[36:01] real. feels like it's a sketch or something like I mean it's just uh it's a really really

[36:09] bad thing and hard thing to say and something I never would have expected I would have to say. I mean

[36:16] the idea that I'm older than Charlie and I was going to I mean just just I would

[36:22] have thought that Charlie Kirk would have been president and nobody would even have the motivation to do something

[36:29] to him like that. Like I I didn't think that type of evil existed. Even the most person on the most hormones and stuff, I

[36:35] figured they'd just be like, "Oh, I hate you." I didn't think that they would plan a public assassination for Charlie

[36:41] because Charlie was he was a strong conservative, but he wasn't far right.

[36:48] He wasn't alt-right. He was uh pro-America. That's what he was. So his

[36:55] views were not that incendiary whatsoever. The fact that he's pro- life, nobody really cares. Like nobody I

[37:01] mean being pro-life is not controversial enough for somebody to kill you. Like it

[37:06] just there has to be more to it. I just don't understand why somebody would want to kill somebody for wanting to protect the lives of babies cuz everybody knows

[37:12] in their heart that protecting babies is good. Everybody knows that. Everybody knows that when a drunk driver, you

[37:19] know, hits a pregnant mom and kills the baby and the mom, they get charged with the double homicide. Like everybody knows that. Charlie used that argument.

[37:24] People know that, right? But they'll just go argue, you know, pro-choice because they're just sick people. But I

[37:31] don't know anybody that could ever look at Charlie or listen to him for longer than 15 seconds and have any ill will

[37:37] towards him. Even all the influencers that all follow him around, they're all

[37:44] very sad and they should be because Charlie was a beacon of light. Whether

[37:51] you agreed with him politically or not, you knew that he was coming with the best intentions and he was going to be incredibly honorable. And it's hard to

[37:58] debate a person that is incredibly honorable, incredibly good, has nothing to hide, and can just lay all their

[38:04] cards on the table like Charlie did. It's it's almost impossible to beat that type of person in a debate. And that's

[38:10] why nobody beat Charlie in a debate. And that's why somebody took him out. And

[38:15] it's just a a lesson that um when you're actually good,

[38:24] when you're actually a moral person and you actually

[38:30] you're super famous, but you want to give people access to you because you feel that's that's your humble duty,

[38:37] which Charlie did not have to do. You see all these other people, they don't like to go. I mean, a lot of people have

[38:44] gone and done college debates, but I'm saying Charlie was so incredibly accessible. Anybody that wanted to go

[38:50] debate him could go to his event, stand in line early enough, and get an opportunity. And like,

[39:05] I don't know. I don't know what much more I need to say about it. I'm kind of just repeating myself. I do know that uh

[39:13] Tucker Carlson started a Gibson go. I think it was Alp donated $1 million if

[39:18] you want to support Erica and uh his two young children. Alp put in a million

[39:24] bucks. Gibson go. I think you type in Erica Kirk. Uh so yeah, I mean once again that is no

[39:33] disrespect to Tucker. Charlie would have been a billionaire one day. So I mean

[39:38] money is I mean, no amount of money that we could give his family would have been close to

[39:43] the amount of money that Charlie could have earned on his own. So,

[39:51] and Charlie would have had more kids and Charlie just I was just don't I'm just

[39:58] America lost its greatest private citizen yesterday.

[40:04] And for that matter, as a private citizen, he's better than all these other politicians, too. So America literally lost its best citizen

[40:12] yesterday. So just like when Michael Jordan retires

[40:19] from the Bulls or Tom Brady retires,

[40:25] Charlie Kirk is the world's greatest debater. And

[40:30] that's all we need to say. And we just need to honor his legacy. And I know that I'll honor his legacy. and I'll do

[40:35] whatever I can to always defend him, which I always have. So, honestly, I

[40:41] feel guilty enough that I haven't defended him hard enough. I wish I would had when I had opportunities, I wish I

[40:46] would have defended him a million times, even harder, even though I have always defended him. I just

[40:52] I really wish I would have let people know how much he helped me while he was still alive. And even if I didn't tell him personally, maybe heard it through

[40:57] the grave fine. Like, I would have liked him to know that. I would have liked him to know that.

[41:06] So, a lot of people are going through it. Uh,

[41:11] I guess we all should just kind of let the pain come upon us.

[41:20] It's okay if you've had other trauma in your life and you're like, man, this almost feels worse than that trauma.

[41:25] That's not unusual because what we all experienced yesterday was unlike

[41:31] anything that's ever happened in history before that. This was much different than the JFK assassination with the

[41:38] Zruder film coming out later. Like this was totally different. This is the most graphic video I have ever seen or

[41:46] humanity has ever seen. Ever.

[41:52] the juxtaposition of a man with a microphone speaking in front of a crowd taken out like that. There will just

[41:59] never be a video as graphic or as horrible as that. So if you feel immense

[42:04] pain and sadness, that is the normal default feeling when you witness and experience something like that.

[42:11] So let's not beat each other up. Uh, let's just try to find

[42:17] I mean I don't even know if we should look for happiness right now because that's you know

[42:22] no like the world's let us let's mourn Charlie let's feel let's feel the sadness let's feel it and let's uh

[42:29] experience it and then you know let's use that motivation like I remember

[42:36] you know when my mom passed away I would

[42:41] I walk into that hospital I so scared every day. The nurses were not nice and

[42:46] it just was a bad experience. And I was like, I got to do it. I don't have a choice. You know, I got to go visit my mom. They only had certain hours I could

[42:52] go visit. I could only go there for four hours a day. So, I'd have to leave and come back. And

[42:58] uh I remember walking through that hall, the halls of the hospital, and like

[43:03] like it just didn't feel real. And that's uh that's kind of how this

[43:10] feels. Like it just doesn't feel real. But what I learned from that terrible tragedy is after the fact that there

[43:17] would be situations where I would be in that I didn't want to be in and I would just go back to the

[43:25] horrible tragedy that I had experienced and I realized that I I made it through that there's nothing that we will face

[43:32] that will be as tragic. So, it gave me, I guess, this

[43:37] confidence to not even worry about the next challenge because no challenge is going to be as

[43:43] tough as that. And I think that what happened with Charlie is going to be a similar thing for society. It's like

[43:49] society will never be challenged as hard as we were challenged yesterday with what we saw.

[43:56] And we can either let it eat us away and fight one another

[44:03] or we use it as a motivating tool to go out and carry on Charlie's legacy and

[44:10] make the world a better place and fight for what Charlie would have fought for

[44:17] because they don't have any other choice.

[44:23] like vote or die, fight or die. So don't let this horrible tragedy

[44:30] demoralize you enough to quit. Use this as a rallying cry

[44:38] to understand that life is incredibly short. Life is tragically unfair.

[44:49] And that it's up to you to really take the reigns because

[44:57] nobody else is going to do it for you. And Charlie Kirk was the ultimate self-starter. 17 years old, starting the

[45:05] biggest college organization in the world. I mean, just sounds impossible. Literally sounds.

[45:11] When I was 17 years old, I mean, I was like backing my car into, you know, people in parking lots. Like I was not

[45:19] starting a conservative organization that would influence multiple presidential elections. And then don't

[45:25] forget all the smaller elections that they influenced. So yeah, today's a bad day.

[45:33] No silver lining. The world is significantly worse with Charlie.

[45:40] Nothing is okay. We will all be okay, but the world is not okay. And it's a

[45:46] much darker place. And we can never go back to before 9/11. And we can never go back to before

[45:52] Charlie Kirk. So the the world that we were living in yesterday is not the same

[45:58] world that we're living in today. We have to understand that.

[46:03] And don't let this be a motivating factor to give up because Charlie

[46:09] wouldn't have given up. And uh we do know one and it's not even

[46:16] a silver lining because it was guaranteed anyway. But Charlie is obviously in heaven obviously. I mean he supported

[46:25] the church and churches so much that uh the big guy upstairs definitely had to

[46:31] take care of Charlie. He obviously needed Charlie or obviously Satan had to take him out because Charlie's too good. I don't know why Charlie's not here, but

[46:37] I know that he is in a better place. The world is worse off, but uh Charlie

[46:45] is not in pain. He's not suffering. And he is with the Almighty probably calling

[46:53] shots, you know. And uh yeah, so

[47:00] we'll uh we'll just see where we go from here. Uh, my life is

[47:08] drastically going to be different the next few months. But, uh, I'm not worried about that. But, uh, I'm worried

[47:14] about you guys. I mean that. I am worried. I am worried because I know that I'm a mess right now. I don't want you guys to all be messes like me. And

[47:22] we have to honor Charlie. Uh, he would probably he would definitely be making fun of me for crying. I think uh Charlie

[47:29] probably uh, you know, he's he's a real man. and he probably wouldn't have cried on camera, but a lot

[47:34] of people have. And that's uh that's because a lot of people all had great experiences with Charlie Kirk and nobody

[47:39] had a bad experience that ever got to personally meet him or interact with him. And that's why we're crying. That's

[47:44] why we're so sad. And he touched the lives of people that Charlie doesn't even realize. Not just people that are

[47:51] Turning Point chapter members. So many other kids that we have no idea that

[47:57] were affected in a positive way by Charlie.

[48:02] And um yeah, I don't know. I feel like I'm repeating

[48:08] myself. So, I think I'm just going to wind things down and uh say this has

[48:14] been uh one of the worst weeks ever. The world is uh a much worse place.

[48:22] I hope Donald Trump can help fix this. I don't know if he can. I don't know if

[48:27] anybody can. So, uh, yeah, it's our duty to fight,

[48:34] not give up, and to emulate Charlie. I mean, I emulated him literally.

[48:40] And now I need to emulate him even more. But, uh, nobody can replace a supernova

[48:48] like Charlie Kirk. And I just one last thing want to say, thank you, Charlie,

[48:53] for everything that you did for me, for giving me multiple second chances when you didn't have to. And uh I'm really

[49:01] upset that uh we we couldn't have done more stuff together.

[49:13] I'm really upset about that. It's not about me. I'm just selfishly I'm really upset about that,

[49:19] too. I just wish I could have done more with Charlie. But uh yeah, I'm happy for the

[49:26] experiences that I did have with Charlie. Very grateful for all of them. He was a very busy guy, very busy changing the world for a better place.

[49:33] So, yeah. So, uh we're just gonna end the show. We're gonna do a moment of silence. Obviously not a freestyle

[49:39] finale. nothing to freestyle about tonight, but uh yeah, we're going to uh take a moment of

[49:45] silence for All right.