Alex Stein Reacts to Disturbing TikTok Trend Mocking Charlie Kirk and Texas Death Penalty Verdict

[00:00] Now to a truly disturbing new trend on

[00:03] TikTok, naturally, of a young Americans

[00:06] using audio of Charlie Kirk and gunshots

[00:10] as part of a prom outfit transition. I

[00:13] mean, this is

[00:14] gross.

[00:15] Counting or not counting gang violence?

[00:17] Great.

[00:20] Counting or not counting gang violence?

[00:22] Great.

[00:25] Counting or not counting gang violence?

[00:27] Great.

[00:31] Just actually sick, ugly, depraved

[00:35] behavior. If it were up to me, those

[00:38] little callous brats would not be

[00:40] graduating. Expel the lot of them. If

[00:43] they think Charlie deserved to be killed

[00:45] for his opinions, they can be expelled

[00:48] for their actions. Joining me now is

[00:50] comic and host of After Hours with Alex

[00:53] Stein. Alex, I know Charlie Kirk was a

[00:55] good friend of yours. How does it feel

[00:58] watching

[00:59] a sick skit like that?

[01:02] You know, I saw that trend going viral

[01:04] over the weekend, and at first, seeing

[01:06] it is incredibly shocking, but it's

[01:08] actually not surprising at all, Rita,

[01:11] because I go and I spend a lot of time

[01:13] at these college campuses, and these

[01:15] kids are so desensitized to violence

[01:18] that Charlie

[01:20] all the great work that he has done,

[01:22] sadly, his biggest legacy will be

[01:25] partially the meme culture that

[01:27] constantly shares Charlie Kirk memes and

[01:29] uses Charlie Kirk sounds, and they're

[01:32] doing it kind of as a like a therapeutic

[01:35] way because I use humor and you know, in

[01:37] dark, tragic times, and I think that's

[01:39] what the youth is doing, and I'm not

[01:41] excusing that behavior. It's disgusting.

[01:43] But because these people are so

[01:45] desensitized, the only way that they can

[01:47] make each other laugh is bringing up a

[01:49] tragic situation like Charlie, and I

[01:51] think that that's just a side effect of

[01:53] of you know, the culture that is really

[01:55] prevalent among young people in America

[01:57] right now. So, it's shocking, but not

[01:59] surprising to me, Rita.

[02:02] Now to one of the most heinous crimes

[02:05] we've seen in recent times, a former

[02:07] FedEx delivery driver, Tanner Horner,

[02:11] who pleaded guilty to killing 7-year-old

[02:13] Athena Strand in Texas, he's just been

[02:16] sentenced to death in Texas. That

[02:19] happened earlier today.

[02:21] And the jury has found you guilty of the

[02:22] offense of capital murder as found by

[02:24] the jury.

[02:26] Jury having answered the special issues,

[02:28] making it mandatory that your punishment

[02:30] be death. It is therefore the order of

[02:31] this court

[02:33] that your punishment be death.

[02:35] Before the hour [snorts] of sunrise on a

[02:37] day day to be determined by this court

[02:40] upon a mandate of affirmance issued by

[02:42] the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals at

[02:44] the state penitentiary in Huntsville,

[02:46] Texas,

[02:47] you will be caused to die.

[02:50] Alex, I don't care if you are against

[02:53] the death penalty. I I just don't think

[02:55] any sane, feeling person with a sense of

[02:58] justice who heard the details of that

[03:01] case would want anything other than that

[03:04] man dead. The jury must be traumatized.

[03:08] They heard the voice of that terrified

[03:10] little girl, and they deliberated for

[03:12] just 3 hours before handing down the

[03:15] death penalty, which will be carried out

[03:17] by lethal injection.

[03:21] Well, I think this I mean, it's a

[03:22] horrible, horrible situation, but I'm

[03:24] happy that he actually got sentenced and

[03:26] convicted with the death penalty. Now,

[03:28] in Texas, it does take a long time

[03:30] before he actually will probably be be,

[03:32] you know, executed. I believe they're

[03:33] speculating it'll be 2040, but him going

[03:36] to prison in Huntsville, Texas, being a

[03:38] child molester, I think the likelihood

[03:40] of him making it to his execution date

[03:43] is going to be slim to none, and they're

[03:44] not going to like hearing a story about

[03:46] how a guy murdered a 7-year-old in his

[03:48] work van. So, uh the outlook for him is

[03:51] very grim. Tragically, not as grim as

[03:54] his victim, but you know, that's just

[03:55] how the world works. Life is not fair,

[03:57] but he's going to get some sort of

[03:59] prison justice very soon.