Matt Walsh Reflects on Charlie's Death and Whether Truth is Worth Dying For

[00:00] I want to close the show with a very

[00:02] brief thought. Um, I spoke at an event

[00:05] for the organization Do No Harm last

[00:07] night. It was the first speech I've

[00:08] given since Charlie's death. Fitting

[00:11] that I think that my first speech would

[00:12] be at a do no harm event given that they

[00:14] fight against gender ideology and so did

[00:16] Charlie and of course he was killed by a

[00:19] militant for that ideology.

[00:21] I'd like to reiterate something that I

[00:23] said during that speech because it's

[00:24] it's been on my mind quite a bit

[00:27] and I think that it's it's worth saying

[00:29] to a larger audience here on the show.

[00:31] So, that's what I will do. U a couple of

[00:36] days ago, someone asked me a question

[00:39] that I've been thinking about ever

[00:41] since.

[00:43] And the question was this. Do I think

[00:47] that Charlie thought that it was worth

[00:50] it in the end?

[00:53] In his dying moments, if he was able to

[00:55] think anything at all, if he was able to

[00:57] form any thoughts before he passed,

[01:01] did he think that it was worth it? Was

[01:04] it worth fighting for truth given the

[01:07] price he had to pay for it?

[01:09] If all he had worked for had led him to

[01:13] this this moment, death, pain,

[01:18] was it worth it? Would he take it all

[01:20] back if he had known the cost? If he had

[01:22] known that it would cost him literally

[01:24] everything?

[01:26] And this is a question that resonates

[01:28] deeply because it has personal

[01:29] implications for all of us.

[01:32] You know, when I say that we're under

[01:34] attack, that they want us dead, that all

[01:37] of this is probably going to get worse

[01:39] before it gets better,

[01:42] I really mean it. I don't say it for

[01:43] effect or to be dramatic or or to

[01:46] generate a viral clip or whatever. I say

[01:50] it because I believe it to be true.

[01:53] Which means that I have to ask myself,

[01:54] we all have to ask ourselves, is it

[01:57] worth it? What if you meet the same fate

[02:00] as Charlie? I mean, really, really think

[02:02] about it. What if you do?

[02:05] If you have the chance to think anything

[02:07] before the lights go out, will will you

[02:09] think that it was worth it? Or or will

[02:11] you wish that you had just kept your

[02:13] mouth shut, that you had stayed out of

[02:15] it, that that that you hadn't put

[02:16] yourself out there?

[02:19] What did Charlie think about that? Well,

[02:21] I don't I don't know what Charlie

[02:23] thought. Obviously, I mean, there there

[02:25] are a lot of people speaking for

[02:27] Charlie, putting words in his mouth,

[02:28] telling us what he thought or would have

[02:30] thought about this or that. I don't want

[02:32] to do that cuz the truth is I don't know

[02:35] what goes through a man's mind when he's

[02:37] in his final moments.

[02:40] I I literally cannot imagine it when

[02:43] he's lying in a pool of his own blood

[02:44] and all he can hear is the chaos and the

[02:46] screaming and the shrieks of horror all

[02:48] around him. when he's confronted

[02:50] suddenly and violently with the reality

[02:53] that he will never see his wife and

[02:55] children again in this life.

[02:58] I I I don't know what kind of thoughts

[03:00] you think, if any.

[03:03] But if I had to guess based on what I

[03:05] know about Charlie,

[03:07] did he think it was worth it? Yes.

[03:11] Yes, I really do. And what I can say for

[03:14] sure without making any assumptions

[03:15] about Charlie's state of mind is that it

[03:18] was worth it. That Charlie died because

[03:22] he stood for the truth. Let's make no

[03:24] mistake about that.

[03:26] That that's why he was killed. He he he

[03:28] was killed because he spoke the truth.

[03:32] And the truth is worth any cost that we

[03:35] must pay for it. The truth is worth our

[03:38] lives. It's worth our blood. It's it's

[03:39] worth

[03:41] even the grief and tears of our loved

[03:43] ones

[03:45] because the truth is the only thing

[03:47] that's worth anything and the truth

[03:50] always wins in the end. The truth always

[03:51] prevails. I mean you can hide from it.

[03:52] You can lie about it. You can try to

[03:55] distract from it. You can attempt to

[03:57] confuse and change the subject. You can

[04:00] cajol and harass and threaten those who

[04:03] speak it.

[04:05] You can kill them, but you can't kill

[04:07] the truth.

[04:09] The truth will outlive all of us. It was

[04:11] here before us. It'll be here after us.

[04:14] When we're all dead and gone and our

[04:16] graves are forgotten and overgrown,

[04:18] the truth will still be the truth. Jesus

[04:21] said, "I am the way, the truth, and the

[04:23] life." Jesus Christ is the truth. The

[04:24] truth is Christ. The truth is eternal.

[04:28] There nothing more important than it.

[04:31] It's more important than than any of our

[04:33] lives.

[04:35] And the truth is what Charlie dedicated

[04:37] his life to.

[04:39] So yes, the truth is worth dying for

[04:43] because it's worth living for. And

[04:45] Charlie never forgot that. And neither

[04:48] should we. If you'd like to see what

[04:50] else I have to say, you can access my

[04:51] full show by going to dailywire.com or

[04:53] by going to the Mattwalsh Show Twitter

[04:55] page. Hope to see you there. God speed.