While the hole in our hearts and lives will never be filled, I hope that in time our family can find healing.

I pray that the other victim's family can find some semblance of the same.

I'm hopeful that all the wounded are able to make a full recovery

and return home to their families. And finally, all the people and especially the children

impacted by this horrific event are able to recover mentally and find strength to live loving, happy, and full lives.

Welcome everybody to the Rickishay Podcast, episode number 755.

I'm joined by Stephen Hayward in California and Charles C.W. Cook in Florida.

And gentlemen, welcome. Thank you. So, I guess I should start with the news.

I live technically, I'm on 51st and the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis is on 54th, so I'm close.

There's the creek between us, beautiful rushing water that goes down to Minneapolis Falls.

Lovely neighborhood, beautiful neighborhood, beautiful day.

And I get a call for my sister-in-law, or a text for my sister-in-law,

who lives a block away from the church, that there had been a mass shooting and an enunciation.

And she goes out and talks to her neighbor who had actually seen the demon do it. And within

seconds, it seemed as if every, as I wrote in ricochet, every siren in the world was heading

our way. This, this, this,

this, this, this chorus of whales that was astonishing. And, um, it was, it was, it was a bad day here.

And the only thing I can think of that's, that's, that's, that's apt is 9-11, and I know people drag that into everything,

but the same sense of after the event and the,

and just the stunned feeling, this ghastly miasma that descends over the community,

and how the TV is always on.

The TV is your friend.

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