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So I recorded this episode on Wednesday about 9-11.

It was an episode I've been looking forward to making and releasing for quite some time.

And then the assassination happened of Charlie Kirk.

And I just need to take a moment and honor this man who died doing what he believed.

I met Charlie when he was about 18 years old. I think I was in my early 20s and he told me he was

going to start an organization called Turning Point USA and it was going to change the country and

he had all these big dreams and I kind of laughed at him and I was

like okay you know um best a look and he did them all the last laugh was on him he was an amazing operative

and someone who always got better over time and it's something that I noticed and he won over my

deep respect we weren't close for most of his professional life but in the last few years he'd reached out to me to try to open up a dialogue and you invited him on a show many times and I was on. I was always very happy to be on and I really grew up a respect and get to know him a little bit and he was a good person, a really, really good

person. And his death is a tragedy. And I send my deepest condolences to his loved ones, to his wife

and children and parents and the T.P. USA family. I've been praying for the repose of his soul that he enter the gates of heaven and find eternal

salvation.

And as a public figure and a public commentator and someone in the public eye, I can tell

you it's very scary nowadays.

And I'm probably going to do an episode on Monday about assassinations and attempted assassinations

and the string we've had about them,

but I just have to honor him

and just say that Charlie, you were better

than all your critics combined.

They had nothing on you,

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