Welcome back and joining us now is Eric Peters of Eric Petersotto's.com.

Always great to have Eric on.

He is focused on liberty and mobility because you can't have one without the other.

It's kind of what Jefferson said about life and liberty.

He said the hand of force can destroy life or liberty, but cannot separate them.

Of course, he said disjoined them, but that's a little bit stilted for our language.

But it definitely is true.

And you cannot disjoint liberty and mobility either. So I always

enjoy Eric's take on things. Eric, I was sad to see that you're, we were just talking about this

over the break. You wrote a piece three days ago. You said, Our Charlie. What happened in your family? Well, yeah, it's a tough thing to

talk about. I hope I'll be able to do this well enough. But we had about a two and a half

year old mixed-degree German Shepherd Lab. And, you know, he's been my companion for that whole

time and just a very big presence in our life. Anyway, he got hit by, I know, he's been my companion for that whole time and just a very big presence in our life.

Anyway, he got hit by, I guess, a car or truck.

I'm not sure exactly which.

And it was really jarring because as anybody who's been through having a pet die knows, it's one thing when your pet is elderly and old or sick.

And you, you know, you understand that it's going to happen and you have time to prepare for it. But, you know, with a young pet like that to just be gone instantly, just like that is what happened. Really difficult. And, you know, boy, for the last several days, this happened on Friday, I've been having deja vu, you know, at certain times of the day, like, oh, I better put water in Pace's bowl or, oh, it's time for us to go for our run. I went for a run on Monday. And, you know, one of his things that he would do, he would carry around him. He was a strong dog, a big log in his mouth. And he would keep it in his mouth for a mile or more on our run. You know, it was just one of those things. And as I'm running by myself, which was strange, I saw one of the logs that he dropped off on the trail and it just really, I'm sorry, kind of really, I'm being overly emotional about it. So I apologize. Oh, no. I understand. Absolutely understand. It's a, like you said, it's the suddenness of this.

And I think that's one of the things that really magnified what happened to Charlie Kirk.

But I think, you know, when we look at it and how they have taken his legacy and they have

flipped it completely opposite of what he was known for, what he ought to be remembered for.

They're doing everything they can to make a saint, a celebrity, whatever there.

And in Oklahoma, they want to put a Charlie Kirk statue on every university campus.

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