It's Too Late to Cry "Cancel Culture"

Summary

Podcast Summary:

Podcast: Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone
Episode: It's Too Late to Cry "Cancel Culture"
Date: September 15, 2025

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Overview

In this reflective and provocative episode, Sasha Stone examines the rising double standards in "cancel culture," focusing on reactions to the assassination of conservative figure Charlie Kirk. The conversation carries a critical edge against leftist politics and mainstream reactions to violence and cancelation narratives, especially the sudden concern for freedom of speech by those who once championed cancel culture against right-leaning voices. The episode features personal anecdotes, sourced social media commentary, a recounting of traumatic events surrounding Kirk’s death, and candid emotional response.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. On Cancel Culture and Its Roots

• Stone opens with skepticism regarding the recent uptick in concern about censorship and workplace speech discipline following the firing of NBC employees over their Charlie Kirk-related comments.

• Criticizes the hypocrisy of those now denouncing cancel culture, pointing to years of left-leaning intolerance toward dissenting views:

  "It's funny that they all suddenly care about censorship, free speech and cancel culture, isn't it? And the chilling effects that had on open expression. Have they looked at Hollywood lately?... How many people did we watch unpersoned, disappeared and banished from utopia?" ([00:00])

• Stone sees the current backlash against leftists being canceled as a form of poetic justice:

  "Turnabout is fair play. What drama queens? They get fired and it's the end of the world. They lost their jobs. Try losing everything. Your family, your marriage, your friends, your status." ([02:31])

• Highlights the evolution of cancel culture from fringe internet spaces into institutional and governmental practice post-2016.

  "Cancel culture was always about power, it was wrong. When it began after Trump's win in 2016. It existed before that, mostly as a joke... But it became frightening and chilling when institutions got involved..." ([10:39])

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2. Political Violence and Media Hypocrisy

• Interviewee recounts physical violence experienced by Trump supporters, paralleling the lack of widespread outcry when compared to liberal victims:

  "If a conservative professor would have hunted down a Kamala Harris wearing student, it would have been a hate crime and the number one news story in the country. Now we could barely get attention for a young man who was punched by a professor..." ([01:33])

• Detailed, traumatized witness account of Charlie Kirk’s assassination at a rally, marked by sudden violence and ensuing panic:

  "We were on the second or third question... talking about gun violence... when his neck exploded. And... I am waiting for more bullets to start... I'm ready for the mass shooting part to begin because, man, it's the opportunity for it. Like, we're down in this Slaughter pit..." ([04:10])

• Stone scorns those mocking Erica Kirk’s (Charlie’s widow) emotional response, attributing it to deep-seated religious performance and denouncing the ridicule:

  "If they get fired for this, I have not an ounce left in me that cares even a little bit... These soulless monsters... I would not want... working for me." ([07:46])

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3. Cancel Culture’s Aftershocks & Moral Double Standards

• Exploration of social media reactions that associate the right, and especially Kirk, with fascism, and the subsequent desire for retribution:

  "For the record, the side that shoots the guy in the neck because they don't like his opinions is the fascist side. Supporting those celebrating his death is to support fascism or extremism." ([15:39])

• Stone invokes the summer 2020 BLM protests and January 6th riots, comparing media coverage and aftermath, denouncing the selective condemnation:

  "Yet it's always one group that is punished and one group that is either ignored or celebrated... When the left rampaged through the cities all through the summer of 2020, leaving violence and mayhem in their wake, the media barely covered it." ([15:46])

• Refers to prominent left-leaning figures like Stephen King and Stephen Colbert, highlighting their continued success post-controversy as evidence of left-wing immunity to permanent cancelation:

  "On the left, they fail upwards. If anything, they'll be celebrated for getting fired. Look at Stephen Colbert, who has now won an Emmy and will be getting a standing ovation tonight..." ([21:21])

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4. Personal Loss, Faith, and Martyrdom

• The latter portion of the episode becomes a eulogy for Kirk, reflecting on faith, courage, martyrdom, and the lasting legacy of loss.

• Guest recounts spiritual and emotional ties to Charlie Kirk, framing his death as a self-sacrificing act for liberty:

  "Charlie gave his life so that the rest of us would not have to suffer those fates worse than death... Now it's our job... to win this battle for our country, for God and for our families." ([25:08])

• Stone concludes on a spiritual note, drawing from Corinthians, emphasizing living with purpose and meaning amid adversity.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Double Standards & Payback

  “Why is it always on MAGA to take the high road? Imagine if a prominent left-leaning influencer…was assassinated at a rally. Millions would pour into the streets all over the world. MAGA can't. Why? Because they'd be once again demonized as dangerous extremists.” — Sacha Stone ([10:39])

• On Media Coverage of Violence

  “These were not clashes. These were pure attacks. Trump supporters, men, women, even the elderly… walked right into danger…this man says he was sucker-punched, his clothes torn off his back...” — ABC’s Tom Yamas (quoted) ([13:21])

• On Institutionalization of Cancel Culture

  “Julie Kelly has a story on the crackdown after January 6th…treated like terrorists. Kamala Harris herself compared that day with 911 and Pearl Harbor, as if to justify everything that was about to happen to them...from the show trials to the absurd charges thrown at many of them, policing their thought and speech, convicting them in the court of public opinion with spectral evidence...” — Sacha Stone ([10:39])

• On Moral Responsibility in the Aftermath

  “If they all step forward and say, ‘we’re so very sorry we canceled all of you, you are now officially uncanceled,’ then maybe MAGA should think about feeling bad about it. But until then, they’re having to lie in the bed they made—tastes like victory.” — Sacha Stone ([21:21])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:00–02:31: Opening on hypocrisy of cancel culture, anecdote of MAGA hat assault
• 04:10–07:46: Witness recounts the trauma of Kirk’s assassination
• 10:39–12:43: Evolution of cancel culture into institutional power, January 6th prosecutions
• 13:06–15:46: Media coverage contrasts: Trump rallies, J6, BLM protests
• 17:39–19:00: Left vs right political violence; lack of accountability
• 21:21–22:50: The legacy and personal meaning of Kirk's death
• 23:55–26:00: Reflections on loss, martyrdom, spiritual responsibility
• 27:19–29:59: Emotional musical tribute and poetic send-off for Charlie Kirk

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Conclusion

Stone’s episode is a blend of scathing critique and heartfelt elegy, arguing that the culture of cancelation—once wielded predominantly by the left—has finally come full circle. While stone cold about those now losing their positions for publicly celebrating tragedy, the episode shifts less into gloating and more into a call for reflection about the cost of intolerance and the real meaning behind martyrdom, ideology, and what it means to live—and die—for one’s beliefs. The tone is emotionally raw, unsparing, and unflinchingly partisan, yet it closes with grace, faith, and the hope that legacy outlasts the storms of politics and polarization.

Transcript

[Sacha Stone]

Hi, this is Free Thinking through the fourth turning. My name is Sacha Stone. It's too late to cry. Cancel Culture. Why is MAGA always expected to take the high road for podcast listeners? A tweet from Ross Alerts Breaking. NBC News is reporting that numerous employees have been fired or placed on leave over comments related to Charlie Kirk. The move has sparked growing concerns about freedom of speech in the workplace, with critics warning that disciplinary actions are creating a chilling effect on open expression. It's funny that they all suddenly care about censorship, free speech and cancel culture, isn't it? And the chilling effects that had on open expression. Have they looked at Hollywood lately? Ever hear of a culture of silence and a climate of fear that is all but gutted a once thriving industry? Do they remember why Elon Musk had to buy Twitter? How many people did we watch unpersoned, disappeared and banished from utopia? How many lives have been ruined just for daring to speak the truth about the differences between biological men and women? Remember, all lives matter. Remember blue lives matter. Remember the MAGA hat and all the ways people were assaulted, screamed at, spit on, and shunned just for wearing them? When this Trump supporting student got attacked.

[Podcast Guest 1]

Just for wearing a MAGA hat, Charlie Kirk fired back and what he said completely wrecked the entire left. What happened? I was walking to Valhalla to get my food exchanged and PhD student Patrick Mahoney, as well as his accomplice Gerald Hoff did not like the hat I was wearing. When my head was down, I made zero eye contact with him. He saw my hat. He ripped the hat off my head, crumbled it. I had to go confront him and say, what are you doing, dude? Because he had the hat on it. Then he told me to go get it. I'm sorry. Then what happened next? He charged at me, Patrick grabbed my chest, slammed it on the road pavement. Then he grabbed my head and also slammed it on the road pavement as hell. And this was a professor, right? If a conservative professor would have hunted down a Kamala Harris wearing student, it would have been a hate crime and the number one news story in the country. Now we could barely get attention for a young man who was punched by a professor here at Washington State University.

[Sacha Stone]

Do the hundreds of names in the database for Cancel Culture register at all? Remember the Harper's letter and how so many were canceled just for signing it? Now we're all supposed to feel bad because those who chose to dance on Charlie Kirk's grave are now losing their jobs? Well, my friends, turnabout is fair play. What drama queens? They get fired and it's the end of the world. They lost their jobs. Try losing everything. Your family, your marriage, your friends, your status. The right doesn't have that kind of power. And besides, no one is banning them from social media for posting things like this. For podcast listeners, a tweet by Bill Madden on September 12th that says truth and a woman holding a sign that says, you lost Confederacy. You lost Nazi symbol. You're next. Maga with 100,000 likes. I know I'm supposed to care and play the game of saying that firing people is wrong. Maybe it's wrong, but honestly, I don't care. If we just move on and pretend all of this is on par with using the wrong pronoun or questioning masks or the results of an election, then how can we ever absorb something as serious as someone being shot and having his throat explode in front of his wife, his kids, and a rally full of students? Here is a video of someone who was there and witnessed it. How can we just move past this with all the usual memes and mocking, sneering posts?

[Podcast Guest 1]

We were on the second or third question. We were probably 20 minutes in and we were. They were talking about gun violence. I forget the exact question posed, but Charlie was responding to the question about gun violence when his neck exploded. And for in the shot rang out. It didn't ring out. It cracked out from, like, where we were. I heard one rifle shot, and we're down in this pit. Lots of concrete and buildings everywhere. It didn't echo, but it made a unique crack kind of report. I had one thought. It was very quick that maybe it's a joke, maybe this is a gag. Maybe this is a piece of theater or stagecraft to really, like, drive home this important topic of gun control that is being debated. That thought did not last long. This, like. It's like a. Like a super physical reaction that I have to thinking about this every time. Like, I've tried to, like, tell, like, my family, like, what happened or, like, if I think about it, I get these, like, involuntary shakes. Trauma's a weird thing. He gets shot just. It looks bad from where we are. We all hit the ground and we're on top of each other, right? I'm on top of some dude. Two other dudes are like, I've fallen on top of me and I am waiting for more bullets to start. Start raining down into bodies. I'm ready for the mass shooting part to begin because, man, it's the opportunity for it. Like, we're down in this Slaughter pit. And it's, it's. There are about five really scary seconds laying there. You can feel the panic rising. You can hear the panic in people's voices and cries. You can hear the confusion. After about five seconds, I think we all realize that that automatic rifle fire is not going to start raining down from above. So everybody starts moving at the same time, just getting away.

[Sacha Stone]

Look at these awful women mocking Erica Kirk. If they get fired for this, I have not an ounce left in me that cares even a little bit. Maybe that makes me a hypocrite and a bad person, but I would not want these soulless monsters working for me. Here is a video of tiktokers. If you have not watched the absolutely bizarre video Erica Kirk made about the untimely death of her husband, then go watch it and then let's come back and talk about it. If you are a normal breathing human being with a heart and lungs and actual skin, then you probably watched that and you went, what the fuck? Why is this so weird? Why does this woman come across as an npc? Well, the answer to that is Christian brainwashing. Her entire life this woman has been made for this performance. She's been preparing to be a martyr since she was a child.

[Podcast Guest 2]

And now she was delivered.

[Sacha Stone]

I wouldn't want a guy like this working for me either. Partly because he is awash in mass hysteria and trapped inside a delusion of his own making. And partly because he seems to think it's necessary to keep killing people he thinks are fascists. Here's a tiktoker.

[Podcast Guest 1]

To truly understand the ramifications of what happened yesterday in Utah to Charlie Kirk, we need to look back 90 years ago to what happened to two Nazi party members when they were also assassinated. Horst Wessel, who would go on to become one of the images of Nazi martyrdom culture. The other, Ernst Vomrath, a diplomat in Paris. Which would go to kick off Kristallnacht or the night of Shattered Glass, one of the earliest and usually considered the start of the Holocaust. So who was Horst Wessel? Well, he was a perfect young little Nazi. He was an SA member, the Sturm Abteilung. He was also a leader in that organization, a storm leader as they called them. Horst also was a literal pimp. He ran prostitutes and this is what got him into trouble with some of the local communists who would go on to shoot him in the literal face. Horst had been active in right wing politics since he was 15 years old. And it's very important to understand that the Nazi party was looking for someone to become a martyr. Their chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, had already tried to make other people martyrs for the Nazi Party. But in Horst Wessel he found the perfect figure. Horst had spent much of the last five years doing street battles with the socialists and the communists and being the perfect Nazi Party member. So before Horst was even dead, you had the entire propaganda arm of the party working in overtime to spin this into a major martyrdom. Cause you had literally Joseph Goebbels meeting with this man's mother before she went to see him at the hospital. And in Horst they found the picture perfect icon of Nazi Dom. And he would go on to inspire many, many things surrounding the culture and cult of Nazi martyrdom. Not only was horse.

[Sacha Stone]

Cancel culture was always about power, it was wrong. When it began after Trump's win in 2016. It existed before that, mostly as a joke on black Twitter and in the murky icky depths of Tumblr circa 2013. But it became frightening and chilling when institutions got involved and when the government got involved, it was authoritarianism. Julie Kelly has a story on the crackdown after January 6th that should make anyone's head spin about what they did to American citizens, most of whom were practicing their First Amendment rights when they were treated like terrorists. Kamala Harris herself compared that day with 911 in Pearl harbor, as if to justify everything that was about to happen to them. AKA internment camps in Gitmo. From the show trials to the absurd charges thrown at many of them, policing their thought and speech, convicting them in the court of public opinion with spectral evidence. They were accused and convicted racists. I have stood up to cancel culture for the last five years. Even longer I stood up for those wrongly accused whose lives were ruined over the same things. Either imagined crimes of their past or one wrong word spoken or a joke made on Twitter. Like Gina Carano who was fired for joking about COVID and pronouns. Why is it always on MAGA to take the high road? Imagine if a prominent left leaning influencer of Charlie Kirk's stature they don't have one, but let's say they did. Was assassinated at a rally. Millions would pour into the streets all over the world. MAGA can't. Why? Because they'd be once again demonized as dangerous extremists. Their right to protest was eliminated after January 6th. Imagine if in 2015 the right had done this to Democrats. Something that the President was really proud of in his campaign was that it was self funded and that he had a lot of Stuff small.

[Podcast Guest 2]

Oh, nice.

[Sacha Stone]

So sorry.

[Podcast Guest 1]

Are you okay?

[Sacha Stone]

Sorry.

[Podcast Guest 2]

I'm fine.

[Podcast Guest 1]

Are you serious?

[Podcast Guest 2]

I'm fine. Sorry.

[Podcast Guest 1]

I'm sorry.

[Podcast Guest 2]

That it's not how really. That's not how people really feel.

[Podcast Guest 1]

That's disrespectful.

[Podcast Guest 2]

But on the other hand, that is.

[Podcast Guest 1]

Disrespectful as too sorry.

[Podcast Guest 2]

So there's a. I respect your opinion. I didn't do that.

[Podcast Guest 1]

None of that. Breaking news overnight. Those violent clashes at Donald Trump's rally in California.

[Sacha Stone]

You see those protesters there? They attacked Trump supporters just after Trump spoke. And ABC's Tom Yamas was there. He's on the scene now in San Jose.

[Podcast Guest 1]

Good morning, Tom.

[Podcast Guest 2]

George.

[Podcast Guest 1]

This was one of the most violent scenes I have ever witnessed at a Trump rally. At times, it seemed like the police had no control of the situation. People were getting beat up right in front of them. And these were not clashes. These were pure attacks. Trump supporters, men, women, even the elderly left this building last night and walked right into danger overnight. All out brawls outside the Trump rally in San Jose, California. Trump supporters harassed, beaten and bloodied by mobs of protesters. They were like spitting on me and stuff. This man says he was sucker punched, his clothes torn off his back. Seven more people just come in, start punching me, Carl. I look pretty bad. This lone female Trump supporter tried to stand her ground. Her sign torn from her hands, her glasses ripped off, then shoved in her face. A woman wearing a Trump jersey cornered and then egged in the face. Fights breaking out in the streets all over the convention.

[Sacha Stone]

Yes, January 6th was bad, but so were the protests when Trump was inaugurated. A limousine set on fire as demonstrators wreaked havoc in Washington. Police had to push back the protesters so firefighters could get to the flames. A group of people carrying anarchy flags pushed over trash cans and destroyed storefront windows as they swarmed through the streets. Police fought back with pepper spray and tear gas. We welcome visitors to our city, but we will not tolerate the destruction of our neighborhoods and we absolutely will not tolerate violence against our police officers. But as night fell, protesters lit a bonfire just blocks from the White House. Many demonstrators were handcuffed with zip ties and led away one by one. At least one person was taken to the hospital. Closer to home, near Mar a Lago, protesters wield a coffin to symbolize the death of democracy. And now, a familiar scene outside Trump Tower in Chicago. A huge crowd of demonstrators making their voices heard. But most of the protests were peaceful. In a sign of unity, Trump protesters and supporters stood side by side in our nation's capital.

[Podcast Guest 1]

These groups that are breaking windows and things like that delegitimizes a lot of the reason the rest of us are here.

[Sacha Stone]

Yet it's always one group that is punished and one group that is either ignored or celebrated. Sure, you get the fake Patriot front out in force in an attempt to continue the lie that Charlie Kirk was a fascist. But the right doesn't riot and rally and protest like the left. They can't. But also, contrary to popular belief, it's not who they are. For podcast listeners, a tweet by Daniel Berrian. So weird that Charlie Kirk was supposedly not a fascist, yet the fascists see him as a martyr. And a tweet by the main wonk Patriot Front marching through Huntington Beach, California, chanting, fight back, say his name, Charlie Kirk. And a tweet by Denim Raw. Probably the most frustrating thing about conservatives is how so many of them are genuinely too stupid to even understand that this is hypocritical because they genuinely cannot comprehend moral principles. Beyond me good, you bad. And a double tweet by ian Jaeger from 2022. Liberals can't stand a difference of opinion, so they will Cancel you and 2025. I'm calling on Barnes and Noble to remove all Stephen King books from their shelves after his post about Charlie Kirk. For the record, the side that shoots the guy in the neck because they don't like his opinions is the fascist side. Supporting those celebrating his death is to support fascism or extremism. But do I think Stephen King's books should have been removed? No. Do I understand why MAGA would want to use its power to pay them back? Absolutely. When the left rampaged through the cities all through the summer of 2020, leaving violence and mayhem in their wake, the media barely covered it. No one was punished for it. In fact, they were all rewarded. Anyone who criticized the protests, even a little bit, was canceled for it. I remember. I was there.

[Podcast Guest 1]

It's been nearly three weeks since Milwaukee Democrat Tim Carpenter was assaulted by protesters.

[Sacha Stone]

When January 6th unfolded, there was violence just as there had been all summer. Yet only one side was demonized for it. All the American people saw for months, years after was the January 6th footage on a loop. Even now, they bring it up as though the summer never happened. Here is Michael Knowles.

[Podcast Guest 1]

Do you know how people like Seth Moulton arrive at the conclusion that there's more right wing political violence than left wing political violence? They don't count the left wing political violence. That's how. That's how they do it. They lie. They hide the left Wing political violence. The first two cases I looked up of clear left wing political violence, trans motivated political violence. Another one regarding the transgender issue from antifa. The left wing. The left wing organization. Left wing terror organization in America, not political violence.

[Sacha Stone]

So that's how you get to it.

[Podcast Guest 1]

We all know, because we have eyes and ears and memories that left wing political violence in America is much, much, much more prominent. And there's a double scandal here because not only will the authorities not do anything about it, they won't even admit that it exists. They'll hide it.

[Sacha Stone]

After Biden took power, he weaponized the DOJ to go after Trump, indicting him four times. After the Democrats impeached him twice, they tried to throw him off the ballot in several states. He defeated them all and won again, impossibly, in November. And when Trump's DOJ went after John Bolton, the left clutched pearls. How could he be using lawfare against his opponents? When does the left take any accountability for the bed they made? Ever? In theory, I don't agree with Cancel Culture, but I guess I don't care that much now. Not after everything I've seen them do. Not just what they did to me, but what they've done to Maga for the past 10 years, or anyone who broke their rules. They had all of the power and they abused that power. This is their precedent. They've never apologized to those who have been canceled, like me, like Graham Linehan, like J.K. rowling, like Joseph Massie, like hundreds of others, for making a joke or having an opinion. So cry me a river. But sure, if they all step forward and say, we're so very sorry we canceled all of you, you are now officially uncanceled, and maybe MAGA should think about feeling bad about it. But until then, they're having to lie in the bed they made tastes like victory for podcast listeners. A tweet from Matt Taibbi. I don't see much soul searching about the downstream effects of a generation of deplatforming. Those are the chickens I see coming home to roost. And besides, on the left, they fail upwards. If anything, they'll be celebrated for getting fired. Look at Stephen Colbert, who has now won an Emmy and will be getting a standing ovation tonight at the ceremony and a pat on the back for condemning political assassinations. Just not character assassinations. He'd never condemn those. He wouldn't have a career. As they gather at the Emmys tonight to hand each other gold statues none of them really deserve, they will all pretend for one More night that they're the good guys. As a heartbroken MAGA gathers at the Kennedy center to honor Charlie Kirk, something they will see as a desecration, they probably think it will be a Nazi rally. Instead, they might be surprised to find them honoring Charlie the best way they know how, by praying. In the Book of Corinthians, Paul said, therefore, we are always of good courage and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We are of good courage, I say, and prefer to rather be absent from the body. Be home with the Lord. Ultimately, for every one of us, the time that we have in this world is temporary. Our time will come sooner or later. And so the critical question that we have for ourselves is, whatever time we.

[Podcast Guest 2]

Have.

[Sacha Stone]

What are we doing with life? How are we making the most of every day that we have? Charlie Kirk, every single day, carried out his mission motivated by his faith in Jesus Christ and his unwavering dedication to defending our God given freedoms enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

[Podcast Guest 2]

I met Charlie for the first time in July of 2001. I went on his podcast, and I think we approached each other with a lot of trepidation at that time. But by the end of the podcast, we were soulmates. We were spiritual brothers and we were friends. And over the next couple of years, our friendship blossomed. He ended up being the primary architect of my unification with President Trump, which I. Which I did my endorsement at his rally at the Turning Point rally in Scottsdale. And he was the one who put the sparklers on the stage when I shook it.

[Podcast Guest 1]

When my brother David died, I had.

[Podcast Guest 2]

A conversation with my mother, who had been through more than her share of loss and tragedy. And I said, I asked her, I said, does the hole that they leave in you when they die, does it ever get any smaller?

[Podcast Guest 1]

And she said, no, it never gets any smaller.

[Podcast Guest 2]

And I had a conversation once with Charlie where we were talking about the danger that we both faced from challenging entrenched interests.

[Podcast Guest 1]

And he asked me if I was scared to die.

[Podcast Guest 2]

And I said to him, there's a lot worse things than dying. And one of those.

[Podcast Guest 1]

The chief among.

[Podcast Guest 2]

Us is losing our constitutional rights and having our children raised in slavery. I said to him at that time, I said, sometimes our only consolation is.

[Podcast Guest 1]

That we can die with our boots on.

[Podcast Guest 2]

We can die fighting for these things. Charlie gave his life so that the rest of us would not have to suffer those fates worse than death.

[Podcast Guest 1]

Now it's our job.

[Podcast Guest 2]

He's no longer There to lead us, rush in and fill the beard breach and win this battle for our country, for God and for our families.

[Sacha Stone]

They won't be able to avoid thinking about Charlie Kirk at the Emmys. They'll pretend to care about cancel Culture because the worm has finally turned. But his death, that brutal public execution, has embedded itself in our culture. Yes, even on the left. Sooner or later, they will have to confront the truth about who Charlie Kirk really was. Because even in the afterlife, he still knows how to encourage people to question their core beliefs with amazing grace. Thank you for listening to my podcast, sashastone.com I hope you had a great weekend. And remember to thine own self be true.

[Podcast Guest 2]

I remember the silence when the news felt like rain the weight of your leaving carved a mark left a name in the whispers of the morning, in the breaking of the dawn your voice is still echoing though your body's gone you carry the fire.

[Sacha Stone]

Through the darkest.

[Podcast Guest 2]

Of night A lantern of truth burning steady my bright and though we are standing in the shadow of loss your journey reminds us to carry the cross And I swear I can hear you in the wind when it sings in the hush of the evening in the rustle of wings Though you've taken your bow the curtain won't close for the seeds of your life keep on learning and grow Rest in peace Charlie Kirk your story lives on like a hymn in the valley like the rise of the dawn the angels are singing but we're holding the song rest in peace Charlie Kirk you were never gone.

[Podcast Guest 1]

You.

[Podcast Guest 2]

Taught us of courage you taught us a fight of standing for truth when the world hides the light your laughter still lingers in the hearts you have touched a spirit unbroken, a soul loved so much the road feels much longer without you beside but heaven gained home when the earth set goodbye and though we are aching we'll honor your flame for lives like yours never die in vain And I swear I can feel you in the calm of the rain in the hearts of the people who will never be the same your echo is steady it will never fade thin Every ending is just where forever begins Rest in peace Charlie Kirk your story lives on like a hymn in the valley like a the rise of the dawn the angels are singing but we're holding the song Rest in peace Charlie Kirk you were never gone so we'll carry your memory like a candle in the storm a light for the weary a place to stay warm and when we are broken your words will remain a comfort of blessing like sweet summer rain Rest in peace Charlie Kirk you're Etched in our skies like the stars that remind us Love never dies the angels are singing and we'll sing along Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk. Forever our.