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This is Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.
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Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Thursday, September 11th. I am Matt Jones here. I am in New York and the guys are back in Lexington and Shannon is in Louisville and you can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line, 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254 in this edition, sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay A lot of stuff to get to Today Football game is Saturday. This the last time I will be on this show, at least regularly in terms of the whole show until October 3rd, although I may check in at some point from South Africa as I get on a plane tomorrow night. These guys will be at Clark's Pump and Shop tomorrow and I want to get to all that stuff. But I think you do have to start with what happened yesterday in Utah where a political advocate, Charlie Kirk, was speaking at a college campus and was shot murdered from afar and in what was a tragic, tragic act and just a murder that I think has long term ramifications for the country. So I just want to address this by starting with this. As soon as it happened, I was with Drew. Actually, we were, we were, we were doing the show for Cover zero and I Drew said that the video was online and it's a shame that in 2025 things like that just show up on your timeline. Just an absolutely horrific scene. We were in the middle of taping the podcast. We kind of stopped, took a minute to take it in and my initial reaction was simply this it was. It is awful to see any human being killed for basically speaking their beliefs or, you know, being in a public setting. We don't know exactly the. They don't have the person who did it yet, so we don't know the. Exactly the motives. But in a public setting, speaking their beliefs and being killed, it's the exact opposite of what America stands for. And when I saw the video, the first thing I thought of was, what an absolute tragedy. That's a human being. It's a human being with a wife, It's a human being with two young children. And it's a human being that is in front of a mass of college students, all of whom are engaged in. In public affairs and are interested in the state of their government and the state of society. And I was just really saddened by it. This is not what America is supposed to be. This is the kind of thing you hear happening about in other countries, far away, around the world. The idea that you would be an advocate for whatever your political beliefs are and would be shot down in public while speaking them, it's awful quickly thereafter, if you got on social media, it became a conversation about something else. And I actually tried yesterday, after making a couple statements to say, stay off social media for that reason, because I don't think as a starting point, people should skip over the basics that a human being was murdered in front of a group of college students while speaking. It's horrible. It's absolutely horrible. And it is the type of thing that can lead to real negativity. Even beyond that, in society. We're so quick in this country to label people in groups, whatever groups you want to have. In this case in politics, it's conservative, liberal, Republican, Democrat, whatever. But what happens when you do that, in my opinion, is. Is you end up dehumanizing the people on the other side. It's easy to say I joke about the people that call me liberal. And it's easy when to say, oh, that's just a MAGA person, whatever. But it's easy when you do that to then forget that it's a human being. And I think yesterday, very quickly, the murder of Charlie Kirk became not about Charlie Kirk and not about the act, but a chance to. To then make your political points, whatever they were. I saw comments online that were, you know, there were people cheering it, which is awful. There were people saying, this is the beginning of, you know, World War Three, let's get them. Also awful. But I want to be clear that I think that is a very, very, very Very small minority of people. I think most people saw what I saw, which was a human being being murdered, and just were horrified by it. Absolutely horrified. Social media sometimes takes the worst of humanity, throws it out there and makes people think it's the norm. I don't think it's the norm. I think the norm is a lot of people who saw that and said, that's awful, that cannot happen in America. And maybe being worried that it will happen more. You notice nowhere during that did I say what his political beliefs are. It does not matter. It doesn't matter. You cannot have a world where whatever a person does and gets up and speaks that they're then no longer with us. That is a recipe for a disaster. I heard somebody else, I read somebody else said last night, it's like a forest fire that once lit, cannot be put out. And I agree with that. I hope the country sort of uses this as a moment to take a step back and say, we can't go down this path. We can disagree with each other, but we are human beings. We are, at its core, we have a humanity. And that is a person who's 31 years old, who has a wife and two kids and who, whether you agreed with him or not, had a movement of young people who he really engaged with and who, if you spent any time on like non Twitter, social media and you went to like Instagram, a lot of people really sat, people who felt like they knew him. And it has to change. We cannot have a world where people are scared to get up in public and say what they think. Last night I had multiple friends write me and say something like, hey, man, when you get up and say stuff in public, like, look around. And I hadn't even thought about that. But it can't be like that. I'm just a sports host. Imagine what people who represent us or who are in government, who are political commentators, that that world cannot exist. So my heart was broken last night, One, as a human being, that a person was killed in that respect. But two, looking forward for the future and saying, I hope, I genuinely hope people use this as a moment to remember that at its core, when we get to the Pearly Gates, they're not going to ask what political, what political party that you were in. They're going to ask how you treat your fellow human being. And hopefully we start to remember that we're more than these labels that we put on us. This morning, apparently the FBI did a press conference. The shooter is still at large. They say they have some ideas about who it is. They found the rifle, but the person's still not caught. That was the last I saw before the show started. I don't have an update beyond that. Ryan, Drew, I'll go to you. What were your sort of initial thoughts when you saw it yesterday?