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Buck Sexton
Start your 7 day free trial today. Offers are subject to change. Go to Fox one for complete terms and conditions. Fox one we live for live streaming now. Welcome everybody to the Friday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I want to jump right to it, the news that many of you may have seen. We want to bring you up to speed with all of the latest on it. Charlie Kirk's assassin has been caught, turned himself in, in fact, and we will give you more of those details. But the alleged assassin has been taken into custody. We'll walk you through the timeline this morning of how that went, some updates on law enforcement's role in this, the family of the shooter's role in this and, and the latest on who this shooter was, the profile, the ideology behind it. And then also I think we're going to spend a portion of the show today. Well, first off, of course, continue to commemorate our friend Charlie Kirk and the incredible work that he did. And I think, Clay, there was never a doubt as soon as we got the horrible news and were able to process what had happened, there was never a doubt that Charlie's legacy, the movement, the organization and what he stood for would not only continue on, but I think there is a turning point toward standing for these principles and standing for this free speech in an elevated, I mean, just going forward, everybody on the right, everybody who believes in the Constitution, everybody who believes in the First Amendment feels like we must stand with this legacy of Charlie Kirk, his work, what he did, what he stood for. We also do need to address the widespread. Widespread is the only, I think, way you could describe it. It is not fringe. It is not on the edges, on the margins. The widespread, horrific response to this assassination of our friend Charlie Kirk from elements of the left. People are getting fired left and right, which they deserve. But it's just astonishing because that shows you how utterly deranged in their politics. So many everyday Americans, as well as pundits and people with followings. And so we'll get into all of this. But first, Clay, let's just go through the news events this morning as they happen. First off, President Trump was sitting on the couch at Fox and Friends and he gave a pretty good indication of what was to come. Play Clip 1.
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Emily Maitlis
Any updates on the suspect?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, can I always say, I think just to protect us all and so Fox doesn't get sued and we all don't get sued and everything else, but I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody. Right in custody. Everyone did a great job. We worked with the local police, the governor. Everybody did a great job. Clay. That was then confirmed later by Governor Spencer Cox of Utah. This is cut 8 saying that they do in fact have Charlie Kirk's murderer, the assassin was in custody. Play it.
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Law Enforcement Official
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
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Clay Travis
We got him.
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Law Enforcement Official
On the evening of September 11, a family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident. This information was relayed to the Utah County Sheriff's Office and scene investigators at Utah Valley University. This information was also conveyed to the FBI. Investigators reviewed additional video footage from UVU surveillance and identified Robinson arriving on UVU campus in a gray Dodge Challenger at approximately 8:29am on September 10th in which he is observed on video in a plain maroon T shirt, light colored shorts, a black hat with a white logo and light colored shoes. When encountered in person by investigators in Washington county on September 12th in the early morning hours, Robinson was observed in consistent clothing with those surveillance images.
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Buck Sexton
But Clay, the investigation continues about what was said by him online. Did he have any co conspirators? There's a lot still to unpack. But the assassin is in custody as we speak to you now, thankfully.
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Clay Travis
No doubt. And we're getting more and more information about the assassin and we try to avoid giving a lot. I try to say avoid giving names. I understand. Sometimes we play media coverage where they do it. Here are some of the identifying details that I think are starting to be to be revealed. 22 years old, was to a large degree turned in by his dad who was a 27 year law enforcement veteran. The dad I'm seeing reports of, we talked about this, that there was a hundred thousand dollar reward. The dad is saying I'm not taking the reward. But the question that is out there. This is a kid grew up in a Utah home and had a completely normal upbringing. Evidently made good grades in school, did well on standardized tests and something and I know this is part of what your book is about. Buck. Something radicalized him, something turned him from a kid that was not particularly political according to his, his parents and those around him to expressing that he hated Charlie Kirk and being willing to kill Charlie Kirk. Plan it all out, all the details. He changed clothes again. If you missed the press conference, it feels very open and shut case. His motivation. I'm not talking about what his motivation was because there'll probably be articles where they Say in the New York Times. We may never know why he did this. There were antifa and anti Nazi engravings on the shell casings that he was using to kill Charlie Kirk. So he hated Charlie Kirk. He was a far left ideologue committed to antifa and anti Nazi ideology, according to the engravings on the bullets themselves. So we know what his motivation was. To me buck, the story now is how, how did a kid in a normal middle class upbringing, nuclear family, how did he get radicalized to the point where he was willing by the age of 22 to take a rifle and go murder someone that he had decided he hated because of Charlie Kirk? This because of his political beliefs. How did that happen in a relatively short period of time? Because evidently this kid did well in high school, made good grades, wasn't political to suddenly sitting down at the family table screaming slogans about hating Charlie Kirk and then his own dad has to turn him in. I mean, it's, it's, it's difficult.
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Buck Sexton
I can tell you from the extensive studies that have been done and that were very much a part of my daily life in the gwat. The global war on terror, anti jihadist days that poverty, things like that, they have really no bearing on radicalization. And in fact, a lot of the worst ideological terrorists. This guy's a terrorist. I mean, this is, we'll use the term assassin is accurate. Of course, the term terrorist is also accurate. This was violence to a political end. But this is someone who clearly, when he was hearing all of the rhetoric about how Trump is a Nazi, how fascism has descended upon America, we could sit here and we will, we will go through some of where these messages and where, how this narrative has been formed because it is important, because I think, Clay, this time, more than, you know, more than what we've seen in a lot of other cases, this time is one where there are random people, random people who are in a position to say that they have seen someone in their own life who has celebrated this. I've never seen anything like this before.
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Clay Travis
It's happened to me.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, it's happened to me. I'm seeing it all over the place. And that is like waking up among the enemy a little bit. That is. Wait a second, hold on a minute here. You know, with Trump, he's the President of the United States. And the fact that. And he, and he was fine, right? He was in a different, he was in a different situation entirely because he walked away with his fist in the air and he was okay. And people were saying, oh, I hope they got him now. That's heinous. That's heinous.
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Clay Travis
Right.
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Buck Sexton
We saw the people that were making those kind of comments online. I mean, Charlie was. We all saw it on video. And he's got a wife and kids and all these friends, all these people who care about him, love this person. And the worst thing possible happened. The worst thing possible in that situation happened, which is that Charlie's no longer with us. And there are people who are gleeful, and I don't mean a few all over the place. Thousands, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. I can't give a number other than to say wading through Blue Sky Clay was like going through an insane asylum of people who are aware of their actions, though. And I recognize that. Right. You know, they're. They are in the grips of a delusion, but they are responsible for what they are saying. They're not seeing pink elephants in the sky. They believe this fascism and Trump narrative, and it costs our friend Charlie his life. And there just needs to be a.
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Clay Travis
Reckoning and also just an examination. I truly believe this, and I. I hope I'm never challenged or proven wrong in this, because I hope it never happens. I think if Rachel Maddow. I'm trying to think of who the equivalent is of Charlie Kirk on the right. Let's use. I'll use Rachel Maddow as an example. Somebody that's.
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Buck Sexton
She's. I mean, that's. They. They. They. Clay. I'm not even. They got. This is part of this. But the reason I wanted to jump in on this is just because this is part of why they're so angry, because they're so used to having control of the youth. They have nobody that's even in the. In the stratosphere of the info. I think that's.
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Clay Travis
I think that's true, but I'm just saying Rachel Maddow speaks on top of it.
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Buck Sexton
Rachel Maddow is like an old lady now. I mean, she's our age. That's a totally different thing.
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Clay Travis
But if she got shot on campus, I think you and I and the vast majority of people out there would say, this is awful. This is unacceptable. I don't think there would be an outpouring of people on the right saying, she got what she deserved, or I'm happy that this has occurred. This is not. And I want to say this, too, this is not some fringe element of the Democrat Party that is celebrating Charlie Kirk's death. This is a solid 25 or 30%, at least, of their Base celebrating the death of someone who was killed because of his political belief.
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Buck Sexton
Well, let's, let's unpack what their, what the story is that they tell themselves. How do they get to this delusion? And yeah, McClay mentioned this and I appreciate he brought it up. This is actually the title. This is the, it's in the title. Manufacturing Delusions. This is what my book was about. This is what it's about. Radicalization of the masses of normal people who believe crazy things. How does this. There's processes, there's tactics, there's all these things. In this case, the storyline that was latched onto by, by President Biden when he was president. Right. By the New York Times editorial page, by the biggest voices. If Trump wins, we won't have another election. If Trump wins, our democracy is over. The republic no longer exists. They're going to put you in camps. They're Nazis. Well, Clay, if you and I were alive in, you know, occupied Holland or something, circa 1943. 1943, we would take extreme measures, right? I mean, if we were truly under a Nazi occupation. Now, you can say that they tell people this as just a rhetorical flourish, but that's exactly the point. It's irresponsible because what they are doing is dehumanizing their political opponents in a way that results in tragedy. And it's happened again and again and again. This is not a one off. It's just the most awful recent one that we have seen.
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Clay Travis
I think what you started to see was in the reaction to the UnitedHealthcare CEO's public assassination. They made his assassin a hero. And you pointed out that they tried to do it with the Boston terrorists.
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Buck Sexton
Cover Rolling Stone looking as handsome as they could make him look.
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Clay Travis
That was pre social media. So I think the sort of green shoots of this already existed. I think on social media, they have come into full fruition. And the problem with this is this kid, I say kid, he's 22, he thinks he's a hero. And a lot of other people are going to see the way that he is treated. And it's going to embolden others to go out and try to kill people they disagree with politically. I'm just telling you that that is, it is open season because there hasn't been some massive, some massive response and outpouring on the left saying this is unacceptable. In fact, the exact opposite. There's a huge outpouring of celebration. People are risking their jobs to celebrate somebody being assassinated, losing their jobs.
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Buck Sexton
A lot of people, you're Seeing this, a lot of people are getting fired and not from just msnbc like that guy Dowd, who I can tell you is a world class, I can't say it on the air without getting in trouble, but a real bad dude. So no, no tears there. He's been a jerk for a long time. But I mean, you know, like vet techs down the street from you and guys who work in the, in the, you know, the local restaurant or in.
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Clay Travis
The, you know, your family, you probably have family, may have family that's posting somebody in your family, extended family. You might get on Facebook and suddenly you see celebrations going on for a murder and an assassination and you just think, what world am I living in? I think that's one that a lot of us have experienced this week.
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Buck Sexton
All right, we're going to take a lot of calls today. It is a Friday, so make sure you light us up with those. And please, also on the talkbacks, we'll get to those. We want to have this conversation be as robust and widespread with all of you as we can. Good news is that the assassin is in custody and we'll continue to talk about how we move forward and how we honor Charlie's legacy. Look, how do you prepare for natural disasters? One easy way is by getting a pair of rapid radios. These are modern day walkie talkies built to communicate on a nationwide LTE network. So distance is not a problem. We've shared our own story here on the show about how when my in laws got hit bad by that hurricane up in western North Carolina, we thought it was going to hit Florida really badly. It actually hit western North Carolina really badly. Trees were coming down, one came down through their kitchen. Power lines down everywhere. I was able to talk to them from my living room in Florida the next day on my rapid radio checking in with them. How are you doing? How's it going? No monthly fees. Pre programmed simplicity. Rapid radios keep you connected and should be part of your preparation plan. Plus they're super convenient. So just for the day to day, keeping in touch with elderly relatives, your kids, people on the job site, whatever it is. Rapid radios, once you start using them, you'll see they are trusted, tested, legit. Go to rapidradios.com today. That's rapidradios.com youm'll save 60% when you visit that website. Use promo code radio and get an extra 5% off. Making America great again isn't just one man, it's many.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. I do think we should get because there's a lot of already discussion, oh this is a Republican that was killing Charlie Kirk because he agreed with him. I think it's going to be hard for that argument to take root, but I understand that you guys may be confronted with some of this. Producer Greg did a good job. There are a lot of different things that were basically engraved on these bullets. Catch this fascist basically was one of them. That's not very difficult to understand. Also, Bella Chow was written and producer Greg did the research on this. It's a song dedicated to the Italian resistance fighters who fought against Nazi Germany. So he basically is calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi and a fascist, which is what left wingers decided to brand Charlie Kirk as.
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Buck Sexton
Buck well this is, this is all the proof that you would need in terms of understanding the twisted ideology and motive here. This is an antifa terrorist. Antifa stands for anti fascism. That's where the what's where the word comes from. Just so we can all remind ourselves this was an antifa assassin of our dear friend Charlie. And this ideology of antifa is widespread among a lot of leftists, particularly younger leftists. We'll talk more about this. Look, I've been sharing my health journey with all of you over the past year and down £40. I want to do another 10 or 15, but you know that's on me. Chalk has been a huge part of my day to day though because chalk makes an entire line of products that support what I'm trying to do. When it comes to proper supplementation to give me the energy drive and focus that I need. Now, chalk is spelled C h o q ch oq. You can go to choq.com, their best selling male vitality stack would be a great first look for you with a leading ingredient proven in studies to increase testosterone levels by as much as 20% in just three months time. Those T levels going up is great for guys especially as we age. By the way, the Chad mode which is a pre workout but you can use it for anything when you need energy. I use it all the time. My in laws use Chad Chad mode. They love it. Go to chalk.com choq.com use my name Buck for a massive discount on a subscription for Life. That's Chalk Choq.com promo code Buck. All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. Charlie Kirk's assassin is in custody. That was the big news, long awaited news this morning. And now we're just as part of the grieving process and as part of the figuring out how we all move forward, the sane and the decent among us. Unfortunately, not all Americans, not all Americans are sane and decent when it comes to this stuff. There's a considerable crew that are completely nuts, really vile, I mean really evil. I mean nuts isn't the right word. We lack the words I think sometimes to describe this other than things like evil, demonic, spiritually and you know, ethically bankrupt. But here we have some discussion from governor Cox of Utah talking about messages that were shared. This was, this whole thing was planned. It was a planned out assassination. This individual, we know that he scrawled things on the casings. It wasn't a, you know, last minute, the morning of he snapped or something. This guy was planning to do this for some time. Here's the governor talking about messages shared between the roommates of this shooter and the shooter himself.
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Clay Travis
Play 11.
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Law Enforcement Official
Investigators identified an individual as the roommate of Robinson. Investigators interviewed that roommate who stated that his roommate, referring to Robinson made a joke on Discord. Investigators asked if he would show them the messages on Discord. He opened it and showed several messages to investigators and allowed investigators to take photos of the screen as each message was shown by Robinson's roommate. These photos consisted of various messages including content of messages between the phone contact named Tyler with an emoji icon and Robinson's roommate's device. The content of these messages included messages affiliated with the contact Tyler stating a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush. Messages related to a to visually watching the Area where a rifle was left and a message referring to having left the rifle wrapped in a towel. The messages also refer to engraving bullets and a mention of a scope and the rifle being unique.
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Buck Sexton
Clay, we're getting more and more of these details. Yeah.
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Clay Travis
Okay, Here are the messages on the assassin shell casing and they are explained. And a lot of this is Internet culture, so I'm going to go in the most easily explained version. Hey, fascist, catch. I fit on the shell casing. Hey, fascist. Exclamation point, catch, exclamation point, catch this bullet. I think it's pretty easy to understand that one, right? Bella, chow, bella, chow, Bella chow, chow, chow. It is a song that was sung of the Italian resistance during the World War II. So in Italy, this was what the people who fought the Nazis In World War II, it was their anthem. So it is anti Nazi, anti fascist, those two examples. Another one is the call down code. This is according to Joel Berry, by the way, and the call down code for the 500 kilogram bomb in the game Hell Divers 2. I mean, again, a lot of this is very internal Internet discord chat style that probably, certainly you and me, Buck, are not familiar with. We're probably more familiar with it than the average 65 or 70 year old who may be listening. But I'm trying to just explain so that you are aware. Hey, what was on here? Notices bulges O W O. What's this? It is a transgender furry culture meme that is popular on online. And then this one I get. And if you read this, you are gay. Lmao. Laughing my ass off is what LMAO stands for. You are gay. I think you can understand that. And again, that's sort of an Internet code I think that is used on these, on these message boards.
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Buck Sexton
Well, this is, this makes me think more that this person was increasingly operating in an alternate reality or a delusion where his actions like a video game are not with any consequence when as we know, what happened was the most awful and evil of things that any person could, could do. So how can you separate these things? I mean, imagine this, this shooter writing jokes on the cartridges he's going to use to murder a human being, a father. I mean, you know, I can't even think about Charlie's two kids without starting to just. It's just, it just overcome with emotion. I think every, all the parents listening feel the same way. What about Charlie's kids? What about Charlie's wife? To scratch these things into these bullets. What a, a complete and utter like what, what Depravity. You know, I know I've used the term demonic a lot, but it is really accurate here to think that you could be doing something good when you're doing something so purely evil. And, and this is unfortunately, Clay, part of this much broader narrative that we talk about. I remember many years ago I read the anti fascist handbook. It was by a sort of an activist slash historian. And that was pre Trump because there was a resurgence or maybe the, you know, the sort of origins of this group in the American context really started to get prominent after the Wall street meltdown and then the Occupy Wall street movement. That's when you had Antifa. That's when people learned about it. That was when they heard about this. So, so this idea of left wing street thugs who will terrorize people. I know people say, oh, the W2WTO trade protests, you know, or the, those protests back in, what was it, Seattle and a few other places.
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Clay Travis
This is what I was going to say, Buck. That's the first time I became aware of it because when I went to college at gw, the World bank is basically right next to our, right next to our campus. And in the early 2000s, there were riots in Washington D.C. led by Antifa. And they were graffiti and everything. I was walking to class and I was like, who are these people? What are they doing? I remember seeing people in masks running around with graffiti cans. And to your point, Buck, there is now Tim Pool is, has got pictures and he says, Tyler, I don't want to say this kid what. This guy was allegedly involved in multiple Antifa Discord servers. And we should probably explain to people because I had to learn this from my kids. I've never been on Discord. Discord is basically a series of private and or public message boards that can be created on almost any topic. And they are very, very popular with hyper online young men in particular. And so this, this killer, this assassin may well have been radicalized inside of some of these Discord servers that were collections of radical Antifa guys. And Buck, based on the report, some of the audio that we played, he was bragging in some way about doing this to his friend, which is one way that this helped to go public. He's talking about where he hid the gun. He wants the credit for it, in other words, because he sees himself as a hero and Charlie Kirk is a villain inside of this Discord universe of antifa activists.
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Buck Sexton
Well, we also saw after Luigi with the Luigi situation where he assassin, that was also a political murder. That was an assassination. The CEO of United Healthcare that we were on the show, I was pretty shocked. I mean, I expect the left to be vile and awful and evil. And I've been dealing with this and fighting against them now for, well, at least publicly. Fifteen years. Clay. But that this guy is just gunned down because he's the CEO of one of many healthcare companies.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
And that there were people who clearly, and I mean people of some sway, people that have some, have some following in the conversation where either saying, you know, well, I kind of understand why he did it or maybe even saying I wouldn't do it myself, but I know why somebody would do it. This sort of stuff that was, was appalling. And all the people on the left who should call this out, who should be involved in saying, I would say left, you know, Democrats, people on cnn, you know, when was the last time you saw Anderson Cooper or Jake Tapper or some of these, the real, the real establishment of the Democrat media elite. Rachel Maddow, do a monologue, A true. Look into the camera and say any of you who think that this stuff is okay are monstrous and there's something wrong with you. And I don't. It's never happened. They don't want to antagonize their base. People are their base. And that is the reality that we are all seeing right now. It is inesc.
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Clay Travis
And by the way, we think you are monstrous. If you are listening to this program and you're gonna kill somebody for their political beliefs, don't do it. It's not hard to do. Buck. And, and if you, and if you wanna kill people because of their political beliefs, don't listen to this program because we don't agree with you. And again, this is why I come back to. I truly do not believe that there is anyone on the left who could be assassinated like this in cold blood. Where you would see any kind of comparable reaction and to what we've seen here.
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Buck Sexton
Here's an example. I mean, when there was the. As we've now seen, there was. The actual truth of the case was very different from how it was initially presented. But remember there was that, that Gretchen, which Gretchen, sorry, Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot. And that was right wing people who are angry at her about COVID and they really, you know, and look at it, look at how mean they are to Fauci and that this shows you what they want to do. I did not see not a single person you and I know. And let's be honest, we know everybody who does this of any prominence Whatsoever. Okay? There's nobody that you or I cannot text or get on the phone on the right who does media commentary that of any consequence whatsoever. Do we see anybody who is saying, oh, man, I wish this had turned out differently for, you know, for Governor Whitmer.
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Clay Travis
It's a shame that they didn't murder her.
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Buck Sexton
And if that. And if someone had, we'd be sitting here being, well, that person's a psycho. Nobody should listen to them. And the Fed should go knock, you know, should go give a knock on the door. You can't threaten to. You know, you can't threaten harm against a federal or in that case, a state official. But my point merely being that. That we've run these experiments over and over. How does our side react? How does the other side react? What does it mean to be on the right ideologically? You know, I don't even think you have to say conservative. Just on the right ideologically, which increasingly just means not insane. Okay? Not divorced from reality. Not living in some weird, deluded, narcissistic fantasy land like all these antifa clowns. Every time you see some antifa roundup where they. Where they get arrested, Clay, they all look like antifa psychos. None of them are. You know, none of them have happy lives. None of them. This is. It is a. They are bands of vicious malcontents who latch onto this notion that they are fighting the most evil of forces, because then it excuses all of their own insufficiencies and insecurities and the lack of being willing to do things that are good day in and day out, which is hard. And it can. It can get even. It can get crazier and crazier over time where people start to cheer for people like this, or they even become an assassin themselves, like this guy did.
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Clay Travis
Well, and this is where I think so many parents out there think to themselves. I just. We've had. The killer destroyed Charlie Kirk's family. He also destroyed his own family. Yes, because can you imagine the dad having to. Who works in law enforcement, having to come to grips with his son, someone that he raised inside of his household for his entire life at 22 years old, climbing onto a building and assassinating someone. His son's life is over. He may well deservedly get the death penalty for this. That killer destroyed Charlie Kirk's family beyond a shadow of a doubt. It's inexcusable. He also destroyed his own family. And all of the effort and energy and intent that goes into raising a child. I just. I can't even imagine it. And I know you can look at it from both perspectives here. Can you imagine being a police officer and having to turn in your son for committing an assassination? That's what just had to happen here. We'll talk about more of this. We'll take some of your calls. It is Friday after all. We have a lot of reactions. Look, I love everything about Good Ranchers. We are in the middle of a Good Ranchers Festival of food in the Travis household because we just got a brand new box and we have now ordered for a variety of our friends and family and just said you have to try this if you're busy and you want to be able to cook at home. If you want to have healthy food for your family, you got kids. And whether you like chicken nuggets or steaks, whatever you're into, good ranchers can help you out. This is a family owned business. Ben and his wife Corley did not want their families eating tons of hormones, antibiotics and all the different foods out there. So this is American raised ranchers and farmers raising their beef and all of this different food comes from inside of our country. Excellent quality beef, chicken, pork, salmon to your doorstep on a schedule you choose with food that you know your family will like. We're both subscribers. We love it and right now you can get 65 bucks off. Just try it out. Trust me. Goodranchers.com code clay40 discount one time right off the top and then you get a 25 discount on every box going forward. $65 to try it out. Why not do it? Go to goodranchers.com and use code clay right now that's goodranchers.com code clay goodranchers.com code Clay Geek out with the guys on the Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis BUCK Sexton show. We appreciate all of you. We'll take some of your calls, your feedback, your reaction during the course of Friday's program. We got a couple of callers out there. Let's try to bring in some of those. Trent in Kansas, he's a trucker out there. Trent, what you got for us? Appreciate you calling in.
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Caller Trent
Hey guys, thanks for taking my call. I just wanted to kind of describe what I can only describe as my family's kind of relationship with Charlie Kirk. Obviously we didn't know him. You know, I listen to you guys every day. My wife is completely non political. If something's going on, really, she expects me to fill her in and keep her informed and stuff. But the one person that she did watch and pay attention to on the regular was Charlie Kirk. And you know, why do you think.
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Clay Travis
That was, by the way? She said, sorry to cut you off, but I'm just kind of interested. You said your wife's not particularly political. Why do you think she found Charlie? Why do you think she watched him? I'm just kind of curious.
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Caller Trent
Well, she, she actually found him because of me, because I, you know, I would watch his videos and she just liked what he had to say. She liked that he would engage with people that didn't, you know, that hated him really. I mean, he would engage with anybody and she liked that and she liked what he had to say. She would listen to what he had to say. But it wasn't just my wife, my six year old daughter, when she rides with me, she looks forward to listening to you guys. She like, she voluntarily watched the joint address of Congress with me and she would watch and listen to Charlie and she would engage with us. She engages with us when we do those kinds of things and she asks questions and she wants to be involved and informed. And that's to me, that's just what kind of Charlie did was, you know, he spoke to the masses. Whether you liked him or not or whether he, you know, he, I mean, he would, he would just talk to everybody and you know, it doesn't matter your background or your, you know, beliefs or whatever. I feel like whatever, you know, what he said applied to everybody. Everybody, you know.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. Thank you, thank you for the call. I think that's why he had such connectivity with so many different people. We'll continue to take your calls, your feedback, your talk back as we roll through the Friday edition of the program. Appreciate y' all.
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