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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Go to PureTalk.com clay and save an additional 50% off your first month. Pure Talk wireless worth bragging about. Welcome back in Clay. Travis. BUCK SEXTON SHOW I'm going to try to get control of myself here in the third hour. Let me update you on the news, Utah. This is according to Matt Finn at Fox News Channel, Utah law enforcement just postponed an upcoming press conference due to, quote, rapid developments. For those of you who are wondering about the latest, we still do not have the alleged assassin in custody. Buck, you probably could talk to that from a, from a sort of background in, in, in your experience over time. It's been nearly 24 hours since you yesterday, during the final hour of this program initially saw the fact that there had been a shooting. They have photos out. We have shared those photos. Certainly we have a big audience of you listening in Utah. And to be fair, it's been 23 hours basically since the shooting. The guy could be anywhere. They say that they found an abandoned rifle, they believe in the woods behind the school. They have shared photos of the individual they believe of a college age, appears to be male, um, that potentially did the shooting 23 hours, a long time, Buck. Now, historically there are analogs. I mean, it took many days, for instance, to catch John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of President Clinton, of President Lincoln. But it's been a long time since I can remember a situation like this. You know, Bobby Kennedy, I guess the MLK assassination, James Earl Ray actually think fled the country, if I remember that story correctly, post assassination. But 23 hours, a lot of time.
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Buck Sexton
I'm very, very much hopeful that they will have an arrest here while we are on the air. But with each passing hour, the concern rises that this assassin had time to prepare and, and also prepared an exit plan. And we don't know what that means yet. And we'll have more information within. Within hours, I would, I would assume, about where this investigation stands. It's something clearly the full weight and force of law enforcement is being brought to bear on this issue, issue, as it should. But there are, look, there are cases where people have done horrible things and managed to get out of the country. That, unfortunately, is a possibility that has gone through my mind. I hope that's not the case. There was an assassination of CIA employees, Clay, that occurred back in the early 90s, and that he just went up to people that he knew. There used to be a stoplight at Langley, and the shooter knew that the people who were going to make that left turn were all going into Langley. So he assumed that they were CIA employees. And he went up with a rifle and just shot people sitting in their cars. He managed to make it to Afghanistan and Pakistan and took 10 years to get him. So I am hoping that what we're going to find is this. This evil. You know, the words I cannot say on radio. Is in custody and facing the full weight of the justice system within hours, if not minutes. So we'll continue to watch this as closely as we can. And I know that Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino and everybody at the senior levels of law enforcement for the state of Utah and for the federal government is all hands on deck with this, as they should be. So I think that the likelihood is still high that we will get an arrest of this assassin soon.
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Clay Travis
We had Charlie on the program peppering the show with a variety of different audio clips from. From Charlie Kirk. We had him on the show right after the election, and I had the team pull a few of these. This was right around Thanksgiving. Charlie Kirk came on the show and I have talked. We've talked a ton. And it's one of the most devastating aspects of all of this, that his kids are so young. And the humanity involved of just thinking about a little girl and little boy that will never get to grow up and know their dad is devastating for any parent grandparent out there. And I think that. That it's worth noting that Charlie was effervescent. He was almost always upbeat. He was incredibly optimistic, and he was a buck. This is where we connected. You've talked about it. I think you've nailed it. I innately trust college football fans. It doesn't matter who you root for. Sometimes you root for teams that I think are awful talking to you Alabama fans. But Charlie was a big Oregon Ducks fan. And so I would text with Charlie. I don't think ever about politics. It was all about college football. And so when he was on the program, I think Buck you. I think it was maybe Thanksgiving week and we had guests and I think you might have been out this day.
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Buck Sexton
I was family for Thanksgiving. And you were.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
You were handling the show.
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Clay Travis
I think I was solo here was the first question I asked him, which was, he loves the Oregon Ducks. I know we got a lot of listeners out in Oregon. Here's a flashback. November 26, 2024. Charlie on the program talking right off the top about the Oregon Ducks. Charlie, you and I ran into each other at Mar A Lago recently. What's the first thing you wanted to talk about?
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Charlie Kirk
Oh, college football. That's the only thing I want to talk about. Great to be here, Clay. I mean, I talk politics all day long. It's refreshing to talk to somebody that is as informed or even better informed than me on the most. The more important thing that happens in the fall, not the election, but our tradition of college football. So great to be here. We had a great time catching up and talking about how the Oregon Ducks should win the national championship this year.
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Clay Travis
All right, so I have told Buck for some time, Buck is out for Thanksgiving already, that I trust college football fans immediately, more than other people, before I even know anything else about them. You've been all over the country working in battleground states. Big Ten, SEC, Pac 12 used to be obviously, Big 12, all of the different ACC conferences out there where there are battlegrounds. Do you also trust college football fans more than anybody else?
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Charlie Kirk
Without a doubt. Now, when you say all these conferences, I don't know what you're talking about. You're talking about the ACC powerhouse of Cal Berkeley. I mean, it's very confusing.
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Clay Travis
So taking. Taking a shot at your old Pac12 rivals. I appreciate that.
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Charlie Kirk
More about conference realignment. It's just the whole thing is so goofy. But. No. Yes. If someone. If someone has a passion for college football, I have something like, inherently and deep in common with them, more so than almost anything.
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Clay Travis
So that conversation, and then Buck, I asked him, and I think it's good to hear from Charlie himself here about the campus tours and the feeling he gets from them about the impact in the movement towards Trump from young people here. He talked with us about why doing these campus events is so important. Cut. You surprised by how well Trump did in the battleground states, or were the results almost exactly what you expected?
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Charlie Kirk
I didn't get in the prediction business. You know, I'll tell you, the weekend before, I modeled out a way where we could win and that we could lose. You never quite know because polling is such a guesstimate. I will say this, though. You know, visiting a lot of these schools, we did these campus events that were just massive and had millions and millions of people online when we did them. One in particular at the University of Georgia, where we had 5,000 people show up. And I turned to my team, I said, guys, this is not normal. Like, this is not anything I've seen before. I think we might win, and I think might win really big. And one with young people. Same at Penn state, we had 3,500 young people, Arizona State University. I mean, we were all across the country. And so it all makes sense now that the dust is settled. But I would be lying to you, Clay, if I didn't say that I didn't have any anxiety and unease. We are up against the most powerful thing ever to exist. I mean, look what they did to Trump. They tried to put them in prison for 700 years. They lied, they smeared, they slandered, they censored, and the American people defeated that. And even to the very end, I was a little bit paranoid. I'll acknowledge it, because we've kind of been beaten into submission the last couple years that, well, can we really win? And is there going to be shenanigans? Is there going to be Tom foolery? And so I'm not surprised by how well we did with young men, but pleasantly surprised at the, let's just say, the common sense of the American people.
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Clay Travis
This is, I mean, I think goes to the success that he had. And what we were talking about, that email question we got in the last hour. Young men are looking for. They're looking for answers in a world that they feel is very dishonest to them. I think that's particularly true in the wake of COVID but for basically all of human history, we told young men, get married and provide for your family. And now they're being told, well, masculinity is toxic, and, well, maybe you don't need to be a head of a household and maybe you don't need to provide for your family. Maybe even that's misogynistic to suggest. And if you're a young man today, you went and you watched the Charlie Kirks of the world, very popular on YouTube and TikTok. And this is why we want to continue to grow that following here. And swear I think college football connects with a lot of young men as well. But that's why he was so impactful to so many of these people, because he went and found them where they were. He didn't expect them to come find him. And that is so important. I think if you're going to talk about winning hearts and minds.
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Buck Sexton
I also think that the Democrat left had become very overconfident for a long time, that they would just have this lock on the youth because of the institutional advantages that they have from media, from campuses, from the faculty lounge, these universities, from the public school system and public teachers, and all of this. And any break on that, I think, sent panic. And this last election was the first time that it really, you know, Charlie's work was building up for years before this, but in this last election, and the results became apparent when it came to who was going to lead the country for the next four years. And I think that there was a real shockwave that went through the anti Trump forces because they always assumed young people will be effectively the brainwashed sheep that we need them to be. And Charlie was taking the. The rhetorical fight to the other side on these campuses. And that was something that was very powerful. And I think that, you know, it's something that I know a lot of us are now going to be considering. How do we carry the torch forward? How do we continue the work, the fight that Charlie was leading in so many ways? And that's going to be an ongoing conversation here, because one thing is for sure, we're not going to change how we feel, what we say, what matters to us, or. And I say we. I don't just mean Clay and me. I mean everybody who does this, everybody who's outspoken, everyone who has a platform and is trying to fight for a better country, trying to fight for the country that they love, Charlie would want us all to continue in that fight. And I know that we will. So that's. That's where right now I find myself, Clay. And also, I just, you know, what you, what you said before we had to go into commercial break, it was very powerful. You know, the first thing I did is I went down and I hugged my wife and I kissed my little baby boy on the top of his head and, you know, kiss my wife. And just all of you just, you know, hug your family. Do it today, do it now.
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Clay Travis
Call mom and dad. If you haven't done it in a while, if you don't have kids, if you are mom and dad, hug your kids, man, because you don't know when the last time you're going to be able to do that is.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
And I think, again, that is the world that they have created, and that's the world where they want to rule with terror. And I think it's incumbent upon all of us, just like 24 years ago when they attacked us on 9 11, because of our exceptionalism, because of our building of the greatest country that has ever existed in the world. They looked around from their hovels and wondered why they didn't have what we have, and they hated us for it. And I think, again, the weakness of the person who killed Charlie Kirk was he could not in any way intellectually match the arguments of Charlie Kirk, and so he decided to kill him. That is the actions of a coward. Because ultimately, what you're saying is the words of the person are so powerful that the only way I can try to defeat them is by stopping them from ever speaking again. Fortunately, we have pretty good history on this, Buck.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
And killing people who are speaking powerfully. Look at. Look at the Christian faith is one of the worst ways to restrict the spread of truth and justice. And so all of us are now called upon to be braver, stronger, and more courageous than we have been in the past to help uplift a country that desperately needs us. Do what Charlie did, and we will watch my tea every day.
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Buck Sexton
We will do that. You know, Charlie was also a really big pro life supporter, and he often worked with and headlined events for Preborn, which is a sponsor here on the program. It was a sponsor on Charlie's program, and one that both Charlie and I were very proud always to be able to do what we can to help. And the way we help is by telling all of you about what preborn is doing, saving lives. And the pro life movement was critical to Charlie. It's critical to me. And this is work that we must continue day in and day out. And that is what preborn is doing. Preborn, as you know, brings in mothers who have an unplanned pregnancy, and they're usually getting a lot of pressure. There's a lot of noise out there that the only thing that they could do, the only choice they have, is abortion. Well, that's just not true. And Preborn says, please come into one of these clinics. To any woman out there who's pregnant, come into one of these clinics. We'll give you an ultrasound so you can meet the tiny baby in your womb, and we will offer you love and support to bring this child into the world. It's an incredibly important organization. It's work that Charlie loved, and we should continue it here today. Please support Preborn. Dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound 250. Say the keyword baby. I donate to preborn. I think what they do is incredible. Dial pound250, say the keyword baby. Or you can go online. Preborn.comb preborn.com b u c k news.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're having a tough day here. You all know why. We're also trying to come together to grief, but also to find a way forward here. We all miss our friend Charlie Kirk. We miss what he represented for the country and we want justice to the degree that it is possible to get such a thing in such a horrific situation with the killer arrested and hopefully swiftly prosecuted and I would like to see executed. Let's take some callers here. Nicole in Coeur d', Alene, Idaho. Nicole, welcome.
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Senator Bill Hagerty
Nicole hi.
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Nicole (Caller)
Can you hear me? Yeah.
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Clay Travis
We got you.
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Nicole (Caller)
Hi. Okay. Two points. I just never realized the impact that Charlie had on the youth of our country. It was my 15 year old son who informed me of his passing and I was just so impressed that my son knew him and he said, yeah, Mom, I watch him all the time on TikTok. And, and another thing I loved about Charlie was I truly felt he was heaven sent and that he's a testament that God is in the details of our lives. Because Trump needed him and I knew God, God knew he needed him. And he, I think Trump has been humbled in a way in this second term. And Charlie, despite their 50 year age gap, what a friendship they formed, it was just so special. And I'm just so impressed with Charlie and I feel, you know, as sad as it is, we've lost him, it's as wonderful that we knew him and I know he would want us to continue the work and for that young man who is suffering today with his mom writing that email, just would hope that he would. Don't lose hope. It's what Charlie would want for him to believe that the cause is bigger than him and that together, you know, we're stronger. And Charlie would want us to, to just pick up the baton and keep going.
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Clay Travis
Amen. I think that's 100% right. We come back, by the way, we're going to be joined by Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee. I'm sure that he will want to talk about this. One bit of positivity out there. We have a report that J.D. vance has met with the family and they are bringing Charlie's casket home to Arizona on Air Force Two. That is the Vice President's plane. More on this when we come back. We appreciate and love all of you. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. There is a press conference that is coming soon that we will take live. We are going to be joined by Senator Bill Hagerty here in a moment. But I wanted you to be able to hear that last caller talking about the impact that Charlie Kirk had had on her teenager. And I also want to tell you, look, there's probably a lot of you that are going to be looking for something that is not serious and, and I'm one of them. I'm going to be going to a 9th grade football game this afternoon and then I'm headed to Knoxville to go watch Tennessee play Georgia. And a lot of you want to play along with prize picks. I give you a pick every Thursday. I'm going to give it to you right now. Travis kelsey more than 1/2 receiving yards a free square. Nobody can lose this one, not even Buck. Derek Henry more than 1/2 rushing and receiving Touchdown. And Jaden Daniels more than 1/2 touch pass up at Clay and Buck.com we give you a pick every Thursday for NFL action. We've been doing this for a few years. That pays out at five to one. You get 50 bucks when you go to prizepix.com use code clay that's pricepix.com code clay. Senator Bill Hagerty with us right now. Senator, I know you pretty well. I know you've got I think four kids and I bet your sons in particular have been influenced and impacted in a significant way by Charlie Kirk like mine have. In fact our kids have gone to one of the same schools. I don't know if you know this Senator, but the kids at our kids mutual school all wore jackets and ties which they are not fond of doing. In honor of Charlie Kirk today, basically the entire school. What was your reaction when you saw and heard what had happened? What should happen next?
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Senator Bill Hagerty
Well, I've known Charlie for years. I wasn't close with Charlie to the extent, you know, never took a vacation or something like that. When we see one another in a room we'd always make our way across to shake hands. How are you doing? I was thinking the last time I saw Charlie was at Mar A Lago not too long ago. But it just, you know, as a parent it just strikes deep. Not only the influence on my sons and I tell you my sons share something with Charlie as well. My boys are both Eagle Scouts, as am I. So was Charlie was an Eagle Scout and Charlie's a little bit older than my sons. But you know, I have a very parental view of young people like Charlie who are willing to enter the fray, to be the man in the arena, so to speak and just to step up and engage in debate and basically bring out what's best in America. That's the freedom of speech that we have that no other nation enjoys. And to see that curtailed in such a tragic way is heartbreaking to me. It's just heartbreaking.
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Buck Sexton
Claim Senator Hagerty, appreciate you being here and it's a tough day for the whole country. We were prepared to have a remembrance of 9, 11. And then this terrible incident became something that. It's just so many of us couldn't sleep well last night thinking about it. The grief that has spread across the country. What, what would you say to everybody right now, especially to a Lot of. I mean, you have. You have young boys, yourself, to the parents out there who are worried about how this is going to affect their sons and daughters who looked up to Charlie.
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Senator Bill Hagerty
Well, I don't think this should impact the degree to which they look up to Charlie at all. In fact, I think this is going to raise the respect for Charlie and raise the attention level in a way that is well deserved but sad at the same time. Charlie certainly didn't aim to be a martyr, but he has been pushing for a cause. It's been vitally important to him. I think it's vitally important to our nation and his willingness to engage, to debate and to clarify for young people so they could actually see the truth and cut through the noise that you spend time, Clay, Buck, you both spend time cutting through the noise in the mainstream media, the obfuscation that takes place, the politicization that takes place in the media, the silencing that takes place. Charlie was a beacon when it comes to standing up and bringing the truth to light and enabling a real discussion about issues, rather than just spin, spin, spin all day long. Charlie was willing to engage. He was willing to listen to different opinions. He was willing to argue in public in a respectful manner. This is the way our forefathers, our founding fathers, designed this nation to respect and support just that type of interaction. And what happened was an act of cowardice, first and foremost. Only a total coward would do something like that. And someone with such a narrow mind that they think the only way to address a difference of opinion is to shut the other side down. It's a manifestation of what's gone so deeply wrong with the whole cancel culture here in America. And anyone, and I'm sad to say it, but there are people that are actually trying to justify this or in some way even celebrating this, that dehumanizes not only those of us that care, that have heavy feelings. It dehumanizes the person that could possibly think that way. And we need to get back to the basics here in America. We need to get back to fundamental respect. And again, it's heartbreaking to see what's happening, what has happened, I should say, with Charlie's loss. But I hope that it'll be a chance for America to wake up, for our young people to wake up and say this young man stood for something quite important. And I think he's going to live on in our memories for years and decades to come.
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Clay Travis
We're talking to Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee. This is happening all over the country. Sadly, but it happened where you and I happen to both live in Tennessee. A Middle Tennessee State University dean, and I know there's a lot of different deans. A student affiliated dean celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk, mtsu. The college has terminated that person and they are no longer employed by the university. But sadly, Buck and I have been talking about this. Senator, it's one thing to disagree politically. It's entirely a different thing when someone is assassinated to celebrate the assassination, which we are seeing take place all over the place, including sometimes at public universities. How do we restore the soul of the nation? It's a big question, but it is a big question. I'm incredibly troubled. Buck is too. It's indefensible, the reactions we are seeing. What should happen? What can we do to restore that soul?
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Senator Bill Hagerty
Well, the particular incident that you're describing was extraordinarily disturbing to me, and I know it was to you and everybody else. Middle Tennessee State University is by population, by student population, the largest university in the state of Tennessee. A population, a state with over 7 million people. MTSU is our largest, our largest college. And to have the. I think it was an assistant Dean of Student Services or Dean of Students make a statement that in any way, in any manner could be interpreted as celebrating it, as showing zero sympathy, I think is a direct quote from what I saw in the persons communique. What a terrible message does that send to the students that you're supposed to be there to support and teach. If that's the type of indoctrination and teaching that's going on, Something is sadly failed. And I applaud Dr. Sidney McPhee and the leadership there at MTSU for dealing with this right away. I'm friends with most of the members of the boards of the board of directors of that university. I know that they would abhor this sort of thing and these rogue faculty members, and there's no other way to describe it, people that are in a position of responsibility and trust with respect to our young people, particularly the audience that Charlie was so good at reaching and touching. For someone like that to step up and say what they did is abhorrent, and I'm thankful that MTSU acted swiftly to discharge them.
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Buck Sexton
Senator Haggerty, we appreciate you making the time for us, sir. God bless you and your family and your children. Thanks for being here as always.
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Senator Bill Hagerty
Thank you for having me. All the best.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
We'Re closing up shop today here on Clay and Buck. Look, it was a difficult show for all of us. I'm sure it was difficult for you to be with us and thinking about these things, but we're honored and appreciated that you, you were with us. And it is a very special thing that Clay and I get to do with all of you every day. And we, you know, we are going to do our best to continue with the, with the ethos and the mission of this show which aligned in lockstep with what Charlie wanted for this country and with what he stood for. We have that interview where he joined our show because of course he was a friend of the show, friend of ours. He came on, I was on vacation. But he was able to speak to Clay about a whole range of things. Something very important to Charlie and as we see critical now in America to have our focus is how we are raising and how we are encouraging and building young men up for the next to be the next generation of male leadership in this critical country of ours, this republic that is the last, best guarantor of freedom for, for all of us. Here is cut nine. Charlie. We're just going to let you listen to what he had to say about it. Play it.
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Clay Travis
So you speaking of college football, a lot of young men are college football fans. The campaign that was just run, if you had to point to one group that moved Most massively from plus 14 for Biden to plus 14 for Trump, according to at least one Wall Street Journal poll that I saw why did young men, in your mind, people that you have been reaching out to aggressively move so substantially in this election?
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Charlie Kirk
I'd say I think it's because they want to be part of a political movement that doesn't hate them. Over the last couple years, you started to see the woke stuff that was really incubated in 2020 start to germinate and metastasize and grow into all of our institutions. And one of the core orthodoxies of WOKE is what we call DEI is really a hatred of Christian, white straight men. And I hate to be that blunt about it, but it is. It's at the. It's the orthodox of it, the orthodoxy of it. And young men say, wait, why? Why am I being part of this? Exactly. I want to be part of a political movement that at least acknowledges that there is men and women and says that it's a good thing to be a man and that masculinity is not inherently toxic. And on top of that, though. Go ahead, please.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, no, I was just going to say, I think what's interesting, and you may have been going there too, is it starts with white men are the problem, but the problem with that is eventually it has to grow. And I think black guys, Hispanic guys, Asian guys, looking around like, hey, I don't think masculinity is toxic. I think that men and women are different. And suddenly you can't say that. Be a Democrat.
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Senator Bill Hagerty
Correct.
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Charlie Kirk
And then it even grows deeper into this kind of tyranny of political correctness, which at its core is like toxic femininity, which is that we're going to police all of your speech. The left has become a bunch of scolds of hall monitors, of people that do not believe in free expression or dialogue or discourse. And, you know, what we've seen in the last couple of years is now a backlash of that, where if there is anyone in the quote, unquote manosphere, you know, you say Joe Rogan, the Steele, Vaughn, it's not that they're conservative, but they're inherently anti left, that they're against the kind of new left wing dogma and doctrine that believes that there needs to be speech codes, that, you know, this trans nonsense. And so young men in particular kind of led the rebellion towards a political movement, one rooted in common sense, patriotism, liberty and freedom.
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Buck Sexton
Clay, I spoke at one of Charlie's very first events for Turning Point. I don't know what number it was in the progression, but it was 20. I think it was 2015, so maybe early 2016. And I remember something. He came up to me backstage, and this is our first ever meeting. And I didn't know anything about him. All I knew is that he had reached out and he said, I love your stuff. Would you please come? And Tommy Lahren was there, and I was there, and he said, I love your stuff. Would you please come and speak? And I said, sure. You know, I was. I happened. It was in Dallas. I happened to be in Dallas, and he saw me backstage, and he had that already, of course, that Charlie energy, and just, you know, this guy was just pulling it all together. And he came up to me and he said, you know, I listened to you fill in for Rush, because this is after I'd filled in for Rush a few times as a guest host. You know, Charlie filled it on my program years later when I was doing a six to nine now Jesse Kelly slot. So Charlie filled in for me, but he said, I listened for Rush. And he said, you know, he was very generous. He said, you know, you did such a great job. And that's. And basically was like, that's just so cool. Like, he was just telling. That's so cool. He filled in for Rush and he said, you know how I learned conservatism? He said the one thing that he absolutely never missed, and this is, I think, for a lot of you, bringing things full circle. He said, I couldn't always listen to all three hours, but I listened to Rush Limbaugh's opening monologue every day starting in, you know, junior high.
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Clay Travis
Every day.
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Buck Sexton
He said he would listen to Rush. So this is so much of Charlie and what he believed. It. It makes sense. And. And you understand where it was coming from.
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Clay Travis
Well, I think that's. That's a really great analogy, because what it represents is all of us have a relatively short amount of time on this planet, right? We don't know when it's going to come to an end for any of us. And I think Charlie got that. He's only 31, and Rush certainly got that. There are tons of you listening to us right now who started listening because mom and dad, Grandma and Grandpa were driving you around in the car. The Rush, baby universe is large, and we've now been doing this show for over four years, which means you could have gone from freshman year of high school to being a senior now. And we're going to be doing it for hopefully years and years to come. But you win by winning the culture. And that's what I would come back to with Charlie. You have to go to people where they are. And he went to them on a college campus and he said, here's an open mic. Let's debate. And the very foundation of America is the best argument should win. And Charlie had the best arguments and he won and he won big. And the culture has shifted around him and that's why they killed him. And what we cannot allow to happen, not you, me, not all of you out there, what we cannot allow to happen is for his victories to go in vain. We have to pick up the mantle and we have to advance it further and further. And I know all of you are going to do that.
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Buck Sexton
I was going to say Clay. And I make you all a solemn promise. We will continue what we do here. We will continue to honor what Charlie stood for in his memory. And we will stay in this fight because it's a fight to make this the best country for all of us that we possibly can. And to tell you all the truth, and you all play a role in it, play the critical part in it every day. Because without you, we wouldn't be able to have any impact. So thank you all for listening. God bless you. We're praying for all of you. We're praying for Charlie, Charlie's family. We love you all. And please go hug and tell your family you love them today.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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