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It’s Time to Carry Charlie Kirk’s Torch | Guests: Megyn Kelly & Allie Beth Stuckey | 9/11/25
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The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. I've only felt this way one time before. I had just signed a contract with Premier Radio Networks and my show was to begin on January 1, 2002. And then tragedy struck the World Trade center. And I was called and told, you start tomorrow. I spent most of the day and the night by my bedside praying.
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The words to share with you on that day. I spent most of the day yesterday in that same position. I pray that the words that I need to speak to you today come from him and that you hear them. It is September 11, 2025, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It's only appropriate that we start with A sponsor today that is Tunnel to Towers. It's a tough day for America for a lot of reasons. Today's the day that should remind us of the bravery and the sacrifice and the lives lost on that tragic morning in 2001. Firefighters, police officers and other heroes that ran toward the danger and not away from it. Those were the heroes. Stephen Siller, he was a New York firefighter who strapped on his gear and ran through the Brooklyn Battery tunnel to the towers. He gave his life trying to save others. The Tunnel Towers foundation was created in his honor. Today they continue to serve America's heroes by paying off mortgages for the families of the fallen, first responders and military members and all those catastrophically injured in the line of duty. And their mission is simple. Honor the sacrifice. Never forget on this day of all days, never forget. Take a moment, perhaps to give back to those who have given everything support Tunneled to Towers and help them carry the legacy forward. Never forget the sacrifices of our country's greatest heroes. Donate $11 a month to Tunnel to Towers at tthenumber2t.orgt2t.com There are moments when words from another age suddenly feel as though they were written for this moment. In 1947, a Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, was watching his father slip toward death. And he pinned the lines of a famous poem, do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. What he was doing, he was pleading for his father to fight against the darkness of death. But in those words that he scratched down and scribbled down on paper for his dying father has become a mandate for all of us. Do not go quietly when truth is on the line. Do not surrender. Do not surrender to the shadows, even when and especially if you think the battle can no longer be won. Charlie Kirk lived that mandate. He knew the cost of speaking on popular truths. He knew the fury of those who wanted him silenced. But Charlie pressed on. In his short life, he embodied that defiance. It is the kind of righteous defiance that has always marked those who refuse to bow to the idols of our age. If you think about it, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, they raged against the certainty of an empire. They knew the gallows awaited them. Lincoln raged against the idea that one man could own another. He knew the fate that lay before him. Martin Luther King Jr. Raged against the dying of the light. In segregated America, every single generation is called to resist the temptation to go quietly into the good night. It's just our turn. Charlie's death, violent and unjust and shocking, feels in some ways almost Like a knockout punch feels just another body blow in a season that is already heavy with grief. But I am here to tell you, if his life meant anything, it's this silence in the face of darkness is not an option. He did not go gently. He stood. He spoke, he challenged. He knew, as Dylan Thomas wrote, that even the wise men and the good men must resist the dying of the light because surrender only hastens the darkness. And now today, that mantle falls to us. To me, to you, to every single person alive today that hears my voice. If Charlie's life and death means anything, they mean this. You and I cannot drift into the shadows. We cannot sit quietly while freedom fades. This is our moment to rage. But rage not with hatred, not with. Not with hatred, not with anger, but with courage. Rage not in violence, but in truth telling. Rage against the lies, against the apathy, against the hopelessness that says there is nothing you can do. Sit down. Because there is something you can do. There is always something you can do. Even small acts of defiance, faith, acts of love. Finding those who mourn today and comforting them the most defiant act in an age when the world throws hate around like it could be purchased in any dime store or 711 is an act of kindness when you offer nothing but love, kindness and the unrelenting truth. Those are the flames in the night. Those are the flames that hold back the darkness. My friend Charlie Kirk carried that torch. He was forced to lay it down yesterday, and it is ours to pick up. The night is here. Yes, the light is dimming, yes, but it always does before the dawn. Commit to yourself today, because I will not sleep. I will not retreat. I will not give them what they want. Because be it be silent or an act of vengeance, I know who I am. I know who I serve, as did Charlie. I have no king but Christ. So today, let the words of the poet call to you just as they called to Charlie. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage. Rage against the dying of the light. Sarah, would you please move this sponsor? I have lined up my friends today, Charlie's friends, to talk about him. It's weird. There are moments, very few. But there are moments in history where words feel cheap and meaningless. Today is one of those days for me. On the 24th anniversary of 9 11. Normally we gather on this day to remember the 3,000 lives lost to terror. And I don't know if it's coincidental that today, on September 11th, we mourn the loss of an American hero and a dear, dear friend. He was killed just as the others were 24 years ago by an act of terror. Just as it was on 2001, September 11th. If you lived that day, you know that day was. We were confused and we were dazed and we didn't know what it all meant. But we deep down knew the whole world was about to change. We hoped we would go back, but we never did. Yesterday, the world changed again. And we're not going back. This, unfortunately, is only a one way street. The only path is forward. But how we choose to walk that path, that determines our destination. Two different tragedies, separated by decades, bound together by the same exact question. Who are we? Is this worth saving? What kind of people are we going to choose to be in the face of all this hatred and fear? Imagine how different the world would be if. If we all chose today. Instead of retreating further into anger, more of us chose to be peacemakers. Not passive, not silent, but men and women who would build bridges where others just want to build walls of separation and division and suspicious. Something changes. I've seen it in my own life. You can get the most bitter enemies, people who disagree with so much. And if you could sit down with respect instead of hostility and just one side listens. Something changes when we choose to listen first and to see the humanity in others. So many people think that's a weakness, and it's not. It is a strength. That is what Charlie Kirk did. And you do not assassinate the weak. You strike down the powerful. You kill those who can make a difference. Charlie did every time he sat down. With peace, with love, and he talked to people who disagreed with him. By reaching across the aisles of race and politics and culture and faith, he didn't just change politics. He didn't just change hearts. He sparked healing. And healing is what our nation needs. At the center of all of this is one unshakable truth, and that is this. Every single one of us is a child of God, deserving of dignity. But this solution isn't going to happen on social media in Washington. It will only begin at home. In a world where loneliness has become an epidemic and isolation is crushing people's spirits. The news of the day, the antidote, is right in front of us. It always has been. It's the family. In the end, that's all that matters. That's all that matters. Family. Imperfect, yes, but it is still the strongest source of stability and meaning that the world has ever had. You know, forgiveness, fidelity, faithfulness, honor. Those aren't just words in a dusty book that sound quaint. They are the foundation Stones of peace and civilization. When families hold together, they produce people who extend kindness outward kindness to their communities, churches, their nation to one another. Strong families knit together a strong society. And today, more than one family mourns in our nation. But our thoughts and prayers should be with Charlie's family. In many ways, we owe it to him. His family must now become our family. We have to stand as guardians against the darkness for his children. We need to be shining examples.
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Show them how much their father meant to us by living our life and responding in a way that Charlie would want us to respond. I know Charlie Kirk. I knew him. We stood on a hotel balcony one day, room full of people just on the other side of the glass. I asked him step out onto the patio and we talked about yesterday. We made a pact with one another on that day. I knew and I know how he would want us to respond. There were a thousand Charlie Kirks created yesterday. The tyrant dies and his rule is over. The martyr dies and his rule begins. Know that out of yesterday, out of this tragedy, as with all things under the realm of an almighty God, great and glorious things will sprout. But we must be deserving of them. His will be done. Not mine. Not yours. Tomorrow we begin again. Tomorrow is 9:12. Today we mourn his friends. Join me. Megyn Kelly is next. This is Glenn Beck. Okay, let me tell you about our sponsor. It's the burner launcher. My daughter was just a few feet away from the tent yesterday. She did not bring her burner launcher with her. And for hours until I could wrap my arms around her last night, I worried. Do not be defenseless. You don't have to kill. You have to incapacitate. Burn a launcher. Every college student should have one. Burna by R N A.com Glenn Berna.com Glenn Go there now or try before you buy@sportsmanswarehouse. Burna.com Glenn, Megyn Kelly is going to join us in just a moment. As you can imagine, all of us are being torn a million different directions. And she will be joining us hopefully in a few minutes, if not a little bit later today. But we have a lot of people on today that want to share some stories about Charlie Kirk. And tomorrow, I want to hear from you. Yesterday was such a surreal day. I was getting ready to record my special last night in the afternoon, and I'm sitting here in my studio and I look at the stairs through this glass door that I have here, and my wife is on the phone and she's standing on the stairway and she has her hand gripping the stair rail. And I could see it in her eyes. She was on the phone. And I could see confusion, and I could see trouble. And in my ear I'm hearing, five, four, three. And I said, stop, stop, stop, stop. I need 30 seconds. I need to talk to my wife. And I motioned for her to come in. And in a confused and dazed sort of way, she kind of stumbles into the room. And I said, what's happening, honey? And she said, it's Cheyenne. I didn't know what that meant. As a dad, you can imagine. I said, is she okay? What's happening? She mandated Cheyenne on the phone. Cheyenne had just gotten past the crush of the crowd. She called her mom. She said, charlie Kirk's just been shot. What? She sent me some video, and I knew it was true, but I hoped for the best until a few minutes later, somebody else sent me a video that I hope you did not see of the bullet striking him. It must have been like what it was when you first saw the Zapruder film, or if you were standing in the grassy knoll. You just knew I was on with Megyn Kelly, and we were holding on to the hope that he was somehow or another going to survive that. And Megan said at one point, I don't know why I'm not announcing what everybody else is announcing, but I just can't. Megan joins us now. Hi, Megan.
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What a weird 24 hours it has been. Where are you this morning in unraveling this knot in your head?
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I still don't feel like I have my arms around it. I. I don't feel like I've totally digested the fact that he's gone and the way in which he was taken. You know, Charlie truly was such a larger than life figure. We say that term, but it was true about him. At 6 foot 5, he truly seemed larger than most of us. And he was in his gifts and his tirelessness and just knowing exactly where the theme in every story was, and his raw courage. So many times we like to think we're courageous in our commentary. You'd look at Charlie and you'd think, now that's true courage. He would just say it like it was the things you'd be thinking in your head, but you might not want to say explicitly. He said, and he took a lot of slings and arrows for it and was demonized for being all the terrible things, as opposed to people taking him on and saying, does he have a point?
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You know, I said earlier today that you don't kill the weak. You know, people don't, people don't want to try to heal or they just want to speak in anger at times. And you know, anger is part of the grieving process. And I know I'm angry. But Charlie would face that anger and what people think is weakness by showing love and compassion and listening and just having a decent conversation. That's one of the reasons why he was killed. He wasn't. He wasn't. He wasn't killed because he was weak. Just like Gandhi wasn't weak. He was killed because he was effective. Megan, where do we go from here? She dropped. Can we get her back on the phone? I got an email from somebody today, this morning and I want to share the email. I won't share the name. It's short. But I, I also think I should share the. My response because I think it's how most of us. It comes from a very well known conservative leader. Glenn, I am devastated this morning. I am in deep mourning for Charlie. I'm in mourning for his family in our country. And I don't know how to surface from this. I don't know if I do either. But I would like to share my thoughts with you a little later on. Megan is with Megan. How do we process this? How do we surface from this?
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You know, I think as with any loss, we, we all have to go through the denial and the bargaining, you know, like, yeah, I'm still refreshing my ex account, like hoping somehow there's a reversal, you know, like somehow it was all wrong. Somehow we got it all wrong. You know, sometimes the media gets it wrong. It's, it's absurd. We know what the answer is. But that's a natural reaction when you had a sudden loss in particular. And anger's completely appropriate now too. It's completely appropriate. You know, we are going to catch this guy. You know, that FBI presser they just held was very encouraging. They've in. Two things happened this morning that are of note right now, Glenn. First, Steven Crowder, who is very solid on his law enforcement leak reporting. He has, he has a proven track history. He's the one who got the manifesto the trans shooter in Nashville before anyone else. And that's not all. He's had other leaks is posting a document saying he received from an ATF source on the investigation and that says that they retrieved the gun in the woods behind the campus wrapped in a towel and that there were three unspent cartridges in the gun that had transgender and anti fascist ideology something written on them. Now that piece of. That last piece of it was not confirmed by the FBI at the pressure they just held, but every other thing was. The Crowder report was confirmed in every detail, including naming the kind of gun. He had that. Right. He had the location. Right. He had the trail and the tracking of the suspect. Right. They did not volunteer the business about what was written on the cartridges, nor did anyone there ask, because those reporters almost certainly don't follow Steven Crowder, because those reporters will probably tell you he's not to be trusted. Now, this is an early report, and it could turn out to be wrong, but that's the update as far as we know it, and the FBI revealing that they have a picture of him, that they did, of course, track him on his way to the shooting spot with surveillance cameras. Of course, on these college campuses, we would expect that in dorms or class buildings. And they appear confident, at least to me, that they've got the guy. And if they've got the weapon, Glenn, while they may or may not have fingerprints, but they almost certainly have DNA. I mean, they almost certainly have DNA, which I'm sure they're uploading right now into every database they can. You know, we saw this in Kohlberger. They're not supposed to use the public databases. Sorry, private, like 23andMe or ancestry.com, though, in Kohlberger, they did, and that is how they found Kohlberger. Sometimes they do. And even just a public database of DNA can lead you to at least a family member somewhere near a shooter or a suspect, and then it's just a matter of charts and a few hours in getting to that person's relative. So I believe they will find the shooter, and then we'll know the ideology, and then we'll have a place to put some of the anger, like an explanation or something that will help us understand what deranged person, And I don't mean that in the clinical sense, did this yesterday. I just feel like I don't know where to go until I know who did this and why.
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It was about midnight last night when I talked to the president, and he was very clear that we will find whoever is responsible for this, and justice will be served. He was extraordinarily confident in that, which gave me an awful lot of hope. I don't know if you saw his speech last night that he gave from the Oval, but I thought he had exactly the very powerful hit, exactly the right tone. Hit exactly the right tone. But I think the days of us fooling around and nibbling at the edges. I think those days are over.
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I agree. And one of the things Trump said last night that was so good was he used the word terrorism. That's exactly right. You know, that's, that is how a lot of us are feeling. And I know you've had the same experience I've had In the past 24 hours, Glenn, where virtually everyone I know in the media business has reached out. I think there are a lot of folks who are in our lane, in particular in conservative media who are very rattled by this because he was one of ours and he was taken. You know, obviously we all have concerns about personal security now with the shooter at loose, you know, at large as well. But I just mean that, like the betrayal and the need to rise up and protect ours and the people we value and love. You know, this is like, I don't want to say a call to arms because I'm not encouraging violence, but I mean a unifying call for us to stand shoulder to shoulder and stand up.
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Yeah, it is absolutely a wake up call to anybody who thought, you know, oh, it's just gonna, you know, pass us by. It's not. This is, this is the call of our age and how we respond is going to determine the future of freedom in this country. But I have great confidence that we will respond just as we did after 7 11, after 9 11. We responded with conviction. We responded in an intelligence sort of way. We overreacted in some ways that I would like to avoid this time. But we came together as a nation and did what had to be done for the preservation of our nation. Now if we can have the moderation lesson learned this time, perhaps we will be good. But I think the days of Antifa not feeling any ramifications for their work and others, those days are over as of yesterday. Megan, you know, I just.
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Go ahead, go ahead, Glenn. I was just going to say one of the things we did after 911 was when the stock market opened two days later, we all bought stock. We just. It could have been a $5 stock, but everyone did it just to send a message that the financial center would stand. And I think we are going to see a reaction on college campuses when it comes to free speech by conservatives unlike anything we've ever seen before. In a similar vein, I agree.
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I'm proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with you, Megan, and be in the trenches with you all the time. You are a light in a lot of darkness and I appreciate our years of friendship and everything that you've done for the country. Thank you.
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Likewise my friend. Thanks for having me.
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Coming up. Coming up, Liz Wheeler. I talked to her yesterday. She practically grew up with Charlie Kirk. She shares her thoughts next. This is Glenn Beck.
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The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. It is September 11, 2025. I remember starting my show right after the Trade center came down. It's September 11, 2001 and this is the news of the day. The news of the day is that our good friend Charlie Kirk was assassinated yesterday. The killer is still on the loose. They have found his rifle. I believe they now know who it is and they are in pursuit. I spoke to the President late last night just to compliment him on how he handled everything yesterday and to thank him for his speech, which I thought was exactly spot on. If you noticed, he used the word terrorists last night. The world has changed. I'm not sure. I'm not sure exactly how. I don't. I couldn't have told you how it was going to change after 9 11. But it has changed none the same or nonetheless. And it is never going to be going back. So what is our new reality? Well, it depends on how we handle things from here. And I have great confidence in you. I have great confidence in the American people. And I know God is not neutral in the affairs of man. We just must live worthy of his protection and his Grace. Tomorrow is 9 11. I started the 9. I'm sorry, tomorrow is 9 12. And I started something back during the Tea Party to separate myself a bit from the Tea Party because I thought principles were more important than taxes. And while I embraced the Tea Party, I wanted to make sure that people understood our principles and our principles, we knew them instinctively. On 9 12, the day after 9 11. Today I feel like we're still in that confusion that we had on 9112001 and tomorrow 912 is the day that we come together and we stand firm in the truth. Today I want to remember Charlie Kirk. Liz Wheeler was a dear, dear friend of Charlie Kirk and a good friend of mine. Joins me in 60 seconds. First, real estate agents I trust dot com. I know this is my company so I'm paying for the commercial. Look, if you're moving, just call them. They'll help you find a great real estate agent. Real estate agents I trust.com realestate agents I trust.com. good. I got my money's worth. Let me move on now to Liz Wheeler. Hello, Liz.
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Hi Glenn.
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I spoke to you yesterday and we were both pretty raw at the time. How are you doing this morning?
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I. I'm in a fog of grief, Glenn. I think that a lot of us are. I feel. It still feels very unbelievable what happened to our dear friend Charlie Kirk. I feel like I'm floating up outside of my body in a sense, watching all of this unfold. It's quite something to see the reaction from the American people over this assassination. I think you're correct when you say that our country has changed forever. I think this is one of the most significant, not just political assassinations, but political events that we've experienced since the inception of our country. And I think I've been praying about this since you and I spoke for so long. Yesterday I've been thinking about this endlessly, obviously on my knees, praying for sweet Erica and Charlie and Erica's two babies. But I think one of the things that has happened in the last 24 hours is people in our country, and I don't even want to say conservatives, I don't want to say right wingers, because it's not just that, have realized that Charlie is so normal. He's not radical, he's not extreme, he's not bombastic, he's not edgy. He's just a regular guy and he's kind. And they killed him because of those beliefs and opinions, those principles and values, Glenn, that we share with him. And you and I work in this industry and we've written a lot of books about this political enemy that we face and we talk about it a lot. But for the majority of the American people, this is the first time, Glenn, that they're realizing exactly who this political enemy that we face is. And it's jarring and it's gut wrenching because they realize that just as easily as they assassinated Charlie Kirk and are now dancing on his grave, they want to do that to us, too.
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Liz, I. And I know you do. I have such faith in the Lord and I know I don't know how our lives end. I don't know how things work out, but I know everything that happens is used for his good. There is no way to thwart God's plan. You can make it. You can make getting there harder. You can make getting there more painful. But if we trust in him, great and glorious things are going to happen because of this.
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Charlie once said when someone asked him what he wanted to be known for the most, and he wore a lot of hats, so he could have picked a lot of different accomplishments and identities. And he said he wanted to be known for his face. And that's. I mean, it's so powerful. You and I are clinging to God right now. Everyone sitting here with us is clinging to God. I'm literally sitting here gripping a rosary as we talk. Evil happens in our world. And we all ask that question, why? Why does God allow bad things to happen to good and innocent people? And you know, as Father Mike Schmitz reminded us yesterday, when evil happens, that is not God's perfect will. It is God's permissive will, which is very different. God allowed Charlie's death to happen, but he did not want it to happen. God values human freedom and can bring about a greater good through these allowed events. But God does not cause evil. He uses it to achieve his higher purpose when sometimes we don't know what that is. And I'm human, I find it very difficult not to have an immediate answer to, okay, what is that higher good? But it could be testing faith or demonstrating compassion, teaching people how to uphold his perfect will of good. And if God were to remove evil from the human existence, he would also be removing our free will to love him and to love others. And he knows that despite the evil that he allows to exist in the world, this greater good can be achieved for eternity, which is where Charlie is now. And Glenn, there are a lot of bad people online right now, you know, celebrating Charlie's death and saying how ironic it was that Charlie was killed by a gun when he was a champion of gun rights. But do you want to know what the real irony is? The real irony is that Charlie, at this moment in eternity, I guarantee to you Glenn is praying for those who did this to him.
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You know, yesterday I said, I think I might have done one of the hardest things I've ever done. I walked to the front gate and I lowered my flag to half mask for a dear friend. And I think that is going to be easy compared to the forgiveness and the compassion and the restraint that is going to be required from all of us in the coming days. I think that's going to be very difficult. And I don't know how you do it if you don't have God.
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I don't. I can't imagine moving forward without God.
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The Bible says he is my rock. He is my refuge. And I can tell you that that's the only thing right now that's helping me swim through this fog of grief. Charlie was such a good man, Glenn. Such a good man. You know, he wants. Actually hired me. This was a decade and a half ago. He hired me to work for Turning Point usa, But I wasn't going to. My start date for starting that job wasn't going to be for like, three months down the road because of the new financial cycle. And in the interim, after we had signed that contract, but before I had started, I got offered my first television job on oann. And so I preemptively quit on Charlie. And I remember talking to him and saying, I know this is such a slow, sucky move for me to preemptively quit on you after we had agreed. But Charlie, what would you do? And he was so gracious, Glenn. He was so generous. He said, you are. You're going to kill it. You're going to. You are going to use this platform to glorify God and to save our country. And he was always so encouraging. Yesterday I was looking back at our text thread because for as busy as this man was, he never neglected talking to his friends. And during some of the most challenging moments in my public life, who was texting me encouragement. But Charlie Kirk, this. It is hard to think about how to move forward. But one of the things, and I know that it's hard to articulate clearly in this moment, but one of the things that I know with crystal clarity at this moment is we are not going to be silenced by an enemy who harms us. We are not going to back down. We are not going to be quiet. We are going to honor Charlie's legacy. We are going to care for and love Charlie's family. We are going to understand in a clearer sense exactly what we are up against. And it's going to, with God on our side, it is going to lead us to, to victory in a way that our country has not yet experienced. Because we do have this binary choice. The left wants violence. The left wants civil war. The left wants to hurt us and kill us. But what's going to happen instead is these people in our country, people who are politically apathetic or lukewarm liberal or, you know, maybe right wing, but not that active in politics. The same thing is going to happen as a result of Charlie's assassination that happened after the Black Lives Matter riots or after the COVID vaccine mandates where people realized that the other side does not want the best for us, that the other side, during the Black Lives Matter riots, was willing to falsely accuse us of being racist when that wasn't true, or during COVID to tell us that we couldn't go to church and worship God and we had to take their medical product because they said so and they didn't care about the harm. Glenn, this is that times 1000 people are now looking out across our country realizing that there are subversive forces and not just a radical, lunatic, madman, isolated incident. There are radical forces who want to kill us. And the awakening that's going to happen, the eye opening. You are going to see churches filled with people turning to God. You are going to see politics, a swell of good people who want to stand for normalcy and common sense. 2 million, 5 million, 10 million new Charlie Kirk are going to be minted because of this. And that's hard to picture in this moment. And there will be hard choices to make because we're angry right now and the left is taunting Us. But I have so much faith. I have so much faith in what Charlie did and in the prayers that he is going to be bathing our country in now from eternity.
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Liz, you're one of my favorite people, and I know you were one of Charlie's favorite people, too. Thank you for coming on today.
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Thank you, Glenn. God bless you.
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Let me tell you about Prageru. You know, Dennis Prager had a bad fall and broke his back and is still in a hospital bed. He is fully there. He's writing a book. In fact, I just wrote the foreword to his new book. It's really good. But his ability to be everywhere has been diminished. And yesterday, with the loss of Charlie Kirk, we need to make sure that these organizations do not fall apart. You know, Prageru is, I think, one of the best things that anyone has done. I think it's one of the most important things that any of my friends have. Have put together. I mean, Dennis put together this thing that is teaching our children. It's just. It's like Charlie. My children loved Charlie Kirk. And I feel the same way about Dennis. Right now, they're raising money for Prageru because they're doing some really exceptional things. And right now, until September 19th, and this is only for this audience, Prageru is extending their triple match campaign. If you want to make an impact on the next generation, this is the best time to support Prageru. It's a special opportunity for you where every dollar you donate from now until September 19th will be triple matched. I know, I know how Charlie loved Dennis. Charlie spent a lot of time at Dennis's bedside. Dennis was a mentor of Charlie's. Stand with Prageru. If you have the money, please, now is the time. Triple matched. PragerU.com Glenn that's PragerU.com Glenn 10 seconds. Back to the show. Ben in Utah, as we remember, Charlie Kirk. Ben, you were at the event yesterday.
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Yes, I was there. Glenn, great to talk to you.
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Thank you. What. What was it like to be in the crowd?
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Let's hope I can make it through the conversation here. So I took my. My son, he's a senior here, and UVU is my alma mater. And we thought, how exciting is it to that Charlie's coming to town? And so the second we found out and got us some tickets to go, and we were, if you're from Charlie's perspective, we were there on the top left of the bowl. So you got the swag tent there at the top to Charlie's left. And we were off to just the, the right of that. And yeah, it was shoulder to shoulder there. And then as we were just talking, I told my son, hey, go back to the swag tent and grab a hat. And all of a sudden you heard this, the shot. And we thought it was, it didn't even cross our minds that it was a gunshot. We thought it was just maybe a firecracker or something. And then, then all of a sudden everybody just dropped. And I think everybody was just shocked. And we're standing there and thinking what, what just happened? And, and at that point, maybe just a second later, everybody started just to rush out of the bowl there. And my son and I tried to collect ourselves and catch up with what had just happened because in moments like that, things are happening faster than you have the ability to process. We just crouched down and try to make sense of what's going on. And then all of a sudden you see a police presence come in. We think it was the UVU officers that were the first there. And then you see city officers come in and the SWAT FBI officials come in and they're slowly clearing out the courtyard. We even had an officer tell us at one point, we can't guarantee that you will be safe if you stay here. And so at that point, after about 10 minutes, we, we left. But as we were walking around trying to piece together what had happened, there were people that, as we all know now, as we now know that.
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We'Re.
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Able to confirm that, yeah, Charlie was shot in the neck and, and it was terrible, terrible incident. And we're just so sad in this community that that could happen. At little old Utah Valley University.
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In a town called Orem, which is, you know, I think it's, what is America's family town or something. It's this sweet, sweet town and horror was brought right inside. Thank you so much. God bless. And I'm, I'm glad for your safety and your son's safety. This is Glenn Beck. Steve Dace is next.
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Sa I want to share some personal thoughts on Charlie Kirk coming up in a minute, but I wanted to spend a few minutes with another friend of Charlie Kirk's and a good friend of our program and mine, Steve Dase, who follows me on BlazeTV. Steve, I know it has been a hard 24 hours. How are you holding up?
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I'm pretty devastated. I think I have sobbed more Glenn, in the last 18 hours than I probably did since the night of my own conversion. I'm angry and I know a lot of people are and there will be a time after we've had we need to mourn first, Glenn, because otherwise the anger will come out destructively and it needs to come out but constructively. And I think we have to mourn first. I think Charlie's legacy as a father, husband, friend, patriot merits that and I think tpusa and his family need that. But in the not too distant future, we're going to have to get the message that was sent here. He was the best of us when you saw him behind the scenes or in public. Genuinely kind, generous. Too many pastors and ministry leaders thought they were too good for Charlie and tpusa. They want to get their hands dirty and claim they were being seeker friendly and yet he was the one that sought out the seekers. He went to the places that those nicer than God pastors didn't go to and he took bullet that frankly, that's part of their calling that they're supposed to take and I hope in a good way. It shames some of them this morning that they wake up and they realize that they have slept on the job and that's why somebody like Charlie had to do their job for them. And as as Charlie, him, you know, named his own organization. This is a Turning point. We're never going back to the way things were before. What we do next, we'll decide whether or not they are better. And as one of Charlie's biggest, biggest supporters and donors texted me this morning, we can only pray that out of one, many will rise up.
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That's a guarantee. That is an absolute guarantee that that is going to happen. You know, when the tyrant is killed, his reign is over. When the martyr is killed, his reign has just begun. And make no mistake, for liberty, Charlie Kirk was a martyr. He was assassinated and martyred yesterday. And, and I, you know, and I think, I hope that America, I wish America could know him the way we knew him because he was a. He was such a generous man. It didn't matter who you were or what rank in life you were. If you needed help, he was there. And no matter how busy he was, everything stopped. And he would help you. And I saw it in him over and over and over again. And I wish people could see that, because this cartoon character where they're making him into this bomb thrower, he was anything but. I mean, he would have the greatest conversations with people. I mean, I couldn't have done it. I couldn't do it. I couldn't sit through that nonsense. But he could. And he could logically and peacefully have a great conversation with people who despised him. And that was so important for the healing of our nation. And I really think that that's one of the reasons why he was killed. Not just because he was effective at what he did, but because he was healing us. Something that is really vital to happen. He was healing all of those divides.
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I couldn't have said it better myself. And if you just look on social media and see so many people in our movement who have such incredible people, I don't know people that don't know me, such incredible testimonies of everything you just said in their interactions with Charlie. You know, we had a very divisive presidential primary, and to be honest, I didn't always handle it well. One of the first people I heard from when it was over was Charlie. And he texted me and he said, don't give up. We need you. He didn't have to do that. He won. And he's got the bigger platform, he's got the bigger show. He didn't have to do that. But that's the kinds of. Those are the kinds of things leaders do. And the void that is left here is massive. And at my lowest point I've ever had in my faith, the Lord said something to me that won't stay with me the rest of my life. And he said, stephen, I'm sorry, Stephen, I need apostles, not assassins. And I want to share that with your audience because to win the fight that is going to come after this, that is what will be required. If you know me, you know this isn't about being a pansy. Apostles rebuke, but they don't seek revenge. Apostles confront, but they don't condemn. The apostles did something that Hannibal couldn't do, no other civilization in the Fertile Crescent could do. They conquered the Roman Empire. They set the stage for Western civilization. And they did not do it because they were passive and they sit on the sidelines and they were nicer than God. And they wore pleated khakis and Hawaiian shirts year round with sweater vests. They did it because they got their hands dirty. They did it because they did the kinds of things we saw Charlie do. Build infrastructure, direct lead, guide. I mean, we would have to have a literal conclave, Glenn, and come with literally everyone in our business and movement and come up with divisions to do all the various things Charlie himself was leading and doing. And that organization was. I told Charlie at dinner recently, it's like you are like if Rush Limbaugh and the Heritage foundation had a baby. This is what you, a CPU are. And that's what it's going to take to fill that void. And I can't, I'm sure, with the size of your audience. My inbox, my wife is going to through it as we speak. It is full of people. You were right. I have to get off the sidelines. I have to do something. My buddy Sloan over at tpusa texted me yesterday, goes Steve, I can't tell you how many pastors we're hearing from. They thought they were too pious for us, too good for us. And now the stakes have been raised. They're getting it. And I'm just so sorry that it took two little children and their mom's family away from them for two. For more people to get the message. And I want to, I want to specifically challenge my generation. Gen X. No more grunge. No more we're too cool for school. No more. Well, everything sucks. Nothing we can do. No more. That was a 31 year old man doing the work as a young father and husband. Frankly, it wasn't his time to do yet. He has other primary duties that he should have been given the benefit of devoting to as a husband and father. But our generation has sat on the sidelines for too long. We must leave. It is our children now that are grown, that are leaving the nest. We are the ones with the free time. We are the ones with the discretionary income. It is our time now to lead, to stop bitching and complaining about boomers. And I say that to me more than anybody else, and to stop looking around like we're still listening to Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots and Soundgarden and nothing's going to get better. It is time now to lead. This is our moment, and we are the ones that are in place to do this. With the positions of our families and with our productivity and prosperity, we have to step to the forefront now.
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Steve, this is why I love you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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You're welcome, brother.
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I love you. We'll talk again.
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Amen. Thank you.
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I'm. Charlie said to me one time, he was 17 years old and first time we met. He said, I want to be like you. I want to do what you do. He said, I. I'm. I'm doing and going to do what I. Because I grew up listening to you and watching you. He said I would race home so I could watch your show at 5. He said, I'm in high school and college and I'm listening to you. He was the guy that I hoped we would find. We would find the leadership in the youth and they would be raised with truth. Yesterday I spent too much time thinking about how I wish he wouldn't have listened to me. My dad said the goal of every father is to raise a son that can surpass him. Charlie at 25, had a better handle on America and its path and where we were headed and how to fix it than I have even today. And because of that, he raised a whole generation out of the people he taught. Millions will rise. I've thought a lot about the TPUSA to crowd I know group. I don't even know what to call them, the Charlie's friends and family and kids. Because I keep hearing people say about his family and that is true. We've got to pray for his wife and his children. We have to live up to be worthy of saying that. That was our friend. Because I know how he would want us to react and I want his kids to see how a nation reacted and they reacted that way because their dad was such a great man. But I've also thought a lot about the family of turning Point. Let me just say this. You're not forgotten. You're not alone. You're not rudderless. You're not over because you learned from Charlie. And I cannot wait to see what you're going to do next. Back in a minute. Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. In a time when so many companies out there are using your money to push politics that you don't believe in, it's more important than ever to choose wisely. Even with your cell phone service. Patriot Mobile is America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. They offer reliable coverage on the nation's best networks and they support causes that you believe in like religious freedom and the sanctity of life and the second amendment and the need to secure our borders. When you switch over to Patriot Mobile, you're not just sacrificing, you know, you're not sacrificing, in fact anything. You're sacrificing giving your money to a group of people that are fighting against you. Every day you get the same strong nationwide service with a company that actually will share your values in the switch is free. They have affordable plans. They make it really easy. You can keep your phone, keep your number or, you know, trade in both, whatever. It's a company that won't work against you. It's Patriot Mobile. I want you to go to patriot mobile.com you can get switched in 15 minutes. It's patriotmobile.com beck or call 972 Patriot. My 972 Patriot. Get a free month service if you use the promo code BECK. It's patriotmobile.com Beck972 Patriot. More Glenn Beck coming up next. Foreign It's 9 11, 2025. And today we're remembering our dear friend Charlie Kirk who is assassinated yesterday by a terrorist. And we have some breaking news for you and I. I'm going to get into all of it here at the top of the hour, but we may now have a motivation and it goes directly to what Charlie Kirk was talking about right before he was shot. I want you to listen to this question and Charlie's answer. And where the audio stops is where the shot rang out. I don't think we need to go further than that. Listen to what he was talking about. Do you know how many transgender Americans.
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Have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?
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Too many.
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Okay, now five is a lot, right?
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I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give you some credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the the last 10 years, counting or not counting gang violence? And that is when the shot rang out. Why is that important? And what an unbelievable coincidence that is. The evidence that has been revealed just a few minutes ago. Next is Glenn Beck. Let me tell you about the burner launcher. What can I possibly say more than I asked my daughter last night. Did you have your burner launcher with you? No, dad, I didn't. Why? I gave my daughter a burner launcher. She was there on the campus yesterday. She was just a few feet from the tent and she didn't have anything. I worried about her until many hours later when I could hold her in my arms. Please get a burner launcher for your kids. They should have them. If they're in college, they should have them. You should have them. Every member of your family over 18 should have them. You don't need a license. You don't, there's no background check. There's nothing it won't kill. It will incapacitate people, but it will not kill them. And it is the best self defense that you can have. Burna B Y R N A.com Glenn because you don't know what's going to happen. Burna.com Glenn Get a 10% discount off your purchase right now. Do it now. Sportsman's Warehouse Burna.com Glenn down the road.
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Where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get dire Gotta face the dark.
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And.
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Race the fire.
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The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Every year we produce a new theme for the show. And because I live through September 11th every year year I asked my producers to make what I call a dark theme to only be used in case of a very dark day. You never hear those themes. This year's theme. This is the day we've had to pull it out as we remember our good friend Charlie Kirk. Let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour before we get into some breaking news. If you're struggling to get quality sleep at night, you're not alone. Millions of Americans toss and turn, falling asleep late, waking up early and feeling drained the next day. And over time, that lack of sleep takes a toll on your mood, on your energy, on your immune system and your overall health. Z Factor. It is a natural sleep supplement from the makers of Relief Factor, formulated to help you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer and wake up feel feeling truly rested and restored. It is a scientifically designed blend that will help calm your mind, relax your body and support your natural sleep cycle without ever leaving you feeling groggy or wiped out the next day. I want you to just try this. You can get a 30 day supply of Z Factor at relieffactor.com try Z Factor relieffactor.com get 46% savings now on your first bottle. 19.95 30 day supply. It's relieffactor.com 1-800-4 relief. We have some breaking news. Jason Butrill is joining us as we follow the story. We still don't have anybody in custody but we have made significant advances in the overnight and now some things have become official in the last few minutes. You want to bring us up to speed?
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Yeah. And I will say a little disclaimer. Information when it comes to these investigations is always very fluid and things change. But there is a federal law enforcement bulletin that has been shared with a few outlets and it says that a rifle.30 caliber hunting rifle was found. It was found with expended cartridge inside the rifle.
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It was wrapped in a towel.
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And there were also three unspent rounds that were in the magazine of the, of the rifle. And on the those unspent rounds there were expressions of transgender and anti fascist ideology on those rounds.
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And again, this comes from a federal.
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Law enforcement bulletin that is starting to go around.
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We just saw that exact same thing just a couple of weeks ago. And I say this sincerely, but also with a touch of questioning in it. What an unbelievable coincidence it is that the question Charlie was being asked just before he was shot was this question, listen, do you know how many transgender.
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Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?
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Too many.
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Okay, now five is a lot, right?
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I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give you some credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?
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Counting or not counting gang violence?
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Bang. Coin is coincidence.
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I think that at this point all options need to be considered.
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I hope we are questioning that person. I hope that is a coincidence. Because if it's not a coincidence, it means we are dealing with something entirely different. And I, I gotta believe it's a coincidence. But what an amazing thing to happen.
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Stu, have you seen the video going around of the one guy in the crowd that immediately is celebrating?
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Yes.
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It's one of the most shocking things I've ever seen in my life. I mean like outside of just how horrible of a human being you'd have to be to celebrate someone being murdered. The. Just the. I mean, think of the moment, right? This guy's probably 30ft away from where this shot just went off, from where it hit. Excuse me. There's a man who. I mean it's a very bloody scene. It's an awful, awful scene. He's literally Turning around and cheering, waving his hands up and down like they had just won the Super Bowl. It's in the crowd. I mean, it's jaw dropping. It's like, is that person involved in it? Did he know it was coming? I don't see how in a normal circumstance you could possibly react that way without either having pre knowledge or have at least fantasized about something like this happening. It is, you know, the reaction to it is incredibly disturbing. That one is the worst of them. But there's so many people just celebrating on social media and stuff. There's this one woman that's going viral for her celebration afterward. And what strikes me of it is like she has a beautiful smile. Like a beautiful smile, you know, it's like she's like really happy and joyful and she's thrilled that this has happened and she's so excited about it. And it's not like, it's not fake. It's like she's really gleeful that this dad just got murdered. It's hard to understand what country we even have looking at this stuff today.
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Well, here's the thing about all of this. America needs to decide what kind of civilization do you want to live in? If you want to live in a. In a civilization that celebrates or excuses political violence, the assassination of people who are only coming to campus to speak to people who disagree and will respectfully let the those people speak and then have a conversation back and forth if that is something worth shooting someone over. I don't want to live in your civilization. I don't. I won't live in that civilization. Can't live in that civilization. And I think that the more these people celebrate, I am hoping the more people on the reasonable left, you know, there's the Democrat that we all grew up around will go, I don't want anything to do with that. That's not me. I don't want to do anything. And it's not enough just to say that's not me. You now have to make a decision. You either say, that's not me, and I am not with those people and they have exposed themselves as being a part of a danger death cult. That I will stand against you doesn't mean I'm standing for the other side. It means I am not with you and what you're doing is evil. And I want no part of this in our civilization because you don't have a civilization. This is not civilized behavior. It's not. It's not.
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It's not. Glenn, one more thing on this you know, because we're seeing all this reaction to it. But one thing I keep coming back to is all these pictures of their family, this beautiful family that they have. And you see everyone's putting these videos up and everything else. And the one thing I realized after watching, I don't know a hundred of them is I have no idea what his kids look like. None of the photos that are public. He would let his kids faces be seen because he knew something like this could happen. You know, he lived his entire life with the knowledge that what he was doing was putting himself and everyone around him in danger. You know, there's a picture of him with this beautiful background of him and his wife and their Chicago Cubs hat is like awkwardly pulled over the face of their child because they couldn't show the face. They couldn't post photos of their own kids.
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Pray for the family. Pray for the family and the kids. And now let's show those children as they grow how much he meant to us by living a life that he would respect and he would not want vengeance. He would want justice, but he would not want vengeance of any kind. I pulled out a song that I had produced years ago for man in the Moon and I just wanted to play one part of it. It's the second stanza of a song that, you know, we all know. It's America the Beautiful. But I thought the last stanza was Charlie Kirk. Listen.
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Beautiful.
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For heroes prove the country loved.
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And mercy more than ever.
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America.
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Find Till success be nobleness Let that be our prayer as we remember Charlie Kirk Today. Let me tell you about our sponsor, it's Good Ranchers. When you buy meat at a grocery store, you might assume it's American meat. But the truth is over 4 billion pounds of meat are imported in the US every year and much of it is still labeled product of the US Good ranchers is doing their part in changing all of that. They source 100% of their beef, chicken and seafood. Sometimes it's really difficult to do commercials. They deliver it right directly to your door. The quality is outstanding. And every box comes with vacuum sealed flash frozen food in it. And it goes right straight to your freezer and is really good for your family. So whatever it is that you like, help these farmers and these ranchers here in America, help them stay in business. By the end of this program, another farmer, another American rancher will go out of business. And good ranchers is doing their part to make sure these people survive so we can raise and grow our own food and our own beef. I Want you to go to Good Ranchers right now. Use the promo code Beck, and you'll get an additional $40 off, plus free meat for life. Find out all about it at goodranchers.com goodranchers.com welcome to the Table. 10 seconds. Station ID history doesn't turn on the movements of faceless crowds, but on the courage of individuals, men and women who, in the darkest of hours, ask a haunting question. Why me? Why do I have to be the one to stand when standing carries the risk of losing everything? Why me? George Washington asked it. Why me? Have I not yet done enough for my country? He knew the price of failure was not embarrassment or political obscurity. He knew that it was a hangman's noose. Jefferson knew it. Adams knew it. Every one of our founders carried that burden. They knew it. Generations later. It was on the beaches of Normandy, the jungles of Vietnam, the deserts in the Middle East. Young Americans asked the exact same question. Why me? Why here? Why now? And yet they advanced. They pressed on. They chose conviction over their own comfort, purpose over safety. I think in his own way, Charlie Kirk wrestled with that same question. His assassination yesterday is a brutal reminder that in a world of hate and division, telling the truth is no longer safe. Telling the truth is revolutionary. And he knew, just as those other men did, he knew the price of defending those principles in an age where only telling lies is rewarded. And still he stepped forward. There's always an easier path. Always. Silence, compromise, retreat. Charlie rejected all of those. Instead, he decided to plow the harder road. The road of soldiers, of first responders, of men and women who run into buildings, run into fires, to put them out, not away from them. And that's not because they're foolish or reckless, not because they're fearless, but because duty demanded it. Somebody had to do it. I knew Charlie well enough to know that he knew his voice and his gifts were not his to hoard. They were a trust. And trusts require sacrifice. At the center of the courage that it takes to be like Charlie Kirk, to stand within the lies and tell the truth in the modern world is something that nobody wants to acknowledge. At least not in the mainstream, if you will. We are not just flesh and bone. We are spirit. We are made for something way beyond ourselves. And it was Charlie's faith that fueled his courage. It's why the left hates faith. He believed, as so many martyrs have, that life's true meaning is not measured by the length of days, but by the faithfulness to your call. And so we're left with the question that he lived out, what gives us the strength to face the outcome, whatever it may be, you know, for what we believe? The question really isn't, why me? The greater question is, if not me, then who? On a day when we're remembering Charlie Kirk, I would ask that you would review the gifts that you've been given. Your voice, your platform, your moment in history. If you can't name another person that can do it, then perhaps it's you that needs to stand. Charlie Kirk's life is now his legacy, his demanding an answer from all of us. And for some people, the call may be public. For most, it's just going to be private, and you're going to think it's small and it doesn't matter, but it does. And all of us are going to have to answer that question, and we have to be ready. Because if we refused, if we refused to look at it and to answer it, somebody else will answer it for us. And you will not like that answer. But the next generation is watching, and I think you know this. The Republic hangs in the balance. All day. I so desperately wanted to talk to the President, to thank him for how he was handling everything, to tell him how sorry I am, because I know how close he was to Charlie Kirk, but also to thank him for being the man who would answer the call. He never said, why me? He never cried. Poor mouth. He never, oh, poor little me. He just got back up and said, fight. The time for shrinking back is over. And I find it so ironic that I'm having these words that feel so familiar to me, that I am sharing almost the same message that I shared on 9 11, 2001. Now on 9, 11, 20, 25. Today, as we remember both the towers that fell and the voices that will no longer speak, let us resume to be worthy of that question, if not me, who? This is Glenn Beck. Allie Beth Stuckey is on with us next, another good friend of Charlie Kirk, as we remember him today. Every day, thousands of women across America find themselves facing an unplanned pregnancy. 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And the support goes directly to rescuing babies and supporting moms who will choose life. Will you help? Any donation is great. Please, I want you to help now@preborn.com and join me in this fight. Preborn.com Beck that's preborn.com Beck or dial £250. Say the keyword baby sao friend of mine, Ellie Best, Ducky, who is just a remarkable woman, posted something. To the people who did this, to the people who support this. You have changed our. You have changed our country forever. If your goal was to immortalize Charlie's ideas and to raise people even bolder and more relentless than him, good job, because that's exactly what you've done. And Ali, I want to share something that I just saw online from somebody I've never heard of. Matty Roon. I'm not going to lie. With everything going on, I'm feeling the pull to go to church and give my life to Christ. Such great good will come out of this. Ellie, I know this is a tough day for you and thank you for joining me.
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Yeah. God is in the business of redemption. He is in the business of thwarting Satan's schemes. He is in the business of bringing beauty out of ashes. He is in the business of bringing glory to himself and bringing people to himself. And if Charlie had had the choice, if someone had been able to come to him and say, okay, this is what your death will accomplish. It will accomplish more people hearing the gospel. It will accomplish more people waking up. I know that if Charlie had had that choice, he would have said yes. He would have said, yes, lord, send me. And not only would he have, but he did. He went into the lion's den. And now he is with the lion of Judah. Now he is with Jesus. And everyone is going to know who he was and why he lived and the gospel that motivated him. And that is the only thing right now that is giving me any hope or any peace or any comfort.
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I know that all I could think of yesterday was how glorious the greeting must have been on the other side. You know? Good. Well, Done. Good and faithful servant.
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Yes, absolutely. And before any of us heard the news, before his sweet wife Erica got the phone call, he was already hearing those words. And I am so happy for him. I'm so happy that he's with the saints and the martyrs and the persecuted through which the Church of Christ has been advanced for millennia. I'm so happy for him. I'm so sad for us. I'm so sad for us. Heaven gained an incredible person, but we. We lost a huge presence.
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That's how I know when people have faith, they don't weep for the dead. They weep for the loss to themselves and to the world and to the families that are hurting. They mourn that loss on themselves. But when they think of the person who has died, they know exactly where they are. And with Charlie, I mean, I knew him when he was 17, and he was a good kid, but what a change happened to him. He was on fire for Christ. On fire for that.
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C
Yes, absolutely. He grew into, over the past five to 10 years, such a theologically deep and apologetically astute man of God as he became a husband, as he became a father, as he became even more of a warrior for truth. And that is really what. That's what inspired me. And when I heard the news yesterday, I thought. My first thought was, that's it. I'm done. I'm throwing in the towel. That is it for me. I'm not. I'm not willing to do this anymore. And then later, after he died, I went through some of the texts that he had sent me over the years. He was always sending everyone, all of his friends, these very encouraging texts. And he sent me this article from a liberal outlet that, of course, had taken some jabs at me that had made me anxious. And he said, well done. Keep slugging. And I just. I just know that if he were here, that's exactly what he would say. Not just to me, but to all of us. He would say, no, you can't get out now. You gotta keep going. You gotta keep going. That's exactly how he would feel, and that's exactly what he would tell all of us.
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I have received so many emails from people who have said, I don't know how to get back up again.
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C
Yeah.
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And I don't know what to tell them other than faith in God. Faith in God, I think.
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If our.
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Side, if you will. Boy, I hate that in this context. But if we didn't have God, we'd be very much like the left right now. We would be mired in Anger and screaming for vengeance. And it would be a really ugly place today if we didn't have God.
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C
Yes. And if Jesus wasn't raised from the dead, like, if he wasn't resurrected, then we don't have a hope of a resurrection. If he didn't defeat death, then we can't defeat death. If Jesus didn't live forever, then we can't live forever. And that's exactly what Charlie always preached, what he always posted on X, what he always said. If you were to be able to text him right now and say, look, Charlie, I've got this really tough thing to talk about today, and I don't know how to say it. I don't know what to say. What are your thoughts on it? What should I say? I know exactly what he would say. The one word that he would text back, and that would be Jesus. Just tell him that. Just tell him that Jesus is the only way to fulfillment. That is what he would say. People don't may not realize that, but every time he went on a college campus, he was. He wasn't just talking about capitalism or Donald Trump. And all those things are important. He shared the gospel. He knew that every single person that walked in front of him was made in the image of God with a soul that was going to live forever in one of two places. He desperately wanted the people who hated him to go to heaven. And I just pray that I can have that same boldness for the rest of my life.
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I don't mean to put you on the spot, Allie, but I feel as though I have seen two greats come into my life as very young adults. One was Charlie. He was 17, and I watched him grow into an icon and just remarkable things. And I know I told you about a year or so ago that you're the. You're the first that I have seen come through my doors, that I've said that is a game changer. This is a superstar that is going to change the game. I don't mean to put you on the spot, but you're. I'm sorry to say this to you, but you're the closest replacement. The responsibility now on your shoulders, I mean, because you can do it and you're placed in the right place and you have very much the same message. And, and I want to thank you for being prepared.
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C
Well, I don't. I don't feel very courageous right now. And I, I want to say thank you for those words and thank you for your belief in me. And, you know, Charlie, way back before I had Any audience I was doing anything. I certainly hadn't done anything impressive at all before I came to the Blaze or anything. Charlie was one of the first people to reach out to me, said, you got this. Come speak at one of my events. And he always, for reasons that I didn't really understand, he always cheered me on. He always platformed me, even when I didn't agree with him on everything. He never cared about that. And that was who he was. He built people up. And I don't think I'll ever be able to fill those shoes. And, you know, I'm just going to follow the call that God has on my life and try to do the next right thing and believe that God is going to use me. And if he uses me in a fraction of the way that he used Charlie Kirk, then my life will be fulfilled.
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He already has. You've already done so many great things, Ali. Thank you so much. Thank you. I appreciate you talking on such a hard day.
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C
Thank you.
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Ali Bestucky. She is Blaze TV host of a show that is doing. I know, but a show that is doing so remarkably well everywhere. And can I mention what you're doing, or have you decided on that for sure?
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C
Yes. So the show is relatable. And we've got an event coming up.
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B
Are you doing it?
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C
Yes, we are doing it. And this is not a time. I'm not trying to sell tickets or anything like that. I got a message. So we've got this event, it's a Christian women's conference called Share the Arrows. And actually, Charlie was like the perfect embodiment of that, because whenever anyone got arrows slung at them for saying something that was true, he was the guy to stand up and say, yeah, you know what? I'll take those arrows, too. And that's what this conference is about. It's about instilling women with courage, teaching them theology, and making sure that they share what is good, right and true in every sphere of the world that they occupy. And I got a message from someone saying, you know, I'm so glad I bought these tickets two months ago, because I need to be near believers. I need to be encouraged. I need worship. So if that is you, if you are a Christian woman and you're like, wow, I need this, then you can go to sharethe arrows.com you can get your tickets there today. I'd be so happy to have you. There will be thousands of us there. We will be singing hymns, we will be worshiping with. We will be learning from the word of God and We will draw courage from each other. So if you want to be there, then I invite you to come. And that's ShareTheAeros.com and it's happening on.
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October 11th at the Credit Union of Texas Events Center. And you know, I just talked to Megyn Kelly a few minutes ago and I talked to her off the air and I said, I think I know the answer, but are you really going to start your tour next Monday?
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Yeah.
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And she said, yeah, I am. Nothing is going to stop these valiant, valiant women and warriors. So thank you, Ali. Appreciate it.
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C
Thank you, Glenn, for everything that you do and how you lead and how you represent the truth so well. Well, we are all so thankful to you and indebted to you in many, many ways.
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Sharethearrows.com and you can follow Ali. Blazetv.com Ali and her show is relatable. Okay, one more break. Some final thoughts here in just a minute. First, let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. It's Relief Factor when pain becomes a daily part of your life. Life, it affects everything, your mood, your energy, your sleep, your mobility and even the simple joys of getting through the day with without the struggle that goes along with it. Relief Factor is a daily supplement formatted to or formulated to fight pain at its source using a blend of ingredients that help support healthy inflammatory response through, you know, just letting your body work the way it's supposed to and breaking down some of those barriers just with this supplement. Unlike the over the counter pain medications that just mask the symptoms for a few hours, Relief Factor is designed to work with your body to help reduce the inflammation that is the real source of all of our pain and many of our diseases. You can get their three week quick start right now. Try it for only 1995. Visit relieffactor.com relieffactor.com or call 800 for relief 800, the number four relief. More Glenn Beck. Martha listens to her favorite band all the time in the car, gym, even sleeping.
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Remembering Charlie Kirk Today I want to, I want to leave you with a response. Somebody who is a remarkable, a remarkable force for good in our world wrote to me this morning and said I'm devastated. I'm in deep mourning for Charlie, for his family and our country. I don't know how to surface from this. I want to share what I wrote back. I share your devastation. There are no words that can erase the weight of this moment. Like you, I'm mourning Charlie not only as a friend that we lost, but the bright light of hope he carried for so many. His absence is a wound in all of our hearts, in his family, and in the country that he loves so fiercely. But I also know this. Charlie would not want us to remain in despair. He understood, perhaps better than most, that our time here is short, and what matters is how we all use it. The pain you feel now is proof of the impact he had, the lives he touched, the courage he sparked, the truth he spoke. It's natural for all of us to grieve. It's necessary for us to mourn. But out of that mourning can come renewed resolve. The torch that Charlie carried did not go out. It was merely passed to you, to me, to every mother, father, son and daughter who still believes in the promises of God and the promise of America. We will honor him not by our silence, not by retreat, certainly not by violence or revenge, but by standing taller, loving harder, and speaking the truth even more boldly. In this dark hour, I find myself returning again and again to faith that God is not absent, that he weeps with us, and that he will use even this unspeakable loss for a greater purpose. Because I know that is who he is. So when you ask how to surface from this, the answer is together. Together we will rise. Together we'll comfort one another. Together we will carry forward Charlie's courage. We will grieve, but we will not surrender. Charlie's life was short. It was full. But it calls us now to live our lives with the same passion, the same conviction, the same faith, and the same unshakable hope. Remembering my dear, courageous young friend, Charlie Kirk. Well done, good and faithful servant. This is Glenn, Becky.