GOP Midterm Convention Day #1 Recap & Remembering Charlie Kirk

0:00Thanks for listening to BrightBarts News Daily. The second segment in this podcast that we'll give you is our humble tribute of our two Charlie Kirk one year after his assassination. So we'll play that. Let's start here though with what happened last night. They won the midterm convention if that was an all-timer from the president. He is on the top of his game and it's awesome to see a lot of fun. So let's start with our opening analysis of what happened last night at the convention. Tonight with a land acknowledgement. This is the greatest land in the history of mankind.

1:01And if that bothers you, you, your communist and hippie buddies should get the hell off it. That's a fine, fine land acknowledgement. Who never before America is the greatest country in the world. Good morning. Is it Thursday? Today's Thursday. Yeah, that's day of the week. Thanks for being here. A lot to do. Maybe, maybe never a busier week. Actually, so we got to talk all about the convention yesterday. And we will end. Well, then we got John Carney is going to be here because yes, two days ago, BrightBarts hosted a event with Scott Bassett who spoke last night at the convention as well. So we're talking with Carney about that event and then about the big Trump announcement. It's policy announcement yesterday. And then we'll end the hour with our humble tribute of the one year anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Isn't that a maybe one year ago?

2:04So we'll, we'll talk about Charlie coming up as well. So the convention speech last night, I will save because we have too much to do. I will save my old man rant about how late things are like what? What is up with people? Tennis matches that started 930 football games. Everything's too late. We need to move everything and I was I'm not going to do a whole rant on it because the people have always I mean, the news used to be on at 11 o'clock. They still do like the local news at 11 or 1130 or what. And then late night TV show, I guess the concept of a late night TV shows, this thing doesn't even kick off till midnight. It's like what is what is going to be way earlier. But I'm not going to not going to do that. Trump spoke, I guess part of the part of the stuff talking about this Trump spoke for an hour and 47 minutes and hour and 47. Trump last night. I'm going to put this up there as one of his all time greatest speeches.

3:08I mean that content wise, well, how do I put it? There's been better speeches, but his his sprightliness, his jovialness, his one liners, there was hilarious. Some of the best weaving I've ever heard of him. He hasn't lost a beat. It was like 2016. This was 2016. Trump was up there last night. It's 80. So I guess I get when I say it was as great as one of his best speech ever. There's a little bit of a curve. I'm grading a bit on a curve because I would understand if he came out a little tired, a little office step. And if it was office step a little bit, I'd be like, oh, he's 80. And he's been doing this two years nonstop every day, doesn't sleep, eats horrible live. How is he alive? So yeah, he's going to be not as quick. Maybe not as funny. It was, it was, it was the same as 2016.

4:13He had these weaves, some weaves that I lost track of the weaving. And he always brought it back. And that was one of his jokes. He said, if I weave, if I ever weave and I don't bring it back, he said, one day I'll weave. I'll weave here and then I'll weave over there. And if I don't bring it back to the original subject, then you can say, he's had it. But he always brought it back last night. Sharp as a tack. He weaved it all right. Top of this game. So it was great to see he is, he has rested somehow and ready to barnstorm the entire country, which he said he will do and get all the Republicans across the finish line in every state that they need to. And it is going to be a fun two months. Because it is, it's almost there for 54 days. That'll fly. I got all of his best moments here that I want to play. Let me let me let me make some political points here before we play the speech.

5:1954 days. Based off of the Republican spending because now it's spending time. Now it's time to spend that money. Based on the initial spending, it seems like the main initial targets are flipping Michigan and New Hampshire. So no, no is the new Hampshire candidate for Senate and he is pulling great to flip the New Hampshire seat. Now New Hampshire is sneaky. New Hampshire is blue, but not much. Kamala one new hamster by 20,000 votes. That's it. And now you know, whenever I spend New Hampshire, 20,000 votes. Now only 800,000 people voted. So it ends up being about 3% about 3 percentage points for Kamala, but that's pretty, that's still pretty close that no one really ever talks about New Hampshire being a flippable seat. But then you throw in a Sununu, a known name. And that's pretty good. Now check this out in New Hampshire voter registration election day 2020 Democrats had a voter

6:20registration lead of 14,000 in 2022. Democrats had a leader 5,000 in 2024. Republicans led by 47,000. And now because you know, it's like, so it's trying to make four. Okay. And people like, oh, well, you know, Republicans have all these people are betraying the party. They're leaving the party. They hate the party. They hate Trump. They hate Republicans. They voted for Trump. And now they hate. So I got all these articles. I don't, we're not gonna have time to share them. I got four articles. Well, right. You're all writing about that same theme. Like, oh, I found a guy who voted for Trump three times and now hates him. That's what the whole article is. They're trying to pound that theme. Well, that's true. And 2020 for in New Hampshire, Republicans had a lead of 47,000 voter registration. Today, the Republicans lead by 52,000. So they have increased their lead and they live for your die state. And you put Sununu on the ballot. And I don't know if this is true, but New Hampshire might be a state where Trump not being on the ballot technically may help the Republicans.

7:21Some states it's good. Some bad. New Hampshire may be one where it actually helps the Republican candidate. So that's a huge, a flipping New Hampshire. What? So this is my preliminary. Are you died? Now, so that's right. It's are you died. It's are you died? I tell you. Are you died? It is not this election. It is these elections. Come on, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night and I come out with that one. Come on. Talk about not losing a step. Except I'm half the age of the president and I'm sleepy. Are you died? It's not this election. It is these elections. This election. Nope, I just messed up. I just screwed up. These elections more than any time in my memory is really about the election.

8:22About the individual candidates and nuances of each state. More so than the red wave or the blue wave. I don't think any old Republican would win in New Hampshire because of the red wave. I don't think that's it. I think it's a Sanunu. It's a Sanunu, a New Hampshire. You need a Sanunu. Every state has their legacy, their dynasty candidate and New Hampshire. It's Sanunu. So it's individual candidates really, really matter more than I've ever seen and it's the money, which is where I started this weave. There's a Trump aligned pack. It's called not going back. They're going to spend $10 million in New Hampshire, $11 million in Ohio. There's a state where the candidates may be aren't as good and that's why it's a trickier race than it should be. That's the flip side of New Hampshire. 15 million in Michigan. It's a race where the Democrats candidate is the worst. So they have a really tough time.

9:22It's really about the individual candidates more than any sort of big wave. So it's about the candidate. It's not this election. It's these elections about the individual candidates and money and the Republicans have way, way, way more money than the Democrats and then on top of that, like, and you heard yesterday from the head of the RNC, he was saying stuff like like three, four times as much money is maybe five times as much money as the Democrats have. Does he make any sense? It ridiculous. And then on top of that, we have Elon. I don't know if Elon's going to do or say anything versus actually say anything. People do stuff. He will. He's got a lot of money. We got Elon money on our side. So the Republican establishment blew a ton of money to try and save Cornens butt in the primary because the establishment didn't like Ken Paxton. So and Texas is supposed to be an easy win. The Republicans don't want to spend money in Texas. So it's kind of a stick it to Ken and also they're like, oh, we want to try to win New Hampshire.

10:24We'll probably win Texas, but we got to really push it to win a New Hampshire. So they're not going to spend any money in Texas. And we cannot lose Texas. Texas not only needs to stay very red, it needs to be demoralizingly red. Is that a word demoralizingly? It needs to be so red that the Democrats stop even trying to turn it because if Texas turns blue, it's over for Republicans on the presidential races. You can't, there's no way Republicans can overcome California and Texas both being blue states with the electoral college. So we need to keep Texas red. And I want Paxton to win so much that the Democrats knock it off. They're like, oh, we're not even, we tried, but we just can't do it. We can't turn Texas blue. We cannot let the Allah and trans kid loving Taloriko anywhere near the Senate went a joke. So it can't even be close. I want it to get crushed.

11:24Anyway, the Republicans are not going to spend a lot in Texas. So Elon to the rescue, according to what's his name, Mark Halperin. Mark Halperin says that Elon is going to spend at least $50 million, maybe up to $200 million to get Ken Paxton in the Senate. Just in Texas, a hundred plus million dollars just in time. Now I think I can look this up here. I think they spend, Republicans spend. A lot of money to try to get Corning. Yeah, 92 million. So I thought, wow, the Republicans already blew 92 million dollars in the primary to have Corning beat Paxton. They couldn't do it. So they're already wasted so much money. So they're going to need to spend that again to get Paxton over to Taloriko.

12:30So that's where Elon steps in and he's going to do that. It's amazing. I want to play this clip of Paxton last night. And I want to play the whole thing. That wasn't the whole thing. It's a minute. I want to play a minute here. I want to take all this in. Now I wouldn't normally play a whole minute of Ken Paxton talking. But there's a reason why I'm going to play this whole clip. So take it in. I want you to listen to your instinct on this clip. Listen to your initial reaction. And it will be important for a clip of Trump that I'm going to play later where, well, he just roasts Ken Paxton. And this guy is really obsessed with transitions. He wants to transition your kids. He wants to transition Texas off of oil and gas.

13:31How about we transition him and his crazy ideas right out of Texas? He is the most radical Democrat in Texas history. But he's also the most well-funded. And that's why today I need your prayers, your votes, and your support. If we lose Texas, we lose the common sense revolution. If we lose the common sense revolution, we lose America. But together, we can send President Trump reinforcements in the Senate and change Washington. Okay. We'll get back to that clip in a moment with the President talking about Ken Paxton. And he plays from Tyler Rico. This is Tyler Rico, I think yesterday, maybe two days ago, here at Tyler Rico walking it all back. I mean, 21 hearing you said there are six biological sexes.

14:32Do you still believe that standing here in me right now? No. I've missed the mark on some of my past statements. I've missed the mark on some of my past statements. On some of my past statements, I will be the first to admit it. What I meant is that there are two sexes and then there's a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities. Obviously, didn't say it correctly. There are not six sexes. There are two. And I think the reason that politicians in that convention center across the street want to talk about six sexes is because they don't want to talk about six-dollar diesel. Everywhere it goes across the state, it's people who are struggling to survive in this economy. They are struggling to afford the basics, groceries, gas, utilities, health care. That's what I'm focused on from now until I let you know. So just to nail it down here, standing with me, you can confidently say there are two sexes, a man, animal, man. Absolutely. Everybody. So in other words, I need normal people to vote for me, so I need to walk that one back.

15:34I love when the DSA people and lunatics like Tallahrii here, they're all walking stuff back that they said two years ago. It's not it's an ancient history from when they're in high school. Or two ago, they said some things that they're now walking. All right, so we got that's all my intro to Trump. I think that's good. It's a good intro. Anything else? We got to talk about we got I got some clips here of Dr. Oz. He was great. The best it was good. I got the UFC guys. We could play those later. One of my takeaways. Well, take one of my last five takeaways from the Trump speech and from the coming, some of the pre speeches before. They touched on all the things we did yesterday that you did. You called it 26 things. The question was what are some of the best accomplishments from the last two years? Things that you think the most about it, not the big one, obviously ones the border, right? But what are there's others? So if someone came up to you on the street and wanted to make a fool out of you because Trump hasn't done anything these last two years.

16:35Or if you were talking to someone on channel 126 or 127, the ones that surround us here on serious XM, they called you and said, what's the good thing that Trump did? So I got you came up to 26. I think they're all pretty good. And they were all pretty much talked about yesterday one way or the other, which is cool. Let's go to Trump. I got oh, so Federman spoke yesterday. That's kind of cool. Federman spoke outside of a steel mill. Federman, John Federman, the Democrat. They talked about how great his Senate colleague is Dave McCormick. Who spoke last night? That was nice. He praised Donald Trump for all the work he's done for steel workers, stuff like that. So it was cool. Then the UFC guys were the ones who introduced the president, Bo Nicol and Gachi. They fought at the White House 250 Freedom Bank, which is cool. And they talked about, you know, toughness being strong. Gachi is one of the most famous athletes in the country. I think you can make that argument straight up there. UFC may not be your thing, but that's a three million followers on Instagram.

17:38I don't know how to characterize his stardom, but that's that's pretty good. So we can play some of him later, but let's go to the president of the United States. He starts off, you know, doing that. That's why I love this speech. It was all the class. It was great. It's classic Trump. Oh, look at this place. The place is packed. We're going to miss the Trump show. I'm going to miss it. I did the whole thing where there's people packed outside. Does anyone want to give up their seat? No. Come on. There's people standing outside. They want to who wants to give up their seat? No, I mean, that's so good. I'm going to miss it. Why, who's going to miss it? Who's going to miss the Trump show? We are. I'm going to miss it. I'll be watching 2016 Trump rallies when I'm an old man. I'll be in my chair watching Trump's rallies. Watching the debates with Hillary.

18:40Watching Hillary debates. Kids, grandkids, gather around. Look at him hover behind her. Look at him. Look at him. Look at him leering. Oh no, this is a great part. Turn it up. Turn it up. He's about to tell her that he didn't pay his maximum and federal taxes and that makes me smart. Turn it up. This is great. We know, Pa Pa. We've seen it a hundred times. I know, but it's great. Listen to this. Make a listen to it again. You are living in this moment and we're nearing the end of it. Maga will, Maga will live on. Maga will live on, but Trump can't live forever. Can't live forever. How many more rallies are we going to get? I don't know. How many more rallies are there? 20 to 40 50, I don't know. We're not, I mean, how many rallies has he done? 10,000 and there's maybe 50 left. Gets up there says we won the presidency three times. I mean, come on.

19:43It's great. All right. So he says, he says for some reason, people lose the presidents, lose the midterms. I don't get what it is. I don't know what it is. Deep down, psychological, I don't know. They just lose. I don't know what. So I'm asking you to pretend that I'm on the ballot. I'm on the ballot. I'm on the ballot. Just one more time. Because if we lose, you're going to lose your butter, you're going to lose your tax cuts, you're going to lose your safety and security, you're going to lose your wealth. Our country is going through hell. You will be going through hell just like you did just two years ago. We went through hell. We were a laughing stock all over the world. We were laughing. They don't laugh at us anymore. Do they? They don't laugh. But that's what would happen. The pundits, the fake news, media, and the radical left communists will say anything they can to try and stop us.

20:46But in this election, all that matters is that we are united. We are together. And what we say counts. That's all that matters. Did this sound great? That's not saying it sounds like 2016 fired up. Trump. Awesome. Let's play a bunch of clubs here. This will start here. So this is the reason I wanted to play the full Ken Paxton clip. Here he is roasting Ken Paxton. Just to be clear, he's endorsing. He wants Ken Paxton to win. And he gets up there, he roasts Ken Paxton. And for it. And above all will. And I think it's so important because there is a crazy little sick cloud over our country. I really believe it's a crazy little sick cloud. OK, I'll let him go. I'm going anywhere, but we have to make sure. Because we will defeat communism in America and vote for American freedom. We will just vote very simply for American freedom.

21:51And a big part of that American freedom is going to be electing Ken. We have to elect him. He's really something special. The fact is, in some, and I have to say this about Ken. It's so insulting. And I hope because he gets insulting. He said, sure, you can't say that. He said, I have to. They didn't even put it under teleprompter, but I don't use the teleprompter that much. He said, sure, you can't say it. You just please. It's not good. But I said it once before, and he went through the roof. I got to say it again. So they just said how wonderful he is and how we have to. But I said it a little differently, because the fact is that some may not like the way he dresses. I don't. Although tonight he looks very spiffy in his blue suit. I must say. But they may not like the way he talks.

22:54I can see that, not everybody. A lot of people don't like the way I talk either, but we do get crowds. There's no question. And then they say, you can't say this, sir. That's so insulting. Please, sir. These are my analysts that get a lot of money for it. Tell them you're not in nonsense. Sir, please don't, sir. So I talked about dress. I talked about talk, and I even said this. But some people don't like the way I look either. You may not like the way he looks. But here's the news. In the history of Texas, he is the single greatest attorney general you've ever had. And maybe the top attorney general in the whole United State. So I am very sorry, Ted. I hate it today. And I'll go back, say, sir, you shouldn't have said that. You've given them a little bit. Let me tell you. It's true.

23:54He may not dress right. He may not talk exactly perfectly. And he may not be the best looking guy I've ever seen. You know what he is? He's the greatest attorney general in America. And he deserves to be your next son. Oh, my gosh. Oh, this is the best. It's just the best. And he goes on and says that we wouldn't have the wall if it weren't for Ken. We'd be overrun instead of having zero people come. And you got to let catch us. It's just it's beautiful. It's not the best looking guy. If I was if I was past I played a clip. That would be the that would be my campaign thing. He's not the best looking guy you've ever seen. I'm Ken Pax. I endorse this mess. Here he is talking about the Democrats. Democrats. It just came up. We just didn't want to be president to be honest with you.

24:56A lot of guys over there. They're a lot they're a hell of a lot longer. They're not president. They're my friends. I let them know that all the time, by the way. But I just came up within a couple of months ago. And I said, you know, you take out the E and you replace it with the U. And nobody knows that dumb has a B at the end of it. Most people think it's D.U.M. And that's fine. So we take out the E. We replace it with the U and their Democrats because their policy is so bad. It's so bad. And I usually don't like talking about how bad. Like for instance, men playing in women's sports, okay? And I don't like to do it much before the election. I like to wait about a week before the election. I'm doing it much too early because I'm petrified that they'll change. And they'll say, you know what?

25:57Men should not be playing in women's sports. And that will really hurt us. That's one of our great sound bites of all time. And I thought after we won in a landslide in the last election, they would change it. But I saw two senators in a congressman unless we can have on television fighting like hell for men to play in women's sports. And I hope they continue to do that. They say it's an 80-20 issue. I say it's a 99-to-1. And I have no idea who the one is. I have no idea. You saw the two great fighters. I was so honored to have them, world champions. And I watched them for a little while. And I was going to ask, Bo Nicol has been defeated in years. And Justin Gagci, who is unbelievable, you saw that fight at the White House. It was the most violent fight. I've said, Justin, Bo, come here a minute. Do you have any fear of fighting a particular woman?

26:59They didn't even know what the hell I was talking about. They say, what's wrong with this guy? Ask him to be such a stupid question. Anyway, we love the women. It's actually very demeaning what they're doing to women if you want to know the truth. That's great. It's just the best. The Democrats will throw the stuff out there, the Trump. They're the old. They're the old and can't do it anymore. It's like, are you kidding me? It's just perfect, quintessential Trump. Thanks for listening to Brigha Bart News. Daily here is our humble tribute for Charlie Kirk. We're we're we're acting about 15 campuses and we're growing very, very quickly. And keep in mind, this is not just the flash in the pan movement.

28:00We're going to become an institution to give them the power and the confidence to stand up and let their voice be heard. I started this organization when I was 18 years old. I decided not to go to college. I didn't get in my dream school, which was the United States Military Academy at West Point. I have this idea to galvanize and motivate the future youth of this country around a core set of ideas, not just political parties or politicians, and the ideas are really America's the greatest country in the history of the world. Constitutions, the greatest political document I've ever written and free enterprise, the most assured way to lift people out of poverty and create prosperity for all those three big ideas. And I think that's something that can win. We as Christians are called to go into the public arena to correct error with truth. So I go to college campuses and there's a lot of error. We're all sinners. We are all living error. I'm far more interested in what God wants of me than what I want from God. I have to say this without getting emotional, but I'm very proud of my husband. And I know many of you are too.

29:04You have worked so hard. And I know a lot of you have seen obviously this video is on TikTok and all the stuff he does on campus. But no one gets to see him from my angle, except for myself and our children. I'm going to go back to my school. I'm going to go back to my school. I'm going to go back to my school. And the sacrifices that he made this year, he's amazing. I'm very blessed. And I would not have been able to do any of it without Erica. And that's the real truth. I'll tell you what. You are here as a grassroots response to the top-down revolution happening in this country. I want our turning point USA students to receive a round of applause. These are the freedom fighters of America. The media said the turning point could never run a ground game. They weren't experienced. They didn't know Charlie, right? This is the greatest generational realignment since Woodstock.

30:07This generation is the most conservative generation that we have seen in well over 50 years. And the number show it. What young people especially are screaming at is they say, give me a structure that I can live my life by. And especially with young men, more challenging of them. More saying, you know what? Honestly, I'm not going to talk down to you. Stop being a boy and become a man. You want to learn what that means? Con the church. And I'll tell you what it means to become a man. Because we have the greatest story ever told. What can I do to save the country? You answer that question every single day. Because you are doing the work to save this beautiful republic. You are doing something that is bigger than you. If everything completely goes away, how do you want to be remembered? I want to be remembered for courage from my face. That would be the most important thing. Most important thing is my faith in my life.

31:20America's the greatest country in the world. One year ago. One year ago today. That video right there. They have early clips of turning point USA. Like their first gatherings versus a couple of kids. And a couple of the first speeches that Charlie ever gave with a few people in them. And then to go from that into what turning point USA is today, which was an organization that absolutely got Trump across the finish line. So his organization changed the world. And he himself went from an 18 year old kid to having the phone number of the president. And he could just call and chat with. So to see those early pictures is amazing. But of course, and you could hear it. The clip of him when he was on Fox and Friends

32:20and his little girl ran up to him and ran his arms. Like, oh. I'll go and pay tribute to Charlie a year later. Turning point is hosting an event tonight at Utah Valley University. The site where he was assassinated. Glenn Beck will be speaking Frank Turg. A couple others. We can play some highlights of that. Probably on Monday's show. Because tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of 9-11. So they're the cancel classes today at Utah Valley. There will be protests there today, which is fine. Charlie Charlie would have loved it. Look, for those of you that are not yet believers, it's very simple. You're going to have a court date. We all die and you're all. I say Charlie would have loved it. Because this is the speech he would give to them. All this is the message he would get. And by the way, this message right here,

33:21this is at a Marifest, a Marifest 2023. This is in one of the clips in that opening there was from the turning point. You're going to say pastor summit. OK, this message makes sense to the pastor summit. This is just a regular speech of this. Meet the Supreme Judge of the universe. Just this is getting what you deserve, which is going to a not so good place. We're all centers and we all fall short of the glory of God. But thanks to the cross, a perfect loving God who came down in human form, human flesh, lived the perfect life and died for us so that we could live forever. At that moment, we're about to get that sentencing into eternal damnation. Somebody says, I don't know. I know him. I know her. Welcome to eternal life. You have an opportunity. The gospel in four words is Jesus took my place. Three words is him for me. Two words is substitutionary atonement. And one word is grace. Grace, you cannot earn. Grace, you do not pay for.

34:23It doesn't matter how much money you give to the hospital. It doesn't even matter how many doors you knock on for Trump. And I hope you knock on a lot of doors for him. You can't earn it. It doesn't matter if you're a good person. It doesn't matter if you have always done the best you can. Because what's different about Christianity is that it's a gift for all of humanity to receive regardless of everything that we have done. And your life will be transformed. You will be born again. Grace is not earned. It is given by a God who loves you and wants to spend eternity with you. It is the most important decision you can make in your life. Here I am. God bless you guys. Thank you so much. That is the message he would give to the protesters at the site of his assassination. That's the message he would give to the assassin. Dr. Charlie's executive producer, Stey Andrew. And he said, you're Charlie called people like his assassin, one of the lost boys of the West.

35:25Isn't that? That's a great descriptor. One of the lost boys of the West. I love how when Charlie was young, 18, 1920. And in that open and clip we play too, he talked about, that was on the younger side of, Tony point you say, he said, you know, we get the three big ideas. The three big ideas. And Tony point you say it was all about the constitution and free markets and low taxes. And what were the three big ideas? He said, America's great. The constitution's great and free markets are great. Right? And those are great. Those are great things. Those are true. And that's how it started. That's how turning boy started. But then his way to short life ended with preaching the gospel more than most preachers and churches in America. He started with free markets and ended preaching the gospel more than most preachers preach the gospel.

36:28This chief of staff, Mikey McCoy, he said, one of my favorite stories of Charlie Kirk happened when Charlie was in Tokyo. A local pastor pulled him aside, cautioned him about talking too much about Christianity. And he said, pastor, Christian pastor, I'm assuming. So we have a Christian pastor in Japan. Say, hey, Charlie, let's just don't go too far. Don't do too much of the Christian stuff because Japan is not a Christian country. So naturally one of the first things Charlie did when he walked on stage was proclaimed the name of Jesus Christ. He told the crowd how important his faith was to him and made no attempt to water it down. And instead of getting upset or walking out the crowd, she heard that was Charlie. It didn't matter what country he was in, who was in the audience or whether proclaiming his faith was considered popular. He was never going to hide the most important part of who he was.

37:30We also, of course, they have to talk about his wife. If you want a good, I would say signs of the right word, an example, an indicator of how Charlie lived his life truly, how supernaturally led he was. You look at the people around him, the people who he was responsible for, wife and children. And you look at the hardest moment that someone goes through and who they are in the hardest moment, who they are when they're in the deepest pit of pain and suffering. We can never forget Charlie Kirk's wife at his memorial service doing something that is only possible because of the Holy Spirit. On the cross, our Savior said, Father, forgive them for they not know what they do.

38:36That man, that young man, I forgive him. I forgive him. I forgive him because it was what Christ did. And is what Charlie would do on the... Does Eric call for all of us same message that Charlie gave to everyone too? Let that miracle, know it's Charlie's life be your turning point as well. Choose prayer, choose courage, choose beauty,

39:37choose adventure, choose family, choose a life of faith. Most importantly, choose Christ. Erica wrote an editorial in the New York Times, and I'll give it, you know, good for the New York Times for publishing it. It's entitled Erica Kirk, what I've learned about grief. And I want to read parts of it here. She starts off talking about how she went from Utah to Phoenix to go home. The days are so after this happened. And she got out of her car and her kids ran into her arms because they didn't know what was going on yet. They didn't know what happened. As I walk to the front door, there's a tightening in my chest. I don't recognize. Is this what grief feels like?

40:40I sit on the couch where Charlie sat two nights ago, watching the cubs with our kids. I feel a wave building inside me and I know it's about to crash. I don't know how I'm going to do this. I told Usha Vance earlier that day. As she held my hand, she said, you know when you're on an airplane with your kids, and you're going to lay hand in 15 minutes, but the kids are going crazy, screaming, throwing things. And then the plane lands and the kids relax and everything is fine again. That's how it will be. Just get through the next 15 minutes. Her words are seared into my heart. Eventually I worked at the courage to go into our bathroom. I stared at his side of the sink.

41:41His toothbrush was still lying on its side. His towel still hanging on the hook. I'll never touch that towel, I told myself. I stood in the doorway of our bedroom. I turned on the light and walked toward his side of the bed. I stared at his pillow. And I wondered how long a person's scent can last in sheets. I stood there in silence replaying all of the completely ordinary mornings. We woke up there together. I wasn't ready to be there, so I turned off the light and crawled into bed with my three-year-old daughter just to get through the next 15 minutes. The story is so relatable for so many people listening to so many women and men who have lost his past. The first Saturday without a love note from him passed. His 32nd birthday, my birthday, Thanksgiving.

42:42When I put the Christmas tree together wrong, they made me realize that being a widow means old traditions will need to make room for new ones. The wave crashes on me again and again. Every time, just get through the next 15 minutes. Easter are wedding anniversary, our son's second birthday. The preliminary hearing for the man accused of murdering my husband, our annual trip to Maine, now as a family of three. And then the last of them are daughters for the birthday. Another way of came, as we sang Happy Birthday to her, as I sang through it, tear streaming down my face. I hugged my daughter as she blew out her candle. I wish he could have seen her. She held my arm and kissed me. In that moment, I realized that she was surviving her own.

43:46Little crashing waves too. Grief is strange. Time continues even when every part of you wants it to pause, or better yet rewind. But the people we love who have passed on would not want us to spend the rest of our lives trying to rewind. At first, I needed to survive the next 15 minutes. Over time, I've realized that Charlie would want me to live them. To the world he was Charlie Kirk. But to me, he was the love of my life to our children. He was the center of their world. The center of their world. When you lose someone you love, it's easy to struggle to understand God's plan. One of the hardest tests of our faith occurs when bad things happen. True faith means accepting that we won't get every answer and finding peace in it. I've seen extraordinarily, extraordinary good born out of something unimaginably evil. I've watched people return to faith and droves, reconciled with their families, and forgived old wounds, because of Charlie.

44:56I know my husband isn't heaven, but I ache for him to be here. Still, I can stand and say, without a shadow of it out, that God is good. The wave still comes, but it's different now. A year ago, when I felt it coming over me, I wondered whether it would swallow me completely. Now I recognize it. Sometimes I even welcome it. Because for a moment, the grief makes Charlie feel impossibly close. The grief is universal. Gosh, that's an amazing sentence. Isn't that the grief that just paused on that one first thing? So first, the grief is so unbearable, you can't stand it. And then it becomes something you welcome. Because I don't know, I don't know, because at least...

45:58I don't know if somehow it makes the person feel... That's incredible. Grief is universal. I don't care whom you voted for, where you come from, or what you believe. Those who have walked through grief know that the waves never completely disappear. They're not supposed to. I'm learning that grieving Charlie and living life at the same time are part of the rhythm of grief. I can miss him with every part of me, and still laugh with our children. I can have a broken heart. It's still experience joy. If you are living through grief, I won't tell you what to do or feel. Or that tomorrow will be better than today. I will tell you what a dear friend told me. Just get through the next 15 minutes. One day, maybe when you least expected, you'll start to see that those 15 minutes hold more than just grief.

47:01The grief is there always, but so is the beautiful gift of life. Last question. What is a quote that you live by? A quote that I live by. I'm a Christian. I wear it on my sleeve. Quotes would always be Bible verses. This is a, I'll give you two. One is actually not the Bible. It's more mythological. And one is actually in the Bible. The first is not the Bible. It's this two-shell pass, which is actually people think it's in the Bible. It's not. But it's King Solomon's phrase, which is really amazing when you think about it. Because it's good no matter what season of life that you're in. If you're going through the worst of times, this two-shell pass. And things are going to get better. If you're going through the best of times, though, it's really humbling. Like this two-shell pass and this will fade away. Because this will not last forever. So I love that. And they don't. Yeah, exactly. So it's a time transcendent truth that applies towards all periods as an entrepreneur. It humbles you when you need it and builds you up when you need it, gives you hope when you need it.

48:02And also gives you a little bit of a dose of a gut check. One of my favorite verses, though, is Romans 8.28, which is says that God works all things for good for those who love him. It's a very freeing and liberating verse for those of us that are Christians because we believe that when things can be really bad, God is working it for his good, his perfect and pleasing will. Which is a very, very hard teaching when you come across business closures or staff layoffs. But it's very liberating that God is working all things towards an ultimate good. So I love that. And it kind of is very freeing that I don't have to be in charge of everything. And there is a God and I'm not him. And I surrendered to his will. That was Charlie's last interview. So let's name the bribe our news daily. What a week it's been and we're going to end the week with September 11th. I just think all this coming together at the same time is actually really good and important.

49:06So we'll take advantage of it. Tomorrow's show will talk about September 11th 25th anniversary. So where were you and lessons from and what do we tell young people? Because you got a good 30 to 40% of the population were not alive or were too young to remember anything. Give it a few more years and we're most people in this country don't remember 9-11. That's where we're at right now. So what do we say about it? What are the lessons from it? I'll be on tomorrow's show. Slater radio and Twitter and Instagram. BrightBart or Slater at brightbart.com. It is my email and then my podcast politics by Faith. That's about the word.