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Charlie Kirk Today | Dr. Larry Arnn: January 2, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | January 2, 2026

Brought to you in part by the
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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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I am so honored to have the one and only doctor.
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Larry arnn, president of hillsdale
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College, in the studio, are, it's, it's a pleasure, sir,
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Because of so many reasons, but namely because of how much
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Charlie loved and adored and respected you,
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Both as you're in your role at the college,
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But just as a as a personal friend of his.
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And i know that that was a bond you both shared.
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And you loved each other and you supported each other.
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And, so it's an honor to have you here.
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The floor is yours.
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You know, reflect on whatever you want to reflect on.
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Well,
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Charlie is the best student i ever saw,
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Who didn't go to hillsdale college.
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Except he did.
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He was such a high minded, generous,
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Powerful, capable young man with amazing
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Self-restraint and self discipline.
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I never met a better person.
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And, i did fall in love with him.
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In the beginning, i thought he was just a
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He was a 19 year old show pony.
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And, i ask him a lot of hard questions,
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And he didn't know the answer. he's 19,
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And he just immediately he
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Was determined to learn the answer.
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And so i knew him for the rest of his life, 13 years.
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And i,
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He grew on me to be to a great friendship.
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I adored him.
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I think what he's built here is a wonderful thing.
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I never really talked about it.
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You know, charlie, i run a big old business, and
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Charlie runs a big business, and he built it.
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I never talked to him about that very much.
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I came here and, went around, talked to the staff.
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One day at the end of it, i said, charlie,
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You really know what you're doing.
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Don't you see?
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This place is very vibrant.
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And, erica, it's heroic.
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And you guys practiced and principled and good
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At your jobs.
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Turning point is growing.
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I understand i'm not surprised by that.
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And i'm confident that will continue.
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Well, thank you for saying that, and i,
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I will say that, and blake can attest one of the speeches
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From the memorial
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That has been most oft quoted to me or referenced,
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Is as it is this moment of the powerful moment
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That helped encapsulate the memorial at state farm.
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Stadium. was your speech.
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You had four minutes.
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They, we all got rushed through there
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Because there was a whole i mean, we had a whole program
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And it was it was, executed with precision.
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But your speech, this clip,
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Just listening to it back, is one of the most poignant.
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I don't know how many words got to be, like, 25 words.
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30 words and i've had more people tell me about this.
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And so i'm going to play it here and,
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Get your reaction and maybe your reflection
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Rather, on what you said, play cut 193.
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You know, a good thing is the thing that has being
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An assassin
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Is not a thing that has being
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The assassin must give up his humanity
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To destroy something that has been.
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Charlie lives on.
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The assassin will die.
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It's a powerful moment, doctor.
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Owen.
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Yeah, well, it's one of the first conversations
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I had with charlie.
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What is a good thing?
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What is good?
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What does it mean for a thing to be good?
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Charlie got in.
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You know, that's the fundamental question
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In philosophy, by the way.
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That's that's what socrates was always asking.
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And charlie wanted to know the answer to that.
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And he, erica gave, you know, it's
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Probably the best speech at the memorial.
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Very powerful woman, so deeply aggrieved.
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She read from his journals.
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Two, i think.
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Maybe three, but two for sure.
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Of the stories were class notes on aristotle.
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Class.
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She told me my name was at the top of the pages
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Because i know something
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About aristotle and got him reading it.
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And see, that's.
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I think, what you have to do.
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I mean, this is what turning point has to do.
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It it you can only save america
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By making it good again.
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And young people can only contribute
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To america if they live well.
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And to live well is to learn and know
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And practice the moral and the intellectual virtues.
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And charlie was a model of that.
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He, you know, he became very knowledgeable young man.
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And he had these enormous gifts.
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He was a very powerful guy, very charming, very fun,
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You know, to be around charlie, i
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Every time i was around him a lot,
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Every time i was around him, it was a giggle
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And, also serious.
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Right.
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Well, we have to live like that
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To be a free people.
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And, you know, so many young people are lost today
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Because they go off to college and they tell them
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Nothing is good or true objectively,
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Which, by the way,
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Is a statement about the truth, isn't it?
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That's, you know, i think i imagine that's why
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We're going to continue
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Touting hillsdale going forward is because
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There aren't many schools that do that.
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And our goal still remains to make more schools like that.
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And that's what charlie would care about. what?
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You didn't
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Just want to burn down
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Higher education because it, you know, caused him a tiff.
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He wanted it to be something more worthy of the people
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Who attend it.
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This is a really good point that you're making,
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Because often charlie would be accused
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Of being anti-intellectual and reeducation.
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Charlie was the most pro education person
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I have ever met.
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He was the most pro intellectual person
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I have ever met,
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And he loved being connected to you, doctor,
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And he loved being connected to hillsdale
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Because he believed that you were doing it the right way.
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Know, mostly,
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The most important thing, you know, from my point of view,
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Charlie was a student
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Who succeeded in making himself knowledgeable
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And of the best things to know and living in light of them.
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And he was an encouragement
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To one to young,
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Especially young men who are lost these days.
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Right?
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They they just flocked to him at hillsdale
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College the night of his assassination.
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It wasn't organized.
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Our chapel, which holds
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1500, was full for five hours.
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And a prayer vigil.
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And,
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I brought erica a box, big box of letters
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That hillsdale students wrote to her.
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We didn't ask them to do that.
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They got up a letter writing campaign.
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The wounds from october 7th
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Didn't fade when the headlines did.
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Behind me rises
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A new rehabilitation home for israel's wounded soldiers.
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One of many urgent projects israel needs right now.
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Entire communities shattered.
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Families displaced.
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And each day,
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The impact of the need grows even more overwhelming.
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But the bible says it clearly.
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The righteous will live by faith and by faith.
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The fellowship is rolling up our sleeves
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And stepping into this immense challenge.
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Helping mothers who don't know where to begin again.
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Standing with paralyzed heroes.
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Fighting to take their first steps.
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Building centers of healing for the wounded
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And the traumatized.
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Bringing food and comfort to elderly israelis
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Who have no one else to care for them.
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To see the life saving work of the fellowship.
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Unfolding across israel right now.
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Visit ifc's dawg.
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Visit ifc's dawg.
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We are
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Blowing the brakes because when you have somebody
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Like doctor arnn in studio,
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You just have to maximize your time.
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I wanted to play this clip really quick for you.
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This is just for the audience
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To see you and charlie interact a little bit together.
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Let's go ahead and play.
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I believe we have this clip.
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Let's just play 197.
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Hillsdale is the cutting edge, and i mean it.
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It is america's greatest college.
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What are you seeing with
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The new students coming into hillsdale?
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It's a overwhelmingly christian college.
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Almost everybody, we've never in 182 years
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Required a faith statement to attend the college.
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Our official doctrine is mirror christianity.
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That is to say, we got our catholics
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And we got our protestants.
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We got our orthodox, and we got every kind of protestant.
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And we talk about that.
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I like to say we have the arguments
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Of the reformation
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Going on all the time here, not the wars of the reformation.
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There is a prayer service on every floor
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And wing of every dormitory, every day.
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While there you go.
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There's a little peace, a little, little taste.
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I mean, you guys had these.
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I mean, you had so many of
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These conversation, we could have picked
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Any number of clips, but i just think it's powerful
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To see you and charlie is interacting.
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It just this is a
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Like the
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The comfort, the casualness of it,
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The ability you guys had to riff off one
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Another was
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You were singing from the same, same hymnal i did,
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The last time i was on his show.
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When did that happen?
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I can't remember.
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He gave a speech for us here in phoenix, and that was.
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And i will tell you what i thought about that speech.
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We had a big crowd. we had 900 people there.
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I think.
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And, he i sat there and watched him
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Give the speech and i said, boy,
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And see charlie, he's always a boy to me.
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Right. he is, you know.
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All right.
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That boy has learned a lot.
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Think it is masterful.
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And it was the crisis.
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You know, the crisis in america
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Is a crisis of principle and thought,
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Which has given rise to a distortion in our institutions
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In america.
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The constitution is not working.
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Right? right.
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Charlie,
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You know, to the extent that he helped
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Get donald trump elected
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And that is some considerable extent,
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It's fundamentally important that now it's it's
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Been shown that you can dismiss a civil servant
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And that's, you know, who would have thought it,
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You know, well, charlie had to do with that.
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Right.
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But he understood the arguments behind that.
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He, he, you know, i mean, first of all, politics
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In politics, it's like a bad word, right?
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Politics is the method by which of free people
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Govern themselves, and they have to be in control of it.
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And so we've built this state
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That that is not responsive,
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You know, in the scholarship on the administrative state,
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There's an argument how many rulemaking,
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How many rulemaking bodies in america?
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There are not how many rules, how many bodies are making them
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Hard to tell.
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I had this great conversation, with alex marlowe,
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Who was, in the studio with us for two shows,
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And he was just telling me
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About some of what he experienced with,
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When andrew breitbart died.
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And a lot of people said that breitbart
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Was going to be no more.
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And and then he said he experienced
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Another wave of that with
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Steve bannon
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When he left,
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Breitbart and that,
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You know, breitbart is going to be no more.
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And, you know, he was saying he was like,
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Listen, you know,
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Part of andrew's legacy was us carrying it
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On a part of the institution
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That andrew built at breitbart was what he trained
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People like alex marlow to do and to carry.
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And to this day, breitbart is two, three, four times
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Bigger than it was when andrew was alive.
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And obviously we've gotten this, you know, we are
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There is no replacing charlie.
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That's not what i'm saying.
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But charlie would want us to get every ounce
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Of enthusiasm and love
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That has been poured out after his death
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And make use of it and and turn it to good.
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And i think it's a holy, duty.
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It's a sacred honor that we have to continue his work.
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Yeah, you will too.
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I mean, first of all, no.
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America without george washington.
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And it continued after he
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Died, in part because of his work.
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What is an institution?
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It's a set of principles and people serving them
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In some organized, organized way.
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Charlie built that right and that.
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And if all he wanted to do was, you know,
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There are people who make money just going around
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Giving speeches on college campuses.
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And they might have, you know, an assistant or an agent.
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Right.
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Charlie built this whacking big ole thing.
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It's all over the place.
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And that meant before he died,
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Turning point was not only charlie.
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So what you've lost is your founder.
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But if you found it, well, then it will continue.
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And he did.
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When you've you've done that as well at hillsdale.
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I mean, you you did not found hillsdale college.
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I didn't know i,
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The only job i've ever had in a college
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Is the one i have right now.
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And, you know, i went to graduate school,
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I got a fabulous.
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I happened upon the right things to know.
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And of course, i was surrounded by people
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Who hated those things.
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So i was never ambitious to work in a college.
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And because most of my friends are phds.
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And charlie, who's a kind of
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Should get a he's getting a phd in may at hillsdale college.
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When is they always hold college presidents in contempt?
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So if all the jobs in the world,
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That'd be the last one i wanted.
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And then i discovered that our college was beautifully
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Founded by people who became friends of abraham lincoln.
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And i love that stuff.
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So in 50 years and 100 years,
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One prays and believes people will be found.
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It will be honored
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To work at turning point because it was so well begun.
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And if a
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Thing is well begun, by the way,
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How would you refound america
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To make it better than the american founding?
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It is actually is perfect.
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It's a human thing can be in the modern world
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Right after the birth of jesus state
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The modern world from that, because politics changes after
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Jesus is born, because he's everyone's savior
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And he doesn't set up a government.
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And so you have to have freedom of religion,
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And you still have to have all the things that countries
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Do now devoted to freedom.
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The name on the t-shirt, the day charlie was shot,
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You see.
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So we, our founders,
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Solved that problem,
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And there's no progress possible beyond that.
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We can only remember it and revive it when it flags.
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And that's what that's our work as americans today,
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I every american has two jobs and one is to live
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An excellent life.
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Charlie is a model of that
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And the other is to repair his country.
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And charlie was a model of that.
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Doctor larry, on what a privilege.
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Thank you for making time out of your busy schedule
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To join us here and come visit us all.
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Thank you guys for carrying on noble work.
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Thank you, sir.
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Where are
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The tears from the pain.
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The life that she lived.
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She's a survivor of auschwitz.
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The years that they would just beat her ears.
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That she didn't have food and felt hungry.
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And our answer is love.
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Before, with a gift of only $25.
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You'll deliver a life saving food box into the hands
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Of an elderly jew in need.
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I wasn't only saying people have a heart.
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There are good people today.
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Call, scan or go online now.
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And the international
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Fellowship of christians
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And jews will rush your food box today saudi arabia.
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This is a holy moment.
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What you're doing is not simply being kind.
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You are prophetically stepping into the scriptures
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And being part of their redemption and our own.
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Please call, scan or go online now.
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Please call, scan or go online now.
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This is a may k
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And erica's anniversary advice after four years of marriage.
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163 it is our four year anniversary.
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Four year marriage, my best friend.
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What's what's your piece of advice?
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After four years for all the tiktok people?
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Oh my goodness, love your husband.
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Well. and get married.
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Yeah. just get off your couch.
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Stop watching all that terrible stuff and go get married.
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Yes. that's right.
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And go on that adventure.
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It's the best thing ever and go get married.
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It's amazing to the right person.
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Happier than ever.
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God bless you guys.
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Man, they
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They really did have, an amazing love story.
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And,
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It's very evident when you watch the clips.
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It's very evident when you watch them and, we, we just
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Can't say enough good things about erica as well.
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She's she's,
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Obviously had a terrible go of it in a terrible year.
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And she's been so courageous and she's been
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Leaning into the lord and leaning into her faith and,
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A total a model, an exemplary model
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For for women all across the country in may.
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Blake, you're catholic.
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We found out that there was a new pope from chicago.
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That was a big a big plot twist, i will say.
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Yeah, we i remember doing the, when the when the white smoke
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Came out, we,
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We had to switch the whole show and we started calling
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All our friends
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Who were at the vatican and in italy and, we had,
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We had a fun show trying to assess
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What it all meant and who it was.
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And then we found out it was an american. 169
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Hey, everybody, there's a new
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Pope, and the pope is from chicago.
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What do we actually know about this new pope?
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Well, the pope is from chicago.
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I am as well. he served in peru.
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By the way, i'm not catholic, by the way.
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I'm evangelical.
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But it still matters who the pope is.
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He is a registered republican and voted
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In republican primaries.
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And ran a pro-life group at villanova university.
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So that's a good sign.
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There's a lot yet to learn about this pope,
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But i hope that he will be
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A strong advocate for strong borders and for sovereignty.
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The first ever american pope.
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Yeah.
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I wonder why is it that they picked an american pope?
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Could be a coincidence, could be nothing.
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Or is that they want a voice that is also for the opening
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Of american borders.
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While we have president trump, who knows?
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You kind of do, you know, i said it at the memorial.
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I've said it again, and i'll say it again and again
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That we don't grieve the way the world grieves.
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I we are obviously devastated at losing our personal friend.
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And you know, brother and arms and, and, you know,
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A leader of the movement, an icon of our country.
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All of that will never go away.
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But you do sort of look at his life,
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And it has this poetic nature to it that it does.
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He said he set about to save a generation from an ideology
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That would wreck them and ruin the country,
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And he lived to see it.
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He lived to see the youth vote come the way of donald trump
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Put him in the white house.
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He lived to see young people
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Flocking back to church and to mass.
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And he got to play such a huge part in that.
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In that struggle.
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And, and then he was taken from us.
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But it's almost like, you know, you could look at it
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A certain way, like his mission
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Was accomplished, like he accomplished
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What god put him on this planet to do.
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And he did it so fast
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And with such gusto, with such charisma and, yeah,
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You know, let's let's skip ahead here
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Because we're running out of time,
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And i want to really hit because this was such a
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Peek to charlie. he was so excited for this.
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All of us were so excited to see it, in august
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When we learned
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He was going to be on the latest episode of south park.
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We we had all of the,
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We had the, our own fan art ready to go.
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We had the memes ready to go,
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And we had to explain to charlie
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Whether it was still a good
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And honorable thing to be on south park,
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And he had a great reaction to it. let's play.
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152 just watch this little snippet of our
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Prove me wrong our viral cultural domination
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On prime time on comedy central show important.
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So impactful
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Oh my god, what makes
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You think you have the right to see what i do with my body?
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Let me ask you something.
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If a pregnant woman is killed and the baby dies too,
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Why is the killer charged with the double homicide?
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Because people have different beliefs.
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It's not about belief. it's about truth.
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And, blake, we have to end with this.
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This one's going to be hard, but
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We got to do it.
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This.
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This is the last talk he ever did a tiktok at at uvu.
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152 million views on this 162.
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That's a lot of people.
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You talked.
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To two,
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We're going to be here for a couple hours.
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And both of them
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Bring the best lips that utah has to offer.
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He was a great man.
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Glad we did this.
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We missed him.
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As this year draws to an end,
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I'd like to express my
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Heartfelt gratitude to our partners, the fellowship
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Of christians and jews.
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And i'd like to say thank you to our audience
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Who have supported them in prayer, with finances
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And standing strong for the people of israel.
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The fellowship is one of america's
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Most beloved
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Organizations, spanning more than 40 years of ministry,
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Providing tangible help
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And comfort to the people of israel
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In the ukraine and across the former soviet union.
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This holiday season and every day of the year,
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The fellowship is called to serve
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The elderly jewish people,
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Many of whom are holocaust survivors who are now
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Living in the shadow of past wars, poverty and loneliness.
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During this christmas time, join me and fulfill
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The prophet isaiah as cry to comfort.
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Comfort my people, says your god.
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To find out how. visit ifg.
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Org. that's if c.j. dawg.
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Dr. Larry Arnn: January 2, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

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