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All right, i want to get into something
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Because i've been texting back and forth with rich barris,
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Who we have on the show a lot. he's a pollster,
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And he keeps sending me these, like, signals.
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He's like, andrew, you don't understand.
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They're getting more and more radical.
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The democrat party of the last generation is dead.
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They are beholden to the activist base
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And slowly are being transformed into dsa.
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Most democrats essentially
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Ascribe to socialism 100%. so.
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So they're not like, you know, capital.
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Is that like to distribute the wealth?
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No, they're actually legitimately socialist now.
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So when you get black pilled on president trump,
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If you're tempted
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To give in to nihilism or doom or ism, do you not understand
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That what we're up against is a socialist behemoth
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That is growing in size, and they're becoming more
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And more radicalized?
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I mean, if you want to
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In a tremendous, a tremendous crisis because, yeah, we
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We but we lucked out in america, frankly,
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That the democrat party has always been left wing.
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But we dodged having this very large
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Socialist, overtly marxist party.
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The way is very common in europe.
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It's very common throughout the third world.
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Unfortunately, we have imported the third world to america,
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And we've imported third world ideologies.
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And that means we have young people,
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The hassan piker, followers of this world,
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The aoc followers of this world, the.
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As we're about to see bernie
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Sanders, followers of this world
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Who actually just embrace socialism,
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Government ownership of the means of production and,
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Abolishing private ownership of things,
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Abolishing private property. yeah.
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So let's just go ahead and play this.
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This is bernie sanders.
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This is big new idea, millions of engagements.
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It's not a new idea.
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This is this is as old as marxism itself,
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But nevertheless, he's presenting it as a new idea.
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32 in the coming weeks, i will introduce the american
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I sovereign wealth fund act.
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This legislation would give the public
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A direct ownership stake in the largest
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Ai companies in america through a one time
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50% tax, not on profits, but on stock.
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It would guarantee that the trillions potentially
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Created by ai, i use to improve the lives of all of us,
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Not simply to make the richest people on earth even richer.
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So, blake,
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You're a scholarly man and you know the constitution.
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Where in the constitution does it say you can just seize
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The means of production?
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I will so you actually, the sad thing is, is you could
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You would just have to compensate them for it.
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Although that's why he's clearly framing it as a tax.
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If he says if i frame it as a tax,
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Then it's not a takings the way it usually would be.
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If the government
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Is going to seize your house,
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Then they have to pay you for this.
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So like things like eminent domain. yeah, exactly.
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I mean, they have to pay you
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For the house for public purpose.
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But if he's framing it as a
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Tax, clearly his gambit is we can just take 50%
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Of your company. and it's a tax.
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It's not a taking.
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You don't have to pay them
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$500 billion or whatever it would be for it.
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And it's also,
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Besides being the scholar of the constitution,
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Scholar of history,
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It's a very sinister
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Thing that he's doing, because if you want to look,
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It's very easy to spin this on people.
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Oh, ai is big. it's rich.
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We're taking it for the public good.
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But so many countries declines begin
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When you decide to
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Have the government take over what is a thriving
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Private sector endeavor.
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Britain.
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Britain used to be as rich as the united states.
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Britain used to be the world's most powerful empire.
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They did it on the backs of free enterprise.
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They were
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The silicon valley of their day was central england.
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And then they nationalized everything.
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After world war two, they went in a very socialist direction.
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Britain's never been the same since they did that.
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And you can just say america, there's a reason
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America generated all these big ai companies that,
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However you feel about them, have been tremendously
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Successful and innovative.
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And they're not coming up out of latin america,
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They're not coming out of europe.
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Those are countries that don't have our successful
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Private sector. exactly.
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So america legitimately has all these advantages
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That are baked into the cake that we we fail to understand
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And appreciate now
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And then, these new wave of dsa democrats, socialists
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Or whatever,
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Which is just code
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For basically socialists to communists,
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They're somewhere on the spectrum
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Is they are misrepresenting our our history.
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They don't appreciate the capital markets
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And the way they move
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With such ease and fluidity, and how massive a boon
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That is to entrepreneurs and guys like mamdani.
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You know, bernie sanders was the forerunner
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Of a lot of this stuff.
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I mean, he vacationed, he honeymooned in russia.
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Okay, let's just put bernie sanders in a certain.
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And by the way, you think russia is all this
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Great, like, listen,
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Russia is putin's right about some things, okay?
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That does not mean that russia.
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Oh, this is honeymoon in russia.
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He humming them in the soviet union.
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Fair enough.
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But here's this is why it's nerve,
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Nerve wracking to me
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Is because you got mom donny saying the same things.
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Bernie is soft. 33.
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We have to continue
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To elect more socialists, and we have to ensure
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That we are unapologetic about our socialism.
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There are also other issues that we firmly believe in,
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Whether it's bds right, or whether it is the end goal
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Of seizing the means of production
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Where we do not have the same level of support
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At this very moment.
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And what i want to say is that it is critical,
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The way that we organize, the way that we set up our,
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You know, set up our work and our priorities,
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That we do not leave any one issue for the other,
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That we do not meet a moment and only look at what people
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Are ready for,
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But that we are doing both of these things in tandem.
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Go, go
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Look at average incomes in the united states
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Since the great recession
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In 2008 versus how it's gone in europe.
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Europe used to be pretty comparable to us in incomes.
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Now we're lapping them
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And the reason we're lapping them is
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We have a more free market system.
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They have stagnated, we have grown, and we frankly
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Should not abandon that.
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And another thing to highlight, especially with i
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You think a government that owns 50% of ai
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And then we might have a
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Democratic administration again eventually,
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Inevitably we will because we have elections.
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Everything is subordinate to leftism.
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For the left.
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You think they're going to
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Maybe demand, oh, your ai models,
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What sort of world do we want you to build?
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Hate speech.
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How much hate speech do you allow?
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Let's make sure these weights are, you know,
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Liberalism is embedded in this system.
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They will do that if they get their way.
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It is a siren song.
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Deny it, reject it, spit it out.
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Deny it, reject it, spit it out.
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Without further ado, i will
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Introduce our guest in studio, and that's mike cavanaugh.
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Welcome to welcome to the studio.
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Thank you guys. yeah.
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So i first connected with you just like on twitter
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Dm actually. yeah.
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And i noticed you you had written a song after
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Charlie was assassinated, and i thought it was so beautiful.
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And i could tell that
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Your heart was just so in this, like, in the right space
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And in your heart was to tell charlie story and to to lift up
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A great man in a world that is unaccustomed to doing so.
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But that was my perception.
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Why did you write a tribute song to charlie kirk?
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Mike? yeah.
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Well, they it happens.
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Like many of us, i was, had a lot of emotions.
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Anger was one of them. and,
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You know, i didn't consider right away writing a song.
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I actually, a friend of mine had written
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A song about charlie kirk,
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And i happened to see it on x, and, i commented on it.
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I said, like, good job, good song.
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And and then he said, your turn.
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And i put the idea in my head, and then i, i was
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Everything was still very raw.
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I mean,
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I think it was only a few days after it happened,
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So my emotions were still very raw.
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And i remember picking up the guitar and,
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You know, thinking, know, maybe i do have something to say.
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And about ten, 15 minutes of like strumming around.
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I remember just like saying out loud,
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I don't really have a song today.
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And and then
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I said, well, that could be
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A line of a song, and it just kind of went from there.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Isn't that interesting? kind of.
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When you
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You get stripped bare of,
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Like, what you think you're supposed to say
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And you just say what you actually.
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That's right.
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Mean and feel what's real.
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How you kind of end up arriving at a deeper truth.
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I've seen this song everywhere now on x,
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It's really blown up.
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And one of the,
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You know, people that have been promoting
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It is our friend tommy robinson over in the uk.
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You went over to the uk
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To sing this song live in front of like
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Tens of thousands of people. yeah.
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What was that like? it's incredible.
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Very.
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And how did you get connected with tommy?
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Yeah, same thing on zoom.
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It can be an amazing place. it can be a crazy place to.
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But yeah, i know he,
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He heard my music, and so i made
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Got to come over and sing it.
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Yeah. i can't really do.
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And, and so, yeah, we connected and,
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Yeah, he's like, we're doing a charlie kirk tribute.
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We love you to sing the song.
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And the rest is history. yeah. it's incredible.
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It really speaks to just what,
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What a figure he was around the world that we saw.
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We saw memorials in in britain.
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We saw them in serbia.
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We saw them in japan, in korea, and even in groups
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You wouldn't expect.
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I remember a religious service in charlie's honor was at a,
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I'm not sure what they call it,
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But like a sikh temple, they had a service in honor of.
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I heard stories, out of iran, believe it or not, of, like,
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Missionaries in iran.
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These iranian kids are getting converted and chart.
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When charlie was killed,
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They were just filled with the holy spirit.
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And they went out proclaiming the gospel.
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They said of charlie, it was courageous enough to do this.
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You know, we want to be courageous like charlie.
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I just say, i've never seen
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That many people be silent before.
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Two during the tribute footage.
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I mean, it was really something.
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Yeah, i do believe god was honored in that.
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I believe i know it, i know it.
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It's, this one of our friends said
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The holy spirit was humming like a tuning fork.
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And in that memorial, why don't we play the song?
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Sounds great.
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And, this is
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Tell us the name and and, all of that.
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Yeah.
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The name of the song is called the voice of the age.
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You can find it on itunes if you enjoy it.
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And it is a tribute to charlie kirk.
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I don't have a song today.
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I can't seem to find the right words to say.
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I remember a time when.
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Freedom ring.
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A talking to your neighbor
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In the same.
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Now he lost the voice.
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And he gunned down
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In a mass rage.
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I don't want a civil war. no,
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And god knows what it's for. the.
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Gonna say his name.
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Charlie.
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Kirk. diamond.
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Do not be.
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Now, lord,
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Bring revival to the land.
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Christ is lord.
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On the lips of every woman.
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Man, a widow cries out. i.
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Forgive you now, man.
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Let's go free.
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I'm gonna say his name.
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Charlie kirk.
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That might not be you.
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Gonna say his name.
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Charlie kirk, that martin.
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I mean, you know.
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You. you.
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You gonna say his name?
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Charlie.
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Kirk.
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I'm might not name.
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Yeah.
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Amen.
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Well, she was here with us and told me to vote.
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Only god knows, right?
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Yes. he's with the lord.
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Yeah.
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That's beautiful man. thank you.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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We played some of the clips that you put together.
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Studio did a great job actually thinking it up with your
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Lyrics, so good job. studio.
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What is,
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What is it been like writing this song
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And the reaction from people and, you know,
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And the bigger question, what does charlie sort of mean,
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Do you think
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As you've toured the song around
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And you've seen people's reaction?
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Yeah, it's a great question.
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Yeah.
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Charlie, i mean, he was obviously so gifted and,
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Intelligent and charismatic and all these things,
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But i really think
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The biggest thing about him was his courage.
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And i think that that's what resonates with people.
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It's certainly what resonated with me.
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Because i think the thing about courage is you don't
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You don't need to be have all those, gifted.
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You don't need to be gifted like charlie to have courage.
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You can have the ordinary person can have courage.
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And so to see a christian man who,
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Had courage, the courage of his convictions
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And,
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I think that's what resonates with resonated with me.
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That's,
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I think, resonating with other people with the song.
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Yeah. yeah. he,
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He said he wanted to be
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Remembered for courage, for his faith.
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And he always talked about
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Courage and said the crazy good thing about courage
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Is that you don't need to be skilled to have it right.
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It's a choice. that's right.
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And i think i ripped him off with my quote.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You know, it's fair though.
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I mean, he he would tell that to people.
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It's like, okay, you don't have a degree okay.
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You don't have any special skills. at least not yet.
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Do you have courage?
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You can choose to have courage. yeah.
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And i think like when i first met charlie,
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That was the thing that stood out to me too.
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Was that how.
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How boldly he said things?
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He didn't couch things.
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And sort of, i think or i believe or
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You might disagree or with like he just said it said it.
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Yeah. yeah.
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I think to myself, just self-reflect.
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And after the song,
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After charlie died,
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I had realized, like in my own life,
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I hadn't shown a whole lot of courage.
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And i think when he died, something did change within me.
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And i said, you know,
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Because i think if
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If more of us were courageous and speaking the truth
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Boldly, it wouldn't have had to have happened, you know,
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And so i, i
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Felt partly like, man, that's part of it.
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Yeah.
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So that's really, i mean,
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That's quite a thing you just said.
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Yeah.
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That's an encouragement, i guess, to me and to blake,
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To all of us, to everybody watching, listening.
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Keep going.
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If more of us were courageous. yes.
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You know, people like charlie wouldn't have to live in fear.
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Yeah.
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That some crazy person, you know could do something.
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All of us, if all of us were courageous,
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I don't think the entire world couldn't stop.
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Yeah. the gospel, the movement.
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Yeah. yeah.
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And well geez, mike,
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We're going to have to kind of reset in the break here,
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Get our, get our wits about remind everyone
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Where can they find us. yes.
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So go to itunes right?
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Yes, itunes i do the age.
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The voice of the age, mike cavanaugh.
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And put it put his name on the lower
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Because you want to make sure people can spell it, right.
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Mike cavanaugh, go to itunes.
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That's it.
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We want this chart, this song to chart off the charts.
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So go to itunes right now.
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Buy the song. support. mike.
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He's done a beautiful thing
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For charlie, and, he has all our all our support
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For charlie, and, he has all our all our support
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We put on concerts at turning point.
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It's hard.
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Yeah.
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Like a lot of artists are are scared of that.
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Yeah. what's it like for you?
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Yeah.
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Sort of around,
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The time i wrote the song is in a 4 or 5 month period.
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There is really the.
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When i started experimenting,
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Putting my toe
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In the water and,
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And writing songs that were about the issues
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Of the day more specifically.
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And, it's been sort of like this
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Polarization of some people are just like, that's great.
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And then the war,
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Some of the worst hate you can imagine, as you guys,
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I'm sure, understand.
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But, yeah, i think, like, you know, that
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Charlie helped push me into that because i
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What i realized is, like, nobody cares if you're just
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I mean, as a christian, like, i sing about sin, i sing,
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I use the word sin, i use the word.
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And everyone's kind of like, that's great.
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Good for you.
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Once you start naming the actual sins of the age,
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That's when you know it pricks everybody.
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And but in order for the holy spirit
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To convict the person, they can't just be,
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Understand that there's sin in general.
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You have to understand what
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The sin is in order to turn and be and be saved.
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So i kind of like that just kind of clicked with me
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Somewhat recently.
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God kind of showed that to me. and,
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And so but like all of these issues
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Are wrapped up in politics,
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But they're also all just biblical issues.
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They're not there's not this separate category of politics.
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And this other category is like,
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God stuff like god's all truth is god's truth.
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God cares about all these things.
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And and, we should be talking about that.
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So you guys do everything that's, i'm glad
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You said that,
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Because that actually it's so similar
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To what charlie would talk about that
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You can't separate the two because everything relates to
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The gospel.
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Everything relates to questions
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Of sin and moral righteousness
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And also, i think,
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Getting back to courage, that's what made charlie
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Such an icon.
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He was he was an icon to young people,
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Even though he was routinely
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Going on campuses, going on tiktok, going on x and saying,
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Here's all these things i know all of you love to do.
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All of them are bad. you should stop doing them.
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You should just get married. you should have kids.
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Yeah.
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Just no premarital sex, drugs. no.
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You know, no debating it like we call it licentiousness.
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Our founders called it licentiousness. he named it.
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He preached a gospel against this time.
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And yet he was loved by millions of people who
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Many of them didn't necessarily follow him, many of them,
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If they did it very imperfectly so.
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But they recognized how tremendous he was,
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And that he 100% lived what he preached and believe.
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We are temples of the holy spirit,
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And we are designed to
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To recognize truth when we hear it. amen.
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It resonates in our spirit.
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And music is very powerful.
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Yes. that purpose. yeah, yeah.
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And it's been used for
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It powerfully for the wrong end so much.
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And i just, i when i get to heaven, god willing, i'm
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Going to ask the lord why music has been
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So bastardized in corrupted and used for such.
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I mean, i think it's because it is so powerful and
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And the enemy of goodness
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Understands the power of music. yes.
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So when somebody chooses to use that art form
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In a powerful way to, to to sing truth, to speak
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Truth, it's it's incredibly powerful.
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And i think that's ultimately
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Why some of the memorial people remember it.
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It was like exposing millions of people to actual worship.
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Yeah. and so like prostrated worship.
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It was amazing. yeah.
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That event was incredible.
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Did you watch it live?
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Yeah, it did, i mean, being in the room.
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Yeah. and there's some some b-roll of it.
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I, it was profound because,
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You know, we all go to the.
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Not we all,
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But those of us who go to church on sundays
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And we worship like, sometimes your heads in
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And sometimes you're not.
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And in this moment, it was like we were all so gutted.
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Yeah.
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And so traumatized by
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What had just happened to to be in that room
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Like the lord had our full attention.
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Yeah.
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And and it it really, truly was a powerful,
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Powerful moment to see so many prominent
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People in government,
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Other places get up in the mic and proclaim
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The gospel was i never thought i would see.
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I know even like 5 or 6 years ago, i.
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I never would've thought i'd see
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Something like that, but it was.
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And you could see the
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They were moved by the holy spirit as well,
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Like i've told this
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Story before, but you know, jd vance, i'm in, i'm backstage.
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I'm watching his speech because they had it,
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You know, it's on the teleprompters.
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And he ad libbed the best line out of his speech,
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Which is that
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I've talked about jesus christ more in the last two weeks
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And a half in my entire political career.
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But public life.
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And that wasn't on the script.
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He just it came to him and he proclaimed jesus's
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Name loudly and without shame or embarrassment.
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And that was powerful.
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It was powerful for our nation.
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And one of the reasons i love having you here
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Is because there's been
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Some debate about whether
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The revival has been blunted or if it's been hijacked.
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And i say no because i believe what god has unleashed.
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Man cannot stop.
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And you are living proof of that.
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And that that this song is gaining traction and gaining
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Attention from guys like tommy robinson in the uk.
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And real america's voice is now, getting behind
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What you're doing as well.
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And we want this thing to chart.
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So if you want to see god's revival, continue.
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If you want to see charlie's legacy, continue to to spread
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And and become more and more important, back
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This song back mike cavanaugh
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And the truth that he's singing in it.
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Go to itunes, pick it up.
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The voice of the age.
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I love that title, by the way.
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Thanks, man.
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It's it took a while to come up with it.
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It's so apropos for charlie.
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Yeah, i think so.
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Final 30s to you, mike.
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What do you what do you want people to take away from this?
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And what's your encouragement for them?
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Yeah, i mean,
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As much as i want to honor charlie in the song, i want to
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Honor our lord and savior jesus christ above all.
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And so i would just want to say,
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Repent of your sins and
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Believe in him,
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And you can have eternal salvation,
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Because that really is the message.
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And that is what the truth of everything that charlie
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Spoke, the truth all pointed, was going toward that.
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And i was what i know what he wanted the most.
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And that's what that's what i want the most as well.
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Yeah, it's it's not necessarily popular to say,
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But it's the most
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Powerful thing you can say it is repent and be saved.
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Turn to jesus.
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Mike Cavanaugh: June 03, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

June 3, 2026 | 23:29

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