Pearl - September 13, 2025


STREET INTERVIEW： What Do People Actually Think About The Charlie Kirk Assassination？


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In this episode, I talk about the tragic death of Charlie Kirk and how people are celebrating his death. I also talk about why I don t think people should celebrate his death and why I think it's a tragic loss.

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00:00:00.040 All right, what up guys? So today I'm doing a news interview on the streets and basically
00:00:07.440 when I'm online I see all these people celebrating Charlie Kirk's death and it's like the most
00:00:14.400 tragic thing and you'll see these tweets with like a hundred thousand likes of people just
00:00:19.260 celebrating. But what I want to do today is I want to see if online matches real life. So I'm in my
00:00:26.540 hometown and I want to see if the people out here what they think about his death if they were fans if
00:00:33.240 they liked him they didn't like him and if they're celebrating or if they're sad. My guess is I don't
00:00:40.720 I think the people out here are not going to be happy about it. What do you think about the death
00:00:47.320 of Charlie Kirk? Charlie Kirk was a tragic loss. I think that regardless of what you think about
00:00:53.780 Mr. Kirk what he tried to do was get young people to think and whether you agree with them or not
00:01:00.980 doing that is is a benefit. It's a benefit to society. It's a benefit to education and his loss
00:01:07.700 is something that we will feel for a little bit. I don't know man. Yeah. No reaction. It's unfortunate but
00:01:14.900 no reaction. Celebrate. Been staying off the internet. I wasn't sure who he was. I consider any death a tragic loss
00:01:22.420 especially somebody who has a family and kids. You know what I mean? A kid has to be raised without a
00:01:27.780 father and a wife can't go home to her husband and shouldn't have her husband. So any death to me 1.00
00:01:32.820 is a tragic loss. I'm shocked. I'm shocked at the way people are reacting to it and and the whole situation.
00:01:40.740 What was your reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk?
00:01:48.420 To be honest I wasn't surprised.
00:01:52.180 It was if I'm being completely honest it was kind of like an okay thing like
00:01:58.740 I guess. My reaction is I'm very sad that another human being has passed in such a tragic way. I'm
00:02:08.580 also confused on the fact that they're calling it assassination. I'm a little overwhelmed by that.
00:02:15.140 I don't think it was that but hey that's just my opinion. Other than that it's just an unfortunate
00:02:22.660 time in America at the moment but I hope this actually brings us closer together. What was your
00:02:28.260 reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk? It was shocking but I was not entirely surprised.
00:02:34.100 I was shocked surprised. I mean at the end of the day he is a human being so. It was shocking. It was
00:02:41.540 for a person that just spoke it was shocking. He had followers he had everything but like it was just
00:02:50.180 shocking like him. I never really kept up with him. I never cared for politics or anything like that.
00:03:00.180 Obviously it's you know tragic that he passed away. I don't think anyone deserves that no matter
00:03:04.500 their political beliefs or anything like that however I don't really have a strong opinion because
00:03:09.780 I didn't really like I said I never kept up with him. I never really followed what he said. I don't
00:03:15.060 really know what he said very strongly so you know. Do you think this is going to deter people
00:03:20.660 from doing it in the future like because you know they're going to be afraid of violence? I actually
00:03:25.620 think quite the opposite. So when violence happens if you look back into history when violence happens
00:03:31.460 there is a little bit of fear. There is a little bit of frustration but what ends up happening is
00:03:36.180 people get motivated. People feel that they need to step up and to do something about it and people that
00:03:41.300 may feel similar to Charlie Kirk or may feel the exact opposite to Charlie Kirk they're going to
00:03:45.700 step up and do their thing to contribute to society and that's one thing I feel very very faithful about
00:03:51.140 very confident about. What do you think about people that are celebrating his death? It's sad that we have
00:03:57.140 to think about it that way but you know everybody has an opinion everybody has something to say about
00:04:04.020 it but at the end of the day he is sad he does have kids and he's a husband. I've been seeing a lot of
00:04:10.260 people celebrating online but I haven't so far in my interviews I haven't seen that in real life.
00:04:15.220 Do you know anybody celebrating not celebrating? No. No. I know people celebrating. Okay. And people that are kind of just
00:04:24.820 like okay. Okay. But you guys are kind of indifferent you're not one way or the other.
00:04:29.540 I wouldn't say not one way or the other but. I wouldn't say not one way or the other but also like
00:04:35.620 whatever the world's a shit show right now. What do you think about the people celebrating 0.98
00:04:40.180 his death? I think it's outrageous. I guess I do. It hurts. I don't know anybody who's celebrating on
00:04:49.220 online. The people that I've talked to they they all agree with the you know a kid has lost their
00:04:54.740 father. A wife has lost their husband. I wouldn't really celebrate anybody's death. You know somebody 0.99
00:05:01.220 who doesn't believe in somebody's death should be long should be celebrated. I also
00:05:06.260 very strongly think that no one should be praising his death regardless of what he said. Yes people
00:05:12.580 are bad but that does not mean they deserve to die because of what they think or anything like that.
00:05:16.980 What do you think about the people that are celebrating his death?
00:05:19.540 It's that's wrongfully. I mean you shouldn't. You shouldn't like be celebrating somebody's death.
00:05:26.020 That's somebody. That's somebody's.
00:05:28.260 I wouldn't be. I wouldn't like to be celebrated that way. What do you guys think about this
00:05:34.980 increasing I guess animosity in the political climate? Trump. That's what I say. Trump.
00:05:43.540 I'll be honest with you. I don't really pay attention to politics. I'm more of a you know
00:05:48.500 as long as my little plot of me is okay. But I should get better at paying attention to politics. I'll be
00:05:54.260 honest with you. Over the last 12 years and I'm only 24 years old but over the last 12 years the
00:06:00.500 political climate has gotten far more divisive and far more unsafe for people to speak their mind.
00:06:06.420 When when I try to talk to people I may have my opinion you have you may have yours but it's it's
00:06:10.980 trying to learn from the other person because that's how we all grow. And and I think regardless of
00:06:16.100 of if you agree with the message Charlie Kirk had that's fine. But he tried to inspire people to
00:06:23.460 grow. He could be proven wrong. You could go and you can prove him wrong. It may be difficult but he
00:06:29.700 left that open for chance and he wanted to talk to the youth. He wanted to talk to young educated people
00:06:34.580 and see where they stand. And I think that that's a good message to send regardless of what side of
00:06:39.220 the political spectrum you're on. That's a good message to carry out. It saddens me to know that
00:06:47.220 the political change has has turned so many people against God. Now there's a lot of people that say
00:06:54.740 you know he had these awful beliefs from their their um and that people with awful beliefs deserve
00:07:01.380 that kind of thing. What do you what do you say to them? I'm speechless. I'm just speechless to them.
00:07:07.700 I'm more of a energy type of person. Um when you put certain things out into
00:07:13.860 the universe the universe kind of returns it. So it's so you thought it was kind of like karma?
00:07:19.940 Is that what you're saying? Uh karma's a stretch. I'd probably say uh just speaking things into existence
00:07:26.100 and you know the universe having a funny personality I guess. He's a provocateur.
00:07:33.140 Uh his whole shtick is to get people worked up over things and I have heard a lot of conversations
00:07:40.020 around the fact that he's about the first amendment and freedom of speech but the first amendment protects
00:07:46.500 your freedom of speech from the government. It doesn't protect you from consequences. So you have
00:07:50.660 freedom of speech but you don't have freedom from consequences and that's the consequence of when
00:07:55.140 you're trying to rile people up. I believe in what he was doing. Um he was going around America and
00:08:01.700 bringing back the great art of debate. Debate is what honestly keeps people in a commutative type of
00:08:11.940 environment which we need in this country and I feel like people should still if anything carry that
00:08:22.020 away from this and still debate. The death of Charlie Kirk doesn't end the message and when
00:08:28.020 one Charlie Kirk dies there's probably going to be four or five more coming up after him. Um what he
00:08:33.780 was trying to do isn't something unique to the rest of the world. It was just he did it the right way.
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