The Charlie Kirk Show - 20 Years Later

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we remember 9-11 as we are on the anniversary of 9-11.

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00:00:33.000 We remember 9-11.

00:00:34.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:35.000 Here we go.

00:00:37.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:39.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:41.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:44.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:47.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:48.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:49.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:00:51.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

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00:00:58.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:07.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:10.000 20 years ago, our world changed.

00:01:12.000 Regardless of your views, the fact remains that we lost thousands of lives that horrific morning on September 11th and over the past 20 years since.

00:01:21.000 Brave men and women in our first responder communities answered the call and rushed into the unknown as we watched in horror as the morning unfolded before our eyes.

00:01:30.000 343 firefighters were lost that day, and almost all of our first responders who answered that call have perished since.

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00:01:46.000 Minutemen Coffee is proud to partner with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to bring to America the 9-11 tribute roast and honor all of our first responders and military who have perished since 9-11.

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00:02:08.000 That's minutemencoffee slash 9-11.com.

00:02:13.000 20 years ago, I was in second grade.

00:02:17.000 I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news of 9-11.

00:02:23.000 Now, when you're in second grade, you don't really, you're not really able to process the enormity of the kind of wide-scale death and destruction.

00:02:34.000 But a friend of mine who just had a child, congratulations, Alex, came storming into our second grade classroom and he said that the World Trade Centers have been hit.

00:02:45.000 The World Trade Center has been hit.

00:02:47.000 I'll never forget it.

00:02:48.000 Alex is a great friend of mine and still is really, really great guy.

00:02:53.000 And the kind of the classroom went like, was like, what are you talking about?

00:02:57.000 And I remember then, all of a sudden, kind of like the administration came in, the equivalent of the administration at the school I was going into.

00:03:06.000 And then by lunchtime, school was canceled.

00:03:10.000 And parents picked me up from school and everybody was quiet.

00:03:16.000 My mom was quiet.

00:03:18.000 It was just a day of absolute again.

00:03:24.000 In a second-grade mind, I'm trying to think of the right way to process how I was processing it.

00:03:29.000 It was like an open-air funeral.

00:03:32.000 That's the best way I could put it.

00:03:34.000 It was like the whole country went into a funeral mindset.

00:03:40.000 And being in second grade, it's one of my earliest childhood memories.

00:03:44.000 I remember that everything that came after that.

00:03:46.000 And I remember my parents trying to explain exactly what happened at 9-11 to me.

00:03:54.000 And it was really hard to process because you're trying to just grasp the idea of evil at that age.

00:04:04.000 Like, what do you mean that people took over airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center?

00:04:11.000 What do you mean that airplanes were hijacked?

00:04:15.000 Can that happen if we ever fly again?

00:04:19.000 And from that point forward, my generation had that as a point of a day that you'll never forget.

00:04:29.000 Like, where were you at Pearl Harbor type day?

00:04:32.000 Where almost everything is centered around that.

00:04:36.000 And then, of course, the 20 years of war in the Middle East and the thousands of people that lost their lives, not just at the day of 9-11, but the thousands of people who lost their lives since.

00:04:53.000 Let's go to CUT 77, news coverage on how just days before the 20th anniversary of 9-11, that we have just found two more remains were positively identified, and that brings total positively identified to 1,646 out of the nearly 3,000 killed.

00:05:11.000 Let's play CUT 77.

00:05:12.000 With just a few days left until the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks, two more victims identified today.

00:05:19.000 20 years later, Nakia was notified her beloved mother has finally been identified.

00:05:24.000 Thanks to new technology, the DNA in some of the remains matched Dorothy's old toothbrush, making her the 1,646th victim to be positively ID'd.

00:05:37.000 And so as we look at 20 years later at 9-11, we have to do, and this is a call to action for every single adult out there and every single parent, which you need to tell this generation that didn't grow up with 9-11 what happened on 9-11.

00:06:00.000 We have people that work for us at Turning Point USA that have no memory of 9-11, none.

00:06:06.000 You now have a generation of leaders that are going to be growing up with no idea of what it's like where your entire world and all of geopolitics changes almost overnight.

00:06:18.000 Air travel changed for good.

00:06:21.000 How we view the military changed.

00:06:22.000 Almost everything changed.

00:06:25.000 I know so many members of my generation have their own story of where they were and how it happened.

00:06:32.000 And it's really an important question.

00:06:37.000 And it's one that you think about it, Osama bin Laden and his evil partners, they wanted to make America less free. 0.97

00:06:48.000 They wanted to make America weaker.

00:06:51.000 20 years later, they got what they wanted.

00:06:57.000 Despite all the sacrifice and all of the death, America is in a much more compromised position.

00:07:05.000 We have less freedom than ever before, and we are weaker than any other time in my lifetime.

00:07:10.000 I want to remember just some of the sound from 9-11, and especially important for a lot of our student and younger listeners who have really no memory of this.

00:07:24.000 Let's start with, we have a whole bunch of sound here.

00:07:27.000 Let's start with Cut 59, ABC 7, early morning news on the morning of 9-11 with a shot of lower Manhattan.

00:07:35.000 Of course, they're giving the weather report, and they have no idea what's about to happen.

00:07:40.000 Cut 59.

00:07:42.000 Might as well.

00:07:42.000 Good morning.

00:07:43.000 Might as well.

00:07:44.000 Good morning.

00:07:45.000 Thanks for joining us on the Monday morning.

00:07:48.000 And most of you sitting through the city with an inch and a quarter of rain.

00:07:52.000 Inch and a quarter?

00:07:53.000 Inch and a quarter.

00:07:53.000 That was the rainfall total for the park.

00:07:55.000 Walk over the wall.

00:07:56.000 We'll show you what it looks like.

00:07:57.000 This shot showing you lower Manhattan and everything is actually in pretty good shape now as we work into clear.

00:08:03.000 But for us, bright sunny sky, 65 degrees at 7 o'clock in the morning and sunny and pleasant for the rest of the day, 80 degrees.

00:08:10.000 It's kind of a guilty pleasure as beautiful as this weather is going to be.

00:08:15.000 That was just hours before the first plane was hijacked.

00:08:17.000 Now, little did they know as they did that release, people that were entered into our country because of our foolish immigration policies, and we never should have let these nationals into our country, and we did. 1.00

00:08:32.000 Immigration could have stopped 9-11, and it didn't. 0.85

00:08:35.000 They were given visitor visas and given flight lessons.

00:08:40.000 We did not know this, but they were boarding planes at that very moment to eventually hijack them.

00:08:48.000 And so I want to go to Cut 60, some of the very first audio from Flight 11 that a plane was being hijacked.

00:08:54.000 And you have to remember, when the first plane went into the tower in New York City, people thought it was a mistake.

00:09:00.000 People thought that it was an errant flight until the second one hit.

00:09:06.000 Like Cut 60.

00:09:08.000 American 11, are you trying to call?

00:09:09.000 The cops are not on the following.

00:09:12.000 Our number one is in staff and our five is in staff.

00:09:20.000 What's going on there?

00:09:21.000 Aircraft is erratic again.

00:09:25.000 And then cut 62.

00:09:27.000 This is from air traffic control, aircraft control, air traffic control, communicating that a plane has hit the World Trade Center.

00:09:34.000 Cut 62.

00:09:36.000 That plane just hit the World Trade Center.

00:09:38.000 What?

00:09:38.000 Was it 737?

00:09:40.000 It was.

00:09:41.000 Like the World Trade Center.

00:09:41.000 Who are you talking to?

00:09:43.000 Oh, God.

00:09:44.000 Oh, my God.

00:09:46.000 And as I mentioned, Cut 63, Condoleezza Rice, she said as she worked for the Bush regime that when the first plane hit, they thought, oh, what a terrible accident, not that it was a national security threat.

00:10:00.000 Cut 63.

00:10:01.000 My assistant came in and said, a plane is at the World Trade Center.

00:10:04.000 And I said, well, that's a strange accident.

00:10:07.000 And I called the president.

00:10:09.000 Initially, we thought maybe a small plane of some kind.

00:10:12.000 And he said, well, keep me posted.

00:10:14.000 He'd been told that a small twin-engine prop plane crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center.

00:10:19.000 You know, oh, that's a horrible accident.

00:10:23.000 I was concerned, but I did not think of it as a national security threat.

00:10:28.000 And then Cut 64, George W. Bush's staff, and when they were watching the news and saw the second plane hit the towers and realized at the same time that America, the entire nation, was under attack.

00:10:41.000 And I want every young person and every student listening to this to think about how your entire convenient and nice and luxurious life can go from, you know, oh, wow, everything's fine to, in just moments' notice, a weather report of beautiful and pleasant to an attack on your nation, Cut 64.

00:11:01.000 So we brought CNN up.

00:11:03.000 I was calling the White House Situation Room to talk to my senior duty officer.

00:11:08.000 So I was chatting with him on the handset and watched the television as the rest of the country was watching the television at 9.03 when the second aircraft impact impacted into the second World Trade Center tower.

00:11:27.000 When the second plane hit, there was an audible gasp of air in the room.

00:11:32.000 Some people put their hand on their chest.

00:11:37.000 It was two realizations, right?

00:11:39.000 One, the immediate death toll, and then the fact that this was an attack on America.

00:11:46.000 And then W. Bush recounting the moment when he was told that the second plane and how he wanted to stay calm and finish the event.

00:11:53.000 You remember he was reading to children while it happened at a local school.

00:11:58.000 Cut 65.

00:11:59.000 Andy Carr comes up to my, behind me, and says, second plane has hits the second tower.

00:12:04.000 America's under attack.

00:12:07.000 And I'm watching the child read.

00:12:10.000 And then I see the press in the back of the room beginning to get the same message I just got.

00:12:16.000 And I could see the horror itched on the face of the news people who had just gotten the same news.

00:12:21.000 During a crisis, it's really important to set a tone and not to panic.

00:12:27.000 And so I waited for the appropriate moment to leave the classroom.

00:12:30.000 I didn't want to do anything dramatic.

00:12:33.000 I didn't want to, you know, lurch out of the chair and scare the classroom full of children.

00:12:37.000 And so I waited.

00:12:38.000 And then Cut 66 recounting the first contact from the hijackers on plane 11 to air traffic control.

00:12:48.000 Cut 66.

00:12:49.000 Is that American 11 trying to call?

00:12:51.000 Nobody.

00:12:55.000 We have some claims.

00:12:56.000 Stay quiet and you do P. We're at the airport.

00:13:01.000 Who's trying to call me here?

00:13:03.000 American 11, are you trying to call?

00:13:05.000 Nobody moved.

00:13:07.000 Everything was okay.

00:13:09.000 If you try to make any move, put into yourself and the airplane.

00:13:13.000 Let's stay quiet.

00:13:15.000 You know, I've actually never heard that, that the Muslims that took over the planes talking to the air traffic control.

00:13:21.000 I never heard that.

00:13:22.000 Very powerful.

00:13:24.000 Cut 67, CBS news report live when the second plane hit.

00:13:29.000 Because I was just like standing there, pretty much looking out the window.

00:13:32.000 I didn't see what caused it or if there was an impact.

00:13:35.000 So you have no idea right now?

00:13:37.000 I'll have another one.

00:13:37.000 Another plane just hit.

00:13:40.000 Oh, my God.

00:13:40.000 Another plane has just hit.

00:13:42.000 It hit another building.

00:13:44.000 Blew right into the middle of it.

00:13:46.000 Explosion.

00:13:47.000 Right God, it's right in the middle of the building.

00:13:50.000 This one into the East Tower.

00:13:52.000 Yes.

00:13:53.000 So you could hear in her voice, and the whole nation knew simultaneously exactly what that meant.

00:14:00.000 Where it went from all of a sudden, you know, is this a plane off course?

00:14:06.000 Is this a suicidal pilot?

00:14:09.000 Is this an equipment failure?

00:14:13.000 You could hear that at the beginning of her report.

00:14:15.000 It's inquiry into shock and horror.

00:14:17.000 I want to replay that one.

00:14:19.000 Net Cut 67 goes because they know exactly what it is at that moment.

00:14:23.000 They're like, okay, this is not some pilot that, you know, was homicidal.

00:14:28.000 All of a sudden, the entire nation is under attack.

00:14:31.000 This is coordinated.

00:14:31.000 Let's replay that one again.

00:14:32.000 Cut 67.

00:14:34.000 Because I was just like standing there, pretty much looking out the window.

00:14:36.000 I didn't see what caused it or if there was an impact.

00:14:39.000 So you have no idea right now?

00:14:41.000 I'll have another one.

00:14:42.000 Another plane just hit.

00:14:44.000 Oh, my God.

00:14:45.000 Another plane has just hit.

00:14:47.000 It hit another building.

00:14:48.000 Blew right into the middle of it.

00:14:50.000 Explosion.

00:14:52.000 My God, it's right in the middle of the building.

00:14:54.000 This one into the East Tower.

00:14:56.000 Yes.

00:14:57.000 Yes.

00:14:58.000 I remember, I've sat down with some teenagers this summer, and I asked them, do you guys know about Flight 93?

00:15:04.000 None of them knew it.

00:15:06.000 But they do know about Black Lives Matter, and they do know about critical race theory.

00:15:10.000 And that's what happens when you send your kids to government schools, unfortunately.

00:15:15.000 Let's play the sound of air traffic control talking about Flight 93, Cut 68.

00:15:20.000 United 93, have you got information on that yet?

00:15:23.000 Yeah, he's down.

00:15:24.000 He's down?

00:15:25.000 Yes.

00:15:25.000 Why did he land?

00:15:26.000 He did not land.

00:15:28.000 Oh, he's down?

00:15:29.000 Yeah, somewhere up northeast of Camp David.

00:15:32.000 And so Flight 93 was one of the planes.

00:15:37.000 I think there were four that were total that hijacked.

00:15:41.000 And it was on its way to Washington, D.C., and we don't know for sure its destination.

00:15:46.000 Speculation is that it was the White House or Congress.

00:15:50.000 And this was when passengers decided to step up and take back control of the cockpit in what was a kamikaze suicide mission, essentially.

00:16:02.000 Now, that sounds bad.

00:16:03.000 It wasn't a suicide mission, but you know what I mean.

00:16:05.000 They knew they were going to die.

00:16:06.000 You know my heart when I say that.

00:16:08.000 And the last thing that we heard on the audio from Flight 93 was, let's roll. 0.94

00:16:14.000 They went straight right into the cockpit and took down the Muslims that were about to try to kill Americans. 1.00

00:16:23.000 20 years ago, our world changed.

00:16:25.000 We lost thousands of lives that horrific morning in September over the last 20 years.

00:16:30.000 With chaos ensuing, brave men and women in our first responder communities answered the call and rushed into the unknown as we watched in horror as the morning unfolded before our very eyes.

00:16:40.000 343 firefighters lost their lives that day, and almost all our first responders who answered that call have perished since.

00:16:47.000 We here at the Charlie Kirk Show are proud to partner with Minutemen Coffee, a company that is unapologetically patriotic and constitutionally based, who honors all our men and women who serve and have served in the amazing country that we call home.

00:17:01.000 The morning of September 12th, America came together as one to honor all who lost their lives that day and in the days and weeks and years to come.

00:17:08.000 I'm excited to announce that the official coffee provider for this program, Minutemen Coffee, is proud to partner with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation 9-11 Tribute Roast.

00:17:19.000 The patriots at Minutemen do not just want to honor those lost lives that morning, but want to honor all our first responders and military servicemen and women who have perished since 9-11.

00:17:28.000 They're seeking to raise awareness of the fact that they put their lives on the line for all of us, no matter where you live.

00:17:33.000 Anywhere in this country, there are firefighters, medics, and LEOs that have dedicated their lives to protecting and serving ours.

00:17:40.000 We're proud to join Minutemen Coffee in giving back to those who have sacrificed so much for us and so many.

00:17:46.000 So join us in producing the 911-911 Tribute Coffee and all the net proceeds will be raised to benefit those heroes and the amazing foundation this serves.

00:17:55.000 Go to minutemencoffee.com, promo code Charlie, MinutemenCoffee.com, promo code Charlie.

00:18:04.000 With us is Don, who started Minutemen Coffee.

00:18:07.000 How are you doing?

00:18:08.000 I'm good, Charlie.

00:18:09.000 Thanks for having me on today.

00:18:10.000 You bet.

00:18:11.000 Tell us about why you started Minutemen and where you really think this plays a role right now in our country.

00:18:18.000 Well, I think we're at a critical time in our country's history that we've lost sight of the Constitution.

00:18:25.000 Coffee is the one thing that brings us together as a nation.

00:18:29.000 In 1773, we all know that the Boston Tea Part took place, and John Hancock and Sam Adams and the Indians all threw the tea into the harbor and we became a coffee drinking nation.

00:18:40.000 And throughout the course of history, coffee brush together.

00:18:44.000 And only in recent times have we noticed that the purchase of coffee, coffee is only one of the only commodities that actually is purchased based on the beliefs of the roaster as well as the consumer.

00:18:58.000 And being a history buff and being a former firefighter and a medic and a 9-11 shooting survivor, I realized that the Constitution has gone so far away from the mainstream that I felt compelled to bring it back.

00:19:15.000 Well, that's terrific.

00:19:17.000 And so tell us about what you're doing to partner with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and your own work as a medic in Las Vegas.

00:19:27.000 So my wife and I were in Las Vegas during the shooting.

00:19:30.000 We were in the VIP section when the shooting started.

00:19:35.000 I had actually just went through an MCI or a masculine incident training, just believe it or not, a few weeks earlier.

00:19:42.000 So during the shooting, my training ended up getting in and I was blessed to be able to help as many people as we did with the other medics and fire and police that were there.

00:19:52.000 But coming into now with the National Fallen Firefighters, it's been 20 years.

00:20:00.000 And even though, in light of what's happened recently, which that's a whole nother day, I wanted to bring awareness or 20 on the 20th anniversary of 9-11.

00:20:11.000 And so, what a perfect partnership to join with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to not only raise awareness for the amazing work that they're doing for all of the lost firefighters.

00:20:24.000 As you know, we lost 343 today.

00:20:27.000 I believe that the statistics are right.

00:20:30.000 Almost 80%, if not more, the responders that were there at Ground Zero have since perished.

00:20:36.000 And so, the National Fallen Firefighters Association is looking for donations and funding to help those families through various programs that they offer, scholarships.

00:20:49.000 And the list goes on and on.

00:20:52.000 It was a perfect fit.

00:20:54.000 And so, we were blessed to be able to have, this is the first time anybody's seen this in anywhere.

00:21:03.000 This is the new bag.

00:21:05.000 This is going to launch today, Saturday, 9-11.

00:21:10.000 And this is a one-year program.

00:21:11.000 And our goal is to raise a quarter of a million dollars for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation with the sale of the swag and the coffee.

00:21:19.000 That's awesome.

00:21:20.000 Andrew?

00:21:21.000 Yeah, no, Don, we talked about this on the phone recently.

00:21:26.000 And I think what you've done with Minuteman is really fascinating because you have taken a stand.

00:21:33.000 You're saying we are proudly conservative.

00:21:36.000 So essentially, you're cutting off half the market, if not more, by saying we are selling conservative coffee loudly, proudly, boldly.

00:21:46.000 Why?

00:21:47.000 Why did you decide to draw this line in the sand and defend the principles that you hold dear through your business?

00:21:55.000 Because this right here is the second most important document that was ever written in the history of mankind, the first being the Bible.

00:22:03.000 This, I believe, because of the fact that it is, we are so far away from this.

00:22:09.000 Our founding fathers, through lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, and all of the 3% and all of the militia and all of the soldiers that stood up and have fought, bled, and died, we have come so far away from it that we need to bring it back into mainstream. 0.99

00:22:26.000 And we need to start teaching legitimate, authentic history based on not what the media is telling us what is true or what the cancel culture is telling us what we can and can't do, but to stand firm.

00:22:38.000 If they're passionate about their beliefs, why can't we be passionate about ours?

00:22:42.000 And coffee just so happens to be the medium for some crazy reason the last couple of years.

00:22:48.000 Coffee is now that medium to share this with America, with our country.

00:22:56.000 I love that.

00:22:58.000 It's sort of like the full circle of the Tea Party.

00:23:01.000 And I'm talking about the Boston Tea Party, the original, not just the movement, but America, we're much more a coffee drinking culture.

00:23:09.000 And so I think it is apropos.

00:23:13.000 And I commend you for doing it, Don.

00:23:15.000 So thank you for your bravery in that.

00:23:17.000 No, and I appreciate that.

00:23:19.000 And, you know, it hasn't been easy.

00:23:20.000 And I know that I know that Charlie comes under fire a lot.

00:23:24.000 And I know that as conservatives, and I'm a constitutionalist, and that's what I believe in.

00:23:30.000 And like I was telling you before, but for me, I want to let the coffee speak for itself.

00:23:36.000 I've gone through a lot of time and a lot of training and a lot of energy and resources, not just to get into the coffee game, because there are a lot of amazing roasters out there, a lot of veteran-owned roasters out there that we all have a unique message.

00:23:53.000 And like I was saying before, that coffee is the one thing that people will purchase solely based on the beliefs of the roaster and the company and the consumer.

00:24:01.000 And so why not bring the Constitution?

00:24:04.000 Why not bring amazing coffee to the population and to the American people?

00:24:09.000 I mean, it's a perfect fit.

00:24:11.000 And so with all of our different roasts and the time that it takes to procure those roasts and to procure the beans and to do everything that it takes to really dial that in, I believe it's an exceptional coffee.

00:24:23.000 And I think Charlie can agree with that, can't you?

00:24:25.000 Oh, yeah, definitely.

00:24:26.000 I mean, it's a phenomenal product, I could tell you.

00:24:29.000 We got the same mug right here.

00:24:31.000 And in fact, we got the American Patriot medium roast right here.

00:24:37.000 And let's see what else we got.

00:24:38.000 Oh, we got two of them.

00:24:40.000 And so one full pound of freedom.

00:24:43.000 Talk about kind of how you think we as conservatives need to purchase in alignment with our values and how you're seeing that impact the business and what you're trying to do.

00:24:55.000 I think most of all, because we're all of a sudden thrusted into this cancel culture and business, you look all around, it just seems like every day conservative companies are being targeted.

00:25:08.000 And I think if as conservatives, we need to not only bend together and support one another, but to be able to share that message and to be able to come together back together as a company to support small business.

00:25:21.000 And I think that we're at a critical turning point in our history for this.

00:25:28.000 What I love about what you said is the reverence for the Constitution and for the constitutional values.

00:25:34.000 It's just so rare.

00:25:36.000 So can you also talk about just first responders in general?

00:25:41.000 On 9-11, as this episode airs this day, we're remembering people that went into the conflict and went into the fire and went in to try and sacrifice themselves for a broader purpose, that kind of commitment to duty, which I feel we're losing in our country right now.

00:25:57.000 Can you talk about that in your own personal life and how that's a value you and your company really try to embody?

00:26:05.000 9-11 and the actual day has burned into my mental psyche as it has with millions of other people as a medic and the training that we've gone through.

00:26:17.000 And I correlate it back with the shooting of October 1st, 2017 in Las Vegas.

00:26:24.000 Your training kicks in and the firefighters that I know that I revere.

00:26:28.000 And it's not just firefighters, it's all of our law enforcement.

00:26:32.000 My belief on this and one of the things that drives Minuteman coffee is these are the true Minutemen.

00:26:39.000 These are the true American heroes that have sacrificed so much for so many.

00:26:45.000 How many other professions besides our military and our first responders actively put that uniform on and go out and put themselves into harm way, harm's way, and sacrifice what other people can't even fathom?

00:26:59.000 To me, that is what the epitome of a Minuteman is, whether we're standing up and fighting the tyrants of 1733, 74, 75, 1776, or modern day blazing into that fire and rescuing those children or just coming up within the law enforcement and the medic community.

00:27:18.000 And I think the first responder community is getting a bad rap now with this cancel culture and law enforcement.

00:27:24.000 And The big shout out to our medics, our paramedics and our EMTs.

00:27:29.000 You know, they're the unsung heroes in paramedicine, and we need to honor them.

00:27:34.000 We need to honor this entire organization on top of that, Charlie.

00:27:40.000 Our military, I mean, they are paying the ultimate sacrifice, and we need to honor them and we need to rally.

00:27:47.000 And it's not just the National Fallen Firefighters.

00:27:49.000 Like I was saying earlier, there are a lot of great coffee companies out there, and I've been honored to try them and work with a lot of them in a lot of great veteran communities.

00:27:58.000 But as a firefighter at heart, this was a perfect fit.

00:28:02.000 I'm looking at your wonderful website, minutemencoffee.com, and it catches my attention: coffee for we the people, and we are the sovereign of this country, unapologetically patriotic.

00:28:14.000 We stand with those who protect and defend our freedom and liberty from those of us who wish to take it from us.

00:28:19.000 Now, everybody listening, we all have something that we are guilty of, myself included.

00:28:25.000 I go to Starbucks too often because it's convenient.

00:28:28.000 And I'm telling that to myself, okay?

00:28:28.000 Stop it.

00:28:30.000 I'm saying that to myself.

00:28:32.000 I got to stop it. 0.99

00:28:32.000 Now, we've already waged war on Dunkin' Donuts because their coffee is garbage. 0.99

00:28:36.000 Okay. 0.99

00:28:37.000 It's actually really bad.

00:28:38.000 Starbucks, you probably think it's bad too, but it's everywhere.

00:28:41.000 It's ubiquitous.

00:28:42.000 So I'm telling everyone, we got to go buy from the good guys.

00:28:46.000 They have the Betsy Ross, they have the Don't Tread on Me, they have the Victory Line, the American Patriot MinutemenCoffey.com.

00:28:53.000 And producer Andrew, I called him the other day and he was like, man, this is good coffee.

00:28:58.000 I mean, and we were just kind of chatting back and forth with it.

00:29:00.000 Andrew?

00:29:01.000 No, this is absolutely true because I went to school at the University of Washington in Seattle.

00:29:06.000 Okay.

00:29:06.000 You know, it wasn't quite so radical then, but Don and I bonded over the fact that he's up in the Pacific Northwest.

00:29:12.000 I have experience in the Pacific Northwest.

00:29:14.000 When you are steeped in the Northwest coffee culture, your coffee better put up or shut up.

00:29:20.000 And this coffee is very, very good, I will attest.

00:29:24.000 I mean, it's legitimately, I mean, Don, you are following in that heritage.

00:29:31.000 That is certainly true.

00:29:32.000 And in many ways, probably exceeding it.

00:29:35.000 Starbucks burns their roots.

00:29:36.000 Let's be honest.

00:29:37.000 And I appreciate that, Andrew.

00:29:38.000 I really do.

00:29:39.000 And, you know, I take pride in the fact that, you know, we are roasting in small batches.

00:29:44.000 This is one of our roasters directly behind me.

00:29:47.000 As you can see, the green coffee.

00:29:49.000 You know, all of our coffee is single origin.

00:29:52.000 All of our coffee sources personally by myself.

00:29:55.000 We use an importer to bring it in.

00:29:57.000 Every batch is meticulously tasted for consistency with a new bag that we relaunched back at Memorial Day with the new bag design.

00:30:07.000 But yeah, we are behind enemy lines up here in the great Northwest.

00:30:11.000 And, you know, there are a lot of coffee snobs. 1.00

00:30:14.000 And with thousands of reviews that are coming in every week, it's an honor to be a part of this community now and to be known as a legitimate coffee roaster.

00:30:24.000 We're not fly-by-night.

00:30:25.000 You know, we are the roaster.

00:30:28.000 We are here doing this on a daily basis.

00:30:30.000 I've got a great team that fulfills our orders.

00:30:33.000 We do get it out every day.

00:30:35.000 We're shipping every single day.

00:30:37.000 We have Amazing customers.

00:30:39.000 And, you know, to bring you guys on and to be a part of this and to be a part of this 9-11 tribute.

00:30:47.000 It's a surreal moment, the fact that here we are 20 years later.

00:30:51.000 And the fact that how far away from the front of our thought process that this has actually happened now.

00:30:59.000 How many people have forgotten about what happened today, 20 years ago?

00:31:04.000 And I want to bring that back.

00:31:06.000 And so if there's one thing that I can convey to the listening audience and to people who follow Miniman Coffee and Charlie Kirk and Sherning Boynton and these great organizations is that for the next year, there is not a single one of the listeners out there right now, do not have a fire department or know of a firefighter or know of a medic or know of a police officer that would not benefit from this coffee.

00:31:33.000 And I'm asking that as a nation, that we come together as a nation, purchase this coffee, allow us to raise that $250,000 goal for the National Fallen Firefighters Association so that we can honor them for the next year.

00:31:47.000 I mean, not just next year, but for years to come.

00:31:51.000 That's all I'm asking: is just join me in this coffee revolution.

00:31:56.000 Join us on this journey.

00:31:58.000 Help us get the word out.

00:31:59.000 Help us honor these true American Minutemen.

00:32:02.000 And that's why I started this company.

00:32:04.000 And that's why I believe we're going to be here for a very long time.

00:32:07.000 Well said.

00:32:08.000 Well, everybody, check it out: MinutemenCoffey.com.

00:32:11.000 It'll fire you up.

00:32:12.000 It'll give you accomplishes three things: gives you energy, you support the good guys, and the proceeds go to a great, great charity, MinutemenCoffey.com.

00:32:22.000 Check it out, everybody.

00:32:23.000 I know that you'll love it.

00:32:24.000 You'll have lots of energy so we could save the country.

00:32:27.000 Boy, we need it.

00:32:28.000 Thanks so much.

00:32:29.000 A lot of work to do, guys.

00:32:30.000 Appreciate it.

00:32:31.000 Talk to you guys soon.

00:32:32.000 Thank you.

00:32:33.000 There you go.

00:32:34.000 I appreciate you.

00:32:35.000 Thank you for your time.

00:32:36.000 Thank you.

00:32:36.000 Let's go to cut 71 of Bush addressing the nation the night of 9-11.

00:32:47.000 Let's go to cut 71.

00:32:49.000 These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat, but they have failed.

00:32:56.000 Our country is strong.

00:32:58.000 A great people has been moved to defend a great nation.

00:33:03.000 Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.

00:33:11.000 These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

00:33:18.000 And Cut 72, George W. Bush at ground zero days after the attack, he was talking into a megaphone.

00:33:26.000 Cut 72.

00:33:28.000 I want you all to know that America today, America Today, is on bended knee in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here, for the workers who work here, for the families.

00:33:47.000 This nation stands with the good people of New York City and New Jersey and Connecticut as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens.

00:34:00.000 I can hear you.

00:34:08.000 I can hear you.

00:34:09.000 The rest of the world hears you.

00:34:12.000 And the people and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

00:34:36.000 And then Cut 73, George W. Bush, remember when he threw out the first pitch after 9-11 and how it showed that the entire country was united for just a couple weeks.

00:34:48.000 And he was saying our way of life will continue.

00:34:52.000 You think that people are afraid of the Chinese coronavirus?

00:34:56.000 I remember my father and my sister went and visited Disney World months after 9-11, and it was a ghost town.

00:35:04.000 People were afraid to fly.

00:35:06.000 People were afraid to go to mass gatherings.

00:35:09.000 There was a spirit of fear in America for months afterwards.

00:35:12.000 Cut 73.

00:35:14.000 Don't bounce it.

00:35:15.000 They'll boo you.

00:35:16.000 All of a sudden, the pressure mounted.

00:35:18.000 The president of the United States.

00:35:24.000 The crowd just erupts in a chant of USA.

00:35:28.000 There is nothing like it that I've ever experienced at a ballgame.

00:35:32.000 It was overwhelming.

00:35:33.000 It was just overwhelming.

00:35:35.000 President Bush is standing out there like a brick wall.

00:35:39.000 I'm not afraid of terrorists.

00:35:41.000 I'm going to stand all out here. 0.78

00:35:42.000 I'm going to give you a thumbs up and I'm going to throw a strike.

00:35:48.000 At that moment, everybody there was there for baseball and to show the world that in spite of what can happen to us, we'll pull ourselves together and what is our life and our way of life will continue.

00:36:04.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:05.000 Email us your thoughts: freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:36:09.000 And if you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com.

00:36:12.000 God bless you guys.

00:36:13.000 Speak to you soon.

00:36:17.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk dot com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 11, 2021

20 Years Later

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