The Charlie Kirk Show - December 13, 2022


The Arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried + Saying Goodbye to Mike Leach


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Sam Bankman Freed has been officially indicted by the U.S. Government. What drove him to steal billions of dollars worth of crypto-currencies? And why did he do it? Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Charlie talks about this and more.

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00:01:22.000 Last evening, Sam Bankman Freed has been officially indicted by the United States government, by the Department of Justice.
00:01:31.000 Interestingly, right on the cusp, before he would have to testify in front of Congress and answer a lot of questions about exactly where did all this money go?
00:01:42.000 Well, look, for over a month, millions of crypto investors around the world were very worried that Sam Bankman Freed would somehow pull off one of the greatest criminal Houdini acts in history.
00:01:57.000 Now, Sam Bankman-Freed's crypto exchange called FTX collapsed about a month ago.
00:02:04.000 It collapsed because of a crypto blog called Coinbase that noticed an irregularity in their reporting.
00:02:13.000 Now, I'm far from a crypto expert.
00:02:15.000 From what I understand, though, one of the selling points or one of the characteristics of crypto technology is that there is an open ledger so people can go through it and they can see are your books actually balanced?
00:02:29.000 You can see all the transactions.
00:02:31.000 And I actually believe Coinbase didn't necessarily find the discrepancy in FTX itself, but in one of FTX's investments or subsidiaries.
00:02:40.000 It might have been Alameda.
00:02:41.000 It might have been one of their other projects.
00:02:43.000 And so this caused a basically crypto bank run.
00:02:47.000 SPF just sat at his home in the Bahamas giving interviews while no charges were forthcoming.
00:02:52.000 But yesterday that changed, and the timing, I think, is very interesting.
00:02:56.000 In the Bahamas, they announced that they arrested SPF and his home.
00:03:00.000 It's Coindesk, not Coinbase.
00:03:02.000 I'm sorry.
00:03:02.000 CoinDesk is the blog.
00:03:03.000 Coinbase is something else.
00:03:05.000 Forgive me for that.
00:03:06.000 So this morning, the Security Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice revealed they had brought charges against SPF for securities fraud.
00:03:15.000 So some more background on this.
00:03:16.000 FTX was a crypto exchange.
00:03:19.000 It was a website where people could transfer their own money in and use it to buy or sell cryptocurrencies.
00:03:26.000 The variety of cryptocurrencies available on the platform and the options you had for investing made FTX very popular with crypto investors.
00:03:36.000 Well over 1 million people used FTX as a pseudo crypto bank.
00:03:44.000 But according to the Security Exchange Commission, SPF treated FTX and its users as a piggy bank for his own financial ventures.
00:03:53.000 Instead of holding users' funds on the platform, SPF secretly transferred many of those funds to his own private crypto hedge fund named Alameda Research.
00:04:05.000 So SPF went on a media tour.
00:04:07.000 As soon as it was found that Alameda Research was built as a Potemkin village, he started to go do media interview. 0.95
00:04:15.000 After media interview, let's go back in time.
00:04:18.000 This was SBF.
00:04:20.000 And notice just how he dresses, his appearance, his hair, his voice, almost acting as if he's an innocent teenager in one of the great heists in human history.
00:04:32.000 Play cut 44 of him testifying about consumer advocates.
00:04:37.000 Play cut 44.
00:04:39.000 I say this with the utmost respect, but I actually found something a little bit offensive that was said.
00:04:44.000 I'm going to be pretty blunt.
00:04:46.000 Most of the traders on our platform know a lot more about these contracts than many of the people in this room, including many of the people in this room who are condescendingly talking to them about what they do and don't know and should and shouldn't be offered.
00:04:58.000 Anyway, I just had to get off my chest a little bit.
00:05:02.000 And I think it's to some points about consumer choice here.
00:05:05.000 His seventh grade voice, the unkept hair, the sloppy appearance.
00:05:13.000 It was all a ruse.
00:05:15.000 It was a ruse to have us treat him differently as if maybe he knows something we don't know. 0.99
00:05:20.000 No, he's a thief, period. 0.97
00:05:22.000 He's not a genius. 0.99
00:05:24.000 He's not some sort of whiz kid. 0.98
00:05:27.000 He's a robber baron.
00:05:29.000 The complaint from the indictment alleges that Bankman Freed used commingled FTX consumer funds, customer funds, I'm sorry, at Alameda to make undisclosed venture investments, lavish real estate purchases, and large political donations.
00:05:45.000 Now, the real estate purchases interest me because here is SBF going around saying, my net worth is $100,000.
00:05:54.000 And I remember a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned, I said, there's no way that's true.
00:05:58.000 I said, I guarantee you, he purchased land all over the world as a way to harbor cash and a way to evade detection of his actual net worth.
00:06:12.000 Cut 49, Sam Bankman Freed talking to the New York Times saying he didn't knowingly commingle any funds.
00:06:22.000 Play cut 49.
00:06:23.000 There is a view that this is about commingling of funds.
00:06:27.000 I ain't knowingly commingle funds.
00:06:29.000 I was frankly surprised by how big Alameda's position was, which points to another failure of oversight on my part, but I wasn't trying to commingle funds.
00:06:40.000 So he claims he wasn't trying to commingle funds.
00:06:44.000 So all of this word gamesmanship and maneuvering worked perfectly as long as the crypto market was going up.
00:06:55.000 But as soon as the market cooled off and people got a little bit crypto wary, SBF started to take massive losses, which then he had to increasingly take desperate measures to cover up.
00:07:07.000 When you start to engage in a cycle of fraud and treachery and deception and sin, it requires more fraud, treachery, and deception to cover it up.
00:07:19.000 Said differently in a biblical context, sin does not operate in a silo.
00:07:25.000 If you lie about something, you likely are going to have to lie about the lie to cover up the lie.
00:07:29.000 And you're probably lying about something that you did that you shouldn't have been doing in the first place.
00:07:33.000 And instead of not doing that thing, then you have to lie about that thing, then you have to lie about it.
00:07:37.000 And you go deeper and deeper and deeper into a place where you are no longer free.
00:07:43.000 This is Sam Bankman Freed.
00:07:45.000 One of SBF's tactics was that he took $8 billion that Alameda owed to FDX and he hid it in an ordinary customer's account he called the Weird Korean account.
00:07:57.000 By doing this, he was able to hide the huge hole that he opened in his balance sheet.
00:08:02.000 Overall, the amount secretly moved between FTX and Alameda appears to be in the range of $10 billion.
00:08:13.000 Other analysts say that it was upwards of $2 billion of client funds are not accounted for in any way, shape, or form.
00:08:23.000 Combined with the massive losses created by FTX's actual collapse, the total loss from SBF schemes exceed $20 billion.
00:08:35.000 Now, the details of this financial fraud are actually a lot less interesting, in my opinion, than the psychological and moral details.
00:08:46.000 And that's what I want to focus a little bit of our time on today.
00:08:50.000 Because people are going to be talking about the hyper-technical nature.
00:08:53.000 Well, wire fraud and securities fraud and campaign finance.
00:08:57.000 No, no, no, no.
00:08:59.000 There is a pattern that is emerging here.
00:09:02.000 Pattern that is manifesting in people like Yoel Roth, in Vagaya, whatever her name is, from Twitter, in the Egerwall fella who used to run Twitter, to Sam Bankman-Fried.
00:09:16.000 There is an attitude, an immorality, a sneakiness that is combined in a hyper-technological, advanced, yet secular society that is just beginning to cause widespread damage, chaos, and suffering for people.
00:09:39.000 And Sam Bankman-Fried, now indicted, will have to answer for just some of those crimes.
00:09:44.000 But I believe it's actually much worse than what he'll ever be held accountable for.
00:09:49.000 I believe the immorality of this punk kid is something that needs to be examined and exposed.
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00:11:43.000 Let's play cuts.
00:11:45.000 Yes, that's 47.
00:11:46.000 Talking to Good Morning America.
00:11:48.000 I wasn't spending any time or effort to manage risk.
00:11:51.000 Of course, you weren't.
00:11:52.000 You're a punk boy king.
00:11:53.000 Play cut 47.
00:11:55.000 I wasn't even trying.
00:11:57.000 Like, I wasn't spending any time or effort trying to manage risk on FTX.
00:12:04.000 Trying, like, I don't know what to say.
00:12:06.000 Like, what happened happened?
00:12:08.000 And, like, if I had been spending an hour a day thinking about risk management on FTX, I don't think that would have happened.
00:12:16.000 I think I got a little cocky.
00:12:19.000 Yeah, a little cocky.
00:12:20.000 How about saying, I'm sorry?
00:12:23.000 Any form of introspective remorse?
00:12:28.000 He speaks with certain language and diction and word selection that is quasi-sociopathic.
00:12:40.000 Now, the details of the financial fraud, again, are not as interesting as the psychological part of this because I think Bankman Freed is an example of some of the worst excesses that came post-China virus.
00:12:54.000 Now, remember, after the China virus and the creation of trillions of dollars out of thin air, those trillions of dollars had to find a home. 0.96
00:13:05.000 And for many people, they found a home in very risky, unproven crypto markets.
00:13:15.000 So SBF had a very public profile.
00:13:18.000 He presented himself as a moral leader in crypto and in business.
00:13:22.000 He also touted himself as a follower of what he called effective altruism.
00:13:29.000 This is part of how he was able to justify to himself and to others the treachery, the deceit, the fraud, and the theft.
00:13:43.000 You see, in Silicon Valley, it's a very secular environment.
00:13:49.000 Now, of course, he wasn't in Silicon Valley, but he was in the Bahamas, but he was basically part of the Silicon Valley Valley culture.
00:13:56.000 So let's just call it techie culture, for lack of a better term.
00:13:59.000 In techie culture, it's a very secular world.
00:14:02.000 So you have to all of a sudden come up with all of these new age, some would say pagan or secular, atheistic, materialistic, humanistic moral codes to live by.
00:14:17.000 So for example, Google used to have an actually pretty good moral code if you're going good by the materialistic, humanistic standard, which was do no evil.
00:14:29.000 First, do no evil.
00:14:30.000 Okay.
00:14:32.000 That's actually not that bad.
00:14:34.000 Now, Google's new one is go do good or something of that iteration.
00:14:39.000 Now, in private text messages, Sam Bankman Freed admitted that this guise of effective altruism was a ruse.
00:14:49.000 It was a lie.
00:14:52.000 In fact, he joked to Vox's Kelsey Piper and said, quote, this dumb game we woke Westerners play, where we say all the right things, or he said, shibboleths. 0.68
00:15:05.000 I don't really know what that is. 0.57
00:15:06.000 And everyone likes us.
00:15:09.000 You have to, and this is something we've said for some time, we've diagnosed this, that how many people in charge of companies, how many people that are saying all the right things, they don't mean a word of it.
00:15:20.000 Basically, it's go pay your tribute, go say the prayer, the woke prayer. 0.98
00:15:26.000 America's systemically racist and white cisgendered heterosexual men are to blame. 0.94
00:15:31.000 And through giving part of my income, my wealth, my time, my treasure, I will be able to empower the wokies so I can remain rich and powerful and untouched by the regime. 0.96
00:15:43.000 That is basically the wokey prayer.
00:15:46.000 You say it over and over and over again.
00:15:49.000 It becomes a religious incantation.
00:15:53.000 And so one of the ways that SBFs got away with this for so long is that he made massive donations to politicians, in particular, Democrat candidates.
00:16:07.000 And this is where this story gets very interesting.
00:16:11.000 And why this story is only going to gain momentum and expose more fraudsters.
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00:17:23.000 So Sam Bankman Freed was scheduled to testify, I believe today, and then he gets indicted.
00:17:30.000 Well, the new Republican Congress needs to make a pledge that whether Sam Bankman Freed is in handcuffs or in shackles or has to zoom in from Rikers, Sam Bankman Freed is going to testify because there are a lot of questions we have.
00:17:44.000 What is the relationship between Sam Bankman Freed and Maxine Waters?
00:17:49.000 Sam Bankman Freed, let's play the news report of him being arrested yesterday.
00:17:54.000 Let's play Cut 43.
00:17:55.000 Andrew Sam Bankman Freed has now been arrested and Bahamian authorities are now waiting for an extradition request from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
00:18:05.000 The arrest comes just hours before SBF was set to appear before Congress.
00:18:09.000 Of course, that will no longer happen.
00:18:11.000 The New York Times says the charges include wire fraud and bank fraud, which means SBF could be looking at life in prison.
00:18:18.000 Now, the people who have benefited from this, Joe Manchin, Patty Murray, Padilla, Booker, Murkowski, Durbin, play Cut 34.
00:18:27.000 It'll be interesting to watch the lawmakers who received contributions in this year, 2022.
00:18:34.000 We actually put together a scroll.
00:18:36.000 There's so many, I won't even be able to put them all up on the screen.
00:18:39.000 So you have to imagine as he sits in the hot seat, many of them are as well.
00:18:44.000 Some, by the way, have already said that any funds they receive from him or the company, they will be donated to charity.
00:18:50.000 Some people say this should be some sort of victims' fund going back to those who lost, in some cases, their entire life savings.
00:18:57.000 Now, when Madoff stole the money that he stole, which was considerable, some people actually were contacted afterwards and had to pay back, pay it back.
00:19:09.000 There's going to be some sort of a victims fund.
00:19:11.000 In fact, one of our team members here, he lost a bunch of money.
00:19:16.000 He put money in FTX, poor guy.
00:19:19.000 And he's just out money.
00:19:20.000 I don't know if he's out 500 or 1,000, but he's out some serious money.
00:19:24.000 So SBF stole money from regular everyday people, used it to then buy real estate, donate to Democrat candidates, all under the guise of effective altruism.
00:19:39.000 Now, this sort of thing makes you wonder what kind of punishment is fitting for people or someone like SBF.
00:19:47.000 Elizabeth Holmes got 11 years for her scam at Theranos.
00:19:52.000 Now, in some ways, what SBF did is a lot more depraved than even some murders, some murders, not all murders, but some murders.
00:20:04.000 There are horrible crimes that are simply one-off crimes of passion.
00:20:10.000 But what SBF did here required telling lies to countless people every single day.
00:20:18.000 It was living a lie.
00:20:21.000 It was embodying the deceit.
00:20:25.000 Lies that were enabled by building an entirely fake, synthetic persona. 0.96
00:20:32.000 SBF's lives treated everyone around him as a sucker, and he was like that in private text messages, in meetings. 0.99
00:20:40.000 I am smarter than you.
00:20:43.000 Sam Bankman-Fried was not giving money to politicians because he believed in the cause.
00:20:48.000 It was a down payment, an investment.
00:20:50.000 Dare I say a bribe to try to protect him.
00:20:54.000 He thought to himself, if I give enough money to politicians, they're not going to investigate me.
00:21:00.000 And then if I come out and proclaim that I am going to give $1 billion to defeat Donald Trump, the regime will absolutely protect me.
00:21:09.000 You see, Sam Bankman-Fried came out in an interview and he said, I am going to commit $1 billion to the defeat of Donald Trump.
00:21:17.000 And so maybe that will make a prosecutor or two think that he's very helpful.
00:21:21.000 But in the end, with billions of dollars that were lost, SBF ruined so many lives just as much as any violent criminal could.
00:21:32.000 Now, he's been indicted for wire fraud, tax fraud, campaign finance fraud.
00:21:38.000 But isn't it interesting, one of the people that is tasked with overseeing this actually benefited from it?
00:21:46.000 Play cut 37 of Aunt Maxine almost making sense.
00:21:51.000 Play cut 37.
00:21:52.000 I want to say that I'm pleased that the committee's efforts have pushed enforcement agencies across the country to take greater action against bad actors who misuse customers' funds.
00:22:04.000 I also applaud the SEC for authorizing separate charges relating to Mr. Bankman-Fried, and I look forward to additional actions to hold him accountable and make customers more whole again.
00:22:19.000 We talked at length about treachery yesterday.
00:22:23.000 And Dante, in his analysis of the hierarchy of sins, considered that the worst possible sin was treachery.
00:22:31.000 The second worst sin for Dante was fraud.
00:22:34.000 Yes, according to the Divine Comedy and his analysis, and you could agree or disagree on this, but there is some rational and there's a tremendous rational and logical basis for this, that committing deliberate fraud was actually worse than violence.
00:22:49.000 In a lot of ways, that makes sense.
00:22:52.000 Both fraud and treachery are cold and calculated forms of evil.
00:23:01.000 In many different ways, they require a truly warped person on the inside for a sustained period of time.
00:23:10.000 That is SBF.
00:23:12.000 Nothing he did was impulsive or short-term or ill-considered.
00:23:17.000 This was a long-term and calculated scheme that caused more damage to more people than any financial fraud since Madoff.
00:23:28.000 And dare I even go further?
00:23:31.000 The victims of Bernie Madoff were legitimate, but they were also older.
00:23:37.000 The victims of Bernie Madoff were more established in life.
00:23:40.000 They probably had equity in a home.
00:23:42.000 They had other stocks and bonds.
00:23:44.000 Some people got wiped out totally by Madoff.
00:23:48.000 Some people were, they took a hit and were just fine.
00:23:51.000 The vast majority of the victims that Sam Bankman Freed stole from were young, late 20 and early 30s-somethings that were just trying to get started in life.
00:24:06.000 That were trying to build a family, that were already up to their eyes in student loan debt.
00:24:11.000 They were unable to get out of consumer debt or credit card debt.
00:24:15.000 And they saw this as a safe haven.
00:24:17.000 They saw FTX as a pseudo-crypto exchange bank, a place that in an uncertain market, that they could keep their money.
00:24:26.000 And SBF thought he could get away with all of it by donating to the right Democrats, by funneling money to their super PACs.
00:24:36.000 He thought that he was smarter than everybody else.
00:24:40.000 Here is Cut 48 of Sam Bankman Freed saying, look, I've had a bad month.
00:24:45.000 And everyone erupts in laughter.
00:24:46.000 Play Cut 48.
00:24:47.000 How concerned are you about criminal liability at this point?
00:24:51.000 So I don't think that, I mean, obviously, I don't personally think that I have, you know, but I think the real answer is that's not, it sounds weird to say, but I think the real answer is that's not what I'm focusing on.
00:25:08.000 Like right now, I mean, look, I've had a bad month.
00:25:13.000 This has not been a fun, but that's not what matters here.
00:25:18.000 So look, I'll just say it.
00:25:21.000 I'm not a believer in the death penalty.
00:25:24.000 But if I was, and if I did believe in the death penalty, SBF should get it.
00:25:30.000 Criminals like SBF or Bernie Madoff should get penalties on par with the worst murderers and traitors.
00:25:38.000 SBF should never see the outside of a cell again.
00:25:41.000 He needs to tell very clearly everything he knows, become a compliant whistleblower.
00:25:48.000 And it makes you think in December of 2020, what if this fraud would have been unraveled nine months ago?
00:25:56.000 How many tens of millions of dollars that were put into this midterm cycle through stolen accounts that otherwise would not be there?
00:26:06.000 Sam Bankman Freed is the worst of a secular Silicon Valley, but you now have a little window into the attitude and the lack of morality from Yoel Roth to Bankman Freed, people that have far too much power that never should have been in those positions, so smug, so arrogant, so deceitful, and then immediately play the victim.
00:26:29.000 Well, me?
00:26:30.000 I mean, come on, it's not like the money was secured.
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00:26:36.000 This is just the beginning of us finding out the depth and the interconnectedness of one of the great financial frauds of a generation.
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00:28:12.000 I remember the first time I watched Mike Leach.
00:28:17.000 I'm a big college football fan, and he was the coach of the Texas Tech Raiders.
00:28:24.000 It's one of the best Red Raiders, thanks.
00:28:27.000 One of the best football teams ever assembled.
00:28:33.000 Graham Harrell was their quarterback.
00:28:35.000 I believe Michael Crabtree was their wide receiver.
00:28:40.000 And there was this eccentric coach that was something else.
00:28:45.000 He changed football forever.
00:28:48.000 Air raid offense to how he was able to get kids that otherwise would not be playing at Alabama or Georgia or USC to just overperform.
00:29:00.000 And he was a wise, he was a wise guy.
00:29:03.000 And he was a patriot.
00:29:05.000 This is Cut 45: Mike Leach responding to the blowback over his support for Donald Trump.
00:29:11.000 Play Cut 45.
00:29:12.000 I quite honestly don't care because I respect their opinion and their choice to select anybody that they want to be their candidate.
00:29:22.000 I mean, do we really live in a country where you can't freely support whoever you want?
00:29:27.000 I mean, is that what you're suggesting?
00:29:29.000 And is it their prerogative to ask for that?
00:29:32.000 I don't think it is.
00:29:33.000 You know, we've always had freedom of speech, always had the right to protest, and I think that should be respected as long as it's in an orderly fashion.
00:29:43.000 You know, I respect their opinion, and I'm certainly not going to hide from my opinion.
00:29:47.000 And I shouldn't be asked to, evidently, if I am asked to.
00:29:51.000 I live in a different country than we were all told that we grew up in.
00:29:56.000 Amen for that.
00:29:58.000 Loved his country.
00:29:59.000 He was a big fan of Turning Point USA.
00:30:01.000 We texted regularly.
00:30:03.000 And he didn't care what other people thought.
00:30:06.000 Probably one of the most epic, viral videos.
00:30:09.000 It's two minutes long.
00:30:11.000 And if you don't laugh, then you take yourself way too seriously.
00:30:14.000 Play Cut 40.
00:30:14.000 It's two minutes long.
00:30:16.000 We do this in honor of the now passed away Mike Leach.
00:30:22.000 There's more facts and thought crimes in these two minutes.
00:30:25.000 Play Cut 40. 1.00
00:30:26.000 I'm just telling you, when it comes to marriages, the women lose their mind. 1.00
00:30:32.000 Your fiancé's going to lose her mind. 1.00
00:30:35.000 Your mother-in-law is going to lose her mind. 0.75
00:30:38.000 Your mom is going to lose her mind.
00:30:40.000 They're going to barrage you with constant questions. 0.92
00:30:43.000 What should we wear?
00:30:45.000 And then, which, of course, my answer was, I don't care.
00:30:49.000 And then what color should the invitations be?
00:30:52.000 I don't care.
00:30:54.000 What should we have for dessert?
00:30:56.000 I don't care.
00:30:57.000 Should we seek this this way or that that way?
00:31:00.000 I don't care.
00:31:01.000 But see, I don't care is not satisfactory at all.
00:31:04.000 And you're going to get caught in a catch-22, and I'm certain that you already have.
00:31:08.000 What do you want for dessert?
00:31:10.000 I was thinking of strawberry shortcake.
00:31:12.000 Oh, okay.
00:31:13.000 Yeah, strawberry shortcake would be good.
00:31:15.000 Well, what about the blueberry pie?
00:31:17.000 Well, I like the blueberry pie.
00:31:19.000 We could have the blueberry pie.
00:31:20.000 Well, I thought you said you wanted the strawberry shortcake.
00:31:23.000 And it's just going to go back and forth.
00:31:25.000 There's no answer you can give that is going to be satisfactory or correct.
00:31:29.000 And if you successfully please a few of them, the others will still be, oh, well, I just don't feel like he's that interested.
00:31:36.000 Yeah, okay, so you need to work late, go in the back room and read a lot of books.
00:31:41.000 You have to go take the groomsmen out so you make sure that they march in just right and they know exactly, you know, these swell outfits that you picked out or whatever, however you're doing it.
00:31:53.000 And in the end, you'll wish you eloped.
00:31:56.000 But nevertheless, you need to find excuses that they'll buy to be as far out of harm's way as you possibly can.
00:32:10.000 But take comfort in knowing that once the ceremony's over, that life will get progressively better from there, even though there's some adjustment.
00:32:22.000 This is going off.
00:32:24.000 And they just randomly ask him about his wedding advice.
00:32:29.000 Really quick, cut 36, just some of his most memorable moments.
00:32:32.000 Play Cut 36.
00:32:34.000 Coach, I know you have strong thoughts on weddings.
00:32:36.000 Go elope.
00:32:37.000 Trust me on that.
00:32:38.000 That's a good win.
00:32:39.000 There's a lot of people like Woodstock since everybody's got their clothes on.
00:32:43.000 I think candy corn's awful.
00:32:45.000 You know, it's like fruitcake.
00:32:48.000 I hope there's Bigfoot.
00:32:49.000 I don't think there is.
00:32:50.000 And I'm getting emotional just seeing that.
00:32:52.000 Anyway, he was a special guy, and I'm sorry I never actually had a chance to meet him.
00:32:58.000 And as a college football devotee, he was a legend, coach of the year twice, always had undersized kids that were under-recruited and got them to overperform.
00:33:09.000 And Mike Leach would text me all the time asking me about all sorts of different topics and stuff.
00:33:14.000 And now he passed away.
00:33:16.000 And that's sad and it's tragic.
00:33:17.000 But Mike, we carry on your legacy of playing offense here for America.
00:33:22.000 God bless you, Mike Leach, and all the lives you impacted.
00:33:27.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:28.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:31.000 Thank you so much for listening.
00:33:33.000 God bless.
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