PBD Podcast - Charlie Kirk Assassinated In UVU Shooting | EMERGENCY PODCAST | PBD Podcast | Ep. 645
Episode Date: September 11, 2025Patrick Bet-David addresses the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, sharing prayers, hope, and a call for unity as America confronts rising political violence. A powerful... message of faith, resilience, and courage in uncertain times.-----🍋 ZEST IT FORWARD: https://bit.ly/4kJ71lc 📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY": https://bit.ly/41rtEV4🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/4g57zR2🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A📱 CONNECT ON MINNECT: https://bit.ly/4ikyEkC👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: https://bit.ly/3ZjWhB7📰 VTNEWS.AI: https://bit.ly/3OExClZ🎓 VALUETAINMENT UNIVERSITY: https://bit.ly/3BfA5Qw📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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Okay.
At this point, you've seen the news.
Charlie Kirk, 31 years old, was shot.
And report was made a few minutes ago that he is dead at the age of 31 years old.
When this announcement was made, I'm right now at a conference of ours with thousands of people out there from 60 plus countries.
Tony Robbins is on stage for the last three hours.
I'm backstage.
I get word he got shot.
It's me, Vinnie, Tom.
the crew we're sitting in the back families there Dylan's there and uh you know we're seeing
the reports of you know he's critical condition but he's got a pulse they got him it's going to be
fine and then I hit the stage and when I'm going on the stage Kelly gives me to Mike
security gets me on the stage I shake hands with Tony we make our announcement
Tony heads back the song Tony's playing at the time
is a song played in Gladiator
if you know the song you know which one I'm talking about
and gladiator is a movie I've seen God knows how many times
from 43 minutes on because this is a man
this is a very emotional movie when you see that you know he wants to seek
his vengeance or he wants to get justice or he wants to go out there
and get what he wanted to get for what they did to his family
I'm on stage
Vinny comes to the left
while I'm on stage just to call Tom up
to come and pray
for Charlie to recover and heal
Vinny comes
gives me the hand signal
I said what do you mean? He says it's done
then Kelly comes to the front
she's the runner for me telling me everything that I need to do
and she says
he's dead
at that moment we're about to wrap up the session
and when he did when she did
obviously you're in front of thousands of people
you're trying to finish the session you're overwhelmed
Tom comes up
the song is playing from Gladiator
and if you know Gladiator you know the whole story
Tom gives a prayer gets on his knees
in front of everyone
the room is emotional
when we made the announcement
that Charlie Kirk is dead
you heard the reaction
many people knew he was shot
not many people knew he was dead
that happens
you hear the news
that the shooter we've all seen
a picture of the shooter Rob if you want to show the picture of the
shooter that they're showing us
they say this is the shooter and he's telling me
telling everybody kill me kill me take me
do all the stuff that he's saying
and in other reports are coming saying this isn't
the shooter he's the Patsy
I hope he makes it.
If he doesn't make it,
here's another story
of somebody that's, you know,
another story of John of Kennedy got shot
and then, hey, was it really him?
Was it Oswald?
Was it somebody else?
Same story with RFK, same story with everybody else.
I hope this guy's alive.
Because at least we'll be able to find out
if he is the guy or not and if it's somebody else.
If you've seen the video, not the one from the distance,
if you saw the video to close up,
that's when you knew the way
the neck fell in the blood, started gushing out the second at him, you knew this wasn't good.
Elon Musk even tweeted saying, I hope he makes it, but that shot didn't look good.
Now, here's what's wild.
You hear MSNBC.
Some hosts are saying, we don't know who the shooter was.
It could have been friendly fire from the people that are even on his own side.
Nobody knows who shot him, Rob.
I don't know if you have that clip.
If you go on X, and if we look at the most trending words right now, trending topics right now, on X.
This is one platform.
It's not all the platforms.
It's the first place I go to.
Let me see what the world is thinking about.
Number one trending word, Charlie Kirk.
Number two, MSNBC.
Number three, may God.
Number four, Democrats.
Five Jesus, six evil, seven Minnesota, eight violence.
Liberals, Heavenly Father, and you go all the way down to number 14,
it's civil war.
Then you go on some profiles on X,
and you'll see certain people celebrating.
They're happy.
Thank God, all these other messages.
Some other people are saying,
this is it.
We're going to take the streets.
It's going to be civil war.
They can't do this to us.
If you believe in God,
you know at the end of the day,
he's going to handle these types of situation.
The president tweeted twice on truth social.
The first one was about the fact that he was shot
and hopes he feels better.
And then the second one is the final one
that says the great and even legendary Charlie Kirk
is dead. No one understood
or had the heart of the youth in the U.S.
better than Charlie Kirk.
He was loved and admired by all, especially
me and now he is no longer with us.
Melania, my sympathies, go out
to his beautiful wife, Erica,
and family. Charlie, we love you.
This just came out a few minutes ago.
What this made me think about
as we're going through this next phase,
is I'm at this event. Security comes up to me. We got thousands of people. How do you want to handle this?
Do you want to go out there? Do you want us to do this? Do you want us to do that? I said, no, we're going out there. No problem. Why? The enemy wants you to be afraid. The enemy wants you to back down. The enemy wants you to be worried, buckled. You know, oh, my God, your knees are buckled, nervous. Oh, what's going to take place? No. The enemy also wants to divide. You think,
think most of America hates each other the way some of these trending topics are being made
on X? No. Most of us agree with about 80% of issues in life. I would say 90% of people agree
with 80% of issues in life. Most of us do. Family values, finance, you have dreams, health,
America, most of us do. Unfortunately, the 10% that may not, they are so loud and obnoxious
that you think it's more than them.
And sometimes it makes you seem like,
well, maybe they're right and I'm not.
But this is a very, very, very interesting time.
You're almost speechless for moments like this.
You don't know what to say.
Charlie was someone's son.
He was someone's father.
He's got a kid.
He's got a family.
Beautiful wife, Erica.
This is them.
Celebrating.
All he was talking about is values
of how to make your family,
better. Have more kids. America's awesome. Freedom of speech. Nothing crazy. He didn't say
Joe Biden is Hitler. He didn't say the opposing side is the enemy. He didn't say, hey, every other
word would every other person on the opposing side is that? No. So I hope that while this event is
taking place, something tells me the president or somebody in the White House is going to try to find a way
to put a stop to this with certain words that are used that lead to violence.
If you guys know, I'm not happy with certain words that we use.
Why?
Some people say, well, just because it's freedom of speech, that's not why.
You can say what you want to say.
To the wrong person you use that word, you incite, you excite them.
You're like, oh, my God, let me go do something about them.
Boom, I feel like I'm going to be a hero taking this guy out.
Now, who knows who this person was.
this could have been planned
this could have been an accident
this could have been a one-man show this could have made a funder
we have no clue
it's totally to jump to conclusion of what happened
but the reality of it is
Charlie Kirk
who every single time
we had him on the podcast
we have him out at our insurance conference
multiple times
or I spoke at the Amfest
event in Arizona that he would host
with all these young kids
every time you were around him
he was a class act
we're talking about it
earlier with one of our guys, Eric,
and he said, what do you think is going to happen with all the young kids
that follow Charlie?
I said, to me, it's very simple.
How many people do you know that watch Charlie's content to debates for over 100 hours?
I put 5 million people worldwide.
How many people you think this was their role model,
a 14-year-old kid, a 10-year-old kid,
An 18-year-old kid, a 25-year-old kid, how many people looked up to this guy?
So as much as it may seem like that temporarily the enemy won, I think this is going to backfire on the enemy.
Because the loss of Charlie, and the example he left behind, is going to lead to many of them that are going to look up to him saying, I'm going to be the next guy.
And you're going to see the exponential growth of the values and principles that he shared go to a whole different level.
So wherever you are, whatever you're doing, my encouragement, in the military, they used to say, stay alert, stay live, be alert.
We're being a little bit more cautious than we've ever been before, but we're not going to be afraid.
We live in the greatest country in the world with the greatest values, the greatest opportunity, and we're going to keep doing our part.
And for those of you guys that are also shocked like I was, we're going to go through this process together.
and I am naturally optimistic because I put my faith on a man upstairs.
Individually, without him, I'm extremely concerned.
But with him, I am extremely optimistic.
So they don't want to be here for too long.
Our crew's in front of us.
We'll be back on on Friday.
You won't see us tomorrow.
Nor on tomorrow is what Thursdays tomorrow.
You won't see us tomorrow.
But we'll be on from here.
we are nine o'clock for two plus hours and we'll go a little bit deeper into this and I appreciate
you guys for joining us here last minute some 80,000 people that are on here with us. God bless you
and God bless America. Take you everybody. Bye-bye.
Thank you.