Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Prager's Reaction to Charlie Kirk’s Memorial
Aired: 2025-09-24
Duration: 04:08

[00:00:00]  So, Dennis, we're sitting here today on the day of the memorial of Charlie Kirk.
[00:00:05]  I came here because I wanted to sit with you, knowing that it is very likely that if you could, you would have been on that stage speaking in memory of Charlie.
[00:00:16]  But sadly you couldn't.
[00:00:17]  And so the world still wants to hear what you have to say, and maybe what you would have said if you were on stage.
[00:00:26]  Well, I think you're right.
[00:00:28]  I think I would have been invited, Erica knew of uh our friendship, and how much I had touched Charlie's life, as I mentioned earlier.
[00:00:44]  He claimed to have listened to more of my talks and choruses than probably anyone else, and he might be right.
[00:00:54]  And he's dedicated his last book to me, and I was very moved by that.
[00:01:02]  I did record something for them, but it was without video, and I'm not even sure she ever got to hear it, and in it I commented on something I mentioned to you at the beginning.
[00:01:20]  When my friend from high school, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin told me, and he's officiated it.
[00:01:29]  I'm sure at least a hundred funerals.
[00:01:33]  What he does is he speaks to the friends and the widow or widower and the children.
[00:01:43]  And he was particularly moved when he would meet the children of the person who died.
[00:01:51]  And they would each tell him that they believed that they were the most loved of the children.
[00:02:00]  And that's what Charlie's friends think.
[00:02:04]  We were all the closest friend that he had.
[00:02:08]  And you heard at the memorial that that's what people felt.
[00:02:16]  That's what Charlie was able to achieve, which is a very great accomplishment.
[00:02:25]  Anyway, I would have spoken about his courage, but not just courage.
[00:02:34]  His knowledge.
[00:02:35]  I mean I would watch him respond to all these students who threw everything they had at him.
[00:02:46]  And his his responses were so excellent and so knowledge-based.
[00:02:55]  I couldn't get over how much he knew and how much he retained.
[00:03:01]  Anyway, it was it was all very remarkable.
[00:03:05]  Pretty amazing to see almost the entire cabinet, the vice president, the president, all gathered in one place, right?
[00:03:14]  What is most remarkable is even I, and I'm not sure Charlie knew how big his impact was.
[00:03:26]  There's a saying among the uh timber workers in Oregon, you never know the height of a tree until it falls.
[00:03:41]  the case with Charlie.
[00:03:43]  Thank you for sharing.
[00:03:44]  Thank you for your wisdom.
[00:03:45]  I'll share with you that I have received hundreds and hundreds of text messages saying that you should have been on that stage and you would have been if you could have.
[00:03:56]  Yeah.
[00:03:57]  And uh I'm glad I got to sit with you here today.
[00:03:59]  Being with you today was really uh a great honor, and I know that many, many people wanted to hear from you, so it's a great pleasure to be here.