Good morning, everyone. Excited to be here. I'm going to start out a little bit somber. I want to talk about, take a moment to reflect on the great Lindsey Graham. I had the opportunity to meet him a couple of times, and he was one of the nicest, coolest dudes in the room.
He knew my name, which was shocking to me because a lot of times when you meet career big-time politicians, they don't necessarily know who you are. They need someone to run over and introduce you, and he knew who I was exactly. He was like, hey, Tyrus, how are you doing? And I was really impressed by that. But I want to play real quick some thoughts.
Senator Dick Durbin has some really, I think, summed it up best. I would like to take a moment to recognize his lifetime of public service, both in the state of South Carolina and our nation. I served with Lindsey Graham in the Senate for more than two decades. And during that time, I counted him as a trusted friend. I will tell you, Mr.
President, that my friends and supporters back in Illinois many times would just shake their head and say, Durbin, what are you doing with Lindsey? You shouldn't be working with him. They didn't know how the Senate works, and they certainly didn't know him. He was proudly a fierce Republican partisan, but he never lost sight of the need to work across the aisle to make a difference in the lives of Americans. you know because he put the job he put the country over over a tent he was a patriot and i think in the strongest uh definition of that word and i think what and i i hate to say this but in the time that we are living right now we don't have much trust or faith in our in our politicians especially in the house or senate um especially when it comes to one particular thing net worth And we see a lot of House members and Senate members who are millionaires, hundred millionaires, own three and four mansions, summer homes, fly private jets, etc.
His net worth at the time of his passing was what it should be for a person who has been serving in public service his entire life. And I just can That is all the evidence you need in terms of who he was as a person and what it meant to him to be a Republican to be a senator and more importantly to be an American And that to me we lost one of the good ones And that, to me, is a little scary. Or I'm hoping it will inspire Americans across the country to look at the character of the person that represents their state. not what animal you vote for whether it's a donkey or an elephant or whether they how many followers they have on social media or auditions or or mainstream media promoting them as something they're not listen to the words that they say and most importantly after what they say the actions that come behind them if someone is is running to represent you and the only thing they're doing is attacking the other side. That is not a person who has any interest in running for you, representing you.
They are trying to get a job for themselves. And I think across the board, nobody could say that for Lindsey Graham. And listen, he was the one guy who didn't always have the greatest relationship with the president. He ran against him. They feuded.
They had issues. They had arguments but when it came time for policy when it came time to doing the right things for america there was no issues there and he would work across the aisle and it wasn't just for the sake of of saying actually he never really talked about it he talked about his plans and his policies and i think that's what was so rare and it shouldn't be but we're going to miss him not just for the person he was, but for the work he did, because he was one of the few guys that didn't fall into the trap of picking one side and becoming against everything the other side is doing. And we understand now, and it is my opinion, the reason why they do that so often is because it's more profitable. You make a lot of money from lobbyists and special interests and NGOs and all that stuff to just disrupt, to be anti-Trump. And if a Democrat's in, you're anti-Democrat.
That doesn't help the American people. That doesn't help our country. And we've seen the results of that. We saw during the pandemic. We saw during the Biden administration.
We seeing when President Trump both of his terms when he was in the answer is no no matter what because they don like him And so it saddens me that we lose such a great man so early You know, the other side of it is, and take it from somebody who had to lose a bunch of weight because I wanted to be around for my kids. You have to, no matter how busy you are, no matter how much you are fighting, working, paying bills, chasing the American dream, you have to take care of yourself. You have to go to doctors. You have to stay on top of things, especially when you're getting older. Man, I know particularly because I only speak for one because that's what I am, and I'm not transitioning anytime soon.
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So when it comes to your health, we kind of have this invincibility complex where we think, oh, we're fine, we're fine. And I was like that for a long time. And I beat my body up in sports and bodyguard and wrestling, powerlifting, all that stuff, football. And I kind of had this thing where I'm fine, I'm fine. If I don't see anything, I'm fine.
I don't need to go to doctors. A lot of people feel that way. You go to a doctor, you get sick. But when it comes to when you need to stay on top of seeing a physician, learn as much as you can about your diet. If you have any heart issues, they're not going to go away.
You need to make sure you take care of yourself. And I think, unfortunately, we have to learn all of that. And another thing, since I'm rifting here about Mr. Graham, he did some amazing things. He was a really outstanding person.
And it sad that I did a lot of the stuff that I didn even know about you know particularly about how he adopted his sister That is absolutely stand up And they had a very close relationship And I want to I want to play a quick flashback Number six, where he's talking about this is then just give you some context. He was this was running for president 2015 about giving his sister a role. Should he win? If she took a role on, she'd be a great representative of our country. I can't think of a better person to represent our country in an event than my sister.
So he was, on top of everything else, he was a family man. And when you lose both your parents, you can become a bitter person. You can really learn about who you are when the chips are down. And he was just, I'm just so impressed that we didn't really know a lot of these things because he wasn't a braggadocious man. He was a direct man.
he he took on problems he didn't care whether you and the guy that he was working with they would play golf together or they would be friends he cared about getting things done for the american people and i didn't always agree with everything that he was about and there was times that you know i would hear some of his things and i'd be like i don't like that i don't agree but that's the whole point i think you we all should have discourse we all like if you believe in absolute everything if you agree with everything president trump says and you agree with that you're really not it's like the person who's friends with everybody which means you're friends with no one you have to have your belief system and and you you can't you're not going to see eye to eye on everything and that's the point is when you don't see eye to eye on things that's when you have debate that's when the best ideas come about just every time someone says something like yes i'm in yes i'm in yes and you're that yes man thing but it ends up hurting everyone in the long one and nobody wins because eventually you're going to be backing bad ideas and mistakes and nobody is going to look at you with any credibility if you cannot stand your ground on the things you believe in and i believe the term is you find the hill you're going to die on uh and that's important too again it goes to the other side which we see literally president trump will come out and be like I have a cure for cancer and half of the Senate, a little less than half because we can't let them have more than half right now, would literally be like, what? You didn't cure the cold? Like they would just find something to be negative about. And Lindsey Graham was not those things.
