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I almost didn’t post this picture.

If I’m being completely honest, it’s the absolute last photo I’d choose based on how we look. My face is doing something weird, Charlie’s eyes are half-closed 😂, and the lighting is terrible. We didn’t stop to pose. We didn’t check the screen to see how we looked. We were too busy yapping each other's heads off, and my team just happened to snap it mid-conversation.

But when it popped up in my memories the other night, it hit me hard. I realized this isn't just my favorite photo I have with Charlie—it’s one of my favorite photos I have with anyone.

Because I didn't know at the time that I was talking to someone who would get killed for believing differently than others.

It’s not my favorite because it’s perfect. It’s my favorite because of the raw story behind it.

Today is the one-year anniversary of Charlie’s assassination. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted to say, but I knew from the very beginning that I didn't want to talk about his murder. If you’re looking for a story about cheap conspiracy theories, internet rumors, or the $300,000 debate, you can find that anywhere you want on the internet right now.

There is no shortage of it. That’s not what we’re going to be doing here.

I want to talk about Charlie. I want to talk about the very thing that seems to be the last thing people are talking about, when it's supposed to be the main thing.

Let me be crystal clear: I am not posting this to pretend I was his best friend or some close confidant. I wasn’t. I was simply blessed to be invited by him to several of his events to work media, as well as crossing paths at many other shows. Back then, I was all over the place, but so was he, and I felt like I saw him everywhere I went. 😂

How I even got to this specific TPUSA event in June 2021 in Texas is a story in itself.

A month or two prior, at a political convention up north, a gentleman told me he wanted to introduce us. He called Charlie right there, told him about my podcast, and said they needed to get me to some TPUSA events. When the guy hung up the phone, he looked at me and said, "Charlie said it's done. He's gonna be reaching out to you."

Now, I’ll be honest, I've heard all kinds of stuff in politics. 😂 If one of them told me it was about to rain and I was standing outside, let’s just say I’m not gonna rush to get the umbrella. But sure enough, a few days later, an email arrived. True to his word, Charlie invited us.

I was honored to be one of only three media outlets allowed at that strict event. The other two were national news outlets... and then there was Dad Talk Today. Just the little podcast that could. I had been busting my ass to get to those spots. I had just attended my first political conference a little over a year prior, so to be doing media at CPAC and then at Turning Point alongside Charlie in the span of a single year was something I was incredibly proud of.
But the moment in this picture is one I will never forget.

I didn't fully grasp Charlie's massive impact until I watched him finish a speech and walk to the lobby to meet the crowd. The line was a sea of people. I truly believe he stood there for around three or four hours. While he was there, he didn't take a single break. He didn't leave that spot, and he met with every single person. His passion was absolute fire—you could physically feel the hustle radiating off of him.

When he finally finished, he started the long walk back. He was completely exhausted, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his forearm, surrounded by an entourage firing information at him while he delegated his next moves every single second.

I was just standing in the hallway. He had just delegated tasks to his crew and was obviously on his way to do something else.

He walked right past me.

But then he stopped dead in his tracks. He turned around, saw me, and just said, “Eric?”

I said, “Yes, Charlie. So nice to meet you, brother.”

He walked back, and we stood there talking for around 15 to 20 minutes. People kept running up trying to pull him away, but he never once rushed our conversation. After pouring himself into a massive crowd for hours, and while clearly on his way to his next obligation, he still chose to stop, turn around, and give me his undivided time.

To understand what Charlie's reaction meant to me, you have to understand what it was like back then. When I launched Dad Talk Today in 2019, advocating for fathers' rights often got you treated like a terrorist. Some people would hear the word "Dads," roll their eyes, and instantly label me a misogynist—laughable, considering I’m a happily married man raising four daughters. At these events, we never knew if we were going to be treated like scum or a lifeline.

Charlie and I both agreed father absence was a massive crisis, but we completely disagreed on the cause. He thought men just weren't trying hard enough. I knew firsthand that the family court meat-grinder was sidelining great, desperate dads who were giving everything they had just to fight for every other weekend.

Charlie hadn't been through that system. But instead of using our disagreement as an excuse to shut me out, he pulled out a chair for me. He put us right in the media row of his Young Women's Leadership Summit. Does that sound like the kind of place you'd invite a "misogynist"? I guarantee every lady we spoke to that weekend would disagree with that label, because we had incredible, eye-opening conversations there—and

I have Charlie Kirk to thank for making it happen. He didn’t have to agree with me to give me a platform. He did the exact opposite.

And that is exactly why what happened to him sickens me to my absolute core.

Even on the day he was murdered, Charlie was doing what he always did: handing a microphone to the people who vehemently disagreed with him. People would step up to that mic, scream in his face, and call him a Nazi, Hitler, or a fascist. The coward who assassinated him even wrote one of those labels right on the bullet.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never read a single history book where Hitler eagerly handed a microphone to the people who despised him.

What Charlie offered them was a microphone. What they gave him in return was a bullet.

That should terrify every single one of us, no matter where you stand politically. We have reached a toxic breaking point where someone can disagree with us, and suddenly they’re a Nazi, a fascist, or whatever convenient label justifies hating them.

We cannot keep turning political disagreement into bloodshed. I do not want to see another family lose a husband and a father because this country forgot how to talk to each other.

That’s why I chose this flawed, unposed picture. It tells the story of an exhausted man who could've easily kept walking, but he chose to stop, turn around, acknowledge me, and proceed to have a conversation with me.

Last year, we lost a man they simply do not make anymore. He should still be here right now, tucking his kids into bed and watching them grow up. His children should still have their dad.

Rest in peace, Charlie. To your family—I am so deeply sorry you have to carry a loss that never should have happened.

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Tonight at 8:00 PM Eastern (or shortly after), I’ll be going live one last time as Dad Talk Today.

Seven years ago, my family and I started a mission that grew into a community of nearly 1.5 million people. None of that would’ve happened without you.

As my family’s final thank-you, we’re giving away 100% FREE every remaining piece of official Dad Talk Today merchandise we have left. The shirts, the mugs… all of it.

I wish I could cover shipping too, but unfortunately I can’t. My plan is to make an arrangement with UPS so that once you choose your merchandise, you can arrange your own shipping directly with them. My wife or I will simply drop it off, and it’ll be on its way to you.

This is my final token of gratitude to the people who stood by us over the last seven years. If you were there from the beginning… if you shared our posts, encouraged us, helped us financially when times were tough, or simply brought positivity into this community… I noticed. I always paid attention.

Tonight I’ll explain how the giveaway will work, say a few final words, recognize some people who helped make this journey unforgettable, and officially close the Dad Talk Today chapter.

This chapter is ending, but my story isn’t.

I hope you’ll join me tonight.

🕗 LIVE at 8:00 PM Eastern (or shortly after).

From the bottom of my heart… thank you for giving my family the opportunity to serve this mission for seven incredible years. I’ll see you tonight. ❤️

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I wanted to share a few photos with you guys before tonight. The first photo is Brian just waking up from surgery. Don’t get it twisted—this was 100% Brian’s choice. Most people would’ve gone home, waited for the bandages to come off, and recovered. Not Brian. Bandages and all, he got on a plane almost immediately and flew from Detroit to Atlanta because nothing was going to stop him from meeting me and supporting Dad Talk Today as the very first guest on our television show. Most people don’t even know we landed two seasons on TV only two months after launching the podcast. The second photo is after the bandages came off, and the last few are from his most recent surgery, showing the incredible young man he’s become.

Tonight, Brian celebrates the final hours of his 23rd birthday by coming full circle with me as the final guest on Dad Talk Today. He doesn’t do interviews—this is something we wanted to do together because he was never just a guest or another story to me. He’s one of my closest friends, and that’s a friendship I’ll cherish for the rest of my life.

The idea to start Dad Talk Today was mine, and I had an important purpose behind it. But Brian gave that purpose a meaning I never could have imagined. Dad Talk Today didn’t just become a platform—it became the voice that helped save his life, and in return, he forever changed mine.

As Brian’s birthday comes to a close, so does Dad Talk Today. Together, we’re ending one chapter exactly where it all began. Join us live, wish Brian a happy 23rd birthday, and meet a true hero who has endured more than 250 surgeries but has never let adversity define him. ❤️

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I wanted to share a few photos with you guys before tonight. The first photo is Brian just waking up from surgery. Don’t get it twisted—this was 100% Brian’s choice. Most people would’ve gone home, waited for the bandages to come off, and recovered. Not Brian. Bandages and all, he got on a plane almost immediately and flew from Detroit to Atlanta because nothing was going to stop him from meeting me and supporting Dad Talk Today as the very first guest on our television show. Most people don’t even know we landed two seasons on TV only two months after launching the podcast. The second photo is after the bandages came off, and the last few are from his most recent surgery, showing the incredible young man he’s become.

Tonight, Brian celebrates the final hours of his 23rd birthday by coming full circle with me as the final guest on Dad Talk Today. He doesn’t do interviews—this is something we wanted to do together because he was never just a guest or another story to me. He’s one of my closest friends, and that’s a friendship I’ll cherish for the rest of my life.

The idea to start Dad Talk Today was mine, and I had an important purpose behind it. But Brian gave that purpose a meaning I never could have imagined. Dad Talk Today didn’t just become a platform—it became the voice that helped save his life, and in return, he forever changed mine.

As Brian’s birthday comes to a close, so does Dad Talk Today. Together, we’re ending one chapter exactly where it all began. Join us live, wish Brian a happy 23rd birthday, and meet a true hero who has endured more than 250 surgeries but has never let adversity define him. ❤️

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After 7 incredible years… tonight, we turn the page.

🕚 LIVE at 11:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 PM Central / 9:00 PM Mountain / 8:00 PM Pacific

Tonight will be the final episode of Dad Talk Today.

But this isn’t goodbye.

It’s the closing of one of the greatest chapters of my life… and the beginning of another.

Seven years ago, I was a single dad who had just found out he was losing his job. I had no idea what came next. All I had was an idea that wouldn’t leave my head.

Later that year, I married the woman who believed in that dream just as much as I did. Even though you never saw her on camera, she has been every bit as much a part of Dad Talk Today as I have. So has our family. This wasn’t just my sacrifice—it was ours.

Together, we built a community of more than one million people. We changed lives, made lifelong friendships, and created memories I’ll treasure forever.

Then Dad Talk Today became something I never intended it to be.

I was told that if I truly wanted to help fathers, I had to help change the laws, and that meant stepping into politics. It wasn’t what I wanted, but I believed it was the only way to make a difference. Somewhere along the way, I lost sight of the original dream.

Not long after, one of the fathers I’d interviewed was murdered while picking up his children at a custody exchange. His family asked me to tell the world what happened. Then more families came. Eventually, I became the place people turned when fathers were killed in family court conflicts.

Then the stories became even harder.

Little children…

And even babies.

I covered stories I never set out to cover because those families deserved a voice.

That’s when I lost something even worse.

I lost my mind.

For four years, I kept hoping the passion would return.

It never did.

Instead, I sacrificed time, memories, and moments with my wife and children while trying to carry a weight that was never meant for one person.

At the beginning of this year, I stopped trying to survive…

…and started rebuilding the man behind the microphone.

Today I’m healthier than I’ve ever been, I’ve found a renewed passion for creating, and after months of planning, I’m finally ready for what’s next.

Tonight, I’ll tell you the whole story.

We’ll honor John Mast.

We’ll complete the circle with Brian Adams on his birthday. He'll be joining me as it was his birthday wish, as well as my own that he is with me.

He was there in the beginning, tonight he will be with me at the end.

And we’ll close one chapter before opening another.

I still believe in Dad Talk Today.

I still believe fathers deserve a voice.

I just believe it’s time for someone else to carry that torch.

As for me…

I’m ready to create again.

I’m ready to laugh again.

I’m ready to live again.

Dad Talk Today is ending.

DTT is just beginning.

I’ll see you tonight. ❤️

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🚨 Breaking News: 🚨

My undefeated MMA career has officially come to an end. 😂

All weekend long people kept asking if I was a UFC fighter. I had to keep telling them, “Nope… just a guy who loves the sport.”

Well… this weekend I finally got my opportunity.

Unfortunately, my professional MMA career lasted about three seconds before The Predator handed me my first loss. 😂

Official record: 0-1.

Turns out UFC Hall of Famer Don Frye is exactly as tough as I always imagined.

Honestly, if you’re going to lose your first fight, there are a whole lot worse people to lose to.

I’ll be back after a little ice, ibuprofen… and maybe a better game plan. 💪🤣

📸 Huge thanks to Ken Rochon for capturing the exact moment I realized I may have chosen the wrong career. 😂

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Dan Severn, Don Frye, and Myself got to meet Kelsey Grammer this morning backstage before our presentation in Las Vegas at Caesar's Forum. Super nice guy, got the UFC legends and Frasier backstage, feels like my childhood all over again! 😂

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Enjoying a fun night out eating Japanese BBQ with my friends and legends, UFC Hall of Famers Dan Severn and Don Frye. Beginning of a great weekend!

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A 43-year-old sitting mayor was convicted of sex crimes involving a 16-year-old boy.

Think about that for a second.

Not a teacher.

Not a neighbor.

Not a stranger.

A sitting mayor.

Now here’s the question nobody wants to ask.

If this had been a 43-year-old male mayor and a 16-year-old girl, would we be having the same conversation?

Would the headlines be the same?

Would the public reaction be the same?

Would the sentence be viewed the same?

Would anyone be making jokes?

Because when cases like this involve a female offender, I often see people saying things they’d never say if the genders were reversed.

A child is a child.

And a position of power is a position of power.

I don’t care if the offender is a man or a woman.

The standard should be the same.

Every time.

What’s interesting is that the world loves to tell men what’s wrong with them.

We’re constantly told men don’t talk enough.

Men don’t open up enough.

Men don’t share their feelings enough.

Men need to be more vulnerable.

Then something like this happens.

And you look at the comments.

You see people laughing.

You see people making jokes.

You see people acting like a 16-year-old boy was somehow lucky.

Then we turn around and ask why so many boys grow up into men who never tell anyone what happened to them.

Why would they?

If a young man sees people treating a male victim like a punchline, what lesson is he supposed to learn from that?

That people care?

That he’ll be taken seriously?

Or that he’s better off keeping it to himself?

Maybe before we lecture men and boys about speaking up, we should make sure we’re willing to listen when they do.

Because equality doesn’t just apply when it’s convenient.

It applies when the conversation gets uncomfortable.

— Eric Carroll
Dad Talk Today

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🔥 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥

A little over a month ago, I was contacted by a convention in Las Vegas and specifically asked to bring Dad Talk Today as part of the media team.

It’s been a while. This will be my first convention appearance in over three years.

And if the boys are back in town, I’ve met a few friends along the way that I thought might like to join me this go around.

And now it’s official.

💥 DON “THE PREDATOR” FRYE
💥 DAN “THE BEAST” SEVERN

will be joining me Friday and Saturday at the Dad Talk Today booth.

Not just UFC Hall of Famers. Legends. Icons. Godfathers of the sport.

Before the bright lights, before the million-dollar contracts, and before the UFC became a worldwide phenomenon, men like Don Frye and Dan Severn were sacrificing their blood, sweat, tears, and pieces of their souls to build the sport from the ground up.

They didn’t inherit the UFC.

They built it.

And they paid for it with their bodies.

They didn’t witness UFC history.

They wrote it.

The ONLY place you’ll be able to meet Don Frye and Dan Severn during FreedomFest will be at the Dad Talk Today booth.

We’ll have autograph signings, meet-and-greets, photos, stories from the trenches, and on Saturday we’ll host a special panel discussing the beginnings of the UFC, the battles these men fought, and the incredible journey that helped shape the sport we know today. You’ll even get to see some incredibly rare championship belts from the earliest days of the UFC.

And with Conor McGregor expected to make his return that same weekend right down the road…

Who knows?

Maybe we’ll catch up with a few more friends while we’re in town. 🤷🏽‍♂️

The Predator.
The Beast.
Dad Talk Today.

FreedomFest 2026 • Caesars Palace • Las Vegas
July 8-11, 2026

This is going to be one hell of a weekend.

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