Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec

00:00:00.000 I talk to a lot of young people on campuses, at our events, on my radio show, podcast and

00:00:09.760 social media. Said differently, I visit college campuses so you don't have to.

00:00:18.480 We're talking to so many voters that know it is time for change. They know that something

00:00:24.000 is wrong. America's future is a series of choices. Our current state of slow motion national

00:00:33.880 decline is a choice. Today is our two-year-old's birthday. And I look at my daughter and that

00:00:44.120 is my why. For those that are parents, you know exactly what I mean.

00:00:47.640 There is no mountain that stands tall as your faithfulness.

00:00:57.520 There is no river that runs wide as your goodness.

00:01:03.400 Man, Charlie, I remember when we were starting these out and it was that like that.

00:01:22.800 You know, it was like this. It was like it was like your average three rows. It was like

00:01:26.420 your average political meeting where there was like 12 people in a room. And this is this

00:01:31.340 is awesome. This, in my personal opinion, was the most over the top Trump event that

00:01:40.600 I've ever covered. This is the number one boots on the ground operation in the country.

00:01:44.160 We're working directly in harmony with the Trump campaign. It's been vetted. It's been

00:01:47.380 cleared. It's been blessed, as you can see there. And we're going to try to win this thing.

00:01:50.320 No guarantees. It's what we do that matters.

00:01:52.480 Mr. President, I can tell you this room is 100 percent with you and we have your back.

00:01:56.500 God bless you. Thank you.

00:02:10.600 As you know, we are heading on campus here momentarily at the University of South Florida,

00:02:16.560 throwing it down with the students. It's going to be a lot of fun. We are excited to continue this

00:02:22.460 cultural movement that we have started at Turning Point USA. More high school chapters,

00:02:27.260 more college chapters. And disagreement is not just welcome. It is invited. We want to have

00:02:32.700 those tough conversations. That's what it's all about.

00:02:52.460 Because you're not supposed to be involved in this. You're supposed to just kind of be on the vote

00:03:02.440 for me every four years, give me more political power and stay out of my business. And what has

00:03:06.240 happened is we are seeing an explosion in citizen participation.

00:03:11.020 There is nothing else I'll ever need. All of my days, your mercy, follow me.

00:03:30.200 Oh, there is nothing else I'll ever need.

00:03:36.680 Knock on that extra door. Go that extra mile. Talk to that extra friend.

00:03:42.100 Because throughout voting month and culminating on the 5th of November,

00:03:46.700 I believe it will go down as a day that people remember,

00:03:50.720 as a day that is written about in history books, as the final battle from the golden escalator on down,

00:03:57.600 from defeating Hillary Clinton, from the nonsense of 2020,

00:04:00.880 from Butler, Pennsylvania, November 5th, it all culminates,

00:04:05.000 where we restore the promise that the founders gave us. And they said,

00:04:09.140 hey, if the people want it, the people get it. And we, the people, take back America.

00:04:14.760 God bless Arizona. And thank you so much.

00:04:17.020 Every day, the American people demand certain accomplishments and victories.

00:04:32.520 Disagreement is what keeps a movement alive, keeps a movement fun. Here in this country,

00:04:37.660 we are a country of flourishing. We're a country of risk-taking. We're a country of building.

00:04:43.140 We will achieve American greatness. And we are just getting started.

00:05:13.140 You are a country of str prints. We are a country of land and vacancies.

00:05:16.760 And we are a country of man.

00:05:19.100 We are a country of查 and harcognize,

00:05:20.580 that we are in the country ofchildren ofríavia five Pakis,

00:05:22.440 which I do wish.

00:05:24.500 I have a country of conservative Minnie to thank you.

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00:05:33.940 I have written the ABC politicians to recognize and wanna see you as an artist.

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00:05:39.440 And there in the whole odd eyelashes,

00:05:40.080 and we are a country of becoming Venturainky International,

00:05:41.940 Thank you.

00:06:11.940 Thank you.

00:06:41.940 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:06:44.320 This is Andrew Colvett, fiddling in for the one and only Charlie Kirk.

00:06:52.000 Nobody can.

00:06:53.000 And we wanted so badly to do this show for all of you today.

00:07:02.400 And I wanted the friends of this show and of Charlie that knew him best, the thought crime crew, to be here in the studio.

00:07:13.520 To commemorate our friend, our dear brother, the sacred and solemn moment, this occasion none of us ever dreamed we would have to do.

00:07:26.200 And here we are because Charlie would want us to be here.

00:07:31.700 He would be upset if we weren't here.

00:07:33.740 And we, of course, have left his chair open and empty because nobody will ever fill it.

00:07:43.540 Nobody could ever hope to.

00:07:44.600 But by all of us together, we want to honor him and we want to be more like him and we want to be inspired by him.

00:07:55.600 And we want you in the audience to know him like we knew him and to be up close and personal to the front row seat to history, to a legend, to an American icon that we got every single day.

00:08:09.400 And I don't know why we were so fortunate and blessed to be those people, those few that got to see it so up close.

00:08:18.680 He touched millions.

00:08:20.380 He personally knew tens of thousands.

00:08:23.100 And somehow we were the blessed ones that got to be close to him.

00:08:26.540 And in the chats, we got yelled at by him.

00:08:29.860 We got pushed to more and to be better because of Charlie and by Charlie.

00:08:34.100 And so we have, to my right, Jack Posobiec, Blake Neff, and Tyler Boyer, and myself, Andrew Colvitt, the executive producer of the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:08:49.080 And we are so honored to share what we know about Charlie and to do it on a day where the authorities tell us that his killer has been brought into custody.

00:09:00.660 And I want to say personally thank you to Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, Governor Cox.

00:09:09.700 You told us you would not stop until you got him.

00:09:12.620 And I admit that my faith wavered at times as the hour stretched on.

00:09:18.020 But you appeared to have the suspect in custody and we're grateful that you have not slept, you did not rest, just like you promised.

00:09:26.520 And you are men of your word and we are grateful to you.

00:09:30.660 And so with that, I just want to, again, welcome my friends.

00:09:37.080 And, Jack, I'm going to start with you.

00:09:41.580 Tell us what's on your heart right now, brother.

00:09:44.280 Well, you know, it's like, I know the seat looks empty, but it's not.

00:09:52.220 The seat isn't empty at all.

00:09:56.920 Because in a way, Charlie is the only thing we're all thinking about right now.

00:10:00.800 We can't think of anything else, really.

00:10:02.320 We can't think straight.

00:10:04.080 And we can read and we can talk.

00:10:07.020 But at the end of the day, all we're thinking about is Charlie.

00:10:09.980 And we know that Charlie is looking down on us.

00:10:14.180 And I know that when we all gather here, it's like he's here.

00:10:19.600 And that's why no one wants to sit there, because he is there.

00:10:25.040 We are saying thank you is just there.

00:10:26.640 And the only thing that I guess I would add is, you know, we're hearing these reports that family members of the suspect were involved,

00:10:36.180 particularly the father, in bringing him to the police, bringing him to the authorities.

00:10:42.420 And if that's true, I'd just like to extend a sincere thank you and gratitude to something like that.

00:10:51.840 As a father, I can't even imagine.

00:10:56.540 I just can't even imagine what that must be like.

00:11:00.400 But to have done that is is just shows the ultimate goodness and the ultimate righteousness that still does exist in this country.

00:11:13.980 And the fact that people are willing to step up and do the right thing, even in impossible odds.

00:11:22.020 And that's the Charlie Kirk spirit.

00:11:24.500 That's always been the Charlie Kirk spirit is to stare down impossible odds.

00:11:30.400 And say, I'm going to do it anyway.

00:11:32.920 When everybody told him he couldn't.

00:11:35.500 And that's that's the Charlie Kirk I know that when you told him he couldn't do it, he'd say, figure it out.

00:11:41.880 Tyler, I'm sure he told you that more times than you can count.

00:11:47.340 I.

00:11:49.100 I've just it's been really hard.

00:11:50.940 I mean, we've we've been able to lean on each other, I think, talking a lot to one another about the memories.

00:11:56.840 And that's probably I think the most the most important thing that we can do today is share those memories.

00:12:07.420 I've been telling everybody that's reached out on our staff.

00:12:09.940 I mean, we've we've hired thousands of people in Turning Point and it hasn't been easy.

00:12:17.320 That's been part of the battle on Charlie.

00:12:20.100 It's like, I'm going to miss those.

00:12:22.100 Right, Tyler, you know, conversations are sitting around because it's you don't really know the battles unless you've been in them.

00:12:33.740 But there's so many people that have looked at Charlie along the way as as a mentor and I all have different emotions and they have different stories.

00:12:45.580 And I've told people, write them down.

00:12:47.600 Every single person that's reached out to me, I'm so sorry, Tyler.

00:12:51.200 I'm like, please just write down your memories that you had, because some of these stories are so unbelievably funny.

00:12:58.700 They're so unbelievable in general, because God's hand has been such a big part of Charlie's story legacy.

00:13:12.100 I'm so sorry.

00:13:13.340 No, it's it's we're all right there.

00:13:16.360 We're all right there.

00:13:17.520 And for those of us that have been close, like we've talked about, we've seen heaven's hand as part of that.

00:13:27.460 And that has to be that has to be accentuated because that's what Charlie wanted.

00:13:31.900 We talked about that all the time with people invested in Turning Point, all the major stakeholders that, you know, a lot of people look at this as political, political dynamo.

00:13:43.960 Uh, the dynamics of all of that.

00:13:46.680 But all of this has been, uh, you know, even through this tragic, this tragic week, um, I believe that, uh, that God has been with Charlie from day one and, and will continue to be.

00:14:02.100 All right, Blake, I want to, you're, you're next buddy.

00:14:05.160 So get ready, but, um, I want to just comment on what you're saying, because one of the last, uh, trips that I took with Charlie was a couple of weeks ago and we were flying all over the country, spent hours on the plane.

00:14:18.140 And, um, I said to him, isn't it crazy?

00:14:23.300 Like, you know, we were talking about South Park and we were talking about just everything.

00:14:28.680 Like, we just kind of had a moment and he's just like, yeah, it's all God.

00:14:33.220 Just, he just instantly goes, yeah, it's all God.

00:14:35.620 It's all God.

00:14:36.580 And as I was driving to the office of the studio this morning, I thought to myself, it was always God.

00:14:44.000 And God has not pulled his hand away from Charlie Kirk.

00:14:47.540 It did not pull his hand away from Turning Point.

00:14:49.780 He did not pull his hand away from the country.

00:14:51.560 It was always God that got us here.

00:14:54.180 There were so many times, and I want the audience to know this, there were so many times where we felt like our backs were so against the wall that we were not going to get through whatever it was.

00:15:05.900 That, you know, this thing happened or, you know, this, it was just so many things.

00:15:12.040 It's impossible right now.

00:15:13.300 Now's the time to get into the details.

00:15:14.900 There was just so many things.

00:15:15.820 And Charlie and I would feel the weight of the world when we talked to each other.

00:15:19.460 And I know you felt it.

00:15:20.500 I know you felt it.

00:15:21.340 I know you felt it.

00:15:22.460 And then we got through it, and it was God.

00:15:24.740 And somehow we came out stronger and better.

00:15:28.540 And Charlie had more influence, and our reach, and our staff, and everything just kept growing time and time again.

00:15:36.480 And he knew that it was all God's hand.

00:15:40.340 He knew it was all the blessing of God on him and on this organization and on the show.

00:15:45.540 So yesterday I said, I said, Charlie's on assignment from God.

00:15:50.020 And he always has been.

00:15:51.560 Every time you filled in for Charlie, you said, well, Charlie's on assignment.

00:15:55.560 So now he's on assignment from God.

00:15:57.100 He's on.

00:15:57.780 And he always was.

00:15:58.460 So we are live on national radio right now.

00:16:02.120 And so we have to take a quick radio break.

00:16:05.060 For the stream, we're going to keep going.

00:16:08.180 And Real America's Voice, we're going to keep going.

00:16:10.880 So don't go anywhere.

00:16:13.300 We'll be right back.

00:16:14.040 All right, Blake, it is your turn.

00:16:31.340 And I want everybody to know that probably nobody traveled with Charlie more than Blake in the last, I'd say, 18 months.

00:16:42.680 Except maybe Mikey.

00:16:44.600 Mikey, for sure.

00:16:45.820 Mikey.

00:16:46.200 But you traveled to London with him.

00:16:48.380 You went to Korea with him.

00:16:50.460 Blake, the floor is yours.

00:16:52.580 Thanks.

00:16:53.340 I feel unworthy to be here.

00:16:58.200 You guys all knew him a lot longer than I did.

00:17:01.620 Compared to a lot of people here, Charlie entered my life pretty recently.

00:17:06.420 I remember you called me out of the blue almost exactly three years ago, first week of October, 22.

00:17:15.000 And I don't want to get into the details of it, but I can say Charlie had a drastic impact on my life.

00:17:22.800 He basically gave me my life back and I don't know how to express how grateful I am for that and how just over the past three years, how much I came to admire him.

00:17:41.780 Not just for how talented of a person he was, but how good of a person he was.

00:17:50.580 And how everything he fought for was because he believed it would be good for the country and good for every single person in it.

00:18:00.920 And I'll always think one of the, you know, the final things I was doing with him, I mentioned with you, Jack, yesterday, the last speech he gave was in Japan to an audience.

00:18:16.200 Buddhists.

00:18:16.840 No Buddhists, Shinto, no Christians in it, maybe a handful, but not many.

00:18:21.940 And, you know, it was about immigration.

00:18:23.640 It was about other stuff, but he wanted to include I should witness to the faith, you know, regardless of where we're going.

00:18:30.920 And we talked about how he could do that.

00:18:32.300 And we put it into the speech five minutes before he went up there and he did it.

00:18:37.280 And because it was that important to him that he do that.

00:18:41.020 It wasn't about just, you know, he wasn't catering to any audience.

00:18:45.000 This is a speech almost nobody in the U.S. would ever see or watch.

00:18:48.620 And most of the audience in Japan might not even get it, but he wanted to do it because it was important to him.

00:18:54.780 And.

00:18:57.460 We're going to get that just a minute before that footage when it happened.

00:19:00.920 And, you know, he was witnessing to the gospel there at the college.

00:19:07.380 And.

00:19:09.600 Blake, I'm.

00:19:11.220 It makes me.

00:19:13.320 It gives me some solace and some comfort to know that you were there with him on campus that day.

00:19:17.680 And I was just grateful to be able to call you.

00:19:25.020 And know that that I at least had somebody that was there and that loved him and that was close and I could call you.

00:19:31.500 And.

00:19:31.720 I'm just glad you were there and it's it's not it's not good.

00:19:39.600 It's not fair to you that you had to be there, but I'm glad that I'm glad that you were and you and I and Charlie were texting literally moments before he went out to the crowd.

00:19:51.720 And we were talking about arguments and finer points that he could make and he going over, you know, this kind of question.

00:20:01.140 You know, we should do what it was about.

00:20:02.920 He was.

00:20:03.620 What are the good arguments in favor of of marriage?

00:20:06.880 Marriage.

00:20:07.320 Monogamy.

00:20:08.060 The Christian version of marriage.

00:20:09.440 Yes.

00:20:09.660 And it was, you know, that gets back to, you know, one of the other core things, how much she how much she loved Erica, how much she loved their children, how much and how and how much he cared for them and how it really demonstrates the power of that, you know, familial love, because we all talked about how they made him better, too.

00:20:31.060 And is that the truth?

00:20:32.780 You see, you see Charlie like pre Erica and then Charlie post Erica and it's and it's it's still Charlie, but it's like more better and better clothes.

00:20:45.380 They actually fit.

00:20:46.400 We were just talking about this yesterday.

00:20:48.620 I and he's a father and I know it was like night and day difference.

00:20:53.720 So we used to like I used to be worried about Charlie.

00:20:57.160 Erica is legitimately the real.

00:20:59.100 I don't just mean the fashion.

00:21:00.320 I don't just mean the fashion.

00:21:01.500 We were talking about Charlie talking about that.

00:21:04.920 It's it's the visible Charlie's birthday is in about a month.

00:21:08.820 And and we used to I used to buy him clothes on his birthday as an excuse to buy him like sneakers because he wouldn't wear sneakers.

00:21:17.000 He would only wear dress shoes.

00:21:18.340 That's right.

00:21:18.900 And then Erica came and then he worked.

00:21:20.400 I was like so relieved because he would wear clothes that like he'd look better than anyone like a normal person.

00:21:27.060 No, he looked better than everybody because Erica is incredibly stylish and great.

00:21:30.960 And it was just like he went from like the Stone Age to like he now had this incredibly well manicured dress.

00:21:38.280 Let me let me let's I love this this vein.

00:21:41.880 We want to tell you about Erica.

00:21:42.840 We're going to welcome back national radio.

00:21:44.540 So we'll be right back.

00:21:45.660 Don't go anywhere.

00:21:46.300 Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show.

00:22:01.180 This is Andrew Colvett executive producer of this fine show as Charlie Kirk has gone on assignment with God and we his friends are here remembering him.

00:22:15.780 And we we were just talking about Erica Kirk and the before and after Erica Kirk story is a really amazing story.

00:22:28.660 And I did I was trying to make a no, you know, emotional, spiritual, you know, I've been basically crying for two and a half days.

00:22:38.180 And I was just I remember remembering Charlie being when I first met him.

00:22:46.300 It was like everything was baggy and the suits didn't fit and like the collars were always like out like this.

00:22:54.780 Because they're playing those those videos now.

00:22:57.660 Yes.

00:22:58.000 When he's younger.

00:22:58.820 And I was showing I was showing Andrew an image.

00:23:02.400 It was so funny because studio, can we get like an OG CK shot with it?

00:23:08.120 I'll send one.

00:23:09.440 That's like a perfect one.

00:23:10.780 That's but he was you need a before and after a shot.

00:23:14.060 It was like a very baggy suit.

00:23:17.760 And it just but you know what?

00:23:19.740 This is this is kind of very this isn't with a suit, but this was like, no, no, no.

00:23:23.740 I got it.

00:23:24.140 I've got it.

00:23:24.660 I've got a perfect one.

00:23:25.440 But anyways, the point is, is like, but his his spirit shined through so brightly.

00:23:30.200 It didn't.

00:23:30.620 It didn't matter.

00:23:31.260 No, like, of course, that's what it's like.

00:23:33.160 I remember being in some of these meetings.

00:23:34.760 I was like, oh, my gosh, like because he would carry around the backpack.

00:23:37.160 He had the big black backpack that is his his initials on it.

00:23:40.880 He had that forever and he had forever one one pair of shoes, dress shoes that he wore.

00:23:45.660 And then these big didn't matter.

00:23:47.800 Like none of that mattered.

00:23:48.900 Every single person that talked to him, every one of these big time donors early on, like big time.

00:23:55.820 I mean, they had he would just just be able to break through to every single one of those people.

00:24:00.240 And it was always special.

00:24:02.500 It was it was his unique voice.

00:24:04.700 And this is why Charlie would go viral on campus.

00:24:08.960 He would never pull any punches.

00:24:11.640 The guy would say he would say the truth with 100 percent fidelity.

00:24:18.440 Do you know what I mean?

00:24:19.140 It was like men and women like, you know, are different.

00:24:23.140 You know, two two sexes.

00:24:24.740 Like, you know, there's no there's no equivocation.

00:24:27.280 No, there was no like, well, some people feel this.

00:24:29.840 No, it was like, you know, it's wrong when people steal.

00:24:32.980 Does it make it OK that they were poor?

00:24:34.500 No, it's wrong.

00:24:35.400 Right.

00:24:35.740 You know, and it was just he had this moral clarity that he was just blessed by God with and he would not cut any corners with it.

00:24:44.080 And and so, yeah, it didn't matter the suit he was wearing.

00:24:47.640 It didn't matter his fashion, although I will tell you.

00:24:50.300 But Erica.

00:24:50.860 Erica looks much better.

00:24:52.520 And I will also tell you that his friends, Don Jr., Gentry Beach, you know, they gave him like a gift card at one point, a $10,000 credit at the Trump tailor in New York City, in Manhattan to get him some proper suits.

00:25:07.920 It was it was like one of these things that Charlie, if you're going to be around, you're going to hang around with us, Charlie.

00:25:12.540 We need you to, you know, we're going to look a little bit more put together.

00:25:15.580 We're going to take care of that a little bit.

00:25:17.100 Yeah, it was I mean, it was a.

00:25:20.260 Oh, my gosh, Tyler, get this.

00:25:21.880 Get this up.

00:25:22.980 You have to share.

00:25:23.960 This is the pre pre Erica.

00:25:25.300 And then Erica came in and then immediately.

00:25:30.540 I love it.

00:25:31.420 I mean, no, immediately better.

00:25:33.860 I mean, I'm not even kidding.

00:25:35.200 Sorry, Charlie, we got to the real miracle is that Erica went for it.

00:25:38.920 You know what I mean?

00:25:39.440 She's seen the, you know, the baggy shirt.

00:25:41.380 I mean, she knew he knew.

00:25:43.080 No, but that's that's that's female.

00:25:44.820 Right.

00:25:45.040 That's the female.

00:25:46.500 Tanya was the same with me.

00:25:47.500 It's the female.

00:25:48.580 I see.

00:25:49.960 I see the thing and I want to nurture it.

00:25:52.280 I want to grow it.

00:25:53.400 Michelangelo could see a block of marble and he would chisel away.

00:25:56.120 He would just bring the David out.

00:25:57.220 He's like, David's already in there.

00:25:58.620 I just have to reveal it.

00:25:59.860 I want to say it's typically not a good idea to say.

00:26:02.660 Yeah, I think I could change this man or something for the women watching.

00:26:07.820 But you can polish.

00:26:08.680 They're not.

00:26:08.980 Yeah.

00:26:09.180 They're not changing deeper.

00:26:10.700 No, not the deeper.

00:26:12.280 And you could never change Charlie's spirit.

00:26:14.560 Right.

00:26:14.880 But exactly.

00:26:15.760 But but what she what she did, I think, if anything, just in terms of this is make it

00:26:22.800 so that the external match the internal.

00:26:24.720 Yeah, sure.

00:26:26.840 And I will say as well, though, that Charlie's faith became so much stronger as soon as Erica

00:26:32.140 came around and he started vocalizing it more.

00:26:36.060 And for those of you in the audience that don't know Erica Kirk, the woman is a lioness.

00:26:42.300 She is fierce.

00:26:43.600 She is strong.

00:26:45.140 She's obviously like distraught and hurting as we all are.

00:26:50.160 But she is fierce and she is strong.

00:26:54.680 And I want you to know that about her, that I have seen her up close.

00:27:00.160 Tyler, you've been there as well with us.

00:27:02.000 And she is so strong.

00:27:06.500 And Charlie wanted to marry her because of how strong she was.

00:27:10.540 And ultimately, he knew that she could she could do this life that he was leading.

00:27:18.680 And Charlie was already leading a crazy life when they met and when they fell in love and

00:27:23.480 when they got married.

00:27:24.160 And he he knew that she had the strength.

00:27:27.980 In her core.

00:27:29.060 And she was also she is also such an incredible woman of faith.

00:27:33.800 He knew that she could do this.

00:27:36.260 And he was 100 percent right about Erica Kirk.

00:27:39.400 She is truly something amazing.

00:27:42.000 And we all love her dearly.

00:27:44.160 Radio, we'll be right back.

00:27:45.460 Tyler, why don't you tell the story of how you inadvertently connected Charlie with his wife?

00:28:03.200 So it's it's this is the miracle of the entire thing, which is incredible.

00:28:08.760 And I don't think we can talk about it enough.

00:28:10.680 It's Trump, it's Erica, it's Arizona, it's turning point.

00:28:16.800 It's you couldn't script this any better.

00:28:20.000 Can I let me let me just set two points.

00:28:22.700 I told you a little bit of it.

00:28:24.180 Tyler, I think you've told this story a few times on the show.

00:28:27.120 So let's like big, big, big, big picture context here.

00:28:30.560 Tyler pulled off the first Trump rally, the very first one in Arizona.

00:28:34.760 And there's a lot of crazy details that go into it.

00:28:37.160 But the first one, Tyler gets the credit.

00:28:40.020 But the most important part of that, truly in the background, is that Erica Kirk is at that rally.

00:28:45.660 And we don't focus on it.

00:28:46.700 We've talked about the rally and all that with Trump being reelected.

00:28:49.000 She's in the background of the main shot.

00:28:51.340 So right behind Trump, people don't know this.

00:28:53.100 We can put it up.

00:28:54.740 There is right behind Trump on stage, first Trump rally ever.

00:28:58.620 And again, they were expecting this to be a hundred person rally.

00:29:00.940 They were like wanting to give like refreshments.

00:29:03.880 You didn't even call it a rally, right?

00:29:05.700 Well, so the original was supposed to be...

00:29:07.160 Corey Lewandowski was like, can you get a hundred people in a room?

00:29:09.940 We'll provide refreshments.

00:29:11.120 We'll give you money, whatever.

00:29:12.540 And I'm like, no, no, no, we don't need any of that.

00:29:14.540 We can get lots of people there.

00:29:16.360 And we started doing this and it starts to go bonkers, right?

00:29:19.280 Because I'll give credit to Jake Hoffman, who is the president of the Freedom Caucus here.

00:29:24.960 He's a state senator.

00:29:26.180 He was my unpaid comms director, who was actually the guy that helped start Charlie's Instagram with me

00:29:31.760 and start all the turning point, like all the turning point assets that we have on social media now, by the way, too.

00:29:38.080 But we started just going bonkers with all the media.

00:29:41.140 And so then I started fielding calls from everywhere.

00:29:44.020 It was crazy everywhere.

00:29:46.120 And one of the calls I got was from Erica.

00:29:48.540 She's like, hey, I was Miss Arizona.

00:29:51.260 I love Donald Trump.

00:29:54.140 Can I be involved?

00:29:55.220 I'm like, absolutely.

00:29:56.160 So I met her and I was like, we've got to put her behind the presence.

00:30:00.520 So I had my family behind the presence.

00:30:01.820 My grandpa, who just passed away just a few months ago, who loved Charlie, loved the show, everything, listen daily.

00:30:08.380 It was my grandpa, my dad-in-law, Lauren, my wife, and Erica is up there.

00:30:14.500 So Erica, after we got to find the picture after this, I'll pull it up.

00:30:18.600 After this rally, I meet with Erica and I'm like, there's a way that we can.

00:30:23.800 And she's faith-based.

00:30:25.720 So this is the funniest part.

00:30:27.100 She's faith-based.

00:30:28.460 She's so centered on Christ.

00:30:31.100 We've got to lean in and involve her here with, because we were starting the initial talks about Turning Point Faith or TPSA Faith.

00:30:40.420 And I was trying to recruit her hard to come work for us.

00:30:44.580 And so through all that, I had introduced her to Charlie.

00:30:48.180 I was like, I think she could be great.

00:30:49.640 She could be wonderful.

00:30:50.660 And Charlie was immediately in love.

00:30:54.040 Absolutely in love.

00:30:54.740 And I was like, Charlie, going back, and that's where it's like the tee up with the clothes, everything else.

00:30:59.740 I was like, Charlie, I don't know.

00:31:01.440 So he was trying to impress her a little more.

00:31:04.180 Well, this has been Sarazota.

00:31:05.360 So I was nervous.

00:31:06.340 I'm like, I don't know if we, we don't want to scare her away, right?

00:31:09.580 Like, we don't want to work for us.

00:31:11.520 You know?

00:31:11.980 But like, that's great.

00:31:12.960 Let's just feel out.

00:31:13.920 And so Charlie did the right thing.

00:31:15.260 He did everything perfectly, as Charlie always does.

00:31:18.800 Did everything perfectly.

00:31:20.320 I dropped him off.

00:31:22.120 I dropped him off.

00:31:23.520 He was at the office here, which he was rarely at the office because he was always on the plane.

00:31:27.460 And he had set up a date to go meet her at the gym.

00:31:30.960 Because she was, it's a fancier, nicer gym that's in the North Valley.

00:31:35.840 And I dropped him, I took him over and I dropped him off there.

00:31:39.280 And I was, it was the whole car ride over there was pep talk.

00:31:42.180 So, all right, this is what you got to do.

00:31:43.720 This is what, this is what you got to say.

00:31:45.580 Hey, if she says this, don't do that.

00:31:47.760 And he's like, well, what do I do?

00:31:49.320 Because Charlie had had a number of dates, but not that many people.

00:31:53.800 He's busy.

00:31:54.300 He's a busy guy.

00:31:55.000 He just didn't.

00:31:55.580 Yeah.

00:31:55.700 And so, uh, he, it went immaculately.

00:32:00.020 And after that, they'd met again in New York where she was living at the time.

00:32:04.380 And he had made a special trip just to go there.

00:32:07.200 Yeah.

00:32:07.400 He made an excuse.

00:32:08.280 This is what Charlie would do.

00:32:09.360 He would, he would, he would go somewhere and he would make an excuse that was like a

00:32:12.680 formal reason to be there.

00:32:14.040 But it was always kind of like a, an ulterior motive where, you know.

00:32:17.780 But it was, I, I'll never, I, and this, these are the memories I'm, I'm putting out a tweet

00:32:22.140 right now that's saying, just write down these memories because I, until this now, I just

00:32:26.060 forgot about that was like driving him over in, in my car, just having that conversation,

00:32:31.380 which was just like, and again, Andrew, I know you've had many of these, all of us have

00:32:35.480 had many of these conversations one-on-one with Charlie of just like the pep talks.

00:32:38.940 Cause you know, even though Charlie was such a, a line of, of a man, it takes a village,

00:32:45.580 I think of, of like having those conversations with one another.

00:32:49.360 It takes a family.

00:32:49.860 It takes a family.

00:32:51.120 Yeah.

00:32:51.340 But he, he would position people in places to be able to speak to him and give him like

00:32:56.940 that, like before he took the stage, like, okay, okay, okay, okay.

00:32:59.620 You know, but he would always, it's like, he would always just want that even though you

00:33:04.900 knew that he didn't need it.

00:33:06.200 And he, right now, but the other thing is he, you'd think you had a really good idea and

00:33:09.760 you're like, Hey, and I give it to him and be like, okay, okay.

00:33:12.040 And then he would always take, chew the meat and spit out the bones.

00:33:14.960 He would, he was always so good at filtering out your, your bad ideas without like making

00:33:19.140 you feel terrible.

00:33:20.140 Uh, we got to, uh, um, uh, welcome back radio.

00:33:25.260 So, uh, well, all right.

00:33:31.840 Welcome back to our national radio audience at the Charlie Kirk show.

00:33:35.220 We are remembering the one and only Charlie Kirk.

00:33:38.480 Um, and, uh, it's his friends that are doing it.

00:33:42.140 Um, I'm joined by Jack Posobiec, Blake Neff, another producer on the show.

00:33:47.160 Um, and, uh, Tyler Boyer, the COO of turning point action who helped Charlie, uh, meet his

00:33:54.960 lovely bride.

00:33:55.720 And that's what we're currently talking about.

00:33:57.320 Well, and that's like, to that point, Erica became that person.

00:34:00.960 Like you were saying, right.

00:34:02.360 Erica became the person that would, uh, you know, and it was a two way road.

00:34:06.840 You know, you'd have to filter out some of Charlie's bad ideas too, at times.

00:34:10.700 And Erica is, you know, has become the best at that.

00:34:15.960 She is the, uh, the go-to.

00:34:18.480 And I know that, um, that was the most valuable thing, but to put a pin in it, that, that weird

00:34:24.900 situation though, which was that moment where I was sitting there with Charlie and the Trump

00:34:30.960 rally culminated and Erica was there and then became his wife, like the entire thing is

00:34:36.140 like, again, you talk about God things, clearly God has his hand, had his hand, um, and watching

00:34:42.960 over Charlie constantly.

00:34:44.960 Well, this is the Charlie Kirk show.

00:34:48.520 And I want, we, we, we played, sorry, we played a, a, um, an opening, uh, but the radio

00:34:55.520 didn't get to hear that.

00:34:57.320 Um, and we put together a Charlie Kirk, uh, which number is it, Blake?

00:35:02.040 Do you have it?

00:35:02.740 We put together a, um, just a montage of some great Charlie Kirk moments.

00:35:09.900 Um, and I think it is 443 is the number.

00:35:13.320 Um, we put together a montage, uh, for the audience of Charlie and his own words.

00:35:18.140 And he loved this show, um, so much.

00:35:21.840 He loved this show.

00:35:23.260 So, and, um, he, I remember one time when I, I talked to him and I, I said, who, who's

00:35:30.240 your greatest hero?

00:35:30.900 And, and this space, you know, obviously Donald Trump's the president and, you know, that was

00:35:35.960 the obvious answer, but like no Trump, you know, like who's, and he said Rush Limbaugh.

00:35:39.920 Yeah.

00:35:40.680 And, um, Charlie got to know Rush personally.

00:35:44.640 Um, I think we had basically the last big event that, uh, that Rush did was introducing the

00:35:50.620 president.

00:35:51.160 Yeah.

00:35:51.400 The last two.

00:35:52.080 So, so he never made public appearances.

00:35:54.760 Yeah.

00:35:55.020 Um, and he's a very private person.

00:35:56.580 He came to, uh, our event at Mar-a-Lago.

00:35:59.140 So we were one of the first groups to do anything with fundraisers, things like that at Mar-a-Lago.

00:36:05.280 People don't, people don't know that we actually did it very small, but Rush had such a personal

00:36:10.380 connection, uh, with Charlie.

00:36:12.300 And this was kind of early too, before Charlie was kind of a known quantity everywhere.

00:36:16.060 Uh, really leaned in and showed up.

00:36:19.800 Yeah.

00:36:20.280 And, uh, Charlie actually went to Rush's house, picked him up in the car and drove him, drove

00:36:26.600 him there.

00:36:26.900 And we had, yeah, we, we gave him.

00:36:28.160 He lived right up the street.

00:36:29.760 Yeah.

00:36:29.880 And West Palm Beach, or he lived in Palm Beach.

00:36:32.100 Um, so he, yeah, but Rush was his hero and he, he listened to Rush.

00:36:37.620 Uh, Rush was so influential in just the way Charlie thought about politics.

00:36:42.360 And, and if you want to know why Charlie never lost the grassroots, he was always so into

00:36:47.840 the grassroots because you emailed him.

00:36:49.580 It's because he looked at all your emails.

00:36:51.660 He looked at all the comments.

00:36:52.900 He, he, he could do 48 things.

00:36:55.300 It seemed like at once the, the, the, the most amazing multitasker I've ever seen when

00:37:01.700 I would be here and we'd be on the show during breaks, even I'm going to say it, even sometimes

00:37:09.540 when interviewing people, he'd be looking at the camera and yet somehow also on his computer,

00:37:15.880 switching between tabs, texting, emailing, reading faster than you could even like grasp

00:37:23.300 what was going on emails.

00:37:24.660 He would share like in the middle of a show segment, like right after you came out or even

00:37:29.120 like in between someone else giving an answer, like, Oh Jack, you got to check out this email.

00:37:33.540 This email I got from, look at this.

00:37:35.540 And you're like reading the last three things that he sent you.

00:37:37.920 No, he's always two steps ahead and his speed was, I have no idea how he did it.

00:37:42.820 And he's, and these are, and what's crazy too, is you could see, it would be like, Oh,

00:37:47.120 Hey, I got something from the speaker of the house.

00:37:49.340 Oh, here's the president's son.

00:37:51.200 And then like, here's a guy I met walking his dog and he needs a ballot.

00:37:56.220 Tyler, make sure this guy gets a ballot, you know, like, like it didn't make any difference

00:38:00.860 to him who he was talking to, but he never lost sight of the grassroots.

00:38:04.180 And one of the, one of the guiding lights for that, and we set up freedom at charliekirk.com

00:38:08.880 and please send your tributes to Charlie, your thoughts, your prayers, anything that's

00:38:13.400 on your mind, uh, to freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:38:16.180 And I will do my best to read them.

00:38:18.240 And Blake, you're going to help read them and Jack and Tyler.

00:38:21.460 And we want to see what you have to say to Charlie.

00:38:24.080 That's freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:38:25.540 Um, and Rush always had his email dialogue with his listeners and Charlie took note of

00:38:32.140 that and that it kept him close to the people because this world can get very insulating

00:38:37.620 and it's, and Charlie never let that happen.

00:38:40.380 That's why he went to college campuses because he learned and he knew, and he, he saw what

00:38:45.000 kids were really thinking.

00:38:46.380 He always made such a point to stay so close to the public, even though he was so stratospherically

00:38:52.560 like famous and we couldn't take him anywhere.

00:38:54.780 And it was really at that point of, of, of stardom and fame that we couldn't take Charlie

00:39:00.000 anywhere, but it all started with the love of the spoken word and what Rush Limbaugh told

00:39:04.660 him.

00:39:04.820 And he would take lunch breaks from school just to listen to Rush Limbaugh.

00:39:08.200 And so to have this show and to be behind the microphone, um, was one of the greatest honors

00:39:14.460 of his life.

00:39:15.420 And he did not take it for granted.

00:39:17.380 He loved it.

00:39:18.380 And he saw it as a way to pipe the, the vanguard of the current thinking on the current debates

00:39:26.400 into the zeitgeist and to keep the base steady and keep the coalition together.

00:39:30.540 So without further ado, I want to play, uh, the show tribute that our team put together.

00:39:35.440 I haven't seen it yet, so I can't wait to watch it.

00:39:37.540 This is four 43.

00:39:39.600 I want to thank my great friend, Charlie Kirk.

00:39:43.740 He's done something that is just incredible for somebody really of his age.

00:39:49.500 You need tremendous talent to do what he's done.

00:39:52.740 Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:39:57.400 And I want to thank you really, Charlie.

00:39:59.100 Incredible job.

00:39:59.900 I have the greatest job in the world.

00:40:16.280 I couldn't be happier every day.

00:40:18.160 I feel as if what I'm saying, what I'm doing is making a difference, giving people meaning.

00:40:22.840 Charlie, you should have emotion.

00:40:24.900 This is a moment.

00:40:25.760 You totally reformed the GOP and look what you guys have done.

00:40:30.080 I hear some words here from you, Charlie.

00:40:32.140 You put all this together, my man.

00:40:33.620 Let's hear it.

00:40:34.280 I am just humbled by God.

00:40:35.680 God's grace.

00:40:37.240 It's all God.

00:40:39.240 It's all God.

00:40:40.480 God alone.

00:40:42.220 Done.

00:40:43.880 It's beginning.

00:40:45.680 We did not earn this.

00:40:46.800 This, this is, this is God's mercy on our country.

00:40:49.540 Yes.

00:40:49.940 You're on, you're on the Lord's side.

00:40:52.240 Last week, we welcomed our beautiful daughter into the world.

00:40:56.720 Most important thing that one can do except giving your life to Jesus Christ as your Lord

00:41:01.000 and Savior.

00:41:02.260 We, Erica and I and our family, we're celebrating the birth of our son.

00:41:07.940 I'm just, I'm finding out how honest you are, Charlie.

00:41:10.800 And so far, you're, I think you're doing good.

00:41:13.540 And I hope I'm doing good with you.

00:41:15.280 Candace Owens, welcome back.

00:41:16.500 Yes, good to be back on the Charlie Kirk show.

00:41:18.560 So, Megan, there's a lot happening right now.

00:41:20.960 And I recently went on the Bill Maher show.

00:41:23.840 I want to get your reaction.

00:41:25.620 Matt, walk us through the decades-long journey from 2015 to today on the public opinion battle.

00:41:32.200 Michael, why are people going back to church?

00:41:34.520 People are going back to church because the atheism ran out of steam.

00:41:38.360 Ben, thank you for taking the time.

00:41:39.480 I was moved by your podcast on Monday about how we must stare the evil in the face.

00:41:44.540 Pete, you're doing a phenomenal job.

00:41:45.720 I just want to say that from the American people that you don't get the credit that you deserve, obviously, in the mainstream media.

00:41:53.260 We are here with Stephen K. Bannon.

00:41:55.400 Charlie, I never roll through this town without seeing you.

00:41:58.960 It's always the highlight.

00:42:00.020 It's, that's the advantage of being in Phoenix is that you're like one of the only shows in town.

00:42:03.820 So everyone kind of just comes on by.

00:42:06.000 I'm sick of people stealing my stick.

00:42:08.340 Wait, so a campus thing I've been doing for 13 years to debate random college kids has now been so important that it gets prominent primetime placement on Comedy Central.

00:42:19.980 I think the whole thing is just awesome.

00:42:22.480 Bobby Kennedy, welcome back to the program.

00:42:24.280 Charlie, thanks for having me.

00:42:25.700 They canceled the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, when it was my father.

00:42:29.560 If they can do that to him, they can do it to anyone.

00:42:31.280 If they can't do it, if we're all banded together and we're fighting one battle.

00:42:34.060 So, Don Jr., everybody, very special hour episode for you today.

00:42:38.640 My wife joins us, Erica Kirk, the beautiful, legendary Erica.

00:42:42.680 I love you so much.

00:42:43.840 I love you.

00:42:44.440 You're my best friend.

00:42:45.340 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:42:46.600 Thanks, man.

00:42:55.300 Thanks so much for listening, everybody, and God bless.

00:43:04.060 That's a great job, guys.

00:43:06.040 Really good job.

00:43:10.760 We miss him.

00:43:12.100 That last shot of him walking off stage.

00:43:14.340 I miss my friend.

00:43:16.780 You know, one of the things that Charlie was kind of interesting early in Charlie's career was he wasn't, he's a prolific speaker, obviously.

00:43:27.060 He's a genius on stage, but he wasn't really interested in, you know, the spotlight.

00:43:33.440 It's a really interesting piece to him was that he was, it was, I think that's kind of like, almost like we were talking with, I was talking with people.

00:43:41.200 The best analogy to Charlie was that he was very much in the come follow me spirit of Christ.

00:43:48.580 I think that's what the most Christ-like thing about him was, was that people wanted to follow him.

00:43:53.640 Sorry, I just can't, I can't get through all this.

00:43:56.700 But he didn't want spotlight.

00:43:58.160 And I think that was part of his, his.

00:44:01.340 And so when I had suggested with our events team that we do bigger things that we do consider, because we have more people who want to show up and we have more kids and all that.

00:44:12.640 It wasn't about that for him.

00:44:14.340 It wasn't, I, I, people watch these things and they're like, we, I mean, we went rockstar, we went full rockstar on Charlie Kirk.

00:44:21.180 And a lot of that is thanks to Andrew.

00:44:22.800 I mean, without a doubt, you know, we give, we give Erica, Erica, 100% made him rockstar.

00:44:28.880 I give you more credit for that because you, you forced him to do it.

00:44:33.140 And then eventually he embraced it, but.

00:44:36.100 But it was, it was not, he wasn't interested in that.

00:44:38.620 But he also like, wasn't your sort of like central casting character to do it.

00:44:44.120 No.

00:44:44.480 And you made him enter out, you know, embark out on a much bigger vision.

00:44:50.980 But, but this is the point with Charlie is that he was a, he was a very humble person.

00:44:55.380 And I don't want that to change with like how people start to take the memory of Charlie because he's big.

00:45:02.940 His, he wasn't interested in what the states look like or like who was there, what the spotlight looked like.

00:45:08.660 He just wanted to tell the truth.

00:45:10.060 He just wanted to tell people what was, what they needed to hear.

00:45:14.700 And, and he was really good at that.

00:45:17.720 Really good at that.

00:45:18.740 But, but everything else was built around him for the right reasons.

00:45:23.320 I'm so sorry.

00:45:24.200 Like I'm like spitting like tears everywhere and everything else.

00:45:27.060 It's like splash zone.

00:45:28.960 But he is, his, his legacy is going to be what you said, Andrew, is that he was a incredibly humble person that was thrust into something that was so much bigger than all of us.

00:45:43.780 So much bigger than him, but he was the perfect person for the perfect time.

00:45:49.240 He, um, he always told young people, be a part of something bigger than yourself.

00:45:54.580 And he is the, um, the most iconic example of that, that I think any of us can imagine.

00:46:03.460 And, um, we're going to take a break from radio.

00:46:06.800 Um, we'll be right back on the stream.

00:46:13.780 All right.

00:46:28.060 Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show.

00:46:30.280 Um, you know, I wasn't going to do this, uh, but, um, I think the team, uh, was absolutely spot on.

00:46:37.560 People want something to remember Charlie by.

00:46:40.240 I've been getting message after message, email, comment, this huge outpouring of people saying, and, and cause Charlie, as, as we all know, he loved t-shirts, apparel, hats.

00:46:58.040 He was always like, get me one that says that, get me one that says that.

00:47:00.340 Like literally the team would screen press them almost on a two hour turn.

00:47:04.340 And it's because, it's because he understood that that is a, a physical, real messaging platform that you can wear in the real world, in the real space.

00:47:16.160 That would be seen.

00:47:17.140 That would be seen.

00:47:18.180 Billions of times in Charlie's instance.

00:47:19.920 And, and he wanted, so whatever the message that he wanted to send or what he was thinking about would usually be what he would wear.

00:47:27.900 And there'd be times where he'd have, you know, a different one on five days a week, if you watch the show.

00:47:32.680 And that was all very, I just wouldn't mean to say it's very deliberate.

00:47:35.500 It was, it was not like some random thing.

00:47:37.480 No, no, no.

00:47:37.800 He, he loved his different shirts.

00:47:39.980 And so please put them back on screen guys.

00:47:41.960 So here, here they are and they are available for purchase.

00:47:46.040 Um, we're going to, as many as everybody wants, we don't have a maid yet.

00:47:49.560 So please be gracious with us.

00:47:51.340 We're going to get them out as fast as we can, um, charliekirkstore.com, charliekirkstore.com.

00:47:59.160 And I think the team did an amazing job with them.

00:48:02.160 And, um, the, the middle one is I am Charlie Kirk.

00:48:06.300 I've seen so many people saying that.

00:48:08.060 Yeah.

00:48:08.620 And it's, uh, it's a beautiful Testament and I love it and I want one.

00:48:14.680 And the other one is, uh, I'm just humbled by God's grace.

00:48:19.200 And that of course was from election night, November, 2024.

00:48:24.080 Um, when Charlie got news that Pennsylvania had been called by Fox news, uh, for Donald

00:48:30.040 Trump, that he would be the 47th president of the United States.

00:48:33.220 Right in this room, that viral video, it happened right here, right in this chair.

00:48:37.420 And Charlie put his hands up to his face and a man who doesn't cry very often got misty

00:48:43.920 eyed and, um, and he gave all the glory to God.

00:48:48.240 And I love that.

00:48:49.420 And I'm so glad that they picked that, that, that, that moment.

00:48:52.880 And then the other one is, um, the freedom shirt and it has the date that it happened.

00:48:59.820 And that's the shirt that he was wearing.

00:49:02.340 And, uh, we put the turning point hook on that sleeve as well.

00:49:06.840 And so if you want to honor Charlie and obviously you want to help the show, um, that, that would

00:49:13.500 be amazing.

00:49:14.700 Um, can I shout out you guys real quick?

00:49:17.700 I mean, we have so many good people who work for it, for Charlie, uh, his show is his personal

00:49:23.340 side.

00:49:24.140 Uh, people don't talk about this.

00:49:25.940 I, I, I was careful not to talk about this because Charlie again, didn't like the spotlight

00:49:30.060 of it all.

00:49:31.120 Um, but part of the reason why this show exists is because Charlie didn't want to do things

00:49:38.640 that would cost money from turning point, uh, for years and years and years and years, Charlie

00:49:44.540 didn't take a salary from turning point.

00:49:46.220 Uh, he paid himself.

00:49:48.120 I know this because I, I was the one that had to approve payrolls for at turning point

00:49:53.880 for seven years.

00:49:55.280 He paid himself like $30,000 a year.

00:49:58.380 Then a little bit.

00:50:00.440 Yeah.

00:50:00.660 He didn't take a wage for the first five years.

00:50:02.420 And then his first wage, I think it was like 20, it was tiny, 15,000 the first year.

00:50:06.720 And I know that cause mine was tiny too.

00:50:08.400 Like it was like insane.

00:50:10.200 And, and then he, the part of the show was that he was able to give back.

00:50:14.320 So it costs turning point, nothing for, for Charlie to run turning point.

00:50:18.980 Yeah.

00:50:19.120 People don't know this.

00:50:20.220 Charlie gave, there was this stupid AP article.

00:50:23.640 I'll never forget where they tried.

00:50:25.500 I know, but they tried to make it sound like Charlie was, was somehow taking money from

00:50:30.540 donors or something or fleecing the donors.

00:50:32.600 But here's the truth.

00:50:34.200 Charlie paid back his salary and then some back to turning point every year.

00:50:39.120 He donated back all that.

00:50:40.980 Here's one second guys.

00:50:42.280 Uh, going to welcome back radio.

00:50:44.320 I was just, I was just going to say, this is that, that he, he was able to do something

00:51:06.620 beyond anyone else.

00:51:08.440 So there's, I mean, there's great people that people admire a lot.

00:51:11.340 Rush is one of those people, but Rush didn't build in his spare time, a turning point USA,

00:51:16.640 a turning point action and all of that.

00:51:18.700 Right.

00:51:18.860 Like Charlie did all that, gave it all back essentially for that.

00:51:23.760 And then we have the whole point of why I'm saying this is we have so many good people here

00:51:26.880 at the show that, that have that work here that, that produces to get truth out.

00:51:32.160 Because again, what that Charlie was interested in wasn't spotlight.

00:51:35.800 It was getting the truth out.

00:51:37.380 It was doing something bigger than himself.

00:51:40.260 And every single person that's here that, that are back behind the glass right now and

00:51:45.420 that are in this building that are across campus here at turning point headquarters, um, join

00:51:51.700 Charlie on that vision and are part of that.

00:51:53.780 And so, uh, you know, with that, we talked about the shirts and everything else, please,

00:51:57.800 um, support, you know, this, this mission to continue Charlie's voice with, with Charlie's

00:52:03.080 show, because there's so many good people here that, that have done that.

00:52:07.500 And I know Andrew's Erica looked at me yesterday and she said, the show has to keep going and

00:52:14.180 turning point has to grow even bigger.

00:52:16.380 And, um, I hope I'm at Liberty to say that.

00:52:20.280 I think she would want me to say that.

00:52:21.560 Um, and so we don't know what the future holds for everything, uh, at least, you know, with

00:52:27.820 fine detail, but we know that that will happen and that we will honor that.

00:52:32.760 And I know Charlie would want that to happen.

00:52:34.500 That's the only way to honor Charlie is to, to, for everything to get bigger and to, again,

00:52:39.280 again, that point, which is that this is bigger than any singular person, uh, but honoring

00:52:45.080 Charlie's memory permanently with making turning point bigger in the mission, which is activate

00:52:50.940 as many human beings as possible to do the work, to do the Lord's work and to do the

00:52:55.720 work, to save the Republic.

00:52:56.760 So put those, those shirts back up for the radio.

00:53:00.160 Um, if you can, you can go to Charlie Kirk store.com, Charlie Kirk store.com.

00:53:05.700 We have three options.

00:53:07.760 Um, the, the election night shirt is a drawing of him, um, putting his hands on his face after

00:53:14.920 he found out that Trump was going to be elected the 47th president.

00:53:17.600 And he said, I'm just humbled by God's grace.

00:53:20.700 And, uh, that's a beautiful one is I am Charlie Kirk and people love that.

00:53:26.520 Um, I am Charlie Kirk.

00:53:27.600 I've been seeing that everywhere.

00:53:28.900 And then we have the shirt, um, the freedom shirt that he was wearing and with the date

00:53:35.520 on it and the, the turning point hook also on that, on that sleeve.

00:53:40.140 I think that message in the center shirt there, I'm Charlie Kirk, that, that speaks to what

00:53:44.720 Tyler's talking about, it's that it's the Charlie Kirk spirit, right?

00:53:48.980 It's, I was saying this yesterday on an interview, you know, you know, who's the next Charlie

00:53:54.600 Kirk?

00:53:55.000 Like, well, there isn't an ex Charlie Kirk, but Charlie, if you asked him that in public,

00:53:58.780 right, he would say you, you know, you go get a megaphone or.

00:54:04.220 Or, you know, uh, a chair and go to your local park and set up a folding table on camp, whatever

00:54:11.660 it is, right?

00:54:12.500 Whatever public place you can be and, and go do this too.

00:54:16.200 And so it doesn't mean, you know, it doesn't, it's not about him, right?

00:54:20.900 It's about you take that Charlie Kirk spirit.

00:54:23.360 And go and be the next one and go set up your chapter or go set up your thing and go be that

00:54:30.060 person.

00:54:30.820 And that I think is, is the message that's now, and you see this, it's around the world.

00:54:37.740 It's completely, we'll, we'll talk about it later, but it's, it's totally around the

00:54:40.820 world.

00:54:41.080 I mean, I'm getting messages from like, I don't even want to say, but just countries that you

00:54:45.180 wouldn't even believe had heard of Charlie are doing vigils for Charlie.

00:54:49.480 I, uh, I actually do want to talk about that at length because one of the things that I've

00:54:55.080 realized, um, and I, I tweeted about this or posted about this last night on X, um, there

00:55:01.080 was a video of a vigil that was sent to me and I just, and I said, I've constantly had

00:55:07.220 to recalibrate my internal clock.

00:55:09.660 Cause you kind of know exactly what you mean, how famous Charlie is.

00:55:13.240 And then like something else would kind of blow your mind and be like, Whoa, he's actually

00:55:17.860 way bigger.

00:55:18.620 And Blake, I'm sure you had a bunch of those, even in soul.

00:55:21.980 You're like, Whoa, people know him here.

00:55:23.740 Um, but yeah, I, I am realizing that as much as I tried to recalibrate, I'm, I'm probably

00:55:32.060 two years behind, like actually how famous he was like in my internal clock.

00:55:36.540 And I, in his death, um, and Trump said this beautifully actually this morning on Fox.

00:55:42.420 Um, I don't know what clip it is.

00:55:43.640 I'm sure we have it.

00:55:44.380 We'll, we'll play that.

00:55:45.100 Yeah.

00:55:45.540 That, that he's now he's even bigger.

00:55:48.320 He was huge.

00:55:49.100 And now he's a worldwide icon.

00:55:52.260 And, um, before we, before we get all the way off the topic and know there's a break,

00:55:57.100 um, I'm as, I want to piggyback on Tyler and just say thank you to the staff for being here

00:56:01.580 today and, and yeah, their hearts are broken into impossible task.

00:56:07.580 We, and all of our turning point stuff right now are at home with family as we, as, as expected.

00:56:12.600 But again, for here being part of the show and honoring Charlie, I mean, that's just such

00:56:16.940 a hard thing to ask people to do.

00:56:18.440 And I, I can't thank you each enough.

00:56:21.240 Everybody behind the glass.

00:56:22.320 Seriously.

00:56:22.820 Thank you for being here.

00:56:24.140 Thank you to our amazing team.

00:56:25.600 They really are amazing.

00:56:26.880 And Charlie loved them dearly.

00:56:29.380 Uh, radio.

00:56:30.600 We'll, uh, we'll see you again in a couple minutes.

00:56:32.720 We're going to keep streaming for a few seconds.

00:56:34.260 Thank you.

00:56:48.440 Thank you.

00:57:18.440 A lot of young people on campuses, at our events, on my radio show, podcast, and social

00:57:25.280 media said differently.

00:57:26.740 I visit college campuses, so you don't have to.

00:57:33.720 We're talking to so many voters that know it is time for change.

00:57:38.080 They know that something is wrong.

00:57:40.280 America's future is a series of choices.

00:57:43.380 Our current state of slow motion, national decline, is a choice.

00:57:52.360 Today is our two-year-old's birthday.

00:57:55.440 And I look at my daughter, and that is my why.

00:58:00.520 For those that are parents, you know exactly what I mean.

00:58:02.820 There is no mountain that stands tall as your faithfulness.

00:58:12.620 There is no river that runs wide as your goodness.

00:58:18.620 Man, Charlie, uh, I remember when we were starting these out, and...

00:58:36.820 It was that, like that...

00:58:37.920 You know, it was like this.

00:58:39.160 It was like, it was like your average...

00:58:40.640 First three rows.

00:58:41.340 It was like your average political meeting, where there was like 12 people in a room,

00:58:44.200 and, uh, this is, this is awesome.

00:58:50.040 This, in my personal opinion, was the most over-the-top Trump event that I've ever covered.

00:58:56.680 This is the number one boots-on-the-ground operation in the country.

00:58:59.540 We're working directly in harmony with the Trump campaign.

00:59:01.780 It's been vetted, it's been cleared, it's been blessed, as you can see there.

00:59:04.200 And we're going to try to win this thing.

00:59:05.480 No guarantees.

00:59:06.400 It's what we do that matters.

00:59:07.640 Mr. President, I can tell you this room is 100% with you, and we have your back.

00:59:11.820 God bless you.

00:59:12.820 We really do.

00:59:13.720 Thank you.

00:59:14.120 God bless you.

00:59:44.420 Disagreement is not just welcome, it is invited.

00:59:47.020 We want to have those tough conversations.

00:59:49.080 That's what it's all about.

00:59:49.740 Because you're not supposed to be involved in this.

01:00:15.100 You're supposed to just kind of be on the vote for me every four years, give me more political

01:00:19.360 power, and stay out of my business.

01:00:20.900 And what has happened is we are seeing an explosion in citizen participation.

01:00:26.140 There is nothing else I'll ever need.

01:00:35.440 All of my days, your mercy follow me.

01:00:42.080 Oh, there is nothing else I'll ever need.

01:00:51.880 Knock on that extra door.

01:00:53.600 Go that extra mile.

01:00:54.940 Talk to that extra friend.

01:00:56.500 Because throughout voting month and culminating on the 5th of November, I believe it will go

01:01:02.940 down as a day that people remember, as a day that is written about in history books, as the final

01:01:09.720 battle from the golden escalator on down, from defeating Hillary Clinton, from the nonsense of

01:01:15.540 2020, from Butler, Pennsylvania, November 5th.

01:01:18.540 Because it all culminates where we restore the promise that the founders gave us.

01:01:23.540 And they said, hey, if the people want it, the people get it.

01:01:27.560 And we, the people, take back America.

01:01:29.900 God bless Arizona.

01:01:31.100 And thank you so much.

01:01:32.180 Thank you so much.

01:02:02.180 Let's get started.

01:02:03.460 All my days, your mercy follow me.

01:02:22.580 Blake, I'm going to ask you a question.

01:02:24.220 What do you want?

01:02:27.500 All right.

01:02:28.100 Welcome back, everybody.

01:02:29.140 Here we are at the Charlie Kirkshow studio.

01:02:34.200 I remember building this studio.

01:02:36.760 And I remember designing it so Charlie would be here.

01:02:40.420 And then he decided he liked it here better.

01:02:43.640 So we flipped everything.

01:02:46.600 He had to have his Oregon duck thing over there.

01:02:49.080 The original original was a straight line.

01:02:51.960 Yeah, it was a straight.

01:02:52.640 Well, this desk actually is modular.

01:02:54.560 And so you can kind of fold it so that the two levels fold into one another.

01:02:59.960 And it was just a desk.

01:03:00.960 And it was supposed to be designed so that if you had guests, it could fold out.

01:03:04.120 Right, right, right.

01:03:04.800 But he just liked it like this.

01:03:06.380 Wasn't it we did one of the election night streams or something?

01:03:11.040 And we set up the V and he just liked it.

01:03:14.700 He just liked it.

01:03:15.700 Left it.

01:03:16.200 And he just left it that way.

01:03:17.940 Well, I remember walking into...

01:03:20.060 So the story of this complex is really interesting because we were in Chicago.

01:03:24.340 We came over here and we found this space because we wanted to have a building for Turning Point that was by itself.

01:03:31.720 Yeah.

01:03:31.900 And fast forward to we had to go through and talk every single one of the people in this complex to sell the buildings.

01:03:38.340 So I had to get on the phone with these guys.

01:03:40.720 And luckily, we had this incredible kid that was in real estate that helped.

01:03:44.860 And we talked him into it.

01:03:46.640 But I remember walking through this building for the first time.

01:03:49.120 And this is a garage.

01:03:50.020 This was actually a garage.

01:03:51.780 So this was like a shop.

01:03:54.180 Like they had like a bunch of machines and stuff in here.

01:03:57.040 And they used to have all this equipment that was like hanging off.

01:04:00.080 And we just started going through, just yanking stuff out.

01:04:02.360 And we're like, this will be the home for Charlie Kirk's studio.

01:04:05.520 And I feel bad for the audience.

01:04:07.280 Because I'm not sitting in Charlie's seat, you're seeing the profile shot of Tyler.

01:04:13.080 Because he's looking at me when he's talking.

01:04:14.760 So I apologize to the audience.

01:04:15.760 That's been everything on the show, though.

01:04:17.120 I'm always looking at Charlie.

01:04:19.700 Because that's Tyler's seat.

01:04:21.080 I know.

01:04:21.380 And I kept telling the studio, I was like, can we like get that camera?

01:04:24.880 And Andrew's pointing out this is a blocking violation for film and TV.

01:04:31.780 It's worth it.

01:04:33.500 But we've kind of always done it.

01:04:35.100 Like, you know, I'm going to ask.

01:04:37.160 Let me ask you this when radio gets back on.

01:04:39.600 But I was just talking with the, we took a quick bio break, as they call it in the business.

01:04:44.440 And I was asking the team, I was like, what do people want to hear right now?

01:04:47.980 And the whole team is out there in the bays.

01:04:51.840 And they were like, people want to hear stories about Charlie.

01:04:54.700 And they want to see the behind the scenes stuff.

01:04:57.800 And so I want us to share that with him and with the audience, our interactions with him.

01:05:04.740 And I don't want to force you to start when we're going to be welcomed back national radio in about a minute.

01:05:08.940 But that's, there are, there's that line in the Bible about Jesus, where it says, you know, there would be the writing of endless books about all the things that Jesus did.

01:05:22.040 And I feel like, not to compare Charlie to Jesus, but his life is like that, where if you compiled all the little things that he did for all the tens of thousands of people that he interacted with,

01:05:35.000 there would be no end of the books that we could write about his life.

01:05:38.780 And that is, that is a true, it's like so true.

01:05:44.700 Like I'm not even, that's not even like 31 years on this planet.

01:05:49.840 And that's not even a hyperbolic thing to say.

01:05:52.080 That's not me exaggerating.

01:05:53.900 Is a really remarkable feat.

01:05:56.760 And so Blake, I'm going to go, like, where's it going to go around the table?

01:05:59.040 Well, I was just going to put you on the hot seat first, so it wasn't me.

01:06:01.960 But we're going to welcome back our national radio audience that Charlie loves so much in about 20 seconds.

01:06:08.400 So hang tight, and we'll be right back.

01:06:31.960 Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.

01:06:39.060 This is your host for the day, Andrew Colvette, executive producer of this fine show.

01:06:46.340 To those of you listening around the country, we're honoring our friend and the host of this show, Charlie Kirk.

01:06:55.740 And it's his friends, the people that work closely with him to make this show, to make so much of the content that are gathered around this table in his studio.

01:07:07.540 His chair is empty because nobody will ever be able to fill it.

01:07:12.580 But we wanted a chance to tell you about the Charlie Kirk that we know and that we got to see up close.

01:07:17.980 And we have Jack Posobiec, the great Jack Posobiec, the great Blake Neff, and the great Tyler Boyer, all gathered with myself, Andrew Colvette, executive producer.

01:07:30.060 So our team is telling us that people want to hear more personal stories that you wouldn't have seen if you didn't know Charlie.

01:07:39.840 So, Blake, the floor is yours.

01:07:41.340 Tell us a story about Charlie that you think people would like to hear or that they haven't heard yet.

01:07:45.160 But, man, I'm thinking of a few things.

01:07:50.200 Gosh, personal stuff.

01:07:52.140 I think one of the things that always impressed me about Charlie was his immense personal discipline about everything he did.

01:08:00.720 He had, you know, his day was very ordered.

01:08:03.220 Everything he did was very ordered.

01:08:04.780 And he didn't deviate from that.

01:08:06.660 And if you, you know, asked him about that, he'd be like, well, this is the smart thing to do.

01:08:10.040 Why would I do something different?

01:08:11.060 And the thing I'd always tease him about is the number of foods he ate, which is about four or five.

01:08:17.020 Like, I would joke about this.

01:08:18.280 And I'm not exaggerating.

01:08:19.940 The variation of food Charlie ate was like grilled chicken, avocado, hot sauce, like cabbage, lettuce.

01:08:28.180 He wasn't always like that.

01:08:29.700 Salmon, I guess.

01:08:30.720 I think he used to have beef.

01:08:31.740 But I think he later, like, decided red meat was probably on the bat.

01:08:34.460 When did he start doing that?

01:08:35.800 He said it was like a couple years ago that he just, because he wanted, he said he wanted to get back in fighting shape or something.

01:08:41.360 Yeah.

01:08:41.920 And Charlie, as long as I've known Charlie, has always been very focused on what he puts inside his body.

01:08:49.240 Yeah.

01:08:49.680 From day one.

01:08:50.500 And it was, I remember, because I've always, when I was, when I first met Charlie, I was skinny.

01:08:55.420 And then I got, you know, you know, dad fat.

01:08:58.940 You got your road layer.

01:09:00.340 I got dad fat.

01:09:01.000 I put on the pregnancy weight a few times throughout that cycle.

01:09:05.540 Campaign 30.

01:09:06.220 But Charlie was always, and he would always kind of yell at me, you know.

01:09:09.600 And Andrew, I'm probably sure you had some of these situations.

01:09:12.560 Blake probably hasn't.

01:09:13.860 But, you know, he's never got yelled at for what he eats.

01:09:16.140 But he would be like, because I would like pound sodas and like, I was like, oh, yeah.

01:09:20.480 And then it caught up with me.

01:09:21.480 I was like Charlie's like sin eater because I eat everything.

01:09:24.700 But he would eat like piles of singular foods.

01:09:28.040 So it would be like stacks of, like stacks of broccoli.

01:09:31.620 He would order that, like steamed broccoli.

01:09:33.780 Or he would order just meat, right?

01:09:36.920 It would just be like meat.

01:09:38.080 And then he would just, he would pound through it.

01:09:40.380 It would eat like as we're talking, like we didn't have time to waste as we were going.

01:09:44.580 But it would just eat later in life.

01:09:46.760 He enjoyed, I think he enjoyed meals a little bit more.

01:09:48.820 But the early was like, we were going, going, going.

01:09:50.820 He was always in the travel, ready to go.

01:09:53.100 And he would just eat.

01:09:53.940 And I would just sit there and be like, because I would order like a normal sandwich and like drink a drink.

01:09:59.660 But he would just eat to eat.

01:10:01.260 But he was always healthy.

01:10:03.180 And he would always be like, you're going to eat that?

01:10:05.300 Like he would look at me like, you're going to eat that?

01:10:07.000 You're going to put that?

01:10:07.480 I actually remember, I think the night, I think, I'm pretty sure we were all there too.

01:10:11.720 It was the night of the RNC when he gave his speech there.

01:10:14.780 Not the 620, but the 24.

01:10:18.480 And I think, I want to correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he have like a couple of chicken wings?

01:10:23.120 And he like made a huge deal about it.

01:10:25.400 He had a couple and we had like a huge pile of them.

01:10:27.780 Yeah, we had a huge pile of stuff.

01:10:28.680 It was a cartoonishly vast pile of chicken wings.

01:10:30.280 But it was like each, as Tyler was saying, like each box was a separate food.

01:10:34.160 And then we had a whole bunch of chicken wings that we were all just chowing down on.

01:10:38.140 And he goes, I will allow myself to have a few.

01:10:41.620 And that was like a huge.

01:10:43.400 He would find something he liked.

01:10:44.400 And early on, he used to say this all the time.

01:10:46.180 He'd be like, you could build a religion around this thing.

01:10:48.260 Have you ever heard that?

01:10:49.540 Have you ever heard him say that?

01:10:52.100 We could build a religion around this.

01:10:53.300 You could build a religion around this thing.

01:10:54.380 When he found a food he liked, he'd be like, you could build a religion around this thing.

01:10:57.820 Or that thing or whatever.

01:10:58.720 But it's like the first time he's eating it.

01:11:00.020 No, it would be.

01:11:03.260 It'd be like, I'd be like, oh, I mean, I think it's just.

01:11:05.280 These are great.

01:11:06.040 These chicken wings.

01:11:06.600 You could build a religion around this thing.

01:11:07.140 Yeah, Charlie, we know.

01:11:07.980 I think I heard Charlie say that no short of like 500 times.

01:11:11.140 Yeah, there's certain set phrases that were just like the Charlie phrases.

01:11:17.300 And, you know, when you say them, you could just hear it in his voice.

01:11:21.180 Because that's the only guy who talks that way.

01:11:25.720 What about you, Jack?

01:11:29.100 Do you have a fun Charlie story that you think the audience hasn't heard or would like to hear?

01:11:35.600 Oh, man.

01:11:38.560 You know, look, I mean, there's a lot of stuff that's just private.

01:11:43.560 So that's like, how do you steep through that?

01:11:46.680 You know, I'll tell the story that in, you know, from last year, though, that I think is just just kind of a funny thing.

01:11:55.400 So Charlie works so hard on these campus tours that people don't realize that he worked himself sick last year.

01:12:05.140 And there were, I don't know, two, three weeks where he just he had no voice.

01:12:12.540 He completely lost his voice out there on the campus tours, the campaigns between everything.

01:12:19.800 He was traveling so much and just picking up whatever germs and bugs and all the rest.

01:12:25.080 And obviously with his health regimen and that he, you know, he did what he could.

01:12:29.120 But, you know, sometimes it just kind of doesn't work that way.

01:12:31.920 And I remember we had we had talked about and he was like, hey, Jack, you know, you're Pennsylvania guy.

01:12:38.280 We're doing this Penn State.

01:12:39.280 I think it's going to be big.

01:12:40.720 Do you want to come?

01:12:41.640 And I was like, oh, yeah, you know, we'll see if it works out with the schedule, et cetera.

01:12:45.740 And and then a couple of days before the event, he said or no, the day before the event, he sends me this text and says, Jack, we need to talk.

01:12:53.260 So like we need to talk.

01:12:54.620 I lost my voice.

01:12:55.540 So then I call him and he immediately hangs up and he texts me back.

01:12:59.260 And I said, he said, Jack, I can't talk.

01:13:01.780 I lost my voice.

01:13:04.040 I can only text.

01:13:05.700 And so he he's like, I need you up here.

01:13:10.320 And and and so we we I get up to Penn State and the entire time we're there and I'm with him.

01:13:17.860 We're spending time and he's like sending me text messages or just writing stuff on his phone next to him.

01:13:23.360 Yeah.

01:13:23.580 And he's like showing it and I'm like saying it or tweeting it or whatever it is.

01:13:29.260 And then as we're about to go, you know, we have this whole thing set up and there's thousands of kids.

01:13:36.340 I mean, five thousand maybe because I know we brought it was insane.

01:13:40.260 I know we brought a red hat.

01:13:41.660 We brought we brought 30,000 hats, but then we ran out and it's like only about half of the kids had hats.

01:13:47.740 So that's why I know you would not believe the number of hats that Turning Point bought and still managed to run out.

01:13:54.160 And it was insane.

01:13:55.640 And then and then and then the campus end up ended up shutting down the speakers anyway, that many boxes.

01:14:01.080 I want to just we just throw out that it was so many, but like the logistics of getting that many hats is actually to each campus was actually a marvel in and of itself.

01:14:11.320 And you're reminding me of go ahead.

01:14:14.200 I don't know if you had something you want to add, Tyler.

01:14:16.140 I was just going to say that the the miracle of the organization of Turning Point, being able to do all those things is what enabled so much of Charlie Kirk.

01:14:26.860 Right. Charlie was wanted to be enabled all the time with every little crazy idea that he had.

01:14:34.080 But I would call Charlie Kirk wild goose chases like with stuff, we would just be like constant stuff.

01:14:39.000 Right. And we're just like trying to channel where those things would go.

01:14:42.760 But the enabling of the of the staff to do the things that needed to be done, because Charlie was almost always right on these things.

01:14:50.820 He was he was he was always right.

01:14:52.840 He was annoyingly almost always right.

01:14:55.300 Almost always.

01:14:55.840 And when you when you got one that was right, you you were like, you would make a mental diet and be like, yeah, because it was it was 99 to one.

01:15:02.820 But but where he wanted to go with everything was always right.

01:15:07.040 And he and he knew he had the vision and the people who helped execute that deserve a ton of credit.

01:15:14.660 Every every person, every I look at the videos from the campus tours, every one of our activists that is there, that's volunteering to help hold microphones to, you know, standing in the in the gap there, especially in such scary times as where we're at today.

01:15:31.400 They have been such incredible warriors and and that honors Charlie so much.

01:15:40.000 Yeah, we we have this. Let's go ahead and play. We have just enough time.

01:15:43.240 This is Charlie eating with chopsticks in Japan with Blake for 79.

01:15:46.660 Oh, gosh.

01:15:47.180 Is that is it like a big thing?

01:15:49.380 Yeah, of course.

01:15:52.140 Am I doing it OK?

01:15:53.900 Yeah, perfect.

01:15:56.100 This is noto.

01:15:59.060 What is why is it so good?

01:16:03.420 It's very good.

01:16:05.140 It's so good.

01:16:06.460 It's very good.

01:16:07.640 Why is it so good?

01:16:08.540 Because it's fermented, I think.

01:16:13.700 That's great.

01:16:15.500 It's very good for you.

01:16:16.400 Blake, I remember you and I were on a chat when this was happening or moments after it happened, and he was like, there was literally 11 dishes in this thing.

01:16:39.540 It was amazing.

01:16:40.200 Oh, the Japanese food.

01:16:41.380 I mean, you can have a religion around this.

01:16:43.140 People don't realize like how he would just get fixated on.

01:16:48.300 Yes, I would just love how he would, you know, he would like interrogate me about things because Charlie loved to learn things, love to pick new things up.

01:16:56.520 And yet he was also so busy all of the time.

01:16:58.480 So he would even just he would send me on.

01:17:00.940 He's like, Blake, you have to learn all about this thing so that you can just tell me about it when I need to learn about it later.

01:17:05.820 So I'll go read, you know, a 300 page book about this so that I can just be ready.

01:17:09.520 Yeah.

01:17:09.800 When Charlie interrogates me.

01:17:11.040 I remember once on a flight, it was like an hour and he's just like, Blake, tell me about the Roman Empire.

01:17:16.800 I'm like, the start or the end?

01:17:18.640 He's like, whatever you want.

01:17:19.860 And just started going off about that.

01:17:22.600 I also asked you about that.

01:17:23.940 Blake is a very good resource.

01:17:25.400 And he was he was very, you know, sometimes just to he would ask Mikey, he would be like, Mikey, just ask Chad GPT to make some trivia questions.

01:17:33.260 And then let's just see if Blake can get them.

01:17:35.420 And he was very proud that, you know, he's like, OK, Blake, I'm going to lose to you on, you know, history.

01:17:40.820 I'm going to probably lose to you on geography.

01:17:42.540 But he was very proud that he was he was competitive with me on, you know, biblical stuff because he was very he loved to study the Bible, you know, book by book.

01:17:50.520 He was really into that.

01:17:51.480 He was very, very proud of that.

01:17:52.900 And he was right.

01:17:53.420 He was he was better at Bible trivia than I was.

01:17:55.280 Actually, that's that's something I could share.

01:17:57.240 And I'm sure we all could that, you know, late, you know, late night, whatever it is, people would say, well, what is Charlie like in the in, you know, off air?

01:18:06.520 He would be constantly going through books of the Bible and then he would send you, you know, some file or a podcast or something and be like, Jack, I just did this five hour course on the book of Deuteronomy.

01:18:18.480 You need to go through all five hours and come back to me with it.

01:18:20.920 Yeah.

01:18:21.860 And not even for the show.

01:18:23.120 I have a story like this, actually, from recent.

01:18:25.800 We were in Aspen doing an investor summit and it was an amazing trip.

01:18:32.880 And we we had a Cambridge professor who was actually we played that the last live.

01:18:41.160 It was a prerecord, but it was like the last radio live hour, you know, before he started speaking at campus.

01:18:47.920 And it was with Dr. James Orr.

01:18:50.080 He's an amazing Cambridge professor and he flew back from Aspen and Charlie was like, what are you doing tomorrow?

01:19:02.640 And James was like, well, I don't fly out until Monday.

01:19:07.200 And it was a Sunday.

01:19:08.240 So Charlie was like, well, do you want to have breakfast with us and we'll do our morning worship and then I'll pick you up.

01:19:14.560 And can you just like teach me all day?

01:19:16.440 And and James is like, well, you just want to, you know, you just want to do class.

01:19:22.700 And he's like, yeah, like I just want to do class.

01:19:25.900 And so I they sat in a room and Charlie peppered him with questions.

01:19:32.180 And you have to understand, Dr. James Orr not only sees the world similarly the way we do, but he has like a photographic memory of the classical Western canon of all the texts that make up the Western.

01:19:44.920 He can remember almost page and verse of all of these great books and he can connect them, how they relate to now and where we got this word and how it how it evolved from this.

01:19:55.780 And so Charlie was was gathering this three dimensional dimensional understanding of the Latin and the Greek and how it made up European history, which gave birth to America.

01:20:07.760 Obviously, the Western Western canon. But that was Charlie's idea of of a Sunday well spent.

01:20:13.460 And I remember being so jealous. That's a day off. That was a day off.

01:20:17.480 I remember being so jealous because I had to go back home. I had to catch a flight Sunday morning to get back home.

01:20:23.080 And I mean, I got to be with my family and it was great. But and that's where I should have been.

01:20:27.500 But Charlie got to spend the day with his family and learning from one of the great minds in Christendom.

01:20:35.260 It was it was amazing. That was Charlie in a nutshell. I also it's weird things that I remember right now.

01:20:41.720 Charlie walking around all the time with like he'd wear shorts on planes with like his tall socks.

01:20:46.800 Yeah. So we always the tall socks, the tall socks.

01:20:50.600 No, he improves circulation. No, he would always tell him to talk to me about this.

01:20:54.040 He's like, it's a thing for tall people, Jack. It's compression socks.

01:20:57.820 You wear them, you wear them on planes, the pressure.

01:20:59.880 He had it all like, I'm not going to just, I'm not going to choice. No joke.

01:21:04.300 Decision made. A week ago, I was getting when I was actually flying out to Korea for a thing.

01:21:10.940 I was like, OK, I've got to see if there's something to this.

01:21:13.660 And I just put on socks and I pulled them all the way up.

01:21:15.880 I wore them that for about half the day.

01:21:18.040 And then I thought this is way too annoying.

01:21:20.480 And I slid them back down.

01:21:21.820 Well, he would say you're not tall enough.

01:21:23.200 Yeah, but you probably did have really good circulation.

01:21:26.800 Maybe. He is right most of the time.

01:21:29.880 We're going to welcome back radio and keep remembering stories about Charlie.

01:21:36.380 And there's just too much to tell about this great man.

01:21:42.460 And it's fun to think about him.

01:21:44.060 I have a story from Danny in just a second.

01:21:46.400 We'll be right back.

01:21:59.880 All right.

01:22:04.900 Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.

01:22:07.000 Andrew Colvett, Jack Posobiec, Blake Neff, and Tyler Boyer.

01:22:12.480 We're remembering our friend Charlie Kirk, our brother, who belongs to history now.

01:22:19.160 And a pure legendary man.

01:22:25.020 And I'm so honored to be sharing with you.

01:22:28.600 And it's the way these things work.

01:22:31.500 We just go wave after wave of emotion.

01:22:34.620 And I wanted to read something that Danny on the team, Danny's a young guy.

01:22:40.500 Charlie, Charlie loved Danny so much.

01:22:45.840 And Danny's quiet.

01:22:48.120 Doesn't always say a whole lot.

01:22:50.820 But when he speaks, you better listen, because he's been thinking about it for a long time.

01:22:55.520 And Danny wanted to just, he's shared this with me.

01:22:57.800 I hope it's okay.

01:22:59.240 I think it is.

01:22:59.840 He says, Charlie's story.

01:23:02.140 Last year, when I was living out here interning, I was living in the hood off of GCU campus.

01:23:09.280 Charlie found out and goes, okay, you're going to either live at my apartment or at my in-laws.

01:23:17.240 And he's like, I convinced him I would be fine.

01:23:19.940 And I stayed where I was for a few months.

01:23:22.040 He was one of the kindest people I've ever met.

01:23:24.460 And I love that story because somehow this was true about Charlie, that he was balancing huge organizations, a thousand relationships, donors, friends, the show, politicians, other organizations.

01:23:42.600 He had all these plates spinning in his head all the time.

01:23:45.880 And he would somehow find time to worry about my well-being or is your wife and kids, are they going to come?

01:23:52.480 Do you need me to set them up with something?

01:23:53.680 Do you want me to, can I get them here?

01:23:55.980 Are you okay?

01:23:57.040 Do you want me to put you at this hotel?

01:23:58.340 Like he would, his brain was just always moving and spinning.

01:24:03.280 And he was always thinking about other people and their well-being.

01:24:06.500 And how many stories I heard of that, Tyler?

01:24:08.700 I mean, right?

01:24:09.400 It's like you saw it in the organizational feats of Turning Point, how he would think about the speaker coming in to make sure they were all taken care of.

01:24:16.100 And he had it built into the schedule.

01:24:17.800 He had to go backstage to meet so-and-so at such a time because he wanted to just say thanks for coming.

01:24:22.100 And it was, the intricacy of his mind and the details he was able to hold all at one time, truly amazing.

01:24:28.820 One of the things that I just keep seeing over and over is everyone telling the stories of how they got introduced to Charlie.

01:24:38.560 And I've received, again, thousands of messages.

01:24:40.920 I can't even respond back.

01:24:42.280 I know Andrew feels the same.

01:24:43.440 All of us probably feel the same.

01:24:44.640 And Jack is a savant at keeping up with people.

01:24:47.440 I don't know how he does it, but I just can't even keep up.

01:24:50.440 So I'm not even going to try.

01:24:51.480 So I apologize.

01:24:52.680 But everything I keep seeing over and over is, Tyler, I know you were close to Charlie.

01:24:57.060 I didn't know him personally, but I want you to know how I was introduced to Charlie.

01:25:01.580 And nine times out of ten, you know what the answer is?

01:25:05.520 One of my kids turned me on to Charlie.

01:25:08.420 They showed me Charlie.

01:25:09.440 And this is like, and this kind of goes hand in hand a little bit with what you're talking about.

01:25:15.740 It's just, it's always shocking to me how, again, the Charlie Kirk phenomenon, how he led his life, how everything just ultimately ended up, you know, in front of people.

01:25:28.380 And for so many young people, again, and that's the mission of Turning Point.

01:25:32.520 Turning Point, we always were, we're trying to get young people involved and engaged.

01:25:35.680 But to not only see young people getting involved and engaged and loving Charlie and being interested in his content, whether it's TikToks to all the way through long form podcast, is that they were taking their parents, in most cases, old Gen Xers or baby boomers, and saying, you need to listen to this, or grandparents.

01:25:54.420 And it's so interesting to me, and this is the legacy that, that has to carry on in such a profound way, is that young people can be the spur, they can be the dynamics, they can be the activating element.

01:26:09.720 And Charlie was right.

01:26:10.380 No one believed this, by the way, when we started.

01:26:12.420 There was no one.

01:26:13.700 And Charlie would get that face, you know, when he would tell you, he'd get excited because he'd be like, I'm going to prove you wrong.

01:26:18.140 And he'd get that voice in his.

01:26:19.480 He literally took on the hardest, I can't, the hardest job.

01:26:24.900 At the time, it was unfathomable.

01:26:27.620 And it was like, you have chosen potentially the dumbest career mission imaginable.

01:26:32.320 Obama era college campuses.

01:26:34.620 Guys, you don't understand.

01:26:35.840 That is the definition of the belly of the beast.

01:26:38.500 And where we are today is where young people are carrying on their shoulders, the Charlie Kirk voice to the older generation in a lot of cases.

01:26:47.860 And I'm so, that, I, I never have really spent time thinking about that.

01:26:52.420 I mean, I know it and we're really excited about it because I do that with my parents and grandparents.

01:26:55.940 But it's, it's been so rewarding to see.

01:26:59.860 And if Charlie could sit here and read all these messages that I'm receiving that are saying that exact thing, he would be ecstatic.

01:27:06.640 And we used to send those in the chat all the time, but I actually have some breaking news.

01:27:10.760 I don't know if I should share it or not, but I'm going to.

01:27:12.920 It looks like the Cubs are going to be recognizing Charlie today.

01:27:16.580 That's great.

01:27:17.040 Listen, I don't even want to tell that story.

01:27:19.780 I, I can't tell that story, but they, they should have a, they should have a, it's very important.

01:27:27.800 And, and, and I, he loved the Cubs.

01:27:30.620 His grandma was a lifelong Cubs fan and she got to see the Cubs win the world series and then passed away.

01:27:37.360 And Charlie was like, that was, she lived and she lived to see like that, the greatest thing as a sports fan for her.

01:27:44.100 And that meant a lot to him.

01:27:45.340 Because no one thought it was ever going to happen.

01:27:46.700 Radio will, we'll be back and streaming.

01:27:49.320 We'll keep going.

01:27:49.800 Welcome back to our stream.

01:28:06.160 Yeah.

01:28:07.160 Charlie loved the Cubs.

01:28:10.000 Loved the Bears too, but it was a little bit harder to be a Bears fan.

01:28:14.200 I actually was.

01:28:14.860 It was hard to be a Cubs fan a lot of the time.

01:28:16.480 Do you remember one, one of the last chats that we had, we were, we were just, you know, cause on, on.

01:28:24.260 By the way, that picture right there that's up on screen, that was really recent.

01:28:28.740 A couple weeks ago, right?

01:28:29.460 I was with him and we went to that game and there's a great, yeah, it's a picture with the Cubs team.

01:28:37.640 And then those, you know, all these haters online tried to like shame that player.

01:28:41.980 I forget his name, but he lives in Phoenix as well.

01:28:45.720 And it's the third baseman hit a home run that day.

01:28:50.100 Uh, I think just for Charlie, which was like amazing.

01:28:54.520 And I actually have a couple of pictures from that day.

01:28:56.600 So go ahead, Jack.

01:28:57.640 I know.

01:28:58.060 No, no, I was just going to say on, on Sundays, especially, you know, people don't realize how, how big of a sports fan Charlie was.

01:29:04.740 And on Sundays, you know, the, the group chat would turn into basically whatever game he was watching.

01:29:10.300 And just, you know, I, yeah.

01:29:11.880 One of our last things was just, you know, busting his balls about the Bears and the Bears.

01:29:15.540 Yeah.

01:29:15.940 Yeah.

01:29:16.220 That's what I was saying.

01:29:16.800 I was, I was scrolling through.

01:29:18.260 That's a story people would like.

01:29:19.820 I was scrolling through and Charlie was so focused and it was always that we'd have, uh, you know, America Fest is right before Christmas.

01:29:27.740 And that's when the bowl games are ramping up.

01:29:29.840 And I think even maybe some of the playoff games were going on this last year.

01:29:33.940 I can't remember what the schedule was, but he wanted to see what was going on.

01:29:37.580 He was, no, he was mad.

01:29:39.160 What game was it?

01:29:40.240 He was mad that he wouldn't be able to watch a game in real time because.

01:29:44.460 But we would literally have something that we have.

01:29:46.480 We had the big stage at AmFest and then behind it is our kind of command center or green room.

01:29:51.340 Yeah.

01:29:51.440 And there's a table and Charlie had a place he could sit and he had a TV monitor set up to be showing one of these football games.

01:29:58.700 And he's just sitting there like watching it during his literal two minutes of downtime before the next thing at AmFest.

01:30:05.800 And he'd have his bowl with his chicken and lettuce that he was able to eat.

01:30:10.580 And his hot sauce.

01:30:11.180 He just sitting there watching it really intensely.

01:30:14.240 And, you know, I'd walk by.

01:30:14.900 He's like, Blake, come here.

01:30:15.680 Come here.

01:30:15.940 Come on.

01:30:16.240 Let's watch.

01:30:16.780 Let's watch a game, Blake.

01:30:17.760 Okay, Charlie.

01:30:19.460 I, uh, please put this B-roll up.

01:30:21.900 I just don't play the sound on it because I haven't reviewed it for anything.

01:30:25.140 I never shared this, but this was just from a couple weeks ago.

01:30:29.100 Um, that's me filming and Charlie and Erica.

01:30:32.080 And we went out.

01:30:33.520 That was the first time Charlie got to walk out onto, into Wrigley Field, onto the field right there.

01:30:39.840 It was before the game.

01:30:41.240 And it was so awesome.

01:30:43.600 And the ivy right there.

01:30:46.600 And, uh, this is Charlie, of course, looking back.

01:30:50.180 Give me the thumbs up.

01:30:52.600 And, um, man, we had the, we had just a heck of a time getting into the stadium because there was all these security barriers.

01:30:59.740 But they had arranged, they'd arranged it with us beforehand to let Charlie get right up close, uh, so that he could just kind of get out of, get out of the car and get on there, uh, onto the field.

01:31:11.360 And this was his, uh, his childhood, uh, favorite team, the Cubbies.

01:31:15.980 He's got his Cubs hat.

01:31:17.260 I kept wanting to get him one of the new era or like the, the actual field.

01:31:21.280 No, he would never do it.

01:31:22.340 But he liked, he liked his, uh, his little like low profile one.

01:31:26.240 And, uh, it was the one he wore.

01:31:27.660 I think that's the same Cubs hat he wore at student action summit.

01:31:31.560 Um, when he was doing the, uh, prove me wrong with the students there.

01:31:36.060 Um, and it was just so fun.

01:31:39.220 It was so fun.

01:31:40.040 He wanted to walk on that field his whole life.

01:31:41.900 Yeah.

01:31:42.800 He wanted to be, he loved that, that field and that stadium.

01:31:45.600 We had, this is way back in the day, but, um, we had actually taken, we used to, we used to have our headquarters in Chicago.

01:31:53.520 So it was, it was a ways out from, from Chicago.

01:31:57.720 And I remember at the early time, this is like right after we had made some changes to really grow turning point USA.

01:32:04.780 Um, we did a team builder at, at the Cubs stadium at Wrigley field.

01:32:11.300 And so we, Charlie and I had driven over to the Cubs, you know, to Wrigley, very difficult to, to park.

01:32:21.360 You have to like basically just park in people's garages and things like that.

01:32:24.320 Um, but we took all of the staff there and it was at the time, I think we have like 20 people.

01:32:30.220 And I remember we're just there and we're sitting and he just nonstop would be talking about to everybody how, cause we had staffed from all over the country at the time, just different places about how great the Cubs were, how much you loved them.

01:32:43.840 And you knew from that moment, how much that mattered to Charlie.

01:32:48.000 And there are a few things that were like Chicago boy things.

01:32:50.680 I mean, he loves Chicago.

01:32:51.820 He told me, Tyler, Chicago is the greatest city on planet earth.

01:32:54.440 I'm never going to leave.

01:32:55.800 And I was really nervous, you know, when we, you, you were instrumental in him falling in love with Phoenix.

01:33:02.320 He's really a Chicago boy at heart and the, and the Wrigley, the Cubs.

01:33:08.740 Yeah.

01:33:09.240 Everything else was, was such a big part of the things that he loved.

01:33:12.520 All right.

01:33:13.640 We're going to welcome back radio in just a second.

01:33:15.980 Don't go anywhere more with the crew remembering Charlie Kirk.

01:33:19.460 We'll be right back.

01:33:37.000 Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show radio stations across the country.

01:33:41.060 Your guest host, Andrew Colvett in for the one and only Charlie Kirk, um, right here in

01:33:48.620 his studio in Phoenix, Arizona.

01:33:51.520 Um, his seat is empty because we are honoring one of the greatest people any of us will ever

01:33:57.180 meet a legend, an icon, a martyr, a man who lifted up God above all his faith in Jesus

01:34:07.740 Christ was the most important thing to him.

01:34:09.900 And then it was his family, Erica, his two beautiful kids.

01:34:14.720 And then it was the country and turning point and everything that our founders built.

01:34:21.680 And, um, um, I'm just realizing Jack and Tyler and Blake that how much I've been changed by

01:34:31.960 this person.

01:34:34.980 It was funny, even while we were starting the show and it didn't occur to me while I was

01:34:39.380 doing it.

01:34:40.800 And so I hope it didn't come off as some like fake like emulation, but I was sitting here

01:34:44.800 going like, Hey, send so-and-so in.

01:34:46.520 Hey, so it's send so-and-so in.

01:34:47.780 And then like, like I remember that's what Charlie would do before the show, right?

01:34:53.360 It was always like, and it's like, I, it's, I don't think I'm going to fully understand

01:34:59.040 how much I've been affected and transformed and changed by Charlie.

01:35:03.440 Um, and I don't think I'll ever fully understand it, but you're not, you're not purposefully

01:35:09.540 doing it like Charlie.

01:35:10.800 No, it was Charlie's imprint.

01:35:12.240 We were so saturated with so much Charlie Kirk at all times that, no, the way I put it

01:35:18.640 was like, like people ask you, what about this question?

01:35:21.660 What about this question?

01:35:22.420 Would Charlie wanted this?

01:35:23.260 Would Charlie wanted that?

01:35:24.020 And it's like, it's like, I can hear him in a way that like, not like he's speaking to

01:35:29.840 me, but it's, it's just, if you know him, you kind of know what he would say, you know,

01:35:35.400 you almost know, not on like, you know, certain things, but, but just little basic things.

01:35:40.700 You just, well, that's what Charlie would say this.

01:35:42.260 Well, Charlie would say this, Charlie would do this.

01:35:44.720 And you just, you just, you just know, you just know that that's what he would have wanted.

01:35:49.540 And, and it's weird because, you know, talking to everybody throughout all of this, it's,

01:35:55.720 you know, even having heard that Erica said that she wanted the, the cameras on and wanted

01:36:02.720 this up.

01:36:03.200 I know that's exactly what Charlie would have wanted that he would say, get on the stream,

01:36:08.940 get the rumble up.

01:36:10.980 It's almost like we are the large language model for Charlie Kirk.

01:36:15.460 Cause we've, we've, we've had so much input from this person.

01:36:20.020 Um, I mean, that's, that's what a life is, right?

01:36:23.560 When you know somebody.

01:36:25.840 Yeah.

01:36:26.520 That's, that's what they do.

01:36:27.600 They imprint on you.

01:36:28.360 People, people didn't give Charlie enough credit for how funny he was.

01:36:32.940 Charlie could be hilarious.

01:36:34.060 Charlie was funny, but it was his own very distinct brand of it.

01:36:38.940 It like, because he was so distinctly Charlie and so rigidly Charlie Kirk, when he would kind

01:36:45.640 of come in and do that look, when he'd go, you know, uh, but he would make, oh man, the

01:36:53.140 plane rides were the best.

01:36:54.800 We would just get on topics.

01:36:56.860 Yes.

01:36:57.420 It was, it was, it was topics.

01:36:58.980 And it would almost kind of turn into the best way to describe Charlie Kirk's humor is probably

01:37:02.780 Seinfeld.

01:37:04.160 He's got Seinfeld.

01:37:04.700 I've been only watching Seinfeld.

01:37:06.700 Charlie.

01:37:07.440 I've needed it to fall asleep the last couple of nights.

01:37:09.500 He lives.

01:37:10.100 Love Seinfeld.

01:37:11.100 But it was like kind of these weird, funny, just like situational things with personalities

01:37:16.220 involved where it's like, we would kind of talk about those things and it would be like,

01:37:21.020 well, I was just like, what's this guy doing?

01:37:22.760 And that, that's that.

01:37:24.400 And like, this is, this is funny how this is connected.

01:37:26.940 That's connected.

01:37:27.460 And it was like kind of smart humor, but it's like, that's the very in real life reality

01:37:33.480 show type.

01:37:34.880 He was, he was a good storyteller too.

01:37:37.360 And I almost feel bad that so many of the funniest ones, you know, you can't tell because

01:37:40.500 it's private information, but when he could actually tell you something, him relating it

01:37:45.560 secondhand was so funny.

01:37:47.600 I'll give you a good Seinfeld moment from Charlie Kirk's life.

01:37:50.640 And I'll never, I think about this all the time and I don't know why it just sticks with

01:37:53.940 me.

01:37:54.120 Like, so Charlie and I were going back and forth to LA for like every week for like a

01:37:59.540 year.

01:37:59.900 It was, there's a reason for it.

01:38:01.560 It was crazy.

01:38:02.080 It was, it was stupid, but my life got like completely uprooted and I was going to LA every

01:38:06.200 week.

01:38:06.600 So the horrible part about this is that we had to find LAX and LAX is like a third world

01:38:10.920 country.

01:38:11.280 And it just is.

01:38:12.620 And like, you just like, and again, for people who have patience, you can probably get through

01:38:17.300 LAX.

01:38:18.060 Charlie Kirk cannot.

01:38:19.440 And we were flying just back and forth.

01:38:21.460 And so one day we cut it really close on the Uber that we're going back to LAX and you

01:38:26.580 get in the loop around LAX and it's like a horseshoe and it's, and if it's stopped and

01:38:31.560 there's like that Uber spot where you have to, but you're so close to the terminal, but

01:38:35.280 you're really not.

01:38:36.260 Are you talking about just as you enter the airport?

01:38:39.480 No, just the horseshoes.

01:38:40.640 I just bounce.

01:38:41.520 But if it's packed.

01:38:42.300 No, sometimes you can just bounce and then you can run faster than going through it.

01:38:46.260 People who don't know LAX, that's a total thing where you're stuck in your Uber outside

01:38:50.200 the airport and you can see the whole string of cars and people are getting out running in.

01:38:54.340 But you can cut across the thing.

01:38:56.780 You can cut across the garage.

01:38:57.380 It's a horseshoe and in the middle they have parking and there's some pathways you can actually

01:39:00.600 cut right in through.

01:39:01.640 So anyways, this guy, this guy was driving.

01:39:04.580 I don't know exactly what you mean.

01:39:05.120 I've done.

01:39:05.320 This guy was dropping us off and, you know, he wasn't communicating very well and we're

01:39:10.820 going through it and we're, we're, we're, that basically scenario played out and he's

01:39:16.140 like, oh, well, it's just right up here.

01:39:17.320 It's right up there.

01:39:18.360 And we just kept going and going and going.

01:39:20.440 He's like, and I just remember the guy had messed up and then missed.

01:39:24.920 He cut through the middle because there's a kind of a road through the middle and actually

01:39:28.280 missed.

01:39:28.540 He's like, oh, we're going to have to go back and do this all over again.

01:39:30.760 And we just flew open the doors.

01:39:33.040 He's like, this is crazy.

01:39:35.260 And like, you just like looked at the guys like, this is actually crazy.

01:39:38.760 And we like grabbed our stuff out of the car.

01:39:40.700 We're like having to walk across the airport.

01:39:42.300 But I, I just, it rings in my ear the whole time because the guy was like, oh no, it's

01:39:47.080 fine.

01:39:47.400 I do this all the time.

01:39:49.160 And, but the, the interaction between Charlie and this guy and us trying to get into the

01:39:53.380 airport.

01:39:53.860 You can almost hear it at the home.

01:39:55.180 Oh yeah.

01:39:55.780 Yeah.

01:39:56.080 Yeah.

01:39:56.180 Um, he loved this clip by the way.

01:39:58.540 He actually thought that Seinfeld had really profound, like deeper, like, uh, parallels.

01:40:04.920 He thought it basically thought our entire modern world could be, there was a, there was going

01:40:11.000 to be a Seinfeld episode that, that mocked and parodied that what we're experiencing now.

01:40:16.660 And so he loved this ribbon clip.

01:40:18.420 So let's just go ahead and play the ribbon clip.

01:40:20.040 If we have it, uh, I don't know what number it doesn't have a number, but it's the ribbon

01:40:24.320 clip.

01:40:24.640 You're checked in.

01:40:26.360 Thank you.

01:40:26.680 Here's your AIDS ribbon.

01:40:27.380 Uh, no, thanks.

01:40:28.440 You don't want to wear an AIDS ribbon?

01:40:29.800 Uh, no, no.

01:40:30.860 But you have to wear an AIDS ribbon.

01:40:32.320 I have to?

01:40:33.520 Yes.

01:40:34.060 Yeah.

01:40:34.240 See, that's why I don't want to.

01:40:35.880 But everyone wears the ribbon.

01:40:37.640 You must wear the ribbon.

01:40:39.400 What you are, you're a ribbon bully.

01:40:42.220 Hey, hey you, come back here.

01:40:44.700 Come back here and put this on.

01:40:46.120 Hey, where's your ribbon?

01:40:47.380 Oh, I don't wear the ribbon.

01:40:48.400 You don't wear the ribbon?

01:40:49.500 Who do you think you are?

01:40:51.020 Put the ribbon on.

01:40:52.420 Hey, Cedric, Bob, this guy was like, oh yeah.

01:40:54.620 I won't wear a ribbon.

01:40:56.880 Who?

01:40:57.740 Who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?

01:40:59.340 And I'll try, remember Charlie loved this because it was the parallel to the black square during George Floyd and this coercive, you have to put it up and if you don't, you're guilty.

01:41:10.860 And that was just one instant of Charlie using Seinfeld as, and I'll never forget, he always brings Eric Metaxas on the show.

01:41:23.280 And the first thing he does when Eric Metaxas comes on and he'll make like an inside Seinfeld joke reference because Eric loves Seinfeld as well.

01:41:30.740 And it's, and it's, and it's, and it's a beautiful thing.

01:41:34.460 Man, it's just watching that clip.

01:41:37.700 Charlie loved that clip.

01:41:39.100 Charlie loved saying that line.

01:41:41.820 You must wear the ribbon.

01:41:43.560 Like, yeah.

01:41:44.300 Oh, I'm going to miss joking around with him so much.

01:41:47.660 That's.

01:41:48.100 Oh, how did you get him to wear this hat?

01:41:51.720 This is hilarious.

01:41:54.260 Tyler.

01:41:54.780 This is my greatest moment, by the way.

01:41:56.380 Tyler got him to wear this hat.

01:41:57.840 Put this hat up.

01:41:59.000 I can't believe you.

01:41:59.620 I forgot you got him to wear that.

01:42:02.300 The one thing that I feel.

01:42:04.280 Oh yeah.

01:42:04.640 This was the, I feel happiest about it.

01:42:06.160 I was able to get Charlie to do crazy things for a long time.

01:42:10.040 Again, for, for that.

01:42:11.340 But we did, we had these hats that said precinct lead, uh, precinct sheriff on them.

01:42:16.360 Sheriff.

01:42:16.680 Cause we're focused on recruiting for precinct.

01:42:18.380 So this is how serious about it.

01:42:19.580 And Charlie was very serious about chapters.

01:42:22.020 And on our political side, we talked about precincts and getting everyone involved in the precinct level.

01:42:25.960 And so I was like, Charlie, if you're serious about this, you got to wear this.

01:42:28.480 And we, uh, I think we wore them for a thought crime episode.

01:42:32.040 Yeah.

01:42:32.520 Everybody had to wear a hat.

01:42:34.300 Um, Charlie, I think Charlie probably took that off pretty quickly, but it was great that he, that he, he was always a good sport.

01:42:41.180 But like, no, we had it on.

01:42:42.160 He had it on for quite a bit of the episode.

01:42:44.220 It was always a good sport, uh, actually.

01:42:46.520 And, um, uh, what, uh, South park.

01:42:51.460 Like they didn't understand the South park.

01:42:53.060 I, we found the clip, uh, four 77, uh, uh, I think this is Rush Limbaugh talking.

01:42:59.600 Oh, well, maybe not.

01:43:02.080 We'll find the clip.

01:43:03.000 It's two and a half minutes of, uh, of rush talking about Charlie.

01:43:06.080 I'm going to play it before, uh, this show is out because, um,

01:43:11.540 this show is the Charlie Kirk show and Rush Limbaugh inspired Charlie to pursue this line

01:43:16.940 of work.

01:43:17.240 There's no question about it.

01:43:18.200 That's not me speculating.

01:43:19.620 I know for sure.

01:43:20.440 That's why.

01:43:21.000 Yep.

01:43:21.840 And, um, so I'm going to play the, the Rush Limbaugh clip because they were both two men

01:43:27.500 that we lost way, way too early.

01:43:30.840 And I'm pretty sure that was the clip.

01:43:33.040 I just saw it.

01:43:33.900 Um, and Rush, Rush saw, um, yeah, it's four 77.

01:43:39.100 Let's go ahead and play it.

01:43:41.680 They brought Charlie Kirk to the golf course to meet me about a month ago.

01:43:46.580 He was in town to set up this turning point thing and they brought him to the golf course

01:43:52.440 to meet me.

01:43:52.880 It was during, we were getting ready for a, uh, eight 45 AM start and they brought him

01:43:58.280 out while I was getting ready to go to the range, loosen up.

01:44:00.840 And I spoke with him for about a half hour and he told me how he grew up in a home where

01:44:07.400 my program was on all the time.

01:44:09.700 He was just effusively, uh, complimentary to me, which, which I, of course, understood

01:44:17.520 and, uh, uh, told him he's very wise.

01:44:20.760 His family is very wise.

01:44:22.200 He chuckled.

01:44:22.900 He laughed.

01:44:23.320 This is the kind of guy, um, that, you know, you can see really becoming big in politics

01:44:32.740 as he gets older.

01:44:33.880 He just has the, the, the, the carriage, the personality, the charisma.

01:44:39.000 I, you may think this sounds weird, but I remember when Bill Clinton became president,

01:44:45.260 there were all of these stories about Bill Clinton at Oxford and Bill Clinton at Yale and

01:44:51.780 Bill Clinton here and all these people that went school with him, there were story after

01:44:56.040 story after story where people were saying that they just knew Bill Clinton was going

01:45:00.600 to be president someday in college.

01:45:02.360 He just had that kind of ambition and he impressed people.

01:45:07.240 And I'm telling you that people are saying the same things about, about Charlie Kirk.

01:45:14.440 Yeah.

01:45:15.360 Rush saw it and Rush knew and, um, Rush didn't want to be president.

01:45:21.780 I want people to know this.

01:45:23.060 And then we asked, uh, Catherine after he passed, um, and, uh, she, uh, said it was okay

01:45:32.540 to share that Rush was a seven figure donor to Turning Point and because he believed so much

01:45:39.300 in Charlie and what he was building and the mission of Turning Point USA.

01:45:43.520 And, um, um, I want all of you to rest assured that are wondering what's next, Turning Point

01:45:50.140 USA is not going anywhere.

01:45:52.900 The mission that Charlie started, he always wanted it to be an institution that would outlive

01:45:58.560 him.

01:45:59.780 And we obviously wanted so much more time with him, but that was very clear that that was

01:46:06.500 spoken of expressly.

01:46:08.920 And, um, I know all of us are ready to get to work on that.

01:46:13.640 Um, so, uh, radio, we're going to take a break stream.

01:46:17.420 We're going to keep going.

01:46:18.260 Be right back.

01:46:18.700 All right.

01:46:34.200 Welcome back to, uh, Real America's Voice, the stream.

01:46:38.640 Um, we're honored by all our, our partners at Real America's Voice who believed in this

01:46:43.260 show.

01:46:43.640 Um, and they've always been so supportive by the way, uh, they would send crews halfway

01:46:49.000 around the world to have our back, Rob Sigg, Parker Sigg.

01:46:53.160 We love you guys.

01:46:54.480 You know what you mean to us.

01:46:55.960 And, um, I've talked with both of you in the moments after and since.

01:47:01.260 And, um, Jack, I know you, uh, work with them directly as well.

01:47:04.840 And your show's coming up next and we're going to keep going for.

01:47:08.460 Yeah, but I'm not just, we're going to do this.

01:47:12.160 We're just going to continue this.

01:47:13.240 Yeah.

01:47:14.320 Um, and, um, anyways, we love them and, um, there's so many people that we should remember

01:47:22.340 and thank.

01:47:23.340 There's thousands, thousands and thousands.

01:47:25.480 We're not going to, this probably is not the show to do that, um, just because it's

01:47:30.200 impossible and we're going to forget too many people.

01:47:32.540 But, um, but our, I just can't tell you, uh, how many people believed in Charlie and gave

01:47:40.640 us a shot.

01:47:41.320 And, um, and, uh, as a matter of fact, I am, I'm going to, Daisy, do I have my permission?

01:47:48.680 Do you have, do I have your permission to, to read this?

01:47:50.920 All right.

01:47:52.200 So this is from Daisy Phelps.

01:47:53.980 Daisy, um, she was originally Daisy Dibley when she joined us, uh, and she got married

01:47:59.540 and now she's, uh, expecting her first child.

01:48:02.520 And we love Daisy.

01:48:04.140 She, um, you were joking, Tyler, you were like, my life was really hard.

01:48:08.760 And then you came along and then I was like, yeah.

01:48:10.580 And then my life was really hard.

01:48:11.760 You were like, I felt bad.

01:48:12.560 I didn't want to tell you like how much easier my life got when I came around.

01:48:16.540 And my life was really hard until Daisy Dibley came around.

01:48:19.460 Um, and now Daisy Phelps.

01:48:21.200 A hundred percent.

01:48:21.680 And then Blake candidly, uh, changed everything as well.

01:48:26.300 Um, I'm trying to make sure I got my show clock right here.

01:48:29.320 Um, so this is from Daisy who would do Charlie's makeup and make sure his eyebrows, because

01:48:34.340 he had these crazy eyebrows.

01:48:35.960 Like he had, he had like 60 year old eyebrows at 27.

01:48:40.740 Like they would just spark up like this.

01:48:42.840 And I was like, Daisy, make sure his eyebrows are like his hair.

01:48:45.960 He had this crazy mop that would just fight you.

01:48:48.540 And Daisy got really good at kind of putting it all together.

01:48:50.800 And Daisy also ran his Instagram account and so much more.

01:48:54.080 So much.

01:48:54.540 She did so much around here.

01:48:55.600 She said, Charlie was a force, a believer, a patriot.

01:48:59.320 He was my friend.

01:49:00.740 I've had the privilege of speaking to him every day for the last four years.

01:49:04.400 And I can't tell you that I've ever known someone with more integrity.

01:49:07.760 He was exactly who he said he was, except better.

01:49:11.100 There wasn't one thing that was fake or fabricated.

01:49:13.880 He believed in what he said, and he lived out what he believed.

01:49:17.140 He loved Jesus more than anyone.

01:49:19.020 The true, uh, the truest thing about him was his belief in God.

01:49:22.920 He was constantly researching new ways to defend the gospel and making sure we all knew them.

01:49:27.640 It was that important to him.

01:49:29.580 I can still hear him say, good morning, sports fans coming into our studio every morning.

01:49:34.600 I can still hear the worship music coming out of his office.

01:49:37.740 I and everyone in the building was watching.

01:49:39.840 I can still hear, oh, I can still hear the Cubs games.

01:49:43.120 He'd turn on all the TVs to make sure everyone in the building was watching.

01:49:46.820 I can still hear his kids running to hug him during breaks.

01:49:49.620 He's not only, he not only took a chance on me at 21 years old, but he pushed me, trusted

01:49:56.660 me, and listened to me.

01:49:57.920 Our show was everything to us.

01:49:59.740 We lived and breathed the Charlie Kirk show because we believed in it.

01:50:03.060 We still do.

01:50:04.440 He consistently raised the bar for everyone on our team by first raising it for himself

01:50:08.920 every day.

01:50:09.960 He saw greatness in you, and he brought it out by first being great himself.

01:50:14.560 Just being around him, being in the background, made you want to fight harder.

01:50:18.120 He was ecstatic when I told him I was pregnant.

01:50:22.100 He made sure to ask about the baby every day.

01:50:24.560 He wanted to see every ultrasound, and when we found out it was a girl, he yelled, I told

01:50:28.820 you!

01:50:29.980 My faith is completely different had I never met Charlie.

01:50:33.860 My career, my adult life, my marriage from watching the way he loved Erica, everything

01:50:37.960 is different had I never met him.

01:50:39.680 I'll never be the same, and I wouldn't want to be.

01:50:42.500 If there was one thing to know about Charlie, it's that he loved Jesus.

01:50:46.400 He is with God.

01:50:47.300 He spent so much time learning about and teaching others about.

01:50:51.980 Well, welcome back, radio.

01:50:53.280 All right.

01:51:06.920 It's the last segment of the live Charlie Kirk show on the Friday after September 10th, and

01:51:17.240 9-10.

01:51:21.620 We just miss him, and I know we're all very honored to be here.

01:51:25.560 We're going to keep going for another hour, Jack, at least.

01:51:29.780 And I'd like to have an opportunity for people in the audience to call in and tell their stories

01:51:37.580 and how they remember Charlie, and so I want to do that.

01:51:41.100 So I don't know if we're planning on doing that today.

01:51:43.100 I think we probably should.

01:51:44.240 Just keep going.

01:51:44.940 And so let's set up, let's make sure the studio's ready to do that in a little bit, but go ahead.

01:51:53.360 Andrew, there's a few people to, you know, and again, it's really important.

01:51:59.200 Yes, please do this.

01:51:59.640 This is not the show to everybody because there's so many people who are influential,

01:52:03.980 but there's a few people who are so dear to Charlie that I know of that just loved him

01:52:12.500 to pieces.

01:52:15.140 Mike Miller, who's been one of our longtime board members, is like a father figure to Charlie.

01:52:20.660 And in fact, he's one of the individuals who has been there from really day one.

01:52:27.060 When I met Charlie, he was a big-time, big-game hunter, Africa, everything else.

01:52:32.880 But he's a jeweler, a big jeweler in Illinois, from Barrington, Illinois, and he's so American.

01:52:37.780 The guy, his address, I think, for his jewelry shop is 123 Main Street or something.

01:52:41.980 So, and I've slept at his house.

01:52:46.580 Mike's a great man.

01:52:47.880 Incredible man.

01:52:48.740 Love Charlie.

01:52:49.200 Love Charlie so much.

01:52:50.820 Love Charlie so much.

01:52:52.040 But this is, I mean, there are people that have, that were so influential.

01:52:57.920 Our board members, we have so many incredible board members.

01:53:01.120 But, you know, Doug DeGroote, for example, has just been there, has been a rock and a stalwart

01:53:06.020 for Charlie.

01:53:07.040 Tom Sudeikha, who is going through some health things and we're praying for him every single

01:53:11.020 day.

01:53:11.340 I mean, there's just so many people.

01:53:14.180 And so, and those early people, especially the Chicagoans that were there who believed

01:53:20.080 in Charlie, Bill Montgomery, who was one of the first kind of, Bill's enigmatic energy

01:53:28.240 was like a tea party guy that wanted to just show Charlie to everyone.

01:53:32.260 And it was many people like that who created, gave the way, that enabling of Charlie Kirk

01:53:40.840 to, to be introduced to the world.

01:53:43.000 And if you're one of those people, and I didn't name you, I'm so sorry.

01:53:47.740 We, we, we, we, we'll get there.

01:53:49.640 David's there.

01:53:50.700 On the board.

01:53:51.180 You know, obviously, uh, Rob McCoy, so many others that have been so close, all of our board

01:53:56.400 members, truly, um, Jeff Webb, others that you just, you took Charlie around to, to expose

01:54:02.820 him to the world, to others.

01:54:05.040 Um, we're just, we're just thinking about you so much today because, you know, you did

01:54:09.440 this and you, you, you remember, and there were literally hundreds, if not thousands of

01:54:13.040 people who, who did that, these people were just champions of Charlie, Ed Zeman, um, so

01:54:19.340 many, we shouldn't start because we're going to miss people that really, but I want to

01:54:23.980 I guarantee you, Foster is waiting right there for him when he, when he came out, we were

01:54:30.100 sharing pictures of Foster.

01:54:31.200 I remember sitting with Foster actually just right before he passed in the Trump hotel in

01:54:36.380 DC and he scolded me.

01:54:39.380 He was always scolding, you know, for, you know, giving that advice that to, to Charlie,

01:54:45.480 to me, to anyone that would listen.

01:54:47.960 And he loved Charlie.

01:54:50.340 Everyone has loved Charlie so much.

01:54:52.940 I just, I just also want to say thanks just in these few final moments of the live show.

01:54:57.680 And again, we're going to keep going, but, um, we want to thank all the, uh, the Phoenix

01:55:03.700 PD that has been, uh, stalwart and, uh, just from a security standpoint, cops blocking off

01:55:11.600 roads, making sure our staff was safe, making sure these buildings were safe, making sure

01:55:16.360 all the families felt safe going home, um, and coming in.

01:55:20.220 Um, the buildings are, are closed for all intents and purposes, and that's great.

01:55:24.140 That's, that's, that's fine for right now.

01:55:26.460 Um, the first responders at the scene, uh, we want to thank them.

01:55:30.540 We want to thank Charlie's personal security detail.

01:55:33.820 Um, you cannot imagine how, um, tough that was for them.

01:55:39.840 And I really love those guys and they love Charlie.

01:55:42.520 You gotta believe me that if anybody loved Charlie, like, and had his back and was fight

01:55:48.620 the warriors by his side, it was those guys, Dan and Brian guys are the best.

01:55:53.300 Um, incredible, I, I, I can't, I mean, we've known Dan from the very, very beginning.

01:56:00.040 There is not a person that loves Charlie Kirk more than Dan.

01:56:04.740 Absolutely, we would have taken a bullet for Charlie.

01:56:06.860 And the, the PD at the vigils, uh, I know that there's just, we're running out of time.

01:56:13.700 We have 25 seconds left here before we, we lose radio.

01:56:16.600 We love you a lot, Dan.

01:56:17.360 Um, Charlie loved being on radio, um, and so to the radio audience listening all across

01:56:22.680 the country, just know that, um, Charlie was inspired by Rush, Rush believed in Charlie

01:56:27.080 and Charlie took this medium to the next level.

01:56:30.920 Um, and he was rewarded with it in ratings and the performance of the show and all of

01:56:35.300 your amazing belief in it.

01:56:37.360 Thank you so much.

01:56:47.360 More college chapters and disagreement is not just welcome.

01:56:54.160 It is invited.

01:56:55.440 We want to have those tough conversations.

01:56:57.300 That's what it's all about.

01:57:17.360 Because you're not supposed to be involved in this.

01:57:23.540 You're supposed to just kind of be on the vote for me every four years, give me more political

01:57:27.760 power and stay out of my business.

01:57:29.340 And what has happened is we are seeing an explosion in citizen participation.

01:57:34.560 There is nothing else I'll ever need All of my days, your mercy follow me

01:57:50.520 Oh, there is nothing else I'll ever need

01:58:00.240 Knock on that extra door.

01:58:02.320 Go that extra mile.

01:58:03.320 Talk to that extra friend because throughout voting month and culminating on the 5th of

01:58:09.540 November, I believe it will go down as a day that people remember as a day that is written

01:58:15.920 about in history books as the final battle from the golden escalator on down from defeating

01:58:21.960 Hillary Clinton from the nonsense of 2020 from Butler, Pennsylvania, November 5th, it all

01:58:27.180 culminates where we restore the promise that the founders gave us.

01:58:31.960 And they said, Hey, if the people want it, the people get it.

01:58:35.840 And we, the people take back America.

01:58:38.180 God bless Arizona.

01:58:39.400 And thank you so much.

01:58:40.780 Thank you.

01:58:41.780 Every day, the American people demand certain accomplishments and victories.

01:58:56.060 Disagreement is what keeps a movement alive, keeps a movement fun.

01:59:00.000 Here in this country, we are a country of flourishing.

01:59:03.420 We're a country of risk taking.

01:59:05.180 We're a country of building.

01:59:06.700 We will achieve American greatness and we are just getting started.

01:59:11.160 All my days, your mercy follow me.

01:59:31.040 Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.

01:59:34.100 This is Andrew Colvett, Jack Posobiec, Blake Neff, and Tyler Boyer remembering our friend,

01:59:42.300 the one and only Charlie Kirk, who's on assignment from God, who belongs to history, and will forever

01:59:50.160 be in our hearts.

01:59:51.400 And sorry, I just, it's the way this thing works, man.

01:59:54.100 Like, you see somebody you haven't seen yet, you haven't grieved with yet, and it gets the

02:00:01.060 emotions flowing.

02:00:03.080 And, you know, guys that I know who have lost people in the military, they say it's waves.

02:00:10.080 Yeah, it's waves.

02:00:10.760 It feels like waves.

02:00:12.180 That's the best way to describe it.

02:00:13.280 And it's just, you know, certain phrases, certain people, certain faces, certain memories.

02:00:19.540 Like, for me, I didn't expect a Seinfeld clip would just, you know.

02:00:25.820 Yeah, and everybody deals with it differently.

02:00:27.540 And Charlie was not much of a crier unless, you know, he literally helped elect the future

02:00:35.880 president in 45 and 47.

02:00:38.800 And, you know, just hat tip to everything he just accomplished by sheer will.

02:00:45.120 And I really, truly believe that without Charlie Kirk, we would not have President Trump and

02:00:49.920 Vice President Vance.

02:00:52.220 And Vice President Vance, we would definitely not have him.

02:00:54.520 And thank you to President Vance and to Usha, Vice President Vance and Second Lady Usha,

02:01:00.220 for just their, just how wonderful they were with Erica yesterday.

02:01:06.080 Through and through.

02:01:07.000 They came to Salt Lake City, and they picked up Erica, and they picked up Charlie, and all

02:01:12.940 of us, and took us on Air Force Two back to Phoenix.

02:01:16.100 And it was a beautiful ceremony, both getting on and getting off.

02:01:21.600 And JD came back and talked with us, and he spent most of his time with Erica, and just

02:01:28.240 clapped.

02:01:30.520 Hugged us all.

02:01:31.740 He is, he's genuinely, I want to say this about the Vice President.

02:01:34.680 He's been genuinely interested in individuals.

02:01:38.960 And this is the same thing with Charlie.

02:01:41.040 This is the same thing with President Trump.

02:01:43.260 To be very, point blank, is very interested in individuals.

02:01:46.900 And his, his touch, his warm touch on this, of making sure that Charlie was honored the way

02:01:56.560 that he deserved to be honored, is never going to be forgotten.

02:02:00.720 It's never going to be forgotten by this team.

02:02:02.360 It's never going to be forgotten by the conservative movement, by obviously the entire Turning Point

02:02:07.440 family, but that is, that is such a testament to our Vice President's character, because

02:02:13.020 it would, it's just as easy to say, I, I, we can't.

02:02:16.960 And you got to understand, JD's hurting too.

02:02:19.280 Yeah.

02:02:20.240 JD loved Charlie as a brother and as a friend.

02:02:23.420 And they talked almost, I'm, I really mean this, probably on text at least, almost every

02:02:30.400 day, if not every day.

02:02:32.040 And JD was strong.

02:02:34.420 He understood the moment was probably not his moment to grieve.

02:02:38.300 He's grieving in private.

02:02:39.640 And he was there and he was strong.

02:02:41.440 Usha was strong.

02:02:43.180 And, yeah, I just, I love, I love him for it.

02:02:47.580 And, um, there's a lot to love about JD, but that was a really amazing, um, a really

02:02:53.100 amazing moment.

02:02:54.760 And, uh, for our members, and by the way, thank you, Jack, this is your hour, um, and

02:03:00.260 you're, you're graciously, um, letting us continue this show.

02:03:04.760 And I, I wouldn't have this hour if it wasn't for Charlie.

02:03:09.120 So it doesn't mean anything.

02:03:12.060 Just let's just keep going.

02:03:13.920 And, um, I appreciate that brother.

02:03:15.880 And, um, uh, I, uh, just a quick programming note.

02:03:21.580 We're going to be sending our members at members.charliekirk.com.

02:03:25.080 We're going to be sending you a phone number, uh, to call in and share your thoughts.

02:03:30.600 So if you're one of the members of the show, you know who you are.

02:03:33.480 You were the nearest and dearest to us, um, out there.

02:03:37.280 And you believed in this show and you put your money where your mouth is and we adore you

02:03:41.180 for it.

02:03:41.660 And Charlie believed in his members in such an amazing way.

02:03:46.940 And so if you're a member of the Charlie Kirk show, you are about to get an email with a

02:03:52.480 phone number and you can call in and you can share your thoughts and your remembrances of

02:03:57.780 Charlie and what he meant to you.

02:03:59.220 And we would love to hear from some of you.

02:04:00.940 We'll try and fit in as many as makes sense.

02:04:02.820 And, um, how you got to know Charlie, how you discovered Charlie is incredible.

02:04:08.540 Your interactions with Charlie and your interactions with the show, your interactions with turning

02:04:13.500 point, uh, please like coming to events, whatever.

02:04:17.100 We want to hear all of it.

02:04:18.300 And we, please send those thoughts.

02:04:20.300 If you don't call in to freedom at charliekirk.com.

02:04:22.320 I'll just say that, you know, and we haven't really addressed it here.

02:04:26.640 Obviously we, you know, you know what we do.

02:04:29.660 We see all the information that's coming in about the suspect.

02:04:32.700 We've even got stuff that, that hasn't been put out yet.

02:04:37.220 And we just, there'll be a time for that.

02:04:40.700 And we know there'll be a time for that.

02:04:42.620 There will be justice for Charlie Kirk, but that's, that's not what we're doing right

02:04:47.020 now.

02:04:47.380 That's all I'm saying.

02:04:48.020 Can I share one more thing that I saw that was a frequent thing that was really touching?

02:04:52.380 We have, of course, tons of, of people who've worked for us, um, tons of people who have

02:04:57.460 worked with us alongside us that have helped build turning point into what it is today.

02:05:01.020 Uh, but so many people, even people who, you know, again, there are people who aren't always,

02:05:07.740 uh, that don't always agree with, with every single thing that comes out of turning point.

02:05:14.420 I think this is really important, but their life was dramatically changed.

02:05:18.020 because of turning point.

02:05:19.740 Um, and they had met their spouses.

02:05:23.100 Uh, the one common theme I saw was people reaching out to me saying, Tyler, I've always

02:05:28.600 had this unbelievable respect for Charlie and for turning point because it changed my life

02:05:34.880 for the better.

02:05:35.580 I, I found my spouse.

02:05:37.520 I have my kids because of turning point.

02:05:39.660 I heard so many stories like that.

02:05:41.640 And that consistent message that Charlie gave about the family and building your family and

02:05:45.820 everything else reinforced all of that.

02:05:48.840 And so, so many people are like almost coming back home because they're like, Oh, you know,

02:05:53.320 I didn't always agree with Trump or like Trump or whatever.

02:05:55.280 And, and, or I didn't like X, Y, and Z.

02:05:58.380 And now they're on, they're on the team.

02:06:02.080 And it was because Charlie, they stuck with it and listen, they're like, yeah, actually,

02:06:06.440 you know what?

02:06:08.340 This is the life I want to live.

02:06:10.140 My family is important.

02:06:11.460 My, my religion is important.

02:06:13.200 Christ being the center of my life is important, what Charlie said.

02:06:15.660 And so, um, it's been really a beautiful, actually, honestly, a miraculous thing to watch is these

02:06:22.080 people came back who I haven't heard from for almost 10 years, maybe they've said, Hey,

02:06:26.360 this is how much this has impacted and changed my life.

02:06:28.580 And, you know, and some of, some of these, those people saying, I'm sorry, I didn't say

02:06:32.640 something before.

02:06:33.960 And that was because of Charlie and what he built.

02:06:38.060 Blake.

02:06:38.460 I just, you know, I, I keep thinking about, uh, there's a, there's a poem that's a favorite

02:06:49.200 of mine.

02:06:49.840 It's from, uh, it's a, it's a poem during, uh, it was written during World War I by Lawrence

02:06:56.420 Binion and it's titled, uh, For the Fallen.

02:06:58.820 And it was about the men they lost in World War I.

02:07:02.600 And then I think about just a few lines from it and about, and about Charlie.

02:07:14.980 They went with songs to the battle.

02:07:17.620 They were young, straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.

02:07:24.340 They were staunch to the end against odds, uncounted.

02:07:28.380 They fell with their faces to the foe.

02:07:32.600 They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.

02:07:37.320 Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

02:07:42.300 At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

02:07:49.020 And that's how Charlie will always be for us.

02:07:56.380 All of us are going to grow old.

02:07:57.960 All of us are going to die.

02:07:59.040 But Charlie will forever be how he was on September 10th.

02:08:10.040 The brave, strong, out there.

02:08:17.380 Could be like that forever.

02:08:18.740 The end, the end of that one is, well said.

02:08:23.240 There's a couple of lines where the next line of it is actually,

02:08:26.480 they mingle not with their laughing comrades again.

02:08:30.940 They sit no more at familiar tables of home.

02:08:34.080 They have no lot in our labor of the daytime.

02:08:37.560 They sleep beyond England's foam.

02:08:39.720 It's a British poem.

02:08:40.400 And the very last part.

02:08:44.360 As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, moving in marches upon the heavenly plain.

02:08:50.380 As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, to the end, to the end, they remain.

02:08:57.380 And so much of this, in retrospect, and you don't have eyes to fully appreciate it in the moment,

02:09:06.660 but where you realize that you were encountering greatness,

02:09:11.940 and the moment you get the news, you realize that you were around somebody that was so, so incredible.

02:09:21.660 And in kind of, in a weird way, like in retrospect, it all kind of makes sense that we only get him for such a short time.

02:09:31.940 Yeah.

02:09:32.620 Because he was too great for this world in so many ways.

02:09:37.860 And he was a shooting star.

02:09:41.100 He was a mythological creature.

02:09:43.520 You know, you hear these pictures, you hear these images of, descriptions of George Washington,

02:09:47.540 and how he's this huge man, and like, especially for his time.

02:09:52.140 Well, Charlie, we always joked he was a Nephilim.

02:09:54.800 He is literally the only chair, the only chair that we could get.

02:09:59.200 This is actually a really funny story.

02:10:00.720 When we first started getting Charlie the chairs for his studio, it was like, nope, not that.

02:10:04.780 It was like mattress shopping.

02:10:06.460 It was like, nope, not that one.

02:10:07.700 Not that one.

02:10:08.300 Literally, this chair.

02:10:09.460 This is a Shaq chair.

02:10:10.980 Yeah, from, it's a, it's a, it's a fairly inexpensive chair.

02:10:14.560 Yeah.

02:10:14.820 But it's made for huge people like Shaquille O'Neal.

02:10:19.400 From Staples.

02:10:20.440 Yes.

02:10:21.160 From Staples.

02:10:22.060 Locally.

02:10:22.360 And he was like, oh, this is the one.

02:10:24.700 And he's worn it out.

02:10:25.900 It's got like a little, you know, the very cheap, you know, veneer on it or whatever.

02:10:31.200 I don't even know what you call it.

02:10:32.200 It's definitely not leather.

02:10:34.020 It's like vinyl.

02:10:35.540 It's vinyl, yeah.

02:10:36.360 And he wore it out, and he loved that big chair.

02:10:39.100 And I have to say, like, when I've sat in it in the past, like you've sat in it, it's

02:10:42.200 like, you're like, oh, okay, I see what he was kind of, you know.

02:10:44.900 It's a good chair.

02:10:46.600 It's like a hug.

02:10:47.520 But he was larger than life.

02:10:49.860 And we all saw it, and we all, you know, he was younger than us.

02:10:54.040 Everybody at this table, he was younger than us.

02:10:56.260 And so we just, you know, you assume that you're going to probably go before him.

02:11:00.480 And, but in retrospect, like, he was so larger than life, and he packed so much into every

02:11:07.180 single day that it's pretty impossible to, it's impossible to fully grasp just how much

02:11:14.760 life he lived and how much he accomplished in 31, far too short years.

02:11:19.740 But we do have our first caller.

02:11:21.420 Do we want to, are you guys ready for that?

02:11:25.540 His name is Evan.

02:11:27.500 Evan, the floor is yours.

02:11:29.220 Gentlemen, it's an honor to just be on and talk about Charlie for a sec.

02:11:35.240 I'll keep this quick.

02:11:36.840 Charlie was a friend.

02:11:38.240 I consider him a dear friend, even though I never, ever met him.

02:11:41.020 I've listened to him for a very, very long time.

02:11:43.240 I run and operate a lawn and landscaping business and also host a podcast.

02:11:47.160 And what Charlie really taught me was he was always continually learning.

02:11:51.480 And even with my show that helps me, you got to know things.

02:11:54.740 You got to know about equipment and things like that.

02:11:57.160 And Charlie was always learning.

02:11:58.100 He's always listening to books and things like that.

02:11:59.980 And his boldness to stand on the word of God and Jesus is what I've tried to do with

02:12:04.520 my business and in life and even my family too.

02:12:06.600 Like I have a two and a half year old son and a kid on the way.

02:12:08.880 And when I heard the news just a couple of days ago, I was on the more I stopped and I

02:12:13.720 cried.

02:12:14.100 It was just, it's devastating, but we know that God's going to work this together for

02:12:18.540 good.

02:12:19.120 And through his tragic death, guys, more people are going to know about Jesus.

02:12:23.760 And that's the one thing that we have to remember through this.

02:12:26.020 And it's just, I've never been, I consider him a friend, even though I just never knew

02:12:30.740 him.

02:12:30.900 And I want you guys to hold on to God's word because that's what Charlie would want for

02:12:33.740 us to do is stand on God's word and hold on to it right now and not let the enemy just

02:12:38.020 blind us from the mission that he had set.

02:12:40.280 Guys, I appreciate all that you do.

02:12:41.520 And I just, Charlie, just thank you and thank you Lord for putting him on this earth for

02:12:46.360 31 years.

02:12:47.840 Well said, Evan.

02:12:48.880 And I think I just want to echo what you're saying.

02:12:51.200 I've gotten so many notes and I've seen so many comments in social media of people saying

02:12:56.820 their kids are coming back to church because of Charlie and because of this, what's happened,

02:13:01.960 that people are coming back to the Lord.

02:13:04.080 And I just, Jack, it is your hour, but I'm just going to say a quick prayer.

02:13:09.800 I'm going to say a quick prayer for that.

02:13:14.120 Heavenly Father, we ask that you would bless Charlie's legacy right now in this moment across

02:13:23.560 the country and across the world as we mourn his passing is far too early and too soon.

02:13:31.880 We ask the Holy Spirit that you would enter the hearts of millions of people across this

02:13:38.040 planet, across our nation, and that you would bring people to faith in you, Jesus, saving

02:13:44.760 faith in you.

02:13:45.460 He loved you, and I know that he is getting his reward in heaven right now, and that's

02:13:52.200 what he wanted in the beautiful eulogy that Blake helped write that all he wanted was thriving

02:13:58.880 young people that went back and found their faith in you and thriving young families that

02:14:04.420 made this country strong and great so that more could follow that same path.

02:14:10.080 And I know, Lord God, that getting married and having a family and knowing you were his greatest

02:14:15.080 accomplishments on top of everything else he did.

02:14:17.900 And so, Jesus, we just bless this country and everybody that loved Charlie or that heard

02:14:22.900 about him, that only heard about him even from his death, Lord, that you would make so

02:14:28.720 many new believers, make so many new members of your heavenly kingdom right now and in the

02:14:34.520 days and weeks to come, Lord Jesus.

02:14:36.640 We ask in your precious name.

02:14:38.280 Amen.

02:14:39.340 Amen.

02:14:39.700 If you guys want, we could follow that up.

02:14:45.300 Tyler, I know you just put the hat back on, but we could all say together, Father, Son,

02:14:49.800 and Holy Spirit.

02:14:51.080 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

02:14:55.840 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

02:15:01.440 Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass

02:15:08.460 against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil.

02:15:14.700 Amen.

02:15:15.960 Amen.

02:15:19.320 Charlie would have wanted people going back to church more than anything.

02:15:23.160 More than anything.

02:15:24.500 That more than politics or campaigns or whatever the next election was or whatever the next turning

02:15:33.740 point was.

02:15:34.480 The core belief was he was a true believer in what Andrew Breitbart said, and we talked

02:15:43.380 about this all the time.

02:15:44.000 I actually remember visiting.

02:15:45.420 We were visiting a donor, and we stood in the spot where Andrew Breitbart passed, which

02:15:49.780 is a kind of a...

02:15:51.020 It's in L.A.

02:15:51.760 You've been there, right?

02:15:52.660 It's on Sunset.

02:15:53.500 Yeah.

02:15:54.120 It's really interesting.

02:15:55.700 It's right outside a restaurant.

02:15:57.700 It's in Brentwood, at least.

02:15:58.960 I don't know if we've talked about that.

02:15:59.720 It's kind of an interesting place, but he had always had kind of this infatuation with

02:16:05.260 the concept, and we actually leaned into it, talking about culture wars and all of that,

02:16:09.940 but that culture is what dictates your politics, and culture is dependent upon your faith.

02:16:18.440 Faith's the bedrock.

02:16:19.580 It's the absolute starting point.

02:16:20.540 There's nothing that impacts that, so the politics that is really downstream from culture

02:16:25.760 is really, and this is kind of like, I would say, Andrew Breitbart next level, which was

02:16:30.300 this Charlie Kirk, is that that's why I believe Charlie was so adamant about faith being so

02:16:36.600 important, is that he was a true believer in that statement, but that faith was what was

02:16:41.960 dictating how our politics would end up, which is absolutely correct and true, and so there's

02:16:47.320 nothing that could be more important right now.

02:16:49.000 What you can just tie it up and say, politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream

02:16:56.820 from faith.

02:16:57.460 That's right, and Charlie led by example in embracing faith, embracing the Christ-like attributes

02:17:09.760 that are necessary to impact culture in the positive way that needed to happen, and I think

02:17:15.580 that's why you're seeing that turn of so many young people that were influenced by this,

02:17:22.300 maybe starting with politics, but walking themselves backwards and going, oh my gosh, well, my politics

02:17:28.080 is dictated by my faith, and that's a great legacy.

02:17:33.780 That is the most important legacy, which Charlie himself said, which is that's all he cared about,

02:17:39.320 is that people would know that.

02:17:40.660 Well, it was interesting.

02:17:41.400 I saw a clip yesterday from Larry O'Connor, who worked for Breitbart, Andrew Breitbart,

02:17:47.260 and they were talking about, he was talking about this memory at CPAC, and they were doing

02:17:50.700 an Andrew Breitbart panel, and Larry put it together, he was kind of, he's like, well,

02:17:56.780 all of us worked directly with Andrew, you never knew him, he's like, and Charlie says,

02:18:01.340 I can't wait to be on this panel, you know, this is so amazing, and so he's like, I'll call

02:18:06.500 you and tell you about it, like my thoughts, and he's like, okay, we probably should talk,

02:18:09.180 because the rest of us knew Andrew, and Charlie said that I was so inspired by Andrew Breitbart

02:18:15.640 that I created Turning Point, and Larry realized that he started Turning Point in 2012, the

02:18:23.660 year that it happened, and he realized that Charlie, in many ways, is the blossom of the

02:18:30.080 seed planted by the death of Andrew Breitbart, and so when you think about how that can keep

02:18:36.820 going forward, and I know Charlie would want that, that we would have many such stories

02:18:42.700 like that, not just Turning Point or whatever.

02:18:44.980 And it's really an interesting point to make for those that study modern conservatism,

02:18:52.360 there aren't very many people, I mean, let's, if you had to pick the top three, it would

02:18:58.260 probably be, you know, and again, we're setting Charlie aside, but Andrew Breitbart, Donald

02:19:06.100 Trump, and the third being Rush Limbaugh, and when you look at that, you start to go, wait,

02:19:14.820 what's the connection between all three of those men?

02:19:18.400 It's really, you look at that, you go, Charlie Kirk, and Charlie was a, again, enigma, he was,

02:19:29.100 he had a personality that was unlike anything else, but he was the continuation, he picked

02:19:36.480 the baton up for all three of those men in different ways, and carried the entire conservative

02:19:42.800 movement on his back, and created something, again, that, the culmination of that, you know,

02:19:47.580 what is the representation of Charlie, and people are like, well, what can we do to, you

02:19:52.180 know, keep Charlie, you have it, it's Turning Point USA, it's Turning Point, the entire

02:19:57.500 ecosystem, he did it.

02:19:59.500 Yeah, he was, he was able to do all the things.

02:20:03.400 I, all of the things.

02:20:04.480 I promised we would, we would mention this, and before we go to the next caller, I saw some

02:20:12.260 people saying that, you know, they thought I was trying to brush it off, I just, I wanted

02:20:15.420 to give the vigils a moment, because, and I wanted, because I knew we were up on a clock

02:20:21.280 before, it's unbelievable, and they're, they're worldwide, South Africa, I've seen, Australia,

02:20:30.920 Australia, huge one in Australia, I got a video from Sydney this morning, someone sent

02:20:35.340 me, Sweden, Sweden, all across Europe.

02:20:38.000 I just got one from Hungarians, I'm sure, and then all across the country, and, and

02:20:46.380 there's like, there's like little ones popping up, you know, like, just, hey, this is the

02:20:49.960 one in our town, if you want to come, just come on, someone sent me, Westchester, PA,

02:20:54.600 and, you know, I hear there's, I hear there's going to be a, I think, I hear there's, they're

02:20:59.800 trying to put together one, not like an official one, but like, at the, at the White House, at

02:21:03.480 Lafayette Square Park, there's just some local people trying to get a permit, and, and it's

02:21:09.460 that spirit of individuals becoming activated, and coming together around one core concept,

02:21:23.420 principle, value, that's what Charlie Kirk stood for, that's what he was all about, he

02:21:28.180 lived his entire life trying to inspire a turning point in this country, and, and he's

02:21:34.480 done it.

02:21:35.500 He, I, I've, I take so much solace in a couple of things, he got to see young men and the

02:21:44.340 youth vote win a president.

02:21:46.820 Yes.

02:21:47.300 He got to see it, and he got to do it, and he got to see, he got to see the decline in

02:21:55.040 church, start going back up, he got to see that, and he got to see just, just before

02:22:02.060 that NBC poll that said that young men want to get married and have babies as their top

02:22:08.180 priorities, and I can't tell you how much that means to me that he got to see the fruit of

02:22:15.460 his work, because so many people don't, they don't get to see what they've accomplished,

02:22:22.440 and he actually got to see it, and all of you that came out to the campus events, all

02:22:27.340 of you that came out to our turning point events, all of you that subscribed to this,

02:22:32.380 the show that gave him like one of the biggest shows and reaches and platforms in the entire

02:22:38.480 country day in and day out, and we had millions of people listening to Charlie every day.

02:22:43.540 Every day.

02:22:44.160 Every day.

02:22:45.020 We tried our best to estimate it, and the way of modern analytics with fast channels

02:22:52.140 versus radio versus podcasts, and then you take clips, it was basically impossible to

02:22:57.340 measure, but even just in the fall, going up to the election, 15 billion views of Charlie

02:23:04.840 Kirk content, just ahead of the election.

02:23:07.460 Um, and every day there was between two and three million people that tuned into this

02:23:12.520 show, to the Charlie Kirk show, or listen to the podcast, or, um, and that's just the

02:23:18.580 live show, that's not even counting clips.

02:23:20.240 So that was podcast, radio, and it was truly, truly a feat for anybody, but the fact that he

02:23:25.700 was able, like we said, Tyler, to be like a Rush Limbaugh, to be like an Andrew.

02:23:29.740 All of it.

02:23:34.620 Human that took, and by the way, and I want to give a shout out to all of his assistant

02:23:39.800 staff and his chief of staff, Mikey, who made his day-to-day possible.

02:23:45.540 Um, they were really amazing.

02:23:47.200 Uh, we're going to get to another caller.

02:23:49.160 Um, and this one is Anthony, Anthony, the floor is yours, my friend.

02:23:55.320 Uh, tell us about Charlie and wait a minute.

02:23:57.140 Andrew, um, well, first, my condolences to you and everybody.

02:24:02.040 Um, so Charlie and I, I've been listening to the show since it probably started and I've

02:24:07.720 been a member for a while and everything.

02:24:09.620 And then, but the one time that it stood out to me, and this might've been the funniest

02:24:13.800 disagreement was probably at the end of July, early August, it was the weekend before you

02:24:19.420 had to go on Fox and friends.

02:24:20.680 And he put out the question to everybody in the first hour, does baseball need a salary

02:24:25.640 cap?

02:24:25.900 And he knows that I work in the industry and it's on the college side of athletics.

02:24:31.580 And I, he, we talked about the political question I sent into him and then he goes,

02:24:36.280 all right, Anthony, give me your, I need, I need to know you're the professional.

02:24:39.000 I go, I already emailed you my answer in the first hour.

02:24:41.620 He goes, I know I'm not letting you go until you tell me.

02:24:45.140 Said, well, I believe I'm on the fence.

02:24:48.960 And he literally starts laughing and goes, you can't be on the fence about this.

02:24:53.820 You have to be on my side.

02:24:55.780 And I'm like, and then, and I'm like literally sitting there and I'm like, he's yelling at

02:25:02.060 me.

02:25:02.560 He's yelling at me because the guy in the industry won't side with him.

02:25:06.900 And I'll be honest.

02:25:08.100 I always wanted a salary cap until I did more research.

02:25:11.160 And then he's like, well, you have to, and Blake, you can relate to this.

02:25:14.440 You got to find me that research.

02:25:15.740 So I said, all right, I will look for it.

02:25:17.480 I sent it to him next Saturday morning when he's live on Aaron Fox the following week.

02:25:21.700 He goes, I got your emails.

02:25:22.640 I haven't read them yet, but he goes, but it was the funniest to see his facial expression.

02:25:27.660 Yeah.

02:25:28.180 So I don't, because he's like, Anthony, I just want to, you're reminding me of, of a very unique

02:25:33.500 detail of Charlie Kirk that unless you emailed in the show, you didn't know he would argue

02:25:38.700 with emails and he would get into these during the show.

02:25:44.180 During the show, he's sitting there hosting the show going, welcome back to the Charlie

02:25:47.160 Kirk show, press send.

02:25:48.840 And then he'd be like, you know, they'd keep the show going, but he would, he was, uh,

02:25:55.020 arguing with people as we went.

02:25:57.160 He could be talking, like giving a monologue and writing a separate argument to an email.

02:26:04.080 Well, we would all be debating too.

02:26:05.480 So he would, your emails that you would, you would make, he would drop into the chat and

02:26:10.560 it would be like rolling a grenade into the chat.

02:26:13.020 Yeah.

02:26:13.460 Or sometimes, you know, he'd be like, what do we think?

02:26:16.040 And he'd be like, well, this person just agrees with me.

02:26:18.240 And we would take sides with all of you.

02:26:21.580 So like there, there would, we would have all of that and, and, and, and truly, and this

02:26:26.080 is the one grassroots part, because one of our, our, our culture point that we have at

02:26:30.840 Turning Point is grassroots humility.

02:26:33.080 And this is the really interesting part.

02:26:35.340 And again, Andrew deserves a ton of credit for this because they framed the entire show,

02:26:40.800 the Charlie Kirk show here around your feedback, your commentary, your conversations, individual,

02:26:49.300 every individual in America that talked to Charlie or would email in or would DM had a voice.

02:26:56.620 And, and again, that, that's just, that's not most people that do this.

02:27:01.220 And it helped with the work because it helped frame Charlie's opinions about things.

02:27:06.640 It helped frame from a grassroots perspective, how we think about things at, at Turning Point.

02:27:12.620 And we think about issues, issues that would be covered on Charlie's show every single day

02:27:16.760 that everybody listened to, everybody at the White House would listen to.

02:27:20.000 And I mean, I, Twitter would change because we, the, the three, like between Jack and Charlie

02:27:26.840 alone, them dropping something changes the whole direction on Twitter anyways.

02:27:31.100 And then Benny.

02:27:31.720 Yeah.

02:27:32.040 Benny.

02:27:32.700 Yeah.

02:27:33.240 Um, let's throw this up.

02:27:34.720 I just want to say, I don't know all the details about this, um, but there is a prayer

02:27:39.020 vigil planned in Washington, DC on Sunday, September 14th.

02:27:43.720 So this Sunday at 6 PM location to be announced soon.

02:27:48.940 Um, I think I may have just accidentally said it.

02:27:51.600 Oh, whoops.

02:27:52.560 Uh, well, I, if you did, I, you know, some, some, I, I, I wasn't given the full confirmation

02:27:59.480 on that Sunday, but it'll be at 6 PM and Washington's DC.

02:28:04.560 And I think it's a beautiful way to honor Charlie, uh, Charlie, um,

02:28:09.480 candidly didn't love Washington, DC, didn't love going to Washington, DC.

02:28:13.360 I mean, he was pretty open about that, Imperial capital, but he would stomach it because he

02:28:18.640 loved his country and he would go there.

02:28:20.860 And, um, and so, I, I mean, I think it's a fitting tribute.

02:28:25.180 Can I, can I just say if, if you are at Washington DC or if you're in any other blue area and you're

02:28:30.980 going to one of these vigils and protesters come up or something like that, just, I'm

02:28:39.020 not going to say, you know, don't get into it, but just, we're not there for that.

02:28:43.480 We're just, we're really not there for that.

02:28:45.440 Charlie, Charlie was, his message was peace.

02:28:48.420 I mean, Charlie, um, he was a master swordsman, but his sword was the word and the logos and,

02:28:57.300 um, debating.

02:28:58.900 And he didn't believe in, in peace per se.

02:29:01.920 He believed in verbal combat and he believed in, um, intellectual and ideological combat.

02:29:08.000 And he believed that we were in a, a war of ideas and a spiritual battle.

02:29:13.560 And, um, and so I'm not here to give you some rosy, you know, prescription about the

02:29:21.960 state of the world.

02:29:22.720 We're in a battle, um, not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities.

02:29:27.960 And, um, obviously close understanding of the state of the world a couple of days ago.

02:29:32.560 Yeah.

02:29:32.880 Um, but like Charlie ultimately believed in the promise of America and, um, the fact

02:29:40.580 that, um, our institutions will hold, um, I guess, uh, Speaker Johnson will be at that

02:29:49.140 one along with Ana Polina Luna.

02:29:51.160 Um, and, um, you know, more details coming about that, which is very fitting because Ana

02:29:57.400 is, you know, by her own admission is our, is the turning point Congresswoman.

02:30:02.880 And she, um, you know, tell this fun story again.

02:30:07.000 I know some people have heard it, but Ana was thinking about going to med school and she

02:30:12.120 had engaged with us online.

02:30:13.840 Um, we had, I found her, we saw that she was saying some smart things on Instagram and we

02:30:21.060 actually reached out to her, invited her to young women's leadership summit.

02:30:24.160 And she came and she was like, Hey, I'm, I'm applying to med school.

02:30:30.440 And she was, again, air force veteran, everything else.

02:30:34.440 And that one experience of her being there at young women's leadership summit, which by

02:30:40.120 the way, that was young women's leadership summit was the brainchild of Charlie.

02:30:43.420 We'd started that many, many years ago.

02:30:45.700 He knew that was important.

02:30:47.320 Uh, wanted to do that, but it culminated.

02:30:49.600 It started at a tiny little thing in Illinois and then we moved to the airport.

02:30:52.860 We were at the airport, uh, you know, kind of a three-star hotel at the high and deep

02:30:57.800 DFW at DFW tidy.

02:30:59.920 It was like inside, it's like literally inside the airport.

02:31:02.060 So you don't even, you don't even leave the airport when you show up and it grew and grew

02:31:06.040 and grew, but Ana showed up there and we convinced her to not go to medical school, to quit, basically

02:31:13.040 move to Arizona and start touring and learning how the, the ropes of, of how to debate on

02:31:19.920 campus.

02:31:20.920 And to do that, that was like the Charlie Kirk model.

02:31:23.680 By the way, APL, she has been so fierce in Charlie's defense since all this.

02:31:29.420 I've been texting with her.

02:31:31.200 She has been the person.

02:31:32.640 She's so great.

02:31:33.620 And, um, I just love it.

02:31:36.780 Um, anyways, she's part of the legacy too.

02:31:39.100 She left, she left here wanting to run for Congress, wanting to change the country.

02:31:42.820 She's, she's, she's doing just that.

02:31:44.600 And she's a tremendous friend and ally.

02:31:46.740 And she's been incredible for the last few days.

02:31:49.920 We're going to take another caller.

02:31:51.280 Caleb, you are on Caleb and Michelle.

02:31:54.020 How are you?

02:31:54.760 My friends, my friend, Andrew, well, you know how we are, but, um, it's such a privilege

02:32:04.600 and an honor to, that, that Charlie called me his friend and, and, you know, even though

02:32:12.500 we were occasional acquaintances and I loved how he, every time we would meet, he would

02:32:22.540 treat us like family, you know, and I have this, what I wanted to talk about is maybe just

02:32:29.700 a couple of stories about how he elevated those around him.

02:32:33.520 And I know it's been said before that that was the kind of person he was, he wanted everyone

02:32:38.480 to be their best.

02:32:40.820 And, um, but you know, we, we, and Michelle's already emailed you guys the story of how we

02:32:47.360 first met in 2020.

02:32:49.020 And, you know, we, he introduced us to people.

02:32:52.720 We, you, you, I think you were there, Andrew, we come back and said, these are my 2020 friends

02:32:56.840 because we met, you know, met him in 2020 just after the election at the headquarters.

02:33:01.120 And, and it was, what was so cool is that every time afterwards, we would go to an event

02:33:06.620 that Charlie was speaking at.

02:33:08.240 And he did this like at least twice to me.

02:33:11.460 He's like, Oh, Hey, Caleb, I'm out in the crowd.

02:33:14.580 I'm just sitting out in the crowd.

02:33:15.680 He says, Oh, there's Caleb and Michelle, I should tell you the story about how we met

02:33:19.800 in, in Arizona.

02:33:21.120 You know, if he remembered you when he saw you again and, and welcomed you in and Michelle

02:33:28.340 and I just were so happy that, you know, three weeks ago, he was in Myrtle beach and, and

02:33:34.160 you know, we're in North Carolina now.

02:33:35.800 And we're like, we could drive.

02:33:36.760 We could go to that.

02:33:37.460 And we, you know, um, and so we, we went to see him and I saw you there, Charlie,

02:33:44.060 I saw you there, Caleb.

02:33:44.720 Yep.

02:33:44.920 And it was so cool because Charlie invited us backstage, um, or, you know, Mikey did.

02:33:51.300 And he brought us into the green room and there's Alex McFarland and Charlie introduces

02:33:56.280 us, you know, Caleb, Michelle, you know, my, my super fan.

02:33:59.600 These are guys are Charlie Kirk show super fan.

02:34:02.700 And, um, and he, he said, you know, Charlie, Charlie said to me, said, you know, Caleb just

02:34:08.680 sent me the, you know, the best feedback.

02:34:10.580 I love reading his emails.

02:34:12.460 Um, you know, he always talked about how he loved Michelle's emails.

02:34:16.640 She's always so encouraging to him.

02:34:18.200 And, and then he, he says, so Caleb, what's on your mind?

02:34:20.740 He just puts me on the spot.

02:34:21.880 You know, like, you know, like, you know, I'm not the guest speaker or anything.

02:34:26.260 And he says, what's on your mind?

02:34:27.540 And I throw out a couple ideas and he says, uh, you know, I'll let you choose.

02:34:30.720 You know, here's a couple ideas.

02:34:31.460 What do you want to talk about?

02:34:32.300 And he's like, oh, that's a great topic.

02:34:33.940 Hey, Alex, you and Caleb, you guys should debate this topic.

02:34:36.800 And then he just puts this on the spot and he facilitated, you know, he kind of moderated.

02:34:40.420 And he jumps in on my side, you know, it gives a good point here from the Bible because it

02:34:44.140 was a, it was a, you know, uh, a biblical, uh, discussion.

02:34:48.980 And, um, by the way, Caleb, I want to give you credit because Charlie threw them, threw

02:34:53.500 it to you to make a point.

02:34:56.320 Uh, remember backstage with McFarlane and you crushed it, man.

02:35:02.080 You crushed it.

02:35:03.180 And I remember looking at, I walked away with Charlie and I said, Caleb did well.

02:35:07.200 And he goes, oh yeah, he's been paying attention.

02:35:10.680 Um, I want to throw up another image here.

02:35:15.380 Um, this is from some friends here, a Memorial rally tribute ride, um, and Lynchfield park,

02:35:23.420 uh, uh, here in Arizona, uh, arrive at 5 PM, right at five 30, um, and, uh, speakers to

02:35:31.960 be announced candlelight vigil at seven 30.

02:35:34.000 Uh, this is just, this is what's happening.

02:35:37.420 People want a way to help.

02:35:39.640 And I, uh, I think it's, I think it's incredible, um, that so much of this is happening.

02:35:45.060 So organically, um, nobody's planning this.

02:35:48.960 Nobody, nobody's like, there's no like organization by the way, doing like the DC one.

02:35:52.600 It's just like people in DC that love Charlie.

02:35:55.420 Charlie would have loved this.

02:35:56.220 And it's just happy people are grabbing the bull by the horns and they're doing this because

02:36:01.420 they loved him.

02:36:03.380 But, but Charlie would also say, he'd say, okay, but don't stop there.

02:36:06.680 Of course.

02:36:07.160 He would say, don't stop there.

02:36:08.840 Do not stop there.

02:36:10.260 Thank you.

02:36:10.780 But do not stop there.

02:36:12.020 Um, speaking of which, this is like, I had my team coming to me going like, how can I

02:36:16.300 help?

02:36:16.620 Like, can I make a montage?

02:36:18.700 Can I make a tribute video?

02:36:20.040 And I'm like, sure.

02:36:21.160 I haven't seen this one either.

02:36:22.640 Let's go ahead and play.

02:36:23.340 This is from Noah on our team.

02:36:25.200 And I haven't seen it.

02:36:26.360 Um, so for 19, thank you, Noah, why your faith is the most important thing.

02:36:32.780 You are commanded to go do something productive with your life.

02:36:36.840 You are not commanded to go sit idly by and just receive.

02:36:40.440 You are commanded to go give and to produce and to risk to then go.

02:36:45.860 So into other people, that is a biblical idea that has made the world a profoundly better

02:36:50.700 place.

02:36:51.100 We must put God first in everything that we do.

02:36:55.980 We are nothing here, but just for a short instant, short little glimpse, we act not

02:37:02.100 out of outcome, but we act out of obedience.

02:37:05.520 Everybody, this was not earned.

02:37:07.400 You guys were a vessel.

02:37:08.900 We were a vessel.

02:37:09.940 Psalm 107.

02:37:10.880 One.

02:37:11.260 Oh, give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his steadfast love endures forever.

02:37:16.040 I have to say this without getting emotional, but I'm very proud of my husband.

02:37:19.220 You are so intentional with your faith and you are so intentional with just how you are

02:37:24.340 as a father and a husband.

02:37:25.680 Becoming a father has made me, first of all, understand that what I'm fighting for is beyond

02:37:30.660 even yourself.

02:37:31.820 We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and darkness and

02:37:36.920 spirits.

02:37:37.560 Because at its core, what we are fighting is a spiritual battle.

02:37:40.780 And if you're here and you don't believe in God, okay, fine, I'll pray for you.

02:37:45.180 And I hope you find Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, because it will change your

02:37:48.260 life.

02:37:49.220 How do you want to be remembered?

02:37:56.000 I want to be, I want to be remembered for, for courage, for my faith.

02:38:00.080 That, that would be the most important thing.

02:38:01.720 Most important thing is my faith in my life.

02:38:08.600 Wow.

02:38:09.020 Good job, Noah.

02:38:09.760 Great job, Noah.

02:38:11.380 That's great.

02:38:11.900 Noah's pretty new to the team and you captured it, brother.

02:38:20.040 We got a note here from a John.

02:38:23.040 He said, Charlie sat down with me after my dad died.

02:38:25.520 He says, hey, thought crime crew.

02:38:31.420 I look back fondly on the time I spent with Charlie for my time as a student at GCU to

02:38:37.060 working for NFP and then chase the vote.

02:38:40.240 Charlie inspired me and was my hero.

02:38:41.880 I specifically remember when Charlie came to GCU in 2022, he was informed that my dad had died.

02:38:48.620 He personally spent time with me backstage before his event and that has stuck with me forever.

02:38:53.680 Charlie was an incredible man and made me the man I am today.

02:38:57.480 Sending love and prayers.

02:38:59.200 John.

02:38:59.420 Now he's, now he's, now he's working for president Trump in D.C.

02:39:04.760 Um, uh, do, and we have Sarah, Sarah, you're, you're on with the crew.

02:39:12.560 Um, it's on your mind.

02:39:14.820 Hi.

02:39:16.920 Um, I am holding back tears.

02:39:20.900 It's been a rough couple of days, as I'm sure you all know.

02:39:23.780 Um, I just wanted to say, um, to all the people listening.

02:39:29.980 And, um, all of you folks who are continuing this movement, thank you, especially to Charlie.

02:39:37.300 Um, I really believe he has been the turning point of our nation for, um, I guess what those

02:39:44.440 words are worth.

02:39:45.260 And I'm grateful to him.

02:39:48.960 I'm grateful to his words.

02:39:50.220 I'm grateful to how he held himself and was able to hold conversations with people.

02:39:56.880 And I do think that, um, in this tragedy, I'm hoping that it really is the turning point

02:40:03.660 of our nation and that we can, um, move forward as a nation in a way that Charlie would be super

02:40:10.960 proud of.

02:40:11.500 Beautiful, Sarah.

02:40:14.580 Well said.

02:40:15.040 Thank you.

02:40:15.840 And, um, I think we're all praying that, um, that the reach and the impact that Charlie

02:40:23.500 has.

02:40:23.960 Um, I don't think any of us have any idea just how big it is.

02:40:28.040 And that's what I'm realizing.

02:40:29.340 I feel like Tyler, you and me specifically, and kind of what we had to do the last couple

02:40:33.560 of days, I think we're a little insulated from it.

02:40:36.600 And I'm, I feel like I'm just starting to see it, um, of what I've been kind of ignoring

02:40:41.780 and the calls I haven't been taking and the texts I haven't been responding to.

02:40:46.380 Uh, but that's probably just the tip of the iceberg of how huge, uh, his impact is.

02:40:52.240 I don't think we have any idea.

02:40:53.660 I like, I woke up this morning realizing that, um, yeah, just because of the people, like

02:40:59.640 the, the layers of people talking to people who talk to people who talk to people who are

02:41:03.580 kind of coming back and, um, people have been so good to all of our team.

02:41:08.000 Like, you know, people were worried about the safety of our team.

02:41:12.100 Um, and so, you know, Phoenix PD and Mesa PD have been incredible.

02:41:17.140 Um, I know it's Scottsdale PD and everyone else.

02:41:20.980 There's been so many people impacted by this, by the way, aren't even seeing anything.

02:41:27.780 And when we, we landed in Phoenix yesterday, there was a huge crowd hundreds like gathered

02:41:32.920 outside of the airport.

02:41:34.840 And as we drove away in the procession, there was people lining the streets like American

02:41:41.040 flags and MAGA hats, probably half of them that Charlie threw to them.

02:41:45.260 And, um, and when we got to our final destination, again, there was a huge crowd gathered waiting

02:41:51.700 for, for us and for him.

02:41:54.640 And it was really, really amazing.

02:41:56.720 And it was just kind of a little insight.

02:41:58.980 I, and I'd, Blake, I joke with you because we couldn't take him anywhere in life.

02:42:04.100 We couldn't take him anywhere.

02:42:05.180 Like he would get absolutely mobbed.

02:42:08.120 Can I get a selfie?

02:42:08.700 Can I get a selfie?

02:42:09.300 I mean, it didn't matter if you were in Seoul.

02:42:10.820 It was unbelievable.

02:42:12.000 Yeah.

02:42:12.480 Just in Seoul in Japan, just the number of people or it, you know, even we realized it

02:42:17.640 when we went to Cambridge and Oxford last spring, the, the number of people who would recognize

02:42:22.360 him all over the place.

02:42:24.380 Yeah.

02:42:24.880 And I, I took him to a, like a very, very private place in California.

02:42:31.400 And I was like, don't worry, we'll be, we'll be left alone.

02:42:34.380 Cause we had business to attend.

02:42:35.360 We had a real, like pretty important call, like discussion we were having.

02:42:38.600 We needed to work out some details and some planning.

02:42:40.480 And I was like, don't worry, we'll be fine.

02:42:42.180 And it was like, no, it was not.

02:42:44.040 It was like, people would come candidly.

02:42:46.320 They were a bit rude, but I looked at him and I, cause you know, we're obviously having

02:42:49.820 a private discussion and they were like, can I, oh my gosh, can we get a selfie?

02:42:52.420 And as he was driving away after, I mean, there was like very private place.

02:42:57.040 There was still about, I would guess to me about 30 people in the course of about 40

02:43:00.460 minutes.

02:43:00.740 Like, and we were trying to hide.

02:43:03.320 And, uh, and then as he's driving away, these two kids were like rode their bikes

02:43:07.520 after him and they were 14, 14, 15 years old.

02:43:10.640 And they're like, is that Charlie Kirk?

02:43:11.540 I was like, can we get a selfie before he leaves?

02:43:13.400 And I was like, you know, I was like, Charlie, you know, and Mikey was in the car with him

02:43:16.620 as they were driving away.

02:43:17.560 And of course he's like, I, I, um, um, I, I got him to stop and he was, and I asked him

02:43:24.020 in the middle of it.

02:43:24.620 I said, are you okay with this?

02:43:26.500 He's like, honestly, it's just, I've accepted it.

02:43:30.200 This is life.

02:43:31.000 And I just, I want, like, I know that I can make somebody's day by doing it.

02:43:34.680 It's fine.

02:43:35.680 You know, always, always say yes to every photo.

02:43:37.960 The one funny.

02:43:38.700 Yes.

02:43:38.920 He would always say that to always say yes to every photo, even if he was in the biggest

02:43:42.300 hurry, the one funny moment that I have, that's like, there was the opposite of that with

02:43:46.660 Charlie.

02:43:47.100 And I don't know why this memory sticks with me, but it was, it was during that whole time

02:43:51.280 when he lost his voice and we were trying to get his voice back.

02:43:54.320 So it was like me, Charlie and Mikey.

02:43:59.200 And we were just, cause the way the travel route, we were just driving through like central

02:44:03.780 Florida where it gets kind of rural.

02:44:05.920 And we, we had this idea to get him like a humidifier with like medicated humidifier, but

02:44:11.480 we couldn't figure out where to get one.

02:44:12.780 And Charlie wanted a specific one.

02:44:14.480 And then we were just driving down the street and Charlie goes, well, there's Walgreens.

02:44:17.760 Let's just, let's just go to the Walgreens.

02:44:19.660 And you know how he is when he'd like, when he wants something and he wants something specific.

02:44:23.300 So we're like, are you coming in?

02:44:25.400 And we just, we just went to Walgreens and we're just like walking around and it was just

02:44:30.740 so surreal.

02:44:31.380 Cause like nobody came up for, it was like the one time among all these times where it was

02:44:37.260 just like the most normal, simple.

02:44:40.420 And of course we couldn't find the one he wanted and we had to get a very Seinfeld, you

02:44:44.140 know, kind of thing.

02:44:45.480 And then we just go check out and it's like in the middle of all this craziness, it's just

02:44:50.320 a random trip to Walgreens trying to find something for my buddy because his throat hurts.

02:44:55.360 You know, it's funny actually now thinking of thinking about that, you inspired this.

02:44:59.460 I remember when he was in Seoul just like a week ago, two weeks ago, whatever it was.

02:45:03.580 And he, he went out and explored the city.

02:45:06.300 He got up early and explored the city.

02:45:07.720 And I remember going alone.

02:45:08.820 Are you like, and he was like, yes, alone, LOL.

02:45:11.360 Like it's safe here.

02:45:12.720 Like it's clear.

02:45:13.360 Like that actually meant a lot to him.

02:45:14.900 And I'm so glad now that he got to do this thing that he hadn't been able to do in so

02:45:21.660 long and just go explore a city by himself.

02:45:24.600 He hadn't been by himself for so long.

02:45:26.440 He hadn't.

02:45:27.020 Like, and he loved it.

02:45:28.200 He kept sending us pictures in our chat and like videos.

02:45:31.380 And you were there, right?

02:45:33.840 I mean, you were, I mean, you did do some exploring with him.

02:45:36.200 He did it on his own.

02:45:36.880 And then later we were in this old town neighborhood and he's like, all right, Blake, just tell me

02:45:41.020 about Korea.

02:45:41.780 And I'm just babbling.

02:45:43.120 This is the, this is the palace where they do the Confucian examinations.

02:45:47.440 He loved it.

02:45:48.840 And of course it was also a trillion degrees out.

02:45:50.900 So we were all in, you know, nice clothes because we had to go to the thing later and it

02:45:55.160 was swamp and I was dying, but it was, it was so much fun.

02:45:57.880 But yeah, that's, that's such a good, oh, that's such a good point though, Andrew.

02:46:02.460 I mean, the thing that I think most people don't realize, especially in these, these last

02:46:07.980 years that Charlie was with us was that he was never alone.

02:46:11.960 I mean, the weight and pressure of having to be that celebrity, like that's a lot, it's

02:46:16.340 a lot to do.

02:46:17.260 And, and that has an impact on most people.

02:46:20.380 And the one thing I think that was really astonishing about Charlie is he didn't change as a person

02:46:25.540 at all.

02:46:27.220 He didn't, he, by the way, he wasn't like the party animal either.

02:46:30.140 Like, so a lot of people get in this role and they, they, you, I don't know, you see

02:46:33.760 him at clubs, you see them drinking, you see them partying or like enjoying all this stuff.

02:46:38.560 Charlie would go home at like the first instant that was socially acceptable for the programming.

02:46:44.560 Like at America Fest, maybe the program didn't get over until 730.

02:46:47.980 He would go straight home back to the hotel as soon as he could after meeting with donors

02:46:52.200 or supporters, and he would do like, he would do a circuit of like four stops, five stops,

02:46:57.460 meet with donors, and then he'd go straight back to be with Erica.

02:47:00.200 Like, immediately.

02:47:02.560 And he, but his personality never changed.

02:47:05.920 His, his, his demeanor never, never changed.

02:47:09.260 Uh, I mean, his busyness level was never different.

02:47:12.660 He was always busy in different ways throughout his career, uh, throughout the time that, that,

02:47:17.840 as he grew, but the thing that was always really difficult that I was always really worried

02:47:22.740 about him was that you're never having that, you know, reprieve from the public eye or be

02:47:28.160 able to go out and just do normal things.

02:47:30.520 And the one thing I really appreciate about Erica and you guys actually specifically that

02:47:36.160 are here with Andrew and Blake, because you guys spent a lot when he did have alone time,

02:47:41.620 it was with you.

02:47:42.400 And so it was like the, that, that was as alone as he got with Mikey.

02:47:47.180 Um, and he, he got to do some normal things in that way.

02:47:51.500 Right.

02:47:51.760 Which was like going to the, to the Cubs game.

02:47:54.420 He was always just the kid from Chicago and wanting to be, and wanting to eat the restaurant.

02:47:59.040 It's like, I'll always remember again, just after we had a long day of doing something extraordinarily

02:48:03.940 exhausting.

02:48:04.560 And I feel like it was like 10 PM and you, you guys know this, like Charlie loved to just go

02:48:09.160 sit down and break bread and eat by the way, the way he would order was hilarious.

02:48:14.420 He'd sit down, we'd be at a restaurant and be like, you know, four or five of us gathered

02:48:18.200 around and he, and he would take the menu and go, uh, give me some of this, some of this,

02:48:21.520 some of this, some of this, some of this, uh, get these out for a shareable plate.

02:48:24.900 You guys are going to love this.

02:48:25.760 You're going to love this.

02:48:26.440 You're a, trust me.

02:48:27.220 And then he would go, uh, and can I get some hot sauce and olive oil and some salt and pepper,

02:48:31.740 please.

02:48:31.940 Thank you.

02:48:32.680 It was like, he would order like a crazy person, like 15 items.

02:48:36.840 And then, so you're just like, I guess I'll just eat what Charlie's having.

02:48:39.980 The table would be filled and he'd be like, get some more of this.

02:48:43.680 You're going to, you're going to love that.

02:48:44.720 You know, eat some more of that.

02:48:45.920 And then everybody's around eating, talking, you know, again, kind of decompressing from

02:48:52.000 whatever the crazy was that we're, you're going through, whether it was the travel or

02:48:55.740 the event or the donor meeting or whoever, or whatever you're doing, the show, the speech,

02:49:01.500 the, I mean, the rally, the, uh, activist event.

02:49:05.860 That was the consistent thing is that you, if you got that opportunity to sit down and

02:49:10.700 then you talk and then you wouldn't, it wasn't just talking about nonsense.

02:49:14.220 It was usually talking about big ideas and having the conversation similar to like what

02:49:18.580 we have on thought crime.

02:49:20.360 So like if you, you as an individual on the world, I don't know if you agree with that.

02:49:25.060 Crime was probably the closest, uh, visual video, videoed version of what it was like

02:49:32.600 to kind of like hang out with Charlie.

02:49:34.120 That was sort of like, we used to joke about it because it was just, it was like our group

02:49:41.300 chat on camera.

02:49:42.860 That's right.

02:49:43.320 Yeah.

02:49:43.600 And that's what it was like to sit down with Charlie, like in a, in a scenario where it's

02:49:48.280 like, you're sitting there talking about, there's these things going on, these topics

02:49:51.560 and like, everybody's going around the horn, just like, you know, talking about it.

02:49:55.060 And they did it and, you know, he was like, well, isn't that interesting?

02:49:58.200 Or like, you know, you get into it and ideas would spark and he'd do that smile and he

02:50:03.660 would think about it.

02:50:04.900 My favorite, my favorite, I was just sharing with Daisy that my favorite segments in

02:50:10.840 thought crime were uncomfortable.

02:50:13.180 Yes.

02:50:13.620 That was the point was, was, was when we would explain memes to him.

02:50:17.620 Yeah.

02:50:17.820 Just like Charlie's like entire knowledge of pop culture froze when he was 17.

02:50:22.360 Yeah.

02:50:22.760 Like what, what, like Charlie, you, you don't, you mean you don't know what a bonus hole

02:50:28.020 is, Charlie or just, just whatever, whatever the Riz, what is Riz?

02:50:34.920 No, no, I'm not going to get into it.

02:50:36.020 I just mean like whatever, whatever the thing was that was going around, he'd be like, is,

02:50:41.280 is that good?

02:50:42.660 Yes.

02:50:43.660 No.

02:50:44.320 Okay.

02:50:44.980 Yeah.

02:50:45.280 Is this good?

02:50:46.100 Yeah.

02:50:46.360 He just wanted the binary, like, is it a good thing or a bad thing?

02:50:49.320 Remember the JD Vance memes?

02:50:50.820 Yes.

02:50:51.280 When the JD Vance memes came out, he was like, are they making fun of JD?

02:50:55.020 Kind of.

02:50:55.800 Sort of.

02:50:56.120 But in a good way.

02:50:57.140 Sort of.

02:50:57.520 And in a good way.

02:50:58.220 Is it good?

02:50:58.760 Yes.

02:50:59.280 Charlie didn't necessarily speak meme fluently or natively, but he understood the power of

02:51:03.860 them.

02:51:04.200 Yeah.

02:51:04.420 I have a story I just want to share.

02:51:05.660 No, he loved them.

02:51:06.300 He loved them.

02:51:06.480 Yeah, he loved them.

02:51:07.580 I have a story I want to share from Emma on our team.

02:51:11.560 She said, the night after the election, Charlie wrapped the stream and came out to the bullpen

02:51:17.740 and sat and ate his dinner with the team and told us stories about the behind the scenes

02:51:21.920 work he was doing that nobody knew about for like two hours.

02:51:25.380 It was one of my favorite CK memories of all time.

02:51:27.980 He told us how much we can trust JD as vice president and the work he did to get him to

02:51:34.000 that spot.

02:51:35.980 It's really beautiful.

02:51:37.140 Charlie had the thing that makes me the saddest about Charlie's passing and that he was ripped

02:51:44.740 away from us so abrasively is that that man had a had probably a library of books to

02:51:52.700 write about the things that he knew that have gone to rest with him.

02:51:57.100 Things that he saw that are really interesting for politics is, again, piggybacking on that

02:52:02.000 you sat down with Charlie, he could tell you about things that nobody knows.

02:52:06.800 I mean, there's things that we know.

02:52:08.380 There's memories that I have that I can tell you.

02:52:11.240 And when the time is right, at some point, I hope that I can share some of these stories

02:52:15.220 that they come out.

02:52:16.800 Andrew has a gazillion of them.

02:52:19.240 Blake, since you've been traveling, Jack knows these things because he lives this lifestyle

02:52:22.860 every day.

02:52:23.440 And that's what I mean.

02:52:25.380 There are things that I'm sad that we'll never hear.

02:52:28.040 I don't want, like we can't, you know what I mean?

02:52:30.720 I just can't.

02:52:32.040 I can't process it.

02:52:32.680 Because people are like sharing text messages and I was going back and look at, because I

02:52:36.360 look at some of the ones that I have and I was like, can't share that, can't share

02:52:39.140 that, can't share that.

02:52:40.100 Or where do you even begin?

02:52:41.200 No, I know.

02:52:41.700 The Riz one is funny.

02:52:42.920 Like we should probably put that up.

02:52:44.100 That's why I brought up the memes, because that's stuff I can't talk about.

02:52:47.540 Put the Riz one up.

02:52:48.480 This is funny.

02:52:49.120 This is like perfect Charlie.

02:52:52.820 And so I always like to like hound Charlie a little bit.

02:52:55.840 And it looks like I was making fun of the cough drop thing.

02:53:01.060 Because the cough, by the way, that was the one thing that-

02:53:04.460 His Zinn cough drops, right?

02:53:05.600 The South Park.

02:53:06.160 Yeah, people thought it was Zinn when he was on campus and he would pop the cough drops in.

02:53:10.800 So welcome to the inside chat, guys.

02:53:12.740 This is about as close up as you can get.

02:53:15.540 And I would be like, actually, Charlie, I love the cough.

02:53:19.220 It makes you look really cool.

02:53:20.220 Like when you're like popping, you got this kind of like nonchalant look when you're just

02:53:23.320 popping the cough drop.

02:53:24.800 And Daisy says, everyone thinks his cough drops are Zinn's.

02:53:27.740 And I was like, nicotine cough drops.

02:53:29.220 And Charlie, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

02:53:31.460 And I go, Charlie's Riz secret.

02:53:33.580 For the record, it's a great Riz crutch.

02:53:35.060 Makes you look nonchalant.

02:53:36.160 Plus the athleisure wear versus the suit.

02:53:38.600 Charlie goes, what is Riz?

02:53:40.020 And I go, like swagger.

02:53:41.320 And Blake has to go, ka, Riz, ma.

02:53:44.200 But no question mark, right?

02:53:45.820 What is Riz?

02:53:46.700 What is Riz?

02:53:47.440 What is Riz, period?

02:53:49.000 Is it good?

02:53:50.560 It's probably because he was hosting a show or something.

02:53:52.760 That was always his follow up, though.

02:53:54.320 Is it good?

02:53:55.260 Is it good?

02:53:55.520 Is this good?

02:53:55.980 We have one more caller I want to get to, and that is Julie.

02:53:59.580 Julie, hopefully you're still with us.

02:54:01.260 The floor is yours.

02:54:04.440 Yes.

02:54:04.840 Can you hear me?

02:54:05.700 Yes.

02:54:07.800 Yes.

02:54:08.120 Yes, I'm Julie.

02:54:09.460 This is me letting Charlie inspire me to be more joyful, bold, and brave.

02:54:13.200 I'm calling instead of emailing.

02:54:14.640 Calling is the scariest thing in the world.

02:54:16.840 So I learned about Charlie after he followed Steve Bannon on RAV.

02:54:22.440 I listen to his podcast every morning on my walks.

02:54:25.560 I love thought crimes and the glimpse it gives you into the secret world of men.

02:54:29.820 I was glued to the rumble late night election coverage.

02:54:32.400 I was blessed to see Charlie interact with college students at Normal, Illinois, when

02:54:38.020 it was here this spring.

02:54:38.980 I was so afraid to go because I thought there's no mute button because I'm kind of like Bannon

02:54:42.060 on the cold open, stop, stop, stop.

02:54:44.020 I can't take anymore.

02:54:45.940 But I didn't need it because Charlie was just fantastic.

02:54:48.660 And then lastly, I'm most thankful for Charlie for introducing me to Jack Hibbs and the Real

02:54:52.860 Life Network and reinvigorating my faith.

02:54:56.180 Thank you.

02:54:57.320 Beautiful.

02:54:57.900 Well said, Julie.

02:54:58.940 Thank you for calling in.

02:55:00.280 Thank you for sharing that, Julie.

02:55:01.220 And sharing that and your bravery was rewarded.

02:55:05.580 And by the way, I want to say this.

02:55:07.160 People describe Charlie as fearless.

02:55:09.280 He wasn't fearless.

02:55:10.520 He was courageous.

02:55:12.580 He looked fear right in the eye and he overcame it again and again and again.

02:55:17.020 And I can tell you how many moments I spent with Charlie in this behind the scenes and

02:55:22.820 the quiet before he walked out on stage or before he had to tackle something or a setback,

02:55:28.180 bad news, and Charlie just looked at the fear right in the eye and he knew there was no

02:55:32.920 way but through and he just was so courageous and he just did it.

02:55:37.260 And he always won.

02:55:39.080 He always won.

02:55:41.420 He always won.

02:55:41.540 He won and he kept coming back and he was stronger and fiercer.

02:55:47.420 And frankly, I think I said this to Erica yesterday.

02:55:51.500 I said, probably for the last two years, I knew Charlie actually was fearless because he'd overcome so much.

02:55:58.260 He was an absolutely fearless individual.

02:56:03.760 I mean, since the day I met him and I shared a story yesterday, I won't repeat it, but the times where I had the greatest fear of people and there's lots of people that fear in politics.

02:56:14.680 And I had this privilege of getting to know what President Trump would label as bad hombres.

02:56:20.760 And Charlie was always the person that said, stand in the pocket, fight these people, fight, fight, fight these people.

02:56:28.440 I saw him do it to you in our chat, too.

02:56:30.860 Many times.

02:56:31.780 Many times.

02:56:32.840 We have to wrap.

02:56:33.440 Every time.

02:56:35.360 It's been a pleasure to be with the audience.

02:56:38.040 Thank you, Jack.

02:56:39.540 Thank you, Blake.

02:56:40.580 Thank you, Tyler.

02:56:42.000 Thank you, Charlie Kirk.

02:56:43.500 You are our hero and you always will be.

02:56:48.600 We love you, Charlie.

02:56:49.720 We love you.

02:56:50.760 We love you.

02:56:52.400 We love you.

02:56:54.080 We love you.

02:56:55.140 We love you.

02:56:57.300 We love you.

02:56:58.280 We love you.

02:57:19.360 We love you.

02:57:19.700 Thanks, Julie.

02:57:19.720 Thanks,l.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - September 12, 2025

REMEMBERING CHARLIE

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