On this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Andrew and Blake remember the life and career of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, the largest pro-American student organization in the United States, and the host of the Charlie and Don Jr. Show.
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00:01:24.000So why don't you set the table for us?
00:01:27.000Yeah, well, I think it's pretty clear what this year means for all of us.
00:01:34.000What I guess I would just remind people that despite what happened in September, this was a tremendous year.
00:01:43.000One of the biggest tragedies about losing Charlie when we did is that we lost him at his absolute peak.
00:01:50.000He really was at the height of his accomplishment, the height of his influence, the height of his impact on the world.
00:01:58.000And if there's anything positive that came out of the horrendous thing, the horrendous events of September, it's that that really ensured that his message will be immortal.
00:02:11.000He will always be as we saw him in 2025.
00:02:17.000We'll never have to see him lose his fastball.
00:02:19.000We'll never have to see Charlie mess up, really.
00:02:24.000He's just, he's always going to be Charlie in 2025.
00:02:26.000And I think the best way to remember him is to look back on those events of 2025.
00:02:33.000And we just have a whole roster of videos and we encourage everyone to email us free to met Charlie Kirk with some of their favorite memories and we'll try to get to them.
00:02:43.000But with that in mind, should we just start rolling through it, Andrew?
00:02:47.000Yeah, I love that the first one, the first one on our clip sheet here is Greenland.
00:02:52.000And I will never forget when Charlie was like, hey, I need you to host the show.
00:06:47.000So they moved it indoors into the rotunda.
00:06:50.000They didn't want anyone having their nose freeze off while waiting to see the president.
00:06:54.000I think that was probably the right move.
00:06:55.000And it really speaks to the esteem the president had for Charlie and what he did to help bring about his victory.
00:07:03.000That with so many congressmen, such a limited number of people able to fit into that rotunda, it's not that big of a room that they did give a seat to Charlie and Erica.
00:07:17.000He is the president of the United States.
00:07:42.000I remember that well because there was a big brouhaha afterwards from some of the Democrat congressmen that were upset that Charlie got a closer seat to the president than they did.
00:08:45.000At the end of the night, when everybody was trying to finally go home, I ended up running into the coat room trying to find coats, and all our staff went in because the hotel staff was completely swamped.
00:08:57.000And whatever their filing system, it was terrible.
00:09:01.000So we were actually like escorting guests back into the room saying, what does your coat look like?
00:09:09.000But the fact that Turning Point got to host a ball and the vice president came, which is, by the way, why Charlie was checking on the village people, because we had to hold the village people off so long because Vice President Vance, you know, on those nights gets delayed because he's got to do a few different stops.
00:09:25.000So he was delayed getting to the ball.
00:09:27.000So we delayed the village people going up.
00:09:29.000And that was a whole thing behind the scenes as well.
00:11:50.000The Bears, they had a bad start to this season.
00:11:53.000Charlie was optimistic with their new coach.
00:11:55.000thought they'd be better but they looked they looked like the same old bears and michael is right the bears have since then gone on quite the streak they have won the nfc north they beat during amfest i avoided events to go watch the packers play the bears and they choked in catastrophic fashion so the bears are going to the playoffs yeah the bears have got some big wins I agree.
00:12:42.000He loved Elon Musk as an entrepreneur, that he built physical things.
00:12:47.000He was very excited that Elon was in the administration and helped working on Doge, so much so that he had us make Doge shirts at the Charlie Kirk show and the much talked about Doge at Turning Point, which people have taken to mean so many crazy things.
00:13:02.000But it was just Charlie just loved Elon Musk and he respected him.
00:13:36.000And Blake, we've said it before in the show, but when Musk and President Trump had that falling out, Charlie made, he called his shot and he said, by Christmas, they will be having dinner.
00:14:39.000And he was, I know he was privately messaging Elon about that, just saying, you know, whatever goes on, I'm grateful for that.
00:14:46.000And he was very optimistic that the president and Elon would reconcile and continue to work together.
00:14:52.000And we've seen evidence that that's the case.
00:14:55.000Just in the past week, Elon has really been pushing this Somali fraud story.
00:14:59.000And I think Charlie's willingness to repair that relationship played a big role in that.
00:15:04.000Well, and I will say that at the memorial, I posted a picture that kind of went viral of Elon and Trump up in the press box watching the memorial play out.
00:15:15.000And I said, I hope they're saying to one another for Charlie.
00:15:18.000And about an hour later, Elon posted that same image, basically.
00:15:22.000One that was a little more flattering of him, which is fair.
00:16:41.000They have to actually get down to the street itself to get rid of all of the nonsense here.
00:16:51.000Make America great again, getting rid of BLM Plaza.
00:16:55.000I love that he said ending race hysteria because Charlie unfairly gets labeled as a racist, as we sort of all do.
00:17:03.000But really what he was raging against, and this was one of his central themes, was this weaponization of racial grievances that was tearing the country apart.
00:17:13.000Still is in some ways, but certainly made huge strides.
00:17:16.000And the election of Donald Trump was a it was a full circle moment that I will never forget.
00:17:20.000And Charlie recognized it for what it was, and he celebrated it because Charlie was not a doomer.
00:17:26.000He was optimistic about the future of this country.
00:17:30.000One thing that was really happening in 2025, Charlie was getting on less and less likely podcasts.
00:17:38.000And I think a real marker that was super interesting, and some people really did not want us to do it, was Charlie went on the first, he was the first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast.
00:17:52.000And Charlie debated it because obviously there's, do you want to go on a liberal show?
00:17:57.000He'd done that a few times, but this is a literal left-wing politician.
00:18:02.000But the biggest thing people would say is Gavin Newsom clearly wants to run for president.
00:18:08.000And if Charlie goes on his show, are you basically bringing into being Gavin Newsom rebranding himself as the big foe of MAGA, the big foe of President Trump?
00:18:18.000Are you making it so he's able to run for president in 2028?
00:18:22.000And I will say Charlie's thinking was somebody is going to go on this show.
00:18:27.000And I don't want it to be someone besides me because I think he was very aware.
00:18:33.000I think the line we use is we don't want to midwife President Newsom into being.
00:18:38.000And it turned out to be a great call because the most immortal moment from that appearance is when Gavin Newsom has to say his own son is a big fan of Charlie.
00:20:06.000It felt like it was like the longest news cycle.
00:20:10.000There was, of course, Gavin Newsom admitted in that podcast that he found it deeply unfair that men could compete in women's sports.
00:20:17.000And that sent shockwaves across the Democrat establishment.
00:20:21.000And it ended up becoming sort of a larger question about were the Democrats going to moderate in an attempt to win back power in 2026 and 2028.
00:20:32.000Gavin seemed to be tracking on a moderation course that now the whole party seems to have moved against.
00:20:39.000So in the Democrats' struggle for which way the party is going to go, Gavin Newsom, his first instincts were probably right if you wanted to actually win political power long term.
00:20:49.000But it seems the powers that be within the Democratic Party have won the tug of war and they're going to go more radical.
00:20:56.000I don't know if you'd agree, Blake, but that's been my.
00:20:58.000Yeah, no, we'll see because he remains definitely a frontrunner.
00:22:16.000Hey, everybody, this is Andrew Colvett, executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:23:48.000Yeah, I got a great note from Bill worth saying after Charlie was assassinating, just assassinated, just said, saying how much he genuinely enjoyed his time with Charlie and their conversation and how horrible he thought it was.
00:24:03.000And, you know, I thought that was a pretty nice thing for him to reach out.
00:28:48.000Well, just, yeah, he died with his boots on.
00:28:52.000He died doing exactly what he loved doing.
00:28:54.000He looked forward to them all the time.
00:28:56.000don't think he i don't think he really would have wanted to go any other way if you know as as erica said at the memorial it's like he just he was doing what he loved and then he blinked and he was in paradise that is yeah yeah i mean yeah exactly uh Here's another tough video for me to watch.
00:30:36.000We found out that there was a new Pope from Chicago.
00:30:39.000That was a big plot twist, I will say.
00:30:42.000Yeah, I remember doing the, when the white smoke came out, we had to switch the whole show, and we started calling all our friends who were at the Vatican and in Italy.
00:30:52.000And we had a fun show trying to assess what it all meant and who it was.
00:30:57.000And then we found out it was an American.
00:32:02.000absolute peak weirdness has to be pachamama although i guess that was a different pope but oh well no this is i yeah i'm talking about this current pope Let's play a longer clip while we still have the time.
00:32:38.000He is convening a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
00:32:41.000I believe we will see an end to that war.
00:32:43.000Number two, he's actually talking to Iran and discouraging Israel to strike the interior of Iran and has stopped many other international countries to do the same.
00:32:52.000And it's a lot better than when your prime minister, Boris Johnson, went alongside our Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, to Istanbul and unnecessarily blew up a potential Russian peace deal, which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainians, one of the great unnecessary wars of the modern era.
00:33:08.000Donald Trump believes in conversation and police through strength.
00:33:12.000He has been president for well over 120 to 130 days, and he has already ended a war between two nuclear conflicts of India-Pakistan.
00:33:20.000He has secured our own U.S.-southern border while we were being invaded by foreign powers.
00:33:24.000And thirdly, he is brokering a potential settlement with Iran that will prevent a major escalation in the Middle East.
00:33:30.000And finally, it is very difficult, but I believe they'll get it done, that we'll finally see an end to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
00:33:36.000We are still hoping for that end to that Russian-Ukrainian war, but more progress is made.
00:37:20.000We love seeing those messages of support.
00:37:22.000We love seeing all the people that Charlie touched, that he impacted, and especially getting them in these months after what happened to see the continuing impact of his life on people.
00:37:35.000It's a great testament and legacy of his.
00:37:44.00056 so that's all because there's that statue of an let's say an angry a large an angry black woman there and And so the reason we had the smoke detector chirps, we have the receipts.
00:41:47.000Science confirms life begins at conception.
00:41:49.000So yes, Jeremiah 1.5 says, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, but it's just morality that demands we protect the most vulnerable.
00:41:54.000And we got our own award show as part of South Park.
00:41:58.000I was told going in, Charlie, if they say your name, that's a big win.
00:42:01.000Well, apparently there's the Charlie Kirk Awards.
00:42:06.000Hello and welcome to the third annual Charlie Kirk Award for young master debaters.
00:42:13.000More and more young people today are learning to fight for America through master debation.
00:42:18.000We're here to honor the recent efforts of a brave young man who has been furiously master debating for the past several days.
00:42:26.000Now, there's going to be a lot said about this, but we need to have a good spirit about being made fun of.