The Charlie Kirk Show - November 24, 2025


Ask Us Anything 245: Most Important 2026 Races? Strength in Adversity? Job Application Troubles?


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In this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Andrew Colvett is joined by Producer Mikey McCoy and Editor-in-Chief Blake Neff to discuss the life and career of Charlie Kirk, the founder of the largest pro-American student organization in the country, Turning Point USA.

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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
00:00:05.000 I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.
00:00:11.000 My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.
00:00:14.000 If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.
00:00:19.000 But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful.
00:00:24.000 College is a scam, everybody.
00:00:26.000 You got to stop sending your kids to college.
00:00:27.000 You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible.
00:00:31.000 Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter.
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00:00:37.000 Sign up and become an activist.
00:00:39.000 I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.
00:00:41.000 Most important decision I ever made in my life.
00:00:43.000 And I encourage you to do the same.
00:00:45.000 Here I am.
00:00:46.000 Lord use me.
00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:49.000 Here we go.
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00:01:09.000 Andrew Colvett here, executive producer of this show, joined by Mikey McCoy and Blake Neff in studio.
00:01:15.000 We're going to be taking your questions this hour.
00:01:19.000 So please join us at members.charliekirk.com, members.charliekirk.com.
00:01:24.000 We have a written one here if we want to start with that.
00:01:26.000 Let's start with Jen, I think. 0.99
00:01:29.000 All right, let's start with Jen. 1.00
00:01:31.000 Jen? 0.79
00:01:31.000 Hi, good afternoon. 0.79
00:01:32.000 Hey, Jen. 0.99
00:01:33.000 How are you?
00:01:34.000 Good.
00:01:35.000 How are you?
00:01:36.000 I'm great.
00:01:36.000 What's your question?
00:01:38.000 So I'm a homeschool mom who basically saw an issue in our community.
00:01:43.000 I've tried to step up and find a different solution.
00:01:47.000 We're Florida.
00:01:49.000 So basically, we have county commissioners who voted to pass a new tax, and none of them live in our actual area.
00:01:57.000 So we don't, it's literal what I've been teaching in our homeschool is taxation without representation, right?
00:02:04.000 So I started an initiative that took this solution.
00:02:07.000 It's a little bit outside of the box.
00:02:09.000 I've spent a lot of time researching and talking to people in the community.
00:02:13.000 And this week, our local newspaper did a report on it, on our effort, and they, it was very negative and kind of mocked me for it.
00:02:21.000 People really can't get past the headline.
00:02:25.000 And it is, it's a little radical to some, but I'm proposing a new county for our area to give us a little bit more representation and naming it after President Trump.
00:02:34.000 So my question kind of is, how do you guys, you know, how did Charlie, because there's a lot of negativity surrounding my effort, just push through and persevere, you know, when this negativity comes?
00:02:45.000 Like, how do you, you know, I've got kids.
00:02:47.000 We're just a regular family.
00:02:49.000 We homeschool, you know.
00:02:51.000 How do you kind of push through that?
00:02:54.000 Yeah, I mean, I'm happy to take this one.
00:02:56.000 You know, because I will tell you that Charlie was no stranger to negative headlines and to being taken out of context, to smear pieces, hit pieces, all the things.
00:03:08.000 And it got to the point where we literally would just, we would put him in the chat.
00:03:13.000 I would drop the new article in the chat that was, you know, completely taking something he said out of context.
00:03:18.000 And he would, he would literally go, LOL.
00:03:21.000 And, you know, obviously Charlie had a big microphone.
00:03:23.000 He had this show.
00:03:25.000 He had his social media.
00:03:26.000 So I don't want to say that it's one-to-one, but you said it yourself.
00:03:31.000 What he would do is he would just push through and he would advance the points he was making.
00:03:36.000 He would advance positive lines.
00:03:38.000 He would advance the actual mission that he was on, not the representation that somebody would give him or paint a picture of him that was a lie.
00:03:46.000 But you call a lie a lie.
00:03:48.000 You confront your accusers, you call it a lie, and you push forward and you continue building and building and building.
00:03:54.000 And I mean, Charlie's whole POV on this was that we were going to outwork you.
00:03:58.000 We were going to out-hustle you.
00:03:59.000 We were going to out-message you.
00:04:01.000 And so that's the point.
00:04:02.000 We built positive lines where we could.
00:04:06.000 We built coalitions where we couldn't, allies where we could, and we pushed through it.
00:04:10.000 Mikey, yeah.
00:04:11.000 Great question, Jen.
00:04:12.000 Nice to meet you.
00:04:14.000 I saw this video this morning and I thought it was so awesome.
00:04:17.000 It was Charlie and Erica.
00:04:18.000 Charlie's sitting here.
00:04:19.000 Erica's sitting right there.
00:04:20.000 I think we have it.
00:04:20.000 Yeah, it's a long clip, so maybe we don't want to play it.
00:04:23.000 But he basically, the question was to Erica: Do you get the same hate messages and headlines and attacks that Charlie does?
00:04:31.000 And she said, Yeah.
00:04:32.000 And I thought that was a really interesting question because you don't always think maybe Erica's not receiving this, but she was.
00:04:37.000 She said, Honestly, I've lost family members.
00:04:40.000 I've had people attack me.
00:04:42.000 I've lost friends, but it's my pruning season.
00:04:44.000 She goes, and I'm figuring out in this season who's my friend and who's not.
00:04:47.000 She said, and then on top of that, she goes, I have a velvet spine of steel.
00:04:52.000 She goes, you can't let anything get to you.
00:04:55.000 She's like, you're soft on the outside, but nobody can get to you on the inside.
00:04:59.000 I think a really important thing to always emphasize, I think, here is the faith angle.
00:05:04.000 If you really are meditating on that part of it, if you're praying a lot, if you're always thinking, how can I serve God with my actions?
00:05:14.000 What would God want me to do?
00:05:16.000 I think that helps a lot in these situations.
00:05:18.000 That gives you a lot of strength when you're under attack.
00:05:21.000 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear and you have truth on your side.
00:05:26.000 Yeah, you have truth on your side.
00:05:27.000 And so if truth is for you, nobody can be against you.
00:05:30.000 But then at the same time, if you're always living for God, you have nothing to fear.
00:05:35.000 Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
00:05:37.000 I will say, and we should play this clip.
00:05:38.000 We're going to play it for you, Jen, because I do think it's inspiring.
00:05:41.000 But, you know, we've lived in this weird post-Charlie world.
00:05:46.000 And, you know, there's conspiracies, there's, you know, allegations.
00:05:49.000 I mean, there's a whole bunch of crazy stuff.
00:05:51.000 But I will tell you, because I've gotten a few friends that'll be like, how are you doing with all this?
00:05:55.000 And I'm like, I literally don't feel it.
00:05:58.000 I do not feel it.
00:05:59.000 I don't sense it.
00:06:00.000 It doesn't affect my life because I live with the understanding that what God has unleashed, man cannot stop.
00:06:06.000 The haters cannot stop.
00:06:07.000 They can harass you.
00:06:08.000 They can torment you.
00:06:09.000 They can kind of make your day miserable, I'm sure.
00:06:12.000 But God is doing a work.
00:06:14.000 God is doing a pruning, I think, in our movement.
00:06:16.000 God is doing a pruning in the country.
00:06:18.000 And Erica says it really, really well.
00:06:21.000 408.
00:06:22.000 Erica, do you ever get hate from Charlie's work?
00:06:25.000 How do you handle it?
00:06:25.000 Charlie, do you ever feel guilt or do you ever deal with guilt when Erica gets hate?
00:06:31.000 No, I don't.
00:06:34.000 I honestly, this is so.
00:06:37.000 I got, I, this is how I know God made us for each other because anytime I do get quote-unquote hate, it's the same stuff you get.
00:06:44.000 Like that, I don't even want to say it's not even worth saying it or repeating the things that we're called or the names that we're called.
00:06:52.000 But yes, I do.
00:06:54.000 I've lost family members.
00:06:55.000 I've lost friends, but I actually am kind of grateful that that's happened because God has pruned my life in a way where I am surrounded in a circle now by people who love us, support us, pray with us, encourage us.
00:07:07.000 Small, mighty circle.
00:07:08.000 And that's what I would much rather have-a small, mighty circle than a massive one.
00:07:11.000 It's the people that you can trust and pour into.
00:07:14.000 And yes, do I get hate?
00:07:17.000 Bring it on.
00:07:19.000 I'll have a velvet steel spine by the end of the end of my life.
00:07:25.000 So bring it on.
00:07:26.000 I have nothing to fear.
00:07:28.000 Based.
00:07:29.000 Such a good clip.
00:07:30.000 That fired me up this morning.
00:07:32.000 And I hope it fires you too.
00:07:34.000 Jen, I mean, I was ready.
00:07:36.000 I was ready for the day.
00:07:37.000 Yeah.
00:07:38.000 Next question.
00:07:39.000 That velvet steel spine is amazing.
00:07:41.000 Isn't that a good line?
00:07:43.000 It's a good thing.
00:07:44.000 So, I mean, that's such a good line.
00:07:47.000 So thank you for that.
00:07:48.000 I have not seen that one.
00:07:50.000 And I'll be putting that up in my bedroom.
00:07:54.000 I love it.
00:07:54.000 Thank you.
00:07:55.000 Yeah.
00:07:55.000 Good for you, Jen.
00:07:56.000 Thanks for being a member.
00:07:58.000 We're going to go to Rain next.
00:08:00.000 Rain, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:08:03.000 Hello.
00:08:04.000 Hi, Rain.
00:08:05.000 Hey, how are you guys?
00:08:07.000 We're hanging in.
00:08:08.000 How are you?
00:08:09.000 What can we do for you?
00:08:10.000 What's your question?
00:08:11.000 So, my question is: well, I have two.
00:08:14.000 First question is: what do you think is going to become of this Mamdani meeting at the White House today with Trump?
00:08:22.000 I think we may talk about that.
00:08:23.000 I'm so nervous that Trump is even allowing him in his orbit.
00:08:28.000 Well, keep in mind, Trump is a real estate guy.
00:08:31.000 He, frankly, he loves having meetings.
00:08:33.000 He will meet.
00:08:34.000 It's so funny that so many people are so appalled.
00:08:36.000 They're like, oh, we'll never meet with him.
00:08:37.000 Trump is clearly a person who will meet with anyone.
00:08:40.000 He met with Kim Jong-un.
00:08:41.000 He met with, you know, Mitt Romney, all these Republicans.
00:08:44.000 Yeah.
00:08:45.000 I totally get that.
00:08:46.000 Yeah.
00:08:46.000 But this guy is like the head of a movement that is trying to overthrow everything about what our country is about.
00:08:55.000 For sure, for sure.
00:08:56.000 But as they said, he met with Kim Jong-un.
00:08:59.000 He wants to meet with Putin.
00:09:00.000 He wants to meet with Putin again.
00:09:01.000 He met with Democrats all the time during his first term, even though they were trying to topple him.
00:09:08.000 I've heard people on our own side, they've complained that Trump almost takes too many of these meetings.
00:09:13.000 But that's just what you're getting with the type of person Trump is.
00:09:17.000 He is, he thinks of what he is.
00:09:19.000 He's a businessman, real estate developer.
00:09:21.000 He comes from a world where you resolve disputes, where you resolve impases through direct face-to-face contact, through direct conversation.
00:09:33.000 But do you think that some of that contact, like on a spiritual level, that some of that contact can affect, can affect a person?
00:09:43.000 I think it can.
00:09:43.000 And I think that limiting your involvement with like, you know, spiritual democracy.
00:09:52.000 Well, that's true.
00:09:54.000 You got to be careful what you let in into the house.
00:09:57.000 I actually really agree with you, Rain.
00:09:58.000 But I would say Trump will meet with anybody.
00:10:01.000 I'm not worried about.
00:10:02.000 Trump is so hardened in his ways.
00:10:04.000 Like, I don't think he's, it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks, if you will.
00:10:08.000 I'm not worried about new habits at 80.
00:10:11.000 No, nobody's, nobody's rubbing off on Trump here.
00:10:13.000 What he's doing is he's going to size up his opponent.
00:10:16.000 I think it's going to go both ways.
00:10:17.000 I think there's going to be some warning shots fired.
00:10:20.000 Don't pull him handshake.
00:10:22.000 Don't mess with me in this way.
00:10:23.000 You stay out of my way in this way.
00:10:25.000 We're going to be okay.
00:10:26.000 And we are coming with ice.
00:10:27.000 That's what's going to happen.
00:10:29.000 That's, in my opinion, that's what I'm saying.
00:10:30.000 That's what you have to be.
00:10:31.000 You have to be that way to be like diplomatic.
00:10:33.000 And win hearts and minds.
00:10:36.000 I get it.
00:10:39.000 Hey, everybody.
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00:11:43.000 Rain, what's your second question?
00:11:45.000 Hey.
00:11:46.000 Okay, so for the record, I want you guys to know that I still have on the security bracelet from the Charlie Kirk memorial that I went to at the LSU student union on Friday afternoon.
00:12:00.000 Like, I just decided that God was going to, it'll fall off when it's supposed to.
00:12:05.000 But, you know, and every time I go to the grocery store, wherever, and I want it to be a conversation piece because I just, I don't know, I just feel compelled. to let that be an opening to good conversation like Charlie wanted to do.
00:12:21.000 And God, I got tears in my eyes right now.
00:12:25.000 One thing that is breaking my heart is the stuff that's going on with Candace Owens and the things that she's saying.
00:12:33.000 And it seems to be so valid, but like my heart is pulling.
00:12:39.000 I don't know.
00:12:40.000 My discernment is saying to steer clear of that, but I don't know.
00:12:46.000 I'm just torn.
00:12:48.000 And I just don't understand why it's not being addressed.
00:12:53.000 I mean, especially when she's saying things that seem so sound.
00:12:57.000 And it hurts.
00:12:58.000 It just hurts because, God, I mean, I've been watching Charlie Kirk for over four years.
00:13:05.000 Watching him got me through some very dark years with my daughter and who was sexually assaulted by an NOPD, a New Orleans police officer at the trial, just dealing with the FBI.
00:13:19.000 I mean, we dealt with every three-letter agency and we came out on top.
00:13:23.000 And I feel like pressing into what I was watching every day with Charlie helped me through that.
00:13:31.000 And I just, I'm looking for some clarity.
00:13:35.000 Blake?
00:13:36.000 I know that's serious.
00:13:37.000 I know it's not me.
00:13:38.000 I'm sorry.
00:13:39.000 I mean, what you're saying.
00:13:43.000 No, it's totally fine.
00:13:44.000 And it's very, I love, yeah.
00:13:47.000 So many people love Charlie, whether they, the people who knew him best, but also just people who'd never met him at all because they had that.
00:13:55.000 He could speak to so many people with his forthrightness, with his he was just one of the most honest people ever in a lot of ways.
00:14:04.000 There was nothing hidden with him.
00:14:06.000 And he could speak so well with so many people.
00:14:08.000 He was brutal.
00:14:09.000 And my heart breaks for you because I know there's so many people like you out there.
00:14:16.000 And what people, those things people are saying, I would encourage you not to, not to take the outlandish things to heart, not to let people divert you from what Charlie was really about, what his mission was really about.
00:14:31.000 And I think, Blake, you said it well.
00:14:32.000 It's like we have to give space for people to grieve.
00:14:36.000 There is a trial coming up.
00:14:38.000 We understand that sometimes when we don't speak on every topic, it creates a bit of a vacuum.
00:14:42.000 And there is, just so you know, there's a reason for some of the silence on certain things and the choosing not to engage in certain things.
00:14:50.000 But I loved Rain's heart.
00:14:52.000 And you could tell that she is grieved just by Charlie not being with us and the anchor that Charlie was in her life, but also the fact that, you know, she wants to carry his mission forward and she wants everybody to be unified and on the same page.
00:15:07.000 So, Mikey, I don't know if you want to add anything to that.
00:15:10.000 Yeah, I mean, Andrew, you said it.
00:15:12.000 If there's silence on something, oftentimes people say that's silent because it's true.
00:15:18.000 That's not why.
00:15:19.000 Like, there's so many accusations out there against so many people.
00:15:23.000 Even one of them were like a sermon that my dad gave where he said that I had blood on me.
00:15:29.000 And for the record, like, he gave that sermon.
00:15:32.000 I called my dad moments after everything happened and I was screaming.
00:15:36.000 I was listening to that card.
00:15:37.000 Blake was next to me.
00:15:38.000 I was screaming on the phone.
00:15:39.000 I said, Charlie was shot in the neck and he had blood all over him.
00:15:43.000 He said, and I was thinking that there was a lot of blood.
00:15:45.000 And I said, call every pastor and pray, pray for a miracle.
00:15:49.000 And he thought for some reason that I said I had blood on me.
00:15:52.000 So he gives a sermon 72 hours later where he addresses that conspiracy.
00:15:58.000 And he says that I had blood on me.
00:16:00.000 Okay.
00:16:01.000 I didn't see that sermon.
00:16:02.000 And then about a month later, that was like trending all over social media.
00:16:06.000 And I called my dad and I was like, did you actually say this?
00:16:08.000 And he was like.
00:16:10.000 Yeah, I just found out it's not true.
00:16:13.000 So like behind every single one of these are a human being.
00:16:16.000 For an entire month, my dad had to live with nightmares every night that his son actually did have blood all over him.
00:16:24.000 Didn't you say he got emotional when he found that?
00:16:25.000 He got emotional when I was on the phone with him being like, that's not true.
00:16:29.000 Why did you say that?
00:16:30.000 He was so glad to hear it wasn't true.
00:16:32.000 Yeah, like not everything is some grand scheme.
00:16:35.000 And just because someone's not answering all of your questions when you want them to answer your questions does not mean it's not going to be a problem.
00:16:42.000 To close the loop on this, I think.
00:16:44.000 I think, but there's a lot of people, a lot of people are deeply affected by this.
00:16:49.000 And for some people, the temptation of something very emotionally upsetting is they want to like, frankly, sometimes there's a temptation to lash out.
00:17:01.000 And I would remember that, I would encourage you to remember all of us love Charlie.
00:17:08.000 All of us care deeply about Charlie.
00:17:10.000 It is fundamentally, I'll just say it, it is fundamentally outrageous and insane to say that any of us would have wanted Charlie dead or wanted anything bad to happen to him.
00:17:23.000 And when we get emails where people just say, you killed Charlie or like, you're lying about everything, I would strongly encourage those people to reflect on what is motivating them to do these things.
00:17:37.000 I want to also say there is a point where you, you know, it's, it's deeply frustrating that somebody like Mikey would have to even dignify some of like, you know, this story that you just, you'd have to even dignify that with a response.
00:17:51.000 I mean, it's so insane.
00:17:52.000 But by the way, I love that Rain is wearing a, she was talking about her bracelet from the memorial.
00:17:57.000 And it was funny because just this morning I saw a bunch of like we are Charlie Kirk bracelets on Mikey's desk.
00:18:02.000 I was like, I want one of these.
00:18:03.000 I never wear these kind of bracelets.
00:18:05.000 Not really my thing, but I'll wear it for Charlie.
00:18:07.000 So I thought that was that was great.
00:18:09.000 Jonathan, you're next.
00:18:11.000 So my question is, what are the big races in 2026?
00:18:17.000 How can we get involved in those races?
00:18:20.000 All right, I can take the first part.
00:18:21.000 The biggest races.
00:18:22.000 Obviously, the one Charlie would have cared the most about and the one that's very near to our heart.
00:18:26.000 Arizona governor is up this next year.
00:18:28.000 We want to get Andy Biggs into, I always want to say the governor's mansion.
00:18:32.000 Arizona doesn't have a governor's mansion.
00:18:35.000 They're too cool for that.
00:18:36.000 We want him to get into the governor's office.
00:18:38.000 There's a lot of good we can do in this state, but we need the governorship back.
00:18:43.000 We need to undo the grievous injustice of four years ago, three years ago, I guess.
00:18:48.000 But that is one of the most important.
00:18:51.000 A lot of other governorships are up, and a lot of them are term-limited guys.
00:18:55.000 So we have to, you know, Ron DeSantis is term limited out in Florida.
00:18:59.000 We need to make sure a Republican wins that one.
00:19:01.000 That might sound super easy, but remember, eight years ago, or six to seven years ago, we only won that by, what, 30,000, 40,000 votes.
00:19:09.000 It was very close.
00:19:10.000 Florida is never a lock.
00:19:11.000 It's a big state.
00:19:13.000 Ohio is going to be an open seat.
00:19:16.000 Texas, we have Abbott running for another term.
00:19:18.000 They're going to put a lot into trying to flip that one.
00:19:21.000 And then in the Senate, we have, frankly, it's going to be a defensive map.
00:19:26.000 We have 22 Republicans up and only 13 Democrats.
00:19:30.000 We need to defend the Florida Senate seat.
00:19:32.000 We need to defend the Texas Senate seat.
00:19:34.000 We have an open seat in North Carolina that we need to defend.
00:19:38.000 Our best chance for a pickup is probably going to be Georgia.
00:19:41.000 Or Michigan.
00:19:43.000 We're going to need a pretty strong showing for Michigan to go away.
00:19:46.000 So, just a reminder: so, Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate.
00:19:52.000 So, we're talking about Senate.
00:19:52.000 So, you got North Carolina.
00:19:54.000 It's an open seat.
00:19:55.000 You got Tom Tellis, who's leaving.
00:19:57.000 I think that's going to be challenging.
00:19:58.000 Yeah, and they're running the Roy, I think it's Roy Cooper, who is a former governor, the Dems are.
00:20:03.000 Yeah, versus running a popular guy who's very popular.
00:20:06.000 Yeah, so that's going to be a challenge.
00:20:09.000 I wouldn't, that's going to be tough.
00:20:10.000 Michigan, we have an open seat.
00:20:12.000 Senator Gary Peters is retiring.
00:20:15.000 It's a toss-up race.
00:20:16.000 Blake is not feeling that great about it.
00:20:18.000 It's tough.
00:20:18.000 Ohio, so Republican Senator John Husted is defending the seat.
00:20:26.000 And former Democrat Sherrod Brown is being actively recruited to run again.
00:20:30.000 So we'll see what happens there.
00:20:31.000 Georgia, John Ossoff.
00:20:33.000 So he's considered vulnerable.
00:20:35.000 Maine, you have Senator Susan Collins. 0.97
00:20:37.000 She's a moderate Republican.
00:20:39.000 Charlie always is good stepping up.
00:20:40.000 People complain about Susan Collins.
00:20:42.000 Deal with it.
00:20:43.000 She is far better than any Democrat will ever get from Maine.
00:20:47.000 And if we lose her, we'll probably never get that seat back.
00:20:49.000 We are fighting to defend college.
00:20:51.000 Yeah, and in Texas, you obviously have Senator John Cornyn, who is going to get primaried by Attorney General Ken Paxton and some others.
00:21:00.000 So we'll see what happens in Texas.
00:21:02.000 We should hold the Texas seat.
00:21:03.000 If we don't, we have really, really big.
00:21:05.000 Of course, the House races are going to be very interesting this year around because we have all of these new maps that will possibly cause a lot of seats to flip.
00:21:15.000 We're going to be seeing how that shakes out.
00:21:17.000 Obviously, the Texas map at this point is in the courts, their future.
00:21:21.000 We have a few states we're still fighting to get those new maps passed.
00:21:24.000 Indiana, I believe Ohio is still in contention.
00:21:29.000 So we'll see how those all shake out.
00:21:31.000 But we should get to the other half of the question, which is how you can get involved.
00:21:34.000 Yeah, how you can get involved.
00:21:36.000 I mean, Tyler would say this: first of all, get involved at coalitions.com.
00:21:41.000 We own the URL.
00:21:42.000 That's a turning point action URL.
00:21:44.000 So it's, you know, a lot of people are like, oh, we want to start a turning point chapter for adults in this state, this state.
00:21:51.000 The way we do it is we don't do the turning point chapter thing, which is like kind of our campus base for high school and college campus.
00:21:56.000 But if you're an adult and you want to get involved and plugged in, go to coalitions.com.
00:22:01.000 You can plug in whether you're a farmer, you're a mom, Latinos, African American, all the things that you, the little kind of groups that you might have affinity groups for, you can plug in there.
00:22:12.000 But they all gather all collectively and together.
00:22:15.000 And there's a coalition for you to join.
00:22:17.000 And then what we do is we dispatch those coalitions with technology, data, door knocking lists, all the things that you need to get involved in your local community and your local races.
00:22:27.000 So coalitions.com would be the main thing.
00:22:30.000 There's other ways to get involved at Turning Point Action.
00:22:32.000 You could apply for actual staff jobs if we're hiring in your area in Arizona.
00:22:37.000 We're going to have a lot of employment opportunities for full-time ballot chasing.
00:22:41.000 But that will not be the only place that we do that in 2026.
00:22:44.000 But as Blake said, Arizona is going to be a key, key focus for us.
00:22:48.000 Just simply, it's not only important for the sake of the country and the state of Arizona, but it was so dear to Charlie that you better believe we're going to leave it all out on the field on that one.
00:22:57.000 So check out TP Action for opportunities.
00:23:00.000 Download the app, Turning Point Action app, and check out coalitions.com.
00:23:05.000 So hopefully that answers all of your questions.
00:23:08.000 Any follow-up here?
00:23:09.000 We do have about a minute left.
00:23:11.000 If you have any questions, you have one other question, actually.
00:23:14.000 I was actually at some of the smaller events where I couldn't find the videos, but I was able to ask some questions.
00:23:21.000 Where would I find the videos for those?
00:23:22.000 Like, I was able to ask Tom Hooman, not in the main session a question, but in a smaller session.
00:23:27.000 Do you have videos for them?
00:23:28.000 Where can I find those?
00:23:30.000 Do you mean like the members?
00:23:31.000 The QA's at member events?
00:23:35.000 Oh, those might be old Charlie episodes.
00:23:37.000 You could possibly.
00:23:38.000 It was AM Fest last year.
00:23:40.000 I was at.
00:23:41.000 Yeah, so those are.
00:23:43.000 Yes.
00:23:44.000 Jonathan, those are going to be at members.charlikirk.com.
00:23:46.000 They're exclusive member interviews.
00:23:48.000 So that's one of the value ads that we give to our members.
00:23:52.000 So those are actually.
00:23:53.000 I don't know if I'm not a member.
00:23:53.000 That's how I was able to do it.
00:23:55.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:23:56.000 So annoyed I couldn't find them.
00:23:58.000 Yeah, no, they're on the members site.
00:24:00.000 So you can actually search those through the member site.
00:24:05.000 Obviously, they get kind of buried, but just search Tom Homan, for example, or whatever, and you should be able to bring some of that stuff up.
00:24:11.000 So they are there.
00:24:12.000 Yeah.
00:24:12.000 All right.
00:24:13.000 I know we're working on all of that because we get a lot of questions about finding old episodes.
00:24:17.000 Yeah, and we are going to be working on a full sort of AI search.
00:24:22.000 Now, we are not going to create an AI Charlie.
00:24:25.000 I just want to be very clear about that.
00:24:27.000 Blake's been fixed on the story.
00:24:28.000 I don't even talk about AI stuff.
00:24:29.000 I just mean a good database of searchable old Charlie episodes, which was less of a concern.
00:24:34.000 What I'm saying is we're using AI tools to make it even more searchable.
00:24:38.000 So it'll actually scan kind of the things he said and things like that.
00:24:40.000 So if you remember something that he said and you're going to look for it.
00:24:44.000 So we're going to build that whole database.
00:24:45.000 It might take all of 2026 to build it.
00:24:48.000 I'm not sure.
00:24:48.000 Hopefully we can get a faster timeline, but we are going to build that so everybody can get all of the things that Charlie said and search them with the help of AI.
00:24:58.000 Thanksgiving holds so many memories, and I'm sure it's the same for you.
00:25:02.000 Right now, there's a girl finding out she's pregnant. 1.00
00:25:05.000 In the next couple of weeks, she's going to make a decision.
00:25:08.000 And whatever decision she makes will become her memory of this Thanksgiving for the rest of her life.
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00:26:00.000 Next up is Elizabeth.
00:26:02.000 Elizabeth, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:26:04.000 What is your question?
00:26:05.000 Yes.
00:26:06.000 Hi.
00:26:06.000 First, like I said, I'm still praying for all of you.
00:26:09.000 You're doing an amazing job.
00:26:11.000 Thank you.
00:26:11.000 Continuing Charlie's legacy, and you should just be so proud.
00:26:16.000 And everyone thinks that.
00:26:17.000 And can I just digress on my question for one second?
00:26:21.000 When people are listening to maybe other individuals who claim to be in the conservative space, they should remember that Charlie was a godly man who surrounded himself with godly men who thought of him as a son, that his friends thought of him as a brother, that he was a leader and a role model in his community.
00:26:39.000 And he built an organization where like senators and congressmen were like dying to get on the show because they were proud to be associated with him.
00:26:52.000 So if you are listening to someone who was not like that, you should turn off their podcast and turn back on Charlie Kirk Show.
00:27:00.000 Here, here.
00:27:01.000 Well said.
00:27:03.000 What's your other question?
00:27:04.000 Yeah, no, well said.
00:27:05.000 Thank you for that.
00:27:06.000 And thank you for the kind words.
00:27:07.000 Genuinely.
00:27:08.000 That means a lot to us.
00:27:09.000 Thank you.
00:27:10.000 You're very welcome and very well earned.
00:27:13.000 The reason that I was calling, and this isn't about financial support to Israel, because that can be debated one way or the other, and that's fine.
00:27:20.000 But what has been bothering me lately are the absolute disgusting lies being told about Israel.
00:27:25.000 And I just wanted to sort of give a small example.
00:27:28.000 Population growth in the West Bank in 1967 was 700,000 people.
00:27:33.000 In 2025, it was 3,400.
00:27:37.000 That is a population growth of 2.7 million.
00:27:39.000 That's 4.9 more Palestinians than there were since 1967.
00:27:44.000 In the Gaza Strip, it was 350,000.
00:27:47.000 Now it's over 2.1 million, and that's a 5.2 times increase.
00:27:51.000 My point is they are lying about Israel committing a genocide.
00:27:56.000 I mean, there's definitely a funny line I saw.
00:28:00.000 Do you know the humorist Dave Berry?
00:28:02.000 He's been in newspapers a long time.
00:28:03.000 He's pretty old now.
00:28:05.000 The humorist Dave Berry, someone showed me an article he wrote in 1990, and it was about the UN.
00:28:10.000 And he says, the UN General Assembly exists to allow every, it allows every random third world nation into it.
00:28:17.000 And it exists primarily to pass resolutions condemning Israel for everything, including sunspots.
00:28:24.000 And it really is, there's an element.
00:28:26.000 It's exactly like you say.
00:28:28.000 There is perfectly valid grounds to criticize the exact nature of our relationship with Israel. 0.98
00:28:33.000 Should we fund them?
00:28:34.000 Should we give them this or that weapon?
00:28:36.000 Do we need to have unconditional support for any specific political action?
00:28:42.000 Should the U.S. ambassador be meeting with a convicted traitor?
00:28:46.000 No, but you can discuss all of those things, but it's also the case that a lot of people just, they have an obsession with it that clearly transcends anything that is reasonable.
00:29:00.000 And they have this intense dislike verging on hate.
00:29:05.000 And some of that will just become telling lies about it.
00:29:08.000 And what I like to emphasize is there's something about it that it goes beyond its actual importance to America as an issue.
00:29:18.000 For a lot of people, how you feel about Israel has become this symbol of how you feel about the wider world.
00:29:25.000 And it's perhaps specifically because it is actually a place so far away from America.
00:29:30.000 It allows people to get really amped up in their emotional and moral energy about it, while at the same time not having direct skin in the game on what the outcome is.
00:29:40.000 And I think that really allows people to just say whatever.
00:29:43.000 Like if you tell a lie about your neighbor, that neighbor might punch you in the face.
00:29:47.000 But if you tell a lie about a country on the other side of the world, probably nothing is going to happen to you.
00:29:52.000 Correct.
00:29:54.000 I think.
00:29:54.000 Also, did you guys know that they're Supreme Court justice?
00:29:58.000 They have an Arab Muslim on their Supreme Court.
00:30:01.000 Did they pass that bill?
00:30:03.000 I remember we talked about that a couple of years ago.
00:30:06.000 Israel's entire court system is pretty wild.
00:30:09.000 They're one of those countries where the judges can appoint their own successors.
00:30:12.000 Can you imagine how terrible America would be if judges in this country just could appoint, like you'd have super liberal Supreme Court of the 70s, the court that did Roe v. Wade, and they would just be appointing their own successors.
00:30:25.000 You can't have Reagan or Trump or, you know, appointing more conservative justices to change it.
00:30:31.000 Just appointing liberals forever.
00:30:33.000 That is actually how they ran things.
00:30:35.000 They definitely did run things in Israel.
00:30:37.000 I'm not sure if that bill passed.
00:30:38.000 I haven't closely followed it.
00:30:40.000 But there's just a lot of wild things.
00:30:42.000 An important thing to remember, it is a real country.
00:30:45.000 It is not just a thing that exists on TikTok.
00:30:48.000 It is not just a thing that exists on social media.
00:30:51.000 It is a real country with its own internal divisions, its own issues.
00:30:55.000 It's not this monolith.
00:30:56.000 That's what drives a lot of weird conspiracy theories about it, that all Jews or all Israelis have the same opinion and operate in concert.
00:31:05.000 All I can say is if you think all Jews have the same opinions, you've clearly never met any of them because they go to one Shabbat dinner. 0.99
00:31:13.000 They argue with each other all the time.
00:31:17.000 Well, and I always think, you know, the allegation, you know, Jewish people run the world or something like that.
00:31:21.000 It's like, have you ever seen the UN and how many sanctions and have been leveled against Israel?
00:31:31.000 And it's basically, you know, so if they can control the world, they would control the UN, but they don't.
00:31:36.000 But to your point, you know, I mean, I was looking at the numbers with your question about the Palestinian birth rates.
00:31:43.000 And, you know, they do have a very high birth rate.
00:31:45.000 Their population has actually increased, albeit at a slower rate than it otherwise would have during the war.
00:31:52.000 And that, again, is probably because of people emigrating out.
00:31:57.000 It was over 100,000 people that got out through the Rafa crossing.
00:32:00.000 They suggest that about 50,000 have died in the conflict.
00:32:05.000 So, I mean, listen.
00:32:06.000 When they say about killing children, they use child soldiers.
00:32:09.000 And that has been documented by the United Nations.
00:32:11.000 Well, and they use, they use bad stuff.
00:32:15.000 They use human shields that seize a control of a territory.
00:32:20.000 They're bad dudes.
00:32:21.000 Here's the thing.
00:32:21.000 I hope that we can pray for peace.
00:32:23.000 I hope that we talk about this issue much, much less because the peace holds and it becomes a long-term peace.
00:32:29.000 And I think I speak for a lot of us when we say it would be wonderful not to have to talk about this area of the world nearly as much moving forward.
00:32:38.000 Thank you so much for your question.
00:32:39.000 Laura, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:32:42.000 Hi, folks.
00:32:43.000 Can you hear me okay?
00:32:44.000 Yes, we can.
00:32:45.000 Wonderful.
00:32:46.000 Well, thank you.
00:32:49.000 I want to be brief so I can be considerate of others' times, but I do want to say I am so sorry for your loss of Charlie.
00:32:58.000 I think that you guys have been doing the absolute best you can to move forward and carry his mission.
00:33:04.000 And that's so clear to me and so many of us.
00:33:07.000 And we feel very, I can speak for myself here, but feel very comforted when we come to join the show every day because it feels like we're interacting with parts and pieces of Charlie.
00:33:17.000 Thank you, sir.
00:33:18.000 Through all of you.
00:33:19.000 It's very sweet, Lord.
00:33:20.000 Thank you.
00:33:21.000 Thank you.
00:33:22.000 So something that, and I actually, I was building up the courage to maybe join a live before Charlie was killed was to talk about the hiring processes right now.
00:33:37.000 So obviously Charlie was a big advocate for, you know, college is a scam.
00:33:42.000 And I myself, I have a very successful degree and not I'm sorry, career and not having a degree.
00:33:50.000 And many people that I know have, you know, worked their way up in life and just become, you know, self-learners and have done the same.
00:33:58.000 But when, you know, something happens and they need to go and look for a job, they're hit with automatic rejections because these, I guess it's the hiring systems have this nice little check mark of, you know, four-year degree or master's degree.
00:34:12.000 And if you're not hitting that, then you're automatically getting thrown out.
00:34:16.000 So these well and overqualified candidates are getting completely, they're not even passing a person's desk.
00:34:23.000 It's just automatically getting filtered out.
00:34:25.000 They're putting in over 200 applications and getting absolutely nowhere and not able to talk to a real person about it.
00:34:32.000 So just, you know, in feeling empowered and not needing a degree to be successful, how do you guys recommend, you know, people that don't, but are having a hard time getting a job?
00:34:44.000 How do we navigate the employment search?
00:34:47.000 First of all, I just want to empathize greatly with how horrible it is.
00:34:51.000 I think applying for a job was annoying and frustrating five years ago.
00:34:57.000 It's gotten an order of magnitude worse with, frankly, artificial intelligence because now there are people who can spam essentially unlimited applications.
00:35:07.000 They can use AI to write their cover letters, write their customers, like instantly customize your resume towards this page, and they can endlessly spam.
00:35:15.000 And then you have similar AI robots evaluating the applications.
00:35:19.000 It's made the entire process just that much more horrible.
00:35:24.000 And I think it's going to lead to probably a resurgence of what would be very old-fashioned, which is the need to really leverage personal relationships, build personal relationships, and leverage those to find employment.
00:35:39.000 I guess I can only, speaking to myself, I can't give a lot of specific job advice on how to get a job in a specific field.
00:35:46.000 What I can say is that professionally, it's the friendships I've had, the close conversations I've had with those I know that have panned out the most in giving me opportunities.
00:35:57.000 I remember you bragging one time that you've never had a job that you've applied for.
00:36:01.000 Yeah, and that's that's I don't really want to say that with someone when people are struggling because I know that's a very tough thing to say.
00:36:07.000 You just kind of network.
00:36:08.000 What I could say, like, so as an example, it's sort of weird to say, but getting involved in the elections, for example, and not just getting involved, talking to all of the people that you volunteer alongside about what they do, what their work is.
00:36:22.000 None of that is going to specifically get you a job.
00:36:25.000 But knowing lots of people, it will increase your ability to be lucky.
00:36:30.000 Yeah.
00:36:30.000 You think of those people who have that story.
00:36:32.000 Oh, I was just having that conversation and it turned out it totally changed my life.
00:36:36.000 Or you've heard that story where you talk to someone in the line at the grocery store and oh, 40 years later, we're married and we have eight kids.
00:36:43.000 Everyone's heard those stories.
00:36:44.000 You increase your ability to be lucky by being out there, by knowing more people, and also by acquiring skills.
00:36:51.000 You think, what is something you could be better at that has a possible professional use?
00:36:57.000 And that might be a handyman-type skill.
00:37:00.000 Those are always in demand.
00:37:01.000 It might be computer programming, except now that's getting displaced by AI.
00:37:05.000 It is genuinely.
00:37:07.000 Go be a plumber.
00:37:08.000 I don't think AI will displace that anytime.
00:37:11.000 I don't want to be too smug about that because it's a great thing.
00:37:14.000 We shouldn't shame that.
00:37:15.000 We shouldn't know.
00:37:16.000 We should shame that.
00:37:17.000 But we've gotten emails from people who say, I went to trade school and I've struggled there.
00:37:22.000 A lot of trade stuff is actually quite insular.
00:37:25.000 There will be family shops and they're somewhat hostile to union barriers.
00:37:29.000 You don't want to just say, oh, it's easy.
00:37:31.000 Go to trade school.
00:37:32.000 You'll automatically get a job.
00:37:33.000 We never want to dismissively say it's super easy.
00:37:37.000 Do you guys have any other thoughts?
00:37:38.000 I mean, I agree with the part about relationships.
00:37:42.000 Relationships are the absolute key.
00:37:45.000 And I would also say that for young people, what I often tell young people is find somebody that you really, really look up to, respect in the field that you're interested in pursuing, and call them.
00:37:57.000 Ask them to take you out for coffee.
00:37:59.000 Say, I'll work for you for free.
00:38:01.000 Can I get an internship?
00:38:02.000 Anything.
00:38:03.000 I'll just get coffee.
00:38:04.000 I'll be the donut and coffee runner guy.
00:38:07.000 Just offer to get your foot in the door and then work your tail off. 0.87
00:38:11.000 That is, I think, the most wonderful thing for young people that they can do.
00:38:15.000 Find somebody you respect, that you look up to, who's the best in their field, and just do everything you can to get in their way.
00:38:20.000 And good things tend to happen.
00:38:22.000 My nephew, I gave that advice to my nephew, and it worked out very, very well for him.
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00:39:37.000 I believe we have Sarah.
00:39:39.000 Hi, guys.
00:39:40.000 Hey, Sarah.
00:39:41.000 Welcome to the show.
00:39:42.000 Hi.
00:39:43.000 Thanks.
00:39:44.000 How are you?
00:39:45.000 We're doing all right.
00:39:46.000 We're doing all right.
00:39:46.000 What's your question?
00:39:48.000 Yeah, so I'm from Canada.
00:39:50.000 I actually called in last week.
00:39:53.000 And my question is, there's a turning point U.S., there's a turning point UK.
00:39:58.000 And there was a turning point Canada, but up until 2018, well, actually, it ran for about a year and a half.
00:40:08.000 And then it just miraculously disappeared.
00:40:10.000 And its X account is like totally inactive.
00:40:14.000 And there seems to be nothing from that particular group.
00:40:18.000 I'm just curious, do you guys know what happened at Turning Point Canada?
00:40:22.000 I don't think that was actually ever officially.
00:40:25.000 I don't think it was official.
00:40:26.000 So what happened was we, many years ago, we helped start the TPUK chapter.
00:40:33.000 It was like an affiliate, but essentially it runs fairly independently.
00:40:37.000 There's, you know, they're still sort of quasi-connected part of us, same spirit.
00:40:43.000 They promote Charlie's comments and his social media videos and they run their own accounts.
00:40:48.000 And when Charlie and you guys went to the UK, you guys connected with some of those guys that are still connected with that account.
00:40:54.000 So there is talk, by the way, from some of these groups in, I think, like Alberta and others that want us to start.
00:41:00.000 I think those conversations are ongoing.
00:41:02.000 I don't think we've made a decision.
00:41:03.000 You know, we are an America First organization.
00:41:07.000 There's no doubt about it.
00:41:09.000 And so we are hesitant to put our attention outside of the domestic affairs.
00:41:14.000 We were really realizing this in the last few months, you know, when Charlie went to the UK, Charlie went to Korea, went to Japan, that he had become actually this global hero of so many people.
00:41:23.000 So many, it's easy to forget.
00:41:25.000 So many people around the world look up to America because we have this assertive conservative movement that is not that we have real freedom of speech.
00:41:33.000 We can really confront big issues.
00:41:35.000 It inspires a lot of people.
00:41:36.000 And so while we are America First, he certainly did not think American values were exclusive to America or Christian values.
00:41:43.000 They were God-given.
00:41:45.000 We believe that they're innate.
00:41:46.000 And so we would want to promote those things.
00:41:49.000 So as we've talked about on this show, we had Sarah Rogers from the State Department on the other day.
00:41:52.000 We're still in discussions on what this might look like, but there's a lot of hope we could use the Turning Point brand, Charlie's personal memory, to promote those values, especially free speech, you know, the Christian West and so on around the world.
00:42:08.000 We're not sure what that might look like, but it might include some sort of global turning point.
00:42:12.000 Canada would be an obvious place to plant that.
00:42:15.000 They need it.
00:42:15.000 So we have a question from Kimberly.
00:42:17.000 Kimberly, please unmute yourself.
00:42:19.000 Welcome to the show.
00:42:20.000 Kimberly.
00:42:22.000 There you are.
00:42:24.000 I love how excited we all get.
00:42:25.000 I know how to do this.
00:42:27.000 This is my first time, so I don't know what's going on.
00:42:29.000 Welcome, welcome.
00:42:30.000 Thank you.
00:42:30.000 I'm grateful to have you.
00:42:32.000 Okay.
00:42:34.000 I'm sorry to say that I never had heard of Charlie Kirk before he died.
00:42:40.000 And that day, that's when I heard of him, of course, because it was all over the news that he died, you know.
00:42:48.000 And I just wish I would have heard of him a long time ago because he's like, he's saying everything that I've done.
00:43:00.000 I, okay, I got married when I was 17.
00:43:04.000 I have 11 children.
00:43:06.000 My oldest son is his age, Charlie Kirk's age.
00:43:10.000 But my oldest son died three years ago.
00:43:13.000 And eight of my children were born at home.
00:43:16.000 All of my children were homeschooled.
00:43:19.000 I have eight grandchildren that were born at home.
00:43:22.000 And I was, I got saved when I was very young.
00:43:24.000 I was four years old.
00:43:26.000 Anyway, I just listen to Charlie Crook all the time now.
00:43:32.000 Of course, every day, like I listen to his shows and to you guys.
00:43:36.000 And it's just amazing what he did in the short time that he was here, you know?
00:43:43.000 Yeah, it is.
00:43:44.000 It is.
00:43:45.000 I think, Kimberly, just something.
00:43:48.000 First of all, 11 kids is amazing.
00:43:50.000 Yeah, that is a legendary.
00:43:51.000 Charlie would be applauding you right now and saying, well done.
00:43:54.000 Well done.
00:43:55.000 Well done.
00:43:56.000 But also, I just want to say, you know, it's something I've actually talked about with E.
00:44:00.000 I don't think she would, Erica, I don't think she would be offended that I bring it up here, but I've talked about it with you as well.
00:44:06.000 Looking back on Charlie's life and he would get so impatient, like about little things.
00:44:12.000 And it was actually really endearing about him.
00:44:15.000 He, you know, he just moved at such a rapid clip with everything, everything.
00:44:21.000 And I look back on it and I kind of realize it's like he knew.
00:44:24.000 He knew his time was going to be short and he maximized so much of his life.
00:44:29.000 Every day he squeezed so much out of it.
00:44:31.000 It was really amazing.
00:44:32.000 And how much content he banked.
00:44:34.000 I remember we used to have conversations and he'd be like, truthfully, I think we're banking too much content.
00:44:41.000 But now there's such a rich archive of history for us to look back on.
00:44:46.000 But there's also something beautiful.
00:44:48.000 This is an example of the macro, which is Charlie was a good, faith-based human being.
00:44:55.000 And you share your story about how you discovered him after, after, and you feel like maybe it was just a little too late and you wanted to discover him when he was still alive.
00:45:05.000 And you just are learning more about him.
00:45:07.000 And the deeper you go, you have such a love for him.
00:45:11.000 But that's how we feel as Christians, too.
00:45:14.000 That there's just once you start that relationship with Christ.
00:45:16.000 And this is something I just feel like Charlie would be saying right now is you go deeper and you get to know him more.
00:45:22.000 And like that, Charlie was amazing because he lived for something greater than himself.
00:45:28.000 And that was Christ.
00:45:29.000 He died for something greater than himself.
00:45:30.000 And he died for something greater than himself.
00:45:33.000 And I just think that's, that's you're, you're giving such a beautiful analogy right now of what we as Christians feel, that, that Charlie died for something bigger than himself and that we one day, hopefully, hopefully we too can die for something greater than ourselves.
00:45:49.000 Yeah.
00:45:50.000 And Kimberly, I don't know if you got to your question yet or not.
00:45:52.000 So I want to make sure I give you a chance to ask what you wanted to ask.
00:45:57.000 I didn't, well, I didn't really have a question.
00:46:01.000 I mean, I wanted to say stuff.
00:46:02.000 That's totally fine.
00:46:03.000 That's totally fine.
00:46:05.000 That was a beautiful testimony.
00:46:06.000 You know, and Kimberly, like something I said actually at the memorial that I think is important is just that, you know, we don't grieve the way the world grieves.
00:46:16.000 You know, I obviously losing Charlie was probably the hardest thing that I've ever been through that this organization has ever gone through, obviously.
00:46:27.000 But we don't grieve the way the world grieves.
00:46:29.000 And I feel like God has given me all of these beautiful little just clues and moments of realization, you know, whether it was we weren't doing, we weren't doing a campus tour.
00:46:41.000 We were doing a tent revival.
00:46:42.000 And Charlie wasn't just a political figure or podcaster.
00:46:45.000 He was a prophet to a whole generation of Americans.
00:46:48.000 He's a modern day founding father and he died a martyr.
00:46:52.000 And I miss him.
00:46:54.000 He's the first thing I think about when I wake up.
00:46:56.000 He's the last thing I think about when I go to sleep.
00:47:01.000 But I'm so grateful that I got to spend so much time so close to him, genuinely.