The Charlie Kirk Show - Charlie's Empty Chair — In His Honor, Never in His Place

00:01:15.000 I talk to a lot of young people on campuses at our events on my radio show, podcast, and social media.

00:01:22.000 Said differently, I visit college campuses so you don't have to.

00:01:30.000 We're talking to so many voters that know it is time for change.

00:01:35.000 They know that something is wrong.

00:01:37.000 America's future is a series of choices.

00:01:41.000 Our current state of slow motion national decline is a choice.

00:01:49.000 Today is our two-year-old's birthday.

00:01:53.000 And I look at my daughter, and that is my why.

00:01:57.000 For those of that are parents, you know exactly what I mean.

00:02:00.000 There is no mountain that stands tall as your faithfulness.

00:02:08.000 There is no river that roars wide as your goodness.

00:02:28.000 Man, Charlie, I remember when we were starting these out and...

00:02:33.000 It was that, like that...

00:02:34.000 You know, it was like this.

00:02:36.000 It was like it was like your average three rows.

00:02:38.000 It was like your average political meeting where there was like twelve people in a room, and uh, this is this is awesome.

00:02:46.000 This in my personal opinion was the most over-the-top Trump event that I've ever covered.

00:02:53.000 This is the number one boots on the ground operation of the country.

00:02:56.000 We're working directly in harmony with the Trump campaign.

00:02:58.000 It's been vetted, it's been cleared, it's been blessed, as you could see there, and we're gonna try to win this thing.

00:03:02.000 No guarantees.

00:03:03.000 It's what we do that matters.

00:03:04.000 Mr. President, I can tell you this room is 100% with you and we have your back.

00:03:08.000 God bless you.

00:03:09.000 You really do.

00:03:10.000 Thank you.

00:03:11.000 As you know, we are heading on campus here momentarily at the University of South Florida, throwing it down with the students.

00:03:30.000 It's gonna be a lot of fun.

00:03:32.000 Uh, we are excited to continue this cultural movement that we have started at Turning Point USF.

00:03:37.000 More high school chapters, more college chapters, and disagreement is not just welcome, it is invited.

00:03:44.000 We want to have those tough conversations.

00:03:45.000 That's what it's all about, and I'm sorry.

00:04:06.000 Because you're not supposed to be involved in this.

00:04:11.000 You're supposed to just kind of be on the...

00:04:14.000 Vote for me every four years, give me more political power and stay out of my business.

00:04:17.000 And what has happened is we are seeing an explosion in citizen participation.

00:04:22.000 There is nothing else I'll ever fear.

00:04:29.000 All of my days, your mercy follow me.

00:04:41.000 Oh, there is nothing else I'll ever need.

00:04:49.000 Knock on that extra door.

00:04:50.000 Go that extra mile.

00:04:52.000 Talk to that extra friend.

00:04:54.000 Because throughout voting month and culminating on the 5th of November, I believe it will go down as a day that people remember.

00:05:02.000 As a day that is written about history books.

00:05:05.000 As the final battle from the golden escalator on down, from defeating Hillary Clinton from the nonsense of 2020, from Butler, Pennsylvania, November 5th, it all culminates, where we restore the promise that the founders gave us.

00:05:20.000 And they said, hey, if the people want it, the people get it.

00:05:24.000 And we the people take back America. 0.77

00:05:26.000 God bless Arizona.

00:05:28.000 And thank you so much.

00:05:29.000 Thank you.

00:05:38.000 Every day the American people demand certain accomplishments and victories.

00:05:44.000 Disagreement is what keeps a movement alive, keeps a movement fun.

00:05:48.000 Here in this country, we are a country of flourishing.

00:05:51.000 We're a country of risk taking.

00:05:53.000 We're a country of building.

00:05:55.000 We will achieve American greatness.

00:05:58.000 And we are just getting started.

00:05:59.000 All my days, your mercy followed me.

00:06:07.000 All my days, your mercy followed me.

00:06:19.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:06:22.000 This is Andrew Colvet.

00:06:25.000 Filling in for the one and only Charlie Kirk.

00:06:29.000 Nobody can.

00:06:33.000 And we wanted so badly to do this show for all of you today.

00:06:41.000 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 to commemorate our friend, our dear brother, for this sacred and solemn moment.

00:06:59.000 This occasion none of us ever dreamed we would have to do.

00:07:05.000 And here we are, because Charlie would want us to be here.

00:07:13.000 And we, of course, have left his chair open and empty because nobody will ever fill it.

00:07:21.000 Nobody could ever hope to.

00:07:22.000 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.

00:07:33.000 And we want you in the audience to know him like we knew him.

00:07:37.000 you.

00:07:38.000 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.

00:07:47.000 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.

00:07:55.000 He touched millions.

00:07:57.000 He personally knew tens of thousands.

00:07:59.000 And somehow we were the blessed ones that got to be close to him.

00:08:04.000 And in the chat, we got yelled at by him.

00:08:07.000 We got pushed to more and to be better because of Charlie and by Charlie.

00:08:12.000 And so we have to my right Jack Basobick, Blake Neff, and Tyler Boyer.

00:08:22.000 And myself, Andrew Colvet, the executive producer of the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:08:26.000 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.

00:08:39.000 And I want to say personally thank you to Cash Patel and Dan Bongino, Governor Cox.

00:08:47.000 You told us you would not stop until you got him.

00:08:50.000 And I admit that my faith wavered at times as the hours stretched on.

00:08:55.000 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.

00:09:04.000 And you are men of your word, and we are grateful to you.

00:09:08.000 And so with that, I just want to again welcome my friends.

00:09:14.000 And Jack, I'm gonna start with you.

00:09:19.000 Tell us what's on your heart right now, brother.

00:09:21.000 We know it's like I know the seat looks empty, but it's not the seat isn't empty at all.

00:09:34.000 Because in a way, Charlie is the only thing we're all thinking about right now.

00:09:38.000 We can't think of anything else really.

00:09:40.000 We can't think straight.

00:09:41.000 And we can read and we can talk, but at the end of the day, all we're thinking about is Charlie.

00:09:47.000 And we know that Charlie is looking down on us.

00:09:52.000 And I know that when we all gather here, it's like he's here.

00:09:56.000 Yeah.

00:09:57.000 And that's and that's why no one wants to sit there because he is there.

00:10:01.000 I um we are saying thank you's just there, and the only thing that I guess I would add is, you know, we're hearing these reports that um family members of the suspect were involved, uh, particularly the father, in bringing him to the police,

00:10:18.000 bringing him to the authorities, and if that's true, um I just like to extend a sincere thank you and gratitude to something like that as a father.

00:10:32.000 I I can't even imagine.

00:10:34.000 I just I can't even imagine what that what that must be like.

00:10:38.000 But to have done that is it just shows the ultimate goodness and the ultimate righteousness that still does exist in this country, and the fact that people are willing to step up and do the right thing, even in impossible odds, and that's the Charlie Kirk spirit.

00:11:02.000 That's always been the Charlie Kirk spirit is to stare down impossible odds and say, I'm gonna do it anyway.

00:11:10.000 When everybody told him he couldn't.

00:11:13.000 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.

00:11:19.000 Tyler, I'm sure he told you that more times than you can count.

00:11:24.000 I uh I've just it's been really hard.

00:11:28.000 I I mean we've we've been able to lean on each other, I think, talking a lot to one another about uh the memories and uh that's probably I think the most uh the most important thing that we can do today is share those memories I've been telling everybody that's reached out on our staff.

00:11:47.000 I mean, we've we've hired thousands of people in turning point, uh, and it hasn't been easy.

00:11:54.000 That's been part of the the battle on Charlie.

00:11:57.000 It's like I'm gonna miss those right, Tyler, you know, conversations when we are sitting around.

00:12:04.000 Uh because it's you don't really know the battles unless you've been in them.

00:12:11.000 But there's so many people that have looked at Charlie along the way as uh as a mentor that all have different emotions and they have different stories, and I've told people write them down.

00:12:24.000 Every single person that's reached out to me that says, I'm so sorry, Tyler's like, please just write down your memories that you had because some of these stories are so unbelievably funny, they're so unbelievable in general because um God's hand has been such a big part of Charlie's story and legacy.

00:12:49.000 I'm so sorry.

00:12:50.000 No, it's it's we're we're all right there.

00:12:53.000 It we're all right there.

00:12:54.000 And for those of us that have been close, like we've talked about uh we've seen uh heaven's hand is part of that, and that has to be that has to be uh accentuated because that's what Charlie wanted.

00:13:08.000 We talked about that all the time with uh people who invested in attorney point, uh, all the major stakeholders that you know, a lot of people look at this as uh political dynam political dynamo, uh the dynamics of all of that, 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.

00:13:39.000 Uh Blake, I want to you're you're next, buddy, so get ready.

00:13:43.000 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 weeks ago, and we were flying all over the country, spent hours on the plane, and um I said to him Isn't it crazy like you know, we were talking about South Park, we were talking about just everything.

00:14:05.000 Like we just kind of had a moment, and he just like, yeah, it's all God.

00:14:10.000 Just he just instantly goes, Yeah, it's all God.

00:14:12.000 It's all God.

00:14:13.000 And as I was driving to the office in the studio this morning, I thought to myself, it was always God, and God has not pulled his hand away from Charlie Kirk.

00:14:24.000 They did not pull his hand away from Turning Point, he did not pull his hand away from this country.

00:14:29.000 It was always God that got us here.

00:14:31.000 There were so many times, and I want the audience to know this.

00:14:34.000 There were so many times where we felt like our backs were so against the wall that we were not gonna get through whatever it was, yeah.

00:14:42.000 That you know, this thing happened, or you know this it was just so many things.

00:14:49.000 It's impossible right now.

00:14:50.000 Now's not the time to get into into the details.

00:14:51.000 There was just so many things, and Charlie and I would feel the weight of the world when we talked to each other, and I know you felt it, and I know you felt it, and I know you felt it, and then we got through it, and it was God, and somehow we came out stronger and better, and uh with and Charlie had more influence and and our reach and our staff and everything just kept growing time and time again, and he knew that it was all God's hand.

00:15:17.000 He knew it was all the blessing of God on him and on this organization and on the show.

00:15:22.000 Yesterday I said I said Charlie's on assignment from God, and he always has been.

00:15:28.000 You every time you filled in for Charlie, you said, well, Charlie's on assignment, and so now he's on assignment from God.

00:15:34.000 He's on and he always was all right, Blake.

00:15:37.000 It is your turn.

00:15:39.000 And um, I I want everybody to know that probably nobody traveled with Charlie more than Blake uh in the last I'd say 18 months.

00:15:51.000 Um except my maybe Mikey Mikey for sure.

00:15:54.000 Mikey, but you traveled to London with him, you went to Korea with him.

00:15:58.000 Um Blake, the floor is yours.

00:16:01.000 Thanks.

00:16:01.000 Uh I I feel I feel unworthy to be here.

00:16:06.000 Uh you guys all knew him a lot longer than I did.

00:16:09.000 Uh compared to a lot of people here.

00:16:12.000 Charlie entered my life pretty recently.

00:16:15.000 I remember you called me out of the blue almost exactly three years ago, uh, first week of October 22.

00:16:23.000 And I don't want to get into the details of it, but I can say uh Charlie had a drastic impact on my life.

00:16:31.000 He he basically gave me my life back, and I don't know how to express how grateful I am for that.

00:16:42.000 And how just over the past three years, how much I came to admire him.

00:16:52.000 Not just for how talented of a person he was, but but how good of a person he was 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.

00:17:10.000 And I'll always think one of the you know the final things I was doing with him.

00:17:17.000 I mentioned uh with you, Jack, yesterday.

00:17:19.000 Yeah, the last speech he gave was in Japan to an audience Buddha's.

00:17:25.000 No Buddhists, Shinto, no no Christians in it, or maybe a handful, but not many.

00:17:30.000 And you know, it was about immigration, it was about other stuff, but he wanted to include I should witness to the faith, you know, regardless of where we're going.

00:17:39.000 And we talked about how we could do that, and we put it into the speech five minutes before he went up there and he did it.

00:17:46.000 And it was that important to him that he do that.

00:17:49.000 It wasn't about just you know, he wasn't catering to any audience.

00:17:53.000 This is a speech almost nobody in the US would ever see or watch, and most of the audience in Japan might not even get it, But he wanted to do it because it was important to him.

00:18:03.000 And we gotta get that.

00:18:07.000 Just a minute before that footage.

00:18:09.000 When it happened, uh, you know, he he was witnessing to the gospel there at the college.

00:18:16.000 And it w makes me it gives me some solace and some comfort to know that you were there with him on campus that day.

00:18:27.000 And um I was just grateful to be able to call you and know that I at least had somebody that was there and that loved him and that was close and I could call you.

00:18:40.000 And um I'm just glad you were there, man.

00:18:45.000 It's it's not it's not good, it's not fair to you that you had to be there, but I'm glad that I'm glad that you were.

00:18:54.000 And you and I and Charlie were texting literally moments before he went out to the crowd, and we were talking about uh arguments and finer points that he could make, and he going over you know this kind of question.

00:19:09.000 I uh you know, we should what it was about.

00:19:11.000 He was what are the good arguments in favor of of marriage, marriage monotheism.

00:19:16.000 The Christian version of marriage.

00:19:18.000 Yes.

00:19:18.000 And it was you know, that gets back to you know one of the other core things, how much he how much he loved Erica, how much he loved their children, how much and how and you know 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.

00:19:39.000 And isn't that the truth?

00:19:41.000 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 clothes that actually fit him.

00:19:55.000 No, we were just talking about this yesterday.

00:19:57.000 I and he's a father, and I I no, it was like night and day difference.

00:20:02.000 So we used to like I used to be worried about Charlie Jericho.

00:20:08.000 And I don't just mean the fashion, I don't just mean the fashion.

00:20:11.000 We were talking about Charlie's first.

00:20:13.000 It's it's it's it's rough the visible boy.

00:20:15.000 Charlie's birthday's in about a month, 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, he would only wear dress shoes.

00:20:27.000 That's right.

00:20:27.000 And then Erica came and then he worked, he had I was like so relieved because he would wear clothes that like he he he'd look better than anyone like a normal person.

00:20:35.000 No, he looked better than everybody because Eric is incredibly stylish and great and it was just like he went from like the the Stone Age to like he now had this incredibly well manicured dress purpose.

00:20:47.000 Let me let's I love this this uh vein.

00:20:50.000 We want to tell you about Erica and we're gonna uh the before and after Erica Kirk um story is a really amazing story.

00:20:58.000 And I didn't know.

00:20:59.000 I was trying to make a point.

00:21:00.000 I know you were going deep deep, emotional, listener children.

00:21:03.000 Well uh I have been basically crying for two and a half days.

00:21:07.000 Uh and I um I was I was just I'm remembering Charlie being uh when I first met him, it was like everything was baggy and like the suits didn't fit and like the collars were always like out like this.

00:21:24.000 I wish they're playing those those videos now when he's younger and I was showing that I was showing Andrew a video uh an image, it was so funny because studio can we get uh uh like an OG CK shot with his own.

00:21:37.000 I can say I'll I'll send one that's like a perfect one that's but he was before and after a shot.

00:21:43.000 It was like a very baggy suit, and it just but you know what this is this is kind of very this isn't with a suit, but this was like No no no I gotta I've got a I got a perfect one.

00:21:55.000 But anyways, the point is is like but his his spirit shine through so brightly it didn't matter it didn't matter.

00:22:01.000 No, like of course that's what it was like I remember being in some of these meetings, I was like, oh my gosh, like because he would carry around the backpack.

00:22:06.000 He had this big black backpack that is his his initials on it, he had that forever, and he had forever won one pair of shoes, dress shoes that he wore, and then these big but it didn't matter, like none of that mattered every single person that talked to him, every one of these big time donors early on, like big time.

00:22:25.000 I mean, they had he would just just be able to break through to every single one of those people and uh it was always so special.

00:22:32.000 It w it was his unique voice, and this is why Charlie Um would go viral on campus.

00:22:38.000 He would never pull any punches.

00:22:41.000 The guy would say uh it he would say the truth with a hundred percent fidelity.

00:22:47.000 Do you know what I mean?

00:22:48.000 It was like men and women like you know, are different.

00:22:52.000 That you know, two two sexes, like you know, it it was never like no there's no equivocation.

00:22:57.000 No, there was no like, well, some people feel this.

00:22:59.000 No, it was like you know, it's wrong when people steal.

00:23:02.000 Does it make it okay that they were poor?

00:23:04.000 No, it's wrong, right?

00:23:05.000 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.

00:23:14.000 And um, and so yeah, it didn't matter the suit he was wearing, it didn't matter his fashion.

00:23:18.000 Although I will tell you Erica made this looks much better, 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 ten thousand dollar uh like credit at uh the Trump Taylor in New York City in Manhattan to get him some proper suits.

00:23:37.000 It was uh it was like one of these things that they were gonna be around.

00:23:40.000 Yeah, if you're gonna hang around with us, Charlie, we need you to gotta you know you gotta look a little bit more put together.

00:23:46.000 Yeah, it's it was I mean, it was a oh my gosh, Tyler, get this get this up.

00:23:52.000 You have to see this is the pre pre-Erica, and then Erica came in and then looked immediately I love it.

00:24:01.000 I mean, no, immediately better.

00:24:03.000 I mean, I'm not I'm not even kidding, it's like we got to.

00:24:06.000 The real miracle is that Erica went for it, you know what I mean.

00:24:09.000 She's seeing the you know, the baggy shirt.

00:24:10.000 No, I mean she knew, he knew.

00:24:12.000 No, but that's that's that's female, right? 1.00

00:24:14.000 That's the female. 1.00

00:24:15.000 My Tanya was the same with me.

00:24:17.000 It's it's the female. 1.00

00:24:18.000 I I see I see the thing, and I want to polish.

00:24:22.000 Michelangelo could see a block of marble and he would just bring the David out.

00:24:26.000 He's like, The David's already in there, I just have to reveal it.

00:24:29.000 I want to say it's typically not a good idea to say, I think I I uh I could change this man or something for the women watching, but you can polish it.

00:24:38.000 They're not, yeah.

00:24:38.000 They're not changing, not the deeper bringing it.

00:24:40.000 No, not the deeper bringing forth.

00:24:42.000 But and you could never change Charlie's spirit, right?

00:24:44.000 But exactly right.

00:24:45.000 But but what she what she did, I think, if anything, just in terms of this, is make it so that the external match the internal.

00:24:55.000 Yeah, sure.

00:24:56.000 And I will say as well, though, that Charlie's faith became so much stronger as soon as Erica came around, and he started vocalizing it more.

00:25:05.000 And for those of you in the audience that don't know Erica Kirk, the woman is a lioness. 0.71

00:25:12.000 She is fierce, she is strong, and she's obviously like distraught and hurting, um, as we all are, but um she is fierce and she is strong, and I want you to know that about her.

00:25:27.000 That um I have seen her up close, and Tyler, you've been there as well with us.

00:25:32.000 Um and uh she is so strong, and Charlie wanted to marry her because of how strong she was, and ultimately he knew that she could she could do this life that he was leading.

00:25:48.000 And Charlie was already leading a crazy life when they met and when they fell in love and when they got married, and he he knew that she had the strength in her core, and she was also she is also such an incredible woman of faith.

00:26:03.000 He knew that she could do this, and he was a hundred percent right about Erica Kirk.

00:26:09.000 She is truly something amazing, and we all love her dearly.

00:26:13.000 Tyler, why don't you tell the story of how uh you inadvertently connected Charlie with his wife?

00:26:21.000 So it it's it's this is the miracle of the entire thing, which is i incredible, and I don't think we can talk about it enough.

00:26:29.000 It's Trump, it's Erica, it's Arizona, it's turning point, it's it you couldn't script this any better.

00:26:37.000 Can I let me tell let me just set two points?

00:26:40.000 I told it a little bit of his own.

00:26:42.000 Tyler, I think you've told this story a few times on the show.

00:26:44.000 So let's like big big big big picture context here.

00:26:48.000 Tyler pulled off the first Trump rally, the very first one in Arizona, and there's a lot of crazy details that go into it.

00:26:54.000 But the first one, Tyler gets the credit.

00:26:57.000 But that's but the most important part of that truly in the background is that Erica Kirk is at that rally, and we don't focus on it.

00:27:04.000 we've talked about the rally and all that with Trump being re-elected.

00:27:06.000 She's in the background of the main shot.

00:27:08.000 So right behind Trump, people don't know this.

00:27:10.000 I I we can put it up.

00:27:12.000 There is right behind Trump on stage, first Trump rally ever.

00:27:16.000 And again, they were expecting this to be a hundred person rally.

00:27:18.000 They were like wanting to give uh like refreshments.

00:27:21.000 You didn't even call it a rally, right?

00:27:23.000 Well, so the original was Corey Lewandowski.

00:27:25.000 Corinnevsky was like, Can you get a hundred people in a room?

00:27:27.000 We'll provide refreshments, we'll give you money, whatever.

00:27:29.000 And I'm like, no, no, no, we don't we don't need any of that.

00:27:32.000 We can get lots of people there.

00:27:33.000 And we started doing this, and it starts to go bonkers, right?

00:27:36.000 Because uh, I'll give credit to Jake Hoffman, who is the the pre uh the president of the freedom caucus here, he's a state senator.

00:27:43.000 He was my unpaid comms director, who was actually the guy that helped start Charlie's Instagram with me and start all the turning point, like all the turning point assets that we we have on social media now, by the way, too.

00:27:55.000 But we started just going bonkers with all the media, and so then I started fielding calls from everywhere.

00:28:01.000 It was crazy, everywhere.

00:28:03.000 And one of the calls I got was from Erica.

00:28:06.000 She's like, hey, I was Miss Arizona.

00:28:09.000 I love Donald Trump.

00:28:11.000 Can I be involved?

00:28:12.000 I'm like, uh absolutely.

00:28:14.000 So I met I met her, and I was like, we've gotta put her behind the president.

00:28:17.000 So I had my family behind the president, my grandpa who just passed away just a few months ago, who loved Charlie, loved uh the show, everything, listen daily.

00:28:25.000 It was my grandpa, my dad-in-law, Lauren, my wife, and Erica is up there.

00:28:31.000 Yeah.

00:28:31.000 So Erica, after we gotta find the picture.

00:28:34.000 After this, I'll I'll pull it up.

00:28:36.000 After this rally, uh, I meet with Erica, and I'm like, there's a way that we can she's she's faith-based.

00:28:43.000 So this is the funniest part.

00:28:44.000 She's faith-based, she's so centered on Christ.

00:28:48.000 We've got to lean in and involve her here with because we were starting the initial talks about turning point faith or to keep you a say faith.

00:28:58.000 And I was trying to recruit her hard to come work for us. 0.98

00:29:02.000 And so through all that, uh, I'd introduced her to Charlie.

00:29:05.000 I was like, I think she could be great, she could be wonderful.

00:29:08.000 And Charlie was immediately in love.

00:29:11.000 Absolutely love.

00:29:12.000 And I was like, It was straight up.

00:29:13.000 Charlie, going back, and that's where it's like the tee up with you know, the clothes, everything else.

00:29:17.000 I was like, Charlie, I don't know.

00:29:18.000 Like this we're this is.

00:29:19.000 This is Miss Arizona a little more.

00:29:21.000 He is because Arizona, so I was I was nervous.

00:29:23.000 I'm like, I don't know if we we don't want to scare her away, right?

00:29:27.000 Like we weren't gonna work for us, you know.

00:29:29.000 So, but like that's great.

00:29:30.000 Let's just let's feel out.

00:29:31.000 And so Charlie did the right thing, he did everything perfectly as Charlie always does.

00:29:36.000 Uh, did everything perfectly.

00:29:37.000 I dropped him, I dropped them off.

00:29:39.000 I dropped him off.

00:29:40.000 He was at the office here, which he was rarely at the office because he was always on the plane, and he had set up a date to go meet her at the gym.

00:29:48.000 Cause the that she was it was it's a it's a fancier, nicer gym that's in the North Valley. 0.99

00:29:53.000 And I dropped the I took him over and I dropped him off there, and I was it was the whole car ride over there.

00:29:58.000 Was pep talk.

00:29:59.000 So, all right, this is what you gotta do.

00:30:01.000 This is what this is what you gotta say.

00:30:03.000 Hey, if she says this, don't do that.

00:30:05.000 And he's like, Well, what do I do if the like this because Charlie had had uh a number of dates, but not that many people.

00:30:11.000 He's busy, he's a busy guy, he just didn't so uh he it went immaculately, and after that they'd met again in New York where she was living at the time, and he had made a special trip just to go there.

00:30:24.000 Yeah, he made an excuse.

00:30:25.000 This is what Charlie would do.

00:30:26.000 He would he would he would go somewhere and he would make an excuse that was like a formal reason to be there, but it there was always kind of like a an ulterior motive where you know but it was I I'll never like and this these are the memories I'm I'm putting out a tweet right now that's saying just write down these memories because I until this now I just forgot about that.

00:30:44.000 Was like driving him over in in my car, just having that conversation, which was just like, and again, Andrew, I know you've had many of these, all of us have had many of these conversations one-on-one with Charlie of just like the pep talks, because you know, even though Charlie was such a a line of of a man, it takes a village, I think, of like having those conversations with one another.

00:31:07.000 It takes a family, yeah.

00:31:08.000 But he he would position people in places to be able to speak to him and give him like that like before he took the stage, like okay, okay, okay, okay.

00:31:17.000 You know, but he would always it's like he would always just want that, even though you knew that he didn't need it.

00:31:23.000 And he right, no, but you know.

00:31:24.000 The other thing is he you'd think you had a really good idea, and you're like, no, no, and I give it to him, and be like, okay, okay.

00:31:29.000 And then he would Always take chew the meat and spit out the bones.

00:31:32.000 He would he was always so good at filtering out your your bad ideas without like making you feel terrible.

00:31:37.000 Well, and that's like to that point.

00:31:39.000 Erica became that person, like you were saying.

00:31:41.000 Yeah, right.

00:31:42.000 Erica became the person that would uh you know, and it was a two-way road, you know, you'd have to filter out some of Charlie's bad ideas too at times.

00:31:50.000 And Erica is you know, has become the best at that.

00:31:56.000 He she is the uh the go-to, and I know that um that was the most valuable thing, but to put a pen in it, that that weird situation though, which was that moment where I was sitting there with Charlie, and the Trump rally culminated, and Eric was there, and then became his wife, like the entire thing is like again, you talk about God things.

00:32:18.000 Clearly, God has his hand had his hand um and watching over Charlie constantly.

00:32:25.000 Well, this is the Charlie Kirk show, and I want we we've we played Sorry, we played a a um an opening, and we put together a Charlie Kirk uh which number is it, Blake?

00:32:38.000 Do you have it?

00:32:39.000 We put together a um just a montage of some great Charlie Kirk moments.

00:32:46.000 Um and I think it is 443 is the number.

00:32:49.000 Um we put together a montage uh for the audience of Charlie in his own words, and he loved this show um so much.

00:32:58.000 He loved this show.

00:33:00.000 And um he I remember one time when I I talked to him and I I said, Who who's your greatest hero?

00:33:07.000 And this space, you know, obviously Donald Trump's the president, and you know, that was the obvious answer, but like no Trump, you know, like what who's who and he said Rush Limbaugh.

00:33:16.000 Yeah, and um Charlie got to know Rush personally.

00:33:20.000 Um I think we had basically the last big event that uh that Rush did was introducing the president.

00:33:27.000 Yeah, the last two.

00:33:29.000 So he never made public appearances.

00:33:30.000 Yeah, um and he's a very private person.

00:33:32.000 He came to uh our event at Mar-a-Lago, so we were one of the first groups to do anything with fundraisers, things like that at Mar Lago.

00:33:41.000 People don't people don't know that we actually did it very small, but Rush had such a personal connection uh with Charlie, and this is kind of early too, before Charlie was kind of a known quantity everywhere.

00:33:52.000 Uh really leaned in and showed up.

00:33:56.000 Yeah, and uh Charlie actually went to Rush's house, picked him up in the car, and drove him, drove him there, and we had yeah, we we guess he lived he lived the street, yeah, in West Palm Beach, or he would live in Palm Beach.

00:34:08.000 Um, so he but Rush was his hero, and he he listened to Rush.

00:34:13.000 Uh Rush was so influential in just the way Charlie thought about politics.

00:34:18.000 And and if you want to know why Charlie never lost the grassroots, he was always so into the grassroots.

00:34:24.000 It's because you emailed him, it's because he looked at all the your emails, he looked at all the comments, he would he he could do 48 things, it seemed like at once.

00:34:33.000 The the the most amazing multitasker I've ever seen.

00:34:37.000 When I would be here, and we'd be on the show during breaks, even I'm gonna say it, even sometimes when interviewing people, he'd be looking at the camera and yet somehow also on his computer, switching between tabs,

00:34:54.000 texting, emailing, reading faster than you could even like grasp what was the amount of emails he would share, like in the middle of a show segment, like right after you came out, or either like in between someone else giving an answer.

00:35:11.000 Look at this, look at and you're like reading the last three things that he sent you.

00:35:14.000 No, he's always two steps ahead of the show.

00:35:15.000 And his speed was I I have no idea how he did it.

00:35:18.000 And he's and these are and and what's crazy too is you could see it would be like, Oh, hey, I got something from the speaker of the house.

00:35:25.000 Oh, here's the president's son, and then like he here's a guy I met walking his dog, and he needs a ballot.

00:35:32.000 Tyler, make sure this guy gets a ballot, you know.

00:35:35.000 Like, like it it didn't make any difference to him who we was talking to.

00:35:38.000 But he never lost sight of the grassroots, and one of the one of the guiding lights for that, and we set up Freedom at Charlie Kirk.com.

00:35:45.000 And please send your tributes to Charlie, your thoughts, your prayers, anything that's on your mind, uh, to freedom at Charlie Kirk.com, and I will do my best to read them.

00:35:54.000 And Blake, you're gonna help read them, and Jack and Tyler, and we want to see what you have to say to Charlie.

00:36:00.000 that's freedom at Charlie Kirk.com.

00:36:02.000 And Rush always had his email dialogue with his listeners.

00:36:06.000 And Charlie took note of that and that it kept him close to the people because this world can get very insulating.

00:36:14.000 And it's and Charlie never let that happen.

00:36:16.000 That's why he went to college campuses because he learned and he knew and he he saw what kids were really thinking.

00:36:22.000 He always made such a point to stay so close to the public, even though he was so stratospherically famous.

00:36:29.000 We couldn't take him anywhere.

00:36:31.000 And it was really at that point of stardom and fame that we couldn't take Charlie anywhere.

00:36:37.000 But it all started with a love of the spoken word and what Rush Limbaugh told him, and he would take lunch breaks from school just to listen to Rush Limbaugh.

00:36:44.000 And so to have this show and to be behind the microphone was one of the greatest honors of his life, and he did not take it for granted.

00:36:53.000 He loved it.

00:36:54.000 And he saw it as a way to pipe the the vanguard of the current thinking on the current debates into the zeitgeist and to keep the base steady and keep the coalition together.

00:37:06.000 So without further ado, I want to play uh the show tribute that our team put together.

00:37:11.000 I haven't seen it yet, so I can't wait to watch it.

00:37:13.000 This is 443.

00:37:15.000 I want to thank my great friend Charlie Kirk.

00:37:19.000 He's done something that is just incredible for somebody really of his age.

00:37:25.000 You need tremendous talent to do what he's done.

00:37:28.000 Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, turning point USA, and I want to thank you, really Charlie.

00:37:35.000 incredible job.

00:37:41.000 Um I have the greatest job in the world.

00:37:52.000 I couldn't be happier every day.

00:37:53.000 I feel as if what I'm saying, what I'm doing is making a difference, giving people meaning.

00:37:58.000 Charlie, you should have emotion.

00:38:00.000 This is a moment.

00:38:01.000 You totally reform the GOP.

00:38:04.000 And look what you guys have done.

00:38:05.000 I hear some words here from you, Charlie.

00:38:07.000 You put all this together, my man.

00:38:09.000 Let's hear it.

00:38:10.000 I I am just humbled by God God's grace.

00:38:13.000 It's all God.

00:38:15.000 It's all good.

00:38:16.000 God alone.

00:38:18.000 Done.

00:38:19.000 It's done.

00:38:20.000 It's beginning.

00:38:21.000 We did not earn this.

00:38:22.000 This this is this is God's mercy on our country.

00:38:25.000 Yes.

00:38:25.000 You're on you're on the Lord's side.

00:38:28.000 So last week we welcomed our beautiful daughter into the world.

00:38:32.000 Most important thing that one can do, except giving your life to Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

00:38:37.000 Uh we, uh Erica and I and our family were celebrating the birth of our son.

00:38:43.000 I'm just I'm finding out how honest you are, Charlie.

00:38:46.000 And so far you're I think you're doing good.

00:38:49.000 And I hope I'm doing good with you.

00:38:51.000 Candace Owens, welcome back.

00:38:52.000 Yes, good to be back on the Charlie Kirk show.

00:38:54.000 So, Megan, there's a lot happening right now, and I recently went on the Bill Mars show.

00:38:59.000 I want to get your reaction.

00:39:01.000 Matt, walk us through the decades-long journey from 2015 to today on the public opinion battle.

00:39:07.000 Michael, why are people going back to church?

00:39:10.000 People are going back to church because the atheism ran out of steam.

00:39:14.000 Ben, thank you for taking the time.

00:39:15.000 I was moved by your podcast on Monday about how we must stare the evil in the face.

00:39:20.000 Pete, you're doing a phenomenal job.

00:39:21.000 I just want to say that from the American people that uh you don't get the credit uh that you deserve, obviously, in the mainstream media.

00:39:28.000 We are here with Stephen K. Bannon.

00:39:31.000 Charlie, I'm sorry.

00:39:32.000 I never roll through this town without seeing you.

00:39:34.000 Well, it's always the highlight.

00:39:35.000 It's uh it's that's the advantage of being in Phoenix is that you're like one of the only shows in town, so everyone kind of just comes on by.

00:39:41.000 I'm sick!

00:39:42.000 People stealing my stick!

00:39:44.000 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 prime time placement on Comedy Central.

00:39:55.000 I think I think the whole thing is just awesome.

00:39:58.000 Bobby Kennedy, welcome back to the program.

00:40:00.000 Charlie, thanks for having me.

00:40:01.000 They canceled the president of the United States, the most powerful man of the world when it was my father.

00:40:05.000 If they can do that to him, they can do it to anyone.

00:40:07.000 They can't do it if we're all banded together and we're fighting one battle.

00:40:10.000 Don Jr., everybody.

00:40:11.000 Very special hour episode for you today.

00:40:14.000 My wife joins us, Erica Kirk, the beautiful legendary Erica.

00:40:18.000 I love you so much.

00:40:19.000 I love you.

00:40:20.000 You're my best friend.

00:40:21.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:40:22.000 Thanks, very listening, everybody.

00:40:32.000 God bless.

00:40:32.000 That's a great job, guys.

00:40:41.000 Really good job.

00:40:46.000 We miss him.

00:40:47.000 That last shot.

00:40:48.000 I missed my friend off stage.

00:40:50.000 I miss my friend.

00:40:52.000 You know, one of the things that Charlie was kind of interesting early in Charlie's career was he wasn't um he's a a prolific speaker, obviously.

00:41:02.000 He's a genius on stage, but he wasn't really interested in you know spotlight.

00:41:09.000 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 on the best analogy to Charlie was that he was very much um in the come follow me spirit of of Christ.

00:41:24.000 I think that's what the most Christ-like thing about him was that people wanted to follow him.

00:41:29.000 Sorry, I just can't get through all this.

00:41:31.000 Um but he didn't want spotlight, and I think that was part of his his 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.

00:41:48.000 It wasn't about that for him.

00:41:50.000 It wasn't I I people watch these things and they're like we I mean we went rock star, we went full rock star on Charlie Kirk, and a lot of that is thanks to Andrew.

00:41:58.000 I mean, without a doubt, you know, we gave we give Erica Erica 100% made a rock star.

00:42:04.000 Uh I give you more credit for that because you you forced him to do it, and then eventually he embraced it, but it was it was he was not the he wasn't interested in that.

00:42:14.000 But he also like wasn't your sort of like central casting character to do it.

00:42:19.000 No, and you made him enter out on you know, embark out on a much bigger vision.

00:42:26.000 But um but this is the point with Charlie is that he was a he was a very humble person.

00:42:31.000 Yeah, and I I don't want that to change with like how people start to take um the memory of of Charlie because he's big.

00:42:39.000 He wasn't interested in what the stage looked like or like who was there, what the spotlight looked like.

00:42:44.000 He just wanted to tell the truth.

00:42:45.000 He just wanted to tell people what was what they needed to hear.

00:42:50.000 And uh and he was really good at that.

00:42:53.000 Um really good at that.

00:42:55.000 But everything else built around him for the right reasons.

00:42:59.000 I was so sorry, like I'm like spinning like tears everywhere and everything else.

00:43:02.000 It's like splash stone.

00:43:04.000 Um 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, so much bigger than him, but he was the perfect person for the perfect time.

00:43:24.000 He um he always told young people be a part of something bigger than yourself, and he is the um the most iconic example of that that I think any of us can imagine.

00:43:39.000 You know, I wasn't gonna do this, uh, but um I think the team uh was absolutely spot on.

00:43:45.000 People want something to remember Charlie by.

00:43:48.000 I've been getting message after message, email, comment, this huge outpouring of people saying, and and because Charlie, as as we all know, he loved t-shirts, apparel, how he was always like, get me one that says that, give me one that says that like literally the team would screen press them almost on a two-hour turn.

00:44:12.000 And it's because it's because he understood that that is a physical real messaging platform that you can wear in the real world in the real space.

00:44:24.000 That would be seen that would be seen billions of times in Charlie's instance.

00:44:28.000 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.

00:44:36.000 And there'd be times where he'd have you know a different one on five days a week if you watched the show, and that was all very I just wouldn't mean to say it's very deliberate.

00:44:43.000 It was it was not like some random thing.

00:44:45.000 No, no, no.

00:44:46.000 He he loved his different shirts, and so please put them back on screen, guys.

00:44:50.000 So here they are, and they are available for purchase.

00:44:54.000 Um we're gonna as many as everybody wants.

00:44:56.000 We don't have a made yet, so please be gracious with us.

00:44:59.000 We're gonna get them out as fast as we can.

00:45:02.000 Um Charlie Kirk store.com, Charlie Kirkstore.com, and I think the team did an amazing job with them.

00:45:10.000 And um the the middle one is I am Charlie Kirk.

00:45:14.000 I've seen so many people saying that.

00:45:16.000 Yeah.

00:45:16.000 And it's um it's a beautiful testament, and I love it, and I want one.

00:45:22.000 And the other one is uh I'm just humbled by God's grace.

00:45:27.000 And that of course was from election night, November 2024, um, when Charlie got news that Pennsylvania had been called by Fox News uh for Donald Trump and that he would be the 47th president of the United States and that right in this room, that viral video, it happened right here.

00:45:44.000 Right in this chair.

00:45:45.000 And Charlie put his hands up to his face, and a man who doesn't cry very often got misty-eyed, and um and he gave all the glory to God, and I love that, and I'm so glad that they picked that that that moment.

00:46:01.000 And then the other one is um the freedom shirt, and it has the date that it happened, and that's the shirt that he was wearing.

00:46:10.000 And uh, we put the turning point hook on that sleeve as well.

00:46:15.000 And so if you want to honor Charlie, and obviously you want to help the show, um that that would be amazing.

00:46:22.000 Um can I shout out you guys real quick?

00:46:25.000 I mean, we have so many good people who work for it for Charlie, uh, his show, his his personal side.

00:46:32.000 Uh, people don't talk about this.

00:46:34.000 I I was careful not to talk about this because Charlie again didn't like the spotlight of it all.

00:46:39.000 Um part of the reason why this show exists is because Charlie didn't want to do things that would cost money from turning point.

00:46:50.000 Uh for years and years and years and years, Charlie didn't take a salary from turning point.

00:46:54.000 Uh he paid himself.

00:46:56.000 I know this because I I was the one that uh had to approve payrolls for at turning point for seven years.

00:47:03.000 He paid himself like thirty thousand dollars a year, then a little bit.

00:47:08.000 Yeah, he didn't take a wage for the first five years, and then his first wage I think was like 20 15,000 the first year, 2000.

00:47:15.000 And I know that because mine was tiny too when I gave over it was like insane.

00:47:18.000 And and then he the part of the show was that he was able to give back, so it cost turning point nothing for tur for Charlie to run turning point.

00:47:27.000 Yeah, people don't know this.

00:47:28.000 Charlie gave there was this stupid AP article, I'll never forget where they tried to give it.

00:47:34.000 I know, but they tried to make it sound like Charlie was was somehow taking money from donors or something or fleecing the donors.

00:47:40.000 But here's the truth.

00:47:42.000 Charlie paid back his salary and then some back to turning point every year.

00:47:47.000 He donated back all that.

00:47:49.000 Go ahead, Tyler.

00:47:50.000 I was just gonna I was just gonna say this is that he he was able to do something beyond anyone else.

00:47:57.000 So there's I mean, there's great people that people admire a lot.

00:48:00.000 Rush is one of those people.

00:48:01.000 But Rush didn't build in his spare time a turning point USA, a turning point action, and and all that, right?

00:48:07.000 Like Charlie did all that, gave it all back essentially for that, and then we have the whole point of why I'll say this is we have so many good people here at the show that that have that work here that that produce it to get truth out because again, what that Charlie was interested in wasn't spotlight, it was getting the truth out, it was doing something bigger than himself.

00:48:29.000 And every single person that's here that that are back behind the glass right now and that are in this building that uh are across campus here at Turning Point Headquarters, um join Charlie on that vision and are part of that, and so uh yeah, with that we talked about the shirts and everything else.

00:48:46.000 Please um support you know this this mission to continue Charlie's voice with with Charlie's show because there's so many good people here that that have done that, and I know Andrew's Erica looked at me yesterday and she said the show has to keep going and turning point has to grow even bigger, and um I hope I'm at liberty to say that I think she would want me to say that.

00:49:10.000 Yeah, um, and so we don't know what the future holds for everything.

00:49:14.000 Uh at least you know, with fine detail, but we know that that will happen, that we will honor that, and I know Charlie would want that to happen.

00:49:23.000 That's the only way to honor Charlie is to to for everything to get bigger and to again again that point, which is that this is bigger than any singular person.

00:49:32.000 Uh, but honoring Charlie's memory permanently with making turning point bigger and the mission, which is activate as many human beings as possible to do the work to do the Lord's work and to do the work to save the republic.

00:49:45.000 So put those those shirts back up for the radio.

00:49:49.000 Um, if you can, you can go to Charlie Kirkstore.com, Charlie Kirkstore.com.

00:49:54.000 We have three options.

00:49:56.000 Um the the election night shirt is a drawing of him putting his hands on his face after he found out that Trump was going to be elected the 47th president, and he said, I'm just humbled by God's grace.

00:50:09.000 And uh that's a beautiful one.

00:50:11.000 He is I'm Charlie Kirk, and people love that.

00:50:15.000 Um I'm Charlie Kirk.

00:50:16.000 I've been seeing that everywhere.

00:50:18.000 And then we have the shirt, um, the freedom shirt that he was wearing and with the date on it and the the turning point hook also on that on that sleeve.

00:50:29.000 I think that message in the center shirt there, I'm Charlie Kirk.

00:50:32.000 That that speaks to what Tyler's talking about.

00:50:35.000 It's that it's the Charlie Kirk spirit, right?

00:50:37.000 It's I was saying this yesterday on interview, you know, people who's the next Charlie Kirk.

00:50:43.000 Look, we well, there isn't an ex Charlie Kirk, but Charlie, if if you asked him that in public, right?

00:50:48.000 He would say, you know, you go get a megaphone or you know, uh a chair and go to your local park and set up a folding table on camp, whatever it is, right?

00:51:01.000 Whatever public place you can be, and and go do this too.

00:51:05.000 And so it doesn't mean you know, it doesn't it's not about him, right?

00:51:09.000 It's about you take that Charlie Kirk spirit and go and be the next one and go set up your chapter or go set up your thing and go be that person.

00:51:19.000 And that I think is is the message that's now and you see this, it's around the world.

00:51:26.000 It's completely we'll we'll talk about it later, but it's it's totally around the world.

00:51:29.000 I mean, I'm getting messages from like I don't even want to say, but just countries that you wouldn't even believe had heard of Charlie are doing vigils for Charlie.

00:51:38.000 I uh I actually do want to talk about that at length because one of the things that I've realized um and I I tweeted about this or posted about this last night on X. Um there was a video of a vigil that was sent to me, and I just said I've constantly had to recalibrate my internal clock because you kind of know exactly what you mean how famous Charlie is, and then like something else would kind of blow your mind and be like, Whoa, he's actually way bigger.

00:52:07.000 And Blake, I'm sure you had a bunch of those, even in Seoul.

00:52:10.000 You're like, whoa, people know him here.

00:52:12.000 Um yeah, I I am realize that as much as I tried to recalibrate, I'm I'm probably two years behind, like actually how fa famous he was, like in my in my internal clock, and I in his death, um, and Trump said this beautifully actually this morning on Fox.

00:52:31.000 Um, I don't know what clip it is, I'm sure we have it.

00:52:33.000 We'll we'll play the yeah, that he's now he's even bigger.

00:52:37.000 He was huge, and now he's a worldwide uh icon.

00:52:41.000 And um before we before we get away off the topic, um I'm as I want to piggyback on Tyler and just say thank you to the staff for being here today.

00:52:50.000 And yeah, and yeah, their hearts are broken too.

00:52:54.000 Impossible task.

00:52:55.000 We and all of our turning point staff right now are at home with family as we as the as is expected.

00:53:00.000 But again, for here being part of the show and honoring Charlie.

00:53:04.000 I mean, that's just such a hard thing to ask people to do.

00:53:06.000 And I I can't thank you each enough.

00:53:09.000 Everybody behind the glass, seriously.

00:53:10.000 Thank you for being here.

00:53:12.000 Thank you to our amazing team.

00:53:13.000 They really are amazing.

00:53:14.000 And Charlie loved them dearly.

00:53:16.000 Here we are at the Charlie Kirk Show studio.

00:53:19.000 Um I remember building this studio, and I remember designing it so Charlie would be here, and then he's decided he liked it here better.

00:53:29.000 So we flipped everything.

00:53:32.000 Um you had to have his Oregon duck thing over there.

00:53:35.000 It was the the original original was a straight line.

00:53:38.000 Yeah, it was a straight well.

00:53:39.000 This desk actually is modular, and so you can kind of fold it uh so that the two levels fold into one another, and it was just a desk, and it was supposed to be designed so that if you had guests, it could fold out and the team could but he just liked it like this with all the tests.

00:53:54.000 We did one of the election night streams or something, and we set up the V, and he just liked it.

00:54:00.000 He just liked it.

00:54:01.000 He left it.

00:54:02.000 And he just left it that way.

00:54:03.000 Well, I remember walking into, so the story of this complex is really interesting because we were in Chicago.

00:54:10.000 We came over here, and we found this space because we wanted to have a building for Turning Point that was by itself.

00:54:17.000 Yeah.

00:54:17.000 And fast forward to, we had to go through and talk every single one of the people in this complex to sell the buildings.

00:54:24.000 So I had to get on the phone with these guys, and luckily we had this incredible kid that was in real estate that helped.

00:54:31.000 and we talked him into it but I remember walking through this building for the first time and this is a garage this was actually a garage so this was like a they a shop like they they had like a bunch of machines and stuff in here and they had they used to have all this equipment that was like hanging off and we just started going through just yanking stuff out or like this will be the home for Charlie the c Charlie Kirk studio.

00:54:51.000 And I I feel bad for the audience because I'm not sitting in Charlie's seat you're seeing the the profile shot of of Tyler uh because he's looking at me when he's talking so I apologize that's that's been everything on the show that I'm always you're here I'm always looking at Charlie because that's Tyler's seat.

00:55:07.000 I know and I kept I kept telling the studio I was like can we like get that camera Andrew Andrew's pointing out this is a this is a blocking violation for for film and TV.

00:55:18.000 It's worth it.

00:55:18.000 Yeah.

00:55:18.000 So, um, but we've kind of always done it.

00:55:21.000 So like, uh, you know, I'm going to ask, let me ask you this when radio gets back on, but I was just talking with the, we took a quick, uh, bio break as they call it in the business.

00:55:29.000 And, um, I was asking the team, I was like, what do people want to hear right now?

00:55:34.000 And the whole team is out there in the bays.

00:55:37.000 And they were like, people want to hear stories about Charlie and they want to see the behind the scenes stuff.

00:55:43.000 And so I want us to share that with him and, uh, with the audience, uh, our interactions with him.

00:55:50.000 And I don't want to force you to start when we, we're going to be welcomed back national radio in about a minute, but that's, um, there, there are, there's that line in the Bible about Jesus where it says, you know, there, there would be the writing of endless books about all the things that Jesus did.

00:56:08.000 And I feel like, um, not to compare Charlie to Jesus, but his life is like that, where if you compiled all the little things that he did, did for

00:56:18.000 all the tens of thousands of people that he interacted with there would be no end of the books that we could write about his life and um that is um that is a tr it's like so true like I'm not even that's not even at like 31 years on this planet and that's not even a hyperbolic thing to say that's not me exaggerating is um a really remarkable feat.

00:56:42.000 And so Blake I'm gonna go like we're just gonna go around the table I I was just gonna put you on the hot seat first so it wasn't me.

00:56:48.000 So the our our team is telling us that people want to hear more personal stories that you that you wouldn't have seen um if you didn't know Charlie.

00:56:58.000 So Blake the floor is yours.

00:56:59.000 Tell us a story about Charlie that uh you think people would like to hear or that haven't heard yet man I'm I'm thinking of a few things uh gosh personal stuff I think one of the things that always impressed me about Charlie was his immense uh personal discipline about everything he did he had you know his day was very ordered everything he did was very ordered and he didn't deviate from that and if you you know asked him about that he'd be like well this is this is the smart thing to do why would I do something different?

00:57:29.000 And the thing I'd always tease him about is the number of foods he ate which is about four or five yeah uh like I would joke about this and I would I'm not exaggerating the the variation of food Charlie ate was like grilled chicken avocado hot sauce like cabbage lettuce like that like salmon I guess and I think he used to have beef but I think he later like decided red meat was probably more of a bad than good doing that 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.

00:57:59.000 Yeah.

00:58:00.000 And Charlie, as long as I've known, Charlie has always been very focused on what he puts inside his body.

00:58:07.000 Yeah.

00:58:07.000 From day one.

00:58:08.000 It was I remember because I've always when I was my first met Charlie, I was skinny.

00:58:13.000 And then I got, you know, you know, dad fat.

00:58:17.000 Less skin.

00:58:17.000 You got your road layer.

00:58:18.000 I got dad fat.

00:58:19.000 I put on the pregnancy weight a few times throughout that that cycle.

00:58:23.000 Campaign 30. 0.86

00:58:24.000 But Charlie was always and he would always kind of yell at me, you know, and Andrew, I'm probably sure you had.

00:58:29.000 Some of these situations like probably hasn't.

00:58:32.000 But I've never got yelled at for what he eats.

00:58:34.000 But he would be like because I would like pound sodas.

00:58:37.000 And like I was like, oh, yeah.

00:58:38.000 then it caught up with me I was like Charlie's like sin eater because I like I eat everything.

00:58:43.000 he would eat like piles of singular foods.

00:58:46.000 So it would be like stacks of like stacks of broccoli.

00:58:49.000 He would order that like steamed broccoli or he would order just just meat.

00:58:55.000 Right.

00:58:55.000 It would just be like meat.

00:58:56.000 And then he would just he would pound through it.

00:58:58.000 He would eat like as we're talking, like like we didn't have time to waste as we were going.

00:59:03.000 It would just eat later in life.

00:59:05.000 He enjoyed.

00:59:05.000 I think he enjoyed meals a little bit more.

00:59:07.000 But the early was like we were going, going, going.

00:59:09.000 He's always in the travel, ready to go.

00:59:11.000 And he would just eat.

00:59:12.000 I would just sit there and be like because I would order like a normal sandwich and like drink a drink.

00:59:18.000 But he would just eat to eat.

00:59:19.000 But it was always healthy.

00:59:20.000 And he would always be like, you're going to eat that.

00:59:23.000 Like he would look at me like, you're going to eat that.

00:59:25.000 You're going to put that.

00:59:26.000 I actually remember, I think the night I think I'm pretty sure we were all there too.

00:59:30.000 It was the night of the RNC when he gave his speech there.

00:59:33.000 Not the six year and 20, but the 24.

00:59:36.000 And I think I want to correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he have like a couple of chicken wings?

00:59:40.000 And he like made a huge deal about it.

00:59:43.000 He had a couple and we had like a huge pile.

00:59:45.000 It was a huge pile of stuff.

00:59:47.000 vast pile of chicken and but it was like each as Tyler was saying like each box was a separate food and then we had a whole bunch of chicken wings that we were all just chowing down on and he goes I will allow myself to have a few well and that was like he would he would find something he liked and early on he used to say his all the time he'd be like you could build a religion around this thing.

01:00:08.000 Have you ever heard him say that we'd build a religion around this thing around this when he found a food he liked he'd be like you can build a religion around this or that thing or whatever.

01:00:17.000 But it's like the first time he's eating it no he wasn't getting yeah no it would be it would be like it'd be like I'd be like I mean I think it's great these chicken wings you can build a religion we know.

01:00:26.000 I think I heard Charlie say that no short of like 500 times.

01:00:29.000 I yeah it that when you say there's certain set phrases that were just like the Charlie phrases and you know when you say them you could just hear it in his voice because that's that's the only guy who talks that way.

01:00:43.000 What about you, Jack?

01:00:47.000 Do you have a fun Charlie story that you think the audience hasn't heard or would like to hear?

01:00:53.000 Oh, man.

01:00:54.000 You know, look, I mean, there's a lot of stuff that's just private.

01:01:01.000 So that's like, how do you steep through that?

01:01:05.000 You know, I'll tell the story from last year, though, that I think is just kind of a funny thing.

01:01:13.000 So Charlie worked so hard on these campus tours that people don't realize that he worked himself sick last year.

01:01:23.000 And there were, I don't know, two, three weeks where he just, he had no voice.

01:01:30.000 He completely lost his voice out there on the campus tours, the campaigns between everything.

01:01:38.000 He was traveling so much and just picking up whatever germs and bugs and all the rest and obviously with his health regimen and is that he you know he did what he could but you know sometimes it just kind of doesn't work that way and I remember we had we had talked about and he was like hey Jack you know you're Pennsylvania guy we're doing this Penn State I think it's gonna be big do you want to come and I was like oh yeah you know we'll we'll see if it works out with the schedule etc.

01:02:03.000 and and then a couple days before the event he sent or no the day before the event he sends me this text and and says jack we need to talk so like we need to talk i lost my voice so then i call him and he immediately hangs up and he texts me back and i said he said jack i can't talk i lost my voice i can only text and so he he's like i i need you up here um and and and so we we i get up to Penn

01:02:32.000 State And the entire time we're there and I'm with him, we're spending time and he's like sending me text messages or just writing stuff on his phone.

01:02:40.000 And you're like right next to him.

01:02:41.000 Yeah.

01:02:41.000 And he's like showing it and I'm like saying it or tweeting it or whatever it is.

01:02:47.000 And then as we're about to go, you know, we have this whole thing set up and there's thousands of kids.

01:02:54.000 I mean, 5,000 maybe.

01:02:56.000 Because I know we brought.

01:02:57.000 It was insane.

01:02:58.000 I know we brought.

01:02:59.000 Sea of red hats.

01:03:00.000 We brought 30,000 hats, but then we ran out and only about half of the kids had hats.

01:03:06.000 So that's why I know.

01:03:06.000 You would not believe the number of hats that Turning Point bought.

01:03:11.000 still managed to run out and it was insane and that's and then and then the campus end up sh ended up shutting down the the speakers that many boxes I want to just throw out hats.

01:03:21.000 It was so many box like the logistics of getting that many hats is actually to each campus was actually a marvel in and of itself.

01:03:30.000 And you're you're reminding me of uh go ahead.

01:03:32.000 I don't know if you had something you wanted to add, Tyler.

01:03:34.000 No, I was just gonna say that the the miracle of the organization of Turning Point, uh being able to do all those things is what enabled so much of Charlie Kirk, right?

01:03:45.000 Charlie was wanted to be enabled all the time with every little crazy idea that he had.

01:03:52.000 I would call him Charlie Kirk Wild Goose Chases, like with stuff.

01:03:55.000 It would just be like constant stuff, right?

01:03:57.000 And it was just like trying to channel where those things would go.

01:04:01.000 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.

01:04:10.000 Always right on the He was annoyingly almost always right.

01:04:13.000 Almost always right.

01:04:14.000 And when you did when you got one that was right, you were like you would make a mental dynamic be like, eh.

01:04:19.000 Because it was it was 99 to 1.

01:04:21.000 But the but where he wanted to go with everything was always right.

01:04:25.000 And he he and and he knew he had the vision, and the people who helped execute that uh deserve a ton of credit.

01:04:33.000 Every every person, every can I I look at the the videos from the campus tours.

01:04:38.000 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 in such scary times as where we're at today.

01:04:50.000 They have been such incredible warriors, and uh and that honors Charlie so much.

01:04:56.000 Um yeah, we we have this let's go ahead and play it.

01:05:00.000 We have just enough time.

01:05:00.000 This is Charlie eating with chopsticks in Japan with Blake, four seventy-nine.

01:05:05.000 Is it like a big thing?

01:05:07.000 Yeah, of course.

01:05:09.000 Am I doing it okay?

01:05:11.000 Yeah, perfect.

01:05:13.000 This is Noto.

01:05:16.000 What a mentor.

01:05:16.000 Why is it so gooey theme?

01:05:20.000 It's very good.

01:05:22.000 It's so good.

01:05:23.000 It's very good.

01:05:24.000 Why is it so gooey?

01:05:26.000 Uh because it's farmented, I think.

01:05:31.000 Right.

01:05:32.000 That's great.

01:05:32.000 That's very good for you guys.

01:05:34.000 Blake, uh, I remember you he he was you and I were on a chat when this was happening or moments after it happened, and he was like, There was literally eleven dishes in this thing.

01:05:42.000 It was amazing.

01:05:43.000 Oh, the Japanese food.

01:05:44.000 I mean you can't.

01:05:46.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:05:48.000 People don't realize like how he would just get fixated on the state.

01:05:51.000 Yes, I would just love how he would you know, he would like interrogate me about things 'cause Charlie Charlie loved to learn things, loved to pick new things up, and yet he was also so busy all of the time.

01:06:02.000 So he would even just he would send me on he's like, uh 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.

01:06:09.000 So I'll I'll go read, you know, a 300 page book about this so that I can just be ready when Charlie interrogates me.

01:06:14.000 I remember once on a flight, it was like an hour, and he's just like, Blake, tell me about the Roman Empire.

01:06:20.000 I'm like the start or the end.

01:06:22.000 He's like, whatever you want.

01:06:23.000 And just started going off about that.

01:06:26.000 I also asked you about that.

01:06:27.000 Blake is a very good resource if you want to learn about the Roman Empire.

01:06:30.000 And he was he was very, you know, he sometimes just to he would ask Mikey, he would be like, Mikey, just ask Chad GPT to make some trivia questions, and then let's just see if Blake can get them.

01:06:38.000 And he was very proud that you know, he's like, Okay, Blake, I'm gonna lose to you on you know, history, I'm gonna probably lose to you on geography.

01:06:46.000 Uh, but he was very proud that he was he was competitive with me on you know biblical stuff because he was very he he loved to study the Bible, you know, book by book.

01:06:54.000 He was really into that.

01:06:54.000 He was very very proud of that.

01:06:56.000 And he was right, he was he was better at b Bible trivia than I was. 0.78

01:06:58.000 Actually, that's that's something I could share, 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?

01:07:09.000 It 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.

01:07:21.000 You need to go through all five hours and come back to me with it.

01:07:24.000 Yeah.

01:07:24.000 Um and not even for the show.

01:07:26.000 I I have a story like this actually from recent.

01:07:29.000 We were in Aspen doing um uh an investor summit, um, and it was an amazing trip, and we we had uh a Cambridge professor who uh was actually we we played that uh the last live it was a pre-record,

01:07:45.000 but it was like the last radio live hour, um, you know, before he started speaking at at campus and um it was with Dr. James Orr, he's an amazing Cambridge professor, and um he flew back uh w from Aspen uh and Charlie was like, What are you doing tomorrow?

01:08:06.000 And James was like, Well, I don't fly out until Monday, and it was a Sunday.

01:08:11.000 So Charlie was like, Well, do you want to have breakfast with us and we'll we'll do our our morning worship and then I'll pick you up and can you just like teach me all day?

01:08:20.000 And and James was like, What you just wanna you know, you just want to do class?

01:08:26.000 And he's like, Yeah, like I just want to do class.

01:08:29.000 And uh so I they sat in a room and Charlie peppered him with questions.

01:08:35.000 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 of all the texts that make up the Western.

01:08:48.000 He can remember almost page and verse of all of these great books and he connect them, how they relate to now and where we got this word and how it how it evolved from this and to and so Charlie was was gathering this three dimensional understanding of the the Latin and the Greek, uh and how it made up European history which gave birth to America, obviously the Western Western canon.

01:09:13.000 But that was Charlie's idea of of a Sunday well spent, and um I remember being so jealous.

01:09:18.000 That's a day off for sure.

01:09:20.000 That was a day off.

01:09:20.000 I remember being so jealous because I had to go back home, I had to catch a flight Sunday morning to get back home.

01:09:26.000 Uh and I mean I got to be with my family and it was great, but and that's where I I should have been.

01:09:30.000 But Charlie got to spend the day with his family and learning from one of the great minds um in uh Christendom.

01:09:38.000 And it was a ma it was amazing.

01:09:40.000 That was Charlie in a nutshell.

01:09:42.000 I also the it's weird things that I remember right now.

01:09:44.000 Charlie walking around all the time with like he'd wear shorts on planes with like his tall socks.

01:09:50.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:09:50.000 So he always it was the tall socks, the tall socks.

01:09:53.000 No, he it improves circulation, Andrew.

01:09:55.000 No, he would always tell him talk to me about this.

01:09:57.000 He's like, it's a it's a thing for tall people, Jack.

01:09:59.000 It's compression socks.

01:10:01.000 You wear them, you wear them on planes, the pressure.

01:10:03.000 He had it all like I'm not gonna rise in choice.

01:10:07.000 No joke.

01:10:08.000 A week ago, I was getting when I was actually flying out to uh Korea for a thing.

01:10:14.000 I was like, Okay, I've got to see if there's something to this.

01:10:17.000 And I just put on socks and I pulled them all the way up and I wore them that for about half the day, and then I thought this is way too annoying, and I slid them back down.

01:10:24.000 Well he would say you're not tall enough.

01:10:26.000 Yeah, probably but you probably did have really good circulation.

01:10:30.000 Maybe he was right most of the time. 0.90

01:10:32.000 I wanted to read something that Danny uh on the team, Danny's young guy, um Charlie loved Danny so much.

01:10:42.000 And uh Danny's quiet, uh doesn't always say a whole lot, um, but when he speaks, you better listen because he's been thinking about it for a long time.

01:10:51.000 And Danny wanted to uh he's shared this with me.

01:10:54.000 I I hope it's okay.

01:10:56.000 I think it is.

01:10:56.000 He says, Charlie's story.

01:10:58.000 Last year when I was living out here interning, I was living in the hood off of GCU campus.

01:11:06.000 Charlie found out and and goes, Okay, you're gonna either live at my apartment or at my in-laws.

01:11:13.000 I'm and he's like, I convinced him I would be fine, and I stayed where I was for a few months.

01:11:18.000 He was one of the kindest people I've ever met.

01:11:22.000 And um I love that story because uh somehow this was true about Charlie that he was balancing huge organizations, a thousand relationships, donors, friends, the show, uh politicians, other organizations.

01:11:39.000 He he had all these plates spinning in his head all the time, and he would somehow find time to worry about my well being.

01:11:46.000 Or are your is your wife and kids are they gonna come?

01:11:49.000 Do you need me to set them up with something?

01:11:50.000 Do you want me can I get them here?

01:11:52.000 Uh are you okay?

01:11:53.000 Do you want me to put you at this hotel?

01:11:55.000 Like he would his brain was just always moving and spinning, and he was always thinking about other people and their well being.

01:12:03.000 And how many stories I heard of that, Tyler?

01:12:05.000 I mean, right?

01:12:06.000 It's like you saw it in the organizational feats of Turning Point, how he would think about the speaker coming in and make sure they were all taken care of.

01:12:12.000 And he had it built into the schedule that he had to go backstage to meet so and so at such a time because he wanted to just say thanks for coming.

01:12:19.000 And it was it the intricacy of his mind and the details he was able to hold all at one time, truly amazing.

01:12:27.000 One of the things that uh I've I just keep seeing over and over is everyone telling the stories of how they got introduced to Charlie.

01:12:35.000 And I've had received again thousands of messages.

01:12:37.000 I can't even respond back.

01:12:38.000 I know Andrew feels the same.

01:12:40.000 All of us probably feel the same.

01:12:41.000 Jack is uh a savant at keeping up with people.

01:12:44.000 I don't know how he does it, but I I just can't even keep up, so I'm not even gonna try.

01:12:48.000 So I apologize.

01:12:49.000 But everything I keep seeing over and over is Tyler, I know you were close to Charlie.

01:12:53.000 I didn't know him personally, but I want you to know how I was introduced to Charlie.

01:12:58.000 And nine times out of ten, you know what the answer is.

01:13:02.000 Uh one of my kids turned me on to Charlie.

01:13:05.000 They show me Charlie.

01:13:06.000 And this is like and this kind of goes hand in hand a little bit with what you're talking about.

01:13:12.000 I 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.

01:13:25.000 And for so many young people, again, and that's the mission of Turning Point. 0.55

01:13:29.000 Turning point, we always were we're trying to get young people involved and engaged.

01:13:33.000 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.

01:13:52.000 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.

01:14:06.000 And Charlie was right.

01:14:07.000 No one believed this, by the way, when we started.

01:14:09.000 There was no one.

01:14:10.000 And Charlie would get that face, you know, when he would tell you, he'd get excited because he'd be like, I'm gonna prove you wrong.

01:14:14.000 And he'd get that voice in his He literally took on the hardest.

01:14:18.000 I can't the hardest job.

01:14:21.000 It literally at the time it was unfathomable, and it was like you have chosen potentially the dumbest career mission imaginable.

01:14:29.000 Obama era college campuses, guys.

01:14:31.000 You don't understand.

01:14:32.000 That is the definition of the belly of the beast.

01:14:35.000 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.

01:14:44.000 And I'm so that I I never have really spent time thinking about that.

01:14:49.000 I mean, I know it, and we're really excited about it because I do that with my parents and grandparents.

01:14:52.000 But it's it's been so rewarding to see, 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.

01:15:03.000 And we used to send those in the chat all the time, but I actually have some breaking news.

01:15:07.000 I don't know if I should share it or not, but I'm going to.

01:15:09.000 It looks like the Cubs are going to be recognizing Charlie today.

01:15:14.000 So I don't even want to tell that story.

01:15:16.000 I I can't tell that story.

01:15:20.000 But they they should have they are.

01:15:22.000 They should have a it's very important to Charlie.

01:15:24.000 And I and I he loved the Cubs.

01:15:27.000 His grandma was a lifelong Cubs fan, and she got to see the Cubs win the World Series and then passed away, and Charlie was like, that was she lived and she lived to see like that the greatest thing as a sports fan for her.

01:15:40.000 And that meant a lot to me.

01:15:42.000 Because no one thought it was ever gonna happen.

01:15:43.000 Yeah, Charlie loved the Cubs.

01:15:46.000 Um loved the Bears too, but it was a little bit harder to be a Bears fan.

01:15:51.000 I actually was it was hard to be a Cubs fan a lot of the time.

01:15:53.000 Do you remember one of the last chats that we had?

01:15:57.000 Um we were we were just you know, because on on uh by the way, that picture right there that's up on screen that was um really recent.

01:16:05.000 A couple weeks ago, right?

01:16:06.000 I was with him, yeah, and we went to that game.

01:16:10.000 And uh there's a great yeah, it's a picture with the Cubs team, and then those, you know, all these haters online tried to like shame that uh player, I forget his name, but um he lives in Phoenix as well, and uh um it's the third baseman, hit a home run that day, uh, I think just for Charlie, which was like amazing.

01:16:31.000 And uh, actually have a couple pictures from that day, so go ahead, Jack.

01:16:34.000 I No, no, I was just gonna say on on Sundays, especially, you know, people don't realize how how big of a sports fan Charlie was.

01:16:42.000 And on Sundays, you know, the the group chat would turn into basically whatever game he was watching.

01:16:47.000 And just you know, I yeah, one of our last things was just you know, busting his balls about the bears.

01:16:52.000 And the bears joking it away.

01:16:53.000 Yeah, that's what I was saying.

01:16:54.000 I was scrolling through.

01:16:55.000 That's a story people would like.

01:16:56.000 I was scrolling through and Charlie was so focused and reading.

01:17:00.000 It was always that we'd have uh, you know, America Fest is right before Christmas, and that's when the bowl games are ramping up.

01:17:07.000 And I think even maybe some of the playoff games were going on this last year.

01:17:11.000 I can't remember what the schedule was, but he wanted to see what was going on.

01:17:14.000 He was no, he was mad.

01:17:16.000 What game was it?

01:17:17.000 He was mad that he wouldn't be able to watch a game in real time because we would literally have we have the big stage at Amphest, and then behind it is our kind of command center or green room, 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, and he's just sitting there like watching it during his literal two minutes of downtime before the next thing at Amfest, and he'd have his bowl with his chicken and lettuce that he was able to do.

01:17:47.000 And his hot sauce, he'd just be sitting there with his birthday.

01:17:50.000 Watching it really intensely, and you know I'd walk by, he's like, Blake, come here, come here.

01:17:53.000 Come on, let's watch what let's watch a game, Blake.

01:17:55.000 Okay, Charlie.

01:17:56.000 I uh please put this B-roll up.

01:17:59.000 Uh, just don't play the sound on it because I haven't reviewed it for anything.

01:18:02.000 Uh I never shared this, but this was just from a couple weeks ago.

01:18:06.000 Um that's me filming and Charlie and Erica, and we went out.

01:18:10.000 That was the first time Charlie got to walk out onto Wrigley Field onto the field right there.

01:18:17.000 It was before the game, and it was so awesome.

01:18:20.000 And the Ivy right there.

01:18:23.000 And uh this is Charlie, of course, looking back, give me the thumbs up.

01:18:29.000 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, but they had arranged we that 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 the car and get on there uh onto the field.

01:18:49.000 And this was his uh his childhood uh favorite team, the cubbies.

01:18:53.000 He's got his cubs hat.

01:18:54.000 I kept wanting to get him one of the new era or like the the actual field hats.

01:18:58.000 Oh, he would never be able to do that.

01:18:59.000 But he liked he liked his uh his little like low profile one and uh it was what he wore.

01:19:04.000 Uh I think that's the same Cubs hat he wore at Student Action Summit um when he was doing the uh Prove Me Wrong with the the students there.

01:19:13.000 Um and it was just so fun.

01:19:16.000 It was so fun.

01:19:17.000 He wanted to be there with him.

01:19:19.000 Yeah, he wanted to be he loved that that field and that stadium.

01:19:23.000 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.

01:19:30.000 So it was it was a ways out from Chicago, and I I remember at the early time, this is like right after we had made some changes to really grow turning point USA.

01:19:42.000 Um we did a team builder at the Cub Stadium at Wrigley Field.

01:19:49.000 And so we Charlie and I had driven over to the the Cubs, you know, to Wrigley.

01:19:56.000 Very difficult to to park.

01:19:58.000 You have to like basically just park in people's garages and things like that.

01:20:02.000 But we took all of the staff there, and it was at the time I think we have like 20 people.

01:20:08.000 And I remember we're just there and we're sitting, and he just nonstop would be talking about to everybody how because we had staff from all over the country at the time, just different places about how great the Cubs were, how much he loved them, and you knew from that moment how much that mattered to Charlie.

01:20:25.000 And there were a few things that were like Chicago boy things.

01:20:28.000 I mean, he loved Chicago.

01:20:29.000 He told me Tyler, Chicago's the greatest city on planet Earth.

01:20:31.000 I'm never gonna leave.

01:20:33.000 And I was really nervous, you know, when we f you you were instrumental in him falling in love with Phoenix.

01:20:39.000 He's really uh Arizona a Chicago boy at heart.

01:20:42.000 And and the and the Wrigley, the Cubs, yeah, everything else was was such a big part of the things that he loved.

01:20:50.000 Um right here in his studio in Phoenix, Arizona.

01:20:54.000 Um his seat is empty because we were honoring one of the greatest people any of us will ever meet.

01:21:00.000 A legend, an icon, a martyr, a man who lifted up God above all, his faith in Jesus Christ was the most important thing to him.

01:21:12.000 And then it was his family, Erica, his two beautiful kids.

01:21:17.000 And then it was the country and turning point.

01:21:21.000 And everything that our founders built.

01:21:25.000 And um I'm just realizing, Jack and Tyler and Blake, that how much I've been changed by this person.

01:21:37.000 It was funny, even while we were starting the show, and it didn't occur to me while I was doing it.

01:21:43.000 And so I hope it didn't come off as some like fake like emulation.

01:21:46.000 But I was sitting here going, like, hey, send so and so in.

01:21:48.000 Hey, so it sends so and so in.

01:21:50.000 And then like I remember that's what Charlie would do but before the show.

01:21:55.000 Right.

01:21:55.000 It was always like, da-da-da-da-da.

01:21:57.000 And it's like I it's I don't think I'm gonna fully understand how much I've been affected and transformed and changed by Charlie.

01:22:05.000 Um I don't think I'll ever fully understand it.

01:22:09.000 Because you're not you're not purposefully doing it like Charlie.

01:22:13.000 Oh, it was like Charlie's imprint.

01:22:14.000 We were so saturated with so much Charlie Kirk at all times that the way I put it was like people ask you, what about this question?

01:22:24.000 What about this question?

01:22:24.000 Would Charlie wanted this?

01:22:25.000 Would Charlie wanted that?

01:22:26.000 And it's like it's like I can hear him in a way, but like not like he's speaking to me, but just it's just if you know him, you kind of know what he would say.

01:22:36.000 Yeah, you know, you you almost know, not on like you know, certain things, but but just little basic things.

01:22:43.000 You just well, that's what Charlie would say this.

01:22:44.000 Well, Charlie would say this.

01:22:45.000 Charlie would do this, and you just you just you just know you just know that that's what he would have wanted.

01:22:52.000 And it's weird because you know, talking to everybody throughout all of this, it's you know, even having heard that Erica said that she wanted the the cameras on and wanted this up.

01:23:05.000 I know that's exactly what Charlie would have wanted.

01:23:09.000 That he would say, get on the stream, get the rumble up.

01:23:13.000 It's almost like we are the large uh learn language model for Charlie Kirk because we've we've we've had so much input from this person.

01:23:22.000 Um that's that's what a life is, right?

01:23:26.000 When you know somebody, yeah.

01:23:28.000 That's that's what they do, they imprint on you.

01:23:30.000 People people didn't give Charlie enough credit uh for how funny he was.

01:23:35.000 Charlie could be hilarious.

01:23:36.000 Charlie was funny, but it was his own very distinct brand of it.

01:23:41.000 It like because he was so distinctly Charlie and so rigidly Charlie Kirk, when he would kind of come in, you know, he would do that look when he goes, you know.

01:23:51.000 Um but he would make oh man, the plane rides were the best.

01:23:57.000 We would just get on topics, yes.

01:23:59.000 It was it was topics, and it would almost kind of turn into the best way to describe Charlie Kirk's humor is probably Seinfeld.

01:24:06.000 He'd love Seinfeld.

01:24:07.000 I've been only watching Seinfeld Charlie.

01:24:10.000 I've needed it to fall asleep the last couple nights.

01:24:12.000 Love Seinfeld.

01:24:13.000 But it was like kind of these weird, funny, just like situational things with personalities involved, where it's like we would kind of talk about those things, and it would be like, Well, that's just like what's this guy doing, and that's that, and like this is this isn't funny how this is connected, that's connected, and it was like kind of smart humor, but it's like that's the very in real life reality show type He was he was a good storyteller too.

01:24:39.000 Uh and I almost feel bad that so many of the funniest ones you know you can't tell because it's it's private information, but he when he could actually tell you something, him relating it second hand was so funny.

01:24:50.000 I'll give you a good Seinfeld moment from Charlie Kirk's life, and I'll I'll never I think about this all the time, and I don't know why it just sticks with me.

01:24:56.000 So Charlie and I were going back and forth to LA for like every week for like a year.

01:25:02.000 It was there's a reason for it, it was crazy, it was it was stupid, but my life got like completely uprooted, and I was going to LA every week.

01:25:09.000 So the horrible part about this is that we had to find LAX, and LAX is like a third world country, and it just is, and like you just like and and again for people who have patience, you can probably get through LAX.

01:25:20.000 Charlie Kirk cannot.

01:25:21.000 And we were flying just back and forth, and so uh what one day we cut it really close on the Uber that we're going back to LAX, and you get in the loop around LAX, and it's like a horseshoe.

01:25:32.000 And it's and if it's stopped, it's like that Uber spot where you have to.

01:25:35.000 But you're so close to the terminal, but you're really not, yeah, yeah.

01:25:39.000 And are you talking about just as you enter the airport?

01:25:41.000 No, just the horseshoes.

01:25:43.000 I just are gonna pack it.

01:25:45.000 sometimes you can just bounce and then you can run faster than the other.

01:25:48.000 No, then people who don't know LAX, that's a total thing where you're stuck in your Uber outside the airport, and you can see the whole string of cars, and people are getting out running in the city.

01:25:56.000 But you can cut across the things.

01:25:59.000 You can cut yeah, because it's a horseshoe, and in the middle they have parking and there's some pathways you can actually cut right in through.

01:26:04.000 So anyways, the sky no LAX way too well.

01:26:08.000 This guy was dropping us off, and you know, he wasn't communicating very well.

01:26:12.000 And we're going through anyway, we're we're that basically scenario played out, and he's like, Oh, well it's just right up here, it's right up there.

01:26:20.000 And we just kept going and going and going.

01:26:22.000 He's like, and I just remember the guy had messed up and then missed.

01:26:27.000 He cut through the middle because there's this kind of a road through the middle, and actually Messi's like, Oh, we're gonna go have to go back and do this all over again.

01:26:33.000 And we just f flew open the doors.

01:26:35.000 He's like, This is crazy.

01:26:37.000 And like he just like looked at the guy, he's like, This is actually crazy.

01:26:41.000 And we like grabbed our stuff out of the car, and we're like having to walk across the airport.

01:26:45.000 But I I just rings in my ear the whole time because the guy was like, Oh no, it's fine.

01:26:49.000 I I do this all the time.

01:26:51.000 And but the interaction between Charlie and this guy and us trying to get into the airport.

01:26:56.000 You can almost hear it the thumb, don't I don't hear it?

01:26:58.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:26:59.000 Um he loved this clip, by the way.

01:27:00.000 He actually thought that Seinfeld had really profound, like deeper like uh parallels.

01:27:07.000 He he thought it was basically thought our entire modern world could be there was a there was gonna be a Seinfeld episode that that mocked in parodied that what what we're experiencing now.

01:27:19.000 And so he loved this ribbon clip.

01:27:20.000 So let's just go ahead and play the ribbon clip if we have it.

01:27:23.000 Uh I don't know what number it doesn't have a number, but it's the ribbon clip.

01:27:27.000 You're checked in.

01:27:28.000 Thank you.

01:27:28.000 Here's your AIDS ribbon.

01:27:29.000 Uh no thanks.

01:27:30.000 You don't want to wear an AIDS ribbon? 0.92

01:27:31.000 Uh no, no.

01:27:32.000 But you have to wear an AIDS ribbon.

01:27:34.000 I have to.

01:27:35.000 Yes.

01:27:35.000 Yeah, see, that's why I don't want to.

01:27:37.000 But everyone wears the ribbon.

01:27:39.000 You must wear the ribbon.

01:27:41.000 What you are?

01:27:42.000 You're a ribbon bully. 0.98

01:27:44.000 Hey, you come back here! 0.76

01:27:46.000 Come back here and put this on!

01:27:48.000 Hey, where's your ribbon?

01:27:49.000 Oh, I don't wear the ribbon.

01:27:50.000 You don't wear the ribbon?

01:27:51.000 Who do you think you are?

01:27:52.000 Put the ribbon on.

01:27:54.000 Hey, Cedric!

01:27:55.000 Bob!

01:27:55.000 This guy won't wear a ribbon.

01:27:58.000 Who?

01:27:59.000 Who doesn't want to wear the ribbon? 1.00

01:28:02.000 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.

01:28:13.000 And and and that was just one instant of Charlie uh using Seinfeld as uh and I'll never forget he always brings Eric Mataxis on the show.

01:28:24.000 Uh and he'll the first thing he does when Eric Metaxis comes on and he he'll he'll make like a inside Seinfeld joke reference because Eric loves Seinfeld as well.

01:28:33.000 Uh and it's and it's a beautiful thing.

01:28:36.000 Man, it's just watching that clip.

01:28:39.000 Charlie loved that clip.

01:28:41.000 Charlie Charlie loved saying that line.

01:28:43.000 You must wear the ribbon.

01:28:45.000 Like, yeah.

01:28:46.000 Oh I I'm gonna miss joking around with him so much.

01:28:49.000 That's uh, how did you get him to wear this hat?

01:28:53.000 This is hilarious.

01:28:55.000 Tyler This is my greatest moment, by the way.

01:28:58.000 Tyler got him to wear this hat, put this hat up.

01:29:00.000 I can't believe you got I did I forgot you got him to wear that.

01:29:06.000 Oh, yeah, this was the case.

01:29:07.000 I feel happiest about I was able to get Charlie to do crazy things for a long time.

01:29:11.000 Again, for for that, but we did we had these hats that said precinct lead uh precinct sheriff on them.

01:29:18.000 Sheriff, yeah, because we're focused on recruiting for precincts, and this is how serious about it.

01:29:21.000 And Charlie was very serious about chapters, and on our political side, we talked about precincts and getting everyone involved in the precinct level.

01:29:27.000 And so I was like, Charlie, if you're serious about this, you gotta wear this.

01:29:30.000 And we uh I think we were about for a thought crime episode.

01:29:33.000 Yeah, everybody had to wear an 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, like no, he had it on, he had it on for quite a bit of the episode.

01:29:46.000 Charlie was always a good sport, uh, actually.

01:29:48.000 And um uh what uh South Park, like they didn't understand the South Park.

01:29:55.000 I f we found the clip uh 477 uh uh of Rush talking about Charlie.

01:30:01.000 I'm going to play it before this show is out because um this show is the Charlie Kirk show, and Rush Limbaugh inspired Charlie to pursue this line of work.

01:30:12.000 There's no question about it.

01:30:13.000 That's not me speculating.

01:30:14.000 I know for sure that's why.

01:30:16.000 Yep.

01:30:17.000 And um, so I'm going to play the the Rush Limbaugh clip because they were both two men that we lost way, way too early.

01:30:26.000 And I'm pretty sure that was the clip I just saw it.

01:30:29.000 Um and Rush Rush saw um yeah, it's 477.

01:30:34.000 Let's go ahead and play it.

01:30:36.000 They brought Charlie Kirk to the golf course to meet me about a month ago.

01:30:42.000 He was in town to set up this turning point thing.

01:30:45.000 And they brought him to the golf course to meet me.

01:30:47.000 It was during we're getting ready for a uh 8 45 a.m. start, and they brought him out while I was getting ready to go to the range loosen up.

01:30:55.000 And I spoke with him for about a half hour.

01:30:58.000 And he told me how he grew up in a home where my program was on all the time.

01:31:04.000 He was just effusively complimentary to me, which which I of course understood and uh uh told him he's very wise, his family's very wise.

01:31:16.000 He chuckled, he laughed.

01:31:18.000 This is the kind of guy um that you know you can see really becoming big in politics as he gets older.

01:31:28.000 He just has the kind that the carriage, the personality, the charisma.

01:31:33.000 I you you may think this sounds weird, but I remember when Bill Clinton became president.

01:31:40.000 There were all of these stories about Bill Clinton at Oxford and Bill Clinton at Yale and Bill Clinton here, and all these people that went to school with him.

01:31:49.000 There was story after story after story where people were saying that they just knew Bill Clinton was going to be president someday in college.

01:31:56.000 He just had that kind of ambition, and he impressed people and I'm telling you that people are saying the same things about about Charlie Kirk.

01:32:09.000 Yeah.

01:32:10.000 Rush saw it and Rush knew, and um Rush didn't want people to know this, and then we asked uh Catherine after he passed.

01:32:21.000 Um she said it was okay to share that Rush was a seven-figure donor to turning point, and because he believed so much in Charlie and what he was building in the mission of Turning Point USA.

01:32:39.000 And um I want all of you to rest assured that are wondering what's next.

01:32:44.000 Turning point USA is not going anywhere.

01:32:47.000 The mission that Charlie started, he always wanted it to be an institution that would outlive him.

01:32:54.000 And we obviously wanted so much more time with him, but that was very clear that that was spoken of expressly, and um I know all of us are ready to get to work on that.

01:33:08.000 Um we're honored by all our our partners at Real America's Voice who believed in this show.

01:33:13.000 Um they've always been so supportive, by the way.

01:33:16.000 Uh, they would send crews halfway around the world to have our back, Rob Sig, Parker Sig.

01:33:22.000 We love you guys.

01:33:24.000 You know what you mean to us, and um I've talked with both of you in the moments after and since and uh Jack, I know you uh work with them directly as well, and your show's coming up next, and we're gonna keep going for yeah, but I'm not I'm not just it'll be the Charlie Kirk should do this.

01:33:41.000 We're just gonna continue this.

01:33:42.000 Yeah.

01:33:43.000 Um anyways, we love them, and um there's so many people that we should remember and thank.

01:33:52.000 There's thousands, thousands and thousands, and we're not gonna it's this probably is not the show to do that, um, just because it's impossible and we're gonna forget too many people, but um, but uh our I just can't tell you uh how many people believed in Charlie and gave us a shot.

01:34:11.000 And um and uh as a matter of fact, I am I'm gonna Daisy.

01:34:17.000 Do I have my permission?

01:34:18.000 Do you have do I have your permission to to read this?

01:34:21.000 Alright, so this is from Daisy Phelps.

01:34:23.000 Daisy um uh she was originally Daisy Dibley when she joined us, uh, and she got married, and now she's uh expecting her first child and we love Daisy.

01:34:33.000 She um you we were joking, Tyler.

01:34:36.000 You were like, my life was really hard and then you came along and then I was like, yeah, and then my life was really hard.

01:34:41.000 You were like, I felt bad.

01:34:42.000 I didn't want to tell you like how much easier my life got when I came around.

01:34:46.000 And my life was really hard until Daisy Dibley came around.

01:34:49.000 Um and now Daisy Phelps.

01:34:50.000 100%.

01:34:51.000 And then Blake candidly uh changed everything as well.

01:34:55.000 Um I'm trying to make sure I got my show clock right here.

01:34:59.000 So this is from Daisy who would do Charlie's makeup and make sure his eyebrows because he had these crazy eyebrows they like he had he had like 60 year old eyebrows at 27.

01:35:10.000 Like they would just spark up like this and I was like Daisy make sure his eyebrows are like it it is hair.

01:35:15.000 He had this crazy mop that would just fight you and Daisy got really good at kind of putting it all together. 0.89

01:35:20.000 And Daisy also ran his Instagram account and so much more.

01:35:23.000 So much she did so much around here.

01:35:25.000 She said Charlie was a force a believer a patriot he was my friend I've had the privilege of speaking to him every day for the last four years and I can't tell you that I've ever known someone with more integrity.

01:35:37.000 He was exactly who he said he was except better.

01:35:40.000 There wasn't one thing that was fake or fabricated.

01:35:43.000 He believed in what he said and he lived out what he believed he loved Jesus more than anyone the true the the truest thing about him was his belief in God.

01:35:52.000 He was constantly researching new ways to defend the gospel and making sure we all knew them it was that important to him.

01:35:58.000 I can still hear him say good morning sports fans coming into our studio every morning I can still hear the worship music coming out of his office.

01:36:07.000 I and everyone in the building was watching I can still hear oh I can still hear the Cubs games he'd turn on all the TVs to make sure everyone in the building was watching.

01:36:16.000 I can still hear his kids running to hug him during breaks.

01:36:19.000 He's not only it he not only took a chance on me at 21 years old but he pushed me trusted me and listened to me.

01:36:27.000 Our show was everything to us we lived and breathed the Charlie Kirk show because we believed in it.

01:36:32.000 We still do he consistently raised the bar for everyone on our team by first raising it for himself every day.

01:36:39.000 He saw greatness in you and he brought it out by first being great himself just being around him being in the background made you want to fight harder he was ecstatic when I told him I was pregnant.

01:36:51.000 He made sure to ask about the baby every day.

01:36:54.000 He wanted to see every ultrasound and when we found out it was a girl he yelled I told you my faith is completely different had I never met Charlie my career my adult life my marriage from watching the way he loved Erica everything is different had I never met him I'll never be the same and I wouldn't want to be if there was one thing to know about Charlie it's that he loved Jesus.

01:37:15.000 He is with God he spent so much time learning about and teaching others about we just miss him.

01:37:22.000 And I know we're all very honored to be here we're gonna keep going for another hour Jack and um at least um and I'd like to have an opportunity for people in the audience to call in and tell their stories and their how they remember Charlie so I want to do that.

01:37:40.000 So I don't know if we're planning on doing that today.

01:37:42.000 I think we probably should just keep going and so let's set up let's make sure the studio's ready to do that in a little bit but um go ahead there's a few people to you know and and again that are it's really important.

01:37:58.000 this is not the show to everybody because there's so many people who are influential but there's a few people who are so dear to Charlie that I know of that just love to pieces Mike Miller who's been one of our long time board members he's like a father figure to Charlie and in fact he's one of the individuals who has been there from really day one when

01:38:27.000 I met Charlie he was was a big time big game hunter Africa everything else a jeweler a big jeweler in Illinois from Barrington Illinois and he's so American the guy his address I think for his jewelry shop is 123 Main Street or something.

01:38:41.000 So incre I and I've I've s I've slept at his house like this Mike's great man.

01:38:47.000 Incredible love Charlie so much love Charlie so much but this is I mean there are people that have that were so influential our board members we have so many incredible board members but you know Doug DeGroot for example has just been there as been a a rock and a stalwart for Charlie Tom Sadeca who is going through some health things and we're praying for him every single day.

01:39:11.000 I mean, there's just so many people, and so and those early people, especially the Chicagoans that were there who believed in Charlie.

01:39:20.000 Uh Bill Montgomery, who was one of the first kind of in Bills and Magmatic Energy was like a tea party guy that wanted to just show Charlie to everyone, and it was many people like that who created gave the way that enabling of Charlie Kirk to be introduced to the world.

01:39:42.000 And if you're one of those people, and I didn't name you, I'm so sorry.

01:39:46.000 I we we I've I've David English David's there on the board, obviously, uh Rob McCoy, so many others that have been so close, all of our board members, truly, um, Jeff Webb, others that you just you took Charlie around to to expose him to the world to others.

01:40:04.000 Um we're just we're just thinking about you so much today because uh you know you did this, and you you never remember and there were literally hundreds, if not thousands of people who Rebecca Dunn, Zweinberg, these people were just champions of Charlie, Ed Zieman, um so many yeah, we shouldn't start because we're gonna miss people that really but I I wanna foster freeze.

01:40:24.000 Oh, Foster and he and I I guarantee you Foster is waiting right there for him when he when he came out.

01:40:29.000 We were sharing pictures of Foster.

01:40:30.000 I remember sitting with Foster actually just right before he passed in the Trump Hotel in DC, and he scolded me, he was always scolding, you know, for you know, giving that advice that to Charlie, to me, to anyone that would listen.

01:40:47.000 And he loved Charlie.

01:40:49.000 Everyone has loved Charlie so much.

01:40:52.000 I just I I just also want to say thanks just in these few final moments of the live show, and again, we're gonna keep going, but um, we want to thank all the uh the Phoenix PD that has been uh stalwart and uh just from a security standpoint, cops blocking off roads, making sure our staff was safe, making sure these buildings were safe, making sure all the families felt safe going home and coming in.

01:41:19.000 Um the buildings are are closed for all intents and purposes, and that's great.

01:41:23.000 That's that's that's fine for right now.

01:41:25.000 Um the first responders at the scene, uh, we want to thank them.

01:41:30.000 Thank Charlie's personal security detail.

01:41:33.000 Um you cannot imagine how um tough that was for them.

01:41:39.000 And I really love those guys, and they love Charlie.

01:41:41.000 You gotta believe me that if anybody loved Charlie, like and had his back and was fight the warriors by his side, it was those guys.

01:41:50.000 Dan and Brian, guys are the best.

01:41:53.000 Um incredible.

01:41:54.000 I incredible.

01:41:55.000 I can't.

01:41:55.000 I mean, I we've known Dan from the very very beginning.

01:41:59.000 There is not a person that loves Charlie Kirk more.

01:42:04.000 Absolutely would have taken a bullet for Charlie.

01:42:06.000 And the the PD at the vigils.

01:42:09.000 Uh I know that there's just we're running out of time.

01:42:13.000 We have 25 seconds left here before we we lose radio.

01:42:17.000 Um Charlie loved being on radio.

01:42:19.000 Um, and so there's a radio audience listening all across the country.

01:42:22.000 Just know that um Charlie was inspired by Rush.

01:42:25.000 Rush believed in Charlie, and Charlie took this medium to the next level, um, and he was rewarded with it in ratings and the performance of the show and all of your amazing uh belief in it.

01:42:36.000 Thank you so much.

01:42:38.000 And sorry, I just it's the way this thing works, man.

01:42:41.000 Like uh you see somebody you haven't seen yet, you haven't grieved with yet, and it gets the motions flowing in uh in the you know, guys that I know who have lost people in the military, they say it's it's waves, yeah.

01:42:57.000 It's waves, it feels like it feels like waves.

01:42:59.000 That's the best way to describe it.

01:43:00.000 And it's just and it's you know, certain certain phrases, certain people, certain faces, certain memories.

01:43:06.000 Like for me, I I didn't expect a Seinfeld clip would just you know, yeah, and everybody deals with it differently.

01:43:14.000 And um Charlie was not much of a crier unless you know he literally helped elect the future president and the 40 45 and 47.

01:43:26.000 Um and uh, you know, just hat tip to everything He just accomplished by sheer will.

01:43:32.000 And I really truly believe that without Charlie Kirk, we would not have President Trump and um Vice President Vance.

01:43:39.000 And Vice President Vance, we would definitely not have him.

01:43:41.000 And thank you to President Vance and to Usha, uh Vice President Vance and uh first second lady Usha um for just their just how wonderful they were with Erica yesterday through through and through.

01:43:54.000 They came to Salt Lake City and they picked up Erica and they picked up Charlie and all of us and took us on Air Force Two back to Phoenix, and it was a beautiful ceremony, um, both getting on and uh getting off.

01:44:08.000 And um JD came back and talked with us and he spent most of his time with Erica and I mean just class act, class act, hugged us all.

01:44:18.000 He is he's genuinely I want to say this about the vice president.

01:44:22.000 He's been genuinely interested in individuals, and this is the same thing with Charlie.

01:44:28.000 This is the same thing with President Trump to be very point blank is very interested in individuals and his his touch, his warm touch on this of making sure that Charlie was honored the way that he deserved to be honored is never going to be forgotten.

01:44:47.000 It's never gonna be forgotten by this team, it's never gonna be forgotten by the conservative movement, by obviously the entire turning point family.

01:44:55.000 But that is that is such a testament to our vice president's character.

01:44:59.000 Yeah, because it it would it's just as easy to say I I and keep and you gotta understand JD's hurting too.

01:45:06.000 Um JD loved Charlie um as a brother and as a friend.

01:45:11.000 Um they talked almost I'm like I I really mean this uh probably on text at least almost every day, if not every day.

01:45:18.000 And JD was strong.

01:45:21.000 He understood the moment was probably not his moment to grieve.

01:45:25.000 He's grieving in private, and he was there and he was strong, and Usha was strong.

01:45:30.000 And um Yeah, I just I love I love him for it.

01:45:34.000 And um there's a lot to love about JD, but that was a really amazing um a really amazing moment.

01:45:41.000 And uh for our uh members, and and by the way, thank you, Jack.

01:45:45.000 This is your hour.

01:45:46.000 Um, and you're you're graciously um letting us continue this show, and I I wouldn't have this hour if it wasn't for Charlie.

01:45:56.000 So just doesn't mean anything.

01:45:59.000 Just let just keep going.

01:46:00.000 And um I appreciate that, brother.

01:46:03.000 And um uh I uh just a quick programming note.

01:46:08.000 We're gonna be sending our members, uh, members.charliekirk.com.

01:46:12.000 We're gonna be sending you a phone number uh to call in and share your thoughts.

01:46:17.000 So if you're one of the members of the show, you know who you are.

01:46:20.000 You were the nearest and dearest to us um out there, and you believed in this show, and you put your money where your mouth is, and we adore you for it.

01:46:28.000 And Charlie believed in his members in such an amazing way.

01:46:33.000 And so if you're a member of the Charlie Kirk show, you are gonna about to get an uh an email with a phone number, and you can call in and you can share uh your thoughts and your remembrances of Charlie and what he meant to you, and we would love to hear from some of you.

01:46:47.000 We'll try and fit in as many as make sense.

01:46:50.000 And um how you got to know Charlie, how you discovered Charlie is incredible.

01:46:55.000 Your interactions with Charlie and your interactions with the show, your interactions with Turning Point, uh, please like coming to events, whatever.

01:47:04.000 We want to hear all of it.

01:47:05.000 And we and please send those thoughts if you don't call in to freedom at Charlie Kirk.com.

01:47:09.000 I'll just say that you know, and we haven't really addressed it here.

01:47:13.000 Obviously, we you know, you know what we do, we see all the information that's coming in about the suspect.

01:47:19.000 We've even got stuff that that hasn't been put out yet, and we just there'll be a time for that.

01:47:27.000 And we know there'll be a time for that.

01:47:29.000 There will be justice for Charlie Kirk, but that's that's not what we're doing right now.

01:47:34.000 That's all I'm saying.

01:47:35.000 Can I share one more thing that I saw that was a frequent thing that was really touching?

01:47:39.000 We have of course tons of of people who've worked for us, um, tons of people who have worked with us alongside us that have helped build turning point into what it is today.

01:47:48.000 Uh, but so many people, even people who you know, again, there are people who aren't always uh that don't always agree with with every single thing that comes out of turning point.

01:48:01.000 I think this is really important, but their life was dramatically changed because of turning point.

01:48:06.000 Um and they had met their spouses.

01:48:10.000 Um the one common theme I saw was people reaching out to me saying, Tyler, uh I've always had this unbelievable respect for Charlie and for Turning Point because it changed my life for the better.

01:48:22.000 I I found my spouse.

01:48:24.000 I have my kids because of Turning Point.

01:48:26.000 I for so many stories like that.

01:48:28.000 And exact phrase.

01:48:29.000 And that consistent message that Charlie gave about the family and building your family and everything else reinforced all of that.

01:48:35.000 And so so many people are like almost coming back home because they're like, oh, you know, I didn't always agree with Trump or like Trump or whatever, and and or I didn't like X, Y, and Z, and now they're on they're on the team, and it was because Charlie they stuck with it and listen, they're like, Yeah, actually, you know what this is the life I want to live.

01:48:57.000 My family is important.

01:48:58.000 My my religion is important.

01:49:00.000 Christ being the center of my life is important, what Charlie said.

01:49:02.000 And so it's been really a beautiful, actually, honestly, a miraculous thing to watch as these people came back who I haven't heard from for almost 10 years, maybe, that have said, hey, this is how much this has impacted and changed my life, and you know, and some of some of these those people saying, I'm sorry, I I didn't say something before.

01:49:20.000 And that was because of Charlie and what he built.

01:49:27.000 I just you know, I I keep thinking about uh there's uh there's a poem that's a favorite of mine.

01:49:36.000 It's from uh it's uh it's a poem during uh it was written during World War One by Lawrence Binion.

01:49:44.000 It's titled uh For the Fallen, and it was about the men they lost in World War One.

01:49:49.000 And think about just a few lines from it, and about and about Charlie.

01:50:02.000 They went with songs to the battle.

01:50:04.000 They were young, straight of limb, true of eye, steady and a glow.

01:50:11.000 They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted.

01:50:15.000 They fell with their faces to the foe.

01:50:19.000 They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.

01:50:24.000 Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

01:50:29.000 At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

01:50:35.000 And that's how Charlie will always be for us.

01:50:43.000 All of us are going to grow old, all of us are going to die.

01:50:46.000 But Charlie will forever be how he was on September 10th.

01:50:57.000 Brave, strong out there, could be like that forever.

01:51:06.000 The end the end of that one is well said.

01:51:10.000 There's a couple of lines where the next line of this actually they mingle not with their laughing comrades again.

01:51:17.000 They sit no more at familiar tables of home.

01:51:21.000 They have no lot in our labor of the daytime.

01:51:24.000 They sleep beyond England's foam. 0.99

01:51:26.000 It's a British poem.

01:51:28.000 And the very last part as the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, moving in marches upon the heavenly plain, as the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness to the end, to the end, they remain.

01:51:46.000 So much of this in retrospect, and you don't have eyes to fully appreciate it in the moment, but where you realize that you were encountering greatness, and the moment you get the news, you realize that you were around somebody that was so incredible.

01:52:09.000 And it in kind of in a weird way, like in retrospect, it all kind of makes sense that we were that we only get him for such a short time.

01:52:19.000 Yeah.

01:52:19.000 Because he was too great for this world in so many ways.

01:52:24.000 And um, he was a shooting star.

01:52:28.000 He was a mythological creature.

01:52:30.000 You know, you hear these pictures, these hear these images of uh our uh descriptions of George Washington and how he's this huge man and and like especially for his time.

01:52:39.000 Well, Charlie, we always joked he was a Nephilim.

01:52:41.000 He is literally the only chair the only chair that we could get.

01:52:46.000 I this is actually a really funny story.

01:52:47.000 When we first started getting Charlie the chairs for his studio, it was like, nope, not that.

01:52:51.000 It was like a it was like mattress shopping.

01:52:53.000 It was like, nope, not that one, not that one.

01:52:55.000 Literally, this chair.

01:52:56.000 This is a shack chair.

01:52:57.000 Yes, from it's it's a Shaquille O'Neal.

01:52:59.000 It's a a fairly inexpensive chair.

01:53:01.000 Yeah.

01:53:02.000 Just from like made for huge people like Shaquille O'Neal and um from Staples.

01:53:07.000 Yes.

01:53:07.000 And from Staples and he was like, Oh, this is the one.

01:53:11.000 And he's worn it out.

01:53:12.000 It's got like a little like you know, the the very cheap, you know, veneer on it or whatever.

01:53:18.000 I don't know if you know what you call it.

01:53:18.000 Like it's definitely not it's definitely not leather.

01:53:20.000 It's like the vineyard.

01:53:23.000 And uh he wore it out and he loved that big chair.

01:53:26.000 And I have to say, like when I've sat in it in the past, like you've sat in it, it's like you're like, oh okay, I see what he was kind of, you know, it's a good chair.

01:53:32.000 Um but he was larger than life and we all saw it and we all you know, he was younger than us.

01:53:40.000 Everybody at this table, he was younger than us, and so we just you know, you assume that you're gonna probably go before him, and um but in retrospect, like he was so larger than life, and he packed so much into every single day, uh, that it's pretty impossible to it's impossible to to fully grasp just how much life he lived and how much he accomplished in thirty-one, uh far too short years.

01:54:06.000 Um but we do have our first caller.

01:54:08.000 Do we want to you guys ready for that?

01:54:10.000 Um his name is Evan.

01:54:14.000 Evan, uh the floor is yours.

01:54:18.000 Gentlemen, it's it's an honor to just be on and talk about Charlie for a sec.

01:54:22.000 I'll keep this quick.

01:54:23.000 Charlie was a friend.

01:54:24.000 I consider him a dear friend, even though I never ever met him.

01:54:27.000 I've listened to him for a very, very long time.

01:54:30.000 I run and operate a lot in landscaping business and also host a um podcast, and what Charlie really taught me was he was always continually learning.

01:54:38.000 And even with my show that it helps me you you you gotta know things.

01:54:41.000 You gotta know about equipment and and and things like that.

01:54:43.000 And Charlie was always learning, he's always listening to books and things like that, and his boldness to stand on the word of God and Jesus is what I've tried to do with my business and in life and even my family too.

01:54:53.000 Like I I have a two and a half year old son and a kid on the way, and when I heard the news just a couple days ago, I was on the mower, I stopped and I cried.

01:55:01.000 It was just it's it's devastating.

01:55:03.000 But we know that God's gonna work this together for good, and through his tragic death, guys, more people are gonna know about Jesus.

01:55:10.000 And that's the one thing that we have to remember for this.

01:55:12.000 And it's just I've never been he had I can consider him a friend even though I just never knew him, and I want you guys to hold on to God's word because that's what Charlie would want for us to to do us.

01:55:21.000 Stand on God's word and hold on to it right now, not let the enemy just blind us from the the mission that he had set.

01:55:27.000 Guys, appreciate all that you do, and uh just Charlie, just thank you and thank thank you, Lord, for just putting him on this earth for 31 years.

01:55:34.000 Well said, Evan.

01:55:36.000 And I think I just want to echo what you're saying.

01:55:38.000 I've gotten so many notes and I've seen so many comments in social media of uh people saying their kids are coming back to church because of Charlie and because of this and what's happened.

01:55:48.000 Um, that people are coming back to the Lord.

01:55:51.000 And I just um Jack, it is your hour, but I'm just gonna say a quick prayer.

01:55:56.000 Um I'm gonna say a quick prayer um for that.

01:56:00.000 Um Heavenly Father, we ask that you would um bless Charlie's legacy right now in this moment, across the country and across the world as we mourn his his passing is far too early and too soon.

01:56:19.000 We ask Holy Spirit that you would enter the hearts of millions of people across this planet, across our nation, and that you would bring people to faith in you, Jesus, saving faith in you.

01:56:33.000 He loved you, and I know that he is getting his reward in heaven right now.

01:56:38.000 And that's what he wanted in the beautiful eulogy that Blake helped write that all he wanted was thriving young people that went back and found their faith in you and thriving young families that made this country strong and great so that more could uh follow that same path.

01:56:56.000 And I know Lord God that getting married and having a Family and knowing you were his greatest accomplishments on top of everything else he did.

01:57:04.000 And so Jesus, we just bless this country and everybody that loved Charlie or that heard about him that only heard about him even from his his death, Lord, that you would make so many new believers, mint so many new members of your heavenly kingdom right now and in the days and weeks to come, Lord Jesus, we ask in your precious name.

01:57:25.000 Amen.

01:57:26.000 Amen.

01:57:29.000 If you guys want, we could we could follow that up with Tyler, you know, you just put the hat back on, but we could all say together.

01:57:38.000 Our father who I'd be name, the kingdom come, that's what be done on earth as it is in heaven.

01:57:48.000 Give us this day or daily bread and forgive us our trespasses.

01:57:53.000 We forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil.

01:58:02.000 Amen.

01:58:03.000 Charlie would have wanted people going back to church more than anything.

01:58:07.000 More than anything.

01:58:08.000 That more than politics or campaigns or whatever the next election was or whatever the next turning point was.

01:58:18.000 The core the core belief was that was it.

01:58:20.000 He was he was a true believer it in what Andrew Breitbart said.

01:58:27.000 And we talked about this all the time.

01:58:28.000 I actually remember visiting, we were visiting a donor, and we stood in the spot where Andrew Breitbart passed.

01:58:33.000 Which is a kind of a I think it's in LA you've been there, right?

01:58:37.000 Some sunset.

01:58:38.000 Yeah, it's it's really interesting, just right outside restaurant.

01:58:41.000 Well, it's in it's in Brentwood at least.

01:58:43.000 I don't know if it's it's it's kind of an interesting place, but we he had always had kind of this uh infatuation with the concept, and we actually leaned into it talking about culture wars and all of that, but that culture uh is what dictates your politics, so and culture is dependent upon your faith.

01:59:02.000 There's nothing.

01:59:02.000 And faith's the bedrock, it's the absolute starting.

01:59:05.000 Nothing that that impacts that so the politics that is really downstream from culture is really, and this is like kind of like I would say Andrew Breitbart next level, which was this Charlie Kirk, is that that's why I believe Charlie was so adamant about faith being so important, is that he was a true believer in that statement, but that faith was what was dictating how our politics would end up, which is absolutely correct and true.

01:59:30.000 And so go there's nothing that could be more important right now what you can think about just tie it up and say politics is downstream from culture, culture culture is downstream from faith.

01:59:41.000 That's right.

01:59:42.000 And Charlie led by example and embracing faith, embracing uh his the Christ-like attributes that are necessary to impact culture in the positive way that needed to happen.

01:59:59.000 And I think that's why you're seeing that turn of so many young people that were influenced by this, maybe starting with politics, but were walking themselves backwards and going, Oh my gosh, well, my politics is dictated by my faith.

02:00:15.000 And and that's a a great legacy.

02:00:18.000 That is at the the most important legacy of which Charlie himself said, which is that's all that's all he cared about was that people would know that.

02:00:24.000 Well, I was interesting.

02:00:25.000 I saw a clip yesterday from uh Larry O'Connor, who worked for Breitbart, uh Andrew Breitbart, and they were talking about he was talking about this memory at CPAC, and they were doing an Andrew Breitbart panel.

02:00:38.000 And Larry put it together, he he was kind of he's like, Well, all of us worked directly with Andrew, you never knew him.

02:00:44.000 He's like, and Charlie says I can't wait to be on this panel, you know.

02:00:47.000 This is so amazing.

02:00:48.000 And so he's like, I'll call you and tell you about it, like my thoughts.

02:00:52.000 And he's like, Okay, we probably should talk because the rest of us knew Andrew.

02:00:54.000 And um Charlie said that I was so inspired by Andrew Breitbart that I created turning point.

02:01:02.000 Yeah, and Larry realized that he started turning point in 2012.

02:01:06.000 Yeah, the year that it happened, and he realized that that Charlie in many ways is the blossom of the seed planted by the death of Andrew Breitbart, and so when you think about how that can keep going forward, and I know Charlie would want that.

02:01:23.000 Um that that we would have many such stories like that, not just turning point or whatever.

02:01:29.000 And it's really an Interesting point to make for those that study modern conservatism.

02:01:36.000 There aren't very many people.

02:01:39.000 I mean, let's if you if you had to pick the top three, it would probably be and again, we're setting Charlie aside, but Andrew Breitbart, Donald Trump, and the the third being Rush Limbaugh.

02:01:56.000 And when you look at that and you start to go, wait, what's the connection between all three of those men?

02:02:03.000 It's really you look at that, you go, Charlie Kirk.

02:02:07.000 And Charlie was a again, Enigma.

02:02:12.000 He was he had a personality that was unlike anything else.

02:02:18.000 But he was the continuation.

02:02:20.000 He picked the batana for all three of those men in different ways.

02:02:24.000 Mm-hmm.

02:02:25.000 And carried the entire conservative movement on his back and created something.

02:02:29.000 Again, that the culmination of that.

02:02:31.000 Yeah, what is the representation of Charlie?

02:02:34.000 And people are like, Well, what can we do to you know keep Charlie?

02:02:37.000 You have it.

02:02:38.000 It's turning point USA.

02:02:39.000 It's turning point.

02:02:40.000 The the entire ecosystem.

02:02:42.000 He he did it.

02:02:43.000 Yeah.

02:02:44.000 He was he was able to do all the things.

02:02:47.000 I I all of the things.

02:02:48.000 All the things.

02:02:49.000 I promised we would we would mention this.

02:02:51.000 And before we go to the next caller, um I saw some people saying that, you know, they thought I was trying to brush it off.

02:02:59.000 I just I wanted to give the vigils a moment because the and I wanted because I knew we were up on the clock before.

02:03:08.000 It's unbelievable.

02:03:09.000 And they're worldwide.

02:03:12.000 Um South Africa, I've seen Australia, Australia, New Zealand.

02:03:16.000 Huge one in Australia.

02:03:17.000 I got a video from Sid Sydney this morning.

02:03:19.000 Someone sent me Sweden, Sweden, all across Europe.

02:03:22.000 I just got one from uh Hungarians, I'm sure. 1.00

02:03:26.000 And and then all across the country.

02:03:28.000 And I and there's like there's like little ones popping up, you know, like just hey, this is the one in our town.

02:03:35.000 If you want to come, just come on.

02:03:36.000 I just someone's sending me Westchester PA, and you know, I hear there's um I hear there's gonna be a uh I think I hear this they're trying to put together one, not like an official one, but like at the at the White House at Lafayette Square Park, there's just some local people trying to get a permit, and it's that spirit of individuals becoming activated and coming together around one core concept,

02:04:07.000 principle, value.

02:04:09.000 That's what Charlie Kirk stood for.

02:04:10.000 That's what he was all about.

02:04:12.000 He lived his entire life trying to inspire a turning point in this country, and and he's done it.

02:04:19.000 He I I've I take so much solace in a couple of things.

02:04:24.000 He got to see young men and the youth vote win a president.

02:04:31.000 Yes, he got to see it, and he got to do it, and he got to see he got to see the decline in church start going back up.

02:04:41.000 He got to see that it bounced, and he got to see just before that MBC poll that said that young men want to get married and have babies as their top priorities.

02:04:53.000 Yep.

02:04:54.000 And I can't tell you how much that means to me that he got to see the fruit of his work because so many people don't they don't get to see what they've accomplished, and he actually got to see it.

02:05:08.000 And all of you that came out to the campus events, all of you that came out to our turning point events, all of you that subscribed to this the show that gave him like one of the biggest shows and reaches and platforms in the entire country day in and day out.

02:05:24.000 And we had millions of people listening to Charlie every day, every day, every day.

02:05:29.000 We tried our best to estimate it in the w way of modern um analytics with fast channels versus radio versus podcasts.

02:05:38.000 And when you then you take clips, it was basically impossible to measure, but even just in the fall going up to the election, it was 15 billion views of Charlie Kirk content just in just ahead of the election.

02:05:52.000 Um and every day there was between two and three million people that tuned into this show to Charlot the Charlie Kirk show or listen to the Podcast or um and that's just the live show.

02:06:03.000 That's not even counting clips.

02:06:04.000 So that was podcast radio, and it was truly truly a feat for anybody.

02:06:09.000 But the fact that he was able, like we said, Tyler, to be like a Rush Limbaugh, to be like an Andrew Breitbart, and to be He brought all that together.

02:06:16.000 He brought all that together in one of it human that took and and by the way, and I want to give a shout out to all of his assistant staff and his chief of staff, Mikey, who made his day today possible.

02:06:29.000 Um they were really amazing.

02:06:31.000 Uh we're gonna get to another caller.

02:06:33.000 Um this one is Anthony.

02:06:37.000 Anthony, the floor is yours, my friend.

02:06:39.000 Uh tell us about Charlie and well, first my condolences to you and everybody.

02:06:44.000 Um so Charlie and I, I've been listening to the show since it probably started, and I've been a member for a while and everything, and then but the one time that it stood out to me, and this might have been the funniest disagreement was probably at the end of July, early August.

02:07:00.000 It was the weekend before you had to go on Fox and Friends, and he put out the question to everybody in the first hour.

02:07:06.000 Does baseball need a salary cap?

02:07:08.000 And he knows that I work in the industry and it's on the college side of athletics.

02:07:14.000 And I he we talked about the political top question I sent in to him, and then he goes, All right, you can give me your I need I need to know.

02:07:20.000 You're the professional.

02:07:21.000 I go, I already emailed you my answer in the first hour.

02:07:24.000 He goes, I know I'm not letting you go until you tell me.

02:07:27.000 And I said, Well, I believe I'm on the fence.

02:07:31.000 And he literally starts laughing and goes, You can't be on the fence about this.

02:07:36.000 You have to be on my side.

02:07:39.000 And I'm like, and then and I'm like literally sitting there and I'm like, he's yelling at me.

02:07:45.000 He's yelling at me because the guy in the industry won't side with him.

02:07:49.000 And I'll be honest, I always wanted a salary cap until I did more research.

02:07:53.000 And then he's like, Well, you have to f and Blake, you can relate to this.

02:07:57.000 You've got to find me that research and send it.

02:07:58.000 So I said, All right, I will look for it.

02:08:00.000 I sent it to him next Saturday morning when he's live on Aaron Fox.

02:08:03.000 The following week he goes, I got your emails, I haven't read them yet.

02:08:06.000 But he goes, but it was the funniest to see his facial expression.

02:08:10.000 Just so light up because he's like Anthony.

02:08:13.000 I I just want you're reminding me of of a very unique detail of Charlie Kirk that uh probably unless you emailed in the show, you didn't know.

02:08:20.000 He would argue with the emails.

02:08:23.000 And he would get into these.

02:08:24.000 He would get into these during the show.

02:08:27.000 During the show, he's sitting there hosting the show, going, Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show press send, and then he'd be like, you know, they didn't keep the show going.

02:08:34.000 But he would he was uh arguing with people as we went he could be talking like giving a monologue and writing a separate argument to an email.

02:08:46.000 Well, we would all be debating too.

02:08:48.000 So he would your emails that you would you would make, he would drop into the chat and it would be like rolling a grenade into the chat.

02:08:55.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:08:56.000 Yeah.

02:08:56.000 Or sometimes you know he'd be like, what do we think?

02:08:58.000 And he'd be like, Well, this person just agrees with me.

02:09:02.000 And we would take sides with all of you.

02:09:04.000 So like there would we would have all of that, and and and truly, and this is the one grassroots part because one of our our our culture point that we have at Turning Point is grassroots humility.

02:09:16.000 And this is the really interesting part, and and again, Andrew deserves a ton of credit for this because they framed the entire show, the Charlie Kirk show here around your feedback, your commentary, your conversations, individual, every individual in America that talked to Charlie or would email in or would DM had a voice.

02:09:39.000 And and again, that that's just that's not most people that do this.

02:09:43.000 And it helped with the work because it helped frame Charlie's opinions about things.

02:09:49.000 It helped frame from a grassroots perspective how we think about things at that turning point.

02:09:55.000 Uh we think about issues, issues that would be covered on Charlie's show every single day that everybody listened to.

02:10:00.000 Everybody at the White House would listen to you.

02:10:02.000 And I mean I Twitter would change because we uh the the three like between Jack and Charlie alone, them dropping something changes the whole direction on Twitter anyways.

02:10:13.000 And then Benny, yeah, Benny Johnson.

02:10:16.000 Um it's throw this up.

02:10:17.000 I just want to start I I I don't know all the details about this.

02:10:20.000 Um, but there is a prayer vigil planned in Washington, DC on Sunday, September 14th.

02:10:26.000 So this Sunday at 6 p.m. location to be Announced soon.

02:10:31.000 Um I think I may have just accidentally said it.

02:10:34.000 Oh, whoops.

02:10:35.000 Uh well, I if you did, I you know that's some some I I I wasn't giving the full confirmation on that.

02:10:42.000 Sunday, there I mean who knows, uh, but it'll be at 6 p.m. uh in Washington DC, and I think it's a beautiful way to honor Charlie.

02:10:50.000 Uh Charlie um candidly didn't love Washington, DC, didn't love going to Washington, DC.

02:10:55.000 I mean he was but he would stomach it because he loved his country and he would go there, and um and so I I mean I think it's a fitting tribute.

02:11:07.000 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 going to one of these vigils and protesters come up or something like that, just I'm not gonna say you know, don't get into it, but just we're not there for that.

02:11:26.000 We're just we're really not there for that.

02:11:28.000 Charlie Charlie was his message was peace.

02:11:31.000 I mean, yeah, Charlie um he was a master swordsman, but his sword was the word and the logos and um debating, and he didn't believe in in peace per se, he believed in verbal combat and he believed in um intellectual and ideological combat and he believed that we were in a uh war of ideas and a spiritual battle,

02:11:56.000 and um so w uh, I'm not here to give you some rosy, you know, prescription about the state of the world.

02:12:05.000 We're in a battle um not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities and um obviously close yeah understanding of the state of the world a couple of years ago.

02:12:15.000 Yeah.

02:12:16.000 But like Charlie ultimately believed in the promise of America and um the fact that um our institutions will hold.

02:12:27.000 Um I guess uh speaker Johnson will be at that one along with Anna Paulina Luna. 1.00

02:12:34.000 Um and um you know, more details coming about that.

02:12:38.000 Which is very fitting because Anna is, you know, by her own admission, is our is the turning point congresswoman.

02:12:45.000 She uh you know, to tell this fun story again. 0.99

02:12:49.000 I know some people have heard it, but Anna was thinking about going to med school, and she had engaged with us online.

02:12:56.000 Um we had I found her.

02:12:58.000 We saw that she was saying some smart things on Instagram, and we actually reached out to her, invited her to a young women's leadership summit, and she came and she was like, Hey, um I'm applying to med school.

02:13:13.000 And she was a again, an Air Force veteran, everything else.

02:13:17.000 And that one experience of her being there at Young Young Women's Leadership Summit, which by the way, that was young women's leadership summit was the brainchild of Charlie.

02:13:26.000 We started that many many years ago.

02:13:28.000 He knew that was important, uh, wanted to do that, but it culminated.

02:13:32.000 It started at a tiny little thing in Illinois, and then we moved to the airport.

02:13:35.000 We were at the airport, uh, you know, kind of a three-star hotel at the high in D D FW.

02:13:41.000 At DFW tidy.

02:13:42.000 It was like inside, it's like literally inside the airport.

02:13:44.000 So you don't even leave the airport when you show up.

02:13:47.000 And it grew and grew and grew.

02:13:49.000 But Anna showed up there and we convinced her to not go to medical school to quit, basically moved to Arizona and start touring and learning how the the ropes of of how to debate on campus. 0.98

02:14:03.000 And to do that, that was like the Charlie Kirk model.

02:14:06.000 And by the way, APL, she is so fierce in Charlie's defense since all this.

02:14:12.000 I've been texting with her.

02:14:13.000 Um she has been the person.

02:14:15.000 She's so great.

02:14:16.000 And um I just love it.

02:14:19.000 Um she's part of the legacy too.

02:14:21.000 She left she left here wanting to run for Congress, wanted to change the country. 1.00

02:14:25.000 She's she's she's doing just that, and she's a tremendous friend and ally, and she's been incredible for the last few days here.

02:14:32.000 Yeah, we're gonna take another caller.

02:14:34.000 Caleb, you are on Caleb and Michelle.

02:14:36.000 How are you, my friends?

02:14:39.000 My friend, Andrew.

02:14:41.000 Well you know how we are, but um it's such a privilege and an honor to that that Charlie called me his friend and in, you know, like even though we were occasional acquaintances.

02:14:58.000 And I loved how he every time we would meet, he would treat us like family, you know.

02:15:07.000 And I have uh what I wanted to talk about is maybe just a couple stories about how he elevated those around him.

02:15:15.000 And I know it's been said before that that was the kind of person he was.

02:15:19.000 He wanted everyone to be their best.

02:15:22.000 And um, but you know, we we and Michelle's already emailed you guys the story of how we first met in 2020.

02:15:30.000 And you know, we he introduced us to people.

02:15:34.000 We you I think you were there, Andrew.

02:15:36.000 We come back and he says, these are my 2020 friends, because we met you know, met him in 2020 just after the election at the headquarters.

02:15:42.000 And it was what was so cool that every time afterwards we would go to an event that Charlie was speaking at, and he did this like at least twice to me.

02:15:52.000 He's like, Oh, hey, Caleb, I'm out in the crowd.

02:15:56.000 I'm just sitting out in the crowd.

02:15:57.000 He says, Oh, there's Caleb and Michelle.

02:15:59.000 I should tell you the story about how we met in in Arizona.

02:16:02.000 You know, and he remembered you when he saw you again and and welcomed you in.

02:16:08.000 And I Michelle and I are just we're so happy that you know, three weeks ago he he was in Myrtle Beach, and and you know, we were in North Carolina now, and we're like, we could drive, we could go to that, and we you know, um So we we went to see him and saw you there.

02:16:24.000 Charlie and saw you there, Caleb.

02:16:26.000 Yep, saw you there.

02:16:27.000 And it was so cool because Charlie invited us backstage.

02:16:31.000 Um, or you know, Mikey did, and he brought us into the green room, and there's Alex McFarland, and Charlie introduces us, you know, Caleb Michelle, you know, my my super fans, these are guys are Charlie Kirk show super fan.

02:16:44.000 And um, and he he said, you know, Charlie Charlie said to me said, you know, Caleb just sends me the you know the best feedback.

02:16:52.000 I love reading his emails.

02:16:53.000 Um you know, he always talked about how he loved Michelle's emails.

02:16:58.000 She's always so encouraging to him.

02:16:59.000 And and then he he says, So Caleb, what's on your mind?

02:17:02.000 He just puts me on the spot, you know, like you know, I'm not the guest speaker or anything.

02:17:08.000 What's in your mind?

02:17:09.000 I throw out a couple ideas, and he says, uh, you know, he says, I'll let you choose.

02:17:12.000 You know, here's a couple ideas.

02:17:12.000 What do you want to talk about?

02:17:13.000 And he's like, Oh, that's a great topic.

02:17:15.000 Hey, Alex, you and Caleb, you guys should debate this topic.

02:17:18.000 And then he just puts us on the spot and he facilitated, you know, he kind of moderated, he jumps in on my side, you know, gives a good point here from the Bible, because it was a it was a you know uh a biblical uh discussion.

02:17:30.000 And um by the way, Caleb, I want to give you credit because Charlie threw the the through through it to you to make a point.

02:17:38.000 Uh remember backstage with McFarland, and you crushed it, man.

02:17:43.000 He you crushed it.

02:17:44.000 And I remember looking at I walked away with Charlie and I said, Caleb did well, and he goes, Oh yeah, he's been paying attention.

02:17:52.000 Um I want to throw up another image here.

02:17:56.000 Um this is from some friends here, a memorial rally, tribute ride.

02:18:02.000 Um in Lynchfield Park, uh here in Arizona.

02:18:08.000 Uh arrive at 5 p.m., ride at 5 30.

02:18:11.000 Um and uh speakers to be announced, candlelight vigil at 7 30.

02:18:15.000 Uh this is just what's happening.

02:18:19.000 People want a way to help.

02:18:21.000 And I uh I think it's I think it's incredible um that so much of this is happening so organically.

02:18:28.000 Um nobody's planning this.

02:18:30.000 Nobody's like there's no like organization by the way, doing like the DC one.

02:18:34.000 It's just like people in DC that love Charlie.

02:18:36.000 Charlie would have loved this.

02:18:37.000 And it's just happen people are grabbing the bull by the horns and they're doing this because they loved him.

02:18:44.000 But but Charlie would also say, he'd say, Okay, but don't stop there.

02:18:48.000 Of course.

02:18:48.000 He would say, Don't stop there, do not stop there.

02:18:51.000 Thank you, but do not stop there.

02:18:53.000 Um speaking of which, this is like I had my team coming to me going, like, how can I help?

02:18:58.000 Like, can I make a montage?

02:19:00.000 Uh uh can I make a tribute video?

02:19:01.000 And I'm like, sure.

02:19:02.000 I haven't seen this one either.

02:19:04.000 Let's go ahead and play.

02:19:04.000 This is from Noah on our team, and I haven't seen it.

02:19:08.000 Um so 419, and thank you, Noah.

02:19:11.000 This is why your faith is the most important thing.

02:19:15.000 You are commanded to go do something productive with your life.

02:19:19.000 You are not commanded to go sit idly by and just receive.

02:19:22.000 You are commanded to go give and to produce and to risk to then go so into other people. 0.83

02:19:29.000 That is a Biblical idea that has made the world a profoundly better place.

02:19:35.000 We must put God first in everything that we do.

02:19:38.000 We are nothing here but just for a short instant.

02:19:41.000 Short little glimpse.

02:19:43.000 We act not out of outcome, but we act out of obedience.

02:19:47.000 Everybody, this was not Earn.

02:19:49.000 You guys were a vessel.

02:19:51.000 We were a vessel.

02:19:52.000 Psalm 107-1.

02:19:53.000 I'll give thanks to the Lord for He is good for his steadfast love endures forever.

02:19:58.000 I have to say this without getting emotional, but I'm very proud of my husband.

02:20:01.000 You are so intentional with your faith, and you are so intentional with just how you are as a father and a husband.

02:20:08.000 Becoming a father has made me first of all understand that what I'm fighting for is beyond even yourself.

02:20:14.000 We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and darkness and spirits.

02:20:19.000 Because at its core, what we are fighting is a spiritual battle.

02:20:23.000 And if you're here and you don't believe in God, okay, fine, I'll pray for you.

02:20:27.000 And I hope you find Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior because it will change your life.

02:20:30.000 How do you want to be remembered?

02:20:36.000 I want to be remembered for courage for my faith.

02:20:41.000 That would be the most important thing.

02:20:44.000 The most important thing is my faith in my life.

02:20:49.000 Wow, good job, Noah.

02:20:51.000 Great job, Noah.

02:20:52.000 That was great.

02:20:54.000 Um was pretty new to the team, and uh you captured it, brother.

02:21:01.000 Um we got a note here uh from a John.

02:21:04.000 He said, Charlie sat down with me after my dad died.

02:21:08.000 Um he says, Hey, Thought Crime crew.

02:21:12.000 I look back fondly on the time I spent with Charlie from my time as a student at GCU to working for NFP and then chase the vote.

02:21:21.000 Charlie inspired me and was my hero.

02:21:23.000 I specifically remember when Charlie came to GCU in 2022, he was informed that my dad had died.

02:21:29.000 He personally spent time with me backstage before his event, and that has stuck with me forever.

02:21:34.000 Charlie was an incredible man and made me the man I am today, sending love and prayers, John.

02:21:40.000 Now is now he's working for President Trump in DC.

02:21:46.000 Um and we have Sarah.

02:21:51.000 Sarah, you're you're on with the crew.

02:21:53.000 Um what's on your mind?

02:21:56.000 Hi.

02:21:58.000 Um, I am holding back tears.

02:22:02.000 It's been a rough couple of days, as I'm sure you all know.

02:22:05.000 Um I just wanted to say um to all the people listening and um all of you folks who are continuing this movement.

02:22:15.000 Thank you, especially to Charlie.

02:22:18.000 Um, I really believe he has been the turning point of our nation for um, I guess what those words are worth.

02:22:26.000 And I'm grateful to him.

02:22:29.000 I'm grateful to his words.

02:22:31.000 I'm grateful to how he held himself and was able to hold conversations with people.

02:22:38.000 And I do think that um in this tragedy, I'm hoping that it really is the turning point of our nation, and that we can um move forward as a nation in a way that Charlie would be super proud of.

02:22:53.000 Beautiful, Sarah.

02:22:54.000 Well said, thank you.

02:22:55.000 And um I think we're all praying that um that the reach and the impact that Charlie has.

02:23:04.000 Um, I don't think any of us have any idea just how big it is.

02:23:07.000 And that's what I'm realizing.

02:23:09.000 I feel like Tyler, you and me specifically, and kind of what we had to do the last couple days.

02:23:14.000 I think we're a little insulated from it, and I'm I feel like I'm just starting to see it.

02:23:19.000 Yeah.

02:23:19.000 Um, of what I've been kind of ignoring and the calls I haven't been taking and the text I haven't been responding to.

02:23:26.000 Uh, but that's probably just the tip of the iceberg of how huge uh his impact is.

02:23:32.000 I don't think we have any idea.

02:23:33.000 I like I woke up this morning realizing that.

02:23:36.000 Um, yeah, just because of the people like the the layers of people talking to people who talk to people, who talk to people who are kind of coming back, and uh people have been so good to all of our team.

02:23:48.000 Like, you know, people were worried about the safety of our team.

02:23:51.000 Um, and so you know, Phoenix PD and Mesa PD have been incredible.

02:23:56.000 Um, I know that Scott Stell PD and everyone else.

02:24:00.000 I there's been so many people impacted by this.

02:24:05.000 By the way, aren't even seeing anything.

02:24:07.000 And when we we landed in Phoenix yesterday, there was a huge crowd.

02:24:11.000 Hundreds.

02:24:12.000 Like gathered outside of the airport.

02:24:14.000 And as we drove away in the procession, there was people lining the streets, like American flags and MAGA hats, probably half of them that Charlie threw to them.

02:24:25.000 And um and when we got to our final destination, again, there was a huge crowd gathered waiting for for us and for him.

02:24:34.000 And it was really, really amazing.

02:24:36.000 And it and it was just kind of a little insight.

02:24:39.000 And I had Blake, I joke with you because we couldn't take him anywhere.

02:24:43.000 In life, we couldn't take him anywhere.

02:24:45.000 Like he would get absolutely mobbed.

02:24:47.000 Can I get a selfie?

02:24:48.000 Can I get a selfie?

02:24:49.000 I mean, it didn't matter if you were in Seoul.

02:24:50.000 It was unbelievable.

02:24:52.000 Yeah, just in Seoul in Japan, just the number of people, or it you know, even we realized it when we went to Cambridge and Oxford last spring, the the number of people who would recognize him all over the place.

02:25:04.000 Yeah, and I I took him to a like a very private place in California.

02:25:11.000 And I was like, Don't worry, we'll be we'll be left alone.

02:25:14.000 Because we had business to attend.

02:25:15.000 We had a real like pretty important call, like discussion we were having.

02:25:18.000 We needed to work out some details and some planning, and I was like, Don't worry, we'll be fine.

02:25:22.000 It was like, no, it was not.

02:25:23.000 It was like people would come like candidly, they were a bit rude, but I looked at him and I because you know, we're obviously having a private discussion, and they were like, Can I oh my gosh, can we get a selfie?

02:25:32.000 And as he was driving away after, I mean, there was like very private place.

02:25:36.000 There was still about I would guesstimate about 30 people in the course of about 40 minutes, like, and we were trying to to hide.

02:25:43.000 And uh, and then as he's driving away, these two kids were like rode their bikes after him, and they were 14, 14, 15 years old, and they're like, Is that Charlie Kirk?

02:25:51.000 I was like, Can we get a selfie before he leaves?

02:25:53.000 And I was like, you know, it's like Charlie, you know, and Mikey was in the car with him as they were driving away, and of course he's like, I I um I I got him to stop and he was and I I asked him in the middle of it, and I said, Are you okay with this?

02:26:06.000 He's like, honestly, it's just I've accepted it.

02:26:10.000 This is life, and I just I want like I know that I can make somebody's day by doing it.

02:26:14.000 It's fine, you know.

02:26:16.000 Always always say yes to every photo.

02:26:17.000 The one funny Yes, he would always say that.

02:26:19.000 So always say yes to every photo, even if he was in the biggest hurry.

02:26:22.000 The one funny moment that I have that's like that was the opposite of that with Charlie, and I don't know why this memory sticks with me, but it was it was during that whole time when he lost his voice, and and we were trying to get his voice back.

02:26:34.000 So it was like me, Charlie, and Mikey, and we were just the way the travel route, we were just driving through like Central Florida where it gets kind of rural, and we we had this idea to get him like a humidifier with like medicated humidifier, but we couldn't figure out where to get one, and Charlie wanted a specific one.

02:26:54.000 And then we were just driving down the street and Charlie goes, Well, there's Walgreens.

02:26:57.000 Let's just let's just go to the Walgreens.

02:26:59.000 And you know how he is when he like when he wants something and he wants something specific.

02:27:03.000 So we're like, Are you coming in?

02:27:05.000 And we just we just went to Walgreens and we're just like walking around, and it was just so surreal because like nobody came up for it's like the one time among all these times where it was just like the most normal, simple and of course we couldn't find the one he wanted, and we had to get it very Seinfeld, you know, kind of thing, and then we just go check out and it's like in the middle of all this craziness, it's just a random trip to Walgreens trying to find something for my buddy because his throat hurts.

02:27:35.000 You know what's funny, actually now thinking of thinking about that.

02:27:37.000 You inspired this.

02:27:39.000 I remember when he was in Seoul just like a week ago, two weeks ago, whatever it was, and he he went out and explored the city.

02:27:46.000 He got up early and explored the city, and I remember going, alone?

02:27:48.000 Are you like and he was like, Yes, alone, LOL, like it's safe here, like it's clear, like that actually meant a lot to him.

02:27:54.000 And I'm so glad now that he got to do this thing that he hadn't been able to do in so long and just go explore a city by himself.

02:28:04.000 He hadn't been by himself for so long.

02:28:06.000 He hadn't like and he loved it.

02:28:08.000 He kept sending us pictures in our chat and like videos.

02:28:12.000 And you were there, right?

02:28:13.000 With I mean, we weren't I mean you did do some exploring with the zone, and then later we were in this old town neighborhood, and he's like, All right, Blake, just tell me about Korea, and I'm just babbling.

02:28:23.000 This is the this is the palace where they do the Confucian examinations.

02:28:27.000 He loved it.

02:28:28.000 And of course, it was also a trillion degrees out, so we were all in you know, nice clothes because we had to go to the thing later, and it was swamp and I was dying, but it was it was so much fun.

02:28:38.000 But we have that's that's such a oh that's such a good point though, Andrew.

02:28:42.000 I mean, the thing that I think most people don't realize, especially in these these la last years that Charlie was with us, was that he was never alone.

02:28:51.000 I mean, the weight and pressure of having to be that celebrity, like that's a lot, it's a lot to do, and and that has an impact on most people.

02:29:00.000 And the one thing I think that was really astonishing about Charlie is he didn't change as a person at all.

02:29:06.000 He didn't he by the way, he wasn't like the party animal either.

02:29:09.000 Like, so a lot of people get in this role, and they they you I don't know, you see him at clubs, you see him drinking, you see them partying or like enjoying all this stuff.

02:29:18.000 Charlie would go home at like the first instant that was socially acceptable for the programming, like at America Fest.

02:29:25.000 Maybe the program didn't get over until 7 30.

02:29:27.000 He would go straight home back to the hotel as soon as he could after meeting with donors or supporters.

02:29:33.000 Yep, he would do like he would do a circuit of like four stops, five stops, meet with donors, and then he goes straight back to be with Erica.

02:29:40.000 Like immediately.

02:29:42.000 And he but his personality never changed, his his demeanor never never changed.

02:29:49.000 Uh I mean his busyness level was never different.

02:29:52.000 He was always busy in different ways throughout his career, uh, throughout the time that that as he grew, but the the thing that was always really difficult that I was always really worried about him was that you're never having that you know reprieve from the public eye, or being able to go out and just do normal things.

02:30:10.000 And the one thing I really appreciate about Erica and you guys actually specifically that here with Andrew and Blake, because you guys spent a lot when he did have alone time, it was with you, and so it was like the as that that was as alone as he got with Mikey.

02:30:26.000 Um, and he he got to do some normal things in that way, right?

02:30:31.000 Which was like going to get to the Cubs game.

02:30:34.000 He was always just the kid from Chicago, and wanting to be always and wanting to eat the restaurant.

02:30:38.000 I was like, I'll always remember again, just after we had a long day of doing something extraordinarily exhausting, and I feel like it was like 10 p.m.

02:30:46.000 And you you guys know this.

02:30:47.000 Like Charlie loved to just go sit down and break bread and eat.

02:30:51.000 But by his by the way, his the way he would order was hilarious.

02:30:54.000 He'd sit down, we'd be at a restaurant, and be like, you know, four or five of us gathered around, he and he would take them in, you go, uh give us some of this, some of this, some of this, some of this, some of this.

02:31:02.000 Uh get these out for a shareable plates.

02:31:04.000 You guys are gonna love this, you're gonna love this.

02:31:06.000 You're uh trust me.

02:31:07.000 And then it would go, uh, and can I get some hot sauce and olive oil and some salt and pepper, please?

02:31:11.000 Thank you.

02:31:12.000 Yeah, it was like he would order like a crazy person, like 15 items, and then so you're just like, I guess I'll just eat what Charlie's having, and the the table would be filled, and he'd be like, get some more of this.

02:31:23.000 You're gonna you're gonna love that.

02:31:24.000 No, eat some more of that.

02:31:25.000 And then everybody's around eating, talking, you know, again, kind of decompressing from whatever the crazy was that we were you're going through, whether it was the the travel or the event or the donor meeting or whoever, or whatever you're doing, the show, the speech, the I mean, uh the rally, the uh activist event.

02:31:45.000 That was the consistent thing is that you if you got that opportunity to sit down and then you talk, and then you what it wasn't just talking about nonsense, it was usually talking about big ideas and having the conversation similar to like what we have on Thought Crime.

02:32:00.000 So, like if you you as an individual out in the world, and I don't know if you agree with that.

02:32:04.000 Thought crime was probably the the closest uh visual video videoed version of what it was like to kind of like hang out with Charlie.

02:32:16.000 We used to used to joke about it because it was just it was like our group chat on camera.

02:32:22.000 That's right, yeah.

02:32:23.000 And that's what it was like to sit down with Charlie, like in a in a scenario where it's like you're sitting there talking about there's these things going on, these topics, and like everybody's going around the horn, just like you know, talking about it, debating it, and you know, he was like, Well, isn't that interesting?

02:32:38.000 Or like you know, you get into the and ideas would spark and he'd do that smile, and he would think of it.

02:32:44.000 My favorite, I was just uh sharing with Daisy that my favorite segments in Thought Crime were so uncomfortable.

02:32:53.000 Yes, that was the point.

02:32:57.000 Yeah, just like Charlie's like entire knowledge of pop culture froze when he was 17.

02:33:02.000 Yeah, like what what char like Charlie you you don't you mean you don't know what a bonus hole is, Charlie.

02:33:10.000 Or just just whatever whatever the means when we explain Riz.

02:33:14.000 No, no, I'm not gonna get into it.

02:33:15.000 I just mean like what whatever whatever the thing was that was going around, he'd be like, Is that good?

02:33:22.000 Yes.

02:33:23.000 No.

02:33:24.000 Okay.

02:33:24.000 Yeah, is this good?

02:33:25.000 Yeah, he just wanted the binary.

02:33:27.000 Like is it a good thing or a bad thing?

02:33:29.000 Remember the JD Vance memes?

02:33:30.000 Yes.

02:33:30.000 When the JD Vance memes came out, he's like, are they making fun of JD?

02:33:34.000 Kind of.

02:33:35.000 But in a good way.

02:33:37.000 Is it good?

02:33:38.000 Charlie Charlie Charlie didn't necessarily speak meme fluently or natively, but he understood the power of them.

02:33:43.000 Um I have a story I just want to share.

02:33:45.000 He loved him.

02:33:46.000 He loved it.

02:33:46.000 Yeah, he loved them.

02:33:47.000 Um I have a story I want to share from Emma on our team.

02:33:50.000 Um she said the night after the election, Charlie wrapped the stream and came out to the bullpen and sat and ate his dinner with the team and told us stories about the behind the scenes work he was doing that nobody knew about for like two hours.

02:34:05.000 It was one of my favorite CK memories of all time.

02:34:08.000 He told us how much we can trust JD as vice president and the work he did to get him to that spot.

02:34:15.000 It's really beautiful.

02:34:17.000 Char Charlie had the the thing that makes me the saddest about Charlie's passing and that he was ripped away from us so abrasively is that that man had a had probably a library of books to write about the things that he knew that have gone to rest with him.

02:34:37.000 Things that he saw that are really interesting for politics, because again, piggybacking on that.

02:34:41.000 You sat down with Charlie.

02:34:43.000 He could tell you about things that nobody knows.

02:34:46.000 I mean, there's things that we know.

02:34:48.000 There's memories that I have that I can tell you, and I I d uh when the time is right at some point.

02:34:53.000 I hope that I can share some of these stories that that they come out.

02:34:56.000 Andrew has a gazillion of them.

02:34:58.000 Blake, since you've been traveling.

02:35:00.000 Jack knows these things because he lives this lifestyle every day.

02:35:03.000 But that's what I mean.

02:35:06.000 I'm sad that we'll never hear.

02:35:07.000 I don't want like we we can't you know what I mean?

02:35:10.000 I just can't I can't process it.

02:35:12.000 Because I would people were like sharing text messages, and I was going back and look at because look at some of the ones that I have, and I was like, Can't share that, can't share that, can't share that.

02:35:20.000 Where do you even begin?

02:35:21.000 No, I know the Riz one is funny. 1.00

02:35:22.000 Like, we should probably put that up.

02:35:24.000 That's how I brought up the memes because he put the Riz one talk about the Riz one up.

02:35:28.000 This is funny.

02:35:28.000 This is like perfect Charlie.

02:35:31.000 Um so I always like to like hound Charlie a little bit, and I I it looks like I was uh making fun of uh the cough drop thing because the the c and by the way, that was the one thing that Zinn cough drops, right?

02:35:45.000 The South Park, yeah, people thought it was Zinn when he was on campus and he would pop the cough drops in.

02:35:50.000 So this welcome to the inside chat, guys.

02:35:52.000 This is about as close up as you can get.

02:35:55.000 And um, and I I would be like, actually, Charlie, I love the c makes you look really cool.

02:35:59.000 Like when you're like popping, you got this kind of like nonchalant look when you're just popping the cough drop.

02:36:04.000 And Daisy says, Everyone thinks his cough drops are Zinned.

02:36:07.000 And I was like, nicotine cough drops, and Charlie, ha ha ha ha ha.

02:36:11.000 And I go, Charlie's Riz secret for the record, it's a great Riz crutch, makes you look nonchalant, plus the athleisure wear versus the suit. 0.99

02:36:18.000 Charlie goes, What is Riz?

02:36:19.000 And I go, like swagger, and Blake has to go, ca Riz Ma. 0.99

02:36:23.000 No, but no question mark, right?

02:36:25.000 What is Riz?

02:36:26.000 What is Riz?

02:36:27.000 What is it?

02:36:28.000 Is it good?

02:36:30.000 It's probably because he was hosting a show or something.

02:36:32.000 Yeah.

02:36:32.000 That was always his follow-up though.

02:36:34.000 Is it good?

02:36:35.000 Is this good?

02:36:36.000 We have one more caller I want to get to, and that is Julie.

02:36:39.000 Um, Julie, hopefully you're still with us.

02:36:40.000 Uh the floor is yours.

02:36:44.000 Yes.

02:36:44.000 Can you hear me?

02:36:45.000 Yes.

02:36:47.000 Yes.

02:36:47.000 Um, yes, I'm Julie.

02:36:49.000 This is me letting Charlie inspire me to be more joyful, bold, and brave.

02:36:52.000 I'm calling instead of emailing calling the scariest thing in the world.

02:36:56.000 So I I learned about Charlie after he followed uh Steve Bannon on Rav.

02:37:02.000 Um I listened to his podcast every morning on my on my watch.

02:37:05.000 I love thought crimes and the glimpse it gives you into the secret world of men.

02:37:09.000 I was glued to the rumble late night election coverage.

02:37:12.000 Um I was blessed to see Charlie interact with college students at uh normal Illinois when we were here this spring.

02:37:18.000 I was so afraid to go because I thought there's no mute button because I'm kinda like banned, like on the the cold open stop, stop stop.

02:37:23.000 I can't take anymore.

02:37:25.000 And but I didn't need it because Charlie was just fantastic, and then lastly, I'm most thankful for Charlie for introducing me to Jack Hibbs and the Relic Network and reinpicking my face.

02:37:35.000 Thank you.

02:37:37.000 Beautiful.

02:37:37.000 Well well said, Julie.

02:37:38.000 Thank you uh for calling in for sharing that Julie.

02:37:41.000 And sharing that.

02:37:42.000 And you uh your bravery was rewarded.

02:37:45.000 And by the way, I want to say this, like people describe Charlie as fearless.

02:37:49.000 He wasn't fearless.

02:37:50.000 He was courageous.

02:37:52.000 He looked fear right in the eye and he overcame it again and again and again.

02:37:56.000 And I can tell you how many moments I spent with Charlie in this behind the scenes and the quiet before he walked out on stage or before he had to tackle something or a setback, bad news.

02:38:09.000 And Charlie just looked at the fear right in the eye and he knew there was no way but through.

02:38:13.000 And he just was so courageous and he just did it.

02:38:17.000 And he always won.

02:38:19.000 He always won.

02:38:21.000 He won and he kept he kept like coming back and he was stronger and fiercer.

02:38:26.000 And and frankly, I think I said this to Erica yesterday.

02:38:31.000 I said.

02:38:31.000 Probably for the last two years, I knew Charlie actually was fearless.

02:38:36.000 Um, because he'd overcome so much.

02:38:41.000 He was an absolutely fearless individual.

02:38:43.000 I mean, since the day I met him.

02:38:48.000 But the times where I had the greatest fear of people, and there's lots of people to fear in politics.

02:38:54.000 And I had I had this privilege of getting to know what President Trump would label as bad hombres.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 12, 2025

Charlie's Empty Chair — In His Honor, Never in His Place

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