The Charlie Kirk Show - September 26, 2025


Charlie's Voice Isn't Going Anywhere ft. Mrs. Erika Kirk


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In this episode, Mikey and Blake talk about their trip to Asia with their good friend, Charlie Kirk. They talk about what it was like to be there with him, and how it was a turning point in his life.

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00:00:48.000 Today is really fun because Mikey and Blake are going to talk about their last trip with Charlie to Asia.
00:00:55.000 And Mikey, you are now in the driver's seat.
00:00:57.000 The floor is yours.
00:00:57.000 Yeah.
00:00:58.000 Uh it's crazy to think that was just three, four days before Utah.
00:01:02.000 And we it was Charlie's dream to always go to Asia.
00:01:05.000 And Blake and I got the gift of being able to tag along for that.
00:01:09.000 Uh and so I brought the camera with me.
00:01:12.000 I've never traveled with a camera before, but I decided, you know, it would be a good idea to mic Charlie up, do some content with him while we're there.
00:01:20.000 And so we put together a little teaser.
00:01:23.000 There's some speeches that are gonna be coming out soon, podcasts that are gonna be coming out soon.
00:01:28.000 Never before seen, so this is exciting, this is new.
00:01:31.000 But uh number two, ninety-two at you calling Sots.
00:01:35.000 There we go.
00:01:36.000 This is a a little teaser uh of what's to come from Asia.
00:01:41.000 I never could have imagined seeing though what I'm seeing here tonight.
00:01:44.000 A global movement for freedom.
00:01:47.000 Here to bring a message of hope to Japan.
00:01:50.000 For those with political will, determination, and bravery, nothing is impossible.
00:01:57.000 Freedom is not only an American or a Western value, it is a value that belongs to the entire world.
00:02:04.000 We are allies because we all share a common enemy.
00:02:08.000 They preach a doctrine they call diversity.
00:02:12.000 Globalism wants to erase the distinctions that separate different countries and cultures.
00:02:17.000 It takes hundreds of years to build a civilization.
00:02:20.000 It takes one generation of mistakes to throw it away.
00:02:24.000 Protect your freedom and your faith from the evildoers who would destroy it. 1.00
00:02:28.000 The best way to fight against tyranny is for good people to stand up.
00:02:32.000 USA!
00:02:37.000 That's good.
00:02:39.000 Blame.
00:02:39.000 Blake and I are were laughing because the event we did in Korea was uh It's so amazing, it was so incredible.
00:02:46.000 A copy paste of America.
00:02:48.000 It was it was called Build Up Korea 2025, and it was so amazing to see.
00:02:53.000 It was it literally was they're like, you know, we say it, you know, Charlie would want to imitate people who were successful, so we'd learn from people he would do a lot of the rush stuff because he's like, well, Russia's successful.
00:03:02.000 So this is people doing the same thing with Charlie Kirk.
00:03:04.000 They're like, I want a successful youth conservative event.
00:03:08.000 Turning point is a successful Let's do a turning point event.
00:03:12.000 So it's got the it has like the cracking me up when you guys are sending the clips.
00:03:16.000 I was like, It has like they just literally really looked like same backstage area, same shape.
00:03:20.000 Sparkling rooms, the sparkling, same fireworks, same like synth wave color scheme, like you know, like it's out of the eighties sort of.
00:03:28.000 And the funny part is right at the end, they're going, USA, USA.
00:03:33.000 They even wanted to.
00:03:38.000 They had exhibited hall, and some of them were very Korean, but one that I got a kick out of it was like the 1776 Institute, and it was a Korean, like US fan club.
00:03:47.000 It's like, oh, what you can learn from the American founders and how awesome they are, and I was like, yes.
00:03:52.000 Yeah.
00:03:52.000 Well this was amazing though.
00:03:54.000 You told me the story how everybody at this Korean event, they they were invited to come close to the stage.
00:04:02.000 So amazing.
00:04:02.000 And they just started singing and praying over Charlie, which was interesting, like full circle moment because the same some of the worship leaders at the the event for Charlie's memorial sang that same song.
00:04:16.000 And it was it was a basically like two weeks to the day later that they they the song that these Koreans were worshipping and praying over Charlie that was ended up being sung at his memorial, but y he put his hand on his heart and you told me it was one of the few times you'd seen him get emotional.
00:04:33.000 Yeah.
00:04:33.000 So he they called him on stage, they said we had one last gift for you, Charlie.
00:04:37.000 And so he didn't know what it was, but he went out on stage and she spoke to the crowd in Korean, then all of a sudden the piano starts playing and starts, how great is our God.
00:04:46.000 And they're singing it, and it's I keep saying beauty transcends even language.
00:04:51.000 Even though that song was in Korean, we all knew what song they were singing.
00:04:55.000 And they they came and then they were praying over him.
00:04:57.000 They said something in Korean, they yelled it out loud.
00:05:00.000 And uh a week and two or two weeks later, two weeks and two days later, that that song would be sung at Charlie's memorial.
00:05:09.000 with everybody giving their hearts.
00:05:10.000 It warms my heart knowing that he had this overflowing of the Holy Spirit and God and prayer that he got to just bask in and feel the love in that way.
00:05:22.000 And so it's comforting.
00:05:24.000 Yeah.
00:05:25.000 And so other exciting things that we got to do is Blake was our tour guide.
00:05:29.000 And he took us what was the palace?
00:05:31.000 Gyungbog uh Gangbok. 0.95
00:05:33.000 Was it Gyeongbokung?
00:05:34.000 Yeah, Gung Bakun. 1.00
00:05:35.000 I'll confess Korean syllables kind of all just it's like syllable gore to me. 1.00
00:05:41.000 So I can't ever remember.
00:05:42.000 Let me make sure I got that right.
00:05:44.000 We fit in so much stuff.
00:05:45.000 Young Bokung one day. 0.93
00:05:46.000 We went to the DMZ, so North Korea, and then he also we have that clip.
00:05:51.000 Yeah, we do, and then we have Blake taking us to the palace.
00:05:55.000 I think we should play the palace clip 298.
00:05:57.000 Blake, I'm sorry about this one.
00:05:59.000 Mikey's struggle busting.
00:06:01.000 He's all like it's so hot.
00:06:03.000 I can't be cool like the security guys who have full suits.
00:06:08.000 Or Blake who's got his ridiculous Macy's blazer.
00:06:10.000 I was gonna say.
00:06:12.000 Like you've gotten more, you've gotten more mileage out of that blazer than anything I've ever seen in my life.
00:06:16.000 It's a great blazer.
00:06:17.000 People like it.
00:06:23.000 It's my favorite blazer.
00:06:25.000 It's nice.
00:06:25.000 People comment on it no matter what.
00:06:27.000 The occasions.
00:06:28.000 Like, where's the Mason's blazers?
00:06:30.000 Heck yeah.
00:06:31.000 So I think I think Charlie secretly had a plan to be a tourist that day in Dawak City, but he didn't tell us that message.
00:06:38.000 So we came downstairs in our suits, you know, fully ready for an event.
00:06:42.000 He came down in gym shorts and a t-shirt.
00:06:44.000 And his long socks.
00:06:45.000 We were sweating through 90 90%.
00:06:48.000 Every time we'd get to something, he'd just be like, Blake, tell us about this.
00:06:51.000 That's right.
00:06:52.000 So yeah, we were at the palace, and I'm like, okay, yeah, we got the palace.
00:06:54.000 You know, this is this is the hall where they would do the Confucian scholarship stuff.
00:06:59.000 I want to see this one.
00:07:00.000 297 with the the DMZ.
00:07:02.000 I want to see the because I didn't actually know he went there.
00:07:04.000 So that's great.
00:07:05.000 297.
00:07:06.000 North Korea.
00:07:07.000 okay everybody welcome to north korea So this is literally North Korea.
00:07:26.000 You were here before.
00:07:30.000 Yeah, so originally we were supposed to go to the DMZ portion where Trump shook Kim Jong-un's hand.
00:07:37.000 And I'm gonna put him on blast, but the United Nations cancelled Charlie.
00:07:41.000 Didn't allow us to go.
00:07:43.000 Wow.
00:07:43.000 So we're we're scheduled to go.
00:07:45.000 So we had to go to that lookout point, which was really exciting still.
00:07:49.000 So glad we got that.
00:07:50.000 Yeah, you got to see it.
00:07:51.000 Something else that's really interesting is when we're at that build up Korea event, Charlie was meeting with all these pastors backstage.
00:07:56.000 Do you remember this?
00:07:57.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:57.000 And there's Pastor Sun, S-O-N, and Charlie was talking to him, he was and he was talking about politics from the pulpit, which you can't do during an election season in Korea, but he was doing it anyways.
00:08:07.000 And Charlie's like, let me take a picture with you.
00:08:09.000 So he took the picture, and we left Korea two days after we left Korea.
00:08:14.000 The pastor was arrested and is in jail right now.
00:08:17.000 For no way I saw that.
00:08:19.000 Because you can't, it's yeah, there it yeah.
00:08:21.000 We're we have the picture up there.
00:08:23.000 That was two days after they arrested that pastor.
00:08:25.000 He's in jail right now for talking about politics from the pulpit.
00:08:30.000 So after Korea, we ran over to Japan.
00:08:33.000 And Blake, you've been to Korea and Japan before.
00:08:35.000 So you're Korea.
00:08:36.000 So the context was I got to Korea early because I had that friend's wedding, so I was I kind of got used to the city.
00:08:43.000 And then Japan I had been to before in 2019.
00:08:45.000 So very basic amount of experience.
00:08:48.000 We had a very good friend of the show, Ryo, who he was he's been this Charlie super fan for a while.
00:08:54.000 I remember coming to the 2022 Amfest and he was there.
00:08:57.000 So he's been a friend of ours, and he's worked with us and stuff, And so he kind of helped pave the way for this visit.
00:09:03.000 And then he was like showing us around, and it was so great.
00:09:05.000 I think we have a photo of him.
00:09:06.000 It's when we do, but there's one video that I want to play that's amazing.
00:09:10.000 $2.99 if we have time.
00:09:12.000 Yeah, play it.
00:09:13.000 Totally gonna miss for Gigi. 0.76
00:09:14.000 very offensive Totally gonna miss for Gigi.
00:09:29.000 Hello Kitty.
00:09:32.000 Blake, was that the Don Koto?
00:09:34.000 Is that the one that you took us into?
00:09:37.000 I don't know if that one was the Hello Kitty thing.
00:09:39.000 I think that was that was just like a little side thing we were stepping into.
00:09:42.000 I think.
00:09:43.000 Alright.
00:09:44.000 Well, so Charlie bought a Hello Kitty doll.
00:09:47.000 For his family.
00:09:48.000 And by the way, explain this.
00:09:49.000 Like did people recognize him in Japan at all?
00:09:52.000 They did, nothing.
00:09:53.000 Usually foreigners who were also there, but there was at least one guy from Japan who did recognize him, and a lot of Koreans recognize him.
00:10:00.000 Actually, there was that group of kids.
00:10:01.000 Remember in Tokyo, they came up to him and they're like, those were Korean, I believe.
00:10:05.000 Those were Japanese kids.
00:10:06.000 Yeah, they were.
00:10:07.000 So yeah.
00:10:09.000 So the only time Charlie would stop again, 90% humidity.
00:10:13.000 He's got a big thing.
00:10:13.000 95 degrees outside.
00:10:15.000 It was terrible.
00:10:16.000 Wearing suits, we're sweating.
00:10:18.000 And he doesn't stop.
00:10:19.000 Well, and just I just want to make a note on that.
00:10:21.000 I've said it before, but it bears repeating.
00:10:23.000 He when I first started working with Charlie, he would run like seven or ten miles in a day.
00:10:28.000 And then eventually hurt his back.
00:10:30.000 And so it would just walk.
00:10:31.000 So he would do these long walks, and you guys and he would walk fast.
00:10:35.000 We walked very fast.
00:10:36.000 He had very long legs.
00:10:37.000 So the only time he would stop was if it was at the coffee shop, which we went to, Blake.
00:10:44.000 Or if it was to get a gift for his family, which you saw in that last clip.
00:10:47.000 But 282, the clip of us in the coffee shop.
00:10:50.000 Do you remember this, Blake?
00:10:52.000 Yes.
00:10:52.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:10:54.000 Let's do that one.
00:10:56.000 Oh, do we have no sound?
00:10:57.000 No sound.
00:10:57.000 Well, we'll narrate it.
00:10:59.000 We're in a coffee shop.
00:11:00.000 Sorry.
00:11:01.000 Charlie got I think he got a hot tea.
00:11:04.000 Play that again.
00:11:04.000 I want to see what it is.
00:11:06.000 He would.
00:11:07.000 He was so happy giving the thumbs up.
00:11:09.000 Look at you and your camera skills, Mike.
00:11:11.000 It was the only place with AC.
00:11:13.000 I just love it.
00:11:13.000 Yeah, we were wandering.
00:11:14.000 It's super hot, and it's like it's this kind of a bookchan Hanok village is kind of what they call it.
00:11:19.000 It's more traditional looking buildings in Seoul.
00:11:21.000 And there's all those back alleys.
00:11:23.000 And it was just so great.
00:11:24.000 I was like, okay, it was like, yeah, there's big stores here, but you can also just step into any alley and there'll be all these places.
00:11:29.000 And then there was this little coffee shop, and it was great.
00:11:31.000 We could just step in.
00:11:32.000 They had no idea who we were, and I think Charlie.
00:11:35.000 Charlie absolutely enjoyed, you know, being an activist on a big scale, but I think he also enjoyed that he could actually wander around Seoul and not be spotted by the city.
00:11:43.000 You mentioned in your thread on X that you because one of Charlie's big missions was restoring the family, increasing marriage and having babies, and he was even taking that message to Seoul in South Korea.
00:11:56.000 But you said it was kind of you guys noticed as you were walking around the lack of children.
00:12:00.000 Tons.
00:12:00.000 Yeah, there yeah.
00:12:01.000 Actually, at that event, there was a bunch of babies in the back. 0.85
00:12:04.000 That was the only place.
00:12:05.000 That's amazing.
00:12:06.000 It was really it would stand out because, for example, you'd get on the subway, which did Charlie ever actually ride on the train.
00:12:12.000 He just walked through a station.
00:12:13.000 But yeah, I went on the trains, and every subway car has like two or four pink seats that are for pregnant women. 1.00
00:12:22.000 And I'm not sure I ever saw one of them occupied.
00:12:25.000 And but you said they would line up.
00:12:28.000 Yes.
00:12:28.000 Oh, that was when it was really busy.
00:12:31.000 They'd get in lines where the things would stop, and you could tell where it would stop because it kind of had a very precise little window that it would be at.
00:12:37.000 And they would have it would basically be three people wide, and they would get two parallel lines with a path in the middle for the people who were going to get out.
00:12:46.000 And not only would they do that, they get on and off the train in that orderly way.
00:12:51.000 Like once the train was kind of just getting a little too full, the people would just stop and they would wait for the next train.
00:12:57.000 Like they did not actually pack to the gills where like you were you're maximizing the number of people in there.
00:13:03.000 Yeah.
00:13:03.000 Interesting.
00:13:04.000 And Blake, the the Han, everything's Han. 0.77
00:13:07.000 And then you were explaining this to me and Charlie.
00:13:09.000 And when we were at the palace, they had all these get ups.
00:13:11.000 Yeah, the Hanba Hanbach. 1.00
00:13:13.000 Yeah, Hanbach.
00:13:14.000 Han basically just means Korean or like people, basically, which is funny because it's the same word in Chinese. 0.89
00:13:19.000 So they both called themselves Han in their language.
00:13:22.000 But so Han Bok is like Korean dress.
00:13:24.000 And it's uh Hanbah that clip.
00:13:27.000 Uh, they should be like, that's the clip.
00:13:29.000 So the women would wear these dresses, and the men had these kind of top hats.
00:13:33.000 It almost looked like the very cool barb.
00:13:36.000 I was so heartbroken.
00:13:40.000 Like you can wear Hanbok to a wedding. 0.99
00:13:43.000 And I like I was like, I should have done it.
00:13:45.000 And I wussed out.
00:13:47.000 Did you wear your mace Macy's Blazer?
00:13:49.000 I think I wager money he did.
00:13:51.000 Yeah.
00:13:52.000 So it looks beautiful though.
00:13:54.000 And that's in Korea, yeah.
00:13:56.000 That's in Korea.
00:13:57.000 Oh, and at this palace, they have this.
00:13:58.000 You have to buy for entry and buy a ticket for entry.
00:14:01.000 But if you show up in a Hanbach, you can get in for free. 0.99
00:14:03.000 Just walk in.
00:14:04.000 So if we had if we had more time, I think Blake and I would have gotten in the garb.
00:14:07.000 So did you did you see kids?
00:14:11.000 Just at church.
00:14:12.000 You said you saw these like empty playgrounds.
00:14:15.000 Yeah, so there was like a playground by there's a big Korean war like museum monument, and I went to it, and there was a very nice playground next to it, but it was totally deserted.
00:14:25.000 It also had a very fun sign that had all the different fines you could receive if you broke the rules.
00:14:30.000 Like if you captured and tamed an animal, that was one of them.
00:14:34.000 And it had a little fun photo, or it was like this man with kind of little gnome thing.
00:14:38.000 I love it.
00:14:38.000 Okay.
00:14:40.000 You know, Asia is quite the place.
00:14:42.000 It really is.
00:14:42.000 Like all the I know the it's not monolithic.
00:14:45.000 There are just very stark distinctions, but in general, it is sort of like very, very alien to me.
00:14:51.000 So uh go ahead, Mikey.
00:14:53.000 When we first arrived, it was 415 A. Which country?
00:14:57.000 Korea.
00:14:57.000 Okay.
00:14:58.000 And Charlie wanted to do something because he wanted to make the most of the time.
00:15:02.000 So at 445 a.m.
00:15:04.000 He wanted to go see the MacArthur statue, which is the same.
00:15:07.000 When you fly into Korea, you land at Incheon International Airport.
00:15:10.000 And Incheon is during the Korean War, uh, a very important battle is fought there where we're losing the Korean war, we're at the bottom end of Korea, and General Douglas MacArthur, he does this very daring maneuver where he sails 200 miles north behind the North Koreans, and he lands at Incheon.
00:15:27.000 Yeah.
00:15:28.000 And so that was the landing.
00:15:30.000 And Charlie loved MacArthur.
00:15:32.000 He was one of Charlie's heroes.
00:15:34.000 So the first thing he wanted to do is go see that statue.
00:15:37.000 So this is clip 287.
00:15:39.000 It's playing right there.
00:15:41.000 And Charlie was he's walking up, he goes, Wow, I wish we had statues like this in America.
00:15:47.000 And he walks up to the statue, and Blake, if you could read this, he reads these words out loud.
00:15:53.000 There is no boundary in justice, nor is there any obstacle to struggle, mountain, or sea.
00:15:59.000 A man who executed such a struggle in the spirit of justice to the triumph of the cause of the free world and to the gratitude and admiration of mankind is the man whom this statue represents.
00:16:13.000 Wow.
00:16:13.000 Says that out loud.
00:16:16.000 Well, Charlie's gonna get statues in his honor.
00:16:19.000 I am uh just beautiful.
00:16:20.000 He deserves he deserves them.
00:16:23.000 Uh we have some other clips here for we have the Tokyo event free speech, people, principle, place, mass immigration.
00:16:31.000 Which one you want, Mikey?
00:16:33.000 I think we should do the mass immigration. 0.65
00:16:34.000 All right, let's think let's do mass, let's do mass immigration. 0.95
00:16:38.000 Uh oh, it's kind of a longer clip, but is it?
00:16:40.000 Um let's see.
00:16:41.000 Do we not have it loaded?
00:16:42.000 I don't know.
00:16:43.000 Maybe we don't have it loaded, but we we will get it.
00:16:46.000 But I it's funny actually seeing him with the earpiece on the trans for translation. 1.00
00:16:50.000 That was fun.
00:16:51.000 Oh, actually, they are so organized.
00:16:53.000 Like, do you remember this?
00:16:54.000 They bring they have this like platter, almost like a silver platter that they put the microphone on, and so when it was Charlie's turn to speak, they kind of walk up to him and they just present this mic to him on his other thing I remember that was so funny was like just the way they're so deliberate about things.
00:17:10.000 Like, we had that meal, and like Charlie just wanted to eat fast, but it was like a Chinese restaurant that was like one thing at a time, and he just after two courses like I'm out, goes and takes a nap.
00:17:19.000 He loved it.
00:17:20.000 All right, we this is a longer clip, but let's do it.
00:17:23.000 306.
00:17:24.000 In America, mass immigration was one of the defining issues that propelled President Trump towards election in both 2016 and 2024.
00:17:36.000 But it was very simple.
00:17:37.000 We asked a series of questions in America.
00:17:40.000 We said, Do you want your hometown to be more people that speak Spanish or English?
00:17:48.000 It was very simple.
00:17:50.000 You see, a nation is also through the globalists seek to eliminate the three Ps by getting rid of borders, language, and Culture.
00:18:01.000 So a very simple question that I would ask here in Japan that I mentioned in my speech.
00:18:06.000 Do you want school children in Japan to learn Japanese?
00:18:10.000 The language.
00:18:11.000 Of course you do, right?
00:18:14.000 But not Arabic. 0.94
00:18:17.000 And we laugh.
00:18:19.000 But you know what?
00:18:20.000 People in London would have laughed 40 years ago in an event just like this.
00:18:24.000 And yet more people are gonna speak Arabic in London in 20 years from now than today.
00:18:30.000 So you have to make it very real, very tangible.
00:18:34.000 The problem is that Tokyo is so nice, and that Japan is so great that you're almost in a place where it's very easy to be apathetic.
00:18:43.000 Oh, this will never happen here.
00:18:45.000 We've stood the test of time.
00:18:48.000 Remember, they said the sun would never set on the British Empire.
00:18:51.000 I'm sure you've remember hearing that before.
00:18:54.000 It wasn't war that took down the British Empire.
00:18:57.000 It wasn't any of the other conflicts.
00:18:59.000 It was mass immigration that took down the British Empire. 1.00
00:19:03.000 So you must enter with a sense of cautiousness, but also immediacy to communicate in real language that in real words that this can have a very serious impact on what people care about most.
00:19:18.000 There's right after that speech, he did a report, uh a reporter of CNN interview.
00:19:25.000 Blake made a joke, no matter where you are in the world, CNN's still CNN.
00:19:28.000 And she said, Don't you feel like your speech was a little xenophobic?
00:19:33.000 And Charlie goes listen, I think we can both agree.
00:19:38.000 If we import 40 million Pakistanis into Japan, Japan's not Japan anymore. 1.00
00:19:44.000 And she goes, Yeah, you're right.
00:19:48.000 Okay, fine.
00:19:49.000 Yeah, and it's people are commenting that's the slowest I've ever heard uh CK talk, and it's like, well, he had to speak slow so the translators could translate him, so he's being very deliberate in his pacing.
00:19:59.000 Because normally, yeah, Charlie could rattle off things pretty quickly, and we we we're all accustomed to like editing clips and listening to things at 2x speed.
00:20:06.000 So we're that was an extraordinary slow for for for my ear.
00:20:12.000 Our good friends at Angel Studios, I love Angel Studios, amazing new film uh this holy week, phenomenal.
00:20:19.000 Is I think about Charlie's life and how much of a support he was of Angel.
00:20:24.000 It's hard not to feel so grateful for what he did.
00:20:27.000 He supported us in our darkest days and in our brightest hours as a company.
00:20:32.000 Jeff and I and Charlie were doing lunch together.
00:20:34.000 We asked him, he said, Are you are you at all worried about one of these college campuses?
00:20:38.000 And he just said with so much peace in his in his eyes and so much peace in his heart.
00:20:43.000 If that's how God takes me, then that's how I'm supposed to go.
00:20:46.000 But I feel like that was a clear message that Charlie's life is a testimony to Jesus Christ, his Lord and Savior, and his relationship with him was the most important thing that he would want the world to remember about his legacy.
00:21:00.000 Man, are we grateful to have gotten to be a little connection in the multitude of connections that he made throughout his life because it was so impactful to us.
00:21:12.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:21:13.000 Love you.
00:21:14.000 We miss you.
00:21:15.000 We're going to continue to drive forward the good news.
00:21:18.000 We're going to continue to drive forward the good news.
00:21:25.000 And now we are joined by the great, the one and only Erica Kirk.
00:21:32.000 Welcome.
00:21:33.000 Thank you.
00:21:34.000 Thanks.
00:21:34.000 It's surreal to actually be sitting, because last time I was standing, but yeah.
00:21:39.000 I don't know.
00:21:40.000 Just it.
00:21:41.000 It's a little more emotional.
00:21:42.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:21:43.000 Yeah.
00:21:43.000 Well, you are rightly at the head of the table, and we're just so honored to have you here.
00:21:48.000 I know that you have been to say that your life has been a whirlwind would be the understatement of the century.
00:21:57.000 And uh to make time for Charlie's audience and to speak to them.
00:22:01.000 I know that they can't wait to hear from you and just to see you, just to see you in this room probably means a lot to them.
00:22:08.000 And you've been up against so much, and you've been doing an incredible, incredible job.
00:22:12.000 The number of messages I've heard just complimenting you and your dignity and your poise and your strength has been overwhelming.
00:22:20.000 And um, yeah, we're just so glad you're here.
00:22:23.000 No, I'm grateful.
00:22:23.000 I mean, I know we talked about this, we prayed on it.
00:22:27.000 We really tried to Um discern properly how to go about the next few stages and steps of everything.
00:22:39.000 And we've been very intentional in a way that always keeps Charlie first and his dreams alive and his legacy going.
00:22:51.000 And what's so beautiful is to see all of you step in and do that.
00:22:58.000 And so part of the reason why I wanted to, I agreed to come on, because this is not going to be a forever thing of me being on the hosting the show.
00:23:08.000 Um was because I I gave assurance to people that Turning Point USA is continuing.
00:23:17.000 And it is.
00:23:18.000 I mean, we are so blessed to have more work than we even have could ever dream of.
00:23:25.000 I mean, it's it's beautiful and turning point action, full steam ahead.
00:23:30.000 So powerful.
00:23:31.000 Uh all of the other programs within Turning Point USA, everyone knows what they're doing.
00:23:36.000 Everyone has their marching orders.
00:23:38.000 And the show when we talked about this became very intimate for me because I was there from the beginning of all of it.
00:23:50.000 And I'll never forget 2020 when literally the world stood still.
00:23:56.000 And Charlie and I would go hiking every morning.
00:24:00.000 And we would just talk about what life, the crazy things going on, and we came home from one of our hikes uh that that time that season, and my mom pulled him aside in the kitchen, and she goes, honey, they had a very good relationship.
00:24:19.000 My mom and Charlie were best friends.
00:24:22.000 We joked around that he loved it.
00:24:23.000 Oh, I know.
00:24:24.000 We joked around that he was a favorite child.
00:24:26.000 Uh but she loved him, still loves him.
00:24:29.000 And she said, you know what, honey, she said, God has blessed you with an amazing voice.
00:24:37.000 And you will be the Rush Limbaugh of your generation.
00:24:42.000 And two days later, you and him engaged in conversations about the show and about the podcast.
00:24:50.000 Well, it was it was hey, we're gonna be doing uh about five more episodes a week now.
00:24:55.000 So uh just tell the team and make sure that happens.
00:24:58.000 Three hours of this, two more hours of podcasting, like it just and it it just and he ran with that and the team ran with it, and to see the Charlie Kirk show grow from that moment until now has been so humbling and beautiful, and he loved every single day, he read every email.
00:25:21.000 Yeah.
00:25:21.000 I know you guys have said that so many times, but I can vouch for that because there were times where he would forward me some of the emails that he would get, and he wouldn't even say anything, he would just forward the email.
00:25:32.000 And to me, it was almost like an extended form of family where you guys were the you guys were the pulse point of and the connection point of turning point USA, TP action, the Charlie Kirk show.
00:25:53.000 It was a triple threat, and the audience was the master and main component of that because Charlie and the Charlie Kirk show is not just a show, yeah, it has a movement attached to it, it has the youth movement attached to it, and so for Charlie, the audience was a barometer of what do we need to be focusing on?
00:26:16.000 The audience is brilliant.
00:26:17.000 How many times did a listener send in something and say, Hey, this is going on, you need to dig deeper in this or check this out.
00:26:25.000 And Charlie's show became and still is, and I'm gonna get there in a second, but Charlie's show became the North Star for freedom of speech, but in a way where when he spoke and whatever came across his desk or whatever he put on the air was right.
00:26:44.000 Yes, it wasn't inflated, it wasn't awkwardly optimistic that had no leverage behind it.
00:26:51.000 It was it was the gold standard.
00:26:54.000 It was grounded in the wisdom.
00:26:55.000 Extremely grounded wisdom of the audience, and but not only that, he had a team, still does All of you that was the sounding board of that and collectively, each one of you are a piece of his brain.
00:27:07.000 I know we've talked about this.
00:27:08.000 Blake Economics, Foreign Policy, Andrew, pretty much a lot of stuff.
00:27:14.000 Mikey, humor, uh Christianity, sports, youth, social, pop culture was Daisy.
00:27:22.000 Like everyone has a piece of his brain that still lives on.
00:27:25.000 And so what I'm getting at here is the Charlie Kirk show is not going anywhere.
00:27:30.000 My husband's voice will live on.
00:27:33.000 The show will go on.
00:27:35.000 We will have rotating hosts, rotating casts, rotating people coming on.
00:27:40.000 That's a great people next week.
00:27:41.000 Unbelievable.
00:27:42.000 We will have consistency.
00:27:43.000 The members only group will continue to go on.
00:27:48.000 All of his socials that God has blessed us with.
00:27:51.000 The people who follow those socials will go on.
00:27:54.000 Nothing is changing.
00:27:55.000 But I want to preface we're not awkward.
00:27:57.000 We're not like weird, cringy.
00:27:59.000 We're not crint.
00:28:00.000 We're not going to be tweeting as if it's him.
00:28:02.000 That's tone-deaf and really disturbing.
00:28:04.000 And anyone who does that's like morbidly off.
00:28:09.000 Um that's not what's happening.
00:28:11.000 What's happening is the team is keeping this alive because we have Charlie and each and every one of us, and it is going to be continually the North Star of the conservative movement of the voice of the youth, of the voice of the base, and that will not end.
00:28:29.000 And the members only will continue to grow, and that will be the tight-knit network of family members that supported and loved Charlie and the team.
00:28:37.000 And that's what it is.
00:28:38.000 It's a family and a team.
00:28:40.000 And this is not this is not going anywhere.
00:28:44.000 It's just not.
00:28:45.000 We need to be able to have people have a show where they can ask questions.
00:28:52.000 Hey, I'm up against this.
00:28:53.000 What would Charlie say?
00:28:55.000 And we play a clip of what Charlie said a month ago, a year ago.
00:28:59.000 We have decades worth of my husband's voice.
00:29:03.000 We have unused material from speeches that he's had that no one has heard yet.
00:29:08.000 We have Sunday specials lined up to the brim because my husband was so intentional about making sure that there was enough content.
00:29:17.000 Always.
00:29:18.000 He made sure we recorded everything.
00:29:20.000 Everything he would not do a speech unless we could get the video and the 100%.
00:29:24.000 So we have speeches that no one's heard of.
00:29:27.000 We have interviews that no one's heard of.
00:29:30.000 We have stuff from Korea and Japan that no one's heard of.
00:29:34.000 So I mean, in the words of my husband, buckle up because there is a lot of content to be had, and we have so many amazing things down the pipeline that we are working on currently that will unveil in due time.
00:29:49.000 I'm so excited.
00:29:50.000 Yeah.
00:29:50.000 And so by the way, those are things Charlie himself that he wanted.
00:29:54.000 He wanted.
00:29:54.000 We uh we were working on some big things, you know, right up until the end.
00:29:59.000 And you know, we've talked about that a lot.
00:30:01.000 Like a lot of the the guiding vision that we're using right now to kind of steady the ship and figure out where we're going is the things Charlie himself told us where we were going.
00:30:11.000 100%.
00:30:12.000 And similar with Turning Point USA, Charlie had a plan moving past 2030 that he's shared with the team and has implemented.
00:30:22.000 So we're not going anywhere.
00:30:25.000 We have the blueprints.
00:30:26.000 We have the blueprints, we have our marching orders, and we are just remaining humble and grateful to God, and we're main remaining just stewards to what God has blessed us with.
00:30:38.000 And I know Charlie's going to continue to guide us, and the Lord will continue to guide us.
00:30:41.000 And I just wanted to let everyone know that this is far beyond any of us sitting in these chairs.
00:30:48.000 This has nothing to do with us, it never will.
00:30:51.000 Uh the the glory all to God on that on that front.
00:30:55.000 And I just am excited.
00:30:57.000 It's weird to say excited, but it it's also very surreal to say it because I know that God will use all of this in a way that will glorify him, further Charlie's legacy, and Charlie's up in heaven, just having He's rooting us on.
00:31:13.000 I know that.
00:31:14.000 He's so rooting us on.
00:31:15.000 Yeah.
00:31:15.000 I know.
00:31:16.000 I want to like ask you just a little bit about because this is something we wrestled with the social accounts.
00:31:22.000 And I'll never forget when you looked at me and you were like, Andrew, he cared so much about building those up.
00:31:29.000 I'm Not letting those die.
00:31:31.000 And I just remember being like, huh, yes, thank you.
00:31:34.000 I needed to hear that because it's it it is a little awkward.
00:31:38.000 Now we're not we're not gonna use it for like random stuff, but for very specific things.
00:31:42.000 For his voice for things he cared about for movements he cared about for causes he cared about, those those socials, and also too to support Turning Point USA to be the barometer of what's going on, to be the pulse point.
00:31:57.000 Again, we're not gonna be posting.
00:31:59.000 I went for a walk today.
00:32:01.000 Like no, yeah.
00:32:02.000 No, where we are using his socials in a way that will continue to honor his legacy.
00:32:08.000 He poured so much time into building those, not from a vain or vanity standpoint, or look at me.
00:32:16.000 That's never why he built those.
00:32:18.000 That he built those because he knew that being a voice for the Lord and being a voice for everything that is good and beautiful in this world, and also, yes, the youth, he used that as the North Star, and we will continue that.
00:32:34.000 And we'll it'll be it'll be done tastefully, it will be done appropriately, and I I'm excited for all of it because we have a good team.
00:32:45.000 You have every right to be after everything that that you've been through, what the team has been through to see it's it's like I keep saying Charlie's almost sp spark uh sprinkling his little Charlie Kirk magic dust on everything, and I mean that in a in a very Christian sense that the that Charlie lived such a remarkable life, and his mission was so big that in death you cannot contain it.
00:33:09.000 It unleashes something even greater, and it's on us, and Charlie would look at us and expect us to do the right things here.
00:33:17.000 And I would say, look at the memorial.
00:33:19.000 I know the memorial is the proof point that the team that Charlie put together can do the impossible, and God's blessing was on that.
00:33:26.000 So there were so many prayers, and I know you feel the prayers because I feel them.
00:33:30.000 If I feel them, you must be feeling them like a hundred hours.
00:33:33.000 All of them matter, and and we are going to we will never be silenced.
00:33:38.000 We will never be silenced, and that's why having continuing his platform in a beautiful, honorable way will reinforce that we will never be silenced.
00:33:50.000 Well, so we have gotten so many questions about these little toys the puppets, yeah, and uh what they are.
00:33:59.000 We of course know what they are, but why don't you tell the audience what they so every day when Charlie would go into the office, he would see our daughter, and she would just be playing, and she would look at him.
00:34:13.000 She watched the show every day.
00:34:15.000 She couldn't email, but this was her version of emailing.
00:34:19.000 Every day she'd watch the show, and she did it because daddy would take the item that she gave to him and have it on the show with him.
00:34:29.000 And sometimes she would he would say, like, this is the item that my daughter gave me.
00:34:34.000 Sometimes he wouldn't, just to see if she was really watching.
00:34:38.000 And so when she when he would come home, she would be like, Daddy, I saw I saw the puppet on the show today.
00:34:47.000 Daddy, I saw the moose on the show today.
00:34:49.000 Daddy, you brought you brought baby buff buff on the show today.
00:34:53.000 Like, so that was their little connection point of and he loved it too, because it was a little piece of her that he could have with her on the show, but those little moments of it and I loved it too because it you know, Charlie was known for so many things, and I think people just love seeing that side of him.
00:35:10.000 It humanizes him.
00:35:11.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:35:12.000 And and he's a father.
00:35:13.000 He's a I mean, unbelievable husband, but father, and loved his babies, and he wasn't embarrassed by that.
00:35:22.000 He was so proud of it.
00:35:23.000 Yeah, if Gigi made him something, or if she puts a sticker on his shirt or a sticker on his face, or gave him a figurine to bring to work, he did it and he loved it.
00:35:33.000 He didn't care what other people thought.
00:35:35.000 No, he loved he he didn't.
00:35:37.000 I don't think it even occurred to him to think about what somebody else thought about that.
00:35:41.000 Um, so I we I we talked about kind of some of the things we wanted to just say in this last segment.
00:35:47.000 And you know, I really believe, and you knew this so well of how much this audience meant to him.
00:35:53.000 And I said this actually in my speech at the memorial that you in the audience were his firewall because you gave him so much confidence when he would go in these fancy rooms and with these fancy people and these elites, and they would say, Well, this is the way it is, this is the way he knew they were wrong because of you in the audience.
00:36:12.000 Yeah, and you always would send him freedom at Charlie Kirk.com, and we want to commit to you right here and now on this show and you're gonna be part of this a hundred percent that we are going to read all of the emails just as we have always done that you send to freedom at Charliekirk.com it might be rule by committee it might be sort of uh I get to some of them Mikey gets to some of them Erica but they will be read they will be read we'll get to it we will get to it all of them and you guys are so important to him and we were talking about this in
00:36:42.000 donor meetings in private meetings even at the White House when people would be wrong about something he would triple double down and he would say to them no you don't understand you are wrong about this I'm in touch with my audience I read their emails every day so they don't like what you are doing fix it.
00:36:58.000 Yeah we're gonna do that we're committed to it right yeah very proud of that and I just also want to say thank you to the audience because in the days immediately after I mean we looked at each other a couple of times going like what are we gonna do here?
00:37:13.000 And uh so many of you guys signed up to become members members dot Charlie Kirk dot com so many of you bought the t-shirts at Charlie Kirkstore.com that you gave us this breathing room in this really hard time and it was like we don't know what's gonna happen we don't know if we've got a show we don't know what any but we we committed to the staff we're gonna keep you we're gonna keep you and and you committed to him very clearly maybe s maybe say something I said you're not going anywhere.
00:37:40.000 You can choose to leave any of you can choose to leave but you are a part of the Charlie Kirk family Charlie Kirk show family and we need you each one of you serves a purpose and a role and again if the enemy tries to come in and divide you'll be able to see that very clearly but we will all remain a united front and the show will continue.
00:38:05.000 I mean a little behind the scenes here Erica D's speech where I'm standing right now on the podium somehow got through that her national dress then she walks out there to where all of our staff are and she then goes on to do another speech to all the staff telling him you're not going anywhere.
00:38:22.000 We're keeping the lights on we're doing everything I I mean watching that I was blown away we were all inspired we knew that um that Charlie chose well Erica.
00:38:32.000 Yeah and you chose well you both chose well and uh the world is seeing your love affair in a new in a new new way.
00:38:39.000 So final seconds to you.
00:38:41.000 I just am very proud of all of you I'm grateful for all of you I'm grateful for the audience and I'm really looking forward to how this show is going to continue to be blessed and continue to be a voice for all of Charlie's causes and continue to just empower and enhance the legacy of my husband and I'm just so grateful.