The Charlie Kirk Show - December 24, 2025


Remembering the Boss: The Staff's Favorite Charlie Memories


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On this special Christmas episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, we are joined by special guest Mikey from his secret base to the north to remember Charlie. We talk about his favorite memories, favorite OSU memories, and how he changed the world.

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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
00:00:05.000 I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.
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00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:49.000 Here we go.
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00:01:09.000 Hello.
00:01:10.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:13.000 We have a special Christmas episode here, and we wanted to mark the holiday with something very important.
00:01:20.000 I'm here with Danny in the studio, and I believe we also have Mikey from his secret base to the north.
00:01:27.000 Welcome to both of you.
00:01:29.000 You there, Mikey?
00:01:29.000 Charlie Kirk Northern Studio.
00:01:32.000 Excellent, excellent.
00:01:33.000 I've never seen the Mythical Northern studio, but perhaps one day.
00:01:37.000 And so today's episode, what we wanted to do, it's our first, it's our first Christmas without Charlie.
00:01:43.000 We all miss him terribly.
00:01:46.000 And we thought what we should do is we should give a chance for everyone on the team who wants to to share their favorite stories about Charlie, funny stuff, how he impacted their lives.
00:01:59.000 So it's not just going to be Mikey, Danny, me.
00:02:02.000 We asked Brayden, we asked Kylie, we asked Brian, we asked a lot of people, people you've never seen on camera, but we wanted to get them a chance to speak up.
00:02:11.000 Some of them can't come on because they are in fact working the cameras right now and can't leave them, but we'll still give them their due.
00:02:18.000 But so Danny, how about we go with you first?
00:02:22.000 What's your favorite Charlie tape?
00:02:23.000 So I have two pretty funny ones.
00:02:25.000 The first one is like, I'm a big Ohio State fan.
00:02:28.000 And so Charlie and I, Ohio State played Oregon twice last year.
00:02:33.000 And the first time Charlie was actually at the game and Oregon won on like this last second play.
00:02:38.000 And so immediately as soon as the game ends, my phone just starts blowing up from Mikey and Charlie like trash talking the heck out of me.
00:02:46.000 Just insane.
00:02:47.000 Like, oh, what happened in this game?
00:02:49.000 Like all this crazy stuff.
00:02:51.000 Yeah.
00:02:51.000 So then when they ended up playing later in the season, Ohio State.
00:02:55.000 32-31.
00:02:56.000 That must have been an amazing game.
00:02:57.000 Yeah.
00:02:58.000 And so then they played later in the season and Ohio State won.
00:03:02.000 And so then I was giving it back to him.
00:03:04.000 And after the game, this like sweatshirt at OSU campus, they were selling.
00:03:09.000 It was like the Brutus mascot of Ohio State with a shotgun, like shooting ducks out of the sky and said like duck hunting.
00:03:17.000 And so I bought one and I shipped it to Mikey for Mikey to wear in front of Charlie.
00:03:22.000 And so Mikey wore that to the office in front of Charlie as just my get back because I was still at school.
00:03:28.000 That's amazing.
00:03:28.000 People would always ask why Charlie wasn't.
00:03:30.000 That game his family all went there.
00:03:34.000 Yeah, because he never went.
00:03:36.000 He never went to college, but he loved sports, so he decided to become a Ducks fan.
00:03:39.000 But that game was also the game where everybody was making fun of Charlie for having earplugs in because it was so loud there.
00:03:45.000 Yeah, it's the same one because it's amazing.
00:03:47.000 Best hearing. 0.99
00:03:48.000 He got so much crap for that. 0.99
00:03:50.000 And I was always his defender. 0.99
00:03:52.000 I said, you should wear earplugs at games.
00:03:55.000 You don't need to get hearing damage to prove you're a real I have to admit something live right now.
00:04:02.000 This is going to be, this is going to shock Danny, really.
00:04:06.000 Danny, I never wore that sweatshirt in front of Charlie.
00:04:09.000 No, how could you?
00:04:11.000 Make you feel.
00:04:12.000 Ah, betrayal.
00:04:13.000 That is a betrayal.
00:04:14.000 That's treacherous.
00:04:14.000 You have to wear a lot of stuff.
00:04:15.000 You have to wear that.
00:04:17.000 I told Charlie about it, and then he never wore it.
00:04:19.000 You have to wear it on the show sometime now, Mikey.
00:04:21.000 That's what you have to do.
00:04:22.000 I'll wear mine into the office now. 0.98
00:04:24.000 No, I would never wear that trash.
00:04:26.000 But let me say this: I have a picture of Mikey wearing it. 0.95
00:04:28.000 Ohio State.
00:04:29.000 It's very likely that Ohio State and Oregon will play again.
00:04:34.000 And so the question is: Danny, who will your allegiance be to?
00:04:38.000 Charlie's favorite team or this trashy team, Ohio State?
00:04:44.000 You know, I don't crisscross.
00:04:47.000 So I'm still rooting for the Buckeyes.
00:04:50.000 But if Ohio State were to lose, I would not be upset about it.
00:04:53.000 Do you have anything fun, Mikey, you want to share?
00:04:55.000 Well, we were just reminiscing, Blake, from our Asia trip about how funny of a tourist Charlie was.
00:05:04.000 We're walking through the streets of Tokyo, and instead of like traditionally wanting to take pictures in front of beautiful Japanese architecture or whatever it is, whatever the biggest tourist traps are, Charlie saw an outback steakhouse, and he was like, Blake, Mikey, it's an outback steakhouse in Tokyo.
00:05:23.000 We need to take a picture.
00:05:24.000 And he literally gone there, it would have been the best outback steakhouse in the world, I'm sure.
00:05:24.000 And he did.
00:05:30.000 Charlie, he was so excited to go to Asia.
00:05:33.000 Daisy is sending us his messages from March of this year, FYI in September.
00:05:38.000 I'm taking two days off to go to South Korea.
00:05:41.000 I'll do a podcast from there, just FYI.
00:05:44.000 I really want to speak in Asia.
00:05:45.000 I'm so excited.
00:05:46.000 And he was so excited.
00:05:49.000 He was so excited when he saw an outback steakhouse, insisted on immediately taking a photo in front of it.
00:05:55.000 And we have that photo.
00:05:57.000 That is the Japan Outback. 0.99
00:05:59.000 I'm sure it's the tastiest outback you've ever been to.
00:06:03.000 I kind of want to go there now.
00:06:05.000 I know.
00:06:06.000 Japanese food is good, but Japanese takes on foreign, American, just different country foods.
00:06:13.000 It's really interesting and incredible, and I can highly recommend it.
00:06:18.000 But we're going to get stories.
00:06:19.000 Let's be real.
00:06:21.000 Charlie would not have stopped to eat food.
00:06:23.000 We were walking so fast, and he wanted to see the entire city.
00:06:26.000 Oh, yeah, no.
00:06:27.000 He was a really energetic guy.
00:06:28.000 He just had us drop us at a south end of Shinjuku, I believe, was the neighborhood we were in.
00:06:33.000 No, Shibuya.
00:06:34.000 We stopped in Shibuya and we walked north towards the Major Shrine.
00:06:37.000 We went to Don Quixote.
00:06:39.000 He crammed a lot into it.
00:06:40.000 We only really spent two and a half hours walking across the city, but he managed to make a lot of it as he made a lot of all his time in life.
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00:08:00.000 Danny, you had another very funny story, and it made it made me raise an eyebrow before the show started.
00:08:04.000 You're going to have to explain this one.
00:08:06.000 Yeah, so okay, let's preface with: there's not a lot that can catch Charlie off guard, but uh, I think Mikey and I were able to achieve that.
00:08:15.000 So, earlier this year, we were in Maine, and Charlie's on like this nice hike with Erica.
00:08:19.000 And so, while he's doing that, Mikey and I are paddleboarding in the ocean, and Mikey tackled me off of my paddleboard into this like many times, by the way, yeah, into this big thing of seaweed.
00:08:33.000 And so, we both get out, and then we're like paddleboarding away, and we're like, our feet are hurting.
00:08:38.000 It turns out we both got stung by jellyfish, whoa, and so we get back to the house, and my foot is like killing me, so I'm running up and down this driveway, it burned, so I'm running up and down this driveway, still in my swimsuit, shirtless.
00:08:52.000 Charlie pulls up in the car from the hike, sees me just running shirtless down the driveway, and he's like, What the heck is going on?
00:09:00.000 We explain that I just got like stung by a jellyfish, and Erica pops out of the car, and her first thing is like, Charlie, you've been drinking so much water, go pee on him.
00:09:10.000 And I was like, What is happening?
00:09:13.000 And so that did not happen.
00:09:15.000 That did not happen.
00:09:16.000 I said, I would rather lose my foot, and Charlie is like, Yeah, that's not happening, Erica.
00:09:21.000 That's never happening.
00:09:22.000 I was like, Okay, wait, you're leaving out a part of the story, Danny.
00:09:26.000 You're leaving out a part of the story where Betty comes out with a bottle of vinegar. 0.98
00:09:32.000 She goes, This will make you feel better.
00:09:34.000 And Elizabeth pours it on you, and Danny screamed at the top of his lungs.
00:09:40.000 Okay, I was like, Like a little girl.
00:09:43.000 They call that an Ohio State fight song.
00:09:45.000 No, I have snapped my ankle in half, like broken stuff.
00:09:48.000 That pain of the white vinegar on the jellyfish sting was so much worse.
00:09:53.000 So then immediately after that, that's when I started running up and down the driveway because the pain was so bad.
00:10:00.000 Yeah, might have been better if he'd been screaming.
00:10:04.000 That would have been a lifelong through the wall, creepy bragging rights, I suppose.
00:10:09.000 That is that's a really funny one.
00:10:12.000 Mikey, do you have any other ones that you want to share before we start getting into the members of the team?
00:10:16.000 Yeah, the other thing is, Charlie was just notoriously generous.
00:10:20.000 It was something that a lot of people just didn't know behind the scenes.
00:10:23.000 And Charlie's philosophy in giving is that he didn't like telling people about how he gave because he felt like it stole the blessing of it.
00:10:32.000 So, all of us, Blake, Danny, myself, churches in this community have so many stories of Charlie's epic and amazing generosity.
00:10:44.000 And we can all just kind of think of that.
00:10:46.000 But I just want the world to know how generous he really was, especially this time of year.
00:10:52.000 He would see something and he'd want it fixed, and he would go above and beyond to show that generosity to so many different people, especially at Christmas time, to random groups too, that they're like, Is this the Charlie Kirk donating to us?
00:11:05.000 And it was oftentimes that was the case.
00:11:07.000 So he was just epically generous.
00:11:10.000 And I think both you guys can agree with that.
00:11:12.000 Yeah.
00:11:13.000 I mean, I remember he asked what I was doing for my birthday this year, which is late August.
00:11:19.000 So this is just before the trip.
00:11:21.000 And I'm not a big birthday guy.
00:11:24.000 So I was like, I don't have much of a plan.
00:11:27.000 And he just said, all right, Danny, you and was it Nate?
00:11:31.000 It was you and Nate.
00:11:32.000 He's like, you and Nate, just let's go to this restaurant in Scottsdale and just have a fun time with Blake and I'll pay for it.
00:11:39.000 And he did.
00:11:40.000 And that was a really fun memory of mine from this year.
00:11:43.000 Just not asked for, not sought after.
00:11:46.000 And he just did it because he was that kind of guy and an amazing person.
00:11:52.000 Speaking of Nate, we want to start getting into these stories.
00:11:56.000 We asked all of our team members, some of them who can't be here or they're working behind the cameras, but we wanted to get their stories.
00:12:02.000 And so Nate, he shared a core memory for me with Charlie was going on my first trip with him.
00:12:08.000 I was super nervous.
00:12:10.000 I didn't want to mess anything up.
00:12:12.000 I ordered food for us in the team, and Charlie said, Nate, I hope this food you picked is good.
00:12:18.000 We sat down.
00:12:20.000 He told me to sit across from him because he wanted to get me to know me personally.
00:12:24.000 He asked about my background, my family, my faith, and of course, sports.
00:12:31.000 And this just showed me the type of guy Charlie was.
00:12:34.000 And I can back that up.
00:12:35.000 Charlie, he would really want to digest what your background was.
00:12:39.000 So if only so he could tease you about it.
00:12:41.000 So he was always bringing up that.
00:12:44.000 Oh, yeah, Blake, you went to Dartmouth.
00:12:46.000 I never talk about that, but he would always bring it up.
00:12:48.000 And he would bring up the Dakotas, stuff like that.
00:12:52.000 And I know that's how I think, that's how you got your job with Charlie, just talking with him because you were driving him to the airport, right?
00:12:58.000 Yeah, yeah, literally.
00:12:59.000 I was driving him to the airport.
00:13:01.000 I was graduating senior from high school.
00:13:03.000 I was going to college.
00:13:05.000 Him and his then girlfriend, Erica, at the time.
00:13:08.000 And the entire time he was just asking me questions about myself.
00:13:11.000 And that was Charlie.
00:13:12.000 He wanted to know.
00:13:14.000 He genuinely wanted to know who you were and your story.
00:13:18.000 And it was, I don't know what his criteria was, but he would sometimes be impressed.
00:13:24.000 Sometimes he would just, you know, move on.
00:13:27.000 But I guess I impressed him somehow because afterwards he was like, okay, how about you don't go to college and come work for me?
00:13:33.000 But I actually, to Nate's point about this story, I remember that trip because oftentimes you think it's just a story, but to Charlie Lee, it was so much more.
00:13:43.000 And so as he was asking Nate all these questions, he was texting me and he was like, wow, Nate's an awesome guy.
00:13:49.000 You know, he comes from a great family.
00:13:51.000 And I was like getting the updates from the story of what he was impressed with in real time.
00:13:56.000 And he wanted to not just be impressed by you, but wanted to share how impressive you were with the world and who you came in contact with.
00:14:05.000 To what you brought up, Blake.
00:14:07.000 You know, you never even talked about how you went to Dartmouth, but Charlie would oftentimes tell a lot of people that you went to Dartmouth.
00:14:15.000 He would do that.
00:14:16.000 He took a lot of pride in his team.
00:14:18.000 He took, just, he loved us and we loved him.
00:14:23.000 We have a clip.
00:14:24.000 This was sent to us by Catherine.
00:14:26.000 I think we can get it in before the break.
00:14:28.000 Let's play clip 181.
00:14:30.000 Getting that one.
00:14:31.000 Because he's just the perfect width.
00:14:33.000 Not too fat, not too skinny.
00:14:38.000 You like that tree?
00:14:39.000 Yes, it's the best one remaining.
00:14:43.000 But we got the right one.
00:14:44.000 This one's perfect.
00:14:45.000 All right, we're done.
00:14:46.000 These little things.
00:14:49.000 No.
00:14:50.000 Are you the tree expert?
00:14:52.000 Not the tree expert.
00:14:54.000 After many decades of living in the Midwest, I know a good tree.
00:14:59.000 It's the best one they had remaining.
00:15:02.000 That was Charlie hunting for Christmas trees.
00:15:04.000 You can tell that so, Charlie.
00:15:05.000 He's like, I need to pick one.
00:15:06.000 I picked it out.
00:15:07.000 I'm an expert.
00:15:08.000 Got the right one.
00:15:09.000 So we've got some of our team members.
00:15:11.000 I really wanted to share these ones because these are some of the guys that you don't, you very rarely see except in the background of some tabling events and so on.
00:15:19.000 The studio crew.
00:15:20.000 I wanted them to come on camera and they told me that emphatically they could not do this.
00:15:24.000 So let's dive into it.
00:15:25.000 We've got Brian.
00:15:27.000 He is one of the vast Farnsworth clan that we have several members on this show.
00:15:33.000 Well, they're pretty vast.
00:15:34.000 But Brian on the team and he says, Charlie basically never stopped working, even in the car or on the plane.
00:15:41.000 He was constantly on phone calls, reviewing strategy, reading, etc.
00:15:46.000 But one night we had a red eye flight back to Phoenix, and it was one of those rare times it felt like all the work was done.
00:15:55.000 I saw Charlie pull out his iPad and he put on a movie.
00:15:59.000 Guess what the movie is, Danny?
00:16:01.000 Well, I know the story.
00:16:02.000 I was there, but you can ask Mikey.
00:16:04.000 Mikey, if you don't remember, can you guess what movie Charlie would have watched on his iPad?
00:16:10.000 I was with him when he watched Harry Potter on his iPad.
00:16:14.000 Oh, all right.
00:16:14.000 That's what it was.
00:16:15.000 It was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on his iPad.
00:16:18.000 Yeah.
00:16:19.000 And Brian adds, Charlie was such an innocent soul, and he seldom had a moment to relax.
00:16:25.000 I love that he picked Harry Potter of all things. 0.97
00:16:28.000 Thinking on it, he probably thought it was kind of dumb or silly. 0.90
00:16:31.000 I don't know if he actually read Harry Potter or not. 0.97
00:16:34.000 Well, hold on.
00:16:36.000 Hold on here.
00:16:37.000 Okay.
00:16:38.000 Brian makes it sound like Charlie watched movies on his iPad often.
00:16:42.000 In all my time ever traveling, Charlie, I only saw that happen one time, and that was literally the one time.
00:16:48.000 And that's kind of what he's saying.
00:16:49.000 I think that was the only time.
00:16:50.000 The only movies, we actually had a discussion on what movies Charlie liked.
00:16:53.000 And he really liked zero irony action movies.
00:16:57.000 I think that really gets at Charlie's character.
00:17:00.000 Like some people, they really love, oh, deep moral complexities and shades of gray.
00:17:06.000 And Charlie loves action movies.
00:17:08.000 He loved The Equalizer, I believe.
00:17:10.000 And he would just describe it.
00:17:11.000 Yeah, he loves Equalizer.
00:17:12.000 He's this good guy.
00:17:13.000 He's a former Special Forces guy.
00:17:14.000 And he just finds people who are in trouble and he saves the day for them.
00:17:19.000 And you just know that's how Charlie saw himself for America, for conservatism.
00:17:24.000 And I just, I love that straightforward earnestness about it.
00:17:28.000 It gets at a lot of what made him so great.
00:17:31.000 We have a story from Kylie, another of our studio crew.
00:17:35.000 If these don't have to be Christmas related, my favorite memory is when he thought that Michael made South Park artwork of him.
00:17:44.000 When Charlie got on South Park, there we have it.
00:17:47.000 Michael made this, and Charlie just thought it was AI.
00:17:52.000 But it wasn't it was made by our own team member and it was really good.
00:17:55.000 I think that even came out before the episode was made.
00:17:59.000 It was the episode was announced, but we hadn't seen it and they made that.
00:18:03.000 That was really good.
00:18:04.000 Also, Kylie says she loved every time.
00:18:06.000 It was so much that he printed it out.
00:18:08.000 Yes, he did.
00:18:08.000 He printed it out and put him behind the phone board behind it.
00:18:11.000 Yes, he did.
00:18:12.000 Yes, he did.
00:18:13.000 And Kylie also says she loved every time Charlie said, let's see if I can get it right here.
00:18:19.000 Racist.
00:18:21.000 Did I get it right? 0.99
00:18:22.000 Racist.
00:18:23.000 Yeah, something like that. 0.92
00:18:24.000 Got to roll the R a little more, Mikey. 0.98
00:18:27.000 Racist. 0.74
00:18:28.000 Yeah, that's better. 0.94
00:18:29.000 That's better.
00:18:30.000 Yeah, I don't think anybody can do it as good as he did.
00:18:32.000 Can you do it, Danny? 0.98
00:18:34.000 Racist. 0.99
00:18:35.000 Oh, that's close enough. 0.98
00:18:36.000 That's close enough.
00:18:37.000 Not good enough.
00:18:38.000 And yeah, Michael chimes in.
00:18:39.000 My favorite is when he reacted to my artwork of the South Park episode.
00:18:44.000 And also, he would guess the music that he was picking to play on the show.
00:18:47.000 Michael picks a lot of our intro and outro songs.
00:18:51.000 He loved playing American Girl by Tom Petty, and he also loved Joker and the Thief by Wolf Mother, which I can't remember how that sounds.
00:18:58.000 So you should...
00:18:59.000 Well, I can't ask that for that outro.
00:19:00.000 We're doing Christmas music today.
00:19:02.000 I don't know how to do it.
00:19:02.000 Play it for me later, Michael.
00:19:03.000 I'll want to hear that to remember what it was.
00:19:07.000 Man, the South Park episode is definitely one of my enduring memories for Charlie.
00:19:12.000 He was so excited to get on it.
00:19:13.000 And it had to be such a trip that he grew up watching this show and seeing episodes of it.
00:19:19.000 And it lasts long enough.
00:19:20.000 You never imagine, oh, I might be in one of those episodes.
00:19:24.000 Well, Mikey and I were actually with him when he found out that he was going to be on South Park because they didn't say anything.
00:19:30.000 They just released that trailer, I believe, for that episode he was on.
00:19:35.000 So it was going viral on Twitter.
00:19:37.000 And he came to Mikey and I was like, just asking all these questions.
00:19:40.000 Like, how big of a deal is this?
00:19:42.000 Is this good for the culture war type stuff?
00:19:43.000 Like, this is pretty sweet.
00:19:44.000 Yeah, it's amazing.
00:19:45.000 Yeah.
00:19:46.000 Yes, it's big.
00:19:46.000 It's big, Charlie.
00:19:47.000 It's big.
00:19:48.000 And then we're in Colorado Springs when it came out, and he had this meeting with the Air Force Academy team because he sat on the board there.
00:19:58.000 And he was like, I don't want to watch it.
00:20:00.000 Just tell me how it is.
00:20:01.000 And then he comes out.
00:20:02.000 I was like, it was hilarious.
00:20:03.000 It was great.
00:20:04.000 And I was showing him clips.
00:20:05.000 And he's like, oh, I wish I watched it live.
00:20:07.000 I was like, you said you didn't want to.
00:20:10.000 But yeah, it was.
00:20:11.000 It was incredible.
00:20:12.000 We have 30 seconds.
00:20:13.000 Andrew couldn't join us right now, but he said, my favorite memory of Charlie is the composite of all the hard-fought wins.
00:20:19.000 We faced a ton of setback backs over the years.
00:20:21.000 It made the wins more meaningful.
00:20:23.000 And Charlie would always, without fail, say something along the lines of, God is good.
00:20:27.000 He has his hand on this.
00:20:28.000 Stay humble.
00:20:29.000 Stay close to Jesus.
00:20:30.000 Let's work harder.
00:20:33.000 That was always the chief dimension of Charlie.
00:20:35.000 It's why he was such a great man.
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00:21:40.000 We have rotated in Emma, Emma Kate, and Daisy.
00:21:45.000 Hey.
00:21:46.000 You've seen them on here from time to time.
00:21:48.000 Daisy loves to ask me questions about things, and occasionally I ask her questions about things.
00:21:54.000 My questions for Blake are much more important world topics.
00:21:57.000 They are.
00:21:57.000 They are.
00:21:58.000 That's because she's a more serious person than I am.
00:22:00.000 She really wants to understand the world, and she's great at that.
00:22:03.000 Exactly.
00:22:03.000 I don't think anyone's described me as more serious than you.
00:22:06.000 So you worked with Charlie quite long time, right?
00:22:10.000 Yeah, yeah, since December of 2021.
00:22:14.000 All right.
00:22:14.000 Yeah.
00:22:15.000 Longer than me, for sure.
00:22:17.000 And what's your favorite Charlie story?
00:22:19.000 I have so many, but also what a lot of us were talking about in our green room and stuff before we started was that so many of our memories are like just us being with Charlie every day.
00:22:31.000 Like it's not like we have huge, fun, amazing memories we can look back on, but it's also so fun to just be like, oh, I remember when he would walk in wearing his compression socks every day.
00:22:41.000 Like that's all so funny.
00:22:43.000 Ready sports fans?
00:22:44.000 Yes, yeah.
00:22:45.000 All the Cubs games on the TV.
00:22:47.000 So so many of it is so fun.
00:22:50.000 But when we were talking about some of our favorite memories, I know this is shared by everyone as a hallmark Charlie memory.
00:22:57.000 I know Dallin said that this one was one of his favorites too.
00:23:01.000 When we've all, we've spoken about Rio several times.
00:23:04.000 We love him.
00:23:05.000 He has become a friend of the show, someone that Charlie met that flew all the way from Asia to come to AmericaFest.
00:23:13.000 And Charlie met him in AmericaFest.
00:23:16.000 They got along super well.
00:23:18.000 He loved him.
00:23:19.000 And he was like, what are you doing for Christmas?
00:23:20.000 And Rio's like, oh, I don't know.
00:23:22.000 I don't really have any plans.
00:23:23.000 I'm in America.
00:23:24.000 And Charlie's like, come over.
00:23:25.000 Come spend Christmas with me.
00:23:27.000 And just had Christmas with their family.
00:23:30.000 And then was just at our office every day just hung out.
00:23:32.000 That was awesome.
00:23:33.000 And then he showed us around Japan.
00:23:35.000 He was such a great guy.
00:23:36.000 It ended up being such a full circle moment for everyone, but we, that was something that we talk about quite often.
00:23:42.000 Yeah, we love Rio.
00:23:44.000 That relationship was just so like, so hallmark, Charlie, of just like really taking somebody in and like making them part of the team and part of the family just because like Charlie was really good at seeing like good people and picking them out.
00:23:57.000 And Rio's a prime example of that.
00:23:59.000 And so good at remembering names.
00:24:02.000 Like, I mean, the amount of conferences, we just finished Amphest, and there are people whose names I know just because Charlie would remember emailing with them or meeting them at a meeting great that are just, he will never forget your name.
00:24:13.000 One of my favorite things about Charlie was when I was going through tabling footage, sometimes he would get like repeat people coming to the mic and he would remember exactly what they said, exactly what school they were at.
00:24:25.000 And he would say, oh, this is what you asked me last time.
00:24:27.000 And there was one time this kid was messing with him and was like, no, that wasn't me.
00:24:30.000 I don't know what you're talking about.
00:24:32.000 And then at the end of the interaction, the kid was like, yeah, it was me.
00:24:35.000 You were totally right.
00:24:36.000 I don't know how you remembered that.
00:24:40.000 That's amazing talent.
00:24:41.000 Astonishing.
00:24:42.000 Yes.
00:24:44.000 Man, we have Braden, another member of our team.
00:24:46.000 He was very notably, he was a guy we sent on assignment to D.C.
00:24:50.000 He helped with the transition.
00:24:53.000 And he says, My favorite memory is from when I was working in DC.
00:24:57.000 We had a particularly hectic day, a lot of those in D.C., and all of a sudden, Charlie comes speedwalking in from around the corner with a massive smile on his face, which immediately raised the morale of the entire office.
00:25:09.000 He always made the effort to see his people whenever he made the trip to DC, and it never failed to raise everyone's spirits.
00:25:15.000 We've heard about that from people who are in the White House too, like him whizzing around the West Wing, and he just always had that energy, that presence, that let's go, let's go.
00:25:24.000 Which I even feel like it says a lot for those of us that were with him every day.
00:25:28.000 Like, there was not a day that Charlie came in that made the day worse.
00:25:31.000 Like, every morning, he was excited to do this show and to get to work.
00:25:36.000 Like, there was never, there was, you know, you see some people sometimes.
00:25:40.000 There was never, oh no, when Charlie gets here, it's going to be bad.
00:25:43.000 Yeah.
00:25:44.000 Always excited to work, which made everyone else excited.
00:25:47.000 Yeah, well, just to brag on Braden and Charlie, I mean, it was New Year's Eve last year that we flew straight to Palm Beach, missed the New Year's.
00:25:58.000 We spent New Year's Day our hotel room at the Hilton Palm Beach, just kind of watching the ball drop on the TV.
00:26:04.000 But Charlie wanted to make sure the transition went well.
00:26:07.000 And so part of the reason Braden was in the White House is he was kind of like Charlie's guy in there, helping oversee a lot of stuff.
00:26:14.000 And actually, to Brayden's credit, like he went through a lot of hardship in the White House.
00:26:19.000 And that story is really awesome because Charlie would always go to DC and he'd be seen all the time.
00:26:25.000 And I remember a couple of weeks ago, we were meeting with Linda McMahon and she shared that story with Erica.
00:26:30.000 She was like, you know, it was crazy because at first we were like, why is Charlie here?
00:26:34.000 And then we started to say to ourselves, man, we really like it that Charlie's around here.
00:26:39.000 And he was like the one outside of the administration that was just always seen walking around the halls, the West Wing, the one helping with their transition.
00:26:46.000 He played such a pivotal role in that.
00:26:48.000 And yet he didn't even have a seat in the administration.
00:26:51.000 He just kind of helped select everybody in there.
00:26:54.000 And he was just, he was consistent and present, both in and out of the White House.
00:26:59.000 Yeah.
00:26:59.000 And we've heard from so many people who they've expressed thanks to me, to Andrew, where, oh, I'm here because Charlie advocated for me so hard and I'd never met him before.
00:27:08.000 He was just so impressed.
00:27:09.000 He was that endless motor, that endless energy.
00:27:12.000 It's such a positive feeling.
00:27:13.000 It's why he lit up so many people's lives.
00:27:16.000 I also, just really quickly on that note, Mike, you want to say that I think we all remember when y'all picked up and we're like, we're going, we're going to go help.
00:27:23.000 And then the rest of us were like, okay, but we're still going to do the show every day, right?
00:27:27.000 And we still made it work, but it was a very complicated couple of months.
00:27:31.000 Very, very complicated.
00:27:33.000 It was supposed to be a week.
00:27:34.000 It just kept getting longer and longer.
00:27:37.000 I remember us wondering what it ended up being.
00:27:38.000 I remember us wondering, is Charlie ever coming back?
00:27:41.000 And we were a little worried about it for a while.
00:27:44.000 So do we all have to move there or what's the plan?
00:27:48.000 It was very funny.
00:27:49.000 We have Catherine sent in a story.
00:27:51.000 She says her favorite story was she was in Sedona and Charlie was in full dad mode watching college football with his parents.
00:27:58.000 I don't know what that looks like, but I can kind of see how so many people's memories are Charlie in college football.
00:28:07.000 It is no matter what.
00:28:10.000 A little different.
00:28:10.000 I remember when the U.S. was in the World Cup and we were doing the show.
00:28:15.000 I don't even think I lived here yet.
00:28:16.000 I think I only remember this via Telegram, but Charlie was super distracted from the show because he had his iPad and was just watching the World Cup games that America was in in the middle of the show.
00:28:26.000 Yes, I was just like, he'd do a five-second question to the guest and then just look at it.
00:28:31.000 With me, with the Olympics, with March Madness, too.
00:28:34.000 We would have an iPad set up there.
00:28:36.000 I remember for March Madness, he wanted all of his brackets printed out.
00:28:38.000 So it would look like he's having notes for the show.
00:28:41.000 They're just his March Madness brackets.
00:28:42.000 He's like filling them out as who got marked off, how on track he is.
00:28:47.000 He made a couple different brackets every year.
00:28:50.000 But he balanced it all somehow.
00:28:52.000 We're starting his show every day.
00:28:54.000 Yeah.
00:28:54.000 Yeah.
00:28:55.000 He was just such a good dad, too.
00:28:56.000 Like, Catherine talks about him in dad mode.
00:28:59.000 Like, Blake, do you remember when we were in Tokyo and we went into Don Quixote?
00:29:03.000 Yeah, and he just wanted to get all the stuff.
00:29:05.000 He's got a lot of stuff for his kids.
00:29:06.000 Yeah.
00:29:06.000 And he wanted that.
00:29:08.000 It was so much.
00:29:09.000 Yes.
00:29:10.000 Oh, it was a ton.
00:29:10.000 He got a ton of stuff.
00:29:12.000 I remember he wanted that Curious George clock.
00:29:15.000 And I feel like maybe we should send Rio off to find that clock.
00:29:18.000 I think that would be a fun get if we can track it down.
00:29:22.000 I, Mikey, I really wanted to.
00:29:24.000 I don't remember who all was around then, but when Charlie and Erica had their first child and before then, Charlie was, he's always been excited to work, always been very focused on work.
00:29:38.000 But it was very much work, And then she was born and Mikey and I were like, okay, so are we still going to work all the time?
00:29:47.000 Or what's the deal?
00:29:48.000 And he, like, when he's working, he's working as soon as he saw his kids instantly would get melted.
00:29:56.000 And it's just like, he became so full-on dad mode as soon as she was born.
00:30:03.000 It was so amazing to watch.
00:30:04.000 Yeah.
00:30:05.000 Speaking of, we got, so Ryan and Riley on our team.
00:30:09.000 They are married.
00:30:10.000 They had a baby about a year ago.
00:30:12.000 And their favorite memory, I got this from Riley.
00:30:14.000 She says, she remembers Charlie non-stop texting Ryan for anything we needed while in the hospital when I was giving birth and how excited he was that our baby ended up being born on his birthday.
00:30:26.000 I forgot about that.
00:30:27.000 He sent us chargers, clothes, and food and instantly connected us with a very maha pediatrician.
00:30:34.000 Yeah, that is so Charlie.
00:30:37.000 That's great.
00:30:38.000 Yeah.
00:30:38.000 And I know he was very excited for your baby, Daisy.
00:30:43.000 And thinking about the favorite memories too, Mikey, I don't know if you remember this, but when I FaceTimed him and Erica and you were all together when we found out it was a girl and Charlie had said from day one that he thought it was a girl.
00:30:56.000 Like he was so certain.
00:30:58.000 And his only reaction on the phone, he goes, I already knew it.
00:31:03.000 Like we had the cake, like the baby.
00:31:05.000 He was like, yeah, we didn't have to do it.
00:31:07.000 What did he announce it?
00:31:08.000 I already said it.
00:31:09.000 I already announced it.
00:31:10.000 No, he was.
00:31:11.000 Daisy, tell them what he wanted to name, what he wanted you to name your daughter.
00:31:16.000 Charlie, multiple, we had this conversation multiple times.
00:31:19.000 And he was like, I know that it's weird, but I do think you should consider naming her Daisy.
00:31:24.000 And I was like, Charlie, this is already my name.
00:31:26.000 Like, I can't just reuse my own name.
00:31:29.000 It's already being used.
00:31:30.000 He was like, I know it's a little, it's a little different, but it's just such a good name that I think someone else should use it again.
00:31:37.000 Like, great.
00:31:38.000 Maybe I'll consider that for the next one.
00:31:40.000 But her name was. 0.98
00:31:42.000 Look at the reaction photo.
00:31:44.000 Look at the reaction photo.
00:31:46.000 It was so funny telling them.
00:31:49.000 Erica.
00:31:50.000 Erica had asked me that morning if I was pregnant.
00:31:53.000 And I was like, no, no, no.
00:31:55.000 Because I wanted to tell them together.
00:31:56.000 I also knew that as soon as I told one of them, both of them were going to, as soon as I told their kids, then the whole office was going to.
00:32:03.000 I missed it.
00:32:04.000 I was out and I walk in and I just got Daisy walks up.
00:32:06.000 She's like, I'm pregnant, by the way.
00:32:08.000 Well, even the other day, speaking of Charlie caring so much about what her name was, Charlie's kids were with us the other day and his daughter suggested a new name that I haven't considered yet, but she really wants me to name my daughter Grinch.
00:32:22.000 So that is now on the table.
00:32:23.000 Grinch.
00:32:24.000 Oh, okay.
00:32:25.000 Yeah, she was really inspired by the content.
00:32:27.000 A lot of people take names from movies.
00:32:29.000 Yeah, Grinch wasn't on my list of options, but now I'm considering contender.
00:32:33.000 Yeah.
00:32:34.000 Grinch Phelps.
00:32:36.000 Yeah, it doesn't flow, but I like that.
00:32:39.000 I would do anything to make her happy at this point.
00:32:41.000 So maybe I'll consider.
00:32:43.000 Oh, man.
00:32:44.000 Anything else from you, Emma Kate?
00:32:46.000 When I was thinking about one of my favorite Charlie stories was before he went to Washington State University this spring, he had only previously been there once.
00:32:55.000 It's where I'm from, really close to that area.
00:32:58.000 And he'd been there once and he went in January, where if you know anything about Eastern Washington, it's ugly.
00:33:03.000 It's horrible in January.
00:33:04.000 And so Charlie just thought that's what all of Eastern Washington is like.
00:33:08.000 So he said on air, he was like, it's such a barren land.
00:33:12.000 I don't like it up there.
00:33:13.000 I'm messaging him defending my homeland in the chat.
00:33:17.000 And then he went there and it was spring.
00:33:19.000 So it was wonderful and beautiful.
00:33:21.000 And he came back that next Monday and he was like, I have to say sorry to Emma Kate.
00:33:25.000 It was beautiful.
00:33:26.000 I was wrong.
00:33:27.000 And it was just really funny that he corrected it on air.
00:33:30.000 And anytime anyone mentioned Eastern Washington from that point on, Emma Kate's homeland, the land of Emma.
00:33:36.000 That's where Emma Kate comes from.
00:33:38.000 Emma Kate's homeland.
00:33:39.000 I wanted to make sure we got this.
00:33:41.000 Noah is a very new member of our team.
00:33:42.000 He truthfully was here just a few days before what happened, but he said he wanted to mention that he had a nice clip that went up just in that first time he was here.
00:33:51.000 And he mentioned that Charlie went out of his way to give him a pat on the back for that to say, good job, Noah.
00:33:57.000 Welcome to the team.
00:33:58.000 And call me Charlie.
00:34:00.000 Yeah.
00:34:01.000 That's what he said.
00:34:01.000 Call me Charlie.
00:34:02.000 Call him Charlie.
00:34:03.000 And that's who he is to all of us.
00:34:05.000 He's Charlie.
00:34:08.000 This is Lane Schoenberger, Chief Investment Officer and Founding Partner of YReFi.
00:34:13.000 It has been an honor and a privilege to partner with Turning Point and for Charlie to endorse us.
00:34:18.000 His endorsement means the world to us, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Turning Point for years to come.
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00:35:17.000 Did you get anything other else from Dallin before we went in?
00:35:20.000 Or is he just, he's a taciturn one down here?
00:35:22.000 He just has so many stories of like being on campus with Charlie, especially in the early days.
00:35:28.000 There are a multitude of stories I've heard of him being on campus with Charlie and just spending so much time with him in the first days of tabling that I think those are just some really unique stories that not the rest of us have.
00:35:43.000 Like it just really being part of like the early building of Charlie became when there'd be more people on the team than who actually came up to ask questions.
00:35:53.000 It's so funny.
00:35:54.000 That's the real OG Charlie team.
00:35:57.000 That's an important thing that you just you both you guys just said, right?
00:36:00.000 So Charlie was a super loyal person, but it was kind of a two-way street for him.
00:36:06.000 And so a lot of the team that's around him has been there for a really long time.
00:36:10.000 And Dallin's one of those.
00:36:11.000 Back when, like what Blake said, there was literally more people working the table than there were coming up to the table.
00:36:18.000 Charlie used to beg, beg for students to come up and debate him way back in the day.
00:36:23.000 And then towards the end, we didn't even have space to fit all these students.
00:36:29.000 And through the entire process, people like Dallin, the Farnsworths, all of us, were just there to really...
00:36:36.000 It speaks to him that there were so many people who were there for so long, who were started when there really was no necessarily proof that it would go become as big as it did, but they stuck around.
00:36:47.000 We have one last member of our team whose story we want to tell.
00:36:49.000 It's Heidi, and we picked her last for a reason.
00:36:52.000 She says, one of my favorite memories is when he saw the Rush Was Right shirt for the first time.
00:36:59.000 Unfortunately, you can't get that now.
00:37:00.000 It's a sold-out one, but we'll try and bring it back.
00:37:03.000 Maybe we will.
00:37:04.000 Heidi might have a heart attack hearing me say that.
00:37:05.000 I love that.
00:37:06.000 Charlie was a huge Rush Limbaugh fan.
00:37:08.000 He modeled his whole on-air persona after Rush.
00:37:10.000 He thought he was the best there ever was.
00:37:13.000 Heidi says she was shocked.
00:37:14.000 He loved it so much.
00:37:15.000 She shouldn't have been.
00:37:16.000 So we're going to close this show.
00:37:18.000 We're going to revisit one of Charlie's favorite Rush clips, one of the best clips Rush ever did.
00:37:23.000 It's his final Christmas message to his viewers.
00:37:26.000 Reminds me how much I love all of you.
00:37:28.000 How much I so appreciate everything you've meant to me and my family.
00:37:35.000 You don't have any idea.
00:37:37.000 I know so many people think this program has changed their lives for the better.
00:37:42.000 You have no idea what you all have meant to me and my family.
00:37:48.000 The day is going to come, folks, where I'm not going to be able to do this.
00:37:51.000 I don't know when that is.
00:37:56.000 I want to be able to do it for as long as I want to do it.
00:37:59.000 I want to.
00:38:03.000 But the day will come where I'm not going to be able to.
00:38:07.000 And I want you to understand that even when the day comes, I'd like to be here.
00:38:17.000 Rush Limbaugh loved Christmas.
00:38:20.000 He loved Christmas.
00:38:22.000 And this Christmas, we always dedicate the last segment that we do live to the great and legendary Rush Limbaugh.
00:38:33.000 And we do that in a way with that clip as the start.
00:38:37.000 And then Rush's favorite Christmas song.
00:38:42.000 As we look back at this last year, time to be grateful, to be filled with gratitude.
00:38:49.000 That was Charlie.
00:38:50.000 Wow.
00:38:51.000 We heard from Rush.
00:38:52.000 We don't know.
00:38:53.000 He didn't know how long he would do it.
00:38:55.000 None of us know how long we'll be here.
00:38:57.000 None of us expected to lose Charlie as soon as we did.
00:39:03.000 But Charlie always wanted to remember Rush, and we will always want everyone to remember Charlie.
00:39:10.000 And all of us will be doing that for the rest of our lives, I expect.
00:39:14.000 It's crazy.
00:39:14.000 Like every year we watch, we have that same clip, the same last segment, and I just didn't expect for it hits very differently this time.
00:39:23.000 But we're going to continue to end the show right before Christmas the way Charlie loved to, the way he would want us to.
00:39:31.000 We're going to remember both great Rush Limbaugh and the immortal Charlie Kirk with their favorite Christmas song, The Carol of the Bells.
00:39:40.000 Merry Christmas to all of you, and we'll see you soon. 0.96
00:42:35.000 gay, gay, gay, I'm all over. 1.00
00:43:30.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com. 0.92