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00:01:46.000And 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.
00:01:59.000So it's not just going to be Mikey, Danny, me.
00:02:02.000We 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.
00:02:11.000Some 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.
00:02:18.000But so Danny, how about we go with you first?
00:04:47.000So I'm still rooting for the Buckeyes.
00:04:50.000But if Ohio State were to lose, I would not be upset about it.
00:04:53.000Do you have anything fun, Mikey, you want to share?
00:04:55.000Well, we were just reminiscing, Blake, from our Asia trip about how funny of a tourist Charlie was.
00:05:04.000We'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.
00:06:40.000We 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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00:08:00.000Danny, you had another very funny story, and it made it made me raise an eyebrow before the show started.
00:08:04.000You're going to have to explain this one.
00:08:06.000Yeah, 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.
00:08:15.000So, earlier this year, we were in Maine, and Charlie's on like this nice hike with Erica.
00:08:19.000And 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.
00:08:33.000And so, we both get out, and then we're like paddleboarding away, and we're like, our feet are hurting.
00:08:38.000It 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.
00:08:52.000Charlie 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?
00:09:00.000We 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.
00:10:12.000Mikey, do you have any other ones that you want to share before we start getting into the members of the team?
00:10:16.000Yeah, the other thing is, Charlie was just notoriously generous.
00:10:20.000It was something that a lot of people just didn't know behind the scenes.
00:10:23.000And 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.
00:10:32.000So, all of us, Blake, Danny, myself, churches in this community have so many stories of Charlie's epic and amazing generosity.
00:10:44.000And we can all just kind of think of that.
00:10:46.000But I just want the world to know how generous he really was, especially this time of year.
00:10:52.000He 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?
00:11:05.000And it was oftentimes that was the case.
00:11:46.000And he just did it because he was that kind of guy and an amazing person.
00:11:52.000Speaking of Nate, we want to start getting into these stories.
00:11:56.000We 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.
00:12:02.000And so Nate, he shared a core memory for me with Charlie was going on my first trip with him.
00:12:44.000Oh, yeah, Blake, you went to Dartmouth.
00:12:46.000I never talk about that, but he would always bring it up.
00:12:48.000And he would bring up the Dakotas, stuff like that.
00:12:52.000And 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?
00:13:14.000He genuinely wanted to know who you were and your story.
00:13:18.000And it was, I don't know what his criteria was, but he would sometimes be impressed.
00:13:24.000Sometimes he would just, you know, move on.
00:13:27.000But 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?
00:13:33.000But 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.
00:13:43.000And so as he was asking Nate all these questions, he was texting me and he was like, wow, Nate's an awesome guy.
00:13:49.000You know, he comes from a great family.
00:13:51.000And I was like getting the updates from the story of what he was impressed with in real time.
00:13:56.000And 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.
00:14:07.000You 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.
00:15:09.000So we've got some of our team members.
00:15:11.000I 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.
00:19:48.000And 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.
00:19:58.000And he was like, I don't want to watch it.
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00:22:17.000And what's your favorite Charlie story?
00:22:19.000I 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.
00:22:31.000Like 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.
00:23:44.000That 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.
00:24:02.000Like, 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.
00:24:13.000One 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.
00:24:25.000And he would say, oh, this is what you asked me last time.
00:24:27.000And there was one time this kid was messing with him and was like, no, that wasn't me.
00:24:30.000I don't know what you're talking about.
00:24:32.000And then at the end of the interaction, the kid was like, yeah, it was me.
00:24:53.000And he says, My favorite memory is from when I was working in DC.
00:24:57.000We 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.
00:25:09.000He always made the effort to see his people whenever he made the trip to DC, and it never failed to raise everyone's spirits.
00:25:15.000We'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.
00:25:24.000Which I even feel like it says a lot for those of us that were with him every day.
00:25:28.000Like, there was not a day that Charlie came in that made the day worse.
00:25:31.000Like, every morning, he was excited to do this show and to get to work.
00:25:36.000Like, there was never, there was, you know, you see some people sometimes.
00:25:40.000There was never, oh no, when Charlie gets here, it's going to be bad.
00:25:44.000Always excited to work, which made everyone else excited.
00:25:47.000Yeah, 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.
00:25:58.000We spent New Year's Day our hotel room at the Hilton Palm Beach, just kind of watching the ball drop on the TV.
00:26:04.000But Charlie wanted to make sure the transition went well.
00:26:07.000And 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.
00:26:14.000And actually, to Brayden's credit, like he went through a lot of hardship in the White House.
00:26:19.000And that story is really awesome because Charlie would always go to DC and he'd be seen all the time.
00:26:25.000And I remember a couple of weeks ago, we were meeting with Linda McMahon and she shared that story with Erica.
00:26:30.000She was like, you know, it was crazy because at first we were like, why is Charlie here?
00:26:34.000And then we started to say to ourselves, man, we really like it that Charlie's around here.
00:26:39.000And 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.
00:26:46.000He played such a pivotal role in that.
00:26:48.000And yet he didn't even have a seat in the administration.
00:26:51.000He just kind of helped select everybody in there.
00:26:54.000And he was just, he was consistent and present, both in and out of the White House.
00:26:59.000And 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.
00:27:13.000It's why he lit up so many people's lives.
00:27:16.000I 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.
00:27:23.000And then the rest of us were like, okay, but we're still going to do the show every day, right?
00:27:27.000And we still made it work, but it was a very complicated couple of months.
00:28:16.000I 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.
00:28:26.000Yes, I was just like, he'd do a five-second question to the guest and then just look at it.
00:28:31.000With me, with the Olympics, with March Madness, too.
00:29:24.000I 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.
00:29:38.000But 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?
00:30:12.000And their favorite memory, I got this from Riley.
00:30:14.000She 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.
00:30:38.000And I know he was very excited for your baby, Daisy.
00:30:43.000And 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.
00:31:55.000Because I wanted to tell them together.
00:31:56.000I 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.
00:32:08.000Well, 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.
00:32:46.000When 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.
00:32:55.000It's where I'm from, really close to that area.
00:32:58.000And he'd been there once and he went in January, where if you know anything about Eastern Washington, it's ugly.
00:33:41.000Noah is a very new member of our team.
00:33:42.000He 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.
00:33:51.000And he mentioned that Charlie went out of his way to give him a pat on the back for that to say, good job, Noah.
00:35:17.000Did you get anything other else from Dallin before we went in?
00:35:20.000Or is he just, he's a taciturn one down here?
00:35:22.000He just has so many stories of like being on campus with Charlie, especially in the early days.
00:35:28.000There 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.
00:35:43.000Like 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.
00:36:11.000Back when, like what Blake said, there was literally more people working the table than there were coming up to the table.
00:36:18.000Charlie used to beg, beg for students to come up and debate him way back in the day.
00:36:23.000And then towards the end, we didn't even have space to fit all these students.
00:36:29.000And through the entire process, people like Dallin, the Farnsworths, all of us, were just there to really...
00:36:36.000It 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.
00:36:47.000We have one last member of our team whose story we want to tell.
00:36:49.000It's Heidi, and we picked her last for a reason.
00:36:52.000She says, one of my favorite memories is when he saw the Rush Was Right shirt for the first time.
00:36:59.000Unfortunately, you can't get that now.
00:37:00.000It's a sold-out one, but we'll try and bring it back.