The Charlie Kirk Show - The Revival He Always Wanted — Charlie Kirk's Memorial

00:00:48.000 Everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk show on the Monday following what truly was one of the most historic events in the history of our country, remembering Charlie Kirk, building a legacy at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

00:01:05.000 I am joined by an amazing cast of friends who were all there, who all witnessed it in person.

00:01:13.000 They need no introduct introduction, but we're gonna do it anyways.

00:01:17.000 Our dear friend Benny Johnson, dear friend of Charlie Kirk.

00:01:20.000 Thank you, Benny.

00:01:21.000 Nick Sorter, independent reporter.

00:01:24.000 He was uh all over.

00:01:25.000 I saw you so many times for such a big venue.

00:01:28.000 I it was amazing.

00:01:30.000 Yeah, I got my acceptance.

00:01:30.000 I re I ran into you.

00:01:32.000 And of course, Blake Neff, uh, who played a huge role, by the way, behind the scenes in yesterday's event and what you saw unfold.

00:01:41.000 So, but Benny, I asked you here because I knew you were gonna have a lot to say, and I think it's very fitting, you know, what we did last week.

00:01:49.000 We had this amazing all-star group of people that came in and honored Charlie by guest hosting the show alongside his team.

00:01:58.000 But I think it's very fitting that you have the Monday after that powerful, powerful memorial to his to his life and legacy.

00:02:06.000 So, Benny, the floor is yours.

00:02:09.000 Tell us what's on your heart.

00:02:10.000 What are you feeling the morning after?

00:02:12.000 Andrew, I'm probably gonna spend the rest of my life processing what I experienced yesterday.

00:02:17.000 I I couldn't sleep, it's like you were buzzing last night.

00:02:20.000 There was so much kinetic energy in that room.

00:02:23.000 It was a revival energy, and helping assist and build Turning Point USA in these events over the last decade or so.

00:02:33.000 The magnificence of the team here.

00:02:36.000 Blake is here, obviously, but Blake is just a representation, you yourself as well, of the architecture that Charlie put forward.

00:02:44.000 There is no group on earth, political or otherwise, that could have pulled off a 100,000-person in-person memorial, including the vast majority of cabinet secretaries, executive offices, governorships, members of Congress, senators, world leaders, richest man on earth, Elon Musk, arguably the most powerful private civilian on earth, Elon Musk, all in attendance yesterday.

00:03:13.000 It is an impossibility for nation states to be able to pull that off.

00:03:17.000 Like small countries in Europe wouldn't be able to do that.

00:03:22.000 With the full force of the with the full force of the Swiss government, they couldn't pull that off.

00:03:27.000 What an I just want to like take a giant step back.

00:03:32.000 And perhaps we have some some imagery that the producers could play of the size of the audience, the scale of the audience.

00:03:40.000 Not only were the rafters filled, not only were was the floor filled, where you don't wouldn't get that normally in an NFL game or an NBA game, right?

00:03:49.000 Or a professional hockey game, the field is for the players, right?

00:03:52.000 And there's just a handful of them.

00:03:53.000 But also, the behind the stage was filled.

00:03:58.000 Let me explain that.

00:03:59.000 These are people who are sitting, maybe you could see it right here.

00:04:01.000 These are people who are sitting that can't see the program.

00:04:05.000 But they're still there to just stare at a wall.

00:04:08.000 This there's an overflow room, also.

00:04:10.000 That was at near capacity.

00:04:11.000 Another minor league sports arena.

00:04:14.000 Yeah, that was at the Desert Diamond.

00:04:16.000 It's the former NHL arena, and it's neighboring State Farm Stadium, and it was filled.

00:04:24.000 The energy was unlike the Super Bowl, unlike a sporting event, it was spiritual In nature.

00:04:31.000 It was so kinetic because the room was so packed and so filled.

00:04:35.000 And as far as I could tell, and I know I know this actually, as a matter of fact, not a single window broken, not a single Moltoff cocktail thrown, not a single fist ever thrown in anger.

00:04:45.000 No fights, no burning buildings, no attacks on cops, no attacks on our nation, nothing but a peaceful memorial, the largest perhaps on earth, perhaps in in American history, full filled with prayer, mourning, forgiveness, and a call for righteous justice.

00:05:04.000 That is the difference between two ideologies, two directions for Western civilization, and a profound magisterial remembrance of Charlie's legacy.

00:05:17.000 It is precisely as he would have wanted it.

00:05:21.000 And I want to d jump just one more story in because I was backstage.

00:05:26.000 I got to see a lot of interactions.

00:05:28.000 I got backstage, front stage.

00:05:30.000 I was seated amongst all the cabinet secretaries.

00:05:32.000 Got to see a lot.

00:05:34.000 Elon Musk came by a couple times.

00:05:36.000 And I just want to use Elon Musk as a as an example of the power of Charlie's legacy.

00:05:45.000 Elon Musk and Donald Trump had a bit of a falling out.

00:05:50.000 Maybe you've heard of it.

00:05:52.000 And that sucked, especially for guys like Charlie, who were coalition builders.

00:05:58.000 Charlie Kirk was thanked on stage by Donald Trump himself for bringing together RFK Jr. and Maha movement.

00:06:04.000 Donald Trump says, Charlie created Maha.

00:06:07.000 I don't think Charlie ever will get the credit that he deserved for doing that.

00:06:11.000 But also Charlie Kirk brought together massive coalitions of, well, at any turning point event, you can find Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, and Tucker Carlson sharing the same stage, right?

00:06:20.000 Maybe not together, but they're all there, right?

00:06:22.000 To give an opportunity to project their worldview, right?

00:06:25.000 Charlie was constantly doing that, constantly bridging gaps, constantly fusing together because he realized that if we don't hang together, we will surely hang separately.

00:06:36.000 Which is exactly what Elon Musk told me.

00:06:38.000 So backstage, Elon Musk embraces Erica Kirk, and they're the she's crying in his arms and they're hugging, and it's really profound.

00:06:46.000 This was after the speeches.

00:06:47.000 This was after the program.

00:06:49.000 And this is the words that Elon Musk said to us in this small little group with Erica Kirk.

00:06:55.000 And he said, he said, this is why I was proud to sit with my president.

00:07:01.000 This is what he called Trump, my president today.

00:07:04.000 He accepted Trump's invitation to go up there.

00:07:06.000 And he's the majority of the met Elon Musk sent sitting there with Donald Trump, chewing it up.

00:07:10.000 Everyone has can see the here's the photos of Elon embracing Erica, and then there are photos of Elon with Trump, and they seem to be having a great time.

00:07:18.000 Dana White also there.

00:07:20.000 What a profound, not only was the size and scope of this and the peacefulness of it a profound eulogy for Charlie and his memory, but the cornerstone of it all to unite the world's most powerful, richest uh private civilian with the world's most powerful public figure, Donald Trump.

00:07:40.000 Charlie said, in this chair right here, he hoped that it happened.

00:07:45.000 There's a clip that went viral yesterday.

00:07:47.000 Charlie saying, I pray, I pray that Elon Musk and Donald Trump reconcile.

00:07:51.000 And they did so at Charlie's funeral in Charlie's memory.

00:07:56.000 A profound and beautiful example of what Charlie constantly was doing for our movement.

00:08:05.000 And he fused together the greatest schism that we've seen in the in the nascent Trump administration.

00:08:11.000 He just fixed Trump and Elon together.

00:08:14.000 We saw it live.

00:08:15.000 And it's like the power of Charlie crying out.

00:08:18.000 I mean, after death, crying out, and like still the power of Charlie, like bringing together these tectonic forces that that should not reconcile.

00:08:28.000 These are two stubborn men.

00:08:29.000 These are two men that don't need don't need each other, you know, honestly.

00:08:32.000 But it's but Elon Musk told me this.

00:08:34.000 He hugs Erica Kirk, he looks to all of us and he goes, if we don't hang it together, we will surely hang separately.

00:08:40.000 So let us unite.

00:08:41.000 I was proud to sit with my president tonight.

00:08:43.000 That's what Elon told us.

00:08:45.000 That's what Elon told us backstage.

00:08:47.000 And so uh again, just as a little behind-the-scenes vignette here, a a what you watched yesterday, what tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people saw yesterday, definitely hundreds of millions saw yesterday, was a beautiful encapsulation, eulogizing, and memorial to Charlie with his energy pulsing through every bit of it.

00:09:10.000 I mean, that's beautifully said.

00:09:12.000 I'm I I hadn't heard that that part about Elon, so I I love that.

00:09:17.000 And you know, I know, and Blake knows how badly Charlie wanted to see them reconcile.

00:09:23.000 So many times we discussed it, and Charlie, you know, he Elon kind of flew off the handle a little bit when it first happened, and Charlie was very reserved.

00:09:32.000 He didn't hop on it because he was like, I believe they're gonna come back together.

00:09:36.000 And yesterday, Charlie was proved correct, as he often is.

00:09:40.000 And y I mean, and and it was funny.

00:09:43.000 I I tweeted about it, and I said, I hope that these two men are saying to each other for Charlie.

00:09:48.000 And then about two hours later, Elon Musk tweeted an image of him and Trump talking, and he said, for Charlie.

00:09:55.000 And a Bible verse.

00:09:56.000 Yeah.

00:09:56.000 Benny, you get the honor today of being seated right next to Charlie's chair.

00:10:01.000 Oh, so do you, Nick, by the way.

00:10:03.000 Um, it's it's sort of I mean, we this we added this this seat location for these streams because you know, we're just gonna all pile around Charlie, which is very Charlie.

00:10:14.000 Uh, but but yeah, Benny, I mean, please, you were you were continuing and uh I cut you off.

00:10:19.000 So you reflect.

00:10:20.000 I mean, you saw it was powerful.

00:10:22.000 You ever seen Elon Musk convert to Christianity?

00:10:24.000 We're gonna see that.

00:10:25.000 I think that Elon Musk, what do you what do you think, Blake?

00:10:28.000 Probably agnostic at best, perhaps.

00:10:30.000 Probably he was openly agnostic, actually.

00:10:32.000 You know, he he would say that because he was uh more of a uh science-based guy, as he would say, and you know, he wants to see evidence and and and and proof of things before it happens.

00:10:42.000 But you know, the amount of people in that room yesterday, I mean, like I I could feel it.

00:10:47.000 I I was genuinely convinced that the Holy Spirit was in the room yesterday, and I saw Elon tweet uh uh uh what did you tweet forgive us?

00:10:56.000 As we forgive those, yeah.

00:10:57.000 Right, and then I I ran up to you and showed you immediately.

00:10:59.000 You were in the middle of talking to somebody, but I was so excited.

00:11:01.000 I'm like, here, like look at this, Andrew.

00:11:02.000 I was so blew my mind.

00:11:05.000 And I I think we all felt, you know, to Tucker had that great line, and he said the the Holy Spirit was was what did he say?

00:11:14.000 It was uh humming like a tuning fork in there.

00:11:18.000 And you could just I mean, you could not help but step into that room and feel that and I think probably I mean there was a the our our production team uh that was running all the streams, they they logged well over a hundred million streams, and that was just the ones they knew about.

00:11:33.000 That's not broadcast, that's not obviously clips of the of the memorial, that's none of that stuff.

00:11:38.000 That was they they could just log over a hundred million.

00:11:41.000 That number will grow.

00:11:42.000 It will end up being probably close to about a quarter or a quarter of a billion uh when it's all said and done.

00:11:48.000 But what do you think?

00:11:49.000 I mean, you you were kind of observing, I I saw you a couple times.

00:11:53.000 Blake was just kind of taking it all in, and sometimes Blake can be very kind of in your your thing you're doing, and you were unusually sort of observant of the wider moment.

00:12:04.000 I I I saw you a couple of times.

00:12:05.000 What was it like for you, Blake?

00:12:07.000 You know, I think uh the moment I think a lot of people who are there are going to remember is actually right at the start before any of the speakers come out.

00:12:14.000 Uh it's just right at the beginning where they had all the different signs that were color-coded.

00:12:19.000 And I remember they they chose the signs very well.

00:12:21.000 It was like one of them was the, you know, here I am, Lord, send me.

00:12:24.000 Another was the uh, I think well done, my good and faithful servant.

00:12:27.000 Like they had they they had a good selection of what was on the signs, and everyone just holding them.

00:12:31.000 The music is just the strings, there's no one singing or anything.

00:12:34.000 And it goes for man, it felt like it was five plus minutes.

00:12:38.000 Everyone just sort of sitting there, like marinating in the moment, and that felt very powerful.

00:12:43.000 I saw a lot of people crying.

00:12:44.000 I think I teared up during that.

00:12:46.000 Um you had several moments of that throughout the night.

00:12:49.000 Uh it was uh entire event, very rich with uh with meaning, very rich with common feeling.

00:12:57.000 Uh, and I think everyone there is going to remember it the rest of their lives.

00:13:01.000 Yeah, and you were going around interviewing people, Nick.

00:13:04.000 What were people telling you?

00:13:05.000 Well, I I I mean uh the first off, it was really uh interesting to me were the amount of people like turning point action yesterday was super busy going around registering voters, like people want to get involved.

00:13:16.000 These are people that uh that didn't really pay too much attention to politics before.

00:13:21.000 Maybe they did casually, but now all of a sudden, you know, this happened, it woke a lot of people up, it scared them, it shook them to the core.

00:13:27.000 You know, I I've been speaking to my mother as well, Uh who she's been a lifelong Democrat, loved Obama when I was growing up.

00:13:34.000 And she called me and was like almost in tears because she didn't know Charlie before.

00:13:40.000 She didn't know anything about Charlie.

00:13:41.000 And then she started seeing all the clips.

00:13:43.000 She started seeing the highlights from him doing these college tours and stuff.

00:13:47.000 And now she wants to get back into the church.

00:13:49.000 And she wants me to start going with her.

00:13:52.000 And such.

00:13:53.000 She's like, Yeah, I want to send you this.

00:13:55.000 I want to send you a Bible.

00:13:56.000 I'm going to.

00:13:56.000 And it it's just this unbelievable power that Charlie has unleashed posthumously on the world, uh, bringing people closer to God.

00:14:06.000 I would say it's in the millions upon millions of people that have now just gone to church for the first time over the past couple of weeks, or have gone to church for the first time since I think Erica said since as a child.

00:14:17.000 You know, and I think there was this feeling, you know, I in the the immediate aftermath of Charlie's assassination, there was this surge, right?

00:14:25.000 I could feel there was a surge.

00:14:27.000 You know, people were showing up, you know, hundreds and hundreds of people were showing up in front of the HQ, and there was vigils going on.

00:14:35.000 And I kind of prayed silently.

00:14:37.000 I said, Lord, you know, let this not be the end of it.

00:14:41.000 Let this not, I hope that this is not just a flash in the pan.

00:14:46.000 And I'll tell you, there's tons of people in front of the building this morning, just paying their respects.

00:14:52.000 And I think this memorial and the the this red discovery, re-exploration of Charlie's actually what he said, not what the media said about him, is going to mean that this carries on uh much, much longer than just you know these last 11, 12 days.

00:15:09.000 I had the honor of speaking yesterday at Charlie's memorial at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

00:15:16.000 It was an honor of a lifetime.

00:15:18.000 Uh and I got to bring our team up on stage, which was also an honor.

00:15:22.000 And I got a lot of great feedback from people just saying, you know, bringing the team up was a was uh a master stroke.

00:15:30.000 It was so good.

00:15:30.000 And I and it's it just it's exactly what Charlie would have done because Charlie loves this team, probably spent more time on a daily basis with the team that runs the show than any other team because there were so many teams, but this was his daily routine.

00:15:46.000 And feel free to chime in, I got a I got a message from a friend who was asking, who's this guy?

00:15:51.000 And it was not a photo of me, it was a photo of uh Dallin on our tech team because the the profile he had a very powerful looking chin.

00:15:58.000 So congratulations, Dallas.

00:15:59.000 Good for you, buddy.

00:16:00.000 Good for you.

00:16:01.000 Have you ever heard um have you ever heard the most powerful leaders in the Western world all be apostles for Christ on the same stage?

00:16:10.000 Thank you for that's never.

00:16:11.000 That's the big E on the eye chart really.

00:16:13.000 This is the biggest apostolic event since the times of Christ, I believe. 0.63

00:16:18.000 I I I don't think there is a some of the greatest reformation given, you know, given technology and given the number of people that can watch concurrently, right?

00:16:28.000 Christ can speak to thousands on a hillside, but there's no way to amplify, you know, there's no way to digitally amplify it worldwide.

00:16:35.000 Given the number of people watching in South Korea, I mean, we probably will never get those numbers, but it's I think it's probably fair to say that this service was seen by billions by the time it's all said and done and gone worldwide, at least pieces of it, right?

00:16:48.000 Parts, snippets, videos, and clips on social media.

00:16:51.000 Billions saw it, and there wasn't a single speech that did not have Christ at the center of the speech.

00:16:58.000 I believe that this, and you should contact the Guinness Book of World Records.

00:17:02.000 This is most likely Charlie's memorial service, the single largest apostolic event in modern history.

00:17:09.000 Well, I I don't know if you guys saw this.

00:17:10.000 Somebody tweeted out a photo of you know the monitors for all the different news networks, every single major news network in the Western uh world was tuned in live, not cutting to any commercials while these big speakers were going.

00:17:24.000 Absolutely crazy.

00:17:25.000 And I will tell you, I handle press for turning point events historically, and so I sort of had to, on top of a number of other things that I was doing, I uh and my team did an amazing job.

00:17:36.000 Shout out to Aubrey.

00:17:37.000 You did a phenomenal job, Aubrey Late.

00:17:40.000 Thank you so much for stepping up.

00:17:41.000 Aubrey's just one of those people that said, I want this.

00:17:44.000 I want I know you can't focus on this like you normally do.

00:17:47.000 I want to, I want you to trust me.

00:17:49.000 And I said, Okay, Aubrey, it's yours, don't mess it up.

00:17:53.000 And she I got so many compliments on the job she did, just kind of playing orchestra, you know, uh she was orchestrating The choir.

00:18:01.000 She was uh it was a really amazing job because there was so much press going on, and but this is what we heard from the venue.

00:18:06.000 Now remember, the venue does Super Bowls.

00:18:09.000 They do special events all the time.

00:18:11.000 And I will tell you, they said this was more press interest from around the world, not just America, than than the Super Bowl or any other special event they've ever been a part of.

00:18:20.000 And this, and I believe it is a very true fact to say that the gospel was just proclaimed to more people in one singular event than in any other time in human history.

00:18:30.000 And it makes me remember, Benny, the the verse where he says, Jesus says, You will do even greater things than these.

00:18:36.000 It's not that we are greater than Christ, Christ is King.

00:18:39.000 But you will do even greater things than these.

00:18:41.000 And everybody who had a hand in yesterday's event was was a participant in those greater things because as you said, we have social media.

00:18:49.000 We have this ability to spread the message so far and so wide and so quickly.

00:18:53.000 Right.

00:18:53.000 So truly amazing to be a part of that.

00:18:58.000 If you go to a lot of MAGA rallies and we've been to, you know, hundreds, thousands.

00:19:02.000 I don't know.

00:19:03.000 Safe to say we've been to some.

00:19:04.000 You know how big the rallies are based on the size of the press rafter.

00:19:08.000 And let me explain.

00:19:09.000 The press rafter yesterday was we were on a football field.

00:19:13.000 It was 30 yards deep and the entire football field wide.

00:19:18.000 That's how much space was needed to simply handle the number of cameras and on the ground reporters.

00:19:25.000 Is this correct, Colvet?

00:19:26.000 I mean, you would have probably approved these dimensions.

00:19:28.000 Yeah.

00:19:29.000 The size of the press rafter took up a considerable portion of the football field in order to get the amount of press in that wanted to come.

00:19:35.000 It was the biggest uh press riser anybody had ever seen.

00:19:38.000 And I talked to, you know, President Trump's team backstage.

00:19:42.000 I talked to our our physical production partners.

00:19:45.000 They've never seen anything like it.

00:19:46.000 Well, I I talked to Aubrey actually, uh, because that's where I got my press pass from, and I saw the stack in front of her.

00:19:51.000 It was like this of of just press passes.

00:19:54.000 And I'm like, my God, how many?

00:19:55.000 And she's like, it's in the hundreds.

00:19:56.000 Oh, and we had to cut, just so everybody's aware, we had to cut a lot because we originally were going to be able to put some overflow press into the over uh desert diamond arena or whatever.

00:20:06.000 And that ended up not being a possibility.

00:20:10.000 Uh it's so we could have we could have fit even more uh in into the back, and we just we fire marshal stuff, uh footprint stuff on the floor.

00:20:19.000 We had to we had to ultimately cut back.

00:20:21.000 So there was some some press that didn't even get in.

00:20:24.000 But listen, we we got in the lion share of the press, and to God be the glory for Charlie.

00:20:31.000 We pulled it off.

00:20:32.000 The team didn't sleep, and again, just what a testament to Charlie's legacy, his leadership that the team rallied the way they did.

00:20:39.000 So I you know, you were talking about streaming 500,000 concurrents on Charlie's channel last last last night.

00:20:45.000 Yeah, there was millions that's the most I've ever seen on a YouTube channel.

00:20:48.000 There, yeah, on Charlie's YouTube channel 500,000 concurrence.

00:20:51.000 There was a lot.

00:20:52.000 I mean, it and it I I don't know what it was at his peak, but I just got an interesting tidbit of information that we had some partners do a geotag of how many devices were in the general vicinity, and it was nearly 300,000.

00:21:05.000 It was 277,000 devices were geotagged in that vicinity.

00:21:11.000 So for comparison and context there, when they geotagged what what was the most famous MAGA rally of the 2024 election, the Madison Square Garden rally.

00:21:21.000 This is every MAGA star.

00:21:23.000 This is at Hulk Hogan and Elon and every and and Kill Tony and all of them, right?

00:21:28.000 Remember, the left the left loves comedians, loves comedians.

00:21:31.000 They left his Puerto Rico joke.

00:21:32.000 They love that.

00:21:33.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:21:34.000 They're totally free speech.

00:21:36.000 Uh that was 97,000.

00:21:38.000 Wow.

00:21:39.000 So that was nine that the the pain the the full geotag for that, which is seen as the the penultimum MAGA rally was 97,000.

00:21:47.000 So yeah, I I mean I you walk I walked outside, I was there most of the night covering like the the growing size of the crowd.

00:21:53.000 You had people there the night before it was in in the hundreds, which is still pretty good, especially when they very specifically said nobody's allowed to stay overnight.

00:22:00.000 They said you're not allowed to camp overnight.

00:22:02.000 They're like, okay, so we're gonna stand on the sidewalk instead.

00:22:04.000 You can't make us leave.

00:22:05.000 And these these people, uh like two hours later, three o'clock in the morning rolls around, and all of a sudden there's tens of thousands of people standing outside.

00:22:13.000 They wanted to make sure they got that spot.

00:22:15.000 They wanted to make sure they were in there.

00:22:16.000 And I read a post earlier today from a guy that was from Maine that came all the way over here.

00:22:21.000 He got there early and ended up sitting behind the stage, and he's like, I wouldn't have it any other way.

00:22:27.000 I wanted to be there.

00:22:28.000 He stood in line for like, you know, hours and hours and hours, but he was overjoyed just to be able to experience it.

00:22:35.000 I I I talked to somebody from Canada, Finland in that line.

00:22:39.000 Yeah, interesting.

00:22:40.000 Yeah, I saw a bunch of people that I mean, look at these crowd shots.

00:22:42.000 Like of that's outside, by the way.

00:22:44.000 That was people lining up to get in.

00:22:47.000 And it was just a mass of humanity, a mass of humanity.

00:22:53.000 And by the way, a huge line of people who were camped out overnight when I came in.

00:22:57.000 Huge hotel in the end.

00:22:58.000 Yeah, it was just absolutely massive.

00:23:01.000 And it actually flowed pretty well.

00:23:03.000 We filled up the arena in pretty good time.

00:23:06.000 The Secret Service provided a ton of mags, uh, which is the security scanners to get into the venue.

00:23:13.000 And so that helped because you know it we had been a part of many Trump events during the campaign where the Biden administration was not giving us a lot of mags.

00:23:23.000 They were giving us the bare minimum number of mags.

00:23:26.000 So you can only move so many people through those per hour.

00:23:29.000 The ingress is limited by mags.

00:23:31.000 And I I mean, you know, you can't prove it, at least I can't, but there was this feeling like they were like, heh, we're gonna screw your event, and people are stuck out in the heat, passing out, we're out there handing.

00:23:41.000 I'll never forget by.

00:23:43.000 I'll never forget that that uh Palm Beach event where Charlie went out into the uh parking garage because people, the line we put the line out into the parking garage, there's massive 100% humidity, crazy heat.

00:23:54.000 We put out big fans, we rushed in fans, chart we ate uh pallets of water, and Charlie went and shook everybody's hand hand and said, I'm so sorry.

00:24:02.000 And it was because they screwed us on the mags.

00:24:04.000 So this time we got all the mags we needed.

00:24:07.000 Man, it s it was rough.

00:24:10.000 I I mean I don't I don't know what you guys' experience was entering the arena.

00:24:14.000 But when you walked into the arena, there was this major energy change, and we were coming over from Fox, you had done Maria Barcaromo right before me.

00:24:22.000 And you went we you know, it took a while to get into the arena, big time security, obviously.

00:24:27.000 You get in and you walk in, and the first thing that greets you that greeted me was like three ladies that were like sobbing in tears that all come over to like cry on my chest, and then it was like that every two feet. 0.98

00:24:39.000 Like every two feet took us an hour and a half to get to our chairs, and people were just mourning Charlie.

00:24:44.000 There was like this, there was like this kinetic, there was like this kinetic energy of it was like Charlie it was like Charlie was there.

00:24:50.000 I don't know how to do it.

00:24:51.000 You could see people who were just walking onto the floor into the arena area and they were just like sobbing as they walked taking it all in.

00:24:57.000 Yep, crying uncontrollably.

00:24:59.000 However, you know, I now another massive shout out to Turning Point and the events team here to give P what people are looking for in that time.

00:25:07.000 If you don't give them a physical ability to mourn and to get it out, then that energy can out can actually go dark and can can turn into something bad.

00:25:16.000 So doing this was actually therapeutic for the nation.

00:25:19.000 It was actually it was so important to do it this way.

00:25:22.000 It was so important for people to have the opportunity to grieve and mourn together and to get it out, right?

00:25:26.000 And to channel into something good.

00:25:28.000 I I I love where you're going because I want to talk about that because Erica Kirk did something truly truly remarkable.

00:25:35.000 And so, guys, ready that clip where she forgives the shooter, and there's all this chatter online.

00:25:41.000 Well, I don't I don't think I could forgive, and oh, maybe it's too soon, or this or that.

00:25:44.000 I want to explain why what Erica Kirk did was the epitome of courage and humility and Christ's love.

00:25:53.000 And show the um I think it's 61.

00:25:56.000 Go ahead and throw up the uh New York Post cover.

00:26:01.000 I forgive him, and that's Erica being embraced, putting her head on the chest of the president as he consoles her.

00:26:07.000 This powerful moment where she said what for many Benny is the unthinkable.

00:26:15.000 I forgive this man who just robbed the world of a great hero and a titan of a man, our friend, but I I'm very aware well, I'm very well aware that yes, he was my you know, dear personal friend.

00:26:28.000 We spent so much time together, but yet he belongs to the world, he belongs to history, and here Erica is was doing this not out of a personal relationship, you know, with her husband, but really like because she understands that she is an instrument for God right now.

00:26:45.000 Yes, and so she dug so deep and did this beautiful thing, and it's created a a lot of chatter online, and I want to get into it now.

00:26:53.000 What's the clip, guys?

00:26:54.000 It's 19.

00:26:56.000 Go ahead and play it.

00:26:57.000 On the cross, our savior said Father, forgive them for they not know what they do.

00:27:11.000 That man.

00:27:15.000 That young man.

00:27:19.000 I forgive him.

00:27:20.000 I forgive him.

00:27:38.000 Wow.

00:27:38.000 I got chills just watching that back.

00:27:41.000 Um I I agree, Benny, that that was she's given two of the most powerful speeches that I've ever heard, if not the top two.

00:27:49.000 I don't know what even comes close, actually, in this moment.

00:27:53.000 And that moment in particular, I tweeted at the same at the time.

00:27:57.000 I said, this is one of the most truly uh important and profound moments in American history, perhaps world history, and she had such courage to do it.

00:28:08.000 Blake, take us behind the scenes, because you were you were kind of that you were bouncing ideas off her with the language of this speech.

00:28:16.000 Yeah, you know, we were uh you know, I helped her in.

00:28:20.000 I helped her ahead of time with the speech.

00:28:22.000 Uh and I mean she's incredible.

00:28:24.000 She was very clear what she wanted to say throughout uh very clear thinker, uh, very impressed with her throughout all of this.

00:28:32.000 I think all of us have been.

00:28:33.000 Amazing.

00:28:34.000 Um we you know, we were at that key point, and you know, it was going into it was actually a bit of an open question for me.

00:28:41.000 Like, is she ready to do this?

00:28:43.000 Is she prepared to do this?

00:28:44.000 And I won't say everything that went into it.

00:28:46.000 A lot of that was very private, but two things I think I can say is first of all, it was you know, one of us almost threw out idly, you know, so what would Charlie do?

00:28:55.000 And that actually, you know, impacted her a great deal.

00:28:58.000 She she did as she said up there, it is what Charlie would do.

00:29:01.000 And the other thing she said uh ahead of it that it impacted me so much at the time.

00:29:08.000 She said, I have to do it because I I can't let there be anything that would stand between me and seeing Charlie again if I were to die.

00:29:17.000 Wow.

00:29:17.000 And she knew, you know, the gospel, the gospel says we must love our enemies.

00:29:22.000 That is powerful.

00:29:23.000 And that was so incredible in that moment.

00:29:26.000 I I think that it is it inspired a lot of people, especially the ones that I was sitting around, because you know, you watched that video and how gruesome and how angry it made me watching that video, and you know, this is Charlie's wife.

00:29:38.000 And she was able to actually go up on stage and say in front of millions of people that she forgives him.

00:29:43.000 I mean, that the the power that's behind that, it's uh something that we'll remember for a long time.

00:29:49.000 So backstage, she was she was le Erica was leaving.

00:29:52.000 It's wild to tell you the the importance of this moment for Erica.

00:29:56.000 And first off, I I mean I said this during the break, but I think that that speech ranks among the top three most powerful speeches ever given in modern history.

00:30:06.000 Um without question.

00:30:09.000 Not only that, but she sh she in that moment ceased to be Erica Kirk.

00:30:14.000 She became something spiritual.

00:30:16.000 She also did it standing right here before this chair. 0.98

00:30:18.000 She was it was right where you're sitting.

00:30:20.000 And I'm not sure I'd even call that a speech.

00:30:21.000 I think I'd call that like a wife's private eulogy that she was able to share with all of us because of how important Charlie was to the world.

00:30:30.000 That was like less of a speech and more of like God speaking through her.

00:30:34.000 I don't I again I've known Erica and Charlie for a long time.

00:30:37.000 I was at the wedding, we were all at their wedding.

00:30:39.000 Like, I I I MC'd their wedding.

00:30:41.000 Like I that wasn't Eric, like Erica's incredible, that was like something spiritual.

00:30:48.000 That was God physically moving through her and speaking through her.

00:30:54.000 Humanly you can't forgive a monster.

00:30:55.000 And like that.

00:30:56.000 Humanly you can't do that.

00:30:58.000 And after it happened, it was uh really beautiful.

00:31:00.000 People brought this up right away.

00:31:01.000 Um let's put up pick number seven.

00:31:04.000 Uh, this is a tweet Charlie did all the way back in 2014.

00:31:08.000 Uh he was you know, to be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. 0.93

00:31:16.000 And she shared Christ, she shared Christ.

00:31:20.000 That was probably the that was the most Christ-like thing that happened.

00:31:23.000 A lot of people talked about Christ.

00:31:24.000 The Sector War talked about Christ, right?

00:31:26.000 Very interesting.

00:31:27.000 Don Jr. talked about her something.

00:31:30.000 And and and dank memes, uh, which is a first, but that was the most Christ-like thing that happened on stage.

00:31:36.000 I think everyone will agree with that.

00:31:38.000 The forgive the of course the forgiveness of the unforgivable, right?

00:31:42.000 And Erica shared Christ to one of the largest audiences maybe ever gathered in human and did the most Christ-like thing, and that again, the most apostolic event in human history was that. 0.99

00:31:56.000 And I think that I'll I I if if you will allow me, a lot of people are saying, well, how dare Trump wall w you know, saunter on stage afterwards and say, No, I hate my enemies, I'm gonna kill my enemies like I hate them, I want them to burn. 0.98

00:32:12.000 Right, because Trump went on and did that, right? 0.98

00:32:14.000 In his own way, Trump bravado and said, Oh, I hate my enemies.

00:32:18.000 I don't know how Erica can do that. 1.00

00:32:20.000 I want to take an opportunity to just say from a Christian perspective, and look at this from a biblical perspective.

00:32:26.000 Because what was demonstrated in both those speeches, represented by obviously Erica, but then represented by Stephen Miller did a great job at this.

00:32:33.000 Donald Trump did a great job of this.

00:32:34.000 Secretary Ward did a great job of this, is the personification of Romans 13.

00:32:39.000 Romans 13, the Apostle Paul, who's very familiar with martyrdom, was there at the martyrdom of Stephen, that actually brought him to Christ, writes about a properly instituted government set up by God, and that the government is there to institute safety and security for the good and moral people of the nations, that God has set up the leaders of our land in order to do that.

00:33:04.000 And so God set up Trump and his administration to allow for security and family flourishing and for the prospering of good and moral people, and that God gives the sword to the leaders of our principalities in order to enact these are the exact words, terror within evil men, to bring terror upon evil men.

00:33:27.000 And he and and that was what the Trump administration represented.

00:33:31.000 That is pure Christian doctrine.

00:33:33.000 That is fundamental Christian doctrine about the establishment of the government so that the good may flourish.

00:33:39.000 Now, on a personal level, what Erica showed was what we must do in our hearts in order to absolve ourselves and to follow in the Christ-like method of forgiveness in order to ensure that we are unburdened, actually, by evil.

00:33:56.000 Evil happens to us, we must unburden ourselves by following through with the power of Christ.

00:34:00.000 Erica shows that perfectly balanced, absolutely, in perfect harmony by President Trump and his administration, saying that it is now incumbent upon us, the rulers of this land, to institute justice.

00:34:15.000 We do not have to forgive.

00:34:17.000 We must enact justice, swift and severe justice upon evil men, so that they are in terror, and that is perfectly fundamentally harmonious in the Christian worldview.

00:34:27.000 Yeah, uh Allie Stuckey actually said something that uh and she's actually gonna be hosting the show with me tomorrow, so that's exciting.

00:34:34.000 But she said there's a big contrast between Erica's forgiveness speech and Stephen Miller's destroy our enemies speech, and that was in quote.

00:34:41.000 I don't think he's you know I don't I can't remember exactly.

00:34:43.000 He said we are the storm.

00:34:44.000 Yeah, we are the storm.

00:34:46.000 Did you have him write that place?

00:34:48.000 Yeah, we are the star.

00:34:51.000 You know, but she did it in quotes. 0.53

00:34:53.000 I mean, I don't think she meant any disrespect to Stephen.

00:34:55.000 It was just the tone was was you know distinct.

00:34:59.000 Tone was Stephen Miller.

00:35:00.000 She says exactly as it should be.

00:35:02.000 It is our job to forgive, not the governments.

00:35:04.000 Christians give grace, the government wields the sword, Romans 13.

00:35:08.000 We turn the other cheek, the government punishes evil.

00:35:11.000 Yes.

00:35:11.000 And I mean, you saw that in very very vivid detail on that stage yesterday, because to your point, personally, that was an inexcusable evil that has been perpetrated against the world, certainly, but against Erica specifically.

00:35:27.000 Yes.

00:35:28.000 And she unburdened herself.

00:35:30.000 She said, I will not live with this hate.

00:35:32.000 I will not live with this thing in my spirit.

00:35:37.000 I am I am going to forgive as Christ forgave me, because I will not let it get in the way of me being with Charlie in heaven, and I will not let it get in the way of me running turning point USA and being the new leader of this movement.

00:35:50.000 And I I just commend her for that because yes, I even when I heard that, my flesh, I felt my flesh like crawling because I didn't want her to forgive.

00:36:00.000 I wanted her to like get that fierce look in her eyes, you know, that she has, which is just amazing, by the way.

00:36:06.000 And I wanted her to look right in the camera and be like, we are going, you know, give me one of the bullets in the because Utah still has, you know, what is it?

00:36:14.000 Firing squad.

00:36:15.000 Firing squad. 1.00

00:36:16.000 Give her one of the bullets and let her shoot him right in the, you know, whatever. 1.00

00:36:20.000 Anyways, the point is, I wanted that. 1.00

00:36:22.000 My flesh wanted that.

00:36:24.000 And but my spirit knew that the power you talked about, if you don't give people a way to grieve in this pop uh positive way in a way that uplifts Jesus, then it can turn dark.

00:36:36.000 And what she did is she took all of that energy and she flipped it on Satan's head and said, You are not going to win this one. 0.99

00:36:44.000 We are going to choose Christ, and God's love will be unleashed on this country.

00:36:49.000 Can we talk for just a moment about how this is how you begin this is how civil wars and secretarian violence actually spirals into that failed state.

00:36:58.000 You have these moments of political violence.

00:37:00.000 You don't give anyone the capacity to grieve.

00:37:02.000 There is no justice.

00:37:03.000 There is no shooter found.

00:37:04.000 No one is brought to justice.

00:37:06.000 No greater terrorist network is brought down.

00:37:08.000 I talked a lot with Cash Patel and Dan Bongino yesterday.

00:37:11.000 I'd love to share that on the show.

00:37:12.000 I know we're up against a break.

00:37:13.000 But but just another massive shout out to the team at Turning Point of the team at the Carly Charlie Kirk show and Charlie's uh core here at giving the country an ability to grieve in a peaceful and in a productive way.

00:37:27.000 Because what happened there yesterday was people saw that this isn't just pain and loss that can carve a hole in your heart and make you into a dark person.

00:37:35.000 This is something that can be uplifting, actually, and can bring the movement forward and can consolidate a movement, and that's healing for a nation.

00:37:42.000 100%.

00:37:43.000 And Charlie, I mean, Blake knows this.

00:37:45.000 Charlie preached more than anything to young people.

00:37:47.000 Be a part of something bigger than yourself.

00:37:50.000 Do not get sucked down these dark holes on the internet.

00:37:53.000 Do not become an incel in your mom's basement or wherever.

00:37:57.000 Get out.

00:37:58.000 Get in real life.

00:37:59.000 Be a part of something bigger than yourself.

00:38:01.000 And what you saw was that Charlie is a man that invited people into something bigger than even himself, even in death.

00:38:08.000 And you know, it's Benny, I'm thinking about something you you were saying, and you you kind of alluded to it earlier.

00:38:12.000 That my brother actually flew down to and my dad, which was an amazing honor.

00:38:18.000 I've never seen my dad quite like this, which will be something that I keep with me from this experience.

00:38:26.000 But they met it made a comment that, you know, I've never been to a big event like this with see a a sea of people coming in and not have to not have to deal with the riffraff, didn't have some weird exchange with some random person. 1.00

00:38:42.000 There was no negative energy.

00:38:44.000 Everybody was so loving to one another.

00:38:47.000 It was truly a positive experience, even just being around strangers.

00:38:52.000 That you like a lot of people hate that, right?

00:38:54.000 A lot of people hate going.

00:38:55.000 I might be one of them, where you're kind of like, you go into a a sporting event and you're like, uh okay, let's avoid that part.

00:39:01.000 Nothing like that.

00:39:03.000 Well, I mean, that was one of the things that really ticked off the left yesterday.

00:39:06.000 I was monitoring this stuff online to see that the the this reaction to you know, everybody worshiping and the tens of thousands of people singing and yeah, and and that that really pissed off the left in this country.

00:39:17.000 And and they even tried to pull this stunt.

00:39:18.000 I texted you about it, where they were trying they they were making it go viral, saying, Oh, nope, sorry, doors are closed now, stadium's full.

00:39:24.000 Oh, yeah, go ahead.

00:39:25.000 And I text you, I was inside, so I texted an image to you.

00:39:28.000 I'm like, this is a live look at the stadium.

00:39:30.000 People are still coming in.

00:39:31.000 The the whole upper bowl was was completely empty because they were kind of filling the stadium from bottom to top.

00:39:37.000 Yeah.

00:39:37.000 And I was like, please get this out.

00:39:39.000 I don't know if you ended up tweeting.

00:39:40.000 Oh, yeah, it did.

00:39:41.000 I mean it got seen millions and millions of times, and because people were sharing it because they knew what was going on.

00:39:45.000 You know, the left saw these images that we were putting out, uh, like the drone footage and you know, the video that you just showed here of these endless lines of people, and they're like, Oh, this is bad.

00:39:56.000 This is really bad.

00:39:56.000 Because, you know, they're in total, they're in a spiral at this point.

00:40:00.000 Uh, because you know, a lot of people, as I said, been woken up.

00:40:02.000 Uh, they have seen what the left has been doing over the past week, uh, celebrating the the the death of somebody as wholesome and and good and well-intentioned as Charlie Kirk, uh, that they don't know what to do at this point.

00:40:14.000 So they're gonna continue trying to demonize us.

00:40:16.000 They they wanted this to be, they wanted to be able to show pictures of a crap ton of empty seats and say, you know, ah, this was a failure.

00:40:23.000 I guess people really didn't care that much.

00:40:25.000 That was their goal.

00:40:26.000 And they failed, because if you looked at the arena next door too, that was packed as well.

00:40:30.000 There's no way for them to spin it.

00:40:31.000 Can I uh since we're sitting here with so much of the Charlie brain truss and not enough, I mean, frankly, not enough credit goes to ever the people who really make it all possible, made like this Charlie Kirk moment possible.

00:40:44.000 Cannot emphasize enough.

00:40:46.000 Blake, Andrew, and the entire team here, also Tyler.

00:40:50.000 You know, on occasion, there's screen time there, but like just not enough credit is given to the infrastructure and architecture that makes a Charlie even possible, right?

00:40:58.000 Because there's such a huge machine behind it.

00:41:00.000 Many of many were on stage, which is a beautiful thing that you did yesterday.

00:41:03.000 Could I ask you guys a question, just live here, not to put you on the spot.

00:41:07.000 Why don't we do one every year in Charlie's honor?

00:41:10.000 Like a memorial like why don't we do like a revival style event?

00:41:13.000 Like that.

00:41:14.000 Make this like the new America Fest, or make this something that is um countervailing in like a spirit that is more like a turning point faith event that is more like faith-driven.

00:41:24.000 Yeah, I've gotten a lot of people saying, you know, you guys should do tent revivals now.

00:41:29.000 People are like TPSA Faith should go around and we should just start preaching.

00:41:34.000 But but I love this idea.

00:41:35.000 Like having a single nexus point.

00:41:36.000 This is much more TP US.

00:41:38.000 A single nexus point in a stadium and like to show people the magnanimity and then also just the majestic power of a hundred thousand people here to sing and praise and worship and to do so in a way that is positive for the nation.

00:41:52.000 Something that I think a lot of church, there are mega churches, but they never talk politics, right?

00:41:56.000 And they never talk about like the direction a moral nation should go.

00:42:00.000 I will tell you, I spoke and uh overheard some conversations, I should be more exact, because uh with some of the worship leaders, and you know, we're talking Grammy award-winning artists, these are the best of the best, and they were blown away.

00:42:14.000 They'd never seen anything like it.

00:42:16.000 They had never seen the spirit move like that.

00:42:18.000 Honor to be with you guys on a tr uh truly historic occasion.

00:42:24.000 The Monday after bidding farewell to our friend, but really saying hello and welcoming this new move of the spirit that has been unleashed on the country.

00:42:34.000 Yeah, and we were just talking about that.

00:42:36.000 So there are so many people that want to feel something that want to like say, This is why I meant the MAGA rally works, because there's power in saying we agree on these like core principles, and we can gather together and show our power.

00:42:51.000 And the right has been, of course, historically terrible at this, but Donald Trump changed that.

00:42:56.000 Charlie Kirk changed that, and be very and and and to do to do a Charlie Kirk style memorial event that maybe goes from a Charlie Kirk memorial into more of a spiritual reawakening and revival style event.

00:43:10.000 I love it in his honor to bring people together for a moral projection of like where the country and nation should go, inviting our leaders to almost give sermons, right?

00:43:21.000 To almost like share their faith to make it more about that, because that's what they all did naturally.

00:43:26.000 I doubt that you could told anyone what to say.

00:43:28.000 I mean, I know you didn't.

00:43:29.000 We we didn't tell a single person what to say on stage.

00:43:31.000 We've never told what people what to say on stage.

00:43:34.000 We've never censored people.

00:43:36.000 I'm sure Charlie had conversations with certain people, and you know, they go, Can we really talk about this?

00:43:41.000 And he would say, The floor is yours.

00:43:43.000 Yes.

00:43:43.000 The floor is yours.

00:43:44.000 We we we we believe in bringing good people to events and letting them do what made them good people in the first place.

00:43:52.000 So you guys didn't tell a single cabinet secretary or soul what to say yesterday.

00:43:56.000 Nope.

00:43:56.000 And every one of them naturally shared their faith.

00:43:58.000 And by the way, JD told me behind stage, so I was I I had a perch behind stage where I could see the teleprompter and the script.

00:44:07.000 And JD made this amazing comment where he said, I've talked about Jesus more in the last two weeks than I've talked about the entire my entire public career.

00:44:17.000 Yes.

00:44:18.000 And that was ad-libbed.

00:44:20.000 He I I was looking on the screen, and I was like, wow, you you didn't have that in your script.

00:44:25.000 It just came out and he was like, Yeah.

00:44:27.000 Because it's true.

00:44:28.000 And it felt it felt like I needed to say it.

00:44:30.000 Wouldn't it be neat in Charlie's honor to create like a Nexus event where you could have a place where it is appropriate?

00:44:37.000 Sometimes it's not, you know, sometimes it's not appropriate, or it's just there's other things to talk about, right?

00:44:41.000 We're talking about fentanyl overdoses today.

00:44:43.000 We're talking about the national debt today.

00:44:45.000 We're talking about autism today.

00:44:46.000 Maybe that's not the appropriate time to share your faith, right?

00:44:49.000 It kind of depends on who you are.

00:44:51.000 But maybe you create the Nexus event where it is appropriate, actually, for the leaders of our land, or would be want to be leaders of our land to share their to share Their faith to a large arena like this.

00:45:02.000 A lot of this stuff, if someone tries to do it, it's very stadium.

00:45:05.000 Stadium.

00:45:06.000 With a stadium, a lot of the stuff is like poorly attended in like sunken, damp, mildew basements of DC, right?

00:45:13.000 They're like very poorly.

00:45:17.000 And it'd be nice to do one where people can come, they can feel the spirit, they can get like that that energy, that revival energy that everyone wants to feel that everyone felt yesterday.

00:45:26.000 And then give a platform for leaders to come into the city.

00:45:30.000 We could do it on the anniversary of the memorial.

00:45:33.000 Yeah.

00:45:34.000 Screw the assassination.

00:45:35.000 You know, like 921, or at least the the Sunday closest to 921.

00:45:39.000 Yeah, what and um and I think it's a beautiful idea.

00:45:42.000 And we I I think I will pursue it.

00:45:44.000 And it it's a you know, like we need another event to produce around here, like we need a hole in the head.

00:45:49.000 But the uh the it was it was I mean, I agree with the idea that it you we gave people a platform to preach Jesus, and they did.

00:45:57.000 And there was a a tweet I saw from Mark Driscoll, who's a local pastor around here, and he was like, These elected leaders are preaching the gospel better than the professionals.

00:46:05.000 Yes, yeah, yes.

00:46:08.000 So one, that's very encouraging for a moral nation, right?

00:46:11.000 For a nation where Trump wins seven out of seven swing states, ninety percent of the counties in America voted for Trump.

00:46:18.000 Trump wins the popular vote.

00:46:19.000 We have a center right nation, we have a moral it's still a morally good people in this country.

00:46:25.000 And we never get a chance to see that in our leadership reflected ever.

00:46:29.000 And even Trump himself, right?

00:46:31.000 Like talking through his faith.

00:46:33.000 I've never seen him like that, like talking through his faith like l yesterday.

00:46:37.000 Like wrestling with some of the larger questions about Christianity and governance.

00:46:40.000 He was doing that live on stage.

00:46:42.000 What a remarkable thing to see.

00:46:43.000 And what a neat what a what a great platform to have.

00:46:46.000 The question I have for you guys is after seeing what happened yesterday, how many Americans do you think would get a ticket next time?

00:46:56.000 Millions.

00:46:57.000 I think I think if you opened it up, I think millions of people would sign up in the first 24 hours to try and come back.

00:47:02.000 I will tell you, I will tell you that Ampfest, I I'm I'm not at liberty to share the current ticket sold number, but it's a lot.

00:47:10.000 It's a lot of lot.

00:47:11.000 Yeah.

00:47:12.000 And we're probably gonna have to get a new venue because I don't think the Phoenix Phoenix Convention Center will hold the number that we've we've got.

00:47:20.000 So that's 10,000.

00:47:21.000 No, it's bigger.

00:47:22.000 It's bigger than that.

00:47:23.000 Well, I don't want to be again, I don't I haven't discussed whether I could say it to anybody, but yeah.

00:47:27.000 Wow.

00:47:28.000 Yeah, it's amazing.

00:47:30.000 And anyways, I I just want to thank both of you guys.

00:47:32.000 I I I I i it's just it's so good to have friends here at this time.

00:47:37.000 I I say that on behalf of the Charlie Kirk show.

00:47:40.000 Um, have brothers in the fight with us, here with us means a lot.

00:47:46.000 Our good friends at Angel Studios.

00:47:48.000 I love Angel Studios.

00:47:49.000 Amazing new film uh this holy week.

00:47:52.000 Phenomenal fact.

00:47:54.000 As I think about Charlie's life and how much of the support he was of Angel.

00:47:58.000 It's hard not to feel so grateful for what he did.

00:48:01.000 He supported us in our darkest days and in our brightest hours as a company.

00:48:06.000 Jeff and I and Charlie were doing lunch together.

00:48:08.000 We asked him, we said, Are you are you at all worried about one of these college campuses?

00:48:12.000 And he just said with so much peace in his his eyes and so much peace in his heart.

00:48:17.000 If that's how God takes me, then that's how I'm supposed to go.

00:48:20.000 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.

00:48:34.000 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.

00:48:46.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:48:47.000 Love you.

00:48:48.000 We miss you.

00:48:49.000 We're going to continue to drive forward the good news.

00:48:52.000 We're going to continue to drive forward the good news.

00:48:59.000 There is our dear friend's empty chair, and uh that's the Shaquille O'Neal chair for everybody wondering.

00:49:07.000 It was probably the cheapest of the 14 chairs that Charlie tried on.

00:49:10.000 But Charlie was a Nephilim.

00:49:12.000 I've said this before on the show.

00:49:14.000 He was huge in person.

00:49:15.000 Like people would always be like, You're taller than I expected.

00:49:18.000 He's like, I've heard this before.

00:49:20.000 And he we got all these fancy chairs.

00:49:22.000 We tried them on, he'd be like, Nope, nope, nope.

00:49:24.000 So finally somebody thought, let's get the shack chair for huge people.

00:49:29.000 And it was probably the ch it was like 150 bucks at Target or something.

00:49:32.000 We put it together.

00:49:33.000 He was like, this is the one.

00:49:35.000 This is the chair.

00:49:36.000 So I can't help but laugh at it because it's just it's just so Charlie.

00:49:40.000 But anyways, we are beginning hour two on the Monday after the memorial, the historical memorial, where the Holy Spirit was humming like a tuning fork at the State Farms Stadium here in Glendale, Arizona.

00:49:56.000 And we are joined by Brick Suit.

00:49:59.000 Great to be here.

00:50:00.000 Honored to have you, my friend, and Cliff Maloney, who Cliff uh has the has the amazing honor of having his voice overlaid on one of the most viral Charlie Kirk clips of all time.

00:50:14.000 And so I I don't know if we want to start there or somewhere else, but I'm gonna play that clip at some point.

00:50:19.000 Oh, you want to do it now?

00:50:20.000 Yeah, let's do it.

00:50:21.000 Alright, so this actually President Trump talked about this, which is amazing.

00:50:27.000 So and I love the clip, so let's just play it.

00:50:29.000 Let's let's play cut five. 0.98

00:50:31.000 Fox News decides Donald Trump is president of the United States.

00:50:38.000 We've got our Republic back, folks.

00:50:42.000 Let's go.

00:50:44.000 There it is.

00:50:49.000 Everybody should remember this moment.

00:50:51.000 Look, I'm gonna I'm gonna echo Charlie from earlier.

00:50:53.000 Remember where you were when this happened.

00:50:56.000 Remember where you were when you realized that the uniparty and all these, you know, just the establishment.

00:51:03.000 You said it's time to actually participate.

00:51:06.000 And look what you guys have done.

00:51:08.000 And if anyone deserves to get tears in his eyes, it's Charlie.

00:51:12.000 I think we all agree.

00:51:17.000 No one has worked harder than Charlie.

00:51:19.000 We gotta hear some words here from you, Charlie.

00:51:22.000 You put all this together, my man.

00:51:23.000 Let's hear it.

00:51:24.000 I I am just humbled by God.

00:51:27.000 It's all God.

00:51:29.000 It's all God.

00:51:30.000 God alone.

00:51:32.000 God alone.

00:51:35.000 Decision desk has it.

00:51:37.000 Pennsylvania.

00:51:38.000 It's done.

00:51:40.000 His beginning.

00:51:46.000 Man, that takes me back.

00:51:48.000 Wildest experience in my life.

00:51:50.000 Uh many of you guys know I am not the influencer type online.

00:51:53.000 I'm more the organizer.

00:51:55.000 Uh Charlie was one of the few people in the world that could do both, right?

00:51:58.000 To figure out, you know, how do I get the message out?

00:52:00.000 Then how do I organize?

00:52:01.000 Uh this changed a lot of that for me.

00:52:04.000 Uh, that moment, you know, one, it went viral as it happened.

00:52:07.000 And then two, you know, Megan Kelly did her whole show interviewing Charlie about that moment, right?

00:52:13.000 So then there was another round.

00:52:14.000 Uh, and then the weirdest thing, you know, to be in the tribute from the White House, that clip, um, and just obviously under horrific after this horrific event, you know, seeing it make another round out there.

00:52:28.000 Um, when I have people that have not talked to me in 15 years, you know, high school friends or things that are they're not political, they don't follow anything, and they're randomly sending me uh a reel on Instagram.

00:52:38.000 They're like, is that you?

00:52:39.000 Is that your voice talking?

00:52:41.000 You know, at your Al Michaels moment.

00:52:43.000 Right.

00:52:43.000 And Charlie, that that one thing I I I loved is is I don't know who said that at first.

00:52:47.000 It might have been you, it might have been Jack, it might have been Charlie.

00:52:49.000 It was Jack.

00:52:50.000 Yeah, but for for them to announce me at the turning point investor, you know, as the uh summit as the Al Michaels uh of politics.

00:52:57.000 I'm like, you know, I I don't really have a good voice for radio or T and I don't have a Facebook TV.

00:53:01.000 You do actually.

00:53:02.000 I mean think I think I think you proved it.

00:53:03.000 The proof is in the pudding.

00:53:05.000 So going back to that night, and you guys all get this doing media.

00:53:09.000 The reason I feel like I had to step in is because Erica came in the room, and you know, obviously Charlie was upset.

00:53:17.000 You were all here, right?

00:53:19.000 So me being the remote guy in our headquarters in Harrisburg, PA, you know, just analyzing all the numbers.

00:53:24.000 We can't have dead air, right?

00:53:26.000 We all know that's the golden, that's the golden goose.

00:53:28.000 You cannot have you know no one talking, and I feel like everybody's attention was on Charlie.

00:53:32.000 And so I was like, well, you know, I'm just gonna speak here.

00:53:34.000 I didn't want to ruin the moment, and that's what I just said, you know, remember this moment.

00:53:38.000 And I felt like everybody in the room was just you know, trying to tend to them because they were having that moment.

00:53:43.000 So it was beautiful.

00:53:44.000 You know, it was perfect that you stepped in.

00:53:45.000 Go ahead, Benny.

00:53:46.000 So President Trump talked about this last night.

00:53:50.000 And it was very interesting his take on that clip specifically.

00:53:54.000 Because Trump's like, never seen Charlie like that.

00:53:57.000 What was that?

00:53:58.000 Crying, crying like a baby crying too much.

00:54:01.000 What was that about?

00:54:03.000 But then I understood he was crying because of MAGA and how beautiful our victory was something like that.

00:54:08.000 I'm paraphrasing.

00:54:09.000 Perhaps we can get the exact clip.

00:54:10.000 But that's the name the the sense of what Trump was saying is that he's never seen his friend Charlie cry.

00:54:15.000 He's never seen his friend Charlie emotional and and and breaking down because of emotion.

00:54:21.000 And constantly, I am asked, I'm sure you certainly, uh Andrew, having to fill in in this chair uh are asked this.

00:54:28.000 How do you do it?

00:54:29.000 Like, how are you still going?

00:54:31.000 Because we've been basket cases.

00:54:32.000 I you know, we get that all the time.

00:54:34.000 Those closest to Charlie must understand something.

00:54:38.000 That all of our actions, those who worked with Charlie and those who built with Charlie, all of our actions are inspired by knowing that Charlie is in heaven, looking down and would judge us ever so harshly if we were blubbering weaklings right now.

00:54:54.000 Charlie would never allow it.

00:54:57.000 Now, this is a moment that of course Charlie's crying because he's happy.

00:55:00.000 There was a moment that I lived through with Charlie where he was he should have been crying because he was sad, and that was the 2020 election.

00:55:08.000 And everybody knows what a nightmare that was.

00:55:10.000 There's no reason to relitigate it now, but it was a nightmare, and it meant very bad things, obviously, for turning point.

00:55:16.000 Clearly, Turning Point was then under investigation.

00:55:18.000 We all go under investigation.

00:55:20.000 Charlie Kirk's social media was then about up for censorship and banning that all's happened.

00:55:24.000 We have all the documents for that.

00:55:26.000 The entire weight of the federal government came after Turning Point.

00:55:28.000 We were uh it has come out now that we were investigated by the FBI.

00:55:33.000 The FBI was surveilling Turning Point.

00:55:35.000 Yep.

00:55:36.000 And so that so clearly, if there was a time to cry or be depressed, it was that moment.

00:55:41.000 That dark moment, everyone felt it was all off in 2020, where that election, you know, collapsed, right, into darkness.

00:55:50.000 And what did Charlie say?

00:55:52.000 I know what Charlie said to me.

00:55:53.000 I know what Charlie said to me, and it rings in my ears every single day when you know, when you're like, man, this is tough, like getting getting through this.

00:56:00.000 We go 50 times harder.

00:56:02.000 This is what this is what he said, and I'm telling you, I have said that in the mirror every single morning for the last week and a half.

00:56:08.000 You go 50 times harder for Charlie.

00:56:11.000 He would not want us blubbering, he would not want us crying, he would not want us fearful in this moment.

00:56:16.000 He would want us to go 50 times harder to continue that mission.

00:56:19.000 And I think that's why that moment of him crying and breaking down is so profound.

00:56:23.000 Because we never saw Charlie like that.

00:56:25.000 Not even somebody who was a father figure to Charlie, which was President Trump, you know, and and and and Trump sitting there one like in wonder about it on stage was really something because I, you know, everyone's processed that, and those closest to Charlie understood what the mission is now, and Andrew, there's a massive compliment to you.

00:56:43.000 You have really like forcefully carried forward what Charlie would have wanted to have had happen right now, which is no, we hold the side up, we we s we stand upright as men, and we go 50 times harder.

00:56:56.000 You know, there's something uh Yeah, please.

00:56:59.000 And Charlie's last interview that he gave.

00:57:00.000 It was in Utah, just Salt Lake City, an hour before he went to the campus.

00:57:05.000 I think it was the last question he was asked is about a one of his favorite quotes.

00:57:09.000 And and what I remember him saying was this too shall pass.

00:57:14.000 And that kind of applies to the moment we're in now, but also to that moment where you were narrating over the victory, because Charlie was was saying that not only in that times of sorrow are going to pass, but to also keep you humble at the times of your greatest success.

00:57:30.000 And you need to go forward from that.

00:57:31.000 And because that symposium there was really about entrepreneurship, primarily in the restaurant industry.

00:57:37.000 There may not have been a lot of people who are familiar with Charlie or politically involved who have seen it, but it is absolutely worth a watch if you want to see something about how Charlie viewed his role in this organization.

00:57:51.000 And you just inspired something.

00:57:53.000 I mean, whether it was good times or bad times.

00:57:56.000 Charlie would tell me stay humble, stay close to Jesus.

00:58:01.000 We gotta stay like if we'd had this huge success, he I I probably have dozens of this exact text in our in our chat.

00:58:10.000 Stay humble, stay close to Jesus, stay humble, stay close to Jesus.

00:58:14.000 Like, you know, we thought we were, you know, after Trump won, it was all this, you know.

00:58:17.000 He's like, we just need to stay humble.

00:58:18.000 We need to stay close to Jesus.

00:58:20.000 And that is Charlie in good or bad.

00:58:23.000 And I will never ever forget it.

00:58:25.000 Amen.

00:58:26.000 I'm just saying, uh please, I'm just in bewilderment.

00:58:28.000 Uh, we're they have CNN, You know, they have every major news network up.

00:58:32.000 CNN is one of them on an entire wall of screens here in the studio.

00:58:35.000 And it says, Erica Kirk forgives assassin, says her husband wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life.

00:58:45.000 That is the Chiron on CNN. 0.97

00:58:48.000 We boys, we are living through a moment.

00:58:51.000 Well, this is this is what Erica and I have joked because we both you know.

00:58:55.000 I think it started with Erica and Charlie.

00:58:57.000 They would say this to each other, and then somehow it it filtered out, and Charlie and I would start saying it to each other and just be like, this is not normal.

00:59:04.000 You know, when Charlie got on South Park, I was just like, This is not normal, man.

00:59:08.000 Like, what's happening?

00:59:10.000 You're just like a campus activist dude, you know, that it's now larger than light.

00:59:14.000 I don't know how that happened.

00:59:15.000 This is not normal.

00:59:16.000 And you know, Eric and I have had more than one chuckle, like through the tears, you know, you where we just look you know, like that's you know, I there was texted it to Charlie.

00:59:25.000 I I go, I go, This is amazing.

00:59:28.000 And he he's like, Is it a good thing?

00:59:29.000 They nailed it.

00:59:30.000 They nailed his hair too.

00:59:32.000 His hair was perfect.

00:59:33.000 His hair was perfectly.

00:59:35.000 I mean, people, this is cultural power.

00:59:38.000 You know, there's a cultural power that you've always fought for that's always been at the core back before Turning Point even owned a building on this campus when they were renting, like Charlie, when it was like seven people here.

00:59:50.000 Well, like Charlie was c talking about cult but talk about how important culture is.

00:59:54.000 That's because he loved Andrew Breitbart.

00:59:56.000 Andrew Breitbart would constantly tell Charlie in particular, but all of us, that politics is downstream of culture.

01:00:02.000 Well, so you know what's crazy about this, and I've said this before.

01:00:04.000 Andrew Breitbart died in 2012.

01:00:06.000 Charlie was so Charlie had never met Andrew, and but he was so in he followed him and he was so inspired when he died that he started Turning Point USA.

01:00:17.000 Is that really the next point?

01:00:18.000 That's the Nexus point.

01:00:20.000 Wow.

01:00:20.000 He that's and he told Larry O'Connor this because there was a C Pack panel with Matt Boyle and Larry O'Connor, and I think Alex Marlowe, all of all of which worked for Andrew Breitbart.

01:00:32.000 And so Larry was kind of like, Why are you here, Charlie?

01:00:35.000 And Charlie's like, I can't wait to tell you about it.

01:00:37.000 Like, call me and I'll tell you.

01:00:39.000 And Charlie said to Larry, I followed him so closely, and when he died, I was devastated.

01:00:44.000 And I knew that I had to start something.

01:00:46.000 And so that is those those little seeds that get planted in these moments.

01:00:50.000 And so you can draw a direct line between Andrew Breitbart's death, the beginning of turning point, and now with Charlie's death, you have to ask yourself yourself how many are going to be inspired to rise up and to push back against the darkness and the against the lies and save this country and spread the gospel.

01:01:08.000 I think it's going to be I think the harvest from Charlie's death is going to be multitudes, magnitudes larger than what we saw with Andrew Breitbart.

01:01:17.000 And I I just don't see how there's any, I mean, there's there's just not an option where that's not true.

01:01:22.000 But I, you know, for what it's worth, Charlie loved Andrew Breitbart.

01:01:26.000 He always talked about culture, and you, Benny Johnson, you played a central role in this Kimmel thing.

01:01:33.000 And we can we can wait for radio, but but you I was so proud of you, and I know there was some consternation about you know, Brendan Carr and should the government be directly involved.

01:01:42.000 I think there's you know, I had a tweet on it.

01:01:45.000 You I think retweeted it, Benny.

01:01:46.000 Thank you so much.

01:01:47.000 But the point is that this was this is cultural power because we're finally saying it's this is not anti-free speech, by the way.

01:01:55.000 Jimmy Kimmel is not a victim, he's a liar, and he tried to pin this assassination on MAGA, which is a vile thing to do.

01:02:04.000 And by the way, when you are on an on a network, you get extraordinary benefits, taxpayer funded benefits and privileges to uphold the public good.

01:02:13.000 Lying to the public about who committed this atrocity is not in the public good.

01:02:18.000 And so ultimately, this is the consumers and the affiliates and the network using their free speech to say no.

01:02:26.000 And you played a central role in in building that energy, and so hat tip to you, Benny Johnson.

01:02:33.000 Well, this is exactly what Charlie would have wanted.

01:02:35.000 I mean, I tell people this, and the the easiest way to explain it is Charlie took Cartman and made him his Twitter profile photo.

01:02:44.000 Charlie loved being able to reach into culture and affect it because he understood that core Breitbart tenant.

01:02:52.000 Now doing now with Jimmy Kimmel, it's the exact same thing.

01:02:56.000 What we are doing is holding accountable, flexing cultural power in a place where we had none.

01:03:02.000 I mean, it's un again inconceivable for us to think that Cartman would become Charlie Kirk for those of us who've known him for a while.

01:03:08.000 Not on my bingo card.

01:03:09.000 That is incredible.

01:03:10.000 That's power.

01:03:11.000 That's It's power.

01:03:13.000 Something we should embrace.

01:03:14.000 Only good.

01:03:14.000 And that's what Charlie did.

01:03:15.000 Many people are like, oh, Charlie owned now.

01:03:18.000 They got him.

01:03:18.000 No, Charlie loved it and embraced it.

01:03:21.000 I called conservatives.

01:03:22.000 I called on Paramount to put the episode back up and they're a bunch of people wrote it up.

01:03:25.000 Conservatives should love this fight with Kimmel.

01:03:27.000 We can talk about it uh next.

01:03:28.000 Like they should love this fight with Kimmel.

01:03:30.000 You should embrace it.

01:03:31.000 You should enjoy the melee.

01:03:32.000 Yeah, instead of being I totally agree.

01:03:35.000 Totally incomplete weaklings and babies and doing what they always do, which is like treat me nice, pet me like a dog, I'll be your little doggy.

01:03:43.000 Rule me harder.

01:03:44.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:03:45.000 We're having a great time here, uh, remembering our friend, our brother.

01:03:49.000 An American legend.

01:03:51.000 I pinch myself often knowing that this person I spent so much time with now belongs to history.

01:04:00.000 He's not he's not ours, he's not anybody's. 0.54

01:04:04.000 I mean, save Erica's, but and and the children, but he is he will live in it for eternity in the hearts and minds and the memories of humanity on earth.

01:04:17.000 I'm not talking about his spirit.

01:04:18.000 I'm talking about his message, his memory will it will not be snuffed out.

01:04:24.000 I mean, I saw this, the White House posted, I think.

01:04:27.000 It was like it was Lincoln and MLK and you know, JFK and Charlie, and I just I remember just thinking, how on earth is this real?

01:04:39.000 How on earth?

01:04:40.000 Yeah, and let me let me echo real quick what the vice president said.

01:04:43.000 You guys talked about it in the previous hour, but you know, him going off the cuff and saying he's talked more about Jesus in the last two weeks than he has in his entire time in public life.

01:04:53.000 That's me, right?

01:04:55.000 I never talk about my faith.

01:04:56.000 You know, this is something I mean, Charlie would text me certain things, you know, some of the Bible verses, different things from time to time.

01:05:01.000 I am a Christian, but and appreciated what you said. 0.99

01:05:04.000 A degenerate loser. 0.99

01:05:05.000 I loved you leading with that line. 0.98

01:05:07.000 Because you know, I've had my moments, you know, I've had cancel culture come after me, I've had different things happen.

01:05:11.000 Charlie always stood by me.

01:05:12.000 Uh, loyalty, very rare in politics.

01:05:15.000 Oh, yeah.

01:05:16.000 But I agree with what JD Vance said.

01:05:18.000 I mean, I've talked more about my faith.

01:05:20.000 I've thought about my relationship with Christ more in the past 12 days than I probably have in the last decade.

01:05:27.000 God bless you.

01:05:28.000 Um I, you know, I don't I'm not gonna.

01:05:30.000 Yes, baby.

01:05:30.000 Just say yes.

01:05:31.000 Just say yes.

01:05:32.000 And to be in that room yesterday, I think for all of us, you know, especially me as somebody who, you know, traveling all the time, struggled to get to church, uh, as an excuse.

01:05:40.000 I'll put it out there.

01:05:41.000 But to to be in that room for the worship and the fellowship, um, it was such highs and lows of emotion.

01:05:50.000 You know, seeing Charlie with all the, you know, the the different banners that they had up, uh, the different videos, but then to join so many people and worshiping from all over the country.

01:06:02.000 I mean, that was probably the wildest part to me, is you had people coming in.

01:06:05.000 I mean, and here's here's this is something that's weird for us to say.

01:06:08.000 There were so many people we didn't know.

01:06:11.000 Right?

01:06:11.000 That is what hit me.

01:06:12.000 Because when you go to any of our events, even if there's 20,000 people at America Fest, right?

01:06:17.000 You know so many people.

01:06:18.000 We've we've worked, we've interacted with so many activists.

01:06:22.000 I didn't know so many of the people that were there yesterday.

01:06:25.000 You would run into these random folks, and they were they were they didn't have a hotel room.

01:06:29.000 They would drove six six hours and just stay overnight and no plans.

01:06:33.000 It was amazing, everybody felt like a family though.

01:06:35.000 And Brick, you you are a keen observer of kind of that confluence between the online and the IRL, right?

01:06:42.000 You you are I I see you you are monitoring everything online, but yet you are a person that puts yourself in these real moments and you're always at these events.

01:06:51.000 Tell us about that.

01:06:53.000 What what what did you see?

01:06:54.000 Did did real life match online?

01:06:57.000 Did it I mean, what what were people saying?

01:06:59.000 What were people thinking from your perspective?

01:07:01.000 Well, I can say that this this event, you know, sometimes I call myself a meme in real life.

01:07:05.000 You know, when I've got the brick suit on and I'm wearing that, that's good.

01:07:09.000 I'm a meme in real life.

01:07:10.000 And that was really kind of the origin of how I started that.

01:07:13.000 That's what I was trying to do.

01:07:14.000 Um but yeah, I I went there the night before just to check it out.

01:07:19.000 Uh Nick in the per first hour talked about how many people were there, and they just they just they wanted to be there for Charlie.

01:07:27.000 And this event was unlike Any other event that I've been to, unlike Trump rallies, unlike the Madison Square Garden rally, unlike Coachella, unlike even Tulsa, where I camped out on the sidewalk with a bunch of other people for four days before.

01:07:44.000 It was completely unlike that.

01:07:46.000 One thing that one thing that was not there was any protesters.

01:07:50.000 Yeah.

01:07:51.000 And inside, even.

01:07:52.000 I couldn't believe that.

01:07:53.000 Inside, not one.

01:07:56.000 It wasn't outside.

01:07:58.000 People wanted to get in, and they were and as I was inside, you know, it wasn't just the building that was filling up.

01:08:07.000 People's hearts were filling up, too.

01:08:08.000 Well, that's what I was gonna say.

01:08:09.000 So you here you have Cliff.

01:08:11.000 And I thank you for your just that the candor, Cliff, and the vulnerability.

01:08:16.000 And I think so many people were feeling that.

01:08:18.000 Did you see that?

01:08:19.000 Did you see that online?

01:08:20.000 People saying, like, I am so moved by this moment that I'm going to I'm I'm looking at my faith all over.

01:08:26.000 Did you hear people talking about that?

01:08:28.000 Did you see it online?

01:08:29.000 I saw it online and I saw it beside me, and I saw it behind me, and I saw it in front of me.

01:08:34.000 It was everywhere you looked in that stadium.

01:08:36.000 Praise God.

01:08:37.000 Everywhere.

01:08:37.000 It's amazing.

01:08:38.000 You know, there is not, I mean, I've heard people say this a lot, but we didn't, we did we didn't riot.

01:08:44.000 We didn't burn down.

01:08:46.000 We worshiped.

01:08:46.000 We we we held prayer visuals, and there is no greater testament to the character of Charlie Kirk than that.

01:08:53.000 That one fact, and I'm so proud of it.

01:08:55.000 You know, I I want our country to be united.

01:08:58.000 I think we need to confront the truth first, and we need to be honest about something, Benny.

01:09:02.000 We are not the same.

01:09:04.000 These two sides are not the same, and there's a huge gulf between them.

01:09:07.000 And I I want to get into it.

01:09:09.000 I've agree.

01:09:09.000 Yeah, go ahead.

01:09:10.000 I have a great uh follow-up for that to continue our conversation.

01:09:16.000 So Charlie Kirk is a generational leader and voice for our side.

01:09:21.000 Let's just call it the right.

01:09:24.000 He was stolen from us in an on-air execution done by a political enemy of our side, the left. 0.99

01:09:37.000 A transgender, Antifa, radicalized, sociopath, porn addicted furry. 1.00

01:09:44.000 This is who took Charlie from us. 1.00

01:09:46.000 Let's just state the facts.

01:09:48.000 Okay.

01:09:49.000 So who's the aggrieved party here?

01:09:51.000 Who's the party that had something horrible happened?

01:09:53.000 Well, the right.

01:09:53.000 We lost a generational leader, generational voice, and a future president, obviously.

01:09:59.000 So we are the aggrieved party.

01:10:02.000 The left killed Charlie.

01:10:04.000 Someone of the left killed Charlie.

01:10:06.000 Yeah.

01:10:07.000 Now let's look at the behavior of the right and the left in the 11 days since Charlie's assassination.

01:10:14.000 The right has prayed and mourned and gone to church.

01:10:19.000 And and executed one of the single most uplifting events in American history.

01:10:24.000 Possibly the single largest apostolic event in human history yesterday.

01:10:29.000 Now, that's our ledger.

01:10:31.000 Let's look at the left.

01:10:33.000 In the seconds after Charlie Kirk's assassination, a a Democrat voter, his name's uh George Zinn, uh, shouted that he was the shooter in order to let the actual shooter escape.

01:10:45.000 Now he's been charged with a felony for this.

01:10:48.000 Uh, he also had a ton of uh child pornography on his phone. 0.96

01:10:51.000 So sick degeneration.

01:10:52.000 Is he also charged with that?

01:10:53.000 Okay, so yeah whatever the hell that was, that's like the first act of the left, all right, was to try and assist in Charlie's assassin, okay, in getting away.

01:11:03.000 Then the in the next 12 hours, a Fox News truck has a bomb placed on it by two Democrat voters and donors, and the bomb is lit.

01:11:12.000 Thank God it didn't blow up.

01:11:13.000 But that that's a story that got buried because there was so much news happening.

01:11:16.000 I didn't even hear that.

01:11:17.000 Yes, this happened in Utah.

01:11:18.000 Wow.

01:11:18.000 So Fox News affiliate.

01:11:20.000 Uh since then, we've had four or five different charges of assault for people destroying, desecrating, or attacking people at Charlie Kirk Memorials.

01:11:30.000 Right out here in the one right outside.

01:11:32.000 That's right.

01:11:33.000 You've had thousands of leftists, maybe tens of thousands, get fired from their jobs for celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination.

01:11:41.000 Jimmy Kimmel is one of them.

01:11:43.000 Uh other time other MSNBC contributors are among those numbers.

01:11:48.000 You've had Brett Kavanaugh's uh would-be assassin come out as trans, RFK Jr. bomb bomb threat at RFK Jr.'s house uh in Washington, DC, and you've Had just grotesque commentary from the left effectively either lying about Charlie Kirk's assassination or uh or refusing to vote against it in Congress with 58 members of the Democrat Party refusing to disavow political violence.

01:12:16.000 So that has been their response to an assassination from their side.

01:12:22.000 And so I am calling a the the from space the largest BS on this despicable narrative that it is a both sides problem.

01:12:35.000 Polling doesn't show that.

01:12:37.000 No data shows that.

01:12:38.000 And the reaction to this avoid event shows definitively and demonstrably for all time that it is not a both sides problem, and it hasn't been for a very long time, if ever.

01:12:52.000 We are the side of morality, strength, and compunction and composure in a moment like civility, and they are the side of anarchy.

01:13:02.000 And so let this be an opportunity to display the differences and to own to own them.

01:13:10.000 Godliness versus godlessness.

01:13:11.000 I totally agree.

01:13:12.000 Civilization versus chaos and anarchy.

01:13:14.000 And and I would also say this.

01:13:16.000 I've seen some people, because I've seen, you know, people say the left killed Charlie or whatever.

01:13:20.000 And they'll go, the left?

01:13:21.000 Question mark? 0.88

01:13:22.000 Excuse me, it was some deranged kid out of Utah.

01:13:25.000 No, I think you're making a point.

01:13:26.000 Now I am very clear that speech, you know, for example, Bernie Sanders supporter shoots Steve Scalise.

01:13:35.000 I did not blame Bernie for that.

01:13:37.000 That's not what I'm saying, but I am saying that, yes, I put the onus of the culpability, obviously, on the shooter, but to your point, this is not a both sides issue.

01:13:49.000 There's some f uh, you just talk about no stats support it.

01:13:52.000 They keep pointing to some ADL study, but like that is that that is the most grotesque presentation of data that that is known to man.

01:14:02.000 I mean, it's completely garbage, but they created this environment.

01:14:05.000 Right? 0.99

01:14:06.000 I will blame the left for creating an environment.

01:14:08.000 When you tell people that Trump is Hitler continuously, and then you tell people that Charlie Kirk helped get Hitler elected to the presidency of the United States.

01:14:16.000 Yeah, then what can't you justify?

01:14:17.000 Yeah, and then Charlie's the next Hitler, right? 0.95

01:14:19.000 That's what they said.

01:14:19.000 Exactly.

01:14:20.000 So they do get some blame.

01:14:22.000 Hitler youth.

01:14:22.000 I can't I can't tell you how many times Turning Point's been called Hitler youth.

01:14:26.000 I just want to amend a like append it with just one thought, though, that is fast.

01:14:31.000 It strikes me that Charlie Kirk's legacy and the the harvest spiritually and both in our country that we are seeing from this around the world has been so extraordinarily huge, it strikes me how little I've thought of the shooter.

01:14:53.000 Yes.

01:14:54.000 How small a character he is in this saga.

01:14:58.000 Yeah, Larry Arne's commentary yesterday was really something on that.

01:15:02.000 I didn't hear it.

01:15:02.000 I was I was working.

01:15:03.000 What did he say?

01:15:04.000 Yeah, so Larry Arne said is the president of Hillsdale College for those who don't know.

01:15:08.000 This audience should know, but for those who are unaffiliated, uninitiated to this show.

01:15:14.000 He said that what threatens evil are good and moral people that have being.

01:15:22.000 And Charlie had being.

01:15:24.000 And an assassin has no being.

01:15:26.000 They must take the being of someone else... 0.91

01:15:30.000 The energy of someone else, uh, and and that the assassin, the assassin, the the the those with being, when they are assassinated, uh grow stronger and the assassin dies.

01:15:43.000 And I'm uh my team, I know that we can get the actual exact quote here.

01:15:48.000 I think it's worth actually saying it, or perhaps there's the clip of Larry Arne saying it.

01:15:51.000 His comments were only like two minutes long.

01:15:53.000 Yeah, Danny.

01:15:53.000 But it was a profound point.

01:15:54.000 It was a beautiful point.

01:15:55.000 Alex Danny.

01:15:56.000 Like it was a beautiful point.

01:15:58.000 Um, and said, you know, spoken in a very subtle and soft and somber way.

01:16:01.000 You know, Larry Arnes is very um philosophical individual, but it was it was a wonderful way to say that to your point.

01:16:08.000 Yeah, it's uh He has no being.

01:16:10.000 This does not negate this whole conversation that we were having before about how important it is that we get to the root of this problem.

01:16:20.000 Right.

01:16:21.000 And when when you you we must reject the premise that this is both sides.

01:16:26.000 Correct.

01:16:27.000 Both sides do have some fringy characters.

01:16:30.000 I'm not gonna say that's not true.

01:16:32.000 I think we'll all admit it.

01:16:33.000 But in uh just proportion to the to each side's size, it is far larger on the left.

01:16:41.000 I think everybody knows that intuitively.

01:16:43.000 I think what we're seeing based on the reaction, all you have to do is look at the difference between what happened after George Floyd and what happened after Charlie Kirk.

01:16:52.000 Yes, that's right.

01:16:53.000 That's all you have to.

01:16:53.000 I mean, there is no you cannot show me a statistic that will convince me, I don't care how doctored up it is, I don't care what the ADL puts it out 20 times.

01:17:03.000 You this is the proof.

01:17:06.000 Your eyes have seen the truth that we are not reacting that way because we know Jesus.

01:17:12.000 We know that we will have we will be held accountable upon our death for the evil things that we do unless we confess and we repent.

01:17:20.000 And secondly, we are on the side of civilization building, creating.

01:17:25.000 And, you know, the the anarchists, they're nihilists, they don't care about those things.

01:17:30.000 We're trying to build a country for our children to inherit that will be safe and beautiful and good.

01:17:36.000 And so if we would have taken this energy and turned it into an anarchy moment into a revenge moment, that would have spelled doom for our nation.

01:17:46.000 And our nation, our our side loves this nation.

01:17:49.000 And that, full circle, is why what Erica Kirk did on that stage last night was so profoundly important, and why I tweeted in the moment that that is one of the pro most profound and important moments in American history because it means America has a chance.

01:18:05.000 It means that the gospel will continue to go forth.

01:18:08.000 It means that we have given license to the Holy Spirit to fill more hearts and minds.

01:18:12.000 We have chosen and said yes to Jesus.

01:18:15.000 And you could hear a pin drop.

01:18:17.000 When she said those words and announced that she was going to forgive this radical unhinged man, it the ten seconds before it, in my head, I I didn't know the speech, you know, I didn't know of the speech beforehand or what was going to happen.

01:18:30.000 But in my head, I was thinking, there's no way.

01:18:33.000 Like when you when you started to see her kind of drift in that direction in the speech that she was going to forgive this person.

01:18:39.000 But it was like the whole room kind of came to a realization as she was building up to it.

01:18:45.000 And we all, I mean, at least you know the people around me, we were there's no way she's gonna say this.

01:18:50.000 This is this is eleven days ago.

01:18:54.000 This is just had her world taken from her in Charlie.

01:18:58.000 And when she said the words, you guys remember the applause?

01:19:02.000 Like the applause.

01:19:03.000 It wasn't just it wasn't just it was like almost in shock, people were applauding.

01:19:09.000 It was very so much applause that made it on the graphic.

01:19:12.000 The translation up there.

01:19:13.000 She's got her her words that says applause. 0.55

01:19:16.000 I actually have that image.

01:19:17.000 It's it was amazing.

01:19:18.000 The team has it.

01:19:19.000 I sent it in the chat actually, because I noticed the same thing.

01:19:22.000 It is uh yeah, the I think it's pick seven or sixty-five.

01:19:28.000 It's 65.

01:19:29.000 Show the show the actual image.

01:19:31.000 And underneath it says applause.

01:19:34.000 That that man, that young man, I forgive him.

01:19:37.000 And what she said before that, by the way, Benny, and I know because you've been in the foxhole with us along so many of these years, that is exactly the type of young man that we have pulled like out of this nihilism over the years.

01:19:54.000 And these men would come into, instead of getting buried in some internet rabbit hole where they just want to burn it all down and you know, never contribute to anything positive, they would come in to turning point and realize they had a place in the movement, that the movement gets stronger when you join it.

01:20:11.000 And they would find friends and they would find meaning and purpose, be a part of something bigger than yourself.

01:20:17.000 And when she led in with that, I just I was so struck because I was like, yes, this is these are these young men that have been so villainized.

01:20:26.000 She spoke directly to them, and she said, You do not have to be, you know, you do not have to cower at the prospect of life.

01:20:35.000 You do not have to cower that our elites have robbed this generation of so much wealth and opportunity and and it for the incumbent older generation.

01:20:44.000 You have agency, be a part of something bigger than yourself.

01:20:47.000 I just keep thinking of that refrain in my heart because that was the through line, because we are going to miss some, and there will be some men that are left on the sidelines, but God, I pray we can get so many of them, especially after this moment.

01:21:00.000 Yeah, and you know, Andrew, that you were a father, and this was something that Charlie, upon my wedding, was constantly texting when you're gonna become a dad, when you're gonna become a dad, when you're gonna become a father?

01:21:10.000 And the reason why he was constantly texting me that is because nothing will drive purpose more in your life as a young man than holding your newborn child.

01:21:18.000 If you want to witness an actual miracle in life, and it can only be witnessed by you.

01:21:23.000 The amazing thing about fatherhood and about parenthood is that only you see the miracle.

01:21:28.000 There's some miracles that are seen by all.

01:21:29.000 Wow, look at all this bread on this hillside.

01:21:30.000 There was no bread here.

01:21:31.000 Jesus prayed, and now there's a bunch of bread.

01:21:33.000 That's cool.

01:21:33.000 Look at all these fish.

01:21:34.000 Like that's a miracle everyone saw.

01:21:37.000 Parent, you like hold your newborn child, and it's a special miracle that God gives just you and your wife.

01:21:42.000 Just you, right?

01:21:43.000 Not even the people in the hospital share with it, really, like because they've seen it a million times.

01:21:46.000 No, it's this like moment the whole world closes in, and every father knows what I'm talking about here.

01:21:51.000 And Charlie was constantly driving toward that and constantly delivering for more fathers, more men to fall in love, get married, have children, seize their American dream, and Christ center their life.

01:22:07.000 Well, you talk about like the the destructive nihilism of eternal online, uh, eternal online rabbit holes and and and and and gaming and just the night the nihilist feedback loop, right?

01:22:20.000 Of terminally online.

01:22:22.000 You know what breaks you of that?

01:22:23.000 Like a little kid, like a baby that wants to play with you, like your son or daughter that wants to see you and says dad dad and grabs your phone and pulls it down and says, like, pay attention to me.

01:22:33.000 Like my eight-month old did this morning.

01:22:36.000 That's like it is.

01:22:37.000 I noticed you were a few minutes late this time.

01:22:38.000 And you can't that's exactly that's exactly right.

01:22:41.000 I'll I'll send your producers actually.

01:22:43.000 Maybe you can pop it up.

01:22:44.000 I'll send your producers, Andrew will send it to you and you pour it along.

01:22:47.000 Exactly what I was doing this morning.

01:22:48.000 I'll I'll I'll show you.

01:22:50.000 And it's what Charlie wants for all men.

01:22:54.000 What Charlie wants for all young men is this.

01:22:57.000 Oh, you're gonna love this.

01:22:58.000 There you go.

01:22:59.000 Here you go.

01:23:00.000 This is this is what I was doing this.

01:23:01.000 This is what I was doing this morning before the show.

01:23:03.000 Sitting there with my son in the grass with my coffee, no uh, and just like and just like living life.

01:23:09.000 And what the point is is that that that's the that's the key to unlocking your purpose in life.

01:23:14.000 There you go, Benny.

01:23:15.000 There it is.

01:23:17.000 Is that your coffee mug in the front?

01:23:19.000 Yeah, it's in the hotel room, you know, just at our hotel.

01:23:22.000 And so I just like uh, you know, let my wife sleep in, and I took my son out and I just let him crawl around.

01:23:27.000 He's just crawling now.

01:23:29.000 And you just and that is like such an it's God gave it, right?

01:23:33.000 God's God's design, but Charlie understood this so preternaturally that that was the way to unlock unlock in men purpose and meaning and fulfillment in life.

01:23:45.000 You know, that's weird.

01:23:46.000 Okay.

01:23:46.000 So I'm sure he had the same effect on you.

01:23:48.000 You have three beautiful children.

01:23:49.000 I have three beautiful children, beautiful wife.

01:23:51.000 I'm so blessed.

01:23:52.000 I I will say, this is I I felt this way, Khan, to be honest, when they were showing the footage of the last event, like those last moments as he was driving up to the last event.

01:24:02.000 It's like it's hard personally to for me to think about that.

01:24:06.000 Yeah, it was tough.

01:24:07.000 But I Blake and I were exchanging texts with Charlie about say like 25, 30 minutes before it happened.

01:24:15.000 And we were talking about you know, because he was in he was in Utah.

01:24:20.000 Uh, we were predicting that there was gonna be some questions about maybe monogamy versus polygamy.

01:24:25.000 And I I looked at that again, that that text exchange, and Blake likes to call it, you know, really advanced societal technology, monogamy.

01:24:35.000 And and we were putting all these talking points, and Charlie was like, Yes, good, good, good.

01:24:40.000 And it's interesting because what you're talking about is it there is this thing where you love one woman and she loves you and you're faithful to each other, and you you build this family and this legacy, and how that unleashes this energy that is so positive in a man because now you have to, it's like in, you know, men are like trucks, they'll sort of squirrely until you put a load on the in the back, right?

01:25:04.000 And then they drive straight as an arrow.

01:25:06.000 And it's like when you give them a family and kids, we become like trucks with a load in the back, and we have to drive straight as an arrow because we got we got precious cargo and we're gonna take care of our kids, we're gonna take care of our families, we're gonna work harder at our jobs, we're gonna try and earn more money, we're gonna try and have more of an impact.

01:25:24.000 We're gonna try and make sure that the world our kids inherit is beautiful and good And safe, and that is a powerful, powerful force to unleash.

01:25:35.000 You're the perfect person to answer this question because you're gonna I know you're gonna ring it like a bell.

01:25:40.000 We knew Charlie way back when, right?

01:25:42.000 There was a time when Charlie was just like a meme, right?

01:25:44.000 And it was like, you know, he was building and everyone was just making fun of him, and everyone dogging on Charlie, right?

01:25:49.000 Yeah, there was a you know, everyone like those of us who have been around long enough knew Charlie in the in the early build before Erica.

01:25:56.000 And my wife and I talked about this, and I want you to answer this because you were so close to him.

01:26:00.000 There was a flip that switched in that man.

01:26:03.000 Let Charlie's life be an example.

01:26:06.000 There when he met Erica, and I knew Charlie before Erica, right?

01:26:09.000 A lot of people, you know, some people did around here.

01:26:12.000 And and there was a f he when Charlie was a single man, okay.

01:26:16.000 Not that he was some kind of like uh vi you know, degenerate or anything, but like when Charlie was a single man, he was a different person wholly and completely than when he was a husband and had children to come home to.

01:26:28.000 There was a f there was a nuclear fusionorphosis, yes, that happened, and we all saw this hockey stick that happened to his career, his life, and there's this lie that it's like having kids and getting married will oh it'll sap your energy, bro, and you'll have no more alpha energy, and you know, you just gotta let it rip Nah, dude.

01:26:47.000 Look at Charlie as an example.

01:26:49.000 But every father actually knows I know you know this, Colvet.

01:26:52.000 I certainly have experienced this.

01:26:53.000 When you have wives and children, actually accelerates your life. 0.84

01:26:56.000 100%.

01:26:57.000 Yeah.

01:26:57.000 I will answer your question, but I think you did a pretty good job.

01:27:00.000 We're talking about what Erica's impact was on Charlie.

01:27:04.000 Yes.

01:27:04.000 And it couldn't have been more dramatic.

01:27:08.000 I mean, he went from like baggy suit, dude, with everything, nothing fit right, and he was you know bad haircut, bad haircut, finally got a haircut that worked, yeah.

01:27:16.000 And I like looking out.

01:27:17.000 Who said he who said he was wearing Walmart jeans from like Goodwill?

01:27:20.000 Oh, yeah.

01:27:21.000 Who said that?

01:27:21.000 That line came out last night.

01:27:22.000 No, who was that?

01:27:23.000 Was that Tyler that said that?

01:27:24.000 That might have been.

01:27:25.000 He started working out.

01:27:26.000 Yes, he started working out.

01:27:27.000 He got really into you know, he got really into like biohacking, getting the most out of his body because the time management skills that it took to run Charlie's life was dramatic.

01:27:38.000 And I wish I could bring up all of his the assistance.

01:27:41.000 We called him force multipliers, to advance every next stop to make sure there was a car, there was a hotel, there was uh travel arrangements, that there was people to greet the security, everything was had to be so exacting just to get him from point A to point B to point C to point D in a given day sometimes.

01:27:59.000 It was amazing.

01:28:00.000 And you know, people would ask for interviews with Charlie, and I'd be like, I don't know how we fit anything else into this time, and I'm sorry I'm not trying to be rude.

01:28:08.000 Anyways, that that whole metamorphosis where he became we where he grew shoulders broad enough to show to to you know handle the burden of his just his time and his energy on him.

01:28:21.000 He realized it was a a great burden, and it all went back to Erica because Erica was the vault, the safe place, the refuge, and he knew and he just loved going home to her.

01:28:32.000 She talked about that in her speech.

01:28:33.000 She was never the nagging wife, she never gave him a hard time about being gone or on the road, and he couldn't wait to get home.

01:28:41.000 And I always told it Erica while Charlie was alive, and I told her again since since his passing, you were the real MVP.

01:28:48.000 And I know this because you know, and you saw it with the athleisure wear when he would go out, you know, to the campus all of a sudden he and I remember there was this episode on PBD, I think it was Adam on PBD, uh, one of the hosts.

01:29:02.000 And he was like, Charlie Kirk's got that Riz. 1.00

01:29:04.000 He's got that Riz. 1.00

01:29:05.000 And we had this exchange where Charlie was like, what is Riz?

01:29:10.000 And and so Charlie believed in changing culture, but Charlie did not often participate in it, but he really wanted it, you know.

01:29:19.000 This is why with the South Park thing where he was like, Yeah, you were like, you know, you're on South Park.

01:29:23.000 He's like, is this good?

01:29:24.000 Yeah, this is good.

01:29:25.000 Great.

01:29:26.000 So, but like I'm gonna say lean in any ounce of Riz goes straight to Erica Kirk. 0.98

01:29:32.000 She she gave him a few.

01:29:34.000 And to become a father, and becoming a father, and how and Charlie would just be proud that that is a part of his legacy.

01:29:41.000 Well, and I encouraging fatherhood.

01:29:42.000 I love that she said in her speech, you know, that she wanted him to want to come home and that she supported the fact.

01:29:49.000 I mean, the guy, I don't think people understand.

01:29:52.000 I know we talk about his schedule, and you know, you're managing a lot of it, obviously, with the show, but it's like think about what you have to do to run an organization like Turning Point.

01:30:02.000 You're talking hundreds of days on the road to raise money, right?

01:30:06.000 Nobody ever wants to talk about that because it's like, oh, raising money.

01:30:08.000 It's good.

01:30:08.000 You gotta raise the money.

01:30:10.000 How do you guys hire thousands of people?

01:30:12.000 How do you have thousands of college, high school faith, all of these chapters?

01:30:17.000 It's tons of money.

01:30:18.000 And so I just tell everybody, you know, it's not just the time on the road raising the money.

01:30:22.000 Then the guy decides he's gonna do a show five days a week.

01:30:25.000 And I'm like, are you kidding me?

01:30:27.000 Then you have the idea that he's going and speaking.

01:30:29.000 He's doing, you know, other media.

01:30:30.000 He's doing college events.

01:30:32.000 Endorsing candidates and doing the candidate events and all this.

01:30:35.000 This is by the way, where he goes, What is Riz?

01:30:40.000 Yeah.

01:30:41.000 He goes, What is Riz?

01:30:43.000 What is Riz?

01:30:44.000 And I say like swagger, and Blake has to go, ca rizma.

01:30:48.000 One of my favorite uh I don't know if it was a lefty or somebody on the right.

01:30:52.000 Somebody somebody posted a video that was like pretty much they were saying that Charlie was hot, like in some of these albums.

01:30:59.000 Right?

01:30:59.000 And I'm I'm watching these, and a couple people sent it to me, and it's just like wait, is he like they were saying, and they're showing like these videos, you know, him playing basketball or whatever.

01:31:08.000 And you could definitely see the Riz post Erica.

01:31:11.000 So we we do have to give her credit for all that.

01:31:13.000 It was uh guys, I want to uh end with really the major theme of yesterday, and that was the Holy Spirit and Jesus.

01:31:20.000 So I'm gonna go around the table, rapid fire.

01:31:24.000 If you had to sum up just the proclamation of the gospel, the presentation of it from Tucker to Don Jr. to VP Vance to Erica.

01:31:34.000 Just give me like sum it up.

01:31:35.000 Sum it up for you, Britt, go first.

01:31:37.000 Man, all the speeches were so powerful, and I was trying from my vantage point to film them from the crowd as best I could.

01:31:44.000 And then when Jack was up there and he's holding up the rosary.

01:31:51.000 I had to put down the camera.

01:31:53.000 Yeah.

01:31:53.000 Because I had to start, I had I couldn't just film anymore.

01:31:56.000 I love that.

01:31:57.000 I wanted to be part of that.

01:31:58.000 I wanted to stand up, I wanted to applaud.

01:32:00.000 And uh that for me personally, I think that was the one that was stands out the most.

01:32:06.000 There were a lot.

01:32:07.000 And Erica's forgiveness actually is, of course, the top moment.

01:32:11.000 But other than that, Jack.

01:32:13.000 Yeah.

01:32:14.000 Good.

01:32:16.000 I mean, okay, because can we just say everyone say, like I've already said Erica is one of the all top time three most powerful speeches ever given.

01:32:24.000 So if you're asking me something beyond that, then I've got to say Don Jr.

01:32:30.000 Yeah.

01:32:30.000 Don Jr. did something that no one else did.

01:32:32.000 He used humor.

01:32:33.000 Now I really like humor.

01:32:36.000 Big time meeting.

01:32:37.000 Relax, Don.

01:32:37.000 You gotta take it easy and relax.

01:32:39.000 And he joked about Hillary Clinton.

01:32:41.000 He's joked about Kamala Harris.

01:32:43.000 That pan to Trump up in the press box and Dana, Dana White's up there. 1.00

01:32:47.000 Dana White's up there going like this. 1.00

01:32:51.000 It was amazing.

01:32:52.000 And Don, Don used uh humor, I think, in a moment that only Don could pull off.

01:32:56.000 Yeah.

01:32:56.000 And I'm a big fan of using humor and memes, and I wasn't sure.

01:33:00.000 I I didn't find it, you know.

01:33:01.000 I thought yesterday was a day to move just memorialize my friend in my own way and use it for Christ and not for laughs.

01:33:07.000 And so that, you know, you only get three minutes, so you just gotta do that.

01:33:10.000 Don did it.

01:33:11.000 Don went there and joked about Kamala and Hillary.

01:33:14.000 They'll never know what it's like to be president.

01:33:15.000 How what was the setup of the joke?

01:33:17.000 It was hysterical.

01:33:18.000 You know, it's just like Kamala and Hillary. 0.99

01:33:20.000 Hillary will never know what it's like to be president. 1.00

01:33:22.000 It's like amazing it was amazing.

01:33:24.000 The room uh needed a laugh, actually, needed sort of like an uproarious laugh.

01:33:28.000 Yes.

01:33:29.000 And so, and so like I'm so glad that Don went there.

01:33:32.000 And then also Don Jr. of all people to share his faith in Christ.

01:33:36.000 Talk about something you have never heard before and may never hear again.

01:33:39.000 I will tell you, backstage, it was like, Don, did you just talk about Jesus?

01:33:43.000 He's like, I know, man.

01:33:44.000 What?

01:33:45.000 Like, I had jokes.

01:33:46.000 I had jokes written yesterday that I wanted to use that I thought were inappropriate.

01:33:49.000 Like, for instance, um, you know, Jimmy Kimmel's show deserved to be canceled because it gets less viewers than Chris Christie's only fans.

01:33:58.000 That's a joke that I wanted to use yesterday, but I didn't because it would have been totally and wholly inappropriate.

01:34:04.000 Uh, I wanted to say that the whole of the federal government is represented here.

01:34:08.000 Um, and what I mean by that is Marco Rubio's here uh today.

01:34:11.000 And that that Marco Rubio actually has a brand new position to fill, and that's Jimmy Kimmel's show.

01:34:16.000 Well, I've been that's really funny.

01:34:19.000 And I but we did what we we didn't do that, right?

01:34:21.000 We decided not to do that.

01:34:22.000 Don was the perfect palette cleanser.

01:34:24.000 I want to play a little bit of the worship because actually one of the things about I I don't get into worship all the time.

01:34:32.000 Ever since this happened, I just every time a worship song comes on, I'm just caught up in it.

01:34:37.000 Let's play cut 50.

01:34:38.000 Let's play cut 50.

01:35:08.000 One more time.

01:35:09.000 Can I share two things?

01:35:27.000 There were two very vivid moments for me.

01:35:30.000 One was walking in and the worship was starting.

01:35:34.000 You know, I got there at that time.

01:35:36.000 And I have been pretty good about holding things back, you know, over the last two weeks.

01:35:40.000 Everybody grieves differently.

01:35:42.000 You know, I'm Irish, so we like to bury things and not not deal with them.

01:35:47.000 Um that was the first moment where I, you know, I really started to hit me, you know, make it real.

01:35:53.000 And then obviously, um, I just lost it when Erica came out. 0.97

01:35:57.000 I mean, when she came out, it was I don't want to say it was closure.

01:36:01.000 Um, but it was just it was full circle that that not only is this real, but all of the fear and everything that I worried about with Charlie being gone with all of you with turning point with the movement, she just reassured me that we're gonna be okay.

01:36:16.000 And to have her be that strong, both standing here and at the event, uh, it just filled me with emotion, but it also just reassured me we're we're headed in the right direction.

01:36:25.000 To extend an analogy I started last week.

01:36:27.000 If Charlie's death was like the death of Jesus and we were the disciples, and we were scattered and we were afraid, Erica's speech on that Friday was like Pentecost, and it filled us all with courage.

01:36:38.000 And the memorial yesterday was almost like the start of the book of Acts, and now it's all the disciples' job to take it and run with it.

01:36:44.000 Benny Johnson, brick suit, Cliff Maloney, thank you guys.

01:36:48.000 What a blessing today has been.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 22, 2025

The Revival He Always Wanted — Charlie Kirk's Memorial

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