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[00:00:00] of slow motion national decline is a
[00:00:05] choice. Today is our 2-year-old's
[00:00:09] birthday.
[00:00:11] And I look at my daughter and that is my
[00:00:14] why. For those that are parents, you
[00:00:16] know exactly what I mean. There is no
[00:00:19] mountain that stands tall as your
[00:00:22] faithfulness.
[00:00:27] There is no river that runs
[00:00:31] wide as your goodness.
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[00:00:45] Man, Charlie, uh I I remember when we
[00:00:49] were starting these out and
[00:00:51] it was that like that,
[00:00:52] you know, it was like this. It was like
[00:00:54] it was like your average
[00:00:55] three rows. It was like your average
[00:00:56] political meeting where there was like
[00:00:57] 12 people in a room and uh this is this
[00:01:01] is awesome.
[00:01:04] This, in my personal opinion, was the
[00:01:07] most over-the-top Trump event that I've
[00:01:10] ever covered.
[00:01:11] This is the number one boots on the
[00:01:12] ground operation in the country. We're
[00:01:14] working directly in harmony with the
[00:01:15] Trump campaign. It's been vetted. It's
[00:01:16] been cleared. It's been blessed as you
[00:01:18] can see there. And we're going to try to
[00:01:19] win this thing. No guarantees. It's what
[00:01:21] we do that matters.
[00:01:22] Mr. President, I can tell you this room
[00:01:24] is 100% with you. and we have your back.
[00:01:26] God bless you. Thank you.
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[00:01:40] As you know, we are heading on campus
[00:01:43] here momentarily at the University of
[00:01:45] South Florida, throwing it down with the
[00:01:48] students. It's going to be a lot of fun.
[00:01:49] Uh we are excited to continue this
[00:01:52] cultural movement that we have started
[00:01:53] at Turning Point USA. More high school
[00:01:56] chapters, more college chapters, and
[00:01:58] disagreement is not just welcome, it is
[00:02:00] invited. We want to have those tough
[00:02:02] conversations. That's what it's all
[00:02:04] about.
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[00:02:27] because you're not supposed to be
[00:02:28] involved in this. You're supposed to
[00:02:30] just kind of be on the vote for me every
[00:02:32] four years, give me more political power
[00:02:34] and stay out of my business. And what
[00:02:35] has happened is we are seeing an
[00:02:37] explosion in citizen participation.
[00:02:41] There is nothing
[00:02:44] else following me.
[00:02:50] All my days
[00:02:53] your mercy follow me.
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[00:03:00] Oh, there is nothing else
[00:03:04] I'll ever need. Knock on that extra
[00:03:07] door. Go that extra mile. talk to that
[00:03:10] extra friend because throughout voting
[00:03:13] month and culminating on the 5th of
[00:03:15] November, I believe it will go down as a
[00:03:18] day that people remember as a day that
[00:03:21] is written about in history books as the
[00:03:23] final battle from the golden escalator
[00:03:26] on down from defeating Hillary Clinton
[00:03:29] from the nonsense of 2020 from Butler,
[00:03:31] Pennsylvania, November 5th, it all
[00:03:33] culminates where we restore the promise
[00:03:36] that the founders gave us and they said,
[00:03:38] "Hey,
[00:03:39] If the people want it, the people get
[00:03:41] it. And we the people take back America.
[00:03:44] God bless Arizona. And thank you so
[00:03:46] much.
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[00:03:56] Every day the American people demand
[00:03:59] certain accomplishments and victories.
[00:04:02] Disagreement is what keeps a movement
[00:04:03] alive, keeps a movement fun. Here in
[00:04:06] this country, we are a country of
[00:04:08] flourishing. We're a country of
[00:04:10] risk-taking. We're a country of
[00:04:12] building. We will achieve American
[00:04:15] greatness. And we are just getting
[00:04:16] started. All my days
[00:04:20] your mercy followed me.
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[00:06:11] Welcome to the Charlie Kirk show.
[00:06:14] This is Andrew Kulvit
[00:06:17] filling in for the one and only Charlie
[00:06:19] Kirk.
[00:06:21] Nobody can.
[00:06:26] And um
[00:06:28] we wanted so badly to do this show for
[00:06:31] all of you today.
[00:06:33] And I wanted the friends of this show
[00:06:36] and of Charlie that knew him best, the
[00:06:39] thought crime crew
[00:06:41] to be here in the studio
[00:06:44] to commemorate our friend, our dear
[00:06:47] brother
[00:06:48] for this sacred and solemn moment, this
[00:06:52] occasion none of us ever dreamed we
[00:06:54] would have to do.
[00:06:58] And here we are. Because Charlie would
[00:06:59] want us to be here. He would be upset if
[00:07:02] we weren't here.
[00:07:05] And we of course have left his chair
[00:07:09] open and empty because nobody will ever
[00:07:12] fill it. Nobody could ever hope to.
[00:07:16] But
[00:07:19] by all of us together, we want to honor
[00:07:21] him and we want to be more like him and
[00:07:23] we want to be inspired by him and we
[00:07:25] want you in the audience to know him
[00:07:28] like we knew him.
[00:07:30] and to be up close and personal to the
[00:07:33] front row seat to history, to a legend,
[00:07:35] to an American icon that we got every
[00:07:38] single day. And I don't know why we were
[00:07:40] so for fortunate and blessed to be those
[00:07:43] people, those few
[00:07:46] that got to see it so up close. He
[00:07:48] touched millions. He personally knew
[00:07:51] tens of thousands. And somehow we were
[00:07:53] the blessed ones that got to be close to
[00:07:55] him. And in the chats, we got yelled at
[00:07:58] by him. We got pushed to more and to be
[00:08:01] better because of Charlie and by
[00:08:03] Charlie.
[00:08:05] And so we have to my right
[00:08:08] Jack Bobic,
[00:08:10] Blake Nef,
[00:08:12] and Tyler Boyer, and myself, Andrew
[00:08:15] Kulvit, the executive producer of the
[00:08:17] Charlie Kirk show. And we are so honored
[00:08:21] to share what we know about Charlie and
[00:08:23] to do it on a day where the authorities
[00:08:25] tell us that his killer
[00:08:28] has been brought into custody. And I
[00:08:32] want to say personally thank you to Cash
[00:08:34] Patel and Dan Bonino, Governor Cox.
[00:08:39] You told us you would not stop until you
[00:08:41] got him. And I admit that my faith
[00:08:43] wavered at times as the hour stretched
[00:08:46] on.
[00:08:47] but you uh appear to have the suspect in
[00:08:50] custody and we're grateful that you have
[00:08:53] not slept, you did not rest just like
[00:08:55] you promised and um you are men of your
[00:08:57] word and we are grateful to you. And so
[00:09:01] with that um I just want to again
[00:09:04] welcome my friends and um Jack I'm going
[00:09:08] to start with you. Um tell us what's on
[00:09:12] your heart right now brother.
[00:09:13] Well you know it's like
[00:09:17] I know the seat looks empty, but it's
[00:09:21] not. The seat isn't empty at all.
[00:09:26] Cuz in a way, Charlie is the only thing
[00:09:28] we're all thinking about right now. We
[00:09:30] can't think of anything else really. We
[00:09:31] can't think straight. And we can read
[00:09:35] and we can talk, but at the end of the
[00:09:36] day, all we're thinking about is
[00:09:38] Charlie. And we know that Charlie
[00:09:41] is looking down on us. And I know that
[00:09:44] when we all gather here,
[00:09:46] it's like he's here.
[00:09:48] Yeah.
[00:09:48] And that's and that's why no one wants
[00:09:50] to sit there because he is there. I um
[00:09:54] we are saying thank you just there. And
[00:09:55] the only thing that I guess I would add
[00:09:57] is you know we're hearing these reports
[00:09:59] that um family members of the suspect
[00:10:04] were involved particularly the father in
[00:10:07] bringing him to the police, bringing him
[00:10:10] to the authorities. And if that's true,
[00:10:14] um, I just like to extend a sincere
[00:10:18] thank you and gratitude to something
[00:10:20] like that. As as a father,
[00:10:24] I I can't even imagine. I just I can't
[00:10:26] even imagine what that what that must be
[00:10:29] like. But to have done that
[00:10:33] is is just shows the ultimate
[00:10:38] goodness and the ultimate righteousness
[00:10:40] that still does exist in this country
[00:10:43] and the fact that people are willing to
[00:10:46] step up and do the right thing even in
[00:10:49] impossible odds. And that's the Charlie
[00:10:52] Kirk spirit. That's always been the
[00:10:55] Charlie Kirk spirit is to stare down
[00:10:58] impossible odds and say, "I'm gonna do
[00:11:00] it anyway, when everybody told him he
[00:11:03] couldn't."
[00:11:04] And that's that's the Charlie Kirk I
[00:11:07] know that when you told him he couldn't
[00:11:08] do it, he'd say, "Figure it out." Tyler,
[00:11:11] I'm sure he told you that
[00:11:13] more times than you can count.
[00:11:16] I uh I've just It's been really hard. I
[00:11:20] I mean, we've we've been able to lean on
[00:11:22] each other, I think, talking a lot to
[00:11:23] one another about uh the memories and uh
[00:11:28] that's probably I think the most uh the
[00:11:32] most important thing that we can do
[00:11:34] today is share those memories. I've been
[00:11:37] telling everybody that's reached out on
[00:11:38] our staff. I mean, we've we've hired
[00:11:42] thousands of people in Turning Point. Uh
[00:11:45] and it hasn't been easy. It's been part
[00:11:47] of the the battle and Charlie. It's like
[00:11:49] I'm going to miss those, right Tyler?
[00:11:52] You know, conversations when we are
[00:11:54] sitting around
[00:11:57] because it's
[00:11:59] you don't really know the battles unless
[00:12:02] you've been in them. But there's so many
[00:12:04] people that have looked at Charlie along
[00:12:08] the way as uh as a a mentor that all
[00:12:12] have different emotions and they have
[00:12:14] different stories and I've told people,
[00:12:15] "Write them down." every single person
[00:12:17] that's that's reached out to me that I'm
[00:12:19] so sorry, Tyler. I'm like, please just
[00:12:22] write down your memories that you had
[00:12:24] because some of these stories are so
[00:12:26] unbelievably funny. They're so
[00:12:28] unbelievable in general because um God's
[00:12:32] hand has been such a big part
[00:12:35] of
[00:12:39] Charlie's story and legacy. I'm so
[00:12:41] sorry.
[00:12:43] No, it's it's we're we're all right
[00:12:45] there. We're all right there. And for
[00:12:47] those of us that have been close, like
[00:12:49] we've talked about, we've seen
[00:12:53] uh Evan's hand as part of that. And and
[00:12:57] that has to be that has to be uh
[00:12:59] accentuated because that's what Charlie
[00:13:00] wanted. We talked about that all the
[00:13:02] time with with uh people invested in
[00:13:05] turning point uh all the major
[00:13:07] stakeholders that you know a lot of
[00:13:09] people look at this is oh political d
[00:13:12] political dynamo uh the dynamics of all
[00:13:15] of that but all of this has been uh you
[00:13:19] know even through this tragic this
[00:13:21] tragic week um I believe that uh that
[00:13:25] God has been with Charlie from day one
[00:13:29] and and will continue to
[00:13:31] I Blake, I want to you're you're next,
[00:13:34] buddy, so get ready. But um I want to
[00:13:37] just comment on what you're saying
[00:13:39] because one of the last uh trips that I
[00:13:41] took with Charlie was a couple weeks ago
[00:13:43] and we were flying all over the country,
[00:13:45] spent hours on the plane and um I said
[00:13:48] to him,
[00:13:51] "Isn't it crazy?" Like, you know, we
[00:13:54] were talking about South Park, we were
[00:13:55] talking about just everything. like we
[00:13:58] just kind of had a moment and he's just
[00:14:01] like, "Yeah, it's all God." Just he just
[00:14:03] instantly goes, "Yeah, it's all God.
[00:14:05] It's all God." And as I was driving to
[00:14:07] the office in the studio this morning, I
[00:14:09] thought to myself,
[00:14:11] it was always God. And God has not
[00:14:14] pulled his hand away from Charlie Kirk.
[00:14:16] It did not pull his hand away from
[00:14:18] Turning Point. He did not pull his hand
[00:14:20] away from this country. It was always
[00:14:22] God that got us here. There were so many
[00:14:24] times, and I want the audience to know
[00:14:26] this, there were so many times where we
[00:14:28] felt like our backs were so against the
[00:14:30] wall
[00:14:31] that we were not going to get through
[00:14:33] whatever it was.
[00:14:34] Y
[00:14:35] that you this thing happened or you know
[00:14:38] this
[00:14:40] there was just so many things. It's
[00:14:41] impossible right now. Now's not the time
[00:14:43] to get into into the details. There was
[00:14:44] just so many things and Charlie and I
[00:14:46] would feel the weight of the world when
[00:14:47] we would talk to each other. And I know
[00:14:49] you felt it. I know you felt it. I know
[00:14:50] you felt it. And then we got through it
[00:14:52] and it was God. And somehow we came out
[00:14:55] stronger and better and uh with and
[00:14:59] Charlie had more influence and and our
[00:15:01] reach and our staff and everything just
[00:15:03] kept growing time and time again. And he
[00:15:07] knew that it was all God's hand. He knew
[00:15:10] it was all the blessing of God on him
[00:15:12] and on this organization and on the
[00:15:14] show.
[00:15:15] Yesterday I said I said Charlie's on
[00:15:17] assignment from God and he always has
[00:15:20] been. you every time you filled in for
[00:15:22] Charlie, you said, "Well, Charlie's on
[00:15:23] assignment." And
[00:15:24] so now he's on assignment from God.
[00:15:26] He's on
[00:15:26] and he always was.
[00:15:28] So we are live on national radio right
[00:15:30] now. Um and so we have to take a quick
[00:15:33] radio break for the stream. We're going
[00:15:35] to keep going. Um and Real America, Real
[00:15:38] America's Voice, we're going to keep
[00:15:39] going. Um so don't go anywhere. We'll be
[00:15:42] right back.
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[00:15:56] All right, Blake, it is your turn. And
[00:16:00] um I I want
[00:16:03] everybody to know that probably nobody
[00:16:05] traveled with Charlie more than Blake uh
[00:16:08] in the last I'd say 18 months. Um except
[00:16:12] my maybe Mikey.
[00:16:14] Mikey for sure.
[00:16:15] Mikey. But you traveled to London with
[00:16:17] him. You went to Korea with him. Um
[00:16:19] Blake, the floor is yours.
[00:16:22] Thanks. Uh I I feel I feel unworthy to
[00:16:26] be here. Uh you guys all knew him a lot
[00:16:29] longer than I did. Uh compared to a lot
[00:16:31] of people here. Charlie entered my life
[00:16:34] pretty recently. I remember you called
[00:16:37] me out of the blue almost exactly three
[00:16:40] years ago. uh first week of October 22.
[00:16:44] And I don't want to get into the details
[00:16:46] of it, but I can say uh Charlie had a
[00:16:50] drastic impact on my life. He he
[00:16:52] basically gave me my life back and
[00:16:59] I don't know how to express how grateful
[00:17:00] I am for that
[00:17:03] and how
[00:17:06] just over the past three years how how
[00:17:09] much I came to admire him
[00:17:12] not just for how talented of a person he
[00:17:15] was but but how good of a person he was
[00:17:21] and out everything he fought for was
[00:17:24] because he believed it would be good for
[00:17:27] the country and good for every single
[00:17:29] person in it.
[00:17:31] And
[00:17:33] I'll always think one of the, you know,
[00:17:35] the final things I was doing with him, I
[00:17:37] mentioned with you, Jack, yesterday.
[00:17:40] Yeah.
[00:17:40] The last speech he gave was in Japan to
[00:17:43] an audience,
[00:17:45] Buddhist,
[00:17:46] no Buddhists, Shinto. No, no Christians
[00:17:48] in it. Maybe a handful, but not many.
[00:17:50] And you know, it was about immigration,
[00:17:52] it was about other stuff, but he wanted
[00:17:55] to include I should witness to the
[00:17:57] faith, you know, regardless of where
[00:17:59] we're going. And we talked about how he
[00:18:01] could do that. And we put it into the
[00:18:02] speech 5 minutes before he went up
[00:18:04] there. And he did it. And cuz it was
[00:18:08] that important to him that he do that.
[00:18:10] It wasn't about just, you know, he
[00:18:12] wasn't catering to any audience. This is
[00:18:14] a speech almost nobody in the US would
[00:18:16] ever see or watch. And most of the
[00:18:18] audience in Japan might not even get it,
[00:18:20] but he wanted to do it cuz it was
[00:18:22] important to him.
[00:18:23] And
[00:18:26] we get that
[00:18:27] just a minute before
[00:18:28] that footage
[00:18:29] when it happened. Uh,
[00:18:31] you know, he he was witnessing to the
[00:18:33] gospel there at the college.
[00:18:36] And
[00:18:38] Blake, I'm it makes me it gives me some
[00:18:43] solace and some comfort to know that you
[00:18:45] were there with him on campus that day.
[00:18:48] And um I was just grateful to be able to
[00:18:51] call you
[00:18:54] and know that that I at least had
[00:18:56] somebody that was there and that loved
[00:18:57] him and that was close and I could call
[00:18:59] you. And um
[00:19:03] I'm just glad you were there, man. It's
[00:19:05] it's not it's not good. It's not fair to
[00:19:10] you that you had to be there, but I'm
[00:19:12] glad that I'm glad that you were. And
[00:19:15] you and I and Charlie were texting
[00:19:18] literally moments before he went out to
[00:19:20] the crowd and we were talking about uh
[00:19:24] arguments and finer points that he could
[00:19:25] make and he going over, you know, this
[00:19:29] kind of question.
[00:19:30] I you know, we should what it was about
[00:19:32] he was what are the good arguments in
[00:19:34] favor of of marriage? marriage, the
[00:19:37] Christian version of marriage.
[00:19:39] And it was, you know, that gets back to,
[00:19:42] you know, one of the other core things,
[00:19:43] how much he how much he loved Erica, how
[00:19:45] much he loved their children,
[00:19:48] how much
[00:19:50] and how and you know, how much he cared
[00:19:52] for them and how it really demonstrates
[00:19:54] the power of that, you know, familial
[00:19:56] love cuz we all talked about how they
[00:19:58] made him better, too.
[00:20:00] And
[00:20:01] isn't that the truth? You see you see
[00:20:03] Charlie like pre Erica and then Charlie
[00:20:07] post Erica and it's and it's it's still
[00:20:10] Charlie but it's like
[00:20:12] more
[00:20:12] better better clothes they actually fit.
[00:20:15] No, we were just talking about this
[00:20:17] yesterday. I
[00:20:18] and he's a father and
[00:20:20] I I know it was like night and day
[00:20:22] difference. So we used to like I used to
[00:20:25] be worried about Charlie Jackson
[00:20:26] is legitimately the real MVP.
[00:20:28] I don't just mean the fashion. I don't
[00:20:29] just mean the fashion.
[00:20:31] We were talking about Charlie's
[00:20:32] birthday. I was
[00:20:33] talking about that.
[00:20:34] It's it's it's rough.
[00:20:35] The visible point.
[00:20:36] Charlie's birthday is in about a month
[00:20:37] and and we used to I used to buy him
[00:20:40] clothes on his birthday as an excuse to
[00:20:42] buy him like sneakers cuz he wouldn't
[00:20:45] wear sneakers. He would only wear dress
[00:20:47] shoes.
[00:20:47] That's right.
[00:20:48] And then Erica came and then he wor I
[00:20:49] was like so relieved cuz he would wear
[00:20:51] clothes that like he he he'd look better
[00:20:54] than anyone like a normal person. No, he
[00:20:56] looked better than everybody because
[00:20:57] Eric is incredibly stylish and great and
[00:21:00] just it was just like he went from like
[00:21:03] the the stone age to like he now had
[00:21:05] this incredibly well manicured dress.
[00:21:08] Let me let's I love this this uh vein.
[00:21:10] We want to tell you about Erica and
[00:21:12] we're going to welcome back National
[00:21:13] Radio. So, we'll be right back. Uh don't
[00:21:15] go anywhere.
[00:21:24] [Music]
[00:21:28] Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show.
[00:21:31] This is Andrew Kulvette,
[00:21:33] executive producer of this fine show as
[00:21:37] uh Charlie Kirk has gone on assignment
[00:21:39] with God.
[00:21:41] And uh we his friends are here
[00:21:44] remembering him and we uh we were just
[00:21:48] talking about Erica Kirk and uh the
[00:21:52] before and after Erica Kirk u story is a
[00:21:56] really amazing story and I did I was
[00:21:58] trying to make a plan. I knew you were
[00:22:00] going emotional,
[00:22:02] spiritual.
[00:22:03] I have uh I have been basically crying
[00:22:05] for
[00:22:06] two and a half days. Uh and I um I I was
[00:22:10] just I remembering Charlie being uh when
[00:22:14] I first met him, it was like everything
[00:22:16] was baggy and like the suits didn't fit
[00:22:20] and like the collars were always like
[00:22:22] out like this
[00:22:24] cuz they're playing those those videos
[00:22:26] now when he's younger.
[00:22:28] I was showing I was showing Andrew a an
[00:22:31] image. It was so funny because
[00:22:33] studio, can we get like an OG CK shot
[00:22:36] with his
[00:22:37] I can I'll I'll send one that's like a
[00:22:39] perfect one. That's
[00:22:40] But he was a before and after shot.
[00:22:43] It was like a very baggy suit and it
[00:22:47] just But you know what?
[00:22:49] This is this is kind of very This isn't
[00:22:51] with a suit, but this was like
[00:22:52] No, no, no. I got a I've got a I got a
[00:22:54] perfect one. But anyways, the point is
[00:22:55] is like but his his spirit shine through
[00:22:58] so brightly.
[00:22:59] It didn't matter.
[00:22:59] That it didn't matter. No. Like that's
[00:23:01] what it was like. I remember being in
[00:23:03] some of these meetings. I was like, "Oh
[00:23:04] my gosh." Like cuz he would carry around
[00:23:05] the backpack. He had this big black
[00:23:07] backpack
[00:23:08] that has his his initials on it. He had
[00:23:10] that forever and he had forever one one
[00:23:13] pair of shoes, dress shoes that he wore
[00:23:14] and then the these big but it didn't
[00:23:16] matter. Like none of that mattered.
[00:23:18] every single person that talked to him,
[00:23:20] every one of these big time donors early
[00:23:23] on, like big time. I mean, they had he
[00:23:26] would just just be able to break through
[00:23:28] to every single one of those people. And
[00:23:30] um well, it was always it was it was his
[00:23:32] unique voice. And this is why Charlie um
[00:23:36] would go viral on campus. He would never
[00:23:39] pull any punches. The guy would say uh
[00:23:43] he would say the truth with 100%
[00:23:46] fidelity. Do you know what I mean? It
[00:23:48] was like men and women like, you know,
[00:23:51] are different. You know, two two sexes
[00:23:53] like you never there's no equivocation.
[00:23:56] No, there was no like, well, some people
[00:23:58] feel this. No, it was like,
[00:24:00] you know, it's wrong when people steal.
[00:24:02] Does it make it okay that they were
[00:24:03] poor? No, it's wrong, right? You know,
[00:24:05] and it was just he had this moral
[00:24:07] clarity that he was just blessed by God
[00:24:10] with and he would not cut any corners
[00:24:12] with it. And um and so, yeah, it didn't
[00:24:15] matter the suit he was wearing. didn't
[00:24:17] matter his fashion. Although I will tell
[00:24:18] you,
[00:24:19] but Erica
[00:24:20] Erica made his looks much better. And I
[00:24:22] will also tell you that his friends Don
[00:24:24] Jr. Gentry Beach, you know, they gave
[00:24:27] him like a gift card at one point, a
[00:24:29] $10,000 uh like credit at uh the Trump
[00:24:33] Taylor in New York City in Manhattan to
[00:24:36] get him some proper suits. It was It was
[00:24:37] like one of these things that
[00:24:39] Charlie, if you're going to be around,
[00:24:40] you got
[00:24:40] If you're going to hang around with us,
[00:24:41] Charlie, we need you to
[00:24:43] got to look a little bit more put
[00:24:44] together.
[00:24:44] You got to take care of that a little
[00:24:45] bit. Yeah, it was I mean it was a
[00:24:49] Oh my gosh, Tyler, get this get this up.
[00:24:52] You have to see this is the pre pre
[00:24:54] Erica and then Erica came in and then
[00:24:58] looked immediately
[00:24:59] I love it.
[00:25:00] I mean,
[00:25:01] no.
[00:25:02] Immediately better. I mean, I'm I'm not
[00:25:03] even kidding. He's like,
[00:25:04] "Sorry, Charlie. We got to
[00:25:06] The real miracle is that Erica went for
[00:25:07] it." You know what I mean? She's seen
[00:25:09] the you know, the baggy shirt. No, I
[00:25:10] mean, she knew. He knew.
[00:25:12] No, but that's that's that's female,
[00:25:14] right? That's the female. My Tanya was
[00:25:16] the same with me. It's it's the female.
[00:25:17] I I see I see the thing and I want to
[00:25:20] nurture it. I want to grow it.
[00:25:22] Angelo could see a block of marble and
[00:25:24] he would just bring the David out. He's
[00:25:26] like David's already in there. I just
[00:25:28] have to reveal it.
[00:25:29] I want to say it's typically not a good
[00:25:31] idea to say I think I I uh I could
[00:25:34] change this man or something for the
[00:25:36] women watching. But you can polish it.
[00:25:37] They're not Yeah. Not not the deeper.
[00:25:40] No, not the deeper bringing forth.
[00:25:41] And you could never change Charlie's
[00:25:43] spirit, right? But exactly right,
[00:25:45] but but what she what she did, I think
[00:25:47] if anything, just in terms of this, is
[00:25:51] make it so that the external match the
[00:25:53] internal.
[00:25:55] Sure. And I will say as well though that
[00:25:57] Charlie's faith became so much stronger
[00:26:00] as soon as Erica came around and he
[00:26:03] started vocalizing it more. And for
[00:26:05] those of you in the audience that don't
[00:26:07] know Erica Kirk, the woman is a lioness.
[00:26:11] She is fierce. She is strong. She's
[00:26:14] obviously like distraught and hurting um
[00:26:18] as we all are. But um she is fierce and
[00:26:22] she is strong. And I want you to know
[00:26:25] that about her that um I have seen her
[00:26:28] up close and Tyler, you've been there as
[00:26:30] well with us. Um, and uh, she is so
[00:26:35] strong and Charlie wanted to marry her
[00:26:38] because of how strong she was. And
[00:26:40] ultimately he knew that she could she
[00:26:44] could do this life that he was leading.
[00:26:47] And Charlie was already leading a crazy
[00:26:50] life when they met and when they fell in
[00:26:52] love and when they got married. And he
[00:26:54] he knew that she had the strength
[00:26:57] in her core. And she was also she is
[00:27:00] also such an incredible woman of faith.
[00:27:02] He knew that she could do this. And he
[00:27:05] was 100% right about Erica Kirk. She is
[00:27:09] truly something amazing and we all love
[00:27:12] her dearly. Radio. We'll be right back.
[00:27:17] [Music]
[00:27:25] Tyler, why don't you tell the story of
[00:27:28] how uh you inadvertently connected
[00:27:31] Charlie with his wife?
[00:27:32] So, it's it's it's this is the miracle
[00:27:35] of the entire thing, which is
[00:27:37] incredible. And I don't think we can
[00:27:38] talk about it enough.
[00:27:41] It's Trump. It's Erica. It's Arizona.
[00:27:44] It's Turning Point.
[00:27:46] It's You couldn't script this any
[00:27:48] better. Can I Let me tell Let me just
[00:27:50] set two points.
[00:27:51] I told a little bit of it yesterday.
[00:27:53] Yeah. Tyler, I think you've told this
[00:27:55] story a few times on the show, so let's
[00:27:56] like big big big picture context here.
[00:27:59] Tyler pulled off the first Trump rally,
[00:28:01] the very first one in Arizona. And
[00:28:04] there's a lot of crazy details that go
[00:28:05] into it, but the first one, Tyler gets
[00:28:08] the credit, but
[00:28:09] but the most important part of that
[00:28:11] truly in the background is that Erica
[00:28:13] Kirk is at that rally. And we don't
[00:28:15] focus on We've talked about the rally
[00:28:16] and all that with Trump getting
[00:28:17] reelected.
[00:28:18] She's in the background of the the main
[00:28:19] shot.
[00:28:20] So, right behind Trump, people don't
[00:28:21] know this. I I we can put it up. There
[00:28:24] is right behind Trump on stage first
[00:28:26] Trump rally ever. And again, they were
[00:28:28] expecting this to be a 100 person rally.
[00:28:29] They were like wanting to give uh like
[00:28:32] refreshments.
[00:28:33] You didn't even call it a rally, right?
[00:28:34] Well, so the original Cory Luwendowski
[00:28:36] Cory Lundowski was like, "Can you get a
[00:28:38] 100 people in a room? We'll provide
[00:28:39] refreshments. We'll give you money,
[00:28:40] whatever." And I'm like, "No, no, no. We
[00:28:42] don't we don't need any of that. We can
[00:28:43] get lots of people there."
[00:28:45] And we started doing this and it starts
[00:28:47] to go bonkers, right? because I'll give
[00:28:49] credit to Jake Hoffman who is the the
[00:28:52] pre uh the president of the Freedom
[00:28:53] Caucus here. He's a state senator. He
[00:28:55] was my unpaid comm's director who was
[00:28:58] actually the guy that helped start
[00:28:59] Charlie's Instagram with me and start
[00:29:02] all the turning point like all the
[00:29:03] turning point assets that we we have on
[00:29:05] social media now by the way too. But we
[00:29:08] started just going bonkers with all the
[00:29:09] media. And so then I started fielding
[00:29:11] calls from everywhere. It was crazy
[00:29:14] everywhere. And one of the calls I got
[00:29:16] was from Erica. She's like, "Hey, I was
[00:29:19] Miss Arizona. I love Donald Trump.
[00:29:23] Can I be involved?" I'm like,
[00:29:24] "Absolutely." So, I met I met her and I
[00:29:27] was like, "We've got to put her behind
[00:29:29] the president." So, I had my family
[00:29:30] behind the president, my grandpa who
[00:29:31] just passed away just a few months ago
[00:29:32] who loved Charlie, loved the show,
[00:29:35] everything. Listen daily. It was my
[00:29:37] grandpa, my dad-in-law, Lauren, my wife,
[00:29:41] and Erica is up there.
[00:29:43] Yeah.
[00:29:43] So, Erica, afterwards,
[00:29:44] we got to find the picture
[00:29:45] after this. up. I'll pull it up. After
[00:29:47] this rally,
[00:29:49] uh, I meet with Erica and I'm like,
[00:29:51] there's a way that we can she's she's
[00:29:53] faith-based. So, this is the funniest
[00:29:55] part. She's faith-based. She's so
[00:29:58] centered on Christ. We've got to lean in
[00:30:02] and involve her here with because we
[00:30:05] were starting the initial talks about
[00:30:06] Turning Point Faith or TP USA faith and
[00:30:10] I was trying to recruit her hard to come
[00:30:12] work for us. And so through all that uh
[00:30:16] I had introduced her to Charlie. I was
[00:30:17] like I think she could be great. She
[00:30:18] could be wonderful. And Charlie was
[00:30:20] immediately in love. Absolutely in love.
[00:30:23] And I was like Charlie going back and
[00:30:25] that's where it's like the tea up with
[00:30:27] you know the clothes everything else. I
[00:30:28] was like Charlie I don't know like this
[00:30:30] this
[00:30:32] a little more. He
[00:30:33] well this has been Sarah's notice. I was
[00:30:34] I was nervous. I'm like
[00:30:36] I don't know if we we don't want to
[00:30:37] scare her away, right? Like we want her
[00:30:39] to work for us, you know? So but like
[00:30:41] that's great. Let's just feel out. And
[00:30:43] so Charlie did the right. He did
[00:30:44] everything perfectly as Charlie always
[00:30:46] does. Uh did everything perfectly. I
[00:30:49] dropped him. I dropped them off. I
[00:30:51] dropped him off. He was at the office
[00:30:53] here, which he was rarely at the office
[00:30:54] because he's always on the plane. And he
[00:30:56] had set up a date to go meet her at the
[00:30:58] gym because that that she was it was
[00:31:02] it's a it's a fancier, nicer gym that's
[00:31:04] in the North Valley. And I dropped them
[00:31:06] I took him over and I dropped him off
[00:31:08] there. And I was it was the whole car
[00:31:09] ride over there was pep talk. All right.
[00:31:11] this is what you got to do. This is what
[00:31:13] this is what you got to say. Hey, if she
[00:31:15] says this, don't do that. And he's like,
[00:31:16] "Oh, what do I do if like this?" Cuz
[00:31:18] Charlie had had a number of dates, but
[00:31:21] not that many people. He's busy. He's a
[00:31:23] busy guy. He just didn't
[00:31:24] Yeah. Yeah.
[00:31:25] And so, uh, he it went immaculately. And
[00:31:29] after that, they had met again in New
[00:31:31] York where she was living at the time.
[00:31:33] And he had made a a special trip just to
[00:31:35] go there.
[00:31:36] Yeah. He made an excuse. This is what
[00:31:37] Charlie would do. He would he would he
[00:31:39] would go somewhere and he would make an
[00:31:40] excuse that was like a formal reason to
[00:31:42] be there, but there was always kind of
[00:31:44] like a an ulterior motive where you
[00:31:46] know,
[00:31:47] but it was I I'll never like and this
[00:31:49] these are the memories. cuz I'm I'm
[00:31:50] putting out a tweet right now that's
[00:31:51] saying just write down these memories
[00:31:53] because I until just now I just forgot
[00:31:55] about that was like driving him over in
[00:31:58] in my car just having that conversation
[00:32:00] which was just like and again Andrew I
[00:32:02] know you've had many of these all of us
[00:32:04] have had many of these conversations
[00:32:05] oneonone with Charlie of just like the
[00:32:06] pep talks because you know even though
[00:32:09] Charlie was such a a lion of a of a man
[00:32:13] it takes a village I think of of like
[00:32:16] having those conversations with one
[00:32:17] another
[00:32:18] takes a family
[00:32:18] it takes a family.
[00:32:20] Yeah. But he he would position people in
[00:32:22] places to be able to speak to him and
[00:32:25] give him like that like before he took
[00:32:26] the stage like okay okay okay okay you
[00:32:28] know
[00:32:29] but he would always it's like he would
[00:32:31] always just want that even though you
[00:32:33] knew that he didn't need it
[00:32:35] and he right no but you know the other
[00:32:36] thing is he you'd think you had a really
[00:32:38] good idea and you're like no and I give
[00:32:39] it to him and be like okay okay and then
[00:32:41] he would always take chew the meat and
[00:32:43] spit out the bones he would he was
[00:32:44] always so good at filtering out your
[00:32:46] your bad ideas without like making you
[00:32:48] feel terrible.
[00:32:49] Uh we got to uh um uh welcome back
[00:32:53] radio. So
[00:33:00] all right, welcome back to our national
[00:33:02] radio audience at the Charlie Kirk show.
[00:33:04] We are remembering the one and only
[00:33:06] Charlie Kirk. Um and uh it's his friends
[00:33:10] that are doing it. Um I'm joined by Jack
[00:33:12] Pobic, Blake Nef, another producer on
[00:33:15] the show. Um, and uh, Tyler Boyer, the
[00:33:19] COO of Turning Point Action, who helped
[00:33:21] Charlie uh, meet his lovely bride, and
[00:33:24] that's what we're currently talking
[00:33:26] about.
[00:33:26] Well, and that's like to that point,
[00:33:28] Erica became that person like you were
[00:33:30] saying, right? Erica became the person
[00:33:32] that would uh,
[00:33:34] you know, and it was a two-way road. You
[00:33:36] know, you'd have to filter out some of
[00:33:37] Charlie's bad ideas, too, at times. And
[00:33:40] Erica is, you know, has become the best
[00:33:44] at that. she is the uh the go-to and I
[00:33:47] know that um that was the most valuable
[00:33:50] thing but to put a pen in it that that
[00:33:53] weird situation though which was that
[00:33:55] moment where I was sitting there with
[00:33:58] Charlie and the Trump rally culminated
[00:34:01] and Eric was there and then became his
[00:34:03] wife like the entire thing is like again
[00:34:05] you talk about God things clearly God
[00:34:09] has his head had had his hand um and
[00:34:11] watching over Charlie constantly
[00:34:14] well This is the Charlie Kirk show and I
[00:34:17] want we we we played sorry we played a a
[00:34:21] um an opening uh but the but radio
[00:34:24] didn't get to hear that um and we put
[00:34:27] together a Charlie Kirk uh which number
[00:34:30] is it Blake? Do you have it? We put
[00:34:32] together a
[00:34:34] um just a montage of some great Charlie
[00:34:37] Kirk moments. Um and I think it is 443
[00:34:41] is the number. Um, we put together a
[00:34:43] montage uh for the audience of Charlie
[00:34:46] in his own words and he loved this show
[00:34:49] um so much. He loved this show and um he
[00:34:55] I remember one time when I I talked to
[00:34:57] him and I I said who who's your greatest
[00:34:59] hero and in this space you know
[00:35:02] obviously Donald Trump's the president
[00:35:04] and you know that was the obvious answer
[00:35:05] but like no Trump you know like who's
[00:35:07] and he said Rush Limba.
[00:35:08] Yeah. And um Charlie got to know Rush
[00:35:12] personally. Um I think we had basically
[00:35:15] the last big event that uh that Rush did
[00:35:18] was introducing the president. Yeah.
[00:35:20] The last two. So So he never made public
[00:35:22] appearances. Yeah. Um and he
[00:35:24] very private person.
[00:35:25] He came to uh our event at Mara Lago. So
[00:35:28] we were one of the first groups to do
[00:35:31] anything with fundraisers, things like
[00:35:33] that at Mara Lago. People don't people
[00:35:34] don't know that. We actually did it very
[00:35:36] small. But Rush had such a personal
[00:35:39] connection uh with Charlie. And this is
[00:35:41] kind of early too before Charlie was
[00:35:43] kind of a known quantity everywhere. Uh
[00:35:46] really leaned in and showed up.
[00:35:48] Yeah. And uh Charlie actually went to
[00:35:51] Rush's house, picked him up in the car
[00:35:54] and drove him drove him there and we had
[00:35:56] Yeah. We we gave
[00:35:57] He lived he lived right up the street.
[00:35:58] Yeah. In West Palm Beach or he lived in
[00:36:00] Palm Beach. Um so he
[00:36:03] Yeah. But Rush was his hero and he he
[00:36:05] listened to Rush. Uh Rush was so
[00:36:08] influential in just the way Charlie
[00:36:10] thought about politics. And and if you
[00:36:12] want to know why Charlie never lost the
[00:36:14] grassroots. He was always so into the
[00:36:16] grassroots, it's because you emailed
[00:36:18] him. It's because he looked at all the
[00:36:19] your emails. He looked at all the
[00:36:21] comments. He he he could do 48 things it
[00:36:24] seemed like at once. The the the the
[00:36:27] most amazing multitasker I've ever seen.
[00:36:30] When I would be here and we'd be on the
[00:36:34] show during breaks, even I'm going to
[00:36:37] say it, even sometimes when interviewing
[00:36:39] people, he'd be looking at the camera
[00:36:42] and yet somehow also on his computer,
[00:36:45] switching between tabs, texting,
[00:36:48] emailing, reading faster than you could
[00:36:50] even like grasp what was going on.
[00:36:53] emails he would share like in the middle
[00:36:55] of a show segment like right after you
[00:36:57] came out or even like in between someone
[00:37:00] else giving an answer. Oh, Jack, you got
[00:37:01] to check out this. Here's this email I
[00:37:03] got from
[00:37:04] Look at this. Look at And you're like
[00:37:05] reading the last three things that he
[00:37:06] sent you.
[00:37:07] He's always two steps ahead.
[00:37:08] And his speed was I I have no idea how
[00:37:11] he did it. And he's and these are and
[00:37:13] and what's crazy too is you could see it
[00:37:15] would be like, "Oh, hey, I got something
[00:37:16] from the speaker of the house. Oh,
[00:37:18] here's the president's son." And then
[00:37:20] like he here's a guy I met walking his
[00:37:23] dog and he needs a ballot. Tyler, make
[00:37:25] sure this guy gets a ballot, you know,
[00:37:27] like like it it didn't make any
[00:37:29] difference to him who he was talking to,
[00:37:31] but he never lost sight of the
[00:37:32] grassroots. And one of the one of the
[00:37:34] guiding lights for that and we set up
[00:37:36] freedom charliekirk.com and please send
[00:37:38] your tributes to Charlie, your thoughts,
[00:37:40] your prayers, anything that's on your
[00:37:42] mind uh to freedomkirk.com
[00:37:45] and I will do my best to read them. And
[00:37:47] Blake, you're going to help read them.
[00:37:49] and Jack and Tyler and we want to see
[00:37:51] what you have to say to Charlie. That's
[00:37:53] freedom at charliekirk.com. And Rush
[00:37:55] always had his email dialogue with his
[00:37:58] listeners. And Charlie took note of that
[00:38:01] and that it kept him close to the people
[00:38:03] because this world can get very
[00:38:06] insulating. And it's and Charlie never
[00:38:08] let that happen. That's why he went to
[00:38:10] college campuses because he learned and
[00:38:11] he knew and he he saw what kids were
[00:38:14] really thinking. He always made such a
[00:38:17] point to stay so close to the public
[00:38:19] even though he was so stratospherically
[00:38:21] like famous. I we couldn't take him
[00:38:23] anywhere. I mean, it was really at that
[00:38:25] point of of of stardom and fame that we
[00:38:28] couldn't take Charlie anywhere. But it
[00:38:30] all started with a love of the spoken
[00:38:32] word and what Rush Limba told him. And
[00:38:33] he would take lunch breaks from school
[00:38:35] just to listen to Rush Limba. And so to
[00:38:38] have this show and to be behind the
[00:38:39] microphone um was one of the greatest
[00:38:43] honors of his life. and he did not take
[00:38:45] it for granted. He loved it and he saw
[00:38:47] it as a way to pipe the the vanguard of
[00:38:53] the current thinking on the current
[00:38:54] debates into the zeitgeist and to keep
[00:38:57] the base steady and keep the coalition
[00:38:59] together. So, without further ado, I
[00:39:01] want to play uh the show tribute that
[00:39:03] our team put together. I haven't seen it
[00:39:05] yet, so I can't wait to watch it. This
[00:39:06] is 443.
[00:39:08] I want to thank my great friend Charlie
[00:39:12] Kirk. He's done something that is just
[00:39:14] incredible for somebody really of his
[00:39:17] age. You need tremendous talent to do
[00:39:20] what he's done. Building one of the most
[00:39:22] powerful youth organizations ever
[00:39:24] created, Turning Point USA. And I want
[00:39:26] to thank you really, Charlie. Incredible
[00:39:28] job.
[00:39:31] Amazing
[00:39:34] [Music]
[00:39:38] grace.
[00:39:39] How sweet.
[00:39:43] I have the greatest job in the world. I
[00:39:45] couldn't be happier. Every day I feel as
[00:39:47] if what I'm saying, what I'm doing is
[00:39:49] making a difference, giving people
[00:39:51] meaning.
[00:39:52] Charlie, you should have emotion. This
[00:39:54] is a moment. You totally reformed the
[00:39:56] GOP and look what you guys have done. to
[00:39:59] hear some words here from you, Charlie.
[00:40:01] You put all this together, my man. Let's
[00:40:02] hear it.
[00:40:03] I I am just humbled by God. God's grace.
[00:40:06] It's all God.
[00:40:08] It's all God. God alone.
[00:40:11] It's done.
[00:40:13] It's done.
[00:40:14] It's beginning.
[00:40:14] We did not earn this. This This is This
[00:40:16] is God's mercy on our country.
[00:40:18] Yes. You're on You're on the Lord's
[00:40:20] side. He's not
[00:40:22] Last week, we welcomed our beautiful
[00:40:24] daughter into the world. most important
[00:40:26] thing that one can do except giving your
[00:40:28] life to Jesus Christ as your Lord and
[00:40:30] Savior. Uh we uh Erica and I and our
[00:40:33] family were celebrating the birth of our
[00:40:36] son.
[00:40:36] I'm just I'm finding out how honest you
[00:40:38] are, Charlie. And so far you I think
[00:40:41] you're doing good and I hope I'm doing
[00:40:43] good with you.
[00:40:44] Candace Owens, welcome back.
[00:40:45] Yes, good to be back on the Charlie Kirk
[00:40:47] show.
[00:40:47] So Megan, there's a lot happening right
[00:40:49] now and I recently went on the Bill
[00:40:52] Maher show. I want to get your reaction.
[00:40:54] Matt, walk us through the decadesl long
[00:40:56] journey from 2015 to today on the public
[00:41:00] opinion battle. Michael, why are people
[00:41:01] going back to church?
[00:41:03] People are going back to church because
[00:41:05] the atheism ran out of steam.
[00:41:07] Ben, thank you for taking the time. I
[00:41:08] was moved by your podcast on Monday
[00:41:10] about how we must stare the evil in the
[00:41:12] face. Pete, you're doing a phenomenal
[00:41:14] job. I just want to say that from the
[00:41:16] American people that uh you don't get
[00:41:18] the credit uh that you deserve obviously
[00:41:20] in the mainstream media. We are here
[00:41:22] with Steven K. Bannon,
[00:41:24] Charlie, I'm I never roll through this
[00:41:26] town without seeing you. It's always the
[00:41:28] highlight.
[00:41:28] Well, it's uh it's that's the advantage
[00:41:30] of being in Phoenix is that you're like
[00:41:31] one of the only shows in town, so
[00:41:32] everyone kind of just comes on by.
[00:41:35] I'm sick of people stealing my stick.
[00:41:37] Wait, so a campus thing I've been doing
[00:41:39] for 13 years to debate random college
[00:41:42] kids has now been so important that it
[00:41:45] gets prominent prime time placement on
[00:41:47] Comedy Central. I think I think the
[00:41:50] whole thing is just awesome. Bobby
[00:41:51] Kennedy, welcome back to the program.
[00:41:53] Charlie, thanks for having me.
[00:41:54] They canceled the president of the
[00:41:55] United States, the most powerful man in
[00:41:56] the world, what it was my father.
[00:41:58] If they can do that to him, they can do
[00:41:59] it to anyone. If they can't do it if
[00:42:01] we're all banded together and we're
[00:42:02] fighting one battle,
[00:42:03] Don Junior, everybody, very special hour
[00:42:06] episode for you today. My wife joins us,
[00:42:08] Erica Kirk. The beautiful, legendary
[00:42:10] Erica.
[00:42:11] I love you so much.
[00:42:12] I love you.
[00:42:13] You're my best friend.
[00:42:14] Welcome to the Charlie Kirk show.
[00:42:15] Thanks, babe.
[00:42:17] was blind but now
[00:42:22] I see.
[00:42:24] Thanks so much for listening everybody
[00:42:25] and God bless.
[00:42:33] That's great job guys. Really good job.
[00:42:40] We miss him.
[00:42:41] That last shot of him walking off stage.
[00:42:43] I miss my friend.
[00:42:45] You know, one of the things that Charlie
[00:42:48] was kind of interesting early in
[00:42:49] Charlie's career was he wasn't um he's a
[00:42:53] a prolific speaker, obviously he's a
[00:42:56] genius on stage, but he wasn't really
[00:42:59] interested in, you know, spotlight. It's
[00:43:02] a really interesting piece to him was
[00:43:04] that he was it was I think that's kind
[00:43:06] of like almost like we were talking with
[00:43:09] I was talking with people and the best
[00:43:10] analogy to Charlie was that he was very
[00:43:12] much um in the come follow me spirit of
[00:43:16] of Christ. I think that's what the most
[00:43:18] Christlike thing about him was was that
[00:43:20] people wanted to follow him. Sorry I
[00:43:23] just can't can't get through all this.
[00:43:25] Um, but he didn't want spotlight and I
[00:43:27] think that was part of his his and so
[00:43:31] when I had suggested with our events
[00:43:33] team that we do bigger things that we do
[00:43:36] consider because we have more people who
[00:43:38] want to show up and we have more kids
[00:43:40] and all that. It wasn't about that for
[00:43:43] him. It wasn't I People watch these
[00:43:45] things and they're like we I mean we
[00:43:47] went rock star. We went full rockstar on
[00:43:49] Charlie Kirk and a lot of that is thanks
[00:43:51] to Andrew. I mean, without a doubt, you
[00:43:53] know, we give we give Erica Erica 100%
[00:43:55] made him rockstar. Uh,
[00:43:58] I give you more credit for that because
[00:43:59] you you forced him to do it and then
[00:44:02] eventually he embraced it, but
[00:44:05] but it was he was not the
[00:44:06] he wasn't interested in that,
[00:44:07] but he also like wasn't your sort of
[00:44:09] like
[00:44:11] central casting character to do it. No.
[00:44:13] And you made him
[00:44:16] enter out, you know, embark out on a
[00:44:18] much bigger vision. But but this is the
[00:44:20] point with Charlie is that he was a he
[00:44:22] was a very humble person.
[00:44:24] And I I don't want that to change with
[00:44:26] like how people start to take um the
[00:44:29] memory of of Charlie because he's big.
[00:44:32] He wasn't interested in what the stage
[00:44:34] looked like or like who was there, what
[00:44:36] the spotlight looked like. He just
[00:44:38] wanted to tell the truth. He just wanted
[00:44:39] to tell people what was what they needed
[00:44:42] to hear. And uh and he was really good
[00:44:45] at that. Um really good at that. but
[00:44:49] everything else built around him for the
[00:44:51] right reasons. I'm so sorry, Blake. I'm
[00:44:53] like spitting like tears everywhere and
[00:44:55] everything else. It's like splash zone.
[00:44:57] Um, but he is
[00:45:00] his his legacy is going to be what you
[00:45:04] said, Andrew, is that he was a
[00:45:05] incredibly humble person that was thrust
[00:45:09] into something that was so much bigger
[00:45:11] than all of us, so much bigger than him,
[00:45:14] but he was the perfect person for the
[00:45:16] perfect time. He um he always told young
[00:45:20] people be a part of something bigger
[00:45:22] than yourself and he is the um
[00:45:27] the most iconic example of that that I
[00:45:30] think any of us can imagine. And um
[00:45:33] we're going to take a break from radio.
[00:45:35] Um we'll be right back on the stream.
[00:45:41] [Music]
[00:45:42] All
[00:45:50] [Music]
[00:45:56] right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk
[00:45:58] show. Um, you know, I wasn't going to do
[00:46:01] this, uh, but, um, I think the team, uh,
[00:46:05] was absolutely spot on. People want
[00:46:07] something to remember Charlie by. I have
[00:46:09] been getting message after message,
[00:46:12] email, comment,
[00:46:15] this huge outpouring of people saying
[00:46:19] and and cuz Charlie, as as we all know,
[00:46:23] he loved
[00:46:25] t-shirts, apparel, hats.
[00:46:27] Like, get me one that says that, get me
[00:46:28] one that says that. Like, literally, the
[00:46:30] team would screen press them almost on a
[00:46:32] two-hour turn. And it's because it's
[00:46:34] because he understood that that is a a
[00:46:38] physical real messaging platform that
[00:46:42] you can wear in the real world in the
[00:46:44] real space
[00:46:45] that would be seen
[00:46:46] that would be seen
[00:46:46] billions of times in Charlie's instance
[00:46:49] and and he wanted so whatever the
[00:46:52] message that he wanted to send or what
[00:46:53] he was thinking about would usually be
[00:46:56] what he would wear and there'd be times
[00:46:57] where he'd have you know a different one
[00:46:59] on five days a week if you watch the
[00:47:01] show and that was all very I just didn't
[00:47:03] mean to say it's very deliberate. It was
[00:47:04] it was not like some random thing.
[00:47:06] No, no, no. He he loved his different
[00:47:08] shirts and so please put them back on
[00:47:10] screen, guys. So, here here they are and
[00:47:13] they are available for purchase. Um
[00:47:15] we're going to as many as everybody
[00:47:17] wants. We don't have them made yet, so
[00:47:18] please be gracious with us. We're going
[00:47:20] to get them out as fast as we can. Um
[00:47:24] charliekirkstore.com.
[00:47:26] charliekirkstore.com.
[00:47:28] And I think the team did an amazing job
[00:47:30] with them. And um the the middle one is
[00:47:33] I am Charlie Kirk.
[00:47:35] I've seen so many people saying that.
[00:47:37] Yeah. And it's um it's a beautiful
[00:47:40] testament and I love it and I want one.
[00:47:43] And the other one is uh I'm just humbled
[00:47:47] by God's grace. And that of course was
[00:47:49] from election night November 2024 um
[00:47:53] when Charlie got news that Pennsylvania
[00:47:55] had been called by Fox News uh for
[00:47:58] Donald Trump
[00:47:59] and that he would be the 47th president
[00:48:01] of the United States
[00:48:02] right in this room. that viral video. It
[00:48:04] happened right here,
[00:48:05] right in this chair.
[00:48:06] And Charlie put his hands up to his face
[00:48:08] and a man who doesn't cry very often got
[00:48:12] mistied and um and he gave all the glory
[00:48:16] to God and I love that and I'm so glad
[00:48:19] that they picked that that that that
[00:48:21] moment. And then the other one is um the
[00:48:25] freedom shirt and it has the date that
[00:48:28] it happened and that's the shirt that he
[00:48:30] was wearing. Yeah.
[00:48:31] And uh we put the Turning Point hook on
[00:48:34] that sleeve as well. And so if you want
[00:48:37] to honor Charlie and obviously you want
[00:48:40] to help the show um that that would be
[00:48:42] amazing. Um
[00:48:44] can I shout out you guys real quick? I
[00:48:46] mean we have so many good people who
[00:48:48] work for for Charlie uh his show his his
[00:48:52] personal side. Uh people don't talk
[00:48:54] about this. I I I was careful not to
[00:48:56] talk about this because Charlie again
[00:48:58] didn't like the spotlight of it all. Um,
[00:49:01] but
[00:49:02] part of the reason why this show exists
[00:49:04] is because Charlie didn't want to do
[00:49:07] things that would cost money from
[00:49:10] Turning Point.
[00:49:11] Uh, for years and years and years and
[00:49:13] years, Charlie didn't take a salary from
[00:49:14] Turning Point. Uh, he paid himself, I
[00:49:17] know this because I I was the one that
[00:49:20] had to approve payrolls for at Turning
[00:49:22] Point for seven years. He paid himself
[00:49:25] like $30,000 a year. Then a little bit.
[00:49:29] Yeah. He didn't take a wage for the
[00:49:30] first 5 years and then his first wage I
[00:49:32] think was likein it was tiny
[00:49:34] 15,000 the first year 20
[00:49:36] and I know that cuz mine was tiny too
[00:49:37] when I gave over it was like insane and
[00:49:39] and then he the part of the show was
[00:49:41] that he was able to give back so it cost
[00:49:45] Turning Point nothing for Charlie to run
[00:49:47] Turning Point.
[00:49:47] Yeah. People don't know this. Charlie
[00:49:49] gave there was this stupid AP article
[00:49:52] I'll never forget where they tried to
[00:49:54] give I know but they tried to make it
[00:49:56] sound like Charlie was was somehow
[00:49:58] taking money from donors or something or
[00:50:00] fleecing the donors. But here's the
[00:50:02] truth.
[00:50:03] Charlie paid back his salary and then
[00:50:06] some back to Turning Point every year.
[00:50:08] He donated back all that. Here's one
[00:50:10] second guys. Uh going to welcome back
[00:50:12] radio
[00:50:25] [Music]
[00:50:29] Go ahead, Tyler.
[00:50:30] I was just I was just going to say this
[00:50:32] is that that he he was able to do
[00:50:35] something beyond anyone else. So there's
[00:50:38] I mean there's great people that people
[00:50:39] admire a lot. Rush is one of those
[00:50:41] people, but Rush didn't build in his
[00:50:43] spare time a Turning Point USA, a
[00:50:45] turning point action and all that,
[00:50:47] right? Like Charlie did all that. Gave
[00:50:49] it all back essentially
[00:50:52] for that. And then we have the whole
[00:50:53] point of why I say this is we have so
[00:50:55] many good people here at the show that
[00:50:56] that have that work here that that
[00:50:59] produce it to get truth out because
[00:51:01] again what that Charlie was interested
[00:51:03] in wasn't spotlight. It was getting the
[00:51:05] truth out. it was doing something bigger
[00:51:07] than himself. And every single person
[00:51:10] that's here that that are back behind
[00:51:12] the glass right now and that are in this
[00:51:14] building that uh are across campus here
[00:51:17] at Turning Point headquarters. Um join
[00:51:20] Charlie on that vision and are part of
[00:51:22] that. And so uh you with that we talked
[00:51:25] about the shirts and everything else.
[00:51:26] please um support, you know, this this
[00:51:29] mission to continue Charlie's voice with
[00:51:31] with Charlie's show because there's so
[00:51:33] many good people here
[00:51:35] that that have done that. And I know
[00:51:37] Andrew's
[00:51:37] Erica looked at me yesterday and she
[00:51:40] said the show has to keep going and
[00:51:43] Turning Point has to grow even bigger.
[00:51:45] And um I hope I'm at liberty to say
[00:51:48] that. I think she would want me to say
[00:51:50] that.
[00:51:50] Yeah.
[00:51:51] Um and so we don't know what the future
[00:51:53] holds for everything. uh at least, you
[00:51:56] know, with fine detail. But we know that
[00:51:59] that will happen that we will honor that
[00:52:01] and I know Charlie would want that to
[00:52:03] happen.
[00:52:03] That's the only way to honor Charlie is
[00:52:05] to to for everything to get bigger and
[00:52:07] to again again that point which is that
[00:52:09] this is bigger than any singular person.
[00:52:12] Uh but honoring Charlie's memory
[00:52:15] permanently. Yeah.
[00:52:16] With making Turning Point bigger and the
[00:52:18] mission which is activate
[00:52:20] as many human beings as possible to do
[00:52:22] the work to do the Lord's work and to do
[00:52:24] the work to save the republic. So put
[00:52:26] those those shirts back.
[00:52:27] I think that's where that
[00:52:28] for the radio. Um if you can you can go
[00:52:30] to charliekirkstore.com
[00:52:33] charliekirkstore.com.
[00:52:34] We have three options.
[00:52:37] um the the election night shirt. There's
[00:52:40] a drawing of him um putting his hands on
[00:52:43] his face after he found out that Trump
[00:52:44] was going to be elected the 47th
[00:52:46] president. And he said, "I'm just
[00:52:48] humbled by God's grace." And uh that's a
[00:52:50] beautiful one is I am Charlie Kirk. And
[00:52:54] people love that. Um I am Charlie Kirk.
[00:52:56] I've been seeing that everywhere. And
[00:52:58] then we have the shirt um the freedom
[00:53:01] shirt that he was wearing and with the
[00:53:04] date on it and the the turning point
[00:53:07] hook also on that on that sleeve.
[00:53:09] I think that message in the center shirt
[00:53:11] there, I'm Charlie Kirk, that that
[00:53:13] speaks to what Tyler's talking about.
[00:53:15] It's that it's the Charlie Kirk spirit,
[00:53:17] right? It's I was saying this yesterday
[00:53:19] on interview, you know, you who's the
[00:53:23] next Charlie Kirk? like well there isn't
[00:53:24] an ex Charlie Kirk but Charlie if if you
[00:53:26] asked him that in public right he would
[00:53:28] say you you know you go get a megaphone
[00:53:32] or you know a chair and go to your local
[00:53:36] park and set up a folding table on camp
[00:53:40] whatever it is right whatever public
[00:53:42] place you can be and and go do this too
[00:53:45] and so it doesn't mean you know it
[00:53:48] doesn't it's not about him right it's
[00:53:50] about you take that Charlie Kirk spirit
[00:53:53] and go and be the next one and go set up
[00:53:56] your chapter or go set up your thing and
[00:53:58] go be that person. And that I think is
[00:54:01] is the message that's now
[00:54:04] and and you see this it's around the
[00:54:06] world.
[00:54:06] It's completely we'll talk about it
[00:54:08] later, but it's it's totally around the
[00:54:09] world. I mean, I'm getting messages from
[00:54:11] like
[00:54:12] I don't even want to say, but just
[00:54:13] countries that you wouldn't even believe
[00:54:15] had heard of Charlie
[00:54:17] are doing vigils for Charlie. I uh I
[00:54:19] actually do want to talk about that at
[00:54:21] length because one of the things that
[00:54:23] I've realized um and I I tweeted about
[00:54:26] this or posted about this last night on
[00:54:28] X um there was a video of a vigil that
[00:54:31] was sent to me and I just
[00:54:34] and I said I've constantly had to
[00:54:36] recalibrate my internal clock because
[00:54:38] you kind of know
[00:54:39] I know exactly what you mean
[00:54:40] how famous Charlie is and then like
[00:54:43] something else would kind of blow your
[00:54:45] mind and be like whoa he's actually way
[00:54:47] bigger And Blake, I'm sure you had a
[00:54:49] bunch of those even in Soul. You're
[00:54:51] like, "Whoa, people know I'm here." Um,
[00:54:53] but yeah, I I am realizing that as much
[00:54:58] as I tried to recalibrate, I'm I'm
[00:55:00] probably two years behind like actually
[00:55:02] how famous he was like in my in my
[00:55:04] internal clock. And I
[00:55:06] in his death um and Trump said this
[00:55:09] beautifully actually this morning on
[00:55:10] Fox. Um I don't know what clip it is.
[00:55:12] I'm sure we have it.
[00:55:13] We'll we'll play that.
[00:55:14] Yeah. That that he's now he's even
[00:55:16] bigger. he was huge and now he's a
[00:55:19] worldwide icon. And um
[00:55:22] before we before we get away off the
[00:55:24] topic and I know there's a break um I I
[00:55:27] want to piggyback on Tyler and just say
[00:55:29] thank you to the staff for being here
[00:55:30] today
[00:55:31] and and
[00:55:34] yeah, their hearts are broken too.
[00:55:35] Impossible task.
[00:55:36] We and all of our Turning Point staff
[00:55:38] right now at home with family as we as
[00:55:40] as expected. But again, for here being
[00:55:43] part of the show and honoring Charlie, I
[00:55:45] mean, that's just such a hard thing to
[00:55:46] ask people to do. And I I can't thank
[00:55:48] you each enough.
[00:55:50] Everybody behind the glass. Seriously,
[00:55:51] thank you for being here.
[00:55:53] Thank you to our amazing team. They
[00:55:54] really are amazing. And Charlie loved
[00:55:56] them dearly. Uh radio, we'll uh we'll
[00:56:00] see you again in a couple minutes. We're
[00:56:02] going to keep streaming for a few
[00:56:03] seconds.
[00:56:10] [Music]
[00:56:18] [Music]
[00:56:36] [Music]
[00:56:44] to a lot of young people on campuses, at
[00:56:47] our events, on my radio show, podcast,
[00:56:49] and social media. Said differently, I
[00:56:52] visit college campuses so you don't have
[00:56:54] to.
[00:56:57] [Applause]
[00:56:59] We're talking to so many voters that
[00:57:01] know it is time for change. They know
[00:57:03] that something is wrong. America's
[00:57:06] future is a series of choices.
[00:57:09] Our current state of slow motion
[00:57:13] national decline is a choice. Today is
[00:57:18] our 2-year-old's birthday.
[00:57:22] And I look at my daughter and that is my
[00:57:24] why. For those that are parents, you
[00:57:26] know exactly what I mean.
[00:57:28] There is no mountain that stands tall as
[00:57:32] your faithfulness.
[00:57:38] There is no river that runs wide as your
[00:57:42] goodness.
[00:57:56] Man, Charlie, uh, I I remember when we
[00:58:00] were starting these out and
[00:58:01] it was that like that,
[00:58:03] you know, it was like this. It was like
[00:58:04] it was like your average
[00:58:05] three rows.
[00:58:06] It was like your average political
[00:58:07] meeting where there was like 12 people
[00:58:08] in a room and uh, this is this is
[00:58:11] awesome.
[00:58:15] This, in my personal opinion, was the
[00:58:17] most over-the-top Trump event that I've
[00:58:21] ever covered. This is the number one
[00:58:22] boots on the ground operation in the
[00:58:24] country. We're working directly in
[00:58:25] harmony with the Trump campaign. It's
[00:58:26] been vetted. It's been cleared. It's
[00:58:27] been blessed, as you could see there.
[00:58:29] And we're going to try to win this
[00:58:30] thing. No guarantees. It's what we do
[00:58:32] that matters.
[00:58:32] Mr. President, I can tell you this room
[00:58:34] is 100% with you, and we have your back.
[00:58:36] God bless you. We really do. Thank you.
[00:58:43] [Music]
[00:58:46] [Applause]
[00:58:47] [Music]
[00:58:50] As you know, we are heading on campus
[00:58:53] here momentarily at the University of
[00:58:55] South Florida, throwing it down with the
[00:58:58] students. It's going to be a lot of fun.
[00:59:00] Uh we are excited to continue this
[00:59:02] cultural movement that we have started
[00:59:04] at Turning Point USA. More high school
[00:59:06] chapters, more college chapters. And
[00:59:09] disagreement is not just welcome. It is
[00:59:11] invited. We want to have those tough
[00:59:13] conversations. That's what it's all
[00:59:14] about.
[00:59:16] [Applause]
[00:59:17] [Music]
[00:59:17] [Applause]
[00:59:22] [Music]
[00:59:23] [Applause]
[00:59:24] [Music]
[00:59:37] Because you're not supposed to be
[00:59:39] involved in this. you're supposed to
[00:59:40] just kind of be on the vote for me every
[00:59:43] four years, give me more political power
[00:59:44] and stay out of my business. And what
[00:59:46] has happened is we are seeing an
[00:59:48] explosion in citizen participation.
[00:59:51] There is nothing
[00:59:55] else following me.
[01:00:01] All of my days
[01:00:03] your mercy follow me.
[01:00:09] [Applause]
[01:00:10] Oh, there is nothing
[01:00:14] else I'll ever need. Knock on that extra
[01:00:18] door. Go that extra mile. talk to that
[01:00:20] extra friend because throughout voting
[01:00:23] month and culminating on the 5th of
[01:00:26] November, I believe it will go down as a
[01:00:29] day that people remember as a day that
[01:00:32] is written about in history books as the
[01:00:34] final battle from the golden escalator
[01:00:36] on down from defeating Hillary Clinton
[01:00:39] from the nonsense of 2020 from Butler,
[01:00:42] Pennsylvania, November 5th, it all
[01:00:43] culminates where we restore the promise
[01:00:47] that the founders gave us and they said,
[01:00:49] "Hey,
[01:00:50] If the people want it, the people get
[01:00:52] it. And we the people take back America.
[01:00:54] God bless Arizona. And thank you so
[01:00:56] much.
[01:00:59] [Music]
[01:01:06] Every day the American people demand
[01:01:10] certain accomplishments and victories.
[01:01:12] Disagreement is what keeps a movement
[01:01:14] alive, keeps a movement fun. Here in
[01:01:17] this country, we are a country of
[01:01:19] flourishing. We're a country of
[01:01:20] risk-taking. We're a country of
[01:01:22] building. We will achieve American
[01:01:25] greatness. And we are just getting
[01:01:27] started. All of my days
[01:01:31] your mercy
[01:01:34] follow me.
[01:01:37] [Music]
[01:01:47] Blake, I'm gonna ask you a question.
[01:01:49] What do you want?
[01:01:52] All right, welcome back everybody. Um,
[01:01:55] here we are at the Charlie Kirk Show
[01:01:57] studio. Um,
[01:01:59] I remember building this studio and I
[01:02:02] remember designing it so Charlie would
[01:02:04] be here and then he decided he liked it
[01:02:07] here better so we flipped everything.
[01:02:11] Um, and he had to have his Oregon duck
[01:02:13] thing over there.
[01:02:14] It was the the original original was a
[01:02:16] straight line. Yeah, it was a straight
[01:02:17] Well, this desk actually is modular and
[01:02:19] so you can kind of fold it uh so that
[01:02:22] the two levels
[01:02:23] fold into one another and it was just a
[01:02:25] desk and it was supposed to be designed
[01:02:26] so if you had guest it could fold out
[01:02:28] and but he just liked it like this all
[01:02:31] the time.
[01:02:31] Wasn't it wasn't it we did we did one of
[01:02:34] the election night streams or or
[01:02:35] something and we we set up the V and he
[01:02:38] just liked it.
[01:02:39] He just like liked it.
[01:02:40] Left it
[01:02:41] and he just left it that way. Well, this
[01:02:43] when we I remember walking into So, the
[01:02:45] story of this complex is really
[01:02:46] interesting because we were in Chicago
[01:02:49] and we came over here and we found this
[01:02:51] this this space because we wanted to
[01:02:53] have a building for Turning Point that
[01:02:55] was by itself.
[01:02:56] Yeah.
[01:02:57] And fast forward to we had to go through
[01:02:59] and talk every single one of the people
[01:03:01] in this complex to sell the buildings.
[01:03:03] So, I I had to get on the phone with
[01:03:05] these guys and luckily we had this
[01:03:06] incredible kid that was in real estate
[01:03:09] that helped and we talked him into it.
[01:03:11] But I remember walking through this
[01:03:12] building for the first time and this is
[01:03:14] a garage. This was actually a garage. So
[01:03:17] this was like a they a shop like they
[01:03:19] they had like a bunch of machines and
[01:03:21] stuff in here and they had they used to
[01:03:22] have all this equipment that was like
[01:03:24] hanging off and we just started going
[01:03:25] through just yanking stuff out. We're
[01:03:27] like this will be the home for Charlie
[01:03:28] the Charlie Kirk studio.
[01:03:30] And I I feel bad for the audience
[01:03:32] because I'm not sitting in Charlie's
[01:03:34] seat. You're seeing the the profile shot
[01:03:36] of of Tyler U because he's looking at me
[01:03:39] when he's talking. So I apologize.
[01:03:40] That's been everything on the show that
[01:03:42] I'm always
[01:03:42] You're always looking cuz that's Tyler's
[01:03:45] seat.
[01:03:46] I know. And I kept I kept telling the
[01:03:47] studio I was like, "Can we like get that
[01:03:49] camera?"
[01:03:50] Andrew Andrew is pointing out this is a
[01:03:52] this is a blocking violation for for
[01:03:55] film and TV.
[01:03:56] It's worth it. So, um,
[01:03:58] but we've kind of always done it. Blake,
[01:04:00] I you know, and I'm going to ask, let me
[01:04:02] ask you this when radio gets back on,
[01:04:04] but I was just talking with the we took
[01:04:06] a quick uh bio break as they call it in
[01:04:08] the business. And um I was asking the
[01:04:11] team, I was like, "What do people want
[01:04:12] to hear right now?" And the whole team
[01:04:14] is out there in the bays and they were
[01:04:17] like, "People want to hear stories about
[01:04:18] Charlie and they want to see the
[01:04:21] behind-the-scenes stuff." And so I want
[01:04:23] us to share that with him and with the
[01:04:27] audience of our interactions with him.
[01:04:29] And I don't want to force you to start
[01:04:31] when we we're going to be welcome back
[01:04:32] national radio in about a minute. But
[01:04:34] that's um there there are
[01:04:38] there's that line in the Bible about
[01:04:39] Jesus where it says, you know, there
[01:04:41] there would be the writing of endless
[01:04:44] books about all the things that Jesus
[01:04:46] did. And I feel like
[01:04:49] um not to compare Charlie to Jesus, but
[01:04:51] his life is like that where if you
[01:04:53] compiled all the little things that he
[01:04:56] did for all the tens of thousands of
[01:04:58] people that he interacted with, there
[01:05:00] would be no end of the books that we
[01:05:02] could write about his life. And um
[01:05:06] that is um that is a tr it's like so
[01:05:09] true. Like I'm not even that's not even
[01:05:11] at like 31 years on this planet and
[01:05:15] that's not even a hyperbolic thing to
[01:05:16] say. That's not me exaggerating is um a
[01:05:19] really remarkable feat. And so Blake,
[01:05:22] I'm going to go like we're just going to
[01:05:23] go around the table. I I was just going
[01:05:25] to put you on the hot seat first so it
[01:05:26] wasn't me. Um but we're going to welcome
[01:05:28] back uh our national radio audience that
[01:05:30] Charlie loves so much in about 20
[01:05:32] seconds. So hang tight. We'll be right
[01:05:34] back.
[01:05:52] [Music]
[01:06:01] Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
[01:06:04] This is uh your host for the day, Andrew
[01:06:07] Colvette, executive producer of this
[01:06:09] fine show. Um, to those of you listening
[01:06:12] around the country, um, we, uh, we're
[01:06:17] honoring our friend and the host of this
[01:06:19] show, Charlie Kirk. Um, and it's his
[01:06:23] friends, the people that work closely
[01:06:25] with him to make this show, to make so
[01:06:27] much of the content that are gathered
[01:06:29] around this table in his studio. His
[01:06:32] chair is empty because nobody will ever
[01:06:35] be able to fill it. Um, but we wanted a
[01:06:38] chance to tell you about the Charlie
[01:06:40] Kirk that we know and that we got to see
[01:06:42] up close. And um, we have Jack Pobic,
[01:06:46] the great Jack Pobic, the great Blake
[01:06:48] Nef, and the great Tyler Boyer all
[01:06:51] gathered with myself, Andrew Kovet,
[01:06:53] executive producer. Um, so our our team
[01:06:57] is telling us that people want to hear
[01:06:59] more personal stories that that you
[01:07:01] wouldn't have seen um, if you didn't
[01:07:03] know Charlie. Uh, so Blake, the floor is
[01:07:06] yours. Tell us a story about Charlie
[01:07:07] that uh you think people would like to
[01:07:08] hear or that they haven't heard yet.
[01:07:11] Man, I'm thinking of a few things. Uh,
[01:07:15] gosh, personal stuff. I think one of the
[01:07:18] things that always impressed me about
[01:07:20] Charlie was his immense uh personal
[01:07:23] discipline about everything he did. He
[01:07:25] had, you know, his day was very ordered.
[01:07:28] Everything he did was very ordered. And
[01:07:29] he didn't deviate from that. And if you,
[01:07:32] you know, asked him about that, he'd be
[01:07:33] like, "Well, this is this is the smart
[01:07:34] thing to do. Why would I do something
[01:07:35] different?"
[01:07:36] And the thing I'd always tease him about
[01:07:37] is the number of foods he ate, which is
[01:07:39] about four or five.
[01:07:41] Uh, like I would joke about this, and I
[01:07:43] I'm not exaggerating. The variation of
[01:07:45] food Charlie ate was like
[01:07:47] grilled chicken,
[01:07:49] avocado, hot sauce, like always like
[01:07:54] that. Like
[01:07:54] salmon, I guess. And I think he used to
[01:07:56] have beef, but I think he later like
[01:07:57] decided red meat was probably when did
[01:07:59] he start doing that? He said it was like
[01:08:01] a couple years ago that he just because
[01:08:03] he wanted he said he wanted to get back
[01:08:04] in fighting shape or something.
[01:08:06] Yeah. Well, Charlie, as long as I've
[01:08:08] known Charlie has always been very
[01:08:12] focused on what he puts inside his body
[01:08:14] from day one. It was I remember cuz I've
[01:08:17] always
[01:08:18] when I was when I first met Charlie, I
[01:08:20] was skinny and then I got, you know, you
[01:08:22] know, dad fat.
[01:08:24] You got your road layer.
[01:08:25] I got dad fat. I put on the pregnancy
[01:08:27] weight a few times uh throughout that
[01:08:29] that cycle.
[01:08:30] Campaign 30.
[01:08:31] But Charlie was always and he would
[01:08:32] always kind of yell at me, you know, and
[01:08:34] Andrew, I'm probably sure you've had
[01:08:36] some of these situations. Blake probably
[01:08:38] hasn't, but you know, never got yelled
[01:08:40] at for what he eats, but I he would be
[01:08:42] like cuz I would like pound sodas and
[01:08:44] like I was like, "Oh yeah." And then it
[01:08:45] caught up with me.
[01:08:46] I was like Charlie's like sin eater cuz
[01:08:48] I like I eat everything.
[01:08:49] But he would eat like piles of singular
[01:08:52] foods. So it would be like stacks of
[01:08:54] like stacks of broccoli. Um he would
[01:08:57] order that like steamed broccoli or he
[01:08:59] would order just just meat, right? It
[01:09:02] would just be like meat and then and he
[01:09:03] would just he would pound through it. He
[01:09:05] would eat like as we're talking like
[01:09:07] like we didn't have time to waste as we
[01:09:09] were going. It would just eat later in
[01:09:11] life. He enjoy I think he enjoyed meals
[01:09:13] a little bit more, but the early was
[01:09:14] like we were going going going. was
[01:09:16] always in the travel ready to go and he
[01:09:18] would just eat and I would just sit
[01:09:19] there and be like h cuz I would order
[01:09:21] like a normal sandwich and like drink a
[01:09:24] drink but he would just eat to eat but
[01:09:26] it was always healthy and uh he would
[01:09:28] always be like you're going to eat that
[01:09:30] like he would look at me like you're
[01:09:31] going to eat that you're going to put
[01:09:32] that
[01:09:32] I actually remember I think the night I
[01:09:35] think I'm pretty sure we were all there
[01:09:36] too. It was the night of the RNC when he
[01:09:38] gave his speech there, not the uh 16 or
[01:09:41] 20, but the 24 and I think I want to
[01:09:44] correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he
[01:09:45] have like a couple of chicken wings and
[01:09:48] he he like made a huge deal about it? He
[01:09:50] had a couple and we had like a huge pile
[01:09:52] of huge pileishly vast pile of chicken
[01:09:55] but it was like each as Tyler was saying
[01:09:56] like each box was a separate food and
[01:09:59] then we had a whole bunch of chicken
[01:10:00] wings that we were all just chowing down
[01:10:02] on and he goes I will allow myself to
[01:10:05] have a few
[01:10:06] and that was like a huge
[01:10:08] he would find something he liked and
[01:10:09] early on he used to say this all all the
[01:10:10] time he'd be like you could build a
[01:10:12] religion around those things have you
[01:10:13] ever heard that
[01:10:14] said that so you ever heard him say that
[01:10:17] we could build a religion around this
[01:10:18] religion around this thing when he kind
[01:10:20] of food he likes. He'd be like, "You
[01:10:21] could build a religion around those
[01:10:22] things or that thing or whatever."
[01:10:23] But it's like the first time he's eating
[01:10:24] it.
[01:10:25] But no, he would be like it' be like I'd
[01:10:28] be like I mean I think
[01:10:30] these are great. These chicken wings you
[01:10:31] can build. We know.
[01:10:32] I think I heard Charlie say that no
[01:10:34] short of like 500 times. I yeah it that
[01:10:37] when you there's certain set phrases
[01:10:39] that were just like the Charlie phrases
[01:10:42] and you know when you say him you could
[01:10:45] just hear it in his voice because that's
[01:10:47] that's the only guy who talks that way.
[01:10:50] Uh what about uh what about uh you Jack?
[01:10:54] Do you have a do you have a fun Charlie
[01:10:56] story that you think the audience hasn't
[01:10:59] heard or would like to hear? Oh man. Uh,
[01:11:03] you know,
[01:11:06] look, I mean, there's a lot of stuff
[01:11:07] that's just private. So, that's like,
[01:11:09] how do you how do you steep through
[01:11:11] that? Um,
[01:11:14] you know, I I'll tell the story that in
[01:11:16] uh, you know, from last year, though,
[01:11:18] that I think is just just kind of a
[01:11:19] funny thing. So Charlie
[01:11:23] worked so hard on these campus tours
[01:11:26] that um people don't realize that he
[01:11:28] worked himself sick last year and there
[01:11:32] were I don't know two three weeks where
[01:11:35] he just he had no voice. Uh he
[01:11:38] completely lost his voice out there on
[01:11:41] the campus tours, the campaigns between
[01:11:44] everything. and he was traveling so much
[01:11:45] and just picking up whatever germs and
[01:11:48] bugs and all the rest. And obviously
[01:11:50] with his health regimen and that he, you
[01:11:53] know, he did what he could, but you
[01:11:54] know, sometimes it just kind of doesn't
[01:11:55] work that way. And I remember we had we
[01:12:00] had talked about he was like, "Hey,
[01:12:01] Jack, you know, you're Pennsylvania guy.
[01:12:03] We're doing this Penn State. I think
[01:12:04] it's going to be big. Do you want to
[01:12:06] come?" And I was like, "Yeah, you know,
[01:12:07] we'll we'll see if it works out with the
[01:12:09] schedule, etc."
[01:12:10] And and then a couple days before the
[01:12:12] event, he send or no, the day before the
[01:12:14] event, he sends me this text and and
[01:12:17] says, "Jack, we need to talk." So I we
[01:12:19] need to talk. I lost my voice. So then I
[01:12:21] call him and he immediately hangs up and
[01:12:23] he texts me back and I said he said,
[01:12:25] "Jack, I can't talk. I lost my voice.
[01:12:29] I can only text."
[01:12:30] And so he he's like, "I I need you up
[01:12:33] here." Um and and and so we we I get up
[01:12:38] to Penn State and the entire time we're
[01:12:41] there and I'm I'm with him, we're
[01:12:42] spending time and he's like sending me
[01:12:45] text messages or just writing stuff on
[01:12:47] his right next to him.
[01:12:48] Yeah. And he's like showing it and I'm
[01:12:51] like saying it or tweeting it or
[01:12:53] whatever it is.
[01:12:54] And then as we're about to go, you know,
[01:12:57] we have this whole thing set up and
[01:12:59] there's thousands of kids. I mean 5,000
[01:13:02] maybe cuz I know we brought like
[01:13:04] it was insane.
[01:13:05] I know we brought sea of red hats.
[01:13:06] We brought well we brought 30,000 hats
[01:13:08] but then we ran out and like only about
[01:13:10] half of the kids had hats. So that's why
[01:13:13] I know it was
[01:13:14] you would not believe the number of hats
[01:13:16] that Turning Point bought and still
[01:13:18] managed to run out and it was insane.
[01:13:20] And then and then and then the campus
[01:13:22] end up ended up shutting down the the
[01:13:24] speakers. Anyway,
[01:13:25] that many boxes I want to just throw out
[01:13:27] hats. It was so many B like the
[01:13:30] logistics of getting that many hats is
[01:13:32] actually
[01:13:33] to each campus was actually a marvel in
[01:13:35] and of itself. And you're you're
[01:13:37] reminding me of uh Go ahead. I don't
[01:13:39] know if you had something you wanted to
[01:13:40] add, Tyler.
[01:13:41] No, I was just going to say that the the
[01:13:43] miracle of the organization of Turning
[01:13:46] Point uh being able to do all those
[01:13:48] things is what enabled so much of
[01:13:51] Charlie Kirk, right? Charlie was wanted
[01:13:54] to be enabled all the time with every
[01:13:56] little crazy idea that he had. I would
[01:13:59] call him Charlie Kirk wild goose chases
[01:14:01] like with with stuff. It would just be
[01:14:02] like constant stuff, right? It was just
[01:14:04] like trying to channel where those
[01:14:06] things would go, but the enabling of the
[01:14:09] of the staff to do the things that
[01:14:11] needed to be done because Charlie was
[01:14:13] almost always right on these things was
[01:14:16] he was he was always right on.
[01:14:18] He was annoyingly almost always right.
[01:14:20] Almost always right. And when you when
[01:14:21] you got one that was right, you were
[01:14:23] like you would make a mental note like
[01:14:25] cuz it was it was 99 to1.
[01:14:27] But the but where he wanted to go with
[01:14:29] everything was always right. And he he
[01:14:33] and and he knew he had the vision and
[01:14:36] the people who helped execute that u
[01:14:38] deserve a ton of credit. Every every
[01:14:40] person every can I I look at the the
[01:14:43] videos from the campus tours. every one
[01:14:45] of our activists that is there that's
[01:14:47] volunteering to help hold microphones
[01:14:49] to, you know, standing in the in the gap
[01:14:52] there, especially in such scary times as
[01:14:55] where we're at today. They have been
[01:14:58] such incredible warriors and uh and that
[01:15:01] honors Charlie so much.
[01:15:04] Um yeah, we we have this Let's go ahead
[01:15:06] and play it. We have just enough time.
[01:15:08] This is Charlie eating with Chopsticks
[01:15:09] in Japan with Blake. 479.
[01:15:11] Oh gosh.
[01:15:13] Is Is it like a big thing?
[01:15:15] Yeah, of course.
[01:15:17] Am I doing it? Okay.
[01:15:18] Yeah, perfect.
[01:15:21] This is noto.
[01:15:24] What is Why is it so gooey?
[01:15:25] Soy bean.
[01:15:28] It's very good.
[01:15:30] It's so gooey.
[01:15:31] It's very gooey.
[01:15:32] Why is it so gooey?
[01:15:34] Uh cuz it's fermented, I think. Mhm.
[01:15:39] It's great. It's very good for you.
[01:15:42] [Music]
[01:15:51] [Music]
[01:15:55] Blake. Uh I remember you he was you and
[01:15:58] I were on a chat when this was happening
[01:16:00] or moments after it happened and he was
[01:16:02] like there was literally 11 dishes in
[01:16:04] this thing. It was amazing. Oh the
[01:16:05] Japanese food. I mean
[01:16:06] you can build a religion around this.
[01:16:08] Religion. People don't realize like how
[01:16:11] he would just get fixated on
[01:16:14] how he would, you know, he would like
[01:16:16] interrogate me about things cuz Charlie
[01:16:19] Charlie loved to learn things, loved to
[01:16:20] pick new things up and yet he was also
[01:16:22] so busy all of the time. So he would
[01:16:24] even just he would send me on he's like,
[01:16:26] "Uh, Blake, you have to learn all about
[01:16:27] this thing so that you can just tell me
[01:16:29] about it when I need to learn about it
[01:16:30] later. So I'll I'll go read, you know, a
[01:16:32] 300page book about this so that I can
[01:16:33] just be ready." Yeah.
[01:16:34] When Charlie interrogates me. I remember
[01:16:36] once on a flight, it was like an hour
[01:16:38] and he's just like, "Blake, tell me
[01:16:40] about the Roman Empire." I'm like, "The
[01:16:42] start or the end." He's like, "Whatever
[01:16:44] you want." And just started going off
[01:16:46] about that.
[01:16:47] I also asked you about that. Blake is a
[01:16:49] very good resource if you want to learn
[01:16:50] about the Roman Empire.
[01:16:51] And he was he was very, you know,
[01:16:52] sometimes just to he would ask Mikey, he
[01:16:55] would be like, "Mikey, just ask Chad GPT
[01:16:57] to make some trivia questions and then
[01:16:58] let's just see if Blake can get them."
[01:17:00] Um, and he was very proud that, you
[01:17:02] know, he's like, "Okay, Blake, I'm going
[01:17:03] to lose to you on, you know, history.
[01:17:05] I'm going to probably lose to you on
[01:17:07] geography." Uh, but he was very proud
[01:17:08] that he was he was competitive with me
[01:17:10] on, you know, biblical stuff because he
[01:17:12] was very
[01:17:13] he he loved to study the Bible, you
[01:17:14] know, book by book. He was really into
[01:17:16] that. He was very very proud of that.
[01:17:17] And he was right. He was he was better
[01:17:18] at Bible trivia than I was. Actually,
[01:17:20] that's that's something I could share
[01:17:22] and I'm sure we all could that, you
[01:17:24] know, late, you know, late night,
[01:17:26] whatever it is, people would say, "Well,
[01:17:28] what is Charlie like in in, you know,
[01:17:29] off air it would be constantly going
[01:17:33] through books of the Bible?" And then he
[01:17:35] would send you, you know, some file or a
[01:17:38] podcast or something and be like, "Jack,
[01:17:40] I just did this 5 hour course on the
[01:17:42] book of Deuteronomy. You need to go
[01:17:43] through all five hours and come back to
[01:17:45] me with it."
[01:17:46] Yeah. Um,
[01:17:46] and not even for the show, just
[01:17:48] I I have a story like this actually from
[01:17:50] recent. We were in Aspen doing um uh an
[01:17:54] investor summit. Um, and it was amazing
[01:17:57] trip and we we had a a Cambridge
[01:17:59] professor who uh was actually we we
[01:18:02] played that uh the last live it was a
[01:18:06] pre-record but it was like the last
[01:18:07] radio live hour um you know before he
[01:18:10] started speaking at at campus and um it
[01:18:13] was with Dr. James our he's an amazing
[01:18:16] Cambridge professor and um he flew back
[01:18:22] uh with from Aspen
[01:18:25] uh and Charlie was like what are you
[01:18:27] doing tomorrow and James was like well I
[01:18:30] don't fly out until Monday and it was a
[01:18:32] Sunday so Charlie was like well do you
[01:18:35] want to have breakfast with us and we'll
[01:18:36] we'll do our our morning worship and
[01:18:38] then I'll pick you up and can you just
[01:18:40] like teach me all day
[01:18:42] and and James is like what you just want
[01:18:44] to you know you just want to do class
[01:18:47] and he's like
[01:18:49] yeah like I just want to do class and uh
[01:18:52] so I they sat in a room and Charlie
[01:18:55] peppered him with questions and you have
[01:18:57] to understand Dr. James our not only
[01:19:00] sees the world similarly the way we do,
[01:19:02] but he has like a photographic memory of
[01:19:06] the classical western cannon of of all
[01:19:08] the texts that make up the western. He
[01:19:10] can remember almost page and verse of
[01:19:13] all of these great books and he connect
[01:19:15] them how they relate to now and where we
[01:19:17] got this word and how it how it evolved
[01:19:19] from this and to and so Charlie was was
[01:19:22] gathering this three-dimensional
[01:19:24] understanding of the the Latin and the
[01:19:28] Greek uh and how it made up European
[01:19:31] history which gave birth to America
[01:19:32] obviously the western western cannon but
[01:19:34] that was Charlie's idea of of a Sunday
[01:19:37] well spent and um I remember being so
[01:19:40] jealous.
[01:19:40] That's a day off for sure.
[01:19:41] That was a day off. I remember being so
[01:19:43] jealous cuz I had to go back home. I had
[01:19:45] to catch a flight Sunday morning to get
[01:19:46] back home. Uh and I I mean I got to be
[01:19:49] with my family and it was great, but and
[01:19:50] that's where I should have been, but
[01:19:52] Charlie got to spend the day with his
[01:19:54] family and learning from one of the
[01:19:56] great minds um in in Christendom and it
[01:20:00] was it was amazing. That was Charlie in
[01:20:02] a nutshell. I also the it's weird things
[01:20:05] that I remember right now. Charlie
[01:20:07] walking around all the time with like
[01:20:08] he'd wear shorts on planes with like his
[01:20:10] tall socks.
[01:20:11] Yeah.
[01:20:12] So he always the tall socks.
[01:20:14] The tall socks socks. It improves
[01:20:16] circulation after he No. He would always
[01:20:17] tell talk to me about this. He's like
[01:20:19] it's a it's a thing for tall people,
[01:20:20] Jack. It's compression socks. You wear
[01:20:23] them. You wear them on planes. The
[01:20:24] pressure he had it all like
[01:20:28] choice decision made.
[01:20:29] A week ago I was getting when I was
[01:20:32] actually flying out to uh Korea for our
[01:20:35] thing. I was like, "Okay, I've got to
[01:20:37] see if there's something to this." And I
[01:20:38] just put on socks and I pulled them all
[01:20:40] the way up and I wore them that for
[01:20:42] about half the day. And then I thought,
[01:20:44] "This is way too annoying." And I slid
[01:20:46] them back down.
[01:20:46] Well, he would say it's cuz you're not
[01:20:47] tall enough.
[01:20:49] But you probably did have really good
[01:20:50] circulation. He maybe was right most of
[01:20:53] the time. Um, we're gonna welcome back
[01:20:56] radio. Um, and uh, keep remembering
[01:20:59] stories about Charlie and um, there's
[01:21:02] just too much to tell about this great
[01:21:05] man. Um, and uh, it's fun to think about
[01:21:08] him. I have a story from Danny in just a
[01:21:11] second. We'll be right back.
[01:21:23] [Music]
[01:21:29] All right, welcome back to the Charlie
[01:21:31] Kirk show. Andrew Kulvet, um Jack Poic,
[01:21:35] Blake Nef, and Tyler Boyer. Uh we're
[01:21:37] remembering our friend Charlie Kirk. Um
[01:21:40] our brother, um who belongs to history
[01:21:43] now.
[01:21:45] And um
[01:21:48] a pure legendary man. And um I'm so
[01:21:51] honored to be sharing with you. And um
[01:21:54] it's the way these things work. We just
[01:21:57] go wave after wave of emotion. And um I
[01:22:01] wanted to read something that Danny on
[01:22:03] the team. Danny's young guy. Um Charlie
[01:22:07] loved Danny so much. And uh Danny's
[01:22:11] quiet. Uh doesn't always say a whole
[01:22:14] lot. Um, but when he speaks, you better
[01:22:17] listen cuz he's been thinking about it
[01:22:19] for a long time. And Danny wanted to uh
[01:22:21] he shared this with me. I I hope it's
[01:22:23] okay. I think it is. He says, "Charlie
[01:22:26] story. Last year when I was living out
[01:22:28] here interning, I was living in the hood
[01:22:32] off of GCU campus. Charlie found out and
[01:22:35] and goes, "Okay, you're going to either
[01:22:39] live at my apartment or at my in-laws."
[01:22:41] I'm like, I convinced him I would be
[01:22:44] fine. and and I stayed where I was for a
[01:22:46] few months. He was one of the kindest
[01:22:48] people I've ever met. And um I love that
[01:22:52] story because uh somehow this was true
[01:22:56] about Charlie that he was balancing
[01:22:58] huge organizations,
[01:23:00] a thousand relationships, donors,
[01:23:03] friends, the show, uh politicians, other
[01:23:06] organizations. He he had all these
[01:23:09] plates spinning in his head all the
[01:23:10] time. and he would somehow find time to
[01:23:12] worry about my well-being or are your is
[01:23:15] your wife and kids are they going to
[01:23:17] come? Do you need me to set them up with
[01:23:18] something? Do you want me can I get them
[01:23:19] here? Uh are you okay? Do you want me to
[01:23:22] put you at this hotel? Like he would his
[01:23:24] brain was just always moving and
[01:23:27] spinning and he was always thinking
[01:23:29] about other people and their well-being.
[01:23:31] And how many stories I heard of that
[01:23:33] Tyler, I mean, right? It's like you saw
[01:23:35] it in the organizational feats of
[01:23:36] Turning Point, how he would think about
[01:23:38] the speaker coming in to make sure they
[01:23:40] were all taken care of and he had it
[01:23:41] built into the schedule that he had to
[01:23:43] go backstage to meet so- and so at such
[01:23:44] a time because he wanted to just say,
[01:23:46] "Thanks for coming." It was it the
[01:23:48] intricacy of his mind and the details he
[01:23:50] was able to hold all at one time. Truly
[01:23:53] amazing.
[01:23:55] One of the things that uh I've I've just
[01:23:58] keep seeing over and over is everyone
[01:24:00] telling the stories of how they got
[01:24:02] introduced to Charlie. And I've had
[01:24:04] received again thousands of messages. I
[01:24:06] can't even respond back. I know Andrew
[01:24:07] feels the same. All of us probably feel
[01:24:09] the same. Jack is a savant at keeping up
[01:24:11] with people. I don't know how he does
[01:24:13] it, but I I just can't even keep up. So,
[01:24:15] I'm not even going to try. So, I
[01:24:17] apologize. But everything I keep seeing
[01:24:18] over and over is Tyler, I know you were
[01:24:20] close to Charlie. I didn't know him
[01:24:23] personally, but I want you to know how I
[01:24:24] was introduced to Charlie. And nine
[01:24:27] times out of ten, you know what the
[01:24:28] answer is?
[01:24:30] One of my kids turned me on to Charlie.
[01:24:33] They show me Charlie. And this is like,
[01:24:36] and this kind of goes handinhand a
[01:24:37] little bit with what you're talking
[01:24:38] about.
[01:24:40] I it's just it's always shocking to me
[01:24:44] how again the Charlie Kirk phenomenon
[01:24:47] how he led his life how everything just
[01:24:50] ultimately ended up you know in front of
[01:24:52] people and for so many young people
[01:24:55] again and that that's the mission of
[01:24:56] turning point turning point we always
[01:24:58] were we're trying to get young people
[01:24:59] involved and engaged but to not only see
[01:25:02] young people getting involved and
[01:25:03] engaged and loving Charlie and being
[01:25:05] interested in his content whether it's
[01:25:07] Tik Toks to all the way through long
[01:25:09] form podcast
[01:25:10] is that they were taking their parents
[01:25:13] in most cases old Gen Xers or baby
[01:25:16] boomers and saying you need to listen to
[01:25:18] this or grandparents. And it's so
[01:25:21] interesting to me and this is the legacy
[01:25:23] that that has to carry on in such a
[01:25:25] profound way is that young people can be
[01:25:29] the spur. They can be the dynamics. They
[01:25:31] can be the activating element. And
[01:25:34] Charlie was right. No one believed this
[01:25:36] by the way when we started. There was no
[01:25:38] one. And Charlie would get that face,
[01:25:40] you know, when he would tell you, he'd
[01:25:41] get excited because he'd be like, "I'm
[01:25:42] gonna prove you wrong." And he'd get
[01:25:43] that voice in his
[01:25:44] he literally took on the hardest I can't
[01:25:48] the hardest job
[01:25:50] at the time. It was unfathomable. And it
[01:25:52] was like, you have chosen potentially
[01:25:54] the dumbest career mission imaginable.
[01:25:57] Obama era college campuses, guys, you
[01:26:00] don't understand. That is the definition
[01:26:02] of the belly of the beast. And where we
[01:26:04] are today is where young people are
[01:26:06] carrying on their shoulders the Charlie
[01:26:09] Kirk voice to the older generation in a
[01:26:12] lot of cases. And I'm so that I I never
[01:26:15] have really spent time thinking about
[01:26:17] that. I mean, I know it and we're really
[01:26:18] excited about because I do that with my
[01:26:19] parents and grandparents, but it's it's
[01:26:22] been so rewarding to see. And if Charlie
[01:26:25] could sit here and read all these
[01:26:26] messages that I'm receiving that are
[01:26:28] saying that exact thing, he would be
[01:26:31] ecstatic. And we used to send those in
[01:26:32] the chat all the time, but I actually
[01:26:34] have some breaking news. I don't know if
[01:26:36] I should share it or not, but I'm going
[01:26:37] to. It looks like the Cubs are going to
[01:26:39] be recognizing Charlie today.
[01:26:41] God bless him.
[01:26:42] I don't even want to tell that story. I
[01:26:44] I can't tell that story,
[01:26:48] but they they should have a
[01:26:50] they should have a very important
[01:26:53] and and and
[01:26:54] he loved the Cubs. his grandma was a
[01:26:57] lifelong Cubs fan and she got to see the
[01:26:59] Cubs win the World Series and then
[01:27:01] passed away and Charlie was like that
[01:27:03] was she lived and she lived to see like
[01:27:06] that the greatest thing as a sports fan
[01:27:08] for her and that meant a lot to
[01:27:10] no one thought it was ever going to
[01:27:11] happen.
[01:27:11] Radio will will be back uh and streaming
[01:27:14] will keep going.
[01:27:20] [Music]
[01:27:27] Welcome back uh to our stream. Um yeah,
[01:27:32] Charlie loved the Cubs. Um love the
[01:27:35] Bears, too, but it was a little bit
[01:27:37] harder to be a Bears fan.
[01:27:38] I actually was
[01:27:39] It was hard to be a Cubs fan a lot of
[01:27:40] the times.
[01:27:41] Do you remember one one of the last
[01:27:43] chats that we had? Um we were we were
[01:27:47] just you know cuz on on uh
[01:27:49] by the way that picture right there
[01:27:50] that's up on screen that was um really
[01:27:52] recent
[01:27:53] couple weeks ago. Right.
[01:27:54] I was with him. Yeah. And we went to
[01:27:56] that game
[01:27:57] and uh there's a great Yeah. It's a
[01:28:01] picture with the Cubs team and then
[01:28:03] those you know all these haters online
[01:28:04] tried to like shame that player. I
[01:28:06] forget his name but um he lives in
[01:28:09] Phoenix as well and uh um he's the third
[01:28:12] baseman. hit a home run that day. Uh I
[01:28:16] think just for Charlie, which was like
[01:28:18] amazing. And I actually have a couple
[01:28:20] pictures from that day. So go ahead,
[01:28:22] Jack. I
[01:28:22] No, no, I was just gonna say on on
[01:28:24] Sundays especially, you know, people
[01:28:26] don't realize how how big of a sports
[01:28:28] fan Charlie was. And on Sundays, you
[01:28:30] know, the the group chat would turn into
[01:28:33] basically whatever game he was watching
[01:28:35] and just, you know, Yeah. one of our
[01:28:37] last things was just, you know, busting
[01:28:38] his balls about the Bears
[01:28:39] and the Bears. Yeah, that's what I was
[01:28:41] saying cuz I was I was scrolling
[01:28:42] through.
[01:28:43] That's a story people would like.
[01:28:44] I was scrolling through and
[01:28:45] Charlie was so focused and it was always
[01:28:48] that we'd have
[01:28:49] uh you know, America Fest is right
[01:28:52] before Christmas and that's when the
[01:28:53] bowl games are ramping up and I think
[01:28:55] even maybe some of the playoff games
[01:28:57] were going on this last year.
[01:28:59] I can't remember what the schedule was,
[01:29:00] but he wanted to see what was going on.
[01:29:02] No, he he was No, he was mad. What game
[01:29:04] was it? He was mad that he wouldn't be
[01:29:07] able to watch a game in real time
[01:29:08] because
[01:29:09] but we would literally have something we
[01:29:11] have the big stage at Amfest and then
[01:29:13] behind it is our kind of command center
[01:29:15] green room and there's a table and
[01:29:17] Charlie had a place he could sit and he
[01:29:20] had a TV monitor set up to be showing
[01:29:22] one of these football games and he's
[01:29:23] just sitting there like watching it
[01:29:25] during his literal two minutes of
[01:29:27] downtime before the next thing at Amfest
[01:29:30] and he'd have his bowl with his chicken
[01:29:33] and lettuce that he was able
[01:29:35] hot sauce
[01:29:37] watching it really intensely and you
[01:29:39] know I'd walk by like Blake come here
[01:29:40] come here come on let's watch let's
[01:29:41] watch a game Blake I'm like okay Charlie
[01:29:44] I uh please put this B-roll up just
[01:29:47] don't play the sound on it because I
[01:29:48] haven't reviewed it for anything I never
[01:29:50] shared this but this was just from a
[01:29:52] couple weeks ago um that's me filming
[01:29:55] and Charlie and Erica and we went out
[01:29:58] that was the first time Charlie got to
[01:30:00] walk out onto into Wrigley Field onto
[01:30:03] the field right there. It was before the
[01:30:05] game and it was so awesome.
[01:30:09] The Ivy right there. And uh this is
[01:30:13] Charlie, of course, looking back. Give
[01:30:15] me the thumbs up.
[01:30:17] And um man, we had the we had just a
[01:30:20] heck of a time getting into the stadium
[01:30:22] because there was all these security
[01:30:24] barriers, but they had arranged we
[01:30:25] they'd arranged it with us beforehand to
[01:30:27] let Charlie get right up close uh so
[01:30:30] that he could just kind of get out of
[01:30:32] get out of the the car and get on there
[01:30:35] uh onto the field. And this was his uh
[01:30:38] his childhood uh favorite team, the
[01:30:40] Cubbies. He's got his Cubs hat. I kept
[01:30:42] wanting to get him one of the new era or
[01:30:44] like the the actual field hats. Oh, he
[01:30:46] would never do that.
[01:30:47] But he he liked he liked his uh
[01:30:49] his little like lowprofile one and it
[01:30:51] was the one he wore. I think that's the
[01:30:53] same cubat he wore at Student Action
[01:30:55] Summit
[01:30:56] um when he was doing the uh Prove Me
[01:30:59] Wrong with the the students there. Um
[01:31:02] and it was just so fun. It was so fun.
[01:31:04] He wanted to walk field his whole life.
[01:31:07] Yeah. He wanted to be He loved that that
[01:31:09] field and that stadium. We had, this is
[01:31:11] way back in the day, but
[01:31:13] um we had actually taken we used to we
[01:31:15] used to have our headquarters in
[01:31:17] Chicago.
[01:31:18] So it was it was a ways out from
[01:31:21] from Chicago. And I I remember at the
[01:31:24] early time, this is like right after we
[01:31:26] had made some changes to really grow
[01:31:28] Turning Point USA. Um we did a team
[01:31:32] builder at at the Cub Stadium at Wrigley
[01:31:36] Field. And so we Charlie and I had
[01:31:38] driven over to the Cubs, you know, to
[01:31:42] Wrigley. Very difficult to to park. You
[01:31:46] have to like basically just park in
[01:31:47] people's garages and things like that.
[01:31:50] But we took all of the staff there. And
[01:31:52] it was at the time, I think we have like
[01:31:54] 20 people. And I remember we're just
[01:31:56] there and we're sitting and he just
[01:31:59] non-stop we'd be talking about to
[01:32:02] everybody how because we had staff from
[01:32:04] all over the country at the time just
[01:32:05] different places about how great the
[01:32:07] Cubs were, how much he loved them. And
[01:32:09] you knew from that moment how much that
[01:32:11] mattered to Charlie
[01:32:13] and there were a few things that were
[01:32:14] like Chicago boy things. I mean he loved
[01:32:16] Chicago. He told me Tyler Chicago is the
[01:32:18] greatest city on planet earth. I'm never
[01:32:19] going to leave. And I was really
[01:32:21] nervous, you know, when we had
[01:32:23] But then he you you were instrumental in
[01:32:25] him falling in love with Phoenix.
[01:32:27] He's really a Chicago boy at heart and
[01:32:30] and the and the Wrigley,
[01:32:32] the Cubs. Yeah. Everything else was was
[01:32:35] such a big part of the things that he
[01:32:37] loved.
[01:32:38] All right, we're going to welcome back
[01:32:39] radio in just a second. Don't go
[01:32:41] anywhere. More with the crew remembering
[01:32:43] Charlie Kirk. We'll be right back.
[01:32:54] [Music]
[01:33:02] Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
[01:33:04] Radio stations across the country. Your
[01:33:07] guest host, Andrew Kovvette, in for the
[01:33:10] one and only Charlie Kirk. Um, right
[01:33:13] here in his studio in Phoenix, Arizona.
[01:33:16] Um, his seat is empty because we are
[01:33:19] honoring one of the greatest people any
[01:33:21] of us will ever meet. A legend, an icon,
[01:33:26] a martyr, a man who lifted up God
[01:33:30] above all, his faith in Jesus Christ was
[01:33:33] the most important thing to him. And
[01:33:34] then it was his family, Erica, his two
[01:33:37] beautiful kids.
[01:33:39] And then it was the country and turning
[01:33:43] point and everything that our founders
[01:33:46] built. And um
[01:33:49] I'm just realizing Jack and Tyler and
[01:33:52] Blake that
[01:33:55] how much I've been changed by this
[01:33:58] person.
[01:34:00] It was funny even while we were starting
[01:34:01] the show and it didn't occur to me while
[01:34:04] I was doing it and so I hope it didn't
[01:34:06] come off as some like fake like
[01:34:08] emulation but I was sitting here going
[01:34:10] like hey send so and so in. Hey so send
[01:34:12] so and so in. And then like like I
[01:34:14] remember that's what Charlie would do
[01:34:17] before the show, right?
[01:34:18] It was always like and it's like I it's
[01:34:21] I don't think I'm going to fully
[01:34:23] understand how much I've been affected
[01:34:25] and transformed and changed by Charlie.
[01:34:28] Um, and I don't think I'll ever fully
[01:34:31] understand it, but
[01:34:31] because you're not you're not
[01:34:33] purposefully doing it like Charlie's
[01:34:36] imprint.
[01:34:37] We were so saturated with so much
[01:34:39] Charlie Kirk at all times that
[01:34:42] No, the way I put it was like like
[01:34:45] people asking what about this question?
[01:34:46] What about this question? What Charlie
[01:34:47] wanted this? Would Charlie wanted that?
[01:34:48] And it's like
[01:34:50] it's like I can hear him in a way that
[01:34:53] like like not like he's speaking to me
[01:34:54] but just it's just if you know him you
[01:34:57] kind of know what he would say.
[01:34:59] Yeah.
[01:35:00] You know you you almost know not unlike
[01:35:02] you know certain things but but just
[01:35:04] little basic things you just well that's
[01:35:06] what Charlie would say this. Well
[01:35:07] Charlie would say this Charlie would do
[01:35:08] this and you just you just you just know
[01:35:12] you just know that that's what he would
[01:35:13] have wanted. And
[01:35:17] and it's weird cuz, you know, talking to
[01:35:18] everybody throughout all of this, it's,
[01:35:20] you know, even having heard that Erica
[01:35:23] said that she wanted the the cameras on
[01:35:27] and wanted this up. I know that's
[01:35:28] exactly what Charlie would have wanted.
[01:35:31] That he would say, "Get on the stream.
[01:35:34] Get the rumble up."
[01:35:36] It's almost like we are the large uh
[01:35:38] language model for Charlie Kirk because
[01:35:40] we've we've we've had so much input from
[01:35:43] this person. Um
[01:35:45] well I mean that's
[01:35:47] that's what a life is, right? When you
[01:35:48] know somebody
[01:35:50] Yeah.
[01:35:51] That's that's what they do. They imprint
[01:35:52] on you.
[01:35:53] People didn't give Charlie enough credit
[01:35:55] uh for how funny he was.
[01:35:57] Charlie could be hilarious.
[01:35:59] Charlie was funny, but it was his own
[01:36:01] very distinct brand of it. it like
[01:36:04] because he was so distinctly Charlie and
[01:36:08] so rigidly Charlie Kirk when he would
[01:36:10] kind of come you do that look when he go
[01:36:13] you know u but he would make
[01:36:17] oh man the plane rides were the best
[01:36:19] we would just get on topics
[01:36:21] yes
[01:36:22] it was it was it were topics and it
[01:36:24] would almost kind of turn into the best
[01:36:25] way to describe Charlie Kirk's humor is
[01:36:27] probably Seinfeld
[01:36:28] he'd love Seinfeld
[01:36:29] I've been only watching Seinfeld
[01:36:32] I've needed it to fall asleep sleep the
[01:36:33] last couple nights.
[01:36:35] But it was like kind of these weird
[01:36:37] funny just like situational things with
[01:36:40] personalities involved where it's like
[01:36:43] we would kind of talk about those things
[01:36:44] and it would be like oh this is like
[01:36:46] what's this guy doing and that that's
[01:36:48] that and like this is is it funny how
[01:36:51] this is connected that's connected and
[01:36:52] it was like kind of smart humor but it's
[01:36:54] like that's the very in real life
[01:36:57] reality show type. He was he was a good
[01:37:00] storyteller, too. And I almost feel bad
[01:37:03] that so many of the funniest ones you
[01:37:04] you can't tell because it's it's private
[01:37:06] information, but he when he could
[01:37:08] actually tell you something, him
[01:37:09] relating it secondhand was
[01:37:11] I'll give you a good Seinfeld moment
[01:37:14] from Charlie Kirk's life and I'll never
[01:37:16] I think about this all the time and I
[01:37:17] don't know why. It just sticks with me.
[01:37:19] So Charlie and I were going back and
[01:37:20] forth to LA for like every week for like
[01:37:24] a year. It was there's a reason for it.
[01:37:26] It was crazy. It was It was stupid. But
[01:37:28] my life got like completely uprooted and
[01:37:30] I was going to LA every week. So the
[01:37:32] horrible part about this is that we had
[01:37:33] to find LAX and LAX is like a third
[01:37:35] world country and it just is and like
[01:37:37] you just
[01:37:38] like and and again for people who have
[01:37:40] patience you can probably get through
[01:37:42] LAX. Charlie Kirk cannot and we were
[01:37:45] flying just back and forth and so one
[01:37:47] day we cut it really close on the Uber
[01:37:49] that we were going back to LAX and you
[01:37:51] get in the loop around LAX and it's
[01:37:53] like a horseshoe
[01:37:54] and it's and if it's stopped it's
[01:37:56] and there's like that Uber spot where
[01:37:57] you have to
[01:37:58] but you're so close to the terminal but
[01:38:00] you're really not
[01:38:02] are you talking about just as you enter
[01:38:03] the airport?
[01:38:04] No, just the horseshoes are going
[01:38:06] around. So sometimes you can just bounce
[01:38:08] and then you can run faster than going.
[01:38:11] People who don't know LAX, that's a
[01:38:12] total thing where you're stuck in your
[01:38:14] Uber outside the airport and you can see
[01:38:16] the whole string of cars and people are
[01:38:18] getting out running in.
[01:38:19] But you can cut across the things you
[01:38:21] can Yeah, it's a horseshoe and in the
[01:38:23] middle they have parking and there's
[01:38:24] some pathways you can actually cut right
[01:38:25] in through.
[01:38:26] So anyways, this guy know this guy was
[01:38:29] exactly what you mean. done.
[01:38:30] This guy was dropping us off and you
[01:38:32] know he wasn't communicating very well
[01:38:35] and we're going through and we're we're
[01:38:37] we're that basically scenario played out
[01:38:40] and he's like, "Oh, well, it's just
[01:38:41] right up here. It's right up there." And
[01:38:43] we just kept going and going and going.
[01:38:45] He's like and I just remember the guy
[01:38:47] had messed up and then missed. He cut
[01:38:50] through the middle cuz there's a kind of
[01:38:51] a road through the middle and actually
[01:38:53] missed. He's like, "Oh, we're going to
[01:38:54] go have to go back and do this all over
[01:38:55] again."
[01:38:56] And we just flew open the doors. was
[01:38:58] like, "This is crazy." And like he just
[01:39:00] like looked at the guy. He's like, "This
[01:39:02] is actually crazy." And we like grabbed
[01:39:04] our stuff out of the car. We're like
[01:39:05] having to walk across the airport. But I
[01:39:08] I just rings in my ear the whole time
[01:39:10] because the guy was like, "Oh, no. It's
[01:39:12] fine. I I do this all the time."
[01:39:14] And but the the interaction between
[01:39:16] Charlie and this guy and us trying to
[01:39:17] get in to the airport,
[01:39:18] you can almost hear the
[01:39:21] um he loved this clip, by the way. He
[01:39:23] actually thought that Seinfeld had
[01:39:25] really profound like deeper like u
[01:39:29] parallels. He he thought it basically
[01:39:31] thought our entire modern world could be
[01:39:35] there was a there was going to be a
[01:39:36] Seinfeld episode that that mocked and
[01:39:39] parodyied that what what we're
[01:39:40] experiencing now. And so he loved this
[01:39:42] ribbon clip. So let's just go ahead and
[01:39:44] play the ribbon clip if we have it. Uh I
[01:39:46] don't know what number. It doesn't have
[01:39:47] a number, but it's the ribbon clip.
[01:39:50] You're checked in.
[01:39:51] Yeah. Thank you.
[01:39:51] Here's your aids ribbon. Uh, no thanks.
[01:39:53] You don't want to wear an AIDS ribbon?
[01:39:54] Uh, no. No.
[01:39:55] But you have to wear an AIDS ribbon.
[01:39:57] I have to?
[01:39:58] Yes.
[01:39:58] Yeah. See, that's why I don't want to.
[01:40:00] But everyone wears the ribbon. You must
[01:40:03] wear the ribbon.
[01:40:04] What you are? You're a ribbon bully.
[01:40:07] Hey. Hey, you. Come back here. Come back
[01:40:10] here and put this on.
[01:40:10] Hey, where's your ribbon? Oh, I don't
[01:40:12] wear the ribbon.
[01:40:13] You don't wear the ribbon?
[01:40:14] Who do you think you are?
[01:40:16] Put the ribbon on.
[01:40:17] Hey, Cedric. Bob, this guy won't wear a
[01:40:20] ribbon.
[01:40:21] who who doesn't want to wear the ribbon
[01:40:25] and I'll char remember Charlie loved
[01:40:27] this because it was the parallel to the
[01:40:30] black square during George Floyd
[01:40:32] and this coercive you have to put it up
[01:40:34] and if you don't you're guilty
[01:40:36] and and and that was just one instant of
[01:40:40] Charlie uh using Seinfeld as and I'll
[01:40:45] never forget he always brings Eric
[01:40:46] Mataxis on the show uh and he'll the
[01:40:48] first thing he does when Eric Mataxis
[01:40:50] comes on and He he he'll make like a
[01:40:52] inside Seinfeld joke reference cuz Eric
[01:40:54] loves Seinfeld as well. Uh and it's and
[01:40:57] it's a beautiful thing.
[01:40:59] Man, it's just watching that clip.
[01:41:02] Charlie loved that clip. Like Charlie
[01:41:04] Charlie loves saying that line.
[01:41:07] You must wear the ribbon.
[01:41:08] Like, yeah. Oh,
[01:41:10] I'm going to miss joking around with him
[01:41:11] so much.
[01:41:12] That's
[01:41:14] Oh, how did you get him to wear this
[01:41:15] hat? This is hilarious.
[01:41:19] Tyler,
[01:41:19] this is my greatest moment. By the way,
[01:41:21] Tyler got him to wear this hat. Put this
[01:41:23] hat up. I can't believe you I I forgot
[01:41:25] you got him to wear that.
[01:41:27] The one the one thing that I feel
[01:41:29] Oh, yeah. This was the
[01:41:30] I feel happiest about I was able to get
[01:41:32] Charlie to do crazy things for a long
[01:41:34] time
[01:41:35] again for for that. But we did we had
[01:41:37] these hats that said precinct lead uh
[01:41:39] precinct sheriff on them.
[01:41:41] Sheriff. Yeah.
[01:41:41] Because we're focused on recruiting for
[01:41:42] precincts and this is how serious about
[01:41:44] it. And Charlie was very serious about
[01:41:46] chapters and on our political side, we
[01:41:48] talked about precincts and getting
[01:41:49] everyone involved in the precinct level.
[01:41:50] And so I was like, Charlie, if you're
[01:41:52] serious about this, you got to wear
[01:41:53] this. And we uh I think we wore him for
[01:41:55] a thought crime episode.
[01:41:57] Yeah. Everybody had to wear
[01:41:59] um Charlie I think Charlie probably took
[01:42:02] that off pretty quickly, but it was
[01:42:04] great that he that he he was always a
[01:42:05] good sport like that.
[01:42:06] No, he had it on. He had it on for quite
[01:42:07] a bit of the episode.
[01:42:08] Charlie was always a good sport,
[01:42:10] actually. And um
[01:42:13] uh what uh
[01:42:15] the South Park like they didn't
[01:42:16] understand the South Park.
[01:42:18] I we found the clip uh 477
[01:42:21] uh uh I think this is Rush Limbaugh
[01:42:24] talking Oh well maybe not. We'll find
[01:42:27] the clip. It's two and a half minutes of
[01:42:29] uh of Rush talking about Charlie. I'm
[01:42:31] going to play it before
[01:42:34] this show is out because um this show is
[01:42:37] the Charlie Kirk show and Rush Limbaugh
[01:42:39] inspired Charlie to pursue this line of
[01:42:41] work. There's no question about it.
[01:42:43] That's not me speculating. I know for
[01:42:45] sure that's why.
[01:42:46] Yep.
[01:42:46] And um so I'm going to play the the Rush
[01:42:49] Limbaugh clip because they were both two
[01:42:52] men that we lost way way too early and
[01:42:56] I'm pretty sure that was the clip. I
[01:42:58] just saw it. Um, and Rush Rush saw um,
[01:43:03] yeah, it's 477. Let's go ahead and play
[01:43:04] it.
[01:43:06] They brought Charlie Kirk to the golf
[01:43:08] course to meet me about a month ago.
[01:43:12] He was in town to set up this Turning
[01:43:14] Point thing and they brought him to the
[01:43:16] golf course to meet me. It was during
[01:43:18] were getting ready for a uh, 8:45 a.m.
[01:43:21] start and they brought him out while I
[01:43:23] was getting ready to go to the range.
[01:43:25] Loosen up. And I spoke with him for
[01:43:27] about a half hour and he told me how he
[01:43:30] grew up in a home where my program was
[01:43:33] on all the time. He was just eusively
[01:43:37] uh complimentary
[01:43:39] to me which which I of course understood
[01:43:42] and u uh told him he's very wise. His
[01:43:45] family is very wise. He chuckled. He
[01:43:47] laughed. This is the kind of guy
[01:43:51] um that you know you can see really
[01:43:56] becoming big in politics as he gets
[01:43:58] older. He just has the kind the the
[01:44:01] carriage, the personality, the charisma.
[01:44:04] I you may think this sounds weird, but I
[01:44:07] remember when Bill Clinton became
[01:44:09] president.
[01:44:11] There were all of these stories about
[01:44:12] Bill Clinton at Oxford and Bill Clinton
[01:44:15] at Yale and Bill Clinton here and all
[01:44:17] these people who went school with him.
[01:44:19] There were story after story after story
[01:44:22] where people were saying that they just
[01:44:24] knew Bill Clinton was going to be
[01:44:25] president someday in college. He just
[01:44:27] had that kind of ambition and he
[01:44:31] impressed people. And I'm telling you
[01:44:33] that people are saying the same things
[01:44:34] about about Charlie Kirk.
[01:44:39] Yeah. Rush saw it and Rush knew and um
[01:44:45] Rush didn't want people to know this.
[01:44:47] And then we asked uh Katherine after he
[01:44:50] passed um and uh she
[01:44:56] uh said it was okay to share that Rush
[01:44:58] was a sevenf figureure donor to Turning
[01:45:00] Point and because he believed so much in
[01:45:04] Charlie and what he was building and the
[01:45:07] mission of Turning Point USA and um I
[01:45:11] want all of you to rest assured that are
[01:45:13] wondering what's next. Turning Point USA
[01:45:16] is not going anywhere. The mission that
[01:45:18] Charlie started, he always wanted it to
[01:45:21] be an institution that would outlive him
[01:45:24] and we obviously wanted so much more
[01:45:27] time with him, but that was very clear
[01:45:30] that that was spoken of expressly and um
[01:45:34] I know all of us are ready to get to
[01:45:36] work on that. Um so uh radio, we're
[01:45:41] going to take a break stream, we're
[01:45:42] going to keep going. Be right back. All
[01:45:45] [Music]
[01:45:54] [Applause]
[01:45:56] [Music]
[01:45:58] right, welcome back to uh Real America's
[01:46:01] Voice the stream. Um we're honored by
[01:46:05] all our our partners at Real America's
[01:46:07] Voice who believed in this show um and
[01:46:09] have always been so supportive. by the
[01:46:11] way. Uh they would send crews halfway
[01:46:13] around the world to have our back. Rob
[01:46:16] Sig, Parker Sig, we love you guys. You
[01:46:19] know what you mean to us and um I've
[01:46:22] talked with both of you in the moments
[01:46:24] after and since. And um Jack, I know you
[01:46:28] uh work with them directly as well and
[01:46:29] your show's coming up next and we're
[01:46:32] going to keep going for
[01:46:33] Yeah. But I'm I'm not just
[01:46:35] It'll be the Christmas.
[01:46:36] We're gonna do this. We're just going to
[01:46:37] continue this.
[01:46:38] Yeah. Um and um anyways, we love them
[01:46:43] and um there's so many people that we
[01:46:46] should remember and thank.
[01:46:48] There's thousands thousands and
[01:46:49] thousands and we're not going to this
[01:46:51] probably is not the show to do that um
[01:46:53] just because it's impossible and we're
[01:46:56] going to forget too many people. But um
[01:46:59] but our I just can't tell you uh how
[01:47:02] many people believed in Charlie and gave
[01:47:05] us a shot and um and uh as a matter of
[01:47:09] fact I am I'm going to Daisy. Do I have
[01:47:12] my permission? Do you have do I have
[01:47:14] your permission to to read this? All
[01:47:16] right. So this is from Daisy Phelps.
[01:47:18] Daisy. Um, she was originally Daisy
[01:47:22] Dibbi when she joined us. Uh, and she
[01:47:23] got married and now she's, uh, expecting
[01:47:26] her first child. And we love Daisy. She,
[01:47:29] um, we were joking, Tyler. You were
[01:47:32] like, "My life was really hard." And
[01:47:33] then you came along and then I was like,
[01:47:35] "Yeah." And then my life was really
[01:47:36] hard. You were like, "I felt bad. I
[01:47:37] didn't want to tell you like how much
[01:47:39] easier my life got when I came." And my
[01:47:42] life was really hard until Daisy Dibbly
[01:47:43] came around and now Daisy Phelps
[01:47:45] 100%. And then Blake candidly uh changed
[01:47:49] everything as well. Um I'm trying to
[01:47:52] make sure I got my show clock right
[01:47:54] here. So this is from Daisy who would do
[01:47:56] Charlie's makeup and make sure his
[01:47:58] eyebrows cuz he had these crazy eyebrows
[01:48:00] they like he had he had like 60-year-old
[01:48:03] eyebrows at 27.
[01:48:05] Like they would just spark up like this.
[01:48:07] And I was like Daisy make sure his
[01:48:08] eyebrows are like it his hair. He had
[01:48:11] this crazy mop that would just fight
[01:48:13] you. And Daisy got really good at kind
[01:48:14] of putting it all together. And Daisy
[01:48:16] also ran his Instagram account and so
[01:48:18] much more.
[01:48:18] So much.
[01:48:19] She did so much around here. She said,
[01:48:21] "Charlie was a force, a believer, a
[01:48:23] patriot. He was my friend. I've had the
[01:48:26] privilege of speaking to him every day
[01:48:28] for the last four years, and I can't
[01:48:29] tell you that I've ever known someone
[01:48:31] with more integrity. He was exactly who
[01:48:33] he said he was, except better. There
[01:48:36] wasn't one thing that was fake or
[01:48:38] fabricated. He believed in what he said,
[01:48:40] and he lived out what he believed. He
[01:48:42] loved Jesus more than anyone. The truth
[01:48:44] uh the truest thing about him was his
[01:48:46] belief in God. He was constantly
[01:48:49] researching new ways to defend the
[01:48:50] gospel and making sure we all knew them.
[01:48:52] It was that important to him. I can
[01:48:54] still hear him say, "Good morning,
[01:48:56] sports fans coming into our studio every
[01:48:58] morning. I can still hear the worship
[01:49:00] music coming out of his office. I and
[01:49:03] everyone in the building was watching."
[01:49:04] I can still hear Oh, I can still hear
[01:49:07] the Cubs games. He'd turn on all the TVs
[01:49:09] to make sure everyone in the building
[01:49:11] was watching. I can still hear his kids
[01:49:12] running to hug him during breaks. He's
[01:49:15] not only he not only took a chance on me
[01:49:17] at 21 years old, but he pushed me,
[01:49:21] trusted me, and listened to me. Our show
[01:49:23] was everything to us. We lived and
[01:49:25] breathed the Charlie Kirk show because
[01:49:26] we believed in it. We still do. He
[01:49:29] consistently raised the bar for everyone
[01:49:31] on our team by first raising it for
[01:49:33] himself every day. He saw greatness in
[01:49:36] you and he brought it out by first being
[01:49:38] great himself. Just being around him,
[01:49:40] being in the background made you want to
[01:49:42] fight harder. He was ecstatic when I
[01:49:45] told him I was pregnant. He made sure to
[01:49:47] ask about the baby every day. He wanted
[01:49:49] to see every ultrasound. And when we
[01:49:51] found out it was a girl, he yelled, "I
[01:49:53] told you." My faith is completely
[01:49:56] different had I never met Charlie. my
[01:49:58] career, my adult life, my marriage. From
[01:50:00] watching the way he loved Erica,
[01:50:02] everything is different had I never met
[01:50:04] him. I'll never be the same and I
[01:50:06] wouldn't want to be. If there was one
[01:50:08] thing to know about Charlie, it's that
[01:50:10] he loved Jesus. He is with God. He spent
[01:50:12] so much time learning about and teaching
[01:50:14] others about.
[01:50:17] Well, welcome back radio.
[01:50:20] [Music]
[01:50:28] All right,
[01:50:32] it's the last segment of the live
[01:50:35] Charlie Kirk show on the Friday
[01:50:38] after September 10th.
[01:50:41] And um
[01:50:45] 9:10. We just miss him.
[01:50:48] And I know we're all very honored to be
[01:50:50] here. We're going to keep going for
[01:50:51] another hour, Jack. and um at least um
[01:50:55] and I'd like to have an opportunity for
[01:50:59] people in the audience to call in and
[01:51:01] tell their stories and their how they
[01:51:03] remember Charlie. So I want to do that.
[01:51:05] Um so I don't know if we're planning on
[01:51:07] doing that today. I think we probably
[01:51:08] should just keep going. Um and so let's
[01:51:11] set up let's make sure the studio's
[01:51:13] ready to do that in a little bit, but um
[01:51:17] go ahead. Andrew, there's a few people
[01:51:19] to, you know, and and again that are
[01:51:22] it's really important. This is not the
[01:51:25] this is not the show to to to everybody
[01:51:27] because there's so many people who are
[01:51:28] influential, but there's a few people
[01:51:29] who are so dear to Charlie that I I know
[01:51:33] of that um that just love him to to
[01:51:38] pieces. Um Mike Miller, who's been one
[01:51:41] of our longtime board members, is like a
[01:51:44] father figure to Charlie. And in fact,
[01:51:46] he was one of the individuals uh who has
[01:51:50] been there from really day one. When I
[01:51:52] met Charlie, he was a big time big game
[01:51:55] hunter, Africa, everything else. But
[01:51:57] he's a jeweler, a big jeweler in
[01:52:00] Illinois. He's from Bington, Illinois.
[01:52:01] And he's so American. The guy, his
[01:52:03] address, I think for his jewelry shop is
[01:52:05] 123 Main Street or something. So, uh
[01:52:08] incred and I've I've I've slept at his
[01:52:10] house like like this.
[01:52:11] Mike's great, man.
[01:52:12] Incredible name. Love Charlie. Love
[01:52:14] Charlie so much.
[01:52:15] Love Charlie so much.
[01:52:17] But this is I mean there are people that
[01:52:21] have that were so influential. Our board
[01:52:23] members, we have so many incredible
[01:52:25] board members. But you know Doug
[01:52:27] Degrroot for example has just been there
[01:52:29] has been a rock and a stalwart for
[01:52:31] Charlie Tom Sedaka who is going through
[01:52:34] some health things and we're praying for
[01:52:35] him every single day. Uh I mean there's
[01:52:37] just so many people and so and those
[01:52:39] early people especially the Chicagoans
[01:52:42] that were there who believed in Charlie
[01:52:46] uh Bill Montgomery who was one of the
[01:52:48] first kind of in Bill's
[01:52:51] ending magmatic energy was like a tea
[01:52:54] party guy that wanted to just show
[01:52:56] Charlie to everyone and it was many
[01:52:59] people like that who created gave the
[01:53:03] way that enabling of Charlie Kirk to to
[01:53:06] be introduced to the world. And if
[01:53:08] you're one of those people, and I didn't
[01:53:10] name you, I'm so sorry. I we I get
[01:53:13] there.
[01:53:14] David's there. You know, obviously, uh
[01:53:16] Rob McCoy, so many others that have been
[01:53:20] so close, all of our board members
[01:53:21] truly, Jeff Webb, others that you just
[01:53:25] you took Charlie around to to expose him
[01:53:27] to the world, to others. Um, we're just
[01:53:30] we're just thinking about you so much
[01:53:32] today because you know you did this and
[01:53:34] you you knew and and there were
[01:53:36] literally hundreds if not thousands of
[01:53:37] people who
[01:53:38] Rebecca Dun Fineberg these people were
[01:53:40] just champions of Charlie
[01:53:42] Ed Zean um so many
[01:53:44] yeah we shouldn't start because we're
[01:53:46] going to miss people that really
[01:53:48] but I I Foster Freeze for sure
[01:53:50] Foster and I I guarantee you Foster was
[01:53:52] waiting right there for him when he when
[01:53:54] he came out. We were sharing pictures of
[01:53:55] Foster. I remember sitting with Foster
[01:53:57] actually just right before he passed in
[01:53:59] the Trump hotel in DC and he scolded me.
[01:54:04] He was always scolding, you know, for,
[01:54:07] you know, giving that advice that to to
[01:54:09] Charlie, to me, to anyone that would
[01:54:12] listen. And he loved Charlie. Everyone
[01:54:15] has loved Charlie so much.
[01:54:18] I just I I just also want to say thanks
[01:54:20] just in these few final moments of the
[01:54:22] live show. And again, we're going to
[01:54:23] keep going, but um we want to thank all
[01:54:26] the um the Phoenix PD that has been
[01:54:31] uh stalwart in just from a security
[01:54:34] standpoint, cops blocking off roads,
[01:54:37] making sure our staff was safe, making
[01:54:38] sure these buildings were safe, making
[01:54:40] sure all the families felt safe going
[01:54:42] home um and coming in. Um the buildings
[01:54:45] are are closed for all intents and
[01:54:47] purposes, and that's great. That's
[01:54:49] that's that's fine for right now. Um the
[01:54:51] first responders at the scene, uh we
[01:54:54] want to thank them. Thank Charlie's
[01:54:56] personal security detail. Um you cannot
[01:54:59] imagine
[01:55:01] how um tough that was for them. And I
[01:55:05] really love those guys and they love
[01:55:06] Charlie. You got to believe me that if
[01:55:09] anybody loved Charlie like and had his
[01:55:12] back and was fight like warriors by his
[01:55:14] side, it was those guys. Dan and Brian,
[01:55:16] you guys are the best.
[01:55:18] Incredible. I I can't I mean we've known
[01:55:21] Dan from the very very beginning.
[01:55:24] There is not a person that loves Charlie
[01:55:28] Kirk more.
[01:55:29] Absolutely would have taken a bullet for
[01:55:30] Charlie and the the PD at the vigils. Uh
[01:55:35] I know that there's just we're running
[01:55:37] out of time. We have 25 seconds left
[01:55:39] here before we we lose radio.
[01:55:42] Um
[01:55:42] Charlie love being on radio. Um, and so
[01:55:45] to the radio audience listening all
[01:55:47] across the country, just know that um,
[01:55:48] Charlie was inspired by Rush. Rush
[01:55:50] believed in Charlie and Charlie took
[01:55:53] this medium to the next level. Um, and
[01:55:55] he was rewarded with it and ratings and
[01:55:58] the performance of this show and all of
[01:55:59] your amazing uh, belief in it. Thank you
[01:56:02] so much.
[01:56:07] [Music]
[01:56:15] [Music]
[01:56:33] [Music]
[01:56:43] [Music]
[01:56:45] [Applause]
[01:56:48] [Music]
[01:57:08] I talk to a lot of young people on
[01:57:10] campuses, at our events, on my radio
[01:57:13] show, podcast, and social media. Said
[01:57:16] differently, I visit college campuses so
[01:57:19] you don't have to.
[01:57:24] We're talking to so many voters that
[01:57:26] know it is time for change. They know
[01:57:28] that something is wrong. America's
[01:57:30] future is a series of choices.
[01:57:34] Our current state of slow motion
[01:57:38] national decline is a choice. Today is
[01:57:43] our 2-year-old's birthday.
[01:57:47] And I look at my daughter and that is my
[01:57:49] why. For those that are parents, you
[01:57:51] know exactly what I mean. There is no
[01:57:54] mountain that stands tall as your
[01:57:57] faithfulness.
[01:58:03] There is no river that runs
[01:58:06] wide as your goodness.
[01:58:08] [Music]
[01:58:21] Man, Charlie, uh, I I remember when we
[01:58:25] were starting these out and it was that
[01:58:27] like that,
[01:58:27] you know, it was like this. It was like
[01:58:29] it was like your average three rows.
[01:58:31] It was like your average political
[01:58:32] meeting where there was like 12 people
[01:58:33] in a room and uh, this is this is
[01:58:36] awesome.
[01:58:40] This, in my personal opinion, was the
[01:58:42] most over-the-top Trump event that I've
[01:58:45] ever covered. This is the number one
[01:58:47] boots on the ground operation in the
[01:58:48] country. We're working directly in
[01:58:50] harmony with the Trump campaign. It's
[01:58:51] been vetted. It's been cleared. It's
[01:58:52] been blessed, as you can see there. And
[01:58:54] we're going to try to win this thing. No
[01:58:55] guarantees. It's what we do that
[01:58:57] matters.
[01:58:57] Mr. President, I can tell you this room
[01:58:59] is 100% with you, and we have your back.
[01:59:01] God bless you. Thank you.
[01:59:08] [Music]
[01:59:11] [Applause]
[01:59:12] [Music]
[01:59:15] As you know, we are heading on campus
[01:59:18] here momentarily at the University of
[01:59:20] South Florida, throwing it down with the
[01:59:23] students. It's going to be a lot of fun.
[01:59:25] Uh we are excited to continue this
[01:59:27] cultural movement that we have started
[01:59:29] at Turning Point USA. More high school
[01:59:31] chapters, more college chapters. And
[01:59:34] disagreement is not just welcome. It is
[01:59:36] invited. We want to have those tough
[01:59:38] conversations. That's what it's all
[01:59:39] about.
[01:59:41] [Applause]
[01:59:43] [Music]
[01:59:48] [Applause]
[01:59:49] [Music]
[01:59:51] [Applause]
[01:59:52] [Music]
[02:00:02] because you're not supposed to be
[02:00:04] involved in this. You're supposed to
[02:00:05] just kind of be on the vote for me every
[02:00:08] four years, give me more political power
[02:00:09] and stay out of my business. And what
[02:00:11] has happened is we are seeing an
[02:00:12] explosion in citizen participation.
[02:00:16] There is nothing
[02:00:19] else.
[02:00:20] [Applause]
[02:00:26] All my days
[02:00:28] your mercy follow me.
[02:00:35] Oh, there is nothing else
[02:00:40] I'll ever need. Knock on that extra
[02:00:43] door. Go that extra mile. talk to that
[02:00:45] extra friend because throughout voting
[02:00:48] month and culminating on the 5th of
[02:00:51] November, I believe it will go down as a
[02:00:54] day that people remember, as a day that
[02:00:56] is written about in history books, as
[02:00:59] the final battle from the golden
[02:01:01] escalator on down. From defeating
[02:01:03] Hillary Clinton, from the nonsense of
[02:01:05] 2020, from Butler, Pennsylvania,
[02:01:07] November 5th, it all culminates, where
[02:01:10] we restore the promise that the founders
[02:01:12] gave us. and they said, "Hey, if the
[02:01:15] people want it, the people get it, and
[02:01:17] we the people take back America. God
[02:01:20] bless Arizona." And thank you so much.
[02:01:24] [Music]
[02:01:31] Every day, the American people demand
[02:01:34] certain accomplishments and victories.
[02:01:37] Disagreement is what keeps a movement
[02:01:39] alive, keeps a movement fun. Here in
[02:01:42] this country, we are a country of
[02:01:44] flourishing. We're a country of
[02:01:45] risk-taking. We're a country of
[02:01:47] building. We will achieve American
[02:01:50] greatness. And we are just getting
[02:01:52] started.
[02:01:53] All my days
[02:01:56] your mercy follow me.
[02:02:02] [Music]
[02:02:13] Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show.
[02:02:16] Um this is Andrew Kulvette, Jack Bobic,
[02:02:19] Blake Nef, and Tyler Boyer remembering
[02:02:22] our friend
[02:02:23] um the one and only Charlie Kirk who's
[02:02:26] on assignment from God who belongs to
[02:02:29] history and will have forever be in our
[02:02:32] hearts. And sorry, I just it's the way
[02:02:34] this thing works, man. like uh you see
[02:02:37] somebody you haven't seen yet, you
[02:02:39] haven't grieved with yet and it gets the
[02:02:42] emotions flowing.
[02:02:44] In uh in the you know guys that I know
[02:02:47] who have lost people in the military,
[02:02:49] they say it's it's waves.
[02:02:51] Yeah, it's waves.
[02:02:52] It feels like it feels like waves.
[02:02:53] That's the best way to describe it. And
[02:02:54] it's just and it's, you know, certain
[02:02:57] certain phrases, certain people, certain
[02:02:59] faces, certain memories like like for
[02:03:01] me, I I didn't expect a Seinfeld clip
[02:03:04] would just,
[02:03:06] you know.
[02:03:07] Yeah. And everybody deals with it
[02:03:08] differently. And um Charlie was not much
[02:03:11] of a crier unless, you know, he
[02:03:14] literally helped elect the future
[02:03:17] president in the 40 45 and 47. Um, and
[02:03:22] uh, you know, just hat tip to everything
[02:03:24] he just accomplished by sheer will. And
[02:03:26] I really truly believe that without
[02:03:28] Charlie Kirk, we would not have
[02:03:29] President Trump and um,
[02:03:32] Vice President Vance
[02:03:33] and Vice President Vance, we would
[02:03:35] definitely not have him. And thank you
[02:03:36] to President Vance and to Usha, Vice
[02:03:38] President Vance and uh, first second
[02:03:40] lady Usha um, for just their just how
[02:03:44] wonderful they were with Erica yesterday
[02:03:47] through and through. They came to Salt
[02:03:49] Lake City and they picked up Erica and
[02:03:52] they picked up Charlie and all of us and
[02:03:55] took us on Air Force 2 back to Phoenix
[02:03:57] and it was a beautiful ceremony um both
[02:04:00] getting on and uh getting off and um JD
[02:04:04] came back and talked with us and he
[02:04:06] spent most of his time with Erica and I
[02:04:09] mean just class act class act hugged us
[02:04:12] all.
[02:04:13] He is he is genuinely I want to say this
[02:04:15] about the vice president. He's been
[02:04:17] genuinely interested in individuals. And
[02:04:20] this is the same thing with Charlie.
[02:04:22] This is the same thing with President
[02:04:23] Trump to to be very point blank is very
[02:04:26] interested in individuals.
[02:04:29] And his his touch, his warm touch on
[02:04:33] this of making sure that Charlie was
[02:04:37] honored the way that he deserved to be
[02:04:39] honored is never going to be forgotten.
[02:04:42] It's never going to be forgotten by this
[02:04:43] team. is never going to be forgotten by
[02:04:45] the conservative movement, by obviously
[02:04:48] the entire Turning Point family. But
[02:04:50] that is that is such a testament to our
[02:04:52] vice president's character
[02:04:54] because it would it's just as easy to
[02:04:56] say I
[02:04:57] I can't
[02:04:58] and you got to understand JD's hurting
[02:05:00] too. Um
[02:05:01] yeah,
[02:05:01] JD loved Charlie um as a brother and as
[02:05:04] a friend. Um, they talked almost I'm I
[02:05:09] really mean this uh probably on text at
[02:05:10] least almost every day if not every day.
[02:05:13] And JD was strong. He understood the
[02:05:17] moment was probably not his moment to
[02:05:19] grieve. he's grieving in private and he
[02:05:21] was there and he was strong and Usha was
[02:05:23] strong and um
[02:05:26] yeah I just I love I love him for it and
[02:05:29] um there's a lot to love about JD but
[02:05:31] that was a really amazing um a really
[02:05:34] amazing moment and uh for our members
[02:05:38] and and by the way thank you Jack this
[02:05:40] is your hour um and you're you're
[02:05:42] graciously um letting us continue this
[02:05:45] show and
[02:05:46] I I wouldn't have this hour if it wasn't
[02:05:49] for Charlie. So,
[02:05:52] doesn't mean anything. Just let just
[02:05:54] keep going.
[02:05:55] And um I appreciate that, brother. And
[02:05:57] um
[02:05:59] uh I uh just a quick programming note,
[02:06:02] we're going to be sending our members at
[02:06:04] members.charlkirk.com.
[02:06:06] We're going to be sending you a phone
[02:06:07] number uh to call in and share your
[02:06:11] thoughts. So, if you're one of the
[02:06:13] members of this show, you know who you
[02:06:14] are. you were the nearest and dearest to
[02:06:16] us um out there and you believed in this
[02:06:19] show and you put your money where your
[02:06:21] mouth is and we adore you for it and
[02:06:24] Charlie believed in his members in such
[02:06:26] an amazing way and so if you're a member
[02:06:29] of the Charlie Kirk show you are about
[02:06:32] to get an email with a phone number and
[02:06:34] you can call in and you can share uh
[02:06:36] your thoughts and your remembrances of
[02:06:39] Charlie and what he meant to you and we
[02:06:41] would love to hear from some of you.
[02:06:42] We'll try and fit in as many as make
[02:06:44] sense. And um h
[02:06:45] how you got to know Charlie, how you
[02:06:48] discovered Charlie is incredible. Your
[02:06:50] interactions with Charlie and your
[02:06:52] interactions with the show, your
[02:06:53] interactions with Turning Point. Uh
[02:06:56] please like coming to events, whatever.
[02:06:58] We want to hear all of it and we please
[02:07:00] send those thoughts if you don't call in
[02:07:02] to freedomkirk.com.
[02:07:03] I'll just say that you know and we
[02:07:06] haven't really addressed it here
[02:07:08] obviously. We you know you know what we
[02:07:10] do. We see all the information that's
[02:07:12] coming in about the suspect. We've even
[02:07:15] got stuff that that hasn't been put out
[02:07:17] yet. And we just there'll be a time for
[02:07:21] that. And we know there'll be a time for
[02:07:23] that. There will be justice for Charlie
[02:07:25] Kirk, but that's that's not what we're
[02:07:28] doing right now. That's all I'm saying.
[02:07:29] Can I share one more thing that I saw
[02:07:31] that was a frequent thing that was
[02:07:32] really touching? We have, of course,
[02:07:34] tons of of people who've worked for us.
[02:07:37] um tons of people who have worked with
[02:07:39] us, alongside us that have helped build
[02:07:40] Turning Point into what it is today. Uh
[02:07:43] but so many people, even people who, you
[02:07:46] know, again, there are people who aren't
[02:07:48] always uh that don't always agree with
[02:07:52] with every single thing that comes out
[02:07:55] of Turning Point. I think this is really
[02:07:56] important, but their life was
[02:07:58] dramatically changed because of Turning
[02:08:00] Point. Um and they had met their
[02:08:03] spouses. Um, the one common theme I saw
[02:08:06] was people reaching out to me saying,
[02:08:08] "Tyler, I've always had this
[02:08:11] unbelievable respect for Charlie and for
[02:08:14] Turning Point because it changed my life
[02:08:16] for the better. I I found my spouse. I
[02:08:19] have my kids because of Turning Point. I
[02:08:21] heard so many stories like that exact
[02:08:24] and that consistent message that Charlie
[02:08:25] gave about the family and building your
[02:08:26] family and everything else reinforced
[02:08:29] all of that." And so so many people are
[02:08:32] like almost coming back home because
[02:08:33] they're like, "Oh, you know, I didn't
[02:08:34] always agree with Trump or I like Trump
[02:08:36] or whatever and and or I didn't like X,
[02:08:39] Y, and Z." And now they're on they're on
[02:08:42] the team. And it was because Charlie,
[02:08:45] they stuck with it. And listen, they're
[02:08:46] like, "Yeah, actually, you know what?
[02:08:49] This is the life I want to live. My
[02:08:51] family is important. My my religion is
[02:08:54] important. Christ being the center of my
[02:08:55] life is important," what Charlie said.
[02:08:57] And so um it's been really a beautiful
[02:09:00] actually honestly a miraculous thing to
[02:09:02] watch is these people coming back who I
[02:09:04] haven't heard from for almost 10 years
[02:09:06] maybe that have said hey this is how
[02:09:08] much this has impacted and changed my
[02:09:09] life and you know and some of some of
[02:09:12] these those people saying I'm sorry I
[02:09:13] didn't say something before and that was
[02:09:16] because of Charlie and what he built
[02:09:19] like
[02:09:22] I just
[02:09:24] you know I I keep thinking about Um
[02:09:28] there's a there's a poem that's a
[02:09:30] favorite of mine. It's from uh
[02:09:34] it's a it's a poem during uh it was
[02:09:36] written during World War I by Lawrence
[02:09:37] Bingan. It's titled uh for the fallen
[02:09:40] and it was about the men they lost in
[02:09:43] World War I.
[02:09:45] [Music]
[02:09:48] I think about just a few lines from it
[02:09:51] and about and about Charlie.
[02:09:54] [Music]
[02:09:56] They went with songs to the battle. They
[02:09:59] were young,
[02:10:01] straight of limb, true of eye, steady
[02:10:04] and a glow. They were staunch to the end
[02:10:07] against odds uncounted.
[02:10:10] They fell with their faces to the foe.
[02:10:14] They shall not grow old as we that are
[02:10:16] left grow old.
[02:10:18] Age shall not weary them, nor the years
[02:10:22] condemn.
[02:10:23] At the going down of the sun and in the
[02:10:26] morning,
[02:10:27] we will remember them.
[02:10:30] And
[02:10:32] that's how Charlie will always be for
[02:10:33] us.
[02:10:38] All of us are going to grow old. All of
[02:10:39] us are going to die. But Charlie will
[02:10:42] forever be
[02:10:44] how he was on September 10th.
[02:10:51] The brave, strong
[02:10:56] out there.
[02:10:59] Could be like that forever.
[02:11:00] The end the end of that one is
[02:11:03] well said. Thank you. There's a couple
[02:11:05] lines where the next line of that is
[02:11:06] actually they mingle not with their
[02:11:09] laughing comrades again.
[02:11:12] They sit no more at familiar tables of
[02:11:14] home. They have no lot in our labor of
[02:11:17] the daytime. They sleep beyond England's
[02:11:20] foam. It's a British poem.
[02:11:23] And the very last part,
[02:11:26] as the stars that shall be bright when
[02:11:27] we are dust, moving in marches upon the
[02:11:30] heavenly plain. as the stars that are
[02:11:33] starry in the time of our darkness to
[02:11:36] the end to the end they remain.
[02:11:41] So much of this in retrospect
[02:11:45] and you don't have eyes to fully
[02:11:47] appreciate it in the moment, but
[02:11:49] where you realize that you were
[02:11:51] encountering greatness
[02:11:54] and the moment you get the news, you
[02:11:57] realize that
[02:11:59] you were around somebody that was so so
[02:12:02] incredible. And
[02:12:05] and in kind of in a weird way, like in
[02:12:08] retrospect, it all kind of makes sense
[02:12:10] that we were that we only get him for
[02:12:12] such a short time.
[02:12:13] Yeah.
[02:12:14] Because he was too great for this world
[02:12:16] in so many ways.
[02:12:19] And um he was a shooting star.
[02:12:22] He was a mythological creature. You
[02:12:24] know, you hear these p you hear these
[02:12:26] images of descriptions of George
[02:12:28] Washington, how he's this
[02:12:30] huge man and and life,
[02:12:32] especially for his time. Well, Charlie,
[02:12:34] we always joked he was a Nephilim.
[02:12:36] He is literally the only chairs the only
[02:12:39] chair that we could get. I This is
[02:12:41] actually a really funny story. When we
[02:12:42] first started getting Charlie the chairs
[02:12:44] for his studio, it was like, "Nope, not
[02:12:46] that." It was like a It was like
[02:12:47] mattress shopping. It was like, "Nope,
[02:12:48] not that one. Not that one."
[02:12:49] We literally This chair,
[02:12:51] this is a shack chair.
[02:12:52] Yeah. From It's It's O'Neal.
[02:12:54] It's a a fairly inexpensive chair.
[02:12:56] Yeah.
[02:12:56] Just from huge people like Shaquille
[02:12:59] O'Neal and um
[02:13:01] from Staples.
[02:13:02] Yes. and from Staples and he was like,
[02:13:04] "Uh, this is the one."
[02:13:06] And he's worn it out. It's got like a
[02:13:07] little like, you know, the the very
[02:13:10] cheap, you know, veneer on it or what? I
[02:13:12] don't even know what you call it. Like
[02:13:14] not it's definitely not leather. It's
[02:13:15] like vinyl.
[02:13:17] Vinyl. Yeah.
[02:13:17] And uh he wore it out and he loved that
[02:13:20] big chair. And I have to say like when
[02:13:21] I've sat in it in the past like you've
[02:13:23] sat in it, it's like you're like, "Okay,
[02:13:24] I see what he was kind of, you know,
[02:13:26] it's a good chair." Um
[02:13:28] it's like a hug. But he was larger than
[02:13:30] life and we all saw it and we all, you
[02:13:34] know, he was younger than us. Everybody
[02:13:35] at this table, he was younger than us.
[02:13:37] And so we just, you know, you assume
[02:13:40] that you're going to probably go before
[02:13:41] him. And um but in retrospect like he
[02:13:45] was so larger than life and he packed so
[02:13:47] much into every single day uh that it's
[02:13:50] pretty impossible to it's impossible to
[02:13:54] to fully grasp just how much life he
[02:13:56] lived and how much he accomplished in 31
[02:13:59] uh far too short years. Um but we do
[02:14:01] have our first caller. Do we want to you
[02:14:04] guys ready for that? Um
[02:14:07] uh his name is Evan. Evan uh the floor
[02:14:10] is yours.
[02:14:13] Gentlemen, it's it's an honor to just be
[02:14:15] on and talk about Charlie for a sec.
[02:14:16] I'll keep this quick. Charlie was a
[02:14:19] friend. I considered him a dear friend
[02:14:20] even though I never ever met him. I've
[02:14:22] listened to him for a very very long
[02:14:24] time. I run and operate a lawn and
[02:14:26] landscaping business and also host a um
[02:14:28] podcast. And what Charlie really taught
[02:14:29] me was he was always continually
[02:14:32] learning. And even with my show that I
[02:14:33] host, you you you got to know things.
[02:14:36] You got to know about equipment and and
[02:14:38] things like that. And Charlie was always
[02:14:39] learning. He's always listening to books
[02:14:40] and and things like that. And his
[02:14:42] boldness to stand on the word of God and
[02:14:44] Jesus is what I've tried to do with my
[02:14:46] business and in life and even my family,
[02:14:47] too. I I I have a two and a
[02:14:48] half-year-old son and a kid on the way.
[02:14:50] And when I heard the news just a couple
[02:14:52] days ago, I was on the Moore. I stopped
[02:14:54] and I cried. It was just it's it's
[02:14:56] devastating. But we know that God's
[02:14:58] going to work this together for good.
[02:15:00] And through his tragic death, guys, more
[02:15:03] people are going to know about Jesus.
[02:15:05] And that's the one thing that we have to
[02:15:06] remember through this. And it's just
[02:15:08] I've never been he I consider him a
[02:15:10] friend even though I just never knew
[02:15:12] him. And I want you guys to hold on to
[02:15:13] God's word because that's what Charlie
[02:15:14] would want for us to to do is stand on
[02:15:16] God's word and hold on to it right now
[02:15:18] and not let the enemy just blind us from
[02:15:20] the mission that he had set. Guys, I
[02:15:22] appreciate all that you do and uh just
[02:15:23] Charlie just thank you and thank thank
[02:15:25] you Lord for just putting him on this
[02:15:27] earth for 31 years.
[02:15:29] Well said Evan and I think I just want
[02:15:31] to echo what you're saying. I've gotten
[02:15:33] so many notes and I've seen so many
[02:15:34] comments on social media of uh people
[02:15:38] saying their kids are coming back to
[02:15:39] church because of Charlie and because of
[02:15:41] this what's happened um that people are
[02:15:44] coming back to the Lord. And I just um
[02:15:47] Jack, it is your hour, but I'm just
[02:15:49] going to say a quick prayer.
[02:15:51] Um I'm going to say a quick prayer um
[02:15:53] for that.
[02:15:55] Um, heavenly father, we ask that you
[02:15:59] would um bless Charlie's legacy right
[02:16:03] now in this moment across the country
[02:16:05] and across the world as we mourn his his
[02:16:09] passing. It's far too early and too
[02:16:12] soon.
[02:16:13] We ask Holy Spirit that you would enter
[02:16:16] the hearts of millions of people across
[02:16:19] this planet, across our nation,
[02:16:22] and that you would bring people to faith
[02:16:24] in you, Jesus, to saving faith in you.
[02:16:27] He loved you, and I know that he is
[02:16:30] getting his reward in heaven right now.
[02:16:33] And that's what he wanted in the
[02:16:35] beautiful eulogy that Blake helped
[02:16:36] write. That all he wanted was thriving
[02:16:40] young people that went back and found
[02:16:42] their faith in you and thriving young
[02:16:44] families that made this country strong
[02:16:47] and great so that more could uh follow
[02:16:50] that same path. And I know Lord God that
[02:16:53] getting married and having a family and
[02:16:55] knowing you were his greatest
[02:16:56] accomplishments on top of everything
[02:16:58] else he did. And so Jesus, we just bless
[02:17:01] this country and everybody that loved
[02:17:03] Charlie or that heard about him that
[02:17:05] only heard about him even from from his
[02:17:07] his death. Lord, that you would make so
[02:17:10] many new believers, meant so many new
[02:17:12] members of of your heavenly kingdom
[02:17:14] right now and in the days and weeks to
[02:17:17] come. Lord Jesus, we ask in your
[02:17:19] precious name. Amen.
[02:17:20] Amen.
[02:17:23] If you guys want, we could we could
[02:17:25] follow that up. Tyler, I know you just
[02:17:27] put the hat back on, but we could all
[02:17:28] say together.
[02:17:30] Father, Holy Spirit, our Father,
[02:17:33] who art in heaven,
[02:17:35] be thy name,
[02:17:37] thy kingdom come,
[02:17:38] thy will be done
[02:17:40] on earth as it is in heaven.
[02:17:43] Give us this day our daily bread, and
[02:17:45] forgive us our trespasses as we forgive
[02:17:48] those who trespass against us,
[02:17:51] and lead us not into temptation,
[02:17:53] but deliver us from evil. Amen.
[02:17:57] Amen.
[02:18:00] Charlie would have wanted people going
[02:18:02] back to church more than anything. More
[02:18:04] than anything that more than politics or
[02:18:08] campaigns or
[02:18:12] whatever the next election was or
[02:18:14] whatever the next turning point was.
[02:18:15] The core the core belief was
[02:18:17] that was it. He was he was a true
[02:18:19] believer in in what Andrew Breitbart
[02:18:23] said and we talked about this all the
[02:18:25] time. I actually remember visiting we
[02:18:26] were visiting a donor and we stood in
[02:18:28] the spot where Andrew Breitbart passed
[02:18:30] which is a kind of a I think in LA.
[02:18:33] You've been there, right?
[02:18:34] Sunset.
[02:18:35] Yeah, it's it's really interesting. It's
[02:18:37] right outside a restaurant.
[02:18:38] Well, it's in it's in Brentwood at
[02:18:40] least. I don't know if
[02:18:41] it's it's it's kind of an interesting
[02:18:42] place. we he he had always had kind of
[02:18:45] this infatuation with the concept and we
[02:18:47] actually leaned into it talking about
[02:18:49] culture wars and all of that but that
[02:18:51] culture
[02:18:53] uh is what dictates your politics. So
[02:18:56] and culture is dependent upon your
[02:18:59] faith. There's nothing the bedrock
[02:19:01] there's nothing that that impacts that.
[02:19:03] So the politics that is really
[02:19:06] downstream from culture is really and
[02:19:07] this is like kind of like I would say
[02:19:09] Andrew Breitbart next level which was
[02:19:11] Charlie Kirk is that that's why I
[02:19:13] believe Charlie was so adamant about
[02:19:17] faith being so important is that he was
[02:19:19] a true believer in that statement but
[02:19:21] that faith was what was dictating how
[02:19:24] our politics would end up which is
[02:19:26] absolutely correct and true
[02:19:27] and so go there's nothing that could be
[02:19:29] more important right now. What you can
[02:19:31] you can just tie it up and say
[02:19:34] politics is downstream from culture.
[02:19:36] Culture culture is downstream from
[02:19:38] faith.
[02:19:38] That's right. And and Charlie led by
[02:19:42] example and embracing
[02:19:46] faith, embracing
[02:19:48] uh his the Christlike attributes that
[02:19:51] are necessary to impact culture in the
[02:19:54] positive way that needed to happen. And
[02:19:56] I think that's why you're seeing that
[02:19:58] turn of so many young people um that
[02:20:02] were influenced by this maybe starting
[02:20:04] with politics but walking themselves
[02:20:07] backwards and going oh my gosh well my
[02:20:09] politics is dictated by my faith and and
[02:20:13] that's a a great legacy that is the the
[02:20:16] most important legacy which Charlie
[02:20:17] himself said which is that's all that's
[02:20:19] all he cared about was that people would
[02:20:21] know that. Well, I was interesting. I
[02:20:23] saw a clip yesterday from uh Larry O'
[02:20:25] Connor who worked for Breitbart uh
[02:20:27] Andrew Breitbart and they were talking
[02:20:29] he was talking about this memory at
[02:20:30] CPAC. They were doing an Andrew
[02:20:32] Breitbart panel
[02:20:35] and Larry put it together. He was kind
[02:20:37] of he's like, "Well, all of us worked
[02:20:39] directly with Andrew. You never knew
[02:20:41] him." He's like, "And Char, I can't wait
[02:20:43] to be on this panel. You know, this is
[02:20:44] so amazing." And so he's like, "I'll
[02:20:47] call you and tell you about it, like my
[02:20:48] thoughts." and he's like, "Okay, we
[02:20:49] probably should talk because the rest of
[02:20:51] us knew Andrew." And um Charlie said
[02:20:54] that I was so inspired by Andrew
[02:20:56] Breitbart that I created Turning Point.
[02:20:59] Yeah.
[02:20:59] And Larry realized that he started
[02:21:02] Turning Point in 2012.
[02:21:04] Yeah.
[02:21:04] The year that it happened. And he
[02:21:07] realized that that that Charlie in many
[02:21:10] ways is the blossom of the seed planted
[02:21:12] by the death of Andrew Breitbart. And so
[02:21:14] when you think about how that can keep
[02:21:18] going forward and I know Charlie would
[02:21:20] want that um that that that we would
[02:21:23] have many such stories like that not
[02:21:24] just turning point or whatever
[02:21:26] and it's really an interesting
[02:21:29] point to make for those that study
[02:21:31] modern conservatism.
[02:21:34] There aren't very many people. I mean,
[02:21:36] let's if you if you had to pick the top
[02:21:39] three, it would probably be, you know,
[02:21:41] and again, we're setting Charlie aside,
[02:21:43] but
[02:21:45] Andrew Breitbart, Donald Trump,
[02:21:49] and the the third being Rush Limba.
[02:21:52] Rush.
[02:21:53] And when you look at that and you start
[02:21:55] to go, wait, what's the connection
[02:21:58] between all three of those men?
[02:22:00] It's really you look at that you go
[02:22:02] Charlie Kirk and Charlie was a
[02:22:08] again enigma. He was he had a
[02:22:12] personality that was unlike anything
[02:22:14] else. But he was the continuation. He
[02:22:17] picked the baton up for all three of
[02:22:20] those men in different ways
[02:22:22] and carried the entire conservative
[02:22:24] movement on his back and created
[02:22:26] something and again that the culmination
[02:22:28] of that you know what is the
[02:22:30] representation of Charlie and people are
[02:22:32] like what can we do to you know keep
[02:22:33] Charlie you have it it's turning point
[02:22:36] USA it's turning point the the entire
[02:22:38] ecosystem he he did it
[02:22:40] yeah he was he was able to do all the
[02:22:44] things
[02:22:44] I
[02:22:45] all of the things I promised we would we
[02:22:47] would mention this and before we go to
[02:22:50] the next caller um I saw some people
[02:22:54] saying that you know they thought I was
[02:22:55] trying to brush it off I just I wanted
[02:22:56] to give the vigils a moment because the
[02:23:00] and and I wanted because I knew we were
[02:23:02] up on a clock before
[02:23:05] it's unbelievable and they are worldwide
[02:23:09] um South Africa I've seen
[02:23:11] Australia
[02:23:12] Australia huge one in Australia I got a
[02:23:14] video from Sydney this morning someone
[02:23:16] sent me Sweden, Sweden,
[02:23:18] all across Europe.
[02:23:19] I just got one from uh Hungarians
[02:23:23] and and then all across the country and
[02:23:27] and there's like there's like little
[02:23:28] ones popping up, you know, like just
[02:23:30] hey, this is the one in our town. If you
[02:23:32] want to come, just come on. I someone
[02:23:34] sent Westchester, PA. And you know, I
[02:23:37] hear there's um I hear there's going to
[02:23:38] be a uh I think I hear there's they're
[02:23:41] trying to put together one, not like an
[02:23:42] official one, but like at the at the
[02:23:44] White House at Lafayette Square Park.
[02:23:45] there's just some local people trying to
[02:23:47] get a permit and and it's that
[02:23:54] spirit of individuals becoming activated
[02:23:59] and
[02:24:01] coming together around one core concept,
[02:24:04] principle, value. That's what Charlie
[02:24:07] Kirk stood for. That's what he was all
[02:24:09] about. He lived his entire life trying
[02:24:11] to inspire a turning point in this
[02:24:13] country and and he's done it.
[02:24:16] He I I've take so much solace in a
[02:24:20] couple of things.
[02:24:21] He got to see
[02:24:24] young men and the youth vote win a
[02:24:27] president.
[02:24:28] Yes.
[02:24:28] He got to see it and he got to do it.
[02:24:32] And he got to see he got to see the
[02:24:35] decline in church start going back up.
[02:24:39] He got to see that
[02:24:40] it bounced.
[02:24:40] And he got to see just just before that
[02:24:44] NBC poll that said that young men want
[02:24:47] to get married and have babies as their
[02:24:49] top priorities.
[02:24:50] Yep.
[02:24:51] And
[02:24:52] I can't tell you how much that means to
[02:24:54] me that he got to see the fruit of his
[02:24:57] work because so many people
[02:25:00] don't. they don't get to see what
[02:25:03] they've accomplished. And he actually
[02:25:04] got to see it. And all of you that came
[02:25:06] out to the campus events, all of you
[02:25:09] that came out to our Turning Point
[02:25:11] events, all of you that subscribed to
[02:25:13] this the show that gave him like one of
[02:25:16] the biggest shows and reaches and
[02:25:18] platforms in the entire country day in
[02:25:21] and day out. And we had millions of
[02:25:23] people listening to Charlie every day.
[02:25:25] Every day.
[02:25:25] Every day. We tried our best to estimate
[02:25:27] it. and the way of modern
[02:25:31] uh analytics with fast channels versus
[02:25:34] radio versus podcasts and and then you
[02:25:36] take clips it was basically impossible
[02:25:38] to measure but even just in the fall
[02:25:42] going up to the election it was 15
[02:25:44] billion views of Charlie Kirk content
[02:25:47] just in just ahead of the election. Um,
[02:25:50] and every day there was between 2 and 3
[02:25:52] million people that tuned into this show
[02:25:54] to char the Charlie Kirk show or
[02:25:56] listened to the podcast or um, and
[02:25:59] that's just the live show. That's not
[02:26:00] even counting clips. So that was podcast
[02:26:03] radio and it was truly truly a feat for
[02:26:06] anybody. But the fact that he was able
[02:26:07] like we said Tyler to be like a Rush
[02:26:09] Limbaugh to be like an Andrew Breitbart
[02:26:11] and to be
[02:26:12] he brought all that together. He brought
[02:26:14] all that together in one
[02:26:16] human that took and and by the way and I
[02:26:18] want to give a shout out to all of his
[02:26:20] assistant staff and his chief of staff
[02:26:22] Mikey
[02:26:23] who made his day today possible. Um they
[02:26:27] were really amazing. Uh we're going to
[02:26:29] get to another caller. Um and this one
[02:26:33] is Anthony. Anthony, the floor is yours,
[02:26:36] my friend. Uh tell us about Charlie and
[02:26:38] what
[02:26:38] Thanks, Andrew.
[02:26:40] Um, well, first my condolences to you
[02:26:42] and everybody. Um, so Charlie and I,
[02:26:45] I've been listening to the show since it
[02:26:47] probably started and I've been a member
[02:26:50] for a while and everything and then but
[02:26:51] the one time that it stood out to me and
[02:26:54] this might have been the funniest
[02:26:55] disagreement was probably at the end of
[02:26:57] July, early August. It was the weekend
[02:27:00] before he had to go on Fox and Friends
[02:27:02] and he put out the question to his
[02:27:04] everybody in the first hour, does
[02:27:06] baseball need a salary cap? and he knows
[02:27:08] that I work in the industry and it's on
[02:27:11] the college side of athletics and I he
[02:27:14] we talked about the political question I
[02:27:16] sent in to him and then he goes, "All
[02:27:17] right, Anthony, give me your I need I
[02:27:19] need to know. You're the professional."
[02:27:20] I go, "I already emailed you my answer
[02:27:22] in the first hour." He goes, "I know.
[02:27:24] I'm not letting you go until you tell
[02:27:25] me." And I said, "Well,
[02:27:28] I believe I'm on the fence." And he
[02:27:31] literally starts laughing and goes, "You
[02:27:33] can't be on the fence about this. you
[02:27:35] have to be on my side. And I'm like, and
[02:27:39] then and I'm like literally sitting
[02:27:41] there and I'm like, he's yelling at me.
[02:27:44] He's yelling me because the guy in the
[02:27:45] industry won't side with him. And I'll
[02:27:48] be honest, I always wanted a salary cap
[02:27:51] until I did more research. And then he's
[02:27:53] like, "Well, you have to." And Blake,
[02:27:54] you can relate to this. You got to find
[02:27:56] me that research and sent it. So I said,
[02:27:57] "All right, I will look for it." I sent
[02:27:59] it to him next Saturday morning when
[02:28:01] he's live on air on Fox the following
[02:28:02] week. He goes, "I got your emails. I
[02:28:04] haven't read him yet, but he goes, "But
[02:28:05] it was the funniest to see his facial
[02:28:07] expression
[02:28:09] just light up because he's like,
[02:28:12] Anthony, I I just want you're reminding
[02:28:13] me of of a very unique detail of Charlie
[02:28:15] Kirk that pro unless you emailed in the
[02:28:18] show, you didn't know."
[02:28:19] He would argue with the emails.
[02:28:21] Yes.
[02:28:21] And he would get into these he would get
[02:28:24] into these
[02:28:24] during the show.
[02:28:25] During the show, he's sitting there
[02:28:26] hosting the show going, "Welcome back to
[02:28:28] the Charlie Kirk show and press send."
[02:28:30] And then he'd be like, you know, they'd
[02:28:32] keep the show going. But he would he was
[02:28:35] uh arguing with people as we went.
[02:28:38] He could be talking like giving a
[02:28:41] monologue and writing a separate
[02:28:43] argument to an email.
[02:28:45] Well, we would all be debating too. So,
[02:28:47] he would your emails that you would you
[02:28:49] would make he would drop into the chat
[02:28:51] and it would be like rolling a grenade
[02:28:53] into the chat
[02:28:55] or sometimes he'd be like, "What do we
[02:28:57] think?" And he'd be like, "Well, this
[02:28:58] person just agrees with me."
[02:29:00] we and we and we would take sides with
[02:29:02] all of you. So like there there would we
[02:29:04] would have all of that and and and and
[02:29:06] truly and this is the one grassroots
[02:29:09] part because one of our our our culture
[02:29:11] point that we have at Turning Point is
[02:29:13] grassroots humility and this is the
[02:29:15] really interesting part and and again
[02:29:17] Andrew deserves a ton of credit for this
[02:29:19] because they framed the entire show, the
[02:29:22] Charlie Kirk show here around your
[02:29:25] feedback, your commentary,
[02:29:28] your conversations individual, every
[02:29:31] individual in America
[02:29:32] that talked to Charlie or would email in
[02:29:35] or would DM had a voice and and again
[02:29:39] that that's just that's not most people
[02:29:41] that do this. And it helped with the
[02:29:44] work because it helped frame Charlie's
[02:29:47] opinions about things. It helped frame
[02:29:49] from a grassroots perspective how we
[02:29:52] think about things at at Turning Point
[02:29:54] at and we think about issues issues that
[02:29:56] would be covered on Charlie's show every
[02:29:57] single day that everybody listened to,
[02:29:59] everybody at the White House would
[02:30:00] listen to and
[02:30:02] I mean I
[02:30:03] Twitter would change because we the
[02:30:05] three like between Jack and Charlie
[02:30:08] alone, them dropping something changes
[02:30:11] the whole direction on Twitter anyways.
[02:30:12] And then Benny Yeah, Benny Johnson.
[02:30:14] Um throw this up. I just want to I I I
[02:30:17] don't know all the details about this.
[02:30:19] Um but there is a prayer vigil planned
[02:30:21] in Washington DC on Sunday, September
[02:30:24] 14th. So this Sunday at 6 PM location to
[02:30:28] be announced soon. Um
[02:30:30] I think I may have just accidentally
[02:30:32] said it.
[02:30:33] Oh, whoops. Uh well, I if you did I you
[02:30:36] know that's
[02:30:37] some some I I wasn't given the full
[02:30:40] confirmation on that.
[02:30:41] Sunday I mean who knows? Uh, but it'll
[02:30:43] be at 6 p.m. in Washington DC. And I
[02:30:46] think it's a beautiful way to honor
[02:30:48] Charlie. Uh, Charlie um, candidly didn't
[02:30:51] love Washington DC. Didn't love going to
[02:30:54] Washington DC. I mean, he was pretty
[02:30:55] imperial. Imperial capital.
[02:30:56] Imperial Capital,
[02:30:58] but he would stomach it because he loved
[02:31:00] his country and he would go there and
[02:31:03] um, and so I I mean I think it's a
[02:31:05] fitting tribute. Can I can I just say if
[02:31:07] if you are at Washington DC or if you're
[02:31:10] in any other blue area and you're going
[02:31:12] to one of these vigils and protesters
[02:31:16] come up or something like that, just
[02:31:20] I'm not going to say, you know, don't
[02:31:22] get into it, but just we're not there
[02:31:24] for that. We're just we're really not
[02:31:26] there for that.
[02:31:26] Charlie Charlie was his message was
[02:31:29] peace. I mean, yeah,
[02:31:30] Charlie, um,
[02:31:32] he was a master swordsman, but his sword
[02:31:35] was the word, the logos, and, um,
[02:31:39] debating. And he didn't believe in in
[02:31:42] peace, per se. He believed in verbal
[02:31:45] combat, and he believed in um,
[02:31:47] intellectual and ideological combat, and
[02:31:49] he believed that we were in a a war of
[02:31:52] ideas, and a spiritual battle. And um
[02:31:57] and so I'm not here to give you some
[02:32:00] rosy, you know, prescription about the
[02:32:03] state of the world. We're in a battle um
[02:32:06] not against flesh and blood, but against
[02:32:07] powers and principalities. And um
[02:32:09] obviously
[02:32:10] a pretty close
[02:32:11] Yeah.
[02:32:11] understanding of the state of the world
[02:32:13] a couple days ago.
[02:32:14] Yeah. But like Charlie
[02:32:17] ultimately believed in the promise of
[02:32:19] America and um the fact that um our
[02:32:24] institutions will hold. Um I guess u
[02:32:28] speaker Johnson will be at that one
[02:32:30] along with Anna Pina Luna. Um and um you
[02:32:35] know more details coming about that
[02:32:37] which is very fitting because Anna is
[02:32:39] you know by her own admission is our is
[02:32:42] the turning point congresswoman. She um
[02:32:46] you know to tell this fun story again. I
[02:32:48] know some people have heard it but Anna
[02:32:50] was thinking about going to med school
[02:32:52] and she had engaged with us online. Uh
[02:32:55] we had I found her. We saw that she was
[02:32:58] saying some smart things on Instagram
[02:33:02] and we actually reached out to her,
[02:33:03] invited her to young women's leadership
[02:33:05] summit and she came and she was like,
[02:33:09] "Hey, I'm applying to to med school."
[02:33:11] And she was a again Air Force veteran,
[02:33:14] everything else. And that one experience
[02:33:17] of her being there at Young Women's
[02:33:20] Leadership Summit, which by the way,
[02:33:21] that was Young Women's Leadership Summit
[02:33:23] was the brainchild of Charlie. We
[02:33:25] started that many many years ago. He
[02:33:27] knew that was important. Uh wanted to do
[02:33:29] that. But it culminated. It started at a
[02:33:32] tiny little thing in Illinois and then
[02:33:33] we moved to the airport. We were at the
[02:33:35] airport.
[02:33:36] Uh you know, kind of a three-star hotel
[02:33:38] at
[02:33:38] the high in DFW
[02:33:40] at DFW. Tidy. It was like inside it's
[02:33:42] like literally inside the airport. So
[02:33:43] you don't even remember you don't even
[02:33:45] leave the airport when you show up.
[02:33:46] And it grew and grew and grew. Anna
[02:33:48] showed up there and we convinced her to
[02:33:51] not go to medical school, to quit,
[02:33:54] basically move to Arizona and start
[02:33:56] touring and learning how the the ropes
[02:33:59] of of how to debate on campus.
[02:34:02] And to do that, that was like the the
[02:34:04] Charlie Kirk model.
[02:34:05] By the way, APL, she has been so fierce
[02:34:08] in Charlie's defense since all this.
[02:34:10] I've been texting with her. Um,
[02:34:12] she has been the person. She's so great
[02:34:15] and um
[02:34:17] I just love it. Um she's part of the
[02:34:19] legacy, too.
[02:34:20] She left she left here wanting to run
[02:34:22] for Congress, wanting to change the
[02:34:24] country. She's she's she's doing just
[02:34:25] that. And she's a tremendous friend and
[02:34:27] ally, and she's been incredible for the
[02:34:30] last few days here.
[02:34:31] Yeah. We're going to take another
[02:34:32] caller. Caleb, you are on. Caleb and
[02:34:34] Michelle, how are you, my friends?
[02:34:39] my friend Andrew. Well, you know how we
[02:34:43] are, but um it's such a privilege and an
[02:34:46] honor to that that Charlie called me his
[02:34:50] friend and and you know,
[02:34:53] even though we were occasional
[02:34:56] acquaintances
[02:34:58] and I loved how he
[02:35:01] every time we would meet, he would treat
[02:35:04] us like family, you know. And I have and
[02:35:08] there's what I wanted to talk about is
[02:35:10] maybe just a couple stories about how he
[02:35:12] elevated those around him. And I know
[02:35:15] it's been said before that that was the
[02:35:18] kind of person he was. He wanted
[02:35:19] everyone to be their best.
[02:35:22] And um but you know we we and Michelle's
[02:35:26] already emailed you guys the story of
[02:35:28] how we first met in 2020. And you know
[02:35:31] we he introduced us to people. We you I
[02:35:34] think you were there Andrew. we'd come
[02:35:36] back. He says, "These are my 2020
[02:35:38] friends because we met, you know, met
[02:35:39] him in 2020 just after the election at
[02:35:41] the headquarters." And and it was what
[02:35:44] was so cool is that every time
[02:35:46] afterwards we would go to an event that
[02:35:48] Charlie was speaking at
[02:35:49] and he did this like at least twice to
[02:35:52] me, he's like, "Oh, hey, Caleb." I'm out
[02:35:55] in the crowd. I'm just sitting out in
[02:35:56] the crowd. He says, "Oh, there's Caleb
[02:35:58] and Michelle. I should tell you the
[02:35:59] story about how we met in in Arizona."
[02:36:02] you know, and he remembered you when he
[02:36:06] saw you again and and welcomed you in.
[02:36:08] And Michelle and I just were so happy
[02:36:11] that, you know, three weeks ago he he
[02:36:13] was in Myrtle Beach and and you know,
[02:36:16] we're in North Carolina now and like we
[02:36:17] could drive we could go to that and you
[02:36:20] know um and so we we went to see him.
[02:36:24] I saw you there.
[02:36:25] Saw you there, Caleb.
[02:36:26] Yep. Saw you there. And it was so cool
[02:36:28] because Charlie invited us backstage. um
[02:36:31] or you know Mikey did and he brought us
[02:36:33] into the green room and there's Alex
[02:36:35] McFarland and Charlie introduces us you
[02:36:38] know Caleb Michelle you know my my super
[02:36:40] fans these are guys are Charlie Kirk
[02:36:42] show super fans and um and he he said
[02:36:47] you know Charlie Charlie said to me said
[02:36:49] you know Caleb just sends me the you
[02:36:50] know the best feedback I love reading
[02:36:52] his emails um you know he always talked
[02:36:55] about how he loved Michelle's emails
[02:36:58] she's always so encouraging to him and
[02:36:59] and then He he says, "So, Caleb, what's
[02:37:01] on your mind?" He just puts me on the
[02:37:03] spot, you know, like, you know, I'm not
[02:37:06] the guest speaker or anything, but he
[02:37:07] says, "Tar, what what's on your mind?" I
[02:37:09] throw out a couple ideas and he says,
[02:37:10] you know, I'll let you choose. You know,
[02:37:12] here's a couple ideas. What do you want
[02:37:13] to talk about? And he's like, "Oh,
[02:37:14] that's a great topic. Hey, Alex, you and
[02:37:16] Caleb, you guys should debate this
[02:37:17] topic." And then he just puts this on
[02:37:19] the spot and he facilitated, you know,
[02:37:20] he kind of moderated. he jumps in on my
[02:37:23] side, you know, gives a good point here
[02:37:24] from the Bible because it was a it was
[02:37:26] a, you know, a biblical uh discussion.
[02:37:30] And um
[02:37:31] by the way, Caleb, I want to give you
[02:37:33] credit because Charlie threw them the
[02:37:35] threw it to you to make a point.
[02:37:38] Remember backstage with McFarland and
[02:37:42] you crushed it, man?
[02:37:43] He you crushed it. And I remember
[02:37:45] looking at I walked away with Charlie
[02:37:47] and I said, "Caleb did well." And he
[02:37:48] goes, "Oh, yeah. He's been paying
[02:37:50] attention.
[02:37:52] Um I I want to throw up another image
[02:37:55] here. Um this is from some friends here.
[02:37:59] A memorial rally tribute ride um in
[02:38:03] Lynchfield Park uh here in Arizona. Uh
[02:38:08] arrive at 5:00 p.m. Ride at 5:30 um and
[02:38:12] uh speakers to be announced. Candlelight
[02:38:14] vigil at 7:30. Uh this is just this is
[02:38:18] what's happening. people want a way to
[02:38:20] help and I uh I think it's I think it's
[02:38:23] incredible um that so much of this is
[02:38:26] happening so organically um nobody's
[02:38:29] planning this no nobody's like there's
[02:38:31] no like organization by the way doing
[02:38:33] like the DC one it's just like people in
[02:38:35] DC that love Charlie
[02:38:36] Charlie would have loved this
[02:38:37] and it's just h people are grabbing the
[02:38:39] bull by the horns and they're doing this
[02:38:42] because they loved him
[02:38:44] but but Charlie would also say he'd say
[02:38:46] okay but don't stop there of He would
[02:38:48] say, "Don't stop there. Do not stop
[02:38:51] there. Thank you, but do not stop
[02:38:52] there."
[02:38:53] Um, speaking of which, this is like I
[02:38:55] had my team coming to me going like,
[02:38:57] "How can I help? Like, can I make a
[02:38:58] montage?
[02:39:00] Can I make a tribute video?" And I'm
[02:39:01] like, "Sure. I haven't seen this one
[02:39:03] either. Let's go ahead and play." This
[02:39:04] is from Noah on our team, and I haven't
[02:39:07] seen it. Um, so 419. Thank you, Noah.
[02:39:11] Why your faith is the most important
[02:39:13] thing. You are commanded to go do
[02:39:16] something productive with your life. You
[02:39:18] are not commanded to go sit idly by and
[02:39:20] just receive. You are commanded to go
[02:39:23] give and to produce and to risk to then
[02:39:26] go sew into other people. That is a
[02:39:29] biblical idea that has made the world a
[02:39:31] profoundly better place.
[02:39:34] We must put God first in everything that
[02:39:36] we do. We are nothing here but just for
[02:39:38] a short instant,
[02:39:40] short little glimpse. We act not out of
[02:39:44] outcome, but we act out of obedience.
[02:39:47] Everybody, this was not earned. You guys
[02:39:49] were a vessel. We were a vessel. Psalm
[02:39:51] 107:1, "Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for
[02:39:54] he is good, for his steadfast love
[02:39:56] endures forever."
[02:39:57] I have to say this without getting
[02:39:58] emotional, but I'm very proud of my
[02:40:00] husband. You are so intentional with
[02:40:02] your faith and you are so intentional
[02:40:04] with just how you are as a father and a
[02:40:06] husband. Becoming a father has made me
[02:40:08] first of all understand that what I'm
[02:40:10] fighting for is beyond even yourself. We
[02:40:13] do not wrestle against flesh and blood
[02:40:15] but against principalities and darkness
[02:40:18] and spirits.
[02:40:18] Cuz at its core, what we are fighting is
[02:40:21] a spiritual battle. And if you're here
[02:40:22] and you don't believe in God, okay,
[02:40:25] fine. I'll pray for you. And I hope you
[02:40:27] find Jesus Christ as your Lord and
[02:40:28] Savior because it will change your life.
[02:40:31] [Applause]
[02:40:33] [Music]
[02:40:35] How do you want to be remembered?
[02:40:37] I want to be I want to be remembered for
[02:40:39] for courage for my faith. That that
[02:40:42] would be the most important thing. Most
[02:40:43] important thing is my faith in my life.
[02:40:50] Wow. Good job, Noah.
[02:40:51] Great job, Noah. That was great.
[02:40:54] Um Noah's pretty new to the team and uh
[02:40:58] you captured it, brother.
[02:41:01] Um I got a note here uh from a John. He
[02:41:04] said, "Charlie sat down with me after my
[02:41:06] dad died."
[02:41:08] Um,
[02:41:10] he says, "Hey, thought crime crew. I
[02:41:13] look back fondly on the time I spent
[02:41:15] with Charlie from my time as a student
[02:41:17] at GCU to working for NFP and then
[02:41:20] chased the vote. Charlie inspired me and
[02:41:22] was my hero. I specifically remember
[02:41:24] when Charlie came to GCU in 2022. He was
[02:41:28] informed that my dad had died. He
[02:41:30] personally spent time with me backstage
[02:41:31] before his event and that has stuck with
[02:41:34] me forever. Charlie was an incredible
[02:41:36] man and made me the man I am today.
[02:41:38] Sending love and prayers, John.
[02:41:41] Now he's now he's working for President
[02:41:43] Trump in DC.
[02:41:46] Um
[02:41:49] uh do and we have Sarah. Sarah, you're
[02:41:52] you're on with the crew. Um what's on
[02:41:55] your mind?
[02:41:56] Hi.
[02:41:58] Um, I am holding back tears. It's been a
[02:42:03] rough couple of days as I'm sure you all
[02:42:04] know. Um,
[02:42:07] I just wanted to say, um, to all the
[02:42:10] people listening and,
[02:42:13] um, all of you folks who are continuing
[02:42:15] this movement, thank you, especially to
[02:42:17] Charlie. Um, I really believe he has
[02:42:22] been the turning point of our nation for
[02:42:24] um, I guess what those words are worth.
[02:42:26] And I'm grateful to him. I'm grateful to
[02:42:30] his words. I'm grateful to how he held
[02:42:34] himself and was able to hold
[02:42:36] conversations with people. And I do
[02:42:39] think that
[02:42:41] um in this tragedy, I'm hoping that it
[02:42:44] really is the turning point of our
[02:42:45] nation and that we can
[02:42:47] um move forward as a nation in a way
[02:42:50] that Charlie would be super proud of.
[02:42:55] Beautiful, Sarah. Well said. Thank you.
[02:42:57] And um I think we're all praying that um
[02:43:00] that
[02:43:03] the reach and the impact that Charlie
[02:43:05] has um I don't think any of us have any
[02:43:07] idea just how big it is. And that's what
[02:43:10] I'm realizing. I feel like Tyler, you
[02:43:12] and me specifically, and kind of what we
[02:43:13] had to do the last couple days. I think
[02:43:16] we're a little insulated from it. And
[02:43:18] I'm I feel like I'm just starting to see
[02:43:20] it.
[02:43:20] Yeah. um of what I've been kind of
[02:43:22] ignoring and the calls I haven't been
[02:43:24] taking and the texts I haven't been
[02:43:26] responding to. Uh but
[02:43:29] that's probably just the tip of the
[02:43:30] iceberg of how huge
[02:43:32] uh his impact is. I
[02:43:33] I don't think we have any idea. I like I
[02:43:35] woke up this morning realizing that. Um
[02:43:38] yeah,
[02:43:39] just because of the people like the the
[02:43:41] layers of people talking to people who
[02:43:43] talk to people who talk to people who
[02:43:44] are kind of coming back and um people
[02:43:47] have been so good to all of our team
[02:43:49] like you know people were worried about
[02:43:51] the safety of our team. Um and so you
[02:43:55] know Phoenix PD and Mesa PD have been
[02:43:57] incredible. Um I know in Scottsdale PD
[02:44:00] and everyone else I there's been
[02:44:05] so many people impacted by this by the
[02:44:07] way aren't even saying anything
[02:44:09] and when we we landed in Phoenix
[02:44:10] yesterday there was a huge crowd
[02:44:13] hundreds
[02:44:13] like gathered outside of the airport
[02:44:16] and as we drove away in the procession
[02:44:19] there was people lining the streets like
[02:44:22] American flags and MAGA hats probably
[02:44:24] half of them that Charlie threw to them
[02:44:26] and um and When we got to our final
[02:44:29] destination again, there was a huge
[02:44:31] crowd gathered waiting for
[02:44:34] for us and for him and it was really
[02:44:37] really amazing and it and it was just
[02:44:39] kind of a little insight and I Blake I
[02:44:42] joke with you because we couldn't take
[02:44:43] him anywhere in life. We couldn't take
[02:44:46] him anywhere like he would get
[02:44:48] absolutely mobbed. Can I get a selfie?
[02:44:50] Can I get a selfie? I mean it didn't
[02:44:51] matter if you were in Seoul.
[02:44:52] It was unbelievable in Yeah. just in
[02:44:54] soul in Japan just the number of people
[02:44:56] or you know even we realized it when we
[02:44:59] went to Cambridge and Oxford last spring
[02:45:02] the the number of people who would
[02:45:03] recognize him
[02:45:04] all over the place.
[02:45:06] Yeah. And I I took him to a like a very
[02:45:09] very private place in California and I
[02:45:14] was like don't worry we'll be we'll be
[02:45:15] left alone because we had business to
[02:45:16] attend. We had a real like pretty
[02:45:17] important call like discussion we were
[02:45:19] having. we need to work out some details
[02:45:21] and some planning and I was like don't
[02:45:22] worry we'll be fine and it was like no
[02:45:24] it was not it was like people would come
[02:45:27] candidly they were a bit rude but I
[02:45:29] looked at him and I because you know
[02:45:30] we're obviously having a private
[02:45:31] discussion and they were like can I oh
[02:45:32] my gosh can we get a selfie and as he
[02:45:35] was driving away after I mean there was
[02:45:37] like very private place there was still
[02:45:38] about I would guesstimate about 30
[02:45:40] people in the course of about 40 minutes
[02:45:42] like and we were trying to hide and uh
[02:45:45] and then as he's driving away these two
[02:45:47] kids were like rode their bikes after
[02:45:49] him and they were 14 14 15 years old and
[02:45:52] they're like, "Is that Charlie Kirk?" I
[02:45:53] was like, "Can we get a selfie before he
[02:45:54] leaves?" And I was like, you know, I was
[02:45:55] like, "Charlie, you know, and Mikey was
[02:45:57] in the car with him as they were driving
[02:45:58] away." And of course, he's like, "I I um
[02:46:02] um I I got him to stop and he and I I
[02:46:05] asked him in the middle of it. I said,
[02:46:06] "Are you okay with this?" He's like,
[02:46:08] "Honestly, it's just I've accepted it.
[02:46:11] This is life and I just I want like I
[02:46:14] know that I can make somebody's day by
[02:46:15] doing it. It's fine." you know,
[02:46:17] always always say yes to every photo.
[02:46:19] The one funny
[02:46:20] Yes. He would always say that. Said
[02:46:21] always say yes to every photo, even if
[02:46:22] he was in the biggest hurry.
[02:46:24] The one funny moment that I have that's
[02:46:26] like that was the opposite of that with
[02:46:28] Charlie and I don't know why this memory
[02:46:29] sticks with me, but it was it was during
[02:46:31] that whole time when he lost his voice
[02:46:33] and and we were trying to get his voice
[02:46:35] back. So, it was like me,
[02:46:38] Charlie, and Mikey. And we were just
[02:46:42] because the way the travel route we were
[02:46:43] just driving through like central
[02:46:45] Florida where it gets kind of rural
[02:46:47] and we we had this idea to get him like
[02:46:49] a humidifier with like medicated
[02:46:52] humidifier but we couldn't figure out
[02:46:53] where to get one and Charlie wanted a
[02:46:55] specific one. And then we were just
[02:46:56] driving down the street and Charlie
[02:46:57] goes, "Well, there's Walgreens. Let's
[02:46:59] just let's just go to the Walgreens."
[02:47:01] And you know how he is when he like when
[02:47:02] he wants something and he wants
[02:47:03] something specific. So we're like, "Are
[02:47:05] you coming in?" And we just we just went
[02:47:08] to Walgreens and we're just like walking
[02:47:10] around and it was just so surreal
[02:47:12] because like nobody came up for it's
[02:47:14] like the one time among all these times
[02:47:18] where it was just like the most normal
[02:47:20] simple and of course we couldn't find
[02:47:22] the one he wanted and then we had to get
[02:47:24] very Seinfeld, you know, kind of thing.
[02:47:26] And then we just go check out and it's
[02:47:28] like in the middle of all this
[02:47:30] craziness, it's just a random trip to
[02:47:33] Walgreens trying to find something for
[02:47:35] my buddy because his throat hurts.
[02:47:36] You know, it's funny actually now
[02:47:38] thinking of thinking about that you
[02:47:39] inspired this. I remember when he was in
[02:47:42] Seoul just like a week ago, two weeks
[02:47:44] ago, whatever it was, and he he went out
[02:47:46] and explored the city. He got up early
[02:47:48] and explored the city. And I remember
[02:47:49] going, "Alone? Are you like and he was
[02:47:51] like, "Yes, alone, lol." Like it's safe
[02:47:53] here. Like it's clear. like that
[02:47:55] actually meant a lot to him and I'm so
[02:47:57] glad now that he got to do this thing
[02:48:01] that he hadn't been able to do in so
[02:48:03] long and just go explore a city by
[02:48:05] himself.
[02:48:06] He hadn't been by himself for so long.
[02:48:07] He hadn't like
[02:48:08] and he loved it. He kept sending us
[02:48:10] pictures in our chat and like videos
[02:48:14] and you were there, right, with I mean
[02:48:15] you weren't I mean you did do some
[02:48:17] exploring with
[02:48:17] on his own and then later we were in
[02:48:19] this old town neighborhood and he's like
[02:48:21] all right Blake just tell me about Korea
[02:48:23] and I'm just babbling. this is the this
[02:48:25] is the palace where they do the
[02:48:27] confusion examinations and he was he
[02:48:29] loved it and of course it was also a
[02:48:31] trillion degrees out so we were all in
[02:48:33] you know nice clothes because we had to
[02:48:34] go to the thing later and it was swamp
[02:48:37] and I was dying but it was it was so
[02:48:38] much fun
[02:48:40] but that's such a
[02:48:42] that's such a good point though Andrew I
[02:48:44] mean the thing that I think most people
[02:48:46] don't realize especially in these these
[02:48:49] la last years that Charlie was with us
[02:48:52] was that he was never alone I mean the
[02:48:54] weight and pressure of having to be that
[02:48:55] celebrity. Like that's a lot. It's a lot
[02:48:58] to do. And and that has an impact on
[02:49:00] most people. And the one thing I think
[02:49:03] that was really astonishing about
[02:49:04] Charlie is he didn't change as a person
[02:49:07] at all.
[02:49:08] He didn't he, by the way, he wasn't like
[02:49:10] the party animal either. Like so a lot
[02:49:12] of people get in this role and they they
[02:49:13] you I don't know, you see him at clubs,
[02:49:15] you see them drinking, you see them
[02:49:17] partying or like enjoying all this
[02:49:19] stuff. Charlie would go home at like the
[02:49:22] first instant that was socially
[02:49:24] acceptable for the programming like at
[02:49:26] America Fest. Maybe the program didn't
[02:49:28] get over until 7:30. He would go
[02:49:29] straight home back to the hotel as soon
[02:49:31] as he could after meeting with donors or
[02:49:34] supporters. Yep.
[02:49:35] He would do like he would do a circuit
[02:49:36] of like four stops, five stops, meet
[02:49:38] with donors, and then he go straight
[02:49:40] back to be with Erica
[02:49:41] like immediately.
[02:49:44] And he but his personality never
[02:49:46] changed. his his demeanor never never
[02:49:50] changed. Uh I mean his busyiness level
[02:49:53] was never different. He was always busy
[02:49:55] in different ways throughout his career
[02:49:58] uh throughout the time that that as he
[02:49:59] grew. But the the thing that was always
[02:50:02] really difficult that I was always
[02:50:03] really worried about him was that you
[02:50:05] never having that, you know, reprieve
[02:50:07] from the public eye or being able to go
[02:50:09] out and just do normal things. And the
[02:50:12] one thing I really appreciate about
[02:50:14] Erica and you guys actually specifically
[02:50:17] that are here with Andrew and and Blake
[02:50:19] because you guys spent a lot when he did
[02:50:22] have alone time. It was with you and so
[02:50:24] it was like the as that that was as
[02:50:26] alone as he got or with Mikey. Um and he
[02:50:30] he got to do some normal things in that
[02:50:32] way, right? Which was like going to the
[02:50:35] to the Cubs game.
[02:50:35] He was always just the kid from Chicago
[02:50:37] and wanting to be and and wanting to eat
[02:50:40] at the restaurant. Like I'll always
[02:50:41] remember again just after we had a long
[02:50:44] day of doing something extraordinarily
[02:50:45] exhausting and I feel like it was like
[02:50:46] 10 p.m. and you you guys know this like
[02:50:49] Charlie loved to just go sit down and
[02:50:51] break bread and eat by his by the way
[02:50:54] the way he would order was hilarious.
[02:50:55] He'd sit down. We'd be at a restaurant.
[02:50:57] It'd be like you know four or five of us
[02:50:59] gathered around. He and he would take
[02:51:00] the menu go uh give us some of this,
[02:51:02] some of this, some of this, some of
[02:51:03] this, some of this. Uh get these out for
[02:51:05] a sharable plate. You guys are going to
[02:51:06] love this. You're going to love this.
[02:51:07] You're trust me. And then he would go,
[02:51:09] "Uh, and can I get some hot sauce and
[02:51:11] olive oil and some salt and pepper,
[02:51:13] please? Thank you."
[02:51:14] Yeah.
[02:51:14] It was like he would order like a crazy
[02:51:16] person like 15 items and then so you
[02:51:19] were just like, "I guess I'll just eat
[02:51:20] what Charlie's having." And the the
[02:51:22] table would be filled and he like, "Get
[02:51:24] some more of this. You're going to
[02:51:25] you're going to love that. No, eat some
[02:51:26] more of And then everybody's around
[02:51:28] eating, talking, you know, again, kind
[02:51:32] of decompressing from whatever the crazy
[02:51:34] was that we you're going through,
[02:51:35] whether it was the the travel or the
[02:51:37] event or the donor meeting or whoever or
[02:51:40] whatever you're doing, the show, the
[02:51:42] speech, the I mean the rally, the uh
[02:51:46] activist event. That was the consistent
[02:51:48] thing is that you if you got that
[02:51:50] opportunity to sit down and then you
[02:51:52] talk and then it wasn't just talking
[02:51:54] about nonsense. it was usually talking
[02:51:56] about big ideas and having the
[02:51:58] conversation similar to like what we
[02:52:00] have on thought crime. So like if you
[02:52:03] you as an individual out in the world
[02:52:05] and I don't know if you agree with this
[02:52:06] thought crime is probably the the
[02:52:07] closest uh visual video videoed version
[02:52:13] of what it was like to kind of like hang
[02:52:14] out with Charlie
[02:52:16] was sort of like our like it we used to
[02:52:19] we used to joke about it because it was
[02:52:20] just it was like our group chat on
[02:52:23] camera.
[02:52:24] That's right.
[02:52:24] Yeah. And that's what it was like to sit
[02:52:26] down with Charlie like in a in a
[02:52:28] scenario where it's like you're sitting
[02:52:30] there talking about there's these things
[02:52:32] going on these topics and like
[02:52:33] everybody's going around the horn just
[02:52:34] like you know talking about it debating
[02:52:36] it and you know he was like well isn't
[02:52:39] that interesting or like you know you
[02:52:41] get into it and ideas would spark and
[02:52:43] he'd do that smile and he would think
[02:52:45] about
[02:52:45] my favorite my favorite I was just uh
[02:52:48] sharing with Daisy
[02:52:50] that my favorite segments in thought
[02:52:52] crime were
[02:52:53] so uncomfortable. Yes, that was the
[02:52:55] point was was was when we would explain
[02:52:58] memes to him.
[02:52:59] Yeah. Just like Charlie's like entire
[02:53:01] knowledge of pop culture froze when he
[02:53:03] was 17.
[02:53:04] Yeah. Like what what like Charlie, you
[02:53:07] you don't you mean you don't know what a
[02:53:08] bonus hole is, Charlie?
[02:53:11] Don't use that one.
[02:53:12] Or just just whatever whatever the what
[02:53:15] is No, I'm not going to get into it. I
[02:53:17] just mean like what whatever whatever
[02:53:20] the thing was that was going around,
[02:53:21] he'd be like, "Is is that good?" Yes.
[02:53:25] No. Okay.
[02:53:26] Yeah. Is this good? Yeah. He just wanted
[02:53:28] the binary like a good thing or a bad
[02:53:30] thing. Remember the JD Vance memes?
[02:53:32] Yes.
[02:53:32] When the JD Vance memes cames out,
[02:53:34] you're like, "Are they making fun of
[02:53:35] JD?"
[02:53:36] Kind of.
[02:53:37] So, but in a good way.
[02:53:38] Sort of. In a good way. Is it good?
[02:53:40] Charlie Charlie didn't necessarily speak
[02:53:42] meme fluently or natively, but he
[02:53:44] understood the power of them. Um, I have
[02:53:46] a story I just want to share.
[02:53:47] He loved them. He loved them.
[02:53:48] Yeah, he loved them. Um, I have a story
[02:53:49] I want to share from Emma on our team.
[02:53:52] Um, and uh, she said, "The night after
[02:53:54] the election, Charlie wrapped the stream
[02:53:57] and came out to the bullpen and sat and
[02:53:59] ate his dinner with the team and told us
[02:54:01] stories about the behind-the-scenes work
[02:54:03] he was doing that nobody knew about for
[02:54:05] like two hours. It was one of my
[02:54:07] favorite CK memories of all time. He
[02:54:10] told us how much we can trust JD as vice
[02:54:12] president and the work he did to get him
[02:54:15] to that spot.
[02:54:17] It's really beautiful. Char Charlie
[02:54:19] Charlie had the the the thing that makes
[02:54:21] me the saddest about Charlie's passing
[02:54:23] and the that he was ripped away from us
[02:54:27] so abrasively is that that man had a had
[02:54:31] probably a library of books to write
[02:54:34] about the things that he knew that have
[02:54:36] gone to rest with him. Things that he
[02:54:39] saw that are really interesting for
[02:54:41] politics because again piggybacking on
[02:54:43] that you sat down with Charlie he could
[02:54:45] tell you about things that nobody knows.
[02:54:48] I mean, there's things that we know.
[02:54:49] There's memories that I have that I can
[02:54:52] tell you. And I I when the time's right,
[02:54:54] at some point, I hope that I can share
[02:54:55] some of these stories that that they
[02:54:57] come out. Andrew has a gazillion of
[02:55:00] them. Blake since you've been traveling.
[02:55:02] Jack knows these things because he lives
[02:55:03] this lifestyle every day. But
[02:55:05] and that that's what I mean by that. I'm
[02:55:08] sad that we'll never hear.
[02:55:09] I don't want like we we can't you know
[02:55:11] what I mean? I just can't
[02:55:13] I can't process
[02:55:14] cuz I people are like sharing text
[02:55:15] messages and I was going back and look
[02:55:17] at cuz look at some of the ones that I
[02:55:18] have and I was like can't share that,
[02:55:20] can't share that, can't share that.
[02:55:21] Where do you even begin?
[02:55:22] No, I know the RZ one is funny. Like we
[02:55:24] should probably put that up on
[02:55:25] That's why I brought up the memes cuz
[02:55:27] like talk about put the RZ one up. This
[02:55:30] is funny. This is like perfect Charlie.
[02:55:33] Um, and so I always like to like hound
[02:55:36] Charlie a little bit and I I it looks
[02:55:38] like I was uh making fun of uh the cough
[02:55:41] drop thing because the the cough and by
[02:55:43] the way that was the one thing that
[02:55:46] cough drops, right?
[02:55:47] The south part. Yeah, people thought it
[02:55:48] was Zen when he was on campus and he
[02:55:50] would pop the cough drops in. So this
[02:55:52] Welcome to the inside chat, guys. This
[02:55:54] is about as closeup as you can get. And
[02:55:57] um and I I would be like actually
[02:55:59] Charlie, I love the It makes you look
[02:56:01] really cool. Like when you're like
[02:56:02] popping, you got this kind of like
[02:56:03] nonchalant look when you're just popping
[02:56:05] the cough drop. And Daisy says,
[02:56:07] "Everyone thinks his cough drops are
[02:56:08] Zins." And I was like, "Nicotine cough
[02:56:10] drops." And Charlie, haha.
[02:56:12] And I go, "Charlie's Riz secret." For
[02:56:15] the record, it's a great RZ crutch.
[02:56:16] Makes you look nonchalant. Plus the
[02:56:18] athleisure wear versus the suit. Charlie
[02:56:20] goes, "What is RZ?" And I go, "Like
[02:56:22] swagger." And Blake has to go crisma.
[02:56:25] No, but no question mark, right? What is
[02:56:27] RZ?
[02:56:28] What is RZ? What is RZ? Period. Is is it
[02:56:31] good?
[02:56:32] It's probably cuz he was hosting a show
[02:56:33] or something. Yeah,
[02:56:34] that was always his followup though. Is
[02:56:36] it good?
[02:56:36] Is it good?
[02:56:36] Is this good?
[02:56:37] We have one more caller I want to get to
[02:56:39] and that is Julie. Um Julie, hopefully
[02:56:41] you're still with us. Uh the floor is
[02:56:43] yours.
[02:56:45] Yes. Can you hear me?
[02:56:47] Yes.
[02:56:49] Yes. Um yes. I'm Julie. This is me
[02:56:51] letting Charlie inspire me to be more
[02:56:53] joyful, bold, and brave. I'm calling
[02:56:55] instead of emailing. Calling is the
[02:56:56] scariest thing in the world. So, I I
[02:56:59] learned about Charlie after I followed
[02:57:01] uh Steve Bannon on Rav. Um I listen to
[02:57:04] his podcast every morning on my on my
[02:57:06] walks. I love thought crimes and the the
[02:57:08] glimpse it gives you into the secret
[02:57:10] world of men. I was glued to the Rumble
[02:57:12] late night election coverage. Um I was
[02:57:15] blessed to see Carly interact with
[02:57:16] college students at Normal Illinois when
[02:57:19] he was here this spring. I was so afraid
[02:57:20] to go because I thought there's no mute
[02:57:22] button because I'm kind of like Bannon
[02:57:23] like on the the cold open. Stop. I can't
[02:57:25] take anymore. and but I didn't need it
[02:57:28] because Charlie's was fantastic. And
[02:57:30] then lastly, I'm most thankful for
[02:57:32] Charlie for introducing me to Jack Kibs
[02:57:34] and the Real Life Network and
[02:57:35] reinvigorating my faith. Thank you.
[02:57:38] Beautiful. Well, well said, Julie. Thank
[02:57:40] you uh for calling in.
[02:57:41] Thank you for sharing that, Julie.
[02:57:42] And sharing that. And you uh your
[02:57:45] bravery was rewarded.
[02:57:47] And by the way, I want to say this, like
[02:57:48] people describe Charlie as fearless. He
[02:57:50] wasn't fearless. He was courageous. He
[02:57:54] looked fear right in the eye and he
[02:57:56] overcame it again and again and again.
[02:57:58] And I can tell you how many moments I
[02:58:00] spent with Charlie in this behind the
[02:58:03] scenes and quiet before he walked out on
[02:58:06] stage or before he had to tackle
[02:58:07] something or a setback, bad news. And
[02:58:11] Charlie just looked at the fear right in
[02:58:12] the eye and he knew there was no way but
[02:58:14] through and he just was so courageous
[02:58:17] and he just did it. And he always won.
[02:58:22] He always won. He won and he kept he
[02:58:25] kept like coming back and he was
[02:58:27] stronger and fiercer and and frankly I
[02:58:31] think I said this to Erica yesterday. I
[02:58:33] said
[02:58:34] probably for the last two years I knew
[02:58:35] Charlie actually was fearless um because
[02:58:38] he'd overcome so much and that's
[02:58:42] he he he was an absolutely fearless
[02:58:44] individual. I mean, since the day I met
[02:58:46] him, and I I shared a story yesterday. I
[02:58:49] won't repeat it, but
[02:58:51] the times where I had the greatest fear
[02:58:53] of people, and there's lots of people
[02:58:54] that fear in politics, and I had I had
[02:58:57] this privilege of getting to know uh
[02:58:59] what President Trump would label as bad
[02:59:02] ombbr. And Charlie was always the person
[02:59:05] that said, "Stand in the pocket. Fight
[02:59:07] these people. Fight fight these people."
[02:59:09] I saw him do it to you in in our chat,
[02:59:11] too.
[02:59:12] Many times. Many times. We have to wrap.
[02:59:15] Um, it's been a pleasure to be with the
[02:59:18] audience. Thank you, Jack. Thank you,
[02:59:21] Blake. Thank you, Tyler. Thank you,
[02:59:24] Charlie Kirk. You are our hero and you
[02:59:26] always will be.
[02:59:30] We love you, Charlie.
[02:59:31] We love you.
[02:59:33] Good luck.
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