REMEMBERING CHARLIE

Summary

Summary of "REMEMBERING CHARLIE"

Podcast: Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec
Date: September 12, 2025
Host: Andrew Colvett (Executive Producer, filling in for Charlie Kirk)
Guests: Jack Posobiec, Tyler Boyer (COO, Turning Point Action), Blake Neff, Mikey

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Overview: Honoring Charlie Kirk

This special episode is a heartfelt, unscripted memorial to Charlie Kirk, the late founder and host of the Charlie Kirk Show and Turning Point USA, who was tragically killed earlier in the week. As news spread that his killer had been apprehended, colleagues, friends, staff, and listeners gathered to share memories, personal stories, and reflections on Charlie’s tremendous influence—on individuals, the conservative movement, and America at large. The episode’s tone is raw, intensely personal, and underscored by faith, love, and laughter through tears.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Grieving and the Empty Chair

• Host Andrew Colvett opens the episode describing Charlie as irreplaceable:
  • "We, of course, have left his chair open and empty because nobody will ever fill it." (06:42)
• The team grapples with waves of grief, reflecting on the surreal reality and expressing gratitude for having known Charlie so closely.

2. Announcement: Suspect Apprehended

• The show acknowledges law enforcement efforts and thanks those who helped bring Charlie's killer into custody.
  • "Thank you to Cash Patel and Dan Bongino...Governor Cox, you told us you would not stop until you got him..." (07:18)
• Blake Neff thanks family members of the suspect for doing the right thing, describing it as "the ultimate righteousness that still exists in this country." (09:44)

3. Charlie’s Mission: Faith, Family, & Country

• Recurrent theme: Charlie’s work was “an assignment from God.”
  • "Charlie’s on assignment from God, and he always has been." (15:47)
• The crew emphasizes that faith was at the center of his public and private life.
• Charlie is celebrated as a loving husband (to Erica) and father, who cherished and was transformed by family life.

4. Personal and Behind-the-Scenes Memories

On Charlie’s Character

• Known for humility, work ethic, discipline, and personal kindness.
• "He was exactly who he said he was, except better. There wasn't one thing that was fake or fabricated..." — Daisy Phelps (108:54) On His Leadership & Mentorship
• Cared deeply for the Turning Point staff; was generous, never took more than a modest salary and gave back to the organization every year. (49:15, 50:00)
• Pushed everyone to raise their game and found greatness in those around him.

On Food and Travel

• Famous for his limited but healthy food choices.
  • "The variation of food Charlie ate was like grilled chicken, avocado, hot sauce..." (68:17)
• Fans and colleagues recall meal gatherings, inside jokes, and decompressing over food after long days on the road.

Campus Tours and Youth Engagement

• Charlie's insistence on direct engagement with college students was key to Turning Point's success.
  • “We want to have those tough conversations. That’s what it’s all about… we are seeing an explosion in citizen participation.” (02:10, 59:26)

On Erica, His Wife

• Strength and behind-the-scenes influence—credited for bringing out the "best-dressed" and most publicly faithful version of Charlie.
  • “You see Charlie, like, pre-Erica and then Charlie post-Erica, and it's still Charlie, but it's like, more better clothes.” (20:33)
  • Story of Tyler Boyer introducing Charlie to Erica at the first Trump rally in Arizona, a serendipitous moment all attribute to God's providence. (28:03–32:07)

5. Cultural & Political Legacy

Impact on Movement and Country

• Rush Limbaugh and Andrew Breitbart are frequently referenced as influences; Rush was an early and significant supporter.
  • “I'm telling you that people are saying the same things about Charlie Kirk that they said about Bill Clinton—'he’s going to be President someday'." —Rush Limbaugh (104:59)

Grassroots Approach

• Charlie was relentless in prioritizing the grassroots—reading every email, integrating audience feedback, and never losing touch with the base.
  • "He never lost sight of the grassroots...He would be looking at the camera and yet somehow also on his computer, switching between tabs, texting, emailing..." (37:24)

Humor and Pop Culture

• Known among friends for his Seinfeld-esque sense of humor and unique pop culture references.
• Comically unfamiliar with meme/glossary lingo ("What is riz? Is it good?")—his team and audience found this endearing. (173:49)

6. Global & Generational Impact

• Descriptions of Charlie’s international following; candlelight vigils springing up in places like Australia, South Africa, Sweden, Hungary, and across the US. (140:38)
• Young people introducing Charlie’s ideas to parents and grandparents, reversing the normative flow of influence.

7. Faith & Final Reflections

• The episode concludes with prayers for Charlie, the nation, and listeners, foregrounding faith and the hope of revival through Charlie’s martyrdom.
  • “Charlie would have wanted people going back to church more than anything, more than politics or campaigns or whatever...” (135:19)
• Quoted poem, “For the Fallen,” used to encapsulate Charlie’s enduring legacy:
  • "They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old..." (126:40)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Grief:
  • “It’s waves. That’s the best way to describe it." —Blake Neff (120:03)
• On Character:
  • “He believed in what he said and he lived out what he believed. He loved Jesus more than anyone. The truest thing about him was his belief in God.” —Daisy Phelps (108:54)
• On Mission:
  • “I want to be remembered for courage, for my faith. That would be the most important thing.” —Charlie Kirk (157:56)
• On Personal Legacy:
  • “He was a shooting star. He was a mythological creature. In retrospect, it all kind of makes sense that we only get him for such a short time.“ —Andrew Colvett (128:59)
• On Serving Others:
  • “His brain was always moving and spinning. He was always thinking about other people and their well-being…” —Andrew Colvett (84:30)
• On the Movement:
  • "If you asked Charlie who’s next, he’d say: You. Go get a megaphone…Be the next one." —Blake Neff (53:40, paraphrased)
• Rush Limbaugh Tribute:
  • "I'm telling you, people are saying the same things about Charlie Kirk that they said about Clinton—he’s going to be President someday." —Rush Limbaugh (104:59)
• Final Call To Action:
  • “Don't stop there. Do not stop there...Thank you, but do NOT stop there.” —Blake Neff (156:08)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Opening reflections / empty chair: (06:13–09:44)
• Faith in the aftermath / "Assignment from God": (15:47)
• Story of meeting Erica / First Trump rally: (28:03–32:07)
• Rush Limbaugh as mentor/supporter: (35:50, 104:59)
• Behind the scenes: Charlie's mentorship, daily habits, eating quirks: (67:46–77:09)
• Cubs and sports fandom: (87:25–93:13)
• International reach and fame: (140:03–141:36)
• Listener call-ins, national impact: (131:31–137:40)
• Tribute montage, faith emphasis: (156:29–158:13)
• Quotes from Daisy, Emma, and callers: (108:54, 171:37)
• Poem: ‘For the Fallen’: (126:40)

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Structure and Flow:

• The episode alternates between intimate, emotional memories (childhood, family, work rituals, travel quirks) and broader reflections on movement-building, faith, and national renewal.
• Segments are punctuated by audio tributes, clips of Charlie’s own words, listener call-ins, and announcements of spontaneous grassroots vigils.
• The tone remains sincere, blending tears with laughter and a sense of immense pride.

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Final Reflections and Calls to Action

• The hosts urge listeners not only to mourn but to "be Charlie Kirk"—to continue the work, spread the faith, and fight for American renewal.
• The growth and preservation of Turning Point USA and continuation of Charlie’s show are highlighted as core to honoring his memory.
• The audience is encouraged to send tributes, share memories, and participate in upcoming vigils.
• The legacy framed not only in terms of political victories but as a generational and spiritual renewal.

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In Charlie’s words:

“Knock on that extra door, go that extra mile, talk to that extra friend… We will achieve American greatness. And we are just getting started.” (60:52, 118:00)

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This episode stands as a living eulogy—a testament to the deep, wide, and lasting mark Charlie Kirk left on millions, with the clear, persistent call: The mission continues.

Transcript

[Charlie Kirk]

I talk to a lot of young people on campuses at our events, on my radio show, podcast and social media said differently. I visit college campuses so you don't have to. We're talking to so many voters that know it is time for change. They know that something is wrong. America's future is a series of choices. Our current state of slow motion, national decline is a choice. Today is our two year old's birthday and I look at my daughter and that is my why. For those that are parents, you know exactly what I mean.

[Tyler Boyer]

There is no mountain that stands tall as your faithfulness. There is no river that runs wide as your goodness.

[Charlie Kirk]

Man, Charlie, I, I remember when we were starting these out and it was that. Like that. No, it was like this. It was like, it was like your average three rows. It was like your average political meeting where there was like 12 in a room.

[Jack Posobiec]

And this is, this is awesome.

[Charlie Kirk]

This, in my personal opinion, was the.

[Andrew Colvett]

Most over the top Trump event that I've ever covered.

[Charlie Kirk]

This is the number one boots on the ground operation in the country. We're working directly in harmony with the Trump campaign. It's been vetted, it's been cleared, it's been blessed, as you can see there. And we're going to try to win this thing. No guarantees. It's what we do that matters. Mr. President, I can tell you this room is 100% with you and we have your back. God bless you.

[Jack Posobiec]

Thank you.

[Charlie Kirk]

As you know, we are heading on campus here momentarily at the University of South Florida, throwing it down with the students. It's going to be a lot of fun. We are excited to continue this cultural movement that we have started at Turning Point usa. More high school chapters, more college chapters. And disagreement is not just welcome, it is invited. We want to have those tough conversations. That's what it's all about. Because you're not supposed to be involved in this. You're supposed to just kind of be on the vote for me every four years, give me more political power and stay out of my business. And what has happened is we are seeing an explosion in citizen participation.

[Andrew Colvett]

All my days your mercy follow me oh, there is nothing else I'll ever need.

[Charlie Kirk]

Knock on that extra door, go that extra mile, talk to that extra friend. Because throughout voting month and culminating on the 5th of November, I believe it will go down as a day that people remember, as a day that is written about history books, as the final battle from the golden escalator on down from defeating Hillary Clinton, from the nonsense of 2020. Butler, Pennsylvania. November 5th it all culminates where we restore the promise that the founders gave us. And they said, hey, if the people want it, the people get it. And we the people, take back America. God bless Arizona and thank you so much. Every day, the American people demand certain accomplishments and victories. Disagreement is what keeps a movement alive, keeps a movement fun. Here in this country. We are a country of flourishing. We're a country of risk taking. We're a country of building. We will achieve American greatness. And we are just getting started.

[Jack Posobiec]

Radio.

[Andrew Colvett]

Sam welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. This is Andrew Colvett filling in for the one and only Charlie Kirk. Nobody can. And we wanted so badly to do this show for all of you today. And I wanted the friends of this show and of Charlie that knew him best, the Thought Crime crew, to be here in the studio to commemorate our friend, our dear brother, for the sacred and solemn moment this occasion none of us ever dreamed we would have to do. And here we are, because Charlie would want us to be here. He would be upset if we weren't here. And we, of course, have left his chair open and empty because nobody will ever fill it. Nobody could ever hope to. But by all of us together, we want to honor him and we want to be more like him and we want to be inspired by him, and we want you in the audience to know him like we knew him and to be up close and personal to the front row seat to history, to a legend, to an American icon that we got every single day. And I don't know why we were so fortunate and blessed to be those people, those few. I got to see it so up close. He touched millions. He personally knew tens of thousands. And somehow we were the blessed ones that got to be close to him. And in the chats, we got yelled at by him, we got pushed to more and to be better because of Charlie and by Charlie. And so we have, to my right, Jack Posobic, Blake Neff and Tyler Boyer, and myself, Andrew Colvitt, the executive producer of the Charlie Kirk Show. And we are so honored to share what we know about Charlie and to do it on a day where the authorities tell us that his killer has been brought into custody. And I want to say personally, thank you to Cash Patel and Dan Bongino. Governor Cox, you told us you would not stop until you got him. And I admit that my faith wavered at times as the hour stretched on. But you appear to have the suspect in custody, and we're grateful that you have not slept. You did not rest. Just like you Promised. And you are men of your word, and we are grateful to you. And so with that, I just want to again welcome my friends. And Jack, I'm going to start with you. Tell us what's on your heart right now, brother.

[Blake Neff]

Well, you know, it's like, I know the seat looks empty, but it's not. The seat isn't empty at all. Because in a way, Charlie is the only thing we're all thinking about right now. We can't think of anything else, really. We can't think straight. We can read and we can talk, but at the end of the day, all we're thinking about is Charlie. And we know that Charlie is looking down on us. And I know that when we all gather here, it's like he's here. And that's why no one wants to sit there, because he is there. We are saying thank yous just there. And the only thing that I guess I would add is, you know, we're hearing these reports that family members of the suspect were involved, particularly the father, in bringing him to the police, bringing him to the authorities. And if that's true, I'd just like to extend a sincere thank you and gratitude to something like that. As a father, I can't even imagine. I just can't even imagine what that must be like. But to have done that is just shows the ultimate goodness and the ultimate righteousness that still does exist in this country. And the fact that people are willing to step up and do the right thing, even in impossible odds. And that's the Charlie Kirk spirit that's always been the Charlie Kirk spirit, is to stare down impossible odds and say, I'm going to do it anyway when everybody told him he couldn't. And that's. That's the Charlie Kirk. I know that when you told him he couldn't do it, he'd say, figure it out, Tyler. I'm sure he told you that more times than you can count.

[Tyler Boyer]

I. I've just. It's been really hard. I mean, we've. We've been able to lean on each other, I think, talking a lot to one another about the memories. And that's probably. I think, the most important thing that we can do today is share those memories. I've been telling everybody that's reached out on our staff. I mean, we've hired thousands of people in Turning Point, and it hasn't been easy. It's been part of the battle on Charlie. It's like, I'm going to miss those. Right, Tyler, you know, conversations when we are sitting around because it's. You don't really know the battles unless you've been in them. But there's so many people that have looked at Charlie along the way as. As a mentor that all have different emotions and they have different stories. And I've told people, write them down. Every single person that's reached out to me, that's. I'm so sorry, Tyler. I was like, please just write down your memories that you had. Because some of these stories are so unbelievably funny. They're so unbelievable in general, because God's hand has been such a big part of Charlie's story. Legacy. I'm so sorry.

[Blake Neff]

No, it's.

[Andrew Colvett]

It's.

[Blake Neff]

We're all right there. We're all right there.

[Tyler Boyer]

And for those of us that have been close, like we've talked about, we've.

[Blake Neff]

Seen.

[Tyler Boyer]

Evan's hand as part of that, and that has to be asked to be accentuated because that's what Charlie wanted. We talked about that all the time with people invested in Attorney Point, all the major stakeholders that. You know, a lot of people look at this as political dynamo, the dynamics of all of that. But all of this has been, you know, even through this tragic. This tragic week, I believe that. That God has been with Charlie from day one and. And will continue to be.

[Andrew Colvett]

I. Blake, I want to. You're. You're next, buddy. So get ready. But I want to just comment on what you're saying, because one of the last trips that I took with Charlie was a couple weeks ago, and we were flying all over the country, spent hours on the plane, and I said to him, isn't it crazy? Like, you know, we were talking about South Park. We were talking about just everything. Like, we just kind of had a moment, and he's just like, yeah, it's all God. Just. He just instantly goes, yeah, it's all God. It's all God. And as I was driving to the office of the studio this morning, I thought to myself, it was always God, and God has not pulled his hand away from Charlie Kirk that did not pull his hand away from Turning Point. He did not pull his hand away from the country. It was always God that got us here. There were so many times, and I want the audience to know this, there were so many times where we felt like our backs were so against the wall that we were not going to get through whatever it was that this thing happened or, you know, this. It was just so many things. It's impossible right now. Now's not the time to get into the details. There's just so many things. And Charlie and I would feel the weight of the world when we would talk to each other. And I know you felt it, and I know you felt it, and I know you felt it. And then we got through it, and it was God. And somehow we came out stronger and better and with. And Charlie had more influence, and our reach and our staff and everything just kept growing time and time again. And he knew that it was all God's hand. He knew it was all the blessing of God on him and on this organization. And on the show yesterday, I said.

[Blake Neff]

I said, charlie's on assignment from God, and he always has been.

[Andrew Colvett]

Every time you filled in for Charlie, you said, well, Charlie's on assignment.

[Blake Neff]

So now he's on assignment from God.

[Tyler Boyer]

He's on.

[Blake Neff]

And he always was.

[Andrew Colvett]

So we are live on national radio right now. And so we have to take a quick radio break for the stream. We're gonna keep going. And real America's Voice. We're gonna keep going, so don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. All right, Blake, it is your turn. And I want everybody to know that probably nobody traveled with Charlie more than Blake in the last, I'd say 18 months. Except maybe Mikey.

[Mikey]

Mikey, for sure.

[Andrew Colvett]

Mikey. But you traveled to London with him. You went to Korea with him. Blake, the floor is yours.

[Mikey]

Thanks. I feel unworthy to be here. You guys all knew him a lot longer than I did. Compared to a lot of people here. Charlie entered my life pretty recently. I remember you called me out of the blue almost exactly three years ago, first week of October 22. And I don't want to get into the details of it, but I can say Charlie had a drastic impact on my life. He basically gave me my life back.

[Andrew Colvett]

And.

[Mikey]

I don't know how to express how grateful I am for that and.

[Andrew Colvett]

How.

[Mikey]

Just over the past three years, how. How much I came to admire him, not just for how talented of a person he was, but. But how good of a person he was and how everything he fought for was because he believed it would be good for the country and good for every single person in it. And I'll always think one of the. You know, the final things I was doing with him. I mentioned with you, Jack, yesterday, the last speech he gave was in Japan to an audience. No Buddhas, Shinto, no Christians in it. Maybe a handful, but not many. And, you know, it was about immigration, it was about other stuff, but he wanted to include. I should witness to the faith, you know, regardless of where we're going. And we talked about how he could do that, and we put it into the speech five minutes before he went up there and he did it. And because it was that important to him that he do that, it wasn't about just, you know, he wasn't catering to any audience. This is a speech almost nobody in the US Would ever see or watch. And most of the audience in Japan might not even get it. But he wanted to do it because it was important to him. And just a minute before when it happened, you know, he was witnessing to the gospel there at the college. And.

[Andrew Colvett]

Blake, it makes me. It gives me some solace and some comfort to know that you were there with him on campus that day. And I was just grateful to be able to call you and know that. That I at least had somebody that was there and that loved him and that was close, and I could call you. And I'm just glad you were there, man. It's not. It's not good. It's not fair to you that you had to be there, but I'm glad that. I'm glad that you were. And you and I and Charlie were texting literally moments before he went out to the crowd. And we were talking about arguments and finer points that he could make. And he Going over, you know, this kind of question, you know, we should.

[Mikey]

What it was about. He was, what are the good arguments in favor of. Of marriage.

[Andrew Colvett]

Marriage, monogamy. Christian.

[Mikey]

The Christian version of marriage.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yes.

[Mikey]

And it was, you know, that gets back to, you know, one of the other core things. How much she. How much he loved Erica, how much he loved their children, how much. And how. And, you know, how much he cared for them and how it really demonstrates the power of that, you know, familial love, because we all talked about how they made him better, too.

[Andrew Colvett]

And is that the truth?

[Blake Neff]

You see Charlie, like, pre Erica and then Charlie post Erica, and it's still Charlie, but it's like, more better clothes.

[Andrew Colvett]

They actually fit him.

[Tyler Boyer]

We were just talking about this yesterday.

[Blake Neff]

And he's a father, and.

[Tyler Boyer]

No, it was like night and day difference. So we used to, like. I used to be worried about Charlie.

[Andrew Colvett]

Jerrick because he's legitimately the real mvp.

[Blake Neff]

And I don't just mean the fashion. I don't just mean the fashion.

[Tyler Boyer]

We were talking about Charlie talking about that.

[Andrew Colvett]

It's rough. The Visible book.

[Tyler Boyer]

Charlie's birthday is in about a month, and. And we used to. I used to buy him clothes on his birthday as an excuse to buy him, like, sneakers, because he wouldn't wear sneakers, he would only wear dress shoes.

[Blake Neff]

That's right.

[Tyler Boyer]

And then Erica came and then he worked. I was like so relieved because he would wear clothes that like he, he looked better than anyone.

[Blake Neff]

Like, like a normal person.

[Tyler Boyer]

No, he looked better than everybody because Eric is incredibly stylish and great and.

[Blake Neff]

She was just like.

[Tyler Boyer]

He went stone age to like he now had this incredibly well manicured dress.

[Andrew Colvett]

Let me, let's. I love this, this vein. We want to tell you about Erica and we're going to welcome back national radio. So we'll be right back. Don't go anywhere. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. This is Andrew Colvett, executive producer of this fine show as Charlie Kirk has gone on assignment with God and we, his friends are here remembering him. And we, we were just talking about Erica Kirk and the before and after. Erica Kirk story is a really amazing story. And I did, I was trying to.

[Blake Neff]

Make a poignant, you know, emotional.

[Andrew Colvett]

They were a child been basically crying for two and a half days. And I, I was just, I'm remembering Charlie being. When I first met him. It was like everything was baggy and like the suits didn't fit and like the collars were always like out like.

[Blake Neff]

This because they're playing those, those videos now when he's younger.

[Tyler Boyer]

And I was showing, I was showing Andrew a, an image. It was so funny because Studio.

[Andrew Colvett]

Can we get like an OG ck? I can shot with this.

[Tyler Boyer]

I'll send one that's like a perfect one.

[Andrew Colvett]

That's.

[Tyler Boyer]

But he was before and after a shot it was like a very baggy suit and it just.

[Andrew Colvett]

But you know what this is, this is kind of very. This isn't with a suit. But this was like.

[Tyler Boyer]

No, no, no, I got it. I've got a, I've got a perfect one. But anyways, the point is, is like, but his, his spirit shined through so brightly.

[Andrew Colvett]

It didn't.

[Tyler Boyer]

That didn't matter. No, like, of course that's what was like. I remember being in some of these meetings, I was like, oh my gosh. Like, because he would carry around the backpack, he had this big black backpack that has his, his initials on it. He had that forever. And he had forever one, one pair of shoes, dress shoes that he wore and then these big. But it didn't matter. Like none of that mattered. Every single person that talked to him, every one of these big time donors early on, like big time. I mean they had, he would just, just be able to break through to every single one of those people and.

[Andrew Colvett]

It was always special. It was his unique voice. And this is why Charlie would go viral on campus. He would never pull any punches. The guy would say. He would say the truth with a hundred percent fidelity. Do you know what I mean? It was like men and women, like, you know, are different. You know, two. Two sexes. Like, you know, there's no.

[Blake Neff]

There's no equivocation.

[Andrew Colvett]

No, there was no, like. Well, some people feel this. No, it was like, you know, it's wrong when people steal. Does it make it okay that they were poor? No, it's wrong. Right? You know, and it was just. He had this moral clarity that he was just blessed by God with, and he would not cut any corners with it. And so, yeah, it didn't matter the suit he was wearing. It didn't matter his fashion. Although I will tell you. But Erica, Erica made his looks much better. And I will also tell you that his friends Don Jr. Gentry beach, they gave him like a gift card, a $10,000, like, credit at the Trump Taylor in New York City in Manhattan to get him some proper suits. It was. It was like one of these things.

[Blake Neff]

Charlie, if you're going to be around.

[Andrew Colvett]

You'Re going to hang around with us, John, we need you to.

[Blake Neff]

Got to, you know, we're going to.

[Andrew Colvett]

A little bit more put together, take.

[Blake Neff]

Care of that a little bit.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, it was.

[Tyler Boyer]

I mean, it was a. Oh, my gosh.

[Blake Neff]

Tyler, get this. Get this up.

[Tyler Boyer]

This is the pre. Erica. And then Erica came in and then immediately.

[Andrew Colvett]

I love it.

[Tyler Boyer]

I mean.

[Blake Neff]

No, immediately.

[Tyler Boyer]

Better. I mean, I'm not even kidding. Sorry, Charlie.

[Blake Neff]

We got to.

[Andrew Colvett]

The real miracle is that Erica went for it. You know what I mean? She's seen that, you know, the baggy shirt. I mean, she knew. He knew.

[Blake Neff]

No, but that's. That's. That's female, right? That's the female. My Tanya was the same with me. It's. It's the female. I. I see. I see the thing and I want to nurture it.

[Mikey]

Could see a block of marble and he would chisel away, bring the David out. He's like, David's already in there. I just have to reveal it.

[Andrew Colvett]

I want to say. It's typically not a good idea to say, I think I. I could change this man or something for the women watching. But you can polish.

[Mikey]

They're not. Yeah, they're not.

[Blake Neff]

The deeper. No, not the deeper ringing for. And you could never change Charlie's spirit. Right, but.

[Andrew Colvett]

Exactly right.

[Blake Neff]

But what she. What she did, I think if anything, just in terms of this is make it so that the external match the internal.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, sure. And I will say as well, though, that Charlie's faith became so much stronger as soon as Erica came around and he started vocalizing it more. And for those of you in the audience that don't know Erica Kirk, the woman, a lioness, she is fierce, she is strong. She's obviously, like, distraught and hurting, as we all are, but she is fierce and she is strong. And I want you to know that about her, that I have seen her up close. And, Tyler, you've been there as well with us, and she is so strong. And Charlie wanted to marry her because of how strong she was. And ultimately he knew that she could, she could do this life that he was leading. And Charlie was already leading a crazy life when they met and when they fell in love and when they got married. And he, he knew that she had the strength in her core. And she was also, she is also such an incredible woman of faith. He knew that she could do this. And he was 100% right about Erica Kirk. She is truly something amazing, and we all love her dearly. Radio we'll be right back. Tyler, why don't you tell the story of how you inadvertently connected Charlie with his wife?

[Tyler Boyer]

So it's, it's, this is the miracle of the entire thing, which is incredible. And I don't think we can talk about it enough. It's Trump, it's Erica, it's Arizona, it's Turning Point.

[Andrew Colvett]

It's. You couldn't script this any better. Can I? Let me, let me just set two points.

[Tyler Boyer]

I told you a little bit of it yesterday.

[Andrew Colvett]

Tyler, I think you've told this story a few times on the show. So let's like big, big, big picture context here. Tyler pulled off the first Trump rally, the very first one in Arizona. And there's a lot of crazy details that go into it, but the first one, Tyler gets the credit.

[Tyler Boyer]

But the most important part of that, truly in the background, is that Erica Kirk is at that rally. And we don't focus on that. We've talked about the rally and all that with Trump getting reelected.

[Andrew Colvett]

She's in the background of the main shot.

[Tyler Boyer]

So right behind Trump. People don't know this. We can put it up there. Is right behind Trump on stage. First Trump rally ever. And again, they were expecting this to be a 100 person rally. They were, like, wanting to give, like, refreshments.

[Blake Neff]

You didn't even call it a rally. Right.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well, so the original was. Corey Lewandowski was like, can you get.

[Tyler Boyer]

100 people in a room, we'll provide refreshments, we'll give you money, whatever. And I'm like, no, no, no, we don't, we don't need any of that. We can get lots of people there. And we started doing this, and it starts to go bonkers. Right? Because I'll give credit to Jake Hoffman, who is the, the, the president, the Freedom Caucus here. He's a state senator. He was my unpaid comms director, who was actually the guy that helped start Charlie's Instagram with me and start all the Turning point, like all the turning point assets that we have on social media now, by the way, too. But we started just going bonkers with all the media. And so then I started fielding calls from everywhere. It was crazy everywhere. And one of the calls I got was from Erica. She's like, hey, I was Miss Arizona. I love Donald Trump. Can I be involved? I'm like, absolutely. So I met her and I was like, we've got to put her behind the president. So I had my family behind the president. My grandpa who just passed away just a few months ago, who loved Charlie, loved the show, everything. Listen, daily, it was my grandpa, my dad in law, Lauren, my wife. And Erica is up there.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Tyler Boyer]

So Erica, after.

[Andrew Colvett]

You got to find the picture.

[Tyler Boyer]

After this rally, I'll pull it up. After this rally, I meet with Erica and I'm like, there's a way that we can. She's faith based. So this is the funniest part. She's faith based. She's so centered on Christ. We've got to lean in and involve her here with. Because we were starting the initial talks about turning Point faith or tpusa faith. And I was trying to recruit her hard to come work for us. And so through all that, I had introduced her to Charlie. I was like, I think she could be great. She could be wonderful. And Charlie was immediately in love, absolutely loved. And I was like, Charlie, going back. And that's where it's like the tee up with, you know, the clothes, everything else. I was like, charlie, I don't know, like this.

[Andrew Colvett]

So he was.

[Blake Neff]

So he's trying to pressure a little more.

[Tyler Boyer]

Well, this is Miss Arizona. So I was nervous. I'm like, I don't know if we, we don't want to scare her away. Right? Like, we don't have to work for us, you know, so. But like, that's great. Let's just, let's feel out. And so Charlie did the right thing. He did everything perfectly, as Charlie always does. Did everything perfectly. I Dropped him. I dropped them off. I dropped him off. He was at the office here, which he was rarely at the office because he was always on the plane. And he had set up a date to go meet her at the gym because it's a fancier, nicer gym that's in the North Valley. And I dropped. I took him over and I dropped him off there. And it was. The whole car ride over there was pep talk. So, all right, this is what you got to do. This is what. This is what you got to say. Hey, if she says this, don't do that. And he's like, well, what do I do? If, like. Because Charlie had had a number of dates, but not that many people. He's busy. He's a busy guy. He just didn't.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tyler Boyer]

And so he. It went immaculately. And after that, they had met again in New York, where she was living at the time, and he had made a special trip just to go there.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, he made an excuse. This is what Charlie would do. He would. He would go somewhere and he would make an excuse that was like a formal reason to be there. But there was always kind of like an ulterior motive where, you know, but it was.

[Tyler Boyer]

I'll never, like. And this. These are the memories. I'm putting out a tweet right now that's saying, just write down these memories, because I. Until this. Now, I just forgot about that was like driving him over in my car, just having that conversation, which was just like. And again, Andrew, I know you've had many of these. All of us have had many of these conversations, one on one with Charlie about just, like, the pep talks. Because, you know, even though Charlie was such a lion of a man, it takes a village, I think, of, like, having those conversations with one another.

[Blake Neff]

Family.

[Tyler Boyer]

It takes a family.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. But he would position people in places to be able to speak to him and give him like that, like, before he took the stage, like, okay, okay, okay, okay. You know, but he would always.

[Blake Neff]

It's like he would always just want that, even though you knew that he didn't need it.

[Andrew Colvett]

And he. Right. No, but, you know, the other thing is, you'd think you had a really good idea, and you're like. And I give it to him and be like, okay, okay. And then he would always take. Chew the meat and spit out the bones. He would. He was always so good at filtering out your bad ideas without, like, making you feel terrible. We got to welcome back radio, so. All right. Welcome back to our national radio audience at the Charlie Kirk Show. Remembering the one and only Charlie Kirk. And it's his friends that are doing it. I'm joined by Jack Posobec, Blake Neff, another producer on the show, and Tyler Bowyer, the COO of Turning Point Action, who helped Charlie meet his lovely bride. And that's what we're currently talking about.

[Tyler Boyer]

Well, and that's. To that point, Erica became that person, like you were saying.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, right.

[Tyler Boyer]

Erica became the person that would, you know, and it was a two way road. You know, you'd have to filter out some of Charlie's bad ideas too, at times. And Erica is, you know, has become the best at that. She is the, the go to. And I know that that was the most valuable thing. But to put a pin in it, that, that weird situation, though, which was that moment where I was sitting there with Charlie and the Trump rally culminated and Eric was there and then became his wife. Like the entire thing is like, again, you talk about God things. Clearly God had his hand and watching over Charlie constantly.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well, this is the Charlie Kirk show and I want. We played. Sorry, we played a, an opening, but radio didn't get to hear that. And we put together a Charlie Kirk. Which number is it, Blake? Do you have it? We put together a. Just a montage of some great Charlie Kirk moments. And I think it is. 443 is the number. We put together a montage for the audience of Charlie in his own words. And he loved this show so much. He loved this show. And he. I remember one time when I talked to him and I said, who's your greatest hero in this space? You know, obviously Donald Trump's the President. And, you know, that was the obvious answer, but like, no Trump, you know, like, who's. And he said, Rush Limbaugh. And Charlie got to know Rush personally. I think we had basically the last big event that, that, that Rush did was introducing the president.

[Tyler Boyer]

Yeah, the last two. Yeah. So he never made public appearances.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. And he's very private person.

[Tyler Boyer]

He came to our event at Mar a Lago. So we were one of the first groups to do anything with fundraisers, things like that at Mar a Lago. People don't, people don't know that we actually did it very small. But Rush had such a personal connection with Charlie. And this is kind of early, too. Before Charlie was kind of a known quantity everywhere. Really leaned in and showed up.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. And Charlie actually went to Rush's house, picked him up in the car and drove him, drove him there. And we had. Yeah, we gave.

[Blake Neff]

He lives he lived right up the street.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. In West Palm beach, or he lived in Palm Beach. So he. Yeah, but Rush was his hero, and he listened to Rush. Rush was so influential in just the way Charlie thought about politics. And if you want to know why Charlie never lost the grassroots, he was always so into the grassroots. Because you emailed him. It's because he looked at all your emails. He looked at all the comments. He could do 48 things. It seemed like at once the most amazing multitasker I've ever seen.

[Blake Neff]

When I would be here and we'd be on the show during breaks, even. I'm going to say it, even sometimes when interviewing people, he'd be looking at the camera and yet somehow also on his computer, switching between tabs, texting, emailing, reading faster than you could even, like, grasp what was going on.

[Mikey]

Emails he would share, like in the middle of a show segment, like, right after you came out, or even, like, in between someone else giving answer, like.

[Blake Neff]

Oh, Jack, you gotta check out this.

[Mikey]

Email I got from.

[Blake Neff]

Look at this.

[Andrew Colvett]

Look.

[Blake Neff]

And you're, like, reading the last three things that he sent you.

[Andrew Colvett]

No, he's always two steps ahead.

[Blake Neff]

And his speed was. I have no idea how he did it. And he's. And these are. What's crazy, too, is you could see it would be like, oh, hey, I got something from the speaker of the House. Oh, here's the President's son. And then, like, here's a guy I met walking his dog, and he needs a ballot. Tyler, make sure this guy gets a ballot. You know, like. Like it didn't make any difference to him who he was talking to, but.

[Andrew Colvett]

He never lost sight of the grassroots and one of the. One of the guiding lights for that. And we set up freedomarliekirk.com and please send your tributes to Charlie, your thoughts, your prayers, anything that's on your mind to freedomarliekirk.com and I will do my best to read them. And Blake, you're going to help read them. And Jack and Tyler, and we want to see what you have to say to Charlie. That's freedomarliekirk.com and Rush always had his email dialogue with his listeners, and Charlie took note of that and that it kept him close to the people because. Because this world can get very insulating, and Charlie never let that happen. That's why he went to college campuses, because he learned and he knew and he saw what kids were really thinking. He always made such a point to stay so close to the public, even though he was so stratospherically, like famous. We couldn't take him anywhere. I mean, it was really at that point of stardom and fame that we couldn't take Charlie anywhere. But it all started with a love of the spoken word and what Rush Limbaugh told him. And he would take lunch breaks from school just to listen to Rush Limbaugh. And so to have this show and to be behind the microphone was one of the greatest honors of his life. And he did not take it for granted. He loved it. And he saw it as a way to pipe the vanguard of the current thinking on the current debates into the zeitgeist and to keep the base steady and keep the coalition together. So without further ado, I want to play the show tribute that our team put together. I haven't seen it yet, so I can't wait to watch it. This is 4:43.

[Blake Neff]

I want to thank my great friend Charlie Kirk.

[Andrew Colvett]

He's done something that is just incredible for somebody really of his age. You need tremendous talent to do what he's done, building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa. And I want to thank you, really, Charlie, incredible job.

[Tyler Boyer]

Amazing grace. How sweet the sound.

[Charlie Kirk]

I have the greatest job in the world. I couldn't be happier. Every day I feel as if what I'm saying, what I'm doing is making a difference, giving people meaning.

[Jack Posobiec]

Charlie, you should have emotion.

[Blake Neff]

This is a moment.

[Jack Posobiec]

You totally reformed the GOP and look.

[Andrew Colvett]

What you guys have done. Here's some words here from you, Charlie. You put all this together, my man.

[Blake Neff]

Let's hear it.

[Charlie Kirk]

I, I am just humbled by God.

[Andrew Colvett]

God's grace.

[Blake Neff]

It's all God. It's all good.

[Andrew Colvett]

God alone.

[Tyler Boyer]

Done.

[Blake Neff]

It's beginning.

[Charlie Kirk]

We did not earn this. This, this is, this is God's mercy on our country.

[Tyler Boyer]

Yes, you're on. You're on the Lord's side.

[Charlie Kirk]

Last week we welcomed our beautiful daughter into the world. Most important thing that one can do except giving your life to Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. We, Erica and I and our family were celebrating the birth of our son.

[Blake Neff]

I just, I'm finding out how honest you are, Charlie. And so far you're.

[Tyler Boyer]

I think you're doing good and I.

[Andrew Colvett]

Hope I'm doing good with you.

[Charlie Kirk]

Candace Owens, welcome back.

[Blake Neff]

Yes.

[Tyler Boyer]

Good to be back on the Charlie Kirk Show.

[Charlie Kirk]

So, Megan, there's a lot happening right now and I recently went on the Bill Maher Show. I want to get your reaction. Matt, walk us through the decades long journey from 2015 to today on the public opinion battle. Michael, why are people going back to church? People going back to church because the atheism ran out of steam. Ben, thank you for taking. Taking the time. I was moved by your podcast on Monday. But how we must stare the evil in the face. Pete, you're doing a phenomenal job. I just want to say that from the American people that you don't get the credit that you deserve. Obviously, in the mainstream media. We are here with Stephen K. Bannon. Charlie, I'm.

[Blake Neff]

I never roll through this town without seeing you.

[Andrew Colvett]

It's always the highlight.

[Tyler Boyer]

It's, it's.

[Charlie Kirk]

That's the advantage of being in Phoenix is that you're like one of the only shows in town. So everyone kind of just comes on by.

[Andrew Colvett]

I'm sick of people stealing my stick.

[Charlie Kirk]

Wait, so a campus thing I've been doing for 13 years to debate random college kids has now been so important that it gets prominent primetime placement on Comedy Central.

[Andrew Colvett]

I think. I think the whole thing is just awesome.

[Charlie Kirk]

Bobby Kennedy, welcome back to the program, Charlie.

[Andrew Colvett]

Thanks for having me.

[Charlie Kirk]

They canceled the President of the United States, the most powerful man in the.

[Tyler Boyer]

World when it was my father.

[Charlie Kirk]

If they can do that to him, they can do it to anyone. If they can't do it, if we're all banded together and we're fighting one battle. Don Jr. Everybody, very special. Our episode for you today. My wife joins us. Erica Kirk, the beautiful, legendary Erica.

[Tyler Boyer]

I love you so much.

[Andrew Colvett]

I love you.

[Tyler Boyer]

You're my best friend.

[Charlie Kirk]

Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

[Tyler Boyer]

Thanks, baby.

[Charlie Kirk]

Thanks so much for listening, everybody, and God bless.

[Andrew Colvett]

Oh, that's a great job, guys.

[Tyler Boyer]

Really good job.

[Andrew Colvett]

I. We miss him.

[Tyler Boyer]

That last shot off stage, I miss my friend. You know, one of the things that Charlie was kind of interesting early in Charlie's career was he wasn't. He's a prolific speaker. Obviously he's a genius on stage, but he wasn't really interested in, you know, Spotlight. It's a really interesting piece to him was that he was. It was. I think that's kind of like almost like we were talking with. I was talking with people and the best analogy to Charlie was that he was very much in the come follow me spirit of Christ. I think that's what the most Christ like thing about him was, was that people wanted to follow him. Sorry, I just can't. I can't get through all this. But he didn't want Spotlight and I think that was part of his. And so when I had suggested with our events team that we do Bigger things that we do consider because we have more people who want to show up and we have more kids and all that. It wasn't about that for him. It wasn't. People watch these things and they're like, I mean we went rockstar. We went full rock star on Charlie Kirk. And a lot of that is thanks to Andrew. I mean, without a doubt, you know, we give, we give Erica, Erica 100% made him rock star.

[Andrew Colvett]

I give you more credit for that because you forced him to do it and then eventually he embraced it. But, but it was, he was not.

[Tyler Boyer]

The, was interested in that.

[Andrew Colvett]

But he also like, wasn't your sort of like central casting character to do it.

[Tyler Boyer]

No.

[Andrew Colvett]

And you made him enter out on, you know, embark out on a much bigger vision.

[Tyler Boyer]

But, but this is the point with Charlie is that he was a, he was a very humble person and I don't want that to change with like how people start to take the memory of Charlie because he's big. His. He wasn't interested in what the states look like or like who was there, what the spotlight looked like. He just wanted to tell the truth. He just wanted it. Tell people what was what they needed to hear. And he was really good at that, really good at that. But everything else built around him for the right reasons. I'm so sorry, like, I'm like spitting like tears everywhere and everything else. It's like splash zone. But he is his, his legacy is going to be what you said, Andrew, is that he was a incredibly humble person that was thrust into something that was so much bigger than all of us, so much bigger than him. But he was the perfect person for the perfect time.

[Andrew Colvett]

He always told young people, be a part of something bigger than yourself. And he is the most iconic example of that that I think any of us can imagine. And we're going to take a break from radio. We'll be right back on the stream. All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. You know, I wasn't gonna do this, but I think the team was absolutely spot on. People want something to remember Charlie by.

[Blake Neff]

I've been getting message after message, email comment, this huge outpouring of people saying and, and because Charlie as, as we all know, he loved T shirts, apparel.

[Andrew Colvett]

Get me one that says that. Give me one that says like literally the team would screen press them almost on a two hour turn.

[Blake Neff]

And it's because, it's because he understood that that is a, a physical, real messaging platform that you can wear in the real world, in the real space.

[Andrew Colvett]

That would be seen, that would be seen billions of times in Charlie's instance.

[Blake Neff]

And, and he wanted, so whatever the message that he wanted to send or what he was thinking about would usually be what he would wear. And there'd be times where he'd have, you know, a different one on five days a week if you watch the show. And that was all very, I just didn't mean to say it's very deliberate. It was, it was not like some random thing.

[Andrew Colvett]

No, no, he, he loved his different shirts and so please put them back on screen, guys. So, so here, here they are. And they are available for purchase. We're gonna, as many as everybody wants. We don't have a maid yet, so please be gracious with us. We're gonna get them out as fast as we can. Charliekirkstore.com charliekirkstore.com and I think the team did an amazing job with them. And the, the middle one is I am Charlie Kirk.

[Blake Neff]

I've seen so many people saying that.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, it's a beautiful testament and I love it. And I want one. And the other one is I'm just humbled by God's grace. And that, of course, was from election night, November 2024, when Charlie got news that Pennsylvania had been called by Fox News for Donald Trump and that he would be the 47th president United States.

[Blake Neff]

Right in this room.

[Andrew Colvett]

That viral video had happened right here.

[Blake Neff]

Right in his chair.

[Andrew Colvett]

And Charlie put his hands up to his face and a man who doesn't cry very often got misty eyed and, and he gave all the glory to God. And I love that. And I'm so glad that they picked that moment. And then the other one is the freedom shirt, and it has the date that it happened, and that's the shirt that he was wearing. And we put the Turning Point hook on that sleeve as well. And so if you want to honor Charlie and obviously you want to help the show, that, that would be amazing.

[Tyler Boyer]

Can I shout out you guys real quick? I mean, we have so many good people who work for, for Charlie, his show, his, his personal side. People don't talk about this. I, I, I was careful not to talk about this because Charlie, again, didn't like the spotlight of it all. But part of the reason why this show exists is because Charlie didn't want to do things that would cost money from Turning Point for years and years and years and years. Charlie didn't take a salary from Turning Point. He paid himself. I know this because I, I was the one that had to approve payrolls for Turning Point for seven years, he paid himself like $30,000 a year. Then a little bit.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, he didn't take a wage for the first five years. And then his first wage, I think, was like 20. It was 15,000 the first year.

[Tyler Boyer]

20. And I know that because mine was tiny, too. When I gave over, it was like, insane. And then he. Part of the show was that he was able to give back. So it cost Turning Point nothing for Charlie to run Turning Point.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. People don't know this. Charlie gave. There was this stupid AP article. I'll never forget where they tried to give it. I know, but they tried to make it sound like Charlie was somehow taking money from donors or something, or fleecing the donors. But here's the truth. Charlie paid back his salary and then some back to Turning Point. Every year he donated back all that. Here's one second, guys. Gonna welcome back radio. Go ahead, Tyler.

[Tyler Boyer]

I was just. I was just gonna say this is that.

[Andrew Colvett]

That he.

[Tyler Boyer]

He was able to do something beyond anyone else. So there's. I mean, there's great people that people admire a lot. Rush is one of those people. But Rush didn't build in his spare time a Turning Point usa. A Turning Point action and all that. Right. Like, Charlie did all that, gave it all back, essentially, for that. And then we have. The whole point of why I'm saying this is we have so many good people here at the show that have that work here, that produces to get truth out. Because, again, what that Charlie was interested in wasn't Spotlight. It was getting the truth out. It was doing something bigger than himself. And every single person that's here, that are back behind the glass right now and that are in this building that are across campus here at Turning Point headquarters, joined Charlie on that vision and are part of that. And so with that, we talk about the shirts and everything else, please support, you know, this. This mission to continue Charlie's voice with. With Charlie's show, because there's so many good people here that. That have done that. And I know Andrews, Erica looked at.

[Andrew Colvett]

Me yesterday and she said the show has to keep going and Turning Point has to grow even bigger. And I hope I'm at liberty to say that. I think she would want me to say that.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah.

[Andrew Colvett]

And so we don't know what the future holds for everything, at least, you know, with fine detail. But we know that that will happen, that we will honor that, and I know Charlie would want that to happen.

[Tyler Boyer]

That's the only way to honor Charlie is to. For everything to get bigger into Again, again, that point, which is that this is bigger than any singular person, but honoring Charlie's memory permanently.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Tyler Boyer]

With making Turning Point bigger and the mission, which is activate as many human beings as possible to do the work to do the Lord's work and to do the work to save the Republic.

[Andrew Colvett]

I think that those. Those shirts.

[Blake Neff]

I think that's where that.

[Andrew Colvett]

For the radio, if you can. You can go to charlie kirkstore.com charliekirkstore.com we have three options. The. The election night shirt is a drawing of him putting his hands on his face after he found out that Trump was going to be elected the 47th president. And he said, I'm just humbled by God's grace. And that's a beautiful one. I am Charlie Kirk. And people love that. I am Charlie Kirk. I've been seeing that everywhere. And then we have the shirt, the freedom shirt that he was wearing and with the date on it and the. The Turning Point hook also on that. On that sleeve.

[Blake Neff]

I think that message in the center shirt there. I'm Charlie Kirk. That. That speaks to what Tyler's talking about. It's that. It's the Charlie Kirk spirit, right? It's. I was saying this yesterday on an interview. You know, who's the next Charlie Kirk? Look, well, there isn't an ex Charlie Kirk, but Charlie, if you asked him that in public, right, he would say, you, you know, you go get a megaphone or, you know, a chair and go to your local park and set up a folding table on camp. Whatever it is, right? Whatever public place you can be. And. And go do this, too. And so it doesn't mean, you know, it doesn't. It's not about him, Right? It's about you take that Charlie Kirk spirit and go and be the next one and go set up your chapter or go set up your thing and go be that person. And that, I think, is. Is the message that's now. And you see this. It's around the world. It's completely. Well, we'll talk about later. But it's. It's totally around the world. I mean, I'm getting messages from, like, I don't even want to say, but just countries that you wouldn't even believe had heard of Charlie are doing vigils for Charlie.

[Andrew Colvett]

I. I actually do want to talk about that at length, because one of the things that I've realized and I tweeted about this or posted about this last night on X, there was a video of a vigil that was sent to me, and I Just. And I said, I've constantly had to recalibrate my internal clock because you kind of.

[Blake Neff]

I know exactly what you mean.

[Andrew Colvett]

How famous Charlie is. And then like something else would kind of blow your mind and be like, whoa, he's actually way bigger. And Blake, I'm sure you had a bunch of those even in Seoul. You're like, whoa, people know him here. But yeah, I am realizing that as much as I tried to recalibrate, I'm probably two years behind, like, actually how famous he was, like, in my internal clock and in his death. And Trump said this beautifully, actually, this morning on Fox. I don't know what clip it is. I'm sure we have it.

[Blake Neff]

We'll play that.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, that he's. Now he's even bigger. He was huge. And now he's a worldwide icon.

[Blake Neff]

And before we, before we get off the topic and I know there's a break, I'm, I want to piggyback on Tyler and just say thank you to the staff for being here today. And.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. And yeah, their hearts are broken too.

[Blake Neff]

Impossible task.

[Tyler Boyer]

We and all of our Turning Point staff right now are at home with families, as expected. But again, for here being part of the show and honoring Charlie, it, I mean, that's just such a hard thing to ask people to do. And I, I can't thank you each.

[Blake Neff]

Enough, everybody behind the glass, seriously, thank you for being here.

[Andrew Colvett]

Thank you to our amazing team. They really are amazing and Charlie loved them dearly. Radio we'll, we'll see you again in a couple minutes. We're going to keep streaming for a few second.

[Jack Posobiec]

Sam.

[Charlie Kirk]

A lot of young people on campuses at our events, on my radio show, podcast and social media said differently. I visit college campuses so you don't have to. We're talking to so many voters that know it is time for change. They know that something is wrong. America's future is a series of choices. Our current state of slow motion national decline is a choice. Today is our two year old's birthday and I look at my daughter and that is my why. For those that are parents, you know exactly what I mean.

[Andrew Colvett]

There is no mountain that stands tall as your faithfulness.

[Tyler Boyer]

There is no river that runs wide as your goodness.

[Charlie Kirk]

Man, Charlie, I, I remember when we were starting these out and it was that, like, that, you know, it was like this. It was like, it was like your average three rows. It was like your average political meeting where there's like 12 people in a room.

[Jack Posobiec]

And this is, this is awesome.

[Charlie Kirk]

This, in my personal opinion, was the.

[Andrew Colvett]

Most over the top Trump event that I've ever covered.

[Charlie Kirk]

This is the number one boots on the ground operation in the country. We're working directly in harmony with the Trump campaign. It's been vetted, it's been cleared, it's been blessed, as you can see there. And we're going to try to win this thing. No guarantees. It's what we do that matters. Mr. President, I can tell you this room is 100% with you, and we have your back. God bless you.

[Jack Posobiec]

Thank you.

[Charlie Kirk]

As you know, we are heading on campus here momentarily at the University of South Florida, throwing it down with the students. It's going to be a lot of fun. We are excited to continue this cultural movement that we have started at Turning Point usa. More high school chapters, more college chapters, and disagreement is not just welcome. It is invited. We want to have those tough conversations. That's what it's all about. Because you're not supposed to be involved in this. You're supposed to just kind of be on the vote for me every four years, give me more political power, and stay out of my business. And what has happened is we are seeing an explosion in citizen participation.

[Andrew Colvett]

All of my days, your mercy follow me. Oh, there is nothing else I'll ever need.

[Charlie Kirk]

Knock on that extra door, go that extra mile, talk to that extra friend. Because throughout voting month and culminating on the 5th of November, I believe it will go down as a day that people remember, as a day that is written about in history books, as the final battle. From the golden escalator on down, from defeating Hillary Clinton, from The nonsense of 2020 from Butler, Pennsylvania, November 5th at all culminates where we restore the promise that the founders gave us. And they said, hey, if the people want it, the people get it. And we the people, take back America. God bless Arizona and thank you so much. Every day, the American people demand certain accomplishments and victories. Disagreement is what keeps a movement alive, keeps a movement fun. Here in this country. We are a country of flourishing. We're a country of risk taking. We're a country of building. We will achieve American greatness. And we are just getting started.

[Andrew Colvett]

All my days, your mercy. Follow me. Blake, I'm gonna ask you a question. What do you want? All right, welcome back, everybody. Here we are at the Charlie Kirk Show Studio. I remember building this studio, and I remember designing it so Charlie would be here. And then he decided he liked it here better, so we flipped everything. He had to have his Oregon duck thing over there.

[Blake Neff]

It was the. The original. Original was a straight line.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. It was straight. Well, this desk actually is modular and so you can kind of fold it so that the two levels fold into one another. And it was just a desk and it was supposed to be designed so if you had guests it could fold out. Right. But he just liked it. Like, this wasn't it.

[Blake Neff]

We did. We did one of the election night streams or something and we, we set up the V. And he just liked it.

[Andrew Colvett]

He just like, like left it.

[Blake Neff]

And he just left it that way.

[Tyler Boyer]

Well, this. When we. I remember walking into. So the story of this complex is really interesting because we were in Chicago. We came over here and we found this, this space because we wanted to have a building for Turning Point that was by itself.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Tyler Boyer]

And fast forward to. We had to go through and talk every single one of the people in this complex to sell the buildings. So I had to get on the phone with these guys. And luckily we had this incredible kid that was in real estate that helped and we talked him into it. But I remember walking through this building for the first time, and this is a garage. This was actually a garage. So this was like a shop. Like they had like a bunch of machines and stuff in here. They used to have all this equipment that was like hanging off. And we just started going through, just yanking stuff out. We're like, this will be the home for Charlie, this Charlie Kirk studio.

[Andrew Colvett]

And I, I feel bad for the audience because I'm not sitting in Charlie's seat. You're seeing the, the profile shot of, of Tyler because he's looking at me when he's talking. So I apologize.

[Tyler Boyer]

That's. That's been everything on the show that I'm always.

[Blake Neff]

You're here because that's Tyler's seat.

[Andrew Colvett]

I know. And I kept, I kept telling the studio, I said, can we like, get that camera?

[Blake Neff]

Andrew. Andrew's pointing out this is a. This is a blocking violation for, for film tv.

[Andrew Colvett]

It's worth it. Yeah. So.

[Blake Neff]

But we kind of always done it.

[Andrew Colvett]

So, like, I, you know, I'm gonna ask. Let me ask you this. When Radio gets back on, but I was just talking with the. We took a quick bio break, as they call it in the business. And I was asking the team, I was like, what do people want to hear right now? And the whole team is out there in the bays and they were like, people want to hear stories about Charlie and they want to see the behind the scenes stuff. And so I want us to share that with him and with the audience, our interactions with him. And I don't want to force you to start when we're going to be welcoming back national radio in about a minute. But that's there. There are. There's that line in the Bible about Jesus where it says, you know, there would be the writing of endless books about all the things that Jesus did. And I feel like not to compare Charlie to Jesus, but his life is like that, where if you compiled all the little things that he did for all the tens of thousands of people that he interacted with, there would be no end of the books that we could write about his life. And that is. That is. It's like, so true. Like, I'm not even. That's not even like 31 years on this planet. And that's not even a hyperbolic thing to say. That's not me exaggerating is a really remarkable feat. And so, Blake, I'm going to go, like, we're just going to go around the table. I was just going to put you on the hot seat first. So it wasn't me. But we're going to welcome back our national radio audience that Charlie loves so much in about 20 seconds. So hang tight, and we'll be right back. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. This is your host for the day, Andrew Colvett, executive producer of this fine show. To those of you listening around the country, we're honoring our friend and the host of this show, Charlie Kirk. And it's his friends, the people that work closely with him to make this show, to make so much of the content that are gathered around this table in his studio. His chair is empty because nobody will ever be able to fill it. But we wanted a chance to tell you about the Charlie Kirk that we know and that we got to see up close. And we have Jack Posobeck, the great Jack Posobeck, the great Blake Neff, and the great Tyler Boyer, all gathered with myself, Andrew Colvett, executive producer. So our team is telling us that people want to hear more personal stories that you wouldn't have seen if you didn't know Charlie. So, Blake, the floor is yours. Tell us a story about Charlie that you think people would like to hear or that haven't heard yet.

[Mikey]

Man, I'm thinking of a few things.

[Andrew Colvett]

Gosh.

[Mikey]

Personal stuff. I think one of the things that always impressed me about Charlie was his immense personal discipline about everything he did. He had, you know, his day was very ordered. Everything he did was very ordered, and he didn't deviate from that. And if you asked him about that, he'd be like, well, this Is the smart thing to do. Why would I do something different? And the thing I'd always tease him about is the number of foods he ate, which is about four or five.

[Tyler Boyer]

Yeah.

[Mikey]

I would joke about this, and I'm not exaggerating. The variation of food Charlie ate was like grilled chicken, avocado, hot sauce.

[Blake Neff]

Like, he wasn't always like that.

[Mikey]

Like salmon, I guess. I think he used to have beef, but I think he later, like, decided.

[Blake Neff]

Red meat was probably start doing that. He said it was like a couple years ago that he. Just because he wanted. He said he wanted to get back in fighting shape or something.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Tyler Boyer]

And Charlie, as long as I've known Charlie has always been very focused on what he puts inside his body.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah.

[Tyler Boyer]

From day one, it was. I remember because I've always. When I was. When I first met Charlie, I was skinny, and then I got, you know. You know, dad fat.

[Blake Neff]

You got your road layer.

[Tyler Boyer]

I got dad fat. I put on the pregnancy weight a few times throughout that. That cycle campaign.

[Blake Neff]

30.

[Tyler Boyer]

But Charlie was always. And he would always kind of yell at me, you know, and Andrew and probably Sherry. You've had some of these situations. Blake probably hasn't. But, you know, never got yelled at for what he eats. But he would be like. Because I would, like, pound sodas and like. Like, I was like, oh, yeah. And then it caught up with me.

[Mikey]

I was like, Charlie's like sin eater, because I eat everything.

[Tyler Boyer]

But he would eat, like, piles of singular foods. So it would be like stacks of, like, stacks of broccoli. He would order that, like, steamed broccoli. Or he would order just. Just meat. Right. It would just be like, meat. And then. And he would just. He would pound through it. It would eat, like, as we're talking, like. Like, we didn't have time to waste. As we were going. It would just eat. Later in life, he enjoyed. I think he enjoyed meals a little bit more. But the early was like, we were going, going, going. He's always in the travel ready to go. And he would just eat. And I would just sit there and be like. Because I would order, like, a normal sandwich and, like, drink a drink. But he would just eat to eat, but it was always healthy. And he would always be like, you're gonna eat that? Like, he would look at me like, you're gonna eat that. You're gonna put that.

[Blake Neff]

I actually remember, I think the night. I think. I'm pretty sure we were all there too. It was the night of the RNC when he gave his speech there not the 16 or 20, but the 24. And I think. I want to. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he have, like, a couple of chicken wings? And he, like, made a huge deal about it.

[Mikey]

He had a couple, and we had, like, a huge pile of. Hugely vast pile.

[Blake Neff]

And. But it was like each. As Tyler was saying, like, each box was a separate food. And then we had a whole bunch of chicken wings that we were all just chowing down on. And he goes, I will allow myself to have a few.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well, and that was, like, huge.

[Tyler Boyer]

He would find something he liked, and early on, he used to say this all the time. All the time. He'd be like. Like, you could build a religion around those things.

[Andrew Colvett]

Have you ever heard that. Said that?

[Tyler Boyer]

Have you ever heard him say that?

[Andrew Colvett]

We could build a religion around this.

[Blake Neff]

You religion around this.

[Tyler Boyer]

When he found a food he liked, he'd be like, you could build a religion around those things or that thing or whatever.

[Blake Neff]

But it's like, the first time he's eating it.

[Tyler Boyer]

No, it would be. It would be like. It'd be like. I'd be like, oh, I mean, I.

[Blake Neff]

Think these are great.

[Charlie Kirk]

These chicken wings you can build.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah, Charlie, we know.

[Tyler Boyer]

I think I heard Charlie say that. No, short of like, 500 times.

[Blake Neff]

I. Yeah, it's.

[Andrew Colvett]

It.

[Blake Neff]

That when you. There's certain set phrases that were just like the Charlie phrases. And, you know, when you say them, you could just hear it in his voice because that's. That's the only guy who talks that way.

[Andrew Colvett]

What about. What about you, Jack? Do you have a. Do you have a fun Charlie story that you think the audience hasn't heard or would like to hear? Oh, man.

[Blake Neff]

You know, look, I mean, there's a lot of stuff that's just private. So that's like, how do you. How do you steep through that? You know, I'll tell the story that in, you know, from last year, though, that I think is just. Just kind of a funny thing. So Charlie works so hard on these campus tours that people don't realize that he worked himself sick last year. And there were, I don't know, two, three weeks where he just. He had no voice. He completely lost his voice out there on the campus tours, the campaigns, between everything. He was traveling so much and just picking up whatever germs and bugs and all the rest, and obviously with his health regimen and that he, you know, he did what he could, but, you know, sometimes it just kind of doesn't work. Work that way. And I remember we had, we had talked about. And he was like, hey Jack, you know, you're a Pennsylvania guy. We're doing this Penn State, I think it's going to be big. Do you want to come? And I was like, oh yeah, you know, we'll see if it works out with the schedule, etc.

[Andrew Colvett]

And.

[Blake Neff]

And then a couple days before the event, he sent or no, the day before the event he sends me this text and, and says jack, we need to talk. So like we need to talk. I lost my voice. So then I call him, he immediately hangs up and he texts me back and I said, he said, jack, I can't talk. I lost my voice. I can only text. And so he, he's like, I, I need you up here. And, and, and so we, we. I get up to Penn State and the entire time we're there and I'm, I'm with him, we're spending time and he's like sending me text messages or just writing stuff on his.

[Andrew Colvett]

And you're like right next to him. Yeah.

[Blake Neff]

And he's like showing it and I'm like, like saying it or tweeting it or whatever it is. And then as we're about to go, you know, we have this whole thing set up and there's thousands of kids. I mean 5,000 maybe, because I know we brought.

[Andrew Colvett]

It was insane. I know we brought sea of red hats.

[Blake Neff]

We brought, we brought 30,000 hats. But then we ran out and like only about half of the kids had hats. So that's why I know you would.

[Andrew Colvett]

Not believe the number of hats that Turning Point bought and still managed to run out. And it was insane.

[Blake Neff]

And then, and then, and then the campus end up. Ended up shutting down the speakers anyway.

[Andrew Colvett]

That many boxes. I want to just throw out hats. It was so many boxes. Like the logistics of getting that many hats is actually to each campus was actually a marvel in and of itself. And you're reminding me of. Go ahead. I don't know if you had something you wanted to add, Tyler.

[Tyler Boyer]

I was just going to say that the miracle of the organization of Turning Point being able to do all those things is what enabled so much of Charlie Kirk. Right. Charlie was. Wanted to be enabled all the time. With every little crazy idea that he had. I would call him Charlie Kirk. Wild goose chases, like with stuff, we would just be like constant stuff. Right. It was just like trying to channel where those things would go. But the enabling of the staff to do the things that needed to be done because Charlie was, was almost always right on these things. He was Always right.

[Andrew Colvett]

He was annoyingly. Almost always right.

[Tyler Boyer]

Almost always right.

[Andrew Colvett]

And when you. When you got one that was right, you. You were like. You would make a mental note, be like. Because it was. It was 99 to 1.

[Tyler Boyer]

But where he wanted to go with everything was always right. And he. He. And. And he knew he had the vision. And the people who helped execute that deserve a ton of credit. Every. Every person. Every. I look at the videos from the campus tours. Every one of our activists that is there, that's volunteering to help hold microphones to, you know, standing in the. In the gap there, especially in such scary times as where we're at today, they have been such incredible warriors. And. And that honors Charlie so much.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, we. We have this. Let's go ahead and play. We have just enough time. This is Charlie eating with chopsticks in Japan with Blake. $4.79. Oh, gosh.

[Charlie Kirk]

Is it like a big thing?

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, of course.

[Charlie Kirk]

Am I doing it okay?

[Tyler Boyer]

Yeah, perfect.

[Andrew Colvett]

This is noto. Why is it so gooey, Bean? It's very good. It's so gooey. It's very gooey. Why is it so gooey?

[Tyler Boyer]

Because it's fermented. I think.

[Andrew Colvett]

That'S great.

[Tyler Boyer]

It's very good for you.

[Andrew Colvett]

Blake. I remember he was. You and I were on a chat when this was happening or moments after it happened, and he was like, There was literally 11 dishes in this thing. It was amazing. Ah, the Japanese food.

[Blake Neff]

I mean, you can build a religion around this.

[Andrew Colvett]

People don't realize, like, how he would just get fixated on.

[Blake Neff]

Yes.

[Mikey]

I would just love how he would, you know, he would, like, interrogate me about things because Charlie loved to learn things, loved to pick new things up, and yet he was also so busy all of the time. So he would even just. He would send me. He's like, blake, you have to learn all about this thing so that you can just tell me about it when I need to learn about it later. So I'll go read, you know, a 300 page book about this so that I can just be read.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Mikey]

When Charlie interrogates me, I remember once on a flight, it was like an hour, and he's just like, blake, tell me about the Roman Empire. I'm like, the start or the end? He's like, whatever you want. And just started going off about that.

[Andrew Colvett]

I also asked you about that. Blake is a very good resource if you want to learn about the Roman Empire.

[Tyler Boyer]

And he was.

[Mikey]

He was very, you know, sometimes just. He would ask Mikey. He would be like, Mikey Just ask ChatGPT to make some trivia questions, and then let's just see if Blake can get them. And he was very proud that, you know, he's like, okay, Blake, I'm going to lose to you on, you know, history. I'm going to probably lose to you on geography. But he was very proud that he was, he was competitive with me on, you know, biblical stuff because he was very. He loved to study the Bible, you know, book by book. He was really into that. He was very, very proud of that. And he was right. He was, he was better at Bible trivia than I was.

[Blake Neff]

Actually. That's. That's something I could share, and I'm sure we all could. That, you know, late, you know, late night, whatever it is, people would say, well, what is Charlie like in, you know, off air, he would be constantly going through books of the Bible and then he would send you, you know, some file or a podcast or something and be like, jack, I just did this five hour course on the book of Deuteronomy. You need to go through all five hours and come back to me with it.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Blake Neff]

And not even for the show.

[Andrew Colvett]

I have a story like this actually, from recent. We were in Aspen doing an investor summit, and it was amazing trip. And we, we had a Cambridge professor who was actually, we played that the last live. It was a pre record, but it was like the last radio live hour before he started speaking at campus. And it was with Dr. James Orr, he's an amazing Cambridge professor. And he flew back from Aspen and Charlie was like, what are you doing tomorrow? And James was like, well, I don't fly out until Monday. And it was a Sunday. So Charlie was like, well, do you want to have breakfast with us? And we'll, we'll do our morning worship and then I'll pick you up and can you just like, teach me all day? And James was like, what? You just want to, you know, you just want to do class? And he's like, yeah, like, I just want to do class. And so they sat in a room and Charlie peppered him with questions. And you have to understand, Dr. James Orr not only sees the world similarly the way we do, but he has like a photographic memory of the classical Western canon, of all the texts that make up the Western. He can remember almost page and verse of all of these great books, and he can connect them, how they relate to now and where we got this word and how it evolved from this into. And so Charlie was, was gathering this three dimensional understanding of the Latin and the Greek. And how it made up European history, which gave birth to America, obviously the western canon. But that was Charlie's idea of a Sunday well spent. And I remember being so jealous.

[Blake Neff]

That's a day off for Charlie.

[Andrew Colvett]

That was a day off. I remember being so jealous because I had to go back home. I had to catch a flight Sunday morning to get back home. And I mean, I got to be with my family and it was great, but. And that's where I should have been. But Charlie got to spend the day with his family and learning from one of the great minds in Christendom. It was amazing. That was Charlie in a nutshell. I also. It's weird things that I remember right now. Charlie walking around all the time with like. He'd wear shorts on planes with like, his tall socks. Yeah. So he always. The tall socks. The tall socks.

[Mikey]

It improves circulation.

[Blake Neff]

No, he would always tell him to talk to me about that. This. He's like, it's a. It's a thing for tall people, Jack. It's compression socks. You wear them. You wear them on planes. The pressure.

[Charlie Kirk]

He had it all, like.

[Blake Neff]

Choice, no joke, decision made.

[Mikey]

A week ago, I was getting when I was actually flying out to Korea for a thing, I was like, okay, I've got to see if there's something to this. And I just put on socks and I pulled them all the way up. I wore them that for about half the day. And then I thought, this is way too annoying, and I slid them back down.

[Blake Neff]

Well, he would take. Cuz you're not tall enough.

[Andrew Colvett]

Probably did have really good circulation. Maybe he's right most of the time. We're gonna welcome back radio and keep remembering stories about Charlie. And there's just too much to tell about this great man. And it's fun to think about him. I have a story from Danny in just a second. We'll be right back. All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvett, Jack Posobic, Blake Neff and Tyler Boyer. We're remembering our friend Charlie Kirk, our brother who belongs to history now and a pure legendary man. And I'm so honored to be sharing with you. And so the way these things work, we just go wave after wave of emotion. And I wanted to read something that Danny on the team, Danny's young guy. Charlie loved Danny so much. And Danny's quiet. Doesn't always say a whole lot, but when he speaks, you better listen because he's been thinking about it for a long time. And Danny wanted to just. He shared this to me. I Hope it's okay. I think it is. He says, Charlie story. Last year when I was living out here interning, I was living in the hood off of GCU campus. Charlie found out and goes, okay, you're gonna either live at my apartment or at my in laws. And he's like, I convinced him I would be fine and I stayed where I was for a few months. He was one of the kindest people I've ever met. And I love that story because somehow this was true about Charlie. That he was balancing huge organizations, a thousand relationships, donors, friends, the show, politicians, other organizations. He had all these plates spinning in his head all the time and he would somehow find time to worry about my well being. Or is your wife and kids, are they going to come? Do you need me to set them up with something? Do you want me. Can I get them here? Are you okay? Do you want me to put you at this hotel? Like he would. His brain was just always moving and spinning and he was always thinking about other people and their well being and how many stories I heard of that. Tyler, I mean, right? It's like you saw in the organizational feats of Turning Point how he would think about the speaker coming in to make sure they were all taken care of. And he had it built into the schedule that he had to go backstage to meet so and so at such a time because he wanted to just say thanks for coming. And it was the intricacy of his mind and the details he was able to, to hold all at one time. Truly amazing.

[Tyler Boyer]

One of the things that I've. I just keep seeing over and over is everyone telling the stories of how they got introduced to Charlie. And I've had received again thousands of messages. I can't even respond back. I know Andrew feels the same. All of us probably feel the same. Jack is a savant at keeping up with people. I don't know how he does it, but I, I just can't even keep up. So I'm not even going to try. So I apologize. But everything I keep seeing over and over is, Tyler, I know you were close to Charlie. I didn't know him personally, but I want you to know how I was introduced to Charlie. And nine times out of 10, you know what the answer is? One of my kids turned me on to Charlie. They show me Charlie and this is like. And this kind of goes hand in hand a little bit with what you're talking about. It's just, it's always shocking to me how again, the Charlie Kirk phenomenon, how he led his Life, how everything just ultimately ended up, you know, in front of people and for so many young people again. And that's the mission of Turning Point. Turning Point. We always were. We're trying to get young people involved and engaged, but to not only see young people getting involved and engaged and loving Charlie and being interested in his content, whether it's tiktoks to all the way through long form podcasts, is that they were taking their parents, in most cases old Gen Xers or baby boomers and saying, you need to listen to this, or grandparents. And it's so interesting to me, and this is the legacy that has to carry on in such a profound way, is that young people can be the spur, they can be the dynamics, they can be the activating element. And Charlie was right. No one believed this, by the way, when we started. There was no one. And Charlie would get that face, you know, when he would tell you. He'd get excited because he'd be like, I'm gonna prove you wrong. And he'd get that voice in his.

[Andrew Colvett]

He literally took on the hardest. I can't. The hardest job at the time. It was unfathomable. And it was like, you have chosen potentially the dumbest career mission imaginable.

[Tyler Boyer]

Obama era college campuses, guys, you don't understand. That is the definition of the belly of the beast. And where we are today is where young people are carrying on their shoulders the Charlie Kirk voice to the older generation in a lot of cases. And I'm so. That I never have really spent time thinking about that. I mean, I know it and we're really excited about it because I do that with my parents and grandparents. But it's been so rewarding to see. And if Charlie could sit here and read all these messages that I'm receiving that are saying that exact thing, he would be ecstatic. And we used to send those in the chat all the time. But I actually have some breaking news. I don't know if I should share it or not, but I'm going to. It looks like the Cubs are going to be recognizing Charlie today, so I.

[Andrew Colvett]

Don'T even want to tell that story. I. I can't tell that story.

[Tyler Boyer]

But they. They should have it.

[Andrew Colvett]

They are.

[Tyler Boyer]

They should have a.

[Blake Neff]

It's very important to Charlie and, And.

[Andrew Colvett]

And he loved the Cubs. His grandma was a lifelong Cubs fan and she got to see the Cubs win the World Series and then passed away. And Charlie was like, that was. She lived. And she lived to see, like that. The greatest thing as a sports fan for her and that meant a lot.

[Tyler Boyer]

Because no one thought it was ever going to happen.

[Andrew Colvett]

Radio will be back and streaming will keep going foreign. Welcome back to our stream. Yeah, Charlie loved the Cubs. Love the Bears, too. But it was a little bit harder to be a Bears fan.

[Blake Neff]

I actually was.

[Andrew Colvett]

It was hard to be a Cubs fan a lot of the time.

[Blake Neff]

Do you remember one. One of the last chats that we had, we were. We were just, you know, because on. On.

[Andrew Colvett]

By the way, that picture right there, that's up on screen, that was really recent.

[Blake Neff]

A couple weeks ago.

[Andrew Colvett]

Right. I was with them.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah.

[Andrew Colvett]

And we went to that game and there's a great. Yeah, it's a picture with the Cubs team. And then those, you know, all these haters online tried to, like, shame that player. I forget his name, but he lives in Phoenix as well and is the third baseman. Hit a home run that day, I think, just for Charlie, which was, like, amazing. And I actually have a couple pictures from that day, so. Go ahead, Jack. I.

[Blake Neff]

No, no, I was just gonna say on. On Sundays especially, you know, people don't realize how. How big of a sports fan Charlie was. And on Sundays, you know, the. The group chat would turn into basically whatever game he was watching and just.

[Mikey]

Yeah, yeah. One of our last things was just. Just, you know, busting his balls about.

[Blake Neff]

The Bears and the Bears. Joking. Yeah, that's what I was saying. I was scrolling through.

[Mikey]

That's a story people would like.

[Blake Neff]

I was scrolling through, and Charlie was.

[Mikey]

So focused, and it was always that we'd have, you know, America Fest is right before Christmas, and that's when the bowl games are ramping up. And I think even maybe some of the playoff games were going on this last year. I can't remember what the schedule was, but he wanted to see what was going on.

[Blake Neff]

He was. No, he was mad. What game was it? He was mad that he wouldn't be able to watch a game in real time. Because it's something that we have.

[Mikey]

We have the big stage at amfest, and then behind it is our kind of command center green room. There's a table, and Charlie had a place he could sit, and he had a TV monitor set up to be showing one of these football games. And he's just sitting there, like, watching it during his literal two minutes of downtime before the next thing at AM Fest, and he'd have his bowl with his chicken and lettuce that he was.

[Andrew Colvett]

Able to.

[Mikey]

Watch it really intensely. And, you know, I'd walk by, he's.

[Andrew Colvett]

Like, blake, come here. Come here. Come on.

[Mikey]

Let's watch a game, Blake. Okay, Charlie, I.

[Andrew Colvett]

Please put this B roll up. Just don't play the sound on it because I haven't reviewed it for anything. I never shared this, but this was just from a couple weeks ago. That's me filming and Charlie and Erica and we went out. That was the. The first time Charlie got to walk out onto Wrigley Field. Onto the field right there. It was before the game, and it was so awesome. The legendary Ivy right there. And this is Charlie, of course, looking back. Give me the thumbs up. And man, we had just a heck of a time getting into the stadium because there was all these security barriers, but they had arranged. They'd arranged it with us beforehand to let Charlie get right up close so that he could just kind of get out of. Get out of the car and get on there onto the field. And this was his. His childhood favorite team, the Cubbies. He's got his Cubs hat. I kept wanting to get him one of the new era or like the. The actual field.

[Blake Neff]

No, he would never do it, but.

[Andrew Colvett]

He liked his little, like, low profile one. And it was the one he wore. I think that's the same Cubs that he wore as Student Action Summit when he was doing the Prove Me Wrong with the students there. And it was just so fun. It was so fun.

[Blake Neff]

He wanted to walk on that field his whole life.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, he wanted to be. He loved that. That field and that stadium.

[Tyler Boyer]

We had. This is way back in the day, but we had actually taken. We used to. We used to have our headquarters in Chicago. So it was. It was a ways out from. From Chicago. And I remember at the early time, this is like right after we had made some changes to really grow. Turning Point usa. We did a team builder at the Cub Stadium at Wrigley Field. And so we. Charlie and I had driven over to the Cubs, to Wrigley. Very difficult to park. You have to basically just park in people's garages and things like that. But we took all of the staff there. And it was. At the time, I think we have like 20 people. And I remember we're just there and we're sitting and he just non stop would be talking about to everybody how. Because we had staff from all over the country at the time, just different places about how great the Cubs were, how much you loved them. And you knew from that moment how much that mattered to Charlie. And there are a few things that were like Chicago boy things. I mean, he loved Chicago. He told me, tyler, Chicago is the greatest city on planet Earth. I'm never gonna leave. And I was really nervous, you know, when we.

[Andrew Colvett]

You. You were instrumental in him falling in love with Phoenix.

[Tyler Boyer]

He's really Arizona, a Chicago boy at heart.

[Andrew Colvett]

And.

[Tyler Boyer]

And the. And the Wrigley, the Cubs. Yeah. Everything else was. Was such a big part of the things that he loved.

[Andrew Colvett]

All right, we're gonna welcome back radio in just a second. Don't go anywhere more with the crew remembering Charlie Kirk. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show, radio stations across the country. Your guest host, Andrew Colvett, in for the one and only Charlie Kirk, right here in his studio in Phoenix, Arizona. His seat is empty. Because we are honoring one of the greatest people any of us will ever meet. A legend, an icon, a martyr, A man who lifted up God above all. His faith in Jesus Christ was the most important thing to him. And then it was his family, Erica, his two beautiful kids. And then it was the country and Turning Point and everything that our founders built. And I'm just realizing, Jack and Tyler and Blake, that how much I've been changed by this person. It was funny even while we were starting the show, and it didn't occur to me while I was doing it, and so I hope it didn't come off as some, like, fake, like, emulation, but I was sitting here going like, hey, send so and so in. Hey, so send so and so in. And then, like. Like, I remember that's what Charlie would do before the show. Right. It was always like. And it's like, I. It's. I don't think I'm gonna fully understand how much I've been affected and transformed and changed by Charlie, and I don't think I'll ever fully understand it.

[Blake Neff]

Because you're not. You're not purposefully doing it like Charlie. No, it was like Charlie's imprint.

[Andrew Colvett]

We were so saturated with so much. Charlie Kirk. Yeah. At all times that.

[Blake Neff]

No, the way I put it was like. Like, people ask you, what about this question? What about this question? Would Charlie wanted this? Would Charlie one of that? And it's like. It's like I can hear him in a way. Like, not like he's speaking to me, but it's just. It's just if you know him, you kind of know what he would say.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Blake Neff]

You know, you almost know. Not unlike, you know, certain things, but. But just little basic things. You just. Well, that's what Charlie would say.

[Tyler Boyer]

This.

[Blake Neff]

Well, Charlie would say this. Charlie would do this. And you just. You just. You just know. You Just know that that's what he would have wanted. And, and it's weird because, you know, talking to everybody throughout all of this, it's, you know, even having heard that Erica said that she wanted the, the cameras on and wanted this up, I know that's exactly what Charlie would have wanted, that he would say, get on the stream, get the rumble up.

[Andrew Colvett]

It's almost like we are the large language model for Charlie Kirk because we've, we've. We've had so much input from this person.

[Blake Neff]

Well, I mean, that's, that's what a life is, right? When you know somebody.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, that's.

[Blake Neff]

That's what they do. They imprint on you.

[Andrew Colvett]

People. People didn't give Charlie enough credit for how funny he was.

[Blake Neff]

Charlie could be hilarious.

[Andrew Colvett]

Charlie was funny, but it was his own very distinct brand of it. It, like, because he was so distinctly Charlie and so rigidly Charlie Kirk, when he would kind of come, you know, he'd do that look when he goes, you know, but he would make. Oh, man, the plane rides were the best.

[Tyler Boyer]

We would just get on topics. Yes, it was, it was, it was topics and it would almost kind of turn into. The best way to describe Charlie Kirk's humor is probably Seinfeld.

[Blake Neff]

He'd love Seinfeld.

[Andrew Colvett]

I've been only watching Seinfeld, Charlie. I needed it to fall asleep the last couple nights.

[Tyler Boyer]

He lives.

[Blake Neff]

Love Seinfeld.

[Tyler Boyer]

But it was like kind of these weird, funny, just like situational things with personalities involved where it's like we would kind of talk about those things and it would be like, oh, this is like, what's this guy doing? And that, that's that. And like, this is it funny how this is connected. That's connected. And it was like kind of smart humor, but it's like, that's the very in real life reality show type. He was.

[Mikey]

He was a good story, too. And I almost feel bad that so many of the funniest ones even you can't tell because it's private information. But when he could actually tell you something, him relating it secondhand.

[Tyler Boyer]

I'll give you a good Seinfeld moment from Charlie Kirk's life. And I'll never. I think about this all the time, and I don't know why. It just sticks with me. So Charlie and I were going back and forth to LA for like every week for like a year. It was. There's a reason for it. It was crazy. It was, it was stupid. But my life got like completely uprooted and I was going to LA every Week. So the horrible part about this is we had to find lax, and LAX is like a third world country, and it just is. And, like, you just, like. And. And again, for people who have patience, you can probably get through lax. Charlie, Kurt cannot. And we were flying just back and forth. And so one day we cut it really close on the Uber that we're going back to lax, and you get in the loop around LAX and horseshoe, and it's. And if it stopped and there's like.

[Blake Neff]

That Uber spot, react.

[Tyler Boyer]

But you're so close to the terminal, but you're really not.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, yeah. And are you talking about you enter the airport?

[Tyler Boyer]

No, just the horseshoes.

[Blake Neff]

No. Sometimes you can just bounce, and then.

[Andrew Colvett]

You can run faster than people who don't know lax. That's a total thing where you're stuck in your Uber outside the airport, and you can see the whole string of cars and people are getting out, running.

[Blake Neff]

In, but you can cut across the thing.

[Andrew Colvett]

You can. It's a horseshoe. And in the middle, they have parking, and there's some pathways you can actually cut right in through.

[Tyler Boyer]

So anyways, this guy. This guy was driving.

[Blake Neff]

What you mean a dog?

[Tyler Boyer]

This guy was dropping us off, and, you know, he wasn't communicating very well. And we're going through anywhere where that basically scenario played out, and he's like, oh, well, it's just right up here. It's right up there. And we just kept going and going and going. He's like. And I just remember the guy had messed up and then missed. He cut through the middle because there's this kind of a road through the middle and actually missed. He's like, oh, we're gonna have to go back and do this all over again. And we just flew. Flew open the doors. He's like, this is crazy. Like, you just, like, looked at the guys like, this is actually crazy. And we, like, grabbed her stuff out of the car. We're like, having to walk across the airport. But I. I just rings in my ear the whole time because the guy was like, oh, no, it's fine. I'll do this all the time. And. But the. The interaction between Charlie and this guy and us trying to get into the.

[Andrew Colvett]

Airport, you can almost hear the sound.

[Tyler Boyer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Colvett]

He loved this clip, by the way. He actually thought that Seinfeld had really profound, like, deeper, like, parallels. He thought it basically thought our entire modern world could be. There was a. There was going to be a Seinfeld episode that. That mocked and parodied that what we're experiencing now and so he loved this ribbon clip. So let's just go ahead and play the ribbon clip. If we have it. I don't know what number. It doesn't have a number. But. But it's the ribbon clip.

[Charlie Kirk]

You're checked in.

[Andrew Colvett]

Thank you.

[Charlie Kirk]

Here's your AIDS ribbon.

[Andrew Colvett]

No, thanks.

[Tyler Boyer]

You don't want to wear an AIDS ribbon?

[Andrew Colvett]

No, no.

[Tyler Boyer]

But you have to wear an AIDS ribbon.

[Blake Neff]

I have to?

[Andrew Colvett]

Yes.

[Tyler Boyer]

Yeah.

[Charlie Kirk]

See, that's why I don't want to.

[Tyler Boyer]

But everyone wears the ribbon.

[Charlie Kirk]

You must wear the ribbon. What?

[Tyler Boyer]

You are.

[Charlie Kirk]

You're a ribbon bully.

[Andrew Colvett]

Hey. Hey, you.

[Charlie Kirk]

Come back here.

[Andrew Colvett]

Come back here and put this on. Hey, where's your ribbon? Oh, I don't wear the ribbon. You don't wear.

[Jack Posobiec]

Who do you think you are?

[Andrew Colvett]

Put the ribbon on. Hey, Cedric, Bob. This guy won't wear a ribbon.

[Blake Neff]

Who. Who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?

[Andrew Colvett]

And I'll try. Remember, Charlie loved this because it was the parallel to the black square during George Floyd. And this coercive. You have to put it up, and if you don't, you're guilty. And that was just one instant of. Of Charlie using Seinfeld as. And I'll never forget, he always brings Eric Metaxas on the show. And the first thing he does when Eric Metaxas comes on, and he'll make like a inside Seinfeld joke reference. Because Eric loves Seinfeld as well. And it's a beautiful thing, man.

[Blake Neff]

It's just watching that clip. Charlie loved that clip. Charlie loves saying that line.

[Andrew Colvett]

You must wear the ribbon.

[Blake Neff]

Like, yeah, I'm gonna miss joking around with him so much. That's.

[Andrew Colvett]

How did you get him to wear this hat? This is hilarious. Tyler.

[Tyler Boyer]

This is my greatest moment, by the way.

[Andrew Colvett]

Tyler got him to wear this hat. Put this hat up. I can't believe you. I forgot you got him to wear that.

[Tyler Boyer]

The one thing that I feel.

[Blake Neff]

Oh, yeah, this was the.

[Tyler Boyer]

I feel happiest about. I was able to get Charlie to do crazy things for a long time. Time again for. For that. But we did. We had these hats that said precinctly. Precinct sheriff on them.

[Blake Neff]

Sheriff.

[Tyler Boyer]

Because we're focused on recruiting for precincts. So this is how serious about it. And Charlie was very serious about chapters. And on our political side, we talked about precincts and getting everyone involved in the precinct level. And so I was like, charlie, if you're serious about this, you got to wear this. And we. I think we wore. For a Thought crime episode.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, everybody had to wear Charlie. I think Charlie probably took that off pretty quickly. But it was great that he, that he was always a good sport. Like.

[Tyler Boyer]

No, he had it on. He had it on for quite a.

[Andrew Colvett]

Bit of the episode was always a good sport, actually. And what south park, like, they don't.

[Blake Neff]

Understand the South Park.

[Andrew Colvett]

I. We found the clip477. I think this is Rush Limbaugh talking. Oh, well, maybe not. We'll find the clip. It's two and a half minutes of Rush talking about Charlie. I'm going to play it before this show is out because this show is the Charlie Kirk show. And Rush Limbaugh inspired Charlie to pursue this line of work. There's no question about it. That's not me speculating. I know for sure. That's why. And so I'm going to play the Rush Limbaugh clip because they were both two men that we lost way, way too early. And I'm pretty sure that was the clip. I just saw it. And Rush. Rush saw. Yeah, it's 477. Let's go ahead and play it. They brought Charlie Kirk to the golf course to meet me about a month ago. He was in town to set up this Turning Point thing, and they brought him to the golf course to meet me. It was during. We're getting ready for a 8:45am start. And they brought him out while I was getting ready to go to the range, loosen up. And I spoke with him for about a half hour, and he told me how he grew up in a home where my program was on all the time. He was just effusively complimentary to me, which. Which I of course understood and told him he's very wise, his family's very wise. He chuckled. He laughed. This is the kind of guy that you can see really becoming big in politics as he gets older. He just has the kind, the carriage, the personality, the charisma. You may think this sounds weird, but I remember when Bill Clinton became president, there were all of these stories about Bill Clinton at Oxford and Bill Clinton at Yale and Bill Clinton, Clinton here, and all these people who went school with him. There were story after story after story where people were saying that they just.

[Charlie Kirk]

Knew Bill Clinton was going to be.

[Andrew Colvett]

President someday in college. He just had that kind of ambition and he impressed people. And I'm telling you that people are saying the same things about. About Charlie Kirk. Yeah, Rush saw it and Rush knew, and Rush didn't want people to know this. And then we asked Kathryn after he passed, and she said it was okay to share that Rush was a seven figure donor to Turning Point and because he believed so much in Charlie and what he was building and the mission of Turning Point usa, and I want all of you to rest assured that are wondering what's next. Turning Point USA is not going anywhere. The mission that Charlie started, he always wanted it to be an institution that would outlive him. And we obviously wanted so much more time with him. But that was very clear that that was spoken of expressly. And I know all of us are ready to get to work on that. So. Radio. We're going to take a break.

[Tyler Boyer]

Stream.

[Andrew Colvett]

We're going to keep going. Be right back. All right. Welcome back to Real America's Voice, the stream. We're honored by all our partners at Real America's Voice who believed in this show. They've always been so supportive. By the way, they would send crews halfway around the world to have our back. Rob, Sig, Parker. Sig, we love you guys. You know what you mean to us. And I've talked with both of you in the moments after. And Sense and Jack, I know you work with them directly as well. And your show's coming up next and we're gonna keep going for.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah, but I'm not just.

[Andrew Colvett]

It'll be the Charlie Cricket.

[Mikey]

We're gonna do this.

[Blake Neff]

We're just gonna continue this.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. And anyways, we love them and there's so many people that we should remember and thank. We're not gonna. This probably is not the show to do that just because. Because it's impossible and we're going to forget too many people. But I just can't tell you how many people believed in Charlie and gave us a shot. And as a matter of fact, I am going to. Daisy. Do I have my permission. Do I have your permission to read this? All right, so this is from Daisy Phelps. Daisy, she was originally Daisy Dibley when she joined us, and she got married and now she's expecting her first child. And we love Daisy. She. We were joking. Tyler. You were like, my life was really hard. And then you came along. And then I was like, yeah, and then my life was really hard. You're like, I felt bad. I didn't want to tell you, like, how much easier my life got when I get around. And my life was really hard until Daisy Dibbley came around. And now Daisy. Fuck 100%. And then Blake candidly changed everything as well. I'm trying to make sure I got my show clock right here. So this is from Daisy, who would do Charlie's makeup and make sure his eyebrows because he had these crazy eyebrows. He had like 60 year old eyebrows at 27. Like they would just spark up like this. And I was like, daisy, make sure his eyebrows are like his hair. He had the. This crazy mop that would just fight you. And Daisy got really good at kind of putting it all together. And Daisy also ran his Instagram account. And so much more.

[Tyler Boyer]

So much.

[Andrew Colvett]

She did so much around here. She said Charlie was a force, a believer, a patriot. He was my friend. I've had the privilege of speaking to him every day for the last four years, and I can't tell you that I've ever known someone with more integrity. He was exactly who he said he was, except better. There wasn't one thing that was fake or fabricated. He believed in what he said and he lived out what he believed. He loved Jesus more than anyone. The truest thing about him was his belief in God. He was constantly researching new ways to defend the gospel and making sure we all knew them. It was that important to him. I can still hear him say, good morning, sports fans coming into our studio every morning. I can still hear the worship music coming out of his office. I and everyone in the building was watching. I can still hear. Oh, I can still hear the Cubs games. He'd turn on all the TVs to make sure everyone in the building was watching. I can still hear his kids running to hug him during breaks. He's not only. He not only took a chance on me at 21 years old, but he pushed me, trusted me and listened to me. Our show was everything to us. We lived and breathed the Charlie Kirk show because we believed in it. We still do. He consistently raised the bar for everyone on our team by first raising it for himself every day. He saw greatness in you and he brought it out by first being great himself. Just being around him, being in the background, made you want to fight harder. He was ecstatic when I told him I was pregnant. He made sure to ask about the baby every day. He wanted to see every ultrasound. And when we found out it was a girl, he yelled, I told you, my faith is completely different. Had I never met Charlie, my career, my adult life, my marriage, from watching the way he loved Erica, everything is different. Had I never met him, I'll never be the same. And I wouldn't want to be. If there was one thing to know about Charlie, it's that he loved Jesus. He is with God. He spent so much time learning about and teaching others about. Well, welcome back, radio. All right, the last segment of the live Charlie Kirk show on the Friday after September 10 and.

[Blake Neff]

9, 10.

[Andrew Colvett]

We just miss him. And I know we're all very honored to be here. We're going to keep going for another hour, Jack and at least and I'd to like to have an opportunity for people in the audience to call in and tell their stories and how they remember Charlie. So I want to do that. So I don't know if we're planning on doing that today. I think we probably should just keep going. And so let's set up, let's make sure the studio's ready to do that in a little bit. But go ahead.

[Tyler Boyer]

Andrew. There's a few people too and again that are. It's really important.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yes, please.

[Tyler Boyer]

This is not that this is not the show to everybody because there's so many people who are influential, but there's a few people who are so dear to Charlie that I, I know of that, that just loved him to pieces. Mike Miller, who's been one of our longtime board members. It's like a father figure to Charlie and in fact he's one of the individuals who has been there from really day one. When I met Charlie, he was a big time big game hunter, Africa, everything else. But he's a jeweler, a big jeweler in Illinois from Barrington, Illinois. And he's so American, the guy, his address I think for his jewelry shop is 123 Main street or something. So incredible. And I've slept at his house like.

[Andrew Colvett]

Like this great man.

[Tyler Boyer]

Incredible.

[Andrew Colvett]

Love Charlie. Love Charlie so much.

[Tyler Boyer]

Love Charlie so much. But this is, I mean there are people that have, that were so influential, our board members. We have so many incredible board members. But you know, Doug DeGroote, for example, has just been. There has been a rock and a stalwart for Charlie, Tom Sudeika, who is going through some health things and we're praying for him every single day. I mean there's just so many people and so, and those early people, especially the Chicagoans that were there who believed in Charlie. Bill Montgomery, who was one of the first kind of in Bill's ending energy was like a tea party guy that wanted to show Charlie to everyone. And it was many people like that who created gave the way that enabling of Charlie Kirk to be introduced to the world. And if you're one of those people and I didn't name you, I'm so sorry. We'll get there. David's there, obviously Rob McCoy, so many others that have been so close, all of our board members, truly. Jeff Webb, others that you Just you took Charlie around to expose him to the world, to others. We're just. We're just thinking about you so much today because, you know, you did this and you. You remember. And there were literally hundreds, if not thousands of people who.

[Andrew Colvett]

Rebecca Dunst.

[Tyler Boyer]

Who did that.

[Andrew Colvett]

These people were just champions. Champions of Charlie.

[Tyler Boyer]

Ed Zeman. So many.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. We shouldn't start because we're going to miss people that really.

[Tyler Boyer]

But I want to.

[Andrew Colvett]

Foster, Freeze.

[Tyler Boyer]

Oh, Foster. I guarantee you Foster was waiting right there for him when he. When he came out. We were sharing pictures of Foster. I remember sitting with Foster, actually, just right before he passed in the Trump Hotel in D.C. and he scolded me. He was always scolding, you know, for, you know, giving that advice that to Charlie, to me, to anyone that would listen. And he loved Charlie. Everyone has loved Charlie so much.

[Andrew Colvett]

I just. I just also want to say thanks just in these few final moments of the live show. And again, we're going to keep going, but we want to thank all the. The Phoenix PD that has been stalwart and. And just from a security standpoint. Cops blocking off roads, making sure our staff was safe, making sure these buildings were safe, making sure all the families felt safe going home and coming in. The buildings are closed for all intents and purposes. And that's great. That's fine for right now. The first responders at the scene, we want to thank them, thank Charlie's personal security detail. You cannot imagine how tough that was for them. And I really love those guys and they love Charlie. You gotta believe me. But if anybody loved Charlie, like, and had his back and was fight the warriors by his side, it was those guys. Dan and Brian guys are the best.

[Tyler Boyer]

Incredible. I can't. I mean, we've known Dan from the very, very beginning. There is not a person that loves Charlie Kirk more.

[Andrew Colvett]

Absolutely. Taking a bullet for Charlie and the PD at the vigils, I know that there's just. We're running out of time. We have 25 seconds left here. We lose radio. Charlie loved being on radio. And so there's a radio audience listening all across the country. Just know that Charlie was inspired by Rush. Rush believed in Charlie, and Charlie took this medium to the next level and he was rewarded with it in ratings and the performance of the show and all of your amazing belief in it. Thank you so much.

[Charlie Kirk]

More college chapters and disagreement is not just welcome. It is invited. We want to have those tough conversations. That's what it's all about. Because you're not supposed to be involved in this, you're supposed to just kind of be on the vote for me every four years, give me more political power and stay out of my business. And what has happened is we are seeing an explosion in citizen participation.

[Andrew Colvett]

All my days, your mercy, all. All there is I'll ever need.

[Charlie Kirk]

Knock on that extra door, go that extra mile, talk to that extra friend. Because throughout voting month and culminating on the 5th of November, I believe it will go down as a day that people remember, as a day that is written about history books, as the final battle. From the Golden Escalator on down, from defeating Hillary Clinton, from the nonsense of 2020, from Butler, Pennsylvania, November 5th. It all culminates where we restore the promise that the founders gave us. And they said, hey, if the people want it, the people get it. And we the people, take back America. God bless Arizona and thank you so much. Every day, the American people demand certain accomplishments and victories. Disagreement is what keeps a movement alive, keeps a movement fun. Here in this country. We are a country of flourishing. We're a country of risk taking. We're a country of building. We will achieve American greatness. And we are just getting started.

[Andrew Colvett]

Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. Hello. This is Andrew Colvett, Jack Bosobic, Blake Neff, and Tyler Boyer. Remembering our friend, the one and only Charlie Kirk, who's on assignment from God, who belongs to history and will forever be in our hearts. And. Sorry, I just. It's the way this thing works, man. Like, you see somebody you haven't seen yet, you haven't grieved with yet, and it hits the motions flowing in, in.

[Blake Neff]

The, you know, guys that I know who have lost. People in the military, they say it's. It's waves.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, it's waves. It feels like.

[Tyler Boyer]

It feels like waves.

[Blake Neff]

That's the best way to describe it. And it's just. And it's, you know, certain. Certain phrases, certain people, certain faces, certain memories, like, like, for me, I. I didn't expect a Seinfeld clip would just, you know.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. And everybody deals with it differently. And Charlie was not much of a crier unless, you know, he literally helped elect the future president in the 45 and 47. And, you know, just hat tip to everything he just accomplished by sheer will. And I really, truly believe that without Charlie Kirk, we would not have President Trump and Vice President Vance and Vice President Vance, we would definitely not have him. And thank you to President Vance and to Usha, Vice President Vance, first, second Lady Usha for just their. Just how wonderful they were with Erica yesterday.

[Tyler Boyer]

Through and through.

[Andrew Colvett]

They came to Salt Lake City and they picked up Erica, they picked up Charlie and all of us and took us on Air Force Two back to Phoenix. And it was a beautiful ceremony, both getting on and getting off. And JD came back and talked with us and he spent most of his time with Erica and, and just clapped, hugged us all.

[Tyler Boyer]

He's genuinely, I want to say this about the Vice President. He's been genuinely interested in individuals. And this is the same thing with Charlie, this is the same thing with President Trump. To be very point blank is very interested in individuals. And his touch, his warm touch on this, of making sure that, that Charlie was honored the way that he deserved to be honored is never going to be forgotten. It's never going to be forgotten by this team. It's never going to be forgotten by the conservative movement, by obviously, the entire Turning Point family. But that is, that is such a testament to our Vice President's character, because it's just as easy to say, I can't.

[Andrew Colvett]

And you got to understand, JD's hurting, too. JD loved Charlie as a brother and as a friend. They talked almost. I really mean this, probably on text, at least almost every day, if not every day. And JD was strong. He understood the moment was probably not his moment to grieve. He's grieving in private, and he was there and he was strong. Usha was strong. And, yeah, I just, I love, I love him for it. And there's a lot to love about jd, but that was a really amazing, really amazing moment and for our members. And by the way, thank you, Jack. This is your hour and you're, you're graciously letting us continue this show.

[Blake Neff]

And I, I wouldn't have this hour if it wasn't for Charlie, so. Doesn't mean anything. Just keep going.

[Andrew Colvett]

And I appreciate that, brother. And just a quick programming note, we're going to be sending our [e-mail], we're going to be sending you a phone number to call in and share your thoughts. So if you're one of the members of this show, you know who you are. You were the nearest and dearest to us out there, and you believed in this show and you put your money where your mouth is, and we adore you for it. And, and Charlie believed in his members in such an amazing way. And so if you're a member of the Charlie Kirk show, you are about to get an email with a phone number and you can call in and you can share your thoughts and your Remembrances of Charlie and what he meant to you. We would love to hear from some of you. We'll try and fit in as many as make sense.

[Tyler Boyer]

How you got to know Charlie, how you discovered Charlie is incredible. Your interactions with Charlie and your interactions with the show, your interactions with Turning Point, please, coming to events, whatever. We want to hear all of it. And please send those thoughts. If you don't call into freedom.

[Blake Neff]

Charliekirk.com I'll just say that, you know, and we haven't really addressed it here, obviously. We, you know, you know what we do. We see all the information that's coming in about the suspect. We've even got stuff that hasn't been put out yet. And, and we just. There'll be a time for that. And we know there'll be a time for that. There will be justice for Charlie, Kirk. But that's not what we're doing right now. That's all I'm saying.

[Tyler Boyer]

Can I share one more thing that I saw that was a frequent thing that was really touching. We have, of course, tons of people who've worked for us, tons of people who have worked with us, alongside us, that have helped build Turning Point into what it is today. But so many people, even people who, again, there are people who aren't always. That don't always agree with every single thing that comes out of Turning Point. I think this is really important. But their life was dramatically changed because of Turning Point and they had met their spouses. The one common theme I saw was people reaching out to me saying, tyler, I've always had this unbelievable respect for Charlie and for Turning Point because it changed my life for the better. I, I found my spouse, I have my kids because of Turning Point.

[Blake Neff]

I've heard so many stories like that.

[Tyler Boyer]

And exact phrase and that consistent message that Charlie gave about the family and building your family and everything else reinforced all of that. And so, so many people are like, almost coming back home because they're like, oh, you know, I didn't always agree with Trump or like Trump or whatever. And, and, or I didn't like, like X, Y and Z. And now they're on. They're on the team. And it was because Charlie, they stuck with it. And listen, they're like, yeah, actually, you know what? This is the life I want to live. My family is important. My religion is important. Christ being the center of my life is important, what Charlie said. And so it's been really a beautiful. Actually, honestly, a miraculous thing to watch as these people came back who I haven't heard from for almost 10 years, maybe, that have said, hey, this is how much this has impacted and changed my life. And, you know, and some of. Some of these people saying, I'm sorry I didn't say something before. And that was because of Charlie and what he built.

[Andrew Colvett]

Blake.

[Mikey]

I just. You know, I keep thinking about. There's a poem that's a favorite of mine. It's from. It's a poem during. It was written during World War I by Lawrence Binion. It's titled for the Fallen, and it was about the men they lost in World War I. I think about just a few lines from it and about Charlie. They went with songs to the battle. They were young, straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted. They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. And that's how Charlie will always be for us. All of us are going to grow old. All of us are going to die. But Charlie will forever be how he was on September 10th. Brave, strong, out there. Could be like that forever.

[Blake Neff]

The end. The end of that one is well said.

[Andrew Colvett]

Thank you.

[Blake Neff]

There's a couple lines where the next line of this actually. They mingle not with their laughing comrades again. They sit no more at familiar tables of home. They have no lot in our labor of the daytime. They sleep beyond England's foam. And the very last part. As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust moving in, marches upon the heavenly plain as the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness. To the end. To the end they remain.

[Andrew Colvett]

So much of this in retrospect, and you don't have eyes to fully appreciate it in the moment, but where you realize that you were encountering greatness. And the moment you get the news, you realize that you were around somebody that was so. So incredible and. And kind of in a weird way, like, in retrospect, it all kind of makes sense that we were. We only get him for such a short time because he was too great for this world in so many ways. And he was a shooting star. He was a mythological creature. You know, you hear these pictures. You hear these images of descriptions of George Washington and how he's this huge man and like, especially for his time. Well, Charlie, we always joked he was a Nephilim. The only chair that we could get. This is actually A really funny story. When we first started getting Charlie the chairs for his studio, it's like, nope, not. That was like. It was like mattress shopping. It was like, nope, not that one. Not that one.

[Tyler Boyer]

Literally, this chair, this is a shack chair. Yeah. From Shaquille o'. Neal. It's a fairly inexpensive chair.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Tyler Boyer]

Just from, like, Staples.

[Andrew Colvett]

Huge people like Shaquille o' Neal and from Staples. Yes. And from Staples locally, like, oh, this is the one. And he's worn it out. It's got, like, a little, like, you know, the. The very cheap, you know, veneer on it or whatever. I don't get what you call it. Like, it's definitely not leather.

[Tyler Boyer]

It's like the vinyl.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. And he wore it out and he loved that big chair. And I have to say, like, when I've sat in it in the past, like, you've sat in it. It's like, you're like, okay, I see what he was kind of, you know, it's a good chair.

[Blake Neff]

Like a hug.

[Andrew Colvett]

But he was larger than life, and we all saw it, and we all, you know, he was younger than us. Everybody at this table, he was younger than us. And so we just, you know, you assume that you're gonna probably go before him and. But in retrospect, like, he was so larger than life and he packed so much into every single day that it's pretty impossible to. It's impossible to fully grasp just how much life he lived and how much he accomplished in 31 far too short years. But we do have our first caller. Do we want to. You guys ready for that? His name is Evan. Evan, the floor is yours.

[Jack Posobiec]

Gentlemen, it's an honor to just be on and talk about Charlie for a sec. I'll keep this quick. Charlie was a friend. I consider him a dear friend. Even though I never ever met him. I've listened to him for a very, very long time. I run and operate a lawn and landscaping business and also host a podcast. And what Charlie really taught me was he was always continually learning and even with my show that it helps me. You got to know things. You got to know about equipment and things like that. And Charlie was always learning. He's always listening to books and things like that. And his boldness to stand on the word of God and Jesus is what I've tried to do with my business and life and even my family, too. I have a two and a half year old son and a kid on the way. And when I heard the news just a couple days ago, I was on the mower I stopped and I cried. It was just. It's devastating. But we know that God's gonna work this together for good. And through his tragic death, guys, more people are gonna know about Jesus. And that's the one thing that we have to remember through this. And it's just. I've never been. He had considered him a friend, even though I just never knew him. And I want you guys to hold on to God's word because that's what Charlie would want for us to do is stand on God's word and hold on to it right now, not let the enemy blind us from the mission that he had set. God, appreciate all that you do, and just, Charlie, just thank you and thank. Thank you, Lord, for just putting him on this Earth for 31 years.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well said, Evan. And I think I just want to echo what you're saying. I've gotten so many notes and I've seen so many comments on social media of people saying their kids are coming back to church because of Charlie and because of this, what's happened, that people are coming back to the Lord. And I just. Jack, it is your hour, but I'm just going to say a quick prayer. I'm going to say a quick prayer for that. Heavenly Father, we ask that you would bless Charlie's legacy right now in this moment, across the country and across the world as we mourn his passing is far too early and too soon. We ask, Holy Spirit, that you would enter the hearts of millions of people across this planet, across our nation, and that you would bring people to faith in you. Jesus saving faith in you. He loved you. And I know that he is getting his reward in heaven right now. And that's what he wanted in the beautiful eulogy that Blake helped write that that all he wanted was thriving young people that went back, found their faith in you and thriving young families that made this country strong and great so that more could follow that same path. And I know, Lord God, that getting married and having a family and knowing you were his greatest accomplishments on top of everything else he did. And so, Jesus, we just bless this country and everybody that loved Charlie or that heard about him, that only heard about him even from his death, Lord, that you would make so many new believers meet so many new members of your heavenly kingdom right now and in the days and weeks to come, Lord Jesus, we ask in your precious name. Amen.

[Tyler Boyer]

Amen.

[Blake Neff]

If you guys want, we could follow that up. Tyler, I know you just put the hat back on, but we could all say together, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done.

[Andrew Colvett]

On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we.

[Blake Neff]

Forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but.

[Andrew Colvett]

Deliver us from evil.

[Blake Neff]

Amen.

[Andrew Colvett]

Amen.

[Blake Neff]

Charlie would have wanted people going back to church more than anything, more than anything. That. More than politics or campaigns or whatever the next election was or whatever the next turning point was, the core. The core belief was that was it.

[Tyler Boyer]

He was. He was a true believer in what Andrew Breitbart said. And we talked about this all the time. I actually remember visiting. We were visiting a donor, and we stood in the spot where Andrew Breitbart passed, which is a kind of a.

[Andrew Colvett]

I think, in la.

[Tyler Boyer]

You've been there, right? Yeah, it's. It's really interesting. Just right outside a restaurant.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well, it's in. It's in Brentwood, at least. I don't know.

[Tyler Boyer]

It's. It's. It's kind of an interesting place. But we. He had always had kind of this infatuation with the concept, and we actually leaned into it, talking about culture wars and all of that. But that culture is what dictates your politics.

[Andrew Colvett]

So.

[Tyler Boyer]

And culture is dependent upon your faith. There's nothing.

[Andrew Colvett]

The bedrock.

[Tyler Boyer]

There's nothing that. That impacts that. So the politics that is really downstream from culture is really. And this is like, kind of like, I would say, Andrew Breitbart next level, which was Charlie Kirk, is that. That's why I believe Charlie was so adamant about faith being so important, is that he was a true believer in that statement, but that faith was what was dictating how our politics would end up, which is absolutely correct and true. And so go. There's nothing that could be more important right now.

[Blake Neff]

What you can think, just tie it up and say politics is downstream from culture. Culture. Culture is downstream from faith.

[Tyler Boyer]

That's right.

[Andrew Colvett]

And.

[Tyler Boyer]

And Charlie led by example in embracing faith, embracing the Christlike attributes that are necessary to impact culture in the positive way that needed to happen. And I think that's why you're seeing that turn of so many young people that were influenced by this, maybe starting with politics, but walking themselves backwards and going, oh, my gosh, well, my politics is dictated by my faith. And that's a great legacy. That is the most important legacy, which Charlie himself said, which is. That's all he cared about, was that people would know that.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well, it was interesting. I saw a clip yesterday from Larry o', Connor, who worked for Breitbart, Andrew Breitbart. And they were talking about. He was talking about this memory at cpac, and they were doing an Andrew Breitbart panel. And Larry put it together. He was kind of. He's like, well, all of us worked directly with Andrew. You never knew him. He's like. And Charlie says, I can't wait to be on this panel. You know, this is so amazing. And so he's like, I'll call you and tell you about it, like, my thoughts. And he's like, okay, we probably should talk, because the rest of us knew Andrew. And Charlie said that I was so inspired by Andrew Breitbart that I create a turning Point. And Larry realized that. He started Turning Point in 2012, the year that it happened. And he realized that Charlie, in many ways, is the blossom of the seed planted by the death of Andrew Breitbart. And so when you think about how that can keep going forward, and I know Charlie would want that. We would have many such stories like that, not just Turning Point or whatever.

[Tyler Boyer]

And it's really an interesting point to make for those that study modern conservatism. There aren't very many people. I mean, let's. If you. If you had to pick the top three, it would probably be, you know. And again, we're setting Charlie aside, but Andrew Breitbart, Donald Trump, and. And the third being Rush Limbaugh. And when you look at that and you start to go, wait, what's the connection between all three of those men? It's really. You look at that, you go, Charlie Kirk. And Charlie was a. Again, enigma. He had a personality that was unlike anything else, but he was the continuation. He picked the baton up for all three of those men in different ways and carried the entire conservative movement on his back and created something, again, the culmination of that. What is the representation of Charlie. And people are like, well, what can we do to keep Charlie? You have it. It's Turning Point usa. It's Turning Point, the entire ecosystem. He did it.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, he was. He was able to do all the things I.

[Blake Neff]

All of the things I promised we would. We would mention this. And before we go to the next caller, I saw some people saying that, you know, they thought I was trying to brush it off. I just. I wanted to give the Vigils a moment because the. And. And I wanted. Because I knew we were up on a clock before. It's unbelievable. And they are worldwide. South Africa. I've seen Australia. Australia, huge one In Australia. I got a video from Sydney this morning. Someone sent me Sweden, Sweden. All across Europe.

[Tyler Boyer]

I just got one from Hungarians, I'm sure.

[Blake Neff]

And then all across the country, and. And there's, like. There's, like, little ones popping up, you know, like, just, hey, this is the one in our town. If you want to come. Just. Just come on. Someone said Westchester, Pennsylvania. And, you know, I hear there's. I hear there's going to be a. I think I hear this. They're trying to put together one, not like an official one, but like at the. At the White House, at Lafayette Square Park. There's just some local people trying to get a permit. And. And it's that spirit of individuals becoming activated and coming together around one core concept, principle, value. That's what Charlie Kirk stood for. That's what he was all about. He lived his entire life trying to inspire a turning point in this country, and he's done it.

[Andrew Colvett]

I take so much solace in a couple of things. He got to see young men and the youth vote win a president. Yes. He got to see it, and he got to do it. And he got to see. He got to see the decline in church start going back up. He got to see that it bounced. And he got to see just. Just before that NBC poll that said that young men want to get married and have babies as their top priority. And I can't tell you how much that means to me that he got to see the fruit of his work, because so many people don't. They don't get to see what they've accomplished. And he actually got to see it. And all of you that came out to the campus events, all of you that came out to our Turning Point events, all of you that subscribed to the show that gave him, like, one of the biggest shows and reaches and platforms in the entire country, day in and day out, we had millions of people listening to Charlie every day. Every day. Every day. We tried our best to estimate it and the way of modern analytics with fast channels versus radio versus podcasts. And then you take clips. It was basically impossible to measure. But even just in the fall, going up to the election, 15 billion views of Charlie Kirk content just in, just ahead of the election. And every day, there was between 2 and 3 million people that tuned into this show to the Charlie Kirk show or listen to the podcast or. And that's just the live show. That's not even counting clips. So that was podcast radio, and it was truly, truly a feat for anybody. But the fact that he was able, like we said, Tyler, to be like a Rush Limbaugh, to be like an Andrew, all of it human. That took. And by the way. And I want to give a shout out to all of his assistant staff and his chief of staff, Mikey, who made his day today possible. They were really amazing. We're going to get to another caller, and this one is Anthony. Anthony, the floor is yours, my friend. Tell us about Charlie and what.

[Jack Posobiec]

Thanks, Andrew. Well, first, my condolences to you and everybody. So Charlie and I, I've been listening to the show since it probably started, and I've been a member for a while and everything. And then. But the one time that it stood out to me, and this might have been the funniest disagreement was probably at the end of July, early August, the weekend before you had to go on Fox and Friends. And he put out the question to everybody in the first hour, does baseball need a salary cap? And he knows that I work in the industry and it's on the college side of athletics. And we talked about the political question I sent in to him. And then he goes, all right, Anthony, give me your. I need. I need to know you're the professional. I go, I already emailed you my answer in the first hour. He goes, I know. I'm not letting you go until you tell me. Said, well, I believe I'm on the fence. And he literally starts laughing and goes, you can't be on the fence about this. You have to be on my side. And I'm like. And then I'm like, literally sitting there, and I'm like, he's yelling at me. He's yelling because the guy in the industry won't side with him. And I'll be honest, I always wanted a salary cap until I did more research. And then he's like, well, you have to. In Blake, you can relate to this. You got to find me that research and Senate. So I said, all right, I will look for it. I sent it to him next Saturday morning when he's live on Aaron Fox the following week. He goes, I got your emails. I haven't read them yet. But he goes, but it was the funniest to see his facial expression just.

[Andrew Colvett]

Light up because he's like, anthony, I just want. You're reminding me of a very unique detail of Charlie Kirk that unless you emailed in the show, you didn't know. He would argue with the emails and he would get into these during the show. During the show, he's sitting there hosting the show, going, welcome back to Charlie Kirk show, press send. And then he'd be like, you know, they didn't keep the show going, but he would. He was arguing with people as we went.

[Blake Neff]

He could be talking, like giving a monologue and writing a separate argument to an email.

[Tyler Boyer]

Well, we would all be debating too. So he would. Your emails that you would, you would make, he would drop into the chat and it would be like rolling a grenade into the chat.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Mikey]

Or sometimes, you know, he'd be like, what do we think? And he'd be like, like, well, this person just agrees with me.

[Tyler Boyer]

And we would take sides with all of you. So like we would have all of that. And truly. And this is the one grassroots part because one of our culture point that we have at Turning Point is grassroots humility. And this is the really interesting part. And again, Andrew deserves a ton of credit for this because they framed the entire show, the Charlie Kirk show here around your feedback, your commentary, your conversations. Individual. Every individual in America that talked to Charlie or would email in or would DM had a voice. And again, that's not most people that do this. And it helped with the work because it helped frame Charlie's opinions about things. It helped frame from a grassroots perspective how we think about things at Turning Point and we think about issues, issues that would be covered on Charlie's show every single day that everybody listened to. Everybody the White House would listen to. And I mean, I. Twitter would change because we, the three, like between Jack and Charlie alone, them dropping something changes the whole direction on Twitter anyways.

[Andrew Colvett]

And then Benny. Yeah, and Benny, let's throw this up. I just want to. I don't know all the details about this, this, but there is a prayer vigil planned in Washington D.C. on Sunday, September 14th. So this Sunday at 6pm location to be announced soon.

[Blake Neff]

I think I may have just accidentally said it.

[Andrew Colvett]

Oh, whoops. Well, I, if you did, I, you know, some, some.

[Blake Neff]

I, I wasn't. It's not given the full confirmation on.

[Andrew Colvett]

That Sunday, who knows, but it'll be at 6pm in Washington D.C. and I think it's a beautiful way to honor Charlie. Charlie candidly didn't love Washington dc, Didn't love going to Washington dc. I mean, he was the imperial capital. Imperial capital.

[Blake Neff]

Imperial capital.

[Andrew Colvett]

But he would stomach it because he loved his country and he would go there and, and so I, I mean, I think it's a fitting tribute.

[Blake Neff]

Can I. Can I just say if, if you are at Washington D.C. or if you're in any other blue area and you're going to One of the. These vigils and protesters come up or something like that. Just, I'm not going to say, you know, don't get into it, but just we're not there for that. We're just, we're really not there for that.

[Andrew Colvett]

Charlie. Charlie. What? His message was peace. I mean, yeah, Charlie, he was a master swordsman, but his sword was the word, the logos and debating. And he didn't believe in peace per se. He believed in verbal combat and he believed in intellectual and ideological combat. And he believed that we were in a war of ideas and a spiritual battle. So I'm not here to give you some rosy prescription about the state of the world. We're in a battle not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities.

[Blake Neff]

And obviously close understanding of the state of the world. A couple years ago.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, but like Charlie ultimately believed in the promise of America and the fact that our institutions will hold. I guess Speaker Johnson will be at that one along with Anna Paulina Luna. And you know, more details coming about.

[Tyler Boyer]

That, which is very fitting because Anna is, you know, by her own admission is our, is the turning point. Congresswoman. She, you know, tell this fun story again. I know some people have heard it, but Anna was thinking about going to med school and she had engaged with us online. We had, I found her, we saw that she was saying some smart things on Instagram and we actually reached out to her, invited her to Young Women's Leadership Summit. And she came and she was like, hey, I'm applying to med school. And she was again an Air Force veteran. Everything else. And that one experience of her being there at Young Women's Leadership Summit, which by the way, that was Young Women's Leadership Summit was the brainchild of Charlie. We started that many, many years ago. He knew that was important, wanted to do that. But it culminated. It started at a tiny little thing in Illinois and then we moved to the airport. We were at the airport, you know, kind of a three star hotel at.

[Andrew Colvett]

The Hyatt and DFW at DFW Tidy.

[Tyler Boyer]

It was like inside. It's like literally inside the airport. So you don't even, I remember that you don't even leave the airport when you show up. And it grew and grew and grew. But Anna showed up there and we convinced her to not go to medical school, to quit, basically move to Arizona and start touring and learning how the ropes of how to debate on campus. And to do that, that was like the Charlie Kirk model.

[Andrew Colvett]

By the way, apl. She is so fierce in Charlie's defense. Since all this, I've been texting with her.

[Tyler Boyer]

She has been the person.

[Andrew Colvett]

She's so great and I just love it. Anyways, she's part of the legacy, too.

[Tyler Boyer]

She left here wanting to run for Congress, wanting to change the country. She's. She's doing just that. And she's a tremendous friend and ally and she's been incredible for the last few days here.

[Andrew Colvett]

We're gonna take another caller. Caleb, you are on. Caleb and Michelle, how are you, my friends?

[Jack Posobiec]

My friend Andrew. Well, you know how we are. But it's such a privilege and honor to that Charlie called me his friend and you know, even though we were occasional acquaintances and I loved how he, every time we would meet, he would treat us like family, you know, and I have this. What I wanted to talk about is maybe just a couple stories about how he elevated those around him. And I know it's been said before that that was the kind of person he was. He wanted everyone to be their best and. But, you know, we, and Michelle's already emailed you guys the story of how we first met in 2020. And you know, we. He introduced us to people. I think you were there, Andrew. We come back and says, these are my 2020 friends because we met, you know, met him in 2020 just after the election at the headquarters. And what was so cool is that every time afterwards we would go to an event that Charlie was speaking at and he did this like at least twice to me. He's like, oh, hey Caleb, out in the crowd. I'm just sitting out in the crowd. He says, oh, there's Caleb. Michelle, I should tell you the story about how we met in Arizona and he remembered you when he saw you again and welcomed you in. And, and Michelle and I just, we're so happy that, you know, three weeks ago he was in Myrtle beach and you know, we're in North Carolina now and like, we could drive, we could go to that. And you know, and so we went to see him.

[Andrew Colvett]

I saw you there, Charlie there, Caleb.

[Jack Posobiec]

Yep. Saw you there. And it was so cool because Charlie invited us backstage or, you know, Mikey did, and he brought us into the green room. And there's Alex McFarland and Charlie introduces us. You know, Caleb, Michelle, you know, my, my super fans. These are guys are Charlie Kirk show super fans. And, and he, he said, you know, Charlie, Charlie said to. Said, you know, Caleb just sends me the, you know, the best feedback. I love reading his emails. You know, he always talked about how he loved Michelle's Emails. She's always so encouraging to him. And. And then he says, so, Caleb, what's on your mind? He just puts me on the spot, you know, like, you know, I'm not the guest speaker or anything. What's in your mind? I throw out a couple ideas and he says, you know, I'll let you choose. You know, here's a couple ideas. What do I talk about? And he's like, oh, that's a great topic. Hey, Alex, you and Caleb, you guys should debate this topic. And then he just put this on the spot and he facilitated, you know, he kind of moderated. He jumps in on my side, you know, gives a good point here from the Bible, because it was a. It was a, you know, a biblical discussion.

[Andrew Colvett]

And by the way, Caleb, I want to give you credit because Charlie threw them. Threw it to you to make a point. Remember backstage with McFarlane and you crushed it, man, you crushed it. And I remember looking at. I walked away with Charlie and I said, caleb did well. And he goes, oh, yeah, he's been paying attention. I want to throw up. Another image here. This is from some friends here. A memorial rally tribute ride in Lynchfield park here in Arizona. Arrive at 5pm Ride at 5:30, and speakers to be announced. Candlelight vigil at 7:30. This is just. This is what's happening. People want a way to help. And I think it's. I think it's incredible that so much of this is happening so organically. Nobody's planning this. Nobody's like. There's no, like, organization, by the way, doing like the DC one. It's just like people in D.C. that love Charlie.

[Blake Neff]

Charlie would have loved this.

[Andrew Colvett]

And it's just hat. People are grabbing the bull by the horns and they're doing this because they loved him. But.

[Blake Neff]

But Charlie would also say. He'd say, okay, but don't stop there. Of course he would say, don't stop there.

[Jack Posobiec]

There.

[Blake Neff]

Do not stop there. Thank you. But do not stop there.

[Andrew Colvett]

Speaking of which, this is like, I had my team coming to me going, like, how can I help? Like, can I make a montage? Can I make a tribute video? And I'm like, sure, I haven't seen this one either. Let's go ahead and play. This is from Noah on our team, and I haven't seen it, so 419. Thank you, Noah.

[Charlie Kirk]

Why your faith is the most important thing. You are commanded to go do something productive with your life. You are not commanded to go sit idly by and just receive. You are commanded to go give and to produce and to risk, to then go so into other people. That is a biblical idea that has made the world a profoundly better place. We must put God first in everything that we do. We are nothing here. But just for a short instant, short little glimpse. We act not out of outcome, but we act out of obedience. Everybody, this was not earned. You guys were a vessel.

[Blake Neff]

We were a vessel.

[Charlie Kirk]

Psalm 107. 1. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.

[Andrew Colvett]

I have to say this without getting emotional, but I'm very proud of my husband.

[Mikey]

You are so intentional with your faith.

[Andrew Colvett]

And you are so intentional with just.

[Blake Neff]

How you are as a father and a husband.

[Charlie Kirk]

Becoming a father has made me, first of all, understand that what I'm fighting for is beyond even yourself. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and darkness and spirits. Because at its core, what we are fighting is a spiritual battle. And if you're here and you don't believe in God, okay, fine. I'll pray for you. And I hope you find Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, because it will change your life.

[Andrew Colvett]

How do you want to be remembered?

[Charlie Kirk]

I want to be. I want to be remembered for. For courage, for my faith.

[Tyler Boyer]

That.

[Charlie Kirk]

That would be the most important thing. Most important thing is my faith in my life.

[Andrew Colvett]

Wow. Good job, Noah.

[Tyler Boyer]

Great job, Noah.

[Blake Neff]

That's great.

[Andrew Colvett]

Noah's pretty new to the team. And you captured it, brother. We got a note here from a John. He said, charlie sat down with me after my dad died. He says, hey, thought crime crew. I look back fondly on the time I spent with Charlie, from my time as a student at GCU to working for NFP and then chase the vote. Charlie inspired me and was my hero. I specifically remember when Charlie came to GCU in 2022, he was informed that my dad had died. He personally spent time with me backstage before his event, and that has stuck with me forever. Charlie was an incredible man and made me the man I am today. Sending love and prayers. John.

[Tyler Boyer]

Now he's. Now he's working for President Trump in D.C.

[Andrew Colvett]

And we have Sarah. Sarah, you're on with the crew. What's on your mind?

[Jack Posobiec]

Hi. I am holding back tears. It's been a rough couple of days, as I'm sure you all know. I just wanted to say to all the people listening and all of you folks who are continuing this movement, thank you especially to Charlie. I really believe he has been the turning point of our nation for, I guess what those words are worth And I'm grateful to him. I'm grateful to his words. I'm grateful to how he held himself and was able to hold conversations with people. And I do think that in this tragedy, I'm hoping that it really is the turning point of our nation and that we can move forward as a nation in a way that Charlie would be super proud of.

[Andrew Colvett]

Beautiful, Sarah. Well said. Thank you. And I think we're all praying that the reach and the impact that Charlie has, I don't think any of us have any idea just how big it is. And that's what I'm realizing. I feel like Tyler, you and me specifically, and kind of what we had to do the last couple days, I think we're a little insulated from it, and I feel like I'm just starting to see it of what I've been kind of ignoring and the calls I haven't been taking and the texts I haven't been responding to. But that's probably just the tip of the iceberg of how huge his impact is.

[Tyler Boyer]

I don't think we have any idea. I, like, I woke up this morning realizing that just because of the people, like, the layers of people talking to people who talk to people who talk to people who are. Are kind of coming back. And people have been so good to all of our team. Like, you know, people were worried about the safety of our team. And so, you know, Phoenix PD and Mesa PD have been incredible. I know that Scottsdale PD and everyone else. There's been so many people impacted by this, by the way, aren't even saying anything.

[Andrew Colvett]

And when we landed in Phoenix yesterday, there was a huge crowd, Hundreds, like, gathered outside of the airport. And as we drove away in the procession, there was people lining the streets, like, American flags and MAGA hats, probably half of them that Charlie threw to them. And when we got to our final destination, again, there was a huge crowd gathered, waiting for us and for him. And it was really, really amazing. And it was just kind of a little insight. And I had. Blake, I joke with you, because we couldn't take him anywhere in life. We couldn't take him anywhere. Like, he would get absolutely mobbed. Can I get a selfie? Can I get a selfie? I mean, it didn't matter if you were in Seoul.

[Mikey]

It was unbelievable. Yeah, just in Seoul, in Japan, Just the number of people, or, you know, even. We realized it when we went to Cambridge and Oxford last spring, the. The number of people who would recognize him all over the place.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. And I. I took them to a Like, a very, very private place in California. And I was like, don't worry. We'll be. We'll be left alone because we had business to attend. We had a real, like, pretty important call, like, discussion we were having. We needed to work out some details and some planning. And I was like, don't worry. We'll be fine. It was like, no, it was not. It was like, people would come. I mean, candidly, they were a bit rude. But I looked at him and I. Because, you know, we're obviously having a private discussion. And they were like, can I. Oh, my gosh, can we get a selfie? And as he was driving away after. I mean, there was, like, very private place. There was still about, I would guesstimate, about 30 people in the course, about 40 minutes. Like, and we were trying to hide. And then as he's driving away, these two kids were, like, rode their bikes after him. And they were 14, 14, 15 years old. They're like, is that Charlie Kirk? I was like, can we get a selfie before he leaves? And I was like. I was like, charlie, you know, and Mikey was in the car with him as they were driving away. And of course, he's like, I, I, I, I got him to stop, and he was. And I, I asked him in the middle of it, and I said, are you okay with this? He's like, honestly, it's just. I've accepted it. This is life. And I just, I want, like, I know that I can make somebody's day by doing it. It's fine.

[Mikey]

You know, always, always say yes to every photo.

[Andrew Colvett]

The one funny yes, he would always say that. Said, always say yes to every photo. Even if he was in the biggest hurry.

[Blake Neff]

The one funny moment that I have, that's like, like, that was the opposite of that with Charlie. And I don't know why this memory sticks with me, but it was, it was during that whole time when he lost his voice, and, and we were trying to get his voice back. So it was like, me, Charlie, and Mikey, and we were just. Because the way the travel route, we were just driving through, like, Central Florida, where it gets kind of rural. And we, we had this idea to get him, like, a humidifier with, like, medicated humidifier, but we couldn't figure out where to get one. And Charlie wanted a specific one. And then we were just driving down the street, and Charlie goes, well, there's Walgreens. Let's just, let's just go to the Walgreens. And you know how he is when he, like, when he Wants something, and he wants something specific. So we're like, are you coming in? And we just. We just went to Walgreens, and we're just, like, walking around, and it was just so surreal because, like, nobody came up for, like, the one time among all these times where it was just, like, the most normal, simple. And of course, we couldn't find the one he wanted, and we had to get very Seinfeld, you know, kind of thing. And then we just go check out, and it's like, in the middle of all this craziness, it's just a random trip to Walgreens trying to find something for my buddy because his throat hurts.

[Andrew Colvett]

You know, it's funny, actually now, thinking of. Thinking about that you inspired this. I remember when he was in Seoul just like, a week ago, two weeks ago, whatever it was. And he. He went out and explored the city. He got up early and explored the city. And I remember going alone. Are you like. Like. And he was like, yes, alone. Lol. Like, it's safe here. Like, it's clean. Like, that actually meant a lot to him. And I'm so glad now that he got to do this thing that he hadn't been able to do in so long and just go explore a city by himself.

[Tyler Boyer]

He hadn't been by himself for so long.

[Andrew Colvett]

He hadn't. And he loved it. He kept sending us pictures in our chat and, like, videos. And you were there, right, With. I mean, you weren't. I mean, you did do some exploring with him.

[Mikey]

He was on his own. And then later, we were in this old town neighborhood, and he's like, all right, Blake, just tell me about Korea. And I'm just babbling. This is the palace where they do the Confucian examination. He loved it. And, of course, it was also a trillion degrees out, so we were all in nice clothes because we had to go to the thing later, and it was swamp, and I was dying, but it was so much fun.

[Tyler Boyer]

That's such a good point, though, Andrew. I mean, the thing that I think most people don't realize, especially in these. These last years, that Charlie was with us was that he was never alone. I mean, the weight and pressure of having to be that celebrity, like, that's a lot. It's a lot to do, and. And that has an impact on most people. And the one thing I think that was really astonishing about Charlie is he didn't change as a person at all.

[Andrew Colvett]

He didn't. He. By the way, he wasn't like, the party animal either. Like, so a lot of people get in this role and they. I don't know, you see him at clubs, you see them drinking, you see them partying or, like, enjoying all this stuff. Charlie would go home at, like, the first instant that was socially acceptable for the programming. Like at America Fest, maybe the program didn't get over until 7:30. He would go straight home, back to the hotel as soon as he could. After meeting with donors or supporters, he would do a circuit of like four stops, five stops, meet with donors, and then he'd go straight, straight back to be with Erica like, immediately.

[Tyler Boyer]

And he. But his personality never changed, his demeanor never changed. I mean, his busyness level was never different. He was always busy in different ways throughout his career, throughout the time that. As he grew. But the thing that was always really difficult, that I was always really worried about him, was that never having that, you know, reprieve from the public eye or be able to go out and just do normal things. And the one thing I really appreciate about Erica and you guys actually, specifically that are here with Andrew and Blake because you guys spent a lot. When he did have alone time, it was with you. And so it was like the. That was as alone as he got with Mikey. And he. He got to do some normal things in that way, right? Which was like going to the Cubs game.

[Andrew Colvett]

He was always just the kid from.

[Tyler Boyer]

Chicago and wanting to be.

[Andrew Colvett]

Always was.

[Tyler Boyer]

And wanting to eat. The restaurants, like, I'll always remember again, just after we had a long day of doing something extraordinarily exhausting, and I felt like it was like 10pm and you. You guys know this. Like, Charlie loved to just go sit down and break bread and eat.

[Andrew Colvett]

By the way, the way he would order was hilarious. He'd sit down, we'd be at a restaurant and be like, you know, four or five of us gathered around, and he would take the menu, go get us some of this, some of this, some of this, some of this, some of this. Get these out for shareable plates. You guys are gonna love this. You're gonna love this. Trust me. And then he would go and can I get some hot sauce and olive oil and some salt and pepper, please? Thank you. It was like he would order like a crazy person, like, 15 items. And then so you're just like, I guess I'll just eat what Charlie's having. The table would be filled and he would get some more of this. You're gonna love that. Eat some more of that.

[Tyler Boyer]

And then everybody's around eating, talking, you know, again, kind of decompressing. From whatever the crazy was that you're going through, whether it was the travel or the event or the donor meeting or whoever, or whatever you're doing, the show, the speech, the, I mean, the rally, the activist event. That was the consistent thing is that if you got that opportunity to sit down and then you talk and then it wasn't just talking about nonsense sense. It was usually talking about big ideas and having the conversation similar to like what we have on Thought Crime. So, like, if you, you as an individual out in the world, and I don't know if you agree with Thought.

[Andrew Colvett]

Crime is probably the, the closest visual video, videoed version of what it was like to kind of like hang out with Charlie. Yeah, that was sort of like.

[Blake Neff]

That was sort of like our, like, it. We used to joke about it because it was just. It was like, like our group chat on camera.

[Andrew Colvett]

That's right. Yeah.

[Tyler Boyer]

And that's what it was like to sit down with Charlie. Like in a. In a scenario where it's like you're sitting there talking about. There's these things going on, these topics and like everybody's going around the horn just like, you know, talking about it, debating it and you know, you say, well, isn't that interesting? Or like, you know, you get into it and ideas would spark and he'd do that smile and he would think.

[Blake Neff]

Favorite. My favorite. I was just sharing with Daisy that my favorite segments in Thought Crime were so uncomfortable. Yes. That was the point was, was. Was when we would explain memes to him.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Mikey]

Just like Charlie's, like entire knowledge of pop culture froze when he was 17.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah, like what, What Char. Like, Charlie, you. You don't. You mean you don't know what a bonus hole is?

[Mikey]

Charlie, don't use that one.

[Blake Neff]

Or just, just whatever. Whatever. The Riz.

[Andrew Colvett]

What is Riz.

[Blake Neff]

No, no, I'm not going to get into. Into it. I just mean like, whatever. Whatever the thing was that was going around, he'd be like, is. Is that good? Yes. No. Okay.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. Is this good? Yeah, he just wanted the binary like.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah. Remember the J.D. vance memes?

[Andrew Colvett]

Yes. When the J.D.

[Tyler Boyer]

Vance memes came out, he like, are.

[Blake Neff]

They making fun of JD Kind of.

[Andrew Colvett]

But in a good way.

[Tyler Boyer]

Good way.

[Andrew Colvett]

Is it good, Charlie? Charlie didn't necessarily speak meme fluently or narrative, but he understood the power of them. I have a story I just want to share. He loved him. He loved them. Yeah, he loved them. I have a story I want to share from Emma on our team. And she said the night after the election Charlie wrapped the stream and came out to the bullpen and sat and ate his dinner with the team and told us stories about the behind the scenes work he was doing that nobody knew about for like 2 hours. It was one of my favorite CK memories of all time. He told us how much we can trust JD as vice president and the work he did to get him to that spot. It's really beautiful.

[Tyler Boyer]

Charlie had. The thing that makes me the saddest about Charlie's passing and that he was ripped away from us so abrasively is that that man had probably a library of books to write about the things that he knew that have gone to rest with him, things that he saw that are really interesting for politics. Because again, piggybacking on that. You sat down with Charlie, he could tell you about things that nobody knows. I mean, there's things that we know. There's memories that I have that I can tell you. And when the time's right, at some point, I hope that I can share some of these stories that they come out. Andrew has a gazillion of them. Blake, since you've been traveling. Jack knows these things because he lives this lifestyle every day. But.

[Blake Neff]

And that, that's what I mean.

[Tyler Boyer]

I'm sad that we'll never hear.

[Blake Neff]

I don't want, like, we, we can't. You know what I mean? I just can't. I can't process because people are like sharing text messages and I was going back and look at. Because look at some of the ones that I have and I was like, can't share that, can't share that. I can't share that.

[Tyler Boyer]

Where do you even begin?

[Andrew Colvett]

No, I know the rizwa is funny. Like, we should probably put that up.

[Blake Neff]

That's why I brought up the memes because like that stuff like talk about.

[Andrew Colvett]

Put the res one up. This is funny. This is like perfect Charlie. And so I always like to like hound Charlie a little bit. And I. It looks like I was making fun of the cough drop thing because the, the cough, by the way, that was the one thing that Zinn cough drops.

[Tyler Boyer]

Right?

[Andrew Colvett]

The South Park. Yeah, People thought it was Zinn when he was on campus and he would pop the cough drops in. So this. Welcome to the inside chat, guys. This is about as close up as you can get. And, and I, I would be like, actually, Charlie, I love the cough. It makes you look really cool. Like when you're like popping, you got this kind of like nonchalant look when you're just popping the cough drop and daisy Says everyone thinks his cough drops are zins. And I was like, nicotine cough drops. And Charlie, ha ha ha, ha ha. And I go, charlie's Riz secret. For the record, it's a great Riz crutch. Makes you look nonchalant. Plus the athleisure wear versus the suit. Charlie goes, what is Riz? Like swagger. And Blake has to go, k Riz.

[Blake Neff]

Ma, but no question mark, right? What is Riz?

[Andrew Colvett]

What is Riz? It's Riz, period.

[Blake Neff]

Is it good?

[Andrew Colvett]

It's probably because he was hosting a show or something.

[Blake Neff]

Yeah, that was always his follow up, though. Is it good?

[Andrew Colvett]

Is it good? Is this good? We have one more caller I want to get to, and that is Julie. Julie, hopefully you're still with us. The floor is yours.

[Jack Posobiec]

Yes, can you hear me? Yes, yes, yes, I'm Julie. This is me letting Charlie inspire me to be more joyful, bold, and brave. I'm calling instead of emailing, calling. The scariest thing in the world. So I learned about Charlie after he followed Steve Bannon on rav. I listened to his podcast every morning on my walks. I love thought crimes and the glimpse that gives you into the secret world of men. I was glued to the Rumble late night election coverage. I was blessed to see Charlie interact with college students at Normal, Illinois. When I was here this spring, I was so afraid to go because I thought there's no mute button because I'm kind of like banning like on the cold open. Stop, stop, stop. I can't take anymore. But I didn't need it because Charlie was just fantastic. And then lastly, I'm most thankful for Charlie for introducing me to Jack Hibbs and the Real Life Network and reinvigorating my faith. Thank you.

[Andrew Colvett]

Beautiful. Well said, Julie. Thank you for calling. Thank you for sharing that, Julie, and sharing that. And you, your bravery was rewarded. And by the way, I want to say this. Like, people describe Charlie as fearless. He wasn't fearless. He was courageous. He looked fear right in the eye and he overcame it again and again and again. And I can tell you how many moments I spent with Charlie in this behind the scenes and the quiet before he walked out on stage or before he had to tackle something or a setback, bad news. And Charlie just looked at the fear right in the eye and he knew there was no way but through. And he just was so courageous. And he just did it. And he always won. He won and he kept. He kept, like, coming back and he was stronger and fiercer. And frankly, I think I said this to Erica, yesterday I said probably for the last two years I knew Charlie actually was fearless because he'd overcome so.

[Tyler Boyer]

Much and that's he was an absolutely fearless individual. I mean, since the day I met him and I shared a story yesterday, I won't repeat it, but the times where I had the greatest fear of people and there's lots of people to fear in politics and I had this privilege of getting to know what President Trump would label as bad hombres. And Charlie was always the person that said stand in the pocket. Fight these people. Fight, fight, fight these people.

[Andrew Colvett]

I saw him do it to you in our chat.

[Tyler Boyer]

Too many times. Many times.

[Andrew Colvett]

We have to wrap. It's been a pleasure to be with the audience. Thank you, Jack. Thank you, Blake. Thank you, Tyler. Thank you, Charlie. Kirk, you are our hero and you always will be.

[Tyler Boyer]

We love you, Charlie.

[Andrew Colvett]

We love you.