The Charlie Kirk Show, September 12, 2025

Summary

The Charlie Kirk Show — September 12, 2025

Podcast: Real America’s Voice (iHeartPodcasts)
Title: Remembering Charlie Kirk
Date: September 12, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Charlie Kirk Show is an emotional and deeply personal remembrance of its late host, Charlie Kirk, recorded days after his tragic death. The show is led by Executive Producer Andrew Colvett, with guests Jack Posobec, Tyler Bowyer, and Blake Neff—all close friends, colleagues, and collaborators at Turning Point USA (TPUSA). Through stories, reflections, and bursts of laughter and tears, the group recalls Charlie’s life, leadership, values, humor, and enduring impact on conservative youth and American culture. It is both an unguarded tribute to the man behind the movement and a promise to carry forward his mission.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Shock and Grief of Loss

[04:55]
The episode opens with Andrew Colvett and the team addressing the somber reason for their gathering. Charlie’s chair remains empty, symbolizing the irreplaceable role he played:

• The team expresses gratitude to law enforcement and supporters for capturing Charlie’s killer.
• There’s a collective effort to honor Charlie as he would want—with energy, truth, and dedication to mission.
• The feeling is summed up in Jack Posobec’s words:

  “The seat looks empty, but it’s not. Charlie is the only thing we’re all thinking about right now.” [09:46]

2. Charlie’s Legacy and Personal Influence

[11:49]/[16:54]/[68:19]

• Tyler Bowyer recalls being encouraged by Charlie to write down memories, emphasizing how sharing stories is now a duty.
• Blake Neff recounts Charlie’s transformative impact on his own life:

  “Charlie entered my life pretty recently... he basically gave me my life back.” [16:54]

• Amid heartbreak, there’s a shared conviction that God was always the foundation and true driver of Charlie’s journey.

3. The Role of Faith and Family

[13:28]/[21:28]

• The show frequently returns to Charlie’s deep faith, and how that flourished after meeting his wife, Erica.
• Erica’s influence brought out a new depth in Charlie’s personal and spiritual life:

  “Charlie’s faith became so much stronger as soon as Erica came around and he started vocalizing it more.” [26:28]

• Erica is described as Charlie’s “lioness” and credited with being as fierce and strong as he was visionary.

4. The “Origin Story” — Charlie and Erica

[28:05]

• Tyler recounts the story of how he introduced Charlie to Erica at the very first Trump rally in Arizona, in what now seems a divinely orchestrated sequence.
• Erica’s involvement in TPUSA Faith and the "meet cute" with Charlie is celebrated as mythic within the team’s lore.
• Amusing fashion anecdotes are shared, marking the “pre-Erica” vs “post-Erica” evolution of Charlie’s style.

5. Leadership, Humility, and Building TPUSA

[39:39]/[44:53]/[50:02]

• The episode features a moving tribute montage with archival audio, highlighting Charlie’s vision for TPUSA, his humility, and knack for grassroots connection.
• The hosts stress how Charlie always prioritized the mission, not the spotlight:

  “He wasn’t interested in what the stage looked like... He just wanted to tell the truth.” [44:53]

• Charlie’s extraordinary multitasking and personal discipline become recurring themes.

6. Anecdotes: The Man Behind the Movement

[68:19+]

• Blake: Charlie’s rigid discipline extended to diet; he would “eat like piles of singular foods” (piles of broccoli, grilled chicken), and delighted in simple pleasures (“you could build a religion around this!”).
• Jack: When Charlie lost his voice during a tour, he continued events by communicating via texts and notes; his work ethic was legendary.
• Stories about airport misadventures, Cubs fandom, Seinfeld humor, and travel banter further humanize Charlie.

7. Influence and Reach: Charlie’s Global and Generational Impact

[53:42]/[86:52]

• The team marvels at messages and vigils from around the world, noting how Charlie’s message resonated well beyond American borders.
• Tyler observes that many parents discovered Charlie through their children, reflecting cross-generational influence.
• The outpouring of tributes confirms how deeply Charlie’s authenticity and advocacy for American values connected with ordinary people.

8. Behind the Scenes at the Show & TPUSA

[63:00+/64:50]

• The studio itself gets discussed—how Charlie had to have things a certain way, right down to furniture arrangements.
• The team shares appreciation for unsung heroes, like staff and security, who played vital roles in carrying out Charlie’s vision.

9. Charlie as a Student and Teacher

[77:21]/[78:28]

• Charlie’s insatiable curiosity is celebrated—peppering team members and guests for history, theology, or political knowledge.
• Sunday with Charlie often meant deep-dive learning sessions with experts, especially on Christian thought and the Western canon.

10. His Humility and Generosity

[49:17]/[50:02]

• Charlie paid himself minimal salary for years, prioritized the organization over personal gain, and often donated back to TPUSA.

  "He paid back his salary and then some back to Turning Point. Every year." [50:21]

• The team calls for continued support of the show and movement, in line with Erica and Charlie’s wishes.

11. Fun and Humor — “Charlie-isms”

[71:15]/[97:05]

• The panel shares quirky stories, recurring phrases (“you could build a religion around this”), and Charlie’s fondness for Seinfeld humor.
• Jack notes, > “Charlie could be hilarious... the best way to describe his humor is probably Seinfeld.”

12. Final Tributes and Closing Reflections

[109:26]/[111:53]

• Daisy Phelps, a longtime team member, shares a written tribute:

  “He was exactly who he said he was, except better. There wasn’t one thing that was fake or fabricated.”

• Tyler and Andrew express gratitude for everyone who supported and believed in Charlie, stressing his humility, generosity, and unwavering integrity.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Andrew Colvett:

  “It’s almost like we are the large language model for Charlie Kirk because we've had so much input from this person.” [96:43]

• Jack Posobec:

  “If you asked him who the next Charlie Kirk was, he’d say ‘You. You go get a megaphone… go do this, too.’” [53:42]

• Blake Neff (on Charlie's authenticity):

  “He believed in what he said and he lived out what he believed.” [109:26]

• Rush Limbaugh Tribute (clip):

  “This is the kind of guy you can see really becoming big in politics…” [104:14]

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Important Segment Timestamps

| Timestamp (MM:SS) | Segment | |-----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:50-01:39 | Reflections on faith, family, beginnings of TPUSA, and citizen participation | | 04:55-11:49 | Empty chair, honoring Charlie, gratitude for colleagues and authorities | | 16:54-19:11 | Blake’s story of joining Charlie; Charlie’s impact abroad | | 21:28-26:28 | Pre-/post-Erica; impact on Charlie’s faith and life | | 28:05-32:21 | The full story of how Charlie met Erica at pivotal Trump rally | | 39:42-43:08 | Montage tribute to Charlie; audio of show highlights and guest interactions | | 44:53-45:52 | Reflections on humility and reluctance for spotlight | | 68:19-76:47 | Fun and personal anecdotes, diet discipline, quirks, dedicated routines | | 77:21-80:48 | Charlie’s curiosity and love for learning; obsession with knowledge and self-improvement | | 86:52-88:01 | How young people brought parents to Charlie; discussing Cubs fandom and family ties | | 97:05-100:29 | Charlie’s humor, favorite Seinfeld bits, and private in-jokes | | 104:14 | Rush Limbaugh tribute clip | | 109:26 | Daisy’s heartfelt written tribute | | 111:53-116:37 | Gratitude toward board members, staff, and first responders |

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Final Thoughts & Themes

• Charlie Kirk’s legacy is one of conviction, faith, and radical transparency, balanced with humility.
• His impact was personal and institutional—shaping the TPUSA movement and igniting personal transformation in those around him.
• The episode is a call to continue the work with the same “Charlie Kirk spirit”—one of relentless truth-telling, action, and building something bigger than oneself.
• Above all, it centers Charlie’s unwavering faith and commitment to family as his greatest achievements and guiding light.

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For More:

• Listener tributes can be submitted to freedom.charliekirk.com
• Charlie Kirk Store (t-shirts in his memory): charliekirkstore.com

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Note:
This episode stands as both mourning and manifesto: a promise that the spirit, vision, and voice of Charlie Kirk will endure—because, as his friends insist, “We are all Charlie Kirk now.”

Transcript

[Jack Posobec]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[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 Bowyer]

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, 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 was like 12 in a room. And this is, this is awesome. 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 could tell you this room is 100% with you and we have your back. God bless you. Thank you. 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.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 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.

[Tyler Bowyer]

All my days, your mercy.

[Andrew Colvett]

Follow me. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. This is Andrew Colvett fiddling 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 Posobec, Blake Neff and Tyler Bowyer, 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.

[Jack Posobec]

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 were 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 Bowyer]

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 this. 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.

[Jack Posobec]

No, it's.

[Andrew Colvett]

It's.

[Jack Posobec]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

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

[Jack Posobec]

Seen.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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. 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.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

So now he's on assignment from God, 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.

[Blake Neff]

Mikey, for sure.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Blake Neff]

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 22nd. 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.

[Tyler Bowyer]

And.

[Blake Neff]

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

[Blake Neff]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

Yes.

[Blake Neff]

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?

[Jack Posobec]

You see. 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 Bowyer]

We were just talking about this yesterday.

[Jack Posobec]

And he's a father, and.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

Jerrick as legitimately the real mvp.

[Jack Posobec]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

We were talking about Charlie's birthday, talking about that.

[Andrew Colvett]

It's rough. The visible book.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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

[Jack Posobec]

That's right.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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

[Jack Posobec]

Like a normal person.

[Tyler Bowyer]

No, he looked better than everybody because Eric is incredibly stylish and great. It was just like he went from like the 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. 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.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

That's.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

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 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.

[Andrew Colvett]

And 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.

[Jack Posobec]

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, you know, 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.

[Jack Posobec]

Charlie, if you're going to be around.

[Andrew Colvett]

You got to hang around with us, John. We need you to.

[Jack Posobec]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

Look a little bit more put together.

[Jack Posobec]

Take care of that a little bit.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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

[Jack Posobec]

Tyler, get this. Get this up.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

I love it.

[Tyler Bowyer]

I mean. No, immediately better. I mean, I'm not even kidding. Sorry, Charlie.

[Jack Posobec]

We got to.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Blake Neff]

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 women watching. But you can polish.

[Tyler Bowyer]

They're not.

[Jack Posobec]

Yeah, they're not. The deeper. No, not the deeper bringing forth. And you could never change Charlie's spirit. Right, but.

[Andrew Colvett]

Exactly.

[Jack Posobec]

Right, 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 is 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 Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

Well, so the original was Corey Lewandowski.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Was Like, can you get 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 listened daily. It was my grandpa, my dad in law, Lauren, my wife. And Erica is up there.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Tyler Bowyer]

So Erica, after.

[Andrew Colvett]

You got to find the picture.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

So he's trying to pressure a little more.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 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 Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

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 of just, like, the pep talk. Because, you know, even though Charlie was such a line of a man, it takes a village, I think, of, like, having those conversations with one another.

[Jack Posobec]

Family.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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. We are remembering the one and only Charlie Kirk. And it's his friends that are doing it. I'm joined by Jack Posobic, 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 Bowyer]

Well, and that's. To that point, Erica became that person, like you were saying. Erica became the person that would, you know, and it was a two way road. You'd have to filter out some of Charlie's bad ideas too, at times. And Erica has become the best at that. She is the go to. And I know that that was the most valuable thing. But to put a pin in it, 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 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 4:43 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 Rushed did was introducing the president. Yeah, the last two.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Yeah.

[Andrew Colvett]

So.

[Tyler Bowyer]

So he never made public appearances.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. And he's very private person.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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. He lived. He lived right up the street. 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.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Blake Neff]

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 answers.

[Jack Posobec]

Oh, Jack, you gotta check out this.

[Blake Neff]

Email I got from.

[Jack Posobec]

Look at this.

[Charlie Kirk]

Look.

[Jack Posobec]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

And he's always two steps ahead.

[Jack Posobec]

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 freedom. Charliekirk.com and please send your tributes to Charlie, your thoughts, your prayers, anything that's on your mind. To freedom. Charliekirk.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.

[Jack Posobec]

I want to thank my great friend Charlie Kirk. He's done something that is just incredible for somebody really of his age.

[Andrew Colvett]

You need tremendous talent to do what.

[Jack Posobec]

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 Bowyer]

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.

[Andrew Colvett]

Charlie, you should have a motion.

[Jack Posobec]

This is a moment.

[Andrew Colvett]

You totally reformed the GOP and look what you guys have done. Here's some words here from you, Charlie. You put all this together, my man.

[Jack Posobec]

Let's hear it.

[Charlie Kirk]

I, I am just humbled by God.

[Andrew Colvett]

God's grace.

[Jack Posobec]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

God alone done.

[Jack Posobec]

It's beginning.

[Charlie Kirk]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

I just, I'm finding out how honest you are, Charlie. And so far you're, I think you're doing good and I hope I'm doing good with you.

[Charlie Kirk]

Candace Owens, welcome back.

[Jack Posobec]

Yes.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 are going back to church because the atheism ran out of steam. Ben, thank you for 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 sorry.

[Jack Posobec]

I never roll through this town without seeing you.

[Andrew Colvett]

Well, it's always the highlight.

[Tyler Bowyer]

It's, it's.

[Andrew Colvett]

That's.

[Charlie Kirk]

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.

[Tyler Bowyer]

I'm sick.

[Andrew Colvett]

Are 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 prime time placement on Comedy Central. I think. I think the whole thing is just awesome. 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 world, when it was my father. 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 Bowyer]

I love you so much.

[Andrew Colvett]

I love you.

[Tyler Bowyer]

You're my best friend.

[Charlie Kirk]

Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Thanks, baby.

[Charlie Kirk]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

Oh, that's a great job, guys.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Really good job.

[Andrew Colvett]

I. We miss him.

[Jack Posobec]

That last shot.

[Tyler Bowyer]

I miss him walking 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. 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. I. People watch these things and they're like, we, 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 Bowyer]

The, was interested in that.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

No.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

But, but this is the point with Charlie was 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.

[Jack Posobec]

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 trip.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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 that he would be the 47th president of the United States. Right in this room, that viral video, it happened right here, right in his chair. 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 Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

20. And I know that because mine was tiny, too. When I gave over, it was, like, insane. And then 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 Bowyer]

I was just gonna. I was just gonna say this is that you. That 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 works 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.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

I think that's those.

[Andrew Colvett]

Those shirts.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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 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.

[Tyler Bowyer]

But it's.

[Jack Posobec]

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 know exactly what you mean, 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.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Andrew Colvett]

And yeah. And yeah, their hearts are broken, too.

[Jack Posobec]

Impossible task.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 was, I mean, that's just such a hard thing to ask people to do. And I can't thank you each enough.

[Jack Posobec]

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 see you again in a couple minutes. We're going to keep streaming for a few seconds.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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[Jack Posobec]

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[Tyler Bowyer]

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[Jack Posobec]

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[Tyler Bowyer]

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[Jack Posobec]

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[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.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 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 was like 12 people in a room. And this is. This is awesome.

[Andrew Colvett]

This, in my personal opinion, was the 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.

[Andrew Colvett]

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.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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, 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 it.

[Andrew Colvett]

Blake, I'm going to ask you a question.

[Rush Limbaugh]

What do you want?

[Andrew Colvett]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

It was 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.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Right, right, right.

[Andrew Colvett]

But he just liked it. Like, this wasn't it.

[Jack Posobec]

Wasn't it? We did. We did one of the election night streams or something, and we. We set up the V. And he just, like.

[Andrew Colvett]

He just like, like left it.

[Jack Posobec]

He just left it that way.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

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. They had, like, a bunch of machines and stuff in here, and they had. 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 Bowyer]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

You're here.

[Jack Posobec]

Because that's Tyler.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Jack Posobec]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. But tv, it's worth it. Yeah. So.

[Jack Posobec]

But we've kind of always done it.

[Andrew Colvett]

So, like, 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 welcomed back national radio in about a minute. But that's. 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 a tr. It's, like, so true. Like, I'm not even. That's not even at, 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 gonna go, like, we're just gonna go around the table. I was just gonna put you on the hot seat first, so it wasn't me. But we're gonna welcome back our national radio audience that Charlie loves so much in about 20 seconds. So. 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 were 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 Posobec, the great Jack Posobec, 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, man.

[Blake Neff]

I'm thinking of a few things. Gosh. 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, you know, asked him about that, he'd be like, well this, 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 Bowyer]

Yeah.

[Blake Neff]

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

[Jack Posobec]

Like he wasn't always like that.

[Blake Neff]

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

[Jack Posobec]

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. Yeah.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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

[Jack Posobec]

Body, yes.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

You got your road layer.

[Tyler Bowyer]

I got dad fat. I put on the pregnancy weight a few times throughout that, that cycle campaign 30. But Charlie was always. And he would always kind of yell at me, you know, and Andrew and probably Sherry. You had some of these situations. Blake probably hasn't. But you know, never get yelled at for what he eats. But he would be like. Cuz I would like pound sodas and like I was like, oh yeah. And then it caught up with me.

[Blake Neff]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 then 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.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Blake Neff]

He had a couple, and we had, like, a huge pile. Vast pile.

[Jack Posobec]

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 Bowyer]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Have you ever heard him say that?

[Andrew Colvett]

We could build a religion around this.

[Tyler Bowyer]

When he found a food he liked. You could build a religion around this.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Or that thing or whatever.

[Jack Posobec]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

Yeah. It would be. It'd be like. It'd be like. I'd be like, oh, I mean, I.

[Jack Posobec]

Think these are great, these chicken wings. Yeah. Charlie. We know.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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

[Jack Posobec]

I. Yeah, it. That when you. There's certain set phrases that were just like, the Charlie phrases. And, you know, when you say him, 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?

[Jack Posobec]

Oh, man. 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 work 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 that way. And I remember we had, we had talked about. And he was like, hey Jack, you know, you're 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. And, 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 and 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.

[Andrew Colvett]

You're like right next to him.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah.

[Jack Posobec]

And he's like showing it and I'm 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.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

That many boxes I want to just.

[Jack Posobec]

We just throw out hats.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

No, I was just gonna say that the, 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 almost always right on these things. He was always right on one.

[Andrew Colvett]

He was annoyingly almost always right.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Almost always right.

[Andrew Colvett]

And when you got one that was right, like, you would make a mental note because it was 99 to 1.

[Tyler Bowyer]

But where he wanted to go with everything was always right. 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 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. 479. Oh, gosh.

[Charlie Kirk]

Is it like a big thing?

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah, of course.

[Charlie Kirk]

Am I doing it okay?

[Tyler Bowyer]

Yeah, perfect.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

Because it's fermented. I think.

[Andrew Colvett]

That'S great.

[Tyler Bowyer]

It's very good for your.

[Andrew Colvett]

Blake. I remember you. 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.

[Jack Posobec]

I mean, you can build a religion around this.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Jack Posobec]

Yes.

[Blake Neff]

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 on. 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 ready 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.

[Blake Neff]

And he was. 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 gonna lose to you on, you know, history. I'm gonna 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, actually.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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 had a Cambridge professor who was actually, we played that the last live. It was a prerecord, but it was like the last radio live hour, you know, 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 do our morning worship and then I'll pick you up? 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. So Charlie was gathering this three dimensional, 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.

[Jack Posobec]

That's a day off for sure.

[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 got to be with my family, and it was great. 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. In Christendom. It was amazing. 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.

[Blake Neff]

No, he improves circulation.

[Jack Posobec]

No, he would always tell him to talk to me about this. He's like, it's a thing for tall people, Jack. It's compression socks. You wear them. You wear them on planes. The pressure. He had it all, like, choice, no decision made.

[Blake Neff]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

Well, he would take. You're not tall enough.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah. But you 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 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. He shared this with me. I hope it's okay. I think it is. He says, Charlie's 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. It was the intricacy of his mind and the details he was able to hold all at one time. Truly amazing.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 podcast, 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 gave psyche. 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 Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

But they. They should have it.

[Andrew Colvett]

They are.

[Tyler Bowyer]

They should have a.

[Jack Posobec]

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 because no.

[Tyler Bowyer]

One thought it was ever going to happen.

[Andrew Colvett]

Radio will be back and streaming will keep going.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Foreign.

[Andrew Colvett]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

I actually was.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

A couple weeks ago.

[Andrew Colvett]

Right. I was with him.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Blake Neff]

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

[Jack Posobec]

And the Bears joking away. Yeah, that's what I was saying. I was scrolling through.

[Blake Neff]

That's a story people would like.

[Jack Posobec]

I was scrolling through. And Charlie was so focused.

[Blake Neff]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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 was something that we had.

[Blake Neff]

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 amfest. And he'd have his bowl with his chicken and lettuce that he was able to eat. Watching it really intensely. And, you know, I'd walk by, he's like, blake, come here, come here. Come on, let's watch a game, Blake.

[Andrew Colvett]

Okay, Charlie, I 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. Into Wrigley Field. Onto the field right there. It was before the game and it was so awesome. The 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.

[Jack Posobec]

No, he would never do it.

[Andrew Colvett]

He likes his little like low profile one. And it was the one he wore, I think that's the same Cubs that he wore at 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.

[Jack Posobec]

He wanted to walk on that field his whole life.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

We had. This is way back in the day, but we had actually taken. We used to have our headquarters in Chicago. So 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 he 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 going to leave. And I was really nervous, you know, when we.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

He's really Arizona, a Chicago boy at heart. And. 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 going to 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 it. Send so and so in. And then like. Like, I remember that's what Charlie would do before the show.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Right.

[Andrew Colvett]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Jack Posobec]

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, but, like, not like he's speaking to me, but is just. It's just if you know him, you kind of know what he would say.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Jack Posobec]

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 Bowyer]

This.

[Jack Posobec]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

I mean, that's, that's what a life is, right? When you know somebody. Yeah, that's, that's what they do. They imprint on you.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Jack Posobec]

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 go, you know, but he would make. Oh man, the plane rides were the best.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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.

[Jack Posobec]

He'd love Seinfeld.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Jack Posobec]

He lives love Seinfeld.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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, well, I was just 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.

[Blake Neff]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

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's stopped and there's like.

[Jack Posobec]

That Uber spot, react.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

No, just the horseshoes.

[Jack Posobec]

No, Sometimes you can just bounce and then you can run faster than going.

[Andrew Colvett]

Through 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.

[Jack Posobec]

But you can cut across the.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Things.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

So anyways, this guy. This guy was driving.

[Jack Posobec]

What you mean? I've done.

[Tyler Bowyer]

This guy was dropping us off, and, you know, he wasn't communicating very well. And we're going through anyway. We're. We're. 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 a kind of 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 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 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. But the interaction between Charlie and this guy and us trying to get into.

[Andrew Colvett]

The airport, you can almost hear the sound. Yeah.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 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 it's the ribbon clip.

[Tyler Bowyer]

You're checked in.

[Andrew Colvett]

Thank you.

[Charlie Kirk]

Here's your AIDS ribbon.

[Tyler Bowyer]

No, thanks. You don't want to wear an AIDS ribbon?

[Andrew Colvett]

No, no.

[Tyler Bowyer]

But you have to wear an AIDS ribbon.

[Charlie Kirk]

I have to?

[Andrew Colvett]

Yes.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Yeah.

[Charlie Kirk]

See, that's why I don't want to. But everyone wears the ribbon. You must wear the ribbon. What?

[Tyler Bowyer]

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 the ribbon?

[Jack Posobec]

Who do you think you are?

[Andrew Colvett]

Put the ribbon on. Hey, Cedric, Bob.

[Tyler Bowyer]

This guy won't wear a ribbon.

[Andrew Colvett]

Who.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?

[Andrew Colvett]

And 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 Charlie using Seinfeld as. And I'll never forget, he always brings Eric Metaxas on the show and he'll. 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.

[Jack Posobec]

It's just watching that clip. Charlie loved that clip. Charlie loves saying that line, you must wear the ribbon. 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 Bowyer]

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 Bowyer]

The one thing that I feel.

[Jack Posobec]

Oh, yeah, this was the.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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

[Jack Posobec]

Sheriff.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Because we're focused on recruiting for precincts. And 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 them up 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. He was always a good sport. Like.

[Tyler Bowyer]

No, he had it on. He had it on for quite a bit of the episode.

[Andrew Colvett]

Charlie was always a good sport. Sport, actually. And what's in South Park?

[Jack Posobec]

Like, they didn't understand the South park.

[Andrew Colvett]

We found the clip. 477. 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.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Yep.

[Andrew Colvett]

And so I'm going to play the. 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.

[Rush Limbaugh]

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 is 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 carriage, the personality, the charisma.

[Tyler Bowyer]

I.

[Rush Limbaugh]

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 here, and all these people who went school with him. There were story after story after story where people were saying that they just knew Bill Clinton was going to be 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.

[Andrew Colvett]

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 gonna take a break.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Stream.

[Andrew Colvett]

We're gonna keep going. Be right back. All right. Welcome back to Reel 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 since. 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.

[Jack Posobec]

Yeah, but I'm not just.

[Andrew Colvett]

It'll be the Charlie.

[Blake Neff]

We're gonna do this.

[Jack Posobec]

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 it's impossible and we're gonna forget too many people. But. 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. I'm 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 Dibbley 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 were like, I felt bad. I didn't want to tell you, like, how much easier my life got when I came around. And my life was really hard until Daisy Dibley came around. And Now Daisy Phelps 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 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 Bowyer]

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 could 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 break. 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 was. 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. It's the last segment of the live Charlie Kirk show on the Friday after September 10 and.

[Jack Posobec]

9, 10.

[Andrew Colvett]

We just miss him and I know we're all very honored to be here. We're gonna keep going for another hour, Jack, and at least. And I'd 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, Andrew.

[Tyler Bowyer]

There's a few people too. And again, it's really important. 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, I've, I've slept at his house like, like this great man. Incredible.

[Andrew Colvett]

Love Charlie. Love Charlie so much.

[Tyler Bowyer]

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, 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 bills and ending magic 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 need to remember. And there were literally hundreds, if not thousands of people who.

[Andrew Colvett]

Rebecca Dunn.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Who did that.

[Andrew Colvett]

These people were just champions of Charlie.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Ed Zeman. So many.

[Andrew Colvett]

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

[Tyler Bowyer]

But I. I want to.

[Andrew Colvett]

Foster, freeze.

[Tyler Bowyer]

Oh, Foster. I. I guarantee you Foster is 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 Phoenix PD that has been stalwart 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 have gotta believe me that 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 Bowyer]

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 before 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. And all of your amazing belief in it. Thank you so much.

[Jack Posobec]

This is an I heart podcast.