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Hit the town with the ultra durable LG X Boom portable speaker and enjoy vibrant sound wherever you go. Elevate your listening experience to new heights because let's be real, your music deserves it. The future of sound is now with LG X Boom. And for a limited time, save 25%@LG.com with code Fall25. Bring the Boom X Boom. The Charlie Kirk show starts now. Today, Charlie Kirk rests in glory in heaven for all eternity. He has gone from speaking on campuses in Wisconsin to kneeling at the throne of God, where he is right now. Verily, verily, I say unto you, this Is Christ speaking? Except a corn of wheat fall onto the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. And I want to thank Charlie for his sacrifice, because much fruit is going to be realized now. I want you to know that Charlie right now is in heaven. Not because he was a great husband and father, not because he saved millions of kids out of darkness on college campuses, not because he changed minds and chased votes to save the country, not because he sacrificed himself for his Savior. Charlie Kirk is in heaven because his savior sacrificed himself for Charlie Kirk. But the main thing about Charlie and his message, he was bringing the gospel to the country. He was doing the thing that the people in charge hate most, which is calling for them to repent. I believe Charlie is still urging us on, urging us not to sit back, not to be quiet, but to carry on his mission forward, loudly, proudly, and with the same conviction he showed. Sacrifice is a gift. Sacrifice is that last full measure of devotion for God, for country, and for his people. People devote the rest of our lives to finishing the causes for which Charlie gave his last measure of devotion. You cannot defeat us. You cannot slow us. You cannot stop us. You cannot deter us. We will carry Charlie and Erica in our heart, but we go forward strengthened by his faith and bolstered by his courage and inspired by his example to defend the country he lived for. See, Charlie Kirk was a true believer for the cause of freedom, for the power of young people, belief in our republic and our founding principles in America first and make America great again. But more importantly, he was a true believer. Only Christ is king, our Lord and Savior. The lesson of Charlie's life is that you should never underestimate what one person can do with a good heart, a righteous cause, a cheerful spirit, and the will to fight. Fight, fight. Charlie lived what our founders envisioned. Freedom, the right to speak even when we disagree. Freedom. I may not agree with what you say, but I will fight to defend to the death with my very life. Your right to speak now. Our whole administration is here, but not just because we love Charlie as a friend, even though we did, but because we know we wouldn't be here without him. In the words of Soren Kiergaarden, the tyrant dies and his rule is over. The martyr dies and his rule has just begun. On the cross our Savior said, father, forgive them, for they not know what they do. That man, that young man, I forgive him. Stop settling for weak sound it's time to level up your game and bring the boom Hit the town with the ultra durable LG X Boom portable speaker and enjoy vibrant sound wherever you go. Elevate your listening experience to new heights because let's be real, your music deserves it. The future of sound is now with LG XBoom and for a limited time save 25% at LG.com with code fall25. Bring the boom XBoom there's a lot going on in Hollywood. How are you supposed to stay on top of it all? Variety has the solution. Take 20 minutes out of your day and listen to the new daily Variety podcast for breaking entertainment news and expert perspectives. Where do you see the business actually heading? Featuring the iconic journalists of Variety and hosted by co editor in Chief Cynthia Littleton. The only constant in Hollywood is change. Open your free iHeartradio app, search daily Variety and listen now. A new NFL season means a fresh start and fresh styles. @nflshop.com you'll find the latest jerseys, hats and sideline gear to rep your team all season long. From rookies making their debut to legends, NFLShop.com has it all. Score exclusive styles you won't find anywhere else and show up ready for every kickoff and big play. Fan like a pro and shop now@nflshop.com the US electric grid is approaching a breaking point as demand soars from data centers and home energy use. Our aging infrastructure can't keep up, and the Department of Energy warns that without action, blackouts could surge 100 fold by 2030. The good news? One solution is already here. Propane. It's American made, stored on site and always ready, powering homes and businesses with cleaner, reliable energy that doesn't depend on the grid or the weather. Learn more@probane.com hey there. I'm Mary Kathryn Hamm. And I'm Carol Markowitz. We've been in political media for a long time. Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane. That's why we started Normalely, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity. We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously. So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people. Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. Every day there's a battle for your mind, raging information coming from every angle with the will to deceive. Fear not you found the place for truth. The voice of a generation that still has the will to believe in the greatest country in the history of the world. This is the Charlie Kirk Show. Buckle up, here we go. All right. Hello, everybody. Good morning stations across the country. It's good morning where we're at. It's noon on the East Coast. I'm Andrew Colvett, executive producer of the Charlie Kirk show and I'm joined today by Charlie's chief of staff, Mikey McCoy, the great Mikey McCoy. And of course, Blake Neff, one of the producers here. Wait, we have a great Mikey McCoy too. We have a great, great, the great, great, the solidly acceptable Mikey, the microphone. We are going to be having listen, the show goes on, but so do Ask Me Anything Fridays. And also we're going to do that in our one today for anybody that's a part of the members community members.charliekirk.com you can call in, ask questions live on air and we're going to answer them to the best of our ability. And it's, we'll see what happens. It's always one of those days when that happens. Even when Charlie was here, we never quite knew what we were going to do to expect and what we were going to get. And then in hour two, we're going to, we're going to show some never before seen behind the scenes footage from Charlie's Asia trip. And Mikey and Blake were both traveling with Charlie when that happened. So I'm really excited about that to see some stuff that nobody's ever seen before. And that was a trip. I mean, how many days was that before? Like it was 65 hours in Asia between both Korea and Japan. But what were the dates? What were the days? It was the weekend before. Right? It was. So it would have been, he got back on, let's see here. It would have been, he got there on the 5th through the 7th, right. So he got back and then three days later. So it's hard to watch. But also he was so happy and he was having so much fun that it's really good to watch. And it's I think cathartic healing, all of all of those things. And then we're of course going to have the great. And she does deserve that title. The great Erica Kirk is going to join us because she loves this audience. She knew how much this audience meant to Charlie and she had told me she wanted, she's basically not doing anything, no media, no anything. But she's going to be right here and she wants to speak directly to you, the audience. And I said, yeah, you know, whatever you want. Like get as little, as long as totally up to you and let us know how we can serve you and help you. And she was like, well, I just want to talk to the audience. And I said, that's fantastic. So stay tuned for that. So let's get going. We have members calls. That's members.charliekirk.com and I believe the first up is Caleb. Caleb, do we have you? Are you there? Yes, I'm right here. Hi, how's it going? Hey, Caleb. I just wanted to ask what the plan is for future elections and the general election with Turning Point Action. And I want to know how I can best get involved. I live in Washington State, so that's kind of a. Well, okay, so Washington State is not a state that we're going to be focusing on. However, right. We, when it gets close to the election, what we do is we do this big volunteer drives where we'll book full hotels and room blocks and we will give you an app and a list and you can use the app to go knock on doors, make texts and phone calls and try and chase ballots. So that's all. Through Turning Point Action, we're going to be probably focusing on what we call building a new red wall. Because of the way the census is working. More people are moving from blue northern states like New York or, or west coast states like California, and they're moving to the red states, the Sun Belt. So that would be Arizona, that would be Florida, Texas. And because of that, there is an opportunity, if we properly counted the census. Right. Blake, maybe, maybe you can touch on that, that we're going to have a lot more of an ability to get rid of what they used to call the blue wall. Right. So you heard about the blue wall. It was Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. That's the, that's the blue wall. And Trump, you know, demolished the blue wall. But it's still one of those toss up areas of the country. Right. We don't know what's going to happen in 2028. They could be back in play. I think if JD ends up running that he's going to play very well in those states. But the point is we can now form a new blue wall and that would be holding Arizona. All the gains that Charlie spearheaded here in the state of Arizona, this was the best performing swing state by far. We won it by almost six points and about 200,000 votes, a little less, but almost 200,000. And we have a, we have a vision at turning Point action to completely floridify the floridification of Arizona. That's the vision. So you add Nevada. That will be another state that we really want to make solidly red. We think that we like the underlying momentum that we have in that state. And then maybe a state like New Hampshire, if you put those, where New Hampshire has more registered Republicans than Democrats, if you put those three states together and if we get Nebraska to be a winner take all, which is still something that we're working on, you're going to, you're going to create a map that's very, very, very, very hard for Democrats to win in the future. Now, you still got to hold Georgia. We've got great partners in Georgia that are, that are activating already. And I mean, listen, the midterms, it's anybody's game, right? Historically, in the midterms, 20, 26, you know, the incumbent party typically does not fare as well in the midterms from a congressional standpoint. But I think everything's out the window this time. I just think there is no historical parallel both with Charlie's death, both with what's happened with immigration. People still remember that. Both the economy, if the economy's doing strong. So how you can best get involved is just go to tpaction.com, get your name in, make sure you volunteer, join coalitions. You can spearhead your own sort of grassroots level, county, GOP level work. What part of Washington are you in, Caleb? I live in the 4th district. I live in Tri Cities, Washington. So Benton County. Yeah, that's more conservative. Tri Cities, more conservative. Right. So, yeah, I mean, listen. Yeah, and I'm going to be running with one. I'm going to be helping Jared Sesler run for state. Fantastic. Fantastic. So what you should do is you should get your local GOP to, to get behind the Turning Point Action app that will absolutely supercharge what you guys can do. And we have training sessions that we can do with the local GOP's if you guys want to get the app and use it and chase ballots, because that's ultimately what needs to be done. The Republican Party is now the low propensity party, meaning, you know, it used to be that we would poll behind, you know, in the sort of generic ballots, you know, they poll which party do you prefer? But then we would make up the ground and then some on election Day because our people would predictably come out. Everything's changed in the era of Donald Trump. Now we pull ahead, but then we don't show up. And so our job as the grassroots is to make sure people show up. And that's what the Turning Point action app does. It identifies low propensity voters, helps you focus your efforts on those people and get them out to the polls. So thanks so much. Yeah, thanks so much, Caleb. Thank you for wanting to get involved. And you honor Charlie. When you get involved in the movement, you make it stronger, as Erica says. Yeah, I just turned 18 and I have never wanted to get more involved since. God bless. Feel free to start a Turning Point chapter two at your. Oh, yeah, I already have. Oh, perfect. Perfect. Awesome. Yeah, I started one and I've helped get four more started recently. So God bless you, man. That's great. That's fantastic. Okay, well, maybe we'll see at amfest then. Yeah, see you. Thank you. Sean, you are up next. Sean, what's your question? Hey, guys, thanks for having me on. Absolutely. Charlie was really well versed on a lot of topics. I mean, I don't know if I know a person that was more well versed across all the different subjects. Subjects. Do you see a more segmented approach in the future for tpusa, and if so, what role do you think Christian apologetics could play moving forward? Well, go ahead, Blake. Yeah. So, Blake, you're first on a lot of topics. No, it's definitely. Charlie definitely was. Among other things, he was operating. He had a huge, very broad knowledge base. He loved to pick up tons of knowledge in different areas. He had a ton of knowledge in different areas. We would talk about. We've talked about how impressive he was in terms of being an organizer, in terms of being a political activist, in terms of being involved inside the White House and still really caring to pick up that broad base of historical knowledge, philosophical knowledge, Christian knowledge. None of us can match that, to be frank. He was always very proud, and Mikey can attest to this, that he would love to, like, have Mikey quiz us on Bible topics, because that was something where he could beat me on a lot of those topics. And he would ask me about history stuff. So in general, going forward, all of us are going to be trying hard to step into his shoes. But I do think you'll see a segmentation where maybe I'll answer really detailed political questions. Maybe Erica herself could talk a lot about faith stuff. We can keep going in the stream, so you can finish this, but for radio. We'll be right back. Don't go anywhere. All right, we are back for the stream. Blake, continue. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, as I said, Charlie's Breadth of what he was involved in is it was really what made him so exceptional, how many different things he had knowledge of from his own practical experience. He could talk. You know, this is how this election is probably going to go, because I've worked directly in a bunch of elections. This is what's probably going inside on inside the Trump administration. I've seen the inside. I can't speak to everything that's going on there publicly, but, you know, trust me, I've talked to people there. He could do that with so much credibility. And, like, okay, I've never actually been inside the Oval Office. I've never been inside the West Wing. Whereas, like, a lot of no one else is, like, really interested in all the weird historical arcana that I'm into. Not all of us have the same base of biblical knowledge, so we are going to see some segmentation on that front. I think the faith one is going to be a really important one for us to cultivate. I know Erica is very great on that. We obviously have a lot of pastor friends. You're pretty good on that to yourself, Mikey. Yeah, yeah. The other thing, Charlie, I have some pastor friends. The other thing Charlie is really good at is it was the Charlie effect. And Dr. Larry Arn talked about this, how he met this young kid who told him he was really passionate about politics and wanted to enter into that world. Dr. Arn didn't take him seriously. And then a week later, he gets a text message from Charlie. He doesn't know how he got his phone number, but it's a certificate of a completed Hillsdale Online course. And then Charlie went on to do all 31 courses. And so when Charlie would do something, he'd commit himself 100% to doing it. And so when I first started with him, he said, your first task is to watch every single Dennis Prager fireside chat. And so that's what he would do. Once he was interested in the topic, he would just commit himself entirely to it. And what Blake said, too, in his free time, he was wanting to be quizzed on Bible stuff. That was the foundation of everything in his life. He loved God, so he wanted to understand God. And that mean that meant every single free moment he had, he was looking at quizzes, reading his scriptures, everything. Yeah, yeah, I think we talked about this, and I don't. Privately, I don't think it ever made its way onto the show yet. But one of the things that was most remarkable about Charlie was, and I, you know, having helped start this program with Charlie, remember it in this context. But it was. He did it in everything he touched in life. He had this great follow through. You kind of touched on it a little bit. But, you know, if he was going to start a podcast, it wasn't, you know, he wasn't going to be deterred. You know, in the early days, if we fell behind in the rankings or something like that, he would push, push, push, push, push, and he would. He was so dogged in his pursuit. And I don't think I was wired that way originally, but it was so long ago that I don't even remember me being that way. Like, Charlie fully transformed the people around him to be more like him. He forced them to accept his strengths because there was a temptation, I think, to resist. And then eventually, like, okay, he was right. And if we just pushed through that wall, we were gonna get to the other side and we were going to accomplish the goal. Like, he just wouldn't. I think a lot of entrepreneurs or what would be entrepreneurs, they have a great idea and then they can't follow through on it. Charlie had incredible follow through, which is why all of this exists. And I only say that because I think one of the most important things for all of us around this table, anybody that, you know, is associated with Turning Point, anybody that's going to go out to campuses, our contributors, our students, is that we have to commit ourselves to following through and learning and growing and being the best versions of. Of ourselves that we can be so that we can answer the tough questions just like he did. Obviously, nobody's going to answer them the way and as good as he did, but we have to be better. And that's, you know, that's incumbent on all of us. And we all have our own little areas of specialization and curiosity. So hopefully, you know, and branching out from there. People that go on campuses or speak at our events, we're going to bring in people that have specializations as well. But it's, you know, it's going to be a group effort. There's just no way around it. Yeah, maybe we'll need like two man Charlie squad. Like two people who can like, somewhat cover. We're gonna need like three people for one debate. Yeah. You know what I mean? So prove us wrong. Exactly. Prove we were wrong. Including our grammar. All right, next up, I think we got somebody. Daisy, do we have somebody? Stacy? Let's go. Stacy. Hi. Thanks for taking my question. I just wanted to let you guys know that we are praying for your team, praying for Erica. And my question is, during this tragedy, what has been one surprising thing that God has done for the team, Giving peace and comfort during this time since Charlie's passing. And what is, like, one fear right now you may have so that we, the audience, can pray for God to meet that need for the team. I love this question so much that I think I'm looking at the show clock here. If you would. Wouldn't mind, Stacy, maybe I'm going to have you repeat it for the radio audience when we come back. And then I know Mikey and Blake have some stuff they want to. They want to mention, so hold right there. Stacy, I'm going to have you repeat for the radio audience, but we'll be right back in just one second. All right, welcome back. Radio stations across the country, we are doing an ask me anything in honor of our Fridays with Charlie. Charlie would always do the ask me anything with his members. Members.charliekirk.com on Fridays. And we're gonna. We're doing it in hour one because we're gonna have Erica Kirk join us in hour two. So, you know, you're not going to want to. Want to miss that. We're so honored that she wants to join the show and talk to you, the audience. And we have right now. Stacy. Stacy, you already told us in the break, but please, for the radio audience, repeat the question. Sure. Yeah. So I was just mentioning that we're praying for you, you know, all of us that supported Charlie and Turning Point usa. So my question is, during this tragedy, what has been one surprising thing that God has done for the team? Giving peace and comfort during this time since Charlie's passing, and what is one fear right now you may have so that we, the audience, can pray for God to meet that need for the team? Thank you so much. That's such a sweet question. And I know Mikey had mentioned to me in the chat, so the floor is yours. Yeah. In terms of what God's done, which is just looking back and being in awe of it, the actual day that it happened. And Blake can attest to this, too, since he was there, being in Utah, I have no idea how I got through that day and that everything at the hospital, from the decisions that had to be made to the peace that was given to me by the Lord. I mean, it was evident that God was there. I don't know how I was able to operate. Looking back, I felt like my mind had just shut off and my body was just moving and doing everything that it had to do. And then the days following that as well. Coming back to Arizona air Force Two. You know, all those details. Looking back on that, it was evident that the Lord's hand was involved entirely. I don't know if you feel the same, Blake, but I definitely saw it with you. I can say that I remember when your parents arrived and that was like the first time I told them. I was like, mikey's been incredible today. And I've only seen that in the days and weeks since. It was remarkable to behold. What I've taken personal comfort from was, and we'll get into this when we talk about the trip to Asia. I was only really just appreciating how big Charlie had become, how much he meant to so many people around the world. And then seeing that the universal reaction around the world of. Or the scale of the reaction around the world, how many people he touched, how many people he's touching because of this. I've been telling people I want to get multiple of those freedom shirts because it's great to wear them around. And the people who react to it, who have been telling me, I never watched Charlie before, but now I can't get enough of him. It's like, it's incredible the life he lived. He's inspiring me so much. I saw a post on X the other day where someone, I think they like, he was also wearing one of those shirts or something. And the guy just, you know, is like, oh, did you know him? He's like, yeah, I met him. And the guy just starts sobbing. He's like, I started going to church again now because of this. And millions of people are having interactions like this all around. I'm getting messages where people say, my church, which never talks about public figures, you know, the sermon was about Charlie and then his martyrdom. And I've drawn a lot of meaning from that. You know what? We've all said that Charlie always wanted to have a revival. And we're seeing those signs of that across America and around the world. Yeah. And we've gotten messages from people saying their marriage is better. At the memorial, I had somebody grab me. This is a pretty high profile person. And they shook me. They said, I am a changed person after last week. I need you to understand that I'm a better father, I'm a better husband, I'm a better Christian. I'm a changed man. And it wasn't just him. I've heard that message hundreds of times. People sending me stuff. Yeah, I had a very high profile Fox host tell me the same. Like, I will never be the same. I am changed. And I think so. The Prayer is, you know, if we. Is that the harvest would be so unmistakable and unbelievable, that we really would see revival and that we would be faithful stewards of what Charlie put, you know, implanted in all of our hearts. And. Yes. I just want to read this because we got a minute. Daisy just sent us an image that was a message that she was sent, and no names are in it, so I think we're okay. We have two couple friends that have been impacted by this. One couple was on the brink of divorce. The husband apologized to his wife and said he needed to start treating her better and leading his family better. This is the first time in their 15 years together, they started praying in the morning and the night together as a couple. Another couple we went to church with stopped attending a year ago. We have repeatedly invited them back. This weekend, they were back. Wow. And you see Tim Allen, too. He just forgave his father, Shooter, for the first. That was incredible. And he said that it was Erica's courage on stage. Yeah, you can see the tweet right there. It was Erica's courage on stage to forgive that led him to forgive the man that murdered his father 60 years ago. I think we labeled these Forgiveness Fridays. Forgiveness Fridays, Yeah. Who do we forgive? It's kind of like Festivus for the rest of us. Charlie love that. All right, we have a radio break here, and we'll keep going in the stream, and we'll be right back. All right, and we are back. So, Stacy, I think just to round out the. You know, I would have. I would say pray for our safety, pray for our families. A lot of us, everybody around this table is sort of been thrust into a much more public position than we had ever wanted or anticipated. And we are doing it out of duty and honor and a desire to. And we love Turning Point. We love Charlie, we love Erica, we love the mission. And, you know, what would Charlie do? I think I asked myself that a lot, and I asked myself that probably a dozen times a day, various decisions or things that come up. So pray for us that we would stay humble and stay low and stay close to Jesus. And I would say, you know, I've said this before, but there were so many instances where Charlie would have this amazing success, like, this amazing thing would happen. And he would quickly type back to me personally, he'd go, just stay humble. Stay close to Jesus. And I'll always remember that because that is the mantra. That's the drumbeat. And, you know, just pray that we at Turning Point that we would be faithful Stewards of all of this explosive growth of this chapter, growth of this. These opportunities to continue the mission of Charlie. And we have every intention to do it. So when we get high, we need to be humbled. When we get low, need to stay positive, stay humble. That's Charlie. That's Charlie. That's literally. Daisy just sent me his message. His message that we have. She just forwarded it to me. Wow. And I think back to election night, when he sat right here. First thing he did is he just gave all glory to God. There's actually a psalm that talks about that where you'll be known by the way you celebrate. Essentially. I'll have to find this verse, but it was the first thing he did. All glory to God. I'm just humbled by God's grace. Yep, that's right. There it is. That was such a beautiful moment, and all of us were here for that. And I watched that clip back in the days after the election so many times, and it would make me cry every time. I don't want to be known as, like, the sobbing guy, but, like, that was. It was literally two instances what had. What just happened and this. I mean, I think hopefully you guys will forgive me for that, but, yeah, it would. It would make me misty seeing him get misty, you know, because I know. I know how much he. He left on the field. He. As you said, in the moment. You know, if anybody deserves to get a little emotional, it's Charlie because of how hard he worked for that moment. But I just always think how I'm forever just going to be the guy boringly droning in that clip. No, that was Jack. That was Jack. No. All right, next question. I believe we have Gentry. Hey, guys, thanks for doing this show. We've been. We've been praying for all you guys. My question is. Wanted to ask who Charlie's mentors were and his favorite books. Obviously the Bible. I know a lot of people have been buying Bibles reading that, but I was also curious what his other favorite books were. And. And his mentors. We. I would say there's a lot of answers to that. Yeah, I would. So, you know, Bill Montgomery was the one that sort of saw Charlie speaking at a Tea Party rally when he was 18. And the way that it was told to me by Bill was everybody was, like, sleeping, and Charlie gets to stage, and everybody kind of. Their ears perked up, and they were like, wow, who is this kid? So Bill was the first one to sort of take. And Bill was a really sweet guy, took an interest In Charlie knew that he could sort of was the first. He gets the great credit, but credit of being one of the first to see the. The potential in Charlie. Yeah. And God rest his soul, he died in 2020. But, you know, Charlie had a lot of mentors, including Dennis Prager and Frank Turek. Frank Turek on when, especially when it came to apologetics. Frank Turek was his go to resource. And he would, he would hit him up on a lot of this stuff. And then I would say, you know, the Horowitz, David Horowitz was one of his early mentors, especially when it came to just networking and fundraising. But he studied people that are living and people that are dead. So there's no end of mentors. Mikey, I don't know if you want to add to this, but he kind of had mentors for different things and he would do these things, Blake, you know about this, where he would fly somebody out and they would be there for like four to five days on end and they would just kind of loiter around the office. But then what really happened where a lot of people at the office didn't see this is afterwards they would go to Charlie's house and we would do these whiteboard sessions, like big whiteboard sessions. And Charlie spinal taps suck all the essence off of them. And Charlie would just sit there with his notebook. He always had these spiral bound notebooks. And he would just write and write and write and write. And if he had an answer that he was struggling with, this is something I get on campus. This is what I need help with. And so that was anybody from Frank Turek to Dr. James Orr to. Well, I was going to say. I was just about to say James. Dr. Orr, who was on this week, was another one of Charlie's mentors. And he was a newer person that came into his life, but he was so excited to absorb everything he could on the classics from Dr. James Orr. We're going to take a quick break and welcome back Radio. He was welcome back to Radio. We, Charlie had been asked, we had been asked to put together a definitive Charlie book list. And we just need to do it. We need to put our heads down. Because he was asked so many times now, it's annoying because we'll have to go back and listen to all the stuff he said. The one I always search for man search for meaning was one he would cite repeatedly, Darkness at Noon. I'm trying to make sure that he would always say that in those hills Dads. But I believe he also was a. He was A big fan of that book and would cite it 1984. 1984. Yeah. In general, he would like, like, very impactful books. Yeah. That were not too long because he was a very. He was a very busy guy. Age of Entitlement was a really important book for him politically. Yeah, politically. Political philosophy. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search. For me, he would recommend that to everybody. Did you say Darkness at Noon? Yes. Yeah, you did. Ye. Up to that one. He was really into. I'm trying to think all the books, man. We just need to. We just need to, like, sit down and put it all now, because I know he got asked that in prior amas, and I think he even did, like, best. I always remember Man's Search for Meaning because that was his favorite book of 23, and he did kind of all of his reading in 2023. And he talked about that started. He started reading way, way, way, way more during COVID So Covid was a time where he took, you know, the shutdown and just started voraciously absorbing content. And I actually. He used to kind of hate this question. By the way, before we forget, C.S. lewis, he loved all the C.S. lewis, Lewis shirt, Christianity, screwtape letters. But it was some of the more obscure ones too, like the Great Divorce. The Great Divorce, yeah. Anyways, so the point is, Charlie, I remember he would get kind of annoyed at this. Not because it's not a good question. It's a really good question. It's just when you're on the spot being asked which books, you're like, his favorite. Right. At the end were two, and it was Not Enough Faith to Be an Atheist with Frank Turek. But then he had just finished it, and I just ordered my coffee, and he was so. He was loving the book so much, but it was Doctrine by Mark Driscoll, and he loved that book. Yeah. We're actually gonna be talking about revival with him next week, so stay tuned for that. And Josh McPherson we're having both on. Yeah. And I think so. He had a lot of favorite books, and he borrowed from a lot of people. But, like, let's commit to that as a team. Let's go back through the archives, get all of his best answers, and we will. We will commit to you, the audience, to put together a comprehensive answer, and we'll put it on the Charlie Kirk.com in Charlie Kirk Book Club. Like 12 of them. Yeah, absolutely. We should. One book at a time. Yeah, no, we should. So. So it's a great. It's a great prompt And a great question. It is hard to answer, though, on the. On the side now I'm like, why didn't I remember all of these things? And I was just thinking, well, I could ask. Ask him whenever. I know there's this book when we were in Maine that he. He recommended. He said it's called Overcoming Unwanted and Intrusive Thoughts. And then he goes, but then I read it, and it gave me all these unwanted and intrusive thoughts that I didn't know I needed and wanted. Charlie was always very great about. Like, this is something he shared with Trump, sort of that power. Not he wasn't a full believer, like, power of positive thinking, but he was a very big believer. He's just like, Blake, I think, like, your level of happiness is basically decided by yourself. And I. I remember once he was just like, you know, I could be sad about this, but I choose not to be. Yes, exactly. So Daisy is mentioning in the chat that ask Charlie anything183 the Road to 270. What books to read. It's in the title. So it was April 8, 2024. That's probably still on Rumble. So you can go back and Listen to rumble. April 8, 2024, the road to 270. Ask Charlie Anything 183. So you can look up that title. Ask Charlie anything 183. Yeah, that'll be on Rumble. That'll be on podcast apps. Yeah. So, yeah, if you go to, like, the Omni app, I think you can get all of Charlie's podcast. So Omni is like a. It's a publisher, a syndicator of the RSS feed. So if you go to Apple, some of the old ones are off. They're not available there. But if you go to Omni, you can search the Charlie Kirk show, and all of them are there. So, yeah, we actually, we should, you know, just type in that title, Google a bunch of ways to listen to it. It'll show up. Okay, so type in Ask CharlieAnything 183 the Road to 270, what Books to Read, and it'll come up. Okay. And one last thing. Just on the mentor issue, I think I just want to emphasize that kind of shows. He was a very talented man, but one of his, like, very strong core traits. Even as Charlie was becoming a bigger person, a more prominent person, he had that humility. He had no embarrassment, no shame about seeking a ton of mentors. Think about how, let's just say it, how famous he was. And he's still like, I want to take a weekend to learn from this person who is a lot less famous than I am, who is a lot less, like, noteworthy than I am. But I think I have a ton to learn from them. I want a whole weekend to do it. And he always was so loyal. Charlie was the most loyal person to his friends. So after that season of learning from you, he would never forget it. And he would invite you to everything and stay in touch with you. And one that comes to mind is you just briefly mentioned Andrew. But Dennis Prager was a huge mentor for Charlie. And obviously the accident happened with Dennis. Charlie made multiple trips to go visit Dennis on the east coast in the hospital. In the hospital. Well, he went out to LA first and then he went to Georgia. Georgia. And Charlie made multiple trips to both. And he even just dedicated his new book, Stop in the Name of God, to Dennis Prager. I think the title is from Dennis too, isn't it? The title is from Dennis, too. And so, by the way, he was also, he would hit up Tony Robbins all the time to talk to him. And he loved his book, Big Influence, Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich. So that's from a Chicago friend that's reminding me of those. Of those books. So. All right, next question. Who do we have? Elizabeth. Elizabeth, you are on with the Charlie Kirk Show. What's your question? So I'm just curious with all. With the enormity of inquiries you guys have had, which, praise God for that, with a child in high school and one in college, I cannot be happier to hear about all of that. But I'm just wondering what the vetting process is, how long you anticipate it will take to ensure that we're getting good leadership on these campuses. People with good, noble, pure intentions that are going to carry Charlie's Kirk, Charlie's torch onto this, onto the campuses with all these inquiries. I imagine it's going to take a little bit of time to vet everybody and get everybody equipped. Yeah, I mean, just to put it in perspective, we were getting somewhere around, let's say 30 to 50 inquiries a week before this. So to get, you know, over 120,000 is a Herculean task for the team. I will tell you that. We're exploring different ways to sort of do them in batches and groups. Right. And we have field team all around the country that usually will take an inquiry or come in. The field team will then go meet with that person and help them and give them all the tools they need to start that chapter. So there will have to be some Sort of hands on piece of that. And we're probably going to have to staff up and we have a lot of people that we can sort of bring into that team, train them up so they can reach more people. It will take time. It will take time because the way that a chapter is formed, you have to then get a sponsor at the school. So you have to get a teacher or an administrator to say, hey, I'll put my name on this chapter. Thankfully, in the aftermath, finding sponsors is a lot easier to. Chapters need an adult to help them. And so now that's going to be easier. I will say that, you know, you work, you mentioned. How do we know they're going to be doing this in good faith? Well, one of the great things about having so many inquiries is a lot of those are duplicates from the same school. I mean we have way more inquiries than we, than there are schools in the United States. The way the college works is that once you hit about a thousand, you're kind of maxing out the possibility there. So a lot of those inquiries on the college level, we're going to be able to plug them in to these chapters that are already functioning in existence and they're probably going to be the next group that leads those chapters into the future. And on the high school level, you know, there's about 23, 24,000 high schools in the country. And we have every faith that one of Charlie's last, you know, desires, wishes, visions that he cast was that we're going to have a Club America chapter, which is our turning, turning point high school brand. We're going to have those in every single high school in America. So even there we've got duplicates, right? We might have some home schools. We have a way to support homeschools or POD schools where different families get together and kind of share that share the load. So we have ways to do all of those things and you're going to have duplicates. So if, say example A is that we have two or three applicants that want to start a turning point chapter at a certain high school, well, applicant A and applicant B might tell us applicant C is not in good faith or not the right person to do this and vice versa. So we're going to have the ability to cross check even at the local school level. And the only other thing I would add is that we the leaders of the chapter, so you elect the president of the chapter, the vice president of the chapter, et cetera, are selected appropriately. And we also host an event every single year called Our chapter leadership summit, it's called cls. And this was always Charlie's favorite because he loved the energy of these leaders, these student leaders. But that's where our team see them in person. And if they're a bad cookie, they're removed from the bunch. So we have a good vetting process. And I just actually sent your question, Elizabeth, to our field team, and the answer we got back is that contacted within a. Within a month. That's the promise. So if you, if you send an inquiry in, you'll be contacted within a month, but the rest of the semester to be fully equipped with activism kits, training, school approval, etc. So, you know, we're, we're. The way this typically works is about 30% of the leads convert, so hopefully it's higher now. But that's, that's kind of the math that we, but even at 30%, we're, we're in a position where Charlie's vision is, is really, it's going to happen. It's. We're at the cusp of that. So we're going to be, we're going to be continuing this for all semester. But they will be contacted within a month by one of our staff at Turning Point. That's awesome. Yeah. For you guys. Thank you. I'm in Arizona, so, I mean, I'll lick envelopes for you guys if that's what you need. As far as help, I just, I really. I actually applied for a job about a year ago to Turning Point, but I live clear across the valley, so coming into the office every day was kind of not an option for me. I think we determined that in my interview. But I will, I will drive out there once a week. I will lick envelopes. Like I said, I will do whatever you guys need. So if there's a way for me to sign up to serve, my family and I were in it. I love that. And those kind of messages keep me, like, keep my spirits really high because I know that we have so many people behind us and that they're doing it for Charlie and they're doing it for the mission. And I believe that this is part of the harvest that we're going to experience in the aftermath here. And I believe God has a plan and God has his hand on us. So. Yeah, thank you so much. And by the way, one of you talk about getting involved. I mean, please, at the Arizona level, Charlie so badly wanted to make Andy Biggs the next governor of this state. And we're going to keep pushing that, that forward. We're not giving up on that mission. I think it's critically important. We love Andy Biggs. He's a good man. He's a. He's a strong conservative. Charlie and him were very close. So please consider getting involved at Turning Point Action to become a ballot chaser, volunteer, download the app and get involved here in the state of Arizona. We need your help. All right, Sounds good. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We have a radio break coming up and man, these hours go fast. Ama. They're so much fun. They are really fun. So let us take a break on radio and maybe we'll give our partners a break too. So we'll come back for the next radio a bike. Don't go anywhere. No tax on tips. That's a working class Stop settling for weak sound. It's time to level up your game and bring the boom. 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And so I would, I hope there are, frankly, I hope there are other states. You can't let this happen to a country. Pretty easy case because look, he lied. You saw my truth today. He lied. Yes. He didn't say, well, in my opinion, he didn't do a lot of things that maybe he should have, but I don't think he could because he lied. That was a very important question that he was asked and he wanted to be specific, but he didn't. The only thing that happened to him, he didn't think he'd get caught. The commander in chief also making headlines saying that he believes a deal on Gaza is close to coming to fruition. I think it's a deal that will get the hostages back. It's going to be a deal that will end the war. It's going to be a deal which it's going to be peace. I think we have a deal. That'll be. President Trump's announcement comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General assembly today. A number of delegates to the UN Walked out in protest before his remarks began. Well, again, as it relates to FBI Director James Comey's indictment, one is for making a false statement. The second is for obstructing a congressional proceeding. President Trump weighed in on Truth Social as well. You just heard him weigh in verbally on Truth Social. He wrote justice in America. One of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former corrupt head of the FBI. Today he was indicted by a grand jury on two felony counts for various illegal unlawful acts. He has been so bad for this country for so long. The president goes on to write. We'll continue to monitor this. All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colbett, executive producer of this fine show with Mikey McCoy, Charlie's chief of staff, and Blake Neff, Charlie's travel buddy and quiz partner. I think that's your title now. I just got a note from one of our affiliates in North Dakota. I think it's great. He said in my last interview with Charlie, I promised North Dakota would have the highest percentage of high school and college participants per capita in the nation. Let's go. There's a challenge for you. Texas, Arizona, Wisconsin, California, etc. So I agree. I would love to see. Let's see. Which state can be the best Turning Point State. I don't know which one it would be if I had to. I wonder where we're strongest. Well, we have to make it Arizona. We have to make it Arizona. That's probably true. But I will tell you, there's like, huge chapters at Clemson and UGA and Georgia. I mean, people always complain about there being two Dakotas. So maybe one could rename itself to Dakota and the other could name itself itself Turning Point State. That would be North Dakota. Wait, which one are you from? I'm from South Dakota. Well, I was born in North Dakota but raised in South Dakota, so I use that to confuse people. That's. That is confusing. I think that's great. Thank you, Scott, for sending that. What's our next question? Oh, wait. Caleb and Michelle want to know how Daisy's doing. How's the baby? We've prayed for you. Daisy is doing great. You can just barely start to see. You could. I don't know. I don't even think you can see it. No. It depends what she's wearing. You can't see it. Like today she's wearing. I don't know if she barely saw her, but you wouldn't notice it. But, like, there was one time I was like, hey, you got a little baby bump. Finally, like, you know, it's her first baby. So the. You know, I've had three. I know this how this goes. The first one, it. You don't show as much and so she's kind of at that stage, but it's like she's. She's getting close, but baby's good. She'll be 39 weeks. At Amfest, she had a. Wait, wait. Tell everyone. I was asked multiple times if I had a stomach ache on stage because I had my hand on my bump. Did you have a stomachache on stage? Very big one. A very big one. Did you eat a. She goes, no, I'm pregnant. Yeah. Cause she doesn't look that pregnant. So she's six months pregnant and she looks like the same. It's very, you know, it's first baby thing. So hopefully that answers it. But she's doing great, and she's been an absolute rock star in this time. She's helped keep the team together and hand all the coordination with the teams of people that have come, whether that was Tucker or Megan or Glenn. She was helping coordinate all of that. She's keeping the trains running on time. So she's been amazing, amazing. And she's laughing at me. Okay, Zach, next. Next question. Zach. Hey, how are you all doing? Hey, Zach. We're doing well. What can I. What's your question? Yeah, so the biggest thing for me that I've been wondering, especially in light, you know, ever really since Trump was first elected, how do we go about having decent conversations with one another as human beings? You know, there's a lot of. I feel tension, and I love talking about politics with my friends. A lot of them are poli sci or economics, whatever it may be, and we get on those topics, but it always seems like we start building the tension. And I'm not really sure how we bring that down when we're in those conversations, how we get back to a human level and really focus on what matters most. And that's. We do love each other at the end of the day. We're brothers. We've been friends for a long time. But how do we navigate those situations? Does anybody want to take this one or. Yeah, Charlie's. Charlie would always ask questions, and he said it was his secret weapon to kind of if someone was coming in hot, down a little bit. So his first is he would say, well, what evidence do you have for that claim? And that was his first question that he would like to ask to somebody. So asking questions. But then the hardest part is staying true to yourself because the other side doesn't necessarily come with good intentions in debate. And so they're ready to yell at you or worse. And so doing the Charlie effect is keeping calm, being kind Asking questions and being the bigger person, even when they're not, is really kind of the secret weapon there. What do you think, Blake? Yeah, and I think it's always good. Ultimately, you can only control yourself. The rule I always like to remember for debates is remember you're. Especially if it's in public, you're not just debating the person you're directly opposite. You're sort of debating every single person who is watching, every person who's a witness to it. And as a result, we should always be careful, like, not to disgrace ourselves, not to behave in ways that we'll regret later because, you know, we are a representative of everyone who shares our views. We're representative of our cause. Always remember that. And I think that will always encourage better behavior. Yeah. And we gotta wrap this hour up here, but I would say that Charlie was really good at not dehumanizing the other side. He always treated them as a human being. And even when they don't treat you like a human being, that you could. You could still sort of acknowledge, hey, you're not treating me with respect, but fine, I'm going to still answer your question. And Charlie was really good at sussing out good faith, bad faith arguments and have confidence, your representation of the truth. The truth is on your side. Be confident about it. All right, that's the end of hour one. I think we should take one more in the break. What? Do you guys like it? All right, we'll be back for the stream radio. We'll be back in a few minutes. All right, welcome back. We have a question from Chris. Chris, are you there? Because we're looking for Chris. We lost Chris. No, it's. It's our fault. They. I threw a curveball at the studio and so now they have to go find Chris. You know, we were so close to, like, a mirror. Every single question there was no, we got her. Yay. Oh, my gosh. I'm so excited. Thank you for taking my call, guys. Thank you for being here and being a member. We appreciate it. Wow. I'm just going to read to you what I wrote so that I don't mess it up. I just wanted to thank you all for working so hard to preserve Charlie's legacy. I understand how important Charlie's relationship is within or was within the Trump administration. And do we foresee continuing those relationships to further advance the Maga Maha agenda? Yeah, I would say. And Mikey, you'd be good to chime in here as well. So I would say one of the fascinating things in the immediate aftermath was just how many people that Charlie was communicating with reached out to our team, to me personally, just to say, hey, I'm here. This is my number. Like, we knew each other, but it was. Charlie was maintaining all these relationship, and it was like, we're not going anywhere. Please let us know what we can do. And those relationships have been blossoming and growing. So those friends of Charlie's in the admin want to maintain their friendships and maintain their connection to the organization, to Erica. I know Erica's had a ton of people that are, you know, very, very important people to this country reach out directly and just say how they could help. And I know that she's ongoing having those conversations. Yeah. Without divulging too much, Erica is daily in contact with many, many, many people inside of the admin. And so she had relationships with a lot of these people with Charlie and then also on her own. But there's a podcast that Charlie and Erica didn't hear where one of you guys asked a question, who's more conservative? Charlie said, erica's way more based than I am. So in regards to furthering the Maga Maha agenda, I'd have no worry about Erica Kirk continuing that. So hold on. The actual quote was erica laughed. She goes, andrew always jokes that you became way more based once you married me. And he's like, oh, yeah, totally. And that was actually a joke that we had. Cause because I remember Charlie evolved on a lot of topics. One of the things that we're trying to figure out, we're gonna do this kind of like, we're gonna try and catalog all of Charlie's clips and debates and all of these things. And we are. One of the things I told Eric, I was like, he evolved on so many issues over time that if we're doing a large language model, you need to sort of weight the later opinions more because he just. He evolved on all of this and he got ultra based. Yeah. Thanks to Erica and I think some of us around this table. But no, he was. He. We have those relationships. And by the way, Maha, we love Maha. RFK has been so kind. And not just rfk, but Junior, but, you know, Bhattacharya and some of the other ones that are connected to that, and we want to keep that going. Alex Clark is obviously a huge proponent of that too. And I think we have that clip. Erica and Charlie. 305. 305. Let's play it. My wife joins us. Erica Kirk, the beautiful, legendary Erica. I love you so much. I love you. You're my best friend. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. We have asked the audience for questions. You pick one. Who is more conservative and why? Erica. Yes. By far. Not even close. I am a moderate to Erica. Andrew always jokes that once you got married to me, you got more based. That's true. That is true. No, Erica is very conservative. Do you think having kids made you more conservative? 100%, which I didn't think was possible, but 100%, absolutely. And a better wife. Oh, love that. I've seen all these edits on social media of that clip with this hype music and all these graphics flying on the screens like I am. I'm more conservative. Like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Yeah. So she'll continue. I've seen it, like, mixed over with the, like. You have no idea what you've unleashed. You have Erica now. Great. By the way, just to reiterate, Erica Kirk will be joining us, I believe, at 1:30 Eastern. I think that's about when she's coming on, so. But again, it's whatever Erica wants to. To say or do. We have zero agenda other than she told me. She wants to tell the audience how much you meant to Charlie and speak directly to people who loved you most. And that was the people that are part of the Charlie Kirk show family all across the country and world. I know there's people that. I've been getting notes from overseas that are watching our streams, so that's awesome, too. So anyways, Erica's coming and I don't know if we have any more questions because I'm throwing curve balls at the team. But we have four minutes till the next hour if you want to. But give it a shot. Hold on. These are the notes I'm getting. Do you want to say anything else about Erica? Because you know Erica really, really well because you traveled with Charlie and Erica. Yeah. She's also very strategic and takes. Charlie is very fast paced and he would travel all the time. She's more measured. She's more scheduled and measured. So she's. Charlie always had the vision in the long game and she has that too. But she's like, it's fun seeing her kind of piece it all together and have the game plan. She's clear thinking. You know, she's got, like, a very organized brain. So we have some that are written. Hi, I have two questions for the show today, and I've put them below. Thank you. What do you think Charlie would want young Christians to remember most about living in their faith and what was one of the most powerful Moments you witnessed of Charlie living out his faith behind the scenes. I would like to take the second one first. This was a little moment that does not paint me in a great light, but it paints Charlie in a great light, so I will gladly share. Was about a week before he died, and there was something that was going on. It was just a little annoyance. I can't even remember what it was. I should probably actually go back in the text and figure out what it was, because I probably have it. But I just said, why don't we just tell him xyz? And essentially I was saying, tell a little white lie. It'll make the problem go away. It's no big deal. It wasn't even an important thing. And Charlie wrote back instantly, we don't lie. And it was a really powerful moment for me because it was completely in private. It was completely in secret. Nobody would, you know, nobody would ever see what he said. And he just said, we don't lie. And the message was implicit. And we means me. It means Mikey. It means Blake. Like, we don't lie at Turning Point. Yep. And I said this earlier. If we're gonna have the truth on our side and we're gonna be representatives of the truth, then we're not gonna lie. Because if we're going out in public and giving people the truth, and oftentimes that's the gospel, why would the people receiving that message want to receive it from us if in the background we're lying all the time? We have. We have no right to do so. Yeah, I mean, if you guys want to take a stab at the first question. My point. What do you think Charlie would want young Christians to remember most about living in their faith? Is that to have courage. Courage is the. Is the least common of the virtues. It's the rarest of the virtues. And so to have courage in your faith means that you can be used by God. And what does courage require? I think it requires repentance, and it requires honesty. And to be used by God means you have to have faith. Right? So you just gotta have that. You gotta know that God's gonna meet you in that moment, and he's gonna give you the words. He's gonna give you the strength. He's gonna give you the ability to do what God asks you to do. So have courage. Courage. Courage, Courage. Courage. Courage. Speak truth into the darkness. Speak truth into the culture. And don't be afraid. Don't cower. Don't parse your words. Don't give an inch. That's. That Will make you a man that will put spine down your back and steel in your spine. And it will, it will immovable. And when you're immovable, that was what Charlie was. You could not move him off that mark. Yeah, he's the cornerstone of everything. So with that, I think we've gotten through our questions and we are going to share some really great. We're going to share some really never before seen never Asia videos that Mikey, I believe, took from the trip just before he got back on the Monday before it happens. So this is, this is really precious stuff. And Mikey and Blake are going to take the wheel and then Erica Kirk joins us. So don't go anywhere. We will be right back. All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show, hour two. We have a really fun hour in store for you. And by the way, we're gonna have a lot more high profile guests join us in studio next week. We're really excited about that. I cannot tell you enough how overwhelmed I've been by just people that everybody knows in the movement and conservative world especially, but beyond that, that want to come and be a part of honoring Charlie and coming in the studio and helping us do the show. But today is really fun because Mikey and Blake are going to talk about their last trip with Charlie to Asia. And Mikey, you are now in the driver's seat. The floor is yours. Yeah. It's crazy to think that was just three, four days before Utah and it was Charlie's dream to always go to Asia. And Blake and I got the gift of being able to tag along for that. And so I brought the camera with me. I've never traveled with a camera before, but I decided, you know, it would be a good idea to mic Charlie up, do some content with him while we're there. And so we put together a little teaser. There's some speeches that are going to be coming out soon, podcasts that are going to be coming out soon. Never before seen. So this is exciting. This is new. But number two 92, look at you calling it. This is a little teaser of what's to come from Asia. Imagine seeing, though what I'm seeing here tonight, a global movement for freedom. I'm here to bring a message of hope to Japan for those with political will, determination, and bravery. Nothing is impossible. Freedom is not only an American or a Western value, it is a value that belongs to the entire world. We are allies because we all share a common enemy. Globalism. They preach a doctrine they call diversity. Globalism wants to erase the distinctions that separate different Countries and cultures. It takes hundreds of years to build a civilization. It takes one generation of mistakes to throw it away. Protect your freedom and your faith from the evildoers who would destroy it. The best way to fight against tyranny is for good people to stand up. Blake and I are. We're laughing because the event we did in Korea was. It's so amazing. It was so incredible. A copy paste of America. It was. It was called build up Korea 2025. And it was so amazing to see. It was. It literally was. They're like. You know, we say, you know, Charlie would want to imitate people who are successful, so we'd learn from people. He would do a lot of the Rush stuff because he's like, well, Rush is successful. So this is people doing the same thing with Charlie Kirk. They're like, I want a successful youth conservative event. Turning Point is a successful. Let's do a Turning Point. So it's got the. It has, like, this cracking me up. When you guys are sending the clips. I was like, it has, like, it just literally same backstage area, same shape, same fireworks, same, like, synth wave color scheme. Like, you know, like, it's out of the 80s sort of. And the funny part is right at the end, they're going, usa. Usa. They even wanted to. They had the booths. I remember going through those, and it was great. They had the exhibitor hall, and some of them were very Korean. But one that I got a kick out of, it was like, the 1776 Institute, and it was a Korean, like, US fan club. It's like, oh, what you can learn from the American founders and how awesome they are. And I was like, yes. Yeah. Well, this was amazing, though. You told me the story how everybody at this Korean event, they. They were invited to come close to the stage. So amazing. And they just started singing and praying over Charlie, which was interesting, like, full circle moment, because the same. Some of the worship leaders at the. The event for Charlie's memorial sang that same song. And it was basically like two weeks to the day later that they. They this song that these Koreans were worshiping and praying over Charlie that ended up being sung at his memorial. But he put his hand on his heart, and you told me it was one of the few times you'd seen him get emotional. Yeah. So they called him on stage, they said, we had one last gift for you, Charlie. And so he didn't know what it was, but he went out on stage, and she spoke to the crowd in Korean. And then all of a sudden, the piano starts Playing and starts. How great is our God? And they're singing it, and it's. I keep saying beauty transcends even language. Even though that song was in Korean, we all knew what song they were singing. And they came, and then they were praying over him. They said something in Korean. They yelled it out loud. And a week and two weeks later, two weeks and two days later, that that song would be sung at Charlie's memorial with everybody giving their hearts. I just warms my heart knowing that he had these. This overflowing of, like, the Holy Spirit and God and prayer that he got to just bask in and. And feel the love in that way. And so it's. You know, it's comforting. Yeah. And so other exciting things that we got to do is Blake was our tour guide, and he took us. What was the Palace? Was it Gyeongbokgun? Yeah. I'll confess. Korean syllables kind of all just. It's like syllable gore to me, so I can't ever remember. Let me make sure I got that right. We fit in so much stuff into one day. We went to the dmz, so North Korea. And then he also have that clip. Yeah, we do. And then we have Blake taking us to the Palace. I think we should play the palace clip. 298. Blake. I'm sorry about this one. Mikey struggle busting. He's all like, it's so hot. I can't be cool. Like, the security guys who have full suits or Blake, who's got his ridiculous Macy's blazer. I was gonna say, like, you've gotten more. You've got more mileage out of that blazer than anything I've ever seen in my life. It's a great blazer. People like it. Buy you a couple blazers, but this is. Wear them because that's like your. That's the. It's my favorite blazer. It's nice. People comment on it no matter what the occasion. Like, wears the Macy's blazer. Heck, yeah. So I think. I think Charlie secretly had a plan to be a tourist that day in the Walk City, but he didn't tell us that message. So we came downstairs in our suits, you know, fully ready for an event. He came down in gym shorts and a T shirt and his long socks. We were sledding through 90, 90%. Every time we'd get to something, he'd just be like, blake, tell us about this. That's right. So, yeah, we were at the palace, and I'm like, okay, yeah, we got the Palace. You know, this is. This is the hall where they would do the Confucian scholarship stuff. I want to see this one. 297. With the DMZ. I want to see the. Because I didn't actually know he went there. So that's great. 297 North Korea. Hey, everybody. Welcome to North Korea. So this is literally North Korea, Blake. Yep. Yeah. So originally we were supposed to go to the DMZ portion where Trump shook Kim Jong Un's hand and I'm gonna put him on blast. But the United nations canceled. Charlie didn't allow us to go. So we were scheduled to go. So we had to go to that lookout point, which was really exciting still. So glad we got that. Yeah. You got to see it. Something else that's really interesting is when we were at that build Up Korea event, Charlie was meeting with all these pastors backstage. Do you remember this? Yeah. Yeah. And there's pastor Son S O N. And Charlie was talking to him, and he was talking about politics from the pulpit, which you can't do during an election season in Korea, but he was doing it anyways. And Charlie's like, let me take a picture with you. So he took the picture and we left Korea. Two days after we left Korea, the pastor was arrested and is in jail right now for no way. Oh, I saw that. Because you can't. It's. Yeah, there. Yeah, we have the picture up there. That was two days after they arrested that pastor. He's in jail right now for talking about politics in the pulpit. So after Korea, we ran over to Japan. And Blake, you've been to Korea and Japan before this, so you're Korean. So the context was I got to Korea early because I had that friend's wedding. So I was. I kind of got used to the city. And then Japan I had been to before in 2019. So very basic amount of experience. We had a very good friend of the show Rio, who he was. He's been this Charlie super fan for a while. I remember coming to the 2022am Festival, and he was there. So he's been a friend of ours and he's worked with us and stuff. And so he kind of helped pave the way for this visit. And then he was, like, showing us around, and it was so great. I think we have a photo of him. It's. When we do. But there's one video that I want to play that's amazing. 299 if we have time. Yeah. Play it. Totally gonna miss for Gigi. This is very offensive. Totally getting this for Gigi. Hello Kitty. Like, like, was that the Don Koto? Was that the one that you took us into? I don't know if that one was the hello Kitty thing. I think that was. That was just like a little side thing we were stepping into, I think. All right, well, more exclusive behind the scenes, never before seen videos from Charlie's Asia trip coming up. Don't go anywhere. All right, welcome back. So Charlie bought a hello Kitty doll for his family. And by the way, explain this. Like, did people recognize him in Japan at all? They did not usually foreigners who were also there, but there was at least $1 guy from Japan who did recognize him. And a lot of Koreans recognized. Actually there was that group of kids, remember, in Tokyo that came up to him. They're like. Those were Korean. I believe those were Japanese kids. Yeah, they were. So, yeah. So the only time Charlie would stop, again, 90, humidity, 95 degrees outside. It was terrible. Wearing suits, we're sweating. He doesn't stop. Well, we just. I just want to make a note on that. I've said it before, but it bears repeating. He. When I first started working with Charlie, he would run like 7 or 10 miles in a day and then eventually hurt his back. Now he would just walk. So he would do these long walks and you guys. And he would walk fast. He walked very fast. He had very long legs. So the only time he would stop was if it was at. At the coffee shop, which we went to, Blake, or if it was to get a gift for his family, which you saw in that last clip. But. But 282. The clip of us in the coffee shop. Do you remember this, Blake? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do that one. Oh, do we have no sound? Well, we'll narrate it. We're in a coffee shop. Charlie got. I think he got a hot tea. Play that again. I want to see. He would. He was so happy given the thumbs up. Look at you and your boy camera skills, Mike. I was the only place with ac. Yeah, we were wandering. It's super hot and it's like. It's this kind of a book. Chan Hanok Village is kind of what they call it. It's more traditional looking buildings in Seoul and there's all those back alleys. And it was just so great. I was like. It was like, yeah, there's big stores here, but you can also just step into any alley and there'll be all these places. And then there was this little coffee shop and it was great. We could just step in they had no idea who we were. And I think Charlie, Charlie absolutely enjoyed, you know, being an activist on a big scale. But I think he also enjoyed that he could actually wander around Seoul and not be spotted by anyone. You mentioned in your thread on X that you. Because one of Charlie's big missions was restoring the family, increasing marriage and having babies. And he was even taking that message to Seoul and South Korea. But you said it was kind of. You guys noticed as you're walking around, the lack of children. Yeah, there. Yeah. Actually at that event, there was a bunch of babies in the back. That was the only place I saw maybe the churches. It was really. It would stand out because, for example, you'd get on the subway, which. Did Charlie ever actually ride on the train? You just walked through a station. But yeah, I went on the trains. And every subway car has like two or four pink seats that are for pregnant women. And I'm not sure I ever saw one of them occupied. And, and, but you said they would line up. Yes. Oh, that was really busy. They'd get in lines where the things would stop. And you could tell where it would stop because it kind of had a very precise little window that it would be at. And they would have. It would basically be three people wide. And they would get two parallel lines with a path in the middle for the people who are going to get out. And not only would they do that, they get on and off the train in that orderly way. Like once the train was kind of just getting a little too full, the people would just stop and they would wait for the next train. Like they did not actually pack to the gills where like you were. You're maximizing the number. Yeah, yeah. Interesting. And like the, the Han. Everything's Han. And then you're explaining this to me and Charlie and when we're at the palace, they had all these get ups. Yeah, Hanbok. Han basically just means Korean or like people basically, which. It's funny because it's the same word in Chinese. So they both call themselves Hannah in their language. But so hanbok is like Korean dress. And it says, I have that clip. We do. That's the clip. So the women would wear these dresses and the men had these kind of top hats. It almost looked like it. The very cool. I was so heartbroken. It was because I went to that for my friend's wedding and like, you can wear hanbok to a wedding. And I like, I was like, I should have done it. And I wussed out. Did you wear your Macy's blazer, I think. Yes. I wager money he did. Yeah. So it looks beautiful. And that's in Korea? Yeah, that's in Korea. Oh, and at this palace they have this. You have to buy for entry or buy a ticket for entry, but if you show up in a hanbok, you can get in for free. Just walk in. So if we had, if we had more time, I think Blake and I would have gotten in the garb. So. So did you, did you see kids? Just a church. You said you saw these like empty playgrounds. Yeah, there was like a playground by. There's a big Korean, like, museum monument. And I went to it and there was a very nice playground next to it, but it was totally deserted. It also had a very fun sign that had all the different finds you could receive if you broke the rules. Like if you captured and tamed an animal, that was one of them. And it had a little fun photo or it was like this man with kind of little gnome thing. I love it. Okay. You know, Asia is quite the place. It really is like all the. I know it's not monolithic. They are just very stark distinctions. But in general, it is sort of like very, very alien to me. All right, we will welcome back radio in just a few seconds. Don't go anywhere. Erica Kirk will be joining us at around in about 10 minutes. So don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kramer Kirk Show. Radio stations across the country, we are going through some never before seen clips of Charlie in Asia. His last trip he took. So. Yeah, go ahead, Mikey. When we first arrived, it was 4:15am which country? Korea. Okay. And Charlie wanted to do something. Cause he wanted to make the most of the time. So at 4:45am he wanted to go see the MacArthur statue, which is the biggest. When you fly into Korea, you land at Incheon International Airport. And Incheon is during the Korean War. A very important battle is fought there where we're losing the Korean War. We're at the bottom end of Korea. And General Douglas MacArthur, he does this very daring maneuver where he sails 200 miles north behind the North Koreans. And he lands at Incheon. Yep. And so that was the landing. And Charlie loved MacArthur. He was one of Charlie's heroes. So the first thing he wanted to do is go see that statue. So this is clip 287. It's playing right there. And Charlie was, ah, he's walking up, he goes, wow, I wish we had statues like this in America. And he walks up to the statue and, Blake, if you could read this. He reads these words out loud. There is no boundary in justice, nor is there any obstacle to struggle, mountain or sea. A man who executed such a struggle in the spirit of justice, to the triumph of the cause of the free world, and to the gratitude and admiration of mankind, is the man whom this statue represents. Wow. Says that out loud. Well, Charlie's gonna get statues in his honor. I know. It's just beautiful. He deserves them. We have some other clips here for. We have the Tokyo event, Free speech, people, principle place, mass immigration. Which one you want, Mikey? I think we should do the mass immigration. All right, let's do mass. Let's do mass immigration. Oh, it's kind of a longer clip. Is it? Let's see. Do we not have it loaded? I don't know. Maybe we don't have it loaded, but we. We will get it. But it's funny, actually, seeing him with the earpiece on the trans for translation. That was fun. Oh, actually, they are so organized. Like, do you remember this? They bring. They have this, like, platter, almost like a silver platter that they put the microphone on. And so when it was Charlie's turn to speak, they kind of walk up to him and they just present this mic to him. The other thing I remember that was so funny was, like, just the way they're so deliberate about things. Like, we had that meal and like, Charlie just wanted to eat fast, but it was like a Chinese restaurant that was like, one thing at a time. And he just. After two courses, like, I'm out, goes and takes a nap. He loved it. All right, this is a longer clip, but let's do it. 306. In America, mass immigration was one of the defining issues that propelled President Trump towards election in both 2016 and 2024. But it was very simple. We asked a series of questions in America. We said, do you want your hometown to be more people that speak Spanish or English? It was very simple. You see, a nation is also. The globalists seek to eliminate the three Ps by getting rid of borders, language, and culture. So a very simple question that I would ask here in Japan that I mentioned in my speech. Do you want school children in Japan to learn Japanese, the language? Of course you do, right? But not Arabic. And we laugh. But you know what? People in London would have laughed 40 years ago in an event just like this. And yet more people are going to speak Arabic in London in 20 years from now than today. So you have to make it very Real, very tangible. The problem is that Tokyo is so nice and that Japan is so great that you're almost in a place where it's very easy to be apathetic. Oh, this will never happen here. We've stood the test of time. Remember they said the sun would never set on the British Empire. I'm sure you've remembered hearing that before. It wasn't war that took down the British Empire. It wasn't any of the other conflicts. It was mass immigration that took down the British Empire. So you must enter with a sense of cautiousness but also immediacy to communicate in real language that in real words that this can have a very serious impact on what people care about most. There's right after that speech, he did a report, a reporter with CNN interview. Blake made a joke. No matter where you are in the world, CNN's still CNN. And she said, don't you feel like your speech was a little xenophobic? And Charlie goes, listen, I think we can both agree if we import 40 million Pakistanis into Japan. Japan's not Japan anymore. And she goes, yeah, you're right. Okay, fine. Yeah. And people are commenting. That's the slowest I've ever heard CK talk. And it's like, well, he had to speak slow so the translators could translate him. So he's being very deliberate in his pacing because normally, yeah, Charlie could rattle off things pretty quickly. We're all accustomed to, like editing clips and listening to things at 2x speed, so we're. That was extraordinary slow for my ear. But. 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And I'm Carol Markowitz. We've been in political media for a long time. Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane. That's why we started Normalely a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity. We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously. So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people. Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. Terrance Bates here with your Real America's Voice News break. Thanks so much for being here with us. President Trump is back in New York right now, ready to cheer on Team usa. He'll spend the afternoon at Bethpage Golf Course with his granddaughter for the Ryder cup match between the US and Europe. Before leaving the White House, however, 47 addressed the James Comey indictment, which accuses the former FBI director of lying to Congress as part of the Russiagate investigation. They weaponized the Justice Department like nobody in history. What they've done is terrible, and so I would I hope they're Frankly, I hope there are other speeches. You can't let this happen to a country. Pretty easy case because look, he lied. You saw my truth today. He lied. Yes. So he didn't say. Well, in my opinion, he didn't do a lot of things that maybe he should have, but I don't think he could because he lied. That was a very important question that he was asking, and he wanted to be specific, but he didn't. The only thing that happened to him, he didn't think it just finished. Here's one of the exchanges that led to the perjury charge. It's between Comey and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley back in 2017. Director Comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation? Question two on relatively related have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation? No. My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees. And you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she's right. But I'm not afraid. And I hope you're not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does. My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I'm innocent. So let's have a trial and keep the faith. All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvad, executive producer of this fine show. I have Mikey McCoy. I have Blake Neff. And now we are joined by the great, the one and only Erica Kirk. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks. It's surreal to actually be sitting because last time I was standing, but yeah, I don't know. Just sit. It's a little more emotional. Yeah. Well, you are rightly at the head of the table. And we're just so honored to have you here. I know that you have been. To say that your life has been a whirlwind would be the understatement of the century. And to make time for Charlie's audience and to speak to them, I know that they can't wait to hear from you. And just to see you, just to see you in this room probably means a lot to them. And you've been up against so much, and you've been doing an incredible, incredible job. The number of messages I've heard just complimenting you and your dignity and your poise and your strength has been overwhelming. And, yeah, we're just so glad you're Here. I'm grateful. I mean, I know we talked about this. We prayed on it. We really tried to discern properly how to go about the next few stages and steps of everything. And we've been very intentional in a way that always keeps Charlie first and his dreams alive and his legacy going. And what's so beautiful is to see all of you step in and do that. And so part of the reason why I wanted to. I agreed to come on because this is not going to be a forever thing of me being on, hosting the show was because I gave assurance to people that Turning Point USA is continuing. And it is. I mean, we are so blessed to have more work than we even could ever dream of. I mean, it's beautiful. And Turning Point action. Full steam ahead. So powerful. All of the other programs within Turning Point usa, everyone knows what they're doing. Everyone has their marching orders. And the show, when we talked about this, became very intimate for me because I was there from the beginning of all of it. And I'll never forget 2020, when literally, the world stood still. And Charlie and I would go hiking every morning, and we. We would just talk about what life. The crazy things going on. And we came home from one of our hikes that time, that season, and my mom pulled him aside in the kitchen, and she goes, honey, they had a very good relationship. My mom and Charlie were best friends. We joked around that. Oh, I know. We joked around that he was the favorite child, but she loved him, still loves him. And she said, you know what, honey? She said, God has blessed you with an amazing voice, and you will be the Rush Limbaugh of your generation. And two days later, you and him engaged in conversations about the show and about the podcast. Well, it was, hey, we're gonna be doing about five more episodes a week now, so just. Just tell the team and make sure that happens. Three hours of this. Two more hours of podcasting. Like, it just. And it just. And he ran with that, and the team ran with it. And to see the Charlie Kirk show grow from that moment until now has been so humbling and beautiful. And he loved every single day. He read every email. I know you guys have said that so many times, but I can vouch for that. Cause there were times where he would forward me some of the emails that he would get, and he wouldn't even say anything. He would just forward the email. And to me, it was almost like an extended form of family, where you guys were the. You guys were the pulse point of. And the connection point of turning Point USA TP Action. The Charlie Kirk show, it was a triple threat and the audience was the master and main component of that. Because Charlie and the Charlie Kirk show is not just a show. It has a movement attached to it. It has the youth movement attached to it. And so for Charlie, the audience was a barometer of what do we need to be focusing on the audience is brilliant. How many times did a listener send in something and say, hey, this is going on. You need to dig deeper in this or check this out. And Charlie's show became and still is, and I'm gonna get there in a second. But Charlie show became the North Star for freedom of speech. But in a way where when he spoke and whatever came across his desk or whatever he put on the air was right. Yes. It wasn't inflated, it wasn't awkwardly optimistic. That had no leverage behind was it was the gold standard grounded in the extremely grounded wisdom of the audience. And, but not only that, he had a team, still does all of you. That was the sounding board of that. And collectively, each one of you are a piece of his brain. I know we've talked about this, Blake. Economics, foreign policy, Andrew. Pretty much a lot of stuff. Mikey. Humor, Christianity, sports, youth, social, pop culture. Was Daisy. Like everyone has a piece of his brain that still lives on. And so what I'm getting at here is the Charlie Kirk show is not going anywhere. My husband's voice will live on. The show will go on. We will have rotating hosts, rotating cast, rotating people coming on, great people next week. Unbelievable. We will have consistency. The members only group will continue to go on all of his socials that God has blessed us with. The people who follow those socials will go on. Nothing is changing. But I want to preface, we're not awkward, we're not like weird, we're not cringe, we're not going to be tweeting as if it's him. That's tone deaf and really disturbing. And anyone who does that, that's like morbidly off. That's not what's happening. What's happening is the team is keeping this alive because we have Charlie and each and every one of us. And it is going to be continually the North Star of the conservative movement, of the voice, of the youth, of the voice, of the base. And that will not end. And the members only will continue to grow and that will be the tight knit network of family members that supported and loved Charlie and the team. And that's what it is. It's a family and a team. And this is Not. This is not going anywhere. It's just not. We need to be able to have people have a show where they can. They can ask questions. Hey, I'm up against this. What would Charlie say? And we play a clip of what Charlie said a month ago, a year ago. We have decades worth of my husband's voice. We have unused material from speeches that he's had that no one has heard yet. We have Sunday specials lined up to the brim because my husband was so intentional about making sure that there was enough content. Always. He made sure we recorded everything. He would not do a speech unless we could get the video and the 100%. So we have speeches that no one's heard of. We have interviews that no one's heard of. We have stuff from Korea and Japan that no one's heard of. Podcasts. So, I mean, in the words of my husband, buckle up, because there is a lot of content to be had. And we have so many amazing things down the pipeline that we are working on currently that will unveil in due time. I am so excited. Yeah. And so, by the way, those are things Charlie himself that he wanted. He wanted. We were working on some big things, you know, right up until the end. And, you know, we've talked about that a lot. Like, a lot of the guiding vision that we're using right now to kind of steady the ship and figure out where we're going is the things Charlie himself told us where we were going 100%. And similar with Turning Point USA, Charlie had a plan moving past 2030 that he shared with the team and has implemented. So. So we're not going anywhere. We have the blueprints. We have the blueprints. We have our marching orders, and we are just remaining humble and grateful to God, and we're remaining just stewards to what God has blessed us with. And I know Charlie's going to continue to guide us, and the Lord will continue to guide us. And I just wanted to let everyone know that this is far beyond any of us sitting in these chairs. This has nothing to do with us. It never will. The glory all to God on that front. And I just am excited. It's weird to say excited, but it's also very surreal to say it, because I know that God will use all of this in a way that will glorify him further Charlie's legacy. And Charlie's up in heaven just having. He's rooting us on. I know that he's doing it. I'm so rooting us on. I know I want to ask you just a little bit about. Because this is something we wrestled with, the social accounts. And I'll never forget when you looked at me and you were like, andrew, he cared so much about building those up. I'm not letting those die. And I just remember being like, huh? Yes, thank you. I needed to hear that because it is a little awkward now. We're not gonna use it for, like, random stuff, but for very specific things. For his voice, for things he cared about, for movements he cared about for, for causes. He cared about those socials. And also, too, to support Turning Point USA to be the barometer of what's going on, to be the pulse point again. We're not going to be posting I went for a walk today. No. We are using his socials in a way that will continue to honor his legacy. He poured so much time into building those. Not from a vein or vanity standpoint or look at me. That's never why he built those, that he built those because he knew that being a voice for the Lord and being a voice for everything that is good and beautiful in this world, and also, yes, the youth, he used that as the North Star. And we will continue that. And it'll be. It'll be done tastefully. It will be done appropriately. And I'm excited for all of it because we have a good team. You have every right to be, after everything that you've been through, what the team has been through, to see, it's like I keep saying, Charlie's almost sprinkling his little Charlie Kirk magic dust on everything. And I mean that in a very Christian sense, that Charlie lived such a remarkable life and his mission was so big that in death, you cannot contain it. It unleashes something even greater, and it's on us. And Charlie would look at us and expect us to do the right things here. And I would say, look at the memorial. I know the memorial is the proof point that the team that Charlie put together can do the impossible. And God's blessing was on that. There were so many prayers, and I know you feel the prayers because I feel them. If I feel them, you must be feeling them like all of them matter. And we are going to. We will never be silenced. We will never be silenced. And that's why having continuing his platform in a beautiful, honorable way will reinforce that we will never be silenced. Well, let's take a quick break. I'm not going to promise that she's still going to be here, but maybe she will be. We're going to Be right back. Don't go anywhere. Stop settling for weak sound. It's time to level up your game and bring the boom. Hit the town with the ultra durable LG X Boom portable speaker and enjoy vibrant sound wherever you go. Elevate your listening experience to new high because let's be real, your music deserves it. The future of sound is now with LG XBoom and for a limited time save 25% at LG.com with code fall25 bring the boom XBoom there's a lot going on in Hollywood. How are you supposed to stay on top of it all? Variety has the solution. Take 20 minutes out of your day and listen to the new daily Variety podcast for breaking entertainment news and expert perspectives. Where do you see the business actually heading? 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It's American made, stored on site and always ready, powering homes and businesses with cleaner, reliable energy that doesn't depend on the grid or the weather. Learn more@probane.com hey there. I'm Mary Kathryn Ham. And I'm Carol Markowitz. We've been in political media for a long time. Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane. That's why we started Normalely a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity. We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously. So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people. Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you listen. Welcome back to this Real America's Voice news break. I'm Terrence Bates. President Trump making headlines today saying that he believes a deal on Gaza is close to coming to fruition. I think it's a deal that will get the hostages back. It's going to be a deal that will end the war. It's going to be a deal which it's going to be peace. I think we have a deal. The president's announcement coming as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General assembly today, a number of delegates to the UN Walked out in protest before his remarks began. Others yelled out as Netanyahu laid out a case about the dangers of a nuclear Iran and its continued sponsorship of terror around the world. This map, it shows the curse of Iran's terror axis. This axis threatened the peace of the entire world. It threatened the stability of our region and the very existence of my country, Israel. Iran was rapidly developing a massive nuclear weapons program and a massive ballistic missile program. These were meant not only to destroy Israel, they were meant also to threaten the United States and blackmail nations everywhere. Meantime, President Trump back in New York to cheer on Team usa. He'll spend the afternoon at Bethpage Golf Course with his granddaughter for the Ryder cup match between the United States and between Europe. Before leaving the White House, however, 47 addressing the James Comey indictment. They weaponized the Justice Department like nobody in history. What they've done is terrible. And so I, I would, I hope there, frankly, I hope there are others because you can't let this happen to a country. Pretty easy. Look, he lied. You saw my truth today. He lied. Yes. He didn't say, well, in my opinion, he didn't do a lot of things that maybe he should have, but I don't think he could because he lied. That was a very important question that he was asking. And he wanted to be specific, but he didn't. The only thing that happened to him, he didn't think he'd get caught. All right. Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. We're joined by the one, the only, Erica Kirk. Thank you for. And she, of course, stuck around. She's like, I'm not going anywhere. What are you talking about? I was like, I just didn't want to, you know, listen whatever you want. So we have gotten so many questions about these little toys, the puppets and what they are. We, of course, know what they are, but why don't you tell the audience what they are? So every day when Charlie would go into the office. He would see our daughter, and she would just be playing, and she would look at him. She watched the show every day. She couldn't email, but this was her version of emailing. Every day she'd watch the show, and she did it because Daddy would take the item that she gave to him and have it on the show with him. And sometimes he would say, like, this is the item that my daughter gave me. Sometimes he wouldn't, just to see if she was really watching. And so when he would come home, she would be like, daddy, I saw the puppet on the show today. Daddy, I saw the moose on the show today. Daddy, you brought baby Buff. Buff on the show today. So that was their little connection point of. And he loved it, too. Cause it was a little piece of her that he could have with her on the show. But those little moments of. And I loved it, too, because Charlie was known for so many things, and I think people just love seeing that side of him. It humanizes him. Yeah. And. And he's a father. He's a. I mean, unbelievable husband, but father and loved his babies. And he wasn't embarrassed by that. He's so proud of it. Yeah. If Gigi made him something or if she puts a sticker on his shirt or a sticker on his face or gave him a figurine to bring to work, he did it. And he loved it. He didn't care what other people thought. No, he loved. He didn't. I don't think it even occurred to him to think about what somebody talked about that. So we talked about kind of some of the things we wanted to just say in this last segment. And, you know, I really believe. And you knew this so well of how much this audience meant to him. And I said this actually in my speech at the memorial that you in the audience were his firewall because you gave him so much confidence when he would go in these fancy rooms and with these fancy people and these elites, and they would say, well, this is the way it is. This is the way he. He knew they were wrong because of you in the audience. And you always would send him freedom@charliekirk.com and we want to commit to you right here and now on this show, and you're gonna be part of this a hundred percent that we are going to read all of the emails just as we have always done, that you send to freedom. Charliekirk.com it might be rule by committee. It might be sort of. I get to some of them, Mikey gets. Gets to some of Eric but they will be red. They will be read. We'll get to it. We will get to it. All of them. And you guys are so important to him. And we were talking about this in donor meetings, in private meetings, even at the White House, when people would be wrong about something, he would triple double down, and he would say to them, no, you don't understand. You are wrong about this. I'm in touch with my audience. I read their emails every day. They don't like what you are doing. Fix it. Yeah. And so we're gonna do that. We're committed to it. That's right. Yeah. I was very proud of that. And I just also want to say thank you to the audience, because in the days immediately after, I mean, we looked at each other a couple of times going, like, what are we gonna do here? And so many of you guys signed up to become members. Members.charliekirk.com so many of you bought the T shirts at charliekirkstore.com that you gave us this breathing room and this really hard time. And it was like, we don't know what's gonna happen. We don't know if we've got a show. We don't know any. But we. We committed to the staff. We're gonna keep you. We're gonna keep you. And. And you committed to him very clearly. Maybe. Maybe say something. I said, you're not going anywhere. You can choose to leave. Any of you can choose to leave, but you are a part of the Charlie Kirk family. Charlie Kirk show family. And we need you. Each one of you serves a purpose and a role. And again, if the enemy tries to come in and divide, you'll be able to see that very clearly. But we will all remain a united front, and the show will continue. I mean, a little behind the scenes here. Erica did that speech where I'm standing right now on the podium, somehow got through that. Her national address. Then she walks out there to where all of our staff are, and she then goes on to do another speech to all the staff telling him, you're not going anywhere. We're keeping the lights on. We're doing everything. I mean, watching that, I was blown away. We were all inspired that Charlie chose well, Erica. Yeah. And you chose well. You both chose well. And the world has seen your love affair in a new. In a new way. So final seconds to you. I just am very proud of all of you. I'm grateful for all of you. I'm grateful for the audience, and I'm really looking forward to how this show is going to continue to be blessed and continue to be a voice for all of Charlie's causes and continue to just empower and enhance the legacy of my husband. And I'm just so grateful. We, we are going to do everything we can to be worthy of that. Thank you, Erica Kirk. God bless you. We'll see you next time. Stop settling for weak sound. It's time to level up your game and bring the boom. Hit the town with the ultra durable LG X Boom portable speaker and enjoy vibrant sound wherever you go. Elevate your listening experience to new heights because let's be real, your music deserves it. 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