Freedom Built To Last Aftermath + AMA 279

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1:00A company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with noble gold investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. All right. Welcome everybody. It is 9-11, 2026, 25 year anniversary of a horrific day in American history. And we honor the fallen. We have this beautiful flag here, flag of honor. I hadn't seen that day. Yeah. And it's got all the names of those who perished in the terrorist attacks of 9-11. Now and forever it will represent their immortality. We shall never forget them. That's what the flag reads. So we have it hanging under Charlie's beautiful image there. And it's just their links together now. It's linked together. Yeah. I'll never forget when Charlie died on 9-10 and President Trump went to commemorate 9-11 the next day.

2:02It felt like 2-9-11 back to back to back. So kind of a rough spot in the calendar to say the least. Anyways, we honor them and we remember them and we will not forget them. And here to join us right at the top of the show is a great friend and somebody that has made it a point to bring up Charlie. At every single speech he gives, he's told me this privately and I'm grateful to him for that and that is Scott Jennings. So welcome. Welcome back Scott. Good to see you my friend. And we're good to see you. Thanks for having me on today. It's a, I'm grateful for your time Scott. I kept thinking about you yesterday. As I saw the tributes come in to Charlie, you know, there were so many beautiful tributes, hundreds of them actually. And you know, you have told me privately that you brought Charlie up at every speech that you gave across the country. And I have a clip of you the night that Charlie was killed on CNN and it's a powerful moment and it hurts to watch.

3:08But maybe just explain why you do that and what you saw yesterday, what today means. It's a terrible cluster on the calendar. I have to say. Yeah, I was thinking back to what happened last year. I was on the radio when I found out Charlie got shot and we reported that to the audience. And then the show ended, the radio show ended and I went over to CNN. And by the time I got over there was just about the time we found out Charlie had died. And in that period, I was thinking about the CNN audience actually. And, you know, a lot of those folks probably didn't know Charlie Kerr or everything they'd ever heard about Charlie was negative. You know, I mean, as you know, as you well know, so many people had slandered Charlie. They had said things that weren't true. They had made up quotes. They had, you know, they had done all sorts of things to Charlie and I was sort of balancing two things. One, I wanted to tell that audience who he was and what he actually stood for,

4:08not the caricature that had been created. And number two, I also wanted to tell that audience how it felt to be a conservative walking around in the world. I mean, we had obviously seen what they tried to do to President Trump. He barely survived in assassination. Charlie had been assassinated. And I don't know how you guys felt that day about this particular issue, but I said on TV. It didn't feel safe to be a conservative walking around America, given how radically violent so many people on the left had become. Yeah. So I was, I was trying to do two things that day, Andrew, which was convey a positive message about what Charlie meant to so many conservatives, particularly young conservatives and particularly young men. And also to convey some emotions about how conservatives were feeling about their own safety in our political ecosystem. Let's go ahead and play that clip. It touches me still to watch it. So, so 63. Well, Charlie was one of the most unique and special people in the conservative movement today.

5:08What he was able to build, the people he was able to organize was just so large and powerful. He was able to convince people to get involved in politics that might not have otherwise done so. And you look at what he did on these campuses and these public events. Thousands of people were showing up not for a rock concert, not for a sporting event, but for American politics. He inspired all these kids to be involved in their country. So, it's unequivocally a good legacy. He was also a godly person. He spoke about his faith openly. He was unapologetic about his views. This is beautiful. I don't know how you kept it together. I was, you know, a total mess in those days, especially. But, you know, last night was actually, I think, kind of powerful as well, because we had Charlie's name.

6:14The vote time and time again at the RNC, whether it was RFK, Don Jr., JD Vance, Caroline Levit. They all paid homage to Charlie. And then, we had dozens of staff, hundreds of students at the RNC. We had over 5,000 people at our Freedom Built to Last event, where we were reclaiming the UVU campus. We had Glenn Beck and Michael Knowles and Frank Turck and so many others. Mikey McCoy was there. And a beautiful and a packed house, over 5,000. And by the way, there was all these rumors and protests. They didn't show up, Scott. It was like maybe a few of them, but that was it. It was just totally peaceful, totally respectful. And then, we had hundreds of people here at campus honoring him here as well. I mean, it was, I was really proud of the team and proud of the way the day went off. Yeah, I was in Dallas for the last couple of days myself. And, you know, everybody wanted to talk about Charlie and all those Republicans that had come from around the country.

7:15Everybody wanted to tell their Charlie story. Everybody wanted to show you their picture with Charlie. I had people pulling out their phones. Oh, here's my picture. And it was, it was incredibly sad. But at the same time, it was incredibly uplifting for all these people to be remembering what an impact he had on their lives. You know, a lot of what the general public knows about Charlie is the outward facing stuff. What I was struck by and some of the stories and remembrances I was hearing just in the hall were people who were saying, you know, I met Charlie once and he took the time to talk to me for a few minutes. And he was clearly very kind and generous with his own time and hidden. You know, for all of those people that were in that hall, I was thinking to myself, what percentage of these people did Charlie Kirk actually shake hands with me talk to and impress upon them in some way? I mean, it seemed like a huge number to be honest and it tells you a lot about who Charlie was. That's such a good point. Scott, I couldn't believe it when I was looking on social media yesterday, ever all the pictures of Charlie with all these people throughout the years.

8:16Basically, he, you know, brushed up against essentially everybody in the conservative movement. I don't think that's too much saying too much. Almost everybody he had an experience with. He touched them. He took a picture with them. He spoke to them. You know, and those who have left us, Rush Limbaugh, you know, you think about some of the folks that have left us too soon. He knew them too. He was this generational bridge that just, you know, he was a bridge across generations. He was also a bridge across different wings of the party. He was a bridge between the grassroots and elected officials. He did play this really interesting role in bringing people together. And he was also such an inspiration to these young people. And I have four sons, as you know, and as this was coming, one of them asked me the other day, they said, can you, can you send me that picture of you and Charlie again? I wanted to see that. And he had told me he had been watching some of Charlie's videos.

9:17And so I sent it to him via text. And it caused me to go back in to that day that we had together there in Colorado. And I was telling my son, you know, what they were most excited about, what Charlie and Andrew were talking to me about that day was not the college campuses. It was the high school stuff, the chapters that TPUSA was forming on high schools and building this next generation of conservative activists. And so anyway, this was an emotional week for me because of Charlie 9-11. You know, I work for President Bush, everything going on in our world. It's been emotional for us in the Jennings household. I'm glad to share some time with you on it today, Andrew. Charlie once said that although his day job was politics, politics was only the second most important thing. The first and the most important thing in his words was winning souls for Jesus Christ. I was last night, Mikey McCoy speaking to over 5,000 people at our Freedom Build to Last Event.

10:23It was amazing. I was so blown away. How packed they had to keep expanding the room size. It was very special. And I'm grateful to all of you who showed up. I'm grateful to Glenn Beck, Michael Knowles, Frank Turg, Mikey McCoy, Caleb Chilcut. I'm forgetting somebody else. Anyways, the folks that came out and spoke and reclaimed that campus as a powerful moment. I also want to make a note, I guess for some of you, the stream yesterday, we had people don't understand. And 8th of Phoenix's internet went down yesterday. Like they called it a ring, not a line. So we come to the office with all these plans, the vice president, Don Jr., Big 3 hour mega stream, honoring Charlie and our internet is down. So the team's throwing up star links all over the place. Imagine if we just didn't have star link. We would have been 100% this happened to us once before. And so we got all these star links as backup. And so they're throwing them up and all this up. We were just lucky to get a show off yesterday. But apparently it caused a glitch in some of the audio for some of you who've downloaded.

11:26So we've re-uploaded the entire stream. So if you missed it or you're having audio issues, go check it out there. It's also on our podcast. So check it out there. Scott Jennings joins us. Great American, great patriot. And somebody that got close to Charlie, it really in the last year of his life and got to see Charlie kind of at the zenith of his powers in so many different ways. You know, we talk a lot about the horseshoe people as I call them. I think it's a total op. I think it's just all sort of like this. Oh, we all hate Israel together. So let's form a coalition with baby killers and open borders, radicals and communists. Okay, cool. Got it. Got it. I see where your priorities are. But Charlie, you know, it's been observed Scott that he was this glue within the conservative space in this bridge. He played this, this connective tissue, this glue roll that a lot of people didn't realize until afterwards. Assess the state of the current conservative movement.

12:27What the RNC has done to kind of propel us. I mean, I'm here in rumors that the Senate Senate leadership fund is about to pour a bunch of money in Texas. God bless them for that. You know, 30,000 foot for me, Scott Jennings. Well, I hope that the conservative movement and the Republicans are looking at the existential threat to our country as a moment that we had to unify. And look, look, first of all, I'm there around 26 years Republican politics. There's always been fractures in the party. You know, there's always been people who have disagreements over this or that. I think to me, the principal glue and Charlie well knew this today is that we're not facing normal political opponents right now. We're facing people who fundamentally hate America. They want to rip out the American experiment route and branch. The Democratic Party is now far more favorable to socialism and they are to capitalism. You look at the patriotism polling that Gallup puts out very few Democrats are extremely proud to be Americans. Virtually every Republican, no matter their striper, their pedigree is proud to be an American.

13:28And that number never changes. Republicans have been proud to be Americans for as long as I've been involved. And it's the Democratic number that's fallen off the table over the last few years. These are not normal political opponents. They seek to run a country. They hate. They seek to run a country that they're not very proud of. And you can see where that would lead you. So my view is this. You're going to have some disagreements in the tent. That's normal. But you can never disagree on the importance of defeating the actual political enemy here. And to the extent you let those disagreements get in the way, that's a problem. I think Charlie well understood that. And that's why he's being a glue in the party was so important because he could keep people focused. Okay, we can have disagreements amongst ourselves. But when it's time to focus on the fight, we all focus on the fight together. And I just hope his legacy is one of us being able to remember that. Whether it's this year or 2028, we're not facing normal political opponents anymore. And the United States of America continues to face global enemies like radical Islamic terrorism

14:28and other things that would love to take advantage of internal political division, particularly among the people who, you know, here to four have been able to clearly identify the problem. Well, yeah, I mean, if you, so if you are a young male that feels disenchanted because the war in Iran or whatever, know that you're getting played. There are actually ops from China. There are ops from Iran. There's ops from Russia. There are ops from everywhere. Okay, from the Middle East. I just want to say that I want to use the wedge issues to exploit a chasm and to get you to align with people that think that your baby should be able to be murdered right up until conception. Oh, maybe even after. Maybe even up into the first year. Well, just to criminalize any infanticide for the first year. That's what you're dealing with. So, you know, by the way, another thing I'd love to ask these people, it's like, do you consider the left to be anti-Christian? Do you consider yourself to be a Christian? If so, why would you ever align with them? Why would you ever give them a foothold in power?

15:29We cannot let this happen. And so Scott, your message to young men. You got young men in your household. What is your message to them? Because that was the group that followed Charlie into the breach that were willing to follow him and take his word. And they become disenchanted. That's what the polling says. I don't know that I fully believe it for what it's worth. I think it's a tough cohort to poll. But use this, look at two minutes here. Rally the troops. What's your message to young men in this country? You live and you were born in the greatest country ever devised. You're going to have a lot of people coming at you every day. And it's misinformation and it's propaganda and it's designed to turn you against your own country. But you're going to have a lot of people coming at you every day trying to tell you that America is not good. That we're a force for bad in the world, not good. That somehow you live in this apocalyptic hellscape. They're trying to turn you against your own country. Do not believe in this. Some of it is a foreign op and some of it is internal. And you listen to what the Democrats and these liberals, these progressives, these socialists, these radicals have to say today.

16:34It's almost all designed to turn you against your own country. Just remember, you live in a good country that protects your free speech. That can tell the difference between right and wrong. That typically sides with civilization over barbarism. And that treats common sense like a virtue and not a vice. And all these people coming at you telling you these are wrong things. Telling you that the nuclear family is oppressive. If they're coming at you with these messages, just remember, it's an op. And it's an op designed to destroy the United States of America from the inside out. They're trying to get you to participate in it. Do not fall for it. Fight for your country. Fight for the idea that you live in the greatest country that's ever been devised. It is divinely inspired. Fight for your own family. They're trying to take things away from you. They'll tell you things will be free. The thing they won't tell you is the only thing that won't be free is you. Fight for this country. Make it what you want it to be and make it what our founders intended to be. Not what some foreign operative or some America hating radical wants to do to it.

17:35Fight for what you know is right. And ultimately, that'll be good for not just your country, but your own family. Yeah, amen. And if you don't believe us that there are foreign powers that want to nudge you in a certain direction and, you know, exploit the wedge issues in this country, just look at what they're celebrating or marking, rather, in New York today. Nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives when some foreign hijackers took planes and flew them into buildings in New York City. Scott Jennings, you're a great American patriot. We appreciate you, brother. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks, guys. Good to see you all. I want to talk to you about an issue so many Americans face. And that's health insurance. There's an organization I really, really appreciate called Christian Healthcare Ministries. CHM is a faith-based alternative to health insurance. And this is real stuff, folks, like you've got to listen in. With CHM, you're not paying into a company's profit margin. You're investing in a community with less overhead than the competition.

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19:38He's got great opposition from the Democrat Schumer and these guys at Europe. That was a President Trump speech at the RNC on September 9th. And he mentioned John Thune. He got a loud boo from the audience there in Dallas. That was not the guy we wanted running. That was not, yeah, well, it wasn't surprising. He got booed. But now joining us is Senator Rick Scott. By the way, Senator, I saw a little news that I hopefully will have some time to get into that the Senate leadership fund is working with the Texas PAC to back our friend Ken Paxton in Texas, which is really good news. I was incredibly told by some of your colleagues, at least I saw the news reports that that wasn't going to happen. So God bless the Senate leadership fund for at least doing that because I said, you know, even a blind squirrel has an important. Ken's got a win. I mean, come on. I mean, this is a guy. He's a patriot.

20:38He cares about this country who he's a fighter. He's a conservative. So and the other guy's crazy. Yes. I mean, come on. This is the thing for conservatives that have these, you know, complaints about the conservative movement, the GOP. I got him too. You've got him. We all got him. This is not even like a choice between like one A one B. This is this is like communism or the American way of life. There is a binary choice. Now we got to reform. Listen, if you want to fix the conservative movement, here's how you do it. It's called primaries. You pick better horses in the race. You don't go in sabotage and go this horseshoe people route where you go and make alignment with, you know, baby killers and communists. I just don't get it. Anyway, I want to give you a chance because yesterday, you beautiful tribute you wrote to Charlie. You were often on the show with Charlie. You guys had a close relationship. He supported you. He believed in your talents and abilities to lead the Senate. Tell us about yesterday and what that meant for you.

21:40Well, it's the only person that is a friend of mine. It's ever been assassinated. And it's it's disgusting that in this country, only because of your. The fact that it wasn't his political views. I mean, here's a guy that would talk about anything. Charlie just wanted to have a conversation and have a discussion about things. And that was enough to get him murdered in this country. I mean, that it's it's you can't make this stuff up. So somebody that simply wants to have a conversation and will listen to both sides and sit down and talk in a civil manner was murdered. And so it that I mean, I still to this day cannot imagine because I was on the show two days before that happened. And we actually talked because I've been going to universities like Charlie did not as many as he's done. You just you know this this country's you know one we have people internally that want to murder us like his song Packer wants me murdered and all the capital is in the country murdered.

22:42And then you've got we're on 9 11. We're people from outside this country hate us. We have to we have to understand this is a fight. They want to kill us. Right. Comischina is killing us with fentanyl. So let's understand we are in a fight. So we have to do like what you what you did with picture mobile you have to say let's we're going to pick who's on our side. And who's on the other side there's good and there's evil killing people is evil right. So it's evil killing Charlie was evil the 9 11 was evil. I was in New York City that day. Or shall I wasn't close to the World Trade Center but it's evil and let's call it out for what it is. Yeah. Amen. Yeah. We are in a war and it is a time for choosing you know it really is that I think you know there's times where there's you know sort of expansion big tent coalition building all this up reaching you know to build large it feels like we're in a time of purging where some of the voices that we thought were with us were never really with us.

23:44And we've got to sort of consolidate get our power base and move forward that's why people like Ken Paxon who are very much on the team need to be supported fully by everybody with with their common sense still intact. Senator I know that so I was surprised to see I played at the beginning I don't know if you saw it but you know senator. Soon leader soon got booed at the RNC. I know it's no that I'll tell I'll just remind our audience a couple things that are not shouldn't be surprised I have publicly said it's time for him to be removed. Okay that's where I'm at we did publicly back you Charlie publicly back to you to become leader so I was surprised when I saw that this news report from Bloomberg you can throw it up to one it says Rick Scott back soon is next GOP leader staving off challenge. So I wanted to ask you about it you know I respect you but I was very surprised by this report. So here's where I am I mean we're going to have a race again in November I don't know if you know run I don't know who's going to run when they run I'm going to listen to everybody I want somebody that's going to get things done.

24:53I you know I ran to do the we've got to get things done we have to take votes we have to show people where we are we got to bust our butt to get things done so I don't know who I'm going to support I don't because I don't know who's going to run but will I know it's a hard job I'm frustrated to save America hasn't passed I'm frustrated that we're not bouncing the budget I've got a lot of frustrations so we'll see in November. Okay so wait that's that's pretty newsy then actually so are you saying that Bloomberg's got it wrong you are not committing to backing leader soon as the next GOP leader absolutely not I'm not you know let's see who's going to run I assume he's going to run for a election and we'll see who else runs as you know nobody would run against McConnell I ran against McConnell and then I ran when McConnell decided to leave unfortunately we didn't win and I want to thank you all for your support I think it would have been a public poll around the country. We would have won because people want to do something we're getting nothing done is so frustrated I've been there now for seven half years the debt's comp the 19 half trillion forty.

26:02Yeah well why are we not getting anything done what's really happening because like I'm just like begging leader soon just like do a show vote Blake's always pushing this is like just get people on the record. Yeah like there's so many good. I said I did not a letter like that I did a letter to the conference and I said let's vote every day on election security like every morning the first voted take 30 minutes all right let's take every day and let's take pass to say America pass voter ID pass you have to be American citizen registered vote whatever it is let's vote on it all right and see if we can finally get it now I agree with Mike Lee where we said and Ron Johnson we said look if you're not going to enforce the filibuster which filibuster only was a vote. If you're not going to enforce the filibuster then you get rid of the filibuster. I mean do I want to get rid of the first filibuster first say no I'm fine with the bait but we're not doing that we don't have it's not Mr Smith goes Washington we don't talk we just say oh yeah we don't we don't want to talk but we're not going to have a vote. Cleans Thomas you know didn't get 60 votes. I think he got one 52 votes they had their debate they stopped their debate and they voted for it right 52 votes that's how this should work force a either force a conversation what's this year probably the most important thing we all wanted was election security.

27:20And like and say look if somebody has a better idealist will have all the amendment votes so we can get the best deal we can get but what can we do to get this passed so I mean it's why I like you press. Yeah why isn't that like you know President Trump in that clip he blamed Democrats. Okay I get it none of us. Democrats don't control Congress. Yeah but yeah they don't control Congress that's a great point. Well look the one is made the one is made this decision that he's not going to force a filibuster he's not going to make us get stay on the bill. I mean that's the decision made down here's the positive next week when we get back we're going to have a vote on the insider training bill the past to house with voter ID so that's an opportunity. We're going to do a reconciliation bill and we talked about this before we left that I don't know anybody that doesn't support putting as much election security in that bill as we can. Is it the same as passing the saber America absolutely not. No. Yeah this is you have to have a variety. Yeah this is frustrating because so even if we do it in a reconciliation bill you're basically still asking states to opt in all the

28:25worst states are not going to opt in. They're not going to opt in they'll take they will lose money if they can still get illegals on the voter rolls we know that. Yeah I mean what look at Spencer Pratt. I mean Spencer clearly was in the run off and they stole it from him it's like in California you vote you you keep counted votes until Democrat wins. You know they did that to be in 2018 I won by 50 some thousand votes election night and then they kept finding ballots. So this stuff is going on we know in what New Jersey acknowledged they have what I don't know how many illegals but we see this all across the country. People know that it's not fair and people want this Republicans want Democrats want independence want it the only people don't want it are elected Democrats in Washington DC. Yeah it's just so frustrating. I you know Charlie it's it's infuriating because you just get the sense of everyone there is literally a professional at winning elections and yet the most obvious stuff to win elections. That's what they want.

29:25Once you get up there like I when I ran in 2018 for the Senate my first ad was term loans. Okay and people and all the leadership called me say oh you know way that we don't we don't like that I said but but it works we do it in Florida it works we do it for presidents. I'm here in Lapland. Jeffrey G. Latush. Catherine L. Labore. Amineth Latchman. Ganesh K. Ladkut. James Patrick Ladley. Yeah what you just saw there was as the reading of all the names of the 2,753 people killed on 9-11 AOC and Muslim Mayor Mamdani. Laughing. Laughing as the names of the fallen at the hands of evil terrorists. What a slap in the face. Senator Rick Scott joins us. Senator when you see that clip go through your mind.

30:26Mission man. I mean these are people that died. I mean you just you think about what mandamiya said. Some piakers said outside that we deserved it. I mean this we know who the good guys are the bad guys are and the people that want to kill us are the bad guys. We have got to fight to preserve this way of life. And so I can't imagine mandami how he got elected. AOC got forbidden. Somebody like L.S.I. will get elected to send it out of Michigan. So it just makes you mad when you when you look at what's happened in this country. We're obviously appalled that we have and Charlie pointed this out that 25 years after well it was 24 at the time but 24 25 years later we have a Muslim Mayor of New York but it's the deeper crisis I think is that adoption of that third world mentality. It's now routine actually to run into on the left and in some cases on the right the attitude actually America brought 9-11 on itself because

31:29we gave money to Israel or we had troops in Saudi Arabia with Saudi Arabia's permission and that that actually made it justified what they did. I've run into that in DC. Someone who wanted a job in the Trump administration told me that once. Yes. Yeah. Charlie right there from 2025 he said 24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9-11. Now Muslim socialist is on pace to run New York City. So now socialist Muslim is actually running New York City. It's a it's a gut punch for red-blooded American patriots not it's to say the least. Senator I want to talk about what I kind of teased before and that was you know you brought up balance budget which is music to my ears and the reason is we've got so many young people I talked to them there are attorney point students they are frustrated with affordability they feel like owning a home is out of reach starting a family getting married and you can feel that American dream slipping away I think it's on the

32:30way back currently if we just hold to our present course but the reason that people feel like this affordability crunch is so real and it's so pressing is because we spend too much you know Milton Friedman said only Washington DC can create inflation because only Washington DC has a printing press to make as much money as they want and that is a fundamental core economic principle that young people need to realize they live through four years of about 30% inflation under Joe Biden inflation has come back down it's manageable yes the Iran war caused gas prices energy prices to spike up again we're going to get that under control but the underlying fundamentals of this economy are much better than they were under Joe Biden nevertheless you're still it's the hangover right and it's all about printing too much money because that's what inflates the asset prices of the rich and that's what inflates inflates home ownership and all the things that they want to get involved in and it squeezes the lower in middle class it creates that k-shaped economy so if

33:31you're mad about affordability you should be mad about Washington printing too much damn money are we ever going to get any more momentum attraction towards balancing the budget and I have to say although I I kind of do really like the idea of working families getting a break five thousand dollar stipend but how do you balance those two competing interests well first off it's real the things cost too much let me say in my lifetime I can buy a brand new car after I got out of the Navy okay $1,625 my best friend could buy a house in the suburbs three better one bathhouse nice house for $21,000 I could go to university for $255 a semester all in cost other than about 20 bucks for books and said I went to junior college for my first year because those 200 bucks now think about a young person today look at they can't afford a house they got schooled that I mean and the what schools cost is ridiculous what houses cost two and 42

34:37seasons this country has started home is a million dollars so this idea about about the cost living and government has done it the federal government has done it for decades so the only way out of this is balance a budget now I became governor florida in January 2011 florida had not balanced his budget but one year and 40 years I balance a budget and I cut taxes every year and guess what we paid off the third of the state debt and we started running surplus to pay off the debt what we have to do at the federal level is do the exact same thing I believe in tax cuts if if there's a if there's a way to pay for this $5,000 I am all in but you've got to do it in a manner that you also balance a budget and pay for everything you're doing and figure out how to grow the economy way faster it's the only way we're getting inflation under control get more jobs in this country and make sure people go forward their house their education their car look at what just follow what's happening with it interest rates right now interest rates are continuing to move which makes it harder by house harder finance a car harder you know more higher credit card interest

35:40rates and who's there not the rich the richer getting richer it's the middle class and the poor we have got to balance this budget yeah amen I just don't see any it was by the way it was one of Charlie's huge huge issues right from the very beginning I mean I don't know if you've seen these clips though but it's Charlie going on like Neil Cavuto railing against the budget and the deficit and it would I think at that point it was like don't quote me but I think it was around like $10 billion at the time like maybe maybe 14 but you know now we're 40 and so every time we do that we are weakening middle class purchasing power and so if you are ticked off about how expensive things are it's because Washington can't freaking balance a budget and it's so irritating that not more people are sounding the alarm like you and we're going to have a bond crisis at some point senator it's it's first off it's happy just think yes in the last what eight years gold is gone from what 1400 to 4400 look at what's happened to interest rates just in the last two months

36:44it's happening people if you look at this is happy if you look at we're going to collect at federal government about fifty five point five trillion dollars we're going to spend what one point two trillion dollars in interest if that doubles where's the money come from yeah interest rates could double yeah well we haven't had a balanced budget since the 90s I think right so you know in the covid just exacerbated everything what a disaster the way that was because it was just a waste the programs I mean just through money and it's the ability and it surely has if he's taught us anything it's that when you government goes oh we're going to give everybody free stuff guess what the fraudsters are going to take a lot of it so you're just a lot yeah and you're just you're just ended up financing a democrat super PACs anyways but yeah senators got thank you for joining us today it's please please get your colleagues rallied rallied around that I'm grateful to know that you have not committed to endorsing doon as leader I think that is prudent let's just put it that way got a stop on yeah we got to get there there are 31,407 kindergartners starting

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38:54make motherhood possible by providing ultrasounds with pre-born I'd be so honored if you'd prayerfully considered joining us. Enjoy the hard times embrace the hard times use the hard times to forge you into steel that will never bend and never break. Amen I was going back last night at the freedom built to last memorial event at UVU over five thousand you really lit it up which you guys missed it the whole thing is available on rumble you guys did a great job streaming ahead of time we had a bunch of students come on and all these things so Blake kind of anchored that that broadcast last night so check it out please we have it on podcast too right yeah yeah everywhere yeah and the podcast one it was with the stream advance so if you just want to go to the actual events about now we're in yeah just fast forward right pass Blake that's okay we were okay we do that all the time we are joined in studio by two of the folks that charlie leb to mix it up with the most you guys have some of my favorite clips that exist of charlie ever and

40:00that is of course Alex Clark host of culture apothecary her beautiful rebrand that has gone swimmingly you were right Alex Clark is apparently always right didn't charlie say that yeah he wanted the shirt or something yeah he said once when I was on here he said I need a t-shirt that says Alex Clark is always right yeah I mean you pitched him on it he went with it and it's the only thing that is a match success so hundreds and hundreds of thousands of downloads every episode and if you're into the maha stuff which we are charlie very much was definitely support by the way I tweeted this last night rfk junior speech last night was amazing dude I am dying to see this I got home very late from a flight and so I haven't read my Twitter thread I am so hyped to like I want to sit with it no no yeah I've heard nothing but good it was incredible and he had this great line where he was given a shout out to charlie where he said and he talked about how charlie kind of engineered the endorsement and he said charlie Kirk built the bridge the president trump and I walked across well and it was so powerful I loved it anyways Joe Bob so host of turning points tonight who's blowing

41:07up right now and you guys so charlie saw you guys's towns early and so I just have to play some of these uh this is really fun okay so 74 is a gay for a guy to wash dishes in a marriage don't don't chuck a bob just no answer I'm curious I haven't thought deeply have you ever what you've been married for now how long two years yes I mean I've washed it when it's it's my idea to wash so you're saying you would have a problem with it if if your wife asked you honey can you please wash the dishes or like a requirement it then it starts to get on the okay okay so what do you think about this women who have been married for a few months or are pregnant with their first child haven't even had a first child say if your husband is ever changing a diaper in your marriage you do not have your gender roles correct and your marriage is doomed yeah that's that's insane yeah that's insane yeah because by the way we have a staffer here who claims

42:09he's never changed a diaper I know I don't know my dad ever changed I am I judge I changed I changed all kinds of diapers I think it's fine I think it's different I think millennial dads are changing way more diapers than Gen X or boomer and as are the marriages more successful on average it's about practicality in terms of the time you want my wife to take a break from making dinner to change a diaper I'll just eat all I did already to be on the table if I've oh I changed the diaper I'm saying there's these clips are so fun I gotta keep play it we are gonna take your questions members I'm sure this is a quasi AMA these are AMA yeah this is this is all a note to Charlie so be sure get your questions in line with Blake's monitoring the question feed members that Charlie Kirk dot com join us there and we're about to start taking your questions and Joe Bob and Alex gonna do it we're gonna be going through the entire hour we're gonna be going over the hours to stick with us I've never seen this one yeah so I want to play Joe Bob and Alex asking Charlie if you know I don't know who ice spice is so or what so let's do

43:1261 that tracks all right Charlie what is ice spice is it a Starbucks drink is it a rapper is it one of the daughters of the spice girls is it a strain of marijuana ice spice I'm gonna go with a daughter on the spice I think it could be all do you know who ice spices of course I do it's a rapper never heard of it you were gonna say I don't stop because you have no idea I don't want to miss gender ice spice I probably would have guessed the weed yeah I had no idea yeah that was a pretty good like list of choices you guys came up there that was one of the best things about Charlie was how illiterate he was on pop culture when he was so knowledgeable about literally anything else but pop culture just clue I think I think a big favorite for all of us is in the in the chat what is Riz yeah yeah and then I reply and I write it out with you know I read his car Riz

44:15yeah you found your Riz Charlie you did I remember cutting some of those videos because there we did a lot of those types of things were like Alex would know the answer but Charlie would just be completely in the dark about like Taylor Swift lyrics about who ice spice was and I remember after after one of them were were done I sent it over to Mikey and I was like hey he doesn't know who with this line of Taylor Swift and everybody else knows it like it do I don't know if we want to look dumb here what not what what what's the protocol like throwing it at least but it was so dear but he was like he actually takes pride in not knowing Taylor Swift lyrics like actually a pop I I remember when this one came out and it was if we will get to your question after this but I hope you guys are enjoying this as much as we are not 75 actress firm it's a money laundering scheme or something allegedly we're not doing the dominion thing here okay it is a legend there is a conspiracy theory out there and we're gonna get lawsuit after the lawsuit Alex Alex will be deposed that all of our text message will be made public and I come up with this have you seen this though this is wild there's something going on there are

45:20too many mattress firms in existence to justify the amount of mattresses people buy because I don't want to buy exactly and I didn't buy it from that well then why is there a mattress firm on every exit in every city there's so many think about how popular chick play is we don't even have that many chick play and you have lines going around the building they don't have that many franchises and yet any given city there's like a hundred mattress firms so just so I understand the argument whose money are they laundering probably the cartels allegedly allegedly I could have totally believed it if Charlie had responded like when did you last get a mattress and Charlie somehow reveals that for some health reason he gets a new mattress every six months actually I just I guess we have a few of them let's see here let's get to how about we do

46:21let's do Ellie she has a lighthearted question Ellie first I'm mute yourself can you guys hear me yes so with it being nine ten yesterday and nine eleven today I wanted to ask a more lighthearted question so all of you traveled and worked closely with Charlie so what's your current favorite moment or story from traveling or doing events with him I know my one with Joe Bob and Charlie oh I want to know this one I also have what we're Antifa broke through the glass and you were filming yeah yeah and then like it went ended up a gut felt oh yeah it was just well you want to know the follow up to that story too and this is actually somewhat endearing to to Charlie because I I didn't I was unaware of the situation I sprinted into the green room after that I never experienced anything like that I said some expletives in a room with a lot of important people and Charlie just kind of looked at me and like you guys okay he has a cat camc story like that yeah he

47:25had every right to be very upset but it wasn't it was actually he showed a lot of grace which was I was excited for so that's my favorite Joe Bob story maybe go to Blake I just love it was specifically because you want to travel stories I loved Charlie in Japan which was just right before but all the various ways of him interacting with this very foreign culture so we went to I remember we went to one of those very simple Japanese diners and you know normally Charlie only ate four foods but it was in Japan so he was experimenting more and he was really excited to eat like fermented chick peas or whatever it was and he was he was going at that and just little things like for example Rio or God in Japan he took us to the Meiji shrine which is a big shinto religious shrine to the Emperor Meiji and Charlie's interested in he's getting recognized and then we go up to the shrine and of course what people are doing is they're leaving incense and prayers and Charlie he's clearly okay how how can I approach this because this is basically a shrine that's going to be a different god and so he just kind of goes up and sits there for a bit

48:28then walks back and he's just I said a prayer to Jesus for mercy on the Emperor's soul or something like that and I was like good man good man and just all those little bits or we went to Don Quixote which is this very funny Japanese department store it's one of the most Japanese things you'll ever see seven stories tall really compacts because the Japanese are very tiny people and each floor selling something different and he was grabbing these things for his kids and we saw an ad for a curious George clock but we couldn't find the clock unfortunately and so we need to get a copy of that clock sometime yeah you need to go back yeah we need to go back and he just he loved everything about his reaction to it was always so so earnest it was always so funny to see how he'd react to something new or even when he was walking around Korea just going like I'm taller than everybody here I loved your story in Korea where he went out on his own one more yeah because he couldn't kind of couldn't do that very easily here in the States but he

49:30he's one of the streets of Gangnam which if you've been there it's I mean it's a big modern city but it's all these alleyways Gangnam style yeah the song and so this is the heart of soul all the high rises but then it's all these like confusing alleyways behind them and he's just wandering through them and there's a million stores mostly doing plastic surgery in some parts of that town it's a very strange country weird about Korea is they have the highest rate of C-sections anywhere on the planet that's that's number one in the list of about 500 things that are weird about all right I want Alex to have a proper moment here so I'm just gonna go quick my favorite memory and I'm actually looking at a picture of this about two weeks before Charlie and I went to Rigglyfield together and it was great we got to walk the field and I have lots of great travel memories with Charlie but that was pretty great so I never traveled with Charlie like we would end up with you would end up doing events or doing events okay okay so so I let me just preface with that but I told the story before but if we're doing lighthearted funny the first time I ever met him

50:35I you know was interviewing for my job and they take me backstage at our women's conference and you know I have like 10 minutes to sit he's a busy guy so it's like hey you got 10 minutes of Charlie Kirk impressive maybe he'll hire him I have no pressure so I sit down he's eating a salad or something he's quickly eating his lunch also talking to me you know doing a hundred things at once which he always was doing so it's really hard for me to follow the first time meeting him I'm like is he listening to me is he looking at me because he was talking to me but he was doing a hundred things talking other people and I noticed that this girl comes up and she like reaches over him very like in his space and starts picking the croutons out of his salad and I was like what you have we have this clip of you describing this I think you you want you want to tell her to play the clip the clip the clip is really funny okay stop fifty now the first time that I met your girlfriend I didn't know she was your girlfriend so my first interaction was you hadn't come over yet and

51:35she was digging through your salad and removing all the croutons this girl there there were just like here's Charlie salad handed to this girl she's sifting through it and I was like oh my gosh he has his assistance dig through his his salads with their bare hands I was so weirded out and then you came over and sat down and she hugged you from behind like gave you a kiss on the cheek and I was shook I was like that's inappropriate for his assistant and then I and then they told me they're like oh that's Charlie's girlfriend I was like oh it all makes sense yes she is so sweet to everyone at turning point you say love sir and we love having her thank you people are freaking out right now like can you hear that that is you discussing that you even have a girlfriend at all people are freaking out he's taken yeah back then I mean it was a huge question like on social media like does Charlie Kirk have a girlfriend is he dating anyone you know his private life was so private right and people were very interested in that and so when it came out that he was engaged which is then then I was able to talk about also them dating but no one knew when he just had a girlfriend they

52:38only knew when they had gotten engaged yes well that was beautiful I remember my first time up meeting Erica it was a politicon in 2018 oh that was why where he did the whole like I live like a capitalist every day and like there was just you know Erica was just there when I walked up and they were standing outside I was like who's this bond person he goes oh she's just a friend I was like okay yeah you know and it was like okay hi whoever you are he hated that he hated that moment and I this one of my favorite Charlie I love that Charlie moment yeah I love it but yeah I was interested with full circle moment at the RNC in 2024 he sat down with Jake and yeah and a spirit and he was like I don't even know what that mean you know like an adventurous spec but yeah but it was a great moment I love it it was uh do we have another question let's go let's go to Don Don unmute yourself and what's your question hi guys thanks for taking my call of course I was just wondering if if Erica was talking a lot of emails and in support or if

53:43I'm just starting to taper off I hope it hadn't started to taper off what we got an we got an explosion of them yesterday I will tell you and um I mean you know and by the way you saw it at the RNC so so let me clear something up because there's a bunch of the usual suspects that are online going like can't believe she spent 9 10 at the RNC not with her children total garbage by the way she was not at the RNC the president misspoke I think people got confused because the president was like Erica's here today and tomorrow with us but she wasn't she was just there on the 9th and you you heard the applause from the audience which was amazing when he mentioned her uh from the podium everybody started cheering and supporting her and so she's got uh so many supporters so many people that love her and are constantly praying for her and uh yeah and we we Blake can attest we got just an explosion of emails yeah I just sir I I well for example I just searched Erica and in our inbox like you felt you literally filled a sheet of 100 just with the ones today and yesterday yeah and there'll be more if I change the page over uh someone sent

54:46us a painting of her actually oh somebody just sent a painting of her yeah so if that is what ages your concerns so no I you know it's funny I I think there's like and you can attest to this but like online there's really loud voices and there's really loud communities but it doesn't mean that they are the majority and that's one of those things where you get a lot of like loud anti turning point people I call them the horseshoe people now because like basically what they've decided is like hey I hate Jewish people you hate Jewish people cool I me who I claim to be a conservative I'm gonna lie with a bunch of people that just want to kill babies and open the borders and seize the means of production and they hate white people and they hate Christian so yeah that's gonna make a lot of sense here that though that's like the the people that you hear loud is on line I also I just want to say what's crazy to me is is you can tell like who's been an actual fan of turning point USA and who is who is new as a hater because for years Erica has spoken at our events and she always has one of the longest if not the longest meet and greet line like it is

55:47wrapped around usually going for an hour and a half her taking a photo with every single person so it's just funny to me people are like nobody knows who Erica is really she just came on scene or just like just started talking after Charlie I'm like she's been basically a turning point contributor for several years well and she kind of did it begrudgingly that's the thing like we beg her to it is Charlie wanted her like he wanted to model marriage for everybody because he was so excited about being married and he loved Erica and their love story like everybody can attest when they would get around each other it was almost like annoying how like in love they were it was cute it was beautiful really I just mean it was like yeah they were really in love so all these rumors about you know whatever it's just like yeah so opposite of the truth by the way get that shot on Alex with that American flag get the like look at that I think we should like leave this up in honor of like that that's a great it's a good image it's a good image she picked up I think actually I want to read the email that came in with that the woman who did the painting of Charlie and Erica

56:48just because I think it's it's representative of a lot that we've gotten I've been praying extra for all of you this week Erica especially Charlie is still such an inspiration to me to be bold and to tell someone about Jesus I drew this because his and Erica's marriage was so special so sweet to watch I sincerely admire Erica as she's handled herself with such grace and strength over the last year Charlie was a great example of a man of God and Erica is a model of a great woman of God loving Jesus loving her family loving her country and this is from an 18 year old who actually that's what it is so very my soon to be nieces and nephews I'm getting married my fiancee's nieces and nephews he is 40 of them by the way 40 yep he comes from a family of 10 kids and multiple of those little girls in that family they pray for Eric miss Erica Kirk every night before bed yep there's a lot of people that would that have texted me stuff like that saying we literally pray for you guys every day so it's kind of one of those things where uh Erica's the the overwhelming support

57:52is from like regular people that don't necessarily have a thousand followers or 10,000 or a hundred million followers it's beautiful honestly we get inundated by it so that's a great question I got a great queue up of questions here I think Jonathan is next so Jonathan I'm yourself and what's your question I mean hello yes yes we got you we got you what's your question Jonathan like it didn't realize it was unplugged all right so I have two great questions are there any big ways we can see for the midterms in the next seven weeks before the midterms and have you been able to make any progress on some exclusive one just getting us with the AMS AM speakers and special guests you mean amp fest yeah well I'll say something about amp fest we're really focusing on I think freshening it up with some really interesting entertaining fiery debates and stuff like that right that's a big focus for this year yeah instead of only focusing on keynote speeches I think getting a lot more panels and fiery debates and controversial topics and stuff

58:54oh yeah you want to know what about flock cameras data centers Israel people are there's so many things people are arguing about you've got a lot you've got to cut this sort of big yeah because here's what's gonna happen right you've got this group that says oh you turning point needs to be more like this and you got this group says oh you got to be more like this and the whole thing is basically a recipe for purity test in any movement that you can observe that devolves into a purity spiral purity test spiral is an unhealthy movement so we're just gonna say hey you you feel very strongly about xyz debate it that's gonna be that's gonna be a lot of the focus of this year's amp fest I think we'll still do some keynotes and we'll still we're still gonna have some of that but there's gonna be a lot of debates in the breakouts are gonna be talking about all these issues so we've got to sort of start building towards a consensus on some of these more hot button topics because yeah the midterms are right there but this is gonna be December after the midterms and then we got to start getting that consensus built towards 2028 so I think amp fest is gonna be

59:54a great opportunity great platform for that and yeah we are going to be doing we're gonna have our podcast room for members of course so join us there we love those those are really really fun times Charlie love those we love doing them and what was your other question we're doing what can we say about upcoming midterm wins like predictions oh I think it was like other wins we can get before the midterms like policy win them or you can have things to bring to the table to have a good conversation yeah that's why I asked I don't know if you were watching an hour one but that's why I asked Senator Scott about this $5,000 dividend right because I think some people have done the math and it's over a trillion dollars right and so a lot of the you know I would say more conservative but supporters of President Trump like I saw Senator Ted Cruz was asked that I did Jesse Waters last night he was on right before me and they asked Jesse asked him about and he said well I'm more of like maybe we can do some tax cuts things it's it's gonna be a tough pill to swallow for a lot of the fiscal conservatives and so it'll probably change shape but I actually think

1:00:56it's a great way to get low-prop voters off the sidelines right if you have two people right they're married that could be like 10,000 bucks and that's a huge huge difference maker we got to figure out how to pay for it we got to balance the budgets you got to balance all those things but that's a big big win I do think Iran continues to be a thorn in our side it's annoying and if you could get a real if you could get a real this thing is over that would be a big win that could happen overnight if it happens but I guess you'd have to have proof because we've had a few fake outs on that ending that's exactly I listen I'm a big believer that we need to announce sort of an economic moonshot right Charlie was a big believer in this he said 10 million new homes 10 million illegals deported maybe it was 20 depending on the on the tweet let's make it 40 yeah let's make it it really is no number two I need to import 10 million illegals so we can deport them immediately and and and so basically giving Gen Z something to buy into and I think here here's the the I think what some of the people in Washington often miss is that you know the squeakiest wheel and politics

1:02:00is usually older people right they they're the big donors they have these pet issues like they don't want it property tax or whatever but if you lose the young people then you lose social media and then if you lose social media then the whole vibe shift happens and that's kind of what we're losing but living through and so you got to speak directly to young people I think speaking to their economic anxieties is a real key thing a lot of this is just going to be messaging and I would say he needs to go back out and campaign like every day yeah Bobby is is being underutilized in my opinion secretary Kennedy I think we need him front and center so a couple weeks back do you guys remember he did that awesome smack down he just body that CNN host about like the pandemic and covid and vaccinations and and and all that and and it was like so viral because people are like whoa like where has this guy been like we love the fighter with the spider box yeah well or that or hiking in jeans or whatever on hillback mountain he loved you know all that weird stuff I mean we just need more of him but he is at his best when he is giving speeches when he is speaking directly

1:03:04to moms and the American people families and when he when he just clocks people well he told the whole story about what the Democrat Party was when he grew up and how they had betrayed every single one of their ideals and he goes through point by point what they actually did so it's not just like these flowery statements he backs it up with hard facts and evidence and then what they did to him when he was running and how they betrayed him and how they villainized him and tried to silence him basically and he's like every single one of these proof points exposes them for the hypocrites that they are that is why you know I was the first Kennedy to endorse a Republican I don't know if you guys know who this guy is a guy is he's he's not a Jubilee debate and all that but his name is Dr. Mike he's a conventional viral social media doctor who like loves vaccines like yes give me to back stitch anyway what is he like if he just loves you know conventional medicine I want to do the impression again yeah so my request if we're doing like fiery debates at Amfest I think we try to get Secretary Kennedy versus Dr. Mike on stage it would be yeah let's do that that would

1:04:10be great I'm all about it are you looking for a boxing match well maybe we can just have a little push ups pull ups pull up yeah well haven't do the presidential fitness yeah that'd be good what are you looking for head of the mode of terms what do you want to see now I think messaging is the hit the nail on the head there it's conservatives I mean the age old adage in politics if you're explaining you're losing right and lives they have such an easy job of just like we're gonna say all of these fluffy fluffy things and conservatives just it's the age old problem that we've always had of getting the message out in a concise and cohesive way I thought it was interesting so yesterday I watched all the videos like every single like supercut of Charlie giving speeches and he was so good at distilling a really nuanced and complex topic down to like a sentence or two and I think that's if we can get a better system of messaging down that's gonna go a long way because the more people understand you know I don't not to go into this whole die tribe but I don't really believe

1:05:15in liberals I think there's conservatives and people who don't know their conservatives enough and yet or in demons and those are the only categories and generally speaking you are losing me until you got the thing yeah here's a great example of it stop 15 this movement is not about Republican or Democrat this movement is not about conservative or liberal and I think you're gonna see that on display in a little bit just maybe this movement is about the citizens versus the oligarchs this movement is about we the people versus the ruling class this movement is about America versus the globalist this movement is about all of us against them love that stating a vision I remember there's a flag behind him that said Romanians for Trump I just noticed that there was one of those funny ones anyway so so that was a good example of Charlie just distilling

1:06:20the political the politics of it all into a visceral moment for the the audience I think that's a really good really good example what what's our next question oh well first of all I also I want to flag this because it just popped into our inbox where someone says Alex please join the AMA more often that's from Allison she also said when my husband came to me a few years ago and said he believed God was telling him to get involved in politics I said there's no way we're doing that it's a waste of time not long after that someone introduced me to Charlie Charlie helped me to understand how important politics really were and how important they should be to a believing Christian and he showed me that it is possible to be a strong Christian and still involved in politics so thanks to Charlie who I consider my political teacher I can cheerfully and confidently support my husband as he surrenders to God's calling and then they also say I should join the AMA world there's a great email except for the Alex Clark all righty so it also we have a couple people who just sent

1:07:21well wishes in Laura said I just wanted to say we're praying for all of you thank you for your service and continuing Charlie's legacy and Caroline just said I wanted to thank and honor Charlie for a response he gave to me on an AMA call in April 2025 about IVF I remember we got calls about that he was very good at giving responses to tough questions and I know that was a tough question I think our next actual caller is Abby Abby unmute yourself and what's your question welcome to the show Abby okay can you guys hear me because I'm yes we can oh my gosh and the internet just came back on we know that experience yeah that was okay so I have a funny story to tell you guys but I just wanted to ask how are you guys are doing oh man that's the worst that's the hardest question I you know I like to say I'm doing I'm doing terrible actually especially yesterday but there's you know miracles in our midst too I consider yesterday a miracle we had hundreds of

1:08:24people both staff and students at the RNC we had 5,000 plus people at UVU reclaiming that space in Charlie's honor we had hundreds of hundreds of people here at HQ we had like an in-and-out truck that was feeding everybody and then we had another caterer in the in the evening and yeah I was just it was a miraculous day to be a year past and to see the team pulling together still and to see the the outpouring of love still for Charlie so it's like it's terrible it's all I mean it was a really emotional day but I think given everything that we've faced in the last year you know my glass is half full I'd say I feel it's a very heavy moment it's there's a lot of emotional weight to it but I it I really appreciate the way like it gives me a lot of meaning when we see those emails that come in where people say I follow Jesus because of Charlie I got baptized because of Charlie

1:09:24I got married it saved my marriage I had a kid that otherwise I wouldn't have had because of Charlie and we had even more of those come in last night probably more of them have come in today I haven't seen yet and to see the scale of how many people Charlie touched gives a lot of meaning to me and the the toughest part about losing Charlie are are the moments where you worry like will he be forgotten will the movement fall apart because of it and so I I drive a lot of meaning from when we these anniversaries when we can see those testimonies come out Amen I still cry every single time I talk about that day I can't get through it there there was a guardian reporter walking around interviewing us a few weeks ago and the article came out yesterday and he literally wrote it there he was like talking to me he's like he like wrote my sobs and then and then like my stutter is of like I was trying to talk to him and so yeah I think it depends on the day for me I think that I kind of wrote about it yesterday in my tribute to Charlie but I have just sadly I think in the

1:10:27last year I've become one which isn't bad a lot more protective overturning point USA but with that I'm very distrusting so I'm extremely protective I feel like my head is always on a swivel like I'm I'm very much like who's trying to come around us who's trying to be involved like do they have our best interest do they really care about Charlie do they actually care about Erica like what are their motives I feel like I'm like in a paranoia state all the time which can be really emotionally exhausting so I would say going into 2027 my prayer for myself is just peace I feel like I haven't experienced any peace yet since we lost Charlie so that would be like my prayer and if people could pray for that for me that would be amazing yeah I think that's really well said I feel the same you've called me out a couple times on social too you've been like you'd be like Andrew's biggest flaw is that he's he's too nice he's too nice I guess it could be worse so how are you doing job Bob you know I I just kind of thinking about anything to add specifically to you know what you and Blake said of

1:11:31and I don't really think there's much other than that just there's a weight and then there's also like this galvanizing pull and they're they're kind of both being held in tandem right now especially yesterday where's like these moments and Erica talked about this in that New York Times op-ed about the waves I feel like yesterday there was a lot of various iterations of those waves of kind of this deep emotional contemplation and then also the revitalization of just oh yeah let's keep this thing going let's go kick the progressive in the teeth rhetorically speaking obviously and carry the mantle and so both of those things were happening simultaneously throughout the day in my head and I feel like I wasn't the only one yeah I you know I do have these bouts of anger that yeah oh that's a good yeah yeah so I have never experienced or understood righteous anger until the last year and now I feel like I understand what righteous anger is yeah I think I think

1:12:32I can't say that I never experienced it but I can never I've never experienced it to this degree and this potently you know and and it's you know the people that have attacked Erica the org or whatever you know on top of the people that celebrated or mocked what happened to Charlie like it's a lot of righteous anger to go around truly and I think that's why turning point means so much to the country because like we refuse to bow or cow to any of this stuff and we're just going to be exactly what Charlie forged for all of us so well do we need to bring the okay we're okay we're going to continue going here what's our next question Blake all right I think we have I think we have Mick next Mick are you I mean yourself and what's your question thank you guys I do want to yeah hey I want to say God bless all you guys for being on that

1:13:35set I know that is not an easy thing to do especially from the days right after and continuing to be on that set and thank you guys for keeping Charlie show a lot even though some people may not want that thank you Mick my question for you guys is we have the midterms obviously and you can we can talk we've talked about the midterms plenty but as we go through the midterms and then the 28 what was Charlie's like mantra when he would go into these election cycles and not just you know this with that candidate or this and that talking point but well how did he what did he operate with and how did he convey that to you guys I think about Charlie the way he would pick kind of one or two lines and just hypnotically repeat them and he'd get the t-shirts made of them so for example in 28 he loved to wear that shirt that just said vote early or 24 or 24 he'd have the shirt that just says vote early and he would just wear it day in and day out you really get it slogan half the time

1:14:36and he'd say vote early make a plan to vote he'd love to repeat those two things and just drill it drill it drill it because he knows people aren't listening yeah well and I it's almost like we plan this we didn't plan it but Charlie would be hammering away and we're trying to do our best Charlie impression about turning point actions commit 100 right so there's a lot of people that just sit on their keyboards and they complain and they you know throw bombs at people we are about solutions we're about action right so tpaction.com slash 100 I think we got some graphics their team let's throw it up. Can I say one quick thing on that? What's that? Can I say one quick thing on that? Of course so Charlie inspired me to really change my life and it looks a lot different today than it did a year ago and so I'm actually moving from Oregon to South Carolina so if you want to send me some phone numbers I will phone to make that hold right there. I love it. tpaction.com slash 100 you can sign up become a volunteer there it is and that QR code God bless you guys that this was

1:15:38the team's innovation here so everybody watching I want you to scan that QR code get involved today that's what Charlie would be saying like listen you can you can moan and groan okay you can do that you can give into apathy into cynicism and denialism and you can let the left win and you can be miserable that's great that's a really good way to live no it's not it's awful it's terrible and if Charlie's life meant anything to you it left any legacy or impacted you in any way you would know that that is a stupid response to the problems that we face the better response is to get involved tpaction.com slash 100 tpaction.com slash 100 and here's how it works you scan that QR code you sign up we will either you can take a vacation on us like it says on the thing or you can fly to Arizona a new hamster Nevada will get you a hotel room will give you a training will give you a staff person it'll be your point of contact you can go out in the field call knock on doors for a week two weeks three weeks or you can do it from home from South Carolina start texting these people

1:16:41sending them postcards encouraging them to get their ballot in because now that we got voter month listen with the excuses that we've heard for people that don't vote it's crazy they take like an online poll and they think they voted or like they'll have like a trump shrine in their garage and they haven't voted it's the weirdest thing you'll never believe the people that you will meet that have not voted but what's cool about the way we do this is if you're a conservative you're going to be talking to other conservatives they're just low propensity conservatives yeah so it's not scary you don't have to because I was scared about this at first you're not knocking a door and debating some democrat that's gonna be like get off my lawn you know what I mean these are Republicans yeah that just need encouragement like hey you you're gonna vote right that's it exactly and so it's a really easy good way to get involved and we make it as simple as possible for you you're just politely harassing them to get their voting it's a social nudge I think you guys did a great job at giving the carrot let me give the stick Democrats are doing it and so we need to yes engage engage engage because they are doing it and we need to out engage them so yes all of the reasons

1:17:46why you should but also know that you're you're trying to outpace we we're a registered republican household and my wife told me yesterday that one of the Democrat operators came knocking on the door is in there going after everybody now we live in the godless hell hold it is California so that kind of makes sense but they even need to bother yeah who does but just they don't go to 69 no sense not enough president fill out your ballot for you yeah yeah and they'll take and they'll take your ballot I'll be like your grandma just die oh what was her name I just I can't believe all the sinister things California does and gets away my dad died four years ago still gets about in my my mom's house in the mail just uh crazy frauds impossible there's no confirmed cases of it no we're never going to check the most secure elections in the history it takes us a month again because congratulations on moving to South Carolina I do feel bad for you the coffee's probably going to get much worse from the blues blue hair the racist door again coffee everywhere now but but South

1:18:46Carolina is one of the most beautiful states so have a great time and they have some like a weird pension for selecting very strange very strange politicians so maybe you can help with that and I don't know if you're married or not but if you're single the women are a lot prettier in South Carolina than Oregon they do they do they say they have something called makeup there you go they they discovered makeup in South Carolina and and razors let's find a way if you've got if you've have a house in South Carolina you should get a joggling board if you don't know what that is well you'll learn your own things going to South Carolina awesome yeah leave Monday thank you fellas all right well god bless you man please sign up tpaction.com uh just just get it done by the way little ode to Oregon okay hey I love the Pacific Northwest that's where my fiancee's from so I'm well Charlie was a huge Oregon duck fan as you can see behind Blake but I don't know if you can see it right now it's very a sliver of it and I've been wanting an excuse to play some of these coach landing clips um his speech just team anyways this is after Charlie died he didn't

1:19:49know Charlie was a huge duck fan so uh sat 17 are you risking find out like Charlie uh Kirk was a Oregon fan right I didn't know that um I hurt for his wife Erica and their kids like that that sort of evil should never exist in our country and that's what it is evil I mean life matters you know and I think uh we've lost sight of that if you disagree with me if you hate me if you don't like like me just know this I love you I absolutely love you right in life matters and that's no way that uh Charlie should have experienced that his family should have experienced that there's no way that that evil should exist uh in this world and we have to continue to identify and point it out dang near made me an Oregon duck fan here in coach landing say those things um we're going to continue on here because it's not every day that we get jobab and out Clark in studio so we're going to continue on a little podcast exclusive but I just want to give you guys out there in the audience a heartfelt thank you for being so supportive of us in the show of turning point of

1:20:51Erica this was a tough week um I'm candidly a little relieved it's been a lot and but the the team did such a heroic job all week and I'm so proud of each and every one of them just getting the show up studio yesterday was such a tribute to you guys and your professionalism and it was uh it was very Charlie everybody running around trying to get things uh get things up uh it felt felt like a throwback so midterm elections are coming up and control of congress is on the line if there's one thing financial markets hate it's uncertainty and uncertainty is exactly what the next few months are going to bring in 2024 if it taught us anything it's that uncertainty breeds volatility between now and November could be one of the most volatile stretches for the stock market and the economy so you owe it to yourself to have a plan here's the good part there's a simple way to protect what you've built and that's gold physical gold and silver let you hedge against that volatility and there's no better partner for it than noble gold

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1:23:01kind of a two-part question with yesterday and today I'll do today first everybody talks about on 9-11 where they were it's kind of like burned into their minds I know where mine was I was senior of our class we're kind of playing you who I'm working on our project got rest my teacher she didn't find out but where were all of you on this day and then my next question is what was the one thing that drove Charlie crazy either in the office or traveling okay that's good I remember where I was when I found out I was in the fifth grade at St. Mary's Catholic School in Sioux Falls South Dakota and we would have morning announcements and as part of the morning announcements our principal said we have to say a prayer for the two planes that crashed into the world trade center and I know a lot of people in school they have accounts where they just decided to pack it up for classes they rolled in a TV and they just watched the TV all day

1:24:02we didn't do that they actually tried to kind of maintain a normal school day we didn't wheel in a TV and this led to a weird thing so we had we were in the band and maybe you'd get music lessons kind of you'd get a 25 30 minute teach you your instrument music lesson each week if you played an instrument and that instructor was basically giving us updates so people who are going for their music lessons were coming back and explaining basically what get it given the update that they'd heard and then I remember we were getting we were listening on the radio briefly when we came back in from recess and then finally late in the afternoon they actually did a since it's a Catholic school we had a church attached we did a mass in the afternoon normally we do that on Wednesday but we did it that afternoon and so that's my memory of how that all went down yeah I was in third grade I was going to Franklin Road Christian School in Murphy'sboro Tennessee and we had chapel that day and I remember all the teachers were asked to go

1:25:02to the front and they were all like whispering and talking and then we went through our whole school day completely normal no idea what had happened I guess they had made the decision like this is too dark for kids this young let's let their parents tell them if they want to tell them so my mom peed me up from school and when I got in the car my mom told me some terrorists through their planes and these big skyscrapers in New York City and then we had Fox News on of course every single night going forward I mean it was already already on my ass I grew up in a very conservative house but that was like the first time I remember like patriotism ignited in me and I was a third grader and I could not stop watching the coverage and kudos to my parents who even though I was in third grade they explained it on a level I could understand but they didn't try to hide it from me and so that really kind of opened the door for political conversation and the state of the country every night at dinner from there forward for my entire life and you know I'm still a proud conservative and patriot to this day but that's where I was yeah I you know so I was

1:26:04also an elementary school but so you guys were on more Eastern time zone so I was on the west coast so we haven't about 6 a.m. early and so everybody already knew going into school and I remember I didn't quite understand what was going on it wasn't you know aware of the ramifications of it but I do remember wondering why why the teachers weren't really teaching why nothing was really happening and I remember that being odd at the time nowadays I look back and I'm thankful they even showed up to work because I don't I don't know if I would have again you know if you're already at school and your days already started that's one thing it's not necessarily a better excuse but we had we had a couple hours yeah you guys could have said schools are we couldn't yeah schools canceled but but you know that there are also problems that arrived in that okay what about parents that have to go to work and they don't have daycare for the like it there's a whole different so the teachers just showing up I just get I remember vividly like this is a weird day why why are none of

1:27:10our teachers really doing any of the things that they do but again looking back and in hindsight I go I'm so thankful they just showed up no I was so I was uh I was uh I was uh that was later oh my dad was driving me to I was a freshman and I was going to my first day of two a days or not first day I don't know it was first day but it was like that I remember being really traumatized by the fact I had to get up early and go to football practice and so we had you know my dad's driving it like six in the morning and so we heard it on the radio on the way to school that day and so I got into the locker room and somebody had wheeled in one of those TVs and I remember there was this guy that was uh he I lived in Nevada so he he was from Texas and I just remember he's like this Texas guy is one of our linemen and he was he was I walked into the to the locker room and he was like basically shouting pejorative about how we're gonna go bomb some

1:28:12people or something you know this text leave it to the text and transplant to have had a talking about how we're gonna you know you know fight back or whatever but yeah I remember the whole day we were as at a Catholic high school and so it was it was kind of uh uh I don't think we did much teaching that day either we did do mass later in the day to pray but most of the most the teachers kind of like threw in the towel and we just kind of watched the news reports so man uh someone oh yeah oh yeah it sounds like Andrew you and I had kind of the same thing Blake same thing because I remember taking economics test at the end of the day we tried to get out of it using the event but I do have some at the end if you answer my second question Alex will like my lasting so yeah so you wanted to know a funny stuff that annoyed Charlie on the show or traveling Daisy reminded us I'll open that she reminded us uh if we have that photo ready throw it up Charlie would get really annoyed by the temperature in the studio if it got too hot oh and so she's reminding us she's literally discerching hot in here now lol hot in here hot in here

1:29:15hot in here it's hot yeah yeah hot in here now hello hot in here very hot in here hot in here too hot in here and then also his IFB which that's the these things on our ear when those weren't attached properly he would be like please fix my IF yeah and fix my if you come and fix my if you yeah anyways um I would say he you know he was always going a hundred miles a minute and everything was very quick he was a fast talker and when he asked you a question you could not stand if somebody didn't answer very succinctly like one word answer or one sentence answer if you were beyond that he was moving on he was walking past you or or changing the subject he you had to talk so fast the reason I talk so fast I think it's working here I had to learn to get things out quickly already was moved on he hated wasting time another so this is reminding me so he used to always complain because there's a warehouse behind the the studio in here and if they were doing work out

1:30:18there he'd be like what are they doing back there what's all that noise and it's funny because you probably see this uh there's like a uh a picture of Charlie at his home studio it's like it's not really a homestead we call it that because it's close to where where he lived but it was uh it was kind of this picture I think it was from the day or two before everything happened but he's sitting there and he's got this look in his eye going like like this you know that picture if you see that image on social media yeah yeah and like all the conspiratars are basically like what was he knew what did he know like what were they doing and all it was was one of his like staffer like making noise next to him and he was like I'm about to hit like what are you doing you know and because that was just Charlie he just got so irritated if people were like loud around him what he was trying to focus and yeah anyway you know well the the thing that pops to my mind is the thing that annoyed him most uh Alex Clark's obsession with Taylor Swift oh that's like there was during one of those little round tables like we would we'd sit there for probably 45 minutes to an hour just talk about whatever came up and one of them the last like 15 minutes was a Taylor Swift

1:31:21saga where I think Alex almost quit almost broke down in tears Charlie stormed out of the room not actually but but it was it was hilarious because he'd always be like you know I see me and he check in how their hard things go and work whatever they're gonna be like you still like Taylor Swift and I'd be like yeah my favorite Charlie Taylor Swift moment was when he was like he's like it better be uh you know Taylor Kelsey you better gotta take the name if you don't take the name you don't mean it don't believe it oh yeah they just said like can you guy can you gusty he's misspelled can you guys stop being so loud please oh yeah you guys exactly and that was during a home hit no seriously oh that was September 8th geez man yeah this is during his home yeah that's so okay this is I bet that's the one throw that up I'm telling you I've seen this image on social media where he's just glaring and I think it must have been it like Danny or Mike or something because like somebody made a noise in there and I want to throw it up there it is do we have it there it is can you stop

1:32:27it September 8 I bet that's the freaking thing because it's 427 p.m so that was probably like a Wilkain hit or something yeah um anyways uh what is he's uh I just had one other thing and since you brought up Taylor Swift Alex this one's for you and the guy's known me as sports Anthony because I work in the industry I do have one autograph that you would love that I have my collection Travis Kelsing I have Taylor Swift autograph and I got a 16 at a guitars and stars a concert in Rochester New York and her mother had to stand next to her as she signed autographs the entire time that it's so cool keep it forever don't never sell it no unless you're gonna send it to Alex I was a gift no no no you keep it it'll be that'll be so special one day like you know decades and decades and decades later it will yeah here we go no I agree I agree with Alex but there's meaning to it why I won't give rid of it the gentleman who brought me was a client of mine who I

1:33:30became very good friends with who got killed back in New Orleans with in a car accident when he moved home that's it so it was kind of like his company was a sponsor and we have VIP so I'll always keep it but it's the only Taylor Swift thing I have I don't listen to music anymore but I will never get rid of that and I knew Alex would like that at least you're you're progressing you're on a good track and we got to play it I bought 70 now at least I'm not a Dodger fan and oh come on hey everybody hates checkbook baseball until it makes the whole league more fun okay here's a Charlie Kirk on Taylor Swift 79 this is something that I hope will make Taylor Swift more conservative engage in reality more and get out outside of the abstract clouds reject feminism submit to your husband Taylor you're not in charge and most importantly I can't wait to go to a Taylor Kelsey cuff I can't say it without laughing you got to change your name if not you don't really mean it

1:34:37congratulations Taylor you know I just saw it complete coincidence I saw this morning uh Lyman Stone he's a guy in X he does a lot of family marriage stuff and apparently the divorce rate is 30% higher if you don't change the name oh I believe that really what I mean that's tough though right because you're gonna be getting married and you know and you have a public persona or like a brand that's Alex Clark right so so what I'm gonna do is my name is changing it'll change to vote burg in real life and I will have that in my social media bios that it'll say Alexandra voteberg but when I do a show like this or I go on Fox News or whatever it'll say Alex Clark I'll say Alex Clark on my podcast because it's confusing so Dolly Parton actually changed her name but her she was already famous or known right isn't you yeah I think her legal name was I think Dolly Parton yeah whatever it was yeah it was a Dean Carl Dean yeah yeah yeah so she actually did legally change it but just her brand yeah it's the same thing because if I all the sudden they're like Alex Vogueberg's coming on Fox people are gonna go who you know no it'll

1:35:41be easy it's fair um oh I just went and snagged all the Alex Vogueberg domain names and that's used I was hoping to sell it back to Alex at a hefty profit she's gonna love you girls out I'm just thinking of uh I I think the who's the most famous person who did the full name pivot uh Victoria Beckham yeah I was thinking I was thinking of that Victoria Beckham went full posh spice changed it and I feel like she drew aura from that she got some prestige she said I'm gonna change it of course she was okay to say she was married to David yeah that's true that yeah okay should we throw this up by the way this graphic so this was this was uh I think this was when Daisy found out that Travis Kelsey and it was happening during the show yeah when it's dramatic so that's why Charlie's reacted to it and this is so Daisy is another swifty throw this up it just throw it whatever version we have it up it's fine and uh this was my real time reaction ago I'm gonna put that on the show and then she goes permission granted I yelled

1:36:42it to the office she's making sourdough so she's on the right path and then Charlie says to his dude that clip we just played lol I was positive yeah he was he was like I you know congratulations he said it oh that was a good one hey we have another clip we actually have another clip is this great this is an email that we got from Abby I think the same one who called in earlier she said I forgot to ask is Alex the interviewer who asked Charlie about the married to Hillary Clinton and he just keeps repeating China and North Korea and I didn't know what this is referring to I said to the theme they knew what it was immediately she says that's her favorite Charlie clip so for Abby this is for you clip 78 would you rather be married to Hillary Clinton or have to live China for 10 years you would even after all that stuff still China China but I feel like if you're married to Hillary she put you out of your misery pretty quick North Korea I should put you out of your misery pretty quick true oh that's too funny I got it that's great he a great dead pan

1:37:55yeah yeah people don't understand how funny Charlie was but like when you talk about so we got that question about when you travel with Charlie or Charlie like and during the campaign in 24 I mean there's a lot of just traveling like late late night traveling that was the one where I felt I thought I was gonna die you know flying into Atlanta and we hit that wake turbulence and it like the plane like flipped on its side twice it just kept like rocking and I look up at Charlie and he goes having fun yet but he was just as moments travel Charlie would make me laugh all the time when Charlie every time a plane would take off as it was going down the road we would say Lord bless this flight yeah and I feel that my innovation was that I added Lord bless this landing on the plane you know why Charlie would explain this to me because Charlie's I think Grandpa was a pilot I think is I think in World War II but maybe it was Pan Am too I forget the exact story but Charlie was always like I was like why do you always do that and he was like well statistically a plane is much more likely to you know crash upon takeoff because you know like because you know you're

1:38:58putting all that energy to getting up in the air coming down you can it's kind of a glide path you know mostly anyways Michael Mikey McCoy had a story flying into into California with through lightning a big storm and Charlie was just cool as a cucumber he was a great flyer he was very com flair yeah there was there's a there's a medieval king who would fight on the front lines of battles and he would run out like in front of you know where the enemy fire was and all of his subordinates would freak out and he would he would just reply like God has ordained the moment of my death and it shall not come a moment sooner or a moment later and you just had that and I think Charlie had a lot of that about it yeah he did he talked about that actually don't fear death can I tell can I tell a flying story so the first time I flew somewhere with Charlie we were going from like Chicago back to Phoenix and I didn't yet know the aggressive optimism that he had for everything and so he goes he's like oh it should be like two-hour flight in my head I'm thinking okay

1:39:58two-hour flight it takes my wife she's kind of nervous concern smaller plane it takes my wife we'll get about two hours about halfway through the flight I then realized no it's about a two and a half three-hour flight a couple hours into the flight and there's no there's no reception there's no service up there pilot comes back and says I were stuck over Kansas is the wind is is blowing too hard so it's another hour so now I've texted my wife two hours and it's now about four hours and turned all we basically was trying to you know rest and Charlie I feel a tap my shoulder and Charlie's like hey you know you could probably text your wife when we're over these mountains and about every 15-20 minutes he would be like okay his location was on we're about over mountain you probably get a text out you know long story short he was he was concerned about that because I was concerned about that and and making sure my wife was you know not freaking out the funny combination of it was ultimately I tried so many times my phone ran out of battery so I couldn't text

1:41:00her until I got back to the hotel which is like six hours later yeah but it was it was it was he was he was very concerned that like I had told my wife one thing and you know yeah didn't exactly get there in in the time that we planned and didn't want her worried that's that there was so many travel stories like that because he was just constantly traveling and Blake always tells the story how he like set up a bed he would just be like okay I'll see him 15 minutes yeah yeah yeah and it would be so funny because he'd be quizzing like he for example he was prepping for a topic and he would just say Blake tell me about immigration or something or the Roman Empire sometimes there's just an education topic and he would just go okay tell me blah blah blah okay what else blah blah blah okay what else and you always do that you just had to survive the bombardment of what else's like crap I'm not gonna have something and then you go all right thanks I'm gonna sleep for 15 minutes now and then just like yeah Blake would like Charlie's chat GDT yeah we make GDT what's we called him we got all these like boy smells from people we didn't play them and I

1:42:00want to play some yeah yeah let's go I haven't listened to any of these let's play 39 hey Charlie was the bravest guy and the smartest I've ever ever heard from and he inspires me every day to try to be more intelligent and caring about history and the future of the world in this country man that was from John that was awesome I want to hear another one this is from Kim stop 40 Charlie was a David going against a Goliath he was a man of courage and I loved everything about him everything he stood for and everything he taught and preached about I just loved him I miss him so

1:43:00much he was a wonderful man a godly man a man of courage and a man that all men should look up to he was one of a kind and so loved hey man this is kind of random this uh this is from Frank he ran into Charlie once entering a restroom I got I got a listen to this but it's really sweet because I think he was going through something at the time uh stop 43 I had a random meeting with Charlie as I was exiting a restroom at Amfest and he was entering but that was the only time I met him in person I think what really mattered to me was in 2020 I never felt so alone never saw so many connections leave me for a necessary reason and Charlie gave us a reason to come together now I almost feel silly sometimes when I still get torn up about him being gone and then I listen to the Charlie Kirk show or

1:44:01see others in the community and realize that we're all still grieving this together and it makes me just feel like I'm part of something um you know I planned a vote I've always planned a vote but now I'm I'm voting not not for Charlie but just to make winning harder for the people that hate him so much good love it he would love that um I haven't looked through any of these other ones but this is cool I love this one line is quick 46 Charlie made me want to be a better father be a better husband they're a follower of Christ name man and then so many testimonies to that one oh man this just this sounds strong let's do 47 as well Charlie was an incredible human being and just an absolute juggernaut for his faith and his views and the conservative movement he's inspired me and and millions of others across this country to

1:45:06to pick up the torch and and to continue the good fight um can't believe it's been a year but man we really miss him but so thankful for the time God gave him to us this is a long one but the one reading the yeah from Cole that one looks tremendous so I think let's just go for it let's play 49 from Cole Charlie I didn't know you and I've never met you or Bendoor Ali yet I've listened to you for a few years you have helped me devote my life to being a better husband and a better father and a better patriot you are a living example of the promise of America Charlie I've been told my whole life for 30 years that I can't change anything not one man can change anything that the game is rigged get right with God and just wait for him to come back

1:46:07looking back on your life and the tragedy that happened you were the man that was able to stand up and speak truth and you made a difference you walked with God and you not only influenced this state country like you influenced the world and you've shown me that one man when they speak God's truth can affect more change than any empire or ideology and that my friend is a lesson which I'm eternally grateful I pray that I can shake your hand and say thank you one day man that's great Cole yeah that was tremendous my my dad died a year before Charlie and I asked my mom I was like what are you what are you my dad was very funny and I said what do you think dad said when Charlie got to heaven and my mom said

1:47:10he probably looked at him and said hey you look like Charlie Kirk I one of my fondest memories is when he was going through the security in London and I heard these extremely British sounding lads like they had to be about high school age when I'm good like yeah oh I think that's Charlie Kirk I'm just very British sounding and I don't even know if Charlie heard it but I heard it and it was so I remember one time I took into this golf course in Santa Barbara it was like like you know I had this hook up it was private I was going to be left alone and we were going to have this meeting and I remember Mike he for whatever reason stayed in the in the car and it was just Charlie and I know it's like don't worry nobody's going to bother us here and like you know you're thinking like golf course old people everybody's going to leave alone no no all these young people that were golfing with their dads or whatever like just swarmed him and I I remember just it was one of those realizations that oh yeah like you're really famous like because I never could fully catch up

1:48:13with how famous he was I I couldn't internalize it fast enough I was like six months a year behind what he actually was and I remember looking at him just kind of going like I'm sorry man I got really I thought this was going to be cool he's like it's cool I've just I this is my life it's like I've embraced it I've absorbed it and yeah I was kind I think we all have those moments where it's like man he's like the fricking it's like going somewhere with the Beatles or something at this point I loved when we another one from the UK was we stopped at there was a bizarre rest stop near Oxford and I say bizarre because I had five Starbucks at it there was a Starbucks outside stand alone then you went in there was another full Starbucks inside it is mid-maintenance and it had two like registers that were far away from each other such that it kind of looked like two separate Starbucks's and then they had two convenience stores that also had little Starbucks by Starbucks in there okay so there were five Starbucks in this one rest stop but then just the the person working the register really oh like they recognize and then they wanted a photo with him and then that person clearly looked like they were probably like an immigrant to Britain and so

1:49:17just all these people spotting them all over the place we stopped at a gas station or a petrol station I think they call them did Charlie ever go to buckies I don't know if you ever did and it's too bad because I would have been a great video funny video I'm reacting to the buckies we got another video by the way someone says their favorite clip is another one you and Charlie this time him talking about the car he drove in high school oh yes and we got this loaded up this is 80 what were you really like in high school and what kind of car were you driving not much has changed but I did drive a 2003 silver Ford Explorer went to wheeling high school always love politics and here we are oh I guess I maybe there was some twists to it but I think the twist is that she's probably thinking of as I say my first car was a Volkswagen 2005 silver jettah and I said if you've ever driven a jettah you know it smells like crans and then Charlie chimed in and he said crayon he was he was correcting me I said no it's crann do we have the chambermaid clip oh well

1:50:19let's give that one up again just because it's great but I would they say they also liked it because this person Eva also drove a Ford Explorer in high school okay I drove an oldsmobile Aurora I don't think that's so so Charlie was definitely an oldtool in so many ways but they let me know when we have the chambermaid clip because it's it's like too funny that by the way I just want to say to anybody who hasn't seen the mashup that the team put together the best of Charlie on thought crime which is our Thursday night streaming show and then we put it out on the podcast on Saturday but it was I mean I just dropped everything the whole team you know because we there's so much content we constantly or you know we're not always watching everything the whole team just gathered around the TVs in the in the bullpen and we just watched it because it was just so hilarious watching all the all the best of Charlie Kirk and so that is the thought crime this week so go to the rumble channel you can follow it there and or get it on the podcast tomorrow but it's the best stuff like years of Charlie just being subjected to like everybody else's humor and

1:51:24getting like inundated with pop culture they had no idea about or or it was like after you got put on South Park I don't know that we're gonna find the clip apparently because it's not coming up but maybe we'll get it he was so excited about the South Park yeah he he oh it's coming Ryan says it's coming back so it's it's like one of the greatest it I think it's probably the greatest unplanned organic moments that happened yeah like the South Park stuff was great but we did know we were gonna be talking about it we have no idea Charlie it was gonna suddenly use a word from 1750 I don't want to say anymore because I don't want it to like I don't want to ruin it but what is this that you just sit here oh this is the painting yeah that was a while ago oh yeah yeah yeah uh ck on a mission let's play this in the meantime this was him in South Korea right uh 77 trying to find somebody taller than him I am on a mission to find someone taller than me I have 12 hours wish me luck

1:52:28and then once once I find them I will pay them money 10,000 yen 10,000 yen to have me measure up against them to see if I could find someone taller than me and Tokyo this is not a drill did he ever find them I think he might have but it was just another tourist I was seeing that it would have been a great Calcium Market like fucking Charlie Kirk find somebody taller than me yes or no you could get a really like detailed market like how long will it say yeah it'd be like five minutes 50 minutes never once we find this clip we will wrap because we have to get Alex Clark to her next thing she's such a diva these days I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm having a show while we wait we'll just a few more emails because we got so many of those and thank you to everyone I'm sorry if we didn't get a chance to read them because there's a ton and so many of them are good uh Don another Don says I've learned Charlie was a happy warrior but Erica is a fierce warrior now I say strong lioness yeah she is one way to put it let's see

1:53:34Melanie says this is how I chose to honor Charlie along with the responders and victims on 9-11 and she's got a boat photo she was out on the water and she had the American flag with her I saw a lot of displays someone sent a photo of turning points original headquarters in Illinois and they got a whole display up there of people were leaving monuments they put up signs another woman had a Charlie Kirk memorial in her lawn outside her home so we had we had Jeremy Goval from Goval Farms in Indiana Indiana it was that's where I'm from southern Indiana so he had the corn maze yeah and did you know that they grow those so they they don't cut them down to make the corn maze they planted that way so that it grows up yeah they got a lot of backlash so if you're in southern Indiana go support them yeah totally this is a okay I guess we have Jake sending the video right now I can see it loading but we're gonna play this one uh oh and on I don't know what they're

1:54:34telling me this is how tall was Charlie Kirk six five the internet says five eight yeah that's what started all of this it was like some crazy low number it was like the comical no five pen and then it went to six one isn't it six five it's six five yeah well but yeah I don't know yeah okay so let's play it 81 okay we're matching you see a Charlie it's actually six five there's a lot of a lot of conversation on the internet no shoes on and we're uh 77 inches okay I can't do that math you can't do that math I can't 72 yeah yeah so that's that's that's six five when that first was like starting to become a thing I remember Google it because yeah I was like five ten and then like six one and I was just like is anybody met this man like I if you stand next to her so what happened was he was shaking hands with president Trump and Trump is shorter than Charlie and they on his Wikipedia page just said he was six one and they're like oh Trump says he's six one but look he's shorter than Charlie he's shrinking

1:55:38he's lying about his height it's like it's it's a Charlie just responded to it I think it was that Brooklyn data count and he just goes I'm six five finally do for years Charlie was raging against Wikipedia because you couldn't change it they would just go back it's a finally after he chimed in it it finally changed to six five all right so this is the end this was where we will we will drop everything uh this is Charlie on chambermaids oh here's a good one here's a good one do you tip the chambermaid honestly I don't chamber that's the that's the title chambermaid honestly I don't is it not the title chambermaid housekeeping is chambermaid you would just say house keeping though this isn't the 1920s Charlie Charlie's like come on you look at all it's chambermaid it goes off for a while I've never heard that word he's like it's so it's like Danny and a bike yeah I think me too and then I start googling like you know it was when you google chambermaid

1:56:38it's like the middle ages comes up it's like the funniest thing I don't know how he even knows that word no who who who who is a sort of chambermaid draw some water for my bow all right Alex now officially I know Alex now officially has to go because she's a diva um let's wrap it up I'm kidding thank you to everyone who sent in a message this week thank you for everyone who tuned in I know a lot of people had difficulties with the stream during the day yesterday we're gonna re upload all of that and the podcast episode as well is has no issues so thank you to everyone is honored Charlie who's remembered Charlie and remember above all the best way to honor him is not to watch any stream the best way to honor him is to of course give your life to Christ and make a difference in your world in the real world because that is what Charlie lived to do and it's what he gave his life doing yeah amen we love you guys we'll see you next week thank you guys for joining that was so much fun thanks for having us yeah fun it's great God bless you we'll see you next week

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