Charlie's Voice Isn't Going Anywhere ft. Mrs. Erika Kirk
Erika Kirk joins the program to share memories of her husband as well as a crucial message: The things her husband built, including his vast online presence, are not going away and will not be destroyed by an assassin's bullet. Plus, Mikey McCoy and Blake Neff share never-before-seen footage of their trip with Charlie to Asia, a bucket list item he was able to cross off just before he passed. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com Get new merch at charliekirkstore.comSupport the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today is really fun because Mikey and Blake are going to talk about their last trip with Charlie to Asia.
And Mikey, you are now in the driver's seat.
The floor is yours.
Yeah.
Uh it's crazy to think that was just three, four days before Utah.
And we it was Charlie's dream to always go to Asia.
And Blake and I got the gift of being able to tag along for that.
Uh and so I brought the camera with me.
I've never traveled with a camera before, but I decided, you know, it would be a good idea to mic Charlie up, do some content with him while we're there.
And so we put together a little teaser.
There's some speeches that are gonna be coming out soon, podcasts that are gonna be coming out soon.
Never before seen, so this is exciting, this is new.
But uh number two, ninety-two at you calling Sots.
There we go.
This is a a little teaser uh of what's to come from Asia.
I never could have imagined seeing though what I'm seeing here tonight.
A global movement for freedom.
Here to bring a message of hope to Japan.
For those with political will, determination, and bravery, nothing is impossible.
Freedom is not only an American or a Western value, it is a value that belongs to the entire world.
We are allies because we all share a common enemy.
They preach a doctrine they call diversity.
Globalism wants to erase the distinctions that separate different countries and cultures.
It takes hundreds of years to build a civilization.
It takes one generation of mistakes to throw it away.
Protect your freedom and your faith from the evildoers who would destroy it.
The best way to fight against tyranny is for good people to stand up.
USA!
That's good.
Blame.
Blake and I are were laughing because the event we did in Korea was uh It's so amazing, it was so incredible.
A copy paste of America.
It was it was called Build Up Korea 2025, and it was so amazing to see.
It was it literally was they're like, you know, we say it, you know, Charlie would want to imitate people who were successful, so we'd learn from people he would do a lot of the rush stuff because he's like, well, Russia's successful.
So this is people doing the same thing with Charlie Kirk.
They're like, I want a successful youth conservative event.
Turning point is a successful Let's do a turning point event.
So it's got the it has like the cracking me up when you guys are sending the clips.
I was like, It has like they just literally really looked like same backstage area, same shape.
Sparkling rooms, the sparkling, same fireworks, same like synth wave color scheme, like you know, like it's out of the eighties sort of.
And the funny part is right at the end, they're going, USA, USA.
They even wanted to.
They had exhibited hall, and some of them were very Korean, but one that I got a kick out of it was like the 1776 Institute, and it was a Korean, like US fan club.
It's like, oh, what you can learn from the American founders and how awesome they are, and I was like, yes.
Yeah.
Well this was amazing though.
You told me the story how everybody at this Korean event, they they were invited to come close to the stage.
So amazing.
And they just started singing and praying over Charlie, which was interesting, like full circle moment because the same some of the worship leaders at the the event for Charlie's memorial sang that same song.
And it was it was a basically like two weeks to the day later that they they the song that these Koreans were worshipping and praying over Charlie that was ended up being sung at his memorial, but y he put his hand on his heart and you told me it was one of the few times you'd seen him get emotional.
Yeah.
So he they called him on stage, they said we had one last gift for you, Charlie.
And so he didn't know what it was, but he went out on stage and she spoke to the crowd in Korean, then all of a sudden the piano starts playing and starts, how great is our God.
And they're singing it, and it's I keep saying beauty transcends even language.
Even though that song was in Korean, we all knew what song they were singing.
And they they came and then they were praying over him.
They said something in Korean, they yelled it out loud.
And uh a week and two or two weeks later, two weeks and two days later, that that song would be sung at Charlie's memorial.
with everybody giving their hearts.
It warms my heart knowing that he had this overflowing of the Holy Spirit and God and prayer that he got to just bask in and feel the love in that way.
And so it's comforting.
Yeah.
And so other exciting things that we got to do is Blake was our tour guide.
And he took us what was the palace?
Gyungbog uh Gangbok.
Was it Gyeongbokung?
Yeah, Gung Bakun.
I'll confess Korean syllables kind of all just it's like syllable gore to me.
So I can't ever remember.
Let me make sure I got that right.
We fit in so much stuff.
Young Bokung one day.
We went to the DMZ, so North Korea, and then he also we have that clip.
Yeah, we do, and then we have Blake taking us to the palace.
I think we should play the palace clip 298.
Blake, I'm sorry about this one.
Mikey's struggle busting.
He's all like it's so hot.
I can't be cool like the security guys who have full suits.
Or Blake who's got his ridiculous Macy's blazer.
I was gonna say.
Like you've gotten more, you've gotten more mileage out of that blazer than anything I've ever seen in my life.
It's a great blazer.
People like it.
It's my favorite blazer.
It's nice.
People comment on it no matter what.
The occasions.
Like, where's the Mason's blazers?
Heck yeah.
So I think I think Charlie secretly had a plan to be a tourist that day in Dawak City, but he didn't tell us that message.
So we came downstairs in our suits, you know, fully ready for an event.
He came down in gym shorts and a t-shirt.
And his long socks.
We were sweating through 90 90%.
Every time we'd get to something, he'd just be like, Blake, tell us about this.
That's right.
So yeah, we were at the palace, and I'm like, okay, yeah, we got the palace.
You know, this is this is the hall where they would do the Confucian scholarship stuff.
I want to see this one.
297 with the the DMZ.
I want to see the because I didn't actually know he went there.
So that's great.
297.
North Korea.
okay everybody welcome to north korea So this is literally North Korea.
You were here before.
Yeah, so originally we were supposed to go to the DMZ portion where Trump shook Kim Jong-un's hand.
And I'm gonna put him on blast, but the United Nations cancelled Charlie.
Didn't allow us to go.
Wow.
So we're we're scheduled to go.
So we had to go to that lookout point, which was really exciting still.
So glad we got that.
Yeah, you got to see it.
Something else that's really interesting is when we're at that build up Korea event, Charlie was meeting with all these pastors backstage.
Do you remember this?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And there's Pastor Sun, S-O-N, and Charlie was talking to him, he was and he was talking about politics from the pulpit, which you can't do during an election season in Korea, but he was doing it anyways.
And Charlie's like, let me take a picture with you.
So he took the picture, and we left Korea two days after we left Korea.
The pastor was arrested and is in jail right now.
For no way I saw that.
Because you can't, it's yeah, there it yeah.
We're we have the picture up there.
That was two days after they arrested that pastor.
He's in jail right now for talking about politics from the pulpit.
So after Korea, we ran over to Japan.
And Blake, you've been to Korea and Japan before.
So you're Korea.
So the context was I got to Korea early because I had that friend's wedding, so I was I kind of got used to the city.
And then Japan I had been to before in 2019.
So very basic amount of experience.
We had a very good friend of the show, Ryo, who he was he's been this Charlie super fan for a while.
I remember coming to the 2022 Amfest and he was there.
So he's been a friend of ours, and he's worked with us and stuff, And so he kind of helped pave the way for this visit.
And then he was like showing us around, and it was so great.
I think we have a photo of him.
It's when we do, but there's one video that I want to play that's amazing.
$2.99 if we have time.
Yeah, play it.
Totally gonna miss for Gigi.
very offensive Totally gonna miss for Gigi.
Hello Kitty.
Blake, was that the Don Koto?
Is that the one that you took us into?
I don't know if that one was the Hello Kitty thing.
I think that was that was just like a little side thing we were stepping into.
I think.
Alright.
Well, so Charlie bought a Hello Kitty doll.
For his family.
And by the way, explain this.
Like did people recognize him in Japan at all?
They did, nothing.
Usually foreigners who were also there, but there was at least one guy from Japan who did recognize him, and a lot of Koreans recognize him.
Actually, there was that group of kids.
Remember in Tokyo, they came up to him and they're like, those were Korean, I believe.
Those were Japanese kids.
Yeah, they were.
So yeah.
So the only time Charlie would stop again, 90% humidity.
He's got a big thing.
95 degrees outside.
It was terrible.
Wearing suits, we're sweating.
And he doesn't stop.
Well, and just I just want to make a note on that.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating.
He when I first started working with Charlie, he would run like seven or ten miles in a day.
And then eventually hurt his back.
And so it would just walk.
So he would do these long walks, and you guys and he would walk fast.
We walked very fast.
He had very long legs.
So the only time he would stop was if it was at the coffee shop, which we went to, Blake.
Or if it was to get a gift for his family, which you saw in that last clip.
But 282, the clip of us in the coffee shop.
Do you remember this, Blake?
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's do that one.
Oh, do we have no sound?
No sound.
Well, we'll narrate it.
We're in a coffee shop.
Sorry.
Charlie got I think he got a hot tea.
Play that again.
I want to see what it is.
He would.
He was so happy giving the thumbs up.
Look at you and your camera skills, Mike.
It was the only place with AC.
I just love it.
Yeah, we were wandering.
It's super hot, and it's like it's this kind of a bookchan Hanok village is kind of what they call it.
It's more traditional looking buildings in Seoul.
And there's all those back alleys.
And it was just so great.
I was like, okay, it was like, yeah, there's big stores here, but you can also just step into any alley and there'll be all these places.
And then there was this little coffee shop, and it was great.
We could just step in.
They had no idea who we were, and I think Charlie.
Charlie absolutely enjoyed, you know, being an activist on a big scale, but I think he also enjoyed that he could actually wander around Seoul and not be spotted by the city.
You mentioned in your thread on X that you because one of Charlie's big missions was restoring the family, increasing marriage and having babies, and he was even taking that message to Seoul in South Korea.
But you said it was kind of you guys noticed as you were walking around the lack of children.
Tons.
Yeah, there yeah.
Actually, at that event, there was a bunch of babies in the back.
That was the only place.
That's amazing.
It was really it would stand out because, for example, you'd get on the subway, which did Charlie ever actually ride on the train.
He just walked through a station.
But yeah, I went on the trains, and every subway car has like two or four pink seats that are for pregnant women.
And I'm not sure I ever saw one of them occupied.
And but you said they would line up.
Yes.
Oh, that was when it was really busy.
They'd get in lines where the things would stop, and you could tell where it would stop because it kind of had a very precise little window that it would be at.
And they would have it would basically be three people wide, and they would get two parallel lines with a path in the middle for the people who were going to get out.
And not only would they do that, they get on and off the train in that orderly way.
Like once the train was kind of just getting a little too full, the people would just stop and they would wait for the next train.
Like they did not actually pack to the gills where like you were you're maximizing the number of people in there.
Yeah.
Interesting.
And Blake, the the Han, everything's Han.
And then you were explaining this to me and Charlie.
And when we were at the palace, they had all these get ups.
Yeah, the Hanba Hanbach.
Yeah, Hanbach.
Han basically just means Korean or like people, basically, which is funny because it's the same word in Chinese.
So they both called themselves Han in their language.
But so Han Bok is like Korean dress.
And it's uh Hanbah that clip.
Uh, they should be like, that's the clip.
So the women would wear these dresses, and the men had these kind of top hats.
It almost looked like the very cool barb.
I was so heartbroken.
Like you can wear Hanbok to a wedding.
And I like I was like, I should have done it.
And I wussed out.
Did you wear your mace Macy's Blazer?
I think I wager money he did.
Yeah.
So it looks beautiful though.
And that's in Korea, yeah.
That's in Korea.
Oh, and at this palace, they have this.
You have to buy for entry and buy a ticket for entry.
But if you show up in a Hanbach, you can get in for free.
Just walk in.
So if we had if we had more time, I think Blake and I would have gotten in the garb.
So did you did you see kids?
Just at church.
You said you saw these like empty playgrounds.
Yeah, so there was like a playground by there's a big Korean war like museum monument, and I went to it, and there was a very nice playground next to it, but it was totally deserted.
It also had a very fun sign that had all the different fines you could receive if you broke the rules.
Like if you captured and tamed an animal, that was one of them.
And it had a little fun photo, or it was like this man with kind of little gnome thing.
I love it.
Okay.
You know, Asia is quite the place.
It really is.
Like all the I know the it's not monolithic.
There are just very stark distinctions, but in general, it is sort of like very, very alien to me.
So uh go ahead, Mikey.
When we first arrived, it was 415 A. Which country?
Korea.
Okay.
And Charlie wanted to do something because he wanted to make the most of the time.
So at 445 a.m.
He wanted to go see the MacArthur statue, which is the same.
When you fly into Korea, you land at Incheon International Airport.
And Incheon is during the Korean War, uh, a very important battle is fought there where we're losing the Korean war, we're at the bottom end of Korea, and General Douglas MacArthur, he does this very daring maneuver where he sails 200 miles north behind the North Koreans, and he lands at Incheon.
Yeah.
And so that was the landing.
And Charlie loved MacArthur.
He was one of Charlie's heroes.
So the first thing he wanted to do is go see that statue.
So this is clip 287.
It's playing right there.
And Charlie was he's walking up, he goes, Wow, I wish we had statues like this in America.
And he walks up to the statue, and Blake, if you could read this, he reads these words out loud.
There is no boundary in justice, nor is there any obstacle to struggle, mountain, or sea.
A man who executed such a struggle in the spirit of justice to the triumph of the cause of the free world and to the gratitude and admiration of mankind is the man whom this statue represents.
Wow.
Says that out loud.
Well, Charlie's gonna get statues in his honor.
I am uh just beautiful.
He deserves he deserves them.
Uh we have some other clips here for we have the Tokyo event free speech, people, principle, place, mass immigration.
Which one you want, Mikey?
I think we should do the mass immigration.
All right, let's think let's do mass, let's do mass immigration.
Uh oh, it's kind of a longer clip, but is it?
Um let's see.
Do we not have it loaded?
I don't know.
Maybe we don't have it loaded, but we we will get it.
But I it's funny actually seeing him with the earpiece on the trans for translation.
That was fun.
Oh, actually, they are so organized.
Like, do you remember this?
They bring they have this like platter, almost like a silver platter that they put the microphone on, and so when it was Charlie's turn to speak, they kind of walk up to him and they just present this mic to him on his other thing I remember that was so funny was like just the way they're so deliberate about things.
Like, we had that meal, and like Charlie just wanted to eat fast, but it was like a Chinese restaurant that was like one thing at a time, and he just after two courses like I'm out, goes and takes a nap.
He loved it.
All right, we this is a longer clip, but let's do it.
306.
In America, mass immigration was one of the defining issues that propelled President Trump towards election in both 2016 and 2024.
But it was very simple.
We asked a series of questions in America.
We said, Do you want your hometown to be more people that speak Spanish or English?
It was very simple.
You see, a nation is also through the globalists seek to eliminate the three Ps by getting rid of borders, language, and Culture.
So a very simple question that I would ask here in Japan that I mentioned in my speech.
Do you want school children in Japan to learn Japanese?
The language.
Of course you do, right?
But not Arabic.
And we laugh.
But you know what?
People in London would have laughed 40 years ago in an event just like this.
And yet more people are gonna speak Arabic in London in 20 years from now than today.
So you have to make it very real, very tangible.
The problem is that Tokyo is so nice, and that Japan is so great that you're almost in a place where it's very easy to be apathetic.
Oh, this will never happen here.
We've stood the test of time.
Remember, they said the sun would never set on the British Empire.
I'm sure you've remember hearing that before.
It wasn't war that took down the British Empire.
It wasn't any of the other conflicts.
It was mass immigration that took down the British Empire.
So you must enter with a sense of cautiousness, but also immediacy to communicate in real language that in real words that this can have a very serious impact on what people care about most.
There's right after that speech, he did a report, uh a reporter of CNN interview.
Blake made a joke, no matter where you are in the world, CNN's still CNN.
And she said, Don't you feel like your speech was a little xenophobic?
And Charlie goes listen, I think we can both agree.
If we import 40 million Pakistanis into Japan, Japan's not Japan anymore.
And she goes, Yeah, you're right.
Okay, fine.
Yeah, and it's people are commenting that's the slowest I've ever heard uh CK talk, and it's like, well, he had to speak slow so the translators could translate him, so he's being very deliberate in his pacing.
Because normally, yeah, Charlie could rattle off things pretty quickly, and we we we're all accustomed to like editing clips and listening to things at 2x speed.
So we're that was an extraordinary slow for for for my ear.
Our good friends at Angel Studios, I love Angel Studios, amazing new film uh this holy week, phenomenal.
Is I think about Charlie's life and how much of a support he was of Angel.
It's hard not to feel so grateful for what he did.
He supported us in our darkest days and in our brightest hours as a company.
Jeff and I and Charlie were doing lunch together.
We asked him, he said, Are you are you at all worried about one of these college campuses?
And he just said with so much peace in his in his eyes and so much peace in his heart.
If that's how God takes me, then that's how I'm supposed to go.
But I feel like that was a clear message that Charlie's life is a testimony to Jesus Christ, his Lord and Savior, and his relationship with him was the most important thing that he would want the world to remember about his legacy.
Man, are we grateful to have gotten to be a little connection in the multitude of connections that he made throughout his life because it was so impactful to us.
Thank you, Charlie.
Love you.
We miss you.
We're going to continue to drive forward the good news.
We're going to continue to drive forward the good news.
And now we are joined by the great, the one and only Erica Kirk.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Thanks.
It's surreal to actually be sitting, because last time I was standing, but yeah.
I don't know.
Just it.
It's a little more emotional.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you are rightly at the head of the table, and we're just so honored to have you here.
I know that you have been to say that your life has been a whirlwind would be the understatement of the century.
And uh to make time for Charlie's audience and to speak to them.
I know that they can't wait to hear from you and just to see you, just to see you in this room probably means a lot to them.
And you've been up against so much, and you've been doing an incredible, incredible job.
The number of messages I've heard just complimenting you and your dignity and your poise and your strength has been overwhelming.
And um, yeah, we're just so glad you're here.
No, I'm grateful.
I mean, I know we talked about this, we prayed on it.
We really tried to Um discern properly how to go about the next few stages and steps of everything.
And we've been very intentional in a way that always keeps Charlie first and his dreams alive and his legacy going.
And what's so beautiful is to see all of you step in and do that.
And so part of the reason why I wanted to, I agreed to come on, because this is not going to be a forever thing of me being on the hosting the show.
Um was because I I gave assurance to people that Turning Point USA is continuing.
And it is.
I mean, we are so blessed to have more work than we even have could ever dream of.
I mean, it's it's beautiful and turning point action, full steam ahead.
So powerful.
Uh all of the other programs within Turning Point USA, everyone knows what they're doing.
Everyone has their marching orders.
And the show when we talked about this became very intimate for me because I was there from the beginning of all of it.
And I'll never forget 2020 when literally the world stood still.
And Charlie and I would go hiking every morning.
And we would just talk about what life, the crazy things going on, and we came home from one of our hikes uh that that time that season, and my mom pulled him aside in the kitchen, and she goes, honey, they had a very good relationship.
My mom and Charlie were best friends.
We joked around that he loved it.
Oh, I know.
We joked around that he was a favorite child.
Uh but she loved him, still loves him.
And she said, you know what, honey, she said, God has blessed you with an amazing voice.
And you will be the Rush Limbaugh of your generation.
And two days later, you and him engaged in conversations about the show and about the podcast.
Well, it was it was hey, we're gonna be doing uh about five more episodes a week now.
So uh just tell the team and make sure that happens.
Three hours of this, two more hours of podcasting, like it just and it it just and he ran with that and the team ran with it, and to see the Charlie Kirk show grow from that moment until now has been so humbling and beautiful, and he loved every single day, he read every email.
Yeah.
I know you guys have said that so many times, but I can vouch for that because there were times where he would forward me some of the emails that he would get, and he wouldn't even say anything, he would just forward the email.
And to me, it was almost like an extended form of family where you guys were the you guys were the pulse point of and the connection point of turning point USA, TP action, the Charlie Kirk show.
It was a triple threat, and the audience was the master and main component of that because Charlie and the Charlie Kirk show is not just a show, yeah, it has a movement attached to it, it has the youth movement attached to it, and so for Charlie, the audience was a barometer of what do we need to be focusing on?
The audience is brilliant.
How many times did a listener send in something and say, Hey, this is going on, you need to dig deeper in this or check this out.
And Charlie's show became and still is, and I'm gonna get there in a second, but Charlie's show became the North Star for freedom of speech, but in a way where when he spoke and whatever came across his desk or whatever he put on the air was right.
Yes, it wasn't inflated, it wasn't awkwardly optimistic that had no leverage behind it.
It was it was the gold standard.
It was grounded in the wisdom.
Extremely grounded wisdom of the audience, and but not only that, he had a team, still does All of you that was the sounding board of that and collectively, each one of you are a piece of his brain.
I know we've talked about this.
Blake Economics, Foreign Policy, Andrew, pretty much a lot of stuff.
Mikey, humor, uh Christianity, sports, youth, social, pop culture was Daisy.
Like everyone has a piece of his brain that still lives on.
And so what I'm getting at here is the Charlie Kirk show is not going anywhere.
My husband's voice will live on.
The show will go on.
We will have rotating hosts, rotating casts, rotating people coming on.
That's a great people next week.
Unbelievable.
We will have consistency.
The members only group will continue to go on.
All of his socials that God has blessed us with.
The people who follow those socials will go on.
Nothing is changing.
But I want to preface we're not awkward.
We're not like weird, cringy.
We're not crint.
We're not going to be tweeting as if it's him.
That's tone-deaf and really disturbing.
And anyone who does that's like morbidly off.
Um that's not what's happening.
What's happening is the team is keeping this alive because we have Charlie and each and every one of us, and it is going to be continually the North Star of the conservative movement of the voice of the youth, of the voice of the base, and that will not end.
And the members only will continue to grow, and that will be the tight-knit network of family members that supported and loved Charlie and the team.
And that's what it is.
It's a family and a team.
And this is not this is not going anywhere.
It's just not.
We need to be able to have people have a show where they can ask questions.
Hey, I'm up against this.
What would Charlie say?
And we play a clip of what Charlie said a month ago, a year ago.
We have decades worth of my husband's voice.
We have unused material from speeches that he's had that no one has heard yet.
We have Sunday specials lined up to the brim because my husband was so intentional about making sure that there was enough content.
Always.
He made sure we recorded everything.
Everything he would not do a speech unless we could get the video and the 100%.
So we have speeches that no one's heard of.
We have interviews that no one's heard of.
We have stuff from Korea and Japan that no one's heard of.
So I mean, in the words of my husband, buckle up because there is a lot of content to be had, and we have so many amazing things down the pipeline that we are working on currently that will unveil in due time.
I'm so excited.
Yeah.
And so by the way, those are things Charlie himself that he wanted.
He wanted.
We uh we were working on some big things, you know, right up until the end.
And you know, we've talked about that a lot.
Like a lot of the the guiding vision that we're using right now to kind of steady the ship and figure out where we're going is the things Charlie himself told us where we were going.
100%.
And similar with Turning Point USA, Charlie had a plan moving past 2030 that he's shared with the team and has implemented.
So we're not going anywhere.
We have the blueprints.
We have the blueprints, we have our marching orders, and we are just remaining humble and grateful to God, and we're main remaining just stewards to what God has blessed us with.
And I know Charlie's going to continue to guide us, and the Lord will continue to guide us.
And I just wanted to let everyone know that this is far beyond any of us sitting in these chairs.
This has nothing to do with us, it never will.
Uh the the glory all to God on that on that front.
And I just am excited.
It's weird to say excited, but it it's also very surreal to say it because I know that God will use all of this in a way that will glorify him, further Charlie's legacy, and Charlie's up in heaven, just having He's rooting us on.
I know that.
He's so rooting us on.
Yeah.
I know.
I want to like ask you just a little bit about because this is something we wrestled with the social accounts.
And I'll never forget when you looked at me and you were like, Andrew, he cared so much about building those up.
I'm Not letting those die.
And I just remember being like, huh, yes, thank you.
I needed to hear that because it's it it is a little awkward.
Now we're not we're not gonna use it for like random stuff, but for very specific things.
For his voice for things he cared about for movements he cared about for causes he cared about, those those socials, and also too to support Turning Point USA to be the barometer of what's going on, to be the pulse point.
Again, we're not gonna be posting.
I went for a walk today.
Like no, yeah.
No, where we are using his socials in a way that will continue to honor his legacy.
He poured so much time into building those, not from a vain or vanity standpoint, or look at me.
That's never why he built those.
That he built those because he knew that being a voice for the Lord and being a voice for everything that is good and beautiful in this world, and also, yes, the youth, he used that as the North Star, and we will continue that.
And we'll it'll be it'll be done tastefully, it will be done appropriately, and I I'm excited for all of it because we have a good team.
You have every right to be after everything that that you've been through, what the team has been through to see it's it's like I keep saying Charlie's almost sp spark uh sprinkling his little Charlie Kirk magic dust on everything, and I mean that in a in a very Christian sense that the that Charlie lived such a remarkable life, and his mission was so big that in death you cannot contain it.
It unleashes something even greater, and it's on us, and Charlie would look at us and expect us to do the right things here.
And I would say, look at the memorial.
I know the memorial is the proof point that the team that Charlie put together can do the impossible, and God's blessing was on that.
So there were so many prayers, and I know you feel the prayers because I feel them.
If I feel them, you must be feeling them like a hundred hours.
All of them matter, and and we are going to we will never be silenced.
We will never be silenced, and that's why having continuing his platform in a beautiful, honorable way will reinforce that we will never be silenced.
Well, so we have gotten so many questions about these little toys the puppets, yeah, and uh what they are.
We of course know what they are, but why don't you tell the audience what they so every day when Charlie would go into the office, he would see our daughter, and she would just be playing, and she would look at him.
She watched the show every day.
She couldn't email, but this was her version of emailing.
Every day she'd watch the show, and she did it because daddy would take the item that she gave to him and have it on the show with him.
And sometimes she would he would say, like, this is the item that my daughter gave me.
Sometimes he wouldn't, just to see if she was really watching.
And so when she when he would come home, she would be like, Daddy, I saw I saw the puppet on the show today.
Daddy, I saw the moose on the show today.
Daddy, you brought you brought baby buff buff on the show today.
Like, so that was their little connection point of and he loved it too, because it was a little piece of her that he could have with her on the show, but those little moments of it and I loved it too because it you know, Charlie was known for so many things, and I think people just love seeing that side of him.
It humanizes him.
Yeah, yeah.
And and he's a father.
He's a I mean, unbelievable husband, but father, and loved his babies, and he wasn't embarrassed by that.
He was so proud of it.
Yeah, if Gigi made him something, or if she puts a sticker on his shirt or a sticker on his face, or gave him a figurine to bring to work, he did it and he loved it.
He didn't care what other people thought.
No, he loved he he didn't.
I don't think it even occurred to him to think about what somebody else thought about that.
Um, so I we I we talked about kind of some of the things we wanted to just say in this last segment.
And you know, I really believe, and you knew this so well of how much this audience meant to him.
And I said this actually in my speech at the memorial that you in the audience were his firewall because you gave him so much confidence when he would go in these fancy rooms and with these fancy people and these elites, and they would say, Well, this is the way it is, this is the way he knew they were wrong because of you in the audience.
Yeah, and you always would send him freedom at Charlie Kirk.com, and we want to commit to you right here and now on this show and you're gonna be part of this a hundred percent that we are going to read all of the emails just as we have always done that you send to freedom at Charliekirk.com it might be rule by committee it might be sort of uh I get to some of them Mikey gets to some of them Erica but they will be read they will be read we'll get to it we will get to it all of them and you guys are so important to him and we were talking about this in
donor meetings in private meetings even at the White House when people would be wrong about something he would triple double down and he would say to them no you don't understand you are wrong about this I'm in touch with my audience I read their emails every day so they don't like what you are doing fix it.
Yeah we're gonna do that we're committed to it right yeah very proud of that and I just also want to say thank you to the audience because in the days immediately after I mean we looked at each other a couple of times going like what are we gonna do here?
And uh so many of you guys signed up to become members members dot Charlie Kirk dot com so many of you bought the t-shirts at Charlie Kirkstore.com that you gave us this breathing room in this really hard time and it was like we don't know what's gonna happen we don't know if we've got a show we don't know what any but we we committed to the staff we're gonna keep you we're gonna keep you and and you committed to him very clearly maybe s maybe say something I said you're not going anywhere.
You can choose to leave any of you can choose to leave but you are a part of the Charlie Kirk family Charlie Kirk show family and we need you each one of you serves a purpose and a role and again if the enemy tries to come in and divide you'll be able to see that very clearly but we will all remain a united front and the show will continue.
I mean a little behind the scenes here Erica D's speech where I'm standing right now on the podium somehow got through that her national dress then she walks out there to where all of our staff are and she then goes on to do another speech to all the staff telling him you're not going anywhere.
We're keeping the lights on we're doing everything I I mean watching that I was blown away we were all inspired we knew that um that Charlie chose well Erica.
Yeah and you chose well you both chose well and uh the world is seeing your love affair in a new in a new new way.
So final seconds to you.
I just am very proud of all of you I'm grateful for all of you I'm grateful for the audience and I'm really looking forward to how this show is going to continue to be blessed and continue to be a voice for all of Charlie's causes and continue to just empower and enhance the legacy of my husband and I'm just so grateful.
