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Dec. 24, 2025 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Remembering the Boss: The Staff's Favorite Charlie Memories
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Hello.
Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
We have a special Christmas episode here, and we wanted to mark the holiday with something very important.
I'm here with Danny in the studio, and I believe we also have Mikey from his secret base to the north.
Welcome to both of you.
You there, Mikey?
Charlie Kirk Northern Studio.
Excellent, excellent.
I've never seen the Mythical Northern studio, but perhaps one day.
And so today's episode, what we wanted to do, it's our first, it's our first Christmas without Charlie.
We all miss him terribly.
And we thought what we should do is we should give a chance for everyone on the team who wants to to share their favorite stories about Charlie, funny stuff, how he impacted their lives.
So it's not just going to be Mikey, Danny, me.
We asked Brayden, we asked Kylie, we asked Brian, we asked a lot of people, people you've never seen on camera, but we wanted to get them a chance to speak up.
Some of them can't come on because they are in fact working the cameras right now and can't leave them, but we'll still give them their due.
But so Danny, how about we go with you first?
What's your favorite Charlie tape?
So I have two pretty funny ones.
The first one is like, I'm a big Ohio State fan.
And so Charlie and I, Ohio State played Oregon twice last year.
And the first time Charlie was actually at the game and Oregon won on like this last second play.
And so immediately as soon as the game ends, my phone just starts blowing up from Mikey and Charlie like trash talking the heck out of me.
Just insane.
Like, oh, what happened in this game?
Like all this crazy stuff.
Yeah.
So then when they ended up playing later in the season, Ohio State.
32-31.
That must have been an amazing game.
Yeah.
And so then they played later in the season and Ohio State won.
And so then I was giving it back to him.
And after the game, this like sweatshirt at OSU campus, they were selling.
It was like the Brutus mascot of Ohio State with a shotgun, like shooting ducks out of the sky and said like duck hunting.
And so I bought one and I shipped it to Mikey for Mikey to wear in front of Charlie.
And so Mikey wore that to the office in front of Charlie as just my get back because I was still at school.
That's amazing.
People would always ask why Charlie wasn't.
That game his family all went there.
Yeah, because he never went.
He never went to college, but he loved sports, so he decided to become a Ducks fan.
But that game was also the game where everybody was making fun of Charlie for having earplugs in because it was so loud there.
Yeah, it's the same one because it's amazing.
Best hearing.
He got so much crap for that.
And I was always his defender.
I said, you should wear earplugs at games.
You don't need to get hearing damage to prove you're a real I have to admit something live right now.
This is going to be, this is going to shock Danny, really.
Danny, I never wore that sweatshirt in front of Charlie.
No, how could you?
Make you feel.
Ah, betrayal.
That is a betrayal.
That's treacherous.
You have to wear a lot of stuff.
You have to wear that.
I told Charlie about it, and then he never wore it.
You have to wear it on the show sometime now, Mikey.
That's what you have to do.
I'll wear mine into the office now.
No, I would never wear that trash.
But let me say this: I have a picture of Mikey wearing it.
Ohio State.
It's very likely that Ohio State and Oregon will play again.
And so the question is: Danny, who will your allegiance be to?
Charlie's favorite team or this trashy team, Ohio State?
You know, I don't crisscross.
So I'm still rooting for the Buckeyes.
But if Ohio State were to lose, I would not be upset about it.
Do you have anything fun, Mikey, you want to share?
The Betrayal of Not Wearing It 00:02:21
Well, we were just reminiscing, Blake, from our Asia trip about how funny of a tourist Charlie was.
We're walking through the streets of Tokyo, and instead of like traditionally wanting to take pictures in front of beautiful Japanese architecture or whatever it is, whatever the biggest tourist traps are, Charlie saw an outback steakhouse, and he was like, Blake, Mikey, it's an outback steakhouse in Tokyo.
We need to take a picture.
And he did.
And he literally gone there, it would have been the best outback steakhouse in the world, I'm sure.
Charlie, he was so excited to go to Asia.
Daisy is sending us his messages from March of this year, FYI in September.
I'm taking two days off to go to South Korea.
I'll do a podcast from there, just FYI.
I really want to speak in Asia.
I'm so excited.
And he was so excited.
He was so excited when he saw an outback steakhouse, insisted on immediately taking a photo in front of it.
And we have that photo.
That is the Japan Outback.
I'm sure it's the tastiest outback you've ever been to.
I kind of want to go there now.
I know.
Japanese food is good, but Japanese takes on foreign, American, just different country foods.
It's really interesting and incredible, and I can highly recommend it.
But we're going to get stories.
Let's be real.
Charlie would not have stopped to eat food.
We were walking so fast, and he wanted to see the entire city.
Oh, yeah, no.
He was a really energetic guy.
He just had us drop us at a south end of Shinjuku, I believe, was the neighborhood we were in.
No, Shibuya.
We stopped in Shibuya and we walked north towards the Major Shrine.
We went to Don Quixote.
He crammed a lot into it.
We only really spent two and a half hours walking across the city, but he managed to make a lot of it as he made a lot of all his time in life.
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Danny, you had another very funny story, and it made it made me raise an eyebrow before the show started.
You're going to have to explain this one.
Yeah, so okay, let's preface with: there's not a lot that can catch Charlie off guard, but uh, I think Mikey and I were able to achieve that.
So, earlier this year, we were in Maine, and Charlie's on like this nice hike with Erica.
And so, while he's doing that, Mikey and I are paddleboarding in the ocean, and Mikey tackled me off of my paddleboard into this like many times, by the way, yeah, into this big thing of seaweed.
And so, we both get out, and then we're like paddleboarding away, and we're like, our feet are hurting.
It turns out we both got stung by jellyfish, whoa, and so we get back to the house, and my foot is like killing me, so I'm running up and down this driveway, it burned, so I'm running up and down this driveway, still in my swimsuit, shirtless.
Charlie pulls up in the car from the hike, sees me just running shirtless down the driveway, and he's like, What the heck is going on?
We explain that I just got like stung by a jellyfish, and Erica pops out of the car, and her first thing is like, Charlie, you've been drinking so much water, go pee on him.
And I was like, What is happening?
And so that did not happen.
That did not happen.
I said, I would rather lose my foot, and Charlie is like, Yeah, that's not happening, Erica.
That's never happening.
I was like, Okay, wait, you're leaving out a part of the story, Danny.
You're leaving out a part of the story where Betty comes out with a bottle of vinegar.
She goes, This will make you feel better.
And Elizabeth pours it on you, and Danny screamed at the top of his lungs.
Okay, I was like, Like a little girl.
They call that an Ohio State fight song.
No, I have snapped my ankle in half, like broken stuff.
That pain of the white vinegar on the jellyfish sting was so much worse.
So then immediately after that, that's when I started running up and down the driveway because the pain was so bad.
Yeah, might have been better if he'd been screaming.
That would have been a lifelong through the wall, creepy bragging rights, I suppose.
That is that's a really funny one.
Mikey, do you have any other ones that you want to share before we start getting into the members of the team?
Yeah, the other thing is, Charlie was just notoriously generous.
It was something that a lot of people just didn't know behind the scenes.
And Charlie's philosophy in giving is that he didn't like telling people about how he gave because he felt like it stole the blessing of it.
So, all of us, Blake, Danny, myself, churches in this community have so many stories of Charlie's epic and amazing generosity.
And we can all just kind of think of that.
But I just want the world to know how generous he really was, especially this time of year.
He would see something and he'd want it fixed, and he would go above and beyond to show that generosity to so many different people, especially at Christmas time, to random groups too, that they're like, Is this the Charlie Kirk donating to us?
And it was oftentimes that was the case.
So he was just epically generous.
And I think both you guys can agree with that.
Yeah.
I mean, I remember he asked what I was doing for my birthday this year, which is late August.
So this is just before the trip.
And I'm not a big birthday guy.
So I was like, I don't have much of a plan.
And he just said, all right, Danny, you and was it Nate?
It was you and Nate.
He's like, you and Nate, just let's go to this restaurant in Scottsdale and just have a fun time with Blake and I'll pay for it.
And he did.
And that was a really fun memory of mine from this year.
Just not asked for, not sought after.
And he just did it because he was that kind of guy and an amazing person.
Speaking of Nate, we want to start getting into these stories.
We asked all of our team members, some of them who can't be here or they're working behind the cameras, but we wanted to get their stories.
And so Nate, he shared a core memory for me with Charlie was going on my first trip with him.
I was super nervous.
I didn't want to mess anything up.
I ordered food for us in the team, and Charlie said, Nate, I hope this food you picked is good.
We sat down.
He told me to sit across from him because he wanted to get me to know me personally.
He asked about my background, my family, my faith, and of course, sports.
And this just showed me the type of guy Charlie was.
And I can back that up.
Charlie, he would really want to digest what your background was.
So if only so he could tease you about it.
So he was always bringing up that.
Oh, yeah, Blake, you went to Dartmouth.
I never talk about that, but he would always bring it up.
And he would bring up the Dakotas, stuff like that.
And I know that's how I think, that's how you got your job with Charlie, just talking with him because you were driving him to the airport, right?
Yeah, yeah, literally.
I was driving him to the airport.
I was graduating senior from high school.
I was going to college.
Him and his then girlfriend, Erica, at the time.
And the entire time he was just asking me questions about myself.
And that was Charlie.
He wanted to know.
He genuinely wanted to know who you were and your story.
And it was, I don't know what his criteria was, but he would sometimes be impressed.
Sometimes he would just, you know, move on.
But I guess I impressed him somehow because afterwards he was like, okay, how about you don't go to college and come work for me?
But I actually, to Nate's point about this story, I remember that trip because oftentimes you think it's just a story, but to Charlie Lee, it was so much more.
And so as he was asking Nate all these questions, he was texting me and he was like, wow, Nate's an awesome guy.
You know, he comes from a great family.
And I was like getting the updates from the story of what he was impressed with in real time.
And he wanted to not just be impressed by you, but wanted to share how impressive you were with the world and who you came in contact with.
To what you brought up, Blake.
You know, you never even talked about how you went to Dartmouth, but Charlie would oftentimes tell a lot of people that you went to Dartmouth.
He would do that.
He took a lot of pride in his team.
He took, just, he loved us and we loved him.
We have a clip.
This was sent to us by Catherine.
I think we can get it in before the break.
Let's play clip 181.
Getting that one.
Because he's just the perfect width.
Not too fat, not too skinny.
You like that tree?
Yes, it's the best one remaining.
But we got the right one.
This one's perfect.
All right, we're done.
These little things.
No.
Are you the tree expert?
Not the tree expert.
After many decades of living in the Midwest, I know a good tree.
It's the best one they had remaining.
That was Charlie hunting for Christmas trees.
You can tell that so, Charlie.
He's like, I need to pick one.
I picked it out.
I'm an expert.
Got the right one.
So we've got some of our team members.
I really wanted to share these ones because these are some of the guys that you don't, you very rarely see except in the background of some tabling events and so on.
The studio crew.
I wanted them to come on camera and they told me that emphatically they could not do this.
So let's dive into it.
We've got Brian.
He is one of the vast Farnsworth clan that we have several members on this show.
Well, they're pretty vast.
But Brian on the team and he says, Charlie basically never stopped working, even in the car or on the plane.
He was constantly on phone calls, reviewing strategy, reading, etc.
But one night we had a red eye flight back to Phoenix, and it was one of those rare times it felt like all the work was done.
I saw Charlie pull out his iPad and he put on a movie.
Guess what the movie is, Danny?
Well, I know the story.
I was there, but you can ask Mikey.
Mikey, if you don't remember, can you guess what movie Charlie would have watched on his iPad?
I was with him when he watched Harry Potter on his iPad.
Oh, all right.
That's what it was.
It was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on his iPad.
Yeah.
And Brian adds, Charlie was such an innocent soul, and he seldom had a moment to relax.
I love that he picked Harry Potter of all things.
Thinking on it, he probably thought it was kind of dumb or silly.
I don't know if he actually read Harry Potter or not.
Well, hold on.
Hold on here.
Okay.
Brian makes it sound like Charlie watched movies on his iPad often.
In all my time ever traveling, Charlie, I only saw that happen one time, and that was literally the one time.
And that's kind of what he's saying.
I think that was the only time.
The only movies, we actually had a discussion on what movies Charlie liked.
And he really liked zero irony action movies.
I think that really gets at Charlie's character.
Like some people, they really love, oh, deep moral complexities and shades of gray.
And Charlie loves action movies.
He loved The Equalizer, I believe.
And he would just describe it.
Yeah, he loves Equalizer.
He's this good guy.
He's a former Special Forces guy.
And he just finds people who are in trouble and he saves the day for them.
And you just know that's how Charlie saw himself for America, for conservatism.
And I just, I love that straightforward earnestness about it.
It gets at a lot of what made him so great.
We have a story from Kylie, another of our studio crew.
If these don't have to be Christmas related, my favorite memory is when he thought that Michael made South Park artwork of him.
When Charlie got on South Park, there we have it.
Michael made this, and Charlie just thought it was AI.
But it wasn't it was made by our own team member and it was really good.
I think that even came out before the episode was made.
It was the episode was announced, but we hadn't seen it and they made that.
That was really good.
Also, Kylie says she loved every time.
It was so much that he printed it out.
Yes, he did.
He printed it out and put him behind the phone board behind it.
Yes, he did.
Yes, he did.
And Kylie also says she loved every time Charlie said, let's see if I can get it right here.
Racist.
Did I get it right?
Racist.
Yeah, something like that.
Got to roll the R a little more, Mikey.
Racist.
Yeah, that's better.
That's better.
Yeah, I don't think anybody can do it as good as he did.
Can you do it, Danny?
Racist.
Oh, that's close enough.
That's close enough.
Not good enough.
And yeah, Michael chimes in.
My favorite is when he reacted to my artwork of the South Park episode.
And also, he would guess the music that he was picking to play on the show.
Michael picks a lot of our intro and outro songs.
He loved playing American Girl by Tom Petty, and he also loved Joker and the Thief by Wolf Mother, which I can't remember how that sounds.
So you should...
Well, I can't ask that for that outro.
We're doing Christmas music today.
I don't know how to do it.
Play it for me later, Michael.
I'll want to hear that to remember what it was.
Man, the South Park episode is definitely one of my enduring memories for Charlie.
He was so excited to get on it.
And it had to be such a trip that he grew up watching this show and seeing episodes of it.
And it lasts long enough.
You never imagine, oh, I might be in one of those episodes.
Well, Mikey and I were actually with him when he found out that he was going to be on South Park because they didn't say anything.
They just released that trailer, I believe, for that episode he was on.
So it was going viral on Twitter.
And he came to Mikey and I was like, just asking all these questions.
Like, how big of a deal is this?
Is this good for the culture war type stuff?
Like, this is pretty sweet.
Yeah, it's amazing.
Yeah.
Yes, it's big.
It's big, Charlie.
It's big.
And then we're in Colorado Springs when it came out, and he had this meeting with the Air Force Academy team because he sat on the board there.
And he was like, I don't want to watch it.
Just tell me how it is.
And then he comes out.
I was like, it was hilarious.
It was great.
And I was showing him clips.
And he's like, oh, I wish I watched it live.
I was like, you said you didn't want to.
But yeah, it was.
It was incredible.
We have 30 seconds.
Andrew couldn't join us right now, but he said, my favorite memory of Charlie is the composite of all the hard-fought wins.
We faced a ton of setback backs over the years.
It made the wins more meaningful.
And Charlie would always, without fail, say something along the lines of, God is good.
He has his hand on this.
Stay humble.
Stay close to Jesus.
Let's work harder.
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We have rotated in Emma, Emma Kate, and Daisy.
Hey.
You've seen them on here from time to time.
Daisy loves to ask me questions about things, and occasionally I ask her questions about things.
My questions for Blake are much more important world topics.
They are.
They are.
That's because she's a more serious person than I am.
Rotating in Emma, Emma Kate, and Daisy 00:15:26
She really wants to understand the world, and she's great at that.
Exactly.
I don't think anyone's described me as more serious than you.
So you worked with Charlie quite long time, right?
Yeah, yeah, since December of 2021.
All right.
Yeah.
Longer than me, for sure.
And what's your favorite Charlie story?
I have so many, but also what a lot of us were talking about in our green room and stuff before we started was that so many of our memories are like just us being with Charlie every day.
Like it's not like we have huge, fun, amazing memories we can look back on, but it's also so fun to just be like, oh, I remember when he would walk in wearing his compression socks every day.
Like that's all so funny.
Ready sports fans?
Yes, yeah.
All the Cubs games on the TV.
So so many of it is so fun.
But when we were talking about some of our favorite memories, I know this is shared by everyone as a hallmark Charlie memory.
I know Dallin said that this one was one of his favorites too.
When we've all, we've spoken about Rio several times.
We love him.
He has become a friend of the show, someone that Charlie met that flew all the way from Asia to come to AmericaFest.
And Charlie met him in AmericaFest.
They got along super well.
He loved him.
And he was like, what are you doing for Christmas?
And Rio's like, oh, I don't know.
I don't really have any plans.
I'm in America.
And Charlie's like, come over.
Come spend Christmas with me.
And just had Christmas with their family.
And then was just at our office every day just hung out.
That was awesome.
And then he showed us around Japan.
He was such a great guy.
It ended up being such a full circle moment for everyone, but we, that was something that we talk about quite often.
Yeah, we love Rio.
That relationship was just so like, so hallmark, Charlie, of just like really taking somebody in and like making them part of the team and part of the family just because like Charlie was really good at seeing like good people and picking them out.
And Rio's a prime example of that.
And so good at remembering names.
Like, I mean, the amount of conferences, we just finished Amphest, and there are people whose names I know just because Charlie would remember emailing with them or meeting them at a meeting great that are just, he will never forget your name.
One of my favorite things about Charlie was when I was going through tabling footage, sometimes he would get like repeat people coming to the mic and he would remember exactly what they said, exactly what school they were at.
And he would say, oh, this is what you asked me last time.
And there was one time this kid was messing with him and was like, no, that wasn't me.
I don't know what you're talking about.
And then at the end of the interaction, the kid was like, yeah, it was me.
You were totally right.
I don't know how you remembered that.
That's amazing talent.
Astonishing.
Yes.
Man, we have Braden, another member of our team.
He was very notably, he was a guy we sent on assignment to D.C.
He helped with the transition.
And he says, My favorite memory is from when I was working in DC.
We had a particularly hectic day, a lot of those in D.C., and all of a sudden, Charlie comes speedwalking in from around the corner with a massive smile on his face, which immediately raised the morale of the entire office.
He always made the effort to see his people whenever he made the trip to DC, and it never failed to raise everyone's spirits.
We've heard about that from people who are in the White House too, like him whizzing around the West Wing, and he just always had that energy, that presence, that let's go, let's go.
Which I even feel like it says a lot for those of us that were with him every day.
Like, there was not a day that Charlie came in that made the day worse.
Like, every morning, he was excited to do this show and to get to work.
Like, there was never, there was, you know, you see some people sometimes.
There was never, oh no, when Charlie gets here, it's going to be bad.
Yeah.
Always excited to work, which made everyone else excited.
Yeah, well, just to brag on Braden and Charlie, I mean, it was New Year's Eve last year that we flew straight to Palm Beach, missed the New Year's.
We spent New Year's Day our hotel room at the Hilton Palm Beach, just kind of watching the ball drop on the TV.
But Charlie wanted to make sure the transition went well.
And so part of the reason Braden was in the White House is he was kind of like Charlie's guy in there, helping oversee a lot of stuff.
And actually, to Brayden's credit, like he went through a lot of hardship in the White House.
And that story is really awesome because Charlie would always go to DC and he'd be seen all the time.
And I remember a couple of weeks ago, we were meeting with Linda McMahon and she shared that story with Erica.
She was like, you know, it was crazy because at first we were like, why is Charlie here?
And then we started to say to ourselves, man, we really like it that Charlie's around here.
And he was like the one outside of the administration that was just always seen walking around the halls, the West Wing, the one helping with their transition.
He played such a pivotal role in that.
And yet he didn't even have a seat in the administration.
He just kind of helped select everybody in there.
And he was just, he was consistent and present, both in and out of the White House.
Yeah.
And we've heard from so many people who they've expressed thanks to me, to Andrew, where, oh, I'm here because Charlie advocated for me so hard and I'd never met him before.
He was just so impressed.
He was that endless motor, that endless energy.
It's such a positive feeling.
It's why he lit up so many people's lives.
I also, just really quickly on that note, Mike, you want to say that I think we all remember when y'all picked up and we're like, we're going, we're going to go help.
And then the rest of us were like, okay, but we're still going to do the show every day, right?
And we still made it work, but it was a very complicated couple of months.
Very, very complicated.
It was supposed to be a week.
It just kept getting longer and longer.
I remember us wondering what it ended up being.
I remember us wondering, is Charlie ever coming back?
And we were a little worried about it for a while.
So do we all have to move there or what's the plan?
It was very funny.
We have Catherine sent in a story.
She says her favorite story was she was in Sedona and Charlie was in full dad mode watching college football with his parents.
I don't know what that looks like, but I can kind of see how so many people's memories are Charlie in college football.
It is no matter what.
A little different.
I remember when the U.S. was in the World Cup and we were doing the show.
I don't even think I lived here yet.
I think I only remember this via Telegram, but Charlie was super distracted from the show because he had his iPad and was just watching the World Cup games that America was in in the middle of the show.
Yes, I was just like, he'd do a five-second question to the guest and then just look at it.
With me, with the Olympics, with March Madness, too.
We would have an iPad set up there.
I remember for March Madness, he wanted all of his brackets printed out.
So it would look like he's having notes for the show.
They're just his March Madness brackets.
He's like filling them out as who got marked off, how on track he is.
He made a couple different brackets every year.
But he balanced it all somehow.
We're starting his show every day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He was just such a good dad, too.
Like, Catherine talks about him in dad mode.
Like, Blake, do you remember when we were in Tokyo and we went into Don Quixote?
Yeah, and he just wanted to get all the stuff.
He's got a lot of stuff for his kids.
Yeah.
And he wanted that.
It was so much.
Yes.
Oh, it was a ton.
He got a ton of stuff.
I remember he wanted that Curious George clock.
And I feel like maybe we should send Rio off to find that clock.
I think that would be a fun get if we can track it down.
I, Mikey, I really wanted to.
I don't remember who all was around then, but when Charlie and Erica had their first child and before then, Charlie was, he's always been excited to work, always been very focused on work.
But it was very much work, And then she was born and Mikey and I were like, okay, so are we still going to work all the time?
Or what's the deal?
And he, like, when he's working, he's working as soon as he saw his kids instantly would get melted.
And it's just like, he became so full-on dad mode as soon as she was born.
It was so amazing to watch.
Yeah.
Speaking of, we got, so Ryan and Riley on our team.
They are married.
They had a baby about a year ago.
And their favorite memory, I got this from Riley.
She says, she remembers Charlie non-stop texting Ryan for anything we needed while in the hospital when I was giving birth and how excited he was that our baby ended up being born on his birthday.
I forgot about that.
He sent us chargers, clothes, and food and instantly connected us with a very maha pediatrician.
Yeah, that is so Charlie.
That's great.
Yeah.
And I know he was very excited for your baby, Daisy.
And thinking about the favorite memories too, Mikey, I don't know if you remember this, but when I FaceTimed him and Erica and you were all together when we found out it was a girl and Charlie had said from day one that he thought it was a girl.
Like he was so certain.
And his only reaction on the phone, he goes, I already knew it.
Like we had the cake, like the baby.
He was like, yeah, we didn't have to do it.
What did he announce it?
I already said it.
I already announced it.
No, he was.
Daisy, tell them what he wanted to name, what he wanted you to name your daughter.
Charlie, multiple, we had this conversation multiple times.
And he was like, I know that it's weird, but I do think you should consider naming her Daisy.
And I was like, Charlie, this is already my name.
Like, I can't just reuse my own name.
It's already being used.
He was like, I know it's a little, it's a little different, but it's just such a good name that I think someone else should use it again.
Like, great.
Maybe I'll consider that for the next one.
But her name was.
Look at the reaction photo.
Look at the reaction photo.
It was so funny telling them.
Erica.
Erica had asked me that morning if I was pregnant.
And I was like, no, no, no.
Because I wanted to tell them together.
I also knew that as soon as I told one of them, both of them were going to, as soon as I told their kids, then the whole office was going to.
I missed it.
I was out and I walk in and I just got Daisy walks up.
She's like, I'm pregnant, by the way.
Well, even the other day, speaking of Charlie caring so much about what her name was, Charlie's kids were with us the other day and his daughter suggested a new name that I haven't considered yet, but she really wants me to name my daughter Grinch.
So that is now on the table.
Grinch.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, she was really inspired by the content.
A lot of people take names from movies.
Yeah, Grinch wasn't on my list of options, but now I'm considering contender.
Yeah.
Grinch Phelps.
Yeah, it doesn't flow, but I like that.
I would do anything to make her happy at this point.
So maybe I'll consider.
Oh, man.
Anything else from you, Emma Kate?
When I was thinking about one of my favorite Charlie stories was before he went to Washington State University this spring, he had only previously been there once.
It's where I'm from, really close to that area.
And he'd been there once and he went in January, where if you know anything about Eastern Washington, it's ugly.
It's horrible in January.
And so Charlie just thought that's what all of Eastern Washington is like.
So he said on air, he was like, it's such a barren land.
I don't like it up there.
I'm messaging him defending my homeland in the chat.
And then he went there and it was spring.
So it was wonderful and beautiful.
And he came back that next Monday and he was like, I have to say sorry to Emma Kate.
It was beautiful.
I was wrong.
And it was just really funny that he corrected it on air.
And anytime anyone mentioned Eastern Washington from that point on, Emma Kate's homeland, the land of Emma.
That's where Emma Kate comes from.
Emma Kate's homeland.
I wanted to make sure we got this.
Noah is a very new member of our team.
He truthfully was here just a few days before what happened, but he said he wanted to mention that he had a nice clip that went up just in that first time he was here.
And he mentioned that Charlie went out of his way to give him a pat on the back for that to say, good job, Noah.
Welcome to the team.
And call me Charlie.
Yeah.
That's what he said.
Call me Charlie.
Call him Charlie.
And that's who he is to all of us.
He's Charlie.
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Did you get anything other else from Dallin before we went in?
Or is he just, he's a taciturn one down here?
He just has so many stories of like being on campus with Charlie, especially in the early days.
There are a multitude of stories I've heard of him being on campus with Charlie and just spending so much time with him in the first days of tabling that I think those are just some really unique stories that not the rest of us have.
Like it just really being part of like the early building of Charlie became when there'd be more people on the team than who actually came up to ask questions.
It's so funny.
That's the real OG Charlie team.
That's an important thing that you just you both you guys just said, right?
So Charlie was a super loyal person, but it was kind of a two-way street for him.
And so a lot of the team that's around him has been there for a really long time.
And Dallin's one of those.
Back when, like what Blake said, there was literally more people working the table than there were coming up to the table.
Charlie used to beg, beg for students to come up and debate him way back in the day.
And then towards the end, we didn't even have space to fit all these students.
And through the entire process, people like Dallin, the Farnsworths, all of us, were just there to really...
It speaks to him that there were so many people who were there for so long, who were started when there really was no necessarily proof that it would go become as big as it did, but they stuck around.
We have one last member of our team whose story we want to tell.
It's Heidi, and we picked her last for a reason.
She says, one of my favorite memories is when he saw the Rush Was Right shirt for the first time.
Unfortunately, you can't get that now.
It's a sold-out one, but we'll try and bring it back.
Maybe we will.
Heidi might have a heart attack hearing me say that.
I love that.
Charlie was a huge Rush Limbaugh fan.
He modeled his whole on-air persona after Rush.
He thought he was the best there ever was.
Heidi says she was shocked.
He loved it so much.
She shouldn't have been.
So we're going to close this show.
We're going to revisit one of Charlie's favorite Rush clips, one of the best clips Rush ever did.
It's his final Christmas message to his viewers.
Remembering Rush Limbaugh's Legacy 00:05:08
Reminds me how much I love all of you.
How much I so appreciate everything you've meant to me and my family.
You don't have any idea.
I know so many people think this program has changed their lives for the better.
You have no idea what you all have meant to me and my family.
The day is going to come, folks, where I'm not going to be able to do this.
I don't know when that is.
I want to be able to do it for as long as I want to do it.
I want to.
But the day will come where I'm not going to be able to.
And I want you to understand that even when the day comes, I'd like to be here.
Rush Limbaugh loved Christmas.
He loved Christmas.
And this Christmas, we always dedicate the last segment that we do live to the great and legendary Rush Limbaugh.
And we do that in a way with that clip as the start.
And then Rush's favorite Christmas song.
As we look back at this last year, time to be grateful, to be filled with gratitude.
That was Charlie.
Wow.
We heard from Rush.
We don't know.
He didn't know how long he would do it.
None of us know how long we'll be here.
None of us expected to lose Charlie as soon as we did.
But Charlie always wanted to remember Rush, and we will always want everyone to remember Charlie.
And all of us will be doing that for the rest of our lives, I expect.
It's crazy.
Like every year we watch, we have that same clip, the same last segment, and I just didn't expect for it hits very differently this time.
But we're going to continue to end the show right before Christmas the way Charlie loved to, the way he would want us to.
We're going to remember both great Rush Limbaugh and the immortal Charlie Kirk with their favorite Christmas song, The Carol of the Bells.
Merry Christmas to all of you, and we'll see you soon.
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