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September 15, 2025 18 mins
Listeners of The Morning Show with Preston Scott, and the host himself, offered thoughts on what the response ought to be to the assassination of TPUSA Founder, Charlie Kirk. 
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome friends to the second hour of the Morning Show
with Preston Scott and I am taking your phone calls
and I've asked you to put your thinking caps on,
and the challenge is very simple. What do you think
would be the proper appropriate response by Turning Point USA

(00:26):
to what has happened. I would love to hear your ideas.
That's what this is about ideas. I have a statement
here from Turning Point USA that is powerful, but I
can almost assure you their board of directors, advisory board.

(00:53):
I don't know how they were totally constructed. This thing
was birthed in Charlie's garage when he was eighteen years
of age, but I can all but guarantee you they
are right now praying and seeking wisdom for what is

(01:14):
the appropriate response. The effort here was to shut it
down because Charlie was such a visible, vocal, focal point
for Turning Point USA. The shooter's idea is, well, that

(01:35):
ends that I think amongst you are good ideas, better
ideas than what I have. I'll share mine, but I
would rather hear yours. I've got every day Monday through
Friday to share mine. I can just stop the show

(01:56):
and say, I'm going to talk about it right now.
I can do what I want when I want. I'm
asking you to not just go through the exercise, which
by the way, I've done. When I decided. I told
you yesterday I was going to pray about what I
was going to do today, and I sat in my

(02:18):
office yesterday. I finished the show. Yesterday, I went on
a drive, found a driving range, and I beat up
some golf balls for a while, not in anger, just
to just be out surrounded by nobody. There was nobody around,

(02:38):
and I just spent some time, and then I got
home to my office, gave my wife a kiss, and
I started to think about and pray about what should
we do today on the show. I decided to do

(02:59):
the show to get back to what we do to
not be somber. All morning long, I was somber. I
still am. I'm like a lot of us. I'm grieving,
but we grieve differently. We grieve with hope. And I
asked myself the question, what would Charlie want done? I

(03:24):
guarantee you turning point USA is wanting that answer. They
are asking that question, what would Charlie want us to do?
I would imagine at some point Erica, his wife, his
widow is going to weigh in on here's what Charlie
would want. I'm asking you what should the response be? Now?

(03:46):
I have my idea. We got a series of them,
but I want yours. Tim, Thanks for calling in. What'should
Turning Point USA do?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Good morning?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
I think they are going to have to quickly find
somebody to become the image of Turning Point to replace Charlie.
It has to be somebody that can articulate like he did,
not just get into debates and argue and throw out
all kinds of sayings. He I mean, he believed in

(04:18):
what he said, and he could sit when he could
invite people to talk to him and argue with him
and give their point, and he was very effective at that.
And it's going to be difficult to find somebody that.
But I think they need somebody as quickly as possible
that can continue putting the message out there.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Tim, Thank you. I appreciate that. That's exactly what I'm
looking for. Ben Shapiro said he's thinking of getting back
at getting onto college campuses. I will tell you right now,
as much as I respect and admire Ben, Ben doesn't
know Jesus as his Lord and savior. To my knowledge,
he does not acknowledge Christ as his Lord and savior.
He is a Jew, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong

(04:59):
with that. But I believe the person filling that role
has to be a Jesus Christ apologist, someone who knows
the Gospel message, because that is woven through everything that
Charlie believed, every part of Turning Point USA. Let's go
to Patricia. Thanks for calling in. Patricia.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Hey, Christen, I couldn't agree with you and the prayer
caller more. I do think they need to get somebody
in there. I do think it needs to be exactly
the type of person we're talking about, but my thought
is that's going to take a little while. I think
they need to go with this momentum. I too, am
now a donor to Turning Point USA. I didn't really

(05:38):
know a lot about it until all this happened, and
I think they need to go with the momentum. I
think they need to go have big rallies, big big
rallies like what Trump did his first time out. I
went to some of those rallies and they were so inspiring,
and you know, everybody was really excited and they could

(05:59):
get a lot of really good speakers and have big
rallies to get all of us, not just college students,
all of us supporting them and behind them so people
can see what good it is.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I like it. Patricia. Thank you, you're kind of going
down the direction I'm thinking only I have more specifics
in mind. I'm going to get to those, but I
want to hear from you. What should Turning Point USA do?
Eight five zero two zero five to b Fla, George,
good morning pressing.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
First of all, I think you made the one hundred
percent right decision on the direction of the show this morning.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
I'm glad you did that. But I think the Turning
Point needs to go on a full out blitz. Yes,
And I mean just like eleven man blitz that the
Packers used to run back in the day. And I mean,
and what I would do is my response statement. I

(06:58):
would say, y'all assassinated Charlie Kirk not because he spoke,
but because the young people listened and they voted accordingly.
And you have just woken up tens of millions of
young voters. And that's what I feel. They didn't kill
him because he spoke, He they killed him because so

(07:21):
many young people listened and responded.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
It's a well put statement and sentiment. Georgia, as always,
thanks very much for the phone call. Let's go to
Dodge Dodge. What do you think?

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yeah, so, you know, I really think Turning Point needs
to take a play out of the playbook of the Left.
And let's say they raise a couple of hundred million
dollars two hudred million bucks. Because of everybody you know
is at event doing that, they need to go and
earmark about two million dollars per college. Just pick a

(07:52):
top hundred colleges and build a building with the two
million called the Charlie Kirk School of it will discourse,
and let that be a permanent monument so all these
little snibbling brats can actually learn.

Speaker 6 (08:07):
How to talk to each other.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Wow, on campus if permitted, because a lot of universities
wouldn't do it, or near campus.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
No, you donate to the campus ear marking this money
will be used to build a building.

Speaker 6 (08:24):
The Left does it all the time.

Speaker 5 (08:26):
Here's two million bucks. You got to build a building
and name it after Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, I hear you. I like the kernel of the
idea My concern is there are too many university presidents
and boards of trustees that would not that would not
accept the gift. They wouldn't accept the ear marked designated
gift in that fashion. You are not letting me down.
Well done, Keep coming strong ideas. What should Turning Point

(08:55):
USA be doing in response to what happened? What should
their next act be? What should they move towards? We're
getting some wonderful ideas, Jason, thanks for calling in.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Good morning, Preston.

Speaker 7 (09:11):
I think that they should take the move out of
the Rush limbo playbook big shoes to fill. It's like Rush.
How they have Clay and Buck definitely needs to be
christ based. Use what works. When Rush went to be
Home with Jesus claim Buck had to fill those shoes,

(09:32):
and that playbook design is working. And I think that
they could learn something from that and get with the
Rush crew and see what they did to fill his shoes.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, thank you, Jason, I appreciate it. I'm not sure
I share your thought that it worked. I don't think
Clay and Buck is successful. It's to me a placeholder,
but I get your point. But thank you very much.
This is all about ideas here we're going to take

(10:04):
three more callers. Uh, Danny, you're up. What's your thought?

Speaker 8 (10:08):
Yeah, good morning, President. You know, my thought is, I
don't think one singular individual is appropriate in terms of replacement,
because I don't think you're going to replace Charlie in
any any former fashion. I think it's going to take
a coalition of individuals that are going to need to
step up and share his ideals and have his his

(10:29):
given ability to communicate and articulate. And you know, I
don't I don't see a single individual filling that role
in the way that Charlie did. That's just kind of
my thoughts on the.

Speaker 9 (10:42):
On the on the subject, Danny.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Thanks very much. I appreciate you calling in. Let's go
to Sean.

Speaker 9 (10:47):
Sean, e're up, good morning, and I'm going to try
and articulate this is the best I can. I think
that I agree with the last caller. We don't necessarily
are We're not going to be able to replace Charlie.
But we could take the leadership of the organization now,
and I feel like large events would be great, and

(11:07):
I think events close to campuses where we could incorporate
our younger children and not just our college children. Because
and I know some of the conversations that these events
get a little bit you know, heavy for these younger kids.
But my youngest son and my oldest son, I would
go to an event and not only would it help

(11:28):
these children, it would include these parents. So these parents
are involved in helping and understanding their children as well.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Okay, Sean, thank you. I appreciate you calling in and
sharing your ideas. Jeffrey, you are the final caller here.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
What do you think, well, presson.

Speaker 6 (11:44):
I think they should continue the turn. I mean, this
was the first stop for Charlie's new tour of the
college campuses. There are already speakers lined up. Continue with
program and bring in other selected speakers to well, nobody's

(12:08):
going to replace Charlie, but you know, to fill that
primary robe and continue with what was already in place,
keep that presence on campus, keep the people coming, and
let all the guests that we're going to come do
their speaking and then just use different different individuals to

(12:31):
fill in where Charlie would have been.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Thank you very much, Jeffery, appreciate the phone call. I
need more time. So here's what we're gonna do. We're
gonna take a break I'm going to give you the
latest information on the search for his assassin, and then
I'm going to share what I think I would recommend

(12:58):
Turning Point USA do. And I'm going to borrow from
some of you, maybe enhance it or add to it,
or maybe take a little bit away. But I have
my own set of thoughts on this. I've given this
great thought. That's what led me to this segment. Yesterday's
just praying about Okay, the goal was to shut this down.

(13:23):
The goal, by the way, could be realized in part
by universities saying we're not going to take on the
risk and the liability of having something like this happen
at our school. The problem is going to be they're
gonna have to shut down every public speaker. So I
don't know that universities are going to do that. So

(13:44):
we'll see. Here's what I would do if I were
a Turning Point USA, after thoughtful deliberation and prayer. First
of all, will anybody emerge to be a singular leader,
as Charlie Kirk was, don't know. You know, when you

(14:07):
talk about professional athletes, you hear things said like a
generational talent, they come along once a generation. I think
Charlie Kirk was that. I think Charlie Kirk was a
generational talent with gifts on loan from God. As Rush

(14:29):
Limbaugh used to say, only he would say talent on
loan from God. Charlie definitely was uniquely gifted. Now, having
said that, the first thing I would do is I
would put a pause on the tour, just a pause,

(14:50):
and I would schedule simultaneous events on every campus. You
have a chapter. Every school, you have a chapter. Maybe
it's like the National Day of Prayer, where you start
at noon or at three in the afternoon, or whatever
that time was that Charlie liked to do his events,

(15:13):
and you do a cascade of that through all the
time zones across the country. And here's what you do.
You announce the event and you edit together speeches that
Charlie had given. There's a prodigious amount of audio and

(15:33):
video of Charlie and you have him speaking, you share
the very best, and you put it together in a
one hour, one and a half hour presentation, and you
roll that tape on every single campus with one singular
message going through every single campus. Maybe it's some of

(15:58):
Charlie's debates, Maybe it's some of Charlie's speeches. Maybe it's
some of Charlie's radio program or his TV appearances or
interviews that he did on podcasts. It doesn't matter. You
lace it all together and you present it. And then
you have a spokesman at each of these events that

(16:20):
happened on one day across the country, and you announced
the tour resumes, and as callers have said, you share
that we will have these guests at these locations, and
you just you just do what you do and keep

(16:44):
pushing the envelope. If you have someone that's able to
engage in some of what Charlie did, fine, if someone
rises up to seize the mantle of ministry that I
believe it is fine, but don't force stat but go
at it again, keep going as soon as possible. And then,

(17:11):
to borrow from a listener, raise money to build Charlie
Kirk's Centers of Civil Engagement on every college campus. You
can build them on and if they won't let it
be on the campus, if they won't commit to doing
that kind of program, then build it next to the campus.

(17:31):
Fundamental to all of this is donate to Turning Point USA.
I know from having been involved in fundraising for not
just the years I've done this program, but most of
my adult life. Recurring giving means more. Sure, a one

(17:55):
hundred dollars gift is awesome, but what means more is
twenty five dollars a month consistent, steady, recurring revenue. So
I'm telling you right now I will be giving every
single month to Turning Point USA. I'm going to join
many of you that have already made that decision. I
am going to do that. That's my set of suggestions
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