December 24, 2025 • 43 mins
On our first Christmas holiday without Charlie, the staff of The Charlie Kirk Show come together to share their favorite memories of Charlie from their years together. They touch on Charlie's generosity, his visit to Japan, the time Erika told him to pee on Danny (it makes sense, we promise!), and more facets of the boss and mentor who is gone but never forgotten.
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Speaker 2 (01:09):
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.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Welcome to both of you there.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Charlie Kirk Northern Studio.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
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
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stories about Charlie, how funny stuff, how he impacted their lives.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So it's not just going to be Mikey, Danny me.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's where we asked Bryden, we asked Kylie, we asked Brian,
we asked a lot of 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 what will still give them their due? But so Danny,
how about we go with you first? It's your favorite
(02:22):
Charlie too.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
So I have two pretty funny ones. The first one
is like, I'm a big o Highest State fan. And
so Charlie and I Highest Date 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
(02:44):
talking the heck, he's just insane, like, oh, what happened
in this game?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Like all this crazy stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So then when they ended up playing later in the season.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Thirty two to thirty one, that must have been an
amazing game. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
And so then they played later in the sea in
an Ohio State one 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 like duck hunting.
And so I bought one and I shipped it to
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Mikey for Mikey to wear in front of Charlie. And
so Mikey wore that to the office in front of
Charlie is just my get back because I was still
at school.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
That's amazing. People would always ask why Charlie was that game?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Yeah, actually his family all went there, and yep, 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 ear plugs in because it.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Was, yeah, the same one because be'st hearing he got.
He got so much for that, and I was I
was always his defender. I said, you should wear earplugs
at games, like you don't need to get hearing damage to.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Prove you're a real also fan.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
I have to admit something live right now, this is
going to be this is gonna shock Danny, really Danny.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I never wore that sweatshirt in front of Charlie.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
No, how could you betrayal?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That is a betrayal. That's treacherous.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I told Charlie about it. You have to wear it
on the show sometime. Now, Mikey, that's what you.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Have to do.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I'll wear mine into the office now.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I would never wear that trash. But let me say this.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I have a picture of Mike.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
It's very likely that Ohio State in 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.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I don't criss cross, so I'm still rooting for the
buck Eyes. But if Ohio State were to lose, I
would not be upset about it.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Do you have anything fun Mikey you want to share?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
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,
(05:20):
it's an outback steakhouse in Tokyo.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
We need to take a picture.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And he did, and he literally and if he'd gone there,
it would have been the best outback steakhouse in the world,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Charlie.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He was so excited to go to Asia, where 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 a outback steakhouse, insisted on immediately taking a
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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 I kind
of want to go there now. I like Japan. Japanese
food is good, but Japanese takes on foreign American just
different country foods is It's really interesting and incredible and
(06:15):
I can highly recommend it.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
But we're going to get stories.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
To be real, Charlie would not have stopped to eat food.
We were walking so fast and you see the entire city.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh yeah, no. He he was a really energetic guy.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
He just had to drop us at a south end
of Shinjuku, I believe was the neighborhood we were in.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
No Shibuya.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
We stopped in Shibuya and we walked north towards the
Mejia Cry and we went to don Quixote. He crammed
a lot into 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 of all his time in life.
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Speaker 2 (08:00):
Danny, you had another very funny story and it made
it made me raise an eyebrow before the show started.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You're gonna have to explain this one way.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
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 paddle boarding in the ocean, and
Mikey tackled me off of my paddle board.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Into this Like many times, by the way, yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Into this big thing of seaweed, and so we both
get out and then we're like paddle boarding away and
we're like, our feet are hurting. It turns out we
both got stung by jelly things. 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 burned,
it burns. So I'm running up and down this driveway
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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 explained 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.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Go pee on him. And I was like, what is happening?
And so that did not happen. That did not happen.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I said, I would rather lose my foot, and Charlie
is like, yeah, that's not happening, Erica, that's never happening.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Wait part of the story, Danny, You're leaving out a
part of the story where where Betty comes out with
a bottle of vinegar. She goes, this will this will
make you feel better, and Elizabeth pours it on you
and Danny scream.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
At the top Okay Ohio State fight song.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
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.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, it might have been better.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I heard that would have.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Been a lifeline through the wall.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Creepy ragging rights. I suppose that is. That's a really
funny one, Mike. Do you have any other ones that
you wanted to share before we start getting into the
members of the team.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
The 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 and 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
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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
(10:57):
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
of you guys can agree with that.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Have much of a plan, and he just said, all right, Danny,
you and Nate. It was you and Nate. He's like,
you and Nate, just.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Let's go 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
sowed 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
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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. It 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.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
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.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And this just showed me the type of guy Charlie was,
and I can I can back that up.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Charlie.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He would he would really want to digest what your
your background was, so if only.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
So he could tease you about it. So he was
always bringing up that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh, yeah, Blake, you went to Dartmouth. I never talked
about that, but he would always bring it up. And
he yeah, 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 you were driving him to the airport, right.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Yeah, yeah, literally, I was driving to the airport. I
was a 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 in your story,
and it was I don't know what his criteria was,
(13:22):
but he would sometimes be impressed.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Sometimes he would just, you know, move on.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
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.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
A story, but to Charlie was so much more.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
And so as he was asking Nate all these questions,
he was texting me and he was like, Wow, Nate's
an awesome guy.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You know, he comes from a great family.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
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
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a lot of people that you went to Dartmouth.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
He would do that.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
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 one eight one.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Hitting that one because he's just the perfect with not
too fat, not too skinny.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
You like that tree, Yes, it's the best one remaining,
but we got the right one.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
This one's perfect.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
All right, We're done these little things.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
No, are you the tree expert?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
At the tree expert?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
After many decades of living in the Midwest, I know
a good tree.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
The best they had remained. That was Charlie hunting for
Christmas trees.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You can tell that. So Charlie, he's like, I need
to pick one. They 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.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
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.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
He is one of the vast Farnsworth clan that we
have several members on this show, and then not that 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,
et cetera. But one night we had a red eye
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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.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I guess the movie is Danny, Well, I know the
story I was there. What you can ask Mikey, Mikey,
do you remember? If you don't remember, do you can
you guess what movie Charlie would have watched on his iPad?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I was with him when he watched Harry Potter on
his iPad.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
All right, that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
It was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on his iPad.
And Brian adds, Charlie was such an innocent soul and
he seldom had a moment to relax.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I love that he picked Harry Potter, of all.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Things, and thinking on it, he probably thought it was
kind of dumb or silly.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I don't know if he actually read Harry.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Potter or not, but well, hold on, hold on here, Okay,
this 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.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I think that was the only time, the only movies.
We actually had a discussion on what movies Charlie liked,
and he he really liked like zero irony, action movies.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I think that really gets that Charlie's character.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Like some people, they really love all deep moral complexities
and you know, shades of gray, and Charlie loves action movies.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
He loved The Equalizer, I believe, and he would just
describe it.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah, he looks great, Blazer.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
He's this good guy.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
He's a former Special Force 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 out a lot
of what made him so great. We have a story
from Kylie, another of our studio crew. If these don't
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have to be Christmas related, My favorite memory is when
he thought that Michael made South Park artwork of him.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
When Charlie got on South Park.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Where we have it, Michael made this and Charlie just
thought it was Ai and but it was that was
made by our own team member and it was really good.
I think that was even came out before the episode
was made. It was Yeah, the episode was announced, but
we hadn't seen it, and they made that.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
That was really good.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Also, Kylie says she loved every time much that he
printed it out, Yes he did, printed it out and
put him behind yeah, on the phone board behind 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?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Racist? Did I get it right? Racist? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Something like that got a role. They are a little
more Mikey.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, that's better, that's better.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
I don't think anybody can do it as good as
he did.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, can you do it racious? That close enough? That's
close enough, not good enough? Yeah, Michael chimes in.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
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,
(18:59):
I can't set for that outro. We're doing Christmas music today,
but I don't know how to play it for me later, Michael,
I want to hear that to remember what it was
man that the South Park episode is definitely one of
my enduring memories.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
For Charlie, he was so.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Excited to get on it and it had to be
such a trip that he grew up watching the show
and seeing episodes of it and it lasts long enough
you never imagine, oh, I might be in one of
those episodes.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Well, Mike 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 like
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?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Stuff, like that's pretty sweet, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, yes, it's big. It's big, Charlie.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
And then we're in Colorado Springs when it came out
and he had this meeting with the Air Force Academy
team because he said he sat on the board there and.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
He was like, I don't want to watch, just tell
me how it is.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
And then he comes out.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
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.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I was like, you said you didn't want to.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
But yeah, it was. It was incredible. We have three seconds.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Andrew couldn't join us right now, but he said, my
favorite memory of Charlie is the composite of all the
hard fought winds. We faced a ton of set backs
over the years. It made the winds 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. That
was always the chief to mention of Charlie. It's why
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he was such a great man. Christmas, yes, we can
say Christmas.
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Speaker 2 (21:40):
We have rotated in Emma, Emma, Kate, and Daisy. Hey
you've seen 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.
Speaker 11 (21:54):
My questions for Blake are much more important world topics.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
They are they are. That's because she's a more serious
person than I am. She really wants to understand the world,
and she's great at.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
The exact I don't think anyone's described me as more
serious to you.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
So you worked with Charlie a quite long time, right, Yeah?
Speaker 11 (22:10):
Yeah, since December of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
All right, Yeah, longer than me for sure, And what's
your favorite Charlie story?
Speaker 11 (22:19):
I have so many. But also what a lot of
us were talking about in our green room extept 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 that we
can look back on, but it's also so fun to
just be like, oh, I remember when he would walk
(22:39):
in wearing his compression sacks every day, Like that's also funny. Ready,
sports fans, yes, nask all the Cubs games on the TVs.
So so many of it is so fun. But I
when we were talking about some of our favorite memories,
I know this is shared by everyone as a hallmark
Charlie memory. I know Dallan said that this one was
one of his favorites too. When we've all we've spoken
(23:02):
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 America Fest,
and Charlie met him in America Fest. 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,
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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.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
That was awesome. And then he showed us around Japan.
He was such a great guy.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
It ended up being a full circle moment for everyone.
But we that was something that we talk about quite often.
Speaker 12 (23:42):
Yeah, we love Rio, and 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 is a prime example of.
Speaker 11 (23:59):
That, and so good at remembering names like yeah, and
in the amount of conferences and we just finished amphis
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.
Speaker 12 (24:13):
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,
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it was me. You were totally right. I don't know
how you remembered that.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Amazing talent.
Speaker 11 (24:41):
Astonishing.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
We have Brayden another member of our team. He was
very notably. He was a guy we sent on assignment
to DC. 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 DC, and all of a sudden, Charlie comes speed
walking in from around the corner with a massive smile
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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 were 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.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
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, yes, and to get to work,
like there was never there was you know, you see
some people's time.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
There was no it's gonna be bad.
Speaker 11 (25:43):
Yeah, always excited to work, which made everyone else excited.
Speaker 10 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Well, just to brag on Brandon 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 in 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 Brayden was
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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.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
To DC and he'd be seen all the time.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
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
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with their transition. He played such a pivotal role in that,
and yet he didn't even have a seat in the administration.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
He just kind of helped select everybody.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
In there, and he was just he was consistent and
present both in and out of the White House.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, we've heard from so many people who there express
thanks to me to Andrew where I'm here because Charlie
advocated for me so hard, and I'd never met him before.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
He was just so impressed.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
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.
Speaker 11 (27:16):
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 gonna We're gonna
go help. And then the rest of us were like, Okay,
but we're still gonna do the show every day, right,
And we still made it work. But it was a
very complicated couple of months.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Very very complicated. I know it was supposed to.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Be a week.
Speaker 11 (27:34):
It just kept getting longer and longer.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I is Charlie ever coming back? And we were a
little worried about it.
Speaker 11 (27:43):
For all to move, Yeah, what's the plan?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
It was funny we have Catherine sent in a story.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
She says her favorite story was she was in Sedona
and Charlie was in full dad mode watching college football
with his parents.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't know what that looks like, but I can
kind of.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
I just how so many people's memories are Charlie in college.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
It is.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
A little different.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I remember when the US 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.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Games that America was in in the middle of the show.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yes, I just he'd do a five second question to
the guest and then just with.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
The Olympics, with March Madness, we would have an iPad
set up there. I remember March Madness, he wanted all
of his brackets printed out so it would look like
he's having like notes for the show. They're just as
March Madness brackets, just like filling them out, as as
who got marked off if he's how on track he is.
He made a couple different brackets every year, it was,
but he bounced it all. Yeah, somehow show every day.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
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 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
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should send Rio off to find that clock. I think
that would be a fun get if we can, if
we can track it down.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
I Mikey, I really want I don't remember who all
was around then. But when Charlie and Rika had their
first child, and before then, Charlie was he's he's always
been excited to work, always been very focused on work.
But it was very much work, work, work, work, work,
work work. And then she was born and Mike and
(29:43):
I were like, Okay, so are we still gonna work
all the time or what 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 dad, so full on dad mode
as soon as she was born. It was so amazing
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to watch.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
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.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, he sent us chargers clothes and food and instantly
connected us with a very Maha pediatrician.
Speaker 11 (30:34):
Yeah, that is so Charlie.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, and I know he was very excited for your baby, Daisy.
Speaker 11 (30:43):
And in thinking about the favorite memories too, my kid.
I don't know if you remember this, but when I facetimed
him in 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,
she was so sorry. And his only reaction on the phone,
he goes, I already knew it, like.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I we had the cake.
Speaker 11 (31:04):
He was like, yeah, we didn't have.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I already announced. No, he was Daisy.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Tell them what he wanted to name what he wanted.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
To Charlie multiple We have this conversation multiple times, and
he was like, I know that it's weird, but I
do think you should consider naming her Daisy. I was like, Charlie,
this is already my name, Like I, 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
(31:35):
else should use it again. Great, maybe I'll consider that
for the next one.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
But her name.
Speaker 11 (31:41):
Was it was so funer. Eric asked me that morning
if I was pregnant, and I was like, 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 kind.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Of so I missed it.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I was out and I walk in and I just
got Daisy walks up. She's like, I'm pregnant, by the way,
and well even the.
Speaker 11 (32:09):
Other day, speaking of Charlie caring so much about what
her name was, Charlie's kids were with this 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.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Rynch Okay, yeah, she was.
Speaker 11 (32:25):
Really inspired by.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
From movies.
Speaker 11 (32:29):
Yeah, Grinch wasn't wasn't on my list of options, but
now I'm considering contender.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Yeah, Rynch phelps.
Speaker 11 (32:36):
Yeah, it's it doesn't flow, but I would do anything
to make her happy at this point, So maybe I'll consider.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Oh Man, anything else from you.
Speaker 12 (32:45):
I'm a kay I When I was thinking about, like,
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
(33:06):
thought that's what all of Eastern Washington was like. So
he said on air, he was like, it's so 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
(33:27):
was just really funny that he corrected it.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
On air anytime anyone mentioned Eastern Washington from that point
on MM Kate's homeland, the land that's where comes from.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I wanted to make sure we got this. Noah was
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.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
To the team. And Charlie, Yeah, Charlie.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Charlie call him Charlie, and that's who he is to
all of us.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
He's Charlie.
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Speaker 2 (35:17):
Did you get anything other else from from Dallen before
we went in?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Or is he just he's a taciturn one down.
Speaker 12 (35:22):
He just has so many stories of like being on
campus with Charlie, especially in the early days, Like there
are a multiple 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
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being part of like the early of Charlie b kame when.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
There are more people on the team than who actually
came up to ask you.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It's so funny that's the real og Charlie team.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
That's an important thing that you just both you guys 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.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
In Dallan's one of those back.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
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 Dowlan,
(36:32):
the Farnsworths, all of us were just there to be rely.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
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
(36:57):
for the first time unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
You can't get that now. It's a sold out one.
Speaker 11 (37:01):
But we'll try and bring it back. Maybe we will
have a heart attack hearing me.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Charlie was a huge Rush Limbaugh, and he modeled this
whole on air persona after Rush. He thought he was
the best there ever was. Howdy says she was shocked.
He loved it so much. She shouldn't have been.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
So we're going to close this show.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
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.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
It 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 how I
know so many people think this program has changed their
lives for the better.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
You have no.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
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
(38:05):
not going to be able to and I want you
to understand that even when the day comes, I'd like
to be here.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
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 Limba, and we do
that in a way with that clip as the start,
(38:37):
and then Rush's favorite Christmas song as we look back
at this last year, time to be grateful, to be
filled with gratitude.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
That was Charlie. Wow, we heard it from Rush.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
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.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I expect.
Speaker 11 (39:14):
It's crazy like every year we watch we have that
same clip, the same last segment, and I just didn't
expect it.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
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.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Merry Christmas to all of you, and we'll see you soon. A. P.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
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Speaker 2 (01:09):
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.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Welcome to both of you there.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Charlie Kirk Northern Studio.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
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
(01:54):
stories about Charlie, how funny stuff, how he impacted their lives.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So it's not just going to be Mikey, Danny me.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's where we asked Bryden, we asked Kylie, we asked Brian,
we asked a lot of 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 what will still give them their due? But so Danny,
how about we go with you first? It's your favorite
(02:22):
Charlie too.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
So I have two pretty funny ones. The first one
is like, I'm a big o Highest State fan. And
so Charlie and I Highest Date 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
(02:44):
talking the heck, he's just insane, like, oh, what happened
in this game?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Like all this crazy stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So then when they ended up playing later in the season.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Thirty two to thirty one, that must have been an
amazing game. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
And so then they played later in the sea in
an Ohio State one 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 like duck hunting.
And so I bought one and I shipped it to
(03:19):
Mikey for Mikey to wear in front of Charlie. And
so Mikey wore that to the office in front of
Charlie is just my get back because I was still
at school.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
That's amazing. People would always ask why Charlie was that game?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Yeah, actually his family all went there, and yep, 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 ear plugs in because it.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Was, yeah, the same one because be'st hearing he got.
He got so much for that, and I was I
was always his defender. I said, you should wear earplugs
at games, like you don't need to get hearing damage to.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Prove you're a real also fan.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
I have to admit something live right now, this is
going to be this is gonna shock Danny, really Danny.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I never wore that sweatshirt in front of Charlie.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
No, how could you betrayal?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That is a betrayal. That's treacherous.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I told Charlie about it. You have to wear it
on the show sometime. Now, Mikey, that's what you.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Have to do.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I'll wear mine into the office now.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I would never wear that trash. But let me say this.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I have a picture of Mike.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
It's very likely that Ohio State in 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.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I don't criss cross, so I'm still rooting for the
buck Eyes. But if Ohio State were to lose, I
would not be upset about it.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Do you have anything fun Mikey you want to share?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
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,
(05:20):
it's an outback steakhouse in Tokyo.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
We need to take a picture.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And he did, and he literally and if he'd gone there,
it would have been the best outback steakhouse in the world,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Charlie.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He was so excited to go to Asia, where 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 a outback steakhouse, insisted on immediately taking a
(05:54):
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 I kind
of want to go there now. I like Japan. Japanese
food is good, but Japanese takes on foreign American just
different country foods is It's really interesting and incredible and
(06:15):
I can highly recommend it.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
But we're going to get stories.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
To be real, Charlie would not have stopped to eat food.
We were walking so fast and you see the entire city.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh yeah, no. He he was a really energetic guy.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
He just had to drop us at a south end
of Shinjuku, I believe was the neighborhood we were in.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
No Shibuya.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
We stopped in Shibuya and we walked north towards the
Mejia Cry and we went to don Quixote. He crammed
a lot into 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 of all his time in life.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
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Speaker 2 (08:00):
Danny, you had another very funny story and it made
it made me raise an eyebrow before the show started.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You're gonna have to explain this one way.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
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 paddle boarding in the ocean, and
Mikey tackled me off of my paddle board.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Into this Like many times, by the way, yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Into this big thing of seaweed, and so we both
get out and then we're like paddle boarding away and
we're like, our feet are hurting. It turns out we
both got stung by jelly things. 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 burned,
it burns. So I'm running up and down this driveway
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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 explained 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.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Go pee on him. And I was like, what is happening?
And so that did not happen. That did not happen.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I said, I would rather lose my foot, and Charlie
is like, yeah, that's not happening, Erica, that's never happening.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Wait part of the story, Danny, You're leaving out a
part of the story where where Betty comes out with
a bottle of vinegar. She goes, this will this will
make you feel better, and Elizabeth pours it on you
and Danny scream.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
At the top Okay Ohio State fight song.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
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.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, it might have been better.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I heard that would have.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Been a lifeline through the wall.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Creepy ragging rights. I suppose that is. That's a really
funny one, Mike. Do you have any other ones that
you wanted to share before we start getting into the
members of the team.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
The 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 and 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
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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
(10:57):
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
of you guys can agree with that.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Have much of a plan, and he just said, all right, Danny,
you and Nate. It was you and Nate. He's like,
you and Nate, just.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Let's go 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
sowed 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
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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. It 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.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
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.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And this just showed me the type of guy Charlie was,
and I can I can back that up.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Charlie.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He would he would really want to digest what your
your background was, so if only.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
So he could tease you about it. So he was
always bringing up that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh, yeah, Blake, you went to Dartmouth. I never talked
about that, but he would always bring it up. And
he yeah, 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 you were driving him to the airport, right.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Yeah, yeah, literally, I was driving to the airport. I
was a 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 in your story,
and it was I don't know what his criteria was,
(13:22):
but he would sometimes be impressed.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Sometimes he would just, you know, move on.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
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.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
A story, but to Charlie was so much more.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
And so as he was asking Nate all these questions,
he was texting me and he was like, Wow, Nate's
an awesome guy.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You know, he comes from a great family.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
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
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a lot of people that you went to Dartmouth.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
He would do that.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
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 one eight one.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Hitting that one because he's just the perfect with not
too fat, not too skinny.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
You like that tree, Yes, it's the best one remaining,
but we got the right one.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
This one's perfect.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
All right, We're done these little things.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
No, are you the tree expert?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
At the tree expert?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
After many decades of living in the Midwest, I know
a good tree.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
The best they had remained. That was Charlie hunting for
Christmas trees.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You can tell that. So Charlie, he's like, I need
to pick one. They 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.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
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.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
He is one of the vast Farnsworth clan that we
have several members on this show, and then not that 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,
et cetera. But one night we had a red eye
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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.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I guess the movie is Danny, Well, I know the
story I was there. What you can ask Mikey, Mikey,
do you remember? If you don't remember, do you can
you guess what movie Charlie would have watched on his iPad?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I was with him when he watched Harry Potter on
his iPad.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
All right, that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
It was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on his iPad.
And Brian adds, Charlie was such an innocent soul and
he seldom had a moment to relax.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I love that he picked Harry Potter, of all.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Things, and thinking on it, he probably thought it was
kind of dumb or silly.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I don't know if he actually read Harry.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Potter or not, but well, hold on, hold on here, Okay,
this 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.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I think that was the only time, the only movies.
We actually had a discussion on what movies Charlie liked,
and he he really liked like zero irony, action movies.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I think that really gets that Charlie's character.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Like some people, they really love all deep moral complexities
and you know, shades of gray, and Charlie loves action movies.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
He loved The Equalizer, I believe, and he would just
describe it.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah, he looks great, Blazer.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
He's this good guy.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
He's a former Special Force 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 out a lot
of what made him so great. We have a story
from Kylie, another of our studio crew. If these don't
(17:36):
have to be Christmas related, My favorite memory is when
he thought that Michael made South Park artwork of him.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
When Charlie got on South Park.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Where we have it, Michael made this and Charlie just
thought it was Ai and but it was that was
made by our own team member and it was really good.
I think that was even came out before the episode
was made. It was Yeah, the episode was announced, but
we hadn't seen it, and they made that.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
That was really good.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Also, Kylie says she loved every time much that he
printed it out, Yes he did, printed it out and
put him behind yeah, on the phone board behind 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?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Racist? Did I get it right? Racist? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Something like that got a role. They are a little
more Mikey.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, that's better, that's better.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
I don't think anybody can do it as good as
he did.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, can you do it racious? That close enough? That's
close enough, not good enough? Yeah, Michael chimes in.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
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,
(18:59):
I can't set for that outro. We're doing Christmas music today,
but I don't know how to play it for me later, Michael,
I want to hear that to remember what it was
man that the South Park episode is definitely one of
my enduring memories.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
For Charlie, he was so.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Excited to get on it and it had to be
such a trip that he grew up watching the show
and seeing episodes of it and it lasts long enough
you never imagine, oh, I might be in one of
those episodes.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Well, Mike 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 like
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?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Stuff, like that's pretty sweet, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, yes, it's big. It's big, Charlie.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
And then we're in Colorado Springs when it came out
and he had this meeting with the Air Force Academy
team because he said he sat on the board there and.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
He was like, I don't want to watch, just tell
me how it is.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
And then he comes out.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
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.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I was like, you said you didn't want to.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
But yeah, it was. It was incredible. We have three seconds.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Andrew couldn't join us right now, but he said, my
favorite memory of Charlie is the composite of all the
hard fought winds. We faced a ton of set backs
over the years. It made the winds 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. That
was always the chief to mention of Charlie. It's why
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he was such a great man. Christmas, yes, we can
say Christmas.
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Speaker 2 (21:40):
We have rotated in Emma, Emma, Kate, and Daisy. Hey
you've seen 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.
Speaker 11 (21:54):
My questions for Blake are much more important world topics.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
They are they are. That's because she's a more serious
person than I am. She really wants to understand the world,
and she's great at.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
The exact I don't think anyone's described me as more
serious to you.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
So you worked with Charlie a quite long time, right, Yeah?
Speaker 11 (22:10):
Yeah, since December of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
All right, Yeah, longer than me for sure, And what's
your favorite Charlie story?
Speaker 11 (22:19):
I have so many. But also what a lot of
us were talking about in our green room extept 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 that we
can look back on, but it's also so fun to
just be like, oh, I remember when he would walk
(22:39):
in wearing his compression sacks every day, Like that's also funny. Ready,
sports fans, yes, nask all the Cubs games on the TVs.
So so many of it is so fun. But I
when we were talking about some of our favorite memories,
I know this is shared by everyone as a hallmark
Charlie memory. I know Dallan said that this one was
one of his favorites too. When we've all we've spoken
(23:02):
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 America Fest,
and Charlie met him in America Fest. 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,
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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.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
That was awesome. And then he showed us around Japan.
He was such a great guy.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
It ended up being a full circle moment for everyone.
But we that was something that we talk about quite often.
Speaker 12 (23:42):
Yeah, we love Rio, and 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 is a prime example of.
Speaker 11 (23:59):
That, and so good at remembering names like yeah, and
in the amount of conferences and we just finished amphis
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.
Speaker 12 (24:13):
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,
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it was me. You were totally right. I don't know
how you remembered that.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Amazing talent.
Speaker 11 (24:41):
Astonishing.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
We have Brayden another member of our team. He was
very notably. He was a guy we sent on assignment
to DC. 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 DC, and all of a sudden, Charlie comes speed
walking in from around the corner with a massive smile
(25:05):
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 were 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.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
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, yes, and to get to work,
like there was never there was you know, you see
some people's time.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
There was no it's gonna be bad.
Speaker 11 (25:43):
Yeah, always excited to work, which made everyone else excited.
Speaker 10 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Well, just to brag on Brandon 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 in 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 Brayden was
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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.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
To DC and he'd be seen all the time.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
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
(26:45):
with their transition. He played such a pivotal role in that,
and yet he didn't even have a seat in the administration.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
He just kind of helped select everybody.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
In there, and he was just he was consistent and
present both in and out of the White House.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, we've heard from so many people who there express
thanks to me to Andrew where I'm here because Charlie
advocated for me so hard, and I'd never met him before.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
He was just so impressed.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
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.
Speaker 11 (27:16):
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 gonna We're gonna
go help. And then the rest of us were like, Okay,
but we're still gonna do the show every day, right,
And we still made it work. But it was a
very complicated couple of months.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Very very complicated. I know it was supposed to.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Be a week.
Speaker 11 (27:34):
It just kept getting longer and longer.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I is Charlie ever coming back? And we were a
little worried about it.
Speaker 11 (27:43):
For all to move, Yeah, what's the plan?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
It was funny we have Catherine sent in a story.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
She says her favorite story was she was in Sedona
and Charlie was in full dad mode watching college football
with his parents.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't know what that looks like, but I can
kind of.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
I just how so many people's memories are Charlie in college.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
It is.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
A little different.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I remember when the US 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.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Games that America was in in the middle of the show.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yes, I just he'd do a five second question to
the guest and then just with.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
The Olympics, with March Madness, we would have an iPad
set up there. I remember March Madness, he wanted all
of his brackets printed out so it would look like
he's having like notes for the show. They're just as
March Madness brackets, just like filling them out, as as
who got marked off if he's how on track he is.
He made a couple different brackets every year, it was,
but he bounced it all. Yeah, somehow show every day.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
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 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
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should send Rio off to find that clock. I think
that would be a fun get if we can, if
we can track it down.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
I Mikey, I really want I don't remember who all
was around then. But when Charlie and Rika had their
first child, and before then, Charlie was he's he's always
been excited to work, always been very focused on work.
But it was very much work, work, work, work, work,
work work. And then she was born and Mike and
(29:43):
I were like, Okay, so are we still gonna work
all the time or what 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 dad, so full on dad mode
as soon as she was born. It was so amazing
(30:04):
to watch.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
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.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, he sent us chargers clothes and food and instantly
connected us with a very Maha pediatrician.
Speaker 11 (30:34):
Yeah, that is so Charlie.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, and I know he was very excited for your baby, Daisy.
Speaker 11 (30:43):
And in thinking about the favorite memories too, my kid.
I don't know if you remember this, but when I facetimed
him in 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,
she was so sorry. And his only reaction on the phone,
he goes, I already knew it, like.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I we had the cake.
Speaker 11 (31:04):
He was like, yeah, we didn't have.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I already announced. No, he was Daisy.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Tell them what he wanted to name what he wanted.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
To Charlie multiple We have this conversation multiple times, and
he was like, I know that it's weird, but I
do think you should consider naming her Daisy. I was like, Charlie,
this is already my name, Like I, 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
(31:35):
else should use it again. Great, maybe I'll consider that
for the next one.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
But her name.
Speaker 11 (31:41):
Was it was so funer. Eric asked me that morning
if I was pregnant, and I was like, 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 kind.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Of so I missed it.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I was out and I walk in and I just
got Daisy walks up. She's like, I'm pregnant, by the way,
and well even the.
Speaker 11 (32:09):
Other day, speaking of Charlie caring so much about what
her name was, Charlie's kids were with this 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.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Rynch Okay, yeah, she was.
Speaker 11 (32:25):
Really inspired by.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
From movies.
Speaker 11 (32:29):
Yeah, Grinch wasn't wasn't on my list of options, but
now I'm considering contender.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Yeah, Rynch phelps.
Speaker 11 (32:36):
Yeah, it's it doesn't flow, but I would do anything
to make her happy at this point, So maybe I'll consider.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Oh Man, anything else from you.
Speaker 12 (32:45):
I'm a kay I When I was thinking about, like,
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
(33:06):
thought that's what all of Eastern Washington was like. So
he said on air, he was like, it's so 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
(33:27):
was just really funny that he corrected it.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
On air anytime anyone mentioned Eastern Washington from that point
on MM Kate's homeland, the land that's where comes from.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I wanted to make sure we got this. Noah was
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.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
To the team. And Charlie, Yeah, Charlie.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Charlie call him Charlie, and that's who he is to
all of us.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
He's Charlie.
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Speaker 2 (35:17):
Did you get anything other else from from Dallen before
we went in?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Or is he just he's a taciturn one down.
Speaker 12 (35:22):
He just has so many stories of like being on
campus with Charlie, especially in the early days, Like there
are a multiple 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
(35:44):
being part of like the early of Charlie b kame when.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
There are more people on the team than who actually
came up to ask you.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It's so funny that's the real og Charlie team.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
That's an important thing that you just both you guys 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.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
In Dallan's one of those back.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
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 Dowlan,
(36:32):
the Farnsworths, all of us were just there to be rely.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
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
(36:57):
for the first time unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
You can't get that now. It's a sold out one.
Speaker 11 (37:01):
But we'll try and bring it back. Maybe we will
have a heart attack hearing me.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Charlie was a huge Rush Limbaugh, and he modeled this
whole on air persona after Rush. He thought he was
the best there ever was. Howdy says she was shocked.
He loved it so much. She shouldn't have been.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
So we're going to close this show.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
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.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
It 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 how I
know so many people think this program has changed their
lives for the better.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
You have no.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
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
(38:05):
not going to be able to and I want you
to understand that even when the day comes, I'd like
to be here.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
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 Limba, and we do
that in a way with that clip as the start,
(38:37):
and then Rush's favorite Christmas song as we look back
at this last year, time to be grateful, to be
filled with gratitude.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
That was Charlie. Wow, we heard it from Rush.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
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.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I expect.
Speaker 11 (39:14):
It's crazy like every year we watch we have that
same clip, the same last segment, and I just didn't
expect it.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
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.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Merry Christmas to all of you, and we'll see you soon. A. P.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Brett Putt.
Speaker 6 (43:30):
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