September 19, 2025 • 8 mins
IN THE MEANTIME, THERE WAS A VIGIL FOR AN ACTUAL VICTIM
Thousands showed up, the Denver Gazette writes about it here. In related news, Erica Kirk has been unanimously named the new head of Turning Point USA, something Charlie told his team he wanted to happen in case something happened to him, which seems sadly prescient once again. ONE UPSIDE FROM THE EVIL THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED Is that people are turning to church. Lots and Lots of people are turning to church, especially young people. People are realizing the nihilism and post modernism that they have been told is cool is vapid and empty and they are looking for more. If you are a regular church goer please be kind as new people show up, even if they sit in "your" seat. Going to church can feel intimidating and scary, especially if you've been told church people are awful for a long time. Charlie Kirk has made being a Christian cool again and I'm loving that others are giving it a try. Let's show them how to do it right by leading with love. It's hard sometimes (see my unsympathetic post above) but we have to keep trying.
Thousands showed up, the Denver Gazette writes about it here. In related news, Erica Kirk has been unanimously named the new head of Turning Point USA, something Charlie told his team he wanted to happen in case something happened to him, which seems sadly prescient once again. ONE UPSIDE FROM THE EVIL THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED Is that people are turning to church. Lots and Lots of people are turning to church, especially young people. People are realizing the nihilism and post modernism that they have been told is cool is vapid and empty and they are looking for more. If you are a regular church goer please be kind as new people show up, even if they sit in "your" seat. Going to church can feel intimidating and scary, especially if you've been told church people are awful for a long time. Charlie Kirk has made being a Christian cool again and I'm loving that others are giving it a try. Let's show them how to do it right by leading with love. It's hard sometimes (see my unsympathetic post above) but we have to keep trying.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining me now straight from her travels to the other
side of the state. It's Heidik and all everybody. She
was at the Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday at CSU, and Heidi,
I watched about thirty minutes of that This morning. A
listener sent me the Lincoln I put it on the
blog if anybody wants to go watch the memorial. What
a lovely, lovely way to honor Charlie Kirk. And to
(00:22):
see thousands of people in that stadium was so heartening.
What was it like to be there?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hi, Mandy. It was a beautiful, beautiful gathering of people,
and the weather was amazing, and it was just so
peaceful and calm, and it was about I think it
was over seven thousand people was the final count, and
about I think I half of them we're CSU students,
which is crazy. Yeah, so cool. And was blessed to
speak with Isabel Brown, who's a CSO alumni and a
(00:50):
big influencer. You got to follow Isabel if you don't already.
She's just so good show on Daily Wire.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
She's so so good. She is so so good.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I love her.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
She is a she's also a happy warrior.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
He is a happy warrior and she has a new
little baby and she's just this is so it's getting
to her. You know, Mandy is a new mom. Like
how violence and you start to see the world differently. Yeah,
And I feel like that really does affected is about
a lot. I've known it for a long time. But
overall the event was awesome. But in sorry you guys,
I'm at the airport. If there's stuff in the background,
I tried to find the quite a little spot. I'm
(01:24):
Mountain Durango, which is actually getting very very left down here.
But the counter protest that was going on near the
vigil was really concerning. It's called part of the uns
Bad Word to America Tour, believe it or not, that's
what they call it. And it was. It was pretty rowdy.
I hear. It was pretty negative and it's very concerning
(01:46):
that the guy leading that effort guide girl, I'm not sure,
which said we need to be afraid of getting killed
at events. Conservatives need to be afraid of getting killed
at events to force leaders like Trump to turn down
the temperature.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
As a matter of fact, let me just hide just
in case people think that you are exaggerating on this.
Let me go ahead and play that audio just a
second a ron left the commercial role, and then we'll
go to the audio. I found it this morning, just
to make sure that we were giving out. Oh come on,
hang on, I've got a pre roll on this and
it's just going to take us second to get to
(02:19):
where we need to go. This is actually the gentleman
who goes by destiny on a podcast at some point,
and this is what he had to say.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Exactly like I need you need conservatives to be afraid
of getting killed when they go to events, so that
they look to their leadership to turn down the temperature.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Now, ironically, I have not heard him call for his
leadership to turn down the temperature.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Have you. No, absolutely not. I'm not hearing from many
Democrats that we should turn down the temperature. Even in Colorado.
The Democrats are not calling for that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Oh no, but Heidi, they are. They're calling for us,
our side, to turn down the temperature. There's literally no
naval gazing going on on the left.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
There's no.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And don't get me wrong, and I said this the
day of the shooting. The only person responsible for the
shooting is the young man who decided that murder was
the best option. To shut down speech he didn't like. Right,
he's responsible for this murder. But if we're going to
talk about the forces in our culture that drove him
to believe that that was the best thing to do,
(03:24):
you cannot do that without talking about left wing rhetoric.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That's right. And I mean, if you look at this
tour the way they describe us, it says UFAs is
paid influencers and describes Kirk as a brainwashing ultra maga extremist. Yeah,
I mean, that could not be further than the truth.
Charlie is one of the most level headed, sensible people
I know in politics, and we're going to miss his
(03:51):
voice tremendously, especially when it comes to loans like this
and fighting back against them.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, let's talk for just a minute, though, about the
legacy that is now growing at a rate far greater
than it did when Charlie Kirk was alive. You are connected,
how are you connected to Turning Point USA?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, Manie, I've been a big fan since I met
Charlie ten years ago. My dad and him sat next
to each other at an event and they convinced Tory,
my older daughter, to run for student body government at
University of Oregon, one of the most liberal campuses in
the country, and Charlie actually moved there for three months.
It was one of the first campaigns they did, so
we got to know him really well, our family did.
And now my sixteen year old just launched the Turning
(04:33):
Point Chapter at Valor High School and it had one
hundred kids show up the other day. So I've not
Charlie for years. Yeah, and crazy, it was so cool.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You're getting the data about how many students and people
are calling to ask about starting a chapter at their
high school or their college, and those numbers are huge.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, we wait for this man, you know. Now it's up
to sixty two thousand students have signed up to either
launch a chapter or open a chapter across the country.
We've got seven hundred and fourteen high schools here in
Colorado in ninety two college campuses, believe it or not,
and we want to make sure every single one has
a Club America, which is what the high school chapters
(05:18):
are called, or Turning Point Chapter, which is the college
version on those college campuses. And we've got an incredible
team of four people that lead that effort in Turning
Point that two state directors and then two regional directors
that are going to make that happen and I'm going
to do everything I can to help them.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And Heidi I had a speaking engagement last Friday and Frederick.
But it's just like lovely, lovely group of people, and
they kept asking like, how can we help, how can
we support it? And of course I'm looking at people
my age are.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
A little bit older.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm like, well, your money is always appreciated, but is
there a role for me and for them, you know,
the over fifties that are not cool to the college kids, Like,
what role, if any, is there for us to support
these young people as they begin to grow this movement.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh, there's so many cool things. You can mentor a
student you can mentor a chapter. You can feed them.
They love food at their meetings. You can offer to
drive them places if they have events. You can donate,
of course to their chapters. If you go to TPUSA
dot org, just a turning point chapter and you get
click on get involved. There's a really simple form. It'll
(06:26):
go to the state director. And they have hundreds of
requests here in Colorado right now, so they're getting through them.
It's going to take a little bit but we need
your help to make sure we blanket the state with
all the support and love that we can give them
to help them be effective and turn the state around
through gen Z exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So that give that website, like how can people do
this again? The website one more time?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Do you go to TPUSA. It's the TURNINGPOINTUSA dot org
and there's the get involved at the top. You just
click there and it'll ask for your not much information
and if you have any trouble, just email me. Manny.
Everybody on the planet has an email address now, you know,
at gmail dot com. Give me a couple of days
because my bugs gets a little crazy bit and I
(07:11):
will connect you to the gals who lead the effort
here in Colorado or They're amazing. They put that event
together last night in forty eight hours, and how seven
thousand people show up?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It was It was really really special and I can
only imagine that, you know, Friday night, I had the
opportunity to go and I call it fellowship for lack
of a better word to sort of describe it. But
it's nice to be around people that feel the same
way you do and are devastated by this death and
all the implications of this death, because they're so significant.
But if something good can come out of this, if
(07:42):
if we can have an entire generation of young people activated,
it would be an absolute incredible turn of events and
a true testament to what Charlie Kirk was trying to do.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh, Charlie is dancing in heaven right now. I know
he's This is making him dably happy to see all
the kids turning to Christ, turning to their faith, and
turning to defending our country and actually learning so much
from all of his video content, all of his Charlie
Kirk shows. I mean, there's so much content out there
that people can start to engage with and share with
their friends, to tell the truth about what he stood
(08:17):
for and who he was, which was an amazing patriot
and a wonderful man of faith and a great dad
and father.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Exactly, Hi, do you and all enjoy talking to you.
I'll let you go get on with your day over
there in beautiful Durango, and I'll talk to you soon.
Joining me now straight from her travels to the other
side of the state. It's Heidik and all everybody. She
was at the Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday at CSU, and Heidi,
I watched about thirty minutes of that This morning. A
listener sent me the Lincoln I put it on the
blog if anybody wants to go watch the memorial. What
a lovely, lovely way to honor Charlie Kirk. And to
(00:22):
see thousands of people in that stadium was so heartening.
What was it like to be there?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hi, Mandy. It was a beautiful, beautiful gathering of people,
and the weather was amazing, and it was just so
peaceful and calm, and it was about I think it
was over seven thousand people was the final count, and
about I think I half of them we're CSU students,
which is crazy. Yeah, so cool. And was blessed to
speak with Isabel Brown, who's a CSO alumni and a
(00:50):
big influencer. You got to follow Isabel if you don't already.
She's just so good show on Daily Wire.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
She's so so good. She is so so good.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I love her.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
She is a she's also a happy warrior.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
He is a happy warrior and she has a new
little baby and she's just this is so it's getting
to her. You know, Mandy is a new mom. Like
how violence and you start to see the world differently. Yeah,
And I feel like that really does affected is about
a lot. I've known it for a long time. But
overall the event was awesome. But in sorry you guys,
I'm at the airport. If there's stuff in the background,
I tried to find the quite a little spot. I'm
(01:24):
Mountain Durango, which is actually getting very very left down here.
But the counter protest that was going on near the
vigil was really concerning. It's called part of the uns
Bad Word to America Tour, believe it or not, that's
what they call it. And it was. It was pretty rowdy.
I hear. It was pretty negative and it's very concerning
(01:46):
that the guy leading that effort guide girl, I'm not sure,
which said we need to be afraid of getting killed
at events. Conservatives need to be afraid of getting killed
at events to force leaders like Trump to turn down
the temperature.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
As a matter of fact, let me just hide just
in case people think that you are exaggerating on this.
Let me go ahead and play that audio just a
second a ron left the commercial role, and then we'll
go to the audio. I found it this morning, just
to make sure that we were giving out. Oh come on,
hang on, I've got a pre roll on this and
it's just going to take us second to get to
(02:19):
where we need to go. This is actually the gentleman
who goes by destiny on a podcast at some point,
and this is what he had to say.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Exactly like I need you need conservatives to be afraid
of getting killed when they go to events, so that
they look to their leadership to turn down the temperature.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Now, ironically, I have not heard him call for his
leadership to turn down the temperature.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Have you. No, absolutely not. I'm not hearing from many
Democrats that we should turn down the temperature. Even in Colorado.
The Democrats are not calling for that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Oh no, but Heidi, they are. They're calling for us,
our side, to turn down the temperature. There's literally no
naval gazing going on on the left.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
There's no.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And don't get me wrong, and I said this the
day of the shooting. The only person responsible for the
shooting is the young man who decided that murder was
the best option. To shut down speech he didn't like. Right,
he's responsible for this murder. But if we're going to
talk about the forces in our culture that drove him
to believe that that was the best thing to do,
(03:24):
you cannot do that without talking about left wing rhetoric.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That's right. And I mean, if you look at this
tour the way they describe us, it says UFAs is
paid influencers and describes Kirk as a brainwashing ultra maga extremist. Yeah,
I mean, that could not be further than the truth.
Charlie is one of the most level headed, sensible people
I know in politics, and we're going to miss his
(03:51):
voice tremendously, especially when it comes to loans like this
and fighting back against them.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, let's talk for just a minute, though, about the
legacy that is now growing at a rate far greater
than it did when Charlie Kirk was alive. You are connected,
how are you connected to Turning Point USA?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, Manie, I've been a big fan since I met
Charlie ten years ago. My dad and him sat next
to each other at an event and they convinced Tory,
my older daughter, to run for student body government at
University of Oregon, one of the most liberal campuses in
the country, and Charlie actually moved there for three months.
It was one of the first campaigns they did, so
we got to know him really well, our family did.
And now my sixteen year old just launched the Turning
(04:33):
Point Chapter at Valor High School and it had one
hundred kids show up the other day. So I've not
Charlie for years. Yeah, and crazy, it was so cool.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You're getting the data about how many students and people
are calling to ask about starting a chapter at their
high school or their college, and those numbers are huge.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, we wait for this man, you know. Now it's up
to sixty two thousand students have signed up to either
launch a chapter or open a chapter across the country.
We've got seven hundred and fourteen high schools here in
Colorado in ninety two college campuses, believe it or not,
and we want to make sure every single one has
a Club America, which is what the high school chapters
(05:18):
are called, or Turning Point Chapter, which is the college
version on those college campuses. And we've got an incredible
team of four people that lead that effort in Turning
Point that two state directors and then two regional directors
that are going to make that happen and I'm going
to do everything I can to help them.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And Heidi I had a speaking engagement last Friday and Frederick.
But it's just like lovely, lovely group of people, and
they kept asking like, how can we help, how can
we support it? And of course I'm looking at people
my age are.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
A little bit older.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm like, well, your money is always appreciated, but is
there a role for me and for them, you know,
the over fifties that are not cool to the college kids, Like,
what role, if any, is there for us to support
these young people as they begin to grow this movement.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh, there's so many cool things. You can mentor a
student you can mentor a chapter. You can feed them.
They love food at their meetings. You can offer to
drive them places if they have events. You can donate,
of course to their chapters. If you go to TPUSA
dot org, just a turning point chapter and you get
click on get involved. There's a really simple form. It'll
(06:26):
go to the state director. And they have hundreds of
requests here in Colorado right now, so they're getting through them.
It's going to take a little bit but we need
your help to make sure we blanket the state with
all the support and love that we can give them
to help them be effective and turn the state around
through gen Z exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So that give that website, like how can people do
this again? The website one more time?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Do you go to TPUSA. It's the TURNINGPOINTUSA dot org
and there's the get involved at the top. You just
click there and it'll ask for your not much information
and if you have any trouble, just email me. Manny.
Everybody on the planet has an email address now, you know,
at gmail dot com. Give me a couple of days
because my bugs gets a little crazy bit and I
(07:11):
will connect you to the gals who lead the effort
here in Colorado or They're amazing. They put that event
together last night in forty eight hours, and how seven
thousand people show up?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It was It was really really special and I can
only imagine that, you know, Friday night, I had the
opportunity to go and I call it fellowship for lack
of a better word to sort of describe it. But
it's nice to be around people that feel the same
way you do and are devastated by this death and
all the implications of this death, because they're so significant.
But if something good can come out of this, if
(07:42):
if we can have an entire generation of young people activated,
it would be an absolute incredible turn of events and
a true testament to what Charlie Kirk was trying to do.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh, Charlie is dancing in heaven right now. I know
he's This is making him dably happy to see all
the kids turning to Christ, turning to their faith, and
turning to defending our country and actually learning so much
from all of his video content, all of his Charlie
Kirk shows. I mean, there's so much content out there
that people can start to engage with and share with
their friends, to tell the truth about what he stood
(08:17):
for and who he was, which was an amazing patriot
and a wonderful man of faith and a great dad
and father.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Exactly, Hi, do you and all enjoy talking to you.
I'll let you go get on with your day over
there in beautiful Durango, and I'll talk to you soon.
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