Freedom Built to Last Memorial Megastream

00:00:04 Speaker 1: My name is Charlie Kirk. 00:00:06 Speaker 2: I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. 00:00:38 Speaker 1: Sign up and become an activist. 00:00:39 Speaker 2: I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. 00:00:44 Speaker 1: And I encourage you to do the same. 00:00:46 Speaker 2: Here I am. 00:00:47 Speaker 1: Lord, use me. 00:00:49 Speaker 3: Buckle up, everybody. 00:00:50 Speaker 1: Here we go. 00:00:57 Speaker 2: Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. 00:01:18 Speaker 1: All right. 00:01:18 Speaker 3: Welcome, everybody. 00:01:20 Speaker 4: It is September 10th, 2026, and we are doing a stream tonight to honor Charlie because, well, if you knew anything about Charlie, Charlie was like, let's stream. 00:01:35 Speaker 3: Let's go. 00:01:35 Speaker 5: Yeah, every time. There's so many times this past year that I hear that in my head, like something will be breaking news, and they're like, Charlie's going to want to go live. 00:01:44 Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go live. 00:01:45 Speaker 6: Always was there. He wanted to be in the thick of it. 00:01:49 Speaker 3: Yeah, he did. 00:01:51 Speaker 4: In the studio, he said, I will never miss another election night not being in the studio, because that happened one time, and he wished he. 00:01:57 Speaker 3: Had been here. 00:01:58 Speaker 4: We've got a stream that we're doing before the UVU event marking one year without Charlie, a deliberate and I would say. 00:02:09 Speaker 3: Defiant act of taking back territory. 00:02:13 Speaker 4: And that was something that marked Charlie's entire political life, his activist career, where he would go into the most hard to reach places, the places that we were often unwanted the most. And he would plant his flag. And so that's what we're doing. And I'm proud of the team that is on the ground at UVU in Utah. We've got Glenn Beck, Michael Knowles, Frank Turek. We've got Andrew Seifer. There's also Caleb Chilcutt, who was our chapter president at the time when Charlie was murdered. And he's just done an amazing job with that chapter. And now he's on staff with Turning Point. And Mikey McCoy. 00:02:54 Speaker 3: Yes. 00:02:56 Speaker 4: So we wanted to give a little bit of a lead up here. I'm going to be only in the chair for about 10, 15 minutes, and then I have other things that. 00:03:03 Speaker 3: I have to do. 00:03:04 Speaker 4: But you have an all-star group of guys here that all love Charlie dearly. Blake, Graham, myself, Jack Posobiec, and then we've also got. 00:03:12 Speaker 3: Some other friends that are going to be joining us throughout the hour. 00:03:16 Speaker 4: It's been a heavy day, but it's been really wonderful having friends around, too. 00:03:22 Speaker 7: Yeah. 00:03:22 Speaker 8: Yeah. 00:03:23 Speaker 3: And you might have come... Well, who came the farthest? You were in Dallas yesterday. 00:03:27 Speaker 5: I was in Dallas. 00:03:28 Speaker 9: South Carolina. So I won by technicality. 00:03:31 Speaker 1: You won, but he was. 00:03:32 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll give you that. And Blake was traveling. 00:03:35 Speaker 6: I traveled from across the street. 00:03:37 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. He traveled from the pages of the book he was reading. 00:03:40 Speaker 5: Blake is more of an interdimensional traveler. 00:03:42 Speaker 3: Yeah. Anyways, I think.... 00:03:47 Speaker 4: You know, I was a little bit concerned about today, to be honest, mostly about myself because I... I was worried it was going to be, you know, hard and emotional and has been, but in general, it's been a, an outpouring of incredible amounts of support and love for Charlie online. And that was my, my one prayer today. And I, it was my first tweet. I said, may Charlie be honored today. And I think that's why. 00:04:13 Speaker 3: We're all here. 00:04:14 Speaker 5: And you're seeing, I mean, obviously look, we see, we see the left and we see their trends, their Kirkiversary and, The the insanity that they're going full mask off. They couldn't help themselves in the middle of an election in the middle of a day like this to, you know, just maybe shut up just one day. You know, you think that they could. bite their tongue but they can't help it because they revel in the insanity in the evil they are not stupid this is evil what is going on specifically demonic and I'm talking about these and we've all seen them and so the way you defeat that is with the good and that's what you're describing this good outpouring of love of truth of scripture of prayer that's what Charlie wanted that's what he stood for that's what he sacrificed for and so Yes, and we'll see tonight. I believe the Frontlines team is down there. They are tracking protests. 00:05:11 Speaker 4: We've got Taylor Hanson on site, and I'm told he's ready. 00:05:15 Speaker 3: I don't see him in the preview box here. 00:05:16 Speaker 10: Is he up? 00:05:17 Speaker 3: Is he up? Do we have him? 00:05:19 Speaker 4: All right, we have Taylor, and he's live from UVU. Taylor, welcome to the show, my friend. What's the word on the ground? 00:05:28 Speaker 11: Well, first off, thanks for having me as always, and... I'd say the best way to describe it so far is it's been beautiful as of now. So I arrived on scene about four hours before the event was actually slated to start. 00:05:40 Speaker 7: The doors hadn't even opened yet. 00:05:42 Speaker 11: And from the moment that I arrived on the grounds, there has been a massive line from the UCCU Center all the way down to essentially the main street lined up to the door. And they've since opened the doors about an hour ago. And since then, it's just been a nonstop flow. I mean, at one point, this line was wrapped all the way around the UCCU Center. So not really a lot of negativity taking place out here. Pretty much nothing but positivity. You have had a few select, you know, counter-processors, if you can really even call them that, more like hecklers that have, you know, thrown jabs at people in line and tried to get them to react. But everybody here, they're all here for the same reason, is to honor Charlie and not to, uh, not to really give in to the very few amount of protesters that have arrived. 00:06:28 Speaker 3: I think that's a huge point. 00:06:29 Speaker 4: Honestly, one of the things that I've noticed today is it feels like just an overwhelming sense of just love for Charlie with a, very notable exceptions, but it's kind of like, screw those people. 00:06:42 Speaker 3: Why even give them any attention? 00:06:44 Speaker 12: You know what I mean? 00:06:44 Speaker 4: On a day like today, I feel a little bit both ways about it, because they deserve to be named and shamed. 00:06:50 Speaker 13: See, I mean, they are people who always want it to be about themselves, and today is about Charlie. 00:06:59 Speaker 1: Agreed. 00:07:00 Speaker 5: However, if today is the day that the cockroaches are all coming out of their hidey-holes, then I say today's the day that we go after the cockroaches. 00:07:10 Speaker 1: How about this? 00:07:10 Speaker 3: You note who the cockroaches are and you do it tomorrow. 00:07:14 Speaker 5: Well, I mean, some of these cases, we've got active duty military members. We've got people who are associated with universities. 00:07:21 Speaker 3: But I don't even care about those people. All I want to do is I want to focus on Charlie. 00:07:26 Speaker 4: The man deserves so much more than we could ever give him in terms of accolades and honoring. 00:07:31 Speaker 3: And we should be streaming... You know, 30 hours for him. 00:07:36 Speaker 5: I couldn't disagree more. Excuse me. I couldn't agree more. I couldn't agree more that we need to do that. However, however, there is a place for going on offense. 00:07:46 Speaker 1: No, 100%. 00:07:46 Speaker 5: There's a place for going on offense to say, you know what? 00:07:49 Speaker 3: We're going to fight back. 00:07:51 Speaker 4: It's called the Department of Treasury, and they smoke out all these networks. 00:07:55 Speaker 5: Well, and also, by the way, and if anyone sees them, and we've been doing this as well, it's also the Department of State because of some of them have an immigration status where if you are a guest of this country. 00:08:07 Speaker 12: And you are celebrating murder. 00:08:10 Speaker 5: And assassination, then you might as well pack your bags right now. 00:08:13 Speaker 1: Correct. 00:08:14 Speaker 4: Taylor, give us some more of the scene around there. I mean, so people have been lining up for hours. I saw the Frontlines video. I'm assuming you were the person on the camera taking that shot. 00:08:26 Speaker 3: Hopefully we can get it up. 00:08:26 Speaker 4: But what else are you seeing, hearing, you know, There's people I've seen holding up a big flag. There's people that are doing stuff with chalk on the sidewalk. Just tell us more. Give us more of the picture. 00:08:41 Speaker 11: Yeah, we have people here obviously memorializing Charlie as this is what this event is for. I mean, that's the biggest thing that I've taken away from today and at least seen from the attendees of this event today. I mean, you have people coming from all around the country as well. That's what I think is a really good thing that people should understand. 00:08:58 Speaker 14: These aren't just locals. 00:08:59 Speaker 11: You have people driving around. over 24 hours from places like Michigan, from Rhode Island, all around the country, just to be here for this event today because they recognize how important it is in American history and to them and their value system personally. So that's been a very interesting and fascinating thing to see is people from all over the country coming here just to basically honor Charlie Kirk's life and what he stood for. And you had mentioned chalk. You have Kids, you have high schoolers, you have middle schoolers, you have adults all out here leaving flowers, chalking great positive messages, remembering Charlie, some of Charlie's favorite Bible verses, some of the messages that he really put out there the most. You're seeing those written everywhere. You're seeing people happy, obviously. They're happy to be here. They're happy to celebrate Charlie's life. They're not happy about what took place and why they have to be here. But overwhelmingly, I would say, it seems like everyone that is here, at least 99.9% of people, are here to support Charlie and his legacy and turning point USA and the future of the organization going forward. That's kind of the vibes that I. 00:10:08 Speaker 7: Get here on the ground. 00:10:10 Speaker 11: I'm really no negativity for the most part, other than, you know, the select few, the actual main protest is set to start at six 15. So I imagine you'll get some, You know, stragglers later on. But for the most part, it's been nothing but great is the best way to describe it. And I hope it remains that way. You have a great law enforcement presence, great security presence as well. 00:10:29 Speaker 5: So you're saying in about 30 minutes is when they're really scheduled to show up? 00:10:34 Speaker 7: Yeah, they're scheduled to show up at 6.15. 00:10:35 Speaker 1: Okay, and that's mountain time. 00:10:39 Speaker 11: No, so right now you've had stragglers from kind of different groups, people wanting to do it themselves. The actual group that has organized the established protest, the campus organization, they actually are not set to show up until 6-15. The few that have been here have been with the, you know, on F America tour, wanting to debate people on if Charlie was actually killed by the left. 00:11:02 Speaker 1: But just small stragglers. 00:11:04 Speaker 5: This is that, it's an Antifa front group, and if I've seen that. Well, Act Blue's I've seen some of their posts, and some of the things they've been saying are very disgusting. I saw that Senator Mike Lee had actually tweeted about it, and I think there's a local— Did he expel them? No, he did say expel them. I want to give a shout-out to a local platform, if I can, the Cougar Chronicle. The Cougar Chronicle has been doing phenomenal work. They were able to get some internal text messages out, things like that. And just a huge shout-out to those guys. They were there at the hearing as well. 00:11:41 Speaker 6: One of the students, happy first birthday to that area of pavement on campus. 00:11:45 Speaker 5: Yeah, that was just sick stuff. 00:11:47 Speaker 3: And they should be expelled. 00:11:49 Speaker 4: You know, this is an interesting debate, though, because a lot of these people, you know, we had nothing to do with it. 00:11:54 Speaker 3: I just want to be very clear. 00:11:55 Speaker 4: We were in no position in the first, like, weeks, any of the ghouls that showed themselves, the cockroaches came out, to get them fired or even complain. 00:12:05 Speaker 3: About this stuff. 00:12:06 Speaker 1: You know. 00:12:07 Speaker 3: But they probably should have been fired. 00:12:09 Speaker 4: Some of these people won settlements against their employers or whatever. There's one Washington Post reporter or whatever. It's like, I'm sorry. OK, maybe that is your free speech. But your employer should be able to exercise their free speech as well to be like– What you did was disgusting. 00:12:28 Speaker 3: We didn't like it. So hit the road. Go find another place to work. What's wrong with that? 00:12:32 Speaker 5: We call that accountability. 00:12:35 Speaker 11: Last I remember is we dealt with the past six years was the idea that we have freedom of speech but not freedom of consequences. So there really is no difference here in this regard. But of course there is. 00:12:46 Speaker 5: Because it's the left. And if anyone's peaceful, and I remember saying this, we never called for anyone to be arrested. We never called for anyone to be you know, thrown in jail or even censored, actually, because we're against that as well, as long as they're not calling for violence. And that being said, though, a lot of these Kirkiversary posts, they're extremely violent. They're extremely violent. 00:13:08 Speaker 4: Well, listen, as John Doyle said, the highest compliment you can receive on earth is for your death to be celebrated by all its worst people. And so I do genuinely believe, you know, Charlie used to sort of marvel at the protests that would come after him or, you know, the counter protesters of the debates and things like that. He would kind of laugh at them. And he did say time and time again, he's like, it's a signal boost. The joke's on them. They're just making me more, more influential. They're just, they're just boosting our signal. 00:13:40 Speaker 3: And it, what a, what an. 00:13:42 Speaker 4: Absolute testament to Charlie Kirk that even in death, they can't let it go. 00:13:47 Speaker 3: They can't, he was so He struck such fear into their hearts. 00:13:52 Speaker 5: He mentally crushed them. 00:13:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, the sea of red hats on college campuses. He spiritually crushed them. That they cannot let it go. 00:13:59 Speaker 4: That they can't even find human decency in the aftermath to just shut their mouth. 00:14:05 Speaker 9: He is a symbol that represents everything true and right. That they know deep down is true and right. Deep down, I truly believe that these sick people know that they're wrong. 00:14:18 Speaker 3: They're just mad that they could never be Charlie. 00:14:21 Speaker 15: Exactly. 00:14:21 Speaker 4: They're mad that their ideas are incapable of creating a Charlie. 00:14:26 Speaker 6: Anyone who encounters so much of politics is what is your innate gut level response when you encounter something greater than you or better than you? 00:14:35 Speaker 15: Right. 00:14:35 Speaker 13: And we talked about how Charlie had such a hunger to be mentored by other people. He loved to learn. If he saw something great, he thought, how can I be like that? What can I do to improve myself to deserve that? And all of these people, they're from that other end, the other reaction you can have, which is resentment to say, if that person is better than me, screw them. I can smash them and tear them down to my level. 00:14:58 Speaker 5: Why does Abel have the favor of God and I deserve that favor and I should destroy Abel? And this was the first human that's came, the first human born with original sin. 00:15:09 Speaker 15: Yeah. 00:15:10 Speaker 7: Well, if I might add, I think. 00:15:13 Speaker 11: What you guys are speaking on right now is fascinating to me because I've spoken to a lot of attendees here throughout the day, as well as the counter protesters. And all the attendees have asked the same question, too, is what do you see Charlie's legacy as one year later, one year after his tragic assassination? And almost every single one of them have talked about how his legacy is faith. His legacy is Christ. His legacy is the cross. And I think that is the very thing that you guys are speaking on that inadvertently scares these people and makes them react in such a negative way. It literally forces the evil out of them and they don't even really understand why, but it is because that is what his legacy is. You know, he spoke publicly on, that's what he wanted his legacy to be was to be remembered for his fear of God and his, his love for Christ and Christ love for us. And that's exactly, I mean, that's what I remember Charlie by. And I think, The leftists also remember him by this, even if they don't want to acknowledge that's how they remember him. 00:16:10 Speaker 7: They want to acknowledge and say. 00:16:11 Speaker 11: He's a fascist or he's this. This is how we remember him. They actually know what the true legacy of Charlie Kirk is, and it terrifies them. That's at least my opinion. 00:16:20 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a great point. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of this. For the past year, we've seen a lot of horrific things. We've seen a lot of people that have tried to either claim Charlie as their own, or they've tried to make Charlie's Legacy about conspiracy, about lies and deceit and all of these things. They've tried to hijack what Charlie's Legacy actually is. And what I've seen today, the outpouring of love, the multiple states declaring that September 10th will be Charlie Kirk Day, to me it shows that it didn't work. That deep, deep down, when it all comes down to it on this day, 9-10, A year, 365 days after Charlie was taken from us, everything that these evil, evil, disgusting people tried to do, it didn't work. 00:17:15 Speaker 3: It will fail. 00:17:16 Speaker 9: It did not work. 00:17:17 Speaker 3: Charlie's bigger. 00:17:17 Speaker 16: You failed. 00:17:18 Speaker 3: It didn't work. 00:17:19 Speaker 9: God is bigger. Charlie's legacy is bigger through his faith in Jesus Christ. Everything they tried to do, it didn't work. It failed. 00:17:28 Speaker 3: Charlie is bigger, more powerful, louder, better, even now. 00:17:33 Speaker 16: Yep. 00:17:34 Speaker 4: Than anything that they could throw at him, at his legacy and his mission. Taylor, what's the rest of your evening look like here? I want to let you get back to doing your actual. 00:17:44 Speaker 3: Job you're supposed to be doing. 00:17:48 Speaker 11: I'm just going to continue covering the event until it's through, and then I believe there's a candlelight vigil afterwards on the actual site of where Charlie was killed, where people will make their way over after the event to kind of pay some additional respects to him. I'm just going to continue to be here on the ground and front lines. You know, the coverage will continue to go up as more comes in, and we'll just continue reporting on the rest of the day and hopefully honoring Charlie by doing so. 00:18:14 Speaker 15: Amen. 00:18:15 Speaker 3: All right, Taylor, stay safe, my friend. 00:18:18 Speaker 4: Be well, and we'll talk to you soon, and we'll keep an eye out for your videos as they come in. 00:18:23 Speaker 3: God bless you, man. Always. 00:18:25 Speaker 7: God bless Andrew's life. 00:18:28 Speaker 1: All right. 00:18:28 Speaker 13: We have a lineup of some students that are present at the event that we'll want to speak to. 00:18:34 Speaker 6: So we'll let them queue them up here. 00:18:36 Speaker 3: Oh, that's cool. We can get them on. 00:18:37 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. 00:18:38 Speaker 6: Well, I think we'll have them coming in one at a time. And we'll also be having another guest. 00:18:41 Speaker 4: We have Sage, who's the chapter president. Sage Lloyd, chapter president, Utah Valley University. We've got Aubrey Hudson, chapter president at BYU University. We've got Raf Beck, events at Utah Valley University, and Gabe Saint, who's been on the show before, chapter president of the University of Wyoming. And so we're going to get those guys queued up. And then I'm going to actually have to dash off, sadly. 00:19:05 Speaker 3: Ninja vanish. 00:19:07 Speaker 4: And I'm so honored to have gotten to just at least be a couple of minutes here with you guys at the top of the show. 00:19:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm out in like five minutes too. 00:19:15 Speaker 3: It's all right. 00:19:17 Speaker 6: We've got Mikey coming in. 00:19:20 Speaker 3: We've got Riley. 00:19:21 Speaker 6: We've got a lot of people. 00:19:23 Speaker 4: We've got a packed show for you guys. So once you guys have them queued up, let us know. But if you want to take my chair. 00:19:29 Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm going to switch. 00:19:30 Speaker 5: And I believe it's, Blake, we're about 40 minutes out. 00:19:33 Speaker 3: About. 00:19:34 Speaker 6: And we'll see. Maybe there will be a delay or something. 00:19:37 Speaker 5: But as scheduled, just if you're watching right now, we're about 40 minutes out from. the formal start of the memorial that's being held tonight. 00:19:45 Speaker 6: You'll be able to see it here. And so do we have, uh were you saying you have sage yeah all righty uh let's just let's keep them going because we want to get the chance to talk to these kids so uh sage the chapter president at uvu uh can you hear us I can, yes. 00:20:03 Speaker 3: Excellent, excellent. 00:20:04 Speaker 13: Sage, the floor is yours. What's the environment like up there in Orem? 00:20:09 Speaker 6: What are you seeing? 00:20:13 Speaker 13: You guys are a campus and a chapter that really loved Charlie. That's why you had the honor of hosting him in the first event last year, and you guys don't deserve to just be linked with that tragedy a year ago. You deserve to also have the chance to honor and celebrate him. So the floor is yours. 00:20:30 Speaker 15: Absolutely. 00:20:31 Speaker 17: It's really good over here. 00:20:32 Speaker 18: There's good energy. 00:20:33 Speaker 17: We've got a ton of support. The UCCU Center is just filling up quick, and it's so good to see that there's so many people here that want to honor Charlie and want to remember him. We had a little bit of the sun outside, caught a couple of protesters, but at the end of the day, that's their right to free speech, and they've been respectful of us inside. So I'm just glad that we're able to get so many people out to honor him, and it's been nothing but good vibes inside. 00:20:54 Speaker 6: That's tremendous. 00:20:55 Speaker 13: That's We're losing Jack here and we're slotting in Riley. Sorry, we've got a few moving parts here, but we're so grateful you could join us. How about, I just, I feel, I wish I could make a visit there myself and I will one day. I have to imagine some people have been paying visits to the scene where it happened. Have you been among them? Have people been stopping there throughout the day, throughout the week? What's it look like at that location? 00:21:24 Speaker 17: Yeah, this whole week, we've had people filtering in and out. And especially today, we've had a lot of people go to pay their respects and just kind of give a moment of silence on what happened. I've yet to visit the courtyard today just because I'm waiting till the event's over because I know it's a hard spot to be. But it's been beautiful to see people come and pay their respects, especially since a lot of what we see online is negative. But all we've had here on campus is support and love. And it's so good to see people come to honor Charlie. 00:21:52 Speaker 1: It is. 00:21:52 Speaker 10: It is. 00:21:54 Speaker 13: How many people can you guys fit in that arena? Is it looking like we'll be able to fill the whole. 00:21:59 Speaker 6: Thing up, hopefully? 00:22:01 Speaker 17: I saw a pretty long line out the door earlier. I haven't been in to see how many people are in yet, but it was filling up outside when I was there, so I'm pretty confident we'll fill it up. I think it does seat a couple thousand people, so hopefully we can get as many people in as we want. I know there are some people that want to support Charlie, so we'll fill it. 00:22:17 Speaker 3: Awesome. 00:22:18 Speaker 19: Awesome. 00:22:18 Speaker 6: That's tremendous. 00:22:18 Speaker 13: I actually, I was just, I asked you and then I decided to look at it. It looks like it have as many as 8,500. So that would be an excellent crowd to have. And, uh, I think about what we said last year that, you know, one of Charlie's dreams, people would ask him and his dream was he'd showed, I think it was an image of the Superbowl and he said, that's. 00:22:38 Speaker 1: What he wanted. 00:22:38 Speaker 6: And that's what was achieved a year ago. 00:22:41 Speaker 13: And to achieve against, even if it's a smaller facility, he wanted to fill arenas with, revival energy with that love of country, love of passion, and it shows just the tremendous legacy he left behind. 00:22:56 Speaker 6: Either of you guys want to ask Sage anything? 00:22:59 Speaker 20: Yeah. 00:23:00 Speaker 21: Obviously, in the immediate following Charlie's assassination, I'm sure your school saw a big uptick in students wanting to be involved with the Turning Point chapter. I would imagine today is the same, of course, having thousands of community members and students in attendance. What about in the months leading up to this, though? Did that momentum ever die off at any point, or was the increase pretty steady following the assassination? 00:23:24 Speaker 17: I think it's been pretty steady over this last year. We definitely saw a huge surge last September, but we've had a good pickup again in this last month. Since we've been promoting the memorial and the event, we've had tons of new students ask how to get involved, and it's such a good problem to have to have too many people that want to join. So it's been great being able to get everyone involved. And I think we're going to continue on with that momentum, especially after tonight, and get as many students involved as we can. 00:23:48 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's good. Well, God bless you, Sage. 00:23:51 Speaker 13: And our hearts are with you, with your chapter, because as we've said, you guys deserve to be known for how you love Charlie and his mission and not just the tragedy that happened. 00:24:03 Speaker 6: A year ago that we commemorate today. So thank you again, Sage, for joining us. 00:24:07 Speaker 13: We'll be rotating in our next student here. 00:24:10 Speaker 6: Thank you again. 00:24:12 Speaker 22: Perfect. 00:24:12 Speaker 17: Thank you so much. I appreciate you guys. 00:24:14 Speaker 11: Awesome. 00:24:14 Speaker 10: Awesome. 00:24:14 Speaker 1: All right. 00:24:15 Speaker 13: We'll next be bringing on Aubrey Hudson. She's the chapter president at BYU. We'll take a minute here while they queue her up. You guys have. 00:24:23 Speaker 6: Any thoughts about what you've seen so far today? 00:24:25 Speaker 9: I just love hearing from the students because, you know, I'm getting older. I know we talked about this earlier in the back, but I'm getting older and seeing the students back 10 years ago when I first started here where they are now. And now listening to these young people 20, 30 years from now, what Charlie has done, what Charlie has built, it is going, we have yet to even see even the smallest base of what Charlie has actually done and what Charlie, through God's grace, was actually able to create. And to just hear these young people, many of them, only got to see Charlie via their phones, a lot of them. Not all of these young people even got to meet Charlie because there's so many of them already. The lasting impact of Charlie Kirk as these young people become adults and they become the leaders and they become the ones running things, Charlie's legacy is going to be something that's going to be a marvel that when I'm a grandparent one day, I'll be able to say, I knew Charlie Kirk and what he started and all of these people that are, you know, turning point alums. That's something that I look forward to and that's something that really, really gives me peace. 00:25:46 Speaker 12: All right. 00:25:46 Speaker 13: We've got our next leader. We've got Aubrey Hudson, as we said, chapter president at BYU. Aubrey, thank you for coming on. 00:25:52 Speaker 14: Thank you guys so much for having me. 00:25:54 Speaker 6: Of course, of course. 00:25:56 Speaker 13: We just spoke with Sage, the chapter president at UVU. We're just talking about The feeling– so how many of your chapter members from BYU do you think have made the trip across– I guess it's not that far. 00:26:08 Speaker 6: You're just coming up from Provo, which is right next door. But what's the feeling like. 00:26:13 Speaker 3: In your chapter? 00:26:14 Speaker 14: You know, I'm actually shocked at how many of our chapter members– I'm not shocked. I'm really excited and pleasant with how many of our chapter members RSVP'd. BYU has a huge presence here in Utah Valley, and so– we're hoping that, that they all come through, but the feeling in our chapter is, um, honestly, it's pretty sacred. I'm not going to lie that while we were tabling the last couple of weeks, we've had some, some pretty raw and some pretty emotional conversations with people, but also just like so much hope and so much energy from our students as well. 00:26:54 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:26:55 Speaker 13: Well, I was, I was thinking we, we were talking with, uh, with Sage about the surge of interest and enthusiasm in Charlie, and we're talking about what legacy he would leave. 00:27:07 Speaker 6: You've, I presume, seen that in your own chapter. 00:27:11 Speaker 13: So why don't you tell us, the freshmen in your chapter, the people who are fresh arrivals, who've joined since what happened a year ago, what's their image of Charlie? 00:27:22 Speaker 6: What does Charlie mean to them? 00:27:24 Speaker 14: Yeah, so I was the president last year, and just to give everyone an understanding of BYU's presence in Turning Point, we're not RSO'd, but we have about 850 members on our roster. And so I think that surge obviously came after last year, but I think what Charlie meant to them was they actually, I think, found a place a place to come to to find their voice. And I think what Charlie gave them was confidence. And they gave them a place to not feel alone, to stand up for what they believe in when they were most likely to stay quiet. I think that he means so much to them, especially so many of them being there in the courtyard last year. I think this is a sacred day for a lot of people in this valley. And I think for the students especially, it's a day to remember the day that they got their own voice as well. 00:28:30 Speaker 21: Yeah, Aubrey, thank you for joining. BYU is a pretty traditionally conservative campus as I understand it when it comes to traditional roles and embracing marriage and motherhood and all of those things. You talk about some of those emotional conversations that you've had on campus over the past few weeks. Were all of them positive or did you have some encounters with people who maybe didn't necessarily agree with Charlie or his message, or maybe the better way to say it is some of the clips that went viral totally out of context? 00:29:04 Speaker 14: Most of the ones that I was there were positive. I mean, every time we table, we have a negative encounter. But BYU being a pretty conservative campus, I mean, it's pretty rare that we see anything crazy happen. Those clips aren't taken out of context. We do have crazy people who come and harass us all the time. But we had a lot of field reps who were flown in to come and help us for this promotion for our event. And they were pleasantly surprised at how kind BYU students are. We're grateful for that. 00:29:45 Speaker 1: Of course. 00:29:46 Speaker 13: Aubrey, thank you so much for joining us. We have a couple more we want to get to before the memorial starts. So thank you again for joining us and obviously enjoy the memorial. We hope it's meaningful for all of your students there. 00:29:58 Speaker 23: Of course. 00:29:58 Speaker 14: Thank you guys so much. 00:29:59 Speaker 3: For all you do. 00:30:00 Speaker 1: All right. 00:30:01 Speaker 13: And we'll bring in our next guy as soon as we can. We're still getting emails, by the way. We'll try to read some of these in the gaps. And also tomorrow, I think I'll be reading a lot of them. I just got this one from David who's saying he feels genuinely sad. He wished Charlie was around to see the Chicago sports teams because Charlie was a Chicago sports fan and. 00:30:21 Speaker 6: The Cubs didn't. 00:30:22 Speaker 13: That Pete Crow Armstrong is going to be the MVP of the National League and he's setting the world on fire. 00:30:29 Speaker 6: And Charlie would have really loved that. 00:30:31 Speaker 13: And he was a big Cubs fan. And, you know, the Chicago Bears, they are also. 00:30:36 Speaker 6: A sports team. 00:30:37 Speaker 9: We'll see. 00:30:37 Speaker 6: We'll see. 00:30:42 Speaker 21: It broke something in me when I saw Erica's post a few days ago where they took, it's like their annual tradition and taking their daughter to the Cubs game. And of course, this was her first birthday being at a Cubs game without her dad. And I think that, again, just speaks to this was not just a podcaster or an influencer or a political commentator who ultimately was prematurely taken from this world. 00:31:06 Speaker 3: It was a husband. It was a father. 00:31:09 Speaker 21: And now there's there's videos that will live on the Internet, people celebrating that will live on the Internet. You have to imagine, of course, as kids will grow up one day. You hope and you pray that they don't see some of the hatred and the vitriol and the negativity that their family, their father, the things I'm sure that they value and that they will grow up to believe that they've been exposed to. But it broke me when I saw Erica pose that. 00:31:33 Speaker 6: All right. Instead, we have Rafe. We have Rafe Beck. He's head of events for the Utah Valley chapter. Rafe, this is the biggest campus chapter event that's ever been hosted in Utah. Turning Point history, so how does that feel? Stressful. 00:31:53 Speaker 8: I mean, I just tossed a good turning for the past couple of weeks, but other than that, great, great. 00:32:00 Speaker 13: Yeah, and how the spirits of your chapter feeling and the people, do. 00:32:09 Speaker 6: We have that revival energy we want? 00:32:12 Speaker 13: Sorry, that was a dumb question, but how is it feeling right now there for you? 00:32:17 Speaker 8: We are all energized. We are ready, and we are just, like, everyone that came up. 00:32:23 Speaker 7: Today, there was no one who was like, yeah, like, I'm really, everyone was. 00:32:26 Speaker 8: Just, let's get to work. Let's get ready, and let's go in there, and let's knock this thing out of the park. So I'd say, hi, real high energy. 00:32:34 Speaker 3: Excellent. 00:32:34 Speaker 6: That's Charlie energy. 00:32:35 Speaker 21: Yeah, obviously with, of course, the momentum behind Charlie and the mission that he, you know, fostered and grew and developed and was really passionate about, How do you feel like things will continue on through the midterms? We've seen the clip of Charlie when President Trump was elected as the 47th president of the United States several times on this program today and all on social media. Obviously, he cared deeply about culture and shifting the culture, but he knew in order to do that or in order to ultimately win the country, you did have to have legislative wins and policy wins. So are you feeling confident that this momentum will carry over through the next what, less than 60 days at this point to hopefully maintain some of the control that we have in the House and the Senate. 00:33:20 Speaker 8: I would say if I was a politician, I was hoping to get reelected within the next 60 days, I would really need to do something to show my generation, right, this next generation that's growing up and is in this vacuum for real leadership, show us something that is really going to help chart this next course for our lives. I mean, we're in college right now, but I mean, a lot of us are working two or three jobs and we're just like shoot, how are we going to get through the next couple of months? 00:33:46 Speaker 1: Right. 00:33:47 Speaker 8: Especially all the crap we hear on TV and on social media. Like we need some, we need someone to really step up and to really take accountability and ownership for what they say. And then versus what they do, you know, does that make sense? 00:34:03 Speaker 21: What do you think it is? Like what, what issues do you think are going to drive Gen Z, especially to the polls in the next two months? You mentioned affordability, and I think kind of the idea of being able to obtain the American dream. You think that's probably top of the list for kids in college, especially? 00:34:23 Speaker 7: I think so. 00:34:24 Speaker 8: I mean, I'm just going to speak for Utah, but I feel like there's so many rhinos out here, just Republicans in name only. Like, we need to start playing whatever and hiding behind whatever mask, right? Either say and do what you say, or. 00:34:40 Speaker 8: Like, just hold an order. I'm just going to go and vote for the other side because at least the other side, I'm like, all right, well, they're pretty honest about what they're doing. 00:34:46 Speaker 11: That's pretty messed up. 00:34:48 Speaker 8: But, you know, like we just need to, we need to come together, really. And no one is really being like, hey, let's watch out for. 00:34:56 Speaker 1: The little guy. 00:34:57 Speaker 8: Everyone's kind of in it for themselves a little bit. And they're just, that's why, you know, I speak about the rhinos because I feel like they're just, they know who they are and they just want to take care of themselves. 00:35:06 Speaker 1: All right. 00:35:07 Speaker 13: Well, Rafe, as you said, your hair's on fire a little bit. Doing the biggest campus event in Turning Point history. We'll let you get back to making sure it's also one of the best campus events in Turning Point history. 00:35:20 Speaker 6: Thank you again for joining us. 00:35:21 Speaker 22: Hey, thank you so much. 00:35:22 Speaker 8: You guys have a great day. 00:35:23 Speaker 3: Of course. 00:35:24 Speaker 6: All right, we've got one more student, and then we'll have Mikey McCoy join until we go to the event itself. So we'll let them queue that up. Let's see if we've got another. 00:35:33 Speaker 13: Oh, we just got a hugs from Norway email. If they're tuning in, it's pretty late in Norway right now. Although the sun's probably still up because it's summertime. 00:35:42 Speaker 9: You know, while you're looking through that, you know the thing that sticks out to me the most is, again, and we said this before we had the students call in, is over this past year we've all seen on top of the greatest evil that occurred a year ago today, we've seen a lot of people try to hijack what Charlie represented, try to hijack the legacy that he was leaving behind. And I loved Ray's energy there. I mean, you could just hear it like, let's go, let's do this thing. 00:36:14 Speaker 1: It's like real passion. 00:36:14 Speaker 9: It's real passion. And admittedly, you know, Charlie was always the voice that calmed me down. I was always the, we got to burn this thing down. You know, we have to go attack the, you know, metaphorically speaking, to go attack the left. 00:36:29 Speaker 3: All right. 00:36:30 Speaker 9: And then now you hear that none of that worked. Today, it's all been about Charlie, his legacy, all of these students. None of that worked. 00:36:39 Speaker 3: All right. 00:36:39 Speaker 13: Our next and our last student, he's actually not in Utah. He is at the RNC event going on in Dallas right now. But we just had, if you guys were tuning into that, there was a great video honoring Charlie there. Gabe Saint, he is the head of the Turning Point chapter at University of Wyoming. 00:36:57 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:36:57 Speaker 6: Gabe, thank you for joining us. 00:36:59 Speaker 13: And why don't we just tell us, how are people remembering Charlie in Dallas? What was the reaction like when that video was played or when there was the tribute to Charlie last night as well? 00:37:12 Speaker 1: Hey, Blake. 00:37:13 Speaker 7: Thanks for having me. People are here. They're here for Charlie. People are chanting Charlie. They're on their feet. They were cheering on for Erica. And when Pastor Lucas spoke earlier today, they were up on their feet for him too. Um, I think Charlie and his legacy, I think he's going to be the motivator behind these midterm elections. People remember and people remember what we're fighting for. 00:37:36 Speaker 13: Are you seeing freedom shirts, Charlie t-shirts are, are you seeing the memorabilia and such? 00:37:41 Speaker 25: Oh yeah. 00:37:42 Speaker 7: Everybody's wearing their freedom shirts. There's TPUSA students everywhere, you know, pushing the envelope on issues that matter to the youth. Um, so it's all about Charlie here. 00:37:52 Speaker 6: That's, that's tremendous. That's tremendous. 00:37:55 Speaker 21: Um, Obviously, Erica is there or at least was there based on, you know, some of the videos that I saw on social media last night. President Trump gave her a pretty special shout out. How was she received? You have to imagine that today. I mean, there are probably several milestones over the past year. Every waking hour, actually, I would imagine, is the hardest hour of her life today being the one year anniversary today. since her husband is no longer here on this earth. She just posted a beautiful tribute saying, you know, until heaven. How was she received last night at the RNC? I saw, you know, just kind of the tearfulness, but it's amazing because in these clips, you see her saying, you know, God bless you, always pointing back to Christ. 00:38:46 Speaker 20: So how was it to see her there? 00:38:47 Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, Erica, she has so much aura. When she came into the stadium last night, She you know, everybody's acting like hooligans. You know, that's how these conventions are. But she's just all calm, cool and clean all the time. So much grace. And when the president recognized her, I mean, the room was on their feet chanting for Charlie. They love Erica. She's she's the leader. She's so much aura. I was like, wow, this is amazing. 00:39:16 Speaker 13: Aura farming Erica, just like Charlie. He had a tremendous aura. Gabe, I'd love to catch up longer. Unfortunately, we have one more. We need to get to Mikey before I guess he has to get dragged back into the event before it starts. So thank you for joining us. I'm sorry we couldn't talk. longer, but thanks for giving us that perspective from Dallas. 00:39:33 Speaker 7: Thanks for having me, guys. 00:39:35 Speaker 3: Of course. 00:39:36 Speaker 6: Thank you very much again. 00:39:37 Speaker 13: All right, let's get Mikey rotated in to talk to him for a little bit before the event starts, and then we'll. 00:39:43 Speaker 6: Just keep going. 00:39:43 Speaker 13: You'll be able to watch it live right here. So it's going to be a very special show. I'm very excited to see what they have planned to put on tonight. Someone just sent, they planned Aura. 00:39:57 Speaker 6: All these Gen Z labels. 00:39:58 Speaker 9: I got to meet Gabe not too long ago. I got to debate at his campus a couple months ago. It was a lot of fun. A lot of fun in Wyoming. 00:40:06 Speaker 21: Wyoming is, again, it's a pretty conservative state at least. 00:40:09 Speaker 20: What about the campus there? 00:40:10 Speaker 10: Pushback? 00:40:12 Speaker 9: The usual things. Again, the thing I hate, I wish... that Charlie was here because the thing that I've noticed on campus is we've kind of moved outside of the concerns that you hear, hey, how am I going to afford this? A lot of young men are like, hey, how do I date a young woman here in this day and age? But also, you know, you see a lot of this, a lot of the same old, same old. There wasn't a lot of the conspiracy talk or anything like that. We've moved on from what is a woman to now a lot of these young people are, you know, what is a man? You know, there's a lot of young men that are struggling with, hey, I don't think it's fair that men have to do all this and they have to provide and they have to do blah, blah, blah, A, B, and C. And, you know, going and trying to explain to them, you know, the biblical role of a husband and a father, the, you know, that you go out there and you work harder than anyone else to provide for your family. I wish I could have heard Charlie be able to talk to these young men. uh, about that because, uh, he would be able to explain. 00:41:16 Speaker 26: It a lot. 00:41:16 Speaker 6: All right. 00:41:17 Speaker 3: All right. 00:41:17 Speaker 13: We have Michael McCoy, Mikey McCoy. He is there in Utah. Mikey, thank you so much for joining us. We've been seeing people post their memories of Charlie, their testimonies about Charlie. 00:41:30 Speaker 6: Everyone's got their own take their own video. 00:41:32 Speaker 13: I have to say, Mikey, I think you did the best Testament to Charlie. Uh, your, I guess your article you wrote the Charlie I knew, uh, Absolutely tremendous. 00:41:43 Speaker 6: I loved reading it. 00:41:44 Speaker 13: And thank you for joining us right now as we count down to the biggest. 00:41:49 Speaker 6: Campus event Turning Point's ever done. I think it's worth emphasizing that. 00:41:52 Speaker 24: Yeah. 00:41:52 Speaker 1: Hey, guys. Sorry. 00:41:54 Speaker 22: I'm like pretty emotional right now. This is like just the bad time. 00:42:01 Speaker 1: I don't. 00:42:04 Speaker 22: Really get super emotional. But right before I called in, I watched this video. of this student, you know, who was there last year. And, you know, he said he didn't know Charlie before. 00:42:22 Speaker 26: And that. 00:42:24 Speaker 22: He witnessed him get shot and he only knew him for those 15 minutes and how his entire life changed and how, you know, he said, I wish it wasn't these circumstances for why my entire life changed, but it is, uh, you know, it's just tough. You know, I told myself I'd never returned to UVU. I told myself a lot of things and I just watched that video and for some reason it struck a chord. 00:42:53 Speaker 1: Um, you. 00:42:57 Speaker 22: Know, I just realized how many people Charlie just inspired and like, even in death, he's, his life is a testament to, Like there's people who their entire lives has changed. Like even after his memorial, I remember people talking about their lives changing, going back to church, returning to their faith, marriages on the brink of collapse, and just people forgiving. Only God, Romans 8, 28, you know, only what man chooses for evil can God use for good. 00:43:31 Speaker 13: You mentioned lives that were changed, Mikey, or how about lives that exist? I was mentioning we were reading the emails today. 00:43:37 Speaker 6: We got we got one. 00:43:38 Speaker 13: I got another one as I was describing a different one that we've had, I think, five emails this week where people say, I this is a specific child I had. Here is the photo of them. Here is their name. The child I had because I previously didn't want any. Charlie changed my mind or we were only having one. We decided to have another child. thanks to Charlie. And pretty much on the show today, the Vice President of the United States said he was one of those people. 00:44:04 Speaker 6: There are human. 00:44:06 Speaker 13: Beings alive today because of Charlie's influence, because of Charlie's inspiration. And I think that's one of the greatest testaments one can have to the sort of person he is, that there is a soul, there is hopefully a future believer, a future inhabitant of heaven who exists because of Charlie Kirk. 00:44:26 Speaker 21: Well, Mikey, you and Eliza just welcomed life into this world. Can you talk about that dichotomy that kind of exists where on one hand today, of course, you're, I mean, dealing with life prematurely being taken and the evil and the chaos and the disorder and the immorality that surrounds that. But on the other hand, I mean, you and your beautiful bride just engaged in creation, bringing life. 00:44:54 Speaker 3: Into this world. 00:44:55 Speaker 21: What does it mean, Charlie's influence for, you know, when you think about your child and the future that you want him to inherit? 00:45:02 Speaker 22: Yeah, you know, Charlie used to say, get married young, have more children than you can afford, leave a lasting legacy. 00:45:08 Speaker 25: And he. 00:45:10 Speaker 22: Did that because he loved young people. He wanted young people to succeed. And, you know, I calculated the other day from the time Charlie founded Turning Point how many days he spent working. to build the organization. It was 4,846 days. And as Charlie just kind of built this organization, I realized all of those 4,846 days were spent building something that can support the vision that he had for young people. You know, Charlie, against a lot of the doubts of society, he didn't see young people as a problem for America's future. He saw them as a solution to America's future. You know, I started working for Charlie when I was 18 years old. He offered me a job. I didn't deserve the job. I certainly wasn't qualified for the job, but he took a chance on me. This 18 year old kid straight out of high school, no college experience, no life experience. And that was just who he was. I just happened to be the lucky young person that got to be alongside him. But that's the way he was for all young people. He saw something in young people they didn't see in themselves. You know, he sacrificed his entire life to give young people purpose. And he went on these college campuses, places that everybody in the conservative movement knows we need to go to, but nobody wanted to go to. Nobody wants to go to UC Berkeley or UC Davis. It's not fun. Charlie went there because he didn't want to tell young people what they wanted to hear. He told them what they ought to hear. Work hard, humble yourself, sacrifice big things. lay things on the line, get married young, fight for America's future, have more children than you can afford. You know, when I look into my newborn's eyes, I just, I think about all of this. I think about how life is just a short thing and how eternity is what's to come. And Charlie, he understood that all the time. He understood what he had to sacrifice in order to make sure that this dream that he had for young people could become a reality. 00:47:18 Speaker 1: He gave everything. 00:47:20 Speaker 22: He died doing it. It's a powerful thing. 00:47:26 Speaker 13: Like I said, if you guys haven't seen it, you should go to Mikey's ex-account. 00:47:31 Speaker 6: He posted a whole quite long post. 00:47:37 Speaker 3: It was long, but I read every word. 00:47:41 Speaker 13: I'm looking at the conclusion here. There's still an empty chair, but there are millions of people who are standing there Charlie spent his life building something that was never supposed to end with Charlie, and it didn't. And I think that's what we are witnessing tonight, is the proof that it did not end with Charlie. It will not end with this memorial to Charlie that, looking ahead years, decades hence, we'll be able to look back and he'll still have that legacy and the tragic end of his life will only be actually a small part of that. 00:48:18 Speaker 6: It will be the part that launched the revival for so many people. 00:48:24 Speaker 16: Yeah. 00:48:25 Speaker 21: You mentioned not wanting to, you know, in the immediate go back to UBU ever, never set foot on that campus again, but you're there today. Is the feeling being there different than what you had kind of conjured up in your mind? 00:48:38 Speaker 22: It is different. You know, as I was returning, I was just kind of thinking about how suffering is actually a gift and how being here is reclaiming a territory and how if we were to never return, essentially what we're saying is that an evil act can make a place evil forever, that it's claimed by evil and that we can't return. We need to return to places like this, claim it back. And, you know, it's hard sometimes Suffering is not easy. It certainly is not comfortable, but comfortability is not necessarily what you sign up for when you work for a mission. You know, you're, you're signing up for something greater than yourself. And along the way, you will find yourself in weakness and you'll find yourself in suffering, but scripture is very clear. You know, you are made strong in your suffering and Christ is made strong in your suffering. Um, But yeah, it's difficult to be here, but I'm looking at a line of thousands of people inside and outside, and there's a lot of people here, and they're returning as well. 00:49:52 Speaker 4: That's good. 00:49:54 Speaker 21: We saw a cross on campus today. I understand the cross made its way into the arena. Is that true? 00:50:00 Speaker 22: I haven't seen it yet, but I'm sure it's true. It reminds me of the memorial. There was a guy that drove a cross out and he stood outside of our headquarters with this cross for hours and hours on end. 00:50:14 Speaker 1: And then he brought it to the memorial. 00:50:15 Speaker 22: Yeah. And it's still there, you know, it's still outside of HQ to this day on the side. And there's something powerful about that. It's a symbolism that everybody around the world can see and immediately know that a sacrifice was made for a better good. 00:50:32 Speaker 13: Mikey, you have a sort of a preacher's talent for, condensing messages that people need to hear. So people are going to be the people who are at this event, but also the people who are watching it online. What should, what should they be looking as the spiritual takeaway from this memorial? What should they be thinking about? And if they're so moved, what should they do afterwards? 00:50:55 Speaker 25: Yeah. 00:50:56 Speaker 22: You know, um, I'm going to share it in my speech tonight, but, um, you know, Charlie used to talk about pretty often, um, how politics was his day job, but politics was only the second most important thing in his life. And the first, you know, most important thing in his words was winning souls for Jesus Christ and, you know, traveling the country and being alongside Charlie and seeing how he operated. You know, there's a lot. He cared about free markets, conservative ideas. He cared about the future of this country and young people. But behind all of that, Charlie cared about people's souls. He cared about Christ. He cared about something that was greater than himself. And that's what sustained him. It was his faith. The Lord gave him a vision and gave him a mission, and he did everything at his disposal to make sure that he was able to accomplish that mission because he had faith that what the Lord called him to do was the right thing to do. 00:51:57 Speaker 6: Yeah, we were looking. 00:51:58 Speaker 13: I saw the images, the B-roll of the chalk messages that they had that some students and supporters that inscribed. And one of them is the line we heard so often a year ago, and we still hear it now. It's well done, my good and faithful servant. And I think all of us agree of anyone we've ever met in our own lives, perhaps of any, as much as anyone who's lived in this past within living memory, Charlie deserved to hear that from his savior. 00:52:30 Speaker 10: Yeah. 00:52:31 Speaker 22: You know, I'll end with this. Um, The last interview that Charlie ever gave at that restaurantology event, Blake, do you remember that, that we went to before UVU? 00:52:41 Speaker 13: I don't because I wasn't in it, but of course I do remember the event that you were there. 00:52:48 Speaker 22: There's a clip going viral that he asked, you know, what's your biggest advice that you've heard? And instead of, you know, quoting some great philosopher or whatever, Charlie went straight in on the Bible. And, you know, he said, Two things, one that's not in the Bible, but count it all joy. And the second thing was Romans 8, 28. And it was almost this like moment that the Lord used. It's almost like prophetic, you know, it's Romans 8, 28 is, we know that God uses all, works all things for good for those who love him and who have been called according to his purpose. I was talking about this before. I don't know how anything can come, any good could come from such an unimaginable pain and suffering. But yet good has come. Blake, you talked about a soul, a baby's life is on this earth because they're inspired by Charlie. And then he talks about how this too shall pass. That's both a quote for good times and for bad times. When you're in the midst of the storm, this too shall pass. And when you're in the midst of great rejoicing and gain, that too shall pass as well. There's only one permanent thing in life, and it's the Lord and Savior that Charlie served and spent his entire life wanting to bless and honor. Amen. 00:54:13 Speaker 11: Amen. 00:54:14 Speaker 1: Amen. 00:54:15 Speaker 6: Mikey, I know you've got a major role tonight. 00:54:20 Speaker 13: You honored Charlie so much at the memorial a year ago, and I know you will tremendously honor him again as you honored him on X. 00:54:28 Speaker 6: I want to repeat. I'm going to repeat again. 00:54:30 Speaker 13: Go to Mikey's ex and read it because it's an amazing testament to Charlie. It really gets at the legacy he's left and why he's mattered to so many people. 00:54:40 Speaker 6: Mikey, thank you for joining us. Thank you for calling in. Thank you for being brave. 00:54:44 Speaker 13: I know it's very tough and as emotional for you as it is probably anyone besides Erica. 00:54:51 Speaker 7: Thank you, guys. 00:54:51 Speaker 22: I appreciate this. God bless you. Thank you for doing the last thing. 00:54:55 Speaker 6: God bless you, and we'll see you in a few moments. So thank you again, Mikey. 00:55:00 Speaker 22: Thank you, guys. 00:55:01 Speaker 13: And I should just let you know, we'll be throwing to the event as soon as it gets started. And it's going to go for a while. So unfortunately, we won't be going on the other side. So you'll be seeing us here. We'll be closing it out when we throw. 00:55:19 Speaker 6: To that show. But we will be here tomorrow. We'll be doing the show like usual. We'll be doing our AMA. like usual, and if I can. 00:55:26 Speaker 13: Prevail upon the staff, I would like for that to go extra, because I want to hear from people about what Charlie meant to them, how, what he's meant to them has evolved over the past year, the legacy he's left in their lives, and I want to read more of people's emails, because we've gotten so many of them, and I've probably only read about 1% of them on the air, so continue to send in any thoughts you have, anything you want, anything you want the world to hear about what Charlie meant to you, because I do We do want to read those. Just looking at these, we just got one from Jacob. I'm 16. I'm from Oklahoma, and I remember September 10th perfectly. I have never cried more than I did on that day. I couldn't even stand. I deeply regret not seeing him at his Tulsa event or at OSU. I pray for Erica and all of you. Uh, tell Riley high that I am. 00:56:21 Speaker 6: A huge fan. Well, thank you so much for that. Thanks Jacob. 00:56:25 Speaker 21: It's cool to see like he's 16 years old. 00:56:28 Speaker 27: Yeah. 00:56:29 Speaker 21: Like, come on, can hardly drive a car and is listening in. And I can say as someone who, you know, would consider myself young in the political sphere, um, you have very few moments in your life where you'll never forget where you were when you heard the news. Um, I can think of, of two in my life. Of course, the first one being when president Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, it was one of those where you don't know in the immediate, if he's alive, you saw him come up with the fist in the air. Um, but nonetheless, there was uncertainty surrounding that when you heard the news, same thing with Charlie, you'll never forget where you were. 00:57:02 Speaker 13: And Jacob just, just a whole new generation told you have a hard out, unfortunately, but thank you for joining us during this stream. 00:57:10 Speaker 6: And thank you for, I mean, thank you for coming here for, I appreciate you guys. 00:57:14 Speaker 21: And it's special to be around the turning point family, you know, people who, who have lived it and grieve it and mourn Charlie on the same way, but who are as dedicated to carrying on his, his mission and his legacy. So thank you guys for doing this. 00:57:29 Speaker 9: You do as a, as you magically disappear on the, on the screen here, just to go off of what she said. It's a whole new generation of, young people that, you know, as a, as a older guy in this movement now, uh, I'll never forget September 11th, 2001, where I was in it chain. You know, I can look back now, tomorrow will be 25 years ago. And I can look at the course of my life and, and see how that moment changed everything for me. Um, and I will never forget September 10th, 2025. And I think, 25 years from now, we'll see so many millions of people that their entire course of their life was changed by that. And again, like I was saying earlier, before we had everybody call in, I think we have not even remotely seen the surface of Charlie's legacy. And the future leaders that will emerge through this, the young people that will never forget, just like when I was a young person and September 11th happened and we never forget. I think you're seeing a very similar thing happening here. And it's been a long day. It's been a good day, but a long day. But it has been amazing to see just. 00:59:02 Speaker 9: Everyone remembering Charlie. And, you know, we've got another another hard day for so many people tomorrow on September 11th. the 25th anniversary. 00:59:12 Speaker 13: It's a it's a collection of. It's it's there's a lot of emotional energy. It's a lot of I mean, it's a lot of sadness because honestly, I think if you ask people events where they remember exactly where they were and if they remember everything about that day. 00:59:29 Speaker 6: For a lot of people, it might be nine 11 and then. 00:59:31 Speaker 1: A year ago. 00:59:32 Speaker 25: Yeah. Yeah. 00:59:34 Speaker 9: I agree. Uh, you know, uh, so thankful that the, you know, would be assassin and Butler was not successful, but yeah, you know, Riley mentioned that, that moment, but I'll never forget. I'll never forget, uh, where I was and, and, and not believing it and not wanting to believe it. And, um, You know, you see all this stuff and we do all these things. And I think so many people forget that we're all real people and that we have real lives and that Charlie was our friend and Charlie meant so much to all of us. And yeah, it truly is the thing that keeps me going in the bad times when I just want to be mad and just throw it all away and be done with it. I hear these young people, these, you know, these 16 year olds that write in and kind of give us a reality check that they're not going to forget. And they, even though we're getting a little older and we're getting a little tired and we're getting a little weary here, there's a whole new generation of, no one will ever be Charlie, but there's a whole new generation of leaders. 01:00:44 Speaker 6: Even if we're getting tired, you know Charlie would not be that sympathetic. 01:00:47 Speaker 1: No, no. 01:00:47 Speaker 6: And now he'll never be sympathetic because. 01:00:49 Speaker 9: He's with the Lord now. Go get an IV and get back in here. We've got more work to do. 01:00:52 Speaker 6: He's watching. He's just like, why don't they just get the IV? 01:00:54 Speaker 9: Yeah, just get an IV. Just get an IV and get back to work. 01:00:58 Speaker 13: We continue to get emails. We got one from Corwin. Corwin, I'm not sure if you'd say it. I wish we'd say it. I first discovered Charlie my freshman year of high school. He was always an inspiration in my life. He helped me become more open about my beliefs. I wouldn't be the person I am today. He inspired me to start my own podcast, and he inspired me to get into politics. Charlie may be gone, but his legacy lives on. Luke 2.29.32, which is, let's. 01:01:23 Speaker 27: Get it here. 01:01:24 Speaker 13: It is, Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace according to your word. For my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples. A light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel. 01:01:39 Speaker 4: Wow. 01:01:41 Speaker 24: Yeah. 01:01:41 Speaker 9: I think Charlie had that impact on all of us. He, he made all of us want to be better. And, uh, you know, Charlie was almost 10 years younger than me. And yet I looked up to Charlie just like everybody did. And, and, you know, Charlie was that person that he just, the way he lived his life, the discipline that he had, uh, I think we talked about this earlier on the show. From the outside looking in, Charlie wasn't the normal person. Charlie's daily habits, how he lived his life. 01:02:16 Speaker 13: I think all of us remember how we first met Charlie because you remember the part where you go, who is this guy? 01:02:22 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a little weird, this guy. But it wasn't a bad weird. It was a what is it with this guy? There's something about this. 01:02:29 Speaker 13: There's a lot of other people I've worked for, I've had a long relationship with, and I don't remember my first meeting with them. 01:02:34 Speaker 6: But with Charlie, I remember it. 01:02:36 Speaker 13: We got another email. This one says, I doubt this will be read on air. Nice try, Shannon. Charlie was a God-fearing man. His faith in Jesus Christ made my testimony in him. It built on top of mine. I was shocked, shocked, and I sobbed basically all day a year ago. He left an impact on me that nobody else has. Thank you, Charlie Kirk, for your faith and example. You are doing wonders on the other side. Thank you for that, Shannon. 01:03:05 Speaker 10: Amen. 01:03:05 Speaker 1: Amen. 01:03:06 Speaker 6: We have Megan. 01:03:07 Speaker 13: Charlie saved my soul. Even though I watched him for his political commentary, I realize now Charlie was leading me to Jesus in the aftermath of his death. It truly felt like the world and our country was broken and spiritually empty and the future was bleak. The events of that day led to me, it led me to pick up the Bible to seek the truth, to find understanding in suffering. In eight days, I will have read the Bible cover to cover. It sounds like that's In 365, as Erica would say, Charlie led me and my family to church where we were able to reconnect and mend relationships. Someone I never met changed my life in ways I can never fully explain. This horrendous tragedy truly shows that in all things, God works for the good. 01:03:57 Speaker 6: Thank you, Charlie. 01:03:59 Speaker 13: I didn't even know what that was going to be before the first sentence. That was one of the greatest emails we've ever received. 01:04:05 Speaker 9: It's an amazing email. Charlie would push back on one thing, though. Charlie would say that he did not save your soul. The Lord allowed Charlie to be used as a vessel for the Lord. 01:04:16 Speaker 6: To save your soul. Glad you said that. 01:04:19 Speaker 28: Amen. 01:04:20 Speaker 9: Charlie would push back on that, but what a beautiful email and a beautiful testament to, again, Charlie being the light of Christ, you know, the light of Christ dwelling within us. You know why I think so many people, especially believers, felt so deeply this day a year ago, and even to this day, the tears have been renewed today, but with so many people, is because as believers, we truly believe that when we accept the Lord into our heart, that the Holy Spirit comes and dwells within us. And we saw... someone that has the same Holy Spirit that we have within us, we saw that happen in real time in front of us. And we felt it. So many people feel it. And so many people have connected in such a way because Charlie was your brother in Christ. He was your family. If you are a Christian, then you know that to be true. And I truly believe that that's why so many people have been affected. And then to the non-believers that have now found christ through that event they they saw that the light that charlie had that that spirit that charlie had dwelling within him that was it was real what charlie had and charlie's faith wasn't fiction it wasn't make believe it it was real charlie charlie died fighting the good fight for his faith and for the gospel and and you know it's a very famous thing you know He he's in politics. So the most important thing can be done. That was always Charlie's thing. And I think that's why you see so many people so attached emotionally and so many people can't describe it. They're like, it makes no sense for me to feel what I feel for someone that I never met. But I think that's why, you know, that's just a redneck from Mississippi's idea on it. But but it has to be. has to be the Holy Spirit that was dwelling within Charlie, that all of us as believers have that same Holy Spirit dwelling within us, and we all felt it. 01:06:33 Speaker 1: Amen, amen. 01:06:34 Speaker 13: We're just a few minutes out from, moments away, I should say, from Freedom Built to Last, commemorating Charlie at UVU one year after the tragedy there. We're reading emails from people, just got one of the best ones I'd ever seen. Let's see, we've got, Let's see a few more here. Someone says, watching live. This is from Capen. 01:07:05 Speaker 6: We'll go with Capen. 01:07:07 Speaker 13: You're all free to call me Balake when you meet me in person, if that ever happens. We are watching all live together. I doubt this is going to be read, but it would be awesome. Charlie was such a mentor. He still inspires us to move forward. Oh, and it's a photo. It looks like a family is gathered to watch the event tonight. So God bless you. everyone in your family for tuning into this. 01:07:27 Speaker 6: Thank you so much. 01:07:28 Speaker 9: That's a good point. So many families are going to tune in tonight. And so again, the gospel will be shared tonight that I have no doubt another opportunity for Charlie's legacy, for the gospel of the Lord to be shared. And so again, families are going to gather around the, the, the name of Jesus will be spoken into millions of homes and, In just a few minutes. And again, it's just a testament to Charlie's legacy. 01:07:58 Speaker 13: Yeah, we've got Jackie says, I just want to thank Charlie Kirk for modeling and witnessing for me real courage to go into the lion's den and loving the people there and. 01:08:08 Speaker 6: Ultimately giving your life. We miss you. Thank you so much for that, Jackie. We've got. 01:08:16 Speaker 1: Decker. 01:08:16 Speaker 13: He says, I'm an American living abroad. I want to let you know Charlie impacted the lives of all of us here from another country. 01:08:23 Speaker 6: Thank you, Charlie. We've seen that. 01:08:24 Speaker 13: We saw we had the email from someone from Norway earlier. We saw when when Charlie was traveling in in Britain a year ago, all these people recognized him and they were asking for photos. They adored him. And when he was in Korea and Japan, they all admired and looked up to him. And he had such a global impact, which is so amazing. Amazing because he was so focused on America for the most part, but it's that element of the gospel that that truly was a global message. 01:08:53 Speaker 9: The first time I met Charlie, he gathered all of us around and this was when Charlie was more, he was always focused on building Turning Point, but it was safe to say that all of us were, quote unquote, bigger than he was on the internet at the time. And he, I'll never forget the first thing he said to us collectively is, you know, each and every one of you have the voices that can affect a generation, a generation. Like one of the first things that Charlie said, it wasn't about him. And now I believe it's because of that humbleness that Charlie had that Charlie never wanted to be famous. Charlie never wanted to be known worldwide for being Charlie Kirk. That's not what he wanted. That's not what he desired. He wanted his faith to be remembered. 01:09:42 Speaker 5: All righty. 01:09:43 Speaker 6: All right. I'm told they're starting. We'll see all of you tomorrow. God bless all of you. 01:09:50 Speaker 20: Wow, that is a lot of people, Utah. 01:09:53 Speaker 1: Hi. 01:10:00 Speaker 29: My name is Sage, and I have the pleasure of serving as the president of the Turning Point chapter right here at UVU. Welcome to my campus. I'm so glad to have you all here. A year ago, our lives changed forever. There are moments in life that divide everything into a before and an after, before that day and after that day. And for so many of us in this room, especially those in the Utah Valley University Turning Point chapter, there will always be a before and an after. 01:10:38 Speaker 20: We witnessed something that none of us should have ever had to witness. 01:10:42 Speaker 29: We experienced fear, grief, confusion, and heartbreak in a way that changed us forever. 01:10:48 Speaker 20: And honestly, We had every reason. 01:10:50 Speaker 1: To give up. 01:10:52 Speaker 20: We could have packed our bags. We could have stepped away. 01:10:55 Speaker 29: We could have decided that the cost of standing up for what we believe in was simply too high. 01:11:00 Speaker 20: But we did not. 01:11:02 Speaker 29: Because Charlie Kirk taught people that convictions are not meant to be cast aside when. 01:11:06 Speaker 20: Things get difficult. 01:11:08 Speaker 29: God does not give us convictions so we can hide from them when we are afraid. He gives us convictions so that we can stand firm in truth even when the world asks us to compromise. My own journey to Turning Point was probably not what most people would expect. 01:11:27 Speaker 20: I did not grow up in a home. 01:11:28 Speaker 29: Where we all agreed on politics, and I once held political beliefs that went very much against what I advocate for today. But I joined Turning Point USA alongside thousands of students because Charlie Kirk was one of the first people we saw who was willing to stand up for free speech and for people on every side to have a voice. 01:11:51 Speaker 20: He encouraged people to speak. 01:11:53 Speaker 29: He encouraged people to listen, and most importantly, he encouraged people to learn. 01:11:58 Speaker 20: He was not afraid of disagreement. 01:11:59 Speaker 29: He believed that ideas should be challenged, that conversations needed to be had, and that people were capable of changing their minds. And somewhere along the way, Charlie's mission awakened something in the next generation. Every one of us had been changed and inspired. In our chapter, a small group of students were brought to a realization that had never been clearer. Charlie Kirk may have been one man, but what he built will never end with just one man. He may never pick up the microphone again, but the millions of voices he inspired will never put theirs down. His voice may have been silent, but the ideas he planted in so many hearts cannot be And that is what I have watched happen over this last year. The last time I spoke to Erica Kirk, Turning Point's incredible CEO, who has courageously stepped up, she told our chapter that Charlie knew UV was special, that he chose our campus for a reason, and that there was a purpose. 01:13:15 Speaker 10: In all of this. 01:13:15 Speaker 29: It took us quite a while to wrap our heads around that. But when I look out into this crowd, it's easy to see that she was absolutely right. 01:13:24 Speaker 20: Our chapter has grieved. We have struggled. 01:13:27 Speaker 29: And we have carried things that few people outside of our own experience will ever completely understand. But through all of the hardship, we are still here. Every single day, our members walk around knowing that those who stand for their beliefs can paint a target on their back, and yet they continue to show up. 01:13:47 Speaker 1: They come to the. 01:13:48 Speaker 29: Meetings, they attend the events, and they put their beliefs into action. The same students who witnessed a political assassination are willing to stand up, speak out, and keep moving forward, all because of the impact one man, Charlie Kirk, had on their lives. 01:14:05 Speaker 20: This chapter stands together. 01:14:07 Speaker 29: We stand together because we believe that fear cannot be allowed to decide who gets to speak. All of us have a choice in how we allow what happened a year ago to shape us. We can let it define us through fear, or we can let it strengthen us through courage. The Turning Point chapter at UVU has made our decision, and we chose courage. 01:14:31 Speaker 20: It would have been far easier to walk away, but throughout. 01:14:33 Speaker 29: History, those who have changed the world have rarely done so by choosing the easy path over the perilous one. 01:14:40 Speaker 20: Christ himself is an excellent example. He was rejected. He was mocked, and. 01:14:45 Speaker 29: He was driven from city to city, yet still he continued. Not because the road became easier, but because truth was worth defending. There is something we can all learn from that. Standing for what you believe in will not always be comfortable. 01:14:59 Speaker 20: It will not always be safe, and it will rarely make you popular. 01:15:02 Speaker 29: But we cannot let fear convince us that our voices do not matter because they so deeply do. Charlie believed that. The students in our chapter, like many others, are no stranger to hatred. To the threats online, the constant photos taken, the mockery made, and the vitriol thrown in their faces. The hate is loud, but the love is louder if we choose to listen to it. Listen to the prayers offered, the encouragement given, and the support spreading across this nation. A year after that tragic day, when I look out at all the incredible Turning Point students, I see people who could have left, but stayed. People who could have been silent, but spoke up. People who could have let fear win. 01:15:45 Speaker 20: But refused. And this isn't just happening at UVU. Across the country, hundreds of thousands of college. 01:15:52 Speaker 29: And high school students are stepping forward, carrying this movement into communities and campuses nationwide. 01:15:58 Speaker 26: And that. 01:16:02 Speaker 29: That is the greatest impact that Charlie Kirk left on these young students. 01:16:07 Speaker 20: Although not everyone agreed with him or held the same beliefs as. 01:16:09 Speaker 29: Him, he inspired so many people to care, to learn, to speak, to stand for something, and to never be afraid to let their convictions show. Charlie sparked something, and over this last year, I have watched it grow within our chapter. Not through anger, not through hatred, but through conviction, through courage, through young people who have decided that their beliefs are worth standing for. So today, One year later at Utah Valley University, we remember Charlie Kirk. We mourn Charlie Kirk and we honor Charlie Kirk. And perhaps the greatest way to honor him is not to simply remember what he did, but continue what he started. So no, we did not pack up and run when things got hard. We did not leave. We are still here and we are still standing. Because grief is not the end of this story. 01:17:09 Speaker 20: Love can become action. Pain can become purpose. 01:17:12 Speaker 29: And tragedy can become a reminder of what is worth fighting for. As long as there are those willing to carry that passion forward, Charlie's voice will never truly be gone. Our chapter is still here. We are still speaking. And we are nowhere near done. And that is how his voice lives on. To end my time with you all today, I want to take a moment to showcase an incredible piece of art. Charlie Kirk spent much of his life on college campuses, exercising his first amendment rights and encouraging all students to do the same. No matter their opinion, no matter their viewpoint, Charlie gave them the opportunity to have a voice. This piece immortalizes Charlie's mission to step forward and to pick up the Nike, not just for this generation, but for generations to come. 01:18:35 Speaker 10: Ladies and gentlemen, the greater the man, the greater the grief when he's taken from us. And Charlie Kirk was the greatest man I ever knew personally in all of my 64 years. Why was he so great? Well, one reason he was so great is because he majored in the most important issues in life. Case in point, two days before he was murdered, Charlie and I were together in Phoenix. And after we would get together during the day to discuss questions we might get on a college campus, sometimes Charlie would say, hey, after Eric and I put the kids down, Why don't we go on a walk and we can talk some more? So that night, Monday night, we went on a walk in Scottsdale. We always had a 300-pound armed bodyguard behind us. And Charlie would drive the conversation. I'd say, Charlie, let's talk about whatever you want to talk about. Now, keep in mind, he wanted me to mentor him, but I learned a lot more from him than he learned from me. The only thing that exceeded Charlie's intellect was his humility. He wanted to learn from anyone. Anyway, we're walking along. The first thing he wanted to talk about was the country and how he needed to get Christians to be more engaged, to protect our rights, to preach. 01:20:19 Speaker 12: And live the gospel. 01:20:28 Speaker 10: I hear people saying all the time, oh, I don't get involved politically. I just preach the gospel to which I say, I guess you don't think the gospel is very important then. 01:20:37 Speaker 1: Why? 01:20:37 Speaker 10: Because politics affects your ability to preach and live the gospel. We couldn't hold this rally in Iran. We couldn't hold it in Saudi Arabia. I just got back not long ago from Egypt. You tried to do this in Egypt, you're going to have trouble because politics affects your ability to preach and live the gospel. 01:20:57 Speaker 1: But Charlie. 01:21:01 Speaker 10: Would always say, politics is not our first responsibility, but it helps us to achieve our first responsibility. The second issue he wanted to talk about was the family. Why was his generation not embracing marriage and childbearing? And he really wanted to find a way to do that. Because the family is the foundation of any civilization. The biological two-parent family is what makes a civilization. And he wanted his generation to embrace that. And he modeled that. Then the third issue we wanted to talk about was the evidence for Christianity. Does God exist? Did Jesus rise from the dead? And we talked a lot about that that night. Now, I didn't think about this at the time. But after he was murdered, I said, Charlie was talking about the three institutions God created. God created government. God created the family. And God created the church. And Charlie was always interested in the big issues. He was interested in. 01:22:18 Speaker 1: God, family, and country. 01:22:21 Speaker 10: And he thought that I was teaching him. No, he was teaching me. Now, why was Charlie always so courageous? Why was he fearless? I think there's two major reasons he was. Number one, he knew Christianity was true. And number two, he knew. 01:22:44 Speaker 12: Who God was. 01:22:46 Speaker 10: How did he know Christianity was true? Well, for me to communicate that, I've got to ask you guys a question. And there's probably very few people in this room that can answer it, but I'm going to ask it anyway. 01:22:57 Speaker 26: If you can. 01:22:58 Speaker 10: Remember where you were and what you were doing November 22nd, 1963, raise your hand, hold. 01:23:04 Speaker 19: It up high. 01:23:05 Speaker 10: All right, ladies and gentlemen, you see these people with their hands up? These people are very old. November 22nd, 1963 is the day President Kennedy was shot. And those of you who are old enough can't forget it. Where were you 25 years ago tomorrow when the second plane hit the tower? Can you remember where you were and what you were doing? Yeah, you can. 01:23:33 Speaker 1: Why? 01:23:34 Speaker 10: It was a dramatic, emotional, unforgettable event. Where were you when you heard President Trump was shot? You can remember it, why? Dramatic, emotional, unforgettable event. Where were you when Charlie Kirk was shot? Some of you were right here. I was 25 feet from him. Not only do I remember it, I can't forget it if I wanted to forget it. The first person I think of when I wake up in the morning is Charlie. The last person I think of before I wrestle myself to sleep is Charlie. Some people call that PTSD. It's not a disorder. 01:24:21 Speaker 1: It's normal. It should be that way. 01:24:25 Speaker 10: Charlie was a great man and a great friend. Thankfully, the killer did not end Charlie. The killer just changed Charlie's address. He's He's absent from the body, but present with the Lord. You say, Frank, what does this have to do with Christianity? Because the Jews living in the first century also witnessed an emotional, dramatic, unforgettable event. It was called the resurrection. Why would Jews invent a resurrected Jesus that got them kicked out of the synagogue and then beaten, tortured, and killed? 01:25:14 Speaker 1: Newsflash, they wouldn't. 01:25:17 Speaker 10: This is why Charlie Kirk, nine days before he was murdered, tweeted, the resurrection really happened. Christianity is true. No one's going to invent in the first century this unbelievable event and then go die for a lie they knew was a lie. 01:25:43 Speaker 1: So. 01:25:44 Speaker 10: As Erica recently said, that's why Charlie was so secure and so confident because his foundation was secure. It was in Christ. He also knew who God really was. And sometimes we think God is an old man on a cloud up in the sky. No, what do the scriptures say about God? Psalm 19 says the heavens declare the glory of God. Psalm 103 verse 11 says God's love to those that fear him exceeds the height of the heavens above the earth how high are the heavens above the earth well ladies and gentlemen just in our galaxy there are billions of stars they're separated on average by about 30 trillion miles how far is 30 trillion miles far it'll take you at least two tanks of gas and a Toyota Prius to go 30 trillion miles. In fact, to go 30 trillion miles, if you could go space shuttle speed five miles per second, it would take you over 200,000 years to go from just one star in our galaxy to another star in our galaxy an average distance away. That's just in our galaxy. How many stars are there in the entire universe? Conservative estimate. The number of stars in the entire universe are about equivalent to the number of grains of sand on all the beaches on all the earth times 100,000. And to go from just one star to another star going five miles a second will take you over 200,000 years. The heavens are awesome. And they're supposed to communicate to us what God is like. It's supposed to communicate God's attributes to us. God's love exceeds the height of the heavens above the earth. From our perspective, that's infinite. But here's our problem. It also communicates God's justice. that his justice is as high as the heavens are above the earth. And this is why none of us can stand before a holy God unless someone intervenes. Because if you want justice, and there are people on college campuses we go to all the time that are screaming they want justice, be careful, you might just get it. Does anyone in here want justice from an infinitely just God? If I got justice, if Charlie... got justice, if any of us got justice, we'd all be toast because we've all been unjust in our lives. So what's the solution to it? Since God's love exceeds the height of the heavens above the earth, God adds humanity to his deity. He comes to earth. He allows the creatures that rebelled against him to torture and kill him so he could take their punishment upon himself, our punishment upon himself. And then when we trust in him, we're not only forgiven, we're given his righteousness. Translation, ladies and gentlemen, Charlie is not in heaven because of any good things he did. Charlie is not in heaven because he died for his savior. Charlie is in heaven because his savior died for Charlie Kirk. You say, what kind of God would allow an innocent man like Charlie to be murdered by someone he wanted to save? The same God who would allow himself to be murdered by the very people he wanted to save. 01:30:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, Charlie's a modern day martyr. 01:30:07 Speaker 10: He wanted to save the killer and everybody on this campus one year ago today. And God himself allowed us to torture him because he wanted to save us. That's the kind of God Charlie served. That's the kind of God that created and sustains this entire vast universe. And it's the kind of God that has virtually infinite love because we're all made in his image. So Charlie, as you know, wanted to be remembered for his courage and his faith in Jesus. Mission accomplished, my friend. Before we show a tribute to Charlie's life, can we pray? 01:31:13 Speaker 12: Let's pray. 01:31:18 Speaker 10: Heavenly Father, thank you for giving us Charlie Kirk. a man who in 31 years did more for. 01:31:26 Speaker 30: You, his family, his country than a million people do in 80 years. We pray that you now comfort Erica, her children, her team, and Charlie's parents and his sister as they continue Charlie's legacy. May your Holy Spirit help the rest of us to. 01:31:49 Speaker 10: Emulate Charlie as Charlie emulated Christ. Most of all, we thank you for entering this evil world to save us from our own sins and to offer us forgiveness and eternal life with you. And those like Charlie who have received your grace, I pray if there's anyone here who has not received your grace, the grace that Charlie was speaking about right here one year ago, that tonight they would. We ask all these things through Jesus who sacrificed himself for us. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, you want to contribute to something bigger than yourself? Here's how you do it. 01:32:35 Speaker 16: I feel like every story starts that way. 01:32:38 Speaker 1: I know. 01:32:40 Speaker 2: Oh, I was rich in character, you know? 01:32:43 Speaker 26: No, I know. 01:32:44 Speaker 1: Okay, so let's, okay, so fine. 01:32:47 Speaker 2: So the idea for Turning Point USA first started locally in Chicago, Ohio. What Turning Point USA is, is we're taking action, and that's the youth standing up, because it's our future that's being mortgaged by Washington in every regard. I was 18, no idea what I was doing, no connections, no money. We didn't have an office, we didn't have a staff. It was just me just traveling the country doing this pure grit, pure energy. I actually thought this was possible, which was... Kind of crazy if you think about it. I was driven by core ideas and core principles that we should be thankful, not angry to live in this country. 01:33:20 Speaker 1: Would you agree? 01:33:21 Speaker 6: We should be thankful. 01:33:21 Speaker 10: We should be. 01:33:22 Speaker 2: Kissing the ground and say we are the luckiest human beings ever to exist that we are able to live in this country at this time. America is the greatest country ever to exist. 01:33:31 Speaker 1: Period. Bar none. 01:33:32 Speaker 19: It's the greatest country ever to exist, right? 01:33:38 Speaker 1: Charlie is the only one that layer upon layer Precept upon precept. 01:33:46 Speaker 3: He built it. 01:33:47 Speaker 1: It was almost shocking because it was exponential growth. 01:33:52 Speaker 4: And I will never forget, it was in the spring of 2024, and he goes out to this campus, 1,000, 1,500 students show up, and Charlie's texting me. 01:34:02 Speaker 26: He's like, there's so many kids here. 01:34:03 Speaker 10: It's huge. 01:34:04 Speaker 3: Like, this is amazing. 01:34:06 Speaker 4: He's got to go back in time and realize there was like 10 kids that would show up before, maybe none. 01:34:11 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, in the middle. 01:34:12 Speaker 4: Of this tabling, They just organically start singing the national anthem. I'll never forget what he said. He said, something's happening. 01:34:30 Speaker 3: You can feel it. 01:34:31 Speaker 1: Something's happening. 01:34:32 Speaker 23: Young people realize you may be able to manipulate and trick, you know, my grandma or my grandpa, but you're not going. 01:34:39 Speaker 16: To trick me. 01:34:40 Speaker 2: We are going to ramp up and do even more. We're going to push the boundaries. We're going to keep fighting socialism where it matters most. We're going to hire more staff, win more student body presidency races, host bigger events, convert more young minds to love, freedom and liberty. And we are going to fight the left at every single term. We are on the front lines of this culture war to fight for freedom and liberty and save the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world. 01:35:05 Speaker 4: It was almost like the first realization that all of those hours he put in, all of the thankless efforts, all of the attacks, all the criticism starting to pay off in this like really big, unexpected way. 01:35:18 Speaker 1: Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States. 01:35:24 Speaker 2: Everything was just coming through me from not just how hard the president worked, but how hard we worked. I mean, we traveled the country nonstop, didn't see my family, did events in every corner. The president was facing 700 years in federal prison. They tried to take his business empire away from him. And then, of course, he got shot and nearly shot again at the golf course. There was this kind of feeling. It's like, is this possible? Are we going to do this? 01:35:44 Speaker 19: Just overwhelmed in that moment. 01:35:45 Speaker 2: It still really hasn't set in, to be honest. 01:35:48 Speaker 1: You put all this together, my man. Let's hear it. 01:35:50 Speaker 3: I am just humbled by God's grace. 01:35:57 Speaker 18: I have to say this without getting emotional, but I'm very proud of my husband. 01:36:00 Speaker 1: And I know many of you are too. 01:36:02 Speaker 18: You have worked so hard. And I know a lot of you have seen, obviously, his videos on TikTok and all the stuff he does on campus. But no one gets to see him from my angle except for myself and our children. 01:36:18 Speaker 11: Hey! 01:36:23 Speaker 15: Hey! 01:36:24 Speaker 2: Hey! 01:36:24 Speaker 16: Hey! 01:36:27 Speaker 2: For young people out there, if you want to find meaning, find something worth taking responsibility for. 01:36:32 Speaker 17: I'm grateful for you. 01:36:33 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining the. 01:36:34 Speaker 21: Charlie Kirk show. 01:36:35 Speaker 2: What matters is your relationship with the divine, your relationship with your family, your kids, and maybe a close collection of friends and your relationship with the truth. I want to honor God in all that I do. I want to be a great husband, a great father. I want to serve this country. I want to try to continue to lead this movement and to speak truth and to never lie. To stop thinking about yourself all the time and instead think about what you should do to help other people and to defend this country above yourself. You still live in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history. 01:37:06 Speaker 1: Of the world. 01:37:07 Speaker 2: There is still so much to be hopeful and to be thankful for. 01:37:10 Speaker 1: And we have agency. 01:37:15 Speaker 23: He taught you so much and what it means to be a man, what it means to be a husband, what it means to be a father, what it means to be a good citizen in America, what it means to die to yourself daily and to be something bigger than yourself. 01:37:26 Speaker 1: Taking the deep. 01:37:28 Speaker 2: But sometimes the difficult road is the way that you should configure your life. Getting married and having children is a difficult but deep decision that I hope every single one of you make at some point in your life. Because for every single one of you, there are a couple thousand students that wish they could speak out like you do. And courage is a choice. What can I do to save the country? You answer that question every single day. Because you are doing the work to save this beautiful republic. You are doing something that is bigger than you. 01:38:03 Speaker 18: So when people ask you, what is Turning Point even doing? 01:38:06 Speaker 16: A lot. 01:38:08 Speaker 1: And we have not stopped. 01:38:10 Speaker 18: And I cannot thank you enough for making sure that my husband's life does not become a footnote in a history book. 01:38:20 Speaker 2: We are no longer going to accept comfortable losing. We are no longer going to accept excuses from our elected officials. We have more combined political power than they have ever allowed us to believe. We are the party of people that shower before work and shower after work. 01:38:39 Speaker 1: The people that get. 01:38:41 Speaker 12: Their hands dirty. 01:38:42 Speaker 1: The people that protect our streets. 01:38:45 Speaker 2: The people that built this country. you know you are part of something bigger than yourself. This movement is about the citizens versus the oligarchs. This movement is about we the people versus the ruling class. This movement is about America versus the globalists. 01:39:07 Speaker 1: This movement is about. 01:39:09 Speaker 23: All of us against them. 01:39:16 Speaker 18: The mission didn't end with Charlie's life. It's being lived out through each and every one of you in your own way. And it's about remembering that freedom requires responsibility and truth requires courage. 01:39:33 Speaker 2: Comfort and Christianity sometimes come to a head. In fact, we are called to get uncomfortable as believers and Christians. 01:39:44 Speaker 1: Should we care about our country? 01:39:45 Speaker 2: Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare. And if we're serious about saving this country, we need to get back to the source of where that inheritance came from, the word of God and our true citizenship, which is in heaven. Every single one of you need to say, God, I am willing. 01:40:06 Speaker 3: Use me. 01:40:08 Speaker 1: Use me for your purposes. 01:40:09 Speaker 2: Liberty is God's idea, not man's idea. 01:40:13 Speaker 1: Tell me, God, what to do. Here I am. 01:40:17 Speaker 15: Send me. 01:40:22 Speaker 24: Charlie's mission wasn't just about the conversation on campus. It wasn't just about SAS. It wasn't just about the coalition building and politicking. 01:40:30 Speaker 1: That was all the how. 01:40:33 Speaker 3: But the why for Charlie. 01:40:36 Speaker 1: The why was he trusted his savior. 01:40:40 Speaker 24: I got to see it over a decade. A man who woke up and said, Lord, use me. I got to see how somebody who is maybe equipped but has no true power become one of the most influential people, not just in our country, on our planet. Charlie was always rooted in faith. I've said this a hundred times over. 01:41:03 Speaker 1: Charlie was easy to follow because I knew who he followed. 01:41:07 Speaker 2: What young people especially are screaming at is they say, give me a structure that I can live my life by. 01:41:16 Speaker 19: And especially with young men. 01:41:17 Speaker 2: More challenging of them, more saying, you know what? Honestly, I'm not going to talk down to you. Stop being a boy and become a man. You want to learn what that means? Come to church and I'll tell you what it means to become a man. Because we have the greatest story ever told. 01:41:29 Speaker 10: If everything. 01:41:32 Speaker 6: completely goes away, how do you want to be remembered? 01:41:35 Speaker 19: I want to be remembered for courage, for my faith. 01:41:39 Speaker 1: That would be the most important thing. 01:41:41 Speaker 19: The most important thing is my faith. 01:42:23 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage, Andrew Seifert. 01:42:39 Speaker 25: Wow. 01:42:43 Speaker 16: I'm humbled to see all of you here. My name is Andrew Seifert. I'm the chief field officer for Turning Point USA. I've spent 10 years with this organization and. 01:42:58 Speaker 19: With Charlie Kirk. 01:43:07 Speaker 26: I was standing 10 feet to his left. 01:43:13 Speaker 16: When he was assassinated. A short walk from this building. Today marks one year. Steps from these doors is the ground where evil unfolded. We did not come back to rehearse a crime scene. We came back because Charlie Kirk represented the best of us. 01:43:47 Speaker 1: He was a husband, a. 01:43:50 Speaker 16: Father, A God-fearing man who never stopped leading by example. 01:43:59 Speaker 26: Successful? 01:44:01 Speaker 1: Yes. 01:44:03 Speaker 16: But that is the least important true thing about him tonight. He loved this country unmistakably. And he loved the student standing in front of him. like these students here, more than he did winning the viral clip. So why do we gather here, in this arena, on this day, on this campus? 01:44:37 Speaker 1: Why? 01:44:39 Speaker 16: Because this is where they tried to end him. And because this is where we refuse to let the last word be a gunshot. 01:45:00 Speaker 26: Charlie was not my boss. 01:45:05 Speaker 16: Charlie was my brother. Friendship, friendship is proximity, timing, energy. Friendship comes and goes. Brotherhood is different. Brotherhood is loyalty. Brotherhood is duty. Brotherhood It's a collection of shared trials. Anyone fortunate enough to stand close to him learned this. His word did not move. His loyalty did not expire when you became inconvenient. He would not badmouth his own people. He would not gossip about a staffer to sound clever in a room. Those are management attributes. Those are not management attributes. Those are the marks of a man we all loved. Even when the world got loud around him, campaigns, presidential transitions, cameras, he kept his eye on the little guy, the intern, the chapter leader, the student who drove three hours and stood in the back. That is who he was when nobody was filming. That is who he was to me every single day. 01:46:39 Speaker 26: Even his last. 01:46:43 Speaker 16: On that last day, he started the day in prayer as we flew up from Arizona. 01:46:50 Speaker 26: He studied the word of. 01:46:51 Speaker 16: God with Frank Turek for 30 plus minutes on that flight and asked me everything, everything he could do to best know the culture of Utah and what mattered most to the students here, and how he could best support them. He loved nothing more, nothing more than being on the ground, interacting with the students directly. He knew God had given him a responsibility to shepherd the young, and he did not. 01:47:22 Speaker 26: Take that lightly. 01:47:25 Speaker 16: A common denominator is between the first time I saw Charlie in 2016 at my new hire training in the basement of Chicago O'Hare, and that morning of September 10th, 2025, was of him feasting on. 01:47:40 Speaker 26: The word of God, spiritually preparing himself for the day. 01:47:46 Speaker 16: Before the crowd fully understood what they were watching, he already knew his calling. His goal was never simply to win elections or only to empower the young or only to stand for truth in an argument. Yes, those things mattered to him. They were not the center. The center was always, always to be a true disciple of Christ. He demonstrated it that very morning when he said to me via text, Andrew, I'm not here to pick a fight. I am here to show them kindness. That was the assignment. The assignment you walked into that courtyard with to show the Utah Valley University campus kindness. To talk with students who hate you To share the truth. 01:49:22 Speaker 26: And to not become cruel doing it. 01:49:35 Speaker 1: Soon thereafter, a shot. 01:49:45 Speaker 26: A shot rang out. 01:49:50 Speaker 16: Followed by darkness I will not decorate in detail I remember scanning the crowd and the last person I looked at to my right. 01:50:04 Speaker 26: Was Charlie. 01:50:12 Speaker 1: And I knew I. 01:50:16 Speaker 16: Knew he was immediately gone in that darkness, a hymn came to mind. They say hymns are prayers of the heart. What came to me was, I need thee every hour. And it goes like this. I need thee every hour, most gracious Lord. No tender voice like thine can peace Afford it. 01:50:56 Speaker 26: I need thee. Oh, I need thee. Every hour, I need thee. Oh, bless me now, my Savior. I come to thee. That was my prayer. 01:51:11 Speaker 16: Not a strategy, not a statement, but just a man 10 feet away with nothing left to hold but a desperate plea from the heart. Charlie's assassination did not put our faith to death. 01:51:28 Speaker 19: It woke it up. 01:51:36 Speaker 16: Faith is to hope for things which are not seen but are true. We cannot see Charlie in that courtyard anymore. 01:51:44 Speaker 1: We can. 01:51:46 Speaker 26: Still see the legacy he built. 01:51:47 Speaker 16: We can still see the millions of students and Americans inspired by him. We can still see the country he refused to quit on. 01:52:03 Speaker 1: Charlie lived as. 01:52:04 Speaker 26: If the unseen things of faith were already true. 01:52:09 Speaker 16: That young people would still stand for Christ. That kindness could outlast the mob. That this nation was worth one more hard conversation. 01:52:24 Speaker 26: We can live that way too. We must live that way. 01:52:30 Speaker 16: Then work toward a better tomorrow, even when the status quo gives us very little to celebrate. 01:52:38 Speaker 26: That is not optimism. That is faith with its sleeves rolled up. 01:52:45 Speaker 16: No job is too big. No job is too small. And that is how he built it. And that is how we must keep building it. They killed a voice. They did not stop the work. Freedom is built to last. And so is the man who taught a generation how to build it. 01:53:17 Speaker 19: Charlie ran a good race. 01:53:22 Speaker 26: And we are all still here on the field. We are charged to take it from here. 01:53:34 Speaker 11: For freedom. 01:53:37 Speaker 1: For truth. 01:53:41 Speaker 26: For our dear friend, Charlie Kirk. Thank you. 01:54:02 Speaker 2: Every single one of you that have decided to be a Turning Point USA chapter leader, you have made an intentional decision that you want to live a deep life over an easy life. You are fighting for something and for ideas, and you are doing something that is bigger than you. One of the reasons why I'm so inspired by you, you are telling your peers that I am taking the more difficult road because America is worth saving more than my popularity on campus. You play a bigger role than you even realize because for every single one of you, there are a couple thousand. 01:54:41 Speaker 12: Students that wish they could speak out like you do. 01:54:45 Speaker 2: The deep, the difficult, but the right path is one that will reward you your family, and this beautiful nation. 01:54:54 Speaker 6: Our movement is ascendant. 01:54:56 Speaker 3: It is growing. 01:54:58 Speaker 2: We could take back this country, but it starts with every single one of you. 01:55:14 Speaker 26: Charlie was different from the rest. 01:55:17 Speaker 16: If you had the fortune to work with anyone that has a large following, or a disproportionate influence over society, you quickly realize the majority of those individuals, they lose touch with society. They lose touch with those that built them, those that made them who they are. That was one thing that always set Charlie apart, is that he had a vision back in 2012 saying, we can win the youth vote. I believe a majority, he believed a majority of young men and young women would once again one day. 01:55:57 Speaker 26: Proclaim from the housetops that Christ lives. 01:56:01 Speaker 16: Not that he just lives, but he works in their life and that this country will be saved because of the young at work. 01:56:10 Speaker 26: He believed in that when no one else believes. And he never stopped believing. 01:56:16 Speaker 25: Amen. 01:56:18 Speaker 16: Some of his final requests with me, when we'd go from campus to campus to campus, we'd say, Andrew, I need more time with the students. I need to make sure how do I interact with them more? His favorite thing was to be in and among the students. It was his favorite pastime. I don't know too many adults that say, I love being on a college campus getting yelled at by 18-year-olds. 01:56:43 Speaker 26: But he did. 01:56:45 Speaker 16: Because it was his way of touching grass with society. and making sure that he represented you. Not that he represented the oligarchs in DC or those on X or social media, he wanted to represent you. And by being on campus, that was his greatest ability to be among you and to know how to best serve you. But what made serving students so rewarding is that they loved what he represented to them. And when we saw the lives of these young people started to change, and these campuses started to grow, and our following started to grow, and we started to take over these campuses, and we showed up at UVU, and there's 3,000 to 5,000 students, nearly 10% of the entire student population, there to listen to. 01:57:39 Speaker 26: A man debate about truth and what mattered most. 01:57:47 Speaker 16: We knew we were onto something special, But the most special part was seeing that these students, even when Charlie wasn't there, they carried on the mission. You got to hear from Sage, who was just one brave soul of many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of students that do this daily, show up on their campus daily. And what we saw after Charlie's assessment. was hundreds of thousands of students say, you will not kill the man. 01:58:18 Speaker 26: Without me going next. And today we're here to recognize Charlie. 01:58:27 Speaker 28: 15 brave, incredible student leaders of ours, who were there last September, witnessed that tragedy and did not give up. 01:58:42 Speaker 26: They stood up, they're here, they're still leading their group, give it up for them. 01:59:15 Speaker 16: On behalf of Turning Point USA and in coordination with the state of Utah, we're here to award each. 01:59:21 Speaker 26: Of these student leaders. 01:59:23 Speaker 16: Recognition for their courage and bravery to stand up in the face of evil and opposition to not let Charlie's legacy die. 01:59:47 Speaker 22: Thanks, man. 01:59:48 Speaker 1: Alright. 02:00:30 Speaker 16: If you'll join us for a moment of silence to remember Charlie and the impact. 02:00:36 Speaker 26: He had on all of our lives and why we're here tonight. Thank you all. 02:01:25 Speaker 8: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage former UVU chapter president and current Utah field representative for TPSA, Caleb Chilcutt. 02:01:47 Speaker 15: One year ago, Charlie Kirk joined us at Utah Valley University and did what he had done hundreds of times before. 02:01:54 Speaker 10: He was here to speak. 02:01:56 Speaker 1: He was here to debate. He was here to challenge. He was here to evangelize. 02:02:01 Speaker 15: What none of us knew then was just how much that day and Charlie himself would ask of us afterwards. In the years since, I have watched his impact become impossible to miss. People in this room and all over the globe stepped into roles they never once expected to hold. Students became chapter leaders. Many rose to defend America. Hundreds of thousands joined this movement, not because they were ready, but because there was work to be done and a mission worth carrying forward. Charlie had a way of making people believe that they were capable of more. And this room and all of us here today is proof of that. In the days that followed, and as the chapter president at UVU at the time, I watched this community do something that no one could have ever expected. We did not riot. We did not retreat into silence. We did not let the worst act I have ever seen become an excuse to treat our neighbors, the ones who disagreed with Charlie, and the ones who disagreed with us as enemies to be dehumanized in return. That restraint was the hardest kind of courage there is. The choice to stay human when you have every reason not to. That rhetoric that treats political opponents as less than human, as threats to be eliminated rather than people to be persuaded, is not a harmless exaggeration. Charlie Kirk stood for the simplest of things, giving people respect. 02:03:56 Speaker 19: Every debate, every interview, every interaction. 02:04:01 Speaker 15: A year of watching this community has not moved me from this belief. If we leave this event having only mourned and not having recommitted to arguing our case without dehumanizing the people on the other side of it, we will have missed the point of standing here at all. So here's the charge, not just to the Turning Point members, but to everyone. 02:04:30 Speaker 1: In this building. 02:04:31 Speaker 19: Disagree as hard as you want. Fight for... for what you believe to be true. 02:04:36 Speaker 15: But at the same time, show the same respect that Charlie fought for. He showed up to engage in conversations, not to hide from the tough arguments. That is worth more from us today than any tribute that I could put into words. I was not raised to take this right for granted, because as you could probably tell, based off my accent, I did not grow up here. I spent 17 years of my life living in Australia, a country where the government can and has sent police to homes. 02:05:07 Speaker 1: Of citizens if you say the wrong thing on Facebook. 02:05:17 Speaker 15: I know what it feels like to watch my words before they leave my mouth. The fundamental freedoms we cherish every single day simply does not exist where I grew up. When I moved to this incredible nation, I understood for the first time what it actually means to say something true and know your government cannot silence you for it. 02:05:48 Speaker 1: That is why Charlie loved this country the way that he did and why I love it too. 02:05:53 Speaker 15: Not blindly, this nation is not perfect and we have never claimed it to be perfect. He loved this country because it gave him the right and ability that no other nation on earth would have given him. The freedom to say true things loudly, to be challenged loudly, and to keep showing up. I have lived on the other side of that comparison. I do not take it for granted, and neither should any. 02:06:24 Speaker 1: Of us in this room. 02:06:26 Speaker 15: A year from the worst day this campus has ever seen, the fact that we are still standing here, still organizing, still recruiting, still willing to have that hard conversation in the open instead of behind a screen, that is what will save this nation. Charlie meant more to this chapter, to this university, and to this community than I think even we understood when he was here. He cared about UVU. He cared about the students in this chapter, the students who came to support the event, and even the students who showed up to argue and debate with him. 02:07:06 Speaker 10: Charlie cared for. 02:07:07 Speaker 15: This community, and this community cared for him right back and continues to care for him. This proof is just how excited he was when he showed up to campus a year ago, and every single one of you who are here today. So I would like to thank everyone for coming here tonight and honoring Charlie Kirk. As I end my time and as we come together, there's someone here who could. 02:07:37 Speaker 1: Not be with us tonight. 02:07:39 Speaker 15: Although I believe he would have loved to be here to show us support and respect for Charlie, the same way we all did and do. Chandler Hendry, thank you for your voice and the inspiration for so many of us here. 02:08:00 Speaker 12: We would like to play a quick video to show our respect. 02:08:02 Speaker 25: I am a nobody, but he inspired me to become a somebody. Charlie was someone. 02:08:13 Speaker 3: I looked up to. 02:08:15 Speaker 1: A quote of his says. 02:08:16 Speaker 27: This, I'm far more interested in what God wants of me than what I want from God. What God wants from me is a life of fighting for truth. Faith in Jesus Christ as his Savior. A family-centered life. 02:08:34 Speaker 10: A seeker of truth. 02:08:36 Speaker 27: Finding your purpose and living it so that you could change the world around you. This is the message he preached and lived for, and this is the message I will choose to carry on. 02:08:56 Speaker 1: Please welcome to the stage, Mikey McCoy. Good evening, everybody. 02:09:12 Speaker 23: I've come to the realization that there's truly no right words on this side of eternity that can relay all that I feel in my heart tonight. I'm also painfully aware that none of the words that we speak on this stage tonight can fill the seat that for the last year, Charlie has left empty at home for his beloved family, nor fill the wound that a grieving country and world full of people who loved him feel. 02:09:40 Speaker 1: I will not pretend otherwise. 02:09:43 Speaker 23: But on the one-year anniversary of the day that Charlie went home to be with Jesus, I'm reminded that Charlie always found a way to communicate. He constantly strove to find the right words, and he took every opportunity to point people toward Christ. So tonight, in honor of his example and in honor of his incredible life, I'm going to try. On the one year anniversary, sorry guys, you know, when I was asked to share tonight, my first thought was, how has it been a year? And as I processed that, came flooding in all the memories. I remember getting ready that morning and Charlie getting ready that morning. I vividly remember him so excited The anticipation we all felt for the kickoff of the biggest campus tour yet, his pure joy when he saw the enormous crowd here at UVU, and then the whiplash, going from such shared joy and excitement to the most unfathomable heartbreak imaginable. 02:10:56 Speaker 1: As I thought about that day, God brought. 02:10:59 Speaker 23: Countless other moments to mind as I watched Charlie operate with strength that seemed only supernatural. Running on no sleep, accomplishing the seemingly impossible, pushing beyond his own discomfort in pursuit of serving his country and fellow man, loving and living with this inexhaustible desire to see especially the young people of this country find hope and succeed. I had witnessed firsthand those countless hours, days, and years we spent together. The answer to the question, where did Charlie's strength come from? Charlie's strength was in and from Christ. Second Corinthians 12.9. 02:11:48 Speaker 1: Second Corinthians 12.9. 02:11:50 Speaker 23: My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. This was the gasoline on the fire of Charlie's passion that emboldened him to walk onto campuses across this nation and contend for truth. You know, Charlie understood that while freedom is the ability to make choices, liberty is doing what is right. He would often say that liberty is not man's idea. 02:12:16 Speaker 1: It's God's idea. 02:12:19 Speaker 23: Freedom is not merely a possession. 02:12:20 Speaker 1: It's a responsibility. It has to be kept. 02:12:25 Speaker 23: Every generation has to reach out and take hold of it for themselves or it slips away. Charlie understood this in his very being. He didn't wait for somebody to hand him a podium. He set up a folding table, picked up a microphone, went campus to campus and was willing to go toe to toe with the biggest. 02:12:44 Speaker 1: And the worst ideas of our age. 02:12:47 Speaker 23: He would boldly say what he believed to be true and then invited those who would disagree with him to the front of the line. It was the miracle of this country on display in its purest form. We don't have to fear an argument here. We don't have to silence the other side and call it virtue. We put the microphone in the open air, let the argument be made, and trust that free people engaging honestly can find their way toward truth. Charlie spent his life betting on that trust. 02:13:18 Speaker 1: He bet on you. 02:13:27 Speaker 23: There's one story that I remember, and it's one of my favorite memories. Charlie was scheduled to speak at the University of North Texas, Denton, where there had been serious security concerns. A death threat was made on Yik Yak and several others on other social media platforms. Security and PD told Charlie, we're not comfortable with you going out there. Charlie said, there's thousands of students waiting for me out there. 02:13:53 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. 02:13:55 Speaker 23: I remember sitting there when they also told him, we strongly advise that you don't go. 02:14:00 Speaker 1: Just wait a while. We'll make some phone calls. Charlie waited for a couple minutes. 02:14:07 Speaker 23: And then he stood up and said, I'm going and walked straight toward that tent that we all know so well. 02:14:13 Speaker 1: Because Charlie believed that we must never. 02:14:16 Speaker 23: Operate in fear. Evil will always try to scare you. But doing good requires sacrifices. Sometimes that sacrifices your time. Sometimes it's your comfort. Sometimes it means walking onto a campus when you're afraid of what might happen. And that day, something did happen that I'll never forget. Charlie debated a student who made it clear at the beginning that he had disagreed with him politically. After about 10 minutes of back and forth, and Charlie's always brilliant and articulate responses, Charlie asked him, so did I change your mind? And in a very viral moment that I'm sure many of you have seen, the student leaned into the microphone and said, can I get one of those hats? 02:15:14 Speaker 1: I'll never forget that. 02:15:16 Speaker 23: And I'll never forget talking with Charlie about it afterwards. Because Charlie chose courage over fear, we know for a fact that one person walked away seeing the world just a little differently that day. 02:15:28 Speaker 1: How many others in the audience did too? 02:15:31 Speaker 23: John 15, 13 tells us greater love has no one than this, that someone laid down his life for another. 02:15:38 Speaker 1: Charlie lived his life radically. 02:15:40 Speaker 23: In the service of young people, believing in a future that had greater hope for them. 02:15:46 Speaker 1: And he was murdered for doing it. 02:15:50 Speaker 23: There is something else about Charlie's final moments that I've thought about many times. Charlie was murdered when he was only on his second question. The event had just begun. The last and final question that Charlie was ever able to fully answer was about his faith. Charlie once said that although his day job was politics, politics was only the second most important thing. The first and the most important thing in his words was winning souls for Jesus Christ. His second job made sure, politics, that we were able to preserve a. 02:16:39 Speaker 1: Country where we were free to do that first thing. 02:16:42 Speaker 23: But you know, Charlie cared deeply about conservative ideas, free markets, the future of this country. 02:16:48 Speaker 1: He cared about young people finding. 02:16:49 Speaker 23: Purpose, getting married young, affording homes, having more children than they could afford. But above all of that, I need you to understand this. Charlie cared about your soul. In the last year, I've heard story after story of people walking into churches, returning to their faith, restoring marriages on the brink of collapse, leaving addictions behind, turning to Jesus. 02:17:14 Speaker 1: What would be an abortion? becomes a baby named Charlie. 02:17:19 Speaker 23: Only God can take the most gruesome, unimaginable pain and somehow use it for his good and for his glory. The pain of today still remains, at times unbearable apart from Christ. I continue to carry such a burden along with the thousands of people who experienced the horror of that. day in person, many of which are in this room. And for those of you who saw it unfold from afar, please know that I am praying for you for God's comfort as we ask him that same comfort ourselves. An evil act took Charlie from his beloved family, from his wife, from his precious children, from a movement of young people who looked to him and from the public square. 02:18:18 Speaker 1: That he loved so much. But I want you to hear this today. An assassin's bullet cannot win an argument. 02:18:27 Speaker 23: It can only prove that the assassin never had one. Violence is the tool of those who have run out of ideas. Violence is the tool of those who have run out of ideas. And it is the great, quiet strength of this country that we strive to fight back with better ideas. Anyone who believed ending Charlie's life would end what he stood for misunderstands. 02:19:05 Speaker 1: How ideas live. They live in the people who heard them. They live in you. 02:19:13 Speaker 12: Charlie.... 02:19:17 Speaker 23: Charlie put something holy, good, and beautiful into this world that evil cannot take back out of it. And for the students here today, you are the point of this speech. So let me speak directly to you. Somewhere here tonight is a young person wondering whether your voice can really make the difference, whether you should take the risk, whether you should stand up, whether you should set up a folding table, pick up a microphone, and invite the world to agree, or disagree. 02:19:47 Speaker 1: I hope you do it. 02:19:50 Speaker 23: We must refuse to allow the horrific way that Charlie died to choke out everything that he fought for, accomplished, and so courageously lived for. He believed, against the cynicism of this age, that young people still had something to say, that they were worth listening to and investing in. So, let us honor him not merely in grief, but in resolve. Whatever quarrels divided us, let us settle them. in a way that a free people should, with words, with votes, with courage, with prayer, and with a willingness to stand publicly for what we believe to be true. It won't take, thank you, it will not be an easy road, but it will be a fulfilling road. It will cost you, but in it you will find true purpose. Just like Charlie, just like Erica, people may hate you, they will certainly misrepresent you, People will lie about you. 02:20:49 Speaker 1: Ignore the noise. Just pray for them. Matthew 5, 11. 02:20:59 Speaker 23: Blessed are you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you. 02:21:07 Speaker 1: Do not operate in fear. Look to Christ. 02:21:11 Speaker 23: Stand firm in something greater than yourselves. Pursue what is eternal. When I look into the eyes of my newborn son, I'm reminded every day that there's life after death. 02:21:22 Speaker 1: There's beauty through suffering. The death is not the end. There is an eternity. 02:21:29 Speaker 23: Never underestimate what God can do through one life wholly surrendered to him. 02:21:34 Speaker 1: God bless Charlie. 02:21:36 Speaker 23: God bless his beloved family and his beloved wife, his precious children. God bless Turning Point USA. And God bless the brave students standing up across this nation on college campuses to contend for truth. 02:21:49 Speaker 1: Thank you all. 02:22:00 Speaker 12: Charlie accomplished more in his 31 years than most people could accomplish in many lifetimes. His most public accomplishments were political. 02:22:08 Speaker 1: His most important were religious. 02:22:10 Speaker 12: He wanted to be remembered for his faith. He wanted to help as many souls to heaven as he could. If you want to honor Charlie, go to church, read the Bible, pray. 02:22:22 Speaker 3: And do it right now. 02:22:25 Speaker 12: It's a strong country. 02:22:26 Speaker 1: It's a great country. 02:22:27 Speaker 12: The bones are there. 02:22:28 Speaker 1: The muscle is still there. We can do it. We have to want to do it. We have to be committed to doing it. 02:22:33 Speaker 12: And I think, in part, we have to do it to honor our friend. Thank you very much. 02:23:01 Speaker 1: It's very kind. 02:23:04 Speaker 12: Thank you very much. Thank you all of you for being here. Thank you very much. It's a great privilege to be here with all of you tonight to remember our friend. The anniversary of Charlie's assassination snuck up on a lot of us. Certainly snuck up on me. It's that strange sensation that often happens when a loved one dies. On the one hand, it feels like barely a day or two have passed. On the other hand, it feels like an eternity. Has anyone else felt that? The reason it feels that way, the reason time seems to pass paradoxically, is that what we're perceiving is not so much the passage of time as the fact that something has changed. That's what happens when someone who matters to us dies. Because the change is shocking, in this case, unexpected, it sticks with us and it feels recent. But because the change is drastic, the way things were before feels like a distant memory. For many of us here, Charlie was a personal friend. And he had a lot of friends. He had a lot of friends in this room and all around the world. But for all of us here, here and for so many at home and around the country and around the world, Charlie was a beloved political figure. He was the most important and effective political activist of our generation. And so, because he was political, he mattered to all of us. We all share that strange sense of time. It feels like he was killed ages ago. It feels like it was just yesterday. In terms of politics, Charlie's assassination changed the landscape. There is a temptation at memorials to look only on the bright side. And there are silver linings to every storm cloud, which we will come to. But it would be a disservice, it would be dishonest, not to reckon with the consequences of Charlie's assassination, not to reckon with reality. And the reality is that American politics is simply worse because Charlie Kirk was assassinated. The American right is less coherent, less unified, less serious, and less strong. The American left is more radical, more emboldened, more openly violent. The tone of political discourse is coarser. The marketplace of ideas is more dangerous. The future of our country is in greater peril. Public opinion polls in the days following Charlie's assassination showed that one in four very liberal respondents believe violence is justified to accomplish political goals. 02:26:10 Speaker 19: Among all liberals. 02:26:12 Speaker 12: Under the age of 45, the percentage was even higher. Both of those figures were and remain much higher, multiples higher, than the percentage of respondents on the right who would say the same thing. Yet another poll showed that nearly half of Gen Z liberals believe that violence is, quote, necessary to create social change. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie's assassination, the New York Times twice approvingly platformed a man who had personally fantasized about murdering Charlie and who has since called for the murder of other Republicans simply for their political beliefs. 02:26:53 Speaker 19: It's disgraceful. It's disgraceful. 02:26:57 Speaker 12: The times went on to platform that person again, multiple times in the months that followed. Many of the most prominent Democrat politicians in the country have since asked that person to join them on the campaign trail. This very morning, On the anniversary of Charlie's murder, I did an interview with a left-wing news outlet during which the host took the opportunity to accuse Charlie himself of instigating political violence. Can you imagine that? The claim, people are laughing, of course you're laughing, the claim is absurd, of course. Charlie consistently condemned political violence. He called for civil dialogue and peaceful politics. But the host of this program tried to argue that Charlie had indirectly promoted violence because he cited statistics and criticized Democrat policies. 02:27:54 Speaker 19: I kid you not. 02:27:56 Speaker 12: If you want to listen to it, it's on NPR. 02:27:58 Speaker 19: I wasn't going to say the name, but it's NPR. 02:28:12 Speaker 12: That preposterous false equivalence is but a variation on a theme that we have heard for years, that conservative speech is somehow violence and that leftist violence is somehow speech. Charlie's political opponents sought to silence him because he articulated inconvenient truths, politically incorrect truths. At a time when our culture demanded lies in the name of liberation, Charlie observed that lies don't really set us free. 02:28:43 Speaker 19: The truth is what sets us free. 02:28:54 Speaker 12: I bring up these facts and examples not to cause further political strife, but to acknowledge the truth, to acknowledge reality, the reality of our political situation, and the reality of our place in it. Because one year later, the reality, if you're anything like me, is that you're angry. I'm angry. I'm real angry. I'm angry at the injustice to Charlie. the injustice to his wonderful wife, Erica, and to their children, the injustice to his political movement, and the injustice to our country. I'm angry that many of our countrymen celebrated and continue to celebrate his assassination. I'm angry that many of our elite institutions continue to embrace those who celebrate his assassination. I'm angry, and so are many of you, and you should be. People are very confused about anger. Anger is a vice when it is divorced from reason, when it is not warranted, when it leads to injustice. But anger in response to injustice, anger aimed at the restoration of justice, in proper order and intensity, guided by reason, is the furthest thing from a vice. 02:30:31 Speaker 1: It is a virtue. 02:30:32 Speaker 12: Christians have known this since the days of the church fathers, that a lack of anger in the face of injustice is itself a vice. That anger should impel us to rectify those wrongs, to prosecute those who commit and threaten political violence, and to ostracize those who promote it. Those are political goods that can come from our anger. But how are we supposed to deal with that lingering feeling, that feeling that we feel especially on a day like this? It just feels so wrong. that a man as good and innocent as Charlie could be murdered in his prime by a man as wicked as his killer to the cheers of people as vicious as his enemies. And there are many people, people who perhaps are not as strong in their faith as Charlie was, who are asking why God would allow this to happen. When I was a boy and a family member died, I met with a priest. I was an atheist at the time. I didn't really want to meet with the priest. but my grandmother asked me to, so I humored her. As I was talking to the priest, he looked at me and he said, you're angry. 02:31:59 Speaker 19: I said, yeah, I am. 02:32:00 Speaker 12: And then he pointed to a crucifix on the wall and he said, whatever anger you're feeling, don't blame him. Among the greatest consolations that Christians have in times. 02:32:15 Speaker 19: Of sorrow is our belief in providence. 02:32:19 Speaker 12: The idea that God has ordered his creation down to the minutest detail toward perfection. That not even a sparrow falls to the ground without our Father's will. That the hairs on our head are all numbered, and that we are more valuable than many sparrows. God actively wills the good of all. But he has endowed us with free will, which we abuse, so bad things happen. which God in his permissive will allows and from which he even redeems us through the crucifixion and resurrection of his only begotten son. 02:33:04 Speaker 19: That's what we believe. 02:33:05 Speaker 12: That's how we make sense of the problem of pain. It's a mystery and it's a difficult mystery. If you're having trouble accepting it, you're in good company. No less a man than Job had a little trouble with that lesson, too. Do you remember what God said to Job? He said, Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man. I will question you, and you shall declare to me, Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you have understandings. Who determined its measurements? 02:33:44 Speaker 19: Surely you know. 02:33:46 Speaker 12: Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? We take it as a matter of faith that there is some purpose to the events of the world, that God takes even our evil actions and subverts them in the grand scheme of creation for perfection. 02:34:13 Speaker 1: St. 02:34:13 Speaker 12: Thomas Aquinas observes in the first lines of the Summa Theologiae that just as an author uses words to signify things in writing, so God, who is the author of all creation, uses not only words, but things themselves, events, people, to signify things too. We can't avoid suffering in this world, but we take it as a matter of faith that our suffering is not pointless. We take it as a matter of faith that things ultimately make sense, that history is intelligible. 02:34:48 Speaker 19: We take solace in. 02:34:49 Speaker 12: The belief that the world is understandable, even if we don't always understand it. One of those little winks of providence stood out to me just this week in the lead up to this anniversary. Charlie was best known as a political figure, but all of his friends will tell you, some of them have told you tonight, that what mattered most to. 02:35:11 Speaker 19: Charlie was religion. 02:35:13 Speaker 12: He had a capacious mind and will. He excelled at lots of different things. He didn't let any of them fall through the cracks. I don't text people back. You don't remember to respond to an email. Charlie was doing a billion things at once, and he did them all extraordinarily well. The first time I ever met Charlie in person was a very long time ago, and it was about 4 o'clock in the morning in a TV news green room. I was half asleep in the chair. Charlie was bouncing off the walls, as was his want. He was talking about roughly a billion subjects in rapid succession. 02:35:51 Speaker 19: I was kind of mumbling and, yeah, Charlie, all right, yeah. He could do all of those things. But what Charlie cared most about was faith. 02:36:01 Speaker 12: Above all his political accomplishments, his faith is what he said he wanted to be remembered for. 02:36:08 Speaker 19: That's what he wanted his legacy to be. 02:36:11 Speaker 12: And one of the strange facts of his assassination is that it became clear immediately that that was his legacy. It was the one silver lining. 02:36:21 Speaker 19: I saw it. Many of you saw it too. I was at church the following Sunday. 02:36:26 Speaker 12: And I go to a pretty traditional church, suits and ties, veils for the ladies. The week after Charlie was killed, I saw a bunch of people in the pews wearing sweatpants and t-shirts. I have never been happier to see sweatpants and t-shirts at church. They should buy suits and ties for next week, but for that week it was good because what it meant, of course, was that they had not been to church for a long time, at least some of them maybe ever. They had not been to church, and they were showing up. They were newcomers, and they were there because Charlie had inspired. 02:37:12 Speaker 19: Them to do it. That legacy showed up in the statistics. A month after. 02:37:17 Speaker 12: Charlie's assassination, Bible sales jumped by 36%. Charlie's wish turned out to be prophetic. His most enduring legacy was his faith. It's a. 02:37:29 Speaker 1: Good legacy. 02:37:30 Speaker 15: To have. 02:37:36 Speaker 12: With that little wink of providence, that's what hit me this week. It probably occurred to many of you sooner. I'm probably just a little bit slow. But as I was trying to make sense of it all, because it... The anniversary hit a lot of us harder than I think we expected that it would. When I was trying to make sense of it all and understand what the assassination means in history, in God's time, it occurred to me that Charlie's last name literally means church. Had that occurred to any of you? You know, he told me that at some point, I'm sure, and I just forgot it. It means church. That's what Kirk means. And Charlie, by the way, means free man. 02:38:16 Speaker 19: And you look at that and you say, that. 02:38:19 Speaker 12: Was good, good job, you know, that, I should have caught that one, that, okay. 02:38:32 Speaker 19: Of course that was going to be his legacy. 02:38:35 Speaker 12: It didn't seem that way to a lot of us, not because he wasn't a very faithful. 02:38:38 Speaker 19: Guy, but because he was so big in politics. 02:38:40 Speaker 12: You say, that'll be his legacy. No, no, there's an old Latin expression. Nomen est omen. For those of you, it's a simple one, but for those of you who didn't study Latin, it means the name is a sign. And these little coincidences, these little winks of providence, they are a consolation as we grieve, as we wonder at disturbing events. They're a reminder of God's sovereignty, that God authors history. 02:39:07 Speaker 19: And God knows his own. 02:39:08 Speaker 12: So even death loses its sting and the grave loses its victory. In addition to his legacy of faith, Charlie leaves a more tangible temporal legacy as well, most closely in the form of his heroic wife and his beloved children. In the form of his countless friends, in the form of his organization, TPUSA, which carries on his work and mission, and not least of all, in all of you whom Charlie inspired and for whose benefit he risked his life. Charlie was a great man. He's sorely missed. And we owe it to him to carry on his work in the particular ways that God ordains for us, as Charlie did and as each and every one of you here tonight is already doing. God bless you all. God bless TPUSA. God bless Erica, the kids, and the whole family. And God rest Charlie Kirk. 02:40:14 Speaker 1: Thank you. I said, somewhere in this crowd, there is maybe he's seven, maybe he's 15. 02:40:33 Speaker 2: I saw that speech. 02:40:34 Speaker 15: Yeah. 02:40:35 Speaker 1: Somewhere in this crowd is the next George Washington that will feel it right now. I am so overwhelmed with the people that I have met from your organization and the people who are coming. You're raising the next generation. 02:40:49 Speaker 31: You are, you and your organization are really responsible for For what I think will be the next great generation, do you realize the impact you're having on the country? 02:41:33 Speaker 1: Thank you. It is truly, it's an honor to be here. And as we were praying earlier today, somebody was praying and I'm listening to them and they're praying for safety and they're praying for the spirit to attend. And all I could hear in my head was, Let's go celebrate this man's life. I want to talk about you. I want to talk about the last year. Because in the last year, a year ago, we were all in the same place. How many of us said, I am Charlie Kirk. Some of us said it in a stadium filled with 50,000 people. Some of us said it alone in a car with the radio on. With tears in our eyes, we had to pull the car over and say, I am Charlie Kirk. And that didn't mean that we were going to start a podcast or a movement. It didn't mean that we were going to change the face of America or politics or the world. What it meant was that you would dedicate your life to learning and living and loving and speaking the truth when and where it needs to be spoken. So many of us made a promise a year ago. Some even made a promise that they would be the guy under the white tent someday, take Charlie's table. Well, it's been a year. It's checkup time. What have you accomplished in a year? How have you changed in a year? What is the organization accomplished this last 12 months? But more importantly, I want you to ask yourself, how is my soul? How is my soul? How is my mind? Am I better informed? Am I enriched? Am I better educated? Am I more loving? Am I more tolerant? How are the conversations around your table? The killer that martyred Charlie bizarrely thought he was killing hate. In his sad, twisted mind, he believed that hate could somehow or another extinguish what he thought was hate. He saw himself as a hero in a broken world. But in reality, it was he that was broken. And the hero was the one he shot. His path was violence. And he thought the end would be death. He didn't know that death is not the end. Not for Charlie, not for anybody who loved God like Charlie loved God. Because every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Jesus Christ was crucified in the cruelest of ways. The action. But his resurrection was the equal and opposite reaction. It was the triumph over death. So play this out with me for a second. Play this out. Charlie was murdered. That was the action. Where's the equal and opposite reaction? 02:45:33 Speaker 24: You. 02:45:35 Speaker 1: You are the equal and opposite reaction. You are the life after his death. Make no mistake, Charlie knew. Charlie knew. He knew something like this could happen. He did it. Because he loved God. He loved his country. He loved you enough to continue to do it. Because he believed the truth mattered enough to keep going and damn the consequences. I'm going to continue to go. And what happened after that tragic day a year ago, it wasn't politics. It had nothing to do with politics. I have been doing this for a very long time, and I have never seen anything like what happened a year from tomorrow. What happened, not just here, but all over the world, I saw kids standing in line to be baptized. I saw people go back to church. I saw people buy a suit because they didn't have a suit and they thought, I've got to go to church and I want to dress up. Roommates that had never said the word God before suddenly were saying it out loud. Bibles sold out. Bibles sold out. This whole movement crossed the oceans in hours. That's not political. That's the almighty God. I want you to remember what happened. Not the tragedy, the beauty, the hope, the arrival of God. I want you to remember that. Sear that into your soul because people will try to talk you out of it. At some point, they'll say none of that happened. It was real. I saw it. You saw it. And I got to tell you, it was not set up by anybody in this room. There were no committees putting that together. No committee could have done it. Only God could have done it. And it was awesome. But let me talk to you again about the equal and opposite reaction. Just as we were getting our sea legs, the other side, darkness, stepped up. Equal and opposite reaction. So now, after it swept the world, it was evil's turn to step to the plate. And he gave it his best shot. Honestly, I thought the shock of Charlie's murder would make us all step back and reconsider. what we were doing to one another. But the opposite happened. There's more bloodlust for ideological enemies than there was a year ago. There's more open acceptance of death as a reasonable end for a political enemy, or somebody you disagree with, or a CEO of a healthcare company, or innocent children at the hands of their own mother. It's a death cult. And I do not speak about this often, but suddenly people that many of us thought were friends, people we shared the stage with, people we defended, people we sat next to at dinner, arrived at a completely different conclusion. And it was someplace dark. Suddenly, good was being labeled evil, And then evil was being labeled good. And it happened so fast within two weeks. Within two weeks, everything changed. You barely had time to think. People were asking me, what is happening? I don't know. I don't know what was happening. Suddenly the people that were closest to Charlie, even his young widow, were under suspicion. And then, strangely, the most bizarre thing, and I just want you to follow this logically with me, help me out. Somehow or another, this all turned into a fight about the Jews. 02:50:33 Speaker 15: Ow, my. 02:50:38 Speaker 7: Head hurts. 02:50:38 Speaker 1: Ow, my head hurts. I want you to think about how odd this is, because I spent some time noodling this one. Think how odd this is. A young Christian is killed on an American campus for speaking with college students, for daring them to think, and within months, the loudest voices that are claiming to be on his side are talking about nothing else except how bad Jews are. Wait, what? This took me a while to figure it out. Because there's got to be an answer to that lunacy. How do you connect that puzzle together? Let me help you. Because it's actually logical. It is not a coincidence. It is not a detour. It's actually the oldest trick on earth. Because the enemy that we all face, each and every one of us, the enemy of your soul, has never been after a party. or a politician, or a position in government, or a country. It's never been about any of that. We are not at war with flesh and bone. The common enemy, our common enemy, the enemy of all mankind is gunning, not for you, He is gunning for a very specific God. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The first God, the only God. Now why? Why would this be a war on God? On that specific God? What makes that God so intolerable? What has made him so intolerable for 4,000 years? It's simple. And everything we debate today, everything that is bothering us, that we fight over, it all boils down to this one thing. Our God is a God that deals with each of us one at a time. He does not deal with the collective. And everything that everyone is debating right now is the collective. You have a different opinion? No, you don't have that opinion. You're over here with us, the collective. No, you want to be that? You can't be that. You have to be this over here. You disagree with my politics? You can't do that. You must join us here or you're an enemy. That's the collective. Marxism, it's the collective. Our God is the God of the individual. He speaks to one old childless man. When our God showed up, he spoke to an old childless man in the desert and he gave him a name. and one that will be known for generations, Abraham. He lets another man wrestle with him all night long, then blesses him and gives him a name, Jacob. He takes murderers and liars and criminals and cowards and tax collectors and calls them each by name into his glory, into his love. And then, when he finally settled the whole account, because some of us really screw up our lives, He didn't send his son to die for the collective. He didn't send his son to die for a movement. He sent his son to die for you and me, individually, one at a time. Jesus Christ came for you by name. Every collectivist system ever built has got to get rid of that God. They've got to get rid of that God because he's not a rival power. They have to get rid of that God because as long as you have any part of you that believes in that your God is the God of the individual, that he knows your name, that's a piece of you that the state, the power can never ever take. That's why, that's why Christ was killed. That's why martyrs are killed. That's why Charlie Kirk was killed. Charlie's message was of the one God. And it was not hate. If you ever heard him for five minutes, you know that it wasn't hate. It was love. And it was the pure love of Christ, which, by the way, is not soft. It's not sentimental. And believe me, the love of Christ will absolutely tell you when you're wrong. Stick with me on this for one more minute. What was Charlie most known for? When you look at Charlie and you see him like the rest of the world that just doesn't even know him. They just see him. He's known for a folding table on campus talking to one person at a time. listening to somebody who came there to humiliate him. Treating that kid like a man that he knows was made in the image of God. Wow, that sounds like what Christ did. Speaking, listening, reaching out to the one. and then the next, and then the next, knowing that he could do whatever he could do. He could love you, he could embrace you, he could speak kind words to you while speaking truth, knowing that a lot of these people are going to go away and hate him. He was doing the retail work of individual human beings one-on-one, and there is nothing more dangerous to any system that needs you to be a category. My son goes to this university. I was talking to him last week and I said, what do people need to hear? What do people in the hallway say about Charlie now? A year later, What are students saying? He had a lot to say, but my son told me one story about a 19-year-old girl who walked past their table last week and looked at them and said, oh, ow, ow, my throat hurts, and then made gurgling sounds. That's a 19-year-old girl. That's somebody's daughter. That is somebody, somewhere along the line, someone taught her that cruelty is a personality. And it's a fine one. If you're vicious enough to the right people, it becomes a virtue. And your many, many friends will laugh. I wondered what Charlie would say. And Charlie would say, she's not a monster, Glenn. She's a casualty. Somebody fed her that hate, and it will cost her far more than it will ever cost us. When something like that happens to you, and it will, if it hasn't happened yet, it will, what you need is not a comeback. Do not try to win that argument. A comeback is what they want. A comeback to get you riled up. And it makes the fight on her level. And then the whole room and the whole world gets to watch. If that happens to you, do this. Start with this. His name was Charlie Kirk. He was 31. He was 31. He had a wife and two babies. And you know what? If he were here, he wouldn't fire back at you. He would have talked to you for. 03:00:39 Speaker 12: About an hour. 03:00:40 Speaker 1: And my guess is, in that hour, he would have ended up really liking you. And there's a pretty good shot in that hour, you would have ended up really liking him. Then go to lunch. Here's why. You will lose that exchange in the room. Nobody's going to cheer for you with that answer. But you just might win in her head, in the dark, in the quiet of the night, at 2 a.m., when she sees your kindness and that response. That's when people change their lives. Not in a room with everybody arguing. Win them with kindness and grace. I'm going to give you a warning as I'm here talking about this 19-year-old girl. I am very concerned about a few things. And I want to start with women. And I don't... This is not an accusation. This is a warning. Okay? When a culture loses its women, that culture dies every time. When... When women become monsters, when women become men, that culture is in trouble. I want to explain something to all young women that you may not understand, and I speak from experience, because I'm a guy, and I know the effect of women and the effect women have had on my life. Women are not responsible for men. You're welcome. Here's what you are responsible for. You set a standard. You set a standard for guys. And every guy in this room knows that. Every guy knows that. You set a standard. I gotta tell you, I will lift the heaviest box. I will work my brains out. I will sober up. I'll provide. I will stand up in the hallway when the standard is being measured against us and it is high. But if you don't hold that standard, guys are going to sink to the lowest level you could possibly imagine. And maybe this is something that guys don't want to say, or maybe you don't want to hear, but we want to look up to the women in our lives. We want to. We need you to call us up. That's not a burden. That's more of a confession about guys. We need you. So to the women in the room, I got to tell you, I think you've been handed the most insulting definition of strength in American history. Strength as an attitude, a comeback. I don't need anybody. Never being surprised by anything. Never letting a man see that you wanted more than he offered. That's the lie that has put so many women in our culture right now in a corner with armor and swords. And they're like, oh, the world's against me. The world hates me. No, no, no, no. Consider perhaps the world doesn't hate you. Perhaps the world loves you. Perhaps you might be tired with all that armor and fighting. Perhaps you need to put that armor down and the only true armor you need is the full armor of God. The strongest women I have ever known are not the loudest. They're just the ones with a high standard that nobody could talk them out of. They were unbelievable. I say were. I'm thinking of my wife right now. She's unbelievably hard to impress. But she is unbelievably easy to love. So, women, please, do culture a society. Refuse to be impressed by the lesser version of the guy you know he can be. By the way, now, let me flip the table on you, brothers. Look what our society has done to our men. We have young men that cannot launch, 26 years old in the basement, 300 hours into a game, terrified of a job interview, but more terrified of asking a girl out for a date. That's not right. We need children. Get together. Get married. Have sex. Have lots of it. I mean, really, guys, it's not... this hard. By the way, by the way, by the way, when you ask a girl out to dinner, ask her to her face. 03:07:20 Speaker 15: Wait, wait, wait. 03:07:21 Speaker 1: Was that the girls doing that? Girl, you can cheer all you want. I thought that was the guys for a second. I'm like, I'm not done with you. When you ask a girl out for a date and you show up at her house, put some fricking pants on and a nice shirt. Don't show girls. I'm telling you right now, if a guy shows up at your door in cargo shorts, just say this. I'm sorry. Is that the same teacher t-shirt you were wearing earlier while you were playing your video games in your basement and then close the door? I guarantee he'll go put some pants on and he won't show up like that anymore. Don't you get dressed up for him if he's not going to dress up for you. You are owed more than that. You deserve more than that. And guys, so do you. So do you. You are amazing people. Start enjoying that. Start expressing that. Start looking at each other that way and going, man, This is unbelievable how great this is. Don't let the society drag you down. Don't. We now have men who will say anything online, but nothing at the Thanksgiving table. We have men who have never in their lives done a hard thing on purpose. Men who have somehow gotten the idea that fighting for right means posting. It's not. When Christ's own version... was walking into the temple, walking towards the cross, and telling Peter to put the sword away. Look at the pattern. Go to church, pick up your cross and carry it, and no violence. It's that easy. You were made on purpose. You were made for a purpose. And that's not a construct. I'm sorry I'm saying that at a university. That's not a stupid construct. That's the truth. You were made exactly the way you were supposed to be made. You have everything. No one can stop you. No one can stop you if you know who you are. You know who directs your steps. You ask for forgiveness. You're kind. You're gracious. Who's going to stop you? No one can stop you. Know that's your power. And it takes both male and female to build, both to fight, both to love, both to nurture, both to protect, both to raise up the next generation who will be better than I was, better than you are. That's our goal. Your goal, if you don't like the world, have children and raise better children. They will change the world. I'm just going to do it anyway. I met your, and I say this sincerely, I met your president of your university today. And I have to tell you, I said to him, boy, I don't envy you and your job. Because no matter which way you decided, you're hated by one side or the other. He was so gracious and kind. But let me speak about universities in general. You come to these places and you are told that you can sign for $ 120, 000 at 18. An amount of money no bank is going to give you for a car or for a house or the greatest business idea. They're not going to do it. But you can loan it to what? Do gender studies? Okay, let's just do the arithmetic on this one because nobody in this building will do the arithmetic with you. How much does that pay? Just show me the starting salary. Show me the interest in 20 years. You're not buying a degree. That's a mortgage on a house that you haven't seen and will never ever live in and one that you may not have needed in the first place. Do the math. Don't take... the money because you can get it. Man, you want to go find yourself? Go find yourself at a Taco Bell. Do that for $ 35. Don't spend $ 120, 000 to find yourself here. Because I got news for you. I went to Yale and I took Christology. You want to find God? You're not going to find him in Yale. You want to find yourself? You're not going to find him here. You're not going to find yourself here. While you're here, you're also probably told that family is something you can get to later. After the career. After the apartment. After you found yourself. As if family wasn't central to finding yourself. And honestly, honestly, this is the craziest thing, and I can say this because I've lived it, What they're telling you is the ability to have the energy and carry a toddler on your hip, that that's going to last forever. You're always going to have the energy to do that. 03:13:35 Speaker 8: No, you won't. 03:13:36 Speaker 1: No, you won't. Believe me, get to it while you're young. You're also most likely told... That God should be a nice private hobby, uninvolved, standing off to one side. No opinion on how you spend your Tuesdays. That's Sunday stuff. And you're also told it's all their fault. I don't even know who they are. But it's their fault. For whatever that might be. And they have all the power. And you can't fight against them. You can't change anything. You can't better your own life without some other group of people. And none of it is your fault. And none of it is your responsibility. You're smarter than that. You know this already. All of that is a lie. And who tells you this? They're not villains twisting their mustache. That's not who's telling you that. These lies are told to you by decent, tired people who at one point in their life were told the same thing, believed it, and never checked. And they're now saying it to you. There is a line that I'm sure you've heard. Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. We're in hard times. I don't know if you noticed it. We're in incredibly hard times. Let's go back to the math. Who created that? Oh, not strong men, weak men. Weak men. And now we have a society full of weak men preaching to you that it was the strong men that created the bad times. No, it doesn't work that way. It really doesn't work that way. It's weak men. And weak men are telling you that and they want you to be weak men too. I'm telling you, it was the weak men who broke it. And it is the strong man It is the strong woman that will build a much brighter tomorrow. It's you. You are living the hard times. Hard times makes? That's you. You're the strong man. You're the strong woman. What will you create? Good times. Hard times made us. And I relish that. This is something you hear in Utah very often. I'm an alcoholic Mormon. You do that crazy math, you'll be up all night. If it wasn't for all those hard times, That I created for myself. And all the whining. Nobody loves me. Nobody will give me a break. Oh God shut up the younger me. Oh, pathetic. But if it wasn't for the hard times that I created myself because I was a weak man, and then I met a great strong woman, I wouldn't be here today. It was the hard times that made me Enjoy the hard times. Embrace the hard times. Use the hard times to forge you into steel that will never bend and never break. You know, we serve God the best when we just live as proof to the things that we believe. That is the best way to convert somebody to your cause, to your faith, to whatever. Just live what you claim to believe. And when you do that, and it's true, there is so much joy in that. And that's how people change. They see your joy. You never have to pass out a brochure. You'll never stand at a table again. If you live the joy that the truth gives you when you live it, people are going to say, what the hell is wrong with them? And then they'll watch you some more and they'll be like, I don't know, they're all kind of happy. I'm not really happy. What the hell is wrong with them? And you will approach them and you will find out. And when you were as weak and as low and as broken as I was, you will say, I don't care if it takes me drinking chicken blood. I want to live like that. I want to be happy. I want to love people. I want to be full of joy. The strongest argument you will ever make about what works is just by living it. Nobody can argue with joy. So I want to leave you with a mission, if I may. I want you to tell the truth in every way. That boy shows up with cargo shorts on a date and you're all dressed up. Tell him the truth. I want you to stand and tell the truth out loud with your name on it. But I want you to tell it lovingly. Oh, you're wearing cargo shorts. Tell them without compromise, without flinching, and say it to their face. Don't post it. That's what Charlie called us to do. This is what God is calling us to do. This is what God has been calling man to do since Abraham. Do the hard thing on purpose and with purpose before life makes you do it. Get knowledge. Get skills. Get the job. Get out of debt. Get in shape. Get married. Have children. Build. Take every individual seriously. Push back the darkness and stay close to God. The God of that one man in the desert. The personal one. The one you can wrestle with. The one who knows your name. The one who gives you your name. And that's it. It's no more complex than that. That's all you have to do. God. 03:20:59 Speaker 26: God. 03:21:00 Speaker 1: I wish I would have heard me say this when I was 18, because... I love you. But, sir, I'm happily married. Look, we can joke, and I said, that's it, it's no more complicated than that. This sucks. That's a hard list to do. That's a hard list to do. And it will take everything that you have. It'll take all you got. But I'm promising you, it will give you more than you ever can dream. I'm inviting you to join us. To join the happy people. To join the people who are just searching for truth. And we get it wrong from time to time. But when we do, we go, that one's on me. Sorry about that. find the work find the joy in the work find the power of joy god right now is he's just standing in a field and he's looking at the benches where you're sitting and he's not asking if you're qualified he's never asked anybody if they were qualified before he's talked to a shepherd a stutterer a teenager a prostitute and a fisherman quite frankly that could not keep his mouth shut he's not looking for qualified he's looking for you by name and he's just looking back going come on this is going to be great are you coming come on come that's what god's saying to you you've heard this all night on the iced coffee hour, Graham asked him, Charlie, how do you want to be remembered? I want to be remembered for the courage of my faith. Charlie, mission accomplished. That is how we remember you. That's how Charlie wanted to be remembered. I want you to ask yourself tonight and every day, how do you want to be remembered? And live it, live it, and live it in joy. 03:23:48 Speaker 10: God bless.