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Speaker 2Hello, Welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show.
We have a special Christmas episode here and we wanted to mark the holiday with something very important.
I'm here with Danny in the studio, and I believe we also have Mikey from his secret base to the North.
Speaker 3Welcome to both of you there.
Speaker 4Charlie Kirk Northern Studio.
Speaker 2Excellent, excellent.
I've never seen the mythical Northern Studio, but perhaps one day.
And so today's episode what we wanted to do.
It's our first, it's our first Christmas without Charlie.
We all miss him terribly, and we thought what we should do is we should give a chance for everyone on the team who wants to to share their favorite stories about Charlie, how funny stuff, how he impacted their lives.
Speaker 3So it's not just going to be Mikey, Danny me.
Speaker 2It's where we asked Bryden, we asked Kylie, we asked Brian, we asked a lot of people you've never seen on camera, but we wanted to get them a chance to speak up.
Some of them can't come on because they are in fact working the cameras right now and can't leave them.
But what will still give them their due?
But so Danny, how about we go with you first?
It's your favorite Charlie too.
Speaker 5So I have two pretty funny ones.
The first one is like, I'm a big o Highest State fan.
And so Charlie and I Highest Date played Oregon twice last year, and the first time Charlie was actually at the game and Oregon won on like this last second play.
And so immediately as soon as the game ends, my phone just starts blowing up from Mikey and Charlie like trash talking the heck, he's just insane, like, oh, what happened in this game?
Speaker 3Like all this crazy stuff.
Yeah.
Speaker 5So then when they ended up playing later in the season.
Speaker 3Thirty two to thirty one, that must have been an amazing game.
Yeah.
Speaker 5And so then they played later in the sea in an Ohio State one and so then I was giving it back to him, and after the game, this like sweatshirt at OSU campus they were selling it was like the Brutus mascot of Ohio State with a shotgun, like shooting ducks out of the sky and like duck hunting.
And so I bought one and I shipped it to Mikey for Mikey to wear in front of Charlie.
And so Mikey wore that to the office in front of Charlie is just my get back because I was still at school.
Speaker 3That's amazing.
People would always ask why Charlie was that game?
Speaker 6Yeah, actually his family all went there, and yep, because he never went He never went to college, but he loved sports, so he decided to become a Ducks fan.
But that game was also the game where everybody was making fun of Charlie for having ear plugs in because it.
Speaker 2Was, yeah, the same one because be'st hearing he got.
He got so much for that, and I was I was always his defender.
I said, you should wear earplugs at games, like you don't need to get hearing damage to.
Speaker 4Prove you're a real also fan.
Speaker 6I have to admit something live right now, this is going to be this is gonna shock Danny, really Danny.
Speaker 4I never wore that sweatshirt in front of Charlie.
Speaker 3No, how could you betrayal?
Speaker 2That is a betrayal.
That's treacherous.
Speaker 3I told Charlie about it.
You have to wear it on the show sometime.
Now, Mikey, that's what you.
Speaker 2Have to do.
Speaker 5I'll wear mine into the office now.
Speaker 4I would never wear that trash.
But let me say this.
Speaker 3I have a picture of Mike.
Speaker 6It's very likely that Ohio State in Oregon will play again, and so the question is, Danny, who will your allegiance be to Charlie's favorite team or this trashy team Ohio State.
Speaker 3You know, I don't.
Speaker 5I don't criss cross, so I'm still rooting for the buck Eyes.
But if Ohio State were to lose, I would not be upset about it.
Speaker 3Do you have anything fun Mikey you want to share?
Speaker 6Well, we were just reminiscing Blake from our Asia trip about how funny of a tourist Charlie was.
We're walking through the streets of Tokyo and instead of like traditionally wanting to take pictures in front of beautiful Japanese architecture or whatever it is, whatever the biggest tourist traps are, Charlie saw an outback steakhouse and he was like, Blake, Mikey, it's an outback steakhouse in Tokyo.
Speaker 4We need to take a picture.
Speaker 2And he did, and he literally and if he'd gone there, it would have been the best outback steakhouse in the world, I'm sure.
Speaker 3Charlie.
Speaker 2He was so excited to go to Asia, where Daisy is sending us his messages from March of this year.
Fyi, in September, I'm taking two days off to go to South Korea.
I'll do a podcast from there, just FYI.
I really want to speak in Asia.
I'm so excited.
And he was so excited.
He was so excited when he saw a outback steakhouse, insisted on immediately taking a photo in front of it.
And we have that photo.
That is the japan outback.
I'm sure it's the tastiest outback you've ever been to.
I kind of I kind of want to go there now.
I like Japan.
Japanese food is good, but Japanese takes on foreign American just different country foods is It's really interesting and incredible and I can highly recommend it.
Speaker 3But we're going to get stories.
Speaker 6To be real, Charlie would not have stopped to eat food.
We were walking so fast and you see the entire city.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, no.
He he was a really energetic guy.
Speaker 2He just had to drop us at a south end of Shinjuku, I believe was the neighborhood we were in.
Speaker 3No Shibuya.
Speaker 2We stopped in Shibuya and we walked north towards the Mejia Cry and we went to don Quixote.
He crammed a lot into We only really spent two and a half hours walking across the city, but he managed to make a lot of it, as he made a lot of all his of all his time in life.
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Speaker 2Danny, you had another very funny story and it made it made me raise an eyebrow before the show started.
Speaker 3You're gonna have to explain this one way.
Speaker 5Yeah, So, okay, let's preface with there's not a lot that can catch Charlie off guard, but uh, I think Mikey and I were able to achieve that.
So earlier this year, we were in Maine and Charlie's on like this nice hike with Erica, and so while he's doing that, Mikey and I are paddle boarding in the ocean, and Mikey tackled me off of my paddle board.
Speaker 4Into this Like many times, by the way, yeah.
Speaker 5Into this big thing of seaweed, and so we both get out and then we're like paddle boarding away and we're like, our feet are hurting.
It turns out we both got stung by jelly things.
Whoa, And so we get back to the house and my foot is like killing me.
So I'm running up and down this driveway burned, it burns.
So I'm running up and down this driveway still in my swimsuit, shirtless.
Charlie pulls up in the car from the hike, sees me just running shirtless down the driveway and he's like, what the heck is going on.
We explained that I just got like stung by a jellyfish, and Erica pops out of the car and her first thing is like, Charlie, you've been drinking so much water.
Speaker 3Go pee on him.
And I was like, what is happening?
And so that did not happen.
That did not happen.
Speaker 5I said, I would rather lose my foot, and Charlie is like, yeah, that's not happening, Erica, that's never happening.
Speaker 6Wait part of the story, Danny, You're leaving out a part of the story where where Betty comes out with a bottle of vinegar.
She goes, this will this will make you feel better, and Elizabeth pours it on you and Danny scream.
Speaker 3At the top Okay Ohio State fight song.
Speaker 5No, I have snapped my ankle in half, like broken stuff.
That pain of the white vinegar on the jellyfish sting was so much worse.
So then immediately after that, that's when I started running up and down the driveway because the pain was so bad.
Speaker 3Yeah, it might have been better.
Speaker 2I heard that would have.
Speaker 3Been a lifeline through the wall.
Speaker 2Creepy ragging rights.
I suppose that is.
That's a really funny one, Mike.
Do you have any other ones that you wanted to share before we start getting into the members of the team.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 6The The other thing is Charlie was just notoriously generous.
It was something that a lot of people just didn't know behind the scenes.
And Charlie's philosophy and giving is that he didn't like telling people about how he gave because he felt like it stole the blessing of it.
So all of us, Blake, Danny, myself, churches in this community have so many stories of Charlie's epic and amazing generosity and we can all just kind of think of that, but I just want the world to know how generous he really was, especially this time of year.
He would see something and he'd want it fixed, and he would go above and beyond to show that generosity to so many different people, especially at Christmas time, to random groups too that they're like, is this the Charlie Kirk donating to us?
And it was oftentimes that was the case.
So he was just epically generous and I think both of you guys can agree with that.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2I mean I remember he asked what I was doing for my birthday this year, which is late August, so this is just before the trip, and I'm not a big birthday guy, so I was like, I don't.
Speaker 3Have much of a plan, and he just said, all right, Danny, you and Nate.
It was you and Nate.
He's like, you and Nate, just.
Speaker 2Let's go go to this restaurant in Scottsdale and just have a fun time with Blake and I'll pay for it.
And he did, and that was a really fun memory of mine from this year.
Just not asked for, not sowed after, and he just did it because he was that kind of guy and an amazing person.
Speaking of Nate, we want to start getting into these stories.
We asked all of our team members, some of them who can't be here or they're working behind the cameras, but we wanted to get their stories, and so Nate.
He shared a core memory for me with Charlie.
It was going on my first trip with him.
I was super nervous.
I didn't want to mess anything up.
I ordered food for us in the team and Charlie said, Nate, I hope this food you picked is good.
We sat down.
Speaker 3He told me to sit across from him because he wanted to get me to know me personally.
He asked about my background, my family, my faith, and of course sports.
Speaker 2And this just showed me the type of guy Charlie was, and I can I can back that up.
Speaker 3Charlie.
Speaker 2He would he would really want to digest what your your background was, so if only.
Speaker 3So he could tease you about it.
So he was always bringing up that.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, Blake, you went to Dartmouth.
I never talked about that, but he would always bring it up.
And he yeah, would bring up the Dakotas stuff like that, And I know that's how I think that's how you got your job with Charlie just talking with him because you were you were driving him to the airport, right.
Speaker 6Yeah, yeah, literally, I was driving to the airport.
I was a graduating senior from high school.
I was going to college him and his then girlfriend Erica at the time.
And the entire time he was just asking me questions about myself.
And that was Charlie.
He wanted to know.
He genuinely wanted to know who you were in your story, and it was I don't know what his criteria was, but he would sometimes be impressed.
Speaker 4Sometimes he would just, you know, move on.
Speaker 6But I guess I impressed him somehow because afterwards he was like, Okay, how about you don't go to college and come work for me.
But I actually, to Nate's point about this story, I remember that trip because oftentimes you think it's just.
Speaker 4A story, but to Charlie was so much more.
Speaker 6And so as he was asking Nate all these questions, he was texting me and he was like, Wow, Nate's an awesome guy.
Speaker 4You know, he comes from a great family.
Speaker 6And I was like getting the updates from the story of what he was impressed with in real time, and he wanted to not just be impressed by you, but wanted to share how impressive you were with the world and who you came in contact with to what you brought up Blake.
You know, you never even talked about how you went to Dartmouth, but Charlie would oftentimes tell a lot of people that you went to Dartmouth.
Speaker 3He would do that.
Speaker 2He took a lot of pride in his team.
He took just he loved us and we loved him.
We have a clip.
This was sent to us by Catherine.
I think we can get it in before the break.
Let's play clip one eight one.
Speaker 1Hitting that one because he's just the perfect with not too fat, not too skinny.
Speaker 8You like that tree, Yes, it's the best one remaining, but we got the right one.
Speaker 5This one's perfect.
Speaker 1All right, We're done these little things.
Speaker 4No, are you the tree expert?
Speaker 3At the tree expert?
Speaker 1After many decades of living in the Midwest, I know a good tree.
Speaker 3The best they had remained.
That was Charlie hunting for Christmas trees.
Speaker 2You can tell that.
So Charlie, he's like, I need to pick one.
They picked it out.
I'm an expert, got the right one.
So we've got some of our team members.
I really wanted to share these ones because these are some of the guys that you don't you very rarely see except in the background of some tabling events and so on.
Speaker 3The studio crew.
I wanted them to come on camera, and they told me that emphatically they could not do this.
So let's dive into it.
We've got Brian.
Speaker 2He is one of the vast Farnsworth clan that we have several members on this show, and then not that well, they're pretty vast, but Brian on the team, and he says, Charlie basically never stopped working, even in the car or on the plane.
He was constantly on phone calls, reviewing, strategy, reading, et cetera.
But one night we had a red eye flight back to Phoenix, and it was one of those rare times it felt like all the work was done.
I saw Charlie pull out his iPad and he put on a movie.
Speaker 3I guess the movie is Danny, Well, I know the story I was there.
What you can ask Mikey, Mikey, do you remember?
If you don't remember, do you can you guess what movie Charlie would have watched on his iPad?
Speaker 4I was with him when he watched Harry Potter on his iPad.
Speaker 3All right, that's what it was.
Speaker 2It was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on his iPad.
And Brian adds, Charlie was such an innocent soul and he seldom had a moment to relax.
Speaker 3I love that he picked Harry Potter, of all.
Speaker 2Things, and thinking on it, he probably thought it was kind of dumb or silly.
Speaker 3I don't know if he actually read Harry.
Speaker 6Potter or not, but well, hold on, hold on here, Okay, this Brian makes it sound like Charlie watched movies on his iPad often.
In all my time ever traveling Charlie, I only saw that happen one time, and that was literally the one time.
Speaker 2I think that was the only time, the only movies.
We actually had a discussion on what movies Charlie liked, and he he really liked like zero irony, action movies.
Speaker 3I think that really gets that Charlie's character.
Speaker 2Like some people, they really love all deep moral complexities and you know, shades of gray, and Charlie loves action movies.
Speaker 3He loved The Equalizer, I believe, and he would just describe it.
Speaker 4Yeah, he looks great, Blazer.
Speaker 3He's this good guy.
Speaker 2He's a former Special Force guy and he just finds people who are in trouble and he saves the day for them.
And you just know that's how Charlie saw himself for America, for Conservatism, and I just I love that straightforward earnestness about it.
It gets out a lot of what made him so great.
We have a story from Kylie, another of our studio crew.
If these don't have to be Christmas related, My favorite memory is when he thought that Michael made South Park artwork of him.
Speaker 3When Charlie got on South Park.
Speaker 2Where we have it, Michael made this and Charlie just thought it was Ai and but it was that was made by our own team member and it was really good.
I think that was even came out before the episode was made.
It was Yeah, the episode was announced, but we hadn't seen it, and they made that.
Speaker 3That was really good.
Speaker 2Also, Kylie says she loved every time much that he printed it out, Yes he did, printed it out and put him behind yeah, on the phone board behind Yes he did, Yes he did.
And Kylie also says she loved every time.
Charlie said let's see if I can get it right here?
Speaker 3Racist?
Did I get it right?
Racist?
Yeah?
Speaker 2Something like that got a role.
They are a little more Mikey.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's better, that's better.
Speaker 9Yeah.
Speaker 4I don't think anybody can do it as good as he did.
Speaker 3Yeah, can you do it racious?
That close enough?
That's close enough, not good enough?
Yeah, Michael chimes in.
Speaker 2My favorite is when he reacted to my artwork of the South Park episode, and also he would guess the music that he was picking to play on the show.
Michael picks a lot of our intro and outro songs.
He loved playing American Girl by Tom Petty, and he also loved Joker and the Thief by wolf Mother, which I can't remember how that sounds, so you should Well, I can't set for that outro.
We're doing Christmas music today, but I don't know how to play it for me later, Michael, I want to hear that to remember what it was man that the South Park episode is definitely one of my enduring memories.
Speaker 3For Charlie, he was so.
Speaker 2Excited to get on it and it had to be such a trip that he grew up watching the show and seeing episodes of it and it lasts long enough you never imagine, oh, I might be in one of those episodes.
Speaker 5Well, Mike and I were actually with him when he found out that he was going to be on South Park because they didn't say anything.
They just released like that trailer I believe for that episode he was on.
So it was going viral on Twitter, and he came to Mikey and I was like just asking all these questions, like how big of a deal is this?
Is this good for the culture war?
Speaker 3Stuff, like that's pretty sweet, that's amazing.
Speaker 4Yeah, yes, it's big.
It's big, Charlie.
Speaker 6And then we're in Colorado Springs when it came out and he had this meeting with the Air Force Academy team because he said he sat on the board there and.
Speaker 3He was like, I don't want to watch, just tell me how it is.
Speaker 4And then he comes out.
Speaker 6I was like, it was hilarious, it was great, and I was showing him clips and he's like, oh, I wish I watched it live.
Speaker 4I was like, you said you didn't want to.
Speaker 3But yeah, it was.
It was incredible.
We have three seconds.
Speaker 2Andrew couldn't join us right now, but he said, my favorite memory of Charlie is the composite of all the hard fought winds.
We faced a ton of set backs over the years.
It made the winds more meaningful.
And Charlie would always, without fail say something along the lines of God is good, he has his hand on this.
Stay humble, stay close to Jesus.
Let's work harder.
That was always the chief to mention of Charlie.
It's why he was such a great man.
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Speaker 2We have rotated in Emma, Emma, Kate, and Daisy.
Hey you've seen You've seen them on here from time to time.
Daisy loves to ask me questions about things, and occasionally I ask her questions about things.
Speaker 11My questions for Blake are much more important world topics.
Speaker 2They are they are.
That's because she's a more serious person than I am.
She really wants to understand the world, and she's great at.
Speaker 11The exact I don't think anyone's described me as more serious to you.
Speaker 3So you worked with Charlie a quite long time, right, Yeah?
Speaker 11Yeah, since December of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2All right, Yeah, longer than me for sure, And what's your favorite Charlie story?
Speaker 11I have so many.
But also what a lot of us were talking about in our green room extept before we started was that so many of our memories are like just us being with Charlie every day.
Like it's not like we have huge, fun, amazing memories that we can look back on, but it's also so fun to just be like, oh, I remember when he would walk in wearing his compression sacks every day, Like that's also funny.
Ready, sports fans, yes, nask all the Cubs games on the TVs.
So so many of it is so fun.
But I when we were talking about some of our favorite memories, I know this is shared by everyone as a hallmark Charlie memory.
I know Dallan said that this one was one of his favorites too.
When we've all we've spoken about Rio several times.
We love him.
He has become a friend of the show, someone that Charlie met, that flew all the way from Asia to come to America Fest, and Charlie met him in America Fest.
They got along super well.
He loved him and he was like, what are you doing for Christmas?
And Rio's like Oh, I don't know, I don't really have any plans.
I'm in America, and Charlie's like come over, come spend Christmas with me and just had Christmas with their family and then was just at our office every day just hung out.
Speaker 3That was awesome.
And then he showed us around Japan.
He was such a great guy.
Speaker 11It ended up being a full circle moment for everyone.
But we that was something that we talk about quite often.
Speaker 12Yeah, we love Rio, and that relationship was just so like so Hallmark Charlie of just like really taking somebody in and like making them part of the team and part of the family, just because like Charlie was really good at seeing like good people and picking them out and Rio is a prime example of.
Speaker 11That, and so good at remembering names like yeah, and in the amount of conferences and we just finished amphis and there are people whose names I know just because Charlie would remember emailing with them or meeting them at a meeting.
Great that are just he will never forget your name.
Speaker 12One of my favorite things about Charlie was when I was going through tabling footage, sometimes he would get like repeat people coming to the mic and he would remember exactly what they said, exactly what school they were at, and he would say, oh, this is what you asked me last time.
And there was one time this kid was messing with him and was like, no, that wasn't me.
I don't know what you're talking about.
And then at the end of the interaction, the kid was like, yeah, it was me.
You were totally right.
I don't know how you remembered that.
Speaker 3Amazing talent.
Speaker 11Astonishing.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 8Uh.
Speaker 2We have Brayden another member of our team.
He was very notably.
He was a guy we sent on assignment to DC.
He helped with the transition, and he says, my favorite memory is from when I was working in DC.
We had a particularly hectic day, a lot of those in DC, and all of a sudden, Charlie comes speed walking in from around the corner with a massive smile on his face, which immediately raised the morale of the entire office.
He always made the effort to see his people whenever he made the trip to DC, and it never failed to raise everyone's spirits.
We've heard about that from people who were in the White House too, like him whizzing around the West Wing and he just always had that energy that presence that let's go, let's go.
Speaker 11Which I even feel like it says a lot for those of us that were with him every day, Like there was not a day that Charlie came in that made the day worse.
Like every morning he was excited to do this show, yes, and to get to work, like there was never there was you know, you see some people's time.
Speaker 3There was no it's gonna be bad.
Speaker 11Yeah, always excited to work, which made everyone else excited.
Speaker 10Yeah.
Speaker 6Well, just to brag on Brandon and Charlie, I mean, it was New Year's Eve last year that we flew straight to Palm Beach, missed the New Year's We spent New Year's Day in our hotel room at the Hilton Palm Beach just kind of watching the ball drop on the TV.
But Charlie wanted to make sure the transition went well.
And so part of the reason Brayden was in the White House is he was kind of like Charlie's guy in there, helping oversee a lot of stuff.
And actually, to Brayden's credit, like he went through a lot of hardship in the White House, and that story is really awesome because Charlie would always go.
Speaker 4To DC and he'd be seen all the time.
Speaker 6And I remember a couple of weeks ago we were meeting with Linda McMahon and she shared that story with Erica.
She was like, you know, it was crazy because at first we were like, why is Charlie here?
And then we started to say to ourselves, man, we really like it that Charlie's around here.
And he was like the one outside of the administration that was just always seen walking around the halls, the West Wing, the one helping with their transition.
He played such a pivotal role in that, and yet he didn't even have a seat in the administration.
Speaker 4He just kind of helped select everybody.
Speaker 6In there, and he was just he was consistent and present both in and out of the White House.
Speaker 2Yeah, we've heard from so many people who there express thanks to me to Andrew where I'm here because Charlie advocated for me so hard, and I'd never met him before.
Speaker 3He was just so impressed.
Speaker 2He was that endless motor, that endless energy.
It's such a positive feeling.
It's why he lit up so many people's lives.
Speaker 11I also just really quickly on that note, Mike, you want to say that I think we all remember when y'all picked up and we're like, we're gonna We're gonna go help.
And then the rest of us were like, Okay, but we're still gonna do the show every day, right, And we still made it work.
But it was a very complicated couple of months.
Speaker 3Very very complicated.
I know it was supposed to.
Speaker 4Be a week.
Speaker 11It just kept getting longer and longer.
Speaker 2I is Charlie ever coming back?
And we were a little worried about it.
Speaker 11For all to move, Yeah, what's the plan?
Speaker 3It was funny we have Catherine sent in a story.
Speaker 2She says her favorite story was she was in Sedona and Charlie was in full dad mode watching college football with his parents.
Speaker 3I don't know what that looks like, but I can kind of.
Speaker 11I just how so many people's memories are Charlie in college.
Speaker 8It is.
Speaker 3A little different.
Speaker 2I remember when the US was in the World Cup and we were doing the show.
I don't even think I lived here yet.
I think I only remember this via telegram.
But Charlie was super distracted from the show because he had his iPad and was just watching the World Cup.
Speaker 3Games that America was in in the middle of the show.
Speaker 2Yes, I just he'd do a five second question to the guest and then just with.
Speaker 11The Olympics, with March Madness, we would have an iPad set up there.
I remember March Madness, he wanted all of his brackets printed out so it would look like he's having like notes for the show.
They're just as March Madness brackets, just like filling them out, as as who got marked off if he's how on track he is.
He made a couple different brackets every year, it was, but he bounced it all.
Yeah, somehow show every day.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 6He was just such a good dad too, like Catherine talks about him in dad mode, Like Blake, do you remember when we were in Tokyo and we went into don Quixote.
Yeah, and he just wanted to get all the stuff for his kids.
Yeah, and he wanted that It was so much, Yes, Oh it was a ton.
He got a ton of stuff.
I remember he wanted that Curious George clock.
And I feel like maybe we should send Rio off to find that clock.
I think that would be a fun get if we can, if we can track it down.
Speaker 11I Mikey, I really want I don't remember who all was around then.
But when Charlie and Rika had their first child, and before then, Charlie was he's he's always been excited to work, always been very focused on work.
But it was very much work, work, work, work, work, work work.
And then she was born and Mike and I were like, Okay, so are we still gonna work all the time or what what's the deal?
And he like when he's working, he's working.
As soon as he saw his kids, instantly would get melted.
And it's just like he became so dad, so full on dad mode as soon as she was born.
It was so amazing to watch.
Speaker 2Yeah, speaking of we got so Ryan and Riley on our team.
They are married, they had a baby about a year ago, and their favorite memory I got this from Riley.
She says she remembers Charlie non stop texting Ryan for anything we needed while in the hospital when I was giving birth, and how excited he was that our baby ended up being born on his birthday.
Speaker 3I forgot about that.
Speaker 2Yeah, he sent us chargers clothes and food and instantly connected us with a very Maha pediatrician.
Speaker 11Yeah, that is so Charlie.
Speaker 3That's great.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I know he was very excited for your baby, Daisy.
Speaker 11And in thinking about the favorite memories too, my kid.
I don't know if you remember this, but when I facetimed him in Erica and you were all together when we found out it was a girl, and Charlie had said from day one that he thought it was a girl, she was so sorry.
And his only reaction on the phone, he goes, I already knew it, like.
Speaker 3I we had the cake.
Speaker 11He was like, yeah, we didn't have.
Speaker 3I already announced.
No, he was Daisy.
Speaker 4Tell them what he wanted to name what he wanted.
Speaker 11To Charlie multiple We have this conversation multiple times, and he was like, I know that it's weird, but I do think you should consider naming her Daisy.
I was like, Charlie, this is already my name, Like I, I can't just reuse my own name.
It's already being used.
He was like, I know it's a little it's a little different, but it's just such a good name that I think someone else should use it again.
Great, maybe I'll consider that for the next one.
Speaker 3But her name.
Speaker 11Was it was so funer.
Eric asked me that morning if I was pregnant, and I was like, no, no, because I wanted to tell them together.
I also knew that as soon as I told one of them, both of them were going to as soon as I told their kids.
Then the whole office was kind.
Speaker 3Of so I missed it.
Speaker 2I was out and I walk in and I just got Daisy walks up.
She's like, I'm pregnant, by the way, and well even the.
Speaker 11Other day, speaking of Charlie caring so much about what her name was, Charlie's kids were with this the other day, and his daughter suggested a new name that I haven't considered yet.
But she really wants me to name my daughter Grinch, so that is now on the table.
Speaker 3Rynch Okay, yeah, she was.
Speaker 11Really inspired by.
Speaker 3From movies.
Speaker 11Yeah, Grinch wasn't wasn't on my list of options, but now I'm considering contender.
Speaker 3Yeah, Rynch phelps.
Speaker 11Yeah, it's it doesn't flow, but I would do anything to make her happy at this point, So maybe I'll consider.
Speaker 3Oh Man, anything else from you.
Speaker 12I'm a kay I When I was thinking about, like, one of my favorite Charlie stories was before he went to Washington State University this spring.
He had only previously been there once.
It's where I'm from really close to that area, and he'd been there once and he went in January, where if you know anything about eastern Washington, it's ugly, it's horrible in January, and so Charlie just thought that's what all of Eastern Washington was like.
So he said on air, he was like, it's so such a barren land.
I don't like it up there.
I'm messaging him defending my homeland in the chat.
And then he went there and it was spring, so it was wonderful and beautiful.
And he came back that next Monday and he was like, I have to say sorry to Emma Kate.
It was beautiful.
I was wrong, And it was just really funny that he corrected it.
Speaker 11On air anytime anyone mentioned Eastern Washington from that point on MM Kate's homeland, the land that's where comes from.
Speaker 2I wanted to make sure we got this.
Noah was a very new member of our team.
He truthfully was here just a few days before what happened.
But he said he wanted to mention that he had a nice clip that went up just in that first time he was here, and he mentioned that Charlie went out of his way to give him a pat on the back for that to say, good job, Noah, welcome.
Speaker 3To the team.
And Charlie, Yeah, Charlie.
Speaker 2Charlie call him Charlie, and that's who he is to all of us.
Speaker 3He's Charlie.
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Speaker 2Did you get anything other else from from Dallen before we went in?
Speaker 3Or is he just he's a taciturn one down.
Speaker 12He just has so many stories of like being on campus with Charlie, especially in the early days, Like there are a multiple multitude of stories I've heard of him being on campus with Charlie and just spending so much time with him in the first days of tabling that I think those are just some really unique stories that not the rest of us have, Like it just really being part of like the early of Charlie b kame when.
Speaker 3There are more people on the team than who actually came up to ask you.
Speaker 2It's so funny that's the real og Charlie team.
Speaker 6That's an important thing that you just both you guys said, right.
So Charlie was a super loyal person, but it was kind of a two way street for him, and so a lot of the team that's around him has been there for a really long time.
Speaker 4In Dallan's one of those back.
Speaker 6When, like what Blake said, there was literally more people working the table than there were coming up to the table.
Charlie used to beg, beg for students to come up and debate him way back in the day, and then towards the end, we didn't even have space to fit all these students, and through the entire process, people like Dowlan, the Farnsworths, all of us were just there to be rely.
Speaker 2It speaks to him that there were so many people who were there for so long, who were started when there really was no necessarily proof that it would go become as big as it did, but they stuck around.
We have one last member of our team whose story we want to tell.
It's Heidi, and we picked her last for a reason.
She says, one of my favorite memories is when he saw the rush was right shirt for the first time unfortunate.
Speaker 3You can't get that now.
It's a sold out one.
Speaker 11But we'll try and bring it back.
Maybe we will have a heart attack hearing me.
Speaker 3I love that.
Speaker 2Charlie was a huge Rush Limbaugh, and he modeled this whole on air persona after Rush.
He thought he was the best there ever was.
Howdy says she was shocked.
He loved it so much.
She shouldn't have been.
Speaker 3So we're going to close this show.
Speaker 2We're going to revisit one of Charlie's favorite Rush clips, one of the best clips Rush ever did.
It's his final Christmas message to his viewers.
Speaker 9It reminds me how much I love all of you, how much I so appreciate everything you've meant to me and my family.
You don't have any idea how I know so many people think this program has changed their lives for the better.
Speaker 3You have no.
Speaker 9Idea what you all have meant to me and my family.
The day is going to come, folks, where I'm not going to be able to do this.
I don't know when that is.
I want to be able to do it for as long as I want to do it.
I want to, but the day will come where I'm not going to be able to and I want you to understand that even when the day comes, I'd like to be here.
Speaker 1Rush Limbaugh loved Christmas.
He loved Christmas, and this Christmas we always dedicate the last segment that we do live to the great and legendary Rush Limba, and we do that in a way with that clip as the start, and then Rush's favorite Christmas song as we look back at this last year, time to be grateful, to be filled with gratitude.
Speaker 3That was Charlie.
Wow, we heard it from Rush.
Speaker 2We don't know he didn't know how long he would do it.
None of us know how long we'll be here.
None of us expected to lose Charlie as soon as we did.
But Charlie always wanted to remember Rush, and we will always want everyone to remember Charlie, and all of us will be doing that for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 3I expect.
Speaker 11It's crazy like every year we watch we have that same clip, the same last segment, and I just didn't expect it.
Speaker 2Hits very differently this time.
But we're going to continue to end the show right before Christmas the way Charlie loved, to the way he would want us to We're going to remember both Great Rush Limbaugh and the immortal Charlie Kirk with their favorite Christmas song, the Carol of the Bells.
Speaker 3Merry Christmas to all of you, and we'll see you soon.
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