Andrew K. Smith Held Charlie Kirk's Last Extended Conversation

Showing 5 Andrew K. Smith videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Andrew K. Smith holds a specific, difficult distinction in the record of Charlie Kirk's final hours: as co-founder of the Savory Fund, he interviewed Kirk on stage at his own Restaurantology 2025 event in Salt Lake City just hours before the assassination, an invitation Smith has said he'd initially been hesitant to extend given the political attention it might draw to his business-focused conference. Kirk's appearance instead became, in Smith's account, a genuinely unifying moment, with Kirk discussing entrepreneurship, faith, and his own optimism about America's future in a register far removed from campus-debate confrontation.

Smith's account of the day's abrupt ending, forty minutes after Kirk left the stage, having to return to the same audience and announce what had happened, gave his testimony a specific emotional weight distinct from most other firsthand accounts of Kirk's final day: he wasn't present at the shooting itself, but he held what may have been Kirk's last extended public conversation, one built around real estate ventures and future business collaboration rather than politics. That conversation's ordinary, forward-looking content, discussed without any awareness of what was coming within the hour, has made Smith's specific recollection one of the more quietly poignant threads in how Kirk's final day has been documented.