Erika Kirk Reveals How The Charlie Kirk Show Will Continue His Legacy and Mission

[00:00] We are joined by the great, the one and

[00:02] only

[00:04] Erica Kirk. Welcome.

[00:06] >> Thank you. Thanks. It's surreal to

[00:08] actually be sitting cuz last time I was

[00:10] standing, but

[00:11] >> Yeah.

[00:12] >> I don't know. Just to sit. It's a little

[00:14] more emotional.

[00:15] >> Yeah.

[00:15] >> Yeah.

[00:15] >> Yeah.

[00:16] >> Well, you are rightly at the head of the

[00:18] table and we're just so honored to have

[00:20] you here. I know that

[00:22] >> you have been To say that your life has

[00:25] been a whirlwind would be the

[00:27] understatement of the century. and uh to

[00:30] make time for Charlie's audience and to

[00:33] speak to them. I know that they can't

[00:35] wait to hear from you and just to see

[00:37] you, just to see you in this room

[00:39] probably means a lot to them. And you've

[00:41] been up against so much and you've been

[00:43] doing an incredible, incredible job. The

[00:45] number of messages I've heard just

[00:48] complimenting you and your dignity and

[00:49] your poise and your strength has been

[00:52] overwhelming and um yeah, we're just so

[00:55] glad you're here. No,

[00:56] >> I'm grateful. I mean, I know we talked

[00:57] about this. We prayed on it.

[01:00] We really tried to

[01:03] um discern properly how to go about the

[01:08] next few stages and steps of everything.

[01:12] And we've been very intentional

[01:15] in in a way that always keeps Charlie

[01:18] first and his dreams alive and his

[01:23] legacy going. And what's so beautiful is

[01:26] to see all of you

[01:29] step in and do that.

[01:31] >> And so part of the reason why I wanted

[01:33] to I agreed to come on cuz this is not

[01:36] going to be a forever thing of me being

[01:39] on hosting the show um was because I I

[01:44] gave assurance to people that Turning

[01:48] Point USA is continuing and it is. I

[01:51] mean, we are so blessed to have more

[01:54] work than we even

[01:56] >> could ever dream of. I mean, it's it's

[01:58] beautiful. And Turning Point Action,

[02:01] full steam ahead. So powerful. Um, all

[02:05] of the other programs within Turning

[02:07] Point USA. Everyone knows what they're

[02:09] doing. Everyone has their marching

[02:10] orders. And

[02:13] the show when we talked about this

[02:15] became very intimate for me

[02:18] because

[02:20] I was there from the beginning of all of

[02:21] it.

[02:22] >> And I'll never forget

[02:25] 2020 when literally the world stood

[02:28] still and Charlie and I would go hiking

[02:31] every morning

[02:33] and we would just talk about what life

[02:36] and the crazy things going on. And we

[02:39] came home from one of our hikes uh that

[02:42] that time that season and my mom pulled

[02:45] him aside in the kitchen and she goes,

[02:49] "Honey, they had a very good

[02:51] relationship. My mom and Charlie were

[02:54] best friends. We joked around that."

[02:56] >> Oh, I know. We joked around that he was

[02:58] the favorite child, but she loved him.

[03:01] Still loves him. And she said, "You know

[03:03] what, honey?" She said, "God has blessed

[03:06] you with an amazing voice,

[03:10] and you will be the Rush Limba of your

[03:13] generation."

[03:15] >> And two days later,

[03:18] you and him engaged in conversations

[03:20] about the show

[03:21] >> and about the podcast.

[03:22] >> Well, it was it was, "Hey, we're going

[03:24] to be doing uh about five more episodes

[03:27] a week now, so uh just tell the team and

[03:30] make sure that happens." three hours of

[03:31] this, two more hours of podcasting. Like

[03:34] it just and it it just and he

[03:37] >> he ran with that and the team ran with

[03:39] it. And to see the Charlie Kirk show

[03:42] grow from that moment until now has been

[03:46] so humbling and beautiful and he loved

[03:51] every single day.

[03:52] >> He read every email. I know you guys

[03:55] have so many times, but I can vouch for

[03:57] that.

[04:01] And he wouldn't even say anything. He

[04:03] would just forward the email. Mhm.

[04:05] >> And to me, it was almost like an

[04:10] extended form of family

[04:13] where you guys were the you guys were

[04:17] the pulse point

[04:19] of and the connection point of Turning

[04:22] Point USA, TP Action, the Charlie Kirk

[04:25] show. It was a triple threat and the

[04:28] audience was the master and main

[04:31] component of that because Charlie and

[04:34] the Charlie Kirk show is not just a

[04:36] show.

[04:37] >> Yeah.

[04:37] >> It has a movement attached to it. It has

[04:39] the youth movement attached to it. And

[04:42] so for Charlie, the audience was a

[04:44] barometer of what do we need to be

[04:47] focusing on? The audience is brilliant.

[04:50] How many times did a listener send in

[04:53] something and say, "Hey, this is going

[04:56] on. You need to dig deeper in this or

[04:57] check this out." And Charlie's show

[04:59] became in and still is. And I'm I'm

[05:02] going to get there in a second, but

[05:03] Charlie's show became the northstar for

[05:06] freedom of speech, but in a way where

[05:08] when he spoke and whatever came across

[05:11] his desk or whatever he put on the air

[05:14] was

[05:15] was right.

[05:17] >> Yes.

[05:17] >> It wasn't inflated. It wasn't

[05:21] awkwardly optimistic that had no

[05:23] leverage behind it. It was it was the

[05:25] gold standard.

[05:26] >> It was grounded in the extremely

[05:28] grounded wisdom of the audience

[05:30] >> and but not only that he had a team

[05:32] still does all of you that was the

[05:35] sounding board of that and collectively

[05:37] each one of you are a piece of his

[05:39] brain. I know we've talked about this

[05:41] Blake economics, foreign policy, Andrew,

[05:45] pretty much a lot of stuff. Mikey,

[05:47] humor, uh, Christianity, sports, youth,

[05:52] social, pop culture was Daisy. Like,

[05:55] everyone has a piece of his brain that

[05:57] still lives on. And so, what I'm getting

[05:59] at here is the Charlie Kirk show is not

[06:02] going anywhere. My husband's voice will

[06:04] live on. The show will go on. We will

[06:08] have rotating hosts, rotating casts,

[06:11] rotating people coming on.

[06:12] >> Some great people next week.

[06:14] >> Unbelievable. We will have consistency.

[06:16] The members only group will continue to

[06:20] go on. All of his socials that God has

[06:23] blessed us with, the people who follow

[06:25] those socials will go on. Nothing is

[06:27] changing. But I want to preface, we're

[06:29] not awkward. We're not like weird.

[06:32] >> We're not cring. We're not going to be

[06:33] >> tweeting as if it's him. That's tonedeaf

[06:36] and really disturbing and anyone who

[06:38] does that like morbidly off.

[06:41] >> Um that's not what's happening. What's

[06:44] happening is the team is keeping this

[06:45] alive because we have Charlie and each

[06:47] and every one of us and it is going to

[06:50] be continually the northstar of the

[06:54] conservative movement of the voice of

[06:57] the youth of the voice of the base and

[07:00] that will not end. And the members only

[07:02] will continue to grow. And that will be

[07:04] the tight-knit network of family members

[07:07] that supported and loved Charlie and the

[07:09] team. And that's what it is. It's a

[07:11] family and a team. And this is not this

[07:16] is not going anywhere. It's just not. We

[07:18] need to be able to have people have a

[07:20] show where they can they can ask

[07:24] questions. Hey, I'm up against this.

[07:26] What would Charlie say? and we play a

[07:28] clip of what Charlie said a month ago, a

[07:31] year ago. We have decades worth of my

[07:34] husband's voice. We have unused material

[07:38] from speeches that he's had that no one

[07:40] has heard yet. We have Sunday specials

[07:43] lined up to the brim because my husband

[07:45] was so intentional about making sure

[07:48] that there was enough content. Always.

[07:50] >> He and he in he he made sure we recorded

[07:52] everything.

[07:53] >> He would not do a speech unless we could

[07:55] get the video and the

[07:56] >> 100%. So, we have speeches that no one's

[07:59] heard of. We have interviews that no

[08:02] one's heard of. We have stuff from Korea

[08:04] and Japan that no one's heard of.

[08:07] >> So, I mean, in the words of my husband,

[08:10] buckle up because there is a lot of

[08:12] content to be had and we have so many

[08:15] amazing things down the pipeline that we

[08:18] are working on currently that will

[08:20] >> unveil in due time.

[08:21] >> I am so excited.

[08:23] >> Yeah. And so, and

[08:24] >> by the way, those are things Charlie

[08:25] himself

[08:26] >> that he wanted.

[08:26] >> He wanted we I we were working on some

[08:28] big things,

[08:30] >> you know, right up until the end. And,

[08:32] you know, we've talked about that a lot.

[08:34] Like a lot of the the guiding vision

[08:37] that we're using right now to kind of

[08:40] steady the ship and figure out where

[08:41] we're going is the things Charlie

[08:42] himself told us where we were going.

[08:44] >> 100%. And similar with Turning Point

[08:46] USA. Charlie had a plan moving past 2030

[08:52] that he has shared with the team and has

[08:54] implemented. So,

[08:56] >> we're not going anywhere.

[08:57] >> We have the blueprints.

[08:58] >> We have the blueprints. We have our

[09:00] marching orders and

[09:03] >> we are just remaining humble and

[09:05] grateful to God and we're remaining just

[09:09] stewards to what God has blessed us

[09:10] with. And I know Charlie is going to

[09:12] continue to guide us and the Lord will

[09:13] continue to guide us. And I just wanted

[09:15] to let everyone know that this is far

[09:18] beyond any of us sitting in these

[09:21] chairs. This has nothing to do with us.

[09:22] It never will. Uh the the glory all to

[09:26] God on that on that front. And I just am

[09:28] excited. It's weird to say excited, but

[09:32] it's also very surreal to say it because

[09:35] I know that God will use all of this in

[09:37] a way that will glorify him, further

[09:40] Charlie's legacy. And Charlie's up in

[09:42] heaven just having

[09:45] >> he's rooting us on. I know that

[09:46] >> he's so rooting us on.

[09:48] >> Yeah. And I want to like ask you just a

[09:50] little bit about cuz this is something

[09:51] we wrestled with the social accounts.

[09:54] >> And I'll never forget when you looked at

[09:56] me and you were like,

[09:58] >> Andrew, he cared so much about building

[10:01] those up. I'm not letting those die. And

[10:04] I just remember being like,

[10:06] >> yes, thank you. I needed to hear that

[10:08] because it's it it is a little awkward.

[10:10] Now, we're we're not going to use it for

[10:12] like random stuff, but for very specific

[10:14] things

[10:15] >> spec for his voice, for things he cared

[10:16] about, for movements he cared about, for

[10:19] for causes he cared about those those

[10:22] socials. And also too, to support

[10:24] Turning Point USA, to to be the

[10:26] barometer of what's going on, to be the

[10:28] pulse point. Again, we're not going to

[10:30] be posting,

[10:32] >> I went for a walk today, like

[10:34] >> No. Yeah. No, we're we are using his

[10:37] socials in a way that will continue to

[10:39] honor his legacy. He poured so much time

[10:42] into building those. Not from a vain or

[10:45] vanity standpoint or look at me, that's

[10:49] never why he built those. that he built

[10:52] those because he knew that being a voice

[10:55] for the Lord and being a voice for

[10:58] >> everything that is good and beautiful in

[11:00] this world and also yes the youth he

[11:03] used that as the north star and we will

[11:06] continue that and it'll be it'll be done

[11:09] tastefully it will be done appropriately

[11:12] and

[11:14] >> I'm excited for all of it because we

[11:16] have a good team

[11:18] >> you have every right to be after

[11:19] everything that that you've been

[11:21] through, what the team has been through

[11:23] to see. It's it's like I keep saying

[11:26] Charlie's almost sprinkling his little

[11:29] Charlie Kirk magic dust on everything.

[11:31] And I mean that in a in a very Christian

[11:33] sense that the that Charlie lived such a

[11:37] remarkable life and his mission was so

[11:39] big that in death you cannot contain it.

[11:42] It unleashes something even greater and

[11:44] it's on us and Charlie would look at us

[11:46] and expect us

[11:48] >> to to do the right things here. And I

[11:50] would say look at the memorial.

[11:52] >> I know

[11:53] >> the memorial is the proof point that the

[11:54] team that Charlie put together can do

[11:56] the impossible and God's blessing was on

[11:59] that. There was so many prayers and I

[12:00] know you feel the prayers cuz I feel

[12:02] them. If I feel them, you must be

[12:03] feeling them like 100.

[12:05] >> I feel them. All of them matter. And and

[12:07] we are going to we will never be

[12:10] silenced.

[12:11] >> Amen. We will never be silenced. And

[12:13] that's why having continuing his

[12:15] platform in a beautiful, honorable way

[12:18] will reinforce that we will never be

[12:21] silenced.

[12:22] >> Well, let's take a quick break. I'm not

[12:24] going to promise that she's still going

[12:26] to be here, but maybe she will be. Um,

[12:28] we're going to be right back. Don't go

[12:29] anywhere.

[12:32] >> All right. Welcome back to the Charlie

[12:33] Kirk Show. We are joined by the one, the

[12:37] only Erica Kirk. Thank you for And she

[12:39] of course stuck around. and she's like,

[12:41] "I'm not going anywhere. What are you

[12:42] talking about?" I was like, "I just

[12:43] didn't want to, you know, listen,

[12:45] whatever you want." So, we have gotten

[12:47] so many questions

[12:48] >> about

[12:50] these little toys, the puppets, and uh

[12:54] what they are. We of course know what

[12:56] they are, but why don't you tell the

[12:57] audience what they are?

[12:58] >> So, every day when Charlie would go into

[13:01] the office,

[13:04] he would see our daughter and she would

[13:06] just be playing and she would look at

[13:08] him. She watched the show every day. She

[13:12] couldn't email, but this was her version

[13:13] of emailing.

[13:15] Every day she'd watch the show. And she

[13:18] did it because daddy would take the item

[13:22] that she gave to him and have it on the

[13:25] show with him. And sometimes she would

[13:27] he would say like, "This is the item

[13:29] that my daughter gave me." Sometimes he

[13:31] wouldn't just to see if she was really

[13:33] watching. And so when she when he would

[13:36] come home, she would be like, "Daddy, I

[13:40] saw I saw the puppet on the show today.

[13:43] Daddy, I saw the moose on the show

[13:45] today. Daddy, you brought you brought

[13:47] baby Buff Buff on the show today." Like,

[13:49] so that was their little connection

[13:51] point of And he loved it, too, cuz it

[13:54] was a little piece of her that he could

[13:55] have with her on the show. But those

[13:57] little moments of

[13:59] >> it and I loved it too because it,

[14:01] >> you know, Charlie was known for so many

[14:03] things and I think people just love

[14:05] seeing that side of him.

[14:06] >> It humanizes him.

[14:08] >> Yeah.

[14:08] >> And and he's a father. He's a I mean,

[14:11] unbelievable husband, but father and

[14:14] loved his babies. And he wasn't

[14:17] embarrassed

[14:18] >> by that.

[14:19] >> He was so proud of it.

[14:20] >> Yeah. if Gigi made him something or if

[14:22] she put a sticker on his shirt or a

[14:24] sticker on his face or gave him a

[14:26] figurine to bring to work, he did it and

[14:28] he loved it. He didn't care what other

[14:30] people

[14:31] >> thought. No, he loved he he didn't I

[14:33] don't think it even occurred to him to

[14:35] think about what somebody else thought

[14:36] about that.

[14:37] >> Um, so we I we talked about kind of some

[14:41] of the things we wanted to just say in

[14:42] this last segment.

[14:43] >> And you know, I really believe and you

[14:46] knew this so well of how much this

[14:48] audience meant to him. And I said this

[14:50] actually in my speech at the memorial

[14:51] that you in the audience were his

[14:53] firewall because you gave him so much

[14:56] confidence when he would go in these

[14:58] fancy rooms and with these fancy people

[15:00] and these elites and they would say,

[15:01] "Well, this is the way it is. This is

[15:02] the way." He he knew

[15:05] >> they were wrong

[15:07] because of you in the audience and you

[15:09] always would send him freedom at

[15:10] charliekirk.com

[15:12] and we want to commit to you right here

[15:14] and now.

[15:14] >> Yeah.

[15:15] >> On this show.

[15:16] >> Mhm. and you're going to be a part of

[15:17] this

[15:18] >> 100%

[15:19] >> that we are going to read all of the

[15:21] emails just as we have always done that

[15:23] you send to freedom charlark.com. It

[15:25] might be rule by committee. It might be

[15:27] sort of uh I get to some of them, Mikey

[15:29] gets to some of them. Eric,

[15:30] >> but they will be read,

[15:31] >> but they will be read. We'll get to it.

[15:32] We will get to it. All of them.

[15:34] >> And you guys were so important to him.

[15:36] And we were talking about this in donor

[15:39] meetings, in private meetings, even at

[15:41] the White House. When people would be

[15:43] wrong about something, he would triple

[15:44] double down and he would say to them,

[15:46] "No, you don't understand. You are wrong

[15:48] about this. I'm in touch with my

[15:50] audience. I read their emails every day.

[15:52] They don't like what you are doing. Fix

[15:54] it."

[15:55] >> Yeah.

[15:55] >> And so we're going to do that. We're

[15:56] committed to it.

[15:57] >> That's right.

[15:57] >> Yeah.

[15:58] >> I was very proud of that. And I just

[15:59] also want to say thank you to the

[16:00] audience cuz in the days immediately

[16:02] after I mean we looked at each other a

[16:05] couple of times going like

[16:07] >> what are we going to do here? And u so

[16:10] many of you guys signed up to become

[16:12] members members.

[16:15] So many of you bought the t-shirts at

[16:17] charliekirkstore.com

[16:19] >> that you gave us this breathing room in

[16:21] this really hard time and it was like we

[16:24] don't know what's going to happen. We

[16:26] don't know if we've got a show. We don't

[16:27] know what any but we we committed to the

[16:29] staff. We're going to keep you. We're

[16:30] going to keep you and and you committed

[16:33] to him very clearly. Maybe maybe say

[16:35] something.

[16:35] >> I said you're not going anywhere. You

[16:37] can choose to leave. Any of you can

[16:39] choose to leave,

[16:40] >> but you are a part of the Charlie Kirk

[16:42] family,

[16:43] >> Charlie Kirk show family.

[16:45] >> And we need you. Each one of you serves

[16:48] a purpose and a role. And again, if the

[16:53] enemy tries to come in and divide,

[16:55] you'll be able to see that very clearly,

[16:57] but we will all remain a united front

[17:00] and the show will continue.

[17:01] >> I mean, a little behind the scenes here.

[17:04] Erica did that speech where I'm standing

[17:06] right now on the podium. Somehow got

[17:08] through that, her national address. Then

[17:10] she walks out there to where all of our

[17:12] staff are, and she then goes on to do

[17:15] another speech to all the staff telling

[17:17] them, "You're not going anywhere. We're

[17:18] keeping the lights on. We're doing

[17:20] everything.

[17:21] >> I I mean, watching that, I was blown

[17:23] away.

[17:23] >> I think we were all inspired. We knew

[17:25] that um that Charlie chose well, Erica.

[17:28] >> Yeah.

[17:29] >> And you chose well. You both chose well.

[17:31] And the world is seeing your love affair

[17:34] in a new in a new new way. So, final

[17:36] seconds to you.

[17:38] >> I just am very proud of all of you. I'm

[17:40] grateful for all of you. I am grateful

[17:41] for the audience and I'm really looking

[17:44] forward to how this show is going to

[17:47] continue to be blessed and continue to

[17:50] be a voice for all of Charlie's causes

[17:53] and continue to just empower and enhance

[17:57] the legacy of my husband and I'm just so

[18:00] grateful.

[18:00] >> We uh we are going to do everything we

[18:02] can to be worthy of that. Thank you

[18:03] Erica Kirk.

[18:04] >> God bless you.

[18:05] >> We'll see you next time.

[18:08] Yeah.

[18:13] Heat.

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