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Charlie Kirk Today | Andrew Kolvet & Blake Neff: January 1, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | January 1, 2026
- Brought to you in part by the
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- International fellowship of christians and jews.
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- I'm really looking forward to this.
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- Blake, we have a lot to get to because this is charlie,
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- In his own words.
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- And actually, blake, it was.
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- It was sort of your idea to do this.
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- I think he's you and some of the the team.
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- So why don't you set the table for us?
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- Yeah, well, i think it's pretty clear.
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- What this year means for all of us.
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- What?
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- I guess i would just remind people that despite
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- What happened in september, this was a tremendous year.
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- One of the biggest tragedies about losing charlie
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- When we did is that we lost him at his absolute peak.
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- He really was at the height of his accomplishment,
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- The height of his influence,
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- The height of his impact on the world.
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- And if there's anything positive that came out of
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- The horrendous, the horrendous events
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- Of september, it's that
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- That really ensured that his message will be immortal.
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- He will always be, as we saw him this in 2025,
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- We'll never have to see him get old.
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- We'll never have to see him lose his fastball.
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- We'll never have to see charlie mess up.
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- Really.
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- He's just he's always going to be charlie in 2025.
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- And i think the best way to remember him
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- Is to look back on those events of 2025.
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- And we just have a whole roster of videos,
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- And we encourage everyone to email us, free to
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- Get charlie kirk
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- With some of their favorite memories and we'll,
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- We'll try to get to them.
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- But with that in mind, should we just,
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- Should we just start rolling through it? andrew.
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- Yeah, i, i, i love that the first one,
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- My first one on our clip sheet here is greenland.
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- And i will never forget
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- When charlie was like, hey, i need you to host the show.
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- I was like, okay, sure. what's up?
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- And he's like, i got to go to greenland.
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- And i was like, of course, of course you do.
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- And now you got to put your everyone.
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- None of us had any idea that it was so secret.
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- Yeah, i was super secret.
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- And, you know, i think mikey got to go with him,
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- But the, you know, he's got to go with somebody.
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- But the funny thing is, is, you know, trump's saying, hey,
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- We want to buy greenland or we want to bring greenland in.
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- And i think they still harbor those desires.
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- But they sent an envoy with it was sergio gore, charlie
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- Kirk, don jr, and and charlie,
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- In true charlie fashion, recorded the memory. 157
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- Quite a day here in greenland.
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- Sergio got that incredible a trump force.
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- One don is over here.
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- Friendliest people.
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- They love america.
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- And we'll see what happens.
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- Make greenland great again.
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- And the sun is setting.
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- It's only 230 in the afternoon.
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- The sun is setting.
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- It's just one of those things that it's very, very cold here.
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- And as we kind of slept on a great time here
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- In greenland, look, greenland more soon.
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- He really liked you, really liked greenland.
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- He was talking.
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- He would talk about how beautiful it was.
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- And i think he's that you'd find. yeah.
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- In the fields.
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- And when the snow he just liked.
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- I think he just liked that raw open space beauty.
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- You know, charlie and i would disagree about this.
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- He he really loves he he hates high rises.
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- He hated urban masses.
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- I think he really liked the idea of this
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- Place that was the size of,
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- You know, the,
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- Continent essentially, and had 50,000 people on it.
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- And i think he, he really liked
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- The limitless possibilities that that implied with it.
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- And, you know, he he remained very attached
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- To that greenland idea, although loved,
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- He loved the locals there. he actually did.
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- And, he, he talked about it. 158
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- We were here in greenland with don jr.
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- Everyone wants to be on tiktok.
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- What do you guys think of america?
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- Great, great, great love america and you love trump.
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- Yeah, i'm
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- The youth of greenland and a lot of it, guys.
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- We're hearing a lot of it.
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- And you guys all watch tiktok right?
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- I follow you you know. thank you.
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- Live from greenland.
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- That's funny actually, you know,
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- We had done on the podcast and, at amp fest.
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- So he came
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- And did a private podcast with us, which is phenomenal.
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- But when he was walking out,
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- We talked about the greenland trip, and it's, it's
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- A don said it was something he thought he thinks about,
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- You know, pretty often.
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- And there's, by the way, there's a bunch of that footage
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- That nobody has ever seen before
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- That's going to be coming out, which will be, pretty cool.
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- I can't say more than that, but there was a camera crew
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- That captured a lot of footage that has not been released.
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- So, then in january, we also had the inauguration, blake.
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- And, yeah, this was, charlie and erica at the inauguration
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- Ball hours before trump would, take the oath of office.
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- One 59 hours away from president
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- Donald trump taking the oath of office.
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- Okay. hi, don.
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- What's going on, judge jeanine aleena, mr.
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- Sergio harris, charlie kirk.
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- And as we are here, we're waiting for
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- Some people to take the stage
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- So you can see, well, the village people.
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- Let's see what happens.
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- We have some people in the village.
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- Are they on their way?
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- I got to go figure out what's going on.
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- Let me go check.
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- That that was, that was so funny.
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- I man, i remember that that was all highly memorable.
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- But i think for charlie,
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- His favorite moment, he enjoyed the ball.
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- He enjoyed the festivities.
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- But he did speak
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- Repeatedly that it was very, meaningful to him.
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- Remember, it was the inauguration.
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- A lot of people were planning to go.
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- It was going to be a big outside event.
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- And then it was a deep freeze.
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- It was five degrees or something like that.
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- It was very bitterly cold.
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- So they moved it indoors into the rotunda.
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- They didn't want anyone having their nose freeze off
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- While waiting to see the president.
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- I think that
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- Was probably the right move,
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- And it really speaks
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- To the esteem the president had for charlie
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- And what he did to help bring about his victory.
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- That was so many congressmen, such a limited number of people
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- Able to fit into that rotunda.
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- It's not that big of a room that they did give us
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- To charlie and erica.
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- And so we have a clip of that.
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- Let's play 160.
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- The president of the united stat
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- [applause]
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- Remember that well,
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- Because there was a big, brouhaha afterwards
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- From some of the democrat congressmen
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- That were upset that charlie got a closer seat
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- To the president than they did.
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- I think there was i think there was some upset
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- From republican congressmen.
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- Oh, i remember it. yes.
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- Yeah, it was it was it was hilarious.
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- And it was like, who was it?
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- It was senator.
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- Oh, gosh, i'm blanking.
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- Senators swooped in to defend charlie, put it that way.
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- And, they were
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- They basically said, well, when you do as much,
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- To elect
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- A president as charlie kirk,
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- Then maybe you can get a better seat.
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- And it was like.
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- Exactly.
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- You know, just the inauguration, too.
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- I want to pause there.
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- That ball that we had, that turning point hosted, it was
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- Absolutely swamped with people.
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- I was told it was the hottest ticket in town.
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- Everybody wanted to get to that, that ball.
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- It was one of the hottest rooms in town.
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- But when you have that many people, then, it got.
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- I sweated a bit.
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- Yeah. it was, it was something we've never done.
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- We, we ended up having a total meltdown in the coat room.
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- I'll never forget at the end of the night
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- When everybody was trying to finally go home,
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- I ended up running into the coat room, trying to find coats
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- And all our staff went.
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- And because the hotel staff
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- Swamped and they whatever
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- Their filing system, it was terrible.
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- So we were actually like
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- Escorting guests back into the room, saying,
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- What is your coat look like?
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- You know, it was a total, total nightmare.
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- But the the fact that turning point
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- Got to host a ball and the vice president came,
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- Which is, by the way,
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- Why charlie was checking on the village people
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- Because we had to hold the village people off
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- So long because vice president vance, you know, on
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- Those nights gets delayed because he's got to do
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- A few different stops.
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- So he was delayed getting to the ball.
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- So we delayed the village people going up.
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- And that was a whole thing behind the scenes.
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- As well.
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- I mean, it's all the, all the memories. blake.
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- It's it's hard to it's hard to fully, appreciate it.
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- But here we mentioned, jd vance.
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- So let's play,
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- Tiktok of jd and charlie flying on air force two.
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- That would be 161.
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- Let's got a ride from our amazing vice president.
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- So. hi, jd. hey, guys.
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- When do you get elected vice president?
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- They give you a sweet jacket, so it was all worth it.
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- But we're having fun in dc.
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- Stay safe out there.
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- And this plane. thanks, man.
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- Thanks everyone.
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- That is a sweet jacket.
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- I should become vice president. you will.
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- That's next step for you like that.
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- We'll get to work on that in 2026.
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- And i will say, charlie was actually jd vance,
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- His first guest on air force two, which was pretty special.
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- We'll be right back.
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- The wounds from
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- October 7th didn't fade when the headlines did.
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- Behind me rises
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- A new rehabilitation home for israel's wounded soldiers.
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- One of many urgent projects israel needs right now.
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- Entire communities shattered.
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- Families displaced.
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- And each day,
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- The impact of the need grows even more overwhelming.
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- But the bible says it clearly.
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- The righteous will live by faith and by faith.
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- The fellowship is rolling up our sleeves
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- And stepping into this immense challenge.
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- Helping mothers who don't know where to begin again.
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- Standing with paralyzed heroes.
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- Fighting to take their first steps.
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- Building centers of healing for the wounded
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- And the traumatized.
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- Bringing food and comfort to elderly israelis
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- Who have no one else to care for them.
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- To see the life saving work of the fellowship.
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- Unfolding across israel right now.
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- Visit ifc's dawg.
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- Visit ifc's dawg.
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- Let's get some more clips here.
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- This was charlie was a huge fan of elon musk.
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- He just genuinely was.
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- He loved
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- Elon musk as an entrepreneur, that he built physical things.
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- He was very excited that elon was
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- In the administration and help working on doge.
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- So much
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- So that he had us make doge shirts at the charlie kirk show
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- And the much talked about doge, turning point,
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- Which people, have taken to mean so many crazy things.
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- But it was just charlie just loved, elon musk.
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- And he respected him.
- 00:11:03.723 --> 00:11:05.058
- And they talked for hours.
- 00:11:05.058 --> 00:11:06.626
- They had dinner together after the election,
- 00:11:06.626 --> 00:11:08.561
- After trump, one got to know him personally.
- 00:11:08.561 --> 00:11:10.430
- And that was a great, a great joy for him.
- 00:11:10.430 --> 00:11:12.599
- 164 he shows off the maga red tesla, at the white house.
- 00:11:12.599 --> 00:11:16.870
- 164 so the president has a new car.
- 00:11:16.870 --> 00:11:20.707
- Look at that beautiful red maga tesla.
- 00:11:20.707 --> 00:11:23.610
- It's beautiful.
- 00:11:23.977 --> 00:11:25.812
- Everybody support elon musk.
- 00:11:25.812 --> 00:11:27.247
- We won't put up with domestic terrorism.
- 00:11:27.247 --> 00:11:28.715
- That's the president's new car. what do you guys think?
- 00:11:28.715 --> 00:11:31.184
- Drop a comment of the red maga tesla.
- 00:11:31.184 --> 00:11:35.288
- And it.
- 00:11:35.522 --> 00:11:36.923
- Blake we've tell it we we said it before in the show.
- 00:11:36.923 --> 00:11:39.292
- But when musk and president trump had that falling out
- 00:11:39.292 --> 00:11:42.295
- Charlie made, he called his shot and he said
- 00:11:42.295 --> 00:11:44.998
- By the by christmas they will be having dinner.
- 00:11:44.998 --> 00:11:47.433
- And he was it was actually ahead as he did.
- 00:11:47.433 --> 00:11:50.370
- And there were a lot of people there was a lot of temptation
- 00:11:50.370 --> 00:11:53.373
- To really,
- 00:11:53.373 --> 00:11:54.307
- Some people were really beating up on musk
- 00:11:54.307 --> 00:11:56.109
- When that was reaching its peak. and charlie was emphatic.
- 00:11:56.109 --> 00:11:58.711
- He said, i won, i'm not going first.
- 00:11:58.711 --> 00:12:01.681
- He said, i'm just not going to do it
- 00:12:01.681 --> 00:12:03.049
- Because i am grateful to elon for what he did.
- 00:12:03.049 --> 00:12:06.486
- He said, this is right after i started working,
- 00:12:06.486 --> 00:12:09.589
- With you guys.
- 00:12:09.589 --> 00:12:10.523
- He said, musk bot x or twitter and he said,
- 00:12:10.523 --> 00:12:14.394
- This is the most important purchase
- 00:12:14.394 --> 00:12:16.830
- By a private person in american history.
- 00:12:16.830 --> 00:12:18.965
- He just said it.
- 00:12:18.965 --> 00:12:19.799
- And i thought, that sounds wacky.
- 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:22.202
- But he was correct.
- 00:12:22.202 --> 00:12:23.770
- It was hugely important, not just the election,
- 00:12:23.770 --> 00:12:26.372
- But for american society, for free speech worldwide.
- 00:12:26.372 --> 00:12:29.843
- It really set the tone that the era of cancel culture,
- 00:12:29.843 --> 00:12:34.581
- The era of censorship, is not going to win out.
- 00:12:34.581 --> 00:12:37.350
- And he was very grateful for that.
- 00:12:37.350 --> 00:12:39.219
- And he was
- 00:12:39.219 --> 00:12:40.119
- I know he was privately messaging elon
- 00:12:40.119 --> 00:12:42.222
- About that, just saying,
- 00:12:42.222 --> 00:12:43.389
- You know, whatever goes on, i'm grateful for that.
- 00:12:43.389 --> 00:12:45.558
- And he was very optimistic that the president
- 00:12:45.558 --> 00:12:49.262
- And elon would reconcile and continue to work together.
- 00:12:49.262 --> 00:12:51.931
- And we've seen evidence that that's the case.
- 00:12:51.931 --> 00:12:54.434
- Just in the past week, elon has really been pushing
- 00:12:54.434 --> 00:12:57.003
- This somali fraud story.
- 00:12:57.003 --> 00:12:58.504
- And i think
- 00:12:58.504 --> 00:12:59.606
- Charlie's willingness to repair that relationship,
- 00:12:59.606 --> 00:13:02.442
- Played a big role in that.
- 00:13:02.442 --> 00:13:03.843
- Well, and i, i will i will say that, at the memorial,
- 00:13:03.843 --> 00:13:08.014
- I posted a picture
- 00:13:08.014 --> 00:13:09.515
- That kind of went viral of elon and trump up in the press box
- 00:13:09.515 --> 00:13:13.119
- Watching the memorial play out. and i said,
- 00:13:13.119 --> 00:13:15.622
- I hope they're saying to one another for charlie.
- 00:13:15.622 --> 00:13:17.857
- And about an hour later,
- 00:13:17.857 --> 00:13:18.925
- Elon posted that same image, basically, one
- 00:13:18.925 --> 00:13:22.528
- That was a little more flattering of him,
- 00:13:22.528 --> 00:13:23.796
- Which is fair,
- 00:13:23.796 --> 00:13:24.731
- That and he said for charlie and it was,
- 00:13:24.731 --> 00:13:27.133
- It was a it was a really beautiful moment.
- 00:13:27.133 --> 00:13:28.434
- I want to play this next clip.
- 00:13:28.434 --> 00:13:29.802
- This is 166 at blm plaza.
- 00:13:29.802 --> 00:13:32.171
- It's being torn apart in dc.
- 00:13:32.171 --> 00:13:33.573
- This was a very full circle moment for the show.
- 00:13:33.573 --> 00:13:36.776
- For charlie.
- 00:13:36.776 --> 00:13:38.011
- We the charlie kirk show really blew up.
- 00:13:38.011 --> 00:13:40.947
- Inside and audience numbers during blm.
- 00:13:40.947 --> 00:13:44.617
- And charlie just went off on it.
- 00:13:44.617 --> 00:13:46.719
- I remember he called me and he said, i'm going to go hard.
- 00:13:46.719 --> 00:13:49.822
- I feel like i need to go hard. this this needs to stop.
- 00:13:49.822 --> 00:13:52.492
- And i said, i'm 100% behind you.
- 00:13:52.492 --> 00:13:54.260
- Whatever happens, happens like this needs to stop.
- 00:13:54.260 --> 00:13:56.629
- Let's do it.
- 00:13:56.629 --> 00:13:57.630
- And you fast forward to march of 2025
- 00:13:57.630 --> 00:14:01.034
- And blm plaza is getting dismantled in washington,
- 00:14:01.034 --> 00:14:03.736
- Dc with the new president and, new leadership.
- 00:14:03.736 --> 00:14:06.706
- And, charlie was right there to watch it. 166
- 00:14:06.706 --> 00:14:09.175
- Hey, everybody, live from black lives matter plaza.
- 00:14:10.176 --> 00:14:13.112
- Well, it's not called that anymore.
- 00:14:13.112 --> 00:14:15.315
- As you can see, the working crews are out,
- 00:14:15.315 --> 00:14:18.284
- And it is the end of this mass
- 00:14:18.885 --> 00:14:20.553
- Racist area happening in our country.
- 00:14:20.553 --> 00:14:23.523
- This right here, by the way,
- 00:14:24.123 --> 00:14:25.124
- That was the church they tried to burn down.
- 00:14:25.124 --> 00:14:26.893
- You remember?
- 00:14:26.893 --> 00:14:29.562
- The crews are out here removing
- 00:14:29.562 --> 00:14:32.398
- This two block long mural of black lives matter
- 00:14:32.398 --> 00:14:35.301
- Plaza out here in the streets of washington, dc.
- 00:14:35.301 --> 00:14:39.939
- It is, quite the effort.
- 00:14:40.473 --> 00:14:42.075
- They have to actually get down to the street itself
- 00:14:42.075 --> 00:14:44.877
- To to,
- 00:14:44.877 --> 00:14:47.714
- Get rid of
- 00:14:47.714 --> 00:14:49.382
- All of the nonsense here.
- 00:14:49.382 --> 00:14:51.751
- Make america great again, getting rid of blm plaza.
- 00:14:51.751 --> 00:14:55.054
- I love that he said.
- 00:14:55.054 --> 00:14:56.089
- Ending race hysteria because charlie, unfairly
- 00:14:56.089 --> 00:14:59.525
- Gets labeled as a racist, as we sort of all do.
- 00:14:59.525 --> 00:15:02.996
- But really, what he was raging against
- 00:15:02.996 --> 00:15:06.132
- And this was one of his central themes,
- 00:15:06.132 --> 00:15:07.600
- Was this this weaponization of racial grievances
- 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.037
- That was tearing the country apart.
- 00:15:11.037 --> 00:15:12.905
- Still is in some ways.
- 00:15:12.905 --> 00:15:14.107
- But certainly made huge strides in the election of donald
- 00:15:14.107 --> 00:15:17.210
- Trump was a
- 00:15:17.210 --> 00:15:18.378
- It was a full circle moment that i will never forget.
- 00:15:18.378 --> 00:15:20.613
- And charlie recognized it for what it was,
- 00:15:20.613 --> 00:15:23.249
- And he celebrated it because charlie was not a dreamer.
- 00:15:23.249 --> 00:15:26.285
- He was optimistic about the future of this country.
- 00:15:26.285 --> 00:15:28.988
- More memorable moments, in charlie's own words.
- 00:15:28.988 --> 00:15:32.358
- Coming up next.
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- Where are
- 00:15:38.698 --> 00:15:39.966
- The tears from the pain.
- 00:15:39.966 --> 00:15:42.301
- The life that she lived.
- 00:15:42.301 --> 00:15:44.437
- She's a survivor of auschwitz.
- 00:15:44.437 --> 00:15:47.874
- The years that they would just beat her ears.
- 00:15:47.874 --> 00:15:50.643
- That she didn't have food and felt hungry.
- 00:15:50.643 --> 00:15:53.946
- And our answer is love.
- 00:15:54.447 --> 00:15:57.683
- Before, with a gift of only $25.
- 00:15:57.683 --> 00:16:00.887
- You'll deliver a life saving food box into the hands
- 00:16:00.887 --> 00:16:04.057
- Of an elderly jew in need.
- 00:16:04.057 --> 00:16:06.793
- I wasn't only saying people have a heart.
- 00:16:06.793 --> 00:16:09.796
- There are good people today.
- 00:16:09.796 --> 00:16:11.597
- Call, scan or go online now.
- 00:16:11.597 --> 00:16:14.367
- And the international
- 00:16:14.367 --> 00:16:15.501
- Fellowship of christians
- 00:16:15.501 --> 00:16:16.769
- And jews will rush your food box today saudi arabia.
- 00:16:16.769 --> 00:16:20.640
- This is a holy moment.
- 00:16:20.640 --> 00:16:22.408
- What you're doing is not simply being kind.
- 00:16:22.408 --> 00:16:25.812
- You are prophetically stepping into the scriptures
- 00:16:25.812 --> 00:16:29.649
- And being part of their redemption and our own.
- 00:16:29.649 --> 00:16:33.152
- Please call, scan or go online now.
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- Please call, scan or go online now.
- 00:16:37.005 --> 00:16:43.155
- All right.
- 00:16:43.456 --> 00:16:44.523
- The next piece we were talking about bill marr.
- 00:16:44.523 --> 00:16:46.425
- So let's skip ahead a little bit.
- 00:16:46.425 --> 00:16:47.626
- April.
- 00:16:47.626 --> 00:16:48.461
- C.k. shocks bill marr
- 00:16:48.461 --> 00:16:51.697
- When he says he doesn't drink alcohol.
- 00:16:51.697 --> 00:16:54.667
- Bill marr was shocked when 74 drank.
- 00:16:54.667 --> 00:16:57.503
- No. good. thank you. you don't drink? no.
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- Or smoke pot?
- 00:17:00.072 --> 00:17:01.373
- No. and you're married in stupid question.
- 00:17:01.373 --> 00:17:03.309
- We're going to go on. great.
- 00:17:03.309 --> 00:17:04.577
- You know, this is this is going to just be perfect.
- 00:17:04.577 --> 00:17:07.379
- And they did get on great.
- 00:17:07.379 --> 00:17:08.647
- They did get on great i thought i got i got a
- 00:17:08.647 --> 00:17:12.251
- Yeah, i got a great note from bill worth saying
- 00:17:12.251 --> 00:17:15.855
- After charlie was assassinated, just, assassinated.
- 00:17:15.855 --> 00:17:18.858
- Just said saying how much he genuinely
- 00:17:18.858 --> 00:17:22.962
- Enjoyed his time with charlie and their conversation
- 00:17:22.962 --> 00:17:25.364
- And how horrible he thought it was.
- 00:17:25.364 --> 00:17:27.233
- And, you know, i thought that was a pretty nice thing.
- 00:17:27.233 --> 00:17:30.836
- For him to reach out, so, you know,
- 00:17:30.836 --> 00:17:33.806
- But it was, it was a it was a memorable visit.
- 00:17:33.806 --> 00:17:36.542
- It was a memorable visit driving into la
- 00:17:36.542 --> 00:17:38.978
- With charlie, him getting hotbox, him
- 00:17:38.978 --> 00:17:41.480
- Being so paranoid, thinking he did, a terrible job.
- 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:44.583
- And then for that episode to be one of i think it was
- 00:17:44.583 --> 00:17:47.419
- If not the top most watched it did very well.
- 00:17:47.419 --> 00:17:50.589
- It did very well.
- 00:17:50.589 --> 00:17:51.790
- The top three, all time of bill ma's, club random podcast.
- 00:17:51.790 --> 00:17:55.261
- So good for good for charlie there.
- 00:17:55.261 --> 00:17:58.030
- We we got to play this one here.
- 00:17:58.030 --> 00:18:00.799
- This is, from march.
- 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:02.468
- So back one, it was ashton hall viral morning routine.
- 00:18:02.468 --> 00:18:06.772
- You guys did this on thought crime.
- 00:18:06.772 --> 00:18:08.140
- I was not there because i probably would have axed this.
- 00:18:08.140 --> 00:18:11.443
- And i would have ruined a really memorable moment
- 00:18:11.443 --> 00:18:13.479
- With charlie, so i'm glad i wasn't there. 173.
- 00:18:13.479 --> 00:18:17.917
- He's defiant.
- 00:18:18.284 --> 00:18:19.051
- You'll never be a top influencer.
- 00:18:19.051 --> 00:18:20.419
- No, you will never.
- 00:18:20.419 --> 00:18:22.488
- You will never make it. now.
- 00:18:22.488 --> 00:18:25.324
- Is this really what he did?
- 00:18:25.925 --> 00:18:27.259
- What is the what is the health property of this?
- 00:18:27.259 --> 00:18:29.428
- It's really funny.
- 00:18:29.428 --> 00:18:33.966
- This guy.
- 00:18:34.266 --> 00:18:34.833
- One more time.
- 00:18:34.833 --> 00:18:37.102
- Oh, i mean, it has to be like ice baths type thing, right?
- 00:18:37.102 --> 00:18:40.573
- This was like taking a.
- 00:18:40.573 --> 00:18:43.776
- Charlie, this is a good sign that it was a.
- 00:18:43.776 --> 00:18:45.878
- Yeah, it was a good sport.
- 00:18:45.878 --> 00:18:47.346
- He, i'm surprised he was so skeptical of it.
- 00:18:47.346 --> 00:18:49.949
- I feel like charlie could have totally gotten
- 00:18:49.949 --> 00:18:51.550
- Into rubbing banana on your face.
- 00:18:51.550 --> 00:18:53.352
- He'd be like, blake,
- 00:18:53.352 --> 00:18:54.386
- I have to rub a banana on my face every morning.
- 00:18:54.386 --> 00:18:57.423
- It gives me so much vitality.
- 00:18:57.423 --> 00:18:59.458
- It gives me glow.
- 00:18:59.458 --> 00:19:00.759
- Yeah.
- 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:02.361
- He had his own. his own health stuff.
- 00:19:02.361 --> 00:19:03.862
- The woowoo, as i would call it.
- 00:19:03.862 --> 00:19:05.664
- You were always so hard on him about the woowoo.
- 00:19:05.664 --> 00:19:08.334
- The charlie woowoo stuff.
- 00:19:08.334 --> 00:19:10.069
- Charlie loved my.
- 00:19:10.069 --> 00:19:11.070
- He was all into it, and blake was just like,
- 00:19:11.070 --> 00:19:13.772
- Wasn't there that
- 00:19:13.772 --> 00:19:15.007
- There was an atlantic article that, called it the woowoo.
- 00:19:15.007 --> 00:19:17.943
- And you're like, it's right, it's right.
- 00:19:17.943 --> 00:19:19.345
- It is what charlie was like.
- 00:19:19.345 --> 00:19:20.679
- Oh, blake.
- 00:19:20.679 --> 00:19:22.047
- Good times. i miss.
- 00:19:22.047 --> 00:19:23.549
- I miss that you and charlie's back and forth.
- 00:19:23.549 --> 00:19:26.185
- So let's go to back to april
- 00:19:26.185 --> 00:19:29.488
- When the bill ma podcast happened.
- 00:19:29.488 --> 00:19:31.156
- This is one of the more memorable tour stops at a&m.
- 00:19:31.156 --> 00:19:34.426
- The night crowd.
- 00:19:34.426 --> 00:19:35.094
- He loved his visit to a&m. 170.
- 00:19:35.094 --> 00:19:39.031
- Saw varsity's horns off!
- 00:19:39.565 --> 00:19:48.040
- Short! a!
- 00:19:48.340 --> 00:19:50.809
- Varsity's horns are sawed off!
- 00:19:50.809 --> 00:19:59.752
- He throws the hats and he does that. he does that.
- 00:20:00.753 --> 00:20:03.255
- What, is he like this?
- 00:20:03.255 --> 00:20:04.590
- Yeah. yeah yeah, he does.
- 00:20:04.590 --> 00:20:06.759
- There's never the the a&m has a lot of traditions.
- 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:09.495
- What i loved about that
- 00:20:09.495 --> 00:20:10.529
- It was a so last minute that they even did that.
- 00:20:10.529 --> 00:20:12.965
- I think he only said make sure you play their fight song.
- 00:20:12.965 --> 00:20:16.335
- I think literally in
- 00:20:16.335 --> 00:20:19.038
- Just as we arrived
- 00:20:19.038 --> 00:20:20.372
- At the building just before he went out, the,
- 00:20:20.372 --> 00:20:22.141
- Someone told them he should do that.
- 00:20:22.141 --> 00:20:24.343
- He would like the reaction and boy oh boy,
- 00:20:24.343 --> 00:20:27.246
- Did that ever get the right reaction.
- 00:20:27.246 --> 00:20:29.615
- Yep. well, and here's an april at a prove me wrong.
- 00:20:29.615 --> 00:20:33.552
- What is a woman this these these, charlie.
- 00:20:33.552 --> 00:20:36.689
- Charlie spun them up with a mental conundrum.
- 00:20:36.689 --> 00:20:40.092
- A mental cul de sac that they couldn't get out of.
- 00:20:40.092 --> 00:20:42.394
- And he loved this.
- 00:20:42.394 --> 00:20:43.095
- Question 175 all right.
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- Can you tell me what a woman is?
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- Are you a woman? you want to answer a question?
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- Yes, i am a woman.
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- Okay.
- 00:20:51.603 --> 00:20:52.304
- How are you? great.
- 00:20:52.304 --> 00:20:53.038
- What is a woman?
- 00:20:53.038 --> 00:20:54.673
- What is a woman? yes.
- 00:20:54.673 --> 00:20:56.175
- A person who was born with x x chromosome i agree, i agree.
- 00:20:56.175 --> 00:21:01.213
- We have won the culture war.
- 00:21:01.213 --> 00:21:02.915
- We have done it over.
- 00:21:02.915 --> 00:21:05.984
- This is not the way you did.
- 00:21:05.984 --> 00:21:07.753
- You got to train them better.
- 00:21:07.753 --> 00:21:09.254
- A woman is a person with x x chromosomes.
- 00:21:09.254 --> 00:21:12.558
- I declare a victory in the post frame.
- 00:21:12.558 --> 00:21:15.060
- Can i please explain what i'm trying to say?
- 00:21:15.060 --> 00:21:18.697
- Thank you. oh there's more.
- 00:21:19.298 --> 00:21:20.332
- Can i please explain or you can explain?
- 00:21:20.332 --> 00:21:22.901
- I think i think your statement is rather self-evident.
- 00:21:22.901 --> 00:21:25.604
- Listen, that is not to exclude trans women.
- 00:21:25.604 --> 00:21:28.407
- Oh, got it.
- 00:21:28.407 --> 00:21:32.945
- Charlie loved the prove me wrong man.
- 00:21:33.746 --> 00:21:36.515
- He just loved him. and he loved.
- 00:21:36.515 --> 00:21:38.584
- He loved the viral moments.
- 00:21:38.584 --> 00:21:39.985
- He loved getting out and mixing up with students.
- 00:21:39.985 --> 00:21:42.020
- And he learned a ton interacting with them.
- 00:21:42.020 --> 00:21:44.656
- And it was really a secret sauce.
- 00:21:44.656 --> 00:21:46.458
- And you know, blake, you know as well as anybody
- 00:21:46.458 --> 00:21:49.928
- How excited charlie was, to get back out on tour.
- 00:21:49.928 --> 00:21:52.831
- And, it's terrible that it ended the way it did. but,
- 00:21:52.831 --> 00:21:57.770
- You know,
- 00:21:58.070 --> 00:22:00.005
- We've said it before.
- 00:22:00.005 --> 00:22:01.039
- He died with his boots on, and he loved being out
- 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:03.275
- With the students and that that i think that clip
- 00:22:03.275 --> 00:22:05.978
- Really demonstrates,
- 00:22:05.978 --> 00:22:07.980
- Just just how much, how much he did.
- 00:22:07.980 --> 00:22:10.916
- Yeah.
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- Go ahead. blake.
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- Yeah.
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- Well, i just yeah, he
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- He died with his boots on.
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- He died doing exactly what he loved doing.
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- He looked forward to them all the time.
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- I don't think he.
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- I don't think
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- He really would have wanted to go any other way if,
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- You know, as as erica said at the memorial,
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- It's like he just he was doing what he loved.
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- And then he blinked and he was in paradise.
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- As this year draws to an end,
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- I'd like to express my
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- Heartfelt gratitude to our partners, the fellowship
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- Of christians and jews.
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- And i'd like to say thank you to our audience
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- Who have supported them in prayer, with finances
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- And standing strong for the people of israel.
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- The fellowship is one of america's
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- Most beloved
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- Organizations, spanning more than 40 years of ministry,
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- Providing tangible help
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- And comfort to the people of israel
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- In the ukraine and across the former soviet union.
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- This holiday season and every day of the year,
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- The fellowship is called to serve
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- The elderly jewish people,
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- Many of whom are holocaust survivors who are now
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- Living in the shadow of past wars, poverty and loneliness.
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- During this christmas time, join me and fulfill
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- The prophet isaiah as cry to comfort.
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- Comfort my people, says your god.
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- To find out how. visit ifg.
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- Org. that's if c.j. dawg.
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