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Charlie Kirk Today | Danny Philip: December 25, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today | December 25, 2025

Brought to you in part by the
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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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Hello.
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Welcome to the charlie kirk show.
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We have a special
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Christmas episode here, and we wanted to mark
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The holiday with, something very important.
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I'm here
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With, danny in the studio, and i believe we also have
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Mikey from his secret base to the north.
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Welcome to both of you.
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You there? mikey?
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Charlie kirk, northern studio.
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Excellent, excellent.
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I've never seen the mythical
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Northern studio, but perhaps one day.
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And so today's episode, what we wanted to do.
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It's our first.
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It's our first christmas without charlie.
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We all miss him terribly.
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And we were thinking, what should we do?
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We're, we're actually, we're pre
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Taping this ahead of christmas.
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And we thought what we should do is
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We should give a chance for everyone
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On the team who wants to, to share
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Their favorite stories about charlie.
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How funny stuff.
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How he impacted their lives.
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So it's not just going to be mikey danny me.
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It's where we asked, brayden. we asked.
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We asked brian.
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We asked a lot of people you've never seen on camera,
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But we wanted to, get them a chance to speak up.
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Some of them can't come on because they are, in fact,
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Working the cameras right now and can't leave them.
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But we'll we'll still give them their due. but
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I guess we have three minutes in this cold open segment.
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So, danny, how about we go with you first?
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What's your favorite, charlie.
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So i have two pretty funny ones.
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The first one is like, i'm a big ohio state fan, and so
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Charlie and i, ohio state played oregon twice last year.
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And the first time, charlie was actually at the game,
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And oregon won.
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Unlike this last second play.
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And so immediately, as soon as the game
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Ends, my phone just starts blowing up from mickey
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And charlie like trash talking back of me, just insane.
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Like, oh, what happened in this game?
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Like all this craziness happened? yeah.
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So then when they ended up playing later in the season,
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Ohio state 3231.
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That must have been an amazing game. yeah.
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And so then they played later
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In the season and ohio state won.
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And so then i was giving it back to them.
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And after the game this like sweatshirt
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At osu campus they were selling.
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It was like the brutus
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Mascot of ohio state with a shotgun
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Like shooting ducks out of the sky.
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And it's like duck hunting.
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And so i bought one, and i shifted to mickey
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For mickey to wear in front of charlie.
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And so mickey wore that to the office
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In front of charlie is just my get back,
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Because i was still at school. that's amazing.
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People would always ask why that was in that game.
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And yeah, all of his family all went there.
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And yeah,
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Because he never went he,
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Never went to college, but he loved sports,
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So he decided to become a ducks fan.
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But that game was also the game where everybody
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Was making fun of charlie
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For having earplugs in, because it was, oh, yeah,
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The same one because it's the best hearing he got.
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He got so much out of him.
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And i was i was always his defender.
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I said, you should wear earplugs
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At games like you don't need
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To get hearing damage to prove you're a real.
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Also fan.
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I have to admit something live right now.
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This is going to be, this is going to shock danny.
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Really?
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Danny, i never wore that sweatshirt in front of charlie.
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No. how could you make you feel, betrayal.
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That is a betrayal. that's treacherous.
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You have to wear it.
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You have to wear that to my drilled charlie about it,
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And then he never.
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You have to wear it on the show sometime. now, mickey.
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That's what you have to do.
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I'll wear mine into the office.
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No, i would never wear that trash.
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But let me say this.
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I have a picture of mikey where i stay.
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It's very likely that ohio state in oregon
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Will play again.
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And so the question is, danny, who will your allegiance
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Be to charlie's favorite team or this trashy team?
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Ohio state?
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You know, i don't i don't crisscross,
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So i'm still rooting for the buckeyes.
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But if ohio state were to lose,
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I would not be upset about it.
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We got 45 seconds here. do you have anything fun?
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Mike, do you want to share?
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Well, we were just reminiscing.
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Blake from our asia trip about, when
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You're that funny of a tourist.
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Charlie was,
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We were walking through the streets of tokyo,
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And instead of, like, traditionally wanting
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To take pictures in front of beautiful japanese
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Architecture or whatever it is, whatever the biggest
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Tourist traps are charlie seoul, an outback steakhouse,
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And he was like, blake, mikey, it's an outback
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Steakhouse in tokyo.
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We need to take a picture. and he did.
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So he literally got me gone there.
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It would have been like
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The best outback steakhouse in the world.
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He would do that.
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Like you, he took a lot of pride in his team.
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He took just
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He loved us and we loved him.
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We have a clip.
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This was sent to us by catherine.
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I think we can get it in before the break.
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Let's play clip 181
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On that one, because he's just the perfect width.
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Not too fat, not too skinny.
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You like that tree?
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Yes. it's the best in the meeting.
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Oh, we got the right one.
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This one's perfect. all right, we're done.
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These little things.
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No. are you the tree expert
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At the tree expert?
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After many decades of living in the midwest,
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I know a good tree.
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The best one they had remained.
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That was charlie hunting for christmas trees.
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You can tell that.
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So, charlie, he's like, i need to pick one.
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He picked it out.
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I'm an expert. i got the right one.
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We're telling christmas stories about charlie.
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We will be right back.
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The wounds from october 7th
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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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We are marking christmas by
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Sharing our staff's favorite memories of charlie kirk
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The man, the friend, the mentor, the boss,
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The everything.
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So we've got some of our team members.
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I really wanted to share these ones
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Because these are some of the guys that you don't
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You very rarely see.
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Except in, you know, the background
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Of some tabling events and so on.
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The studio crew, i wanted them to
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Come on camera, and they told me that
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Emphatically they could not do this.
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So let's dive into it.
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We've got, brian, he is one of the vast
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Farnsworth clan
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That we have several members on this show,
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And they're not that well, they're pretty fast,
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But brian on the team, and he says, charlie
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Basically never stopped working,
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Even in the car or on the plane.
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He was constantly on phone calls, reviewing strategy,
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Reading, etc.
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But one night we had a redeye flight back to phoenix,
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And it was one of those
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Rare times it felt like all the work was done.
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I saw charlie pull out his ipad and he put on a movie.
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Guess what the movie is, danny.
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Well, i know the story, i was there.
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What you can ask mikey.
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Mikey, you remember if you don't remember, do you?
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Can you guess what movie charlie would
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Have watched on his ipad?
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I was with
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Him when he watched harry potter on his ipad. oh.
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All right, that's what it was.
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It was the harry potter and the sorcerer's stone on his ipad.
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Yeah.
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And brian adds, charlie was such an innocent soul
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And he seldom had a moment to relax.
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I love that
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He picked
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Harry potter, of all things, and thinking on it,
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He probably thought it was kind of dumb or silly.
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I don't know if he actually read harry potter or not, but.
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Well, hold on, hold on here.
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Okay.
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This brian makes it sound like charlie watched
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Movies on his ipad often, and all my time ever traveling.
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Charlie i only saw that happen
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One time, and that was literally
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The one time i think that's kind of what he's saying.
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I think that was the only time, the only movies.
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We actually had a discussion on what movies
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Charlie liked, and he, he really liked,
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Like zero irony action movies.
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I think that really gets at charlie's character.
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Like some people, they really love all deep moral
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Complexities and, you know, shades of gray.
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And charlie loves action movies.
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He loved the equalizer, i believe,
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And he would just describe it as a great play.
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He's this good guy.
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He's a former special forces guys,
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And he just finds people who are in trouble.
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And he he saves the day for them.
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And you just know that's
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How charlie saw himself for america.
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Yeah. for conservatism.
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Yeah.
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And i just
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I love that straightforward earnestness about it.
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It gets out a lot of what made him so great.
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We have a story from kylie, another of our studio crew.
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If these don't have to be
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Christmas related, my favorite memory is,
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When he thought that
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Michael made south park artwork of him.
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When charlie got on south park. there we have it.
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Michael made this, and charlie just thought it was i,
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But it wasn't.
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It was made by our own team member,
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And it was really good
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That i think
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That it was even came out before the episode was made.
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It was yeah, the episode was announced,
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But we hadn't seen it, and they made that.
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That was really good.
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Also, kylie says she every time that he printed it out.
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Yes he did.
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He printed it out and put him behind. yeah.
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And on the foam board behind. yes he did, yes he did.
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And kylie also said she loved every time
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Charlie said, let's see if i can get it right here.
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Racist.
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Did i get it right?
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Racist. yeah.
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Something like they got gotta roll
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The r a little more mickey.
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Racist.
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Yeah. that's better, that's better.
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Yeah.
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I don't think anybody can do it as good as he did.
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Yeah.
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Can you do it though?
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Yeah. it was racist.
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Oh that's that's close enough. that's close enough.
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Not good enough.
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Yeah, michael chimes in.
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My favorite is when he reacted to my artwork
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Of the south park episode,
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And also he would guess the music
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That he was picking to play on the show.
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Michael picks a lot of our, intro and outro songs.
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He loved playing american girl by tom petty,
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And he also loved joker and the thief by wolf mother,
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Which i can't remember how that sounds.
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So you should. well, i can't answer for that. outro.
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We're doing christmas music today,
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But i don't know how you play it for me. later, michael.
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I want to hear that too.
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Remember what it was?
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Now that the south park episode is definitely
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One of my enduring memories for charlie,
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He was so excited to get on it, and had to be such a trip
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That he grew up watching the show
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And seen episodes of it, and it lasts long enough.
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You never imagine.
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Oh, i might be in one of those episodes.
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Yeah, well,
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Mike and i were actually with him
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When he found out that,
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He was going to be on south park
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Because they didn't say anything.
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They just released like, that trailer, i believe, for that.
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Yeah. episode he was on.
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So it was going viral on twitter,
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And, he came to mike and i was like, just asking
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All these questions, like, how big of a deal is this?
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Is this good for the culture war
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Of stuff like, that's pretty sweet.
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Yeah. it's amazing.
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Yeah. yes.
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It's big, it's big charlie. it's back.
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And then we're in colorado springs.
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When it came out
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And he had this meeting with the air force academy
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Team, because he's he's out on the board there.
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And he was like, i don't want to watch it.
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Just tell me how it is. and then he comes out.
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I was like, it was hilarious. it was great.
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And i was showing him clips and he's like, oh,
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I wish i watched it live.
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Like you said, you didn't want to,
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But yeah, it was it was incredible.
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We have 30s.
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Andrew couldn't join us right now,
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But he said my favorite memory
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Of charlie is the composite of all the hard fought wins
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We faced a ton of set backs over the years.
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It made the wins more meaningful.
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And charlie would always, without fail,
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Say something along the lines of god is good.
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He has his hand on this. stay humble.
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Stay close to jesus.
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Let's work harder.
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That was always the chief dimension of charlie.
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It's why he was such a great man.
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We're telling stories.
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We'll be right back.
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That christmas morning.
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Wise men brought gifts from outside the holy land.
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But now that the war is over,
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This holy land and her people
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Are still carrying deep wounded.
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Many of the elderly are alone and suffering
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Like the wise men or wise women.
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When you open your heart and give a special holiday food
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Box to someone here in israel
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This christmas chronicles season.
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People like hannah who can't buy food.
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That's where the fellowship is called to feed the hungry.
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Please call, scan or go online now to help rush emergency
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Food and healing to elderly jews
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And their christian neighbors struggling
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To rebuild their lives from the war.
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What will happen when we make this holy day season?
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Holy indeed.
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Holy indeed.
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We are marking christmas by sharing
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From all of the staff members on and off camera.
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Our favorite memories of charlie.
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And we have rotated in emma and kate and, daisy.
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Hey, you've seen
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You've seen them on here from time to time.
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Daisy loves to ask me questions
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About things, and occasionally
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I ask her questions about things.
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My questions sort of like are much
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More important world topics.
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They are, they are.
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It's because she's a more serious person than i am.
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She really wants to understand
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The world and she's great, i think. exactly.
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So anyone's this guy is more serious. yeah.
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So you you worked with charlie a quite long time, right?
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Yeah. yeah.
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Since, december of 2021.
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All right.
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Yeah. longer than me, for sure.
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And, what's your favorite charlie story?
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I have so many.
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But also what
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A lot of us were talking about in our green room and stuff
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Before we started was that so many of our memories
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Are like just us being with charlie every day.
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Like, it's not like we have huge fun,
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Amazing memories
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We can look back on,
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But it's also so fun to just be like, oh,
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I remember when he would walk in wearing his compression
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Socks every day, like, that's all so funny.
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Ready? sports fans? yes.
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Every one.
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All the cubs games on on the tvs.
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So so many of it is so fun.
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I when we were talking about
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Some of our favorite memories, i know this is shared
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By everyone on as a hallmark charlie memory.
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I know alan said that this one was one of his favorites too.
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When we've all we've spoken about rio several times.
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We love him.
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He has become a friend of the show.
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Someone that charlie met that flew all the way from asia
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To come to america first, and charlie
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Met him in america first.
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They got along super well, but he loved him.
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And he was like, what are you doing for
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Christmas? and i was like, oh, i don't know.
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I don't really have any plans. i'm in america.
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And charlie was like, come over, come spend christmas
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With me, and just had christmas with their family.
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And then was just at our office every day, just hung out.
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It was awesome.
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I showed us around japan.
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He was such a great guy.
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It ended up being such a full circle moment for everyone.
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But we that was something that we talk about quite often.
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Yeah, we love rio and that relationship was just so like
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So hallmark charlie of just like really
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Taking somebody and and like making them
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Part of the team and part of the family.
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Just because like,
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Charlie was really good at seeing like,
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Good people and picking them out.
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And rio is a prime example of that.
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And so good at remembering names like,
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I mean, the amount of conferences.
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And we just finished an office and there are people
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Whose names
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I know,
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Just because charlie would remember
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Emailing with them or meeting them in a meet and greet
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That are just, he will never forget your name.
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One of my favorite things about charlie was
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When i was going through tabling footage.
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Sometimes he would get like, repeat people coming to the mic
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And he would remember exactly what they said, exactly
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What school they were at, and he would say, oh,
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This is what you asked me last time.
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There was one time this kid was messing with him
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And was like, no, that wasn't me.
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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And then
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At the end of the interaction, the kid is like,
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Yeah, it was me. you were totally right.
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I don't know how you remembered that.
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Memory.
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Amazing talent. astonishing. yes.
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Now we have brayden, another member of our team.
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He was very notably,
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He was a guy we sent on assignment to dc.
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He helped with the transition.
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And he says, my favorite memory is
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From when i was working in dc.
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We had a particularly hectic day, a lot of those in dc.
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And all of a sudden charlie
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Comes speed walking in from around the corner
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With a massive smile
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On his face,
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Which immediately raised the morale of the entire office.
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He always made the effort to see his people
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Whenever he made the trip to dc,
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And never failed to raise everyone's spirits.
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We heard about that from people who are in the white house
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To like him whizzing around the west wing,
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And he just always had that energy, that presence,
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That let's go, let's go,
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Which i even feel like it says a lot for those of us
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That were with him every day, like
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There was not a day that charlie came in
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That made the day worse.
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Like every morning he was excited to do this show.
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Yes. i mickey, i really one i don't remember who all was
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Around then, but when charlie and erica
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Had their first child and before then
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Charlie was he's
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He's always been excited to work,
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Always been very focused on work.
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But it was very much work work work work work work work.
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And then she was born and mike and i were like,
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Okay, so are we still going to work all the time or what?
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What's the deal?
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And he like when he's working?
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He's working as soon as he saw his kids
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Instantly would get melted.
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And it's just like he became
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So dad mode, so full on dad mode.
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As soon as she was born. it was so amazing to watch.
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We're sharing
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Some of our favorite stories about charlie from different
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Members of the team.
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Did you get anything other else from?
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From dalen before we went in, or is he just.
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He's a taciturn one.
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He just has so many stories of, like being on campus
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With charlie, especially in the early days.
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Like there are multiple multitude of stories.
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I've heard of him being on campus with charlie
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And just spending so much time with him
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In the first days of tabling that
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I think those are just some really unique stories
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That not the rest of us have,
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Like it just really being a part of,
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Like the early days
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When it was sort of like charlie became when there'd be
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More people on the team then who actually came up
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To ask, yeah, it's so funny.
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That's the real og charlie team.
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That's an important thing that you just
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You both of you guys just set right.
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So charlie was a super loyal person.
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But it was kind of a two way street for him.
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And so a lot of the team that's around him
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Has been there for a really long time
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In dallas is one of those back when,
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Like what blake said, there was literally more people
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Working the table than there were coming up to the table.
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Charlie used to beg, beg for students to come up
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And debate him way back in the day.
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And then towards the end,
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We didn't even have space to fit all these students and
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And through the entire process,
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People like dallin, the farnsworth's, all of us.
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We're just there to to believe that it speaks to him
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That there were so many people who were there for so long
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Who were started when it
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When there
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Really was no necessarily proof that it would go
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Become as big as it did. but they stuck around.
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We have one last member
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Of our team whose story we want to tell.
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It's heidi, and we picked her last for a reason.
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She says, one of my favorite memories is
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When he saw the rush was right shirt for the first time.
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Unfortunately, you can't get that now.
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It's a sold out one, but we'll try and bring it back.
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Maybe we will. yeah.
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Heidi might have a heart attack hearing me. she love that.
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Charlie was a huge rush limbaugh fan.
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Modeled his whole on air persona after rush.
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She thought he was the best there ever was.
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Heidi said she was shocked.
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He loved it so much. she shouldn't have been.
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So we're going to close the show.
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In our next segment, we're going to revisit
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One of charlie's favorite rush clips,
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One of the best clips rush ever did.
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It's his final christmas message to his viewers.
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So appreciate everything you've meant to me and my family.
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You don't have any idea how i know.
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So many people think
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This program has changed their lives for the better.
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You have no idea what you all have meant
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To me and my family.
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The day is going to come true.
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I'm not going to be able to do this.
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I don't know when that is.
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I want to be able to do it for as long as i want to do it.
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I want to.
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But the day will come
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Where i'm not going to be able to.
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And i want you to understand
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That even when the day comes.
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I'd like to be here.
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Rush limbaugh loved christmas.
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He loved christmas.
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And this christmas,
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We always dedicate the last segment that we do
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Live to the great and legendary rush limbaugh.
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And we do that in a way, with that clip as the start.
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And then rush's
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Favorite christmas song.
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As we look back at this last year.
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Time to be grateful, to be filled with gratitude.
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That was charlie. you know. wow.
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We heard it from rush. we don't know.
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He didn't know how long he would do it.
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None of us know how long will be here.
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None of us expected to lose
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Charlie as soon as we did.
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But charlie always wanted to remember rush.
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And we will always want everyone to remember charlie.
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And all of us will be doing that for the rest of our lives,
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I expect.
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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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Danny Philip: December 25, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today

December 25, 2025 | S25 E1225 | 25:2

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