Charlie's Friends And Charlie's Mentors + A Corn Maze for Charlie

Charlie Kirk (0:03)

My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.

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Andrew Surabian (1:17)

All right. Welcome, everybody, September 8th, 2026 We're here at the Y Reef I Studios in Phoenix, Arizona. And it's going to be a tough week. It's going to be a really tough week. I still can't believe it's one year without him. And we miss him profoundly still today. Doesn't feel real. It's never felt real. I think you would agree, Blake. And so we're going to be paying tribute to our friend Charlie, we're going to be leaning on our friends to help us do it, just like we did a year ago today.

And first up out of the box is Steve Bannon, host of War Room. And Steve, welcome to the show.

It doesn't feel real, but having you start the week off with us is very helpful. And so we're grateful for your time, Steve. And by the way, I got to say, the piece that you did yesterday and you invited us all to be on it, I got, my phone was blowing up. And so I just want to thank you for doing that, remembering Charlie in that way.

Steve Bannon (2:18)

You guys did, you saw, the introduction to your show is always so powerful. I get goosebumps every time I watch it, in particular when we play Scotland the Brave, I always think of Charlie Kirk the Brave. But those speeches and everything you see, that's the point of delivery. For Charlie to be like that, as you know, it took so much work every different way, intellectually, to know how to make sure you could control yourself by the discipline he put in in these college campuses when he was just being attacked relentlessly, the speeches, all of it. And so I thought, what would be appropriate is let's just talk about the work of, the work ethic of Charlie Kirk behind the scenes, what it was that made the band that the world saw and the world came to admire and love and do it with people that, and that was so great that we could have you and Tyler and Blake who are different aspects. You know, Tyler more the political operative, you more the media part, and Blake the driving force, you know, of Charlie's kind of getting up to speed intellectually on all these different topics he had to master. That's what I thought the power of it was, and I'm glad Real America's Voice helped us pull together, you guys cooperated. And I just think it was a great way to start the week off because a lot of people are gonna be talking about Charlie at a macro level.

To understand Charlie Kirk, you gotta understand Charlie Kirk, really the intellectual and political and spiritual athlete. And to do that is like any athlete. It's all about the reps. And I think that's what the show showed. And I'm so glad that you guys came on because you're kind of the tripartite piece of Charlie Kirk. So thank you guys.

Blake Chestnut (3:59)

Yeah, the reps thing, you can attest.

The greatest thing about Charlie is that he wasn't a true workaholic. It was just that he was the most disciplined man in the world about using his time exactly as he meant to. Like he didn't have a single moment to waste at any point. And it's like he knew in some special way. He knew his time was limited and he shouldn't waste a single second of it. And compared to anyone else we've ever met, I don't think he did.