Freedom Built To Last Aftermath + AMA 279

Scott Jennings (0:03)

My name is Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk (0:05)

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Buckle up, everybody.

Mikey McCoy (0:49)

Here we go.

Charlie Kirk (0:56)

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Andrew Surabian (1:17)

All right. Welcome, everybody. It is 9-11, 2026, 25-year anniversary of a horrific day in American history.

And we honor the fallen. We have this beautiful flag here, flag of honor.

Alex Clark (1:35)

I hadn't seen that. Yeah.

Andrew Surabian (1:36)

And it's got all the names of those who perished in the terrorist attacks of 9-11.

Now and forever, it will represent their immortality. We shall never forget them. It's what the flag reads. We have it hanging under Charlie's beautiful image there. And it's just...

Blake (1:52)

They're linked together now.

Andrew Surabian (1:54)

It's linked together. Yeah. I'll never forget when Charlie died on 9-10 and President Trump went to commemorate 9-11 the next day, it felt like two 9-11s back to back. And so kind of a rough spot in the calendar, to say the least.

Anyways, we honor them and we remember them, and we will not forget them. And here to join us right at the top of the show is a great friend and somebody that has made it a point to bring up Charlie at every single speech he gives. He's told me this privately, and I'm grateful to him for that. And that is Scott Jennings.

So welcome, welcome back, Scott. Good to see you, my friend.

Scott Jennings (2:37)

Hey, Andrew. Good to see you. Thanks for having me on today.

Andrew Surabian (2:40)

It's, I'm grateful for your time, Scott. I kept thinking about you yesterday as I saw the tributes come in to Charlie. You know, there were so many beautiful tributes, hundreds of them, actually.

And, you know, you had told me privately that you brought Charlie up at every speech that you gave across the country. And I have a clip of you the night that Charlie was killed on CNN. And it's a powerful moment, and it hurts to watch. But maybe just explain why you do that. And what you saw yesterday, what today means. It's a terrible cluster on the calendar, I have to say.

Scott Jennings (3:18)

Yeah, I was thinking back to what happened last year. I was on the radio when I found out Charlie got shot, and we reported that to the audience.

And then the show ended, the radio show ended, and I went over to CNN, and by the time I'd gotten over there, it was just about the time we found out Charlie had died. And in that period, I was thinking about the CNN audience, actually. And a lot of those folks probably didn't know Charlie Kirk or everything they'd ever heard about Charlie was negative. I mean, as you well know, so many people had slandered Charlie. They had said things that weren't true. They had made up quotes. They had done all sorts of things to Charlie. And I was sort of balancing two things. One, I wanted to tell that audience who he was and what he actually stood for, not the caricature that had been created. And number two, I also wanted to tell that audience how it felt to be a conservative walking around in the world. I mean, we had obviously seen what they tried to do to President Trump. He barely survived an assassination.

Charlie had been assassinated. And I don't know how you guys felt that day about this particular issue, but I said on TV, it didn't feel safe to be a conservative walking around America, given how radically violent so many people on the left had become. So I was trying to do two things that day, Andrew, which was convey a positive message about what Charlie meant to so many conservatives, particularly young conservatives and particularly young men, and also to convey some emotions about how conservatives were feeling about their own safety in our political ecosystem.