Well, that has never happened before. I guess we could say Charlie broke the internet one more time, 150,000 of you guys were watching, and the system just sort of crashed. And it just really makes me happy that that happened actually. It was already very difficult for me to do this for a lot of reasons. But I knew it was important because I didn't want the last

thing that people had in their minds about Charlie to be the moment he lost his life.

That was what was especially hard because he's just had so many amazing moments throughout

his career. And as I was saying, I was having this discussion with George

this morning, obviously through a lot of tears, about not wanting Charlie's caricature to survive

when the actual Charlie Kirk individual, who Charlie Kirk actually is, is so much more important.

The caricature, the cartoon is that Charlie is this young, smart guy,

made a career out of debating college kids, decided not to go to college,

started Turning Point USA.

And I think a lot of people thought that Charlie must take himself a bit too seriously.

And I want you guys to know that that could not be further from the truth.

Charlie and me were always laughing. Yes, he was ambitious. Everybody knows Charlie's

ambitious. I met him back in 2017 when Turning Point was this very young organization. Nobody

knew who I was. Nobody knew who Charlie Kirk was. And Charlie was always wearing these really

baggy suits. I mean, they looked like they were hand-me-downs from three generations because he was

focused on the ideas. He didn't care about his appearance. He was laser focused on what he knew

turning point could become, not could become, but would become. He hired me on a spot.

We were at this conference in Florida. And he and I used to always say, we never said the rest,

the rest was history. You know, the rest is history. We say the rest is future. We were,

we were totally locked in. And I want you guys to know about our first planning session. Okay. It was in the middle of

Chicago O'Hare Airport. There is this restaurant that's called the macaroni grill. And I sat down

with Charlie on our first trip together. He flips over this little paper menu as we're waiting

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