The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Us Anything 243: Charlie's Favorite Book? Confronting Conspiracies? Charlie-Inspired Families?

Episode Date: November 10, 2025

Blake, Mikey, and Danny take an hour of questions live from CK Exclusives subscribers, including:   -What is the best way for Charlie's friends to confront the most wild and hurtful conspiracy theories about his death? -Of the books Charlie wrote, what was his favorite? -What does Jay Jones winning tell us about current U.S. politics?   Plus, one caller gives an incredible testimony about how Charlie changed her life by inspiring her family to have a child before it was too late. It's not to be missed.   Become an Exclusives subscriber and ask the team a question on-air by going to members.charliekirk.com.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It is the Ask Us Anything Hour. It was Charlie's favorite hour of the week before we carry it on in his memory. I am joined in studio by Danny, a fan of the Ohio State University football team, but nobody's perfect. We'll get right into the questions because there's a lot of good ones. Do we have Bernadette. Unmute yourself. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Yes, we can. There you are. Bernadette. Thank you for being a subscriber and shoot. Hi, Blake. I'm so sorry. So I just really wanted to discuss how can we stop all these horrible rumors that are going on, you know, the collectiveness of everybody being so hateful towards the team and to what's going on with Erica.

you know, it's just very hurtful since I've been a long-term turning point investor and I love Charlie more than anything. So I just think if we need to have somebody very strong to get out there and say enough is enough, we're continuing the mission of turning point. We don't want to lose a piece of Charlie in this. We want to support Erica at every move. Stop analyzing everything. Stop being toddlers. You know, stop the infighting. We have enough infighting in the part. party as it is. And I just think a little bit more of a stand should be taking because you guys have a very hard job. You have the midterms coming. Yes. Yeah, you mentioned being an investor. I think you email us all the time. Don't you, Bertad? I think I see those. Aren't I annoying, Blake? No, no, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I'm sorry we can't respond to all emails. We get a lot of them. I try to respond to someone I can. But no, thank you for being such an interested supporter. So invested, you know, morally as well. Yeah, that's, you know, that's a, you know, A very good question, and I'm glad you've asked it, because it is a tough thing to navigate. And you can see how we've worked around it, because there's a lot of things that are so

vile, so hate-driven, so, I mean, just so loopy, it has certainly been the opinion of a lot of us here that it's just, it's not productive to engage with. You're only giving oxygen to a fire. But I think it's also true after two months. clearly, you know, it has not caused them to just go away. There's still, I mean, there's people who are harassing Mikey. There's people harassing other members of our team. And a lot of that's just, yeah, sorry, what was that?

I just kind of think that they're all children. And in order to stop this, you have to smack it down for once. It's enough already. You know, you can't keep pussy footing around it. You have to say, enough with it. We've explained to you that this is what happened. I don't want to hear these lies anymore. I don't want to hear you tracing all over whatever Candace is saying or whatever this one's saying.

You got to just be firm enough to say enough. We're moving on. This is the way the case is going to go. And you know what? Pray for Charlie. And let's get on and try to beat the game because we have the midterms coming. Yeah, exactly. So I don't want to speak up because I'm not Erica.

I'm not, you know, the senior people at Turning Point. I technically don't have a position in Turning Point. I'm only with the show. So I don't want to speak up for anyone else. I get that. And I don't want to also, like I said, they have preferred we not give oxygen to really wild specific claims unless it's absolutely necessary for some reason. Right. What I have done is I've tried to, when I talk about it, I talk about it big picture, which is there's clearly just a part of society that finds conspiracy theories really compelling.

I was just talking about this morning. I mean, you put out a good tweet. Yeah, yeah. I said it this morning. I'll just repeat some of it here where you see how these things work. First of all, people get more attached to the idea of some conspiracy existing than any specific narrative. So they can swap in new things. Like they'll throw out some wild idea and something obviously debunks it and they just instantly slot in a new thing that is as crazy or even crazier and they don't really pause to think about it.

People love to say, I'm just asking questions and, okay, it's true. You can ask questions about things. But what is often the case is they're not actually that interested in answers. so people ask the question oh was he was he on the phone when the shooting happened the answer's no and okay then i guess that answer they it turns out they weren't terribly interested in an answer to that question and then not he wasn't on the phone yes and just a loss of sort of basic thinking a lot of things so many things it's like even if this was the case who cares so again to use the one that we've talked about on the show because i think

think we've confronted that. Like, if Mikey was on the phone with someone, what? Like, Yeah. It doesn't matter. Again, he was not. But if he was, like, what?

Oh, the conspiracy required that someone be 20 feet away from Charlie so they could, they could call it in to say that it's done. Like, this thing that was happening in front of hundreds of cameras, it's, it defies rational thought, which shows that so much of this is not happening for rational reasons. And that's why you can't really debriefers. bunk it. You can only, you can respond to it, but I try, when I respond, I try to just show that we're aware

of this, we're not ignoring it, but you also have to recognize it's not really defeatable through rational means. You just have to show, yeah, like you said, we're focused on what matters, which is winning elections, which is winning young people, which is converting people, pursuing

the religious revival, doing the things Charlie cared about. And Charlie would be very distressed if we were just endlessly fighting weird conspiracy theories instead of doing the causes he gave his life for yeah and we do have mikey on if uh mike you have anything to say hi bernad how are you how are you you look wonderful good i'm so sorry for those of you guys who do not thank you bernadette i charlie loved you and i know he was such a good man behind the scenes bernadette always would bring a gift to charlie twice a year at our i see it right

behind you there's the football there's one behind you there's one behind you behind me. And then there's one in his office, which is the Michael Jordan basketball, which was one of his highlights. So, Bernadette, you're always such a good friend to Charlie. I don't want you to feel, I don't want you to feel hurt by all these horrible things. We know that you have a responsibility. You're a young man. And I just want you to take a deep breath, like I said. And you know what? Let them spin their conspiracy theories. You're a good kid. You had instructions to call Erica. Charlie had a team that jumped right in there. I know that team and we just got to move on we got to push them moving on and let's get to these midterms

yeah that's right thank you bernadette i just i it's it's crazy it's just i i remember taking the last picture i took of charlie was at 1223 right before he was shot and i just i took that picture my phone was already in my hand i plugged my ears people thought i was on a phone call i wasn't but i did in fact call erika momentarily afterwards but thank you bernadette that's very encouraging to hear from you you'd be encouraged and you keep going because we need you and we need that team to take a deep breath and get your pants on and get running right thank you bernadette god bless you now i'm just all right i'll see you guys uh i'll see you guys get your pants on i'm just thinking of the occasional

charlie was like a nice shirt with like shorts on he would occasionally have not often not often but it was a thing nobody said this two shall pass so get it going right yes yes okay god bless you boys And you know what? We always got you back. Thank you, Bernadette. Got it. Bye, Mikey. If you're anything like me, you work tirelessly to try and incorporate a wide variety of whole food ingredients into your diet. It's key for me.

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Stephanie, unmute yourself. And what's your question? Hi. Thank you for everything that you guys are doing. Prayers are with everybody, Andrew, Erica, and the kids. My question was in reference to the J. Jones situation. I obviously saw all the news about the tech scandal because my algorithm allowed it.

What do you think the possibility is is that most Democratic voters weren't even aware of the tech scandal? I recently saw a poll on X that said that 83% they think around 80 to 85 came around 83% of all voters were aware of the text.

Yeah, I think the truth is, I saw, I think, a similar poll. It might have been the same one. But the truth is when you ask them, it's that I think only about 45% of people overall said that they thought the texts were disqualifying for him presumably most of them are just republican voters anyway

to the local democrat party 47% of them think that threatening to kill your opponent's children is not disqualifying yeah so a lot thought it was concerning but not disqualifying some said it had no impact at all and like a few were unaware of it but you know if you if you're bothering to turn out these are lower turnout races it's off year entirely so lower turnout uh there's also just more focus on them because no one's distracted by the presidency or the senator, all of those. We managed to make a state AG race a national thing. A lot of people did hear about it,

but the truth is we have highly polarized politics, and a lot of people have taken away the lesson of the last few years that the way you get through any scandal, no matter how bad, is you apologize for nothing and you just move straight ahead. We're not even a decade removed from the governor of Virginia was caught wearing blackface in his, uh, in the school year book, and he just obviously lied and said it wasn't me. And then I think he backtracked to, I can't really remember. But the point is, he didn't resign, didn't give in,

just played out his whole term. And in the end, they couldn't remove him. And I think that's what Democrats realized they could do here, that there was no point in being ashamed of it. There was no advantage to being ashamed of it. So just knuckle under, move ahead and say, Republicans are worse. It doesn't matter if we have an AG who, you know, really, people are emphasizing the text, but it's so many other things. He drove, what was it, like 100, 120 or something. Yeah, they got out of community service. Really bad speeding. And then he got out of the community service in a scamway. That's actually shadier than this. He tried to kick a dog the morning of election day to. I'm not a believer in dog gate, to be honest. That was, uh, it was funny.

I would also just add to this that we need to also be asking how many Republicans knew about these text messages? Because what he was saying is super dangerous, which is only one. when people feel pain personally, do they act on policy? So Republicans, this needs to be a warning to us that the left is not only moving towards further radicalization, but they're also going to use their political power for you to act on policy by you feeling pain. And so Democrats, a lot of them knew about this and still voted for him anyways, but how many Republicans know about this story? And the answer is not that many. And we need to blast it out to everyone, especially going into the midterms that we cannot allow candidates like this to get elected,

but also this should be a warning sign to the trajectory of where the left is headed. I guess a small, naive part of me was really hoping that people wouldn't really still vote for someone if they were aware. Unfortunately, we're in a different country now, and people will vote for a lot of very dark things. And people should be aware of that because now we have an AG in Virginia who wants her. children to die that is the reality we are in yeah thank you for your question stephanie uh let's go uh david is our next caller unmute yourself david and what's your question uh my question kind of piggyback is off that uh we're in the commonus california and we got shellac uh pretty much we got shellac so how do we uh educate our base so that um

so that we're because you just talked about that we're in an off year but we're not we're not really an off year because it just keeps on going we only and president trump has only been in office for eight months or 10 months and we we took a shalacking on Tuesday so my question is yeah how do we yeah i you want to always say complacency is yeah is a cancer and so i feel like a lot of Republicans have a tendency to just kind of sit back and get comfortable, especially after a victory. But we also have this obsession with infighting right now. And I said this last week, but when you're infighting all the time, you're showing to the world, you have no more enemies to conquer, so you must fight each other. And so I know people who gave a ton of money to Prop 50

in California, and they felt as though as a waste. I feel like California is going to rig it no matter what but when are republicans going to start working together not be complacent not not sit back and get comfortable but to just work hard time after time show up to the to the polling places show up to vote and actually take action not just be comfortable what do you think like we got shellacked in california yet at the same time i like to flag this when you're in these off-year elections turnout is down so much that if you had every person who cast a ballot for donald trump even in California last year. I think we would have won this prop 50 race easily.

And it's going to be like that. It was like that in Virginia. And it's going to be like that in the coming midterms, even. There's going to be lower turnout where you're going to look and say, if we had everyone who turned out two years ago, we would have won every single one of these races that we cared about. And what's your, 84% of the women, women voted for for trash. and they think it's okay for men to be in women's sports, those women, 84%.

Go ahead. 84% of probably younger women, I guess. I don't think younger women. Yeah, probably under 30. Are you referring to Mom Donnie, to voting for Mom Donnie? Yes. Got it. Oh, I love it all together.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, this is a worrying thing for us, too, because Charlie had an opportunity to reach out to the younger generation, but specifically to young men. And so the young men, they have a sense of responsibility and obligation to American society and history and to keep our country alive. They tend to vote more conservative. But young women are moving further and further to the left. This is where I feel very hopeful with just Erica Kirk and her ability to reach out to young women in this country. But that is a big warning sign that we need to write on the forefront of our minds going into the midterms. And then also 2028 is young women.

obviously New York is a bit of an echo chamber when it comes to how liberal the younger generation is, but 80%, 83%, 84% voting for Mamdani and for younger women, it's a very, very worrying sign. Yeah, and Charlie, I feel so unequal to the task because Charlie truly was, among other things, among his many talents, he was a world-class talent at whipping people up for races. and all of us are still trying to do that. Turning point action is still. We're still executing on the agenda. That's why we got. Basically, our only win on Tuesday night was in Mesa where we had the full ballot,

get out, you know, the block by block, build those relationships, knock on the doors, keep the machine well-oiled. And it looks like we got that win in Mesa, and that's good. But our ability to do that on national level, let's be blunt, it's a very expensive thing to do. It's a difficult thing to do.

It is a time-consuming thing to do. It is not something you can do two weeks out from the election. It is not something that can be done on the cheap. It's difficult. It's resource intensive. And as the right, we kind of have systematically been disadvantaged on that. You've got to get alignment between the mission and what the donors are willing to fund and all of that. And Charlie was a world-class talent at that and a world-class talent at communicating with people.

And, you know, I don't want to say, like, would we have won these races if Charlie was still with us? I don't know because he just was so effective at build the coalition, mobilize the coalition, turn out the coalition. Yeah. And for young ladies, too, you're voting in droves for the party that wants men in your safe space, which is if you're going to the bathroom, if you're in a locker room, you're voting for the party that puts transgender men on the front of magazines saying that it's, you know, the most beautiful women in London are actually men. you're voting for a party where the mayor mayoral candidate is coming from as is an Islamist and in Islam like they they do not respect women you are voting for this party and Blake you guys talked about this on the show earlier this week with Mamdani winning this is New York City back on 9-11 that you saw what Islam could do to the city and now you are voting in droves and welcoming it in crime and it's a really dangerous warning sign but i i don't think young women really understand what they're voting for because it's totally against their principles as a whole what do you think blake the young women issue is tough uh because there's a lot of charlie would talk about this you know they are pro social individuals they are norm enforcers they do they respond

more to what is the vibe around them. And that has a lot of good purposes. There's a lot of good things about that. When you're in a very good community, they help hold that community together. It's, you know, women are routinely the bedrock of a really successful church and a really successful neighborhood.

They keep a community together. They're the ones who are turning out, you know, if someone has a death in their family, you know, it's women who've been turning out the most after what happened to Charlie to support Erica. But they can be turned towards a lot of bad ends, especially in these big cities. And breaking that apart was one of Charlie's big missions, and it's a mission we're going to

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President Trump is fighting for America's future. Now it's your term to help protect yours. All right. So our next question is let's go to Brandon. Brandon, unmute yourself. And what's your question? Hey, guys. I was just wondering what was Charlie's favorite book that he wrote?

I feel like the flip answer. would be the next one, but Mikey might have a more true answer, but I feel like Charlie was always looking forward, so he was always talking about, he was so excited writing the Sabbath book, Stop in the Name of God. I feel like the one we'd end up referencing the most, probably was

the college scam, just in the sense that was a very timeless topic, whereas right-wing revolution and magadctrine were more embedded in a specific moment, but college scam comes up again and again. College is only more of a scam by the day other than Hillsdale, of course.

And so I would, those are the two answers I'd think of. But Mikey, what did you say? Yeah, he loved all the books that he wrote. And he spent a lot of time on each one of them. And so each one of them are very special in their own unique way. Also, you just kind of get to see every aspect of his life as you get to read these books. When he was in his era of really pushing the college scam, he always pushed it. But that was when he was just obsessed with it.

And then you can kind of see where his mind was at, where his headspace was at. Then you, right wing revolution, America's Turning Point. There's all these books that he wrote. But I personally, I feel as though one of his absolute favorites was his newest one that's coming out, which is Stop in the Name of God. And he was just so spiritually invested in that book. He was so obsessed with the book, the amount of time that he spent on it, talking with people that could give him knowledge and wisdom. And he wanted to just understand. He wanted to get it right because.

He used to always say that the Shabbat is a gift, and you just need to receive the gift, and your punishment for missing the Sabbath, Shabbat, is that you miss the Sabbath. It turns out that the punishment was, in fact, missing the Sabbath because it was such a gift in his life, and he wanted to just share that with the world, that he would just stop one day a week and be with his kids and his wife, and that time was dedicated to them. But he was so spiritually invested in this book, and it was really amazing and beautiful to be alongside him as he wrote this and went deep on this book and just really dived in. But he finalized the book probably the week before he was murdered. And I just, he was so happy with it. And it was, it's just an amazing

book. I can't wait for the world to see it, to read it. I just was looking at the copy literally today and was just in awe of what he was able to accomplish with this beautiful book. Do you guys know when that one's coming out? Or? Yeah. It should be coming out. out just at the beginning of this next year, I believe, is when it's coming up. But pre-order sales are actually available right now. And I know it's finalized and ready to go. I was looking at a copy today, but you're going to really enjoy it.

Thank you so much for that question. All right. Our next guy, we have Jimmy. Jimmy, unmute yourself. And what's your question? Yeah, thanks, everyone. I appreciate all you guys do. So the question is wrapped around.

You know, Trump had an amazing win. Of course, Charlie Kirk, I loved everything he did. did to help do that with you and the team as well. And so he won the popular vote. He just won so much. So we're trying to get through his agenda. His agenda seems to be, for many reasons, to be slowed down. There seems to be slow down everywhere you look.

So he's come out with this, especially during the time of the government shutdown. He's proposing a strategy to use shut down or stop the filibuster, which apparently is some kind of the Senate role that's used to slow. down legislation and it's not in the Constitution. So I was wondering what your thoughts are regarding that strategy. I know that some GOP senators are for it, some are against it, but just trying to get your thoughts about it as well. I'm happy to weigh in on this. I have weighed in on it in a few other shows. So I'll actually, I'll throw it to Danny and Mikey to see how you guys feel it as younger voices, how you feel about Senate institutional reform. If you have

anything to say otherwise I can revisit what I've said the last few days I mean I get I mean I hear from both sides but from my point of view from what I've seen I think it's probably it's dangerous because I don't like the idea of giving the Democrats in the future the possibility of just running wild with whatever radical ideas they want especially with recent elections they could gain back power pretty quickly here and so I think there's definitely we should be careful about doing it. And so there's some aspects that I'm kind of worried about if we do go through with it. Mikey. Mikey. Blake, I'll let you take it. I will just say this. Gen Z as a whole, I'm a little worried that as, you know, I don't think they necessarily care about things like

this. And I think Republicans need to find the right, yeah, they need to find the right way to message this to young people. It is very true, especially young people. They care about results. Like, They care who is delivering, who is making their lives better, and they're not going to be sold on an excuse like, oh, well, this Senate practice that goes back decades. They don't care about that. That's great. What I will say also, though, is if you are going, I've said this consistently, they can delete the filibuster if they have a plan for how to maximize its effectiveness that they can deliver on. So if you get rid of the filibuster and all you do is reopen the government and maybe, and reopen the government. And he said, past national voter ID law.

I think I support. I 100% support doing that. But I think if that's all you got from it, that would be a huge waste of getting rid of the filibuster. And now you've made it just even that little bit easier for the Democrats to go totally off the chain the next time they hold power, which they likely will someday. Yeah. And if we know anything about Republicans, we're definitely very organized and all together and have many points. Exactly. Exactly.

Now, because you'd possibly only have 12 months until you have, and then, you're. You know, and plus the lame ductary, you have basically 14 months before you have possibly losing the Senate, possibly losing the House. And then in that span, you could pass a lot of legislation if you had a majority ready to go. You could change America's immigration laws. So no more asylum seeker nonsense, you know, cut back on legal immigration, get rid of the diversity lottery. You make deportations way easier. You roll back all these like weird legal exploits they've developed over the decades. You could reform regulatory laws, reform environmental laws, so we can build those houses that we wanted.

You could blow up the student loan system, say, we're not giving endless money universities anymore, and you could pair it. Like, we're not funneling endless money universities. Also, we're going to forgive a lot of outstanding student loan debt. That's the way to do it, not just the way Biden did, where he just snaps his fingers and makes it go away and turns the money spigot on forever. There's so many things you could do when you get rid of the filibuster, but we have a lot of bad senators in the Republican Party. Too many. It's unfortunately the case. We're trying to make it better. They've gotten a lot better. This is a much better Senate now than we had in 2017. But it's not a perfect Senate. It's not an entirely on message Senate. And so I've just tried to warn people. If we get rid of the filibuster, we could get very disappointing results with the current Senate we have. And yes, are the Democrats likely to get rid of it the next time they have power? Yes. But even if they have to spend a few weeks getting their ducks in a row to do it, that is a few weeks fewer before they're actually. able to do it and it makes it feel more transgressive when they do it. If we get rid of the filibuster, we own getting rid of the filibuster and Democrats can claim with far less shame than they

would otherwise, oh, we're just doing what Republicans let us do? You always have to think, what is the next order of business when you take an action in politics? And I try to make sure people remember that on the filibuster question. But if we're ready to take it, if we have the agenda in place, then by all means, full steam ahead. Tom, is our next question. Tom, unmute yourself, and what's your question? Hey, guys, so you're doing such a great job. I miss Charlie greatly, but you really are stepping into the role. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

So listen, I'm a senior member of Generation X and by two days. So don't get me started on the boomers, not my favorite. But I'll just leave that there and ask this question. How do I and other generation Xers help the courageous generation step into their role right now? Like, what could we do? How could we encourage? How could we connect? Yeah, that's an amazing question.

And Gen X and boomers too. Here's the thing. The suspicious people that are suspicious of you are the ones you want to win over because they're guarding their loyalty to you. Once you win someone who's suspicious of you over, they're beyond loyal to you. And boomers, they love their generation. They want to make sure that their generation is good. And I just think that's very honorable of them. And I just, Gen X and boomers, the best way you guys can help us is just know, we need help.

And you guys, you've been through life. You've experienced the ups and the downs and the tragedies and the hardships. And we need your help. and gen z and young people in general we need your help and so two three weeks ago i spoke at liberty erika was supposed to speak there and she she couldn't travel she asked me to go fill in for her so i traveled and went and spoke at liberty and that was my speech is they they are the courageous generation that is what erika labeled them as is the courageous generation they have a lot of courage but they feel a little bit hopeless and courage without hope leads to recklessness and

And so they're a little reckless. They don't know where to turn. They need help. That's why you see young people turning to radical ideas as the solution to their problems with Mom Dani and other radical candidates. And we just need help. Be there for us. Oftentimes people will just kind of tell the younger generation, pull yourself up by the bootstraps, figure it out. But we are courageous.

Help us. Help us find our way. And there's nothing that will stop this courageous generation of young people, as Erica called us. to change America. We, our hero was Charlie Kirk. We are fired up. We love Charlie. And our hero is gone and we want to put our courage in something.

So thank you. What an incredible question. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. What a great answer. That gives me encouragement and hope because I know this generation is going to fulfill what God has for them.

But I just want to be that cheerleader, the catalyst, That's the people that come alongside, really. If you're a listener to the Charlie Kirk Show, you know that Charlie built an amazing community through conversation. And that was online, that was in person, it was everywhere. We're able to go very viral about what we're able to do on TikTok, billions and billions of views. But it was one connection at a time.

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Jean-Claude, unmute yourself. Thank you, Daisy. I think we know what your question is going to be about. unmute yourself, Jean-Claude, and shoot. Hi, can you guys hear me? Yep, yep. Yeah, so the first one was, I heard you guys mention a Charlie Kirk book list a lot, but no one's ever mentioned the list that he put at the end of Right Wing Revolution.

They're like 30 books on there. Yeah, all right, you are right, and we should mention it more. I helped contribute what was on that list of books, so I really should remember it myself. Aha, here we are, yes, in the section Changing Yourself in Right Wing Revolution, which I think this was rare for a bit after the assassination, but I think there's additional copies out there hopefully for people who would like to get it themselves or I imagine there's digital books these days.

I don't read too many e-books, but I know they exist as a thing. But a lot of, it's an interesting book because a lot of it is about, it came out in early 24, I believe, and a lot of it is immediate political stuff. So there's a lot about the 2024 election. But the entire back third of the book or so is about the importance of changing yourself to be a more effective person in the political realm.

And I'll read the book list in a second here. But a lot of is, yeah, the importance of changing yourself. And some of that is you should just be a better person. So some of that was don't watch porn. Get married. Date seriously towards marriage. Have a successful family. Care about your kids' education.

But it's also you should be a well-read person. You should not be a dummy. You should, you know, don't just sit on social media. Don't just watch slop. Don't watch reality TV. you can make yourself a better person, which Charlie tried to do. So, yeah, well, let's let it rattle off the list of books that we had. This is just, he said, none of us is perfect, and this is just a starting off point,

and you don't need to read all of this. This is sort of just some quick hits. Let's start actually with the philosophy, politics, economics list he had. He had the Republic by Plato. He had the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. I know that was a big favorite of his. The City of God by St. Augustine. The imitation of Christ by Thomas Akemphus.

I definitely recommended that one. That's a very medieval one. The Federalist Papers. by founding fathers, Madison, Hamilton, and Jay. Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton. Man Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel, a big favorite of Charlie's. Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis. The fatal conceit, the errors of socialism by F.A. Hayek,

as well as The Road to Serfdom. He would like that, too. The True Believer by Eric Hoffer. Collected essays by George Orwell. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Freedom. And Genius, a Mosaic of 100 Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom. That might have been another one that I recommend. include. We also have some good history works. We had the Civil War, a narrative by Shelby Foot, a history of the English-speaking peoples by Winston Churchill, from dawn to decadence by

Jacques Barzune. Charlie definitely would have only read a summary of that one. That is a very, very long book. The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes, Citizens, a chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Shama. I've read that. That is one of my favorites. And we have some great literature here, too. The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer, the Divine Comedy, by Dante. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. We need books for women here, too. That's an all-time classic. 1984 by George Orwell. The Power and the Glory by Graham Green. That's a great Christian novel. Scoop by Evil and Waugh. That is one of my favorites. It has the important lesson that journalists have always been pretty awful. But that's a good lesson to have and it's very funny. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. That is an incredible one. And it teaches you that everything. we worry about today was happening decades ago as well. Giselle unmute yourself and what is your question?

Hi there, can you hear me okay? Yes, we can. Thank you so much for taking my call. I'm just so sorry for your loss. I've been praying for your families for TPSA for Eric and the children just daily since he's been murdered. I never had privilege to meet Charlie myself but even so I felt like I lost like a beloved like younger brother. He was he was a decade younger than me but world wiser than I was at 31 or younger so thank you thank you so much we've heard so much of that from from people I'm sure and it means a lot to hear from that from people like you oh thank you

and um I've been listening to your show off and on pretty much since not since it started but like around election day of 2020 so a good long while you know when you hear someone's voice that many times of your head you you know you do feel like you know them almost even though you don't in real life so um your show is just I'm so grateful for you guys keeping it going and thank you And the thing I wanted to share, though, too, was that my husband and I have a new little baby daughter who's just turned almost just turned a year old just last week. And we were older. We're a little bit older. Like I said, we're in our 40s. And we were, we've been married a long time, but we were very happy being dinks, you know, focusing on our careers. And we actually finally gave our lives over the Christ in 2023. And later on that year, we actually heard one of Charlie's sermons. that he gave as an episode of your show. I think it was in a church in North Dakota.

And he talked about how children in a marriage is like God's perfect design in most cases. And it kind of got us off the fence, like on that topic. And, you know, I really do believe that God used, you know, Charlie to get that message out to us. And, you know, we kind of took their taking that a lot more seriously. And, you know, last year, you know, we were blessed to give birth to our, I was blessed to give birth to our beautiful daughter. and I really don't know if we would have done it before it's too late if it wouldn't for that message so you know I hope you all know that he had such a huge influence that's so that is so beautiful I'm in I'm so happy you called I'm so happy we got that wow yeah I've been

thinking about yeah I've been thinking about the all the time ever since the his passing I mean it's just been such a he was such a huge influence even though like people a little bit older than him like me and my husband were both in our 40s like I said so he was such a huge inspiration to us. And I was also just wanted to ask if, you know, I was wondering if either the Charlie Kirk Show or the Turing Point store might ever consider selling like onesies or baby clothes because we'd love to support that. I know they, I know they're knockoffs, but I'd love to support the actual one. If you ever consider selling those, maybe? That is an easy question to answer. Daisy is informed me, or Mikey, you want that? You want that,

Mikey? Go ahead, Mikey. No, go ahead. Go ahead. She says, shout out, proclaim 365.com. That is Erica's daily wick before she was put into her new bigger position that was that includes baby clothes baby blankets with Bible verses and other Christian content on them I'm told the blankets

are currently sold out they are locally sourced and made in the USA so you you have slightly more complicated supply lines but you can get them there and I just that is so such a beautiful story I'm so glad you called Giselle I'm so happy to hear about a baby

Thank you all so much. Charlie, you know, they do sell baby clothes on the Turning Point USA store as well, by the way. Okay, excellent. I believe we do. Okay. Thank you all so much. And thank you for all you're doing to keep us everything going. And we'll always keep you in your prayers.

And we definitely have your back. Thank you so much. I think of that line, you know, he who saves one world saves the entire world. I think it's a Jewish proverb. But it's kind of, you know, a life exists because of Charlie's witness. Yeah. Definitely. That's a life of infinite and important.

importance to God of infinite importance to their family and it's a life that were it not for Charlie would not be here and yeah man that's that's incredible oh man oh we have one last question I'm just going to read it because I'm worried we won't have time otherwise it's a Christine and she says see us Lewis or Tolkien and while we're at it tozer or Jonathan Edwards That's tough. I think I've got to go with C.S. Lewis. I read Lord of the Rings for the first time, surprisingly late last year. And I liked it, but it did not have the same impact on me that reading Lewis did when I was a younger person. And I think he had a bigger, broader breadth of how he wrote. I am not qualified tozer or Jonathan Edwards question. Are you qualified, Mikey? You're the pastor's kid. I'm not overly qualified, but C.S. Lewis is my answer. but what about what about tozer or jonathan edwards are you a sinner in the hand of an angry god

i think we should make also a list of authors that charlie liked i think that's a good idea not just books but also a list of authors we should just have it as like on an f aq on our website thank you christine thank you joselle thank you everyone who called we love these questions we love answering them and we look forward to having them next week For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.