The Charlie Kirk Show - Hot Mics and Unity Memorials

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

'STOP, in the Name of God' is out NOW — order today at 45books.com. The show talks to the TPUSA chapter head at Utah Valley University, who discusses how hostile actors are acting to sabotage or modify a planned Charlie memorial. The team also reacts to Jasmine Crockett's new Senate run, and responds to a brand-new hot mic moment for President Trump by asking: Why is the Republican Senate being so slow about confirming their own president's nominees? Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!    Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Andrew Colvitt here. Honored to be with you. Today is launch day of Charlie's last book, Blake, stopping the name of God. Erica Kirk has been in New York doing media. I think today she's, she did Fox and Friends. She did Hannity last night. I think she's going to be co-hosting the five. today, which is very exciting.

If you're the sort of person who watches the five. If you're the, yeah, well, I mean, actually, I think the five is actually, maybe people don't know this. I think it's the top rated show on the network, on that network, with Greg Gunfeld. A lot of people do like it. Yeah, no, it's a very popular show. And then she's going to be joining us in our, the top of hour two today. So Erica Kirk will be joining the Charlie Kirk show at 1 p.m. Eastern 10 a.m. Pacific. So you're going to guys are going to stay tuned for that and she's going to be talking about the book this right here also have it in my hand stop in the name of god charlie's last book and this was a a labor of absolute

love from charlie he spent over a year working on it jotting down notes reflections meditating on it's deeply personal uh i think erika said it really well actually on hannity i don't want to get ahead of ourselves here because we are going to be talking about with erika but this Charlie learning how to rest one day a week was what helped him level up. It was what really took him. He was amazing, amazing. But then when he did this, he became even more amazing, effective, better leader and so many things. So we've got the artwork back there. The team got it done and put it up there. And lots of news to cover in the meantime. So let's get let's just let's just get out the gate real well here. Jasmine Crockett has decided to run for Senate. And I feel obligated to, to, to, to, to, to, at least lead with this. You know, Jasmine Crockett is a very fiery figure out of Texas. She has risen to prominence by basically being flamboyantly, aggressively, obnoxiously, insensitive, saying wild things, saying anti-white things, anti-Trump things, anti-conservative things. So let's just hear her in her own words, why she's announcing her run for Senate, 181.

there are a lot of people that said you got to stay in the house we need our voice we need you there and I understand but what we need is for me to have a bigger voice as if that was

whatever do we have this we played it in the cold open I saw like the best part was is she uploaded a video to announce that's her just sitting there impassively while they play clips of Donald Trump saying she's really stupid and well this is what happens right i mean if you go after somebody it

actually raises their profile right it's the barber stricand effect the stricent effect is where you know i guess it goes back to where stricand wanted to keep her privacy intact and then she ended up fighting back against somebody taking you know exposing her home address which made everyone see which made everybody see her her home address so it worked against her so it's called the stric sand effect. And you have this in politics, right? Senator Mark Kelly says some crazy things that are, you know, eerily similar to a coup, a military coup, encouraging that subversion. And guess what? Now he is in many new polls, it's like Gavin Newsom, Mark Kelly is who the Democrats think is the most viable candidate to run for president in 2028. Which could be risky because

I think I think Mark Kelly would be a more dangerous candidate than Jasmine Crockett, for example. Exactly. But this is what we have. Jasmine Crockett says all these crazy things. We say she's crazy and all of a sudden that's all it takes for her profile to be raised. So let's pick our enemies very carefully here. But in the case of Jasmine Crockett, I think this is a good choice because she is so insane. And I think she's going to have a heck of an uphill battle in the state of Texas. Let's play 184. This is her comparing herself to being the next Barack Hussein Obama. 184. There was this charismatic, funny, intelligent, and exciting young candidate with a funny name who just got into the U.S. Senate and was running for president. Many doubted if this country was ready, while others, well, we got to work and kept hope alive. Yes, we can. Yes, I'm talking about President Barack Obama. She left out the Hussein Obama, but that's okay.

Charlie would always say it. Barack Hussein-O-Ballus did it. Yeah, exactly. It was an ode to, it was an ode to Rush. And, of course, narrator, the country was not ready for Barack Obama. No, not remotely. The country was not. But this is what's crazy.

She's so crazy that she, we've got so many great clips on Jasmine Crockett. And this is an interesting clip. This is when she was saying, she's open to ending tax on black because she's in favor of reparations. But she admits that many are not already paying taxes. 176. One of the things that they propose is black folk not have to pay taxes. And I was like, I don't know that that's not necessarily a bad idea. Then you start dealing with the different tax brackets and things like that.

And that's one of the reasons that, you know, we argue the reparations make sense because so many black folk, not only do you owe for the labor that was stolen and killed and all the other things, right? But the fact is, like, we end up being so far behind, right? And so it's like, how do you bring forth people? Exactly. And so it's like if you, if you do the no tax thing, for people that are already, say, struggling and aren't really paying taxes in the first place, it doesn't really, exactly. They may want those, those checks like they got. Exactly.

So, so that's her admitting that, you know, reparations is a, is a flawed endeavor to begin with. We could keep going. She says she doesn't need to win over Trump supporters to do this. Now, Trump carried Texas by 14 points. So if I'm just doing the math here, I've got to question her logic here, Blake, 178. How will you convert those who are supportive of him to voters for you? Yeah, I don't know that we'll necessarily convert all of Trump supporters. That's not our goal.

Do you need to? Our goal is to definitely talk to people. No, we don't. We don't need to. They got to get some. You got to get some. So this is a good reason to be. be optimistic because

Jasmine Crock, one of her opponents has already basically dropped out in response to this, decided, let's pack up and go home. But older people will remember a candidate, I say older people like it's ages ago, but it was only about a decade ago. But

there's been a pattern. Democrats are really addicted to the idea of flipping Texas. It's kind of, it's similar to how we'll often be contacted by conservatives in California. They often dream of flipping California red the whole state not just house districts and we often have to say we support you we should work as hard as we can but it's not the immediate priority now because it's difficult

and expensive and we're not close to doing it democrats do this a lot with the state of texas where they get hyped up that they're going to flip the state in a big statewide race blue and they spend tons of money on it so let's throw up a decade ago we had wendy davis she gave a filibuster speech on the floor of, I believe, the Texas State Senate over an abortion bill. And so they made her a big national hero. She got a ton of money. She ran for governor. And she got steamrolled massively by Governor Abbott. And then they did it with Beto O'Rourke running for Senate. Beto got close. He got a lot of attention. He came closer. Well, don't, don't egg them on. Don't egg them on here. The point is they spent a lot of money on it. And that's probably why we got Governor Ronda

for example. If they'd taken that money and rolled it over to Florida, we probably don't win that race by, man, it was under 100,000 votes. 30,000 votes or something like that. Yeah, I mean, listen, if they want to roll her out there and see what they can get done, that's fine. I hope they spend a lot of money on Jasmine. I hope they spend so much money backing Jasmine Crockett. Hey, Andrew Colvette here. Do you want to own a home? The time to act is now. For the first time in years, buyers finally have the upper hand. There's more inventory, more negotiating power, and less competition. This window of opportunity won't stay open for long. As soon as the Fed cuts rates, buyer demand is expected to spike driving prices up and giving sellers the advantage once again.

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So this is here from Axios. can throw the graphic up. Senior Trump advisors are telling GOP donors that a pair of upcoming Supreme Court decisions are likely to bolster Republicans in the 2026 midterms and transform the party's power to win elections for years. So this is coming straight from Chris Lausavita, Tony Fabrizio, which are top Trump lieutenants. And they are talking about this case, Louisiana versus, I think it's pronounced Calais, I would think. Calais, Calais, whatever. So Louisiana v. Calais or Calais. It's a French name, and then when they're in Louisiana a long time, they start pronouncing it differently.

That's how we got Brett Farve, all that stuff. Favre. Favre. Favre. So what this is, is it's about a very, I would say, kind of longstanding precedent now. It goes back to the Voting Rights Act, Section 2, the Voting Rights Act, which came in 1965. And what that section does is it prohibits the dilution. of minority voting power in congressional redistricting plans.

So what this does in practice is it will take a district that is, or it will create a district that is a majority minority district. So if you have a predominant black community in Louisiana, for example, and this is where this case goes down to, they will design a district to give a black community a representative for the black community. In the case of Louisiana, they have two predominant. prominently black congressional district. Yeah, that was a recent court ruling forced them to make a second one.

Well, this is where this all comes from. It's a very mutant looking. It's a very mutant looking, but what this, what it's supposed to be doing is, at least in theory, they will argue that this is what allows them to have equal representation. So that black voters in the South specifically will have black representatives, right? But it is being challenged as racist. Now, why this is. key is because section two of the voting rights act, the core provision that protects against

racially discriminatory voting maps, that's how they would put it, the left, if struck down, it would be the most significant rollback of this voting rights act since what they say Shelby County versus Holder in 2013. But here's what else, this is what's crazy, is that this could at least it could flip 19 seats up to up to that so that's 19 congressional seats and they this this the left is warning about this they're writing white papers on this publishing these things and they are saying that if you add that to some of these congressional redistricting fights that we're having in indiana and we're having in missouri in florida and ohio that could total up to 27 seats going in our direction. And that's not even counting, I believe, Texas,

which has already now done it. We had that successful. Well, that might reduce the total, I think. Okay. But here's the point. Nineteen seats, especially in the South, are connected to this 1965 Voting Rights Act Section 2, which is making gerrymandered seats for majority minority districts. Now, you have to be careful because I always have to have the caveat here, which is there are a lot of seats in blue states that exist this way as well where because of section two they say okay here in chicago for example you need to make this giant like there's actually infamous districts in chicago where they have this all black district and then they have the Hispanic district that surrounds it kind of like a pair of earmuffs uh is famously what it looks like and so Democrat states do create this as well so that could mitigate it the big picture thing is we've had this

very artificial approach to our house maps that was imposed a half century ago for an understandable purpose which is that we had the Jim Crow system that really did deny black Americans the right to vote and you could argue you needed some sort of harsh measure to break that that's why we abolish the poll tax that's why we abolish some of the literacy tests

that they used and were famously rigged against black Americans. But a half century on black Americans have the same voting rights and voting rates as white Americans. They are not being denied the right to vote. Instead, this is always a cudgel that is just used to deliver the left political wins. Oh, we can't have basic voter ID because actually that's a way to bring back Jim Crow. And similar here, you can't have a house map decided democratically at your state level. because we've had a court order, how you're going to draw it.

And it never applies to Democrats, of course. Democrats are actually totally allowed to gerrymander however they want because they're doing it for political reasons, not racist reasons. Yeah, but here's what I would say. The liberal-leaning fair fight action group is freaking out about this. They are freaking out about this. And they are admitting that if this is overturned, it will benefit us much more. And here's the key.

Oral arguments are heard Tuesday, which is today. so for this case in which the justice will decide whether to eliminate the federal law and so so that's that's a big that's a big uh it's a big deal we'll see if it helps us because they have to decide it soon enough otherwise we can't draw the seats so if they do a quick 2028 could help us yes it's if they do it quick enough it'll impact 2026 if they don't 2028 for sure right now in war torn ukraine elderly jews like maria face a brutal winter and a constant search for food maria is 85 years old and lives alone she's nearly blind and suffers from a broken hip maria is a holocaust survivor her father

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urgent IFCJ.org. All right, very, very excited about this next conversation, because it's so important. we are going to be welcoming Caleb Chilcutt. He is the UVU chapter president for Turning Point USA there in Utah. Of course, that is where Charlie was assassinated on September 10th. And Caleb has been an absolute rock star and actually met him briefly over the weekend at the gala. So welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show, Caleb. It's an honor to have you here.

Thank you guys so much. This is a real honor. I'm super excited to be here. And just in case people are wondering, Caleb, you are from O'Shea? Australia. That is an accent that they're detecting. That's why his hair is so poofy. He's actually upside down. Yeah, I'm on the ceiling right now. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so it's been about the last time there. Yeah, absolutely. Well, it's great meeting you briefly. You were absolutely phenomenal at the gala. You said a few words. Thank you. Why don't we start there before we get

into this story? We've got 10 minutes in this segment. Tell us about the chapter in the aftermath of what happened to Charlie there and tell us how are you doing how is the chapter doing how the students doing yeah it's been honestly incredible um our chapter was a small probably got a hundred active members i would get about 20 people maximum per event um but then after charlie's death uh we've just seen an explosion in in activity um the campus website says we now over have 400 our members Our Instagram has gotten over 5,000 plus followers, and our events average 40 plus people, so we've more than doubled our events. That's phenomenal. And how are the students doing, though? I mean, you know, some of you guys, I mean, you were the last students to get pictures with Charlie. I mean, it was incredibly traumatic. It's still traumatic for so many of us. and, you know, I just, I have worried about some of you guys at the campus level there

because it was, I mean, an unthinkable thing happened right, right in front of you. Yeah, thankfully, yeah, the students have been doing really well. The UVU did offer free mental health services and other facilities to kind of help us out deal and process what we all witnessed, but the students, they're fired up. My students, they're ready to keep marching forward. Our chapter is becoming a stronghold, and it's going to be. be a legacy that is going to last a lifetime yeah wonderful well in talking about legacies that are going to last the lifetime so as soon as this happened with charlie there was talk of a charlie kirk

memorial on campus and unfortunately that is now coming into question let's go ahead and play this cut really quick 214 like it when the the campus comes together that's what i want to memorialize i want to memorialize uh campus uh coming together as one student body in the face of this great tragedy you want a memorial for unity yes exactly because unity died on september 10th not charlie kirk yes okay so they instead of a charlie kirk memorial they want a unity memorial blake does that make any sense at all i guess we'll have we'll have unity between uh you know the side that was fired upon and the side that fired i suppose sense for this. What is actually happening on campus? And is this unity memorial in place of a Charlie

Kirk Memorial actually gaining any traction here, Caleb? I'm not too sure about that, to be honest. This is definitely a case of the loud minority versus the silent majority. I haven't met a single student, and we talked to hundreds of students each week who want a unity memorial. Everyone I've talked to want something to honor Charlie. It's that under what he stood for. And it's just this small, very small but super loud voices that are what we're hearing right now across the country and the campus. Well, I mean, but don't they realize that this would be burying the truth of what really happened? I mean, this would be a disgrace to the tragedy that unfolded at that campus to call it

anything other than the Charlie Kirk Memorial. And, you know, it's, cannot say this enough. An indoctrinated leftist murdered Charlie Kirk in cold blood in front of all of us. there's no unity with that and charlie gave his life for free speech for this country um i i just i can't think of anything more insulting than a than taking charlie's name off of a memorial and in putting in its place some left wing deranged unity project or whatever that is so Caleb i i are you telling us that this is not gaining any real traction have you talked to the administration have you talked to anybody at the school that has

has any authority over this? Yeah, I've talked to a couple of the people on the memorial committee. Thankfully, it's very reassuring that about 90% of them have come to me and told me. They are huge Charlie Kirk fans. They loved what he stood for. They loved the message that he preaches. So that gives me some hope. But the real issue for me is that there's no traction. The last I heard was about a month ago where they took a tour of the courtyard and the next time their meeting to discuss the memorial is going to be sometime in January. So the process is taken very, very slowly. But from what I've seen, the people who are constructing this memorial were in good hands. That's good. Do you just worry that pushing it back, the goal is to just

deal, you know, the process is the punishment, delay it out, keep it from happening. Yeah, that's what I'm worried about that. You know, if you can push that long, the people who are directly affected have graduated. Yeah, the further away from the event that you get, the more leverage they're going to have if there is some sort of slow walk attempt going here. And that is one of my biggest concerns is that with how long this process is taking,

that the people who are fired up who want to under Charlie the right way, because of how long this is taking, their voices are going to die down, and this loud minority, they're just going to keep on getting louder. And I fear that that's going to influence the committee So what I've been trying to do is kind of be a, I guess, whispering in their ears just to make sure they're still in the right direction and that they're not going to honor Charlie's name in a very underwhelming way.

Yeah, and I'm glad you're doing that, Caleb, and you've got to let us know if we need to do anything to help spread the word there because if they do this, it will be one of the, if they attempt it in any serious form, it is going to be an outrage of epic proportions. and we will absolutely get loud because I would say the least that this campus could do or should do for the biggest highest profile political assassination since the 1960s in this country is to at least memorialize it properly with the actual person whose life was lost and taken. I don't know. Yeah. Can you describe, do you know, assuming they don't sabotage it? Is there a concrete vision for what it might look like that?

we can anticipate? Not yet. I know one of the Memorial Convenient members is a Utah Senator of Senator McKay. He proposed a bench with a Bible and a microphone on it, with Charlie's initials on that. But other people really want a statue of Charlie, a bust of Charlie, a plaque, like literally anything, and we've heard nothing. We've had no concrete plans right now. You know what it should be? Here's my vote. Just throwing out an idea here. Erica loves this picture too of Charlie throwing out that hat that day

she posted it with the freedom shirt and the hat coming out of his hand right where he did that that would be a good that would be torn between that and him at the table proving wrong with the microphone in hand that would be good to debate both

both would be a very good to me yeah so Senator Mike Lee from the great state of Utah has chimed in here he says creating a memorial to Unity at UVU instead of a memorial to Charlie Kirk would insult Charlie's memory, family, and supporters a thousand percent agree. It also downplay

Charlie's legacy and ignore what led to his assassination. The supposed call for unity comes across his hollow and manipulative. I would say just really gross and yeah, we're not going to fall for it. So I would say keep us posted on this, Caleb. As soon as you hear stuff, please let us know. Please let

field team know. If anything gets squirrely, please let us know. I just want to take the last two minutes in this segment real quick Caleb you know you experienced something I've I've said many times I'm so grateful I was not there that day unfortunately Blake was you know and also fortunate I'm glad charlie was had his team around him in that in that sense but you were there how has this changed you personally it's it's fried me up I like I said at the gala this is a realization I had that this is real things like this that happen in our country and it's just motivated me more to preach the

right message across not only campuses but across the world I'm yeah I'm fired up and I don't think the spark is going to die anytime soon that's great and we're hearing that by the way across the country just so everybody's aware it's like our can't the chapter meetings are exploding with people you mentioned that you doubled in size your meeting size the meetings are swelling and growing so that's that i mean meetings are growing the bible studies are growing we should definitely expand those keep those going we just got an email from kairi who says let the audience know if there's anything they can do to further the process of a uvu memorial most straightforward way if you are a utah listener tell your lawmakers this matters to you you care about it you want that

to happen there and possibly on other campuses yeah and Caleb if there's a good email you can get that to us and we can actually tell the audience and put it up on if if there's just sort of a people a place where people can send in their thoughts and concerns um or their their desire for this memorial to happen please find that for us and we'll we'll blast it out and yeah absolutely yeah we want people to let let their voices be heard and say we we want to honor charlie the right way here don't don't skim around it none of this unity stuff don't give into the to the leftist voice is on campus. Caleb Chilcutt, the president of our TPPUSA UVU chapter. Caleb, you're doing a great job. Please keep that spark alive. You are important. Your story is important. You have a place

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I have to say. They're great. They're motivated. They're impressive. Yeah. I mean, this guy was on campus. He was probably, I don't know where he was when everything happened. But, you know, this is a truly remarkable man for having this happen on his campus, overcoming it, and you see that spark in him.

And he realizes that he's a torchbearer of Charlie's message and his legacy from all the way, all the way from the antipodes in Australia, too, no less. Yeah, well, it really shows the globalization of Charlie's message that we saw so much in the past year. There was actually a Sky News reporter out of Australia that always covered Charlie. and Charlie would always send me the leagues go like she's good and she like Charlie I mean you know better than I Charlie's global impact

because you travel with him internationally in the final month I'll never forget how many people were recognizing him in the UK the Starbucks barista the guys in the security line the random people in the airport lounge just one thing after another

it was just constant in the parking lot of this gas station people were recognizing him and I just did not anticipate that I remember we had we had a, what was her name, the German representative. Oh, the AFD woman? Yeah, the AFD, yeah.

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You can just do things. You can just do things. There's a hot mic moment that is going around, and it's making waves on social media. Let's go ahead and play it from President Trump. Hot Mike 185. You know, I can't have a time. I can't appoint anybody. Everybody I'm appointed. Their time is expired, and then they're in default.

So if you couldn't hear what he said, he says, you know I can't appoint anybody. Everybody I have appointed, their time is expired, then they're in default, then we're losing. Blake, explain this. Yeah, it's what we were complaining about with Charlie, actually, just going into this fall, that there's so many nominees to important positions.

There's so many appointees in general in the federal government. I think there's several thousand people at this point, who are supposed to be directly appointed by the president. Start with the secretaries, the undersecretaries, the assistant just keeps going down. All the ambassadors. And I think in that specific clip, Trump was complaining about his U.S. attorney nominations. A lot of those have been sat on. What's behind that?

I think in a lot of those cases, I think Congress specifically dislikes some of the picks. And so they wish Trump would pick somebody else. That's a Senate thing. Yes, all of these are Senate confirmed. The House doesn't vote on these things. The Senate wants somebody else. so they're pouting and sitting on them. I think there's a lot of that going on.

And it's causing problems because there's a limit to how long a person can serve temporarily. The Trump administration has, they've tried to come up with some legal maneuvers around this and courts have generally been striking that down. I won't get into all of that. But bigger picture, when this clip came out, you and I were talking,

there's so many positions that have gone unfilled where they've started to accelerate them where they've started to do those block. votes on nominees this fall, yet there's still hundreds of people. And so the example you and I were talking about was Jeremy Carle, author of The Unprotected Class. Charlie loved him. Charlie loved him. He was really excited to get him into the admin. This is one of the nominations he really personally fought for.

I believe he was nominated to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. I think he'd probably end up working with Undersecretary Sarah Rogers, who we had on this show. And she took forever to get in. She was nominated, I think, in February. And we got a hearing in April only got confirmed in October. There's way too much of this. There's no excuse for us to have a Republican Senate with a Republican president with a time limit of four total years where you're guaranteed to have power. Two total years where you're guaranteed to have a Senate that can confirm people and to just be sitting on nominations. I am sorry.

Ram them through. Absolutely. And by the way, this blue slip thing, which is actually what that hot hot mic. moment was about, I mean, Charlie leveled into the U.S. Senate. And listen, we like Chuck Grassley, but I mean, what's Chuck Grassley? Chuck Grassley's like late 80s. He could be 90 by now. He's a formidable figure. He is a very, like, we respect Chuck Grassley. Look, he's a great American. What? 92. 92. But we are playing in a whole different reality than what Chuck Grassley is probably his memory. The world that, the world that,

that formed him is long gone. The world has changed. The left has gotten incredibly aggressive and expansive about what they would like to do. The bare minimum we can do is allow the person America elected to stop this to have his dudes in the admin. J.D. said this. He said, we cannot keep electing politicians that are promising policies on immigration, for example, and then saying that the judges are just going to overturn this. You cannot do that over and over again without the people eventually becoming quite radicalized.

What the people want the people get when the people elect people like President Trump and J.D. Vance to fix our border issues, to fix our immigration issues, or whatever, law and order. And then constantly this is getting sidetracked because we can't get a pointies through or whatever because of a blue slip antiquated process, which is supposed to be gentlemanly and collegial within the U.S. Senate, when they are. when they are weaponizing old traditions where there's no rule, there's no constitutional order, there's no mandate, there's no policy. Yeah. It's literally just a tradition. And that is getting in the way, why this is so important. And we're just talked with the chapter president of UVU. And I'm thinking about Charlie right now. Charlie left it all out on the field, literally and physically in every conceivable way to get President Trump elected, to get majorities in the House and in the Senate. have that we have what we work so hard for and for that to get then sidetracked and postponed

delayed or completely blocked because we run out of time is an insult to everything that we did in the lead up to 2024 and it's an insult and it's self-defeating if we lose next year one of the biggest factors will be didn't confirm enough people didn't get enough things done didn't fulfill enough of the promises absolutely unacceptable that this is still getting in the way Abolish the blue slip. It's time. We are not dealing with a good faith actor. Abolish the blue slip, ram through the hearings, ram through the nominees.