Speaker 1: Joining me now straight from her travels to the other
Speaker 1: side of the state. It's Heidik and all everybody. She
Speaker 1: was at the Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday at CSU, and Heidi,
Speaker 1: I watched about thirty minutes of that This morning. A
Speaker 1: listener sent me the Lincoln I put it on the
Speaker 1: blog if anybody wants to go watch the memorial. What
Speaker 1: a lovely, lovely way to honor Charlie Kirk. And to
Speaker 1: see thousands of people in that stadium was so heartening.
Speaker 1: What was it like to be there?
Speaker 2: Hi, Mandy. It was a beautiful, beautiful gathering of people,
Speaker 2: and the weather was amazing, and it was just so
Speaker 2: peaceful and calm, and it was about I think it
Speaker 2: was over seven thousand people was the final count, and
Speaker 2: about I think I half of them we're CSU students,
Speaker 2: which is crazy. Yeah, so cool. And was blessed to
Speaker 2: speak with Isabel Brown, who's a CSO alumni and a
Speaker 2: big influencer. You got to follow Isabel if you don't already.
Speaker 2: She's just so good show on Daily Wire.
Speaker 1: She's so so good. She is so so good.
Speaker 2: I love her.
Speaker 1: She is a she's also a happy warrior.
Speaker 2: He is a happy warrior and she has a new
Speaker 2: little baby and she's just this is so it's getting
Speaker 2: to her. You know, Mandy is a new mom. Like
Speaker 2: how violence and you start to see the world differently. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I feel like that really does affected is about
Speaker 2: a lot. I've known it for a long time. But
Speaker 2: overall the event was awesome. But in sorry you guys,
Speaker 2: I'm at the airport. If there's stuff in the background,
Speaker 2: I tried to find the quite a little spot. I'm
Speaker 2: Mountain Durango, which is actually getting very very left down here.
Speaker 2: But the counter protest that was going on near the
Speaker 2: vigil was really concerning. It's called part of the uns
Speaker 2: Bad Word to America Tour, believe it or not, that's
Speaker 2: what they call it. And it was. It was pretty rowdy.
Speaker 2: I hear. It was pretty negative and it's very concerning
Speaker 2: that the guy leading that effort guide girl, I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: which said we need to be afraid of getting killed
Speaker 2: at events. Conservatives need to be afraid of getting killed
Speaker 2: at events to force leaders like Trump to turn down
Speaker 2: the temperature.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, let me just hide just
Speaker 1: in case people think that you are exaggerating on this.
Speaker 1: Let me go ahead and play that audio just a
Speaker 1: second a ron left the commercial role, and then we'll
Speaker 1: go to the audio. I found it this morning, just
Speaker 1: to make sure that we were giving out. Oh come on,
Speaker 1: hang on, I've got a pre roll on this and
Speaker 1: it's just going to take us second to get to
Speaker 1: where we need to go. This is actually the gentleman
Speaker 1: who goes by destiny on a podcast at some point,
Speaker 1: and this is what he had to say.
Speaker 2: Exactly like I need you need conservatives to be afraid
Speaker 2: of getting killed when they go to events, so that
Speaker 2: they look to their leadership to turn down the temperature.
Speaker 1: Now, ironically, I have not heard him call for his
Speaker 1: leadership to turn down the temperature.
Speaker 2: Have you. No, absolutely not. I'm not hearing from many
Speaker 2: Democrats that we should turn down the temperature. Even in Colorado.
Speaker 2: The Democrats are not calling for that.
Speaker 1: Oh no, but Heidi, they are. They're calling for us,
Speaker 1: our side, to turn down the temperature. There's literally no
Speaker 1: naval gazing going on on the left.
Speaker 2: There's no.
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, and I said this the
Speaker 1: day of the shooting. The only person responsible for the
Speaker 1: shooting is the young man who decided that murder was
Speaker 1: the best option. To shut down speech he didn't like. Right,
Speaker 1: he's responsible for this murder. But if we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about the forces in our culture that drove him
Speaker 1: to believe that that was the best thing to do,
Speaker 1: you cannot do that without talking about left wing rhetoric.
Speaker 2: That's right. And I mean, if you look at this
Speaker 2: tour the way they describe us, it says UFAs is
Speaker 2: paid influencers and describes Kirk as a brainwashing ultra maga extremist. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, that could not be further than the truth.
Speaker 2: Charlie is one of the most level headed, sensible people
Speaker 2: I know in politics, and we're going to miss his
Speaker 2: voice tremendously, especially when it comes to loans like this
Speaker 2: and fighting back against them.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk for just a minute, though, about the
Speaker 1: legacy that is now growing at a rate far greater
Speaker 1: than it did when Charlie Kirk was alive. You are connected,
Speaker 1: how are you connected to Turning Point USA?
Speaker 2: Well, Manie, I've been a big fan since I met
Speaker 2: Charlie ten years ago. My dad and him sat next
Speaker 2: to each other at an event and they convinced Tory,
Speaker 2: my older daughter, to run for student body government at
Speaker 2: University of Oregon, one of the most liberal campuses in
Speaker 2: the country, and Charlie actually moved there for three months.
Speaker 2: It was one of the first campaigns they did, so
Speaker 2: we got to know him really well, our family did.
Speaker 2: And now my sixteen year old just launched the Turning
Speaker 2: Point Chapter at Valor High School and it had one
Speaker 2: hundred kids show up the other day. So I've not
Speaker 2: Charlie for years. Yeah, and crazy, it was so cool.
Speaker 1: You're getting the data about how many students and people
Speaker 1: are calling to ask about starting a chapter at their
Speaker 1: high school or their college, and those numbers are huge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we wait for this man, you know. Now it's up
Speaker 2: to sixty two thousand students have signed up to either
Speaker 2: launch a chapter or open a chapter across the country.
Speaker 2: We've got seven hundred and fourteen high schools here in
Speaker 2: Colorado in ninety two college campuses, believe it or not,
Speaker 2: and we want to make sure every single one has
Speaker 2: a Club America, which is what the high school chapters
Speaker 2: are called, or Turning Point Chapter, which is the college
Speaker 2: version on those college campuses. And we've got an incredible
Speaker 2: team of four people that lead that effort in Turning
Speaker 2: Point that two state directors and then two regional directors
Speaker 2: that are going to make that happen and I'm going
Speaker 2: to do everything I can to help them.
Speaker 1: And Heidi I had a speaking engagement last Friday and Frederick.
Speaker 1: But it's just like lovely, lovely group of people, and
Speaker 1: they kept asking like, how can we help, how can
Speaker 1: we support it? And of course I'm looking at people
Speaker 1: my age are.
Speaker 2: A little bit older.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, your money is always appreciated, but is
Speaker 1: there a role for me and for them, you know,
Speaker 1: the over fifties that are not cool to the college kids, Like,
Speaker 1: what role, if any, is there for us to support
Speaker 1: these young people as they begin to grow this movement.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's so many cool things. You can mentor a
Speaker 2: student you can mentor a chapter. You can feed them.
Speaker 2: They love food at their meetings. You can offer to
Speaker 2: drive them places if they have events. You can donate,
Speaker 2: of course to their chapters. If you go to TPUSA
Speaker 2: dot org, just a turning point chapter and you get
Speaker 2: click on get involved. There's a really simple form. It'll
Speaker 2: go to the state director. And they have hundreds of
Speaker 2: requests here in Colorado right now, so they're getting through them.
Speaker 2: It's going to take a little bit but we need
Speaker 2: your help to make sure we blanket the state with
Speaker 2: all the support and love that we can give them
Speaker 2: to help them be effective and turn the state around
Speaker 2: through gen Z exactly.
Speaker 1: So that give that website, like how can people do
Speaker 1: this again? The website one more time?
Speaker 2: Do you go to TPUSA. It's the TURNINGPOINTUSA dot org
Speaker 2: and there's the get involved at the top. You just
Speaker 2: click there and it'll ask for your not much information
Speaker 2: and if you have any trouble, just email me. Manny.
Speaker 2: Everybody on the planet has an email address now, you know,
Speaker 2: at gmail dot com. Give me a couple of days
Speaker 2: because my bugs gets a little crazy bit and I
Speaker 2: will connect you to the gals who lead the effort
Speaker 2: here in Colorado or They're amazing. They put that event
Speaker 2: together last night in forty eight hours, and how seven
Speaker 2: thousand people show up?
Speaker 1: It was It was really really special and I can
Speaker 1: only imagine that, you know, Friday night, I had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to go and I call it fellowship for lack
Speaker 1: of a better word to sort of describe it. But
Speaker 1: it's nice to be around people that feel the same
Speaker 1: way you do and are devastated by this death and
Speaker 1: all the implications of this death, because they're so significant.
Speaker 1: But if something good can come out of this, if
Speaker 1: if we can have an entire generation of young people activated,
Speaker 1: it would be an absolute incredible turn of events and
Speaker 1: a true testament to what Charlie Kirk was trying to do.
Speaker 2: Oh, Charlie is dancing in heaven right now. I know
Speaker 2: he's This is making him dably happy to see all
Speaker 2: the kids turning to Christ, turning to their faith, and
Speaker 2: turning to defending our country and actually learning so much
Speaker 2: from all of his video content, all of his Charlie
Speaker 2: Kirk shows. I mean, there's so much content out there
Speaker 2: that people can start to engage with and share with
Speaker 2: their friends, to tell the truth about what he stood
Speaker 2: for and who he was, which was an amazing patriot
Speaker 2: and a wonderful man of faith and a great dad
Speaker 2: and father.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Hi, do you and all enjoy talking to you.
Speaker 1: I'll let you go get on with your day over
Speaker 1: there in beautiful Durango, and I'll talk to you soon.