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Charlie's having some serious heavenly FOMO right now.

(audience laughing) Look at this, you have no idea how much Charlie Kirk

wants a bullhorn down here right now.

He always said to me, if we could just figure out

how to bring the Holy Spirit into a Trump rally.

Think you've done it.

(audience cheering)

My name is Tyler Boyer, I was the CEO of Charing Point USA

and now the CEO of Charing Point Action.

You may know me from the Charlie Kirk show

or our weekly podcast, Thought Crime,

with Charlie, Jack, Blake, and Andrew,

but I'm also the longest tenured employee at Charing Point.

I met my friend Charlie in 2014.

We connected when Charing Point USA was just in its infancy,

sharing the vision for what the conservative movement

should be.

Charlie was just a kid then, I was a little older.

We had a lot in common.

I didn't like rhinos, he didn't like rhinos.

I was the youngest guy at tea party meetings,

he was the youngest guy at tea party meetings.

Charlie didn't go to college, I went to ASU,

so I basically didn't go to college.

(audience laughing)

You're welcome, Dr. Crowe.

We went to work every day on a 24 hour clock.

When Charlie turned 21, he didn't have a home.

Charing Point USA was in his first year

of raising real money.

He was just a kid to me, but donors would ask him

where he lived and he took personal offense

to the suggestion he still lived in his parents' basement.

Although his parents probably wanted him to.

Be there all the time.

He was a grown 21 year old man after all.

He was rarely home in Chicago.

He lived on a plane and zipped back and forth

as Turning Point USA became his life.

All his personal mail came to a little detached garage

at 217 and a half Illinois Street,

whereas Charlie would constantly remind you,

like every good startup, Turning Point USA was founded.

So anyways, we worked 24 seven.

He would tell every supporter of ours between me and him,

we were a team that was never off the clock.

Full coverage.

I would usually stay up till two or three in the morning

working on the next big Turning Point USA project

and text Charlie reports of what our team

that day had accomplished.

It was like this every day, work, report,

and wait to see my text messages to Charlie flip from

delivered to red as soon as he woke up on the East Coast

so we can be firing away feedback, thoughts,

and a flurry of brilliant Charlie Kirk ideas

as soon as he opened his eyes.

I'm not kidding you, this was every single day.

And it takes his, all it takes is two dudes

to dream up big stuff and talk each other

and really insane ideas,

which Charlie and I did often to one another.

We would go back and forth with those ideas perfecting them,

turning into bigger, more insane and impactful things.

And of course, expensive concepts.

The ideas literally never stopped.

It was around the clock problem solution chat

that worked to dream big for the conservative movement.

Come up with new ideas, plan new things, fix all problems.

My job was to turn it into proposals and presentations

and voila, we would work to execute.

Charlie would take red eyes from coast to coast,

going all over the country like a crazy man

on any and every possible donor,

meeting with every possible donor who would take a meeting.

So our ideas and fixes for the conservative movement

could help young people once and for all.

I oftentimes would go with them

and marvel at the deranged 22 year old lifestyle

of bathing in airport bathrooms,

eating full plates of vegetables and meat at 10 p.m. at night

after a long day's work.

He was the best at doing all of it.

Our success gave me the job of a lifetime

and I'm grateful for it for the rest of my life.

I got really good at recruiting the best young talent

in the country to come work for us.

And it was nonstop.

We were a hell of a team.

And that's how it worked.

Turning Point USA was built

and the Charlie Kirk vision was delivered.

I had the special honor at Charlie and Erica's wedding

to give a toast speech for Charlie the groom.

It was significantly less pressure than this room.

An incredibly beautiful wedding,

but small and important room of people.

I can admittedly say I didn't think

that I would have to give another

Charlie Kirk speech this soon.

At his wedding I told the story of talking Charlie

into moving to Arizona.

He was an adamant Chicago boy.

I needed to break that.

Selfishly I wanted him to love Arizona

because I had recently convinced him

to move Turning Point USA to Arizona.

It was a hard sell at first.

And that was until I hosted the first Trump rally

in Trump rally history right here in Arizona in 2015.

I got a call.

I got a call from Ms. Erica Kirk.

Ms. Arizona 2012.

I just want to help she said.

So naturally I put her right behind the president

at that first rally.

After that we talked.

It was obvious she was the perfect person

for the job that Charlie and I had devised

in one of our 24 hour planning sessions.

I wanted to hire her.

I only had one problem.

Charlie Kirk wanted to date her.