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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.