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Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has said that the podcast hosted by her late husband will continue. Erika, who appeared on The Charlie Kirk Show on Friday, told listeners that the podcast is not going anywhere.
“My husband’s voice will live on. The show will go on,” she said, adding that “This is not going to be a forever thing of me hosting the show.”
She said the podcast would “continue to be a voice for all of Charlie’s causes” and would be led by a rotating cast and hosts and feature previously unaired clips of her husband speaking and answering questions.
“We have decades worth of my husband’s voice. We have unused material from speeches that he’s had that no one has heard yet,” she said.
The Charlie Kirk was started in 2019, and Kirk hosted the daily three-hour radio talk show until his death on September 10.
The Charlie Kirk Show resumed on September 15, five days after Kirk’s death, and was hosted by JD Vance, the US Vice President, “in memory of his good friend.”
31-year-old Kirk, one of the most high-profile young conservative activists in the US, was shot dead inside the Utah Valley University campus on September 10, while he was interacting with a group of students as part of his America Comeback Tour.
The suspect, Tyler Robinson, was arrested less than 36 hours after the murder that sent shock waves across conservative circles in the US.
Following Kirk’s death, Turning Point USA, the non-profit he co-founded, announced that Erika Kirk will be the new CEO and chair of the board.
According to Erika, her late husband’s social media accounts will also continue to post, and affiliated groups like Turning Point Action are moving “full steam ahead.”
“We’ve been very intentional in a way that always keeps Charlie first and his dreams alive and his legacy going,” she said, adding that Kirk had laid out a vision for the groups all the way through 2030. “We’re not going anywhere. We have the blueprints. We have our marching orders.”
Turning Point USA has also resumed the America Comeback Tour and in the coming days, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, Utah Governor Spencer Cox, and conservative influencers, including Blaze Media CEO Glenn Beck and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, will all join the programme.
