Empty Chair Set up on The Charlie Kirk Show as Crew Carries on in His Memory

A chair sat empty in front of a microphone on the solemn set of The Charlie Kirk Show on Real America’s Voice Friday, just two days after the host was assassinated while speaking at a college event.

As a recording of bagpipes played Amazing Grace, Producer Andrew Kolvet welcomed viewers to the show, saying he was “filling in for the one and only Charlie Kirk. Nobody can.”

Kolvet continued, “We wanted so badly to do this show for all of you today. And wanted the friends of this show and Charlie, that knew him best, ‘The Thought Crime Crew’ to be here in the studio, to commemorate our friend, our dear brother, for this sacred, solemn moment. This occasion none of us ever dreamed would have to do.”

The crew included Jack Posobiec, Blake Neff, and Tyler Bowyer.

Kolvet continued:

And, here we are because Charlie would want us to be here. He would be upset if we weren’t here. And we of course have left his chair open and empty because nobody will ever fill it. Nobody could ever hope to. But by all of us together, we want to honor him, we want to be more like him, and we want to be inspired by him, and we want you in the audience to know him like we knew him. And to be up close and personal to the front row seat to history, to a legend, to an American icon that we got every single day.

And I don’t know why we were so fortunate and so blessed to be those people, those few, that got to see it so up close. He touched millions. He personally knew tens of thousands. And somehow we were the blessed ones that got to be close to him. And in the chat, we got yelled at by him, we got pushed to more and to be better because of Charlie and by Charlie.

Watch the clip above via The Charlie Kirk Show.