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Dec. 15, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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AmFest and the New Conservative Movement
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Fact Check on Ukraine 00:09:30
Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, Jack Pesobic co-pilots.
We talk about the death of David Frenchism and his ideology that is now on the ropes.
And we also plug Amfest.
It is right here, everybody.
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We go.
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Right now, the Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action staff, over 350, it's almost 400 people are at the Phoenix Convention Center preparing for many of your arrival.
Many of you are coming.
I know a lot of you say, but Charlie, how do I watch it online?
Real America's Voice is going to be taking a lot of the conference, but it's not the same.
I'll be honest.
If you have to watch it online, totally understand financial restraints, inflation, can't go across the country.
I totally get it.
We're going to make it available.
But being actually in person, it's a game changer.
And Jack Pesobic is going to join us in a couple segments to go through the breakout sessions, the exhibitors, the incredible experience to meet thousands and thousands and thousands of people.
It's going to be a record-breaking crowd.
It's AmFest, AMFEST.com.
We're going to keep talking about it.
And one of the things that we're going to emphasize at Amfest is a new conservative movement is taking over.
And it's not just a younger conservative movement because, I mean, look, if you put up the graphic of all the speakers at Amfest, yes, we have a younger roster, but we have people of all ages.
I mean, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, but no, it's a philosophical change.
We're done with this neoliberalism, open borders, invade the world, invite the world.
If you would have had an event like Amfest 10 years ago, it would have been, all the speakers would have been in harmony or they would not have mentioned the war machine.
Look at some of these speakers here.
Just, I want to isolate a few.
Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Beck, Michael Anton, Jack Pesobic, Josh Hawley, Steve Benn, and Vivek Ramaswamy.
These are outspoken critics of the neoliberal regime.
What Amfest represents is, of course, a gathering point, a place of encouragement, a place of education, but also an opportunity to show and demonstrate what are the ideas and the principles that are going to determine the future of the conservative movement.
I could tell you what the New York Times and what David French wishes the conservative movement would embrace.
He would hope that we keep on putting hundreds of billions of dollars behind the war effort in Ukraine.
The straw poll question heard around the world when we did ACTCON this last summer, our Turning Point Action Conference in July.
We had thousands and thousands of people and we said, okay, we don't know how this question is going to ask.
We said, should the United States continue to send any money to Ukraine?
And you guys can get the exact numbers.
It was well over 95.8% of our attendees at the Turning Point Action Conference.
95.8% opposed funding Ukraine.
A couple days later, Senate Republicans sent out a press release and they said, you know, we are really disturbed about the MAGA populist nationalist takeover of the Republican Party.
The people are waking up and wising up.
Republicans are following.
And I think Turning Point has played a very real part in this.
We were against supporting this war from the very start, and we were attacked as Russian agents and Putin puppets.
Tucker Carlson deserves the most credit.
Darren Beattie deserves a lot of credit, JD Vance and a handful of other lawmakers, but now it's all different.
Go-Go dancer, professional actor, and mafia don Zelensky, was just in Washington for another cash grab of U.S. taxpayers.
Thankfully, it didn't go that well.
There's kind of cold shoulders like, hey, man, as Tucker Carlson said, he dresses like somebody who would be running a strip club.
I love that.
Zelensky went home without a firm commitment, without getting a big infusion of cash that he was looking for.
Now, I think there needs to be some fact check of this.
I've heard firsthand knowledge.
Where is some of this money going?
You know, I've heard that it's going to yachts and mansions, villas.
I don't know if that's true or not, but it's worth looking into.
I've heard from some very reputable people that the oligarchs of Ukraine are not getting poor.
Let's put it that way.
Zelensky and his buddies, they might be taking 10% for the big guy.
I don't want to say that it's a fact, but I'm hearing a lot of different reports that let's just say the yacht purchases amongst the Ukraine elite are increasing, not decreasing.
Now, America's most self-righteous enabler of the left, David French, has a new article about this in the New York Times.
AmericaFest in these next couple days stands against this kind of automatic consensus.
David French writes this nauseating piece in the New York Times, and he actually quotes me.
Donald Trump Jr. called Zelensky an international welfare queen.
Turning point USA President Charlie Kirk said Zelensky was totally corrupt.
Kirk's colleague Benny Johnson said the Ukraine president was an ungrateful piece of bleep.
Tucker Carlson said, quote, he dressed up like the manager of a strip club.
You can't outdo Tucker.
You know, you could try, but you always fail.
Tucker with a home run.
David French continues in this article, he says, the moral clarity goes even deeper than the bare fact of whom attacked, who attacked whom and when.
The fight between Russia and Ukraine isn't just a fight between nations, but rather a fight between political systems and philosophies.
Ever since the advent of liberal democracies, autocrats have believed them to be weak, too soft to prevail in a world that is so often red in tooth and claw.
He continues by saying, our heart tells us that we are a nation of free people that stands with another nation of free people.
Doing so is part of America's DNA.
Hold on.
Is Ukraine a free country?
Is Ukraine this amazing beacon of liberty, of self-government?
They're banning religions.
Does Ukraine have a free press?
No.
Does Ukraine have elections?
No.
Zelensky has suspended elections.
He has literally banned the Russian Orthodox Church.
And to be fair, there very well might be some, there might be more nuance to that.
But Tucker Carlson believes is totally wrong.
Blake thinks there's more to the story that they might actually be a sleeper cell of Putin.
But you don't ban religions, okay?
You don't do that.
Can you start right now a political party that opposes Zelensky?
It's risky.
He might kill you.
But David French says that they're a free society.
David French, are we a free society?
Are we a free society?
Donald Trump is facing 700 years in federal prison.
Yesterday, David French, I had Jake Lang call from a D.C. gulag who's been in pretrial detention for three years, who literally was calling about being in solitary confinement and his phone says one minute remaining.
Is this a free society that we're currently living in?
We are arresting people facing federal charges because they were hundreds of yards away from the Capitol taking pictures saying, wow, I don't know if I like what's happening or boom, getting caught up in a dragnet.
But David French says, we are a nation of free people.
No, we're not anymore, actually.
We are not a free society, David French.
Maybe you think we're a free society in your Washington, D.C. bubble.
But honestly, how obtuse?
Our head tells us that we are helping break the military power of one of our most too powerful geopolitical rivals at a cost our nation can easily afford.
Okay, this is a sick dude.
David French is basically saying it's perfectly fine for the lower class of Ukraine to act as a human shield to get mowed down as long as Russia is getting weaker.
You understand how morally disturbing that is?
Like, go die for us, Ukraine, as long as you're making Russia weaker.
First of all, now Ukraine is conscripting 40-year-olds.
We've given Ukraine all of this false hope and Russia is going to turn it into a killing field.
David French continues in the New York Times, our heart remembers the line of ambulances in Kiev and says that such courage cannot be in vain.
I don't even know what that means.
Our heart cries out, can't we at least ensure that Ukraine survives independent and free?
I would love to have David French on the show and say, hey, what is Ukraine?
Is Crimea part of Ukraine?
Does success look like liberating Crimea from the Russian Federation?
Like, be very specific, David French.
Are you willing to serve in this war?
I'm reminded of the climactic military.
This is so nauseating.
Again, this is so shallow.
Like, oh, you're such a smart person.
Yeah, you quote Lord of the Rings.
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Aragar rides in front of the infernal black gate, turns to his sorely outnumbered army and declares, a day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of our fellowship.
But it is not this day.
This is the choice we face, but too many Republicans say that this is the day.
This is the day when courage fails, when they break that bond of fellowship, and we cannot fund Ukraine without Republican votes.
If GOP lawmakers fails, our nation fails.
History will record that we choose to abandon a country that is standing against a great evil.
It does not even ask us to stand with it on the field of battle.
It merely asks us to place a sword in its hand.
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Jack Masobic is here, Jack.
Welcome.
Charlie, what a week, man.
What a week here in Phoenix.
Well, look, I'm having you on for a couple of reasons.
The first is it's a little help because I got to be on my feet for like nine hours.
Charlie Kirk doesn't need any help.
Come on, folks.
Despite the rumors, I am human.
So there are limitations.
You just see the system of tubes and IVs that Charlie has under the desk.
He's not kidding, by the way.
No, the biohacking is a real thing.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Did you cold plunge this morning?
Not this morning.
I'm all thrown off.
You didn't even cult.
That's why you're thrown off.
The whole thing is why it is.
Folks, Charlie normally does the cold plunge every single morning.
37 degrees.
By the way, I have a whole philosophy of cold water.
We can get into that.
I think if you want something that will challenge you deep in your life, it doesn't take a lot of time, but a ridiculous amount of mental focus, cold water.
Even cold showers.
Well, and Taylor Marshall had a tweet up, and I remember I shared this with you the other day where he said it's actually Christian, that there's a Christian tie-in.
And I was like, Charlie, walk me through the Christian tie-in to the cold plunge.
I think it's a little bit of a stretch, but I can get there.
It is one of the few things, and I've looked, something that is objectively good for you that takes very little time for almost no money.
Like there's not a big cost benefit.
There are cold rivers all over the place, folks.
Where your feeling is so disconnected from reality.
So think about that because you feel like you're dying.
Like it's not an exaggeration.
Like every alarm response that your system has goes off.
Right.
Because everything, even when you do the cold shower, even when you hit it, it's like it's triggering that flamefight response.
Now, if I should not feel it.
If you stay there for seven or eight or nine minutes, you legit got some problems.
Yeah.
But you are perfectly fine for two, three, four minutes.
In fact, it's really good for you.
We've done it when I've done the like the hot springs.
We've done hot springs where they will also have, actually, we did this in Budapest on our honeymoon, where you do the hot springs, and then you're in the hot water, and then you go do the cold plunge.
So you do the cold plunge and then you go back to the hot.
Yeah.
So I do cold and hot alternating.
It's really good for you.
But what's so great about cold water is you get a little bit better at it, but you can always challenge yourself more.
Right.
And it takes very, very little time to get a win.
And it's a big win.
I mean, again, for people that have never done cold, like, how hard could it possibly be?
Your body is God designed you with the amygdala.
As soon as you hit that water and you go down to your neck, you might last 10 seconds.
Right.
And it's not fun.
But then it's a great opportunity to say, can I slow down my breathing and do something I don't want to do that's good for inflammation, good to get less colds, less flush.
And it takes two minutes.
Think about that.
Of all the stuff, you're like, oh, I'm going to go run 10 miles and all that.
I'm going to go work out.
No, this takes two minutes.
And for me, I really have to do like, it's like mental mantra kind of stuff.
Yes.
Incantations.
Right.
Incantations, prayer, whichever you need.
And you just need that through your mind.
I will survive this.
I will survive this.
I will survive.
For me, the best breakthrough was what I feel is not real.
Ooh.
And that's there's some depth there, right?
A lot of depth there.
Because you feel like you're dying.
In fact, you're not.
You're actually, you're fine.
And you're just kind of sitting in water.
And it's interesting to watch other people go in the cold plunge, see how they react.
Wow, you're fine.
Like there's nothing wrong there.
Again, if you spend 10 minutes, don't do that.
No, good luck.
Anyway, so I'm a big cold water guy, big sauna guy.
All right.
Well, we will get you, Charlie.
We'll do the ice bucket challenge on Charlie at the end of Amfest here, folks.
That's not a problem.
I'm conditioned to cold water.
So Jack is here.
Get your tickets, everybody, at amfest.com.
Jack, I want to finish on this David French thing, but David Frenchism is dying partly, partially because of Turning Point USA and the Turning Point Movement.
Well, I wouldn't just say just partially.
I would say because, and I tweeted this yesterday, that what Turning Point and really just this movement is becoming is that you're not just building an event with America Fest.
It's not just like, oh, we're going to get up on stage and blah, blah, blah.
There's some speakers and we all get down and we all go home.
No, this is an actual new movement that, and people from the outside, when I'm in Europe, I just got back from Asia and people are asking me about it.
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And I couldn't explain it to you directly.
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And the new blood and the new energy is coming.
This, of course, encapsulated yesterday in the Iowa State House, where we had sort of the old right Republicans saying this satanic statue needs to stay up and it's, you know, it's part of the blessings of liberty, which I kept saying on my show all week that making fun of David Frenchism, saying that it's the David French system.
I want to really dive into this up.
It's so smart.
And by the way, we did thought crimes last night.
I was dealing with a lot of problems.
I was like half in, half out because I had to take a call and everything.
I thought I did okay, but I want to rehash some of it because I could have articulated it better.
But I want to talk about David Frenchism.
He's a defender.
It's this false agnosticism, like neutral public square that really is a liberal takeover of the conservative movement.
And not only that, he has really bad foreign policy ideas, which we'd spent on here.
But David Frenchism.
Which is so bad because he's interventionist outside, but non-interventionists inside.
And again, we're being invaded from the southern border.
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Okay, so David Frenchism.
Let's kind of zero in on this.
And by the way, Amfest is amazing.
Get your tickets right now.
Promo code Charlie.
Jack's going to be doing his show.
I'll be doing my show.
Patrick, Bett David, Tim Poole, Bannon.
It's pretty amazing, Jack.
Tucker will be around.
And Tucker is going to be making the rounds, man.
He's really around.
We can't.
He is a lot of people.
I don't think we can exactly, because it's his to reveal what Tucker's actually got planned for Amfest, but I will say he'll be around.
And like, if you want to, he'll be around.
That's all I could say.
He'll be around.
We're big Tucker admirers.
And it's actually what Amfest is and what this gathering is, is a repudiation of the David Frenchism that has taken over the Republican Party, the conservative.
Let's remind people what that is.
So David French was an obscure blogger.
He still kind of is, and was going to like run for president.
I never understood where this push behind David, I think I never heard of this guy.
It's kind of an op, right?
And so.
It's like Shayla Swift.
Total op.
I think he's a pretty good writer.
And so here, David Frenchism became a thing when Soabarami.
Okay, so Blake says he's a very self-righteous one.
Well, yes, of course.
Well, I knew that.
Yeah, we know that.
Talent of diction and syntax and the creation of arguments that penetrate.
Okay.
So Blake says he's okay.
All right.
Well, I think Blake's an excellent writer.
So we have Soab Arami, Amari, Soab Amari, Amari.
Yeah.
And David French, who went to go do this debate that wasn't planned to be viral.
And it was at the time, this is four or five years ago, right?
About four years ago, I think.
It was all about drag queen story hour.
Yes.
And David French's position was: listen, I don't necessarily like drag queens, but part of living in a free society and the blessings of liberty is you have to allow things you don't like to occur in libraries.
And so Rob said, no, this is profane.
This is disgusting.
This has no place in decent or civil society, let alone at libraries.
Correct.
And David French then kind of made fun of SaaRob at the time.
Oh, wow, this big movement of drag queens sweeping the world.
Everyone's going to be trans.
David literally said something like that in the debate.
And so then Saurabh came out and wrote a piece, very sharply written piece, saying like to death with David Frenchism or something like that.
Yes.
And it went trending on Twitter and the conservative libertarian intelligentsia started to debate drag queens.
And I would say, when I first saw the debate, I was probably more on David French's side in the sense of, do I really want to, you know, it's like really, you know, neoliberal.
Well, it becomes this, it becomes this thing about do we want the government to decide that which is permissible in any library, in any state house, in any school.
And so there's, there's this, you know, I think built in, like an inherent reaction in a lot of conservatives to say that when you invoke the government, right, turning point, big government sucks, right?
That's, that's been the mantra of Turning Point since I think day one, right?
You know, so, you know, this idea that, whoa, whoa, government getting involved is something that we sort of reflexively recoil when this is invoked.
And so I understand that this is a strong argument.
By the way, when it came to the satanic statue, that is exactly what Kim Reynolds and.
Ties together, right?
There's all these different stories.
You know, David French's thing, Amphest.
So, David French's position used to be the mainline conservative perspective on foreign policy, especially.
And that one's basically dead.
I mean, David Frenchism in the base of the Republican Party is dead, but he had this.
Which is, and I have to keep pointing this out: it's the exact opposite of the government shouldn't do anything.
It's that his foreign policy must enforce alleged neutrality.
He must do everything.
That's right.
Right.
So, on foreign policy, the government must do everything, must get involved, hyperinvolvement, central place.
We will create new countries.
We will force these.
We will transform the Middle East.
We will transform the third world into Western, you know, hyper-functioning Western civilizations with the flick of our snap of our fingers and a couple special forces operations.
Yes.
And that's all it's going to take.
And so he's hyper-involved and hyper-interventional interventionist in all of these places around the world, as well as we're inviting all of these places at the same time.
Versus when it actually comes to doing something in our, when it has to do with the accordance of our own public affairs in the United States, we are not to do anything.
And when it, so then him being a constitutional lawyer, he would argue for this idea of kind of like marketplace public square neutrality, which has never existed.
Okay.
It has never existed.
It will never exist.
We might have been closer to this idea of marketplace public square neutrality, but it's been an ideal that we've never actually achieved.
Now, the question is: should you ever want to achieve it?
That's actually a more based question.
But we're so far away from that, right?
Where whatever the prevailing zeitgeist and orthodoxy of the country are living in, that ends up being what is in the public square.
So, therefore, David French says, Look, why are we as conservatives going to use the force of government to prevent some drag queen from twerking in front of a child?
And so, Rob was like, Whoa, if we as conservatives can't draw the line that the public practice of profanity into, you know, in front of children is unacceptable, then we're no good as conservatives.
Because essentially, what's happening in the real world when you follow David Frenchism is that one side is seeding the public ground and the other side is dominating the public ground.
That's right.
And so, David Frenchism went largely unchecked for decades.
And I think social media played a big role in this.
It did.
Because they controlled so much of the bylines for it's like social media and then just Trump.
Yeah, obviously.
Trump, which basically went in and he just smashed all of the idols of the old conservative movements.
He burned the golden calves.
So beautiful.
He overturned the table and the temple.
People forget that when Trump first got involved, he didn't just take out the Clintons first, right?
He didn't go after the Clintons first.
He went after the Bushes.
It was the Bushes.
He took out the Bush dynasty and then he took out the Clinton dynasty.
And that's why the entire uniparty has declared war on him ever since.
Deuteronomy 12, 2, one of my favorite verses: you shall utterly destroy the places where the nations worshipped their idols.
As Donald Trump, it was a Deuteronomy 12-2 political force.
So he goes in smashing.
He just starts, this is where it ties together, right?
Starts smashing idols, smashing idols, smashing idols.
And David French says, How dare you do this, Donald Trump?
We have these sacred practices of viewpoint neutrality.
And David French had this kind of fake ACLU kind of wrinkle where I will, I can't stand this.
I can't stand it.
It drives me nuts.
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your ability to say it.
Like, okay, enough, right?
Which, by the way, pertains to political speech.
Yes, and political acts.
It's just the fact that David French can't quite say, you know, publicly funded libraries, we shouldn't have grown men dressed as women in thongs dancing in front of children.
As if that's not obviously some sort of predatory grooming exercise to try to push the Overton window so that freaks can go make kids gay and make them lesbian and make them trans.
He's like, oh, well, no, these, these are good and decent people that dress up in dresses and go to libraries.
And now it's more widespread, right?
It's much more widespread.
The whole kind of trans, let's just say the atmospheric awareness of the conservative movement around trans predators, I think has really been raised where people see what's happening.
And David Frenchism is dying.
It's dying on the vine.
And so what AmericaFest represents, everybody, is that we are continually giving the eulogy of old alleged fake conservatism that weakens the country, that really strengthens the Marxists.
And it is a DC consensus, isn't it, Jack?
Which I think at the basis of it, it's more personality and temperament than it is actual philosophy, meaning the people that embrace these ideas are actually very weak and damaged, and they want to be liked by those around them.
I don't find the people that actually embrace these ideas are independent, free thinking alpha males.
They tend to be which I could respect in a sense, right?
I could respect somebody if they were, if they actually were, you know, this was their solid class.
I want to be nice.
I mean, when I met David French, I met him, met him once.
He was a little bit of a jerk, but I guess he was generally nice, but he was just a sloppy and soft person.
Yeah.
I mean, when you meet Tucker, it's not like Tucker is, you know, built like Covington, but Tucker definitely has an alpha male presence to him in the sense of, I believe what I believe, and I don't care what you think.
Right.
Let me read this from David French, though.
It's confidence, is what you're talking about.
David French tells you the whole ball game.
This week I was at a lunch meeting with some academic colleagues discussing the grim state of politics in the world.
One of the people at the table asked me if there was anything that truly gives me hope.
You can hear the tears hitting the page as he's writing this.
No, think of just Charlie Kirk and Pesovic.
No, you could just think of just Alex Jones and Jack Pesovic.
The beta beta energy here is just so, it's so, just, it's just glowing.
It's like David French.
Yeah, I mean, we were, we were sitting at the Capitol grill with a bunch of academic colleagues that have been ostracized.
Okay, discussing the grim state of politics and the world, just like it's just oozing out of this.
I thought for a minute and I gazed into the distance.
I added that.
And I said, no, Wait, wait, wait, you hear this.
This is a published article.
Ukraine gives me hope.
That's because in the terrible darkness of that war of aggression, we've seen the best of liberal democracy and the best of America.
I told them a story that I've told readers before of the early mornings of May 16 when I was in Kiev for the meetings with Ukrainian officials and Russia launched a barrage of Kinzal hypersonic missiles at the Ukrainian capital.
The Kinzal is Russia's super weapon.
Russia's defense minister had said that it was impossible to intercept from my hotel.
I watched American-made Patriot missiles take off one by one in the sky towards them.
Thanks to the effort of my colleagues in the opinion audio, you can hear the sounds of the actual attack in the audio I recorded short after.
This is what I love.
It was an incredible moment to witness, a testament to American ingenuity, industry, and fidelity.
We are still the arsenal of democracy.
Imagine if David French, or look, I said this before.
All I want is for American leaders to care about the American people as much as they care about foreign people.
Is it so hard?
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So, AmFest.
So, Jack, for the uninitiated, somebody sitting right now watching us, they're in Cave Creek.
They might be in Sedona.
They said, I don't know if I really want to go.
Describe, it's not, there's no other event like this, right?
So, you know, your typical conservative event as, you know, there's the stage, there are speakers, there's some panels.
You know, maybe you get some breakout rooms.
People sit quietly.
They applaud the applause lines and then you kind of go home.
That's your typical conservative event.
It's a seminar.
And there's nothing wrong with them.
The whole movement was built on these things.
But what Amfest is, it's actually an experience because immersion.
And because as much as I love the speakers, and yes, they're speakers and breakout sessions, there's so much interactive connective tissue that glues together and gels together on the sidelines of Amfest because there's mini events that are happening throughout the entire time.
So that when you get, and I don't believe it's been released yet, the full scope of the schedule of Amfest because there's a lot of moving parts in these things.
People have no idea that Charlie does not sleep during these events, that there's constant things changing, things coming up.
People want to get in.
People want to hold this, people hold that.
Where you can really pick and choose and craft your own interactive experience at it.
There's no way, put it this way, Charlie.
There's no way one person could go through and actually do everything at Amfest.
It would be impossible.
So when you get this thing, you basically craft, okay, do I want to go to this breakout session?
Do I want to go to this event that, you know, there's going to be, there's actually going to be the, I got to tell you, Charlie, the number one thing, I'm going to say it, that people said it's, there's activism, there's grassroots, there's voter registration, there's ballot information.
Yep.
One of the number one things that people are hitting me up about, man, it's the speed dating.
Have you heard about this?
No, of course I've heard about it.
By the way, I'm a big pusher for it.
I'm a big believer in it.
And it's founded by Johnny Mac and T's the other day.
It's Johnny Mac, and I talked to him yesterday.
This is what drives me nuts.
On one hand, people say, Charlie, why are people not getting all of this?
And then some people say, Charlie, why are you doing speed dating?
I said, of course we're going to do speed dating.
I mean, of course, you mad?
Are you mad?
I just, I don't understand the argument.
Some people said, so hold on.
So we bash Tinder and we bash Grinder and we bash Hinge.
What other stupid apps are there?
Okay, Cupid.
Is that still out there?
I don't know.
And single mingles or whatever.
And I don't know, some stupid stuff.
And so, and then people, then all of a sudden I got a couple emails and people said, Oh, I don't like the fact that you're doing speed dating.
I said, What would you have prefer?
Have them write letters to one another on the other side of the room?
I mean, by the way, it's all going to be done.
There's no alcohol.
Which by the way, people have gotten married through turning point events before.
I could feel it.
Yeah.
So this is something that's already happening organically.
And so, and so, look, guys, you know, are we just going to sit there and let the left, you know, take over the next generation?
No, we are going to create the next generation right here, starting at Amfest this weekend.
Yes.
And it's all going to begin.
It's all by the way.
I've been taking my kids to Turning Point events at Christmastime since they've been born.
Isn't it the coolest thing?
They love it.
And so, by the way, if you're looking for a job, I can't guarantee Turning Point will hire you, but we are hiring.
But there's hundreds of exhibitors, actually, 126, okay?
Exhibitors.
And Ryan and Riley got, they met at a Turning Point event, Southwestern Regional Conference 2021.
They're getting married in January.
Congratulations, guys.
I met Erica through the whole Turning Point ecosystem.
I mean, Mikey and his wife met through Turning Point.
Yep.
Right.
Sarah, who works for us, met her husband, her soon-to-be husband through Turning Point.
And by this, just off the top of my head, right?
I think there's another Turning Point baby that just came through, Brandon Uhalik.
Was here yesterday.
Yeah, I don't know if he was here.
I'm sure he was here yesterday.
He was on the other side.
I could just go on and on and on.
And so, yeah, I mean, if you're like, oh, I can't meet anybody and all this, like, I can't guarantee you'll meet somebody, but your chances are.
But that's the thing.
Put our money where our mouth is because if this is where like-minded people are, people who want to date to marry.
And Charlie, and I know this is something that Erica talks about a lot too, that it's we need to return dating culture to its original intended form.
Yes, that's right.
With the intention to marry.
So, anyway, we're doing that at Turning Point USA.
By the way, the way we promote it, I love the Turning Point USA events team.
Some people are saying, oh, why are you doing this?
You know what it says?
It says, get married, have babies, meet at Amfest.
How great is that?
It actually says it on the doors, by the way.
That's right.
So I drove by last night.
I did a drive-by because I'm staying downtown.
And I did a drive-by last night.
They're putting, you know, I did the video.
So they're putting up the huge banners.
But then I looked at the doors and it said, be a revel, get married, have kids.
Yeah.
As you walk through the gate of Amfest.
The conservative movement has changed for the better.
You know what the old conservative movement would say?
Who am I to judge?
David Frenchism.
Or yeah, or Slava Ukraania.
Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Not too late to get your tickets to Amfest, everybody.
It could change your life.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening.
God bless.
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