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Okay, everybody, we are here live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
It is, uh, it's a little bit of a miracle I was able to make it.
It's storming outside.
I spoke, I was literally rows from where Donald Trump entered.
The whole thing was crazy.
But we're here live!
And, uh, did you guys, were you in the arena when Donald Trump entered?
Uh, no.
You know what I'm talking about?
So, we were, we were... You guys might have missed it.
It was unbelievable.
We were back here watching.
We were back here.
So, for folks at home, um, we're in a slightly... There's all these different configurations.
Yeah, there's these different configurations.
So, where we are is just adjacent to where Donald Trump walked in.
But my brother was there.
He called me afterwards.
You felt the building shake.
I actually thought that there was, like, a subway going on underneath or something because the ground started shaking.
And then Tyler was like, no, there's no subway here.
That's just... Yeah, so let me tell you, it wasn't planned, and so I was backstage trying to prepare for my speech, which is very hard for me because I don't like doing teleprompters.
Blake, you were very helpful with the speech.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And you worked through the July 4th weekend, and we got some good turning point action stuff in there, but I hate reading teleprompters.
And, but it's kind of the way it has to be.
It's made for TV, you know, and so I was like, I don't want to over-prepare.
I don't want to under-prepare.
I think, you know, we hit it just right.
But all of a sudden, they're like, you can't be here.
We have to sweep this whole area.
I mean, Secret Service is probably now, like, going 12 out of 10 protection.
Would you say that's fair, Jack?
It's a little bit of an over-correction?
So, this morning, by the way, it was even worse.
This morning, they were like, if you had, you know, a scratch on your badge, they were like, redo it.
Go around.
I mean, after everything that happened this weekend, I think Secret Service knows one screw up, one mistake during this week.
Yes.
And by the way, they know he's going to be their president in just a couple of months here, too.
Yeah, so anyway, it was really hard to see things.
You guys probably all saw it.
It was one of the most powerful convention moments.
I got the whole thing, like literally I was like 10 feet away, where President Trump enters with the bandage.
You didn't film it, did you?
No, I didn't.
I filmed the whole thing.
You filmed from backstage?
No, I filmed it, like, literally from, like, behind the seat.
Okay, so you're, like, right there.
Yeah, I just got caught, because I was literally the speaker right before he entered.
It was me, and then, like, some everyday American.
You gotta get that.
Oh, yeah, I posted, we already posted that on TikTok.
Okay, good.
And so, over there, like, the President walks in, um, and Lee Greenwood's talking.
They just cut Lee Greenwood off.
Did you see that?
They cut him off.
Yeah, I saw that, yeah.
And they just, like, you said, President Trump's coming in, and the place was, I mean, beyond electric.
I mean, I was tearing up.
I mean, when you see that bandage, you're, like, you're two inches from that man being in a morgue.
And you, I mean, it's just like, it comes to life.
And next to him is Byron Donalds, Tucker.
JD Vance is the VP, which we're going to celebrate.
Did you hear about that?
That JD is actually going to be the VP?
We've had a, we've had a, we've had a long day.
So, uh, yeah, I, I got caught, caught in the, the, the, the news cycle.
We should, we should actually tell people who have only been watching this, some of the news that broke today.
Uh, so we have the news during the RNC speeches, it came out that, uh, Elon Musk is going to be donating an estimated $45 million dollars.
Alright, so here's a question.
Does November count?
Does November count?
Is that a month?
We're gonna make it count.
It's prorated.
Yeah, it's prorated.
It's a full month.
It's a full month.
It's a calendar month.
Every calendar month has a day since his announcement.
You know how they push recurring donations now and it's $45 a month?
Ethan was like, I'll do that, but then, you know, I don't know, maybe his finger slipped.
No, it was, it was, but he's doing it intentionally because he's the 45th president.
He's big into numerology.
It's like when you're like, uh, subscription for the, that's what he should be doing.
Netflix comes out, comes out the first day.
More important that if the race is tight in October, which it very well might be because a president of politics tightened, Elon could be like, I'm doing 250.
Like, I mean, point.
Yes.
Just so you understand, I was just kind of flipping through the day when it was, you know, Elon was coming out.
In one day, his net worth went up six and a half billion dollars on Tesla's earnings report.
One day.
Just on the day of Friday.
It's the drop of the bucket.
I mean, it's not, you won't even notice it, right?
Um, and this is really important, everybody, because how long, Blake,
have we been complaining?
Where are the elites, the elites of this top-down revolution?
It really is.
What's totally different about this race is in 2016, there were a
few people who supported Trump.
Very few of them did it openly.
Peter Thiel did speak at the RNC, but he was like unannounced in Silicon Valley.
And then for the four years that followed, very few elites would really just step up and say, I like what Trump says.
I like what Trump wants to do for the country.
But in the last really just, not even four years, it's like the last year and a half, you've seen this seismic shift where way more people in Silicon Valley are coming out and saying publicly, I support Trump.
You and I both have sometimes had conversations with people in that world, and they'll say, in private spheres too, at parties, people will just say, oh yeah, I'm voting Trump this year.
Totally different.
And now we're seeing that money line up to back him.
Yeah, and Elon was supporting Trump behind the scenes.
It's kind of like getting there, but something, Jack, I want your opinion on this, something set off in Elon's mind as soon as he saw Donald Trump get shot.
It was like complete no rules.
I do know a little bit about this, and I'll just say, In the same vein, I've heard from talking to people in that world.
I've only spoken to Elon ever once, and it was in a public setting.
I've never met him, I've never spent time with him, but I've been told that assassination plots, kidnapping for his many children, security is something that he just takes paramount.
This was like, for example, the whole thing with his private jet, I'll give you that example.
When he banned the cops from tracking and doxing his private jet, people thought
that he was being flippant or that he was being, you know, like, acting like a diva or something.
People were saying, no, no, no.
Like, he was actually concerned for the safety, not just of himself, but of everyone he was with
that could potentially be put at threat by that.
And so I always knew that that was something that he thought about a lot.
And I'll put it this way, I was surprised but not shocked when Elon pointed out
that in the wake of that, that I think he said something in the last six months, that he had had two attempts
on his life that his security actually seemed cruel.
Yeah.
And again, Elon, to his great credit, is now forking money over.
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Guys, I just have to press pause here.
What day of the week is it?
That's my point.
Guys, 48 hours-ish ago, Donald Trump was exiting a hospital.
I have no idea.
This last two weeks, like, I have everything blended together.
That's what, that's my point.
Guys, 48 hours-ish ago, Donald Trump was exiting a hospital.
That says like two months ago.
I want you to think it's everything we've lived through since Saturday.
That was Saturday afternoon, I remember.
Was I the first person to text you about that?
I was pretty quick on the draw because I have a funny story about this.
Wait, but it was Saturday as it was Shabbat.
As I broke Shabbat halfway through the morning.
Because someone contacted Erica saying, um, do you want Jay to be vice president?
And so I said, do I really need to break Shabbat?
They said, we need you to turn your phone on.
And so that's a big deal for me, to break Shabbat, right?
Yes.
And so I sent some input.
All right.
And so then anyway, I had my phone open for the rest of the day, and Erika, could you not, was like, she said, I think God wants you to have your phone on today.
I was like, she really said that?
I said that.
I had the text.
So I got the call, and the first thing I started doing was looking for Erika's number, because I didn't know that.
Yeah, I had that.
And I'm like, wait a minute, I probably called Charlie and he picked up, and I didn't think he was going to pick up.
And then it was like two seconds.
And he was like, Charlie, I already know.
So, for people who don't know, Charlie is usually completely incommunicado, completely dark on Saturdays, and it just so happens because there was this other thing going on that you happen to be on your phone on this Saturday when you're never on your phone on Saturdays.
And so, I go to the gym, all of a sudden I see this, and you know what's amazing?
Two-year-olds have amazing instincts.
Yes.
I had my two-year-old, all of a sudden she was like clinging on to me.
Like she could feel the energy in the room as soon as I was like, something's wrong.
She was like, you know that sensation with a two-year-old?
And she was like, like daddy's not, you know, necessarily confident what's happening.
I was literally had to like claw her off and give her to Erica as I kept walking.
I kept walking across the gym closer and closer.
I was like, holy crow, he's shot.
Yeah.
And I mean, at that moment, I felt as if I was watching Kennedy, Malcolm X, MLK.
Because understand, like, yeah, Trump was defiant and everything.
He's still a wound that he didn't realize, right?
Yeah, so... Adrenaline, right?
Okay, so, yeah, we talked about this.
By the way, you know, I'm not gonna, like, pat ourselves on the back, but I know there were a lot of stories that came out and a lot of fog of war in the midst of that.
So, I think we were what?
We came to the live stream within, what, 45 minutes of us all getting in.
And by the way, shout out to all the folks at the Turning Point, at the Turning Point, at the Carly Kirk Show, and the TNT at Unbelievable, that put that together.
You guys get free in and out within minutes.
You know, came in on a Saturday like that.
A single person complained, everybody knew what we had to do, and I really think that we did a good job of keeping things grounded, but also understanding of the potential for future threats.
Thank God it didn't happen, but as we've learned more and more, a lot of the things that we brought up seem to have have worn out.
So anyway that was Saturday and I think it was 6 16 p.m or so?
Are you guys like when you go to sleep think about this like relentlessly?
I like weird that now the last... Tyler are you with me?
That when I'm like closing my eyes I think about Donald Trump's brains getting blown out?
Non-stop.
Like I know that sounds really graphic.
I thought about that before that though because I was really worried because... No I was I've been super worried about this.
No it's been because we've talked about many times.
Talking about openly.
This is the only thing that they've got.
So so for me it's it's it's interesting because actually um and I'll so when I first got the call I was in a so I was out we're at the swim club and not far from where we live but it's sort of like a low cell you know low signal area which I kind of like because you're you And you can just have fun.
You don't feel as obligated to be on your phone.
You're like, oh, there's no connection.
So I'm just gonna go run around.
We're playing pickleball, actually.
We're playing pickleball.
And I get the call and at one point, people weren't sure if he was shot in the ear
or shot in the neck.
And for a second, I could feel that emotion just sliding up that everything about,
is the ground about to fall out completely?
And then, but I'll just say that it's, you just kind of do that sort of, I know it's cliche, but you do that military thing where it's like, okay, you just put that on the shelf and you just get to work.
And so you have to get to work.
So then today, history took Sunday off, I think.
So.
Had to hit pause.
Today, the cases were dropped against Donald Trump.
Out of, out of the blue.
I don't think anyone expected that.
he reenters a convention with literally like missing part of his ear. I mean, Elon Musk
pledges that he's going to give $250 million ish, two to $250 million ish, quarter of a
billion dollars, quarter of a billion dollars, one of the largest political donations ever.
And I'm actually I'm missing there. There's other news that I'm missing. There was the
whole vice president thing.
The vice president was chosen, Charlie.
We're not talking about how- We didn't know who it was gonna be!
We're not sure Trump knew who it was gonna be!
We were talking about this- We're not, Charlie.
We're gonna tell these stories now that it's done?
Yes.
We're not talking about how- Do it.
Do it.
Should Charlie tell the stories?
Do it.
Do it.
I can tell you this.
Within 15 minutes before Donald Trump's Truth Social post, J.D.
Vance did not know he was going to be the VP.
Suspicion.
Not a single senior staff to their credit leaked.
And they were like, hey, D.J.T.' 's going to call you.
That's all they said.
By the way, he was calling Rubio and Burgum, too.
And J.D.' 's like, well, I think I have good vibes.
And then New York Times reporters were texting me saying, hey, Mikey Haley and Junkin all of a sudden being considered like crazy stuff.
And I have big disagreements with Senator Lindsey Graham.
He was the one that was on the plane yesterday with Donald Trump heavily lobbying against JD Vance.
The announcement would have happened before then, if it wasn't for that, number one, but there was this very interesting, I'm not going to name all the names because some of these people are friends and I have to work with them for the next 10 years until, but I'll give you the general mold.
If you were a Team JD, you were under the age of 50, you were very interested in the ideological part of politics.
And you also were sick of endless and foreign wars, neoconservative neoliberalism, and or you don't necessarily have a political background.
You come from business, finance, and just the way things are operating don't make sense.
If you are on the team of the others, There was this conglomeration of people that were a little bit older, people that were part of the kind of permanent Washington, and they just floated from one non-J.D.
choice to the other.
Is that a fair summary, Blake, would you say?
Yeah, definitely saw that the business world really liked J.D.
They liked the energy that he brings to the Senate.
The tech world loves him.
Uh, yeah, I guess I should say that a lot of the classical business world that you think of, like, pro-business military-industrial world.
Like the Chamber of Commerce.
Yeah, the Chamber of Commerce guys, no.
Um, you know what's really interesting about that?
Is the JD now Elon Fusion intersection.
Oh yeah.
So, I'm not at liberty to tell that story.
It's just, that's the story that will be told.
I think that will go in part of the... That'll be a massive chapter, I think, in the W, right?
So that's gonna be really interesting.
And so... I'll put it this way, though.
I think from the outside, that people looking at the JD and the Elon thing kind of happening In conjunction, and yet you can't say that the assassination attempt played no role, but it just kind of changed the pallor of everything.
I mean, imagine, imagine if Trump died.
What would this, this week, Tyler, the only, the only, and I, I actually know what I would have tweeted.
And I, after condolences, all the, you know, I would be like tragic, like for the political tweet, it would have been, it's a condemnation and a discussion.
Same here.
It's the only, right, Jackie?
It's the only way.
You realize it would have been like freaking World War 4 here.
Like right now, this would be burning.
No, I'm not kidding you.
This high school gym that we're in would be on fire right now.
Made it to whatever the next...
No, today would have been literally civil war in that room.
It would have been like literally pitchforks.
You would have had people claiming Trump, like they knew Trump's VP choice.
This is correct.
So then Burgum would have said, I got the nod, but it wasn't official.
It would be as close to Game of Thrones.
I was the successor, but he didn't name me.
Commodus is actually interesting.
Yes.
I was just going to say that.
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And so let's now talk about what we saw at the actual convention.
I thought it was beautifully scripted.
I thought it was well written.
Um, Amber Rose backstage has a very mixed history.
You guys gonna be TikTok-ing together soon?
I don't think so.
Uh, by the way, she said she was a big fan.
And she has, you know, a very colorful past.
We all believe in new eras and new day.
I thought it was terrific.
I don't know if you guys caught it.
I thought it was a 10 out of 10 speech.
We could see it, we couldn't hear it.
She has a tattoo on her forehead.
I don't know what to make of that.
It's against the Greer Pledge, right?
She's like a walking, violating Greer.
There are several violations of the Greer Pledge.
However, I would say this.
Delivery what she said I was on the left and I believe the lies of Donald Trump, then I did my own research
It's a MAGA supporter. I said you're a racist now and it nearly destroyed my family
Powerful the way she delivered it and I thought it was perfect. There's a lot of that vibe going around if you
follow that viral There was that viral post. Oh that person so many people
that up check. I want you to read without the swear words Yeah, that have been yeah, I think I think I will that
It's just been lack of a better term. That's the vibe right now. Is that there are a lot of people saying you know
What why did I you know, why did I believe the media and why didn't I just look into it for myself an interesting
take?
I've heard from several people is if you're Okay.
Certainly this is not all of them, but a lot of women, you know, middle-aged women who found Trump really off-putting, they actually have really liked his response to, like, the assassination attempt.
How could you not like it?
It's one of the most magnanimous... Holding firm under fire is such an appealing characteristic in any potential leader.
Well, I mean, just so we're clear, I mean, he simultaneously, in one moment, one five-second interval, like, increased his numbers with men.
And I hate to be, like, a little bit like tribalistic but if you're an American man after you
saw that and you vote for Joe Biden you have to turn in your man card. I'm sorry like you're
not a man anymore. I'm sorry like you're something else you're not a man um right Tyler am I
wrong by saying that? It's really simple we just talked we talked about this earlier this is
now Trump-Vance versus Kamala because there is no Joe Biden this isn't Trump versus Biden
yeah that's right this is Trump-Vance versus and it's not even it's Kamala.
So you're, you're not anymore.
If you're, I love that.
If you're not voting for Trump, cause you're voting for Kamala.
Again, if you're like anyone has testosterone in your body and you see a human being get shot, literally shot, not just shot at shot.
Okay.
Your gets nearly blown off.
And you know, and he comes up there and he's just like defiantly pushing back his secret service agents to fight.
I just, it's hard to even capture that energy.
So I had Nick Adams on the show today, on Univet.
Mr. Alpha Male.
Alpha Male.
By the way, fastest guest approval I've ever done.
So, Producer Fah sent over, hey Jack, do you want this guy?
Yes.
Yes, we want him on.
Jack, he's the greatest Alpha Male.
The greatest Alpha Male on this man's courage under pressure.
And so he put him on, and he said, Jack, to an alpha male, it's instinctual.
And I said, you know something?
You're actually right about that.
For Donald Trump, that response was instinctual.
That was obviously not something that he had thought about.
He had no clue that that was coming.
He had no clue whether or not he was shot or injured in other areas.
He talked about the Secret Service tackling him, so he was in immense pain, potentially, at that point.
There's a line in Sun Tzu where Sun Tzu says, bring a man to the brink of death.
That is the moment when you truly meet that man.
And think about, there's always this sort of lie that would be told about Trump.
A Civil War movie.
There's a lot of fantasies where people would imagine like Donald Trump begging for his life.
This is the end of the Civil War movie.
They're sick and perverted left wing like porn.
It's literally the end of the Civil War movie right now.
The president, who is depicted as Donald Trump throughout the film, Crying at the bottom of the Resolute Desk as, you know, the team comes in and like begging them not to kill him.
That's their view of Trump.
Yeah, they all, like, they had this fantasy of Trump as this fake, this coward who's just exploiting everyone, and he really did blow it up.
It's not as simple as Donald Trump survived the inauguration.
It's that Donald Trump was put through a real-life test of character.
I totally agree.
In ten seconds.
That almost no one ever actually goes through.
This was Maggie Haberman's whole book, by the way.
Conman, The Showman.
Again, I watched MSNBC's Steve, the great Steve Bannon, who's still in federal prison.
Hey, Joe Biden, you want to unite the country?
Give a pardon right now to Steve Bannon, get him out of prison.
and you go up in the polls, but I'm not kidding.
How are we gonna have unity?
If Joe Biden issued a commutation for Steve Bannon right now,
and Peter Navarro's getting out of prison, I think, tomorrow and coming through here,
but he's not gonna do it.
Wednesday.
And by the way, again, if Joe Biden wants to score political points,
why hasn't he fired the Secret Service director?
I mean, just fire one bureaucrat.
Just fire a single one.
Which, by the way, that was one of Trump's best lines, and I think actually direct hits on him.
And Trump didn't hit Biden really hard during the debate, but one of his best hits on him was,
You didn't fire anyone after you.
Zero.
Zero.
And that was just something that it became instantly relatable, I think, to kind of everyone in the country, especially this business community that we're talking about.
How do you not fire anyone after a massive failure like that?
I totally agree.
And so, I'll just kind of go back to, I want to complete the thought.
If you are a man and you vote for Joe Biden, you're something else.
You're not a man.
You're not a man.
I'm sorry.
I can now confidently say that.
Now, if you vote for RFK, Okay, like you shouldn't, but at least there's something there.
Well, if you want to talk RFK.
Well, there's RFK news today, too.
RFK might endorse Trump.
And like, that would be, I'm telling you, it could happen.
Wait, Charlie, does that mean Tyler ends up being right over our longboard?
I'm sorry to be right in an RFK debate.
I think we need him in the race.
They're ballot chasing.
Yes.
From a tactical standpoint.
From a tactical standpoint, we need him in the race.
So let me just put thought, but Donald Trump also simultaneously boosted his numbers with women.
Because women are so sick of the hyper-feminization of American men.
Okay, read the tweet without the swear words.
Yeah, I will.
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This is from, even the name, Stephanie Tyler.
Have you looked at her Twitter post, by the way?
It's all of her wearing this weird lingerie and naked pictures.
Yeah, we're not going to do that.
It's very weird.
Graduated in 2012, so this is her post a few days after.
50 million views at this point.
Graduated in 2012 with a degree in women's studies.
Pried in 2016 when Trump got elected.
Lost touch with the Dems somewhere around me too.
Discovered entrepreneurship.
Updated my voter registration in 2018 but didn't tell anyone.
Told myself I was a single issue voting centrist.
The last 6-12 months I believed I was going to abstain from voting in the upcoming election because the options were equally terrible.
But watching Trump survive an assassination attempt and act like a total effing savage just shifted me from some strange patriotic gear Into, excuse me, just shifted me into some strange patriotic gear that my fancy feminism, white men, bad, infected brain never showed me.
Like, the dude took a bullet and stood up with blood dripping down his face and rallied at an effing crowd while fist pumping, yelling, fight!
Sorry, but I'm voting for that.
And saying it out loud feels so freeing.
2012 Stephanie would be upset, but that's okay because 2012 Stephanie didn't know crap.
That right there, honestly, is Nature is Undefeated.
I was about to say, there's a lot... She makes a comment, I think, right under it, she says, I also minored in biology.
So she kind of is referencing what you're saying right now.
It's literally Nature is Undefeated.
Did you see the Sticker Mule post?
The what?
So Sticker Mule, it's a big company.
You go online, you buy random stickers online.
Yeah, I've seen it.
So the Sticker Mule posted this today.
You ready for it?
I'm ready.
Donald Trump was shot.
I don't care what your political views are, but hate for Trump and supporters has gone way too far.
People are terrified to admit they support Trump.
Wow.
I've been scared myself.
Americans shouldn't live in fear.
I support Trump.
Many a sticker mule also do.
Many a sticker mule also support Biden.
The political hate needs to stop.
Today a bullet almost killed Donald Trump.
He's got five kids.
One's still a teenager.
No one should have to die and sacrifice the happiness of their family to run for office.
If Donald Trump can risk that, the rest of us can do, at least do, is vocalize our support and end the helpless hate.
The more people realize that kind-hearted, compassionate people support Trump, the sooner the hate will end.
I'm speaking out today and I hope more will do so in the future to stop this insane political hate.
Awesome people all over the world love Trump.
Don't limit your friendships and diminish your happiness by indulging in political hate.
Vocalize your support.
Stop the hate.
So today was also a foreshadow into what we're going to see out of Biden.
You're going to see Biden unhinged.
The Democrat Party is abandoning him.
They're already hedging their ballots down ballot.
We called this last week in the chat and publicly.
Blake was in the specifics.
I was in the abstract.
Is that fair?
I think so.
I brought up the abstract.
Blake was, I said, I think they're going to go crazy and it's going to be based Biden.
Today, Joe Biden, by executive order, Said that we're pausing all rents increases by 5%.
Is this constitutional, by the way?
I think his plan, it actually is a plan that Congress would have to pass.
Did he do an executive order?
I think he just signed an executive order.
I'll have to double check it.
We've all been busy today.
So through executive order, no.
Yeah, yeah.
So we've been talking about Biden has some sort of, he has weird based energy because the media are trying to get rid of him and the Democrat elites are trying to get rid of him.
So he's doing these rallies where he's attacking the Democrat party elites.
We're, by the way, like they're, they're like very much trying to like ape the Trump rallies, but they're sort of faking the size of it because every time you find a video that's actually from the crowd as opposed to the mainstream media that shows the crowd size, it's kind of the opposite.
It's always small.
It's like the opposite of the Trump rallies.
Yeah.
Yes.
What could Biden do?
And our thought was, as we discussed, he has to go full populist, say, I'm running against the elites who are trying to take the nomination from me.
He's going to be Dementia Bernie Sanders.
Yeah, Dementia Bernie Sanders.
By the way, that's why Bernie and AOC are his most fierce supporters right now.
And sorry to interrupt you, but Bernie and AOC are the ones giving him advice to do this.
Yes, exactly.
And so he said, I think, Whether it was an EO or not, what he wants to do is basically, you can never raise rent more than 5% in a year, no matter, you know, even if, for example, if our inflation rate is 8 or 10% because I'm Joe Biden.
And so he wants to do that.
I bet we'll see him talk about, like, he was bragging with Lester Holt today about steamrolling the Supreme Court to try to forgive more student loans.
So I wouldn't be surprised if we heard a promise for total student loan abolition.
So he's now Bernie Biden.
Yeah.
He's Bernie Biden now.
We should just start calling him Bernie Biden.
By the way, anecdotally, so we had dinner a little bit earlier here at a place kind of off-site, and I was like, hey, we're in Wisconsin.
We're in a swing state.
And so we did the whole, you know, it was digital tip, so I couldn't take a picture of it.
But I told the waitress afterwards, I said, you know, They're saying if Trump gets elected, he's gonna do no tax on tips.
And her jaw dropped.
Her jaw actually dropped for a second.
Wait, he can do that?
And I said, he's pledging to drop that tax.
He's gonna fight to drop that.
And she had never heard this.
She's here at the RNC.
Well, he could do by executive order.
He could tell the IRS to stop enforcing.
He could do that.
That's true.
He can lax enforcement, which is why it's a fulfillable promise.
Because I had a waiter say he's not going to do that.
I said, wait a second, you look at Joe Biden's press release a year and a half ago.
He said, he didn't say waiters and waitresses, he said, we're coming after the cash driven industries who are tax cheats.
So he's literally instructed the IRS by his own mandate, the executive branch, so Trump can say, honestly, turn a blind eye to it.
That's what he could say.
Wait, so Charlie, you see what's going to happen here?
Just like I don't care.
Just eliminate, just shake the IRS.
We all know.
Yeah, there's- And by the way, it's not just this too, and there's been
discussion about also the taxation on the Venmo transfers and everything else that everyone's
talking about.
Crypto.
Wait, so Charlie, you see what's going to happen here is that you're going, like there's
going to be like a populism arms race.
So there's going to be a populism arms race- 100%.
On both sides.
And so, so Trump, no tax on tips.
Biden, you know, no cap.
I'm afraid it's going to be a Pyrrhic victory, though.
Yeah, this could end up badly.
A Pyrrhic victory, for those who don't know, is where you have such a terrible cost to yourself, it's actually not a victory.
But you win the battle at a great cost to yourself.
Yeah, it's like every soldier died and you're like, I won.
So at some point Trump's going to be promising like every populist thing imaginable.
They're gonna be outdoing one another, right?
And it's like, okay, we love populism, but it has to be within the framework of conservatism and constitutionalism, right?
But you know, J.D.' 's actually good about that.
He's the best.
By the way, let's talk more about J.D.!
J.D.' 's the vice president!
This is actually something where J.D.
comes in handy because, you know, J.D.
is a guy where Trump will have this idea, which he just intuits these things, and then J.D.
will We'll then be able to come in and implement Trumpism in the way that we've seen other administrations not be able to properly do.
Great segue.
I want to play some tape here.
This is J.D.
Vance's exclusive interview with Hannity.
That's why my speech wasn't aired on Fox.
But let's play Cut 87 if we can.
J.D.
Vance, God willing, the next Vice President of the United States.
Check out Cut 87, please.
Well, Sean, the answer is yes.
And I have to say, you have to have some humility about this.
It's the biggest job in the world.
Americans are watching you tonight. Are you ready at a moment's notice to step
into that role and what do you believe most qualifies you for that?
Well Sean the answer is yes and I have to say you have to have some humility about this.
It's the biggest job in the world but I served my country successfully, the United States
Marine Corps. I had a successful business career and I have the vision and the
agenda aligned with President Trump to make the American worker better off, to
bring peace to the world and to actually advance an agenda that's good for
American citizens.
I think the experience that maybe most Americans would care about It's not that I spent two years in the Senate, and I think I've had a very successful two years in the Senate.
It's that I came from nothing, became a United States Marine, and succeeded in business.
That's the experience that I think gives you a fresh perspective.
You combine that with the ability to get things done, and that's what you need to do.
So, I mean, Jack, you were making an astute point.
What was that?
So, the only point of today, and I've been doing shows since War Room this morning, that I actually went into the Pfizer forum was to watch JD get his nomination.
Now, he didn't speak at the nomination, but he appeared on the floor, and I think this was just maybe Maybe minutes after actually receiving word.
And Charlie, you were just saying before that he did not know.
I've screenshotted my text history, because I think it's actually going to be really important for future generations.
Historical.
I said, at 1.23, I said, I bet you get a call in the next 20 or 30.
I said, it's happening quick.
Be ready for the cameras.
And then, at 2.16, thanks for everything, dude.
And 2-16, that's 12 minutes after Trump's truth post.
Correct.
Which means whatever call they had was not long.
By the way, I was right on my timing.
I saw things coming into gear and I was like, be ready.
And then, yeah, it's just...
So anyway...
Again, I'm still trying to process this.
Do you think Trump is...
I'm processing all this because I'm like an insider outsider.
Do you think Trump has made a final decision at noon today?
No.
Well, yes.
I think, look, here's my speculation.
So there's also the RNC paperwork.
Well, that was the forcing function.
That was the forcing function.
But I think that President Trump, first and foremost, he was obsessed with the idea of the most eyeballs on a convention where it's like The Apprentice.
So he had that as an idea, because every time I spoke to him about this, that was his idea.
Number two, he was legitimately trying to not make a Pence mistake.
Yeah.
And because of that, he wanted to exhaustively hear from everybody multiple times, every argument, until he could repeat them back.
Okay?
And so, everybody was weighing in, and calling, and from different camps, and I'm just speculating here, but I think the president started to see similarity between the type of people that were advocating for JD, And type of people that we're not advocating for J.D.
and don't take your credit.
OK, no, no, no, no.
I'm not going to.
But to your credit, this someone else on the RNC brought this point to me tonight.
So we're hanging out in the lounge outside and they came up to me on this topic and they said, It is so good and refreshing that the president spent the time going through all that, hearing from those voices, lining them up in columns.
And so he started to hear all the chatter and he started to say, wait a second, the people who don't like JD have waffled on me on the past, supported my opponents.
Got in and out.
Are really pro-Ukraine in like a very strange, like, hyper-sexual way.
And not just pro-Ukraine, but pro, like, war.
No, like yeah, yeah, I know but like you can just fill in the gaps of who that might be yeah, and So over sexual and again, I just the president did conducted the most thorough vice presidential search I think in history Charlie what you're saying is that Trump did the vetting himself?
Well the camp here's what I know the campaign team did all of the backgrounding dossiers like the official vetting Yes, so is there a divorce we don't know about?
Is there a scandal, right?
So as soon as all those people went through that vetting, he was given basically a binder on each.
Here's all the negative stuff they've ever said about you, just so you know, right?
And so then from that point forward, it was like, this is your decision.
The campaign handled it beautifully.
There was, like, no manipulation.
There was no steering.
They were like, this is your decision.
And, again, he was hearing from a wide range of voices on this.
And, again, the list that emerged and why JD was selected was loyalty, but I never got the... People are saying it's heir apparent.
I think that's playing into it.
I don't actually think that's correct.
I believe that President Trump enjoyed spending time with J.D.
the most, out of all the finalists.
Really?
J.D.' 's an enjoyable person to be around.
I think that President Trump felt warm, as if this is someone who gets him, someone who has high energy, someone who's high achieving, someone that is very high IQ, that understands the MAGA base, plus it checks all the boxes of that region of the world, and I think it was as simple as, I want to hang out with him more.
Again, there were other elements at play.
I've heard, I'm not gonna name names, but I've heard that he made some comments about other individuals who were in the running that were hanging out with him a lot lately.
Don't say any names.
I know what you're saying.
Wasn't, you know, as interested in all of it.
And so the thing I just wanted to say about J.D.
So the two things.
Number one, I think the East Palestine trip was seminal and the way J.D. put that together
because that was a very special moment for Trump.
I think it was a turning point for his campaign.
I think it was.
There was a lot of discussion of that in the press today about how important that was to
his campaign.
It was monumental.
Because Trump before that was just J6.
It was all J6.
It was J6, J6, J6.
He had announced already.
No, J.D. had endorsed, which also plays a role.
When was East Palestine?
I think it was like February of 23.
But remember, he went to the McDonald's afterwards.
Right, but that was the first one.
That was the first one of the campaign where he did any of those things, and J.D.
was seminal in setting it up.
Now, he didn't set up early.
It was early before everybody was, but... Understand, J.D.
was only a senator for a couple months at that point.
A couple weeks.
A couple weeks, yeah.
But then Donald Trump watches a lot of TV, and he noticed something in J.D.
that he hadn't noticed in other endorsed candidates, which is here's how it usually works.
They grow close to Trump when they're in cycle, they get the endorsement, and then they kind of just do their own thing, and it kind of becomes Chamber of Commerce talking points, and there's distance.
He was like, wait, J.D.' 's still like defending me.
Yeah.
And and he was the first senator, I think, to endorse Trump, like one of the first.
He did.
He put in an op ed in The Wall Street Journal.
And it wasn't just like he tweeted it out.
He had a whole, you know, full summary of why he was doing it.
It was and it was all based on MAGA values.
It was not this warmed over Chamber of Commerce or like neocon world, you know, talking points about blah, blah, blah.
No, it was really full throated MAGA.
And just please talk.
I was just going to say this point, too, that this is more the insider baseball stuff, but JD surrounded himself with really good people.
So I want to make this... Staffed really well.
I'm going to tell you this right now, that most people that surround even our best people suck.
And JD, on the other hand, is surrounded by incredible, incredibly loyal people, not just to JD, but to the movement in general.
And I can tell you, like, when things have...
Gone really well for Turning Point and things like that.
One of the first people to reach out has been JD and his team.
They reached out and said, great job with this, or awesome job.
That doesn't happen anywhere else.
And people listening at home need to understand this.
He is an incredible person, but surrounded by incredible people.
It was his 10th wedding anniversary.
We had the People's Convention in Detroit.
And I was like, dude, I want you to be VP.
I was public at that point.
I was like, we're doing a straw poll.
I think you'll do well if you show up.
Like, this is the hilarious thing.
I was like, hey Lauren, JD's coming.
I had to fly home because of a baby issue.
I was like a three-week-old.
All that great stuff.
It's like, hey Lauren, so he's coming.
She's like, yeah, he's driving himself from Columbus.
And I'm like, what?
What?
Again, I'm kind of used to, like, I'm charging a plane.
He jumped in a minivan and he just came up.
I kid you not, J.D.
Vance, literally on a Sunday morning, woke up at, like, 6 a.m., got, like, a big thing of coffee, and drove up himself from Columbus, Ohio, to Detroit, Michigan, spoke at our event, did all the media, shook all the hands, got back in his car, and drove back to Columbus, Ohio.
That's J.D.
Vance.
That's, like, three hours each way.
Charlie, let me add more context on that, because I was there.
No, you weren't there, because you had to leave.
I saw him.
I saw him next to me.
I remember him being by himself.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we're just chatting, hanging out.
Boxing by himself. Big hugs. Hey, so good to see you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chat, chat, chat, chat, chat, chat.
Yeah, we're just chatting, hanging out.
I had more people there than JDV.
Vance did.
Like, my family was there.
He walked in.
It's not even that he drove himself up.
Normally, he's like, oh, I drove myself up.
Like, a staffer will drive up with him, or drive him.
Or anybody.
I mean, you're a U.S.
Senator, man.
He showed, he just rolled his... You're a staff of 15 people.
Because you know what?
I had just come off stage when he went on to speak, and it actually didn't occur to me.
I thought the staff was, you know, like, in the wings or something.
Because we were just in that little, like, area.
Oh my gosh.
And he walks in.
It doesn't even make any sense.
He gives our stuff.
He knows our people.
He talks, he stopped.
He is the number one most, like, liked human being in turning point events.
Like, not even close.
Meaning as far as, like, easy to work with.
When I was, like, pushing for JD, Lorne was like, please, like, make it JD.
Please make it JD.
He's a wonderful human being.
Remember when we did the JD rally in Ohio?
Yes!
And again, his team was awesome.
It was crazy.
It was absolutely crazy.
Got together before the election.
He, I mean, I'm not, I cannot impress upon the audience this enough.
The vice president, the vice presidential candidate we have right now is one of the greatest human beings I've ever seen in politics.
The best vice presidential candidate we've ever had in my lifetime, bar none.
I'm trying to think, like maybe, who's even better in like the last hundred years?
Ever.
Blake's gonna say Nixon.
Teddy Roosevelt.
I have my Nixon now signed over.
You're right.
You know we're a block away from where Teddy Roosevelt was shot.
The thing I do want to say about J.D.
though is that I saw today was I remember people were asking me when he walked out on the Floor, whether or not he was going to speak in, and I believe he's slated to speak on Wednesday night, and I remember I was looking at him, and from my vantage point, you know, I wasn't nearby, but I could see him enough to see his face, and I was looking and I could see, I was like, I don't think he can speak right now.
Because you could see he had this look on his face with just tears in his eyes, and just that choked up, you know, smiles and being polite, he was with the Ohio delegation, but I mean, you could tell that in his head, he was thinking about...
It seemed to me, just reading his face, he looked like he was thinking, how did I get here?
How did I get here?
And he's been public about his story, he's been public about his very not-easy childhood, and all of a sudden to see that... His book came out eight years ago.
He's not somebody... It wasn't about him.
I could tell it wasn't about him.
Here at the RNC, thankfully we're getting rid of this old guard.
The schemers and the plotters and the planners are abundant here, the cockroaches.
Where it's all about an angle because I want to be dog catcher, then I'm county commissioner, and then I'm state rep, and then I'm congressman, and then I'm chair of this, and then a senator, and then one day I could become president in my own crazy drama in my own mind.
J.D.
Vance ran as the Senate.
He was pulling at like 2% for like forever.
We endorsed him right out of the gate.
We endorsed him as he came to our office.
We told the story today.
He came to our office, and this is what happened.
This is literally what happened.
He came to our office, spent basically two days at our office.
Just hanging out.
Hanging out.
Like, tell me about how you guys do stuff.
And, like, literally we were telling him... Super curious.
Super curious.
He would ask us questions like, what would Turning Point do in this situation?
Or like, what is... What do you guys think about, like, literally just normal conversation?
And I was really impressed because he's, I mean, he's like my age, right?
So he's like...
He's like my age, so it's like talking to... We're all the same age.
So it's like talking to your friend, and he left, and Charlie and I sat down, and we were talking about this, and we're like, I think we have to endorse him.
Because we had just started thinking about endorsements.
The amount of enemies I created from that endorsement.
I mean, right, Tyler?
Well, this is what happened.
So this is the story.
So we're like, I think we have to endorse this.
So I'm like, okay, we'll put together a graphic because we hadn't really started endorsing anyone at Turning Point Action at all.
And so I told our team that was really small at the time because we hadn't grown.
This was before, like anything, we had started building a team.
And I said, put together an endorsement graphic.
And the team put together an endorsement graphic and tweeted it out immediately.
On accident.
Oh, and then so like a thousand so like on accident not that we didn't want to endorse them
We want to endorse them, but we weren't like ready to press the we weren't the buttons
We were gonna usually there's like cuz I was gonna check in Dell
I was gonna call the candidates as well as our policy and let them know we're not endorsing you you know
And like all our Ohio contacts and just like let everybody know.
Donors.
And call donors and stuff like that.
I lost so many donors over that JD endorsement.
It was immediate.
And so Charlie calls me.
He's like, I just got like 50 phone calls from donors.
What is going on?
Like what is going on?
I was like, of course we want to do this, but you have to let me run drafts on them.
And I was like, Charlie, it was a total accident, but like we just should just live with it at this point.
And we did.
And we stuck with it.
And we were like the first endorsement out of the gate.
We were like one of the first ones they got.
When he was at like one or two percent.
And then I went, while Erika was seven months pregnant, I campaigned with JD for half of a week with him in the primary.
Because I was like, JD, I'm going to have no help in the general, right?
I want to see you become a senator more than anything else.
Because I literally said, I was like, this guy is the future of the party.
We were all in.
In the 2022 midterms.
We had to be, because everyone got so angry about it.
On the night of one of the worst nights ever, the 2022 midterms, when it was just like, that was the only consolation prize.
We were like, J.D.' 's a senator!
Woo!
Sucks.
Right?
And we were like, at least we got this done.
And, because I saw in him what we've been lacking, is like, he understands the MAGA agenda.
He is one of you.
He's from that part of the world that has been forgotten and looked over.
He broke through.
You don't get enough credit though, Charlie, because... Like, you could have got really...
We could have waited.
We could have not done anything.
And I just still remember sitting there, and it was one of those moments, there's like God moments, clearly, where we're at, where you were like, we just have to endorse him.
And then, again, you don't get enough credit for this, but you were one of the first people to go do stuff with him, right?
But that led, these kind of things lead to other endorsements and things like that, and it helps build You live in activism.
That's what we do at Turning Point Action.
It's activism, right?
So building that activist space behind a person and voices that matter.
I mean, look, we're here today now with a...
An incredible, the best ever VP candidate that we possibly could have.
And again, let's just be like, Blake, I want to get this direct question to you because Trump was being pressured.
Again, let's talk about stereotype, stereotypical, like what people think Trump is, what Trump actually is.
People think Trump is very manipulatable, that Trump will just cow to like a small collection of certain people on TV and or donors interests.
This shows that's actually not true.
Donald Trump really kind of gave the finger to a lot of people by doing this.
Like, a lot of people.
Yeah, a ton.
And the pressure went up and up and up and up the whole time.
And they're all thinking, OK, we can get our hooks in him over this or that.
And I think it really is a testament to his instincts, as you said.
And his courage.
His courage.
Well, we saw that on Saturday.
Can I ask a question?
I want to have Blake finish.
But I think he really has those just Those very powerful raw instincts, and those guided him the whole way on this, where he's thinking, as you said, what will it look like at the convention?
What will it look like for our ticket?
What does it look like for our movement?
And what do the people pushing him look like versus what do the people who are against him look like?
And I don't just mean physically, but also what are they saying?
What have they done?
What has been their...
What has been their standing in the entire movement since I've started running?
And I think all of that is working in his head as he's approaching this decision.
In closing here guys, because I want to get some food.
I'm sure you guys do too, right?
I gave a whole speech and everything.
Are you allowed to eat cheese curds?
Are you still allowed to eat cheese curds or anything here?
You know what's funny?
Is that... No, no, no, no, no, no.
What do you want?
What do you want right now?
Are you on something?
I'm a crazy diet as it is, but as soon as I got announced as speaker of the convention, I'm very big into limiting things that make you feel good, like focused, like I've got a good speech.
You know when you have a big speech that you have to like, it gives you something.
So tonight, I'm gonna have wings.
What kind of wings?
What type of wings?
Buffalo wings with ranch.
That's like an ultimate violation of Charlie's diet.
This is almost like a hometown thing for you.
You should get cheese curds.
How far are we?
I am 50 minutes from where I grew up.
And even less if it wasn't for all the Secret Service crap.
Like I'm literally 35 miles from where I grew up.
So this is like my people here.
This is like Charlie's hometown almost.
Anyway, my big indulgence, I've been visualizing it.
Wings with ranch.
They sing about the wings the whole time.
You know, the mind is amazing when you give it incentive.
It's better with blue cheese, by the way.
Alright, so we'll all get some wings together.
No, I'm ranch.
I'm ranch.
I'm all ranch.
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Guys, imagine if JD was on that stage with him on Saturday.
Don't say that.
No, no, I mean, this is divine promise.
I know, but yes.
There is one thing that I would like to get across before we say that, and we've all kind of talked around it, and I'll put it to Charlie, because Charlie, you, you know, blah, blah, blah, had the vision for Turning Point, etc., etc., but seriously, This is a moment where Trump came in and, Blake, as you say,
this is a risk.
This is a gamble.
But he's in a moment where the odds are kind of in his favor.
And as a true entrepreneur knows, that you bet big when you're in a moment like that.
He's betting on the future with this, because it's a generational pick.
Totally right.
I will say, though, that even if Trump was behind in the polls, J.D.
makes the most sense politically.
I don't think Rubio wins you that many votes.
I don't necessarily mean polls.
I just want to be clear, because the way that Fox was talking about it today drove me nuts.
I was throwing stuff at the TV.
I didn't actually see much of it.
A lot of sour grapes.
Well, it goes back to what you talked about earlier.
Karl Rove.
Which is what we talked about.
If you want a man to vote, J.D.
is your guy.
Yeah, exactly.
Wait a second.
Also, you want to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.
That's it.
The whole race is over.
Nominate someone from that region of the world.
And they literally said, well, this is a mark of a very overconfident candidate.
Wait, hold on a second.
And finally, you know what the data is screaming at us?
Please put someone on the ticket under the age of 50.
Please.
And now we have it!
Totally.
Like, so, they have literally... Two JG Vances are still younger than Joe Biden.
Oh, that's a great tweet.
That's a great tweet.
No, J.B.
Vance... Oh, that's great.
It's true.
Yeah.
J.B.
Vance... Daisy, tweet that.
I love that.
Oh my gosh.
But J.D.
Vance is our Obama- He has lived two lifetimes.
Our Obama-esque candidate.
And here's the reason why, and this is what Obama- No, he is our Obama.
J.D.
Vance is our Obama.
I don't want to get clipped.
Yes, exactly.
I don't want to get clipped.
No, we're getting clipped on that one.
Definitely.
Because we said this on ThoughtGrid before, I said that.
But J.D.
Vance is doing what for us, what Obama did for them, in that Obama campaigned to a base of voters that had never been campaigned to before, and expanded their pool.
Just so we are clear, and I'm going to say this publicly and privately, if we are to win the presidency, and if J.D.
wants to run in the future, his immediate goal needs to be in voter registration, 501c4 build-out, of making the coalition permanent.
Not just Trump.
This goes back to the Elon money, though.
What you just talked about.
If we do it right.
If we do it right, J.D.
Vance could, because he's such a strategic, smart thinker, say, you have an opportunity, because of the Teamsters thing, muscular class, low-prop voters, to do what the Dems did with Obama, where they all of a sudden found 15% of new Americans that they've held onto pretty well, honestly.
And then Trump resurrected that.
Well, they've also been increasing that number of new Americans as a way to...
We need our own amalgamated bank, and we need our own...
We just coupled everything.
But that's the smart that JD will give us that everybody else wouldn't have.
That's being the movement, by the way.
I cannot impress upon the audience enough.
You have a good, smart person.
That is one of the hardest combinations of things to find.
Because you can have a good person who's really dumb.
We know a lot of those people.
And that's fine.
Because smart does not equal good.
And then there's a lot of evil, smart people.
The Republican Party has a lot of evil, smart people.
Can I just comment on how many creatures are walking around this thing that They have tentacles, and claws, and too many legs.
We have all week, and all of a sudden I'm like, I hate you.
And I've been like, really behaved.
But, I've run into these people.
It's sort of like the difference between the Wings and Jonah Goldberg.
Jonah Goldberg called me an anti-Semite on CNN tonight.
Unbelievable.
Of all the things to call Charlie Kirk, pro-Israel.
There's plenty of things to call Charlie Kirk.
I call Charlie Kirk half of them.
I am too pro-Israel.
He is literally one of like five people who have been harassed in public for being too pro-Israel.
And CNN did a five minute thing about how I'm anti-Semite.
Yeah, yeah.
Even including Jones, probably.
Buffalo Wings and Jonah Goldberg are my two... If I see Jonah Goldberg, I'm going to confront him.
It's sort of like, compare this... I was thinking about this earlier today, and I was just like, what is so...
I'm having a great time, it's a great convention, etc.
But there's something that just felt a little bit off in the back of my head, like, as I'm walking around and I realize what it is.
It's like, this isn't a turning point event.
And, you know, turning point events... That's very nice of you.
No, no, no.
It's like, there's a vibe, it's vibrant, it's looking to the future, and it's like all of the things that You know, that people are trying to say here, but Turning Point just does it.
It just is the future, as opposed to being like, we're the future.
But I do have to say though, Charlie, your choice of the all-seeing eye and the giant pyramid behind you on stage was just, was absolutely masterful.
You want more text messages?
This is a good one.
Sorry, because we were here just blowing you up, man.
We were like, Charlie is going full Illuminati!
No, no, no, no.
This is so good.
You can't do this.
Bro, WTF.
Is this the Illuminati that took this over?
Yes!
Period imagery.
Might consider tweaking.
Now if this means we'll all be able to join, then I'll reconsider what I just said.
But WTF.
And literally I sent a picture of Marjorie Taylor Greene coming out of the pyramid.
Ladies and gentlemen, there was a fight between the Freemasons and the Illuminati.
It's, I mean, I was like, okay, come on, like what? So was my face literally coming out of it?
Yeah, no, no, no, no. You were, you were like the base of the pyramid. What is Twitter saying? Is Twitter commenting
on it?
Um, Charlie, it's, it's, it's not great. It's the imagery.
The speech was fine. I tried to tell people...
Anyway, I thought the speech delivery was... I, I, what I could control... Hey guys, this is great. This is great. I
have the receipts!
I have the receipts!
It's like, hey guys, how about, I don't know, Old Glory!
The red, white, and blue!
The Star Spangled Banner!
I want to say, all kidding aside, I'm very touched to the convention that they had me in a primetime slot.
They didn't have to do that.
They gave me...
Like a lot of time, more than most people.
So that was very touching.
I was on the floor.
Good energy?
You got the most applause out of just about anybody.
So I think it was you and the governor from Virginia.
Yunkin?
Yunkin did great.
Byron got some too.
Byron did well.
Yeah, but Byron did the slow walkout.
He does the Byron thing where he goes, you know.
Oh, that was very slow.
It builds the applause line.
Alright, you can't do that like Byron.
I'm hungry.
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Jack, your book's doing amazing.
Unhumans is doing great, racing up the charts.
By the way, something that I, for my own personal reasons, up until today didn't actually want to make a huge deal out of, but one of the blurbs that we got on the back is actually J.D.
Vance.
Wow, that's a big deal.
And one of the things that, and I, you know, I kind of knew this was in the works, and you know, there were a few names that I was thinking about.
You know, when you're getting blurbs on a book, you Reach out to a few folks that you know, and I was like, I don't want to, you know, use like a personal relationship or something to, you know, ask for that.
But some of the guys said, no, but he really speaks to this stuff.
And I said, well, there's no way that he would do it because, you know, he's under consideration.
We reached out, they said yes right away.
That is Illuminati stuff, though.
Yeah, I had to perform this ritual.
There were a lot of trees.
It's so cool.
That's cool, Jack.
God bless you guys.
Very, very thankful to the RNC that is hosting us so well and having me speak for as long in the primetime slot that they did.
Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com, members.charliekirk.com if you guys want to get a copy of that shirt.
We will see you tomorrow, as always, at 12 Eastern.
Thank you, Parker and the Rav team, for going without food.
You have one more week left.
And thank you to our Phoenix studio.
And by the way, if you guys go to members.charliekirk.com, it's a way to help the frontliners that are doing all this tech work.
They do so much here.
We got Chords, we got Terrell, we got... he's gonna run all over the place.
It's crazy.
So if you guys are like, wow!
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