The Real Kash Patel: Capable, Qualified, and Ready
The media and much of Washington are in a full-blown panic at the prospect of Kash Patel running the FBI. Why? Former National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien worked closely with Patel, and explains his readiness to serve, while reminding America of the many crimes and sinister deeds of the existing FBI cabal. Plus, Eric Metaxas previews a major new biographical film about Christian anti-Nazi hero Dietrich Bonhoeffer.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Kash Patel seems poised to become FBI director, but there is a major effort by the left to try and stop him and thwart him.
Who is Kash Patel?
Let's talk to somebody who worked with him closely in the first Trump administration.
Robert O'Brien, former National Security Advisor Donald Trump, joins us.
Robert, great to see you again.
Thank you for the time.
Robert, who is Kash Patel and is Kash qualified to be FBI director?
Well, it's great to be with you, Charlie.
Thank you, and thanks for all the work you did.
I haven't stopped smiling since the election, and you were a big part of that.
I saw you at all the rallies, and you and your whole team just turned out millions of voters for the president, so thank you.
And that led to Kash Patel being nominated as FBI Director.
There's a character of Kash Patel that the left has tried to portray, which just isn't true.
And I can tell you, Kash worked for me.
He was my Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council for two years.
He did a great job, brought hostages home, helped us get al-Baghdadi, the mastermind of ISIS who killed Kayla Mueller and so many other Americans, and James Sheffoli and others.
He's a highly qualified, I don't want to say young man now, we're all getting older, but he's one of the most qualified people ever to be nominated as FBI director.
There's this myth out there that he's unqualified.
Cash Patel is a public defender.
He was on the criminal defense side of it.
You'd think Democrats would like that, that the president has nominated someone who's got actual criminal defense experience.
He's a prosecutor.
He was at the NSC. He ran counterterrorism for us.
He got Baghdad.
He was personally involved in rescuing hostages from abroad.
Then he went to the DNI and worked for Rick Grinnell, his chief of staff.
And then he went over to the Pentagon at the end of the administration and worked for Chris Miller.
So here's a guy who's got prosecutorial experience, defense experience, house intelligence experience under Devin Nunes, NSC experience, running counter-terrorism, and DOD and ODNI experience.
So he's a superbly qualified man to take this job, and I'm really excited the president nominated him.
What was he like to work with?
Mission-focused, professional, capable.
Describe more about some of the intimate dealings with Kash Patel.
Yeah, it's all those things, Charlie.
But let me tell you a story that not all people don't know.
Kash wouldn't tell because he's too modest.
And Kash has never been accused of being modest.
But in this sense, he really is.
We had a hostage named Austin Tice.
And unfortunately, he's still hostage in Syria.
And we believe the Syrian regime has him.
He's a former Marine reporter.
It was taken 12 years ago.
And one of the things that, when I was a hostage envoy before I became National Security Advisor, we heard from the Syrians that they wanted a senior U.S. official to come negotiate with them in Damascus.
But we had a policy of not sending U.S. officials there for various reasons, one of which was security.
There was no real easy way to get to Damascus.
You had to drive over land for Beirut.
You had to get in a car and go across the Syrian desert.
In other words, Al-Qaeda was there, ISIS was there, the Syrian regime was there.
And I tried to get into Syria as a hostage envoy.
I couldn't do it.
The Syrians wouldn't have me.
But then when I was National Security Advisor, the Syrians said, okay, send in an official.
And we sent Kash Patel and Roger Carstens, our hostage envoy.
Those guys got in an SUV in Beirut, and they drove across that very dangerous, brutal landscape, and they got to Damascus.
They could have been taken by the regime, they could have been taken hostage by al-Qaeda, by al-Nusra, any of these bad actors that are in the region, and they negotiated to get Austin out.
Now, unfortunately, we didn't get Austin home.
But the mission was so dangerous that Secretary Pompeo did not want them to go, and up until the last minute was opposed to it.
But Cash went to the president and said, look, we've got to get this kid out.
He's an American.
It may or may not work, but we've got to take every opportunity we can to free him.
And so he went on that dangerous mission at personal risk.
Never talked about it, never made a big deal about it, but it was something that always impressed the heck out of me.
I can tell you, when I heard it was back in Beirut and back at our embassy, I was, you know, I got called in the middle of the night and I was told he was back safely, and Roger, his compatriot, were back safely.
I was so thrilled, but when people tell me about Kash Patel and who Kash Patel is, I want to look at them and say, hey, why don't you do what Kash Patel did and go into Syria and negotiate with Bashar al-Assad's bad guys and drive through Indian country to get there, and then tell me about Kash Patel.
That is a very powerful story.
Why do you think that there is so much institutional backlash against Cash Patel?
Let me just play a little bit of the sampling here.
I mean, there's so much.
It's just almost hard to believe.
There's montage after montage.
Let's go to this one.
Play cut 13. Yeah, I think, though, when you put, like, a partisan hack in place of the FBI, that doesn't restore faith with the general American public, not just the people who voted for Donald Trump, but the people that he has to represent, which are all Americans.
This is kind of the authoritarian approach of come in, disrupt, without a real plan forward.
We'll see.
Let me just play one more here.
It's just a repeated narrative.
This is Andrew McCabe, who's a criminal, by the way.
Play cut three.
It's a terrible development for the men and women of the FBI and also for the nation that depends on a highly functioning, professional, independent Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The fact that Kash Patel is profoundly unqualified for this job is not even like a matter for debate.
The installation, or the nomination, I guess we should say at this point, of Kash Patel's FBI director can only possibly be a plan to disrupt, to dismantle, to distract the FBI, and to possibly use it as a tool for the president's political agenda.
Robert, your reaction?
That is so rich coming from McCabe.
Here's a guy who did more damage to one of the great institutions of America, the FBI, which I believe in.
The FBI is one of the things that makes America great.
And McCabe and Strzok and Comey, These people ruined the FBI. They turned it into a partisan branch of the Democrat National Committee, the police force of the Democrats.
But they were so inept at what they did, they even took down Hillary Clinton by mistake.
I mean, these people are terrible.
They're untrustworthy.
They're liars.
And for them to come after someone with integrity like Cash Patel, who's got a better resume by far than McCabe has, it's just an embarrassment.
That guy should not be on TV. Yeah, and can you just speak for a second?
You were the former National Security Advisor for President Trump.
You did a wonderful job.
One of your predecessors actually was a victim of an illegal FBI entrapment plot by Peter Strzok from the FBI. Can you speak about that intersection here and remind people, Andy McCabe launched an illegal FBI entrapment plot in the halls of the White House.
Please remind our audience of how your predecessor, Michael Flynn, was a target of McCabe's FBI. Yeah, so I was at the State Department at that time as a hostage.
I was not the...
At the NSC. But what happened is they sent FBI agents over.
And General Flynn's a patriot.
You're the national security advisor.
You'd think the FBI is coming over to brief you.
And I think they used a subrefuge of it being a briefing for Flynn.
So he went and met with these agents.
They entrapped him.
He didn't do anything wrong.
Then they changed the report later that said he didn't do anything wrong and changed it and said he did lie to him.
Totally untrue.
He had no lawyer present.
In fact, Jim Comey laughed about it later and said how funny it was that he entrapped the National Security Advisor.
I mean, can you imagine an FBI director, this guy with the godlike comics, Comey, who destroyed the institution of the FBI? You know, Chris Ray, the current director, is a good man.
I mean, he's tried to do his best to clean up the The culture of corruption that Comey put into place, the partisanship that Comey put into place and McCabe and Strzok and these people that just ruined the institution, but he wasn't able to.
Comey laughed about getting Mike Flynn to bring charges against Mike Flynn and thought it was funny that they entrapped the National Security Advisor.
What a horrible person that is.
Even if there was some basis for the crime, to laugh about it is just absurd.
So these are not good people.
The reason they're so distressed is not because Kaps Patel isn't qualified.
They know he's qualified.
He's a career government attorney.
He had the same jobs they did.
He was a senior House staffer.
He's a senior White House official.
He's a senior Pentagon official.
He's more qualified than they are.
The reason they're so upset, Charlie, It's because he unrooted the Russiagate hoax.
And he's going to come to the FBI and clean out all the partisan crooks and corrupt officials there.
Because the rank and file, this is what people need to understand.
I saw this when I was a hostage.
The rank and file guys are great.
It's this corrupt senior management that he's going to clean out and they're scared to death of him.
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Cash will be super because he's going to expose the corruption and the partisanship at the top of the FBI. Charlie, we need the FBI to get back to going after crooks and criminals and thugs and cartels and fentanyl pushers.
Look, we've had 30,000 Chinese agents come over the border over the last two years.
Military-aged males, unaccompanied.
Among that number, there's got to be at least half or more of them are spies or saboteurs or People's Liberation Army soldiers.
They're running around our country.
Who's monitoring them?
And instead, we've got FBI agents going to PTA meetings or going to Latin masses where practicing Catholics want to enjoy the Latin mass or going after a Republican presidential candidate and former president.
Let's get them off the partisanship and going after GOP activists and parents And have them round up the Chinese spies that have come over our border.
I mean, let's get someone like Kash Patel who's going to restore the luster of the FBI and make it the great institution it once was.
Yeah, I agree.
So, Robert, I want to now just finish our conversation here on the national security threats.
You touched on it beautifully.
What domestic national security threats are there that the FBI hasn't been focusing on?
You mentioned one, Chinese spies.
When the FBI is worried about stupid stuff, not national security, list off what some of the priorities should be as you were the national security adviser.
Well, look, the number one challenge we have, Charlie, and you know this, and I've talked about it on your show a lot, is the People's Republic of China, the Communist Party, and they've got massive numbers of subpoenage agents here.
And they're not just spies in the traditional sense.
Some of them are propagandists and they're people that are trying to influence our politics.
Definitely anti-Trump, for sure.
They've got people who are, you know, agents who are sleeping with the city council people around the country.
I mean, it's a bad situation.
So that's number one.
Number two, we've got a lot of Russians here and we've got to be on top of the Russians and make sure they don't Get the upper hand.
But what really worries me are all the jihadis, all the terrorists that have come over.
We know we've got people on the terrorist watch list that have come over our open southern border.
I mean, that's been a huge domestic national security threat.
And when you include the Godaways, we don't even know who is here.
I'm terrified of an attack like October 7th that took place in Israel, taking place here.
Can you imagine even if you get 10 jihadis who stole deer guns, deer rifles, and handguns out of homes and then descended on a small Midwestern town, the damage that they could do to a town that maybe has one or two sheriffs total population?
And so the FBI's got to get out there, and they've got to round these people up.
And that's what the FBI should be doing.
Leave the PTAs alone, leave Catholic mass alone, and go get the Chinese spies, the Russian spies, and the terrorists who are here.
We've got known Hezbollah cells in America.
We've got Iranian agents all over the place.
There's plenty for the FBI to do that's productive and helps all Americans.
They don't need to be a branch of the Democrat National Committee.
I totally agree.
And I just want to kind of get a final thought here.
The world has kind of been melting prior to President Trump's triumphant election.
The rise of China, the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, what's happening in the Middle East.
Are you confident that President Trump is going to be able to restore deterrence and tranquility to the free world?
A hundred percent, Charlie.
One of the things President Trump just said, and I've been talking about this since the hostages were taken in Israel, American hostages and Americans killed in the October 7th attack.
President Trump came out with a very strong truth social post yesterday saying if the hostages aren't released, you're going to have hell to pay.
And the American people aren't going to put up with it.
I'm not going to put up with it.
Peace through strength works.
I mean, this is what people don't understand.
Peace through strength isn't about building the most aircraft carriers and having the most number of fighter jets.
It's about what American strength, economic strength, military strength, diplomatic strength, cultural strength, it's what that shows to the rest of the world.
When America's strong, the world's safe.
When America's weak, that's very provocative.
You have events like the Ukraine war, you have the attacks on Israel, you have the attacks on Taiwan and the South China Sea by China.
But when President Trump was in office, we didn't have these things.
We were ending forever wars.
We beat ISIS. We had a victory, which was very rare in the Middle East.
And we didn't get any new wars because our adversaries knew not to cross the red line for President Trump.
And that's coming back.
And I'm telling you, the world is pretty excited about what's going to happen on January 20th.
I think our enemies are going to fear us once again, and our allies will respect us.
Thank you so much, Robert O'Brien.
Really appreciate it.
Thank you.
Hey, thank you, Charlie.
Good to be with you.
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Joining us now is a dear friend that I've been meaning to have on for the last week and a half, and he is the life force behind this incredibly important film.
He wrote the book that has been translated into dozens of languages.
I'm sure you've heard of this very popular man, Eric Metaxas.
Eric, great to see you.
Always great to be with you, Charlie.
Thank you.
You know, Eric, only you would I just say, Eric, just host the show.
So next time you come to Phoenix and I'm not there, you should just host the show for a day.
I'd be thrilled.
Listen, you mentioned this, Bonhoeffer.
I want to be real clear up front.
The film is fantastic, but it's not officially based on my book.
The people who read my book like 12 years ago said, we've got to make a film on Bonhoeffer.
It took 12 years.
It's an amazing film.
And I'm doing everything I can to get the word out.
Because you know how it is.
Like, people are distracted.
This is an opportunity.
It's a faith-based film.
It's a film that points to God about a hero.
It's so rare that you get a film like this, you know?
And it's like a big film, like with major Hollywood players who've put it together.
So I'm just screaming to the world, you gotta see the film.
And you gotta see it like this week, because it's been out like three weeks already.
Well, let's play the trailer then.
Let's play this.
It's Cut 56. This is the Bonhoeffer film.
Angel Studios helps deliver it.
Play Cut 56. You will go to England as our spy.
Churchill sees Germany as a whole.
He's afraid that a bomb traced to England would be invasion or worse.
Invasion!
Invasion!
My country was invaded from within.
And the people bowed and prayed To the beyond God they lay
I hear you.
I'm ready to meet my destiny.
I'm ready to meet my destiny.
I'm a lose.
So apparently, I don't know, there was another group called Disturbed that remade the Simon and Garfunkel song.
Anyway, I love Simon and Garfunkel.
So that's a very powerful trailer, Eric.
For those that don't know, why is Bonhoeffer one of the most heroic and underappreciated figures of not just the 20th century, but of Western civilization?
Yeah, that's exactly what I would say, Charlie.
I'll tell you, a lot of people have heard of Bonhoeffer.
A lot of people haven't heard of Bonhoeffer.
But when I wrote my book, it came out in 2010.
I had no clue how the story would speak to people.
I mean, the book changed my life.
It sold over a million copies.
You said it was translated into 20 languages.
There's something about his story that is unique.
You can't really think of a story quite like it.
And when I wrote the book, I was myself astonished because I kind of knew the basics, but I had no idea what I would uncover.
where what I uncovered is amazing.
And you cannot really fail to be inspired by his story.
That's to me why it's so powerful is that anybody who comes in contact with it, you will be inspired to be like him and to want to stand up against evil and to put aside your dead religious faith and to live out your faith heroically in the real world.
That was Bonhoeffer's central message.
And so, you know, that's all through my book.
But to see it, to see his story as a film, it's unbelievable.
I mean, the nutshell version, people say to me, what's it about?
Well, Bonhoeffer is a German pastor who, because of his faith in Jesus, spoke up for the Jews, spoke against Adolf Hitler, and called the church of his day to stand up politically.
That's why the whole movie, the whole story is a message for today.
It's as if, I mean, anybody who watches it, you're going to see present events in the film.
You're going to say, this is happening now.
That's what people said when they read my book.
It's an extraordinary story, specifically because it speaks to where we are now.
And because you partnered with us in making the film Letter to the American Church, that spells out The Bonhoeffer story is happening now.
And the question is, will we get it right?
And, you know, it's one thing if most of us get it right.
But what about everybody?
I mean, I think about all the people that they don't know the Bonhoeffer story or they kind of think like, well, you know, I just go to church and we just preach the gospel.
We preach the Bible.
No, no, no.
The story of Bonhoeffer makes clear that the Bible calls us to stand in the face of evil, not just to be religious, not just to do church.
And to see it summed up in a person's life and to see Bonhoeffer, brilliant as he was, he wasn't merely brilliant.
He lived out what he professed to believe.
He actually lived it out.
So he's a model for every Christian today.
And it's so powerful.
But the fact that they made a mainstream film, this is not a cheesy Christian film made by people who got laid off from the Hallmark Channel.
This is a major, major film with people that have worked closely with Mel Gibson, with Clint Eastwood, on and on and on.
It's spectacularly shot, brilliantly acted.
It's a major cultural moment.
And I say this because I think sometimes we forget They don't make films like this.
The last one I can remember was Chariots of Fire, which is 40 years ago.
They haven't made films like this.
They don't make films like this.
It's an opportunity for a cultural shift where people would say, we want films like that.
So there's tons of advertisements for Wicked and Gladiator and whatever else.
Folks, you gotta see this film, and it's an evangelistic opportunity.
You can bring anybody who doesn't agree with you politically or theologically and just say, hey, it's a great film.
I guarantee you they'll love it.
Variety Magazine.
Variety magazine raved about the film.
Like, mainstream people are saying, this is a great film.
What's the last time a mainstream film points to God?
I mean, it's kind of unbelievable.
And of course, I gotta mention, the lunatic progressive Christians have written all these articles, like, denouncing the film, denouncing me, denouncing...
Like, it's just...
It is really, if you need proof that people are crazy, like this film appeals to everybody.
If you take your liberal friends, they will love the film.
There's no doubt about it.
But, you know, they have to just say things about Christian nationalism, whatever.
No one seeing the film is going to think about any of that stuff.
It's just a great film.
But the lunatics on the left, including Christianity Today, Which has gone over to the dark side, totally funded by Soros.
They denounced it.
It's kind of bizarre.
It's kind of like denouncing a beautiful tree.
What problem could you have?
Everybody just looks and sees something wonderful.
So it's kind of crazy.
But I had to mention that because they've just been saying vicious things.
It kind of blows my mind, actually.
As crazy as things are, I never thought that they would do that.
But many of them have done that.
Yeah, and so Eric, we're coming out of an election season where we wish the church would have done more.
But some pastors did speak out and they deserve credit.
But the fight is far from over.
And the Bonhoeffer courage was really won when he was in the resistance and did not control political power.
And I think these last couple of years under the Biden regime, Bonhoeffer spoke to us in a very personal way to not give up and to rally the church.
However, if we're honest though, Eric, just because we won an election does not mean that we have a spiritual majority amongst the people of the country.
Can you speak to that?
Oh my gosh.
Look, Charlie, this is why I love you because what you just said, I'm saying it everywhere I go.
There are tons and tons and tons of Christians who do not understand that your faith requires you to act heroically, that your faith requires you to put your faith into action.
And if you don't, I believe God looks at that and says, well then, obviously you don't have faith.
You think you're saved by faith?
Good.
Do you have faith?
If you're not acting heroically, if you're not putting your life on the line for beautiful things, for liberty, for truth, if you're not doing that, why do you claim to have faith?
And there are many people in churches where the pastors are basically, they're not preaching this Bonhoeffer message.
They're preaching this, you know, it's kind of like this thin gruel.
It's about evangelism.
It's about sharing the love of Christ.
The love of Christ is obvious when you lay your life on the line, when you lay your career on the line, when you stick your neck out for truth.
That's when people see something compelling and beautiful, And they think there is truth.
There is goodness and beauty in the world.
And I see it in people who live that out.
Bonhoeffer, to me, he's the ultimate example of that.
And so there's so many Christians and so many churches that I would not darken their door.
I mean, a few years ago, I would have thought, oh yeah, we're on the same page.
And I realized, no, we're not on the same page.
And so to me, part of the Bonhoeffer story's power is to wake up people.
I mean, by the grace of God, Only we won this election.
By the grace of God, Donald Trump is not dead, and this nation is not dead.
God saved Donald Trump, and God saved this nation.
We didn't deserve to be saved, but he saved us for his purposes in history, and he wants Christians to be at the center of that, not to be peripheral.
But here's the thing.
If Christians do not step up, and again, I hope this film will inspire people, But if they don't step up, God sometimes does his best work outside the church.
And he can find people, don't tick all the theological boxes.
Believe me, God doesn't care.
He looks at the heart.
And so I just think we're in an amazing moment in history right now.
We have an opportunity in the culture.
I mean, even the film is just an example to me.
Like, when would we see a film like this?
This is an amazing opportunity.
We want to shift the whole culture, not just politics.
Everything.
Just really quick, Eric, remind people of the call to action again, please.
Well, the call to action is people need to see the film this week.
It's going to go out of theaters.
It's been in 1,800 theaters.
That goes away.
The theaters, they want to make money.
They'll put in a Disney film.
People need to see the film this week.
It's not been promoted well, and you've got these sniping liberals saying nasty things about it.
So anybody, please see the film this week.
Tell your friends.
You can go to Angel.com.
They're discounted tickets at Angel.com.
But angels.com, all the information is there.
I really hope people will see this film and make it the hit it deserves to be.
It's a great film.
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Eric, we have not had a chance to do a show together since President Trump's victory.
Can you just reflect on what you've always said?
You've said this clearly and under the really nasty treatment by the media and some in the church.
You have said, and I've agreed, that God has his hand on Donald Trump.
Yeah, first of all, here's what anybody says.
The fact is that there are people that I know who have said that, and I, you know, I don't say this lightly, like when somebody speaks prophetically or says God said, I take that very seriously, because if God didn't say, then you should shut up.
But there are people I know who hear from God, and to some extent I do, and you try to see what is God saying.
Some people kind of hear directly, but I will just say bluntly, Donald Trump, a flawed vessel, a human being like you, like me, has been prepared by God for this moment in history.
He is outrageously talented and gifted.
And God has prepared him for this moment, and not just that, but I believe has his hand on him.
I believe has anointed him to do God's work.
And so that's not really a religious thing, to do God's work, to do good, to do right, to do...
I have a keen sense of that, and I have known that for some time.
And I also know, Charlie, and you know, we're in a war.
It's a spiritual war.
It's a war on every level, but at its heart, it's spiritual.
It's between good and evil.
And God has chosen Trump to be his principal warrior in this season.
And I rejoice.
And the fact that he won, I knew he would win, but we're in a war.
So I didn't know whether he would win, whether it would take weeks to determine it, how much they would try to steal.
We know that they stole other elections.
So we continue to be in a war.
And as you say, and as I say constantly, we have to keep fighting and fighting and fighting.
But the good news is we get to fight.
If he had lost, It's over.
It's over.
God preserved this nation just as God preserved Donald Trump's life for God's purposes.
And those of us who claim to care about what's good and true and beautiful, who claim to love America and freedom, We have to do everything we can, but it is a holy privilege that we get to fight.
It would be like fighting with George Washington for the cause of liberty.
What a glorious thing that we could fight for such a thing as liberty in America.
It's a privilege.
To me, part of the Bonhoeffer film is to exhort people.
You've got to put your faith into action.
You've got to live out your faith.
You've got to stop talking about it and ignoring it in the real world.
God wants you to live it out.
And so I think because of this election, we have an opportunity to do that.
And we're going to spend the next years doing that, and we'll see what God has.
Frankly, I'm excited.
And what a time to be alive.
Just remind the audience one more time about the film, Eric, how people can watch it, see it, the call to action, please.
It's in theaters everywhere across this country.
That will probably end after this weekend.
So I am begging people to see it this week.
See it this weekend.
Tell everyone you know.
You can go to angel.com.
They didn't make the film.
They're the distributors of the film.
Angel.com.
And I know there are still discount tickets at angel.com slash eric.com But it is all over the country.
And while it is in theaters, take advantage of it, drag people who aren't on the same page as you are, and tell the world on social media.
Very, very important that this film would succeed.
Eric, God bless you, my friend.
You're welcome back anytime.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
All right, I want to remind you guys to get your tickets to AmericaFest.
Let me just list off these incredible speakers here.
We have Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump Jr., Ben Carson, Tim Pool, Josh Hawley, Matt Walsh, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Michael Knowles, Nicole Shanahan, Anna Paulina, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Danica Patrick, Brett Cooper, Jack Posovic, Benny Johnson, Riley Gaines, Brandon Tatum, Alex Clark, Tom Homan, my wife, Erica.
George Janko, Roger Stone, Ali B. Stuckey, Paul Saladino, Harmeet Dillon, and huge speakers to be announced tomorrow.
It's only going to get better.
The good tickets are running out, everybody.
Amfest.com.
That is A-M-F-E-S-T.com.
Amfest.com.
It is going to be the event of the year.
Amfest.com.
A-M-F-E-S-T.com.
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