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This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
This is Human Events with your host Jack Posobiec.
Deliver us from evil!
I am taking you all the way from the Netherlands.
And boy, when I stand on a stage like this with these smoke machines and everything, do I feel European.
We don't have anything like this going on in Europe, and this is my first time at MFES, and I could... Yeah.
Yeah.
And it is an absolute honor to be here and to be a part of it.
Seriously, guys.
God bless the United States of America.
When I go to events like this here in your beautiful country and I meet so many extraordinary people like yourselves, I get exactly why they call this country of yours the land of the free and the home of the brave Ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard another edition of human events daily.
I'm I'm your Florida Bureau Chief, Kevin Pasobic.
Coming to you live, December 19th, 2023, Year of Our Lord.
And we have with us a great panel of guests.
To my right, the blessed and highly favored Ava Velar and Blake Neff.
And to the right is some trespasser here.
Does he even go here?
You can't sit with us, Jack.
I got a girlfriend.
She sounds over.
She's in Canada.
That's right.
That's right here.
Let's get you a mic, Jack.
And we just opened with Ava's speech.
She's been a great guest of ours, co-hosting this whole event.
And today is her day.
So we'd like to give her the floor as, you know.
Here's my question, Ava.
This is your first Turning Point event, right?
Yes.
So we've all been to Turning Points.
We've been to stuff.
Tell us So, you've heard of Turning Point from afar, very far, and how did it match up to what you had heard of it?
What were your experiences?
Give us your assessment of Turning Point AmericaFest as an event.
Well, I will tell you, I only heard great things about Turning Point.
You know, I was told that Charlie Kirk built an empire here and I think that that has now been proven to me.
So, it's been an absolute honor, as I said a trillion times before, to be a part of this.
Such a blast to be on stage.
And as the audience just saw, I opened my speech saying, God bless the United States of America.
Man, you guys know how to put a party together.
And even with the political things, you know, we don't have events that look like that.
We don't have the smoke machines, we don't have the fireworks, and we especially don't have crowds like this.
Not yet, because I do need to call Charlie and set up Turning Point EU now.
Blake's been telling us we need to bring back the cash cannon.
Oh yeah, for sure, yeah.
You know, I actually spoke, I was the guy, you know, the infamous Cash Cannon incident, so I was the act immediately after the Cash Cannon, and I believe it was a panel on money and politics, so I was like, perfect.
If it works at an NFL game, we should do it at a Turning Point event.
Simple.
Other than kneeling for the anthem.
Yeah, other than kneeling for the anthem and hating the fans.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Blake, are you saying that you watch sportsball?
No.
Better not be.
Go away.
Breaking the code.
Hey, but Jack, you were just on stage.
Tell us, how did it go?
I mean, this crowd was incredible and here we are four days in.
So this is not day one, not day two, not day three, it's day four.
And At first I was like, Charlie, you put me on day four, come on man, what's going on, right?
But then I realized it was stacked.
Best for last.
But then I realized it was, right, right, the last will be first.
And so I realized it was a stacked deck today.
James O'Keefe, we had Dennis Prager, then me, And then Ted Cruz batting cleanup for all of us.
I said, man, this is a huge event.
It's packed in there.
People are so energetic.
They're so fired up because they know this is it's sort of the calm before the storm.
Now, Ava, of course, and we've talked a lot this week about how you guys just had your election.
You won.
We've got a huge election coming up, by the way, not in 10 months.
But in like 10 days, because the Iowa caucuses, that's our first round of the primary, it begins very fast.
And I mean, what's going to happen here in America is going to dictate what's going to happen to the rest of the Western world.
I mean, you know, they can say whatever they want, but as far as I'm concerned, America is still the superpower of the world.
So if things go well here, that means even more hope for us.
And you know, we set a great example now with Geert Wilders.
Even if our coalition formation process fails, we just heard this morning that he now, in the most recent polls, is looking at 47 seats out of 150.
Wow.
Unheard of for Dutch standards.
And it's 10 more than he got just a few weeks ago in the general election.
So even if they try to obscure... That's right.
What did you say?
It was 1 in 4?
Yeah, 1 in 4.
And so now he's looking at 47 seats out of 150.
I mean, you do the math.
It's crazy.
You know, the genie is... Alright, we're coming up on a quick break, folks.
We'll be back.
We've got Blake, we've got Ava, we've got Kev, we've got Pozo.
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Tucker's a bit ahead.
So he's definitely a solid number one.
It's not as, you know, it's not as one-sided as, you know, the current polling in the primaries for president, but it is a solid number one, and then the Vakes number two, and no one's super close to them.
Ron DeSantis got mid-single digits, and then a good number of write-ins, but no one over a few percent.
What do you guys think about this idea?
A guy like Tucker Carlson, who, and I'll ask Ava because you've done Tucker more than any of us, done the show, except for someone who was behind the scenes on the show, that people know Blake used to do a lot of the writing on there, before he decided to become a famous internet celebrity!
God help us.
Blake is my favorite e-girl.
He has a secret OnlyFans that I'm the only subscriber to, actually.
Only Blake.
All day long, just facts of Rome.
But he's reading it on the screen.
I can go all day.
He goes all day and all night, folks.
And all night.
But Ava, what do you think about this idea?
So you have a guy like Trump, who's not a politician, he's an outsider.
And then a guy like Tucker, who also is not a politician, total outsider.
Right.
Does it work?
I mean, everybody loves Trump and everybody loves Tucker, right?
And so, Tucker himself, when asked about this, said, I am an outsider.
I don't know nothing about that.
I'm a talk show host.
And the thing is, you know, I'm obviously, I'm Tucker's girl.
I owe everything that I do to Tucker.
My first hit on American TV was with Tucker Carlson about two years ago.
So spoiled.
I know, I know, and I've done multiple segments with him, and even a documentary, so I, you know, my loyalty lies with Tucker all the way.
So you do it all the way, you gotta say like, well I've done some, uh, you gotta put the distance, right?
No, not with Tucker!
So I've done some hits with him, but, uh, you know... No, no, no, I'm all the way, I'm Tucker's girl all the way, but anyway, so, you know... That's me and Peb when we're running a game out in town, I'm like, I've never seen this man before in my life!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't play it cool when it comes to Tucker Carlson.
So, you know, the thing with Tucker is everybody loves him.
I am almost at the point where I would say, Tucker, you know, is VP enough for Tucker Carlson?
That's the question I would ask.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
Well, you know what's funny?
So...
I had a chance to spend a little brief time with Tucker, and I've heard him talk about this so much.
He talks about declassifying things.
He's always interested in, like you know, he wants everything.
Aliens, JFK, the truth about the Titanic, the truth about the fall of Rome.
It goes all the way back.
Literally all of it.
And so what I said to him was, I flipped it on him, I said, you know, Tucker, If you were in the White House, you would be right in the saddle seat there, right riding shotgun on the declassification of whatever you want.
He didn't say anything, but I noticed a little twinkle.
A little Christmas twinkle in his eye?
A little Christmas twinkle in his eye.
What about Tucker Carlson for CIA Chief?
There you go.
He applied, I think, at one point, and they were like, no, not you.
You actually care about the country.
We can't let you be in the CIA.
Kev, when you're looking at AmericaFest, you've been to a bunch of these, you've been to other Turning Point events.
What's your analysis of this event as it rides out?
Well, as it rides out, I was looking for some extra energy coming in, and it delivered.
Absolutely.
This year, very much more than the past few.
It's just been full, jam-packed, like you said, full of speakers.
This is like game time for the election coming, whether it's going to be Tucker or Vivek.
Yeah, it's just great to see the turnout.
I think it was, what, 15,000 we had?
Charlie says 13.
I was counting heads.
I got up to 15.
Events everywhere, merch, after parties, like people just hanging out, getting together.
Oh, Kev, I heard about you with the after parties, by the way.
It's only good.
It's only good stuff.
I'm not going to say anything to the Arizona Republic, but definitely don't file a freedom of information request with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office with the name Kevin Joseph Posobiec on it.
I don't know, you might find a little something.
You might find a little nugget there.
Just don't give out my confirmation name.
No, I've told you plenty of times before, Jack, it's like, the one thing about the left is, like, they're always united at the end of the day, like, from the grassroots.
They're very good at that.
Something that I would criticize the right about is like, except for events like this, where we are drawn together and like we can have the ability to unify and like get each other's numbers and like stay connected like on social media, get on each other's sites.
You trying to ask David for a number?
Is that what you're doing right there?
You kind of looked at him and you said that, Kev.
I was like, get each other's numbers.
Get me there and confirm or deny.
Uh-oh.
Can't confirm or deny here, Jack.
Oh, okay.
Oh, they even had a speed dating event here, right?
I mean, like look at that.
The speed dating was like, so they had the line for it, you know, and people are kind of still here, we're filling out.
But the speed dating line where, Blake, you actually won that, right?
No, I wasn't allowed in.
She wasn't allowed in either!
Yeah, so it was students only, there's liability issues, it was a whole thing, I tried to talk to our good friend about that, but, you know, it was what it was, and...
That event though, we had this, the line went from the door back there, all the way down around here, all the way around the back.
I said, is there like a meet and greet?
Is like, is Trump here?
Like, what is this line?
They said, no, it's the line for speed dating.
Yeah, they're just listening to you.
Start a family, be a rebel.
Yeah, rebel, start a family.
Doesn't sound very speedy though.
That's right.
No, no, no, the initial part is.
The initial part is good, because this had always been, and just so, and Blake, you probably know some of these, that, you know, we've been saying this on ThoughtCrime, the greatest hangout podcast of them all.
People say, Nelk Boys, Tim Cass, psh, ThoughtCrime.
ThoughtCrime's the one.
But to your point, Jack, like, you were saying, like, it's almost like people need permission, though, to, like, Talk to each other.
This is a huge issue.
This is a huge issue.
Get each other's numbers or date or anything.
Get a notarized document.
Yeah, it's like you have to- Consent form in there.
Unless you're on a certain app, like people communicate differently on X versus LinkedIn versus Tinder versus Instagram.
Look folks, every app is a dating app if you're good at it.
Being from the centennial generation, it's like you just- Even Google Maps.
What have you been telling your fidelity advisor?
Tell us the secret.
No.
No, that's in the post-Day Game Master Course.
You can sign up for that after your James O'Keefe citizen journalism class.
Or dance lessons.
But Blake, you've talked about this too, that when it comes to Zoomers and dating, it's not so much the women, it's the men, isn't it?
Everyone's very messed up about things.
They're all trapped inside all day.
They just sit on their computers.
They are terrified to go outside.
They're terrified to go to any event.
They're terrified to say hello to anyone.
And it's like, I bet if you ran the numbers, it'll just be, you get these like 25% of people don't have any friends in real life.
They just sit on Discord or something.
Well keep in mind we also live in a time where it's like if you go to the gym and you see a TikTok girl in the gym and she's doing like her stuff and you you look over to see why do you have a ring light?
Why do you have a tripod?
And then suddenly she starts screaming RAIN!
So you just check out.
Everyone's scared at school.
At school they terrify you.
You can't matriculate at a U.S.
college without about five days of propaganda that is like, do not rape!
Do not even talk to anyone.
Exactly.
I saw the rise of wokeness in the Navy right as I was getting out, and you would go through these trainings, and it was like, okay, so don't ever talk to women.
Just because everything is wrong.
And you'll see this now, they're complaining that young women in academia are saying, I can't get a faculty advisor, I can't get mentorship, because all these people are just saying, well, nix it entirely.
We're going back to 1950s norms.
Right, never been in an elevator with a woman alone, all that nonsense.
The feminists did that well for us, eh?
Thank you, feminists, thank you.
I have a little optimism, though.
I would like to say, though, being at a gym in Tampa Bay, sometimes if you get to go and see a woman in the gym and you are polite and well-mannered, they will talk to you.
What's your move?
What's your move in the gym, Kev?
What's your move?
Well, I say, hey, what's your reps?
I'm just saying the example is like with the two dogs, you know, like the two dogs on leashes, right?
And they're barking at each other, right?
But if you take them off the leash, most of the time they won't actually fight each other.
He's saying he does, he squats 135.
Oh, I'm trying to get 1,000 pounds up here.
I need someone to spot me with 135 here.
Come on.
I need someone to spot me.
I need someone to spot me with 135 here.
Come on.
Hey, this guy just told me he put up 245 the other day.
245 bench.
That's okay.
That's okay.
Yeah, it's alright.
Alright.
Okay.
What do you mean, Blake?
Call me when you can get 345.
I will.
Keep going for that.
What's that in kilos?
I have no idea.
35 is like 75.
Like what's that in kilos?
I have no idea. - Just kind of enough.
So 135 is like 75.
You know, 345 is like what?
175, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I mean, truth be told, I never set foot in a gym anyway, so I don't know.
Are you going to help me with anything?
Only Americans are the fattest and fittest people in the world.
I think it's... I've seen it starting in Europe.
I see a little bit of gym culture.
Like, it's nowhere near as widespread, but it's starting.
Folks, we're going through all the... We're really going through everything here.
Apparently, we're fixing all the problems of the world.
We're speed dating.
We're going around.
That's right.
Unleash everybody.
That's not Berkeley Castle, is it?
Take your leash off, live free.
It kind of looks like it, so shout out to the Berkeley Springs Castle, apparently from Far Cry, and we'll be right back here, turning point, closing out AmericaFest.
You talk about influences, these are influences.
And they're friends of mine.
Jack Przellik.
Where's Jack?
Jack?
He's done a great job.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are back here.
Turning Point America Fest, Human Events Daily.
You can see we're breaking some stuff down.
We still got some of the hardcores.
They're still here.
And Blake, here's my question for you.
So you work on the Charlie Kirk Show.
Charlie did the show here.
War Room was before us.
We're doing all shows in the Round Robin.
I gotta say, man, I remember there was a little issue at this last Atcon over the summer and the Secret Service basically wasn't letting people in because they had, we had what, like 12,000 people there and they only had one scanner.
Okay, so this is when, the day that Trump spoke, we had one scanner.
So there's the, you remember, you know what I'm talking about, right?
So there was this line.
All the way around the block in sweltering, humid West Palm Beach, Florida.
Middle of July.
And everybody's like, why won't Charlie let us in?
Why won't Charlie let us in?
Because they didn't understand.
Charlie went out there and he shook the hand of every single person that was waiting in that line.
I came out with the kids.
We did some stuff.
Teddy Roosevelt style.
Teddy Roosevelt style.
Blake, I remember Charlie was a little Less than pleased that day.
Could you compare Charlie then to Charlie at AmFest?
It really is.
I've been here a little over a year and I've done several events and this is by far the smoothest one I can tell.
We're always learning and also Charlie, he actually has a lot in common with Tucker in this regard.
He's just always going, always there.
Even if stuff is going very difficult behind the scenes, he gets out, shakes everyone's hand, acts very upbeat, very energetic.
That's the best thing he has going for him, this colossal amount of energy.
We were just talking the other day, he's just like, you know, if everyone took the Sabbath like I do, take one day a week, and then go super hard the other six days, you can get so much done.
And look at this, he got 13,000 maybe more people to come to an event, and he just turned 30 this year.
And he'll talk about this, you know, you can look at 2017 or 2015, you know, get a few dozen people to show up and we've built all of this up in a very short amount of time.
Actually, one of his, you know, Ava, you may appreciate this because one of Charlie's secret weapons, we talk about it a little bit on the show recently, one of his secret weapons, Wim Hof, he does the cold plunge every morning.
Really, some Dutch glory!
I mean, it makes me understand why he's so resilient then, and if you're on your feet and you're doing this type of work, such a high-intensity life, you need to take care of your health.
And if he's doing the Wim Hof stuff, then that makes sense that he never gets sick!
So Ava, are you a cold plunger?
Oh, I have to get into it.
You know, I will say though.
You've done it.
I lived on a houseboat, Jack, on the Dutch Amsterdam canals and I would go swim in the canal.
I don't know what that says about me.
How clean is that?
It's not super clean.
Kevin jumped into the canal in Zurich.
Oh yeah, well in Zurich it was a little better.
Kevin jumped into the canal in Zurich.
Oh yeah, well in Zurich, it was a little better.
And like Geneva was a deep blue.
He's like, "It's deep blue, I'm going in." It was a swim club, he's just jealous.
In all fairness, I was in a part of the town where we were close to the river, so I had a little bit more clean water coming in.
But still, I mean, you know, like I'm still standing, you know.
A little bit of dirty water never killed nobody.
Would you go in would you go in in like the winter months?
We did, we did.
I mean, you know, not for too long because I don't want to freeze to death, but it was fun, yeah.
So it's like a real total cultural thing out there.
It's Jack, I'm a Viking, you know?
Oh, there you go.
Shieldman with a far right, from Europe.
There you go.
So what are some of the health benefits?
Like, what is it?
Because Charlie's like, Charlie's always like, you mentioned, you know, Blake, you know, you mentioned Cold Plunge to Charlie.
He'll go off for like 30 minutes.
But is it legit?
I think it's just exposure to, well, I mean, in this case, extreme cold, but in general, you know, that was the problem with the pandemic, of course.
They all made us, like, disinfect our hands, and so we would never get exposed to anything, but if you never get exposed to anything, the moment you do, you get super sick.
It reduces inflammation, just like sports athletes, like pitchers, they put ice packs on their arms after they pitch.
The cold reduces inflammation.
It closes up your pores, too.
Like, instead of exfoliation, it closes your pores.
But, uh, yeah, it reduces, like, initial, like, emotions.
If you're, like, having anxiety, depression is one of the things they claim cold showers are benefits for, as well as just physically, like, reducing inflammation.
Wait, I don't remember if Charlie said that on air or off, but he said the same thing about depression.
Yeah, he says like, once you've done a cold plunge, you can't feel depressed the rest of the day, I think is what he claimed.
Others say it's almost as prudent as like a, you know, a good strong cup of coffee in the morning, like a cold shower.
It seems to basically be credited with everything, and since he's the one who does it, I suppose he's probably correct.
And from our perspective, Jack, with Catholics, it's an aesthetic discipline that we do in like the Exodus 90 program.
Shout out to anybody doing that this coming Lent, Exodus 90.
Yeah, taking cold showers, you offer it up, because everybody just wants to be Comfortable, take a hot shower.
But, uh, yeah, I kind of make fun of the guys down in Florida because the groundwater doesn't get much past Lake 60, but up north, Pennsylvania, probably Amsterdam for sure, but...
Yeah.
I'm always kind of amazed that with the Wim Hof method, I mean, this was proven somewhere in the 19th, right?
So he went to a Dutch university and they were like, okay, we're going to test this man.
And the idea was that he could self-regulate his temperature, right?
And it was actually scientifically proven.
And now I think to myself, probably in this day and age, no university would ever go and have that formula.
Oh, yeah, yeah, right, right, right.
Because they wouldn't want big pharma to miss out on a few extra billions a year by just being able to self-regulate.
So I'm always surprised that that information is out there for us, because usually they try to suppress that.
Bacteria grows in heat.
So if you don't have heat, then the bacteria dies for many infections and diseases.
It's like the health benefits-- Ivermectin works, too.
It's like the health benefits of fasting, which are pretty well attested.
But it'll almost never be recommended, because it's literally free.
You don't need to spend anything to do it.
In fact, you save money because you're not buying food.
Or using hot water.
So Blake, you're not really a cold plunge guy, right?
But you're a big into fasting.
Oh yeah, for sure.
I remember I asked you about this once on ThoughtCrime.
What is your latest record?
I think my record was seven and a half days.
Seven and a half days.
So how do you... So what do you do?
Really?
Is it a black fast or what do you do during the seven and a half days?
Once you get going, it's like a stone rolling downhill, so the hardest day is the first one.
And after that, like, you don't really feel hungry.
It's mostly just...
The way you've broken up your habits so much and you're always thinking, I should eat right now.
But what will you have?
Will you have anything?
What do you do?
Just water and electrolyte.
I get like a zero calorie electrolyte thing.
That's exactly what I do when I'm fasting.
I've done like two and a half days, which was recent and it actually had to do because I was like on a flight and there was a time change and I just didn't eat.
I just didn't eat, and then I didn't eat the one day, and I didn't eat the next day, and then I just kept going, and I just kept not eating, and we were on the flight back from Eastern Europe recently, and I did about two and a half, and it was the same way.
Zero calorie, electrolyte drinks, because when you start to feel those hunger pangs, that's really just electrolyte craving.
That's really all it is.
You keep that, you keep going.
It was like, you Americans are insane.
No, I mean, the fasting is interesting, but then I hear conflicting stories about whether it's good for young women in their fertile, you know, life, period of their life.
They say no, and I don't know, you know, so I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna eat rice.
Well, there's always the Black Fest on Good Friday as well.
Good Friday's the Black Fest.
Wait a minute, I see a friend of mine over there.
I don't know if we could get him on.
Who's that?
Kev, you think we can grab him?
Who?
Who?
Look right behind you.
Who's there?
I don't see anybody.
He's coming over, folks.
He's coming over, ladies and gentlemen, here at AmericaFest.
You never know who's going to come up.
Who's going to be there.
He's on the phone.
He's off the phone, ladies and gentlemen.
Jake Angeli.
The American Shaman is here, folks.
Ava, our first interview.
He's also our last interview.
What's going on, Jake?
Great to have you.
How are you doing?
Hey, I'm good.
I'm good.
Glad to be here.
Thanks for having me.
Speaking of shamanism, we were just talking about fasting and detoxing, cold plunges.
Do you do any of that?
Or no Wim Hof or anything?
Yeah, dude.
Well, how do you think I stayed warm?
Here, here.
Oh, thank you.
How do you think I stayed warm in D.C.
in January with no shirt on?
I see.
Breathing techniques.
Wim Hof, yeah, dude.
I see.
Nah, really?
Yes.
That's amazing.
How do you think I did it?
I don't know.
I thought you were just being facetious.
No, dude.
Yeah.
I studied Wim Hof.
I studied the techniques and it doesn't just work in cold.
It actually also works in heat.
So you can actually regulate your body temperature so you don't overheat.
Did you get any... I wanted to say... Did you get any hikes this time here?
Oh, dude.
Oh, yeah.
Just over the past couple days?
Oh, no.
Oh, okay.
No, no.
I was going to say.
Well, because Wim Hof, he claims going up Everest in shorts and stuff.
Oh, yeah.
In shorts.
Yeah.
I believe him.
What's that?
So tell me, what do you think?
We got two minutes left in the break.
What'd you think of AmericaFest?
Oh dude, it was great.
It was awesome.
The vibes were high.
The amount of people that were here, they were young, old, rich, poor, gay, straight, black, white, you know.
We even had a shaman.
Yeah, yeah.
He was around here somewhere.
He looks just like you.
Oh yeah?
He must be a good looking guy.
Guys, if we're close to the break, I'm leaving you guys.
I have to go catch a flight, so... No!
Oh, I know, but I've had a blast and I've been here from the very beginning and I just want to take this moment to thank Jack here for all of the opportunities and also the wonderful time that we've had together hosting the show.
It's been a great, great honor.
Thank you so much, Jack, for that.
Well, thank you for coming all the way from Amsterdam just for this and she comes out, by the way, We have some pre-recorded stuff that hasn't even been released yet.
Some interviews, special things that'll be coming out over the Christmas break.
Ava, what are you doing for Christmas?
I am finally going to go back home and celebrate with my family.
I haven't seen them in a while.
I'm all over the place, just traveling.
You know, I'm a very blessed individual that I get to do all of this stuff, but it would be nice, it will be nice to just be back home with my family, the people that matter most to me, and focus on the birth of our Lord and Savior.
Are you skating over there?
I don't think it's freezing over there right now, so I don't think I'm going to be doing any of that.
Tell us some Dutch family Christmas traditions.
Oh, there you go.
Dutch family Christmas?
Well, I mean, it depends, but obviously I'm gonna go to Mass, so that is still somewhat, I hope at least, a Dutch family tradition.
What does your family do?
Oh, we, I mean, we do Christmas gifts, obviously.
We sit together, we cook.
I like to cook for my family, so we're gonna go do that, and then, you know, one side of the... We actually have two Christmas holidays, officially, like in the Netherlands.
We have Christmas Day 1 and Christmas Day 2, so you can meet both sides of the family.
It's an official thing.
It's an official thing.
The 25th, we go to one side.
On the 26th, we go to the other side of the family.
It's very practical.
You know, we're practical-minded people.
Ladies and gentlemen, the great Ava Blar.
She's flying all the way back to Holland right now.
Let's give it up for her.
Thank you so much.
I think, I think we might be seeing a little more of her on Human Events Daily and maybe in the U.S.
in general.
Would you guys like that?
Would you guys like that?
Ava, what an honor.
Just what an honor.
Merry Christmas.
Thank you, guys.
Thank you.
God bless all of you and God bless everybody at home.
Jack, where's Jack?
Where's Jack?
Where is he?
Jack, I want to see you.
Great job, Jack.
Thank you.
What a job you do.
You know, we have an incredible thing.
We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting policies.
Merry Christmas, ladies and gentlemen.
We need to be saying Merry Christmas today.
You could say it any day of the year, by the way.
All around, we've got Libby Emmons with us.
We're back here, Human Events Daily, live.
AmericaFest is kind of in its closing stages.
Libby...
Talk to me about the importance of holding events like this in this movement.
Why, you know, because we live, we're an internet movement, right, by and large, and we're an internet society by and large today.
Why is it important to hold these events like this here in Meatspace?
There is nothing like meeting people in person and getting to know people in person.
I have had great experiences the past couple of days meeting people that I've only spoken to online.
I met Billboard Chris!
He's huge!
He's a giant!
I had no idea!
He's a very tall man.
Who else is big as Prager?
Prager's a giant.
He's like 6'5".
But I think it's so great.
There's nothing like making friends in person and it gives everybody an opportunity to come together and to actually be friends as opposed to just, you know, random pixels online.
So it's essential to create a movement and to you know, have people go back out into the rest of the country.
You can see him over here.
I don't know if you can see him on camera right now.
I have not seen anyone take more selfies with someone than the American shaman Jake Angeli.
People are still doing it.
They've been asking him like crazy the whole, but every time it's around, let me get a selfie, let me get a selfie, let me get a selfie.
And it's like to see how he took such a negative smear campaign, which they ran on him, and then turn it into such a blessing and power and just own it, right?
And he I think that's, you know, I could even say it's like he reclaimed his power.
Yeah, I think that's definitely true.
But we're just talking about people we met.
Who else we got?
We got James Lindsay's back there.
Well, you had a gentleman on stage today when you were giving your talk.
We did, yeah.
That was really amazing.
And a big surprise.
Mike Cassidy came up.
And here on Human Events, we've been talking about this a lot, the satanic statue which went up in the Iowa State House.
There was an individual who came in and tore it down.
Yes.
You know, I had called, and people remember this, I had been calling for Ron DeSantis to do it, and I said, Ron, you know, you want to win the Iowa caucus, boom, there's your path, right there.
Go get it, right.
Go get it, pick up the free money.
Just stand up for God, stand up for our values, stand up for our way of life, and he just, number one, he wouldn't do it.
The number two, he blamed it on Trump.
He's like, well, Trump, you know, like, like this weird, like, IRS code, which is like not set by Donald Trump.
Like, I don't think he wrote the IRS code, but you know, we'll check community notes to find out about that.
And, uh, And then Michael Cassidy just walks in and tears its head off, and is like, no.
Just, how about no?
And I love that energy, so it was amazing to bring him up on stage.
The crowd was electric.
I'm just glad we were able to keep it a surprise for so long.
I was totally surprised.
I was in the auditorium, I was watching your speech, and I was like... I didn't even tell you.
No, you didn't even tell me, and I was like, great, nicely done.
Compartmentalization, Libby Edmonds.
Which is true, which is real compartmentalization, because technically Libby is kind of like my boss.
At human events, because you're the editor-in-chief.
But we just had to keep it as tight as we could because I didn't want to get out on X. I didn't want to get out publicly anywhere.
We actually flew him in.
He got in last night.
Nice.
And we banged out in the interview.
And I gotta tell you, because I had to keep Bannon and Charlie away from him.
That was the big thing.
Because I knew that if they'd been about him, Steve would be like, bring him up, bring him up, bring him up, bring him up.
You know, or Charlie will, you know, Charlie have him on.
It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
So when are you gonna, so you interviewed him too, for the show.
We did interview him, um, that will be out.
I'll have to talk to Producer Faz.
Producer Faz!
Where's Producer Faz?
He's talking, he's not even listening to the show.
He's not even paying attention.
He's not even listening to the show!
Producer Faz, we're calling you out!
No, I said, when, when does the, so when does, when does Cassidy air?
Thursday?
Yeah, it looks like we're shooting for Thursday.
We're shooting for it.
It might change.
This Thursday.
Alright, he says this Thursday.
No change.
Thursday.
That's going to be exciting.
I can't wait to hear about that.
We've got a really special one with Foz.
What about tomorrow?
How much time in the show do we have left?
Alright, we'll tell you at the end of the show.
Stick around and be surprised.
What can I say?
Some of the carney's rubbing off.
We'll tell you at the end of the show, folks.
If you stick around at the end of the show, we will give you a look ahead as to who tomorrow's interview is on the program.
But Libby, you were telling me more about just some of the experience that you had.
You know, what is it like going from, because you run the Postmillennial and humanevents.com.
But it's it's it's largely a it's it's a remote operation but there's no offices there's no we had an office we got rid of it and you know what is it like coming to an event like this and then realizing that like hey guess what people actually read all of those words and see all of those stories how does that feel?
I, you know, it's actually pretty amazing and one thing that I really love is when the writers for Post Millennial are here and the editors and they're going around and people are like, oh I loved your work, I love your work.
People are saying that, you know, to Hannah Nightingale who's been with us a long time.
I didn't even know Hannah was coming!
It was so cool!
Yeah, yeah!
And I love seeing, I love seeing that.
I love seeing them get the The praise that I think they are due.
And I love hearing the stories from people of the articles that we've run that have affected them personally, that they've taken to heart.
There were so many people who came up to me and said, and whether it's J6ers or people who had issues or just whatever it was that came up to me and said, or it was the What was the gentleman's name?
He got arrested coming out of Lady Ballers.
Oh, yes.
I also do not remember his name exactly, but he was fascinating.
He came up to me and said, you were the first people that told my story.
Yeah.
You were the first people that told my story.
And I remember it was post-millennial.
And people remember that stuff.
They really do.
Do you know what it is?
So we do work remotely.
We don't even always see our co-workers, except for a couple of times a quarter, really.
And the work that we do, we do the work for the readers, right?
That's what we're here for.
We're here to give voice to those 72 million people who are essentially ignored by corporate media, who don't have a voice in most of culture.
And we're here for them.
That's our mission.
That's what we're here for.
One of my favorite things about Postmillennial, too, though, so much of the original reporting is just how people are being mistreated.
Yeah, and that's such a huge deal.
Whether it's students, whether it's women, whether it's churches, whether it's defendants, people being brought up on completely, okay, I'm going to have to say it, trumped up charges.
I'm like, is there any way around that?
No, there really isn't.
It's sort of a perfect way to say it.
English language is the way.
I've found that even a lot of conservative media, they'll say, oh, we don't want to get into that story that's too controversial, or oh, this hasn't shaken out yet.
Like Nick Sandman.
They're like, oh, I don't want to offend Nick Sandman.
Kyle Rittenhouse early on.
It was like, oh, I don't want to thank Kyle Rittenhouse early on.
But the post-millennial and now human events and the post-millennial have always been there for these stories.
Yeah, that's really important.
That's what our mission is.
We came up in 2018, really focused on the culture wars, and really focused on exposing some of the lies and misrepresentations in corporate media, and we're still doing that.
And that's such a huge thing that we do.
It's very important to us, and I think it's important to our readers.
And that's one thing that's great about coming out to Turning Point.
We can hear that.
Are you able to reveal anything that post-millennial and human events have planned for 2024?
Now you're putting me on the spot.
I am!
I so am!
We have a lot of great stuff coming.
This is my job, by the way.
Yeah, I know.
That's what you do very well.
You do that well.
But no, I can't reveal anything that we have coming.
But we do know that, of course, election coverage... That's a huge component of what we're going to be doing.
...will really drive... By the way, this isn't about tomorrow, but I do plan to go to Iowa.
Oh really?
When are you going to Iowa?
For the caucus.
Nice.
So that'll be in, I guess, three weeks time.
Yeah, that's very soon.
So we plan to go there and it's, you know, we were just talking about before you came up the Wim Hof experience.
You don't even need to go into the water in Iowa in winter to get the Wim Hof experience.
You just walk down the street.
And that's what it is.
You know, it's funny, and Tanya Tay actually spent some time living in Iowa when she first came.
It's a long story.
She was living in Davenport, Iowa.
And I asked her, I said, sweetheart, so I'm going to go into Iowa.
I'm going to be going there for the caucuses.
Do you want to come?
And she said, when is it?
I said, January.
She's like, no!
There's something about the wind and the cornfields and the flatness where it is just like piercing.
Yeah, I bet it is.
Absolutely piercing cold.
They actually built in downtown Des Moines, they have a skywalk just so they can walk from building to building so you don't have to walk outside.
So that's something I will reveal for now that I do plan to go to Iowa.
Oh, that's exciting.
Are you going to do shows there and stuff too?
We will.
We will.
Because here's the thing.
People think that the election is 10 months away.
No, it's like 10 days away.
Yeah, it's instant.
It's happening right away.
These votes will be cast.
Human events will be there.
I'm working long hours.
I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
Wait, really?
Hold up, folks.
We have breaking news.
Libby Emmons has a story that she's about to break.
Would you guys like to hear some breaking news right now?
Libby Emmons, lay it on us.
Linda Sarsour, who was an activist and with the Women's March, was arrested.
Linda Sarsour just got arrested!
Let's go!
She was arrested in the Capitol today after staging a massive U.S.
Capitol?
Yeah, protest and demonstration.
Okay, so obstruction of congressional proceedings.
Interaction.
Hold her right next to the gulags, right next to the J6ers.
I want her in there.
I want her treated just the same.
I want Linda Sarsour treated the same as everybody.
You know, it was, and I'll give credit to where it's due, Laura Loomer, was one of the first people to call out the Women's March and Linda Sarsour and the fact that she was like, you guys have an anti-semitism problem.
They sure do have an anti-semitism problem.
Nobody wanted to hear it.
Nobody wanted to hear it.
But now there she is in the Capitol today.
Marjorie Taylor Greene broke the news on Twitter and she was very excited to call it an insurrection.
Amazing.
It's really interesting.
It's just so amazing.
And you look at the people we got.
We got, we got Briggsuit.
I saw we got Billboard Chris back there.
Yep.
Chrissy Meyers here.
What's up?
We got everybody.
We got everybody.
We got everybody still here.
Sticking around, folks.
We're sticking around.
We're closing out AmericaVest.
You know, I think... I think this might actually... Who's here?
Oh, James Clear.
What's up?
So we've, this is actually, this might be the last segment that we do live for the year.
That's really amazing.
It's been an incredible year on Human Events.
It's, I would say it's a building year.
Yeah.
This was the year that got us into the right position for, it's like, it's like a chess match, right?
So you, before you make your, your attack run, you know, you want to get all your positions very carefully and, you know, all your, all your pieces.
Right.
Carefully in position.
So your pawns, your knight, your bishop, your rook.
Was there a favorite assignment that you had this year?
I mean, you've had so many fascinating things that you covered.
A favorite story of all this year.
the year, stories we covered, the story.
Favorite. - Favorite. - A favorite story of all this year.
Well, I gotta say it folks, you know, my, all right, you said favorite story.
Maybe not the most impactful.
Maybe not the most serious story of the year.
I gotta go.
And BrickSuit knows.
BrickSuit knows.
If I have to say what personally, the story that was the most fun this year, it was BootGate.
I'm telling you man that was and it wasn't even so much the the story itself is the way they reacted just freak out and Tucker talked about them last night zero-sum game and just just twisting these guys around and bouncing them up and it was you know it was it was it was a Personally, I thought that was a lot of fun.
I thought that was fun too, and I remember being on TimCast, and we were talking about BootGate, and we all just started looking for the boots online, and we found them!
We found them for sale.
And they have these massive, and by the way, I hear it on good authority.
I have it on good authority that he specifically goes around telling people that these, that I need to wear these boots because they make me 5'10".
Right?
It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where George would not take off his Timberlands.
Right, and then George actually takes the Sharpie to the Timberlands, and I think they're at like a wedding in India, right?
They're in a wedding in India, and he will take his Timberlands off.
That's the Backwards episode, right?
Yeah, that's the one.
That's the Backwards episode, and Kramer's got the lollipop, and it gets bigger, and they ask him, are those Timberlands with Sharpie all over them?
And you look at it, no, it was a fun story.
Really, the primaries have just been, to tell you the truth, the primaries have been a little bit of a disappointment.
They haven't really been very energized, yeah.
I will say one thing that I really thought was interesting is watching the sort of transformation, I will say, of Vivek Ramaswamy.
Oh, that's interesting, for sure.
And being able to cover that in real time, how he kind of went from this guy who was just sort of Just sort of an anti-woke guy to now being like a full-on based truth teller.
And I love that so much.
I love breaking stories about that.
I love breaking stories about the World Economic Forum.
For sure.
What Klaus Schwab is up to.
Going in and just being proven right about so many things when it comes to globalists.
We got K-Poso.
We got K-Poso here.
You know, glad to see him.
And you know, we got to take the kids over.
We got to take the kids to Europe this year.
That was really interesting.
We did CPAC Japan as well.
Seaback Japan was very cool.
We went to Lourdes in France, and for Catholics, you know that Lourdes is very, very, very important.
It's been a year, but that being said, 2024 is everything.
Yeah, it's a huge deal.
It's really everything, and I don't know...
How it'll go, but it may be the final battle for our republic, it may be the final battle for this stand of freedom, for this brand of populism, and if populism will succeed, it's going to do so in 2024.
And I said I would announce this for people who stuck around, so I might as well, that tomorrow on the show, we have a sit-down, in-person, full interview With Tucker Carlson.
I'm stoked for this one.
I cannot wait to see it.
It's in the can from yesterday.
And look, we get into it all.
And Tucker and I have actually, you know, we've been chatting about it for a while, and we finally were able to make it happen.
AmFest miracle and all that.
Folks, did you have a good time at AmericaFest?
Are you ready?
There's Michelle.
She put all of this together, by the way.
People don't know about Michelle Todd.
Folks, God bless you.
God bless your families.
God bless this country.
And can I just say, if we're going to go out on something... We wish you a Merry Christmas.
We wish you a Merry Christmas.
We wish you a Merry Christmas.
That's what it's all about, folks.
That's what it's all about.
Be good to each other.
Merry Christmas, Libby Evans.
Merry Christmas, Jack.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, Bricksuit.
Merry Christmas, Billboard.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
Merry Christmas, Kevin Pasovic.
Merry Christmas, Christy Meyer.
Merry Christmas to it all.
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