00:00:47.000I was down in Orlando the past week for AFPAC, and I had to get there a little bit before and a little bit after as well.
00:00:57.000I left on Tuesday, I got there, and the conference was on Friday, and then I stuck around for a little while, had some things to take care of, and now I'm back tonight doing the show.
00:01:09.000And we've got a lot to talk about, lots to get into.
00:01:51.000And also be sure to check out the official Telegram channel of America First, which has been very helpful the past week.
00:01:59.000If you've been following it, all the latest information on AFPAC, which is now past, obviously, but also the show and everything else that's going on in the America First universe, that's t.me slash afupdates.
00:02:15.000So make sure you're following both of those.
00:02:18.000Also, be sure to check me out on Gab, gab.comslash realneckjayfuentes.
00:02:22.000Sign up for the email list, which is down below.
00:02:25.000And then also, I think some of you guys may have seen this if you're following the Assistant Groyper Twitter account or if you're following the America First Updates Telegram channel.
00:02:37.000And I'll tell you if you haven't seen it yet, but we have reopened the internship program application.
00:02:46.000And we did this because AFPAC was a huge.
00:02:49.000Success and it wouldn't have been a success without our interns.
00:02:53.000We had, I don't know the exact number, but we had two or three or maybe four dozen interns, somewhere in that range.
00:03:02.000We had a significant number of interns show up to AFPAC providing all kinds of different services.
00:03:08.000We really couldn't have done it without them.
00:03:10.000We had interns designing our merch, designing our poster, all the graphics.
00:03:16.000We had interns making videos, providing security, doing technical support, all kinds of things.
00:03:25.000And in light of what a big success that was and what a game changer the internship program has already been, it's only been around for a little bit more than a month and it's made a huge difference.
00:03:36.000So, we've opened up the application again, and you can actually get the application on this site.
00:03:42.000If you scroll down a little bit, it's under the video player where you could find the email list and other things like that.
00:03:49.000It's actually on this webpage that you're looking at right now.
00:03:53.000So, if you're interested in joining the team, We ask you to fill out the application, and we are not asking you for personal information.
00:04:02.000Please don't put personal information in your application.
00:04:06.000We want your email so we can get in touch with you and follow up and things like that.
00:04:11.000And eventually, if you get all the way through, then we do need some information.
00:04:15.000But at least as far as the application goes, we don't want any of that.
00:04:49.000And we got, I think, well over 100 interns, and all of them extremely qualified lawyers, accountants, political people, video editors, programmers like everything you can imagine.
00:05:01.000So we're opening it up again now that we've assimilated, I think, more than 100.
00:05:43.000Well, initially, it was a struggle even to get back on a live stream because, you know, to be honest, I had been working on a streaming alternative for about a year.
00:05:53.000You know, I had been working on that since about January 2020.
00:05:57.000But it still wasn't where it needed to be to launch after the Capitol.
00:06:09.000We wound up getting a very temporary solution up by that Friday.
00:06:13.000We didn't go a full week offline, we were able to get it up by the Tail end of the first week, Band Off D Live, and we were messing around at that point with embedding a YouTube video, and it was just a video player on kind of an ugly site.
00:06:53.000We've been tampering with a lot of different strategies, experimenting with a lot of different things based on cost, privacy, ability to handle the kind of volume that we do, you know, reliability, quality.
00:07:06.000We've been testing many different options based on a number of different criteria, and we're approaching probably a final solution very shortly.
00:07:15.000But that's, of course, as far as like streaming technology goes.
00:07:20.000And in the meantime, we've been working on live chat.
00:07:22.000We've been beta testing it for a few weeks, and now we finally launched it.
00:07:40.000I've never even seen anything like that, but we're using Telegram for the user accounts to, you know, people log into the live chat using their Telegram account, and that serves as the user account to use.
00:07:55.000And that actually is a temporary solution, too.
00:07:58.000We're working on our own live chat, but just to get it up and running quickly, we're using Telegram for now.
00:08:04.000And we also put in place a little bit of a warning because what we found in the testing is that if you log in with your Telegram account, and if your Telegram account doesn't have privacy settings set so that people can't reach out to you publicly, and if you don't change your username, people might be logging into their account using their real name and not having their account secured.
00:08:28.000So we did put up a little bit of a warning, a little bit of a preface, and I'll warn you right now.
00:08:33.000Just while you're watching the show, that if you use the live chat, make sure that you go into your Telegram account and make sure that your privacy settings are such that people cannot message you.
00:08:45.000You know, random people can't message you, random people can't see your information.
00:08:49.000And also make sure that you change your username to something other than your real name if you use Telegram under your real name.
00:08:56.000But it's very exciting because that's obviously a big component of live streaming, it's almost not even a live stream without the live chat, it could just be a regular show.
00:09:06.000You know, or rather, regular video upload on YouTube or BitChute or whatever.
00:09:12.000So, the live chat has always been a quintessential part of any live stream and especially America First.
00:09:17.000So, I think that when people saw the live chat go up on Monday and now tonight, it's like such a great feeling because it finally feels like normal again, you know?
00:09:28.000I got deplatformed from like everything.
00:09:31.000I had already been deplatformed from a lot of things prior to the Capitol siege, but after the Capitol siege, I got deplatformed from everything.
00:10:05.000Can we get some 07s in chat for the dev team?1.00
00:10:08.000Wouldn't be possible without them because I don't know anything about computers.0.99
00:10:13.000And I'll tell you, you know, when I started to develop the streaming platform last year, I thought to myself, you know, maybe I'll try my hand at this computer stuff.
00:11:29.000But the goal, of course, for the site is full functionality, features other streamers on par with like Trovo, DLive, Twitch, you know, any other competitor.
00:11:42.000The end goal is to have me and Jaden and Vince and Steve and Jake Lloyd and Ralph Rattorn and Bryson and everybody.
00:11:51.000We want everybody to be on this platform eventually so that you can watch all your favorite streamers, all the America First people.
00:11:59.000And the goal is that it's going to look, feel like any other site, have all the features, and, and this is the critical part, it's got to be censorship proof.
00:12:11.000It can't be like these other ones where they rake in a lot of investor money and they put something up and it's on like Amazon web hosting.
00:12:20.000And by the way, we're not taking, I mean, We may take investor money.
00:12:23.000We're open to it, but we haven't gotten a dime for this project.
00:12:26.000You understand that this streaming site, the developers or volunteers, and all the money that's being poured into it is my money, okay?
00:12:34.000I keep seeing, like on 4chan and I keep seeing on other sites, people in the initial iterations of the site when it was using an embed from YouTube, it was an embedded YouTube live stream or Twitch live stream.
00:12:49.000I saw a lot of people, you know, bots, shills, people that don't like the show, they were saying, Wow, Nick's big streaming site is just an embedded YouTube video.
00:12:59.000Those investors got, you know, scammed out of their money.
00:13:04.000Please, I wish there were investors pouring money to the America First streaming platform.
00:13:09.000It'd probably make it a little bit easier, but it's me and it's my money, and the people that are working on the site are volunteers.
00:13:18.000I offered to pay them, and, you know, they're doing it to donate their time, you know, as opposed to their money, which is, you know, of course, we appreciate that.
00:13:27.000But I always saw that on 4chan and on Twitter.
00:13:30.000Turns out his streaming site is just a YouTube.
00:14:12.000The Capitol riot, I mean, it really knocked everybody on their ass in a big way because all this stuff that we've been talking about for years, we expected to happen later and gradually.
00:14:24.000The total deplatforming, persecution from the federal government, all that kind of stuff, we all knew that was.
00:14:32.000Coming down the pike eventually, but we thought it would happen later and gradually, that it would onset incrementally, and that wouldn't begin for a while.
00:14:42.000Because I had always said that ultimately the show would get banned from everything.
00:14:46.000But just for it to happen before Trump left office, after what was supposed to be just like a regular stop the steal protest, very unexpected.
00:14:55.000So it really pushed us back, but it's just been a matter of time.
00:14:59.000You know, it took us like, what, two months to come back from that and totally overcome it?
00:15:04.000I mean, we're not totally overcome, but.
00:15:41.000Is in the past and not the future is a big deal for me, probably in a way that none of you will even understand.
00:15:47.000Because, of course, you know, I would come on the show and before every show, I'd say, hey, you know, remember to buy your AFPAC tickets and whatever.
00:15:55.000But the planning behind the scenes for AFPAC was a beast.
00:15:59.000And for Assistant Groyper, more than anybody else, especially.
00:16:04.000I'll get through and say some thank yous in a moment.
00:16:07.000But, I mean, I'll just tell you that, of course, what you saw on the show was.
00:16:11.000Minimal compared to what was going on behind the scenes.
00:16:14.000It was a beast in terms of all the time and work and headaches and, I mean, just like endless obstacles to pull this thing off.
00:16:23.000For us to pull this off, period, would have been incredible.
00:16:27.000But to pull it off in the context of what we're going through right now after the Capitol riots with the incoming Biden administration, I mean, that just added a whole new set of challenges.
00:16:38.000So for that to just be done is like a huge relief, a huge weight off my shoulders.
00:16:44.000And it was also a high stakes deal because there was so much riding on that in a lot of ways.
00:16:51.000People's expectations from last year and the added scrutiny after the Capitol, and it had to be the fulfillment really of like stop the steal.
00:17:01.000It had to be bigger and better than last year.0.84
00:17:04.000Of course, we had a notable defection from a so called Groyper General.
00:17:08.000There was a lot riding on it this time.
00:17:10.000So not only was it this huge undertaking, but also the pressure was on.
00:17:18.000To be through that just from the standpoint of stress and my daily workload, it's a relief to just be done with it.
00:17:30.000But for that to have been the biggest success ever in the history of this movement made it feel so much better, really something special.
00:17:39.000And before I get into it, I want to talk about AFPAC.
00:17:43.000I want to talk about my week in Orlando and the conference, the speeches, the significance of it, some of the planning that went into it, some of the background.
00:17:52.000You know, tonight's show is not going to be so, you know, intense like it usually is because I got to tell you, I mean, I'm kind of beat.
00:18:00.000It was a long day of travel today getting back to Chicago, and it's been a long week.
00:18:05.000You know, tomorrow I may do more news type things, but tonight I think it's good to have more of a casual but a full debrief of AFPAC and everything that's happened this past week.
00:18:15.000The first thing I want to say, like I said, the night of AFPAC is just thank you.
00:18:20.000Thank you to everybody who attended the conference, thank you to the sponsors.
00:18:25.000Couldn't have done it without our gold, silver, bronze, and other sponsors.
00:18:47.000Vince came through, he showed up, and not only did he show up, but he brought the house down.
00:18:53.000And I know that people watching on the stream loved it, but if you were there in person, I mean, It was perfect to have Vince open up the conference because the energy level was so high from the outset because of his speech.
00:19:08.000I mean, people were on their feet for like the entire thing, cheering and screaming and chanting and banging on the tables.
00:19:17.000It was loud, it was energetic, high energy.
00:19:21.000And the substance of it couldn't have been better.
00:19:23.000I mean, perfectly laid out where we are in politics, you know, where we are after Trump and what the future is, but also laying out the America First platform.
00:19:34.000I mean, he really rose to the occasion.
00:19:36.000And I don't mean that like condescendingly.
00:20:55.000And we didn't ask him actually until a little bit before the conference because I thought to myself, you know, he's never going to agree to do this.
00:22:17.000Was the tipping point for a lot of people publicly and behind the scenes to begin supporting America First.
00:22:23.000And if, you know, Michelle came to America First, or I should say the Groypers last year, John Miller did it this year, and I think it is no less impressive, no less courageous.
00:22:39.000She kills it every year, you know, and I encourage everybody to watch all the speeches, but Michelle, I mean, she's been doing this for a long time and it shows.
00:22:47.000You know, I look at her and I'm thinking, like, I hope I'm that good in 20 years.
00:22:52.000I hope I'm that good in a few decades.
00:22:56.000I'll read enough to get to that level because I look at a lot of speakers and I say, okay, I'm there or I'm better than most or whatever.
00:23:06.000I watch her speech from AFPAC 1 and 2, and I'm like, damn it.
00:23:11.000I guess I just haven't been around long enough to be that good because every year she gets up there and it's funny and it's poetic and it's heartfelt and it's poignant.
00:23:20.000She brings the facts and she brings the humor.
00:23:23.000It's always totally on point, and she did it again this year.
00:23:32.000I mean, it was gushing last year about her speech.
00:23:36.000And actually, this year, when I was writing my speech, I think I read a transcript of her AFPAC 1 speech like 100 times.
00:23:44.000Because when I sat down to write my speech for this year, I was like, you know, she showed me up last year, friendly competition, you know?
00:23:56.000And I thought, how am I going to emulate that?
00:24:00.000How can I make it that good this year?
00:24:03.000So, I sat down and I read the transcript of her speech from last year on OON's review like a hundred times, trying to reverse engineer it, break it down.
00:24:41.000And, you know, I kept talking to them and I couldn't get over it.
00:24:44.000I kept saying, like, I'm just honored to be talking to you, much less have you at my conference, much less have you speaking at the conference and, you know, joining the America First Coalition because I've known about Steve King as long as I've been based, as long as I've known about America First and sort of been on the right side of history.
00:25:06.000You know, when I was thinking about speakers for AFPAC this year, months and months ago, and we were brainstorming a list of potential speakers, I thought, okay, he's a reach.
00:26:06.000Everything you know, everything you think about Steve King, everything.
00:26:09.000That you know about him, it's true of him, the man, you know, getting to know him.
00:26:14.000And then, of course, Paul Gosar, the keynote speaker who took a huge stand by coming to the conference, a sitting congressman, the prestige, the credibility that that brought to the conference.
00:26:25.000And what's more is it was such a big leap for that to happen.
00:26:31.000You know, if it takes courage to be a commentator and join this thing, imagine the pressure of being a sitting politician and coming to an America First conference.
00:26:41.000You know, to go from last year where we had, you know, me and Scott and Michelle Malkin to then have a congressman come this year, it's a quantum leap in terms of credibility for us and a huge deal.
00:26:55.000But it was also a very courageous thing for Paul Gosar to do.
00:26:58.000And like Steve King, it shows that he's the real deal.
00:27:02.000Because a lot of people in Congress, as you'll notice, and that was the subject of my speech, they talk about America first and they talk about Trump and cancel culture and all this stuff.
00:27:11.000And then I asked them to come to my conference and they come up with excuses.
00:27:14.000You know, I asked a few people to come to my Conference and a notable congressperson shined me on.
00:27:22.000You know, somebody that pretends to be a big fighter, somebody that pretends to be a big, I'm America first, I never back down.
00:28:01.000And I guess I shouldn't disclose all the details because, you know, obviously I had dinner with them at the conference.
00:28:06.000I got breakfast with them the following day, Gosar and his team.
00:28:11.000And, you know, so I don't want to disclose any of the particulars of the conversation, but they are America first and they mean it.
00:28:19.000And they put their money where their mouth is.
00:28:21.000You know, like I said about John Miller or Michelle or Steve King, I mean, I think Steve King has proved it by now, but Paul Gosar coming to the conference and saying, look, I'm uncancelable, I'm America first, I'm here to listen to young people that support the president.
00:28:34.000It shows that people aren't playing the political games anymore.
00:28:38.000And it showed that Representative Gosar, at least, is the only one we know is really America First.
00:28:45.000There are some others we suspect are America First and suspect may be the real deal.
00:28:50.000But that Representative Gosar came to our conference.
00:29:07.000So, a big thank you to all of our speakers.
00:29:09.000You know, I wanted to go through and touch on them because each one of them, there was something notable.
00:29:15.000You know, each one of them, it was really a special thing that they came out to the conference and they contributed in their own way to making it magic.
00:30:15.000From the time he woke up until the time he went to bed for months, putting this thing together, making phone calls, emails, figuring out new and innovative ways to do things, combating, obviously, censorship, deplatforming, things like that.
00:30:29.000I mean, he did it all, the one man band.
00:30:31.000And it wouldn't have happened without him.
00:30:32.000It wouldn't have been the success that it was without him.
00:30:36.000And 07 in chat for our assistant Groyper.
00:30:40.000You know, I want to elaborate a little bit on why it was such a big success.
00:30:45.000You know, for people that weren't there and for the people that were there too, I guess.
00:30:51.000You know, if you went to the conference last year, or even if you watched the stream last year, and you went to the conference this year or watched the stream this year, it was like night and day.
00:31:01.000And I used the expression a moment ago talking about Representative Gosar showing up.
00:31:07.000It was a quantum leap in terms of quality.
00:31:10.000You know, last year we had somebody else organizing the conference who's no longer with us.
00:31:15.000And I mean, it was okay for what it was.
00:31:18.000It was the first time we had ever done an event like that.
00:31:21.000And it was private and it was invite only and it was perfunctory, you know?
00:31:25.000I mean, we got people together, we had dinner, and there were speeches.
00:31:29.000And that's really what you could say about it.
00:31:31.000And at the time, it was like a big thing.
00:31:34.000It was a big deal because we had never done an event before.
00:31:37.000And that was like the first time that America First came into the real world.
00:31:41.000And that's kind of something to think about, right?
00:31:43.000I mean, especially with AFPAC 2, and I'll elaborate on this, but the event that we had last week, that marks one year of taking America First into the real world.
00:31:54.000And just think about that for a minute.
00:31:56.000But so last year, We had a very perfunctory conference.
00:32:00.000It was in some, like, dingy hotel conference room in the outskirts of D.C.
00:32:07.000And, you know, people got, like, a buffet dinner and they watched a speech which was given at a podium next to the tables.
00:32:13.000And what really made last year magic, and not to denigrate it because it was a good event, but what made it magic last year was that it was the fulfillment and the conclusion of the Groyper War.
00:32:24.000It was an epilogue to the Groyper War.
00:32:26.000And that was supposed to be, like, The beginning of a movement, taking the Groypers and taking this show and taking everything that was online and was sort of spontaneously coming together.0.82
00:32:39.000And that was supposed to be the beginning of that really coming into the world as a coherent force, organized and institutionalized.
00:32:48.000And what was magic about last year was getting people that like each other and knew each other from online, like a big family reunion, in the same room and talking about this tremendous victory that we had had in Groyper War.
00:34:33.000And I told you this before the conference.
00:34:35.000I said, you're really going to be impressed not just by the big things like the speakers and the stage and the venue.
00:34:41.000But even by the little things, the little touches, the professional things like that, table claws, and, you know, I know that doesn't sound like much, but it requires a lot of organizational expertise and manpower and thought and consideration and preparation and the little things as well as the big things to create a coherent whole that is really impressive and professional.
00:35:05.000And, you know, I was watching the stream, and obviously I was at AFPAC, and even comparing it to some of the breakout sessions at CPAC.
00:35:14.000And comparing it to some other conferences I saw that weekend, which, you know, and it's not a competition.
00:35:20.000And some of these conferences I'm even friendly towards.
00:35:23.000But I saw some of these other conferences, and now I'm just talking to you now.
00:35:27.000I probably shouldn't even say this, but I'm just talking to you straight up like I would anybody else.
00:35:32.000I saw some of these other conferences, and I see okay, it's a hotel conference room, it's a podium, it's a little dais, it's a little table, and people are sitting in chairs, you know, chairs lined up in rows, and there's like 50 people, and they, you know, somebody gets up at the podium and says, and now we've got, you know, this person, and they come up and they say, hey, and everybody golf claps.
00:35:58.000And I saw these other conferences with way more money, way more resources, way more buy in, even institutionally, from certain players.
00:36:22.000And it looked like, obviously, we don't have millions of dollars.
00:36:26.000I mean, this thing was put together on.
00:36:28.000Relatively, a shoestring budget for the value that we got out of it.
00:36:34.000Even though it didn't have, like, you know, you go to Turning Point and they've got like giant television screens, like monitors.
00:36:40.000In terms of quality, it's like right there.
00:36:42.000I mean, we don't have those like $10 million touches that a Turning Point SAS has or that a CPAC has, but I mean, it's like right up there.
00:36:50.000I mean, we're knocking on the door of a CPAC or a SAS, we're knocking on the door of the biggest, the name brand conservative conferences.
00:37:00.000In the entire United States, the most well funded, the oldest, the most prestigious.
00:37:07.000And we're like on the cusp, I would say we're in the foyer of that level of production, that level of quality, that level of seriousness.
00:37:18.000And that's this, that's America First.
00:37:21.000That's not like something that we've glommed onto.
00:37:24.000That's not something that I was invited to.
00:38:07.000And, you know, I think what was most impressive, because I think everybody understands what an amazing event it was for people that went there for sure, and people that watched at home too.
00:39:03.000We are at that level, and we didn't have to compromise to get there.
00:39:07.000That's what America First has always been about.
00:39:11.000Becoming a force in politics without compromise, without the buy in from the sponsors, and then you change the message, and then actually you're going to tweak it a little bit.
00:39:21.000No, I mean, I went up at my conference and I threw away the speech that I wrote.0.79
00:39:26.000And I said, white people built America and the Capitol was awesome and all that.0.79
00:39:32.000And I just said it from the cuff, just like I'm doing this show right here, right now.0.83
00:39:37.000And we got to that level without having to compromise.
00:39:39.000So it was truly one of the greatest moments in the history of this movement.
00:39:46.000And I was telling Jaden at some point over the week, and I think I told this to a few other people.
00:39:53.000That the Capitol riot in the aftermath was the first major setback for the America First movement.
00:40:00.000We've never had a setback before, not a major one.
00:40:03.000I mean, I've been banned from YouTube, I've been banned from certain things, and there have been problems, you know, as there always are in life and in anything.
00:40:11.000But from the time I started my show four years ago until January 5th, it had really only ever been up.
00:40:19.000It had really only ever gotten better for the most part, right?
00:40:29.000We had more people join our coalition, more people join our team.
00:40:33.000It was like almost every day since I started my show, whatever it was, February 7th or 8th, 2017, every day had been better than the previous one.
00:40:44.000And then the Capitol happened and it was a real setback.
00:40:46.000The deplatforming, the persecution, all this kind of stuff, the FOMO, or rather, not the FOMO, the FUD, the fear, uncertainty, and doubt, people becoming afraid.
00:40:56.000I mean, it really felt like for the past two months, like the sky was falling or that the bottom had fallen out from under us.
00:41:02.000It felt like our whole world was coming down.
00:41:06.000My show started after his inauguration, so it was the first time that the show aired with a Democratic administration and full democratic control of government and institutions.
00:41:17.000And it was like the worst time politically that I'd ever done my show and the worst time for this movement in particular.
00:41:24.000My friends going to jail and like all kinds of things.
00:41:29.000And it was in that moment, it was in that environment, that high pressure environment, that the best event, the best and highest peak of the history of this movement occurred.
00:41:46.000And I thought that that is a miracle, you know, and that's what this movement is able to do to make miracles.
00:41:53.000That when everybody had counted us out, even people within this thing, there were some notable America First people that were not at the conference on.
00:42:01.000Because they thought it was going to be a shit show.
00:42:04.000They thought it was, you know, that it wasn't going to work out, that there would be problems.
00:42:07.000And some of them publicly, some of them privately.
00:42:11.000I mean, even people that were supposed to be in this at the highest levels had one eye on the exit because it was so bad.
00:42:20.000Because it was so bad in so many ways.
00:42:24.000And it was in that two month period that we put together the best America First conference.
00:42:31.000That we've ever done, maybe that has ever occurred in this century.
00:42:36.000And I, you know, I know that sounds like maybe grandiose, like, okay, maybe that's pushing it.
00:42:41.000But really, I mean, an historic and landmark achievement.
00:42:48.000It's not like last year when the Groyper War crescendoed into AFPAC and it was sort of this natural and easy epilogue or denouement or whatever that word is, right?
00:43:02.000Easy sort of credits are rolling and it's a post credits scene and everyone's just kind of hanging out.
00:43:08.000No, I mean, this was like the most difficult thing ever during the most difficult time ever.
00:43:14.000And it was the best thing that ever happened in the history of the movement.
00:43:16.000It was a new peak, a new high watermark for the legitimacy, credibility, and the success and the power of the America First movement at the worst time.
00:43:27.000So it was like, and that's such an amazing thing.
00:43:32.000You know, that's really what made it so amazing.
00:43:43.000Go through any amount of time in this movement and not see AFPAC 2 and what a triumph it was and the significance of it and not trust the plan at this point.
00:43:52.000And I'll tell you, like everything went off without a hitch.
00:43:55.000Everything that people were worried about, credible or not credible, you know, things that were legitimate concerns or illegitimate concerns, we didn't even have to deal with any of that, you know.
00:44:05.000And I'll tell you, and this is the last story I tell, and then maybe we'll move on and do super chats because I think we're getting to about an hour mark here, but.
00:44:15.000You know, I was like this close to not even going through with AFPAC.
00:44:21.000There was a day, I think maybe February 9th or maybe the week before, where I called up Assistant Groyper and I said, Look, I said, Scott thinks it's a bad idea.
00:44:58.000I said, but I can't imagine that all these smart people are wrong and I'm right.
00:45:03.000I said, I can't imagine because we got all these people, America firsters and smart people, people I really respect.
00:45:12.000And I asked for their feedback and they thought it was a bad idea.
00:45:15.000I said, and I swear to God, this conversation happened.
00:45:19.000You know, Jaden was over here hanging out while this was happening.
00:45:22.000You know, we were meeting for something unrelated, and I called up James Miller and I said, Look, we got to pull the plug.
00:45:29.000I said, Because I can't hear this feedback from everybody and all these smart people and come out thinking like that I'm just going to trust my gun and do it.
00:45:40.000I said, And give me until the end of the day.
00:46:26.000I see no reason for it not to happen, but there's too many people telling me not to do it.
00:46:31.000And then a friend of mine called me, somebody who does events.
00:46:34.000You know, I think maybe I've told the story before, but this friend of mine who does events professionally and has done big events, a real expert on this stuff, he called me up and he said, Of course you should go forward with it.
00:46:56.000And he came up with an answer for everything I asked him.
00:46:59.000The same answers that I told the people that said we shouldn't do it.
00:47:03.000You know, I had the same conversation with all the people that told me not to go forward with it that this guy was having with me and me playing devil's advocate.
00:47:30.000And we went forward with the conference, pulled it off, and all the things that we were worried about, in short, you know, we were worried the venue might cancel.
00:48:24.000And that's the other thing the thing was like high energy.
00:48:27.000Not only was it a perfect conference from the point of view of the streaming and the speeches and all that, but like people brought the energy.
00:48:34.000Unlike any other conference, people were thrilled to be there.
00:48:38.000I mean, chants and standing ovations, people up on their feet the whole time.
00:49:15.000You know, and it's not to say that nobody had been America First before me, but it's my conference.
00:49:20.000And I started doing this four years ago from my friend's college dorm room, from my MacBook, with a microphone taped to a stand in front of 100 viewers on RSVN.
00:49:34.000And four years later, not only have we transitioned into the real world, but we've done it more successfully maybe than anybody else.
00:49:41.000Like I said, we are knocking on the door.
00:49:43.000We're on the cusp of the same level of the biggest, most prestigious national conservative organizations.
00:49:53.000And after this conference, just like with the Groyper War, it's only the beginning.0.96
00:49:58.000Because you know, you pull off a conference like that, and what do you think happens?
00:50:01.000We're getting a lot of phone calls, a lot of phone calls from a lot of people.
00:50:04.000I'm sure a lot of people are looking at that conference and saying, any doubt that America First is relevant and powerful and influential and viable and competent, any doubt that all of that was the case has been squashed by that conference.
00:52:11.000And the last thank you that I have is for all of you.
00:52:13.000Everybody that stuck with me, even when it was difficult, even when people were doubting, in short, when it was hard.
00:52:23.000It's very easy to support and believe and really be all in when it's easy.
00:52:30.000It's easy to do that when it's popular.
00:52:32.000Like during Groyper War, for example, it's easy to join up during Groyper War when it's like a cool, sexy thing and it's the new thing that's happening and it's getting headlines and, you know, you get in at the ground floor.
00:52:44.000And it's easy to do it during Stop the Steal when you could come out and give a speech and join up in the crowds and everything and it's, you're with Alex Jones and all this.
00:54:31.000And I got to tell, as a sales guy, I got to tell you what a big deal it was.
00:54:36.000I got to tell you what a significant thing it was in ways that maybe you don't even understand.
00:54:42.000I'm taking a little bit of a victory lap tonight, but tomorrow it's right back to the grind.
00:54:47.000And me and the interns and Assistant Groyper and everybody in this thing, we are working around the clock every day to keep building it up bigger, to keep taking America first to the next level.
00:55:01.000And a lot of people didn't think we'd make it this far.
00:55:03.000You know, a lot of people didn't think we would make it to the Groyper War.
00:55:07.000And almost nobody thought we'd make it to this point and to do something like AFPAC with the Congressman and King and Michelle Malkin.
00:55:17.000People didn't think we'd make it that far.
00:55:19.000And And so I would use that as evidence that people should not be underestimating what can be achieved in a short amount of time.
00:55:27.000If we went from AFPAC 1 to AFPAC 2 in a year, from where we were then to where we are now in a short amount of time, you have to then imagine necessarily where will we be in a year from today?
00:55:39.000Where will we be in two years, five years, 15 years?
00:55:43.000That's the kind of thinking people have to have.
00:55:47.000It all starts with the courage of Representative Gosar to come to the conference or Michelle Malkin joined the Groypers and not disavow us in her UCLA speech.
00:55:57.000It starts with the single step of John Miller coming to speak at AFPAC, too.0.76
00:56:00.000It starts with Jaden McNeil dissolving his turning point chapter at Kansas State during the Groyper War a year ago.
00:56:07.000And then he goes into Twitter group chat, and he was part of the spark that started the Groyper War.
00:56:13.000And it starts with a single step for our sponsors who put up a lot of the money for AFPAC when everything was kind of going down and it looked like there wasn't a trajectory for America First to continue.
00:56:27.000It starts with that single step of people coming out and saying, We're not going to take it anymore.
00:56:34.000People have got to, they have got to emerge from their caves that they've been hiding in or, you know, whatever.
00:56:41.000We have got to emerge from this lockdown and from total globalist control and say, We are not going to let this country go away without a fight.
00:56:49.000We are not going to let our country and our humanity be stolen from us without at least showing up.
00:57:06.000We're asking people to buy in and take a baby step, you know, and show a little bit of courage in the face of adversity and in the face of what's happening because it's worth it.
00:57:24.000And ultimately, on the tip of the spear, you know, if anybody's concerned about where all this is going, never forget that if.
00:57:31.000If they're going to strike back against this movement, you know that they're going to, I'm the public enemy number one.
00:57:36.000I'm going to be the guy that they're going to strike at.
00:57:38.000I'm the guy that's going to get Seth Rich or whatever.
00:57:42.000And I hope that doesn't happen, but understand, I mean, I know that I'm in this thing and I'm putting my life into this thing and know what that means.
00:59:28.000I think, geez, I don't even think I'll be able to read all of them because there are 99 super chats and I think I'm not able to read them after 100.
00:59:39.000Like, I'm literally, I don't think exactly 99 were sent in.
00:59:45.000I think I'm only able to read the most recent 99 super chats.
00:59:51.000I'm at 99 here, number 99, and I can't see anything further back than that.
00:59:57.000So some of them may have gotten cut off.
01:00:00.000So if I don't read your super chat, I apologize if you sent it in very, very early.
01:00:05.000I literally can't read it because entropy is only showing me the first 100 super chats, or the latest 100 super chats, I should say.
01:00:50.000Look, it's not easy being the victor, okay?
01:00:54.000It's not easy being this successful, this triumphant.
01:01:00.000So, give me a moment before I dive in and tackle 100 super chats at 9 30 p.m. after driving for 17 hours and after even taking ibuprofen and Gatorade.
01:01:40.000But it wouldn't be fair if it were any other way.
01:01:44.000If I didn't have the constant and relentless resistance from, you name it, big tech and SPLC and ADL and the media and the gatekeepers and the right and so on, honestly, it wouldn't be fair.
01:02:03.000All of that working against us, if we didn't have the crushing weight of all institutional power opposing us on an intimate level, it wouldn't be fair because we would just be cutting through this entire country like butter, you know?
01:06:13.000I saw so many people that I have known on the internet for a long time, and I wish I had more time to hang out with you guys.
01:06:22.000But I mean, I was taking pictures, and then I was in the green room talking with our speakers, and then I was at dinner with the speakers, and then, you know, I had to get my speech.
01:06:32.000So it was just like a whirlwind for me the entire time.
01:10:24.000Maybe I'll take you up on that next time.
01:10:26.000I don't think I'm ever going back to D.C., honestly.
01:10:29.000I mean, not for a long, long, long time.
01:10:32.000I mean, that place is obviously occupied and totally evil.
01:10:35.000And they keep doing this thing where they're like, oh, they're going to make a play for the insurrection on the 4th, the 20th, the April 20th, April 15th.
01:10:44.000You know, it's like, and they just keep moving the goalposts.
01:11:42.000Sam the Groypers just wanted to say that we're all so proud of you and what you've done, not only with AFPAC, but the AF movement as a whole.
01:11:50.000I'm so glad that we have someone like you on our side.
01:11:52.000God bless and thank you for your service.
01:12:01.000I'm not just trying to like break my arm, patting myself on the back, but it is a big deal.
01:12:06.000And I have said this before I could have just done this show for the rest of my life.
01:12:13.000And I could have just done streaming and not done AFPAC and not done my own platform and not done all the things that we're going to do.
01:12:22.000And I could have just made a decent living and it would have been safe and easy and I could have had a great time.
01:12:29.000But of course, doing all this stuff is hard and it's risky and you open yourself up to all kinds of liability.
01:12:35.000And it's like, I mean, it's not easy pushing the envelope, it's not easy, you know, being at the precipice and, you know, with the force of all your will trying to move.
01:12:46.000A big thing trying to turn an aircraft carrier, which is what we're doing.
01:14:12.000I'm not surprised because other people during the time told Patrick why he wanted a lot of personal info and he called them conspiracy nuts.
01:15:55.000FPAC was a smashing success and really solidified you and the AF movement as a legitimate and viable movement that you can no longer be ignored.
01:16:05.000I can't wait to see what's in store next.
01:16:59.000In my speech, in my speech, I said, look, and I've always said this on the show, by the way, I said, look, America's going to be a multiracial country.
01:17:10.000That being said, if that's going to work, white people must be respected like everybody else.
01:17:16.000You know, what I said was unassailable.
01:17:18.000I said, white people founded this country.0.79
01:17:21.000This country wouldn't exist without white people, and we're done being pushed around.0.96
01:17:51.000And if that's going to work, then we're going to need to be respected.0.92
01:17:54.000And we need to look out for white people.0.85
01:17:57.000Everyone else is looked out for, everyone else is taken care of, and they have rights and so on.0.86
01:18:01.000And white people were like second class citizens.0.60
01:18:04.000And because I say that, then she goes on the show and says, he wants an ethnostate, and he's pictured with this girl who does a Sonnenrad thing.0.70
01:18:13.000Everyone's trying to tie me to that girl from the Capitol.
01:18:21.000And then they're like, oh, well, actually, here's a TikTok where she's doing the Hail Hitler and she's got a Sonnenrad hat on.0.54
01:18:29.000And it's like, you just can't win.0.99
01:18:31.000I can't take pictures with women anymore.1.00
01:18:33.000I take a picture with a girl in Atlanta and she's hot.0.99
01:18:38.000And then it turns out she's got an OnlyFans and she's got a quarter of a million followers on Instagram, you know, where she posts her, you know, underwear pictures.
01:18:47.000And then I take a picture with a girl in D.C. and, oh, hey, can I get a picture?
01:19:26.000This is what a lot of people don't understand.
01:19:28.000Almost all the critiques about me are not in good faith.
01:19:31.000They're either people that are actively trying to do harm to this movement because they're paid to, or they're people that are just bitter and resentful because that's exactly how it goes.
01:19:41.000If I say things that are not, you know, that are more conventional, they say, oh, you're a cuck.
01:19:51.000If I say things that are, you know, a little bit different, if I say things that are a little bit more out there, then it's, oh, what happened to optics?
01:20:45.000So, I mean, you know, I guess Gypsy Crusader didn't like me, and I don't like him.1.00
01:20:53.000You know, I don't like what he does, but I will never, ever, ever in my life be like, haha, the feds got that guy, because, you know, the feds are pigs, okay?0.99
01:21:07.000So, I'm not going to celebrate that they had 20, you know, pig cars outside of his place and they flashbanged him and all this.
01:21:16.000I am not going to, I am never in my entire life, no matter who it is.0.56
01:21:19.000My worst enemy is going to say, Ha, you know, that's so funny that that happened to him.
01:21:25.000I, you know, shade and fraud or whatever, Schadenfreude, that's a thing that I, you know, that I feel about some people with certain things, but not when it comes to the feds, not when it comes to the FBI.
01:21:37.000And I'm not talking about, you know, there are some conservative people in like law enforcement.
01:21:42.000I'm talking about obvious political persecution, which is what this is obvious, explicit, and overt political persecution by political actors inside.
01:21:54.000The federal government, and that's what that is.
01:21:56.000So, I will never say, Wow, great thing, the FBI.
01:22:00.000You know, those people are traitors to America, in my opinion.
01:22:04.000I mean, those people are not keeping their oath.
01:25:26.000Genghis Groyper says, I've had some good speeches in my time, but AFPAC 2, that is hot stuff.
01:25:31.000With a membership to Nicholas J. Fuentes, you get to watch it at a number of different places while eating your burger with melted Swiss cheese, mushrooms, and onions.
01:26:26.000Yeah, let the dog out during the show.
01:26:28.000They let the dog out, and it's like, you know, he's just going to go out there and bark.
01:26:35.000You know, you let the dog out when he has to go to the bathroom.
01:26:39.000But this dog, I mean, if you let him, he would go out every five minutes and go out just to sit on the porch, just to bark at other dogs, just to be outside, you know.
01:27:36.000You know, every time I meet you guys, always a great time.
01:27:41.000George Groypington saw a video the other day that showed a clip of Destiny from 2019 making fun of you for being irrelevant, followed by a clip of him just last week bemoaning the fact that nobody on the left has nearly as much political influence as you.
01:28:28.000Well, and it always means more coming from your enemies because your enemies are never going to say something nice about you just to say something nice about you.
01:28:36.000If they say something positive, you know that it's not objective.
01:29:22.000Rabbi Groyper says, Did you see Cawthorne on Mike Malice's show?
01:29:26.000Malice had previously made a joke about him skipping leg day, but Cawthorne said, It's all good, and repeatedly said people need to learn how to take a joke.
01:29:34.000He then went on to say how someone said, How can he take a stand and how this was an attack?
01:38:19.000I don't know if you've heard or not, but America's uncanceled, and so am I.
01:38:24.000So, yeah, very based of him to do that.
01:38:29.000Cole Mance, as I said to myself one night in spring of 2019 when the show only had a couple hundred viewers, this is going to be something big.
01:39:54.000Red Eagle, I'm not sure what that is, but I'm pretty sure they don't like us because I have them blocked.
01:40:01.000I think if I'm thinking of the same group or whatever, I know they were talking shit a long time ago and I blocked them, but maybe I'm thinking of something else.0.99
01:40:12.000Vincent James says, We will look out over a sea of tens of thousands of Groypers at AFPAC 3.1.00
01:40:19.000As we speak from 40 foot podiums while Ron DeSantis and Paul Gosar lead a booming Groyper chant.0.99
01:40:25.000Okay, well, that's setting the bar a little bit high, but hey, it's good to have ambitions, right?
01:44:34.000But I underestimated how busy it would be.
01:44:37.000I wish with a lot of these people, you know, Tyler and Modern Monarchist and a few others, Brainsick and Speczo and everybody, you know, I wish I got more time to hang around.
01:44:47.000But, It was such a busy time, but maybe I'll see you next year.
01:47:38.000And that's the message we need to push because for a lot of people that participate in that, they need to wake up and say, wait a second, I've been brainwashed.
01:47:49.000I'm like the elephant in the room, you know?
01:47:52.000And he said, and I respect him for saying this too, he said, we all need to take a moment and stand up for Nick.
01:47:59.000And I said, that was really a nice thing to say because nobody, well, not nobody, but people don't really say that that much.
01:48:08.000I mean, There are a lot of people in America First, and they're rah, rah, rah, America First.
01:48:13.000And this is a problem I actually had with somebody who left the movement is, you know, people saying, naming me.
01:48:20.000Some people want to say America First, but they don't want to say Nick Fuentes.
01:48:23.000And some people want to be a part of this, but they don't want to say, for as much as I've done for this thing, they don't want to say, hey, let's give a hand to Nick.
01:48:30.000Now, there are a lot of, of course, there are a lot of diehard loyalists that are totally about that.
01:48:36.000But some people don't do that so much.
01:48:38.000So I really appreciated that he said that.
01:48:40.000I mean, I think that was really a nice thing to say.
01:50:13.000We were doing some shooting for this project that we're doing.
01:50:15.000I don't want to give too many details, but when we, I mean, imagine this me and I think it was Jaden and Beardson and our camera crew were driving around in the convertible at night.
01:51:40.000TR says AFPAC could only have been improvised, or rather improved, I should say, by serving a dish of baked Alaska instead of chicken and fish.
01:51:50.000Maybe for dessert next year, we'll have baked Alaska in his honor.
01:51:54.000Studio IKN says Vosh is in tears after hearing his hero, Destiny, admit you're more effective than him, than everyone else online at organizing and affecting political change.
01:54:17.000I think there's something to be said about making people take a position, there's something to be said about making people, you know, put their cards on the table.
01:56:17.000I don't know if that's true, but that would be very funny.
01:56:20.000I saw them do their rally, and there were all these memes on the Destiny subreddit where the candidate and Destiny are standing on like this balcony, and they've got like 40 people there in masks, and they're all socially distanced.
01:56:37.000So, I mean, they're trying to get this guy elected.
01:56:40.000I mean, look, you have to start somewhere in politics, but the mayoral race in Omaha, don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with running for office locally.
01:56:50.000And Omaha, I'm sure, is a great place.
01:56:54.000But, you know, you see the level that America First is at, and these guys are like, well, let's support this Omaha mayoral candidate.
01:57:02.000And America First is like, nah, we're going right to Congress.
01:57:05.000We're going to skip right to, you know, national office.
01:57:08.000We'll have two congressmen in our event.
01:58:26.000Weirdest thing, I went to the sushi restaurant.1.00
01:58:30.000Okay, maybe I shouldn't get too specific, but I went to this restaurant and this server came up and was like, oh, hey, sorry, we're understaffed, blah, And we're like, yeah, it's okay, whatever.
01:58:43.000And the guy goes, wait a minute, you're not Nick Fuentes, are you?
01:58:55.000I had to leave a bigger than normal tip because I'm like, if I don't tip this guy, if I don't give him a good tip, he's going to like, Nick Fuentes gave me a 20% tip or whatever.
02:02:20.000But I mean, we must have gone through some kind of time warp, some kind of a wormhole, because I feel like I'm back in 2017 or 2016 for all the accounts that got banned on Twitter in the last week.
02:03:26.000Modern Monarchist says, We are not fair weather patriots, but pedal to the metal nationalists.
02:03:31.000Thinking about how long ago it's been since I first started watching the show to now, I am lost in all the events and drama that turn the weak away and harden the loyal.
02:07:56.000When I've been around journalists long enough that I really just don't believe anything that they say, and I basically just assume they're lying to me because you have to.
02:09:08.000But it's happened to me enough times where you just can't trust it because the nicest, the most sincere, they turn right around with no problem and stab you in the back.
02:09:18.000So that's why I don't even really know.
02:10:05.000And even some of the questions he's asking me and other people that were at the conference.
02:10:08.000I mean, he was asking Laura Loomer, like, oh, you're Jewish, why are you here?
02:10:13.000Really, dude, you know, like, the thing is, if you're a good documentarian or a good investigator, and I'll tell you, I know Louis Theroux is like a world class documentarian, but here's a little piece of advice from me.
02:10:24.000Hang on, do I have like a hair in my mouth?
02:11:24.000Maybe you guys don't know, but I know that when I get talked to by a journalist, it's, What do you have to say that you're a white supremacist?
02:11:30.000And tell me about Charlottesville and tell me how you're not the alt right and blah, blah, blah.
02:11:35.000And some of that is good for context, but some of it is very pointed and some of it is very deliberately trying to get a certain angle.
02:11:45.000I mean, I guess we'll all see how it shakes out.
02:11:48.000You know, if they publish anything and what that's going to look like.
02:11:54.000But it was almost a little bit disappointing.
02:11:55.000It was almost a little bit disappointing.
02:11:57.000Because it's like here I'm expecting somebody who maybe is better than most, and maybe that's true, but I'm expecting somebody like different.
02:12:05.000And I don't know if I'm really sold on that.
02:12:07.000I don't know if I'm totally sold on that yet.
02:12:28.000That we like hate Jewish and black people?0.67
02:12:30.000I mean, we may talk about Jewish power and we may talk about black crime, but I mean, what they're trying to present us as is, or maybe interrogate, I don't know.0.70
02:12:41.000That's, of course, not what we're about.
02:12:44.000And we don't even say that anymore because the media doesn't believe us when we say it and they don't care because they have their own objective.
02:12:50.000And everybody that's with us already understands that.
02:12:53.000But in case you're wondering, yeah, I mean, Bryson Gray was there, you know, Loomer was there, lots of people are there.
02:12:59.000It's about putting America first and it's about recognizing.
02:13:02.000That there are things going on in the world.
02:13:04.000That doesn't mean that, you know, I wake up every day animated by racial hatred.1.00
02:13:08.000You know, I mean, that's just retarded, frankly.1.00
02:13:11.000So, and pretentious liberal journalists either are, you know, too arrogant to understand that, they think they know it all or whatever, or they don't even care.1.00
02:13:19.000And they just have their own agenda, they've got their worldview.
02:14:22.000But I don't think that, here's what I'll say I don't think that anybody is ever going to show anything sympathetic about us, you know?
02:14:28.000I think that at best, it's not going to be a total hit piece, right?
02:14:32.000At best, it won't be a complete hit piece, but we all know what the angle will basically be white grievance politics, rage, you know, American fringe politics, you know, this kind of thing, I'm sure.
02:14:47.000We're never going to get an angle that's like, gee, these guys really just love humanity and really love God and really just want to set things straight.
02:14:55.000We're never, ever, ever, ever going to get a documentary from a liberal, from liberal media, that's even going to leave any ambiguity or rather produce a project that is ambiguous enough that people could draw that conclusion.
02:15:11.000They'll never produce anything like that.
02:15:13.000At best, they'll produce something that isn't a scathing hit piece.
02:15:17.000But, you know, The bare minimum, which would be something that is ambiguous enough that it leaves it to people to decide for themselves and maybe have a positive takeaway, I don't think that'll ever be made.
02:18:11.000I was behind the scenes getting ready for my speech, and I was doing like, you know, in Joker before he goes on the Murray Franklin show and he starts, you know, he starts doing this.
02:22:20.000Well, I can't talk too much about it because they make you sign a release, you know, when you do any project.
02:22:26.000But I'll just say I've been talking to them for about a year.
02:22:31.000And, um, You know, apparently they're doing something about America first broadly.
02:22:36.000And, you know, some people were concerned about privacy.
02:22:41.000They weren't filming anybody other than me and e celebrities, you know, people that wanted to be filmed and people that consented to it.
02:22:48.000So I know some people, this was like after the conference goes off without a hitch, some people were like, oh, a documentary crew is there.
02:22:54.000Well, yeah, like my film crew was there.
02:22:57.000And these guys were there and we were on top of them the entire time.
02:23:02.000They were there to film the speeches and.
02:23:05.000They did some interviews with people like Bryson and Beardson, and like I think Vince, and you know, and only people that consented to being on camera were on camera.
02:23:17.000Okay, just putting that out there because I know everybody.
02:23:20.000And it's always the case if you don't address something, then people are going to take it and say, oh, well, we've got something.
02:23:25.000Let's speculate, let's blow it into something.
02:23:28.000So the conference goes off without a hitch, and there's a world renowned documentarian covering it, which is a good thing.
02:23:35.000And then people spin it as people are getting compromised, blah, blah, blah.
02:23:41.000So, but I can't elaborate much more than that.
02:23:43.000It's a very, it's very, the project that they're working on is very early in the development stage.
02:23:48.000And so I don't even know too much about it other than we talked a little bit and been talking for a long time to get all this squared away for reasons that you may understand, you know, those are things that have happened in the past.
02:25:07.000Optics Respectress says, When I was a toddler, I would grab any book or newspaper or magazine and shove it in my parents' faces and demand they read it to me.
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