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00:01:04.000Right now, the Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action staff, over 350, it's almost 400 people are at the Phoenix Convention Center preparing for many of your arrival.
00:01:31.000But being actually in person, it's a game changer.
00:01:35.000And Jack Pesobic is going to join us in a couple segments to go through the breakout sessions, the exhibitors, the incredible experience to meet thousands and thousands and thousands of people.
00:01:46.000It's going to be a record-breaking crowd.
00:01:51.000And one of the things that we're going to emphasize at Amfest is a new conservative movement is taking over.
00:01:58.000And it's not just a younger conservative movement because, I mean, look, if you put up the graphic of all the speakers at Amfest, yes, we have a younger roster, but we have people of all ages.
00:02:08.000I mean, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, but no, it's a philosophical change.
00:02:12.000We're done with this neoliberalism, open borders, invade the world, invite the world.
00:02:16.000If you would have had an event like Amfest 10 years ago, it would have been, all the speakers would have been in harmony or they would not have mentioned the war machine.
00:02:29.000Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Beck, Michael Anton, Jack Pesobic, Josh Hawley, Steve Benn, and Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:02:39.000These are outspoken critics of the neoliberal regime.
00:02:43.000What Amfest represents is, of course, a gathering point, a place of encouragement, a place of education, but also an opportunity to show and demonstrate what are the ideas and the principles that are going to determine the future of the conservative movement.
00:03:03.000I could tell you what the New York Times and what David French wishes the conservative movement would embrace.
00:03:10.000He would hope that we keep on putting hundreds of billions of dollars behind the war effort in Ukraine.
00:03:16.000The straw poll question heard around the world when we did ACTCON this last summer, our Turning Point Action Conference in July.
00:03:24.000We had thousands and thousands of people and we said, okay, we don't know how this question is going to ask.
00:03:27.000We said, should the United States continue to send any money to Ukraine?
00:03:31.000And you guys can get the exact numbers.
00:03:33.000It was well over 95.8% of our attendees at the Turning Point Action Conference.
00:03:44.000A couple days later, Senate Republicans sent out a press release and they said, you know, we are really disturbed about the MAGA populist nationalist takeover of the Republican Party.
00:03:56.000The people are waking up and wising up.
00:05:07.000Zelensky and his buddies, they might be taking 10% for the big guy.
00:05:12.000I don't want to say that it's a fact, but I'm hearing a lot of different reports that let's just say the yacht purchases amongst the Ukraine elite are increasing, not decreasing.
00:05:23.000Now, America's most self-righteous enabler of the left, David French, has a new article about this in the New York Times.
00:05:31.000AmericaFest in these next couple days stands against this kind of automatic consensus.
00:05:37.000David French writes this nauseating piece in the New York Times, and he actually quotes me.
00:05:45.000Donald Trump Jr. called Zelensky an international welfare queen.
00:05:49.000Turning point USA President Charlie Kirk said Zelensky was totally corrupt.
00:05:53.000Kirk's colleague Benny Johnson said the Ukraine president was an ungrateful piece of bleep.
00:05:57.000Tucker Carlson said, quote, he dressed up like the manager of a strip club.
00:06:05.000David French continues in this article, he says, the moral clarity goes even deeper than the bare fact of whom attacked, who attacked whom and when.
00:06:14.000The fight between Russia and Ukraine isn't just a fight between nations, but rather a fight between political systems and philosophies.
00:06:20.000Ever since the advent of liberal democracies, autocrats have believed them to be weak, too soft to prevail in a world that is so often red in tooth and claw.
00:06:29.000He continues by saying, our heart tells us that we are a nation of free people that stands with another nation of free people.
00:07:22.000Donald Trump is facing 700 years in federal prison.
00:07:24.000Yesterday, David French, I had Jake Lang call from a D.C. gulag who's been in pretrial detention for three years, who literally was calling about being in solitary confinement and his phone says one minute remaining.
00:07:39.000Is this a free society that we're currently living in?
00:07:43.000We are arresting people facing federal charges because they were hundreds of yards away from the Capitol taking pictures saying, wow, I don't know if I like what's happening or boom, getting caught up in a dragnet.
00:07:53.000But David French says, we are a nation of free people.
00:08:08.000Our head tells us that we are helping break the military power of one of our most too powerful geopolitical rivals at a cost our nation can easily afford.
00:08:21.000David French is basically saying it's perfectly fine for the lower class of Ukraine to act as a human shield to get mowed down as long as Russia is getting weaker.
00:08:35.000You understand how morally disturbing that is?
00:08:38.000Like, go die for us, Ukraine, as long as you're making Russia weaker.
00:08:42.000First of all, now Ukraine is conscripting 40-year-olds.
00:08:47.000We've given Ukraine all of this false hope and Russia is going to turn it into a killing field.
00:08:53.000David French continues in the New York Times, our heart remembers the line of ambulances in Kiev and says that such courage cannot be in vain.
00:09:33.000I'm reminded of the climactic military confrontation in the third Peter Jackson magnificent Lord of the Rings adaptations, Return of the King.
00:09:40.000Aragar rides in front of the infernal black gate, turns to his sorely outnumbered army and declares, a day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of our fellowship.
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00:15:27.000Get your tickets, everybody, at amfest.com.
00:15:29.000Jack, I want to finish on this David French thing, but David Frenchism is dying partly, partially because of Turning Point USA and the Turning Point Movement.
00:15:38.000Well, I wouldn't just say just partially.
00:15:40.000I would say because, and I tweeted this yesterday, that what Turning Point and really just this movement is becoming is that you're not just building an event with America Fest.
00:15:51.000It's not just like, oh, we're going to get up on stage and blah, blah, blah.
00:15:54.000There's some speakers and we all get down and we all go home.
00:15:56.000No, this is an actual new movement that, and people from the outside, when I'm in Europe, I just got back from Asia and people are asking me about it.
00:16:06.000They say, what's going on in American politics?
00:16:09.000I'm like, look, I'm front and center of it.
00:16:11.000And I couldn't explain it to you directly.
00:16:13.000But what I could tell you, in a general sense, it's out with the old, in with the new.
00:16:18.000And the new blood and the new energy is coming.
00:16:22.000This, of course, encapsulated yesterday in the Iowa State House, where we had sort of the old right Republicans saying this satanic statue needs to stay up and it's, you know, it's part of the blessings of liberty, which I kept saying on my show all week that making fun of David Frenchism, saying that it's the David French system.
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00:20:56.000And it's actually what Amfest is and what this gathering is, is a repudiation of the David Frenchism that has taken over the Republican Party, the conservative.
00:22:05.000And David French's position was: listen, I don't necessarily like drag queens, but part of living in a free society and the blessings of liberty is you have to allow things you don't like to occur in libraries.
00:22:35.000David literally said something like that in the debate.
00:22:39.000And so then Saurabh came out and wrote a piece, very sharply written piece, saying like to death with David Frenchism or something like that.
00:22:48.000And it went trending on Twitter and the conservative libertarian intelligentsia started to debate drag queens.
00:22:53.000And I would say, when I first saw the debate, I was probably more on David French's side in the sense of, do I really want to, you know, it's like really, you know, neoliberal.
00:23:01.000Well, it becomes this, it becomes this thing about do we want the government to decide that which is permissible in any library, in any state house, in any school.
00:23:12.000And so there's, there's this, you know, I think built in, like an inherent reaction in a lot of conservatives to say that when you invoke the government, right, turning point, big government sucks, right?
00:23:23.000That's, that's been the mantra of Turning Point since I think day one, right?
00:23:27.000You know, so, you know, this idea that, whoa, whoa, government getting involved is something that we sort of reflexively recoil when this is invoked.
00:23:35.000And so I understand that this is a strong argument.
00:23:37.000By the way, when it came to the satanic statue, that is exactly what Kim Reynolds and.
00:24:20.000We will transform the third world into Western, you know, hyper-functioning Western civilizations with the flick of our snap of our fingers and a couple special forces operations.
00:24:31.000And so he's hyper-involved and hyper-interventional interventionist in all of these places around the world, as well as we're inviting all of these places at the same time.
00:24:41.000Versus when it actually comes to doing something in our, when it has to do with the accordance of our own public affairs in the United States, we are not to do anything.
00:24:50.000And when it, so then him being a constitutional lawyer, he would argue for this idea of kind of like marketplace public square neutrality, which has never existed.
00:25:03.000We might have been closer to this idea of marketplace public square neutrality, but it's been an ideal that we've never actually achieved.
00:25:11.000Now, the question is: should you ever want to achieve it?
00:25:13.000That's actually a more based question.
00:25:15.000But we're so far away from that, right?
00:25:16.000Where whatever the prevailing zeitgeist and orthodoxy of the country are living in, that ends up being what is in the public square.
00:25:25.000So, therefore, David French says, Look, why are we as conservatives going to use the force of government to prevent some drag queen from twerking in front of a child?
00:25:34.000And so, Rob was like, Whoa, if we as conservatives can't draw the line that the public practice of profanity into, you know, in front of children is unacceptable, then we're no good as conservatives.
00:25:47.000Because essentially, what's happening in the real world when you follow David Frenchism is that one side is seeding the public ground and the other side is dominating the public ground.
00:27:22.000It's just the fact that David French can't quite say, you know, publicly funded libraries, we shouldn't have grown men dressed as women in thongs dancing in front of children.
00:27:32.000As if that's not obviously some sort of predatory grooming exercise to try to push the Overton window so that freaks can go make kids gay and make them lesbian and make them trans.
00:27:44.000He's like, oh, well, no, these, these are good and decent people that dress up in dresses and go to libraries.
00:27:52.000The whole kind of trans, let's just say the atmospheric awareness of the conservative movement around trans predators, I think has really been raised where people see what's happening.
00:28:07.000And so what AmericaFest represents, everybody, is that we are continually giving the eulogy of old alleged fake conservatism that weakens the country, that really strengthens the Marxists.
00:28:23.000And it is a DC consensus, isn't it, Jack?
00:28:25.000Which I think at the basis of it, it's more personality and temperament than it is actual philosophy, meaning the people that embrace these ideas are actually very weak and damaged, and they want to be liked by those around them.
00:28:40.000I don't find the people that actually embrace these ideas are independent, free thinking alpha males.
00:28:47.000They tend to be which I could respect in a sense, right?
00:28:51.000I could respect somebody if they were, if they actually were, you know, this was their solid class.
00:29:07.000I mean, when you meet Tucker, it's not like Tucker is, you know, built like Covington, but Tucker definitely has an alpha male presence to him in the sense of, I believe what I believe, and I don't care what you think.
00:30:18.000That's because in the terrible darkness of that war of aggression, we've seen the best of liberal democracy and the best of America.
00:30:26.000I told them a story that I've told readers before of the early mornings of May 16 when I was in Kiev for the meetings with Ukrainian officials and Russia launched a barrage of Kinzal hypersonic missiles at the Ukrainian capital.
00:30:42.000Russia's defense minister had said that it was impossible to intercept from my hotel.
00:30:46.000I watched American-made Patriot missiles take off one by one in the sky towards them.
00:30:50.000Thanks to the effort of my colleagues in the opinion audio, you can hear the sounds of the actual attack in the audio I recorded short after.
00:31:50.000The whole movement was built on these things.
00:31:52.000But what Amfest is, it's actually an experience because immersion.
00:31:59.000And because as much as I love the speakers, and yes, they're speakers and breakout sessions, there's so much interactive connective tissue that glues together and gels together on the sidelines of Amfest because there's mini events that are happening throughout the entire time.
00:32:16.000So that when you get, and I don't believe it's been released yet, the full scope of the schedule of Amfest because there's a lot of moving parts in these things.
00:32:24.000People have no idea that Charlie does not sleep during these events, that there's constant things changing, things coming up.
00:32:46.000So when you get this thing, you basically craft, okay, do I want to go to this breakout session?
00:32:51.000Do I want to go to this event that, you know, there's going to be, there's actually going to be the, I got to tell you, Charlie, the number one thing, I'm going to say it, that people said it's, there's activism, there's grassroots, there's voter registration, there's ballot information.
00:33:47.000And so, and then people, then all of a sudden I got a couple emails and people said, Oh, I don't like the fact that you're doing speed dating.
00:35:14.000And so, yeah, I mean, if you're like, oh, I can't meet anybody and all this, like, I can't guarantee you'll meet somebody, but your chances are.
00:35:22.000Put our money where our mouth is because if this is where like-minded people are, people who want to date to marry.
00:35:30.000And Charlie, and I know this is something that Erica talks about a lot too, that it's we need to return dating culture to its original intended form.